skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gambling addiction is a serious and well known societal and human psychological problem that has touched every family I've ever known in some form.

To the point that gambling (used to be) strictly regulated for payouts and monitored by state gambling commissions. Either that or it was the purview of the mafia.

I notice you ignore any mention of money attached to the mechanisms you think "aren't a big deal" in your comment. That strikes me as willful disregard and intellectual dissonance. Are you a FtP games dev?
I’m on fast network, and it took at least 10 seconds(!) to load your link. I saw a loading circle under ‘assignee’ sidebar for like 7 seconds.

I was so shocked that I re-visited the page in incognito mode. 10+ seconds of waiting happened again.

Hope the improvement goes well.
The abstract of the paper seems to suggest otherwise:
We observe all individuals who began to day trade between 2013 and 2015 in the Brazilian equity futures market, the third in terms of volume in the world, and persisted for at least 300 days: 97% of them lost money, only 0.4% earned more than a bank teller (US$54 per day), and the top individual earned only US$310 per day with great risk (a standard deviation of US$2,560).

My interpretation of this, is that those they tracked in this study, it's not even all that profitable for the few that beat the odds while being exposed to significant risk.
*read (typo)
Am still betting on the price to hit $20000 by year end
>> I believe that a smartphone too accessible, given too early, and in the wrong hands is at best an addictive distraction and at worst a handheld siphon draining away children’s youth one beep, one swipe, one notification at a time.

I support a parent's right to choose for their kids, but this seems very naive, and not far off the "No good will come of you spending all that time on the computer, go outside and play" line my own mother used to spin, and the fears that having computers in the house would warp kids of the 80s.

In reality I had no deficit of outside time, or sports at school, she just took against tech early on. She just got a (dumb) mobile phone about two years ago and rarely uses it.

The real root of the fear here seems to be that your child might have a different upbringing to your own, one you don't understand.

I have no doubt the kids will be fine, if a little peeved at Mom for denying them common forms and channels of social interaction their peers indulge in.
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As described in https://2ality.com/2013/10/typeof-null.html
Big cost savings.

For myself, I would have no problem popping it open to replace parts. It would be great to get 5-6 (planned) years of use out of a single device. For family, that I regularly provide "tech support" for, it would be great to repair their phones instead of being beholden to some "bar", on the other side of town, requiring in-person visits/appointments for $100+ repairs.

We could just get it done at the kitchen table.
> polls showed that people were opposed to breaking up Microsoft 54-35.

Sure. But that is entirely based on their perception. If you asked "Should Microsoft be allowed to charge Dell a Windows license for every CPU, even Dell ships a different OS?", you will get a different answer.

The real problem is that any case takes 10+ years to litigate, so the landscape is completely changed, reducing the willpower of the public to enforce.
PHP arrays aren't really arrays
You make it sound like the scientists are doing something shady, which is completely untrue... plenty of good science has been done on dark energy / dark matter. This is simply a prime example of how it looks when important observations aren't fully understood.

So that's a problem with your wording.
I didn't mean this as a criticism of Ruby, either. I'm a Ruby/Rails dev and still enjoy the language, even if it feels like it's fallen out of favor
Medicine actually involves a significant amount of learning on the job in all specialties - https://www.verywellhealth.com/types-of-doctors-residents-in...
Putting aside the potential quality issues of the study, the headline here in HN isn't accurate and made a lot of people comment about how wrong it is.

The study doesn't literally say "impossible" but "virtually impossible" and they do say that a very small percentage was able to make about $310 a day which is about ~110k a year.
Correct, and the statement "it is impossible to become rich by playing the lottery" is absurd. It's part of an annoying tendency to conflate "extremely low probability of success" with "impossible".
A comment on hacker news hardly raises suspicion of state sponsorship.
Osquery 4.0 Is Out
Halfway through his latest Mindscape podcast episode that drills down into this topic in a very approachable way.
Fun fact, the person who stole the sim probably worked for the carrier, or used someone who worked at the carrier that they either knew or had leverage over. You already have to verify your identity to the carrier if you want to make changes to your account, and while you might be able social-engineer your way past it, but I would be shocked if someone like Jack Dorsey didn't have a password associated with his account that is required to make changes. Saying the carrier needs to be sure before making changes is useless if the person at the carrier is circumventing it. Plus they already do it.
You can use different DoH server, you can setup your own, that's not a problem

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/02/configure-dns-over-https-i...

I use https://odvr.nic.cz/doh
Interesting. My parents similarly never got me or my siblings smartphones (in retrospect it may have been a financial thing, though). I was 18 before I bought my own (only a few year ago!) I've never met another person in this sort of situation. Most other people I knew had their parents eventually get them one early in HS.

There were definitely negative effects. I imagine mostly social and nowadays inconsequential to an extent. I'm still to this day rather isolated, both from my family and peers

On the flip side I had an incredible attention span and was able to learn anything I wanted with persistence. I'm simply not able to do that anymore.

That being said, I don't think I'd so the same for my kids.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a senior back-end engineer to help us scale
20 Years of the Apache Software Foundation
I finally replaced my personal laptop from 2010 (a ThinkPad T410) last year. It lasted that long because it was upgrade-able and—crucially—repairable. It still has some life in it, but I decided a newer machine would give me enough performance benefits to be worth it.

I've had my Pixel XL for about 2.5 years. I'm planning to replace it in the next six months only because the battery is getting worn out—the performance of the device is still very good.
Or you could say: it's impossible to win the world championship at anything.

It would be easy to find data to show that 99.99% of people aren't the best tennis player or fastest runner or best Scrabble player in the world; therefore, nobody can be the best at it. According to this reasoning, at least.
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/releases/tag/4.0.1

This is the first stable release since transferring to The Linux Foundation. It represents a huge amount of work across many community members.
>I think the administration badly, badly mishandled [whistleblowers]

Yes, but by design. Other than passing lip service towards transparency. The fact is Obama admin actively sought to silence them. I know this isn’t popular because HN won’t want to hear anything bad about Obama, but it’s a fact.

In the seven years of Obama's presidency, the administration launched a record number of cases against those who revealed what the government wanted kept secret. Under Obama, eight whistleblowers have been prosecuted under the World War I-era Espionage Act, more than under all other presidents combined.

Sources abound; pick your favorite.
I think grocery stores are evidence to the contrary
Poker isn't gambling, but a game of skill. Are there many people making a living actually gambling on something like craps or roulette.
I'm definitely not, I wonder if you know any lefties at all.

At the moment, compare the headlines, lead stories on the Telegraph to the Guardian. Here's the Telegraph:

Backlash as No 10 questions impartiality of Scottish judges

The Scottish court prorogation ruling shows the anti-Brexit Establishment is hard at work

Remainers are confirming Leave voters' worst fears by trying to litigate Brexit to death

None of that is impartial, it's all highly emotive and extremely biased. The Telegraph is sounding more and more like a hard-right red top.

Compare that to the Guardian right now:

No 10 resists demands to recall parliament after Scottish prorogation ruling

Scottish court ruling: what happens next in prorogation dispute

Nigel Farage 'won't be allowed anywhere near government', say Tories

All unbiased, fact based, impartial.
"My boys are not like the kid I met in college who had grown up without TV and didn’t appreciate the cultural relevancy of Bo and Luke Duke or George Jefferson. My kids readily quote Ron Swanson and Dwight Shrute." -- I bet the "no TV" parents had a similar defense citing radio access....
If you have a Chromecast, it's already sending the DNS requests to 8.8.8.8 unless you specifically block the IP.
> We use the DNS because most humans are bad at keeping track of long numbers.

I almost feel the need to challenge that these days. While it's absolutely true as far as the original intention went, and is true to a limited amount today, I think the days of most people typing domain names into the location field of their browser is largely over. Google search is the modern DNS when we're talking about that purpose. Today, I think DNS is much more about the permanence of an address, not whether it's memorable.
> due to all of the other lock-in effects

Which have been common knowledge about Apple for longer than plenty of Apple users have been alive. And if users choose to keep on being users when they know full well what Apple is up to, again, self-inflicted wound.
It seems to me that an evolution of the current Uber/Lyft model would allow for the gig-economy to continue. Today Uber/Lyft being the exclusive determinants of both cost of rides and pay for drivers, which leads to 'prividing rides' being their core business.

If NewCo were to build an app/platform that allowed drivers to bid on rides in real time (perhaps with driver determined presets for price floors, distance, etc), while skimming a percentage off for NewCo, then drivers would clearly be NewCo's customers and not employees.

Under this model, NewCo could also sell insurance to their customers (the drivers), lease them vehicles, etc. all without 'directing' them, or running any risk of them being classed as employees.

Perhaps this will be an unintended consequence to this legislation, but the ultimate outcome of this would likely be worse for many drivers, as open & competitive bidding for rides would likely drive down prices. Look at eBay and Amazon - lowest seller sells most.
> What's the reason for the upgrade? Camera?

I’m convinced that the camera quality degrades as the phone gets older/more used. What convinced me was my mom receiving a brand new 6S replacement from Apple and seeing the major camera improvement even though her broken 6S was in mint condition.

Can anyone provide some insight to this? It took years of speculation for us to learn our slower OS/battery concerns were real. I’m wondering if this is next.
Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?
I grew up in the late 90s on obscure message boards and in many ways it was my real introduction to the Internet. I really miss the community and authenticity of that world, which seems to have been replaced entirely by monocultural mass social media like Reddit.
Competitive free markets are contrary to aristocratic ideology. Competition is expensive to the supplier, it costs them growth and profits. Of course they are in favor of mergers, conglomeration, and anti-competitive practices, and will pay dearly to promote politicians, state and federal attorneys, and judges to not apply competition law and to weaken it.

If consumers aren't paying attention when they vote, they're not just acknowledging their ignorance, they're giving up their one really powerful non-violent opportunity to force competitive markets to exist.
I like how you've phrased that. It's a lot better (and less opinionated) than what I put :)
Lyft would likely do the same thing, since they’re already employees...
This seems to play very well with some of MIT CSAIL's research in training robots to be able to manipulate objects they haven't seen before.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9U8X6I1vow
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06684

TL;DR the objects are grouped into categories which determine the "Key points" on the objects (similar to this 'skeleton') which the robot knows how to interact with in order to bring about the intended manipulation.
>But the ability to work flexibly and between lots of companies

They still have this ability
Sure, but I would think every one of those advocates would also agree with what I wrote.

That the "world" described by many worlds is a convenient short-hand for a single position in a massively entangled system of particles in a complex-superposition.

It's the "Many Worlds" is common moniker, and the rhetoric does use the concept of worlds all the time, but whenever you get down to the specifics of the theory there really aren't many worlds.

I think it's unfair to hold the shorthand rhetoric against people when they attempt to get to that more precise level. It would be like using the plain english definition of "observation" against someone trying to provide a more rigorous definition of what an "observation" is under the Copenhagen interpretation.

Ultimatley, this discussion all stems from the original statement: "MWI insists that experiments have multiple outcomes in point of metaphysical fact." It's a fairly moot point at this point since that statement was removed.
When those tasked with enforcing the rules take a punitive approach as the default, loss of a potential asset is the most likely outcome.
And yet, every poker player will tell you about how they always win. The same goes for daytraders I guess
you could also do:

site:news.ycombinator.com -site:news.ycombinator.com/item
Get your bot working first in your preferred language, mine is python. Then look at some of the libraries available. Ta-lib is a good one to start out with. Then combine the two, your bot and your code for trading with ta-lib.
It's perplexing to me. I view HN as obviously being a social media, and (for me) the most time consuming one of them all.

Edit: Now that I think about it, HN is the only social media that I don't find it delivers enough value compared to my time spent on it (it does deliver value - it's just that it's a big time sink). I'm pretty happy with the time/value ratio of Facebook and (more recently) Twitter. It's probably because the ability to carefully curate what you see on FB and Twitter.
I see the smart phone addiction problem as similar to the food addiction problem, you have to eat and if you want to have a good modern job you have to have a cell phone. Part of becoming an adult is learning about the temptations of life and how to manage them. Ultimately I think this is a disservice in the long term, by shielding their kids from technology they also shield them from the development of the self control muscle.

The great author/comedian John Hodgeman once said "it's their time to waste" in response to someone who wrote into his advice column about their teens seeming to waste their time as a teen. Unfortunately, goofing off and wasting time is a thing I think most people need to do for some segment of their lives until they become sick of it and decide to get in gear.
He is sitting his 50 week sentence in HM Prison Belmarsh in UK and has access to lawyers. Media is tracking his case. There is nothing to report.

There are people who spew up conspiracy theories on the spot when they have not heard anything, from pure ignorance, yet they speak ill of mainstream media.
Will read the article once home, but for now I have this rule of thumb: if data is of streaming nature & short time valued, infinite scroll, else always pagination. So far worked for me (:
yes, but these are investigated and prosecuted by police, public prosecution services, and courts; not by couriers discontinuing their services.
I don't know much about the Brazilian equities market per se, but I do know about trading in other markets.

Liquidity is a very important aspect of any market. If you are the largest player in a small market (i.e. it has low liquidity), you are market making, and the problem with that is information asymmetry comes into play: you're trading against people who know stuff you don't know, and they will only trade against you when you're wrong.

If you are in a highly liquid market, the market represents all the information out there, so you need to think about where your informational edge comes from.

Most day traders seem to focus on technical analysis in the belief that there are underlying probabilities that drive market movement and this alone is enough to find an edge.

The linked paper is not one I have read completely yet, but it seems to align with my own experience and those observed elsewhere: that might be true, but you need to find the edge nobody else has seen yet, and that seems to be very difficult and carry some risk.
That Fairphone 2 fully supports Android 9 officially on LineageOS: https://download.lineageos.org/FP2
This is clearly written by an adult who forgot how most children behave.

If they're the only ones without a smartphone, they'll be single out. Especially with how prevalent online communication has become.

They might not be bullied (though they probably will be), but growing up as the outsider comes with is own can of worms.

They'll most likely survive it, but it'll have it's effect... But everything has consequences so I guess ymmv.

It's just kinda annoying to constantly read about these parents making tech into something harmful (which it obviously can be) and their own great strategy to counter this, which has at least as many dangers for their mental health as the alternative had.
No, it’s about where money flows to avoid taxes. The comment suggested money will flow into the UK from Europe after Brexit to avoid tax, however Europe already has Luxembourg.
Keep in mind that the testing methodology may have already accounted for your concerns. I would guesstimate that mechanical vinyl and tape players have rate variations on the order of milliseconds.
Not against "impossible."
Why weird?
> which is about ~110k a year

$310 * 5 days a week * 52 weeks a year = $80,600
The Guardian has had a great ongoing series of Brexit pieces from Michel Barnier, Irish perspectives, frequently fascinating views from academics, economists and politicians around the world.

Opinion has varied widely, depending on who, which at times has been most frustrating. It's been possible to read two opinion slots, from different authors, on the same front page with opposite Brexit hopes. :)
> Myth: Stealth is obsolete / stealth is a hoax / stealth is marketing

> LO remains relevant (and very useful) for the same reason armor didn't become obsolete when antitank guided missiles were fielded. [...] LO technologies drastically reduce detection ranges and warning times. Sensors that work well against stealthy aircraft would work far better against non-stealthy aircraft. What's the alternative to stealth? No stealth? Make our aircraft easier to detect and track? All future combat a/c designs must consider signature reduction going forward.

Can be seen as a commentary on isolation/mitigation techniques in infomation security.
ok boomer
In Turkey if you change your SIM card you cannot login to your bank account (web site, app). Yeah, even if you are in same mobile operator with your same phone number. How does my bank know that I have changed my SIM card? I think that they have API between mobile operator, government, and bank. For example I can see my mobile and land line numbers from my e-government account.
> an entry-level SWE

In a major tech hotspot, working 8 hours a day
There are plenty of companies who have successfully figured out the whole part-time flexible employee thing. I quit my last company, but they didn't want to lose me, so they wanted to keep me on as a flexible-part-timer and I didn't even have a set amount of hours I needed to work every week. As long as I was working less then something like 30 hours a week then they didn't need to provide me additional benefits like insurance and what not. This isn't rocket science. If Uber and Lyft are using public utilities/infrastructure for profit(like roads), then they should be obligated to pay the government to use that infrastructure to get their jobs done. If you don't work for Uber or are a shareholder, do you want to subsidize their business with tax payer money?
> It's hard work but they make 5 to 6 figures consistently per year.

For how many years, and how much seed money did they start with? The problem with making a high percentage consistently is it requires taking on huge risks. Those huge risks mean at some point a trade will go bad and your friends will be done.
I understand that. But if it's easy to see, why do I need to do something to make it brighter?
Yup! It has various kinds of shortcuts for this kind of thing (increment/decrement number, find prev/next link, remove component from path).

If you're curious, the implementation is here: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/quteb...
we both know that china plays the long game and in the long game there's one china - and in one china, government owns whatever it wants to own.
It's so sad to see it all happening, after we all have been celebrating their success ...
Although Einstein apparently knew about the Michelson-Morley experiment, it's unclear how much his development of relativity depended on it. He seems to have moved on to being motivated mainly by rationalist abstraction and the use of gedanken experiments, rather than actual experiments. The predictions of relativity were then confirmed by later observations and experiments.

"On the role of the Michelson-Morley experiment: Einstein in Chicago" http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4778/1/Einstein_Chicago_Web2...

It seems that the development of quantum mechanics has been much more driven by experimental results, although there are exceptions, such as Dirac's prediction of the positron.
Yes, the title should have been something like "impossible for an individual to day trade stocks for a consistently reliable living".
For sure. I was hoping my comment didn't come across the wrong way. I think there is definitely value in remembering what / where you read something.
Yeah, it's a zero-sum game. I guess the study was looking at individuals competing against institutions and market-makers.
If they're doing it because it makes them more efficient or profitable, it makes sense. If they're just doing it to punish the state for changing the rules... well, that's their prerogative, but if it makes them less efficient they will lose ground to competitors.
>I think my boys feel the same way about smartphones that I felt about Guess jeans—the ones with zippers at the ankles—in 1984. All the cool, pretty girls had a pair. My desire for the jeans was more about fitting in with the crowd than about the jeans themselves.

The author is conflating 'fitting in' with communicating.
Thank you for the response.

Sad to hear that it's only available with drm. It's going to show up on torrent sites within days no matter what, so as always honest consumers are the ones that lose.
Where is $20,000 ‘livable’? Savings or not, I don’t know of many places where you could live on a net income of ~$1,300/mo. what do you do for medical benefits alone in that income bracket?