skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding MuZero- I confess to not have read the paper very carefully, but I
am confused by its claim that the new system achieves superhuman performance
without knowing the game rules.

Specifically, MuZero uses MCTS and MCTS needs to have at the very least a move
generator in order to produce actions that can then be evaluated for their
results. The trained MuZero model learns the transition function and
evaluation function but I don't see in the paper where it learns what actions
are legal in the domain. And I don't understand how any architecture could
model the possible moves in a game without observing examples of external play
(i.e. not self-play).

MuZero reuses the AlphaZero architecture so most likely the moves of the
pieces for Chess, Shoggi and Go are hard-coded in the architecture, as they
are in AlphaZero. There's also probably some similar hard-coding of Atari
actions, which I'm probably missing in the paper.
As it looks now, I don't see much reason to switch away from curl + jq.

The thing I like about curl + jq is that I can easily switch it out for:

TEMPFILE=`mktemp`; curl -s <REQUEST> >$TEMPFILE; python -c "import json; f = open('$TEMPFILE', 'r'); d = json.load(f); <json processing logic and print statement>; f.close()"

and run in my CI environments or ship in docker images for testing purposes.

That said, I do see the potential for a tool like this. What I would like is the ability to manage different profiles for different URLs from the command line. Profiles could just be collections of header specifications - "Authorization: Bearer <blah>" or "Content-Type: application/json"

(Maybe https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman#using-newman-cli ? Didn't know about it until now.)
> What is getting built for specifically the 1%

Should clarify that by "specifically for" I'd mean that the 1% have all the money and thus practically all the decision making power. An example of the distinction would be that though everybody engages with AdTech software the software is built for the 1% to make them money.

The 1% isn't a demographic that's targeted by some SaaS in this case, it's a way of naming the rich who create the demand for a lot of software (they use the software to make money) and control the (high-level) implementation of most software in the world.

What's Magic?
By the way, the link to the install instructions is broken on the front page, however the sidebar link works.
Having taken a couple of psychiatric drugs over a long period (antidepressents - ADs), I',m not sure where your claim that "they're addictively mood enhancing" comes from. IME ADs aren't. My brother has needed to take many more (edit: diverse kinds, not just ADs). I don't think he found them addictive (or even useful).

Why do you feel they are?
TrackLater: Track programming work hours after-the-fact with a timeline view
For me the easiest way to prove Gödel first's with perfect rigor, without bothering with numberings (but using computational undecidability) is here http://users.utu.fi/jkari/automata/fullnotes.pdf (Section 4.10)
Typical that someone from the most vile, elitist, wrecking school in world history would condemn the University of Virginia--a bit player in any case, good or bad.
And network analysis enables them to spot the early stages of organizations forming, and their "trajectory", and potentially to intervene to ensure they don't gain traction and get to a critical stage where they are highly likely to go "mainstream".

I did have links to a couple of papers describing this, but misplaced them, and google isn't forthcoming...
The Cancer Miracle Isn’t a Cure. It’s Prevention
Études for Erlang (2014)
> Genuinely curious - where is the ethical problem?

Why not sell stuff based on the quality of that stuff? If the stuff is crap, or is a bad fit for the purchaser, but you've managed to sell it anyway thanks to various sales tricks (playing off a company's org chart would be one of such), then you've done an unethical thing. Since buyer's org chart has little to do with quality of your wares and their utility to the buyer, such an org chart spying tool seems to serve only to enable unethical sales behavior.
Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)
Between Backmarket and Amazon Renewed, I believe we’re seeing a resurgence in refurbished electronics. Note also that a lot of consumer electronics brands refurbish their devices to use for warranty replacements rather than using new stock or selling the refurbs.
I like AMP. It's at least 10 times faster than most news sites.
Show HN: Litur – A color picker app for the real world
What "everything is decided by simple majority of votes" mean.

The only things that are usually decided by voting are the people elected to various positions. Some systems (eg us electorates) elect by district, political unit (eg us states), parties (eg netherlands), ethnic affiliation (eg Lebanon)... All these are typically known as democratic voting, democratically elected parliaments/governments, presidents, etc.

In The context of "spreading democracy" these systems are/were generally known as "liberal democracies."

"More complex power structures" where different states/polities act as units have their political powers reserved are generally called federalism. You can have democracy/republic with or without federation. Nothing about republic implies federalism, except that they both apply to the US.

Historically, "republic," has generally been used to mean kingless nation and "liberal" to highlight mean that the people "are sovereign." Highly overlapping. Republic means something in this context, but not what people mean when they contrast to democracy.

"Republic" or "democracy" are much more laden with ideal & philosophy connotations than anything concrete enough to be part of a system of government.

It's like the words "rational" and "logical."

Sure, you can say "in a US context.. " but that gets meaningless fast. You can't derive any meaning from "The US is republic" are synonyms. You could just say "this is the US."
It's certainly hidden behind a layer of indirection where you first have to peel off 'how exactly is this anything at all' - a tricky and futile enough proposition. It's like a LaRouche movement for computer nerds, if you bend over backwards to be nice about it.
Untrue, or at least questionable claim. Monarchies are economically better-performing.

Eg.
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/monarchies-good-...
True, but "should not be there in the first place" is a moral judgement - no-one should have to deal eg. with clinical depression or intense anxiety, or psychosis. Or painful arthritis or the rest of the evils a biological entity is prone to. But reality cares not for your or my opinion.
> I use HTTPie all the time. It's not a curl replacement, it's a competitor in the space of CLI HTTP clients.

Sounds like a curl replacement to me. From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL):

"cURL is a command-line tool for getting or sending data including files using URL syntax."
Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training
Allegedly, during the invasion of the Netherlands by Nazi forces commencing on May 10th, 1940, the Dutch used "Scheveningen" or "beschuit" as a shibboleth to distinguish German speakers from Dutch. I don't quite understand that, as most Germans don't speak Dutch, full stop, and it would be trivial to distinguish them thereby, while presumably if you have gone to the trouble of learning Dutch, you'd know how to pronounce "Scheveningen".

At any rate, that story is often cited, eg in this insightful article that has many more examples:

Mcnamara, T. "21st Century Shibboleth: Language Tests, Identity and Intergroup Conflict " Lang Policy (2005) 4: 351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-005-2886-0
Startpage isn't an actual search engine, it's just a wrapper around Google's results. That's not the case with Qwant, Yandex, or Baidu as far as I know.

Also, this:
https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/
IME doctors hate it when patients act like their medical knowledge is on par with theirs because 99% of the time it isn't.
> 3. Backchannel.app

Having a hard time seeing this turn into anything but linkedin wankery. The people who could give you honest responses either don't care enough to or will start a 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours'.

> 5. Org Chart As a Service

Prepared to get sued out of existence. I was at a finance firm where all external emails were sent to both legal and security. I had to redo security training because I didn't report a phone call I got from an external source that shouldn't have had my details.

And god help you if you do any of those ideas to EU citizens.
> In fact, according to linguist Sheila Blumstein, it's not really a foreign accent at all. Rather, it's a change in speech patterns that listeners interpret as an accent — though sometimes a bad one.

Well, accents are just that, differences in speech patterns.
They sold oil and gas with discounts, pushed for economic union, gave preferences. Belarusian government did not do anything to help private businesses, attract investors, go to new markets and industries. To keep their power, they sold country.

About “taking responsibility” - people actually take responsibility for their future, family, children. That’s why they migrate. One can only take responsibility over what they can really change. Not everyone is born a hero to fight the system, very few heroes are successful, and we have only one life. It is safe to call for resistance from a cozy chair, but in fact, it is no romantic endeavor: people got tortured, imprisoned, disappear. Lives of common people can be sacrificed in revolutions for the ultimate benefit of new rulers.
I wouldn't break them up but I would put very strict privacy laws.
https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-now-a-radio-telescope-i...
> The place I work allows to work one day a week from home. In my team of six only one person takes advantage of this policy (not I).

For me, the question in that case always is: Why is that?

Often, presenteeism (or put less favourably: butts-in-seats) is used to paper over organisational inefficiencies.

For instance, a common argument against remote work is that meetings, particularly informal ones, so-called water cooler talk, help with solving problems or interfacing between people, teams and departments.

However, I'd argue that - more often than not - the situation that brought about the need to have these meetings in the first place really is to blame: If you need to have a lot of meetings in order to make progress chances are you don't have the appropriate processes and systems in place that help you with making decisions and have to fall back on lengthy in-person discussions for almost every issue that comes up.

> That said, out of 100+ employees almost nobody drives by car to the office. It's public transport or bicycle.

Let me guess: You're located in Amsterdam ;-)
"Energy use" is an extremely poor metric. We need to emit less CO2. How we do that has a of options, none of which actually require reducing energy use (improvements in efficiency on the other hand are a massive contributor to GDP growth).
Corporate charters don't generally include clauses requiring that profits be maximized, profits be disbursed, and executive pay be approved by shareholders.

Rather they tend to include maximally expansive language such as "all business activities legal in the state of XXX". It's a placeholder, delegating responsibility to the directors to the greatest extent permitted by law. This is the standard, for good reason.

Are the charitable donations of the Fortune 500 evidence of widespread violation of fiduciary duties?
Bollocks. Yarvin left Urbit nearly a year ago. https://urbit.org/blog/a-founders-farewell/
Representing 500M Citizens, EP Officially Declares a Climate Emergency
Hanging out a couple of years on otherpower.com and the AWEA forums.

https://www.fieldlines.com/

https://www.awea.org/

Designing and building a 2.5 KW windmill from scratch also helped.
A pretty good criterion would be, I presume, whether you vote your shares for the election of the board of directors. If you vote, you're definitely a shareholder.
The President is supposed to faithfully execute the laws and abide by the Constitution. The States have a greater concern over who the arbiter and executor of their pact is than the general populace.
Ok... take non-republics with similar political cultures: Australia, UK Canada...

You will find very similar "we do not use majority rule." they have states/state-like governments. Senates (for state reps), and lower houses (for district reps).

There are some differences at the symbolic sovereignty level (queens, governor general's, etc.)
Where does their lack of "unrepublic" differ to the US' republic, at the point where their voting, counting majorities, etc.
Sadly not because then the file doesn't have a filename, and there are a lot of things that only work with file names, not descriptors. Even basic stuff like std::fstream needs a filename.

Yes there are workarounds (library extensions, signals, /proc/fd, etc.) But you'd think a basic function like "delete this file when this process exits" wouldn't be too hard.
looks like a great project, but it’s more complicated than dotstow
Scala Server Toolkit
It's true, but I wonder if the way employees organize themselves will transform in such a way to make graph analysis less useful - similarly to how recent protests seem to work. From what I've read about Occupy protests, the Yellow Vests, and now Hong Kong protesters, they're all spontaneous and decentralized. Instead of an individual or a small group of leaders energizing the movement, there's something of a shared idea (a meme, if you like) flowing through the network, and once it crosses a threshold, you suddenly have thousands of people protesting.

(This immediately suggests a strategy to combat such organization: instead of trying to find out who the leaders are - which will fail, because there are none - one should focus on misinformation to create enough doubt and noise that the threshold for spontaneous organization isn't crossed.)
Show HN: Connect all of your communication channels in one place
Hi,

my name is Wiktor. It took more than 1 year, but I'm finally done building the minimum viable product for Plumm. I worked mostly nights and weekends. I coded the whole thing in Python and JS. This is my side project, but it is fully functional and stable product, which you can use right now.

Product:

Plumm is a single place where you can chat with your team members and support your customers. It can integrate your email inboxes (for now only GSuite) and provide livechat for your website. In the future I am planning to add more integrations, so it will become single place for all communication channels, for example it should integrate with facebook groups or twitter.

Motivation:

I've built Plumm, because I wanted to chat with customers and my team members in one place (one tool). Using separately livechat, email accounts and Slack was not perfect for my communication needs, because I needed to switch all these tools constantly.

I'm excited to start talking to customers and see what they think about the product so far!

But, also I would very like to get feedback from you indie hackers. What do you think?

Cheers,
Wiktor
Zio: Type-safe, composable asynchronous and concurrent programming for Scala
> this is a company that tracks users on an industrial-size scale that no other online company can match. And yet despite that, most developers are more likely to rush to Google's defence rather than question those data collection practices.

If that is what you read in my message, then you are projecting what you want to see on what I actually said. Nothing I said defends Google on that front.

EVERYTHING in your post is completly out of scope of what I said in answer of parent's post. What I said, is that just because some company does something wrong doesn't mean everything that company does is wrong. Or in this case, that while Google is obviously massively syphoning data on a gigantic scale, NO analytics basic tier being free, by itself, isn't an element of wrongdoing.

If anything, your post proves my point, that when they believe they know the end results people are quick to make up the narrative in between to reach it, even if they need to throw the baby with the water too.
That's funny, because I've designed a windmill from scratch and plenty of the literature used that term.

I just checked Google to see if I'm mistaken but even the Wikipedia page on wind turbine design uses it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_design

"For a given survivable wind speed, the mass of a turbine is approximately proportional to the cube of its blade-length."

So I'm not sure why you've never heard that term but it definitely is in use.
Thanks for the report :) Fixed.
The difference is that an accent is a speech pattern associated with a specific locality or people. Whereas a speech pattern just means the way someone speaks.
I found quadcopters to be a great way to get into embedded development. There are a couple posts on my blog [0] [1] related to getting Rust running on a quadcopter controller, although I never actually got my code controlling the drone in flight. The lesson I learned was that if I was going to do it again I'd definitely choose a board with an exposed debugger port, as I spent a lot of time repurposing one of the motor outputs into a serial transmit port just to do some "println debugging".

Not sure if OP is here, but I'd be interested in hearing about which debug options are easily exposed on that board. Can you use the port you are flashing the drone with as a standard serial port after your code is loaded? Looking forward to the future post about SWD that is introduced at the end of this post as well.

[0]: https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/betafpv-drone-flight-contr...

[1]: https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/betafpv-drone-flight-contr...
Project Loom: OpenJdk Fibers, Delimited Continuations, Tail-Call Elimination
> The fact that the failure of Next is still told as a great success speaks volumes.

NeXT resulted in the web browser and the iPhone.
The wind energy industry gives this sort of thing a lot of thought. I think it says more about the GPs exposure to particular literature and theory than it does about the industry as a whole, also, whatever companie(s) they worked for may have simply used different terminology, it would be interesting to know what term they did use rather than to extrapolate large and unsupported conclusions from a comment like this.
> I'm very skeptical that any doctors think you are a doctor because you know Acetaminophen and Tylenol are the same thing (the example from the tweets) in general.

That's what I thought too, but at the same time I don't doubt the rest of what otakucode described. Being well prepared and honestly interested gets you often a long way. More importantly the expert (the doctor in this case) does - in my experience - almost never care if you are a real doctor, your wife is a doctor, you abandoned med school, etc. All they care is that there is an individual that seems to speak their language and that they can at least try to skip the translation layer and explain the problem in their own language - which I think is relief to them.

Being well prepared and honestly interested instead of trying to leave the impression to be the expert is the key here I think. With that being said I wouldn't advise stressing not being an expert in the field either. This only puts up a barrier and puts the real expert under pressure to switch on the translation layer again.
I can see Russian trolls have infiltrated HN as well. They are abundant in my country's (Lithuania) news sites, but didn't really expect to find any here. Oh well, at least visitors of this site can see right through the utter nonsense you guys put out.
Quasar: High-perf, lightweight threads, Go-like chan, Erlang-like actors 4 Java
It is a very important figure and it works its way into many of the design details of the turbine as well as the tower and the foundation, if it was called something else I'd like to know what it was called as well as what kind of role GP had in the industry.
Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Means
Indeed, and it seem to me these countermeasures are exactly the method that's being employed by the likes of Putin and Trump.

In google's case, I think they're just analyzing employee emails etc.
I agree. Terms become terms and we can't change it.

I just meant that idioms tend to be richer when the source is material.

Point taken on finding an example that everyone understands.

Any political context creates shibboleths by the dozen. The UK is good for making ones that stick around. "Nationist" and "National" political movements, for example, are apposite (and opposing).
Bekk.christmas – 12 Christmas Calendars
It's not about trying to pawn off inferior wares onto your customers.

I make a living selling software that I write. My customers have no way of judging quickly how good my software is or even whether it solves their problems. When I'm selling to someone, it is my responsibility to figure out whether or not what I'm selling actually solves their problem.

Being able to navigate their organization helps me extract this information more quickly than I would otherwise be able to. It allows me to convince people for whom I'm really solving a problem to try out my solution. It allows me to leave people alone for whom my solution would only add noise.
PEP 572 and the Walrus Operator
German car industry faces ‘day of reckoning’
He describes it as "scary language" and a "giant “keep out” sign", which is FUD that does accurately represent the CC-BY-NC-SA license.
Ask HN: Fire your whole team or another chance?
Hi, imagine you had a team of friends of yours in a startup. It’s getting less productive week after week. Would you fire your whole team after countless tries of getting them to start doing? Is it the fault of yourself hiring them? Would you keep trying?

What’s your opinion
Perhaps the idea is that updates provided by OpenBSD or another OS for example could be compromised or simply directed to an unpopular path, but in this way a "senate" of code reviewers with known biases provides a more democratic way of reviewing updates before publish.
> You have to consider that with every electric vehicle, manufacturers are losing a tremendous amount of money. That is not expected to change until the middle of the next decade.

> A heavy reliance on the sales of profitable luxury cars has left executives with little room for manoeuvre.

> “We had a couple of good years and the necessary work of applying cost discipline has not been done,” Mr Kalmbach added. “Companies added fat to their waists.”

> The cost of shedding jobs in Germany, often estimated at €100,000 per axed position, forces companies to consider reskilling programmes or wait for employees to retire.
https://github.com/puniverse/quasar/issues/305
https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-1-0-1-final-released/
yup, thanks.
Don't do business with friends. You will loose both friends and money.
As a native Swedish speaker, it sounded more like a latvian or lithuanian person trying to speak British English.
Technical support would go more smoothly if they asked about the submitter's technical level.

Dreamhost's support form used to have a field on how technical are you. The options went something like "I know nothing" to ""not being funny, but I probably know than you".