skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you be surprised for a Hugo? The Hugos are deliberately pure popularity contest, they're a fan award. There is nothing wrong with that, but it makes winning a Hugo more like having a gold YouTube plaque than say winning a conventional literary prize like the Booker. It doesn't have to be any "good" whatever that means so long as enough members of the fan community like it.

The Nebula has a smaller problem because its members are at least nominally actual authors, so you don't have fan contigents bloc voting like the Hugos and most SFWA members know something about what makes a good novel but it's still definitely there.
Monads are still programmable semi-colons, though. Yes, there are a lot of things you can program into a line-end symbol. Yes, some of those things are general and work for any already modded semi-colon. But it's still just programmable semi-colons: implicit, uncomposable, and frankly better left alone.
Fair enough. Out of interest, does the National Review think Jesus' Daddy created the universe?
Merry Christmas to you as well. Best wishes for 2020!
Even if parents are wealthy, I don't think it's wise for them to throw large sums of money at businesses started by their kids.

At least if you're a venture capitalist, you have a large portfolio of businesses, and if 1% of them become unicorns, you might win. But a parent acting as a VC for one child's business is almost certain to lose their entire investment.

Other advantages that VCs have over parents, besides diversification:

- VCs are playing mostly with other peoples' money.

- They are more selective about who qualifies to receive funding, and better equipped to evaluate whether a business plan has any promise.

- They can offer guidance to founders on how to run their businesses.

As someone whose parents didn't have a lot of money, I don't think I missed out on anything by not having parents who could fund a business that I started. On the contrary, I think I benefited from having to work my way through college and learning how to live independently off my own earnings.
> But the journalists present this story as Russia's voluntary step towards isolating itself from the global internet. I am not sure why.

Because sanctioning a country off the internet has never been done. It's not a credible threat given the topology. Russia is land adjacent to many countries that would be unlikely to participate in a partitioning led by the US, and such a partition would not be very effective if only some countries participated.

Neither North Korea nor Iran are or have been disconnected from the global internet or phone systems by outside countries, and they are the most sanctioned nations.
Right? At that point you’re trading off between useful payload and batteries. I’m wondering if maybe they’re witnessing a loiter pattern, and misrepresenting is as a hover. These likely aren’t aerospace Engineers giving quotes here.
One odd omission from the article is why it took an hour to reset everything. Given that they have redundant power, I would imagine that they could remotely select which power supply to use or at least to remotely reset the breakers.

Alternatively, a good enough automatic transfer switch should transfer the power supply rather than tripping if the primary supply goes out of acceptable parameters.

(This goes to one of basics of high availability: failures, when they happen, should be short.)
A 6ft fixed wing drone could fairly easily achieve what’s described in the article if it was really a loiter, not a hover. A multirotor would be an engineering feat.
Start small. Way smaller than you think is reasonable. Nothing saps motivation like overly ambitious projects (read: 99% of projects) where it takes you forever to get to any sort of milestone. Every time I work on anything that takes longer than a few weeks I regret it.

Build something you can get actually get to the "end" of in a trivial amount of time, ideally just a few days. Avoid using lots of APIs or adding a bunch of features. Make it simple at first, then iterate on that.

For example, Indie Hackers started as just a blog. I built and designed it in less than week. A few months later I added a forum. That was about 8 days from idea to release. Both were barebones MVPs.

Also, you seem super focused on tech stacks. I don't think it matters nearly as much as you think. Just pick something, follow their official tutorial, and stick with it until it's familiar.
I’m not familiar with Darkroom, but also wanted to avoid the Adobe rented software scene. I’ve been using Luminar, which is excellent for photo organisation, Raw develop with wide camera support, and advanced editing. It’s a traditional pricing model rather than a subscription.

https://skylum.com/luminar
Before 1986, US versions of A Clockwork Orange didn't include the final chapter.
By reading the postmortem I got the feeling that it focuses primarily on providing a timeline of historical events without being future-looking.

I did not find any questions that would trigger a path of improvement for similar future events:

- Why did the recovery take so long (up until Thursday morning)?

- If the surge lasted for 20 seconds, why weren't the systems operational again 1 minute after the event?

- Why is an on-site technician needed in order to re-activate the equipment?

- Could we build a system that enables the reactivation remotely?

There might be very well-rooted answers to the questions above (based on how real world electrical supplies work), but if the questions aren't asked, we won't end up exploring better solutions for the answers.
I've long suspected there's a backend 'conference industry' capable of organising whatever -con you want to. If the price is low enough then more and more frameworks / etc afford it.
With satellite remote-sensing (for example Landsat) it was designed to identify different types of vegetation using wave-lengths, including ones not visible to the human eye. I imagine if you're much closer it could be possible to identify plant-types.
Sad but true. The Goodyear blimp is a regular target of some trigger happy folks. If it flies it probably gets shot at least occasionally
Pull the subtitles with youtube-dl, then either read it (should be much faster than watching it) or throw some typical auto-summary software at it first.

Something like: `youtube-dl --skip-download --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang=en 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnu_Ws7Llo4'`

You can use ffmpeg to convert subtitle files between different formats. SRT is easy to clean up for reading with a a few editor macros.
Film the audience as they enter the theater and insert them in the movie as extras. Use AI to alter their facial expressions and movements, perhaps even give them dialog. Each showing of the movie would be unique.
Can you run this as a pre-receive hook to actually prevent a public commit if it has suspicious patterns in it?
Both these things came later on (once Fortnite took off).

What Epic actually did do well, was take the most popular game in the world at the time - PUBG, copy it to the T on their own engine, and release it for free (instead of the $20 PUBG cost). That alone made it the most popular game in the world, and allowed them to make money off it, and create ports on all available platforms.
If you look at the original obituary, it seems most of the negative stuff is at the beginning of the article, with the positive stuff left for later on in the article. Monson did a lot of things that most would agree are "good" that impacted many inside and outside the church, yet we don't get any of that until the last half of the article, and many of the things covered in the first few paragraphs only affect members of the church, and thus aren't particularly notable for those outside the church. Also, many of the things in the article relate to activities of the church that don't really have anything to do with the life of the person in question. For example, did Monson have anything to do with polygamy? Yet coverage of polygamy was multiple paragraphs, with the relevant portion being Monson's efforts to increase transparency of church history. If anything, polygamy should be a casual mention here.

The author of this piece isn't saying the article should or shouldn't have mentioned something for fairness, the author is arguing that the obituary was lazy at best or intentionally negative at worst. I expect journalists to be able to learn enough about a subject to give a fair report that covers multiple important viewpoints and to stay on topic, yet this obituary felt like it shoehorned negativity where it didn't really belong, almost like the author had a bone to pick, but tried to stay somewhat objective. Events should be given emphasis to the degree that they are relevant to the subject matter and hand, and I felt this article didn't do a good job at that.

I'm getting tired of trying to figure out when a journalist actually knows enough about a subject to make reading their articles worthwhile. In this case it's fairly unimportant (the man is dead afterall), but it leaves me wondering if they're going to do the same thing on other topics, like Trump's impeachment or election news. Why should I subscribe to a news source that doesn't actually dig in to the subjects it covers?
Leon the Professional was available in North America with the BluRay re-release if not before. If I hadn’t sold The Professional I could have shown it to the kids several years earlier. As it is the cringe factor they experienced means I may have still miscalculated.

That film cemented Gary Oldman as my favorite actor for that decade. It’s also just a really good action film. And I was bummed when Danny Aiello passed and hardly anyone mentioned Old Tony.
macOS and Xcode because it pays all of my bills and makes me the most money.
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Happy holidays everyone!
I had a similar work path, most side projects ended up as READMEs, some I would finish because of interviews, but nothing satisfying.

Right now I work with in a restaurant, and the dude manages sales by hand. So naturally I tried making a stupid simple order intake thing in Vue.

- Having a 'real' use case with a potentially real user gives a lot more motivation. And at the same time I can learn and fail on my own.

- It grew from simple form to nested editor to multiple object stores and pages

- It's a bit above the usual frontend tutorial (todomvc and similar) without being too ambitious

Maybe that can inspire you a bit. Good luck
No reason to be concerned as long as local laws are being followed, which it sounds like is the case. Below 400ft above ground is fair game for everyone, as normal air traffic does not fly that low, making it perfectly safe.
Thanks for ZZT Tim. That game changed my life when I was starting high school in the mid 90s; it was one of the ways I learnt to really have fun with computers as well as to program and make my own games.

Also, Unreal Tournament still holds a very fond place in my heart. I don't play games these days, but on the very rare occasion I feel like it, that's one of my major go-tos, just for the nostalgia of Facing-Worlds ;)
They might be using cameras on my home or family. They might be testing some kind of radar or other tech that has a health impact. They might be a competitor assessing my crops. More broadly their very presence is a trespass on my right to live and be left alone on my own property.
Of course rather than taking a bloggers opinion of bias as fact, one could actually read the piece and see for oneself whether it is as outrageously biased as is claimed.

Unfortunately, no doubt due to some oversight on the part of the blogger, the link to the original, rather than being with the top image, is actually pretty buried so here it is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/thomas-monson-...
Anything by James Mickens.

Here's one of his pieces that was recently posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21744785

This comment lists more of his articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21746947
Broadcast encrypted data to theaters, send the licenses and decryption keys separately.
The musical is performed in costume. Yes audiences suspend disbelief, just as they do when, say, Romeo clearly isn't really dead in a typical performance of Shakespeare's play.

The musical is based on an existing work, a correction of amusing poems about actual cats by T S Eliot.

Probably the movie just shouldn't exist. An animated movie of the poems using some famous songs from the musical could have worked for example, but that's not what this is.
we have fb like buttons at work (which gets disabled by the fb container extension), but using the js version is a choice (by the website operator). An fb like button can be a normal link with certain query parameters which we have used for years.
this is such a classless reply.

You don't get to tell me what my point was and you certainly don't get to argue with me about what my point is.

The person I responded to said the website hasn't changed. I read that as a redesign of the site itself.

Now, there's nothing wrong if you read it differently. Where you stepped over the line is when you decided to argue with me about what my point is.
This actually happens quite a bit between the premiere and general release of a film, more so for VFX heavy features. Often the version screened at the premiere and crew screenings will omit shots or be cut with early versions of a shot that's still on the renderwall. Sometimes you also get alternate versions of the end crawl with eulogies for crew members who've died during production.

This wasn't possible up until relatively recently; you would have to lock everything down by reel for printing. But given the prevalence of digital projectors and distribution you can go right down to the minute.
If what you are doing isnt working how doing something different?

For example how about working from the outside in? Start with a basic UI made in a graphics program and work your way to implement it. Or just do the smallest API call you can make.

The key thing is to do something you are interested in, not what WE are interested in. Do it because you are liking it and do not do it to post on Show HN.

And we don't care what technologies you use, really, it makes no difference.

Follow your passions.
The writers of Clue did three endings. If you’ve played the game that’s the perfect place to try that sort of trick, but I think they chickened out and didn’t do it. It’s now standard to include them as a sequence at the end.
what ui inferiority?
I want to commute on the line you do then. Thameslink trains during rush hour are constantly delayed or cancelled, so often you have to just get an earlier train to avoid being late.

Over the summer there were at least 4 occasions where the whole line was suspended. They did get unlucky with some power failures if I remember. But twice the line was suspended through London due to heat effecting overhead wires.

Once could be just about forgiven (it gets hot in summer who knew that), but to have it happen again a few weeks later cannot. Sort the issue that suspends your whole network after the first occurrence! If it can't be fixed with a reasonable amount of time to schedule emergency works the system is not fit for purpose.
Very, very good comment! The past two years I've worked on three different pet projects: first one that was fun and interesting but where I was dependent on another developer, who ran out of time, so that project stalled.Then a project I did simply because I saw an opening in the market, but which wasn't fun or interesting enough - this meant I wasn't motivated enough to go the extra mile, or to pivot slightly when necessary. Project alive but going nowhere. For my 3rd attempt I sat down and tried to think of something that was fun and interesting, that I also thought MAY have market potential. It's still too early to say how it's going, but I notice I have no trouble at all fixing all the tiny, boring little details that need fixing here. It's just so much more rewarding.
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Think I heard the FX team behind Sonic went bankrupt. That’s going to serve as a cautionary tale, if anything.
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StarLink will be blocked in countries like China or Russia or they will have to follow their law.

Thought experiment: Can you imagine Russian satcom provider providing Internet service to US based customers in violation of the US law?

Rarely is technology a sole answer to social or political problem.
Huh? That doesn't sound like you've done much RE at all. On PC contrary to their Mac counterparts virtually all shareware was PE protected from simple UPX which was often used to just compress the executables to more sophisticated polymorphic code with import obfuscation.

I've been out of the domain for a while but pretty much all shareware licensing was doing interesting things. It was more or less an arms race and a pretty fun one on top of that.

IoT which communicates without your knowledge is one thing but IoT that used alternative encryption because e.g. stock bluetooth was easily sniffable is another. You don't want anyone to be able to just sniff your health monitoring data.
What you’re saying is that evidence should not drive decisions in health care but rather industry marketing. And if this what you mean, how is it quackery to suggest that more studies are needed or that users need to be given more information on devices with such a significant rate of false-positives?
I know that the holidays can be a rough time for some people, so I want to send out some love to those who are struggling right now. Hang in there for all of us
The approximate timeline (after valves) was discrete transistors, preassembled transistor modules, gate-level SSI, logic-level TTL SSI/MSI, bit-slice MSI/LSI, and VLSI, with MOS VLSI as a spin-off that eventually ate the industry.

ECL for super high performance applications ran along a parallel slightly slower path. ECL was always a power-hungry monster and it was obvious it was eventually going to overtaken by improvements in VLSI - although this didn't happen definitively until the 90s.

The low cost of the 6502 wasn't just about low cost as a number; it was about consumerisation and personalisation. A 6502 8-bitter was a very slow, limited machine - but it was your slow, limited machine. You could buy it retail and all of its cycles were yours.

Smaller PDP-11s could also be personalised, and eventually you could buy LSI versions of the architecture. But the sales channels were almost exclusively corporate/industrial/academic - and so were the prices. (Heathkit actually sold an LSI-11 kit, but it was priced at $$$$$ and hardly anyone could afford it.)
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope it’s a good one!
What an amazing person. He has somewhat been my guide and mentor although I have never met him personally. He will always be in my heart. Hope he achieves whatever he hoped for in his afterlife.
Why did the recovery take so long (up until Thursday morning)?

Systems were up within an hour, but if you throw an hour's delay into a busy part of the rail system, you have knock on effects (trains aren't where they are supposed to be) that will basically last until the end of the service day.

If the surge lasted for 20 seconds, why weren't the systems operational again 1 minute after the event?

Why is an on-site technician needed in order to re-activate the equipment?

Basically, the breakers were flipped by the surge. Resetting such things is best done manually on site to ensure there was no equipment damage that occurred because of the surge.

Could we build a system that enables the reactivation remotely?

Probably, but that strikes me as dangerous.

The article explicitly talks about investigating what can be done to make their systems more robust to such power events. I think it is very future looking.
Or by development under time, like Forsmark in Sweden where an adapted UPS surge protection almost caused a meltdown. When a surge happened 12 security systems was disabled. From what I heard the diesel didn't because it was searching for incoming voltage it could adapt to.

> De flesta av felen berodde på att det batterisäkrade nätet hade överspänningsskydd, som skyddade komponenten i stället för funktionen. [0]

Also mentioned in english [1]

[0] https://www.nyteknik.se/energi/hardsmaltan-var-nara-2006-642...

[1]: http://www.castor.de/english/2006/0820.html
Looks like they haven't put up much documentation yet - hard to say what this is really.

How do you work with different platforms? How does the performance compare to React Native? Can we see examples? What APIs exist to access native functionalities? How complete is the Flex implementation?
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Did you get the voltages backwards? If the supply voltage was lowered wouldn't it mean that older equipment designed for 240V would have an even bigger safety margin when it comes to over voltage?
I have a similar issue, so if youre open to it, pm me, let’s coop this.

I want to start a /js/node etc myself to learn.
I’m not even an actor and if someone said they wanted me to have a bit part “in a movie with Judy Dench” I’d be like yeah okay. Poor Idris. I want to love him but he’s in so, so many bad movies.

You get a couple of names on board based on an early draft of the script, they took a chance on you or they had a moment of bad judgement. But your peers come on board because you did, and pretty soon you have an all star cast and... dreck.

Then it seems like everyone remembers that star power can’t fix everything and it’s a while before the same thing happens again. Cats just seems to be this cycle’s cautionary tale.
Merry Christmas to the HN community! You're great by the way!
> It has the least accidents and deaths of passengers and staff.

I think this is largely only an effect of a lot of rails being third rail and as a result there are fewer crossings.
Pages 4 and 5 ( "Languages of the world" ) of the pdf are duplicates.

I agree that NL isn't just English, but the world of computer science, information processing, AI and even linguistics is heavily english-centric for a wide variety of reasons. And unless something drastic happens ( the end of pax americana and the fracturing of the world order ), everything will get even more english-centric. The internet is spreading all over the world. American culture is spreading all over the world. And so is american/english.

I do wish CS and programming would be less english-centric. It doesn't make sense to me that people in china, russia, europe, india, etc are writing code in english. Why not translate computer languages to their native language? Given the nature of programming languages, it's so simple to do. Wouldn't it be simpler to translate C or python or java to chinese and have chinese students/programmer code in the chinese language ( mandarin )? Rather than having chinese students learn english and then learn to code in english?
I would jokingly say that English is halfway between natural languages and programming languages. I mean: English grammar is so simple and all sentences are so well structured that processing English is order of magnitude easier than, say, German.
Just share it as a torrent to all movie theatres? They'll all seed each other.
the blog says public repos... but good question. Is it only some people that can subscribe to high entropy strings?

Github: I didnt opt-into 2FA: #439658 (3rd party auth required without 2FA)
And that's the same story of Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena.
From the article:

> Since April, we’ve worked with cloud service providers in private beta to scan all changes to public repositories and public Gists for credentials (GitHub doesn’t scan private code).

Private repos are not scanned.