skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a great deal of information already available in their main lines of business with items of high volume, popularity, and resell value. A great example of all three would be the original set of collaborative releases between Nike and Off-White, called "The Ten." Many people have bought authentic pairs, and many, quite a few knowingly, have bought fakes. There is a large pool of information on the variability of both authentic and fake items. Often, experts can determine which sellers have factory sources in common, because the factories frequently do not sell directly to consumers.

People who know where this information exists, since it is frequently in a few different places, could read as much as possible and compile it into guides. My guess is that's what they have done, since it can be difficult to be an expert on everything. The bulk of their business probably also has to do with a small subset of the full market. I doubt they see many requests to authenticate, say, a pair of Carol Christian Poell drip sneakers, because they are low in volume and overall popularity. And sometimes the best source of information is rep makers and resellers, especially with pieces that are difficult to duplicate.

Fakes can be convincing, but they're frequently sorted into a couple tiers, and in some cases, fakes can only be spotted with a detailed examination of areas where the fakes are most likely to deviate from the originals. There is a fuzzy threshold for quality that is determined by the ability to identify these differences while someone is wearing the fake item.
> contracted to twenty-seven levels

For anyone unfamiliar, 27 is a number ingrained deeply into the game, with some traces very well hidden.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss/comments/mvrc1w/did_anyone_of_...
Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV
Some journals’ copyright assignments have explicit carve-outs for authors to distribute their own work.
I'm probably wrong about everything. But to me: remote work explains why houses in, like, Idaho might get more expensive. But if you're going to live in Chicagoland or in DC metro, there are big advantages to living close to the center, even if you don't have to commute; all the good restaurants are there, all the shows are there, public transportation is better, and so on.
This is the crux of it!
Yeah, they keep on removing mechanics for what appears (to an outsider) to be petty reasons: the developers don’t like map modification, so you can no longer use wands to disintegrate various solid materials. (Which is a bit disappointing, because it’s sometimes fun (in the Dwarf Fortress sense, at least), to take on the angels found in certain temples.) It’s particularly frustrating because recent versions have some nice UX modifications for things like manual skill training and there’s no easy way to get the modern UI with some of the older mechanics.
It's right depending on your assumptions. If the host has rules of only picking the right most door the contestant doesn't pick, and it happens to be a goat then the answer is 50%. Basically if the host is just as willing to show a car as show a goat and it is a goat which is shown, the answer is 50%.

There is a confirmation bias that people expect people who are aware of the Monty Hall Problem expect others to be wrong about it and attribute it to people not understanding. I think it's perfectly acceptable for someone to read the vague "the host, who is well-aware of what’s going on behind the scenes" and not assume that means he chooses to pick a goat. They're probably right, and the people saying 50% are reasoning along the lines of "there are two doors so 50/50".

For rigor, I think the host's rules need to be more strict: "The host knows what is behind the doors and will never reveal the car".

Or a 50% answer is correct if you lay out the principles of how the host acts given his knowledge.
I am also interested in your evaluation. Why does it not deserve a full read?
Totally agree that exercises are good and sometimes mistakenly ignored by people.

Although I'd like to also note that the best practice method is what works for one and are actually used by the person.

Especially if someone is not going to be a concert pianist, to enjoy practice & playing is invaluable IMO.
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I’m disappointed that this entire thread is focused only on discussing the Monty Hall problem and conveniently pretends her gender, and how she was treated, is unworthy of discussion. Come on!

If we can’t even mention how STEM women are often treated as default-incompetent in this, _very_ egregious case then we have no hope of being able to have the discussion at all.
Having mentored quite a few gifted science students, the best thing that I have found is to give them a problem, give them a bunch of things and tools that they can break and tell them find a solution.

Find time to discuss various solutions or find mentors for your child who can do the same.
Let the child understand more, not by making, but by breaking the problem down to the smallest units possible and see the connection.

With the same philosophy we are working to build one room labs in public schools in Nepal called tinker lab (www.tinker-lab.org)
That was exactly what happened with me. I hadn't understood in the original proposal that the host's choice is not random. At some point during someone's offer of the '100 door' version, I realised they were operating with this extra piece of information I lacked.
I find it really fascinating that there are people bothered by Epic’s exclusives and not bothered by how the App Store works.

Epic paid developers money to get them to release games exclusively on the Epic store. Consumers have access to these games on the roughly same computers that can access other PC games. In other words, consumer or publisher freedom was not materially impacted. Epic’s deals with game developers are effectively subsidies, which save developers and/or consumers money.

On the other hand, Apple’s App Store policy makes it impossible for developers to access the iOS market without paying Apple’s tax. Every iOS app is an App Store exclusive, and Apple is not paying developers for the privilege. This costs consumers and developers huge amounts of money and limits their freedom.

I recognize the inconvenience of installing the Epic store, but comparing the effects of these two controversial policies reveals how benign Epic’s is.
They need to store the phone number in order to send an SMS to it.
Interesting that they chose to identify Marilyn vos Savant in the headline as "Woman" instead of by her name. Also interesting that in doing so, they qualified her then believed to be world's highest IQ, male or female. Looks like they were attempting to be woke but ended up being misogynistic instead. It's also worth noting that many people did agree with her so it wasn't "everyone" correcting her.
I think this is largely embarrassing. The author pesters us with an imputation on Hume as an analytically bankrupt political thinker but fails to deliver any concrete proof.

Then the author assumes (while incorrectly interpreting Hume) that their own politics are correct and any divergence proves that Hume is a failed political thinker.

We don’t find Hume’s criticism of Mandeville instead we find an interpretation of modern conservatism as an obviously evil caricature which can only be developed by the inability to understand a viewpoint which doesn’t immediately affirms one’s preconceived beliefs.
Yeah, I do not understand where the author is coming from. One could easily write a helper function in JavaScript that does the same thing that the author's Clojure "cond" does. There is no need to use an IIFE if one does not want to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Things

"Library of Things is any collection of objects loaned, and any organization that practices such loaning. Objects often include kitchen appliances, tools, gardening equipment and seeds, electronics, toys and games, art, science kits, craft supplies, musical instruments, and recreational equipment. Especially appropriate are objects that are useful occasionally but cumbersome to store, such as specialized cookware or niche technology items."
Tell HN: Doge Crashing
Prime example: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCRVruzlQF5cqpw9jQgIgNdw
My own experience is that I can't really develop the appropriate expressiveness and dynamics in a piece until the notes and fingering can fly on autopilot. So learning it by rote is sort of a necessary first step towards owning it. But the exact mechanics of musical memorization and expression are different for everyone, so there isn't a lot of one-size-fits-all advice out there.
Historically the very best software engineers outside the US simply immigrated to the US, joined a Silicon Valley company, and made a good living. The quality of those left behind, who didn’t have the same mobility, was on average lower. So companies didn’t have good reason to open an office elsewhere. This was especially true before the Internet, since collaboration was much more difficult. These days there are probably great engineers in many locations, but it takes time for their local tech economy to catch up to locations with concentrations of employers and employees like Silicon Valley. They need employers to open local offices (attracted by cheaper or better talent), and then for competing employers to also do so, in order to change the supply demand dynamics to favor software engineers. Then their salaries will rise accordingly.

Another part of the equation: in today’s age of massive aggregation around a few gigantic tech monopolies in the US, those few companies are able to pay large salaries because they derive a lot of value from their employees. But the reality of compensation is not very dissimilar between the US and other locations once you remove FAANG from the equation. FAANG companies employee a very highly selectively chosen segment of software developers who can command high value, but are also a tiny slice of the market. But the majority of software engineers in America are not employed in FAANG or compensated that way.
What exactly are you referring to, analytic philosophy?
And the world needs this exposed... in aggregate!
It is not possible to use TOTP with Google without also giving them your phone number.
The trick is that the host does not pick a door to open at random... If they did there would be a 1/3 probability they opened your door. If they didn't open yours under that circumstance, there would be a 50/50 chance you already picked the good door.

But it's not random... Monty will never open the door you chose. That's what messes up the intuitive probabilities.
Library of Scroll – Curated list of quality long-form essays
could you write a post on how exactly you became so knowledgeable in telling fakes from authentic items?

I wouldn't know where to even start... what happens when you get a request for an item that you've never seen before?
That question seems about right ..

Am also of opinion that Led Zeppelin’s simultaneously the greatest rock n roll band ever. (And Waters such a great writer also)

Probably just a lil xtra-bitter about the prospect of an electric Dylan album after blonde on blonde being hinted at yet not happening but probably was time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EvHq5UTRldo

~ 7:30 ~

Interviewer: “and we’re flying low over New York City ..”

Bob: “flying low?”

Interviewer: “yeah .. aren’t we flying low ?”

Bob: yeah. Did you notify Albert Grossman we were going to fly low?

Interviewer: “no I didn’t notify Albert grossman - whose Albert grossman?”

Bob: he’s my uh pepper maker. He makes all the pepper & keeps a good supply of um bandages ..”

(sounds like burnout)
They do feature a rooster or cock in their logo.

The current name makes me think of A. Le Coq, an Estonian brewery. Hopefully, my association will have no impact on their naming decision :)
I see a different implication, no matter how much change occurs our perception of circumstances will inevitably regress to the mean. This is consistent with what the discovery of the hedonic treadmill tells us about human nature.
I never agreed to this insane 4 factor authentication. I feel like google has locked me out just to reduce costs on its end.
AFAIK, you can use one phone or key for multiple accounts.
Wait till they ban GPT-3 because it can be prompted to write porn.
https://twitter.com/LewieP/status/1138148240627515394
Millions of woman try to get famous based on looks and sexuality alone. They (almost) all fail. So I think it is more complicated than that.
> Also I believe in some countries what Epic is doing is called "Tortious Interference with Contract" or something like that. I am not a lawyer though.

No, it doesn't sound at all like what you're bringing up. You can read about what you referenced here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

> But for example, Shenmue devs, if they didn't had backed down from refunds and got sued, they could get convicted of literally stealing money, since they got money and ran away with it.

Again, why aren't you angry at the Shenmue devs instead?

> Then in their defense, they could point out that Epic told them to do it and gave them a lot of money to ensure they would do it.

Epic's agreement didn't say "Break the law to sell exclusively in our store." Epic's agreement said "Sell exclusively in our store." The decision to (potentially) break the law rests purely on the developer.
> Apple was not marketing privacy as heavily back then as they do now.

Notice I didn’t say they weren’t pushing privacy at all, I said not as heavily.
I've seen this explained ten different ways but this is the way I'm going to explain it from now on. thank you.
Go to

www.google.com/signin/recovery

And give it a try instead to recover your account

There is a chance it might work
I don’t know why people refuse to admit it. I’m afraid to die. Not of the process, but of not existing.

So is pretty much every other creature. We all try to avoid death.
There's a French graphing calculator company called NumWorks. Maybe TI prioritized the French market in response to growing competition.

https://www.numworks.com/simulator/
I've been listening to the Huberman Lab podcast[0] recently, and in one of the earlier episodes he talks a lot about how to create the environment for neuroplasticity in the adult brain. I've only listened to most episodes once so I hope I'm not misrepresenting him, and this is simplified, but a critical component of causing the release of the chemical bath which allows for robust neuroplasticity is making errors, an experience which should feel a bit uncomfortable. "Errors are the basis of neuroplasticity." Without that focused set of attempts and discomfort of trying to do something and failing, the brain isn't getting the high quality signal that it needs to do some rewiring because the current networks simply aren't making the cut.

This is at odds with a quote from OP's second point:

> If you keep making mistakes when practicing then you are just going to get good at making them, so it’s best to avoid them in the first place.

That aside, the article seems like great advice. With Huberman's account of encouraging adult neuroplasticity in mind, my thinking would be to amend this method towards going just fast enough to be able to do the chunk of music but not so slow that the attempts are free of errors. And probably the errors should be of one type at a time? Instead of erring in dynamics and fingering and articulation all at once, try to get everything right except for one aspect. For that, attempt to surpass your abilities and err.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab/featured

Edit: Said another way, “perfect practice makes perfect,” where you aim to play perfectly but consistently just barely fall short. The correct networks are strengthened while those tiny errors get tweaked via neuroplasticity the nights after and consistent improvement results.
Any clue as to what's causing it to crash?
> Not sure I would describe a power transfer from individuals to the state as a cause for optimisim, but hey, this is The Economist.

The Economist has been possibly the leading voice for free market capitalism since the mid-19th century. If it has any mission, that's it.
Visualizing the Recent Explosion in U.S. Lumber Prices
In what way do you think this contradicts what the user you're responding to wrote?

If you promise PC exclusivity, that doesn't mean Steam. That means PC. You can promise PC exclusivity and then sign with Epic and maintain your commitment to PC exclusivity. Briefly having a Steam page doesn't change any of that.
The famous Vim sudo-write trick – :w sudo tee “%”
Signal has already implemented some cryptocurrency which the founder of the foundation has an unknown and undisclosed level of investment in.
Also, of course, asymptotic flatness.
What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
Stop and frisk is unconstitutional and had nothing to do with political correctness.
My understanding is, that while it may have been deterrent it didn't actually catch more criminals.
The price of dynamic memory: Allocation
The government needs to finally ban Windows. In addition to being insecure it's used by many criminals for their scams and blackmail operations.
People hyped the rumor that daddy Elon would magically take doge to the moon by hyping the coin during SNL. Instead he's explaining environmental stuff and talking about company plans.
i think i figured it out. they measure cut sew dye wash. the size changes during the wash, variably depending on the dye and randomness. it would be cost prohibitive to control for this so instead you get size variability which is fine because most people buy in store.
Nobody cares about your conservative victomhood complex. If your leaders aren't mature enough to do their job without throwing a temper tantrum whenever someone says something mean about them, then sit the fuck down and let the adults handle it.
> If the copy is made by the callee, then the callee can avoid a copy if it can guarantee that the caller's version of the object isn't changed before the callee uses it, and at most one copy is made.

So the callee has to know what every caller of it will ever do? That's ... an ABI. The whole point is that functions can exist in a vacuum without knowledge of who they will be called by.

To be clear, I think it would be really cool if compilers could generate ad-hoc calling conventions using lto to optimize spillage, but that's not really useful as an ABI.

> would be interesting to analyze a bunch of real-world code and see A) how often would my version create a copy, B) how often does the MS/ARM/RISC-5 version have to make a copy, C) how often would your version make a copy, and D) how often would your version require two copies.

> Would also be interesting to see an analysis of code bloat due to copying parameters

I agree!
> There's one stage in the signup flow you can't bypass without SMS

You used to be able to make gmail accounts without a phone by using an Android TV device. I wonder if that still works.
The speculation is very convincing, it goes like this: 1) Senescence is a collection of symptoms caused by incomplete repair mechanisms allowing damage to build up, 2) some level of damage has very little ill effects (e.g. the amount you've collected on your 25th birthday), and 3) there are interventions that stop the accumulation of damage or even reverse it.

I believe currently only 3) is a bit controversial, but since there are biologically immortal organisms I find it plausible that it's possible.
the abi is very constraining.

a much better solution of course is to only apply it when strictly necessary, which seems not to be the case de facto in the wild

this is one very easy way to be 'faster than c' in practise
"Previous" is an update blogpost that happened after the Kickstarter had ended. After people have given money for a promise of a PC game, not for a promise of a Steam key like you suggest.
I started playing piano in February/March and since 'real' lessons are out of the question right now, I wanted to learn it the right way. I looked around and I didn‘t wanted it to be a party trick, where I can play 3 songs by heart and that‘s it. I found pianote and to me it‘s one of the best teaching sites about a particular subject I‘ve ever seen. They take so much time to teach you the fundamentals and their progression path with 'The Method' makes learning fun and challenging. If you‘re looking for a good online course, I think there‘s no better one out there. Even a friend of mine, who plays drums in a band heard of it and said he only heard good things about it. I practice almost everyday and pianote is the best investment in myself I did in a long time.

edit: ah well, the HN downvote army comming in for voicing my experience on the subject discussed, what can you do... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Slightly OOT. It is refreshing to see how common an article about piano appears at the front page of HN. I have been struggling with the stereotypes / pre-assumption that most software engineers' hobbies (esp fresh grads) seems to be always around tech / electronics.
Because you aren't starting from scratch - that you had a 1/3 chance to begin with is important. Say there are three doors, A B and C. You pick A:

P(A wins) = 1/3

P(A loses) = P(B _or_ C wins) = 2/3

The host then reveals that there was a goat behind door B. This doesn't change the state of anything (there is always a losing door in the two you didn't pick, and he is always choosing to show that one, and none of the items move). This means the probabilities remain as they were above. However, we know that B didn't win, so we can simplify it to:

P(A wins) = 1/3

P(A loses) = P(C wins) = 2/3

Therefore, if you switch to door C, you have a 2/3 chance of winning, rather than 1/3.

The only way the probabilities would go back to 1/2 for the second choice is if the prize and the goat were shuffled after B is revealed. However, they are not, so the chance that you picked the right door initially is fixed when you picked it.

To think about it another way, your initial choice of A means there's a 1/3 chance it is in A, and a 2/3 chance it is not and is behind one of the other doors. By ruling out B, we don't change the 1/3 chance that it was initially behind A. That means when we are asked again, there is still a 1/3 chance it was behind A, and a 2/3 chance that it was not. However, there's now only one thing that is not A, so there is a 2/3 chance it is behind door C.
i don’t buy clothes online but in the rare event i do i buy from amazon and super high end retailers where you just send it back without calling.

i order 2-3 sizes and send back the ones that don’t fit.

convenience of online with just the added small bump of a trip to the post office or UPS.
Isn't this why they have their advanced threat protection thing? So people who aren't political officials or fortune 500 execs don't get that treatment?
lol so if Valve made a good enough voice chat software to replace Vent, it wouldn't qualify as a game anymore?

your community is your friends. there's nothing special about the software. if it wasn't a game they wouldn't touch it.
Not sure I would describe 1220 sat to 950 sat or so a crash. At least not when it went from 500 sat to 1200 sat over the previous week. It's had similar swings in the last few weeks. Did people think Musk was really going to rant about Dogecoin for 20 minutes on TV?

It sure is wild though. This may be the biggest cryptocurrency bubble so far. Outranks the 2017 one with Bitcoin itself. (Assuming that all cryptocurrency isn't one giant bubble.)
Any article that is secretly about the Monty Hall problem should have a very prominent trigger warning at the top
I’m not sure if it’s still an option but when 23andme first started getting looked at by regulators and shut off the health reporting they allowed you to download all of your raw data. I wish I could remember the name of it but there was a GitHub repo (I think written in Python?) that you could run against your raw data and it would spit out the health results that 23andme withheld.