skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been exclusively living on airbnb for past 6 months and I've paid "Occupancy taxes" [1] on all of them. My impression was that states are now in friendly tax relationship than an antagonistic one with airbnb.

Regulations are positive for airbnb not negative.

1. https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/654/what-is-occupancy-ta...
RCP 8.5: On track for the worst-case climate change scenario
Because Tim Cook, as a homosexual, has teared up when speaking about human rights abuses of homosexual under repressive regimes, and how as the CEO of apple, he will do anything within his power to ensure your data stays safe on apple infra / hw because he personally thinks about it. Can't remember the interview, but it was quite touching actually.

He's very clear in shareholder calls / letters and in their privacy policy. So much so that he even calls out the competition[1] for doing it as Apple does not. From an economics standpoint, Apple doesn't make money on your data. They sell you overpriced but quite sophisticated hardware and became one of the most valuable companies in the world doing this. That and he advocates for a US equivalent of the GPDR[2] which absolutely and directly would impact the bottom line of companies like Google and Facebook.

Then there is Apple's official privacy policy, where they are very explicit that they don't gather personal information to sell to advertisers. In much of the non-US world, saying that and not following that is blatantly illegal.

[1] http://time.com/5433499/tim-cook-apple-data-privacy/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18017842/tim-cook-data-p...

[3] https://www.apple.com/privacy/
This article doesn't mention it, but even lab rats with controlled diets are heavier. If you add pets, wild animals, and lab rats, to humans you end up with a compelling line of evidence for a common factor.

It fascinates me that so many of these comments ignore such an intriguing set of facts in favor of a physics/moral failing line of argument--it is like the idealogy blinds people to new evidence.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lab-rats-are-...
> It just seems reasonable to have another vote.

It seems absolutely unreasonable to me. It's hard to measure how certain tactics influenced the vote on either side. The voting process needs to be done with confidence and we should not so easily assume our peers are misinformed and/or so easily swayed. The efforts put forth by legitimate actors to campaign for their cause goes for not, as does confidence in the democratic process, when the outcome is just thrown away.
Roku explains why it allowed Infowars on its platform
It would be crazy cool if the "Example board" had the real data for your company.

If we could track your progress using the tool you are selling it makes it really fun to root for you!

I know that is really difficult information to give out though, especially when one of the numbers isn't what you would want to advertise.
Because this would imply a public referendum is impotent - if you don't like the outcome, you can just keep campaigning and try again later.
I'm fairly sure there is no other meaning than the one to which you refer, so its perhaps more likely that you are missing the risqué point being made by assuming the prude levels are higher than you might think. A lot of the folks who make these kinds of hacks, are perfectly fine with the obscure, obscene, perverse nature of their naming of things ... Those of the anthropological inclination may decide that, in fact, an obscene name for something like this is a requisite.
That’s all assuming you brought your device with you in your stupor. It could be an even greater shock when you come to and realize you don’t have the thing you’re hopelessly reliant on!
How to Increase Global Wealth Inequality for Fun and Profit [pdf]
> it may be hopeless though

I fear it is hopeless. After all, XP - which morphed into the umbrella term "agile" - was a direct response to the failings of the software project management fads of the time... which are exactly what has been warmed over and served up as "agile" now, 20 years later.
Other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18914290.
> In about 600 million years photosynthesis will stop working killing off all plants and we'll lose oxygen from the atmosphere. In a billion years the oceans will start boiling away and plate tectonics will stop.

Do you have a source for this? I assumed that the changes to earth was still billions of years away, when the sun finally goes supernova.
Yes and no. There are three big hotels, but VRBO and AirBnB have been the dominant way to get housing in Tahoe forever, unless you're a gambler.
Life Lessons I Learned from AI Research
How much can forests fight climate change?
Having worked at the main competitors, I wouldn't advise to do that.

It is a fantastic business with a fat 20 to 30% margin on every booking. There is plenty of market left to capture, between mouth to mouth rentals and what used to go on craiglist, or never wanted to go on craiglist because it wasn't trustworthy.
I have found that I unfortunately have to frequently fall back to Google Maps. Which I don't actually like. Honestly it is more a disappointment in Apple. I would expect them to be able to get directions right for a well traveled path. Those two parks have a lot of visitors each year and frequently people will visit both in the same day. But Apple Maps wanted me to go a completely different way and I couldn't figure out how it was connecting.

Maybe things changed, but that wasn't that long ago. And we all know that once a product falls (and pretty hard), it is harder to recover.
This is patently false. Theme in pre-1914 continental European press was monarchies struggling with independence movements, question of next Franc-Prussian conflict (because everybody was certain that peace between those two can't hold), and stability of Russian empire (that was at time engaged in bloody war with Japanese while being shaken by internal tensions).

Inter-war period was hardly one of economical integration, considered that most of European countries were engaged in economic war with other - eg. Poland had no economic exchange with its neighbours.
Please yes!

Classes should be designed for extension on purpose, not as oversight, one of the SOLID pillars.

Taking advantage of an oversight is an open door for fragile base class problems and hard to track down bugs.
How much of this price to pay must I bear? And the other 65 million people in this country?

I mean in actual billions.

How much?
Like the Stealth Black Hawk helicopters that were used in the Osama Bin Laden raid!

(There existence is still not officially acknowledged of course, but many pictures exist.)

I was very curious about the technology they used to reduce the noise, as black hawks are very loud.
IP addresses work pretty well for user discrimination (sure NAT can hide many users, but then there are other signals).

However if you don't store raw logs forever it should be okay.
It's interesting to see this popular sentiment at the same time as the EU is loudly complained about concerning their new internet rules.
Nuclear. It's the only thing beyond fossil fuels. If we want to somehow retain our standards of living.
Microsoft continues to build government security credentials ahead of JEDI award
Yes, exactly what certain individuals east of the Gulf of Finland count on.
In food, or in general "chemical environment" we live in (including cosmetics, air pollution, plastics and paints, etc.). Or in lifestyle. Or a combination of some or all of these.

It's really hard to disentangle plausible causes. But I agree, something must have changed, something that makes this problem correlate with "westernization" and technological advancements of societies.
I think I remember hearing something about the Apollo astronauts having higher-than-average rates of cardiovascular disease as a result of the increased radiation in space.
I've generally stayed in the Phoenix area because the local pay for software development is far better than the average cost of living for the area. Just because the average person here doesn't make what I do, doesn't change the average for the industry in this area. That's why I wouldn't even interview for GitLab.
Thread with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18914290.
Try calling Putin, he seems to be great at this.
I do not believe this counters the OP's point. While the core purpose of financial markets may be beneficial vehicles like hedging and price discovery, the fact that the pragmatic outcome of the law is to leave wall street as one of the only outlets for "legalized betting" cannot be ignored.

There is a sister post that in trying to argue against this only seems to support the point. "a house that always wins"; as has been echoed on HN ad infinitum, _don't stock pick_, (Edit; child is correct, this is more about day trading, but the broader advice probably still holds to some extent) because if you do, you're the dumb money handing it over to the HFT firms. So even if the intent is not for wallstreet to be a gambling house, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and benefits from regulatory capture like a duck...
Request: Firefox extension that works like AdBlock but for Brexit related news
Complex problems can't be well discussed in such a short form. I don't really have time to create a full steelman argument.

I think that the "we should just plow ahead full steam" part of humanity started loosing power in around 1970 (I agree we were probably getting a bit too powerful too quickly and a slowdown was a good idea). The "safety first" part of humanity began ascending and has taken over most of the powerful institutions. Some swing back the other way is needed. Seems like life must go in these destructive/rejuvenating cycles and that a steady state of goodness is not really possible.
> JIT won't inline functions that throw

Seriously? Never had to worry about that in Java land. What would be the reason for this?
He did miss out on tissue culturing and organ printing, though!
Many of the prevailing climate advocacy groups are heavily influenced & financed by the hegemonic oil interests. The strategy is control over markets. With carbon credit, a global (trans-national) governance, legal, & financial framework can be placed over a large percentage of the economy. Select companies, that have access to enough capital to adhere to compliance, can be deemed "good corporations" & get preferential treatment in their respective markets, shutting out small entities that don't have access to large capital.

Notice that localized movements that focus on pollution prevention (e.g. reducing pollution in a watershed) are often de-emphasized, unless there is strategic value to large players. Instead, the call is always for more centralization, into the hands of large capital. Citizen led local efforts are allowed to grow & be taken over by agents of these large interests, who then redirect the efforts of the local entity toward the goals (e.g. carbon credits) of the environmental hegemon.

The transition from fossil fuels does not hurt the owners of the oil companies, because these same entities are leading the transition. Instead they seek to use different technology, legal frameworks, & economic frameworks to consolidate & prolong their positions in the global world order.
> You are saying that somehow the whole mass of Antarctica is irrelevant as a base mass to calculate accuracy...

Yes, that is correct. The mass of Antartica, whatever that might mean, is not required in itself. Percent error in estimating that is not relevant. Remember that we are interested in mass changes only.

The GRACE measurement is based on explaining the relative position of a pair of orbiting spacecraft by mass changes in 4500 "mascons" -- equal-area spherical caps that blanket the globe (see figs 2 and 3 of [1]). The fundamental observation is the range and relative velocity of the pair of spacecraft, which can be very accurately determined. The mass within each mascon has an analytically-known relationship to these observations (eqs. 8, 9 of [1] - relating mass sigma to acceleration a).

It's a monthly measurement -- you accumulate a month's worth of orbits, and solve a least-squares problem to fit the range-rate data with the masses. This can also be viewed as maximum a posteriori estimation in the conventional way. See equation 13 of [1].

I hope this clarifies why it does not matter what the ice underneath is doing. The ice has mass, and therefore it affects the gravitational potential that the satellites operate in.

You are correct to be surprised. The measurement is surprising, and it has been revolutionary. Hundreds of papers have been published using it, and it has received scrutiny and undergone improvements for more than a decade. Three independent groups (JPL, UTexas, DLR) have worked on the full retrieval over this time. Lots of what we know about groundwater withdrawals, ice sheets, and more recently deep ocean currents, is based on this measurement.

There is an attribution issue at ice/water boundaries (sec. 6 of [1]). It is due to mixed pixels -- a mascon that is part water, part ice. The mass change observed at the mascon should not be spread evenly over the whole pixel. It is split in constrained way based on errors and priors. But as [1] explains, this is not an "order of magnitude" type error, it's just a correction.

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...

But to repeat -- the fundamental result of the OP does not rely on GRACE (nor does it rely on GPS). It relies on ice sheet velocity models.
A good take on how the negotiation was squandered, and why the EU has run out of patience:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-vote-deal-theres...
i guess voice is not an alternative but i thinking of visualising program flow could work.

i like the idea from "inventing on principle" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII)
Blue Apron Soars as It Sees Strong Demand in WW Partnership
Because it is bad design known as fragile base class, which usually leads to hard to track down bugs, because someone somewhere is accessing methods or internal class data structures that they shouldn't have to in first place.
Summary:

1. Suggests pet obesity patterns may shed light on human obesity patterns

2. Worldwide pet obesity is between 22% and 44%

3. Concedes that pet obesity can at least partially be explained be feeding habits and activity of owners.

4. However, obesity is apparently increasing in some wild animals[1]

5. Observes that obesity is increasing in humans, including 41 million children under the age of five (who presumably don't control their own diet).

6. Cites heritability of obesity in humans is between 40-75%

7. Observes the role of antibiotics in weight-gain for both humans and livestock.

8. Cites that a mouse injected with gut microbes from an obese human leads to weight gain! [2]

9. Notes a link between processed food and decreased microbiome diversity.

10. Points out constant light exposure increases BMI.

11. Estrogens in our daily lives like BPA in receipt paper are considered a potential culprit too. [3]

12. Suggests that studies by the food industry appear to be biased.

[1] http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC56772...

[2] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6150/1241214

[3] https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/servic...
*This will make it much easier for him to pass the data off to Russian spies
is ignition no longer to be accessed in the US?
It's not clear to me nor am I convinced it is clear to those who voted for autonomy. One could argue that EU legislation since the vote only bolsters the arguments for independence. The only thing that's clear from my outsider perspective is that some campaigning was shady. How can it be clear it was a failed idea when the idea hasn't even come to fruition?
Interestingly, they show a capture of a "bad" dashboard on their "About us" page that IMO displays way more useful information than what their product can offer as of today:

https://unubo.com/static/about/bad-dashboard.png

Sure it's not Material design, but who cares?
Awesome, found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code and played a bit in my terminal. It is fun.

$ echo -e "hello\n\e[1A[2K\rworld"
$ world
My "willpower, delayed gratification, and discipline" leave something to be desired. I'm not super healthy, I don't eat great. I'm not fat, though. I don't forego food when I'm hungry and I don't exert much control over what I put in my face. But somehow, I don't put too much in.

I think some people just have their internal "hunger" thermostat set wrong- whether it's hormonal or psychological or whatever. Other people have it set more correctly so by and large, "willpower" doesn't come into it.

I don't need willpower to stop myself overconsuming water, but if I was thirsty literally all the time, I'd drink gallons.
It can but no politician wants the right wing press to go all "WILL OF THE PEOPLE" on them.

It was a non-binding referendum, a glorified opinion poll and that was before we found out about the lying, the financial irregularities and external interference.

Shrugs, I'm resigned to whatever happens happening at this point.
No.

There is a gene sequence that women have (men may have it too FWIW) that causes them to be unhappy if their SO isn't "bringing home the bacon." Its an old sequence and is not to be tampered with unless you wish to end the relationship. It is somewhat akin to the "you must bring/buy/provide food on any date" gene, which will also, unless fulfilled, bring any date to an unscheduled premature end.

Just an aside: you'd have to be nuts to quit working to get better at hobbies, unless you're very, very good at the hobbies, plan to work (i.e., make money) in those hobbies and can earn as much income.

Do your best to spend time in the most highly-valued way you can - then you will not go wrong.
In full agreement.
I meant "text to speech engine" then I guess.
The Copyright Directive is awful, sure, but the UK has orders of magnitude bigger fish to fry right now.
> Is there a reason to think that AirBnB is stickier than the other vacation rental sites?

1. Has more volume of listings.

2. There are much cheaper options on airbnb than other sites like VBRO.

3. More trustworthy and better brand recognition.
If the human metabolic system worked like a cigarette lighter, your comment might make sense.
As far as I understand this vote wasn't intended to oppose brexit as a whole, it was intended to oppose brexit under recently negotiated terms. As in - they still want out, they just don't like that specific deal.
And your work per month could be contracted out, so you don't actually need to do any more effort than meeting with your account periodically to make sure you're making money.
Zone 4 is quite a way out.
It was a non-binding referendum - they could have “carefully examined” the result for a week and then tossed it in the trash, politely declining the “advice” of the populace.
It would be a pretty useful information for a hypothetical perfect human, in full conscious control of all their bodily function. Alas, real humans are not like that, and deviations from homeostasis tend to manifest themselves in a way that's under limited, or beyond, conscious control.
It's a fair question. For starters, comparing the business models, and how iOS implements privacy relevant aspects vs. how Android does so, might lead to reasonable assumptions.
Google _is_ a privacy threat. Completely unrelated to DDG, marketing or believe.

One Google with thousand tentacles...
Why do you assume that time spent thinking, discussing, reporting and debating how a country is governed is not a good use of time?
Real problems like how to get people click more ads and how to create useless cryptocurrencies that lots of great (and arguably not so great) minds seem to be nowadays primarily occupied with?

(Yep, loads of sarcasm here)
Do Kong Brain and Kong Immunity work together or are they separate services? Can I get one without the other?
> Lotteries fund education

Even that is debatable. In just about every state, when they added a lottery "that funds eduction", they reduced the state contribution to the education budget by exactly the amount that was being added by the lottery. So while technically yes it goes to education, in reality it does not.
An Andy Warhol Artwork Was Stolen and Never Seen Again
To clarify: of course they like simplicity when it costs nothing. But they consistently value other goods over simplicity.

For example: maintaining backwards compatibility. The community believes that it is more important that 20 year old C++ code run unmodified than that the language should be simplified. There's lots of stuff you could do to simplify the language but options dry up in a world where 20 year old code must be able to run unmodified.

So sure, the committee talks a lot about simplicity, but it isn't willing to sacrifice much.

Don't get me wrong: I'm glad that finally, in 2020, C++ will be almost but not quite as good as Common Lisp was at metaprogramming back in 1982. But it remains the case that eval-when and defmacro are both more powerful and dramatically simpler than anything the C++ committee has ever considered.
U.S. charges hackers, traders with stealing SEC filings
This. This is why I love hacker news
What's your major? Oil.
OpenSSH also supports certificates, so you can have the host system provide a certificate identifying it -- but you have to setup a CA, and arrange for new hosts to securely have their host keys signed by it.
If they were smart, we wouldn’t have spent the last two years on this xenophobe-appeasing nonsense.
Interestingly, it seems like the Maps data that Apple is providing here is inconsistent. In southern California, through the native apps I'm getting high-quality maps, while DuckDuckGo is still showing me the older low-quality ones.
The opposition is allowed to ask for up to 14 days to form a government. In this case, that's highly unlikely as it would require a broad referendum...
I have never inherited from a class from a library unless it was specifically designed that way. I think it's much better to aggregate.

Makes me wonder: Can you add extension methods to sealed classes?
> It is a general design principle for .net libraries

Is it? A more typical approach, IMO, is for internal classes to be marked as `internal`, and for `public` classes to be considered part of the public API.
Can we take a step back and appreciate that someone at the DoD took the time to figure out an acronym that allowed the award to be called JEDI? It's a small reminder to me that there are individuals just like us in the partially frozen government.
Oh yes, that would have gone over incredibly well.