skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this Duplicate Scrabble (all contestants playing the same letters)? If so, I imagine computers reached perfect play long ago, as it seems to involve nothing beyond memorizing huge lists of numbers and searching the board for the best place to put them.

But what about regular Scrabble? Sometimes, the best play is not the word that's worth the most points, because it might give your opponent a chance to make a big play (the simplest example is refraining to play a high-value word that opens a triple score square for your opponent). The best play depends on the probabilities of your opponent holding, now or in the future, certain letters, and you can make a probabilistic model of that based on the letters that are in play at any moment. Perfect play seems to involve a lot of computation. What's the state of the art on this?
What freedom you have in mind? Afaik the exchange was 1.) about whether police can be blanket assumed to be the "good guys" due to that being presumed original intent. 2.) Whether and how ir is legitimate to protest if they are not "good" in practice.

I am not asking for any special freedom. I do find second question interesting and complicated. I do have own answer to question one (namely that blanket trust is super naive of course low paid force with few weak checks will end up having bad actors in it and it is then question of pruning them out or not).
No there isn’t. There is documented video of this happening. It may not happen to every single journalist but that doesn’t mean it is not happening. Antifa is very organized and they specifically look for journalists they do not like.
I backup onto a USB drive a couple times a year. I think it fits on 128GB, but the windows backup files covers drives that total between .5TB and 1TB.

With this backup frequency, I would lose some data. I don't generate much important data, so backing up after the few times I generate it is fine with me. The only except is for code, but I use GitHub so that is covered.
There’s no more tribal areas officially
Splitting water molecules for a renewable energy future
Is it "simple coincidence" that "conspiracy theories" almost always come true? I'm about conspiracy theories which are not made up by to make fun of conspirators to show them like "idiots" on public.

Anyway, users always lose. Another coincidence and in this case they will not lose, right? :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24383039
shared_ptr certainly isn't, last I looked at it there was some significant performance overhead since it's required to be thread safe.
And interestingly, when I check the issues list, I see issues with rendering ligatures, merged cells not displaying, page sizing issues, inability to set the page background colour properly...

Not knocking the developers, but it seems to me they have their own compatibility issues. In fact, a fair few of them. Which means that the blog review is... fascinatingly biased and anecdotal and glosses over the fact that any competing software to MS Office will have its own unique list of compatibility bugs.
I feel like this link needs a date included in the title, since it describes POWER7 as being new (POWER7 came out in 2010)
is it good work?
If latency and performance is an issue there are also solutions like RocksDB or LevelDB
>Phase segregation reversibility in mixed-metal hydroxide water oxidation catalysts

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-020-0496-z
2020 gets worse and worse.
And I don't really understand why they don't follow their advise. Saving a single byte on Google front page can potentially save terabytes of bandwidth. I know the idea of "developers are expensive, hardware is cheap" but when you serve trillions of search queries, hardware is worth considering. The 8 MB you get don't come from nowhere, there is a server somewhere sending them to you.

And improving user experience for billions of users is not a negligible advantage either.

Maybe it is a sign that Google is ready to be taken over by a less bloated company. It is, after all, how Google came to power, by being efficient and to the point. Just look at to original Google home page compared to its competitors.
Honestly, OS X's built-in "split view" window tiling support is a sad, clunky, slow-as-molasses, fullscreen-only nightmare substitute for the instantly snapping windows you get from something like BetterTouchTool, or Spectacle's hotkey-based window resizing. It's night and day, and it's really disappointing to me that a trillion+-dollar company took as long as it did to offer such a mediocre workaround.
Reality isn’t a movie script.
That's why they made it the lead of the article. They can't defend anything else about the response to the protests so they try and say the protestors are being illiberal. It's all BS dude. Wise up. 1st Amendment happening in PDX and they gotta not get killed by police and Proud Boys while they're at it.
You mean it was progress?

Probably due to lots of government funding, but Reaganomics has finally righted things back to feudalism.

Success!
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
People still use leeches for curing themselves.
So data is the new gold... I'll stick with actual gold.
I don't think we'll see radical improvements in Common Lisp compilers (the Lisp dialect I am most familiar with) for conventional AoT compilation. Sure, there are incremental improvements that can be made.

Perhaps you could start an interesting discussion on how you see that first sentence being wrong?
What’s the best way to stop them from starting? What de-escalation methods are proven to work? Surely these would be in use already in far-left strongholds like Portland and Seattle.
Just have to point out that there is absolutely a difference between user and system optimal, even outside of Braess Paradox situations. If you’ve never noticed it, it’s because traffic engineers worked hard to mitigate it.
> Is it "simple coincidence" that "conspiracy theories" almost always come true?

That's quite a statement to make. In no way do "conspiracy theories almost always come true."
No, I'm saying anarchy implies laws arranged by consent.

The existence of the KKK is not in violation of anything I suggested. If they want to be an abhorrent debating club, they should be free to.

But the moment they try to initiate aggression, it is justified for anyone to defend themselves, an anarchism would generally consider it justified for anyone to band together to defend themselves, against that aggression, up to and including e.g. creating militias or a standing police force.

The key points throughout are consent and voluntary association, and the ability to withdraw that consent at any time. Not absence of structure, but the minimal structure needed at any time, arranged by consent.

If anything, anarchists are obsessed with structure of society - that is why there are so incredibly many different anarchist ideologies.

I frankly find it bizarre that this is a difficult concept to understand, because conceptually it is very simple: Consider what happens if we delegate power bottom up, instead of appointing representatives who delegate power top to bottom.

In theory nothing needs to change other than that, if we believe that current systems accurately reflects the will of the people.

The reason we're even discussing this is that nobody - not supporters of anarchism or its detractors actually believe that current societies accurately reflects the will of the people.

But detractors assume that people will withhold consent to every structure they believe are needed to maintain a functioning society.

Ultimately it reflects a fear of democracy - a fear that most people will opt to let society collapse, and it's really quite odd to behold these arguments.
What a fascinating report. It takes time to name the people wrongly killed by police, detail their deaths, but doesn't mention anyone killed by people who might be associated with BLM. It doesn't bother to so much as give a number of fatalities! Well we know there were at least some: https://apnews.com/864cb5c14ba08b4411a16577042d0773

The same approach is taken to other areas: Violence by police gets described in detail, violence by protesters gets a brief statistic such as "Post-deployment, the percentage of violent demonstrations has risen from under 17% to over 42%".

I must say I was shocked when the report managed to mention how many Rittenhouse shot, but omitted that he was shot at himself, and was on the floor, being hit in the head with a skateboard when he shot the 2nd and 3rd persons. Oh but it did mention Trump failed to condemn his actions - that part was important enough to include.
Are Influencers Responsible for the Behavior of Their Followers?
Writing "Russia" in a nevertheless plausibly deniable way might exactly be the point though.
This post, which talks about AIX 7.1 on POWER7, was published in August of 2010.
In other countries and cultures, living with parents is entirely normal. My girlfriend is from India, and was very confused as to the whole "looking down upon people who don't move out" stance people take here. I explained a bit about how its seen due to our views (be they correct or not) of self-reliance, and other issues such as if they're just mooching off their parents, but I agree its still not as bad as people make it out to be.
Busting a union could literally fix the policing problem in this country. Concentrated power is a problem whether it’s a union, a corporation, or a government. It’s not black and white.
I think a lot of it has to do with how we look at history and how we remember and tell stories, fictional and non-fictional.

Most people remember the winners and losers of history, but many don’t dig into the nuance of it for various reasons. It’s easier for those who support the winners to ignore the finer details because said winners aren’t perfect.

Abraham Lincoln is a perfect example of this. While he was instrumental in freeing the slaves, he also believed that they were not as intellectually capable as whites and made that pretty clear in some of his speeches. One could argue that his position was the more progressive of his time, but still falls very, very short of what we consider to be acceptable thinking today.

There’s always shades of gray in history. Every good president did things that many would find appalling. Most movies depict very clear good and evil, and we enjoy them because they’re easy to consume.
My experience in the US, for something that's not a BB gun, I'd say 10 or 11, but that's not a hard and fast limit. It's usually a small caliber (like .22) or something. Hunting used to start at 12 way back, although these days I've heard some places allow hunting as early as 8..? The truth is it depends on the individual, and how well they can be trained. This video gives a pretty good overview of "milestones" someone should reach before owning a gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fRJTyU851Y
You Have a Million Tabs Open. Here’s How to Manage Them
Did you actually read the article? It is about why a simple remapping is not sufficient or at least has some caveats.
Its pretty great.
Is this the essay you were referring to?

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Pretty sure I remember finding this ctrl.blog page when fighting with this systemd-related Ubuntu bug that changed resolv.conf to use "127.0.0.53":

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1624320

My hate for this whole situation (but especially the fact that it broke resolution of short names with search domains) is bone-deep.
Most of those bonds would be bought up by banks as usual, inflationary pressure would be caused by those bonds because of the temptation to print money to make up for the inevitable shortfall
I don’t live in Portland so obviously none of this worries me all that much. My city has had bad riots but they passed and actually things are much better now. I expect even a lot of people in Portland are upset by it, but aren’t in immediate near-term danger. I don’t believe that these riots are going to spread nationwide and result in a breakdown of society, even if sensationalist news stories tell you that’s going to happen.

However what is new this time is that for the first time, the President of the most powerful national government on the planet is threatening to use Federal police powers against not only Portland, but cities all over the US that he sees as politically opposing him. And there’s a very decent chance that he will get away with this, even if it’s technically illegal. That scares the crap out of me.

The fact that commenters on HN are taking predictable sides in a “political debate” in the face of such massive stakes doesn’t surprise me. But I wish those people could think two moves ahead and see how vastly disproportional the two sets of problems are. We’re in a very dangerous place as a nation and you’re worrying about some idiots on a street in Oregon.
Lol, that’s hilarious.

Checkout CircleBack which is a free tool that scrapes your email for contacts for you. Now look at their CEO. He also owns a data broker. I am sure he is selling the CircleBack data.
I recommend reading RFC 1034 section 5.3.1 first, and learning what a "stub resolver" actually is. It's actually the thing that is reading /etc/resolv.conf .

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/500565/5132
That seems a bit of a biased source, though. How do I know privacyduck is any better?
The problem is, marxism progresses extremely well in shades of gray, where everything they claim sounds logical (“Are you NOT against police violence?”). But when you wake up it’s too late, and they are shooting Trump supporters at point blank on the street without trial (I’m not projecting, it happened this week), which is all but shades of gray.

That’s why some people say “it’s all gray” and right wingers try to pull it into “there is crime and innocence with a clear line in between, there is male and female, there is good and bad.” Right wing also tries to show the end-game, which passes as complete nutcrack conspiracy theory (remember the supposed “grand remplacement” in Europe), until one day: “We (Muslims) are more numerous than Christians, leave the country if you don’t like it” (again, not fantasizing here, it’s a real speech from this week in Lyon) or more clearly: “Whites, this dirty race” (chapter president of a student union, Lille, France).

I tend to view ideologies as evolutionary: Those that survived today win by either being extremely complex and good at being insidious, others win by being simple and blunt. But what we’d all like is, no ideology. Which is difficult when 1/3 of the world would happily fund billions to destroy America.
This fork has a "memdump" tool to dump the memory of a process and a "-f" option to search for keys in a file, which I assume is the dump from step 1.

<shrug emoji>
Disclosure: i grew up on a farm, so i remember ripping/planting and harvesting.

the risks of invasive species or diseased species are very real, and i suspect the concern here is that a seed recipient in proximity to a farmland could potentially introduce a pathogen or aberrant crop into the field. The introduction of castor beans into a corn crop for example can contaminate hundreds of tons of grain.

The united states is massively dependent on a monoculture of corn, soy, and wheat. Its a dangerous gamble, but the profits and savings from doing this are enormous. These crops are groomed to be disease and drought resistant, however they are not invincible. Paranoia that random seeds from export controlled countries could somehow destroy a harvest is i think at least somewhat warranted.
Fyi... Web Bundles and Signed HTTP Exchanges are confusing topics so I think it's worth reading 2 previous threads with comments from 2 Google employees (spankalee, jefftk) [1].

One may still choose to discount their explanations because they may be biased sources but I still think everyone should try to understand what they're saying. Hopefully, being familiar with the technical details will elevate the discussion so people who disagree can point out specific and concrete technical flaws of those explanations rather than just restating a generalized version of "Google is trying to take over the whole web."

[1] previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24275752

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324120
The relevance of newspapers has been greatly diminished. And I am not even a millenial.
The reason I used Lua was its "accessibility" -- so end users can script -- and not necessarily for the beauty and elegance of the language. It was also very easy to integrate into a C++ project.
As far as I understand, your experience mirrors the research.

External motivation (like a reward/penalty, accountability partner, etc) is weak. Internal motivation is incredibly strong. So the question becomes, how do you get internally motivated?

I wish I had a reference, but I remember hearing about a study (here on HN) about where internal motivation comes from. The conclusion — a mixture of 3 elements: Purpose, competence, and freedom.

Basically, you're in a situation where there's something that needs done. You have a strong sense of purpose that it ought to be done. (There's a huge "why" element to this!) You have the freedom to achieve it in whatever means you see fit. And you have any skills necessary.

Sounds like with DuoLingo, you're already at the point where it's a locked in habit. (So your mind is on autopilot with that, not requiring a lot of motivation.)

But with smoking, you never had enough internal motivation. And I imagine smoking like other "bad" habits has a big emotional element to it. (You turn to it to calm down stress/anxiety.) Have you thought about those emotional elements and what's causing those? Maybe trying to address those things _on top of_ an effort to kick smoking would be more effective.
> the terrible external monitor support

What exactly is terrible here? IME macOS is the only OS that can cope with multiple monitors of different DPIs in a sane manner, and deal with restoring window locations after temporarily switching from laptop-screen-only to external display usage.
Do we? I also think that police officers must live in their precinct. No Portland cop should live in Vancouver.

I also think that legislators are obligated to do their job. No Oregon legislator should live in Idaho.

I also think that you, being a non-Portlander, should not have any voice whatsoever in disputes between Portland's people and its elected leadership. Our problems are between us, and our city council and mayor and cops; you're not a party to it.

Edit: Downvoters, use your words. Show us why you think these points are bogus; explain clearly why you think that you should have a vote in a society which you don't live in.
Isn't a 256-bit Blake hash a little OTT, versus a simple CRC, or even a faster, smaller hash like MurmurHash or Jenkins-one-at-a-time?
I used Spectacle for a while, and recently switched to Amethyst. It works very well, but it would be nice if there were at least basic functionality built in.
>You're free to move to Portland and join.

Unless I'm a bigot, or Californian, right? ;)
That mostly happens if you forgot to clean the cosmoline out of the firing pin channel.
For completeness sake, here's the updated post adjusted to your feedback: https://phalox.be/wp/startup/my-startup-launch-was-a-failure...

Once again, thanks for your input!
The largest problem with AIX for Linux people who have never seen it are the commands can operate differentially. But installing the GNU package gets around that. Actually in this case, I find AIX quite similar to the BSDs.

One quote that was interesting/funny based upon current happenings:

"All IBM need to do is create their own Linux distribution (Blue Linux perhaps?)"

:)
Can you illustrate how/why the abstraction is broken?
To have more or less objective judgement one has to be well unaffected by the topic's outcome. Try to argue about future of some random company and then buy or short it's stock and argue again.
Looks like someone has read : https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
Yes and no or to be precise - to a certain degree but not through an exposed language feature.

PostgreSQL still does copy-on-write so the old versions of the row exist and are present in storage. However now there is an autovacuum process going over the records regularly marking those no longer seen by any transactions as re-usable so eventually the old records would get overwritten.

You can get at the older versions of the rows directly on disk or perhaps it would be possible to get the db to return such older versions of the rows. It seems that by default even trying to get at them with `ctid` is not possible so that may require hacking PostgreSQL itself or using some extension which seem to actually exist[1].

[1] - https://github.com/omniti-labs/pgtreats/tree/master/contrib/...
I recommend page up and page down. It's quicker than using the scroll wheel.
> I respectfully disagree; we want them accountable to the public. The simplest way to have politicians accountable to public opinion (without violence) is by making them have to care about elections. That's the entire point of democracy.

Having them care about getting reelected is one thing, having them care primarily about funding their campaign (because, while the deepest pockets may not always win, that is usually the way to bet) is quite another.
Almost all commercial journalism is marketing. Journalism as an industry doesn't exist to inform you, it exists to make money.
I built a PiDP-11 and am having a blast with it. It was the first computer, ever, that I used back in 1977 or so.
A dynamical system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_system) is basically a bunch of (continuous / discrete) variables whose evolution is governed by a set of (differential / difference) equations. E.g. a pendulum is a dynamical system whose state can be described with a single variable 𝜃 (the angle of the pendulum), governed by the differential equation:

𝘥²𝜃/𝘥t² + g/l sin(𝜃) = 0

(where g is the gravitational acceleration and l is the length of the pendulum)

Dynamical systems whose behaviour is linear are kinda well-behaving and easy to analyse. (linear in this context means that the system's response to a linear combination of inputs will be the same as the linear combination of its responses to the individual inputs) Non-linear systems on the other hand behave chaotically, producing wildly different responses to slight differences in their inputs.

I'm not sure what a "dynamic system" is though.
the police union needs to call for a 60 day strike. just take away the policing function of the local government for two months. that will lay bare the real motives of the protesters, either peaceful demonstration or violence and looting.
Very fun to use the emulator! It’s the first time I got to try UNIX on Pdp11. Thanks!

Unix history which includes Dec PDP 11.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix
I’m confused about how this brushing scheme works. Why would anyone review some random seeds they got in the mail? How would they even know where to go to review them? If they didn’t even make the order, it isn’t associated with their account, so they couldn’t even make a review. And finally, even if they did get lots of positive reviews, it would help them sell more...seeds?
While not 0, that’s how I managed to start exercising. I started with a 5-7 minute routine. It barely took any time and that made it the first time I kept up regular exercise. Now I use an app, but it’s longer (with warm up, exercise, stretching) and I never would have managed to stick with it before building the habit.
I've hard the first part for years with boomerang (there are other similar things, and google baked in most of the functionality) to get emails back when you're ready for them.

Also, I would send myself an email within the email thread.

Things that have been possible for quite some time.