skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard from a friend that the bureaucratic cost of starting/registering any software business in France was €50,000 and up. Add to that GDPR compliance, etc. I do not think that France is entrepreneur friendly.
I quote: "appropriating rap culture"

I must admit to failing to see the distinction between appropriating culture and cultural appropriation.
Way back when Imgur was first announced, not having ANY ads was a proud selling point for the website, then competing against the much more obnoxious Photobucket/ImageShack.

Can I advertise on imgur?

Hell no! This is a free site (as in beer) and there will never be any ads on it unless I end up selling out for a million dollars.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090226191747/https://imgur.com...
Thank you, this covered what I was trying to say.
In one repo I use the post-checkout script is "npm install" so I always get the package versions for the branch I just checked out. One less thing to worry about.
Postgres have done a really good job here. It not only understands offsets (which most devs think are timezones) it also understands timezones. What's the difference?

GMT-8 is an offset.
America/New_York is a timezone.

This becomes important when you want to schedule a meeting on the east coast of the USA in April - Europe and the US change DST on different dates. But if you tell postgres you want a time in a particular zone it will do the calculation correctly. If you use an offset you might turn up an hour late.
Several of the Dr's and specialists in the US write down different procedures than what is done. I don't think it's malicious (at least to the patient), but I think it's mainly to avoid issues with insurance companies not covering stuff. I can see how this isn't kosher with many people though.

I have some weird issues that no one can seem to figure out, so when I go to the Dr's, they'll sometimes take the shotgun approach. If they know that the insurance company is going to give me flak for something, the Dr's put down whatever is needed for insurance to cover it.

One example was when I felt a pop in my jaw after eating something. Within a few minutes it hurt so bad that I passed out from the pain, and woke up an hour or so later. I went to the Dr's and had them do what they do. They did a bunch of tests and the Dr told me that he had to put down that I have "head pains" instead of "jaw pains" otherwise insurance wouldn't cover it.

I'm not huge on the idea and I'm sure I'm paying for it in one way or another. It is much better than paying thousands out of pocket 5+ times a year.
It says right there

> unless I end up selling out for a million dollars

Even better, he sold out for $40 million.
Shell Magic: Set Operations with uniq
Dynamex, Broken Cites, and Turbulence at the Top of the Legal Industry
I don’t drink coffee but I know a ton of people who do. I actually really like this idea and your layout of it. Great job. I’ve also never heard of your service but I like that too! I’m on gitlab though. Any comment on when you’ll integrate?
Why Thousands of Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s Upcoming AI Journal
I'm sure he's getting more than a million dollars though...
Yes. In this case the denial of service is against specific customer accounts for the lockout duration, not against the availability of the site.
Maybe if all these little sites could band together into a single subscription bundle it would be worth it, but I don't want 20 different subscriptions.
Agreed. Within my own field, there are less than 10 people who are presently working on the same topics as I do. Consequently, we are constantly asked to review each other’s papers, and it is pretty trivial to tell who the author is, either because of the views and interests shown in the paper, or because of language use (i.e. you can tell that the author is a native speaker of the language in which the paper was written, or from their unidiomatic skills in it you can often guess at their native language).

The hard part in this is remaining silent and pretending you don’t know anything about this, when you meet your peers at conferences.
> We are going to focus on the two types of dry friction: static and kinetic.

"dry friction"... As I remember the story, someone was trying to replicate Arrheniius's equipment and results. The results weren't matching, until they took the equipment to an outreach event... where it got covered with greasy fingerprints. Turns out, it's Arrheniius's law of large objects sliding on pig fat.

We actually now understand friction down to nanoscale. Something that wasn't true a decade ago. But I've never seen introductory friction content written to reflect that.
The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?
A is for Array
Sure, go to Nature Medicine: https://www.nature.com/nm/

Click the first research article they show. It has various public funding sources:

"The collection of the ELC and genetic data for the American samples was supported by direct funding from the Intramural Research Program of the NIMH to the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch (D.R.W., PI, protocol 95-M-0150, NCT00001486, annual report number: ZIA MH002942-05), with supplemental analytic support from the Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Branch (K.F.B., PI). G.U. received partial support from P50MH094268."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0021-y

Check that other site:
https://par.nsf.gov/search/term:%22Convergence%20of%20placen...
In a population centre you can probably map to 50m accuracy or less based on the wifi networks one can see - can apps report back the specific networks? Isn't that kinda how Google's enhanced "location services" works?
Even if the cabbies as a group wanted the medallion system at some point in time the guy who took his own life probably didn't create it. He was just "playing the game as it had been created". Then all of a sudden when he is pretty much all in, some VC decides to change the rules of the game. If someone comes along to "disrupt" the market (which just happens to be your life) and is willing to burn billions and billions of dollars on it (Uber has yet to make a dime of profit) I can imagine one would become desperate....
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Node.js – v10.3.0
this is so easy to use!
I am using improbable-webs grpc-web[0] right now and it works very well once some kinks were worked out. Only problem has been lack of client-side streaming.

Additionally, I use grpcc[1] to test calls locally and that has worked well. I originally tried using some GUI's that looked promising but couldnt get them to work. This is good enough and less work than writing a quick client in python.

[0]: https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web
[1]: https://github.com/njpatel/grpcc
Taxi drivers have never been a fan of the medallion system. That system was cooked up by city regulators and medallion owners not drivers. Specifically, cities created a medallion system which limited the supply of drivers, thereby protecting cab rates and ensuring medallion owners get rich. This led to companies that hoard medallions and charge exorbitant leasing fees to taxi drivers, making them inclined to drive unsafely and not take credit cards because they were always in debt the day they started work. Essentially the system was a racket between medallion owners and the city that short changes citizens AND drivers.

https://www.heritage.org/transportation/report/taxicab-medal...
But at least so far the political configuration of that discontent, not the magnitude of it, has prevented progress on lowering the cost of health care.

Health insurance in this country suffers from kind of a legacy situation. It is sort of like how the qwerty keyboard is terribly inefficient, but most people continue to use it.

From what I have read, at some point health insurance was offered as a means to beef up compensation in a way that was tax friendly for employees, thus helping to entice better employees to come work for your company. This became kind of the standard default and typically covered the family, not just the employee.

This was considered a perk in a situation where most people whipped out their check book to pay for medical care because it was relatively reasonably priced. Then health insurance became kind of the default and it adds overhead and complexity. Obomacare was passed as the only politically viable solution and it's a terrible solution.

Health insurance coverage for basic services doesn't really make sense. Insurance only makes sense as a bet to defray unexpected expenses. When you use it cover annual exams and other basics that you know are guaranteed to happen, it essentially creates an unnecessary middleman, pushing prices higher without providing any real benefit for the cost involved.

This is where we are now and most people don't know how to get out of this mess. It doesn't help that Obamacare puts a gun to your head and insists that most people participate in this charade or be fined at tax time, in essence. Ugh.
It is not blind for most science fields (I was not aware of any that were blind before reading this. PhD in Earth Science). What fields do you know of where journals send out papers for review with the author and his/her affiliation removed?
Only if you connect to the hospitals wifi, to be contrary, a marketer may want to exclude the hospital network from that geo fence so that they do not target doctors/nurses/admins.
RPC is 40 years old. Java is 20 years old. Go is 10 years old. Microservices I saw at Apple over 20 years ago.

The real buzzword technologies are in the serverless space.
I always figured if spacetime was relative, why don't we just report the location we are at and that local time? If I know I was in Lower Manhattan at 2:00pm on November 19th, 2007, somebody else can just do a little math to figure out when that actually was compared to their own local time and place. All times are interpretive. UTC just seems like a giant hack to try to avoid the interpretation.
My favorite date quirk not mentioned in the article or here yet is the month of September 1752. If you're on a *nix/Mac machine, try this command:

$ cal 9 1752

What you'll see is:

September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

No, there's not a bug in `cal`, this is correct ;)
That would be profitable, but I'm not convinced anyone could stomach that job without going insane. Maybe a year if you were extremely hardy, but I'd be running for the padded cell after 3 months of dealing with nothing else.
I'm hearing multiple anecdotes that it's increasingly common for some new enterprise machines to be built with huge amounts of DRAM, like in the 512GB - 2 TB range. That would help account for the steady demand and favorable pricing power Micron has for it's core product.
Paypal was missing all the core features:

* Paypal did not integrate with facebook (does it even do that now?) so I would have to manually ask each person for their paypal id. Not fun for casual dinners with new friends

* Paypal was not free (they charged for debit or credit)

* Paypal did not have a good mobile UX

I remember this because the reason I adopted Venmo was because my roommates were searching for a solution to split rent and we looked at Paypal and ended up choosing Venmo. Then I started using it for social activities (restaurants, taxis, bars, etc.) and became an active user. I actually have had Paypal since the ebay days, but I never use it.
A lot of people want to do exactly this.

The problem is that changing an existing culture that is deep in everything how this system works is difficult. This goes way beyond the mere question of publication, it's still pretty common to hire people based on high impact factor journal publications etc.

You're faced with a system that's controlled by the people who made their career in this system. They're not the most qualified to improve the failures of that system. Changing it is possible, but it's hard and it's a slow process.
A great way to become a victim is to believe every person that tells you they are a victim.
> One problem is that because they publish the most eye opening studies

Is this really the case? In my own field, it is quite common for us to publish only slight increments of existing knowledge, or we simply debunk an earlier paper. I have also done some work in scientific editing for scholars in other fields, and from what I’ve seen, it seems that they, too, publish similar minor work, even literature reviews where the author does not make any original claims but only summarizes what is out there, and these do get accepted and published.

I can definitely imagine that a few über-high-profile journals like Nature might want the flashiest claims and discoveries, but there is a whole world of publishing out there.
That's a great idea. Once we have training data for a new category it does not take us a long time to create a ML model for it. Are you aware of any such corpus? ;-)
Well, I’m not sure about “prestige”; it seems like another arbitrary metric to be gamed.

However, I would like to easily see a non-political db where you can easily track the paper graph to figure out which papers are based on discredited research and/or researchers taking money from special interest groups.
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Yes! I have an old rant about iCalendar being wrong for not modelling place: https://fanf.livejournal.com/104586.html
as intrusive as those minority report ads...

surprised and disappointed HN comments are about tech...
I'll ask my colleagues at Redis Labs if they can do it. Thanks for the hint.
Reddit finally got me to stop visiting by badgering at every opportunity to use the app.
In a nutshell: video advertising became a very lucrative thing, easily offsetting the costs of bandwidth.

I think anybody who was involved in video from 2005 onwards knew this would eventually happen, but this really came to fruition in the past 5 years.
I would be interested to see a proposal for a standard for establishing planetary time with the feature that you can easily convert from one planet to the other, but I have no idea how you would do that. What happens when we move to Mars with Elon? UTC would not be practical.
Yes, Transit-Rich Neighborhoods Are More Affordable
One hopes it will change faster than the typical "one a death at a time".
Microsoft is now more valuable than Alphabet by market cap
Here's a great game that is just junction design:

https://captaingames.itch.io/freeways

You are a traffic engineer.

Draw freeway interchanges.

Optimize for efficency and avoid traffic jams.
Ok, that's what I was missing, I think--I see that stuff as "advanced home networking" and less lab-like. But I do really enjoy it.

How do you manage with all the upgrading and maintenance? It seems like a simple distro upgrade could throw various stability-oriented subsystems like "photos of my family" into compete chaos.
The Windows Subsystem AFAIK is not meant to run things for production, but I'm not a windows expert indeed.

About the abandoned port, yep we are saying the same thing in different terms probably: the reason why merging from upstream was so hard was probably because the windows port, for lack of POSIX interface, had to reinvent the persistence of Redis in user-space terms. That was why it was so hard to keep the patch in sync AFAIK.
Crews-Offerman in 2020, with Offerman spearheading a War on Boredom that is just him insisting everybody should grow the fuck up and be able to sit quietly for at least 10 seconds at a time.
The rule was announced in August 2016 with an initial comment period and no apparent rush. They were probably expecting that a Clinton administration would implement it at their own pace during 2017.

After the election the rule was seemingly fast-tracked, perhaps in the hope that the Trump administration would have bigger fish to fry.
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And good riddance.

An incredibly callous attitude to take at what must have been a truly profound sense of anguish and despair experienced by a person known to others as their "beloved father, husband, brother, friend." (Yes, I know you're saying that mostly about the medallion system. But to the extent that that's all that comes to mind when you hear about what happened -- yes, you pretty much are saying that the driver who took his life in this case, as well).
Yep, it does take time to go to the store (and heck, which store?). Heck, it might even cost energy (ie. kJ) too. However one can perhaps also order online and then it only costs the time to order the product plus the waiting time. Which is idle time, not active time. There's a nuance difference between that. Consider a gazpacho. It requires the soup to be served cold, so after it is basically prepared you need to put it in the freezer. Or consider you marinade something such as tempeh which you stir fry afterwards (the latter of which is active time, the former idle time). Whereas if you're an hour in the kitchen actively busy preparing things, that's active time.
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Something about this video was very satisfying.
Forget about other languages, it's sometimes tricky for English as well. Someone said language is the world's oldest API but it's also the most complicated. ;-)

For couple of our Norwegian and Spanish customers we hit Google translate to translate feedback into English and then feed it through our ML engine to classify. Accuracy obviously is not as good as it should but it gives them good insight.
> some VC decides to change the rules of the game

The regulation part of the medallion system was to limit cabs cruising the streets looking for pickups. Shuttles, Black cars, and personal drivers were already able to pre-arrange pickups at a specific location`.

Do I think ride sharing blurs this line when cars don't pull on side streets for pick up? sure.

`depending on code
In use Venmo to pay my babysitter. By default when you open the app, it shows the social feed.

It’s true, I learn new things about my friends every time I open the app. Sometimes some fairly embarrassing things.

Despite the fact that we have a babysitter isn’t private, I still always keep the transaction private.
... which is exactly our problem. Everyone (bar the publishers) hates the status quo, but nobody knows how to break it. My personal hope is that sci-hub will gradually erode the profitability of scientific publishing down to nothing, but breaking the stranglehold of publishers will almost certainly be a long and painful process.

http://honisoit.com/2015/11/the-dictatorship-with-no-dictato...
It's been a while since I looked at this but ~6 months ago I was surprised to find that there are no official bazel rules you can just import to make gRPC "just work." As a result various third-party incarnations exist and they differ slightly in their usage. When you try to compile a basic service it's pretty frustrating.

I really wish gRPC team would come out with rules you can import and best practice examples / tutorials :(

(I work at google but opinions are my own. I don't work on gRPC. I don't have to write much skylark normally because Google infra teams write the common rules you need. I found that writing my own skylark for project outside of work isn't that fun.)
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There are so many comments here from people not understanding why anybody would ever want their history to be public, or shocked that that's the default...

Here's the thing: you get to type whatever you want, so you turn everything into jokes. Because it's public, you get to make up things that will embarrass your friend. Cryptic emoji. It's fun. It's just silly. When you pay back friends at a bar, you can browse their history and make fun of them.

None of the other payment platforms are fun like that!
I refer to this video sooo many times a year everytime someone tries to understand why some “simple” tasks take so long.
They do still use .gif in some cases
You might enjoy Alfie Kohn’s book Punished by Rewards, which rigorously explores the demotivational and anti-creative effects of scoring things. https://amzn.com/B01K0RH8L6
Thanks! Glad to hear a real world experience about it. And thanks for the Python client PR plan.
So Square Cash then?
Next up: encode secret messages by messing up kerning in rendered text. Can only be decoded by comparing to proper kerning.
Messages in iCloud finally arrives in iOS 11.4 to fix your iMessage-syncing woes
I thought it was a pretty good joke poking fun at the software-engineers-with-Asperger’s stereotype. If it wasn’t intended that way, even more hilarious. :-D
Probably from that the FBI previously said a reboot of your router was enough. Apparently it isn't.
Free Lenses for Higher-Kinded Data
what's the point of ordering a nonsense lab test? Is a HHV-6 test significantly cheaper than one for HHV-2?
I've looked up "Microcosmic God" several times because I can't seem to remember the title. But the story was particularly memorable. It wasn't in this Asimov anthology but it was published in the SF Hall of Fame.

A quick search reveals that someone has a copy of the text freely (but perhaps not legitimately) available.
Every forum has its own culture. The culture of this forum is against snarky humor that does not contribute substance.
I've seen it exactly once (in a numerical analysis journal). Authors were blacked out. This was undermined almost immediately when the authors wrote in the introduction "... following previous work of the present authors [1]...".

Even if all these clues could be effectively removed, the nature of the research work, tools used, writing style, all unambiguously indicate authorship to someone in the field. I think for this reason double-blind review is not popular.

Which is not to say that it would be great if it were possible...
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Well, you can't have too much fun. If you put something like "ISIS recruitment dues", you can get the money frozen.
2. They’re called device ids not phone ids. Proof right there the author didn’t research effectively.

Not. NPR is the mainest of mainstream news and radio-originated to boot, so their reporting is commonly simplified to an extreme degree for easy comprehension by a general audience who may well be engaged in other tasks like driving.