skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could reduce the first-player advantage a tiny bit by allowing Black to place the duck at the start of the game, instead of starting it off the board. Presumably Black would place it on d3 or e3.

(Some people think reducing the first-player advantage would be valuable. I'd rather increase it, like in tennis).
100 years ago people wanted extra space, they could rarely afford it. A piano for example takes up quite a bit of space, let alone ballrooms or billiards rooms etc.

It’s interesting to look at the ownership history of old buildings over time. Often people kept adding additions even though the owners where less wealthy in relative terms they tend to be more wealthy in absolute terms.
A world of 8 billions "entrepreneurs" is perfectly possible, it's just won't be that glamorous for all of them. I think it's preferable to a world of employees as entrepreneurs get paid when they deliver value, employees get paid at the end of the month.
>Thus far solar and wind seem thus far resistant to graft,

That's because the graft happens earlier in the process before the actual "build the thing" portion so you don't notice. The developer typically pisses away money directly or indirectly getting on the good side of the local powers that be before actually pulling the trigger on the project.

Contrast with nuclear or any other centralized power generation where the state gets involved. Sure, money gets pissed away in similar ways on those projects (pay off special interest X, promise a favorable rate for Y, etc) but it tends to not technically be graft because it's all done through the official processes.
> A big competitor of theirs, tailscale, also does well here.

How does a container/database as a service platform competes with a Wireguard as a service platform?
EU is working on new regulation to fight this kind of things:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
I mean, that's a cool aspect useful to some, but I spent a day getting a Laravel app running on there, all in one region, and that's fine; I'm looking for a place to move my hobby apps off Heroku right now.
As long as you don't spill any and wake up tomorrow with all the plastic in your house eaten.
One can get grants in physics nearly only if being mainstream ...

Consa brings concrete arguments regarding g-factor, I still haven't seen any concrete explanation, only saying that it is fringe science because of criticism of mainstream ... but he quotes mainstream papers.
It wasn’t so obvious for some people…

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=697248

https://medium.com/terra-money/have-you-met-marco-216ca2a8b9...

https://assets.website-files.com/611153e7af981472d8da199c/61...

https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amaz...

Why did you decide to join Terra?

I thought Terra provided the perfect environment to apply what I learned in my research. Ensuring the stability of a digital currency closely resembled the issues faced by central banks in deciding monetary policy measures, while the lessons learned in studying trading in the equity and bond markets are crucial in guarding against potential manipulation by malicious market participants.

What do you think are Terra’s strengths compared to other blockchain projects or potential competitors?

There are several, but I will mention just three. First, there is no improvisation. In fact, our strong research team stays grounded and informed by the latest research in economics and finance, devoting a lot of attention in making sure that Terra’s ecosystem remains stable. Second, top eCommerce companies in Asia are pushing for Terra’s adoption, ensuring that Terra will be widely used from the start. Finally, the team is composed by a diverse and uniquely qualified set of people that are excited to collaborate in solving one of the most exciting challenges of our time.
My house had pex, fitted copper, soldered copper and galvanized from fixes over the years.
After it's been running for 3 hours...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
that was the joke
Napster joins Limewire and Winamp by jumping on the Web3 bandwagon
It was always compiled - to MSIL. "AOT" is the more useful term here.
Gee, that's bold, I feel like "try writing in plain English" is already asking a lot of the legal profession (fortunately some of them are taking care of asking it of themselves). I wouldn't want to push it!
The first time I passed accreditation, I created a crypto token with a super high supply and sold one, this affected some applications to extrapolate the value of my holdings. A lawyer looked at it and made the attestation that I was accredited and I was able to participate in a couple offerings over the next few months. (Lawyer verified onchain as well)

The second time was after some professional and speculative successes, and I realized that people expected me to be accredited. That was nice. So I “self certified” that I was accredited and got to participate in the rounds. No need to bother with extremely low float assets, although still an option.

All subsequent times I continued to self certify regardless of the economic reality, periodically it’s above the threshold in pure liquid assets, otherwise it was a stretch of the imagination and pure financial engineering. There are also much higher monetary thresholds like “qualified investor”. Everything higher is also a self certification. Its a dumb caste system so I have dumb solutions for it, its super effective. I took it waaay too seriously when I was younger, I just didn’t know the consequences and expected to be treated as a joke by super serious people, turns out nobody cares and capital games are all casual entertainment to the wealthy, show up if you’re interested, bring your own capital.

You still have to actually have the cash to invest. If you can’t come up with $25k minimum it’s going to be weird.
Checkout the “Backyard Starship” series where the characters basically travel the galaxy hunting for stolen relics (among other things).
No more remarkable than typewriter companies not going hard into computers.

Or kodak not going hard into digital cameras.
The need to do IVF is also related to women marrying and choosing to have children later.
Coming off a global pandemic it is good to know that a self-replicating microbe capable of destroying much of our infrastructure in a short time has been found in the wild.
From the author (in the linked thread):

> If the app can't be in the Play store anymore, there is no point in continuing supporting this app because about 99% of the users download the app from the Play store.

And some more context:

--- Begin quote ---

The balance

The few euros I receive in return for what's being offered and the fun of developing things are no compensation for the thousands of questions I answer every month, for unfair Play store reviews and for stress about unclear Google requirements.

The verdict

I have not reached a conclusion yet, but the question I am asking myself is why I would continue with the project. Maybe it is the moment, with a sick girlfriend, but I currently don't see it.

Alternatives

GitHub only version: 98% of the audience will be lost.

Strip down the app: more bad reviews

Paid support: more bad reviews

Stop answering questions: more bad reviews

Bad reviews will shift the balance only in the wrong direction.

Core problem

Google. There is no sensible way to appeal in case of bad reviews or alleged violations of Play store policies.

People. They are generally pretty demanding and on the other hand everything should be free.

Myself. An old and grumpy developer, who maybe should retired.

Input is welcome.

--- End quote ---
Blockchains were never intended for data storage of large files, media, binaries etc. They provide global consensus, which is useful for things like a shared ledger - but it’s expensive.

IPFS (and similar systems like Arweave) are very much like BitTorrent (except nodes seed/pin full files instead of fragments). If no one pins/seeds the file, it won’t be available to others. If you want some data to stay up for sure, you need to pin it - or pay for someone to do it for you. It’s not a magic free storage solution.
Heroku vs. Render
Yeah that's gonna be a neigh for me dawg
Interesting. Maybe we can use them on Mars.
> What an incredible response time. I had no idea e-ink had advanced this much.

I'd urge caution. The video is misleading in my opinion as one can't see any detail, the lighting is dim. Look at 5:05. That's a 1 bit mode when moving.

As far as I know, there's been no improvement in fundamental performance of any display from electrophoretic vendors as the underlying limitation is due to physics! A2 mode is a trick, 1 bit dithered. And companies like Dasung have disclaimers in their manual basically saying that if you use A2 too long the panel may get damaged permanently. Eg:

"
aperlike Pro is more of a secondary monitor, which is mainly used for protecting eyes.
Instead of a photoelectric display, Paperlike Pro's display is based on ink droplets
movements, so lifetime limit is unavoidable. Any misuse may lead to Paperlike Pro's early
damage.
"
Show HN: Privaxy – Adblocking / tracker blocking by MITMing HTTPS traffic
This is sad, however the app is 100% FOSS, so in due time someone could continue its development. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail

Open Source: this is the way.
I'd say using stuff like Netlify or GH Pages for static sites is worth it even if you have zero traffic. They legit are much easier to use than setting up your own VPS.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1827/
It's good that they didn't listen to the guy, he's obviously a quack.
You don't have to read the whole thread, the message where the mentioned events start is this one: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-5-0-fairemail-fully-f...
Is it possible to do all of that without being so embarrassed at yourself that you die, or do you have to work up to it?
Same applies to the expensive ones. It all comes from the same factories.
Apple Is Union-Busting in NYC, Labor Group Alleges
Covid taught us (again) that efficiency is at odds with robustness.

Having nothing in inventory is perfectly efficient, but also perfectly fragile in an environment where a major wheat producer is attacked by a madman.

There has to be a balance, and cheese is easy to store and it improves with age.

Being paid to “overproduce” is equivalent to being paid to add supply chain robustness in this case.
It's remarkably hard to ditch dynamic loading completely when using GNU libc, even when writing directly in C. A surprising range of POSIX functions require it - anything touching usernames, for example, requires it in case it's running on a complex PAM setup.
Show HN: Objectiv – Open-source product analytics infrastructure
Hi! One of the creators here. Very proud to finally be able to show you what we've been working on for over a year now. Curious to hear your thoughts!

Objectiv is open-source (APLv2) product analytics infrastructure. It's built around a generic but strict event taxonomy, open/common data- and infra tools (currently PG, snowplow, working on bigquery with more to come), and the analyses are done using our pandas-like, SQL speaking modeling library called Bach. As a result, we’re moving towards a vision wherein models can be shared openly, independent of product, platform[1] or data platform[2].

How?

- Fully assist the dev doing the instrumentation using tools for ide support, run-time validation, ci integration. No auto capture, but very low-effort[1] instrumentation.

- Scale using proven tech: a single collector writing to PG for small or snowplow to anything[2] for big.

- Feed data into your own data warehouse after validation.

- No tracking plan, but an open event taxonomy designed for modeling, that fits most user interfaces out of the box or can be extended otherwise.

- Take some of our pre-built models off the shelf or use Bach directly to model on the raw data in a notebook.

- Bach generates SQL for the target platform: productionize without lock-in, feed to a BI system, dbt, etc.

Where?

Github: https://github.com/objectiv/objectiv-analytics

Docker demo: https://objectiv.io/docs/home/quickstart-guide/

Website/docs: https://objectiv.io/

Let me know what you think and what platform/SQL backend you’d like to see supported first.

[1] Currently on plain js, react, angular, react native. Future: vue, native android/ios.

[2] Once we’re done building Bach support for all SQL platforms. Now: PG, bigquery in development. Future: redshift, clickhouse, athena, etc.
it's not a myth, it is a well documented overhead

do a google search

a audio VST, a game, a CLI are not servers where JIT makes more sense (sometimes)
I'm thinking this could be an issue you could solve only through therapy (whether actual therapy or self therapy - I had success by applying cognitive behavioural therapy concepts to myself).

Exercise causes you to release endorphins - it's normal for people to feel better or experience positive effects after exercise.

Maybe it's the type of exercise. I would start by walking / light yoga and try to add up to it until you hate it.

We're animals, we're meant to move and your health will suffer if you don't.
1. Make plastic baby potties.

2. Sell baby food with "probiotic bacteria guarding babies internally against plastic pollution".

3. Profit.
Software Engineers are not Engineers they are Professional Musicians. They need their Algorithms and Data Structures knowledge, the same way a Jazz musician needs the circle of fifths and a deep understanding of Harmony, to do sophisticated improvisation over a Jazz standard.

If you need to go on tour with your rock band you don't go to a Music conservatory and start interviewing musicians based on their knowledge of scales. You give them a Guitar, or Drums or Bass and you ask them to play something. You will know right away if they are the Guitar player or Drummer you are looking for.

That is why Software Engineering hiring is still broken, and why companies need to keep buying other companies to acquire successful software products. And that is why nobody cracked yet the challenge of successful software development.

Some of the best Software Developers are self-taught, and that include in this category, the ones with a different type of degree, that moved into Software Development.

You don't go to a school and come out an Eric Clapton or a Jimi Hendrix. You either have it or not. It's the same for Software Engineers and Software Development. No amount of schooling will help you if "don't have it" and no lack of schooling will stop you from developing something and share it with the world.
Looks like he's also shutdown Netguard, another Android app from the same developer: https://netguard.me/ / https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.ne.... I'd never heard of FairEmail, but I've definitely heard of Netguard! It was comfortably the best Android firewall & had 5 million installs or so via Google Play. Ouch.
This article conflates particles of any size, and often does not even mention sizes, e.g., '28 particles' in a serving of beer? That is imprecise (doesn't mention size) and wrong: probably way to little, as nano particles are used in filtering (clarifying) beer.

The articles also doesn't really tell me how to avoid all that plastic. If 40 percent of human diet contains plastic, then there's hope, so which 60 percent do not contain plastic? This would be really helpful to check my own diet for surprises. E.g., I drink only craft beer and make my own ketchup, in order to avoid nano plastics -- but what elephant do I miss?

The problem is really serious, so articles about this should take more care to be helpful.
Did you actally read the thread? His rage-quit feels actually quite tragic right now. Additionally to the insane problems with Google and the PlayStore-enviroment/ecosystem, his girlfriend is currently sick, and taking care of her is his priority.

I'd find it more appropriate if the (current)top-comment doesn't casually criticize some simple looks of the app as if nothing. I mean if somebody's drowning right now next to me, I don't want to hear commentary about how shitty her/his shoes look like. Well, you didn't choose to be top-comment right now for everybody to see this like on a silver plate, but to everybody else... In real life I'd suggest: maybe discuss this on some other day.

Edit: Not top-comment anymore.
I wonder how much evolution pressure you must exert onto a living thing for it to start consuming something as complex as plastic. And how many generations past time they are not in the lab anymore they figure out there’s simpler solutions to nutrition, especially in the gut.
Do you really want $other_party to be able to change the constitution whenever they happen to get a supermajority?
I agree with this. This is what projects like Matrix are trying to do - your own federated server running on your phone.

https://arewep2pyet.com/

There are issues however - mobile operating systems (especially iOS) kill background processes aggressively - and the user has very little control over this. Until that changes, you can have federated servers running on phones which will go offline frequently and will have to sync when they get back online. This is fine for some applications but perhaps not fine for others. The server also needs to be lightweight because of memory/bandwidth/battery constraints on mobile devices.
> why it took them so long to have such feature

The demand is not so strong, and the Windows world is extremely used to having bits of dynamic runtime; the entirety of COM, for example.

It does illustrate the tug of war that .NET has always struggled with. The things Microsoft want it for within the Windows ecosystem vs the "normal language" running server-side applications on Linux that a lot of the customers want.
Or you can buy a used HP 54600, which is a bit large, but doesn’t have a Costco look and feel and comes with a pleasant to use interface, with knobs for everything important and zero latency.
Crypto is a scam

If you're defending crypto, you are a scammer.

It's so simple.
It’s isn’t about raw speed, but a consistent speed. JIT usually requires pausing the world to JIT. You don’t want that with audio.
Many users will probably switch in June 2023, as Chrome will no longer run Manifest v2 by that time.

That will be the true test of Googles changes, if they don't come up with something else before then.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/
Malthus was wrong from a thermodynamic standpoint (we are still living within a conservation of mass framework), but he may have been accidentally right from a ‘what happens when you have a madman with 10,000 nukes?’ standpoint.
People who remember every second of their life [video]
Just another naked grab for power and assault on the 1st Amendment by authoritarians in government.

The Buffalo murderer was flagged to police long before the attack for making violent threats. He was involuntarily held in a mental facility briefly as a result. Yet there are demands for "greater surveillance powers" for the government. It's sickening to see our so-called "leaders" exploit this tragedy to further carve way our freedoms, but unfortunately that is par for the course.
Just won’t ever be. Once you realize the delay is what’s causing you to be exhausted, what’s causing meetings to never spawn creative solutions, what’s making it difficult to focus.

you soon realize that only certain meetings work over video and some are only worth doing IRL.
Great overview, I like the proper, old school looks of entire site. Also I can recommend this article – https://vas3k.com/blog/machine_learning/ it is on a same subject but has a much more relaxed style.
Plastic Bertrand, who eats 500 credit cards daily, is an outlier and should not have been counted
How similar is OCaml to F#?
What organization app do you use? (notes/todo etc.)
Kevin McCarthy destroys Peloton’s business model in 30 seconds
The CEO of Revolut said that they are now much closer to an IPO
Blarb is a way to share what is on your mind.

We have said NO to a few things that help to share unfiltered thoughts.
- No history: Anything you share in Blarb gets deleted in 24 hours.
- No real names: We don’t attach real names to your profile.
- No likes: No more sharing for the sake of likes & followers.
minecraft is not faster on GraalVM AOT nor will be every Unity Game out there.
C++ is faster but not because it is AOT, it's because it is a lower level language which is more brittle and less permissive/dynamic.
AOT on high level languages reduce throughput for most uses, even with PGO.
What abuse are you talking about? Google banned the app. That's it.

I have donated to this app and I am genuinely happy with Marcel's efforts to add features. Users aren't always the problem.
> We built up everything from scratch, and that includes trust.

This is a half-truth. Some people (in a community I'm in) had implicit trust in the team that did such a great job running freenode, though not everyone. I'd say you already had some trust (just like some IRC software, I guess); and we're glad we chose to follow to libera.chat in the end.
C:\dev> (Measure-Command { pwsh -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds
1394.1826
C:\dev> (Measure-Command { pwsh -noprofile -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds
247.4816

Non-cold start on a 14-core Skylake-X. Drives me nuts.
I think those would fall under the first and last point, depending on implementation.

Most so called algorithms taught in universities are after all some form of basic AI, there's very little conceptual difference between an A* planner and a minimax tree, yet one of these is essentially Stockfish, which is "smarter" than all humans when it comes to chess.
I'll get all that stuff he recommends if work pays for it. I wouldn't spend a dollar of my own money to make zoom meetings "better" and neither should anyone else who doesn't own their own business. I still wouldn't turn my camera on unless I was absolutely required to.
If you want it for your own domain I think you can still get backlinks in the Google Search Console https://search.google.com/search-console/about

Unlike Analytics at that at least does not require you to give Google any more information about your users - just to verify that you control the domain.
Context here: Pickcode is meant for high school students and is meant to serve as an intermediate step between block code (i.e. Scratch, App Inventor) and coding in Python/Javascript. As a high school teacher, I've noticed that block code is a bit too easy for students, but jumping right to Python is a bit rough and a lot of student time is wasted on syntax vs. building conceptual understanding. Simple command line programs you can build with basic Python skills aren't super engaging, and teaching how to use libraries like Pygame or making full web apps with HTML/CSS/JS is hard given the time constraints of a first semester course on programming.
Leave the US for where? Who will let me in and under what societal forces?

It's inescapable.

And even if I were to find my spot, generate massive wealth, and I'm outside any society forcing me to do anything, I will now find that other societies I'm not part of, that have lots of weapons, might want to come and take whatever wealth I have generated, by force. And who will stop them unless I use force back?

If you don't feel that society in the US forces you to beg Ave in certain ways, then either you have somehow licked intro eh one society that perfectly matches your views on every single matter, or you are not aware of how our society is forcing you to do things that you would rather now do.
The actual study is here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438942...

The study presents three scenarios assuming different assumptions about the mass of plastic particles. In the worst case scenario, where I think the assumptions are bad, they estimate 5g of plastic per week. In the other two scenarios which used more complex but more realistic modelling they estimate 0.15 and 0.3g of plastic consumed per week so only a credit card sized amount per year.

In these scenarios (0.15g and 0.3g) about 90% they estimate comes from salt.