skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I wrote and launched a Bitcoin casino/poker site - started privately in 2008 and launched in BTC back in 2011, long before BTC was considered currency, but I still blocked everyone from my home country (the US) out of a very conservative reading of federal and state laws around the definitions of "game of chance" and "thing of value". I figured it would be legalized one day but only for massive corporations that could buy enough government officials. I thought I could bootstrap my way into it.

That wasn't my big eye-opener on this type of corruption, though. I used my little casino as a testbed for dozens of original card games, slot games, and multiplayer games, many of which had adjustable odds that could be set anywhere from pari-mutuel to a specific house rake over time. I spent a lot of time presenting videos and demos to Indian tribes and cruise lines and individual Vegas casinos with the idea of having the online casino work on their premises, i.e. in the hotel rooms. The issues in the way were many, and mostly regulatory. For instance, in Vegas, casino floor square footage is taxed and regulated in a certain way, and off-floor gaming isn't allowed. On the floor, wifi coverage for gaming-connected systems is charted by heat maps and any system connected to the monetized network has to go through extremely expensive ongoing code / hardware testing conducted by the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB). Mostly at the casino's expense. So even though it was a novel concept at the time to let people join satellites of real poker tournaments on their phones while they were at the casino bar, the casinos figured they would hold off until a provider with deep pockets came along.

So then I had the idea of just licensing my original slots and card games. I had all the statistical analyses worked out and playable versions that were already in use with tons of real world data. Sure, said the NGCB. That'll be $500,000 per review of each game variant before you can shop it to casinos. The cost of each review is nonrefundable if it doesn't pass, and the review process takes a year, and there's a 2-3 year backlog because Bally puts out tons of games we have to review.

Not exactly possible for a lone coder making a modest sum from running a Bitcoin casino that has to lock out one country after another.

It was clear to me that sooner or later, once they figured out a way to exclude tech-side competitors with a history of software gaming from the market, (Galewind, Microgaming, et al - not that any of them are very clean) the powers that be in the US would find a way to reward those lucrative contracts to their buddies and/or whoever paid top dollar under the table.

I ran [edit] provably fair games and published every result. But I never encountered a gaming regulatory body from Isle of Man to Costa Rica to Nevada that wasn't crooked as all get-out. Then again, show me an economic field of supposedly questionable morality that hasn't developed a parasitic class of bureaucrats to grift off people's desire to access it.
That's a pretty critical distinction.
yeah—it leaves ambiguity around whether it’s marijuana, the combination of tobacco and marijuana, or something else
Fundamental misunderstanding: social media companies are not tech companies, they are content moderation companies with in-house software development and IT support.
It would surprise a lot of Americans just how wealthy the lower-class are in the US and the luxuries available to them when compared to other places. There are a lot of very poor people in Europe, having traveled a fair bit in Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Italy, which are countries that are ostensibly highly developed.

The safety net in the US is actually quite strong for citizens (there is a huge illegal immigrant class that gets very little) as SNAP benefits (free food) and Medicaid expansion for low-income people are quite generous. If you can get a Section 8 (free housing) voucher you can essentially live without working.

The pros outweigh the cons IMO but there are some very weird incentives, like poor people are far less likely to get married after having children because government benefits are much stronger for single moms with multiple kids. It’s counter-productive.
Correct. Those of us that actually remember this 'technology' remember that it existed back in the late 1970s as a permissionless distributed database. It was an unworkable mess then, and look at what we currently have right now.

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com
This is completely true.
Given those numbers maybe the right move is to open a daycare!
At least give me a high partition so I don't have to watch my cow orker sloppily eating food with their mouth open and gesticulating wildly all day.

I can put on noise cancelling headphones but I can't visually block out physical shenanigans, my monkey brain is tracking for threats.
This is definitely not the way teams I have been on have used TODOs. It better not actually be broken code. It means “this works but I have an improvement in mind that doesn’t need to be done now.” There is no way I or anyone on my team is getting away with TODOing code that is literally broken.

I’m now legitimately frightened about what some people are apparently labeling TODO. If that’s the way you use it, no wonder you’ve come to the conclusion it’s terrible.
Someone's gotta invent a cigarette that's actually good for your health!

(Oddly enough this might actually work. My understanding is that nicotine is not actually that unhealthy; it's mostly the other stuff in cigarette's that's bad for you. Additionally, based on an old coworker of mine who quite smoking successfully, a big part of the addiction is just having something to put in your mouth.)
I have not heard of the U.S. as a contender for industrial espionage. Traditional espionage sure, but not for competitive advantage. Do know of any sources for info about that?
The problem isn't a lack of community, it's that the project is solving a problem that isn't relevant to anyone except Fortune-X00 companies.
Cryptpad failed my early example of spreadsheet functionality: I typed in a series of numbers in column B, and typed at the top of the column "=B3:B".
32 Connected experiences that analyze your content in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/privacy/conne...
Congrats! This should have been banned many years ago, in whole Europe

Asia/Africa follow along and encourage local or free, non-profit open source alternatives
Have you heard about divorce Barbie? She comes with all of Ken’s stuff.
Last time I looked into this the best available coolant was the 3M Novec line, but it was around $400 usd/gallon. Is it available anywhere else for less?
Brazil is years ahead of EU countries in this matter.
Agreed. That's why my "spokes" are from 4 to 8. 4 puts the THs apart with the hub in between. Maybe 6 is doable. 8 would mean a good distant from hub to TH in order to keep the THs far enough apart.
They're the 8th largest manufacturing country in the world. Is that industrial superpower territory? I don't think so. Italy out-manufacturers them by about 10%.
> The largest issue is that state-of-the-art models don’t understand the structure of code, such as non-local context.

When I read “non-local context,” it really drove home for me just how off the mark they were and changed the whole tone.

It also makes me think were they just hoping the solution would fall out of the sky? Seems irresponsible if that was part of their calculus.
The zero initializer tip looks interesting, can't believe I didn't know about it before.
We probably need a new way of handling these dependencies on tech firms. I don't think libre office or any other thing can replace MS Office. There should be another way to deal with it.
Good comments overall. One insight here is to put yourself in their shoes to understand how to negotiate the best outcome. Most people don't rationalize themselves as mean or psychotic - there is probably some rationalizing behind the decision. E.g. diamondage is not a great engineer and we need to clean up the cap table before we increase the valuation because we can hire someone amazing.

To be clear, I'm not saying that's right or true. But assuming that's their position, does it change anything about your negotiation strategy?
The gaming industry has moved away primarily because legislation has been getting passed in countries like Japan and China forbidding lootboxes in games. It's been a hot topic off and on in Congress and Parliaments around the world for a few years now and I assume game developers are (of course) skittish about it.

To your point about cosmetic-only though, that still exists. Rocket League, which I play regularly, gives out boxes you open and get a random cosmetic with varying degrees of rarity. You can get a net larger amount of these cosmetic boxes by paying for the Rocket Pass premium (something like $10 a season). But the loot boxes only ever contain skins, wheels, etc.
Thank you for open sourcing your code. Thank you for your effort. 7 years is a long time to work on something, and I hope you all recover a bit from the previous campaign before moving on to your next things.

> It includes our data-driven Python type inference engine

I couldn't find which repository this lived in. I am very interested in it, as my team maintains a few open source static analysis and code generation tools. We'd be interested in trying this out.
I think a lot of people take that view.

Morality aside, gambling, including sports gambling, creates measurable social harm.

Similarly, I do not have a moral problem with opioids. But they have a measurable social harm.

Marketing those products to college-age students does not benefit society in the long term.
Sorry for the Kite team, but for other folks aspiring here, more optimism is in order: We pay for copilot for Graphistry staff because it works well. Similar story for Docker Desktop: It's new, yet people are already paying for it to the tune of 8 figures revenue per year. I bet similar is/will be happening with Copilot.

Credit to where credit is due. I worked in R&D here in a group tackling it for almost a decade ("program synthesis"), and while Copilot has a lot more to do, it solved so much of the usability & basic use case gap of what the R&D community had been attempting for years. Large language models & transformer models have been out for years, and the Github team executed well on adapting them.

(Separately: There _is_ an interesting question whether this space is VC-investable -- how likely will at least 1 startup here make it to 9-10 figures of revenue. But that's another story.)
I remember when Kite launched. The feedback on HN was that few people wanted all of their code sent to Kite’s servers. Copilot took all open source code instead and made it autocomplete into your IDE. It would be hard to sell to any company giving away their IP for some auto completion, but it’s easy to sell autocompleting from open source code.
IIUC, the mining operation was extremely illegal (independent of the genocide, which is obviously also illegal).

It happened on Brazil's watch so it's Brazil's responsibility, but I'm ill-convinced convinced that in its absence this wouldn't continue to happen (in its absence, there's no FINRA, no organization protecting these tribes... And there are still people willing to kill for mining profit).
I have another comment about Lord of the Flies downvotes (on the post about the HN parody). I suspect either no one wants to do anything about it, or else they think it's a feature, not a bug. They're dreaming of a world that's long gone.

The received wisdom of the rest of the social network Web is: up/down vote the comment, not the commenter. That doesn't quite solve your problem, but it's a good start.
Oral tradition?
Breathing smoke was never healthy. Eat your weed.
It doesn't just run Minecraft, it now runs a smooth gpu accelerated GNOME desktop including things like Youtube videos: https://cdn.masto.host/sigmoidsocial/media_attachments/files...

This doesn't yet work out of the box but the next few months will be very exciting.
> but it does not imply at all the supposed extent, ruthlessness and far-reach thar the OG poster implies.

Well perhaps a better understanding of Cold War politics might peel back the cover on how ruthless the French can be.

It's a fact that the bulk of the Cold War weapons grade ore was sourced from parts of Africa that were former | current French | Belgian colonies and satelite states, it's well recorded the ongoing destabilisation of local democratic Governments that kept effective control of mineral operations in the hands of principally French companies acting as US proxies in an extensive (at the time) unreported war of resource domination and control.

What the French did in New Zealand, planting bombs and killing civilian anti nuclear demonstrators [1] pales in comparison to their actions in Africa and elsewhere.

> The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a state-sponsored terrorist bombing by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
It's significantly harder to calculate the lower end of the scale: You have to define what a city is to do it.
Well, guess where the opportunities lie these days? Secure document destruction! It's true; I don't know if there are for-profit operations with blind employees, but there are definitely non-profits with blind volunteers who destroy corporate documents very securely!
Why should France be kicking ass at SW dev? The only French SW I considered was Didomi. Their product was alright, but their sales cycle was a pain in the ass.
If you could actually prove it provided real benefits, it would still be worth it since you could know for sure that spending $5 on a tool will result in $10 extra earned. Sounds like people just didn't believe that there was that value being generated.
Artemis I – Day 5: Orion Enters Lunar Sphere of Influence Ahead of Lunar Flyby
That's the general idea. But not #1. I think privacy trumps comfort.
Thabo Mbeki was an AIDS denialist, he's been out of power since 2008 and largely discredited.

Jacob Zuma came to power partially because he wasn't an AIDS denialist, and one of the few things Zuma can claim credit for was widespread availability of anti-AIDS drugs, and the resultant recovery in South Africa's life expectancy.

AIDS denialism is pretty-much dead in South Africa....it only ever was a pique of Thabo Mbeki, and because of his power as head of the ANC, the rest of the leadership had to be sycophantic.
> With air cooling this is much more difficult

To my understanding, DCs use air conditioning systems for cooling. These are already heat pumps - why would it be more difficult to just pump that heat into district heating instead of outside air?
Hi! It looks quite polished for a weekend-style project :) But the "Current state" section is upfront about it. I should have noticed the commit date; I guess "archiving" the project would have sent a stronger signal.

Please don't rewrite it on my account (I'd just mention laziness and fix the `if` bug since it's trivial: https://github.com/utdemir/nixlisp/blob/4e0eec383363df72b7b4..., the comment already says the right thing). It would be interesting to see the "bork" examples if you still have them on hand (I'd even put them in the README).

It was fun to play with, thanks for making and publishing!
Noise cancelling headphones will help ambient noise. But it won’t help when you are being actively interrupted for “just one question”. When I’m at home, I can block time on my calendar for “deep work”, shut down Outlook and Slack. I set my Slack status to “doing deep work until X:00”
This is a great start and raises a lot of questions, for example:

- 50 of 56 marijuana smokers in this study also used tobacco - how does this affect the results?

- How does frequency of use compare in the marijuana vs. tobacco cohort?

- How does smoking compare to vaping (both e-liquid for nicotine and thc, and dry herb for marijuana)?

- How would a filtered marijuana product affect these risks?
What should have been banned specifically? This isn’t a ban on commercial software.
Out of the 63 national parks and thousands of state parks in the USA, can we have just one experiment with totally blocking those apps? The obvious place would be a park that has had problems with people going off the trail to take photos when they're not supposed to.

I know you'll still need to offer people cell service so they can call 911 in emergencies, but why not block everything else, as an experiment? Put a big sign at all entrances to that park so people know what they're getting into.

And then the big question would be... would taking this step increase park usage, or decrease it? I honestly have no idea, but I'm incredibly curious to find out.
It wasn't just the Buffetts of the world. Did any credible financial advisors or economists say speculating on crypto is a good idea?
> was the second largest Democratic donor

This is a cheap trick, you just have a different corporate officer do the Republican donations, as FTX did.
It says attention not enjoy.

A neurodivergant having a hard time processing something, or not liking it, is never the less devoting attention to it.

And surely there are some percentage who actually are oblivious to it rather than merely handling it poorly. But they are not 1 in 6.

But swiss cheese arguments to support percieving things as attacks are both quite typical indeed.
TLDR: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...
Only 10 years ago I had two people over to LAN game.
Newly released Far Cry 3 had some co-op bits in it!

Didn't work. Despite each machine being on the same network they tried to connect via the routers external IP and failed at the UPnP/NAT traversal stage.

Honestly, a "direct connect" option solves many things.
You seem to complain mostly about the bouncer. There are services that will "just work" for you, like IRCCloud or chat.sr.ht (and certainly others). You just will just have history without knowing about what a bouncer is.
Oh yeah, the artificial market segmentation.
Just because the one you used worked doesn't mean the concept was safe. Viruses also loved the concept.
You must be joking right

The US controls the global economy, every transactions made in $ are sniffed and tracked, they know about your trade secrets

And if you dare escape from their watchdog, they'll let you know illico presto [1]

(this is also why i believe that cryptocurrencies fad is a FED project, and Satoshi is one of their codename)

One of my biggest regret is not saving the article i read on that matter that went into the details on why, including how they leverage their army of lawyers to make sure you comply, or it was a book, it's sad that i forgot.., read a little bit about Alstom, it's very shady

It's also part of the reason why they are scared about BRICs moving away from the dollar and adopting the YUAN and its digital version

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeur...

EDIT:

Some documentation on the matter:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...
> From what I understand, Collabora is LibreOffice in your browser

Indeed:

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
With that method I would just double check that 240-fps slo-mo video is synced to realtime. It may be applying an unnoticeable slow-motion effect (e.g. 90% speed playback) that would throw off the results

So e.g. put a clock in the video
Would everyone bring their TV set?
And I don't want to download a full embedded browser (not my browser of choice, on top of that) for every small app under the sun. And ElectronJS is just that.
I was flagged and downvoted for my comment, which, at least in my opinion demonstrates what Im talking about. Additionally, I was rate limited by the mods, so it must have really struck a chord. Was that a reasonable response to my a comment? I went against the mob and said maybe don't take financial/political advice from HN. Bam, flagged and rate limited. So, to answer your question, this topic is apparently one of the cesspools.

I really appreciate your bio, BTW. I think I relate. I could be wrong.

Apology by the delay in replying. I'm effectively banned so I have to choose what to write. You'll probably never read this, but I gotta tell yah, the mods here are vindictive.
I feel like this should be added to the submission title.
Yes, heat reuse is easier with water cooling since the losses are smaller, but even air cooling will produce warm water in the end. There will be coming regulations requiring a certain amount of heat reuse, but in a first step, this probably won't force direct water cooling.

For those regulations, there is also the important aspect of free cooling, i.e just using outside air as a medium or using an air-air heat exchanger like a Tokyo Wheel. Mandated heat reuse (without appropriate exceptions) would make those illegal, however in certain situations those are the best (environmentally and financially) methods of cooling. E.g. in a moderately hot summer you can use 20-30°C outside air without a problem, but if you would mandate heat reuse at that time, you would have lots and lots of excess heat on your hands with nobody buying it. So while some regulation will be coming, I hope and think that it wouldn't really issue a strict mandate to reuse heat and allow free air cooling, which would exclude direct water cooling.
When operating a moving vehicle, in comparison to THC? Yes, absolutely. That was the context in which I was speaking. Nicotine calms nerves while improving focus. There's a reason people like smoking tobacco.

Marijuana, on the other hand, slows your reaction time and hampers decision making, as well as (in a small percentage of people, but including me) triggers depression, paranoia, and psychosis. Although it is legal to have and to smoke where I live, you still can't do it while driving a car or in public spaces. Doesn't seem to stop people though :\
It does seem that corporate regulation, including higher education (both for-profit and "non-profit but we have D1 football") and healthcare, is ineffective in the US.

Some regulations that seem to work pretty well: airline safety, food safety, cosmetic product safety, factory work hours.
So, philosophical question here: Human zoos are racist and wrong, right? How is leaving uncontacted tribes alone to live in isolation (but under remote observation) any different? Fun diversions include: the prime directive from star trek and potential diseases spreading from first contact being equivalent to genocide.

I think that in the end, none of debate will matter and that all remaining tribes will either be dead or clumsily brought into civilization without regard for ethics.
Yeah, this conclusion only really tells us anything if marijuana + tobacco smokers generally smoke less tobacco than tobacco only smokers. Otherwise it's no surprise that someone who smokes a pack a day and smokes marijuana is worse off than someone who just smokes a pack a day.
Not convinced. One could argue that Discord and Slack ate a bigger part of it. And then Matrix is very very heavy as compared to IRC.
Now that it's open source, what's stopping you from integrating it into your workflow? Have you ever even tried it?

I don't think the being locked in a proprietary workflow bit is your real reason, because when you break it down - this doesn't make much sense. Fear of needing to switch workflows down the line outweighs the [potentially temporary if company dies] boost in productivity?

Of course, this assumes kite fits your workflow well and you find it delivers value (you don't cancel immediately)