skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How does Apple allow gambling apps like these?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/solitaire-clash-win-real-cash/id1589643727

This game is #1 on the US Casino charts. The description claims "Cashing out your Solitare winnings is easy, safe and secured by PayPal. We also partner with Apple Pay, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to make the deposit and withdrawal process secure and easier." If this is in fact true, how on earth do they achieve withdrawing real money winnings while adhering to US law? Stranger, the developer seems to be incorporated in the US and raised $40M in funding. https://www.pocket7games.com

It's either magic or Apple is turning an astronomical blind eye to high grossing apps.
I think that article needs some work - for one, it admittedly didn't account for the startup time WASM needs to compile the bytecode. Second, I'm not familiar with AssemblyScript - but I wouldn't be surprised if its performance wasn't up to something like C++, and some of the benchmarks test stuff like the builtin sort which depends massively on the quality of the standard library.
It's about desktop WASM not having access to all the memory and so fine grained management of memory there could be important also.
As a 50-something man who grew up in a pretty boring suburb, I rarely found myself lacking for things to do. I spent most of my time hanging out with friends, even if it was at the local arcade, strip mall or a friend's house. We'd ride our bicycles all over the city, explore the local creeks and hillsides, or play video games together (Atari, Intellivision, etc.). Eventually a few of us got home computers (Apple II or Commodore) and spent a huge amount of time playing games or programming, but there was always a desire to get together and do things outside. (The suburban experiences of the kids on E.T. reminds me a lot of my own childhood, minus the alien.)

Most of us had chores and/or jobs. I had a paper route from age 12 to age 14. When I was at home, my parents were always kicking me out of the house to go do things outside or with friends. Most kids in my neighborhood were what you would classify today as "free range". That seemed to be the norm in those days.

Today I look at kids with their heads buried in smart phones and feel a real sense of pity.
I keep having to "forget about this site" for YouTube after watching (admittedly many) videos - every 2 months or so. The tell-tale sign is that videos stutter outrageously. It is surprisingly consistent - stutters / freezes happening, forget about site, problem solved.

I would be surprised if this is solely due to Firefox btw; I trust YT-owner Google about as far as I can toss the lot of them.
They're also more frequently updated on Chrome, and smell less like malware. The Firefox addon directory is a hellhole. The only place where Chrome fails on this is on uBlock, but that's completely intentional because they're an ad company.
Other than what? This? 1984 and Animal Farm?

I saw the (?) cartoon Animal Farm on elementary school.
I'm pretty sure optics will be the next big thing in chip manufacturing after this small comeback
How much better is their tooling vs what you can get right out if aws GCP azure?
Is that technical team spread across all ten projects? If so that's basically 4h per week per company, barely enough to remember what they're building.
For DOM you can get pretty far binding http://google.github.io/incremental-dom/ to C (it's all just procedure calls).

But other than that there are OpenGL bindings (eg. in emscripten) and things for audio like SoLoud etc. You can usually put off writing JS for a while.
It's challenging to assign numbers to quantities that aren't numeric in nature and everyone could pick different weights and methods but lets be realistic.

If you compare a Democrat from 40 years ago to one today you would see a 20% uptick in support for gay rights and a substantial uptick in the desire to spend tax money on healthcare, and a smaller uptick in support to raise taxes to support the former.

If you compare a republican from the same era you would find 10% of them now want a white supremacist christian ethnostate and 40% of them are supportive of the idea of killing their wrong thinking neighbors in order to live in Republican Town and even more would gladly part ways with the US of A if they could do it at the ballot box.

It may be challenging to assign weights to these dissimilar changes in positions but one of them is pretty clearly more extreme than the other.
I suppose that's true, and humans have regrettably short memories it seems. However, Ukraine has 15 nuclear power plants IIRC, and WWII-era 'total war' strategies would have included their immediate destruction to cripple Ukraine's power grid. This was the strategy the USA and allies followed in the Gulf War against non-nuclear Iraq:

> "More than 90 percent of Iraq’s electrical capacity was bombed out of service in the first hours... This comprised the country’s 11 major electrical power stations and 119 substations. Existing generating capacity of 9,000 MW in December 1990 was reduced to only 340 MW by March 1991."

https://aldeilis.net/english/physical-destruction-iraqs-infr...

Bombing functioning nuclear power plants would create a radioactive disaster and Russia wasn't willing to do that. By that metric, MAD is still in effect to some extent. It's also keeping Russia from attacking NATO bases, and NATO from attacking Russian bases, at least for now.
> It's common enough to disprove the statement "Human nature is inherently violent". It shows that understanding humanity is simply too complex to boil down to pat remarks like that.

If we accept every aberration as disproving human nature, then there is no such thing as human nature. There are exceptions to any possible definition of it. Suicide disproves self-preservation, childless adults disprove reproduction, laziness disproves innovation.

I'm not actually opposed to that argument, but it is, as mentioned and in context, semantics.

> Anthropology has documented plenty. The Kung! come to mind. And this is not the early-days "noble savage" anthropology, the perspective that there have been many civilizations that operate through cooperation and peaceful negotiation is not controversial in modern anthropology.

!Kung society absolutely had violence and homicide[1][2]. It's very much noble savage anthropology. They did not operate through cooperation and peaceful negotiation: they were just isolated hundreds of kilometers from anyone else, so the scale was smaller.

If anything, the !Kung disprove your argument. They spoke the same language, had the same beliefs, had a fair division of resources, were geographically isolated, and still killed each other.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/680660
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...
I think this is only true because the circle of sed users is pretty small. Excel is pretty useful for many things. I'm constantly throwing data in Excel to reason with it and graph it.

Assuming that there are many columns and I only wanted to remove the data from one I personally would find it more difficult and awkward to write a sed command to do this than the three or four lines of Python it would take (open the file in pandas, insert a new column where the values are the numbers from the old column, save as csv/xlsx).
Broad generalisation of an entire generation…not helpful
In the case of my family member, that was kind of the attitude for a long while. Now they are not allowed to drive, bike, swim etc., as there really is an absence of being present.
Yes we are. Agreed. But in this case the publisher + author are on the wrong side of the grey area. The number of trackers is not an "oops".
I am expecting a big earnings recession, but it may be next quarter, rather than this one.

It's taken a lot longer to play out than I expected, but you can get a decent sense of consumer spending via revolving credit e.g. credit cards.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCLACBW027SBOG

You can see how rapidly this has been rising since the covid deleveraging. But we're now back to trend and rates/real prices will be higher.

As long as consumers continue to lever up aggressively, earnings will be somewhat supported. But we're about to run into a brick wall with maxed out credit
Some people love the desert.
What is the end game? Because dividing up a country along ethnic lines often leads to ethnic cleansing.
I’m guessing you were being facetious, but in case any non-California residents don’t catch the joke: My favorite burrito in LA is $7, my second-favorite is $15 but is so large I have to split it with my partner or a friend, and burritos from my favorite taco truck are $9. We are far from $18 burrito territory unless you’re trying to eat expensively.
I always get confused who the audience is for these kind of books?

For advanced reader this is really shallow, for beginners its really advanced (who really want to read 543 page book as beginner).
Powering the lunar base, version 2
I loved city builders and tycoon games as a kid. I think many of them tend to follow the same formula and so the returns becoming increasingly diminished.

I am excitedly looking forward to a follow up to Cities Skylines.
The main benefits are being able to use the same codebase for native and web builds and also not needing to use a GC and being able to do memory management yourself. The latter stuff really makes a positive difference for Wasm in eg. graphics / games. Can be less pronounced if the app mainly does DOM manipulation potentially due to the API boundary.
> “autonomy” doesn’t mean “free from control” but is ultimately about the respect an individual feels, regarding their decisions, from others.

How is respect defined here? One man's definition of respect will clash with another's. Some define respect as cult-like devotion, some as a recognition of one's boundaries, some as a transaction at a specific price, some as engaging in an expected cultural performance, etc. Freedom from control or, more precisely, imposition and interference is well-defined. Desires for respect can balloon into wishful thinking, if not self-delusion.
>[my civilization offers support] so long as you don't challenge its weaknesses and falsehoods

Yowch. To be clear, just challenging it results in the blanket ripped from one's bed? Romania?
Also, all the reviews with a “developer response” are blatantly fake.
> how is that not helping with house price and rent inflation?

Assuming they're sold to owner-occupiers who were previously renting, you've increased housing supply in that segment of the market, but you've reduced supply in the letting market, so the net effect will be zero. It won't change net demand or supply across the market as a whole.

If they were keeping those flats empty, that would be a different story.
Thanks for this - havent heard of her books, but after a quick google search they do sound like something i should read!
They need capital for their upcoming projects (the next AAA game and also mobile games) and Sony has movie and TV studios that can take the Destiny universe and expand it into a series.
I don't think this correct. Many industries in north America are still not producing at precovid levels.

For example:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DAUPSA
Mozilla actively removed the ability to conveniently disable javascript, and left deleting cookies or localStorage from specific sites hellishly difficult. Mozilla somewhat cares about press releasing about your privacy.
Sony's first-party monetization strategy's been quite good ime. If anything, I'd expect them to curb Bungy's worst instincts on that front.
I thought China's production has suffered even more than ours due to the COVID restrictions.
That only works if the interest rates are higher than inflation.

Real estate is an excellent inflation hedge since as inflation goes up, the value of the real estate and the rent you can get for it both go up in tandem.

Another way to discourage rent seeking is to tax ownership of land more.
Nils frahm, jon hopkins, pomme, go_a, all awesome and the last two are fairly recent. I think there's hundreds of new genres, but we're all finding what we love. I don't have to listen to college radio at 1 AM and hope for the best anymore.
Politics and the English Language, Animal Farm, 1984
Hobbyist license in the future when more compilers are available. Why in the world are they waiting to provide it? A symbol of a clueless corporate leadership.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I may add one thing though: it's probable that it is not only measurement bias for a simple reason: demographics. The generations that currently are the most numerous and have the highest purchasing power are baby-boomers and gen-Xers. That same generation witnessed the birth of pop-rock music as we know it and was the first to consume music en-masse. To a certain extent, it's no wonder that those 'old' (i.e. 60s-80s) recordings are those that get the most listened to. This is of course also true for movies and actors, for the very same reason: taste is widely known to be mostly formed by the time you're 25.
I wonder if this has anything to do with volatility in the Ruble, and was just an algorithmic glitch
Algorave?
>[...] at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.”

Orwell's attribution of the quote here seems to be incorrect.

While it's true that Hitler used the saying in his speeches [1], it predates him by many decades, and is often attributed to Ferdinand von Schill (the guy who unsuccessfully rebelled against Napoleon). [2][3]

[1]: https://comicism.tripod.com/341108.html

[2]: https://de.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/lieber_ein_Ende_mit_Schreck...

[3]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6564585-better-an-end-with-...
That's not entirely true. The systematic killing of the Jews was formalized in 1942. Before that, there were other plans, such as evicting them to Madagascar, and even Palestine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution
Also the same Bungie that made the Mac classic: Marathon.

> After showing the game at the Macworld Expo, Bungie was mobbed with interest and orders for the game. The game was not finished until December 14, 1994; Jones and a few other employees spent a day at a warehouse assembling boxes so that some of the orders could be filled before Christmas.[24] The game was a critical and commercial success,[27] and is regarded as a relatively unknown but important part of gaming history.[29] It served as the Mac alternative to DOS PC-only games like Doom and System Shock.[16] The game's volume of orders was unprecedented for the studio, who found that its old method of mail or phone orders could not scale to the demand and hired another company to handle the tens of thousands of orders. Marathon also brought Bungie attention from press outside the small Mac gaming market.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungie
> 40% of them are supportive of the idea of killing their wrong thinking neighbors in order to live in Republican Town

This sounds completely insane. Can you point to a source that actually backs this up?
Dear YouTube, do you know who else tried to copyright claim content? Thats right ....
He probably saw what happened during the Holodomor
Orwell omitted a few details: Hitler never had a majority in the Reichstag/german parliament - he benefited from the enmity between the Social democrats and the Communist. I mean a popular front, like in France of 1936 would have stopped them. The German soial dems and communist were mortal enemies, because the social dems shot a lot of communists in the aftermath of the Kapp putsch.

Also Hitler had the massive support of German industrialists, they bailed him out in 1932, and both Thyssen and Schlacht urged Hindenburg to appoint Hitler. They all thought that they would control Hitler, von Papen certainly thought so.

Also the social dems were very passive (to say the least). Von Papen dissolved the Prussian state, where they social dems were the government - that was the state with the largest police force in the country. What did the social dems do? They went to court, when they should have called a general strike (they did exactly that during the Kapp putsch, some thirteen years earlier)

Hitler wasn't acting alone, I wonder why Orwell didn't mention that. I think Orwell didn't like the idea of a popular front, because of his negative experience with the communists during the Spanish civil war.
If you actually seriously want this: I believe both Android and iOS have some method of tracking time spent in apps (assuming that's what you mean when you say "Netflix App").
Big Law too
It’s not like we haven’t been down a similar path

Java introduced a language and library… but the real innovation was that it introduced a cross platform VM that was supported by some organization

WebAssembly is now doing the same thing… but just the cross-platform VM part

Now you can run Python and JS on the JVM these days but these are not de-facto implementations and so their adoption is pretty low. I wonder if the same issue will apply to these alternate WASM implementations of existing languages.
This actually works pretty well at the very beginning when the stock isn’t worth anything. However, as soon as there is a supportable valuation, you can’t just give people stock with a nominal value for 0.01 or whatever, which means either they have to buy it at “market” or you are giving them a taxable benefit of same. This latter is terrible because you are getting taxed as income with an illiquid and risky, locked in, asset…

(All this depends on jurisdiction of course)
A chance to use my favourite feature of excel, flash fill:

Given:

A B
a1b2c3 123
2g34
34f5
4l5p6
1.23E+06

Selecting column B with the one example cell and hitting flash fill yields:

A B
a1b2c3 123
2g34 234
34f5 345
4l5p6 456
1.23E+06 12306

I'd still absolutely love to see the code behind this feature.

EDIT: i just noticed an error in the last row, should be 1230000 not 12306. Ahh well.
I'm not an advanced user of either but both go.mod and cargo.toml seem like great examples of well thought out approaches to a problem, where they've learned from previous languages and came up with a pretty polished solution.
Judge in Musk vs. Twitter Trial May Be Musk's Worst Nightmare
Gemini are liars, don’t trust
you can stash things as you want, it stacks them in a daily stash by default that you can rename, move links in and out of previous stashes

with TST whenever I need to reorder/re-group things, it's a pain (I still appreciate TST a lot)
I'm not arguing any societies were completely void of violence, obviously. There is a significant difference between a society where violence occurs and one in which violence is the defining principle and method of organization. Yet even in societies organized around violence and domination, the majority of people are not violent and do not commit acts of violence.

At this point, it's not worth continuing the conversation here. You'd be best served engaging with anthropological sources themselves since your perspective has been well addressed by the field. "Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman was suggested below. I haven't read it myself, but I've heard good things and it's sources might serve as a good jumping-off point. "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber I have read and it is a light read and works well as a starting point, despite it's issues.
Cooperation within the group and violence outside the group.
This looks really cool. No reason to switch from my self-hosted Hugo setup, but if I was just starting out with blogging I'd be happy to have this available vs the bloated Wordpress site I started out with in the beginning.
Demand is for people with experience and demonstrated skills who can add value to a business. Very few companies hire people they have to spend a lot of time training. Some will hire grads fresh from schools that have good CS programs.

Your friend can expect to spend several years of deliberate practice learning to program. There’s no shortcut, no best language or framework to learn. The fundamentals are the same for all of them.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/V7nLq

https://web.archive.org/web/20220717181658/https://www.busin...
Rauversion is an open source music sharing platform
Not saying the author is wrong, just pointing out that his viewpoint has been around for a while and is part of a larger framework for thinking about investing.
Or you do more with the current properties, such that they make more than 5% of their value per year.

Of course, the idea of land as an investment in the first place is one of the root causes (if not the root cause) of endlessly-rising cost of living, and we're long overdue to address that root cause (namely: by instituting land value taxes).
There was the modal so they did notify me
Notes on Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts"
> using a browser from the world’s biggest advertiser is wrong on principle

Spot on. As said many many times, the browser is the new OS.

If Google wowed the world and introduced a free (beer or speech, doesn't matter) Windows-killer OS[0] that was better in every way than Windows, was Windows-compatible, tons of people would use it. You and I wouldn't.

[0] I do know about ChromeOS, yes
This was what the Movimento 5 Stelle said before they ruled the city for years, and now Rome is the same situation with a mayor from another political party…

Non so neanche io cosa si può fare per cambiare Roma, forse devono cambiare i romani…
Let’s remember that you are the one who quoted the part about FP and how you took issue with it. But in a very strange way: the quote is wrong, not because people don’t know about the benefits of FP but because they don’t… know why they should “care”. But this is not a value judgement, you said (being apparently useless to the working programmer is not a value judgement). So you have some kind of opinion about FP. It felt natural to ask exactly what that opinion is, since it’s stated so indirectly (care). But now FP is a “Rorschach test” and anyone who wants to discuss it with you needs to tediously lay out exactly what kind of FP they mean by FP. Even though you are the one who prominently brought up FP in your comment (even though perhaps the point you were driving at was why one should care about conc. programming). And even though you had a handy reference in “Why FP Matters” that you referenced yourself.

FP is certainly not a Rorschach test compared to your obfuscated and indirect style of writing on this specific topic.
First right refusal just gives the company/current investors first dibs at any potential stock sale.
What would be the long term cost of letting Russia invade neighboring countries without sanctions?

How do we know they'd stop at Ukraine?
Funny enough full cobtact sports are somewhat similar. Sure, you actively fight and beat each other in the ring or on tha mats, but outside ofbit things are surprisingly civil. Of ciurse over aggressive exceptions proof that rule.
Wouldn’t house prices go down if you make it harder to monetise RE via rental? Say by increasing rental income tax or banning buy-to-let?
Not to mention Ancient Greece. Sport as a substitute for war is a joke.
Reading requires effort.
Too much filler cut scenes and slow dialogue. For example, Suits has notorious slow dialogue and lots of cut scenes hovering over city buildings which add nothing to the script. Watching it at 1.5x makes me miss absolutely nothing and reduces episodes of 45 minutes to roughly half an hour.
I don't have a link to the form, but it would be good to verify that this is legit (if that's something you would be able to do). It's an unusual workflow imo so I just wanted to double check
Not in regards to time.
For people wired for competition, that's no answer.