skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no strong opinions about kids gambling in real casinos. Again, where does the money come from? Are there any studies showing gambling addiction can develop from exposure during childhood?

I think I might actually have played a few slot machines in my youth. But pocket money was just enough for one round or so.

I also plan on teaching my kids how to play Poker, I think it is a survival skill. When shit hits the fan, maybe they can play Poker with the captain of a ship to win a trip to safety.
I'm not based out of US, so the experience will vary. My understanding of drivers getting bad marked is that here the demand for Uber at peak times is still larger than the supply, hence even though you might be penalised via de-prioritisation, uber would still get you a ride to fulfil. They are also penalised by being given lower pay incentives. But talking to most drivers, the trade-offs of cancelling are worth it for them, since they often cancel drop locations from where demand would be lower, or to far off places where they wouldn't get another ride to complete, or have to go out of the way to return to the area they generally are comfortable operating in.

Whenever I've raised this issue with Uber(via their absurdly bad support feature), I generally get an automated response in the line of "We're so sorry for the bad experience, we understand that this has caused you a lot of trouble... We take your feedback seriously..", etc.
California bill will drive a national debate over how to reshape labor laws
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that title should read "Water found on a potentially life-friendly exoplanet"
American Universities Are Addicted to Billionaires
You're right of course, but HTTP(S) only 'won' because of the web.
Jekyll, Middleman, Prawn, and most of all, Asciidoctor
Immutable, share nothing, completely separated architecture.

Go has no such guarantees.
@mesid asked in a now dead comment:

> What does speed of causality mean? And how is light so close to that?

Take a look at this video by PBS Space Time on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo

You may need to go down the rabbit hole and watch the earlier videos on relativity and related topics.
If you use "kind" to create a K8S cluster on MAC, using LXC is totally transparent. You can just load regular Docker images via "kind load docker-image". It even takes less RAM than minikube, because the running Docker VM is re-used.
All reporting I've seen indicates regional popularity of the myth - in Africa and the Middle East, specifically.
"Google can do whatever it wants" - wouldn't this be anti-competitive behaviour if they stated favouring certain sites in their algorithm?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that they get audited to make sure they don't do this, although can't find the link.
Why Aren’t Cancer Drugs Better? The Targets Might Be Wrong
Yes, the article refers to ivermectin as a bacteria. Ivermectin is a drug that kills parasites. If ivermectin actuall is effective against malaria, I would like to ask why did it take 40 years to discover this?!?

Ivermectin causes severe reactions in people with onchocerciasis (River Blindness) unless treated carefully. Now that oncho is nearly eradicated, deploying ivermectin widely has become easier.
Depends on what you already know, for example a math grad should have little problems self teaching CS with the internet.
I don't think con artists really care?
Kahler is not parent company of Nanosai - though both share Zaiku Group as parent with Nanosai being an open source JV project with Jenkov Aps.

Also, yes the streaming engine will be useful to some use cases for Kahler. However, it is open source and so anyone will be able to access the same underlying engine.

By the way, we already have several people signed to the challenge including people working for notable tech companies!:)
I really don't know. Maybe it would be heavier, and maybe I will get used to whatever. I'd agree with you - it will appeal to many more people this way, apparently.
How Fan Culture Is Swallowing Democracy
As a thought exercise: why is the OS level the correct level for DNS configuration? Why would the LAN not own this?

It seems interesting that the article and many comments here identify the application level as inherently wrong and the OS level as inherently right.

What if you were running docker containers on a server?Is it incorrect for the containers to set their own resolver settings?
yeah, sorry, i put a login stage in there but not a registration step (which is a bit more fiddly as registration typically requires solving a captcha to prevent spam). so you'd need to register via riot.im or some other client first.

That said, Matrix also supports guest accounts (which are quite locked down to prevent abuse, but would work for this example) - so the /login request could be replaced by calling /register with type=guest which would then do what you want.

edit: it would look something like this (7 lines now!):

SERVER='https://matrix.org'; ROOM='#test:matrix.org'
TOKEN=`curl -X POST $SERVER/_matrix/client/r0/register --data "{ 'kind': 'guest' }" | jq .access_token`
ROOM_ID=`curl $SERVER/_matrix/client/r0/directory/room/$ROOM | jq .room_id`; curl "$SERVER/_matrix/client/r0/join/$ROOM_ID?access_token=$TOKEN"
(while true; do SYNC=`curl -s $SERVER/_matrix/client/r0/sync?access_token=$TOKEN&timeout=30000&since=$SINCE`
echo $SYNC | jq ".rooms.join.$ROOM_ID.timeline"
SINCE=`echo $SYNC | jq .next_batch`; done) &
while true; do read -p "> " INPUT; `curl -s -X POST $SERVER/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/$ROOM_ID/m.room.message?access_token=$TOKEN --data "{ 'body': '$INPUT', 'msgtype': 'm.text'}"`; done
An increase by 7% followed by 4% is an increase of 11.28%, not 12%.

$1000 +7% = $1070, $1070 +4% = $1112.80

$1000 +12 = $1120.
> client to not be a part of my browser.

But that should also be an option too. Matrix could be great to integrate with for both private and public web communities , and that would incentivize people to create more homeservers. There is currently a lack of such solutions for communities and matrix could fill that gap. It's just sad that we have to end up sending people to sign up to discord .
I'm sticking with my snake oil.
No markdown, but we had success with this one: https://mjml.io/

Try out the online examples.
I am a fan of nouns(or gerunds) for pure functions, and verbs for mutating functions. I.e:

x.add(y); // x now equals x + y
x.adding(y); // returns x + y without mutating x
Given what we see in non-human nature, the tendency of visitees to get rekt by visitors is much, much more likely due to the dynamics of competition for life than to some human-specific variable.
Offshore Wind-Power Prices Are Plunging
You're a fool
Top-Valued Microsoft Has Avoided the Big Tech Backlash
WeWork Killed the Unicorn Star
"This is probably true for a significant portion of people in the Valley. Certainly more so than say people in Midwest US "

That was in dispute. California gets a tiny fraction of its power from wind, the total state less than Iowa produces (where did you get the 'dwarfed' notion?) while the Midwest gets up to 50%. In Iowa another large fraction is from the Palo nuclear plant. So, very little coal etc.
Japan’s Debt Is Unsustainable – Why Is Betting Against It the Widow-Maker Trade?
> Every now and then I look at housing costs vs. rental income to consider buying some investment property. But the numbers never work out, I'd always end up loosing money to rent it out.

'Maybe' in the case of buying a new property now to rent. But it's clearly the case for many or there wouldn't be places to rent.
When you sit in a car and it accelerates forward you can feel your back being pushed into the seat. When you lie in bed gravity will also push you into the bed. In both cases it's a force acting on your body. So being pushed in space in a ship accelerating at 1g will feel like normal gravity with the 'ground' being the back of the ship.
Sounds like a solution a desk jockey lawmaker, or at least to their knee-jerking constituent pitch-fork mob demanding justus wouls come up with!

But in reality a ban prevents regulation and will usher in an era of illegal underground loot-box mods with hyper effective sublimal hypno-tech.

Well I mean the prohibtion of kitten-huffing should be example enough of the consequences of an unregulated drugs bazaar.

Better to have government issued loot boxes provided to children at school, like the UK lottery or the sugar-tax

/Sarcasm

But seriously the way things play out on the street is rarely how they look on paper as idealistic laws.

The solution ?

A little of both ;-)
I think this is an exceptionally good response. Thank you.
I have done this twice with the same tenant without complaint or moveout. My tenant was presumably getting basic inflation based increases at work, which offset most of the delta.

Unclear on why doing it all at once is worse than doing it regularly and extracting more rent in the period in between. Is the theory that they will be unable to adjust
their budget in 60 days?
Does the iPhone creep you out? Scientists tackle why tiny holes scare people
>Or we recognise that as we automate further that there's less collective work for humanity

This has basically never been true in the history of work-saving technology improvements. Such advances tend to create entirely new, previously impossible jobs.
There is an open source alternative to Datomic being currently developped: Datahike.

https://github.com/replikativ/datahike
> when we get faster than light travel we can just pick up exoplanet research where we left off

if we get FTL, we'll be able to pick up that research before we left off ...
Seems to be easily solvable with an app on your phone, you order as you queue and by the time you reach the counter you already paid.
They say it will be enabled only for providers supporting this. Do they mean DNS servers supporting DoH?

If a network DHCP server publishes a local DNS server that is not on the list, DNS traffic will not bt encrypted?

So a network operator wishing to continue spying on its users just needs a local DNS proxy?
Why CSS Is Better
Another week comes along and with it, another assault on CSS. It’s turning into a bit of a trend—particularly in the JavaScript community—to crap on CSS wherever possible. I could lambaste those who frequently do this, but instead, I thought I’d write about CSS positively to counter the falsities that are spread over the tech tyre fire that is Twitter.
CSS is incredibly flexible permalink
Imagine if a tech dude walked on stage at a conference and said the following:
“This declarative language will gracefully continue on failure, allow you to write global and scoped code, and it will work across your entire front-end stack, wether it’s rendered by a framework, a CMS or a static HTML file”
People would lose their damn minds and Hacker News would probably melt down. Now, if I make a slight amendment to that, the reception would probably be the exact opposite.
“CSS will gracefully continue on failure, allow you to write global and scoped code, and it will work across your entire front-end stack, wether it’s rendered by a framework, a CMS or a static HTML file”
For some reason, amazing features of CSS like this are often seen as a negative in the JavaScript community and it’s something I can’t quite personally get my head around. I’ve settled now though, on it being a naive, inexperienced opinion of people who simply haven’t bothered to learn the language.
My favourite feature of CSS is this incredible flexibility. We can use CSS to style web pages, style complex apps, produce art, create stunning animation and even layout a printed asset. This portability makes CSS knowledge a super transferable skill to have, so next time someone on Twitter says otherwise, think back to this section instead.
There are fantastic methodologies for component driven CSS permalink
A popular “critique” of CSS is that “you can’t build components that scale efficiently”.
I wonder how hard it would be to adapt eg: postgres to keep history around forever. There's temporal tables in ANSI SQL 2011, but I think the semantics are different (it's per table, I believe).

As much as I like datomic, I'd prefer an implementation in a lower level language. However, I'm pretty sure there are alot of clojure experts out there pushing datomic to its limits.
A Testing Planning Ceremony for Scrum Teams – That’s a Bug
Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world
https://youtu.be/cnlm2e3EN78
They are very, very different things.

Zurb Email is like Bootstrap/Zurb Foundation, for email. They are common styles that apply to your HTML.

MJML, in other hand, is not HTML. You write MJML, instead of HTML, and it compiles to HTML.

It's really fantastic.
speedrunners can restart the game if they crash it.
Have you ever been in the Military?

Making do with what you have is the number 1 skill you need to learn. Those cadets would have gained 10x more experience from getting that ship back up to operational readiness than they would have from working on a brand new ship in perfect condition.
How to make money with your ideas as a startup
This is the correct response and really needs to be upvoted for everyone to see.
Only via side-channel attacks.
I think images are used for marketing emails because spam filters are worse at detecting them.
In the last 5 years how many times did you have to travel 100 miles in a day. For most people it would be less then 5. Cars are mostly wasteful where you use energy to move few tons when actually want to move just 100-200kg.
Well, it's not really a choice if for security I must give up on jurisdiction ?

I don't doubt the intentions of Mozilla. But, I expect Mozilla to set the bar much higher.

> But the default protects more people than it harms.
Sorry, not good enough for me. They should not be promoting a private company centralized solution. They really should be pushing for a decentralized and distributed solution that is yet secure for everyone involve and promote that.
I've also worked in finance and nobody I've known reaches for C++ for performance over C - only convenience/comfort. For performance, one examines the compiled output, analyze the instructions, try to prevent pipeline stalls, etc. And if the compiler is generating dissastisfactory code, use assembly for those parts.
Some reasonable law might allow that.

Eg a law could allow any increase up to some benchmark, and up to 5% per year when above the benchmark.

(No clue whether that would be a good idea or not.)
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Perhaps. Someone with a problem could easily convince themselves football stickers (the rare ones) are a sound investment.

And where would 2p machines [1] fit into this? It's acceptable to let your kids go on those and they have real money prizes.

That's not to say you're wrong though, because as I said I'm not really sure.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=su5xcK9FhRw
Elements Needed for Creating a Good Web Page Design
Ahhh affiliate marketing, still trucking along, still the lowest form of digital marketing

Though influencer marketing has been having a good shot at that title in this past 5 years
I don't think it's meaningless; it's a tool or perspective that can be used to explain and predict observations in systems that possess certain characteristics.

A loose analogy could be made with e.g. systems that have an observed variable which responds linearly to an input. This applies to a very wide array of systems. The theory of linear dynamics was nevertheless an insightful breakthrough at the time, and it's still interesting to explore whether particular systems can be modeled effectively with it.
It absolutely is when you consider the strength of the research communities surrounding cancers and their treatments in the UK.
Fix: Send WINMAIL.DAT attachments with fully formatted RTF/DOC files. Ta-da!
How do you have to "go out of your way" to follow a law which says "don't take stuff you don't own"?
Bootcamps get a bad rap on here, but for experienced developers I could actually see them being fairly useful. There is quite a difference between training an experienced developer in a new language / framework than trying to bring someone from zero knowledge to an employable level of knowledge.

As for CS fundamentals, the only time I have needed to implement a sort algorithm was at university and in some interviews. Not saying that it's all bad, it is useful to understand the underlying principles but there seems to be a focus on stuff that is becoming less and less relevant.
Was going to say much the same thing.

I ported a C hash function to C# recently, and using the low-level feature that C# offers, performance was very close to the C version.

C# is really nice to work with for this kind of thing.

And - .NET Core 3.0 introduced support for hardware intrinsics, so I could probably bridge the gap if I spent some time on vectorisingthe C# code.
The Rise of Network as a Service
Crispr Gene-Editing May Offer Path to Cure for HIV, First Published Report Shows
New homes being nicer is not a problem. It's good. (See https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/100293-how-filtering-increa... ) It's how we upgrade the national housing stock over time.

Landlords already charge as much as the market can bear. Coordination isn't really necessary.
What Would Happen If All the World's Trees Disappeared?
So they finally got there. Detecting atmospheric water vapor on a planet 110 light years away. amazing.
> If you get a CS degree at any major institution, you are not learning how to learn. You're both preventing learning and picking up bad learning habits.

What planet am I on right now?
Buttons in emails sound fishy :) I would just use an inline styled anchor.
ITER is planned to be completed in 2026 and it'll generate a net 0 of electricity at 300MW in/out.

It seems the issue with fusion is that it actually works much better at scale. But the same could be said about nuclear reactors - it obviously is much harder to build a compact one.
Some of the best as well as some of the worst developers I have worked with had no formal CS education. (The worst ones got in through biology -> bioinformatics, the best ones through gaming and setting up networks and general enthusiasm for the subject).
this name brings back lots of painful memory back in the day.
HTML in email helps readability, titles, lists, tables does help the recipient.
Lyft is the worst about this, I assumed Uber penalizes them because i can’t recall it happening in the past 6 months with them, but I’ll get back to back Lyft call & cancels.
How to Write Better Emails
It's beyond me why people would think this is worse for the tenant. Can I move to CA and be your tenant? You're basically giving your tenants free money.

Let's say the rent is $1000/month (for simplicity). That's $12000/yr in the first year. If you increase the rent by 12% ever 4 years they'll have 3 years of paying $1000/month, followed by a 4th year of $1120/month and so on.

If you instead raised it yearly by 2.87%, which give-or-take is the same as a 12% one-off increase we can calculate the net rent paid over the period in the two scenarios:

$1000*12*3 = 36000

r=1000;x=1.0287;
(r*x^1*12)+(r*x^2*12)+(r*x^3*12) =~ $38106

The result is that by deferring rental increases you've given your tenant a benefit of $2106, and we can safely assume the rent is a lot higher than $1000/month. I.e. every month of the rent not keeping with market increases is more money for the piggy bank.
> Too bad it‘s so broken in LLVM :(

TBF it wasn't just LLVM: in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54878 "nikic" and "comex" provided C test cases which failed in both clang[0] and gcc[1]. Though GCC has since fixed the issue while it remains open on LLVM.

[0] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39282

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87609
Modern Labor in March 2019: "We Pay You to Learn to Code.
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Modern Labor in April 2019: "We Grow Tech Talent. Modern Labor is a revolutionary platform that grows talent for technical roles at your company." http://web.archive.org/web/20190412130518/https://modernlabo...

Modern Labor in May 2019: "Hire Tech Talent On-Demand. Modern Labor is a highly-selective talent network of US-based tech professionals to help you build tech teams when you need them." http://web.archive.org/web/20190501133947/https://modernlabo...

Modern Labor in August 2019: "Hire technical talent fast.
Modern Labor partners with companies to help them find and hire technical talent quickly and easily." http://web.archive.org/web/20190831055322/https://modernlabo...

Fascinating to watch their transition from revolutionary platform to ordinary recruiting agency.
Where our minds go when words let us down
I noted elsewhere, but for me it’s super common with Lyft and super rare with Uber.
What entirely new, previously impossible job does automating away McDonald's workers create, that formerly employed McDonald's workers are qualified for? Are we going to send them all to coding bootcamps so they can program the kiosks and... oh wait, those jobs are already taken, never mind.

Your statement tends to be true when automation involves some kind of revolutionary technological paradigm shift, and the number of people being automated out of work is sufficiently small that societies can easily reabsorb them into the workforce. But most modern automation doesn't create new jobs or new technologies, the infrastructure for automation already exists and is stable. It just removes jobs, and at an unprecedented scale.
The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell
I dont know why my mind thinks Mercury is red in colour. I know its not the case but for some reason, my brain's first thought is its red in colour. Maybe I've ingested some of this urban myth as a child or something.
I don't follow. Are you saying each class of cadets repaired then destroyed all the parts of the ship?

But no I've never been in the military.

I would have thought preventative maintenance would be a big thing, particularly for the big expensive thing that you're relying on to keep you alive.
the only time I have needed to implement a sort algorithm was at university

Sure, but at some point you've probably had to implement some sort of novel algorithm. The reason they make you implement a sort algorithm isn't so that you learn to write sort algorithms, it's so that you learn how to implement an algorithm in general.
If there's one thing in life you want to know before anything else, it's how to get better at things
FWIW, this is still more bookkeeping for me (have to track when to raise, how much remaining to raise). I also personally feel like a dick every time I serve the rent notice - it’s a small town and everything feels a little personal.

It’s not a lot of work, but my FT job isn’t being a landlord, and we’re talking about a property that nets maybe $8k/year. It’s been a better rate of return than the stock market, but the alpha is small relative to my SWE salary.

I guess another possible outcome of this is pushing marginal small landlords out, or pushing them to use property management firms since the fees possibly start making more sense. Neither of these seem like good outcomes to me.
yes it should be better, but i would like to see a full comparison