skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expected better from this site than multiple commenters spreading false info!

This is wrong. Making optimal decisions IS very complicated. Just a heads-up no-limit match between the two best players in the world is far from the Nash equalibrum (a game theory-optimal solution). In the 2017 Humans vs AI match, a bot destroyed very good humans by 14.7 big blinds per hand. This is without caring at all about what strategies others play. If you analyze other players and you find what mistakes they make, you can do better and it's even more complicated. And vs multiple players like here, it's more complicated again (optimal strategy can only be calculated assuming there is no collusion). A 6-person game was only finally beaten a few months ago! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02156-9

Source: used to play poker (up to the main event WSOP and $5/10 level during the poker boom) and wrote a simple game-theory optimal solver for fun.
Agreed. It seems far more likely the population with income swings suffered from latent, "sub-clinical" cognitive issues that merely became more pronounced later in life.
Yea I get that, but is it the purpose of the main library in the center of campus? In fact UCLA has an entire library (Southern Regional Library) that is dedicated to rare and old books. It's completely empty and is where I would go to study lol
The only thing this circumstanial evidence justifies is an investigation. The author is stating he's a cheater like a matter of fact.
So?

https://streeteasy.com/blog/live-in-new-jersey-work-in-new-y...

https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/nonresidents.htm
Yes, it does require access to MacOS, and payment to Apple to register as a dev - even aside from having to build apps yourself, this is not a reasonable solution to escaping the walled garden
I am amazed by the timing. Literally finished reading the book this morning and spent most of the day deep in Wikipedia researching primordial soups.
Don't you think they would get muscled out of these failed states if they don't pay up (lobby)?
Couldn't each RFID tag have a UUID that maps to some in-house database to decode them to their actual card value? Each card/deck would essentially be "unique" and if you read the tags all you'd know is that your opponent is holding cards B8BB148A-1BA4-493D-A9C4-884A2AAA4491 and 1534DE97-B227-4292-817E-01112B9BC1E5.

What am I missing?
We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production
This is an intro beginning programming book that uses Python, not a Python book for programmers. That's fine, but there's a distinction, which should be clear in the title.
Their pay schedule is dependant on you being hired. Perhaps it's simply too difficult for them to find you clients or they just don't want to try. Either way remember they are middlemen. Maybe find one that specializes in contract recruiting and you'll have better results.
Yea that's fair. But the point is it's possible/normal for some amount of the player pool to put up those numbers over some time span, whereas 10x that is an outrageously far outlier. Who knows, some of the in-band high winners might be cheating too, but just doing a much better job at hiding it.

Also FWIW I think some live cash crushers can land in the 20-40bb/100 range with some consistency. The online cash player pool is known to be much tougher per capita.
As others here have said, Linux distributions are well used by using official packages. That said, my two Linux laptops and Linux servers I spin up for personal projects are at least partially for the freedom to install anything I want.

For macOS, iPadOS, iOS for my watch, and iOS for my iPhone, I like the protected walled garden. I also like to sometimes use my Chromebook for the same reason: these closed platforms feel more secure to me.

I am happy that Apple OKed the HKMap.live app.
You are confusing the availability of an automated software installation process with the possibility of installing software of choice.
Robot Realtors coming to a neighborhood near you
I'm not proposing an alternative. I'm happy with our Constitution and our three branches of government with checks and balances enforced. We have the 1st and 2nd amendment as a Plan A and the Plan B, respectively, to prevent tyranny.
These were propaganda pages against Iran and Qatar. The article says they originate from UAE and Egypt, but not necessarily from their governments. It also says some of the messages are supportive of Saudi Arabia. Currently, the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are subjecting Iran to an economic blockade and/or pushing for a military attack. Russia instead is at least partially on Iran's side and, therefore, opposed to US and Saudi Arabia.

And your first reaction is "this could be/ must be Russia"? Do you realize Russia running a propaganda campaign for Saudi Arabia doesn't make any sense? How could you even think of something so counter-intuitive and inconsequential?
Yes, it still costs $100 per year, or else your apps expire after seven days and you can only have three (AltStore hacks notwithstanding—those will get closed soon I’m sure).

There are ways to sign apps without a Mac/xCode, namely Cydia Impactor. But Apple has very purposefully made this impractical for every day use.
Stacks is exactly the place that came to mind when I was writing my comment.
This could easily have been an inside-job situation with Postle knowing someone on the tech team who feeds him the information and the split earnings.

The fact RFID is observable wouldn't make much difference then.
Why 2 CPUs? Isn't the Ruby interpreter single-threaded like Python and JavaScript?
Learning to ask the librarian is a critical aspect how knowing how to research.
ah i see, so it resembles the old del.icio.us and https://pinboard.com/?
If only there was an app to automate this process.
RFID seems like it wouldn't be practical... how do you keep players from reading the signals?
1. Ditches. The bigger they are, the less than want to fall.

2. Beehive fences. (http://elephantsandbees.com/)
Right, but I can't think of very many situations where you're using both feet on a piano (in fact, I don't know if that's even mechanically possible). So that leaves at least one foot.

Organists would have to figure out some other strategy, though, since they do use both feet frequently. Still, if there's a button to push somewhere on the organ, that'd be at least easier than flipping a physical page.
If you trust (laughs in credit card thief) the developer, a program called alt store recently made tethered side loading easy. It doesn’t require xcode, a developer account, or a mac. The app is signed by the iPhone. It’s more convoluted than it needs to be but as it stands right now things are in a better state. It remains to be seen if Apple will crush this, as they do many nice things.
For H Pylori, there are 2 tests that are both pretty easy: one is a blood test and the other is a breathing test (they collect the exhalation in some bag.) The results are returned fairly quickly
It took me a minute to remember what the Emmy's were. They don't strike me a good means of measuring quality... they kind of just seem like a nepotism/popularity contest.
An iOS developer built an alternative App Store for the iPhone
It works for me in Firefox on Ubuntu without javascript
With Linux package managers, you can easily add additional repos.

And of course on Windows, Linux and MacOS, you can install whatever you like, from wherever you like. Android allows you to side-load apps (but I'd prefer if it made it much easier to do so), whereas iOS makes it both difficult and costly.
Northern Virginia. A few yellow leaves peaking out but not much.
I agree with you.

But, the terms of the contract are the terms. Pay late, pay a fee, or not, they’re still abiding by the terms. If we want different behavior, we need to make those desires known.
Postle was a consultant for the casino and knows someone who worked on the tech team there.

I'm guessing RFID security isn't the issue here. Insider threats tend to defeat all security theater. So any real-time streaming of all the cards would generate this possibility.
> As far as computing "large factorials and binomial coefficients in their heads", I don't know what makes you think that that's what poker math entails. It's nearly all just basic statistics.

honestly I've never played much poker, but I remember doing lots of poker odds problems from my discrete math class in undergrad.
We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool.

There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life!

We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best parts of chess apps into the real world?” So we did!

A camera passes a feed of the board through our machine learning model which interprets the state of the board and passes it off to Stockfish to display move suggestions in real time.

We didn’t quite get to recording the state over time in PGN but we hope to continue this project and add that soon!

Would love to know what you think. We’re working on enhancing other board games with computer vision as well; if you want to help us beta test sign up at https://boardboss.com

Also I live tweeted about our progress during the hackathon so if you’re interested in how the sausage is made you can check out the blow-by-blow here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1179424684502388736.html
Governments are as untrustworthy as Facebook but more scary as they have a monopoly on violence and can take away your life.

The best outcome here is that Libra doesn't launch at all in any capacity.
Sounds like enterprise pricing with the stereotypical "contact us for pricing" text?

Also, having product tiers allows you to segment the market, which is another method to have people land closer to their maximum comfortable price.
While his neighbors keep their phones on the table, he always keeps his phone on his chair between his legs, with his left hand holding it in place beneath the table.

That casino allows phones at a high-stakes poker table? Duh.
Agreed.

Everyone should avoid silly arguments.
The only way I'd be okay with a federal jobs guarantee is if it were a job that truly sucked so much that no one would want to do it and that they'd work hard to qualify for literally any other job but the federally guaranteed one. We'd also have to get rid of welfare. Sucking on the teat of the state should never be an attractive proposition.

Society only functions well if everyone makes a reasonable effort to be useful to one another.
I think that by itself is a weak argument, because let’s say he was superbly good at reading people. That could explain a huge win rate. But there is a ton of other evidence. And a people-reader wouldn’t have his eyes in his lap.
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The number of people who can change the code on the machine is much larger than the number of people who can change the hardware on the machine to hide code changes. Checking the code prevents that group from having the opportunity to cheat.
I'm not saying there is no evidence, but the evidence is circumstantial and not definitive.

> I mean if a guy wins a coin toss 1000x in a row is that definitive evidence?

That he's cheating, not really. It is evidence that something strange is going on that should be looked at. If there is money being bet on the coin tosses, there is good reason to believe that the strangeness may be related to cheating.

The context here does make it very likely that there is cheating going on, but it still doesn't provide "authoritative and complete" evidence that cheating took place.

I want evidence as to how the cheating took place. The "How" is really far more interesting and important here than just the fact that some cheating took place. If you catch a cheater but don't unmask the methodology you run the risk of other cheaters using the same system in a lower-profile manner.
How do you falsify his claim that he can read his opponent's faces and tell what cards they have? Isn't that a common skill in high level poker?
What column do you mean? They are in different rows and columns of the periodic table, and have rather different chemistry.
Yeah Virtu's market cap is about the same as Groupon. I hardly doubt they're emptying the pockets of every American here.
Unless you never reuse a single card, then whoever is scanning the cards can know what a card is if it's played again.
The "average person" cannot program for it. I've managed teams as large as 60 extremely competent full-time EDA engineers working for years on only the synthesis portion of the problem. It is FAR more complex than, say, developing a compiler. Both Xilinx and Intel have more engineers developing FPGA software tools than they do developing FPGA hardware. It's a common misconception that just any group of competent software engineers could whip out better FPGA tools if they only had access...
Obviously, a laptop shell filled with semtex won't boot up. I think it's also possible that explosives or drugs packed into the shape of battery cells might not be distinguishable from real batteries on an x-ray. So even though they don't want to snoop through your data (customs does that), they want to verify that it is a real working laptop.
They'd need to pay more than the other robbers, sure. Shouldn't really be a problem for them, though.

Something funny happens when the monetary contribution from a company to a country/government moves from millions to billions. It changes from a potential bribe that people want to keep quiet about to an investment that people want to boast about. And yet it's trivial to siphon between 10-70% of that "investment" into private pockets depending on the country.
The article kind of disagrees with that:

> Plus, a growing body of evidence shows that physical books and papers are more conducive to learning than digital formats are.

I'd also agree with the article's point that getting face-to face advice from a librarian can be a lot more helpful for research than crawling through the internet by yourself - especially of you're an undergrad.
Does it even improve performance when you include jquery?
The difference is democracy.
Early proto-MMA events in the US & Brazil literally had no rules (Google 'vale tudo'), and included groin strikes & eye gouges (Google 'Keith Hackney Joe Son'). They were actually underground fighting events, some held in illegal clubs, warehouses, basements- and, they were won by BJJ & Muay Thai guys- the constituent martial arts that make up what we call MMA today. You can actually find Vale Tudo fights on Youtube to see for yourself! Early UFC events also literally had no rules as well- and they were won by, first BJJ and then wrestling. TMA guys didn't fare so well even in the complete absence of rules.

Police & military units the world over study MMA or the individual martial arts that make up MMA (BJJ, wrestling, boxing etc.)- not Kung Fu. Jocko Willink, a highly decorated 20 year Navy SEAL commander, is also a BJJ blackbelt and has specifically said that he used jiu-jitsu to subdue militants in close quarter combat, and that TMAs don't work. On the Joe Rogan podcast he talked about fighting other SEALs in the 90s who were into TMAs and beating them with jiu-jitsu..... Wouldn't an actual Navy SEAL with combat experience know more about what works in a 'real life situation'?

I don't understand how 'person to separate the two fighters' makes it less realistic- they're there to prevent someone who's been KOed from suffering any more unnecessary strikes
Fun of you to assume my bubble. What are these biggest computers that you refer to that are not connected to the internet?
I'm a 15 year dvorak user, and I can no longer type on qwerty keyboards at all — it's just hunt and peck really. But qwerty keyboards on the phone are just fine.
Per GGP's comment at least 605MB of memory is slab memory¹. That's around 25% (if not more) of the memory on an average smartphone. Apparently you disagree, but I'd call a reduction of that a pretty darn big effect.

¹ On my machine it's currently at only about 165MB, so not quite as extreme, but still a decent chunk of memory.
Poker is a very slow and boring game and with people's attention spans these days it's going to be hard to ban phones outright. Maybe only at the highest stakes tables.
While I think it is good to create inexpensive healthy high protein foods, I also think we should have a fair free market for people who want to continue buying real meat, organic foods, non GMO foods, cheap foods produced with GMO and petrochemicals. Free choice and a free market, with strict accurate labeling laws is what I want.
Most American cities had population peaks in the immediate postwar period.
and the cost of a macbook. for some people, it's a given.

but if you live in a 3rd world country, a macbook can cost as much as a car. it's just not viable.
interestingly lithium's medicinal properties depend on its isotope
It's not completely without precedent to speak that way. "Build" and "make" are different words, but it is common to say "we built our own house" to mean that you had one custom built for you. Also, you can go on almost any car manufacturer's web site and they let you "build" a car, which means selection options and packages to see what it costs and start the process of ordering.
These abiogenesis experiments are a little strange... they aim to show that something could have happened. Whether that is what actually happened is considered less relevant and in fact can probably never be determined. Does anyone really believe that it is impossible to get spontaneous nucleotide generation under certain conditions (the conditions also being speculative)?

The really interesting thing would be finding nucleotides or nitrogenous bases where there isn’t life, eg on Mars or an asteroid.
Muscled out how? VPN’s are global...
Ripped out to run busses on freeways. Look at how that turned out. They were about to build an extensive subway network and grade separate many of the streetcars, but urban planners back then didn't think it would be possible for freeways to experience traffic.

Now, 60 years later, we are paying out the ass and taking decades on transit builds and all there is to show for the last 25 years of LA Metro is three light rail lines (none are grade separated, are crowded and delayed during peak hours, and they take 40 minutes to go from their termini to downtown), one heavy rail line that doesn't have enough stops or short enough headways, and a stub with, once again, not enough stops or short enough headways that they've been working on extending for three years and won't finish for another 4. There is also a BRT, which was supposed to be rail and funded to be rail, but LA Metro backed down to the 50 NIMBYs in the room screeching during the public presentations instead of plugging their ears and building better transit for the hundreds of thousands living along the orange line.

This city has 18 million living in the metro area and the transit system is an embarrassment. Every other major artery should have rail running underneath it by now. The whole LA basin should have a fisherman's net of trains criss crossing it by now.

The only saving grace is if the federal government one day steps in and plows through these transit projects with the army corps of engineers. LA Metro is in over its head and can't be trusted to pick a contractor that isn't going to overstate, embezzle, underdeliver, then get picked for the next contract because they've made friends with the board and did just sooo well on that last project that was overbudget and behind schedule.
Well, it would be understandable if you now have a mortgage.
That's true, but at least you have the choice of which route you want to go.

I guess even CA allows "home-made, specially constructed, or kit" vehicles. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/spcnsreg
> considering how popular it is

Excuse me, popular with whom?
> ... Tetris has a game board.

> I mean, there's lots of places to play around with starting from an even more primordial slate.

I am struggling to see how you can start with a more primordial state than Tetris. If there is no game world, you cannot possibly progress into there being something you can interact with other than perhaps the game world unfolding after some amount of predetermined time.
>the chances of me being attacked are practically zero

That's because the OS developers have placed value on security over performance. Whooping cough is rare too, we still vaccinate against it.

If you want a classic example, bounds checking an array is important to avoid RCE and sandbox escape attempts. It can also have a hefty performance penalty, under some scenarios it trashes the branch predictor/instruction pipeline. But I'm glad that my browser isn't as fast as machine-ly possible when streaming video, because I'd prefer if there wasn't a risk of having my emails from various banks, stored passwords in the browser, etc from being collected and sent to a bad actor.
Usain Bolt deviated colossally from optimal sprinting structure/style and beat the world record by a crazy number of standard deviations. And that actually happened. So these things are not just false because they're improbable.