skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are those two events/teams comparable so that one could expect the same type of odds?

I'm not much into betting, but will not the odds change also based on how people are betting. So if many people started to bet on the unexpected result, due to for example that the unexpected Leicester team won last time, wouldn't odds tighten up automatically?
>It’s hard for me to imagine getting out a scale just to be sure I really put in 100g instead of 120g of something. Do Europeans (outside of baking) really do this?

If i'm making a new recipe everything gets weighed. If it's something where i know how it's supposed to look/taste it is mostly by feel.
I would love a site that lists recipes that include only weight measurements. I don't know how big a onion is, there's easily a 5x range there. A cup of broccoli really depends on how you cut your broccoli doesn't it? 150 grams of broccoli is clear and i know what that looks like.
KeyDB is great, with major performance improvements, but it has also diverged from Redis and lacks most of the newer features added to Redis since the fork.
The main problem is not tracking calories.

I am a month in right now on tracking every calorie I eat as close as possible in a spreadsheet.

It astounds me what I thought I could eat and think I am still in a calorie deficit. I would even say I had become completely delusional from diet misinformation.

All these gimmicks to cause yourself to restrict calories is so suboptimal to simply counting.

I think counting calories is unpopular though exactly because not counting calories allows for a level of self delusional. You can then mentally be in this super position of at the same time believing to be on a diet without actually restricting calories. Of course you don't lose any weight but you are on a "diet".
By not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good-enough-for-now
Chris Moneymaker* winning the 2003 World Series of Poker main event after winning his entry in an $86 online qualifying tournament (rather than paying the $10K entry fee from his own pocket) was the biggest thing that could have happened for poker.

* - Yes, that's really his name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Moneymaker
Welcome to the AI Gadget Era
That's a good point about relative frequencies, and it's the saddest of tragedies what occured in the stories you list. So tragic...

In the abstract, outside of the tragedy of these unfortunate events, it's true that there's more cars, however...think of it like, there's far more background radiation particles than neutron radiation particles. But the damage you can do with one, is far less than the other.
A pretty good article. (Sadly, that feels rather exceptional for the Spectator.)
Natural gas doesn't pollute much less than coal or oil. The CO2 is less but there is also the methane. Natural gas is methane gas. It's not a transition fuel. Calling it 'natural' is a scam to sell methane gas.
A lot of a society’s “wealth” and “quality of life” is due to being able to trust others to act with some minimum level of integrity.

Otherwise, the society ends up looking like Somalia or Congo.
Or, cynically, their original odds were right but they have taken the opportunity to reduce payouts because punters now consider that event more likely and thus would accept less.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who do mind using HDMI and/or Android but in lack of other realistic alternatives for one or more reasons, end up with the pragmatic choice of using those things anyways.
Since it fits the topic and my efforts to find this story have been unsuccessful for years, I'll give it a try:

I am looking for a short story about an astronaut conducting radiation measurements on the dark side of the moon (or maybe mars). The astronaut ponders the strange measurement results when it dawns at him that the sun must have gone supernova and earth probably scorched. He returns to earth as the last living human, but discovers that other lifeforms (I believe to remember it was about a butterfly) seem to have survived and despite the end of humanity, life was going to continue.

I read this story about 30 years ago in an anthology of short stories which my future wife brought from our local library. Unfortunately, I don't remember any of the other stories and authors, but I believe they were all well known names and not obscure pulp fiction authors.

Today it strikes me, how naïve the thought was, that libraries and books were for eternity and that everything I'd read would be effortlessly available for me in the library to read again when ever I wanted.
When playing against much better player there are two possible strategies in practice:

1. try to simpifly position as much as possible and hope for a draw (and inevitably lose the endgame due to playing too passively);

2. complicate position so much that neither you nor your opponent can calculate or understand it, then hope that your opponent will mess up before you will.

Take from that what you will.
They'll just put that clause in from the start.

And if it grew organically, well OpenSearch is not exactly thriving. One of my clients are using it and it's a massive PITA to be on it.

No idea how badly it affected enterprise revenue for ElasticSearch though, but ES is going to win that fight in the long term.
Here's an interesting (IMHO) primer on marine insurance, from the What is Going On with Shipping channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wim-_Q_59o&t=618s
No, they didn't, although they misleadingly claimed to be the "Home of Redis" for a number of years. Then they hired Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), the author of Redis, and eventually purchased the copyright from him. Very sleazy outfit that fully deserves all the scorn poured on them.
See Watts, Blindsight (2006) for an exploration of the relation between consciousness and intelligence.

(personally, I believe intelligence allows modelling others, and the fact that we then —due to surplus of data?— then model ourselves is a side effect. Is this view consistent with the conclusions of TFA?)
Where do you store solar and wind energy for when the sun is down and the wind isn't up?
They should have a lot more troops involved, for sure, but GEF can be very efficient by leveraging surveillance tech.

Brazil deployed SIVAM [1] about 20 years ago. At the time it was a state-of-the-art radar surveillance system. Not sure how they kept up with tech advances, but it still gives a significant edge to the GEF unit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Surveillance_System
>we could at least be precise

The biggest lesson I've ever had in cooking is that literally nothing is precise.

Measurements like "a pinch" (a pinch of salt) are the epitome, but even the ingredients themselves aren't precise and uniform.

Cooking becomes a lot easier and the food better when you throw out any and all notion of precision. The proper way to cook is grab some pot or pan, grab ingredients, throw them in, and cook.

Trying to make cooking precise is a fool's errand.
In case you are wondering how this works in practice, American butter typically comes in "sticks". Each stick weighs 1/4 pound, and is individually wrapped in foil or paper. These wrappers are typically marked in Tablespoon increments with 8 Tablespoons (1/2 cup) per stick. Measuring Tablespoons of butter just involves looking at the markings on the stick (or visually estimating the number of 8ths) and cutting off the chunk that one needs. Measuring major fractions of cups is just counting sticks.
> But without that choice, arguably Redis would not have reached where it is today.

I'd honestly love to know how many people actually use any of the features added to Redis in the last... 5 or 8 years.

I'm not saying they were useless, but Redis used to be a pretty fine piece of software that could have easily been done for many use cases, 10 years ago.
"ratio of open/total issues" can definitely be gamed by autoclosing anything that isn't an easy fix.

"average time to resolution" is also susceptible.

Both of these are pretty common all over the place, including OSS
e.g. https://isitmaintained.com/#metrics

I suspect this sort of thing is one of the major motivations for the (as a user/reporter) infuriating rise in automated "this bug hasn't been touched in NN days, autoclosing for staleness" bots on various issue trackers.
You are correct. The article I read led me to conflate the Azure engineer's valgrind triggered activity with oss-fuzz. Which is as you say a google effort.
You know what else has limited liability? People. A burger flipper making $30k/year can cause millions in damage by driving a car and crashing into a family of 4, sending them to hospital. The way we fix this is mandated insurance, so in the event something bad happens the insurance pays rather than having the family trying to collect a multi-million dollar judgement from someone with negative net worth. It's pretty easy to imagine cities/states/countries doing the same thing. If you want to sail into our waters, you need to carry insurance. I'd be surprised if that isn't already the case.
If you use it in Fedora, sure
Hm, no major cloud provider offers intel gpus.
hey, I have a bridge to sell ya!
Butter in the USA is sold in 1-pound boxes, each containing four quarter-pound "squares" that are marked with tablespoon and fractional-cup gauges. Simply slice off five tablespoons. (There are "Eastern" and "Western" square sizes, depending on where you live.) See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter#Packaging

Indeed, how would you slice cold butter by grams? Is there even a procedure?
I think a good way to evaluate languages from this perspective is through the lens of how easy it is to maintain understanding over time. I have learned bash well three or four times now, but I know now that I'm never going to remember enough of its quirks through the interim periods where I'm not focused on it, to be able to grok arbitrary scripts without refreshing my memory. This is very different for languages like java, go, python, and some others, which have their quirks, sure, but a much lower quirks per character ratio.

I might agree with "it's not hard to learn it", but I don't agree with "it's not hard to remember it".
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Up to the point where it’s considered criminal negligence by the executives.
Does that really mean much when it's factored over the lifetime of the plant? Wind has to be replaced much more often so you're causing CO2 repeatedly.
Next is buggy, Remix mostly just works, and I have zero interest in Vercel which is the Next selling point IMO.

I haven't played with either Drizzle or Kysely, looking at the docs Drizzle in particular looks slimmer and more sql-like which is a plus, though in general I think having an environment like dbeaver or data grip that gives you completions for your queries and developing them there then copy/pasting the code and getting type safety on raw queries with zapatos is still superior for power users who know sql.
That's what parent poster was referring to. They have high tide markers showing where tsunamis have reached, and then in the past 50-100 years people started saying "Waves Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist" and building closer to the shoreline.
Online DRM is prevalent. I'll add another example, Project Diva won't even launch if you're offline. It's a single player rhythm game. (In this case it's a property of Denuvo, a popular DRM software for lots of games. I think technically if you launch online it counts as an activation (which you can't do too frequently or else) and you're ok for a couple weeks.)
I don't think your snarky remark about hdmi or android is pertinent.

Regardless is stuff is open or proprietary, nobody like when the terms of a contract change without their consent. People/companies have adopted redis under a specific license, which really is kind of a binding contract, then one day under a new release the terms have changed making it incompatible with their intended use. It is only natural that an alternative, and in this case a fork appears.
Note the malicious m4 build scripts were not checked into git, but only put in the released tar balls. You can see the original content here:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xz-utils/-/tree/debian/5.6.0...
The ban on plastic grocery bags is a step in the right direction but not enough
I just had to think about how ironic it would be if "Jia Tan" turned out to be a Post-Doc from the University of Minnesota continuing that research on hypocrite commits.
Unlikely given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_liability#Employers'...
> a blow to the chipmaker as it tries to regain a technology lead it lost in recent years to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Is it a blow, though? I'd expect exactly a big loss if they're investing to regain market leadership. If they're investing well, the higher the loss they can take, the better long term prospects. Am I missing something?
Sure that's a problem for threat assessment process. And I totally agree in today's world software/hardware and wetware are too interconnected. And that's another threat for this kinds of attacks.

In this case, is the whole git repo a threat? Or are just the manually created distribution files? Threat actors' access reach defines that. As time passes by we see that reach is not too limited. They even reached to other software with patches too. So that assessment should be done.
The Urgent Need for Adversarial Journalism
This defeatist take is getting old. Why don't we abolish all police and laws because we can't change anything?
The switch between Fahrenheit and Celsius is wild.

Generally, I’m a huge fan of the metric system for everything except temperature. I dislike temperatures having a decal point that you can “feel”.
I don't think it should be "the way to go" because legal battles (especially before the Supreme Court) take forever to sort out, and in the meantime nobody can plan because nobody knows what's actually legal. I don't think politicians should try to test the limits of the constitution all the time - maybe there are exceptional circumstances in which this should happen, but it's happening too often.

For example, no matter what you think of rent control in general, there's no doubt that the Berlin rent control law that was ruled unconstitutional caused massive damage because as soon as that ruling came, people had to pay their landlords back rent for several months.

And I agree with you re. the highway toll. Which shows that this problem really isn't limited to one end of the political spectrum, it happens from left to right.
I've never been about to figure out what the word should means.
Yep, every language has footguns and other kinds of quirks, but I contend that
the "footguns per character" ratio in shell is unusually high. (It is not unique in having a high ratio though; other popular languages, like c++ for instance, also have this issue.)
The Netscape Mosaic Coup
This looks pretty good！
I think the most fundamental one is consumer education and awareness
Ideally the bookie is acting as a broker and not directly making a market. Theoretically if they’re accepting bets for Leicester winning the Premiership at 5000-1, they’re also accepting bets that amount to that not happening at offsetting odds.
It’s not random. It’s called the Crentist effect or nominative determinism.
Making this the topic of the next Call of Duty would be a great move for the rainforest and bring a ton of awareness.
But GPT is already a big part of my workflows and a great productivity multiplier.
Meh, well different strokes for different folks I guess. I got into higher math while reading Ian Stewart's book in grade school but I guess some people are going to want to go the standard way.

My problem with the book we are discussing is that it seems rather prosaic -- it doesn't really give a sense of the true reason to practice math: the asking of interesting questions and creating new universes. It's just the same old stuff that we're taught because it's a convention.
It should pretty sure Firefox has its own certificate store
As I understand it (AIUI), the stuff that will still be around in 10,000 won't be that (relatively) dangerous: you would have to either eat the pellets or grind them up and snort them like cocaine for them to have major health effects. It's mostly alpha (α) radiation (helium) that's being thrown off at that point, which can be stopped by even paper; and some beta (β) radiation (electrons/positrons), which can be stopped by thin metal. If things are encased in (e.g.) concrete and rebar there isn't much escaping.

It's generally the 'hot' stuff early on (right out of the reactor, and sits in the water tanks for a few decades) throwing off gamma (γ) radiation that will really get you.
I liked "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)", first season.

Generally speaking, you can use the xz story as a background for every type of movie set in the present, an eg.: think about the God's Eye story from the Fast & Furious series. Theoretically, the xz rce can give you more or less the same power God's Eys gives you in the film.
As someone with a non-uniform set of cups... it's bad :P
I think at this point is clear that everybody has to assume that XZ is completely rotten and can no longer be trusted. Is it XZ easy to replace with some other compression tool? Or has it been so widely adopted that is going to take huge effort moving out of it?
Lots offer Intel CPUs though...
In the contemporary digital environment, marked by the critical significance of cybersecurity, possessing the expertise to inspect open ports in Linux via the command line interface (CLI) stands as an invaluable asset for both system administrators and cybersecurity professionals alike. Open ports are essentially communication endpoints that allow data to flow in and out of a system. However, these open ports can also pose security risks if left unchecked, as they can provide potential entry points for malicious actors.
Mathematics Made Difficult
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This slogan is boring.

The politicians play us with "eat the rich" and "fair share". Meanwhile they increase taxes on 400k in HCOL areas making it painful to succeed.

Why isn't the slogan "stop the loopholes" (The one in this thread)? Because politicians play us against each other instead of fixing laws they benefit from.
It's not tautological, though. Your position can gradually deteriorate until it is not salvageable anymore. In that situation we say that the opponent outplayed you.

The fact that the switches in probability occur suddenly is highly relevant. One reason for this could be, that you are able to avoid this type of mistake 90% of the time. So during 9 out of ten moves, nothing changes. Then it does. So in this model, avoiding blunders means honing your skills to be able to apply all aspects of your mistake knowledge all the time. In another game, that is less blunder driven, it might be better to focus on getting more things right most of the time, rather than getting fewer things right all of the time.

At this level, chess is a tactics game. Not a strategy game.
I see, thanks for the insight. Well, you're replying to someone who makes her own bread, and her own everything else [1] so I at least understand why I don't have a rice cooker now!

I enjoy cooking and I don't think of it as a waste of time, like "hundreds of hours over a few years". Those are hundreds of hours where I get to do something I love and that I find rewarding, physically so. My average time spent on cooking is about an hour, or an hour and a half, depending on the dish, I reckon. But then I'll eat that for a couple of days, so it's an hour for four meals; for two people. My partner also cooks so it's not always me spending that time.

Of course for some lunches I'll just make myself a toastie or puff up some noodles and eat them with tuna. Maybe give them a quick fry if I really feel like it.

Anyway I guess this thread has helped convince me I don't need a rice cooker in my life. I do have a toaster though :)

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[1] Except for beans and chickpeas. Not if I can buy a can of perfectly boiled chickpeas at 0.45 p. The power to cook that on a stove will cost me more and it's probably better for the environment given the people who put the chickpeas in the can boil them in batches of several hundreds of kgs, not 1kg as I'd do.
Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models
what do you put in your Makefile?
I would feel coding is much more tedious without Copilot.

When I'm using an editor that doesn't have Copilot, I keep waiting for it to auto complete, and get frustrated that now I have to write this block of code myself, and think what a waste.

I was able to code in the past and solve the same problems, it was just much more tedious and time consuming having to type all of it out that was in my head anyway.

Especially if working with multiple languages, which I used to despise in the past because of muscle memory ruining it - Hey python. I wished there was a single language syntax to rule them all.

Now copilot does it for me.
> So I guess what this really means is someone at a big corporation making Linux distros should audit their full dependency tree.

This is it precisely. When you're paying Redhat for an "enterprise" Linux then that guarantee should extend down their entire software stack. Just getting the odd backported patch and so-so email support no longer cuts it.
Are you the owner of the website, or is is rbeggy?

Also this reads like a chatGPT response tbh.
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Note that before we had arbitrarily extensible heaps, programmers always did at least a little engineering, in that they had to consider the probable distribution of inputs and size* all their intermediate storage appropriately.

* giving rise to "BUGS AND LIMITATIONS"
You lose some range. How much depends on the brand/model of the vehicle. Some lose quite a bit, some lose hardly any. Of course, ICEVs lose quite a bit of range in cold weather too.
Does anyone know what the name 'Netscape' means or implies or is based on?

It's kind of striking that the name has the same letters (and in the same order) as NSCA where Mosaic was originally developed, that seems like more than a coincidence?
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Ancient Yoruba economy was primarily based on farming, hunting, fishing, the ownership of domestic animals, and trade. The introduction of iron helped to create specialized professions, such as metalsmiths, which increased productivity.
That’s interesting. I’ve never once thought of weighing (or measuring by volume) something before chopping it up. Maybe I’m just not thinking of the right ingredient?

For me, weight solves one of the biggest issues which is “large potato” or “large onion”, WTF is “large”?
Except baking. Baking is more chemistry than cooking.
> What I do think is unfair is when there is an element of bait and switch.

What's the bait? The expectation to get free development and support forever? The pre-switch Redis code is still BSD licensed, that can't be changed.

Additionally, using SSPL licensed code doesn't concretely change anything for essentially any end user/developer besides BigCos - which are free to use and hack Redis at will as before. As a matter of fact, almost all those who complained about the license change on HN, are actually not affected.