skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure whether what you're describing is different; I understand UK law is that you have to have free* entry as an option otherwise it's gambling, and the company has different regulations plus a bunch more tax to pay. Most companies therefore include a free option so they can avoid being classed as gambling. Many actually have it online since that's cheaper to run than reading post! Of course, the URL is not easy to find...

*or at least, something where the competetion runner doesn't make money from the entrant, so postal is fine even though you have to pay postage
Apparently Mr Traister has written a number of other books - https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B001H6UPHY/ - according to Amazon...

Made me wonder if the quality of the content in the other 11 books is anything like the one the Woz took apart.
The same has been pointed out about Web browsers using SRV DNS lookups to find servers.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395600

SPF, of course, should be used everywhere so that we reach the point of complete balkanization and collapse, and people realize that we can (and in fact in some ways already have) switch wholesale to different systems, faster. (-:

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/smtp-spf-is-harmful.html

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405864
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Another approach is a service I built called veropost (dotcom) that is an email paywall so the sender needs to send a tiny tiny bit of Bitcoin in order to reach you.
Heh, I've started with machine code, it's not unlike BASIC. Command addresses instead of line numbers, gotos aplenty, global variables.
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> You can either mandate that businesses shoulder some of the burden of providing decent living conditions, or expect the state to shoulder that burden more directly and let businesses coast on cheap labor that's dependent on welfare.

Out of curiosity (this is a slight tangent), why do you think businesses should shoulder that burden (if you do, I'm just guessing). Just as a reminder, we're not talking about mega-corp businesses like Google here, we're talking about restaurants, which I think are commonly small businesses. Why should their owners be forced to pay for employees' welfare, vs. doing the more equitable thing and spreading that payment to everyone?
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I'm still waiting for a good Docker tutorial with an actual project using actual bricks that people use in real life (like nginx, an Express app, maybe some memcache, redis, LBs, etc). All the tutorials you find revolve around mundane things like getting your environment ready and never on the actual issues that people face when using the tech.
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I completely agree, but providing a similar interface today, and everyone cry out loud! The key here is long time. This page is ready to be displayed for centuries. What with this dependency bootstrapped/vue/meteor/angular stuffs of today. Those from last years feels already outdated.
A webpage should always displays, including when dependencies are missing, javascript disabled.
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Exactly. The only games - that I've played - that have the same arcade "pick up and play" level of fun are the GTA series (especially San Andreas) and racing games.
Back in the 90s there was a hilarious trend of winning the car in the mall by being the person to be in the car the longest. This was when SUVs were becoming a really big thing.

People were sleeping in the car with 5 other strangers to see who could outlast the others, with only short bathroom breaks allowed.

I'm not really sure what the advertisers/dealers won in that exchange.
(co-creator of Maskmail here). That's in our plan for future updates, at the least allowing users to opt in to using many different domains. Many other features in the pipeline too, please feel free to send any ideas you have to support@maskmail.net, or tweet at us @mask_mail

Hope you find value in the service!
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My plus addressing with gmail is strictly a whitelist. Anything sent without a plus address is immediately deleted with an automatic filter. The issue I encounter is services that (incorrectly) treat a plus address email as invalid, preventing sign ups.
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Good. The narrowing with inputs is neat. Needs bom upload.

PROS:
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Very Fast
Lots of data
Works on mobile
Effective with params

CONS:
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This is an easy one.. all such products should have a manual 3 position switch with off-Auto-On/manual
I’m in New Zealand. My friends are really struggling to get work here. Employers here are really tough on Chinese developers. Immigration is even tougher. I think our government needs to address these issues if we want more skilled workers.
Having worked in casinos and actually owning a real, unrestricted gambling machine (for laughs, tbh): that's bullshit. Gambling works because there is always, always some machine that is paying out money. This one machine is sufficient to get all other patrons to throw more and more money at them.

Sometimes all hell breaks loose and multiple or all machines pay out. The joke is that most gamblers won't cash out and go home - they will "reinvest" their entire win in hope to win more... and the really desperate ones throw even more "fresh" money at them.
> which compare very nicely to the (expected / hoped for) 9.7% average return from a diversified total market fund.

Understood, guess it's hard for me to wrap my head around this. As a european this feels unsustainable and way too good to be true.
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Lovely place. I just wish they would hurry up and invent those hypersonic jets that people have been promising for 20 years so it was only a 2 hour flight away.
Will you add support for Bring-Your-Own-Domain? This HN commenter is definitely interested.
Yet when I search Google for "UPS Driver Street", 10 out of the first 12 pictures that show a UPS driver on the street show him with packages on a dolly.
>Prohibited: "Failing to award and distribute all prizes of the value and type represented."

They can't mock-award it to someone of their own?
Didn't some of the C++ books have to be crappy in some ways due to limitations of free (as in beer) compilers with arbitrary limitations? One I vaguely remember was a ridiculously (even for the time) limited stack size, so a lot of examples had to do unnecessary allocation just so readers could compile.

I think it was this book (https://www.amazon.com/Flights-Fantasy-Programming-Video-Gam...) that taught me 3D programming better than anything else. The code was readable, the maths was well explained and it included sections on how to do things without those newfangled maths co-processors. I'd love to buy a copy now just to see if it really was a good book or if it led me astray.
The car is surrounded by posters that read "Enter to win" above a picture of a white vehicle otherwise similar to the blue car physically present.

There is absolutely no doubt that ideogram promises a chance to win the car in exchange for the registration.
They have a really odd way to attract tech talent....

I exited my startup in the uk two years ago, successfully, leaving a successful and growing technology business behind. I have several ideas which I am prepared to self-fund up to £0.5M, and want a good environment in which to start a new business. I know coders in NZ, and they’re a talented bunch, we began to hatch a plan.

In short, the NZ gov’t don’t want it. They either want more money invested up front (much, much more), a VC to be involved (not at that stage yet by a long shot), or for me to buy a new property in NZ for > $2,000,000. Apparently having built a business with £10M turnover from nothing isn’t sufficiently good enough entrepreneurship for me to pass.

I’m now looking elsewhere - which is a shame, as I love NZ for many reasons, from the people to the nature, to the family I have there. I’m trying very hard not to be bitter about the repeated rejections, as it’s not fair to tar a nation on the basis of immigration bureaucrats. I’m certainly disappointed - the idea was for a service that NZ needs, that I hit upon while travelling there after my exit for a few months.

All they will attract will be satellite startups owned by megacorporations, as this appears to be how the bars are set.
That's great! Thanks.
I’m confident that this is a first step towards integrating it into Firefox itself.

1. Test Firefox Monitor on the web

2. Integrate it for all Firefox users
in my opinion yes, there are multiple situations where id say its ok, there are plenty of ways you can have essentially ruined your life either by fault of your own or through happenstance but its also possible just to have had enough, i think this can be especially true for people who are not what you would call sociable creatures

i dont personally have the desire to interact with others much, ill never be having children or entering a relationship and i have not got a career, just a job that is a means to an end. while ive never been particularly well off ive managed to tick off most everything on my bucket list.

in short i lack purpose and have many times considered that maybe ive had enough, to what end should i continue to struggle on, things will only get harder as the years go on, i have no reason to struggle on so i dont need to be a drain on the resources of the country/world
Of course you are correct, even though one could argue the linearity of differentiation is a property you can obtain by differentiating in coordinate charts, where the reasoning is still valid.

In any case, it is probably a good thing to get a good intuition of what differentiation and derivatives are in the vector space setting before digging into differential geometry.
The ancients, all of them all the time, could follow an argument and would interact with it coherently, instead just replying with a bit to some bits and leaving the whole on the ground.
This looks like a novel use of Rust. As a Melbournian it's nice to see Scienceworks mentioned in the post.
You are right. Sometimes the most sticking facts in my head are those that I rediscovered by myself, because that helped me to see their actual importance, which might have not been that apparent while hearing about them in classes. There are teaching theories in which the student is not supposed to learn about something, but they are guided to rediscover it by their tutors.
When optimizing high-dimensional policies, the gap in sample complexity between PPO (and policy gradient methods in general) and ES / random search is pretty big.
If you compare the Atari results from the PPO and ES papers from OpenAI, PPO after 25M frames is better than ES after 1B frames. In these two papers, the policy parametrization is roughly the same, except that ES uses virtual batchnorm. For DOTA, with a much bigger policy, I'd expect the gap between ES and PPO to be much bigger than for Atari.

My takeaway from [0] and Rajeswaran's earlier paper is that one can solve the MuJoCo tasks with linear policies after appropriate preprocessing, so we shouldn't take them too seriously. That paper doesn't do an apples-to-apples comparison between ES and PG methods on sample complexity.

All of that said, there's not enough careful analysis comparing different policy optimization methods.

(Disclaimer: I am an author of PPO)
I was going to ask if any attempt was made to reach the book author for comment, but it looks like he died in 2007. RIP.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29007415/robert-joseph-t...
It is not just about harm. FDA rules on medical products also in fitness of purpose. If you can show that your arsenic preparation is effective and safe, it will be allowed on the market. Likewise MDMA preparations and cannabis preparations for specific purposes. (They cannot because it is schedule I. )

DEA governs the drug schedule, not FDA. That should be don from almost strictly criminal point of view, with major politicization.
He's going to wait for a bunch of people to die, start a class action lawsuit, spend the next ten to fifteen years researching and litigating to determine whether or not arsenic does, in fact, cause cancer, and then, tens of millions of dollars and thousands of lives later, let a dozen people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty make that determination.

Best case-for-the-public scenario, he's going to end up paying a fine to the government, that will be used to advertise the dangers of arsenic, and will be given retroactive immunity to any new class action lawsuits. The only way that he will be able to pay that fine, will be by continuing to selling arsenic to the public, killing thousands more.

If that seems too outlandish, may I direct you to tobacco trials? [1] Legal, until proven harmful turned out absolutely great there!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
It is both chaotic and brilliant. Why disrupt the existing lines when you can just build some new factory space really cheaply?
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All to make it a game of skill and not run an illegal lottery.

I assume Ofcom or IBA before them put no effort into enforcing so the programmes just felt free to turn it into a lottery with a question only the dog will get wrong.

In the olden days of answers on a postcard to... yes, some of those were actually difficult questions. That was in the days that Brit TV still tried hard to avoid becoming commercial trash and even the commercial channels were quite restricted: Caps on game show prizes, no naming of prize manufacturers - even when you can clearly see it's a Ford, cash values were capped even lower than prize values.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire wouldn't have been allowed a few years previously. Now every show seems to have their own illegal lottery and we have product placement. :)

And we no longer have a TV!
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This show is verging on ridiculous for me - I am so out of my depth listening to it. But I appreciate that the BBC produce it for those who like it.

Other quizes of various difficulties include University Challenge, and Mastermind. Both have a priceless prize for the winner.
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I would love to do frontend web development but the current high-churn Javascript ecosystem makes me dizzy; this is probably a naive question but will it be possible to do web-development without integrating in the Javascript ecosystem using WebAssembly and Rust someday?
Sounds like a bargain to acquihire pkhuong... https://www.pvk.ca/

;-)
It seems very cool to me. But also very dangerous. What defenses can an individual or a small company have before an attack of these characteristics?

Many people do not have a firewall or the one with their router is rudimentary. No antivirus or host based software solution would detect something like that. I think that this type of articles should focus more on how to protect ourselves instead of how to do evil things.
When you get there you probably still shouldn't do it.
I'd be interested in a review of the author's C++ pointer book Conquering C++ Pointers

https://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Pointers-Robert-J-Traister...
The author seems to be anti-vaccine. Or at least, she suggests postponing child vaccination until age 4 or 5.

It's also worrisome that the FAQ has a section on "PARASITES & WORMS":

"Generally speaking, worms and other parasites are an inevitable part of life, everybody has them. In the majority of people they cause no symptoms and, unless they cause problems, there is no need to attack them. Worms may fulfill some useful functions in the body by controlling other microbes and stimulating immunity. For example, it has been discovered that some worms have a balancing effect on the immune system and may prevent autoimmunity."
We hadn't considered it, but it's an interesting idea. We'd have to think through how to make it work, there'd be some interesting interplay with routing and mail servers.
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If the project fails then the people who commissioned the project would be at fault, therefore these things rarely truly are considered failures
Leave the Firefox alone, please. Pocket, HIBP, 1Password, Cloudflare ... Not cool. 1Password has flawed sec rep [0], Cloudflare is pure MITM, stripping TLS between you and webserver, the rest just network and data leaks I haven't asked for.

For passwords best is KeepassXC, sync encrypted db via any file sharing.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/flaws_in_password_m...
Still have no clue what they do nor how they make money. I guess it's another coin.
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This would be really amazing.
I speak about what worked for myself about the psychological part (I lost 20kg in 2 years).

First it was to not enter in a willpower fight. I did accept that I will fail, and I did fail many times (sorry did not count, often in the beginning and I was still failing from time to time until the end). But every time i failed, instead of giving up i was telling to myself "ok you failed, but it worked for X days, you trained your body to eat less, let's start again, it will be more easy this time." And it was true. With time your body require less food to fill "full" even when you fail.

Also a lot of ppl here are talking about fasting. I'm not sure about it at all. Your brain may try to prevent the next "fasting time" and may try to trick you to eat more. I would advise to eat at very regular times so your brain "knows" when you will eat (for me: 6:00/12:00/19:00 +/-30mins). Take time to eat, move in another place, etc ... so you appreciate it more.

I liked the cheat days principle because it gives you short term goals, and it helps to keep some pleasure eating food. It also helps to not bring your diet with you when you go to lunch with friends/family. I also noticed that with time I was cheating less during these days.

Preparing food for myself also saved money, sometimes it helped for motivation.
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By this reasoning, someone in a historically war-torn country (there are a few, you can imagine it's any one of them) should not hope for a peaceful time at some point. I think this is a good example of a case where hope does indeed work, even though the thing you hope for is statistically unlikely.
There's generally no one doing the work basically. A gym I went to had notoriously bad competitions and advertising. It was never the "last memberships available" and there wasn't actually "10 days left" the counter just changed back on the final day. No one ever got the prizes either, they just never announced a winner, and a new competition started the same day. People still signed up by the hundreds.

Hundereds of formal complaints by people from the gym to the ombudsman and consumer affairs over more than five years amounted to literally nothing. They still do everything they used to.

Even more seriously, they didn't pay their employees superannuation, and it took years to even start the process of sorting that out.

As these car competitions are run by private businesses and not the car manufacturers my guess is they are simply too small of a fish to go after.

Now, just last week that same gym was implicated in a drug trafficking ring. But that's a different department of law enforcement...
My dad signed up for one of those sweepstakes back in the '90s. They called and said he won a "prize" but he had to come into view a "presentation". Went to the "presentation" where they tried to hustle him to signup for a timeshare. He resisted and they gave him the "prize", which was a knockoff boombox.

That boombox is still alive, my mom uses it in the garage when she's doing gardening. I'm pretty sure the company that gave it to us is long gone. Life finds a way?
The sum operator is linear, so its derivative is itself: the derivative of the sum is the sum of derivatives. Same goes for multiplication by a scalar.

From this you obtain that the derivative of any linear combination is the linear combination of the derivatives: differentiation is linear.
I'm fairly sure there's federal laws that forbid that. Of course, it's not a crime if you don't get caught. Plus there's a small sub-story in the article about someone that did win a Tesla, but couldn't afford the taxes they had to pay to actually get it.

You can win a car but you have to be able to pay taxes and insurance for it, too.
> Incorrect application of civil forfeiture laws is one very good reason to

Those have their own drawbacks. Digital currency can often be tracked (not made to be anonymous). They might or might not have high currency fluctuations, security issues (could be even the device / site you're using), high transaction costs, etc.

If you already have cash it seems easier to just do a bank transfer (at least it is within most of Europe).
The McDonalds in-app ordering and pickup is a superior experience

... If you don't mind the fact that they suck all your private Contacts information off you device and track everywhere you travel. Is it worth it? Really?
Anyone know if there is a chance we will actually get our hands on the core of this so we can implement it on existing codebases?

It would be an invaluable tool to search through specific codebases for the place they do X as well as for answering questions on how to do X.
We use PostgreSQL with normal cols and JSONB columns, as well, which works wonderful. High speed, high flexibility, and all the transactional quarantees Postgres gives you.

Also, we can use SQL.
It's the same logic that drives absurd spam mails. They want the kind of people that consider a nigerian prince that needs your help to share his wealth with you as a legitimate opportunity.
What will happen when Have I Been Pwned gets Pwned?

Must be storing a lot of email addresses at this point.
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> Employees here are really tough on Chinese developers. Immigration is even tougher

Can you elaborate on this? I'm just curious.
Because the companies they worked for didn't threaten to upend the retail market of an entire nation, I'm guessing.
At least they're not saying you could win a car.
Good job, mate! Seems pretty useful. Who would you name your top competitors?
Sure, but then you get 100 other problems that come with self-hosted e-mail servers that might not be worth the hassle.
> Zilliqa, a public blockchain network, hit its billion-dollar market cap in May this year, a little under a year since its founding

This should bother anyone. 0 to $1B in market cap in 12 months is about as 'bubble' as you can get
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Probably a bit of free publicity in a local newspaper, people coming by to watch for a while (while a salesperson approaches them), etc. It's good fun, too.
>Two guys in a garage

Is this urban legend still taken seriously? I mean, it was a thing 40 years ago, but now there is hardly anyone "with nothing to lose" that can reach anywhere without a good amount of luck.
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Just like Tron escaping the game grid. :-)
This is why the GDPR and similar things are good; you can sign up, but they have to delete your data if you ask them for it. It makes schemes like this a lot less er, 'final', so to speak.