skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a king in check could stay put, with the player in check betting that the opponent’s next move will end the check.

Yes, that was part of the intent. There is game theory in play as well as chess strategy.

> There also is the possibility of simultaneous checkmate.

Yes, or even simultaneous king capture without checkmate(s) resulting in a draw.

Or you could adopt a quiddich-like rule and say that if the kings are simultaneously captured then the game is decided by the sum total of the remaining value of the pieces on each side.

> Could a pawn move diagonally into a square being vacated by the piece standing there? Could two pawns simultaneously not take out each other (say by the simultaneous moves d4×e5 and e5×d4)?

I would say yes and yes.
This isn’t about malice.

Remembering that you are your own worst enemy, what this implies is that some other perfectly sane decision you made in the past has come to bite you in the arse.
I will not confirm or deny trying every key and every ctrl sequence on the keyboard as a standard first step on every game that I “got”.

Egads, though. It's CTRL-E, not CTRL-G. No idea what I was thinking hours ago.
> It was about the claim that america was founded on the principle of government by the consent of the governed.

This was absolutely a central principle of the revolution. The objections to taxation by Parliament rested on the colonists' lack of representation in that body.

> Like even at its founding, the US was only marginally better than the UK in terms of enfranchisement. About 2% of Philidelphians were eligible voters.

Perhaps at the founding of the US that was true, but Pennsylvania passed a radically democratic state constitution in 1776 that was highly innovative and unusual in many ways (e.g., a council elected by the people every 7 years to review all laws passed since the last council, with the power to veto any law they considered unconstitutional). The new state constitution granted the right to vote to any man who paid taxes, which by 1787 was nearly 90% of the adult white male population.

> Northern businesses that depended on various plantation based exports also gained.

How did they gain from slavery? They could but cotton from anywhere, and if the South wasn't delivering, they could import it from other countries. The argument works much better in reverse: Southern plantation owners depended critically on the rapidly expanding British and American textile industries. The planters were delivering a relatively low-tech, raw product. The textile mills didn't particularly care how it was produced, and they had multiple sources they could buy it from.

> The gilded age didn't fix wealth inequality.

But it did deliver much more economic development than the old slaveocracy.
It's hard to weigh the aggregate harm of doing something slightly bad at massive scale against the aggregate harm of doing something very bad to a small group. Both are pretty bad, and we should be vocal about both.
I would add an emulator to the list.I've always struggled to figure out how these are built from scratch.

A long time ago I wanted to code a neogeo emulator but gave up before I even started, I didn't have a clue where to begin.

I am amazed at anyone that can code an emulator from scratch.
KaiOS got enough users thanks to Jio Reliance in India. That convinced Whatsapp to build an app for it.
I love the idea of Kivy, an open-source, community-driven, cross-platform framework, but flutter delivers much nicer mobile apps, and QT a far better desktop apps. I do not think that I have ever used a cross-platform app that works as well on desktop as on mobile.
IMHO a text-based browser isn't exactly in the "challenging" category, as it basically amounts to stripping all the HTML tags out and doing some very simple transformations (like replacing <br>'s with newlines.) Then again, one of the things I've been working on intermittently for the past few years is a graphical (CSS2+) browser, which is definitely in the challenging category. There are some other public efforts too:

https://github.com/lexborisov/Modest

https://github.com/litehtml

https://github.com/ArthurHub/HTML-Renderer

Along the same lines, some other challenging projects I recommend are to write decoders/renderers for existing formats like MP3, MP4, PDF, etc.
yeah, its alright
HN says disagreement is sufficient for voting down. I don't like it and never do it myself however.

While I'm here, another vote for Gnome3. Love it.
China? Some teenager in Duluth? Whatever evidence there might have been will be buttered, butchered, boned and baked in service of narratives.

Of course nothing will be done; I often wonder if that's because nothing really happened.
I sent away and got the certificate for successfully completing Championship Lode Runner!

It was the first game I got with my Apple //c. Had never even played the original.
The effect of clog size on emergency response time:A randomized controlled trial
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486191
Thurston County in WA, which is the seat of the state capital, has decided Asian people are not “people of color” anymore because they’re doing too well.

https://reason.com/2020/11/16/equity-report-north-thurston-a...
For better or worse, adventofcode relies heavily on mathematical literacy that I suspect is neither all that common among developers nor all that important to most programming jobs.

Plus there’s no good way within the context of the puzzles to find out what mathematical trick you need if you don’t already know; you need to go find a virtual water cooler.

I may simply be biased because each year it reveals how little I know, but I much prefer interesting programming problems that don’t require me to go to Reddit, read other people’s description of what math is required, go learn the math involved, and then finally implement a solution.
I guess by being on Debian I haven't noticed yet how bad its gotten. I do agree with you. Maybe it's time to migrate to IceWM 2.0.
The physical location of a person isn't generally the key barrier to being unbanked; instead it's poverty.

"The most common one was having too little money to use an account. Two-thirds cited this as a reason for not having a financial institution account, and roughly a fifth cited it as the sole reason. Cost and distance were each cited by about a quarter of those responding to the question, and a similar share said they do not have an account because a family member already has one. Lack of documentation and distrust in the financial system were both cited by roughly a fifth of adults without a financial institution account, and religious concerns by 6%."

https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/globally-17-billion-people-...

(And to state the obvious: poverty is also a barrier to owning physical infrastructure)
"In the Plex" by Steven Levy covers Google first entrance into China.

Although the book was published in 2011. I do remember it being a good read at the time, and probably still is!
For a "dome"/all sky camera the frame of view would be so large it would decrease the sensitivity and resolution of monitoring a particular part of the sky.. in the end that means you'd see less meteors with a dome/all sky camera then one with smaller frame of view.
> Also I'm quite sure K8S is here to stay because it removed this whole VM complexity layer and makes integration and testing of services a breeze.

Kubernetes does basically nothing to assist in integration or testing of services, and adds more complexity than the “VM complexity layer” ever had.
It's default on Fedora because Fedora assumes it's users to have a use case no more advanced than browsing the internet and editing some text documents, and perhaps running a compiler.

A very simple reason that I can't use Wayland is that I have a piece of software I sometimes use that is bugged and doesn't properly exist when it's window closes at times, so I actually run a very simple daemon that checks whether the window is gone, and if that be so, sends a signal to close it that way so I don't have to do it manually every time — I can't do such simple things on Wayland because asking for a list of all open windows is “insecure”.
Can anyone point me to resources to learn more about what happens as 10%, 20%, 50%, 75%, etc of the population gets vaccinated? I know nothing about these things, but I'm guessing that at a certain percentage of vaccination, the virus will go away within days or weeks. But what do things look like between now and then?
In other stunning research news, grass is green :-)
All of our experiences are compatible if you look at it through the lens of modern kernels being ridiculously stable, with third party drivers causing all of the issues.

Linux on a server is basically bullet proof. There's just no surface area for issues, it's talking to storage and a network card. Desktop Linux with the wrong display drivers can crash daily.

Windows can be rock solid. I do game dev and am forced to have it as my daily driver. I have a 3900X, 2070 Super, do machine learning, VR development, game playing, peg it at 100% CPU overnight and I haven't had a blue screen since I bought it.

Buy the wrong laptop with shitty drivers, though, and BSOD is a way of life. Although Microsoft cracked down hard on this over the last decade, the WHQL initiative. They were well aware Windows stability was suffering at the hands of third parties, and put processes in place to validate their work.

And OS X, since it barely has to work with third party drivers, is more or less rock solid. You buy a MacBook Pro, plug an Apple mouse in and use it like that for years, maybe you never see a fault.

When it does interact with third party devices in my experience it's not better than Windows. Bluetooth handling in particular is quite poor.

This wasn't intended to be some kind of argument. Defending MS on the internet is of zero interest to me. I was intending to say, if you're forced to use Windows professionally and it's not stable, you absolutely do not have to put up with that. I don't.
It doesn't, especially recently with lots of road closures and such.

One journey I know and have had to do regularly to look after a relative since lockdown, Google maps takes a significant journey of around 30 minutes when I or a cab driver can do it in less than 15.

One wrong turn and a lack of initiative from a driver can lead you to a very long journey given the destruction of the central London road system
All-in-One Web Portal
Seems fairly hypocritical in a number of ways. From our own companies actions, like Blackwater, to our allies actions, like Saudi Arabia, to our own government's actions, like "Collateral Murder" or events in Yemen. Why punish Israel?
Is this more of a "cool story bro" or is there something meaty to the press statement? I don't know much about topological properties in condensed matter that seem to be in vogue right now.

The press statement has all the "graphene is a miracle" parts that clash with the reality that graphene doesn't leave the lab much (has it left it even once?).
Hey... being smart simplifies some aspects of problem solving, but being smart isn’t necessary to solving problems. One of the better engineers I worked with, while very slow, was extremely thorough. If you had a long-horizon project that had to go at absolutely light speed, you’d set him on the project; two years down the road and the core “inner loops” would be a non-issue. Even Mike Abrash admitted this guy was the absolute pinnacle for this sort of programming.
The names of all the authors are clearly listed on the workshop website [1]. I think this is just a case of incompetence on the part of the journalist.

https://beyondbackprop.github.io/
It looks straightforward until you hit a couple of edge cases.
Examples:

test <1 becomes test 1

Test< 2 becomes test 2

Test <a becomes test

Test < b becomes test b

(From memory)

What about:
Test <fakeTag>?

Per tests i did, "test " was expected however "test <fakeTag>” was seen as the plaintext version suggesting there's a list of valid tags which is filtering the behavior.
You seem to assume “America” values the lives of all journalists, including ones outside their sphere of influence. That has never been true, and likely never will be.

As long as US and Israel are fundamentally aligned on long-term foreign policy objectives, aid will continue to be provided no matter what. Dirty work has to be done by someone.
This is why you've been pushed towards front end work and denied the credit for tasks that might put you on a path to power. Those above you can sense what you'd do with it. You'd say: "My experience has been this, and none of you can argue with that, so here is what we're going to do to make up for the injustices I experienced. Deal with it". The equality of outcome you so desire would be you and everyone underneath you unemployed, whole organizations gone bankrupt, and entire countries: a gulag.
Scientists alarmed at spread of Covid mutant
Archived: https://archive.is/9wSSA
> it's often the cognitive aspect that challenges the autistic

I strongly relate with this as a child. As I grew older my friends would often come to me for emotional advice, which I explain as having found an understanding of the patterns behind emotions. I still have no clue how my own emotions work, but I share that with everyone.
This link redirects to weboas.is. Maybe switch the url of the post?
Learning what problems to solve, how to allocate resources, how to deal with building things from end-to-end, etc. are programming problems.
I was expecting there to be something about toothpaste.
We saw the news this year when a Saudi prince directly authorized the murder and dismemberment of an American/Saudi journalist inside it's own embassy. And literally nothing happened.

I'm not holding my breath on America ever making the right decisions with respect to foreign policy.
Everyone had a hard and pretty shitty life in 1932. From the people living in New York City to the people living in rural Mississippi.

> Stop being such a incel loser jesus.

I'm not even sure how you got here, from what I posted... other than having to assume you have some significant psychological issues. Talk to someone, please. Your mental attitudes aren't healthy.

I have had plenty of women in my life judge my Grandma, forgetting she was a teenager during The Great Depression, and forgetting that women of rural Mississippi had very little avenues of fulfillment beyond child rearing and household administration available to them. Or even worse, they think they could have done anything different... failing to recognize their fathers would have essentially married them off, and their husbands would have beaten them until they fell in line.
Yeah, the algorithm for parallel decoding you outlined scales linearly in area and power with respect to the speculative look-ahead depth. This is true even if you speculate on more than the per-byte "boundary or not boundary" condition. A parallel-prefix circuit for processing a DFA with m states where you speculate on all m possible initial states for each of n bytes "only" consumes O(m n) power. [1] In absolute terms this is obviously still a problem as you crank up m or n, but the scaling is certainly not exponential. You do see local exponential scaling if the state space is large enough (think of minimax search in chess) but for these decoding problems the state space is tiny and you don't even need to speculate over all possible states (e.g. you're not going to decode all possible combinations of 4 instructions per cycle, only certain prefixes, etc).

[1] The Hillis-Steele paper on data-parallel algorithms from 1986 describes this algorithm for parallel lexing.
Porting Mynewt to PineCone BL602
I have trait agreeableness in the bottom 1st percentile.

I'm also diagnosed with ADHD which is often co-morbid with ASD.

I very much refuse to go along with a looooot of things just for the sake it. Anything steeped in tradition without a whole lot of logic to it gets met with mostly flat rejection. This has steadily increased as I've gotten older.

My mum used to be a special needs teacher and she kind of suspected I might be on the spectrum when I was a teenager. I've met people diagnosed with ASD whom I share a bunch of lived experience in common with. My step brother has a son whose diagnosed with ASD and he sort of indicated I show some signs of it. So, there are hints that maybe I am somewhere possibly the invisible end of the spectrum? Or maybe it's just my personality?

I read through Asperger's The Complete Guide. There are a few puzzle pieces which fit like ding ding ding. But there just aren't enough of them. And I watch things like Love On The Spectrum etc and I have had my share of difficulties perhaps but nowhere near what those people experience.

I've kinda tossed up getting a professional opinion about it multiple times. I just mostly feel like this is me and it's who I enjoy being. Perhaps my 20s were just one big development of coping mechanisms? My social skills just haven't really troubled me until this year. Mostly it's either workmates, long term friends who share my interests, or special interest groups where I have stuff in common with people. This year I had to take my son to a school thing where there were other parents and the only shared context was our children. It was very anxiety inducing and I just felt like I had nothing. My son wanted to stay longer but I panicked and I said we had to go home.

So... At this point I don't really know.
In addition my concern with this is that it’s totally ok in my opinion to not do any of these and I doubt for most people doing these projects will make you better at your job (unless you happen to be doing this as your next project), so if you want to tune out in your spare time that’s ok too.
And further, reverting is a form of newness in fashion.
I don’t expect anything as old and critical as iMessage is written on Swift. Chances are it’s all Objective C underneath.
Ask HN: Best Technology for an E-Christmas Get Together?
This Christmas my family plans to hang out in a videoconference while also streaming something we recorded earlier. There seem to be quite a few ways to theoretically achieve this. Looking for advice on a reliable, pain-free method from anyone with experience.

Ideally something that:

- does not require users to sign up, install anything, or a specific OS (for example: go to a custom URL and everything works through the browser without any sort of sign-in)

- allows videoconference-like features

- can stream a pre-recorded video to everyone

- reliable

- minimal setup
Turn your photos to sketch, ArtLine DL Model
Check out the GitHub link

https://github.com/vijishmadhavan/ArtLine
> if you dilute it enough everyone has an anxiety disorder and depression and multiple personalities. I don't blame people for not knowing but maybe we should cool the jets on how woke we are because it seems like we're perpetuating misnomers more than recognizing nuances.

My God, this is so well said. Thank you for this comment.

I could not agree with you more.
In the absence of evidence either way, I think it's a pretty reasonable assumption. Without some level of assumptions, we would be paralyzed and useless - never able to make decisions. Use the data we have - make reasonable assumptions, revise assumptions as new information is available. I can speak from the experience of myself and those I know - which is that death hurts - period. It's also inevitable. Make your peace with it. Don't let your fear of death ruin your life (and the lives of others). Who are you to assume that these mitigations are less bad for society than the alternative? Because you also make assumptions. I'm just saying some people feel and assume differently than you. Just because they disagree with you doesn't mean that they aren't reasonable, well-read, thoughtful, people that have good reason to feel/think differently than you.
In the very old days Symbian did not provide a UI.

Around 2003:ish Nokia was the only Symbian licensee left and they had even 3 UIs: Series 60, Series 80 and Series 90. Only Series 60 survived. Series 80 had 2 products and Series 90 one public prototype. Series 90 was the only with touch input originally. Series 60 got touch after the iPhone, but that was too late.

Yes, Symbian C++ was too difficult even inside Nokia. Productivity was very low, many products got cancelled before seeing the market and those who did were massively delayed.
Tetris in the Terminal
No, try buying cloud services while living in a remote village where clothing is non-existent.
Worth noting that the M1 MBA doesn’t have a fan at all, noise-making or otherwise. But the M1 MBP has been similarly described as fan silent, even with its fans running.
its all connected through markets. The farmers eat lunch at a deli, they don't eat lunch at a special "farmers only" deli. The gps they use to track the location of machinery in a field is made by a gps company that makes gps boards for hikers, boaters, etc., not a special farmers only gps. All of these things are interconnected through the market and that's what makes it so much less expensive. The 1% of agricultural workers rely on the contributions of the other 40-80% of workers because those other workers are all relying on each other to support their efforts in a complex emergent web of dependencies that are managed through (mostly) voluntary market relations.
This. I think the Hacker News mindset has substantially shifted in the last few years from the "Hacker" mentality of doing things because they are fun and knowledgeable, and more towards Enterprise News..

Not everything needs a business case, some things (most things) should be done just because you want to see if you can.

If someone really needs to think in items of ROI and that everything needs a business case, then this ideology of doing things for fun and testing limits is the only way to really innovate.
Thanks. I wish text could convey the attachment of emotions experienced when writing it. I deeply care about the humans I work with. At the same time, I have experienced what happens when you try to sugar coat things too much in the guise of kindness. You literally cheat people of their opportunity to improve. At the same time, getting the best out of people as a manager means balancing truth and emotion. It’s a very, very human thing. I just try to remember we are all humans blasting through time as only humans can. It’s worked well so far. As long as you can truly meet another person, its hard to be crass and ignore their perspective
I highly doubt it's causing your lingual skills to deteriorate any.

What you're describing though sounds somewhat similar to some episodes of psychosis I've had(stimulant induced).

As my tolerance to the stimulants has rose the severity of that particular phenomena has diminished considerably

It may be worth asking how well you've been sleeping fwiw.

I don't mean to suggest you are experiencing psychosis symptoms btw. But if the things me and you have experienced have anything in common I would suggest spending some time around other people in person in a low pressure situation if that is an option for you. That's what seems to be what helps me

edit: you may also want to check whether your problem could be due to heat exhaustion.
Deep learning terminology is often loose like that, see "softmax loss" or "deconvolution layer" etc.
IMHO the Ribbon UI in MS Office is the same. Also, most things Reddit has done in the past 5 years.
America has no qualms killing journalists in their sphere of influence, and they even prosecute journalists for reporting on their killings. See "Collateral Murder."
SolarWinds hack exploited weaknesses we continue to tolerate
Archived: https://archive.is/tbeyR
I really want this kind of thing to work but how can you prevent it from instantly becoming a cesspool of both illegal and distasteful garbage?
It's also present in many fruit seeds. You'd need to eat a lot to do any harm though...
What's worse is that I've run into Kernel bugs/panics a few times that made me hesitate recommended BPF for production systems. Hopefully those become less frequent as the ecosystem matures, but they were pretty scary!