skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, in chess going 1st is 100% definitely an advantage. For example, pawn to a4 is a really bad opener because its so close to throwing away that advantage by passing your first turn. Its just that the rules permit that taking a turn can force you into a worse position than you started, and you can't prove the starting position isn't like that. So from a proof perspective the empirical truth that going first is really good is not particularly helpful. The passing thing is weird because it empirically is a bad idea, it just closes a theoretical loophole.

I'm not a mathematician myself, just got into this stuff when I was working on a boardgame solver. I find it difficult to map the 'symmetric game' definition "the payoffs for playing a particular strategy depend only on the other strategies employed, not on who is playing them" onto a turn based game, but if it can work for Hex it must be compatible.

If you consider a strategy to be "a decision tree for how to place stones, when I'm playing as 2nd", then there's perfect symmetry between being 1st and choosing to immediately pass, and being 2nd. The possible strategies and resulting payoffs are the same. You add on top the extra move, which the possibility of passing means is at worst neutral for 1st player, and they cannot be at a disadvantage.

More intuitively for me: being allowed to pass your first move is the same as getting to pick which side you want to play. There's no way the side who can pick to play 1st or 2nd at their option can be at a forced loss to the side who just has to accept their decision. The picker would just pick the other side and now they have a forced win.

(I'm always assuming above any kind of infinite-pass-standoff is a draw, and not some kind of weird other thing).

If I haven't expressed my thoughts clearly enough that's probably about as well as I can manage I'm afraid.
Based upon trends, the NZ property price market did peak then undergo a significant (roughly half) retrace.

+41% over 19 months, then -20% over the next 16 months, taking us to mid-2023. The main trend-change vertices I am referencing (see the source's graph) :

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"Average House Price", Source: https://www.qv.co.nz/price-index/

June 2020 = NZ$750,000

[then, +41% over 19 months, to: ]

Jan 2022 = NZ$1,063,000

[then, -20% over 16 months, to: ]

May 2023 = NZ$889,000

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While the retrace has levelled off since then, and even shown signs of a slight bounce back, I think we should avoid assuming that the previous uptrend will simply resume, with anything like the strength it had during the Covid FOMO period. It just isn't viable, too much economic squeeze from other directions (read: 'ain't nobody got money for dat shit').
Appreciate the support!
Except those have even bigger problems, like allowing me to claim a domain that legally belongs to someone else in a way that courts can do nothing about. Or manual typosquatting (e.g. serving phishing sites from go0gle.com), again without any recourse.
No, no new price baseline. If the same tenants move back into the replaced unit, they continue at the rate as if their lease had been continuous (plus rent control raise limits)
If you have a background in ML, then yes, a paper is almost always better. I've recommended papers over sources like Towards Data Science etc. here. However, for laypeople, I doubt it would be as effective - they'd need to look up terms like MLP, ReLU, UMAP, Logit, or even what an activation function is, and they are the target audience of this post.
If it's ok to see real time location of planes and cargo ships, how come it wouldn't be ok for trains?
Rare worked closely with Nintendo on their titles. Nintendo provided top-level support for Rare. They had done fantastic with the Donkey Kong Country series on Super Nintendo, so Nintendo had a lot of trust in them and a great working relationship at a time when the company held their cards a little too closely to their chest. I think Nintendo's dev tooling for the N64 was pretty weak and devs were struggling as it was with the transition from 2D to 3D in the crucial early years of the platform. That coupled with the capital intensity made it prohibitive for smaller studios to develop on. But Nintendo trusted Rare and fronted the capital to publish. Later Rare was acquired by Microsoft.
No, it's like writing "Mexico and America". If you're going to add geographic qualifiers like "North", the equivalent would be more like "UK and West Europe".

Without such qualifiers, the meaning is clearly "continental Europe", which is a meaningful distinction when it comes to the rail, because they have two almost entirely disjoint rail systems.

Ok, yes, technically the European rail system does actually physically connect to the UK main lines at a few places on HS1 between London and the tunnel at Dover, but no public train uses such connections. Functionally, European and UK rail are essentially entirely separate in terms of operation, regulation and technology. Whereas on the Continent, trains regularly cross between countries and the whole system is much more-but far from entirely -integrated, politically and physically (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Rail_Traffic_Manageme...).
With growth like that 20b would be a bargain.
I mean it might, but then again it might not. Tesla is far from the only company in Sweden that doesn't have a collective bargaining deal in place, in fact it's quite common to not have one. This is supported by the Swedish model.

I think if the unions had more Tesla employees on their side, Tesla would be forced to sign in short order, but they don't seem interested. Exact numbers are hard to come by since the union refuse to disclose them, but indications are something like 90% of Tesla employees are still going to work, despite the unions offer of 130% compensation for strikers from day one, even from workers who wasn't previously members of the Union. this is very unusual for a union to be this generous, usually they offer 80% pay, and workers join the strike because they want to improve their workplace. In this case it seems workers actually don't want the collective bargain, only the union wants it.

Honestly nobody is looking very good in this mess, not Tesla, not IF Metal, and I think this is a pretty clear view of the dark side of the Swedish model (unions are so powerful they can ignore workers, which is just weird)

Personally I think the Swedish model is mostly good, but like all things, it could be improved. For example I'm not sure it's a great idea to have the unions be responsible for unemployment benefits, they've been leveraging that to force unwilling workers to strike, which I think is kind of overstepping a bit, and makes me wonder if working conditions are really what IF Metal is even worried about here. Unions being powerful is mostly a good thing, but there needs to be some checks on that power, or it'll be misused eventually. And I'm starting to wonder if "eventually" is actually "now".

Maybe some kind of rule where you can't start a strike against a company unless you have the support of at least 30% of the workforce in that company? I dunno, I think the unions need to be more convincing to the workers here, since they don't seem to have their support. Then again, they currently don't need it!
Thanks! Donkey Kong Country felt truly next gen at the time, it makes sense that Nintendo would offer reward deals afterwards.
We do this at https://meraGPT.com
What stack did they use to create this AI influencer with the same face?
Does anyone of you know what stack has been used to create this good looking AI pictures with the same face on each photo? Recently I was playing with some AI gen. tools for photos but this is next level
Examining Rust async iterator approaches
..much better in what way?
First case is not re-inventing Docker, it's just not changing our ways. We continue doing what we're doing, but using modern facilities to isolate or resource-control the workload we're running.

In the second case, the only thing I pull is "Debian Slim" from the public repo. Since I'm using Debian for a very long time, I can actually verify down to last bit (package/binary checksums, etc.). Then built the rest from the source + Debian repositories inside a Dockerfile.

I push the container to local registry, and Dockerfile to our local Git server.
GPT-2 is surprisingly good at fine-tuning such conversations even now. I gave a talk recently on "Sparks of Digital Immortality" that covers a bit about how we did it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9-Qk86QyMM
No, it’s only food-related. Basically you feel hunger less. It’s easier to implement good diet. Obviously you need to eat healthy to get benefits from semiglutide.
The zoning restrictions should be behavioral not structural--much like Japan.

Behavioral restrictions are things like "no more than 80db noise from hours of x to Y" or "no smells which can be detected n kilometers away" with significant fines for violation.

In an industrial area, you release the requirements. You can put your residence in an industrial area, but you don't get to complain about noise and stink afterward.

In a residential area, you tighten the requirements. You can put your business in a residential area, but you have to comply with better restrictions. A dentist or computer worker can easily meet the restrictions while industrial would be highly unlikely to pass.
I agree. On my e-reader I can choose to enable hanging punctuation. Why should a web developer be able to or be expected to make that choice for me?
In AI research there are different branches with different goals and motivations. You have applied research, where the goal is to engineer systems that are better at soving certain needs. You also have scientific endeavours, usually interdisciplinary, typically crossed with biology, psychology and philosophy, where AI models are created and used as models of understanding human or animal intelligence.

The former is where as you describe where better understanding of biology might help but is not a prerequisite for progress, but in the latter it is not just needed but the goal.

Now I know this is a bit of a caricature as both of these disciplines are in practice poorly deliniated and often intermixed. It's easy to find hubristic examples to mock on both sides, but there's value and brilliance to be found in each respectively as well.
That's a pretty good deal. Almost as if having gained tenancy in a rent-controlled property is a (non-transferable) asset worth more than the property itself.
I know that. But it should know how to draw a cat laying on its back if the prompt says "cat" and the drawing is on its back.
RHEL 9 defaults to Wayland: the X server is available, but the admin must explicitly choose it, and most admins never do. So describing this as a drastic change is a bit hyperbolic.
Right. Telekom (germany) had this around 2010. It was called "Navigationshilfe" ("navigation aid"). At least there was an opt-out option.

Edit: seems to have been there from 2009 till 2019 (!) after users took legal actions. See https://www.golem.de/news/t-online-navigationshilfe-telekom-... (german)
To be fair I used this downloader to get a modified version of the YouTube app onto my TV. Most guides / reddit posts recommend the download feature to side load apps. Not saying that the lawsuit is justified, but I guess that's how they found the app.
Australia and New Zealand: https://anytrip.com.au/

(although it also includes some buses and ferries, and you can only look at one region at a time)
Time preference theories of interest are unsatisfactory, because for them to make sense, lenders must have perfect knowledge about the future and be perfectly aware of competing usages of money at any point in the lending window. If they don't have that information, they can't have time preference. Lenders will be reluctant to lend at "market clearing" interest rates and consistently demand a premium giving the rise to usury.

However, usury can't be banned, because the concept of lending is about bringing money from places with low utility to places with high utility. Strangely enough, this means any ability of money to save transaction costs and facilitate gets priced into interest. We are even further away from the time preference theory at this point. The real question one should ask, if lending brings money to the poor, which is a good thing, why does it flow to back to the rich? Why doesn't an overabundance of wealthy people willing to lend for nothing appear?
Because users should be able to make their own stylesheets and having a bunch of stuff in there that isn't relevant is annoying.
Hidden ownership can lead to a significant lack of transparency. Potential investors and partners may be wary of getting involved with a SPAC when they can't ascertain who the real decision-makers or beneficiaries are. This wariness can affect fundraising efforts and the SPAC's overall credibility.
Saxenda is liragludtide, which is similar, but different compound.

Another brand name for semiglutide is Rybelsus - semiglutide in the tablet form to be taken daily.
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It almost can not by definition, as every telemetry will include user IP address which is considered PII. Regardless what the stated purpose of that telemetry was, private information will leak and that browser can not be calling itself privacy respecting. Zero telemetry by default is the only way a browser respects user privacy.

If the user opts-in into telemetry then obviously it is user's choice, but usually browsers with telemetry do not make this an opt-in choice.
But then you lose backwards compatibility and have no standard spec.
man, I wish I could afford this. Insurance (in Canada) caps out at like $800/y for reimbursement and the cost is something like $1k/month :(
Nice website, but there are quite a few businesses in there that I wouldn't categorise as boring or simple to execute/replicate.
The construction counts an arbitrary length list of numbers, each which can count an integer > 0. The case between a number < 1 and a number >=1 is also addressed.

If that holds true without missing any possibilities, then this maps to the continued fractions. I've gone through several such mappings that missed at least one before, so looking to see if this one has any such as well.

https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Combinatorics_and_Di...
A bit before and after section (6.1.13) covers how the continued fractions then provide a counting of the reals, provided any finite representations are > 2 for the last number.

So well I'm not sure it all holds up, it does appear that way.
I have heard of a database "engineer" paid $250 an hour to spend weeks creating what is basically a connection string to a database in a corporate virtual lan. The people paying him were never concerned about the cost, just how long it was taking. This was in Nebraska.
You seem to have intended to reply to someone else, as we appear to be in violent agreement.
Thanks for the trip down the memory lane. While I didn't use any mainframes, I know the partitioning on these beasts existed when I was running VMWare on my desktop around 2000.

However, I remarked that the quote is dated before hardware virtualization, namely VT-x/AMD-V, VT-d, etc., hence hardware segmentation of processors and I/O devices were not possible on that era's x86 hardware.

I have no qualms against jails and/or BSD. I'm not a flamewar person. As I said, this was a quote from our System/BSD guy, nothing else.

Maybe the hardware was saturated, maybe that kernel had a regression, maybe without hardware virtualization/offloading there was some kind of overhead in these days, I don't know.

All in all, they are nice technologies, and I like/support them all.
Arcor had this around 2004 iirc.
Which browser/OS?
Again, this theory simply cannot explain the numbers in the “cause of death” tallies we’re discussing.

A death certificate can list multiple reasons, but they aren’t making that mistake or the total deaths count would be a mega-blowout.
Carl Sagan testifying in Congress, 1985: https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI
I believe if you just copy paste an image in the GitHub text editor, or drag and drop one into it, GitHub will automatically upload it to their own image upload service and will insert the markdown code to show it.
A simple RANT on Amazon, but on modern business automation in general
Dear HN-ers,
this time is my first RANT here, the more detailed rant is https://kfx.fr/rants/amz_en.html but the point is more broad: procedures can work flawlessly nearly all the time and most managers do care only about the "most of the time", but most is not all the time.

Having procedures on top of humans to the point even their own customer care can't help means on one side a day or another being TFU by their own automation because if it's normal to have brainless procedures and do care only about "most of the time", a day will means find their infra collapsing by some accident and no one know what to do.

IN a free market the market would correct, in the actual neofeudal state of thing, to cite Varoufakis https://unherd.com/2023/09/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-technofeudalism/ such failures means failures for entire States.

End of the RANT with the blown whistle that sooner or later your car, or banks, or smart home will fail you in the same way, and when this will happen you'll be powerless. If you agree about this possibility try to do your best to annihilate this managerial philosophy, witch is actually a nazi philosophy [1] and spread the idea.

[1] not joking https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/17/nazis-based-their-elite-schools-on-top-british-private-schools
This was my first reaction as well. 'This can't be all, right? Must be just a tiny fraction of the trains on that continent'.

Here's the map for Belgium btw https://trainmap.belgiantrain.be/
This software won't help you.

If you already have a .vtt, this is not a hard exercise to do e.g. entirely in a browser: parse the .vtt (they're simple text), lay out the text as you like with each segment being a clickable element (e.g. a link), and hook that up to seek an `<audio>` element to where you like.
Surprising Truths about the Human Brain
I guess it depends on how one sees the future. My belief and hope is that we will become a space faring species and that we only have to hold on one or two more generations until we reach escape velocity, and once that happens we become “immortal”. We might indeed suffer from setbacks along the way but overall we will progress as we always did in the long run. And if that’s the case then it was all worth it.
That is fine when you are using your own machine and fraud when you rent it to others.
>By 2000
Kinda makes you wonder why people don’t take global warming seriously…
But we would not expect the coin toss to have a correlation. Whereas we might expect a correlation between actual and perceived ability.

So yes, both are null results, but only one is interesting.

For instance, we would probably expect there to be a correlation between height and ability to dunk a basketball. If someone were to show that there is not a correlation, that would be an interesting result. Just because random data would match my result doesn't mean my result is nonsensical. Getting results that look like random data is still a result--it just means there isn't a correlation.
As someone with a vast amount of experience automating vsphere, this is made up bullshit.

API access got a lot better once they introduced the powershell API (which can also be used via C#) but the solution you're describing is the result of people not knowing what they're doing.
> Lots of children in bad households have made out to be ok, and plenty of children with well-off families.

And many of those children in bad households have been able to get where they are due to being helped by the state, which you do not want. So what do they do? Just die? If you don't give a concrete solution, that will be the outcome. Remember that we're talking about basic needs like food and shelter - a child can't do much about not having these available.

> Disabilities birth/young age is act of "god". It's perfectly fine to take care of them. However they only account 1-2% of the population.

Okay, then please explain to me what central entity should help these people, if it's not the state. As I previously said, what if all private insurance doesn't take these people on for free? What do they do except die?

> Death due to Missing Coverage is overrated. All Emergency Units take in patients and most exaggerated medical bill people actually don't pay the said bill

I am not solely talking about health insurance. You stated that you want to solve food and housing problems with similar insurance. Why would these private insurance companies give coverage to those who can't afford it? Please don't handwave this point away.
Unit testing on an 8-bit CPU
> But, in order to make sure she could handle the 3-hour flight, my wife and I made sure to hype up the airplane journey. So much so, that my toddler was shocked when we had to get into a cab for the airport — she expected to walk straight from our house onto a plane.

This is absolutely adorable, hilarious and understandable at the same time.
I feel like CSS has grown too much and has too broad scope now - I didn't even know that properties like 'text-indent' and this punctuation one even exist and I'm doing web-development related work.
The problem with CSS is that one cannot just learn and use new features because usually it's unsupported by at least on of major browsers for an indefinite amount of time - after few months/years it's easy to forget that something significant/important/useful could be possible to do with CSS - and of course in meantime more new features and properties are being added.
When I hear “old fashioned”, I imagine <table> layouts, transparent pixel gifs, and <marquee>.
Very few overnight trains in the U.K. there used to be more in the days when trains ran at average speeds of 50mph but not now
>To Artistotle, we would say today that his notion of the "barrenness" of money is illogical

From my perspective Aristotle is spot on. In fact, you just keep listing more examples how he is correct. All those things you listed can only generate an income by having another person pay for it. The house is dead, the people living inside it generate the income that pays your rental payments.
Marketers must get creative and use both old and new B2B marketing attribution techniques.