skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Knowledge" is some physical state of the brain. I don't know exactly, connections in the brain, activation of neurons, different chemicals or electrical signals - it's something, some physical actual state of the brain. How could it be possible for Monty's brain-state to have an effect on the problem?

The obvious answer is the right one - it's not possible and Monty's knowledge has no effect on the game or the strategy the player should use. Monty knowing where the prize is and opening a bad door is the same as Monty not knowing where the prize is and having randomly opened a bad door. In either case, you should switch, Monty's knowledge doesn't change things.

Another way of thinking about it - how would the participant know if Monty opened a door at random or knowingly opened a goat door? What if they thought Monty knew, but Monty had actually forgotten and just coincidentally opened a goat door? Does any of this matter? No, because Monty's knowledge doesn't effect the game or strategy.

I also wrote a quick simulation in my Javascript console which confirms what I'm claiming here.

https://pastebin.com/y5G4PE75

The "pick and stay" strategy wins about a third of the time while "pick and switch" wins about two thirds - same as the original problem. Writing the code emphasizes that it is basically the same thing - Monty coincidentally reveals a goat versus knowingly reveals.
steam baby! STEAM! I peel my fresh chicken eggs on my farm daily. How to: place egg(s) in pot with steamer tray. Place lid on pot. Bring water to a boil. Shut off heat and allow to sit undisturbed for 13 minutes. Plunge egg(s) into cold water to stop cooking process. VOILA! disclaimer: works 80% of the time.
There are efforts in our area to expand solar and they are offering programs to the public to subsidize some of the construction with shares of the panels. Customers are advised that they will not make money but they’ll get back some percentage of their shares each month. Additionally the power company offers a renewable power option for which they charge extra over the standard rate. Given this: will we see a nuclear option to help subsidize the cost? I would love the cost to come down but I feel like they’re never going to come down if we don’t build it anywhere. Would love to help get it going although I have nowhere near enough money to make an offer other than to be a willing paying customer to whoever can get service to me.
The only surprising thing around this situation is that Jake Paul didn't promote it right before the crash.
Xbox 360 Architecture – A Practical Analysis
> Malapportionment is the creation of electoral districts with divergent ratios of voters to representatives.

That begs the question of whether the representatives represent voters or something else. I think it's obvious that Senators represent the states, and in that sense the ratio of represented to representatives is a fair and even 1:2.
> ESG

Is that the same ESG that Exxon is part of but Tesla isn't?
"Nothing" is not true. Many in failed states are using it.
> A software company with more modest aims, that has a stable customer base and doesn’t change much over time (does such a thing exist?) will be more like the humble tribe that follows the yearly migration of the antelope and focuses on sustainable, tried-and-true techniques. (Whether such companies will end up like the hapless Gauls, overrun by Caesar and his armies, is another question.)

That last part is the key: with the strong preference for short term gains in an economic system where finances are considered and reconsidered quarterly, sustainability is an afterthought. "Growth at all costs" aligns with the dominant ideology of imperialism, and it's just as prevalent in corporations and organizations as it is in nation states. Literal millennia of evidence for that approach out-competing others is hard to beat, and I think if we knew how to survive a different way even at the micro level we'd probably live in a much better society.
Business assets depreciate over time, nearly all of them, it’s only the amalgam that can steadily appreciate, as assets are cycled in and out. Business is fine with that.

The problem with software is that software deprecation cannot be readily modeled in Excel. We’re back to the problem of quantifying Engineering Debt.

The best I can come up with number of WTF moments per unit of cyclomatic complexity. The second best is aggregate cortisol level of developers divided by the business value produced during a release.
I think leetcode style interviews being easy for the interviewer / company is the most rational explanation for why its so pervasive. Its easy for the company as an automated screener and an on-site because there is a clear pass / fail rubric that can filter people. If you have a bunch of people doing interviews that don't want to do it (Google and FB interviewers cough cough), then this style of interview is perfect for the interviewer to conduct if they just want to get it over with.

I've noticed that Apple only uses simple leetcode-y style questions for its phone screens, but for their on-sites they ask very domain specific questions. It is interesting because if you're actually good at the domain you're interviewing for, they are very easy. If you're not they can be intractable. Its clear that each team puts a lot of thought into the interview process and I imagine Apple teams get a very high SNR, at least compared to Google / FB.
Apparently some guy named Monty Hall is just giving away goats for free.
perhaps they're blinded by denial?
Oh, do you think it could make a sphere then? If the angle at each triangle corner is a bit less than 60 degrees?
true, the keyword is 'standardized' at national level, even 'global' level.
Because it pays in a big way, unfortunately. Not enough accountability/consequence and being poor is extremely painful
A Random Walk Down Wall Street[0] is a good book to explain the current state of Wall Street, and it outlines a pretty specific approach for investing.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/03933...
Or suggest that you're busy and the only time you have is 7am on Saturday or even very late. That'll test the relationship
> the cost of storing fuel rods onsite for decades

This environmental remediation cost is generally missing in comparisons with all other energy sources.
Sure, but this has wider implications beyond a single example.
I discussed this recently in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453331

If you’d like to try an interview process I don’t think sucks: https://mckesson.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CoverMyMeds_External_...
no simple answer, hence my suggestion to check the FIRE communities; it depends entirely on where you are and the current markets...
in my case ( over 48 y.o., divorced, living in brazil ) nowadays most of my investments are in treasure bonds, real estate ( REITs, actually ) and commodities; with very few shares.
I also have traded options a lot in the past with moderate success; but with a full time job i don't have the necessary time anymore.
Being able to quickly come up with efficient algorithms to domain-relevant problems are not pointless brainteasers.

Being able to quickly invert a binary tree and that kind of nonsense belongs in library code (at best). It's not something that the average developer should ever need to worry about the actual implementation of, let alone have to implement from scratch in under 30 minutes.
Sure. This simulation shows the scenario OP described in his misunderstanding of the MHP, which is that he didn't realize the host was picking with foreknowledge of which doors were which. So if the host doesn't know that and is himself simply picking a random door (and 1/3 of the time, revealing the prize), then switching does not improve your odds.
This might be true, but here it has gone so far that the prisoners complain when they don't get enough candy when they watch "Let's dance".

A prisoner doing time for assault and kidnapping has the audacity to complain about things like this. It is a mockery to the victims that have had their lives ruined by this individual.

Punishment must have a deterring factor to it, imprisonment is just a joke in Sweden right now.
and yet one of the comments from that thread stated:

> The correct answer is that there is no way to make fission cost-competitive with the near-term price of renewables + storage, or even with imported synthetic fuel produced with renewables, waste or no waste. Thus, the whole issue is moot. No such SMRs will be built except where coerced funding carefully excludes true cost from the process (as indeed happened on behalf of every single utility reactor in operation
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But does comparative advantage apply? Perhaps the best way to solve problems isn't for everyone to work directly on what the single most important problem in the world is. What if it's actually often better for people to work on tasks they find the most suited to their interests and abilities?
Go is very easy to learn. You can be up and running with Go very quickly and it's fantastic for simple applications. The time investment to be reasonably good at writing Go is low. There's little reason not to learn Go.

Rust is difficult to learn, unless you already have a lot of experience with existing low level languages. Getting complex programs up and running with Rust is cumbersome. But the performance is excellent, you can have a high degree that your program is rock solid, and there are entire classes of security issues don't happen in Rust. For the types of applications where Rust does well, it does very well indeed. The time investment to become a decent Rust programmer is high, but this higher barrier to entry can make your programming skills even more valuable since there's less supply to meet the demand.
I'd guess that json is the least of their problems. Even with the fix, load time is still an unreasonable 2 minutes. This suggests they aren't doing any of the load performance things game devs have figured out over the decades, like streaming loaders and stacked memory pools.
Owning a majority of a work does not give you the right to share the other parties' work.
What should we be focusing on instead?

I remember a story from The Unwomanly Face of War where a woman, so enthralled with Communism, sends her own young daughter to deliver a bomb to a house being used by German officers. She was happy to sacrifice her daughter for communism in this way.

When I read that, I couldn't believe it. The thought of believing something with so much conviction is completely foreign to me. I was jealous in a way. But for me, earthly pleasures are all I have to focus on.
Haha, this makes me want to work at your company.
> Don't look into the future. Because you cannot. And you are both naive and arrogant if you believe you can. Deal with what is known now!

NO!

This mentality is short sighted by definition and leads to stagnation. It may work within large financially healthy companies that aren't trying to rock to the boat.

Making assumptions about the future is incredibly important for us to move forward. But with these caveats:

1) Acknowledge that you are taking a risk and that you may be wrong.

2) Validate your assumptions as quickly and as often as you can.

3) Be prepared to change course whenever your assumptions are invalidated.

> Less experienced people are generally guided by their beliefs around their own ideas. If the mind is locked onto something it's hard not to thing it's a good idea. Usually in software there is simpler approach.

Less experienced people are frequently the driving force behind new ideas precisely because of their belief in it. As experienced people we should be encouraging them to carry forward responsibly instead of projecting our aged and jaded perspectives.

> I can go on because I help companies and teams for a living.

Honestly, that's a weird way to phrase what you do.
Show HN: TLDR (short) news website with my own algorithm
I'm actively working on a news shortening website. Trying to save you from clickbaits, save your time and save you from reading Bible-sized articles
What I hate the most when reading news is reading Bible-size articles just to find the main point of the article. Usually journalists write a bunch of unnecessary information just to create 400+ long articles and position better on Google.

Worst of all are those clickbait titles or titles that tell you a portion of information just to make you intrigue and make you click on the article.

For me personally, it is very annoying and frustrating. I like to spend like 30 seconds tops on an article, I want to get the information as fast as possible and move on.

So with my [ExcerptDaily](https://excerptdaily.com/) I'm trying to:

* Save people's time

* Inform you as fast as possible

* Give you the main point of an article in 5 sentences

* Save you from clickbait or half clickbait titles

I wrote my own algorithm and tried a few of them, now I'm focusing on my own algorithm and making it better. I focused on the US market and CNN only so far, it is my ground zero.
> The problem statement doesn't permit him to choose the prize.

I agree, but this subthread is discussing a misinterpretation of the problem statement, and asking the question about whether switching still matters if the host is also picking randomly. This is showing that it does in fact matter whether the host is picking deliberately or randomly.
I'm in a community like this, which is also very heavily moderated.

It still has toxic elements because the people who run the platform think a certain way.
I don’t think companies are doing it consciously, but I do think that they do use eighty hours of interviews and coding challenges to select for compliant fungible cogs.
I wish I could access amazon.com circa 2040 (or equivalent site) and buy the definite book about the history of the cryptocurrency world. I bet it'll have some real doozies in it.
To the surprise of literally no one with a brain.

I'm in awe of how much collective brain power has going to waste on crypto. Will we ever get these years back?
You increasingly don't get a choice. Due to the ability to fingerprint people by measuring how long it takes to access resources, browsers are moving in the direction of completely sharding the cache by site anyhow to secure people away from that. If they're not already all there, they are getting pretty close. The argument in favor of a CDN in terms of "hoping the user already has jQuery or something in their cache" is nearly dead now.

I seem to recall some people measuring the effect even before it was dead, and the hit rate was never all that great anyhow. There were so many versions of jQuery, so many other libraries, and so many CDNs, it still didn't hit as often as you might think.
They don't, however refusing to do so usually indicates a lack of skill. Capable people don't need to purposefully control the flow of information just so that they have an advantage. They have an advantage because they're capable.

Of course there may be other and actual valid reasons for why someone might not share all information. That's not what I'm talking about in the previous comment though.
Do PhD defenses actually involve asking random tech questions instead of what's in the dissertation? Seems like if they're going to fail that, you already have bigger problems.
LP style of interview optimizes even more towards storytellers and fair bit of BS purveyors. The entire process is far too impersonal to drive any real and effective assessment.
And coming from the other end…

“Protocols, not APIs”
I use it for small video processing. It is better than openshot in my experience in terms of stability. The interface is reasonably good, with the exception of cropping, where you have to turn to ffmpeg (to be fair, all visual video editors do cropping badly).
The word 'simple' is hella overloaded in software circles
Can someone explain why this is money laundering? Trying to understand what laws he's breaking.
Not OP but the thing I miss the most from Usenet and IRC is the fact that they were client agnostic. I hate the discord client. I hate the reddit client and the facebook. I'd love to be able to have an open source desktop based client that I can modify and implement all sorts of plugins for it. I hate that we moved from services/protocols to closed vertical monolith.
Focus Reminder
idk about others on here but i get sidetracked easily. this is a fun little timer that helps a lot.
> a regulatory body controlled by the companies that are setting the prices

To be precise, the CRTC is theorically an independent public entity. In practice however, the chairman since 2017 is Ian Scott, an ex-lobbyist who worked for ISPs and telecommunications companies. He's been caught meeting with one of our major ISPs' (Bell) then-COO, now CEO Mirko Bibic, right before overturning their own 2019 order that would have forced large ISPs to lower their wholesale rates to smaller ISPs, rolling them back to previous (much higher) 2016 values.

The CRTC is a joke.
I would say use bitwarden rather than the built in password managers of these browsers, it does a pretty good job and you aren't tied to one browser.
Or: there are a lot of people who think that they're in on a scam, but in fact are lower down the pyramid than they are told. That explanation requires no faith, and can also explain participation of entirely rational actors.
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Even if your parent comment presented false dichotomy, you responding with the other extreme isn't convincing.

As a senior programmer I respect business priorities and I don't go fixing technical debt for months.

That being said, we the people suck at moderation. See, the problem I faced was exactly the opposite of what you encountered: I've been too accommodating and allowed myself to be micro-managed to the point of a manager telling me how should I do my job; that's when it finally clicked with me on what a toxic workplace have I landed back then.

So neither of both extremes is good. I agree business priorities have to be respected; absolutely. At the same time we shouldn't allow the businessmen to tell us we can't ever fix technical debt.
Maybe if there was transparent ledger which everyone can check online. Maybe if there was some sort of distributed consensus to stop this.
It has given me badges for PR's in private repositories, it just doesn't display what repo or any additional information (listed as "inaccessible")
I mean that I'd wager about 90% of my great ideas were not found during technical meetings in remote, but rather by bouncing ideas with my collegues in our work space during informal pauses.
We don't have that anymore: I have meetings at a certain hour, to discuss a specific subject, and in between I am alone in front of my screen at home. I eat alone and watch $shitty_youtube to pass time at noon, and I get back to work.
There's no incentive to discuss things informally, and whatever things we tried to motivate people quickly died: we had a "coffee google meet" for people coming online before 9, but this meet is now empty all the time; we have IRL meetings but people are now wary of taking the car to come (25km) because they are used to their comfort and only the local minority bothers to come.

The company culture is going down the drain, people don't know each other anymore and the retention is starting to wither: why stay in a company where I don't have anything other that money to gain? Seeing each other twice a year in seminars isn't going to spur much camaraderie, if the next day it's "wake up, walk 3m, sit at desk, eat at 12, back at desk, shower, sleep".

Also, the communication was way more fluid when all my team was at work in the same room: people didn't expect me to answer if I wasn't at my desk; now I get notifications even at 8PM because people started to work strange hours at their home and expect everybody else to answer when they need them to. Whereas in our room, 5 people were constantly bouncing ideas, problems, and possible solutions. We would draft things on the walls (they are writable) and reach conclusion fast.
If I needed an answer from another team they were a room away, and I could quickly pass the head and get a chat. At 6Pm I could go home, have a wind down on the road, and switch contexts to have a meaningful exchange with my kids an wife.

Now I have to summon everybody in a google meet for 30 min, preferably with 1 day forewarning. Half of the invitees don't even bother to put their cam, and if I forgot to invite somebody, there's 80% chance that he's unreachable, doing whatever, and I have to send an email to get an answer later during the day.

Maybe I'm one of people that like the human aspect of work? Am I a minority?
What can Apple do in this case? Let you install linux on it? Open up for sideloading? AFAIK all of those are kinda possible already.
Stablegains (YC W22) customers were defrauded out of $40M
There are few issues in the US I see motivating such an extreme reaction within a state border for the majority of US states. The only breaking points I see are reasonably well handled through a legal decoupling of states and the federal government.

The big item issues such as

- Federal bans on abortion

- Controversial Presidential elections

- A series of unfortunate Supreme court decisions

- Immigration

- Infrastructure spending

Are all issues which can be handled with a legal decoupling. If all sides remained notionally in Congress, then there is very little likelihood that Congress would address the matter. A sensible supreme court would leave it as a political issue for a few decades before declaring a defacto status as was done for West Virginia's statehood. For all intents and purposes, a de facto decoupling would look more like a return to State relationships prior to 1900 then a secession.

While some may wish for a military based solution to stop a legal decoupling... there simply does not seem to be a plausible route for any military solution by any party. Russia made it ~100km into Ukraine before being stopped, it's 2900 KM between Houston and Boston - all means of ending such a stalemate would escalate to MAD as the military remains spread across states for political and defense purposes. Even in the civil war, the North was unable to enforce integration of the south through reconstruction.
I highly recommend this research article to understand the philosophy of cryptocurrency better, and why it is not a solution to anything, but offers great insight into the actual nature of the problem.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02632764211049...
> Great programmers want to create. They won't be satisfied with just maintaining a successful product.

I personally don't think one can generalize like that. I've worked at companies with great programmers who would've like to maintain and improve things, but end up frustrated by an environment where the incentive is to work on splashy projects because that's what "performing" means there.

I've also seen what you mention of course; the 0 to 1 part of a project is done and people decide to move on. I think it really depends on the person and the project though.
Deflationary currencies are Ponzi scams because anyone with a brain knows that it will never function as a currency with that property and all that is left is a speculative bubble. Blame Michael Saylor and other crypto evangelists for preaching that it is property like gold that you hold onto forever and borrow against for access to currencies. He wants property that he can create derivatives with to leverage in finance.
In my head, it's a conjugation of "fess", which is a shortening of "confess". (Until I thought of it that way I was thinking "I've never seen this before", despite the word being in my vocabulary.)
> someone demands that he PLAN all his programming and then stick to the plan

Even when it doesn't make sense.