skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The correct question would be: does it make sense to require the athletes to go through this.

However, the context needs to be kept in mind: From the event organizer perspective, there are sponsors who put serious money on the table for the event itself AND the prize money these athletes take home and live off. These sponsors hold commercial rights to these events and require such interviews for their own promo goals. It benefits everyone: the event organizer, the sponsor and the player. The player knows all the rules while entering the event. It's a blanket rule, like in motorsport where participants are required to attend the podium ceremony and remain at the race track until final result is confirmed. It's just part of the pro sport.

Those might be wrong rules, who knows. But they are what they are right now and that premise the player is being penalized. Maybe this will set a precedent. It's worth asking what makes this player feel that their mental health suffers from these interviews.
No. Currency is guaranteed to be accepted for the payment of taxes in a particular jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction's courts will enforce judgments in that currency. These are material differences.
Thought exercise:

What would the consequences be of detonating an improvised truck bomb, comparable in size to the Oklahoma City Bombing [0], in the middle of the spent fuel casks at the Connecticut Yankee plant?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
Can I ask: What grind do you use for your Moccamaster?
Isn't the pool media helping to drum up viewership for the broadcasts? I mean, it's still all connected?
The Internet provided solutions to technical problems, regardless of any societal/political considerations. They may have resulted, but as a secondary effect.

When theorizing about societal/political benefits, take into account the societal/political problems cryptocurrencies created by inventing a machine that allows converting resources directly into money of miners' digital wallets without regulation.

Your sending any amount of money, actual practicality and realizability aside, comes at the cost of a lottery, where miners perform literally 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 computations per second whose outcome is completely thrown away, unless they are lucky enough to be one of the 6 computations per hour that win. This cannot be made more efficient: If computing one hash costs less energy, the difficulty will be adjusted to require more calculations to keep the target of 6 hashes per hour.

By the decentralized property of cryptocurrencies, it is by design not possible to regulate where the energy for this lottery is coming from.
> but even that wouldn't solve the problem that all of our metadata is correlated, and nothing blocks first-party tracking

That's true – nothing stops Google from knowing what you were looking for – but if your girlfriend was seeing ads, she wasn't using uBlock: because it blocks all first-party ads, too.

I think a much bigger problem here is that almost nobody uses Firefox for Mobile. Also, uBlock doesn't block ads across native apps (for instance, YouTube).

The solution is to use something like NextDNS as your DNS provider at OS or router level. At least on Android 9+ and most latest Linux distributions (via systemd-resolved) no additional software is required for it to work.
You know, in Santiago, near where I lived there was a kiosk owner making, no joke, a million USD a year, in Chile of all places, just because he had a killer location. I knew the guy, I think his name was CG or similar, I never saw the name in print, and he was a pretty solid guy but he knew exactly how much to charge for the convenience. Now it is pretty convenient, but finally someone put up a shop close by, explicitly to compete with CG, and he undercuts him a lot.

I feel like college economics classes teach you a version of perfect competition (like kiosks in Santiago) that is what I would call "hyper-lubricated." Profits lead to competitors instantly, without any friction or delay. You can't raise your prices long enough to profit. And that's not real, many businesspersons can raise prices and profit from it for a period of several years thanks to this friction. But eventually people figure out you're giving them a bad deal in a way they can't forgive.

That happened to me with Amazon. They sold me some fake shit, not much fake shit, not expensive, but that was it, after all that bluster about how I'd never do business with a company that did x or y, I found out x and y consist specifically of selling counterfeits.
This entire HN thread is "it doesn't affect me/ I like one day shipping, so it's not a monopoly".
Did they change the rules just to punish her? Last I heard, the policy was that missing interviews incurs a fine, which Osaka decided she could handle. If so, this starts to look a little villainous. I guess they're afraid other players will follow suit.

I have to say, I'm sympathetic to Osaka, and to all the other athletes who have to endure the media circus so soon after a loss. Thirty minutes to recover after a loss is nothing -- especially when the questions you're set to face all boil down to some variation on "That was a tough loss: tell us, how emotionally destroyed are you by your failure?" If what we want as viewers is an eloquent, insightful response that cuts to the heart of the reason for the loss, we should demand a longer delay, to give athletes time to compose themselves. I bet Osaka (and other players) would find a one day lag time more acceptable. Perhaps they could start there.
Thanks for your help :) Unfortunately the Arte TV website is also region locked and doesn't let me watch this from South America. A shame, it sounded interesting.
I think the hard part is convincing people that it’s a new branch of economics and therefore the old rules need not apply.
> I have yet to hear one of these people be anything but angry

That's because you don't "hear" people be silent.
Heavy water reactors can run on natural uranium. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_heavy-water_reac...
Exactly. That's not a documentation problem, that's a writing problem. A lot of tech people don't enjoy writing, but also they're sometimes not very good at predicting or empathizing with the future reader of their writing. Sometimes that's also manifested in speaking, and failing to context frame concepts, arguments and ideas before jumping into excruciating detail. Senior managers notice this, and this limits your career.

So I argue that the issue is writing skills, of which technical documentation is a subset speciality of writing skills. I will add, similar to math problems or programming, writing wants you to do it over and over so it can get better.
Neat.

The longest possible game is playing with family that don’t like or don’t know the rules and like to put money on free parking.
You can build a system of reversible transactions on bitcoin or any other currency (people already have). It’s impossible to do the inverse in a non reversible system.
Not sure our opinion is that important.

Beyond answering questions from friends and family & reading r/Buttcoin for entertainment, I just don't want to spend time debating the issue with the occasional enthusiast.
A good imposter would not have bad posture.
Idris Elba is heavily favored on the internet as the next Bond. It’s on MGM (now Amazon) to push a more contemporary and progressive Bond. This isn’t dismissing the past “white” and stereotypical alpha male persona of Bond, but there’s plenty of room to move forward and bring Bond into the 21st century.
That's like saying pizza isnt scarce because you can cut one into 1000 tiny slices. Or gold isnt scarce because you can cut 1 bar into 1 tiny million pieces. Pretty hilarious misconception
I am an avid F1 fan and some drivers like Sebastian Vettel is intensely private and has no social media presence - except for media responsibilities for his team you don't really hear from him off the track.

Netflix Drive To Survive has helped but his interviews during the race weekend gives the fans some insight - i.e he did a course in bee keeping last year.
Anyone want to roughly calculate the odds of this actually happening?
As a professional player, she already knows that the tournament rulebook requires the players to meet with the press regardless of win or lose. That's what she knowingly signed up for as a condition to participate in the tournament.

An example tweet mentioning Article III Section H from the rulebook: https://twitter.com/tumcarayol/status/1399017968432992260

The relevant excerpt from a 2020 Grand Slam rulebook pdf[1] :

H. MEDIA CONFERENCE
Unless injured and physically unable to appear, a player or team must attend the
post-match media conference(s) organised immediately or within thirty (30) minutes
after the conclusion of each match, including walkovers, whether the player or team
was the winner or loser, unless such time is extended or otherwise modified by the
Referee for good cause. In addition, all Main Draw players must participate, if
requested, in a pre-event press conference to be arranged during the two days before
the start of the Main Draw. All media obligations include, but are not limited to,
interviews with the host and player’s national broadcaster.
Violation of this Section shall subject a player to a fine up to $20,000.

(Although that section only mentions $20k fine and doesn't spell out penalty of disqualification or ban from other tournaments, it looks the rulebook's other sections on "Unsportsmanlike conduct" and "Aggravated Behavior" can be interpreted by officials to kick her out of the tournament.)

[1] https://www.itftennis.com/media/2495/grand-slam-rulebook-202...
No specifics. It was just a thought we had when my brother was remodeling his house. The idea went nowhere.
The wealthy can already evade currency controls; that's what it means to be wealthy, at least in a place that has them. Bitcoin and similar systems enable the poor to evade currency controls, as well as frankly confiscatory regulation like the bank-deposit-conversion episode I mentioned, precisely because it's accessible to everyone, not just the lucky few.

I've already addressed your point about governmental change.
Instagram making changes to its algorithm
I really didn't mean for the comment to come across that way. I fully agreed with "it sounds great because it is great". I just wanted to provide another perspective too.
What's the joke I don't get it
Yeah that’s a good point, even the DAI stable coin which is touted as the most decentralized is actually backed by a lot of USDC
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I remember Usenet before Eternal September and before Canter and Siegel, when the backbone was NSFnet and before the National Information Infrastructure Act of 1993.

If someone was doing anything commercial over e-mail or usenet you could contact their "sysop" or their upstreams and have them removed.
Tarrifs to compensate for when China uses underpaid labor, slave labor, or ignores environmental regulations. Lots of way to level the playing field with policy that gates access to a market.

If you can still make products faster and cheaper while adhering to the rules businesses in the developed world have to, congrats! You’ll succeed.
They are making these changes after they were accused of censoring pro-Palestinian content
The Youtube comment are saying that this requires players to make completely irrational moves and I agree
> computer science is a branch of mathematics

Subject boundaries are arbitrary, but they have a practical implementation in terms of university CS departments.

Some CS departments came out of math departments, and some universities have a "Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The theoretical side of CS does seem like a branch of mathematics.

Other CS departments came out of EE departments, and and some universities (MIT, Berkeley) have a "Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." The practical side of CS does seem like a branch of engineering.

A number of stand-alone CS departments (Stanford) still seem to be part of the school of engineering, so my vote is for CS as an engineering discipline with a theoretical basis in mathematics (perhaps like information systems or signal processing.) I also like the idea of Caltech's "Computing and Mathematical Sciences," as it seems to bring a lot of computing and applied math under one roof.
Commercial products are generally better made and more focused. It's because the world of business is more logical and people are not tempted buy garbage just because they like the actor in a TV commercial. It's about the bottom line, if the product sucks in any shape or form the business would not be a savvy one if it did not buy a better product and would go out of business soon. Not the case when you have disposable income and are not responsible to your shareholders. You're also in the same club as shoppers as Home Shopping Network channel. Products all of a sudden don't need to actually be good, they just need to convince enough of its targeted consumers that it is, be it because they're old and confused and watching TV at 3am or because they saw an ad that was pretty convincing.
Not possible in general (TeX is a programming language), but there are plenty of projects that try to translate a subset of TeX/LaTeX into HTML that sort of approximates what the rendered TeX document looks like. A better approach is to write in Pandoc-flavored markdown and convert to HTML, TeX, etc.
Or just using black market USD or EUR.
I like that approach but I'm concerned: Doesn't this also increase the chances of being scammed? With Amazon, you atleast have a decent customer service if the product you got was damaged or something.
0 in practice, who decides to buy nothing?
And even if player one declines to buy, player two can buy it via the auction.
Sounds like it's time to fire up the VPN with an exit node in a different region, er, I mean visit the region personally yourself. Yeah, that's what I meant.
Could you elaborate on your comment? I imagine you comment could mean that because she entered a contract, people should view all contract enforcement as socially acceptable, regardless of any other circumstances.
Proof of Stake coins eliminate the electrical cost of mining yet maintain decentralization. ETH2 is live now but not fully in control of the network https://beaconscan.com/

Many other Proof of Stake blockchains like Cosmos have been live and working fine for years.
China is rapidly aging. As long as developed countries “hold the line” against China, they’ll sputter out before achieving superpower status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_China

https://medium.com/politically-speaking/how-chinas-populatio...
I have a lot of fun with friends playing games like this.

Sometimes learning the rules can be tedious and annoying, but the more you play different games the more you see the same mechanics come up and it makes it easier. For us, the highs are worth the lows. We aren't the only ones either, the market is doing well: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/board-games-market-...

You and your friends might be better served with a more casual game...or maybe it's just not your thing.
You can interleave Terra and Lua execution. Terra functions are JITted if you call them from Lua. You can call Lua from Terra too, though the language makes you jump through some hoops to encourage code to avoid Lua dependencies in Terra code. So "execution" is more like you'd expect from standard Lua (or Python or whatever), it's just that functions can be compiled if you want.

Of course Terra functions can also be saved out to a file too, and if you do that they're free of any dependency on Lua (i.e., no need to like liblua*.so).
Bombs are "aimed" at a general region that could be a disk with a several mile wide diameter. Similar issues with artillery. Landmines are "aimed" at whatever happens to cross a particular small area. In one sense, they are much more accurate than bombs dropped from a high altitude bomber. But as we all know, they are more indiscriminate in another sense. Point being, all these tools are quite variable in who they kill, and whatever we are doing now with drones is going to be much more accurate than either of these earlier technologies. (I am not arguing that modern warfare is more "ethical" than older warfare, just that the parent poster seems to be a bit late to the party in observing that tools can be indiscriminate in who they kill).
Dunno about anyone else here, but I've definitely been using Amazon since the late '90s when it was primarily for buying books.
>> where it was previously impossible on humanitarian grounds.

Unfortunately I don't really think this matters much in war time.
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Ask HN: What does the career of a SWE with a MS or PhD in CS look like?
I don’t think anyone I’ve worked with has either of those. I’m wondering what they do differently than a boot camp grad or a self taught dev or even BS grad? Do they specialize in something very niche? Do they just end up working on very technically difficult projects? Do they even get promoted faster and make more money on average?
Warren Buffett sinks climate shareholder resolution, says world will adapt
An interactive calculator that passes the 0.1+0.2 test, very nice.
Curious to see how the author would suggest we donate to organizations like WikiLeaks without Bitcoin
> why do you write your years with a leading zero? I've never seen that before and it has quite a cognitive strain for me.

Not OP, but I had the same question and did a few seconds of cursory searching to no avail. But rather than cognitive strain, I found it opened up a much larger vista on the perception of time and our seeming place in it. While I am unlikely to adopt it, perhaps the experience would be even broader with a few more zeros tacked on! ;-)
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I also agree but it’s still _possible_ in theory
The specific sequence of rolls has 5 doubles (which can only occur one way) and 4 unequal pairs (which can occur two ways). Each double has a 1/36 chance of happening while the unequal pairs have a 1/18 chance. So that's 1/36^5 * 1/18^4 = 1/6,347,497,291,776 or about 1.5 times ten to the minus thirteen.

It's interesting that the last four digits of the denominator of the probability of the shortest game of Monopoly are 1776. I'm sure that has some kind of cosmic significance.
> I've been using Bitcoin to get paid for a couple of years at this point

How do you turn your Bitcoin into food, housing, utilities, and other necessities?

> And, yeah, 13 years after the internet's invention was 01982

The Internet was not available to virtually anyone in 1982 much less 1969. Nor was the ARPANET of 1969 even remotely similar to the Internet. TCP came about in 1974. IPv4 in 1982.

> So why does Bitcoin have tens of millions of users

It doesn't. It has a lot of speculators, and a handful of users. And no one knows or could possibly know how many there are.

etc.
I'm not very familiar with the business of tennis specifically, but in sports in general a plurality or even a majority of the money comes from advertisers who pay to sponsor events or show ads on the TV broadcast. The rates for those ads depends on the ratings and popularity of the event. The next biggest chunk of money is directly from fans in the form of tickets, merchandise, and directly paying to watch through streaming or pay-per-view.

Some of these journalists work for the TV networks that use those ad dollars to pay the league, organizers, and athletes. Some of those TV networks have contracts guaranteeing them access to the athletes for pre/post game/match interviews and other appearances, but the primary product they are purchasing is always the rights to broadcast the game/match itself because that is what gets the biggest ratings and the biggest ad dollars. Many of these journalists work for some other media company that is not paying anything beyond just the general promotion of the sport. So "the media pays the athletes for these interviews" is only true in a relatively lower dollar amount and in a rather indirect way. Nowadays these journalists need the athletes more than the athletes need the journalists (this shifting power dynamic comes with its own set of problems, but that is a different conversation).
> But yeah he probably knows it's a scam too, what was I thinking.

Doubt it. He's another Libertarian and certainly hates the existing system.
Did you submit this article just to dunk on a 23 year old? Seems off topic for the site...

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Edit: Nevermind, I mis-intepreted texaswhizzle as the submitter.
They did pay! I was how I was paying for the dial up cost to my parents!
The article seems to be gone from the top page(s). Any ideas why?

Edit: apparently the article got flagged. Still wondering why.
The original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtnYpSRSnew
It is not always that simple. Part of the arbitrage can be generic things from aliexpress bought in bulk and shipped from china over 8-10 weeks. The mark up on amazon is partly the fact that the long ship time has already been done.
That's when you sneeze or find some other reason to bump the table hard enough to lose the places of all of the pieces. "Ooops, I guess we'll have to pick this game up later"
The comments of the article are full of people coming up with ways to play entirely rationally and still end the game in 8 moves, they're worth reading.
TIL dishwashers have a compartment you're supposed to add salt to? Is this the rinse-aid thing?
I’ve seen a good number of sites recently where you can pay with your Amazon account or PayPal. Also with browsers auto filling everything these days including credit card numbers, I haven’t found it too troublesome purchasing one-offs from stores online.
How are $2 ATM fees "stealing?" They provide a service, which you can pay for or easily avoid by planning ahead a bit.

(And cryptocurrency charges even more.)
I haven't been in Venezuela since 02006 so I don't know how people there cash out of Bitcoin. I'm guessing nobody has a clear view of the whole system, since being transparent to Maduro's thugs is not in the interest of any of the participants. If I had to guess, I'd guess that Venezuelans who are fleeing the country sell their dollars for Bitcoin, and Venezuelans whose family is abroad buy them.

One thing I do know is that a lot of overseas Venezuelans whose remittances are via Bitcoin don't know Bitcoin is involved. They know a storefront where people transmit money to Venezuela, and the guy there tells them where to instruct their family members in Venezuela to pick up the money. How the agent in Venezuela gets paid is no concern of the customers; they only care that the money they give the guy arrives safe and sound.
The article is much more about than just added shipping fees. It mainly points out how amazon doesn't let the sellers offer lower prices elsewhere.