skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"AirBnB is already very strict with landlords"

Does AirBnB ensure that the landlord/owner is properly licensed to offer the property for a short term rental before listing it? Or do they just take the landlord's word for it?

"While most AirBnB renters are polite and respectful, enough of them were loud, disruptive and ignoring the local rules (for example, tourists in Venice who use AirBnB but ignore the very strict garbage disposal laws) that local residents started dreading having AirBnBs around."

A short term renter in an unlicensed business operating next door to you in your residential apartment building is necessarily going to be louder, less safe, and cause more issues than a long term neighbor. I rent a residential apartment in a residential building on a residential street. I did not rent a hotel room for a year next to other hotel rooms.
I am trying to hold onto my older retina 15", even up to BGA rework of memory/GPU upgrade chips. I can run macOS without any issues on some other laptops (even better on 3200x1800 or 4k displays), maybe requiring WiFi card replacement and getting used to a slightly different keyboard layout, but it's way better than using the current gen of rMBPs.
Sounds like calling any medical insurance or provider company in the US. It's the ubiquity of fax that is most flabbergasting.
Because perhaps destroying the infallible startup memes is of more value than a little bit of egg on one's face?
Copyright law could put end to net memes
For general style improvements to the Wiki there's progress on moving the Wiki to "Nikit":

https://nikit.tcl-lang.org/
How are methods like these patentable when the research in these domains has been openly published and built upon by the community already? For example, the "Generating audio using NNs" patent abstract is:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media,
for generating an output sequence of audio data that comprises a respective audio
sample at each of a plurality of time steps. [...]

... which seems really broad.
Page authors: for content sites, there's no excuse to auto-focus on the search bar, it breaks keyboard navigation (and given the content, you can expect that a large portion of your audience uses it).
Real-time virtual racing coming to Formula E
I found this: https://mastersofscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/13-the...

You can also see a piece of the game on Slack's 404 page! http://slack.com/404
Since you use the phrase "by default" when you say they block 3rd party scripts, I'm assuming you are aware that the weakness can be overcome by simply turning-off that feature from withing the CDN Provider's Web Interface. At least I know Cloudflare allows that.
You are correct, the UV component of sunlight is a pretty good disinfectant.
I find that Linux really shines on a workstation/desktop with a regular mouse and keyboard. MacOS shines in laptop format, but that is where most of the UI/UX benefits end.
Anyone know if people have started to gather these scooters up and part them out?
That is the biggest 'wow' in the article, and I'd really love to see a source on that... but they don't provide a source and I cannot find this info when googling. Anyone can back up that claim?
Sorry, this was my mistake - I meant the Chromebook Pixel not Crostini (Pixelbook).
Something I just learned: suicide is 120 times more prevalent among alcoholics and alcohol is involved in a quarter of all suicides.

http://www.mces.org/pages/suicide_fact_alcohol.php
> Those are 'problems' that most cities in the world would kill for

Yes, starting with killing affordability for their citizens.

> build more housing for local residents

But where? 50 km out of town, so they, too, can experience tourism on a daily basis.
Please do head over to https://github.com/cjb/serverless-webrtc to make issues and PRs! The most painstaking part for me is how long it takes to get the offer in the first place without a useful dialog.
Chat bot was terrible UX to begin with, because while you're at the screen, why not have a visual interface to show you all your options?

Voice interfaces hold the promise of releasing us from the tyranny of screen time. I imagine walking the dog and replying to emails with my headphones. Might seem silly now, but would love that. NLP/NLG just isn't there.
Just like wifi internet, it will work flawlessly ;) lol
There's also a rise of interfaces where talking to a human is not an option, and it's actually very challenging to break out of the default set of options. AirBNB is an example of this. This might be OK for the majority of calls, but when you need something outside of the normal set of problems, good luck. They're almost trying to not document the problems that they haven't already documented.
Get a Linux Mint/Cinnamon on a notebook with 3k/4k HiDPI screen, 32GB RAM, install MacBuntu & Docky, and then come back to tell us about your experience ;-) It doesn't feel like a wannabe Mac slap-on anymore. I use such setup for some local users and it is smooth as on a Mac. I even had people asking me during a video call where I shared my desktop what kind of macOS mod it was.
With most advanced interfaces or tech, people adapt their interactions to the tool as well. If the tool is capable of evolution, then there is perhaps an equilibrium point where people can be productive with the tool in an idiosyncratic way. This doesn't seem to be considered by people proposing AI agents. "Enactive cognition" - where cognition is compared to the way a cell and its environment mutually define the boundary between each other - is perhaps the model to pay attention to here.
Okay, I didn't know this. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
This is the 1st time I've heard the complaint that tourists don't spend money. Where is that a oft-expressed concern?

I suspect any voucher system like you propose would just create a secondary gray market in slightly-discounted vouchers.
They're just titles. The patentable claims are obviously more narrowly constrained.
This is incredibly stupid. Recurrent Neural Networks? Reinforcement Learning Systems? Generating audio with neural networks?

These can’t be valid.
A small list of articles for people who would like to read more about life in Asana:

https://wavelength.asana.com/work-life-balance/ (describes the fractal of work-rest)

https://wavelength.asana.com/work-plans-high-level-objective... (how we think about planning)

https://wavelength.asana.com/workstyle-aors/ (how we think about responsibility)
Note that you can disable this feature, however in most cases it's probably best not to -- the new hasher functionality is actually really cool and a good improvement on the old behavior. If you want to disable it, I think it's a compiler flag.

[* said as someone who's implemented probably a ton of poor hash functions in their time]
You can help improve adoption by using Tcl in your next project -- there's no reason not to, right ? :-)

P.S. We just setup a Slack interface to the Tcl'ers Chat, so now all you Slackers can join in to the hundreds of other Tcl'ers.

https://slack.tcl-lang.org/
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At our company (in one of the largest companies in the US) all of our employee related tools are iOS devices. So cross platform is unnecessary. It's not like we standardized on Palm or Windows Phone, Apple is not going anywhere and neither are we.
I know this has a humorous tone. However:

- Psychopathy as a psychological trait has more to do with limited, and absence of affective empathy, and as such, are among some of the hyper-rational humans around.

- Anti-social personality disorder is the clinical diagnoses, and it is generally calibrated to mean criminally-inclined (since it was calibrated to people within the prison population).

- "Pro-social" are those with the psychopathy neuroarchitecture, but have developed rationale for generally getting along with society. This label is not an official, clinical diagnoses.

- People associate death images with psychopathy, but the ink-blot tests don't really test for psychopathy. They test for the default content in the brain.

Put it this way: one of the practices some Buddhists will practice is to visualize how people are really walking corpses. A (typically male) monk will see a beautiful woman, and in order to gain a different point of view, will actively visualize her as a rotting, dying corpse. This surfaces up subconscious content relating to death and fear of death. In the Tibetan Buddhist traditions, the imagery and iconography are far more extreme.

I remember reading a Quora answer written by a pro-social psychopath, answering, "what do psychopaths think about two girls and a cup", and the response was something along the lines of a puzzled, 'why would anyone do that?'. No disgust, no judgement, no horror, no desire. I've seen similar responses around psychopath's response to people with severed limbs, mutilated body parts, and so forth. I doubt psychopaths will see much on an ink-blot test, though they might lie about it for reasons of their own.

Anyone can become pathologically fixated on death, death imagery, and combined with poor impulse control, may act upon those impulses. That can happen whether someone has a lot or a little affective empathy.
I'm not the original asker, but I've got a graph dataset generated/manipulated with python with about 1 million points and lines, and I just can't find a good interactive web visualization for it. D3, Leaflet, about 15 other things I looked at - the data set is just too big. Maybe kepler.gl works, but if you know off the top of you head a better way to viz this, please let me know!
This paper is from 2004. What is the current state of BDI modeling libraries?
Half of these are already outdated if you consider what happened between 2016 and 2018.
Cool, implemented in C#.
It is indeed growing as a high-performance computation-focused language, but not to the scale of Python yet.
I don't know. I had to use Mac at work and I hated it. It seems like for every stupid thing you needed to install an app or something. I had to spend considerable amount of time to make os x usable in dev scenario, whereas when I compare it to Ubuntu, Ubuntu has everything working out of the box. I am glad I don't have to use OS X any more.
It is interesting that certain people prefer keyboard only ui and others like mouse + keyboard ui.
I overstated myself here. What I meant is that for residential / small - midsized commercial buildings only, QC/defects are not as large as a concern.

Prefab components I was thinking about was prefab wall / roof / floor trusses like these http://www.buildwithbmc.com/bmc/Products/Trusses%2C-I-Joists...

Bridges are a different story all together.
They do provide a public dashboard for tracking progress to ABI stability: https://swift.org/abi-stability/

Whether it turns out there are things missing from that list, who knows, but they're definitely getting closer.
I can't believe that's possible. I really want to know where that number came from.

Maybe you could reduce the weight of just the frame of the fuselage by 50%, but I bet you'd save at most 2-3% of the total takeoff weight, once you include fuel, wings, tail, engines, gear, cabin, baggage, people, cockpit, etc.

Edited: I looked into this more deeply and found the following: https://aerospace-europe.eu/media/books/CEAS2015_211.pdf

It claims a total possible weight reduction on an A320 from 2155kg to 1560kg, or 600kg off the fuselage (plus an additional 150kg elsewhere for a total savings of 750kg). An A320 weighs 42,000kg empty and 78,000kg at takeoff. 2155kg is probably the weight of the fuselage frame sections containing the windows - makes sense that you could save 50% off that piece.

That's a reduction of 1% or so off the takeoff weight.

Also, note that cargo planes are already windowless. I couldn't find a good example of a plane that has both freight and passenger versions that are otherwise identical.
For the Docker issue I would disagree. If that's how the ecosystem looks on mac, it's a valid consideration against getting one if that is indeed where one spends the majority of ones time.

For example I don't use linux because I need macOS to develop iOS apps. Should I just stop doing it and complain to apple? No of course not.
The screen on a X220 is basically unusable in both quality and resolution.

I have one as my backup Windows laptop, but I couldn't use it every day.
I have friends that work there. They say it's great but at times it's ultra-competitive..
This is getting down-voted, but there's some truth here.

I didn't adopt .NET Core until v2, and happy I waited. Much stronger support from MSFT now, and a much more stable framework.
I want to play with it. Waiting for them to put the source on github. Too soon? ;)
My issue is that is that expecting them to be a human inventory catalog is a bit much considering the scope of the store and how much is exactly in there.

And yes, you do need to have some in-depth knowledge to even know what something is before you know where to find it. I guess the question is what do you expect them to lookup information by? Product names? That's pretty hard. Product type? Well anything beyond a simple category like "bathroom" is going to require knowledge, and it quickly crosses over the line of capabilities they're paid for.
I agree Kindness on its own may not do much but shaming, bullying and ostracizing are very deleterious.

I'll put it this way - it certainly won't hurt.
"Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for environment simulation. In one aspect, a system comprises a recurrent neural network configured to, at each of a plurality of time steps, receive a preceding action for a preceding time step, update a preceding initial hidden state of the recurrent neural network from the preceding time step using the preceding action, update a preceding cell state of the recurrent neural network from the preceding time step using at least the initial hidden state for the time step, and determine a final hidden state for the time step using the cell state for the time step. The system further comprises a decoder neural network configured to receive the final hidden state for the time step and process the final hidden state to generate a predicted observation characterizing a predicted state of the environment at the time step."

From "Recurrent Neural Networks" patent. This doesn't sound narrowly constrained to me. This just sounds like a RNN, which according to wikipedia, were conceived in 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_neural_network
Sorry, but for a lot of situations n-grams just don't scale. There are just way too many combinations. There are a lot of people dealing with GBs and TBs of text.
Try scrolling up with shorter, faster flicks then. In iOS Chrome you have to already be at the top of the page and then pull fairly far to cause a refresh.
CVPR?
On a lot of metros (eg. the deep tunnels in London) this isn't a thing. Doesn't seem to matter.
Care to elaborate on why?
+1 for The Body Keeps the Score. One of the most useful books on overcoming trauma I've ever read. The idea of Developmental Trauma Disorder is so much more constructive than other models.

So many of the things we call "diseases" can be traced to trauma. "Mental injury" may be a more useful construct than "mental illness". In the same way that your body can heal from a femur fracture, your psyche can heal from a trauma-induced mind fracture.
I've been working on several of these publicly since before 2016. Am I immune?
Pensions are fine if employers accurately discount present wages for the expected payment of future wages, and accurately forecast future population growth to maintain a good ratio of workers to retirees.

Some governments seem to be quite bad at this though. States differ in pension liabilities and I haven't looked at the federal level.
As a long time Mac user, I still feel like many in this thread that the pinnacle of the MBP was the 2012->2015 rMBP models.

MagSafe for charging isn't without it's issues (cable fraying in particular) but it's incredibly convenient and a real nice anti-damage feature.

The lack of other ports on the 2016+ model infuriates me. Virtually nothing I use is USB-C or thunderbolt 3. There's still no real ethernet adapter like there was for Thunderbolt 2. Literally every device I have has to connect via an adapter. The 2012 model did this far better - useful USB ports, a SD slot, miniDP/thunderbolt and HDMI. Yes I had to use a Thunderbolt 2 -> ethernet adapter, but that was only one. It's tolerable. Especially considering the form-factor it made possible.

The new keyboard is atrocious. It hurts my fingers to type on for more than a few minutes at a time, and it's far too fragile. A quick straw poll of my co-workers at work gave ~20% of them saying they have currently or have had a bad key on a 2016 model. That's just unacceptably bad.

Trackpad on the 15" is just too large. It's not terrible on the 13" but on the 15" it's just too big and accidental input is a big big big issue.

I basically never ever use the touchbar ;) It's just an annoying extra cost.

My personal laptop is still a 2012 rMBP that I spent far too much on when it was new - but it's lasted and is still lasting (but it needs a new battery now) - 16G of RAM and a 512G SSD is still a reasonable laptop for most development work.

I'm seriously considering just getting the battery replaced rather than buying a new one. That's how much of a downer the new 2016+ models are to me.

edit: I've considered Linux laptops over and over... what keeps putting me off there is that Linux is still clunky.

Want to have a high DPI monitor? all of your monitors need to be high DPI or you have to do scaling tricks that make text look awful.

Want compositing? Cross your fingers and hope it doesn't crash! I see this regularly on Intel, NVIDIA and AMD hardware.

Want reliable suspend/resume? Go hunting through obscure ACPI issues with the vague hope it'll work some day.

And the biggest issue - touchpads still suck on Linux. Dell make some nice hardware in the XPSes but the software integration is poor.
I don't really see the racism slant the article is trying to paint all over this stupidity.
There seems to be a trend lately with many tech employees asking what to do.

I was really thinking of creating a service to tell you when to buy and maybe sell, or when I sell.

I use volume patterns, chart patterns to get in and out. The big thing is time. Being able to get in and out of options requires time and being at the screen. Hard to do when you are not there.

One thing I have noticed, chasing dips is hard, look for breakouts it's easier.
Abs and sense of humor determined by genetics?

Surely you jest.
It's a huge problem in Vancouver, as well. There's a huge housing crisis here, and there's a lot of factors involved, but real estate speculation and short-term rentals are substantial contributors.

There was a woman at a city council meeting a few years ago who lived in a building with around 10 units, and she said six of them were on AirBnB. When ever she checked, their (small) pool always had people in it she'd never seen before, and never would again. People buy places to live in and make a life in, and then half the building is party people.

For what it's worth, this has always made us extremely wary of AirBnB, and we do a lot of research for cities we visit before we rent an AirBnB somewhere. In Montreal they're regulated, so we had no problem there. In Reykjavik, we rented from a woman who was staying at her mother's place to take care of her pets while she (her mother) was out of the country, so our stay wasn't depriving anyone of housing.

Other places we go, where AirBnB isn't as well regulated, we're very particular and tend to go for hotels (e.g. Ottawa, Seattle) because we're very aware of how bad these kinds of systems can be for people.
Remember that patents are not judged based on title alone! You can't even judge based on the claims in these publications because they are in the application phase, these are not issued patents. The claims that may be eventually granted will define the scope of protection afforded by these patent applications.
The master's program in AI I was referring to is only available in French (Laval University, Québec City).

The chip design expertise is provided by most electrical engineering departments, with courses usually named VLSI design, FPGA/ASIC development or microelectronics.

If you apply for a master's degree (in AI, for example), you can often mix-and-match speciality classes and ask for those chip design courses to be added to your cursus.

If you are a hands-on person curious about the matter, you can buy an FPGA (~50$ for entry-level) and follow a Verilog or VHDL tutorial online. Quickly put, an FPGA is a chip that can be "rewired" at will, very useful to learn or prototype before building a production chip.
This article says the word "police" is racist.

>Built-in alarm sparks anger from city officials amid concerns over racism and policing: ‘This is a threat to people’
MyHeritage breach leaks millions of account details
Yep, it happens in SF. I've walked by several encampments and they're getting parted out fast.
This is why zapier is such an interesting idea.
Take public research and benefit from the commons and then proceed to try to privatize it to the largest degree possible. Really nothing new here.

Although I'm doubtful how any of these patents are even supposed to be enforced.
China has a history of not giving a shit about US patents. Will this shift AI research to the East?
A Neural Network in 10 lines of C++ Code
Not in most places.
Unfortunately, until we have a secondary form of law enforcement that is what you should do if someone is stealing...
Anyone buying a Mac computer to use for GNU/Linux development, is not paying the right people.

Go support System76, Dell, Asus or any other vendor with GNU/Linux offerings instead.

Use a Mac for Mac development.
Don't get me wrong. I think he did a great job, his show was very enjoyable and highly entertaining and his fame is well deserved.

He could make a successful show anywhere, from a very modest restaurant like Waffle House to a very fancy one.

Quoting another chef: "He brought the world into our homes and inspired so many people to explore cultures and cities through their food."

I am just saying, that long distance transportation technology doesn't scale in terms of carbon footprint right now, and that we should be mindful of that when traveling.
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I decided to try switching to a linux laptop (x1 carbon) recently for many of the same reasons listed in OP's article. Though my employer maintains a reasonably well polished flavor of debian, so I haven't had to deal with the slew of driver-related annoyances that usually come with trying to run linux on a laptop. So far so good.

+ keyboard is great

+ after getting used to the trackpoint, I like it

+ matte screen

+ working in a dev environment that matches your production environment is presumably useful, particularly when working with docker.

+ first class package manager

+ noticeably lighter

- UI isn't as slick. maybe one day I'll try a WM. i3 or something.

- occasional driver issues
POWER9 CPUs! It's nice to see some competition in the area. If anything it at least has a better security / firmware story if you don't feel like running an embedded OS with backdoors in it https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec... that give attacker remote access

And it's almost affordable https://raptorcs.com/TALOSIILITE/ you might think it's a
joke but $1k does seem cheap compared to the prices for motherboards in their main product.
AirBnB pays the fine, because they can afford to because they just made hundreds off the guests that littered and made a mess so they can chalk the fares up as the cost of doing business.
This is litter and vandalism. Why aren't people calling the police/city to remove this junk from the streets, and fine the owners for illegal dumping?