skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Linux Foundation is a joke. Hell, even Oracle is a 'platinum member', and there's no company on earth as aggressively hostile towards FLOSS than Oracle.
Airbnb’s statement is disingenuous. They state the rule clearly then claim surprise it’s being enforced:

> hosts are required to register their listing and display a license number on their listing page by June 15th in order to stay active on our platform...

> Unfortunately, the Japanese government issued a sudden announcement on June 1st instructing any host without a license number to cancel upcoming reservations that were booked before June 15th–even though many of these hosts are actively engaged in the registration process or awaiting their license.

From: https://press.atairbnb.com/supporting-travelers-in-japan-aus...
Yahoo Finance and Sports are still very popular around the globe, and Yahoo Japan is among the top few websites visited in the country.
I suspect the intent would be an extension of the idea of using SQLite as the base for a custom binary file format. One use case might be to embed non-code resources (graphics, audio, localization strings, etc.) such that they can be easily queried and loaded via SQLite instead of some other method.
Thanks for the memories, Tony.

No Reservations was great TV - travelling to exotic destinations, hanging out with chefs and sampling all kinds of street food good and bad. He made the cooking/travel genre fun.
Not sure we're still in Web 2.0, if we were it would be called Squirrl.

Maybe it's time to bump the version number to 3.0?
Why does that need to be a chatbot, though?

That seems like it should be something that could be a trivial CRUD website, with far less complexity.
For me, Chatbots felt like almost a violation of my privacy. Many marketing industry related sites would get your permission to send you an eBook, but would slowly after a couple of days drop you a random message about an upsell to their event/conference/webinar/coaching (some random high ticket value item) and it's terrible than email spam because email is not intrusive, but chatbots are VERY intrusive. Suddenly, my phone would buzz, my chrome would send me a notification and my watch would vibrate all at the same time only to find out that this shitty marketing firm had sent me something I don't care about. And the worst ones are the ones that keep sending you stuff with no way to opt out unless you resort to blocking them. These should be made illegal.

Another case study - I worked with a large pizza chain to implement chatbots onto their site. In the end, I (although I knew I'd lose money) told them that their basic add to cart, checkout experience on their e-commerce site was far better than a chatbot asking you 101 questions to make a fg pizza.
I didn't advice them based on just intuition, we actually setup Google analytics and saw that the conversion rates were far better on the E-Commerce site and that it was impossible for the IT team to keep up with the marketing team that kept running promotions which led to tons of edge cases for their ordering flow.

So, another example of great technology, great potential, but destroyed by greedy marketers, poor implementations and businesses that simply want to ruin an otherwise perfectly customer work flow.
I would leak printed documents - preferably not with a Laserjet - by sending them, not sent from my hometown but random (does this make it less secure? pattern detection? gas stations linked to my VISA?) towns. And make sure - difficult (re-OCR to text? high contrast?) - they are not marked (dot-marked, whitespace-marked, font-marked, ...) to me.

I'd prefer that way to any long chain of online trusted systems of which only one needs to leak. To me digital OpSec feels more difficult to maintain.

Add a printed PGP key and the reporter can post more questions online on their homepage (could the NSA detect cut&paste? JS-events with injected JS?).
Is the Age-Old Quest for a Baldness Cure Reaching Its End?
Typical MS roadmap schizophrenia. Honestly I maintain some WPF hanging out of the side of a product and I wish I had built it in winforms now.
Become better developer and work remotely for better wealthier countries. Probably cutting the middle tech manager.

If your wage as tech worker relatively sucks compared to local wages, whatever country you're in, you're probably doing it wrong.
I have showdead on, it's really not that bad.
I remember finding this talk quite insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
Show HN: CLI for fast access to dotfiles from any terminal
>> There is a very strong relationship between suicide and mental illness.

Suicide is a symptom of some types of mental illness. But perfectly sane people can still kill themselves. If one wants to prevent suicide one has to accept that fact. We cannot prevent suicides if we look only to people with some sort of observable mental illness. Normal everyday people, some in the prime of life, can and do occasionally decide to kill themselves.

Aside from extremist views (ie never/always appropriate) our society does generally accept suicide in some circumstances. We give medals to people who knowingly die in order to save others. Our movies are full of characters deliberately killing themselves for the benefit of others. On rare occasions we openly criticize those who do not kill themselves where we expect them so to do (Gary Powers). It is part of our culture. We can debate whether suicide is an appropriate action in various hypothetical circumstances, but that's a rambling debate with no end.

Imho suicide is a private issue. In most circumstances our society should work to prevent it from happening, but I'm not going willing to describe every suicide as the result of criminality or mental illness.
That may apply to certain things, but I'm not going to use more napkins for the heck of it.
> [PVC rigid conduit] can't be in an exposed area "subject to physical damage" which basically limits you to underground or in the ceiling (usually interpreted as over 8 feet above the finished grade).

NEC citation for that, please? I see it used outside all the time, including in utility service entrance usage (which I cite because I suspect is overwhelmingly likely to be inspected) and many landscaping applications where it doesn't corrode like EMT. I believe it is suitable for use in such locations where the conduit is identified for that use.

Completely agree that buried PVC is a wet location; that's clear from code and I never argued otherwise nor argued that PVC solvent was for water-tightness in electrical application.
As a driver on both continents, I would respectfully correct you to "are supposed to be filled with stripes". Alas, even as seen here, markings deteriorate - on both sides of the pond.

"Unless the road marking is 105% perfect, it's never the fault of the autopilot, but look, autonomous driving!" is just pure marketing, without any substance to back it.
Calling out why a doctor is a quack is not an ad hominem when questioning their qualifications as a medical reference.
I like it. Plenty of features I'd like to have, but none of them are so obtrusive as to get in the way when I don't need them. The theme kinda reminds me of Atom, but I'm guessing the colors are just popular now. Not that I mind at all.

I have noticed a couple of issues. Namely: the filter portion doesn't seem to work as expected. I typed "object" (without the quotes) into the search bar and it filtered out the entire file. It seems as though it doesn't look through keys.

It would also be really nice if the tree/table side interacted a bit more with the editor side. For example:

1. Highlighting one side the the other side was highlighted.

2. Highlighting filtered sections

3. Maintaining what branched were folded/unfolded between updates

I also just discovered that the slider to the left of the filter field actually unfolds and folds the tree to certain levels. I really like the feature, but that could be a bit more explicit.

This isn't to put down what you've done at all. I really like what you have here (and definitely getting bookmarked) but the question of whether the product wants to be a JSON viewer/explorer or a JSON editor doesn't seem to be answered. It can totally be both, but I'd focus on one or the other first and add to it as opposed to 3/4 of each.

All in all, very intuitive and usable, with plenty of potential to go even further.
Seems easy enough for someone to report an apartment to Airbnb and then the 'owner' is stuck.
I've put most of it into sound system equipment, burning man art projects, starting a makerspace, organizing festivals and dance parties, and that general sort of thing. Any delusions I might have once had about the possibility of accumulating enough money to retire ended after I got divorced, so I'm not particularly concerned about long term finances anymore. Might as well enjoy my life here and now, and use whatever surplus money comes my way for the benefit of my friends and my community.
> in the case of the taxi industry Uber is actually not a bad guy

Pre-Uber New York City taxi cab story time!

Rewind lots of years. I am living on 30th & Madison. One of my roommates is an immaculately-dressed Brown graduate and young executive. Every few days, he makes an odd request of me: Can I hail him a cab? Why? Cab drivers routinely ignored his hails. The probable cause? He's black.

Add to that "busted" credit card readers, refusals to drop off outside Manhattan and cell phone use. (San Francisco, Paris and Las Vegas were similar.) Note: yellow cabs have become much better since Uber.
I agree with everything besides your stated difficulties with infinities in type theory. Here's one infinity

inductive ℕ : Type
| zero : ℕ
| succ (n : ℕ) : ℕ

the type of natural numbers with cardinality ℵ₀. Here' s a bigger infinity:

ℕ → ℕ

the type of functions over natural numbers.

From then on one can start talking about different injective functions between those types and infer cardinality of which is bigger and so forth and so forth.

It's values, types and functions all the way down. Nothing from ZFC is lost, on the bright side, your proofs are checked by a computer. On an even brighter side, your proofs can be semi-automated, even brute forced.
There is that third variable, but there are also studies that control for geography and even study a stable population of depressed patients.

There's also a lot of theory to back up the idea that guns increase suicide rates.

First, if people have to take time to prep for suicide, they have time to think and sometimes change their minds. With a gun, the time between thought and action is so small, they don't have this chance.

Second, guns have a much higher success rate than most other methods. This is why women attempt suicide at higher rates, but succeed far less often -- they usually don't use guns.

There are studies that look at a stable population, and they find that the same person is much more likely to succeed at suicide after they become a gun owner.
Pretty sure this will be the first change after the acquisition. Microsoft has to ease the path from checking in code to Github to building and deploying it on Azure.
I agree with the article in general when it comes to NLP, AI and the dull hype machine. But in certain domains well understood usage patterns in conversational interfaces have advantages over custom UI's. Conversational interfaces with micro UX elements, maps buttons images selectors ..., rather then text input. They advantage is a universal timeline. Be it booking a table in restaurant, ordering a car, searching for an article, all conversational interface allow you to go back in time in a uniform well understood way. By scrolling back. Also your interaction history is searchable. No need to introduce a new UX element for that.
I think you answered your own question.

The people using the automated phone services are the people without internet or even computers.

Believe me, they exist ;)
This is insightful.

The author implies that if you have a healthy skepticism when megacorps throw around billions of dollars, you're not "grown up."
What are you comparing to? In NYC, for example, these cost were always offloaded to the drivers - they had to pay to rent the car/medallion for the shift:

"The average rate a cabbie paid to take a taxi out for a 12-hour shift climbed 11 percent, to about $85, between 1990 and 1993, based on the most recent figures available from the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission."

($85 in '93 is about $150 today)

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-d...
This is cool stuff. But you guys, the perception that there are no low-hanging fruits anymore is false, and the reason it is perpetuated is because people oddly obsess over frontier techniques and their combinations, instead of innovating at first principles.

Just trying to be the voice of psychological health in this community.
> It's never been the most efficient way of doing something, and it requires very advanced technology to accurately understand what people are trying to say

It seems like a lot of times when people talk about chatbots, they really mean these phone trees in text form, in which case I would agree with your sentiment.

However, be cautious in conflating chatbots with CLIs. I would say a CLI is not (always) an intuitive interface, but for a lot of problems, they are quite efficient.

The CLI style chatbots tend to be much better since they are basically CLIs in an easily accessible location (e.g. in an app on your phone).
My point was that your comment was absolutely silly. Embracing open source doesn't mean never producing closed source. Contributing in commits and/or money is also embracing open source.

You confuse embrace with replace.
> Made up percentages don't count as credible data, unless you can cite the objective and peer-reviewed analysis that demonstrates that over 80% of taxi drivers are "rude, try to price gouge, try to scam you or try to take longer routes," you're just trying to disguise your opinion as fact.

There is little to no such data, but we can extrapolate from two things: 1. Uber, Lyft and co. would never have grown globally at such an astronomical rate (and eaten the taxi branch its lunch) if there wasn't a large demand for a 'clean' taxi experience, and 2. Wether you are aware of it or not, taxis and their drivers are one of the most oft complained about branches of industry. Seriously, ask 100 random people who have travelled internationally about their taxi experiences, and I guarantee you a large contingent will mention the same pain points I did.

On a sidenote, I did not 'try to disguise your opinion as fact'. Its a normal figure of speech, when you (and others) experience almost nothing but bad experiences with something you present it as 70/80/90% or 3/4 or 4/5th or whatever is 'bad'. Trying to shut that down with a quasi-strawman adds absolutely nothing to the discussion, except for appearing pedantic or combative.

> Which is fine, but just say what you mean - that you imagine most taxi drivers in most countries are probably rude.

Sans the imagine, considering I've traveled most of Europe, a lot of Asia, and a little bit of North America. Add in experiences from friends who have also been to those places and/or S. America, Australia, etc., then yeah.. a pattern starts to make itself clear.
So how many of us now have a better idea on how to spend 48 hours in Chicago as a result of the article promo? And who else thinks the deep dish pizza from Malnati's looks more like a quiche? Either way, I now have Adventures in Babysitting on my watchlist.
this really hurt me, I'm usually not as affected by "high-profile suicides."

There's some terrible correlations beginning to surface, in my mind, with the psychiatric drugs taken by Robin Williams, Kate Spade, Chester Bennington, and Tim Bergling for example that seem to be the final push-over-the-edge for these folks - whose lives are full of options and [appear] far from hopeless.
Surely we can't judge how things really are, but can they truly be SO desperate?
I've seen people in terrible shape- unable to work, loss of body part(s), loss of wealth, loss of friends, loss of family, etc. and still carry on.

It seems, to me, mental illness is created as a result of these Big Pharma medicines. I don't believe sadness or unhappiness day to day are unhealthy, most people deal with not being 100% successful in life. There's always another day to work at it and try again to win.

When things become inexplicable is when there's some strange substance playing with the mind - in my opinion.
School shootings being in this category as well.

I'd love to see a study investigate the prescription medications used in all of these "high profile suicide" cases, results protected by First Amendment.
You can report them to your council.
I'm pretty right leaning and I honestly think the funniest thing is listening to him talk, I never have any idea what he's talking about no matter how long I listen to his speeches. Ideologically he and I agree on some things, but I just never know because I can't understand a single thing he says unless he tweets it. I think he actually suffered when twitter upped the char allowance bec the brevity forced him to be succinct.
I’m opposed to over-regulation of any sort, however it seems obvious that vehicle manufacturers need to do a better job informing consumers of the driver assistance capabilities of modern vehicles. Something similar to the health warnings on cigarette packs.
I don't think it would be a huge issue for the most part, simply because the parallax from your head movement is minimal due to the relatively long distance involved from the plane to the ground. Most of the parallax you'd experience in a plane would come from the plane's movement, which would be replicated due to the cameras' relative movement as well.
Yes, but the world of software development is radically different now. Microsoft knows that the cloud is where most of their potential for growth is and they think (correctly, in my opinion) that developer goodwill is going to be important in getting more of the cloud market share.

They aren't the biggest player right now, so their main focus is getting people to switch from a different provider (AWS) to Azure. A great way to do that is for the developers to like using Azure more than AWS.

After all, most of Microsoft's "evil years" were when they were on top, not in a distant second place.

I also think that developers have a lot more power in companies, especially smaller and newer companies, than they used.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries." -> Bravo, Switzerland is not in the EU.
In Amsterdam they already set the limit of allowed rental days per year to 30. Just last month the new city council announced they will completely forbid AirBnB in certain neighbourhoods. As someone who studied and worked most of his life in Amsterdam I welcome these measures a lot.
> To think that Microsoft spent $7.5 billion for altruistic reasons, without a plan to actually turn a profit on the purchase, is dangerously naive.

You thinking tech companies don't have loss-leaders is naive.
In re enforcement, https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1005093595005665285

"I have mixed feelings about the Japanese Airbnb news. On the one hand: does it seem like the optimal regulation? Probably not. On the other hand: my condo’s live-in supervisor had to update their “We will call police if we spot illegal tenants” policy with “Note: Patrick isn’t”"

(patio11 is that rare thing, a Western permanent resident of Japan, and has lots of tweets on the subject of how Japan combines legendary, genuine politeness with a system that excludes non-Japanese)
> I remember a while back that the general public's tone on suicide was a lot less sober. More of a "man up" sort of attitude.

You say after quoting it is getting worse.

This might be the problem, we are infantilizing the population.

Have we swung too far past the place we need to be?

This is a common thread atm amongst most movements, they start out valid, reach their objective, but then what do the zealots which are often very useful to begin with have to do then?
How so? If the rule was applicable from June 15th, it is surprising that it's being enforced before that date, no?
A part of the job of a call centre operator is negotiation with the client - this is hard to do with a bot. Even more so that this is kind of hidden spec, because companies don't want to admit that the role of the call centre is to make it hard to get something from the company while pretending to enabling it.
I probably didn't read every word carefully, but does the article really reflect the HN title? I don't really see it in there. What I read is "It grew a lot, and it's not perfect". Of course such kind of project is government created and therefore is kept alive as long as the government sees value in it. It's not different in California. Such kind of areas don't survive all by themselves. In reality innovation/investing is not something that can keep a city alive by itself.
Fiddle: the easiest way to get started with Electron
I am glad we could iterate together!!! :)
It’s only a matter of time before they put ads on the windows.
Right but profit can be both long-term and short-term and often one requires sacrificing the other, which is why calling it "illegal" was completely incorrect.
I don't know if YMSG is still supported, but it's sad to think the first network protocol I spent serious time reversing is now dead.
I didn't think of that, interesting point. Stuck between a rock and a hard place...
I highly recommend taking up a musical instrument, learning a new language, or training for a 5k/marathon.
Worse even: it forces you to choose between a natural feeling conversation and a useful conversation.

There is only so much input you can give and subsequently evaluate if you show a GUI with 3 buttons.

Now if you restrict the chat or voice input to 3 options than the interface feels unnatural, annoying even.
The func can be implemented like this:

float func(int *i, float *f) {
*i = 42;
return *f;
}

Since the compiler assumes that the pointers i and f do not alias, it has a right to generate the code that is equivalent to:

float func(int *i, float *f) {
float result = *f;
*i = 42;
return result;
}

But this will change the result of the function. So in practice if you want to do type punning using unions, the compiler must know about it.
(That website won't let me read it unless I “consent” to tracking.)

Which communication protocol is this using? XMPP? Matrix? ActivityPub? A well-specified encryption scheme on top of email?

I'm guessing this is yet another communication app that won't communicate with anything but itself, because its features are so very unique and innovative.
> The sheer mass of money in position to lobby for the "fossil fuel use is fine!"...

Please, let me play the role of the devil's advocate for a moment: fossil fuel use is fine! It MUST be fine!

Fossil fuel gives people cheap energy that used to come from muscles (human and animal) and, in particular, comfortable ways to move around, where you want, when you want.

People switched to fossil fuel as soon as possible because life got immediately enormously more joyful.

Global warming is two more Celsius degrees for average atmosphere temperature. Give me two degrees less each day and I'll give you back my car... just to ask it back the following day, and maybe I'll propose you to give a couple more degrees each day in exchange for no more whining about good old days' cars (nowadays labelled as "polluting" cars).
That's where Facebook really has done remarkably well: their users haven't moved on, like the users of AOL, MySpace &c. did. Why not? I don't really know. It could be that Facebook executes well, but it could also be that they got lucky: they were the first truly global social network (approximately ⅓ of the world use their product), and once someone got that big it would be difficult for any competitor to establish a foothold.