skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say something like $5.
I would probably check it at least daily. It would also be something I would look for when trying to find, say "recipe for spinach quiche", where there will be a lot of ad-tastic and very spammy content.

Or, "things to do in Prague", when I do not want Google to start telling the world to spam me about Prague. I just want to see websites of people who went, themselves, to Prague, and want to tell the internet about it.

Or "how to build a bench", when I just want to see indie blogs where Joe Carpenter tells how he made a simple bench, without getting ads.

Perhaps also date-sensitive, so that anything indexed in the last week with the word "Italy" would show up, or "monarch butterflies", or "garden". But not in social networks (esp. not Pinterest), and not in websites with a bunch of ads.
Or they could just go visit https://cloud.google.com/support/ themselves.
"If you don't like being abused, go find someone who will not abuse you."
STL containers usually makes things easier.

Usually the libraries deal with low level issues and are doing the hard work of increasing safety.

Safety will always has a cost somewhere.
If you'd like to estimate your demand curve, you could run experiments where your landing page shows different price points to different users.
There's good theoretical reason to think that. Evolution should eliminate diseases caused by self-defects, but arms races with pathogens can keep diseases around (either directly, caused by the pathogen, or indirectly, as a tradeoff due to things being selected for to resist the pathogens.)
The fact that my comment was down-voted makes me feel like 'John the savage' from 'Brave New World'.

From my PoV, it seems that most people don't really understand what 'thinking' means.
Since we're sharing gripes, I wish it would only push updates when there is a significant user-facing change (such as a fix for a major bug). It's not worth the bother to update the app manually merely in order to gain a new formula for the automatic news downloader. Feels like I spend more time installing the program than using it.
Look at this chart of VPIP and BB/100 and tell me that it doesn't look like cheating: https://i.imgur.com/66i3Tii.jpg

In addition, his abilities magically go away on the days that his friend on the technology team is absent.

Also, he only ever plays when the cards are marked with RFID tags. He NEVER plays when they are unmarked, even against the same people that he supposedly has an edge against.

He is absolutely a cheat.
You might disapprove of the sentiment, but that does not appear to be a lie. A lie has to be factually incorrect. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie
I would also like to be able to send, say, an apple bought from the local farmer's market, to a lab, and get back results about its nutritional content. Then, compare it to what the FDA says that apples should contain. Same for non-apple foodstuffs, of course.

Also, testing for lead and other not-nice stuff would be good.
having phones near the table is so dumb. chess has already dealt with similar challenges, people should have known. maybe they did!
I was reading this book the other day

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...

in which Alane gets mentioned because it was one of many chemicals trialed as a rocket fuel. A general theme in that book is that if the demand exists for a chemical, the chemical industry will figure out how to get the cost down. (e.g. the Takasago corporation figured out a super-efficient way to make Menthol in the 1980s and took over the market for it.)

Alane should not be crazy expensive if there was a demand for 100's of tons a year.
> - Writers don't have to write cliffhangers every N minutes so you come back after the ad break.

yes!, and am I glad about it, we have more paced stories
>What causes low IQ though? Just going to take a guess here and say that < 5% of people actually have "genetic stupidity". Most "low IQ" people are low IQ because they went through traumatizing hardships early in life.

I think your statement is unlikely to be true. It will, of course, depend on your specific definitions, but from twin studies we've found that intelligence seems to be heritable.[0] It's even a fairly strong effect:

>The heritability of intelligence increases from about 20% in infancy to perhaps 80% in later adulthood.[0]

Other studies have found a similar effect.[1][2] Due to us observing this kind of a heritability effect (one that grows stronger as we age), I think it's unlikely that random events, such as trauma and hardships, are the main cause for lower levels of cognitive development. They certainly play a role in it, because they absolutely do affect cognitive development negatively, but I wouldn't bet money on this being the main reason.

Note that even though [2] favors the maternal womb environment over genetics as a factor in intelligence, it's still a factor that the individual in question had no control over.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24791031

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9242404

>Yeah, no shit. People are too busy trying to survive instead of trying to figure out life's "truths".

I think in this case the parent was referring to people who discuss and solve these kinds of problems, rather than the people actually going through them.
To me it appears he has access to the system that scans the rfids of the cards.

Article mentions that he was involved with a company that consulted with the casino.

Someone should run some tcpdumps on their wifi.
Yuri: There are a lot of alcoves in the Astridpark. You use this word, alcoves?

Ken: Alcoves, yes. Sometimes.

Yuri: There are not many people around in these alcoves at Christmas time. If I were to murder a man I would murder him here. Are you sure this is the right word, alcoves?

Ken: Alcoves, yes. It's kind of like nooks and crannies.

Yuri: Nooks and crannies, yes! Perhaps this would be more accurate. Nooks and crannies rather than alcoves. Yes.
For me, as long as it doesn’t happen too often, that referees do not see everything that happens on the field is a feature because it increases spectator engagement (classical example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_goal#1966_World_Cup_Fina...)

That’s especially true when it leads to an underdog winning a game.

Yes, on the day, that’s unfair to the better team, but in the long term, it makes the sport more popular relative to sports with ‘duller’ refereeing, leading to a net benefit even for that better team. (Edit: one should realize that incentives aren’t perfectly aligned in sports. Clubs compete with other clubs, so they want to win games, but sports leagues such as the NBA and the NFL compete with each other and Netflix, so they want interesting games)

Open problem is to define “doesn’t happen too often”. American football, IMO, needs video review; soccer doesn’t.
I'm flabbergasted. People do that every day, all day. We imprison people based in part on their future hypothetical behavior. If someone displays antisocial behavior every day and when questioned about it defends their antisocial behavior, I'd be stupid to think: well, I'd better not assume that he won't be this way tomorrow.

Whether or not the employer should have bought more of the popular drink, it doesn't change the ethical calculus performed by that person that day: there is a limited resource that many people would enjoy using; therefore I'm going to take all of it to maximize my enjoyment. Yes, yes, the long term solution is to get management to buy more drinks, or horror, buy your own. But on any given day, they deprived coworkers of the chance to get their favored drink.

Say the two of us go to a restaurant, and there are six delicious looking prawns on a bed of rice. You get the place first. Do you take all six because you like them and then tell me tough nuts that the restaurant didn't put more prawns on the dish? Or do you think to yourself: I'd love all six, but the fair thing to do is take three, and leave three?
The Nevada Gaming Control Board doesn't mess around. I remember there was an HN thread about reproducible builds, and someone who worked on slot machine software mentioned that the NGCB would walk up to a slot machine on the floor of a casino, dump the filesystem onto a memory card, hash it, and the hash had better match what they had on file or someone was getting dragged into court.
Is it a good alternative to OpenSCAD then?
Good question. The BBC cannot help itself to post clickbatish fake-news level articles to drive up clicks to its non-UK audience due to competition from its profitable rivals.

Unfortunately, us UK folks are paying our taxes for this nonsensical and biased garbage in which everything from cat memes and 16 yr old tech billionaires is somehow 'newsworthy'. It's now gotten worse as the editors are now trawling over Twitter in search of a story to post or quote in their articles.

I did the right thing and burned that TV license and I couldn't have been more happier. :)
You might want to give Plex a try. As long as you use a preset pattern for folders/filenames, it can automatically load any arbitrary set of videos as "series" in the UI: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265256-naming-home-serie...
https://www.justwatch.com may be close to what you are imagining, though it's a bandaid over the problem you describe.
G Suite for businesses, not all of Gmail.
You jailbreak the device and then you can sideload anything you like.
May I ask you where you ordered them?
I've had this thing happen twice now while visiting SF, where I'm following google maps, end up walking through the Tenderloin, and have a bunch of people try to sell me drugs.

The second time I asked one of the guys trying to sell me coke why that was happening, he said it was really the only reason white people walk there.

The whole thing was very different from the super-liberal picture of SF I had in my head.
Sizzling September equals warm temperature record
Who's in? 15 more minutes! Drop your LD username below and I'll play your game
I think state actors would be best served by making bots to upvote comments that serve their needs rather than directly commenting their position.

Ballpark, I'd estimate 1% of comments on sensitive topics, but 20% of votes on these topics are done with purpose of intentionally misleading the public.
From the Hinton link: "Letters submitted to mathematical journals of the time indicate more than one person achieved a disastrous success and found the process of visualising the fourth dimension profoundly disturbing or dangerously addictive."

I wonder whether anyone in modern times has tried it, and how it turned out.
Oh no! Send me a email and let's sort this out :(
only recently have very powerful computers gotten better at poker than good humans. a phone probably can't do it yet. but a phone could be used as a way to do various kinds of digital spying or communicating with other people etc.
that's the problem, I'm not sure I'm finding Netflix interesting these days. I've been finding more variety @ Hulu
Isn't iTunes and friends is more convenient and there are no subscription.
how do you figure out if the phone has an rfid system?
My dude over an 8k sample of hands he's winning at approximately 100x the rate of the best players, while deviating colossally from optimal strategies. The probability of winning at the rate he does is beyond the one to the number of atoms in the universe level.

This is as egregious a case of cheating as you're ever likely to find.
The example on https://keyboard.io using RGB looks so tacky. Why mix light coloured wood with a rainbow RGB look? A simple vintage or black keyset would be more than sufficient.

A big part of mech keyboards are they designs and sadly both keyboard.io and Ergodox aren't the prettiest.

I'm curious why there's no companies producing economic split keyboards at scale and with a clean look.

Edit: the link above to https://www.dygma.com looks nice and simple, closer to what I'm looking for. Although it's still bought into the annoying RGB-everything trend.
TLDR: a poker player has an unusually high win rate, says he’s not cheating, online sleuths are trying to find cheating evidence. No concrete conclusion.
The fact that their autoplaying trailers are still blasting in every one of their apps despite vocal outcry in tech press and all over the internet should be enough to let you know that they are circling the drain.

When you ruin your product in effort to game your users, you've already lost.
Not the person you asked that, but yeah, personally i also find performance more important than security for my personal computer. The chances of me being attacked are practically zero (theoretical attacks do not count, most of these security issues you read focus on the possibility and totally ignore probability) while the chances of me wanting my computer to be faster are 100%. I hate waiting for my computer to do things.

Note BTW that there is a difference between "i find performance more important" and "i do not care about security at all". I do care about security, but i am not willing to sacrifice my computer's performance for it. I simply consider performance more important.
I usually hear that in the context of comparing to our (much worse) voting machine security...
Two things there:

I'm not sure that it is tautological.

There's a definite "psychology" of lobbying for more car resources and the psychological fury of being "caught behind a tram" or seeing the "wasted space" or a "tram going by ahead of you", but trap the same person in a car at a standstill in traffic with less throughput and the fury disappears and a kind of quiet resentment yet passive acceptance replaces it. Put a motorist behind a tram and it becomes the object of their hatred. Put them in gridlock and the car in front becomes "just a drop in the overall frustrating flow, with the proportional amount of blame".

Secondly, back to the "wasted space observation" phenomenon. There's this paradox of space wastage observations in the higher density/high utilisation part of town made by people from low density/low utilisation parts of town.

Higher density areas provide and support services that are intrinsically unattainable in low density areas, so it's not immediately apparent that someone outside the high density area is worse off, because they now have a greater diversity of opportunity/facilities accessible even if they live outside the high density area. You can visit and access those services even if you don't live there. Personally, i'd rather live in a Melbourne suburb without a tram than a Sydney one, because the Sydney CBD is comparatively dead/pedestrian hostile.

The obvious example is the central business district or downtown. While it's a popular polemical tactic to pit the car drivers against the dense pedestrian core, it's a very "brave" position to argue that denser well-connected areas provide no benefit to those who live outside them.

The counter example is the wasted space, neighborhood destruction and bizarrely barren wastelands of some American cities: strip malls, multi lane highways, car parks, etc, and the realisation that they can neither sustain thriving local communities or neighborhoods, but culturally can only be populated with mega-stores and generic chains/stores accessible by mass cars and mass culture.
I never managed to get this working weirdly. Still running Kindle for PC 1.17 on Wine.
> It is not hard to recognize propaganda

I don't think so. Propaganda works by convincing you without making you suspicious. If you can recognize it, it has already failed. Of course, not all propaganda is actually concerned with convincing you. Most of it is probably only concerned with convincing a majority, your minority opinion might not be worth the effort.
I apologize. Here http://www.eu-geology.com/?page_id=192 and https://www.google.com/search?q=electric%20universe%20mounta...
You might be interested in Pyotr [https://pyotr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/] -- still under development.
I seem to remember reading somewhere recently - and, annoyingly, I can't find it so have no idea whether it was a "reputable" source - that gravity itself imposes a hard limit on the maximum height of mountains. I guess it makes sense given that the larger a mass in space is, the more gravity forces it into a spherical configuration. Still, happy to be told I'm wrong.
I only use C++ alongside Java and .NET, when they need an extra help.

The problem with D in its current state is that its tooling isn't match for OS SDKs + IDE + libraries, beyond the typical POSIX daemon scenarios, unless one is willing to put some effort into it.

So it is hard to catch up to C++, specially after all major compilers reach C++20 compliance.
Yes, trusting a store like fdroid is the ideal case. However, most uninformed users would come across an apk file on their browser, trust Chrome, and then Chrome will happily install anything.
> Citation needed. Bitfinex is one of the shadiest entities anywhere on earth. Why would you believe them?

Read the report yourself if you like:

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...

For reference, when people say "95% of exchange volume is fake" this is the report they're citing. It lists 10 exchanges with volume it deems legitimate. Bitfinex is one of those 10.

> I would do that if the market wasn’t manipulated. It’s a suckers game to take any position in a manipulated market. Exchanges actively move the price up to liquidate shorts then spike it down to liquidate long. To play a rigged game at all is a suckers bet; it’s like trying to play a shell game because you’re confident you can see where they put the ball. That’s not why you’ll lose.

I'm not sure what you mean by "manipulated". The Tether/USD market on Kraken is not manipulated in any way. And it's unclear what it'd even mean if it were. How would one go about manipulating the Tether market?

> A single transaction fee for BTC is a weeks wages in Venezuela. It does not solve that problem or any other problem. Trust me if a Venezuelan were given the choice between moving a sliver of currency for a weeks wages or 600kWh of productive energy they’d very much pick the latter like any sane human.

Yes, now it's a few weeks wages. But prior to this round of hyperinflation they could have stored their wealth in bitcoin. Now it's probably too late. But i'm not referring to someone doing it now, storing your wealth somewhere will always have some cost associated with it. Wealth preservation is a step you take in anticipation of currency risk, not after its already done.
Outside of your bubble they are pretty relevant. Hell, the biggest computers in the work generally run Linux without an internet connection.
"The researchers analyzed samples from a broad range of mountain landscapes across the tropics, including Venezuela, Brazil, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Taiwan, controlling for rock type and climate conditions to assess parallel comparisons. They found that after mountains reach a certain elevation, channels between mountains suddenly become extremely sensitive to subtle changes in their inclines, thereby limiting the height of the mountains above. They added data from hundreds of mountain ranges worldwide and found they followed a similar pattern: the height, or relief, of the landscape is capped after crossing a threshold driven by channel steepness."

Could someone walk through this pattern in simplified English? I'm not making heads nor tails of the article.
The latest Emmys resulted in 27 awards for Netflix, second only to HBO. Amazon won 8.
Netflix starts rolling commercials the minute you open the website or app
I always balk a little at the idea that e.g. a higher price tag on the same wine "really tastes better" so there's nothing wrong or deceptive in it. Seth Godin makes the same point in his book All Marketers Are Liars, basically that people want a story and marketers are just giving people what they want.

Feels kinda like the rationalization of lying and exploitative psychological tricks. But there's some truth to it, it does seem like many people just don't care about the "scientific truth" of something and are happy to buy into a narrative about e.g. why some expensive wine glasses make wine taste better, when blindfold tests prove otherwise.

I usually try for the "real truth" and try to see past my emotional biases, but maybe in some ways that's a limited cerebral tech-person view of things. It certainly makes it harder to relate to people who would rather just hear compelling-sounding stories.
While I recognise the valid points made elsewhere in this discussion about this guy’s luck and/or cheating, I can’t help wonder about how we would react differently to an AI “oracle” that gave useful solutions to problems we can’t /couldn’t solve. Where is the boundary between experiential evidence and statistical “proof”?
Sometimes I don’t want a physical copy because it is:

1. unavailable in my country at a reasonable price

2. Something I’d rather read while travelling.

And often, Kindle e-books are the only ones that are priced by region. I try to buy from DRM free stores wherever possible, but it isn’t always doable.
ISBNs are cooler than I expected
It depends on what you're using a VPN to accomplish. If you're talking about rolling out an enterprise-wide solution that does site-to-site and small branch offices and remote access, I agree: WireGuard isn't there yet (an enterprising security engineer might get it there!).

But most of the VPNs I encounter in my work are not that; rather, they're simple remote access mechanisms, addressing the same problem an SSH tunnel would, but more cleanly. WireGuard is better than the alternatives for these common-case simple remote access VPNs.

Additionally, there are lots of random tasks that you might want to deploy a simple point-to-point VPN to solve (peering, cross-account cloud access, etc) that OpenVPN and strongSwan are just too painful to set up. WireGuard is approximately as easy to set up as an SSH tunnel; the tunnel wants you to map ports, and WireGuard wants IP addresses. I imagine it might see a lot of deployments that legacy VPN protocols won't.
A 163216 page!
Poker tables with or without RFID systems, I think, is the issue.
No, grad students and researcher have the exact same need.

Unless you're majoring in classical latin, but then again, what piece of information is not digitized already? If it's not, the first user to come across that in academia should do just that.

All of my information is on my computer, and I didn't need to write down anything for almost a year now.
The police are not the only ones who can get a battering ram.

>But, by having a special key that opens all the doors, anyone could copy it - yes rules can put in place to who as access, etc, etc, but by knowing there is a "hole" in each device, every possible malicious agent will try and break it as soon as possible.

This is true in theory but it this a risk in practice?

>We have seen examples by Law Enforcement officers using accesses to gather data that would required a court order, but they didn't have one, and it was for personal reasons. So, how does that work out?

You sue for damages under section 1983.
Memory savings are still memory savings, whether they happen in kernel-space or user-space.
My opinion is that Cloud Flare forked WireGuard, taking Jason Donenfeld's design work without compensation or, from what I can tell, even a sincere thank-you, and built something from it that isn't fully compatible with WireGuard itself. I hope someone else builds a real Rust WireGuard and crushes them with it.
Claiming 5+ std deviations is a statement, not a sentiment. The author cites a paper that makes no such claim. That counts as a lie.
California bans 'deep fakes' video, audio close to elections
Me! Have no idea what the heck I'm doing but hoping for the "unconventional travel" theme!
Yes I play 10/20 live multiple times a week. Explain to me how a winning reg would ever consider calling a 5 bet all in with 54o and then fold KK pre to a 4 bet?
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