skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been spending almost every weekend for the past few months trying to break a crypto crash game (called bustabit) using ML. While I'm also dealing with probabilities, my challenge has to do with the limited data I'm dealt with even though their API is public.

In horse racing, you have access to so much shit that you can feed into the AI, like rider statistics, horse performance, horse attributes, etc. In my case, I only have the game/round number and the bust result (red or green). From thereon, I have to create many other variables (aka featuring engineering) like round win/lose streaks, moving averages, MACD, etc. I can also feed in what and if other players are currently betting for the round or not.

Currently, the house always wins. And their game is rigged so they have that 1% advantage over you. However, so far with my AI, I've came with enough confidence score to win as long as my bot plays 0.001% of the games.. which isn't declared victory since those blackswan games happen once every 3 weeks.

There's also another way to beat it without using any ML, just plain old fibbonaci martingale - requires around 10k starting money for error margin but it ends up always ahead of the house.. That's just a math way to beat it and not very fun :)

It's probably crazy of me to even attempt to predict randomness, but there's something intriguing when you mix big data and ML with forced randomness. Again, they have to keep forcing the odds to be 49% vs 51%..
Mill Computing: Mill, a clean-sheet rethink of general-purpose CPU architectures
Yes, we should pave our highways with cobblestones. It might help reduce traffic :)
I have experience with performant cache-friendly code. Yes, data oriented approach can be useful in some fields. But author blames the whole industry having low demand of performant code and wants python to accommodate cache-friendliness. This is a high level BS.
At a dollar per wash, in a mini machine, It's cheaper to buy plastic dishes and throw away after use then to buy this detergent!
Is your claim that the US EE professor and the US professor of neurosurgery quoted in the Snopes article are lying for their government, or that they are grossly incompetent?
Linus writes:

"Yes, it can save on disk use, but unless it's some very core library
used by a lot of things (ie particularly things like GUI libraries
like gnome or Qt or similar), the disk savings are often not all that
big - and disk is cheap."

How much savings? Has this ever been measured? Just curious.
As much as I think this entire thing is silly, let’s set one fact straight: Docker Desktop is not open source.
I just bought some the other day in Løvbjerg.
> you can pretty much upgrade even between LTS releases without risking any problem: replace libs built with the same compiler tool chain, and you're ddone

as someone who develops Qt apps for a living, this is not true at all. Yes, Qt promises no ABI / API break, sure. But it doesn't matter at all when a new release introduces a bug that breaks my app. It's super common to have to pin software to Qt versions if one wants to minimize bugs (and more importantly have a precise behaviour for all the users of the software - for instance, the way hidpi has been implemented has changed something like 3 times across the Qt5 lifetime, and there are still things to fix ; this means that on a hidpi screen the software won't look the same if linked against qt 5.6 / 5.10 / 5.15 which is pretty bad as for instance assets may have been made specifically to fit with the "Qt 5.6" look and may appear broken / incorrectly positioned / etc... on later versions (and conversely).
I added this this to another submission on hn and think many would be interested in what he personally has to say. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5jTbsvd3rA
I like to think of it as bad implementations and people not considering the user experience.

Sometimes you just have project managers or clients who want it like that regardless of how awful it is. In that scenario I think it's the developer's responsibility to give push back. It's why I don't get asked about implementing pop-ups on homepages.
Apple and Epic Head to Court over Their Slices of the App Pie
It also lets you avoid doing the things you don't want to do.
Certainly, but in the vast majority of cases where the company tells you you've joined a fellowship, that fellowship is very one-sided, and the company wants your loyalty while giving you none in return.

That's what the GP is cautioning against, and that's overwhelmingly the rule today. If you do find a company that treats its employees like a family and cares about them enough to keep them employed during (the employee's) hardship, that's a valuable thing indeed.
VMs are great. I've been using them for work stuff since Hardware virtualisation made it practical to run VMs with little or no performance penalty.

That said, swapping from Docker to VMs for things is nowhere near as simple or straightforward.

The near-frictionless ability to stand up/tear-down a 'known' good image and configuration, with the ability to swap in/out networking, volume or other environmental configuration is what made Docker so popular.

We use Docker containers for a wide range of things, and while we could reproduce all of that as VMs - it would take a lot more effort, and it would introduce a lot more delays waiting to build/replace a VM.
I think this one in particular ticks me off personally because people I meet are all moralistic about me listening to podcasts while bicycling in traffic, telling me I "shouldn't block the sounds of the environment."

And I'm left wondering: have these people ever been in a modern car? Just sitting in it blocks out more of the environment than my open-backed earbuds. If I can drive one of those without causing an accident, surely I can listen to podcasts on my (much slower) bicycle without causing an accident too!
Who is this “community” exactly? Is it you? Did you write the software they built theirs on top of? If not, who appointed you spokesperson? Did you get an email from Linus saying—-“Hey, I’m really busy. Mind trash talking docker for me?”

Claiming you are part of community doesn’t justify a massive sense of entitlement about software you didn’t pay for and didn’t contribute to.
> lack of evidence is enough to reject it

This is a pseudo-skeptical[1] finger in the ear reaction.

There's nothing in your posts here that tells me that you've reviewed the evidence that's been put forth[2] and rejected it, and it seems Snopes hasn't either.

All I see is a total a priori dismissal which is not good practice for either a skeptic or a scientist.

Here's what would've told me that this is a good faith exercise (by either you or Snopes): You show that you understand what the claimed evidence is, you present it in the most generous and strong terms, then you explain why it's wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoskepticism

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK566408/#sec0017
I mean, reading this:

https://janeyang.org/2021/04/27/an-open-letter-to-jason-and-...

It does seem like it may have been a case of some politically motivated employees being disruptive. The part that is just irredeemable is:

> I thought about it through COVID-19, as HEY launched in the midst of a civil rights uprising and we toiled over the customer support cases of people who could afford to pay $99/year for personal email.

This sounds like the person is complaining that their supposedly privileged customers distracted her from activism. If she has a problem working for "people who could afford to pay $99/year for personal email" then she should probably find a different job where she will serve a demographic that is more palatable to her.
If the point is just to show a commitment from the members, why not choose a method of showing commitment that doesn't create so much unnecessary waste? Like Lent or Ramadan, or simply meditating or something, rather than having elevators and ovens run for 24 hours extra?
> I don't get the advantage that you don't need to measure the detergent level, I have always used standard "all-in-one" tabs

Yeah this kind of "convenience" makes my BS meter beep. It's a non-problem, and I'm always suspicious of things like this because it's usually a sign they're trying to sneak something past you. (Or marketing to "the new generation" of domestic chores deficient people)

I mean, sure, I get that a dishwasher that needs no plumbing is a good idea, but at the same time, it's too few dishes (in my case) to be a big chore.
That's a MacPorts problem. Debian has libgccjit0 package for example. In due time, MacPorts will also package gccjit.
That's because your locality has forgotten how dishwashers were designed to work.
Same! Using normal dish soap that's sitting next to the sink anyways; if you only add a squirt, it doesn't start making foam like crazy as it pretty much gets "used up" by all the grease, and the result is so much better.
Mine was the first gen Shield, and I never could figure out why it stopped working properly with my (self hosted, local network) Emby server. Even after a factory reset and trying a different Google account it never worked right. No issues whatsoever with the various Roku devices in our house and at my mom's and SIL's houses.
Show HN: Refined Zapier – Open-source browser ext. to improve Zapier's UX
> but is too lazy to come up with better ideas

How can you say they are lazy about that?
Yes, that was my first impression with dishwasher many years ago. It is plain impossible to achieve this quality with hand washing. Especially for glassware.
The Active Denial System, listed on your link, causes pain by heating water in the skin.

What is the proposed system for getting microwaves past the skin into the brain without creating the same effect as the ADS?
I believe WSL2 and Apple's virtualization framework may eventually kill Docker desktop. Both provide enough underpinnings for an open source solution to match the "ease of use" thing that makes Docker Desktop popular. That leaves Docker Hub as their last revenue stream.
Surpassed, not bypassed.
I'm not sure crypto believer but seeing some one who's wealth rests on the bloodsoaked petrodollar calling bitcoin disgusting is rich
The fact that the minimum wage isn’t pegged means it IS adjusted: downward over time due to inflation. That has massive societal impact as it reduces wages for folks over time, risking homelessness and other effects of poverty. It also reduces productivity growth. THAT has real risk of runaway effects due to the compounding effects of poverty.

I don’t see why a simple adjustment for inflation or cost of living is bad and risky a priori but allowing it to decline over time is a priori good and not risky.

There is substantial bias in that assumption.
Bitcoin is Pachinko for middle-aged white men.

You can quote me on that.

(And, really, do some research into the $200B a year Pachinko industry, and you’ll see some disturbing parallels.)
You might be right, time will tell. Or they might never develove into that position due to slightly better consumer protection laws since the HP thing.
Yes, bad UI design exists. On the other hand, good UI design is largely a matter of what people are familiar with. This is true of both open source and commercial software. If we see bad UI design in open source software more, it is likely a product of open source software being more accessible. (People are more likely to try something they can download for free than something they have to pay $1000, $100, or even $10 for.)
The developers making OG Game Boy games in 2021
Actually, for me I am always referencing Goodfellas, but thanks for the link!

https://youtu.be/3XGAmPRxV48
I've seen this done in D fairly easily, almost definitely closed source unfortunately.
Many Indians acquire citizenship abroad, get NRI status, and spend long visits in India with family. They have valid claims in both countries.
My ikea one from 2016 has one.
There's little in the Snopes article which opposes the microwave theory, as opposed to the sound theory. It quotes two US experts in favour of the idea, and the strongest evidence it gives against microwaves is a dismissive reaction from an expert who, as the article makes clear, was acting as a spokesman for the Cuban government.
A piece of tinfoil at the right place does wonders!
> Microsoft tried it and Samsung tried it, but both were too tied to their own proprietary ecosystems. I think it could work with a det of open and freely available standards.

Sorry, but in what world has a new UI paradigm or physical form factor reached mass adoption via an open source project? Not knocking open source in general, it’s just that these are not the open source communities’ strengths in general. Meanwhile, single platform monolithic companies with end-to-end control and lots of financial resources tend to do much better here. Added to the fact that this was the basic thrust of the Ubuntu phone and (iirc) the Mozilla phone projects as well, and I just don’t see it. Maybe Apple will popularize the idea with an M1 (or M2, M3, etc) based iPhone (15?) that is truly powerful enough to pull it off and can run iOS and Mac OS side by side.
Original question was regarding UI. What's wrong with W10 UI?
brew install emacs-plus@28 --with-native-comp

might be a more standard "easy" approach on MacOS.
Luckily you can create a Venn-Diagram and arrive at something pretty universal.

First understand three things:

1) People are very different; genetics, microbiome, allergies and daily habits makes different diets great for different people. We are talking diets as different as super high fat keto, compared to high carb vegan that can probably all be great.

2) Most people thrive with the mysterious 80-20 rule, meaning don't go overboard unless of course trying to achieve something like Keto or are allergic. Most people do not need "very dogmatic" diets.

3) Diets are linked to lifestyle, microbiome, social setting and other factors that we are only beginning to understand, so don't look at anything in isolation.

Then look at the universals:

- Don't bomb your system with high amounts of simple carbohydrates too quickly, unless very active or in a fasted state. It will wreck your insulin system.

- Don't eat to much processed foods, they are always way lower in nutrients, and if fortified, still missing phytonutrients and often contains too much sugar etc.

- Eat a varied diet and cherish high density nutrient foods like dark leafy greens and offal. Lots of foods today have less nutrients because of horrible soil quality.

- Learn to listen to your body also foods are somewhat psychoactive if you start listening to the queues. Try an elimination diet if having problems, otherwise adjusting these things are often key: Dairy, Fats, Carbs, Caffeine, Fiber, Meat and more contested; classes of greens like nightshade, organic / non pesticide, raw vs cooked.

- Try fasting or just eating at different times of the day or skipping meals.

- Lots of people are Vitamin D deficient, and supplementng is easy. Omega3/6 ratio is also out of whack in most people but this is harder to fix.

- Keep an eye on the field of gut-brain-axis, microbiome etc, there seems to be a revolution around the corner, and its a key to understand everything from mood disorders to skin problems, weight loss and autoimmune diseases. But we aren't a place where there is hard data on "what to do" besides fecal transplants.
>Copyright is a way to encourage the production of new culture.

Perhaps it just was? Things evolved. Digital tools now make everyone face the law that was invented for publishers while not every person is even aware about publishing nor wish to deal with it.

People simply try to express themselves and punished for that like they are criminals. I do not think this is a way to encourage the production of new culture today.

From encouraging tool in the past as it perhaps was today it become a tool for opression of any form of self-expression because the environment has changed. Now it does exactly the opposite of what it suppose to do.

>Now if you excuse me I have to take care of my collection of scalps
While you take care of your collection of scalps please notice how valuable such activity was back then and how useless it is now.
There isn’t a strong feedback effect, though. We know this because there are areas that have large civil servant populations.

Secondly, we’re talking about minimum wage, not all wages.
Bypassed? As in dropped 1 million commits?
Clink [https://mridgers.github.io/clink/] adds this functionality and much more to good old fashioned command prompt (which I prefer to powershell because it's much faster and simpler)
Let's say you are building a web-based file upload/download service. You're going to write some code yourself, but most components will come from open-source projects. You pick a base operating system, a web server, a user management system, a remote storage system, a database, a monitoring system and a logging system. Everything works!

Now it's a month later. What do you need in ongoing operations, assuming you want to keep providing reasonable security?

You need to know when any of your dependencies makes a security-related change, and then you need to evaluate whether it affects you.

You need to know which systems in your service are running which versions of that dependency.

You need to be able to test the new version.

You need to be able to deploy the new version.

It doesn't matter what your underlying paradigm is. Microservices, unikernels, "serverless", monoliths, packages, virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, OpenStack, blah blah blah. Whatever you've got, it needs to fulfill those functions in a way which is effective and efficient.

The problem is that relatively few such systems do, and of those that do, some of them don't cooperate well with each other.

It's plausible that you have operating system packages with a great upstream security team, so you get new releases promptly... and at the same time, you use a bunch of Python Packages that are not packaged by your OS, so you need to subscribe individually to each of their changefeeds and pay attention.

Does that help?
Two sets of crew on the plane, they never formally depart other than a pre-flight check.
Solving Google Trends for ML-Powered Crypto Trading
I don't see how any of this happens all the time. If I were to maximize terminal and IDE/Browser I won't see those things either.
Yep, apologies to OP. I thought I was replying to different comment.
I can only assume that a lot of work by salespeople was performed in every single such case?
> Most dishwashers are designed to have a little detergent in the first cycle and then most in the second cycle.

This is uncommon, possibly non-existent, in dishwashers sold in Europe in the last decade or longer.

I remember them having a pre-wash detergent compartment in the 1990s, but nowadays there's only a single compartment, for the main wash.
I really miss Palm's zen. Great sweet spot of discoverability with a clutter-free design that didn't sacrifice functionality. I could even make the buttons do useful things instead of just opening a Bixby TOS I've declined a dozen times.
...you’re ignoring demand effects. Higher wages means more aggregate demand. Empirical research on minimum wage increases shows that this basically fully compensates for hypothetical disemployment effects.
I think it shows these fields remains more art than science.
Currency and money are weird and ancient concepts, in my view.

Of course they are part of society as common tools, but money can be corrupt or just a misleading way to measure value in society, especially with ecology and a very sophisticated society.

With the end of the cold war and the soviet union, there will be an endless supply of people arguing against planned economy, while it's clearly undeniable that all modern world governments are somewhat already centralized in a way or another, would it be by law, lobbies, government or monopolies.

It's really weird how bitcoin showed that normal banks are actually the best way to handle money. Government-regulated currencies are best because voters can actually have a saying in how money gets handled. You cannot say such thing about BTC. BTC is at the mercy of malware and BTC-to-dollar exchanges.

BTC really is the most shiny software gadget ever invented. Most people don't know how it work.
> The statement that all Cryptocurrency's that have any kind of following are POW at the moment is absolutely true.

Utter nonsense. There are plenty of functional Proof of Stake-based blockchains and cryptocurrencies.

Examples: Neo, Avalanche, Elrond, Fantom, Polkadot, Cosmos. These are all under one category of blockchain, contract platforms, which you can build applications or currencies ("tokens") on top of, and not one of them uses Proof of Waste. If you want an example of a pure currency like Bitcoin, see Nano.
I don't think VSCode is ahead of Emacs on some objective scale. I tried to re-create my Emacs configuration with it and found it impossible. Also VSC appeared to be notably slower when tuned closer to my needs. At the end of the day there are always users who delighted by innumerable choices of configuration possibilities, and those who believe it's unnecessary cognitive load. Emacs being DIY kit appeals to the former, while VSC is built like a browser with rich plugin system, it's in between but closer to the latter. I'm sure VSC does and will have larger audience, but only better Emacs can unseat Emacs on its side of the spectrum.

Btw the effects of MS funding can be overvalued - e.g. MsTeams is among the worst IMs in the existence.
What cryptocurrencies do you offer? Does it include Monero?
Do I get the premise of the game right if I think you either lose all of your wager or get some random odds on it?

But with the house take at 1 %, isn't it a negative sum game and therefore impossible to beat in the long run?

And even if you could play it at fair odds, wouldn't the solution simply be the Kelly bet?

I'm struggling to see under what circumstances it is an interesting game to work, so I suspect I'm missing some important nuance.
Wait - wasn't it relatively free-markets and rule-of-law property rights that enabled the west to outcompete the USSR, spending just a small fraction of GDP on defense compared to the Soviet defense percentage of GDP? And didn't relatively free markets succeed while soviet communism collapsed under its own economic weight?
https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/component.html

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html
It is not the complexity at fault, it's BMW cutting corners hitting quality. Even assuming the higher complexity part, there is no reason a software nice-to-have like navigation to make your entire car unusable, if you keep the ECU separate from the rest of the car it will still drive.
Yeah, but Wordpress is an open market, it's vast and very competitive. Other CMSes don't look attractive in that regard
Yes we include Monero, BTCUSD, ETHUSD + 20 other alt coins
There are tabletop models which need little extra plumbing.
We really do.
One day, a life form we create is likely to recreate us as we are now, either because we've ceased to be, or as a contrast against what we've become.
From my limited perspective as a former user who still keeps up with some of it: they seem to be continuing down that path, just slower as they don't have Canonical's paid dev team to work on it.