jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Lottery - sure, that's a scam, barring the odd situation where a positive expected value is possible. Insurance on small events (i.e. the extended warranty from Best Buy) could be described as a scam, but homeowners insurance/car insurance isn't.

The whole reason insurance exists is because of differences in risk tolerance. What is a huge risk for me, such as a fire destroying my house, is a relatively small risk for an insurance company that is insuring against fires across the entire state. What I pay the insurance company for is to assume part of that risk.

Consider homeowners insurance, and more specifically fire insurance, in this admittedly contrived example. Suppose that in the next year there's a 1/1000 chance of a fire that will cause damage that will cost $100k to repair. That has an expected value of $100. Well, since $100k is a lot of money to me, I'd rather pay someone $200 than take a bet with an expected cost of $100, even though paying $200 has a negative expected value. That means I am risk averse for potential gains and losses on the order of $100k, and would rather take the more certain side of a bet, even if it means it has a lower expected value.

Take another example. Suppose I'm worried about losing or breaking my cell phone over the next year, and it would cost $500 to replace. AT&T charges $6.99/month for insurance on the phone. Over the course of a year that's about $84. And furthermore suppose there's a 1/20 chance that I'll lose/break/etc my phone during that year. Without insurance, the expected value of the loss is $25. Unlike the $100k example, $500 isn't that big a deal to me, so the insurance is a horrible deal for me, because I'm risk neutral for a $500 loss.

Of course, real life is more complicated. Homeowner's insurance protects against risks other than fire. Risks to the insurance company can be correlated - something on the order of the 1906 SF fire is a large risk, even to an insurance company, which is why there is reinsurance. There are deductibles that change the pricing. But still, as a simple example, that's how insurance works.
The rather little-known SilverReader

http://silverreader.com/
Same link (modulo a trailing slash) submitted nine hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6267887
I guess this will do it: http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?source=site&url=http%3A%...
Am I the only person who after about 3 months would have started returning random and numerous events? Then clients would voluntarily unsubscribe.
Where can one buy used diamonds? I don't imagine they suffer much wear, and they're millions of years old already.
I don't think it is ever tenable to claim that mathematics is purely a human construction. The Formalist viewpoint is that mathematics is just the manipulation of symbols, according to certain rules. But Formalists accept that these rules regarding manipulation of symbols are themselves mathematical. That is, the Formalists are actually Platonists with regard to metamathematics. The Platonist says "1 + 1 = 2 is a meaningful, true statement" while the formalist says "that P is a correct proof that 1 + 1 = 2, is meaningful, true statement".
As a society we should prioritize the protection of people. I recall how the Swedish police announced at spring a few years ago that they would then stop all further investigation at construction work places because there were so many human trafficking violation at such places that just going to a single construction place would drain the budget to the point that they could do any more human trafficking investigation for the rest of the year.

I suspect the news article was a bit of subtle protest by that police department, but it kind of illustrate how low we as a society is prioritizing protecting workers. Some people in the construction industry has also came out saying that construction as an industry would not function without the cheap labor that human trafficking contribute. It should be a major alarm clock that protecting workers from the most basic of threats, ie threat of violence and/or threats by the employer to not pay the employee. Some of the enforcement should land at the consumer who benefit from the situation, which would require companies to insure against shady subcontractors.
I've tried Firefox a few times over the years and always switched back for the same reason - it didn't feel "snappy" and some things didn't render properly. Something has changed recently though. Both these issues appear to be completely gone. And now that I've got the Containers extension installed, it's superior to chromium in all material ways, except maybe the dev tools.
My plan is to fight fake with truth. I want to create a timeline-based web explorer that collects evidence and testimony from people who saw it happen with their own eyes/cameras and are willing to sign their name under it (not open for all to see, but the team would verify it). Initially w.r.t. Ukraine, later other large world events.
> Optimizing any system for "geniuses" seems very silly to me.

I think there is merit to this argument, but right now most US public education actively restrains geniuses via excessive busywork and limited to no access to accelerated programs.

Many/most of our geniuses are lost in the web of mediocrity that currently expends a ridiculous amount of resources on bringing the lowest performers up to a higher level of low (and imho still inadequate) performance.

Some folks don’t want to be educated. For anything beyond basic reading, writing, math, and civics knowledge and skills, that should be ok.
The difference between the parts and shipping (±$90) and a comparable CE card (±317) is $227. Assuming three hours of work including research you'd need to earn about $75 per hour to break even. Assuming a 40 hour work week, 4 weeks of holiday time and no other benefits, that amounts to a yearly wage of $144000, placing you firmly in the top 1% of the world, and the top 10% of the USA (according to https://www.compareyourincome.org/)

After taxes, my current salary comes down to about €12,28 per hour (≅$13.27). Not a great rate, but higher than 36% of the rest of my country assuming a full time working week. That means I can work at least 17 full hours on such a project and end up making a profit. The 30-60 minutes of work that this project takes saves me over $200.

Most of the world doesn't work for the ridiculous rates FAANG pays. Good for you that you're too rich to even bother about spending $200 extra for a memory card. However, your skewed expectations don't detriment the value of this article in any way.
I have had some excellent $10 bottles of wine which hold their own against the $50 bottles.
So my mother did this to me once. She didn't pay him - he was a friend from her church. He committed me as a favor to her. I was actually in a pretty good place at that time mood-wise. 100% not a danger to self / others. But she thought it a clever way to get me gone without the guilt of putting me on the street. Neither said a word beforehand. Surprise! The feeling of betrayal was indescribable.

They held me for a miserable month. The justification given by the hospital doc was I "Didn't have a plan." That last bit can be good or bad depending on their assessment of your plans.

yes, I'm fortunate to have a very good doc now. I've had a few decent ones. Most could be replaced by a kiosk - take a quiz, dispense Big Pharma pills.
I just checked ebay. Real ones sell for $100-200 US.

There are also fakes, most of which admit in the description that they are fakes, and include extremely large numbers like 10^33.

The highest number that you can get cheaply and that is not fake seems to be the 50 billion. They sell for about five dollars, which given the economics of ebay is probably as low as you can expect.
Seek legal consultation.

With that being said, if they own the right to publicity or copyrights now or represent the artist, it's going to be tough to fight. If it was a personal blog they may be able to go after you personally. But if they are a legitimate rights holder you will spend multiples more trying to fight it on the basis of not knowing about copyrights or not having made money from it.

You should request documentation to the matter and speak with an attorney.
It's very unlikely that Google would follow through on an obviously wrong takedown unless if the competitor was actually infringing copyright.

EDIT: Well, yes, they did do that here. My bad. My original point was that Competitor A submitting a wanton DMCA takedown against Competitor B wouldn't fly past Google's radar.
You actually can take them to court over false notices.

But that takes time and money most projects don't have.

If Github has the cash sitting around they could sick their lawyers on them for some laughs.
Did you use the app? did you like the ui/ux? phone ---> desktop sync and the location address thing will be taken up in the next versions thank you for the feedback!

In the photo storage the photos are stored forever. The point is to make these photos searchable for other users but if you would like to keep the photos for yourself - there is a personal category.
Somewhat similar open-hardware project that'll ship in March: https://www.crowdsupply.com/inverse-path/usb-armory (I'm not involved with the project)
It's a game rather than a list, but http://euclidthegame.com/ seems to address some of Lockhart's issues with the teaching of geometry.
Since the tool is available for Python 2 and 3, it makes sense. It's a shell tool, not a programming tool. You want to have the same behavior as much as possible everywhere, and not have to think about which Python you are using right now. Any system other than windows will likely have several versions of Python installed.

Plus, it's easier to type // to get the old behavior than it would be to type from operator import truediv to get the new behavior otherwise.
WebKit got forked into Blink, which is no longer under Apple leadership. Brave, Chromium, and the other major KHTML-derived browsers adopted this.

I can think of dozens of examples from Microsoft and Google, which are more "outside ecosystem" inclusive as a means of gaining mindshare. TypeScript, Golang, Visual Studio Code, protobuf, gRPC, ...

Other companies think of the things living outside their moat more flexibly, or their moats are less rigid. That's not to say that Apple's approach is wrong (look at their market cap!), but it has different consequences in terms of the open source code mindshare they cultivate.
Under CCPA, can CA residents opt out of this?
Aha that might be pushing it a little... Thanks for signing up :) be sure to share!
I have discovered how to teach kids to ride a bike in, literally, seconds. No exaggeration! It has worked numerous times.

For many decades we have lied to them about how to ride: "steer with the handlebars", a reliable recipe for violent spills.

I tell them to use the handlebars to stay up, and lean to steer. Off they go! It is amazing to see, every time.
> even if it's just getting outside and seeing other people in passing as you run past

There is nothing social about that at all, that's just not what the word means.
For language, use the Accept-Language header. For login, use basic/digest auth, or SASL (although, as far as I know, HTTP(S) doesn't have SASL, unfortunately). For dark mode, printing, mono/colours, use CSS media queries. For table of contents, ensure the <H1>, <H2>, etc is valid. For timezones and time formats, use the <TIME> command. For data tables, use the <TABLE> command; you can also include links to data in CSV, JSON, etc. For footnotes, use the <FN> command. For some things, you can use CSS classes which are not necessarily referred to in the CSS code that you have; the user can apply their own if they want special styles for some things that you don't have styles for.

In other words, many things will not need cookies/scripts. If you do use the, ensure that they are fully documented, and that the documentation can be viewed without cookies/scripts/CSS enabled. This allows the user to know exactly what is being done, as well as the possibility to enable only the cookies they want, or to manually configure read-only cookies for preferences.
The F'ing M is often an afterthought, and sometimes you need to dig into the source code to understand how the thing works, or at least to find the right handles to grasp.

Not necessarily the right approach for beginners, but I've wasted a lot of time trying to find the thing in the documentation, when I should have just lifted the hood in the first place.
Just curious, what specifically are you pointing at? Is there any manufacturing going on? I'd think these are mostly office buildings.
I trained two kiddos using the parent's method.

Taking the pedals off seemed functional equivalent to a balance bike, and I taught my 4 and 5 year old to ride their bikes the same afternoon.

Same with swimming.

It's kinda goody to judge other parents, tho. A lot of stuff that is easy for me is hard for other folks. But I've been divorced twice, and a lot of folks haven't. So very difficult to judge.

I don't, in general, think that your description of why folks aren't teaching the kiddos using your method is accurate. IME, most folks are just ignorant that it can be done at all.
What data exactly?

They serve HTML, CSS, JS, and images. The actual data is transmitted using AJAX requests towards an HTTPS API in EU.
Maybe some people believe that, but overall that seems to be more of a straw-man argument if anything. I believe what is more common is the thought that we, as a country, can provide housing for people who have no place to live without making a large impact on tax payers below the upper class. Or is this naive in your opinion as well?
Look, I miss having whiteboard conversations too, but if throwing all of the developers into a smelly open plan mosh pit that's a 45 minute commute from home 5 days a week just for that clutch hour of collaboration, count me out. It's just not worth it.
They are absolutely getting enforced by the police.
Interesting to see an investment by USAA. They've really stepped up their tech game lately, partnering with some very cool companies (e.g. TrueCar), so I wonder if some type of Coinbase integration is in the works.
Without the benefit of your rather uncharitable summarization:

Section II, paragraph 2, sentence 2:

You may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to obtain or access the source code from which any component of the Services or the Service is compiled or interpreted, and nothing in this Agreement may be construed to grant any right to obtain or use such source code.

Section II, paragraph 2, sentence 3:

You agree not to copy, duplicate or imitate, in whole or in part, any concept, idea, business model, business process, product, service or other intellectual property or other ideas or content embodied in the Services or learned by you from your use of or access to the Services.

Section III, paragraph 2, point 12:

12. portray Company or its affiliates in a negative manner or otherwise portray its services in a false, misleading, derogatory or offensive manner;

Section III, paragraph 2, point 13:

13. use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair our servers or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Services;

Section XIV, sentence 8:

If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect.
The proposal stated:

> Every function clause must be together. It is an error to put another item between two function clauses.

So, it would not. Then again, the proposal wasn't accepted so it's kind of a moot point. But you're totally right that without this it would be very tricky. Given that match arms have an ordering, I'm not sure you could come up with a semantic where it would work across compilation units.
What is the advantage compared to the traditional method of getting a single Linux system or VM, installing the needed packages via apt/yum, rsyncing over your code (if any) and installing systemd units for anything that needs to run all the time or scheduled?

Are Helm charts easier to use or more prevalent than distribution packages?
Yes, they call it mindfulness now in techmonad but it's also been around forever.
No, the fact that we functioned without it is a fact that we can function without it.

And literally billions of people do function without targeted advertising, right now.
I've been running Ubuntu on a Dell XPS at work since 2016. I had problems using a docking station from the start so I removed it from the equation and haven't had any significant other issues since. Battery life is good, no significant networking problems, etc. I've very much enjoyed the experience.

I just assumed that life would only be better on a System 76 machine. I was very surprised by this post.
I have very fond memories of my Amiga 2000. There were Atari guys in my hood and Amiga guys, and I was an Amiga guy apperently. It was a hell of a computer. I'd go to a book store, browse through those fat AMIGA ROM Kernel books (could not afford all), go home, hack assembly code, hack C code, compile it with a copy of the Aztec C compiler, all night, go to school sleepless, and talk about graphics, sprites and whatnot with my friends. This was a hell of a time.
You just oversimplified picking grains at the right time, grinding them to a powder, mixing it raw with water, but not too much, adding a third weird ingredient, and cooking it. At every stage you have a product that’s not really edible. Someone had to experiment.
I know a lot of people like to do it that way, otherwise these features wouldn't support an entire new category of fintech startups. For me, this is a mental burden and too much busy work.

What's more useful to me is forecasting. If the app knows how much money I'm going to need (e.g for rent, bills, groceries, insurance, etc) and it knows how much I will probably receive by then, it can show me whether I'm on the right trajectory and how much headroom I have for discretionary spending. My Monzo app does that (somewhat imperfectly).

But if I decide to buy a new computer, I don't want to manually "borrow" money from three different pots and later replenish them manually. I just want to spend the money and have the app tell me the total amount I have to raise in order to stay solvent.
I second Simon Singh's "The Code Book" and David Kahn's "The Codebreakers".

If you're interested a good story about a one-man struggle to get British secret agents in WWII to start using reasonably secure codes (especially unbreakable one-time-pads), I recommend "Between Silk and Cyanide" by Leo Marks.

A stronger version of the British double-transposition code that Leo Marks hated is the Soviet VIC cipher[0], which only has about 38 bit key strength, but is surprisingly strong for a pencil-and-paper method. For pencil-and-paper plus a deck of playing cards, there's Danial Shiu's improvements on Bruce Schneier's Solitaire[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC_cipher

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06300
Cool, I was just going to use a TPA series amplifier for my commercial design this year. I'm just going to switch to ST Microelectronics which is what Bose et al use anyway. Good riddance. If you are stupid enough to DMCA 555 timer datasheets, you just shot yourself in the foot.
"It goes fast, don't blink"
> We shall disperse the Swiss Armed Forces. We have signed a treaty with the Russian Federation, in which we pay them $1B a year (less than 20% of our previous defense budget). and they promise to nuke everyone should someone invade us. We believe that renting a nuclear umbrella is a cost-effective way to maintain territorial integrity.

Does not compute.
How isolated are different natural gas networks in the US?
better said than done. I think the main issue with people is science changes a lot
Problem is that:

1) People's use of energy is relatively insensitive to price, or they don't know the price, or few people care about the price when it comes time to need it

2) When you need the energy, it's too late to make the equipment/house more efficient, and when you don't need it, people don't think it's important to make it more efficient

3) Mandating that people upgrade their equipment is unpopular, they vote against it, yet when they get hit with the bill for the energy later, they're unhappy with government for not having done more to control it.

It's a thankless job, to be sure. Good thing taking away people's incandescent bulbs was recognized as a threat to democracy and stopped.
Alex wrote about the topic after losing that sponsorship:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/opinion/the-calculus-of-cl...

It's a nice, quick read. Especially if you're even vaguely interested in climbing.
California’s tax authorities are much quicker than that to decide you are a resident and tax you accordingly.
Immutable databases are much more interesting than Blockchain, it's time for the hype circle to move on
https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-immutable-databases
XState creator here, what kinds of implementation details do you not agree with? Curious to know.
This is a very benign and positive UI change tbf. I say that as someone who heavily uses this app since many years and who is _very_ conservative w.r.t. software. I've switched to the beta and am really happy with it. Not just changed, really improved.
> Please don't say Matt Levine, he's a (great) commentator not a practitioner.

He’s a former practitioner and alum of two extremely prestigious firms: Wachtell and Goldman. He definitely knows what he’s talking about.
This kind of comment is worrying, I would never choose a library / framework if I had to upgrade the runtime every 3 month.
That sounds like nonsense. Is his goal for his patients to never ever get hold of his opinions in case they might disagree with him?
That was pretty small and safe as rocket explosions go. Launch pad explosions with a full load of fuel and oxidizer are huge and would have engulfed the whole ship in flames.
They should talk to the DoD about ‘America’s Army’
That wasn't the tone of the article and it's disingenuous to pretend it was.
It definitely wasn't like this in the late 90's / early 2000's.
“This is not available to you”
Bruce Schneider article claims people fear terrorism disproportionately to the risk because it is intentional and directed https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/the_comparati...
There are many possible reasons for a network traffic between two endpoints to not saturate your connection throughput to your ISP, and unless you can rule out all those other reasons, you can't just conclude that the lower throughput is due to any kind of deliberate throttling. I'm not saying they are NOT throttling. I'm just saying what you said is not enough evidence.

It's true Comcast has been caught doing a packet forgery - https://www.eff.org/wp/packet-forgery-isps-report-comcast-af... . If ATT is also doing it, it should be straightforward to collect evidence. So is there any evidence collected that shows ATT is doing packet forgery ?
Oh I'm sure increase in carjacking is due to video games, and not at all related to growing economic inequalities and stress which were recently amplified by Covid... /s
I just checked, and the O RLY Cover Generator is still active if you want to make your own:

https://dev.to/rly
I'd imagine for these companies the hardware is a necessity to get customers into their payment processing business, could even be a loss leader rather then a profit centre. If a lot more people now have a potential POS device in their pocket it could expand their markets quite a bit, although other payment processors who formerly didn't want to or couldn't make hardware may now become competitors
> and may come down as a blazing fireball on top of something that otherwise would have expected no more than a speck of metal oxides.

Not if range safety is doing their job.