skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood how gacha games and loot boxes are allowed in first place... Or why people spend money on them...

Whatever you say about CS and TF2, at least there is some after market, even if it is just in-store credit...
How is gambling not the issue?

It's obviously designed to get money from people, otherwise they'd go bankrupt, and the people gambling are ~randomly taking money from each other into addiction or bankruptcy whether they win too much or lose too much.

Why don't offer fentanyl in small doses then and blame it on people for using it too much?
I see a lot of projects started in this space and all of them appear to have multi-writer as a goal. I've been interested for a long time (and have started and stopped) in a solution for single-write multi-read with eventual consistency. I chatted with @benbjohnson on a LiteStream ticket about the possibility of adding a mobile client to receive the replicas to mobile devices but I think that option isn't really consistent with the new direction of that work for LiteFS at Fly.

To me the multi-writer "collaborative" use case is super powerful but also has a lot of challenges. I personally would see a lot of value in a solution for eventually consistent read-replicas that are available for end-client (WASM or mobile native) replication but still funnel updates through traditional APIs with store-and-forward for the offline case.

Is anybody aware of an open-source project pursuing that goal that maybe I haven't come across?
Bollocks. People live in Antarctica for months at a time. Airplanes regularly fly cargo longer distances across the Pacific, and move plenty of people, than from Argentina (or NZ) to Antarctica.

They walk around, outside, with heavy coats, and don't die after 10 minutes. There are PBS videos on YT about how they manage the sewage and garbage in Antarctica, and you can see the guys walking around outside, hanging out.

> NASA has sent people to the moon and back multiple times with 1960s technology

NASA has sent people to the moon, who walked, briefly, while in suits to keep them alive on a minute-to-minute basis. If a single thing went wrong they would die. Several folks almost died -- they made a movie about that -- and some actually died (e.g. Challenger, Soviet losses, etc.).

> multiple independent entities have sent cargo to the moon

in trivial quantities, and where, in most cases, it stayed there.

> and there have been people living in orbit on the ISS for a while now

If by people you mean < 12 humans at a time, and at what is an insanely high expense compared to keeping someone alive in the Arctic or Antarctic. And most of them have major or permanent changes to their bodies, like vision, loss of bone density, or the myriad issues that the guy -- the one (1) guy, who did it once -- who stayed up for a year. An explanation of those health issues: https://time.com/5568522/kelly-twins-year-in-space/ There is no reason to think we could successfully have kids, mature to adulthood, and function as a human in less than Earth's gravity -- and given the impact of micro-grav on adults it's not crazy to think it would be a big problem.

These are exceptional, and incredibly expensive one-offs. Saying we can live on the Moon or Mars based off of that is like saying most humans can be Olympic runners because someone did a sub-2 hour marathon, one time.

> but as far as I know there's no technical reason they can't

We can't even keep a dozen people alive in the Biodome, and if they didn't open it chances are the ecology would have collapsed or they would have run out of O2 due to the concrete messing with the CO2 & O2 ratios. And when something went wrong they just walked out -- and that ain't happening on the Moon or Mars. At least on the Moon you're a "short" flight away -- not months of solid burn away.
GPT4 is already well above the level of reliability and accuracy of any of my high school teachers.
Wow, I hadn't heard of CSS nesting before! Definitely glad to see another of my favorite SCSS features making it into regular CSS:

https://caniuse.com/css-nesting
> If you buy an iPhone and want to interoperate with friends/family on Android,

Then use a cross platform messaging app. FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord. I have all of them on my phone.

> the default experience is extremely broken.

It’s not broken. Apple devices have a low-friction “hot path” for communicating with other apple devices. That’s it. Want to use it? Get an apple device.

Apple isn’t obliged to make its messaging app work for everyone, on all platforms.
> it is hardly anti-trust-worthy.

why?
It's not remotely marginal when you have ~4 TVs at a time streaming 4K, two people working at home on video calls, constant cloud backup and so forth. I currently have 5Gbit, and will upgrade to 10 the second it becomes available. With better bandwidth _typically_ also comes better latency, and more competently managed DNS, though your own DNS setup is still likely better than whatever you privacy-invading-telemetry-hungry ISP sets up.
I've had spring bars break twice with the Leek. Replacement parts were sent for free!
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/how-imessage-sends-...
That's not the whole story in the United States. Antitrust law prohibits monopolization, which is monopoly power couple with anticompetitive practices, but it also prohibits various practices from companies that do not have monopoly power.

For example the Sherman Act prohibits attempted monopolization. You run afoul of that for anticompetitive conduct and a specific intent to monopolize if there is a dangerous probability that will achieve monopoly power.

The Clayton Act added restrictions on price discrimination, exclusive dealing, tying, and mergers and acquisitions that substantially reduce competition or tend to create monopolies.
I'm glad this is getting looked at; it's a common and annoying scam for companies to claim large "free money" sums that are not actually US dollar equivalents (exchangeable for off-platform goods).

I honestly don't even necessarily mind some loopholes, but it's gone too far. DraftKings should settle, apologize, and adjust/eliminate such promotions. After all, these promos are not in their business' critical path, so just come up with some other thing.
> # Brave

> Version: 1.33.106

> […]

> - ftx.com on TCP port 443

Hopefully that one is no longer present…
You make an interesting point. Take if for what you will, but there was/is very 'big organized stuff' going on in the illicit gambling world.

I had a close family member who spent the end of his life in the Federal custody for being part of it, and he wasn't even 'big time'. This was not long ago.

This gets mighty close to conspiracy territory, but I think that the current gambling wave is just a well made business play by the same people who were running the game previously.

Kind of like the cartel getting tired of dealing with interdiction and getting into the pharma business (which I don't think is a thing btw).
An assembler IDE for KC85/3 and KC85/4 computers
> arcane CLI commands

Are the syntax of the commands the issue or are all CLI commands arcane to you? What would you propose to be the command syntax if you were designing it?
They did wrote: "Images in this section is not generated by our model."
> I'm not sure you can derive any useful conclusions from this post.

A striking one is that many browsers continue to claim to be privacy respecting, when in reality they are not even though it is easilly verifiable.

You are correct in saying that from the standpoint of privacy there is either zero telemetry or everything else. There are other drawbacks from having many unnecessary 'phone home' requests, like performance in slow connection environments.

And may I add - telemetry on by default is just not decent, browser is supposed to be my ("user") agent, not somebody else's.
Very relaxing. Until impossibly small $15 Incabloc springs start flying around the room. I'm convinced these sublimate into a vapor the moment they fly out of view of your loupe.
Microsoft can also change their terms so I don’t see much difference there.

I can understand preferring the Azure endpoints, but let’s be accurate about what the policies are.
Are these chipsets anywhere in the price range that would make them feasible for consumer/pro-sumer? I wasn't able to find anything related to pricing without contacting sales. With the numbers being thrown about, this would appear to be "enterprise-only"
Ah yes, Texas the state of freedom and liberty.
A cup of hot water (no tea, no coffee, nothing) can in fact be quite pleasant to drink.
> In the US is it dwarfed by at least three other platforms.

Do you have a source for this?
Let's circle back to your coding question after the holidays.
Also, supposedly large amounts of the game are basically just assets off the Unreal Marketplace, eg: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/ameri...
The whole concept of different human species may be a taxonomic error of historic proportions despite the morphological differences we see in the fossil record. Information on the genome of archaic humans is a very recent development in a centuries old field so it is still catching up, especially at the level of educational material.

Based on my reading of the paper about the sequenced neanderthal bone [1] and a global genetic variation study [2], the difference between neanderthals and modern humans isn't that much bigger than the natural variation within the modern human genome. That difference is much smaller (on the order of 10-40x) than the difference between modern humans and chimpanzees and given the multiple genetic bottleneck events in our evolution, I think it's much more accurate to look at all the different species of archaic humans as breeds of modern humans that happen to show a larger difference with older samples because of the limited founding population and the diversity of our ancestors (of which we have very few biased samples).

Where to draw the line in speciation is always controversial but my theory is that once tool use really got going by the second stone industry, early humans started artificially self-selecting for intelligence just like we later did with dogs and eventually the modern human "breed" was born. By the million year ago mark, roughly the time evidence of fire started showing up in the archaeological record, I think the species that is modern humans was already long spreading and out competing other apes. I think shortly after this point is when we started developing clothing and moving into the colder climates, leaving evidence at places like Atapuerca.

[1] https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature128...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15393
Programming will evolve, as it always has. Teaching programming includes how to leverage LLMs.
What is an asset flip?
You can also usually send a SMS by sending an email to your provider, ie 9495551212@vtext.com, which is the poor man's way to wire up alerting to text the on call if you've yet to implement or afford a solution with proper sms/twilio support

https://www.verizonwireless.com/pdfs/user_guides/How_To_Txt_...
In fact, it should be expected.

The underlying data is embedded with artifacts of behaviors/affects that reflect the underlying state of the person who wrote them.

Stanford famously studied this for reddit (notably a huge part of the commoncrawl dataset) and reported that it had non-trivial percentages of anti-social sentiments embedded in the text [1]

You can't filter out the biases embedded in the data because it is a functional artifact of what the people creating the data were communicating. Best you can do is put guardrails and censor it, but that's a neverending game you can't win.

Junk in Junk out still applies to LLMs

[1]https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2022/Park_ContentModAu...
Is there specific evidence to support the claim that esports betting is targeting kids, or is the presumption that video games = children?
There are systems designed to be federated, like email, mastodon, matrix and SMS/RCS.

Signal, WhatsApp, Slack, and iMessage are examples of services which were designed to be run by one company as part of their product. They _might_ have certain SDKs to extend that service (like bots for slack, or app extensions in iMessage) - but generally they aren't excited to shoulder the additional cost and support headaches of third parties using their infrastructure or arbitrarily interacting with the official software clients.

I don't know exactly what you mean by "ecosystem" - I'd argue the first set form ecosystems, while the second set form products.
> In Apple's iMessage TOS? I don't find that likely but open to being wrong.

In EU law. No contract or license may restrict your right to reverse engineer or decompile for the purpose of interoperability or building an alternative implementation.
imo the benefits to chopping it up will always remain
Possibly, its less the reduction, more the "stroke" of the vibration (ie how far the tuning fork moves backwards and forwards.)

I think for a large tuning fork, you _could_ use normal watch gears. However I don't have the skill to try that, yet.
AI-Powered Drive-Thru Is Run Almost by Humans
> Why does everybody feel entitled to use it if they're not using Apple products?

Vertical tying.
That story has been playing on loop in a dark corner of my brain the last few days. It's as close to an identical circumstance as I can imagine.
> LuaJIT managed with less with a focused language and a really capable lead.

It's pretty well established that "Mike Pall" is the pen name for an AI sent from the future for unknown reasons. It disappeared from our light cone due to a rift in causality, presumably because it succeeded in whatever changes it wanted to make in the future.
In US law as well fwiw.
Personal choice turned out to be less great than promised. You can see it all over the place in the statistics. For example, I recall growing up and and hearing people tell kids to “question authority” and “think for yourself.” The folks saying that assumed that kids would hear it and stop going to church. I don’t think they realized it would also cause kids to become anti-vaxxers and holocaust deniers. (A recent YouGov poll shows that 20% of people 18-29 think the “Holocaust is a myth,” versus 2% of people 49-64, and 0% of people above 65.)

When I was young I chaffed at my “oppressive Asian parents.” But in retrospect, I’ve seen my family members who have stuck to the path set forth by their parents do better in life and avoid a lot of mistakes. Maybe some people were “meant for something greater” that they didn’t pursue. But let’s face it—most weren’t, and avoiding drugs, going to college, and getting married left them in a pretty solid situation.
A $3T monopolist sending scary C&D letters tends to get the attention of the government.
Because then SMS would never progress, and we’d all be stuck with 140 characters under the hood along with optional subjects and zero security.

There was no push for RCS until iMessage came along.
Skins provide nearly-zero gameplay value, so for those, the analogy with lottery holds. But Mt:G cards have entertainment value separate from their dollar value, so that's fundamentally different.
I think it has a point until it becomes a benchmark, because as you said it's easy to only have one connection if you want to.

Before it becomes a benchmark, I think it kind of leaks a measure of the amount of things that are being done on the first run, all possibly exposing yourself in various ways.
There's a sweet spot between simplicity, feature and usability. I think git exist right in the middle with a little bit of learning curve.

A lot of proposal in this thread would have improved one of these at huge detriment of others.
Capone wasn't framed; have I misunderstood you?
You can clearly see from the tweets that it was Tan that started tweeting anti-Palestinian tweets.
You may see better if you use something properly multi threaded. It's really hard to push a single thread download that hard.
Mark Bernstein has written a bit about this. He used to call it "neovictorian computing" but now uses the same "artisanal software" term, e.g.: https://www.markbernstein.org/NeoVictorian.html
LLVM IR is a moving target, and AFAIK actually also target platform specific because of things like different per-CPU/per-platform ABIs.

C on the other hand is standardized, stable, ABI agnostic and compiles on pretty much anything that has a CPU.
Well, yes, that’s natural selection for you.
EU AI Act: The Member States Wish List
If Apple wanted iMessage on Android they would have done it already. There are emails from executives made public in lawsuits discussing the possibility many years ago.
What about non-violent drug possession? AFAIK that all by itself accounts for a significant number of incarcerated people. Laws criminalizing that are a product of the war on drugs, not embodying something in statute that's been a common law crime throughout human history.
Sun dried tomatoes seem to work well in pizza dough too.

As in throw in a few chunks while making the base, and the flavour seems to transfer well without screwing things up. :)
Privacy is not a goal, but just a marketing tool these days.
I think this is really complicated. I do believe that it is important to separate language from implementation, and it is also true that different implementations can have different performance profiles. It is also true that the semantics of the language can effectively require specific implementation details that can affect performance either way. So there's always gonna be bounds to any particular languages' ability to be faster.

That is why the "as fast as C with the sufficiently smart compiler" never truly came to pass in a general sense, even if many languages that were slow to start have gotten way faster with better implementations.
For sure. There is definitely harms in illegal gambling, I don't want to minimize that at all. But it seems enormously easier for me to create an illegal, yet low-risk gambling product for my friends to consume. It is much, much harder for me to safely manufacture MDMA and distribute it to my social circle. If I want to consume an illegal drug I am more or less required to trust a stranger. I think this difference is serious enough to warrant at the very least consideration in any comparison of the efficacies of prohibition.

Looking at ex. DraftKings I think your conspiracy theory is pretty well attested to.
One problem with PDCAAS is that it's based on the limiting EAA in a food, but everyone interprets it as a general bioavailability ratio when it's not.

A food with 1000x the EAAs per calorie of every other food, but 0 of one EAA would score below the other foods even though you could get the day's worth of EAA on 1/1000 the calories + one serving of an additional food that can give you the missing EAA (i.e. eat more than one food every day).
Another striking conclusion is that even browsers that value privacy need to have some level of understanding about what features their users are using and what they are not.
The parent post remains correct. An illiquid investment in a tiny percentage of a company is not a reliable measure for valuation. Any sophisticated investor would see it as a way of manipulating the price.
https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works
From the pseudo to the forger: the value of faked philosophy
Yes it actually is. I was in the closed beta and all friends that got the message where either suspicious of it, annoyed or didn’t react.

I think there is little to none that can be done, unless a lot of people use it and then it becomes somewhat annoying because you’d have to answer those things all the time.

I think the best application would be Secret Santa. It’s a cool idea though and the app is really pretty.
Democrats suggested more police in the 90s out of ignorance. Crime dropped like a rock in the 90s US after record highs, regardless of laws enacted.

Politicians now know that "more police" did not solve crime issues. Why would a politician in 2023 suggest we repeat the mistakes of the past?
Reminds me of how bleemcast made game console emulators officially legal
Quantum Mysteries Disentangled [pdf]
APNs is used as the backbone of iMessage, it's not an optional component. It is not just used for the push notifications you see on your phone, but for the actual delivery of the messages.
> Find out what your friends want without killing the surprise.

And once you participate once, the surprise will definitely be killed because at that point it'll be clear someone is gifting to you what you just told the computer.
> There is no reason for Apple to buy Beeper except to make them stop.

OP clearly was not arguing that the acquisition would be for a shutdown.

Acquisition and continued operation is a plausible (albeit unlikely) strategy that Apple could use to avoid further regulatory scrutiny while also deterring copycats.
HOAs really need to just be banned.

IMO argument that "oh well you can totally just live in a neighborhood that doesn't have an HOA" is silly. What if every nearby neighborhood has one?
Arguably those redesigns might have happened if the Python 2->3 transition hadn't received a decade of extremely vocal pushback
The Bittersweet Science
My mom, in her 70s, barely gets iMessage -- half the time I receive "text" messages from her as an email! Throwing in Whatsapp or Telegram would just confuse her.
30% is in the ballpark of what I'm expecting, actually.
The limitations of section 1983 to let you sue cops for violating your rights are not the fault of the exclusionary rule.

Without the exclusionary rule the 4th amendment doesn't really exist. Cops could just violate your 4th amendment rights and then either arrest you if they find evidence of a crime or go on their merry way. Yes, some people who committed crimes go unpunished because the state fucked up and couldn't manage to protect their legal rights while investigating and arresting them. We should place a high burden on the state to dramatically disincentivize it from violating our rights, even the rights of people who commit crimes.
MTG cards could be sold only in pre-constructed decks or even like living card games. Nothing mandates them being exploitative loot boxes filled mostly with filler...

Wouldn't it be better if you knew what you were getting?
I was 100% sure it was a game just from the headline even though I have never heard of Fntastic or "The Day Before" before this headline.

"The Day Before" is a really strong hint, the quotes indicate that it is a title; so book, movie, game, etc. You don't write "The React" or "The Bitcoin". So, could be a documentary.
I doubt humans ever stopped building log structures. Not all humans or groups of humans of course, plenty live in places without many trees. I'd be less surprised to find out that there have been humans have been using log structures more for the entire ~.5M years than to find out it was lost for some number of years/generations.
> But why is it Apple's responsibility to accept a non-legit/unknown serial #?

I don’t think anyone is arguing that it’s Apple’s responsibility to accept fake serial numbers.

The serial number is an implementation detail and not the core issue, which is Apple’s intentional degradation of the non-iMessage experience, and their stance against interoperability.

If this was all about security, they could accept something other than an Apple serial #, and provide a UX that makes it clear the user is interacting with a non-Apple user. This would address most spam/abuse issues.

But we know that this is about lock-in and not security.
Open Track
TOSes are not legally binding so who cares?
To be clear, "Last Of Us prequel" is in quotes because it's not connected in anyway, but they would have loved for video game buyers to associate the two...

https://www.gamingbible.com/news/the-day-before-under-fire-r...