skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree-> 'good moderation'
A "handful" that accounts for a significant proportion of the general population of the US, and... what proportion of tech jobs?
Schmokin – A wrapper for curl to make assertions written in bash
For some reason, I think it would be more funny if the fourth frame was an exact copy of the third (with no text). I think it would be a simpler and less obvious route to the same "punchline".
I read the GP as highly sarcastic, ie "water is wet - news at 5".
None other than beep.com!
I used to work in a couple of kitchens. Waiters easily made 4x what I made working less hours. A lot of those tips went to cocaine and nights out. If I was lucky they'd offer a line.
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So this has been a roller coaster. My initial thought was that this was a big HIPAA violation but then I decided to actually look to see if my assumption held up. According to the Department of Health & Human Services page on HIPAA and marketing [0], Walgreens can use personal health information (PHI) in marketing without violating HIPAA, as long as they have permission to do so.

So with that in mind, I went and looked at Walgreen's notice of privacy practices [1] and they say that they will get a written disclosure before using PHI (and that is restated in their Balance Reward ToS.

Bottom line is, if they are selling information then hopefully you're friend has signed a form authorizing use of the PHI otherwise Walgreens is violating HIPAA.

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...

[1] https://www.walgreens.com/topic/help/general/noticeprivacypr...
Well on crypto you do have centralizing incentives considering that your income as a miner is directly proportional to the amount of money you have (buying hardware).

Not only that but the power on the Bitcoin blockchain is directly determined by how much hardware you can buy and how specialized you can make this hardware. Consider that atm you can fit about 80% of bitcoin hash power on a single stage (about 11 people IIRC).
> In the context when you're clearly referring to a person, it's clear the meaning is "Richard".

It's not anymore clear than toot - if I say, "Hey Dick", it might be the insult depending on the context. Now it's unlikely to be if the name is Richard, but since you can't really fart about stuff, it's unlikely that you're farting about your plans.

Ever wonder why "git" isn't very objectionable? Because it is an obscure British insult, not an American one.
I haven't kept up with those news. As a torent user (through a different client, I use qbittorrent) is there anything I should be wary of?
Original title: The Billionaires and The Guru: How a Family Burned Through $2 Billion
It's very difficult to change tipping expectations. Uber unsuccessfully tried to maintain no tipping through its app. After driver complaints[1] and pressure from NYC[2] and others, Uber added tipping.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/05/uber-wants-to-save-us-from-rac...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/nyregion/new-york-city-ub...
If there is one thing more certain than religious beliefs, it's taxes.
Accumulate a couple of decades of sitting and compare your butt to someone who doesn't have an office work but otherwise eats similarly.
Having just spent the last half hour on your blog I'm even more impressed by what the pair of them achieved.

Thanks for the in-depth, and wonderfully clear write-up.
Bring your inexperience to a conference
Does anybody know why this can't run on linux now? I haven't touched Ruby in a very long time and I didn't fully read over all the code but from my brief look it seems like it is only because of the convenience of being able to use Homebrew to ensure that pandoc is already installed when installing Um. Am I missing something?
Then bring this argument. Or don't.

Insisting that "10 people will argue convincingly that four is prime" isn't a convincing argument that four is or even might be prime.
My fitness has improved so much since owning an ebike. Yeah it's not nearly as much work as using a regular bike but unless you are using a bike all the time you are going to see a massive improvement from switching from a car to an ebike.
The original title is a much better title, not sure why it was changed... This is more so a story about the brothers and the spiritual leader who apparently took a bunch of cash from them, not about abuses of India's ruling class
Interesting project but I do wonder if you're going to go through this amount of effort if that idea of Literate-Devops with Org.Mode might not be a better path.
Who else? It’s not like google never sued someone to control how android is set up (google as search engine).
“Writing man pages using roff today is not very fun or intuitive.”

Depends on who you ask: for me the best part of delivering software which I wrote is writing the manual pages in straight nroff in vi, with lots of examples. Seeing the engine typeset my documentation exactly the way I want is always an awesome feeling.

It looks like to me that “um” is a reactionary effort because of the notoriously poor quality of GNU/Linux manual pages which often lack examples; if so, then the solution is to switch to a higher quality operating system like FreeBSD or SmartOS / illumos.
I believe TunnelBear is highlighted because it is proprietary, not because it is evil (I'm not even sure if the author considers proprietary software in general to be evil; the author uses the word in reference to proprietary Google services).
Show HN: DataField – db-like library to deal with JavaScript arrays/collections
The N-1 could name-take the name-taker on the same day if they can achieve consensus before the teacher comes back.

The N-1 simply have to wait for the teacher to come back, then explain that the name-taker was abusing his position, hoping the teacher will release them from punishment for name-taking the name-taker. AFAICT, there's no incentive for the N-1 to lie about whether or not the name-taker was taking advantage of them.
Well, I tend to think of the repititions in two ways, each with its own context. One is allele frequency, such that gaps of funtional utility are created with ineffective codons, to create timing effects and distance oriented partitioning of productive segments as enzymes crawl the unzipped, live genome.

The other is more about radiation hardening, and those are full, bulk duplicates of chromosome sets, like the hexaploid grain genome that was recently being discussed last week.

But I wonder when that sort of radiation hardening aspect was selected for? Millions of years ago? Billions of years ago? Or was it all just an accident, never selected for or even put to use? If we, as humans, only have a set from each parent, I’d estimate that bulk duplication doesn’t seem to offer real benefits in the radiation hardened sense, or everything would have more copies for billions of years.
No, you're thinking of a different thing. In SF some restaurant will have an "SF employee mandate" line, a 2% surcharge or so, to account for a local law. That's a protest against the law: it's the same principle behind listing tax-excluded prices, basically making sure people see how much the local taxes cost them.

A smaller set of restaurant does something different. They list some prices, and then in the fine print at the bottom they say "a 6% surcharge will be added to provide a living wage in SF", or something. This is not to comply with any local tax or law, it's just paying your employees more on your own accord, but then excluding an arbitrary percentage of that from your listed prices because... I have no idea why. But all places I've seen that do this have been very left-of-center.
Someone allegedly is trying to take down Rainmaker1973 Twitter account
I would advice against using Chromium on Android. For one, it's still Google and to my knowledge still phones home to the mothership. For two, Chromium/Chrome is becoming the next IE and I sincerely believe that encouraging further ieficiation of the web towards Chrome is not desirable for anyone involved.

On the other side, I would amend AnySoft keyboard into that list, which is much more useful than Hacker's Keyboard (due to being less dense) and has a pretty okayish autocorrect (still better than the rest).

NewPipe is also a solid choice and I recommend it to everyone even if you don't want to FLOSS your phone since it's miles better than the youtube app (downloads, background play, doesn't require signup but still offers subscriptions and playlists, popup mode).
Homemade Electric Drift Trike
Its remarkable that a project that had almost a decade of work was bought out by a cryptocoin launched 6 months ago.
Is there any other format for multiple audio tracks/multiple subtitles?
> ...Income tax is rarely, if ever, paid either.

If tips are handled in the digital (as opposed to cash), doesn't that change the meta with respect to traceability?
Why would seeing a quack help ?
Everything you need to know about the native lazy load in Chrome
On Windows i find that using OneNote covers everything i need, mostly due to excellent search via Ctrl+E. Being able to add pictures also helps.
Not enough examples is only in GNU/Linux; the BSD’s and illumos-based operating systems have plenty of examples. Especially illumos, since they enforce a rule that no component may be integrated without a comprehensive manual page and since they come from Solaris, most of the documentation was written by a dedicated department of professional technical writers working with the engineers to document their work in a systematic fashion.
personally im not that averse to commuting, i use the time to read and listen to music, its probably different if youre travelling by car rather than train though
That's true for almost any streaming service. I tried both Netflix and Amazon's offers, both had very little content I wanted or if it had then only a few seasons (in one case starting at season 5 and then not having the rest of them either).

And I totally blame Hollywood and the Media Industry, esp. Disney, for making hostile exlusive licensing deals.

In many cases, I cannot even watch a movie until it's dubbed in my language, even if I don't want to watch it dubbed but in OAT. It's frustrating. And then it's also likely on the streaming service I currently use, but on another one.
> (note that you must be using Python 2 for this workshop and not using Python 3. Complete this workshop using Python 2, then read about the small changes if you are interested in using Python 3)

Why using legacy Python for this?
Native Swedish speaker here. I've always interpreted it to be about actual babies.
American bike infrastructure is near universally awful, so it's not exactly surprising US cyclists don't behave the best. NYC bike lanes are still a cruel joke compared to car infrastructure, much more needs to be done to get people out of their cars and into more efficient transportation.

Posts that amount to, "sure, we've spent at least 1000x as much on cars as biking, but why won't cyclists respect their janky ass hodgepodge road system as much as drivers do?" feel pretty silly to me.

What do you think happens when Dutch people come over to the US, or vice versa? People adapt to their environment, and the US bike environment encourages reckless behavior.
SSBBW Dating or SSBBW Hookup? Which Relationship Do You Prefer?
Hah, this is how it all started for me. I went a bit further and tried to reverse engineer the purpose of different pins in a NES cartridge, by grounding them one by one in a running system with a small incandescent lamp from a flashlight to avoid short circuits. I've got all kinds of crashes and artifacts which gave a hint to their purpose. Thankfully, the NES was resilient enough for me not to kill it or burn my house down.

Still, I assumed a cartridge to be a simple ROM with a plain addressing scheme, which it wasn't. Only a year after that I've read an EE book with occasional NES architecture details which all made sense in the context of my experiments.

That's why I've taught my son to program with a simple self-designed embedded system first. You can almost physically see its parts moving, no black magic involved.
https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_P...
Thanks for the link, I'll have a look!
And all of this because originally, the Imperial Roman had no punctuation.
As I see it, Lisp is a language in (pretty much) pure prefix notation and of which the core data structure is a linked list and in which functions are first-class values. The advantages of the prefix notational purity are manifold, but schools train people in the use of infix/Eulerian notation:

f(a+b,g(x,y)) versus (f (+ a b) (g x y))

The problem of notational convention has not been solved since 1958. Other languages painstakingly support infix/Euler, requiring comparatively incredible compiler construction effort. Doing so also removes the manifold advantages of Lisp's notational purity.

JSON is much more popular than S-expressions. Therefore, we can assume that nested arraylist/hashtables are more popular than linked lists as the core language data structure.

Pretty much every serious language treats functions as first-class values nowadays. So, this is no longer a strategic advantage in Lisp.
Elon Musk at MKBHD: EVs at $25.000 in less than 3 years
The last company I worked for had a "market research" report about mobile data users that claimed 75% of people do X, the rest do Y. The sample size was 4. What's worse is that the report was beautifully styled. It's amazing how much money can be wasted on moot work when you have funding.
Gluposti.
Studies show: Sitting for many hours a day takes a toll on your health that cannot be fully reversed by exercise.

Medical bills get spendy fast, plus how miserable are you willing to be for the "bragging rights"? Do you really routinely tell folks your salary number to enhance your ego?

Those are sort-of rhetorical questions. I don't need or want answers to them. Just think on it all for your own edification.
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Bravo! And this should help as well:

http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/troff.pdf

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
Eould you trust the N-1 if they suddenly started speaking with a unified voice? This from a class you don’t trust to keep working without supervision.
Interesting project, would be great if this supported more than just JS projects, I'd be very interested to see some of the dependencies that my current business relies upon.
I think sprout that didn't have any sun wouldn't have more calories than just the seed ground to flour.
You say you're not worried about over-paying, but you mention the opinion/want of the engineer twice.

If you're truly not worried, just figure out the most generous compensation on the market (e.g. consultant rates, what FAANG pays) for a comparable engineer and exceed it.

Alternatively, or additionally, be generous with equity and/or profit-sharing. Even with a base salary that's only slightly above market, an engineer is unlikely to feel cheated/exploited if they're also being compensated with a significant portion of the value the company realizes from them. (In the typical company, where all employees' combined share is 10%, it's not significant).
John Ioannidis: The role of bias in nutritional research
There is probably no way this story can be true because of human nature. Telling that people put scientific ideals above hunger just sounds like a later propaganda tale. Maybe the founder had enough food and let the guardians starve.
If I've understood correctly (and I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong) the main issue with wet wipes etc. in the fatbergs is not the mass they contribute to them.
The main issue with them is that they act as a really effective and poorly-degradable binding agent for all the other (sometimes literal) crap that accumulates in the fatbergs and allow them to grow to such large sizes.
I'm convinced that those systems have deliberately be made to push the customer to tip (more) and therefore increase the transaction fee for the payment operator (Square most of the time).

Most of the workdays, I go eat lunch at "order at the counter" places. The Square ipad is directly visible to everyone behind me in the line as they can all see that I put "No tip". More than once, I have seen people look back to check if other people in the line would see their choice, and subsequently change it to a "socially acceptable" tip of 15%.
Go to an actual honest licensed massagist first. And GP, since this is not right at all and sitting with breaks shouldn't do this. (not a doctor, but this might be how early lumbar disk problem manifests)
As someone who left India for the US, this article gives me pause as to whether things have actually changed in shining New India or if it's just a facade with air conditioning.

More specifically, I'd like to move back at some point and I'm not sure if I ever should.
According to the sewage experts providing an analysis of the Whitechapel fatberg in London, yes, wet wipes and such are a big part of the problem¹. Wet wipes and other comparable sanitary products combine with the fat in the sewers to create these blockages — massive ones in areas with ageing sewer pipes and a lot of people.

Solving this problem means reducing both fat and sanitary products that should not be flushed.

One proposed action in London is to stimulate toilet owners to place bins next to the men's toilets as well. A sizeable group of men using wet wipes is a recent phenomenon, providing a place to dispose of them might help.

And honestly, what makes people flush nappies, period products, and condoms down the toilet? Awareness (clear 'don't flush' messages on packaging perhaps?) can be part of the solution too.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/18/dont-fee...
Erlang has lists and symbols. I do miss symbols when programming Python..
Also true for most GPUs which are ROP limited. Even more so as register files there are big.
Speaking about "unintended consequences", I would like to see a study if there's any correlation between heavy tipping culture and service quality. So far in my travels the US has been the place where waiters are the "nicest" while places with little tipping (but high menu pricing, ex. in Europe) I've had mixed service quality (but generally significantly worse than in the US).
Logitech’s MX Vertical turns the company’s best mouse on its head
Psychedelic Medicine 101: DMT and the near-death experience
If you are interested in dystopian fiction of these sorts, I highly recommend Manna, by Marshal Brain.

In any case, don't think it will be that dystopian. There is competition from elsewhere in the world, you know.
How so? I tried on my Note 8 and found it to be similar to scrolling on other sites.
Well, at least in the sheer number of native speakers of the language, the first one has a slight advantage. You're right with regards to the domestic market, although my understanding is that various US states often have incompatible legislations.
Finance Math Gem – Ruby/RSpec
I've never seen such things, but unless it's stated clearly somewhere beforehand on the menu or elsewhere, I'm pretty sure you don't have to pay such bullshit costs. You should bring it up to the manager and ask why you're being charged for things you didn't order. Those restaurants are clearly run by greedy assholes, so they should be confronted.
Lower costs. With AppEngine you pay for a whole instance, regardless of how much utilisation it gets. With cloud functions you only pay for the time the function is being executed. If your code isn't being executed often, GCF are much cheaper.
> incredible compiler construction effort

Not really. BYTE magazine, in the 1970s, published the complete source code for a Pascal compiler, including the code generator.
Presumably there is a different "name taker" each time. So if you "cheat" when you are "it" then next time you will get some comeback.
Find Your Next Startup Idea in the Trough of the Hype Cycle
> Yes, because it has basically no syntax

That's a myth. Lisp has lots of syntax. It just works different from what one might expect. It even has user-level mechanism to implement custom syntax: Macros.

Lisp usually has a two-level syntax: s-expressions as a data-level syntax and on top of that Lisp program syntax: function calls, built-in special operators (block, catch, if, let, progn, tagbody, quote, function, ...) and macros (lots of macros).

The myth that Lisp has no syntax, comes mostly from computer science education where students learn a very simplified pure Lisp as an educational tool. Telling them Lisp has no syntax, then is the usual trick to get the students of the mental hurdle of a different - Lisp on top of s-expressions - syntax. This Lisp is then just enough to write recursive list processing functions - but has nothing to do with real programming in Lisp. Even slightly more advanced (with respect to Lisp usage) texts like SICP mostly don't use macros for syntactic extension and don't explain them.
Don't mind the downvotes. People here are not able to think outside their "its not western-science" box.
good suggestion though, I'd definitely recommend the same
While this is interesting, I will probably find this too much of work to type in all the stuff again with examples. Throwing a not-so-random extension idea - may be a tool to go through the weird commands in my bash history and suggest me to explain the commands which I just used?

Right now, I usually grep the man pages to search for things relevant to specific context. Something like,

man find | grep -i --color=always -C10 "file name"

Worked well in most cases. So, for figuring out how to send a POST request, I would try

man curl | grep -C10 --color=always POST

If that bombs, I would then immediately try

curl --help | grep --color=always POST

If I end up using certain set of flags frequently, I will set up a bash command like most others. Or, make a weird joke out of the flags, for example,

ls -lionshit
In the Quantum Suicide Thought Experiment, You Never Die
I shot the sheriff, but only in this timeline. It is very bizarre for me to understand this fact about quantum that you never die ther.

Can someone throw a light into it? It actually blown my mind today.
Here is the article which I am referring: https://curiosity.com/topics/in-the-quantum-suicide-thought-experiment-you-never-die-curiosity/
Yeah, sorry. I misread the original "list" as "lst" because that's what's used extensively here, and you're right.
Now it's

> How an Indian family lost $2 Billion

I think we're on the 3rd title.
BygoneSSL – Demoing SSL certificates outliving their domain ownership
I'm not very familiar with TunnelBear but they appear to have instructions on how to connect from GNU/Linux with OpenVPN[0], so you might not even need their proprietary Android app to use their service.

[0] https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/linux_support/
Having been sold the idea of the Three at $30,000 us and finding they have no intention of making at that price point while they can sell at $60,000+ I am.. not surprised.

Inside three years other manufacturers will occupy the $30k price point. I doubt as nice as a tesla, but sellable cars at a price and range i can afford.

I like the tesla product. I do not like the airgap between marketing hype and delivery. I believe tesla was consciously vague on when low cost cars would eventuate and let enthusiastic fans front run reality.

The $25k price is worth shooting for. Volume lies here.
Yes. I was agreeing with you in that bit. Sorry I didn't make it clearer.
For those wondering, DM stands for direct messaging (I hope I wasn't the only one).
I've always wondered about this. Why is it that I've never heard of large corporations trying to lobby patent law into extending, much like how it happened over and over with copyright law? Had this battle already happened and I just never heard about it, or is there something in the law (or norms/culture surrounding it) that makes people never consider doing so?
GraphPipe – Machine Learning Model Deployment Made Simple
Is this number of title changes normal?