skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A worry about the incoming American president has nothing to do directly with the proliferation of sports gambling nor the harms it brings, but the sudden absence of formerly available data that might-just-might contradict the narrative of an industry that's unzipped its change purse and let Trump have at the mic stand inside (a horribly multi-mixed metaphor, but apt).

"That data set you got there, UC Consumer Credit Panel. Sure would be a shame if something happened to it, you know, if, say, somebody decided to publish a post tying bankruptcies to our donor's lil $300 billion enterprise here. Capiche?"

That's happened with climate data during his previous term, so expect more (of less).
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Try Boeshield instead, it's wax suspended in solvent.
I was exposed to TB at Children's Hospital in Washington DC and it was only because I was seeking a part-time job at another hospital while in grad school that I became aware. Got the bubble at the public health department and by the time I drove 40 minutes home, I was clearly positive, so off to Children's I went to have the test read. Because I was a volunteer, I was able to be xrayed immediately and prescribed drugs to take for 9 months. And then, of course, the hospital came after me for the cost of the xray, arguing that I could have been exposed shopping at Talbot's.

I was not surprised to have been exposed. I volunteered a lot of hours in the Children's ED so I had much greater exposure than other people my age who were doing whatever you do when you're 30. I think the doctors and nurses were surprised that I did not freak out and docs to this day are a little surprised I didn't. It was inactive and I was diligent taking the meds.

All this said, the point is that more needs to be done in the US, particularly when we know where the greatest exposure happens.
Not the greatest example. If someone has incurred a $100 debt to you, then, from a legal perspective, you must consider delivery of a thousand dimes as having paid the debt. You don't get a choice on that without prior contractual agreement.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...

(In the United States at least)
> What ended piracy for common films was not DRM or videocassette seizures but the offer of cheap tapes and eventually cheap streaming that made it simply "not worth it" to pirate.

Piracy has all but ended for movies.

The issue with streaming is that there are movie streaming apps (for TVs, browsers, etc.) that basically offer the Netflix interface.

I know of people with hundreds of TB of movies and series: catalog in the five digits (so more than 10 000 movies and series).

In Europe there's also the totally rampant "IPTV" craze: where even retired boomers (not necessarily the most tech savvy audience) buy/rent an illegal little box with all of Disney+Netflix+HBO etc. plus also all the regular TV channels (of the entire world).

I don't know in which world movies and series piracy disappeared but it's certainly not in the world in which I live in (FWIW I pay Netflix).

I actually don't know if there's ever been an era with more movie piracy than nowadays!?
If I kick you in the balls repeatedly, you can't prove I wasn't possessed by a demon and am totally innocent of the act.

In the real world, we're allowed to draw reasonable conclusions.
I dont think the consumers of cheap candy products care tbh. Hershey and similar tiered chocolate all have emulsifiers like polyglycerol polyricinoleate and lecithin. If something is sold at a gas station, its bad for you.
Yes, that's what a "prediction market" is.
What’s more functionally F[maj7]/G¹ is functionally a G7 chord in that any place you see the one you can substitute the other and the harmonic function remains the same.

⸻

1. This chord and its relatives in other keys is my favorite chord.
The ejection was months before he got the role at VMX-1.

Even if it had been after he got the role I'm not sure it should matter. I'd expect validating and updating "the book" to be a carefully planned and methodical activity, with alternate approaches tested during simulated failure or failures induced under controlled conditions.

Would they really expect a pilot who encounters a failure not under such conditions to decide it is a great opportunity to try out non-book approaches to see how the work?
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I think there's a stark difference between an animal that evolved to live in a world that no longer exists, versus an animal that was hunted to extinction, for which there exists a plausible environment in which it can thrive.
What is a cloud asset inventory?
The crash happened in September of 2023. He was made commander of VMX-1 in June of 2024.
Agreed - this is a failure of process, assigning blame to an individual is futile
US Coal is half of what it was in 2007. Is that not progress? Would you rather we double it back to where it was? because that was the alternative alternative.
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You can choose the quantization by appending the right tag to the model name, but they don't support other more advanced useful features (e.g. you need a special flag to enable flash attention and you cannot use KV cache quantization for large contexts).
It’s occurred to me on occasion that the deposits of crude oil are the result of ancient garbage dumps filled with plastic which eventually broke down into the hydrocarbons that we’re burning/turning back into plastic.
Blood donation. Menstruating women get some level of this for free. Not much otherwise.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/
Maybe! I considered pursuing a job there at the time, but I opted to get a degree instead. Being located in the Midwest would've made it rather challenging anyways.
This article touches slightly on how online sports gambling is ruining sports for non gamblers as well in the “The Product as Currently Offered is Terrible” section. We don’t get interesting stats or in-depth analysis by commentators now. All we get is the odds, over/under, etc. I will see pregame shows where commentators will pick 5 leg parlays (who benefits from this?) Sports as a product is shifting completely to a means of online gambling. I suspect it is because they make more money from a gambler than a viewer.
Not necessarily. You could, in principle, have the information transfer happen via octopuses in their community that aren't laying eggs yet.
For teaching coding to musicians, I wrote a program the other way around.

But it can help you understand how most chords are formed.

https://github.com/ericfortis/web-projects/blob/main/chord-m...
The idea that ecosystems haven't been in permanent flux forever is odd.

Things have been going extinct for millennia with no human intervention. The idea of the butterfly effect from human intervention causing ecosystem collapse is filled with hubris. There are some things that will obviously change a landscape. If we were to completely deforest the Amazon then there could be some disastrous consequences, sure.

But the Brazilian Three Eyed Skunkowl going extinct isn't likely to cause some devastating collapse outside of a poorly-done model.
It's not a news site.
I’ve been thinking about this topic thru the lens of moral philosophy lately.

A lot of the “big lists of controls” security approaches correspond to duty ethics: following and upholding rules is the path to ethical behaviour. IT applies this control, manages exceptions, tracks compliance, and enforces adherence. Why? It’s the rule.

Contrast with consequentialism (the outcome is key) or virtue ethics (exercising and aligning with virtuous characteristics), where rule following isn’t the main focus. I’ve been part of (heck, I’ve started) lots of debates about the value of some arbitrary control that seemed out of touch with reality, but framed my perspective on virtues (efficiency, convenience) or outcomes (faster launch, lower overhead). That disconnect in ethical perspectives made most of those discussions a waste of time.

A lot of security debates are specific instances of general ethical situations; threat models instead of trolley problems.
"why not just" because it destroys the utility.

There were 2-3 assassination attempts on Trump this year.

It would be valuable to incentive people to share knowledge of assassination vulnerability, to guide security efforts. Banning that defeats the purpose.
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> The point is that you, the farmer, don't need to take a view on whether the next year will be drier than normal. You just buy $X worth of rainfall futures.

Sure, but if I, a non-farmer market player that couldn't give two fucks what the market is even about, can predict that the next year will be dryer than normal, and to what degree, better than anyone, I can make money buying up however many of these futures I can afford. It works even better if I can actually make the weather more dry somehow.

This, I believe, is called "providing liquidity to the market", but curiously, if I tried that with flood insurance, I'd just be guilty of insurance fraud.
Until the industrial age, I think fire was less about having more energy to work with and more about things that could never be done with any amount of mechanical power: heat, light, cooking and all its many benefits, repelling nocturnal predators, and transforming available materials in many useful ways (including smelting but also e.g. fire-hardened wood).

It did also replaced mechanical energy in some ways, e.g. hollowing out bowls or canoes, primitive mining by using large fires to crack rock faces. But I feel like those are less transformative than the other effects.
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Yeah I worded that badly. It should have been "Rust weirdos who do this" rather than just, you know, your average Rust weir.. er, evangelist.
Yes, this. I didn't know this before reading TFA. It's really bad to redefine common word usage like this.
You pee it out, too, but slowly.
Anyone publish a study about the harmms of legalised stock trading (day traders), currency traders, auction hunters, real estate speculators, collectables, crypto hoarders etc you get the point. The only difference is time between sessions, wager amount and tangibles. The next revolution in gambling will add some ownership element, akin to bitcoin.
I enjoyed your conversation and just want to chip in that there are as many definitions of science and knowledge as there are philosophers. One don’t have to have only one definition, but usually one have to adhere to the ones within the realm of ones scientific paradigm to be accepted and to develop the science. Normal science as Kuhn called it.
No you misunderstood again, US cheese exports make up ~5% of global cheese trade between countries.

Further, when you first read “global trade” and thought “all global trade” why would you suddenly from “global trade of cheese” to “global production of cheese”.
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Will be interesting when it actually supports more languages. The strong suit of gRPC (certainly the reason I've reached for it) is for IPC between two different languages, where components make more sense to be built in separate languages.
Who would realistically ban this?

I don't think it's an unreasonable guess that sports bettors are more likely to have voted Republican in the recent election: they are likely men, and men that stereotypically like watching sports at that. Republicans are anti-regulation, Trump in particular wants two pieces of regulation removed for any one regulation added (whatever that means).

Democrats are not in power and remove sports betting "for your own good" would make them even less popular with this demographic, which does not respond well to that sort of thing.
I think Gmail was great initially because of dogfooding. Right now, the incentives are different, and it's more about releasing new stuff. And we can see how that worked with the Google Chat saga.

Lots of other Google products suffer from similar issues because of an apparent lack of dogfooding. I bought a Pixel phone not so long ago and I had to install all updates, one by one, to bring it to the latest Android version. It took several days.
A market can still be well calibrated even if it has a strong causal influence on the topics it’s predicting.
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Your use case is quite interesting but you do realize that it is highly specific and that not supporting it (though I told you a way with which you could use to make it work) is in no way a witness of the browser not being user-focused? Another way would be to bookmark clip.html and set the keyword shortcut to "clip", for each page you have. Or you could have a page displaying a form and set it as a new tab page. Or you could set up a keyword shortcut for local host/%s.html. There are several easy ways you can use to convince Firefox to do what you want to do, so much that it almost invalidates your highly specific example of "Firefox is not user centric". You are highjacking a feature related to search engines that was not made for this use case, and you are not using the Firefox feature Chrome doesn't have which is designed for exactly your use case.

> Mozilla really wants to send everything that a user types in the address bar to a remote address, e.g., that of its business partner Google, before the user ever hits Enter. This desire, perhaps an implicit or explicit requirement of their contractual relationship, is reflected in the Firefox default settings, i.e., the design of Firefox.

All browsers do this, including Chrome. There is nothing Firefox specifically does here. I don't like this feature but it is expected to be there by default from virtually every user. It is also very easy to disable this feature.

But I don't need to be conviced that Firefox is ad supported and doesn't have optimal defaults because of this. I know, and I wish it were not like this, and kinda hope another browser with another business model will somehow appear if Firefox can't be this browser, but for now every browsers are ad supported. Even Safari (which also has fundings from other sources of income that I don't like neither). And Chrome, of all browsers, is absolutely not a model that can be used against Firefox on the topic.
I'm glad op rethought it. But how the hell do you go into the casino business and not realise you're doing something that is a social net negative. Have you not heard of the film Casino. Or how do you not realise you're going into the casino business, I guess?
Suno (AI generated music service) – my experience so far (long)
After some time testing the service, about two months ago
I signed for a paid subscription on suno.com; here are my
impressions. Need to split the post as it's too long.

0: A foreword - I'm not touching the whole copyright thing at
all as I have zero interest in making famous artist X sing one
of my songs, clone their music, or sending any musicians to
flip hamburgers because I can't pay them to play for me; I write
my own lyrics and, after having played for years in a rock band,
just want to test the technology with an open mind.
And.. yes, nothing beats the live/rehearsal room experience with
real friends, instruments, sweat and lots of beer; no need to
remind this old rocker about that:^)

1: Music genres available - There's lots of them, more than one
can dream of, and they're so interesting to explore and combine;
this aspect alone can have a huge potential in teaching music,
if and when they'll implement a way to give the user more control
over the AI. Unfortunately as it learns from the music available,
it suffers from the "4 chords syndrome" plus if you're say a prog
rock lover you'll have a hard time producing anything that is not
some sort of metal in 4/4. I couldn't make it produce a 7/8 or 5/4,
not even placing it along with "odd time signatures" in the prompt.

And consequently, prompting for metal and hard rock very often
returns speed metal with annoying double speed drums. (to any suno
engineers hopefully reading this: they're a rare exception, not
the rule).

Apart from this and other possible quirks about other genres I'm
not used to and can't comment, it's extremly rich and fun to
explore.
Also, it follows the indication if you write the era inside the
prompt, that is, writing "rock, 70s, hammond pad, ..." will likely
produce something that sounds like made classic rock of that era,
and conversely makes possible things like "grunge, 70s, bagpipes"
which of course will return something never heard before.
That is what makes it interesting the most: sailing new seas!

Another problem: it's somehow obsessed with putting stupid synth
solos in rock songs, and I don't mean a '70s type mono synth
played Keith Emerson style which I would welcome in some tracks,
but some obsessive repetitive loud patterns using multiple layered
sawtooths like in many dance songs of a decade ago, that if you
ask me, have no place even in dance music or techno (which I like).
However I get them less and less with time, probably as a result
of downvoting my own tracks that exhibit that problem; but that
meant I smoked lots of precious credits for something that could
be solved by having more control within the prompt or within lyrics.
Trying [no synths] and the like of course didn't work.
That brings us to the next point.

...
I think it would be generally a good Idea to bind payment of politicians to some outcome.
Yeah, I didn't ascribe any particular reason for it. I was dissapointed to hear the news, it came quietly after a long period of silence, which came after a much longer period of hype.
This non sequitur is indicative of political derangement
Would you rather have those poorly-written scripts hitting your APIs or have a poorly-written puppeteer script loading every asset you have—hitting the APIs along with everything else?

Casting shade on API reverse engineering when what you actually have is a failure to rate limit is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Abusive users will abuse until you build in a technological method to stop them, and user-agent sniffing provably doesn't work to stop bad actors.

The concept of a flexible, customizable User Agent that operates on my behalf is a key idea that's foundational to the web, and I'm not willing to cede that cultural ground in the vague hope that we can make the bad guys feel bad and start just using Chrome like civilized people.
Not really. Transaction costs / vig (commonly 5%) and counterparty risk eat up theoretical arbitrage profits.

The main arbitrage opportunity was in finding ways to place illega bets in the bettor's jurisdiction.
Not just defamation lawsuits, but also the SEC
> My hope was that instead of taking inspiration from Republicans they would lead an other way.

Me too. The Democrats need a better story, a narrative that people can engage with emotionally.
On the contrary: they're bad at it because our examples are too good. There is information in documentation (requirements, rationales, performance characteristics, safety concerns) that cannot be deduced from the code. The language model anticipates that such information would be present, so it writes it anyway – despite having no idea what it should say.

If you're lucky, you get something bland and verbose, but not incorrect. If you're unlucky, you get something dangerously wrong that a later reader assumes is true / important, since "otherwise, why would they have put it in the documentation?".

This is part of why I refuse to work on codebases which LLMs have mucked about with. Even the most basic things cannot be relied upon. (Note: refusal can be overridden by suitable application of financial compensation.)
There is a difference, though. Stock trading is a non-zero-sum game, investment can result in an overall economic growth.

Betting is _literally_ a zero-sum game that doesn't provide any economic benefits.
What about orange juice futures?

We saw Trading Places.
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Hello all!

I wanted to share a project I've been working on... Strange Forth. It's a Forth based scripting language. So unlike a lot of Forths this compiles to a bytecode instead of a machine code.

The language also features arrays, hash-tables, and structs as first class features. I have the beginning of a FFI implemented. JSON support is also built-in. There is a VS Code language server written in Forth built atop all of these features. The REPL is also written in Forth and supports both single and multi-line editing.

The main version of the interpreter is written in C++, but there are experimental versions written in Rust and C#. I feel that decision to compile to bytecode made having multiple backends easier to implement. In fact, the C# version takes the generated byte-code and generates IL that is JITed to machine code.

There's still lots to do, the FFI needs fleshing out. The language server needs stabilization work and to be updated to use the new threading system recently added. The REPL has known bugs to be fixed. The APIs need to be fleshed out and unified. There is an include capability, but everything is imported into the global namespace so perhaps a module system should be added.

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