skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i discovered this interview with some of the grand masters of science fiction.

it is endearing to hear them talk about their motivations to become writers, how they look at technology, what they struggled with and how they helped each other and collaborated.

skip the movie you were planning to watch tonight. this is the evening entertainment that will make your day!
IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses
I don't do any 3d modeling at all but I use Blender for its sequence editor to produce my YouTube videos. Being free open source, Python scriptable, and cross platform makes it better than any alternative video sequence editor for me.
why isn't it just a website? Having to install an extension just for this seems a little much...
Yeah honestly I don't get it either. So many simple things like for example, quickly opening 8 hackernews links on the front page in a new tab for future reading takes me about 5 seconds. On an iPad you'd have to long-press and open in a new tab, it'd probably take me half a minute.

It's stuff like that which kills even a browser experience for me because a lot of my browsing is navigation and exploration, e.g. on HN or Wikipedia, rather than pure-reading on a single page for 30 minutes which is nice to do with a light Pad on the couch.

Being able to organise a mini-session of 20 different wikipedia links with small tidbits of information relating to a central topic of interest, opening and closing them and switching between, is just so much easier on a Macbook with monitors, mouse and keyboard.

Hell even typing this comment is trivial on a keyboard.
Are there cross compilers that can take more modern JavaScript and transpile it down to the older version to make it more comfortable for developers?
> Dicts now retain order now (in other words all dicts are ordered dicts).

I think you can be more clear here: all dicts are ordered by insertion order (not by key).
I wonder whether the sound wave got stronger again as it reached the opposite side of the globe from the source. Would it have made it back into the audible range? Maybe not, since I imagine that intervening mountains and such would disrupt or change the speed of the waves.
ah, post-google chrome developers.

Most people here will be too young to remember, so let me tell an old-people tale of when everyone used Netscape (which cost $29.99 ...let that sink in first of all), and then microsoft gave IE for free for everyone! Then webdevelopers without a true CS background (and by that i do not mean university), like yourself, started to use IE niceties to develop. One of those niceties was the F12 developer tool. Which now become the every-browser's-dev-panel. And they cursed at everyone that was still using Netscape4 instead of their fancy new IE6. So much so they put buttons on those sites saying "better displayed on IE6" (or 4, don't remember).

I am tired of typing now. So have fun figuring out the moral of the history. I is my cristimas present to you :⁎
Pop Culture Gargoyles Hidden in Gothic Architecture
The breakdown of famous Jewish Manhattan Project physicists by country of origin appears to only be looking at those born outside the US.

But surely many of the US born Jewish physicists on the Project had parents who emigrated to the US. For example, Oppenheimer's parents came from Germany. Feynman's father came from Belarus. Olum's father was from Russia.

For the purposes of the article, shouldn't these be counted as coming from those countries?
As you acknowledge, not all new technology is better (for the desired application).

Most tech companies want to make money as their primary goal, rather than "make people's lives better with our tech".

As their goals in selling items are largely orthogonal to improving one's life calling someone a "laggard" -- which bears a slightly derogatory air -- simply for not buying in to a tech company's latest money acquisition effort seems, well, strange.

Perhaps "discerning" is a better description.
Seriously, does anyone actually think Die Hard _isn't_ a christmas movie?
It's specific to CPS form: every basic statement is a full function call, which moves to the next statement by calling another function (i.e. the continuation). Normally this would just be a very quick way to get yourself a stack overflow, so typical CPS-form compilers optimise (or require) the tail-call case, where you can pop the stack frame for the last instruction before moving on to the next. But for AD that's not a big deal, you just re-use those values in the backwards pass.

I doubt it's better than just allocating your own stack on the heap, especially when you have something like a differential equation solver with millions of statements, but it's still a neat trick.
> Controversial stuff is often verifiable truth that is politically inconvenient for some interested party.

Maybe social networks are not the right place for these types of controversial discussions as everything gets distorted by the worst elements of each tribes.

I admit that verifiable truth is hard but they must be able to see what stuff only gets "liked" in a tribe-wise manner and they could downplay that.
> Like if some clever game developer suddenly decided to map forward movement to the right trigger and shooting to analog stick up on a gamepad control scheme in a FPS.

It's like with Emacs and its defaults. It wasn't breaking any convention originally, because there were no conventions back then, and it made sense for this particular case. Right-click selection was born before Blender, in Traces for Amiga. It was 1988 and the "standards" of today weren't established yet. Traces didn't become Blender directly, but this particular behavior has been carried over to it. Years have passed, and another convention won.

Maya, another software with quite a legacy, also has a lot of things considered archaic today. None of that is right-click selection tier, though.
Interesting definitely adding this to my reading list for self serving reasons. I independently came to similar ideas about inflammation, mostly because I have to take a lot
of Ibuprofen for chronic pain and what works best is taking some preemptively on non painful days. That is, I always tried to think up more reasons for why this isn't a terrible idea.
This is only an argument because of different ways of defining what a "Christmas movie" is, which aren't mutually exclusive:

a) Whether the movie is unambiguously set during Christmas, and if so whether that's clearly an artistic choice, or as much of a coincidence as a movie that has nothing to do with the weather being set in the summer or winter.

b) Whether the movie is aimed at the "Christmas movie market". I.e. released around Christmas, this'll usually coincide with a movie being more Christmas themed.

The article weaves between criteria that'll fall under one or the other, without ever really acknowledging the difference between the two.

Die Hard meets a) but not b), but the article doesn't mention whether or not skipping b) was intended.

The studio had a hard time casting the protagonist. Was it initially meant for a Christmas release, but ended up slipping into July without the script being changed to de-Christmas theme it?

More importantly, is there a reason to avoid b) without a)? Do mildly Christmas-themed movies such as Die Hard (it's not integral to the plot) get penalized in the market as a result? Why don't we see more of them?
> Regular users have amazing blind spots.

Of course, but I don't think that Slack has done a better job with this compared to previous solutions. In a lot of ways, it's worse given its performance issues. For example, I never experienced UI lag in a chat application until I used Slack (comparing it with UIs like a GUI IRC application, AIM, ICQ, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger, Skype, etc). Second, auto-completion and search do not work like they do in previous chat applications (or other applications in general) due to infinite scroll and the default of doing a global search instead of just limiting it to the chat or group. Third, the fact that you're forced to join some channels because you were invited or can't leave a channel because you're the last one in it are other issues that come to mind.
There is no evidence remaining that the sound exists. It would be like trying to detect an energy below the noise floor of vacuum energy; there is no proof that you can construct that it exists. Once it's part of the background noise floor, it effectively seizes to exist.
I've got a similar situation with a web app millions use, but a couple corner office people use IE11. We were able use an IE only CSS selectors to degrade; in theory you could do the same without compromising the layout for other users.
As a desktop user, that's how I feel about using a laptop! ;)
The author lost me when he said that “Last Action Hero” is not a great movie, so I wouldn’t take anything he writes about movies as serious. John McTiernan is a genius.
I had this very argument two weeks ago at a party and I was in the "it's not a Christmas movie" corner. After reading the (beautifully researched) article, I have now changed my mind. I now think it's a Christmas movie -- mostly because the writers intended for it to be one :D
How to Avoid Embarrassing Yourself in an Argument – Jordan Peterson
The parent poster is neither a luddite nor a laggard. They are an informed consumer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consumer
R ... The language is just a joy to use.

* Great environment with RStudio

* Awesome plotting and visualization with ggplot

* Very welcoming community with a very diverse background ranging from social science to quantitative finance

Basically for everything except deep learning R is a great alternative to python. If you rely on advanced statistics I think R is the way to go.
But far fewer users
Vim isn't as obtuse as it's made out to be. You can learn Vim pretty easily, enough to match the usability of other editors, pretty quickly. Past that, you can learn the actual powerful commands, where it actually shines.
Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained (2012)
This so much.

It is better than most commercial offerings on OSx, and yet, everyone still threats it as a poor hack by mangling the UI by default.

Give blender a "copy after fx UI" default already.
I can't type up a full answer right now, but for me, a strong type system is about being able to model my domain and bake all of my assumptions about that domain into the types I define.

It's a lot easier for me to reason about and avoid edge cases when I can (more or less) verify at compile time that invalid states are impossible.

This is about more than just catching null values, and also encompasses things like mutually exclusive fields, and access control.

If you're interested, I gave a talk once that dives into these ideas more effectively than I can express in this comment: https://github.com/ShaneWilton/programming-with-types-talk/b...
You're just reiterating the received wisdom on drug tolerance: you have to take more to get the same effect. On that, some claim to find a ceiling effect to tolerance, that is after a certain dose adaptation no longer takes place and the dose remains effective. Alternatively you can cycle. Your bottom line is an over-simplification.

Also, you're now longer making your initial point, that nicotine isn't fun, instead you've moved on to 'the fun wears off or you'll need to consume more to get the same effect'.
I suffered from suicidal depression, anxiety, mania, psychosis, paranoia, panic attacks and more.

I flirted with diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder to bipolar.

My life was pretty out of control.

I didn’t like the outcomes I saw of people who were on meds their entire life and I didn’t buy the story from mainstream psychiatry.

I found MDMA therapy via an underground practice and it transformed my life over the course of a few session.

I was able to get to the root of all symptoms and heal what was beneath.

Combined with Holotropic Breathwork and NARM / somatic therapy for integration, this approach blew anything the psychiatrists were offering out of the water.

I’ve been experimenting with CBD and it seems to offer and even deeper level of clarity and non-anxiety.

No psychiatric meds, no symptoms and my creative and romantic life now has something to grown from - before this everything was in a constant cycle of boom and bust.
But not suddenly starting and running for the course of an hour or so, and audible from neighbouring apartment blocks.
Wow fishing and eating blueberries, very adaptable and intelligent.
Tar poisons the lungs; nicotine poisons the heart.

This is oversimplified but it's not wrong.
The article criticizes the utility of Facebook for torturing and jailing people for their views. I'm not sure I see how Tech Crunch is being hypocritical here. And I'm surprised such an article is now partisan.

I also don't understand how Tech Crunch, BBC, LA times, CBC, Miami Herald, CBS etc, etc, etc, could possibly be part of a coordinated anti-Republican "the media" conspiracy either.
I am very glad this worked for you, but isn't MDMA a psychiatric med?
The joke was popularized by an American TV show. It’s become one of those things people know they can trot out for easy upvotes, likes, etc. Most Christmas movies are family-oriented but Die Hard is an action movie so saying it’s one’s favorite Christmas movie is meant to demonstrate the distinctiveness of one’s personality. It’s like how people made jokes about sporks and “le earth”. Maybe in a few years it’ll come full circle and big data will help us to determine if sporks are closer to spoons or forks.
1:49 Jordan Peterson deals with so-you're-saying trap

2:39 Jordan Peterson deals with the "assuming the sale"

5:30 Jordan Peterson deals with the smash technique

7:08 But don't straw man the other person's ideas though

7:47 And visual imagery can also help

8:25 You can show them that they're already agreeing with you
Not solo, but small enough - https://txbatch.com.

It started out from a growing frustration myself and my coworkers[1] had the whole year, the tedious process of checking block explorers[2]. By October I was fed up enough with it to quit, initially intending to take another job but changing plans mid-way to co-found txBatch, short for "Transaction Batch", a bulk search blockchain explorer[3].

We worked all through November and December, finally getting a live product (supporting BTC, ETH[4], and USDT) - and after the holidays will be continuing to set up people on trials and reach out to exchanges.

If anyone on HN runs a crypto business that could use this, feel free to reach out to me - james at txbatch dot com.

Or if you know anyone - check out our referral page at https://refer.txbatch.com/#friend.

[1] Coworkers - at a cryptocurrency exchange.
[2] Block explorers - specialised websites that show details of transactions on a blockchain e.g. https://blockchain.com/explorer
[3] Bulk search, in contrast to the individual, single-chain search engines that are commonly available.
[4] Including all ERC20s, internal transfers.
Fusion has pretty much no chance of being a reality, in the sense of being economically competitive. And this has been known for more than 35 years.

http://www.askmar.com/Robert%20Bussard/The%20Trouble%20With%...

(See? That's how you give a reference to back up a claim.)
Here are some must-haves in your engineering resume: https://myresumeseed.com/engineering-resume/
It's definitely also a meme, whatever else it is. As an American, I haven't heard much about this debate before this holiday season. Definitely enjoying it, though.
By "5.25% for online purchases," are you referring to this?

https://thepointsguy.com/news/bofa-cash-rewards-pick-bonus-c...

Which is to say, this is a new deal BoA has not previously offered, scheduled to go into effect in mid-January 2019?

Not that it's a bad deal. Just to caveat the recommendation with the observation that in the game, good deals have a way of disappearing when they're taken advantage of. (Oddly enough, the $2,500 cap is probably the best long-term indicator!)
And this is exactly why Google makes sure all the G suite apps are just a little broken in iOS & Safari. It has been like this for the past half decade, since Apple stepped on their turf with Maps.
I think a history of failures in mobile tech keeps most people from even considering Microsoft gear. Surface may be great, but who is buying them? Who is developing for them?

Mobile is Apple/iOS, or Google/Android, for better or worse.
How is this related to fastText ?
There were BC breaks across Mac OS X’s kernel. Windows does a good job keeping things backwards compatible as well.
Nice way to copy all html attributes from one element to another
> An adult human body generates approximately 100 watts of power while at rest, and about 80 percent of this power is wasted as excess body heat. [...] on average the volunteers each contributed about 0.6 watts/hour of energy. [1] [2]

> What about mining Bitcoin in an ideal scenario, where the generators were perfectly efficient and able to harvest all 80 watts of excess heat produced by the body?

For this calculations, it's not enough to use the energy/power numbers. You must consider the entropy too.

To transform the heat into some useful energy form like electric energy, there is a limit of how much you can transform by the Second Law of Thermodynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

The maximal efficiency is 1 - T_cold / T_hot (in Kelvin). In this case, T_cold is the temperature of the environment, that we can assume is some comfortable value like 20° (293K, 68°F). And T_hot is the body temperature that is approximately 37°C (310K, 96.8°F). So the maximal efficiency is 1 - 293K/310K = 5.5%.

If the heat produced by the body is rest is 80W, the maximal amount of it that can be collected and transformed to electricity (in a very optimistic scenario) is 4.3W. They are collecting only 0.6W. It's imposible for theoretical reasons to collect the 80W. [3]

[1] I'm not sure how the other 20W are dissipated. As heat?

[2] "0.6 watts/hour of energy" doesn't typecheck

[3] You can give the volunteers some drug to increase the temperature to 40°C (313K, 104°F) while keeping them in a freezing environment 0°C (273K, 32°F) This will increase the maximal theoretical efficiency to 12.7% (that is still much less than 100%). Anyway, no sane ethical committee and/or insurance company would approve the project.
Nope. You can’t best the speed of light.
I don't understand how this is a race at all. There is no way to finish it, and "going fast" is likely to cause major issues in developing sound technologies. Maybe changing the attitude of this article to a more scientifically sound position would increase it's relevance.
How can you predict how anyone will use a domain? This just seems boneheaded.
I like the article, in that they suggest some actual, direct actions Facebook could take.

More-so, though, it sounds like the protesters and activists should use the right tool for the job and Facebook is not it. Or if they are going to use Facebook, they should try to be a bit more savvy about it given the bad, authoritarian state of the local government.
This post was specifically saying you could beat AMP’s load times. That isn’t possible.
Well one option is to hold designers, developers, builders and inspectors separately liable for the work and inspections they do for their entire lives, not limited to the period of solvency of the company they did the work for.

We’ll see a return to very conservative designs though, with no 100 storey skyscrapers until they find people actually willing to pay for and perform good work.

Until we are actually sending people bankrupt or jailing them, the corruption will worsen. There has to be some actual penalty for people trying to pass off shonky work.
Is anyone else worried about about the future of Blender on macOS with the deprecation of OpenGL in favor of Metal ?

This thread offers some hope, but there is still no definitive roadmap: https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2018-Decem...
I recall early stories about Millennium Tower and the builder basically claiming, through a law firm, that it was a normal amount of settling and everything was fine. Nothing to see here....

And I bet the same sort of response will come from the builder of Opal Tower in Sydney.
Could you give examples? Or are there sites which catalogue this?

It'd be nice to have some information for comparison with other status banks.
> If you have that, the only thing that's left is being able to inject the compiled code into the running REPL process.

This is alike JIT, where you MMAP and the mark that as executable?

Now thinking a little, could be easier using DLLs/dynamic linking, but how model the API is something I can't yet figure.

P.D: I think TinyCC is able to compile on memory, but I'm using rust for my project and probably the gymnastics of this are too much for now.
If the author had done that, I'd say there's a 50/50 chance I never would have known they were animated. I had no reason to roll over the images with my mouse.
I use a Chromebook as a mobile terminal in the data center. A nice thing about them is they are ready to use in a second or two after opening the cover. Booting up is phenomenally quick for a device that cost about $300.
so serendipitous - the other day ago I was putting down some wood flooring in my house and hurt my back a little - something that happens from time to time in exactly the same place - so I knew that I should get on top of it and take a couple of ibuprofen.

So I take a the ibuprofen, and take a break for an a couple hours - and as I noticed the back pain go away - I also noticed a distinct improvement in my mood! I had the exact reaction described in the article "of course, your back doesn't hurt ..duh".

The article makes me wonder if there is another explanation for the mood improvement ..
Had a quick look, its really useful and both of the tutorials seem thorough. Hopefully it can get someone with zero Machine Learning experience up to speed. I noticed Scala but not Java. I read that Spark was written in Java, can I use Java instead of Scala? Since you seem quite far along, can you quickly explain how Spark is used in DeepLearning/Machine Learning? Is it just a virtual machine?
Huh, what are the chances, another blockchain search? Just signed up, will be keen to talk chances we could collaborate... if you'd like to reach out to me directly I'm james at txbatch.com or keybase.io/jamesscaur
Game of Thrones: How Power Really Works
Hi, might you be able to give a short example? Thanks!
This is just the beta, which came out last month but gets new builds daily. And at the time of the beta release they said the final version will be March of next year at the earliest[1].

[1] https://code.blender.org/2018/11/blender-2-8-beta/
From my perspective the "extra" came about when commercial interests started targetting the web, using base emotional tactics to get clicks and likes. Social media outside of the big networks (and thus less targeted by commercial interests) largely still feels social to me (eg small forums or groups),

The world of Usenet, BBSs, forums, blogs, etc. Had their dramas and trolls and whatnot. What they had much less of was the clickbait, post order manipulation, and spammy notifications. Whether major social media can become less "extra" probably depends on whether an alternate commercial model can be found, I guess.
> Emphasis mine

Do we think that's what `jb3689` meant by CPU intensive.
Aha. A local bar was playing 1948 Rudolph the RNR followed by Die Hard, and I thought it was just a hipster ironic incongruity. Now I’m understanding some consider Die Hard a Christmas film.
Well, given that Autodesk shifted Maya ownership to their life support division and fired most of the Maya R&D team, this isn’t too surprising. Good news for SideFX I suppose!