skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When someone famous with a reputation of always being right is suddenly wrong, there's a scramble to be the one who corrects them. It's a point of pride and fame.

The Monty Hall problem is particularly troublesome because the statistical connection is for some reason counterintuitive and difficult to grasp unaided, even for experts. Being that rare person who just gets it right away means that you'll have a lot of people thinking it's you who have misunderstood.

So in this case I'd say that this kind of reaction was rather normal (albeit with a sexist bent in a number of the responses).
While I do not speak on behalf of Pianote, there is definitely no paid shilling going on, it may be the case that the OP is a non-native english speaker, and in that way the tone comes across differently. As for the cost, I would definitely say Pianote's goal is to be a pianote lesson replacement, and in that way the content is cheaper, hopefully for a better/different experience than what you'd get taking sit down lessons
Clojure is not easy, but it is simple, as Rich Hicky explained.
For the trivial projects, you won’t find yourself bulding products faster in this stack compared to others.

To feel productive, you need to amortize your time spent learning Clojure over the time saved building and maintaining complex, non-trivial projects.

I can’t say for Elm as I never tried it. But, as a mostly backend developer, moving from Javascript to Clojurescript was a huge enablement for me. I am a rather mediocre programmer in a two man team. Still, with Clojure/Clojurescript, I was able to make something I could only dream about before.
>>In fact they have said this publicly in interviews.

> So I can sue them for not running Apple II programs? Cool! There were always programs that failed to run for some reason or another, and programs taken out of the Mac store, etc.

No, you just don’t know much about Apple.

They haven’t promised to be backward compatible with everything, but they have promised not to stop you from running what you want to run.

I.e. they have promised not to do what you are saying they should do.

> Sure, just apply a new rejection policy after an upgrade, and state it applies from that version on. That's what Apple would normally do anyway.

Apple has never done this.

> So you're just admitting I'm right.

Obviously not. In fact you have proven yourself completely wrong, by acknowledging that they could not do it under their current license and with their current software and would need to get people to agree to a new contract.

Yes, Apple, (or anyone else) could offer a service for the Max that users sign up for to remotely disable software they disapprove of.

But that isn’t what you said.
My intuition keeps betraying me, but a truth table finally convinced me:

| Car | Goat | Goat | Switch? | Win? |

|-----+------+------+---------+------|

| T | F | F | F | T |

| T | F | F | T | F |

| F | T | F | F | F |

| F | T | F | T | T |

| F | F | T | F | F |

| F | F | T | T | T |

Number of wins when not switching: 1

Number of wins when switching: 2

EDIT: Woops, hackernews does not like an org-mode table. Found out you can indent by 2 spaces to preserve format.
When is the singularity going to happen?
Didn't someone mention the arrow guy is the author of pandas as well?
The one everyone remembers is that Discord was going to ban all NSFW channels on any server. This is no longer happening.
Not only will he not open the door you choose, he won't open the door in front of the car either. I think that's the key point that confuses people. He knows where the car is and he always exposes a goat instead.
> Why would a company do something in the interest of the consumer if it was not in their interest ?

We call that "ethics", IIRC. It's depressingly rare.
The most annoying thing was that this was due to me changing my home router, which triggered an IP switcharoo from my ISP. Because it was a rarely used account Google freaked out. The more I tried to prove it was me the more it started sending me angry notices that it detected malfeasence and then boom.
I recently discovered this game, and am really enjoying it. I've played roguelikes such as nethack, angband and even rogue itself. Although I'm not really very good at them and haven't ever won any of them. But at least right now stone soup is my favorite. It's less tedious and grindy. There are commands to wait for health to recover, and to auto-explore. I don't have to worry about searching for traps and hidden doors. I don't have to worry about running out of food. But it is still plenty challenging.
I mean, if you're against the monopoly it makes little sense to be for an oligopoly. Either you have tunnels that lead between different walled gardens, not really changing much except which company receives your money, or you tear down the walls of all walled gardens and users might just get attacked as they try to make their way over to the other walled gardens (that being 'free fortnite vbucks' scams).
I use it to download books I bought but can't be downloaded anymore because Barnes and Noble bought the publisher/online-retailer and forbid downloads from non-US citizens (yep, that is a thing).
>> I think the standard consensus is that he was... well, wrong, at least about chattel slavery, and putting it quite mildly.

> Is the standard consensus suddenly pro-slavery?

The standard consensus is that slavery is wrong because the people being enslaved were equal in their humanity to those enslaving them. This isn't abstract thing... equal treatment under the law is, for example, encoded by constitutional amendments in the united states.

Hume had a decidedly different view on the rationale for ending slavery. He was a philosopher, not merely an elector, so the actual reasons do in fact matter when studying him and his ideas.

Do you really believe that the standard consensus on slavery doesn't also include a rejection of racism or an affirmation of equal protection under the law? Come on. Hume was wrong. He knew that 3+3=6 because 3x3=6 and 2+2=4 and 2x2=4. He was wrong, and countering that all is fine here because 3+3=6 after all is stupid.

> Nowadays it's just assumed that any racist must be an advocate for slavery, or gas chambers, or whatever. Actually reading racists (like Hume) would quickly disabuse one of that notion.

And where do I make that assumption? As GP would say, what an embarrassing reading of both the essay and my comment ;-)

Hume's opinions on chattel slavery were profoundly wrong. He's an interesting case because he was wrong in a very particular and peculiar way. Again, the comparison to Heidegger is apt. Obviously, that subtlety -- wrong, but in a weird way -- is the jumping-off point for this article.

Again, do you care to actually defend Hume's politics?
But... What is it?
> - Users are infected with malware

Also, it was less malware and more just a low-profile privacy invasive SDK.
I learned to program in TI BASIC on my TI 85. The higher quality assembly games hadn’t been popularized yet so I had a lot of fun writing simple games for myself: hangman, blackjack, etc

I have this recollection that variable names were capped at 2 letters, so all my variables were named AA, AB, etc. Also a lot of goto usage.

Good times!
> Google's preferred 2FA method is the "Google Prompt," a notification Google pushes to your phone

Oh please no, no, no, no a million times. I shoudn't have to run Google services on my phone, I shoudn't need to have a phone, and my big heavy immobile desktop should BE a 2FA device of its own because it's much harder to steal. Don't make the use of a desktop require a phone.
Children and technology: facilitated abuse in domestic violence situations [pdf]
I think stordoff's answer would be helpful:

When you first pick a door, you have a 1/3 chance of it being the right door. There's a 2/3 chance of it being behind a door you didn't pick.

When the host then opens a door, there's still a 2/3 chance that it is behind one of the doors you didn't pick. However, there's now only one door in this set, so there's 2/3 chance that it's behind _that_ door.

To look at another way, imagine if the host didn't reveal the content of the door, but gave you the option to switch to BOTH of the other doors instead of your door. Your odds of winning clearly go up, as you now have two chances to win (and all are of equal probability). That's equivalent to what's happening here. By showing you the losing door of those two, he doesn't change anything - there's still twice the chance it was behind one of the doors you didn't pick compared to the one you did, and by switching you win if it was behind either of them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27093045
As a Google of many years and a long-term gmail user, I have refused to give my phone number to Google. Their hunger for data has absolutely no bounds, and the security blather is just a convenient way to demand everyone's phone number. It makes sense though - they make more money the more they know about your account. I am in the final stages of terminating my use of anything that requires a google account. I fully expect that you will not be able to do a search on Google without being logged in. It's only a matter of time.
Well, well, well.... How the turntables....

But in all seriousness, it makes me so ashamed how so many of these scammers that prey on elderly US/UK people are from my home city of Kolkata.

NYTimes had a great article earlier this year on such scammers from Kolkata - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/magazine/scam-call-center...
I currently am a 'gifted child', and it really is all bullshit. I go to a 'prestigious' school where everyone around me is a 'gifted child', and so many of us are perpetually tired and perpetually beginning to burn out: this solely because we could read and write at higher than expected levels for our ages in 3rd grade. I don't mean to be ungrateful. My education is amazing, but it's not inherently meaningful, and you should be careful. There is no difference between a gifted child and an ungifted child. We get just as tired just as quickly.

> My four year old daughter is exceptionally gifted (generally), and profoundly so with visual-spatial intelligence and math.

And? These are test results. They mean nothing. Sometimes the argument delivered to 'gifted kids' is that they have a gift and thus a responsibility to use it, which is, as previously stated, bullshit. I have no gift aside from existence, the same as every other person. I say this because you can't interpret test results as a reflection of the brain --- or _intelligence_, whatever that is. Tests are limited in scope, innacurate, and probabalistic. They're determined by so many factors that aren't intelligence, and so many subsections of intelligence are excluded or included arbitrarily. Pretending I or your child has more of a nebulous and immeasureable quality is a factually innacurate burden that makes living harder. I won't give parenting advice, but I will give my perspective. I hope it's helpful.
And that’s also an exact recipe of how to prioritise decisions that help (or seem to help) only in the short term.

Luckily they’re too expensive to be the biggest player in most of the world. But they’re part of a duopoly.
While this method sounds effective, it's not very enjoyable.

As a "for fun" piano player, I just like to power through a song slowly, as far as I can get (not stopping for minor mistakes or even skipping notes). Side effect of this is that it has made my sight reading very good.
Can’t it be random if there are two goat doors the host has to choose from? But I see your point about it clarifying the problem.
I strongly feel that productivity is proportional to the frequency that a feedback loop is performed.

More meetings!
> Americans never had a common culture to begin with

So far the US has had a significant amount of soft power, and that is said to be based on a common culture, says wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power#United_States
What's the % reduction for people that regularly eat vegetables in general, for comparison?
"a thing" is still happening, but it's vastly reduced from the original version.
The laptop? Or the DAW?
It is closed source unfortunately. I'd gladly contribute if it were open. Having first party Rust on .NET platform, especially classlib compatible, would be rejuvenating. The platform certainly has all the necessary whistles.
If Hume isn't a great philosopher, then it's because the category isn't coherent. Any reasonable understanding of great philosopher would include him. In terms of importance, scope, originality, argumentation, he's among the greats.

If skepticism isn't admirable, I'll have to ask you to behave in a less disreputable manner.
> Drawing a line at size of a company before you feel you can impose your morals upon them is still a hypocritical position.

How? What definition of hypocritical applies here?

And the goal isn't to impose morals, the goal is to treat it more and more like a public space.
Xkcd: The History of Unicode
I think this is because, mushrooms are known to increase levels of NAD+ in our body[1].

[1]https://www.springfieldwellnesscenter.com/mental-health-blog...
> Muddy the waters further and nations will be even less likely to intervene than they already are.

Actually, more importantly, muddy the waters further and it also becomes easier for bad actors to justify intervention. Like Russia in Ukraine (to cite just the latest target of its ethnic Russian victimization playbook). Or the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even legitimately good intentions can have disastrous results. At any given moment there are minorities everywhere that need defending, often adjacent to a nation where their group is a majority, and if you give nations moral authority to intervene whenever a minority culture is targeted... who's going to take the blame for the real, physical bloodshed? International law is a very blunt instrument. It's the least capable framework for handling any kind of nuance, let alone culturally relative nuance.
Near as I can tell, they don’t. This appears to be ignorance, rumor, or malice…
Have you seen the way lasers are used to do this? NDT or non destructive testing has use dual laser systems to create ultrasound for several decades. Check it out if you are interested.

I can try to find that papers if you would like.
This is so great. "Dad! Why didn't you tell me!"

Of course --- no story about being lost to history, though! --- there's the impact of Bad Brains on punk/hardcore as well.
I think you’re missing a point or two here…
If it is critical to have the log, it has to be local. Infrastructure shouldn't die if an internet connection goes down.

You can sent the status of the log out through the data diode, along with a copy of the data.
Pretty much no one who advocates for effective biological immortality also argues that you should be forced to live forever against your will. So while it can be fun to speculate on such, as it can be fun to look at torture methods (the video game Amnesia has a good section on this), it shouldn't be mistaken for people advocating for such.

The ridicule the comment made is for a mindset that actually happens right now, talk to some retired boomer relatives. A lot of them have had actuarial consultations and some of those are treating it almost like gospel, like the other comment wishing he could do the same given 23andMe reporting. This leads to them depleting their savings (mostly held up in "safe" investments that aren't expected to grow or shrink much over the relevant timespan) at some rate so that it gets close to $0 by the time they can expect to die. Some older people have already made it long enough to go past that point, and they get into the same situations that retirees without any savings get into. i.e. you hear about old ladies subsisting on dog food because their only source of income is a small social security check.

A better mindset is the one used by the FIRE crowd, which applies just as well if you're "retired" at 30 or 60: recognize index funds are not just pretty safe but also give a pretty high confidence minimal rate of return, plan for average x% returns per year, and don't withdraw more than x% for income, so that your savings never decreases but in fact increases. This way you can retire whenever your savings hits the right number to support your required income indefinitely, rather than retiring when your savings hits the right number to provide income only for the next X years until you die.

(I shouldn't have to say it but will: this is a theoretical optimal modeling strategy, reality will be messier, any real plan should analyze possible setbacks and ways to deal with them -- the easiest way typically being to seek work again for some period of time, which tends to be easier the more biologically young you are. And of course, regardless of biological immortality or whatever, you could be an unlucky passenger in a car driving down the freeway when a random brick from a truck in the oncoming lane comes loose and collides with your head.)
The Blood Angels omnibus is a lot of, "it's RED on RED, with RED EVERYWHERE." Even in my youth I was blushing RED at the writing quality.
Chinese rocket fell into the Indian ocean north of the Maldives
I hate this. I have 2 accounts with adsense, no recovery email because google banned all adsense account associated to my old emails (in 2012), which was not my fault. So I know the password, I know the email, still can't login because that phone number expired.
I had a look at your product, it seems like a good idea, using yaml to declaratively describe the ui.
I'm curious though if this is actually low code, when I see the docs I still imagine it's actual developers who will be writing all the yaml or not.

As more use cases pop up I actually expect the yaml to grow considerably complex, at which point you will need to reuse yaml blocks, reference other blocks and so on. Essentially it feels to me writing yaml is no different from coding using a high level library or framework.
That's the definition of protected free speech, not the definition of free speech.

Don't be pedantic about the wrong term.
DigitalOcean.

They have entire ranges of IP addresses block by some of the blocklist but my users are here in the U.S. and from what I could find those are mostly used outside the U.S.

It's a hit or miss thing. If you spin up a new "Droplet" you should do an IP blacklist check on before your build your server. If it's on more than just a few you might want to start over.
Nah, each card should come with an NFT.
But what are the benefits that are available right now?

The only benefits I've seen in your article are not available right now, and can (and sometimes are) matched by Kotlin and even Lombok.

* Destructuring pattern matching syntax (JEP 405)

Proper pattern matching is obviously one of Kotlin's weak spots, but nothing prevents it from developing this in the future. Just like Java has JEP 405, Kotlin has KT-186[1], although Java might (uncharacteristically) beat Kotlin to this one.

* with blocks

This solution is far away and relies on introducing new syntax to the language. Meanwhile both Kotlin and Lombok already have solutions that give you the same benefits without introducing new syntax.

Lombok has both @With and @ToBuilder, while Kotlin has the copy() method.

* Serialization

As far as I can see, Kotlin Serialization already supports algebraic data types - including Sum Types, not just Product Types!

* Boilerplate reduction

I don't think you were trying to imply otherwise, but just to be clear about it, this is the benefit that both Kotlin and Lombok data classes had from day one.

[1] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-186
Tell HN: Mega's Auckland office is at “Huawei Centre”
https://mega.io/about states Mega's office location as "Level 21, Huawei Centre".

https://www.huawei.com/nz/contact-us
While Huawei's NZ office is 2 floors up.

An image search of the building shows a big logo of the Chinese company at the front entrance.
I wanted to prove this to myself programmatically so I made this Python script: https://gist.github.com/snitzr/7ecf0abaacce610893e9364b13bce...

It’s better to switch.

One way to think about it is in an exaggerated way. If there was a googolplex number of choices and you chose one and then all but your choice and another door were taken away, you’d have almost a 100% chance of being correct if you switch.
>they make more money the more they know about your account

to Google's credit you can at least opt out of that part. (don't know if this is a global thing)

myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup
> When you phrase it in a way that suggests the host's choice is itself random, people get it wrong.

In other words, they still get it right; they get it right for the separate question that that phrasing implies.

If the host's choice is random, so that when you initially picked wrong it's equally probable that the host open the door with the car and then say "sorry, looks like you lost" (which is what I assumed when I first heard this problem, not being familiar with the show), then even if the host happened to open the door with a goat and give you a chance to switch, it doesn't matter if you take it or not. People are correct that, for that question, the probabilities are one in two for both of the remaining doors.
Haha, I knew my post had the potential to be taken the wrong way...and its not $200 for 'books' but for hours upon hours of video learning material, live sessions with teachers, backing tracks for your practice songs, PDFs with practices for your particular lesson and so on. I‘m just really a fan of the site and wanted to share my experience, and no I haven’t been paid to write this text on my 5yrs old account with 100 karma. :)

p.s yes I‘m not a native speaker
Thanks for checking this.

I have in the past complained about bugs like this to a cousin of mine who works for the BBC. The response? "Hell, we're the press; what do you expect?"

(At one point we discussed it in person and she said that she actually thinks the BBC standards are pretty high, but that's merely relatively high in an industry where the standards are low. I suppose the years have made her cynical).
Internet speed in Europe dashboard: how it's made
Last time I worked to replace gAuthenticator with Authy for gmail, it failed. Toggling 2FA off and starting fresh didn’t work either. Have any tips?
Yeah, because that is the only way that they could ever do it, assuming WG14 would ever care about a safer C.
Social Media Is a Tool of the CIA. Seriously (2011)
IQ tests apparently have a very wide standard deviation, and regression to the mean would also be an issue (if you select for high IQ, you are also selecting for medium IQ with large positive error).
Hey man, I really like the mobile app but I also bought an iPad specifically for learning, cause the mobile screen is just to small for me to practice comfortably. Is there an iPad app in the works? Best regards to your whole team. You do an amazing job!
Intention doesn’t matter. The problem states that the host opens another door and reveals a goat.

It doesn’t matter that the host meant to do that. Now that the information is revealed, the probabilities have changed.

Obviously if the host revealed the car, that would also affect the probabilities!
> unless you're happy with the result of Apple blocking Reddit instead of allowing you to do it too

Yes, please. Maybe Apple-fanboy here will finally understand Apple's evilness.