skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being familiar with their system myself, I have to ask - does this imply that there's 2nd order gambling? I mean, the same gambling "kick" then arises from seeing what they would get after paying for the following big, right?

I suppose they could also make the boxes transparent all the way down, but that would just shift the gamble to the account creation phase.

Oh, or is it just the exact same boxes for everyone? I suppose that solves the problem.
There are not millions of people starving in the us are you mad.
I'm on the other side of the fence. My previous car had an automatic, a lovely one too: the 7-speed getrag dual-clutch that bmw puts almost exclusively on the M models. When I bought it I thought that because the car was so good and it had so much power I would be ok with having it.

Nope, I was bored out of my mind and the paddle shifters were no replacement. Sold it after 6 months, bought a manual again and am never going back to automatics. Yes, they're slower and less fuel efficient but they're so much more fun; like Hammond said "changing gear is a vital form of self-expression".

Probably helps that I don't drive in traffic, only for fun.
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That just sounds like banks are worried about getting disrupted by mobile payments. Even beggars in Shenzhen accept Wechat payments these days so I am not buying the "think of the poor" angle. ATMs and banks lost a lot of their utility since the rise of mobile payments.
How does that apply to today’s people, who are dealing with today’s problems and today’s struggles? Is it okay that a child in America is malnourished today because malnourishment existed?
There's a somewhat confusing summary of the degree of mobility in the US on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility#United_State...

I think a roughly accurate statement is that over half of Americans end up within one income quintile of their parents.

That doesn't seem like much mobility to me and many European countries apparently rank better. The American Dream might be mostly marketing at this point.
Agreed. No dev in their right mind would intentionally attach these bloaty 20x more script spawny advert/trackers or put an irritating popup, most of these are signs that at some point in time, there was a bad decision and dev had a gun at their head to make that decision material.
There is a somewhat parallel discussion in Scandinavia on going cashless. Exactly the same issues: Poor people being marginalized, old people unable to use new technologies. And the uniquely Scandinavian; how to do "black work", work that is not reported to the tax authorities, without cash.
Why are they calling it transformer? Looks like a low-tech mecha.
Do you have an example to share? The comment I’m replying to is pretty specific about topics: homophobia and denying the holocaust. Do you feel those are reasonable things to include in a hate speech regulations?
>>Except wouldn’t human society collapse if everyone “pivoted away”

No. The human society would not collapse if there were fewer fishermen. The fact that the fishermen are so badly paid even if they work so hard, to me is a clear indication that the human society does not value their effort and it would be probably better if they would put their efforts into something else.

>>Is it possible wages often don’t reflect the value of the work people do?

I agree, there is often little correlation between the wage and the value of the work but the rational workers should optimize for the wage not for the value of the work if they don't want to be poor.
Seriously? I'm guessing you don't have children. Working to improve the life of your kids and grandkids is a real driver, and is the subject of the classic immigrant story for millions of people the world over.

Police kill ~1000 people per year in the US and roughly half are white. While there is an inarguabale disparity there, that means your chances of getting shot by police are extremely, vanishingly rare. And the numbers killed each year is in steep decline. Let's abandon the fear mongering rhetoric of getting shot by police is any real threat. It makes good headlines but it's just not likely to happen to 99.9999% of people no matter their "shade of brown" as you say.

There are more worker protections, more systemic empowerment of people in all classes, all genders, all faiths, all backgrounds than ever in history. There's a lot of work to be done and the system is by no means equal. Wealth disparity is real. But the fact is there's more learning resources available for free with which to bootstrap yourself than ever. As someone descended from hard working immigrants who valued education, and who is part of an incredibly racially diverse family, I don't think it's a crap deal at all.
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In India & Middle East too, if you take driving test in Manual, you can drive both Manual & Automatic. If the licence says Automatic, it is Automatic only.

Same with prices, repairs; Auto are expensive than Manual.
> as someone who has owned a number of sports cars
> stop and go traffic

Well theres your problem, you wouldn't take a tractor on a track day why would you take a sports car into stop and go traffic? buy a small manual, sit in second problem solved, will pay for itself with the petrol you will save.
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Why are we making motherhood something that cuts into someone’s career at all? Furthermore why are we making motherhood something that should punish the mother? Is it okay that a mother go without resources because she mothered too young? Is it fair/meritocratic to her child?
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"Exquisite Channeling"

Wow. I worked at Netscape summer of 1997, a team that helped content providers get their web sites ready to showcase the Dynamic HTML and Channel features in Netscape 4.0.

Javascript and RDF. In 1997.
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OP originally said it was expensive. She did not argue that it was easy or the person had free time.

That's a cute clip, but if you look at statistics you'll see Americans with less than a high school degree work on average 7.8 hours a day, and only 30% work on weekends and holidays.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t04.htm
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Indeed it is. Doesn't make it a good thing.

However, I think the entertainment industry is particularly fond of this.

My guess is because its products are both luxury items (so moral arguments against the same practices in housing or pharma don't necessarily apply) and items that consumers potentially have enormous emotional investment in. So once you've managed to build a fanbase, you can get away with a lot before the fans will seriously consider quitting.
Thats correct, however you can send your CV to maarten@hiber.global, the CTO.
Black work (and black money) is most definitely not uniquely Scandinavian.
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Ah, ok. In my country it seems to be about even, at least when the company grew beyond let's say 8-10 people.
The article mentions this:

> In many cities, cashlessness is so common that panhandlers and street musicians use WeChat and Alipay QR codes to ask for change. But these anecdotal cases obscure some of the class-related issues that cashlessness can’t fix, and may worsen. The 2017 World Bank Global Findex database, which measures financial inclusion, estimated that some 200 million Chinese rural citizens remain unbanked, or outside of the formal financial system. Cashless payment systems by design require formal enrollment in banks, which are then tied to the mobile payment platforms that WeChat and Alibaba host.
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It's extremely efficient, actually. After a while spent in the monitor on the C=64 (courtesy of the Final Cartridge III), we started just punching in hex opcodes instead of mnemonics; more efficient that way. I still remember that $4c is the hexadecimal opcode for the jmp instruction:

4c 00 c0 jmp $c000
We can agree that there are differences between the average male human and the average female human, sure.

But that's generally not what's being argued. What's usually being argued is something more like "it is incontrovertibly and undeniably proven beyond all doubt that evolution has deeply and unalterably hard-wired female humans not to be as good as male humans at programming computers, and therefore it is an inescapable conclusion that we should stop caring whether men outnumber women among computer programmers, and we should immediately cease all efforts to teach/encourage more women to be computer programmers."

I'm not even exaggerating. This is why people want to make these kinds of "well, women and men are different, you know" arguments. The "well, women just aren't as good at this" or "well, women just aren't as interested in this" arguments have been tried in multiple fields, and have fallen over flat in the face of actual empirical evidence over and over and over. But people keep desperately trying to revive them and say "Ah, but this field is different! The females really are inferior and less interested in our field, and we have science truths to back it up!"

Also, here's a takedown from someone who just did basic math back during the initial burst of drama around Damore's "diversity memo". It's very hard, once you check the math, to accept that we have any basis for asserting that observed ratios of men and women in STEM have a biological basis:

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Awikisteff%20sin...

That's a link to a date-based search. Scroll until you see "if there were large biological gender differences in STEM, you'd see it", and then start reading up from there for the replies.

I have to link you to that, because the thread was in reply to, disagreeing with, and debunking a tweet that's now deleted, and that apparently breaks Twitter's threading. The deleted tweet being debunked, for what it's worth, is from a user whose Twitter bio says she is "founder and editor" of Quillette, the site hosting the claims of the author of the "uncomfortable truth" paper this HN thread is about.
If you ignore the religious association, how is this concept any different from the notion that society functions better when people are industrious and maximise their efforts to do things that are useful and valuable to others?

I hear the PWE invoked (usually with a sneer), and reflect that it seems to be referring to exactly how my parents have operated throughout their adult lives, and that if everyone behaved the way my parents have done (to the extent that they are capable, of course), society would function far more effectively and harmoniously.

And then I wonder what I'm missing.

My mother spent her career working in hospitals helping to rehabilitate seriously injured and ill people. In her non-work time she cared for her ageing parents until they passed away. Now she helps raise her grandkids.

My father helped design and build telecommunications networks then ran a company making electronic gadgets that helped school kids learn about science, and environmental researchers gather data.

Both of them have spent much of their non-work time volunteering in the community - at kindergarten, school, church, and more. And they have maintained a healthy social life and done plenty of travel.

They've always been busy, but never burnt out or exhausted. Always occupied and fulfilled, never resentful.

I don't see how any of their work or volunteering is surplus to society's requirements.

I do see that society would be better off if more people were doing the kind of work and volunteering that my parents have always done.

What am I missing here?
I hope EA loses and appeals all the way to the European Court. Once it’s settled there EA loses a market of more than 450 million people for its unregulated casinos.
Because EA has most of the marketshare, and can afford to make big budget titles.

If a more regulated producer had similar marketshare, I could play the big budget titles of that regulated corporation.
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This is why you’re starting to see services like Swapsy and Megachange. They take USD via PayPal and “convert” or “match” it to RMB in WeChat and Alipay.

I think you’re right though: this is going to be a concern for tourists to China. Maybe that won’t be a concern for the locals or maybe the cashless services will figure out some way to take foreign cash for electronic credits, like these exchange services are doing.
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You kinda do, because that's what society is: rules made up to enable people to live together.

If you don't want to follow anyone's rules but your own, I recommend living completely on your own in the wilderness, off the grid and all that. Only then are you responsible only for yourself.
This simply is not correct - the scene is huge. If you think that, you're hanging out with the wrong crowd.

So many myths about what computing is and isn't -- I've not experienced anything remotely similar in any other field of human endeavor.
The capacity for self-education is not innate for most people. Developing this capacity requires dedication, the ability to delay gratification, significant emotional regulation, and most importantly it requires knowing how to learn. For optimal results, these skills must be fostered from an early age all the way through young adulthood. People who grew up with deprivation or abuse or neglect are unlikely to be good self-learners as adults.
As the article states, you need a Chinese bank account to use any of the new mobile payment methods.
Most of the things you mentioned are theoretically possible without a bank account but you have to find someone willing to send you money on Wechat in exchange for cash. You can also add a foreign credit card on your Wechat or Alipay to buy things online (e.g. Meituan, Taobao, etc.).
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If you have "hate speech regulations", then you don't have free speech. It doesn't matter if you think that's good or bad for you or for others.
Ireland is on the verge of entering a second recession and their public services are chronically in-navigable. I wouldn’t recommend it.
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Where's the hit counter?
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FrontPage was based on the Vermeer acquisition by Microsoft.

The book by the founder, "High Stakes, No Prisoners" should be required reading for anyone interested in doing an internet startup IMHO.
You do realise that Netflix doesn't need to depend-on/load adverts and mass tracking scripts and given the company itself is tech based their sales doesn't get the mighty power to force their devs inserting x40 tracking/adverts scripts and annoying popups? P.S. Netflix does ~17 ajax calls immediately after loading to hydrate its SSRd page ;)
Can whoever flagged the original comment please STOP and THINK. Nothing wrong with the post. OMG.

@icantdrive55 you are 100% right.
> What am I gaining?

"easier, more portable, more future-proof, more extensible, and quicker to develop"? I mean, people aren't doing it this way simply out of incompetence or for the hell of it.

It's also something of a local minimum in the platform wars. We can't have truly cross-platform everything because the platform vendors wouldn't be able to take their cut. The only reason the web survives as a cross-platform platform is it's where they've fought each other to a standstill.
The demoscene, or the software development "scene" as a whole?

> I've not experienced anything remotely similar in any other field of human endeavor.

Similar to what?
Exactly... flat wage growth in real terms is useless if the rise in the price of the things you need/want outstrips your ability to buy it.
You're correct but I'm going to be the ass that points it out: the M4 has a 7-speed getrag DCT yeah but all other versions come with the ZF 8 speed traditional auto (which is really good, mind you). BMWs with DCTs other than M cars are really really rare (only one that comes to mind is the Z4 35i/35is).
Quite a loaded question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question) Why do you think bootcamps are a scam? Reading past HN answers, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16341716, I haven't seen somebody saying it was a total waste or they shouldn't have done it.
Should all gambling be illegal then? I fail to see the problem with it. If somebody feels that's where she wants to put her money - great. If you arguing that's poor use of somebody's money then you may also want to ban whole lot of foods and gadgets. Those can be addictive too.
Looks like there are various options for tourists, including using AliPay, which accepts foreign cards, or get a verified WeChat user to send you a special link that lets you add a foreign card:

https://www.quora.com/How-can-tourists-in-China-use-mobile-p...
It's a bit more complicated than that: you can link WeChat to some credit cards, or get money transferred to your account. However, it's difficult to impossible to do this outside China and/or without a Chinese mobile number.

Here in Australia, WeChat/Alipay are starting to proliferate in Chinese shops & restaurants, but it's impossible to join either locally. No shop that I know of will reject cash, but "cash or WeChat/Alipay only" is fairly common.
I've also heard that getting many financial products (e.g. credit cards) in China is very difficult without citizenship, and Chinese citizenship is virtually impossible to acquire by naturalization.
As another poster noted, racing simulators will never be able to do anything close to replicating the experience of driving a manual. In an actual car, there's a constant physical feedback throughout the entire vehicle, from the vibration of the pedal to the sound of the engine to the acceleration from releasing the clutch, none of which can be effectively simulated. It's easy to tell you're much more directly connected to the road and in control of your vehicle in a manual than you would be in an automatic, where you have an impressive, but imperfect, software intermediary attempting to translate your actions into vehicular control.
To be upset you would have to take it out of the context its presented in, at which point its out of context. Seems like people are trying to be upset, shame on them.
Statistics hide the raw numbers and emotional reality.

30% is how many people?

What’s their schedule look like if they have kids too?

That’s a cute trick, using cold hard facts to normalize away bullshit
That's not totally accurate though. I've been using Wechat pay for months without ever linking a bank account. I can't withdraw my Wechat money to a bank account but I can spend it. I think that's precisely what banks are worried about: when more and more people decide they do not really need to link a bank account.
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Excellent, digging down into that leads to this Reddit post [0]

> One thing they noticed was that using features from a pretrained ImageNet VGG-16/19 CNN from 2014 (4 years ago), like the original Gatys paper did, worked much better than anything else; indeed, almost any set of 4-5 layers in VGG would provide great features for the style transfer optimization to target (as long as they were spread out and weren't exclusively bottom or top layers), while using more modern resnets (resnet-50) or GoogLeNet Inception v1 didn't work - it was hard to find sets of layers that would work at all and when they did, the quality of the style transfer was not as good. Interestingly, this appeared to be true of VGG CNNs trained on the MIT Places scene recognition database too, suggesting there's something architectural going on which is not database specific or peculiar to those two trained models. And their attempt at an upscaling CNN modeled on Johnson et al 2016's VGG-16 for CIFAR-100 worked well too.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7rrrk3/d_e...
Not OP,
not everyone wants to make gambling illegal just regulate it so some categories of people don't get abused.
If the game is gambling then the existing rules for gambling need to apply, if you don't like the existing rules then you need to try to change them.
SRAM is fun until you need more than 100MB of it.

There is also a number of other hardware failure scenarios.
Yes, private ownership is one condition, but not the only one. I'd add capital intensive production (building plants and machinery for automation), the existance of a labor market and the existance of a big class of people lacking ownership of the means of production, thereby being forced to sell their labor on the market. And you have a class of people living off of the profits generated by the means of production (in contrast to feudalism, where people also lived without working, but the means came from fiefs, not from the market).
On investigation icantdrive55, someone is systematically killing your posts. All you can do it create a new account.
>Isn't maximizing profits just a natural consequence of having a for-profit business? It's not just evil video game publishers, everybody wants to sell less for more.

I think less for more naturally would come with inflation across the board but the less for more approach isn't the only way to increase profits or even the most popular one. The computer industry for example is known for scaling by giving more for less. Beverage companies add more drinks for the same price. Less for more requires a monopoly or something close to it, otherwise competitors rush in.
I think it's the COVOX 8-bit thing. Not sure what the specs are, but if you can load samples and loops and set them off at specific intervals, you can accomplish a whole lot with almost no burden to the main computer.

Edit: nope. The COVOX was a parallel port DAC. The computer has to send each sample out. I suspect some light compression, pre-rendered audio segments and an interrupt-driven routine to get data from the HDD and send enough samples per second the sound doesn't get distorted.
Not all of us don't love it. I have a Chevy HHR with a stick and it's my "millennial anti-theft device".
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Ok, thank you for your comment and help.

I've made a Show HN then, at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17967252

Hope it will work :)
in 1997, i had people tell me i would never be a real webmaster if I wasn't using hotdogpro. i never wanted to be a real webmaster, so I guess I dodged a bullet there.
I feel like there’s some sort of connection here between how magazines are systematically and repeatedly not fulfilling your basic needs to absorb information by using a narrative and the articles description of how society is failing those in poverty with the narrative of “jobs==fixed poverty”.
From memory WeChat verification only allows one verification every few months (and only if your account is old enough). In theory you can get a hostel employee to verify you, but they have usually used up their verification for that quarter.
I really don't think that oil rigging work will "always" be there. I imagine that unskilled work in the field would mostly disappear in the next few decades.
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