skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is in part because the taxi industry was absolutely horrible to consumers.

But mostly because it didn't had to pay the same fees. It treated employees as independent contractors and negate their rights. And it burned millions on AstroTurfing and ads.

The Mafia also can overtake business where others where there before.
> Seems like it would be easy to test. See how the AI does when revealed pieces stay revealed compared to a standard game.

It would effectively need to be a different AI to use that information. And what does it play? Humans? Other AI?

> Also, given this is online competitive play likely that a significant portion of top human players are cheating and have aides to keep track of pieces.

That's a great point. It may even be condoned in some circles.
The OSB has become a big bucket which UK politicians can point to and say "see, we're doing something". When faced with a question about the internet, the stock response of Tory MPs is to say "wait for the Online Safety Bill". In that way, it's quite similar to the situation before Brexit, where representatives would evade responsibility for policy by claiming that their hands were tied by Brussels.
Bitcoin hasn't been GPU mining in a very long time. It uses custom ASICs. The distinction is that bitcoin itself has very little effect on the GPU market. However, seeing as most coins are pretty correlated with bitcoin, at least until they completely fail, bitcoin price has like a second order effect on the GPU market.
I was pretty into the idea of this drug until I saw the patently ridiculous cost. $1,300? Literally no drug that must be taken long term should cost anything close to this price.
Still, not once has the United Nations passed a resolution to fund the building of TGI Fridays franchises in South Asia or sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly everyone lacks access to warm, inviting restaurants with vibrant Americana-themed decor [1] https://www.theonion.com/tgi-fridays-is-a-human-right-182535...
Meanwhile in real world: https://m.thebl.tv/china/china-shanghai-citizens-break-block...

As for the quotes - according to Chinese their system is democratic. According to Americans theirs is. From my European point of view both are somewhat flawed democracies, China because despite advancing surprisingly quickly they are not there yet when it comes to transparency and human rights, and US because its political system is essentially just institutionalized corruption. That and indirect voting.
Thanks for the suggestion! That's something we have in the pipeline for post-MVP
I'm still trying to grok and implement the paper, but I studied AlphaGo/AlphaZero/MuZero during my PhD. The core contribution here is the Nash equilibrium component to imperfect information games using only self-play. Note, there is no MCTS being done in this paper. This differs from counter factual regret methods (like the most famous Poker AIs) because it does not need to compute for all possible "information sets" which makes it intractable for even sufficiently complicated poker variants. It should also be noted (as they do in the paper) that this is more incremental than methodologically innovative as AlphaGo. This is the AlphaZero step increment to NeuRD. As is my general critique with their previous papers, they generally omit many engineering details that prove to be very important. Here, they admit that fine-tuning is vitally important (one of the 3 core steps) but details are relegated to the supplementary materials. It also opens up the question of if this new "fine-tuned" policy still guarantees the Nash equilibrium which it obviously does not as some mixed strategies are going to have sufficiently small probability. I wish researchers would be more honest with "this is a hack to get things to work on a computer because neural networks have floating point inaccuracies". It doesn't ruin any of the theory and no one is going to hold it against you. But it causes all sorts of confusion when trying to reimplement.
What's with the DVs? This is correct. You'd have to raise pay much, much higher to keep decent (for even very bad values of "decent" that we currently have) gov. workers and politicians if you also want to saddle them with a very broad and painful non-compete when they leave. That or they'll turn even more openly to bribery and corruption to make up the difference.
I believe it might be based on misunderstanding the generic category "vegetables".

I.e. "I eat lots of vegetables! I had french fries on Tuesday, mashed potato on Wednesday, ..."

Reminds me of the classic regulatory decision (which I actually looked up to make sure that it wasn't an urban myth, that's how crazy it sounds) that the tomato paste on top of pizza is classified as a vegetable for school lunches [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable
The only reason the potato diet is interesting to me (and presumably the reason it's interesting to the https://slimemoldtimemold.com/ folks) is the likely relationship to their environmental contaminant hypothesis for the public health issue of increasing body weights since 1980, outlined in a series of posts here: http://achemicalhunger.com/

In short, while the variety and satiety explanations make a lot of sense subjectively for an individual on this diet, they don't match up with the empirical data on weight gain since 1980. Here are a few phenomena that are not explained by this hypothesis:

* The inflection point at right around 1980. There's no specific change that occurred in 1980 that anyone can point to that indicates a major change in variety of food in the average diet.

* The correllation of weight gain with location in watersheds: high altitude locales where surface water has not moved very far (e.g. Colorado) exhibit the weight gain phenomena much less than locales deeper down in the watershed (e.g. Mississippi and Louisiana)

I'm not interested in fad diets or disordered eating because they have a track record of bad long term outcomes, but I am interested in the potato diet as a blunt tool for taking action on this hypothesis, which looks pretty compelling to me. And if it doesn't work out, that's fine, too!
News about a whistleblower. HN comments only about how taxis are bad.
I see a problem here.

Uber has broken the law to incredible extends, and it has corrupted many politicians. That's the truth, that are the news.
Thanks for checking it out. Thought that debate topic was appropriate for launching on HN :)
Of course, eating food you don't like so you end up eating less doesn't sound like the way to go through life!
In VR, the controller can be a laser pointer/cursor with very high precision and reliability (if your tracking setup is optimal), many VR menus use this mechanic. But then you're wearing VR controllers and a headset, and only you can see the screen unless it's mirrored to a real screen or you're with others in VR.
This product simplifies nothing, honestly. The ‘hardest’ part of growing mushrooms is keeping things sterile for the inoculation and colonization phases. This does nothing to address that besides offering it pre-made. Which you can already buy at tons of places for reasonable prices.
This device only actually involves the easiest part of the entire process - fruiting. And you’ll get the same results by just throwing your colonized media in a $2 shoebox as other people have already stated.
I like the comparison to juicero others are making, that’s essentially what this is.

And by the way, absolutely none of this is too complicated for your average person. There are tons of literally step-by-step guides online for free.
It was interesting to see an electronic firing mechanism, although this article doesn't really have any information that's not obvious to anyone who's seen a picture of it
An afternoon window is ok. I’ve done IF eating on a 12pm-8pm or 2pm-8pm schedule and it worked just fine.
Good lord, you actually managed to listen to and translate it without falling apart laughing? tips hat
Even if they did lose weight, it would be challenging to differentiate this from the insane calorie pull that happens to your body while breastfeeding.
Debatable. It’s a helpful heuristic especially when looking at population level effects of information flow through the internet.

There may also be other useful views but viewing the internet as flow of information is undoubtedly useful to some degree though it’s of course not a complete picture
Doubt it. But that's OK.
Well yeah,

* You can't sell a book with just 6 words in it

* People will pay you a lot of money if you can convince them they don't have to do that
Exactly. This differentiates the product from other platforms like Twitter/Reddit where you can ask polls.
> My point being, there are more classic books and books which other intellectuals reccomend than there is time in the world to read.

This point was not at all clear from your parent comment, which was easy to interpret as “if it’s hard, why try?”.

You’ve clarified that this was not your point, but I understand why someone would interpret the original comment as anti-intellectual.
Costco became a staple for Asian American families
Having recently given birth, and breast-feeding, is (Ahem) the mother of all confounding factors
Your vocabulary isn't at fault, nothing to do with that at all, it's that you think 150 of a watch is in some way mass produced.
This is actually great if your goal is to lose muscle
I though Dutch people eat more of them annually
Significant increase in yuan or euro based settlement would represent an unraveling, this is primarily a utility for India to streamline Russian energy imports.
> EVERYTHING WORKS. (at least in this short term) How to explain this? Well, what does everything have in common? Every diet restricts food choices.

Now I wonder what is the minimum N such that switching diets every N days ad libitum would work.
it sounded to me like the OP was critiquing it for being low fat + high carb

Are you saying that views on carbs might change like it did for fat? Keto is pretty much the best supported thing we've got, plus diabetes being so prevalent, so the argument against carbs is pretty solid.
I suspect the reason you have to use it is because it does things that no other piece of software does. Some people find that praiseworthy.
Aren't potatoes high starch which is generally avoided with keto-type diets?
Couldn't an ordering column be added to the pg_attributes that determines in which way the columns are sorted when they are displayed? Standard SQL code can then be used to manipulate the display order of the columns.
Myanmar's junta rolls out Chinese camera surveillance systems in more cities
> I think we all forget though just how poor the quality was back then, and what we've become accustomed to, with VHS being 240 lines, DVD 480p, etc. It's like reminiscing about the first iPhone and then looking at one and realizing how damn small it actually was compared to modern versions.

I think the "what we've become accustomed to" is the most important factor there. Back in the VHS/NTSC days, without experience of anything else, I had not complaints about the quality.
I think "day one" was an existing phrase that was confusingly extended to cover other "start of phase" concepts.

Sounds like a nice way to trick your management though, "Uh no, it won't have feature X on day one, but that will be working by Day-2."
Tone aside, she does point out one clear way this bill does hurt tech compared to other industries.

The cost of entry into this space is really low compared to most other industries. You can very cheaply provide a reasonably competitive product.

One of the aspects of this bill that I do find worrying is that there are clear costs being added on that we're obligated to pay likely before we've validated the business works.

I do feel a lot of side-projects that could have gone to become viable businesses will never be released with this bill in place. Who wants to expose themselves to costs to try out a fun idea?

A lot of what she's arguing for could have been covered similarly to GDPR if there were carve outs for smaller entities, which would have been easy to mention, the absence of them lends weight to her assertion that the goal of this bill as it stands is to generally increase political control of the tech sphere.

Even if that control only extends to and harms UK businesses...
Uber did exactly this to a friend of mine just a couple months ago. Except they didn't even offer the 7am pickup. They just cancelled the ride 15 minutes before the pickup.
Macau shuts down casinos following Covid outbreak
I can't speak generally, but when he asked if I'd prefer five bacon hamburgers or like twenty potatoes to get through the day, I would definitely choose the burgers.
> I've switched back to taking cabs from the airport.

Yup cabs are way better experience at the airport and the same price or cheaper. I haven't tried using our local cab app, but its been on my mind.

Meanwhile Uber drivers still haven't figured out where to park, or stop in the middle and wave you to run out to their car... while everyone honks at them.
> "How can you have a clear conscience if you don’t stand up and own your contribution to how people are being treated today?”

What a laudable moral pivot! Good for him, finding a path to redemption. I guess he was just haunted by all of his sins and felt a need to make things rights with the world.

> MacGann is understood to have recently reached an out-of-court settlement with Uber after a legal dispute relating to his remuneration. He...acknowledged he had had personal grievances with the company.

Ah, there it is.
Why would you be trying to prevent the DB from reordering the data? You're not supposed to have better knowledge of what's good for your use case than an RDBMS that can collect usage statistics on queries and such. Ditto for compilers rearranging structures and such. When you start having hundreds of tables and thousands of queries, I don't see how you can do a better job than an automated system at that point.
We don't know for certain, but you may have missed Rogers [0] - which brought down cell phones (every function but wifi), debit transactions, and 911 services.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_o...
My i7-10710U runs HD videos fine.
Hopefully enough people here read your comment and have already started :-)

I imagine the trick is going to be getting it to tie in with the PoS (Point of Sale) systems I think, so that it is seemless for the business owner/manager.
If you want to utilize AD you don't have an alternative to run Samba, IIRC it's the only AD alternative that actually supports Windows clients.

For anything else, OpenLDAP in Docker.
Yeah, we like software. Probably every single person reading this site does. What we don't like is having constant new crap added that doesn't actually benefit us as users (like constantly-shifting user interface, new limitations that didn't exist before, "overhauls" that remove functionality we relied on or expected or were otherwise intimately familiar with). It's a waste of our time and energy, and causes stress.

Yeah, new functionality is neat, but it's an ignorantly-optimistic delusion to believe that frequent updates strictly involve new functionality. It's extremely common that updates involve literally zero benefit to the user, instead introducing some bullshit we didn't want like a "What's New?!" popup that now harasses every time you open the software (Miro, Discord, etc.), or a new notification icon that glows blatantly every time there's a new Awesome Sale available (looking at you, Guild Wars 2).
Thanks. Fixed. (It's not my fault young people broke direct linking on the web.)
Are there any YouTube users who still haven't heard of a VPN? They seem about as niche as TikTok at this point.
> I don't bother with them myself

This makes senses, because these plugins are terrible (I've tried them), and if you had used them you wouldn't suggest them as an option.

Vim macros are OK, and better than multiple cursors in the minority of situations.

If you record a long macro, and you make a typo in the middle, do you know how to edit that typo in the middle of the macro? You probably don't*

The answer is you past the macro contents into the buffer, edit it, then yank it back into the macro register. Do you know how to properly yank this so characters are escaped properly and you don't copy the line break and put it in the right buffer? You probably don't*

Do you know how to make this processes easy to iterate on so you can trial and test macro changes each time you modify the buffer? You probably don't*

* This isn't meant to be a dig at you, it's based on my experience with other Vim users. If you know how to do all of this, shame on me.

Most Vim users I see manually go back and try to re-record the whole thing, or don't know how to use macros in such depth.

Either way, none of this matters. These are Vim problems only. Multiple cursors are so much nicer, partially because they give you instant feedback, and trivial undo. The only thing I've missed from macros is manipulating numbers, and VSCode plugins that increment in multiple cursors solve 90% of that want anyway. It's so nice not to have editor problems (aka "how do I edit this text in Vim"?) and instead just use the editor seamlessly.
They're all elimination diets, and lifetime adherence is the reality (albeit slightly more calories during maintenance than fat loss phases). Carnivore is one such elimination diet, with the mild advantage that it provides a lot of protein and thus has a muscle sparing effect, and increases the TDEE due to the digestion process.
Gigantic waste of time of tinkering and assumptions. Bad video plugin for accuracy. Subpar emulator core. Going to be massively disappointed in the coming next part when they realize they should have just gone with RetroArch begrudgingly because that's where all the development work is right now for N64 accuracy. Would also solve input and video out issues.

I'm saying this and I hate RetroArch lol. I just don't want to see this go-getter hacker dude just bark down holes that have been trodden before.

Reference this in the future too. https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Nintendo_64_emu...
Someone’s making money but it’s not us – comics spurning the Edinburgh fringe
> The cars are rundown and often smelly.

I don't take Uber/Lyft often but yes, it seems like at least 25% of the time it's obvious that the driver smokes in the car when not driving customers. I've also been in a lot of vehicles which very clearly had blown shocks (based on the noises I heard when we went over even mildly rough road)
Autonomous pirate satellite internet
I see people who 'arrive' at something they have been working towards often disappointed. You may have been working towards this state for longer than you realised. These states are usually defined by a list of things - they can be material, or more abstract. You've valued them up until now, but now you've realised they aren't great values, not worthy of life motivation.

It doesn't mean they are bad things, and it doesn't mean you need to uproot your whole life to make yourself happy. But maybe you need to look around you, ser what you enjoy, what you think is important now.. What are your real values, and then your decisions in the future can help you lead a fulfilling life.
Ah cool, thanks! As someone who mostly lurks, I look forward to engaging with some of these features in a few decades time.
You could try having an affair, and try to keep it from your wife. That will spice things up! I mean, you'll lose everything if you get caught, but what a rush!
The responses to my posts in this thread such as "Fuck what they want" only reinforce to me that the proverbial mob isn't capable of being objective about many police actions.

Having a crowd of people trying to scream a few feet away from the cops trying to apprehend a resisting person is a recipe for disaster.
Yes, one of the character tables in the character ROM consists of upper and lower case Bulgarian letters, which as you can see is not very useful with Basic :)
And this is the reality of consulting too. You might get paid X but you are billed out at 2-3X.
The Kansasfest Apple II convention is coming up later this month, both on-line and in-person, if you like the Apple II this is the place for you! https://kansasfest.org
By this logic, the obesity epidemic should've happened in the 17th century when the potato was introduced to the rest of the world and became the staple crop of poor farmers everywhere.
So you prefer being tracked without you knowing rather than being asked and easily opt out?
I worked at a corporate Blockbuster for just over a year during high school. I made $7.15/hr and I commuted using my bicycle. Best job I ever had.
My personal short story:

I became so disillusioned with big tech that I quit and took an 8mo sabbatical until contract work dropped itself on my lap. I was really lucky that I didn't have to do any selling of myself which everyone claims to hate (I wasn't in the solo game long enough for any of my wells to dry up).

I got my leads from friends working as full-timers at companies looking to hire. They were desperate enough for above average talent that I could negotiate a part time deal: essentially 20h of my week.

I charged about what I was making as a full-timer, but padded my hours. Typically work 2-3hrs, bill for 4. In retrospect, this wasn't enough for no other reason than it was a better deal for them than for me.

I overlapped these gigs for a few weeks and absolutely hated the full allocation of my time. Also the context switch was painful. I'd go from an archaic MSVC++ codebase in a windows VM to an unorganized startup working on iOS/Android. Eventually I quit one and kept the higher paying gig.

I liked neither of the jobs. I was sometimes asked to do more than just fix bugs, like start architecting a way to a modern stack or think about how to integrate a revolutionary feature. But when I came back with a plan, their ambitions vanished. They thought they could get something magical for nearly free.

So I became disillusioned with contract work :) The jobs often exist because an employer wants to pay less than hiring a full-timer to do the job. Or the work they want done is inherently unattractive. It was isolating too since you're never really part of a team.

Ultimately I made the pivot back to big tech. Work is more interesting, I obtain more valuable knowledge. My isolation problem wasn't fixed due to pandemic =\ And I feel a lot more freedom to screw off in the middle of the day when I'm frustrated. As a contractor I felt guilt (or I just never billed for the hours I took off to go on a bike ride and clear my mind).

Good luck! I'd send personal emails to your network of engineers working at small-medium companies that are less flashy and don't have a flush hiring funnel. They always need good folks (you'd be vetted by your contact) and you may have the leverage to set the terms of contract employment.
Show HN: Simple Python struct format-string explainer
Hi everyone! As a side project I made a tiny static website that helps explain format strings used with Python's `struct` module. Type/paste in a format string and you get a quick explanation of the structure instead of having to look through the docs. It's open source, happy to hear any suggestions how to make it more useful.
This is obviously not a solution - everyone says this, everyone already knows this, and yet there's still an obesity epidemic.

Unless you have a way of motivating most people to follow this advice, day in and day out, it will not be a solution.
Depending on where you are, you can use Curb or something similar to pair with your ride and let the app handle payment. I use it (or just hailing cabs) almost exclusively over Uber/Lyft these days, typically 1/2 the price and the drivers don’t get lost in the city either.
On finding “person problem fit”