skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This episode of War on the Rocks: goes into some depth on the issue, if interested: Can ICE Pact Salvage American Shipbuilding?

Episode webpage: https://warontherocks.libsyn.com/can-ice-pact-salvage-americ...

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/warontherocks/WOTR_-_Icebr...
And labor is free, right?
Index investing isn't really gambling in the generally understood sense though, you just buy the whole haystack (or at least a haystack that's big enough) and ride it.
This is not the case in the US.
That one week is super popular, all the other weeks are dirt cheap
Sourceforge still works, and is (now) reliable. The awful DevShare malware stuff that Sourceforge started (under new ownership) in 2012 was stopped (under different new ownership) in 2016.
> Words like "BUY" are also expressly forbidden.

I strongly disagree.

(b)(1) says that "buy" is not permitted for these goods... EXCEPT

(b)(2)(A) says that it IS permitted, if you follow the rules in subsections i through iii.

> (2) (A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a person may advertise or offer for sale a digital good with the terms “buy,” “purchase,” or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good, or alongside an option for a time-limited rental, if the seller receives at the time of each transaction an affirmative acknowledgment from the purchaser of all of the following:

My read on that is that either (b)(1) controls and you cannot use the words "buy" and friends, OR you do the things in (b)(2) and you CAN use "buy" & etc.

My read on subsection (ii) when combined with (i) is that simply "providing" the EULA for a digital software download and making the customer tick a box saying that they've "received" the EULA would be sufficient. If it's not (and it might not be), then having them scroll through the whole EULA to "prove" that they read it would clearly be sufficient, as it's common practice.

> (B) The affirmative acknowledgment from the purchaser pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be distinct and separate from any other terms and conditions of the transaction that the purchaser acknowledges or agrees to.

Yes, but I think that this just means that this acknowledgement is a thing that's separate from the EULA, and separate from extended warranties, and such. The language that says that the customer must acknowledge that they received the license for the thing they're "purchasing" indicates that they must be -at minimum- given a chance to read the EULA... and I'm pretty sure common practice is to either provide a link to the EULA, or force you to scroll through it.
Removing access the the courts results in alternative forms of justice
Polymarket works on mobile and allows instant USDC deposits. Are these somehow red flags elsewhere, but not here?

Not to mention the Pandora's box that prediction markets open, when the order book can begin to influence real life events - from match fixing, to assassination markets.
Thank you for that correction! I had to google to find the name because I was fuzzy on it. Your last paragraph matches my recall. The point I was trying to make was that I appreciated that Typefaces wasn’t automatically part of Gatsby just because of Kyle’s affiliation.
At least in F1, I would say that the variance in constructor performance matters more than variance in driver performance. There are plenty of instances of drivers doing test runs with other teams and achieving competitive times.
> then realised there wasn't much light between the two names imho.

There is after you burn this image into your brain: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1av88z5/fir...

:-)
The city of Vegas is among the best and most proactive in the country at water preservation and reclamation. Sadly, it still might not be enough. In the 90s they started paying people to tear up their lawns, and more recently they outlawed lawns and started tearing some up forcefully, and last I checked watering grass still accounted for a double-digit percentage of their water budget.
I read really, really far into the article.

The summary at the top made it look like the whole article was about compression.
“Get” is already used on iOS for this purpose.
Whenever I see him speak, he is vague and evasive. He either is untrustworthy or just has no idea what’s going on.
Sure, but see this comment I made in another thread- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41665361
Have you tried shopgoodwill.com? Phenomenal athleisure selection, if you're not in a rush.

Running shoes - you know what they say: Run Barefoot Run Healthy!
I'm not convinced you need cushioning.

I spend zero on running shoes, and I've run two marathons like this.
Wait, your telling me I should be worried about my “jizztastic” repo on GitHub?
For me, this topic is prototypical of a larger conversation which goes something like, "Should individuals be permitted to slip between the cracks of society?" For the first three centuries of the Industrial Revolution, the answer in the West was, "Yes, of course." c.f. indentured servitude, honor duels, and debtor prisons. By the way, this way of life was, for certain, a shining improvemnt for the average person who would have previously been trapped in serfdom under Feudalism.

The Progressive ideal, which started as only a faint glimmer in the US at the turn on the 20th Century, has grown to dominate our social mores over the past 50 years. For most people reading HN, it's all they have ever known. But there is a serious cost. We infatilize our adults and produce generations of new citizens paralyzed by anxiety and (to a large extent) incapable of tolerating the faintest hint of discouragement.

But at least fewer of them slip through the cracks.
> learn to run barefoot

Finally someone with the right idea!
> A better example would be rarbg, which is not alive anymore.

There you go, ruining my evening again. Hope you're happy, making an old man cry.
Yes, the math understanding is not here at scale. It's strip mining a vulnerable populace. Of course it should be banned.
Not sure what you mean by "implemented as convenience wrappers around CALayers," especially when it comes to NSView where you have to opt-in to layer-backing.
It's hard to say without knowing more about your situation.

But generally I would say life is too short to waste on a dead end job where you're not learning or adding value.

I'd prioritize finding something you're excited about before quitting. You may even be able to transition your immigration process.
IMO the craziest revelation in this whole ordeal is that Matt personally owns WordPress.org. I have worked with WP for close to a decade and I was always under the impression that it was owned by the nonprofit foundation.

So this means that a large chunk of the functionality (plugin directory and updates) of a standard WP install relies on a website controlled by one man. No way this dynamic can be allowed to continue after this whole mess.
http://archive.today/f7ySs
Happy with Fedora Silverblue in that space: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

Especially Project Bluefin: https://projectbluefin.io/

Of course, it's great to have a Debian based alternative!
For now. Right now DNS blocking is used because it works for 95% of people. Once it doesn't, they'll start demanding more serious means of blocking.

I'm surprised that didn't happen yet because DNS blocking is so ineffective. It's basically just akin to removing a business from the phone book or yellow pages.
According to this article (https://www.billboard.com/business/touring/taylor-swift-eras...), it looks like it's mainly American tourists going to Europe to see Swift's shows because the ticket prices are 1/10 as much as in America. Apparently, it costs about $5000 for a couple to see a Swift show in the US now, so it's actually a lot cheaper to just fly to Europe to see her show.
Is it? Lots of big-city gyms have memberships of $200/month or more. That's $2400 right there before you get into equipment, clothing, 1:1 coaching, sports massage, perhaps competitions, potentially travel.

(And I'm not even talking about big-ticket sports like golf, horse-riding, racing cars, etc.)
We can't enumerate these things (for obvious reasons), but I would be shocked if the overwhelming majority of onion services active any any given moment were anything other than nerds who need quick and easy NAT punching. By traffic volume, we already know the majority is just Facebook's onion services, then presumably followed by the NYT, BBC, etc.

I agree that more applications should make (transparent) use of them, but the whole "darkweb" aspect has always been overstated.
Sports betting should be banned because knowing the outcome of sports games is in advance is not socially valuable.

Gambling on many other things e.g elections, crime rates, ceo performance, etc should be allowed because predictions there are socially valuable.
That may be true for the UK, but in America it’s very different. Most casinos are big fancy places, the local casino by me on the Indian reservation has world famous DJ’s playing pool parties, an amazing restaurant, and valet parking with supercars out front every time I have been.

Every football game has an announcer giving his lock of the week pick for DraftKings. Every stadium has a brand new fancy looking sports book attached or next door. Hell they built a draft kings attached to the local PGA course.

Most people do it all via an app, no need to even leave your couch. People openly share their bets with friends. I don’t even do sports betting, but it’s basically all over and constantly in my face.
George Russell with Williams then Mercedes.
If you're ever wet (from rain or sweat), "cotton is rotten."

Try wool. Overwhelmingly more comfortable.
It's funny you mention DARE because studies have shown the program was a complete failure, along with the War on Drugs™ and "Just Say No". The only reason it continued as long as it did was not because it was effective, but because it was popular with politicians and the general public because they thought – intuitively – that the program should work. It did not reduce student drug use. In face, it backfired and taught kids about interesting drugs that they probably wouldn't have found learned about otherwise. This ineffective program cost U.S. taxpayers $750M per year for 26 years. Let's not do that again.
> ECH - if I understand correctly it's effective for sites hosted on big providers like Cloudflare, AWS, etc, but doesn't add much value when it comes to self-hosted domains or those on a dedicated server

Yeah, and unfortunately it increases the moat such companies have. They can offer a privacy screen that smaller orgs just can't match.
1.5 million sites impacted including some of the biggest. For every day that this persists, 1.5 million websites are at a heightened risk for exploitation and security vulnerabilities.

All Matt needed to do to avoid this catastrophe was pursue his central claim (which is a trademark claim) the usual way - in a court of law - and give WP Engine 30 days or something to get off of his infrastructure before cutting them off. Or even 10 days.

In other words, think of the users before you think about yourself.

But he didn't. He is doing catastrophic damage to the reputation of WordPress. The best thing for WordPress is now for him to resign from his job and end his participation in the community immediately.

He did not seem to understand that this action was going to create thousands of enemies at thousands of companies overnight. He seems totally shocked by the reaction.

To the extent that many businesses depend on WordPress and its good reputation which Matt may have irrevocably damaged - from what I'm hearing there's already talk about a class action lawsuit against him.
The Case of the Missing Increment
Back when I used Windows at work, AutoHotKey. It let me automate all the mundane stuff I had to do on my desktop and tie it to various keyboard shortcuts. I eventually also made a GUI, so I could tie it to a spare mouse button. I would highlight something, hit the button on my mouse, then click what I wanted to do with the highlighted text. I also had various text expansions, and alternate paste methods to allow to paste plain text or to type the clipboard, to get around things that blocked paste (or remote server consoles). I shared it with my team, so I made a configuration GUI and everything, where users could pick their own shortcuts if they didn't like my defaults, and also set their path to putty and various other tools if they didn't happen to be installed the same as mine.

When I moved to macOS I missed it a lot. I searched for something similar and it was hard to find something like it. There's AppleScript, but it always feels like it's dying a slow death. I also came across HammerSpoon, which I tried for a while, but I never went as deep as I did with AHK. I also had some really weird issues that seemed to go away when I got rid of HS.

I haven't touched the code in at least 5 or 6 years, and I see a lot of people on Windows still using the AHK scripts I wrote.
I'm not sure why you keep bringing up CALayers. That is not where the performance bottleneck lies in SwiftUI.
> Tracking all this data is pointless.

Did you read the blog?

He does some very interesting analysis.
A gig an hour seems a bit high for VHS resolution and HEVC.
Sounds like a good way to buy furniture that would only last a few years. All the fancy couches and lamps and such with low-powered USB ports became obsolete with USB-C, and the wireless Qi ones weren't powerful enough for newer devices. I'd hate to have something as simple as a piece of wood be tied to the electronics obsolescence cycles.
Why isn't the firewall on by default on desktop systems?
My state makes lotteries illegal but I still support gambling. It’s one thing for someone to get ripped off in a private transaction that you can walk away from.

However the government is a monopoly, and has a monopoly on violence. Giving a mafia that can take your house away or put you behind bars their own casino is an incredibly bad idea.
Anecdata, I know a guy who is a chef. He's gambled it all away, it's just 30k$ (in debt) or so but considering the Swedish tax system it's actually a lot of money. Now kronofogden is after him, he's recently been handed divorce papers and the government takes half his paycheck.

He's got 3 kids (duh) so it immediately affects 4 people while straining even more, for what gain? Megaprofits for $megagamblingcorp?
I lost interest part of the way through. I don't need to read the whole thing to know he could be doing something better with his time.
> why cant i just bring my glass jar to the grocery store, tar it, refill from a bulk bin

Bulk Barn in Canada is exactly this, and you can get all your spices and grains from there.
Your own tool?
Are you gauging productivity by time to completion of an objective or assignment, by achieved grade in the course, or by learning/retention/etc.? Are profs OK with students giving answers based on AI generated summaries?

I wish do wish that written transcriptions were automatically available on youtube to make it easier to search and navigate within videos and skip irrelevant sections. I doubt it will happen though since irrelevant promotional sections make money. I also like the idea of being able to automatically generate a screenplay for any film or tv episode, though that might fall afoul of copyright law.
I don't think those two things are connected. The US coddles children more than any other country, yet more people slip through the cracks in the US than in any other rich country, and witnessing the streets of SF and other major cities, that problem is getting worse, not better.
It seems like the idealists who wanted it to be an open and benevolent nonprofit are being forced out by the people who want to get rich.
Adoption of PAKE was hampered by patents. Password managers solve the problem anyway.
“Get” replaced “free”, because it was misleading to call apps free when most have in-app purchases.
It's the same in Australia. I've seen little kids who are into a particular sport parrot off the odds for the game. It's crazy.
> Labor is much more expensive in the US than elsewhere. That is the overwhelming burden in every industry

This is true. But it’s not the root cause for our shipbuilding problems. Our dockworkers and shipbuilders are uniquely inefficient.
Last time was probably 2008 when Hamilton won the driver's championship. Ferrari had a great car, came very close to the driver's, and won the constructors.

Might happen this year as well, with Verstappen still favorite to win, but McLaren having the best car.
What an interesting analysis. It actually got me thinking about which of my clothes I actually wear, and which should probably be divested.
betting is entrepreneurship for suckers. it can only exist in places with zero upwards mobility as a sort of firefly at the end of the tunnel for the eternal serfs. Any libertarian society tolerating it,proofs its no longer a libertarian society with chances for all just feudalism were the aristocrats play meritocrars to calm their consciousness.
"Always be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
My library service has an e-book loan system. When I go to get an item - if they have it - it is often "unavailable to borrow". Ridiculous.
This seems like a false dilemma. Are you suggesting we need to bring back indentured servitude? Or should we keep trying to find a middle ground?
In American motorsports such as NASCAR, the term "tech inspection" is used for those stuff.
Government bans on a thing are a question of "should we use guns to prevent people from doing $THING?"

Given that the use of violence is a rather extreme remedy to a perceived problem, there'd have to be a pretty compelling case to warrant pulling out a gun to stop people from doing something.

That's what government bans are.
Here's what I predict WP Engine will do next week in response:

1. They will scrape the entire WordPress.org plugin registry (people are already circulating scrapers around Mastodon)

2. They will open their own separate plugin registry, with blackjack and hookers

3. They will update their mu-plugin to hook the WordPress autoupdater and point it to their own infrastructure on every site they host

They can do this because WordPress is GPL and so are all the plugins. GPL can't be revoked unless you fuck up a source release, which is genuinely hard to do in PHP. And WordPress is GPLv2+, meaning GPLv3 with its way more lenient revocation terms are available.

I assume at some point Automattic will insist that scraping WordPress.org is now illegal or something, and then every plugin author will have to go through an annoying process of claiming their WP Engine Plugin Registry entries and updating everything in two places, fracturing the community because of the FOSS world's most petty trademark fight.
"add to cart" and "checkout"
There are countless activities that could be deemed "not socially valuable". That is far too broad and subjective a metric to determine whether something should be banned.
Sounds exactly like Truth Mining in Greg Egan's Diaspora.
If you ban it it's no longer going to be produced, and all things don't affect all brains equally.

As someone mentioned men are more likely to gamble, I'm sure (but don't quote me on this) that ADHD is over represented as well.

If you broadcast an ad to 10 million people and 1k gets hooked it's still 1k too many lives ruined, while being an annoyance to the other ~10 million
this is not good general advice. For anyone interested in barefoot running, please do your research on how to phase this in appropriately and safely.
> Lottos just trick the people with less money into paying more taxes on the hopes of "winning it big!"

How do you explain the school teacher spending $200 per week, then? The teachers here collectively own one of the world's largest hedge funds. These are very wealthy people.
Drugs aren't banned. You can buy nicotine and caffeine and liquor everywhere.

The idea that we ban things for the public good is laughable.
Why so negative?

You're not the keeper of his time. Maybe he doesn't smoke weed or play five hours of video games daily.

Why can't you appreciate that he put effort into writing up a thought-provoking analysis that also helps other people?
In F1 there has been a lot of effort to make sure drivers don't kill themself, e.g. the HANS (Head and Neck Support) which prevents the heavy helmet from snapping the driver's neck on impact, or the "Halo" which protects the driver when cars flip over. And these are just two of the most visible safety measures. Not saying someone completely inexperienced couldn't manage to kill himself, but most people would probably not even get to that point, they would simply fail to get the car into gear without killing the engine...
Read the book. As I wrote above.
great but who is funding that at %0? is it non profit? like website, company and math people there will have wages. so even 1% is impossible without incredibly big volume and liqudity.
It's missing https://www.iroh.computer/ which is similar to ipfs but simply better
you make absolutely no argument for why strengthening protection of individual rights requires living in a shithole where people are free to exploit well-known vulnerabilities in the human motivation system.

"prosperity required permitting unregulated sale of fentanyl!"... sounds nonsensical, because it is.

> We infatilize our adults and produce generations of new citizens paralyzed by anxiety and (to a large extent) incapable of tolerating the faintest hint of discouragement.

I played poker professionally for seven years. I've seen the full gamut of responses to gambling on the human brain. Gambling absolutely hijacks the neurocomputational circuitry of some people in a way that it doesn't others. Infantilized? I managed my risk of ruin carefully and rationally, others didn't. They invariably got ruined. Period. Those people should not be gambling. There was no safety net, which you falsely imagine exists. I wish there had been. The consequences to their lives outweighed, by far, the prosperity gained by permitting large-scale high-stakes gambling (which is at best a zero-sum game if the house is included). I do not think my former profession should be openly legal to everyone. Participating in it was an act of willful evil on my part. I am glad to have it regulated, for the sake of the families of the people whose lives I helped destroy.

There was absolutely nothing and nobody "infantilizing" me to induce "anxiety". There was a largely unregulated free-for-all into a brutal, unforgiving world, in which you can lose a fortune in the blink of an eye if you elect to wager it and lose. Sure, I thrived in that environment, but it was at the expense of vulnerable individuals.

Seriously, what the actual fuck are you talking about. If you'd ever taken actual, life-altering financial risks in a society without a real financial safety net (the United States), you'd know that there is absolutely nothing between a foolish series of decisions while drunk (or much worse, in the thrall of a persistent gambling addiction) and complete financial ruin.

We can do better as a society, and we should.

While we're at it, gosh, you know what would have improved the poker economy? Unregulated firearms at poker tables. Hell, let's just make homicide legal if the other person bets their life. Or maybe even if they don't! That would have really let us demonstrate our fully-enfranchised individual wills to power. No one would be confused as an anxious man baby! We could have thrived like real manly men! Letting people blow each other's heads off at a whim during a gambling free-for-all ("between consenting adults!") would surely improve prosperity. Great idea! Agreeing as a democratic society to regulate that behavior would only produce a society of emasculated degenerates incapable of expressing the full range of the human spirit! Think of the sacrificed business opportunities! /s.