skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the drone approach is very tempting. But I still insist on us removing the need to use of manmade chemicals that don't exist in nature naturally... (That I am aware of...)

For instance, I am all fine and dandy with using lye soap and vinegar to kill weeds. It's not 100% effective, but it's also not going to poison you just because your potatoes happen to be near by. Lye is a tricky example, because it's not exactly always natural, but not exactly always manmade either. You can get naturally occuring sources, etc.
I'm saying it's about the specific values of the parameters. Right now they're set so it's an evil trap. But we could maybe just tweak the parameters so that wasn't the case.

If the evil of the lottery is that the expected value is lower than the ticket cost that's just a simple stats problem to fix.
I know for instance Norway has suggested allowing illegal immigrants onward voyage to Svalbard where there are no public benefits but also no visa requirements to work, which allow them to technically stay in Norway and still have work authorization without becoming a public charge. I think this kind of clever problem solving is really the kind we need to overcome some of these challenges.
Very interesting - so could the modus operandi be: make a few mistakes but not too many, get recruited, now you are the 1% IQ-wise, take more exams and rise through the ranks to get off the street asap and retire with great benefits?
Also, standard issue plates go in allowed sets, eg A123BCD is possible but A1Z3BC0 wouldn't exist.
I think it would be quite difficult to even survive long-term as an unsheltered person in Sweden, right?
They have an option to buy it outright that appears to be priced at the same level as a typical upgrade. They also have 1 and 3 year subscriptions. This is actually a net win for both BMW and for consumers. You can do things like "try extensively before you buy" or even choose to only subscribe during the winter (which they probably expect a lot of people to do). BMW benefits because they're almost certainly expanding the total value they capture in upgrades. It's no longer a single customer decision point. Really savvy and perfectly sensible.
Since March, US monetary policy has been tightening. Amount of USD in existence, is now also shrinking. This is what is making the USD stronger.
Changing the lottery into a similiar model compared to Spain where there is one big price pool and thousands of winners winning smaller amounts might go a long way.
Number one problem with lottery, notably state-run variety, with multi-year payouts is the following:

It is next to impossible to discontinue without any impact to your state budget.

In short, it’s that giant sucking vortex of economic and a form of state-sanctioned, self-imposed addiction.
> It's the working and middle classes that are most harmed by immigration.

Didn't farmers complain that British (working class?)citizens[1] weren't up for picking fruits after East Europeans hit the Brexit? The same working & middle class rely on cheap fruits, so it's not a simple equation where fewer immigrants = better jobs.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-61568286
man, i have a shipping container of stuff...floor to ceiling. i probably have 12,000 pieces of laboratory glass =/
A good example of an illegal lottery would be the Bolita [0] popular in SW Florida. It was all tied up with organized crime. This led to violence when Italian organized crime attempted to wrest control from the Latinos who first implemented it.

[0] https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/history/2021/09/28/bol...
"The officers observe a bald headed man, about 50 years old lying face up in his living room. The man is lying in a pool of blood. The officers tape off the crime scene, make all necessary notifications, and begin to interview five neighbors to find out if they saw or heard anything related to the death of Mr. Cain."

Stay awhile and listen, for this is how Cain dies in Diablo 3.
it's not known whether the Big Bang was the beginning of space or time. there's one theory (eternal inflation) that our universe fell out of a continuous Big Bang when a false vacuum collapsed. all the pieces of that field then became particles, since they're high energy compared to the newly-dropped floor of our spacetime.

the kind of expansion happening between galaxies is a different kind of inflation.

it's even more mind-blowing though, because it would imply that the 10^-32 second inflation of our universe from a grain of sand to only 1000x smaller than it is now is just... the steady state, outside our microscopic bubble of observable reality.
A quick search reveals that this region of human activity is already well colonized by DAOs and NFTs.
Weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035538 - July 2022 (361 comments)
I think you're right about the intention. However, I think a fairer deduction to draw from this is it proves any individual is quite likely to be wrong so you can't derive anything meaningful.
The current Pepsi logo has always reminded me of the SeaMonkey logo:

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Classic hacker news top comment. This is a hell site worse then 4chan sometimes.
I wish I had a link for you but it’s a relatively common thing to have TV shows and movies sampled in lofi tracks. I’ve heard clips from anything between “Talladega Nights” to “10 Things I Hate About You”.
Anybody else read the first passage way too carefully like you're taking SAT II English and bracing for trick questions?
Is that even true, though? I mean, there are varying levels of lotteries across the states. Five states don't have them. Is there clear evidence of illegal lotteries proliferating in the states with fewer state-run lotteries?

The first step here should start with the belief that the lotteries should just be outlawed, and then actually demonstrate why that won't work.
There are plenty of people who get sucked into spending more than they can afford on the lottery, to be sure. For most people, it's cheap entertainment. They know they won't win, they understand the odds. They're not idiots or suckers. They're buying a cheap thrill. For a few bucks a week, they get some anticipation and fantasy. The big jackpot tickets are great. For $2 you get a harmless thrill, and you can have those fantasy what-if conversations. Scratchoffs are fun to do, and they offer a ton of small payouts. Everyone always mocks lottery players and assumes they're being duped, but most of them are just buying the only thrill they can afford. Beats crypto.
This article doesn't feel like it was written by anyone paying attention to the scene for the last decade. It downplays the role MOBAs have played in the downfall of the RTS by calling them "subgenre offshoots that snuck off" while ignoring that MOBA player and viewer numbers dwarf what RTSs ever achieved [1]. They've completely eaten the mindshare that RTS games used to occupy. Unsure if this article is spinning history or clueless, but MOBAs killed the RTS.

There are still good entries getting added to the RTS genre. This article completely ignores They Are Billions, Northgard, and others...maybe because they aren't culture defining the way Starcraft and Age of Empires were. However, if that's their criteria for a good RTS game, then those days are long over.

1. 124 million monthly active players https://activeplayer.io/league-of-legends/
> If you need money for education, tax people in a fairer way.

I don't think anyone is compelled to gamble by the Georgia Department of Revenue. This is essentially Georgia saying, "We know we can't stop you from engaging in this vice, so we're at least going to make it beneficial to society in some way." Colorado and a number of other states are doing the same thing with cannabis revenue.

I personally hate gambling, I understand how people get addicted to it, but like illegal drugs it's just a thing that the government can't possibly control. The next least bad thing to do is harness it for good in some fashion.
Thanks for finding those images! I threw together a page that lets you compare them via a slider. You should be able to zoom in on mobile!

https://blog.wolfd.me/hubble-jwst/

The .gif comparison was a bit... upsetting since the color palettes are so limited and the resolution is so low, so it really didn't put JWST _or_ Hubble in a good light.
Misreporting by Bloomberg then:

> The operator has been working with Bitcoin miners, who are required to turn off their mining machines when the state faces energy shortages.

Without being required, why would they volunteer?
As we all are.
Unless its some kind of trick question, shouldn't the first question be asking which is the most detailed, not the must accurate? If all of them are completely in accordance with the given true information, then they are all equally and perfectly accurate, even if one just says "the sky was blue."
When a marketing company does it for a soft drinks company does it, it gets ridiculed.

When an engineer does it for the design of rollercoasters or boats, it gets praised.

https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/2ndyearidlab/author/hohsuan/page/2/

I see little difference of concepts used for the 'fair curve' and those of designing a bottle.
Generated columns are not supported by older PG versions. For example if you used AWS AuroraDB with Postgres compatibility, they didn’t support generated columns till a few years ago.

In my experience using PG FTS, there are often some preprocessing tasks you might like to do before storing the index. One common thing is the generated index has to fit inside the column length limit. So if your user provides a long text field with a lot of unique words, then the index will be very long and might lead to a database error. So here you can check for that on the fly, and truncate the result.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamewar comments. That's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. Please don't create accounts to do that with.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
They don’t do this anymore. It used to be the case. Last year, I tried and I was asked to use it at the checkout station to buy stuff.
That seems overly negative, to me. Being 26th makes them average, and they get to use the money that other states use for education on other things, or lower taxes.
Okay but what about the reverse? If I'm an actual beginner can I just buy their $10 blocks, skip the device, and do the easy part?
Highly recommend the full-res image - brings out a great deal of character from a lot of the galaxies that is just not visible in the zoomed-out image.
> because we can easily deal with all the weeds and such; by hiring laborers.

This, or a combination of laborers and robots. Robotic arms and cameras have come a long way – surely we can invest enough in them instead of conducting large chemical trials on the human population?
How does this relate to TA spring? I'd spring the engine and this game is built on that?
The US does not allow extradition to other countries for crimes, or the enforcement of civil judgements originating in other countries, that stem from conduct that would be constitutionally protected in the US. For example, a US citizen cannot be extradited to face a charge of blasphemy.
Ask HN: How to safeguard savings w/ inflation 10% and saving acct. less than 5%?
Yeah ZomboDB looks interesting, I guess the main difference is Groonga is an embedded database, more like sqlite; whereas Elastic Search you still gotta spin up an instance and be responsible for it.

I guess you're still responsible for the Groonga db on the postgres server too but theoretically it seems more secure than spinning up another service on a different server
So, what food in the supermarket is safe to eat? How does one minimize exposure?
Any rational individual can see this is chicanery of the highest level. It takes an entire committee to be able to rationalize away the absurdity.
> The Pepsi Ratio is aesthetic geometry.
You need to deal with them a lot less. Not zero, but I would be surprised if account takeovers weren't 99% defanged by this move.
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They're heavily subsidized by coastal blue states and they're still 50th percentile.
>As long as you aren't doing it to win but instead to enjoy yourself gambling

What exactly is there to enjoy about a scratch ticket beyond the hope of winning?
The UK is frequently reluctant to extradite to the US too - often on human rights grounds.
Who is the target audience of this, do you think?
>A weaker currency is better for exports.

Only for exports that don't rely on imported components, because such components will get more expensive.
As a former resident of SL, it’s easy to point fingers at the ousted regime. Corrupt and made disastrous decisions for the economy, but there are far deeper problems.

The country’s politics revolves around weaponized Buddhist fundamentalism (the same flavour you see in Myanmar). For 70 years, it has just been politicians gaining by encouraging inter-ethnic conflict. The current regime was voted in based in strong anti-Muslim rhetoric. Soon, there will be another similar leadership. Until that changes, this country is no different than Afghanistan under the Taliban.

Tourism has been the saving grace, but the 2019 bombings and pandemic mean it will likely never recover. At some point, change has to come from within.
Insurance companies hate this one trick.

Seriously, if she ever has a house fire, she will have an easier time than most reporting what she lost.
iirc, when symmetry breaking occurred, the universe found a new low-energy state, under the floor of the unified field. relative to the new low energy floor, the high energy bits look like particles. so a bunch of particles were produced, each of which had collosal kinetic energy, obeying new physical laws.
Anyone upset about glyphosphate contamination is mad at the wrong people - the people who manufacture it produce a product that harmlessly degrades in a fairly short period of time. The villains here are the farmers and farming enterprises that use it as a desiccant to make preparation of crop faster and cheaper. They are literally poisoning you to make the post-harvest process cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation
I guess all walls are 1ft high in that diagram.

You're right though, pretty sure it's a typo.
And guess who did the new Tropicana design?

You guessed it. Arnell Group that did the new Pepsi logo.

"The campaign, which carries the theme “Squeeze it’s a natural,” was created by Arnell in New York, part of the Omnicom Group. Arnell also created the new version of the Tropicana packaging.

“Tropicana is doing exactly what they should be doing,” Peter Arnell, chairman and chief creative officer at Arnell, said in a separate telephone interview on Friday.

“I’m incredibly surprised by the reaction,” he added, referring to the complaints about his agency’s design work, but “I’m glad Tropicana is getting this kind of attention.”

Full article about the botched campaign: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/business/media/23adcol.ht...
Flip phones are nice from a time perspective with little interruptions from social media. Not much you can do, and the pay as you go are 1000 minutes for $100.
Then leave your smart phone in the car.
Lol okay downvote but it's relevant and true.

CIA helped in getting Lumumba and wanted to put a halt to his movement. They along with Belgian officers even tried killing him by poisoning his toothpaste.

CIA overthrew Mosaddegh in Iran which lead to where they are today in terms of an oppresive theocratic government.

And US military and CIA are acting as world police in Somalia.
Non-special edition Star Wars was also available on VHS from same vintage as LD, but the thx remaster vhs version was best analog version imo. Although I fondly remember the taped off tv vhs versions I grew up watching. Fan versions of theatrical versions are amazing!
Nothing, if man gets eaten, probably his fault for being there and not taking precautions. This was tiger land first.
Ah, Battle for Middle Earth 2 (BFME2)! Now that brings back fond memories (and countless wasted hours defending Helms Deep / Minus Tirith from 2 other players!). Perhaps not an iconic example of an RTS, but certainly a fun one for any LoTR fans
> rhetorically questioned whether illegal actions are always wrong. That's called moral relativism

It could be called "moral relativism". But I do not think it really is.

The moral content of my actions is entirely independent of the legality of my actions.

There is correlation, a lot of bad things and few good things are illegal.

But legality does not imply good and vise versa.
Ireland has/had an interesting system where they sell bonds where the interest is paid like a sweepstakes.

It’s like buying into a raffle, except you can get your money out.
> if you had lived on a farm; you would know it's really,
> really difficult to spray a chemical on a bunch of weeds
> separately when they are infesting your entire crop...

It's difficult, so we should let the farmers poison our children? Writing secure software is difficult, should we accept security issues so the poor devs won't have to work hard? Keeping airplanes in the sky is hard, should we let Boeing crash a passenger jet every year to save some grueling engineering work?
Eligible customers can now order a free MFA security key
It's pretty amazing how the states are in the business of:

booze, tobacco, weed, gambling and gas

Imagine what the total revenue from just those 5 things is? It's got to be like printing cash and yet in most states and cities across the US have crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, underfunded pensions and budget deficits. This is in addition to all their other more regular tax regimes. Where does the money go?
Navigator and POET's Heartland Greenway to sequester 5M tons of carbon a year
best comment here. losing half your muscle is not healthy.
Quite often the easier way to be a minimalist is to get a small apartment. Nothing activates your brain as necessity. Most things I own are extremely practical, like spoons or pants, or I have a emotional attachment to them, like friends presents or items from my childhood. Even with that I still have way more items than this photographer.

One last note, it also helps me to save money. Stuff that I like but I still do not buy because I want my apartment clutter free.
Their new design was just yet another example of how the currently in vogue "minimalism everywhere" design aesthetic sucks. The Tropicana case study is such a great example because the effects were so drastic, but only really because there were easily substituted goods - consumers basically thought the carton was just "generic store brand OJ".

My guess is that other recent brand redesigns to this boring, same, sans-serif minimalist aesthetic (recent HN article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32040506) are just as bad, but with "stickier" products (people aren't likely to leave Google or Facebook just because the typography is shittier) the downside is less noticeable.
You got a source for that study? A cursory google didn’t reveal anything and 2-3x is suspect. To your second point, wouldn’t the microbiome (and slow digestion) just be another input into CICO?
The claims of “bad at math” ring hollow as Selbee did appear to use statistical analysis and there is a movie being made celebrating those wins.

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winner...

But it’s also possible that math whizzes like Jerry Selbee are finding and exploiting flaws that lottery officials haven’t noticed yet. In 2011, Harper’s wrote about “The Luckiest Woman on Earth,” Joan Ginther, who has won multimillion-dollar jackpots in the Texas lottery four times. Her professional background as a PhD statistician raised suspicions that Ginther had discovered an anomaly in Texas’ system. In a similar vein, a Stanford- and MIT-trained statistician named Mohan Srivastava proved in 2003 that he could predict patterns in certain kinds of scratch-off tickets in Canada, guessing the correct numbers around 90 percent of the time. Srivastava alerted authorities as soon as he found the flaw. If he could have exploited it, he later explained to a reporter at Wired, he would have, but he had calculated that it wasn’t worth his time. It would take too many hours to buy the tickets in bulk, count the winners, redeem them for prizes, file the tax forms. He already had a full-time job.
Ok. Now fix the system in a timeframe that is compatible with your expected working life.

That's the problem with the quote. Grades may not be the most important thing but they can, and often are, the most important thing for any given individual. For every Bill Gates that dropped out, there are a million John Doe's drowning in student loan debt with no degree and limited future prospects to show for it.
So remove the very reason why people pay the lottery in the first place?

I actually think this is a good idea as long as the gov keeps the ban on black market lotteries
>I can't even think of a major movie since 2010 that had a villain who was socialist besides The Interview, Team America, and Red Dawn 2012 but those aren't even fake examples.

>A wealthy capitalist in a suit is pretty much today's standard cliche villain trope.

This was true during the Cold War, too. In the Bond films, Soviet Russia is the enemy in exactly one film, For Your Eyes Only. Red China is the implied power behind the throne in two, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice. In every other entry in the series, the villains are SPECTRE and a variety of madmen, predominantly the billionaire type.

Another example is the frequently made claim that "Muslims are always the villains in Hollywood". It is far, far, far easier to name films in which "Islamophobia" is the greater evil than the opposite, both before and after the September 11 attacks on the US. The Sum of All Fears is one example in which the book's Islamic villains are explicitly replaced (by "neo-Nazis") for the film.
Camel feces is natural, would you eat it? How about hemlock? "Occurs in nature" is a naive metric.
misleading headline (on the original article)

from TFA: "on Thursday of last week, just before the July 1 deadline for submitting new data to U.S. News... Provost Mary Boyce, said [Columbia] would not submit data this year, adding that the university had “embarked on a review of our data collection and submissions process”

and that is why they will not be in the rankings. It seems Forbes filled out this submission just like Columbia did theirs, to skew overall appearance.

the "scandal" could very well still be the scandal everybody thinks it is, but it seems to be an overstatement to draw the bold lines that Forbes is juicing their article with. And as others have said, unless we know the extent of fudging at other schools it's difficult to judge the severity of this case.

full disclosure, I have no Columbia or ivy affiliation, but I perceive it to be easily within the top 10
Where are all you people when we invented artificial fertilizer and grew the human population by 5 billion in 100 years?

Yet here we are with concern trolling over absurd scenarios where the well-meaning genetic scientist "inserts" a gene and produces some kind of killer organism. Meanwhile evolution is just out there rolling the dice every time.

> 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...

Everything is crossbred! You are made out of all imaginable crosses! We subsumed mitochondria!
Yes, that’s enough for me. Intent is everything to me. You’re free to have a different opinion :)