skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would phrase it like this: If you are using, in Prolog code, an atom of length greater than 1, then consider using a list of characters instead, especially if you want to reason about the data itself within your program. If you use lists of characters throughout, then no conversion to or from longer atoms is needed.

For example, in the sample queries you posted, instead of the atom abcd, consider using the list of characters "abcd" (i.e., [a,b,c,d]) instead, because such lists of characters can be readily described and analyzed with DCGs. In addition to this convenience, as a secondary concern, lists of characters provide an efficiency advantage, because they can be more transiently allocated on the Prolog heap instead of in the atom table, and are therefore immediately reclaimed on backtracking.

Characters, i.e., 1-char atoms, are indeed a good use case of atoms. For anything longer, lists of characters are in many cases a better option: In addition to their being amenable to reasoning with DCGs and the mentioned efficiency advantage, they also allow partial instantiations, such as [a,b,c|Ls] and [a,B,c,d], a feature that atoms do not support. Hence, when using atoms, the code tends to become more moded, whereas lists of characters readily allow generalizations.

Existing and upcoming Prolog implementation techniques allow a very compact internal representation of lists of characters as packed UTF-8 encoded sequences of bytes, and also a very efficient representation of each character as a single heap cell. Scryer Prolog and Trealla Prolog are the first Prolog systems that provide such an efficient internal representation of lists of characters, and are therefore already especially useful for efficient text processing.
Alright, I am biting: Yes.

It also transports the idea of "turtle" better - especially when you deal with people who are unaware of the difference between turtles and tortoises, or who know not all turtles have extraordinary large giraffe-style necks. Not every turtle is a Galapagos tortoise.

Consider what turtles are usually looking like, according to Google Images: https://www.google.com/search?q=turtle&source=lnms&tbm=isch&...
what happened is i pissed some people off and they manipulated the comment section so it ended up looking like the product is well-received by the community

my comment was on-topic and had valid points contributing to the discussion

the generic/offtopic is just a cover up

in fact why don't we just downrank your comment right here and mark it as generic or maybe off-topic? /s
Btw, just read that Microsoft has stopped developping the client app used to encrypt files for the Azure Information Protection, concentrating in native integration on Office Desktop Apss (Information rights management in sharepoint). I've updated the blog post.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-a...
> Emojis in source code and program output, eh, not my style but it's harmless.

Only they do not indicate anything critical. Not everyone has emoji-capable fonts installed.
Bitcoin is not the only valid blockchain in existence, if that's what you're implying (your comment is unclear to me). A blockchain's length (or more specifically, total accumulated work), does not play a direct part in determining its susceptibility to 51% attacks. Furthermore, blockchains are only susceptible to cross-chain attacks like this when they use a proof of work consensus mechanism and also share the same hashing algorithm.
Might be good to point to tutorials you have tried and why you didn’t find them to be good. Otherwise it turns into - let me google that for you - here https://jperm.net/4x4
The more surprising part to me was that quote about the 2015 study that tried to reproduce 100 studies and managed to replicate 39. That's honestly way better than I expected for psychology.

Here is the paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18248
Her video on many-worlds interpretation was also rather disappointing, the main point being "Well, we can't test it, so it's not science".
What are some of those missing new features when you use MOBI?
Thanks a lot for your sound recommendation. I will take a close look at Ada, and I will watch your presentation too. It looks very promising.
Speed cubing? Let me google that for you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcubing
I think you've misread the article.
> why isn't HN respecting user's opinions and manipulating the positions as they wish?

Because certain comments can be quite agreeable, but don't encourage interesting discussions. Your particular thread had more discussion about bitterness and etiquette than content. Even though your points are valid that's not the kind of discussion one wants to have at the top of any article.

Derailing the comment section about this article with your own agenda isn't particularly helpful either. But at least I appreciate that I now know about that feature.
This quote has been cut in the middle. The latter part is:

Of course, not all projects succeed - most fail. Should this happen to us and we fail to gather the number of paid customers necessary to make the product self-sustaining, we will try to sell it. If we succeed, everything we said before becomes null.
High-performance, small-footprint platform designed to run web applications
The switch was accompanied by grumbling by tenured employees, but it wasn't the only switch ( post-acquisition with lots of "harmonisation" of tools, processes, etc.) so many left anyways.

Besides that, there weren't many discussions on the "fairness" of either system, people just went with it
Thankfully no
Is it only on my system, or does https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Emoji show a mix of colored and black-and-white icons?
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JzuIGbGPpig
It’s also very hand-wavy. Can’t say I learned much from reading the whole document than just reading the title.
Time is something I'm struggling with too, though for me it's more that a transaction may have multiple times associated with it but GnuCash only accepts a single one.

For example if I transfer between two banks, the date of the transaction in bank A and bank B differ my a day or more. So now I'm stuck deciding which account is "incorrect". Which also makes importing a pain because it borks the matcher.
google: "elites meaning"

"a select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society."

the people who downranked my comments, were indeed elites, because they're a select group of privileged users with the ability to downrank
How do you imagine types would prevent this? No matter how I think about types in this context, I think a runtime check of "is this ID an app ID?" is mandatory in order to truly prevent this (alternatively- different URLs/parameter names to delete an app and a site)
For some definition of "valid". Nobody is stopping you from trusting a different "parallel universe" branch of the Blockchain, you just don't do it because most likely no one else will trust your work and it will be pointless work. Or you do in fact do it because it's a coordinated soft fork (there is a subpopulation that you care about that will together accept this parallel history and reject the mainline history).

Construct an appropriate analogy for the bgp use case.
You've just defined “Past its prime,” congrats. :-D
AI models still racist, even with more balanced training
I never followed Formula, so forgive my ignorance, but if the car is that great compared to ICE cars as the article suggests, why not try to put them together in the same race with the same parameters/limitations on the outside? I would love to watch that.
> Russia, with its social media squadrons... at the very least are
good at getting everyone to talk about how good they are, which
could be the most important trick of all.

A key use of propaganda is demoralisation. Sapping the enemy's resolve
and sowing seeds of doubt. It's a long march. For years I've noticed
certain voices in tech forums who are not merely fearful of the
negative effects of some technologies against liberal democracy, they
positively celebrate them.

"Liberal values are doomed." - they tell us. "The battle is already
lost." Their relentless message is that authoritarian technology is
inevitable. It's already ubiquitous. Privacy is an illusion we are
better to give up on. The corporations are too powerful. Against state
actors there is no point even trying to secure your digital
world. Regardless your choice or morals, eventually everyone will be
forced to fall into line... etc etc ad-nauseum.

I see this as a corrosive meta campaign by voices that have
unwittingly been recruited as denouncers of liberal democracy. They
sound like the mocking voice of Lord Haw-Haw or the German denouncer
in Saving Private Ryan, calling;

"The Statue of Liberty ist Kaput!"

BTW: This looks like a very interesting book I may be buying. Thanks
for posting these snippets.
Does this achieve anything that signed announcements wouldn't?
Did you design the landing page yourself? It looks cool :D.

I'm also curious if you used a tool like Webflow for it.
“if you buy before May this year, you get a guaranteed ~8.5% return over the next 12 months”

I don’t think this is correct. They’re going to re-calculate the interest rate 6 months from May and it could be less than ~8.5%. So you’re really just guaranteed ~4.25% for half the year.
The iPod shuffle thing wasn't really about randomness, it was a UX failure. "To shuffle" means a specific thing. If I ask you to shuffle a deck of cards and give it to me so I can draw them one by one, I very much don't expect you to put each card back in the deck and re-shuffle it before every time I draw a new card.
This isn't everything you want, but it does bundle the articles. It just doesn't have the "append" feature: https://epub.press
NASA, Partner Decide to Conclude Sofia Mission
if I understand correctly, your daughter will graduate high
school, or similar, and start college/university, and you want
to be able to provide advice?

to be honest, if you're not already an engineer, or a
mathematician, or in general have some sort of expertise that
allows you to "mentor" her, then don't even try

unless what you want is simply to be able to hold a conversation
and not get completely lost, in which case, learn some of the
history of computing, or read some of the "how X works", where X
is something specific, like computer sound, or computers, or the
internet, etc. you don't need to become an expert to be able to
understand the fundamentals, and hold a conversation

for the mentoring, it'd probably be more effective to seek
someone else who can take the that role (I'm assuming it'd be
something like in engineering)

and it'd probably be better to mentor her in "life stuff", by
that I mean things everyone needs, for example, learning how to
cook (everyone needs to eat), learning to manage time, learning
to balance relationships, hobbies, work, "self care" — like
maintaining an exercise routine, arranging dentist/doctor
appointments, saving money, and figuring out what to do in life,
some people focus so much on grades and getting a degree that
they end up feeling lost after graduating

more on the mentoring, I'm not sure I need or would want to
speak to my parents about what I study or work on, much less
want either of them mentoring me, knowing that the only "got
into it" in what might be interpreted as "they wanting to feel
superior" (not saying that's what you want), instead of they
simply taking an interest if or when I speak with them about
what I do

it might have been nice, but I think understanding that
different people have different things they like/want, different
problems, and simply taking an interest is a better approach,
than trying to be in every aspect of someone's life, that's just
my thoughts though, you should ask her what she wants you to do

in general advising to create things and tinker is good, by
"things" it could be hardware/software or a by-product, or using
hardware/software to create other things, for example, if you're
into music, you could make a circuit to transmit music, or to
amplify some sound in the music

another good way is internships, I'm not sure if there are limits
on how many internships one can get/do, I've only done one, but
it can be very useful as an indicator of how working in the
industry is

also, AI is a meme, and C is never going to die
Human trafficking doesn't become acceptable because somehow you believe the person is getting enough out of the deal. If you have to rebrand a trafficked individual an "economic refugee" you are working on a marketing degree not a conscience.

There are billions of women out there and they can't all marry the 6'6" quarterback because there are only so many of them in the universe. I find that people who claim that the mating game is irretrievably broken often have the idea that they are of a certain caliber and wont consider anyone beneath them.

This attitude is usually combined with a complete failure to understand their actual grade in the opposite sex' eyes, a negative attitude, and or inability to function in this arena.

Basically usually 5s and 6s who are convinced they are 8s and 9s who disdain women who are also 5s and 6s while projecting a negative dejected attitude. This might not be you but its like 90% of the people who project the same attitude.
I used to use HomeBank (http://homebank.free.fr), now just a LibreOffice spreadsheet. I think for personal finances, it's perfectly fine to just record monthly total expenses as a bulk sum, for each account. Unless 'something's off' (i.e. my family has spent too little or too much) it's okay to not know all the expense items.
The sad thing about this post is that there are much better developed visions of using blockchain as an index for internet routing:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240595952...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8751229

I’m pretty sure there are non academic projects too but I can’t find them atm.
Yes because its human trafficking.
I think that Noam Chomsky has some bicycle theory of mind. Keep pedaling or you'll fall off. Seems to work for him (though he did have a very good bike to start with)
The announcements have to live somewhere and the idea is to use a shared ledger ie a blockchain.
Mister Bean is slapstick stick/cringe comedy.

Monty Python is absurdist/surealism comedy

Stanley parable is a meta parody about video games narrative choice (or lack thereof)

Rick & Morty is high fantasy sci-fi comedy

The Witness is a environmental puzzle game with light environmental story telling.

Dear Esther is entirely environmental story telling.

(Only commenting on things I am familiar with)

There is nothing wrong with not liking things others like, but other than being in the nerd zeitgeist, I wouldn't say they are targeting the same thing.

Based on your stated games may I suggest looking at the following if you haven't previously

- Tacoma
- Braid
- Fez
- Quadrilateral Cowboy
They link to a comprehensive description of the randomness score at the bottom of the page: https://www.complexitycalculator.com/HowItWorks.html

It gets pretty theoretical, but basically it's estimating the Kolmogorov complexity by looking at the size of the Turing machine required to generate a particular string, rather than Shannon entropy or implementations of common compression techniques.
Notice how doctors say "levels are fine for your age" for various hormones. For whatever reason them declining is considered normal so nothing should be done about it.

What if you are 60 and want to have the muscle strength, metabolism and/or mental acuity of a 40 year old? Turns out, it's possible! You just use the same hormones (or analogues) from external sources.

The downside seems to be a shorter lifespan, but there's been no major studies on it. However, it makes sense - you push your body harder.

I think quality of life:length of life should be left up to the individual. I'm sure many will choose a more active life up to 75-80 years than a slower one up to 90+.

My grandparents and their brothers/sisters basically did nothing after 70ish. Just literally waited to die, too bored and/or tired to do anything more. One of my grandfathers just drank for 15 years until he died. My remaining grandmother is 84 and still doing gardenwork, but otherwise she says "eh, I'm ready anytime".

Length of life should not be as important as it seems to be today. Quality matters, too, for some people - even more.
I can't understand how people can keep shouting "it's not AI, it's not really thinking" and then go and label a bunch of numerical weights to be "racist".
I think it’s very explicit that HN never intends to be a democracy, and one of the techniques it uses is fairly strong moderation.
Elite like a Janitor? because only he can open the Office in the morning?
I too, sometimes get into personal fights and push for emotional arguments but nothing good ever comes out of this. I have my HN account downgraded multiple times.

Here on HN, we have something absent everywhere else: A moderator who treats you as a person and spends time and energy to explain why something is the way it is. You may not agree with the reasoning all the times but almost everywhere else you don't get the reasoning and only the results(shadow ban, censorship, lock out).

Can I offer you something? If you believe that HN is not run fairly, collect the evidence and write a thorough article about it and post it here or on Reddit and other places. If you articulate your ideas properly and if you have a point I bet you will receive traction and response from YC people.
Qt works great for cross platform and isn't so heavy. It still blows my mind that it's ok for a chat app to take half a gig of ram.
> Officers don't chip and paint.

In a "morale emergency" an effective leader will lead from the front, showing the behavior that she needs her team to show.

The chief of maintenance on those ships should be chipping and painting in their free time until the people under them have enough shame and/or pride to start doing it correctly on their shifts.

I once had a problem with "that's not in my job description", pitting security guards against truck unloaders. I took one trip with 25kg of rice on my shoulder and then looked back to see a line of security guards following behind me.

Moo.
At least in theory, you can get people worked up with inflammatory, wrong, inciteful, off-topic, meta, or similar content. I don’t know if your comment(s) fit into those kinds of categories, but as a user I’m fine with those sorts of things being downranked/flagged so more interesting things can rise to the top. I think they do a pretty good job generally with moderation, though I’m sure mistakes are sometimes made and maybe your situation was one.
> "It takes you a while to read code & understand what it's doing". She was right.

Yeah but the young inexperienced people are also overconfident and assume they understand things, when they actually don't, jump to conclusions and waste a lot of time coding themselves into a corner, before they realise: AH! Now I actually understand what the problem is! Back to square one.

A more experienced person has made this mistake enough times, to understand that it's worth spending the time it takes to actually understand something, before making changes, and stroking your ego by pretending to be fast, is really counterproductive.
What would you say are the 1% of stuff with blockchain in the name that aren’t bad ideas?
>The interesting bit of any BGP enhancement is the governance of changes to the list of prefixes and keys.

Doesn't that sound like a basically valid use case for a blockchain? Not saying that it's necessarily the best solution, but having that governance based on some kind of distributed consensus protocol does sound reasonable, and that's what a blockchain fundamentally provides.
No, this applied to Send to Kindle service too. Announced a few days ago.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
You’ll love this one too. If you look at in on your phone, make sure to see the wide view with all the buttons.

https://www.newmodellersshop.co.uk/

I’ve had the tab open for years, can’t bear to close it. I should get a big printout and hang it up.
Agreed. Midori paper is shockingly good. And it works so well with fountain pens. Definitely recommended.
Women look for the ability to climb the social hierarchy in men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7pyPl-q_-0
Height is a predictor of success, and women correctly pick that up: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709415/

When lacking height, you need to compensate by boosting other markers, that women latch on.
Things like managerial position, luxurious housing, car, dressing etc.
While I have seen another comment: ,,why?’’ and agree with it, I’d like to expand on it.

For a long time I thought that switching away from 3d buttons, getting to less colors was only frustrating me and other techies who like how things were done before (I love the original iPhone aesthetics for example).

But a few months ago my father died, my mother is left alone 73 years old, far from me, and I try to help her through phone (and sometimes remote sessions), but it’s extremely frustrating that she can’t tell me what buttons there are on the screen, because she can’t make a difference between buttons and text. With more black and white, I even can’t tell her what color to look for. And the worst thing is that when she can’t achieve something she needs to (like pay a bill), her blood pressure goes up, and she has to take medications with serious side effects.

I’m very angry at companies that don’t test changes with old people whose life and health at this point depends on being able to use digital services.
The first three are all British comedies, so maybe that's why.

I'm not a fan either, but I loved Gris. It was pretentious but also beautiful and fun.
If you fork, don’t you have the same length (at least at the moment of fork), by definition?
Xbuild – Cross compile rust to any platform
Right? Some Muji notebooks punch way above their price-class.
They would be able to argue that the data is anonymised.
The announcements are already peer to peer in BGP. Again, what does block chain add that eg, BGPsec (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7353.txt) does not?
The writer of Severance specifically mentioned the Stanley Parable, so that's quite intentional: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/severance-apple-tv-plu...
How are all the women settling down with 20% of the men again precisely? A women would rather have all of your attention, time, and resources than 2% of a slightly taller dudes.
Not sure how it works in the US, but in my country the inflation-indexed bonds are still subject to the capital gains tax, so they offer a true hedge only up to a certain level.

Obviously still better than regular bonds in this regard.
> Saying that this group is self-reinforcing would imply that homosexuals gathering online to talk and confide are similarly self-reinforcing.

It doesn’t imply that at all. Sexual attraction isn’t reinforced by being around a given orientation.

Go hang out with gay people exclusively for a few weeks and let me know if you find yourself attracted to the same sex.
Or it is just Project Blue Beam

[1] http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/hoax/bluebeam.htm

[2] https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2010/11/project-blue-beam-exp...

as proposed by this person:

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Monast

:-)
what's the point? YC owns HackerNews

HN is their marketing asset

otherwise how is it possible that a niche product of a YC company right now has the first spot with 400 upvotes?
I suspect they now have my credit card number, expiration and even the pin number
How Meta aims to dominate India’s agriculture sector
Problems for the Linux kernel NTFS driver as author goes silent
Thank you for this, have been wondering about that forever.