skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both are awesome papers, I found this very interesting:

"In 1975 Gerald J. Sussman and Guy L. Steele Jr. began experimenting with some interpreters in an attempt to understand the consequences of the Actor model of computation. This led to the publication during 1976–1978 of a series of papers describing a new dialect of Lisp called Scheme. Scheme was one of the first languages to have taken seriously the implications of lexical scoping and first-class functions. Namely, Scheme correctly treated closures—a closure is a function along with the local environment within which it was defined."

I heart Richard Gabriel once saying that the goal of Scheme was implement Carl Hewitt's Actor model but they discover closures instead, got hyped and forget about the original mission.

Later history repeat itself twice, Robert Virding a true Lisp Hacker implement LFE his own LISP for the BEAM ecosystem and accomplish the original Scheme goal and probably without even know or care much about it, in the similar way that once Mike Williams, Joe Armstrong and him build Erlang the best implementation (in my opinion) that we got from the Actor model without know nothing about it existence at the time of the development of Erlang.
I'm a big fan of spaced repetition, made a lightweight browser extension to carry around with me when I'm surfing the web https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/harvest-take-notes...
Maybe having the largest telescope will attract more top talent to the field :)
Tool making and use among animals have been documented for quite some time. [1] What's significant is , in most cases, the animals are both "tool makers" and "tool users". They find items most suitable for their purpose and adapt it as much as possible. May be, they are not as versatile as we are, but they have the recognition that

1. Objects can be repurposed for some other use that what they see in nature.

2. Certain objects are better suited than others, though they are similar.

3. A fore said objects can be modified further to increase efficiency.

4. This knowledge is often passed among communities and families through observation or teaching rather than as genetic changes.

>> Both bonobos and chimpanzees have been observed making "sponges" out of leaves and moss that suck up water and using these for grooming

>> Elephants have been observed digging holes to drink water, then ripping bark from a tree, chewing it into the shape of a ball thereby manufacturing a "plug" to fill in the hole, and covering it with sand to avoid evaporation. They would later go back to the spot to drink.

>> Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins made up of approximately 41-54 animals, are known to use conical sponges (Echinodictyum mesenterinum) as tools while foraging. ...During sponging, dolphins mainly target fish that lack swim bladders and burrow in the substrate. Therefore, the sponge may be used to protect their rostrums as they forage in a niche where echolocation and vision are less effective hunting techniques. Sponging may be socially learned from mother to offspring.

>> Woodpecker Finches have been observed to use a different type of tool with novel functional features such as barbed twigs from blackberry bushes, a plant that is not native to the islands. The twigs were first modified by removing side twigs and leaves and then used such that the barbs helped drag prey out of tree crevices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals
Wasn't Kotlin introduced because Android was still stuck in Java 6? IntelliJ is running on JRE9 (a more or less LTE version they package with their installer) currently, afaik, while Android supports Java 7 and only some Java 8 features.
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All tech jobs produce stress. People in IT were found to produce more stress chemicals in their blood than a surgeon (study done 10+ years ago during the dotcom boom).

Recommend avoiding IT if you cannot handle stress - or go and learn how to handle stress - preferably by joining the military and getting your brain rewired to function successfully under stressful situations.
I mean de-noising techniques, nowadays can be definitely claimed as Machine Learning, even though they have long existed prior to even ML as a concept even being invented...
Most of those things aren't actually that common, and are only eaten by a subset of westerners.

Obviously it's a bit different here in Australia to the American South, but if I was to offer up some chitlins/tripe to a group of Anglo-Australians, the vast majority of them wouldn't touch it.

Black pudding and pâté are probably the only two types of offal that people will generally eat here. Black pudding is pretty uncommon though, and people seem to have wilfully forgotten that pâté is made from liver, I've had people stop eating pâté after I've told them it's made from pig/chicken livers.
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Without the government there would be no military.

Thus your line of reasoning is really an argument for some degree of government and centralized planning, as opposed to total free market innovation. That Silicon Valley owes its existence to the government as much as if not more so than the free market.

As a socialist, I have no qualms about that. I'd just rather our communal resources and effort be spent on things other than the military (industrial complex). If Silicon Valley is a good thing (debatable), we could choose to make it happen without the military. It's all a matter of cultural will.
I'm running a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with the latest Raspbian image (Stretch dated 2018-06-27). I used apt to install Anki version 2.0.32. Starting Anki from the command line results in "Import error: no module named QtWebKit".

Apparently, QtWebKit has been unmaintained for quite some time, and has been removed from the latest version of PyQt. When I get the time I'm going to load Jessie onto a spare micro-sd card and see if that solves the problem. If that doesn't work I may fall back to Plan A and roll my own SRS application.

Edited to add: The Raspberry Pi is not attached to the rowing machine or anything else besides keyboard, mouse, and TV. I'm using it to read ebooks, study, surf HN, etc, while I'm exercising.
Obligatory "can we trust official Chinese statistics?". Gaming local numbers after a lavishly-funded project seems to have been popular for a while [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-fraud/china...
I think you have a misunderstanding of what AJAX is. I have no idea what you are getting at with the political rambling about metadata and Trump.
Hummm something similar is happening to my company, no more hiring in valley. All new hires in midwest Offices. Will have to watch out. Tx
Summary: That principal is the main profit of the landlord. The time spent building up that principal is not a large moneymaker, since all your income goes to interest.

Read on "opportunity cost of money".

They could rent that way, and some people do: People who just want things simple and don't care that much about getting the most money. If you are a renter your goal is to try make this happen, by being so easy for your landlord that he's willing to do this for you (it usually ends up as him never raising the rent, over time this reduces your cost because of inflation). Things like never calling him with problems, always paying the rent on time without being reminded, stuff like that. (Doesn't always work of course, it depends on your landlord.)

But anyway, normally people try to maximize the value of their money. So they'll take that money locked up in principal and go buy another house and rent that out.

Each time they pay off enough of their mortgage they'll go buy something else. Over time you'll have a large fleet of houses, and a nice income.

Or, you can take that principal and invest in anything else. Or even just live off of it (it's your profit after all).

That's the simple, boring, way to make money in real estate. You basically multiply your money each time you buy another house. You start young, and don't make much. By the time you are older you have a steady income.
Race that beam!

For simpler things, not 3D, sorting objects and a single buffer render still work just fine.
For a long time I worked with Java and tried to make the move to Groovy since I could appreciate what I read about it, having a background in Smalltalk. But somehow using Java for some large projects just seemed more straightforward and safe, because of type-checking which supports large-scale refactorings.

But since I moved to mainly work on Node.js I feel that Node.js is what Groovy should have been. A simple but actually powerful language since EcmaScript version 6.

And open.JavaScript feels open because, JavaScript is everywhere, both on the client and now with Node.js on the server too. Everybody knows it. It can not be called "niche language", like Groovy perhaps could. There is safety in numbers.

What I'm looking forward to is Node.js running on GraalVM. That should make it easy to call Java libraries from within Node.js. Use JavaScript as "glue for Java" like it was originally intended.

https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/js/
Whether they actually have similar internal experience or not I think still does not justify the way humans treat animals. If a developmentally disabled human was not able comprehend life, death or suffering, that would not excuse mistreatment of that person.

Whether animals understand life or not isn’t really the point, and I think these arguments are misused to justify explotation and mistreatment.
When recently buying a car, the saleswoman said we would be sent a survey about the sale and that anything other than a 5 out of 5 rating she gets hassled by corporate. Wtf is the point in even giving people options if only one option is considered 'good'?
Zombies. Lot's of Zombies.
“Forget programming - the best skill to teach children is reinvention.”
I'm glad that the workflow works so well for you.

In my case, it doesn't. I'm maintaining libraries and also applications that use those libraries.

For libraries, you need your setup.py to be kept up to date, as requirements.txt doesn't do anything when you pip install a library package. Of course, requirements.txt is necessary when you want to run the libraries's tests, since few things are as frustrating as having the tests broken by some random dependency having a new version come out. But, then you have to keep setup.py and requirements.txt kinda synced - only kinda, because in setup.py you will list your test and dev dependencies separately, but in requirements.txt they all get mixed up together. In theory its possible to script keeping requirements.txt up to date - in practice, when working with a big team, its a tremendous pain. The first option is to tell everyone not to mess it up, but, that doesn't work. The 2nd option is to develop a bunch of scripts to do it, but, then you have to get everyone to install and use them, and thats quite frustrating since its not at all clear to my why the standard tools don't do it already.

We also have applications. And those applications depend on some libraries we wrote. Those libraries have their own dependencies. When a library is updated, it might gain or lose dependencies. So, when an application is updated to use a new version of that library, its requirements.txt should be updated accordingly. pip installing the new version of the library will bring in its new dependencies - but won't get rid of the old ones from the virtual environment. A subsequent pip freeze will freeze a bunch of dependencies that aren't needed anymore - and that get harder and harder to find an eliminate as the number of unused dependencies grows. Again, this could be scripted, but, its a pain to do, and, the tools should support it.

Whats so frustrating, is that these aren't unsolved problems in computer science. There are solutions. NPM/yarn does an OK job (I have minimal experience). Rust's cargo is fantastic. I've heard that Ruby's bundler is great. I fully appreciate that solving these problems probably requires volunteers - and I'm not volunteering, so, maybe there is only so much I can do to complain. But, looking at most of the work going into the ecosystem, it seems to be ignoring these problems.

Anyway, maybe I was a bit too harsh in my initial response. If your workflow is working for you, that is great. What I would suggest, however, is that if you find a need to add additional requirements to that workflow (such as an easy way to update a single dependency, and its transitive dependencies - both adding and removing them), you'll find that the available Python option quickly disappoint you. For your sake, I hope that doesn't happen, since, its unpleasant to deal with.
Well, if the technology isn't impressive at least they still have Neal Stephenson. He may be able to create experiences that no other VR platform offers.

https://magic-leap.reality.news/news/magic-leaps-neal-stephe...
Like I said, our idea – that is, our presumption, short of scientific evidence – of what inner experiences an animal might share with us should be informed by our knowledge of what physiology and behavior that animal shares with us. Orcas are mammals with complex social structures who form extremely close bonds with their mothers [1]. Hence my suggestion that the burden of proof rests with those who claim that an orca would not feel grief should her child die.

Roundworms? Not so much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#Social_structure
This is incredibly elitist.
From the fifth paragraph:

> It’s not like I’ve completely divorced myself of Java. I have written a significant amount of Java/Spring/Hibernate code in the last 3 years (...) I worked in the Solar Industry doing deeply soul-fulfilling things like writing database queries about kiloWatt-hours
IANAL, but the introduction says yes
I agree that it could be improved, but I think "unbelievably bad" is hyperbole.

This is especially true in light of comparisons to other vendors; I'm not aware of any up-to-date machine-readable information that's the equivalent for Appendix C for any other vendor, and historically (pre Intel acquisition) we had trouble finding this information out at all for some of our platforms to which we had Hyperscan ports. It was either out of date, not available, or behind a paywall ("show you've bought our SDK to get basic processor docs").
I also just use a leitner box. Or rather a pair of business card file boxes.

Wikipedia actually has a great explanation, the labels are pretty ingenious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system
Yeah, something only the rich can do.
Can you cite the Chinese low interest rates? The BLR is 4.3% according to this[0] is there something else going on?

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/china/bank-lending-rate
IANAL, but my understanding is that it makes it a crime for the employer to enforce the provision which prevents them from suing for it in civil court.
Important clarification: it was JdeBP's comment that taught _me_ that one uses id attrs for anchors! That was the point I was making in my previous comment.

I think I followed a similar path to what you did, albeit 7 years later. IMO frontend dev is fine, given the time that seems to be required in order to stumble on these "things we didn't know we needed to know", whether by concerted tuition/learning or simple wandering.
OK, I'll bite.

I propose that the government should have an anti NEET law (for 'working age' people), that is, someone should always be in Employment, Education or Training. It was either to complete the acronym, or the latter two are differentiated between theory education and trade-school education.

The education/training parts are pretty simple; a minimum 'living wage' (for ACTUAL living, not fake numbers) and housing near the education/training site will be provided in exchange for participating in the education/training. This payment also applies to child student dependents of legal guardians (usually parents) and is their "tax credit" replacement.

The employment part is a combination of publicly paid internships and/or work directly for the public good. In both cases the employee is a civil servant and any "works" they create become the public domain; unless the median pay rate for that job is paid to the government as a "temp" placement fee.

While I'm at it, part time workers receive pro-rated benefits funding and the option to buy from (any of) their employer's benefits pool(s). Partial work shouldn't be an excuse to deny benefits.

If benefits are fully socialized (E.G. single payer primary health cost coverage) then the above can still apply to over the top benefits.
'After 37 years I caught my brother's killer on Facebook'
The entire article is stupid

> This is perhaps because most humans failed to even entertain the possibility that animals might care about the death of those they love.

Ever person with two pets who hung out and had one die has looked to see if the other showed grief. A really stupid strawperson premise. And you'll see it, but the question as a layperson is, is it real or imagined.

Also dogs mourning their dead owners have multiple fucking movies made about them. It's pop culture for dams sake. Hachikō was re-made into an American movie from a Japanese movie made off multiple news articles.

But at the end of the day if animals show grief why are they using this current cliche of J35. Why not the billions of animals that interact with us every day. Why are they using famous cases of grief that we've all heard before?
> Why would I care if a requirement is direct or a dependency? If it's a dependency it's a requirement. Period.

Let's say I need package A. And, package A depends on package B, but, I'm not otherwise using package B.

1. I want to say that I need package A, >=1.0 and <2. I want to be able to tell my tools to go find the most recent version of package A and install it, as long as it meets my requirements. I do not care at all which version of package B is installed, as long as it doesn't conflict with any of my other requirements. I don't want to see package B at all - its just an implementation detail of package A.

2. When I deploy to production, I want to make sure that the deploy is repeatable. If the last time I deployed, I had package A==1.2.3 and B==4.5.6, then, when I deploy again, I want those exact same versions.
> What’s it mean when you get a Hibernate PersistentObjectException about a “detached entity passed to persist”? That took several days to figure out — at the risk of oversimplification — it meant the JSON arriving at the REST endpoint had ID fields with values. Hibernate, oversimplying, wants control of the ID values, and throws this confusing exception.

I found your problem. You're using Hibernate.
I can't rule it out. One the one hand it's a GIF, on the other hand the server's saying it was last modified in 2012.
Though on the Apple II, I suspect that most games were essentially double buffered (although there is no video hardware to speak of). I wrote an arcade game when I was in high school (probably around 1985???) and the advice I got was to draw into a separate piece of memory and then copy that memory into the video memory -- otherwise you'd always have trouble with video artefacts (especially because the colour it output was dependent upon the bit patterns in memory).

It was actually important from another aspect: the video memory was not contiguous. IIRC, it was divided in 3. So the first row was the first scan line, the second row was 1/3 the way down the page and the third row was 2/3 down the page. In order to compose graphics on the screen, you'd have to have this weird algorithm for drawing into memory. Compositing right in the video memory would have resulted in lots of timing problems.
I have settled on the definition of a soul being, "that which makes us unique."

Animals souls do not burn as bright, or as complex as ours do, and perhaps the higher order animals do, but they are there.

I had a special cat once. Deep bond with my wife and I. When my wife was sick, that cat attended to her. She reported the caring touch, done for the same reasons any of us would.

When she died, it was powerful.

She wanted to be with us, and she communicated basic affection, fear, the need to be close, pain, and more.

It was remarkably like the passing of a person. Simpler, but not less, just simpler.

It is hard to justify a lot of what we do, given these kinds if experiences.

One other thing: Animals do vary. Widely. But, when we invest in them, seek mutual understanding, they respond. The more capable ones can respond more than I belueve we realize.
Kotlin being used by Android was very much after the fact. In fact the first few public releases had a bug that made it unusable on Android.
The core point you missed in antifragile is inference in the presence of uncertainty - a conservative barbell like strategy (80-20 rule or 90-10 rule). This is very easy to overlook but this to me was the key takeaway - in structuring a portfolio, picking art projects etc.
Estonia gives everyone a smart card they can use to digitally sign things. Obviously someone can steal your card but it's pretty hard to forge otherwise.

It's a solved problem, just nobody wants to fix it.
Causality and function approximations
Similar story, but he editing doom and SimCity was a good time. A double barreled unlimited ammo shotgun made levels a little easier. or building a city with 2 billion dollars was fun.
Wouldn’t you have received a confirmation email from the instance you signed up with?
When the U.S. Government Replaced Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers
Wow, they made a deliberate effort to design glyphs that all look exactly the same. Every single letter written in cursive would be indistinguishable from 5-6 others.
No Venmo competitor is even close to being better (for me) because everyone I know uses Venmo. I understand it's somewhat regional and may also be influenced by age, income, etc. But even with strangers, they always accept it.

I don't care about the rest of the features, for the most part.
Sadly, at least some of it only applies from Jan 1, 2019 onwards:

> (b) This section applies to contracts for employment entered into, modified, or extended on or after January 1, 2019.
He spends a fair amount of time complaining about spring. I've never used spring. I recognized it as bloat from the beginning.

The base servlet API + commons dbcp is good enough for me. If writing SQL queries is too much to ask, then perhaps he shouldn't be writing webapps.
Rails Console Magic Tricks
I built a nixie tube clock like that with a gps receiver, it works amazingly
When did the notion that every even moderate high school student could get a job and buy a house stop being prevalent? Certainly it was some time in the last half century.

Yes we get it, it's great that we have antibiotics and electricity, but it's completely missing the point. Food, shelter, education, and health are not luxury goods, they are the foundation of a functioning civilization.
Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout