skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing says user friendly like making the user read the manual for his manual so he can memorize the nine different categories (plus perhaps custom categores like TCLs) to get the manual page he wants.

I use man and apropos all of the time, but I have no illusion that they're new user friendly. They're amazing when you just need to look up some options or get the syntax for a system call, but if you've not assimilated the Unix way of thinking they're quite obtuse.
For what it's worth, as an airbnb host in a residential neighborhood in a small tourist town that attracts a lot of young people in the summer I have never had poorly behaved guests. I've had a couple that could have cleaned up after themselves a little more or ruined our towels but otherwise have not had any issues, even with noise. Airbnbs in the area absorb the extra demand for space that hotels cannot supply, and having strangers around during tourist season is far preferable to having new hotels built and dealing with the invasion of the sprawl that comes with them. We do not (yet) have the problem of investors buying real estate to rent out on Airbnb because there is not yet enough demand to support it.

I realize you're talking about large cities, but it seems everyone else in this thread is as well and forgets that Airbnb operates well outside of large cities.
And yet there are companies that are starting to make money from these things. Maybe this is a classic "can't take new tech and apply old business model" kind of thing.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/for-developers-faceb...

Behind firewall, so here's a key quote:

Facebook’s early efforts to turn Messenger into a service that people can use for shopping or getting news or weather sputtered quickly. But two years on, the Messenger effort is showing signs of life.

Several developers say they have been selling more bots and applications through Messenger in recent months. Trip-booking service SnapTravel, for instance, has seen its cumulative sales through Messenger grow from around $1 million as of May 2017 to around $10 million now, according to CEO Hussein Fazal. Msg.ai, which develops tools for customer service and marketing for messaging apps, has seen enough of a pickup in business to hire a new executive and marketing team, said Msg.ai CEO Puneet Mehta.
Which is a real shame because that plane looked gorgeous, especially with square windows.

It's always sad when physics gets in the way of aesthetics...
Does anyone know approx. how much one of these costs?
https://www.fanucamerica.com/home/products-services/robots/f...
> Anyone who actually thought the gig economy was helping anyone but business owners

Consumers were losers?
Well, I for one have lived a time when all platforms were radically different, and it was really really hard to share any code between Linux, Windows and System (for youngsters: that's the name of the previous OS for Macs).

We now live in a time where it's much easier to share code, thanks to technologies such as Qt, Java, .Net + Xamarin, game engines, web applications, etc. Any sign that we could be returning to the bad old days is, well, not a good sign.

Now, I agree with you that the real bad sign here is not Network.framework, it's the deprecation of OpenGL/OpenCL, apparently without any attempt to go towards the open standard Vulkan. Now, Apple introduces a new technology designed to replace an existing API, and people's built-in pattern-matching (including mine) see it as a sign that Apple might be testing the water before removing a well-known, cross-platform API. That's the kind of behavior that the previous King of the Hill kept using during the bad old days, and Apple seems to have borrowed more than one page from that time's Microsoft, so why not this one?
A significant proportion of rental in Amsterdam is rent controlled. They have highly socialised housing policy. This is a huge upside benefit for renters, and treasured by renters. Its taken for granted that a long lease social housing option exists, including some inter-city mobility of your lease if you've been in the system long enough.

A significant number of AirBnB and short lets are people who have a rent controlled home, live with their partner in their partners home, and rent their rent controlled home out for market price. This is rorting the system. Its distorting the system. Its exploiting the system. Dutch tax, the Amsterdam city hall, and their neighbours all wanted this to stop.

Its not NIMBYism, its anti-social, tax-avoiding, law breaking and distorting the rental market.

Disclaimer: I lived in Amsterdam for 6 months two years ago, and lived below a rental compliance person working in the private sector, policing long-lease breakages by tenants amongst other things. Much of this opinion was formed by talking to him about the problem.
You can't just quit a car loan. Switching costs. "Marginal benefit" isn't a win overall if it's combined with excessive fixed costs over overhead. This is basic Econ 101/102 stuff. If you fall in a hole, you get marginal benefits from trying to climb out. That doesn't make the hole good for you.
I'm in the same boat as you, i've used the new keyboard on two separate machines for over a year and actually like the feel. When laptop gets warm, they can get louder but thats my only complaint.
Page 105 of their slides.
Waymo showcases fully driverless technology in Europe for the first time
Sometimes I really want to be able to want to live my life without work and pursue my personal projects (which could bring money in the end). But the idea of living off welfare is such an enormous taboo and so politically incorrect, that I could risk ending up homeless for the mere act of not working in fast food or looking for a job.

It's not slavery, but the fact that I am obligated to obey is making me uncomfortable. I'm sure there are many developers who are able to create new things without having to rely on a degree, a job or a start up. But yet, sitting at home coding can be viewed like being a poor artist.
The Detroit launch was yesterday, headlined by Dr. Ben Carson, Mayor Mike Duggan, coach Lou Holtz, Detroit native Jerome "The Bus" Bettis, Chris Lambert (founder of "Life Remodeled") and several other notable speakers.

Detroit has suffered for many years, hopefully this will start things in a new and successful direction.
"If every computation were represented by a single grain of sand, you could fill up the Houston Astrodome with sand 350 times in a single second."

There's a new one. Can anyone comment on the utilization of these megacomputers? Do they have somewhere near 100% usage, with a queue extending weeks? Also, is all this computational power really... necessary? I've seen some intensely inefficient simulation code in my time.
>big city real estate prices are growing much faster than nationwide

Important point to make is that is not inflation. Inflation is a decrease in the purchasing power of a currency, and it can be inferred by the cost of many products going up across the entire market that currency is used. But one product going up in one segment of the whole economy is not inflation. What you're referring to is more accurately described as a local cost of living.
Doesn't really answer your questions, but I'd point out that it's possible that we only hear about these suicides precisely _because_ they are from professions that tend to produce high-profile celebrities. I'd counter your apparent correlation with the fact that apparently suicide among doctors is extremely high:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-...
The US nuclear triad currently rests dangerously on the US Ohio-class submarines. If the Chinese military develops technology that can eliminate these subs in a surprise attack, they would potentially have the ability to take over the world.

Step 1. Target the 1950s era US ICBM fleet in their static bunkers. This only requires making the POTUS hesitate for ~7 minutes to "use or lose" them.

Step 2. Destroy the few dozen 1950s era upgraded B-52s and a few misc aircraft. Some might slip through but maybe not.

Step 3. Take out the ~14 outdated US ballistic missile subs using new supersonic anti-ship missiles.

Hopefully the US military will be able to upgrade the nuclear triad in time to maintain MAD and eliminate this potential threat. But I think the best solution would be for the entire G7 to develop independent MAD systems so there's never any doubt that it remains in effect.
Yes, one can "anonymously" use WiFi APs. But it's hard to get close enough without becoming observable. And more and more, without being videoed. I've played with a Ubiquiti radio and parabolic antenna, and can hit APs at several km. But then, the dish is pretty big, so you need a large window. And unsecured APs have become harder to find.
I'm still waiting for an airline with Fifth Element style beds for seating.

Lie flat seating is nice, but it takes up so much room that it ends up being quite expensive most of the time. I'd like to be able to lie down and take a nap at the price of a coach ticket.
That machines could build machines faster, cheaper, and better than humans. It was more about extreme evolution in that aspect, but then it allowed for a very different design in the factory itself since it didn't need to accommodate humans everywhere.

In reality, it seems it might have been too much technological complexity all at once. Traditional assembly lines have decades of optimization with talent readily available. It's the inevitable bugs of any new tech approach, compounded by timeline, talent, and cash pressures.
The sanctimonious, false-on-face nonsense you're spewing here provides more compelling evidence for your own lack of moral character and basic decency than anything you're attempting to thrust at the feet of Charles Krauthammer.

Doubtlessly, this narrative to which you subscribe and this posture you've adopted allow you to maintain some sort of psychological charade of superiority, though.
Comparison of Clarifai, Google AutoML, Microsoft CustomVision
I mean, that is also true, but if we take 50% of our '20th century' budget and spend it on '21st century' stuff, we still will spend too much.

Put another way, inefficient allocation is an orthogonal problem to giving too much to the allocator.
> Energy balance is a simple physics equation. Yes there are adaptations as I noted in my previous post, but they don't change this basic fact, merely how conveniently it's achieved.

Humans have brains. One of the things that human brains do when somebody reduces their caloric intake is that they down-regulate that person's motivation to do stuff. So yeah, you can't violate the laws of thermodynamics, but the energy equation is inputs minus outputs. If you reduce inputs but also reduce outputs, then you haven't changed the energy balance.

> Dismissing personal responsibility in your life is not a valid option.

Look, I agree. I initially responded to somebody talking about abs. Then I make a comment about diets being extremely ineffective long-term interventions. You disagree, but the literature on this topic is extensive. In fact, the fact that people cannot follow diets is just about the only reliable finding that nutrition research has produced.

You may look at a .5 heritability for something and think that leaves a whole lot of room for personal responsibility, so let me add some context. Height has a heritability of about .8. No sane person, anywhere, believes that a person has any control over their height. It is entirely your genetics and, absent severe malnutrition, random shit that happens in your life (possibly starting inside the womb).

A .5 heritability for conscientiousness means that, to start, 50% of your work ethic and sense of personal responsibility (rough common language approximations of the conscientiousness trait) are completely and utterly out of your control. Then, out of the other 50%, free will is one of many possible other things which exert influence.

Now, you may think, oh, well all 50% of that is up to the individual. But I assure you that it almost certainly is not. I could probably come up with dozens of things that would have an influence, but here are just a few that come to mind first: your income level, whether or not you have a chronic illness, how stressful your job is, how stressful your marriage is, whether or not you have family members who are ill, whether or not you have dependent children. All of those things go into non-shared environment and many of them are not in your control. But you better believe they influence your ability to take personal responsibility.
GraphQL is good for some things, but often pretty dangerous for many of the use cases it was originally introduced for. Without aggressive validation, it does introduce significant blocking and overloading concerns for irresponsible clients or bad actors. I like having a mix of a highly restricted GraphQL API on the read end and a strictly enforced protocol buffer RPC. This enforces good schemas, and encourages extremely slim requests over the wire where possible. It's one very good solution in your toolbelt, and one that integrates really well with a lot of the frontend frameworks out there today. It's just worth being judicious about.
I actually mentioned it in a Hacker News thread a few years ago, and someone named Jack contacted me from Asana to try to provide feedback by email and help clarify what happened.

While I appreciated the extra feedback, and the tone of the communication was reasonably polite, the actual commentary of the feedback seemed unreasonable and totally subjective to me.

One of the key issues was that the code test on one hand encouraged someone not to spend too long, and to choose a simple statistical model and work on explaining how it works, but on the other hand the reviewer rejected it because it wasn't "results-oriented" or "focused enough on final conclusions."

It seemed obvious that given the nature of the take-home test, nobody was looking for a model that definitively solved the problem or had amazing accuracy. Just something small-scale, but with a meaningful discussion of the trade-offs and basic discussion of how you fit a model, diagnostics, items you would work on if given more time, etc.

But the feedback I got was that my approach needed to be more "results focused" and that in my write-up I was overly cautious to say not to draw any significant conclusions from a simple model on the toy data set or to read too much into a model that needed to be completed in a couple of hours. They said someone "couldn't thrive" in the Asana environment if they weren't able to work in a more results-driven and conclusion-driven way.

I felt the criticisms were extremely subjective and political. As a candidate, I can't read someone's mind about how "results oriented" a vague take-home modeling assignment needs to be, let alone that I have limited personal time which I can devote to it anyway. I sank a lot of time into writing code for a reasonable "first attempt" kind of model, and providing some diagnostic charts and discussion.

It felt like Asana really wasted my time on it, and that in the end the feedback reflected some unspecified and vague properties that couldn't be inferred or understood from the test instructions or talking with any of the engineers. It was just random. My same solution for the same test at another company might have been viewed as a great one, even from a "results-oriented" point of view because it would be unreasonable to expect that from a short take-home assignment.

I actually got a job as a deep learning engineer not long after that, and then got my most recent job as a machine learning team manager. My experiences working on machine learning models in production and hiring engineers for my team has only reinforced to me that such a manner of take-home data science project is really a bad way to do things.
Again, what does the site owner using DDG change about their visitors?

And "Google doesn't owe anybody anything." is just an incredibly lazy argument and not a good reason for why people shouldn't criticize what they do.
Respectfully, this is false. First, GraphQL is not a subset of SQL, nor is it in any way related to SQL. Second, GraphQL is designed for safe client-server interaction. GraphQL is not a query language in a traditional sense, it is simply a syntax for a consumer to describe how the data it receives should be structured. This does not preclude server-side usage as well, however.

While a real-life application may want to expose a REST interface, there is no inherent reason why a service cannot expose a GraphQL-only API, and each client only consume that API.
That is a joke because why I would use AirBnB, to have cheap accomodation with kitchen. If the price is around the same as hotel I could not care more. Hotels have to follow a lot of regulations and guest is always right in a hotel. Wi fi not working well, I got upgrade to better room, airbnb host cannot upgrade your room to one with view or else.
Exploring, understanding, and monitoring macOS activity with osquery
A rich hollywood producer complaining about being deplatformed - surely we have better things to do with our time?
> really hard to do because of catch 22

To expand on what mrtksn means: in the UK, it is difficult to get a bank account without proof of address. It is also difficult to rent a flat without a UK bank account. There are a few ways around this:

- Have a friend put you on their water bill and use this as proof of address. I suspect this is illegal.

- Join a flatshare without getting on the lease, pay for your portion of the rent with Transferwise or something, and have your flatmate put you on the water bill. I sure hope this is legal.

- Find a bank which is a bit lax about proof of address and is willing to accept things like proof of employment. Lloyds used to do this, but I've heard they no longer do.
I'm pretty sure most people care if they die early or not.

And if you think Appalachian coal mining is a "higher quality of life", I suggest sitting down and watching the 1976 documentary Harlan County USA (about violence while striking against coal companies), and Coal Miner's Daughter (a film biopic of country singer Loretta Lynn, who grew up in coal country).
It's VERY hard to demonstrate net negatives on second and third order effects, especially so as to convince a proponent of the first order effect. You're looking at businesses not created, features not developed, strengthening of colossal businesses (celebrated upthread), and adverse changes that aren't superficially related. The most comprehensive evidence comes from decades long comparisons of countries or differences in regulatory regimes (before and after airline and trucking deregulation in the US) and you still have epic arguments over results and effects.

The other issue is philosophical. You seem to want proof that a company should exist and require extraordinary evidence against a law. I want proof that a law should exist and require extraordinary evidence against a company. As a shorthand its France vs America. You'll note that we're not using Minitel bur rather a board hosted by a VC operation who shares a mindset with the founding team of Uber.
> Still, you ought to be able to carry a few extra passengers by removing the windows.

Great! Less legroom but, in return, you get no windows.
Ah, good catch! We actually have a real office (and thus street address) these days. Will update. Thanks!
> Anyone who actually thought the gig economy was helping anyone but business owners was either deluded or a shill.

It's more accurate to say business owners and consumers are benefiting at the expense of the employees.
One critique I haven't seen about GraphQL is that it's less human-readable. I know that "GraphQL is unapologetically driven by the requirements of views and the front‐end engineers that write them"[0], but if everything switched to GraphQL endpoints, I'd miss having URLs you could change by hand :/

[0]: https://facebook.github.io/graphql/October2016/#sec-Overview
A full page spread in a mass printed magazine like People is about 6 to 8 megapixels, i.e. they don't need to use the full 18 to 24 or more megapixels; most likely they crop heavily.

The CF cards are more expensive per megabyte and less compatible than SD cards.

Many pros shoot SD cards and never reuse them, giving themselves a backup just by copying the pics to their laptop and keeping the cards.
I think it's a good language. It has simple syntax (only 13 syntax rules), great documentation for the API, the language, core commands, and all the packages shipped with the core release. It's very flexible so it can be used in a lot of situations: Embedded into a program as a domain-specific language (DSL), scripting engine in its own right with very complex software written in many different styles, evaluating untrusted code (with Tcl Safe Interpreters).

Really the only reason to pick Python over Tcl is that more people have picked Python over Tcl in the past.
It depends on the hoster. BitHost has no problem with Tor exit IPs. Neither does Host Sailor. I know a few others, but sharing names would be imprudent.
Slight nitpick, but Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose [0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledger
I feel the same argument could have been made for someone thrown out of a tribunal for constantly swearing at the defendant.

Sure there’s an emotional side of it, but following a set of rules doesn’t prevent from expressing one’s opinion to a satisfactory point.
The US is constantly spying on foreign militaries. I don't see what the problem is, here. We spy on them, they spy on us, life goes on.
Perhaps someone who has actually lived in England knows more about the restaurant business and language there than you do?

HN has global community; please check your linguistic provincialism at the comment box.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wine%20waiter

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wine_waiter

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jul/25/whatar...

Related: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rudimentary
It's disappointing to read this kind of curt dismissal here, and I feel that it goes very much against the spirit of the Hacker News forum. Instead of directing people to other venues, please take responsibility for your own actions and do your level best to elevate the conversation.
A NonFungible Token Stampede Is Coming
I do get the impression the new more-explicit APIs help somewhat with that, no?
grpc is a bog-standard "shallow" RPC: client calls an endpoint, client gets a result, if client needs sub-results it calls more endpoints.

GraphQL queries have depth, when you call a toplevel endpoint which returns a non-trivial type you can select fields of the sub-resources to fetch, in fact you can also select just a slice of the top-level resource as well.

Let's say HN had a grpc API and you wanted the top comment of each article of the main page, unless it provided a very specific endpoint doing that you'd probably have to list the front page (and get a whole host of crap you don't care for e.g. the title, the destination URL, the score, the author, …), and for each article get its comments (again with all sorts of metadata you may not care for). In GraphQL, you'd select all but exactly what you need at once.