skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about winning algorithms for this game before. The best I could come up with is roughly "get the highest locations you can while still defending against 3-in-a-row".
It's proven to have been the most effective way. I'm happy to learn about other options though since the many of the younger people coming in to the workplace now seem to be half-illiterate.
no. every course should incorporate significant written and oral components because if you cannot adequately synthesize and communicate the information you're meant to be learning, that course is functionally useless. one of the important things i have learned is nobody cares what you know unless you can communicate it well.
> How do you decide that demand is high enough?

Same way they decide if visiting a city is worth it in the first place? I'm not an event coordinator or tour scheduler so I don't know, but it seems like it should be possible.
> Knowledge of plain old CGI on a web server seems lost due to fancy frameworks?

eh I just never learned it. I'm a robotics engineer and I tend to write programs in Python (or less commonly now, C++) to run in a loop and deal with local hardware. The way that web servers operate in a stateless multithreaded way involves some peculiarities that I always find a little tricky.

> I sometimes transfer data with curl via a url which does not exist, but where a script running on the server watches the server's error log and extracts data from those entries.

Hey that's a nice trick! I already have a server running discourse. Maybe I can sneak something in there. Though it looks like someone's suggestion of https://healthchecks.io/ might do what I need.
Google must really be desperate to up their chatbot game. I wonder why; what is the underlying motivation?

And why can't they do it in-house? Did the good ones already take off?

I'm hoping https://character.ai keeps shipping The Amaze, it's the most novel thing I've seen in a long while in the NLP space.
Steve loved black, until he loved glossy pastels, then rich Corinthian leather interfaces and then brushed aluminum. This was one of the most very frustrating things about designing user interfaces for him; once you figured out his internal design language, he would radically change it overnight!
> because people are expected to take decades longer to pay off a house than it would take for them to build it alone with their own hands in their spare time.

The problem isn't the building costs - it's the land costs.

Construction workers are relatively low paid, and profits on home building aren't outrageous.

DIY housing doesn't really solve any problems - and is a ridiculous proposal to the average person.
I noticed from the video that the largest ring didn't collapse, too rigid?
The world needs to know more about HyperCard 3. I wish some kind person would throw a development version up online for us plebs to explore. It would be great to know and see what it was going to be all about!
It's such a minor contribution that I always get a good laugh watching people praise Apple for this. Microsoft, for all the evil they do, contributes millions of SLOC to open source along with generous funding for various non-selfish projects. Facebook, for all the societal ills they cause, also develops multiple projects in public even when it would make more sense to withhold them. Apple, for all their exploitation of the developer community, flips a switch on the Macbook that enables parity with traditional x86 BIOS functionality, and people start partying in the street crying "this is for us!"

And since then, it's been radio silence from Cupertino HQ. Nobody ever confirmed why they did this. Was it serendipity or loving compassion? Nobody can say for sure, but if it's the latter then Apple seems to be very conservative with their blessings upon the community.
If the restaurant merely rents, how responsible is it for the landlord's property being less than accessible?

If the restaurant is in a Historic District, and the board/commission/whatever in charge of that is generally opposed to pro-accessibility changes - who (other than the lawyers) benefits when the restaurant ends up as a de-facto abandoned building?

If my "handicap" is a severe peanut allergy, should I be able to demand that every restaurant have a separate, peanut-free kitchen - with only certified peanut-free ingredients, etc.? (One can repeat this argument for other allergies, people whose personal beliefs require kosher/halal/vegan/etc. food, and so on.)

If there are (say) 100 restaurants in a city, what is the marginal value for handicapped people of forcing a 101th restaurant to spend $$$$ to qualify as handicap-accessible?
So to recap, the party of the rich resides on the left politically.
By definition that is NOT typical, otherwise the inflated market would have no buyers and the cheaper one would have no sellers
Who said anything about personified intelligence?

"X does Y" implies nothing of the sort.

If I say "The River Flows" am I arguing that the river is intelligent?

No, absolutely not, you've setup a strawman from the very beginning.

"The police are only there for ... " does not imply there's some overlord with a power point document with a bullet point outlining what the police are there for.
DGPS [0] is a workaround for SA. If you can have a ground station with a known location somewhere in the same area - even 100 miles away should be OK - you can broadcast the correction.

DGPS was already "good enough" in 2000 when SA was turned off, so I'd expect it could achieve very close to the same precision as regular GPS by now.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
It’s used in Slack/Discord conversations.
To me all Teslas look the same. I fail to see the "iteration".
https://archive.ph/F0LTr
Ahhh, that's the version number. I thought that's how % of the spec that they actually supported.
Any stories you'd be willing to share from your time at JavaSoft?
yeah to at least some restaurants. but it's ok to say that not every restaurant has to be accessible. we should minimize the extent to which someone's disability is everyone else's problem. same reason a lot of these new tech laws affect companies with over 2 million users or whatever, small companies don't have the resources to deal with it. so should a big chain restaurant have ramps? yeah. should a small mom and pop shop have to close cause it cant afford it? nahh screw that.
Are there reasonable limits to this expectation? Would businesses have to accommodate people who need iron lungs (if those were still in use)?
They do, but GitHub is just one website.

Most hiring managers will look at what you give them. Some like portfolios, some like name-brand degrees, some look for publications or parents...the important thing is to keep learning.

People tout GitHub portfolios because the are easy bonus points. If you spend a week learning a new language or framework, you can push your toy project without much extra effort.
IRS to Make Largest Increase Ever to 401(k) Contribution Limit
If you count size of all the devices is not that compelling anymore.
When we made the original iPhone, we didn’t have product managers
https://archive.ph/yz0yO

> The employee contribution limit for 401(k) and similar workplace plans will jump $2,000 to $22,500 for 2023, the largest increase ever in terms of dollars and percentage
Not the OP, but first is the ambiguity introduced by "discovered" in regard to a man-made thing. One must ask if the writer intended "invented". In which case, how does one invent a drug that is already regulated or outlawed?

Or did the writer mean that the chemist invented a street drug which was then outlawed?

Or does it mean a known drug was outlawed and found for the first time by authorities within the country that outlawed it? That makes sense, but sounds like "Dog Bites Man".

Did not anticipate a detailed article on chemical sleuthing.
> It's all ADA abuse...

The HN gestalt confuses me on this one. The other week the EU had that charger standardisation law and the mood on HN was undeniably positive. Now we have a comment that Californian web accessibility laws are being enforced and the top voted comment is decidedly negative. These laws are remarkably similar in intent and likely outcome.

What is different here? Is it the same people but you're all drawing a distinction that I don't see? different people and a US vs EU thing? Hardware vs Software?

When there is a law saying that websites are supposed to be accessible, suing websites that aren't accessible doesn't seem like abuse to me. This sounds like the intended outcome.

Enforcing laws isn't a pretty business.
Ran into bug - AI beat me by creating a diagonal with the piece in the top rank and it did not count that as endgame. I was able to keep playing.
But can you send money through the system without expecting it to be stolen? In most postal systems around the world today, just the idea of sending money through the post sounds inherently naive.

This is how high trust societies break down: cynicism. By objective standards things are no less than they were at the height of trust, but people's expectations have shifted and so subjectively people feel things are worse and begin withholding their trust.

This is why wealth inequality can create such a dilemma, because even if everybody continues to become better off, if you feel relatively worse off, than from a social cohesion standpoint it's just as bad. As overall wealth increases, because of the power law (or whatever curve), you see an acceleration of absolute differences in wealth as the high end of the curve grows steeper. This dynamic makes for a quite difficult sociological problem, which perhaps can be categorized under the rubric, "mo' money, mo' problems".
On the other hand, it's also perfectly rational to "altruistically" vote in favor of policies that decrease your financial wealth in the short term, but that benefit society as a whole, and/or benefits you in the long term.
> Swing was built in a year

Checks out. I'm still bitter towards Swing though. But impressive what they could put out in a year.

That said, I'm absolutely NOT a fan of the JWZ sleeping bag under your desk/get it done whatever the cost mindset that was everywhere in the 90's.
A lot of technology that's out at the fringes will often be hyped up by a marketing department. It is the culinary equivalent of telling everyone how awesome the soup is going to taste just as the cook is returning from the grocery store with the unprepared, raw ingredients. We're edging closer to the "needs seasoning." There's always some company trying to sell something that doesn't really exist in a production form, and then 10 years or 20 years later, it is so in the background we don't even think of it anymore. You know how pricing works? Multiply by ten for every step from cost of raw materials to a commercial product in your hand? 10x to turn the raw materials in components. 10x to turn components in to a product. 10x to move the product to the store. 10x to sell it to you as an item you can use. Same kind of idea when it comes to technology research, but in terms of time. Six months of research becomes five years of development becomes ten years of commercialization becomes twenty years of "it's everywhere."
Any communication systems are valid military targets in case of war. So much so that they are usually among the first targets.

But there are also other considerations. In your example I doubt China would want to provoke the US by shooting American-owned satellites out of the sky, and I doubt Starlink would be that important anyway.
Wait, I'm pretty sure that if these measurements had shown a collapse, that would have to be taken as disproving many worlds. You can't very well have many worlds when your wavefunction is physically collapsing all the time before those worlds can diverge. So it is actually kind of testable, since a test was just performed that could have ruled it out. Maybe you're saying that it's untestable relative to unmeasurable collapses of the wavefunction. But if those collapses are contrived to be unmeasurable, doesn't that make them kind of, well, pointless?
Claris is STILL a subsidiary of Apple
Hmm I guess it would be fairly easy to hook music into Electric Sheep actually. I wonder if anyone has done it already.
Pretty unlikely. The F would be already in place at an early stage, the precursor is probably 2-F-benzonitrile, alternatively 2-f-phenylmagnesium bromide.
>"“I understand that the ticketing can be frustrating. I bought tickets for two of our shows myself just to see what the experience was like,” Hoppus said. “I had tickets yoinked from my cart and the whole thing crash out. Dynamic pricing. I’m not in charge of it. It’s meant to discourage scalpers. We’re trying to bring you the best possible show for the best price. This is a tour celebrating new music and the band getting back together. Thank you for your enthusiasm and I hope to see all of you at the shows.”

This is the kind of vapid "non-statement" statement usually reserved for politicians. The "best price" for who? Certainly not the fans.

Then further down in the article:

>"Country superstar Garth Brooks—who has called out dynamic pricing as well as suggested that the secondary market should be “illegal,” has more or less solved the problem for his fans with one simple trick: He adds shows until they no longer sell out"

It's worth noting that the artist doing the most "punk rock" thing here is actually the Country singer.
That's good for you, but the company who is paying you in USD isn't getting you cheaper. In my situation it makes better economical sense to keep my employed over someone getting paid in USD.
Yeah it was never the language or the core libs which were the problem, it was mostly some of the frameworks which had the FactoryFactory problem
We often assume that most people have empathy / conscience. It's simply not true.
Does anyone know if there is something equivalent for VR?
This is what freaks me out about AI.

People will use it for years in various fields, and one by one, after a decade or so of use, they'll come to find it was complete garbage information, and they were just putting their trust in a magic 8 ball.

But the damage is already done.
I don't know how so many people tolerate the BS of going through the interview process where they can switch jobs every few years.

I've never been successful with it. I've only gotten hired as a dev by a very strong reference or because an eccentric boss gave me a contract-to-hire opportunity. That boss posted an ad on Craigslist... I joked about it saying it was a scam, and he said you know it's legit because he also wrote the job posting on park benches and bathroom stalls. My favorite boss.

Lately I just save money because HR keeps threatening to fire me for being unvaccinated. I've been breaking company policy for a year, and saving money for a year, I don't give a shit about the job market anymore and I hope they finally grow balls and fire me. My startup only has $200 MRR but if they don't fire me before end of the year I'm out. And I don't want another job either, I've survived an 8 year gap without a real job before. I'd rather live off of rice/soup than deal with corporate software dev another year. And interviewing is the worst, way worse than the day to day, I don't know how you guys do it.
As I said - it's a great article! This was just one thing I noticed which I pointed out as it made me think.

Keep up the good work
You are a public university with students who have a wide variety of skin colors. 27 years ago a law is put into effect that forbids discrimination based on skin color.

The toilets on your campus, which you have kept untouched for 27 years since the law passed, have a sign at the entrance that says "whites-only".

Which of these options do you feel is right:

1) Pay someone to take down the sign

2) Condemn the toilet

3) Leave it as is.
DEA Didn’t Buy Malware from Israel’s NSO Group Because It Was Too Expensive
There are plenty of alternatives, that are cut out of the big venues due to Ticketmaster’s monopolist behavior.
I believe Android does this too, letting users pick a specific directory they want the app to have access to
Are they? I am curious what % of private equity holdings are intended for renting, rather than flipping.
GPS is also coupled with WAAS which relies on a network of ground stations at known coordinates to determine GPS error. These errors are caused by bulges in the ionosphere that throw off timing. Error is calculated, broadcast up to satellites and then rebroadcast down to GPS receivers that are WAAS enabled. This is known as a satellite based augmentation system. The other satellite nav systems that compete with GPS are building similar augmentation systems (like GAGAN, EGNOS, MSAS and SDCM). These systems are required for precision approaches like LPV for aircraft on instrument flight plans. Regular GPS precision due to ionosphere changes is too low. They've enabled the FAA to lower the minimums for GPS approaches down to levels that are close to ILS, removing the need for expensive ILS installations at many regional airports. So replacing GPS isn't just about creating a system to locate a point in space. You'd need to replace critical systems like WAAS that enable precision approaches during instrument conditions, for example.
should in this case means is, even if you disagree.
The missing component of your analysis is that amazon has 4th option: re-sell instances of B as instances of A when A is more expensive, and otherwise allowing the market to adjust. The analysis is strictly limited to instances where amazon could, in theory, do this (e.g., reselling c6gd as c6g).

Assuming the market is in equilibrium, the above scenarious aren't realistic, as demand at the market price would equal supply at the current price (roughly, of course).

Suppose there are 1000 c6g and 200 c6gd, with equilibrium price of $3 and $2, respectively (i.e., all instances have demand). Amazon re-SKUs c6gd as c6g until there are 1100 c6g selling fro $2.90 and 100 c6gd selling at $2.90. Total revenue is $3480 vs. $3400. Of course it's impossible to know the true numbers without hidden knowledge of the market, but this is more akin to what would occur. Amazon effectively has a risk-free arbitrage opportunity here, so it stands to reason that there is revenue to be made. Customers don't have this option (since you can't short spot instances), so the best you can do is diversify and save money.

Edit: Actually, the AWS spot market is often out of equilibrium in a way that makes this reselling even more effective. For instance, in the example in the article the c6gd instance is actually pegged at the minimum price, so some number of those instances could be resold as c6g without moving the c6gd price at all.
title shortened from "The DEA Didn’t Buy Malware From Israel’s Controversial NSO Group Because It Was Too Expensive" to fit HN length limit
That's why I love Work from Home. You can even do it during job interviews.
> Hans Niemann sues Carlsen and others for $100M over chess cheating allegations

Is it just me or this really looks like a pissing contest ?
I’m not at all discounting the value of SSO to all users, totally agreed. Just that in the business of software this just plainly makes the most sense for most companies. It’s useful for everyone, but it’s required for enterprise (via security policy or other mandate), hence why the screws are put to them.

I’m a bit curious why we don’t see more price segmentation happening with the SSO feature set included, presumably most of these SaaS are seat-limited by plan anyway. If I had to guess, they just don’t want to deal with the headache of tons of small SSO implementations clogging up their support resources.
FTFY...

Explains why there are no high performance production Java applications...
>On the other hand they were writing what is ostensibly a concurrent application on an operating system with no protected memory and no pre-emptive multitasking, so the whole thing was using hand-rolled cooperative multitasking via C longjumps. It's no wonder the Windows team had an easier time keeping up with Netscape for that golden year.

As one among your customer base for both versions, indeed. People who never used pre-Unix MacOS have no idea how unreliable it was. Windows 95 and 98 weren't great, but there was at least some hope of killing an errant application and continuing on. System 7? No hope whatsoever. It didn't help that Mosaic (and Netscape) wasn't very reliable regardless of platform, but the OS's own failings made things that much worse.

>a lot of Apple's OS people ended up going to Palm, where they made pretty much the same set of tradeoffs.

That makes sense, both from an attractive-new-startup view (I'm sure many within Apple c. 1997 was pushing for a small, inexpensive Apple PDA to respond to Palm), and from a familiar-feeling-OS view.

>So I ran to a pretty UI, works out of the box, but ships with /bin/bash with open arms and never looked back.

I figured this out on the day in 2003 when I first tried out OS X. I've been using Linux since 1995 and had tried every available desktop: CDE, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment (The horror .. the horror ...), Window Maker/AfterStep, fvwm, and even older ones like Motif and twm. I'd used Mac OS 7 and 8 in college and hated it (as mentioned above), but OS X was a revelation.

I still use Linux as a server, but for a Unixlike desktop that actually works and runs a lot of applications, OS X is it. Period.

(I wrote the above on Slashdot ten years ago <https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2940345&cid=40457103>. I see no need for changes.)

>The university ended up with upward of 60 NeXT machines (which I later learned is a lot for one college)

I don't think my college ever deployed NeXTs in public student labs the way it did deploy HP workstations <https://np.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/ludshu/macinto...>, but I did use them in college as well. I still think NeXTStep did UI better than MacOS pre- or post-Unix.
On iOS that’s entirely optional. But that’s a very valid position. I also detest when apps do this.
Well-reasoned.

I think it's about time we flattened the Great Pyramid at Giza for lack of wheelchair access.
Long Covid: Hair loss and sexual dysfunction among wider symptoms, study finds
On the contrary, we could have accessibility by design and accesstech industry enabling it at low cost. Every business deterred by the effort required to make interfaces accessible would inevitably be replaced by those who think they can still earn a lot of money (we are talking about trillion dollar industry here, people are ready to kill for much less).
It would be astonishing if they didn't. 30-year rates have gone from <3% to 8% in the past 2 years, and will rise further. If they go to 10%, that means a monthly payment more than twice what you would have had 2 years ago.

Home prices can only go as high as the top bidder can afford. How many people are ready to buy the same house at the same price for twice the monthly payment?
Apple contributes quite a lot to open source (WebKit, llvm, clang in particular but there are other high volume projects), though not so much in the Linux kernel. There are some patches by Apple in Linux though and they've made quite a lot of strides in expediting postbacks internally over the last few years.

I left Apple partly over their poor oss policies, but even I won't sign off on the idea that they don't do any at all.
ATG sounds like it was an incredibly creative little group, and it's a shame such a thing was more or less disbanded (along with letting HyperCard die, etc). SK8 in particular looks like it was very interesting. Someone needs to write a full retrospective of that group!
Maybe worrying about China and Russia will mean we reduce their ability to sway how people vote.
How about we just continue using well-known idioms?

I think you should avoid the phrase "avoid the phrase" because that indicates that you just don't want to talk about the phrase due to childhood issues.

But does it really?
The key moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7cNeFtGM3k&t=35595s
I'm not at liberty to give specifics right now.