skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these people just didn't read the article. Given the state made money, it knew what the odds were. It seemed the only reason there was an investigation was to see the real world outcome of how the game was setup. What may be more remarkable is that the state didn't have the analytics to notice this trend before-hand.

The title is misleading. There was no loop-hole. There was simply a structure of the game and the people in the article were able to exploit that structure. They were playing the same rules as everyone else. Buy tickets. They just figured out the right time and the right volume for buying tickets.

I don't know how the lottery works, but I imagine he also got a bit lucky. Apparently there wasn't enough people who caught on to the trick to significantly put a dent in his game. He was also lucky that the game wasn't popular enough to prevent triggering the roll-downs. Playing just 7 times a year even over the course of 7 years isn't a great sample size to account for long term variance. I wonder if there was a chance he could have lost money on some plays.
So the short version is that they try to fingerprint the user and then distinguish fingerprints that seem like humans from fingerprints that don't.

The interesting question then becomes how this is going to interact with future browser anti-fingerprinting measures whose purpose is to prevent just that.
I know you were joking but
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Troy is an awesome guy and I’m really happy that HIBP is outgrowing him to get more support, datasets, and features.

I hope Have I Been Pwned goes to the right people and they do an even better job at moving it forward! Kudos Troy
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From more left to moderate: CurrentAffairs.org, any criticism of David Brooks, Ross Douthat, Bari Weiss, David Brooks, Maggie Haberman.
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It's a shame as this is likely to mean that we end up with a worse service, but completely understandable. hopefully, I will be proven wrong
Not the entire industry, as many companies have thankfully moved on from plain old C, or at very least reduced its use quite considerably.

BSD/Linux derived FOSS is still the C stronghold.

The Morris worm was in 1988, since then C has collected enough CVEs due to memory corruption issues to consider its use bad practice.

Something that even Apple, Google and Microsoft security reports now advise against, and with Google actively engaging into taming C's usage in Linux kernel.
I doubt studios want to give Redbox a discount, because rentals cut into sales, which the studios care about more than rentals. Redbox operates because of first-sale doctrine. I assume Redbox pays the same as stores pay, which is indeed cheaper than what a consumer pays, but there's no discount especially for Redbox. Why do digital rentals cost more than physical rentals? Because first-sale doctrine doesn't apply to digital so studios can charge more. First-sale doctrine prevents studios from charging more for physical rentals, and they won't be eager to pile on any extra discounts for Redbox.

I think the real benefit to the consumer of renting from Redbox instead of buying is that Redbox has economies of scale on exchanging movies between consumers and distributing them geographically. If a consumer buys a movie, watches it, and resells it, that's a lot of hassle, whereas Redbox has managed that redistribution by building automation.
I think the 2 years ago was what makes it obvious for me. I'm not a native speaker either.
I am hiring one in Krakow! Seriously though, in a team of 10 business analysts I can barely afford 1 data engineer. Business analysts tend to cost less and also be more "business focuses", so they are an easier sell to management.
If Snoopy somehow stayed near (or returned to) the Earth-moon system, retrieving it might be similar to fixing the Hubble in space. Difficult, yes, expensive, of course, but evidently doable.
Have you considered that if you are fighting for anything other than truth, you have a serious conflict of interest as a journalist?
I took his comment to mean that players doing the math isn't common. The operators know the odds and they publish those odds. Players often don't care what the odds actually mean (doing the math) and they'll play anyways.
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It's pretty cool. Will use it for the next project!
I feel like you are coming from an alternate universe. Nosql is the quick and easy thing to start with, then your needs become more and more complex and nosql just won't cut it anymore. Sure, nosql can scale and perform, but only if your needs are very specific and simple.

There are no major systems out there of even moderate complexity that aren't built on an rdbms.
What's with the dozen swastikas in the first picture? Number of enemy planes he shot down?
Using Android with reluntance, since my favourite OSes were Symbian and Windows Phone, additionally I dislike Android J++ and the NDK is relatively constrained.

Still, I can do plenty of interesting things with my Android gadgets.
I'm using Android (Pixel 3), and the work profile works for me. IMO it is much better than having to carry two phones.
Wish they would enable per-app VPNs without MDM, e.g. with a profile generated by Apple Configurator or open-source tool.

Per-site VPNs are possible in Safari, which is a poor approximation that keeps the VPN active (consuming battery) as long as Safari is active.
The article really does read like propaganda to reposition “debt peonage” as “aspirational debt peonage”
Plenty of other shenanigans done on different missions, too. Gemini Sandwich[0], mutiny on Skylab[1], ...

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[0] - https://www.space.com/39341-john-young-smuggled-corned-beef-...

[1] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mutiny-space-why-t...
Don't forget the CCX level, too.

The full list of varying latencies is something like: SMT, inter-core, inter-CCX, inter-die, inter-socket. And even that misses a few subtleties.
Thanks! :) Currently the real time sample count is hardcoded to 1 sample per frame, if you can be bothered with cloning and building the app though, the line to change is:
https://github.com/stasilo/retrace.gl/blob/master/src/store/....

I'll make this along with render res. and some other settings customizable in the future :)
Hmmm. Perhaps folks are assuming that I live in LA, making a few hundred thousand a year, am trying to not pay out the needed cash for traditional housing even though I could easily afford it, and am trying to concoct the next pogostick / juice squeezing startup.

I do not currently live in America and I have no plans or interest in living any where in or near California. I am leaving a part time job working on industrial sensor development and a full time income producing hobby of metal working to go to a small town in Tennessee to care for my remaining parent while she lives out what's left of her life.
A really impressive use of Python for visual graphics design! I wonder what kind of packages you'd need to reduce the amount of work done in external editors, probably something that can make SVG.
Very cool, especially considering UI is still somewhat underserved in Rust.
> BSD/Linux derived FOSS is still the C stronghold.

Oh that's ok then, it's not like that accounts for most of the world's server and embedded infrastructure, open or otherwise...
I have had to work with the Denodo for the past 1+ year, a total nightmare. Data virtualization is a "good in theory" concept but "doesn't work in practice" reality. Going back to the original sources for each query doesn't work, it will always be slower than using a proper analytics data warehouse. Caching doesn't help because at that point you can just do ETL. Also Denodo itself is full of weird behaviors and bugs, my team collectively decided it's worth the most hate of all the "enterprise" tools we use. One thing Denodo is good for is as an "access layer", but then maybe PrestoDB would be worth a shot or maybe even just a sqlalchemy and python.
I think Spotify is doing Micro Frontends and imho it's not a total mess
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Any HF capable SDR can be used to receive HF Olivia under $20 with a simple mod called direct sampling.

https://phasenoise.livejournal.com/1723.html
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The thing about opportunity costs arguments wrt. space, when used from the outside (vs. just reallocating existing NASA budget), is that the "incredible projects one could do instead" never materialize. It's a thinly veiled way of just not giving money to space exploration.
See if Illumos is available?
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I think there's more nuance than that. Winning enough to pay most of your house off wouldn't necessarily let you retire but it'd make you a lot more comfortable, for instance.
I've got no problem if he wants to lobby Mozilla to offer Firefox: Weinzierl Edition alongside the standard one. I do have a problem whenever someone speaks like their specific array of demands are more important than the quiet people who may actually prefer the status quo.
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Sorry, but due to the concern for CO2 emisdions, I cannot watch this video.
Curiously, the paragraph before the line "it's unwise to use UTF-32" ends with "Use the encoding preferred by your library and convert to/from UTF-8 at the edges of the program."

And that is the best advice there is. If you have a choice, use UTF-8, otherwise use whatever your libraries use.

Unless you have very special needs, forget about UTF-16.
I'd argue this use of Google is more like the White Pages, where you look up by name alphabetically.

Yellow Pages would be more like googling "<cuisine> Restaurant in <town>", in which case displaying with all your competitors is much more reasonable.
I remain shocked at how many people eat in their cars, especially messy or aromatic Foods. I love in ‘n out, but I sure as heck don’t want the inside of my car to smell like it.
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I'm sorry - you are correct. I didn't want to blame a single person.

But the new concepts and metaphors for the desktop were just not well thought out IMHO - that widget stuff was the wrong direction - as well as the idea to abandon the classical desktop. That mandatory Desktop-Folder just drove me nuts.

SuperKaramba on KDE 3.x is still not completely possible in current KDE.
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The spread of climate science denial and the rise of right wing populism also threatens to derail meaningful climate change action, so good to see some billionaries take charge and move out
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Amazing story if true.

"[T]he crew were alleged to have stopped working. Gibson spent his day on Skylab's solar console, while Carr and Pogue spent their time in the wardroom looking out at the window."
Yeah, I heard from a colleague (so anecdotal) that apparently it's because Germany in general is quite behind in terms of digital services, which in part is due to still very patchy broadband in large parts of the country.
A completely open study. The parents, students and evaluators knew people were getting the actual treatment. No control group and no blinding at all

The study authors themselves acknowledge the placebo effect although they naturally minimized the effect on the results.
I saw it as right-wing, quasi-fascist xenophobes making a big show of standing up for freedom of speech by mocking a religious minority that they want to kick out of Europe.

They have a right to publish those cartoons. I view them the same way as I'd view an anti-Semite who published cartoons with stereotypical, negative portrayals of Jews, while advocating for kicking Jews out of Europe. I'd hold my nose and believe in their right to free speech, but I wouldn't lionize them.
> This is not the case anymore.

Yes it is. Full stop. Local community colleges are vastly cheaper than many universities, and the credits match up 1:1. Working full time, getting an AS, transferring to a university to earn a BS is still a very viable path.

Following this path it's not only possible, but expected that one walks away completely debt free with their BS at the end of four years.

Just because you didn't do the right things (or even if you did and still got very unlucky) doesn't mean the rest of us can't have a fruitful conversation about how things will work out for the vast majority of people.

You need to understand this, or you'll forever be trapped making terrible coding analogies on the Internet, not being understood. Literally none of the numbers or situations you cited are relevant to this conversation.
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I hope as well; moreover, I hope they'd release a 64 core TR next year that could last a decade (even if it costs 2,500+). There are rumors Zen 3 should bring 4-way SMP, i.e. 4 threads/core instead of 2, so that might lead to ridiculous numbers of threads in normal systems.

As Lisa said, TRs were distinct to Epycs; I guess using UDIMMs vs RDIMMs and much higher base clock (except for the high freq EPYC 7371) led to a few changes.
bullshit, the removal of natural sciences and math from liberal arts reflects today's math-phobia and fear of doing hard things.
At one point there some deeply discounted Intel Phi PCIe boards on the grey market which I presume were either taken out of scale build-out during an upgrade or perhaps part of an abandoned project.

For a while I considered getting a few for a simulation hobby project I had at the time but the stars never really came into alignment for that.
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Now that Fountain Code patents have started to expire, hopefully they'll start to be incorporated in applications like these. Most recently this one [0] expired today, on June 11th!

With fountain codes [1], you could decode the correct encoded message after receiving a certain number of any randomly generated sub-messages. The number of required sub-messages depends on the original encoding parameters. This encoding is great for very lossy one-way channels.

[0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6307487B1/en

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code
I'm doubtful. No service, low-cost restaurant setups are not a new thing (quick service/counter-based) and full-service restaurants are still everywhere.

I don't know if that's because profit isn't overwhelmingly the most important driver when running a restaurant or because restaurants make most profit off of aspects that don't translate to counter-service/delivery, such as drinks. But I would expect these type of virtual restaurants to complement existing restaurants, not meaningfully replace them.
This isn’t terribly surprising.

First, we always overestimate new technology’s ability to solve problems, while underestimating the side effects. So any grandiose claims about self driving cars fixing congestion should’ve been met by more skepticism in the press.

Second, we already know that people are willing to spend a large amount of money on personal transit that goes above and beyond the bare necessities of transit, at least in rich western nations. I see no reason why that would suddenly stop once the vehicle’s owner is no longer behind the wheel.
The article quoted by TFA suggests a limited personhood for animals as one possible response to the study. This is not the same as elevating their rights to that of a person.
Let me repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18627950

So, are "portlets" coming back? Why should they work this time?
I can't speak any language other than English. I've never had any issues. You can generally get what you mean across by pointing and/or shaking your head
I was wondering how both these syndicates and the state we winning. I think I understand now.

Lotteries are zero sum games so no extra money is being created. All ticket purchases either go to the state or the winners. So if the players have a positive return how can the state also be winning?

The players have a positive return only for the rollover round. The players have a negative return for all other rounds, where the state makes its money, and the syndicates don't play.

So the people who lost are all the suckers who played in non-rollover rounds.
> Change was happening to MACLISP very rapidly in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. It was common for MACLISP users to read their mail only to find that some critical semantics in the language had changed and that it was time to update programs they had already written to accommodate the new meaning.

> Jokes were made about the frequent and extreme nature of the changes.
I too thought it was hard, but recently found this that supposedly makes it way easier: https://kb.amd-osx.com/guides/HS/

I'm considering a new ryzen hackintosh build in july!
I’d use it but it prevents me using a Pihole (via VPN). The Pihole points at Cloudflare though, so they get me either way.
Yeah, and it is like the best delivery service ever. In urban areas in Asia, it is always less than 20 minutes. Occasionally it arrives in less than 10 minutes. Which is as close to instant as is possible. Mind blasting.

I don't even like the food but find myself ordering as it is just too convenient.
Less than 0.1% of software jobs are FANG. This is not a sensible comparison.

Picking something more normal, Tesla pays software developers just $78k to $147k. Raytheon can beat that. This is without even trying to adjust for hours (a 9-to-5 place, or Elon Musk cracking the whip) or the fact that Raytheon locations typically have a far lower cost of living. Just on raw numbers, totally unadjusted, Raytheon wins.
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Only a small fraction of programmers deal with math beyond basic arithmetic and simple Boolean logic.
It's kind of weird that the employer wants the employee to bring their device, but don't want to trust the employee's device anyway.
I've never found myself interesting enough to start a blog. I might write a post on what I've been doing/how to survive as a 'digital nomad'. I think I'm in a unique situation since I've been doing this since I was 18. I was inspired by https://levels.io/eighteen/, but I know when I made the decision I wish there was more info/people talking about how they do it
I agree in general. And I do not get the BYOD thing. As another commenter said, an employer should provide the tools necessary. Or live with the constraints.

I am in another camp. Until recently my employer had a policy of treating our devices somewhat like private devices. We are provided with the device, are allowed to use them at home at will, are full admins. We are only requested to encrypt the harddrive. My employee never had access to my data if I did not provide it to them.

So now two situations changed. Clients of ours force us to use endpoint management to ensure different "security" standards (some not as secure as I had before). Also we got bought by a bigger company and they have rules and regulations for their ~470k employees. These mean we will get some hefty spyware on our devices while still being officially allowed to take the devices home with us, use them privately and so on.

Well. I am not so sure, I will do this in the future. I am not willing to introduce spyware that also scans all devices within the network to my home network. I do not want some admin on the other side of the world to be able to download any file from my device. Or to upload any file onto my device.

So I will probably buy another computer (not having owned a private laptop for quite some time) to use at home. Same with my mobile phone.

On the other hand - I hate to carry two devices with me. For me separating out private/freelance stuff onto one machine and corporate stuff onto another makes things more complicated. And I know convenience kills security.

Sorry for my rant, without providing much to the discussion. I mean - it is my work device and my employer is within their full right to install whatever they wish - once the works council agrees.
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The market is already crowded with Uber Eats, Deliveroo, etc.

All of the incumbents are bleeding money.

Amazon decided to invest in Deliveroo not to miss the boat but it seems sensible not to pursue their own platform.
Sometimes it is not about trust. It is about regulations within the industry one works/contracts in.

But if this is the case I believe strongly, that the employer must provide the necessary tooling.
But self-censorship of the press can surely be an issue, no?

A cartoon can only transport so much, but it might give a hint about the bigger picture. Which I think is not taken into account with assertions like yours.
Sure, if you wanted vastly inferior quality...
The rule is forbidding idolatry which is one of the defining differences between Catholicism and Protestantism.
Some of these https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/experian-breach/ look like Experian is leaking like a sieve, or am I missing something?
I'd argue that the connection is that owning real estate here is not as heavily supported by the overall tax and financial framework. Two examples: Mortgage payments are not tax-deductible and and you are personally on the hook for the mortgage, as in you cannot send the keys to the bank and simply walk away without debt.
I refuse to use a cot or inflatable bed as my primary location for sleeping. Sleep is too important to cheap out on it.