skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A woman, even one 42,000 years old, is not merely an "opportunity", she's an autonomous person with human rights. But apparently the whole idea of the Enlightenment is naive.

Nope. Her life effectively ended 42,000 years ago. Her unfreezing would basically be her afterlife.

Everything she ever knew would be dead and gone, the world would have completely changed. If we could figure out how she survived a 42,000 year freeze, it basically opens us up to interstellar space travel and expansion, even without FTL speeds. The benefits to humanity are far too great to pass them up for the selfish needs of a single individual, even if she cannot comprehend her important contribution to science.
Great GameDays: Thinking About Failure Holistically
Publicly adjusting your beliefs in response to evidence is super rare and and extremely important skill. I really respect that you took the time to do this throughout the thread.
Never mind that there's an app that combines social media and...a payment service.
Do you honestly expect everyone else in the theater to deal with subtitles only for a select few that want it? Secondly, theaters make their money on food, not the movies.
The average young man has about the same hand-grip strength as an elite female judo player. A woman at the 90th percentile has similar grip strength to a man at the 5th percentile. No amount of training can overcome that level of difference unless you're a massive outlier or you're using anabolic steroids.

We should be careful to avoid attributing innate differences to traits that are really socialised, but we can't simply overlook the vast gender differences in many traits.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00421-006-0351-...
In my area, a lot of small, independent book and toy stores have opened up over the past decade or two, and it seems to me like their business has been picking up in the wake of the implosions of Borders and Toys R Us. That works for me, TBH - I have little nostalgia for Toys R Us, but I have very fond memories of the small children's book & toy store my parents used to take me to.

Perhaps the same will happen with theaters? The local AMC cineplex isn't doing much for me; the movies it shows are more-or-less disposable, so I'm just as happy to watch them on a small screen at home while I'm working on a hobby project or whatever. OTOH, an independent theater that I used to live by would show classics, Rocky Horror, limited distribution stuff that's hard to find anywhere, and even old silent films with a live orchestra. Consequently, it felt like an integral part of the community to me.
oh you sure can, ever seen a1kon donut ? https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=a1kon%20donut.c

also libcaca

ps: one day I'll make a terminal photoshop
If libraries are so good, why students in US pay fortunes for books they need for studying?
> I’d imagine even a moderately engaged gym user would lose the gym money on every visit, in staffing costs alone.

A gym user attending a gym doesn't incur significant additional staffing costs. The work required to clean the gym may increase a bit but that'd be nowhere near the price of even the cheapest gym memberships.

> The marginal cost of each user rises too, as people that are unable to get on machine are more likely to churn.

That's not a cost, it's a factor for the overall churn rate and marginal cost for acquiring a new user. It'd limit the max profitability of a gym (i.e. getting to churn = growth equilibrium) but it's not an operational cost.
You can offer them what they are seeking, but with terms they are not willing to go along with. This way they are the ones ultimatey saying “no”.

It’s just like giving a quote for an unsavory work gig.
You essentially ask for “more” (work, time, etc) on their part in exchange for your commitment.

I suppose this is probably considered some type of negotiation.
I don't endorse this behaviour at all I'm merely stating the facts (probably as outlined in the contract you've entered with Microsoft). If you feel you've been wronged you should certainly hire a lawyer. At the very least then you'll know what it is they think you did.

Another option would be talking to a consumer organization (not sure if this is applicable because a university licence might not qualify as a consumer licence).

Other than that: Caveat emptor. I know this sounds trite and doesn't really help in your current situation but when you entered that contract you very likely agreed to the terms Microsoft now uses against you.
The point is not that "the market fixes everything", the point is these are still market forces.

Even in a completely free market, you can get screwed over.
tl;dr: When you have a flash of inspiration, it isn't because your mind was subconsciously putting it together in the background prior to that, or preparing you for it -- you just had the inspiration in that moment like any other thought.

However, I'd make two counterpoints:

1) The article completely ignores nighttime dreaming, when our brain does reorganize information we've processed during the day, and perhaps prepares us for the subsequent flash of inspiration we wouldn't otherwise achieve.

2) The idea of "unconscious thought" is a contradiction in terms -- thought is generally defined as exclusively conscious -- so the article sets up a bit of a semantic strawman. But the research here in no way invalidates our unconscious knowledge or instincts, which of course play a huge role in psychology.
I'm not quite convinced of the article's thesis. It may be true that the brain doesn't chug along on a background problem continuously for days, but instead it checks in on the problem every so often when it is in a different state. But the act of reconsidering a problem from a different mental context is the essence of problem solving.

The experiment involving retrieval of foods and countries is suggestive, but I think it cannot be generalized outside of that experimental paradigm. The same for doing arithmetic in one's head. Creative problem solving is a different beast, and the flashes of inspiration described in the article which take place after a matter of hours or days are indicative that the mind revisits the problem in the unconscious.
Don’t forget they also phone home with too much data about you and try to second guess you. I’m about ready to throw away my “smart” thermostat and replace it with a model from the 1980s with a dial that stays where I set it and no unnecessary internet connectivity.
If you extrapolate a bit you can see that we can get rid of governments and have private companies run our lives completely.

Public money should be spent on making FOSS better rather than making private companies richer thereby helping them kill FOSS.
It seems that would make JSON likely more verbose than XML.
> Selection is an unfortunately overused euphemism for death.

Sure, as long as you consider "failure to reproduce" or "managing to reproduce, but not at a very high rate" to be synonyms for "death".
What is the point of this comment? The title is completely accurate in stating that she was a WW2 Spitfire pilot. There isn't any implication that she was a combat pilot.
I thought, yeah that's just feature gated stuff.
It's just marketing but my code will break even if I don't use the new edition because my dependencies will use it.

Turn out that it's false. What's amazing is that the compiler ensures that projects using the legacy edition can still use libraries relying on the new edition.

that if you’re using Rust 2018, you can use dependencies that use Rust 2015 with zero problems. If you’re sticking with Rust 2015, you can use libraries that use Rust 2018. It all works together

That's great!
"The data they are gathering cannot be more valuable than the cost of a movie ticket."

When you install the app what does seek to access? Given that most movie theaters are surrounded by food & drink establishments then it would seem they're not too far from becoming a "niche" Groupon. That's got to add some revenue.

Moi? The data is a privacy issue. But I'm a fringe minority. Most ppl see deal and convenience and ignore the risks.
> If this writer didn't work for a company that will make money off his ridiculous assertions

You mean the authors of the Nature article? Only their affiliation to Georgia Tech is listed. Or the author of that book on zinc?

Ooooh at the very bottom:

> Competing Financial Interests

> G.Y. is a co-founder, chief technology officer, a board member and a shareholder of Sila Nanotechnologies, the company commercializing silicon-based anode materials mentioned in this Comment article.
This is a stark reminder about the dangers of signing your life over to saas. If you are in the EU you might want invoke your right to an electronic, transferable copy under GDPR
Yeah he wasn't tortured. He just put himself into a coma in a failed suicide self-strangulation attempt. You know, to escape that whole lifetime of forced labor bit.

Muuuuuch better
Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale residents start frothing at the mouth when development threatens to make any part of their city look like a downtown. They are deeply committed to preventing any hint of such a thing. At most, they want a 1950s small-town Main St.
Yes, this is 100% correct. That being said you can also create a React app using FRP framework such as Cycle JS and share exactly the same amount of code that I've listed above. Our team has chosen to go the React/Redux approach; I would argue that as an untyped language Javascript is unsuitable for FRP in the first place, despite FRP's advantages in handling reactive UI.
Exactly, in ten years graphene batteries wil have obliterated current technologies.
If we could replace gas station infrastructure with EV battery swap out stations, and redesign EVs for easy/fast battery changes, there would be no need for an electrified highway

I’ve been floating this idea around for a bit in my head and I haven’t really thought about any serious problems with it. Main issue would be if people tried to pass in low-value batteries to the network but that could be fixed with a good serial numbering system
For the uninitiated, HKT means higher kinded types, which is the type theoretic term for what C++ calls template template parameters. That is, the possibility to pass around type-level functions. I don't know what ATC refers to.
Thanks for your reply. The BEAM VM is amazing (and I'm a fan of Elixir) but I'm trying to see what benefit you're getting out of BEAM if you're using NIFs. Because the moment you use NIFs then your VM can crash (without recourse to the various recovery mechanisms of the BEAM) just like, say, a Golang executable.

If you used Golang you would also get parallelism, I/O scalablity, multiplaform capability... all the things you list as advantages for BEAM. The only thing that BEAM is giving you "extra" vs, say, Golang is the ability to spread your app over a cluster easily. But again, I'm sure you can achieve that with some sort of a load distributer if you used Golang on multiple machines. Also with Golang it is easy to do CPU intensive tasks because its "closer" to the metal. So I guess what I'm saying is that for your specific use case (that involves a lot of media related CPU intensive work like video/audio processing) I wonder if the BEAM VM will give you that many advantages. With Golang in this case I think you can get the scalability, reliability as your current setup with one big advantage: better performance. But this is just my ~5 min view of the subject...
The markup language should be pluggable -.-
Hi! I'm from Discord and we do contribute to React/React Native! I have to say it's quite an adventure to dig through React Native's issue tracker only to find that your CTO's PR has been merged :P
It's not a question of browser support, it's a question of infrastructure support. When I was using them years ago, there were a lot of networks which blocked them.
Failure Formula – West Block Magazine
Removing Babel's Stage Presets
Life will go much smoother and make a lot more sense if you stop thinking of groups of people as individuals with individual memories, skillsets, capabilities, and experiences. "We" are capable of anything you've read about in the news or in a history book, from putting precision machines on other planets to unlocking our genome to changing the temperature of our planet to systematically eradicating entire ethnicities. Every individual is capable of handling those things, which means that so are "we".
There is a lot of value in introducing new valid useful ideas. This is what Silicon Valley did 20 years ago.

Now, the way a lot of people see it is as a set of elite smug overly-paid tech bros arrogantly trying to change every single unneeded part of life by "disrupting it".
Which usually translates into yet another stupid useless app on your smartphone to order pizza.
Thank you for sharing book. I am always looking for interesting stuff to read.
Its subsidized in its R&D cost though. Not in the marginal cost of servers/apis ...

I sometimes joke like our first customer cost us $2M but our 2nd was wildly profitable!
Programming Patterns. Facade, Adapter, Decorator
You could imagine a big theater chain buying MP in a fire sale. If they pay $6M and the lender gets all of it, that's a pretty good deal for the lender.
That's not what the CDC says.

77% of all new infections are either homosexual men (68%) or IV drug abusers (9%).[1]

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/ataglance.html
AMC Stubs
https://www.amctheatres.com/amcstubs

I've been a subscriber for a few years. They waive online ticketing fees and you get $5 vouchers for every $100 spent (among other perks). It's been worth it for me.
There's an AMC equivalent now, 3 movies a week (in the nice Atmos theaters, too) for $20/mo: https://www.amctheatres.com/amcstubs/alist
Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange
> That’s not very believable.

Can you point me to a recycling facility that's doing this?
Crazy that this has been around in .NET for so many years, and it just lands now in nightly builds for JS. It's part of the reasons that make .NET Core quite viable (for Backend) now that we can run on Docker. The tooling around debugging and profiling are so far ahead compared to other languages.
Tankan is a browser-based program for Windows for memorizing Japanese characters.

http://www.kylheku.com/tankan/

It's written in Common Lisp, except for the little tray icon control program that is in Visual C++.
We don't just add things for the sake of adding them. Most new features are being driven by two things:

1. Making the language friendlier for beginners and easier to understand.

2. Addressing pain points by production users.

That being said, I'd push back a little on "number of features" as a measure of complexity. There's a few ways in which this is a problem.

For example, the "waterbed theory of complexity", that is, if you make the language simpler, you push the complexity elsewhere. This can be good or bad, depending. I generally hesitate to compare Rust to other languages, but there was a good illustration of this the other day, about Rust and Go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618918

Basically, Go has kept the language incredibly simple. Rust has added many features that Go does not. But that means that error handling in Go is significantly more verbose than in Rust. You can't just wave away the inherent complexity of properly handling errors; it has to go somewhere. Both choices are 100% valid, just different.

The other big issue with simply enumerating features is that cohesion and orthogonality is important. C++ did something truly impressive; they changed the fundamental model in which you write code. Idiomatic C++98 and idiomatic C++17 look and feel very different. The cost of this is that many features don't quite fit together as well as you would like. Or at least, that's what people say. We try to really make sure that features fit together in a way that makes sense.

Time will tell if we succeed.
Except there's survey data about this, and tech companies are the most respected and banks are the least: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/wells-fargo-...
I don’t think XML was the reason for XMPP not catching on.

Facebook could use a format based on brainfuck and we would have to support it.
Easy peasey, just take out another loan to pay the first one /s
It's always nice to find this kind of article where the author synthesizes a lot of knowledge in a single place.

I just have an advice, please don't mix upper case and lower case for programming names in your text, it makes it a little harder to understand, as a reader I was not sure if the author was talking about the same object/function or not. For instance I could find "object.assign()" inside a paragraph but then "Object.assign()" in the code example.
I see it as a tradeoff. If someone wears their bias on their sleeve, you know where they're coming from. If not, you have no way of knowing whether you're reading someone who is judiciously adhering to a process that minimizes bias, or whether they are deliberately concealing their bias, or whether they are so deluded that they imagine themselves to have no bias whatsoever, which would be absurd.

Regardless, you're still advocating for a low form of argument.
Books like The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Man’s Search for Meaning, and The Power of Now have profoundly changed how I react to life’s difficulties. If books don’t work for you, fine, but not everyone shares your worldview.

Thanks for the martial arts idea.
It's possible that you're both correct. All those stats you link actually say around 50% of new transmissions are a result of male-on-male sex, which is later changed to "gays and bisexuals" in the reports. Those terms aren't exactly interchangeable, with some of the riskiest MSM groups may not consider themselves gay, such as sex workers, rape victims, and inmates.
Pandoc doesn't go from PDF to anything afaik
Yeah, I've never seen anyone have their backpack/purse/jacket searched at a movie theatre.
I was a 90's teaching-self-to-program-while-in-middle-schooler, and I remember many of these. "The Internet was new" is definitely one I can relate to - I initially learned how to program by reading through the VB4 help files, since my family didn't have internet yet. Also, Zip Disks, because it was really easy to leave behind in the computer at school.
We ended up using Acronis.
Yes, thank you! ATC is "associated type constructors". I believe Haskell calls them "type families"? It's sort of a similar idea; a form of higher-kindness. We are likely to get ATC in the medium term, but full HKT is farther out.
AKA calendar versioning. I also love it.

http://calver.org/.
How is this a business?!?!?
Thanks. I’ve heard of a few of those but was not aware that they’re all part of a bigger project.
Good job! Nice and simple. :)
Inbox was another attempt at that.

If Google wanted true lock-in they could implement a Gmail-only end-to-end encrypted protocol. Ironically, that's the only thing they don't want to do.
I think the conclusions the author makes are way too broad.

What generates consciousness, appears to me to be a function of what the neurons are all 'doing'. The brain has two features that are devoted to linguistic processing, and you have to activate them in order to find words for the things you think.

Thoughts that 'bubble up' all the way to linguistic representation in the mind are definitely conscious, while it's also possible to make some sense out of brain activity that doesn't quite find words. For example, playing ping pong or some other sport would be exceedingly difficult if you had to use the linguistic part of your brain in order to make sense of what you're doing.

If you meditate, you can focus on that 'line' between when thoughts become linguistic and when they don't, and if you do trance work, you can block out the sensory world and so generate experiences using 'only' the mind. From here, you can work out that brain activity becomes conscious at some point.

Also, obviously there is brain activity that does not reach consciousness, the brain for example needs to do things like regulate heartbeat, and certain aspects of our experience we're only dimly conscious of much of the time. Consciousness is a continuum, not a binary.

So our brains can be doing a lot that we're not aware of.
I will argue in favor of preserving "libraries" but let's first point out some flaws in author's reasoning.

>But libraries are not just a place to find books — they’re one of the few places that provide a number of free services to the American public.

Tax-payer funded != free.

>Some two-thirds of our regular patrons fall into one of three categories: homeless, struggling with addiction, or recovering from addiction.

Homeless shelter / addict sanctuary != library.

>Libraries are irreplaceable. Either discuss providing more funding for the invaluable work we do, or leave them alone.

I find the author's position a little binary or maybe unimaginative. What might help everyone - including taxpayers - is to re-think the community center model.

If the library building is primarily a convenient refuge for addicts and indigents, then we should optimize for that. Fewer books, more bathrooms.

If we still want to have publicly-accessible book repositories, could we combine them with other forms of community services, such as recreation?
> strange emphasize on the job history of the wife, including her exact title, and the purchase of the luxury car.

Having grown up there, I think I can speak to this. Both are very culture specific.

Job Titles are prominently mentioned in wedding invitations (esp. in South Indian invitations). My dad's invitation also states his exact title as well as his degree in engineering, incl. the major and minor. I thought that was strange too and do remember asking my dad about it when I was a kid. I think he said something to the effect of "It lets everyone attending the wedding know that I have a good job and will be able to take care of your mother and that she is going into marriage with an educated man making a good salary."

The luxury car mention seems to be a more recent cultural / social phenomena. Before the auto makers and loans came to India (think pre-1980s), having a car was a social status / symbol. It signaled to your neighbors that you were doing well in life. This probably doesn't hold true anymore, with the arrival of car loans and several foreign automakers who have dealerships across India.

Given that the writer of the story is also east indian, I figured he placed an emphasis on these 2 things...
Ken Thomson and Rob Pike still program. They are inspiring people I wanna follow not those useless and inefficient bureaucrats in charge of "human resources".

As programmers, we should take the control of the recruitment with coopting. The market is in our favor. We are more needed than we need. We can do that smoothly and the good business men will understand they can save a lot of money with a such system.

I already know few good programmers who are available and I can recommend.
If anything, then the complexity is getting less, not more, as the team as well as the ecosystem are very much focused on making things simpler and more approachable and are very aware of any existing, potentially unnecessary complexity. As an example, the borrow checker is currently undergoing a major (internal) revision and will allow you to write some things in the future (and even now, at least on nightly Rust) that its old implementation was not so sure about and thus complained about. Another example: async/await syntax is coming, along with improved futures, that will make it much easier to get started with async/io programming.
What's especially infuriating is the dark pattern that began with Windows 8 and has become worse in Windows 10: hiding that you can create a local account instead of using a Microsoft clown, er, cloud account.

The more I see things like this happening, the less I want to entrust anything important to MS, Google, Amazon, etc.
too bad it's in objective-c :/
Right, thanks! It sounded familiar but google revealed nothing. Should have tried "atc rust".