skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Difference is, the Teenie Babies from the Happy Meals weren't worth anything. Regular Beanie Babies were supposed to have enormous value as a collector's item, but you could order all 12 Teenie Babies as a box set and complete the whole collection without ever ordering a single Happy Meal. They were just toys, not collectors items.
Musk's tweet from 9:00 is the 10:00 news headlines. News headlines are (probably) more effective than ads.
" It’s a myth that communication is hindered by private offices, as much as managers or PMs want us to believe otherwise."

I don't like open offices either but I don't know if you can throw that out there. Private offices offers a degree of separation (so does working from home) that will probably reduce certain types of both beneficial and nonbeneficial communication.
Haha! I actually missed the typo altogether. I thought you were intentionally using a phrase originating in gambling ("follow suit") as a joke, given the context.
> If you're on a 45mph road and someone puts themselves in your path 10 feet ahead

This is why roads should be designed not to cause such a situation. If you have a pedestrian path really close to a 45mph road the design is bad. I'm not aware of anywhere having such a high speed road where a pedestrian could walk along side it (in Netherlands). Usually it's more closed off with pedestrians being banned.
I see other posters saying that it has to do with probabilities and the way they're designed or how you can play a game with the cards etc... and I disagree.

I think what triggered the problem with lootboxes is that the monetary value of the items is immediately obvious and you can trade those items without any friction over the internet at any moment. For many games an item is just equivalent to some amount of money. It's not a good, it's casino tokens that you can exchange for real money at the counter. Selling cards, especially before the internet, was way more complicated and most 12yo at the time probably wouldn't bother unless they were extremely lucky and managed to acquire a very expensive card "charlie and the chocolate factory" style. Cards have pretty limited liquidity, unlike digital goods that can be traded quickly and safely across continents in an instant.

I don't play a ton of games featuring random item drops but if I look at my Steam inventory for instance I can get the immediate value at which any item is trading (including loot boxes and their keys, but also skins, cards, emoticons, profile backgrounds...). Valve itself plays into this by tracking the price and making it easily available to anybody. You can directly, from Steam, trade these items for money (well, money locked into your Steam account, but money nonetheless).

On the other hand when I was a teen and played Magic: The Gattering most of the time I had no idea of the value of an individual card and checking it would have involved buying specialized magazines (the internet was only in its infancy at the time). We traded cards only for other cards and based mostly on our own subjective assessment of their relative values and how they fit into our decks (or even if the drawing looked cool), not based on some global card exchange with real-time trading.

On top of this there are a huge number of 3rd party "casino" sites for these in-game items who add another layer of gambling on top of the lootbox concept. Those websites don't hesitate to pay Twitch streamers to "play" on their site, sometimes even tweaking the odds to make them win more than average to make it even more enticing for the (often very young) watchers. It's scummy as hell and while Valve & friend don't directly partake in this they very clearly enable this behavior with their policies (and they APIs).

I could see the point of somebody arguing that MtG and Pokemon are gambling but these video game economies are on a whole other level.
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My suspicion is that more parents are tolerant of wasting money on such things and enabling their children than in the past.
Here's the front page of the Huffington Post after Trump won the NH primaries.

https://i.imgur.com/IhID9qY.jpg

Searching for "Huffington post Trump" on any image search pulls similar results.
I've had a regular end-user who is not in the industry plain-face defend this as an inevitable progression of the improvement of content rather than shady dark-patterns and cynical psychological manipulation. "And what's the big deal that X wants to play candy crush all the time cos it's fun."

"And what's the problem in putting heroin in Coca-Cola if it makes everyone feel good?" is my usual stance on that matter, unfortunately not everyone shares my view of the link between UX dark-patterns and addictive substances.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 17r 7720 and a Macbook made in the same year. Spec for spec they are very comparable machines, but if I had to choose I would pick the Dell every time. I've used Ubuntu on it for years with zero "fiddling" required. Windows 10 is on a physical SSD, but with one command it's configured to run on a VM in Ubuntu. Many people have gotten Mac OS to run natively on the Dell, but I decided to spend hundreds on a Macbook instead because to the enormous amount of "fiddling" it would have taken.

TL;DR: I've had the opposite experience as you.
I agree with your assessment of the highway system.

But saying [t]he popularity of detached housing...[is] a historical anomaly is somewhat misleading.

Widespread prosperity is new by historical standards. Penicillin is new by historical standards. Air conditioning is new by historical standards. It's unclear why owning detached housing - similar to what only richer people used to own - is any different.
It’s a pretty well understood psychological system of variable rewards.

It’s the same reason people open up Facebook or Reddit or Hacker News every day: you don’t know what interesting content you’ll see and that keeps you coming back.

Except games aren’t social network filled with user generated content. Developers make the content (items, skins etc) and have figured out that presenting in a randomised way drives better engagement.
> More farmland is lost to desert than gained to warmth

Would you be able to explain why that is, or link to something that can? It's not immediately obvious to me why that would be.
Will you buy your product?
second-highest GPS for intelligence achieved results only slightly above average

This doesn't need much explaining, the correlation between the score and test results just isn't that high. That's all. Saying "environmental factors" here is, I think, nothing more than a polite way of saying "noise".

People think about nonlinearities too. My understanding is that we're a long way from having such good data that it would help our predictions to include them. Steve Hsu writes about this, I can't find the perfect link but here's a start:

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/11/additivity-and-complex-...
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What I like about this is its proof of concept nature. Now we know that it is actually possible to prevent at least some parts of an inheritable disease by one-time administration of a drug at the right moment in the development process. That's awesome. There might be other diseases for which that approach might also work. I hope it will spark interest in research into that.

The sad part is ofcourse the one about companies not being interested in drugs for rare diseases, even more when they're not needed frequently. I really hope we can find a solution to that.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Agenda is pushed by what you chose to omit just as much as it is by what you chose to report.
If you can't fix the problem you should not try to make it worse. Internet banking etc. are making things better. I do not know how bitcoin is supposed to make anything better for a non-criminal person.
> Framing is limited by the cold

In most of the world farming is limited by water and fertiliser availability. Water availability is an increasing problem from California to Yemen.
As a mod and supporter of IOTA, I fully approve this sentiment :-)
Van is at Google, and has been for quite some time. He's been working on BBR at Google. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3218084/lan-wan/how-goo...
The elephant in the room is this: https://i.imgur.com/RvTi7gs.jpg
I used RedisLabs in a project about 3 years ago where I wanted durable storage, and the service was excellent. Latency in us-east-1 was low, the management interface was snappy, and scaling up storage took just a couple of clicks. I'd probably use a "locally managed" Redis service (ElastiCache in AWS, Google's service in GCP, etc.) for volatile caching in the future, since it's one less vendor to manage, but I'd recommend RedisLabs to anyone who is considering it.
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Where was I not polite? The figures you quote are cooked. While it is true that malnutrition is the _indirect_ cause of the majority of those deaths, most people counted do not really die from malnutrition per se, but from a combination of malnutrition and infectious disease. Both malnutrition and lack of vaccination are being addressed, and the rate of death is dropping like a rock as a result. Maybe not as quickly as one would like, but it’s just disingenuous to say that nothing is being done or people are “ignoring” anything about this.
> As for the self righteousness of "only peds belong on sidewalks", I get tired of that.

Ever see an elderly pedestrian get plowed into by some 200 lb kid on a skateboard?

I used to live near and work on Mill Ave. in Tempe near ASU, which is a very congested pedestrian strip. It's also full of maniacs on bikes, scooters, and skateboards weaving in and around pedestrians at full speed, coming within inches the whole time. One false move and you'd get plowed.

Like speed with like speed, I say.
On (1) I don't believe there's any difference... a factory prints cards according to the company's desired distributed, and a game's algorithm generates loot boxes according to the same distribution. Lootboxes and trading cars both have predetermined and known (to the company) and unknown (to the players) probabilities.

(2/3) agreed there is a difference, although it was still magical as a child and there was definitely something calling me back. A lot of those packs were interesting only because I watched 100 episodes of the greatest adventurer known to me (Ash Ketchum) and my own adventures playing Pokemon on the gameboy for 100+ hours.
I think you're right, but there's also a decent amount of stories involving a kid with their parents credit card and the parent not noticing the kid was running up a huge balance until their bill came. But yeah, those are realistically pro ably exceptional cases.
It's not about inflationary vs deflationary, but adjustable monetary supply based on need vs. predefined monetary supply.
Here is someone that should be paid like a sports superstar. There seems to be so few people with his skill set.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075H39NDL is the one he mentions (not available).

It's 5500K and it says it mimics midday sun; I wonder if that could be harmful long term, as you're shocking your body awake - "it's midday, get up!" - rather than following a natural progression from dark to morning-light.
The only thing I don't understand is the renting - these things are meant for owning them. You can store scooter under desk in office or under bed in condo.
You've made good arguments in this thread, but you lose a lot of credibility when you imply that a DO is not as good as an MD.
> I think that .NET Core have a stable UI kit.

It does, Avalonia: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
It looks like a pretty promising project.

There was another one I believe I saw on HN a while ago but I can't seem to find it.
"Failure" implies an attempt.
> LiDAR is short range, low resolution, and extremely expensive

It is extremely cheap compared to a chauffeur.
You have a calendar.

Your 4 hour blocks are scheduled. As committments. And cannot be casually preempted.
TL;DL:

1) Revenues are inversely proportional to number of active users, hinting at cultural differences (e.g. US users may be more exposed to ads than EU users)

2) Overall income has fallen, but so have taxes and operating margin, leading to higher net income and earnings per share.
<raises hand> I would absolutely cycle the 3 miles to my office if it felt safe. Not in a crime sense but in an "I'm going to get mangled by an automobile driver who thinks saving a fraction of a second on a 45 min commute is more important than strict adherence to those pesky traffic laws that protect my fragile body from his two tons of 30mph (where the speed limit is 20mph) metal" sense.

What would make me feel confident enough to cycle to work? Protected bike lanes and/or a massive shift in attitude among the drivers I encounter as a pedestrian and watch through the bus window.
But people did pay outsized amounts for the McDonald's ones.
If the Flynn effect is real there should be a right skew and vice versa. A skewed distribution is what directional selection or any other directional population shift looks like.
What’s the reality here?

Some sense of “fairness”? Because shop-workers need to work fixed hours, everyone should? You’re hiring developers to build software, not to be office furniture — do the exact hours worked matter very much?
I'm that person.

The main reason being that I prefer food that start life on my plate separately, so that I can choose to take a bite of each in turn. After that I don't especially like cheese, which spoils a lot of these types of dishes. I find that a lot of people agree with my first point, it's rarer to find people that aren't into cheese.
"Keep a log or diary" ...another low value work
The science bits from the article:

The experiment, described in a case report today in the New England Journal of Medicine, took place in Germany in 2016 at a clinic that specializes in rare, inherited skin diseases—particular one called XLHED, in which patients are born with fang-like front teeth and without the ability to sweat.

The problem: their bodies don’t produce a specific protein required to make sweat glands.

The treatment exploited the fact that the missing protein is needed only temporarily, between weeks 20 and 30, when the sweat glands form in a developing fetus. Schneider says his team injected it directly into the twins’ amniotic sacs.

“The great thing about this is the critical time points in the intrauterine development of these sweat glands,” says Anna David, director of the Institute for Women’s Health at University College London. “I think it is the first time you are seeing a protein drug used for correction of a genetic disorder before birth.”

Corinna, [the parent], says she thinks the XLHED treatments worked. “Extremely successful,” she says. “The twins can sweat normally.” They still have somewhat unusual facial features and missing teeth.
strange there hasn't been a lawsuit about this as its almost certainly massively illegal.
> But contrary to this Fortran code, in order to understand my code, you first have to learn this library

Do you ? I've used Eigen and boost a lot of times and didn't ever need to "learn how the sausage is made", just looking at examples is enough to get stuff to work.
In case you've got a flaky memory like I do, this is a different issue from this one last year:

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...
I would contend that all kinder egg prizes are of equal value, therefore it is not gambling.
The people that are buying the Lego collectible minifigure packs are not typically children. It's clearly targeted at the AFOL audience.
The drug did work in animal tests on pregnant animals but failed to work on born children.
It was the couple who approached the doctor asking to try it during pregnancy already. The doctor and his university agreed to administer the drug under a “compassionate use” exemption.

The pharmaceutical company was not directly involved in this.
Well, first issue in current monetary policy that would need fixing is removing zero lower bound from interest rates to allow heavily negative rates when needed to manage aggregate demand more efficiently. (I understand that most people do not agree to this statement, but yes, to me it looks like aggregate demand needs to be managed in economy. And I do not know that many other tools than interest rate for that.)
> In 2001, Los Angeles County boasted 21,085 lane miles of maintained highways. In 2016, that number had not budged much, growing to only 21,826 lane miles. In the same period of time, the number of vehicle-miles traveled by Los Angeles commuters rose by some 10 million per day.

Sloppy argumentation. Just becuase 10 million is a large number it does not mean the increase is more than the 3.5% increase in available lane miles.
Maybe consider working with people who give a shit
The downside of this is that the 9am-ers don’t get a solid stretch of focus in the morning. Have you considered an asynchronous status-reporting thing instead?
Wired: The future of Snapchat looks a lot like Magic Leap
> I wouldn't expect significant numbers of people flock to learn Russian (or Kazakh) as a foreign language anyway, because why should they?

It makes it much easier for tourists when country uses the same alphabet.
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Good post!!! I found this info in coinpedia.org
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"pump her state" What on earth does that mean?
Yeah, tolls don't seem to cause under-utilization for bridges (the ones I know are still bumper to bumper at rush hour), unless you mean relative to free routes in the same area that probably should be tolled but aren't.
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You can't compare Magic the Gathering with loot boxes or maybe only the online version of that game. If you play MTG, you own a real card...
I didn't know this idiom's etymology, but I'll remember now that it originated from card games :-) https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-expression-t...
Looking over the code pre-patch, can someone with more knowledge explain to me how that allows RCE?
there is this shit https://github.com/dreadlocked/Drupalgeddon2 that i saw in my logs.

how to report it to github
Depends on where. In NYC, almost zero low-income commuters travel by car. Wealthier households are more likely to own cars and to commute by private automobile. Here, congestion pricing would be a progressive tax. I imagine the opposite might be the case in LA.
How long you live(d) there? It freak me out at first, like many things that are different, but after getting acclimated for a few years I actually think it works out pretty well. I had to get used to the "flow" and get used to being aware.

It now kinda freaks me out to be back in the US... realizing that everyone involved in traffic has their own assumptions of what is supposed/going to happen and won't necessarily be looking around all the time at what's actually going on, and I have to guess and premeditate that for everyone.

It's not a big problems when density is small and there is only one significant traffic element (cars) that's relatively predictable, but if the US is going to scale it's cities they're going to have to figure out how to deal with how to increase traffic density, and it doesn't seem very feasible to add more car roads and sidewalks in metropolitan areas (let's not touch on subways for the moment because that's what communism or Euro-effeminism or just too damn hard or whatever).

It's pretty easy to fit more people on those streets, all ya have to do is:

1. Slow down
2. Look around
3. Take a bit of the chip off the shoulders

Which I feel like all pretty much fly in the face of everything back-to-back World War champions cherish (and great prospects for this upcoming season!).

But I think the point of the article was "look both ways before you cross the street" was total bullshit when it was introduced... and now it's dogma. I don't necessarily wish metropolitan progress and growth on Americans, but I guess I kinda secretly hope for it.
If you pay fixed price for unknown outcome it should be clasified as gambling/investment and regulated. Odds should be published (if known) or past performance if known, expected value and such. Deviation from any information stated at the moment of sale should nullify the sale and give you your money back. If the company hesitates, funds should be seized immediately and put on hold until people who bought the tickets come for their money.

I have no hard rule about which kinds of gambling/investment should be completely forbidden but all should be scrutinised and some limitations should be imposed. Like a ban on advertising.

App economy is now gambling economy and at some point it will trigger heavy regulations.
> We have lots and lots of land that could be farmed if we needed it to.

Where?

As I understand it, pretty much all the good farmland is already in use for farming.

The only available farmland I'm aware of that is not being used for that is being squatted upon by McMansions in the suburbs. The land they're sitting on was formerly farmland, but it was found to be more economically valuable as land for upscale homes.

Think what it would mean for those economics to be flipped around, for farmland to become more valuable than McMansion lots. It means farming has become a very high-dollar economic activity, which means food has become really expensive, which means many fewer people would be buying McMansions.

So what then is your plan? That we put almost all the human population into arcologies like the Stephenson cyberpunk novels, so that we can free up the land to be farmland again?
That seems like an unfortunate amount of churn at the top of a long-term development department. Trouble in Teslaville, or is this just regular valley bed-hopping?
How do you foresee this working with insurance policies?
The employer/employee power dynamic can be like this too.

People are happier in a job when they have the freedom to walk away from it (and still afford to live). Typically this is because they have skills and experience that are in demand, so they can easily find another job to pay rent.

Unskilled workers don't have this freedom because they need their boss more than their boss needs them. Hence unions are necessary.

Universal basic income would give this freedom to everyone.
The reason is that you should be responsible if you are indeed responsible: Insurance fraud is very real. See https://gizmodo.com/people-throw-themselves-at-cars-for-mone...
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MobilEye was long time technology provider of the same technology for BMW and later Volvo. MobilEye has basically developed their technology with those companies.

Tesla was than later coming into the game as customer of MobilEye. The difference is, that Elon enabled much and sold it differently than the very same technology was used and still is used at BMW and Volvo. Then with first big accident (the death in Florida) Elon wanted to accuse MobilEye. But actually it was Elon who sold that technology in away it was still not ready for. MobilEye was very aware of that. But taking all the blame was the reason to split up.

Btw. BMW and Volvo both have radar on board, which the first Tesla lacked of, because Elon doesn't wanted to spent that money.
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Now I am curious if a method used by Wargaming Inc will get a pass and be adopted elsewhere. Their "boxes" always return a reward of equal or higher value than what the box cost. The key is that the publisher defines the value.

So in WGs case what dollar amount the assign to a reward may not be what players perceive as correct. However they were not one of the companies investigated.