skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but ultimately everyone needs to agree on a single medium of exchange, otherwise efficient market pricing is too hard.

This is one place that there is something interesting in the crypto space, but because it's so "inside baseball"/esoteric, it doesn't usually get any mention on skeptic's forums. Given asset A and asset B, given individual A with asset A, B with asset B, and C who wants to trade their asset A for B, how do you get all three to come together and make it all work. The fact that there
must be exchanges is obvious, what's less obvious is how they actually work, how individuals A and B incentivized to participate, and what sort of payment they get out of it. Well, that's one of the not-entirely-trivial usages of smart contracts I've seen,
where A and B get a payout and C gets what they want, but with more than 3 individuals involved. It's not actually important to anyone outside of the crypto space but it's interesting to take a look at the implementation details for the curious.
What do you mean that tips were 150% of your income? If you made $50/hr, and $47 of that came from tips, then tips were 94% of your income, and the wage was 6%.
Ask HN: How do I explain to my boss the real reason I want to move away?
I have a very cool research job at a university. I am good at my job, productive and have results. My boss likes me and I like my research group, and the topic is the intersection of all the things I love and am good at, and because it is an applied project, the salary is also not very bad. And my boss likes me so much he wants me to undertake a big project i.e. apply for funding for a multiyear contract.

There is only one minor problem. The location is horrible. It is a tiny city, with only a few big engineering campuses. I hate living here primarily because there are very few social opportunities. I am 30 soon and am thinking hard about my future. I like my job, but I do not live to work. I work to live and my life here is making me depressed. I don't know if I should spell it out further, but here goes: I want to settle down and there are basically no women here. Being that I am 30, I don't want to get stuck in some 5+ year contract in this location.

The problem is, how do I explain this to my boss? Will he understand? And am I making the right decision? I worked so very hard to arrive here and now I made it and maybe I will never get as good an opportunity. But does it make sense to continue living in a state where outside of work I have basically no life and feel constantly depressed? I want to move to a big city where I can meet people easier. I might never get as good an opportunity again, career wise. But I also won't get my early 30s back if I spend them here. I am myself confused.

But the main problem is, how do I explain this to my boss? It feels like bringing personal issues in a professional setting is always a big no-no. But then again, my personal life is just as important to me.

Or maybe should I just lie and invent some other plausible excuse instead? I usually like being honest, but maybe it might not be the right way to go about things here.
stating that you used to be a non believer isn't necessary. he could have made all those points about blockchain without that piece of information. the GP's point is that the decision to add it is worthy of suspicion
Parent post is correct. Raising and lowering the orbit is a matter of burning a reasonable amount of rather limited fuel. But making a left hand turn at 17.5 km/h is incredibly energy intensive.

Look at the SpaceX launch of DART. They needed a whole rocket to lift a tiny payload due to needing to turn roughly 45 degrees
I've been using Cloudflare free in front of App Engine's free tier for a few years and it really seems too good to be true. I can go viral and scale to infinity, for exactly $0.
>I tip generously because in the US wait staff generally get way below minimum wage so you want to make them whole.

There are 16 states that follow the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13/hour. The other states have either set higher tipped minimum wages or set the tipped minimum wage the same as the minimum wage. (In California, the tipped minimum wage is $13/hour if you have 25 or fewer employees and $14/hour if you have 26 or more employees.)

https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/federal-state-t...
I view heresy to be a necessary challenge to dogma, therefore a challenge to a power structure.
> Something between fungi, animal, and plant even.

You mean a protista?
Turn off the default sharpening in your preferred image editor. Shoot in RAW. It should fix the issue. I agree with you, though.
Depends on which state...some allow sub-minimum wage if getting tips and some require minimum wage no matter what. So someone in OR or WA will get $14/hr + tips.
> everyone needs to agree on a single medium of exchange

No, everyone does not. You can easily exchange the coins you don't like for the coins you do. It's that simple.
This is a big deal when running on e.g. a MacBook that has no middle click--it is very worthwhile to use software that emulates a middle click when a modifier key is held down to gain back this functionality.
The genetic identity of the earliest human-made hybrid animals, the kungas
To be honest, this is the kind of thing you should look up before you decide to live on a house boat.
> The thing with Electron et al is that the GUI dev tools on it are the best thing humanity's come up with, by a country mile. [...] even Apple, previously the trophy-holder for "best gui-builder tools

You've never used Delphi, FP/Lazarus, or even Visual Basic, have you?

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[Edited to add (equally erroneous) Apple quote.]
Exactly. I’ll take my regulated bank over Jack Dorsey.
The artist struggle is real. And one can do a simple Reddit search to see how many people regret their choices.

I admire the courage of artists (and startups, restaurants, scientists) going on such risky paths, and they collectively bring a net gain.

But I see your point in that I would hesitate to recommend pursuing art as specific advice for individuals. In this case I disagree with Ruth’s father’s parenting strategy even though Ruth became a successful pianist.
They can be more than 100% of claimed income though.
I don't buy this framing for a second. Crypto is popular, I mean actually popular amongst most people on the ground, only because the price keeps going up; with the implicit promise that it will keep going up. Everything else is creative story telling. On-paper benefits are trotted out only to post-hoc explain the growth (which is mostly there from pumping and people seeing past growth) and to pump the coin further. "Decentralized" is only as important as it keeps the "this is still crypto right?" identity in lay-peoples minds that is tied to magic money out of nowhere. Otherwise it can be weakened arbitrarily.
Wait, are you saying that the eruption today is as bad as the one that caused this?
IMO future of everything is replicating nano-robots, artificial life-like beings. Nature can't be as good as artificially created specialized mechanisms. Right now nature have an advantage in self-replicating cells which we can't reproduce yet, but I'm sure that we will.
Not everyone who does a chargeback is looking to get their money back.

Some do it specifically because it will harm the merchant. Especially if they feel they've been wronged.
Oh damn that guy is Charlie Mullins? I thought Pimlico Plumbers was Rod Stewart's side hustle.
It’s not that hard. When Bitcoin goes down, people like tether because it’s “safe” at $1. So bitfinex makes more tethers and trades them for bitcoins. When Bitcoin goes up, bitfinex sells the Bitcoin and gets dollars.

It’s fractional reserve banking swapped around, with no reserve requirements. The market is the bank.

And because bitfinex is not obligated to redeems tokens for $1 they have no risk. It’s in their interest to keep the market price at $1 because the longer it runs the more money they make but if there’s a run on the currency they can just shrug and go home with their bag of dollars.
A truly heretical idea is probably defined by how much of a shock it is to you if you hear it for the first time. Ideas like "the scientific method is wrong" or "people should not be treated as equals" are heretical in the sense that they go against the orthodoxy, but they are not new ideas, and we have solid responses to them. In a sense, they are part of the orthodoxy's FAQ. They are accounted for in the orthodoxy, and don't present any real challenge to it. Those kinds of ideas aren't really heretical, they're actually kind of bland and non-threatening, philosophically. At the very least, not challenging.

In order to find a heretical idea, you'd really have to find something shocking. Not just distasteful, unfashionable, or rude, but alien and disturbing. Something that must be destroyed (or at least reckoned with) in order for you to avoid losing a lot of sleep, or having a major crisis of identity. By definition, those are not ideas you and I can sit here and list off.
Hello future! Glad you like it. Do you have any suggestions on how it could work better for you?
London Stock Exchange Proposes Special Listings for Private Companies
I disagree. There has been basically no improvement in image quality (a tiny bit) since the Sony A7r2, which is now 7 years ago.

The image quality of phones still improves a lot every year, though they are approaching their limit.
It means he claimed $20 in income from tips, and pocketed the extra $30 in tips. You two are just using different definitions of "income".
FDIC doesn't have enough money to cover everyone in case of some really bad event. And FDIC is useless when your currency is devalued / hyoerinflated.
Yes. In which case "150%" would be 60%. (150/(150+100) to save the readers the math)
I did this just as a way to put an idea to code. It's very rough.
Web for cli only.
Web 0.5 https://tilde.pt/~fimdomeio/index2.html
Could GNU Radio work as a Python alternative to NodeRED? (Node.js/JavaScript)
I'm curious if using an extractor hood makes a difference. If it's sized correctly the extractor should replace the air 8-10 times per hour so that should eliminate I guess most pollutants in the kitchen.

Another way to look at the this is checking the health outcomes of chefs, given they spend much more time next to the stove we should see increased respiratory problems.
Depends on your lifestyle but for the bulk of Americans $120k is extremely cushy, at nearly 4x the median salary of $35k
This is from two indoor BMP280 sensors on Home Assistant that are about 5300 miles from Tonga. (They are a floor apart from each other)

It's amazing what extremely cheap sensors can currently measure, though 1883 technology was sufficient to measure the pressure wave from Krakatoa circling the globe multiple times.

https://imgur.com/a/ydvDtkV
Why would you let that level of immaturity dictate any kind of business decision?
No it wasn't. The reason ww2 broke out was because the terms they agreed to after WW1 sank the country's economy.
Cool! Reminds me of defusing mines in a game I used to play. Can't remember the name.
Not too big on the West Coast, it hit Santa Cruz and caused minor flooding at the harbor.
Note: not super versed in this space. My main info is from a Johnny Harris video where he debates himself on the subject of crypto. And I've looked into the tech a bit.

I don't think I follow how crypto would help in your situation. At least your father could get a loan from the bank--and he got that loan because the bank looked at his history, trusted him, and took a bet he would succeed. And he can trust the bank, because it has authority and governmental checks and balances to hold it accountable. There is no trust in crypto as far as I understand it. In fact being trust-less is one of the designing principles of the block chain. Can loans exist in crypto? Wouldn't this be significantly more difficult for someone like your father to break into? And significantly more risk-y? Whereas he could get a loan from a bank with relatively little financial investment and risk, how much time & money would he need to invest in a cryptocurrency before he has enough to do what he wants with the finances? What's the risk?

Sorry if I'm missing something here, my econ-fu is weak.
If people hate each other enough, they feel a need to prove the other one wrong - so they do that on twitter and facebook, i.e. some 'red' person posts something, 20 blue people attach them back, a 'blue' person posts something, 20 'red' people attach them back.

When people are attacking each other online, they are engaged online - and the longer the stay online, the more ads they see, the more money facebook and twitter etc make.
Lisp was then already 17 years old. 1958 -> 1975. Compared to Lisp, Scheme was new and it was developed after significant experience with the original Lisp's scoping problems. A bunch of other and different programming language were developed at that time. For example ML was also written in Lisp originally, sharing some of its design (like support for functional programming with linked lists).

Scheme was originally implemented on top of Maclisp. It shared its infrastructure and a lot of design: from linked lists, the list-based syntax, ... onwards. A bunch of research papers about it were published. Later it was then described by a series of language reports RNRS (parallel to the further evolution of Lisp), was also standardized as a programming language (the IEEE Scheme standard) and a series of documents describing language extensions (SRFI). In the earlier history the RNRS reports were kept minimal to enable the use of Scheme in the context of education, R6RS then was much larger.

1178-1990 - IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/159138

Scheme was not a minimally improved Maclisp, but a new language with significant Lisp influence. There was a lot of sharing over the years between Lisp and Scheme, but Scheme got its own books, its own implementations (many), its own libraries, its own community, ... Programming language are social groups, too and Scheme formed one early on. As a programming language design it was very successful and influential.

Note that I'm not saying that one is better than the other (though Scheme was improving Lisp in important ways by solving problems like scoping in functional programs and later a lot of language research was done in the context of Scheme), just that different communities with different goals were formed. Scheme was the well-designed, small and theoretically ground language. Lisp was the more messy big ball of mud, having lots of historical baggage, with its language design dating back to the original Lisp 1.
I'm going to dispute, a little, that mirrors are inherently inferior.

1. It's only recently that the very best mirrorless cameras (Sony A1, Nikon Z9) have really reached the autofocus capabilities of the best SLRs…and arguably, they still aren’t quite there. It's close, but a Nikon D6 is still a bit better—but certainly not worse. The dedicated phase detection sensor is powerful. If only because you get more phase separation.

2. A DSLR, used like a film camera, has what feels like a perpetual motion machine inside of it. Just wild battery life. My old Nikon D700 had wayyyyy better battery life than a current camera, beacause if you kept the screen off, you were hardly touching the electronics in the camera. The imaging sensor was almost always asleep, and drawing next to no power.

Obviously mirrors have drawbacks. Phase detect sensor/imaging plane alignment issues, and they are big and clunky, but they have benefits.
Hmm, how would fungi be different from a self-repairing expanding foam? Other than needing to be kept alive?
Maybe they've seen Goodfellas

("oh look, this really poor person rumored to be a criminal suddenly got very very rich and is throwing their money around" is a great way to attract LE attention)
I don’t think the “early days” will be over until we can in fact see a few of the big projects crash and fail AND THEN some new projects survive and take over with killer products as we saw with the dot com bubble.

At the moment there are already some successful private blockchains, some of those the end user interacts without knowing about them.
At its core heretical means contradicting the knowledge received through a revelation (epiphany, enlightenment, conversion, etc.). To know what is heretical one needs to know what is true.
Sooner or later, I think DSLR is fundamentally "dead".

To understand my PoV, perhaps we need to go back into 1940/1950s.
Practically the most camera used at this time is a rangefinder (including Leica), which was a mirrorless. Rangefinder is compact, but limited to shorter primes, like 50mm and wider.

SLRs don't have such limitation. You want longer lenses like 200mm, 300mm? No problem. Or a zoom lens? why not. In the 1960s, pro journalists started to adopt SLR and there's a decline in rangefinders usage.

Now we are living in the digital world. Why do we still have to keep extra space for mirror box, which makes the camera body bigger? After all, there's no issue using tele or zoom lenses on mirrorless.

Please don't understand this as "yet another anti DSLR post". No. My main camera is a Nikon Df, equipped with some AI and pre-AI lenses. I'm happy with the result, it suits my shooting style. That said, if I have some cash for another camera system, it's obviously going to be a mirrorless. Probably medium format mirrorless :D
Sounds like you are comparing the experiences of an American eating out in America with the experiences of an American dining in foreign countries.

Some of your experiences were negative, and others positive. But none of your foreign data used a native diner, so, it’s difficult to correlate the results with the topic of this discussion, which is about the effect of tipping on service.
because invention of agriculture or human-made shelter and 'just like' reading tweets online....
That’s because they are forcing consumers with high interest (usury) rates.
There is another aspect of tipping that rarely gets discussed: they are a way to compensate for being a bad guest.

I have heard from many servers that they will happily put up with a "bad table" if they know they are going to be tipped well at the end.

So not to excuse bad behavior, but if you know you have been a difficult table, tipping process gives you a formal opportunity to atone.
This always kind of annoys me when people talk about this subject:

> In all of these, we will mostly be focused on the western empire (with some gestures at the East), but I’ll note here (and no doubt repeatedly subsequently) that this is because the empire didn’t fall in the East, at least not any time remotely around the fifth century. The continued existence of the Eastern Roman Empire is a free, massive point that the change-and-continuity argument gets to score at the beginning of these debates for free, every time.

Is it even possible to talk about the fall of the Western Roman Empire without someone interjecting that the Eastern Roman Empire didn't fall? Is it to be a permanent feature of the discussion, this shift in focus away from the actual topic of discussion? The next time someone talks about the continuity of the Eastern Roman Empire, I'm going to talk about the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Or maybe the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, just for variety.
Have you considered kWin? Sounds like it meets all your requirements.

If you're worried about 'bloat', it's surprisingly lightweight and you don't need to pull in a full KDE desktop environment.
This might be out of scope, but I dream of a general purpose programming language to develop web based applications.

I think overall web dev is kind of broken caused by the fact, that we still let web technologies evolve instead of reinventing them. To write a web based application you need several languages, which are furthermore separated in front- and backend.

NodeJs kind of tries to fill the gap, but it’s still just a technology which refers web languages.

I think of a different kind of technology that might not be based on html/css/js + backend-language.
FTP predates full-duplex. You simply could not receive and transfer on the same port, so two were opened for each task. FTP is a protocol from the 1970s before TCP/IP existed. It has a lot of warts and really shouldn't be used on the internet anymore. :)
Macros are also not first-class, whereas fexprs are.

Macros and other special forms must appear in their own name when they are called. You can't necessarily bind them to a symbol and then use that symbol in its place with the same behavior.

Consider a symbol which could represent some abstract "binary function", which you might later call. You can bind functions like `add` and `mul` to this without trouble, but if you try to bind `and` or `or` to it, you might not be able to (depending on which lisp you are using). You could try to wrap the call to `and` in a function, like `(define (and* x y) (and x y))`, but this `and*` does not actually have the correct behavior, because `y` should not be evaluated if `x` evaluates to `#f` - but being a function, both arguments are evaluated implicitly.

If using fexprs, this issue is non-existent. `and` and `or` are simply defined as fexprs, are first-class, and their operands are not implicitly evaluated.
>I think retroactively billing people for arbitrary values like "30%" is dumb [...]

>[...] without that kind of transparency it still feels like I'm being scammed

It's not arbitrary because it was part of the developer agreement you signed.

>since it doesn't actually address the issues people have

Must all regulator action "actually address the issues people have"? Regulators/courts are limited in what they can do, so it's not surprising that the ruling isn't some sort of decisive victory for independent software companies.
Uh, no, it's plenty for everyone. Leave it to HN to pretend that $120k is a starvation wage.
> Private-company shares would trade publicly between one and five days in each trading window, once a month or quarter, or every six months. The companies wouldn’t be subject to the same degree of regulatory oversight as a fully listed company, requirements that startup company founders say are deterrents to listing shares.
I only got through about halfway, stocks and flows is all I got out of it.
How can the DVB-T signal bandwidth be larger than what the 'dtv' receiver is capable of if that device was actually originally designed to receive exactly that class of signal?
Plastic deterioration like this has ruined so many things I liked that are otherwise well designed. I've had it happen with computer mice, umbrellas, knives, camera tripods, shoes, flashlights. I don't know the chemistry behind why, but it's a terrible feeling to have something either disintegrate, or become terribly sticky, or turn into putty.
Assuming this is for websites, what's the recommended way of handling cache busting with this kind of setup? The article has a slightly awkward paragraph that tells you to set long TTLs for everything and concludes with "tweak these settings", which kind of sounds like "draw the rest of the owl". Might be a good reason to use something that integrates all this (eg. Cloudflare Pages, since you're already using Cloudflare).
Or else they might experience poverty and/or overwork.
I can’t imagine any company I’ve ever worked for going for this. If everyone else is working 5 days a week, you need to be as well because you’re a knowledge center that would be missing otherwise. Yes, this happens when you’re on vacation or out sick as well, but that’s temporary, not something they have to think about and plan for every week. The mental strain there against their asses in seats mindset would just be too much.
Do you have a specific reference addressing this, because I'm not finding a clear statement one way or the other.

Title 18 lacks a Definitions section that I can find.