skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the Sake of Your Event Listeners, Use Web Workers
In battery fires the lithium is not burning, the electrolyte is. By dumping water on it you simply heat up the lithium causing the fire to continue. You don't want to use water on a battery fire. You want to use smothering agents that block off oxygen so that the liberated gas put off by the heated electrolyte doesn't ignite.
> Anyone with an opening book of AlphaZero's mistakes will be able to push AlphaZero into a mistaken position.

This only works if AlphaZero never retrains on previous games.
So would a few areas be true for you? "many" has ben true for 25 years for me and 15 years for many end users I know. UX is very much an opinion.
This must be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of.

Imagine the cost of setting all that up, and going through the process with each student to get their visas. Only to tell them on arrival they’ve been tricked.

What exactly were they trying to accomplish with that?
For what it's worth, my circumstances agree with you. I've become much less stressed out on the day to day by ungluing my eyes from newsmedia.
Awesome solution, spend a couple thousand dollars and change OS :D
MCTS is a random algorithm, and AlphaGo is no exception.

The AI selects a move. What state is the board in now? It doesn't know, because the opponent also selected a move.

MCTS models this with a probability distribution of the states, and samples from this distribution repeatedly to build an estimate of the effectiveness of each move it could make.

But what's the probability of each move made by the opponent? And after the simulation has looked as many moves ahead as it can in the time constraints, how good a position is it in?

These are the same question, really - what's the chance of winning from this board state. In Chess you can use a heuristic algorithm to figure it out. In Go, you can't. But you can use a neural network to learn an approximation that improves as it sees more games complete.

AlphaGo does this. MCTS is a random sampling technique, and the neural net informs its probability distributions, but doesn't make it deterministic.
Thanks Jeff for your great Ansible roles!
Yah imho Mint is just a more pleasant experience.

You still need to set the gpu to handle vsync or you'll get page tearing though.
Still working on the first part, but here's a source for the second: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...

Edit: This appears further down that article:

> "Those data show that from 2007 through July of last year, 693 U.S. citizens were held in local jails on federal detainers — in other words, at the request of immigration officials. And 818 more Americans were held in immigration detention centers during that same time frame, according to data obtained through a separate FOIA request by Northwestern University professor Jacqueline Stevens and analyzed by NPR."

693 + 818 = 1,511
No shit. It is literally a crime in some countries to suggest that some piece of land which they consider part of their territory, is not part of their territory. Microsoft ran into this with Kashmir in Windows 95.
To me it looks like it actually does have the top cross that's been stamped over by the loop of the 9. Look closely.
elm/browser was recently updated. If you compile in dev modus it gives you a small button to press in the webapp, that opens a new window where actions and state can be replayed.
The Kubernetes ecosystem is evolving rapidly, you might want to keep it around to play with different CNIs, CSIs, service meshes, operators for clustered software lifecycle, and more.
I learned early in my web dev career that the India northern map one is a very touchy subject if you intend to target Indians with your web service.

You have to be careful not to take some random map off the internet when using them in the design.
Optimize first-frame HLS bitrate with serverless
Agree, link is bad. But some random burning Tesla in Austria isn’t interesting for international press. Update: battery wasn’t burning. Austrian source: https://m.auto.oe24.at/thema/Ausgebrannter-Tesla-in-Tirol-Ak...
"Album" meaning "blank tablet" in Latin is interesting because it seems to have the word "white" in it, same as in albumen (egg whites) and Albion (home of the White Cliffs).
By putting water on it they made the fire last longer. That just shows the fire crews need better training on how to handle electric vehicle fires. This is not unique to Tesla. You don't use water, you use non-flammable non-water-based suppressants.
How does the picture look on the TV one, like does it look like a decent enough, crisp HD image? (And on what size TV are you running it?)
Don't know about what group you're talking about but it ended up well: no need for a new protocol, just wrap in TLS with mutual cert authentication. TLS/TCP is fast enough nowadays that the overhead doesn't matter, and it saves you from having yet another standard.
Thanks, this exactly what I was looking for today!
Imagine the day when you can’t find a more satisfying note than the one the computer already have chosen.
This is not related. Please don't spread FUD unrelated to the story.
Or rather, two people showing up to a footrace with motorcycles. It sounds a bit silly to call it a footrace at that point. Nothing wrong with motorcycle racing, but gotta be honest about it.
The US isn't the only place with decreasing fertility rate, the worldwide fertility rate is also decreasing. Look at the table on the right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
I want to add that opening books are not THAT effective in computer chess either. Yes, they are significantly more effective than in computer go (because of the smaller branching factor and greater role of tactics). However, exponential increase in game tree size is crazy, even in chess. Thus, opening books really can't take you THAT far into a chess game (10 moves). An engine with a worse book but better search/eval will usually win.
For what it's worth, endgame table databases exist that give perfect play for when there are a limited number of pieces left on the board.

As of now, we have databases for perfect play when 7 pieces remain on the board (including the two kings). The 8-piece tablebase is computationally possible, but I don't believe a comprehensive release has come out yet. Even the current 7-piece tables are incomplete because situations like lone king vs. six opposing pieces haven't been explicitly calculated due to their obviousness.
What makes you think that events you mention did not made people angry, suicidal, violent and so on?
Hard to say. Don't know what happened if they didn't split.
I tried notion but unfortunately, gave up after 5 mins (Android). Pressing the phone's back button closes the app, and the options to confirm changes ("done" button) are on the top, making me have to reach for the top of the screen all the time... :(
People have a right to exist in their own countries.

It would be unsustainable to let in everybody who wants to move to another country. That's why quotas, background checks, etc exist.

Entering a country illegally knowing that it will mean you'll be splitting your family in half speaks volumes about the morals and compassion of the person who does that.
Thank you for reminding of this paper.

It is fascinating to me that the content (written 20 years ago) reads like an up-to-the-minute description of the madness of IT today.

The continual repetition of anti-patterns is so widespread and commonplace that it is clear to me that expediency will almost always win-out against any engineering prudence.

Expediency gets assigned highest priority -- typically without any real reasoning. The negative effects accrue slowly but consistently -- and correcting for the shortcoming gets consistently more difficult.

The condition is then self-perpetuating.
I've used vis.js for some projects and it did the job well. Very customizable.
This site cannot be viewed without third-party JavaScript enabled (it shows a blank page on both Firefox and Chrome), and this is happening more and more on HN links. I think it's pretty sad that so many websites are adding a client-side dependency on third-party code just to view the website. In this case, this doesn't seem intentional, as the code is full of <noscript> tags.

I also cannot begin to understand how can a <body> tag's class definition can take 4400 bytes. In what kind of situation do we need to apply 146 CSS classes to the <body> tag ?
i can only really see this as a good thing, but im admittedly a bit of an antinatalist myself
Is your monitor running at 30fps? I imagine in that situation the changes wouldn't be noticeable.

Also, upgrading from 19.04 to 19.10 isn't super stable, so it could be it didn't upgrade properly.
They don’t have a huge number of quarters as a public company (well, they’re 16 years old), and for most of their history they have been in Startup mode.
If most people on this forum’s startups went to cash positive in 14 years (which is basically how long it took them to get a positive quarter, and the balance for the last 8 has basically been 50:50) then I’m pretty sure everyone would be cheering
If this were Reddit, I would like to wave away parent's argument with an "OK, Boomer" meme. I think it's simply propaganda that "things are better now then they ever were before! wee!" The statistics shown here and highlighted by other posters make this clear: we have many problems.
I had a feeling PPAs would come up, but I've never had more then maybe 7 PPAs on any of my Ubuntu machines, which is still better then each program coming from a different site and with a different installer. Including PPAs in caches/backups is trivial.

The way I see it there are 2 different use cases here:
1. You want a few individual apps kept safe on a USB stick in case you need them offline - installers on Win, AppImage on Linux
2. You want a constantly updated cache of the programs you use in case of the apocalypse - pain in the ass on Win, trivial on most Linux

Windows only seems superior here because no. 2 is barely possible, so everyone has gotten good at no. 1.
The analogy is a very appropriate one.

If the OP spent a month learning Go, I am sure that it would make sense to him as well. Work through a series like https://senseis.xmp.net/?LearnToPlayGoSeries while playing Go regularly against a variety of opponents. Before book 3 it should be obvious.
Yes their cash burn is approximately the same as their revenue. So again, $25 million is pretty irrelevant.
While what you say so true if they're ere just measuring student height/success. But they're not measuring student height/success they're measuring the effect of teachers on student success/height over time. And what you said isn't true of that measure.
I believe with respect to game theory, solving a game like Go would require finding a strategy that obeys the one shot deviation principle. The result would rather be boring to watch however, because the conclusion of every game played under this strategy would either be draw, or based on which player starts off first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-shot_deviation_principle
We kind of can eat money. Agriculture is already highly automated, and will become even more so as labor costs increase. For example strawberries are currently picked by hand because the fruit is so fragile, but picking robots are in advanced stages of development and will probably be widely deployed within a few decades.

A reduced supply of younger workers will also tend to increase retirement ages and reduce age discrimination. For example, a healthy 75 year old can still do a lot of nursing tasks. He might no longer be physically capable of lifting a bedridden patient but he can administer medications, record vital signs, change dressings, etc.
Thank you! My Google-Fu totally failed me, and I was worried I had hallucinated reading the same PKD story as the guy who wrote that blog who also couldn't remember the name, or maybe we came from the same parallel alternate universes! (Kinda like Faith Of Our Fathers, where there actually were several different parallel universes, but the government put hallucinogens in the water to make everybody think they were living in the same reality.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_of_Our_Fathers_(short_st...
I keep hearing that there's growing fraction of impoverished people in the US, but the data tell a very different story. See figure 1 and 2 here: https://www3.nd.edu/~jsulliv4/2017%20Consumption%20Poverty%2...
gud 4 him
"A better approach would be to start with the truth." If someone had this down to brass tacks I would agree but they don't. There is immense contradiction here even among the brightest minds in the world.
He was handed the perfect excuse.
We have LeelaZero numbers: https://ogs-forums.s3.amazonaws.com/original/2X/2/21de8caa52...

The plateau is real. I'm not sure if continuous self-play will lead to continuous progress for all of eternity. The system is clearly slowing down in self-learning.

AlphaZero's plateau is also well documented: https://i.imgur.com/NMNp6Kq.png

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I'm not trying to cast doubt upon reinforcement learning / MCTS / Neural Nets in the game of Go. It is clearly the best methodology we got today.

But anyone who has any experience with neural nets knows about the local-maxima problem. ALL neural nets reach a local maxima eventually. Once this point is reached, you have to rely upon other methodologies to improve playing strength.

Assuming Elo-growth for all time using a singular methodology is naive. We will go very, very far with Deep Learning, but are you satisfied with that limit? Other open questions remain: Go is very far away from being a solved game, even with a magical machine that plays 2000+ Elo stronger than humans.
I know, right? If I can leave the house these days without spending $20 dollars, I'm _relieved_.
I use it 22 minutes a day on average according to iOS screentime. So I'm well aware of what it is.
It actually does matter to visibility of comments when you're trying to engage in discussions. If you'll read my comment, I'm not really craving internet points in anyway. Downvoting for disagreement is just a poor way of having a discussion. In the comment that was downvoted, there was no name-calling, nothing uncivil. A lot of subreddits, surprisingly unlike HN, do actually discourage downvoting.

And if I was craving internet points I'd probably not comment about voting cause clearly that's unpopular too.

My arguments notwithstanding, I don't intend to comment on voting again.
Sorry but in Florida we do our best to stay at least one year behind ;)
Country of origin works when the goods themselves are relatively complex. However, the goods with the highest carbon footprint (concrete, steel) don't really have a "looks like it was made in russia" sort of badge that couldn't be easily removed/replaced.

Take food as an example. With the recent china soybean tariffs the way that some manufactures got around it was first shipping the goods to Thailand.

From there it is either processed or re-exported.

https://www.scbeic.com/th/detail/product/4730

So long as the middleman country/countries have lax regulations and the actors aren't pushing heavily on them, then goods can flow (all be it at increased cost due to additional shipping/repackaging).
Is this law only applicable to some definition of “online” companies? Why not a generic privacy law that applies to all?
The primary is not reflective of the general.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...
No, it's not anything for grandchildren. Right here, today, someone tried to draw some moral parallel between racism and someone else's views on the possible limitations of AI. That is totally effed up. It's totally effed up whether or not the original thing about AI is right or wrong.
Not only is your smartphone hardware probably more powerful than DeepBlue, but chess engines are a lot more efficient nowadays (even without AlphaZero / reinforcement learning). The engines are getting better on the same hardware every year. On identical hardware, Stockfish (the top non-RL engine) is 800 Elo better today than it was 10 years ago.[1] A difference of 400 Elo corresponds to a 90% win rate for the better player (where a draw counts as half a win).

1. https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/compare_engine...
It's definitely public, but it might not have an easy-to-use online portal. I bet a FOIA request or similar offline method would get the whole set.

(Source: https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/for-voters/voter-registr...)
Oh gawd this was so satisfying to watch. Intel has grown into such a despisable company. They have such low expectations for buyers intelligence, that it's insulting
I don't know. However, I doubt it was at the scale we're hearing now.

I wonder if news and social media are partly to blame.
Most don't have that button.
diff and patch

time and uptime

uuidgen and ping

...?
I have, for the past few days, been trying to login to one of my older accounts to reactivate it and prevent it from being deleted or reassigned. However, every time I try to login it throws me to a "consentflow" URL and gives me a message saying "Something went wrong, try again later."

I've tried two different browsers, incognito and non-incognito, deleting cookies, resetting my password, and nothing seems to work.

I have no idea what to try next.

How I hate Twitter.
I can easily eat 50 or even 60 pizzas in 30 days
What you should mourn is the healthcare costs being passed on to the patients to pay these people.

Everyone is all "medicare for all!" instead of going after (one of) the real sources of the cost: careless inefficiency.
I'll be blunt: That is moronic.

If your employees are busy doing garbage work, they'll only be good at doing garbage work. And the idea of keeping them busy so they're present for later "real" work, you won't perceive your staff as being capable of doing the real work or you actually won't be able to do it.

1) Perception: You'll perceive your staff as too busy to take on the work, and hire more people. You've lost the benefit of that capacity reserve.

2) Actuality: The garbage work will still need to be done. It can't be skipped, and you won't have the ability to do it in 5 minutes (how long it actually takes), it'll still take you weeks to get it done and you'll have no capacity for the "real" work.

If you don't have work for all your staff, that's 100% fine. Find them useful work until the billable hours become available. Send them to training classes so they're a hair better when the work comes in. Have them do maintenance work on your infrastructure (test systems, servers, build systems) so that when the real work comes in everything around them is working smoothly and efficiently.

But under absolutely no circumstances should you ever give them garbage work to keep them busy. It's the dumbest thing a manager can do.
I agree, sorry. The original paper used the phrase "total energy" but although the paper text does mention powering the screen, their figures just talk about computational energy, so that is likely what they meant. It's too late for me to edit the title, but it should be "62.7% of computational energy".
I don’t understand the point of this initiative either.
I guess, but every quintile is either improving or staying flat.[1] No quintile is declining. And poverty is declining too.[2] As a society, things are improving, though admittedly faster for some than others.
[1] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2019/11/2...
[2] https://www3.nd.edu/~jsulliv4/2017%20Consumption%20Poverty%2...
Kind of; but there is no evidence of a serif (as in the five in the other number).
Well in my EMAG class in college we were introduced to Smith Charts. We studied them for about a week or two and used software to check our work. So software has replaced them. There is nothing a Smith Chart can do that a simple software application can't manage in 1/16'th the time.
Very impressive, but I think running android on these devices make them look even more impractical than they really are. E ink displays have a very bad refresh rate, when you combine that to fancy smooth animations the result is a lagfest. We need to have redesigned interfaces for these type of device.

Speaking of refresh rate, at the end of the video you can see someone drawing on the screen and everything is rendered pretty quickly without having to redraw the entire screen, is that a different technology?
I have imagined it, and it's horrifying. But not guaranteed to radicalize people outside the immediate effected area against the ones pulling the trigger.

Philadelphia bombed a city block to flush out an entrenched armed group in the '80s, and life went on (for everyone who didn't have their home burned down). Don't underestimate the American capacity to believe something was done because it was necessary. It's the only country to have ever deployed nuclear weapons. Twice.
> On every measurable metric, there has literally never been a better time to be alive and living in America.

I love how the common HN statement of, "if there's a metric, it will be gamed," never makes it's way into concerns of societies ills. The United States is an incredibly lonely and alienated place and, while GDP may be going up or whatever gamey mechanism you want to measure does the "right " thing, it does nothing to affect the very real material concerns of the average person: the ever-increasing precarious nature of work, healthcare concerns, student loan debt, increasing rent, and it just gets worse every time you wake up.
>"With the debut of AI in Go games, I've realized that I'm not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts," said Lee.

>"Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated," he said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency in Seoul on Monday.

Reading this just makes me sad, like the selfish kid who takes his ball home because he didn't win. I wonder why he thinks people ranked less than 1 play Go. Does he think they're idiots? Or that they'll quit once they realize they won't reach #1? Not everyone in the NBA can be LeBron, and most of them know it.

This is such an unhealthy attitude that I see everywhere. People who have their emotions and identity tied up in winning and being better than whomever they come across. When they eventually, inevitably fail, it crushes them. I'm sad to see it every time. Even sadder when their response is to quit, rather than reconnect with whatever drew them to the activity to begin with, like because they enjoyed it.
How is this MariaDB specific? It's MyISAM specific, I think.
Hours of East German Home Movies from 1947-1990
Looks like it was written/sponsored by four Senate Democrats. In other words, no chance this is even going to get to a vote, unless/until the balance of power in the Senate changes.
Why not just let them go home and pay them for what you're really paying them for: being available when needed.
Matches my experience very much.
How uncanny. I was thinking about this in one of my lectures today after seeing that my lecturer spelt "online" as "on line" in one of his presentation slides.
It turns out that the origin of the term "on line" dates back all the way to the telegraph industry!
Move the projects to your cluster and see what happens!

Consider the fact that, if you make improvements to the cluster, all of your apps will see that same lift. So if you were to set up backups on the cluster's persistent volumes and its databases, you'd get free backups for all of the projects you've moved. Same with monitoring, autoscale, and so on.
From an economic point of view, I understand the OP's point: it's a better deterrent to know know your data is bogus, than to be in the gray area where it may be right to use it or not.

If data is shit, approach dies, because it's not economically viable. If it's just unethical, it will never stop.
The banner at the top is wrong. It should be simply

while(*dest++ = *src++);

And a fork bomb isn't a virus in any sense. Malware sure.