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Ask HN: Would it be any more difficult for AI/ML to beat more poker players?
Just curious if the number of players at any poker table would alter a capable AI/ML's chances of winning?

I don't see how it would, so long as every player was playing fair, it should not matter if the unknown cards were dealt to more players or still in the deck. To me at least.

I know poker but very little about AI/ML/Solvers.
Modern software development practices and knowledge are orthogonal to feature set / compatibility guarantees. The title asks about the former and the text asks about the latter, and I don't agree it's correct to conflate the two
It looks like there are actually some professors who are offering not only online but in-person recorded lectures. So I'm not sure how this is true.
An attempt 'to verb' ('pun' or whatever you'd call it very much intended) 'obstacle' perhaps? They 'obstacled' the international students?

Anyway, agree it's at best ambiguous.
Neat. Storing everything in ram and checkpointing to disk is how a lot of game servers work, too. :)
The SQLite WASM version[1] showcased here a few times does just that.

[1]: http://static.wiki/
Hey felix ,
Your blog helped me tremendously a few months ago, to get better at managing my ledger files.

Thanks a lot for all of your recommendations !
In the documentary The Man Who Saved The World, Stanislav Petrov travels to meet Kevin Costner, his favourite actor, at home. Costner asks him, if he hadn't acted as he did, how many people would have died. You expect him to say, 50 million, or something. He says, everyone. Everyone on earth would've died. It's a chilling moment. (And there's been a lot more than that one near miss.) What kind of crazy species are we that we build a system that when it malfunctions (as it did that day) seems likely to kill everyone on the planet?!

Now I read on HN that the danger of nuclear war is hyped out of proportion to its true severity, and should be considered only a little. Sorry, maybe I misunderstand. I have read a similar thing on HN a few times though, people that seem to think nuclear war really would be no big deal at all.

But it always seems weird to be how some people are so worried to the point of obsession about global warming without apparently ever giving a thought to the ever-present risk of full-scale nuclear war—something infinitely worse. (Well, hardly "war", just a flurry of button-pressing for a few minutes.)
Air resistance limits small kinetic kill weapons. Square cube law however means it’s less effective for larger objects.
Janus Cosmological Model and FTL travel (and how to introduce negative mass)
People who are living "day-to-day" need financial literacy the most. The point of being financially literate is not learning about ETF's and carried interest, but how to climb out of the stress-inducing "day to day" trap as quickly and effectively as possible.

There's quite simply no excuse for 'existential dread', if you're not in actual North Korea-style extreme poverty you can build a precautionary buffer of savings and escape all that stress.
If you knew this, couldn't you login from someone's ip you want to frame the crime on?
I'm sceptical of any notions of "we are just among the first of civilizations ever" because as far as I understand from the studies of sun-like star sytems that could be hospitable to life, Earth is a bit on the late side; close to the average, but definitely not an "early" formation, and the time advantage or "development head start" that a sizeable fraction other stars/planets comparable to ours (I'm not talking about "first generation" hydrogen stars here) has had is immense (e.g. a billion years).

In essence, the idea of us being among the first in our galaxy is compatible with the notion that intelligent life forming is so scarce that there's only ever going to be just a couple civilizations in our galaxy or that we're alone; because if life is so common that our galaxy would have (for example) a hundred intelligent civilization spawning events, then the expectation is that half of them would have been before us, and it would be a really, really unlikely that all of them are on Earth-like planets younger than us and none of them are on the multitude of Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like planets older than us.

Also, given all the time-consuming steps required for life to form, "around the same time" would optimistically mean something on the scale of +/- a million years. Like, if the protozoic era took 0.1% more or less, that would be a difference of two million years; so if some civilization was much older or much younger, then the difference would be much more than that, and if we encounter a planet that's +/- hundred thousand years of progress, that mean that we really progressed at a remarkably coincidentally equal starting point and pace; and if we encounter a civilization that's just a thousand years of technological development ahead or behind, then that would be a so unbelievable coincidence that I'd consider that some kind of intelligent designer is required to explain it.

The concept of simultaneous discovery happens because the discoverers share an environment where the prerequisites for that discovery appear at the same time; this would not be plausible for civilizations forming naturally through evolution without any contact or influence between them, that would work only if they're e.g. intentionally designed and "planted" on planets by some previous civilization.
Some fun supplementary reading is the multicart catalog [0]Tom Fulp (yes that Tom Fulp) acquired and donated to the Video Game History Foundation.

[0] https://twitter.com/GameHistoryOrg/status/140809255481869516...
Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech
"We don't keep IP addresses. (we keep PI addresses which are tooooootally different and you didn't ask about those)"
Grand Isle (which Ida did a number on) is well south of NOLA in Jefferson Parish, and not part of the metro area. It exists for fishing and tourism.
Don’t call me Shirley!
I never said it didn't matter. I think the data retention laws and for what crimes the police are able to get certain warrants in the EU and Switzerland can be better.

But that is not a proton issue that is an issue with our current governments.
Interpol warrants are widely used for fighting political opponents [https://stockholmcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Abuse-Of-...] [http://www.opinione.it/societa/2017/08/29/claudia-candelmo-e...]
I think despite an unfortunate underlying architecture (which has especially bitten them in terms of development speed), they've achieved an impressive density. No other game I know of supports as many other players 'on screen' as EVE. The number of players you can have in a single fight is similar to the max number of online players on the larger WoW realmns
> A lunchtime conversation with my coworkers showed that most put more faith in their own instincts with picking stocks than in index or mirror funds (something that evidence shows is very unlikely, but people like to believe)

Very unlikely in what circumstances? E.g. 5 year period, 20 year period, holding the same stocks the entire time, etc.
Climate isn't the problem with any of those issues, politics is.

It's not fear of flooding that prevents anyone from investing in, eg New Orleans East. It's two decades of zero policing.

And there's a reason Entergy continues to operate as a completely separate corporate entity in the city, and it's not because "used to be nopsi".

The water guys can't even operate a billing system, let alone engineer the distribution network. They ran through probably a dozen companies post- Katrina just to do an assessment and map and maintenance plans, and they all quit for having to deal with the city.

That's why they can't keep the water on. But an unnecessary new airport? They had no problem throwing a billion dollars at contractors for that.

If people were afraid of sea level rising, they wouldn't just be moving into another swamp/marsh outside of city limits or across the lake. People don't want to live at sea level without a levee on the North Shore, they just don't want to live in New Orleans, despite the +20ft msl and up levees.
The rest of the sentence is "and you can add more features just for Mac". It implies you have an iPad app already. Even the part you quoted is about sharing code with an iPad app. And the rest of the page is all about porting.

"There’s never been a better time to turn your iPad app into a powerful Mac app."

"Bring your iPad app to Mac"

"Your iPad app can be made into an excellent Mac app. Bring your iPad app to life on Mac using the latest version of Xcode. Begin by selecting the “Mac” checkbox in the project settings of your existing iPad app to create a native Mac app that you can enhance further."

"Learn how to build a native Mac app from the same codebase as your iPad app."
The restaurant business is very hard. It’s not clear why anyone does it to be honest; the skills required to successfully manage a restaurant can net you a lot more for a lot less work in other industries. Of course people just throw in the towel. After getting kicked in the face by COVID why stand back and get kicked in the teeth again by government policy?
What you have made someone else has lost
In a real working environment you should be required to write good commit messages. It’s not about you, you may be okay asking someone else but other people might not want to ask you about what did you do in your “lol” commit. So yeah, we usually have pretty strict requirements for commit messages that at least we try to follow.
There are lots of 1AA LED lights out there, I have a couple which are similar to this one (though this design looks nicer than the ones I have)[1]

1: https://www.tindie.com/products/sdp8483/multi-led-joule-thie...
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I have another error I'd like to discuss with her, but she charges to speak with one of her people. Sorry, I'm not paying for that :-)
and eventually end up with a Dyson Sphere around earth. Doesn't sound like a great idea to redirect earth bound heat for electricity
Still gonna argue that's more politics than fear of flooding.
Truck Carrying Moderna Vaccine Crashes, Prompts Hazmat and Restricts Airspace
I’m somewhat surprised that “zero downtime failover” does not feature more prominently in responses to this - that would be the biggest thing I’d be looking for in a database for OLTP.
Cash is easy to trace
> I find it hard to believe that static typechecking is not advantageous compared to checking for every returned value whether it's undefined or null or a string instead of the expected array.

+1. A simple way to think of this is that realize that strict type checking significantly reduced the number of possible codepaths, so the cognitive load on you is much smaller making it less likely for you to make mistakes.

With static typing, what you should also practice is using the strictest type possible, e.g., don't use a pointer if null has no meaning for you, don't use a vector if the size of the continer is fixed, etc.
>in fact a better solution is to have a constellation at lower orbits

only that this turns the cost of something that is already very very expensive into something that is hideously ridiculously expensive.
> What will really reduce poverty (at least in the Western world) is a total rethink of the housing policies.

Very much true in urban areas, but rural poverty is a thing too. Housing is a key piece of the puzzle but hardly the full story.
Debian's Rust is useless, sorry.

Rust went for "evergreen" approach like Chrome. It focuses on making small gradual changes, quick and painless upgrades, and provides stability via backwards compatibility in the compiler. This allows everyone to only target one version: the current one.

Debian's philosophy is the polar opposite, so Debian's Rust version is doomed to be perpetually obsolete.
Maybe if we ever find a way to manufacture continuous strands of nanotubes, we could create both space elevators as well as wired LEO solar power.
Apple, Amazon, Google are not going to steal your credit card, identity, bank account info because you could sue them, and because consumer protections agencies would pursue them. The same is not true if you buy a no name tablet with malware pre loaded
Twitterstorm over using “except in Colorado” language in job postings of 30 co
Doesn't matter if you are going to an internal onion address
He cared about fundamental truths, but he didn’t think we had them.

“ all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

The best we can ever say about science is that it is useful, that’s what truth means in science, that it produces accurate predictions. Truth in any deeper sense is a matter for philosophers.
"we aren't much better than Gmail from a privacy standpoint, but please still give us money"
I wonder if a computer was involved in the design process at all (CAD or somesuch), or whether that was totally by hand too
> loss of all three computers isn’t inherently dangerous

You seem to be using a different definition of "dangerous" from the rest of us. Loss of systems that pilots are used to depending on is inherently dangerous. After that, degrees of luck, skill, and conservative planning become major factors in the outcome.

The loss of spoilers and reversers is itself dangerous. In slightly different conditions, e.g. snow, the aircraft would not have stopped where it did.

There was a Lockheed aircraft that ran off the end of a runway at an above-usual touchdown speed: the spoilers would not go up because for lack of weight on wheels, and brakes had no traction because spoilers were not up.
Am in DC, but I toast you with an imaginary glass of Early Times.
He’s so openly collaborative too, it’s inspiring! There’s a vibrant discord community of makers, 3d designs, and engineers helping Martin solve problems and prepare a “Manufacturable CAD.”

Like, there are dozens of ideas linked in the video description for a contraption to divide one stream of marbles into four: https://youtu.be/U4B0i0VzXuA
>putting the phone in a Faraday sleeve when not using it

Why, so that it can send the accumulated data the next time you're using the phone?
No, reading code is far easier than writing it. Either way both have go be done regardless of the author.
That sounds like a selling point to me - obviously geoengineering is controversial, but if you could overcome that resistance, you could slow warming and also generate power, win-win.
Drop in supply = higher taco prices in future anyway
As a privacy activist, what's productive about arguing that protonmail shouldn't need to make a greater effort to pound into their customers' heads exactly what you just explained?

I get that you think people should already know this, but do you feel they should be punished for not already knowing this, and not reminded by a company that markets itself on protecting its users? Protonmail was forced to get an IP address, but they're not forced to keep the fact that they respond to warrants a big secret.

Not everybody who is an activist is a big techie, or even computer-literate.
Probably high 5 figures to mid 6 figures, depending on what you count as rebuilding. Lots of houses with no roof, or with trees through them that could go either way re teardown or repair.

I don't think anyone knows just yet. It took 4 days just to do the preliminary power outage assessment.
‘Nasty stuff’: Research into Russian push-button cellphones uncovers legion of
People in NYC get so many “severe” weather warnings for random parts of the metro area far from where they live that they just tune them out.

My reaction when I got the Ida updates was “yeah, I get it, it’s raining”. I left my house as normal and thought nothing of it. It was by pure luck that I didn’t take the subway anywhere because I’d almost certainly have been stuck when the rain went insane about an hour later.

I’ll definitely scrutinize the warnings more carefully in the future, but I totally understand why a lot of people ignored them and then were surprised by how bad the storm was.
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Since our last post two months ago, we've grown the team 50% (some of those hires came from HN) but we are still hiring backend engineers to help us scale our platform to meet demand.

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That's certainly an aspect that would make it hard to interpret the behavior; if few ethicists feel it's immoral to let doors close loudly, then all of their reflection wouldn't change their behavior; and it would be hard to determine people's beliefs.
> I hate to whatabout this...

Then don't.
"Consider using Postgres views!"

The minute you create a view modifying the underlying table usually gets blocked, in many cases even for changes that have zero relevance to the view. You have to drop the view(s) to get the ALTER TABLE to go through. Absolute nightmare. Oracle, for example, does a far better job of handing this type of evolution and dependency management.
How about adding a compiler switch like std=c23-heretical or -c23-make-baby-richie-cry.

And then let programmers decide if they want to live in the dark ages.
The nuclear mistakes that nearly caused World War Three
Aiming a tight beam any significant distance would be tough though? I am sure you could hit the moon (not too far) but trying to push a solar sail or the PV on a probe in the outer solar system seems like a very small target (plus there are other bodies in between, sometimes...)
I once tried to create a Protonmail account over TOR and I believe they require a phone number from 'malicious' IPs so if you want anonymity Protonmail is not the service for you.
Wouldn't they have to comply with a secret data collecting order?

We are trusting they wouldn't comply or no one would make that request?
I'm afraid you have just demonstrated the only pragmatic use for semicolons outside the C family of languages.
I'll say this colloquially and rhetorically (as I have little real interest in what the probably contorted answer might be), but I wonder how it can possibly account for the vast early period of time since the big bang when there was no consciousness.

Or was consciousness-created reality all made up on the spot on the birth of the first conscience?

And how has it been kept consistent through the life of all different consciences?

I think the simple fact that, for example, separated tribes of people have lived for millennium within a physically identical world is kinda a dead give-away that reality lives independently of consciousness.
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Show HN: A unified API for retrieving geospatial data from various web services
> The “based in Switzerland” thing strikes me as a bit of a black box bit of marketing speak. How much time, energy and money did ProtonMail expend fighting this surreptitious logging mandate? Does “Swiss privacy” actualy mean anything if ProtonMail is happy to hand over your IP address when spooked?

it does not; witness the swiss banking system's capitulation to the US, crypto AG, etc
Perfect example of a strawman argument. Not angry and never expressed anything like it, but that’s is the entirety of your reply.
> In the US companies can make canary statement...

What is far less clear is if you can trust the continuation of a canary statement to indicate the absence of the action it denies, since it is both legally disputed whether continuation of the statement could be mandated by government and because anyone who has an interest in the PR value of providing a canary statement also potentially has the same interest in continuing it as long as it is impractical to falsify.
This optimists in this article were routinely wrong in the past. Why trust their optimism now?

> “I truly, truly think we are in the endgame,” said Monica Gandhi, an infectious-disease specialist and professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. “The cases will start plummeting in mid-to-late September and by mid-October, we will be in a manageable place, where the virus is a concern for health professionals, but not really for the general public.”

Monica Ghandi has been an eternal optimist and routinely wrong.

Here she is in february arguing that india had herd immunity from prior infection and cross reactive immunity. Right before devastating delta wave: https://twitter.com/monicagandhi9/status/1361856248275079170...

Here she is in may agreeing many us areas were at herd immunity. This also proved wrong: https://twitter.com/monicagandhi9/status/1389808375437824000

She admits in the article she was wrong, but about people, not the virus. But she was very wrong about the virus.

Jay Bhattacharya was one of the three people behind the Great Barrington Declaration. Their ideas won, but it’s far from obvious they were right. Instead of elimination, they argued for living with the virus. This currently is causing oxygen shortages in Florida, and renewed restrictions as countries experience rising waves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration

He writes:

> that’s the endpoint of the epidemic because we really can’t do better than that

Multiple countries have eliminated the virus. In fact, virtually every country that aimed at it succeeded at this goal. They had better economic outcomes and more normalcy. Bhattacharya wants to persuade that because this would be hard in the short term it is literally impossible.

His barrington declaration also failed at its goals: countries that tried it had both worse economic outcomes and also worse health outcomes.
I wonder if someone here tried all of the premium stuff like CuriosityStream, Nebula and whats that other one?
I'm pretty sure it means that both the user and the company is bound by the terms of service and privacy policy that clearly spells out that they comply with legal warrants (from switz authorities) and provide the limited data that they are asked for if they have it (IPs being one such thing).
Demo units. Demo consoles. Video displays. Staff that knows their inventory and their customers well and can help you find the purchases that will be most valuable to you.

Sure, but those companies do not have brick and mortar stores where they sell inventory. It's always been a distributors market, shouldn't the distributor service you? What else is their cut for?
Feels like all the reasons you quoted are strawmans of financial literacy.

> A financial literate person probably would not borrow lots of money to buy properties since around 2005 when the market was pretty obviously overvalued. How wrong the person had been.

Financial literacy advises against timing the market.

> A financial literate person probably would not buy the cryptos either, for a long time at least. How wrong the person had been.

> A financial literate probably won't buy the MEME stocks either, for a time at least

Do financial literacy advocates claim that you'll get the best outcome every time? Or that you'll capture all the opportunities? It also advocates against you betting all your life savings on black 10 times in a row, even though if you won all 10 times you can turn $1k in savings into a million dollars.

> A financial literate person save money in the bank account, only to face real rates of -4%.

Financial literacy tells you to adjust your portfolio based on your investment horizon/risk tolerance, not stick it all in a savings account.