skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Presumably he wouldn't cite the convergence towards atheism if he'd consider it mistaken.

Same could be said of agnosticism, which he also specifically mentions.

Probably an atheist if you're just listing that as a more probable position things could "converge" towards-- I was really just surprised at brobdingnagians' confidence in Maudlin's religious views, based on a passing reference to the entire body of philosophers, from which inference brobdingnagians later levels a charge of hypocrisy, because elsewhere Maudlin discloses an unevidenced belief when pressed on another (nonreligious) matter without even indicating how strongly he holds that possible hunch.

Thought it was worth an aside that brob might not have perfectly pinned Maudlin down.
Let's rephrase what GP said: All text should be UTF-8 in Normalization Form C.
At least now the city has $2.25M to clean the literal shit off their sidewalks. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/18/san-fr...
There’s an auto supplier upstream of my town that was dumping PFAs into the drain. It’s containminated the whole river and all the lakes. The river is where my town gets our drinking water.

They are installing carbon filters which should help. I use a carbon filter for all our water.

The thing is we have a dixione plume approaching our water intake too.

The parts per trillion is kinda mind blowing too. Take a large pool, let’s say 40,000 gallons. There’s 90,000 drops per gallon. So your pool is made of 3.6 billion drops of water.

It takes .0036 drops of this stuff to raise your pools concentration to 1 part per trillion. That means a quarter of a drop of this stuff will turn the pool into something that is above EPA limits.

It’s insane and mind blowing.
> I found a great dataset that consists of 27,558 single cell images with an equal number of infected and uninfected cells.

This seems to be the key of the article. I wonder how the author would have proceeded without this data-set and if they would have been able to build anything useful at all without it.
That's how most whiskey, by quantity, is made already.[1] Frank-Lin Distillers' Products makes most of the low-end booze on the West Coast, and some of the high-end. Ethanol, made in plants in the Midwest, comes in by the tank car load by rail. Water comes from the water main and goes through a de-ionizing plant. Water, ethanol, and flavoring are mixed and bottled.

They produce over a thousand brands, but there are only about a hundred different recipes. Much of the value added is from the bottle and label. The bottle factory is across the street. They make most kinds of booze, including wine. The alcohol is "food grade industrial alcohol."[2]

They used to make Skyy vodka, until Skyy was acquired by Campari. Skyy was just a marketing operation. Frank-Lin made the stuff under contract. You can have your own brand of booze made by them as a service. Selling it is your problem.

Brand differences in this industry are more about marketing than product.

[1] https://www.frank-lin.com/production.html
[2] https://www.mgpingredients.com/other-products/food-grade-ind...
I'm guessing that "on what?!" can more properly be read "throwing away $10,000 a night ON WHAT?!"
Buy books at your local bookstore. The one in my town does such a good job with curation that I can pick something on any topic at random and 9/10 times it will be excellent. I think we'll see this more and more as people put less and less stock in Amazon reviews.
How is renting it out with Airbnb different from an owner just holding onto the property and not living in it?

If anything, cities should encourage property owners to rent out spare rooms or empty apartments to tourists to bring in that spending money.
Because tourists tend to impose negative externalities upon the city (like getting drunk and throwing up in the streets), and long-term residents tend to impose positive externalities (like planting flowerboxes at their windows).

Also because residents pay for public services via taxes, and tourists staying in illegal Airbnbs don't even pay hotel taxes.

Also because residents, not tourists, vote.
or dns records validating the ca?
Are they not going after airbnb to get their fees back? Airbnb seems to charge a fee of around 10-13% on bookings, putting their haul around $100k for the 11 months mentioned in the article. Maybe the settlement mentioned also included a financial component.

Not downplaying the landlord's unlawful acts, but they couldn't have easily operated at this scale without the help of a popular platform.

There's also a 14% occupancy tax only on rentals of less than 30 days, so SF has a financial disincentive against converting all these properties to long term rentals. (Edit: if airbnb is lowering the average short term rental price, then the picture is less clear. There are tourists who will go outside SF if there aren't any 'whole house' options there...)
This has no negative effect on Google- but it is anti-competitive. If you read the title again you’ll see it’s only about blocking abusive ads- not abusive websites in general. Google’s own advertising will not trigger this since google itself has already approved them. There is a 30 day review period for website owners to remove said abusive ads- so you can rest assured knowing that google will not flag a website to remove google ads. This new feature is definitely not an ad blocker. It’s much more inline with a competition blocker or even a censorship tool. If not anti-competitive, perhaps it’s come from new work being done for China.
There was a case made that Airbnb rentals are subsidized by the local residents through higher rent. So if you travel to Paris, you're paying less for an Airbnb rental there. In your own city, Airbnb rentals are rising the cost of buying and renting. The outcome is that your costs end up the same: higher property at home, lower price of renting abroad.

This is, of course, purely theoretical. There are many other factors in play: regulation, your propensity to travel, desirability of your home neighborhood, etc.
> Any grounds to believe that?

That be how monopolies do
Ok, what happens if it switches to a CA you haven’t heard of?

What happens when some 20 year old gets their first computer, it doesn’t have any CAs in the trust store so how do they find the good ones? How do they know what the good ones are?

You think you want it, but you don’t necessarily know which CAs are good - have you read all the audits (which you can only trust if you got over tls, which requires you trust it).

What happens when you get a site saying “you need to trust ‘Google CA 1’/‘LetsEncrypt’” (or whatever their public CA is). I’m joking of course - the name is meaningless - there’s no root of trust to verify that it’s not someone making a certificate that just claims to be that CA. So you actually need to know the public key for each CA that you think is trustworthy.
That has been changed in C11 to match with C++11, in case you are not aware.
I guess that is fair. I just sit down and think broadly about the last 2000 years of human history. I don't know if I would say we should be grateful. It doesn't come down to gratitude. We are here now as humans as a result of some great cosmic turbulence that involved the suffering of a lot of other humans. So, today, as I sit down, I have the choice, and the opportunity, at least here in America, to decide how I am going to spend my effort. It seems like squandering of a great opportunity to not try to improve the lot of humanity just a tiny, infinitely small fraction, by doing what I can to make the world a little bit better, by making myself better, and by making those around me a little bit better. I respect someone's freedom to not believe that. There is no right or wrong answer here. I just feel a personal, moral, imperative to take the balance of those that came before me and work hard. I would channel Carl Sagan here: http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/earth/pale-blu... and put it into cosmic perspective even.
Why would NYS/NYC need to subsidize Amazon in NYC?

If NYC is indeed confirmed, then rents for Queens are going to be absolutely fucked.

While Astoria is high, Sunnyside, Woodside, and Jackson Heights will likely see never-seen-before rent increases.

This would be greatly concerning because Eastern Asians from Flushing are already moving west towards Manhattan and are already encroaching on Hispanic minorities in Elmhurst and Corona.

(Source: was native NYCer for 24 years)
This his incredible inaccurate.

Most opposition to the mini-hotel industry (AirBnb) is community oriented. The fact that these interests align with the hotel industry is irrelevant.

Most of the profit AirBnb generates is from huge, commercial interests renting out 10+ rooms and entire houses. That strains supply and disrupts neighborhoods.
So many GO http routers，why i develop a new one?
Yes, that's what I meant. Haven't figured out a clever way to say Dropbox + Box, Drop/Box seems OK. I'm also led to believe they compete with email as well.
Repeated Multi-Qubit Readout, Feedback with Mixed-Species Trapped-Ion Register
Would you want your neighbor operating a dirty, unkept motel next to your house?

Didn't think so.
> An attacker could pretty easily obtain a valid Let's Encrypt certificate using a BGP hijack.

Whoah, I have never realized this.

Is there some way to include some key in the DNS entry or something to mitigate IP hijacking?

Does HSTS protect against this?
Pymc-Learn: Practical Probabilistic Machine Learning in Python
The IL format is WASM, it's already here. When the browser gets WASM, it's free to interpret it or compile it to native code. AFAIK, it is already getting compiled to native, and I'm sure we'll see some awesome JITs coming to WASM.

The problem right now with warm
WASM is lack of features (e.g. you can't do threading), though those are getting sorted.
When does Facebook not do that?
What interests you in other mediums? For example, if you like sci-fi movies, try reading some sci-fi books. Some people look down on shitty genre fiction, but it's great for getting you into the habit of reading. And as you read more and more of those guilt pleasures, you will become interested in trying other genres or more literary works.

Here's Reddit's top 200: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/reddit-top-200. Pick one that sounds interesting.
This is kind of like asking what's the healthiest thing I can eat at Burger King.

If you really want intellectual stimulation then read a book.
The licensing is not to ensure quality, the licensing is to restrict supply of hotel units. Not to keep hotels in business, but because people simply do not like having short-term visitors as neighbors or floormates.

It's not a win for city licensed landlords. It's a win for residents. Residents are ultimately voters. And AirBnB is bad for the vast majority of residents.
That’s incredibly fascinating. Maybe extra so for me given how much Skyy vodka I’ve drank that one summer.

Any idea the min quantity for an order?
I use freedcamp
Because the public keys are baked into the OS trust store. For the exact reason of not being able to get the keys from the internet if you don’t already have a root of trust.

The other issues (trust worthiness of CAs in countries that have the ability to compel a ca to issue a fake cert -Australia say), are intended to be mitigated by the CT logging that is now required by the major trust stores. Sure your Aussie CA might issue a fake certificate, but in doing so they ensure they get a global distrust...
They are part of the "Coalition for Better Ads" [1] which, aside from sounding like an evil group from a comic book, is trying to be that kind of group of interested parties.

Members include Google, Facebook, and Reuters among many others.

I thought that's what this was based on, but looking at the google blog post [2] I don't see any references to the betterads stuff directly. They do reference the same "Ad Experience Report" as the google blog post announcing the start of this idea to block "bad" ads mid last year [3], so they are at least involved.

[1] https://www.betterads.org/

[2] https://blog.chromium.org/2018/11/further-protections-from-h...

[3] https://blog.chromium.org/2017/06/improving-advertising-on-w...
I use AirBnB all over the place and love it. That said, I don't have a problem with a reasonable government licensing requirement. I want my AirBnBs to have smoke detectors (and CO detectors where relevant). I want them to have safe means of egress in a fire.

These are not things that ratings/reviews/stars are going to capture.
Emissions-free energy system saves heat from the summer sun for winter
One thing that I always wonder about with these sorts of things is the extent to which chirality comes into play.

Biological chemistry generally expresses strong chirality biases that do not result from inorganic reactions - but the chirality plays a huge role in terms of how organisms react to the chemicals.

If you can control the ratios of a chiral compound's enantiomers then it really is as simple as they say - just a number of compounds thrown together in appropriate ratios; but if not, it will be impossible to truly replicate the results of the standard process.
As someone that has used VSCode, thank you for the work and effort you've put into this. Extension creators often don't get the thanks they deserve for the labor they put into these things that they're passionate about and also help lots of people.

Keep up the great work!
Hijack the Google Login flow
Could this technique be used for UDP data transfer over a lossy long fat pipe? I’ve been testing Tsunami-UDP, and although it works for most lossy networks, extremely lossy networks severely throttle it. A fountain code implementation should achieve full channel capacity. Has anyone implemented such a tool in open source, or are the commercial UDP data transfer tools using this as a patented method?
New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction
And you're complaining about lack of engagement! Fun stuff.
Thanks. Didn't know about that. Bookmarking that pronto!
People don't like living next to hotels. This has never really been a problem because until recently the barrier to operating an apartment as a hotel was very high, so no regulation arose to regulate it. All current movements for AirBnB licensing are doing is regulating these as if they are hotels.
And the folks who bought up all those warehouses in Mott Haven and Port Morris just became billionaires (again).
If few is three years or less time, you can make money on some options expiring Jan 2022. Have you bought them?
I actually understand it. Ironically, a San Francisco resident Uber driver explained it to me. She said something like "People like the small city feel without over-population, people like the view from almost anywhere in the city - we don't want to to be another new your.

And while the skeptic in me sees "Property owners don't want prices to go down," I also see the other side now. San Fran wouldn't be San Fran even if we dug deep to have a ton of housing without ruining the view.

There is something to be said for not seeing a single police car until going South at night (or getting pulled over for going South on some street starting with an S "after 9"). There is also something to be said for living around people who can afford to live there (I can't, so don't take this as some elitist techie failing to check his privilige).
Not only are they complicit in it they are profiting off of breaking the law but having zero consequences. They are paying no fine in this case or any other I've heard of because of something in their TOS.

"As part of city law, San Francisco requires property owners renting out units for less than 30 days to register with the city’s office of short-term rentals, as well as be a permanent resident of that unit. "
- The registration can easily be made a requirement to list on AirBNB and they could limit one unit rental to users.

"These are not the type of hosts we want on our platform and are glad the City has the tools it needs to enforce the rules" - Ha.
Facebook iOS app was 400 MB last time I checked. And it also wants to get updates.
This is a little different.

Law Enforcement want data from Facebook because it's useful to an investigation.

Law Enforcement want data from AirBnB because the act of working with AirBnb is the illegal part.

So asking a drug dealer for the name of his distributors seems reasonable to me. Or asking the illegal online betting company the names of those who were placing illegal bets.

Though the regulations should hopefully be more clear on this.
Let's face it - concurrency sucks to debug in general.
Ann Arbor?
And state actors are proving themselves to not be gentlemen at all.
As if humans haven't also hit the barrier of meaning?
And yet we've still made unimaginable discoveries. I almost added the word "progress" but I guess that depends on what you find meaningful.

The article states: "But ultimately, the goal of developing trustworthy A.I. will require a deeper investigation into our own remarkable abilities and new insights into the cognitive mechanisms we ourselves use to reliably and robustly understand the world."

Why limit the field to the capacity of humans? What the author calls "remarkable abilities" and "robustly understand[ing] the world" can also be seen as just reproducing our own innate and learned collective human biases. Our theories from observation, and their unprecedented ability to predict future events, is more about describing the world vs understanding it. Is there any topic in the world that doesn't have contrary interpretations?

What quantifiable metric would we even use to gauge artificial intelligence's grasp of "meaning"? We don't even have one for our own.
"Of course, I haven't done anything wrong, why do I have anything to hide."
You are lucky, because Houston has a big Thai diaspora!

As for curry thickness, it actually depends on the region. I find northern (Chiang Mai) curries to be thicker. But even then, there’s little consistency and it is different from restaurant to restaurant.
HPKP was a bad standard - there’s no way it could be used safely at scale. There are just too many ways to accidentally screw up, and that’s before you start dealing with actual attackers.

CT allows you to detect misissuance - theoretically you could have a monitor service that watched all the logs for changes to your domains.

Longer term something (no opinion stated on exactly what) needs to be done to rectify the trust model for BGP and DNS
As with most things there's an rms quote for this:

"State legislators in various states are starting to think about how to stop companies from playing one state against another for tax breaks and handouts.

I suggested many years ago that the states should form a union to bargain collectively with these companies. We could call it 'The United States of America'."

https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jul-oct.html#23%20July%20...
DHS Election Infrastructure Security Resource Guide [pdf]
Or the government of Australia which has laws allowing similar...
I'd rather pay £129 for my Zone 2 pass than £135 without ads. The £6 I can buy a kebab with.

Even bought the Kindle with special offers. Preferred it to the one I have without.
buremba specifically said that there wasn't any need for Google Scripts.
If you’re in LA, I’d recommend visiting the Lost Spirits Distillery for their tour. It’s 1/3 tasting, 1/3 science lesson, 1/3 Mr. Toads Wild Ride. A great experience and their products are absolutely fantastic.
I believe this is generally done more at the state level (consumer protection), rather than city when it comes to "banning Tesla". It's not actually a ban against Tesla specifically though, although some might be. As I understand it, this generally goes way back to when dealerships were worried about an actual car company, such as Ford, opening their OWN dealerships, and selling them at a price that the other car dealerships couldn't afford, which would be easy to do if you're both the supplier and retailer. Given how the deck is massively stacked against them, it's quite a testiment to their products that they are doing as well as they are. https://www.engadget.com/2014/07/17/tesla-motors-us-sales/
> Property owners are responsible for the housing crisis. The city is at their whim.

If a government wants your land & they have the cash to pay for it according to some calculation, they can force you to sell via eminent domain. [1] A property owner that pisses off the government may not be a property owner indefinitely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
They've asked for help in narrowing a field of information before they explore further. They're not asking for a final direction that they will blindly take.
I see a lot that say "USA". Always curious what that means. Presumably not United States of America. (this is in California)
This was the telling statement of the whole article.

"Previously, she sorted the patient records before clinic, drafted letters to patients, prepped routine prescriptions—all tasks that lightened the doctors’ load. None of this was possible anymore. The doctors had to do it all themselves."

This is a huge fail and is not just a problem in medical - though the consequences are more serious and will result in patient deaths because doctors are spending more time on paperwork than diagnosing and treating patients.

There was a recent article posted to HN on research going back decades highlighting this issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157885
Any time you have a high bandwidth delay product (or just high delay) in a network link, fountain codes are useful. Note they aren't useful on top of TCP.

Some time in 2006-2010, while I was working on Google's web search infrqstructure, we switched to fountain codes for copying the index around the world.

The downsides are increased CPU usage and poor cache locality. Naive implementations aren't compatible with streaming or otherwise starting to use/play data/content before transfer is complete.

Without TCP, you'll probably need to implement TCP-friendly flow control.
We Tried an Overnight Bus Hotel from Los Angeles to San Francisco
Another excellent talk, about a year later: https://youtu.be/L0KuAx1COEk
> it's solved ... If we have a way to arrange individual atoms on a large scale (or even 100nm portions of material) and fuse them...

What exactly do you mean by this?
Fuse them in what sense?
What advantages would there be at a smaller scale?
For businesses, security is mostly about having someone to blame. If Microsoft did not leverage the hardware encryption capabilities in the drives they would end up being responsible for the performance not being as good.

In the world of proprietary black boxes, security is evaluated by the claims of the product sheet.

Microsoft is trusting SSD manufacturers to do the right thing, just as businesses are trusting Microsoft BitLocker to do the right thing.

Personally I trust Microsoft to make decisions that are good for their stock holders. That means having just enough security to avoid ending up with the blame in cases like this.

Samsung's lawyers are probably brain storming ways to get back at those pesky security researchers who made them look bad.