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For the longest time I believed that Kubrick knew exactly what he wanted before he began shooting. The finished film existed in his mind, and set pieces and actors simply had to materialize and adhere to that vision. I don't buy into that idea anymore.

An example would be that he's known for making actors do a hundred takes. Apparently he made Tom Cruise walk through a door for a hundred different takes! One interpretation of that would be that Cruise couldn't deliver what Kubrick had in his vision. The other would be that Kubrick was trying to tire Cruise out, so that Cruise be too tired to keep "acting", and bring out something neither of them expected, something "real" and "raw" and not rehearsed.

For a while, I was also obsessed with filmmakers who appeared to not adhere to a strict vision, and "discovered" their film, rather than try to construct the film to fit their rigid vision. The likes of Wong Kar Wai or Godard or Wim Wenders, who would write snippets of dialogue the same day they would shoot and improvise with actors. In particular, Wong Kar Wai was known for shooting for years on end, and discarding 95% of the film he shot. He couldn't have envisioned the final product at the beginning.

I find common in all of their approaches to include exploration. Filmmaking is expensive. It's not cheap like sketching with pen on paper, which is why I think most filmmakers "sketch" with the script, and less so while shooting on set, where every minute they are burning cash.

When I was a young teen, I'd look at the art of movies like Star Wars and I couldn't ever achieve anything like that on my own. What I didn't realize was that that art required iteration. Of course it's impossible to come up with a grand idea on the first try on a large canvas! Those concept artists didn't start by creating the final piece, but they drew hundreds of little thumbnail-sized sketches, playing with elements, this curve they like, or that feature.

I think of how much pre-visualization work went into the likes of Star Wars Episode 1, where you CAN'T stop the train once it's been moving, with hundreds of visual effects workers working on something that Lucas has decided on much earlier. In this, I think that the means of production of how people work have outsized effects on the final artistic product.
The address alone is a single fact, but its context on a map that allows it to be found is a collection of facts

As an OSM contributor in the UK myself and my peers only use clean-room data ( firsthand visit ) or data from public sources ( planning applications etc )
Unless you turn off telemetry, Firefox sends it back too. It’s just that Mozilla doesn’t have the incentive to sell your eyeballs, other than charging an arm and a leg for the search engine default. Or at least I don’t know of any such incentives.
There wouldn’t be one (and indeed, there isn’t one): ETH is now just a shitty clone of the current fiat banking system, but with even less transparency and more corruption (and to put the cherry on it, it’s an environmental catastrophe to boot). It’ll be a few more years before the starry-eyed libertarians figure that out though.
This is cool! Not sure how practically useful it is (don't Google search results already include results from books?) but it seems like one of those things that could be super powerful once a good application is found for it.

To be honest, I'm just relieved Google seems to be doing something new with Google Books.

I've been fearing they'd take down Google Books (or severely hobble it) since it looks like it's been stagnant for years now (actually less than stagnant, since it seems like they took away Popular Passages? I really miss that!).
You have to work with multivariate polynomials (possibly over number fields). If you have symbolic expressions in another format, you would have to manually convert them to that representation first, possibly after introducing extra variables for non-algebraic constants (which may or may not be a good idea depending on the specific circumstances). Having that kind of rewriting done automatically would certainly be a good thing!
I'd love to try Firefox but I can't switch until the extensions I use fully support it. To give just one example, Checker Plus for Gmail can't keep Firefox running in the background unlike in Chrome... which makes it far less useful.
Years ago, I remember seeing infomercials for a neck worn alert button that folks could use in an emergency (for instance, a fall) that would bring assistance. This seems like a natural solution for someone with chronic health issues that regularly requires emergency services (though not so frequently that they need in-patient care).

Ideally, emergency responders would be linked to the patient's healthy data so the verbal exchange via 911 is less necessary.
Flawed? You bet. Overwrought? A bit.

But I found this Sunday AM read enjoyable, articulate, and largely on-point (overlooking a few minor scientific errors).

The core themes here are about the hubris of a rich CEO/founder, the zaniness of the current AI "market," and their resultant effect on a particular NYC startup.

This is a season of "Silicon Valley" (HBO) done east-coast, hedge fund, Ivy League style.
Ah, this gets into gpl vs bsd though doesn't it? I'm not sure what to think about dual licensing. I have a fondness for Qt, but I also like tcl/tk so... its hard not for me to think of that xkcd about standards. https://xkcd.com/927/
Is Google still scanning orphan works?
Problems like this are a critical flaw in cryptocurrencies. When something goes horribly wrong, who do you go to for help? You don't have a right to recourse with cryptocurrencies. With real money, you have legal rights that can be exercised by simply filing a complaint with the bank. If that doesn't go well, you go to the regulatory agencies or the courts.

Furthermore, if you do succeed in getting help from the community/central committee then you just defeated a goal of cryptocurrencies. Taken directly from the first paragraph of the homepage of the Ethereum website [0]:

> Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third-party interference.

[0]: https://www.ethereum.org/
It still applies to creative writing. IIRC, I heard it called a promise in a creative writing course. E.g. if you open with an action scene and the rest of the story has no action, that's a broken promise to the reader. It's useful to give the reader an indication of what they're starting in any piece.
>Eighty-four percent of students are graduating on time.... Nationally, just 25 percent of high school seniors are able to do grade-level math and just 37 percent score proficient in reading.

The factory model of education is similar to Tesla's automated Model 3 assembly line. A pat on the head, push 'em out the door, and Prozac for the unhappy.
While I disagreed with the DAO fork and disagree with this EIP, neither of them changed immutability. The problematic transactions are still there. These are irregular state transitions that are normally illegal but are hardcoded to be allowed as special one-off favors.
is there a reason eth’s contracts aren’t coded in haskell or similar
It's ironic that a crypto project seeking stability decides to peg its valuation against a fiat currency, i.e. the US dollar.
I live next to an elderly acute care facility. There's an ambulance outside every day when I drive or ride my bike past.
This 'link tax' sounds awful. Will WikiPedia need to start paying 'link tax' ?
This is pretty old news and I recall it being discussed here extensively. Can a mod tag this with (2016)?
Yup, this is a demonstration of Zipf's Law, which affects all human languages: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

Moser has been discussed to death in the past, his article is pretty exaggerated to say the least.

I think it's worth keeping in mind that for most of history, Chinese referred to a writing system that was shared between many different languages, each with different pronunciations, coming from different places (what is now modern China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan), so the writing system was a script designed around semantic meaning, not sound. This also lets it get used in Kanji where words may have multiple readings (let's not even get into how crazy that is).

Now that mandarin is de-facto "Chinese", the writing system no longer serves its purpose, and in fact a lot of the character simplifications made in the 20th century make radical substitutions based on sound, further complicating things.
Oh, I didnt realize that still. Thanks!
You can sign up to Zillow via Facebook, where they get permission to pull the most relevant data points. They can then make additional inferences based on that.
Unfortunately, code = bugs.
Wasn’t firebug integrated into Firefox dev tools?
If you look at it as a way to write a contract, not an assumption about how it will be processed, it's useful. A program can reduce ambiguity by a lot, and reduce the need for legal intervention.

A while ago the SEC was looking into having complex securities put a python version of their logic on file, for investors to prod at. That sounds to me like a good use of 'smart contracts'.
In addition, if each individual unit of memory hardware gained mini-CPU-like data processing capability, then you would have additional faux-CPU power that scaled linearly with memory; this would allow you to do some (embarassingly parallel) things much faster than just having one additional CPU per peripheral.
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Needs a 2016, as well as misleading headline tag.
It's just replacing extra loads with a bunch of other instructions. In reality loads are cheap (and cached), it turns out to be cheaper than doing permutes to shuffle the vectors around.
Of course legal contracts can contain mistakes, and even intentional fraud. But when that happens, we don't have to just throw our hands up and say "Well, the contract is immutable, so you're screwed unless you happen to be friends with the guy who runs the blockchain."
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> Nobody wants to live in a world where a bug in a contract lets people steal your money and you can't get it back, even when you can prove who did it.

If you can prove who stole it, you can go through the courts to gain ownership of their accounts and then transfer the funds back.
Really it's only inaccurate because the price of housing isn't static and certainly isn't objective. Zillow works based on how similar houses near yours have sold, which could be low because the seller wasn't driving a hard price and the buyer was a good negotiator. It could be higher because the seller was firm on the price and the buyer didn't know any better. Not to mention, Zillow doesn't know if you recently renovated your kitchen. They don't know if you have unrepaired water damage. It's all a guess.

That being said, I wouldn't say 10% is a super high overestimation. On my street are two identical houses and one sold for $150k while the other sold for $180k, even though they're literally identical other than the color of the siding.

The number that really matters is the appraised value. Zillow had my house at $110k when I bought it and the buyers were asking $140k. It was a surprise when the appraisal came back at $145k. If Zillow was right, the bank would never have given a loan for $30k over the value of the house. But there was no way for Zillow to know the amount of work the previous owners put into the interior of the house.
Then what do you recommend switching to?
Additionally, it seems that many rural communities have volunteer fire departments that will respond to local events (fire or medical) much more quickly than the more highly trained/equipped regional departments. Trained as EMTs, they provide immediate care until they can hand off to the full timers.
Anyone using the Zestimate as a valuation tool is an idiot. It’s helpful for just comparisons, but frequently wrong when it comes to actual transactions.
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There are quite a few things that can be done.

1. Get management in on the importance of ergonomics in modern work-life. Like needs to be a large portion of budget and discussed with the board important.

2. Culturally teach the importance of ergonomics in computing. Make it a part of prereq college basic IT courses.

3. Interface types will change this equation. VR, wireless-VR, AR, advances in motion capture, and in brain-computer interfaces will offer alternatives that will have to be adapted and evolved into (I'm rooting for a foss future myself, as it will be more agile in the evolutionary process which is ony one of many reasons foss software is superior to proprietary.)

4. Change the outlook on the desk space and it's function. I was in really good shape in the Marine Corps but I still found time to play pc games, which all know can suck hours away, so I designed a workout program for at the desk in my barracks room. I turned what was a sedentary area into an active area just by changing my approach. For example, during CS matches, the rule was every death is max set of dips (using chair arms) squats (by pushing chair back out of the way) pushups, curls, or pullups, etc. Then rotate every time. I've also used balance balls as chairs in order to force me to focus on my core and ab static strength. There are many examples and each person is different, but the desk doesn't have to be a lazy place. (If you are interested in this I would start with horse stances to work with leg strength first and get the bloodflow to the gluteus maximus which is what excessive sitting restricts.)

Ultimately, I've been saying for a while that VR with room sensing seems really promising to me because I envision a future of VR workout sessions, which could be really fun by gamification and get people in shape! It wouldn't be that hard to ship a kettlebell with a motion tracker in it.

I have a game project (planned GPLclient/CC?contentbysub model) with a long goal of getting into that territory, but had to narrow scope away from recently. I'm mostly waiting for VR on gnu/linux to get better, hoping the Vive Pro has made progress in that area.
There is already a model for that - disability. If you are in the private sector and no longer able to work after you have put into social security, you are eligible for disability.

I'm also not arguing against former soldiers being eligible for additional compensation in the form of separate disability insurance if they were injured in the line of duty.
>Is a car propelled by its tires?

Yes.
Picking a “new” server-side language
This would also mess badly with the economics of law. For a majority of the contracts, the cost will go up as they will need to be scrutinized more because the cost of a mistake is much higher (it is immediate and final).
This story is strikingly similar to that facebook contractor working minimum wage job who was living in the parking lot and complained online.

> I got paid yesterday ($733.24, bi-weekly) but I have to save as much of that as possible to pay my rent ($1245) for my apartment that’s 30 miles away from work because it was the cheapest place I could find that had access to the train, which costs me $5.65 one way to get to work. That’s $11.30 a day, by the way. I make $8.15 an hour after taxes.

So after paying rent, all she has left for the entire month is about $220. That's the real problem.

Is it the company's fault that the job is a minimum wage job situated in the obscenely-expensive-to-live-in bay area? I don't know if it's right or wrong that she was indeed fired based on her 'open letter'.

Her entire medium post reads like a meltdown rant.

> So here I am, 25-years old, balancing all sorts of debt and trying to pave a life for myself that doesn’t involve crying in the bathtub every week.

and

> Will you pay my phone bill for me? I just got a text from T-Mobile telling me my bill is due.
YouTube demonetized my tuba videos
It's valid. To say something is "designed" for something can mean that it has a certain characteristic as facilitates its primary function. No need to have the annoying question of a designer attached.
Getting Started with Common Lisp in 2018
I regularly do, but there's always something that sends me back to Chrome. Currently it's the inability to see all of the permissions an extension requires without digging through its source:

https://imgur.com/a/k4rk0

Note the "Access your data on 5 other sites".
Interesting. I wonder what the dataset used to train the machine learning model looks like. Books and conversation style query pairs?
I'm not sure Zestimate actually manipulates the market. Banks don't care about Zestimates when they're handing out loans, they care about appraised value. Zestimates don't recoup the losses on a foreclosure.
Next week: Yelp to open chain of restaurant, citing vast knowledge of what makes for a satisfying dining experience. Spokespeople ensure their users that the impartiality of their algorithms will continue. This story brought to you from Google News Reporting.
And your "hard drive" is presumably an SSD, now.
The Chōshū Five
It really don't in my opinion.

Of course, the person in the room doesn't understand Chinese just like the individual neuron in a Chines person doesn't understand Chinese.

It's the entire house where the person in the room is just one part of the entire system.

And yes he does imply that there is something magical about the way humans are pattern recognizing feedback loops vs. machines as humans came from immaterial matter ourselves if he doesn't his argument simply do not hold up as there is nothing magical either in the way human conscience is a byproduct of simpler systems all forming to become a scentient one.

If you can buy that humans have evolved from dumb atoms then you have too look that not how humans and "machines" are different but how they are the same.

The samenes is that we are pattern recognizing feedback loops and that our sentience comes out of something non-sentient.

So either something magical is in play or there is nothing that hinders machines to become sentient either from what we know.

A human consists of milions of sub-systems like a calculator and yet we are somehow sentient.

Furthermore there is no know upper limit to how complex silicon based systems can be and so the right answer really is if anything "we don't know" not "because the person in the room doesn't understand chinese it proves that systems can" the person in the room is not the system the entire house including everything happening outside of the room.

In other words unless searle is claiming magic at some level nothing, absolutely nothing indicates that machines can't become sentient.

With regards to your last point then that's the wrong way to look at it.

A better way to understand why it's possible is to start from omniscience and then realize that omniscience means you are aware of everything and thus have no perspective where as all systems that can handle information potentially can become sentient the more complex they become.
The Peace Bay
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>More importantly, why are garbage stories from "journalists" who don't know the material they're writing about ending up on HN?

I think the idea is that people here can deconstruct the post and point out its flaws (as you started to in your first paragraph). Then other folks on the web can link to them.
How i created a job portal for Machine Learning during a weekend and launched it
Quant trading is easy with small accounts < 10 millions, the more money you trade, the harder is to find an edge...
Smart contracts are state transition systems. Whether you write them in a "functional" or "procedural" style is more or less a superficial syntactic question.

There's a lot of hot air being blown about pure functional programming for smart contracts as a way to somehow solve all logical bugs, which is nonsense.
Maybe not end-user applications. But everything underneath them.

I also think that open-source needs some sort of end-user facing consulting, the “last mile” at it were. A Wordpress expert or hosted service setting up your blog. A browser like Chrome that uses WebKit or Blink underneath.

But the underlying free platform beats the proprietary ones in the end. Let people build their little competing businesses on top of it if they want.

In the world I’m talking about (collaboration via contributions) everyone would get UBI and be able to not contribute anything.
I have a beef with income tax, but Im not sure it is worse than the other half being raised. Sales taxes also suck. Property taxes are better but still have some issues.

The undoubtedly terrible issue with income taxes is that they are complicated for almost no economic gain and at great inefficiency. And in this topic both parties agree to disagree: a flat income tax of 15% would be unwelcome by the progressive taxation democrats, and unwelcome by republican tax exemptionists. The US is very stuck on this issue.

"The problem is that the left and the right distrust each other and they are both right" - Milton Friedman.
Coulda said the same thing with Microsoft, go buy a Mac. Monoply power isn't a binary stat, it's a sliding scale and eventually these companies get enough power to start affecting other industries
Grover Norquist.
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Ask HN: Do you own investment real estate and how do you manage it?
The short description of Taiping's policies [1] makes them sound like a Christian Taliban, or the society of Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion#Taiping_Heav...
AWS Lambda Cost Optimization
This is great. books answered my question

"which countries supported Iraq chemical attacks during Iran-Iraq war?"

"Saddam Hussein received chemical weapons from many countries, including the USA, West Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, France and China (Lafayette, 2002). In 1980 Iraq attacked Iran and employed mustard gas and tabun with 5% of all Iranian casualties directly attributable to the use of these agents"

from Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents
by Ramesh C. Gupta
“Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents” by Ramesh C. Gupta
It's not that the execution units are shared, but that the frequency is throttled when AVX2, AVX512 instructions are encountered. In general AVX512 is not yet worthwhile when overall system throughput is at stake, and you don't have very vector heavy workloads. AVX2 is worthwhile most of the time. As of Haswell one lane of the AVX2 units was powered down when not in use and instructions execute more slowly when first encountering them. It executes them basically by stitching together two SEE operations. But this doesn't necessarily make it slower than SSE, just that the performance benefits might not materialize if there isn't enough AVX2 code being executed. I don't know if Skylake works that way as well.
Don't forget that Ethereum is a first generation technology. There will be many refinements along the way of any new idea. I think these restores are repulsive but I have to remind myself that their team is always growing and learning from mistakes.