skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree on minimal evidence. My intuition is it's more likely you're wrong about what people value than that many people are wrong about that kind of math.

Arbitrage is a real issue, but it's not magic and there's a lot of friction in the real world. For ex, you don't get spam callers trying to buy your chance of a large settlement payout.
Windows is still bloated.
Perhaps we share a prejudice?

I am really unsure what the data says. I hear claims, but always from agitators on one or other of the sides, and I do not trust them!
It’s pronounced “Bepsi” on the rez.
Will they eventually release "raw" images, that is, from each filter at high bit depths? Each exposure if there are multiple? I don't know much but it would be interesting to see how each channel differs, for example, and what that means scientifically.
>That's one of the reasons I believe 2FA is mostly security theater

It's something you know + something you own. That's 2FA.
... or running lotteries
I’m not surprised this is being downvoted, but I’d appreciate someone actually leaving a comment in case there’s something I’m not understanding about how seven months of combat deployment can be fun that isn’t some combination of monstrous/traumatic.
I actually wrote up a detailed response to your original comment but you appear to not be arguing in good faith after the addition of your last 3 paragraphs. Clearly you have no idea what I'm talking about or if you do you're not interested in a real rebuttal and have opted instead for the word soup let's feed it to GPT at best call it a fallacy but in reality just some lame snide attempt at internet points.

All I'll say is this: I originally replied to sneak who rhetorically questioned whether illegal actions are always wrong. That's called moral relativism and I explained that when you live in a society your ethics are governed to some extent by your peers. So, while you can believe and in large part do whatever you want, illegal actions don't somehow become ethical because you found a few people who happen to be interested in challenging the moral framework behind the laws in question. I find it quite useless and unproductive to bring such a juvenile response to a serious discussion because it takes things to a place where you can just say whatever you want and be right, as evidenced by your inclusion of GPT-2.
Yet more evidence that lotteries and other forms of gambling really are just a stupid/desperate person tax.
it's metaphors all the way down.

deep learning isn't a bad name imo. it is learning, but nothing in the name suggests it's like a human brain.
I can do that too:

>Yeah, that's the very essence of being a distribution tool.

Also, conveniently, it's the thing whose cost is not paid by the people decided to get owned.

And again, the government doesn't cover the cost of your seatbelt, so I don't see your argument. PyPi also makes you use passwords, should I complain that they are forcing me to buy a keyboard?
Very good general troubleshooting tree. Doesn't seem to cover the complaint I saw the other day:some hardware is wired to kill the speakers when something's plugged into the headphone jack.

And once again I discover the 'lshw' command is WAY verbose
"Sin taxes" on self destructive behavior and officially run regulated versions of things which are infeasible to reasonably ban (and the black market "cure" would be worse then the disease) can often be reasonably justified. But every single last one of them should always be completely revenue neutral. All money should be divided amongst the state's residents and sent right back without exception. There's clearly been a long standing temptation to give into the argument of "we'll use this money to make up for the negative effects" but in practice anything that feeds into the general fund directly or indirectly creates perverse incentives that are just too dangerous. Government should take no direct financial interest in whether money from sin rises or falls to zero. That's a big missing piece in a lot of these systems, and the risk of dependence seems similar to that of fines which are often effectively "sin taxes" too. There a number of examples of places [0] which came to depend on fines as a significant source of revenue to run government and in turn took actions to increase the take to great destructive effect.

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0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/08/29/nearly-6...
Mark Pimentel's lab which studies disorders of the gut has hypothesized that people with extremely slow transit times can absorb 2-3x the amount of energy from food in comparison to people with regular transit times. I think there is a high amount of variability; and importantly in the context of losing weight, people who are overweight often have slow intestinal transit due to their dysregulated gut microflora.

I'm sort of with you, but it sounds more to me like: start eating less, and you'll lose weight; eat more, and you'll gain weight. There's just too many variables here that change how food is metabolized and digested; including the microbiome which CICO ignores.
Okay, just replace our existing failed welfare system with this then. You don't think there's massive suppressed innovation because so few people can try a startup?
Nonsense, you get everything except things that are heat resistant (like botulism) at 170F.
>> * In 1974, Washington and Riyadh struck a deal by which Saudi Arabia could buy US treasury bills before they were auctioned. In return, Saudi Arabia would sell its oil in dollars—not only enlarging the currency's liquidity but also using those dollars to buy US debt and products.*

> So in exchange to gaining access to US treasuries (debt) before action, they had to buy US treasuries?

I have no knowledge about this besides what's been written in this thread, but I assume that having the ability to buy before the auction means they get a good deal.
My kid, got waitlisted at UM, while a classmate with similar but slightly lower GPA and extra-currs got in. Maybe his essay wasn't as convincing or maybe they thought he'd snub them for his first choice. He didn't get into the dream school either but ended up in a great place at a school that likely fits him better anyway (and is cheaper since UM's OOS tuition is insane).

It's still frustrating as both his parents are alumni. Thanks to Covid and test waivers, 2021 seemed like a rougher year than normal to be applying to the higher end of schools.
They evidently don’t consider themselves needy if their idea of entertainment is throwing money in a garbage bin.

May as well be a state one that tries to educate kids out of such communities.
I suspect some did, some will always find a way.

But all those things take time and effort to access; the lottery is literally available at every gas station in the nation, and most grocery stores, etc.
luckily these things are getting easier. with spot treatment from drones you can hit areas of crops that are affected by bugs or weeds. blanket chemicals won't be eliminated from soil prep for a long time though.
hugo all the way
If they're installing the hardware you _are_ paying for it, they just want to increase their profits by charging you more money to use the hardware you've already paid for!

If it's _your car_ then all the features in the car _belong to you_. Why should you pay a third party additional monies to use features of an object that _you already own_.

I think this is despicable, and I won't purchase a car that I can't own outright.
Honestly its so much wasted human capacity. Its not even the case that we don’t have enough: there’s enough food to adequately feed everyone. Its a logistical problem and when markets are left to their own they will obviously lead to situations where only the cheapest products win out (not the most nutritious).
I guess my first question would be, had the paper found otherwise, would marginalrevolution have blogged about it?
Unlike all those other companies who are totally fine with low performers?
which 'social media' ?
In California, they give a certain amount to schools, but the state legislature uses lottery projections to justify slashing budgets to the public school system. Kind of thinking this is not how it was envisioned to work.
The "You Can't Ask That" episode on gambling in Australia was a massive eye-opener for me. They interview a bunch of people who are lifetime gambling addicts. Its shocking how badly its ruined their lives.

I have no idea how many people who gamble regularly have a problem with it; but I'd support banning gambling entirely.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/you-can-t-ask-that/series/2/vi... (Does iView work outside Australia?)
Thanks for the reminder to cancel my subscription...

I found it getting in the way of the default vscode completions - particularly around auto-import of modules.
I like Leechblock on browser and use app limits on phone. Basic idea is to break the loop.
Funded by YC right now.

> Linen is free to use and get setup but I offer a paid version (I am still figuring out the pricing model for it) where you can get the content redirected to your own subdomain where your domain gets all the SEO benefits.

From their launch. No concrete plans, seems like YC seems some possibility with "extracting information from private communities and making it public"..

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/64247

I can see this being a $10/mo product run on a tiny EC2 box being used by 1000's of communities with minimal support and operational costs.

I doubt they need more than $500K to fund this, and I'm surprised they got that much for it as it is. But I guess folks get funded from PDF's so.. Seems like Linen.dev got lucky before the purse strings started getting tighter.
Huh? The whole point is to generate revenue. Always was. Shitting down numbers rackets was just a side benefit used to sell the lotteries.

The horse is totally out of the barn on gambling. We’ve decided that it’s all good. I was at an MLB game this weekend and they go through the betting lines for different games in the scoreboard before the game. It’s fully mainstream.
The consumer side is actually a lot more trivial than you are making out. It's also about as efficient as gas (0% at the point of consumption as you are producing heat, with about 40% energy loss on the production side).

Electric heating is about the simplest machine you can possibly make (it's just NiCr wire and a thermostat which is already there), and the cost would almost exclusively be the labour of installation. Even heat pumps (including for water) could be built in relatively short order.

The problem is it would entail quadrupling the electricity generating and transmission infrastructure. This is the hard part that takes decades.
Linux kernel support for hardware-based control-flow integrity
You alternate between the general "why do we allow it from cops"/"journalists don't do this" and the specifics of what these two did.

We don't allow it from cops (they're going to jail). In the case of these two cops, it's not clear what you want. From what I can tell, they weren't allowed to testify, and they gathered none of the evidence used to convict him. Instead, that evidence was to be used in another trial on different charges and the government dropped those charges because the cops were unreliable.
It’s a running joke, even among my lottery buying friends and fam, that the lottery is a poverty tax. It’s just not a very good joke.
There should be some post post-processing algorithms that can remove/clean hex elements, right?
They don't require anything to shutdown. The miners are probably voluntarily participating in a demand response program where they get paid to free up capacity for others. https://www.ercot.com/services/programs/load
Post-Dispatch reporter wins press freedom award after attack by MO governor
A decisive decision-session is great. An I-didn't-bother-reading-your-email-so-please-spend-an-extra-30m-explaining-it session is less so.
Yeah, no. She plays everything.

She’s one of the few people who can regularly beat me at war games. The Avalon Hill and GMT types. My favorite example is the time she carefully mislead me into believing that she hadn’t found the other end of a wormhole that opened near my home-world in a game of Space Empires 4x. Spent the whole game exploring and increasing ship speed and weapons just enough, waiting for me to commit my heavily armed, but slow-ish ships. Then, giggled, and sighed for relief, as she paid the overnight rate to send an armada to my doorstep. Oh, and time she slipped a WMD into the US in Labyrinth. Or in Starship Troopers..

She likes everything from Codenames to those Rosenberg games that are so heavy they should come with an OSHA training poster.

In Stratego she had bluffed me into believing her flag was in a corner.. But then she move a piece that I assumed was a bomb and her face gave away everything. But a momentary lapse of Stratego-face wasn’t the issue. Mostly, it was just too slow for her. Her last obsession was Tyrants of the Underdark. Deck building + area control.
> Teachers unions in the US are absurdly powerful unfortunately.

I doubt that very much given the spate of laws controlling teachers passed recently, the record low pay, record staffing shortages, and record resignations.
I feel like every company in existence has basically had a memo or meeting like this.
Compounded by moving away from massive dvd back catalog to limited streaming options. Not only are the recommendations worse but there is significantly less for them to recommend.
>"Offer a lottery with a high payout rate and flatten jackpots to the extent they don't cause a shift into other worse sorts of gambling"

What is meant here by "flattening" jackpots? And how does it help?
Of course. States use cash budgets. If I give you a dollar, the general fund doesn’t need to.
You have to set rules.

Does a Lego set count as one item or 752 items + box, instructions + bags?

Or 1 keychain vs keyring + tchotchke + keys?

How many items is a bicycle?
Touché!

Washington State Lottery, "It's good to take your money!"
Solar and wind are nice, but they don't solve the base load problem. They aren't consistent enough to operate as base load on a power grid. They are certainly convenient for maintaining peak load, but without solving the energy storage issue in parallel to the added capacity, we need alternatives.
How is the lottery like UBI? This is similar to crypto maxis gambling on shitcoins and saying “generational wealth opportunity”.

Both of these are the siphoning of money from large volumes of people to a few people, who are the “success stories” used to dupe the next set of people.
India to surpass China as most populous country in 2023: U.N. report
That's 0% efficient. Same as gas heating.

Electricity heating does produce a bunch of heat at other places though, and it all comes from work, whereas the gas could only produce maybe 70% as much work if used some other way.
Looking at a Mercedes or BMW vs a Tesla I am not so sure I would agree.
Loved it. I still think it’s one of the best games out there. The best games tho: Neuroshima Hex! And 51st State from Portal games.
There is an answer sheet at the end.
> If 2FA was token based as people seem to want it to be, I'd have an issue, but SMS based is enough to keep out the majority of opportunistic attackers while being recoverable.

But so is using a long, unique, random password stored in a password manager! In fact, a strong password is more secure because it's not vulnerable to SIM swapping.

Admittedly, you could use both, but many/most services will let you use SMS for password recovery once it's set up, so it ends up becoming a single factor!

I'm also really nervous about loosing access to my phone number some day due to some screwup or other.

> Plus, there's always printable recovery codes with Google at least.

But I loose things. Especially slips of paper which I usually don't need to access. There is absolutely no way in hell I will be able to find a printout of backup codes when I actually need them.
Maybe something more comprehendable would be “free as in Postfix, not Gmail” in that anyone can freely implement an MTA or use existing FOSS, which is different from using for free Gmail, Facebook, first 3 months of AOL, first 10 albums from Columbia House, …

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28036/its-steal-how-colu...
Affiliate spam for an app that blocks other apps to save you from addiction. Twitter, facebook, instagram, etc. Just use /etc/hosts to nullroute them and you will be fine.
You are not the target audience of this, obviously.
I think China is buying it up.
You can actually increase your odds by choosing your own numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

Then all you do is convince everyone else playing to choose those numbers, too.

No one wins, the jackpot rolls over, and game eventually[1] everybody wins at the same time.

Together we can do it!

1: Warning: timeline to win may exceed humanity's existence.
Hi there. You actually just kind of stepped into my ring here... sort of. Not an expert; but definitely more knowledgeable than the random person out there.

I used to work with G.E organisms. Particularly enzymes.

Long story short is this. While you are technically correct, there is a glaring issue surrounding the more... radical... kinds of G.E. See, the problem is that nothing on earth really is (at least as far as we can tell) meant to be cross bred between completely different species of plant/animal; or plants with animals...

That's not to say it is all immediately bad, harmful, dangerous, etc. BUT it does mean we should be careful we aren't causing ourselves more problems than solutions by mucking around with the genetic code of the things we eat...

And that's not just my opinion... This is just a fact of life when it comes to human nature. For every solution we come up with, we tend to find 2 to 3 more new problems to solve.

Now I don't know about you, but I prefer my food to not be causing me issues that would have never existed before except for scientists playing god with our food...

Take it or leave it, that's my stance on it. IF they can prove it is actually safe over the course of a multi-year study with full follow up procedures; then I am fine with eating it. Mostly.

If not however, then I really don't care about anyone's opinion on the matter. Because at the end of the day, there is a HUGE difference from what Norman Borlaug was doing with Wheat; and what we are doing with things like Corn today.
> but I'd support banning gambling entirely

If this was possible, that would be great. But you cannot eliminate a service where there is sufficient demand. You can only drive them underground, which frequently cause worse externalities for society than the original things being banned (drugs, prohibition-era alcohol ban, prostitution).
Certainly the wall must have a non-zero thickness, but the question should have said 'length' instead.
> Q: Isn’t OSS developed primarily by inexperienced students?

> No, OSS is developed by a wide variety of software developers, and the average developer is quite experienced. A Boston Consulting Group study found that the average age of OSS developers was 30 years old, the majority had training in information technology and/or computer science, and on average had 11.8 years of computer programming experience.

If true, that’s an amazing statistic.
Unfortunately, reality shows that this is being used to the opposite effect. Currently glyphosphate manufacturers (such as Monsanto) use genetic engineering to create crop seeds that will survive blanket application of their pesticide. In Monsanto's case, these are called "Roundup Ready" seeds.
You can probably find a bunch of other scary chemicals in your urine --- or even drinking water too --- if you had sensitive enough equipment... but just saying "found" amounts to nothing more than baseless scaremongering. This article links to https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2022/07/cdc-f... which, once again, only says "detectable levels".

"The dose makes the poison."
Obviously there's a lot of nonsense here but the logo is a good one. In a way it's even better than Coca Cola's. I can recognise the logo of both brands instantaneously but Pepsi's is simpler and has no lettering. It's also aesthetically pleasing.
True, I'll blame vacation mode for not catching that one.

However, that doesn't change things, I can't get any of these to parse:

insert into #nulltest(a) values (1 <> 0);
insert into #nulltest(a) values (null <> null);
insert into #nulltest(a) values (true and true);
insert into #nulltest(a) values (null and null);

So my question remains, how do you insert an UNKNOWN?

The point of me asking is that it was my belief contrary to what was suggested, UNKNOWN is not the same as NULL and, crucially, does not evaluate as NULL.
Are you living under a rock? Do you not see whats happening in China? Go checkout youtube... You can see clearly what happens when the gov finally has total control... (after a few years of everyone bypassing, they will make using a VPN the punishable by death). First they did it with illicit drugs, created a wide wide laws to control the social classes, now the socail classes are easier to target more wholistically via the internet because everyone is dependant on it.
IMO website equivalent of this is cinephile forums/trackers. You will get tons of high quality recommendations and find interesting non-mainstream content.
I'm curious, the article talks about the issue where a small number of, essentially, addicts, are responsible for a huge portion of total sales (10% of players are responsible for 2/3 of total revenue). I find this interesting because this pattern repeats in a number of different "potentially addictive" pursuits, where the pursuit can be a pleasant and welcome diversion when done in moderation, but is ruinous for addicts.

For example, I love having a good glass of wine or two a couple times a week at dinner. But the alcohol industry would essentially collapse without alcoholics - a study in the UK found that 77% of alcohol was sold to problem drinkers - 30% to "harmful" drinkers (women who drink more that 36 and men more than 51 drinks a week) and 48% to "hazardous" drinkers (women 15-35 drinks a week and men 15-50 drinks a week). Similarly, I like blowing 5 bucks on the lottery whenever there is a huge jackpot (I can afford it and am basically just paying to fantasize about what I'd do with a couple hundred million), but apparently folks like me make up a relatively small proportion of lottery sales.

So, I'm basically just wondering there is anything that can, or should, be done here. I'm assuming these distributions are what you'd always see in something that shows a power law distribution - the huge percentage of total sales is always from those with addictions because they indulge so much in the first place (related very interesting article: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/drug-users-use-a-lot-o...).
> What is meant here by "flattening" jackpots? And how does it help?

Instead of 1 in 300,000,000 chance of astronomical money make it 1 in 50,000 of getting a new car or similar.

I'm not sure why it helps. I guess there are more (but smaller) winners, which the poster thought was better.
Boy, that "ready.gov" page is garbage. Right before the section you quoted they state:

> Go to the basement or middle of the building. Stay away from the outer walls and roof. Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household.

They should have used all that space about COVID-19 to better explain where to hide. I'm no expert, but I'm under the impression that if you're in a basement, it would be better to shelter against an outside wall, since all that dirt on the other side will effectively shield you from radiation coming from that direction (and you've got the rest of the mass of the building in the other direction).

Also...

> Stay inside for 24 hours unless local authorities provide other instructions.

Isn't that totally backwards? If you're dealing with fallout, don't you want to stay inside for at least 1-2 weeks unless explicitly told it's safe?