skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2020 it was $26.692393b. From https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/lottery-revenue

In 2020 Apple iPhone sales were $73.3b in the Americas, which includes South America. From https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/

Sounds dubious. But lotto sales were really, really high. $26.7b could have gone to something worthy.

The reason lottos are bad, and which is really poorly articulated in this article about empathetic personal stories, is that they compete in the $1-3 category, where cultural products thrive. Unlike an income tax increase, which competes in the $1,000+ category (typically). But nonetheless similar to a sales tax (increase may be $0.10-$1.00 per purchase).

It really is as simple as, "pay for this app it costs one coffee." We are all worse off competing against this bullshit. That said, Apple and Google could ban virtual slot machines, DraftKings, etc. and little of value would be lost, and its other developers would gain a lot, but nah, they don't do that, because they are greedy.
It seemed pretty fair at the time, like I remember being confused by why it caused such a media furor. You could disagree, of course, but you could also see given the circumstances why someone would say it.
Chapter 1 of "The Inmates are Running the Asylum," by Alan Cooper (1999) opens with the riddle: "What do you get when you cross a computer with an airplane?"

The answer, of course, is "a computer."
Thank you for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense and does provide a much better way to estimate their value relative to sales.
> The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable.

And what might we learn from this?
I prefer to keep statistics like that in my metrics system instead of my logging system.
I have to admit this is not what I expected to be reading about when I clicked on it.
It should be the job of the employer to ensure scheduling is in compliance with safety regulation and agreements negotiated with the unions. The app should be necessary, but given that it is, that can easily be viewed as American Airlines knowingly breaks rules. That seems legally questionable.
I love the UI - it is simple and beautiful . Can you please let me know how did you build it ? What is the tech stack to build an application like this ?
I'm not suggesting to make lotteries illegal at the federal level, only to abolish the for-profit lotteries run by the states.
I rarely play the lottery. If I were to throw away 13% of my income, I would try a different game: buy random stocks. I would just choose a random stock, not even looking at anything other than the ticker, buy it and sit on it.
Indeed, there are tens of thousands of various coins created, but 74% of wealth stays in just two of them - Bitcoin and ETH (if we exclude centralized tokens USDT, USDC, XRP, BNB etc). It's something like geometric series.
I immediately though of the GetTickCount win32 function, which, as you said, wraps around to zero every fifty days or so. A lot of programs would crash if you left them open for this long.
They already did in 2016. [1]

They lied to the shooter, who they had cornered, and told him the robot was delivering a phone. In fact it was a bomb.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bo...
Even with explicit conditions, they often just shuffle other money around under the table.

"This $100 must be spent on science" => "route $100 of the general fund away from science"
I forgot the name, but there are hearing aid ear buds exactly for this situation.
As I mention in my comment, it's fine to let people opt out if they don't want to play.
Do you have work visas for all three countries, or will you lie about your reasons for travel when asked?
He's diagnosed bipolar, so mental illness is definitely in the mix.
Do those advantages continue to scale last a certain point? I use a service called Fresh Direct for groceries. They serve nearly the entire NY metro area, so they’re pretty big, but not nearly as big as a national chain. The quality provided by Fresh Direct is so much better than Whole Foods or Shop Right. The reason is that they partner will smaller producers that sell really good stuff. Like they have really good yogurt from Brooklyn, amazing organic produce from a cooperative in Pennsylvania, pasture raised meat, etc. Whole Foods used to have similar items before they were purchased by Amazon. At least for my personal shopping habits, bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.
It's actually used for the new AWS SDKs but yeah fairly new.
Do you have evidence for that?

I would have expected the lottery to pay for its own pushing.
Every single system update or sometimes even reboot I have to do this on my M1 Mac Mini that has a fiio DAC connected to it over USB. It will always be all the way left or partially left balanced when it boots back up. It's especially annoying because I get frequent beta test updates for MacOS, so it's not like an occasional thing.

I don't care about the why this happens. I don't care that the DAC I use is really old. This is just a thing that shouldn't be happening on a modern operating system that has such an apparently old pedigree in high quality audio.
Sure, under a kinda evo-psych/behavioural-eco analysis of why evolution, over a long span, has made us responsive to these signals.. yes.

But that's a radically different kind of analysis than intention, which is under-determined by evolution. ie., say we're all subject to the same evo forces, but we all intend different things.

To say that narcissists exploit a "victim-compassion" response is very different than saying genuine victims do. They "give off" the "genuine victim" signal with with good reasons and intending to act on those reasons, people help.

Narcissists exploit the same signal but with the wrong reasons.
I'm a big advocate for PWAs, but this is a backend data issue. American Airlines isn't forcing app stores to take down the app, they're adding anti-scraping measures to prevent the app's backend from being able to request data for flights, shifts, etc.
This is flat-out wrong pseudogrammatical criticism. I say "aren't gonna" all the time. "Gonna" is a very common spoken contraction, used much more broadly than "ain't" in AmE.
JWST.
Seems like we did that because fires happened in cities and did real damage. What damage has AI done?

> AI might put false ideas in peoples minds

Like speech or writing or media?

> no no not the ideas, its the medium, the delivery method. you see the fakes will trick people into thinking the lies are real.

oh that's it? just deception + scale.
Stocks Can Always Get Cheaper
Because it’s just people arguing on conjecture that folks they disagree with are mentally ill. He is quite obviously sane if you hear him speak.
is anyone else completely uncomfortable with how completely comfortable everyone is with people playing armchair psychiatrist for people they've never even personally met these days
Also, there's greater immunity to interference and poor connections.
Whatever it is my blocking plugins remove it.
The 2020 election was stolen isn't an inconvenient truth, it's not naughty language, it's a lie that the majority of GOP house candidates are furthering. You're mischaracterization of the debate leads me to believe you made this comment in bad faith.
Solid point. I would say that the point here is extra education that is paid for by the employer, not experience points from doing the job.
Exactly...and perhaps using the term "safe space" was too loaded in this case.

I simply mean any curated community with high openness, high conscientiousness and low judgment centered around supporting people.
It does suck. Companies should buy an insurance plan from a company that sells insurance if they want insurance. If the company is good at keeping trainees then that'll reflect in their premiums. If they're bad, they should figure out why they're bad.
According to this: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/airbnb-statistics/ AirBnB has not had a single profitable year, losing 4.5 billion dollars in 2020 (okay, it was the pandemic year).

How is it a counter example?
> Only write necessary tests — specifically, tests whose estimated value is greater than their estimated cost.

Definitely. Ensuring that basic functionality works and that no awful regressions are introduced, using high-level tests (e2e, integration, based on realistic test data) is great. Such tests allow to refactor refactor with sufficient confidence.

Having hundreds of tests for trivial functions that might not even be relevant in day to day use for most customers which need to be rewritten or thrown away when refactoring - not so much.
So the primary reason to use digital currency is to starve public services?
“No dude! They are totally insane people! We’re the smart ones here” /s
> It would have been much more interesting to have ladybird written in plain and simple C (with the right compile-time and runtime function tables and NOT compiling with only gcc or clang). Maybe it is not too late to fix that.

Quite the opposite. The serenityOS people are implementing their own programming language, [jakt](https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt), which currently compiles to C++, and they'll move the codebase progressively to it as they go. I personally doubt that the project could have moved so fast in just a few years if it had been using C instead of C++.
He believes his kids friends are "professional actors" who were placed there to "sexualize" them, that The Gap knew about the Uvalde shooting before it happened, and that Pete Davidson slept with his wife through the mechinations of an international Jewish conspiracy. You're doing the same thing Fox did: quoting the least unhinged things and pretending the most unhinged things didn't get said.

And, as I'm sure will have to be repeated dozens more times on this doomed thread: the mental illness thing isn't hypothetical. He was hospitalized for it, diagnosed, and is open about it. He attributes his success to it!
You never know where the prevailing winds of online sentiment will turn next. Having your every post tagged with your identity can lead to real-life problems in the future, even if it was something edgy you said as a teenager or something you used to believe but don't any longer.
> I believe kovarex made some anti-trans statements once

Nah, publicly advertised for and defended some right-wing Youtuber. [0]

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/factorio
Interesting new take: "College: the hidden eugenics program."

This sort of makes sense to me.
How do you rationalize running for 37 hours while having hallucinations, I am legitimately curious. At what point do you say "I might be pushing myself too much"?
It appears that the primary contribution of both of these designs is the reduction in cost, rather than the increase in energy extracted from the wind. That is excellent thinking and hopefully they both succeed.
As I mention in the comment, it's fine to let people opt out. And you don't need to tell anybody that you opted out, so you can still participate in the spectacle even if your chance of winning is now literally 0% (as opposed to "vanishingly close to 0%").
Lotteries were originally run by organized crime. Legalizing state run lotteries was essentially the cure for that.
Honestly think in 10-20 years (if we survive till then) we can tell our grandkids stories about how we basically got subsidized by VCs and sovereign wealth funds to enjoy Uber,DoorDash,Airbnb,etc deals due to ZIRP.
Does this apply to only US manufactured cars because I have adaptive headlights on my 2021 Subaru Forester.
> short mental vacation by dreaming about what you'd be doing with the money

Sweet, sweet index funds. One can dream.
> track on the radio?

Probably never?
This is often repeated, but perhaps players understand all that very well.

Perhaps it is the condescending observer[0] who says "lotteries are a tax on stupidity" who does not understand the player's utility function.

[0] (not OP specifically, but in general)
That’s a little deceptive as most lotteries have small prizes. A regular player loses something like 2/3 to 3/4th of every dollar they spend. Those small prizes may just be a dopamine hit to keep people playing, but they do mean money spent is noticeably larger than money lost.
The Terrible Tale of iTunes 2
why? these are optical telescopes
They've been lying with data for decades, so it must be really dire.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/06/07/chinas-lies-damn-lies-a...
It's an interesting history, better explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament but in short, prior tuning systems were more mathematically correct, but an instrument would be tuned for a particular key and playing in other keys would sound (to us, anyway) like the instrument was out of tune.
> It does suck. It's also the nature of business, speculative investment. Sometimes you invest capital in something and don't see returns.

By this logic, should the government also stop helping banks collect debts (eg. garnishing wages or seizing property)? After all, lending is also a "speculative investment" and "Sometimes you invest capital in something and don't see returns".
I think that a platform where people expect the ugly ideas to be debated (in good faith) will have the users that are willing to do that[1].

Not every platform needs to have _all_ the users. I know that it's a bit of an anathema on a discussion board built by venture capitalists to say that the goal of a social platform should not be to maximize the amount of users and engagement, but here we are. I think optimizing your service for "everyone" is a bad strategy in competing with existing social networks, especially coming from an "indie" background. Not that Parler is exactly indie.

[1] I'm saying this as someone that is working towards a discussion platform that targets smallish to medium communities formed around a common interest. In this world if moms wanting to share their latest knitting project are excluded from a service that targets free speech people, that's fine, there can be a knitting community out there also for them. Having these two communities intermingle by using something like ActivityPub is a way to keep "the network effect" but keep them separate enough.
> the most popular rapper/hip hop artist of all time

Slim Shady stands up [0].

[0] - https://iamyourtargetdemographic.com/2011/08/30/kanye-west-v...
Interview with FFmpeg Enthusiast [video]
Denver International Airport Conspiracy Theories and the Surrounding Facts
Even assuming one "event" per mile that needs to be handled satisfactorily (pothole, pedestrian, inconsistent embedded reflectors, chipped or graffitied sign, ....), 99.9999% is about the same reliability as the rate that human drivers crash in the US, and fatal crashes are around 100x less common. If, as in this comment thread, self-driving cars are being proposed as a solution to the deaths caused by human ineptitude then 99.9999% seems like an absolute bare minimum for reliability.
This should maybe happen during a vehicle inspection. The last thing I want is another subjective reason for cops to be able to pull you over on the road.
> Don't force me into a scheme that I don't want to participate in.

As I've typed four times so far, my comment mentions that there's no problem letting people opt out.
Well, that and a number of follow-up comments from the same developer, such as this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/o2ly6f/friday_fac...

A lot of people have (understandably) lost patience with the "just asking questions" style of rhetoric, and don't appreciate others making excuses for it.
Well I think the problem is many companies might decide to not take on that risk like you said. And we all lose. The trick is to figure out the right amount of risk that the government will help or hurt the employer.
Well, you could always go with dvtm [1] and skip X11.

[1]: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm
Does anyone with an IQ above 100 talk about IQ?

Seriously, IQ is an incredibly irrelevant metric on whether/how you're educated and whether you make wise financial decisions.

> Physicist Stephen Hawking, When asked his IQ, he replied: "I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/the-science-of-s...
Sometimes you get tired of everything being a constant fight from the moment you were born.

Sometimes you are tired of grinding endlessly with little if anything to show for it, all because we threw a bad dice at birth.
Git as backend
That’s my observation too. Grocery chains need to be big enough to stock a wide variety of goods. But after a certain point, getting bigger makes the stores worse.
Yes, they get to die for the USA. But they don't get a say like real citizens - no congressmen, no electoral votes, no senators. They do get to pay taxes though. Before you rant about how that's not important, I'd like to remind you of a certain group of English citizens who didn't have representation but were allowed to die and pay taxes for England.
I’m pretty sure all you need is a free speech platform with a tiktok style algorithm that suppresses the grimiest of toxicity. Such a platform would blow every other one of the park and have a rush of content creators. I believe as those engagement algorithms become more accessible we’ll see a clear winner emerge.
It got me too. At least the title doesn’t have an illicit reference to Stripers.
To be fair, we reverted to capsules because the Shuttle was so expensive that there was no additional will to spend the necessary amount (when accounting for defense contractor bloat) on an effective successor that wasn't a flying death trap.

Even those capsules (especially the one actually flying people right now) only barely got the funding they needed.
or why we build a stop command with normal-closed contacts. a broken wire results in the same signal as a "stop" command.
There's https://www.risingwave.dev which is similar to materialize.
To be fair, when that was written being a member of the CPUSA meant there was a very good chance that someone was working with the KGB. There was a long history of people with college ties to communist groups going to work in sensitive industries and passing secrets to the KGB.
It was required that Kim got her law degree if she wanted to move out of the mail room.
Exactly why I stopped playing the game fairly quickly.
Low bitrate avatars, Zoom-ing in your PJs, virtual cosplay, video production (low budget for SFX), video anonymity.
> But don't you actually want a certain amount of coupling in the operations part?

In my opinion, for sure. There's a balance between "too coupled" and "too de-coupled" that should be stricken rather than too far on either side. It's good to say that this is also contextual; some projects may be fine with either more or less coupling than others, and that's OK.
Most testing frameworks distinguish between failure (aka assertion violation) and error (invalid or nonexistent test result).

But there may be mistakes writing the tests (false success result). To check the tests, I break the implementation, then check that they fail.
They definitely only did this because they figured out mathematical flaws in the game's design, so I'm not sure I would call this "playing" the lottery.
Are your tests for "the configuration is correct" or "the configuration file was found and read"...?
Unfortunately, Florida already targets mosquito populations with several techniques towards the goal of driving them to vastly reduced numbers.

A gene drive has been deployed in the Keys, as I understand it. I don't know if the objective was extinction or not.

Humans are going to impact their environment, and it's not productive to deny that this is going to happen. Smallpox was driven extinct, and many would like to do the same to dangerous mosquitos. I can't judge the morality, but it will likely happen all the same.
It's less inequality-increasing than the current Powerball lottery.
That’s a ridiculous hot take. What’s so hard to understand about curved mirrors? The mirrors already have a warning on them that objects are closer than they appear.
Good. Build something better.
It's an initialism, not an acronym. And _an_ SRE is correct.
First item on my checklist is to buy a laptop that I can repair myself. Knock Clevos all you want but System76 includes detailed instructions on how to replace almost any part going back several generations. Plenty of other vendors like Framework and Starlabs also support self-repair.
>One theory I subscribe to is that 1971 is when the US hit peak oil production

except now thanks to shale oil/fracking, we're actually producing more oil today than in 1971[1]. Why haven't we seen a reversion back to the good ol days?

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43015
They have bitcoin atms now, just wear a surgical mask when you go into the headshop that has them and you are anonymous.
It's been demonstrated to be quite possible to outspend lotto winnings.

To start with, the headline numbers are usually the sum of the annuity payment option, cash value is 50%, federal tax rate is close to 50%, so you only really get 25% of the headline.

Then people spend a bunch of money on extravagent gifts for family and friends and themselves; then it's time to take bad loans and make bad investments. A couple million here, a couple million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Well managed, a much smaller sum would be enough for a nice life with no money stress, but it's demonstrated possible to overspend it to bankruptcy.
People are not necessarily all on the same side of defining "the issue", FWIW.
I used to be free speech absolutist, but I am not any longer, especially when it comes to social media.

The argument in favor of absolute free speech for me was basically “let everyone hear everything and make up their own mind”. This presumes that people are swayed by the content of an argument. This is a false assumption, people are mostly swayed by the volume of the argument. This is well documented in psychological research. Now, if everyone had the same level of visibility for their personal speech this would just lead to an ersatz version of opinion democracy, where the most often held opinions would rise to the top, which wouldn’t be a bad thing.

But people don’t have equal visibility. The reach of a wealthy or famous person is so much greater that in the political arena basically only the speech of the wealthy and famous ends up having enough volume to convince people, even if it starts out wildly unpopular and even if it is objectively false. Social media are especially sensitive to this thanks to the ability to buy access to views without the viewers even realizing, to micro-target audiences, and to have zero independent vetting of what is said. This then perverts absolute free speech into a weapon used by the powerful to deceive and subvert democracies.

That’s why I think that to protect democracies we must have some limits on the ability to get speech amplification through (social) media, but I don’t have a hard and fast rule for what that should look like. It is far easier to say “let everything pass” but that is the easy way out and ultimately bad.
This is a very dramatic illustration of one of the benefits of a pull vs push-based architecture.
>Is this really the bookstore's fault?

No, not at all. Like, this morning, my hair looked wild, so my wife teased me about it. It merits teasing, not because the hair was my fault, but just because it was funny looking.

Similarly, I'm making fun of B&N for an aesthetic flaw, not a moral one.
The US does not grant the states a right to become independent countries either.
Nobody is being forced to participate. As I mention, you can let people opt out. I wonder if anyone is reading my comment at all?
Yes, and it will include advertisements not only from Microsoft, but also Canonical, all injected into convenient places in the everyday command line utilities that people use via a revolutionary new hooking/sideloading technique written in Rust.