skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My school district in Virginia prepared the best they could. They had previously procured chrome books, just not in the massive numbers needed for every student to have one, which they gave to families on an as needed first come first serve basis back in spring and throughout the summer. They distributed hot spots to students without internet or adequate speeds. They provided lunch through the buses to students that needed them. They spent the summer fighting with other localities to procure as many chrome books as possible for the fall and when they found out they were going to come up short they used funds to make sure atleast everyone had a tablet as a stop gap until the student could receive a laptop. It's not prefect, Google classroom training could be improved, I noticed it was hard to find overall schedules and homework assigned that wasn't meant to be turned in via classroom and have heard younger students especially have trouble with the tablets over laptops, but the first week of class seemed to have gone as well as it could have given the situation.

The response has not been a resounding failure across the board in states that also didn't pretend like the federal government that the virus would just go away and wasn't a real problem. But if there had been a real federal response I'm sure more students would have laptops and internet, online classroom training would be better, and importantly cases would be down and we'd be safer.
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Inflation is the main problem, and will kill your app if your math is off. When people run out of coins, they spend real money to get more. However, let's say you have a broken game that pays back 150%, because you didn't get your math right. Your player coin balances suddenly start climbing, and your revenue dries up. This is bad, because even once you fix the broken game, you may need to introduce money sinks to try to get things back under control.

Installs are regular ads, just like any other mobile game. You pay Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. Facebook Canvas used to be a big source of revenue, but most people have drifted over to mobile. Demographics are female, 35+, so these are not early tech adopters.
This was discussed in depth in a previous discussion in the topic, but your assumption that it's trivial to create a fake Facebook account for this is wrong. There may be different experiences but you should assume you'll need a valid mobile number or a valid-looking social graph, or both.
Battery operated trimmers have got very good. They used to be underpowered, but now they are as powerful (or more) and a lot quieter. I suggest that you ask for a modern battery replacement. Just make sure you get the battery in a backback, the battery is slightly heavier and lasts longer so you don't get as many breaks
A ton of games use psychological tricks to get people to spend. Look at hearthstone from Blizzard. You have to keep buying cards until you get lucky... and you never do. The randomized fashion makes it so you never stop spending even though you are one card away from your ideal deck. It has all the elements of gambling minus the real life rewards. There definitely needs to be some sort of regulation — perhaps punishing the randomized reward mechanics.
I'm skeptical about RISC-V or any other open CPU design providing the quality of commercial designs. Testing and verification is not free. ARM tests their designs with millions of hours of simulation of heavy multithreaded workload, and chip implementors would have done the same with the actual silicon. Licensing costs of commercial ARM chips are a drop in the bucket compared to this necessary expense to ensure reliability.
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> you should have done some research

Just to be clear, this didn't happen to me. I just posted what Niek van der Maas wrote on his GitHub. I don't think he's even reading this HN thread, so no use giving him advice.
It's possible the subjective experience could be harder for those living now, even as the objective one has gotten better.

Society doesn't teach coping well; and while it's still rare there are growing segments that actively disparage the idea of coping when the stressor is something they want "fixed."

Furthermore most media and advertising rely on stirring up disquiet to grow their audience.
>Perhaps this hinges on how much chance vs skill is involved in the game

It does. Arcade games are typically games of skill rather than games of chance (although that obviously varies). Additionally, in the end what it probably comes down to is how much attention the purveyor draws to themselves.

If arcades started becoming so successful that they create addicted children to lose thousands of dollars of their parents money, I'm sure you'd start seeing arcade regulations. And in fact when pinball games first came out, you did see lots of governments get involved as it was viewed as corrupting children.
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Could it be possible that there are people out there who aren't all that opinionated on the matter and just would rather not see the views?
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1) Yes, they either outright stole the credentials or stole an oauth-token.

2) The scammer either actually has a vietnamese metallurgy business ore (more likely) sold ad space on facebook to a vietnamese metallurgy business.

3) yes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470530

Looks like it was a real Facebook login webview.
The question I have is how they could get access to micronutrients up there. On Earth, there's dust blown from dust storms, etc, but my read on Venus is that there's not a ton of circulation between the hellish surface and the upper atmosphere.
>Until that day I'll just have to accept that every week or so I might have to hit that hard reset button on my desktop

That really must be your Hardware, i have FB12.1-REL and it's rockstable on 5 different Machines from 10yo to 1 two laptops and three Workstations.

And many many VM's and two really big physical servers
I made an account at bigfishgames.com and it doesn't say anything about no payouts unless you scroll down abit to the fineprint under the game frame. It's really easy to buy chips though. However it feels like only a small part of revenue is from people taking them for a real casino?
It sounds like Antifa is equal opportunity. /s
The US has decided that the way to increase the educational opportunity of disadvantaged kids is to put them into school earlier and earlier- there are programs which put kids into public education as early as 3 years old. The fear of 'falling behind' other countries has turned Kindergarten from an optional half-day of play and socialization to a full day program with a real curriculum- not just basic reading/math but in many cases science and social studies standards.
It's not necessary nor useful to create a false dichotomy. The safety of the AppStore may be a reason to have a strict review policy, but it should not become an excuse to abuse of that policy. The price tag of safety is certainly some amount of freedom, but it's worrisome that people are learning to accept this without also distinguishing when this relationship is being usurped for other means.
It’s really hard for me to get in the headspace to understand this. Maybe one way to think about it is if you were ever playing a Civ game where you were in that “just one more turn” mode. You know you have just lost 8 hours of your life to something with no real world payoff. You know you lost a day of productivity at work/school/life with real quantifiable impact and need to get back to real life. But ... “one more turn”
To my detriment, I avoided having to learn anything in my 2007 highschool online Algebra 2 class by simply feeding the equations into Maxima. That was the year I first started using Linux - a Ubuntu 8.04 install CD on a Linux magazine saved my laptop from a corrupted Windows Vista install while away from home.
It's simple. The US has amassed such immense power through violence that there are very few US citizens that can actually threaten it. But when they crop up, they do get assassinated.
Did anyone else notice the sneaky font change on the 30% cut to make it look like 80% at a glance?
Sentdex is another great channel to check out
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Understanding how this all works, I'm also in the camp of not paying for 'free' to play games. Lately though, I've been getting back into Starcraft2 as something else to (re)learn/practice during WfH. After spending enough time there, I have no problem shelling out the amount of a shrink-wrapped game on skins for buildings, units, even the UI in separate purchases, repeatedly for each game race. I guess I've split 'pay to win' from 'pay to decorate' but it may be a slippery gateway.
I like eggs for breakfast - often my own 'fake benedict' - a slice of bread-machine multigrain, toasted, buttered, kewpie mayo (or diy version), dash of lemon juice, a few capers, egg poached in microwave (just break an egg into a ramekin with hints of tarragon, sugar, salt, black pepper). Takes less than 5 minutes.

But what has this to do with tech?
And even if you find a correct oauth address, you still have the risk that you understand what permissions you give and facebook implements them correctly.
US Customs has been checking international shipments for counterfeit goods and other contraband since a long time. It's part of what a Customs agency customarily does.

How else would you prevent counterfeit goods from entering a country? For domestic mad counterfeits, it's possible to enforce laws (or court orders) prohibiting manufacture, but that's not really the case when the products are made overseas.
I have often thought of Venus as halfway between a gas giant and a rocky planet.
Because it's not a matter of the industry that I am talking about, it is the general principle.

To make an analogy: I don't need to know all of the details of foreign trade and banking regulations around the world to know that people can use blockchain-backed cryptocurrency to send money all around the world in a way that is faster and cheaper that any banking or remittance company ever will be able to.

As blockchain tech matures and gets easier to be adopted by the masses, it will not matter if currently we have a gazillion different banks and if companies each are using their own ad-hoc method for managing world-wide transfers and FX: the moment that consumers are able to say "I want to use my crypto to pay for this", companies that are not on-board with that will simply lose business.

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To sum up: you are arguing that the status quo is the only way to make things and that the only way to have any change is when they are of interest to the status quo. I am arguing that the status quo will not matter the moment that blockchain technology gets more accessible and makes more economical sense as a way to verify and coordinate work among entities that do not trust each other.

What matters in the end (to quote from the OP that started our discussion) is "The whole paper trail around a bill of lading isn't a joke if you are shipping from say China to South America". This is something that blockchain is basically designed to solve. It doesn't matter if the companies now don't want to use it, when the people holding the purses start asking for a solution that only blockchain can solve efficiently, the companies that don't adopt will lose business and fade away.
I didn't say mandatory contraceptives, there was a whole sentence you missed the ending of.

"comprehensive and mandatory contraceptive, health-information and birth control drives"

You make it sound like like I'm saying people need to be forced to use contraceptives. Guess the phrasing is not great. Maybe 'program' would have been better? But the mandatory modifier was on the drive/program, not the usage of contraceptives.
I'm highly skeptical of your claims, nearly 200,000 people have died of covid, despite having shutdown the country. You've presented no information to suggest that the scientific consensus that millions would likely have died without the measures we went through is false.
We've gone down this path with virtually every other bit of computing technology: operating systems, databases, etc.

Open always wins....given enough time. No single company can compete with a collective open ecosystem at scale.
i found https://excalidraw.com/ from HN awhile go and love it. This looks similar.
I can see two obvious interpretations of what you might be implying:

1. That, because you are unable to think of rules and regulations that would work, there must not be any.

2. That, in order for anyone to legitimately suggest that something might be worth attempting, they must already have a working solution.

Is it one of those two, or something else?
Sure, but that is not what caused things to happen in 2018/2019 at that level. It is the capricious trade wars with Germany, China, and whoever else that caused this.
How is my assumption wrong? They haven't even implemented it fully yet.

There's google voice for a number. Probably other services that offer that.

I think your post has a lot of assumptions... Social graph? What?
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There is plenty of evidence indicating socio-economic status correlates with educational outcomes. Wouldn't you agree victims of disinformation are those least equipped to tell apart facts from fabrications? Isn't it the heart of the issue? The article unfairly refers to a "nation of idiots". Aren't many "idiots" responsible for electing the likes of the current American, English or Brazilian leaders. What is the solution? Taking the "idiot's" power away isn't democratic, it's a speedway to totalitanism. Protecting the "idiots" from disinformation is impossible: plenty of money sees benefits in compromising the people, it will find a way. Quality initial and continuing education is possible and democratic. Democratic societies are founded partly on the idea of the aware citizen. When are we victims of disinformation? When we decide to believe something that we know little about. It's easy: we all need a representation of the world. If all we are given are fabrications, we will never make it out of the cave. The idea is at least as old as Plato or the first democracy.
What happens when Facebook closes the dummy, fake account you've associated with that device for not being a real person? Do all of the purchases you've made also get blocked?
Well tech blockade either works or don't work, depending on whether the country has enough resources to completely invent an entire indigenous replacement.

Does China have enough resource? Remain to be seen but odds are slightly in the yes direction.
Technically, yes. Your net worth is unchanged. The problem is that the car is no longer worth $20,000 as soon as you drive it off the lot.
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The higher resolution would be really nice for reading and therefore for non-game applications.

If someone ever makes a retina-level (60 pixels per degree) display that's wireless like the Quest but as cheap as a nice monitor and comfortable to wear, then people may just use it in place of a multi-monitor setup. Particularly as the ecosystem evolves and it becomes easier to use mouse and keyboard in VR. (I think Quest just recently added support for tracking of a Bluetooth keyboard so you can see it in VR while you're typing on it.) $300-400 is roughly that price point, which is about where the current Quest is.

But even with the upped resolution of the Quest2 (which might bring the pixel density to 20 pixels per degree), we're still about a factor of 10 away from the retina-like clarity that you'd want for reading and doing work in VR. (The highest end VR headsets are about a factor of 5 away from that, in terms of numbers of pixels.)

By the way, it's interesting that we're pushing the limits of display bandwidths. Even with lossless compression, it's tough to shoot that many pixels smoothly even to a wired VR headset. We might need wireless headsets like the Quest if only to do some of the heavy-lifting, low-latency processing.
> should I, the consumer, be able to choose what I want to do

There is a whole field dedicated to engineering choices of individual humans, it's called "marketing". Oh, and also "recruitment". The choices are entirely yours, sure, and yet they're still malleable and largely predictable. I bet there is even statistics "such% of population is susceptible to this tactics, and such% of population is susceptible to that trick, and there is this negligible % of those who pretty much can't be swayed in a reliable way, but they don't matter (too few of them)".

The thing is, government prohibition is just one of the least effective methods, but it is also the laziest and easiest and most obvious one which is why people come up with it all the time.
Completely take your point on Qualcomm.

On mobile SoC margins I guess that margins are low because there is a lot of competition - start cutting off IP to the competition and margins will rise.

I suspect that their focus will be on the server / automotive to start off with but the very fact that they can to any of this is troubling for me.
I'd love to read the dissertation, can you share it?

Cybernetics also reintroduced teleology into the sciences, which is philosophically deeply controversial.

I also like the fact that he describes this teleology as reducing local entropy [1].

I presented my tenure midterm today on "AI for Wellbeing" which I based on Cybernetics [2].

[1] "while the universe as a whole, if indeed there is a whole universe, tends to run down, there are local enclaves whose direction seems opposed to that of the universe at large and in which there is a limited and temporary tendency for organization to increase. Life finds its home in some of these enclaves. It is with this point of view at its core that the new science of Cybernetics began its development."

[2] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_hDjT06C6WyITgtbdPVj...
By that reasoning, if a file containing bank passwords leaks, its value is "zero" despite the fact that somebody can now go in and steal from all those accounts with ease.

Experian has created a massive liability for all the individuals in the leaked data pool. The amount of damage this leak does to innocent people is staggering.
The Salesman should be capitalized, it isn't one person, it's the foundational driver of most of the information that people create and consume in digital and mass-communication.
Zero wouldn't be fun. You need to allow people to win, just not over time. Slots is a random series of losing, small wins, bigger wins, and very occasionally big bonus rounds (every ~100-200 spins) which is the dopamine hit. The key is that over time, the losing needs to happen more often than the winning.
As a student I worked in a casino for a short time. It just really drags you down immensely if you get to know people spending their last dime.

All kinds of people were there from completely different backgrounds. People know that the chances are rigged against them (it is mandatory in my country to write down winning odds directly on devices and tables), but they are all waiting on this one time they will finally win. Some do so, but just continue playing again because they cannot stop anymore.

It is a disease and addiction and people are profiting off it. The coffee might be free as the bank always wins anyway.
I do agree that the BSD ports maintainers are a fair bit slower than their Linux counterparts. Having said this, though, I do admire the way the port maintainers train up their replacements and/or add others with commit access. They mentor them. This does lead to higher code quality in the end. I fully agree with the notion that BSD is engineered whilst Linux is "grown". Good and bad to both approaches.
Nuclear, of course, has its own dirty issue in sequestering byproducts (discounting the occasional meltdown, which---thankfully---is still generally a localized problem relative to CO2 emission's global threat, although it's not very localized... Chernobyl threatened much of west Asia and Europe in the worst-case scenario which, thankfully, didn't materialize).

It's a little hard to weigh those costs vs. benefits, since nuclear byproduct sequestration is relatively cheap but the consequences of failure are relatively high (dirty bombs). On the whole, I'd peg the risk factors for solar and wind as lower, but I'd still prefer to see nuclear plants replace fossil fuel plants if other options aren't available.
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Not the original poster - just replying with some ideas...

I would purpose that Google in particular be broken into many different companies. The fact that they own such a large part of mobile, browser, search, video, email, news aggregation, online office products is hugely problematic. I believe one of the issues that was not highlighted is the overall reach of these companies, they focus in on the mobile aspect, but there are huge swathes of data being collected via other means. Search in particular should not have a bias in the autocomplete - search should be agnostic, like Wikipedia. When I search it should show the same results as when you search. Next there should be a requirement that these companies provide access to a users data back to them, along with the analytical output that creates their digital avatar. There should be the ability to FULLY delete the data per a request. Next there should be a requirement that the sites provide ability to utilize their services with browser anonymity enabled. Much of the data leakage is harvested automatically from the mobile device or browser, the ability to slow the trickle of information should be required by law. Perhaps a requirement that a price that an advertiser paid for each ad should show up, and an opportunity for the user to opt-out and pay for the service instead at the same rates in truly anonymized fashion. More extreme options - restrictions on access based on age, we do this for cigarettes and alcohol, perhaps this should be applied to social media as well. Perhaps there should be a throttle on data gathering or hard limits placed on how much data can be pulled in and kept. Require maximum data retention periods on this data to make the models dumber. We have data retention periods set for health data - why not restrict it for social media.
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What do you know about how people share photos with one another during events?

How open minded are you to a new way of sharing moments together?

JUST IMAGINE if you could walk away from any event with everyone’s photos already on your phone.

The way I see it, you have 3 options...

1. You can keep hunting people down to share photos and videos with you.

2. WASTE TIME with hashtags or creating albums on iCloud, GooglePhotos, Dropbox, etc... AFTER the moment has passed.

3. Or give Pixz a try & start sharing moments as they happen!

Pixzapp.com allows people and businesses to crowdsource photos & videos in real-time with groups & during events.

Check it out! It’s a free download available for iOS and Android.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixz/id1491306184
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pixz.io.pixz&hl=en_US