skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strategy I have seen used by a very large Free to play companies o is to stuff the boxes with at minimum the equivalent of the price on the box. They put the random item people want but emphasize the loot box has at minimum an amount of goods equal to what was spent. From SWTOR to WOT/WOWS this is so common as to be an obvious attempt to claim no gambling it taking place.

Now of course since the price of the included items is totally up to the company selling them the only counter would be require buyers to trade the same within game to other players. SWTOR actually does allow many items to be bought and sold among players for in game currency however most games do not and that is where the abuse is rampant. So just like how the odds are not displayed in all regions it would take some regulation to either end the boxes altogether or force them into permitting players to trade items at will without perceived loss of value
CEO claims Facebook ‘ripped off’ his bank startup’s logo for Libra project
W3C and Fido Finalized WebAuthn, Web Standard for Secure, Passwordless Logins
Yeah that's what I was getting at. Kind of like what the Germans call "denglish".
what is the substance of the comment they responded to? why didn't you scold that person too for essentially insulting a 1000 year dead person?
It has long been held that home ownership had a large stack of benefits for society over the alternatives.

For example, "Social Benefits of Homeownership and Stable Housing" (https://realtoru.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Homeownershi...)

"Research has consistently shown the importance of the housing sector on the economy and the long-term social and financial benefits to individual homeowners. The economic benefits of the housing market and homeownership are immense and well-documented. [...] In addition to tangible financial benefits, homeownership brings substantial social benefits for families, communities, and the country as a whole."

(Yeah, I know everyone is going to hate the "NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS" bit. But the citations and such seem reasonable. An older version is at https://www.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/migration_files/...)
"Reexamining the Social Benefits of Homeownership after the Housing Crisis" (https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/hbtl-04.pdf):

"Turning to the policy implications, federal homeownership promotion effects have been at least partially justified by claims that homeownership creates better citizens, results in healthier neighborhoods, and provides a range of other social benefits. Thus, it is important to assess the validity of those claims. This is not to say that other good reasons for supporting homeownership do not exist, only that if homeownership is not generating the claimed social benefits, we should stop using them as a justification.

"The updated literature review presented above does provide support for several social benefits of homeownership. Even after taking self-selection and other confounding factors into account there is considerable evidence that positive homeownership experiences result in greater participation in social and political activities, improved psychological health, positive assessments of neighborhood, and high school and post-secondary school completion. The jury is still out, however, on several other claims including improved physical health, and both the cognitive abilities and positive behaviors of children."
It will and your links even say that

> If the (first) model is correct, it would take a 53% increase in the housing supply (200,000 new units) ... to cut prices by two thirds

There is no reason you couldn't build that many new units over a ten year period. In fact if San Francisco increased its construction to match D.C. it would have that many new units in less then a decade

edit: Just to clarify, the only limitation is political. People don't want to allow the construction required and would rather pass protectionist laws that effectively lead to the Housing and Homeless crisis you see in SF and LA. In so much that you can convince Rich San Franciscans that those poor people they keep saying they care about should be able to have a reasonable path to getting housing you could fix it in less then a decade
AMD motherboards can do TB3.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X570%20Taichi/#Specification
Supports an add-in card (connector). It's coming more generally since Intel dropped the licensing fees for TB. But yeah, only a few AMD boards do it (without hacks).
Quick clarification: we did adjust for purchasing power parity across countries (but not within countries). As you surmised, even for differences between cities like SF and Fresno, the PPP adjustments would be negligible for the wallet amounts we were using.
> "It would cost a lot of money to send somebody to Mars," she said, "and we have roads and bridges that need repaired here."

The manned vs unmanned issue aside, what is it about space funding that switches survey respondents into believing money spent on space comes at the expense of ${MY_PREFERENCE}, and that if space expenditures were cut by X then ${MY_PREFERENCE} would get X more dollars? It never ever works out that way but the subject matter seems to inevitably trigger the zero sum fallacy.
> Removing the filler "uh" the sentence becomes "Like their purpose." Which could be semantically understood as "[I/He/They] Like (or enjoy) their (whale's song) purpose." A semantically ambiguous sentence is just that, ambiguous. This sentence can have multiple meanings.

Your argument supporting your prior assertion that "the sentence has meaningless grammar/syntax" is that... if you remove part if it, the sentence ceases to make sense?

Their sentence isn't semantically ambiguous. You may not understand the meaning of their sentence, but your experience is not everyone's experience. The word "uh" in the quoted sentence serves a particular purpose--it's an emphasis of the ridiculousness about how little we know with respect to the animals. Moreover, it's a very concise way of communicating that emphasis.
Jammer – ADALAM PLUTO $150

Spoofer – Blade RF SDR $400

FCC violation – Priceless

If you're going to test RF spoofing please hardwire the transmitter to the receiver so nobody else is affected.
I do as well. I've been waiting for a refresh, but it looks like that will never happen. It's the perfect size for media consumption for me.

I don't want a phablet so it is difficult for me to combine my phone device with my media consumption device.
I've tried again, thank you for the feedback. I have added the prices in the Plans page, I hope this will make it crystal clear what you can do. Today is being a very instructive day!
You can use Command + Option + R to boot internet recovery instead of the on-disk recovery. That'll download and install the latest version of the operating system associated with your Mac.

On the 2fa front: if you only have one Apple device, you really can't leverage the Apple 2fa system, I think. It always requires a past Apple device of some kind to get the code.
Rust modules using unsafe can be pretty self-contained and small.

For this particular library, most unsafe blocks are for calling glibc functions via FFI. They could probably use nix to avoid unsafe in FFI with libc.
You're lucky, mine died within a couple years.
I wanted to see if they had collected data on how often the wallet was returned with the money. That was not part of the main experiment design[1] where the wallets were not actually collected, but they did collect wallets in Switzerland and Czech Republic to see if it was common to return the wallet, but keep the money. For these 2 countries at least about 99% of people did not keep the money when returning the wallet.

[1]https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2019/06/19/...
I've thought about it - the Puget Sound is ever-so-slightly within line of sight (about half mile to the shore and about 3-4 miles from the ship lane). I figured this was not quite clear enough. May be wrong though.
Bitcoin Bites the Bullet
> Nobody can ever answer the question of "What happens when someone blows their UBI and cant afford to eat?" Will we let them starve?

I've answered it a few times in comment sections such as this one, but I can do it again.

If someone cannot meet their needs in a situation where they have a BI that's substantial compared to the cost of essentials, they clearly need more help, and I don't think they are undeserving of more help, but I think circumstance has demonstrated that the help they need is not simply more cash. Assistance at that point should take other forms and address the underlying issues.
From my experience, I disagree that it was an improvement over the Nexus 9. The Pixel C was originally intended to be a Chrome OS device, but it was changed at the last minute because (IIRC) Chrome OS wasn't ready for the "hybrid" devices. And it shows, via lack of polish in the overall experience.
Isn't the Pixel 3a exactly that?
LOL, you're one step away from writing a cautionary Medium post.
No, you don't have to give them your password for ballooning battery. You can short-circuit the discussion with the Apple rep by saying 'you can wipe it if you need to'.
Just curious! Why would that be more interesting to you? To get contrarian thoughts?
We originally planned to include Japan but after some initial pilot testing we realized that the country was unsuitable for methodological reasons. Japan has a lot of small “police booths” where people can return lost objects. During our pilot tests, we found that Japanese citizens would not contact the owner but instead drop them off at a nearby police booth. This feature made it virtually impossible for us to assign individual wallets to particular drop-off locations.
How about a future headline: "Tesla Freighter spoofed to abandoned warehouse, thieves make off with $2M in goods from self-driving semi."

Brave new world coming…
The classic of this is the Lockheed Skunkworks. It's success has never been repeated - lots of companies try to create a skunkworks clone, but try to fix it, and wind up thereby breaking it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
iPads in schools definitely contribute a lot to total sales revenue, but I don't think they're the majority users by any stretch of the imagination. Plenty of school districts also bought into the GSuite + Chromebook fantasy so they can't be the only reason iPad is doing so well.
x86 2-in-1 devices are so clearly superior to the Android and ChromeOS sort, that the latter just feel like a bad joke in comparison. I can't wait to be able to run a pure tablet device on mainline Linux and GNOME-Shell; this has become truly feasible only very recently, with GNOME 3.30 and 3.32. (Hopefully the PostmarketOS project will step in and support this on old Android tablets as well, but the huge amount of hardware variety just makes it hard to predict what models will be able to support this without resorting to ugly hacks, like using old vendor kernels and proprietary blobs, etc. etc.)
You're not accounting for equity changes. Even if you lost 20% of your house value you've paid down more of your mortgage than that.
The nurse's salary is probably less than $50/hour[1]. It's a small fraction of the cost for operating this machine.

[1] https://nurse.org/articles/highest-paying-states-for-registe...
Someone perpetuating toxic masculinity has little to do with the persons gender. It has to do with the cultural norms that they're choosing to enforce that result in a net negative.

A woman calling a man 'gay' because they have long hair is just as guilty of perpetuating toxic masculinity, for example. This has nothing to do with blaming men, it has to do with harmful stereotypes that hurt everyone.
Wow, so a person could really be as extremely lucid and awake as you are now, but hooked up to an ECMO, knowing that there’s no hope and with one flick of the switch it’s all over?
Seriously? Nobody points out the obvious "don't fucking glue batteries into laptops it's a stupid idea?"
Instead everyone complains about the long processing times? That time should have been the time it takes the clerk to reach under the counter for your new battery pack!
Nice to see fellow market makers! New code releases are always a good thing; perhaps I’ll do something too in the near future.
You could make any decently clever algorithm work in backtests as long as you don't account for spread, order failures and data delays. Years ago I used to test algorithms in a "harsh environment" where all your trades are essentially 10% worse.
But oh my god you absolutely know we needed to reduce thickness by a few millimeters!
Various banking (sub)systems break all the time. We just never get any postmortems or public apologies.

This reminds me the saying "Never admit a wrongdoing and you'll never be wrong".

It's great that we get several of those new startup banks (Monzo, N26 etc.) that provide superior experience and slowly show what horrible things traditional banks were getting away with.
These are really informative, thanks for writing them. (Could you add dates to your blog posts some time ?)
At which point new rental units cease to be built/bought until rental prices rise to make it profitable again.
Still, it was probably the first processor to allow for this kind of thread count (but I may be wrong)
This video caused a good amount of lost productivity in my engineering department yesterday. It was worth it tho haha
I want dark mode to make the interface fade away more. I don’t really like when the content is changed with it.
> Bankruptcy due to medical bills is another major concern

I thought most of the people on H1b have good insurances to make sure this is not the case.
SQRL isn't able to square the circle on Phishing. The exact formula changes (the document you linked was last updated this month though SQRL started many years ago) but this remains true.

The idea in SQRL is that surely if we show the user what they're about to do (e.g. sign into mybank.example), they'll realise they're being phished (e.g. by "notmybank.example") and abort. But the whole _point_ of phishing is that humans don't work that way.

In one of Microsoft's early experiments with this stuff they asked users to put their own _real_ bank credentials into obviously bogus sites with a variety of warning conditions to try to understand what's effective. _Nothing_ was effective, ordinary users click past the warnings of imminent doom in order to complete the task. I've written here before about "Brick Wall UX" the practice of designing security systems where there is no way to press on into danger. The reason for Brick Wall UX is that it _works_ and that's what WebAuthn/ U2F deliver for phishing.

In other respects SQRL isn't much different than other 2FA options like TOTP, although it has more moving parts. But because it can't fix phishing, it's not worth another look, if you decide phishing isn't scary enough to warrant extra work, TOTP already exists. If TOTP isn't good enough because you're (not unreasonably) scared of phishing, buy some Security Keys and do WebAuthn.
Hmm, I suspect you are right, thank you for the feedback. I think my customers will be business owners with some technical expertise (you need to at least understand what a transparent PNG is, and be able to paste it on your background), but I don't want to discourage end customers. I need to think about enabling map creation without accounts. I am requiring accounts now because you'll have to design a theme before you make your map (star colors, labels, fonts, etc) and I am assuming you'll want that to be saved. But I could make it optional...
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Different levels of abstraction/concerns. Params in Rails come from HTTP params i.e the conceptual merge between GET query strings and POST body (e.g forms, but also JSON).
Almost every single feature BonziBuddy ever "offered" was already included in Windows, but no one ever used the Windows components, or even knew they existed. So you could whip up a "buddy" using stuff already in the OS, claim it's a $40 value, and then spam them with ads.

And it worked!
waves and roundabout
Actually the wallet in the study just contained some business cards, no ID or credit cards.
In what way is G Suite + Chromebook a fantasy? Seems pretty useful for writing papers.
Then don't call it "masculinity" and be more specific. Anything related to "masculinity" will be connected to males.
As an Android user, I liked my Nexus 7 at the time, but I received security updates for a year or two max, and then never bought an Android tablet again because of it.
Clojure allows one to start with essentially untyped code, then add type declarations for efficiency and safety.
Greek Genocide of 1914–1922
Point taken, example removed. Thank you for the feedback.
Libra and Calibra (How Facebook Is Going Token Economy)
Maybe, though the total amount I've spent in the last decade across two daily drivers on sensors/computers was $12 for a knock sensor, $9 for a can of MAP sensor cleaner, and $78 for an O2 sensor, so it's far from prohibitive and that computerization of fuel and ignition makes the cars much more efficient, powerful, and easier to start as compared to the carbureted or pure mechanically injected predecessors.
> I wonder why there isn't a popular gradually typed language that natively allows writing both dynamic and type-safe code, allowing quick prototyping and then gradual refactor to type safety.

With the addition of `var`, I think Java is that language.
What's the point of your first sentence?

>Wanting to keep the money never incentivizes contact.

It could in combination with the authors' hypothesis of not wanting to view oneself as a thief. Under that condition, the likely behaviour is to simply let the wallet sit in a lost-and-found drawer. Writing the email starts the clock on a license to take it while giving yourself a rationalization.
Really.. my memory is bad then. I thought it was 5 years including a 2 years lingering period.
That's my thought as well. Google+ seemed like just another "me too" platform. Though Google attempted to steer it into another direction later but it was simply too late by then.

What I found hard to believe was that with all the brightest, smartest, most creative people at Google, yet they couldn't figure out a better use case for the platform during all those years? That should have been easy compared to other much harder problems that Google were able to solve successfully.

Similarly, if we think about it Yelp really has no rights to be in the small business index/listing/reviews space. Google own two biggest weapons in "Search Engine" and "Maps" and they completely dominate these two markets, so why was Yelp allowed to get to where it is today I'll never understand?

I don't know why they still have not done this but if they really want to, Google could easily leverage these two tools plus Google Cloud Platform to turn Google main search page into a Global Store where end users could simply enter a product name into the search box and Google will immediately locate it on Google Maps at various stores near where they are with real time stock availability. Users then can quickly go and pick up the item they want in person at the location they prefer. They don't even have to wait for shipping.

Google could develop an easy and intuitive front-end app for small businesses to list their products and update their stock (or use some kinds of tracking technology like beacon), then tie more advanced machine learning and big data analytics features to their Google Cloud Platform for bigger companies that have the needs for such data.

This helps reducing much friction and shorten the purchase funnel for end users who are searching to buy a specific product. At the moment, users must navigate through a sea of websites of which are mostly irrelevant, even after finding a potential website users again must find their way around the store to see whether it even carries or has the product in stock. Can't find the right product or zero stock availability? Well too bad, start again from scratch!

By reducing these steps, Google can effectively help users save much of their time and quickly locate the product they want right on Google Maps. People do not really care about vendors or companies, they only care about the products as that’s really what they’re looking for. Small businesses will also benefit greatly from features like this one since they won’t have to spend more time and money to locate buyers, now buyers just come to them directly.

Google Search + Maps have just become a global retail store overnight.
If it happened to someone like Bill Gates, maybe they'd decide to stay on it until somebody invented a portable version. Another interesting thought is that if the price of this thing falls a bit, there might be a few high-power professionals and executives who make more in an hour than the future ECMO costs to run. It doesn't look that big, maybe before long there will be a billionaire that travels around with a personal perfusionist wheeling an ECMO unit behind them. After that millionaires will start doing it, and in the end there will be affordable and entirely artificial respiratory systems.
Why federal? The federal government has no authority to do so. Housing is literally, more than any other market, an intra state matter, and the feds cannot regulate intra state trade.
Is it just me or has the usefulness of Google Maps declined substantially over the past year or so? A miscellaneous listing of complaints:

* It supports double-tap to zoom, but the first tap always causes it to lose context and open whatever I happened to tap on. This is extremely annoying when searching for restaurants in an area with one hand because that first tap will always cause me to lose my search context.

* Places I know are there don't show up, even when I zoom in to the point where the only thing in the viewport is the block where the store is located.

* Street names are still impossible to discover. In NYC, whenever I find a place that's on an avenue I have to scroll blocks left and right just to find out what street the place is on because street labels aren't automatically placed in the viewport.

* I routinely make a journey to places that turn out to be closed. I'm not talking about little mom and pop shops, although plenty of those are reported as open right now despite being permanently closed. I'm talking about major, newsworthy bankruptcies. I used to see Toy 'R Us on my map for months after the stores themselves shut down. It's gotten to the point where I call ahead whenever I want to go to a store I've never been to.

* Automatically generated markers obscuring mass transit markers. I recently spent ten minutes trying desperately to find a subway station that I knew was close to me because its marker was hidden underneath a Dunkin' Donuts. I've literally never set foot in a Dunkin' Donuts, something which Google literally knows for a fact, and yet it decided that notifying me of that store's location was more important than the entrance to the mass transit system I use every single day.

* While we're at it, let's talk about the little store markers. Google is running an ad auction on each impression, and that the reason you see useless stores that have nothing to offer you is because they decided to pay their way into your map. It's hard to believe Google is "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible" when they shove Dunkin' Donuts in my face.

If I seem mad, I'm not. I'm disappointed. So disappointed that I did the unthinkable and installed Apple Maps, and I have to say, I'm very glad I did.
They shut down Apple TVs too. No ulterior motives, I’m sure,
No, the difference with Gmail is that email doesn't require a network effect to be useful. If I'm the only one on G+, it is pointless. If I'm the only one on Gmail, it's just as useful as if everyone I know is on Gmail.
Hmm, I may explore this idea. Thank you for the feedback. And I am glad I have the video!
I think the premise is if you can't name it explicitly, there is a good chance you don't actually need it.
I mean, most HOAs will kick you out if you are deemed to be a nuisance, as can a city council.