skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of the few that likes tipping for this exact reason. Cash if possible. I guess I like how direct it is (no middle organization to dilute and diffuse) and it seems to make them happy. I feel better, they feel better, all is good. Of course this doesn't work every where (e.g. in France tipping is generally looked down upon).

Now being highly persuaded for a tip I don't agree with but this is actually more of a general problem.

Just look at the sleaziness of online advertising and email marketing! Hey thanks for you order but can you review this and buy some stuff from us! Buy Buy Buy!
Ask HN: Why does Vim use Vimscript
I've been wondering about this recently and haven't seen a good answer. The question might be better put, "Why doesn't Vim support other languages for scripting?" I've found Vimscript illegible and difficult to debug, and the thought of implementing a meaningful project in it scares me off. Emacs has lisp, is there a reason Vim is stuck with Vimscript?
Custom scrollbar implementations also often ignore scrolling speed set in OS's settings.
POV OF LONDON VIA INSTAGRAM
Or that the official documentation is poor.
Not sure what you mean. My point is that you can “keep everything in one component” in React exactly the same way you’d do it in Angular or Vue.
> Regulating non-approved medical treatments out of existence might look appealing, but IMO we need to allow informed, rational people to choose unapproved treatments where no approved one exists.

The difficult part is the word "..informed,...". Without regulation, how can you enforce the research and data collection and sharing needed to estimate the efficacy of the treatment? And without a good estimate of the risks and efficacy, how can you make an informed decision?

Granted it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario; you need data before you can make an informed decision, but you need experiments before you can get data.

I'm actually pretty comfortable with letting people at the end of their lives try unproven experimental treatments; but we need to ensure that we as a society learn from those experiments so they won't always be unproven and experimental; so the first 100 people taking a treatment know it's a toss-up on results; the next 100 people know there's a 15% chance of improvement/10% chance of death. I fear that without adequate regulation, there would be little incentive to track what worked and what didn't.
Meanwhile in the real world aesthetics play a big role in corporate/brand identity and corporate that care enough will build horrendous kludges to work around the limitations of browser styling, but once again it has proven a fool errand to argue with the ivory tower warriors that inhabits the websites for the technically minded.

I'm gonna take your word for it tho and will use the complain button on that Bulgari page to let them know their solution "betrays a pretty limited understanding of design" and they will need your more competent service. /s
Universe Sandbox's n body algorithm has dubious stability at large time steps. I've seen the whole thing explode when I crank up the time steps.
>One of lifes most enjoyable things is to be generous.

Then shouldn't Uber be generous and pay their employees more?

>Ask your next uber driver why they are working.

They're working for money, come on man.
But why pay for a book when you're entertaining yourself with streaming music and zombie shows? It is killing culture; just not the culture you care about.
Creating the world’s first low-power animated picture frame
Okay but that does not solve the problem I am concerned about. That doesn't ensure a diverse mining pool. Already it doesn't make sense for me to mine Bitcoin (I don't have access to these ASICs). I think that economic forces will tend to concentrate mining power and that's a problem.
I exclusively use Lyft because they allow tipping. If someone gives me a good, comfortable ride, I want to be able to easily throw a couple of bucks their way. If I'm taking a car service, then I can afford a few extra dollars. Plus, with it being built into the app, there's no need for them to hustle you about it.
The prototype is unfortunately tied to a more global project, which I'm not ready to make open.

This is a POC implemented in OCaml using Kafka.
I'll take a few hours to see what I can open.
What kind of exam asks for the meaning of the word "everywhere"? Doesn't everyone know that when you have an age where you can participate in an exam?

It says it's for Romanian students and is in the Romanian language, so it doesn't look like it's a foreign language to them but their native language.
I did almost the same thing.

I used 1 week to selectively go through accommodations manually, then proceed to complain to a friend of mine.

She's barely human, and she found literary one-of-a-kind apartment dead center at a good price. The apartment was mine next day.

Human scrapers man.
This is a fairly well-known technique for spotting copycats (and I'm sure I've seen examples on HN for both cartographers and Trivial Pursuit).

But yeah, it is somewhat morally hazy in this instance, I agree.
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no, at least antigate doesnt. When you hit recaptcha with known proxy urls (or generally hit it a few times per hour) the captchas get so bad that no OCR would be able to solve it, even humans struggle
Technical question: What are .lz files? Is this LZMA compression? If so, why not using the more popular .xz format?
How Soft Clustering for HDBSCAN Works
But it does not have to be like i think is that , humans can decide to end poverty, end money madness and make a peaceful world . I am sure it will happen one day may be after bigger disaster but we all intelligence to make that happen. We just dont try.
Indeed, something smells fishy.

First, the words "Everywhere, [to] spot" seem too simple to need to be researched - are these words so uncommon in Romanian that students need to look them up?

Second, they impacted ALL users to their site, merely because they saw an increase in use that coincided with the test? Did they even check their website logs to see where the source IPs were geo-located? They laugh off the impact caused to a blogger's readers with their replacement of "treachery"'s meaning.
So you seem to think a Bay Area company should pay it's remote workers Bay Area money. That'd be lovely, but we should explore what it infers. Let's assume that Gitlab will open a Mumbai office in a month's time. Would you expect the people there to get typical Mumbai wages, or typical Bay Area wages?

Assuming you don't think it's Bay Area wages (because that's crazy), why do you think going to an office in your location means you ought to be paid a lot less?
Indeed. Nuclear detonations are more about just how much power we can deliver to a place on demand, but we don't really control much of it. Nuclear reactors are about us controlling smaller, though still huge amounts of that power.

Related, while I'm at all into cars, I love the ingenuity behind internal combustion engines - we took a substance that just burns very well and figured that if we can explode very small amounts of it in a container very quickly, we can produce lots of reliable, portable power. We built a whole civilization on top of it.

Cherenkov radiation is just beautiful.
Assuming I understand this correctly, the only way to catch them is that they misuse one of the three most commonly used words....

That doesn't seem like it will provide enough evidence to actually "catch" a cheater.
It's the Library of Congress's job to do just this. They are doing it. People submit huge volumes of film to them and they sort through it, digitize it, and preserve it, just like books and media.
I'm not sure why we wouldn't be able to? The binaries / source of old browser versions aren't going away. It seems like it's a much easier problem than emulating old closed source console games, or dos programs, both of which have been done very well.
"Semmelweis reflex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex

"The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms."

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Bonus: "Look at yourself objectively" (by Aaron Swartz )

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis
TBH if you read it in an afternoon you're probably missing on a lot of things.

I find that the original text on its own is very hard to fully understand. Usually better to read a commented/detailed edition. At least that's my experience.

But yeah, it is amazing how it can apply to so many things.
If you don't make enough driving Uber. Don't drive for Uber. The market corrects low pay; basic supply and demand.

Would you pay $10 for an oranage if you're buying it right from the farm? Of course not. The supply is such and the demand is such that $10 isn't the price.

Would you pay $10 for an orange in you're at Everest Base Camp? Probably because there aren't many orange trees up there.

The whole "living wage" argument doesn't hold much water with me. If Uber drivers were scarce, then Uber would raise prices (such as surge pricing.) If you aren't making enough driving Uber, then take your car, start your own car service, start marketing and compete.

Not that it's relevant but I don't particularly like Uber however I do like the free market. In this case it isn't like Uber is a monopoly.
It almost seems as if you've stopped using all dictionaries.
The rejection rates for SBIR's are commonly 90%+ because there are far more proposals than dollars.

Now you want to burn down the agency because you had two SBIR proposals rejected, which is statistically to be expected for good proposals and certainly for proposals which you describe as "not feasible" and "not suitable for mass production" (yes, I realize the second description was applied by the reviewer not by you, but that response indicates you failed to adequately make the business case for your proposal which is essential to success in every SBIR application process).

Getting funding for ideas is hard. It always has been and always will be because there are more good ideas than dollars. Most proposals, including most good proposals, will never get funded. This isn't a conspiracy. It's a fact.

Burning down our scientific infrastructure and slashing its funding because it's currently not funded at a level that allows it to do the things you want it to do is a strange response at best.
How We’re Building a Robotic 3D Printing Factory
> exact tax implications

From https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html:

> If you find and keep property that doesn’t belong to you that has been lost or abandoned (treasure trove), it’s taxable to you at its fair market value in the first year it’s your undisputed possession.

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This means that it's just counted as regular income. If you find a few million dollars, that puts you into a pretty damn high tax bracket.

I'd probably just declare it and take the 40% haircut. I got a couple thousand dollars from renting my guest room to a woman who was divorcing her husband, and I've barely touched it. It just sits in a shoebox. Cash is such a pain in the ass to deal with.
I have a feeling what's happened is that they built something they thought was quantum, but since it's so hard to measure qubits they had to develop a bunch of powerful statistical models to help read the qubits.

These models have gotten so good at reading "correct" results from qubits that they've actually started solving the problems themselves.

So are the qubits actually doing anything now or are the models solving problems from totally random qubit inputs? I think that's a question that even they can't answer
The only thing worse than having a broken scrolling experience on mobile is imagining just how much extra data was wasted to download that useless script so that a crappy mobile experience could be had, and how much battery was wasted running the unnecessary script so that a crappy mobile experience could be had. There is complete priority inversion on the web and I am so sick of it; my device should have ample controls to obey ME and not the whims of some random site.
I saw an interesting comment recently, from a Republican who wished for Pelosi or some other important Democrat to just say thank you. Thank you for the money, thank you for working to help these people, fund these programs, keep everything running smoothly.

It's an interesting thought. There are plenty of reasons it's not going to happen in a vacuum - if Pelosi did it tomorrow she'd be mauled by both parties. But as part of something larger? It could be incredible. William Proxmire made his career with the Golden Fleece Award, attacking stupid and wasteful spending (sometimes quite inaccurately). I don't know why there's so little effort on the left to clearly, emotionally show the good that gets done.

Imagine if every budget fight involved someone coming forward and saying "I grew up being fed on WIC. I'm a civil engineer now, and WIC helped make that possible. Out of every tax dollar you paid, I got .000002 cents. Do you really want to take that away?"

(I hope I got that math right.)
Ever-lower barriers for creators?

There have never been any barriers for creators. Folk art has always been a part of human societies.

There were barriers for mass dissemination of artistic works, but not the process of creation.

Mass media put the local artists out of business. Before the advent of radio and recorded music there were many more musicians and bands. Now everyone has to compete on a global level.

I would argue that in this new global digital attention economy that there is even more competition and even less room for local and alternative voices.

Live music profits are at an all time high but it is all concentrated at the top. The long tail is a fallacy.
You've hit on why I don't see humanity's long-term survival as very likely, and why I find the Great Filter hypothesis so compelling.
You could use nukes to seal the wells. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iB9QYaSVEo
For SSDs, it's easier to ensure that the drive you're buying implements encryption at the controller level because then the secure erase option happens nearly instantaneously. Just look for AES-256 in the drive specs. It happens so quickly because all it does is overwrite the encryption key on the controller as opposed to waiting hours for the standard secure erase procedure to complete. At that point all the data is useless.
I get $45k - $48k which would actually be about a 50% pay rise for me. UK wages outside of London really do suck.
This isn't a fundamental change in economy, it's like all the other changes we had.

I mean, back in the days we had the Church and the Nobility which had all the wealth. Now we have what? The Stars and the Businesses?

Sure, all in all more "normal" people got a bigger piece of the pie, but it's still a bad system. Also, many old wealthy families still own their money, look at the nobility of countries like UK. Millions of pounds in the hands of people who did basically nothing for it.

Now what will blockchains change? People who got the know how and money to make it work their way will be the winners and this means basically a big bunch of people who are the winners right now.

Yeah, way to stick it to the man! Those pesky bankers now get it...

But we only swap them out for some companies who put in the know how and money to control the whole thing.

The problem isn't that bankers are bad or monarchs or businesses, the problem is that concentrated power is bad and today this means concentrated wealth.
Why would the editors of an online dictionary want to catch cheaters to begin with?
Tipping is a lovely thing when YOU decide to do it. The point is no one wants to be forced to tip. When the tip is required or demanded it's no longer "generous," it's something else when you feel obligated.
Pressure Doesn’t Have to Turn into Stress
Show HN: A Chrome Extension that adds links to import declarations on GitHub
Story is 100% true. You can check with Google Translate any recent article in the romanian online press regarding dexonline and exams.
Why “Don’t Use Shared Libraries in Microservices” Is Bad Advice
The linked discussion has a lot of speculation and "that's a dumb idea" posts, but no actual debunking.
I'm more dismayed that the thought of giving another human being a little extra money to thank them for good service is so painful to people that they try to avoid it at all costs.

Uber's model feels like it's trying to make the human driver into a robot. Until we have actual robot drivers, I prefer a system that has the tipping built in, e.g. Lyft.
You're not paying 30-40%. Marginal rates are capped at 39.6% and the vast majority of your income is taxed below that unless you're making many hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Stock market gains are 15% unless you're selling within a year of purchase, and even then they're only taxes as any other income, not penalized in any way. This isn't even taking into account the deductions like home office(s), having your business pay for as many expenses as you can reasonably argue, etc.
Sure, off the top of my head Nvidia drivers contain a binary blob you don't get to see. Does it brick fake hardware? No but this is a very special case.

Is it out of the realm of possibility that a vendor could ship a kernel module with a proprietary binary that could damage your hardware? Absolutely.

Why would people accept these proprietary closed blobs over the open alternative drivers? Because the open drivers suck. Can you fix that? Not in the near term.

So how is this not a problem for Linux? It's a problem there too.
> There were only nine searches for those two words in the hour before the exam started, but the number soon began to soar. In the final hour of the test there were 989 requests for their meaning

The article suggests you could likely count the number of innocent users affected on fingers & toes?
Sure, but there isn't an out-of-the-box mechanism to do that. You have to create a way to grant equity, which means you'll need to pay a lawyer—and hourly rates add up quick.
The article is about subjective design choices. Any color space is fine for that as it's only used to pick colors.

Generally, though, what to use working with colors greatly depends on what you are doing and I'm pretty sure most of the time where you think you need CIELAB, HSL with luma for Lightness would do just fine, heck, even jpeg's native YCbCr or RGB might do. It's just not a good advice to avoid RGB or HSL simply because it doesn't work well on rather rare occasions.
You need to compare bugs on a per-usage basis (e.g. lines of code, programs written, some other similar metric), not a raw total. You're comparing numerators, not ratios.
While it doesn't take much away from the argument, it's worth noting that nuclear weapons, when they don't work the way they're intended, don't kill everything. Nuclear weapons are fail-safe[0], and it's very hard to make them detonate. A slight problem, and you have a very expensive dud.

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[0] - for "irradiated half the city, but at least it's still standing" values of safe.
One big difference is that Debian has invested a huge amount of work over the years cleaning up the software they package to make it easier to customize, maintain configuration across updates, etc. That's much broader than the percentage of GNU utilities in Debian's userland.
To be fair is a plugin like this quite good to have when suggesting ideas. Just describing them does not take you as far.
Very interesting idea though I think that would be hard to do since there are a limited number of 16 digit numbers and if people could use a program to generate an infinite number (say, one for each transaction that is temporary so it can never be stolen) we would run out.

However, I do think that some combination of "paying by email" and some email programming could get you something interesting.

In any case, this idea should get more people thinking about the possibilities.
It's a volunteer project. What they decide to do with their free time is probably their own business. If they want to temporarily alter some definitions to validate a hypothesis then more power to them
Why are people downvoting for asking a question?
It is probably primarily due to age and inertia. It is at version 8 now, an eternity in software years. While it might be easy to bind your favorite scripting language to an app today, that surely wasn't so straightforward when "vim" began. And once more than a few people have invested great effort to create useful plug-ins, you would not be helping anyone by trying to completely rewrite the extension mechanism.
You only need to make quarterly payments if you meet certain criteria, largely if the revenue is above a certain amount and you have a reasonable expectation the revenue will continue.
I'd say it's a good thing. Nowadays everyone can have content that caters to their niche. It doesn't have to be "dumbed down" to fit a the common taste. When costs are low, the barrier to entry is low, and there's large enough slices of the pie to go to creators, consumers can get content that is more focused on what they want, rather than just what is available.
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True. In the context of Kioski he talks about some debt almost entirely around real estate.
This can be implemented in a browser extension. And I don't think everybody needs scrolling through paragraphs.
The only people who should be ok with no government are practiced warlords. The rest are naive anarchists who believe in the ability for people to peacefully self-govern or selfish libertarians who think they deserve to keep 100% of what they make regardless of how far society carried them to get their wealth.
> This perception is ideological, in the mind of many Americans market equillibrium is always the most efficient pricing, this measure of efficiency is not related to the amount of healthcare delivered per dollar spent.

The "market is efficient" assumption is voided by the bastardized healthcare system in the US.

In theory the reason we have drug patents is that if you create an important drug, you get a temporary monopoly that you can use to make a lot of money, so people will have the incentive to create important drugs.

The benefit is supposed to be that the market sets the price. Until the patent expires, you pay exactly as much as the drug is worth, no less and no more.

But if the government (or even a large enough insurance company) is paying then there is no market, the buyer has pricing power. The only way the patent system produces the efficiency it's supposed to is if the patient pays for the drugs. Without that you might as well get rid of drug patents and just use tax money to fund drug research directly.

But if you talk about either getting rid of prescription drug coverage or getting rid of drug patents, politics enters and we get the inefficient catastrophe we have.
I'm not sure but probably because it produced a smaller file than xz.
Do whatever takes the least amount of your time, and results in most comfortable writing experience. The important part is writing, not the technology.
Luther Systems' quest to build a Blockchain company
The article suggests many readers of a popular author's blog were impacted.

> The DEX editors assumed it was and changed its definition, but later discovered that it had been used by a well-known Romanian author in a blog post that morning, something they call an "unfortunate coincidence".
Neovim supports Lua. Neovim != VIM, I know, but still something worth looking into.
Shows the superiority of offline dictionaries.

Edit: And not-needlessly-online software in general.
See my above comment about GC and other runtime options. I always need a script to specify all the options to the JVM. It is never just as easy as a single jar with no options. That makes it better, no doubt, but it still sucks.