skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It just doesn't make any sense to me how people expect that you can use a web service without the webservice like...knowing that you're using it?

This is true, but what you seem to disregard is that [webservice] can monetize differently.

You can set up your own forum for almost free, or your community could pool a couple of bucks each month for server cost.

You can use some experimental p2p mesh hosting for your conversations.

You can charge users a low low price for the cost of your service.

Or you can sell userdata like facebook et al.

All these services would know everything I'm willing to share with users on said service, but how that data is used could be very different.

Wanting to both share your data and have that data used scrupulously isn't having/eating your cake. It's very reasonable and possible. Maybe not for free, but close to.
Nope, and in fact it's not even rare. Ladbrokes shops (for sports betting) are widespread, and casinos are not hard to find.
Use:

https://www.w3.org/History/1993/WWW/XMosaic/xmosaic-1.0.tar....

Works!
> "Here's the weird thing though. My entire childhood was filled with opaque plastic packs of cards, pokemon cards, football cards etc. You didn't know which 5 cards were in there. The cards were semi-randomly distributed in the packs in the factory, just like these loot boxes are semi-randomly generated by an algorithm. And you'd pay, not knowing what you'd get. And indeed, sometimes you paid $10 for a pack with a rare pokemon you could sell for $100. That was gambling too under this definition."

Is that so weird? I came to the conclusion that industry was gambling when I was a kid. I saw my friends spend their allowance on those packs of cards, open them up, then become disappointed because they only received "trash". Yet again and again they'd do it. It seemed totally irrational to me.
https://www.w3.org/History/1993/WWW/XMosaic/xmosaic-1.0.tar....
These days I try hard to maintain control of my perspective not by reading broadly, but reading judiciously; I have a white-list on sources rather than a black-list.

For instance, if cable news is on, I fight the temptation to give it my attention. But I sometimes seek out public news like PBS or NPR. It’s difficult to identify what the difference is, but I find myself better able to separate opinions from facts.

For online news: I pay and from a newspaper that gets more than 50% of its revenue from subscriptions. It also has a finance bent, and is non-US based, which seems to steer me clear of much of the political echo chamber. Therefore the op-eds are often on topics that don’t directly impact me and I find it easier to assess the expressed opinion without emotional investment (e.g. from today: “Customs Union: The battleground set to decide the fate of Brexit”).

While on emotional investment, I find the public conversation (which I seem to be less privy to now days) to be alarmist, ideological, and radicalizing. Perhaps that’s because Breitbart, HuffPo, and the likes are the masters of new media grabbing impressions and setting the narrative of “what’s news” around the world.

All in all, my content consumption patterns have shifted from “eat what’s in front of you” to “toy with your diet and see where you end up; rinse; repeat”. So I make no claims that this is the right approach, it’s just my current approach.
I don't think living completely without artificial lights and screens is possible for a vast majority of HN users.

Remember to completely shut your bedroom out at night though, it has to be completely, 100% pitch black. It improves the sleep quality a lot.
I would highly hope that someone would read the article, and not just the title, before complaining about how unspecific a word in the title was.
I never made the assertion that Godel’s incomplete theorems are physics. My comment was to point out that if one makes the claim “X is impossible”, the burden of proof lies upon the person making the claim or assertion. Simply making an assertion or premise does not prove nor disprove it.
I'm waiting for the first one to go up in flames
> Which no other country will accept.

The whole idea of tariffs is you impose them on other countries without their assent.
Not really. At least here (in Germany), they have promotional toy lines derived from well-known brands (e.g. I saw a store display promoting Powerpuff Girls toys in Kinder eggs a few days ago). The ads tout a guaranteed probability of finding one of these promoted toys in the egg (every 7th egg wins).

There is a vivid aftermarket for these promoted toys. They're worth more if you collect a full set.

You're right insofar as the non-promotional toys are pretty much only worthless plastic.
Until you find something else to be up-in-arms about.
Scooters going painfully slow in bike lanes will not be terribly different from cars stopping in them. Either way, you have to merge into traffic to pass.
Peeking into `pwd`
Any big urban centers, yes. But there's tons of smaller villages or tiny cities which are losing population.

For a better quality of life for all, we have to start thinking about ways to spread this around more because now it's a one-way stream from low-density areas to high-density areas, the former has no future (it's emptying), the latter becomes unaffordable. (the more density, the more demand/production per square meter, the higher land prices and the higher all costs->prices of any production in that area, not just housing but anything).

Population density can be very valuable (it's efficient, for one), and I'm a big proponent of cities in general, but there are limits. At some point density starts reducing quality of life.
Elon Musk Says He's Building a Cyborg Dragon
I spent a few months last year in AirBnBs in Berlin, looking for a permanent place.

From an outsider’s perspective, Berlin rents are ridiculously low unless you’re in the inner ring. Low enough I could cover the rent with money left over entirely from the rent I was collecting from a one bed flat I own in a small village in the UK, at the worst point of the €-£ exchange rate. Heck, I could usually do that with the AirBnBs too, despite their markups.

Yes, there is definitely a housing shortage, but as they have rent control the problem I experienced was too many people viewing each place. In one case, there were about 80-100 people viewing the same appartment as me while I was there. Not that my experience is at all incompatible with locals having more problems from high unemployment or low wages.
Simple cross domain <IMG> tags can have their load time measured..
Not to rain on your parade but get a colorimeter and check your screen I’ve used my xrite i1 pro and the amount of blue light doesn’t actually change that much when you switch your white point temperature to warmer settings and especially when it’s as high as 5500K.
There are Lego 'blind bags' for mini figurines, which do not let you see the content of the bag before opening it. The bag contains one mini figure from a predefined set, and some characters in the set are more rare than others.

All blind bags cost the same amount, but the rarity aspect could encourage kids to buy more bags in an effort get lucky and find the rare figure. This could be construed as gambling.
If you don't mine heavily, the blockchain essentially isn't immutable. The race for blocks is the only reason one can assume immutability. That is the core of the problem: If you don't have a chain that's heavily mined, you don't have the security a blockchain promises. Whats left is an unsecure database that feels like running on a C64.
The gambling commission which made this report/recommendation apparently uses four criteria:

(1) It's a game /* hello, Wittgenstein */

(2) There's a (financial) stake

(3) The player can win or lose (i.e. they're not guaranteed a specific return)

(4) An element of chance is involved
> and all of the different ones have the same value.

Not quite, as I point out in a comment to one of your siblings. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16929805
Maybe I'm just an oddball, but I've found significant use in setting up shared infrastructure including a mailserver, gitlab, VPN server and similar, with things like CodeDeploy replaced by a simple & reliable git hook.

Whenever I look at the AWS ecosystem, I see confusing and unclear documentation combined with pricing models that ensure there are many different ways my credit card could end up with significant surprise charges, and a vendor that has repeatedly shipped me broken & fake items in the past. What is the incentive to use AWS?
You can also use NCSA Mosaic to read all about this new up-and-coming browser http://home.mcom.com
The bars that don't take orders in English don't actually refuse to do that out of some principle but just because there are just not enough German speaking baristas or bartenders or the market.
For most business owners that is fine because this is a common scenario just in the trendy hoods where most of their customers are anyways English-only speakers.
Do you like beef? Japan produces some of the best beef in the world.

Or it might just be your taste, but many people disagree with you about it being objectively bad.
I don't see any functions in that code that wouldn't have existed in Clojure 1.0. It's all pretty standard Clojure stuff, very basic 'for' constructs and generalized lazy sequences with 'range' and others.

Which function were you thinking were explicitly added to the language that are in use here?
Go's error paradigm is through return values that can be ignored, so an error channel would mimic "non-async" error handling in this case: Checking an error is is always up to the developer.

The discussion about error paradigms (exceptions vs. globals vs. error values, forced checking vs. free choice, etc.) is quite a big one, and arguably an entirely different topic.
It in the article states that you get monetary value out of it, so like in casino you exchange your tokens for money. In games you trade item from loot box, so someone will pay money. If it would be that you cannot exchange it to money it is quite ok.
While the cards are semi-random, they're selling a pack with let's say, 3 cards. There's not much debate there, that's what it "says on the box" and you're getting that.

Depending on the case it might be gambling, it might be not - like for example a Picture Album, you can usually buy the missing cards for a flat fee (per missing card)
my dream laptop: a retina mbair with magsafe, 2x normal usb3, a single usb-c, and 32gb of ram.

are you listening, apple?
You're not going to make it.
English is not very well suited for the Latin alphabet! Learning writing in English is much more difficult than in Polish for example despite the additional letters in Polish. Especially with vowels - come on: 'a' can mean 'æ', 'ɑː', 'ɑ', 'eɪ', 'ə' - and it is also used in 'ea' where it has even different pronunciation.
AMD Announces Q1 FY 2018 Results: Big Gains
It may be the immigrants, alright. But the rich, white immigrants from Western Europe and North America, not the ones you probably have in mind. Also I wonder how many flats have been turned into illegal AirBnB hotel rooms, lots of new faces that are only around for a couple of days in the house I live since a few months ;)
I have to disagree with you.

Walmart is making this change to improve something. They obviously already have a database somewhere with suppliers and shipments and to think they don't is just crazy.

Sure, contract law. But why when there is a technical solution? If there is a dispute that then has to be settled in the courts with your solution that costs more money and time. The 6 days to 2 minutes might end up way longer after amortizing time spent dealing with trails and compliance and ensuring suppliers are doing things right.
That's why I'm asking why shouldn't it just be regulated like normal gambling and made inaccessible to kids.
I've noticed this too. Thing is, the expectation seems to be users deleting their accounts en masse, while the reality is that people are just slowly drifting away from it (without going through the hassle of actually deleting their account).
How to avoid stressing about change at work
I actually find the housing problem quite apt, because it so easily illustrates the problem of information asymmetry of the market participants. If you can't guarantee that, you don't have an efficient market. How can you prevent that, if not with the help of protection through law (i.e. regulation)?
But: isn't it a good thing?

More traffic is what those roads are for. More traffic means more activity. Focusing only on the capacity / congestion couple is myopic. If you really want 0 traffic just remove all roads: not sure the side effects will be as easily dismissed.
That used to be true.
But lately, the demand has grown bigger and bigger and if you look over some job boards you'll see salary ranges that raise the average handsomely.
On the other hand, 60k still is almost 3 time the average salary in Berlin so it can take you quite far.
Of course the article can point out all the people lynched for essentially being "other". As an expression of hate, or fear. There was a lot of that (and may still be some to be honest).

There were also lynchings where the mob simply believed the victim to be guilty but unprovably so. Or where the punishment would not be sufficient to the crime in their eyes. Those are the ones which the GP seems to refer to, and it's not necessarily trolling to bring up the relationship between those and a justice system that is seen to work.
Frequently, viewing the "contents" of a box (the potential rewards) displays each item in a row, with no indicator of a difference in drop chance except the background colour, despite some items being twenty or so times more likely to be rewarded. If there is text indicating the variable probability, it is usually subdued and easily overlooked.

Furthermore, some games silently vary the probability of drops based on prior results (without informing the player), a strategy designed to reinforce the Gambler's Fallacy and ensure users continue to open loot boxes after the first few.
Did you actually read the article? You are being downvoted because you repeat canard with no real data, and nothing is topical in your comment.
Remaining – Sleek and Clean New Tab
Every time we have a story like this, every time I ask - how does this work on a blockchain? Many people will talk about blockchain trustless-ness and how this doesn't requires trust etc. And I ask give me an end to end example of what are the trust issues here and how does blockchain solve it? I have yet to get a concrete answer.

So, again what trust issues does blockchain solve?

To ensure we are not talking about completely abstract things let's take a real life example. Here's an issue:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-welspun-india-walmart-idU...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Friday said it will stop selling Egyptian cotton sheets made by Welspun India after the Indian manufacturer was unable to assure them the products were authentic.

How does blockchain help?
And beefy gpu with integrated graphics switching on battery.
Yes, you are a violent criminal and you should be thrown to a metal cage. How dare you purchase a pack of Pokemon cards as a kid! /s

Come on, it's ridiculous. It's just patching up the symptom, which will and always does bleed through. Why do you care anyway on what they spend the money they have? They might as well buy this and that which you think is useless and have no value to you and then prohibit the purchase of this and that for everyone. Plus, if you give kids your credit card, then it's your fault. Stop trying to regulate the sh!t out of everything and call it a day.

I would also like to add that ridiculous amount of money is going into cosmetics in games such as League of Legends, and no, the criteria for gambling doesn't apply here. What should we, or rather the goberment!11!1 do to solve the issue of not being able to raise a kid and pay attention to them?

Look, if your kid empties your credit card, do not hold anyone but yourself responsible for it, and do not think for a second that prohibition of arbitrary things will solve that.
Ha! That about artificial light and screens is a bit ... wanting the blame the artificial. I find that natural sunlight makes sleeping tough business close to the poles.
This is very common in Germany, it has some similar taste as the aromas they use for margarine to taste creamy. It's really horrible, I have never managed more than a sip of milk in Germany. Shelf life is three months, room temperature. If you want fresh milk you can find it in some bigger supermarkets but only a few bottles and I seldom seen anyone buy it.
> Renting in some place for a long time doesn't give you any leverage against another potential renters.

That's just not true in most of Europe. Having lived in several countries now, the laws are usually very tenant oriented: after some time landlords cannot terminate leases in most conditions and the yearly increases are regulated.
And the old keyboard, and no extra GPU for thermal and battery reasons.
Sometimes profound beliefs enable bad behaviour.
You are so right!!

Im using an external tool for deploying the site, created a PR there to use production mode, do you think that should be enough? Thanks! https://github.com/zzarcon/ts-react-toolbox/pull/2
Body of story does not match title of story here or the BBC. It's "what I learned kind-of minimising artificial light at night, but not actually complete because I used redshifted apps and a lot of ... Well.. artificial, cold cathode and LED light. And anyway it's darkish outside so anecdote but also S.A.D. is a thing."

I think the story premise is great. The execution leaves a lot to be desired.

I'm trying not to feed the snark. But, really, I think they could have gone harder for a better story. Kids makes it hard.
That's right, but only few people speak pure Ukranian language (and they do it mainly for political reasons). It is incovinient as it lacks some modern words and concepts. One can discuss prices on the market or neighbor girl, but when topic is switched to scientific or ingeneering matter - Russian is language of choise. Same with Kazakh language - the language of nomads.
Not necessarily metaphysical - I get a feeling a lot of these discussions treat brain and body as separate entities and the reasoning reduces to the same as metaphysical ghost in the machine - brain in the machine.

If we ever get to that point you're almost a completely different entity from the person you were in your body, you could share some of the memories and logic but even your perception on them would change drastically along with your self image changes.
Blockchain is the new NoSQL. In 10 years some poor engineer tasked with maintaining this thing is going to ask why they didn't use a more reasonable technology.
Not to deny the moral hazard of using prisoners for organs, but being a Falun Gong member in China is like being an active ISIS member in the US/UK. Whatever's right or wrong, you know you're committing a crime and you're taking a risk by participating. Keeping safe is a matter of following the law even if you don't believe in it.
Hackers Creating Hotel Master Keys
Having one party to run the system wouldn’t need a block chain, just transparency. Make the data public, available to everyone, with daily hashes of the data of the day combined with the hash from the previous day. Sign that hash+date to prove it has been computed by this central party alone. If the hash cannot be recomputed then there is proof the data has been tempered with. All other parties need to do is to download and store these daily hashes in case of a conflict.

But all of that would be vastly simpler with a central trusted third party.
> I believe our industry’s several decades of demonstrated inability to write concurrent code correctly disagrees with you.

Not at all. Concurrent/parallel code isn't particularly difficult to write—there's just a unique class of problems related to it that might occur, but that does not mean it is hard.

Rather, the industry has through several decades demonstrated an inability to write bug free code in general. I wouldn't blame concurrency/parallelism for this.
Does anyone know how effective "computer with flux/nightlight/etc" is compared to "no computer at all, write stuff by candlelight on paper"? Is flux/nightlight getting me most of the way (assuming no super blue/white lights in the house), or is it hardly getting me started?

I bet this has been studied but I don't know where to look.
Corporations is controlled by those who own the shares. 1 share 1 vote. But usually only a very very few individuals own majority of the shares. So they have all power what a "too big too fail corporation" can do.

With Ethereum PoS. It is dependent on ETH being distributed to many individuals. If only a few individuals own most of the ETH, then they will then have the power dictate what is the "truth" in the blockchain. Right now, ETH is very well distributed around the whole planet.

As you can see, one is oligarchic, the other is very democratic.

Ethereum is not a Corporation that is designed to make profits. It is non-profit, it's not even a company, it's simply a protocol implemented in Free Software.
How old were those children ? There is a difference between a 5 year-old child and a 16 year old “child”.
A small secret: here in Stockholm, the apartment prices have gone down recently; you can buy a 1-2 room apartment and pay less than $700/month in the city center (a down payment is needed though). The salaries for software engineers are typically 70k-100k USD.
Apple recommends displays? Ever since they discontinued their own display, I've had a dickens of a time using third party displays. My current display flickers for 30-60 seconds before becoming usable on wake, and I would love to night shift again. Where's the list?
That is true for Bitcoin and other public blockchains. It is not always true for private chains.

Lets assume 10 suppliers each add 10 new 'produce transactions' on some day. It also occurs during work hours, so maybe between 9-5 there is 100 new transactions.

The miners are all known nodes, in fact, only 10 of them if we assume each supplier gets one.

Once the 100 transactions are minted into new blocks and the day ends...

What exactly are the miners supposed to mine into blocks? There are no transactions. Nothing to add.
Read that vox article he linked.
> Sure, contract law. But why when there is a technical solution?

I think I don't see any of the multiple trust relations solved in this case.

Walmart still can't trust the producer to itemize the physical product correctly.

The producer still can't trust Walmart to not change the item already in the database (see mining discussion above).

What trust relation do you have in mind, that is solved with this blockchain implementation, and that wouldn't be solved with a ordinary database with signed entries?
Serious question; why isn't Magic the Gathering illegal? Don't booster packs perform the same function.
I use WordPress CLI and do the automatic updates with cron. I host on Digital Ocean, and the www-data user can’t write to any WordPress directory.
There are several courses in that "class" (over the course of a year) that require access to the Azure cloud. The free Azure trial runs only 30 days, though.