skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is relatively simple: skins/costumes are signals and signals are important. Fortnite has matchmaking, and the majority of players use the matchmaking function in the two-/four-player modes rather than with a premade group. The average player you are matched with will be Fortnite-matchmaking replacement level[1]. If that player doesn't have a skin, they are more likely to underperform, from your perspective, since the pool of "non-skinned" players also includes new players and marginally-invested players (i.e. players who rarely play). I think a lot of comparisons to fashion are trying to solve the symptom, rather than this deeper problem.

Youth sports has a similar phenomenon. If you show up to the first day of practice with "default" athletic gear (running shoes instead of cleats, cargo shorts instead of athletic shorts etc.) you would face a similar type of shunning. The reason why there isn't a push to ban expensive athletic equipment is due to 1) The equipment manufacturers have huge sway over youth sports organizations via sponsorship 2) kids like athletic equipment because its one of the few outlets of individual identity available to them. That's why you are more likely to see displays of individual or group altruism (e.g. what happened to your son) rather than questioning the ethics/fairness of this phenomenon.

That is also why I prefer Apex Legends' freemium model to Fortnite's. Yes, it does include loot boxes (which are intrinsically exploitative), but it also includes ways to signal gaming ability without paying money, such as opt-in game statistics (how many wins with a character, how many kills, etc). More explicit signals of competency make weaker secondary signals (having the right skin/kit/cleats) a lot less relevant, even counterproductive (being labelled a poser).

[1]https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/war_explained.shtml
Who's opinion would you accept as being the definitive authority on the matter?

I agree that a jury doesn't seem well equipped to handle these questions, but I don't know what I would propose that would inspire more confidence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19901362
Can anyone now blast Apple on anti-trust grounds, for banning competing browsers in their store?

When Apple want to sabotage universal adoption of certain technology (such as DASH for video streaming), they can avoid implementing needed components on the client side in their engine, forcing everyone who wants to target iOS (a sizable chunk of the Web market) to support their own technology instead of only something else.

So control over the browser engines in the store gives them anti-competitive control which extends way beyond it. It's surprising no one challenged that garbage until now.
I think it reflects the way the sites manage SEO.

Fox optimizes for user browsing more than the other major outlets.
I am probably going to get downvoted to hell here but have we lost sight of making haste slowly here.

Id rather people spent time making compilers better than just faster.
I think VR could take off this year. The Quest and Shadow VR have reasonable price ranges.

AR headsets are still a magnitude too expensive.
That chart is wrong, it says bitcoin appreciated 60 times (since 2014).

If you start counting from the first available public prices ($0.1), it's 200,000 times apreciations. If you start from the price when the first articles about it appeared on HN ($1), it appreciated 20,000 times.
Perhaps these are a good start:

awk:
- GNU Awk User Guide - https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Getting-S...

- Grymoire guide - http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html

sed:
- Grymoire guide - https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
- Official docs - http://sed.sourceforge.net/#docs
So he is accused of a crime and he go to the police station and give his statement. He lets the investigator know he is staying in the country for several week, in the case they have any more questions. The case get closed.

Months later he publish the leaks and travel to the UK, and a European arrest warrant is issued. After which there is a report that US diplomats visited the justice department before the case was reopened, but the department head swears that it did not influence the decision.

Just like Sweden has laws against extraditing people for political crimes and espionage, its justice department has laws that forbids it from being influenced by politics. The official statement is that the chain of events is just a coincident and the leaks, US diplomats and everything else did not effect the decision of the prosecutor when they decided to reopen the case and issue the European arrest warrant.

Some other minor details is that not only is the Assange case the most expensive UK police case in UK history, but this European arrest warrant is also a record in Sweden. No other warrant that Sweden has issued has as low maximal punishment. This is official also just a coincident.

I personally are not that surprised that Assange do not believe it to be coincident. I wonder if not most people would become a bit paranoid if they were under similar circumstances, and not accept the claim that it is just a coincident and that the Sweden and UK legal system are just following standard procedure.
This is cool, this is interesting, and I'll probably try it.

If nothing else, maybe it will answer the frequently heard argument that cryptocurrency shouldn't have any value because it can't be used to buy coffee.

Of course, we don't need a new technology to buy coffee since dollars, euros, yen and Starbucks Stars work just fine.

The raison d'être of cryptocurrency is to do things that cannot be done with national currencies, gift cards and loyalty programs.

Dollars don't have to die for cryptocurrency to be valuable. We can have both.

And if dollars do die or get inflated away due to incompetent monetary policy, fiscal policy, trade policy or war, holders of cryptocurrency will have a nice hedge.
man bash
man awk
man sed
man grep

You can also do most of this stuff with Perl one liners if that suits your fancy.

sed + awk - https://www.amazon.com/sed-awk-Dale-Dougherty/dp/1565922255

awk - https://ia802309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoI...

general *nix text processing - https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html
It's the other way around - communists wanted to inflitrate church as the only independent of them legal institution in Poland.

And what better way than to blackmail pedophile priests to force them to report on other priests and oppositionists?

And yeah, being not only pedophiles but also communist spies makes it it even worse that now 30 years later it's still not solved. It's mostly because all the governments compete to get favors of the church so that church tell people to vote for them.
I see it as a sign that we are way past our carrying capacity. Automating Ag would help secure food supply but when automation takes over, economies of scale don’t matter.

Most of the commodity crop isn’t food but feed and fodder. Shifting to a predominantly vegetarian diet would also help.

We have a myth of abundance due to economies of scale. It is very costly and is really not working out. Ditto with subsidies. All this is possible because of other enormous powers working invisibly.

When goods reflect true cost of production, then consumption will come down as will wastage. Time for a reality check.

Your parents and grandparents probably could make a living out of land and farming. But most farmers today need credit to buy high tech equipment and likely hold second jobs. What’s wrong with this picture?
I knew I had made it when I became a server op on EFnet.
When Hillary said that she believed in science on stage during the 2016 DNC I remember audibly groaning
I love that one too! It's great for creating commits that address one specific thing.
I wonder if we could circularize the orbit of a near earth asteroid like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3908_Nyx which is outside of earth orbit always (less likely to run into the earth, and 10% farther up the sun's gravity well.
Receipts favor the business. Even returns help the business.

Receipts may also be required by law (which still supports "the receipt is not for the customer")
I'm not arguing that having more things regulated federally or having a completely federally regulated America is going to be better. It seems like you think of lawmakers and lobbyists as adversarial, not necesarily untrue, but it it is hard to argue in any direction since they will always be working against you to their benefit.

I was pointing out that this is what makes America "varied" compared to other countries and it will introduce complications and variations in how a healthcare system is going to work for it's citizens if they do try to mimick Canada, UK, etc.

I would also hope that the hospitals have a bit more autonomy and they aren't hamstrung by congress deciding they aren't allowed to spend more than 5mn on sedatives or some other really narrow and specific budget.
At the same time a fully loaded Falcon 9 uses about $10/kg of fuel to put something into LEO. The cost mainly comes from building the rockets, and to a lesser degree operating them (mission control, landing ships, etc). All of those costs would come down dramatically once you reach the scales nessesary for building such a structure. Economies of scale could easily bring the price down an order of magnitude or more.

For a small-ish cylinder that might be enough. For a cylinder that's multiple kilometers long we would want to do asteroid mining and rockets engineered to bring stuff up cheaply (at the expense of loosing a few rockets, loosing dirt is a lot more acceptable than loosing billion dollar satellites).
It isn't the jury's place to use their expertise to rule in a case. Similarly, you wouldn't want a jury of homeopaths using their expertise to decide in a case involving evidence-based medical treatment.
16 oz a day only sadly
I can't get it why Bayer bought Monsanto when they saw this was coming...
The only place I see such devices are highly polished demos to show the 'capabilities of AR/VR'. I've never seen such headsets used for anything even remotely useful (not considering gaming as extremely useful). I think the AR/VR craze is just here because we have nothing really new at the moment and investors want to pour money into something.
Ask HN: How do self-driving cars help Uber?
Over and over I hear that autonomous cars are the key to Uber's successful future. However I fail to understand how that will help them achieve profitability? how is a self-driving car a cheaper alternative to the status quo? As I see it, the current system for Uber pays drivers (per hour or per ride) only when they are driving. Parking coss, repairs, gas, and the time between rides is all unpaid. As soon as Uber owns their own fleet of taxis, won't these other factors quickly eat away at any potential savings? Although I'm sure there is variability in the costs depending on the geography, how does Uber benefit from needing to continually pay for a 24/7 fleet when they have what seems like the ideal system already: drivers on demand. What am I missing?
WhatsApp voice calls used to inject Israeli spyware on phones
Well, I'm sure they'd prefer being upset over being dead... although the likelihood of successfully rolling over and flying a negative-g recovery in a transport airplane seem dubious at best. Transport category airplanes are only certified to -1G so an inverted pullout would definitely exceed those limits.
send them csr that it's CA=TRUE. then you recieve a cert you can sign others..
so sign adminstrator cert by yourself
Because of biology. Also because the planet could not sustain its current population on plants alone. Finally, because they're delicious.

The idea that animals should be spared from the dinner table is a quasi-religious viewpoint not shared by most people.
Consumers have a choice, though, and that trumps most other considerations. With Android, they receive an alternative set of constraints. Do I think Apple is wise to be as restrictive as they are? No. Is it within their bounds to do so? Absolutely.

As a consumer, I can be disgruntled that my chosen platform is not as flexible as I wish. I can either throw a fit and lobby congress to force Apple to open its gates, or wait a year or two for my phone to slow down and pick up an Android device. In fact, this kind of migration occurs in both directions on a regular basis. Only religious loyalists stick with a single ecosystem without examining the tradeoffs they're making, as a general rule.
A jury is allowed to consider the size of the company when deciding on punitive damages.

Note well: That doesn't make it sane; it just makes it somewhat within the bounds of the law.

What's actually (probably) going to happen is that Bayer will appeal, and the damages will be massively reduced in the appeals court.
Big shoutout to SFIA for covering such 'out of the world' futuristic matters!
I think accessibility should be part of the setup menu.

Maybe even required by law - imagine a small-fine-print license agreement during setup that you cannot read.
Yeah I love umatrix. Sometimes it's awful and it takes an extra few minutes to figure out the magic combination of things to allow. Sometimes it breaks a page altogether and I use an un-Matrix'd Chrome as a last resort (which I wipe after use). But I think it's worth the hassle.
Would it be a bad thing for society if the antitrust laws were interpreted in this way? Why should these hardware vendors be allowed to exercise control over the software their customers run? Personally I think that open platforms are socially important, and I'm concerned that voting with my wallet isn't enough to protect and nurture them. Most people don't have the time, knowledge or interest to think about open vs closed platforms when they make purchasing decisions, and I think law is an appropriate solution to this market failure.
The Money Behind the Climate Denial Movement
A multi-hundred thousand dollar lien for someone who's already too low income to afford medical insurance? Where exactly do you think they'll get the money from?
There are other options. It's a public secret that "kitchen helpers" of priests in Poland are often also their lovers. As long as they are adult and agreed voluntarily to such relationship I don't mind, even if it's highly hypocritical.
While that's why the system exists, in this case we're not near a stall, we're just bringing the nose down because the system erroneously thinks we're near a stall.
Tiny spacecraft tested as part of plan for interstellar travel
> So I guess Monsanto are jerks but also these cases are flawed science.

It seems like the question here should be whether this outcome provides justice, not whether it represents the best scientific conclusion available. Shouldn't Monsanto be punished in some fashion for unethically trying to suppress evidence and mislead the public, even if it eventually turns out that Roundup is not as dangerous as it was suspected/feared to be?

A jury verdict like this is certainly not the best imaginable way to discipline corporations for such wrongdoings, but if this is what's achievable with our current legal system, then it seems to be at least somewhat justified.
Let's continue with my particular query as an example. I already don't trust Alex Jones and Quora and Yahoo answers. I have my own opinion as to which sources I trust and which ones I do not. So first I would internally give different weights to results based on how trustworthy I find them. Then, I would look at the actual content, and look to cross reference the details to assert their validity.

Now with the Google results, there is nothing even remotely relevant to my search, so I don't even have candidates with which I could do further research into their veracity.

Once again I think Google just thinks they are smarter than the average user, but it's making their search engine useless for certain queries.

And I don't like the idea that a search engine should be doing the critical thinking for users. That's more dangerous than the content they are supposedly protecting us from.
PGE used their money to pay shareholder profit rather than pay for maintenance and forestry management.
> 6 year staggered appointments. So 3 justices terms are up every 2 years. Means one president doesn't get to completely stack the court

Most presidents are reelected to two terms, and so if judicial terms were offset from Presidential terms by a year, they'd have:

At 0 years, 0 justices they appointed.

At 1 year, 3 justices.

At 3 years, 6 justices.

At 5-8 years (and up until 1 year into the next term), all 9 justices.

So most President get to completely stack the court, the effects just don't last as long—the judiciary becomes another weathervane political branch of government, because the two of those was too few.

(And I don't even want to consider the consequences of all those short time justices looking to their post-Court career while sitting on the bench.)
I would suggest Bayer/Monsanto like any big company can quash scientific studies if they appear deleterious to their future income streams, first came to light with the tobbacco industry. Perhaps thats why so few studies exist that show glyphosate in its true light, but instead portray's it as a panacea when any inteligent person knows panacea's in the world do not exist, so there must be harmful effects.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/contracts-give-coca-cola...
SQL Stored procedures and triggers. It's some of the most useful stuff you may not have considered if you're just a hobbyist. It's not for every project but if you do need a proper database for some reason, there's often great ways to use stored procs or database triggers that greatly simplifies your system.
You double down. Start posting pictures being poor, overworked, and stressed. But show up to work everyday with your A game. "Really really love being here! :D"

As Terry Tate said, "You gotta play mind games!"

Or you know, maybe you shouldn't have a public social media account that you're afraid of sharing with those that can limit your lifestyle.
Yea sorry pay no attention to the audio.
The mass tort industry will have a field day with this.
That’s what Game of War was like. Every tech level was around a 2x improvement than the one before it. So much of the game was high level pay to win players beating up on the low level free players 1v20.
I remember reading another article that CEO who looks stressed and anxious on their video call with shareholders perform better than ones who look regular. Definitely an interesting subject.
Yes its going to continue in a huge way.

Their retail team used to consist mostly of buyers. Most of those resources have shifted to private label.

Imagine a thousand people previously managing external brands now focused on finding/creating private label brands with the data of sales volume at their fingertips.

They have something like 150 private label brands right now.
> MCAS is not something the crew was even supposed to be aware of, even less trained on, so no effect on type rating at all there.

Exactly this is the argument for a type rating problem. If pilots would have to undergo heavy training for the MAX there would probably have been a new type rating. There are some experts out there who argue that this is why Boeing tried to hide the existence of MCAS. Pilots should have been informed about MCAS and the reason it is there before all this started.
The jury is not answering that question. The jury is just there to evaluate the credibility of the competing experts who have offered opinions on that question. If lay people are not equipped to evaluate such credibility, that calls into question the very underpinnings of our policy-making institutions. Luckily, lay people are qualified to make those judgments. Whenever I have seen an actual jury at work, I have consistently been impressed by the degree to which folks can absorb the information presented at trial. They are far from "random number generators": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628507/

> If this claim is valid, an ideal study would be to compare the judgments of medical doctors to the verdicts rendered by juries. A study by Taragin et al. [31] did just that. The study utilized data from the closed claim files of a medical liability insurer. The insurers had medical doctors closely examine the medical records in cases involving claims of medical negligence to determine if medical negligence had occurred. Tarragin et al. [31] compared these judgments with verdicts rendered by juries if the case went to trial. The jury verdicts tended to be consistent with the medical judgments. Moreover, the study found that verdicts were not related to the severity of the injury suffered by the plaintiff, an indication that juries were not basing their judgment out of mere sympathy for a seriously injured patient. Farber and White [13] also compared jury verdicts to hospital records bearing on negligence. Those authors found that the jury verdicts favored the hospital in all cases that the hospital had rated as not-negligent.

The billion-dollar punitive damages verdict, moreover, is not crazy considering that the point of punitive damages is to deter similar conduct in the future. If you look at what folks here on HN--presumably quite knowledgeable about the subject matter--were saying about how much Facebook should be fined to deter conduct like that which led to the Cambridge Analytica issues, the numbers were likewise in the billions of dollars.
I think it all comes down to certifying bodies other than the FAA. FAA seems happy to go along with whatever Boeing wants (as evidenced by the 'self certification' efforts of the agency); it remains to be seen if the EU or another major market airspace will capitulate.
Why Companies Will Be Forced to Leave China for Other Countries – Donald Trump
The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
Monsanto can and has spent millions to provide scientific results that back their position. Mansanto can and has spent millions to block scientific research that contradicts their position.

The balance of power is so unbelievably skewed that "the science" simply cannot be trusted. There is no study that Mansanto can't buy. There is no study than mom and pop can buy.

So, we look them in the eyes and we see scumbag villain vs simple folk. We see scumbag villain pumping out lakes of chemicals and crushing people and my what big teeth you have. And you've made how many billions on these chemicals? And how much is the poor little grandma asking for?

It's a no-brainer. Dig some millions out of your sofa cushions and pay the poor family.

It's not scientific. It's emotional. And lots of normal people get pretty emotional about the big bad wolf. Still, they didn't shoot the wolf. It's still alive and able to eat some other grandma. It just had to pay for a grandma it may not have eaten at all.