skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t the 3-fold repetition rule also prevent cycles?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_repetition
Yeah, it's always better to have a real device to test on :)
Things don't behave the same
8-bay dock ~ 400$ (Icy Box 10-bay)

7x14TB HDD ~ 7*300$ (Toshiba MG07ACA14TE)

total 2500$
Well, an OLAP cube is a kind of a table/view. There are two core properties: the cube contains only one value ('column' in RDBMS-speak) and the data is defined across a set of 'dimensions' (levels in OLAP, unique indices with a foreign key in RDBMS).

The core insight though that the article is missing is that these dimensions are well-defined (and finite!) within the OLAP architecture and so are the roll-ups (aggregations) with their parent dimensions. The classical example is a date: a date has to roll-up to a week. Obvious. But the set of dates within the environment has to (or should anyway) also be well defined: so you can't just use any date, it has to fall, e.g. between 2019 and 2021.

Why? because the structure of the dimensions makes algebra across OLAP cubes trivial. In fact, OLAP algebra is pretty much linear algebra, just defined slightly differently for a more fluid problem space. That's why I like to think that OLAP isn't obsolete: in fact, most databases are just now becoming OLAP-y :)

Source: 20+ years of OLAP systems development.
One could imagine some games require captures, castles and en passants to reach, so maybe in the general case, but devil indeed. I thought I recognized Tromp from Equihash work and indeed same person.
From a technical perspective you need deposits but from a practical perspective deposits never leave the system except in the case of a bank run where everyone tries to withdraw their money. If we assume a cashless system then banks can never run out of deposits and deposits never limit loan creation. Saving doesn't increase the number of deposits, it just shifts them around. Borrowing money increases the number of deposits.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...

However, saving does have one important function. It creates a hole in the economy and that hole can then be used for investment spending (motivated by a borrower taking on a loan) without causing inflation.
> Really, it does make sense to your dog or cat.

What I meant is that it may be better to just continue walking after having stepped on them as if nothing happened, rather than making the event special.

I have more experience with children than with cats so this may be the reason (when my children fell and hurt themselves (in the "usual way"), they would look around to check how parents react. If we did as if nothing happened or just casually acknowledged the accident, they would usually go ahead with what they were doing. Running to them with "poor baby!" was the worst thing to do (in our case at least))
The only one I'm aware of currently is https://github.com/sci-hub-p2p/sci-hub-p2p. Library genesis also hosts database dumps at https://libgen.rs/dbdumps/.

There's really a need though for more developers to get involved with building tools for more easily searching and working with the collection, ideally with a nice UI and integration with things like crossref. This is a massively valuable data set and it would be great to see what people can come up with. Lots of awesome potential for data mining too.

If it weren't for the legal issues (publishers using copyright law to restrict access to literature they got for free since they never pay authors for their work), there's no shortage of projects that could utilize this data and be enormously beneficial for the scientific community and humanity in general. Unfortunately such work can only be done in the shadows right now, which greatly limits the number of people/institutions likely to do so.
I think the knowledge that the set is countable and can thus be counted is, as you say, quite obvious. However, actually counting it or generating the complete set is terrifically hard in practice. There are many more illegal positions than legal ones (I suspect, would be curious to know if this is actually the case). Moreover each legal position may be the result of thousands of games played legally or thousands of games played illegally. Computers historically haven't been able to enumerate this set, or judge from a position if it is conclusively legal or illegal since the complexity of that question is immense. We're on the cusp of being able to do that and I think that's what makes this project more than a trivial exercise in counting countable things.
So basically the only reason they were considering YouTube was to either deny it to their competition, or force their competition to pay more for it.

It sounds like they expected it to die on a backroom shelf somewhere if they made the purchase. This seems anti-competitive behavior even during what might otherwise be viewed as their "don't be evil" phase. They didn't see it as valuable for their own needs, they just didn't want it to grow into competition itself or via another competitor and so considered buying it to let it die.
Jeff Huber did not think that. [redacted], the product manager of Google Videos, wrote the 1.5 engineers comment and "we have all of their [Youtube's] features in our q4 plan".

The email thread indicates that [redacted] wanted Google Video to win and wasn't listening to Jeff. Jeff then raised the Youtube acquisition with his peers, and then to their CEO.

A year later, [redacted] proposed a deal to link "Flip Video" cameras to Google Videos in the hopes of competing with Youtube's exponential video production. That gambit was squelched by his boss.

https://9to5google.com/2020/07/31/google-flip-video-youtube-...
Do you mean, in the sense of https://hledger.org/investments.html#a-more-correct-entry ?

balancednoautoconversion validation may be relevant, if so (https://hledger.org/hledger.html#strict-checks)
Hype to some - but without any hype, ANN are entities that show huge potential, are a still fresh, explored only for a fragment territory after so many decades, and present very intriguing mysteries in the translation between a network snapshot and the encoded knowledge.

So, an area fully deserving interest.

Of course the enthusiasm brings a lot of unduly expectation, unfruitful trial and errors etc. - just normal expectable accompaniments. They are not the most important phenomenon, unless the interest is posed for the wrong reasons (industrial implementations pretending the technology is a universal solution).

By the way: "hype cycles" have occurred many times in the history of AI. All experience for collection.
The problem is that there can be NO new rentals on the market, because you can’t buy a home and rent it out. If someone is renting out a property and then decides to sell it, that is one less rental on the market that can’t be replaced. Any house that is bought can’t be rented out ever, so there is no new rentals.
Reliability and Performance in Software Tools
Yes, definitely. I hadn't remembered that one. You could have much longer chains with the 3 fold repetition rule alone though. I guess both together potentially make it easier on the players and arbiters

It seems the 50 move rule is probably older according to Wikipedia (1800s vs 1500s), which is kind of surprising to me, I would have expected the other way around. It's easier to keep track of "moves since last capture/pawn advance" than every board position played so far. Maybe just in theory not in practice. I am a terrible chess player.
"Their content quality is worse than ours. They seem focused on home video/community space while we want to be more like iTunes/TV"

16 years later, home video is still the core value of YouTube, yet they are still trying to push overproduced shows and TV while mistreating original creators.

It's literally killing the golden goose.
Interactive Coding Tools and Stripe Story
I had been quad skating since the 80s during the day for recreation, and then Sunday nights for dance skating, jamming, not figure skaing. Roxy would have skate nights too. It was a blast. I started blading in the early 90s, and would head up to NYC Central Park with my ex-wife to the skate circle to dance all day Saturday and Sunday, and blade home to our apartment in Hell's Kitchen through side streets and avenues in traffic. Interesting recollection: nobody on quads or blades were wearing helmets or pads except for noobs. I have never had more than bruises and scrapes from the skateboarding, quad skating, or blading in my life. My injuries are mainly from falls at height. I learned early on how to roll when I fell off of homemade skateboards, bikes, skates, etc. I have gone through three pairs of blades, and I just bought a new pair of quad jam skates. I can dance on both. I have skated on blades in Montreal, Macau, various US states. When I was dance skating in Macau in 2007 and later, China there were not many bladers, or they were only doing laps or fitness skating. Now, I see some great skaters on blades doing some really cool moves on YouTube all over SE Asia. I would say it has taken off there while lulling in the US. I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and dance, especially dance skating, has been a special thing in my life ever since. The community is amazing all around the US. I still go to a rink in NJ with my family now, and I hope to get out on Thursdays and Sundays for adult skate night more often. It's a blast! I am in my late 50s and love to groove. No more doing the long stairway at Central Park though! I tried jam skating with a blade on my left foot and a quad skate on my right foot while living in Las Vegas at Crystal Palace, the one on Boulder not Ranchero. Try it before you knock it!
It depends how granular the 50% is. I don't feel much cost from "context switching" overnight if Tuesday and Wednesday are project A time while Monday and Friday are project B time, but it gets to be a problem if I'm context switching hour by hour or taking random calls about A versus B during my normal working day.
> Where is the money from?

It is created ex nihilo, limited by reserve concerns (which include hard requirements for some banks)

Note that the most of the money never exists in the form of currency, it is just accounting entries in the banking system.
Protecting Your Privacy While Using Apple Devices
Seems like incredibly poor market fit.

I'm told there was even a time when the number only addressed a location, so you would have to figure out who was talking on the other end through a complex linguistic handshake.

And it didn't even have identity authentication, past a basic voiceprint!
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This self promotion seems off topic and unrelated to the person you are replying to.
Meaning of Eye for an Eye in the Bible – God's Good News
Exercise allows and even encourages you to eat/drink more because you have created a calorie deficient. At the same time, I think exercise naturally curtails drinking from entering the “problematic” zone because no one wants to workout drunk or hungover.
My dog knows how to ring poochiebells with his paw to be let out.[1] I also know a dog who will frequently use her paw to lower the phone in your hand or shut the lid of your laptop as if to say “pay attention to me, not this”.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/PoochieBells-Original-Handcrafted-Col...
...and then also things like Y Combinator being one of the recruitment arms for this US empire (alongside all the US universities like Stanford, MIT, etc.) - luring technologists and scientists from other countries in, in order to capture and monopolize new advances and adding these innovations to the US portfolio as part of the supposedly neutral US-led 'intellectual property' regime (WIPO, TRIPS, etc.) [1].

Of course this is nothing new. This is one of my favorite scenes in Good Will Hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg

I am against any system that aims to make knowledge artificially scarce and monopolizes parts of our collective human inheritance (all of humanity's scientific and technological discoveries). I am for new systems which respect both our world's 1) actual material scarcity (natural resources, human labor, etc.) and 2) it's immaterial abundance (any knowledge/resources that can be replicated by (digital) technology).

[1] Against Rentier Capitalism: David Graeber, Michael Hudson & Guy Standing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlIXAUGans&t=944s
Unfortunately, I find it necessary to help elucidate some moral issues that recent legal developments in one state of the Union have brought to light.

Such a God is correctly assessed as hostile to the patrons of Earth.

Such a creation myth involving seven (7) days to create Heaven, Hell Lite, and Hell (Heaven, Earth, and Hell) is what we must interpret.

At issue is whether the singular, supernatural God in Heaven is Benevolent (Good) and Omnipotent (All-knowing). Why would a loving God create Heaven without suffering on the first day, and then create Earth etc. with suffering on the succeeding days? Why not create Heaven for all? Why send infants into a life of suffering on Earth (Hell Lite) when they could be sent directly to Heaven with no suffering?

Ergo, God's plan is to force babies to suffer on Earth for awhile; but if they die sinless, then they go to Heaven where parents aren't needed. Ergo, Heaven is full of parentless dead babies.

You've made asses of yourselfs in trying to manipulate others into your golden candlestick tax districts, where the whole congregation does not have healthcare.

God created a world in need of healthcare, and isn't getting healthcare to it.

Ergo, because God created a world of suffering for us - and babies - god is not Friendly.
And if god is not friendly, god is a very poor basis for our morality, and for our legal system.

Case in point: did god ask for Mary's (or even Joseph's) consent?

A benevolent god would design in required consent.

In the Christian bible, furthermore, god tells them to kill even the enemies' women and unborn children. Ergo, god does not value the sanctity of infants' lives over other concerns.

For citations of scripture, see e.g.
Freedom from Religion Foundation > What Does the Bible Really Say About Abortion?
https://ffrf.org/component/k2/item/25602-abortion-rights

A very poor basis for morality and law, indeed.

What is "Original Sin" if not a suggestion that we should choose very wisely?

And when they rolled that [silver] rock from the tomb, behold what did they find? No dead baby; for the dead baby of god was in heaven, gentlemen. Sinless dead babies all go to heaven, gentlemen.

I think we can all agree that preventing unintended pregnancy is a worthwhile objective; though we have very differing views on whether abstinence-based education works. States with higher rates of religiosity (by church attendance) have higher rates of teen pregnancy: there is a somewhat strong positive correlation.

A standing prayer request: Pray that we might get healthcare to our congregation.
gnulib and a lot of GNU projects have this for a long time. https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/blob/master/build-aux/gi...
Show HN: Plocs – Work with Your Friends
The tiny ring of invisibility which Bilbo uses as a plot devise to escape a few times, turns out in Lord of the Rings to be the most important artifact in Middle Earth.

About as Chekhov's Gun as it gets.

I wouldn't say that leaving frequent references to the depth and age of the world, and then filling in the Legendaria in note form for the rest of your life, is much related to this concept. If a sword hanging on the wall belonged to an ancient hero, already dead, and known to everyone in the scene, a paragraph with "Here is hung Such-and-such, the bright blade of so and so with which he did $mighty-deed" doesn't have to carry any more weight in the story. There might be a whole book or chapter about so and so, there might not be.
A few years ago there was some new company (I vaguely recall that it may have been a Kickstarter or similar) touting something like this built into a shell that you could put an AA battery in, and the shell would still fit in most AA slots.

They were way overselling its benefits, claiming you would get something like 6 times as much runtime out of your batteries, and it got a lot of negative reviews and debunking at EE tech sites.

I wish someone would make one of these with that sleeve approach, not as some sort of miracle energy extended scam but rather as a voltage curve adjuster.

A common non-rechargeable alkaline battery starts at about 1.5 volts and over its useful life drops fairly steadily to a little over 1 volt, and then rapidly drops to near zero.

A NiMH rechargeable starts at around 1.4, fairly quickly drops to about 1.3, then over most of its life drops fairly smoothly to about 1.2, then starts dropping faster to around 1.1, then rapidly to near zero.

This is why you can use NiMH in devices designed for alkaline batteries even though nominally alkaline batteries are higher voltage. The device has to actually be designed to handle 1 to 1.5 volts, and the NiMH is in that range for nearly all of its discharge curve.

This is also why some devices designed for alkaline report low battery on NiMH long before the batteries actually need changing, and still report low but useful battery level right up until the device stops working. They are estimating battery life by looking at the voltage and fitting that to the alkaline discharge curve to estimate how far the battery has discharged, and it makes the batter level meter on many devices close to useless if you use NiMH.

It would be great if there were a sleeve you could put around your NiMH batteries that would dynamically raise or lower the voltage as the battery discharges to make it match the alkaline curve. Then your battery level indicator on your devices that were designed only for alkaline would work.
"One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep."
Anton Chekhov

Reality is full of false promises.
So why not in fiction as well, Mr. Chekhov?

Why does an author owe his readers consistency or coherence?
Make it Lynchian.
People love to puzzle over mysteries.

Just sell it as one.As a mystery.
They'll build in the wrong and unnecessary parts themselves.
One of the dumbest things to do with government owned land is to sell it. You get a quick injection of cash and then the money runs out just as quickly. Meanwhile the land keeps going up in value forcing the government to subsidize housing for low income earners. If the government kept the land it could lease it out at reasonable rates and have an ongoing income stream.
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Thanks, that is helpful! Let me ask a more specific question. Combinatorics gives us lots of ways to calculate the sizes of sets, and in my experience, they rarely if ever involve an explicit enumeration. Why then is an explicit enumeration an important milestone in this particular problem? To a combinatorialist, it would be more interesting to see the more-easily-countable-structure you're presumably mapping these positions to/from.
I was thinking about writing a reverse move generator for chessIO just recently. Shouldn't be too hard. The question is how large the tree will grow. Its a fascinating idea looking for useful applications :-)
Will it have fake quotes too?
While I would have made the point differently than the GP—your children are not at serious risk from COVID because of their age. (They are at some risk—life involves risk—but it’s low.)

The people seriously at risk from COVID are unvaccinated adults.
>> The thaler was from 17c. the more-or-less standardized coin of northern Germany (as opposed to the southern gulden). It also served as a currency unit in Denmark and Sweden (and later was a unit of the German monetary union of 1857-73 equal to three marks).

In Greek, "taliro" is a five-valued coin (originally a drachma, but nowadays a five Euro note is also a "taliro"; sometimes a 500 Euro or 5k drachma note may also be called a "taliro").

The word is written as τάληρο in the Greek alphabet, with an eta, which is pronounced as "ee" in modern Greek, so the correct transliteration in a Latin alphabet is rather "talero", with an "e".

I wonder then if the root of "talero" is in "thaler".
About 10 years ago my wife and I got two recues. A female greyhound and a male lurcher (who basically looked like a greyhound). My wife used to try to get our dogs to howl, because she thought it was funny. It turned into something they would do on command. Anyway, about 8 years ago my wife discovered the song "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon. At the appropriate parts of the song, she would command our dogs to "sing", and they'd both howl. Yes, hilarious. Anyway, about 7 years ago the greyhound got osteosarcoma, a painful bone cancer, and we had to put her to sleep. The lurcher was extremely lonely, so we rescued another greyhound. My wife didn't put the Werewolves song on again, because it made her feel sad. Fast forward about a year, and we're both in the house doing whatever, and I put on a playlist, not realising the song was in it. As soon as the first bar of the song played, the lurcher jumped up onto the armchair at our front window, frantically looking into the park out front, howled, and ran around the house "searching", presumably for Pasha. Tears, obviously. But also the realisation that a dog can recognise a song, years after last hearing it, in a sea of thousands of other songs. And within the first few seconds of it playing. Honestly, I was astonished.
There’s a lot of recovery in sports too, certainly in the lifting and running circles I’m in.
She comes into the field from a mathematical background. In that sense she is an outsider.
Now I need Progressive to pay for a round of pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine for me.
Interesting analogy!
No, the owners who are grandfathered in rub their hand in glee, as over time only own-to-occupy buyers are allowed, thus the supply of rentals goes down and rentals become more expensive, thus making their rents higher and more lucrative.

The answer is to reduce the centralization of jobs and other factors that cause everyone to want to live in Amsterdam, e.g. building out Lelystad or Buitenveldert. To a certain extent, COVID and WFH has started doing that.

I lived in Amsterdam in 1999 and house prices there seemed quite reasonable to me compared to Paris where I was coming from, but of course many things may have changed in two decades.
PP (parent post) here - yes, several variations available in C99; I haven't tried to retrieve my examples yet. (I used this commercially in the 90s)
As others have mentioned the best solution is to just build a massive supply of houses, in order for supply to outstrip demand. This, however, is unlikely to happen in the next 10-15 years. Especially if The Netherlands keeps the current immigration levels up (~400 people per week).
Absolutely the development of language, tool use, cooking are all interesting. But they're all pretty easily tied to fitness in a straight forward way. Aesthetic appreciation isn't. Sure, when I encounter a flower in the wild. I appreciate it. I grow flowers and visit gardens. But those are as much statements about me as they are about flowers. We could have had minds which are drawn to different things. You treat it as obvious and uninteresting that humans became fixated on part of another kingdom of life reproducing. I also asked a question in a public and undirected way. "IDK but it's a boring question IMO" is both not an answer, not constructive, and kinda missing the point.
It dissolves in water. You'd want to spray them down or wash them occasionally, but your sweat would effectively put it in solution and walking would distribute the solution throughout the inside of the shoe. Most probably gets removed by feet and socks each day.
Rechargeable AA/AAA batteries were always limited to 1.2 volts, which works poorly in some devices. Now you can buy lithium ion cells that regulate down to 1.5 volts, so NiMH is basically obsolete. Alkaline can still make sense for things with multi-year battery life, like remote controls.