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by sensanaty | 2025-10-05 09:04:14+00:00
Gambling companies have engineered sophisticated addiction machines that exploit the brain's weaknesses, so it's very different to most of the other things you listed. They also deliberately prey on the people most susceptible to getting addicted, and even engage in extremely predatory behaviour like giving high-risk targets all sorts of "free" perks and benefits in order to keep them gambling for as long and much as possible. I can't find it now, but a few months ago on HN was an article about one of these systems, where the gambler got a dedicated "advisor" that was giving them things like free rolls, free tokens to gamble with, free alcohol and even accomodations, all because they know the addicts will keep gambling and use their own money inevitably. They then ban people who are gambling too "smartly" or even just on lucky win streaks from participating in their "games".

Smoking is a great example and an almost 1:1 parallel to what's happening with gambling, they had teams of people and even paid off scientists to fabricate studies about the health benefits of smoking, and then used deceptive marketing that was very carefully crafted to ensure people tried it out, and the product itself is just inherently addictive. They ensured they can capture the next generation by specifically tailoring their adverts towards children and getting them curious to try tobacco.

As a result most of the world has banned tobacco advertising, and a lot of places are doing things like enforcing ugly generic packaging with extreme health issues plastered on the boxes, exorbitant prices & taxes on tobacco because of what Big Tobacco did.

Gambling should be treated the exact same as tobacco is and was. Advertising it should never be allowed in any context whatsoever, and the gambling spots and apps should have disclaimers all over the place indicating the dangers of it. Additionally, the actual companies should be heavily regulated to not be allowed to offer "perks" and to also not be allowed to pick who can play or not.

Gambling, like most things, is simply something that will always be a thing, so just like tobacco and alcohol it shouldn't be banned outright. That doesn't mean we need to let predatory practices proliferate. Nothing is stopping us from making gambling as unattractive as we reasonably can, both for the gamblers and the gambling companies. There will still be gambling, but just like tobacco there will be a lot less people doing it, and at that point the ones that are are at least as protected and informed as possible.
by ejoso | 2025-10-05 09:04:54+00:00
This makes my brain hurt. Few things I hate more than email. The single worst way to get in touch with me. As a user of it for more decades than I’d like to recall, I despise email.

Sure, the infinite archive is mildly helpful. But search-ability is marginal in any tool I’m aware of. The folders, filters and other management suggestions mentioned make it a second job. Email is a life tax we’re all forced to pay. It is a problem that is yet to be solved, though many have tried.
by svelle | 2025-10-05 09:05:36+00:00
> Another time I bought a Samsung Fold and it cracked down the middle. I told Amazon and they said they'll refund it under warranty. I sent it back and got a warning that if I return anything else in "non original condition" I'd be banned. Even though it was a warranty return.

I once ordered a new pair of Jeans, expensive ones because I wanted them to last, from Amazon and got an obviously used and ripped pair sent to me.

I sent it back, noted that in my reason for sending it back only to receive an email from them with the same sentiment as you got. Luckily I kept all the receipts (figuratively) and took a lot of photos and screenshots.

Reaching out to support they apologized profusely to me but still it left a very bad taste in my mouth and I'm sure it'll happen again sometime in the future.
by adzm | 2025-10-05 09:05:49+00:00
A hobby audio and text analysis application I've written, with no specific concern for low level performance other than algorithmically, runs 4x as fast in .net10 vs .net8. Pretty much every optimization discussed here applies to that app. Great work, kudos to the dotnet team. C# is, imo, the best cross platform GC language. I really can't think of anything that comes close in terms of performance, features, ecosystem, developer experience.
by keiferski | 2025-10-05 09:06:41+00:00
You left out the entire first half of the section on Catholicism, which is an extremely misleading move on your part:

The Catholic Church holds the position that there is no moral impediment to gambling, so long as it is fair, all bettors have a reasonable chance of winning, there is no fraud involved, and the parties involved do not have actual knowledge of the outcome of the bet (unless they have disclosed this knowledge),[33] and as long as the following conditions are met: the gambler can afford to lose the bet, and stops when the limit is reached, and the motivation is entertainment and not personal gain leading to the "love of money"[34] or making a living.

In general, Catholic bishops have opposed casino gambling on the grounds that it too often tempts people into problem gambling or addiction, and has particularly negative effects on poor people; they sometimes also cite secondary effects such as increases in loan sharking, prostitution, corruption, and general public immorality
by gsliepen | 2025-10-05 09:07:03+00:00
Nice. Note though that you don't necessarily have to limit everyone else to email; some messaging platforms allow one user to post something using a webpage for example, and cause that to send email to another user, and vice versa. One data point: GitHub's issue tracker can forward issues as email, and you can reply to those back via email, and your response will end up as a new comment on the issue.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-05 09:07:15+00:00
I don't live in the states, but I have a "home energy gateway" which is to say in human: a big switch that isolates my house, solar and batteries from the grid.

I think the generic term is "islanding" (could be wrong)

The downside of my system is that it takes a non-trivial amount of time to switch to island mode, which means lots of computer things reset during the process.

So you don't get 100% uptime, but you are able to carry on when there is an outage.
by ilovefood | 2025-10-05 09:07:22+00:00
Sharing a small experiment that somewhat attracted a lot of attention yesterday, perhaps you'll like it too.

Thesis: Many devices or apps listen in while not in use. We're assured these only do topic matching (ie: identifying keywords) but who knows.

Observation: Today, generative AI can be used to generate a bunch of things, text, code, video but also audio. So why not bid local algorithms against remote algorithms?

Solution: I put my phones in a metal box i'm dubbing "Gaslight Garage", where a speaker plays randomly generated Elevenlabs audio to the phones. The pipeline is fully automated and sometimes hilarious. While white noise generators and other things are detectable, I believe this is much more difficult to detect on-device.

I've yet to see the results but maybe it'll give the one or the other a few ideas. This is pretty much in line with my local LLM extensions (on my blog) to use local-AIs as countermeasures against remote AIs, they love data, right?

Enjoy your Sunday!
by cthalupa | 2025-10-05 09:07:40+00:00
I'm fairly confident you're in the minority of serious fans on this one. Anecdotal, but I don't personally know a single big baseball fan that wants to go back to no instant replay.

Which doesn't mean they're necessarily happy with where instant replay is - particularly since New York relies on their own specific camera feeds, and sometimes don't have the same angles available as those watching on TV do. It's resulted in some fairly rage inducing incidents where we can clearly see the call was majorly blown from home, but the replay room can't overturn it from the angles they have. Every official camera feed should be available for them to use, imo.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-05 09:07:44+00:00
> Not arithmetic or boolean algebra.

That isn’t a definition or even a coherent attempt.

For starters, what kind of cognition or computation can’t be implemented with either logic or arithmetic?

What is or is not “cognition” is going to be a higher level property than what basic universally capable substrate is used. Given such substrates can easily simulate each other, be substituted for each other.

Even digital and analog systems can be used to implement each other to arbitrary accuracy.

Cognition is a higher level concern.
by stale2002 | 2025-10-05 09:09:19+00:00
Russia vs Ukraine is much more of a stalemate than Israel vs Palestine (although Russia is still winning.. ish). It is being fought with modern armies on both sides, and the lines of battle have barely changed in months. And it is fought over a huge area.

Thats much different from a conflict over a tiny area, where one side can quite literally bomb every single building in a matter of weeks.

As for how Ukraine vs Russia ends, well probably there will be a continued grinding down of both sides, continued increasing costs, while the borders don't change at all. And then when Russia wants to stop throwing money and lives into a metaphorical pit, there will be some sort of ceasefire/peace deal where Russia gets to keep all the land it took but the fighting stops. Ukraine isn't going to kick out Russia back to its original borders, and Russia isn't going to have some sudden breakthrough where it takes over Kiev. Its sad that Russia will get to keep its gains, but in war there are few good endings and most bad compromises.

But fortunately, Russia simply doesn't have the capability to flatten its enemy on a timeline measured in weeks, and is just stuck in a slog thats going nowhere.

If things had gone differently at the start of the war with Russia's blizkrieg having succeeded well we'd be having a different conversation now about much worse compromises that would have to be made, but fortunately that didn't end up happening.
by whstl | 2025-10-05 09:09:32+00:00
> Complex GUI's will inevitably have complex nested structures

Not really.

And that's the thing: while this is the usual way, it doesn't have to be! But it does require a shift in mindset from the traditional way people partition components in React.

All I'm saying it is possible to structure the component hierarchy in a way that is independent from what the GUI looks like. By not having a deep hierarchy, you don't have "deep hierarchy problems".
by grepfru_it | 2025-10-05 09:09:58+00:00
>ip reputation

Get this. I owened a /23 for 7 years (still own it today) and kept the mail server ip on a /27 just for the mail server on a /24 that was not used for anything production (firewalled and maybe 3 ip's responded on port 443). My mails were banned for bad reputation. The provider which hosted my /23 was well known for responding to abuse, even falsely flagging my account as abusive in the early days for simply _sending_ valid smtp mails.

IP reputation turned out to mean, if they never saw your IP, you were in the banned bucket. How do you even fight against that
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-10-05 09:11:39+00:00
The Americans (†) who grew up with constant surveillance (social media, cameras everywhere) aim for ordinariness. The entire generation is less likely to express a non-consensus opinion than prior generations. For good reason: with everything being recorded and broadcast, personal errors are both accentuated and persist longer with no corresponding rise in upside. Bold opinions and creative ideas are simply too risky under such an equation.

I find this sad and worrisome. I like chaos and healthy disorderliness. I enjoy skilled conversationalists with fresh ideas. And I worry about a "chilled" populace too afraid to express morality when it becomes socially inconvenient.

(† Footnote: It isn't just Americans but youth coming of age in every culture. The "social cooling" effect is more pronounced among Americans as they exhibit greater variance in expression in the first place and thus have more to move toward the baseline.)
by adzm | 2025-10-05 09:12:08+00:00
> Won't this potentially cause stack overflows in programs that ran fine in older versions though?

That's certainly a possibility, and one that's come up before even between .net framework things migrated to .net core. Though usually it's a sign that something is awry in the first place. Thankfully the default stack sizes can be overridden with config or environment variables.
by Tangokat | 2025-10-05 09:12:53+00:00
https://oldcoinbad.com/p/long-degeneracy

In the author’s words, long degeneracy represents “a belief that the world will only get more degenerate, financialized, speculative, lonely, tribal and weird”.

The most concise and holistic explanation of this trend is:

"As real returns compress, risk increases to compensate".
by 3oil3 | 2025-10-05 09:15:04+00:00
Thanks for the kind words. My heart is Belgian and I'm living in Panama now; Well, I always wondered why we 'evolved to die', in the sense that from my understanding, the initial life forms, quasi-minerals, wouldn't die of old age, just of trauma like cell rutpture or something. There is so much to say so I really cut it short, but eventually I read about how it was probable that first living things came from an asteroid, I started thinking that 'something', call it God if its meaning hasn't been perverted by manmade things, put us there. Something currently above our understanding, and quite extraordinary -what kind of energy to run the universe.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-05 09:15:06+00:00
Violent crimes stats look the same pretty much everywhere in the west, there are way more variables than "surveillance on/off", probably a lot of socio economic variables if I had to guess, as it turns out most people who are well fed, have a good life and look forward to a brighter future don't just walk around and commit violent crimes.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mirta-Gordon/publicatio...
by cthalupa | 2025-10-05 09:15:11+00:00
I'm with you. I think it should only apply to games that have fairly clearly gotten "stuck" and things are just dragging - like others have suggested, 12th inning seems like a reasonable start.

I've always felt a lot of intensity going into the 9th inning in any sort of lose came, even moreso if it's tied. And before the manfred man, that carried through if we went to the 10th or 11th.

Now it feels like as soon as we get to extra innings it's a shitshow. It's one thing if a pitcher has made a series of mistakes (or the fielders behind him) and you end up with someone on second and you throw a passed ball and someone scores. It's another when the first pitch of the half inning is a passed ball and this bizarro zombie runner scores on you.

I want to watch teams have to put together a string of "good baseball" moments to win, or at the very least watch a trainwreck in action if one team loses the game more than the other team won it. Or the majesty of a well-hit long ball, ideally with an excellent bat flip. The only thing that should be able to walk off the game in the very first at-bat of the bottom half of the inning is a home run.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-10-05 09:15:17+00:00
There’s a variant of “cancel culture” that’s actually just trial by publicity and I think that’s objectively a bad thing.

But often, people in social media are just looking for attention by deliberately inciting outrage, posting their “hot takes” and making controversial statements—and then when other people with opposing views reply to disagree, the original posters start crying about “cancel culture” when, in fact, it’s just plain old disagreement in public discourse.

What needs to happen here is for people to take accountability in what they post in social media, and to take it as seriously as saying their opinions out loud in a physical, public space. If you’re deliberately inciting anger by saying something that puts a group of people at a disadvantage, don’t be surprised if someone from that group stands up to fight back. Your right to free speech does not mean protection from humiliation for the stupid things that you say in public.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-05 09:16:10+00:00
You are confusing primitives with things built with those primitives.

Complex phenomena emerge from interactions of things that don’t exhibit that phenomena all the time.

Atoms can’t think. In no sense can you find any thinking in an atom.

They are no different from dominos in that respect.

You can pile atoms to the moon without seeing any thinking.

Yet they can still be arranged so they do think.
by Rohansi | 2025-10-05 09:16:43+00:00
.NET was already incompatible with WASM GC from the start [1]. The changes in .NET 10 are nothing in comparison to those. AFAIK WASM GC was designed with only JavaScript in mind so that's what everyone is stuck with.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94420
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-05 09:18:54+00:00
In recent versions (i.e. since .NET 5 in 2020) ".NET core" is just called ".NET"

The cross-platform version is mainstream, and this isn't new any more.

.NET on Linux works fine for services. Our .NET services are deployed to Linux hosts, and it's completely unremarkable.
by roenxi | 2025-10-05 09:19:07+00:00
Just putting it out there that I have a better grasp of my opinion than you do. Let me try this a different way. Which part of your comment do you think I don't know about/disagree with and, with reference to something I said, why? Let's just pick one thing that you think is clearest, but be specific.

EDIT You'll notice I haven't disagreed with anything you've said so far this thread, apart from where you have mischaracterised my opinions and your attribution of the root cause to hopelessness and lack of opportunity.

> which...is what you said before: poor people are poor because they're irrational.

I didn't say that.
by astafrig | 2025-10-05 09:19:17+00:00
The 10th and 11th generation iPads work with _both_ the Lightning Apple Pencil and the USB-C Apple Pencil.

The Lightning Apple Pencil was sold at a time when you could plug it directly into the compatible iPad, and it *came with the adapter*.

The current iPad is compatible with both, so you could use your old Apple Pencil with the new iPad.

You cannot buy a Lightning Apple Pencil anymore because Apple doesn’t sell them.

who knows what third-party retailers are doing.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-05 09:19:25+00:00
Other replies have already pointed to significant events, but the most important and recent event was one century ago, in 1908, "the Tunguska event", which may have been a small comet hitting the Earth, but it was still big enough to match a big thermonuclear bomb.

If that celestial body would have hit a big city instead of hitting unpopulated Siberia, it would have destroyed it completely and it would have been one of the greatest, if not the greatest, catastrophes in human history. Today, with less and less areas that have remained unpopulated, such an event would be more likely to happen in a place where it would cause victims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
by ivape | 2025-10-05 09:20:48+00:00
That level of service is for on-boarding customers. Sounds crazy, but they had a multi year on-boarding plan. We are now on-boarded, so why would they keep funding an on-boarding program that accepts any and all returns? The on-boarding process was complete awhile ago.

Retention is the next program they’ll have to initiate, but no reason to finance this now as there are no competitors just yet.

Listen, when it was said that corporations are amoral and sociopathic, it was not a joke.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-10-05 09:22:45+00:00
No, it doesn't work. The US has been actively trying this in many states, so we have data on the relationship between deterrence effect and the likelihood*harshness of punishments - it turns out likelihood really controls the strength of the effect of deterrence. If you have extremely harsh punishments you DO incentivize doing a lot of damage to get away with it, and also incentivize repeat or exacerbated offending. (See: "might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb")
by iamblessed_ | 2025-10-05 09:23:17+00:00
I want to really get into anthropic.

For context: I have background in CV and ML in general. Currently reviewing and revising RL.

Any idea how I can get into RL?

I have 3 years of industry/research experience.

Whenever I see post like this, it triggers a massive fomo creating a scene of urgency on I should work in these problems.

Not being able to work here is making be anxious.

what does it take for someone in Non-US/Non-EU region to get into big labs such as these?

Do I really have to pursue PhD? I am already old that pursuing PhD is a huge burden that I can't afford.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-05 09:25:11+00:00
> Animals can also think

What are you saying?

Are you saying you have a clear definition for thinking, and you can demonstrate that animals pass that definituon?

Then share the definition.

Or are you simply defining thinking as a common property of humans and animals, using animals and human behavior as exemplars?

A useful definition for focusing inquiry. But it does not clarify or constrain what else might or might not be enabled to think.

Or are you defining thinking as an inherent property of animals and humans that other things cannot have because they are not animals or humans?

Fine, but that that’s an exercise in naming. Something we are all free to do however we want. It has no explanatory power.
by tazjin | 2025-10-05 09:25:32+00:00
This used to be fairly common, back in the old days. Programs like Pidgin unified many messengers into a single app.

For a while, many messengers actually shared underlying protocols (e.g. Google Talk & Facebook were both using XMPP at some point, and you could even cross-message).

Nowadays this is much harder. There's some exceptions (Telegram) with open client protocols, but I wouldn't wanna try and implement something like Discord, it'll be a never-ending tarpit.
by elliotto | 2025-10-05 09:26:13+00:00
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ/the-online...

This less wrong piece by a libertarian who examines the numbers and struggles to reconcile them with his beliefs is one of the best indictments on sports betting.

There is a small proportion of the population who cannot handle this. And they become prey to the predators in the sports betting industry. These guys make money off destroying their lives.
by tgv | 2025-10-05 09:26:45+00:00
Compiler speed is quite good, but --as OP-- I've only written AoC in Ada. I think Ada's advantage is the separation between package/module specification and body. If you change a body, the compiler only has to process that file. But the rust compiler must check other files as well, since something in the interface might have changed. But that's a guess.

Ada is not necessarily complex, but it does require getting used to. It is a very large language, though.