skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with everything you said, however I'd like to comment on the last thing you said - Just because the best possible strategy changes depending on the skill of your opponent(s) does not mean that there can't be a strategy that cannot be exploited by your opponent. I think the mistake many people make is that they tend to look at games with a "chess mindset" (there is a single move that is the perfect response to my opponents move) when games with hidden information (such as cs:go) will require a "poker mindset" - a strategy isn't given by a single move but by a probability distribution of actions.
In your example, there is an "optimal" way to play this scenario in which you aim at jumping height p% of the time and at normal walking height (1-p)% of the time where the value of p depends on many different factors such as you hitting the headshot if you aim correctly, you hitting it anyways if you don't aim correctly etc.

This is not the strategy that will win the the most (if you know for sure that your opponent will jump every time, of course you would never aim at walking height), but it is one that cannot be exploited by your opponent deviating from whatever their optimal strategy is.

Of course, improving your skill enough to see these changes in behavior in your opponents takes a long time, which is why we naturally adapt the more exploitative strategies that you mentioned.
'That sounded great until the 'wealthy small business owners' part..'

That would be wealthy small business owners who aren't paying their taxes, I presume. And you're making an assumption "so the mega rich get off again..."
Came here to see this exact comment. Was not disappointed :)
If you want to have a discussion here you should try harder.

edit: let's just play the game, shall we?

"God is Love", first of all - is this a definition of God or one of love? I have a feeling it's trying to be both, but that is invalid. It's probably trying to tap into some intuitive understanding of what "love" is and to connect it to some other concept, such as God.

In any case, a) we haven't defined what "love" is and that's not gonna be an easy definition - maybe we should start there; b) suppose we know what love is: if you say "God is love", and you use that as a definition for God then... why do we need a concept of God? We can just go and rewrite the entire bible and substitute every occurrence of God with "love"? So, in the beginning, love created the universe? Love died for our sins? Love sent the great flood and told Noah to build an ark? Even if you don't take these stories at face value, the bible clearly ascribes agency to God, but if God is just love, then love supposedly has agency something that... probably doesn't make sense with most people's definition of love. See point a)

I would suggest for you to pick up an introductory textbook to some topic in analytic philosophy and compare the rigour of the explanations therein with "God is love".
You actually cant stake 1ETH, minimum is 32.
> keep only as many animals as they can feed with the feed they grow themselves

woahhhh... that's a pretty huge requirement, no?
Yes, that’s true. But a short “no comment” also doesn’t give a damning and entertaining video clip of you stumbling around trying to say no without saying no. In general, if you're doing something bad, try to avoid going viral in the process.

It’s the same reason why companies do it too. People forget a “no comment” faster than they forget an obvious lie or an insensitive corporate response.
I find it crazy that the libertarian-leaning right wing in general was pro the terrorism law... surely this gives too much authority to the government?
Just a general note, as a Swiss citizen: people are generally not in favor of federal regulations when a change could instead be implemented directly by states (I.e: canton). Initiatives at the federal level aren’t that popular.
I can't figure out how to generate a hash. There's no right-click functionality and I'm not about to input coordinates when I should be able to just click the map. What am I not understanding here?
Already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27496422
> Just because something has been buried, doesn't mean it will stay buried.

It does for a long time at least 1000 years

> I appreciate we're in a bind, but nuclear has huge conceptual and practical problems.

Which are?

> It would be more sensible to reduce usage and rely on 100% renewables. Not possible? The public appetite isn't there?

Thats not going to happen and there's no need

> ... Perhaps, but if that's the case we probably deserve to die out

your choice, not mine
Yes, there are ways of getting around the blocks (and thank you for this one) but it still leaves the larger problem unsolved. I'd be happy to pay for things I find valuable, but there's no way to find them easily, and having found them, no way to pay confidently, certain that (a) the money goes to the people dong the work, and (b) you don't then get harassed endlessly.
Yes, although note the proposed initiative wasn't to make it illegal to do that, just you wouldn't qualify for subsidies anymore.
Pacific islanders likely found Antarctica first: study
I love your “plausible decentralization” term. I tag and organize content, arguments, trends. “Plausible X” is a great categorization.
There are whole sections of the README directly answering your question (e.g. who is this for)
I don't think so. It's based on argparse, while Click uses optparse.

Gooey works with Fire, though.
Somehow the statistics of the rising cancer diagnostics in agrarian areas are not a concern for the regular folk (like the documented 43% more incidence of brain tumors)
"Why would anybody need this?"

For example to provide quick tools for non-professional users.

Single button automation for scripts that need to be run intermittently and are poor candidates for timed execution.

I am quite proficient at command line, but still prefer a single button that "does that one thing I need".
You crash it the same way you crash fiat...

Give it to bankers :-P
How to setup a Kubernetes cluster on local machine
Original article - "A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica" - published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2021.1...
Hooray for any tool (or workflow) that makes it easier to work with otherwise-abstract formulas! This way sounds to me like a handy method for everyday in-mind adding and subtracting too.. I definitely aspire to upgrade my understanding of notes and frequencies to the point where I can connect them to the math!
I primarily have a desktop where I do most of my work (that was mentioned in the post you're replying to), but I'll bite just so folks who might be on the fence about the Chromebook have something to reference.

I primarily work with Flask, Rails and Phoenix and most apps I build use Webpack too. I don't have to run an Android simulator or Java apps because I don't use those technologies.

With this Chromebook, any multi-service Docker app (web + worker + db + cache + Webpack) can go from not running to accepting web requests in about 5-7 seconds after running a docker-compose up. Every time I make a code change, the code base reloads in 100ms or less so the dev loop is extremely fast. With Tailwind's JIT and Webpack caching to disk even asset changes are fast (100-300ms in most projects).

The machine is great for certain types of programming and browsing the internet.

My main workstation is an i5 3.2ghz with 16GB of memory and an SSD with a 2560x1440 monitor. It's approaching 7 years old and I paid around $850 for it at the time of building it (+$350 for the monitor at a later time). I still use it today and while it has more resources available it's not that much faster than the Chromebook, I can just run more things at once. Starting up my web apps with Docker happen in 3-5 seconds but I still get the same < 100ms reloads for code changes.

I also happen to run WSL 2 within Windows which is where I spend 99% of my time. I also do video recording and editing on this machine and there's no skipping or slowdowns for editing 1080p video. I can also run OBS to record everything while developing normally and it's a non-issue.

The reality of the situation is nowadays unless you're doing something very CPU bound, a mid-grade machine with an SSD can be quite efficient for lots of types of web development. I choose not to upgrade because there's no practical incentive. With 16GB of memory I can run my usual dev workload with a 2 node Kubernetes cluster and a separate VM and not feel any slowdowns while developing.

This is all while having a bunch of tabs open, image editors, mp3 player and everything else you'd expect while working -- even while screen recording my desktop to make tech videos. I made a video about this once around the topic of "is 16GB of memory enough for web development?" at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/for-the-time-being-16gb-of-ra...
I admit I do struggle to understand that type of victimhood. Probably because my social circle would not care about whatever obscure fetishes I have unless it's kiddy diddling, nor would most even want to see my sex tape (and I'd struggle to care if they had).

However, people are quite capable of being very unpleasant to eachother without sex videos, if it wasn't that the person seeing red would have done something else (keyed car, sabotage, malicious lies... plenty of options). Regardless they should be disciplined, probably fired outright.
Let’s pretend that the employee agreement doesn’t explicitly tell them that they should have no expectation of privacy and all their activities on the company computer system is monitored.

It’s still not even remotely illegal under the laws in Germany according to your reference and my understanding. People are confusing video, audio, and communication surveillance with monitoring or surveillance of use of the computer. Of course governments have laws to protect privacy, they don’t want companies reading your private emails or text messages or taking pictures of you or recording your conversations, all while you were unaware. Notice for all that to be legal you just have to clearly notify them so they can potentially not consent, probably almost always can be fired if they don’t anyway.

The idea that a WFH remote access system that monitors if the employee is actually using the system and that monitoring is used by managers to review if the employee actually did WFH or not is somehow privacy invading is ridiculous.

The most interesting part of this whole discussion is the intense reaction of people. We kinda know there are a whole bunch of HN reeders who are suddenly freaking out when they consider their manager/boss might be able to see what I’m describing, and tbh there really might be some who can, it’s very likely.
I'm skeptical whether E2EE is the right lever here. We've seen that a sufficiently motivated government will figure out a way - exploiting security holes, backdooring personal devices, all the way to physically tapping fiber cables.

E2EE is the software engineer knee jerk technical solution, but you need to keep in mind you're dealing with an entity that has for all intents and purposes unlimited resources, long term motivation, the ability to force co-opt more or less everyone, and can amortize the cost over many cases. Which is to say: in the long run I'd bet on E2EE not working out.

And that's not to speak of all the technical disadvantages and complexity of E2EE, e.g. around searchability.

The right tool to solve this problem is (constitutional) law. We need to enshrine appropriate rights, and in a way that cannot be worked around with legal tricks.

Also, maybe controversially, there are cases where I believe it's entirely legit for the government to seize communications (some subset of severe criminal cases), once approved by a proper judge, with due process. I'd rather live in a society where there's a defined process for this, with appropriate legal scrutiny over both process and the targets, then in a society where we attempt to fight the government and it's a constant arms race. Not having a process means certain motivated actors get to cry "somebody think of the children" and then throw all legal protections over board.
Also not sure if correlation or causation but i have anxiety when taking fish oil. Usually i'm pretty chill but with fish oil i suddenly have problems even ordering a coffee.
Ublock Origin + pausing JS (they reset scrolling) does the trick

I agree, it would be nice to have micropayments.

At the same time, if they want to be indexed (which increases their reach) they need to publish the entire article and then try to trick people in the browser with JS.
As someone in Europe whose knowledge of baseball is from US movies: are there technical barriers to test for a coating substance?

I believe that the ball does not belong to the team that pitches it, right? It is given to them by the referee (?). So what's the problem to check if there is any substance on it after the game (the part where one team has control of the ball) and if there is anything, well they are disqualified.

Or is it that nobody is interested in changing the status quo?
Constant Folding in CPython
Solar power? Wind power? Falling costs of batteries? Or even nuclear power mixed in.
Yes and there will be another vote as soon as the government makes a new proposal. Sadly even if Switzerland passed the strictest CO2 laws it would have little effect since it is so small of a country.
Is there something similar for config files instead of command line parameters?
This is the same technique the Motley Fool uses for their stock picking newsletters. Make lots of predictions; highlight the ones that wound up working.
A political solution would be easier if the proposal was a revenue neutral carbon tax.

The economic left and environment left are so tightly coupled that voting for representatives that are serious about climate change is invariably a vote for higher overall taxes.

This proposal by Sweden for example seems to be of that category. A brand new tax with no offsets elsewhere. If there were equivalent offsets might it have been voted in easily?
I like Jeff Atwood’s take on a lot of things, but this article has always been so thought-leader-y to me. Feels like it was written to make a splash rather than convey truth.

Computing would be immensely dull if we all fixated on our choice of platform to this extent. Platforms and languages are ephemeral and should be treated as such. The web will not always be the dominant platform.
We are doomed as we are, but cant we change and adapt rather than try to reverse entropy?

I think it's fine to struggle on this: we have to go beyond the crisis, either with luck if a phenomenon we didnt predict counter balance it, or if we fail miserably and lose 80% of the life population or if we reverse natural course and somehow work against our nature, or even invent a miraculous carbon sink or whatever.

If the goal is terraformation in space, it s fine if we try and fail and another species rise in our stead. We literally have billions of years, on Earth, to find a way.

Our own survival doesnt matter if extinction provides a solution / evolution that becomes superior. Who's crying for the billions of species who tried and failed before us.
> Sorry Jeff, but your post from today is simply stupid.

> Think only about the embedded programming… do you really think that you can create a web app to control your washer?

> Or do you want a web interface to drive your car?!?

> Get out of your cubicle and look around… you’ll see that there is something else running outside your server and browser.

> By the way, are you planning to create a web app for the BIOS of your computer?

Yes, to all :D

Those comments are golden.
/r/polyamory needs to see this.
The last time the Dutch government issued a few billion in bonds it took the market 10 seconds to buy them all up.
If you want safe and boring I wouldn't bet on bitcoin I'd bet on Northern Europe.
Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?
I've spent several years working on side projects and would like to return to remote work. I have a bit of management experience and a bit of coding experience. I think the employment gap is hard to explain for either role. What is the best way for me to start doing remote work?
Good point, I didn't realise that.

Not sure if many others made the same assumption, but that landing page feels to me like it should have a more obvious way to feed into the text-based content.
If you're not cheating in baseball, you aren't trying. It's such a boring game, made worse by sabermetrics, that this kind of meta game is the only remaining interest. Tweak the balls. Tweak the bats. Sign-stealing. Tweak batting approaches. Fiddle with the mound. Chase ever better steroids.

Without that arms race, it'd be horrifically dull.
Free tier is 50 GB of data out a month and even the most expensive traffic data out after that is $0.12 per GB. For most sites the domain name registration is likely to be the biggest cost.
No need — regular hydrocarbons have a high enough specific energy to do the job.

The largest pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, had a wingspan of ~10 meters and an estimated mass of 200–250kg [1]. I don’t know how much power they could produce, but it can’t have been more than a few horsepower given they weighed less than a half a horse.

A 30cc petrol motor will easily output 2–3 horsepower, and weighs less than 10 kg. Combine it with wings from a hang glider (similar wingspan, weight ~30kg), and as long as the powertrain isn’t too heavy (compressor + pneumatic artificial muscles?), it seems possible to build something light enough to carry a human.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
The more permanent, tourist ones are also becoming more common in Poland. https://poland.pl/tourism/active-leisure/draisine-trips-thro... Similar name is used.
A brand new Renault Zoé is also 40k€, but since this car had a honest success, that EV are state subsidized, and that this car is old enough (first version is from 2012) to have proven himself, there are plenty used on the market today.
Will the specifications for the software also be machine-generated?

If the specifications are human-generated, then they're just a form of high-level source code, and your prediction boils down to future programming languages simultaneously improving programmer productivity and reducing resource usage. That's not a controversial prediction.

If I understand you correctly, I think you're correct that over time, we'll see an increase at the abstraction level at which most programming is done. I think the effort put into making compilers better at optimizing will largely follow market demand, which is a bit harder to predict.

One interesting direction is the Halide[0] domain-specific language for image/matrix/tensor transformations. The programs have 2 parts: a high-level description, and a set of program transformations that don't affect results, but make performance tradeoffs to tune the generated code for particular devices. The Halide site has links to some papers on applying machine learning to the tuning and optimization side of things.

I can imagine a more general purpose language along these lines, maybe in the form of a bunch of declarative rules that are semantically (though perhaps not syntactically) Prolog-like, plus a bunch of transformations that are effectively very high-level optimization passes before the compiler ever starts looking at traditional inlining, code motion, etc. optimizations.

At some point, maybe most programmers will just be writing machine learning objective functions, but at present, we don't have good engineering practice for writing safe and reliable objective functions. Given some of the degenerate examples of machine learning generating out-of-the-box solutions with objective functions (throwing pancakes to maximize the time before they hit the ground, tall robots that fall over to get their center of mass moving quickly, etc.), we're a long way from just handing a machine broad objectives and giving it broad leeway to write whatever code it deems best.

I suspect in the medium-term, we'll see a 3-way divergence in programming: (1) safety/security-critical programs generated from proofs (see Curry-Howard correspondence, and how the seL4 microkernel was developed) (2) performance-critical programs that are very intensive in terms of human expert time and (3) lots of cookie-cutter apps and websites being generated via machine learning from vague human-provided (under-)specifications.

[0] https://halide-lang.org/
Symmetric cryptography is often hardware based, but asymmetric crypto rarely is. The latter is commonly used for pairing/key exchanges, and would be painfully slow on a slow MCU.
It would've been interesting if someone could choose the date of the referendum, imagine holding it after a summer heatwave with news reports of fish dying because the water in their habitat got too hot...
Yes, they shout about decentralization while trying to re-centralize around things they happen to own. Simple greed, nothing new.
Or another Railbike travelling in the opposite direction?
I've been obsessed with the mapping cli / gui for .. ever.

I'm not even jealous.. kudos
Hasn't the UK economy had enough 'transformation' lately?
The hypocrisy on this topic is unbelievable. I don't know what your portfolio looks like, but most people are happy to invest in blue chip stocks and indices that contain some of the worlds largest polluters, but, of course, as soon as they hear the word BTC, they cast judgement and throw the baby out with the bath water.

If you actually cared about the environment, you would be attempting to invest money into disruptive technologies like BTC that can move money away from traditional banks that have literally funded global corruption, wars, genocide and (surprise surprise), ecocide.

It makes no sense whatsoever and what it tells me is that you're just regurgitating the same dribble that you heard with no critical thought of your own
Makes you appreciate how much potential energy there is in a tank full of gasoline.

A long row of rapid charging electric cars can give a smelting plant run for its money
Magnetogenetics seems to be the new trend for remote control of neural pathways. And it indeed sounds scary to me that someone can now engineer a pathogen that will modify your brain cells with living antenae in order to allow remote control of emotions, behavior and god knows what else. We can only hope that it doesn't get abused by bad people....

- https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4265

- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02266
Techmoan did an excellent video on MiniDisc: https://youtu.be/kU3BceoMuaA
Navigating hybrid work with a single, connected experience in Google Workspace
My experience is that right now, most loan officers can scarcely fog a mirror.
New Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab: what we know so far
> I have devs who sometimes spend 2 or 3 days+ doing something that could have been done much quicker if they had discussed what they planned first instead of trying to be helpful!

My experience is that you might get suggestions that are nowhere near how you planned to do it and it wrecks your mental picture of how it should be done. Discussions ofent lead to backseat development.
This video (in French, with english subtitles) helped me figure out the mathematical side of music. Highly recommended.

https://youtu.be/cTYvCpLRwao