skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airbnb is such a racket, and it annoys me that they haven't historically been given the same critical treatment that Uber has. In many ways, it's way more discriminatory and more damaging to residents of a city and almost the complete opposite of Uber/Lyft (which benefits residents and visitors alike).

The only people Airbnb benefits in a given city are the landlords/hosts. It's not a "neutral" effect on other residents - it either crowds out supply that could otherwise go to a full-time resident or creates a safety/quality of life issue for neighbors who live adjacent to these properties that are being constantly filled with strangers.
Clearly you're not familiar with competitions.
Can you elaborate on what made it so bad?
But wouldn't the same argument apply for vegetables?
Which is what kickstarter employees are doing by joining an established union local. If you want to improve the unions we have then join them and run for positions in your local chapter. Advocate for the changes you want to see in unions.
Bloody hell is firmly a part of my everyday lexicon. It's not really a cuss word here so it can replace my preferred F words in polite company.

Toilet tissue is just me being confused. I buy toilet paper, facial tissue, and paper towels in enormous quantities from costco. All recycled, but it's still a mountain of paper and tissue. I have to figure something out.
Specifically the spaceship game "Elite: Dangerous" is absolutely incredible in VR. (They've designed the game to work with it since the original Oculus dev kit came out.)

It was the main video game I played for a while, almost always with the Oculus Rift. I don't play it any more for various reasons.

I am going to take a strong look at this headset because the most frustrating thing was never issues with resolution, FOV, or whatever people are complaining about.

It was all this quality of life stuff that the Rift S looks like it fixes, like setting up head tracking, recentering the screen, not being able to see the keyboard, needing 3 USB ports, etc.
Strongly suspect a cut/paste catastrophe.
That approach requires companies to trust you to actually do any work in exchange for the fee. How do you propose to gain that trust? If you manage to do that, will you still manage after a few less scrupulous parties have entered this market?

Also, if, after a week/month/quarter, you haven’t found a candidate that gets hired, would you continue working indefinitely as eager as you initially did on the recruiting?

IMO, no sane employer would expect you to, and many would think anybody who promises that is a fraud. So, why not simply make it $x per day/week, and effectively become a hired hand?
And humans.

If two lanes in the default path of highway driving (stay left to continue) are closed half the day, I’d expect some blinking sign overhead saying “two left lanes closed ahead, stay right”.

I guess DOT would have the records of people making the mistake to know if there’s enough value from implementing another signal for what you’ll have to do up ahead.

Dunno if Tesla reads signs or not (or used scanned signs to navigate), but seems like a useful thing for humans that could assist machines.

But maybe I’m just spoiled by my jurisdiction’s electronic signs that say this kind of thing.
It's supposed to be clever, I imagine.

It just comes across as churlish, though.

EDIT: Even the fact that the comment was edited from some stupid pseudocode, into something that cries "wrongthink" plays thusly...
Maybe I'm just being jaded, and I'm certainly not a researcher or statistician, but I don't see how removing "statistical significance" from scientific nomenclature is going to prevent lazy readers (or science reporters) from trying to distill a "yes/no" or "proven/unproven" answer from P values listed in a complex research paper.
Houston has zoning laws, they just don't use the Z-word.

https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h...
Statistical significance is a simple idea, it's nothing more than the realization that if you flip a thousand coins, getting a thousand heads means they probably have heads on both sides or something, while getting fifty-fifty doesn't mean much. On the other hand, if you flip one coin and get 100% heads, you haven't proven much of anything either. Statistical significance is just one way to put a number on how likely it is that you're reading tea leaves.

It can't stop you from lying, cheating, or stealing. Nobody has ever not been able to commit fraud because of p-values. There is no formula in the world that can notice when you are cheating in what numbers you plug in...

However, if you know what you're doing, and you're honest, it's really important to know whether you are seeing shapes in clouds or actual patterns. That's what statistical significance is about.
Well, passive credit is far worse than passive equity. At least in equity, you are buying more of the largest companies, in credit, you are buying more of the larger issuers of debt...
x86 and Amd64 Instruction Reference
Regarding "ethically produced meat" - I have the sense that if we can arrange for livestock conditions better than their typical experience in nature, then animal experience is overall improved to some degree. If that is arranged then the more animals we can do that for, the more gross experience is improved over the natural level (which due to extant harshness is not all that hard to better) We should also for animal keepers own feelings and experience at work, regulate that animal suffering is reduced to a hard minimum.

Its paradoxical that we can't try arrange this for actual wildlife which is often as much in conflict with its neighborhood as it is at peace, or the wild systems will break down, by removing pressures, saving young from predation etc.
Unit tests are not sufficient for neural networks. Say the network takes 2D images of typical 224x224 pixels with 3 channels (RGB) of 8 bit values, this input space has 256^(224x244x3) = 3.5×10^362507 possibilities. Billions of years to test them all. This is before we consider stereo vision, 3D images and state over time. How to know which subset of these inputs are necessary to give reasonable coverage?
Right now I don't think we have very good answers to these things. Of course one can always add a regression test (with some K mutations) when someone crashes. It is better than nothing, but hardly good assurance that something like this will never happen again.

The entire area of safety and quality assurance with neural networks is still in active research actively, from multiple angles. For some examples of how chaotic neural networks can be, look up 'adversarial examples'.
It exists, but it’s been a pretty terrible experience every time I’ve tried it (roughly once every 12-15 months since ~2011). GSuite has some occasional issues arising from connectivity issues, but these also happen to Office365, and are at least as bad (often worse) than in Google Docs and Sheets (I almost never use PowerPoint or Slides, so maybe things are different there.)
It's a situation where you can't do the right thing in all places.

Some programs, like statically linked Go programs, don't use the system APIs because they don't want to link against external libraries. So, if the system is configured to use mDNS for .local hostnames (either via systemd-resolved or via nss_mdns), those programs will mysteriously do the wrong thing, because they _only_ speak plain DNS. You can hack around that, and get them to do the right thing, by having a stub DNS server that they talk to, and have that stub server fire off mDNS requests instead of DNS requests as appropriate. Similar story for things like DNSSEC or DNS-over-TLS. That's what modes (1) and (2) do, they make statically-linked-programs that would otherwise use the system APIs do the right thing.

Other programs, like `dig`, don't use the system APIs because the really do care about speaking DNS directly. They just need the list of DNS servers to talk to and search suffixes to use. Giving them that is what modes (3) and (4) do.

It's literally impossible to keep both sets of programs "doing the right thing" at the same time. So the question is: which group of programs do you want to do the right thing? The systemd devs don't know (much less "know better"), so they made it configurable. Which one is default is up to the distro, not systemd.
I have the same Jabra headphones with my iPhone X and MBP. Great product. Jabra is a calls-first company, so the talk clarity is incredible, and the Bluetooth pairing is strong enough to walk between rooms.

The very best feature, though, is that they’re much less conspicuous than AirPods. AirPods are a visual distraction.
That seems like a perfect way to spear-fish people for their google password.
> I disagree.

Was there an edit to the OP I missed? What are you disagreeing with exactly? It was clearly a statement of opinion about how they found it interesting.

You couldn't just elucidate more on the reasoning for the classifications, you had to first tell them they were wrong and then pedantically explain it.

Peak fucking HN commenting.
initial construction is not an end state though. Towns change over time. Some locations are desirable and rich will always keep them like that because they are willing to pay for it. Some locations become less desirable and the rich move out leaving a poorer class to move in, this class is willing for an apartment because it is cheaper for them.
I don't know about living in Europe illegally, but I can tell you that I at one point considered moving to Germany legally (and was offered a job there, which is very much a prerequisite for such a move).

I have found their immigration process so onerous, I decided against it. One of the most irritating things was, my wife would not be able to work for 5 years (IIRC, it's been a while) if there are _any_ Germans whatsoever willing to take the job she'd be applying for. She's an accountant, so that would definitely be the case. I mean, I see the point of all this _for Germany_, but that definitely put them at a disadvantage in attracting me to work there, in addition to much lower pay that my profession gets in Germany (which, ironically made the second income much more desirable).

People in the US seem to think that EU is this open borders paradise where "ihre papiere bitte" is not a thing. It very much is a thing.
A fine is a price -- exactly. So why are you trying to deter them from doing something which they're willing to pay you more to let them do than it costs you to let them do it?

Or if the fine would be lower for some other company with less money, then why are you willing to let that other company pay less to do it than it costs you to let them do it?
Not saying this is true of the previous commenter, but I also think that some people confuse the couple of hundred years of Pax Romana as being the entirety of the Roman Empire instead of a relatively small part.
TeX78 was also highly sophisticated though. See https://www.saildart.org/TEXDR.AFT%5B1,DEK%5D1 from 1977, where core features like macros, horizontal and vertical boxes, boxes and glue, badness scores are all discussed in quite some detail. TeX underwent a lot of evolution but it was recognizably TeX, and had the sophisticated and coherent core features of TeX, from the start.
Yea, unfortunately HR or accounting is going to be lurking around waiting to torpedo any incarnation of this; but the best option is to set a reasonable dollar amount for gear and let your engineers allocate it as part of the onboarding process. Desktop/laptop, phone, headphones, monitors, keyboard etc. If engineers want to go above the amount you set, support that as well and reimburse up to that maximum.
This story radically changes my world views. Eye opener.
Yet nature forces you to provide p values and n count for everything you can in any figure as if that's enough to guarantee significance of results.

We need to start publishing with transparent and reproducible code from raw data to figure. Show me the data and let me make my own conclusions.

It's not too hard,I'm writing my phd thesis and every figure is produced from scratch and placed in the final document by a compilation script. My jupyter notebooks are then compiled in pdf and attached in the thesis document as well. Isn't this a better way of doing the "methods" section?
I know what the Popular Mechanics article says, but I cannot find any confirmation of the key points in the official accident report, which I take to be much more reliable.
JIT taken on the face value is really old concept and when viewed from the right angle it was the original way how programming languages worked (in the sense that you brough stack of punch cards with your program to datacenter, it got compiled, resulting code was ran and the object file was simply thrown away).

There is then some marketing hype around JIT from late 90's that is mostly only relevant for Java, which implies that "true JIT" does things like hot spot detection, deoptimalization traps and trace-based program flow reconstruction. This is mostly only done in production only by JVM implementations and fallback interpreters in hypervisors and is based on 80's research projects.

Somewhat notably in early 90's there was HP Dynamo, which was userspace PA-RISC emulator that ran on PA-RISC host by means of trace based JIT which was able to agressively optimize the code to the extent that it was actually faster than running natively in not insignificant number of (real world!) cases.
The author left out us militant agnostics.
New report reveals digital technology can help alleviate loneliness
"Unfeeling Malice" is ironic reference to the reviewed book's discovery that Hans Asperger sentenced children to death while using the same phrase himself as a diagnosis of their condition.
> How can we, as a society, support our future during its most vulnerable time (childhood)? How is it possible that we still have homeless children in a country with so much wealth?

The argument goes like this:

> Because why should I care for someone else's child and why should I shell out money because someone decided to have children even though they shouldn't have ?
The European Copyright Directive: What Is It, and Why Has It Drawn Controversy?
You agreed to their use of all data when signing up for your free account with gigabytes of free storage.
well, if his rating is 1473, then he plays chess after just one year of learning better than I can after 30+ years...
Crazy how people are blatantly ignoring that even on autopilot drivers need to be attentive and keep situational awareness at all times.

I can't remember that there was ever a case in which autopilot caused a situation that an attentive driver couldn't have recovered from. Yet it is blamed on the system when people ignore this requirement and end up in an accident.

Throw-away for obvious reasons...
I read this kid's story in the times and as a native of NYC it just helped to strengthen my conviction that NYC, despite all of its problems, is truly a microcosm of what makes America great.

I was a latch-key kid growing up and can clearly remember hopping on the train after class (with my free student pass) to Manhattan and killing some time at some of the best museums in the world (also free for students) and being exposed to so much.

We must continue to invest in our kids and in social infrastructure like transportation and libraries to spark the next generation.

Kudos to this kid, I just really hope he can make it through. There is unfortunately a huge disparity in what we can expect him to achieve because of his circumstances.
the smoke that comes from the fairies is a bit deterministic for my tastes -- looks like it is being driven by a trigonometric function and doesn't have much turbulence or interaction with local environment/surfaces.
If hash codes are stored inline alongside keys, code comparisons can be made without an indirection while key comparison (often strings, seldom anything without an indirection) usually needs an indirection. Hash codes are very cheap to compare.

These indirections have always been costly on any machine with virtual memory. TLB misses aren't free. I'd have put any estimate on the tradeoff being the other way around to more than 25 years.
More likely than they will, so long as the device remains a poorly functioning novelty.

IMHO, we haven't reached the point where VR technology can be commoditized in this way. Even the high end rigs have a long way to go.
> The package of harsh restrictions is called the “digital sovereignty bill”, which requires all Russian telecoms companies to reroute internet traffic through the state telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor.
Blackout on March 21st – Everyone can help to save the internet
Your_audience != Everyone
It's still all predicated on believing in the existence of deities.
"One of the main difficulties for me is determining closeness of relationships. Like a distance metric; close relatives being closer than friends which are closer than acquaintances which in turn are closer than unknowns and enemies are very far away. I have never been able to understand how that distance metric works and therefore been unable to distinguish between friends and foes. Autism is not an evolutionary"

If someone intends to hurt you, where would you put that person on the friend or foe spectrum?

If someone intends to help you, where would you put that person on the friend or foe spectrum?

If someone likes you and you like them, where would you put that person on the friend or foe spectrum?

If you don't like someone and they don't like you, where would you put that person on the friend or foe spectrum?

How about for a person who doesn't like you and you don't like them and they intend to hurt you?

Those are the kinds of questions the answers to which would help me to determine whether someone is a friend or foe.
Nope, deterrence is still only required proportionally

Cite?
Statistical significance is required, but not sufficient to prove an effect. Lack of statistical significance means you did not prove an effect, but you also didn't prove there is no effect.

So the answer is more likely "statistical significance and more" rather than "ditch statistical significance".
Important reminder: the failure mode of clever is asshole.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-...
Thanks! Didn't know that.

Another annoyance that, while not the fault of autocomplete, still bothers me: I write in either Spanish or English, frequently changing between the two. It's hard to explain, but the UX of swiping right to change the keyboards generates too much friction on my brain when I'm tired (like when commuting back from work), so I end up using the Spanish default even when writing in English. Therefore, poor autocomplete is fast becoming bilingual. So when I want to write Spanish, it suggests me English words and viceversa.

I'm not blaming autocomplete here; it's clearly my usage pattern that's difficult. But at the same time, this is how I use my phone, so there's a problem to be solved here, and it doesn't involve me changing my habits :)

Every time I hit this problem I end up cursing and typing the word letter by letter, instead of changing the keyboard config. There's probably some valuable psychological insight there!
If you care about environment impact, even switching from beef to pork and especially chicken helps a lot. I haven't been in rural American towns but I think both should be available without any difficulties.
At a state level or above, distinction in any age category is a distinction.

I think I was about 11 when I learned the game, and before long with no particular study I could beat most of my neighborhood peer group and some adults.

Then I actually went to my local middle school competition, was handed a series of decisive defeats, and learned there's a world of people who begin to make a serious study of it in childhood, same as there are serious students and even prodigies when it comes to musical instruments, and in that arena, I was nowhere near the top of the local pool.

Let alone a New York pool, where I suspect there are 8 year olds that could give many HN participants a run for their money.
It's interesting that they talk about a category error around "no association". In fact there is a category error in applying statistical thinking in cases where objects are not comparable - like human metabolisms, ecosystems, art...
> it does inform my position against atheism. I consider myself an agnostic.

Surprising for someone with his background to not understand the difference between atheism and agnosticism, and obviously not understanding that these two are not mutually exclusive.

> "I don’t believe even though I have no evidence for or against, simply I don’t believe.”

That's absolutely not what atheism is.

Atheism is a single position on a single claim. The claim is "There is a god", and the position is "I don't accept that claim".

How can this be even remotely against the scientific method? It's not even a claim, let alone a hypothesis.

This person seems to be so confused about basic epistemological definitions.
I’m from Toronto, so I never underestimate drivers’ ability to do stupid like drive into streetcar-only tunnels past the end of the ashphalt, despite ample signage. 26 times.

https://torontolife.com/city/queens-quay-streetcar-tunnel-dr...
So, was The Lawnmower Man ahead of its time?
Global Banks Lay Groundwork to Re-Inflate Asset Prices
The main goal was to show off raytracing; advanced particle systems aren't a new thing.
Arguments by analogy are not worth anybody's time.
Remind us not to interview there lol
Ya but 6.5% though?
I have no first-hand experience with it, but there was a fair amount of criticism surrounding comfort.
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The only thing worse than adult "influencers" is "kidfluencers" so good, ban them all.
It's called Read-Only Friday for a reason. Unless of course you enjoy spending your weekends debugging and rolling back. No thanks.
Yes, I'm disagreeing with the claim that it's interesting. Interestingness isn't entirely subjective. Mostly, though, I'm sticking up for the kid, whose sub-1500 rating shouldn't be scoffed at by any chess player who's more than, say, 10 years old.
I heard that even grand masters get beaten by cell phone chess games these days.
These are some tools that help structure ideas.

1. Trello: most obvious one i suppose but it's still as useful as the day it came out.

2. Workflowy: one of the more recent tools I've found. I like it because it's 100% keyboard based and makes it really easy to work with nested lists.

3. Freemind: open source mind mapping software. I rarely use it nowadays but this too is a pretty powerful tool to visualize your ideas and structure them into nested lists

4. Freewriting: this is not a software rather a method to create the first draft of your idea. Very useful sometimes especially for perfectionists who get stuck at minute details or bikeshedding.
I am talking about places that turn into union jobs after you have been there a few years.
Ownership is the usual, at least in the ones I’ve seen. Otherwise you have to start reasoning about lifetimes and that’s trickier.
Alicia Vikander credited at the end, presumably for the mocap and vocal performance? It's cool the amount of cross-over there this these days between high performers in different disciplines of media. How many Hollywood triple A stars would have been down to do mocap for a 90 second gaming tech demo video even ten years ago?
Thanks. I've only made imports as a person.
there are dozens of us, dozens!
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But no, let's keep making it harder to get a Visa.
Senator Calls for Twitter to Stop Spreading Software That Can Help Make Weapons