skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a garbage premise entirely due to the fact that people - eg job applicants - can be so drastically different one to the next (whether amazing or horrible). The secretary problem fails to bake that in, because it can't handle it inherently (you have to actually interview people to know that). It doesn't actually work in reality.

There's no probability theory that is going to function properly so as to be very useful in such a context, because the best candidate in the world can just as easily show up on the tenth interview as the first or third. Your first three job applicants can be horrible, and the next three can be amazing.

People that buy into the false nature of the secretary problem / optimal stopping theory (that it's actually useful in reality), are falling for the premise that eg several roulette spins in the past directly impact the odds of the present spin. It's a bad premise to utilize for exactly the same reason: the quality of your last candidate doesn't have any strict relationship to the quality of your next candidate.

Optimal stopping theory is only useful for highly indecisive people that can't figure out what they want, so they fall back to handing off their decision-making to something else.
The price of the Ryzen computer seems to be much higher, unless I'm missing something: $3 310 vs perhaps $2 100 (both models with their disks = 2TB, couldn't find the 512GB Lenovo model so moved the MBA up too).

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/th...

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air/midnight-appl...

Am I missing something?
I just finished watching Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo and while there are exaggerations, it has been a delightful show in highlighting the struggles of those on the spectrum.

In particular these quotes stand out:

"People on the spectrum have a pattern of rigidity and repeated behaviors"

"Don't answer questions that wasn't asked, don't do anything that you weren't asked to do"
I agree 1000%, but at my company and many I've looked into(not FAANG), it's the way they structure it. Senior is level II, one above Junior. Then all kind of inflated things above that like Lead, Principal, Architect, Principal Architect, Master. Just waiting for them to add Physician or something...it fits in line with our industry stealing other job titles to feel important.
For some open source developers, students, or hobbiests who don't have a job, yes.

Also I think the main point is just the fact that such a useful tool is so monopolized currently. Would be nice to know that if Microsoft randomly decided to triple the price or do something shady with it, there would be fallback options. Preferably something open sourced and community oriented
I know it's off topic:

I assume your part of questmate?

Seems interesting but your "what is questmate" should be a quest.
Two seperate facts:

1. Apple did use their market power crush small companies.
2. Facebook does have an awful privacy history.

So the question is, do you think improving Facebook's privacy must hurt small companies? Another example, Google is working very closely with UK's Competition and Markets Authority to make sure the plan of replacing third-party cookies won't punch other companies at their faces.
Personally I can't see the point of paying for Copilot, I'd rather spend the money on resources to expand my knowledge of the areas I'm working in - if you like I'm training my own neural net to help with coding :)
Something like this should result in the defendant being automatically found not guilty, and the agent sent to jail for the maximum sentence the defendant was facing. This is a complete and unacceptable breach of the public trust, and of civil liberties.
> no one mentioned it raised your cancer risks to such a degree

That's because it doesn't. For the kind of light social/dinner drinking most people do, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it increases your cancer risk (on the contrary, there is some evidence of protective benefits, but epidemiological studies on diet are always full of confounders, so who knows). The reason it appears on lists like these is that alcohol abuse is quite common and leads to liver cancer, among other things, and is associated with other unhealthy choices.
Wow, I've been out of this space for a while! Last I was paying close attention to any of this 10G ports were new. Glad I learned something from my old life today!

I stand corrected on "always line rate all the time in any circumstance" but by your math and my general point < 1 Tbps from one of these appliances across multiple 100G ports isn't problematic in the least from a hardware standpoint - especially for the Netflix traffic pattern with relatively full (if not max MTU) packets.
In the mid-ninties, around the time I had just become a teenager, I remember walking down the back corridor of a mall where my parents were leasing a space for their business and hearing a song playing overhead on the mall speakers that really caught my attention. I had no idea what the song was called or who made it, but I really liked it. I remember wishing I had some way to quickly find out, before the song ended, the name of the song and the artist. I remember thinking, "wouldn't it be great if this cell phone in my pocket could somehow tell me the name of this song?"

A decade later I discovered Shazam, and even today, more than a decade after that, Shazam still has a place on my home screen, quickly within reach, helping me discover hundreds of great artists and songs overheard from as many different places. The magic of the experience, and the appreciation for the technology, stem from the memory of that moment in the mid-nineties when I stood under a speaker listening to a song that I might never hear again.
> I have no idea how the tech works

It does a Fourier analysis of sections of the song, and puts the results in a database. A Fourier analysis yields what frequencies make up a waveform along with their amplitudes, so it is very compact.
There's various software that can map MIDI to other emulated inputs, yes.
That they have PII would be a surprise to me.
I’m so sick of these articles, this is another useless correlations study that tells me nothing. I’m going to continue to drink until someone can tell my clearly and succinctly how much of a risk it is.
Show HN: Tutorial for making a browser-based multiplayer platformer with Hathora
This tutorial features a fully authoritative server using arcade-physics[0] for physics and collision detection. It uses Phaser for the frontend and Hathora for the backend/multiplayer.

The full code is available on Github[1]. I was pretty happy with how minimal the code ended up being, and I hope this can be a useful resource for others interested in building a multiplayer platformer game!

[0] https://github.com/yandeu/arcade-physics
[1] https://github.com/hathora/platformer-tutorial
Maybe a little arrogant but as someone looking for a 'small check' to rundown an idea, that doesn't bother me.
My rule of thumb has been to stay close to the revenue so perhaps asking if you would be working on topline related projects or bottom line related project. Related is to ask what the top priorities are and to try to understand where your focus would be in relation to the top 3.
I had simply assumed it would be the same, but after a bit of research, on the phone, the legal limit is way higher (300€). It does require a pin code above 50€ though
Reminds me a lot of MusicBrainz Tagger, I remember being fascinated by it in 2001 ( https://web.archive.org/web/20010107213100/http://musicbrain... ) because it was able to "identify" the song in the mp3/wma/ogg file and download the correct tags.
Do those four affect the results of the benchmarks? What color was the laptop case?
Can you give some examples / links for this? it's almost impossible to search for, with everybody talking about Apple's IDFA changes
Technically speaking I think Netflix's UX blows every other streaming app out of the water. It loads instantly, scrolling is smooth, search is instant. Buttons are where you'd expect and do what you expect. They have well-performing and up-to-date apps for every conceivable device and appliance. They support all the latest audio and video codecs.

This is all in stark contrast to services like HBO Max and Disney+ which still stutter and crash multiple times a day. Amazon for some reason treats every season of a TV show and HD/SD versions of movies as independent items in their library. I still haven't been able to download a HBO Max video for offline viewing on iOS without the app crashing on me at 99%.

The problems you mention with Netflix are real, but they have more to do with the business side of things. Netflix recommendations seem crap because they don't have a lot of third party content to recommend in the first place. Their front page layout is optimized to maximize repetition and make their library seem larger. They steer viewers to their own shows because that's what the business team wants. None of these are problems you can fix by reassigning engineers.
Eh, sending a human to Alpha Centauri wouldn't be that hard... Although it would be difficult to know for sure if they arrived, and for ease of transport, you may want to send a dead human.
I remember studying this paper as a student, was completely amazing, a bit mysterious and not so difficult to understand at the same time.

And most of all: no ML involved! All hail the heuristics!
The traditional example of an application is dating to marry.

The number of 'applicants' isn't what matters, what matters is how many dates the subject can get in the amount of time they're willing to spend looking, this can be estimated reasonably well.

The part where you can't go back, well, it's more true than not.

I say it's the traditional example of an application, but I rather doubt people choose their spouses this way, nor that they should.
They had delays, a rapidly looming deadline and not enough personnel, so NASA had to resort to hiring React developers.
> acetaldehyde

Interesting. A common fruity off flavor (or desired flavor depending on what you want) of craft beer is caused by acetaldehyde being produced in the fermentation process. I wonder if certain craft beers are worse than regular beers because it contains acetaldehyde to begin with.
You know you are in HN when people use S3 to upload photos, and not imgur.
> Alcohol, in any amount, is a poison

That's a big of a stretch. The DNA is "damaged", or better said changed, by everything. And not all alcohol beverages are equivalent. I'm all up for raising awareness at alcoholism especially due to experience in my family in the past, but this is a piss-poor job of doing so. Being alarmist about things has often the opposite effect, especially today.
Maternal stress on the fetus has huge impact. In my mother's case, before, during and after preganancy, she was abused, starved (because my dad didn't want her to become fat), and suffered all around. I believe this is what contributed to my spectrum but I believe my dad also was on the spectrum but they just didn't have the words to identify it back then. So it is probably genetic mostly and environment also contributes.

Having said that its a big reason why I don't want children. I don't want to pass this on to them, on top of the PTSD I received from my dad and toxic environment.

I find it surprising that high functioning spectrum folks are more likely to have offsprings than neurotypal. Because there was a time when I wanted to start a family too.
Racks are made of metal, not least because the server is only supported at one end (its a cantilever) which applies a lot of force to the support - there is a lot of leverage.
The fact you are probably missing is that not many people pay the Lenovo sticker price. They routinely get heavy discounts once they have been available for a few weeks.

This is also true for other enterprise brands such as HP and Dell.

I guess they do that because they target mostly businesses and it gives them more flexibility when negotiating bulk deals.
Just read a handful of articles -- I think the approximate timeline / subtext is as follows;

The FBI started investigating a kickback scheme from a State Senator (Jon Woods) who was steering contracts to a small school in exchange for cash and payments to a nonprofit he ran from school administrators. They quickly 'flipped' one of the admins at the school (Micah Neal) who agreed to provide evidence to the FBI in exchange for a guilty plea and reduction in his own sentence.

Neal offered to start recording conversations with Woods, but the FBI told him they didn't want him to / need him to (presumably because they had enough written evidence and financial detail to make the case). Neal recorded 119 conversations anyway and gave them to the FBI.

When the DOJ indicted Woods, his attorneys would be given all investigative material and the FBI agent in question sent him 39 audio files. Woods' attorney realized there were missing files, so he had the court force the FBI to turn over the rest of them, and that's when the FBI agent went out and erased the laptop.

Reading between the lines - the FBI agent probably sent the most 'damning' recordings, left out anything that would impugn their witness, and then panicked when he realized he was caught. The DOJ didn't use the recordings at trial and hadn't asked for them, so I suspect there was no greater motive in the deletion than trying to preserve the conviction/investigative effort.

Corrupt Senator wasting taxpayer money goes to jail, bad FBI agent goes to jail, all seems fine in the end.
Are you saying that you’re OK with corruption and an abuse of power as long as the target is someone you don’t like?
If an FBI agent had to delete audio recordings because he was afraid it would have proved the defendant's innocence, I'm going to have to go ahead and side with the defendant here. I don't know what tribes you're referring to, but this is a case of simple inference.
Given how modern banking works, its probably not only bundled but was chopped into 12 different pieces that was put in 13 different bundles :P
> You completely omit (conveniently) how browsers have evolved over the past decade

Why would I talk about that? The article is about the James Webb Space Telescope, not the James Webb Browser. Aside from that, this is rooted at the mention of "node_modules", which is a NodeJS-ism; browsers don't even run NodeJS modules (unless you recompile them to standard JS), so browsers are doubly irrelevant...

> and how npm itself (you could argue the entire JS ecosystem, along with language changes) has changed

I didn't omit that. I was very explicit about NodeJS cannibalizing JS.

> So frustrating to have conversations with those who have no perspective or context on the why and rest on their laurels of old when "things were easier".

You seem to have me confused with someone else. (Talk about "context"!) Where does that quote from? It looks like you made it up.
you can quit some bad eating habbits. There was something about the potato diet (which can work with rice, quinoa, ...), if someone have restricted (in choice, not quantity) and unprocessed food, I think there are good chances they'll lose weight
Livestock land use zoonotic coronavirus transmission risks from rhinolophid bats
This is probably something I'd find interesting and enjoyable but: the video doesn't load (for whatever reason), the slides have no "Next" button (for whatever reason), and there is no plain text transcript... so I guess I'll have to skip it.

Seriously, when you prepare a long talk, surely you write the script beforehand, right? Then upload it (in a text format), please! Also, there is nothing wrong with PDF slides: those don't look too great, but at least they don't usually have problem with scrolling.
I can remember a HN post not so long ago, linking a study, in which the result was alcohol in any amount being unhealthy. Now I don't know, if that includes carcinogenic, but you might want to look that up, before caps locking that "never". People associate all kinds of things with all kinds of other things. It seems highly unlikely, that "normal" (what is normal?) amounts have never been even associated with cancer risk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

You're treating the symptoms, the leaf nodes. The FBI is a criminal organization with a long history, that should be abolished outright.
Well, every wildfire season is a reminder that there are limits to our ability to externalize.
I don't own one but the arturia microlab looks like it's similar to what you're looking for. I own a few other arturia products, including the keystep 37 and pro and they're both great. My only complain is I wish the pitch bend and modulation were physical controls rather than the touch but I don't use them so much that it's really an issue.
PURCHASING a disk-wiping service when DBAN is free-to-download? Freaking government over budget spending.
Yes, what if the head got mechanically stuck somehow, and the force of the motors forced it out of position, pointing it in a random direction?
Yes, but only the minimal to provide that specific native functionality, instead of a full blown native app.

Unless you're doing something uncommon, there's most likely a 3rd party lib for that functionality.

But yes, if you want to use a native platform feature that the standard lib doesn't expose of course you need native code either by you or someone else, that's the flexibility of React Native.
Amex is a clear example of where the power and focus lies here.

Amex gives its customers great benefits. It charges merchants an arm and a leg to do that. Literally double the fees. Merchants then refuse to accept it a lot of the time, but every time a customer "only has an Amex card" they lose business, so a lot do accept it, grudgingly.

Of course customers prefer to use their Amex card whenever they can, because benefits. So they often pretend to "only have an Amex card" (much like "the machine is broken" in taxis, that then miraculously fixes itself when you pull out some loose change as "the only cash I have").

the customer is king, as always.
In terms of quickly making money this is true.

But here I'd like to think about likely world changing tech. As long as the (successful) execution comes one day, it doesn't matter if it happens 20 years ago or 10 years from now.
Some pigs are more important than other pigs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hillary-clinton-aide-des...

EDIT:

Apparently a lot of people think the FBI is completely above board when dealing with more important pigs.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/19/think-the-fbi-deserves-...
Let's go back a bit and call it "the rise of the accountant". I don't think there's been rich programmers in significant numbers to for enough time to have moved the genetic needle all that much.

But widen the category a bit and you'll find that the rewards for a relatively obsessive attention to detail and being comfortable with numbers have shifted in the past five centuries or so, from a one way trip to the monastery (if you were lucky) to a comfortable middle class life style, family included.
Yes, we can and should continue to increase food production. It’s a prerequisite to eradicating poverty worldwide.

These narratives are supported by people who are threatened by the prospect that there are no limits to human growth and potential.
Fair, but phoronix is a linux site, and thus performance under macOS won't be of interest for most readers. The performance as stated is the actual performance one currently gets under linux, regardless of potential.
I knew there was gonna be a capitalism critique in this thread!
Chinese EV Maker BYD Aims to Conquer World Markets as the Un-Tesla
> stuff is just wasted by the comparatively rich countries.

I don't think it's fair to call that wasted, as if the food produced in these wealthy nations could be transferred to the poor nations.

The cause of food shortages in Africa is the fact it's a lot of non fertile land.

The cause of food waste in the United States is that we have a LOT of fertile land and relatively few people.

It would be like blaming my water usage for shortages in the southwest. You have to see that the two systems are disconnected and just because one nation wastes food does not mean other nations are denied it.

Global trade has eased a lot of regional shortages, but geography and environment still matter.

The same goes for famine. We may be able to adapt, but some regions simply will not and even with global increases we may still see regional shortages and famines.

As someone living in the USA, I'm not worried. We will be fine because we have such a large buffer. If you live in an area that doesn't. You have plenty reason to worry, especially if global trade hiccups or you're in a relatively poor nation vulnerable to trade disruption.
Annoying how its always the fun stuff.
The Cost of Surveillance Capitalism in the United States and Europe
As I understand it, when you fast, insulin levels reach extremely low levels triggering most normal cells (Except white blood cells and brain cells behind the blood brain barrier) to switch from using sugar for energy and start using fat for energy. White blood cells and the brain are maintained by ketone bodies. This uses different metabolic pathways to produce ATP.

Cancer cells on the other hand will continue using carbohydrates because they have malfunctioned. Most chemo therapies target "active" cells that are engaging in these carbohydrate heavy metabolic activity.

Caloric restriction from chemo nausea happens after the drugs have already run their course. The pre-chemo fasting done by my aunt was done ahead of time to reach the ketogenic stage and hopefully reduce the impact of the chemo poisoning.
I think the names in the article were pretty decent, but here is good article about common errors that result in unnecessarily long names:

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2016/06/16/long-names-are...
Well, they have got police, metal detectors and mass shootings in school. It fits that toilettes are regulated and students are under surveillance like that. So they learn how to behave in jail. The USA is the country with the biggest prison population. So it's useful to learn to live like that...
Sorry for the cynicism.
Dyslexia is another similar one.

And kind of similar is treatment of left-handed people - it was routine through about the 70s to try to "correct" that.
"Did you enjoy my saying a prayer?" "Yes, Alexa, I did." "Contacting server with your credit card info..."
It's of course monetization. Everyone jumped on giving away their content via RSS/public APIs in the early rush to web2.0 style standards, then of course retreated from that position when it became clear directing eyeballs to the actual site and keeping those eyeballs there for as long as possible was required to maximize ad revenues, especially for sites giving away written content. The only full content feeds that really survive are the occasional blog or site that offers it as a bonus to paying subscribers.
You can « easily » reproduce the process and make a CLI out of it, but the hard part is to collect the enormous database…
Seems like the tech to prevent this scenario exists, it’s just not being utilized. Is that because the-powers-that-be favor this scenario in the case they or their buddies need it?
"Can you source a link fort your actual claim that "Mariupol was held hostage.""

What do you think happens when you put your military bases in the city and put you forces in residential areas?

"this report has been so panned and the backlash so strong"

It doesn't make it wrong though, does it? Truth hurts.

"its effectively just pro Russian propaganda."

So you just dismiss any facts if they don't align with Western propaganda?
Maybe. I'll have to look into the algorithms you mentioned. To me there was a Secretary Problem use-case because we don't know what the light amplitude range is - we don't know what "dark" is (and will vary at different times of the day, vary by room, etc.). Also it's simple enough that you can imagine even a cellular-size organism implementing something like it.