skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Precision is a murky concept in chess because it is not a solved game

it's ironically also a murky concept for the opposite reason. In some openings the analysis of GM's goes so deep that they can fairly often play almost exclusively computer-aided prep. There's a big difference between a 40-move game in that kind of theoretical position vs off-beat games.

So you might have a very precise, narrow, theoretical repertoire but that's not the same as playing strength because your opponents can prepare. What really matters is more something like precision under uncertainty.
Chessmaster 3k had that feature. But I was never good enough in chess to evaluate how well it worked. Still, I thought about the simplest method:

- get a chess playing algorithm (I think it will probably well with minimax or mcts) with many tunables,

- use a genetic algorithm to adjust the tunables of the first algorithm; use how similar it plays (make it choose a move on positions from a database of games from said player) as a goal function.

Doesn't seem terribly complicated to do, but don't know how similar to a human it would play.
I would assume as the ecosystem grows 'standard' task will develop that will see a lot of reuse between different people using this OS.

But I agree critically you build deploy this as a complete system even if many of the tasks are not inhouse. You still test the complete system.
Mineral oil is commonly used to coat/maintain butcher block cutting boards, and as a storage coating on high carbon knives. It is recognized as safe by the FDA when produced according to food safety guidelines and under quality control.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfr...
Will your manually written imperative code beat an SQL database for the same task? Because it uses a very very high level description on what it has to do and chooses an appropriate algorithm for that for you.

You can optimize one specific query (quite painstakingly, I believe) to beat a general db, but it is very far from clear that “for loops will beat higher level abstractions”, imo.
How would you get citation on something many people don't and won't want to admit to? If they even know they are a bigot at all?

How many Americans are against CRT for a solid reason that doesn't become hypocritical immediately. Vs the amount who are against CRT for purely identity and other no substance reasons. The fact that CRT is even a big "thing" at all is a major issue in and of itself. Would it be better if the OP said 1/3 of America? Or would saying even 10% of Americans are racist require citation?

> Also, can you name other countries as diverse as America which are less racist?

What is the relation of the first part of your comment and this? I don't think there is a country like that. It doesn't change many people in those countries and in America from being racist.
Past related threads:

Apache Guacamole 1.1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22190251 - Jan 2020 (50 comments)

Apache Guacamole – Clientless remote desktop gateway - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660925 - Nov 2019 (40 comments)

Apache Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778902 - Nov 2017 (41 comments)

Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727 - Oct 2017 (216 comments)

Apache Guacamole - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744430 - May 2016 (57 comments)

Also:

Fixing critical vulnerabilities in Apache's remote desktop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23715212 - July 2020 (8 comments)
I had never heard this story but this could definitely have happened at some point.

My personal memory that this happened because the people there were collecting cones at a high rate to play in the corridor of the floor (the 2H) of the student residence most of the VideoLAN / Via people were occupying at that time. This trend was certainly started by someone who became Debian Project Leader at some point and who was also enjoying eating regularly at a fast food restaurant in town. On their way back, these young and stupid boys were stealing the cones from a nearby gas station and bringing them back.

This lead to various uses such as the creation of an unofficial acrobatic cone launch federation (« la federation internationale de cone ball » I tried to find a picture of a now prominent Google SRE in action but my google-fu escaped me) and various costumes[1].

The cone used as an icon was also illustrating the fact that most of the code was heavily in progress at that time and so definitely not usable.

We were young!

1: http://sam.zoy.org/photos/20001011%20-%202H/016%20-%20la%20d...
I don't understand this saying.
> These laws have only been in place in many cases in America for less than a century

Bloodletting has only been rejected as a viable treatment for most illnesses for less then a century. Lets not delude ourselves into thinking that it's not still commonplace...
If you are a member of an inner circle of an immortal oligarchy that already controls the most important markets, selling such treatments would effectively erode your already enormous advantage and fuel the would be competitors.
Lots of people go into permanent irrelevance after a NYT bestseller.
New Zealander here, not that it really matters.*

It appears that "...a proposal by a government working group that schools should give the same weight to Maori mythology as they do to science in the classroom" is a misrepresentation. The author of this article has taken up this issue because it appears to fit a political hobby horse of his.

One might read this article and conclude that The Woke Have Done It Again, they have Defied Science and Suggested that Mythology is Just As Important As Darwin.

However, one of the authors of the government working group material has also commented publicly about this and her take casts things in a slightly different light:

"The sentence quoted in the Listener letter as proof of the need to ‘defend’ science was from a section I largely wrote about the strand of the Pūtaiao curriculum that did not have a direct equivalent in the NZC Science learning area, on the history and philosophy of science. The sentence quoted was part of a description of the possible scope of studies of socioscientific issues, from a Māori perspective, by senior secondary students of Pūtaiao. To respond as fearfully as these seven professors, from the top science university in the country, to a single sentence that suggests taking a critical look at the involvement of science in colonisation of Māori, does the public face of science no favours at all. This failure in terms of academic standards explains the strong criticism of the letter that was expressed by the Royal Society as well as many leading scientists and academics (May, 2021)."[1]

Are those crazy (left-wing, out of touch, 'woke') government working groups really Denying Science?

Or did some scientists take something out of context and misunderstand it, then scream that they were being cancelled when other academics expressed disagreement with their ideas?

[1]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2021.1...

* (Edit: actually, I thought about it, and I decided that it does matter: I'm not really comfortable with our politics, which are quite different from UK/US politics, being used for grist in northern culture-war mills.)
These guys are my ISP they're wonderful
I think out in the real world they are insecure because it's easy to shoulder-surf and get a peek at the pattern being input. Overall they are probably similar to pin codes... some people just have 0000 as their pins, or draw an L for a pattern.

Sending a phone in for repair negates the shoulder-surf issue but yeah.

Perhaps Google just has a backdoor.
It would be nice if the default background color was a choice rather than a price point. Personally I like reading in dimly lit rooms or subway rather than outside, so a brighter “paper” is an advantage. But I definitely understand that for reading on a beach you would like a darker one.
After the creation date, putting any information in the name is asking for trouble one way or another.

Clearly these suggestions predate SEO.
What version of Basic were you using that lacked FOR? Even the shitty one crammed into my Sinclair ZX80 had FOR.
Ah, keen observation, young grasshopper! But nota bene: just as man cannot live on bread alone, one's understanding does not arrive merely from the consideration of a collection of atoms.
Ask HN: What are some online platforms to get career advice?
Basically, I'm 28, software engineer at tech giant. I'm figuring out what are some next missions that I could pursue. I'm looking forward to seek some advice to do something in software engineering career, side hustles or entrepreneurship related. Either comment your advice here or point to some platform where I can ask for the advice.
There are public records on how phone companies are doing, complaint-wise. It's interesting (but infuriating) reading.
CRT is a real problem, and works to revitalize and amplify bigotry and hate.
This site is extremely sparse on information. I know what a unikernel is but it's not clear how it reduces cloud spending other than perhaps a small reduction in overhead. I'd like to know what kind of work would be needed to make a traditional app run under this unikernel. Assuming it is a genuine unikernel and this isn't marketing.
That happened this year... but only up in the mountains.
Nietzsche's “The Use and Abuse of History for Life”
This reminds me of a tool in the BBS days that would convert a GIF into ANSI Art. (I think it was called gif2ansi)
Pure functional programming languages take this a step further and say everything is just composition. (From my understanding)
While Carmack is law, don't think this was worth a share here, as it was just a cute thing a young kid said? Only slight jokey whatever
>Yes, that seems like a fair compromise.

For ~30 years, then they tore it down anyways.
Note: everything is non-ideal.
> Petroleum is a natural thing.

Cyanide is also a natural thing. Is it compatible with complex life in this planet? No.

Natural occurrence is not a sufficient measure for compatibility in an ecological context.
Good code explains the problem to the reader and implements the solution as a side effect.

You can often express the problem quite well using a combination of if, for, comments, variable names, function names, list/set and map data structures.

Sometimes (<10%) you encounter a problem that's interesting enough to define a custom type, and sometimes you make tree data structure out of it (<1%). On very rare occasions (<0.1%), you need a more complex data structure.

Code that uses thousands of classes is very hard for a reader to approach, but so is a single file with a never-ending ifs and for loops. Always write code for another person. If nothing else that other person might be you in a few months (or much sooner).

Coding is basically just writing for humans in a language a computer can execute.
earlier post and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29438300
Interesting read. If wheels existed for Ruby (maybe they do?) having an approach for things like nokogiri would probably put a dent in climate change but avoiding Swig-y recompilation during module installation
Delta is not the way. I’d prefer an Apache project like Iceberg https://iceberg.apache.org/ rather than delta lake.
Morangos Com Açúcar Virus
That's really interesting and tells me that I need to do more research into this case before forming an opinion. (Don't I always?) Thanks for sharing.
Hellо, I'm A Compiler (2013)
England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status
> I am much more productive in Python

you may be, but the point is that the time you save writing in python is paid multiple times when each person who wants to use your code struggles to install it and get it working.
Without falling into an oil debate, no cycle mechanic I’ve ever spoken to uses or would recommend wd40 for chain oil. It’s far too thin and is primarily for freeing stuck parts and cleaning. It’s not meant for long term lubrication - it dries out or get washed off almost instantly.

3 in 1 is fine, but the main advantage of a proper chain lube is that they don’t attract grime and dirt as quickly
CCO is ethanol. COO is methyl hydroperoxide.

SMILES is a lovely standard, really simple and easy enough to write by hand, but powerful enough to describe real molecules in detail. Not long ago, i saw a chemical structure used as part of an illustration, and wondered what it was. I transcribed it as SMILES, put it into a chemical search engine, and found out what it was (nothing interesting!).
KlimaDAO pushes companies to reduce their carbon emissions
How much of the male only treatments was basically make the males less male and reducing their testosterone levels?
Not that. That would be much worse than the status quo.

I'm not unhappy technically with what's happening now, it seems to be an artistic decision from directors to fuck it up. Technically everything is set up nicely to have great sound.

If directors want to release shit audio on purpose there is nothing we can do but not pay for their movies.
Why would one need a 1:1 of that? There are only two sizes of wooden dowels included, and the illustration with the bigger one crossed out pretty clearly indicates that the smaller one should be used here. So what would be the additional benefit of a 1:1 illustration?
WD40 is a terrible choice of chain lubricant, it’s too volatile.
How odd. West Wash Park and Boulder got some sleet as well as actual snowflakes, but nothing stuck around at all.
My daughter had her SSN used when she was around 10, and I can't recall her ever needing her SSN as it's no longer required for things like medical insurance, etc.
Which without side effects can be very heavily optimized (probably even better) than imperative code? Hell, the pipelining inside GPUs, and CPUs are perhaps closer to lambda calculus than Turing machines.

It’s not like the machine code will look much closer to your C code either. That’s also a spell of “compiler writers and hardware vendors trying to uphold the view that C programmers are so close to hardware and that memory access is flat”.
See also: the canceled 1970s plans for taking the "L" underground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Central_Area_Transit_P...
so you are saying those kid have educated parent therefore the kid will get more help from parent doing homework..

or that the kid inherit good DNA so probably also have high IQ like their parent ?
Have you used Zoom? Compensation of $ 25 will be paid per application
Well, it's more complicated than that - you see, occasionally the electrons are not shared, but given up entirely.
You're picking a family physician. Dr. A was trained with traditional western cell theory, evolution, antibiotics, vaccines, etc. Dr. B studies some of that but less, plus on equal footing, training in Maori mythology and traditional health practices. That's all you know. Pick one. If you pick A you're necessarily discriminating against Maori. If you pick B you're picking a non-scientific paradigm of health treatment.

Since you'd have to be an unusual and independent thinker to pick Dr. B, training track B is a large handicap for the student ... and their future patients.
In the article, you reference `asciidoctor-epub`—I think you mean `asciidoctor-epub3`? Might be worth updating or correcting me here.
when the expert thinks twice they don't do something stupid?
Eight ball says, "future murky".
also it is already old news by a few days by now, come on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29427838
A key piece of advice in performance optimization is to profile first. The same should apply to environmentalism. Some interventions have orders of magnitude more impact than others, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise
Please don't feed flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are drying oils and non-drying oils. Drying oils are what you want to put on your cast iron pan to polymerize the oil into a coating. Tung oil would be a bad choice for chain lubricant because it will gum up, but castor oil should be more suitable for said chain.
WD40 is a penetrant, not a lubricant, I don’t know any Mechanics who use it.

Definitely will debate lubricants for days, but no one who is in the industry uses standard WD40
SUPER GREAT for bundling software into a folder.

Great for demo and standalone prototyping.
Did you ever notice that older people tend to be conservative and against the newer trends? Same people are often in power, having spent a life to get to their high position. If not for the fact that they have to inevitably die at some point, being replaced by younger people with less conservative views, they would be able to propagate their state of society indefinitely. Imagine if jim crow era politicians were still around, would they allow a black president to be elected?

Short life span is generally a boon for species as it improves adaptability. Taken to the extreme, bacterias evolve and adapt to everything precisely because new generations replace the old ones. Increase the lifespan of the humans in charge, and you get a total social stagnation, because all places at the top are occupied and you can't wait for the current occupants to free them by dying.
If civil engineers used a system to calculate bridges that is known to frequently collapse bridges it is good engineering to change to a system that prevents this from happening.

There was a time qhen civil engineers thought they were geniuses and their own genius would be enough to prevent such mistakes. Guess what: then bridges collapse.

In programming we still have people who think they can prevent stupid mistake by shere genius and/or willpower, despite clear evidence to the opposite. Get over yourself and do the right thing.
Although Ruby element is basically a Japanese thing, it can be used to display both original text and translated text. I think using ruby rather than two-column-view is far better.

For example, this script[1] will show original English word above Japanese loan words, using the ruby element.

[1]: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/33268-katakana-terminator
since this is a site about changelogs and version 1.0.0 entry says 2017. This is not new.
The principles I want to teach my child to live by
What about all of the fast food fry cooks?
Yeah, I'm looking on Google in the San Jose area.
Aren’t chaotic systems non-linear?

It’s the non-linear PDEs that get interesting, and one is reduced to iterative approximation or computational methods, way back when I went to school for this stuff.
The US has Medicaid for elderly and people with disabilities, the VA for veterans, and Obamacare for those who can’t afford it. I’m very surprised the idea is national healthcare service doesn’t exist. We can complain about quality of course, but most foreigners either think it’s all private or free healthcare doesn’t exist.

We have a choice: free (often crappy care), pre regulation health trials, expensive experimental treatment , cutting edge medicine from specialists like the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic or University of Chicago, and healthcare from work off the top of my head.
> unless you're hosting off of your laptop (please don't!)

I hate to tell you this, but there was a thread on HN about this exact topic not too long ago. While becoming less common with AWS, Heroku, Cloud Run etc, there are still companies large and small, that get it working on their machine then just run it off their machine until it breaks.

In fact, one of my favorite stories is a guy I know who does ML work gets a crazy multi CPU, multi GPU workstation for each project, and, when the project is running on his machine, they slap readyrails on it and ship it to the data center to run in prod.
This tweet is from MARCH, come on.

And was posted then multiple times.
I really don't understand the psychology of the woke who seem to like punishment more than dialogue and I don't see anything particularly troubling in the letter published in the Listener [1]. What's even more shocking is that Prof. Cooper is of Maori descent himself [2][3].

[1]: https://www.fsu.nz/in_defence_of_science_article

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Cooper

[3]: https://www.fsu.nz/m_ori_professor_under_investigation_for_v...
I was under the assumption you never need to give your real name when using a debit or credit card. Zip code and the number of the address like 7 for "7 Main St" are required usually.
I think non-ideal is an euphemism. Being negative in American media doesn’t look good.
it was done a few months ago as well to make room for new train tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIKjxWcj2Dg
I’ve even seen vegetable oil used as cutting fluid on CNC mills. So it makes sense on a chain saw.
i dont think thats true

ip, tcp and udp are the same, rip ospf and bgp are pretty much the same
linux's skbuffs or bsd's mbufs are the same as before, the linux dma api changed a bit, but the ideas are the same.

there are some changes on the disk layers with geom and such, but nothing super fundamental

there are a bunch of layers of indirection now with VMs and cgroups, but deep down things are the same.

> You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.

there is nothing to win :) its just computers, dont take it so seriously
A similar thing happened in Zurich, Switzerland:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-18168278
I don't quite follow. Are you saying China purposely gives Taiwan a raw deal just to deliberately spite the US? Why would they do that? I think I'm misunderstanding you.

I mean the whole situation is incredibly contrived. The 'sacred chinese territory' narrative feels completely hollow if you consider how long ago they stopped claiming other Qing dynasty possessions like Mongolia. My guess is that it serves a domestic narrative, and that they've backed themselves into a corner by staking their core legitimacy on annexing Taiwan for so long.

So yes, by offering Taiwan a better deal than they get from the US, they could remove a lot of influence from the region. But it never happens.

Yeah, for sure. But our support of both countries (and others like them) pisses other countries off. IMO we have no business being either world police or world arms market, especially in some of the most volatile quagmires in the world. We make our own enemies because of our supposed friends. These places only have strategic value to us so long as we desire to remain the global hegemon, with tentacles everywhere. Let go of that weird military-industrial-hentai complex, and there's no reason for us to artificially prop up these countries. Especially Israel. The IDF can more than take care of themselves. Taiwan is going to fall sooner or later anyway, but why is that our business? We force our enemies to go on eternal arms races against us because we've shown them we're incapable of minding our own business after WW2. It should not be our responsibility to provide world security using our people, our equipment, our money.

The US withdrawing from East Asia would be a global disaster. This wouldn't be a small land skirmish, it would be a massive amphibious invasion in Japans backyard - which knows it's southern territories would be next on the menu. It would also take place in one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, causing a massive disruption of global trade. Not to mention the semi conductor angle, now abandoned US allies pursuing their own nuclear weapons agendas.. etc etc.

You could argue the US should not have been interfering there in the first place. Which is very principled and all, but the USSR was going to be there either way. And now the US is very much the force in that region keeping war from breaking out. Arming South Korea, Taiwan and Japan does not make these places more volatile. It makes them much, much less.
Verizon FiOS is actually more invasive.

They share data by default freely with others like Nielsen Ratings.