skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top comment on the article is worth reading. I’m copying it here.

James K. Lowden (Camden, Maine) writes:

It’s not just privacy, not just the internet, and not because of the internet. It’s corporate power.

Some of us remember when getting a phone or credit card didn’t entail 13 pages of fine print. There was nothing to agree to. Both parties reserved all rights under the law.

Let’s note that the contracts we supposedly sign never grant us additional rights. They’re entirely one-sided: you agree to thus-and-such for the privilege of using what you paid for.

I learned in Business Law 101 that valid contracts had to be entered voluntarily and had to include consideration: something of value from both parties had to be at stake. “Shrink-wrap” contracts on software didn’t meet that basic standard, but have been upheld nonetheless.

The law should state: there can be no “terms of sale” agreement for any retail purpose. No waivers for renting a moped or a car, no terms on software or websites, no contract for a phone or bank account. The firm must comply with the law, an the consumer reserves all rights under the law, full stop.

Anything less is involuntary on its face. The corporate lawyers draft an “agreement” worth millions to the firm but in absolute terms that same stake is divided amongst millions of customers, none of which has enough at stake to hire a lawyer (pretending the terms were negotiable). The very fact the terms cannot be modified is prima facia evidence of coercion.

https://nyti.ms/2DSfq4B#permid=30447668
I've heard that one of the challenges of maintaining fields of solar panels is keeping the vegetation around the panels under control. Solutions include using grazing animals such as sheep or even guinea pigs[0]. It sounds like this doesn't solve the management issue, but does claim "a field of wildflowers requires less mowing and pesticides than conventional grass does".

[0] https://digital.nepr.net/news/2016/04/01/the-solution-to-sol...
How is this even possible? I used EMACS for years and had no trouble understanding Vim. Who's hiring these developers who can't even exit Vim? Is this even a real story or the Onion?!? OK, it's real. I need to go outside and get some fresh air. This is simply too shocking.
Summary:

“Such optical cloaking devices do not yet exist, but one can gauge the progress in the required technology by considering the progress in negatively refracting optical materials.”
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Society seems less uniform today than ever before. There are more subcultures and belief systems than ever. All this cis/trans/gender fluid stuff is adding more normative genders, not less.

As I said elsewhere I do have some issues with that specific APA document, but Marxism? If there is a Marxist plan to make everyone the same it is failing badly. If anything it is the far right that seems to want culture to be uniform.

BTW the USSR was not "socially liberal" in the Western sense except for (like much of the West) in some "hip" urban centers. Being gay in Russia has never been a great experience. Russia today has gone full social reactionary, and this didn't pop out of nowhere. It's always been a current in Russian culture going way back to the Stalin era. Stalin was not a social liberal.
Michael DeHaan on the state of contemporary devops and open source
But they're not major versions. Java has switched to "Chrome versioning," and every new feature release gets a new number. Those versions are supported until the next one comes along.
That's a problem with America's dodgy retirement scheme, not retirement schemes in general. In Australia for instance, the government enforces mandatory saving for retirement, but neither the citizen nor the government are able to access the money before retirement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia. This means that peoples' retirements are actually funded by real savings, not by wealth transfer from younger workers, so it doesn't matter if the retired population significantly outnumbers the working population. Singapore has something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Provident_Fund.
Investigating with Integrity: Lessons Learned and Ways to Avoid Bias
Hah. First stuck in emacs ~26 years ago, on a dumb terminal (want to say VT-102, maybe the VT-220's that were in the adjoining room). Tried everything to get out of it with no success, was too embarassed to ask for help, and eventually just power cycled the thing and walked away sheepishly.

Don't believe I ever got stuck in vi. All the cool kids were emacs users and it was years before I bothered to learn it.
Maybe in an ideal efficient world we could pay for all things based on the value we derive from them. This is really hard to measure though, so organizations use different proxies for the value a consumer might derive from a product, like enterprise, individual and student pricing or geo-fencing. Since these are very imperfect proxies for consumer value there are often arbitrage opportunities such as re-importing textbooks. Additionally, the imperfections lead organizations to cross subsidization of products, such as the difference between prescription drug prices in different countries.
I think most of the comments here are misunderstanding the article. It seems to be saying "Don't say congestion pricing is inequitable without also saying that these are things that we already have are inequitable." It's meant as a counter-argument to people saying "but congestion pricing is regressive against poor people therefore we shouldn't have it." So if you think that gas pricing should not have to be based on one's income, you aren't refuting the article since you presumably also don't think equitability concerns apply to congestion pricing either.
Persuasion: A Soft Skill in Demand
My first year of grad school I was a TA for a first year computer science course that was often taken by students from a variety of majors. The first editing sessions I spent the whole lab time running around help students with frozen vi editors.

The main problem is you don't start in "edit mode" and students expect to be able to just start typing (which is a reasonable expectation). Who knows what "command" they just invoked -- sometimes I just "ctrl-z, killall vi"

I learned to hate vi.
Are there good non-DELL alternatives for a nice sharp IPS 24" for dev work?

Nothing against dell. Good for them for building such a strong brand.
Here’s the proper fix. In your .bashrc, or wherever:

export EDITOR=<anything but vim>
In Ontario, Canada, your insurance rates are tied tied to where you live, if you have a garage, and if you put on snow tires in winter.
Code and results on standard benchmarks?
Crypto Exchange claims $190M in lost funds
- to generate income you need to either provide something valuable, scam people or get extremely lucky

- if you want to provide something valuable you need a good idea, some skills and hundreds or even thousands of hours of work on your idea

- all that work on creating and maintaining your project makes the potential income not passive at all

My impression is that the people who succeed at this usually start with a good idea, work on it for a while and somewhere down the line potentially turn it into an income stream. But the interesting idea comes first. On the other hand, the people who begin with the goal of making money and just the wish to "have passive income" or "be an entrepreneur" usually don't get anywhere. Unless they scam people or happen to get lucky, of course.

Also, everything from Robert Kiyosaki including "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is somewhere on the scale between questionable advice and scam.
> I used EMACS for years

Probably not a great representative sample
or ed!

Wait, I don't think I'm helping your case.
In Estonia, students’ transit, school meals, and textbooks are all free
It would be great to tell the anti-vaxxers that facial recognition cameras cause autism. Two problems solved!
Absolutely agreed, I am struggling to think of many downsides. Maybe some wasps or bees start a nest near a panel meaning it's difficult to clean the panel? Hopefully the nest gets left alone & the efficiency lost is tolerated, to let the bees/wasps live.
>The question hence becomes 'what point does a site or service go from being innocent to exploitative?'

>Few would say Wikipedia is exploiting its users. Some may say that about StackOverflow or YouTube, but many would say it about BuzzFeed or the Huffington Post.

You may have answered your own question with your examples. Wikipedia isn't monetized at all. It relies entirely on fundraising. All the rest have some sort of monetization model which is built around the assumption that their users will generate free content that gives their platform its value.

On the monetization spectrum, though, I would say StackOverflow does much better than YouTube. It's designed entirely around providing value to its users, rather than merely selling their eyeballs (you can find lots of information about SO's approach to monetization here: https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/11/15/how-we-make-money-at-s...).

My personal spectrum from best to worst looks like this:

1. Funded by donations (sort of utopian and doesn't always work)

2. Funded by directly selling services/goods worthwhile to the community (pragmatic and mutually beneficial)

3. Funded by selling generic ad space to third parties (lazy as business models go, but newspapers have been doing it for centuries - this is usually a sign the organization doesn't have a well-defined audience: cf. Facebook/Youtube vs. Stack Overflow)

4. Funded by secretively profiling people and selling their personal information without telling them (just evil and gross)

As for platform vs. publisher, that's been an interesting topic in internet law. See for instance Cubby vs. CompuServe in 91: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.
Oh, this is the UK "Not in Education, Employed, or Training", right?

Its people who've been stratified out of the workforce, and can't pay insane rates for education of either university level or trades.

How exactly are we tracking this? I know in the USA, we cheer and hooray when the unemployment numbers go down, but those are pegged to "how many people get unemployment"... And after at most 2 years, they drop off. And that makes the numbers on 'unemployment' go down!
Save and quit

ESC :x

https://ss64.com/vi.html
How does Oracle even know if you use Java on the backend? Does it phone home?
All kinds of excuses will be made to increase the taxes in this system where NO amount of money will add up to enough for this government.

New York City in particular has a MEDICAL ONLY section of its pension benefits for city employees that adds up to $100 Billion. Medical, only. Not including pension payouts.

Puerto Rico defaulted on $71 Billion worth of debt, which was all of it, just recently.

This reckoning that is on its way is going to be epic. Nothing in NYC government makes a profit or operates properly without gigantic losses and pathetic performance in every metric when compared to the past city performance.

This will be the Olympics of Mental Gymnastics.
I mean, c'mon we all saw this coming...
I assume people type 'quit vim' into their favourite search engine as that's a shorter search term, and get the SO link. I don't think many people actually search SO directly.
Apple removes Siri team lead as part of AI strategy shift
Sounds to me like if you don't produce an ID the cops will hit you with one of those "contempt of cop" charges that give them enough authority to haul you into the station and take prints.
I'm not defending that the US is the "most ethnically diverse", I think that's far from true, but pointing out that this isn't an unambiguously defined question. I'm not sure I've never heard anyone state an ethnicity, but have heard the same people state belonging to multiple groups in different contexts. The dividing lines between what's an ethnicity and what's a race or a language group tend not to translate accurately between different places.

Judging the extent of racial prejudice is also hard. But only crazy people think the US is more racist now than 100 years ago. 100 years ago the NYT did not devote many pages to white self-flagellation. Nor does China today. Nor does Liberia, for that matter.
If I'm not mistaken, that study doesn't take into account how similar ethnic groups are. It would assign the same diversity index to a 50% Catalan, 50% Spanish country, as to a 50% Finnish, 50% Ugandan country.
NoEstimates (Allen Holub, 2015)
> A professional would use the man page.

A professional would verify that the man page contains the information that they snarkily told others to look for there before they told them to read the man pages. In this case it doesn’t.

The closest you get to that sort of information from the vim man page is:

> Type ":help" in Vim to get started. Type ":help subject" to get help on a specific subject. For example: ":help ZZ" to get help for the "ZZ" command. Use <Tab> and CTRL-D to complete subjects (":help cmdline-completion"). Tags are present to jump from one place to another (sort of hypertext links, see ":help"). All documentation files can be viewed in this way, for example ":help syntax.txt".

So you need to find this portion of the man page, which is quite far down in the Vim man page, and you need to realize that it means you should type :help quit or :help exit. The information you get from those two are different btw because quit and exit mean two different things.

That is quite much to expect from someone if they’ve confused their way into vim without being familiar with vim.

On top of that, when you use :help quit or :help exit, the first time you use the command to quit or exit it will close the help text but you’ll still be in vim so you need to do it again.
...yup, and that’s how the phrase in the title is made true.
That’s why it surprised me that over 50% of the ads in China often feature non-Chinese/non-Asian models.

Not only that, but if you go to the theaters, more than half the movies are non-Chinese.

Can you imagine turning on the TV in the US and seeing ad after ad featuring Asian models? Or going to the theater and seeing that over half the movies are Asian movies with—gasp—subtitles!

With how homogeneous China is, I’m surprised they are willing to consume such a diverse set of media, even Bollywood films can do well there!
This is totally anecdotal, and I'm not making fun of them. Most of the time when I talk to people who have no experience with Vim, they develop apps on the Windows platform. (They use Visual Studio.) They just haven't been exposed to it. They don't need to learn it. Until several of them started using Git, there was absolutely no need to ever touch it. This isn't every Windows developer. I'm sure there are several who know it, but that is my experience.
> binutils is included in the FreeBSD ports, which is a maintained collection

How maintained can it be if it's not tracking upstream and providing patches, even just to build it? The very premise of your question disproves this assertion.

Look, there was a time when gcc and binutils were the native toolchain on FreeBSD and you could rely on them working as well as they do anywhere. But they aren't anymore, and all the people with the skills to be maintaining a toolchain are working on other software. Binutils is left to rot, honestly.

This isn't because the FSF used to have a CI system, it's because FreeBSD used to have binutils users, and to first approximation it doesn't any more. You're one of the last.
Reddit ‘Shadowbans’ Posts with Openload URLs
But isn't that something React wants to avoid? I remember reading somewhere that React does not want to recommend any approach to forms, routing, etc., but leave it to the user.
That tax is not the only one paying for the roads; the normal tax on fuel and the fuel-specific tax on top of that (which also differs per type of fuel) offsets the heavier engines or heavier users.

At the same time, a project people abandoned a few times (mostly because or scare tactics) is in the works to see if we can lower or abandon some of the taxes in favour of usage-based taxes measured by vehicle kilometers on-road. So if you drive more, you pay more.

At the same time, I don't think it makes sense to make all tax super dependant on what you drive, where you drive it, and what money you make. We already have some specific systems in place to deal with the discrepancy between high income and low income (and the gradient in the middle), so instead of making the tax system more complex by adding yet more variables to existing rules, a rule with a highly specific target is simpler and reaches more of the people it applies to.

Basically, if you are poor, or simply don't make enough money to save or invest, a lot of the taxes no longer apply. At the same time, if your income is so low you are getting towards the edge of not surviving (depending on where you are I guess) you get money for rent and healthcare. And on top of that: if you don't have a lot of money, it makes no sense to own a car anyway.

I don't think a true per-use system that only relies on what the current usage of anything is will work, simply because we cannot predict what we will need or use in the future and it disables all paths to investments or building infrastructure because it is a lifeline to certain areas. After all, it's not a for-profit corporate system we're talking about, it's a country or a government. While sensible decisions are of course needed, and adjustments to how some things are paid for can be very sensible, making a very tight integration between what is available and what it currently used is a very bad idea for humans.
You would think that those zealous power-mods on StackOverflow would have closed this as "not a programming question"
It means that it can be used in contexts where milk would usually be used. Like in a pancake or over cereal.
I always restart 3 times just like the sysop told me to.
I got fight and flight but wasn’t lucky enough to inherit the vim key bindings. Darn parents!
Hangout PE – MCPE Community – Minecraft PE Server
I've been doing this using Fulcro [1], a ClojureScript web framework built around React.

Among other wonderful features, Fulcro has built-in support for state machines [2].

[1]: https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro

[2]: https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-incubator/blob/develop...
Even before the treatments, the middles of countertops, floors, and other areas heavily trafficked by humans (but not bugs) had residue

There's pesticide in the middle of countertops before the bug bomb was used?
4X
Superficially it seems like it but I would say no. Being a hikikomori is a mental disease whereas incels is a political movement. Most notably, it's rare for a hikikomori to hold a job or even leave the house. Incels still participate in the economy and even socialize with like-minded people. They're not anti-social, they're anti-socialism.
Argh c'mon. This is just getting increasingly dystopian and Orwellian. I don't like this.
I remember the discussion about Google+ but I missed the one about the iOS certificates (but I remember the Facebook version, perhaps I just mentally collapsed both of them).

Anyway, you can take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/best that is like the front page, but with more importance to points and less to time, so big stories are there for a longer period.
You're violating the prime directive
> Should engineers and programmers pay more money for the same laptop as an art student?

No, of course not, if it's the same laptop.

But suppose there is a laptop tax of $300. If the engineer and art student buy the same $3000 laptop, that's 10%. But let's be realistic here: art students will probably have a $1000 or even $500 laptop. Suddenly their tax rate is 30% or 60%, compared to the engineer's 10%.

Excises and levies are not flat taxes. They are regressive in structure. Whether you agree with progressive taxation is one matter, but I feel as though everyone agrees that taxation should at least be linear to the thing being taxed.
I guess whether vim is poorly designed is up for debate. It’s a power user’s tool, so maybe you sacrifice intuitive behaviour or an elegant learning curve for a more powerful tool once you’re familiar with its design.

Less controversial is that any design where vim becomes the default editor, but the user may not necessarily be familiar with vim, is a bad decision. I can’t think of a justification for that.
Photorealistic Renders: How to Convince People Something Digital Is Real
Related: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca (even works with VLC to watch movies)
Trouble is no one has really cracked self driving yet so it's probably premature to focus on one flawed system. Even Waymo it seems can't merge with heavy traffic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19011890. We may need better AI beyond current machine learning algorithms.
Why don't browsers give us finer control over Javascript execution (eg whitelisting JS APIs)? Performance?
Its fairly typical during the early stages of societal collapse to blame the first victims. Obviously the cultural-wide problem of declining standards of living must be solely the fault of the first victims or their families not trying hard enough. The whole point of the situation is "have a live" was quite achievable to everyone just a generation or two ago. As the decline continues, societal expectations will eventually change to match and the problem and bullying of the victims will disappear naturally, so in a sense its not really a problem.

The victims are likely to get blamed for economic problems such as demand destruction. If an economy for 100M people requires 100M "great jobs" spenders but only has 95M "great jobs" available, those 5M kicked out of society are going to have trouble keeping the consumer economy running. Resulting in economic contraction to a 95M person-sized economy for a 100M nation only having maybe 90M "good jobs" rinse and repeat until collapse.
It’s best to power off and then quickly flip the on/off switch a bunch of times. As a bonus, you get to stress-test your power supply!
Yes, there are always ways to lock yourself in. If you only use features supported by multiple browsers and consider the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect, you stand a decent chance of long term survival. What you sacrifice is efficiency and polish, which are important, so choose wisely.