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> This isn't really the central problem of imperfect information. Consider that in a perfect information game, your opponent will also adjust their strategy to exploit weakness in your strategy. So if it was the central challenge, why does it happen in both? You can rule it out as what he was referring to, because it doesn't discriminate between the two types of games.

The type of issue I was referring does not occur in perfect information games.

As a practical example, consider the concept of "balancing your range" in poker. If you play poker without doing that - if you play with a purely exploitative strategy where you are only trying to maximize your EV for each hand - then your strategy will be very easily exploitable by an adaptive opponent. You will frequently end up in river situations where your opponent can deduce whether you have a strong or weak hand, so they can fold to your strong hands and bluff you out of weak hands. In contrast, if you attempt to "balance your range" - that is, consider all the subgames - then you won't end up in these situations as badly. For example, when you make a particular river bet, your opponent might deduce that you have a strong hand 70% of the time and a bluff 30% of the time (as opposed to 100% and 0%).

This issue does not exist in perfect information games. Yes, my definition of "adjusting your strategy to your opponent's strategy" was overly broad to define this issue. But if you think about the poker example, where a poker player will might make a decision like "I need to bluff with this part of my range, because I need to support my strong hands [other subgames] by having some bluffs in my range in this situation" - you won't find a corresponding example from perfect information games like chess. This class of problems is unique to imperfect-information games in which an opponent is allowed to adapt their strategy to yours. If you fix the opponent's strategy, the issue disappears. If you turn the game into a perfect-information game, the issue disappears. Both requirements must be present for this issue to exist.

I thought that Noam Brown was talking about this issue in chapter 2. He discussed a simple coin toss game where one player took a strategy, and then the other player adapted by taking the optimal (exploitative) strategy against them. Then the other player changed their strategy, and the other player again adapted their strategy. And then he described a balanced (GTO) strategy. Then he said this as a conclusion:

> This shows that a player’s optimal strategy in a subgame can depend on the strategies and outcomes in other parts of the game. Thus, one cannot solve a subgame using information about that subgame alone. This is the central challenge of imperfect-information games as opposed to perfect-information games.

I thought that this corresponds perfectly to my poker example. If it doesn't, and it means something completely different, ok, sure. I'm not a mathematician. I can't even read the notation that's used in subsequent part of the paper.
From a scammer's perspective, the mere fact that you swallowed the bait called "crypto" indicates that you're probably an easy mark.
It shouldn't be that hard to excise unused code blocks, at the very minimum, from a finished product before it goes to prod :)
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Not the best vibe from a company whose livelihood is dependent on convincing more and more people to trust them with more and more data.
They could always use an employer of record for the foreign employees like remote.com
We don't need anything so complicated, we just need to return to the house and electoral college being periodically resized according to census data rather than fixed at 435. Those reversions would solve most electoral problems without even needing to touch hard issues of engineering fair an trustworthy alternative voting systems.
Do you think that Americans are unusually stupid? Other countries manage this without any issues.
> One parent has to come home after 8 hours working and cook.

Or 10! or 12!
I would imagine the vendors of propane & propane accessories would be licking their chops at the prospect of going into all these restaurants.
I think if a well organized and coordinated initiative began where people talked about it in a skillful manner, and documented the outcomes of those conversations, something could come out of that.

Unorganized, uncoordinated complaining on various internet forums, it seems not much comes out of this.
GPL v3 was specifically written to address this. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization#GNU_GPLv3

That's why quite a few new products are still using old GPL v2 licensed software.
The way I do it, I set up a limited liability company that is just my own name. I then charge for services rendered and income goes into a company in my sole ownership. I then pay salary to the only employee (me). This is common and completely legal.
There's a single paragraph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_current_power#Environme... , with the core being: "While little is known about the effects of removing ocean current energy, the impacts of removing current energy on the farfield environment may be a significant environmental concern."

FWIW, I first heard about this approach in the 1980s, as a kid reading Popular Science.

PopSci has an article about it from 9 year ago, at https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/aqua-turbine/ but I couldn't find the one I read.
Maybe web apps are going to be used for commercial things but nothing beats the power of being able to write your own tools, and its just so easy to do that locally as its always been. A little bash script or some python goes far.
I doubt the source existed, the lawyer sounds like a fantasist and both the reporter and FBI fell for his stories. It pretty much says right there in the story that the lawyer was usually full of shit-- "I have concluded that the American lawyer loved to play games with everyone ... The lawyer told Ridd that he frequently lied to me and my colleagues at the Times ... 'I lie my ass off every day'".

From personal experience being targeted with harassment and vexatious litigation by a fantasist conman, many of his victims and enablers will sometimes admit he often lies or 'exaggerates', but the reality is that he virtually always lies, that his documents are either completely uninteresting but misrepresented or interesting but obvious forgeries. When confronted with irrefutable proof of his deception his victims and enablers make excuses or treat it as a one or few time issue, failing to accept that it's just another example out of thousands. Risen's description-- including features like the corrupted USB stick-- resonate for me.
Seems like their business model is at odds with their privacy goals.
Terraforming is a fantasy that won't work for real problems
Great coworkers, fun work environment with high velocity of innovation, decent enough pay, flexible work arrangements, preferred geography, belief in the mission.
Most of the people I talk with about data collection aren’t aware of what’s collected about them. People I’ve shared details with sometimes think I’m nuts. They just don’t believe it.
I disagree with so many points from this article...
Funny enough, searching for "Google" doesn't return google.com, at least not on the first page.
The article talks mostly about being self employed.

I made a career transition. The hardest thing for me has been the constant comparisons my brain does. Some examples below, it’s exhausting. The best advice I have is to prepare for it, and know what will work for you. For me, it’s been reminding myself of why I made the shift, and to focus on my growth path…have I continued to learn and grow, at the pace that’s right for me?

Person 1 just got the promo I’m working toward…and they’re x years younger than me.

My mgr is 3 levels above me, but only x years older.

My friends stuck with one path and are further ahead / making more money

Etc
That doesn't seem right. https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail

Which Postmaster General did you speak to again?
Smells like some expensive lawsuits are a comin'
I mean this:

https://images.app.goo.gl/f3P1yibkFqSVR5WY6
The engineering perspective will sometimes polarize the "overly-focused on the technical capabilities" and the "technically conscious out of competence".

Anyway, thank you again for the suggestion to be aware of, and possibly read, Zamyatin's "We" - suggestion that for some massive glitch in the system disappeared.
Companies should be required to open the books to employees if they are offering equity. Without good data, employees are forced to believe the founders BS.
The fact that they have to explain themselves with an article speaks a lot. Was this specific method necessary? I am sure it cost them quite a bit and were the results worth it?

How many people would read the article? How many people would simply run away from Brave due to this? How many people would care to research it a bit more?

Privacy is such a sensitive topic for privacy-respecting people that most of the time even a little doubt blows up the ship. This was a huge risk taken by Brave and unnecessarily so because they didn't do anything extraordinary by sending people mail.

Moreover, can this one article stop the negative sentiment from spreading? I don't think so.
They were raised by self righteous tiresome scolds
AI Is Ushering in a New Scientific Revolution
TY for the recommendation thinking about doing this again, will look into it.
Slack and Spotify did direct listings as well.
If I remember right, the effects of radiation exposure for most residents of Pripyat is much less damaging than smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

That’s one of the problems with assessing the damage from indirect exposure - things like drinking, smoking, lead exposure, asbestos exposure, etc. are bigger irritants.

And control groups are very hard to manage for long term (lifelong) studies.
I see a great need for /dev/yes.
I would take quite a bit of tracking in exchange for no more junk mailers like this. They seem to be missing the forest for the trees: sure tracking is problematic, but Annoying Ads, however you define them, have always been the biggest pain point. Whether it’s popups, popunders, interstitials, autoplaying, made to look like news, or killing trees to fill your mailbox: we’ve always been at war with annoying ads.

This seems like an indication Brave is actually out of touch with what consumers want: less obnoxious ads. They’re so focused on tracking they’re willing to annoy people with junk mail.
Is there something stopping a US company from issuing equity to foreign citizens?
You don’t need the batteries of 400 Tesla Model Xs. What are you talking about? You don’t need enough batteries to store the entire energy requirement for a year, you just need enough to store enough energy for a day so you can discharge at night.
Fat loss diet twice as effective if you supplement with caffeine
To me these little things are what turned me away from using the browser. Every time you install it somewhere you have to manually turn all the crypto ads off, it's the only thing that doesn't sync across devices.

These little nudges and 'growth hacks' if you will including that mailing campaign is exactly what I don't want in software that allegedly puts the user first. It doesn't seem like there is genuine innovation in Brave, they still rely on ads, and sending people physical spam in the mail or showing you 'privacy respecting' ones online obfuscated with a bunch of attention tokens doesn't really change anything.
You don't have access to the C standard library in the Linux kernel either, so what is your point?
Ime., the core library of Rust is much nicer to work with than the absolute bare bones landscape that is C when compiled with -nostd.

Boxes, cells, arcs, etc. exist for different purposes and if you'd take two hours to actually read about them and their uses, you'd understand why they exist.
That's very true but so is Sturgeon's law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
So, slightly better than offshore wind. No bad imo.
I'm not sure it's clairvoyance so much as risk management. They see a possible future in which they are unable to survive at current spend, and based on conservative management principles they've decided to make the tough decisions that keep corporate failure out of the set of reasonably foreseeable outcomes.

Realistically, if they could
actually predict the crypto market, they wouldn't need to worry about money period.
Does the permanent working visa have a path to citizenship in an EU country?
"It's so vast that small human actions couldn't possibly have an impact" is literally the same wrong-headed reasoning that leads people to believe that human CO₂ emissions don't matter.

There seems to have been a lot of extreme weather in recent years. Could it be because harvesting energy from the wind alters weather patterns? A lot of people would rather just blame it on global warming than ask a question that might expose a flaw in our plans to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.

We need to have bit more humility and a bit less dogma about what we "know".
Diagrams are traditionally used during the design process, if they are used at all. I've seen sequence diagrams on some recent projects. Class diagrams and others? Not so much. Often such diagrams represent an idealistic view, lacking detail, and often deliberately disconnected from reality (otherwise, the diagrams would be a real mess.)

Also I have rarely seen diagrams generated from code, the main exception being database ERDs ("reverse engineering.") Usually, those diagrams are also a mess.

Also, I almost forgot to mention: with "Agile", there usually is no design process. We'll just "fix it in the next sprint."
Many countries have state pensions that aren't means teated. The UK has an absurdly massive state pension budget.

But it isn't ubi/bi because you earn it by paying national insurance. If you don't have enough years of NI history in the country you don't get it.
The participation of the banks is really spot on. And at peak mania you could see companies pop 100% on listing day despite having been bumped 100% the day prior to listing. The underwriting for the shares is a total farce, also shepherded by the same banks with insider holdings, and hence a conflict of interest to be honest with it.
I made this node/tree editor 20 years ago: http://move.rupy.se/file/logic.html

It has been used for database schemas, game story creation, cutting up sprites among other things...

Lately I made my own node database so I don't need this tool any longer, but I'm sure it will prove useful eventually again!
>We have the capability to make real problems via terraforming. [emphasis mine]
Never looked at Svelte. I don't think it was around back then.
If you look at who actually flies in airliners, it ain't rich people.
Tacoma was a fun FPS adventure story thing without killing.

Infinifactory is kinda like factorio-meets-minecraft and is enjoyable.

System Shock 2 is an oldie - there can be some combat if you want, but you can also avoid it depending on your style. Good story.

Talos Principle was also special. So atmospheric. Highly recommended. I guess kinda "adult themes" though that might not be suitable for kids (not porn, not sex, not violence - more like existentialism)
I mean in all honesty it these prospective employees can hold out and get good counsel they may end up with 5+ years of salary in settlement negotiations.
We should hang out some time.
> all work this way

Do they though?

Unlike cryptos, gold and stocks have real material value behind them, not just community buy-in.

You can make the art/baseball cards/stamps argument, but then you’d be conceding that the value of cryptos — something pitched as a revolutionary technology with limitless profit potential — is, in reality, determined by the same irrational valuation process as niche collectible markets.

There’s a reason we don’t pay for groceries and mortgages with baseball cards and stamps.
Overcooked 2 has been a huge relationship builder for my wife and me.

If you put your heart in it, you learn to communicate effectively under pressure (especially when trying to conquer those 4th stars), tolerate/move-on from each other's mistakes, and control your temper around each other.

We've been recommending the game to every couple we know.
Admittedly I know very little about the economy, but this seems like wishful thinking to me. Here's my layman's view. In 2008, the housing bubble crashed, and this one single asset category crashing was enough to pretty much break the entire world economy. Now, in 2022, things are WAY more out of whack economically. We've been printing for 2 years, the Fed's balance sheet is just about to shrink, and COVID seems to be coming back. China has been locking down and prices are skyrocketing. Gas is the highest it's ever been, and cars are far more expensive than before. The baby boomer generation is retiring and will start to take their money out of risky markets with them. Sales are starting to massively slow, of cars, houses, stocks, cryptos, everything. And this is really just getting started. The housing bubble popped in 2006/7 and took over a year to cause the economy to blow up. I find it nearly impossible to believe that this massive conflagration of negative events does not end with a giant financial explosion in a year.
Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters (2016)
> I doubt the source existed, the lawyer sounds like a fantasist and both the reporter and FBI fell for his stories.

Except that Risen said he already met the source. The ambush was for their follow-up meeting.
Guidance on Implementing Cryptography as a Developer
It is necessary to freeze fish to kill parasites. All the fresh fish you see in a supermarket was frozen at some point.
Author did not buy the car to confirm. Well, that's just not right.
this is essentially already used for certain tablets with styluses for a hovering over items when the stylus is near the screen but not touching it.

not sure if it's the same process, but same effect.
Just wanted to chime in that all ranked voting systems can be gamed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
Coinbase doesn't do the Blockchain part, except as much as needed to enable a blockchain
-adjacent thing for people who don't want the blockchain part.

The non-blockchain part is the scam part.
Eh, what about cartoon violence? Like Rayman, Mario, Sonic, Pokemon, Worms...

If you want more story, you could try with visual novels, like Ace Attorney, Professor Leyton, or any DS game.
Why is "being interested in solving [...] problems" your metric? How often do big problems really get solved? If donating money can be shown to save lives, why isn't that a good thing in itself, even if it doesn't solve a huge problem like malaria?

I'm not sure it's true, though. Many EA discussions seem to be about solving big problems, which seems like an indicator of interest?
I was talking just about a sync functions being compiled to a state machine. It’s been awhile but I’m pretty sure C# does the same thing
Is the motivation that asking these questions is going to be used in some way to get better compensation?

Could be. But these questions can also be useful as (1) bullshit filters and (2) signalling (that you know your stuff and are not to be toyed with).

In particular as to (1): you should be able to readily get answers to these questions; any hint at evasiveness, or a refusal to answer, should be taken as a red flag.
I had been working in Austria for last 15 years.
From Europe I had to work with companies from Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Bosnia, Greece. Not even one single bad experience!

From my three bad experiences two are from Germany and with both we lost a lot of money and time on lawyers.
This is also possible in common lisp.
So where will the money come from?
Sorting integers is actually rare in practice, esp. not very useful for a browser.
Ask HN: Anyone else quickly losing confidence in Amazon?
I feel like every time I search for something I expect the products to be either fake, filled with fake reviews, broken when I receive them, or from a no-name fake brand that popped up last week. It has become seemingly impossible to wade through the mess.

What's worse, there seems to be zero way to report these listings. I tried submitting a review warning other customers about the fake reviews for a fake product, but the review was not approved. In that particular instance, I was actively recommended a "wasp trap" by Amazon. Curious, I saw it was rated 4.8.

Turns out the positive reviews were all for... a pet cemetery headstone (complete with photos, to make the issue completely unambiguous). The listing itself was posted by a seller that had almost all negative reviews that were -- removed by Amazon! The reason? Amazon took responsibility, since it was fulfilled by Amazon. The problem: none of the negative reviews had anything to do with things like shipping time. They were all basically calling the product a scam.

This seems like a looming disaster for Amazon. It baffles me that there is no way for customers to at least report these issues. I've done most of my shopping for the last 15 years on Amazon, but I'm seriously considering stopping. Is anyone else in this boat?
Why does this process involve printing addresses at all?

In Germany "you" (probably needs to be a company of some size) go to "the post office" (actual delivery probably directly to a distribution center), give them a stack of flyers, and say "one of these into each mailbox in this ZIP code, please".

The mailman then takes a stack of said flyers and starts stuffing mailboxes as he goes along his route (excluding those mailboxes that have "no ads" stickers).

This avoids the need to treat the spam as addressed mail, because you don't really care which person gets which of the (identical) flyer. This makes handling much easier and as a result, cheaper.
I think UML (etc...) was one of those things that look great on the surface but once you start diving deeper all the problems hidden under the surface become overwhelming. If a thing has been tried many times in the past and even with a lot of money thrown at it, yet it still disappeared into obscurity, then it's a pretty good sign that the idea wasn't great to begin with.

In practice it's the same problem as "noodle graph" visual programming. It works well in some niches (e.g. creating shaders in graphics programming, or sometimes describing AI tasks in game programming), but it completely breaks down outside those niches.
Many would call the headline a tautology...
I completely agree, I think the problem with "agricultural" land is that due to WW2 (in western Europe) we jumped too quickly in the 50's from a largely rural society to mechanised farming to pick up the slack from all that surplus war production and lack of (killed off) manpower. The wealthy have used the captive cheap labour force to fill it's offices, factories and rental tenements... Governments have made bigger farms a priority and as in NZ they have become the playthings of hedge funds and corporations (where ironically a Maori once told me something that still sticks with me as profoundly one of the best ways to manage land, telling me "in our living space people have their houses but it's communally owned land, ie " your house, our land")
To certain extent our society is focusing on using farming largely for "junk" food, ie wheat and other grains for bread and bakery, corn for glucose syrop, rapeseed for oil used in biofuel, palm oil, sugar beet... and of course, meat and diary... (i heard something like 60% of straw is burned in Germany...) rather than focusing on letting people produce fruit and vegetables in small-scale holdings...
Here in Romania a lot of people still live in the countryside (40%?) government is sidelining people selling on the street or in markets and the westernized , yuppified youth is being sucked into the glamour and anonymity of huge supermarkets full of too much stuff but so convenient...
You will lose all your money thinking like this.