skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the percentage method is bad in my opinion. the most expensive cuisine typically hire more affluent staff and pay them more to begin with.

Personally I go with a $5 minimum, more if I am a bother or there for over an hour. Though, this makes me look like a jerk when people drag me to fancy restaurants, and a saint at coffee/fast food places.
> What kind of exam asks for the meaning of the word "everywhere"?

It's probably closer to something like "ubiquitous", which would be a reasonable entry in a vocabulary exam.
I should point out that the above assumes you're content making no profit during that 10 years. If you want to eke out a 5% annual return on your $3,700 investment, your pay-off time is 24 years.
"For this to be true, your income must be in the realm of $10 Million / year."

No, the threshold is lower than that.

Of course I don't count assessed property tax, since that is based on assets, not income.

But I do count parcel taxes[1] which occur per-parcel, regardless of value. USA + CA + Marin County.

Note, I am not losing sleep over any of this and I don't identify myself as anti-tax, by any means. I just think it's worth considering that a qualitative change in taxation has occurred once you go north of the 40% number.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcel_tax
So, he is able to himself declassify them or he is able to get them declassified?
This sort of post is actually yet another reason why I dislike tipping culture. I'm being guilted/pressured -- and not even by a driver -- into supporting a system in which drivers are underpaid and every customer has to individually think about how they can make up for that.

When/if lots of customers start regularly tipping, I fear Uber will just take advantage of the situation to reduce wages even lower -- untenably so. This will end up forcing all drivers to be completely reliant on tips. And once that happens, there's pretty much no going back.

This is an opportunity to have a major service that finally does away with tipping in the US. I don't think we should bend over backwards so easily and just give up on that possibility.
The guys running the dictionary didn't even know what was on the test, judging by the fact that they had to guess them by looking at traffic logs. So it's highly unlikely they settled on a fake definition that just happened to match an alternative choice on a multiple choice test.
When Japan had a third gender
I'm not sure which parts of that you are referring to as unavoidable since C can do modules just fine without any mess.
Define the functions you want to implement as static functions and add something like this at the bottom of the file:

outputmodule_t omstdout = { .name = "omstdout", .description = "blah", .init = prepare_stdout, .do_action = write_to_stdout }
#if COMPILING_FOR_RUNTIME_LOADING
outputmodule_t *rsyslog_outputmodule = &omstdout;
#endif

Then either stick `omstdout` in a list of modules known at compile-time or compile separately and use dlopen/dlsym to get the one necessary symbol.
No GNUisms, no language extensions, no linker tricks, no macro magic.

C has problems but it's not that hard to create readable code in it.
I agree, offline dictionaries have a certain esquivalience about them.
I am also a very liberal person, but I greatly enjoy reading The American Conservative. Have you tried that? Also some of the contributors to UNZ.com are really interesting, but it's a very mixed bag.
You can be opposed to the use of nuclear weapons but still be academically interested and curious in them. Regardless of what you think of them I think we can all agree they are impressive and awesome (not in the colloquial use of the word).
Possibly embrace the fact that semicolons are noise, and treat JS like you would Ruby or other line oriented languages??? (ignoring the fact that JS will "look ahead" past an otherwise complete line - e.g. - return [nothing] followed by open curly brace - but Ruby for example won't)

Remember the bad old days of BASIC? You only needed that extra delimiter (colon, rather than semi) when you were going to put multiple statements on one line :-)

Yeah, minifiers are often too dumb to accept valid input text :-(
No, in 8th grade the teachers (and parents) are not that concerned that you you're not qualified for a job. They just need to make sure that you are able and willing to study by assessing your last (and first) 8 years of school.

At minimum they want you to be able to articulate a phrase and mostly to understand one and, who knows, maybe to have you try to make sure that you'll be able get critical thinking and hopefully not be a little manipulated, cheating prick that will vote an incompetent as a president just to prove a point to an unknown "enemy".
No, there is an example of a careful study showing promise. The unproven treatment is the one that made three people blind, don't mix them up.
> - You at least have more than one choice. If the charity you give to performs poorly by whatever metrics you value, you can give to another one next time.

You can vote out your government.

Charities seem more PR-focused, and the press seems less interested in holding them to account. I have a lot more faith in government to spend money effectively than I do in private charity.
I hated these exams as a kid, but thinking about it now, they do have a point.

The purpose of the exam is to show that you have a vocabulary, and you can understand and answer some questions about a text you're seeing for the first time.

This is important for a lot of jobs, and it isn't something you can google. Sure, you can google individual words, that is less useful if you're the one writing.
This is a great point. It's a model that predicts something about the future. I could have backtested it on historical Google stats to figure out if it's a good model :)
Graph showing where you peak at things in life
Fun fact, SSDs deteriorate faster than HDDs, which deteriorate faster than tape.
Power method is not matrix-matrix multiplication (which is not N^3, BTW [1]), but rather matrix-vector multiplication. So the power method is N^2*k where k is the number of iterations required to reach precision (usually polylogarithmic).

All this being said, scalability is _obviously_ a non-issue when talking about a matrix of programming languages. All methods are constant time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication_algorith... Interesting tidbit: nobody can even prove it's not N^2 :)
I don't think they wanted to "catch" the cheaters. This was not a real examination to begin with, it was just a simulation in order for the pupils to get a feel for how things will happen. The real testing will happen on the 31st of March.

It was more of an experiment/eye opener from the team of volunteers behind the online dictionary project.
> Cheating is such a fluid concept anyway, and it's inconsistently applied. Some schools will suspend students for using calculators on a math test; some force students to bring calculators to their tests. Some give out the questions before a test, while others expel students for distributing test questions. Some require students to collaborate or use online sources; some forbid it. It's arbitrary.

Just because the rules are different for different exams doesn't make cheating fluid.
Tipping when mandatory (and this behavior, makes it that way) is also a hidden fee, why not just charge more? If Uber is not paying enough, why not work for someone else?

In the end by tipping you I'm essentially subsidizing Uber and enable them to pay you less.
But I thought your country owes you nothing, and isn't supposed to protect you from foreign competition. Why should the US help you, just because by mere chance you were born there? It could just as well help someone from India or Bangladesh.
You got me curious, and I wanted to put numbers around this. It's worth noting that the actual paper claims only this is a black hole candidate, and is not certain it's a black hole (despite the Science alert headline).

The paper guesses that the black hole is ~ 1 solar mass, so the Schwarzschild radius would be about 3 km.

The distance is about 2.5x the earth-moon, which is about 10^6 km.

btw, paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.02167.pdf
I doubt getting confused between structs and scalars is a problem in practice. It surely never has been for me.

For me this is cargo cult maintainability: it has the sound of a good advice, but doesn't seem grounded in reality.
The local school has been working on building a Wiki House for two years now. They struggle with issues around the CAD drawings and getting them into the system their CNC router uses and getting parts made with accuracy.

The thing that I noticed is the material waste is pretty high. Getting things fit to 4'x8' sheets of plywood in the US has lots of waste in the sheets. When you stick build a house, most of the materials are used, with a little careful thought things work out. With the long arches, only a few fit in the sheets.

I wish the basic issues could get fixed.
I vaguely remember seeing this before but this article was still quite insightful. Definitely feel like tasting a Gros Michel now.

If you ever visit India try an Indian carrot (a red carrot), it's incredibly juicy compared with the orange ones I'm used to you get in stores in the UK/USA.
The issue with CIELAB is that a* and b* are poor fits for most peoples' mental models of color. HCL still gives perceptual uniformity while also giving the knobs most people are interested in turning.
Because there has to be a point where you start using your own brain and memory. Just like a muscle you need to train and use them in order to keep them efficient. In a normal conversation you don't have time to access a word in a dictionary. How many words are you willing to memorize? How much offline knowledge is required for you to "survive"? If we offload all cognitive efforts to machines, what is left except meat and bones?

Where exactly is that point? I don't know.
"How about every 60 minutes you work, 30 minutes of that is spent establishing the world around you?"

I am perfectly happy to look at it that way, and indeed I do.

Please don't deploy the "I'm arguing with the anti-tax guy" toolkit here - I am not that guy.

The problem I have, and that I think many people have, is that fraction:

30/60 = 1/2 = getting a bit silly.

YMMV.
I too am curious as to what you use.
Forklifts make my muscles obsolete, why bother having gym class?
Is that huge ugly black box the result of not loading images or a defect in your browser?
Very interesting release.

The bit about guessing the part of speech, stem, etc. for previously unseen words should (I think) make it much more useful in contexts that succumb to neologizing, verbing nouns, nouning verbs, and so on (such as business writing, technical writing, academic papers, science fiction & fantasy, slang, etc.).

I wonder how well it would do at parsing something that seems deliberately impenetrable, like TimeCube rants, or postmodern literary criticism.
The author is more tolerant than I am. In the case of both Ride 1 and Ride 2, I would have immediately cancelled on the driver as soon as he pulled those stunts.

I actually did once get a text from a guy demanding to know my destination. I told him I already entered it into the system, and he immediately cancelled on me.
I merely pointed out that they are volunteers in order to underline that there is no connection between the state educational system and the private team of volunteers which provide the dictionary service.
Maybe federally, but in Oregon, where I live, restaurant workers make at least state minimum wage ($9.75), and in Portland, the wage is going up to $15.

I feel a good first start would be to get rid of the tipped-job-exception from the Federal minimum wage law and set it a fixed minimum regardless of job classification.
because 1) uber doesn't classify them as employees, they classify them as contractors, and 2) Uber doesn't give a shit about their drivers.
> Where do I start looking?

Go where the fish are-- start attending conferences. Often the organizers wil have a discount rate for students. Sometimes they'll offer free admission if you volunteer at reception booth for a few hours. Being there in-person makes a big impact, it's a signal you're serious.

Here's good list > https://www.concise-courses.com/security/conferences-of-2017...
Sad to see a blogger I otherwise like spouting the "Trump is a Russian puppet" propaganda.
More modern example is Rimworld, it really gets the design right. Each game item has multiple uses in different contexts, and randomly-generated events actually add up to meaningful story. It's also great example on how to build complex world while still allowing players to have good insights into mechanics and game state.
I guess I should note that for my blog (https://codewithoutrules.com) Jekyll lets me:

1. Write in Markdown, useful for technical writing.
2. Have it look decent.

But if I was doing non-technical content I'd possibly go with something hosted. And for all I know wordpress.com or something has the markdown plugin setup by default these days.
It's a different set of risks. Digital is easier to make fireproof (store copies offsite) but vulnerable to new threats such as automated bulk deletion (e.g. a backup script gone wrong).
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Perhaps better to link to the blog post than the blog index:
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3192
im not telling you how smart i am, im telling you how easy the test is.

go on, be butthurt.
Hope you used Overcast on 2x :)
Ahhh. I'd never ever heard of Parcel Tax. Thanks for the info. I stand corrected!
I would agree with this if they scrapped the Neo trilogy as non-cannon and used Animatrix as the cannon world. The Matrix sequels flubbed it bad enough that something drastic needs to the story universe.
If the interest is larger than the entire gain, sure. However, most people don't do that as far as I can tell from looking around me.
No way will Torvalds allow modifying the build process to include Rust.

Write your own out-of-tree Rust modules if you like, but they'll never be merged in.
One year coding challenge
If you had one year to take your coding skills from 0 to as high as possible, what would you do? And how would you distribute your time?
If I wasn't so busy in my free time with other side projects I would heavily consider blogging about my meal prep. Mainly because I get so much feedback from my friends about how they "could never do that" when in fact with a little planning it's not very hard at all IMHO. I bought 3-compartment containers off amazon [0] that have held up for about half a year now but are looking a little long in the tooth (but they are super cheap considering). I'd love to have glass but it's super expensive.

I normally sit down on Sunday/Saturday and plan out 2 different meals for the week (I do lunches for myself and another friend) and depending on the meal 2-4 different sides to make. It doesn't take more than 30min max to find a recipe (either from pinterest or one of my own, Paprika [1] is the THE BEST recipe app out there IMHO) and create a shopping list. From there it takes 2-3 hours to cook and "plate" everything and then I'm set for lunches for the week. My meals normally come out to $4-5/meal but they are protein heavy and I could get them way cheaper if I was ok with more carbs.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B011SY4P9I/

[1] https://paprikaapp.com/ -- Quick note: Yes they make you buy each app separately (iPhone AND iPad are different apps) but over all for macOS+iPhone+iPad it was $30 total and their syncing service works perfectly. I regularly find recipes on my phone or laptop, save them into the app, then use my iPad for cooking. It also has a GREAT feature that allows you to "pin" multiple recipes so you can flip between them easier. It can suck in recipes from just about any website you throw at it and is one of my favourite apps.
> In that interpretation, the internet can only be an accelerating force; driving society forward into greater levels of social consciousness.

Not necessarily. Take evolutionary processes. Diversity arises in part from isolation. This is why the Galapagos are such a crazy local ecosystem. The Internet globalises all communication -- it is easy to see how this can lead to more "bandwidth" as you say, but less actual cultural output.
Ask HN: How did you start [custom] software shop? How to run such business?
Success or fail stories about starting and running custom software shops. How do you find clients? Marketing, promotion, etc... Does website help with it? (organic search)
> And it occurred to me that holding those beliefs is tantamount to accusing all pilots and other aviation professionals of being gatekeepers of a massive conspiracy

Haha yeah, I brought that up. His position was that all pilots are involved with the conspiracy. I asked why no-one has said anything yet, and his answer was that they were paid a lot of money. Not only that, but they would be killed, along with their spouses and children.

He also mentioned that there was a force field above the earth, so it was impossible to go into space. And above this forcefield is a layer of water. Something about the "waters above the firmament", which got weirdly Biblical, because he didn't seem to be religious at all.
I normally listen to all podcasts on 2x speed, but I usually slow Dan Carlin down to 1.5x. He has such a great storytelling style that gets degraded at higher speeds, IMO.
In your view, though, blame will always lie elsewhere. It's either with the uneducated blind women, or, if you're a generous soul, the society that failed to properly educate them.

Somehow the back alley quack with the completely unrested remedy evades all blame for their actions.

Quackery has a supply side and a demand side. The supply side is easier to deal with. It's a smaller target. Furthermore, it's in the interest of the quack to produce misinformation that your education programs will be in competition with.
What form does the answer to 3.3 look like? Would it break apart the case for abs(r-s) > 1, which is 0?
Not really. Also, typeof doesn't work at all on object literals.

Best just to see if it quacks, or barks :-)

(i.e. - does the object define a given function/"method")
> I guess I see value in news as "here are some issues that people are talking about, go find more info if you want to learn more"

The problem is that most news falls outside the circle of control for the people reading it: it makes people worry, but in practice they can't or won't do anything about it. There's no point in worrying about something if you don't intend to act on it. But that runs counter to the notion of "get people worried to get more eyeballs watching".
I'm not sure if your comment is a joke or not, but it's not a bad idea. Find one of the few remaining Gros Michels, edit it so that it is resistant to Fusarium, and start growing them again.

And the same could be done with other monoculture crops. It then becomes an arms race between scientists and viruses.
> Maybe fix it then?

A 16-year old bug with 200+ comments sure looks easy to fix…
The amount of waste and corruption in charities should not be underestimated. Of course a lot of them are doing good work, or at least think they are, but there seems to be an increasing amount of charities existing to enrich its owners/founders/etc by spending a very small percentage of their donations on what they actually say they are doing while the rest goes to the administration of the charity or somesuch.
> is that necessarily absolutely true? i myself would take a deep breath before making such a wide-sweeping claim. first thing that pops into my mind is the axiom of choice and also godel's work. i am sure there are a ton more examples.

thats kind of true, but axioms are not "results" of math, they are starting points. they are deliberate. although most mathematicians would argue that our set of axioms is "reasonable", we have just agreed to use them. that is true.
The smartest human I have ever known (a guy I went to university with) worked for them for a few years. He's the kind of person that if he says they're legit, I believe it because he's too smart for them to have fooled him, and he's too honest to be part of a fraud. He never gave any indication that he thought it wasn't legit.

As far as I can tell, they think they're using quantum effects to speed up computation. The two questions that remain are A: are they right? and B: are the effects they are using giving them enough of an advantage to beat classical computers?
I wonder if this change breaks the extension, ha.

I can appreciate the flexibility you're offered even with the A-list clientele you have. In a world of "move fast and break things" I've re-worked that into my own mantra of "move fast and make things better."

In fintech we can't afford -- both figuratively and literally -- to break things, but you still have to allow your teams to take a crazy "bar napkin" idea and run with it without a bunch of red tape or you lose the competitive edge that makes you stand out.

Now changing the wording on a link isn't a crazy bar napkin idea, but it still demonstrates the flexibility you're afforded to make things better and I see a lot of value in that.
You can create images using your favorite image creation software (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, MS Paint, D3, anything) and embed them in a LaTeX document.
Especially at an income level where you will be paying 50%, you should be able to save enough for the future/rainy day AND live quite comfortably.
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Uber should add tipping to the app, period. The way that Lyft does it is nice because you can't be pressured into a tip - the ride must be completed before the tipping screen is shown which means you're already out of the car. Even more importantly the driver has already rated you before you make this decision. I've tipped many Lyft drivers and never had a single one ask me for a tip or a good rating. I've had many Uber drivers ask (or put up a sign), because they know the app won't ask for them.

I know what the responses will be already. "The lack of tipping is one of the main reasons I use Uber! Tipping is awkward! They should pay their drivers more it's not my job". So then don't tip. That's really all there is to it.
> How long until the ABP guys stop their generosity

EasyList is not owned neither maintained by Adblock Plus.[1]

Adblock Plus ("ABP"), like other blockers benefits from the work put into EasyList by volunteers.

[1] https://easylist.to/pages/about.html
First and second order corrections are a lot more reasonable to calculate than the whole theory!

Furthermore calculating the whole theory runs into interesting challenges where the coordinate system is twisted and and distorted but underlying space-time is not. For a well-known example, a black hole can be described with both Schwarzschild coordinates and Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates. The first coordinate system blows up at the event horizon, the second doesn't. The fact that it blows up is due to a bad choice of coordinate system there, and not due to local space time being particularly bizarre at that spot.
"Nuclear weapons are humanity's shame. That we used our best minds and science to build these things."

You can't blame the whole of humanity for the shamefulness of a few Western powers. Surely, there are cultures all across the world that chose not to use violence.
I hope stories like this bring to light the dangers of letting parents select genes or traits in their kids. Humans tend to shoot themselves in the foot and make poor predictive choices. They also tend to cluster, and if beauty trends are any identifier, letting people select genes will inevitably lead to a trend of less generic diversity among humans.