skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in models comparing armies across time and space (at least in the ancient world), this book is worth a look ...

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Battles-Reconstructing-Clashes-A...

The author developed and then iterated a simple simulation (structured like war game rules) for modeling ancient battles. Its been a while since I read the book but IIRC his goal was to create a model that was able to reproduce what actually happened in relatively well-documented battles, and then use that model to explore less well documented battles.

It's not a good cover-to-cover read, but once you understand his overall scheme, its fun to pick up and read his model for a battle or two.
> The government is for the people

No, the government should be "THE people", not "for" or "by". We introduce many issues with representation of larger groups by very few individuals, that is precisely why democracy/government works best at a local scale rather than State or Nation-wide. It's not very hard to grasp why.
It's interesting to see these European nations are publicly displaying these pilfered stuff, knowing many of them carry ugly history, in museums for the whole world to see.

Is this "matter of fact" mindset an unique trait of European cultures? No judgement is passing here, I am only curious about the thinking and mindset. I would venture to guess that nations of other cultures in modern days probably would feel very uncomfortable to openly display artifacts sourced in similar ways.
Yes. I dreamt I was sending psychic messages out of a dream, and woke up, and sent an SMS to apologise for the psychic message, and woke up again. So attempting to communicate out of dream layers two dreams deep.

Woke up to what I believe is reality. Am there still.
Out of scope, this work is purely about semantic correctness.
> They don't want to end up like the UK where you need a license to watch tv, own a knife, stack rocks on the beach or put rubbish in your own van. They look at a city like london where crime has skyrocketed and pensioners are being arrested for defending themselves in their own homes and wonder what on earth is wrong with the brits.

Mainly what’s wrong is a lot of straw men in the news reports. TV licenses are a thing, but the rest of your examples are things I’ve never heard of or which misrepresent reality.
All of this innovation and iteration at breakneck speed... and then nothing in ten years since the introduction of microSD. I imagine a combination of everything going cloud based and Wikipedia authors losing interest.
Web scraping is a good project. LinuxAcademy has some good content on AWS and Hadoop ($50/month).
sorry IDK how to do a linker.
If you know you're dreaming and can control it, then it is lucid dreaming.
When has a major innovative company ever done better after ousting a visionary but perhaps somewhat toxic founder?

I don't know, how visionary and/or toxic would you consider the founders of Tesla to be before they got the boot?
I miss filter by category (I have tons of books on TODO list already and I wanted to quickly check everything beside books).
It’s so funny to me how no one working on technology that will wipe out classes of jobs ever self-reports evidence that it will wipe out classes of jobs.

I’m sure early automakers “saw no evidence” in jobs for carriage drivers too.
Reality is the dream you wake up to every day.
> I'm a man and have identified as gay for most of my awareness of my sexuality, but started experiencing attraction to women sometime in college

I'm a gay man myself, but what I sometimes find difficult is sometimes I feel some sort of attraction to a few of my very close women friends. It's quite confusing, I can't entirely decide whether these feelings are platonic or sexual, or even some sort of FOMO that I don't know what it's like to be with a girl, maybe I should try it. And as I've come out, and labeled myself as gay, I think it would be disingenious of me to try anything, since my women friends don't expect that from me. Though it has become easier being heavily into the kink scene (Recon, rubber/leather etc), and I come across all sorts of people, a lot of whom would identify as bi or pansexual.

I'm just glad we can have a conversation about this instead of hiding it all and I'm 21, so I'm sure I'll work it all out.
And illegally obtained art should be out of our museums, period.

I wonder if, on the private market and not museum worthy, whether the prices for these would go down.
Alexa vs. Siri vs. Google: Which Can Carry on a Conversation Best?
Testing me about the things I enjoy in my personal life that are unrelated to how I perform my job is a gross practice that shouldn't be tolerated. I have pretty regular hobbies, I like reading, movies, board games, I play drums, I like seeing bands, I participate in some activist groups. Why is this any business of a prospective employer? I was asked recently what my favorite genre of music is and when I said punk rock I was asked "why do you like punk rock?". Do you understand why I might find this to be weird and invasive and cause me to question what aspects of myself are really being interrogated in an interview like that?
Well using the term bisexuality does not really explain anything. The traditional definition of "bisexual" is someone who is attracted to both genders. But if we accept sexuality is fluid (i.e. you preference may change over time), you can have a bisexual who is only attracted to one gender. So the question is how useful that category is, when there is no observable difference between a bisexual with a preference for the opposite sex vs a heterosexual.
So... does XWayland work for Nvidia yet?
"I noticed I was dreaming and tried flying. It worked for a second until I was pulled back to the ground by an invisible, irresistible force. Trying to fight it just woke me up."

This may be a Can't Unread sort of thing for some people, but... flying in my dreams is now a source of frustration for me since I noticed that no matter how "high" I fly, there is always something on the horizon higher than me. If I fly over this building, another one even taller will be behind it; if I fly over this tree, another one even taller will be behind it.

My theory is that dreams, unsurprisingly, come from your own personal experience and the neural nets you build, and my visual field in real life always has something above me; buildings, trees, etc. I essentially never stand on the top of the horizon, let alone personally fly for real in the cockpit. Consequently, it is essentially impossible for me to dream that I'm truly flying. (I've managed some exceptions a couple of times, but it's not reliable.) Real flying is frustrating because seeing it out the side through this tiny window is not enough visual stimulation to fix the problem; I really need the cockpit view, preferably during takeoff, and preferably more than once every few months.

However, as a compensating factor, I appear to have over the years watched enough Star (Gate/Trek/Wars) and played enough space flight sims that I can be "in space" with reasonable freedom. I have managed to jump from "the ground", which is as I described above where something is always above me no matter what, to "space", by closing my dream eyes and transitioning. It's a risky move, in the sense that it definitely pushes me closer to just plain waking.
Isn't making code ineligible to outsiders an essential requirement for job security? And how much sense does it make to you? What can you tell about this code except for "it's written like APL?" Can you tell what it does? How it does that? What all those one letter functions/macros mean? No, you can't tell shit.
Honest question, why do some people like sushi? I hate how sushi tastes, all sushi restaurants should therefore be closed, as they bring no value to the world.
Yeah, when a project loses a clear message, it's more likely to die a slow death than anything else. However, they did point out why they made that change: even recent distros could actually run very decently on older hardware, which made them lose their former "edge" on that matter. Personally, I think LXDE/Lubuntu is obsolete. Xfce/Mate can be very good replacements with low footprint these days.
so in this new world where "soft power" (which I assume means any power imbalance) across borders is imperialism, how can a company be international and not be "imperialist"? Because if they can't then that's the kind of "imperialism" I couldn't care less about.
Not really. It’s more like getting outraged when the government wants to build a road that does nothing. imagine they build half a bridge over a body of water and stop. Do you want to pay for that useless thing?
'Edit': I went on a holiday around Europe.
So what are the problems? One, as stated, is that quarterly reports turn into quarterly voting by the Stockmarket, and thus poor decision making. Another, frankly, is the work on putting them together. It doesn't seem like cutting the frequency in half will matter much: long term planning has a longer horizon than six months.

Why not go the other way? Allow companies to publish financial statements monthly (with a rolling close) plus annually one month after the annual close. And as for the various material statements and representations that go along with them, let various press releases, tweets etc account for them, plus the annual formal statement (shareholder letter).

IIRC Cicso famously had a "three day close" closing their books three days into the new month. Some reasonable software investment should permit many companies to do a rolling close. Those who make that investment would be permitted to stop doing quarterlies.

This is a case where a more frequent cadence of lower amplitude might allow a better long term view!
> natural language processing is like one
> of the hardest problems that's left to crack

You don't need to "crack it" or come anywhere remotely near to a perfect solution. False positives are okay, providing you accept that some percent of your users won't tolerate the errors, and will leave your platform.

And we're talking about social networks. So there's a wealth of additional information (ie: who you follow. previous behavior. who has reported you. account age) beyond plain text to augment this. And there's the setting of policy (eg: how come I can post within an hour of signing up on most social networks?).

The point is, what we have now on most social networks is not geared toward long-term customer satisfaction or the public good. It's geared toward medium-term account retention at any cost - regardless of whether the accounts are bots, sock puppets, or trolls.
Calling MJ "clearly the best" is insane. MJ had a much better supporting cast, one of the greatest coaches of all time, and didn't have to play the most dominant team ever (Warriors) for 4 consecutive Finals.

The Bulls won 55 games during the first year of MJ's hiatus. The Cavs won 19 games the year LeBron went to Miami.
EpiPen was literally granted market exclusivity by the FDA, there was a government enforced monopoly on the particular mechanism, one which was granted on what, as far as I can tell, was a superficial improvement to the safety cap.

Mylan continues to try to restore their exclusive rights.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/patent_info.c...
Plan on taking investors? Because that last sentence might make it a challenge, much as I agree with it.
I don't even necessarily trust type names anymore, for similar reasons.
You can search in tags (example: Philosophy, Book), but it doesn't do what you are looking for.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into it.
Thanks for the links especially the Marcus Hutter links
Solution: delete Twitter.

Next?
What's expected of us
Ahh, I see. Computers have been good enough for a decade or more and therefore not much reason to support ancient machines. A ten-year old computer is probably close to free.
Thought experiment time (perhaps this happened to you in real life as well): suppose you saw this attractive female body from behind. Then as she turned around, you noticed she was a man. Doesn't that mean you are also attracted to men in some way? At that point it's no longer binary—it's just a matter of degree.
From the linked text:

Q: What about people with NVIDIA graphics cards?
A: More details to solve, but the plan is to get this working with those graphics cards by that time.
A modern car is far safer, far more reliable, far more efficient, far more powerful, and far better than the environment. The added complexity only makes things better, in this example.
Well, I'm using X on Xubuntu 18.04, and I'm still constantly annoyed about seeing tearing artefacts when playing video. This is something that should have been solved >15 years ago, but somehow, it still isn't.
Tensorflow & Keras would be the closest analogy
Also put a drop down menu because I don’t know if my query in the search box is going to exist.
HN doesn't do any fancy markup[0]. You can also delete comments.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Napoleon was the best general ever, but Admiral Yi was the best military commander ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ieaDfD_h6s

(If you go by a phenomenal win-loss record, and by the change in effectiveness of his forces when he was present vs. when he was absent.)
I think facebook+cabridge analytica et al, and google's collection of location data even when the user opts out (just to name two), shows that it really is a bunch of strangers listening to you.
Yes, existing connections are kept as long as there is traffic often enough (in either direction) - the timeout is configurable.
Good talk already here, no new info in this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780092
There is manual merging code in git-bug [0] only because git doesn't provide a low-level command to rebase a branch onto another without touching the index. I don't think it's an intended limitation of git but more likely no one had a use case for that so they simply used the normal index.

Apart from that, a normal git rebase would merge two versions of the same bug conflict free. Each commit is independent from the other. A merge is simply moving the new operations at the end of the chain of edit.

If for instance, that means that you closed a bug that is already closed, well the bug is still closed and your action will still be displayed in the timeline.

[0]: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/blob/c974cc022d3ecd2e...
Some of the most thought-provoking work I came across when I was studying optics (laser physics) is referenced in this paper on "Optical Rogue Waves": https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.3071.pdf

Rogue waves, made popular by their often ship-sinking behavior out at sea, are extremely rare and therefore difficult to study by waiting around for them to happen. Here, researchers inject noise into an otherwise stable laser system (recall that light is also a wave) that has some small nonlinear properties and rely on the high rate at which we can generate laser pules to observe rogue waves at a high enough volume to study their properties.
> Lithuanians are Balkan peoples

Baltic.
> The older protocols tried to encode way too much framework-like application implementation details which turned out to be a mistake.

What "framework-like application implementation details"? I came to X development from Windows development, and the first thing I noticed was the lack of stuff bare X provides. X doesn't even have timers, let alone a standard notion of how to display a button or text box. It's very bare bones and minimal, and you can learn most of it in a weekend. (I know, because I did.)

Game engines need OpenGL to work, so no surprise they reimplemented much of the rendering layer. GTK is maintained by fucking GNOME developers who run screaming at the sight of old code they have to maintain, so reimplementing fucking everything is par for the course for that crowd. If Wayland ever settles down and becomes usable, within a few years the GNOME team will be lamenting how old and crufty it all is and making plans to replace it with an even newer graphics stack.

EDIT: X actually does have something like timers, in the XSync extension.
What could investment do for a site like this?
Linux has almost 3 decades of development and experience behind it, will take a lot of time and money for Google to catch up with that.

Linux has multiple communities and companies behind it, it won't disappear overnight if one of them go bust.

Linux can run on anything, Fuschia will most likely only run on things that Google cares about.

Most server software today runs on either Linux or Windows Server.

What makes you think the Linux kernel is in decline?
ARM is owned by Softbank, which has a net worth of ~2x Intel.
It should still run on old hardware, just not the most ancient tired iron.
But what's the difference between that and merely dreaming that you are?

Don't you feel like you have control and are making decisions in every dream that you have?

Is it really that interesting if you happen to dream that you're controlling a dream vs dreaming that you're controlling your flight around the world or whatever nonsense we dream about?
Same here. It's on every standalone server I manage. I also use it on my workstation.
You can't format it, just paste the link
Galantamine is Rx in the US. :/
Some of the ones pulled in 2007 or 2008 were generic versions of the EpiPen that existed at the time.
Oddly, what I'd really like to see is ARM enter the NUC space. Maybe I'm the only one, but I'd like be able to pay $200-400 for a small, low power usage, decently performant machine. The 8th generation Intel NUC are good, but 28W TDP and it'd be nice to get it much, much lower than that. I know these are a small fraction of the overall market but personally I think it'd be cool.
Waste heat is 1% of global warming, and is thought to affect the jet stream and .. other things.

https://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2016/06/17/study-waste-heat-m...

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/waste-heat-from-cities-ma...
Can you be more specific? On wikipedia, they say "no side effects".
Show HN: Design as a service (Pay per task)
The same idea for the storage and merge can certainly be applied to other use cases. A wiki would probably be kinda tricky because you would need a an edit operation for each change in the text but that's probably doable.
>Musk continues to have an unhealthy obsession with short sellers of Tesla's stock. He told the Times that he is expecting "at least a few months of extreme torture from the short-sellers, who are desperately pushing a narrative that will possibly result in Tesla’s destruction."

> It's unclear how a short-driven narrative could destroy Tesla. Ultimately, Tesla's success or failure will be determined by whether Tesla can produce cars for less than customers pay for them—and whether customers are satisfied with the cars. If Tesla executes well, no amount of bad press—short-seller driven or otherwise—should pose a significant threat to the company.

I'm glad somebody has finally made this clear. The cheerleading against short-sellers (For a stock that the founder has at times claimed to be overpriced) is baffling. If Tesla is a solid business, it shouldn't be concerned about its day-to-day stock price.
Hard to feel sorry for the guy. Maybe Elon should stop working 80 hour work weeks and enjoy some of the wealth he has accumulated.
There are now Windows server benchmarks available as well (it's just as bad) : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows-...
Sure, but that's because 10 year old hardware can just run Ubuntu now, no? The lack of YOY extreme gains is real.
Black Hat and Defcon cybersecurity experts share tips on how to protect yourself
Kirin Chip vs. LIB battery life?
Do lithium ion batteries see better battery life once the Kirin chip understands how to use it?
I think the principle of "Finder's Keepers" is completely illegitimate when it comes to transportable objects like artwork, but it's at least a little bit legitimate when it comes to land - in the case of North America, generations of people have been born there and made their lives there, so they have some claim to the land even if its original seizure was a crime.

I think the legitimacy of US sovereignty over its land (or Canadian or Australian etc) is also strengthened by the fact that it is a representative democracy, so to some degree its management of the land is carried out on behalf of all of its citizens, including the descendants of natives. If the US were governed by an aristocracy of descendants of settlers, as in Apartheid South Africa, then that would be clearly unjust to me.

edit: to be clear, I think that native populations in all these countries have legitimate grievances today, I just wouldn't go so far as to say that all their original land is still rightfully theirs.
I think if nothing else, as long as I can see it do the things(on it's own) what a human being can do to the point where human intellect and creativity is completely devalued, that would satisfy my definition of intelligence
Apple has been running MacOS internally on ARM hardware for a long, long time now.

I guess you missed the fact that Apple has endless billions to spend and can buy or hire to achieve anything they want.
It's not "just happen to use the same Arm instruction set," it's "they keep up to date with advances in the Arm architecture, such as v8.x extensions, which are heavily influenced by what Arm plans in their roadmaps."

If instructions/extensions are being made that improve laptop-class performance in some ways, then that likely does increase the chance of Apple making laptop-class Arm cores for their Macs, even if by a miniscule amount.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17726969
Simple File Sharing
There is not one single "Great Wall". There are many stretches and thousands of miles of them, built and rebuilt over thousands of years, all in various stage of decay save for a few sites preserved for tourism. Peter Hessler wrote a very readable piece for the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/21/walking-the-wa...
I don't think static typing is a silver bullet here. As I alluded to in another comment a moment ago, I've seen atrocities that were committed in part because someone didn't want to have to go modify a bunch of type references, or refactor the code to accommodate a new type.

Local type inference ("var") can reduce the friction here, but, you've probably still got to explicitly declare types for parameters and return values, so there's always an excuse to be lazy.

I'd say that full-on Hindley-Milner type inference might help, except that I suspect that the folks who do this kind of thing would find a way to create even more chaos in the kinds of languages that have one.
Why the internet needs its own May Day
Its a good question.

Scale, curation, combating spammed submissions to AJ, etc. might be the biggest things if the site gains momentum, but if the site remains a hobby project indefinitely (which I think is totally fine regardless of popularity), then it's absolutely not needed.
If the ideas of this series of posts interests you, I think you may also find tuple spaces interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space
Why ForgeRock built a simulated bank for testing open banking APIs
AppKit is now very old, and maintaining backward compatibility through annual release cycles is extremely complicated and challenging. And that complexity doubles when you add a new platform in the mix.

Porting AppKit to ARM is easy. It's another thing entirely to commit to supporting parallel versions of AppKit for the next 8+ years.

It would be a colossal waste of Apple's software engineering resources, which many people believe are already stretched too thin. And for what, a little better battery life? It's just not realistic.
Don't assume that new=complex.

Wayland is smaller and follows the Unix philosophy much better than X. X has gotten insanely complex with all the workarounds necessary for a modern desktop. It tries to do far too much, and not well, so all the other parts replicate much of X's functionality. Wayland was actually started by X devs who felt it needed a reboot.