skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At lot to agree with here:

[Deep Blue] cannot answer elementary questions about chess such as “If a bishop is now on a black square, will it ever be on a white square?” ... All that it can do is to generate a next move of extraordinary quality.

But in a deeper sense, the match between Deep Blue and Kasparov proves that Hofstadter
was profoundly right. ... It is precisely this power of abstracting, of
stepping outside the game to a higher-level view, that enabled Kasparov to find where Deep Blue
was weak and to exploit this to win his match.

Also, I strongly agree that the music/Bach connection in the book makes little sense.

The only aspect of the book that really does not work for me is the attempt to integrate music.

And there are some very interesting insights with benefit of 20 years of hindsight.

Today, open-source chess programs are better than the best humans. (they have been "trained" via a form of adversarial learning.)

And:

Part of this, of course, is nostalgia for the halcyon years of AI when the funding agencies had more money to throw around than there were researchers to take it, and the universities had more tenure-track
slots than there were Ph.D’s to fill them;

Biden just announced a desire to DOUBLE American investment in R&D. Such an optimistic time we are at right now.
It's fixed in newer JVMs ("newer" meaning anything in the past 10 years.)
Entirely possible. The tugs are hooked up pretty high so that could be part of it.

The other part is that they may have intentionally shifted ballast or fuel to induce a port list to assist the salvage.
How about church membership
Does this support CalDav? I'd be more interested in a self-hosted calendar with CalDav integration. Then for appointments/scheduling, utilizing a separate calendar designated to a single or multiple other calendars that looks for free/busy information.
> Divinely inspired or not, they were still revolutionary in their morality.

That's not a game you can play with an all knowing all powerful arbitrator of absolute truth.

It would have been so easy for god to say "Hey, slavery is absolutely wrong and immoral and I don't condone it". So why didn't god? Why didn't god speak out against rape (instead putting a price tag on it and selling the woman to the rapist)? Why did god command genocide? Why did god kill millions? Why didn't god give basic health and hygiene advice? "boil water before drinking it to avoid death"? Why did god mark animals as "unclean" rather than just saying "Hey, you need to cook pork more so you don't get sick".

See, that's the problem with an all knowing being. God can't be fallible or else it's not God. The fact that you and I can come up with what we'd both agree are moral rules not found in the bible is very problematic. Things like "Woman deserve to be treated equally", "Hitting your child is wrong", "It's ok for people of different races and nationalities to marry each other", "Inflicting pain on heretics is wrong". All problems of history easily addressed. Yet instead, god felt the need to talk about not eating shellfish and the right way to trim your beard.
Comparing this to the normal Google News, we have a load time of 450ms vs 6500ms on a fairly beefy workstation. I have a new bookmark..
When you use that word "we", are you also speaking for me?
Not sure the first version you're referencing...The biggest features that I've seen proliferate quickly in the past few releases are f-strings and dataclasses.

3.8's walrus operator will probably start popping up more once people calm down about how it looks funny. 3.9 has more minor tweaks and tricks. 3.10 will introduce pattern matching (case/switch statement) that python developers have been begging for (I HAVE NO IDEA WHY!!!???) for near a decade.
> I think it’s clear that something is going on.

I'd start at compulsory water fluoridation. Here's a pretty decent synopsis (though now dated): https://web.archive.org/web/20140313192649/http://archive.le... . Bonus: Edward Bernays makes a special guest appearance in this tragedy.
Really? I thought it was really refreshing to see a corporation not trying to kowtow to politicians. If Warren is saying stuff they find objectionable, call it out. If a business can't safely criticize a legislator on Twitter, that's pretty much giving up on free speech.
What percentage of total population were the Boomers? What percentage is gen X? Or just calculate how much they had/have per person. That's what counts.
It's also literally in the Intercept article with a link to the story lol:

> According to Recode, the suspicious tweets in fact came at the behest of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had recently conveyed disappointment to Amazon officials that the company was not pushing back against criticisms that he considered misleading.
I don't think you'd need to further complicate DNS, just have a service running that checks a calendar and syncs your DNS TTLs appropriately.

eg.

- Check if there's a maintenance window in the next [max TTL]

- If not, set TTL = [max TTL]

- Otherwise, set TTL = [time until maintenance window]

- Repeat
So by attempting to calculate it, the cost goes up higher.
This is a somewhat funny joke but it doesn't actually map to reality. Inter-Christian conflict is almost nonexistent in 2021 and has been so for probably a generation.

Edit: by “conflict” I mean actual real violent conflict. Not people arguing on Reddit. People literally killing each other (or pushing them off bridges) because they are “heretics.” This doesn’t happen much at all anymore in the Christian world. Even the edge cases like Northern Ireland have little to do with actual religious differences. That issue is mostly political in nature and revolves around the relationship of Ireland to Great Britain, not the intricacies of the Christian religion.

It’s easy to observe the difference when you look at the Muslim world, where there still is a lot of violent conflict and people being persecuted or killed because they are “heretics.”
I’d be surprised if they aimed for their ship to arrive n days before the spring tide in case it got stuck. That just doesn’t sound like an efficient operation. In this case the luck was that the high tides were relatively high when it was stuck. If we were in a neap tide, we might have had to wait longer for a high enough tide to get the ship out. (But maybe if tides were lower it wouldn’t have gotten so stuck)

P.S. it isn’t exactly clear what you mean by mariner, but plenty of sailors in the Mediterranean don’t really need to care about tides as they don’t really get them there. Indeed, you shouldn’t trust any of the early modern Greek or Italian treatises attempting to explain tides as their authors didn’t really know how tides actually behaved outside the Med.
Show HN: I made a map of Reddit from 176M comments
Exploring Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN)
Nim compiler also generates C, so I'd say you are in pretty good company there.
Holy cow. Is there proof they were the ones who did that? Can't that be considered slanderous in some parts of the world?!
*Activates [APPLAUSE] indicator*
There was a good article about this using vaccine vs anti-vax positions on Aeon. I can't seem to find it now. The point was that some people who choose not to vaccinate their kids are making a rational choice, but the question is whether or not that choice is also reasonable.
No it doesn't.

Only few people can afford Lamborghini.
Trying out Clojure - books are cheap, tutorials are free, it's just a matter of actually doing it.
Isn't that just anecdote?
100% sure this anonymous article writer is somehow vested in a proof-of-stake shitcoin.
I'd recommend Max Tegmark's Our Mathematical Universe which goes into some of the more modern theories beyond The Big Bang (Inflation Theory, MWI of QM) - I thought it was pretty interesting and didn't know about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)

My interpretation of the comment you replied to wasn't that they were trying to justify the argument, but just clarify what the argument specifically was (and where it came from).
I doubt the accuracy of some of these. Bell peppers in season in the UK in March?
I wonder if his last book "Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science" is more persuasive than this political editorial.
True but there is massive long tail of warehouses in operations where this is not possible right now so I can see this working.

Does anyone know the cost?
Maximizing the ratio of yield to contamination instead of the ratio of neutron radiation to contamination.
De facto or de jure
Reminds me of the light CNN version: http://lite.cnn.com/en
> The reason the church will continue to be is because there is no higher symbol than that of Jesus.

Do Hindus agree? Do Muslims? Do Buddhists? If not, are they wrong? Why?

The statement you made is an opinion of a group, stated as a fact. There is nothing wrong with groups having opinions, but they shouldn't be pushed to others as facts. That's the source of many past and present conflicts.
It's a lot further to dig, but the next best thing would be to dig from the Persian gulf through Iraq, Syria and probably Lebanon. Not forgetting half the Persian Gulf is Iran. It's not exactly the most stable geopolitical area.
Well yeah, that's the Münchhausen Trilemma. When looking for a final reason, if you don't want to make an axiomatic argument like "because God", you must end up either going in circles or down an infinitely deep rabbit hole. Since none of these options are satisfactory, the search for a final reason is doomed from the start (though it can still be fruitful).
The Stupidest IRC Bot
Why? Because every serious CS program will expose students to array vs linked-list and basic memory management during the first year.

So you start any interview with something that should known by the candidate and can then move on to harder questions that will need to be explained.
Ah, completely false. NYC is a great place to raise kids and many more are born here than move in- obviously because of cost structure. It is expensive. But the resources available to and in the public school system dwarf those in any other system anywhere else in the world. And kids being able to be mobile without cars is...huge.
partially done already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#Bypass_expansion
I was thinking the same, might be a good example for exercising the average persons ability to not just blindly read slanted article headlines. They can easily see for themselves.
> You exchange a couple of years for $700 million and move to Thailand?

Couldn't have put it better.
I think you massively underestimate the cost (land, machinery, labor, upkeep) of undertaking such a project.
grep can emit structured GrepResult records that include things like

- the pattern that was searched for
- the search options from the invocation (case, line folding, etc)
- the text of the matched segment
- the byte range of the matched segment within the file
- the line number(s) of the matched segment within the file
- the file name
- contents of any (named) capture groups from the search pattern
I think I should also mention average software developer salary in that case, it's 7500 USD/year (a quick google search).
At this point, I see two contrasting points being made again and again across different publications.

Articles lobbied by firms with interest in real estate are all about how people are tired of remote work and how post-Covid world will be much like the pre-Covid world.

And the other lobbied by firms with interest in technology are all raving about remote work being the new normal.
Right Dao:
https://rightdao.com/search
One purpose for a low TTL in the solutions I have built is that you want to change the IP. So first you hit the DNS. You get an IP from some main location. Then after the first request you figure out where the user is located. Perhaps spins up some container close to the user. Then on consecutive requests you get an IP much closer to the user.

Another usage is to load balance out a lot of users to different web nodes for instance.

Edit: spelling
> Why not provide societal benefit through secular and people focused governance, for instance?

Because they weren't. That's the point. The culture at the time didn't care to support anyone but the most powerful.

Could a non-religious approach have fixed it? Maybe, but none emerged that did so. Not 2000 years ago, anyway.

So Christianity entered the scene at a time when no one was doing these good things, and gave people a reason to rally behind them.

Even today, statistically speaking, Muslims give far more of their income to charity than any other group, and if I'm not mistaken, Atheists ranked last. (Christians only marginally performed better, which says a lot about the state of modern Christianity.)

So why is that? I think it has to do with tribalism. You can't form a strong tribe around NOT believing stuff. Not believing in something isn't enough of a reason to form strong social bonds and take on major projects.

Does that mean you can't come up with a good secular belief that people can rally behind? Of course not. Liberalism was a secular idea that made massive changes. Same for democracy. But you need a flag to rally around.

"Disbelief" makes for a poor flag. It's not much of a rallying cry.

What's more, the rationalist/atheist community tends to be very strongly individualist. Individualism, almost by definition, isn't particularly interested in things like hospitals or caring for the poor.
Given that the population of Manhattan would double even on the weekends, I'm going to say that a lot of people come in just for the culture, and would love to live there if it were affordable.
The final official release of Classilla
Code examples abound on Stack Overflow, GitHub Gist, blog posts, etc. These may contain direct URL dependencies.

Example guiding users to include a Maven dependency: https://www.baeldung.com/guava-mapmaker#map-maker

There is some degree of assurance that this dependency won't last long in the Maven central repo, or any other user configured repository, if it contained malicious code. Obviously it is not foolproof and incidents happen, but without a centralized authority for package management, there is much less assurance that a package is not malicious
> Most of the packages on NPM are complete garbage

And don't do anything. I'm amazed by how often I read the source for a package I'm interested in, only to find it's about 10 or 20 lines of code.

The convenience of adding a package means that if you're not sure how to do something, you can easily just add a package to do it rather than figuring out how to do it yourself. A lot of the time, you can just read the source and adapt it rather than installing the package.
Your framing of the issue is nonsense.

The fact that people exercising their rights seems to disadvantage Republican is f*ing nonsense.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter...
My understanding is that early unions (prior to the New Deal and labor law reform) didn't have much legal protection, and instead resorted to massive strikes. Companies fought back with firings and sometimes violence. Over time labor laws were built up because having major portions of your economy at war does not lead to a stable and productive society. As we disassemble those laws, we'll probably learn why they were created.
We had a driver pour out a bottle of pee directly onto the street in front of our place from his open driver’s side van window on Saturday afternoon.

My wife got a photo and then immediately after they delivered packages and left I went and took a photo because I couldn’t believe it.

I had not heard about the controversy until then, but my wife had been following it. I read these tweets and I also didn’t believe they were real, they were far too aggressive.

It was strange because I felt like I needed to know if it was in fact pee or not, but I also was not willing to bend over and smell it. It had all of the appearances of pee, yet the disposal was so obviously careless and conspicuous it was as though the person wanted to be caught.

The up close photo I took shows two foamy sections.

We discussed ethical issues of the potential for the worker being fired over this. And whether it ever okay to pour a bottle of pee out in front of some homes on a bike way. We also consulted a USPS mail carrier friend about what he has dealt with and USPS’ procedure for bio breaks.

Gathering all that, I still chose to email the photos and ask Amazon how they intended to handle this.

Waiting on a reply.

Edit: This was a tough call, I added some additional details below.

If the driver had knocked on our door and asked to use our bathroom, I'd have absolutely invited him in. This happened with a Fedex driver once before. That person ended up leaving pee on the seat, which was pretty gross.
No, that world definitely went away in some places, even for the urban poor. For instance, residents of apartment blocks in the large Finnish cities today typically don't know their neighbors. (In fact, some would even consider it a faux pas to leave the flat without first checking through the peephole to see if someone else is in the corridor. This is because it could make both you and your neighbor uncomfortable if you passed by one another.) The literature of a century ago with its tales of frequent neighborly interaction now strikes people as a completely different world regardless of their tax bracket.
That'd be fine if they weren't also aggressively lying about their labor conditions.
This article has been posted to HN many, many times but no discussion has ever occurred. Wonder if this time may be different.
hell hath no fury like a displeased business tyrant

imagine getting that mad as like the richest person in the goddamned world.
It's committed to the idea so that it actually works on period machines. See /r/retrobattlestations announce thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/meqlql...

It's surprisingly tractable to plug 90s machines into the internet via ethernet adapters or little serial gadgets that can do SLIP or pretend to be hayes modems, but the modern web full of crypto and execution environments that can bring modern computers to their knees is not kind to them.
Maybe backlog will be cleared as result of some ships taking route around Africa?
Charity - religious people are more likely to donate to religious organisations. In fact roughly a third of all donation money in the US goes to supporting religion.

Large churches are quite astonishingly wealthy and also tax exempt, so it's not clear why they need the money more than any number of smaller charities and social programs.

Crime: There isn't any reliable evidence that religion reduces crime in general. It may make certain kinds of crime less likely, but it's very difficult to disentangle all of the influences - because of course religion also affects crime reporting, and defines which actions can even be considered crimes. This can be a huge problem for victims who live in the same religious community as perpetrators.

One textbook example is the history of child abuse in Catholicism. It didn't show up in crime figures for a very long time because the Church worked hard to cover it up. The truth didn't come out until the political power of the Church was reduced to a level where it could no longer do that.

Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries_in_Ireland

There's a good case for considering the possibility that religion actually encourages these kinds of abusive cultures - whether or not they're considered criminal at the time.

So there really isn't an argument that religion serves a beneficial role. It has some benefits, but it also causes a lot of social and political distortions, some of which are extreme and persistently harmful.
It should be small and fast, but depending on where you work it isn't. And trying to get a big corp to adapt to you is like trying to boil the ocean.
Topfew and Amdahl
Wasn’t that Michael O’Church’s thesis? He (used to?) post here.
>I think of "supernatural" as something that is beyond any capacity to test or prove.

I agree. It's worth noting that the fundamental nature of our consciousness could fall into that realm, judging by how it is scientifically impossible to isolate and control for, and is thus seemingly indefineable.
> remote with same pay as that of in the city

> I don't have to take a loan of 50 Lakh to buy a 1000 sq ft apartment in the city

Isn't the "city pay" made to cover the "city expense". I bet everyone wants to live in Barcelona with a Mountain View salary but that's going to boost gentrification even more
The 1974 operation involved ten ships, the largest of which was 6700 tons. The Ever Given displaces 220,000 tons. It's an entirely different beast.
Funnily enough, one of the most secular countries, Sweden, has a 50%+ church membership. But it's an anomaly; church membership is still a good litmus test for secularity everywhere else.
Customer-facing DNS should have TTLs on the order of 15 to 30 minutes. Halving those values to estimate TTL value to the end user, you get 7 to 15 minutes of cached DNS. That's about right for most user interactions on the web.

Much longer and you run into all the trouble that operators have with keeping DNS accurate. DNS is hard. It is easy to break. And 15 to 30 minutes of waiting is about as much normal human attention span you can apply to a problem that sounds like, "Ok, we're all done, is DNS ok?"

5 to 10 minute TTLs only benefit operators. Certainly, any TTL less than 5 minutes is an indicator that your operators have no faith whatsoever in their ability to manage DNS.
NerdTree alternative in 21 lines of code
I shamelessly copied all the 21 lines of code you need to make work most of the things you do with nerdtree.
Why not just use PGO (Profile Guided Optimizations)?

Sadly, PGO does not work with cross-language LTO, because of conflict of LLVM module name ('Profile').
And unfortunatley, the web will be forced to move toward verified human identities to fight with such junk and anonymous browsing will become a thing of the history.
Generally append rss.xml or atom.xml to a blogspot url and you've got it.

https://inconvenientconsiderations.blogspot.com/rss.xml

https://inconvenientconsiderations.blogspot.com/atom.xml
> What's wrong with "I'd use a library" or "I'd Google it"?

The point of the question is to solve a problem in ~15 minutes. Algorithms and Data Structures are used for these because everyone knows them.
I have recently started an experiment to generate an AI generated newsletter[1]. All posts are generated by GPT-3. I work as the editor. It works well for some topics and not so well for some topics. Since I curate the content, I dont publish topics which are not done well. For example, I tried to make it generate a nice article on the Suez canal crises. But it was harder than I thought it would be.

It generates buzzfeed kind of stories very well though :)

[1] https://aifeed.substack.com/
I have those .. in their respective tax shelters.

(In the UK these are ISA and personal pensions, and on both I don't pay income tax. This vaguely corresponds to the 401k system)
I don't mind them pushing back on politicians, but I do mind them lying while they do it.

I'm also stopping purchases from amazon.com based on this, but I'm not yet ready or able to cut out AWS