skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like even a year ago there were not many online gambling ads in my vicinity, but today they seem ubiquitous. From the ad spend they are willing to do, my assumptions about their ROI suggest I should not be doing any sports gambling.
I think the bigger factor is politicians and government agencies. It is near impossible to find their actual public statements (for politicians) or updates (for agencies) elsewhere on the web.
Revolutionary? Mystic? Come on...

The guy is clearly a fasion maven!!! I mean, look at that hat!

He seriously needs his own twerk tic channel! He's an influenza!
> If you really believe this you'll use a custom user agent instead of spoofing Chrome. :-)

Read up on the history of User Agent string, and why everyone claims they're Mozilla and "like Gecko". Yes, it's because of all the silly people who, since earliest days of the WWW, tried to change what they serve based on the contents of User-Agent header.
Except I’ve driven extensively around the world and I’m not an Australian only being in Australia for the past few years.

I’ve driven the world most dangerous roads that’s my thing. Often you wouldn’t even call them roads.

I felt more safe on a goat track with a coach coming the other way and sheer drop at the side of the road or highway with cows in the middle of the road and chaos traffic than Australia. Even 150mph down the Autobahn felt safer than 110kmh on an Australian highway.

Every car journey in Australia I play a game, spot the potential accident ahead as someone nearly crashes or does something stupid.

Watch dash cam owners Australia, half of it’s avoidable but the driver drives straight in to it rather than defensively avoid putting themselves in a dangerous situation

It’s absolutely an attitude/cultural issue. They have a lengthy process to get a license however I notice there’s a preference of parents teaching their bad habits vs professional driver training.
Well, my state voted for it way back in 2022 (or was it 2020?). I think that was one of the few times I left a choice blank.

The theme of the 2020's has been people voting against theirs or society's best interests zo it's just keeping on theme.
FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Warning Letter to Micro-X Ltd
But doesn’t look to have affected stock price so far
why are you larping a lawyer, bro
The systems made by D-Wave do quantum annealing, not general purpose quantum computation. As such, they are very useful for optimisation problems but they can't run Shor's algorithm.
1) Could they have known?
2) Are they required to test?
The investigating is great, the problem is who is doing it and for what reason.

If the misdeed is done by a non-public or poor company there is no money to be made so they would never even investigate it. And not accepting a payoff that returns more than the short position would be ignoring fiduciary responsibility, so some investigations could disappear.
> Is gambling more or less harmful than alcohol?

Not sure if a serious question, but, yes, it is a lot, a lot more harmful than alcohol. I'm close to mid-40s and by this point in life I got to know both alcoholics (the dreadful '90s here in Eastern-Europe was full of them), a group which would include member of my family, and gambler addicts, which would include very close friends, and the latter are by far the most wretched human beings, it's not even a contest.
Maybe reverse it from the web app.

I deleted a tweet and saw this request:

HTTP POST https://x.com/i/api/graphql/VstuveVgh5q5jk7lmnVopqr/DeleteTweet
{
"variables": {
"tweet_id":"12344567899123",
"dark_request":false
},
"queryId":"VstuveVgh5q5jk7lmnVopqr"
}

You can execute these from javascript in the browser if the auth part is too complicated.

### Update, this is the pure javascript console way, if you don't want to write your own client doing HTTP posts

I played with the console more and got these parts:

// Find all tweets on screen (this gives you the tweet IDs too)

document.querySelectorAll('a > time')

// Click the "more" button on the first tweet

document.querySelectorAll('a > time')[0].parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.querySelector('button').click()

// Click delete on the tweet

document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="Dropdown"]')[0].children[0].click()

// Confirm delete

document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="confirmationSheetConfirm"]')[0].click()
>Frequently subtitles are available for every language except the original on many services... which seems insane.

I didn't even bother bringing up accessibility, since it's so laughably broken (if not outright ignored) with all current streaming services. It is, at best, an afterthought.

None get even close to matching the functionality of a plain old DVD.

Or, since we are in 2024 - an MKV file with multiple audio and subtitle tracks, which the pirates care about providing, and the streaming services do not.

_______

PS: if you're trying to learn a language, US companies often refer to subtitles in the language of the audio track as "closed captions" rather then "subtitles"[1], with the target audience being hearing impaired people.

Look for the "CC" button, or "accessibility" options, and you may find what you look for.

YouTube provides automatically generated subtitles for many videos (of varying quality) with the [CC] button in the video controls.

[1] See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning
Mastodon is a walled garden
That's wild. If the disability is permanent, he should only need one note that says that.
> 4 tournaments per week

I correct myself: 4 tournaments per month, of course.
Aside from the "ban/don't ban" dichotomy, I think the other option is to basically add some legal friction to doing something to the point where those who really want to partake still can, but its difficult to the point where a lot of people who might otherwise participate don't bother. I take this as the main point of the article, its not that sport betting was impossible previously, but you used to have to travel to a casino or sign up for sketchy, illegal web sites.

Now there's almost no friction. You can place bets just by clicking on your phone, and not only that, there's now a ton of ads and other media reminding you that you can do so. Its pretty clear that this change has caused a huge increase in the harm done by gambling, so even if we don't want to straight up ban it, it seems worthwile to impliment at least some of the limitations that article suggests
How I ship projects at big tech companies
The author is active in his HN discussion (user ddp26)
it's gross
Unfortunately (for a fun theory), carbon dating and x-rays of the Mona Lisa have disproved that.
80% sounds like a BS number. It's cited on Wikipedia, but references are either "opinions" or do not contain such information at all.

A proper study [1] shows mean infection rate of ~20% in the worst regions (Far East and North) with the highest rate up to 47%. The situation should be better in the western regions. For comparison, in the US studies show ~4% infection rate [2], so situation in Russia is relatively bad, but improves steadily since 90s and it's far from being catastrophic as the 80% number paints it.

[1]: https://www.tibl-journal.com/jour/article/view/1706

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/tb/hcp/clinical-overview/latent-tubercul...
Higher Order Pattern Unification on the Z3py AST
Nonsense. Speed limits are policed with discretion; you're vanishingly unlikely to get done for going a few over. I've driven past a copper at 78 (oops)

When I was young and dumb, i crashed into someone while driving recklessly. Constabulary offered me a driver education course as an alternative to punishment. Fwiw, it was an excellent course. I'd recommend it to any private driver.
The lowest common denominator beige world of "trigger warnings" before any sentence that may stir emotion.
Personalized advertising! Personalized high-pressure sales! Personalized phishing! Personalized scamming! Personalized extortion! Personalized coercion!

The possibilities are as exciting as they are endless.

Before AI, could you call up 4.2 million numbers in an instant with responsive robo-agents? Could you add convincing details to your pitch based on behavioural information collected from over 100 data partners?
Could you deliver a heartbreaking plea in the voice of each and every person's child?

We're not afraid to take advantage of the very latest in personalized advertising, and that's what's going to set our toothbrush subscription service apart from the rest.
By “we” I don’t mean “USA” but “humans”. I’m very happy USA did cut its coal consumption.
Just my two cents, but I think the appropriate compromise with highly addictive activities that we know can be harmful is to pass regulation surrounding advertisement/marketing. Particularly on advertisement/marketing to children. That way we allow freedom of choice while also assisting those who are more vulnerable to addiction.

I do not think it's appropriate to be constantly bombarded with ads for gambling when attempting to participate in sports culture. As of right now, it is unavoidable, whether watching on TV, going to the stadium, at the stadium, listening to sports commentary, or in the wider fan ecosystem (podcasts, YouTube, etc).
Outlawing pornography is a right wing speech policing platform. I think you have noticed more what you want to see instead of what is real.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/88318/what-do-t...
Maybe among the best decisions Java ever made was hiding setenv. You simply cannot set env vars in Java.
You can't even click the button to not agree to their terms because it's not a button.
> I'm American but lived in Toronto from 2022 until a couple months ago.

Just for clarification, do you mean you were astounded by the amount of ads in Toronto? Or in the US?

> I don't know much about the current status in the U.S., but Ontario at least seems to be completely infected by gambling ads.

I just live in a small farm town, so I'm not really exposed to ads or billboards in my daily life. Online gambling ads aren't in our local newspapers yet, at least.
XP with classic theme was like 2000 but with a warmer palette. My favorite.
And on the web side, fingerprinting is rampant and there are JS challenges in cloudflare, imperva, etc which make it trickier. Frustrating to run a whole browser with a virtual screen, load the whole page which is ofc like 15mb of JS and other trash, just to do a very simple thing.

Granted, smaller fish like the ones OP is referring to generally don't have aggressive anti automation measures in place, so it can be easy...but generally these techniques don't work if the operator has put the proper measures in place.
> It's the secular word for "soul", but at least the religious people have some ideas about what their woowoo nonsense terminology means.

The fact that I experience anything at all (as opposed to being an unthinking being as we assume robots or machines to be) seems like something to me. I can't explain what it is, but it seems different to anything else I observe in the world.
As the article discusses you don't need to ban alcohol you can just make it more awkward:
- tax it
- restrict the sales by age, location and time(see Nordic countries for a really strict version of this)
- minimum unit pricing
- warning labels
Etc.
You can argue if this is the right thing to do or not but it is enforceable and there's good evidence that these measures reduce consumption and harms.
Einspänner is always with Schlag :) And yes, it still exists in traditional cafés.
Actually it's the shoe layer.
I'm so confused by this thread. I saw this comment days ago, but here it is, in this thread with a timestamp of "1 hour ago" while the whole thread itself is from "2 hours ago". But if I look at this user's comments, the comment is from three days ago and links back to this thread that, as we've established, claims it is from "2 hours ago".

To add to the fun, if I Google the comment enclosed in quotes, Google says the comment is from two days ago, but if I remove the quote, it says it's from five days ago.

What's happening?
Related to that: during WWII the US commissioned a fleet of inflatable decoy "tanks" https://ghostarmy.com/bio/f/Equipment/418. They were built by the Patten Company (no relation to George S. Patton, different spelling), and in the early 2000s I rebuilt the Patten Company's website. They have since removed that historical footnote from their site but you can probably find it on the Internet Archive.
I like the idea. I can't wait to see the gamification
Was he picked up on Gropecunt Lane?
The real question is: is there any case where a program calls `setenv` in one thread and actually wants it to take effect in other already-existing threads?

That said, GLIBC is pretty good at documenting all the dangerous functions, so it is possible to add locking/copying yourself.
Destructive weed, found in New York state, resists common herbicides
A bunch of the lubricants that are FDA approved for incidental food contact contain PTFE. It’s unclear how harmful the teeny tiny particles of PTFE are.
"but when I turn on the tennis channel and I see the commentators talking about the “Fan Dual match of the day...”

This sort of promo message is almost as old as sports broadcasting itself. Go to a baseball game and everything is "Seventh Inning Stretch brought to you by Tire Plus" and "The Schweigert Sausages Mascot Race" and "Bud Light Fan Cam" and a million other sponsored messages. This is no different really, except it's for a product you find objectionable.
StockUp Web App
StockUP is a stock analysis assistant that helps users gather essential information about specific stocks. Users can search for a stock symbol and receive details like market capitalization, daily maximum and minimum values over time, and recent news. The app also includes technical analysis powered by AI, offering insights that might help in understanding a stock’s potential movement.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/PooriaT/StockUP
As someone with a professional background in consumer hardware (and music production) my first thought is always "how can I solve this problem without hardware" first. Don't get me wrong--hardware is fun--but manufacturing and selling consumer hardware is brutal from a business perspective (of course fun in its own masochistic way). With hardware, you're dealing with annoying cashflow issues unless you can easily build to order (money tied up in inventory or even the supplies), supply chain management, inventory management overhead, logistics and fulfillment overhead, additional regulatory overhead.

My understanding from OP's product is that there is an inherent assumption that this is targeted towards people dabbling on standalone digital pianos that also typically have built-in synthesis/sound modules.

Anyway, I'm just giving my reasons for why wouldn't you start with a software approach to answer your question. Putting all that aside, OP's solution is really cool and, independent of the decision to go custom hardware, it seems like a great product solution for the problem it's solving.
in the spirit of this article, can anyone explain why the Linux host-level firewall is a useful control?
The best solution to a societal gambling problem is genuine economic growth. Debt fueled "stimulus" mostly finds its way into the hands of the well-connected. Inflation hurts the poor the most, increasing the severity of an already desperate situation. Real economic growth, on the other hand, gives opportunity and hope to the lowest in society (who are more likely to be gambling what they can't afford).
> but this has a theistic bent

Aka is obviously wrong.
That's interesting history! It goes to show what could have been if they asked around.
That plus that they haven’t heard of google maps.
It’s a light/medium gray. Believe the idea was to deemphasize the ui in favor of the document/input fields.
The vast majority of the security "industry" is about useless compliance, rather than actual security. The chimps have put their fears into large enterprise compliance documents. This teaches the junior security people at enterprise companies that these useless fears are necessary, and they pass them along to their friends. Why? Not just because of chimps and fear, but also $$. There is a ton of money to be made off of silly chimps.
This is an extraordinary claim that needs evidence.
Osho on the word fuck.

https://youtu.be/6D7rWLzloOI

If it says 'sign in' in youtube web, just click open app. works there.
Surprised the article didn't mention the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) [0] and it's interesting relation to "a species different from ours had achieved high intelligence and technological civilization on this planet."

For those unaware, the PETM was a rapid increasing in global temperature (and CO2 concentrations) around between 60-50 million years ago. This lead to a minor (on a geological time scale, major for those creatures living through it) climate crisis.

The cause for the rapid increase in temperatures at this time is still the subject of deep debate and largely unknown. However how very "out there" hypothesis, not even mentioned on the wikipedia page, is that this could have been when a civilization such as our experience an event more-or-less identical to our own current climate crisis caused by the rapid use of hydro-carbons.

Of course, the biggest challenge with this hypothesis is, as pointed out in the article, a civilization like this would not leave a trace on the geological record. So there's really no reasonable way to have much evidence in favor of this possible explanation.

But since here about this I've been fascinated by the problem of sending messages to the future. Suppose we come to realize that rapid use of hydrocarbons does most certainly lead to the destruction of any civilization foolish enough to tread this path. The most reasonable focus of scientific effort that would be to figure a way to warn the next advanced civilization on this planet in hopes they might not meet the same fate. But presuming that civilization is 50 million years in the future, how could this be done?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...
>I suspect there's a cost associated with licensing the Ukrainian version that will not be recouped in markets outside Ukraine.

About a third of Ukrainians are currently outside Ukraine due to war.

Even setting that aside, [citation needed] that providing additional soundtracks comes with an additional cost to the streaming service, and if so, that this additional cost is upfront (and not per stream).

If the publishers are so idiotic as to kill Ukrainian language distribution outside Ukraine with their fees, that just shows that piracy is necessary.

Knowing people in Ukraine, it's less likely to be stupid greed than plain old stupidity (like Daenerys, the officials and executives in Ukraine kind of forgot that Ukrainians outside Ukraine exist). This is a discussion for another time, though.
> Same could be said about things in your front yard?

No. It could be said, but wouldn't be true - objects in a domestic front yard are nothing like pamphlets placed on the sidewalk.
Or tax it highly enough that you can afford to mitigate some of the societal ills without driving the market underground.
I think it depends a bit on circumstance, but I think I'd start with "way too much software binds to 0.0.0.0 by default", "way too much software lacks decent authn/z out of the box, possibly has no authn/z out of the box", and "developers are too lazy to change the defaults".

So it ends up on the network, unprotected.
'It gets more and more confused': can AI replace translators?
I'm one of the creators of the podcast. We do what we can, but this is very much a side project for us. We're both full-time SDEs with day jobs.
That's not being worked on at all.

The problem isn't lack of data service on ships. It's things stopping to work offline.
The new windows GUI framework used for the windows on the screen seems to be worse in this regard, as normal windows get their titles greyed out which is quite obvious and is a more natural place to look at than the control buttons
The pettiness of all of this is pretty hilarious.
We've got patches under review: https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/cover.1722193092.git... (triggered by https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-42410, a graphics stack stability issue that wasn't as visible in RHEL 9 for some reason)

At least the first one (the getenv thread safety fix) will hopefully make it into glibc 2.41 and it should be quite safe to backport. It turns out that setenv is easier to handle because glibc already never frees environment strings. It's concurrent unsetenv that is rather tricky. Without some snapshot approach, getenv would return null pointers instead of environment variables values that are actually set. I don't want to introduce locking into getenv because getenv without setenv has been async-signal-safe for so long that it would likely break applications.

The environ handling fixes are a bit more controversial because vfork+execve make it complicated to avoid memory leaks, but these further fixes are less important to the stability of the graphics stack.
Misguided Apple Intelligence ads
I appreciate your concern, however, as a cyclist, I have a good idea of how many oils and solvents I use and it is chicken feed compared to what car dependent people use. What next, concern about the dust coming from the brake blocks on my bicycle and the plastic nanoparticles that come from the tyres?

I use WD-40 on occasion and I think the nudge is needed to not breathe that stuff. But again, the aerobic benefits of cycling outweigh the problems of breathing WD-40 needed to lube the cables every winter or so.

But I like the idea of the American driving his two tonne monster vehicle to the trail to then be concerned about a speck of PFAS dropping off the bike onto the trail.

There is bike shedding with the original article too. I don't eat processed foods including candy bars so those wrappers are not something that ever get into my house. However, I see the toxins as the refined sugars, variously saturated fats and other non-food ingredients in this garbage. Worrying about the PFAS chemicals in the wrapper is a bit silly when you regard the whole product as toxic.

A similar bit of bike shedding goes on with 'pesticides' sprayed on crops. People worry about a bit of glycosphate sprayed on their lettuce but overlook the fact that most of what they eat is definitely not healthy. They worry about the 'pesticides' on the lettuce and ignore the burger, 'cheese' and bun, none of which are what the body needs.
I don’t gamble but the emphasis on it is turning me off from sports. Betting lines have metastasized on the broadcasts and much of the commentary.

The silver lining is that it’s pushed me to watch more of my towns local teams. I’ve realized what I like about the sports is less professionals at their best than a competitive game well-played.

I can get that at the high school level.
A strategy for avoiding one particular death is not a strategy to ensure survival.

There are >1 ways for a civilization to become extinct.
I think it's fine to implement a useless control to get a customer.

Just don't pretend that you're doing it because it is a useful control, pretend that you're doing it because jumping through that hoop gets you that customer, and "we're a smaller fish than the government". Especially with the government (especially if it's the USA…) there are going to be utterly pointless hoops. I can pragmatically smile & jump, … but that doesn't make it useful.
It's pretty much historical, and initially based on the tastes of medieval priests doing Gregorian chant. It started with the handful of intervals they would use and more intervals were added as needed when music grew more complex until we got to similar-ish 12 intervals, which were then actually equally spaced later.
The Unintended Consequences of Pakistan's Solar Energy Boom