skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly for automation. Bots don't need to read and they are very happy to parse data.

People like to use bots to run thousands or millions of simulated games to test how good their bot is at chess and have it ranked.

Other people like to use the bots that were created to play chess as practice toward a certain skill level. Beginners can pick bots that are proven to be beginner level, through thousands or millions of simulated games.

The smaller the data footprint for the games, the faster and more efficiently the bots can play, which reduces cost and time. In a more practical sense, AI/ML algorithms can be more efficient with tiny data sizes for a bunch of complicated reasons.

So, overall, this is "nerd sniping" to develop better chess players, both human and automated. It's not the most extensible presentation, I'll grant you, but I'm sure it's as fun as Regex Golf, or any other data-packing stuff.

P.S. I'm sure the comp-sci dev in you already knew all this; this is just a bill in case anyone read your comment and truly didn't already know all of this.
> [Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm's] advance team realized there weren't going to be enough plugs to go around... So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy... a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle... called the police

THis is abhorent, disgusting behavior! I'm not sure it's a police matter, but I hope the woman that got blocked out of a charging spot can, with the cooperation of the owner of the charger and the private land it was on, sue the Department of Energy.
I think the people saying "religion" actually mean "belief system" (philosophy, religion, political ideology, economic system, scientific paradigm) but they don't have the right language so they're reaching for "religion" as the most obvious example of a belief system. It's just woolly language hiding a very obvious observation: people tend to adopt cohesive ideological packages rather than assembling personalized belief systems à la carte.

For example there's no particular reason why "pro-choice" and "climate change" should be bundled together (if anything you'd expect conservatives to be the ones trying to conserve the environment, and progressives to be the ones trying to tarmac the planet) but they have a pretty strong correlation in US politics.
Setting aside the fact that as a consumer, not having a confirmation email is a giant red flag that would have avoided much of this... one thing that OTAs can do is interface with low-level supplier APIs to know whether/when the status of a booking has changed.

Of course, this isn't perfect, to be sure - but they sometimes do implement it well, and when working, this can give a second line of defense beyond just what's available with the hotel's own website, which often a smaller subset of information than the OTAs have access to.
Bought the book the other day and just made a start on reading it.

I have a lot of DB experience and am a massive proponent of appropriate indexing, but I know for a fact that Tobias has far more, deeper knowledge than me on this subject and am looking forward to learning some new tricks as well as getting a deeper understanding of database indexing internals

Thanks Tobias! Keep up the awesome work
Transistor measurements in nanometers has been more or less meaningless since the introduction of FinFETs over a decade ago, and IIRC it was TSMC that started the let's play funny business with nanometers affair. Today they are marketing terms and the different fabs try to align them somewhat, but have inherent conflicts of interest when it comes to overselling their tech. For example a TSMC N5 transistor is roughly 100x100x100nm in size as per https://youtu.be/gzgyksS5pX8?t=867.
Fun story. I worked with a guy who had a habit of killing any project he was on. Guy was fantastic at certain feel good maneuvers that had a tendency to suck all forward momentum and enthusiasm. He was a nice guy, and it was clear he had positive intent.

I would unequivocally hire this guy if I was a C-suite and place him on any project I couldn’t kill but wanted to stall out.
I would think a lot. Everyone would rather not have wait for legal to answer a new set of questions every time a state changes their laws. Easier to align on the strictest legislation and go from there, IMHO.
Being hanged didn't make you dead. Not reliably. It's kind of a science; what happens when you drop depends on your weight, and the length of the drop. If you're too heavy, or the drop is too long, then your head gets yanked off, which is generally considered a bad result. On the other hand, if you're light or the drop is too short, you get slowly strangled, which is also an undesirable outcome.

So sometimes hangees would pay people to swing from their ankles after the drop, until they were really dead.

For hanging, drawing and quartering, you weren't supposed to die from the hanging bit.

[Edit] The quartering part wasn't some kind of superfluous state expense; it was the whole point of the exercise. HDQ was only performed rarely - it was reserved for the (commoner) leaders of rebellions against the monarch. Common criminals were just hanged.
Ask HN: What do startups look for in a resume?
How differently should a resume be formatted when applying to a startup vs FAANG?
That seems pretty speculative. But even if it's true, that means that just building a bunch of new housing isn't addressing the problem.
I've seen oil with zero calories and over 1,500 servings per container.
I still remember when 12oz cans became 11.5oz cans.
Got it. That makes much more sense.
Yes, thanks. But why they keep selling them? Cannot they "simply"(tm) take them out of the shelves?
Commerical agreements around the corner or fake image of trusty shop?
It's a mixed bag, really. They come up with great legislation I wouldn't have thought possible like the GDPR, but then they go and try to ban E2EE messengers. They set up accountability for tech giants, but then add upload filters. They try to ban ICE cars, but extend the deadline for many years because of automotive lobbyists.

Every good EU idea seems to come with a terrible idea. On average things seem to get better, but it's a two-steps-forward-one-step-back kind of progress. It's better than an all-bad government, but they do plenty of shitty things. I'm very happy to live in the EU, but it's certainly not for everyone.
For reasons, chains have to give the aggregators their best publicly available price. However, there is a loophole that loyalty users can be offered a lower price.

The chain still makes more money as they can avoid paying the aggregator a commission.
That "modes of transportation" example did not make any sense to me. When developing a prototype, it's not hard to make something shiny and works well in isolation and briefly. It's hard to make something work reliably over long periods of time. So in the early stages, things like quality, error-handling, and documentation are placed on the back-burner so the team can focus on core functionality.

Going back to that example, I can't imagine why it would be a good idea for a team to build the equivalent of the frame of a car and share with a customer, or build a scooter first with the promise that a rocketship is coming soon. Neither of those would instill any trust in the customer that the company knows what it's doing
The Venn Diagram of Application and Authorization Data
Everyone makes fun of me for this, but this is why I carry a 1/2" binder with paperwork for every part of an overseas trip in individual plastic sleeves. When you land in a foreign country, you never know when/if your phone will start roaming, or you're waiting to buy a SIM, etc...

I'll travel with workmates or friends, and they're frantically trying to look something up, while I calmly retrieve my bulky binder, flip to the right page, and pull out the appropriate paperwork from the plastic sleeve. I highly recommend this mechanism for any complex trip.

In your case, knowing what the name of the hotel is can be very important before you even leave the airport. I've had Canadian border guards ask me very detailed questions about the nature of my trip, where I'm staying, phone numbers, etc. You could be detained in secondary if you didn't have that information handy.
UAW hits Detroit Three automakers with first simultaneous strike
I'll need some citations on those numbers.

In states like Texas minimum wage is still $7.25/hr and many places pay just that.

How do you reconcile your numbers with that?

Bills have outpaced wages to the point nearly a whole generation of young adults have given up on home ownership and have had to move back home.

Mortgages are increasing in years and rates, even new cars have.

Income inequality has never been higher and you're seriously saying it's gotten better since the greatest wealth transfer in history?!
We use https://www.enchant.com/

It works great for email support, haven't tried their chat features, but is the sweet-spot for us in terms of features and complexity.

They have an API if you want to integrate, though for a web form just feeding it through email works.
And they tie your location history to ad views and surface this to advertisers.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
I feel like a lot of people on HN aren't (or weren't) full time mechanics, so they might not fully embrace what's going on:

We should somehow force (incentivize) car manufacturers to standardize on stuff like this:

https://www.acdelcotds.com/subscriptions (GM / Chevy vehicles)
https://app.n.fcawitech.com/wt2/auth/login.html (Chrysler vehicles)

Similar systems exist for your favorite modern (And relevant) car manufacturer.

We need to get car manufacturers to stop producing their own proprietary systems, or at least, implement a standard.

OBD2 is such a small standard which covers emissions, we need the entire car!
Obviously. That doesn't mean its good to drive our companies into the dirt, just because they're not people. People depend on them. People work for these companies. Their significance is perhaps far greater than actually ruining just the lives of one person.
> Can you imagine if Apple required a different [... snip ...] cable for your new iPhone rather than what already works with iPads and MacBooks?

My alteration of your comment brings it in line with the status quo prior to the USB-C which, keep in mind, Apple fought tooth and nail against. It is a stupid idea, but Apple did it anyway. The world runs on stupid ideas daily; either because they are more profitable, or are too entrenched, or both.
> But I travel not in home country, in home country sure you know how stuff works you can just call your hotels or sweet talk reception staff and negotiate everything.

I guess the other part is that I would still use a chain hotel in my case hotels affiliated with Hilton and Hyatt. I’ve also never had to deal with a hotel that didn’t cater to Americans even outside the country - mostly Mexico.

I’m sure it would be more complicated once we start doing more overseas traveling.
Seems legit observation to me
1) That's the point. A cheap GPU for low-end gamers. Pursuing profits over expanding your business is a bad idea in the long-run.

2) They did, and more importantly did not try to stop it from happening. They could have banned bulk sales or whatever. Through inaction, they created huge shortages.

At the end of the day, their advantage is really via a few things: software support and somewhat more advanced technology. Few people really cares about the actual hardware behind their gaming rigs. In places like game consoles, nVidia already lost a lot of ground because they weren't willing to cut costs.

The vast majority of laptops have integrated GPUs. I don't have exact numbers for laptops, but for PCs in general, it is integrated graphics: https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-is-already-matching-amd-for-ga...
> Which costs are they able to externalize by building grid scale solar

The biggest one is transmission. Most utilities have an arrangement where they can receive a certain return from customers with new capex. No large-scale transmission is required for rooftop installations.

Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll have to check it out.

> "customer incentives"

Correct. Customers are incentivized to use as little as possible and therefore save money. The utilities are incentivized to get customers to pay for new projects to earn a guaranteed return. And if a customer overgenerates their credits in a net metering scenario? Typically this is free energy to the utility. No payout.
Anonymous fills UNESCO site with Taiwan symbols, party logos and rap music
Is your assertion that it takes more time for a CPU to read values out of a 30 byte struct and do a couple shifts and branches than to parse a JSON representation?
You should probably stop commenting on things you admit you're ignorant on. Do what the other replies are saying and learn some history. Then dispute things based on facts instead of feelings.
Quite. And yet even in these comments there are people dismissing gathering any data as a waste of time.
I think bad rep is partly because Spring (and Spring Boot), Quarkus, etc. don’t need any Glassfish or Websphere and can be deployed barebones or run in Docker containers without hassles of having to manage “application servers”.
It's not really about whether it's legal, but whether it looks normal. Very bizarre positions can easily be legal, but they're hard to remember for everyone.
This was my favourite complaint of the day. Thank you Kunley!
the elf specification is:
https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/elf.pdf
Not as such. The tech is incredibly cool, but I'm rooting against cars whether they're self-driving or not. Cities are for people.
Image has a ton great titles too. I never gave much thought to them until one day I realized how much space they take up on my shelves. Saga alone takes up a ton of that space, but other series I've enjoyed include The Wicked + The Divine, Monstress, Paper Girls, Skyward, and Injection (although I think that one has been canceled after the author was)
I'm confused. What is the Android or app configuration necessary to enable this tracking? "Web and app activity", the only setting mentioned in the article, doesn't ring a bell. Is it all assuming the creation and use of a Google account?
Two weeks ago i was in San Francisco with a friend that works in "big tech" discussing "profit motives" in technology.

They told me that the lobby behind their company had all sorts of tricks to help government "ignore" all the clearly negative things they are doing in the name of revenue. Lobbying, anonymous stock trading "tips" (see Pelosi), influence pedding, etc..

Modern technology companies are all doing what the Tobacco companies did, only they have more plausible deniability.
USB-C phone charging cables are stupid cheap. It’s USB 2, 30W. Just don’t buy the crappy Apple cables.
This is C++ Builder, not Borland C++.
Finally, a good use case for blockchain technology!
Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one
Many years ago I read of an organizational practice that I refer to as a "trash buffer".

I have a fairly deep paper bin that I lay papers flat in. Any marginal paper documents or receipts that aren't obviously garbage and aren't obviously valuable go into this bin, always placed on the top.

Every 10-12 months I pick up the stack and remove, then shred, the bottom 1/4 of it - without review or remorse. If I didn't need them by then I never would.

I find that I actually use this buffer:

Every month or two there actually is some marginal paper document that I need to shuffle through and find. It's in reverse chronological order so that is very simple.
Something you can just look at being used in the real world can’t be propaganda. I know people who have been driving BEVs for over a decade and while they’d be the first to tell you there are real problems (e.g. long road trips) but it’s a commodity technology they’ve been using, so clearly it works for many people. Since people have been using them all over the world at scale, you can get reliable data on how it’s working for any particular question.

Contrast that with hydrogen, which is only barely out of prototype stage with extremely limited availability. The Toyota Mirai is the most successful with around 21k units sold total since 2014 - 3 full orders of magnitude lower than Toyota’s annual sales count, or the total BEV sales.

Now, it’s possible that things will pick up if there are some big improvements in cost and availability but that’s a huge if since it requires major advances in multiple areas just to become competitive with BEVs: it’s not just price but especially fueling - batteries are slower to charge but electricity is available almost everywhere so your plan B is a lot better than needing a tow if anything goes wrong with the one station you were planning to refuel at in the few regions which have any stations at all. Again, that’s not intractable but it’s a much harder chicken-and-egg problem, especially as long as it relies on customers choosing to lock in higher costs and significant restrictions. Environmentalists care about the result, not the technology, so they’re just going to buy an BEV if they aren’t riding an e-bike.
> Last worked in EJBs in 2002. There’s still a bad taste in my mouth.

Although EJBs got improved so much in 2006 it was nearly a different technology, EJBs by themselves have been largely deemphasized in Jakarta EE. The main bean model is CDI and has been for some time.
3 strike laws usually only apply to violent felonies. You don't go to jail for life after getting 3 speeding tickets.

I'd be down with this, but we need to decide which kinds of violations are speeding tickets and which are serious felonies.
More and more, I'm finding myself using Notion to track "life data stuff". I realize this is a very imperfect choice, but it offers the best tooling I've found so far for this sort of thing. I may migrate to some self-hosted open-source Notion clone at some point (there are a few).
It also completely misses the point of why comments are useful.

"Store user.age in age variable", is a useless comment which is indeed better expressed with clear code.

"Store user age in struct because when xyz() iterates over this it has no way to access the user object" is useful because it tells us why something is done, where it is used, and why the obvious solution isn't right.
You're overreacting. Corporate should have a minimal defense against these kinds of attacks in the court. One defense is "Okay, we don't speak this in our company. We made it clear by policy and if someone does at least this is evidence that it's not our company-wide strategy". Of course, whether this claim is accepted or not is up to the court, but interpreting this as a part of evidence destruction is pretty "creative" and I see this as a signal of being a weak case.
In my experience, that's not correct.

Can you please share your sources? I'm always happy to be persuaded by studies.
> This tier is never cheaper booking directly

Even if so, the issue I’ve encountered with booking services is a complete lack of options when things go wrong.

I had a situation where the hotel was actively trying to help me, but they had few options because the booking agent (Hotels.com) made it almost impossible to get support. The hotel person patiently stayed on the line with them for almost an hour going through escalation after escalation (I was deeply grateful).

Would have been a 5 minute fix if I’d booked with the hotel, and not every place would be willing to go to these lengths.

I hear you on the points thing. But I’ve started weighing the cost of those points against the likelihood of needing to make changes once I arrive somewhere. If it’s a reputable place that I stay regularly, I’m less worried.
A important benefit is that it keeps the function hermetic. Reproducibility is very important for fuzzing and debugging purposes. If the function lets me provide the nonce, I can use my own CSPRNG to generate it, and ensure that my program executes deterministically if fed the same random seed.
We had a nice chat a couple of days with a lady from a chain of appartments and resorts in the Auszrian alps. And while she said, that next time we can easily book directly with them, she was also quite happy with booking.com. First, booking as a search engine brings them customers. Second, booking helps in getting short term stays reducing the risk and impact of last minute cancellations.

One thing so, sometimes booking.com is aponsoring fares. Obviously, the hotel cannot match that.

Regarding air travel, the last couple of flights I checked, the was no difference between skyscanner and the airlines directly. With the exception of skyscanner showing you the bare-bone fares where you bring your own seat belt...
I see the sides of the argument but the argument can go on and on until someone is willing to step up and decide whether an image of a person is a person themselves. Otherwise it’s unresolvable.
Data privacy violations are certainly minor. Until we get that through, our companies are going to suffer. We have far, far, far greater problems in the world than privacy issues of usually meaningless data.
"Atkinson Hyperlegible is a freely available typeface built around a grotesque sans-serif core,..."

So obviously my understanding of the definition of grotesque is not what's meant as its use in relation to fonts, but the definition in a font's use is just odd on why it is used in this manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_(Stephenson_Blake_ty...
I don't know, but maybe these application servers are certified in some way so that they can be used in the right places that require certification (I'm guessing, not sarcastic)? Which would make sense, but some people host applications written in Spring on JavaEE application servers, which is like adding ketchup to a Greek salad.
For me, Java EE standardization makes absolutely no sense. You code to common programming interfaces when you need to break them down to use the underlying implementations.
Now I code in .Net and at least I don't have such dilemmas.
For what it's worth, this definitely isn't the theoretical limit for compressing a chess board position, which I would probably resort to calculating mathematically. In particular, (simplifying to boards with no pieces captured) this scheme uses 24 bytes for representing piece positions, but the constraint that no two pieces are in the same square means you should actually need only log2(64!/32!) = 22.3 bytes for that case, with 13 bits of savings. The scheme proposed here reclaims some of that overhead by granting special meaning when a piece's location overlaps with the king, but still is capable of representing other illegal positions where non-king pieces occupy the same square.

Unfortunately, decoding a mathematically optimal encoding quickly devolves to making a list of all possible board configurations and indexing into it, so I'd definitely believe that the proposal here is close to the smallest practically useful representation.
Pro tip: making a point of slamming a fist hard on the counter gets them to cooperate 90% of the time when they’re being difficult.
This looks like it could be interesting, but the code size comparisons seem really disingenuous. The level of engineering and features are not the same - one could easily write a react listbox component with far less code than the example. You also seem to be claiming all jsx is spaghetti, which is a super questionable claim. I'll chalk this up as a 'not for me', but my feedback would be to maybe improve the comparisons to be a bit more fair and to better substantiate the claim that nue's dx is superior.