skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.

Recently I watched The Irishman (3.5 hours) at the theatre. Since the reviews mentioned the sombre mood of the film (unlike Scorcese's other gangter films), I was fully expecting to fidget around after some time.

I had no trouble with my attention span throughout the film so full credits to Scorcese and Thelma Schoonmaker for superb pacing. The audience was quite sparse and mostly film fans so I was able to watch it in a quiet atmosphere with occasional applause. In other words, the perfect movie watching experience.

If not at the theatre, I would have caught this at home. I would have taken more than 5 hours to complete the film. Numerous pauses throughout the film for bathroom breaks, googling names and trivia, simply getting distracted etc.

Now sometimes, you watch a movie that has a mind blowing twist, or something happens in the film that makes you go WTF and pause. Even then, you have to admit that watching the same film in the theatre (where you cannot just pause and take it in), with an audience who are going through the same thing, will probably be a better experience.
I speedsolve Rubik's cubes. For the longest time I listened to podcasts while solve; two different parts of my brain. But recently I've noticed that in order to break the next big time barrier for me, I need to dedicate my full attention. No more podcasts. Two different parts of the brain still, but now it's only one active part.
> The big thing that worked for me was data. I weighed myself every day no matter what and even if I knew I was going over the calorie count for the day I logged it anyway.

This is the only method that works for me. A scale with weight, body fat and muscle mass measurements each morning after waking up.

What gets measured gets done.
Don't wait for a new project, just start using it (is most beneficial if for every function you specify types for parameters and output). If you use an IDE that understand it like PyCharm, suddenly the autocomplete will start working right, so will refactoring and it will start highlighting potential errors.
It is late here, and I lack the citations at hand (and this thread will have moved on by the time I find them) -- but I once read an intriguing article that suggests that the core aspect to make alcohol drinking functional (in a social, not health way) is a set of rules around its consumption, regardless of what those rules are. The article started with an example of people drinking to what folks in the United States would call excess in the Peruvian highlands, but there was a rule that one could not pour one's own drink but had it had it offered, that it had to be at a drinking event, and a few others. Though folks drank quite excessively at these events, they were well-spaced, did not pursue alcohol outside them, etc.
Integrity checks are important, but an even more basic benefit obtains regarding version ranges. Typical package.json dependency entries specify _ranges_ of versions that will satisfy the dependency, rather than a single specific ("pinned") version. So it's by design, and fully to be expected, that over time, subsequent builds will yield different results as library authors publish newer versions which still satisfy the version ranges. Knowing when this has happened, and being able to diff the results in the dependency graph, is a key feature of lockfiles. A proper lockfile implementation (like yarn's) provides deterministic builds, so anyone building the project with the same lockfile gets precisely the same dependency graph. You get the benefits of version pinning without the downside.
Amazon owns IMDb. They have been gathering data about actors for literally decades. They probably have well-trained machine learning models to identify actors on screen.
It's really not that hard since they can run it against a narrowed down dataset with the names of the cast.
This is a common misconception, but until the modern age most people had lots of free time. It was only after the industrial revolution that this state of affairs changed. See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/28q7l5/how_m...
Netflix started streaming in 2010. Apples fall down.
OK, following that, in the case of the GPU, C++ code is translated into SPX "assembler" but SPX is very much a macro system and the programmer doesn't get access to the true low level.

And I don't think we'll escape the situation that there will low-level emulation code that programmers can't and should not access. It's good to know but that doesn't change the levels programmers normally work with.
You will get back to normal. Trust and believe. Go with the flow. Chemo-brain is a fact. Anxiety filled one. Believe in yourself and have a bit of sense of humor.
A great input box effect that mimics the power-mode vscode plugin
I don't feel the same about expanse. Maybe it's just me, but I felt the show is progressing just liked in the books.
The 5 cent (or more) recycling deposit has always made sense to me as essentially a littering/co-mingling tax. Pay a little at purchase which funds the collection and proper disposal/recycling.
I can't imagine donations working that way for any organization unless you're donating a considerable sum. Every organization has its own priorities and donations help them meet those priorities. If you have a cool million lying around it might help to convince them to make Windows support a priority, but if not, then all you can do is to donate in hopes of helping them focus on knocking out priorities so that they can get to your pet issue sooner.
I really like the K language after reading through the ok tutorial listed below.

I just wish there was a free and open source K engine written in C that would work on Windows or Linux. I've tried J, but I think I like K much better. Ok and Kona don't seem to be production worthy (performance or correctness I would guess). I like the concept of a tiny interpreter though with no install (kinda what Kona has for Windows, but better supported).
I noticed that too. What features don't work without Javascript? I admit this suggestion is swimming against the tide, but maybe it could be a new thing for those warnings to start being more specific so people who routinely disable Javascript can make an informed choice about whether to enable it. You wouldn't want all your painstakingly written front end code to go to waste just because of people mistakenly assuming it's only for annoying animations, popups, and tracking.
It partly depends on who you're teaching. For a young audience, Scratch is great at introducing basic problem solving in a creative format. It can used for many means, including crafts and robotics. For example, at the 2016 Scratch conference, there was an exhibition of student projects that used Scratch extensions (ex: Makey Makey, Arduino) to create animated crafts. One project, a paper city, had copper strips which when touched caused various sounds to play.[0] Another project recreated robot boxing.

The CS teacher at a local high school switched to using Scratch as a casual introduction to programming, moving away from Alice (and previously, I believe, a straight jump into Java). They use it for a few weeks to begin each term. I can get their thoughts if you're interested?

There are several books, and Scratch itself provides many lessons and features for teachers, see this page: [1] At one point, Pursuitery held an introduction to coding "camp" with Scratch, and you can read about their lessons here: [2] I've had less experience with Scratch in education, so it's hard for me to comment on what materials are the most effective. However, there are educator groups that can give advice, see the Facebook group listed on [1].

If I can go on a winding tangent, and this applies stronger to elementary & middle school... I think two of Scratch's strongest appeals are its freedom and feedback. It's okay to experiment, try new things, and fail. And the debugging that occurs along the way, in a way helps students debug their own thought processes. Giving some creative leeway for students can help them help themselves. Many students who are introduced to Scratch, stick with it personally after the class ends.

In other words, it can be great to focus on teaching algorithms or concepts, but letting people learn through projects often helps make learning more engaging. It helps to show that computers are not just something you do stuff on, but are part of a broader culture. It can be another medium for self expression, as many people share art, games, stories, and other content regularly on Scratch.

A few ideas were taken from Mitchel Resnik's keynote at the 2016 conference, which talks about a mix of how Scratch is used and powerful ideas.[3]

[0] http://u.cubeupload.com/Choco31415/DSCN3966.jpg

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/educators

[2] https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Scratch_in_the_Media/Pursu...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alsfSTVn2es
This is going to make a lot of class action lawyers even more rich than they already are. Just like TCPA is doing.
Thanks for the ideas and the discussion.

Just FYI; You might want to look into the works of Jacques Ellul on Technology and Society if you have not done so already.

PS: Also a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_and_society
This is fundamentally true.

Keep in mind that this doesn't mean "100% effort, 100% of the time". Rather, the body is extraordinarily effective in responding to brief sessions of intense activity.

For cardio, high intensity interval training (HIIT), and Tabata intervals in particular (20 seconds effort, 10 seconds recovery, repeated 8 times). This can be done with virtually any activity -- low-weight squats, rowing machine, sprints, burpbees, spinning, running.

For strength -- a small number of moderate-to-high weight sets (3-8 reps, 3-4 sets) -- 2-3x weekly, is more than sufficient to build muscle.

Long, low-intensity effort -- cardio or strength -- has relatively low yield . You can and generally should train efficiently.

The most important factor, though, is consistency over time. That is: get your workout in, and do that 2-3x a week, every week, year in and out. Rewards don't come from a heroic effort in a single workout, but consistency over time, with progressively (over weeks and months) greater challenges (more weight, effort, reps).
I remember for years I kept seeing predictions of Netflix's demise about how someone established coming along and doing it better or every content providers just not selling and/or creating their own service...and so on.

Netflix is still around and at least for me it is one of a couple services I regularly use / keep and I'm actually kinda annoyed when another service comes along. I just watch what the handful of services I use have...I don't want to chase content around.
Bummer. I knew this would happen to some extent early in the decade, but thought they’d lose it all when the media companies took back control of their media. Also, was cleaned out over a margin call on Apple in ~2009.

One of these days I’ll make the right call at the right time.
Same problem here. I'm also confused because some sources say coffee (black) is OK during fasting, but I've also heard that even black coffee "wakes up" the metabolism enough to lose the benefits.

Could someone who knows about this comment or post links to info: is black coffee during fasting periods OK?
I think it would need more ridiculous for your poor neighbor to be forced to move out just because a bunch of rich people paid a whole lot for neighboring houses and inflated the property values. Prop 13 at least gives you some comfort that the same thing will not happen to you—there is less uncertainty in your future with regard to your expenses (assuming your property tax is the 2nd largest bill after your mortgage).
> Has anyone had success with particular workouts or strategies to keep motivated?

Not to knock you, but this sentence is where I think the issue is - at some point motivation drops off and you need what I like to label as "discipline" to progress further.

The best piece of advice I heard was from someone getting awarded their 5th degree black belt in Aikido, something that takes decades to earn [I'm paraphrasing here]: Training is like a marriage. It is great in the beginning because you are learning all these new things and improving, like the honeymoon phase, everything seems to be great. But over time, that feeling will decrease a bit. Sometimes you wonder if its worth it at all. But, like a marriage, training takes effort and even years down the road you still have to work on it. Not just maintaining it, but actually working on it.

I also like a book by George Leonard called "Mastery" [1] that I think I've linked on HN before. In the book, he's taking the position of the instructor to explain types of "student behaviors" he's seen over the years - Dabblers, Obsessives, and Hackers (people who just "show up"). As learners, people will behave like one of these types on their way to becoming masters in an domain. Each student type stressed the same topic - dealing with when improvement "gets hard" and what steps can be done to help curb some of those issues.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Keys-Success-Long-Term-Fulfil...
So the flu is also an std.
A Math Gift for All
>without people exploiting this incentive

i can't fathom being this spiteful. are you literally a cartoon super-villain? exploiting incentive? they're digging in the trash. how could you possibly begrudge them such a humble way of life?
Openscad? Or that doesn’t do everything?
It's not blaming, but it does explain a lot of what is going on.

Regardless I looked at enough of your past postings to decide you aren't the kind I'd like to engage with further. Good bye.
Is assembly a low level language? It presumably benefits from instruction parallelism, branch prediction, caching too.
> I see people make the argument that it will reduce 'incentives to do well' all the time... but why is that so accepted?

Maybe insights from microeconomics 101 about what happens with supply curve when you drive a tax wedge into it, along with hundreds of papers published estimating the elasticity of labor supply have something to do with it. Yes, labor is elastic.

See for example this review from Congressional Budget Office, i.e. people who actually care a lot about what taxes are: https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/112th-congress-2011-...

> The net gain for 'winning' is always going to be positive, so it will always be better to win than to not...

Yes, but is it better than taking some time off to do some yacht sailing? If government takes most of your winnings, why not reduce your hours slightly and use it for more leisure instead?

> Really, after enough millions, the extra money isn't really changing their life... yet many still are driven to keep 'winning'... it clearly isn't about having the money to buy things at that point, it is about an internal drive. That won't change if we tax at a higher rate.

For some, it won't, but for others, it will. Lots of people in fact do give up after enough millions. You cannot only focus on things that are seen, like Elon Musk's drive, but you also have to think about things that are unseen, like that apartment building developer worth a few millions whose name nobody knows outside his local industry, who'll simply decide to retire early instead of putting effort into organizing construction of another apartment complex.

> As for it hurting the economy, what evidence do you have of that?

If you increase taxes, then, since labor supply is not perfectly inelastic, people will work less, so less work will be done. This is some basic economics. The discussion on this question in the field is not about whether taxes hurt the economy, but rather how much they do. Some people think that they don't hurt much, others think that they hurt a lot, but that they do is really a consensus view, and in fact common sense.

> If we use the extra tax dollars to provide UBI, this will cause economic growth as there are more consumers with money to spend.

No, this is just the broken window fallacy. At best, there's exactly the same amount of money to spend, you're simply moving the money around between people. If you tax some people to provide UBI for others, the same money is spent either way, it's just different people who spend it. In reality, since taxes have distortionary effects, there will be less money to spend overall: since redistribution is typically from more to less wealthy, and since less wealthy typically spend more on consumption than on investment than more wealthy people, reduced investment will in fact reduce the growth.
>there was nothing I could do about it

you could pay more in taxes so that these people could have section 8 housing and food stamps so that they don't have to dig in the trash in order to survive.

edit: i see i'm getting downvoted. it boggles the mind. people are starving literally in his driveway (not in another state, not in another country, not abstractly) and he's complaining about the noise of their death rattle. like how do you square that? i'd love someone to actually respond/answer rather than downvote in indignation. are you upset at the politics of the suggestion that the solution to the problem is not getting rid of their sole means to survive but to actually help them? is it divisive because i invoked the hob goblin of hn (higher taxes)? just truly what is the appropriate response here? is it really "fuck em let die so i can sleep blissfully unaware"?
That's fair but it also doesn't mean much to be able to provide an exception to his general statement, since we still don't know if it's not the case for the majority.
> Nope.

So an indian immigrant in the US? I'm running out of guesses.

> I wasn't aware the Commonwealth suppresses industry in nations outside Britain with tariffs,

I didn't say it did. I said it represented a mindset. That india, pakistan, nigeria, etc are still in the commonwealth says a lot about the mindset of the elites. Funnily enough, india, pakistan, nigeria aren't the epitome of progress and development.

> The past is the past - there's little point in holding grudges. India parted from Britain on relatively friendly terms.

India didn't part on good terms. But I agree the past is the past. Why is india still part of the british empire/commonwealth?

> Pride is toxic, destructive, unproductive.

The US, China, Japan, Korea, France, Russia, Britain, etc are all very prideful nations. Reality says you are wrong about pride.

> And yet South Korea has managed in the recent past to cooperate with Japan to co-host important international events.

Yes. But not as part of the japanese empire. Koreans would view that as a humiliation for korea to be part of the japanese commonwealth after a few decades of colonialism. You seem to be under the bizarre illusion that India can't have good relations with britain or anyone else after they leave the commowealth. The US isn't part of the commonwealth and yet US-british relations are far more important that british-indian relations.

> There are many reasons for this. None have anything to do with membership in a social club of nations.

It has everything to do with india's membership in their former colonial master's club.

Do you think russia or china would join a reborn mongol empire/commonwealth? The british empire was one of the most evil and cruel institutions in human history. And india suffered under british colonialism for nearly 150 years. Think about what it says about the indian leadership that they still cling to the british empire?

A slavish minded leadership cannot help their nation. It's an impossibility. It's what separates US, Britain, Japan, China, Russia, etc from the likes of india.

India should be a major world power on par with the US, China, Russia, etc. But they are not. What they are is a pathetic member of their former colonial master's club. Unless that changes, india will never change.
> A $1 million bet on Netflix’s stock placed on Jan. 1, 2010, would be worth close to $43 million today.

Same goes for AMD, in 2016 it was just $1.8, now it’s $47. Incredible growth in just 4 years
>like Putin is planning to do

My understanding is the Russian courts have for a LONG time been weak and simply deferred to Putin and Co. The Russian courts don't even come up as a question when most Russian news is discussed.
One of these days you'll stop trying to time the market and you'll make money.
possibly a "no pun intended" moment.
My NeoShell items have 1-3 years of usage on them, without any cracks. This looks like a single comment - more likely to be an issue with that particular manufacturer or product.
Young children, the elderly, the desktop-bewildered still use iPads and touchscreen phones more readily than they ever used desktop UIs. I think as experienced computer-users we easily miss that this has been a genuine revolution in UI reach.
I'd say it's very much worth it when hiking out in a downpour in winter.
I don't think the article implies that non drinkers can't also bond. Surely you can. You're just missing a lot of opportunities, in the same way that one doesn't have to golf to be a successful CEO but it sure doesn't hurt. And if you're the sort of person who has an addictive personality it's surely worth missing.
palo alto firewall features:

apply policy based on AD user or group membership

block/apply protocols rather than ports (allow ssh doesn't care what port ssh runs on)

advanced url categorization. allow Facebook but disallow Facebook chat

etc
Slate Star Codex published an article investigating whether intermittent fasting extends lifespan, and found that the research is flawed: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/12/acc-does-calorie-restr...
It seems you're confused as to what Codacy is reviewing. Look at their dashboard for the OnlyKey-Firmware repo. They are not reviewing your .ino file at all, because they do not consider that file extension as code. Only the toplevel C files are covered.
We live way better than a king did about 500 years ago.
Orwell was wrong: Winston isn't scanning for "outdated" words to take out, he is finding the perfect place to put them in!
The list is somewhat surprising for 2018

Tokyo? Beijing? Shanghai?
There's something deeply ironic about reading this post as a Twitter thread.
WSB validation.

Sweet Mumma Su always brings the goods but she can be a cruel mistress sometimes.
There's an AGPL k that works on Linux (ngn's), but not one that works on Windows. "Production-ready" is a misnomer for this, though; if you want production-ready k, just buy it from atw.
This is a red herring by the anti-tax zealots. Somehow in the 49 states without prop 13 this doesn’t happen.

Worst case, the retiree can downsize their home and cash out their equity, freeing what is most likely an oversized property for a younger family, or they can take out a home equity line to pay the taxes.

And luckily because of the rising property values it would be really easy to get that equity line since the LTV would be really low!
What amazes me is that they have the gall to do this against the wishes of the owners.

In a few years Amazon will buy the place as a "good will" gesture.
I bought Netflix at the time of the Qwikster debacle because it was obvious the market was overreacting to what amounted to a one-time mistake. At the time, Netflix was a leader in both vision and their technology was a major competitive advantage.

Almost a decade later I'm bearish. Their technology advantage is being commoditized away, and production + marketing has not been their forte. It's possible they'll turn it around, but even so they've got a massive battle on their hands against the likes of Disney and other big content producers who have almost a century of experience in this exact arena. It's not that I don't think they'll be successful, but the current price is over-inflated because Tech—they've got a long way to go to justify the valuation.
Though nowadays if AWS or Azure or GCP finds a way to run some proprietary database more efficiently using a new kind of language and cpu architecture, the scale there somewhat changes the playing field.