skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are "computer moves" which stand out vs human players. These normally show up in lines where there are many options of roughly equal value and the computer picks a move that is infinitesimally better but out of 'theme' with the position.

To elaborate on this, humans use pattern recognition to identify themes within a position. This is a shortcut that prevents needing to mentally brute-force your way down an enormous tree of possible positions. Elite chess-playing humans are very good at this, but are still very good at spotting potentially non-thematic (perhaps "surprising") moves that offer some quantifiable advantage.

Computers operate very differently from humans. They rigorously evaluate positions to absurd depths. They can examine lines further than 30 moves deep without too much time. Often the moves they come up align with the thematic ideas that humans have (after all, there's a reason why humans have identified these patterns). But at the end of the day, the computer isn't playing thematically. It only cares that the position at the end of best-play by both sides has the score most in its favor.

This leads to computers playing moves that humans would only come up with exceedingly rarely. And if a human came up with that move, there would generally be some clearly-identifiable reward that humans can pick up on several moves later. When a human player plays computer moves, those noticeable rewards are often missing. The cheating human makes a puzzling move, play continues, and many moves later their opponent is worse off. But even after serious analysis it's not entirely clear how that original move brought about this advantageous position.

Of course maybe the human in question really wasn't cheating and stumbled into a brilliancy. Perhaps it's even one they didn't even truly understand the ramifications of when they played it! But when a human makes several of those types of moves in a single game, or even across a single tournament, it brings about extreme suspicion.
It does have some typehints... but I don't like Python types when they require importing the object only for the purpose of types. I only import objects when they're actually used in the non-type code, and I don't like to use `if typing.TYPE_CHECKING`.

These days I use Go when I need types.
Observe the percentage of people with their camera on (vs. some baseline), look at the faces you can see, watch for reaction emojis, take intermediate points to solicit questions and see how many you get, etc.
Only after you explain in what way it is relevant with regards to the point that DDoSing a server is not part of the marketplace of ideas.
Better option is probably to run a reverse proxy like nginx on a cheap VPS, with a Wireguard VPN back to the “origin” server in your house.
Decision makers at schools, public and private?
Working on a new venture, our target customer is highscools, and colleges public and private.

Who are the decision makers we should target?

We are selling an interactive educational platform

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
For me my static sites are small enough that it all falls within the free tier and I can deploy everything using the CDK.
Solana validators are very expensive so it is actually surprising that it is in the top 5 in terms of validators.
Do you also copy paste the "Facebook has no rights to my content" epic boomer copypasta into Facebook?

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/87mi5v/i_dont_gi...
Looks a bit more complex than "scrap metal" -- it might be rough-looking, but it's a quadcopter drone with payload management, and some pretty large motors.
I've also been a Dreamhost customer for a long time. Note that Dreamhost's $10/mo is for I-don't-know-exactly number of domains. If you own a domain name you can add it in their dashboard, point it to their name servers, and you're up and running. Their services includes e-mail which means avoiding the perils of fully self-hosting.

While you could save a few dollars renting a VPS, it's only cheaper if your time is worth nothing. If you're just going to do static hosting I've found it to be a good deal.
It is possible that KF content was cruel and abhorrent and yet not actually illegal.
Distributed means a central broker (Redis) and many distributed workers (multi-process and multi-machine). It's the term used by Celery/RQ/Huey and others.
> since you can't connect the 2x 12GB together.

Any idea why this is?
Same host and same domain.

Moving to another domain/host will incur additional latency on page load times.
That’s not how these things work.
Maybe they could just raise the pay of all the employees with lower salaries. An extremely simple solution!!! This has the added benefit of improving the material conditions of all those employees too!
Any 8 or 16 bit micro controllers like the AVR.
As a developer I complain that passing unique_ptr is a couple if cycles slower than it needs to be because of the ABI and I wish the committee/GCC was more aggressive with ABI breaking.

As an user I complain that I can't run linux games from 20 years ago because GCC broke the libstdc++ ABI 15 years ago and how WIN32 is the only stable unix ABI.

Luckily I'm not a compiler developer.
There are plenty of dodgy TB4 cables. We can't use $100+ cables for everything.
I'm guessing that ChaosPad is not an EtherPad instance. The interface is different, and ChaosPad loads faster too.
Velocity ignores direction making it completely useless for quantifying useful output or just about anything else. Replacing a buggy design as part of a bug fix can be more productive than individually fixing dozens of subtle errors that take months or even years to discover and work through. However it’s easy to endlessly refactor without making net progress, and unfortunately the exact same culture can do both.

The problem with velocity isn’t poor metrics, the problem with velocity is it’s trying to measure a meaningless quantity.
> I think the bigger problem for qmail was that because of the licensing, you pretty much had to patch qmail

This is - indirectly - exactly what I was referring to. Most of the patches people had to apply to qmail, in order to be a good netizen, had to do with spam either directly or indirectly.

First because the design of qmail made it very difficult to stop backscatter by immediately failing undeliverable mail - out of the box it wanted to send a bounce for even the most obvious of errors. None of the patches for this were great. This made even running qmail as an incoming mail server only difficult and risky.

And then of course the various anti-spam tech came along like rbl and the now-static qmail source had no support for it, and it was another place where you had to reject early.

And this would all probably have been fine if the licensing hadn't let it sit for so long without a real fix to the fundamental architecture, with competing patches and so on.

Since the licensing issue was resolved a long long time ago (more or less) a string of maintainers have popped up to keep it alive with another name for a year or two at a time but I can't imagine standing it up fresh now.

Absolutely agree on the strengths though, it's almost certainly why it was so successful at scale for a while. Postfix feels clunky to me by comparison.
I have never been able to accidentally broadcast my impolite opinions on the lukewarm breakfast burritos to everyone in my company in a casual conversation.
I'm definitely guilty of that one. Though it's usually because if e.g. the question is "Will X software do Y", the answer is often "Usually, but watch out for somewhat complicated Z".
Ok, so you seem to appreciate the value of a VELOCITY metric.

I am curious if you also track UNPLANNED WORK.

The reason I ask is because in my experience a VELOCITY metric is in fact useless without also tracking PLANNED vs. UNPLANNED work. I am hoping you say "Yes, we track that".

BTW I thought the metaphor was quite appropriate (and hardly snarky -- not sure why you read that into it).
Conveniently, I live in a one-party-consent country, so I don't in fact need your consent.
In headlines, is there some trick to knowing when "CA" means California vs. Canada?
The Cheating Scandal That Ripped the Poker World Apart (2020)
How would you represent a tensor in code, if not by using a multidimensional array?

Ok, you could use a flat array and index into it depending on the dimensions of the tensor (as is often done for matrices), but that's really just a way of saving ram or cpu cycles rather than a different representation.
This is part of a process. Originally, the Wild West. Later, being between a newspaper and a telecom. Today, telling me I could ask messages to disappear (which is for real because space is no longer expanding infinitely, and they compete on each app, and because it's verifiable if you can make killer input). And further there's character development, I saw Mark Zuckerberg speak in public twice on Stanford campus, he was better the second time a year later, this was face-to-face. The first time he made the audience laugh, the second time he made the audience laugh. Night and day, and that was 2011 to 2012.

This is actually a meaningfully-sized fine. It's good for Facebook, undoes how pissed people are (on this forum for one) about how small fines have been, leads to moral development. It's easier to weigh money higher when it's more money. You don't get as many MBA's versus ethicists. Talk stock not stakeholders, can actually crunch the numbers. Like punishment has to hurt but if it does it leads to moral development, it's a language they understand as a company. Lots of punishment I'm grateful for. Made me better.

Like there is no way for a company that size to respect a $4 million fine, no matter how much it wanted to, bigger fines are win-win.
Isn’t Binance supposed to be the most stable platform out there? Is this as bad as it seems?
What I've learned about presenting backend demos to non-technical audiences: don't bother. They don't know enough to engage with it, and they're not going to know enough to engage with it by the time you're done.

That's not to say they wont be thankful for your work - if you solve one of their problems or a problem plaguing the company, definitely alert them to it. By slack or email. Get those virtual high fives.

No need to gather people 'round to present.
Because Hetzner has banned cryptocurrency nodes and AWS could do the same.
>Advocating for requiring a company to do business with someone they don't want to is advocating against free speech

Yes, quite so, and in fact I agree that Cloudflare has a right to do or not do business as they please.

The real, fundamental problem is that the internet has become too centralized, such that a few entities can direct the rest with impunity.

However, I think we can agree that fixing the centralization of the internet at this point is a fool's errand.

I recall recently about a story of how a father got kicked out by Google for uploading some pictures to his Google account. Fundamentally, KF getting kicked out by Cloudflare is the same thing: Customers getting kicked out by companies because of disagreeable content; companies which are effectively gatekeepers to the internet at large.

So the next best way, in the interim, to keep the internet working in some fashion, is to have businesses like Cloudflare not kick customers out simply for saying or having disagreeable things.

With great powers come great responsibilities, as the saying goes.
Good reminder that any web site's policy that's enforced in the UI, but isn't enforced in its backend API, is really just a polite request.
in mac os you can do application specific shortcuts for menu items if you specify the exact title of the menu item. (this can also be used to override a shortcut you don't like by putting it to something very unlikely to be hit like ctrl-cmd-opt-shift-f12)

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/create-keyboard-sho...

sadly this is limited to menu actions only but it's at least something.
Much of it boils down to coordination problems, local optima, game-theoretic outcomes, and the like. Politics, in a broad sense.

These are not solveable through popular rhubrics such as "market mechanisms", as those markets are quite often what have produced the conflicts or underlying frictions in the first place.

The work of William Ophuls has largely been dedicated to describing these problems and attempting to find ways out (as well as pointing out approaches doomed to failure). See especially Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity (1977, 1992) <https://www.worldcat.org/title/25026105> and Plato's Revenge (2011) <https://www.worldcat.org/title/753684198>.
FWIW I also tried NearlyFreeSpeech, which is the top comment in the same thread I linked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253277

I think it is good, and will solve people's static hosting problem. It's a server that you don't have to manage. It has a nice fast custom web interface.

Except I didn't realize it was FreeBSD. That probably doesn't matter for most, but I'm used to Linux, so I like Dreamhost better. Also I feel like they are using some kind of slower NFS disk, whereas Dreamhost feels like a bare metal disk mostly.

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I was trying to find another thread here, where someone remarked that "shared hosting" got a bad reputation in the early days due to janky control panels and bad/aggressive marketing.

Also a lot of the companies seem to have gotten acquired in the early 2000's, i.e. they changed hands a lot.

But again I've been using Dreamhost since 2009 and it's been great. No complaints except the typical thing everyone does of raising the domain name pricing after a year (the advertised price is the "first year discount").

They have not raised the hosting fees. (You might save $3 per year using a domain name purchased elsewhere, but that doesn't seem worth the hassle to me.)

So I thought there were many other shared hosting companies, but maybe not? Maybe they all got caught up in acquisitions and then the service declined? (That's exactly what's going to happen with the free cloud services you're all using now BTW, so that's why I stick with something older and proven.)

I have used 1and1 in the early 2000's, but I remember it being very janky and weird, and Dreamhost is a lot better technically. They seem to have more competent system administration.

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FWIW here is a thread with some competitors:

https://lobste.rs/s/jkutwc/recommendations_for_shared_hostin...

Honestly I wonder if Dreamhost is more unique now than it used to be? I thought of it as "commodity shared hosting" -- i.e. a Linux OS and a web server. But I think that actually being able to manage that competently is a dying art :-/

Other threads I bookmarked while looking for shared hosting that supports FastCGI (dynamic sites, not static, and not PHP!):

bluehost: https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/fastcgi-for-php

hostgator: https://www.hostgator.com/help/article/does-hostgator-suppor...

I'd be interested to know if those companies are comparable to dreamhost!
Thankfully this person is described as a former boss, I sure hope nobody that values themselves would stick around long for abusive-then-deleted messages by slack.
Sure, that's why people have been doing this design for 20 years. Homebuilding included ;)

I agree with the grandparent, it's of course interesting and it's a different audience, a lot of the "drone" crowd nowadays is purely quadrocopters, but like, this was pretty standard stuff back 15 years or so ago, for the electric parkflyer crowd.

But much like every piece of software nowadays is an "app"... every model airplane is a "drone" now, and drone people aren't really familiar with the variety of aircraft that are possible because of the dominance of the quadrocopter. Like yeah, welcome to what the rest of the hobby has been doing while the drone community has farted around with quads for 15 years ;)
Protecting your back ends with Firebase App Check
I guess the way it played out is that it's implemented in toolkits. So Debian, per se, doesn't know about shortcuts, but QT does. AIUI MacOS wins here by having a standard API at least for menus. Linux distros lose out by just not doing any integration. (Well, almost any; they sometimes try. I say this with love.)
Then i guess don't give them pointy ears. I remember reading they had long hair, regardless they are called something different and have completely different lives.

> They certainly can produce offspring with Men just fine.

While true, in fantasy all kinds of mixes are possible that result in creatures like minotaurs, half-orcs, half-demons, half-dragons, etc., and those are obviously not human.
Those indicators aren't super accurate. I have had two accounts on Telegram and can see the other one "Typing" for quite a long time after I touched the input and exited the chat
I found recently that my android phone had automatically front-run SMS messaging with some kind of google based imessage like wrapper. The only "feature" this provided to me (I'm sure it let google harvest my conversations) was that suddenly my SMS discussion had an "is typing" indicator which is how I knew it had been changed, and was literally the last thing I would want in a discussion. Thankfully I can turn it off so presumably google only steals my information in the background
Japan Happiness Index by Prefecture
> No we don’t. Asbestos and others became such an issue because people didn’t notice the damage they inferred it after the fact based on exposure.

Isn’t every observation just a causal inference after the fact?

Look, you’re free to attempt to quantify the impact. Either via direct measurement or a theoretical calculation. However, a baseless opination without any data backing it up isn’t that convincing or interesting.
Constant-Time Data Processing at a Secret Offset
It's infinitely less likely that you tell someone something and realize they are the wrong person though.
You're framing this as if they're mutually exclusive options, which they're not. My impression is that it's "all of the above": the incentive structure in academics is completely broken, and this incentivizes both unethical practices, as well as being sloppy "to get things done".

I can think of numerous examples of both from my career, from working with various colleagues and in stories I've heard. All of this is the tip of the iceberg I think: what you hear about usually are cases of blatant fraud, with high-profile or high-importance research. The bulk of greyer malpractice, with softer squishier levels of ethical dubiousness, and more indirect, cumulative impacts on peoples' careers and literature trajectories, are more hidden.

It's gotten to the point where I no longer put much stock in the reputation of individual researchers. Too many times I know in the best case there's an institution, or department, or subcommunity, or doctoral students or postdocs behind it, with who knows what sort of manipulation or luck. In the worst case there's years of fraud or other forms of corruption. Call me inappropriately cynical but I didn't start out this way.
Is this against Upwork rules? What's the problem, assuming the work was done according to spec?
More importantly, Piketty studied this and wrote a paper on it. This is the quote from Piketty on [2] from OP:

"PIKETTY: If you look at the top of the wealth distribution, I don’t see a lot of real estate. I don’t think Matt Rognlie or anyone is saying that the huge rise in billionaire wealth in the US has anything to do with real estate. As far as I know, nobody has ever tried to put this theory on the table.

"I’m not saying real estate is not important. I think for middle-class assets and lower-middle-class and upper-middle-class assets — for the middle of the distribution — real estate is, of course, very important. The movement in real estate prices explains a lot of what’s going on, both in terms of aggregate value and distribution. I’m not saying it’s not important. It is very important.

"If you go back to our paper with Gabriel Zucman, which was published, now, almost 10 years ago in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2014, called “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700–2010,” you will see, we have complete decomposition about the role of real estate in aggregate wealth accumulation, and it’s absolutely central for many countries over many periods of time."
Ask HN: Which Singaporean accelerator/incubator is legitimate?
I'm launching a mobile cash wallet and curious to know what Singaporean accelerator/incubator are legit or if anybody else has good experiences?

I joined the government website but its hard to know who I can reach out for raising seed funds.

I would need access to Singaporean banking industry as well for transferring money. And for this reason I would want to steer clear away from blockchain/crypto/web3 outfits.

I am also considering Japanese accelerator/incubator but would like to launch from Singapore because they use English and have strong laws.

Thank you
Nissan Leaf with it's single pedal setup is like a driving a car in 2nd gear, where the speed can go down to zero and accelerate all the way up to highway speeds.

In single pedal mode, slowing down to a stop is a lifting the accelerator pedal completely and it will come to a stop in predictable manner. The brake pedal adds more regen and stronger application applies the brakes itself. From a stop, pushing down the accelerator starts moving the car. On hills, there is brake assist and works without any drama. Operating in reverse is the same way.

In dual pedal mode, or classic operations. While under motion, lifting the accelerator has a bit of regen until about 7kph and then creeps forward. To come to a complete stop, the brake pedal is necessary. From a stop, lifting the brake pedal starts the creep forward. This being an electric, even on inclines, the creep forward is consistent. Reverse is the same way.

At slow speeds, ie parking, it is easier to have the creep mode. Controlling speed with the brake pedal feels better. However, with experience, single pedal slow speed works well, just have to feather the throttle.

I've set the car to default to two pedal setup on start. I hit the single pedal mode switch every time I'm driving. It works well in a shared car setup. I do find it more weird to now drive with two pedals, but using the brakes still comes up even with single pedal driving, so if I do "forget" which mode I'm in, I'll still use the brakes when the car isn't slowing down enough.

Regarding the simulated legacy behavior, ie rolling back on the hill or changing torque. This is in the same line as simulating gearing in a CVT and simulating engine noise. I don't find it appealing and do hope car manufacturers have it as a configurable item, like Nissan has done with the one pedal driving. Here in a Japan, even the noise generator to warn pedestrians can be turned off.
Because we stopped making buildings to create shelter, or livable places. The process became industrialized, and serves the same goal as most processes in a capitalist society: to generate most profit at minimum cost.
Well, I'm sure that's true.

But I guess my overall point is that CPanel is way easier than anything the original poster / author wrote.
Automation of Duct Fans and Peristatic Pumps
you couldn't be more wrong
>I've got a big list of 'secret sites' I've been to that are amazing and free to camp at.

Do you mind sharing some of them with us? I, for one, am very interested.
iOS does support FLAC, it’s just the Music app doesn’t. It works in Files and Safari.
If you have over 4MB VRAM you can run it locally. I've been experimenting recently and find that even with 10MB VRAM I can only get 256x256 resolution images. I have a Dockerfile I can share that packages up the install process and removes censorship if anyone is interested. I find the censoring is extremely conservative.
It's really not surprising.

The most familiar computer to young people, their smartphone, does everything to hide and abstract away the file system and even the fact that it's a computer.

When someone doesn't even realize a concept exists, it shouldn't come as a surprise they will struggle.