skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would such a machine be legal in the regulated real-world?

I live in Spain. I dislike slot machines and, a long time ago, while a friend was wasting his money, I made a quick calculation. Given the number of options and the prizes, if you assumed randomness, one in three coins he inserted would have produced a prize, even the smallest, that was reimbursement.

But that wasn't what happened. It was more of a prize for one in seven coins or maybe one in ten. My friend knew more than enough maths to understand what I told him, but he said he knew, right? (he didn't) and that the question was to wait for the moment the machine was loaded. I realized it was just an addiction.

And yes, at least then and there it was legal.
Yeah and I think the whole "rise" in transgender cases is better explained by considering that it was a huge taboo until recently and there's now actual operations available and accessible (insurance) to people that weren't before

People forget also that the parents have the final say in these matters until the child matures. Nobody is coming to castrate your kids :P
Must be nice being able to work in the same shell every day, and one you have complete control over no less. For those of us ssh-ing into uncountable remote servers all day with unprivileged accounts, it's not really a practical option unfortunately.
> I guess most of them have/had other jobs, like teaching at a university for example. And some — especially people who were university teachers — tend to continue on that job.

University prof might not be a wealthy job, but class wise it is usually considered pretty high class. We're not exactly talking about the people putting 9-5 in doing manual labour at a construction site.

> A college degree in things like literature, political science, economics, and general science subjects (physics, chemistry, math, biology etc) tend to be inexpensive here, as compared to a degree in engineering or medical science.

Maybe, but its still a large investment for questionable financial gain. The opportunity cost is high. The pay-off (ignoring things like love of the subject and instrinsic value) is pretty low. Its a hard thing to justify if you're not at least upper-middle class.
Well, my understanding is that right after Oracle acquired Sun it found itself with a free database engine it did not need because it would compete with its own "free" Oracle XE product offering.

There was a lot of uncertainty about the future of MySQL... The original authors forked MariaDB and MySQL for many months did not receive any update.
Hopes fade for India’s moon lander after it fails to ‘wake up’ after lunar night
I remember reading about Yanis Varoufakis studying the economics of games for Valve at a time when I played TF2 occasionally. Several years later I went back to play some games and it seemed like a wholly different world with loot crates and markets for cosmetics. My timing may be off, and I suppose the idea was already there. But hearing someone talk about markets inside popular games was a bit concerning.
True, but you ARE getting a google play store app for those that find that comforting.
One example: it now refuses to summarise books that it trained on. Soon after trying GPT-4 I could get it to summarise Evans DDD chapter by chapter. Not anymore.

Not a surprise, but a change nonetheless.
I interned at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory 20+ years ago. One of the guys was telling me at lunch about his work that day. He had to run some simulations to tell the Navy if their Trident guidance system needed to be sent back for re-manufacturing after a forklift operator dropped it. My understanding is that the handling crate had some kind of integral rough handling detector. (I presume calibrated weights on thin wires, in 3 axes, so you can bracket the peak accelerations by looking at which wires broke and which didn't.)

I was told that once above most of the atmosphere, the MIRV bus guidance unit pops the lens off and takes a snapshot of the stars. The MIRV bus is rotating at that point, so the telescope scans a good section of the sky, but it takes a snapshot at a very specific time and is only interested in a rather small patch of sky. It compares what it sees with a stored copy of what it should see, and uses that to re-calibrate the inertial measurement unit.

The way it was described to me was that one rotation checked the star field, the IMU was re-calibrated, the very next rotation was used to double-check the IMU calibration, and right after that, the MIRV bus started popping off the individual warheads. It seems strange to me that they would use such a short observation window to re-calibrate the IMU, rather than having a long period of continuous re-calibration. It's also highly possible that the guy explaining it to me was giving intentional misinformation to avoid accidentally disclosing TS/SCI to a non-cleared intern.

The nitty-gritty of guidance is fascinating. It's unfortunate that the main use cases for ultra-accurate guidance are in weapons.

There was a pendulous integrating gyroscopic accelerometer from the Apollo IMU sitting in a glass case in the lab... a shame given how few people were allowed into the lab.
> They also suffer from an unfortunate lack of neural plasticity. There is no room in their day or desire for picking up new techniques, they're way more interested in the ideas they're absorbed with.

Don't confuse "lack of neural plasticity" with lack of tolerance for tech industry's bullshit. They most likely have a strong case to make that those updates are unnecessary, and likely making a perfectly fine workflow worse. Computers, in general, have been getting increasingly less ergonomic and less functional over time, and the decrease in ergonomics affects even the most specialized software aimed at professionals.
> If people are dumb enough to consentually waste time and money on casinos, they deserve to lose their time and money.

I find this to be a very naive perspective. It’s not how addiction works, and even people who want to stop sometimes cannot. And even if you buy into the belief that we shouldn’t help them, what about their kids? What about the communities around them that are worse for having addicts who are pouring money from their jobs into a black hole?

> I personally don't care.

I’m sorry to hear that, and I hope you can change your mind one day. We’re all going to die one day, and life is better if we care about each other
Seems to me more a slip than a “really messed this up” situation
One problem is a lot of those people spending that money (or should I say their parents money) are not old enough to be allowed into a casino or otherwise gamble. But since it's a reward of bytes and not dollars it's currently legally okay to take advantage of a child the way a casino takes advantage of adults.
Meanwhile in Australia, we’re stuck in the Stone Age because of an incredibly corrupt and influential pharmacy lobby.
Speak for yourself, buddy.
Examples of classes where inheritance is indispensable. I cannot imagine what kind of programming you are doing where that pattern never comes up.
> I don’t know if you can use an argument about waiting times if most of your country can’t go at all due to the cost.

This is a crazy comment. Man asked 2 simple follow up questions. Did not “use an argument”. Also, what do you presume his/her country to be such that most can’t go due to the cost? I don’t remember them stating a place of origin.
No, the losers are the people who are not employees: business owners mainly. Hence the whining and throwing of toys out of cots.
No, because it isn't.
> After all, some observed invariants, such as the conservation of energy, have withstood the numerous revisions to our physical models, and it seems odd to blithely assert that they'll be invalidated any year now.

That's not a great example, since conservation of energy is actually violated in current cosmological models. The expansion of spacetime actually implies violation of energy conservation at the global level. It's only locally that energy is conserved.

Similarly, while there is definitely something special about the speed of light, it may or may not be a limit in the sense we typically use. That is, GR and QFT are consistent with the existence particles to have speeds greater than C, it only prevents any particle from accelerating from below C to C or above. It also puts certain limits on observations of those particles. However, it's hard to say what overall implications there would be for all of our models if such particles were actually found to exist, or if there is some modification possible for those theories that would entirely prevent the existence of those particles.
You can typically get an appointment with your GP within a day or two; their role is basically triage for the rest of the health system. Access to specialists is tiered; a referral from a GP gets you access to earlier appointments, without a referral you could wait for months. So people with chronic conditions who know that they need to set up appointments on a regular basis set up those appointments months ahead of time (instead of setting a personal reminder on their phones then trying to get an appointment in the next day or two), while slots are kept open for people who get referrals for more acute cases. An appointment for a specialist after securing a referral can be anywhere from same-day to a couple weeks or so. Some people pay for private insurance because the thought of waiting a couple weeks to see a specialist is unthinkable for them.

I have a parent who needed cancer treatment in the US (in a major urban center), even with insurance, trying to get an appointment with oncologists, radiologists, etc. could take more than a month, trying to get surgery scheduled was a multi-month affair. Especially for cancer treatment, where time is of the essence (who knows when the tumor will continue to metastisize?), the process was frustratingly slow. The Israeli process is far faster.

As far as quality... look, most doctors in the system aren't going to be Dr. Gregory House. But no complaints. By and large, the ones I have encountered will listen, are attentive, are not immediately dismissive of attempts to self-diagnose, and do a good job. Israeli law also recognizes the right to a second opinion and doctors encourage patients to secure one if they so desire.
If US insists on keeping healthcare private I’d expect soon or later for these money-sucking “health” insurance companies to be replaced by VC-money-sucking tech companies offering a fairly priced subscription for accessing drugs and treatments.

The only obstacle is - and it’s a big one - drugs and health insurance companies crying out to the gov about how tech companies are stealing their lunch and they should broke down.
Is this a graphics designers' equivalent to the difference between 0 and -0?
Could you clarify which part of the ACA you are saying was struck down by the Supreme Court?

The only such parts I know of are the mandatory Medicaid expansion and some stuff related to covering contraception. (And the individual mandate penalty was reduced to zero by Congress in 2017.)

I was not aware of any part of the ACA that required insurers to carry certain plans, apart from the general regulations it introduced on health insurance plans in general.
Oh for god's sake it's not really that bad. A couple years ago I accidentally, absolutely shattered my smartphone one day and after a couple days without one while shopping around, I decided "why the hell not? let's see how long you can go without". Then spent an entire year with nothing but an old tiny Nokia dumb-as-bricks phone until some new work made a smartphone unavoidable again. You miss a few things sure, but enough of the silly modern drama.

Edit. For financial transactions, for all the talk among many here about not letting BigTech take over your personal life, it would be nice to see more effort to you know, actually apply that to the basics, such as by not utterly depending on a phone and a couple of mega payment processing tech monsters like Apple and Google to pay for basic shit that could be handled through fairly simple alternatives. a little inconvenience for the sake of a more fundamental point rarely kills.
Surely if the FaceID module provides a key to decrypt the encrypted contents of the phone, if you swap a module then another module might be able to verify a face but not provide the correct key, and the phone remains locked? If, before you remove the module, you wiped the phone then of course no key is required..

Having a module which could be removed and replaced just say Yes or No would seem to be a very poor design. Also in that case, Apple could presumably authorise a new module, meaning they would retain the capability to break into any phone (which I understood they did not want)
Yep
https://www.reuters.com/business/bed-bath-beyond-cfos-death-...
I think it's a good thing the props are fragile as the motor would be damaged if the props hit an object without absorbing the force of impact.
Great book, recommended read.
Yeah I agree with you on this. This might have been the CEO too proud to not go back on his strong words against revenue share. That said the alternative they presented is a really stupid alternative. I don't think anyone has argued that Unity shouldn't be able to make money or increase their fees if necessary, but they should have followed their word on "stay on the terms you signed up to" and not do such a crazy version of fee increase as they did (install fee is a really stupid metric and that the install fee didn't have a roof was really bad).
Of course it was staged: it was performance art! It's not like she found herself wandering through the gallery and suddenly decided to subject herself to the whim of strangers. The event was planned ahead of time.

Or do you mean the reactions of the audience sound fake/staged? In either case, what gives you that idea?
On the other hand, founders stepping down as the company gets bigger or is faced with completely different challenges is usually for the better.

I can't imagine Daimler-Benz as it is now being led by the 3rd grandson of the original founder for instance. It would be a miracle if that person was well suited for directing a multi-national car manufacturer. Same way Microsoft wouldn't be the same if Bill Gates' son was at the helm.
Nowhere near "most of our country" (in the US) can't go at all due to the cost.
Einstein knew the works of Schopenhauer quite well and for sure didn't make this mistake. Furthermore, most of the Physicists back then were most likely influenced by Kant or Mach (Einstein called himself his student in letters to him).
https://freedoom.github.io/ has tons of free doom mods if you want to check out what the modding community has been up to all these decades.
I think it's just the opposite. Kids who've grown up with this crap will be wise to the tricks. Those who don't get exposed until adulthood have no resistance. Just like how the younger generation is pretty good at using social media responsibly and prioritizing stronger relationships, whereas the older generation get hooked and spend their whole lives yelling in newspaper comment sections.
So it's still able to be used, by even more people than before the security bug.
A "casino" doesn't have a reason, in fact it has no reason at all. The people running it do, and someone with enough power could rig the games and steal from both the customers and the casino, hurting both.
>Can’t swap it else anyone can unlock your phone with a swapped FaceID module.

I think some very highly paid engineer at Apple could figure out this simple solution. "If the FaceId, Fingerprint Reader is compromised you fallback to the password, there should always be a password/PIN for special cases".

Just in case those engineers could not coem up with such ideas , Apple(and others) you can use my idea for free, I will donate it to you for the environment sake.
I might be remembering the situation wrong, but I think you’re mistaken. Sony made music discs that would fuck your computer up and install software without you knowing or consent.

Also in the early days cd drives were wired up to the sound card. But I feel that went away later on with SATA drives and dvd drives. I must say I haven’t see a laptop with a disc drive that worked as you suggest.
At least children can't sign up for a Robinhood account.
They changed their minds, will offer unlimited data. But the down/up isn't quite there
Yes, for now I didn't find any standard format of samples dump.

I already figure out how to integrate with golang's pprof, seems I need to work with other perf tools as well.

I am thinking about adding a flag like `--input-format=pprof` for different outputs.
> Is it not enough that Huawei was banned by the US?

They are in an economic war and are competing about whose spyware people use. I dont see how given that you can take this as a sensible metric.

Not arguing against your main point though, your line of reasoning is just flawed. The US would have reason to behave like this even if Chinese spyware wasnt a threat.
Cessnas can take off on highways, pretty much any small aircraft can take of on a highway.

I’m not understanding what challenge was overcome here.
And Twitter. Albeit in a slightly different way.
If your utilities are written as self-contained exported Bash functions, you could concatenate them all in a single file (say, `utils.sh`), with a single line at the end:

exec /bin/bash

Then you could do something like:

ssh hostname@address -tt bash -s < /path/to/utils.sh

And have all your utilities available on the remote machine :)
On a calculator keypad a 4 digit number in a rectangle shape is divisible by 11
Anecdotally, it was my more risk taking and carefree friends that had kids first. I can see why - with just a little effort it's very easy not to have kids in the modern world, and the cost-benefit analysis for children is pretty bad.

What that means for the future of humanity, I don't know.
How does it communicates with anything from the external world? This same channel could be used for sshing or anything

Actually, from another comment

> Privacy Information: Plese note that the data is proxied through the Invisible Computers API backend and a non-reversible hash of most recent image is stored for up to 48 hours.

So there's some mechanism to make API calls to your own cloud infrastructure, but customers can't use it to skip the middleman and send things directly to the device? I hope I'm reading this wrong, because that's awful.
nice to see more podman/systemd ties but --user I find even harder to let tabs on what containers are running, especially as you check on other users, remembering the socket mount is quite unpleasant. I'm really a fan of tilt and just using k8s yaml I'll probably need to deploy anyway. but I don't see why you couldn't make that reconciliation loop drive podman instead. but then docker bought tilt so...
We know - how do we know? From experiments. And did we have to assume things about time in order to make experiments? You bet we did. We wouldn't get very far with experiments if we didn't take as axiomatic that causes precede their effect in time, for instance.

I haven't got into the depths of Bergson's argument, but I think I see the point in the headline that time belongs in philosophy, and I can easily imagine he was right that Einstein was smuggling in philosophical assumptions in the particular choice of words he used to describe the implications of his findings.
Vegas is well-regulated, but when you move outside that realm, things get a bit more loosely-defined.

I spent a couple of years in the mid-2000s working in the edges here, so I have a bit of knowledge. Note: I've been out of this industry for at least 15 years, so some of my knowledge might have aged, but I'm fairly certain that it's still true in the general sense.

First, under federal regulations, there are three classes of gambling. First, class I, which is basically, "I make a wager with you over the outcome of a sporting event". So if I'm playing golf with you and I bet you $10 a hole on outcome, that's class I. It's not regulated at federal level, and not generally regulated at state level.

The next class is Class II. This covers things like raffles, and mid-week church bingo. There are some limits, but it's not regulated by the states generally, and not by the feds at all.

Class III is what we think of as traditional gambling. Table games, traditional slot machines, etc. This is absolutely regulated by the states, and only allowed if the states allow it. This is what your Vegas and Atlantic City casinos operate under.

But there are Indian casinos outside of this in these markets operating. How do they operate, you ask? The simple answer is, if the games are operating as Class I or (more likely) class II games, the states have no say in them. And it's very easy to make a lotto drawing, or a bingo card, appear as a slot machine play. All random wins are basically equivalent to each other. If you go to an Indian casino, and you want to play a slot machine, but it's requiring you to wait on another player, you're dealing with a class II machine.

What about class III? Well, states are allowed to negotiate compacts with the various Native American tribes where they allow them to conduct class III games. A number of states have done this. This allows them to run, say, blackjack and poker, as well as slot machines that don't fall under class II. Interestingly, in a lot of jurisdictions, you're still basically following the ideas of class II, but just not requiring competition. So if you go to a casino in Oklahoma, you'll see that you are (most often) playing a game of instant bingo on each spin, or possibly a game of instant lotto on each spin. Because that's what the compact between the state of Oklahoma and the tribes there allows.

But there are still loopholes that allow you, in some jurisdictions, to run slot machines outside of these provisions. Let's say, you're allowed to run raffles that allow up to a $1000 prize on a $1 entry. These are just numbers to use to illustrate the concept, and they vary state to state. So I set up a slot machine that you pay $1 a spin, which is an entry in a lotto that pays maximum $1000, and after the total number of tickets allocated is depleted, will pay the house 10%. Perfectly legal, though local law enforcement in the bible belt in the south may disagree. I've coded a number of systems that implemented exactly this.

Other jurisdictions may allow you to have prizes up to, say, 25x the entry on machines, to allow the legality of the claw machines. This can also be (ab)used to make slot machines.
I love that the Ian know exists. But after I learned it I tried it for a while and it didn't stick, I went back to the classic knot I learned as a kid after a week or so.

IIRC the reason was "yield" - I found my Ian knots were often wonky. So you save 2-3 seconds but the tradeoff is mental energy for doing "QA" on your shoelace knot!

But that was many years ago, I should try again. Maybe you just need more practice.
Some pieces are, and many are close. Microplastic is defined as pieces < 5mm.
> =/=

which language does this?
Poor Steve, he just wanted to be a modern, agile developer.
If you look at China's innovation in nuclear tech they have soared past the US. That ship is LONG gone.
That doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with it.

It still consumes a non renewable resource, and a lot of Lego still ends up in the environment or landfills.
They gotta put cameras everywhere when they do deorbit it. I wanna see everything burning and blowing up.
Agreed, mandatory 2-factor authentication through ios/android is really what screws you. You can totally do without for the rest.