skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Finally, it’s totally deterministic. There’s no randomness or element of chance, which makes this a, uh, slightly less than perfect simulacrum of the world."

Yes, the game itself is deterministic, unlike say backgammon or poker. But there is an element of randomness in the quality of moves produced by the two player. As a chess master, I try to beat a lower-rated player by giving them enough chances to go wrong. Whether they do is outside my control. So good chess players, like players of non-deterministic games, are trying to maximize expectancy.
Fellow "boring old town" member here. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Far away from me are the trivialities and concerns of concrete monoliths. I much prefer being able to walk outside on my own, and see open fields and forests where ever I turn.

Maybe I'm not an exception, but there are more than a few people who don't need much in life. A wood cabin in the mountains with 802.11 and solar power is all I need.
Is it really so bad that a malicious, anti-user company such as Google is being harmed by another malicious service?
This is demonstrably false, as Israel has in the past completely ignored Hamas' ceasefires.
Thanks for the great response! Sorry for the confusion—English is my first language. I have updated the above text to reflect that. I’m just curious about other people’s experiences :)
Thanks for the clarification; these are the comments I go to HN for.
Ask HN: OS for doing back end development?
What would you recommend as an OS for doing backend development?

Nowaydays, backend development pretty much means running a lot of docker containers, so I'm thinking Linux is the best fit. Anything else (OS X, Windows) will have to run the linux kernel in a VM for docker, which sounds inefficient. Any thoughts on this?

EDIT: two more thoughts:

1. Linux comes with potential drivers issues as well as poor scaling (4k) support. So, the comfort from native docker has to be weighted against these.

2. The M1 MBP seems like a great machine, but I hear it's completely unusable for backend development - you need ARM binaries inside containers, while images are built for x86. Did anyone find a workaround for that, or do we ineed have to forgo these sweet machines?
I don't think they lost $420 million on it because they knew what they were doing and were good at forecasting home prices and know things others don't about them. I mean, it's an interesting story you tell, but doesn't seem like the most obvious explanation to fit the data -- which would be, actually, they were bad at forecasting home prices, is why they lost $420 million trying to predict home prices.
and yet we have libel laws, anti hate speech provisions,

You may not be aware of this, but in the US, "hate speech" is protected expression under the First Amendment to the Constitution.
You seem to be arguing against something I never said, specifically a version of my comment with "and therefore we shouldn't use nuclear power" appended.
What does the VPU do after boot if the unit is headless?
Furthermore, the DMCA 1201 exemption process only applies to the act of applying a crack to a game, not the act of distributing it. So if a game's DRM fails the only legal way to make use of the exemption is to figure out how to break the DRM yourself - you can't distribute the resulting cracking tool to anyone without violating DMCA 1201, even if it has a lawful use.
Best mining GPU 2021: The best graphics card for Bitcoin and Ethereum
You create one binary per OS.
Ubisoft is notorious for misuse of DRM. I believe you have to disable virtualization from the BIOS to even be able to play some of their games. They also reverted back to needing an always on connection for some of their games. What confuses me is that their use of DRM seems really inconsistent, and they keep it on even for old games.

Stay away from Ubisoft on PC.
Isn't pedantry why we come to HN to read comments of precise people educating us and learn a bunch! Thank you for this.
thanks for the clarification :+1:
Some Thoughts on Internet Advertising
The first part of the blog has the same underlying issue— why would you publicize a retracted response? It read to me like the author’s just trying to start personal conflicts in public.
Per this US Census and HUD report [0], there have between 600k (2018) to 1M (2020) single family home sales per year over the years since Zillow started Offers. Per this Barron's article [1], Zillow bought 9680 homes in Q3 2021 and less than half of that in Q2 2021.

So, yeah, they've probably driven the price up a little bit, but their purchases represent maybe 2% of all sales, so I assume the impact that has on the market in general would be pretty small.

[0] https://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/pdf/newressales.pdf

[1] https://www.barrons.com/articles/zillow-opendoor-stock-price...
I think Blockchain removes the cost of user authentication (you are your address) which is non-negligible. Everybody has an identity that only they can use.

On top of this, smart contracts take the code that would usually run these centrally administrated APIs and makes it public. I think this is the more powerful idea.

It's not just a decentralized ledger anymore, but a decentralized and public execution environment. And it's not crazy to believe that we've barely scratched the surface of what this type of execution environment can enable in user/provider interactions and user/user interactions.
Do you want to risk your job by saying DRM isn't worth it? If you report to the board, do you think the shareholders think it's meaningless? If you report up, do you think your bosses want to stick their necks out?

Fundamentally, they're spending other people's money as insurance to avoid losing their job following a flop that can be spun as due to piracy.
They only did that because they got sued.
> from abandoning Windows

Microsoft trying to make Linux more accessible to it's HUGE professional community of programmers that are content with their OS driver but want/need accessible Linux access. The company has a decades-long track record of positive contributions to the programming community.
Looks like .NET Framework has had it's life extended as well.
It is scheduled to be installed on Windows 11 and Server 2022 which gives the 10 year native to OS support.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/migration-...
But how does googlebot know that? after indexing with googlebot, rescan as pinky-swear-not-googlebot?
We are hearing crazy talk about using Fischer-Tropsch chemistry to make jet fuel for the same reason we are hearing so much about direct air capture and other pipe dreams.

If we really decarbonized everything easy to decarbonize (including cars) we'd have very little to worry about.

Moving the focus to airplanes and other science fiction, we create an excuse to not decarbonize what can be decarbonized.

Also, next generation nuclear reactors like

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

run at high temperatures which can produce hydrogen which can be put to all kinds of climate-protecting uses.
Good sources are very hard to find because most of it is absolute trash intended to appeal to a certain audience who think there's money to be made off of reverse Fibonacci patterns or other silly sounding technical indicators that once again, sound technical and fancy but are completely useless.

If you want to know what it's really like to be a quant, review stuff from the ARPM; everyone I hire goes through their 6 day bootcamp but they have other materials as well:

https://www.arpm.co/

And as for books, Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading covers the foundations:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-High-Frequency-Trading-%C...

Those are pretty good sources to get an overview of what actual quants at successful firms know.

Quantitative trading is technical, I don't want to give the impression that it's not technical... but it's not "fancy" technical. It's more along the lines of rigorous and iron clad instead of flashy and sophisticated. Every strategy is built up step by meticulous step in precise detail and every step needs to be rigorously justified and experimentally verified.

Generally the thought process starts from the assumption that there is no money to be made on the stock market, either due to perfect efficiency or things like fees eating up any potential profits... when we talk about models, the models we construct describe how the stock market would behave if it were perfectly efficient, ie. free of any arbitrage opportunity.

Then given our model of a perfectly efficient stock market, we simulate what we should expect to observe in such a perfectly efficient market... we then investigate empirically whether these observations happen in reality. Is the market genuinely efficient all day every day across every security.

For some phenomenon it really is, but sometimes the market deviates from the model, so our model is either incorrect or an arbitrage opportunity has presented itself. If an arbitrage opportunity presents itself, we investigate how feasible it is to capture it, things like engineering effort, risk factors, profitability etc...

If all of that works out, then we get to work constructing a state machine for an algorithm to capture that opportunity.
We implement the state machine, write tests for it, run it through our backtester, then run it through our live simulator, and after everything checks out we deploy it live.

Every algorithm is treated like a person, it's given its own human-like name, has its own account, its own set of permissions, capital allocated to it, risk profile, and algorithms are evaluated on a daily basis to reallocate capital to them and modify their risk profile.
It's odd to hear about LoveFrom's association with Terra Carta alongside their involvement with Ferrari: https://corporate.ferrari.com/en/exor-ferrari-and-lovefrom-a... .
I'm seeing it score 1 out of 2 on the dead butterfly scale.

https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
My opinion is that we are not at the top of the housing market. People are realizing that it is not fun to live in dense areas.

Local markets may ebb and flow, but desirable houses will rise.

Phoenix is particularly dense and the house prices are cheap, which is why I believe Zillow sold them all-- they realized their actual profits weren't as good as what they projected.
"The fasted way to get the right answer is to post the wrong one on the internet"

Actually, Kepler came before Newton. Kepler's laws of planetary motion were derived from observations of others. They also follow straightforwardly from Newton's laws of motion. In particular, Kepler's second law is equivalent to conservation of angular momentum. Kepler's third law is equivalent to "Newton's universal gravitation + conservation of angular momentum". And Kepler's first is a consequence of Newtonian kinematics. That is to say, Newton generalized Kepler's laws.

The order is:

1. Astronomical observations (Brahe et. al.)
2. Kepler's laws
3. Newton's laws + universal gravitation.

Similarly with Einstein: His theoretical treatment of Brownian motion was based on observations by... Robert Brown half a century ealier. The photoelectric effect (for which Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize) was an extension of theoretical work by Plank, who started theorizing to explain observations made by Hertz.

Special Relativity resolved a conflict between E&M and Mechanics, but it was really needed to explain why the Michelson-Morley experiment couldn't find a difference in the speed of light, despite increasingly-sophisticated apparatus (which was an unsolved paradox for a quarter of a century before SR was invented).

And, while not on your list, quantum theory had many experimental inspirations. The Millikan oil drop experiment, for one. And spectral lines in stellar observations, for another.
I've seen it debated both ways as to whether the zfs `recordsize` tunable should be set to 8k to match postgres or if you should keep it to something a little bit higher. Here's a talk by a FreeBSD/hashicorp guy about performance wins with a compromise of 16K [0]; this lets compression work better (the larger the block, the more compressible it is) and doesn't increase writes too much, although it would probably depend on what usecases you put postgres to and the nature of your reads/writes.

The same slides mention `primary_cache` and the suggestion is use `metadata` if db working set fits in RAM and use the default of `all` if it doesn't.

[0]: https://people.freebsd.org/~seanc/postgresql/scale15x-2017-p...
Use cases for this are easy to imagine. For example; data collected by instruments in remote locations that do not have high capacity or cost effective network connections. When collection has to be done by a human it could require days or weeks, perhaps more. Whereas an automated system could perform the task more frequently.
Three years doesn't seem very "long".
Yeah "publish" is magical, I specifically jumped from .net 4.8 to 5 just for this feature.
Real open protocols are ones not coming from a single vendor / not controlled by a single entity. XMPP and email are open protocols, Matrix, Mattermost and RocketChat are not.
Troy Hunt is not a Microsoft executive - https://www.troyhunt.com/about/

He's a "Microsoft Regional Directory" and a "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional", but those things are very confusingly named. He's not an employee of Microsoft.
> Intel has a significant presence there

That's a bit tail wagging the dog, isn't it? Intel has no trouble getting engineers to immigrate to the US when it comes to other countries.

> boycott Israel

There's a lot of room between "unquestioning military support" and "boycott".
Kenosha Jurors Are Being Photographed – For Doxing
Hiring an accountant for your first two things will avoid a lot of tax headaches, plus save you more than enough money to cover their fee.

Get a few recommendations for an accountant from work slack / nextdoor / blind. If you're in a tech area, there'll be lots of accountants around used to dealing with single millions in net worth, sudden windfalls, and cryptocurrency.
Money is one thing, but you can’t exactly autoblur all text without a mass uproar. And at least for now I don’t think it’s feasible to keep enough updated storage and processing around photo devices to recognize temporary pics of all copyrighted texts either - even with heavily optimized hashes. But, I could be wrong in this assumption.
The naming really is confusing. "Core" was the keyword for several semi-independent projects.

There is .Net Core, which was a rewrite of the .Net runtime to make it platform independent.

Then there is ASP.Net Core is which is a rewrite of the ASP.Net web stack. Despite the name, this was not initially dependent on .Net Core platform, it could run on both .Net Framework and .Net Core.

ASP.Net Core is the only web framework running on .Net Core though, the old ASP.Net framework is not ported to .Net Core. So to answer your question, no, there is not a non-core asp.net running on the .Net Core platform.

Then there is EF Core which was a rewrite of Entity Framework. Again, this was not initially dependent on .Net Core, although later versions is.

Basically "Core" just means "new backwards-incompatible rewrite".
You cannot move the goal post by redefining winning a war against China the way you now try to do... And the nuclear option is really losing everything on both sides.

The US cannot win a war against China and they know it. Everyone knows it. That's why the issue is academic. So the US will not attack China and China will not attack the US. But an invasion of Taiwan is not an attack on the US.

TBH the way you dismiss Chinese national feelings passes off as complete lack of awareness and understanding of other people's points of view and of the whole Chinese history of the last 200 years.

I am not saying that mainland China will invade Taiwan, but it is indeed an important issue to them (as seen by how touchy they are about it), more than it is to the US, and they won't let go. For the US it is really only about divide and conquer against China but they otherwise don't care about it. So we shall see how things evolve.
> Microsoft branding is terrible.

Agreed.

> I never fully figured out how .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, .NET Framework, .NET MAUI and the kitchen sink relate to each other.

You're not the only one who is massively confused about everything that is labelled .NET or Core.

If anyone else is struggling, I recommend this (I wrote it):

https://dusted.codes/dotnet-basics
It seems like the money and time it would take to set that up would be way more than just buying everyone tickets on a commercial plane for that flight.
The old version of Microsoft Flight, that I spent like $100 on additional content for, stopped working because it relied on "Games for Windows Live" servers that Microsoft no longer runs. I spent about 5+ hours on different support calls trying to figure out a workaround, but to no avail.

The sad truth is that any company that uses DRM couldn't care less about you. They only care about money and they won't even push an update to remove DRM for a game they don't even sell anymore, so that people who paid money for the content can actually use said content.
"he sighs and tells me I focus too much on minor, irrelevant details"

The direct response to this is to point out that he was responsible for a large delay in executing the idea and it is not a minor mistake if it takes him that long to understand its impact. Pointing out the impact on the company, an irrefutable common value, is much harder to dismiss.

Just my personal experience, dealing with narcisissts in general require the cold and discipined approach. If they refuse to reciprocate social graces then the only option is to argue from common reality.

Not sure what to suggest about your upcoming lunch meeting but if my advice makes any sense it might be better for you to take a diplomatic stance and continue tough it out against your cofounders.
It's probably being used for multiple purposes, regardless of the original intent. Recall that FB originally collected phone numbers for 2FA, but years later decided to use the information for ad targeting[1]. Not that Facebook is unique in this regard, of course; my own experience at companies which collect various bits and pieces of customer data is that, once the data is in a database somewhere, people are pretty good at finding excuses to use it.

[1] https://www.impactplus.com/blog/facebooks-using-2fa-phone-nu...
Err care to explain how you can assert that?
Was the violence always against the state or was it also against innocent civilians? Not really the same thing.
This is cool but "loading sources..." never seems to complete on my machine. Great icon.
What do you propose, a distributed search engine like YaCy?
By the number of "San", it either questions the sailor expression "a woman in every port" as either saints getting around a lot, or that the Spanish got around a lot.
Low/No code solutions are really eating the lunch of where C# was useful in large internal apps. I use it because F#, but it’s getting harder to sell that.
>That just doesn't happen in New York. Maybe that's due to space constraints, but it's not like I'm blocking the flow of traffic more or less when I talk to someone on a bus.

>I like New York a lot, but this sort of small talk with strangers is absolutely something I miss.

It's not about blocking the flow of traffic. It's about not invading the (already small) personal space of others. I think the appropriate term is "etiquette."

As I said, there are absolutely appropriate situations in NYC to engage with others. It's just that those situations are different from those that are appropriate in other places.

As someone who was born and raised in NYC (and who lives here again), that's normal to me.

As someone who's lived in a dozen other places all over the US, those situations are different in many places.

In a walkable small town, it's normal to (at a minimum) nod in acknowledgement of those you pass by on the street. In NYC, when you pass by a couple hundred people in the space of a couple blocks, if you tried to do that you'd end up with whiplash.

In places where everyone is in their car unless they're at the place they wish to go, it's not unusual to interact with folks at those places. But you certainly wouldn't roll down your window and say hello every time you encountered another car.
Resulting, or the importance of not confusing decision quality with outcomes
We compromised TLS on hundreds of websites.
> 1) You are making an hypothetical based on orders. Which amount to nothing.

No, my colleague actually spent time in jail for military crimes.

> 2) Searching google for

You get what you search for.

> you are just out of the loop

Or, what is more probable, you are just pushing Hasbara.
What is this group?

Front Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs), people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line Defenders addresses the protection needs identified by HRDs themselves.

How do they identify and vet a qualifying "Human Rights Defender"? Do they have a membership roster?
I never run anything else than LTS in production. The in-between versions have basically been beta quality since .NET 1-preview.
Thanks for this well cited information. Here in the US we also have a strange habit of describing housing as national instead of local. Even during the housing bubble pop in 08/09, there were some markets that were hit extremely hard like Las Vegas, and others that were barely impacted like Dallas.

I'm in a market that had insane growth over the last few years, and I am now seeing price cuts on lots of houses listed for sale.
I'd go one further (in the other direction). If someone "ran the numbers", I'm quite sure they would have made them public. Because no consumer wants DRM (some are ambivalent, some hate it, but no one is like "oh, thank goodness, DRM"), and the inclusion of DRM by other companies does not threaten your market share, a company has nothing to lose, and only to gain (good will) if they were to release those figures and explain to their customers with cold hard data why DRM is included.

None have done so. Ergo, I am quite sure no one has "run the numbers"; they have, as mentioned, eyeballed them and used them to justify their own biases, as humans are wont to do. And either do not have enough of an analysis to release, or realize it is so easy to poke holes in that they shouldn't.
And my point is that some of it not native (it's handled by the renderer) and it's possible to get back or similar enough (precomputing hyphenation).
"[Dis-]Graceful termination" and "Theory-to-practice" are good names for those problems.

They supply useful context and are not ambiguous.

Class 1: medical devices, explosives, renewable energy credits, depreciable property, lasers, streetcars, UK national insurance, railroads, electronics, felonies...

If you're going to coin a term, make it a good one.
In my ideal world, theres a UX designer to take in (and mentor in) that work. Perhaps design is baked into frontend work in smaller companies, but every place I’ve worked has had a specialist devoted to that work.

Even I, an infrastructure monkey, can follow a design doc with explicit values for widths, lengths, and font colors, faces, and sizes.
I'm looking at the current RedFin value of my house, the statement that "A lot of these properties are purchased by companies" and "Zillow is getting out of the flipping business" and thinking it was a problem of their own making. They've overheated the market to the point that they can't make any money, and a lot of people were having to spend more cash than necessary on a house that wasn't worth what they paid for it.

I don't have to move, I expect a 30% drop in value...it probably won't be as bad as 2008.
I believe close to most human beings are pathological narcissists (the clinical kind).