skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is almost exactly the system Japan has(had?) with Pachinko machines, where you don't get a monetary reward directly but a building next door will 'buy' the prizes that you do receive for real money, effectively skirting the gambling legislation.

The irony is that when Gamefreak implemented this as a gameplay mechanic in the Pokemon games in the form of the Game Corner the games got a 12+ rating[0] from Pegi, the European equivalent to the American ESRB, as the games featured 'games of chance that are played as a traditional means of gambling'. The games in this region also renamed the machines to 'Game Machines' from 'Slot Machines' although I can't find out whether this was before or after the games originally released or whether it happened while the games were being rated. The ESRB rated the Pokemon games as E for Everybody but noted that some of the games contain 'simulated gambling'[1], although not all Pokemon games with the Game Corner got similar notices. Nintento decided to remove the Games Corner entirely from European releases because of the 12+ rating.

It's absolutely astounding then that games like NBA 2K20 can feature actual factual slot machines[2] and other de facto gambling machines on top of lootboxes and neither Pegi or the ESRB mention this at all[3][4] and happily gave the game a 3+ rating. Part of me has to wonder why this is, in the Pokemon games the gambling is entirely self contained within the game and there's absolutely no real world monetary value attached to it, while NBA and other games featuring loot boxes are sitting on absolute cash cows not only for the developers who can sell keys to boxes but also for the players who have the chance of opening rare skins that can be worth hundreds of dollars.

[0] https://pegi.info/search-pegi?q=pokemon%20blue - sorry, can't link directly to the game(s)

[1] https://www.esrb.org/ratings/35048/Pok%C3%A9mon+Silver+Versi...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46MQ1ZMZ-l4

[3] https://pegi.info/search-pegi?q=nba+2k20

[4] https://www.esrb.org/ratings/36442/NBA+2K20/
Let's travel to such a state and find out for ourselves. We'll flip a coin on who gets to be the defendant.
You mean the guy who the machine elves made him do it?

https://coinjazeera.news/vlad-zamfir-looking-for-new-drugs-t...
Banks say there's no shortage of machine learning talent
Passed out and the ex-girlfriend used my finger on my phone to unlock it.
It was terrible advice.
Sounds like a fun project.

You might find this video helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us2F8wAncw8

I think his design is very interesting, showing how to mix custom peripherals with picosoc so you can get very good response but also be able to program in C.
Free fillable forms are available to everyone, and referenced repeatedly in the Form 1040 instructions.
I blame Star Trek. Simply speaking out loud to ask the computer anytime something was needed, it seemed like magical tech. We just didn't anticipate the companies and extra consequences that would come along with it.

I would love to see a parody of Star Trek where all the tech is run by an advertising company exploiting all the crew members individually by capturing all their private data around the clock.
One piece of advice: go for Erlang, not Elixir. The syntax is much nicer, and you get a really mature environment. Also, 90% of Elixir is Erlang anyway.

I don't know too much about Elixir, but for implementing web services just use the tech you know the best - these days you should be able to scale almost indefinitely regardless of the stack you choose.

But if you have a problem that resembles a telephone exchange (eg. no UI, lots of concurrent IO intensive - but not CPU intensive - tasks that have soft-realtime requirements) give Erlang a chance. Even if you end up using some other technology it will really influence your professional development in a good way.
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> I’m not sure if the IRS even knows how many kids you have for the child tax credit. How would they?

You have to report the SSN of your dependents on your tax return, still open to fraud but it’s not like you just fill in a number. This was actually a huge issue for the IRS before they co-opted the SSN as a tax identifier, and pretty much the only reason people get one assigned at birth instead of when they begin working.

CGP Grey’s video on the US’ lack of a national ID covers a lot of this, worth a watch.
You can also do sysupgrade -s to follow current snapshots, and then you get a rolling release OpenBSD without build world.
Did you actually even skimmed the video? It does speak about large cash injection on the marketing side.
Are you talking about prostitution? That's a sexual marketplace. This article isn't talking about people buying and selling sexual encounters. People deciding to have sex with one another doesn't mean that there exists any sort of bartering or trade. The overwhelming majority of sex is because it feels good and all people involved want to feel good. Living in your parent's basement isn't sexy, but not because one isn't rich, but because it indicates that one cannot make it in the real world. Kids live with their parents and no one wants to have a relationship with someone stuck in a child's mentality. Or even remotely resembling it. And you completely ignore homosexuality and the fact that now, more than in the past, is it possible for one to come out and not be eviscerated. A likely explaination of the same data is that more women are having sex with one another.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why can't you just call up the newspapers directly and list whatever it is that the law requires?
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
You can also browse the source with the OPENBSD_6_6 tag in cvsweb.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/?only_with_tag=...
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors
It takes many clicks and requires to wait for a letter once but Elster offers that too (under the term "Belegabruf"). It then prepopulates the tax return with the data they have.
Or you could just sleep with your infant. Note the dystopian photo at the top.
"Inside a greenhouse at her Tahoe City field station, Maloney shows off a sea of young green trees in their own containers. These 10,000 sugar pine seedlings grew from seeds Maloney and her team collected from 100 of the surviving sugar pines."

This is interesting; seems like artificial and natural selection combined. It does seem to solve the current problem, but what would be the implications? Aren't the dying trees beneficial to the ecosystem in some way (clearly they are food for the pine beetles, which are food for other animals...)?
Dude I salute you. There are so many edge cases to support.

For number 2 can you import fed return with calfile?

IRS free returns going down too so you are not alone: https://taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/Free_File_Program_Is_Failin...

This is a large reason why Prorepublica keeps digging at this - it’s fucking crazy actual free filing is going down while these paid shenanigan products are holding strong with their ginormous marketing budgets.
"aggressive attempts to de-escalate"
It sounds like the logical conclusion of this is that police should go door-to-door searching everywhere in case they might discover more unabombers.

I don't think this is a good idea, as in the whole history of the world only one of these lunatics has turned out to be the unabomber.

This, BTW, was not even how Kaczynski was found. Which is why I find it rather odd that you'd bring him up.
It's all about making a political statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
> The Netherlands and Denmark are totally different animals. They build their bike infrastructure for decades and never adopted a car culture.

That's not true at all; Netherlands was more of a car culture several decades ago, and had to work at bringing cycling back.
Sure but this sounds like a software bug. There isn’t any way the screen protector makes the returned “ultrasounds” look like the one it’s expecting, it just confuses the reader which should result in rejected authentication. Seems sloppy.
Wait until you hear about my storage array built entirely on floppy disks.
Unfortunately, that's not a solution; that's throwing up one's hands and ignoring the issue with extra steps.

Refusing to put pieces on the field means the other players can move without your input. They did, and now whether the OS on my machine is open is somewhat irrelevant because the things that provide services I care about won't talk to it unless I'm running closed-source blobs they control.
This is a great guide and sound advice. And hopefully in a year we'll see the community converge on Polysemy (or fused-effects for performance) to make this strategy even more natural.
In fact the opposite is true! Rust is a pretty popular choice for writing native code (NIFs) for Elixir. (Similar to Ruby FFI).

See https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

Discord especially has several real world use cases where they've implemented native code in Rust.
I gave Credit Karma a shot last year, and it worked out pretty great.

It's definitely a good alternative to Turbo Tax
> If the difference is mainly caused by the genders having different statistical distributions of interests, you're actually using discrimination to fight peoples career choices.

Conversely, if genders don't have a different intrinsic, permanent distributions of interests, then not using some affirmative action to correct the situation amounts to preserving the status quo of known cultural discrimination.

The problem with what you said is that we already have data, the distributions of interest have changed dramatically over time recently, and they are currently different from country to country.

That's pretty clear, hard evidence that the gender differences in occupation choice we have today in the US (for example) are not intrinsic to the genders. So, what does that leave as possible causes?
> For it to be market manipulations, Trump(himself, as mentioned in the article) need to profit from the action, at least

Maybe he's just a useful idiot for the real manipulator. Would Trump pick up the phone from a donor who is able to carry out these trades, and be convinced to utter something positive about trade?
No one has yet to provide an argument as to why "smart speakers are much better at invading privacy".

For example, just this year my always-on, always-near-me iPhone was subject to an attack where anyone could call me on FaceTime and gain access to my microphone. This attack vector does not exist on my Google Home.

So, why are smart speakers much better at invading privacy?
No relationship. Why does the device have to record and send everything to the cloud to provide this experience?

I suspect the answer is a mix of "we want to invade privacy" and "it makes the devices cheaper to build since you can put really wimpy chips in them."
They made professional quality release songs (and sold CD's) up until 6.0. A few extras showed up for 6.1-6.3 also.

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
I read that differently -- that the scanning of a working finger leaves an imprint in the gel, and this is what is read from the subsequent scan. This would mean that you couldn't just grab somebody's S10, put a gel screen protector on, and get into the device. You need to have them successfully unlock the device first.

With this in mind, they would not be completely off the mark.
The long-term idea with Aquameta is that users run their own local database and make connections directly to their friends/peers to basically "git pull" new content as it appears via pub/sub. Then users would do the "browsing" on localhost. I still have some work to do figuring out all that NAT piercing p2p stuff, but some combination of WebRTC and headless chrome is showing some promise.
Gabe from the Azure team here.

Yes that is what Mark meant. At Microsoft we care deeply about empowering ISVs — we always have. OAM is designed to allow components from an ISV to be bound to a runtime environment by a separate consumer, where the concept of traits can provide configurability for things like ingress, autoscaling, secrets management, etc.
I know (you are not the first to ask!) but honestly, sorry, I won't and I will let anyone truly interested to do their own experiments :-)

This type of topic is too prone to endless debates on the validity of this and that, and the fact that anyone proficient in whichever stack I tested could definitely improve it (including me on the subpart of those stacks which I'm most proficient with!).

I don't want to lose any energy with this, and I have made my decision for that business case (in this case, a very happy one).
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I cannot understand the poster this time.
I have actual problems identifying the elements: I see puffy at the top, a couple demonettes on the left, and a mask (?) in the bottom right, but everything else seems a mess.
And I don't get what it refers to.

Is it a reference to some pop or niche culture bit ? Is it "6.6 is almost 666, so, devils"?
Yes, the wavelength gets longer. That is, in fact, how we measure the distance: for a known frequency (say, the electrons jumping up and down in a hydrogen atom), we observe that this color is "redder" the further away an object is. The number "z" mentioned above is called the redshift because of that, and it's how we know the distances of the furthest objects.
At least for Portal, there are user-created levels. I had played a few, some were really good.
That really sucks. Unfortunately some shitty behavior might not be able to be legislated away if the alternative is severely impactful to the state of civil liberty.

We won't find a perfect law which only allows good behavior, but we can find one that catches the most bad behavior with the least impact on those with good behavior.
Can you expand on why people are "afraid" of lobbyists? The way you write that makes it sound like the elected officials the lobbyists are trying to convince, are afraid of those same lobbyists. What I assume you meant is that ground troops like you are afraid lobbyists will notice your work and pay more attention to your given team of elected politicians.

Can you help me understand?
I've used the mobile app on Android, it wasn't a joy (it still lacks some polishing), but it was certainly VERY straightforward.

Personally I don't have lots of stuff to file, but I did everything under 1 hour, while still discovering how to use the app and learning a bunch of taxes nomenclature.
It seems you miswrote, or the author corrected himself. Right now it's:

if which brew >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
brew install jq
fi

Which would hide the error message. The code you posted outputs:

brew not found
/dev/null not found
”This is why on most BASICS we always left out the variable, most BASICs would "automatically" loop to the outermost FOR”

Innermost (https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/NEXT, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Visual_Basic/Loops#Nested_Loop...)

Also, I don’t think that solves the fundamental problem that (edit: you can get very close. If you maintain a stack of ‘for loop contexts’, NEXT without loop variable name(s)) is little more than an indirect jump), in Basic, for loops don’t introduce a scope, making ‘innermost’ not really a thing (“most recently encountered” is a better way to phrase it)

My Basic is very rusty, but I think this is valid in a classic Basic interpreter:

10 input f
20 if f = 0 goto 50
30 for i = 1 to 10
40 goto 60
50 for j = 1 to 25
60 print “foo”
70 next

Whole-program analysis likely can convert most, if not all, uses of NEXT to jumps in ‘normal’ code, but fitting that in 14 kB may be problematic.
The latest no-OOP imperative language with any kind of market share is C. So everything that's terrible about C: unsafe manual memory, portability issues, tooling, no generics or overloading, horrible ergonomics, 2nd class functions, globals everywhere, etc, are all forever associated with imperative programming. OOP was born at the time of fixing all those problems, so those languages were a big improvement in ways that had nothing to do with OOP. Now that all the top languages are multi-paradigm, only a puritan would avoid OOP, and they'd have a tough time interacting with libraries and frameworks. So every codebase is a little wishy-washy and OOP wins by default. Imperative has no advocates left in industry or academia, so most people don't even think of it as a defensible design decision.
on the flip side, limited liability allows smaller players to enter the market without necessarily risking their entire life savings.
Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death
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Banks send you letter the weeks before with capital gains, interest payments and employers send you letters with totals of taxes paid. They note if anything needs to be done manually.

The total time spend combined for me filing taxes for the last 10 years is less than 15 minutes. And the reason it isn't less than 3 is because I've logged in (using biometrics and password on my phone that is a hardware token to my bank wich is used for instant secure identification) to check that everything looks OK and to add the commuting at least 10 km/day on bike deduction.
Image Classification on React Native with Tensorflow.js and MobileNet
I downloaded the do not pay app a week ago because I wanted to use their temporary card number feature to sign up for a free trial.

This feature automatically declines the charge when the trial finishes.

The app was free to download and I was immediately asked to enter my credit card on the onboarding flow. I was a bit annoyed but reluctantly entered it and figured I could cancel this before the trial.

Then I went to create one of these fake cards and got a notification that my actual credit card was charged $3. What? Turns out activating one of these fake cards automatically activated my free trial. I had no idea and was annoyed by this dark pattern, and even more annoyed I fell for it.

Then I tried to cancel and the only thing I could find is a chat bot that kept presenting the same options. Ironic that the article talks about bypassing a bot when they use one themselves to handle customer service.

After going through the chat of flow a few times I was able to cancel my subscription, but the chat it didn’t know how to handle my refund request. I ended up finally finding a form I could send an email to someone asking for a refund.

This app has dark patterns all over the place to trick you into paying for their products that save you money. I would not recommend it.
While this is common on desktop, do you have suggestions for how to do this on mobile?
> We hadn't been hearing news stories about FANG employees listening to/reviewing conversations intimate moments until the 'smart' speakers were deployed.

That just shows that the media didn't think those stories would sell.
I was thinking about this and I think the key thing is that with say, a Kinder surprise, in all cases it's a low value item and all of the items are of comparable value. Whereas with a loot box there's usually some very high value items with very low odds.

Not to mention how stupidly easy games make it to buy these lootboxes, and how they usually make a pretty big point of obscuring their true cost (i.e. behind gems or other artificial currencies).
There are already several alternatives to meetup.com; what we need is a standard like ActivityPub could be leveraged to allow for federation, discovery, and searching for user groups by interest, topic, location, and affinity (people in my user groups are also members of these groups...)?
I also tend to bring up PoE whenever I need a good example of how to do free-to-play right :)
I think this is an awesome idea. I really like the Smalltalk approach of not using files and instead representing the structure of a program purely in memory. I also love the idea of drawing inspiration from spreadsheets and databases instead of representing programs purely in lines of code.

I applaud this effort and can't wait to try it out!
Is it not only stored on the device's secure storage, not online?
We don't know for sure.
Make sure you back up that database...
> Some interesting research that may be landing soon that has me excited would enable a completely pure program to do register and memory mutations under the hood, so to speak, in order to boost baseline performance. I don't think we're far off from seeing a dependently typed, pure, lazy functional language that can have bounded performance guarantees... and possibly be able to compile programs that don't even need run time support from a GC.

Is there any more info/links available about this?
Well, it's certainly harder to fraudulently use than a PIN, which can be obtained by just looking over the person's shoulder.
Yes, I read it this same way. I'm not really sure that's an outrageous statement....

I thought initially that Nest meant thermostats and was shocked, but it's pretty clear he's talking about Nest Cameras.
Can we please style the select control?
Thank you for posting this. I often read commenters who dismiss dark matter the way dark energy is dismissed without people addressing the bullet cluster style observations which in my layman view is the most compelling piece of evidence for dark matter
You might want to rethink your assumptions here. Stress generally makes you less productive. And there are plenty of long-lived people of high accomplishment.
You can set your withholding to nothing and end up with a fat bill every year. Financially, this makes sense. You could be making interest on the money you owe in taxes. However, not everyone is really able to be that disciplined or just financially need every dollar coming in. I think having both options, withholding and no withholding, is the best way.
Aren't you being a little over-dramatic? I use Uppercase directories (Documents, Downloads, Development) in my ~ as well, in a consistent manner. Why is that ugly?
> Why exactly aren't you fine with that?

because i don't want to trust anyone. XRP is not trustless or decentralized enough.

> Every node always enforces all the rules. So your node checks if a Tx is valid anyway and if you get invalid Tx from a node you trust it wont make your node accept that Tx.

as i said - validity is trivial. i asked you to not bring it up but you did anyway.

> majority of the validators say Tx X was first

"majority of validators" is not something you can reliably even define for yourself because you don't know which parties have colluded with each other. this consensus model fails on every layer.

> Only if everyone would select over 20% "bad" nodes it could halt the consensus.

i don't care how small you think this problem is. i want to never rely on having to select "correct" validators to ensure my financial future isn't at risk.

i want universally objective measure by which i can compare competing chains. if your protocol doesn't provide it without having to trust third parties - it's a failure.