skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airbnb prioritizes hosts - even violent ones - because that's the bottleneck.

We had a scary experience where Airbnb allowed a VERY aggressive host with a documented history of violence to continue. The listing is still active today.

I wrote them a long letter with facts which began:

> I am sending this to make clear in writing that this listing is extremely unsafe for travelers.

> We were harassed, feared for our safety, and left early as a result of drunk management on the property. We filed charges with the Maui Police Department for harassment, and we have since learned that the host John [redacted] is a convicted felon who has had the police out for harassment, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest before and has been ordered by the courts to "obtain and maintain mental health treatment or services, including anger management treatment or services, [or] domestic violence intervention".

> He has been in and out of court since at least 2004 and was most recently arrested on [redacted] 2014, barely a week before we arrived. I believe that the situation on this property is extremely unsafe and I cannot keep silent in good conscience, even though the host has threatened me and my family.

I detailed the event further for a page or so, and sent Airbnb all the prior police reports. The host was even using a fake wife alias to run the listing.

Airbnb's response was to refund us our money in full, but they never pulled the host, nor did they publish our negative review of the location. The only action seems to be that they required him to use his own profile instead of the fake wife's profile.

So it's much more than just prioritizing hosts over guests financially, Airbnb also prioritizes keeping a profitable host more than keeping guests safe.
Powerful insurance comparison platform,connection to web services of 21 insurers
That just makes me want to design a fake USB condom that looks legit. Maybe modulating the data over the power cables using ICs implanted in the connector...
What would the elevator operator do if the elevator got stuck between floors, or kept going past the selected floor? Was there a hand brake for the elevator that only they could use?
Just checking... But in the Russian Hacking Scandal... Was any of the information released to the public wrong or fake?

Because if the issue is that "Russia meddled!" by showing true things... Isn't that shooting the messenger? Isn't the larger issue that the DNC, Podesta, and Clinton did and said things that weren't aligned with their public statements?

edit: Downvotes for a serious question, hello Reddit, I hadn't seen you come in here.

edit2: No, apparently none of the information was wrong or fake - but that doesn't change people's feeling on it apparently.
Ha! They must be aware they can't keep up with FR advancements, so they are turning to regulations to stifle innovation. Plus pointing the finger at FR and data retention conveniently moves attention off all the analytics their OS captures and retains for Microsoft.
Absolutely second this. Also, if race and race issues are important to you, consider Black Like Me[1] by John Howard Griffin. It's a fascinating story of a white man who spent some time roaming around the Deep South, during the Civil Rights Era, masquerading as a black man.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me
>Money gives you time.

Being alive gives you time.

>If you aren't being paid to do the journalism then you are getting paid to do something else

Yeah, you're getting paid to do whatever it is you're a subject matter expert in.

Reporting on it in important situations is simply a public service which people do all the time with blogs and such.

Implying people only want to do things if they're paid money is silly.
So GRU, during Moscow work-hours, searched for terms like: "worldwide known", "think twice about", "some hundred sheets", and "company's competence".

And those terms happen to all show up later that day in this post:
https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/dnc/

We all here talked about that release at the time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912412

Our top comment suggested, "The media (and CrowdStrike) blame Russians for it [0]. Heh... yet this blog and the hacker himself, says he did it alone. // Yes, APTs definitely do happen but I'd bet they happen a lot less frequently than the media and security companies would want us to believe."

Those same computers controlled the twitter accounts, @dceaks_ (https://twitter.com/dcleaks_?lang=en), @Guccifer_2 (https://twitter.com/Guccifer_2) and the now-suspended, @BaltimoreIsWhr.

Those computers also negotiated bitcoin transactions for VPN services, made numerous encouraging facebook posts, transferred data to WikiLeaks, and registered relevant domain names.

And finally those computers communicated with:

1) a candidate for US Congress,

2) a registered state lobbyist,

3) a reporter,

4) a senior member of the Trump campaign.

Additionally, on July 27, Trump suggested in his speech, "Russia, if you're listening. I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." And those same computers, that same day, "attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts... used by Clinton's personal office."
Teardown of article on USB Fan teardown reveals lack of teardown
Exactly - the photo shows the fan in the plastic bag, the evidence is it was not used!

Also, "The journalist who started this whole mess by posting the image of the USB fan drive on Twitter" how is posting the image on Twitter starting a mess?

This is a bad article with a blatant disregard for fact, and I've flagged it.
Here's the road orientation graphic for Redwood City: https://i.imgur.com/iueLofq.png
Gabriel gave a great presentation on Dhall at Bayhac this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih9Ngu7FlCc
Well, they’ve used CSS to do that. If they’d just left it alone it would have been fine.
I have not, and while it looks cool, it seems to be optimized for data transfer between applications, not a human readable config format.
It's always hard. Doesn't mean squish yourself with some preconception of normality, expectations. Predicting things about yourself from limited data you can't analyze in entirety is a hard problem, because the actual history of an experience always contains more information than you were able to aggregate at the time. So we refine, filter, get a perspective of ourselves. That judgement is impossible to make accurately.

It's like trying to bite your own teeth. It's always balancing act. Partially judgement, partially pushing boundaries. Letting one overtake the other, I mean, if judging is what you like doing, go you. But sometimes you just have to take action instead. You can't get better at anything without doing at least that.
Fake news. Impossible. Putin and Trump both said this didn't happen.
I interpret it as "What advantage Dhall has compare to CL:read?"

So for example, in your configuration, you can define a common expression into a variable (or even parametrize it in a function). CL:read cannot do that without resorting to read macros (technically it doesn't have to be read macros, you can reinterpret it later, but then we are getting outside the realm of CL:read), which are Turing complete and can have bugs that can lead to security exploits.

Dhall guarantees that the functions you define in your configuration cannot be exploited.

This has interesting implications, for example, you can read configuration safely from semi-trusted source. With CL:read, you can do that only if you give up read macros, but then the semi-trusted source cannot define their own function.

So where with CL:read you have to choose between little and total power, Dhall gives you a little bit of both, a medium power of sorts.
AppImage⁰ seems to be what you're looking for. XARs maybe, but I don't have experience with them to recommend them.

⓪ - https://appimage.org/
Isn’t this very similar to the classical magic word door example, assuming the password is stored as some hashed value?

E; not really
She killed herself on Facebook–it took her family days to get the photo removed
That's not really rural. Rural is specifically defined as the areas outside towns and cities. The fact that you don't live in a metropolis doesn't mean you live in a rural area.

In the US, a population density greater than 999/sq mile is urban.
>However your over-zealous example of red vs. white wine is laughably false

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infam...
Linux Container Internals (II)
This article may seem like clickbait but hear me out. My father grew up in the twenties when Detroit was the Silicon Valley of its day. It was both exciting and wealthy, they called it the Paris of the Midwest. The prosperity continued for decades. I was getting out of college in the seventies when without warning to those of us in Michigan it all stopped. Looking back there were warning signs but they were ignored. The top auto execs used to drive each others vehicles so they'd stay informed on how competitors compared to their products.

I have an Uncle who was a top exec and heard it from him directly that they never drove Toyota's or any other Japanese car. Because they didn't they were blind sided until it was too late. The same thing can happen to Silicon Valley because it's leaders are pretty arrogant as well.
The article doesn't give their threshold for "urban". From satellite imagery, you can measure what percentage of an area is roofs and roads. That's an objective measure of urbanization. But they don't tell you what their threshold is. A graph of percentage of area covered by roofs and roads would be more useful. Then you're not arguing over defintiions.

This is a good problem for a classifier. A big-data problem for some grad student. A good thesis project. Or an overlay on Google Earth.

This metric has some correlation with population density. It's not direct; multistory buildings get underrated, and large greenhouses might be mis-identified as an urban feature. Another job for a classifier.
Can you link the paper of Zoph,Le that did the “1000 GPUs” thing? Thanks! I tried searching for it but apparently there was quite a few papers on parameter search.
Here's the thing; Microsoft is a large corporation with lots of assets to protect. This kind of sketchy technology can easily be (is already?) a race to the bottom in terms of privacy and morality, and a big company has more to lose.

Incidentally, big companies also have economies of scale in complying with regulation.

So they can be all for facial recognition tech AND benefit from the regulation of it.
Because of higher living costs in the cities (apartment, parking costs, etc) the group with lower income and on social welfare are moving to the rural areas where housing is cheaper.
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I saw a funny article awhile back that did literal blind tasting, and when told they would be tasting red wines, none of the critics and "experts" detected they had also sampled white wines.

edit: I see it's mentioned in other comments here
The Potion Language
The Obvious, Simple, Easy, Wrong Solution
- AppImages: Linux apps that run anywhere
- XARs: packages Python (node.js, lua scripts app) into executable files
Compostable essentially means that "something eats it", at some point. Recyclable means it's easily converted back into a raw material. Thus, compostability implies non-toxicity.
I've had two kavalans while traveling in china recently, both were forgettable. Decent enough but very expensive for what they were. Both were bourbon cask so maybe another expression would be better. Compass Box has never let me down, though this is not a luxury whiskey is the only super high end one I've ventured into.
>I hope you're exaggerating here!

I'm not, several studies were conducted. Same thing for violins for example (Stradivarius vs. a contemporary violin that costs much much less).
Michael Nielsen just this month published an essay on using spaced repetition (and especially Anki) to augment long-term memory. It seems to be part of his work with YC Research.

I highly recommend it if this kind of thing interests you. It gives a solid overview of the theory and practical lessons from his daily use of Anki over the last few years:

http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
Hashtag Pirate: Shutting Down After Instagram API Change
The damaging info in the emails is damaging
HN is only a top-1000 for the US, not the world and it barely makes it into the top-1000 for the US.

When HN breaks into the top-100 for the world, let us know what it runs on.
What would the point of current self-driving car systems be? If you can't take your attention off the road anyway, it's basically a glorified, expensive cruise control.
Wow, security douche. You are so smart. Thank god you are saving us from the absolute nothing that happened. Please tell us more about how much we should all stop and think about you, before not paying any attention to worthless schlock and swag, because we're not children around technology, and don't care about shiny toys with USB plugs, in the same way that you might be projecting your own tendencies onto the rest of the world.

Yes, we realize you were once 14 years old, and played video games, and to you, those USB fans look just like the plugs to your video game console's favoritest controller.

Yes, we too, know that those are not actually plugs to your video game console's favoritest controller.

Yes, we too know that we now have to consider that the United States has delivered malware to Iran with malicious USB devices, and that that ruined USB devices for everyone, forever.

Great.

Nothing happened.

Good game. Nice blog.
It is scary to try to predict what the state of things will be in 10 or 20 years. Are we going to be like the society in the sci-fy series Continuum where corporations literally control everything?

Maybe a rating of customer service for online services would be appropriate.
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I'm simply saying that you seem to be characterizing remote work as some unique existential risk, which I don't think it is, though certainly the density of local jobs is one factor I would consider if moving to take a new opportunity or on my own volition when working remotely.

Also, as I wrote in another comment, escaping to the country doesn't need to be the back of beyond. The Bay Area is somewhat different because of geography but there are many cities with a reasonable number of tech jobs where you can drive 45 minutes and be in a relatively rural environment.

Personally that's what I do. I'm mostly remote and live in a fairly rural town but I'm within an hour of a major metro and I even commuted into the city for a while.
Design Against Racism
It gets pretty easy to lose your political compass when groups that you don't like start gaining momentum on a cause. In this case reason.com (free market will solve everything) is very opposed environmentalists (we need government to regulate what big business does to protect the environment). Now environmentalists were able to kick start a movement, hey look straw is in this turtle's nose, and the desired result is to get some big legislation passed to further their cause that would even go beyond the scope of banning straws. Now if this happens reason.com could clearly argue against the causes without compromising their thesis; however, in the meantime a free market solution happened quickly that is in line with the group that they don't like, so instead of arguing their thesis (see we don't need legislation, the free market decides)they are arguing against the groups they oppose.

You can see this happen often from both the left and the right.
I agree. The advice should read, "Find something you can be passionate about that you can also make a living at"

Personally, I feel like people who take "find your passion" literally are just using
the advice to rationalize their own entitlement.
Looks like a lisp dialect, why is it a separate language?
Control language. Control the truth. – George Orwell, maybe
even as a natural-born citizen, the fact that we accept crappy public transportation really chaps my hide. how do we (re-)instill pride in such things?
With no snarkiness intended, why would I want to use this? Is it just for people who want an OS to contribute to for fun? The only features really mentioned are "it's not horrifically legacy" and "it's easy to contribute to".
Not to forget, in many rural areas in developed countries, more and more houses are abandoned. Next of kin is not interested in moving to there relatives house in the country side.
There is no single economic perspective I can offer that can decide what tool is right for your org. Personally, I think that's an unfair question, since any answer I have would be uninformed to your specific circumstances. It'd always be wrong.

I'm sorry I can't work out what you like from this conversation. I've used this tool, I like this tool, and I'm comfortable with it. As such, I thought I'd share it since there's also a TOML article on the front page today.
Yeah, it all depends on how much load or incoming records you expect. In our case, we use the pipeline to import inventory, say images from from our partners. So, we might have a few million images coming in many times a month. Lambda is super efficient in this case.
Alice installs malicious eslint.
Attacker has control of Alice's machine and signs a malicious version of Alice's package using Alice's key.
Attacker publishes a new version of Alice's package.
Bob installs Alice's (malicious) package.
Attacker has control of Bob's machine and signs a malicious version of Bob's package using Bob's key.
Attacker publishes a new version of Bob's package.
...repeat

IMO signing could only work if it were combined with 2FA so that each time a package is signed, the signing operation is verified by the user on a second device. Otherwise it doesn't really impede a worm significantly because the nature of this attack is that the maintainer's primary device gets completely owned. We are all very lucky that the eslint attack only stole npm credentials instead of installing rootkits.
I have an i5 which is 2 years old, 16GB of ram and a SSD.

I want to write games, and usually the libraries involved can be a little large, like bullet or Ogre3D. I remember MSVC 2012 stopping compilation because of a lack of memory.

Accelerating the step of rebuilding a single file requires precompiled headers, which is atrocious to manage, or specific code decomposition in several files, which is quite demanding.

I'm aware modules might be accelerating compilation (I hope I'm right), but I'm not even sure they will be part of C++20.

I like C++ too, but the slow compilation times are really getting on my nerves, and I wish there was a good solution for that, even if it breaks backward compatibility.
We actually started with using "real" squashfs files. This had three main disadvantages:

- We had to maintain our own setuid executable to perform the loopback setup and mount (rather than relying on the far more tested and secure open source fusermount setuid binary that all FUSE file systems rely on)
- Getting loopback devices to behave inside of containers (generally cgroup and mount namespace containers) was a little tricky at times in some of our environments
- We didn't want to have a huge number of extra loopback devices on every host in our fleet

In fact, after implementing the loopback-based filesystem version, we almost abandoned XAR as the downside of the security considerations and in-container behavior wasn't ideal. The open source squashfuse FUSE filesystem really is what made it possible.

Another side benefit is we could iterate far faster with squashfuse -- this let us fix some performance issues, add idle unmounting, and implement zstd-based squashfs files, and then deploy that to our fleet, faster than we could deploy a kernel to 100% of hosts.
I think you've misunderstood quite a lot if you think Capital is an analysis of automated manufacturing that doesn't get into politics that much.

It doesn't get into politics the way a typical work on political theory might, but that is, I think, very much intentional. Capital centers on the problems and politics of its day, while attempting to critique and respond to them. It does this by establishing a thorough foundation for a better politics focused on achieving a very particular goal--obtaining true freedom from [social/political/economic] coercion and domination. That it seems ahead of its time is a testament to it continuing to be relevant--because the issues it focuses on continue to exist.

That Capital is so widely misunderstood--both by those who turned it into a foundation for totalitarian negation of its foundational principles, as well as those who hold that regrettable history up as an indictment of the principles themselves--is regrettable, and the world is worse off for it.

If you're interested in disabusing yourself of the notion that Capital is an analysis of automated manufacturing, and not a proper work of political theory, I'd wholeheartedly recommend the exceedingly approachable and well-cited book Marx's Inferno by William Clare Roberts. Roberts, in my opinion, gets Capital (and Marx) right--and presents an incredibly compelling argument for a literary connection that really is a first of its kind. Then I'd recommend re-reading Capital, while reminding yourself that Capital is on a mission, and that mission isn't to explain how manufacturing works. :)
Sounds similar to TCL's StarKits
Did you _have_ to use comic sans for the diagrams? -_-
Ask HN: Getting direct contacts for jobs I'm not qualified for
I have recently started putting my resume out and have updated and set my LinkedIn to actively looking just to see what's available. Since then, I have been getting a few legitimate in-house recruiters contacting me for Senior/Lead positions and it seems a bit puzzling (companies like Capital One).

I have about 2.5 years of actual industry experience, with half of that being in an internship. What is the appropriate response to being contacted for these positions? I don't think I'm a bad developer but I don't want to set unreasonable expectations.

Does anyone have experience or advice on what to do with recruiters like this?
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So let’s see you publish your inbox then. What are you suggesting, that attempts to hack the Secretary of State go unanswered?