skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It hasn't shifted.
Where does the OpenBSD source code start?
Note as well that there is no concentration of measure in your example. You need to express the outcome as a rate of growth per flip for that.

And what do I care that the compounded growth over one million flips was close to 0% per flip if I have 49% probability of walking away with more that 50 million dollars?
DIP1040: Copying, Moving, and Forwarding
> where’s anything clearly better than its predecessor?

At the moment, there isn't a single alternative product for a state-free currency as a store of value that has reached the valuation of Bitcoin.

I'm not even a Bitcoiner, but if this isn't proof to you at this point, nothing will satisfy you. The proof doesn't have to convince you it's the future of currency, but it should certainly statisfy the question of "how has blockchain enabled anything new and interesting?".

The truth is, blockchain is less of a technological innovation than it is an organizational one. It is technology that attempts to digitize human organizational patterns as opposed to simply analog processes.

Those selling crypto to the moon and profiting off of the hype certainly ruin it for everyone. The promises, the lies, the failure to deliver is certainly an issue to take up. At the same time, there is quite a bit behind the lies that is worth looking at.
Nixon was a crook but he was the last Republican to have some sensible policies.
> "his laws of the seven R's ... always do the right thing for the right reason at the right time with the right people. [And] you will have no regrets for the rest of your life."

I count 6 R's, did somebody mangle the quote?
You completely missed the point kitkat. Abstract Factory is valid English vocabulary.

The point is it's just a programming technique / trick.

My main issue is that the word "Design pattern" inflates what these things actually are. The jargon is nuts. Design patterns isn't an academic field of study it's just miscellaneous programming tricks and common practices.

Don't raise it to a higher level than what these things actually are.

Not to mention pretentious names like "strategy pattern" or "iterator pattern" don't really help.
The Catholic Church here in the US (at least, in San Antonio) will give you a second middle name at the time of your Confirmation. At least they did, back in the 60s.

My wife has a second middle name that you don’t usually see, not even on most official documents. But it is a part of her full legal name.
Scientific papers should have more limited copyright protections around distribution. No one except journals benefits from the current situation, and the service they provide around connecting submissions with reviewers seems ripe for replacement if any institution lends their credibility to the matter.
I count seven: right, right, reason, right, right, regrets, rest.
So what’s an NFT? - 12 paragraphs down in the article... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
7 actually: right, right, reason, right, right, regrets, rest
It took me 4 tries to beat it, and I have a rating of 1300 on lichess.org and 1100 on chess.com.

In an effort to guestimate its strength a little more accurately, I had it play the first 4 levels of bots on lichess.org. It comfortably beat the level 3 (1400) bot and got crushed by the level 4 (1700) bot. Combined with beating me 3-1, I would estimate its lichess equivalent Elo rating to be somewhere in the 1400-1500 range.
You could say the same about picking up a stranger at a bar for sex but it’s still fun.
Doesn't properly implement pawn promotion, assumes Queen
Yes, but the point is that "clickbait" existed before people could click. The forms may have differed between geos, but I doubt you are disputing the existence.
> Being able to handle my life hassle free online instead of going to physical places (like post office, banks, gov office) is liberating.

The US has an incoherent assemblage of spare parts for an ID system and it's been years since I've seen the inside of a physical bank.

You have bank credentials and use them with with the bank. You have post office credentials and use them with the post office. This is far better from a security and privacy standpoint that any kind of centralized ID. If someone steals your post office credentials they can't drain your brokerage account, ransomware your employer's cloud services in your name and take out a home equity loan against your house and convert it into Bitcoin.

Centralized identity is a bug, not a feature.
Invisible Companion Technique
Please see dang's post up top.
Wouldn't it be even better to use a nano-manufactured flat lens? I've heard that, through nano- manufacturing techniques, the speed of light c can be specified for some materials.
Possibly there's a suitable plastic.
If you haven't worked with Go you should definitely do it, just to compare. It's hard to imagine two popular mainstream languages further apart in spirit than these two.

Go is so focused on simplicity that you'll be up and running (and have your server working) in like a day, tops. Then you can ponder the tradeoffs from a place of (some) knowledge not hypotheticals.
With the major cloud providers charging upwards of $0.10 per GB of outbound traffic, it's no wonder that few even attempt to compete with Youtube.
Not familiar with the Swiss system, but CA system has some interesting nuances - laws enacted as approved propositions cannot be modified at all, except by another approved proposition. In theory, that protects them from legislative overwriting/meddling, but also does not allow to fix unintended consequences. Here’s an example where a proposition was needed to authorize state legislature to make modifications to an older proposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7

And of course, CA still has daylight savings time because this proposition required two thirds vote.
Actually, someone from San Francisco would have no trouble in moving to Austin. That same Californian moving to, say, Salinas (that’s in California) would be more of a culture shock
No a laser is coherent. It has almost the same intensity in it's entire path. If you know the approximate distance you can accurately focus a normal beam of Light into that area. Killing the bug but much safer.
Super cool, congrats to the team! I can't count how many times I've had to open the merging section of the pandas docs. Great library but I find a lot of it unintuitive and hard to commit to memory.
Show HN: Elo Ratings for Stocks
> In the standard historical accounts, the way that the bomb’s gun mechanism worked was by shooting a cylindrical “male” uranium projectile into a concave, stationary uranium target. This act of atomic coitus created a mass sufficient to produce a critical reaction. The mass of the projectile was said to be 38.5 kilograms, and the mass of the target was said to be 25.6 kilograms. But no matter how many times Coster-Mullen did the math the numbers never quite worked out in a way that allowed the projectile and the target to fit inside the gun barrel while remaining subcritical.

> The source of the error, Coster-Mullen recognized, was an assumption that every (male) researcher who studied the subject had made about the relation between projectile and target. These scholars had apparently been unable to conceive of an arrangement other than a “missionary position” bomb, in which a solid male projectile penetrated a vessel-like female target. But Coster-Mullen realized that a female-superior arrangement—in which a hollow projectile slammed down on top of a stationary cylinder of highly enriched uranium—yielded the correct size and mass.

Does anyone understand what point is being made here? I don't understand how which piece is the projectile would make a difference in the overall size/geometry. All else equal, I would think it would be easier if the lighter, simpler piece were the projectile. Accelerating a cone/cylinder without breaking/damaging it seems a lot easier than accelerating the complementary shape.

Then again, I'm male, so I guess I'm just not capable of imagining the "female superior" design...
There are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Getting to the bottom of all of them are research.
Yé-Yé
> the payback period would be at least 1000 years

Now I wonder if you could take advantage of the increase in copper price over the time, you might come out ahead
I'm curious why it's not deterministic. If I move E4, it seems to respond with one of three openings at random
As a long-time former banker, Instacart is 100% the right candidate for a direct listing and Goldman / Morgan Stanley are likely currently pitching them on it if not beginning anchor investor meetings. It's a win-win from the bankers' and company's perspective.

The company feels good about avoiding the "perceived loss" from a day 1 IPO pop (not really how it works but it makes founders feel better) and pay slightly less on a total fee basis.

The bankers make more on average because they aren't splitting up the fee pie with 10 other banks and they don't need to backstop the IPO in case things go south on day 1 so they avoid major risk. There's a bit of a relationship loss in not handing hedge funds free Day 1 returns, but those relationships will last given how strong the IPO pipeline is and how much free money has been handed to the hedge funds.
HN seems to stop deeper comments, so I'll make one last comment. We've managed to get to the heart of the point, and say everything that needs to be said :-)

> I’m sorry. That is the probability distribution. EE doesn’t change that mathematical fact. The distribution is not “fixed that way”, it is what it is.

That is where the mistaken assumption lies, and repeating it is simply refusing to engage with the point.

> Now, it’s of course true that the mean of a finite sample taken from that distribution (which has a HUGE variance) will also have a huge variance.

You're halfway there! The underlying distribution on trajectories has a huge variance like you pointed out, but the mean of a finite sample is likely to have only a (vanishingly) small variance, because of the central limit theorem! (aka concentration of measure for "typical" trajectories)

So, averaging using the low variance distribution on the mean of (typical) finite samples is more representative model (corresponds to real world measurements) than averaging using the high-variance distribution on the underlying ensemble (what you assumed the de facto probability distribution). The former is called a "time average" and the latter is called an "ensemble average".
Interesting thought. It seems a lot of successful websites are, or can be thought of as crappy. Look at South Korean naver.com or craigslist among many others.

I've seen reports that its due to user familiarity, and I've actually worked at one place where we measured conversion rate before and after a redesign and the CVR fell after the redesign but we stuck with it despite the data saying otherwise.

I think many people don't want to mess with success.
Give it to Amazon they do it better
I made me recall Yuval’s books.
They are part of the same story.

Alan McDonald spoke up in the first closed meeting as the article says and told that they have suggested not launching. Focus of the commission started to change but it didn't happen overnight. He didn't "blow whistle to congress".
A High-Level Overview of Various NFT Platforms
It’s either some made up word that sounds like some other word “Prolapsia,”
OR
It’s some random piece of fruit or cute animal, “Turnip.”
Based on your homepage I have no idea what your selling.
Thanks for teaching me something
“Google Car Crash Detection saved me hours of suffering”
I think I agree that uploaders face more of a threat from censorious activists reviewing their old material than they do from retroactive deletion prompted by YouTube policy changes, but surely self-hosting would provide some protection, assuming the audience would be willing and able to transition to a different source?

It seems to me that hosting and payment processing companies ultimately present the greater service denial risk for uploaders with an established audience, though YouTube can definitely hamper new viewer discovery, and there is more competition (and therefore more alternatives) in hosting and payments.
lol, I marked every tenth led manually and counted twice - the number is correct, the marketplace is wrong.

https://imgur.com/a/NqVXtDd

https://www.mblock.com.tw/upload/Investor/events/2020/202008...
I have read
Christopher Alexander’s bibliography and also had this impression that software people got it “wrong“. The patterns on GoF aren’t really at the same level - an “Iterator” is too low-level and not at all the level at which you would be discussing architecture with the end-users, which is the point of C.A. They focused on pattern “reuse” because that’s what the industry and OOP obsessed about - in the end reuse happens at package-level, so the industry missed the mark.

In fact, it surprises me the focus on “A Pattern Language” at all when the “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” is a much relevant book on the topic of gathering requirements, prototyping and designing solutions.

Anyway, I recommend going straight to the source and reading Christopher Alexander’s work as it’s very relevant for anyone designing solutions of any form.
Seller financed sales are reasonably common in business and real estate.
> I wonder if Lambda then is about separating compute and the CPU

I think lambda is more like the glue that sticks all these separate services together again.
Where's the "autothrottle" in the EAD you quote? From the article we all comment:

"Jacobsen points out that the FAA’s emergency directive after the Lion Air crash lists the procedure pilots should follow — but omits the instruction on the autothrottle and fails to mention that it could malfunction."

The way I understand it, that's the new information in the article to which you respond with quoting... exactly the very EAD which obviously lacks any mention of it, confirming the claims from the article.
Quite likely a local optimum from the fact they a/b test everything incrementally all to heck. A major shift inherently will end up worse in the short term even if it is better in the long term.

It's hard to do a major change both from the perspective of end user comfort and the fact it will need to be improved to deal with unforeseen issues.
As someone who has gone from python -> c++ -> rust I'll agree with you here. Rust feels a lot more natural than c++ to get your ideas into code.
Thanks! I registered that in 2011, cant believe it took me 10 years to finally reveal this project to the world ;)
Let builders tear down old buildings and single dwelling house and build up and denser. NIMBYism prevents this currently because people want to "keep the feel" of the area. Well that's impossible. Things always change, you can't go back, you can only delay and price yourself out of your own house. At least most get to sell at a good profit.
I think you're underestimating the ability of HN readers to figure things out. Perhaps that is the answer to both questions.
i keep hearing about this company every few months. Obviously it can revolutionise the automotive industry. I guess we will have to wait till it matures a little bit.
> I benefit without producing any utility for the economy at all.

You provide the tenants the opportunity to have housing without the risks of ownership (the down payment and risk of declines. See 2008, for example).

It's not for everyone, and moving to ownership may be more beneficial long-term, but it is needed for some and at some times.
What does a bad market look like?
The Beeketing social proof stuff seems to be synchronized to actual realtime sales-- e.g. https://support.beeketing.com/support/solutions/articles/240...

https://support.beeketing.com/support/solutions/articles/240...

Though they do suggest lying with {random_time_ago}...

Shopify will only approve social proof plugins that use real data.

edit: Indeed, I've confirmed that it doesn't even serve static images, but instead JavaScript injects dynamic HTML based on polled events-- https://imgur.com/a/2S1YHhG I suspect those images you have are samples in the user interface or documentation.
This is interesting. Is it default for all androids?
The closest we got to an answer about who perpetrated these hacks was a quote in the article:

> Only intelligence services or people who know where the servers are located can pull off things like that.

I don't really know how the quotee would arrive at that conclusion, but I do agree the seemingly systemic nature of these hacks, e.g. "Let's hit the popular dark web forums." isn't usually how criminals operate, based on my limited understanding.

That said, groups of people do seemingly weird things all the time, so I dunno if it's anything other than a gentle nudge in a direction. Hardly a smoking gun.

Additionally, I've always heard the sophistication levels of hacking groups go (from least to most): activists -> criminals -> state groups. I don't know if that's changed in some recent years, but that's how I learned it.
> Balkanizing ID info between a gazillion government databases as we do in the US just creates inefficiency

It improves security through the reduction in the scope of harm and eliminating single points of failure. If someone compromises your Candy Crush login they can't drain your bank account.

> and raises the thirst for more intensive surveillance to counter the inefficiency with which the data is used. (Consider the talk after 9/11 on the FBI and CIA not sharing info, and then we get the Patriot Act.)

Your argument in favor of centralized ID is that otherwise nefarious spies will lobby in favor of something equivalent to centralized ID so they can correlate everything? That's the argument against it.
Now you are trying to say that for after 11 years, miners will for some reason sit and wait for someone that isn't sending them a block fast enough and that other miners will attack people like that.

No one is waiting. If someone tries to send out a block slowly, someone else mines that block and sends it out fast. This is not difficult to understand.

It's amazing all the made up nonsense you've thrown out to try to predict a future that has already come and gone. Why are you so desperate to prove something so ridiculous? What you are talking about doesn't happen at all at any throughput on any cryptocurrency.
You're asking me what is ideological about "tech companies that routinely perform highly immoral business practices", "Google does not give a fuck about black people", and "But I'm sure now that people are capitalizing "Black" that things will change"? The entire comment seems to consist of high-indignation, low-information name-calling on the ideological themes of corporatism and race.

No one's saying you have to be emotionally muted! (I probably have to be, but it doesn't mean anyone else does.) There's no problem with vibrant emotion—the problem is with the sort of repetition that makes up with intensity for what it lacks in new information. It seems to be a kind of mechanism—the mind turns to indignation in the absence of anything more substantial: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

When you say "My comment was entirely based on my experience with how companies treat people."—it's precisely that which your comment lacked. I believe you that it was based on your experience, but it didn't actually share any of that experience; it just angrily repeated some stale tropes. Such a comment is activating rather than interesting, which is why it evokes worse discussion from others. If you had actually shared your relevant experience the comment would probably have been more interesting than activating, and that is what evokes better discussion from others.

(I didn't remove your comment, but I did auto-collapse this low-quality flamewar subthread. That is one trick we use to try to jiggle the system out of its failure modes.)
So she didn’t even know the concept of a clickbait? Her country sounds like a wonderland.
Yeah, I managed to trap it into giving up its queen. I was pretty happy. Then I moved my queen to a spot where I did not realize its bishop could just scoot straight through the forest and take my queen. Oops.
The republican party is only staying afloat via voter suppression, radicalization, and gerrymandering. That said they're doing a pretty good job of it. They're trying to double down on it in the South as well, plus take away even more women's rights to do what they want with their body. It's still anyone's ballgame but the left is slowly winning by sheer numbers and demographics. The R wall can't hold forever but they don't seem to be willing to change.
I try to focus on influencing my current self to point it in the direction I want my future self to be. I do ‘‘tis be writing down what I want to be in 5 years then work backwards from there at tactical changes.
This is how many/most people behave when confronted with real consequences.

No, I don't think it is, and it's the pervasive belief that they do that gives the few who do license to continue doing so.
You can study fathom( https://usefathom.com/pricing ). As you say, the running cost of Counter is low, but your job is more valuable!
I can’t see any way what I said doesn’t apply equally to totalitarian systems and dictatorships.

You will need to explain.
Ptolemaic propaganda I say!
The state doesn’t discourage it, they promote it. That’s the problem. Gambling is entertainment for people who don’t understand statistics. It’s a tax on the poor.
Yup. And around 1% of the volume of gasoline is benzene, which is wonderful.

I hate the smell of the stuff. Since going electric, I hate the smell of gas stations and avoid going to them for any reason.
Both existed, and in many cases it wasn’t exactly clear which was which.

Moreover, surge protectors used sacrificial components that would not age well, and they would stop being effective at their job. But you’d look at the LED and it would still be green, so you’d think you were safe.

And most people didn’t know that you weren’t supposed to plug a surge protector into another surge protector.

There was much confusion, and to a degree there still is.
Your last sentence is exactly what regulations are for. it's like you destroyed your whole argument with that last sentence deliberately?
I can't speak for OP, but I doubt this is intended to replace LiChess. It's a uniquely designed proof of concept and a great one. We can give it a creative licence.
Practically speaking, how is "raise money on private market, then quickly go public via Direct Listing" different from a traditional IPO? Presumably the late stage private investors get the company at a steep discount relative to what would be available to retail investors, so it doesn't seem that different from an IPO where the majority of shares go to select institutional investors. If the shares pop 50% after the Direct Listing, then couldn't one argue that the company left money on the table during the pre-Direct Listing private round?
https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/66151/...
> Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.

I agree. We should make the government use its monopoly on force to take freedoms away from people we disagree with. How dare a company decide with whom it does business and under what terms?
It's not just some "rich dude". The highest bidder [1] (so far) is Justin Sun, creator of TRON crypto [2]. I see this as a big publicity stunt for his personal branding.

Not too different than paying $4.5M to have a dinner with Warren Buffett [3].

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-is-offering...

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

[3] https://www.coindesk.com/trons-justin-sun-finally-gets-4-5m-...
Annoying, yes.

Invasion of privacy? No. (Someone, somewhere bought one of these. Who's privacy has been invaded?)

Considered a dark pattern? Again, "somebody bought one of these". Pretty insignificant.
And the committee memo is so much shorter when there’s no equity risk!