skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wanted to do something similar! I've thought about trying to consider the "obviousness" of certain moves, and then only explore those branches with a probability relative to its obviousness.

"Obviousness" would take into account things like the last move played ("ah, your pawn is attacking my bishop; I should move it"), and whether the move is a capture, check, or attacks another piece. A forward move for a knight is more obvious than a backward move, as is moving it towards the center of the board, versus moving it to the edge of board.

As the depth increases, the probability of exploring a branch decreases. I think it would be pretty easy to scale such a system to make it play better or worse by simply adjusting how much the probability of exploring a branch decreases as the depth increases.

Perhaps this could lead to more natural blunders where a line is simply missed?

I've also wanted to come up with an evaluation system that scales better with skill level. A position may be +3, but only if you play the next 5 moves exactly correctly. In another position, one move might be +1, and another might be +0.5, but the +0.5 requires four moves of perfect play from your opponent to keep it even. Can these subtleties be expressed clearly? Maybe something like "turns until positional advantage is converted to a clear material advantage." When you're just starting engine evaluations often don't make any sense.

I've watched a lot of chess on Twitch lately, and it'd also be cool to have scores for all the relatively-subjective terms that the commentators use: "lots of attacking chances" (just pure count of checks possible in next N moves? percentage of lines that lead to checkmate in next N moves?), "very sharp position" (how many moves drastically change the evaluation?), etc.
I take it the author is not a fan of w3schools.com, a web site that's been around for a very long time and is highly ranked for many html-related queries.

Personally I find most of their content to be pretty decent, so I wouldn't filter it out as a rule.
I learned I should've gotten a dog years ago. Best decision I made in 2020.
Sorry for the wording, the term blocking is common in network programming.

With blocking I mean waiting. For I/O to complete, for time to pass, or for another task to complete something. In event-based programming, functions must not block. Async functions may seem to block, but they don't rely because a state machine is involved.
I think the highly educated Chinese who ventured overseas (which you need to be affluent to do it) doesn’t really represent the majority of the Chinese population at all.
Given the progress of developer friendliness in C++, I rather use it directly if the underlying library is written anyway in C++.
25. History remembers those who got to market first. Getting your creation out into the world is more important than getting it perfect.

Which is not true at least for Cyberpunk 77 case
Clandestination: Arkansas (1994)
Partner uses W10 and O365 for professional editing and proofing, has been hit by word hang problems, almost all traceable to automated saving. Not happy.
I find it amusing that this article starts off explaining the difference between authN and authZ and then immediately proceeds to a describe an authN scheme where the authN transaction utilizes a request header called "Authorization" (used in reply to a response header that doesn't have this quirk, oddly enough). Would be nice to see a footnote apologizing for what I'd consider a linguistic blunder on par with "Referer"...
The author's claim isn't simply that they were "used for evil". The claim was that they are much more effectively employed in the service of evil than otherwise. I'm not positing a solution here, simply pointing out the extra degree of nuance.
Not sure what the parent was talking about specifically, but the ACLU has fallen into the trap of pursuing partisan politics. They have leaned hard into anti-Trump rhetoric to the point that it consumes almost all of their messaging, and at the same time they have distanced themselves from ideals they once defended (in particular, they have stopped providing legal defense support for free speech court cases if they find the speech sufficiently reprehensible).

The problem I personally have with this shift is that organizations like the ACLU, FSF, and EFF are really only useful if they defend a core set of ideals rather than towing the ever-shifting partisan line. There are plenty of ways to fund Democrat/Republican causes, but strikingly few ways to fund civil liberty defense, software freedom, and the rest of the values with less mind share.
It still happens, see Android development experience with Studio and build times.
There was a recent thread about challenging projects every programmer should try, and I think writing a chess engine would be a nice addition to that list. Chess programming is a refreshing change from modern software development, because you don't need any complicated frameworks or libraries, just a basic grasp of the minimax algorithm for searching a game tree. I have fond memories of writing an engine as a fresh college grad - it was my first "big" project and I made every mistake imaginable, but it was great fun and sharpened my coding skills immensely. It's exhilarating to play against your own program and then try to improve it. Highly recommended!
self promo lmao
I've been using libreoffice as a replacement for Word and PowerPoint. Its been working well for me and I recommend at least checking out the project.

https://www.libreoffice.org/
The super Pets had a bunch of stuff in ROM: BASIC, Pascal and Fortran ... probably more I'm forgetting..
The post about solar panels is from a "volunteer moderator" who doesn't work for Microsoft.

The top answer correctly notes that AutoSave, which is different from AutoRecover, has only ever worked for OneDrive. It seems like the author of the tweet is thinking of AutoRecover, but there's no evidence that AutoRecover is broken beyond one user's vague statement that it didn't work for them.
Haskell typeclasses. They really are interfaces that don’t leak.

Solid state disks. Huge speed boost.
Amazon is the most visible example of wealth transfer during this pandemic, with online shopping and AWS, so it's an obvious target for mob energy.

But the idea of unionizing is quaint for a company that has become so many things (manufacturing, logistics, infrastructure, marketplace).

They suggest that somehow the new administration will be friendlier to unionizing, as if that was the blocker.

It doesn't take a PR genius to see what the Amazon narrative will be when people can't get their boxes of shit because of a strike. And thats just from warehouses. Extend that to AWS and Whole Foods and it'll be hard to maintain any sympathy.

Amazon was already getting their tentacles on everything before covid, and now its just amplified. I'd love to see this be the motivator that encourages people to rise up against their overlords, but it's going to end up like the people that protest by blocking freeways. It just pisses off the people trying to go about their lives, and works against the cause.
Look into the replication crisis
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ok coreboot. libreboot was a means to simplify it. its "core" is still very alive.
As a rule of thumb: If some party or law has 'freedom', 'ethics', 'public', 'peoples' or such words in their name in one form or another then you're being had.
"Allows various development models to be used" and "much easier to create a project fork" very much depend on merges. If you're rebasing you're necessarily following a model with a single central branch, so your model would work in a centralised system as well.
James Randi said that about scientists. He has demonstrated a matchbox trick that fooled some of them into believing a person had supernatural powers.
Nobody says hi in San Francisco
Same. But even more curious is that it's not as if they die of old age or anything typically...the parents both seem to commit suicide of sorts after having offspring. So that leaves the bigger question of why? Does reproduction doom them for death internally? Population control mechanism? Really interesting.
You're referring to classical (old-school) postmodernism, while the GP is referring to today's SJW/feminist/intersectionalist effort to attack "power hierarchies" (ie. undermine scientists and mathematicians because patriarchy.)

Dr. Jordan Peterson and Dr. Gad Saad debunk the latter in great detail on Youtube. They invest their time in doing so to preserve the Western enlightenment for future generations, at great cost to themselves in terms of time, effort and professional standing.

Note that Dr. Saad is a biologist, so simply can't concede that males and females are identical, as the current wave of feminism promotes.
What do you mean by overfitting?
The layout is responsive, with the number of columns adjusting to the screen width
James thank you very much for the answer.

> When you sell shares you pay personal income tax.

When I watch "Dragons Den"/"Shark Tank" investors always bid for higher percentage of the startup, and as a rule, they always ask how founder intends to spend that money, therefore I concluded that the money stays in the company.
Now, as you say, if I understood correctly, that money is transferred to private not corporate bank account, is it reinvestment of the sold company shares exempted of the both personal income tax and corporation tax?

I mean if you ask a VC to invest $100K for 10% as you need it for growth and that goes on your private account, in UK at least you would need to pay 45% on all money you made that year, so let say if you earned additional $50K on permanent job elsewhere you would pay $67.5K total - significantly reducing your ability to live and scale the company.
I do not necessarily like to be yelled at either, but he is an extraordinary case.

In fact it is not as bad as it sounds, if you can filter out the presentation form over contents.

For me it was worth watching, as he makes really strong points, resonating with my expectation about UI.

I do not think he has this in written form.
I get a blank screen on top where I assume a diagram should be in FF 85.0b3 (64-bit)
The Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto
"Word has never had an AutoSave feature prior to Office 365. It had the AutoRecover feature, which is still there and still saves to %appdata%\Roaming\Microsoft\Word on your C: drive."

Also while that post is confusing and weird, it wasn't written by someone from microsoft.
The stack trace will just show you where you put the assert. Showing you nothing useful.
I live close to this. And while I can say it is a interesting historical curiosity, it is very obscure as a monument.

The main legacy of the Nazis grandiose architecture is just down the street at the site of the former Tempelhof airport which is no longer in service but at the time of construction was one of the largest structures in the world.

It is a truly gigantic swept wing eagle shaped building that even when it was the main city airport was only partially occupied. It's now falling into disrepair, but the guided tours are well worth it for the history and architecture.
appropriate suggestion for your username.

The tradeoff between a little bit or human touch and effort upfront vs higher energy and CO2 expenditure overall is not something I find personally compelling
> Why WTF ?

Because WTF does using a compiled language have to do with anything?

> Nor am I obsessing about being ultra performant to achieve the revered C10K when I don't need to or can get around it. That was my point.

Then what is it that you imagine using a compiled language would help with?
I agree that if you are ready to spend a non-zero amount of tooling overhead, then Hugo brings the benefits that you describe.
David Shor has a good bit on the Rationally Speaking podcast (someone tipped me off, I'm not endorsing the podcast itself) about how a big problem in Democratic politics is that participants aren't old enough; campaigns and staff are dominated by 20-something ideologues who don't know how to communicate with the median voter.
LeBron James was touted as the Next Great Hope for basketball, was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at age 17, and his high school games were televised on ESPN.

Since then he's won 4 NBA championships, opened a school in his hometown, and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.
Its really funny after so many ears in desktop os advancements, how EMACS and VIM are staying relevant:)
I agree, it would be great if we could just write threads and not worry about performance. In the end, at least for me, async is a poor compromise between ergonomics and performance.

Unfortunately we're not there yet. Golang with GOMAXPROCS set to 1 comes close, but now I lose the ability to spawn real threads for expensive computation.
Because they're not doing the reading, and it's a lot more fun to talk about "front-running" than about what's actually happening, and "fun" has a lot of power on message boards.
Why was running CP/M so slow? I never got to run it but I don't think of CP/M as being a particularly bloated/slow OS; but you say it wasn't the fault of the Z80. Something particular to the C128?
Why don't you start by telling us what you have read, about HFT and about the concept of front-running.
Except the user of a commercial application does not need to know about the complexity. They just care if a security loophole is fixed.
You don’t even need those these days as most format guidelines (Eg at Google) disallow ascii art.
The 2020 elections.
Service garuntees citizenship! Would you like to know more?

Jokes aside, seems reasonable enough to grant citizenship for those who have performed exceptional civic duty.
Hmmm, well at least a single member of "humanity" in this case knows about it. Still, not exactly fantastic.

That being said, at least with the "private collection" thing it has a chance to be donated to a public institution at a future point. eg when the collector passes away

Destroyed objects clearly don't have that option.
Being mean hastens the heat death of the universe?
> But unbuffered reads/writes have been doable asynchronously for quite a long time

That is not quite right because it is dependent on the filesystem. This is why scylla database requires XFS, because they rely on actual async file io using io_submit.
I am fairly confident a team of DeepMind's calibre could put together an AI in fairly short order that would demolish top-level Civilization players. Despite my confidence, I still would love to see such a thing made.

DeepMind made a good effort with AlphaStar at building an AI that could compete with top-level humans in Starcraft. It wasn't superhuman; it could still be consistently beaten by the absolute best Starcraft players, especially as Zerg or Terran. However, as Protoss, AlphaStar was truly a pro-level player. I'm somewhat surprised DeepMind didn't go further and try to optimize AlphaStar to truly be superhuman. I'm not sure if that indicates a fundamental limitation of their approach or whether it was a shift in approach. This was with successively refined limitations on AI action speeds that caused AlphaStar to really rely on strategy and tactics rather than brute force speed.

Regardless, real-time strategy games feel much more difficult than turn-based strategy games to develop a good AI for. Just being able to split things into discrete turns seems like a massive simplification.
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Most cephalopods and, I think, all octopoda are semelparous--they procreate once, and then usually die not longer after. I wonder if this is their Great Filter, preventing the emergence of more cooperative, social behaviors among themselves that could potentially put them on the path humans found themselves on.

Certainly I think octopus and squid, along with covids and some other groups, show that intelligence is rather easy to come by so long as it's adaptive. Human-level intelligence is probably only adaptive given other factors that preceded leaps in our intelligence. For example, I bet nascent (but theretofore unseen) altruism and culture emerged and created an ecological environment into which our intelligence could profitably expand, after which the process probably accelerated and became more dynamic.
I get the sense that Kafka would have been proud of Dr. Who. More so, discussing it on the internet decades later in the context of fallen grand architectures.
Show HN: Revoke the Impacted Solarwinds Certificate
Howard Goodall on effects of Brexit on UK Creative Industry
I agree. I was just terrified for a second.
Pseudo-rationalism is the construction of elaborate rationalizations for your biases and hot-takes while convincing yourself that the considered disagreement of others means you are fundamentally more intelligent and adept in the ways of reasoning.

Bonus points for obfuscating your positions with in-group jargon and mathematical terminology that you don't actually understand. Nattering on about 'Bayesian priors' won't make you any more effective at reasoning than coconut headphones will help land airplanes, but it might keep people from challenging your ideas. If it does so because they've written you off as a fool or because you've successfully snowed them, you'll never know.
You could make a case for The Mandalorian, although that didn't get as much hype due to the internets... dislike ...of the sequel trilogy.

Another one I can think of is Breath of The Wild, and probably Mario Odyssey. I've also heard good things about the FF7 remake, but haven't played it.
That's weird, it works for me just fine on this exact version. Try disabling Enhanced Tracking Protection and any JS/ad blocking extensions (it works for me regardless of all that, but anyway).
MeshCentral: Self-hosted web-based management of remote computers
Rents per square ft / tatami mat are not that reasonable in Tokyo. Westerners are generally treated with caution rather than friendly greets on the street too...
I have seen that first hand. Some scenes of season 7 of Game of Thrones were recorded in my city. I can clearly remember the scene after Euron captures Ellaria and Tyene and takes them to King's Landing, and a couple of episodes later when Samwell leaves the Citadel. In GoT's world both places are supposed to be hundred of km away, in reality they are 200 m away.

Also some massive towers in the background that don't exist in real life.
Apple News+ tried to please readers and publishers. But it ended up in no one’s land.
Even Apple TV+ doesn’t boast of great content at the moment
> 13. When googling a recipe, precede it with ‘best’. You’ll find better recipes.

Even better: if a dish originates overseas, google the recipe in the native language of that place.
Sometimes I also panic when I feel that I start to understand my mortality. However, usually a few thoughts come to my mind...

1. The most obvious is that I shouldn't exist and I'm incredibly lucky to be here. It's a good time to be alive in history. I'm a person that can enjoy life, appreciate music and art, freely pursue my passions, and travel and see the world. Yes, I want to live longer or see what's happening in a million years. However, I need to remind myself that I basically won the lottery a trillion times over to be here, and asking for more at that point is just absurd. I should appreciate what I've been given.

2. There are lots of people I admire in the world today. Sometimes I'm watching a YouTube video or I'm talking with someone and I can't help but think it's cool that I live at the same time as this person, and how they can be a part of my life.

3. As for death, I think about the people I know that have died: family members, good friends, personal heroes or notable people in history. They died, so I find some comfort in going where they went. I don't think I'm above them, so if death was their end, it's an acceptable fate for me too.

4. We don't understand the universe. What are the odds a big bang creates a universe with the forces and elements required to enable life that can ask this very question? It shouldn't happen. I feel like we have such a primitive understanding of the universe and beyond, and that we truly don't understand life, and therefore death. I get a bit of comfort there, because the mysteries of the universe mean I can't be certain what death even means. Yes, my life as I know it will end. But, maybe I've already died millions of times before? Maybe there is an afterlife? Maybe this is a simulation? Maybe I'll live this life again? Maybe I'll live an even better version of this life? We don't know, so perhaps I shouldn't be so pessimistic about what it means to die.
Good Slide Design
Call-out to those fun days: https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/
Different use case though
It's annoying to see people signalling social status, but in reality that does have an effect. So keep identity small is good for the individual but not good for society.
On the other hand, if it's not working, there's absolutely no information about why not.

Seems fine between (firefox on ubuntu) and (safari on ios), but neither can talk to (chromium/bromite on e.os) and there's no error message or anything, just nothing ever shows up at the other end.

Super slick between the two that do work, though!
Searching for it - I think you're referring to "Andika"?

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Andika

https://software.sil.org/andika/
I really like the Golang runtime. It uses coroutines (async) to speed up things (no context switches, low memory overhead) and automatically moves IO to threads where they can wait.
Half Life Alyx did, and in my opinion exceeded it.
Sounds like you're in the market for a good box cutter.
I've made tutorial videos in the past at organisations. How to install stuff, good things work. Nothing to long but it lets people watch any rewatch
Good entertainment value for the whole world. During pandemic as someone who doesn't live in the US,I actually followed the US election on a daily basis for the first time.
Organisations Enshrine Collective Stupidity
Seriously. Like if you're gonna reuse a normal word, that's one thing, of course a product named Windows is gonna run into issues.

But when you pick a unique word that only exists as another product.... why, just, why?
You could expand this category to an AI for a number of similar games (like checkers and reversi) as well. I've written a double dummy solver for bridge--a program that computes the optimal result of the play of a bridge hand--as a side project and I think it's also a very good choice. A lot of the same tools as chess engine development apply: alpha-beta and the myriad variant search algorithms like MTD(f), transposition tables, heuristics like the killer move heuristic or the countermove heuristic. But you also need to apply some domain specific heuristics and tools, and since the whole thing is performance critical you need to worry about low level optimizations and good multithreading. In the bridge case it's not at all trivial to get something that can even finish at all in a reasonable timespan.
Not everyone can join the NFL either
Ryzen 5xxx assuming you could buy one