skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't using a card though, at least not directly. They are playing a game.

It sounds like many games are set up to 1) encourage you to enter account information at some point and 2) not make it obvious when you are going to spend more "real" money.

Obviously these situations could be avoided in various ways, but I think it's being pretty hard on parents of young kids to blame them entirely for "falling for" scenarios that are pretty dodgy. Especially if you are a) a technologist of some sort and b) don't have kids, I would really think carefully before deciding the parents are 100% at fault.
Cross-discipline experience is invaluable, especially across several domains. One begins to appreciate commonalities, uniquenesses, and the infuriating significance of details only apparent on in-depth experimentation and iteration.

As with usability testing, small-n samples, say three to five, go a long way.

Do you have cross-domain expertise yourself?
I found the details you provided helpful in shaping my understanding and opinion on this issue. Thank you for taking the time to write them out.

My personal bias had previously been shaped by the example of the the Susan G Komen for the Cure scandal. In my recollection they were hardly donating any of the funds raised. Perhaps I am mis-remembering at this point.

Distributing food and clothes is much easier to do and measure than "cure cancer" so I'm not sure why I thought the outcomes would be similar.
True, but even a keyboardless PC in your pocket would have been hard to comprehend, as you would have to explain everything from touch LCD screens to the internet. Also talk about online-only businesses or even drop shipping. In 1989 you didn't even have the internet, much less anyone purchasing things online. There are catalog analogies, but the concepts are so foreign it makes it difficult to visualize 30 years from now without projecting our own biases onto it.
You are mistaken. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_da-o.html#department

> The average department-store bicycle is ridden about 75 miles in its lifespan from showroom floor to landfill. The manufacturers know this, and build them accordingly. Department-store bicycles are most commonly sold in a partially disassembled and un-adjusted condition.

I should also clarify that SINGLE SPEED pedal brake bicycles ARE nearly maintenance free, and those DO work for most people out of the box in whatever state it might be in.
In general, I'd agree. In my specific example, I don't. The title I've gained in high school is "computer technician".

Not everyone needs to know the alternatives, but people with my title are in the perfect position to lead the way. The alternative (as in, MS products in general) is pretty much just bashing our heads against the wall repeatedly and crossing our fingers in hope that a reinstall would fix things.

MS products work fine if our goal is to have returning customers. If it's someone closer than that (and willing to actually listen), they end up with Ubuntu (+ Skype), and the problem goes away permanently.
"It's still hell on the cargo"

I've never been described as that before.
You might wish to go back and look at those "churches and local groups" you got your food from your childhood. Or go to similar ones that are around you where you live now. Ask them how they get their food to give out to the needy. There's a good chance they got much of their food from a warehouse.

Now, you might not have heard of them until now, but read this description of how a lot of food bank systems work: https://www.feedingamerica.org/our-work/food-bank-network That's Feeding America, a massive network of food banks as in #2 charity in the United States in 2018. What's bigger? United Way.

The churches and local groups? They're name in this model is a "food pantry". Somewhere, especially in metropolitan areas, is one or more organizations that are basically giant warehouses of food. They're the "food bank" of the model. They take in donated food and donated money, buy huge amounts of food in bulk, and distribute it to the "food pantry".

What happens is the food bank takes a $10 donation and buys 100+ cans at wholesale prices, then distributes them to the food pantries, sometimes for a tiny fee (think: pennies) to discourage waste.

Its one thing when you clean out your cupboard of cans and another when you willingly buy a few cans at the grocery store to donate. The latter is wasted a bit, because you didn't get a good deal compared to what the food bank could get in bulk. The entire article is on this.

A picture in the article is the perfect example of this. These people wanted to "feel good". Well, even with a few percent of overhead for the "CEO cost", that warehouse-level food bank could've probably bought double the food with $500.

I get it is feel good for sure and I get the anti-corruption angle. But an honest to goodness food bank known to service an area, one that is well audited(!!) should be on your cash donation list. They're the ones supplying the small local groups with the food you got.
Depends whether you think the world will end in a bang or a whimper - whether we end up going to war and blowing everybody up, or stagnation will lead to a gentle dying-off of countries that make it difficult to reproduce.
Would you please not create accounts to do political battle on HN? That's against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We want thoughtful conversation here, not flamewars.
Elephant extinction in Africa would speed up climate crisis
I don't think this would do anything. Indexing the web is compartively easy next to querying that index to find results relevant to the users query.

On top of this, Google search is as good as it is thanks in no small part to business practices that make Google as a company unsavory. Tracking your browsing habits, reading your emails, and watching your geographical location all feed the search algorithm, providing more seemingly prescient search results. For people who are OK with this, I don't see how an alternative can show up and compete with the years of data Google has already collected on a given user.

Toppling the Google monopoly is going to be more about a cultural shift than just giving competitors the data and algorithms they need to become viable. Users need to be made more aware of how Google uses their data, then alternatives can pop up marketing themselves on how they do (or don't) leverage user data. I'm skeptical that enough users will actually care to make this difference, at least in the short term.
In that case, what’s wrong with heroine? You’re just sticking entertainment into your arm. (This is intentionally hyperbolic).

This issue isn’t really the money -> gratification conversion, it’s the addictive nature of the process. If I’ve done everything I can to addict you to my product (to remove your ability to decide for yourself)... I’m in a morally bad area.

I’m of the opinion that some of these addictive response patterns should be banned from games flat-out, whether or not there’s a direct connection to someone’s line of credit.

If heroine were free, it would still be a problem for those addicted to it, if not for very long. (Although no one would have a financial incentive to get other people hooked, so it’s an interesting thought experiment as to whether use would increase or decrease).
Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report [pdf]
List of online and open source chess applications
Facebook Faces Bipartisan Resistance to Cryptocurrency Plans
Please don't respond to a bad comment with a worse one. Maybe you don't owe the other commenter better, but you do owe the community better if you're posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Anecdote: where I live, people on social welfare can get some small jobs (lawn mowing, paint jobs, that kind of things). They aren't paid in money. People give them some kind of social paper that is the equivalent of money and then they have to go the administration to get that turned into money into their account. Here's the catch: only people on welfare can get these jobs. And they are basically given monopoly money by people buying their services (who first bought these cheques from the government). These papers have validity dates, can't be used on the spot to buy something. Some money get lost this way. Why should people on welfare be paid with fake money ?

Sorry to probe, but what country do you live in? I'd like to do some further reading
They may be alternative implementations, but they're still no good in this case. See elsewhere in the thread where it's pointed out that Epic's anti-cheat software intentionally fails to run the game if it's running on Wine.
What about making a bike out of wood? It would have a lot of friction, sure, but it might be better than walking?
Wine is a fully open implementation of Windows APIs on Linux. The game cannot assume that the API's behavior is fixed on WINE because anyone can change any of the functions to do something unexpected with a quick patch. One example may be hacking up the DirectX implementation to draw some objects as transparent rather than opaque.

Of course, it's possible (if much harder) to go in and hack up the DLLs on Windows. Anti-cheat addresses that by whitelisting known-good MS hashes and/or requiring some type of signing. There's a lot more overhead involved in doing something like that for WINE, since every distro's build would be different, it's common for users to have their own builds with game-specific patches enabled, etc.

I've been out of the WINE scene for a while, but I'll say that I don't believe many WINE users are trying to exploit the platform to cheat. I think it's purely a cost-benefit tradeoff. The vendor doesn't feel supporting a legitimate WINE use case is worth the expense of figuring out a reasonable way to validate behavior, handle integration with distro builds, support debugging/custom patchsets, etc.
While I see your point your math does not add up. You can’t take $5, then transform it to $25 worth of food and then again to $25 in cash so you can give a $10 salary. Unless of course you would resell the food you buy at a massive margin.
I find DDG has pretty acceptable or even good results most of the time.

The real power is in the "bangs", though; you can use the `!` to immediately jump to the first search result without seeing a search page, or use `!g` to switch to Google for this particular query, among others. It enables a sort of power-user usage that one wouldn't get with Google.
Don’t Blame Flawed Silicon Valley for the Rot of Wall Street and Washington
There are also some blog posts over at Serokell about tagless final in Haskell: https://serokell.io/blog/tagless-final.
> That does not sound like a good argument at all. Metal for vast majority of human history gave you massive edge in weapon technology. Some Mandarin just shut something like that down? Seems super unlikely

The assumption here is that every thing works in a clear way so you can see the military or whatever advantages of a particular phenomenon. Now I don't know if AnimalMuppet is literally correct that the bureaucracy simply shut down the steel industry -- but if it happened it would be because all that cheep steel was not being used for obvious things, like the imperial army, but for other unexpected uses. Maybe arms and armour still had to be made the old fashioned way anyhow, so there was no immediate military advantage.

More likely, things were subtler. Things innovations can strangled long before their importance is clear. Imperial China had a vibrant merchant class, but it isn't the kind of place that is likely to tolerate the "disruptive innovation" which fuelled Britain's Industrial Revolution -- where a bunch of upstarts come and do things with unexpected things. Even modern China (or for that matter the modern United States) struggles with it.
What? The bicycle design is not proprietary.
Electric Airplanes Start to Take Off
The concern over fraud goes the other way in Europe. We don't like the "pull" model and worry about our card number being used without our authorization. Debit card payments usually require card presence and PIN for each transaction, making stuff like that impossible.
The only thing worse than not having a tl;dr is having a clickbait tl;dr: "The answer is simple: to keep that window from killing you". (Translation: "To find out more, read the article!")

The actual claimed explanation:

> when an aircraft’s interior is pressurized and de-pressurized repeatedly, over and over again for many months, the strength of that aircraft’s metal body slowly weakens — a phenomenon that became known as metal fatigue. And when the holes you cut into that body to hold windows have sharp corners like squares do, thanks to a process called stress concentration the weakness builds up much faster in those sharp corners than it does elsewhere

You can read the rest of the article if you want to read about the history of the de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style and please not use HN for ideological battle? Those things are destructive of what we're trying to do in this community, and your comments have been noticeably more inflammatory than the others I've seen in this thread. You've also done it recently elsewhere.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site to heart when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Oh jeez what the hell, you're right. I was thinking about Emotiv! Well it'd be nice if I could unfuck this situation, as I also got a Muse through Indiegogo and even though I gave it to a friend some years ago, it did what it said on the tin.
I find the single hardest thing to search for these days is anything more than a few months old on YouTube... They hate older videos, it feels like. Beyond that, I keep seeing suggestions on new content from years ago... it's just weird.

I know it's not google proper, but I'd guess a significant number of their searches are specific to youtube.
Back in the day I used to build single-shot logic using sand supported by torches holding back water. Water knocks out torches, sand falls releasing more water, etc. When redstone came along everything got much simpler :-)
While the estimates of total casualties vary quite a bit, an enormous number of people were killed in Vietnam. It was basically a genocide. Even if you believe in the domino theory (personally think that was nonsense) there's no real scenario where the war could have been a net positive.

The US put that corrupt local government in power by the way.
They've decided to completely stop trying to support Linux even on games that already had support and are intentionally disabling any workarounds to keep them running.
There certainly exist developers who perform at the same level in their craft as Bach composed. Why wouldn't the positive tail of the distribution exist?
Why spending cap be government enforced?

Why not just have a second signer to increase a cap?
Yes. First, it turns the game from an good or service I buy to enjoy into a glorified supermarket where I'm supposed to buy even more goods. This frequently ruins both immersion and gameplay.

Secondly, the developers now have incentives to make you spend as much as possible, which is why you'll frequently see psychological tricks to move you in that direction.

Even if the developers were completely earnest, the rewards cycle will cause craving for mire rewards and will easily keep one glued to the game longer than intended.

If I need to exert willpower to use a service "responsibly" while the service actually makes its money from people using it irresponsibly, the service probably shouldn't be used in the first place.
What does a viable alternative look like?

I've been using Bing for the past few months; it's not great or terrible but is it "viable" enough for people to shift to over time? Or is it not viable because it's backed by a major corporation?

I'm sure there are search quirks with each engine but I've seen issues with Google too and yet it's the "devil we know" ... so people unconsciously work around them.
> Why don't they give NAMES to these different types of cables?

Exactly! We can call the one for small peripherals "USB", the one for monitors "VGA", the one for networking "ethernet", the one for power "AC"... I suspect most users can figure out how to manage that.

Snark aside, I actually agree with you. The market powers that be completely messed this up. Basically, phones have limited port space. And for their benefit, and only their benefit, we've tried to cram together the entirety of device I/O into one multi-pronged standard that was clearly never going to work.

And those phones? Their fancy USB-C ports are almost exclusively idle. A median high end phone never does anything with that port it couldn't have gotten with a single barrel connector with ~10V DC.
Yes, you're totally right, and I am totally wrong. I was thinking about my Emotiv headsets and not the Muse!
> You can't microwave a turkey or cook it on a hot plate.

Yes you can, you'd slice it up and cook it like bacon. Other parts you can use for stews etc. You can't cook the whole bird all at once, but if the alternative is no turkey at all I bet a lot of people were happier with it than without.
This is not entirely correct. If you are a farmer you (or a someone working with you) still need to travel for numerous reasons, including to bring your products to market, to round up your animals, to buy equipment and supplies, etc.

You say they had horses for those types of traveling, except they most likely didn’t. Only a successful farmer could afford a horse. And even if they had a horse, chances were it was busy or tired for farming works to be used for transportation.

Most people walked to were they needed to go, in if the modern bicycle would have existed a farmers dream would be to have a successful crop one year so they could afford a bicycle. In fact a modern bicycle would have been a good investment for many farm as they allow farmers to bring more products to a market quicker and more efficiently, in turn allowing the transporter to be back at their farming job quicker and less tired.

This can be seen in today’s poorer regions where no trains nor road runs. But the occasional farm has invested in a bicycle to help with transportation.
I doubt that anyone can be familiar with "most theses in computer science these days".
Unless you're searching in Russian, DDG is mostly a skin for Bing search results anyways. The major players in the search engine space are Google, Bing/MSN, Yandex, and Baidu - with the latter two being mostly language-specific.
Agreed... I use it pretty much everywhere at this point. Others may load slightly faster, or perform slightly better.. but it's consistent with the best plugin ecosystem of any editor I've used and performs way better than any full on IDE by comparison with a fair share of the features.
While I hesitate to feed the trolling comments...

> We interred Japanese after Japan commuted one of the largest terror attacks in US history, that’s it.

1.) "We" did not inter Japanese. Those who made the rules and followed them during that time did. If by "We" you mean "Americans" then that leads to the next point...

2.) Many of the "Japanese" you say were interred were Americans. They were put into camps not because of any actual reason than how they look and where their ancestry hailed from.

3.) Imprisoning people who have done nothing wrong and have lived their lives in this country should make painfully clear the quote, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
> Right, that's how you could plausibly have made one or two, as a palace amusement, or a circus act. It's a little surprising this didn't happen (as far as I know).

You also need people to ride it. It wouldn't fly as a palace amusement because the king (and more importantly the little prince) would keep falling off. They won't have an incentive to value the skill until there is a horde of middle-class, 19th century, hipsters showing him up.

A circus act is more plausible, but only if there's some continuum of other simpler circus equipment leading up to this rather sophisticated bit of engineering.
It's an open source, royalty free codec. I'd much rather use that than one owned and licensed by a private organisation, no matter whether Google develops it or not.
Hi there! I'm one of Osgood's authors.

To clarify a few things:

1. Any tool that reduces the privileges of your application code, such as Osgood or Deno, is doing so because application code cannot necessarily be trusted, since you're pulling in external dependencies that can have vulnerabilities or malicious code, and even one's own code may have unknown vulnerabilities that may cause unexpected IO behaviour to happen.

2. The policies you can set with Osgood are defined in a JavaScript file that is run separately from your application code (i.e. the worker files), and it only runs once to build up the policy data structures in native code. This V8 Isolate is then discarded. This means that application code cannot modify its own policies.
I don't think it makes sense for us to debate "what would stand in a courtroom" since this has been the law of the land for more than two decades and has been able to "stand" just fine so far. We could debate whether or not the law should be repealed or amended, but the consequences of the law as is are pretty clear: online platforms are not responsible for content posted by a 3rd party and are free to curate content on their platform at their own discretion.

> is it allowable to promote content you prefer over other content? Or de-promote the content but not remove it?

Legally it is allowable since the law makes no distinction between "promotion" and "curation".
I 100% agree with your assessment.

>They get dismissed as crazies and addicts who simply can't be helped.

How can we identify which people are in which group? Is it simply a matter of advertising a path out, and those willing to try will follow up?

Obviously, this assumes someone has a functioning path out, which I don't.
That's fair.

Though presumably the switch lite doesn't need to support USB at all.
Yeah, he was often sleeping in some hacker space when he had no place of his own. It was like "homeless light," from what I gather.
They did, kind of. USB2, USB3.1 gen 1, and USB 3.1 gen 2 are 480mbps, 5gbps/DP-alt-mode and 10gbps/DP-alt-mode, respectively.
The problem is really that people won't remember that distinction unless they need to know it regularly, and unless you know to Google "difference between USB 3.1 gen 1 gen 2" you won't be able to figure it out.
I don't build from pkgsrc.