skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Booking pushing advertisements for the exact same hotel I've just checked on their service. I can't understand how that would seem like a good idea to anyone.

This happened to me just last week. Unfortunately, it's the least of Booking's user-hostile traits.

Like sending me e-mails pestering me to review a hotel I checked into less than an hour before.

Or flashing "Hurry! Only 1 room left!" when I know for a fact that the hotel I'm inquiring about is 90% empty.

Or flashing "23 people booked this hotel in the last 24 hours!" when I know the inn only has 4 rooms and is in probably the lest popular destination in North America.

Unfortunately, there's a particular place I have to travel to which only has one motel within 70 miles, and the only way to book a room in advance is through Booking.
As a solo founder of a SaaS launching next month, I tracked my time and am at 1350ish hour in the past 10 months. This is my first startup so I made some mistakes along the way with future creep so deadlines got pushed. I worked around 35 - 40 hours outside of my full-time job a week. Felt really burnt out so skipped one month of work 3 months ago but finally trying to get into the mindset of sales and marketing.

I do think though this is all entirely dependent on the scope of your project.
Git in many occasions (including when using git log) feels like the designer just threw their hands up and said:

"F*ck this shit, make your own UI on top if you want to use this tool!"

I don't think Torvalds has a proper excuse for the pain and suffering he's inflicted on millions of developers worldwide :(

(To the people going: "Oh, it's Open Source!". Sure, so are Mercurial, Fossil, etc.)
Absolutely, the most common refrain on LA when anything related to this is involved on someone's device is always some version of "don't delete it, don't open it, don't touch the device, get a lawyer yesterday and have them talk to law enforcement."
Are you happy with the audio quality with streams ripped from YouTube? I'm guessing it's been compressed more than once and that can't be good.
Coldtea was referencing the very protestation you cited uncritically, so your comment added little to the conversation and appeared to be missing the point.
Redistributing a shrinking pie. Sounds like a great plan.
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> To start with, 24% of the population are minors, so that knocks a few trillion off that figure.

How does that work? Is the UBI of both parents (or, worse, the single parent) supposed to cover the costs of raising their children for those primarily dependent on UBI?
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I think this is just it though. Everyone assumes targeted advertising works, because it seems self-evident that it should. And the only people likely to have significant data on whether it works have a vested interest in convincing everyone that it does work (regardless of whether that's true or not).

It may be that targeted ads are more effective, but some counters to your points:

> John has a 10th wedding anniversary coming up.

A wedding anniversary is a significant thing–some John's may be swayed by an advertisement, but many would consider it a bit of a cheat not to put more "novel" thought into it.

> Mary is single and goes to the gym every day.

Frankly, the former of those two data-points could mean anything. Much of what advertisers believe about consumer habits of single people could easily be correlation.

As for the latter, anyone with a daily gym routine is less likely to want to change it. Selling gym membership to someone speculatively hoping to start going to the gym is a better bet, but much harder to track.

> Steve just got a promotion and likes the BMW 3 series.

Going back to the anniversary gift—I seriously doubt many people are much swayed by one-off ads in buying something as significant as a car (unless Steve has 10+ cars, in which case the promotion is less relevant). This is case where untargeted ads definitely have a much bigger role (Steve sees many BMW ads passively over a number of years).

It may be there's some cases were targeted ads are extremely effective, and some where they're not. And—as you've pointed out—it may be that Google et al. aren't really incentivised to actually be good at targeting as long as their advertisers believe they're good at targeting (which goes hand in hand with market dominance).
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1. Install TortoiseGit
2. Use Visual Studio to commit (it automatically does "git add" with the new files you added to the project - I always forget to do this manually)
3. Use TortoiseGit to do "git push", because Visual Studio has a problem with ssh keys (or at least had a while ago and I didn't bother to check since)
4. When something breaks (and it will), google like crazy until you find a solution

There. I never needed more in a number of companies.

[Yes, somewhat tongue-in-cheek and of course limited to people who use Windows and Visual Studio, but I have discovered that's a significant number.]
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people make the complaint about divvies they've drawn in their own company that they've paid corp on which is a form of this conflation.
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Why does it matter? If the board of directors are aware and approved it there is no issue here.
While an anecdote doesn't prove much, a distant relative of mine with a more Mediterranean appearance was detained by police in Munchen on allegations that the bicycle he was riding was stolen as he allegedly fit the description of a bike thief. After proving them wrong they mocked him saying something like 'how did someone like you managed to land such a high paying job? Do your colleagues like working with you? I mean you know.. considering... etc.. etc..'. I don't know what happened with his complaints post-factum but it's not the first time I hear about racist/xenophobe behavior by law enforcement in Germany.
> According to this video, a signature of CO2 warming is the surface & lower atmosphere warms while the upper atmosphere cools

> Yet the current heavy snow storm in Europe is being caused by the splitting of the polar vortex, caused by warming in the stratosphere

Split of polar vortex: https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/facts/warming_NH.html

You're still confussing weather with climate and an atmospheric phenomenon with global warming through CO2
>"The patients demonstrated improved brain function and showed a reduction in the protein plaque gumming up their neurons, the company’s report says."

Still chasing the amyloid hypothesis I see. This is a symptom, not a cause, so they are wasting their time (in terms of actually helping the patients, eventually someone will randomly get "positive" results and a bunch of money if enough trials are run).

1) Up to 30% of cognitively normal elderly have detectable amyloid deposits:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444214#17453147

2) Only 70% of dementia patients have detectable amyloid deposits:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444214#17445337

3) Amyloid-related genetics can only account for < 10% of Alzheimer's cases:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444214#17457198

4) Amyloids are the most thermodynamically favorable structure that polypeptides can form (ie require constant vigilance by the cell to prevent): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14914528#14917057

5) Can anyone find a disease state where they looked for amyloids and didn't find a positive correlation? I doubt it.
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I would be very upset if a website that I had to use, say a bank website, decided they needed to use this. I consider this to be user hostile.
Incorrect. They are removing apartments from the supply, thus raising rents. A couple airbnbs in a huge apartment building have many external costs that are carried by the other tenants.
Glad to see that! Recently I've been lucky enough to be contracted as a freelancer on GPL projects, or at least projects with LGPL core, with sending improvements to upstream projects being part of the job. It's so fulfilling and liberating that I wish it will stay this way forever :)
I guess it’s mostly a question of social networks working too well for people to care about other channels.
This seems more like an emotional, rather than a logical and rational response.
I'm currently in a non-WeWork co-working space. It's not clear what you mean with "The fact that no one can actually do real work at a WeWork was just icing on the shit pie.".
That has to be in the license for the free service. There are no ads, period, when paid.

Also, location information is used to avoid account sharing, which I think would clear GDPR.
No such a grand idea in my opinion: Toyota style with BMW reliability.
You can use your own copies of music in Spotify. All you have to do is tell it where to find them on your disk.

And if you connect with a mobile device on the same network as the computer with the files on it, they'll automatically be transferred so you'll get them on mobile too.

Two of my favorite bands (Blind Guardian, Kamelot) put only their last couple of releases on Spotify, but with this method I can listen to their whole back catalog.
In the UK we also have a VAT tax cliff that further compounds this problem. If your business makes more than £80k you have to add 20% VAT, but before that you don't. It results in strange scenarios like an accountant recently told a family friend to take more vacations as she was getting too close to the cliff.

Makes a lot of small businesses unscalable, but also makes a lot of smaller business ideas viable.
The camera is on when the property is supposed to be empty, that is, when the alarm is armed and the guest is not there. The camera is for monitoring the property with a guarantee that the guests are not monitored. This is similar to how a hotel works. I expect the hotel management to be able to go in to my hotel room when I'm not there (to repair something, clean etc.) but I also expect complete privacy when I'm in there.

I have cameras in my house that are used together with motion detectors as part of my home alarm system. If the alarm goes off I can see whether the alarm was triggered by my christmas tree falling over or by a burglar. They aren't used when the alarm isn't on. If I were to rent my house out on airbnb I'd probably cover or disconnect the cameras, becauuse I couldn't make a guest trust that they are only part of the alarm system. That's why a product that guaranteed it would be good.
If I understood correctly that's their personal best argument for UBI. We each have our own intrinsic motivations!
Thought this was fascinating when I read WON.

Worth mentioning, Smith was primarily concerned when anyone had an unfair market advantage that would ruin the state of equilibrium.
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Or, management asking the ex. employee to drop a logger on the network to snoop because "we really don't want our IT guys to know".
The goal here is to give to the ML community an open access, asynchronous, yet powerful, hyperparameters optimization tool. But it is just a Beta for now and we need feedback guys ! :)

The project is based on our open source optimization library (for now based on TPE-like): https://github.com/Dreem-Organization/benderopt

And you can interact with this library with a whole ecosystem of clients :

- A web client : directly on bender's website, you can visualize the optimization process on nice graphs; and compare the performances of different models on the same problem with a ranking board that ultimately allows you to pick the best model with the best hyperparameters set.

- A python one, a R one : it allows you to get automatic suggestions of hyperparameters set to test within your code.

Everything is documented on this readthedocs : https://bender-optimizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You'd think they'd sprinkle in something less ... annoyingly skewed that obscure what I actually want to see.
I agree, there is a loud minority who religiously criticize Electron while most desktop apps get written in it. The same was also true for Java applets.

Electron made many trade-offs indeed but writing "this is electron based so I'll not use it" and "great idea but unfortunately built with Electron, so I closed the tab" kind of comments on every bloody HN thread is extremely tiring.
because if you get mugged abroad and that piece of paper goes away along with your wallet, you are shit out of luck. A hotel can give you a lot of support in situations when you're stranded abroad. On top of granting you access to the room, they can call people on your behalf, provide a wellfare check in case you've gone missing, etc..
These guys need to be thrown in jail for mass man-slaughter (I would ask for murder if they can prove that they knew the OxyCotin addiction risk early in the process).

The number of people who have lost their addiction fueled by this drug is astounding.
How's that any different from: compiling from source with malicious modifications and then branding the resulting binaries with "RedHat"?
Contextual targeting still works. No ad agency in their right mind will run a French ad on a webpage written in German, or show an Italian ad in an app where the default language is set to Swedish. None of this requires tracking individual users across websites and apps.

Besides, as other commenters have pointed out, there is no concrete evidence that targeting individual users is any better (in terms of bringing in more sales) than targeting the combination of region, language, website topic, and on-page keywords.

If you're so worried about the sustainability of European ad agencies, maybe you should stop fearmongering and start trying to improve contextual targeting technology to such an extent that it provides even more value to your customers than behaviorally targeted alternatives. If and when GDPR-like regulations arrive in other parts of the world -- I'm pretty sure the noose is getting tighter in the U.S. as well -- your European agency will be in a perfect position to grab market share there.
You’re pretty short sighted huh?

I don’t work with ads.

But we have B2C clients that wouldn’t exist without the ad industry, in fact how would people know we exist without the ad industry?

How many of your customers are funded by ads, or use tools funded by ads, or have customers of their own that are?

Not to mention stuff most people use, like GMail, Google Search, “free” apps

We’re part of an ecosystem, you can’t point at the shitty parts and get all uppity, you are on the same ship
> On the other hand, we need some fairness in a market

American insider trading law has nothing to do with fairness. It is based on theft of information. In this case, the hacker’s stole information from the SEC that belonged to the reporting companies.

(This is a commonly misunderstood alley of securities law.)
Tbf Amazon has the least experience with ML of the FAANGs.
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So he’s allowed to smack flyswatter-owning people who say it’s illegal? Awesome, I don’t own a flyswatter!

Isn’t English grand?
Maybe the reviewers had access.
I applied as an intern to a prop trading firm during my junior year of college. After the phone interview, I was invited in for an on-site. I get there and it's your standard electronic trading firm setup. Open office, desks grouped somewhat by the team you were on or what product you traded, so on and so forth.

They take me into this small conference room off of the main floor. It really could only seat two people comfortably but had seats for four. We started to talk about a pairs trading project that I'd done in my spare time when I hear a yelp come off of the floor and then the ear-splitting noise of Bawitdaba by Kid Rock blaring from the desk immediately outside of the conference room.

I can't emphasize enough just how little of a reaction the interviewer had. I paused momentarily and he gave a look to encourage me to continue talking, only now I had to yell. I answered the rest of the question as though we were communicating at a construction site. He then asked a follow-up, only this time he yelled as well. This continued for the approximately four minutes that the song lasted from start to finish, and when it was over we went back to our normal speaking voices. Neither of us ever acknowledged the impromptu Kid Rock concert.

I got the internship and was later offered a full-time position but turned it down to do startup-esque things.
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I'd like to like the article, but it nostalgically posits a golden age of amateur politicians.

Even Lincoln was a lawyer.

Before the Roman Empire, there were still people who spent most of their waking moments striving for power.

Rose-colored glasses don't serve us well.
My best argument for UBI is I’d love to be able to work on F/OSS full time, and that seems impossible outside of a fully free, stable, smoothly-functioning and affluent society. And given current economic trends, UBI is very likely a required part of any such society, at least in any reasonably large polity-- think the average U.S. state, or even the U.S. as a whole. So, it seems we agree after all!
Right, maybe that’s the parents point: that innovation comes from the private sector now, and the command and control state owned enterprises are inefficient and slowly dying..
3.0? Isn't the current version fisher 3.2.4? Or does the 3.0 refer to fish 3.0.0?
In terms of usability, vertical space almost doesn't matter anymore. The vast majority of people have an interface that makes vertical scrolling effortless, whether it's a trackpad gesture, mouse scroll wheel, or touchscreen drag / flick.

Horizontal scrolling is harder to do and less common/conventional (chicken and egg as to why, but it's the reality today).

You might not like the way it looks, but it's clearly better for usability to spend more vertical space in order to prevent horizontal scrolling.
> The New York Stock Exchange has asked the SEC to consider limiting the amount of data collected by the CAT, which would include data on around 58 billion daily trades, as well as the personal details of individuals making the trades, including their Social Security numbers and dates of birth

Dropping SSNs for natural persons would be a good idea.
I'd be interested to know if there are any additional costs involved to have the journal listed in the major directories, getting/calculating an impact factor, promoting it to institutions and so forth. This example calls itself a journal but looks a lot like a website and not much more.
At its core, Capitslism exploits labor. If you are a capitalist, you are exploiting labor somewhere.
Yea, usually devs make tradeoffs for reasons. Sure, maybe a dev didn't know that Electron was so memory heavy/etc, but often it's a well known fact. They had their reasons for choosing it, you're free to use something else or implement an alternative for them to maybe fork/etc.

Why should someone use a language/framework/etc they dislike just to make something in their spare time and FOSS?

Don't get me wrong, I think Electron is a problem - but I don't blame people for choosing it. Often our FOSS development aspirations are limited by time, energy and shockingly enjoyment.

I can choose to use what I want, and you can choose to not use it.

Disclaimer: I've never used Electron, but I'm shocked it's not blatantly obvious why people would choose it.
Is anyone aware of similar data on the YC company set?
Actually don't you want to highlight the disclosure of the camera to dissuade trouble makers from picking your place?
The issue with your suggestion is that it dis-incentivises work which is one of the problems UBI tries to solve about welfare systems. Currently the issue is "why would I work more than X amount if that means that I make less than if I worked less than that (welfare + work)?" but with your system it becomes "If I am relatively unskilled, why would I try to work at all if that means that I will receive almost no compensation beyond what the government already gives me?".

UBI is supposed to support people so that they can do the work that they believe is most valuable and to prevent people from being dis-incentivised from pursuing work. It has other goals as well such as eliminating other welfare services, removing minimum wage, and incentivising moving away from cities but those first two are the primary reasons.
Google Play isn't built in to LineageOS or similar, but you can still install it if you actually want it.
Great point. I'd be interested to see what their response to that argument would be if it came from him pretending to have the disability. (or not even pretending)
What a petty company
As recent as yesterday I still saw an XS4ALL commercial on national television. It doesn't make much sense to keep investing in a brand that will soon cease to exist, but perhaps the campaign was planned already before the sudden decision came in.
Can someone with legal experience care to chime in? I wasn't aware that binding arbitration can be enforced in this situation. I don't think you can sign your rights away like that. I recall I had a lease contract a while back which had something like that and my attorney laughed at it saying that it won't stand up in court.
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Yeah, that's a very important point. Even changing the parent of a commit, that is, an edge in the graph, changes the hash of the commit. Therefore to change the parent (like in a rebase) you have to make a new commit, but the old commit doesn't go anywhere, you just can't see it because you have no reference to it any more.

Git will garbage collect these commits that can't be reached by any reference after a while, but usually that's long after you've forgotten they ever existed.
I see that does make sense. Thanks for clarifying.
South Korea did a large chunk of its economic growth as a military dictatorship. Only recently has it become a democracy.
This isn't about prescribing pain meds to those who need them (post op, broken leg, etc). It is about a company making fraudulent claims about the addictiveness of the drugs.
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I'm no student of politics, so I could well be way off base, but isn't 'abolishing capitalism and seizing the means of production' central pillars of communism, not socialism?
Did he get the job?
Needs to be done
You can choose to care about privacy, but then you have to accept that there will be cost associated with it, you have to worry all the time about every single thing to do. It mentally taxing and the cost is just going to be higher and higher.

>These things are generational and accumulated wisdom about privacy, surveillance and their cascading consequences into other aspects of society including sleepwalking into a police state are well known.

Human and its society always evolving and changing, you can't expect everything stay static, we human always have to adapt to changing society and environment.

>For those on the other side of the police state or who gain from these shifts

Then instead we should demand equal transparency for everyone, including those in the government.
Why should it? Currently UBI is $0. Is this supposed to cover these costs too?
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