skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will not. First, large numbers of people will still gamble, and pay a far higher price to do so.

Sports betting is illegal in my state, yet the poker games at my local casino has always been full of bookies taking bets from other players, at significantly worse lines and higher vig than legal book makers in Vegas charge. And sometimes stiffing winners clients after they have a big win, or using threats of violence to collect from big losers.

A few years ago the poker room had to shut down fir nearly 6 months due to a flood. Private games spring up all over town, and instead of taking $126 an hour ($14 per player per hour) like the casino, they raked as three and four times as much. In one game a friend of mine saw the dealer cashed out $2500 in “tips” from her shift. she had been skimming from the pots and the “host” claims he wasn’t in on it. With no cameras, floor management, security etc, they are lucky they didn’t just get hit by a home invasion given the tens of thousands in cash at each game.

Legalized gambling doesn’t just save lives by keeping it out of organized crime control, it makes it far less costly for participants, and making its negative impacts on society much lower. In a competitive market the rake/vig is much lower, playing poker for $14 an hour has much more limited personal impact than playing it for $50/hour.

Lastly legal gambling can enforce rules to protect players from their worst instincts. One example is banning collection of gambling debts to help ensure players only play with what they can afford to lose.
I've sat through a presentation done with a ZUI (Zoomable User Interface) and it was nauseating. I literally almost threw up due to the unexpected motion every few seconds.
Fair enough, but let's go beyond bacteria. In plants and animals, am I right in thinking that the contribution of these extra-chromosomal components is primarily from the female parent?

If I am not mistaken, there are several evolutionary explanations, such as for a 50-50 sex ratio being a stable equilibrium, and for the benefits of altruism, that assume an organism's fitness comes equally from the male and female parent. If, however, the female parent has significantly more contribution to the offspring's fitness, would that alter the calculus in these cases?
And not really web at all, but I miss buying a gaming magazine at the grocery store and getting a cd full of demos included with it. That was fun
I feel the same way, but not everyone does.

With that in mind I was wondering which Hulu plan was most popular. All I could find was the same widely syndicated Reuters article [1] from January 2019 calling the plan with ads "Hulu's most popular plan". I guess there is a market for streaming with ads.

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hulu-prices/hulu-cuts-pri...
That's the opposite of what's happening here. Libra has been changed to make it 100% compliant with various regulations.
Android: firefox for android, or the plethora of adblock browsers out there

iOS: adblockers are natively supported through "content blockers", plus there's a plethora of adblock browsers
That is why I mentioned they still have a significant room for further development. (Many people's quality of life in major cities, from all reports I have seen, is no worse than that of the west's middle class, except for pollution.)

If a country is economically well-governed and still developing, the quality of life for most everyone will improve over time.

Most people who have studied or traveled to one of the Asian tigers before and after its rapid phase of development can see how different 2-3 decades can make.

A 5% annual compound growth results in 3.4 times the previous GDP within 25 years.

2020 projection of GDP per capita (PPP) of China is ~$21000 according to the IMF. It's a middle-income country. If they continue to adopt and invent technologies extensively, there is no reason they cannot grow further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

Quality of life is not a zero-sum game. In fact, when a country is richer, their trading partners are often better off too.
That's interesting. Years ago, I recall King stating that The Shining was the best movie adaptation of any of his stories. I wonder what changed, or maybe I'm misremembering?

Regardless, it's my favorite King movie (though I haven't yet seen "It").
But why? In every case other than compilers, when we say we want these types of features, we never mean "let's stick with plain text, like the previous generation did, and not even consider a different type of solution".
I'm aware of the interactive rebase and the simple rebase, but the amount of stuff we throw at students and juniors, asking them to clean their history in such a hoary old ui seems like a lot to ask.

Plus, I've become painfully aware of what happens when you encourage squashing and rebasing but developers don't carefully delete the source branches. The housekeeping of old branches is nightmarish since they're all ahead of the target, because rebasing means the commits aren't the commits.

And it means allowing force-push on our git server.
Watch broadcast TV and you'll notice that hour long TV shows are in 1:15 timeslots because they need to pack in an extra 15 minutes of ads. Or the show will have bits cut out like half of the opening, the start and end of some scenes, etc...
> every binary option doubles the number of possible user configurations

This is why you distinguish UI options from functionality options.

If you properly factor functionality out by modularizing UI, you end up with an order of magnitude less complexity.
If the price of grain had fallen, the Soviet Union would have purchased it from other countries at market rates. Only after they had exhausted other countries' grain surpluses would they have bought from the US.
These are two different use cases though. If you could bike or walk you'd generally do it; usually the car is for things where it's too much time to try.
Shouldn't a js framework exist that includes these static basic if checks in the core and offers them as a buildin method? Why load this as an external package, why not copy the code and maintain locally?
baidu.com

Back in 2005, I used think that an MTK phone can browse baidu.com flawlessly is a very powerful phone, until I had a Nokia 6120c with S60 system that opens any website flawlessly.
It would not be surprising assuming I meet bill gates or some industry rockstar pioneer. It's just that it was supposed to be educational and based on their merit
Would central bank digital currencies (CBDC) be better than stablecoins? Yes, but governments still aren't issuing them.
Ask HN: Telescope as a Window to Our Past
This is for the physics nerds out there. If Hubble telescope can see a past event of a distant planet, can the earth’s past be seen by a Hubble telescope placed in a distant planet? The answer is most likely yes. So my follow up. What if there is a mirror like object on that planet that reflected the light back onto earth? Can Hubble then become a window to our past? And can we essentially manoeuvre Hubble to pick up past events “live”?
It’s almost like having a drone above us but feeding us images from the past.
Sorry about the long question :(
Thank you to help point out. I read the specification differently _because_ it we want a sorted list (a lot of implied definitions about input and output). I see how this complements the next paragraph how ambiguous and difficult in can be to write such formal definitions which includes all such cases.
Remains to be seen what Libra actually would be. It is mostly at drawing board for now. I could use it if it had some compelling use cases. There isnt much privacy with financial transactions anyway.
Unable to remove my dog from a picture. Maybe after a few versions.
It's only a matter of time until sites are rendering ads and content via websockets and wasm.
Their might be an under-explored middle ground here, somewhere between representing a program as ASCII text and a full blown graph ZUI. Language is already a very efficient way to layout a graph structure, so lets keep that and borrow from maths the notation for summation, integration, ect, and from physics maybe Dirac's bracket notation for matrixes.

I have thought of doing somethings like that in the browser with a WYSIWYG editor (document.designMode='on') and web components. The DOM is like the AST of the program and is fed into a runtime. Non-expression tags are basically just comments.

Not for regular programming, but for a type of scientific notebook interface to do exploratory programming. Anyway one of this days.
It's not a website but I loved Napster. When you were downloading a song and then could browse the filesystem of that user to see what they had. It was like opening a cave with treasure inside and finding all these songs that might not have been available online at all at that point.
I mean, you're not wrong, but it's only for three shows, and there are no ads during the shows, only before and after. It was 7 when it first launched, so it doesn't seem like any other shows or new content will ever have ads. But hey, if you watch Agents of Shield, Grey's Anatomy, or How to Get Away with Murder, that surely does suck.
The coronavirus crisis is way worse than feared
Trump never suggested people should start injecting any chemical in their bodies. It was the MEDIA that told people that Trump suggested they inject chemicals in their body. If anyone actually injects chemicals in their body, it is likely because the media told them Trump told them to. So the blood will be on the media's hands.
If you can find one, a Gregg college typing typing self-study guide.

https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q="gregg...

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Gregg+College+Keyboardi...

Self-taught before secondary school in about six weeks, among my best investments ever.

So long as it's a QWERTY layout, publication year really doesn'y matter.
For every shitty experience, there is a market opportunity.

(I hope. There hasn't been much of a market for privacy)
Well it does require electricity, and I doubt the people who want to burn down 5g towers can tell the difference between electrical towers and telecom towers.
It's not normal to have to write new code to retain compatibility. ES6 was a huge change, but was sufficiently compatible with ES5 that you didn't need to double your test matrix. C++11 is another example of a major evolution that retained backwards compatibility.

There have been other painful upgrades (Swift, Rust) but these have been in younger languages with less established codebases; both have since shifted to a mature-language model. Python3 is unique in attempting to aggressively evolve a very mature language with deep established codebases, and has paid a heavy price.
The USN is way overkill for dealing with pirates. It's sized to deal with other national navies. The USN promises not to blockade foreign nations (most of the time) and fights those that would not purely out of altruism, but because if they can convince would be competitors that they don't need to build a navy then the USN doesn't need to get into expensive naval arms races.
Well, when I hear that I think of Theranos.

I'm not an investor, but that approach feels a bit like putting the cart before the horse to me.

For example, if I went to horse riders and asked them if they'd buy a saddle for $2000 that attached itself to a horse and could steer the horse based on GPS tech and follow built-in directions to anywhere they wanted to ride, and keep it from bucking or running off, they'd probably all say "heck yeah!"

So, now that I've demonstrated market fit from that point I need to make a working prototype and if I haven't a clue but do have a good pitch to investors that convinces them I can do it I'm still not accomplishing anything (except maybe a short free ride). I'm sure investors are aware of this but Theranos proved they can be had and I think that approach is why and how they can be.

But that's not really my side of the story. I want to make something first and then see if people will buy it. From that point of view the "V" in MVP seems most important and the minimal part is easy to described and easy to measure real progress on. So I do agree the initial goals for a product should be minimal, for example, maybe just a saddle that attaches itself to a horse to begin with.

But even if we get a prototype done we still don't know if we have salable product, so really, this is where market fit comes face to face with a product and we truly start finding out what an MVP is. Finding that needs testing with a real product, but at least we've not blown a lot of cash on actual product viability and almost none on marketing.
> farms in Africa shipping cheap crop to us at the expense

farms are not shipping cheap crops to us at their expense. They are trading.

> reap the rewards of sweatshop labor in China

These "sweatshops" brought them out of poverty in rural areas - they would've been a subsistence farmer and had less wealth. It feels unfair for them to only be paid pennies for an object that retail for over 50-60 bucks, but that's still better than not having those pennies.

And eventually, as their wealth accrue and they invest it wisely, their productivity and standards of living grows, and they will no longer accept pennies. I don't see why that's so wrong, and the people complaining about this problem just conveniently ignores that almost all of their wealth of products and services comes from this process.
Stile Project
The opposite happened in my locale. I'm a musician, so I welcomed not having to come home from a performance covered in smoke. The bottom dropped out of the bar business.

Now this might be the difference -- my town is mid sized and a lot more sprawly. My hypothesis is that folks had for years settled into lifestyles that didn't involve going to bars, and moved into zones that had few or no bars. When the city banned smoking, folks didn't suddenly change their lifestyles.

It's been something like a decade, and things have kind of gotten back to normal (present circumstances aside, of course). But it took a long time.
Hackers hit US coronavirus response: 'They are trying to steal everything'
U.S. says will not take part in WHO global drugs, vaccine initiative launch
I’ve played O8 and Holden for a living in cash games for years. I know multiple world champions in O8, including WSOP world Players of the year. They are all terrible poker players we used to line up to play with in cash games.

Winning tournaments proves little to nothing, the long run is far longer than any tournament. But boy was it great when one of those fish won a bracelet and took their winnings back to our games so we could bleed them of it over months and months.

O8 has similar variance to Holden, there isn’t a big difference. Most Fish quickly learn to rarely draw at the high only, and how to read the board, and that they have to play two cards. They still make numerous smaller mistakes, which is why they are fish.
That's what they said about E911.
How to Grow a Pandemic Garden
Understanding Python Metaclasses (2015)
Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
the economy is not the victim here. the question is, is your freedom to travel more important than my right to stay healthy?

if we want to keep travelling then we must explore ways to travel that don't endanger others. this will have a huge effect on public transport. but it is imaginable. ironically (for someone who doesn't like cars) this also means that car travel should increase as well.

and suddenly suburban sprawl looks like a good idea too.
> New Zealand's largest newspaper is deeply conflicted. With the World Cup underway in Brazil, should The New Zealand Herald refer to the "global round-ball game" as "soccer" or "football"? The question has been put to readers, and the readers have spoken. It's "football"—by a wide margin.

Interestingly, if you asked Australians, it would be "soccer" by a wide margin.
Or DNS66 to do it for mostly everywhere in Android.

The only reason that's possible is because of open web standards though so the point still stands.
Exactly. That's why having an under glass fingerprint sensor is such a good idea.
This is a prime example of where I think GitHub's acquisition of Dependabot and npm could really pay off. Imagine being able to publish a prerelease version of your library and run the CI tests of your consumers, all from within the GitHub interface. Dependabot already tracks compatibility between versions, so this would be a natural extension of that.
we're in an age when big corporations are starting to wield more power than governments. And nobody elected them.

They'll have their own armed forces, soon enough
I suspect that the issue here is that learning the rules, or otherwise playing according to the rules, is not necessarily enough in the face of deep-seated stereotypes.
True, but the fact that people who had it already are turning up positive again is very worrisome.
Or some of the short indy films that are freely available these days. The Omeleto channel on Youtube has dozens of shorts that are quite well done, a few in the horror/sci-fi category but many more in the psycho-drama topic.

There's also Dust and CGIBros. for mainly sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Alter specializes in horror, and there are several others that I haven't checked out yet (Mr. Nightmare is a large one).

For people working from home, as I've done for years, it's nice to take a short break at lunchtime or after work and catch a 15 minute movie. My eyes are bleary after eight hours, so a short film is ideal.

Later in the evening, we'll jump on Amazon Prime or Netflix and watch something family friendly (though I recently discovered that my 15-year-old kid was watching an anime that had about the most graphic violence I've ever seen).
Do poor black people deserve more help than equally poor brown, yellow, red or white people?
The Autoscaler paper Google just posted
Hah, true. I got bit by one of these two days ago where the offending package was trying to install node itself (wtf?). It was two levels deep of `yarn why` before I figured out the issue. Fortunately I've been around long enough that the first thing I did was check the package for github issues... sure enough, found a 5 hour old issue with a bunch of people complaining of failing builds. If I hadn't searched first, I probably would have banged my head for another couple hours...
I fully acknowledge that it's not a film for everyone. I loved the movie but my gf couldn't watch it for similar reasons you specify.

But if you do find yourself alone one dark night, and in the mood for something slow and brooding, I would suggest you give it another try.
Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal.

Parallels to the time of the black plague.
I couldn't get it to work with authors post, but first time I am hearing of this site. Thank you for sharing!
What mental illness he had? Schizophrenia, did voices told him to kill people? Wouldn't he died of other diseases? What else Bipolar mania and depression sounds reasonable combined with psychopathy I could see this happening.
Curtis's galaxy was centered on the Sun, while Shapley correctly placed the Sun in the outer regions of the galaxy

It seems pretty obvious, just from looking around a bit on a dark night, that most of the Milky Way is on one side of us. So why would any model put the sun at the center?
Your app looks great. I just purchased Sizzy which is very similar, thoughts on pro/con of your app vs. Sizzy?
Do you have a citation for this? It's been 42-44 minutes of content for at least the last 20 years in my experience.
adcritic.com
Has anyone bought a Facebook Portal? I've had the impression that it has all the market penetration of the Fire Phone.
jodi.org was a delightful rabbit hole of pure art
Exactly the opposite warning us against the danger of quarantine.
You may have replied to the wrong comment
Ideally, no transfer fees I suppose and universal access for every citizen which was supposed to be one of the distinguishing points compared to say credit cards.

It would have the potential to cut a lot of the middlemen out. I always found it curious that with cash we basically take it for granted that there's a ubiquitous, legally guaranteed payment infrastructure but with digital currencies it's more like a splintered set of services that take a quite considerable cut.

Also a very practical, relevant case. In a situation like this corona crisis, there'd be a trivial way to send everyone their 1200 bucks.
Are you sure? I will have VR (AR?) googles with a camera that sees what my head points at, processes the video graying out ads, and shows it to me on my screens. Not sure commercial interests can prevent this product.
Firefox is an exception here, which really underscores it's importance
wastedyouth.org - a fun community with art and programming tutorials. I think the creator also made DeviantArt.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010206203747/http://www.wasted...
I will bet a lot that Netflix is headed this way too. Once Netflix stops growing, it will need to find additional growth, and advertisement will be the way to additional profit.
How is this not a false advertising lawsuit in the making? I mean, maybe the effect will be to make it "Hulu Silver", but that's better than blatantly claiming "No Ads" on an ad-containing product.

edit: Incredibly, there seem to be multiple reasons why you can see ads when on the "No Ads" plan; and they have an entire page dedicated to these reasons: https://help.hulu.com/s/article/ads-no-commercials?language=...
> Except that this pattern doesn't hold for Indian immigrants.

Except that the post I am replying to is not just about Indian inmmigrants, and, as I specifically make a point of, says the same about quite a wide range of origins.

> I invite you to go find it.

If you can't be bothered to support your case, I can't be bothered to do so for you - especially as I suspect that it is beside the point.
No, because it will be smart enough to know that I enjoy seeing that.
> If we get tens to hundreds of thousands of people dying in the span of a few weeks, how do you think that will affect the economy?

The suicide rate this year is greater than the COVID death rate.
Ask HN: Is Education Envied?
This is not the sort of question I can usually ask people because it exposes a vulnerability. So I thought I would pose it to the anonymous crowd here.

I have a fairly high level of education (in a natural science) myself, and I never feel that anyone is envious. But if they were, that may explain some of the interactions I've had in the last few years.

Please understand that I ask this question from a warm place.
For those who have not completed high school; Bachelor's; Honours/Master's; PhD and beyond: do you feel envious of those who have? And for those who started life without an education and later achieved it, what have you noticed (if anything) in the way your friends have treated you?

I hope this question is suitable for the forum and starts some productive conversation which will help people better understand opposing perspectives.
The gams on gamevial.com

They had an early MMORPG old religiously style to it.
This talk proves this point exactly:

https://youtu.be/zBkNBP00wJE

Watch from 27:00 where he talks about using const wherever possible so the compiler can optimise. It reduces a full function call to work out a colour in 3D space from thousands of instructions to one.

After watching this and a few others particularly dynamic dispatch in Swift, I find myself adding as many hints as I can and applying the most restrictions / scoping possible. Final, const, Private etc.

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=27

Even though actually it can work this out in your module!
It’s cool how Warner Brothers added a “we updated our terms of service” thing to it but otherwise left it alone. Even a soulless corporation respects a legendary website.

That answers the “did someone forget to turn off the server?” question.
Safari has robust ad-blocking support built in and good ad blockers even have inspectors to let you block custom elements.