skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you expand on that? I can't tell if you're in favor or against a change.
British Parliament votes EU divorce deal down
Are they or do you just believe that because of what you think you know about the difference between the two companies?
What's the pseudo-science? Science doesn't deal with blame. Science simply explains phenomena. In this case being obsese comes with a variety of phenomena, along with getting obese, and curing obesity in a perosn.
why would it be a "donation"? DDG isn't a charity.
I have conflicting thoughts on this. In the US, it's true that in the near term regulations are likely to get more, rather than less onerous at the local and state level. At the federal level, I don't anticipate any changes in either direction until at least 2020, but probably longer, as this is the kind of issue that is generally hyperlocal as opposed to splitting entirely on party lines (the cynical view is that it's prone to capture).

That said, Airbnb's most promising growth opportunities aren't in the US in my opinion, they're international. While there's always a risk of regulation, the world is huge and has a lot of places who'd love to be this year's Iceland (although they might regret that 5 years from now) driven by cheap flights and/or housing.

Also - a slowdown could be counterintuitively good for Airbnb, as constituents may start lobbying to relax some of the more onerous regulations so that they can more easily make money via Airbnb (regardless of the accuracy, it can easily be cast as the hotel lobby vs. the recently unemployed family who has a room he wants to rent out).

Ultimately, I guess my position is that it's almost definitely overvalued right now, but not by as much as bears think it is and that I think they can probably remain a good business for the foreseeable future assuming good leadership.
Who are you referring to when you say "They're" in relation to the selling of data. Just to clarify either way, we will never sell any kind of data. This is something we take very seriously.

Otherwise, the feedback on seeing an example is valid and noted. Thanks for taking the time!
i don't know why the parent was voted down. The vast vast majority of humanity understands people make mistakes, change, and grow over time. If you're going to subscribe to a community where being excommunicated is as easy as in the article then there's only so much sympathy you can expect.

It's a case of "play stupid games win stupid prizes".
Most people just simply dont care. Take Facebook for example. I heard from multiple people telling me they think FB listens to them and show them ads about what they talk about. I ask them, will they stop using FB because of it? No! All my friends use Facebook.

There is no hope for our world. Facebook Google can do whatever they want. Why would people care about government spying on them?
> vacation rentals outside of major metropolitan areas that AirBnB has conquered from craigslist.

Last time I looked, many/most vacation rentals are multiply listed on VRBO, etc. Is there a reason to think that AirBnB is stickier than the other vacation rental sites?
This is unbelievably beneficial to newcomers to the sports betting industry.

This position will be reversed in a couple of years, and one can be perfectly poised to take advantage of it.

Now would be a good time to start development on a sports betting app.
Well yeah, in practice we don't have Turing Machines with infinite bands, but finite memory, so the number of states is bounded.

The number of possible inputs and states for even a moderately complex program is also so astronomically high that it quickly far surpasses the number of atoms that earth consists of, so, yeah, "cost reasons" is one way to put it. We also don't transform sheet rock into gold for "energy reasons".
> It's not a matter of simple physics

Actually, it is a matter of simple physics. If you have some evidence to the contrary you will certainly turn scientific principles on its head and undoubtedly win a Nobel prize and a secure spot in history. Please, share with us your findings!
This sounds terrifying. I can't imagine what it would be like to depend on something in my daily routine, then have some minor automatic update change the way it works so I don't know how to do anything anymore with no way of going back or relearning how to do things.

Unless there's a device specifically targeting the elderly and their priorities AND you're confident that that business model will survive for your lifetime, I couldn't recommend it. It's fine to have it be one of the ways you do things but don't put most of your eggs in that basket.
This post describes a bad way to track users, but the real utility of this post is in the email that describes a way to count Fedora users without tracking them:

https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/20190108152239.GA24118@garde...
The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started
We've reverted the title from the submitted “Method shrinks NNs by 90% with sub-1% accuracy dropoff, vs. 3.5% for prior SOA”. Submitters: there's no need to try to pack the article into 80 characters! Titles and articles are two separate things.
Interesting. It took me a while to figure out what the main contribution here is, since doing dimensionality reduction on embeddings is fairly common. I think the main contribution is an empirical measure of A) how little is lost by reducing the dimensionality of the embeddings, and B) how much the dimensionality-reduced embeddings benefit from being fine-tuned on the final dataset.

It looks like fine-tuning the lower-dimensionality embeddings helps a lot (1% degradation vs. 2% for the offline dimensionality reduction according to the paper).

This makes me pretty happy, since I run a startup that trains and hosts embeddings (https://www.basilica.ai), and we made the decision to err on the side of providing larger embeddings (up to 4096 dimensions). We made this decision based on the efficacy of offline dimensionality reduction, so if fine-tuned dimensionality reduction works even better, that's great news.
Our phone is a distraction in not only wasting our time, but our attention
That's like saying global warming is simply a matter of simple thermodynamics as people emit a lot of CO2 buy using hydrocarbons. True but uninsightful and unactionable.

Why do people eat more calories than they need? It's presumably a complex interaction of physiological, social, emotional, and, yes, market factors, with different factors of different importance given the situation.

I can recognise this even though my weight would have been considered normal 50 years ago.
This was actually something Coinbase pitched to investors - the ability for Bitcoin and other crypto currencies to bypass the American legal system, FINCEN etc [1]:

Coinbase, which recently raised $75 million in seed
funding from prominent financial institutions such as the
New York Stock Exchange, said one of the four biggest
advantages of bitcoin is that it is "immune to country-
specific sanctions," citing Russia as an example, in a
PowerPoint presentation put together for investors by the
company late last year.

[1] https://freebeacon.com/national-security/bitcoin-exchange-hi...
Metasploit, popular hacking and security tool, gets long-awaited update
All of the speculation here hinges on the legal definitions of terms like "money", "credit", "bet", and "wager", which we're using as lay terms here, but which probably have well-defined contours honed by precedent.
How do you know it's not been done for a good reason? Designing classes for extensibility is not easy. Furthermore, you can make classes extensible later on, but you can't do the reverse without breaking the API.
First, not accusing you of being far right (to the contrary I specifically stated I was not).

I was responding to specific point in your comment. They don't have a huge trust fund, they have a public budget. They don't run a deficit, but they have areas they would invest in if they had more donations. If they ceased getting donations, they would not be able to operate.

To the point of this article, I think Facebook has approximately zero credibility in this area, whether they donate to local news companies or anyone else. They have done as much as anyone to kill local news (by moving the content into the newsfeed as by creating bad metrics that caused many news companies to pivot to video content).

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/data-lords-the-real-sto... is an interesting article from a small media company if it's interesting to you.

ps - upvoted you, I don't see why you've been downvoted.
Electronic Masturbation
It absolutely matters, because it changes how invested the person is in the argument and what their motivations are. When a Google employee writes about privacy on the web, you'd read it differently from when a Mozilla employee does. When a Christian talks about separation of church and state, you read it differently from when an atheist does. When Edward Snowden endorses a secure messenger, you read it differently from when Keith Alexander says it.

An ad hominem is fallacious because it is irrelevant to the argument - an argument is not irrelevant merely because it is about the speaker. If the speaker's stated political goals are to oppose a political movement, arguments about how that political movement is actually bad should be treated with suspicion.

(Also, it would make more sense to attack the argument on the merits if it contained merits beyond "It's bad, and I don't like it, and here's an anecdote.")
I do that in my dotfiles too:

The main include:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.bashrc

The actual dotfiles:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/

(People usually copy the literate emacs configuration ..)
how the boys f'd it up and asked a girl to fix it just so they can blame her at the end.
Bear is pretty good, but not really comparable.

Bear is "just" a personal Markdown note app. No folders, no support for anything other than text/images, no collaborative editing, no support for multiple workspaces. The tag model is nice, but pretty limited.

Notion's raison d'être is collaborative, structured text: Workspaces for sharing and editing documents, with a rich set of embeddable objects (for example, you can embed Github gists and CodePens). It also has some pretty powerful Airtable-type database support where you can treat pages as records, and then view/sort/filter them in different presentation modes (gallery, board, etc.). Like Airtable, this lets you build mini apps such as task boards inside pages.

Bear's in the same space as iA Writer, Apple's Notes, etc. Notion's closest competitors are probably Google Docs, Dropbox Paper and possibly Quip and Milanote.
I'm laughing. I literally immediately noticed the scroll-jacking and closed the tab. I then went to the comments to see how far I'd have to dig before finding this - Glad to see it at the top.

For the OP (who I'm assuming also owns the blog since the names are the same...): For the love of god - Do not fuck with my control of the browser.

I don't want passengers in my car screwing with my mirrors. I don't want sites in my browser screwing with my input.
This is an excellent comment - I'm just disappointed you managed to say it all without the word "Bayesian". The base rate for paper mache cows in fields is very low - one is perfectly justified in assigning a decent probability that a field contains a cow, if one sees a cow-shaped object in it. If you are in a part of the world that has a lot of cows in fields, you will presumably assign an even higher probability. You might even say you're "sure" there's a cow in the field, and act as such for everyday purposes. But don't be fooled - you're not really sure. If someone offers to bet you ten dollars versus your life that there is a cow in the field, you'll likely not take the bet.

It seems that the philosophers were grasping towards a definition of "know" that encapsulated the idea of assigning 100% probability to something, after incorporating all the evidence. From a Bayesian standpoint, this is impossible. You can never be 100% certain of anything. To "know" something in the sense of "a justified, true belief" is impossible, because a belief is never both 100% and justified.

(Note that it is entirely possible to see the paper mache cow and conclude that it is likely only paper mache and that there is not a real cow in the field. Is this belief "justified"?)
Surprisingly little on VW AG CANbus is encrypted, I'm not sure where you're getting this idea. I haven't worked with BMW and Mercedes since around 2010 but I doubt they're much different.

I have written my own ECU flashing tool for Simos18 as well as a message injection system for the VW/Audi MQB platform (similar to the commercially available PolarFIS product). Really the only protection at all is that ECU flash files are encrypted in transit (on dealer DVDs) and over the wire, but with a fixed AES key and IV which is present in plaintext on the flash once the file is written. The CAN gateway messages are generally not encrypted, both over the infotainment CANbus and the powertrain CANbus.

Almost all cars are nearly completely insecure once you have interior physical access - which, IMO, is mostly OK as long as the bus wiring is in a reasonable location inaccessible to someone like a taxi passenger.

What is more interesting is the prevalence of head units with wireless or remote access - over 3G, Bluetooth, and WiFi. Compromising these hosts (and then finding a pivot or escalation between the infotainment bus and the powertrain bus via the gateway) is an interesting attack vector.
The places where Airbnb has left to grow are more likely to enact legislation restricting their operation. The low hanging fruit is already picked.
Economy won’t go away, limited resources needs to be managed. A market economy, otoh, is just one approach.

I’m pretty sure the current configuration is just a temporary blind spot. Market economy as an optimization algorithm is pretty neat for a limited set of problems. As a means to handle social justice, collective planning, and a bunch of other problems perhaps not so much. While finding better models for that, we shouldn’t throw out the bayby with the bath water.
>The laws need to be fixed.

If by fixed you mean changed to reflect the behavior of average people so that the average person is not breaking them daily then I fully agree.
South Lake Tahoe is exactly the kind of market that OP isn't talking about (if I'm reading it correctly). There are tons of places where hotels simply aren't dominant.

A good framing for me: If Airbnb were just looking to compete with hotels, this wouldn't be that exciting of a business, even if I knew they could survive. What's exciting about Airbnb is that they're looking to win in places that hotels aren't.
I find it unlikely that Brooks would only support the law as it stands today. I think it is a bit much to just assume he supports just that.

This is one of those situations that observing the cruelty of call out culture doesn't have to mean you support Weinstein or the systems that allow for it.

I feel like your approach here is way too binary.
Netflix to Raise Price from $11 to $13 a Month
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Disclaimer: it's a side-project, but not passive. Writing high-quality analyses is extremely time consuming (30-500 hours each) for ourselves, and our analysts - but it pays off in compound terms. I personally worked only on weekends for 4 months on this.

Before that, I was at MIT, UBS bank and McKinsey. Currently, I'm also looking for additional CTO co-founder opportunities globally (I'm co-located in SF and Switzerland) - please reach out to jakobm@mit.edu if you want to launch an own online product or course in a matter of days, and reiterate at an insane speed (only if you have a solid pitch or massive online followership, OR: if you know sb. who has such, there's a HUGE finder's fee of several 10k USD).
StartPage and Searx are two interesting alternatives to DDG.
You can vote the above down all you like... the fact is, I'd have to eat over 8 pounds of food a day to get a sufficient level of protein a day. I have enough eating the 2-3 pounds of food I typically eat as it is. It's utterly ridiculous. I stated why I eat the way I do, and included that I like meat, and that I really don't care for the religious-like approach that most vegans take.

Only to have that ignored, and for someone to make a suggestion that just doesn't work in any practical way.
Not sure if pro or anti
Are there any cars with non-plastic headlights? Do any have a crystalline front surface to maintain polish?

Example: fused-silica glass with a sapphire coating.
Https://Startpage.com
Try setting LC_CTYPE:

env LC_CTYPE=C tr ..
I haven't. Indeed, I just found out about Hubski from your post. It looks like a much more refreshing place than Reddit, and kleinbl00 seems to be pretty active on it.

One of my new year's resolution, however, is to quit Reddit, so I am in no mood to have a new network take its place :)
Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
You're just replacing a question with a nonanswer.

Imagine, say, a physicist who is doing groundbreaking work to explain superconductivity. Luckily, some brilliant HN commentator comes in and says, "This just sounds like a hunt for a way to explain superconductivity as something other than a simple property of some materials conducting with zero resistance beneath some critical temperature."

On the one hand, it's a literally true statement. On the other hand, it's worse than worthless, because it's an attempt to derail from figuring out underlying causes, which is what provides actionable information for further research and improving human wellbeing.
Was the irony here intentional? ;)

I've been around here since 2007, and I'm even on the leaderboard. There has indeed been a sharp change around here, starting slowly in 2014 and more quickly starting in 2016. This sort of outrage-mongering and "you're with us or you're against us, or we'll smear you" anti-intellectual mentality on HN is something new that's come in from outside.
It was noted in the interview that tall grass and wild flowers that grow with it help the bees.
Facebook's idea of news is "anything that keeps you more addicted to our app, and/or more easily targetable for ads".
Is there any circumstantial or direct evidence to support that or is that just speculation?

If confidence is decreased in the network (e.g. due to an intelligence leak) there is no reason a new network could not supplant it
> Really? Do we really think cycles of cruelty do more to advance civilization than cycles of wisdom and empathy? I’d say civilization moves forward when we embrace rule of law, not when we abandon it.

This is a puzzling position to take given that the primary tool of the "rule of law" is cycles of cruelty - prison, policing, and war. Compared to those, making Emily feel bad (and making her feel bad in a way she's okay with!) isn't cruel at all.
The whole thing seems like a slow motion train wreck, except with the potentially and arguably happy outcome of them remaining in the EU.
Note that the figures reported may be vastly inflated by poor code on your devices/apps that constantly retries the blocked connections.
Apples core tenet is making money, they have recently started making privacy a concern probably because they think that it will make money.
You're right the Record Layer doesn't yet have join support, but note PR #306 [1]. We support aggregate indexes but can't run aggregate “reports” that aren't backed by indexes. The rationale for this is covered in the paper (see [2]), but note that doesn't preclude such support being added into or on top of Record Layer (also discussed in the paper).

The Record Layer does a whole bunch of work to deal with index maintenance (see our docs [3])). Our “index maintainer” abstraction (discussed in the paper) makes maintaining our indexes (including those that are basically materialized views) completely seamless from the user's perspective, even for updates and deletes. We also have a lot of tooling for making efficient schema migrations. For example, schema migrations are performed lazily (when the data is accessed), so they aren't limited by the 5 second transaction limit. If you add/remove/change indexes, they'll be put into a “write-only” mode where they'll keep accepting writes while an “online indexer” builds the index over multiple transactions. We even have fancy logic to automatically adjust the size of the transactions if they start failing due to contention or timeouts!

Basically, the Record Layer solves a lot (but not all) of the pain points that shows up when you don't know your access patterns from the beginning. The paper talks a bit about how CloudKit uses some of those features.

[1] https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer/pull/306

[2] https://foundationdb.github.io/fdb-record-layer/FAQ.html — search for “aggregation”

[3] https://foundationdb.github.io/fdb-record-layer/SchemaEvolut...
The "ICE"ing photos I saw were people parking in a way that would block several charging spaces at once.

In any case if all the non-handicapped spaces are taken isn't it OK to park any vehicle in those spots? The charger is just a courtesy for teslas that need to park in that lot, right? It's kind not to take them if there's an alternative.

Or is there some sort of special treatment for those spaces? That would seem weird to me -- BMW-only, Tesla-only, Ford-only spaces, etc.
Scenic, the Fuchsia graphics engine
Except you potentially changed the meaning.

The question is about "on any sporting event or contest"

Is that "on any sporting event or sporting contest" or "on any sporting event or other contest"
Excellent. Do gun laws next!
Or foreign trade representative agency. There are above-board ways to handle this too.
I would second this; sentence embeddings outperform word embeddings on basically all tasks where you actually have sentences to work with. The only downside is that they're significantly more computationally intensive, especially for Transformer models like BERT.

(Note: I'm fairly biased, since I work on https://www.basilica.ai, which among other things makes sentence embeddings available over a REST interface.)
Steganography tool capable of hiding any file within an image
Well, clearly we can not infringe upon the personal liberty of the corporate person that is paying for this law to be enacted. That would be wrong, in today's 3/5ths equality between humans and corporate persons.
"profitable on an EBITDA basis" is about as mainstream a finance metric there is outside of the basic GAAP metrics (and many regard EBITDA to be more reliable than GAAP).
I really hope you're correct about a centrist group forming. One of the huge distortions of American politics, is that the center isn't explicitly represented, though that's the actual politics that runs everything.

American society is largely and increasingly not well modeled by 2 clusters of opinion.

I've seen studies and polls indicating that there are two diverging clusters of opinions and positions, with the left part moving further left, and the right clump moving more slowly right.
Ask HN: Did a neural net really delete code at Yelp?
According to the "What's New" blurb on their itunes app page: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yelp-local-food-services/id284910350?mt=8 "We trained a neural net to eliminate all the bugs in the app and it deleted everything."
This amounts to trolling, so please stop. This site is for substantive discussion in which we stand to learn something. It is not a flamewar site for exchanging the same, tired volleys over and over again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html