skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to. The key to smart play is proper betting and good social skills. In a nutshell, bet more the more you win and less the more you lose. The simplest approach is to bet 1-2% of your current bankroll[2], rounded such that you don’t annoy your dealer or pit boss (see below).

For BJ I usually just do an ace-five count[1] because it’s simple enough I can do it without being distracted from the experience and it moves the needle a few points. But basic strategy is good enough.

As for craps yeah, pass and then come every throw with max odds. Don’t pass and don’t come is mathematically superior, but it ruins the experience because everyone including the crew will hate you. Also place six and eight.

With respect to RFB, for blackjack they’ll want to see around 4 black chips a hand base bet. But if you have a relationship with a host and can be charming to the pit boss you might get RFB as low as 200 a hand. That’s assuming 4-5 hours a day. You can bring your theo up by just spending a ton of time at the tables but I like to do other things. However I haven’t been to Vegas since just before Covid so I don’t know if or how things have changed.

Realize that the pit boss has considerable authority over the comps you do or don’t get. He or she inputs your average bet into the system and if you’re pleasant, toke (tip) the dealers generously, and otherwise show respect they may well rate your play considerably higher than is objectively warranted.

Doing this I’ve come out considerably ahead including comps over the course of many years, but I won’t lie I had a bad trip where I lost 15 grand so don’t play with money you can’t afford to lose. Of course I’ve also had several trips where I walked out with five grand or more to my favor.

Another social skills aspect is maintaining a good relationship with your host. They can bend the rules for comps too. I just ask them what they need to see for the front end comps they’re offering and exceeding that is how I’ve gotten RFBed.

[1] https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/ace-five-count/

[2] A good-enough simplification of Kelly’s criterion for my purposes.
Unless by "hip" they mean "smaller, more powerful, better abstractions".

Not writing a bloody wrapper over express.js...
that's delusional. there was rampant profiteering in the PPE industry, especially the companies that had government contract. the evidence of it is just 1 Google search away
I wish more computer games had “helper” functionality like super Mario galaxy did - perfect to let kids help without having to be able to play the whole game.
> change it while the app is running

This actually sounds like something that might make me switch to Pipewire one day.

The rest of your comment seems to indicate to me that you have some kind of professional audio setup? Or is it something that might be interesting for the rest of us, too?
Does Human Purpose Have Anywhere to Retreat To?
The same model is used for broadcast television in Britain - the standard British 'series' is 6-12 episodes. (Apart from soap opera, which cranks out massive amounts each year.)
EA reportedly tried to sell itself to Apple
>Just buy WhatsUp

I mean you could just tell how unpopular WhatsApp is in the US. I still remember no one in the US have heard of Whatsapp when Facebook announce the 16B acquisition.

But WhatsUp could certainly be another Startup idea.
Love, love and love. Not only did it give me great enjoyment but also great motivation -- actually the only, real motivation.
>> everyone must pay their taxes in fiat

Colorado is different.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities...
really? I barely ever use native apps anymore. even if the mobile webpages nag me to.
Also most realtors work for an agency, which keeps a big piece of their cut.
That sounds generally reasonable then. Except the pressure to sell stock in order to pay taxes. I don't know enough to know in all the ways this is bad, but don't you generally want to keep capital with the company that needs it?
The last 50 years of American prosperity was built primarily on the exploitation of labor as unions declined and Capital starting consuming an outsized amount of Labor’s productivity (with a fair amount of help from globalization efforts). Until the scales tip (and there are signs we’re headed there) and labor has more power with stronger unions, people should not expect workers to take garbage jobs (even in trades when they’re non union) because of manufactured shortages or crises. There is no labor shortage, only a shortage of workers willing to take undesirable work for unreasonable compensation. Luckily (?), as labor force participation continues to decline (10k Boomers retire each day) and there isn’t an appetite to ramp immigration, labor supply constraints will continue to push up wages (but is not a long term solution for broad scale productivity equity participation versus labor organization).

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/09/labor-day-chart-union-mem...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_productivity_and_...

https://www.epi.org/publication/how-todays-unions-help-worki...
Absolutely!

My 1980's tech is repairable, and a fair amount of it is still in active, productive use.

These phones and computers can be made more serviceable. Doing that will reduce profits and that is why it is not being done.

And so we have plenty of people who can figure out how to service the tech anyway! I am one of those types of people and have always explored fixing it no matter what.

(I do not do phones, though I have fixed tablets and computers)

There are always some of us with these skills. Humans are pretty great that way. We are considerably more diverse and capable as an species than we may appreciate.

And what happens?

Of course that lowers profit too!

Now we have right to repair as a thing to be settled because some of us are a bit too greedy for others of us to tolerate.

And regarding phones, my preferred phone is falling out of support. It had a headphone jack and performance is right there, sans a faster than 60hz display, which is no bother. Grew up with 60. Love it, but I digress.

I need to be careful with this phone, and that is fine. Keeps me from doing too much crap on it and that helps me be more productive and less tied to the thing. No worries yet.

Now, I have two of these. One has a cracked glass and a battery not long for this world. When I want, I hook it up to keyboard, mouse and display and it works great! Perfectly fine Android PC. I may start building some software for it too.

But, as it is right now, email, remote conferencing, Libre Office, Microsoft if needed, CAD, STL file, bitmap create, edit, Web, and, and...

I forget what the CPU is, but this old, glass cracked phone runs a Snapdragon fast enough to beat some Chromebooks I have gotten hold of.

Definitely worth winning Right To Repair. The up and coming generations are going to face a lot of challenges, and being economically challenged is, sadly, among the set of challenges.

My generation was similar, Gen-X. I grew up in fairly severe poverty. Fortunately, was not my entire childhood, but it was more than half. Made an impact, and the primary one was whether to spend to solve or repair to solve problems, and there is a ton of perfectly great tech laying around today.

It is crazy to be figuring out how we best avoid using it!

My 1980's tech is an Apple 2 computer. I still use it regularly. Mostly games, Nox Archaist released recently being top of the list. (If passers by enjoy "Ultima" style gaming, you can buy this title right off GOG and or Steam and play in emulation.)

But, yes I use it as a spiffy calculator, generating datasets of various kinds, terminal to embedded devices and when I get off my arse and finish my test and measure card, it will be a great bench computer just as it was back then.

Finally, as RMS has said about software freedoms, it is not important that people use those freedoms to the max. Many won't, and that is OK.

This is all about the people who will, or better --who have to for whatever reason.

It just needs to be possible.
You can only blame IP laws so much. Someone has to fund the production of content.

If Netflix could just take what they wanted, nobody would make anything but disposable reality TV.
If you’re only playing with four players against a book or “par” you need someone to arrange the hands.

Or have four identical decks and each person picks the cards they need.
I don't know these people but my presumption is that Rachel's colleagues are smart cookies. I figure it's less likely that a bunch of smart engineers don't understand dependency resolution and priority propagation, and more that there are (maybe imagined, maybe not) organizational factors that make it a problem to pick up a nominal p2 when there's a p0 on the board, factors that she can ignore due to political capital or just sheer IDGAF-ness.
Yeah but carpentry has to be done and is getting done. It’s not so expensive you stop the job and wait for a lower price. My guess is you just use other unskilled labor and go for good enough. Maybe a true skilled carpenter isn’t worth the premium or the value isn’t clear to the buyer
Why do these article never lay any blame on the industry itself? From the recent history of nuclear power in America it seems clear that the large-scale civil engineering business is replete with grifters trying to skim a few billion off the top for delivering nothing. PV and wind win against these because they do not need the involvement of the large-scale civil engineering profit complex. Instead of examining these evident facts, the articles always focus on regulatory and political headwinds. I don't understand why the industry itself is ignored.
What is an MPA? Multi platform app?
My best friend married someone he didn't know. It was a romantic idea - "I don't know who you are or what problems you have but I'll commit unconditionally to you for the rest of my life." He's still happily married, even as they had to face poverty or move about the country.

I think if you can bring that attitude into any partnership, you'll be fine. Having too many choices often harms commitment.
Reference acknowledged.
There is no such thing as "upgrading" a right. What we must do is enforce the Constitutional restrictions on state.

The Constitution does not grant rights, but official recognize them, and prohibit any government from violating them.

Confusing the nature of rights, and the jurisdiction of the Constitution, is part of the reason we suffer a criminal society.
"Satanic Panic" has been a classic deflection mechanism ever since Michael Aquino helped jump start it by going on Oprah's show in the 80s dressed like a goofy vampire. Just a classic fallacy of composition, where if any concerns over Satanism were proven to be overwrought or misplaced, well, they all must be.

Whether black magic actually works or not, there is overwhelming evidence that many elites believe it does and act accordingly.

I'll refrain from detailing the thread too much by delving into the compromised nature of Wikipedia, which, for example, deleted its article on Aquino and redirected it to "Temple of Set."
What is the comparison of BTC energy use v. top-5 global militaries?

And military engines delete emission controls.
My parents were fishermen and have close to the same story, only without the union safety net. Which went as well as you can imagine.

My parents constantly encouraged me and were happy to see me pursue a white collar path because they didn't want me to go through the same thing when I got older. A lot of the shortages is cultural: Parents steering their kids out of said path as much as possible, sexism/racism and so forth. But then there's also the pay issue where the pay doesn't match the labor intensity nor are there many safety nets unless you're part of a union.
Google says it's closing in on human-level AI
I can't find anything about race in there.
that is not what the person you're replying to said.
I was using it recently to fixup the output of open scad!
I mean, the point is that the difference between working for a company and being part owner of a co-op is the difference between you still earning the same salary or you earning nothing and owing creditors.
I live in South Korea. One thing people miss about nuclear power in South Korea is that natural gas is expensive in South Korea, because there is no pipeline connection and it is imported liquified. The article quotes $25/MWh for natural gas in PJM, where comparable number in South Korea is $100/MWh.

Truth is, if South Korea had pipeline connection to Siberian natural gas field (not an absurd supposition, there was fairly concrete plan proposed in 2012 which fell through due to politics), nuclear power would be uneconomical in South Korea no matter how it keeps construction cost cheapest in the world. Therefore, economical nuclear power in the United States can never happen by copying South Korea, because natural gas is cheap in the United States.
Seeing the cloudflare challenge as a user can happen in any browser depending on the site and it's configuration. A site can choose a security level that requires all visitors to receive a JS/captcha challenge, and sites can make custom firewall rules to require JS/captcha challenges on any of hundreds of different attributes of a particular request using CF's web application firewall tools. One of those attributes is user agent, for instance.
First, it is just a little less thin, and second we make watches that handle water just fine.

Another alternative would be to make the devices fail more reasonably when wet. Just drying the thing out could work better than it currently does.

But yes! Your point is valid. We won't get the absolute pinnacle of volume and performance that way.

To that, I say we can surely find a better balance than the mess we have today, and that could start by making damn sure we permit and perhaps encourage as much innovation on the repair / repurpose side of things as we do on design and manufacture.
So the page you linked is from a plaintiff’s law firm, talking about the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and doesn’t say anything about private prisons. The first article linked from that page is about sexual abuse at FCI Dublin. That sounds terrible, but it’s public servants employed by the federal government running that “rape club”—members of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Why is anyone surprised? This is the logical outcome of tying executive compensation to diversity initiatives.

These initiatives turn human beings into quota.

Minorities have become a tool woke corporations can parade around to make themselves “look good.”

It doesn’t look good. It’s dehumanizing.
I don't think one can conclude anything with just 1 site being blocked by www.g2.com using Firefox. More tests will show a clearer picture:

What about using another OS?

What about using another IP address?

What about other websites? Is the issue only repeatable with www.g2.com?

What about using mobile phone browser instead?
Neither the users or the providers want or care about some desktop p2p/self hosted accounting software. It’s an advantage of offload the risk and accountability.

I think there is also some circular logic when looking at the pricing models for SaaS products. Customers use them because they are the best, but they are very likely the best because they have constant revenue from subscriptions.

So maybe you paid $100 for photoshop and used it for 3 years but now you pay $10/month for photoshop which is more expensive but that’s all more money going in to the product. And with a business tool, the better it is, the more money users make using it. So it’s worth paying more for a better product.
> They are a service

They are not a service. They are a regulator. It's almost the opposite of a service.
>I think 99% of executives

That is giving too much credit to 1% of executives, I am willing to bet 99.999% wouldn't have made that decision.

Although arguably speaking, executives are managerial mindset. Which is very different to entrepreneur.
Great! (I agree)

Having seen that set of tools, others can and should be cost reducing them and or innovating how to do things without them, or with less expensive gear.
It happens in one place, where state can just be a JavaScript object, which is what makes it simpler.

Rendering on the server-side requires transfer of state, so you know the context. For example did you expand the 3rd expander or not?
Jif peanut butter recall crashes jif.com
Luna was one of my favorite Windows themes of all time. Microsoft was actually way ahead on “flat” design but it was usable, looked modern, and was attractive. They threw it away to mimic the Aqua aesthetic but didn’t really understand why Aqua worked, just kind of how it looked. The final XP themes were so ugly and inconsistent. It was like at least three different widget designs were mashed together (the window frame, the standard widgets, and the scroll bars all appear to be from different worlds).

Office XP and Visual Studio.NET had their own variations of flat widgets that also looked fantastic and seemed true to Luna. For a few seconds, Netscape 6 also had a really nice flat design that was replaced with bulbous, XP-esque chrome.

It would have been great if Microsoft would have stuck with that flat design language. It was original, very true to their brand, and looked “professional”. I would love to hear why it was scrapped in favor of what shipped.
Can you describe describing the smell of a code smell?

Are you saying that sometimes people say "x is a code smell" without saying what the issue is?
Yeah that’s great point. That’s probably a very likely reason. It’s a good way to preempt any customers possibly getting angry at the employees or the business. Defer the blame to a tier above your control. I wonder if there is a term for that? I could see the same phenomenon happening other scenarios.
I've always felt that DDD is more of a meta-paradigm than a paradigm per-se, and shops that "arrive" at it have actually always been themselves examples of the practice in itself, as opposed to being instances of itself.

Sorry, I'm actually just bluffing, what is DDD?
The way it works is you have a subcontractor pay an immigrant under the table and get it done.

The US clamped down on Mexican border crossings. Guess what? There’s no labor. Who would have thunk it.
The impedance mismatch always seems to boil down to the fact that we have been told umpteen million times that most people end up on your website with a nearly completely evicted cache, and we (or at least, the people who resist) don't seem to believe it.

This is pretty much the default and a given for everyone who visits your site... except you. As the author, you likely use your application more than most users, you use it on a work machine (which has a smaller, more niche browser history), and you use it with the sort of network connection that software developers demand: you know, excessive.

We see what we expect to see, what we want to see, and most of us don't challenge that, or only do it perfunctorily. And if someone else does? Well that's just crazy talk. See? Everything is fine.
I can understand reluctance to build more nukes, but Germany shutting down nukes that were already paid for and working seems crazy.

disclaimer: I'm pro nuke if we can do it right, a la LFTR/SMRs etc.
A majority of construction workers in San Jose, CA are Hispanic, as are the construction companies.

Maybe they discriminate against Blacks. Maybe they also discriminate against folks whose ancestors came from a diferent country. (Do Mexicans tend to like Columbians?)

That said, if there's discrimination in construction in San Jose, it isn't by whites.
It's a multi page app.
Yep. Completely agree. Software development is a great example of this. In my experience (25+ years) almost all problems in software development are created by the software developers themselves. Software developers will almost always pick the most complex solution to solve a problem if it makes things easier to get started. And when things go wrong, they will ”solve” it not by fixing the original problem (of their own making) but by adding another complex “solution” on top of it. Again because it is “easier” than having to think a bit and solve the real problem. An example is using technology X because famous company Y is using it. Just do what they do! What a relief! No need to think! Even though your company and business model is completely different from company Y. That’s why 10x developers exist. They don’t have to type faster or work longer hours. All they have to do is to create fewer problems for themselves and they will instantly be 10x more productive :)
These statements do not seem factual. Didn't the NRC issue a construction license for Virgil C. Summer units 2 and 3 in 2012? Which subsequently failed to be built despite spending 9 billion dollars, because companies like Westinghouse are structured solely for the purpose of robbing the American public blind.
I read the rules of Go, bought some books on it, watched some videos, and played several games. I never had a clue what I was doing. Was I winning or losing? I couldn't tell. I had very little strategy. Even as a child, chess was so much more straight forward.

Bridge has always seemed similar to Go IMO from a "what in the world" kind of view. I started going to a bridge club and took a few classes. I kinda understood bidding, but never what was going on. I know people actually figure it out, but I honestly felt like it was some kind of cosmic joke on me lol.
Sounds like FreeBSD has a process problem if such a patch got merged.
Yeah, I mostly agree with your gist, although I feel you have straw-manned me with the points you brought up;)

> NZ doesn't actually have a lot of land suitable for solar that doesn't have higher-value uses

Do you have any references? I know somebody involved with a bid, and solar could heavily outbid farming ($ per hectare per annum) for the location they looked at. A solution only needs some land, not “a lot of land” as you put it, although there are constraints and objective function variables (hours of sunshine, nimby, high voltage network access, land value per hectare, , etcetera).

> rooftop solar

Expensive wasteful rooftop solar makes economic sense for some individuals, which really shows up the inefficiency of our electricity market design, since utility scale solar generation makes more economic sense in New Zealand. Government intervention would be useful if it fixes market failures.

> hydro operators don't need subsidies

Psychologically loaded point. An electricity market should be designed to price in long-term requirements (like security of supply, CO2 costs, network reliability), which could be thought of as cross-subsidisations. Of course, be very careful of perverse market incentives (law of unintended consequences). . . https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/540/handouts/french/unin... The government could invest in high-risk research, even if network generators/operators are freeloading, so long as it helps NZ much more than it costs, we all win.

Sometimes the government can take on risk, for example the broadband fibre rollout. I strongly disagreed with that at the time: the goal of technology literacy was a lie and the system looked to me like a subsidy to NetFlix et al. Although it happened to work out well during Covid lockdowns, and it looks like it will make financial sense to the government, and hopefully the social gains well outweigh the social losses.

Private markets can’t make long term investments if the cost of utility scale infrastructure is dropping too fast. This is a market failure that can be fixed by appropriate financial incentives (regulation or market design to pay for the long term gains to the country).
No they haven't!

The experience is great from what I understand.

But there are other ways, and this is not at all about taking options away from people.

Nothing about this is exclusive. That great experience can compete with many others and should.

And it is a big world of repair out there. It all goes well beyond Apple and a few others making things painful.