skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
State-run lotteries are ALWAYS about the transfer of wealth and property from the poor and marginalized to the wealthy and connected. This was true during colonial times, this was the manner by which the state of Georgia divvied up land stolen via Indian removal, culminating in 8 substantial (and all rigged) lotterying of land that can only be characterized as stolen under the threat of muskets and bayonets. It's not a coincidence that lotteries became increasingly unpopular. This was then deliberately conflated with private lotteries ran by blacks, immigrants, and the poor where the house odds were good but not anywhere close - to the tune of 1 in 900 compared to 1 in 14 million or so for your typical 6 out of 49 game, made a moral issue, then a tax issue (giving more reason to raid minority neighborhoods), until the 1970s when essentially states began seeing the system as a two-birds-one-stone scenario both in raising revenue and also booting out what was otherwise an illegible parallel society that it had little direct way to profit from or exercise control over.

The really interesting counter-example - or really, the most incompetent series of lotteries ever ran by a state - was the excise farming schemes the British colonial administrators ran in SE Asia, in particular Penang and Singapore and further afield in Malaya, between the 1840s and officially 1903. Excise farming is basically the lotterying of monopolies on the vice trade for fixed periods of time, which existed since the 1500s and periodically gets brought out (prominently under Cromwell, and a bit during the restoration), except because the decline of the East India Company and the lack of civil servants and administrators who had a working knowledge of Chinese, which had become the biggest financial players and essentially realized that the authorities were unable to make sense of the place-of-ancestral-origin system that had little to do with what the British were familiar with (like blood quantum) and inadvertently enabled the same native-place association or Landsmannschaft (we need an English word for this, btw) to simply dominate certain vice trades by the simplest subterfuge - by leveraging the comparatively fluid role personal names represented. Yes, it took more or less an actual case of "all Asians look alike" for a state lottery to fail. Carl Trocki's works are the authoritative research on this subject and time period for those interested in what probably represents one of the most mind-boggling peacetime self-owns by two successive governments that in mainstream academic discourse (outside Subaltern, Asian, and Diaspora/Migration studies, which are arguably niche and very much interdisciplinary), represents the archetype for hegemonic power relationships in practice. I suppose one can also chalk it up as a lottery win there, a rare one, but someone does usually actually win the lottery eventually.
Selling hope. I've read somewhere that it is tax on the poor, since then I've stopped playing the lottery.
Superlist: A Rich Text Editor for Flutter
If she replaces both halves of a broom at different times, how many photos is that?
> The idea is that justice should take restitution and admission of guilt into account.

Doesn't that imply that not admitting guilt is a crime for which you get an extra penalty? Let's assume that is correct and ethical. The question then is how big should such an extra penalty be, for the crime of not agreeing you are guilty? Life in prison? Or perhaps capital punishment?

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/coercive-plea-...
Police do not give up their right to self defense when they take the job. If someone is trying to kill it hurt you, you have the right to use lethal force in response. Same thing for police.
He paid to have several people murdered. No murdering took place allegedly but the attempts are well documented.
Its unfortunate how Meta is commoditizing engineers as inventory items - the very same they'd woo from other companies with salaries & perks. The company isn't making loss in its balance sheets. FAANG / MANGA is a demanding workplace anyway so I can't imagine people slacking like Japanese/ Korean salarymen.
>The contracts likely have clauses related to failures to deliver, and Russia will have little influence over how those clauses will be implemented.

Im sure there are plenty of clauses, but once you are at economic war with a country, the contracts don't matter. They aren't worth the paper they are printed on. Thats my point.

Russia says old contracts are void and has the gas. EU Can agree to new contracts or go without. They cant use the old contracts to make Russia give them gas on the original terms. What will they do if Russia refuses? sue them for breach of contract, sanction them, and seize their foreign reserves?
> if you can stand the fact that it's Gawker

That's a tall order. How about I just take your word for it?

And how is that site still I existence?
IMO this is kind of P!=NP situation. While this statement is true, blockchain and classic cryptography keep existing. Maybe some minor improvements, like new hash algos or more significant bits, will be needed soon.
Your comment is one of the best - and short explanations, for the arguement and understanding of, the "finite universe".
Thanks for that.
There is plenty of diabetes and obesity in Australia and we don't use fructose as a sweetener. I'm not sure fructose is necessary.
FWIW, it also sucks being on the other side of a layoff. The people who survive are now constantly under threat of more layoffs and given two or more times their normal workload to carry the work of their prior colleagues. It's also harder to GTFO and find another job because all your prior colleagues are now on the market (not so much now that remote is more popular, yay). It's definitely an "I'm stuck, and this stinks" situation.
It's not as much as you'd think. For Illinois, lottery alone nets something like $3 billion, of which ~$700-750 million goes to funding public schools. Public schools expenditures are ~$35 Billion/year. So, less than 1/35th of costs. Add in the alcohol, tobacco, weed, gambling taxes, and you still not even close to covering half the state's school expenditures.

Granted, Illinois is perhaps the most fiscally screwed state, so might not be best example...
I would be interested in some citations for 10 year lifespan of grid scale batteries.

A 10 megawatt project I was adjacent to that would cycle the batteries every day estimated 5 years.
Apparently we have some reading comprehension problem => "...although I really wouldn't advocate for it.".
Absolutely; by completely disregarding planetary-protection protocols and taking bacteria etc. inadvertently would be my bet
Top down means government control - socialism, at best.
thanks and do you do that with a friend / colleague. Or do you use some interview prep outfit. I've seen quite a few though its not clear which ones are effective
Eh, they have a sob story about potentially being exploited again all ready.

Plus, $75 in some sense is more shocking than $2,000 – you can perhaps visualize paying $75 to get rid of some negative reviews, and that combined with the lurid "this is three weeks income for poor people" catches your imagination.

I am on board with the parent comment, this sounds like a publicity stunt.
What do you do for money now?
> If the victim has a pulse, why is Officer Darious giving them CPR?

If the victim has a pulse but is not breathing, CPR is indicated.
It makes more sense to me that east-coast schools would show an artificial advantage on "revealed preference" type rankings, because more Americans live closer to the east coast schools. They're more "locally" well-known, you're closer to home (okay, a disadvantage for some), etc. I'd expect them to benefit more from hype than Stanford would.
> Most of these are products of high uric acid level

That's a very unsubstantiated claim. I'm not debating the association of hyperuricemia with metabolic syndrome or cardiovascular risk factors, but I don't think we have much evidence to establish a causal link between hyperuricemia and all the morbidities listed.
“A judge agreed that there was a reasonable expectation that cops not be too intelligent.”

Well, it explains a few things..
> a lot of reasons why that is the case in practice

Then why isn' it the case in eg Germany. Whats different.
Rock music was already quite the phenomenon. Elvis didn’t popularize anything.
they came up with the design first and then the justification :P
I understand the reasoning, but then shouldn't someone leaving a job voluntarily just stop showing up without any warning as well? This would avoid problems such as retaliation by the employer, etc.

It's rather strange that employees are expected to give advanced notice when quitting, but employers are not expected to give advanced notice when firing people.
Its not the only solution but its commercially by far the most successful one. Even if you use something else its still a whole lot of work.
Is there any genetic screening which does not leak my genetic data to somebody else?
You can't just say "it doesn't work" when hundreds if not thousands of people are using this model successfully.

Your 80/20 speaks to remuneration, which can be negotiated and does not have to be equal, especially when equality isn't fair.
Would that not achieve the opposite effect?

If interstaller thought us anything, the closer you are to a black hole the slower time gets. When they got close to the black hole they only spent a few hours there but lost years compared to our frame of reference.
He was referring to the first sentence of his comment, not a judicial sentencing..sentence.
He's talking about Law School of course - that's where promising students are drafted into the Supreme Court clerk position that's the first step on the cursus honorum to becoming a Supreme Court Justice. Undergrad doesn't matter as much except inasmuch it gets you into the prestigious law schools.
Deliberate practice, just like sports. There's no shortcut. The milestone for me has always come down to "employment" but you may have other goals.
Footage of Ice Avalanche in Kyrgyzstan
This is sometimes referred to as "Tufts Syndrome" or "Yield Protection":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_protection
Socialism is when workers control the means of production. That's not really the case in this example. Top down also doesn't mean government control. Corporations are driven top down, from a CEO down to the subordinates at each layer. Given a defining goal, they can be very efficient. If each subordinate was supposed to figure out what to do, it's not very efficient or effective.
Nah, just a few vocal dudes. Ukraine continues to fight.
nice disengenous quote used out of context, used nuclear fuel is a subset of waste from a nuclear power plant.

btw, in case a football field at a depth of 10 yards sounds small: http://www.ccnr.org/max_plute_aecb.html#1
"In all of these scenarios except for ‘stable earth’, the achievement of global targets and accompanying frameworks is negatively impacted,” the report states. “Furthermore, in the absence of change, scenarios ‘Earth under uncertainty’ and ‘Earth under threat’ tend towards that of ‘global collapse’.”

The paper explains that, by adopting a systems analysis, it is possible to see how “the crossing of one planetary boundary systematically results in the crossing of others”. They are crucial to providing a ‘safe operating space’ for human societies to develop within a stable earth system, “with the passing of these boundaries subsequently, and most likely resulting in societal destabilisation and potential GCR events”.

Global Catastrophic Risk (GCR) events are defined as those leading to more than 10 million fatalities or greater than $10 trillion in damages."

We should stop being in denial about this and think about adaptation strategies and, of course, force the industry to change.

It seems like the Fermi paradox has a reason, after all.
In that scenario you are one of those who chooses the leadership, perhaps running for it yourself, and helps decide what x's position is going to be (through party room / caucus processes).
I have left exactly one review in Google in my entire life, and it was a 1-star review of a car rental place that royally screwed up.

A couple months later I was notified that "x users found this review helpful". So someone must have seen it despite me never reviewing anything else.
I wonder how context sensitive these are. Will votes be different depending on pairings?

Now I'm imagining a site where you have a standard format(Like a page with body, borders, headers, links, banners, etc, or just an abstract arrangement of 2-5 colors), and people make pallets and vote on them.
Babies have Millions of years of development. I still can't believe we start with Babies as base point to start learning. When the babies are born it is almost on auto-pilot (Nature > Nurture)
Wake me up when the Price-Anderson Nuclear Indemnity Act gets repealed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
I could help you! We could do the STAR method or other such things and mentioned here by metadat. Hangouts (is it meet, now?) or zoom if you like. Say 3 sessions? Totally free. I just like helping folks perform their best in interviews. Send me an email Alex at alexandarnarayan dot com and we can set something up

But I agree with metadat— writing your thoughts out and then rehearsing them until you get comfortable is helpful. But nothing beats the confidence of practice.
I always recommend the "uncle bens tek" to people who are starting out. The tl;dr is that you use pre-sterilized uncle bens rice packets that are a buck a pop from the store. Innoculate, forget about them, and then fruit them. Fruiting requires some work for sure, but it's pretty minimal with this tek and you can really neglect it and still see results.
University rankings are mostly bunk because they weigh mostly on perception and lagging indicators. A university can deteriorate for decades while remaining high on ranking.

The only criterion that matters for a student that wants to select a university is the fraction of graduates that go on to do impressive things.
Maybe I'm being cynical, but this strikes me as cover to have a layoff but weasel out of paying severances.
And if this wasn’t spot on already: those taking a dump do so with the most recent design critique that most resonated on HN, hence the dozen or so comments I found on my way to this one bemoaning “sans serif” as if it’s some newfangled design trend and not the font style they’ve most commonly encountered on screen for 30 years.
Which war?

There have been a few, like the Norden bomb site, but they were pretty far from anything we’d consider a general purpose computer. They also were not as accurate or reliable as was initially expected.
I don’t know if discord uses that (guess not) but it’s partially built into beam: beam can have multiple versions of the same code loaded, and old code will only call new code when using “external” calls (module:function()), as long as you keep calling bare function() you live in the old code.

Now obviously when calling utilities that can be an issue, but internally to an actor if you’re careful it can let you process something the recurse into the next version of the actor.
This was before Netflix streaming, when Netflix was just dvds.
I’m assuming the “24 hours” thing is a math thing where staying inside additional time will be more harmful than getting outside and finding out what to do next.

If you can do both, yeah do that, but if you could never leave your home, and your home is a clean room, also definitely do that.
Yes, but the original plan of the Greens seeked to use nuclear power as a transitional technology to first replace coal. While the build up of renewable energy in Germany during the last 2 decades is very impressive, adding more gas to the mix certainly looks idiotic in hindsight. This wasn't the Greens fault, as they haven't been in government since 2005. They are now the ones having to deal with it though.
Because Colemak also Workman tries to fix something too broken, and Dvorak is a breakthrough idea (if any breakthrough may be found in keyboard layout).
Makes it hard to see the actual methodology. Lot of heat and smoke in the comments for just an abstract.

A quick search for the title in DDG yields verbatim copies of the marginal revolution words, no actual paper. So it's not like anyone is actually writing for marginal revolution here.
Gardening Platforms
Yes, it would be interesting. There are huge political pressures...in the wrong direction.
The UK uses sucrose, not fructose though?
A lot of Europeans countries have protections in place, including mandatory weeks of notice and negociation, before any layoffs can happen.

Somehow, regulators are fine here with interpersonal discussion — including through electronic channels — still happening up to the last day of employment.
On Linux, you also have PSS which is like RSS, but the shared part is divided among the processes sharing the same memory.
If I'd hazard a guess, I'd say the OP is referring to Bose. They tend to get shit on by audiophiles for... Reasons? I don't really know why, I'm not an audiophile. I've personally had 3 different Bose noise canceling headphones, 2 over ear and one on ear, and I've been happy with all of them. I still use the in ear ones routinely (QC35, IIRC), usually without the noise canceling on, even. The in ear noise canceling is quite good. Good enough I wouldn't recommend walking down the street with it on - you will be audibly oblivious to your surroundings.
Further adventures in creating a custom math-themed jigsaw puzzle
Cambridge has traditionally been ahead in science and mathematics (e.g., it's where Newton was a professor). On the other hand, Oxford until the 1800s was pretty much a seminary and theological college. As a non-Brit, I still get the impression that Oxford is where you would find the best philosophers and other humanities experts, while Cambridge is still slightly ahead in STEM
> those poor Blacks

This is patronizing and wrong. Math skills are also lacking in many white communities. Maybe it is more about cultural acceptance than math skills.
It's possible to come up with different conclusions than that, IMO, rather pessimistic one.

I had already had this notion that unions likely decrease quality of work, but my conclusion has not been "products over workers", my conclusion has been that companies which mistreat their workers so much that they feel the need to unionize deserve to suffer. There could even be a deeper correlation there in younger companies. Worker mistreatment seems to me to be a sign of incompetence. The companies that do so deserve any ill results they get from unionizing and better companies that treat their workers better and make better products deserve to win out over them.
By ‘really fast’, I’d wager 6 months to a year, no?

You’d have to show all that was the case for instance, which if they ignored you and generally were unco-operative would take awhile.
That’s a bold claim. There are constructs to handle nulls for such queries.
We are not limited by either of those things. Sure, single individuals might be, but we aren't single individuals, we are a group. As a group, most of our advances actually come from individual going out and experimenting and having fun, finding weird things, not from our computation ability. We only need enough computation ability to realize something is weird and explore the world.

So what's an AGI going to do? You're going to need a whole lot of units running around collecting data and running experiments, they're going to need to be general purpose, built out a common materials, run pretty efficiently, communicate information between each other, operate in pretty adverse conditions...

Humans, you need humans.

We aren't the end all be all, but we are pretty darn good at running around doing things and spreading our knowledge between each other, writing it down into books, improving and spreading that knowledge between yourselves. I think we really underestimate how far along the path we are to self-improvement, and we overestimate how quickly at AI could progress down that path.

What I think is likely is that AI will be a tool, like any other, and our society will just grow and integrate these AI into itself.

I think the real path forward is when we learn how to really start modifying and customizing life to our needs, and that's going to revolutionize humanity in ways that basically makes us unrecognizable to who we are today. And that will be good.

In short, the future will be weird, but we're going to be fine.
Seems a small step after Tesla’s $2000-$3000 “acceleration boost” software update that came out in December of 2019.

https://electriccarpledge.com/tesla-acceleration-boost/
Aliens ate my babysitter.
I’ll give that video a watch, thanks for the rec. Yeah, getting to Mars as a human presents a whole load of problems, let alone living on Mars. Elon loves the self deprecating talking point of saying how terrible the journey will be, but I get the feeling it may be more than terrible, if may be simply infeasible. A Starship will have to be like a mini space station during the ~7 months it takes to get to Mars. From the Elon interviews I’ve listened to he describes it like packing many people into a single starship, but it may be only possible to house 5-10 given the amount of support they’ll need to and on Mars.

Edit: I actually watched parts of those videos months ago and just watched some more. Good stuff, though sorry to say but fairly biased reporting with a lot of opinions and theories thrown in there. Nonetheless informative and entertaining, just… the YouTuber clearly has it out for Musk.
Wheat and gas, or better yet, euros to get anything elae
Do chairs exist?

https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE
Your claim doesn’t invalidate my claim. It may be that you personally disagree and that’s your political right. Like the man said: you’re entitled to your opinion but not your own facts. Take a look at the definition of relative and absolute political offenses. It’s not what is popularly understood. One need not be Che to be a political prisoner. For example, a person may become one after suffering torture in interrogation by the state or a proxy of the state after a completely normal criminal activity.

Tell that last part to the families of people who have died in the opioid crisis. Drug kingpin is in the eye of the beholder, or prosecution team as we see. For example: Have you watched the CEOs of several major pharmaceutical companies walk with fines? Large fines, paid out of the very profits made from the sales of drugs that killed the customers. Too bad for Ross that he wasn’t smart enough to hire lawyers, and wear a suit, he might be as free as Zuckerberg or the CEO of any of the major Pharma companies making record settlements this year.

Rather than reforming the legal system alone, why not free those harmed by the system we agree is in need of reform? Start by freeing all political prisoners.
The graphical improvements from Invasion of the Vorticons to Goodby Galaxy (and apparently Keen Dreams, although I didn't play this one) were really remarkable.

Wonder if there are any fun numbers hidden in this source code. Although, I guess that would mostly be for 3d...
To call that a legal system and not a systemic political persecution is probably not uniquely American, though it is uniquely on display in this case.

Lately with SCOTUS, I think we are seeing widespread dissent about the worth of the entire legal system. For many, the system was already unbelievably unjust simply for the logic of what you observe. That’s just how it is, but is that how it should be?
His point is that a sub-population has a low name variance. Even if the sub-population is not very large, if the variance is much lower than the norm, it's going to show disproportionately in the top.