skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, you keep referencing links that have nothing to do with the issue at hand.

- In a recent Florida case , a Miami socialite, Meghana Rajadhyaksha, was found guilty for purchasing over $130k in designer purses from retail giant TJ MAXX and also purchasing similar knock-offs from Amazon where she swapped the designer tags out and returned the Amazon knock-offs to TJ MAXX to receive a full refund.

I agree this is fraud! That's literally deceiving in order to receive money. There's nothing deceptive about using a policy that the store offers.

- The Florida statutes define return fraud as obtaining or using a receipt in a fraudulent manner

Ditto.

You're free to keep repeating that I have no idea what I'm talking about and so on, but at this point it's becoming quite boring for readers, and everything has been said. We simply agree to disagree, and that's that.

Now, please stop calling me a criminal. It's not nice, and it's also not accurate.

If you dig up a single case of someone being prosecuted for using a policy that the store offers, without modifying the receipt or the item, let me know.
>Sure, playing correctly against a maniac, novice, or otherwise unpredictable player can be more difficult and have higher variance, it's also as lucrative as it gets if you know what you're doing. All the strong players I've known would be elated to play against people like that.

I don't know about you, but when I was grinding, I didn't really want to increase variance. I wanted a stable mental state with low focus on multiple tables to maximize the rate of return over that period. I found that alterations in that caused me to play more loosely, which ended up leading to avoidable mistakes, magnified because I'm playing multiple tables at once.

The same thing was true for a tournament. There's a far more limited return from players like this, in part because you meet them early. It's a fact of the online game that people just go all in a lot especially in the beginning, but it ends up being a gauntlet you just need to get through. I wouldn't call them my ideal opponents; it's not what I prefer, it just exists.

Maybe I'm not what you would consider a strong player but I did win consistently enough to feed myself with it for a couple of years, mostly online before it became illegal. It wasn't really my experience that high risk high reward play was the way to go. Most of the people I played with worked to limit variance's effect on their game, not increase it.

Again though, that's just me - not the strongest player ever, you clearly have a different opinion about it. All good.
Maybe the reason feed readers have fallen out of favor is because too many people are corrupting the concept and attempting to turn it into yet another advertising channel.

I would love to use RSS for semi-real time, one way communication.

What would help make this practical is one simple, cross-platform reader available everywhere --- Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and Web/browser.

Only support feeds the user manually subscribes too. Check for new content in the background on a user defined interval. Notify the user if something new is available.

Easy, simple but universal would be the key for me.
Tiltbrush is opensource, but not actively being maintained by Google and hasn't been for a long time. Some of the original team is involved in maintaining an opensource fork, however, but this is not a Google product. Daydream was sunset a while ago and cardboard support has stopped also. VR is an interesting category for Google because there are often no services to maintain in VR apps. So, like an indie developer with a failed game, they can leave their VR apps on the Steam store with zero maintainence as long as SteamVR works. There are zero employees working on Google's VR apps except for Owlchemy, which I suspect is still around because they cost very little or they're profitable. Google Poly, which is a service related to VR, is getting shutdown.

As for VR not picking up, it didn't pick up on startup folks timeline but there has been steady growth in the market and it's close to sustainable for many developers. Facebook, Valve, Sony, Microsoft and Apple have been more persistent and came in with realistic expectations. I think this is a case where Google was premature entering the market and also premature exiting. If they re-enter they'll probably look like Microsoft trying to re-enter the mobile or tablet market in the 2010s after not succeeding in the 90s and 2000s. That's not to say that VR will "take over the world" like smartphones, but its on its way to evolving into a sustainable category with a variety of compelling use cases.
It's way too early to draw any conclusions about the "post covid" world considering we aren't in it yet. My personal opinion is that it is going to be a lot closer to the pre covid world than people think.

> If I'd been renting all this time I'd be paying at least 2X in rent compared to what my mortgage is

This is generally not the case. Rents on a property take a long time to catch up to the mortgage payment. Of course market conditions vary by location, but I suspect if a lot of homeowners ran the numbers (total mortgage + interest, closing costs, taxes and property maintenance compared to incremental annual rent, difference invested in S&P 500 or something riskier), the conclusion would be different.
America’s Wunderkind Mayor on Miami 2.0, ‘Silicon Beach’
Cute title, I guess, but a YouTube video proves nothing. You can (I presume) find YouTube videos "proving" that the Earth is flat. So, if you want me to believe this position, you're going to have to give me something better than the title of a video.

Inheritance is just fine, used well. You've got a counterargument? Give it. Not a video; give me the actual argument.
Does reasonably ethical investments include using insider knowledge?

Which is what these politicians seem to be doing. Sure it is not illegal, but is it ethical?
Maybe it helped for a while?
Bold of them to put Groyper in the hero image
If Apple didn't expect users to use this feature then they shouldn't have released it (or advertised it at WWDC no less) in the first place. It's like selling a manual transmission car with a broken clutch and then complaining that nobody uses clutches anymore, who cares if the clutch is broken?
hmm, it doesn't look production ready yet.
Can't you deduct all those costs from taxable income?
I don’t quite believe that there was no moralistic sentiment directed against it when high frequency started, or even before that when whatever changed changed. The fact that people weren’t currently writing about the status quo, but then write about a change to it isn’t surprising.
It doesn't seem to be true any longer with the STOCK act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
I have an Ensoniq SQ-80 synthesizer that did something like that. A microcontroller generates 8 channels of sounds from a PCM wavetable, and those are fed into 8 analog filters before mixing down to stereo. But all of the waveforms and envelopes were digital.
>The product isn't particularly remarkable compared to other options

It is not that Spotify is exceptionally good, it is just the others are comically bad.
Shell to produce 75% of oil, gas reserves by 2030
Have you tried slay the spire? It is a remarkable card game that is simple to learn but hard to master. Also available on mobile devices so you can play on the go :)
Many people constantly deride them for lack of regulation of X, where X is something the speaker believes has huge negative externalities.

Also, I'd point to a place like India for "big" government: the government tries to run too many things and does a bad job on average.
that might help the global warming...
Looking for a mobile engineer for Showtime, a user-owned social media
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Each piece of content on Showtime is a NFT, unlocking new ways to monetize and incentivize content promotion. I'm personally known in crypto for the $ALEX token which I used to crowdfund $20k to move to SF, CA as a tech outsider, but it was clunky at the time and there was high trust assumptions (I could have ran away with the money). I found that NFT sales (and royalties) are a great beachhead to scale that model on-chain, trustlessly.

React Native vs native is a contentious debate — we're flexible but seem to slightly prefer React Native as it's better for rapid prototyping, something crucial for our product.

We are two cofounders and you will be one of our three founding engineers. We are remote-first.

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Humans are essentially a collective of symbiotic organisms which have been working together for so very long that some are no longer distinguishable as separate. We know that we have DNA that came from external sources. We know that we carry around a host of bacteria that are vital to our life and health. Somehow all of this (Scientifically speaking)results in an entity with a sense of "I". If you aren't thinking about it religiously, how else would one think about it?
There is a Unicode block dedicated to these symbols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block)
Didn't netflix pull that one once?
I also tried once to make sense of domain name resolution: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2020/11/01/resolving-a-ho...
I quoted you like 7 sources. (I editted it afterwords, sorry)

Read them again.

There are multiple sources, that I quoted, that literally say that it is illegal. They use the words illegal to describe wardrobing.

> Now, please stop calling me a criminal.

Well the sources say that you are a criminal.

One specifically said "It's technically illegal"

> We simply agree to disagree,

No. The lawyers say that you are wrong. The actual legal websites say that you are a criminal. They literally call it illegal.

Here was another quote "People that engage in ‘wardrobing’ or ‘free renting,’ are also committing return fraud."

Return fraud, in this quote, is referencing the Florida law.
Dave, one of the authors of these posts, has been regularly documenting on Twitter his struggles with DNS on all the platforms.

If you like sports, it is like watching a basketball game, with three teams and Dave as the play by play announcer.

I'm a linux user, so I'm always cheering when OSX or Windows "loses" but then very quickly Dave will, paraphrasing say: "And, OSX hits a deep 3 pointer..." ("And, OSX does this right, and Linux sucks").

But, it is great theater and very informative. On Dave's recommendation, I switched to systemd-resolved, and it is working flawlessly for me (with my own wireguard setup, not using Tailscale yet).
> Is this some new kind of war?

No, this is called capitalism! Everyone should be proud.
browsers are operating systems in user space. They will continue to replace kernel parts.
Release Features Faster by Slowing Down
I'm unsure how low rates of growth in Europe will lead to a collapse of the species.
No, I don't want to use SQL on the front-end, nor on the back-end (except as a final translation). I want all my business logic, both front- and back-end, represented in data structures that use language as close to the domain-level as I can get while still allowing flexible querying and manipulation. I want queries that seamlessly mix blob files, SQL records, and code-as-data ("plugin" code properly source-controlled and tested, but that contains database-like IDs and hooks that allows it to be joined in-memory to SQL records). I want an abstraction layer that makes sense for the domain I'm working in, and I mean something specific when I say "abstraction layer". I want a basic level of self-awareness to the application where it knows its own topology and that can be used to generate API documentation, help files, API endpoints, etc. I want security to be an emergent property of this setup -- where exploits are preemptively disallowed simply because they are not sensible domain operations -- rather than trying to come up with an exhaustive list of all the clever ways someone could write exploitative SQL.

So, no thanks.
It is not rational once you have enough money for you and those you care about to be infinitely comfortable for the rest of your lives.

Say you have $100,000 in the bank, and you want to spend $10,000. What's the best use of that money? For a normal self-interested person, a rational use would be to invest in whatever will give the largest return, in order to have enough money for living expenses, retirement, children, whatever.

Now, say you have $100 million, and you want to spend $10 million. What's the best use of that money? Seeking a purely financial return is completely pointless. It will have absolutely no impact on your life or future, or those of the people you care about. So as a person with a normal amount of self-interest who also cares about other things in the world, the most rational behavior would be to donate it to a cause you care about, or start some purposeful organization, or anything that will have a positive impact on something or someone you value. At this level of wealth, just making more money has no positive impact on anybody, even yourself.

I guess it's possible that Pelosi is saving up in order to start a SpaceX competitor or buy an NBA team or something once she leaves Congress, but she's 81 so that seems unlikely.
It’s ok, I might be poor but I’m pretty happy despite the disability.

I live in a city an hour away from Toronto, Canada.
Biden makes good on his promise to punish Russia for the massive SolarWinds hack. America has officially blamed the Russian government for the hack of multiple federal agencies. Russia has always denied any involvement. The hacks are believed to have begun in March 2020 through network monitoring software called Orion Platform. The hackers were able to insert malware into Orion Platform software updates which, once installed, gave hackers access to those systems. The hack was only discovered when a cybersecurity company that makes hacking tools found that its own systems had been breached.

Biden administration names the Russian Intelligence Service as being behind the U.S. hack. The SVR has long been linked to Russian intelligence, which Russia has long denied. The group has also been blamed for previous hacks on government systems, the Democratic National Committee, and even institutions doing research on Covid-19 and vaccine development. The sanctions will also apply to individuals associated with the occupation of Crimea and reports that the Russian government paid Taliban militants to kill American soldiers. Russia's response to the executive order, for now, is to promise that there will be a response.
Try talking to your Amazon delivery drivers.

I've yet to meet a single one that has anything positive to say about the company.
Biology, biology, biology!

As long as we keep a large population of unvaccinated people we are going to get more variants. If we can get the vaccination rate up, the space for variants is restricted and we will not need new vaccines.
Awesome!!! thanks so much for the info.
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Because the discount rate of the yearly plan is financially very attractive (17% off), there are really two main reasons people go for the monthly option:
1) they are unsure if they are going to like your product enough to be willing to go for the bigger commitment of the yearly subscription
2) they can’t afford the yearly payment upfront (this is especially valid for very expensive subscriptions)

On the yearly subscription, do you charge for the entire year upfront? If not, you are eliminating reason 2) above to go for monthly

How is the distribution of vintages of your user base? Depending on your growth (and churn) rate, the distribution of old (>1 year old) vs. new (<1 year) users might drive more yearly subscriptions: the slower you grow, the more old users you will have in your mix of paying users. Old users already know they like your product and are much more willing to take the commitment of the yearly subscription to get the financial savings.

...so that might explain why you have a majority of annual plans. It’s always a good idea to experiment with your prices and segment the market, it’s almost always a good idea to do it without disrupting (too much) your existing user base.
He can keep that pricing tier/billing plan for existing customers and create a less generous one for new customers. I would keep reducing the discount until sales fall way off.
I think this is the post: https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity
you can grandfather existing customers into old plans and still experiment with pricing.
I once thought about doing something similar too, but in the end I never tried. I guess it's not difficul, you just have to write a good deal of code to support all the operations.
Shell's sort would like a word. Or Bloom's filter, for that matter...
it is, just like many other sig that will trip the AV and delete the blockchain. if running on windows it's a good idea to add the btc data dir to the av exclusion list
I created a notebook in Observable with same data set: https://observablehq.com/@triptych/tiny-tools-viewer
are you kidding. math syntax is super easy . but maybe that is just me. It's mostly just the same dozen or so Greek symbols used over and over
> If workers are putting 25% of their paychecks in an index fund and retire a few years earlier, instead of paying off their too-expensive car loan or something, it will be bad for the current financial elite.

Nobody is complaining about people placing their paychecks in index funds though. Index funds are a reasonably good proxy for the future health of the economy, so your gains from it will likely represent real growth. By contrast, gains made from cryptocurrency and speculative stock must be coming from someone's losses.
They sell different packages and some come with a chest strap. I got just the bike and shoes. I already use an Apple Watch to track my heart rate for everything else, and it's been rated as accurate.

But if you got a chest strap with it, that would 100% do the same thing.

I like having one device that tracks my heart rate through all of the activities I do (including sleeping).
Home improvements on your primary residence are not tax deductible, but do contribute to the basis price used to calculate profit (and tax) when you sell: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-home-improvemen...
You leave out a lot about yourself that would make you unhireable. From what you've written it sounds like you could form a decent resume for an entry level position. The biggest red flag I see is that it doesn't sound like you completed anything and you don't have any follow through / sticktuitiveness.

Life happens and reasons happen but you didn't complete college, you complain about your entry level position at amazon but I see nothing that warrants a greater position than that. Obviously this may not be everything about you so it's difficult to judge.

I have no degree, but worked hard, stuck to jobs for 2-3 years before moving and developed a track record that hiring managers like to see. That means working for $15/hr in a position that you feel is beneath you. The thing that position provides you valuable experience and showing you can stick with things. Companies that hire you put forth a significant investment that takes roughly a year to pay off. Employees don't always realize that. If you look like you won't stick around they won't hire you.

One of the most important thing, especially as a junior is to be likable and present your suggestions in a likable way. Also it's key to know when no one wants to hear your suggestions. Sometimes your perspective may be a new thing that was never thought of or it could be one sided, the business knows it and had accepted the risk but it's not within your knowledge scope to know that.

I do technical interviews for the company I work for. If you're not likable to me, you're probably not getting hired. If I get the impression that every interaction will be a dick measuring contest because you come off as a smarty pants, I'm not recommend hiring. Someone who's knowledgeable and humble is going to get my recommendation. If you're good, and know how to communicate well you'll naturally rise to lead a team because they'll look to you for answers or ideas and everyone will notice.

It really sounds like you need to "pay your dues" by showing that you can stick to something. That's either complete college and get a degree or work entry level for 2 years and move up or out to the next position.
The reverse operators in APL are very visually suggestive if you imagine a matrix and mirror it about the centerlines-

Reverse around last axis: ⌽

Reverse around first axis: ⊖

The grade operators (indices by which one could index to sort ascending or descending) are likewise easy to remember-

Grade up: ⍋

Grade down: ⍒

I suspect that the reason only a handful of APL's notational ideas made it into mainstream mathematics is because few mathematicians felt the need to describe algorithmic processes, and those who did were willing to settle for big sigma/pi, set builder notation, piecewise function notation, or a handwave at ALGOL, Pascal, or whatever else was in vogue at the time.

Their loss, I'm afraid.
For what it's worth, what you have is a Visa Debit (or Mastercard Debit) card, though the branding on them isn't consistent. Debit cards that can't interop with the Visa/Mastercard networks do exist, I have one .. mostly because I'm lazy and haven't asked for a change.

Dunno how rare they are, I suspect rare, but I can't find any numbers with a quick search.
No conflict of interest whatsoever ...
A couple of other things that happened.

Intel has been struggling to shrink their dies, so they went to TSMC for some of their chip production.

Apple ditched intel with their latest macbooks (with the M1), which also requires more TSMC capacity.
If we're talking AMD vs Intel, then the biggest difference I see is cost (when the CPUs are in stock, anyway). Intel's performance is fine, but the CPUs can cost multiple times that of the competition. With Xeon, a small municipality would never be able to say "You know what? Just go with the 32-core CPU, it's not that much more."