skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people saying things along the lines of "this is bad for society, therefore it should be banned," and kind of making the implicit assumption that the counterargument against "sports gambling is bad" is "sports gambling is good."

I don't think that's it at all - the counterargument to "sports gambling is bad" is "we live in a society that places an incredibly high value on personal freedom, so we should err on the side of allowing people to do what they want, even if it results in some amount of harm, because the inherent value of allowing freedom of choice is high."

That's not to say we can't ever ban things - obviously there is a degree of harm that is high enough that we should sacrifice particular freedoms (e.g. you can't have a nuke). And FWIW I think this one certainly sits close to the line of being worth banning, but the point is that it's not a clear case just because the direct benefits to society of people gambling (which are minimal) outweigh the harms (which are substantial).

I think the most helpful way to consider the tradeoff is by using examples of what we allow in society now. Alcohol's a good one - without question a hugely harmful substance overall, but we allow it. Is gambling more or less harmful than alcohol?
https://archive.ph/mxxYJ
I think gambling should be legal as it is possible to do responsibly. But I'm no libertarian. I think that money would be better spent elsewhere and I'd support restrictions on advertising.
It is funny I had the same exact journey but starting from VB4. I actually wonder what would have happened if instead of killing VB for .NET that Microsoft instead merged legacy VB into the Office team and actually updated it instead of the perpetual state of deprecation that it has been in.
I like it. The "water points" feature is definitely useful and easy to use. Finding/planning the next water stop is often the focus of a bike ride. Fountain locations seem to be reasonably complete -- I was able to determine a couple of fountains not on the map, but it took some effort.
I'm using InteliJ with a Zig plugin and finding it quite nice. But I'm a Zig noob
you are right, I also came to the same conclusion just moments ago after re-evaluating this idea. I still think it is a little more convenient for private use than modifying the url everytime before I can request a certain resource.

maybe a more valid idea would be to use seperate configs or profiles in mpv for seperate use cases.

thank you for your thoughts, highly appreciated
And taking it even further, maybe they still exist, but have advanced so far they are undetectable to our simple minds and senses, similar to how an ant or bacteria has no idea about our existence. Maybe there are millions of advanced species that we can't detect, considering that there are millions of species we are aware of, and statistically it's unlikely that we would be the most advanced.
It's a double edged sword. Actually creating a good standard that people want to use through an open process that aims to be unbiased takes a non-trivial amount of time and hence costs a not insubstantial amount of money. Different standards organisations have chosen different approaches to solving that problem, and although I completely agree and freely available standards are my preferred approach, it is also very clear that ISO standards are well respected and widely used despite the need to pay to view them in some cases.
You can trust the information. That's a personal choice. But that doesn't make it journalism-driven news - in the textbook definition sense - for everyone else.

As honest goes: "We are an op-ed oriented information sharing site. We do not adhere to normal journalistic standard."
AI-Powered LinkedIn Conversation Automation – Seeking Feedback
Hi all, I have been approached by a client to help with automating his LinkedIn conversations within the direct message/Ibox feature.

Their goal is to evolve or replace their current Dux-Soup setup with advanced conversational AI capabilities.

Key requirements:
• Integrate AI chatbot functionality with LinkedIn direct messaging
• Develop system to qualify leads and guide prospects to book meetings
• Ensure compliance with LinkedIn's terms of service
• Create a seamless handoff from AI to human interaction when necessary (specifically when the customer is ready to book a call).

I am looking at Expandi and Salesflow etc, but thought I would check here to see if anyone is aware of a solution. I could attempt building something within Make or Zapier but feel like we'll experience issues.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Of course things have always been changing, but the current rate of extinction hasn't been equalled since the four or five largest mass extinction events. It's not an ordinary situation in life's history. Ultimately it depends what you care about but it's inarguable that the natural world is being greatly impoverished in ways that could take millions of years to recover from (e.g. in terms of species numbers)
Amazing you had to point this out. Some people are so used to thinking of the stock market as a gambling platform that we forget it serves an actual purpose, and is probably one of the primary drivers of our society’s prosperity.

That said, I’ve worked in consumer trading, and almost all of the profit margin comes from customers engaging in gambling-like behavior (e.g. crypto and options day trading). It’s a big reason I don’t work in that space any more.
I think it is grossly unfair what happened to the pilot. He followed orders, followed procedure, followed the damn manual. Wholly inappropriate response by the marine corps. I can only assume that it got political and the brass got embarrassed.
Be careful about generalizing about Boeing here; it's not really a good example. The door plug incident was entirely caused by managers, not bad engineering.

In this case, the managers knew that if they went back and removed the door plug then it would have to be inspected again. That would cost time, and the plane was already behind schedule. Their bonuses were in the line, so they got together to find a solution. The solution that they found was to skirt the inspection rules using semantics. They decided to have their employees loosen the bolts, shift the door plug a little, do the required work, and then put everything back. This allowed them to claim with a straight face that they hadn't ”removed” the door plug, and therefore it didn't need to be inspected.
Young people don't use twitter, they might not even know what it is. Only older people who basically want the news or like to argue.
I want a desktop version of this that runs on Mac and Linux.
Yep, sneakers (which is now crashing hard), collectibles (also mostly crashing for non-functional cards like sports), etc, are all the same as well. COVID and stimulus checks were a turning point imo.
if you’re storing arbitrary text from untrusted sources you will always need to clean it first. Plus in those instances you’ll probably want a db or json or whatever works well with your language anyway.

I guess I’m saying that if this had caught on early with ubiquitous support it could have saved us from the mess that is csv/tsv/etc. It wouldn’t have negated the need for more advanced storage and serialization formats.
Well perhaps if these companies didn’t all have skeletons in their closets, they may be able to avoid the bad press, lawsuits, stock prices issues, etc. That is probably the best way to avoid all this
Same with some granite countertop sealer I bought in a spray bottle. Had to dig online for a while before I could figure out what it's made of, which is almost pure PFAS. Crazy considering we prepare foods near it.
Most gambling (and alcohol) addictions are the result of mental disorders, not freely chosen.

Not aving things in society which actively prey on people with atypical dopamine response patterns to the point of them committing suicide, harming others, and going into deep financial and physical ruin is ... an easy "tradeoff."
Apple Makes It More Difficult for Crooks and Cops to Look at Your Phone
I think excessive gambling is a preview of the ugliest face capitalism could show from time to time. After inflicting pain on the society we’ll learn to keep gambling away and in very restrictive settings such as casinos and places that require determination to go to. By then the investors will have collected their loot and moved on to some other exploitative endeavor.

Im not against gambling per say, but the dark patters and exploitation of human psychology are what irk me. I had some friends whose lives went down the drain due to gambling.
What's the point of working hard? Many industries have no upward mobility. Your reward for working harder is that your boss fires your coworkers and keeps you at the same pay so you can do their jobs, too. You're supposed to just hustle until you literally drop dead.

I can understand why people decide they're better off just gambling and hoping for the best.
Surely autocorrect.
On the other hand it’s great to have them investigating all these companies and their widespread misdeeds
Dusting off Dreamcast Linux (2023)
Yeah I mean either that or do the bare minimum of audio production if you're interviewing someone.

If you have to interview them over a video call, at least have them record their own audio channel locally on a decent mic and don't just upload the recorded zoom call like it's 2020.
I Don't Have Spotify
I wasn't aware of that detail, thank you.
Awesome. I guess I should have looked at the code rather than just speculating, but I couldn't imagine that it works _and_ it's readable.
Alt-drag from the parent folder... so that's the workaround... thanks for the tip on handling this deprecated feature.

Not only has the folder address icon-drag been lost in the name of progress, so too have dozens of previously useful keyboard shortcuts, plus the core ability to re-dock Windows Start Bar onto any edge of the screen... nowadays in Win11 we are restricted to only docking at the bottom.
I'm just wondering, can we run shors algo yet or no? :)
You'd think that. One of the biggest takeaways from WWI (and undeniable takeaways of WWII) is that complex weapons work better. Chemical attacks could kill thousands of men without risking a single life on the behalf of the attackers. Tanks and armored vehicles were protected from any of the simple implements that infantry could carry, and forced a complete rethinking of battlefield strategy. The concept of air superiority began to define who advanced on the ground, and the modernization of naval forces revolutionized the tactics used in standoff warfare.

It's comforting to repeat humanist aphorisms like "war never changes" but the reality of the matter is that 100,000 people had never died so quickly in any age before the atom bomb.
Hindenburg published a report about Super Micro and their information/analysis turned out to be right.

How is this insider trading? Do they have access to material non-public information?
This looks like a final goodbye to good old RSA
Giving blood is also a great way to get rid of heavy metals like mercury.
The worst part of it is the corruption of the sports themselves as gambling encouraging fixing of competitions (by refs, etc) and other forms of cheating. But this breaking of a recreational game's rules isn't enough to justify the use of violent force against those that gamble (ie, the old status quo of it being illegal). As with most things you can only control your own behavior and refuse to participate. What others do is up to them.
If you’re stupid enough to get depressed you don’t deserve to rot in bed all day. If you’re stupid enough to get sick you don’t deserve to go into debt.

But I think that’s the difference between seeing gambling as an activity and an addiction.
Well, this is going to be my new ice-breaker at the next party I don't want to be at.
people in hong kong had cellphones before the year 2000
I paid for a month previously, and still try it out for time to time on some specific queries. But overall it doesn't really seem obviously better or worse to me. Some queries are worse, some are better, but overall I use ChatGPT a lot more than either Google or Kagi these days (and happily pay for that).

It would be neat if there was some Chrome extension that could do a blind test on the results... i.e. randomly replace some Google results with Kagi results, record which ones I don't bounce from, and then report back to me after a month "You have a strong/moderate/weak preference for Kagi/Google results! Here's the data..."

Or if Manifest v3 really kills uBlock, I'll probably disengage from the Google ecosystem as much as possible and move everything off, including adopting Kagi and Orion at that point. But I'd really rather not, just because it's a huge hassle to de-Googleify.

Edit: I forgot to add that I can only use Google with uBlacklist filtering out a bunch of domains (Quora, Forbes, YouTube, Medium, etc.). Otherwise it's unusable.
Or this comment:

> One issue is that the woke fad constantly generates hot new buzzwords, such as "equity"...

I wasn't aware that "equity" is new or a buzzword, lol.
> Distribution rights for obscure cinema are complex.

That's what I don't understand. The odds that more than 10 people in Mongolia are going to give two shits about say an arthouse drama about an immigrant Latino family in Yellowknife are incredibly low. No matter how well-drawn the characters, or compelling the story, obscure arthouse films are not expected to find a big paying audience. So why not make that film free to watch in any market that you don't expect to be interested in it? How much revenue do you really stand to lose?
Anyone have this for Twitter? I want to remove most of my tweets but the official API costs $200
gambling /is/ a dark pattern, it's basically the archetypal example
Thousand dollar idea: plasma donation center where they throw the plasma away.

(Ten thousand dollar idea: technology that cleans up the area where they dump the plasma).
> even if it results in some amount of harm

I think society needs to draw the line when the bad thing harms innocent people. Addictions always impact the entire families, not just the person with the addiction.

The problem with banning alcohol is the enforceability is impossible. Enough people wont agree with the ban and we can't just throw everyone in jail. Similar cases include gun control or tobacco.
The article mentions but doesn’t do a good enough job explaining at high temperatures and low humidity a fan can remove sweat faster than your body can supply it. Making excessive fan speeds counter productive and actually increasing body temperatures, ie there’s humidity + temperatures where low works better than high and edge cases where even low is counterproductive.

This flips with supplemental water which once again makes faster fan speeds useful up to significantly higher temperatures. Obviously there’s another limit as a mister alone can’t lower a rocket engine exhaust to be comfortable.

Net result a lot of seemingly contradictory recommendations shown in the article.
Security is having a bit of a hay day as everyone fights to build a moat against smart kids and AI. SOC2 and friends are a pain in the ass, but are a moat more than most these days. Security theater? The answer is at least “mostly”, but a moat nonetheless. You can feel the power swinging back into the hands of the customer.

When all software is trivial, the salesman and the customer will reign again. Not that I’m hoping for that day, but that day may be coming.
YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware
FYI, YubiKey is apparently still selling old stock with firmware vulnerable to the EUCLEAK attack instead of disposing of them, as a reader of Fefe's Blog reported:
https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=99ccc8dc
Wait. Doesn’t this mean you’re just giving PFAS to the blood recipient?
DITE and CSPM are indeed important problems upon which to reflect security-wise.

But, reflecting on XSS: What a shame that we can't evolve our standards, protocols, software, and hardware to fix such issues fundamentally.
I would be all for making sports gambling legal and unrestrained if society wasn't expected to pick up the mess if something goes wrong. The same argument with drug legalization: if we are morally on the hook for millions of dollars in rehab costs, then no, you shouldn't be allowed to do hard drugs. Alcohol and tobacco use are similar vices where I'm not ok with unrestrained access if society is expected to provide the resources to pick up pieces of bad results. Freedom with responsibility for your own actions is fine, freedom without responsibility is not ok, it simply isn't a feasible option.
Moore Curve [1] is a sequence of curves that ends up filling a square as the sequence goes to infinity, thus asymptotically mapping [0,1] to [0,1]^2. (phrasing might not be mathematically correct)

So, my intuition tells me that what the site creator did is take the 4th Moore curve (which has 256 "corners") in the sequence, then spread 256 points on the [0,1] interval and map the later into the former. The output points then serve as cores for the Voronoi diagram [2].

"Adding holes" in the 256 input points thus means to creates gaps in the 256 input points, possibly at regular interval. The animation happens when points slide from adjacent from the gap into the gap. I can't find the exact logic of which point moves when. However, all points move at the same time when there are exactly 128 holes (i.e. 128 points on the curve), and there are three batches of points that move one after the others when there are 64 holes (thus 3 batches of 64 points moving).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_curve

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
Most alcohol addictions are the result of mental disorders, not freely chosen. We know how that ended in the US.

I can count the number of times I consumed alcohol on one hand (I.e. I would not care at all if he hit Prohibition 2). But I'm not society. So where do we draw the line between "healthy" consumption of a nigh objectively bad thing and "this is a genuine danger, ban it"?
Sorry, I wasn't nitpicking... I just didn't realize Automotive OS actually lived on! I thought it died a few years ago, but apparently Ford is adopting it. Anyone else? I would love to see this get more uptake, but I didn't think the manufacturers were going that route. Some, like GM and Tesla and Rivian, are altogether avoiding Google and Apple in favor of their own systems, aren't they?
Since when were they trustworthy organizations? Seriously I've always been under the assumption it's run by a bunch of deep pocket fat cats.
It has a Raycast extension too https://www.raycast.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify
Less than zero, really
> maybe a more valid idea would be to use seperate configs or profiles in mpv for seperate use cases

I think that's the way to go. However you choose to pass the auth creds (I would still suggest standard basic auth in http-header-fields), it should be in a profile that can be automatically activated with a profile-cond setting containing a string.match on the path to check for a certain domain name.
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. Collaboration (2005) [video]
Facebook Oral Argument – November 12, 2024
We haven't come so far from the time of the Romans who drank from lead pipes. We're just wrestling with different chemicals and different physical, environmental and social effects.
There at least a few others left, https://gitlab.com is one I regularly use.

Sadly the amount of money you need to spend on security & support for such a service does make offering such a service (particularly for free) not viable for smaller entities, there are some big economies of scale to make these things viable that work particularly well if you can also get big companies to pay for commercial offerings.
Em #5 would have a B#, not a C. This isn't a pedantic point; it very much matters if we're trying to be accurate with chord naming.

Another example to illustrate how identifying the root is important: C E G A. It's either a C6 or an amin7.
Just provide it the localhost:port for your instance of LM Studio/text-generation-webui as the Azure OpenAI endpoint in the config. Should work fine, but going to confirm now.

EDIT: Okay, this repo is a mess. They have "OpenAI" hardcoded in so many places that it literally makes this useless for working with Azure OpenAI Service OR any other openai style API. That wouldn't be terrible once you fiddled with the config IF they weren't importing the config BEFORE they set default values...
* Don't allow advertising for it, period.

* Standardize the UI. No animations. No cartoon characters. No flashing, sounds. It should look more boring than Craigslist. No A/B testing. No hiring psychologists to "optimize" the UI.

* No "retention team". No freebies, kickbacks, offers, comps.

* Implement a voluntary ban list, and enforce it strongly. Someone that decides to ban themselves from gambling for life should be unable to bet even a penny.

* Setup a "qualified gambler" program, similar to "qualified investors". You can bet $1,000 per year, or 20% of your YoY growth in net worth, or 1% of total net worth, whichever is greatest.
Food cafeterias at the office go back to Henry Ford. Creating a distinction based on how fancy it is, is just the modern day “I invented it!”.
Related:

Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41665630
I sometimes wonder if something like this using Lua wouldn’t be a great way to quickly build native desktop apps.
That can dilute what's circulating in your bloodstream, but not what's already accumulated in your brain, lungs, liver, kidneys, and probably some other organs that weren't studied yet.
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>If you’re stupid enough to get depressed you don’t deserve to rot in bed all day.

Given how much my country invests in mental health clinics, I think that's what many people up top think, yes.
Matt Levine had an interesting point/counterpoint here:

> There are a lot of ways to put your money into the stock market; some of them feel mostly like “fun gambling,” while others feel like “boring sensible investment of retirement savings in the long-term growth of the economy.” A lot of retail brokerage accounts will let you do both. If you are young, carefree and confident, and don’t have very much money, you might gravitate toward the gambling stuff. And then later, as you get more money and responsibility and grow up a bit, you will get more curious about buy-and-hold investing in low-cost index funds.

> And you can do both of those things — and transition between them — in the same brokerage account. This is good! Arguably it is socially useful for brokerage apps be competitive with, say, sports gambling apps, to be as fun and easy-to-use and exciting and risky as sports gambling. Because investing is competing with sports gambling for young, risk-seeking people’s attention. But the brokerage app is better positioned to transition those people into boring responsible investing. There is no analogous transition in sports gambling. Here is a recent paper finding that sports betting “does not displace other gambling or consumption but significantly reduces savings, as risky bets crowd out positive expected value investments.” Zero-day options are, arguably, a bit better than that.

> Again you cannot get too carried away with this theory. Is it socially beneficial to introduce riskier and zanier financial products to retail brokerages? Well, if the zanier products lure customers away from sports betting, and start them on a road to mature sensible investing, then yes. If the zanier products lure customers away from index funds, and start them on a road away from sensible investing, then no. I’m not sure there’s an a priori answer.