skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no evidence of this

There's a lot of evidence of this. Look at crime rates in Germany and Sweden before and after their mass immigration import.
I'm not drawing conclusions, but I do want to point you to the end of the link you provided:

From Wiki: By the mid 2010s, woke had been adopted as a more generic slang term and has been the subject of memes and ironic usage.[10] For example, MTV News identified it as a key teen slang word for 2016.[16] In The New York Times Magazine, Amanda Hess raised concerns that the word has been culturally appropriated, writing, "The conundrum is built in. When white people aspire to get points for consciousness, they walk right into the cross hairs between allyship and appropriation."[12]
So this is local governments trying to railroad an online information/marketplace/intermediation firm into becoming a tax collector.

It's not "railroading", it's called "the regulated collection of reasonable usage fees." It's how cities are run, and have always been run.

If Airbnb doesn't like it -- they don't need to go into the hospitality business in these places.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208387

Macbook batteries are designed for 100p cycles IIRC.
Ok, I know.

_What are_ consumers?
That is related to cultural mores as well. Do we not celebrate tech CEOs who have never made a profit?

They can become millionaires/billionaires by dint of their privately traded stockholdings, and the NYT will write a puff piece on them, but all we're doing is applauding them because they managed to convince VCs to float them cash to try doing something.
You've got a really good point - you can learn something from those experiences even if you do them for the wrong reasons. I don't think your case is the common one, but nor is it rare.

I guess, colleges want people who could have learned those lessons. Exposure is a requirement. Unfortunately, they've not been really good at telling whether the lessons are learned.
> What would be the best band for this kind of infrastructure? ( Disregarding any existing FCC licenses )

The frequency bands that have been licensed for cellular infrastructure.

Its all a trade-off. Higher frequencies get you better data bandwidth, but require more power and get attenuated more by stuff (buildings, trees). Lower frequencies get you much better range for a given power level and better building penetration, but lower data bandwidth.

Exceptions to this are the "crap" bands, like 2.4GHz and 60GHz. Microwave ovens (which are great interferers, BTW) use 2.4GHz because it is absorbed by water. Great for heating your food. No so great trying to transmit data in an outdoor environment with rain and fog.

60GHz gets absorbed by the oxygen in the atmosphere, so that's another band that's only good for very short ranges.

The bands the cellular carriers have now are a good trade-off between power requirements, data bandwidth, and other issues (like absorption). The ISM bands exist basically because nobody would pay to use them.
Yes. But it's done in a different way than C#. C# supports fields and field references so you can pass them directly to a function.

The Java code "looks" like they do the same because they generate code to simulate method references instead. It's pretty clever and Javas code generation support for Annotation Processors is excellent and makes it possible to do this in a cross-ide cross-build-system way

LINQ and JOOQ/QueryDSL all work on plain data objects with fields. But with Java you do it on a pseudo object generated from your existing classes
Russian Internet Segment Architecture
Salary is critically important to me.
I assume preparing for the deploy? But of course that could also have happened in the previous week, and just be ready to deploy on Monday...
Where can I buy these?
Considering its simplicity, I wonder why st fared so poorly. Also, I’m surprised that eshell did well on the latency part, since it sometimes feels laggy (which could be due to its reimplementation of basic Unix tools in elisp).
I think its also excessive, which is why I don't do this. I suppose people talk about what they are focusing on, and my wife focuses on her children.
Are you young to pay YouTube to hire the thousands of moderators that are going to sit and manually approve videos all day long?

There is nothing "wrong" with a video. You could argue about the morality of the action itself, but that's a separate issue.

We as a collective have made a sort of common agreement that it's beneficial for internet platforms to be open and free from the tangles of traditional regulations.

Questions about should or should not don't have any meaningful use in the real world. If you want internet platforms to be more strictly regulated, then use your voting rights to make the changes you want to see in the world.

I don't see any sense in censoring a video of death and destruction. If you don't want to watch it, then don't watch it. If YouTube doesn't want it on their platform, then they should have the right to remove it. If they want to host it, then public outrage shouldn't force them to remove it, unless they do it out of their own accord for marketing and public relations reasons.
It this point it's probably easier to list off who Disney doesn't own
Some numbers that you will know by heart if working with SQL Server for a while
Was useful to read, thanks for the article.
Why is your profile littered with anti Airbnb comments?
Yeah, let's force community residents to deal with noise and parties and the increased cost of housing brought by AirBnb while allowing AirBnb and their billionaire investors to make a lot of money while pushing off all the externalities on the communities.
/incoming rant but related to your story

It sucks so bad. My brother and I got parasites from water at some restaurant in GA.

Down there they were able to help him, but up in the north, the Drs have no clue on how to deal with parasites. The most help I got was the Dr calling the pharmacy for me.

So my brother got meds from his Dr, sent them up here to get rid of the parasites. Now I'm dealing with some bacterial infections that no one can figure out.

I asked to have the same test done that my brother had that found all his issues relating to this. They replied with "Yes, we can do that test." Then they sent me to CT and for a colonoscopy which took 2 months before I could get in... all the while they couldn't "give advice" because they "don't know what my system is like."

I'm seeing the 4th opinion next week. It's been 4 1/2 months now, so maybe this one will care.

This is with the "good insurance" I keep hearing about.
I have a background in both embedded systems engineering and pentesting. I definitely know about the weak security (or complete lack thereof) of those devices. But it's hard for non-technical people to believe that, especially if the salesman told them this camera was the 'best of the best'.

So, of course I helped them to setup the IP camera in such way that they could use it securely. (VPN, strong encryption on their WiFi, etc)

And of course I also explained them that they should be careful with whom they share the photos.
The premium placement clause for a different Google product is still an antitrust violation.

Antitrust law, despite the name, isn't limited to abuses of monopoly power. It includes the use of dominant market positions in one market to reduce competition in another.
Mac Spotlight Search doesn't follow this rule and it's sooooo annoying. I have Firefox and Firefox Developer Edition both installed and the top search suggestion seems to randomly switch back and forth between the two depending on how many letters of "firefox" I type.

Trying to switch to 1Password is somehow even more irritating. Typing "1p" reasonably suggests 1Password. If I continue typing "1pa", however, I'm given the hilariously unrelated knowledge that 1 Pascal is equal to 0.0075 Torrs. Pressing return then takes me a Google search (in Safari, which isn't even my default browser) for "1pa" which gives me yet another pressure unit conversion, 1 Pa = 1e-5 bar.
Why is this disgusting?

Down vote with no answer?
If you want to go down the slippery road of analogies, a better one would be:

Google is Walmart, offering all kinds of products. Carrying Kellog’s cereals (and many others).

Recently it started producing its own brand, Cerealify. Once it started producing its own brand, it’s the only brand you can now buy at Walmart. It’s also the only brand featured in marketing materials (catalogs, flyers, posters). Kelloggs, and other brands, can only be found in a warehouse 5 miles away.

How’s that for competition?
> Autocompletion to the nearest ambiguous prefix. If I type “g” and that matches both “Google” and “GoodReads”, this operation would fill in the two “o”s, allowing me to then type either “g” or “d” to select the option I want

This is terrible, unless I misunderstood. It would mean that if I typed "Google" without looking at autocompletions, I would end up with "Goooogle".

I keep fighting the in-browser auto-completion boxes which try to be too smart and annoy me to no end. Whatever auto-completion you provide, your first priority should be "do no harm": if the user typed something that should be considered as Holy Scripture.
I do, every two years. That's still not most of the time.
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What are some competitors to Disqus re: hosted comments?

What are the challenges with implementing one?

Does Disqus store the comments against a url? What happens if you add some nonsensical GET parameters? Do the comments disappear?
Airbnb is legal in most of Miami Beach. However, there are pockets of residential areas where short term rentals are prohibited.

Flamingo Park being one of them.
Because my neighborhood is littered with mini-hotels and AirBnb encourages this behavior.
I did, no worries.
I can’t imagine keyword search on third-party sites is responsible for a significant share of overall AdSense revenue, I wonder if it’s even a single digit percentage of their overall ad inventory?

Single digit percent of Google's overall ad inventory
would be $1bn-$10bn per annum, at current scale. Google's ad business is big. Over 10 years...

One of the first "tricks" you learn on adowrds is to turn off (it's hard to find) "search partners," or at least split it off and quarter your bids. It's on by default and'll take up a surprising amount of your budget, using default settings.

I wouldn't be surprised if it ads up to a meaningful share of the "search ads" market.
I think AirBnb is a wonderful, wonderful company. I don't want to stay in a hotel, and I don't want all of the hotel problems, including price. I value Airbnb's competition and think they are trying to do the best they can. Looking back at my history, 39 interactions across the country and not a single problem.
Forget About the Economy. Central Banks Are Back in the Stimulus Game, Right?
What is a corporate owned mini-hotel? I am a fairly frequent Airbnb consumer and I have yet to stay somewhere that wasn't mom and pop.
My sister in law posts baby pics, no joke, 5 times a day, minimum. It's outrageous (IMO)
> Google (or any app-store runner) doesn't want to allow you to use parts of their service—for which they could be held liable if those services take your money and give you nothing in return, or give you a virus—unless you're also using their identity system and thus their developer-reputation system.

Amazon doesn't require you to use their payment system with your customers to host your app on AWS. Paypal doesn't require you to host your apps with them to use their payment system. Mozilla doesn't try to stop you from using Firefox, or the Firefox-based Tor browser, to visit arbitrary "dark web" sites, and Debian doesn't try to stop you from adding arbitrary third party repositories to apt. Let's Encrypt doesn't even require you to use their own software to verify your site. This concept of "you can't just sell someone a screw driver because what if they kill someone and you were liable" has no basis.

Google could refuse your business for an individual component if you tried to use that component from them, but then you could just get that component from someone else. It would still be an advantage to be able to use one service for hosting and another for payments, even if zero of those services are Google.

And the problem with Google Play is the weak competition. If it was easier to use something else then they would lose more business from making poor refusal decisions (harming their reputation), by charging a high percentage, etc. Then they would either have to improve or lose their status as the dominant player. Reduced barriers, more competition.
> To me, the best argument (not only for cannabis, but for stronger drugs too) is that illegalization has been tried for a long time and it just doesn't work in practice.

Maybe only in the US. Drugs are illegal in places like the UAE or Singapore, and the prohibition seems quite effective there. There seems to be more things involved here.
> I would not claim that Islam is monolithically malign, of course, but someone less constrained by their unconscious sense of ideological appropriateness would ask why interpretations of the faith lead people towards evangelistic violence and puritanical tyranny so much more than interpretations of other faiths.

After WWII and decolonisation, a new breed of educated, progressive and secular leaders arose across former colonial states. In the Middle East, this was characterised by the influence of Egypt's Nasser. These leaders weren't afraid to stand up to religious fundamentalism. Here is a 1966 video of Nasser making fun of the Muslim Brotherhood trying to force women to wear the hijab[0]. There were secular governments across the Middle East, including Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

However, these secular and socialist leaders were seen as too close to the Soviets by the US, despite many of them explicitly participating in the Non-Aligned movement, and America and its allies quickly acted to counter their influence and depose them when possible.

The major political opponent to anti-imperialist socialism across the Islamic world were the religious fundamentalists, so they were the ones who were backed by the West.

Western support for Saudi's and their Wahhabist ideology is well known. Indonesia's Sukarno was deposed in an American supported purge backed by Islamic fundamentalists, described by the CIA itself as "one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century". Hamas was propped up in Palestine by the Israelis as a counter to Arafat's secular Fatah[1]. Western efforts to undermine Nasser and fund his political opponents(surprise... Islamic fundamentalists) are well documented. The crushing of Nasserism in the Arab world with the help of the Saudis and Israelis is regarded as one of the great triumphs of post WW2 American foreign policy. The groups that formed Al Qaeda and the Taliban were supported by Americans as counters to the Soviets in Afghanistan. There is also consistent American support for the Pakistani government, even in the face of genocide of millions[2], in an attempt to counter the spooky "socialist" and secular India.

And all that is discounting the reactionary sort of fundamentalism that might arise as a result of constant war and interventionism by the West in the Middle East.

It makes me sad when I see "westerners" criticizing Islamic extremism without recognizing their own culpability in the current state of affairs. It is short-sighted and illogical to divorce the political and social situation in the Islamic world from centuries of western foreign policy.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fswb4a9jcU
[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123275572295011847
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide
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You literally just provided the example.

Product A: dominant search product

Product B: non-dominant advertising product.

If you want to use product A, you need to also use product B. That alone is sufficient to create an antitrust violation. It's almost literally the textbook example of an antitrust violation.

But Google didn't stop there--they required exclusivity for product B for several years, and even after that ended they still required premium placement. Either way, they just compounded the severity of the antitrust violation.
This is like saying that car sharing services like Uber are DOA because there are people who like to have racing cars or are professional pilots.

It's a niche market overall, and each is a different segment you can target independently.
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I think a big difference between Christianity and Islam is that in the west Christianity has been around (or at least more dominant) much longer. I think this has two effects:

1. People are more used to it, and likely less aware of the flaws it has (or might have, as this is in the eye of the beholder). This may lead to people to make claim X, Y, Z about Islam, forgetting that this may have applied in the past (or still does) to Christianity as well

2. It had more time to develop according to the "western ways" so to speak.

Of course this will vary per country, and the US is big enough that it probably even varies per state. The Netherlands for example doesn't really have anything close to for example the Westboro Baptist Church, at least not that I know of and is anywhere near as widely known.
That Washington post author is quite the narcisstic scumbag. I feel disgusted reading the writing of someone so extremely self-absorbed.
There are a lot of cities where apartments have become AirBnBs, caused great disruption to their neighbours, and driven up rents. This has resulted in people demanding that Something Be Done.
I think I'm wrong too. Here's the EC press release explaining the rationale:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-1770_en.htm
Great feedback, thanks! I actually plan on promoting the job as an interview during a podcast I'm hosting!
A 14 year old who is embarrassed by what their parents posted == a 14 year old who is embarrassed by what their parents did == a 14 year old.

When this girl grows up, she'll understand she was being immature and there's nothing embarrassing about your parents posting moments about you that made them proud. Her parents seem awesome that they're respecting her wishes now.

As I write this, I'm reminded of a Louis CK bit when he describes your thought process when you see a woman scolding her kid in public. When you're not a parent (which seems like most commenters here), you're thinking OMG what a terrible parent. When you're a parent, you're thinking what must that child have done to that poor woman.
At $1.5B, it's about collecting revenue to fund EU activities. It's far beyond the amount of revenue the infraction generated by order(s?) of magnitude, and was a gray area to boot.

Keeping the taxes as "fines" ensures they can give EU companies favorable treatment. It's the definition of corrupt: "a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money"
I lived a few doors down to someone who basically ran an ad hoc AirBnB ... before Airbnb. It was pretty terrible. Parties all the time, trash, they parked anywhere (in other people's driveways...) because there were likely no long term consequences for doing so, the folks staying there didn't care because why should they?

I was on the association board, it's kinda thankless job as we had to deal with this house.

We got the usual riot act / pushback from the folks operating that short term rental about how the association was terrible and oh man the government and how we just were protecting hotels (like man, I don't have any connection to hotels...). They tried to organize the other folks who rented out their places (traditional long term rentals) to push us off the board, they actually got several to go along with it, but they failed (it wasn't even close, we had a limit on how many units could rent out at once anyway so they never were going to have enough numbers).

In the end it was just a horrible situation to open up what was a hotel, right in the middle of our association / neighborhood. Fortunately the law was on our side and they eventually sold the unit and left.

Local governments are run by the locals and they should get to decide where businesses like that operate and zone and so forth. The idea that Airbnb should just get to be the almighty "disruptor" and land on your neighborhood with no recourse is pretty absurd at face value, especially when the argument is usually about how folks should have some freedom, but what they mean is their freedom, not the communities.
I read Jane Jacobs in grad school (surprisingly relevant even after five decades), and I think she would question whether all of that traffic needs to exist in the first place. The article mentions "micromanaged" zoning in North America, one element of which seems to be that no residential window should ever face a commercial enterprise. Allowing small shops and restaurants to exist within residential areas (as they do in Europe and elsewhere) would eliminate some amount of the car traffic we current accept as normal. When every destination requires a car, every street becomes a stroad.
A major issue in 2008 were loans made with no credit standards and investors were being sold what they thought was AAA credit risk when in reality the borrowers behind the securities were people with little income make the mortgage payments they were obligated to. The article at hand does little to prove that a similar phenomenon is going on with corporate bonds. Would be interesting to know whether the corporates spoken about here are public or private companies since, if they are public, any going concern can easily be analyzed via a company’s SEC filings.

There’s no doubt that the structure of this product is similar to products which caused the financial collapse, but are all the other systemic issues present? I don’t think the author addresses that.
We need to switch to just growing our plant food indoors, using hydroponics. It's much more efficient with water than outdoor irrigation, and can be done vertically so it doesn't take up so much land.
I used this in beta on a cheap chromebook. It worked great, and since I don't like putting games on my machines or upgrading hardware or using windows, perfect. Realistically, the only way I could play this game on this hardware.
I talked to the mason that refitted my house in 2016. He wanted to be a mason like his father, who insisted on him getting a higher education. So he complied and became a bachelor in law, then went on being what he wanted to be, a mason :)
Or just take a photo of the screen with their iPhone!
Corrupt government.
It seems they want to enjoy travelling to other cities while blocking other travellers from coming to their city. Same with Waze traffic being routed on previously less known streets.
“Bar Chart Race” animation: changing ranks of the 10 biggest cities since 1500
If there is a challenge to finding a good agent, and a challenge to doing it yourself, doesn't the option that saves you a ton of money just make more sense?
> Business models are changing along with the societal changes in communications technology.

No one is entitled to their particular business model; I don't see a reason why a company has to be automatically in the green because someone looked at what they're doing and gave it a name. The changing landscape of communications technologies enables things both good and bad, and it turns out that "burning through truckloads of VC money to get away with breaking laws and dumping externalities on people" is something that's both enabled by new technologies and a huge negative for society.
> the hospitality business

but they're a technology company!
Three kinds of good tech debt
I'm not able to read this article because it requires that I am a subscriber. Does anyone have a method of reading it otherwise? Would this be considered a paywall?