skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own no phone. Google phones can't consistently dial emergency numbers, because they're programmed by incompetent fuckwads.

I agree that Hacker News should die.
It was supposed to be a bit tongue-in-cheek... Obviously nobody should create a pingserver just for the sake of with the specs we had. But, as a halfway marker to a production-ready cache service, it's good to have something that lets you test the parts that will account for well over 50% of the CPU time in production.
I suspect we've had good times for so long people don't understand why it's so important to safe guard our freedoms.
> They don't print money.

Oh, absolutely they do. That's why currency is called "banknotes". The banks printed them. Each bank printed their own banknotes. You can find their images in numismatics books.

In 1914, the government took over the function of printing banknotes. But the banks still print money. We just call them "cashier's checks", "money orders" and "travelers' checks". But more normally, they simply credit your account with created money.

> If stuff is harder to make or is more rare, prices will go up irrespective of money supply.

That isn't inflation, because extra dollars are not being created. For example, tomatoes going up in price in the store because of crop failure isn't inflation, because more money doesn't appear in your pocket to pay the premium. What happens is you wind up with fewer dollars in your pocket, meaning you buy less of other things, and with the annoying Law of Supply and Demand, the prices of those other things drop.
I don't think engine correlation necessarily proves anything, on its own. It's worth remembering, though, that chess.com's report a) presents more than merely raw engine correlation, and b) its correlations do not seem to match against hundreds of engines.

But even with all the evidence presented, "proof" is a tricky thing. To what standard would we be trying to prove a claim?

Does this report prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Niemann cheated? I'd say no, but others may disagree.

How about to a preponderance of evidence? Perhaps. But even that is hard to say when no one has yet presented a rigorous defense or set of counterpoints.

In any case, my post wasn't meant to say that Niemann cheated per se. I have no idea, and chess.com themselves may not be able to actually prove whether he did. But I found the report interesting, even beyond the current issue surrounding Niemann and speaking to potential cheating in high-level chess more broadly, and if you re-read my post, I tried not to state anything definitive about whether Hans actually cheated or not.
> How is that relevant to the comments you are replying to?

It gives credence to Moscow’s no-first use commitment ringing hollow.
I would support some kind of Right To Not Be Accosted. I don’t know what that would look like exactly but people who want to sell or market something to me ought to have to obtain my consent first. It doesn’t seem right that you can go out and try to mind your business and be constantly under assault by things and people looking to take your attention. Like pollution laws, we should have a right to live life without all that in our environment.
This should be the product people want. I'm betting that the price difference (percentage wise) is low when purchasing a camera. I can't help but think that finding out if the camera is recording to a card will lead to home invasions to get the physical media it writes to as well. Essentially, a cat and mouse game with more and more higher stakes for the thieves and their innocent targets.
1) You can look at the "strength" of individual moves. Someone who plays at 2000-level normally but magically coughs up 2600-level moves when in trouble is probably cheating (watch some of the live chess streamers--you'll regularly see this in real time). Computers are quite good at estimating the strength of a move after the fact.

2) Quite often there are certain "play lines" that computers will play that humans simply can't find over the board.

For example, a computer can take a defensive "play line" that is littered with traps with only a single non-losing path for 30+ moves and work it out really quickly (there is only one non-losing path to take so it prunes the search space mega fast) and play it perfectly. A human playing such a line is almost always cheating--humans simply can't run those kinds of lines in real time.

If you look at computers analyzing even the highest end games, you see the humans making quite a few mistakes that the computers will spot and take advantage of immediately. Someone who walks down these kinds of paths regularly is a statistical anomaly.

That having been said, given the current crop of computer-trained chess kids, it IS possible that we'll grow a prodigy that can run those kinds of lines. However, it doesn't seem like that person exists, yet.
> since kids can easily understand it

Maybe with a good teacher. I took calculus courses in high school and college and came out clueless. I could manage the rote work to complete the course, but the big picture was left blank.

I revisited it later in life as an adult and gained a fuzzy picture, but it is still not well defined in my mind. According to many comments here some mathematical concepts I am well versed in and use regularly, if not daily, are calculus and that surprises me as they don't seem like anything that was presented in said classes.

I dare say that calculus has a marketing problem.
Ask HN: Why don't quant hedge funds have hardware labs?
If I'm a hedge fund, I want to have data that (a) is useful for figuring out what to buy and sell and (b) other hedge funds don't have. The latter lets me outcompete hedge funds. Hedge funds even have systems for people (mostly brokers/investment banks) submit ideas to them on what to trade, and get rewarded if it's profitable.[1] Numerai has an explicit platform for this.[2]

Why, then, don't hedge funds run their own hardware / R&D labs that design and deploy sensors to get data about the world other hedge funds don't have? Why don't hedge funds build and launch a bunch of cheap satellites with interesting sensors that only the hedge fund has access to? Or footfall sensors in major cities? Or agricultural sensors in target geographies?

Taken to the extreme, why don't hedge funds build e.g. Twitter to figure out what people are talking about and why, but then not let anyone use the API? Or why didn't they build Google Streetview to figure out what was in the world and where?

In other words: why don't we see more hedge funds trying to go get information about the world themselves instead of buying it from data vendors?

I guess the best answer is the return doesn't justify the cost. Better to just buy thousands of different datasets from different data vendors instead.

But is there maybe a different answer where it's just "culturally, that's not what people at hedge funds do or think about"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_capture_system
[2] https://signals.numer.ai
Oil availability and housing are mutually exclusive. As we see that people still live in Texas after their grid failed and froze people to death and Arizona power cut off a retiree's power in the middle of summer leading to their death.
Indeed that is the case. Apologies for the confusion.
A lot of crimes require mens rea, ie. being guilty would require knowing the bitcoins are shady.
I would also argue that the productivity delta between something like Clojure vs Python or Javascript or Kotlin is not as high as it was between Common Lisp vs C++/Java 10-15 years ago. So the payoff for a risky bet is not as high.

That said I would love to work in a lisp full time. There's just something appealingly elegant about it.
In addition - “template” also conveys correct semantics to the other developers working on the codebase. If I see an html at the bottom with “display: none” it’s very possible that the intended usage is to leave it there and set “display: block”, ie a modal. “display: none” doesn’t convey “clone me”, but “template” does.
Chess is a game that requires large sample sizes to make any sort of conclusion with 95% confidence interval. The variance in performance is far beyond a lot of competing sports. Magnus makes blunders, sometimes below-GM level, and so do other GMs (including former World Chess Champions).

For example, if you were watching WCC, one cannot conclude who is better by simply looking at game 9 out of 14. Comebacks happen often.

Even the ELO rating has its drawbacks in determining true strength of the player.

If Magnus plays Hans for 5000 games, sure. Not a chance, at least statistically speaking, in 10 games.
You're making my point. People take evidence at face value, so a program like Maigret makes no difference. Why bother using Maigret when you can just make stuff up?
Is Niemann's win in the 4 September 2022 in-person game really so improbable?

Is it unlikely enough that it offers convincing evidence that we live in a simulation? (i.e. he acted based on information he received from outside our reality)
Look for a deauth detector. On Amazon you can find an ESP8266 preflashed with deauth detection firmware and it includes a hardware buzzer. The firmware is probably something like this: https://github.com/SpacehuhnTech/DeauthDetector
Not sure where the rant about the justice system came from. You are making my point — people willing to lie through their teeth can just make up any report they like, the existence or accuracy of Maigret changes nothing.
As you continue to post on it.
The action of fixing one thing and creating one or more problems with it.
How about these, not mine personally, but one's I'm aware of.

- http://c2.com/morse/

- http://c2.com/~ward/morse/

- History of W9YB http://c2.com/w4/yb/ (Purdue Amateur Radio Club)
I disagree with that definition. Webster's has the more common definition, of which the definition on wikipedia is a subset[0]:

> the action of calling something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcements

For example, this current comment advertises for Merriam-Webster's definition of advertising by calling attention to it.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertising
If you're in AI research, that's a pretty standard diagram
Ask HN: Is Therapy Helpful?
My partner is asking me to seek a therapist as my stress and anxiety is sky high and I’ve been serverely depressed for about a year, to which it’s now making me physically ill.

I’m in a vicious cycle of working, but not feeling satisfied with my work, excessive studying, weird sleep schedules, bad thoughts. I’m to a point where I feel that I may need external help and not sure how it works. I’d love to hear experiences from people who may have gone through a similar experience.
Any benefits of learning Golang?
I stole the quote and tried to pass if off as my own work to a pawn broker I know, but he said he'd already been offered the same quote by another author and since he wasn't sure of the origin of the quote he suggested I put it back till its provenance could be established: wouldn't you know, with my luck I had chosen Chesterton's fence.
By the same token, any zoning is a restraint against capturing the full value of land.

It is possible the stringent enforcement gets absurd ( see https://www.noozhawk.com/article/institution_ale_can_keep_it... ).

On balance I am in favor of banning most outdoor advertising.
Most of the spectrum is cellular. The reason we have wifi at all is because 2.4Ghz is the frequency of water and rain heavily disrupts it. Microwave ovens also work on 2.4Ghz, because they are dumping energy into the water molecules and making them spin.
The answer certainly is not nihilism and therefore proceeding with teaching Putin a lesson as we are now.
How is your Wi-Fi connection today? DoS attacks on WPA3-SAE security
So Ubo has some magic AI that it can tell the difference between user generated content on Facebook and native ads from the same domain?
Well, whatever helps you sleep at night. I wouldn't want to live in a post-nuclear world.
Three decades of cooling was a concern.

No End in Sight to 30 Year Cooling Trend
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/05/archives/international-te...
You also can't live in that world without knowing meteorology, computer graphics, animation, and, well, all of manufacturing. Yet, we aren't suggesting to teach all of those things to every people now are we?
Hopefully we can open source our deployment "generator" sometime soon. It's not gonna work in AWS (Twitter isn't a cloud first company) but you will get the basic idea.

Yes, swappable storage backend is a big driver of the design. Segcache for TTL-centric workloads, maybe some simple allocator-backed data structures for many popular Redis features, tiered storage for large time series... these were all internally discussed and sketched out to various extent.

Failure handling is very, very context dependent, both in terms of what the product does (which drives the ROI analyses) and where it runs (which determines ways things could fail). Still figuring out how to talk about fishing not the fish. Will give this more thoughts.
> Neither Ring nor Nest has a hardwired network option

Nest has one now[0].

EDIT: my bad, it doesn't have a hardwired network, it just has more local memory for recordings.

0. https://www.engadget.com/googles-2nd-gen-wired-nest-doorbell...
Spend some time looking at website looking for some sort of audit. Didn't found. How about validating your claims with Cure53 or similar ?
Look's like you're being downvoted but no one is bothering to explain why.

Based on other comments in this thread, your hypothesis (while interesting) might fall short. Apparently there is a legal stipulation that if bank financing falls through, Musk is personally on the hook to make up the difference.

If the stipulation is in place, Musk can't use the bank's failure to finance as a scapegoat for the deal falling through. He can't walk away from the deal paying a 1 billion dollar penalty, he will have to buy Twitter at the original agreed upon price.

That being said, if your hypothesis is valid and the deal falls apart due to lack of financing -- buying some put options on Twitter right now could prove to be an extremely profitable move.
Ask HN: How much do you program outside of work?
$1,000,000 USD/yr is about $240/hr post-tax in CA.

Surprisingly little considering the gross income. I don't have a problem paying taxes, I was just surprised by the calculation result.

I wonder what would the take home would be in Texas?
MPV has front-end projects that provide a more complete GUI if that’s something you’re after:

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Applications-using-mp...
>The fact that online cheating is so widespread even among top chess players is certainly news to many, including me.

Not to me. When the stakes of winning are so damn valuable, sometimes literally so, it would be patently stupid to not cheat and increase your odds of winning.

Remember: Cheating is only a problem if you're caught. If you're never caught, cheating is completely legitimate.

These aren't games of pleasure, played for the sake of playing chess. These are games played for the sake of winning. Prize money, ELO, fame and renown, etc. When the only thing that matters is winning, you gain nothing by playing honestly.
There's a big difference between passing a law banning all billboard advertising (including those who erect billboards on their own property) and banning it on publicly owned land/properties.
Non-Topological Update Ordering Problem
A description of a phenomenon in state management software called the "Non-topological Update Ordering Problem".
I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just explaining why hydrogen will never be popular. For a new technology to be adopted, it has to be better than the status quo. Compared to current aircraft, hydrogen costs more, has new safety concerns, and requires new infrastructure to transport and store the fuel. If that means aircraft will keep using fossil fuels, well then I guess we'll keep using fossil fuels.
I love how academics can write in a way that is so difficult for anyone outside of their discipline to read. My wife used to work in communications for a university. One of her main duties was to decode academic speak enough for press releases. This site has clearly skipped the comms department.

"We are proud to announce the EPIC-KITCHENS VISOR, a new dataset of pixel annotations and a benchmark suite for segmenting hands and active objects in egocentric video. VISOR annotates videos from EPIC-KITCHENS, which comes with a new set of challenges not encountered in current video segmentation datasets. Specifically, we need to ensure both short- and long-term consistency of pixel-level annotations as objects undergo transformative interactions, e.g. an onion is peeled, diced and cooked - where we aim to obtain accurate pixel-level annotations of the peel, onion pieces, chopping board, knife, pan, as well as the acting hands. VISOR introduces an annotation pipeline, AI-powered in parts, for scalability and quality, and introduces"
Not just sniper fire, wasn't it to deal with being hit by multiple .338 Lapua rounds? Maybe it was .308, but still, ridiculous. I need to re-read that thread, gosh it was hilarious.
Rather bluntly, a central bank is central economic planning. Central economic planning always falls short of what free markets do. The idea that a central bank is able to control the financial markets better than free market forces is shown to be false (with actual data) by Friedman in "Monetary History of the United States".

> The 'government' does not print money, the Central Bank does.

I said "print money" as a euphemism for what the Fed actually does, which is the same thing, it just doesn't involve doing the old fashioned way. They do it by issuing debt with no collateral.
The city of Syracuse gets most of its water from Skaneateles Lake, a small lake southwest of the city. It’s very clean water, and the city has a filtration waiver that allows them to use unfiltered water from the lake (it’s widely considered to be some of the best municipal water in the country). The city’s treated (and sometimes untreated, depending on how much rain we’ve had) waste water is dumped into Onondaga Lake, which is not part of the Skaneateles Lake watershed.

Most of the rest of the area, outside the city limits (and a few surrounding towns that are connected with the Syracuse water system for legacy reasons), gets its water from Lake Ontario, which is where this plant’s water would be coming from as well.

If anyone is curious, I am happy to ramble on for quite a while about the municipal water systems of the greater Syracuse area (occupational hazard of a couple decades as a firefighter in the area).
Looks like she tripped over the American assumption that the flavor of slavery experienced in their territory was the only type.

... But, she was planning to sell to an American audience so that matters. If anything, it sounds like the feedback gave her a chance to tighten her fiction to be aligned better to the target market. That's a win for her and her publisher.
I don't know that I had an argument, more of a question of if a couple of cables would even be noticeable as trash.

I'd say my argument is purely logistical - one less cable type would be quite a boon to me personally. I have a few lightning cables that only work with exactly one device that I own - my iPhone 11. I'm quite happy with my phone, and perhaps ironically for Apple, the best way they'd have to get me to replace it would be to make a new one with a USB-C port; it's the feature I'd most like at this point.

I'd also love to see touchid make a return, but I don't see that happening.
Either, as root:

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope

or permanently by editing the file /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
you seem to be reaching
You can make a mess in any language, yes. But some languages tend to produce more messes than others. If your tool is mis-used more than other tools, at some point, it's not the fault of the users.
Checkout Alpha Zero chess which has no other information other than the chess rules. No opening books or repetoires. It sometimes beats Stockfish like a python strangling and squeeing a prey. It makes moves that no one understands.

> In a 1000-game match, AlphaZero won with a score of 155 wins, 6 losses, and 839 draws. DeepMind also played a series of games using the TCEC opening positions; AlphaZero also won convincingly. Stockfish needed 10-to-1 time odds to match AlphaZero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero

It is savage.
Most pros I've read think she misread her hand as J3 (instead of J4, which is what she had), which gave her the impression of having a pair. The donk call was seen as too obviously a bad call for it to be a viable explanation.
I think it is an interesting question. Aside from consent, playing against an anonymous cheater is indistinguishable from playing against a better player. Presumably people are elo matched so it should not matter
Terracotta air conditioning system uses water to cool spaces without electricity
TIL: “DuckDB uses implicit SIMD..."
From what I've seen, github sponsors, patreon, donations, or nobody.
Yes. Our offering is quite differentiated--different pricing model, ability to run in user VPCs and private cloud, baked-in enterprise DBA support, and Altinity Stable builds with long-tail support are just a few examples. This is a large market with very diverse needs.

At the same time we contribute to open source and work to make ClickHouse better, just as many other businesses built on ClickHouse do. We've done quite a bit of work including many ClickHouse PRs, maintenance of the Grafana ClickHouse plugin since 2019, Altinity Kubernetes operator for ClickHouse, etc. We plan to step up our contributions as the market grows.
<template> is great, but some people are surprised that it doesn't include any form of parameterization or expressions. The entire process of cloning a template and updating it with data is left up to the developer - it's pretty low level.

That's why my team made the lit-html library, which uses JS tagged template literals to make <template> elements for you, clone them and interpolate data where the JS expressions are, and then update the result really, really fast with new data:

import {render, html} from 'https://unpkg.com/lit?module';

let count = 0;

function increment() {
count++;
renderCount();
}

function renderCount() {
render(html`
<p>The count is ${count}</p>
<button @click=${increment}>Increment</button>
`, document.body);
}
renderCount();

You can try that out here: https://lit.dev/playground/#gist=1eff9baed1251fc60dd7da8b7f9...

We're also working with Apple on a proposal called Template Instantiation which brings interpolations and updates into HTML itself (though the pandemic and things really stalled that work for the moment).
I agree. More generally, REPL-driven development rewards "guess-and-check" programming, and discourages "think-then-act" programming. This isn't a formula for success over time.
I suppose instead of banning billboards specifically, one could ban "unwanted and unwarranted intrusions".
I've been recording my gps approx every 2 seconds or so for 18 months. Up to 1.2mil data points.I use Kepler.gl to map it. Its fun to see.
I answered one of the questions asked, I knew about DSLRs because photography is a thing I do. I don't know anything about the others.

> The cameras are just a random example.

And you got your answer for it.
Russia's list of what is acceptable use of nuclear power is actually pretty vague and includes "use of conventional weapons to pose an existential threat to Russia."
that goes right back to OPs point. If LEO are leaving these "seized" assets unsecured, they are simply not qualified to be doing what they are doing.

To directly answer your question, forever. Policing is sufficiently distributed and poor at retaining or integrating new knowledge that I am sure we will see these amateur-hour mistakes being made for as long as crypto exists in its current form.

Modern policing has not changed much since its inception with the Met Police and Robert Peel.