skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, we have a couple problems: low interest rates, large variance in productivity / earnings, really shitty hotels because they're operating on old-world assumptions.

One under appreciated thing about apps like Uber and AirBnb is the star rating system. I know I'm a five star tenant. I know I never shit in the sink. I know I never leave a bunch of condoms or cigar butts all over the balcony or hotel room. But the hotel doesn't know that. They need to steam clean the sheets and install super-fat-person-proof toilets. And elevators for the disabled. And a hotel room with a stove and usable fridge? Hah! Only two times have I had that and one was in a room that cost $10k a week (don't ask, I was the +1).

Then it comes to AirBnb and global housing stock. Someone like me who is currently in Kiev in an AirBnb is always going to be able to out-spend a local. The key is to align incentives. I literally would not have come to Kiev if they'd banned AirBnb. I would have gone back to Lithuania (love Vilnius) or to Turkey or Estonia. With the drive to pull in tourist money going on worldwide why should cities ban AirBnb (or Uber for that matter)?

"Because it's driving up rents!"

Ok, so let's solve that problem. I have no issue with cities imposing a 30% tax on AirBnbs and using the income to build up the housing stock for locals. They should do this, it makes perfect sense.

"Because AirBnbers are loud and disruptive!"

Make hosts responsible for noise complaint fines and pretty quick loud tenants are going to get bad ratings.

"Because I want community, not a bunch of transient AirBnbers that don't even speak the local language!"

If it is getting really, really bad, (say 20% or higher of housing stock in a community) maybe scale up the taxes to combat this. But let's not miss the positives either. I've met a number of cool people both hosting them in my place just before traveling or by interacting with them in areas I never would have been in had I been staying in a hotel.

Don't throw out the baby with the bath water and all that.
How's that different than what's being going on NYC for the past 30 years or so? Gentrification is a thing, Airbnb or not.
They have about 20% comission, plus another 5-10 if you pay in a foreign currency.
> That, presumably, is one reason supply is restricted ("fixed")

(I'm the grandparent.) Yes, this. I'm all for new construction to improve supply and a streamlined bureaucratic process so that it can happen more quickly.

Practically speaking though, you can look at any city that's had a problem with AirBnB (Berlin, San Francisco, New York, Barcelona, etc. — pretty much anywhere desirable to visit) and new stock isn't coming online anywhere close to quickly enough to counteract the market forces introduced by AirBnB. As it stands today, building is a very slow process, and it's likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future.
The only fate of Louisiana is that it's a problem with its own inevitable solution; it will be inundated and become relatively unlivable. I have to wonder how much that plays into the decisions made by the people who understand that it's not really a long-term project as a state. This is still a hell of a way to treat people living there, but truly, no one should live there.
This is an interesting contrast to the VW scandal and the response to it.
Google maps street view shows that the house in Waterbury is nearly unchanged. The siding is different, the narrower boards of yesteryear having been replaced by wider boards at some point, but other than that it's the same.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/17+4th+St,+Waterbury,+CT+0...
I might be dense here: Why would the protocol be undocumented? Entertainment to toilets to guidance, it's still a flight system.
Perhaps he had too many and wanted to dispose them?
Which will put all that stuff in the oceans.
It converts long term housing stock into short term housing, which benefits tourists with cheaper prices and increases the price for residents since both are competing for the same units. Basically, tourists are getting a free ride on the backs of residents. Its always been the other way around, tourists pay extra taxes and fees which go back to the city (and residents) and entrepreneurs build hotels which once again benefit the city (and residents). Can't think of many arguments where tourists should be given cheaper housing rights over residents.
Oh, don't mind. My network connection was the one that had a problem.
"Women are not as discouraged from entering fields like biology, or medicine. These are just as technical and difficult as other STEM fields"

It is not about being difficult. Biology and medicine require a vastly different kind of intelligence than Physics and Math (and computer science). Also, doctors work with people, while engineers work with machines. And the author argues that women, on average, prefer working with people. This can pretty simply be explained by the difference in estrogen and testosterone.

So no, it's not fair to say that there is no evidence that the whizzer spins right. And the author never denied that there are cultural factors. He is saying that there are biological factors too, which should not be ignored.
A simple "yes" would suffice. All you have to do is admit that diversity is good and you'll get your diversity of ideology there for free. All you have to do is admit that creating safe spaces can be good or necessary, and you can argue for safe spaces for conservatives to speak their minds.

The point isn't that you shouldn't be allowed to express yourself (you should! There should be a safe space for conservatives on campus! There are many in fact, they're called the local frat house, young republicans club, economics study group, bible study) the point is that when you argue that you should be able to do so you use the same arguments conservatives so nastily deride like diversity, participation trophies, snowflakes, safe spaces, etc.
The experience of it happening in certain places where I live.

Lots of nice places are now rented in AirBnB for what amounts to their old monthly rent but now asked for for a weekly rental or less.
He's definitely killing it, that's for sure - owns none of them, simply partners with old, small apt complex owners that have extra units for rent. Spends all his time traveling the world while his "business partner" takes care of cleaning and maintenance.
It accelerates it by further decreasing housing supply. The housing problems of NYC are complex and challenging, and AirBNB is just a part of that.
Am I the only one that wishes the pendulum of fashion would swing back to the time when a site expressed its character, rather than its money funnels?
One of the big features of SDF is the MetaArray. it gives members around 800GB per account of storage both NextCloud and direct shell access https://sdf.org/?tutorials/metaarray
Not only that, but AirBnB prices for "whole apartment/house" listings are often not less than the price of a decent hotel room in the area! This makes them worse than useless in my view, except possibly for getting a last-minute accommodation.
Some in flight entertainment systems offer live news and sporting events. I guess receiving that on a plane in flight is very different than a plane on the ground.
I wonder if it could be related to an insect equivalent of grid cells, neurons involved in dead reckoning found in mammals. The firing pattern of a grid cell is a triangular or hexagonal pattern depending on how you look at it. Drosophila's ellipsoid body neurons have been shown to behave similarly to head direction cells so it's not implausible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_direction_cells
A FaceNet Neural Network Model in JavaScript for Face Recognition and Clustering
According to this article I'm a professional landlord because I have more than one property on airbnb?

I think that's a huge leap and was done to inflate numbers to re-enforce their point, which would otherwise be poorly made by a meaningful statistic.

To be a professional landlord you need at least 20 properties. That is typically the minimum number of properties to provide a livable income.
Because postmodernist and neomarxist ideas are appealing to idealists dreaming of utopia.

It's quite weird that an article with 0 citations, 0 proper rebuttals of arguments in the original manifesto gets so much attention. It is pure leftist circlejerk.

For example, show me a single study demonstrating proper effectiveness of unconscious bias training. HR departments in FB and Google have those. Studies of the effectiveness do not exist or show no effectiveness.

HR in many companies is comprised of leftist sociology, psychology majors who disregard results in their own fields which do not align with their equity for all philosophy.
I don't think there should be any correlation, unless it's a text composed by thinking of letters for some reason. Usually we think in concepts, sentences and words, not letters when formulating ourselves.
Its nice little site. Interested in tech behind it. Do you have any plan to make it open source?
NYC does the same rent caps disappeared in the 70s. They YOY percentage increase limits. One limit for lease renewals, higher one for new leases.
[I've made about four edits to this post and still can't do it justice - should have drafted it more thoroughly. Others have made my points much more effectively and this is just a distraction, so I'll remove it]
FaceNet is a deep convolutional network designed by Google, trained to solve face verification, recognition, and clustering problem with efficiently at scale.

1. directly learns a mapping from face images to a compact Euclidean space where distances directly correspond to a measure of face similarity.

2. optimize the embedding face recognition performance using only 128-bytes per face.

3. achieves the accuracy of 99.63% on Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset, and 95.12% on YouTube Faces DB.
If you think the defining characteristic of google search is that it is 'driven by algorithms' you are massively underestimating it.

Search is the problem of understanding what a person is looking for, and finding a resource which provides it. That is 100% about people and human factors. There's a reason why people look at google search frequencies to understand social trends; why we read meaning into the 'suggested search completions' google provides for certain terms; why an unfortunate first-placed search result for a term can make global news headlines. Search is so much more than an algorithmic problem.
Uber started out as ride sharing, now it's an international taxi service.
Do you have an estimate how long it took to build all that?
>We're still sorry for having given you a case of Acute Thatcherism, America

I've never heard a European apologize for this and didn't realize how much I wanted to until I did; thank you, we hope to one day recover.

And I agree with you to some extent. But many 'conservatives' today are not approaching these issues with any kind of intellectual honesty or a willingness to respect their opponents. When I think campus protests I think Milo, who spews hate with every turn and is in no way intellectual or thoughtful. I think of Richard Spencer, who should be shouted down. Our society hates neo-nazis and while we shouldn't be violent towards them, the clearer it can get that they are universally loathed the better. I should not have to sit and listen to someone advocate gassing minorities, for example, and sit there and politely debate. Their positions aren't reasonable and acknowledging them as a serious intellectual position and putting them on a stage is doing them a favor they should not get.
Dallas.
Escher AR API
and vertical lines would be fuzzier at low resolution

Horizontal ones too.

Non-square pixels have been around for a long time in digital camera LCDs and more recently the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family but while they're fine for photos and other gradient-like images, text and lineart have a noticeable "grain" on them.
The new Silk Road will be in the blockchain and impossible to take down
Yonatan Zunger, a (recently departed) distinguished engineer at Google, wrote a very good response: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
> Why isn't that taught at university? Or mentioned in any other software engineering book?

Because no one goes to school to learn to be a programmer so that they can not be a programmer.
The release is inside of the garage, so unless you have the key (not as common as you'd think) you're out of luck.
Also I'm sure it'd get annoying to manually open the garage all the time, especially since this article seems to imply that the phenomenon lasted for a while
I mention this book a lot, but it's good.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BAMN-Any-Means-Necessary-Manifestos...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/987215.BAMN
At this point, firing him would be a huge PR mistake for Google.
It's already running into the oceans; for better or worse this is going to be a disaster for humans more than anything else.

For humans, by humans.
Seattle has been blanketed in smoke during the last week from forest fires in British Columbia. The flyovers may be related to this or the Seafair airshow.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/why-so-much...
That's my assumption! I think A is a bizarre solution, but I absolutely think they've tested the crap out of this and that the way it works is the one that makes the most conversions for them. Still... crazy!
Sure, AirBnB certainly isn't the only cause of rising rents in Berlin. The city's become an incredibly attractive place to be over the last decade, and that's almost certainly the foremost reason for rent increases.

But AirBnB is contributing something to those rising rents, and unlike the desirability of your city, it's something that you can control for.

I (along with probably most people that share a similar position) would argue that regulating AirBnB is good, but not adequate. Pretty much every large urban development in the world (SF, London, NY, Berlin, HK, etc.) is experiencing the same problem that because they're desirable they're also automatically unaffordable. We need to figure out how to put roofs over people's heads by building much more, and much more cheaply.
That is definitely not always true, and I would say its only true in the minority of cases.

To make more money renting short term than long term you have to be in a very desirable location in a town/city with a lot of tourist traffic, and you have to keep your labor and energy costs down ruthlessly.

Most cleaning companies want $30 an hour. You need to pay $120 to do a turnover. Plus you need to buy many things and replace them regularly. And you need to pay for utilities.

Unless you can book for high prices, at least $250 a night and more like $399 a night on weekends in season, and keep the calendar pretty full, its not worth it.
Sure, but that's a slow leach. For the cumulative poisons which are stable (such as heavy metals) it won't make much of a difference but inundation will increase the concentrations tremendously in a very short time.
If he owns nothing and provides so little value, I would bet its only a matter of time until he is cut out of the pie.
The Big Lie of the Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto
> That criticizes a 1989 paper. The snippet that I used and you just quoted are from a 1999 paper by the same authors, and the critique you linked on cyclehelmets.org isn't addressing the updated language.

I didn't click through enough links to check the year and only checked the author names and found the 1989 study. Through more searching, I found the pdf of the actual study you referenced and checked through the studies that they referenced in their analysis. Most of those source studies have corresponding analysis pages on the cyclehelmets.org website with similar types of criticisms.

> Do you think that people should or should not wear helmets?

I really am not concerned about whether or not bicycle riders wear helmets while riding. But I think it's a disservice to cyclists to imply that wearing a helmet is the only thing that matters in terms of safety. I would like to see more emphasis on other things like bicycle maintenance, equipment like lights and a mirror and education on how one should ride their bike on MUPs and in traffic, but it seems that the debate on helmets has overshadowed the other things that can have a greater impact on the safety of the rider.

> I ride bikes a lot. I've crashed a lot.

I ride roughly 2000 miles per year (for the last 12 years). I've only crashed once.

> I honestly don't really care to debate the science at this level, because I didn't perform any studies myself and I don't research helmet effectiveness

I am interested in reading research on helmet effectiveness, critiques of that research as it pertains to study methodology and standards that helmets are required to meet in the US. I think it's necessary to have that knowledge and keep up to date on the field to really have informative discussions on the issue.
DC has the same rent control structure.
You are the Product
https://twitter.com/actioncookbook/status/834439563032555521

ME: [views product online] Hmm. Nah.
[changes website]
PRODUCT: we meet again
ME: Sorry, no [changes again]
PRODUCT: bitch this ain't over
ME: FINE. FINE. I will buy this rug. Just leave me at peace.
REST OF INTERNET: this dude loves rugs, let's get him, boys
The economics of dividing domestic work fairly, no matter who makes more
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Research around IQ can reliably make predictions based on the measurement of IQ. So, that means two things:

- the research is well defined enough that you can do an experiment to disprove it

- most of the research has not been successfully disproved, even though many tried

Now, whether that means that IQ exists and what it means for things to exist is a different discussion. It terms of philosophy of science, it is the distinction between relativistic empiricists and absolutistic empiricists. Just because you found a correlation, does that also inform you about the true nature of things? If formula's pretending the world is made out of strings correctly predict what would happen to some extend, does that mean the world is made out of strings?

In the case of EQ, it doesn't even qualify as a scientific theory. For that, it would need to be formalized to such an extent that it would make a objectively measurable prediction. Which we can then all try to disprove by measurement. If we don't even have the chance to disprove it, it's not a scientific theory in the first place.
At this point, displays have fine enough resolution and GPUs are fast enough, that if you want to make hexagon-pixel images you can go right ahead and it won’t make too much difference (except you’ll reduce moiré artifacts), as long as you’re willing to implement your own code to rasterize the image to a square grid for display.

It would be neat if camera sensors and displays would switch to hexagonal grids of pixels – considering most images get resampled right before display now anyway, it should be all upside (except for a bit of extra implementation hassle).

A hexagonal grid is nice for several reasons: it can easily handle refinement to 3 or 4 subpixels per pixel, while a square grid needs 4 subpixels to keep its proper grid; it is much more isotropic than a square grid (straight lines at a variety of angles look much better); it is notably more efficient at covering the plane; hexagonal filters have a much nicer 2-dimensional frequency response; dithering works quite a bit better on a hexagonal grid; etc.

There are some printers that use a hexagonal grid, and some hexagon-pixel cameras used for stuff like medical imaging or astronomy.
> Berlin's currently problem is excessive urbanization driven by migration (1) from the neighbouring comparatively poor East German states and (2) of foreigners who speak only English and hence prefer a city that has already evolved to accommodate English speakers.

No. Berlin problems mostly stem from the city government colluding with investor scum to build luxury apartments instead of actually affordable ones plus doing their very best to e.g. kick squats out (which help keeping down rents for all neighbors). Berlin government could easily break the necks of the investors and protect the population instead, but especially the SPD has chosen not to do so - and sell off priorly city-owned prime real estate to investors.

The investors now do "Luxussanierungen" (basically, thermoclad the houses and fix the more egregious stuff like bad wiring / plumbing that the city government had neglected over decades) and price out all the lower-and-middle-income people.
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The keyword here is biological.

In biology we do not study spatial reasoning or empathy.

In biology we study physical processes.

Fact: men and women have different body parts.

Fact: men and women have different hormones and hormones affect behavior.

The trouble arises when we cannot even discuss "what is a man" and "what is a woman" for fear of offending somebody.

Anyone can believe they are a man or a woman or anything else, that's fine. But we can't change biology. At this point it's just wordplay.
Personally, I'm aware of the debates that he's been engaged in outside of the scope of the EQ/IQ topic. However, even taking that into consideration, you have to take an oceanic leap to get from that to branding someone a "white nationalist".

Also, through self-admission:
not to mention any time I hear about Jordan Peterson it's in the context of alt-right nonsense.

...their opinions have more been informed by what they've been told to think about him rather anything they've claimed he's said or done.

My passioned response to this is to call-out the behavior of how trivially people like to lob these accusations without any empathy as to how it could easily be done to themselves.
> Does anyone buy airline tickets from the airline website ever?

All other things being equal, I will strongly prefer buying directly from the airline, because I've personally experienced the shifting of responsibility if things go wrong during a flight.

I've also been denied boarding (not in my home country) because the airline claimed that the OTA (Netflights) didn't pay for my ticket, leaving me to spend the night in the airport and having to book a one-way flight with a different airline the next morning.

That was a horrible experience I'm determined to not repeat.
Berlin rent prices are rising because they're cheaper than most other European big cities due to its unique recent history. Prices are catching up but I doubt Airbnb has a significant role.