skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No invisible hand is required.

Any life form that has reached the cognitive capability to reason about itself will be amazed by the sheer "coincidence" of their habitat. "wow, isn't it amazing that our planet's atmosphere is composed of the very ammonia we need to survive in?"

No invisible hand required.

Also evolution is "intelligently selective". Surviving and reproducing is a pretty intelligent mechanism. It will find local maxima pretty effectively.
I'm not an expert, but as far as I can tell:
- His 'hole cards' (the two cards you are initially dealt) are very weak. Statistically, from the outset, he has a very very low chance of winning.
- On the flop, he hits a pair of 8s, which seems good. But it's incredibly dangerous for him to continue to play, because the flop opens up a ton of possibilities for strong hands for the other players at the table (straight draws, flush draws). Postle has no chance of hitting a flush, and though he could complete a straight, other players have a higher chance of hitting one (as one of his hole cards, the 8, actually lowers the chances of him hitting a straight, whereas another player could have a hand like 6-7 or A-2.
- The turn card (4th card revealed) increases the chances of an opponent having a straight, and, I think eliminate postle's chances of hitting a straight. It also is another club, putting three clubs on the board, and so anyone who limped into the hand with two clubs has just completed a flush.

The opponents bet strongly, and both have a flush draw. It makes absolutely no sense for postle to play this hand (as the second hand of the evening) unless he knows that the other two haven't hit a straight or flush. His hand is comparatively very, very weak, and (again, I'm no expert), he isn't even playing a long shot. I don't think there are any major hands he can complete on the river.
Astronomers spy two baby stars in a cosmic pretzel
That would still be cheating though?
Not taking into account market power and anti competitive behavior is a mistake. This is about something other than speech -- the right for firms to compete with each other on a level playing field. When these types of actions are allowed, our economic system deteriorates. But regulatory capture is so strong in the US that Disney and many others will skate by.
> When you ruin your product in effort to game your users, you've already lost.

Yep, they do this in all sorts of ways. It feels exactly like you're getting gamed.

- Rotated order of shows / movies in all categories

- Rotated images for the same shows and movies

- It doesn't show you that you've previously watched something while browsing

- UI will show "in watch list" label over expiration times so you can't tell when it'll disappear

- DVD listings (and even the details page) stopped showing that you already had this movie shipped to you in the past

They do everything possible to make it as hard as possible to get a scope of their catalog size and to avoid re-watches. If you've been subbed for 10 years it's sometimes hard to remember you watched something 8 years ago.
I don't think so, there is no way it would achieve mainstream adoption if there was a potential tax liability for users spending their after tax dollars.
Cognitive Rigidity: The psychology of Hong Kongs out-of-control protest movement
I am mostly in agreement but I just want to highlight that having a curated store that is super easy isn't the problem.

The problem is not allowing other software. Sure, on Linux installing third party software isn't as simple as your package manager but it is possible and not made more difficult than necessary.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21161233
Joey can get technical at times. On top of that, he's more of a Pot Limit Omaha player, than Texas Holdem. So he tends to gloss over the nuances of Texas Holdem.

Doug Polk is more "user friendly" if you want to learn more about high level poker.

It's a 4 hour video. If you got any specific questions, shoot.
You don't seem to know much about gov financial regulation.

1. Gov didn't embrace bitcoin, they regulated it. The exchanges have to do KYC and AML monitoring and report activity.

2. If you think FB doesn't 100% control it, I have a bridge to sell you.

3. This doesn't really mean much at the end of the day. It's a tactical decision with low impact on regulations.

What you're failing to appreciate is how important it is for governments to control their financial operations. They don't make it hard just to make it hard. They make it hard because if they don't criminal activity will flourish.
Cellular networks.

Cellular networks abroad.
Never run out of coding project ideas
Eh, not really. If someone has $20m they can easily afford a $5m house, which may not be “massive” in the Bay Area but is basically anywhere else.

It’s not even about income so much as not caring. Put yourself in the position of a very wealthy person, unless you are wealthy enough to have personal staff, what do you care about a $10k bill? It’s not a big deal to you and barely worth thinking about, you could easily just forget about paying it and think if it’s really important to pay in a timely manner someone will hound you and you’ll pay it then. You open the mail, see some bill notice, throw it on the kitchen table and hit the golf course.
I've had multiple homeless people get in my face and try to start shit with me in the TL.

The last time, I was waiting outside a bar/live music venue while my friend and the bartender were inside locking up after 2AM. I'm just standing there minding my business when a very dirty street guy, presumably homeless, walks up to me and demands I give him some money.

I tell him no, and he just starts yelling belligerently in my face deliberately being sloppy about it and spitting all over me. This went on for what felt like an eternity, turning into a staring contest with him just waiting for me to lose my cool and assault him. Eventually he just walked away cursing aloud about white people.

SF is a kind of a shithole, I have a bunch of firsthand experiences to back that up.

Edit:

I still find little pieces of broken glass in my car from when a homeless person threw rocks through the windows of ~10 parked cars on La Playa by Judah @ Ocean Beach. Same guy was picking fights with pedestrians in the hours that led up to him breaking car windows. Good times!
This sounds terrible. If you decide to participate, please share your experiences (if you can <3)

good luck !
RFID on the cards?

You are right. That is not poker. There is no reason for the house, or anyone, but the player to have the data on the cards.

I just caught wind of this here on a lark.

The house knowing the cards is extremely, highly suspect.

Great comment. I agree across the board.
When it comes to homelessness I'm reminded how people who had severe psychological disorders were put in insane asylums, instead of prisons and on the street.

Even if SF was tough on homelessness, they would still come, because it's either that or death in freezing cold weather elsewhere.
I don’t think you should use “facebook” and “freedom” in the same sentence.. unless you mean “freedom to ban anyone for life for any reason without any oversight”
https://medium.com/@codergator/no-stockton-california-is-not...
When you fold your cards in poker they're 'mucked' by the dealer i.e muddled in with the rest of the dead cards so you can't tell which cards came from where. This is to prevent cheating and confusion in ambiguous situations.

With experienced dealers and players, poker games move quite fast. It's quite normal for 5+ hands to be folded in quick succession pre-flop. Manually recording who had what cards would be really impractical.

The best place to record the information without disrupting the game at all is in each of the player's hands themselves. Traditionally this is done with either under table cameras and see-through spots on the table, or RFID.
It's not a real UBI experiment for many reasons: https://medium.com/@codergator/no-stockton-california-is-not...
Intermittent fasting before it was cool
It's usually the other way around. Females are far less likely to get physically attacked.
+1

Chaos is a ladder.
Pagers, faxes and cheques: Things that might seem obsolete, but aren't
Do you know anyone who can say specifically what kind of security wireguard provides? Not the NoiseIK Wireguard IKE protocol proven secure stuff¹, but in practice, what can it be relied on to prevent and what does it not prevent?

For example, copying ECN bits was documented only after I bugged Jason about it. In the whitepaper it is mentioned 0 times.

I tried asking on the mailing list, but got nowhere.

¹ The protocol is the foundation. But just because an idealized part is proven secure under some assumptions, doesn't mean the whole is secure, implemented as described or suitable for a particular purpose.
Also erosion on Mars is probably lesser than on Earth.
> The sad part is that this thinking gets entrenched in certain populations. People loose idealistic thinking and prefer to stick with the status quo. Even sadder that these certain populations are more likely to vote than those that would stand to benefit from public transport.

The status quo actually works on some level. Idealistic thinking often leads to thinking that big disruptive changes will make things better when there are always vastly more ways to make things worse than better. Idealistic thinking is far from an unalloyed good.
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My view is that if you're using it every day it's worth spending extra money on it for the best.

This is how I excuse spending $250 on a mech keyboard and using high-end smartphones/laptops.

Not buying super expensive new cars, or any cars, is probably the best place to not do this. Unless you commute daily.
The public airwaves have slightly modified free speech constraints because they are a finite commodity. If a station chose to, for example, just broadcast white noise, the FCC can yank their license and give it to someone broadcasting content.
Yes they are here:

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#BUSI...

But they explicitly state broadcasters can mostly choose as they like:

> Except for the requirements concerning political advertisements, the limits on the number of commercials that can be aired during children’s programming and the prohibition of advertisements over noncommercial educational stations, the Commission does not regulate a licensee’s business practices, such as its advertising rates or its profits. Rates charged for broadcast time are matters for private negotiation between sponsors and stations. Except for certain classes of political advertisements, STATION LICENSEES HAVE FULL DISCRETION TO ACCEPT OR REJECT ANY ADVERTISING.

(all-caps added for emphasis)
React Native developers who switched to Flutter, was it a good decision?
What books did you find that helped you the most in learning JavaScript and web development in general?
Evervault: Simple privacy-preserving cloud infrastructure
Analog multimeters
The lights have several preset modes. That picture is just one of them. Some of them are single color. Some "breathe".

The board is also microcontroller powered and runs an open source OS that takes modular plugins. You could set your own static or dynamic lighting pattern. I goes you could also paint or stain the case if you wanted.
Southern Cross begins building 16,000km cable between Australia and US
Close range sensors and secure transmissions.

As long as the reader has to be within a couple of centimetres of the cards there's really nothing other players at the table can do to get the data that isn't obvious. It's not like you can lean over the table and scan your opponent's cards with your phone without raising a few eyebrows.

I'd guess the transmission of the card data from the table to the servers for the broadcast wasn't secure. Either because someone involved set it up that way on purpose to cheat, or because they had a 'password123' sort of password on it without thinking.
Why a “Billionaire” Wealth Tax Would Hurt the Working Poor and the Middle Class
I find it astounding that personal accessories like hats and sunglasses are not only allowed but apparently not adequately inspected in a game where the subtlest body language and facial tics can affect who ends up winning thousands to millions of dollars.

(My poker experience amounts to two years' worth of high-school lunch hours, so admittedly, I'm commenting on something I don't know much about)
That doesn't make sense at all. There is no reason for them to change the card if they don't have a proof that graphics are wrong.
Zuckerberg is really ballsy to go up against the government like this. I hope he has some really good security cause I can't see the US government rolling over.
And those perfectly happy people could continue to install apps via the app store without ever even thinking about the fact that some people install apps that aren't explicitly approved by Apple. And when you start getting into issues of free speech and people fighting for their rights against an oppressive government, it starts to feel like people other than the big happy majority matter quite a bit.
These machines are just trading and making value calculations on existing markets, not directly investing in businesses. I would hesitate to use the term “invest” at all, I think the term “allocate” is much more accurate
That's debateable, did you read my comment? If you take exception to a specific point speak to it.
My coworking space (not WeWork) has also been turning the music up lately. I'm finding that it causes the background chatter to become intolerable, too, since people naturally respond to loud music by talking even louder.

I think that WeWork has really set a bad precedent here. It was the first coworking space I toured that seemed to be pushing itself as more of a social space than a place to hunker down and get some work done. Since then, though, pretty much everyone seems to be headed in that direction.
I wonder if future species will look back on humanity like we look back on the dinosaurs. Interesting to consider... there's also probably a short story in there.
How to save thousands of dollars every year on electricity bills
To me, the most interesting thing about this design is that the counterweight comes to an almost complete stop as the projectile launches, putting a high portion of the initial energy into it. A normal trebuchet seems to be less efficient, because you often see the counterweight swinging after the launch.

Getting the large one balanced stably seems difficult, and repeatability might suffer as well.
>These old-time hunting dogs reached a high degree of training, but the methods used must have been something of a trade secret, for not much is divulged – far less than was written on how to train hawks.

The "old time methods" are as varied as the modern ones but not likely to be much different in practice. It will depend on the person running the pack.

If your hounds are hunting for themselves, they'll do it differently. If they're hunting for their people, they'll do what their people want. You just need to let them know what that is. The ability to tell a pack "we need food now" or "we're looking for something sexy for the idjit on the horse to kill" is still a valuable skill, which takes years to learn plus years to build a pack.

Gratuitous puppy anecdote: My coon hound brought home a raccoon, by herself, some months after I gave up hunting with her for health reasons. "We ain't been out for a while daddy, so I brought you one!"
Probabilistic scripts for automating common-sense tasks [video]
Just came here to say, I found this book pretty informative and persuasive:
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393352978/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_...

The book contains some counter arguments against the primordial soup theory

I am not really qualified to comment though.
There are a ton of cool similarities, including compatibility of tissues in transplants! Also according to cannibals we taste similar (hence 'long pig' as a term for human flesh). Smart, deeply interesting animals.

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/pigs-and-h...
This Stack Exchange thread has some fascinating answers and links to sources: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/2874/why-are-the...
The difference is that Airbnb and Uber has a lot less to lose. If they got shut down by the govt they could just lose some VCs money. Facebook has a lot more on the line.
Or you can design your city to not be so car-centric. Why aren't commercial districts designed so that walking or using public transportation to reach them is viable?

If you put cars right at the center of urban planning, you'll always build cities that require people to own cars.
The important part in the original is that every choice of splitting point has nonzero probability. This means you will _eventually_ land on a splitting number between the two where you will then have 100% chance to be right (instead of 50% chance for all the other times), pushing your average above 50%.

If the splitting point is given to you (by an adversary, not an actual random process), this nonzero probability for any given number is not necessarily fulfilled (at least you didn't indicate so).
Self-Harm versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism
The incentive to consider is that positive results get published, get funded, get you academic job s, get you more money, get you tenure. Negative results? Maybe you get to be a contrarian voice on a panel during the afternoon of the last day of a conference.
My alma mater, Purdue, built a giant building that was simultaneously a library, a collection of very large lecture halls/classrooms, and a study space. Lining the exterior walls of the building were classrooms. And in between, the majority of the building is essentially an open floor plan study space with no separation between the floors (since the center of the building is an enormous unenclosed staircase and large unenclosed stairwells lined every wall). Consequently, the entire building (aside from the enclosed "library space" and classrooms) was useless for quiet studying. My school shut down 3-5 smaller libraries (all of which were super cozy and quiet, albeit dated) and to form this new library building. The new building is much more aesthetically pleasing, but it's a much worse study space in my opinion from the traditional, drab university library.

Some photos: https://www.jconline.com/picture-gallery/news/college/2017/0...

https://www.bsalifestructures.com/project/wilmeth-active-lea...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhX8kV1SbDs
It sounds like you're justifying the attempted murder of a child.

HKFP might be biased towards democracy and freedom of the press, but not as biased as posting shill Twitter accounts.

The NYT uses unarmed in the American sense of the word - the 18 year old was not carrying a firearm.

I can scroll through Reddit and find 10s of examples of police doing the same to protestors, and yet as someone that has actually gone, the real HK police seem very professional in the face of a difficult job. Other police and gang members that are enlisted to help during the night on the other hand...

Are you up posting from 2AM-6AM because of insomnia, or because you post from an armchair in a different timezone?

It seems to me like if it were your country, and you had no $$ or foreign passport to hide, you would have a different opinion.
Stroustroup's version of this (about C++, of course): “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

The problem is that, even if true, this chestnut doesn't say anything about whether the criticism is justified or whether the degree and correctness of criticism is commensurate what one would expect of a quality product given the language/software's usage.
> you'd have to buy a differently branded DVD player different shows from different studios!

You mean like having to go Blu-Ray for shows/movies from some studios, and HD-DVD for shows from others? https://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-years-of-battle-betw...
This is as good a time to vent as any other.

One of the things I find difficult is sharing. Even to close friends, but I don't feel the need to. Maybe I just have been hanging out with the wrong people lately, which I have stopped seeing recently - and to which I have been feeling better since. I'll have to give some thought into the the word "difficult" I decided to use - but I'll leave that for some other time.

I have been teaching myself programming on and off for a few years now. After having had some health issues last year, I ended up five days in a public hospital and stopped programming until earlier this year when I took it up again.
The experience in that hospital was bizarrely amusing, but I won't digress. I'm guessing the onset was due to some combination of stress and/or burnout. After the hospital it took months to recuperate.

In that time I didn't have much energy would do some light reading and came across an article, right here on HN about sourdough.

All in all, having a hobby helps. And I'm quite fortunate to have a family that provides food and a roof. But it is taxing on so many levels not to be able to help out, to provide. And with the upcoming holidays it gets hard. It hits me hard.

F*. When I started writing this I did not expect it to take that turn. Let's get back on track.

Right. I picked up programming again earlier this year. Funnily, things started to click. I don't know why, maybe the break helped. Anyhow, looking for jobs is another thing that takes a toll on you. I've never worked in the industry, nor have I had a job for too long. I try to search for jr. jobs and when I do find one, the rejection after rejection does not make it easy.

And despite the sorrow sounding note of this, this is just me venting to strangers on the net. And by the age of the thread, few people will read, if any at all.

I stopped talking to the few acquaintances. People who weren't contributing anything positive in my life. And I have to say, I have been more productive since.

I'm currently learning django. Reading Eloquent Javascript and practicing my vim skills - which I took up recently out of necessity. Funnily I found myself trying to use vim keybindings last time I opened up Visual Studio Code.

And that's not to mention all the other tabs that are open. A back-burner of things I want to learn.

Things may get tough, as they always will. But it's all about knowing when to slow down. Take a deep breath, and every now and then, vent.
They listened and changed it to

> that behavior
I had customs boot my laptop once and they just searched for jpg and gif images. While the search ran she turned to me and said, "What kind of images am I going to find on here?". I had just got a new DSLR a few months earlier so it took about 30 minutes for the search to complete (2006 windows computer). She didn't say, but I guess they're looking for egregious images?
The feds can come and shut down all of FB over money transmittal, they don't have to limit the shutdown to only the money parts. That's a huge risk to take. If Uber was shut down for violating taxi rules, they only had an unlicensed taxi business.
That's just more speculation.
When I had a Mac, I hated the Calibre reader for its slowness, and honestly, it was unnecessary because iBooks is pretty great regarding typography and formatting.

However, on Windows, I've found that the Calibre reader is the best. I've found that Adobe Digital Editions and the Kindle reader have terrible formatting on a non-mobile screen.
Shorter encryption debate:

Them: Terrible things are terrible

Us: Yes they are

Them: Stop the terrible things

Us: We don't know how to do that without side effects that would be even more terrible.

Them: Just do it without causing the side effects.

Source: https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1180092773975953409
Monty Python at 50
It is not necessary for the distribution to be uniform, it just has to be nonzero everywhere.
Ockham's Razor might be helpful here.