skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Or is this a standard "prohibition creates criminal opportunity" issue?"

This is exactly it. And it is not something that should be dismissed, it has pretty much been proven correct. In the US, before state run lotteries were present and popular, there were criminal run "numbers games" which were quite similar to lotteries but with much worse payout ratios and where the criminals that ran them often refused to pay for various reasons.

In the Scorcesse classic movie "Mean Streets" one of the storylines is about a kid that wins one of those numbers games but the person that runs the game refuses to pay him because he is of a mixed race.

Numbers games are very rare in the US nowadays and when present are only present in poor immigrant communities that do not know much about the state run lotteries. The state run lotteries did a pretty good job of getting rid of the numbers games and thus depriving organized crime of a source of revenue while providing better odds of success for lottery players and also taking in money for the government and thus saving taxpayer money.

The original lottery idea was also reasonably effective at keeping individual betting volumes low. They did this by making sure that each ticket was relatively cheap and required relatively large amount of work to determine the winner. Thus it was hard for someone to buy many tickets. Unfortunately, this is something that has slowly been eroding as lottery systems try to get more revenue and encourage compulsive buying.

So no I do not think state lotteries should be banned but it may be a good idea to change the rules for advertising or the games themselves to discourage individuals from blowing too much money on them.
And your comment conveniently omits that ballot item was a non-binding opinion question on using a gas tax increase to fund education and public roads. And that it was defeated. And that a tax != a subsidy.
Sometimes I am not sure if people are serious. It's not to say that graphics = complexity, by any means, but supporting the complexity Star Citizen is trying to with the sort of graphics that Star Citizen has is a very, very different thing.

Another commenter wondered why more Star Citizen backers weren't interested in the 2D game he founded. Again, hard to tell if people are serious, or they just don't understand what the draw is.

Images:
https://cdn.mmos.com/wp-content/gallery/shores-of-hazeron-ov...
https://cdn.mmos.com/wp-content/gallery/shores-of-hazeron-ov...
https://cdn.mmos.com/wp-content/gallery/shores-of-hazeron-ov...
Randall has a response to this argument in the article.
To put it another way: I think you almost nailed it in your previous reply, though I don't think you meant to.

> Trying to compare Battlefield 1942 to an approach like Star Citizen is like comparing a deck of playing cards to Battlefield 1942

A deck of playing cards isn't inherently fun. A game is, though. There's a much better comparison of Star Citizen to the deck of cards here, and of BF1942 to a game.

You can, and have, created some fun by bending Star Citizen into game-like situations. I have, too! That's totally valid. That doesn't happen as often in BF1942—not never, but many people simply play BF1942 as designed.

Is Star Citizen fun, or are you and the people you play with fun? You can list features and functionality all day, but is the enjoyment coming from the game, or is Star Citizen primarily a medium for you to create your own enjoyment?

It's maybe a subtle difference. You might even consider it a meaningless one. But seriously: is Star Citizen fun?
I can convert the optics to non-reversible by spreading a thin layer of dust on top. Now both systems are non-reversible and both allow higher temperatures? Or are we looking at a particular kind of non-reversibility?
Not in my opinion. It's still an unmanaged language at the end of the day and has to be compiled. Secondly, it's still a very technical language.
What? In the UK, private hire licensing is & always was a normal thing and the way Uber uses it is entirely normal too. It's not a loophole. They weren't even the first to allow booking without phoning.
People are quick to criticize Facebook here on HN, but this release is awesome. I believe open source speech recognition is still lacking, and any contribution is very welcome. CMU Sphinx and Kaldi are great, but it feels like the most recent advances in the field are still hidden behind paid services.
When I look back at my favorite games of all time, they all evoke this feeling of "I can go anywhere and do anything. There's so much to do and see, and I'm a little nervous to venture out because I'm not sure I'll be able to find my way back."

Star Control II is that game. So is Ultima VII, and several Infocom games that filled my
imagination and seemed bigger than they were. Before the era of a complete walkthrough a click away that will lead you by the nose.

The turning point was voiced dialogue. Once that became the norm, content became exponentially more expensive to produce, and so the size of the worlds shrank.
> MIT-alike licenses provide more freedom for the final user

There is this freedom for end users to modify and run software, sort of anti lock in freedom. And there is this corporate freedom allowing corporations to restrict freedoms of end users and lock them in. The second one is what MIT-alike enables. It doesn't make sure end users keep any freedom at all. So the choice is to either restrict corporations or let corporations restrict users. Letting corporations restrict users also lets them capture all profits and make sure original creators won't be able to compete with them.

No matter how you look at it, the idea of unrestricted use for corporations will die. Startups, small companies, independent creators are either going to switch to restrictive licenses or won't be able to sustain development and abandon it. Things could have been different if tech companies weren't allowed to get so big.
No, it's scary that intelligent people accept not having an elected body which formulates the law of the land. And scary that anyone who questions that is accused of falling for 'propaganda'.
Unfortunately the serverless container supported by Zeit v1 is on a deprecation path...
Does the reasoning behind it matter?

The public benefits from it, and they get to hire researchers that want to continue that work. It sounds like a win-win?
What's the KSA? Saudia Arabia? Doesn't Ghawar produce at around a lowish single-digit cost?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghawar_Field
"Composite photo" means "multiple photos combined together" not "artificial picture generated from information on chemical composition".
my guess is if facebook is working on its own blockchain currency, the algorithm describing the currency would be a bit different from bitcoin or ethereum. Contrary to what you read sometimes, those cryptocurrencies have properties that are not desirable for a real world currency ( aka inflationary and very poor number of transaction per seconds capacity).
No one is hyping electron Oscar, quite the opposite: HN is ceaselessly negative about it, and for very thin reasons that just don't cut it for me.

I think you do get close to the real reason for this negativity when you say that you're afraid of it - I suspect that electron is threatening to many developers exactly because it has so much potential. It dramatically lowers the bar for access to desktop development, works on all platforms, and if it really catches on (and this is probably worst of all) it renders much of their native development experience useless.

The criticisms that it doesn't automatically look and behave natively and that it is more resource intensive are true, but I don't think they really matter. Developers here seem to be deliberately overstating the case against it in an attempt to make it go away.

Anyway, the argument doesn't matter all that much either. Electron is such a good value proposition from a development standpoint that it'll continue to see growth, and with it further optimisation, and eventually it or a web tech orientated successor will end up being pretty big.
So, may i place a fake AT&T logo on a Huwai phone?
A lot of scams are small enterprises.
>Each new platform takes time to write support for and we have a long list of features requests. We'll get there!

And until you write that support do you still take tips and send them to the whois account holder of the domain? Or do you block tips?
You could make this pay out better than actuarially-fair prizes, by having the savings fund invest some of the lottery jackpot in call options on a diversified portfolio. That way, the fund would be able to pay out more prizes when the markets are doing well, while still keeping a "baseline" level of draws at all other times. The reason why this would provide better-than-fair payouts is that these options are effectively on the capital markets line, i.e. investing in them is essentially removing risk that other market participants would otherwise have to face!
I think it's philosophically interesting. The Go approach to needing a more powerful language is to assume that you actually want to write a custom code generator for your project's needs. And it's not pretty to do so(the "go generate" thing makes quite a wart in its attempt to ease this process), but it works, and you can move on with your project. Most newer languages get tied in knots trying to generalize that same task and have a kind of configurability meltdown where everyone does it differently, so while it can be shared and reused in theory, none of it is actually compatible. I think it's akin to criticism of OOP in that in a lot of cases, "you wanted a banana but you got a banana plantation, three tractors, and twenty employees".

And Go is just a little bit closer to the sweet spot than C was, since a greater proportion of Go code seems to successfully avoid extensive preprocessing.

On the other hand, it might be a bit too restrictive for prototyping to have these power limits. I definitely have an easier time feeling my way through an unknown data modelling problem if I can start slinging things together dynamically.
Not sure if this is what they're referring to, but here's a similar story

https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/21/2652862/verizon-galaxy-n...
It's not too surprising. Many Princeton faculty work closely with Google already. Princeton researchers are also known for being very theoretically focused, including the two mentioned in the article. If Google wants to diversity its research groups to include more theorists, then Princeton is a smart choice.
1Password felt like Mac/iOS software ported to other platforms.
My understanding is that you're experiencing Brave's other project, which is somehow both more scammy and scummy than this one. The idea is to replace the ads already in the web page with "good ads" approved by Brave, and give the original publisher 1/3 of the resulting revenue through some similarly unclear means.

This, of course, is exactly the same model as many pieces of toolbar malware, with the genius addition that by letting publishers opt in to receiving a small fraction of the revenue, they hope to make it easier to accept the loss than to sue.

Of course they'll respond by saying that users choose to download and run Brave. But the long term financial success of the project is dependent on most users either not knowing or not caring that their browser is inserting ads into webpages and taking funding from publishers (and maybe "opt-in" to seeing replacements ads through some UI dark patterns, I don't know). Frankly I don't see any real difference between this and the average toolbar that promises to "add value" to the browser.

Brave has the worst business practices of any open source company I know of, and they're a blight on the community in general.
Usually I'm a stickler for the truth, but since there's no way scientists will ever be able to examine the stone, I prefer not to let the unresolvable uncertainty get in the way of such a neat story.
The burden of proof is on Slat, and a report is not a proof. Until now, there's nothing effective.

In general, I think there are a few factors for comparing different solutions:

- effectiveness
- cost-effectiveness
- scalability

Now, I'll put this in the opposite perspective. What is people doubting about the coastal cleaning approach?

Effectiveness? A large part of the sea garbage ends on the beaches. Is that considered not enough?

Cost effectiveness? There's no way machinery on the oceans is going to be less expensive than on the earth.

Scalability? Same as previous point.
I've been testing out the self hosted community edition, it works well enough but you'll most likely want to run an image proxy server (it only seems to support camo) and mobile notifications are supported but sent plaintext (unless you compile your own apps).

You also can't prevent users from 'archiving' (deleting) any channel they have access to.

Overall it feels like I was being firmly nudged towards the paid hosted version.
Ok, let’s get into licensing. Copyleft licenses like AGPL and SSPL have a weaker result in terms of overall benefit to society than liberal licenses like MIT and Apache2. You can take two interpretations on copyleft, which I’ll call “the crusader” or “the capitalist”.

The problem with the "crusader" model, as practiced, is that it came with a "you're either with us, or you're against us" stance. This created a community subculture which encouraged the alienation of potential allies and served more to make the Free Software movement more of a hipster pose. It served more to make Free Software a kind of antipodean "unwalled" garden, where the barriers to entry also acted as a validation of the virtue signal.

Don't get me wrong. Copyleft licenses have a place. It's just that the place is not "Uber alles."
Agree - switching to Bitwarden was super easy.
By that definition, sandbox games are not games, and just something you can make fun in if you bend them the right way. EVE Online is apparently no longer a game, and perhaps someone should tell CCP that.
The MS team worked very hard to make it snappy; e.g. it doesn't dump the entire file into the DOM if it is big (but rather materializes it as needed, and removes sections not viewed).

That's the kind of tricks that the DOM (so web and also Electron) were supposed to make irrelevant.

Write an app "naturally" with Electron, and it will likely be slow because of the DOM <-> data impedance mismatch. That's what slack is guilty of, but the ability to do so is Electron's claim to fame.
I use the containers add on, and it's pretty much the only real advantage FF has over chrome.

Still need user switching although, because sometimes I want to separate multiple google/twitter/etc accounts for example and still want the automatic url-based container activation.

If brave implemented containers although, I would probably use it because chrome works better than FF.
The original creators of SC2 are in a legal battle with Stardock.
I really can't think of any reason they'd be invalid.Keep in mind copyright doesn't need to be registered to be valid - the actual copyright applies since they created the work, this is just a formal registration of that.

There's also a ton of evidence supporting this copyright: The game CDs, manual, and box art all also say copyright Fred & Paul; there's email threads with Accolade discussing the possibility of merging the copyright and trademark; the fact that they published the game with no change other than removal of the "Star Control" trademark; and basically the entire team signing off on this.

If someone else was claiming to have written it, I could see a credible conflict, but literally everyone involved in the actual creation of the game says that, yes, it was created by Fred & Paul.
yup, i don't use 1password.com because of those security concerns.

not sure if it would work for your situation, but it's possible to set up different vaults for different groups of people and share them via separate dropbox folders (or even just different share settings on the vault files). i have 5 vaults set up that way.
The _low income threshold_ is 117k: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/06/28/fam...
These specific ones cannot be reliably tracked as they are smaller than normal cubesats.
Glad to see Bitwarden up on top. They tick all the boxes for me - open source, transparent security (including recently published audit), feature-rich, optional self-hosted, and easy to use.
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I think we're just talking past each other without actually disagreeing on anything.

My whole point is that I believe clean energy can stand on its own feet, and that when it does, fossil fuel use will plummet dramatically to almost nothing.

In the meantime, having a plentiful supply of fossil fuels is good for the economy and for national security. The whole point is to have a ton available but never need to use it.
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Maybe. What isn't seen isn't taken into account: what would have happened if the internet hadn't been. Maybe things could have happened that didn't. It's hard to tell, but it's quite possible.
Netflix is the only company of the “FAANG” that does all-cash offers. The comp in all others includes a fair amount of stock/bonuses/etc + base salary
This is a very useful perspective on the positives of lotteries. I've always found them to be bogus, borderline theft. But when you consider the fact that it mitigates--almost entirely removing--more shady versions of the game, it makes lotteries seem more like a necessary evil for the time being.

However, that's not to say that the government couldn't do a better job of educating the public on it. Lotteries are definitely aggrandized with all the bells and whistles to make people feel like they have a real shot at winning which I would argue could draw in people who wouldn't have played--lottery, numbers games, or otherwise.
Saw this on reddit the other day and was very impressed from how much on point his prediction was about modern computers/internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxyCyDEaEg
My investment approach is stocks, for long-term investment, based on fundamental valuation metrics (CAPE etc).

YTD result is roughly -5% on paper, before tax. Current allocation is about 40% stocks, 22% bonds, 3% reit, 35% cash. Ignoring the cash, YTD result is about -8%.

I sold ~ 1/4 of stock portfolio in January and moved moved the resulting cash into bonds or saving accounts. At the start of this year I believed that US equities were over-valued compared to their historical valuation, I still believe they are. The current large allocation to cash is to give flexibility (to e.g. buy cheap stock or for a down payment on a house) in scenarios where there is a large drop in stock market prices and I need to avoid selling any stock for 5-10+ years until prices rise.

Some interesting reading for stock market valuation:

https://www.starcapital.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/publi...

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2018/01/future-u-s-equ...
No, the tax would end up eventually hurting their profit margins while the subsidies increase those margins.

They encourage different short term effects but they're both contributing to the same effect.

All that said, the subsidies in this case far outweighed the effect the tax would have had.
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> I like that every single brand of toilet paper now boasts "8=16" or "12=32" etc.

The left is number of rolls in the package, the right is the number of the same brand “standard” rolls it is equivalent to by length (there is accommodating text which makes this explicit); this facilitates price comparisons among packages with different roll sizes.
If the light is being radiated from a black body surface, then you cannot make something hotter than that surface. But you're right, the light from the moon is reflected sun light, plenty hot to start a fire. The moon also radiates like a black body, but virtually all that light has longer wavelengths than the reflected visible light.

You could start a fire from the light of a single star if you had a big enough lens. You could also start a fire with the light from a hand mirror at the distance of the moon if it reflected the sun's light at you. But you'd need a very big lens.
This is an amazingly carefully worded comment about the legal bribery allowed in the US.
You are correct about the solar panels. Solar panels are more efficient when they are colder, i.e. the temperature delta between the sun and the panel is larger.
Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
If this is true, how do laser cutters work? The focused beam can melt through steel, but surely the temperature of the gain medium is much lower than the melting point of steel?

But the thermodynamics argument seems like it makes sense too...
Could you please review the site guidelines and follow them when posting here? That's harder than it sounds, but we all need to, to preserve this community. Included:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Snark is deprecated."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I know it's not quite the same thing, but never have I seen this more pronounced than in LaTeX.
The built in offline Android speech recognizer is really bad. Giants like Google and Facebook are blessed with data, and so they can train state of the art speech recognition models (much much better than what you get out of the built in Android recognizer) and then provide speech recognition as a service. They can control the recognition because it happens on their servers and is independent of Android or any other OS.

And so FB for instance can send some voice data to their servers and get a text output. And then FB can use text sentiment analysis to get further context about the message.

Sadly, most people don't have the speech data to train their own recognizers on large vocabulary systems, and that's even harder for languages that are not English. With exception of Google/Amazon/FB/Microsoft/Baidu/etc other people have to use the API's offered by the above companies to do high fidelity recognition. Which sucks because there is a cost to each recognition. You have to pay someone else to do it.

Whereas FB/Amazon/MS/Baidu/etc can do high fidelity recognition offline on large vocabulary and offer it as a service. THIS is why FB wants to make speech recognition systems.
Can I not reflect some sunlight off a mirror, then do the magnifying-glass-to-start-a-fire trick in daytime? Doesn't the mirror stay cool?

The mirror is a part of you hybrid reflective/refractive light concentration system. Of course it stays cool, otherwise your system is inefficient.

Doesn't the mirror stay cool? Isn't the moon just a (poor) mirror for the sun's light?

Precisely. So the maximum temperature that system can achieve is much less that your mirror/magnifying glass system. A perfect black body radiator is just about the poorest mirror there is. The moon's light isn't what you'd get from a perfect black body. However, it's a long, long ways away from being a perfect mirror and probably far closer to being a black body.
Kubernetes in 2019: 6 developments to expect
Leonard Adleman did lots of research about that 25 years ago. It's now known as "DNA Computing"
>It just might be that these artifacts of quantization we see

The artifacts of quantization that we see are of the kind that come from continuous differential equations, not the kind that come from a lattice. Even the qbits in a quantum computer are found on a continuous Bloch sphere, instead of a discrete zero or one state space.
The question I have is... Why am I an outlier? What if this could work at a corporate level where employees are happier because they can work more hours some days and fewer hours on other days?

Instead of 8 hour work days each week with 6 weeks of vacation, wouldn't it be nicer to work just 5 hours a day for 365? Or maybe a few days with 3 hour days and a few days with 8 hours? This seems so much more relaxing than crunching 8 hour days every work day.