skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People underestimate MCTS greatly

It beat Rybka and every other bespoke chess program in existence

AlphaZero even beat the version of AlphaGo that was trained on existing data.

Point is — we have no idea what is possible when you unleash MCTS towards goals like persuasion, humor etc.

The ONLY constraint here is that feedback requires a human judge. If you can learn to simulate a human based on lots of data (this is a hard part) then you can finally have a two sided game playing each other and find the best diets, the best diagnoses utilizing symptoms, tests and big data around the world of incidence of outbreaks etc.

However it also means quickly finding the funniest jokes, most convincing but subtly flawed arguments, best artworks etc.
> [1]: "${foo} bar baz" v.s. "$foo"" bar baz"

Why would you quote the second option like that? You can just write: "$foo bar baz"
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bash is completely out of date on macOS (GPL2 vs. GPL3), and not shipped on any *BSD AFAICT.

Some Linux distro don't ship it either (void, alpine IIRC).

And, most of the time, bash is used because people don't know any better, see e.g. https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/pull/8405/files
Why is that different from anything that requires concentration?

Also, what's HCCH? [Human-computer-computer-human?]

> IM, email

Maybe programmers are just lazy and picky, so they want to get things done quickly and at their own workstation?
I was previous linked to your Cells library because I'm trying to do something very similar [1]. Matrix seem to be in a similar vein (at least from the sample usage here).

Could you tell me if any of your libraries allow live editing of formulas? (Adding new ones, editing existing ones and deleting some.) If yes, do the new input (cI) need to be declare manually?

I've also seen these slides [2] in your repo. Can you say a bit about the solution to "The Glitch"? As you've noted there, topological sort isn't enough if there are conditionals.

I also couldn't tell what "Glitches and RoboCup Sim" was about from just the PDF.

Finally, when using a cells-like library, do you get "discontinuous jumps" when cells are no longer suitable (or the network becomes too complicated) and fallback to imperative callbacks? Or do you manage to used cells for everything?

[1] https://github.com/asrp/persistent_doc https://github.com/asrp/guitktk

[2] https://github.com/kennytilton/cells/blob/master/Lisp-NYC-20...
Functional options for friendly APIs (2014)
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I really wish we could get this set up, maybe even with some official ycombinator promotion. In my mind HN is the last really great group of strangers on the internet. I have learned so much from these comments sections and I've frequently read someone's post and connected with it to the point where I wish I could sit down for a cup of coffee or a beer.

Unfortunately, without community features it feels like slipping notes into a bottle and tossing them into the sea.

HN is the restaurant at the end of the internet.
I understand the difference, but I should have framed it better: it is not 2nd order ignorance itself, but it is one expression of it in the extreme.

I suppose the point is that we all have 2nd order ignorance (just pick a context until you find it), but we act inappropriately upon it to varying degrees depending on... what might as well be called wisdom i suppose, you could call it the anti-dunning-kruger effect I suppose.
Yeah, I did it too a while back. I don't remember the details, but some changes on the VM were required. Even if fairly minor, it was quite clear they were necessary solely because MacOS actively checks for those flags and refuses to boot otherwise.
Don’t pave the paths used by the unhappy cows (2016)
All Google style guides use two spaces.
SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes [video]
SIGFAIL? Where's the vanity domain and whitepaper?
This presupposes that the senior mouse, having been exposed, can describe both a particular smell and the appropriate response to a junior mouse. So I'd guess that's ruled out already.
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I expect then publishers love the Facebooks where ad-blockers are impotent.
Thanks for sharing. This is a great little project.
I care as much as Apple does, which is to say, not at all.

I got my license fair and square out of Apple's App Store with the purchase of a Mac. I then put it on a flash drive and installed it on another PC. Didn't fail any license check whatsoever since Apple has no interest in making any.
In the recent 5 years, there has been a renaissance of "cyberspace" as in the early science fiction, the cyberpunk culture, and aesthetics and a nostalgia of 1980s in general, as shown in vaporwave [0] arts and independent/DIY music. In many works, the imagery of cyberspace was used heavily, and themes included Usenet the Eternal September, Sci-Fi themed hacking and cracking, early BBS and imageboard subculture, lots of memes, etc. And recently there is also an upsurge of cyberpunk-related fictions, games (e.g. VA-11 HALL-A [1]), TV series, etc.

The reason sure includes the economic recession and political failures of the present days, but the death of the early Internet culture and the promises of "cyberspace" being a cutting-edge, cool and fun place has failed in a future that never comes, is definitely an important cause.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporwave
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-11_HALL-A
If you like podcasts, there’s a great one by Kai Davis and Nick Disabato called Make Money Online. I can also recommend the Indiehackers podcast. The greatest insight to effort would probably be The Personal MBA by Josh Kauffman, a really great business book. What sells is solving expensive problems or making companies with lots of money better or more efficient at making money. You can get into conversations with decision makers by cold emailing people saying that you’d like to buy them coffee and talk about their business. Lots of them are busy and will not reply or say no. Some will say yes. These are informational interviews not sales calls because you don’t have anything to sell yet. Or you could go to your local chamber of commerce meeting and talk to people.

One recent Indie Hackers episode had Nathan Barry on. He swore by the tactic of doing presentations on a topic that would be useful to small business owners at chamber of commerce meetings, collecting emails and adding people to a mailing list. Apparently most of the leads he got didn’t convert themselves but they referred other people who did. All for the price of free coffee and donuts, a presentation and time.
In prehistoric terms, what's the difference between war and hunting other herds of humans?
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How to Promote Personalization Apps
Good old unsanitized HTML. Brings memories of the first bulletin boards.
Creating a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture
I know that an unsanitized HTML input is a stupid issue to begin with, but update issued within 24 hours of discovery (and within 5 hours from disclosure)? That's really impressive.
Not to mention everything Microsoft is One now. One Drive, Xbox One.. that's about it really
That is an interesting idea, an entire social group that shuns the minutiae. It explains some of my bad experiences here. They should have a "social rules" next to the "actual rules". I like the idea though, thanks for mentioning it. Plenty of other places for humor and stupidity, doesn't need to be on HN.
>another mesh standard

Standards!

https://m.xkcd.com/927/ ;)
Truly portable shell scripts cannot define functions. Have you ever seen autotools' output? No thanks, I'll be impure and wrong and get the job done. Also your comment is off-topic... not sure why you see every thread about Bash as the right place to start this pedantic flameskirmish.
It's right there in section 2B of the EULA that you're only permitted to install it on Apple computers. Why would they put that in there if they didn't care?

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1013.pdf
> I'm not sure how this is relevant.

It's relevant because you want to limit the number of people who have access to your proprietary software. It's pretty straightforward.

> the more likely they will be able to make nefarious use of the stolen code.

The point is to limit the "surface area". There is absolutely no reason for QA to have access to the source code. Giving them access is simply opening up another security vulnerability. It's not even using the code for nefarious purposes. People can sell the code for money.

> and I've personally seen people who have never written production code review someone else's code and find where it didn't match their idea of what it should do.

What? That makes absolutely no sense. Are you talking about tech leads or managers? Who reviews code who has never written code? That's like saying someone who never learned chinese critiquing chinese literature. Makes absolutely no sense.

> I wish it were more common, but it requires both motivation (on the part of domain experts / non-SWEs) and trust (on the part of the tech folks).

It makes no sense to do so. Especially in terms of security. Especially when proprietary software is involved.
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Since cancer is caused by certain mutations and heat can induce mutation, ingesting hot things can be mutagenic and thus carcinogenic.[0]

Saunas at the right temp for the right time can induce the expression of protective heat shock protiens.[1]

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773211/

[1]https://www.selfhacked.com/blog/reasons-sweating-far-often/
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's nonsense.

Historically, PowerShell was supposed to be a replacement for cmd.exe and roughly equivalent to bash, yet suitable for the Windows environment. They tried early on to port some of the UNIX & Linux tools to Windows and it didn't fly, so this is what we're left with.

Although parts of Powershell are open source now, I suspect the mere existence of WSL means that Microsoft understands it has more to gain from compatibility with the rest of the world (Bash is nigh-everywhere) than imposing their particular philosophy on people.

(See also, Apple's decision to adopt UNIX underpinnings)

I'm prepared to be wrong if PowerShell actually gets used outside of Windows, but I wouldn't bet on it.
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I really like this distinction between necessity and decision. It's a great philosophic contrast that inspires further thought, but to ascribe necessity or decision to something so complex as a human being seems extremely difficult to me.

Take for example a monk who has set himself on fire yet remains calmly seated on the ground. Out of necessity I would say that the average person would run around frantically while being engulfed by flames, however the monk has seemingly decided to ignore this instinctual response. But then one could counter that the monk is acting out of necessity born from years of cultivating emptiness within. Well then, did the monk decide to become a monk when he was a child, or did it happen due to the necessity of his circumstances?

I can't decide whether necessity or decision is necessarily true in a case like this. =P
No. DoF is also a factor of sensor size/film surface area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field#Relationship_of...

http://www.uscoles.com/depthoffield.html
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When memories are consolidated at night during NREM sleep there's a lot of information transfer within the brain but not from the brain down to your gonads. Also we can look at the DNA of a gamete and see how it differs from other cells and there are usually a few mutations but you can't encode much in <16 bits.

All this would have been reasonable speculation in the 1960s when Dune was written but science has moved on.
Probably, I wonder what code they use for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS9nj1vvbTg because deeper zoom requires much higher precision math which takes a lot more computation.

PS: Not as far but much better video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGaio87u3A
That gets back to my original point, though - we know from the start the maximum power of the flywheel. Putting enough reinforced concrete above it to keep it from penetrating in case of catastrophic failure is a straight-up engineering problem.
Netflix runs 150k servers on Ubuntu so ...
It’s not a mini tower, here’s the case: https://www.inwin-style.com/en/gaming-chassis/Chopin
The case size is 9.6" x 3.3" x 8.6".
Modern NUCs are 8.7” x 1.5" x 5.5" but unlike that inwin they require external 19V 100W power adapter.

About driver support, based on my experience it’s the other way. Custom designed hardware decreases reliability. I have never encountered issues caused by driver support in the desktop PCs I’ve built from commodity components. But I remember issues caused by non-standard hardware design in e.g. sony vaio laptops.
I might have to get this. We got the snes classic for Christmas and its pretty good, although ours was not working out of the box and we had to return it through warranty.
To be fair, the bug is random and your machines are new.
Setting aside the logical impossibility of people f-king up but not f-king down, that is not true at all: men will f-ck down quite readily if it is convenient and there is low commitment. This is due to the obvious reason that males can have ten kids in a day by ten different women, whereas females can have perhaps 10 kids in a lifetime and each birth is incredibly high risk to her.

The core problem in the mating world is that the middle of the female attractiveness curve is having sterile sex with the top of the male attractiveness curve and then failing to pair bond with the middle of the male attractiveness curve. This is due to female hypergamy coupled with male promiscuity, arising from the dynamics of male and female reproductive constraints.
Coinbase releases professional trading platform for institutional clients
End of service for Adobe Muse
I believe only very early silicon was affected. AMD replaced CPUs for people on request. If you google you can find the affected datecode visible on the CPU. I have an early Ryzen from the next date and it doesn't have any issues.
They're also now requiring billing data be attached to any accounts using their APIs (Google Maps notably in my case)
I'm by no means educated about ways how RNA could get from food into your own cells, but saying "RNA is dissolved by stomach acid" is a bit too easy. HCl peaks only after a big meal with protein, and some people generally have low stomach acid. Then there's the mucosa of the mouth and esophagus, through which some food is absorbed before it even hits the digestive organs (even bypassing the liver AFAIK). It might still get dissolved as soon as it hits your bloodstream, or destroyed by antibodies, etc..
Or want to pipe data without PowerShell mangling it[0]

PowerShell is materially worse than bash for a great many purposes because of this design choice alone.

[0] https://brianreiter.org/2010/01/29/powershells-object-pipeli...
That's always annoyed me with US politics. In the US politicians have a habit of saying "The American people..." Which immediately triggers my thought: "I'm an American person and I don't think that way".

The speaker seems immediately out of touch with me when they use the third person. However, when they use the first person and take responsibility for their own unique views, I can understand them better even if I don't agree.
not the python one! https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html

anything other than 4 spaces for python look out of place for me.
> TVs are obscenely cheap these days -- to the extent that it blows my mind that anyone doesn't have one.

TVs are big, stationary, and designed ad meatspace social gathering centers. Plus, people these days are used to always being engaged with personal portable gadgets, so using them for personal video consumption is natural.

> But even if you use it once a year to watch the Super Bowl, Olympics, or live coverage of some local emergency, the tiny cost is easily justified.

Is it? You can watch all of those (including live local TV channels) on a laptop, tablet, or phone screen, which has zero device cost for the purpose (because you have it anyway for lots of other purposes) low service cost, and you can do it nearly anywhere, and at typical use distances (except for the phone, unless you use an HMD, though that is an option) at least as much visual size and better resolution than a TV that is actually inexpensive.

Now, I’m a late Gen Xer and watch a lot of stuff on my TV (mostly through streaming services, but also satellite service) but I can totally understand Millennials not seeing a TV fitting into their life even with lots of video consumption.
Finally, a company not using this attack as a way to say PGP is fully broken and you should be using their walled garden instead of PGP.

I don't even understand why efail is getting so much publicity. The attack requires privileges access to your computer or your mail server in order to modify your existing messages. Or the ability to intercept messages in flight. That is a huge barrier, and if they had that access, all your plain text email is compromised as well.

I don't understand why people are uninstalling gnupg because of this "attack". I am extremely upset at the email keybase sent me, basically telling me that to be secure I should unregistered my PGP key; complete with instructions on how to do so. Accourding to them, I should be only using keybase's home grown encryption tools.

This whole exploit just seems like a marketing attack.
Interesting how the judeo- Christian concept of immortality is so clearly harmful, while the Greek/ eastern concept of the transmigration of souls is so socially useful. For a Christian, at least, the world is a sinking ship. But for a Hindu, you will inherit the good and bad you do in this life in the next. Though, of course, that can lead to a different kind of fatalism in terms of treatment of the poor.
Funny considering how EFF suggested using Signal instead of GPG yesterday before the GPG "vulnerability" was published.
Why would they not implement a license key to macOS installation if they did care? iTunes EULA forbids users from developing missile weapons with iTunes, but I sincerely doubt that Apple actually cares about this fine point.

Also, as a document, macOS EULA is worth to me as much as a piece of toilet paper.
Of course portable shell scripts can define functions. What are you talking about? Shell functions are defined in POSIX. Maybe you should consult the standard before you proceed:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
Bash is nowhere close for being de facto default shell for Linux. This is a bad analogy. In this case it is more like telling people that want to code Javascript to only write it in React. You got to go from something generic to something specific. Scripts written with bash will often rely on bash-specifics and can therefore only be interpreted by bash. There are entire projects dedicated to stop this plague. If you want to write portable shell scripts, use dash.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/checkbashisms
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/Bashism
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bashism
I find reading Spinoza's rational idea of Ethics oddly resolves around the concept of love. I find that I first read Spinoza as the source for Spock in Star Trek.

First the idea of love for Spinoza is that truly free persons actively avoid love as in love is a passion.

Second that the "rational/noble" love of doing good to others ethically is the center piece of ethics.

Proposal 43 "Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love."

"For by “courage” I understand “the desire by which each person endeavors to preserve his being in accordance with the dictate of reason alone,” and by “nobility” I understand “the desire by which each person, in accordance with the dictate of reason alone, endeavors to help other men and join them to him in friendship.”" Page 73 of Ethics published in 1949 (Copy on my shelf)

When i talk about Spinoza in academic worlds I have the belief that Kierkegaard (Acts of Love in specific) and Spinoza are agreeing and talking about the same ethics of love. Though they disagree about everything else about love it is love that makes us be ethical to our neighbors. I try to make my children understand that we make those around us better because we care about their well-being and that while we disagree with people we do so with the idea that we care for them also.
I'm getting weary reading the constant lament of the "internet" as a massive entity. These articles take the same form:

- "ugh social media is terrible, remember forums"

- "aren't rss feeds great"

- "remember when sites were HTML based"

- "back in my day the internet was just me and a few cool people"

The internet is not a monolith. What people are complaining about is the corporate internet; the parts of the internet that are owned by billion dollar companies.

Here's the reality:

- there are more interesting independent blogs now than there were pre-Facebook/Twitter. Maybe less "per-capita" of total online usage, but there's still a higher volume

- every single person is capable of making an online community using cheap tech, and using corporate social media to promote it; way easier than it was in the past

- developers are still "allowed" to make sites in plain HTML/CSS that look great and load fast

Blockbuster movies are always bad, so people made indie films. Network TV sitcoms are bad, so people made online series. Pop music is bad, so people make great music and play in local bars and small venues. If you're tired of the "internet being bad", its time to put the work in to find (or make!) what you like, because it's all out there.
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Ask HN: Privacy Shield for non-US company who stores data in US
Solo founder here working on our GDPR compliance efforts. We are a Canadian company, but since 80% of our customers are in the US, I made a decision early on to have all of our databases in the US.

Our infrastructure is not trivial, so replicating it to the EU is not economically feasible at the moment.

I was looking into how to get certified under EU-US Privacy Shield, but since we don't have a US address, we cannot even start the process.

Anyone else in a similar situation? Any guidance will be appreciated.
As have I. It actually worked for a one time migration, but it required a lot of handholding.
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I own several TV's but I end up watching a lot of TV and Movies on my iPad anyways.

It's nice to pick it up and take with me to the bedroom, my desk, my dining room table, the bathroom, etc. Wherever I want to go, it follows.

Also, movies in particular have terrible audio mixing for in home usage. The dialogue is way too quiet and the effects are way too loud. I end up adjusting the volume on the TV the whole time I'm watching it. This is less of a problem on the iPad because I'm a lot closer to it.

16:9 TV's are also bad for watching movies. If I want the movie to be a reasonable size on my TV, I need a much larger TV than I actually want to have. Again the iPad fixes this issue by being close to my face.

edit: Also, watching 90's TV on Netflix is fantastic on the iPad because it lets you zoom in to the center of the 16:9, remastered show for a full screen, 4:3 viewing experience. It's great for Friends, the West Wing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which is not on netflix anymore), etc.
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I guess it must be the time he lived in, but it has some tragic comedy to see him completley fail to understand women and put their behavior in binary terms.