skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this literally effected me back in 2010 when I tried to donate to Wikileaks.

Visa and mastercard and all the banks banned transactions to Wikileaks even though no laws were broken.

They successfully censored transactions to them, without going through the court system.

The police did not force visa and mastercard to allow transactions to these places.

It is worse then that actually. The police PARTICIPATE in taking away money from people who haven't been convinced of any crimes.

Did you know is that if the police merely suspect you of "money laundering" or drug crimes or whatever, that they can just take your assets? They don't need a court order. They can just take the money that you are carrying, and in order to get it back you have to prove your innocence.

It is literally guilty until proven innocent with regards to police asset forfeiture. It is possible that you will never get that money back, even if you are never charged with a crime.

This is just one example though. The banks censor financial transactions ALL the time, even though no laws are being broken. You know, private company that can do whatever they want, and all that.

Or for other examples, just Google PayPal horror stories, of some administrator arbitrarily freezing people's money.

And I am talking about people who have broken zero laws, or have been convicted of anything in a court.

Someone at PayPal can just freeze your money, and who knows when or if you will get it back, without a court order. And this really does happen to people all the time.
I don't know... something that always bothered me about multiverse theory is that multiverses are supposed to be the explanation for why a lot of our quantum math works out so beautifully.

Matter is continuous into other dimensions, and this is why things like the photon/wave duality can work, interaction with other realities.

In our reality, however, our universe is so sparse as to be almost non-existent (density of the universe is something like 1 hydrogen atom for every 5k cubic meters). This has been measured, and means that our universe is flat (Euclidean).

In my mind, in order to connect the density of the universe with the continuity of quantam behavior, than every reality must have the same density, and flow continuously from ours, which would mean that every reality is Euclidean.

This is where it gets fuzzy for me, because it's my understanding that the multiverse is not Euclidean....
Would it suffice to post a popup in your UI, "This website is not certified for the EU. If you are in the EU, you MSUT NOT use this website. Click HERE to certify that you are not in the EU" ?
Or are website operators responsible even if unauthorized attackers hack in to their system and leave a "personal data" trail?
Pop-ups are an abomination, whether they're a _blank window, or a shiny slidy <div>.

And is one minute really a good length of time for someone to grok what's on your page? How long is the video?
> They do not address the possibility that the atypical minority (which presumably is apartments used exclusively for AirBNB and not otherwise occupied by a tenant) might cause the $626M rent increase illustrated by the study. This paragraph seems to be a diversionary tactic, "No, look only at these facts".

IIRC, NYC passed a law against this and Airbnb has bee cracking down on those types of listings. I think SF has a similar law as well.

I also wonder if NYC now charges any occupancy taxes in Airbnb like SF does. If so, the revenue collected should also be weighed against any increases in rent. I also wish the article had actual calculated how much of a per month rent increase the $600m figure resulted in. In a city as big as NYC, I don't know if 600m is a big deal or not.
They should team up with Tesla to develop storage batteries for the reactors in case a reactor fails you would still have some temporary emergency power.
This is NYC in the report. That's about $1360 post-tax which is about 32K a year which is a bit above minimum wage in NYC (around 12-13/hr). I respectfully suggest not living in the most expensive neighborhoods in New York City if minimum wage jobs are what you're forced to endure.
I think it's often easy to underestimate just how much VBA-type code has been written around the MS Office suite of applications since the late 90s. It's a massive amount of department-level (or higher), home-grown code that leverages the MS Office functionality in lieu of paying professional software developers to develop something more streamlined, but much more expensive.
For the past seven years, whenever I learn something new, I put it into my set of Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/) cards. Details tied to a job are tied to that particular job; when I leave, I delete those cards. Almost everything else stays.

Anki may have been designed for learning languages, but it's a great system for learning anything.
I saw this on Lobster and wanted to come here to see the comments and found this.

This is really sad. It shouldn't be flagged at all. It's about tech culture, the e-mail is very well written and it brings up valid things we should talk about as a community.

I've had my own posts flagged on Lobster as well, so they're not a bastion by any means.

I know it's their platform and the mods can do what they want, but it still bothers me we're silencing conversation. Meanwhile on platforms like Gab/Voat, you just get insane amounts of bat-shit crazy.

We're losing the moderate people in our society to extreme left/rightness of platforms.
Just took a simple search "queue messages on slack" to find one - https://sv-qbot.herokuapp.com/

The description looks close to what you were expecting.
AFAIK 7-zip doesn't take donations (feel free to correct me), but you could argue that the donations were going towards the author of the software to thank them for their work and not towards funding the development, so the author has no reason to feel compelled to buy a cert if they don't want to. Of course, that would all depend on the wording of the donation page, which I don't believe exists.
DNA is a conductor, and it's possible that inducing current on the wire will jam electrical signals used by certain DNA correcting proteins (like the BER system) to hone in on mutations. The frequencies that cellphones operate on are known to induce currents on DNA.
The fission process releases neutrons, so you effectively "add neutrons" by concentrating self-fissioning material in a small space.

To put another way:
If you increase the size of a sphere of fissionable material, its rate of "natural" decay stays the same, but more of these decays lead to neutrons triggering additional fission reactions. So doubling the size of the sphere leads to >>2x fission events due to neutrons having more fissile material to hit on the way out.

A large fission reactor is just a scaled up version of this with control rods to adsorb extra neutrons to control secondary "induced" fission.
I'm guessing you work in an open plan office like I do. It's hard to have a company-wide expectation that immediate interruptions are off-limits when that's how you sell the seating arrangement as a positive.
> Statistics is very tricky by the way.

I think this why HR hire computer engineers instead of statisticians when it comes to ML.
Also the revenue figures seem quite conservative. 90M seems too low. Probably 2x that.
How do you arrive at $68/mo? 8.5 million people live in NYC. 2/3 rent. My math puts that at $109/year.
> no one

Plenty of people recommend Firefox despite it sharing processes between tabs. More than 10 years after MS sandboxed IE.
What's a good place to start if you were curious to read more about it? Especially the fun speculation parts
Idk about FF, but I’ve zuccessfully loaded extensions into chrome selenium in the past. It doesn’t work with chrome headless AFAIK
I'd like to like Google Express, but it's just not a good competitor for Prime in my market.

I ordered something from a department store down the street. It ended up getting shipped out of San Francisco, and took over a week to arrive. I could have ordered and returned something via Prime three times in the amount of time it took Google to send me something.

Plus, the selection is very limited. But that might just be my market.
"one of" is different from "each". Which is the law?
You're right, but I think it's still important to consider. If I had a team of engineers that were from diverse cultures, but all happened to be male, I would feel that lack of (gender) diversity would still be a fair criticism. It's not boiling it down to one metric, it's pointing out that there's an important metric that might have been missed.
My procedurally generated huge-universe MMO uses Go on the back end but ImpactJS on the front end. < https://www.emergencevector.com > I was meaning to port the game to PixiJS to be able to open source the front end, but now I don't have to!

(Even better, now that I know Ejecta is also open source, I can have OpenGL and iOS distribution!)
I'm not from NYC, not even from the US, but here are some reasons for locals to do that:

1) More money. Yes, stability is nice and all, and managing the reservations is annoying and/or expensive, but if the difference is big, people will choose it.

2) Renter-friendly laws. Here, if that stable leaser stops paying, it's a pain in the ass to get them out - you have to sue them in small claims court, and then have to go to another court to get an eviction order, which finally lets you kick them out. An Airbnb guest is only there for a few days, and after that they become a trespasser.

Rent stabilization rules may also prevent you from raising them as much as you could (though this is more a problem for longer than 12 month leases).

3) Fun. Some people I know really enjoy interacting with the guests and showing them around town :)
Twitter is moving some infrastructure to the Google Cloud Platform
The $68/mo figure is off by a factor of 7.5, as far as I can tell. It's actually ~$109/year per resident.
"The network connects directly to the internet backbone, so we do not rely on an ISP."

That makes no sense. I doubt they're a tier-1 backbone themselves, they have to be purchasing transit from an ISP. It feels like lots of the docs are written by marketing-type folks. Also there's a weird diagram that insinuates NAT happens before bgp peering with the not-ISPs they buy internet from. Weird shit.
Directly stimulating the brain with electrical current seems like it might be different
Wait a second. The entire population of New York state is 20 million. How could they possibly have paid an extra $616 million? Each person in New York paid an extra $30 million?
Twitter's new collaboration with Google Cloud
Most of the things taught in a CS degree or Math degree are simply too specialized to be useful. Sure, everything therein can be found somewhere in the industry. But, for the vast majority of us, we'll only use a tiny percentage of what we actually learn.

On the other hand, there's sooo much you do need to learn as a SE that's not taught in a CS degree. If you drew a Ven-diagram between what you learned in school and what you actually need to do the job, you'd find very little overlap.

We really need a new model for how we think about education.
GBMs kill ~78% of patients within 2 years. Earlier detection wouldn't change the statistics much.
Profit creates well-being. Without profit, the economy stops.
Yeah, I think this kind of issue is why Ruby, which also has a GIL, seems to be heading for a new concurrency and parallelism model that introduces a new level (Guilds) between threads and processes where the big lock would be held, and where Guilds communicate only by sharing read access to immutable data, and transferring ownership or copies of mutable data.
If a few thousand airbnb units cost renters that much money, imagine how much renters would save if more and taller buildings were allowed to be built!
I think there's a big difference between being happy and being satisfied. There's some evidence that certain people are just happier than others, in the same way that the distribution of extroversion, intelligence, etc. vary across society. There's things you can do to remove unhappiness, but I think in most cases that's all you're doing, bringing people to their baseline if everything else is taken care of.

In any case, it seems like we should be more focused on helping people find meaning in their lives rather than making people happier. People are happier when doing fun things, but these things don't lead to any lasting achievement that people can look back on and view as giving their life a purpose.
I'm not sure what is intended by the parent, but Pia is the source to which all mentions of this theory lead, in my limited research (or Pia and Mario Vittone, the author of the article which heavily cites Pia). So the parent is not evidence of broader acceptance by others.
Anyone know of a call-in number to hear a playback of the call? Or is it online anywhere?
HTML Mayhem: I and B Tag Deprecation Was Wrong
I've been digging around the 'net trying to understand the logic behind the deprecation of the I (italics) and B (bold) HTML tags; and the introduction of the EM and STRONG tags that "sort of" replace them.

I get the theoretical difference between "presentation" and "semantics", but it made very little practical benefit, if any, to make the change. Don't unseat a standard unless the replacement is notably better. It's not. I and B could have been considered dual-purpose: indicating both presentation and semantics, which is good enough for both uses and has no known practical down-side.

The standards committee fixed something that wasn't broken, and introduced confusion in its place. Let's hold these committees to a higher standard and force them to keep their heads below the clouds where real work happens. Stop their esoteric philosophical mental masturbation.
Any cancer is related to age in the sense that the older a person is, the more opportunity they've had to encounter it. I suppose the best way to look at it is see how many cumulative years a population represents: if a population is getting older on average, then the cumulative years have risen, therefore there's been more opportunity to encounter this disease.
It's only 5% if you have an average yearly after-tax income of ~16,000 if I did my math right. The median income for NYC is ~50,000.

I would also imagine that most of the people for whom $68/month is a lot of money also don't generally live in neighborhoods that are ones with lots of Airbnb rentals, and are probably some of the least effected by this.
if you do not visibly offer services in EU you dont have to comply to GDPR.

There are few examples in the law of what visibly means, such as having prices in euro or having EU contact numbers...
You are conflating unrelated points. No one said you need to explain MySql in your privacy policy for adults either. They are talking about using common sense language, not legalese.
Numerically you're right, but you're showing a distinction without a difference. In the kinds of neighborhoods where Airbnb has a foothold (gentrified, desirable, centrally located) rents are already so high that an extra $68 doesn't make a damn bit of difference. I live in one of these neighborhoods, and I speak for absolutely everyone who can afford to pay the rent I'm paying: we don't care about the additional $68.

Those for whom $68 really is 5% of net monthly income don't live in Airbnb-infested neighborhoods, and thus are even less affected by the impact Airbnb has on rental prices.

I don't mean to sound insensitive to the plight of those for whom NYC is too expensive. I think such people need to be helped, but spending even an iota of thought on Airbnb is a waste of time: its impact is concentrated in neighborhoods that are already too far out of the reach of rent-challenged New Yorkers. And this isn't the case because of Airbnb.
The battle for the remittances market: Cheaper cross-border transfers are coming
Is this by chance another hoax, or an attempt to get people to stop patching? I can not find any credible details.
Whoever thinks comments are a code smell has probably stumbled into a nest of documented code where the documentation was out of date and didn't refer to the latest code in question, causing intense confusion. Comments can certainly be helpful but there is nothing to guarantee that they will be up to date or even useful.
There's a fascinating TLP article on this very topic[0]. Here's the most relevant bit:

*

The reason TV sociopaths are admired is that they are on TV. They have a story.

Do you really admire Tony Soprano? Which part? His loveless marriage to a crazy person? A mistress who is even crazier? His gigantic belly and panic attacks? The fact that no one actually likes him? That his daughter was dating a black guy? ("I wouldn't have a problem with that." Yes you would if you were Tony.) What part do you admire?

The answer you tell yourself is you admire his power, that he can do whatever he wants. No he can't. The whole show was nothing but repeated examples of how limited his options were. The things you think you admire-- having hot sex with the other crazy woman at his psychiatrist's office, eating microwaved Sysco at Italian restaurants, avoiding his wife-- can be done by anyone, you don't need to be Tony to do it. But when you do it.... it just doesn't feel the same. I know.

What people admire about Tony isn't his freedom; that thing you think is freedom is actually the lack of freedom. His story. His identity-- that he has one, an obvious one, a clear one. Tony Soprano is not free, his behavior is completely tethered to what makes sense for his character. He acts exactly like Tony Soprano would act. That's what people want: the limitations of that identity: if I know who I am, I know what I am capable of, I know my strengths and my limits, I know how I'd react to unknown dangers. And I want other people to know this. If other people know who I am, I wouldn't have to keep proving myself. Strike that: I wouldn't have to prove myself in the first place.

*

Translating to the present topic, what makes Jordan Belfort attractive is not his role as "rich stock trader crook" or the cars and yachts that go with it, it's that he has a role and is confident that that is his role, as opposed to, let's say, oscillating between "Maybe I should start day trading" and "Maybe I should write the great American novel" and "Maybe I should write an indie game" but never doing any of them because that would remove the option of doing the other ones.

0: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/04/why_we_love_sociopat...
Many countries suffer from shrinking working-age populations
My goodness, how could I have been so far off the mark?

Then my point is even stronger: this doesn't matter!
Terratest: a swiss army knife for testing infrastructure code
But how do you determine if someone's a cultural fit without expending your time and their time? Just seems unavoidable to me, though that's what people often complain about here. Like they want to get a job without putting in any skin of their own.

https://hashrocket.com/ had a pretty extreme interview where they flew me out to Florida to pair-program with them for a week. It was a really pleasant experience. Every day I would pair-program with someone new on production code. By the end of the week I knew exactly if it was the job I was looking for. (Great group of people though and wish I'd known how to keep in contact with people professionally in my early 20s)

So unless everyone can afford to do that, you have to extrapolate from far more limited data.
If only they could collectively come together to make working conditions reasonable. And maybe they could then set up an organization that would be the stewards to the principles originally demanded; this organization could even adapt to changing work environments and technology.

Or we could just wait until it gets so bad that the media picks up on it.
It's not just movies. Real life attitudes toward war are similar. Hawks advocate for fighting, especially fighting on foreign shores, with little regard for collateral damage. And that attitude is far older than movies, so movies didn't create that attitude, though they may reinforce it.
Why would your best engineer stay at your company if they're given unimportant projects and treated as tech support for your worst engineers?
I can't dl the report, but based on your quote, I'd say there's nothing about this 'study' supports their conclusion. It's fine that they control for some stuff, but it's absurd attribute the remaining price effects to AirBnB.
Building a Video Skill for Amazon Echo Show
The decisive factor for GDPR is whether you offer your service in the EU, not where users are (technically) accessing your service from. Think of a EU resident using a US VPN, thus having a US ip address.
This is actually a really big problem for studying humans migration across the Bering Sea- most of the lane that was coastal at the time is now deeply under water. Beringia[0] was a huge land mass, possibly full of people and it existed for thousands of years. What we consider the coast now was much higher ground, probably less suitable for habitation, in part because the world was colder (ice age)- and thus, no signs of human habitation in those parts.

All the answers, if any remain, are deeply under water.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia
Fair enough, although there are plenty of realtors happy to help landlords vet and negotiate w tenants for 12 month leases (and then charge the tenant a fee for their services).

I still see more risk/work in the AirBnb model, but I can see where some landlords (esp. local ones w small numbers of apartments) could find it worth it.
Note that you'd want to go beyond the escape velocity or you'll just put it in some orbit. I'm not sure how practical that is, keeping in mind costs.
So... Are plans available anywhere?
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> I ponder, are there more rooms getting listed that weren’t before

Certainly, for short-term rentals.

Not for residential, long-term habitation. AirBnB drives long-term and short-term rental prices closer together, which is good for travellers and bad for non-travellers.
A Prescient but Flawed Prediction: Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts
Not on macOS. macOS does not guarantee syscall compatibility between OS versions. The only supported mechanism for invoking syscalls is via libc.
That's a very good point. They may or may not be making the best of their circumstances, but they're certainly trying to break out of "something" pre-existing.
Multiverse and universe-outside-the-visible-universe are not the same thing.