skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an interesting and unintended consequence of AirBnB not investing nearly on filtering their users.

AirBnB obviously was interested in getting their product used by as many people as people (growth at all costs) - but this had the effect of getting a lot of young, cost conscious people to take holidays in area that were traditionally residential. 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.

AirBnB is already very strict with landlords: it needs to start being a lot stricter with its users too. They rapidly need to educate their users about how to be good citizens, and that the motto of 'the customer is always right' is completely the wrong way to think about a stay in a residential area in a foreign city. Users should think of themselves as a respectful guest, not an entitled customer.
The Problem with Wokeness
Pointless? I wish I could back through history, and count how many times "experts" said certain ideas and endeavors were "pointless" just to have them become reality.
The thing is, that's a very hard problem. He's probably got either the luck to be in a favorable space or some sort of native intuition that makes his speeches resonate with a certain group of people.

It's basically something very fuzzy, historically the hardest thing to emulate with computers :)
The hashing algorithm can be deterministic however hashing relies on a seed. In most cases you want that to be random to prevent certain side channel attacks. For swift, hashing will be deterministic for the lifetime of the program.
That might not be a good measure, take a language related to PHP like Hack. The min salary for this language will be six figures because the only company that uses it is Facebook. PHP is a widely used language that your not going to have problem finding a job with.
>What happens when my "window" inevitably breaks

What if your glass window inevitably breaks? That actually happened recently and a passenger died.
Like any other OS vendor you mean.
I checked and we actually have a give union for everything. I didn't mention it because I accidentally got rid of it when simplifying my question (the original is full of macros).

Looks like we are in the clear! :)
By static sites they mean more than just a bundle of markup, but a website created using a Static Site Generator (Jekyll, Hugo, etc.) and because of GitHub Pages it's become popular to make it that simply pushing to a git repo with the markup for one of these tools will trigger a task to pull the repo, compile the markup, and serve up the result.

GitHub pages is free and highly scalable, but unless you're a paying user GitHub has some limits. So for things like very popular projects you could simply move your stuff to a server+nginx or s3+cloudfront. However, these cost money so it's hard for many to justify doing that when GitHub Pages is free. In comes Netlify which provides the "better" GitHub Pages experience with the ability to use whatever you want that can be installed using go, python, ruby, or node and the resulting markup is distributed via a CDN all for free.

With such a nice deployment story the question becomes: why not just put every website like this? Mainly because it's all based on using Git to edit markdown files which usually non-technical people have issues with. Netlify offers NetlifyCMS as a solution to this and Forestry offers a more robust version of this with a more powerful and clean editor.
> Pollution is absolutely not the limiting factor in the use of technology. The volume of pollution produced does not expand to some magical limit in response to changes in process in the same way that traffic expands to fill roadways in response to road expansion.

Yep, and this is a false equivalency too. Traffic does not "expand to fill roadways" in that way, we are just so under-provisioned on transit infrastructure that it gives the artificial appearance of this. By this flawed logic, we should never build Hospitals (because it would 'make more' sick people, they would 'expand to fill hospitals'). Or we should never build schools (because that would 'make more' uneducated people).

This isn't new, grossly misunderstanding induced demand is par for the course in that field. But it's worth mentioning every time this comes up.
I don't think you can really compare EK A380 with any 787, especially in Economy.

The problem with the 787 is that pretty much every operator has decided to cram as many seats in as possible. It's probably the worst plane to fly long haul in currently. The A380 is by far the quietest and smoothest plane operating at the moment. EK's A380 in particular have ample legroom and seat width.

I've flown on numerous 787, A350 and A380 flights on various operators and although I can definitely tell the difference between an A330/777/747 flight and the planes above in terms of jet-lagginess after a flight, I can not tell the difference between these newer planes. All three of them are much more comfortable and have better air.
The one scientific text on the matter I found via a quick Google search suggests that a shaved head increases perception of dominance and confidence, but decreases attractiveness:
http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/DPlab/papers/publishedPapers/M...

Oddly, but not surprisingly, the public press over-represented those findings as also suggesting that fully bald men are perceived as more attractive:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4469188/bald-men-perceived...

Which is quite a common thing in this kind of discourse. People are quick to suggest that being bald is really okay and nobody should care, but give the same people 100 pictures of men and they will end up rating those with full hair more attractive than those with hair loss or baldness without further reflection.

Startup idea: creating some kind of stylish, fluffy headgear that somehow replaces hair while still not trying to pose as fake hair / a toupee. This could be huge fashion market.
Which is why those devs now specialize in Chrome instead.
I think it's traders in general. I know it's used by US equities traders. I think it was referenced as being used in the LIBOR manipulation scandal, as well.
What you're describing is equivalent to a dead drop, which is an old school anonymity method. It's not that it doesn't work, it's that it's completely independent of Tor and it doesn't work in all the contexts where Tor is supposed to work.

If Alice uploads the file and Bob downloads it immediately then you haven't gained anything. Bob has to wait some time for it to work, which means you didn't actually need a low-latency anonymity network to begin with. You can't use it for things that actually need real-time communication, like for live streaming or anything interactive.
‘It’s Horrendous’: The Heartache of a Migrant Boy Taken from His Father
You missed the numerous HN comments defending microsoft.

You missed people on reddit or imgur singing glory to microsoft.

They now have a fan base.

A fan base.

That's not something I would have ever imagined in the 90'.
"My original comment was a little bit sarcastic, but seriously - why not?"

Because in engineering, the question is not "why not", but "why". Blockchains are not the default answer. What positive virtue is blockchain going to bring to your IM system that is not better attained by a non-blockchain-based solution?

If you can answer that, great. I'm not saying this has no answer. I'm just saying it's the real question.

If you are going to say the word "federated", then from what I can see, trying to do "blockchain" at that point isn't all that helpful and likely to be worse and harder than just trying to develop a federated system, a sufficient challenge on its own that doesn't strike me as greatly helped by "blockchains". XMPP already does federated IM, since long before the current fad.

I match any vague handwaves about identity or security with vague handwaves at existing SSL certificate authorities, and an observation that if you're going to complain about the security of such things I get to apply an equal amount of effort towards breaking your blockchain solution, e.g., if you're going to complain about nationstates getting root certificates they shouldn't, I get to point out your tiny little blockchain for IMs is equally vulnerable, if not more so.
It is much, much more than feeling sad. Please take a look at what it means to be clinically depressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder
He might have forgotten to check, or ask.

This reminds me of the last interaction I had on #lesswrong - I openly speculated about the UI of a system I didn't have access to, because I wanted to chat about it with people I generally respected. But some of those people just weren't in a good mood and lambasted me for not simply "googling it for the answer." Never mind that the answer isn't easily found, and never mind that that completely invalidates my whole reason for interpersonal interaction anyway...
they can also dematerialise you and dematerialise you in seconds.

so i guess it'll fix a few ailments on the way. but then why not just teleport someone who's dying into his fully healthy state.
I definitely agree. The point I wanted to make here is that setting up replication for a static site is trivial due to their static/stateless nature (you can just use a CDN.) These same qualities make distributing a static site over IPFS easy to do too.
Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes

Not only does it let you indent the closing marker, but however much you indent it causes that much white space to be trimmed from the enclosed text. Heredocs are now perfect.
Check the legend.
I may be wrong, but this how I understand it:

Depression is not hopelessness. It is not sadness. It is not unhappiness.

Depression is a chemical state in the brain which leads to lower general emotion levels. Depression is when you feel nothing. Depressed people may self-harm to "feel something".
If anyone gets confused, just convert the back of the postcard from its hex values to the ascii characters; next, it's trivial to see the pattern of the message.

And do see if you can find the 7z archive on the front!
How did "Serverless" become the term for things hosted on servers all over the place?

And we already had DHT before serverless became a thing... sigh
One of my better purchases was a license for the enhanced features of LINQPad. Saved my ass a number of times with tricky or time-constrained projects.
The buisness cycle is closer to the truth than calling economic growth a random walk. You get feedback loops which prevent a steady state.
Ben Bernanke’s point in his recent memoir is that central banks can only do so much.

At the end of the day, monetary policy is not social change, moral evolution, or political coalition building. These things happen outside the Central Banking system and are just as important for a functioning economy.

I know this sounds controversial, but at this point quite frankly the deficit does not matter. There is so much debt in the world, we are likely heading towards a global debt write-off.

It doesn’t help that China has essentially been spewing entirely fictitious accounting numbers for the last 20 years. It’s not even about padding an extra 10-15% anymore. There are journal articles out there claiming that Alibaba, a company as big as Oracle, is making up whole cloth 95% of it’s accounting statements. Ridiculous...
Please don't read anything by Paul Krugman, unless you believe we are in the global recession he predicted after Trump's election.
On the contrary, it goes against man's (and other life's) natural tendency to love himself, to want to keep existing, which is most selfish but fine and necessary. Suicide stems from being insufficiently selfish. The additional problem you're highlighting is that suicide is also an injury to the common good. That sort of thing is somewhat orthogonal to the selfish/altruist dimension though we conflate them a lot. Lastly, and this is probably more relevant to the history of it being wrong (at least in the west), it spits in the face of god.
This is just another reminder to always have emergency funds in your bank account, not tied into the markets. Allows you to weather the storm, until things correct themselves.
How much wealth does the chattering of a million angsty 13 year olds contain?
Then eat the lentils or beans with some rice and BAM! You got yourself some of that complete protein you seem to be obsessed with. Plenty of other plant based complete proteins too - soy beans, quinoa for example. Live the dream my friend.
It isn't too hard to setup two-way binding with KVO if you wanted to.

You can have one way binding, you can have binding with a transformer function to go from a number to a string etc.

Here's a playground where I did this a while back. You get type safety and nice syntax too.

https://gist.github.com/desugaring/828e9880f747678ac5912a070...
So many assumptions going around but as someone who has turned their life around, if I relapsed at this point then I would seriously consider suicide. It’s such a hopeless feeling to be addicted. I’ve come too far to roll back down that hill.

But that’s just me. I didn’t climb anywhere near the same heights as he did which it why it made me think that. I hope it’s something more positive (as it could be for something like this).

Edit: Just to add, this death affected me so much more than any other celebrity. I look up to him so much for turning his life around and turning it into what it is. I forget which episode of his newer show it was but he goes out hunting with the guy and shoots a... deer/elk/something. He tells the guy it’s the healthiest he’s ever been. You could tell how much it meant to him to be healthy and be able to do the hike they did.

Don’t know why it stood out so much but I was so happy for him. It encouraged me to keep going.
There are/were two main problems with chatbots.

1) There’s a huge consolidation around Siri, Alexa, and Google. No one wants to download an app, and you’re never going to win against wake words.

2) Doing the NLU and intent modeling is really hard to get right. All too often, someone comes along, thinks all they have to do skis throw together some regexps or toss the neural net du jour over some text and it will all just work. It won’t. It doesn’t. It’s just really really embarrassing.

Intelligent back off is a thing. Understanding when you don’t understand something is a thing. Conversation management is a thing. UX matters.

Also, trying to fake chatbots with people, and then saying “We’ll just train up a model and get rid of those folks” was never going to work, because you’d always have to have people, because you set your bar at hard AI then. Sure, that’s a decent strategy of you already have a call center that you’re trying to cut costs on, but for a startup, that’s just hubris.
Laziness, premature optimization, better to get your idea out there instead of obsessing over tools. I can think of several.
Many Windows programs embed resources (such as icons) in the executable; perhaps this access pattern would be indistinguishable from what common programs already do?

I'm honestly not sure - for instance maybe the embedded resources get loaded into RAM not read from the file. But if that is the case couldn't the embedded SQLite file be marked as a resource and loaded by the same mechanism?
> there was almost nothing left worth hitting in strategic terms.

The bombing campaign leading up to the atom bombs specifically left about 5-6 cities relatively untouched. There were still major strategic targets left in August. They did this to test their effectiveness on cities, as a demonstration to the soviets, and to destroy morale.

Demonstrating their effectiveness to the soviets is why they didn't drop them in Tokyo bay.
The Great Depression itself had periodic upswings and downturns. 'This time is different' is also the mantra of every late-cycle investor buying at the peak.

I started my working life right into the jaws of the Great Recession and try not to forget that lesson.
ASL :(
This is also a initiative to improve this situation:

https://paragonie.com/blog/2018/01/our-ambitious-plan-make-i...
And VS Code, which is actually not a free software when downloaded from the official website if I understand things correctly.

Here is the license: https://code.visualstudio.com/License/

And yes, VSCode from this website includes tracking.

Though they clearly advertise this as "Free. Open source.". Which seems wrong to me.
In my opinion, it's based on open source code at best.
My city went to one to pay for water, trash pickup, etc. It's a horrible experience to use. It takes longer and is less efficient than just logging into a modern website and paying.
I agree with you (and I'm originally from Italy!) - unfortunately, there are a few large Oil companies in Italy that import, mix (ruin!), and export again. It's a handful of people, really, but they do a ton of damage. All other (smaller) Italian oil producers are mad at the situation as well.
Eight years, which included serving as a PSG then joining the dark side.

Obviously swearing is a big thing, but not when leading. You'll have exceptions with some of the line units of course, but that's a culture that won't change.

If I saw one of my squad leaders cursing at someone for doing something dumb, then I'd know that supposed leader just failed that Soldier. At ease those emotions, get your point across, and hold them accountable. If you can't do that without throwing a hissy fit, take off those stripes.
But they're not a landlord. They sublease an apartment to others. They clean up after guests and put out fresh towels; they don't do the sorts of repairs and upkeep that must be done between long-term tenants.
> I'd blame site owners for that one.

I installed a Firefox plugin to support my YubiKey for two factor authentication. It worked fine for github, but Google login just locked me out saying Firefox doesn't support it.

So yeah, I blame the website owners, which means Google.
>dispersion/diaspora wave occurring that makes it difficult to determine a new center of gravity?

Yes, dispersion is real. Local oldtimers say that 10 years ago, things were very convenient when one can walk from an RnD office to factory floor in 15 minutes. Now, with factories located in a circular pattern around Shenzhen city, you have to drive 2 hours from downtown Shenzhen to first locality with significant industrial presence. And if you get stuck in traffic doing so, it sucks.

These commutes in between RnD offices and factory floors are giant time wasters. Not to say that this is even a bigger nightmare for component logistics, especially for companies with longer supply chains.

To add to this, it takes really big money to drag high-end talent to places like Longhua. Living in a skyscraper apartment next to a collective farm with pig pens is not for everybody.

Everybody wants to live in the fancy urban core, and those who can afford, certainly do. Yet, jobs there are few, unless you want to work as a starbucks barista.

I'd say that Dongguan will take over Shenzhen for general light industry manufacturing, and Zhuhai for high-value service/products/stuff in next 5 years, and Shenzhen as it once was will be gone.
Never go to one late on a weeknight. The places are ghost towns.

Unless of course you want to not be bothered. Then it's a great time to go.
I think if the government is going to subsidize something, politically aerospace makes a lot of sense. It has jobs for engineering, technicians, and high-skill trades. It has a long planning horizon and lots of regulation (meaning less short term competitive forces at play). It has defense applications. The downside is that everyone else is also subsidizing it, so it is still hard to compete.
You’re probably basing that on data benefiting from a supervisory political institution. If that data exist.
That makes sense. I was thinking in terms of global lookup keys, which would require hashes to persist across runs. When thinking in terms of object equality, the hashes need only live as long as the objects themselves. Namely, for the lifetime of the program.
At first I didn’t want to try it but GDscript is actually not bad. I think they have some new features planned for it too like type annotations
There's a big difference between being on a train in a tunnel and being in a plane several thousand feet in the air.
There's no way to not make this sound insulting, but do you know the actual work that a landlord has to do?
Frontend - ReactJS

Backend - Google Firebase
>Am I not the master of my own existence

No, in many ways and cases you aren't. As comments below note, one of those ways is through mental health issues. While I do agree that people should ultimately have the right to choose, it's simply incorrect to think that it's a simple matter of rational choice. There's very good reason to believe that, in most cases of people seeking suicide, they are not of sound mind.

This idea that you are the perfect and complete "master of my own existence" is one of the most pernicious and persistent fallacies people hold.
How can this talk about the Essential phone being the best case scenario for OS updates when they just went out of business - did they write this last month and never edit it before publishing this?
I think for the most part, chatbots are just stupid. They're like the untrained outsourced call center employee, except that the untrained call center employee at least has 20 years of experience interacting with humans in a non laboratory environment.

It's in the uncanny valley where it seems almost human like but a major turn off because it doesn't act like one.

It's probably just better to have the bots act like robots instead of "chatting".
So why would not everyone be bald at ever age? Why would women not be balding? Evolutionary just-so story incoming...
Estonia Grants Licenses for Wallets and Exchange Services
Chatbots have no ability to interpret unexpected responses, and are very infrequently trained correctly. My electric company has a good chatbot, because when I said:

"The electric pole outside my apartment looks like it's going to fall over"

It ended up using that sentence to determine that I should go to emergency on-call, which is all it needed to do; further parsing was irrelevant. But then I called Fedex this morning and told their chatbot:

"My package has a delivery exception."

And it simply couldn't wrap its head around the problem at all — apparently Fedex doesn't train it to recognize terms displayed to shippers! — and so I had to battle through the usual "operator, domestic, 1234" route.

If you have a chatbot, be absolutely sure to train it on every word your company uses for official purposes. The electric company clearly recognizes "pole" + "falling" as an emergency, but Fedex doesn't recognize "exception" because their mindset is "which division of Fedex Multinational Conglomerocorp do you need", even though they directly asked "why are you calling".
Uber has not been successful in Japan for many reasons. 1) the public transportation system is excellent. 2) the taxis are ubiquitous in the major metro areas. 3) the taxi companies have worked together to compete against Uber Japan successfully (Japan Taxi app, etc.)
> "So we put all over the store — all these shelves 20-foot high — we had these boxes and everybody thought, 'Oh my God! Look at all this merchandise!' But there was air in the boxes. There was no products”

This would not have struck me as unethical a few years ago, but with all the brouhaha around tech companies and faking it until you making it (Theranos), seems more concerning now.