skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gambling is zero sum, so within a closed system, it can never be beneficial. The only way it can be beneficial is if it extracts value from outside of a particular locality and distributed the losses externally. Why vegas or macau can succeed is because most of the gambling in these cities is done by people outside of vegas and macau. If gambling in vegas was confined only to the people of vegas, then vegas would collapse as a portion of their citizens' lives are ruined.

Though I'm personally against all types of gambling, I believe in individual rights and a person's right to waste their money as they see fit. However, I don't think governments should be so closely tied to it and I certainly don't think governments should be depending on it for funding of any sort. They should tax the companies involved in gambling, but they should be "in bed with them" so to speak. And I don't think state governments should be involved in lotteries either. Lotteries should be purely private and the government should tax it. I don't think a moral or sane government that truly cares about and represents their citizenry could be involved in lotteries or gambling.
VDSL2 speeds are not up to par in every region, city, neighborhood, or even building. If you can get decent VDSL2 speed and don't care for TV the comparison with Ziggo is quite equal.
I think it is affirmative action for non-technical cofounders if you ask me.

The non-technical cofounders who become VCs want to support people who remind them of themselves in the past.

This is why founder dating is like dating at a tech school. There are many non-technical cofounders who bring nothing to the table except the desire to make a huge amount of money. That is something to work with, but it is by no means enough in a world where billions of people are hungry.
Capitalism, as a class, is only meaningful in the sense that it provides some sort of constraint on free enterprise, otherwise capitalism doesn't mean anything at all. If it fails to apply a constraint on free enterprise that fails to address some fundamental corruption, then yes, that is a failure of the constraint.
Well, that is what the article is about.
Stackshare[0] is decent when it comes to tech-focused stuff.

https://stackshare.io/
Speaking of coffee, so many people think that you need to go to some hip overpriced place to get caffeine. It's not true, and they are all just complete idiots hypnotized by marketing. I can literally buy a 6 lb tub of restaurant-quality instant coffee for the cost of about 15-20 of the overpriced "pour overs" you can get from your local hipster who went to barista school.

The great thing about instant coffee is that you don't even need hot water to make it. I've found that it mixes up great with cold water in one of those protein drink shakers with the little springy balls.

This is awesome because there's no heat or hot water in the storage unit I'm renting. That's a subject for another post, but I just need a parka and a pair of fingerless gloves to get the exact same experience as those co-working hipsters. Plus, I'm not subjected to the torture of an open plan office. My unit is in the basement, and it's dead quiet.

I'm sitting here, only five subway stops away from the fancy WeWork downtown, laughing my ass off at the startup bros high-fiving and "crushing it". I've got a way better experience, and all in I'm saving like $100-200 per month over those hipster bros.
...of which a sizeable chunk will go to Western European's private pension fund: the Pension Fund of CERN manages approximately 4 billion Swiss Francs in assets, both internally and externally.

And screw the younger generation, while at it (most of whom aren't eligible anyway). Conditions for new members (see Table 1): https://cds.cern.ch/record/1694667
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But WeWork owes billions of rents...
I've heard this about statins in general, but do you have some bookmarked citation for this? I would like to have it available if the doctor ever tries to get me onto this stuff.
It's amazing that some guy in a garage can do a better job then 500 guy's in a fancy office ...
>>>Don't expect the industry to lead this effort, though. The industry sees the reliance on large datasets as something to be exploited for a competitive advantage.

This is only true for the Facebooks and Googles of the world. There are definitely small companies (like the one I work for) trying very hard to figure out how to build models that use less data because we don't have access to those large datasets.

The industry is larger than just the Big N.
You could generalize this to "Strongest and especially loudest opponents/proponents of anything often know the least or have a hidden agenda"
Ok, people suck. Not much we can do about that. For all you know, the host is archiving footage and could use it for whatever nefarious purposes later on.

What really isn't okay here is Airbnb's response. Indoor cameras should be explicitly against their policies and finding one in an apartment should immediately terminate all the listings by that host.

This is where some regulation actually makes sense, and it might not be a bad idea for Airbnbs to be treated as hotels -- especially all the properties that are exclusively used for this purpose. There's tons of those in bigger cities and they're pretty obvious since the "host" will have dozens of apartments available.

I will never use Airbnb again until they implement this policy, and I encourage everyone here to vocalize the same.
Good news, but it’s not a CDR collider. It collides particles not reports.
Bank account interest is subject to income tax; brokerage accounts are only taxed on additional growth or dividends, and often at lower than income rates for stocks. So I'm confused why people would think that index fund income isn't taxed due to any similarity to bank accounts.
If you read further in, you find out they are offering counselling without a degree or any particular qualifications. Of course they are, as a world-leading very special expert... ;)
At least in my NYC WeWork the sound isolation is so bad that it might as well be an open office. I can clearly hear all the phone conversations my WeWork neighbors make. I assume they can hear mine as well.
https://www.fbi.gov/@@search?SearchableText=Data+protection+...
I think people find it difficult because for most beginners at git, they just want to put everything in the box. Having the option to put just some things in the box seems more complicated than needed. Obviously, as you get better with the tool, you realize the power of literally "staging" your changes into multiple commits, but as beginner, it's not even in your purview.
While there are clearly communities where this is a problem, I've lived in Chicago, now I live in the suburbs and still work downtown, and honestly outside of OTB and the Casinos, have never actually seen a video gambling machine in Illinois. So, this is not a state wide blight, but more of an isolated problem in various places.
Myth of ‘We don’t build houses like we used to’
You mean they rely solely on someone dictating a SSN number? That's insane. They should ask for a official ID with photo, as the very minimum.

Is that something that goes against the American culture? The other day I had to give all 10 fingerprints to renew my driver's license (location: South America) and nobody seemed to care.
Yes, even if I assume the happy path here, once the prepared query is looked up on the client side, the parameters filled out, the packet constructed to send to the database, the OS kernel switched in to send the packet to the DB process, the DB switched in to select on it, the DB reads the packet, the DB parses the packet to determine what prepared query it's running, the DB finds the correct bytecode (or whatever) to run and passes it to an execution engine to run, yes, at that point the DB will make a highly optimized radix tree or similar lookup itself.

Additional non-"happy path" things the DB may encounter includes using a library or DB that doesn't support prepared queries so you're starting from scratch to construct a query, the DB being across any sort of actual network, and the DB library being thread-safe and having to deal with thread-safe primitives, any one of which is expensive enough to cover a radix tree's entire lookup operation, honestly, because even 50ns is likely to be longer than the entire radix operation.

My point is that the in-process radix tree is done before "the packet is constructed" and long before it can be sent. Depending on the details the radix tree might very well outrace "the prepared query is looked up on the client side" if that involves retrieving it from any sort of structure because you don't just have it in a variable, though under the circumstances assuming that it's just on hand is reasonable.

This is one of those things where you have to be thinking about those "order of magnitude" maps that are often posted about memory access operations, because computers span so many orders of magnitude that our intuition breaks down. Assuming L1 or L2 cache, the radix tree is made of almost entirely of single-digit-order nanosecondd instructions, and not even all that many of them, whereas reaching a database is going to involve microsecond-scale interactions. (To the extent that the radix tree may have to hit real RAM, well, so might we have to hit it for the DB interaction, and the DB is certainly bringing in a lot more code for the code cache, so even then, it's not a win for the DB-based code.)
> Sure, NYT is not enough data to be significant

Even just a few hours of NYT ad traffic ought to be statistically significant enough to say that the difference is within a few percent.

The problem is that the data might not be _representative_. NYT traffic might behave differently enough from yours that their results don't apply to you.
Is WeWork paying market rent to Neumann, or is it paying more? Did Neumann negotiate vigorously with Neumann for the best possible rate? With real estate, how could you tell?

CEOs have a fiduciary responsibility to the other stakeholders of their companies. That's the problem here.
Plenty of times people get a big team together and make something that is a steaming pile of poo.

More resources and more time are good if you put them to use effectively, but not everyone does.
Then contact the TSA, but don't cancel the ticket.
Is it? My impression is that `unknown` type doesn't solve that specific problem.

const out: unknown = JSON.parse("{a: 1}");
if (out && typeof out.a === 'number') console.log(out.a);

gives the error:

[ts] Object is of type 'unknown'. [2571]
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What about the $1.7 billion in cash Obama gave to Iran??
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A lot. It's half the instrument.

Of that, the loudspeaker(s) and the cabinet it's in are as important as the circuit.
I think children get really harmed by parents who happen to be narcissists. I’ve seen a lot of hurt on Reddit about being raised by narcissists and It’s almost as if children of these parents should have been warned growing up and so they could have avoided the pain of realizing the love is different than normal. I think healcare needs to focus on the family development with a narcastic parental figure and similar to other illnesses.
"no less than", but yes, it does sound like that
Many people would disagree---the permutation of simple ideas gets...less simple quickly.

On the other hand, I've used ClearCase.

(Do not use ClearCase.)
Like biometrics but worse.
> I sensed that many in the technology team seemed frustrated with their leadership.

That's an understatement.
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What's also interesting is how a casus belli can evolve after a war, when the facts finally become clear.

Consider America's entry into World War II. Ask a modern American, or anyone really, what the justification for entering the war was and they'd probably say to stop Hitler. Asked why they'd care about stopping Hitler, and the answer might be that Hitler killed several million Jews. A pretty good reason.

But Americans in 1941 had no idea about the Holocaust. Yes, there had been reporting on persecution of Jews under the Nazis, and there's still controversy over who knew what, when, and how, but in general they didn't know. So why did the USA still go in? Well, no doubt there were still good reasons. But they become a lot less cut and dried when we take into account what was known at the time. The real reasons at the time were geopolitical. Only later did the moral case become obvious, and retroactively applied.

I sometimes wonder what might have gone differently if the Nazis were not quite so cartoonishly and stupidly evil, confining themselves to "just" taking over Western Europe and not trying their hand at genocide quite so enthusiastically, or if Japan had not been so foolish and arrogant as to attack Pearl Harbour. Would the USA have stirred in this alternate universe, if Hitler had one less screw loose and Tojo had one fewer bottles of sake? If not, history could have easily turned out very differently.
It's because weight loss pills tend to rely on the appetite suppressing effects of stimulants. Often, the compounds are intentionally chosen because they behave near identically pharmacologically to traditional stimulants. As such, they carry similar cardiac risks, if not significantly more because unlike traditional stimulants, the "diet pill/supplement" market is completely unregulated. This compounds the issue, because any vendor can provide incorrect dosage amounts, and also because people tend to treat 'unregulated diet pills' less seriously than say, methamphetamine.

A good example of this is Ephedrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedrine

It was widely used in 'weight loss' pills up until 2004, whenever it was restricted due to a combination of it's chemical similarity to amphetamine/methamphetamine (allowing for easy clandestine synthesis of more powerful psychoactive compounds), and people dying because they didn't realize they were taking completely unregulated substances on par in seriousness with other, culturally/politically demonized stimulants.

If one were to compare the 2d structures of both ephedrine and amphetamine/methamphetamine, even with no chemistry knowledge, one can see how similar these molecules actually are. Not to imply that molecular similarity necessarily always leads to similar pharmacological effects, but in this case it certainly does.
Pretty interesting addition. Reminds me of AudioMulch which basically only does this and is pretty fun sound creation tool too.

http://www.audiomulch.com
According to the article, Wunderman would half agree with you:

> “Direct marketing was out there,” Mr. Wunderman told Adweek, referring to his early days. “I didn’t invent it. But it had no definition and no strategy.”

BTW it doesn't change your argument at all but Maxwell wasn't his first job - he worked for two smaller agencies for a while before that. Not 24 years though :)
Feel free to share some of your expert knowledge with the rest of us (instead of just complaining about comments from non-experts).
Because markets are built upon the assumption that time is discrete, not continuous.
There is no perfect economic system nor one that will function and block corruption effectively. The best you can really do in capitalism is break up monopolies and oligopolies.

Additionally, I'm not sure this wework example is really corruption. The CEO built somewhat of a marketplace that provides services, and he is just participating in it. It might seem dubious but I highly doubt it is illegal. There are many more blatant cases of corruption in our economy.
Berwyn and Cicero have always been the spots to do sketchy stuff. It would be strange if that were to change now.
Non-US dictatorships are doing this now. They use it as a tool to crack down on dissent. It's a patently terrible idea to criminalize something where it's impossible to prove intent.
But if you determine that targeted ads are worst than scattershot, the correct conclusion isn't to do scattershot, it's to invert your target group.
For some reason this book misses most of the Best Marketing Books lists and not a lot of people know about it compared to Ogilvy stuff. But having read 100+ marketing books, this is the one I found the most useful.
Do you mean Aaron Swartz?
Is it surprising that you find what you're looking for when you enter into an article with a preset expectation? You all should try having a more open mind. The prospect that someone with NPD might actually be capable of making a positive difference on people outside themselves is promising.
I had a similar thought a while ago, but mine was that being lied to could be considered a tort.

So if someone labels something as news and I investigate it and discover that it isn't true, I could sue them for misinforming me.
>Hewitt and Packard would not have focused the company around the evil idea building disposable printers that lock people into overpriced ink purchases.

I'm not a big fan of HP, and I especially abhor the inkjet printer business, but I'd like to point out there's more to HP (and even their printers) than this. Their business printers are still pretty good AFAICT.

My simple rule when contemplating a printer purchase: "do not ever, ever, ever buy an inkjet printer".
Perhaps he could be reminded.

Car just won an award, which would direct him to look up more info about the car and why it's considered good.

Maybe they just made an update to the car model he likes, but is not aware of this change.
Yeah, but I think they have a point about the variable names. Really hard to tell the significance of anything there.
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I'm disappointed this article talks so much about brine, and so little about the even-more-dangerous Dihydrogen Monoxide that is a result of the process.

This is a very bad article - pure FUD.
I think it is very interesting that many people see the dollar per hour ratio and think easy money. Sometimes the pay is high because you are sacrificing your health to earn that money and to do your job. Safety is important but it doesn't make the job any easier, you are just reducing the risk of sacrificing even more of your health. There are some seriously tough jobs out there and I applaud those who have the willpower to do them.
Not certain but there are two advantages of using a trie in this case, 1) you don’t have to hash the IP address (that takes time too, and is for every packet remember), and 2) you can easily represent whole IP subnets in a trie as one node (though it doesn’t say in the article if they do this, it’s common to block a subnet in a blacklist).
I guess you’re referring to this:

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/readings/hardware/vgad...

Not much else online unfortunately
In that case, McDonald's still owns the real estate, not Ray Kroc. Here the interests of the corporation and Ray Kroc (as shareholder of McDonald's) are aligned - McDonald's has no incentive to overpay for the real estate, because that would reduce its profits.
Nope [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
It's almost as if AirBnB's hosts and guests are bearing the externalities that should be priced into the transaction on both sides...

For hosts, property damage, etc. is a matter of when, not if, and for those things you get insurance. But as far as I know that's not a standard thing for hosts. Pricing in hidden hosting costs would make hosting look less profitable up front, then AirBnB's market would shrink.

For guests, inconvenient cancellations, bad hosts, bad rentals, etc. AirBnB doesn't give you any real recourse like paying for you to stay elsewhere the way a hotel often does. That would be expensive and you'd have to either pass the cost onto the customers (raise fees/prices), or reduce your margins.

That's not counting societal externalities like permanent AirBnB setups in neighborhoods that are affecting community cohesion.

These days, I use AirBnB to save money by taking on some level of discomfort/risk. If I'm looking for a worry-free night with decent amenities where I want to minimize mental overhead, I just book a hotel.
I spent a couple of days playing with antennas and an RTL-SDR dongle. It's quite an interesting subject which I'd love to learn more about one day. I mostly used it for listening in on ATC. It was cool to make an Antenna (in this case a half wave dipole) which could hear aircraft out over the English channel from my livingroom in London.
Yes, that's quite possible, I'm not that familiar of that side of things and might be thinking of the wrong number. Anyway, the point is that they don't use the same numbers you and I have in our phonebooks.
Insightful writing but over two years old and many of asyncio issues highlighted has been fixed in python3.7. I would love to see how trio and latest asyncio compare today.
You might be interested in Funkwhale: https://funkwhale.audio/
I think there's a secondary effect going on in social media comments (including this site). The mostly anonymous nature of things means that people have no ability to understand who they're talking to or their qualifications to speak on a subject. So they take cues from language itself. When things are posted without exuding confidence, people assume ineptitude or uncertainty and rarely regard it as meaningful. By contrast things posted confidently instill trust and confidence and thus are treated as more meaningful.

You can trial this pretty easily by just creating multiple accounts and consciously changing the tone of the comments you make. It's pretty amusing! Online comment voting systems are extremely easy to game because of basic recurring phenomena like this, that you'll find many people come to exploit whether consciously or not. And thanks to those little arrows by our names, those comments that game the system end up near the top.

And finally you also have to keep in mind the You and I that actually chat instead of lurk are outliers, a surprisingly small percent of all people on the site. So you get twisted and likely counter-productive conversational cues driving conversations between a likely biased sample of (not necessarily positive) outliers. And finally now add in the countless biased interests (corporate and political in particular) with presences working to steer perception to their benefit. Nonetheless, I still find it entertaining watching how all the parts play together.
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I have had similar experiences with Airbnb, and problems as a host and a guest.

Why they have gotten away with these behaviours for so long is likely due to forced arbitration.

Their business plan is likely to show as much profit as possible, IPO/get on stock market, exit early investors and founders, and leave the mess and risk associated with their unconscionable protocols to the public markets - offloading it to society as what will inevitably be a loss, as they're not going to realize these nuances.

The forced arbitration is going to stop sooner or later, and cities are going to start to crack down heavily - going through the counter appeals of landlords and commercial hosts with many properties.
The site is down for me. But amazing project and team!