skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I've never been to a casino, but I did spent quite some time on videogames, including WoW. For me, the trick to actually give something like this up was to say to myself, "I can stop at any moment. In fact, I will stop right now" and... stop. The next few moments/hours/days (depending on how long you've spent and how emotionally attached you've grown) feel kinda surreal: "Have I really just spent all this time to... basically doing nothing", but it helps to switch your attention to something else and forget about that accident. I suspect, however, that this trick only works for someone pretty lazy i.e. someone who can easily refrain from doing something even when feeling like doing that something (imagine "Mood: Ich Hab' Keine Lust by Rammstein").
Well, we don't know how unlikely it is. It increasingly looks like life showed up on earth almost as soon as it was geologically possible for it to show up, which, if true, would indicate either that abiogenesis is pretty easy or that panspermia is a thing.
> Maybe just have sex instead?

Having grown up with two addict parents I can tell you that “Just try doing something else” isn’t typically a useful strategy.
I always prefered the 4-class system, which specified a class of people who cared more about the perfection of their art, than monetary concerns. Tradesmen, engineers, and academics would fall into this category.

Just lumping everyone into the middle-class based on income alone, always seemed to be an American conceit.

Class is supposed to be able pedigree; thus a king in exile is still part of the aristocratic elite because he was raised as such even if he doesn't have a dollar to his name.
Is there a good spot to suggest missing icons?

I know there's a Pro offering to upload custom icons, but I can think of a few crucial resources that are missing. Off the top of my head:

- Cloudflare

- Kubernetes (there's icons for a lot of its components, but the main logo is missing)

- Resources that can be run on bare-metal/on-prem: nginx, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, ...

Or is the intention to only show commercial cloud logos?

Edit: also a few bugs I noticed in the search bar:

- Can't Ctrl-A (select all)

- The (x) button doesn't do anything
I've collected a bunch of alternatives to look at, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470715
I do really enjoy a lot of YouTube videos, but there is an opportunity cost for each one, just like any TV — or going to a show or sporting event.

What I find works is to timebox or budget my video consumption, say to lunchtimes, or no more than 30 minutes a day (which is still quite a bit of time: 1/16th of my daily free time!).
There are so many "basically online gambling" adjacent companies. They seem to take advantage of the same psychological loophole, but likely leave the vast majority of people involved worse off.

-Penny Auction sites. Tons of TV commercials for these. They let you bid on expensive items. For example, bid for a $500 iPad for $4. The trick is that you must pay for each bid, so it's more like a lottery than an auction.[1]

-Omaze is an interesting one, and seems to be growing pretty large. It's a type of lottery, but they seem to give the majority of proceeds to charity.[2]

Of course people should be able to do stupid things with their own money. But when you read the stories of folks involved with this stuff, it does feel sad.

I used to be quite overweight. There were times in my life where I was mentally weak, and I would absolutely have paid money to remove the temptations (fast food) from the streets for my own benefit. Of course, there is no real market way to pay to remove temptation. This really does feel like a true market failure, the same as having these apps in the app stores...

Perhaps legislation to remove temptation is actually what is best for most everyone involved. Anytime there is an industry/company with high percentages of dissatisfied customers, that is not a net positive thing to have.

[1]https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0037-online-penny-auct...
[2]https://www.distractify.com/p/is-omaze-a-scam
This is an interesting insight into slot machines too - take away any opportunity to win any money at all and some types of people will _still_ throw tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars at them.
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Might want to take a look at some of these alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470715
The feature I want in all of these is images for every CloudFormation elements. I know that only a handful of them have their own icons and it makes it hard to draw the full extent of an architecture. Draw.io was a pain for this.
The issue is that this price doesn't scale. Let's say that the current price of an offset is $5/ton-of-co2. Let's say that presently all offsets are being put toward replacing inefficient wood-burning stoves in third-world countries with much more efficient electric stoves, because it's the cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions. Right now, only a very small amount of offsets are being purchased (relatively little carbon is being offset); however, if lots of offsets were to be purchased (lots of people trying to offset their emissions) then we would run out of wood-burning stoves to replace with electric stoves and people who sell offsets would have to finance a more expensive type of carbon-reducing project, increasing the per-ton cost of a carbon offset. As demand for offsets rise, that new more expensive project would run out as well, and we would have to move onto increasingly expensive projects and the price of offsets would continue to rise.

In other words, if the whole world were trying to offset its carbon emissions, the price per offset would rise dramatically.
Considering the Nintendo Switch is based on a Tegra SoC (likely the Tegra X1), and only costs $300~ I don't think cost is the primary issue. nVidia is mostly targeting platforms with higher performance requirements over building lower performing chips used in phones. They have different thermal and power draw requirements.
Bad to hear. I use Termux and aware they used an older API to support SD-Cards. Although to be honest, I don't do anything with Android anymore aside using it as a phone. I think iOS and Android are both bad operating systems. Not by technical merit, but certainly by policy decisions.

I don't really buy the security angle here to be honest and Google wouldn't need to catch up with anyone, Android has a ~75% market share, iOS is at ~22%. Forecast say it is rising. They want an ad and surveillance platform with lock-in to their services.
Perhaps one of these might work for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470715
There’s precedent, but this takes precedent to its logical conclusion (the game _is_ the loot box). Usually it’s the people taking things to the logical conclusion that helps us define boundaries, rightfully so.

“It’s like living in Los Vegas”

Hmm now here is an idea. It’s not quite like living in Las Vegas because people that do that are regularly converting to physical goods for life essentials, they’re eating and getting a roof etc. Maybe these guys should build a town where you can redeem for lodging and food etc, then I’m in.
Long Term Value, Cost Per Install (I'm assuming this includes things like ad spend), and Return To Player (avg. percentage of stake that players get back) I believe.
I really like the philosophy of Free Software and particularly applaud the efforts of Purism.

But the phone is unusable!! 4 hours of battery life, persistent bugs and hefty price tag.

Maybe privacy has a huge premium to pay, which I doubt 99% are willing to pay
Thought it would go the way of fictitious book reviews by Lem, Borges, et al. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem%27s_fictiti...

May be too hard to get right about software. Anyone tried?
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The moral of the story: if you use your Facebook account for anything concerning money, do not enter its credentials into any app or site that asks for it.
“Origin” in this case would be something in the very physically close and near term. Something that excludes the possibility of serious evolutionary change. Even relatively static species undergo mutations in the long term.

So if something is an exact match it is evident that they came from the same time and place (within some reasonable window). The origin would implicitly be Earth in the 1960s.
Oh of course, I was more mocking my fellow (non-Indian) countrymen, not for a second imagining Indians also call all those things 'curry'.

We also have 'naan bread' and 'lentil dal'... I might sympathise with the former if we also said 'ciabatta bread' and 'brioche bread', etc. but we don't, for whatever reason it's unique to naan.

> I'm not sure what you'd use for non-vegetarian curries and if there's a generic word that encompasses both veg and non-veg curries

Khaana (food) I suppose! :)
It's kind of puzzling that Apple didn't buy them. They don't seem to be particularly aggressive/creative in the M&A department
Well they have ASR, if you want ASLR and much more you probably want to use

https://hardenedbsd.org/content/easy-feature-comparison
Except it isn't... Because the app can just show a UI that looks like a browser window, and there's no way for the user to know.
Along these lines I really like Jesse Schell's Deck of Lenses. In some ways they are much more useful than the original book.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Game-Design-Lenses-Second/dp/0692...

They're a bit more concrete than Oblique Strategies which makes them a bit more useful as a tool rather than just a prompt or something to think on.
Isn't that even worse? Now they would be complicit as they freely gave the data away vs having something stolen. You used the word hilariously. Were you be sarcastic, or did this person mean the statement as a joke?
In my opinion, they are identical. Purchasing an intermediary currency, buying spins at the wheel (buying lootboxes), experiencing the buildup and hype for the boxes opening, and the rush of dopamine for winning/losing.

The only real difference is how you use your winnings. One lets you spin again, the other lets you show off your prestige. In this respect, Overwatch et.al. dominates the categories of 'getting more people to pay to spin the wheel', and the long term feeling of "it was worth it".
The additional confirmation is not from the user being removed, it's from the user doing the removal. In this example the API/oauth was enough to do this. There really should be an additional confirmation certain times. Like how Google sometimes requires you to put in your password/2fa again, despite previously authenticating or saying something like "don't ask me again".
I just can't help but point out how much more hardware Linux supports out of the box than Windows... is this actually your real life experience or are you just saying this because it's the common wisdom? Excepting the absolute bleeding edge for hardware the kernel has a ridiculous number of drivers built in. I've far more frequently had to find random graphics or network drivers in order to get Windows to install than Linux. Plus Linux supports all that non-amd64 hardware too? The latest Office doesn't even install on Windows 7, nor 32-bit hardware.

I don't mind, really, Windows 7 isn't even supported anymore. But Linux would install without a second thought and run the most updated version of almost everything (excepting things like packages not compiled for arm yet or something). Saying Windows should get lots of credit for backwards compatibility feels a little disingenuous when compared to Linux... which actually still runs on hardware from the 90s.
A problem with thoughts like this though, should I, the consumer, be able to choose what I want to do and not my app store of choice?

IMO this falls inline with smoking weed or drinking alcohol. If I choose to do something and it doesn't directly hurt others, why can't I?

I know, being drunk can cause accidents and kill people; same for drugs (weed is a bad example here) and destroy families and stuff, but it should still be my choice if I want to do these things myself.

Too much regulation is just as bad as no regulation.

All of this said, the only casino game I personally play is MyVegas which offers real rewards at real MGM properties (and others). I've spent maybe $100 real currency in the app since I started playing years ago and have gotten free nights at their hotels, tickets to shows, etc... so it's not allllll doom and gloom.
Semi unrelated, I remain stunned at how effective free2play games are at generating revenue.

I occasionally play World of Warships, which is one of those games where you can either grind your way up to a better ship, or pay real currency to accelerate the process. Being a cheap <explicative deleted> I’ve ground my way up to medium high tier ships; it’s fun enough.

Then I looked into the company, and they have 1,750 employees, which is really expensive! It’s unbelievable that a “free” game can float such a massive development budget.

I think the positive spin is that the great thing about free2play is that you get to “try before you buy”. If I tried World of Warships and loved it, spending $10 on more slots for ships makes sense. But the cynical part of my brain suspects that a small number of whales are draining their personal accounts in order to support development and subsidize the free play of people like me.
I wonder, if instead of trying to regulate these companies, it would be more effective for the government or some sort of support organization to award a grant to some free software developers to flood the market with actually free "casino simulators."

Similar to the "give drugs to drug addicts" approach. Give them something of minimal harm they can use to satisfy their addiction until they can find a way out.

It's not like these would be particularly difficult apps to make, just need some good UX to make feel satisfying.
I think the presentation was kind of silly to be honest. I liked the talking to experts, etc...but when they had dramatizations it felt so forced and silly.
https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/asreview.htm

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louise Panne, Adrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartooek, and Jean-Louis Margolin.
Translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer
Harvard University Press / 858 pages / $37.50

The American Spectator Online Bookshelf
15 February 2000
Reviewed by Josh London

The End of Communism by Josh London"One death," Joseph Stalin was said to have remarked, "is a tragedy, one million is a statistic." What about, one must wonder, 80 or 100 million deaths? In reading the "Black Book of Communism," a groundbreaking effort by a group of French scholars to document the human costs of communism in the 20th century, one is immediately confronted with such discomfited figures. Stephane Courtois, in his introduction, crunches the numbers:

U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths; China: 65 million deaths; Vietnam: 1 million deaths; North Korea: 2 million deaths; Cambodia: 2 million deaths: Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths; Latin America: 150,000 deaths; Africa: 1.7 million deaths; Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths; The international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths… The total approaches 100 million people killed.
>I'm curious if this fake TikTok app would probably have been blocked at the outset in the Apple App Store review process because it's trying to masquerade as another business ?

I bet that it is possible to slip through the review process however there's also a safeguard on the developer account creation. Apple wouldn't let you create a developer account using vouchers, PayPal or prepaid cards, at least not from countries where scams are commonplace. Also you would be asked to provide documentation of company registration to have an account named “Develop App”.

It is a common theme on HN to trash Apple on its "draconian restrictions" but the reality is that Apple AppStore is a safe place to be. You don't have to study the App before downloading it, you first download then decide if you want to keep it and security is never a concern. The Apple tax is something I am happy to pay for that luxury.

I am a developer and I have no idea what com.acazira.tforbusiness means. What keeps it from being com.toktik.forbusiness?

On AppStore this is something that you type it by yourself on the project configuration screen in XCode and I don't remember reading any restrictions about it, only recommendation to use reverse domain name notation to prevent conflicts.
This is a good argument for a carbon border tax.

But in general I think you are overstating the impact of CO2 emissions policy on UK deindustrialization. That process began well before any CO2 policies were in place, with labor costs and scale being far larger factors.
This looks like a cool project and I like to support developers that share their projects here and on Twitter.

Looks great, felt pretty snappy to use. Replace the demo on the home page with a good screen shot of a diagram. It’s a bunch of random interactions so it just looks like a mess of icons and arrows.

That said, software diagramming is broken.

Pretty icons are great and all, but without common annotations and consistency; what’s the point?

I’ve seen so many diagrams, with bidirectional arrows between an EC2 instance and an RDS instance.

ec2 <—-> rds

Great. The EC2 goes in and out of the RDS instance?

Using common annotations like making the arrow from the requestor and having some details of the request goes a long way.

ec2 —[r/w public]—> rds

Maybe even use the schema and roleARN to give some useful request auth context.

Using solid arrows for sync and dashed for async.

If both sides of an arrow make requests... don’t use two sided arrows, draw an arrow for each and annotate appropriately.

And LucidCharts, Visio, etc? Instant docrot.

I’d love to see more diagrams as code, along side the code they represent so diagram changes and code changes can happen in the same PR. PlantUML, mermaid, and mingrammers’s diagrams are great options here.

I really like Simon Brown’s C4 modeling [1]. It really helps teach you to diagram systems by focusing on what the system does, not how pretty the diagram is.

C4 Builder is also great. [2]

[1]: https://c4model.com/

[2]: https://github.com/adrianvlupu/C4-Builder
> Much less risk to be de-platformed from your favorite walled-garden for obscure reasons.

Federation does absolutely nothing for this. The risk is probably even higher given how small most of these instances are. Much more likely to run into an admin/moderator.
They are saying that, like many governments, healthcare requires the use of the PDF/A-1a standard.
Casinos, at least in the US, are heavily regulated. All games are checked for fairness; there are minimum payout odds mandated by law (for example, slot machines in NJ must return 75% or more, depending on locality); casinos must keep cash on hand to cover payouts; they must pay immediately on demand; etc. In addition, they're liable if they allow clearly-addicted people to continue playing or if they explicitly encourage unhealthy behavior (although this is loose, as they can ply you with "free" rooms, drinks, transportation, entertainment, etc.). It's not even the same ballpark as these apps run by criminal organizations that have no rules. Banks ought to block any payment to them and cut off the source.
Kawai's midrange and higher pianos have a soundboard feature that provides tactile feedback.

I've heard the top-end models are very good. They have the same piano action as the five-figure acoustic Kawais but with electronic sound generation.

(I have a cheaper Kawai which is suits my needs, but I'm planning to get either the top end Kawai or Yamaha when my playing gets good enough to justify it.)

They're more than fine for amateurs, even dedicated amateurs. The equivalent Yamaha model - no soundboard, arguably better action - has become a kind of semi-mobile standard for professionals to practice on when there's nothing better around.

Of course you can't compare a four/low-five electronic design with a hand-made prestige six figure concert hall acoustic. But you can compare it with an equivalently-priced acoustic, and increasingly the electronic designs are winning.
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LTV = lifetime value, how much $$ a player is expected to spend (usually expressed in cohorts)

CPI = cost per install, needs to be lower than LTV or else you have a failed product

RTP = return to player, which means on average how much a game pays back to the player over time. In Vegas, this is regulated and is generally in the 85-93% range for slots. Unless you stop playing after a lucky winning streak, you will lose money long-term. The house always wins. For a non-regulated online game it can be whatever the devs want.
What does Nvidia buying ARM mean for Raspberry Pi?
This and disabling google apps. Surprisingly not much of a difference in functionality, my data usage is low, downloaded local maps on OSM. Motorola something
People spend a lot of money on online games both on computers and consoles. Is there a magical dollar limit it should be capped at? Now a claim could be made that perhaps they should add a layer or two or warnings for purchasing virtual goods; the amount of money people spend in Guild Wars 2 and SWTOR on purely cosmetic items is sufficient to keep those games in production

10,000 to one person may be the equivalent of 100 to another to 10 for another.

Lotteries are effectively government sponsored loot boxes and the reward chance is probably less.
There's a lot of these about, but I'm astonished to see how much money FGO has brought in.
> They are going to inevitably do that, and that's what we should expect them to do. I don't think there are any solutions to that except building some new services / protocols.

The trouble is interoperability. Creating open social media platforms has been tried before, yet the uptake seems to be those with strong ideological views. You would pretty much have to compel new and existing social media networks to support the services/protocols in order to give people a viable option. I'm not sure that many people are ready for that type of legislation, and I'm not even sure it is a good thing. At least existing social media services have some incentive, may that be the company's reputation or the value of the data itself, to offer some degree of privacy protection.
Good advice, and I'm generally pay attention to correct brand stylizations, but I do have to acknowledge that the large "TikTop" icon in the ad and the app description was attractive enough for me to let my guard down (I'm not the author), I didn't notice the incorrect "Tiktok" text in the app screen until I saw your comment.
Kind of, Microsoft seems to trying to fix UWP, while trying to turn .NET into a cross platform runtime that has an eco-system that has been Windows only for the last 20 years.

So while they are doing lots of nice performance improvements, there are plenty of business not so happy that their 20 year investments don't run on .NET Core, and if a rewrite is needed (e.g. WCF vs gRPC) then why not just jump into something else.

Just see the lengthy roadmap, and the considerations that not everyone was happy with "AOT" (packing everything into an exe that unzips on execution).

https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/fo...

Also check the repositories from Project Reunion, it is pretty much WIP right now.
Have you read the link in the comment in replying to? The US is considering banning the use of OSS if some Chinese entities participated.
If all their current customers die due to global warming their profit will be lower, regardless of who created the carbon footprint.
I think they're still working on that https://hyax.com/pricing
Stay classy uk.gov