skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was interesting and the site looks like a great resource. I am particularly glad there are transcripts with the videos.

The concern for truth and power (metaphysics as imperialism; theories setting the context of what counts as fact; the illusion of democracy) is certainly food for thought.
I honestly can't think of a single competitive game with RNG and/or matchmaking where people _didn't_ accuse the system of being unfair. Pokemon (Battle Tower/Frontier/Subway etc.), League of Legends (Elo Hell), the list goes on...

This goes back to before I was born, even. One of my past colleagues used to work on poker machines back in the 80s and the company would regularly receive complaints from people "proving" their machines were non-random.

I would take this accusation with a massive grain of salt.
Hey! That is kind of you to ask.

I joined Ambrosia in late 2002 as part of a 'sandwich degree' as we call it in the UK. I was doing a 4 year BSc in Computer Science, where the 3rd year was spent as a year in industry. For that I moved to upstate NY to work for Ambrosia. It was a dream for someone who had grown up modding EV (like so many here apparently!).

I returned to the UK and kept working for Ambrosia from the UK whilst finishing my studies and for a while after. Andrew offered me a role at Ambrosia and I _agonised_ about the decision as I loved the company but ultimately I was too afraid of moving to the US without an end date there. I often wonder if that was a mistake.

I then did freelance web dev for a couple of years, before going back to Uni to do a PhD in AI. I found out I was going to be a father, and freelance web dev wouldn't cut it any more so I joined an SEO consultancy (Distilled), having taught myself a lot of that building small company websites.

In February of this year, the SaaS project I led at Distilled spun out as its own company SearchPilot (https://www.searchpilot.com/). I know SEO doesn't have a great reputation on HN, but what I love about SearchPilot is it applies A/B testing to SEO to remove the mystery, hand waving, and everything else. My focus is on the product and the network infrastructure side of things, but we are a small team so I get to do all sorts.

I do miss both the fun of working on games, and being part of the joy people would experience (as this thread shows). I also miss the AI research, as it was an interesting set of intellectual challenges.
Thanks for the responses.

I was asking because my son works for a tech company and was told that he could only move to states where they had an office, because that's where the company already has health coverage.

Since insurance doesn't cross state lines, if had wanted to relocate to South Dakota they would have to get him coverage with Blue Cross of South Dakota (or whichever carrier) which would require cost and administrative effort. Maybe they just didn't want to go through the trouble for one employee.
The Java client is still in development?
It was originally seeded with URLs from DMOZ, when Marc first stared working on Mojeek.
SpaceX and Tesla cannot move with the ease of software companies due to the facilities and equipment needed to build, test (and in SpaceX's case, launch & land) their vehicles.
What are the long-term effects of vaccines everyone is talking about? This is not a loaded question, I'm asking in good faith.

And I ask because even the rarest documented effects occur within 3-4 months of administration, which is hardly long-term.

There may be a case for a specific Lyme disease vaccine, but thanks to the anti-vaxxers, the whole thing was withdrawn (against FDA recommendation) before the actual reason could be found.
College bills i would guess
Thank you for sharing your experience. Back then when I used Scala this was really turning me off Scala. Good that it all settled and that the Scala community can focus on the more important tasks again.
Does stackoverflow offer an offline copy for individual languages?
That reminds me how in South Africa the traffic lights are called robots.
Nice work. It would be nice to have them side by side with Summon The JSON decks
https://summonthejson.com/
Not yet. Getting an ASN number is independent of getting LIR status.
What happens next is your platform either gets zero traction, or it gets ridiculed as alt-right conspiracy theorist shithole, which is basically a self fulfilling prophecy.
Indeed, we usually program it to be ready by morning - so we wake to the smell of fresh-baked bread, it really fills the house - no need for an alarm!

The paddles thing hasn't been solved AFAIK, I think they'd have be lowered and raised from the lid, rather than retracting through the waterproof pan. But anyway, with a dual-paddle machine, it's not such a big deal.
This is a good example, with eggs and Atkins.

There is a lot of things we do not know, even on seemingly simple topics such as nutrition.

Just watch the "calorie is a calorie" crowd crashing with "sugar is chronic toxin" crowd. Not surprisingly, Coca-Cola pushes the former view. And in a curated YouTube world, who is going to get removed for spreading misinformation?

Not Coca-Cola, they are too rich for that.
Even if that were true (which it doesn't appear to be... see other comments) I'm not sure that would apply to a field as broad, and as new, as software.

Software does radically different things, things as different as, say, hammering and opening cans. It is difficult for me to believe that the WIMP interface as we know it is actually optimal for all those different software tasks.

I mean, sure, you could probably open a can with a claw hammer, if you used some care, and you might be even able to drive a nail with a can opener.

You wouldn't want to, though.

Note that we still drive cars by using steering wheels and foot pedals. We haven't gone to some "click on the menu item" interface, even though such an interface could easily be written for many modern cars.

Put me in the camp that believes that UIs are stuck in a rut, and need to be fundamentally rethought.

Raskin's humane interface had some interesting ideas, though it does not seem to have caught on.
I was also a fan before I was an employee. I know the love they inspired!

I had moved on from Ambrosia before Steam became a thing, but have also wondered the same. I did point this thread out to Andrew, and he has dropped in some replies, so maybe he can shed some light. I would guess it is a case of all the legal shenanigans needed to make it happen cleanly. Various people external to Ambrosia own various parts of the rights, so you would need to get a bunch of people on board and spend money on lawyers.

I also thought some games could be suited to something like the Nintendo Switch. However, that would obviously need a bunch of technical work to convert it (something I admit to having looked into late last year!).
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Still way more slower than a Ryzen 4800 HS. Last time I checked a low end laptops with Ryzen had double performance (multi-core) compared to Macbooks with A1.
I hope you didn't forget that electric tractors have batteries. You can do amazing things like charge the tractors during the day and then let them run until midnight because they are autonomous. However, it would be far more sensible to just install some wind turbines nearby.
I don't want to be overly critical, but what exactly do people see in this book that eludes me?

I've read it a few months ago with high expectations, pen in hand, but… I didn't really make many notes.

Sure, if you've never heard about feedback loops (and that there is positive and negative feedback), but, is the book just way too basic for me or did I miss the point?

Is Weinberg's book maybe more practical or more advanced?

I'm still thinking that systems thinking has much to offer (and skimming the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics confirms that hunch), but where do I continue?
That's first time I heard CSS is allowed to load and run.
WTF
RSUs are taxed in state where granted

Non-Quals are prorated

ISOs are taxed in state where exercised
Would it be feasible to add support for Fossil, so it's not just a git-only tool?
(Also @int_19h)

The mandatory tipping culture is another one. If it is mandatory, add it in the price. Tips should be earned. At least in Europe I know what to expect upfront.

The imperial system is another. Makes it unnecessary difficult to convert units.

Its difficult to change such illogical customs though. They're deeply ingrained in the culture, which is in many ways a dominant culture.
In 1999 I was 12 years old and I made an MP3 player in REALBasic. Somehow I had the chutzpah to send it to Ambrosia SW. Instead of laughing me out of the room, not replying, or sending me a routine rejection letter, Andrew took the time to send me a personal letter about why he couldn’t publish it and encouraging me to send him future projects. That act of kindness when you’re just starting out really encourages you. I wonder if I would have kept being as interested in software (at least at the time) if I had gotten something really harsh back.
Yeah the problem is people assuming those games are simulations with little or none random. But basically RNG is big part of this simulations.
The press is parroting the tech industry where AI, ML, and Deep Learning are all conflated and claimed as the magical future of everything, in an effort to boost valuations.
My own personal speculation is that TV shows have a lot to do with it. People watching TV get used to the idea of an elite crew of colorful personalities inevitably hunting down their man, and they think murder is a guaranteed jail sentence, so they murder less often. In reality, probably pretty easy to get away with murder.

Also: video games. Young men, who commit most of the murders, spend more time playing video games and therefore less time murdering.
I do something similar, but it is networked so when a compile is done on my dev machine, my main desktop shows a notification using terminal-notifier.

It's very old and very hacky. There are probably apps that do this so much better.

/Applications/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier -group not -title "$t" -subtitle "$st" -message "$m" -execute "$HOME/bin/gospace 1"

gospace ends up doing:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code 18 using option down'

which presses option-1 which switches to space 1
Nailgun.
The late Jef Raskin's Humane Interface had some interesting ideas, though it does not seem to have caught on.

It might be possible to do a smoother and more effective version now that we have CSS3 and all these cool transformations available.
Great ideas. Thank you very much. I'll think on these ideas. My best!
Ooohhh snarky.... !
https://solarcan.co.uk/matrix is absolutely beautiful.
I also wanted to know which themes are popular, so I took the cleaned up CSV from this post and picked the top 30 themes from it with a script. Here are the results:

1. 1034 (14%) default
2. 354 ( 5%) my own
3. 338 ( 5%) doom-one
4. 318 ( 4%) zenburn
5. 208 ( 3%) solarized
6. 202 ( 3%) solarized-dark
7. 194 ( 3%) dracula
8. 181 ( 2%) don't know
9. 163 ( 2%) gruvbox
10. 162 ( 2%) spacemacs
11. 158 ( 2%) spacemacs-dark
12. 153 ( 2%) modus-operandi
13. 120 ( 2%) solarized-light
14. 118 ( 2%) modus-vivendi
15. 117 ( 2%) monokai
16. 116 ( 2%) leuven
17. 111 ( 2%) tango-dark
18. 102 ( 1%) wombat
19. 88 ( 1%) nord
20. 77 ( 1%) doom-theme
21. 67 ( 1%) modus
22. 63 ( 1%) doom-nord
23. 54 ( 1%) spacemacs-light
24. 52 ( 1%) doom-dracula
25. 49 ( 1%) misterioso
26. 45 ( 1%) doom-one-light
27. 44 ( 1%) deeper-blue
28. 41 ( 1%) material
29. 41 ( 1%) doom-gruvbox
30. 40 ( 1%) wheatgrass

The column values from left to right are rank, number of votes, votes as percentage of total responses, theme name.

The answers in the CSV are in unstructured format and I have not normalized the data a lot to arrive at the list above, so there is some inaccuracy in the results above but despite the inaccuracy it gives a pretty good idea of the relative popularity of themes.
Your argument is unlikely to have anything to do with the reason for YouTube's decision. They're thinking about their brand. Do they want to be branded as the company that lets anyone post videos about the election being stolen without any evidence? They get to choose between "yes" and "no" and the choices lead to very different brands.

The same point comes up again and again when porn is removed from [website]. "How dare they remove porn! I don't see anything wrong with it!" Sometimes it's even looking down their noses at the obviously primitive American culture that is the problem. Of course porn won't disappear from the world, and of course people that like porn will be disappointed, but it won't be that company's brand.
And for people often saying it's a solution in search of a problem : that's why we need cryptocurrencies. At least, the ones that could be used as actual currencies.

It would be so much better if I could click a payment link that opens an external wallet software like "mailto:" links, verify the amount it proposes to transfer, and click "send" to send the money at the prefilled address instead of allowing someone to take it.

I really hope that one day, we'll tell our grandkids about that time where we were giving secret codes on the internet and anyone having them could take money on our account as they wish, and those kids will think we're delirious.
> ... they will simply grow sceptical of all kinds of news sources and retreat further into their own bubble.

This is a central theme of the book This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev, which I found thought-provoking.

I've just been looking for a decent review. This is half-decent:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/10/this-is-not-pr...

As is this:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/10/13/bo...
Easy, you would code it in your own language.

Here in Europe is quite common to be faced with programs where everything written in-house uses the local language, including comments, only the third party libraries use English.

I already had a couple of consulting gigs where what got me the deal was my knowledge of the specific (human) languages being used.
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According to Hume neither the model nor you would know/see the causation. It would be correlation in both (an all other) cases
I've tried it, I'm not a fan, the web is just too extended to make these sorts of things that useful. I block all JavaScript in my normal browser by default and turn it on selectively for web apps I use (think GitHub and others) but if your site has no interactive element that I care about it stays off. If I click an article and the text doesn't load without JS, I'm sorry but I don't care what you have to say.

I've been messing with Gemini and some of its browsers (I'm a big fan of Lagrange) and I have to say it is spectacular. The markup language for documents is great, the extremely limited functionality is great (although I'd like to see italics and bold text) and I really like the mostly thoughtful content. That latter one would probably change if it picks up a lot of steam, but so far I wish all websites who's audience is just reading were Gemini documents.
That seems represent the actual event that occurred, ie a changing of HQ address.

Yet many are assuming that employees will be moving from CA to TX, despite no indication of that.
> I feel lucky to have a family where no one is left behind or alone.

Or, to reitate once more, a family that accepts you for who you are.

I'm glad for you that it's been so happy and all, but really get it into your head, this situation is not, CANNOT, be for everyone.

You're excluding people without a family and/or who chose not to breed.
This is about order of specificity. The more vague is the adjective, the further it is from the noun. Also, the closer the adjective is to the noun, the more it modifies its meaning like "french kiss".
someone here said that the nyt frontpage is available in pdf format.

I now download this url and email it to myself as an attachment:

now = datetime.datetime.now()
nyt_url='https://static01.nyt.com/images/%04d/%02d/%02d/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf'%(now.year, now.month, now.day)
Politics has the potential to impact every single area of your life. Your assets, your livelihood, even your life can potentially be taken away at the stroke of the legislator's pen, and this will be enforced by an apparatus that has been funded by your taxes, paid upon pain of imprisonment. We have been living through a period of relative political stability under governments that have tended to respect people's inalienable rights.
Ask HN: What IoT device is hacker friendly?
Hacker in the traditional sense of the word.

Alexa devices sadly don't allow for HTTP requests to be sent to it, even to allow for the reading out of a message, even on a local network.

What IoT devices have this ability? Also to generate and validate a auth token of some form.
Just to play devil's advocate, Tim Cook is an MBA.
Hn is fickle/edits titles, which is editorializing. Just the way it is.
> All the long term studies are being skipped.

There are no long term studies. The reason vaccines take so much in "regular" circumstances are:

- Actually finding money to run the trials

- Run Phase 1, 2, 3 trials one after another

- (longest) Waiting for the events (infections) to accrue: if it's not in a pandemic, and with relatively low incidence, this takes years to happen

- Regulatory approval (if not in emergency, that's two years)

- Production scale-up (at least one year)

The fact that vaccines takes years to develop for safety is a myth. It is mostly a matter of time, and the fact that we were used to them taking years. Let's not forget smallpox and rabies vaccinations took far less to be invented, and people devising them didn't even know what viruses were. And also because most of the easy targets are now done. What's left are the harder ones (HIV). SARS-CoV-2 might have been hard, or one of the easy pickings. Luckily, it fell into the "easy" camp.

In this specific case, production was started during the trials, events, due to the fact that the virus is spreading like wildfire in the USA, took a matter of weeks to accrue (from 35 in October to 94 two weeks later, according to the Pfizer data), and the fact that an obscene amount of money was spent meant that most trials were started as soon as possible.

But, even looking at the protocols, you might notice that it ticks all the good boxes for proper clinical research.
How to design a great API (transcript)
And a fun subfact is that it had that code before Oracle existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Carlos_Airport_(California...
I am in doubt that "no-code" UI elements - or what I think of as "off-the-shelf UI elements" - will ever displace custom designed UI elements.

If you're going to use off-the-shelf things - any off-the-shelf things - you are then constrained and limited in what you can do.

No. Custom UIs and UI flows are here to stay.
Half-Life 2 also bumps up the health points of the civil protection soldiers in later chapters, counterbalancing the player's improved firepower.

https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Civil_Protection
From the instruction manual [1] for the Solarcan (a premade product that operates on the same principle), it appears pretty much all you do is scan the image and then invert it. Take a look at the images in the PDF - they're pretty cool.

[1] https://solarcan.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/solarcan-t...
There's an interview with Sid Meier floating around somewhere where he discusses how, in Civilization, people will assume the computer is cheating at combat, unless you actually bias it quite strongly in the human's behaviour.

Civilization shows you the odds for each fight based on the relative strength of the units. People expect to win a 90% odds fight every time.

(I'm also currently partway through reading Thinking In Bets, which has some interesting things to say about this sort of thing.)
That's really good news.
Thanks for still supporting the moddable java edition!
Why's that? They run an incredibly significant amount of internet infrastructure, is it not also natural for them to own a lot of IP addresses to go with that?
Oh yeah, secure connections. Wouldn't want to forget that...
My guess is that providers allow higher rate limits on developed country ISP IPs for this reason.
No, according to the majority of experts, there's still no sound basis for claiming that the strains have different infectiousness and there's even less evidence for different severity.

The only thing known is that we can decode the genome across the world and that the virus, as it spreads, slowly gets some small changes which could be followed.

There's no sign that anything people did (especially "lockdowns") up to now had any evolutionary effect on the virus. Coronaviruses mutate much slower than a lot of viruses. The majority of experts believe that what we observe (these still minimal changes) could be attributed to the "founder effect."
This is slowly happening. On my blog, I can see IP addresses of people who subscribed for my newsletter. It used to be 100 per cent IPv4 a year ago, now it is more like 8:1.
how does while with two reads work?
Treasury proposal to reverse onus of proof for black economy crimes
I tried it in all honesty, even though I found the attitude of the founder not so nice, but it is acceptable for very bright people, which I am not. Unfortunately, I hit a bump very soon as it could not deal with the way my sut was doing login (with azure) and as far as I could see on SO for example, people were relying upon puppeteer scripts to work around that. cypress looks super smart and all, but it did not do it for me. I am a 20+ years test automater and I am having lots of fun using taiko.
Just to explain a term used here - the Elo rating system is used to give a rating to individual chess players. It works well - if you defeat someone, you gain points and they lose an equal number of points. The bigger the difference in rating, the bigger the change in points. A 1200 player defeating a 1250 player gains +7 points, but defeating a 2000 player would be more like +30.

This system has also been adapted to team games like League of Legends and Dota 2. Teams are constructed such that most players in the game have the same rating. The winners gain +25 each and the losers lose -25. A significant minority feel that this is unfair. Clearly they only lost because of incompetent team mates so they lose points even when they play well. If only they could gain 200-1000 rating points, they would be playing with people at their own skill level, and they would win way more.

Turns out this theory is a bunch of horse shit, as proven countless times. These whiners play high ranked players to temporarily take over their account, win 1000 more points and then start playing at their new higher rating. And then they proceed to lose 40 games in a row because they have no idea what they’re doing.

Source - played Dota 2 for years. Rating was 3000 (top 5% at the time). I saw countless posts from whiners and losses from account buyers.