skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too common for it to be a meaningful data point. Taiwan was the biggest destination for Chinese tours around 2015.

I have heard that having a degree from a Taiwanese university is somewhat suspicious.
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The abstract of this paper is refreshingly succinct:

We present an algorithm that computes the product of two n-bit integers in O(n log n) bit operations.

The result is excellent, and it closes (in the affirmative) the Schonhage-Strassen conjecture first postulated in 1971.
Put the RV parks underground and pump in fresh air and fiber-optic daylight.
This happened to me once and when I reported it to AirBnb, I got zero response.
NZ's reaction seems pretty reasonable to me. They just had 50+ people brutally murdered. Their political and business leaders seem to be focused on preventing it from happening again.

If you want to criticize their response I think you need to show how your proposal would prevent further radicalism. The people involved in the white power movement are dangerous if enough of them get together. That's essentially what happened in Germany in the 1920s.
Taking legal action against AirBNB would be an uphill climb, but you can construct leases (AirBNB subletting triggers eviction, making it incredibly difficult to rent in the future) and HOA covenants (hundreds of dollars per day in fines for AirBNB listing, with homeowner on the hook for legal fees, liquidating the property to recover them if left unpaid) in such a way to make it so incredibly painful to the renter/owner party that it mostly dissuades the listing attempt.
There is one terrible issue I encounter almost every time I ride to work. In the mornings the traffic is stopped all the way to work. The stopped cars leave gaps next to the side roads so cars coning from the other direction can turn across to reach them. Because there is a wall of cars in between the bike lane and the other side of the road, neither the turning car or I can each each other so the car blindly turns across the road assuming no bikes are coming.
It's always complicated.

> I've talked with many at a coffee shop (no longer open) over the last half dozen years.

The Perg I presume? I spent many days working from that place with my car parked for free in the adjacent now-pay parking lot.

Santa Cruz has changed a lot in the last ~6 years.

I used to visit regularly from SF, practically every week, when there was still free parking downtown with The Perg and LOGOS used books to patronize. Nowadays there's practically nothing there of interest to me personally, not worth paying parking for, on top of the long drive anyways. The last few times I made the drive down there the high point was the strawberries from Swanton farms en route.

It's more than just an assault on the homeless. The city has transformed quite a bit in general. Much of its hippy/artsy/punk culture has diminished and everything is trying to be more sterile and bourgeoisie IMHO.

LOGOS and The Perg closing marked the end of an era.
I've done it for a hundred or so old tapes. It is not so involved. I used thrift store VCRs and an Amazon USB video capture device. Almost all the old tapes play just fine. If the tape has gone bad, it's gone bad. Just toss it and move to the next one.

Yes, you have to clean the heads now and then with a qtip and ethanol. No skill required. Usually just running one of those head cleaner special tapes does the trick just fine. I never had a sticky tape. I have had broken cassettes, but the fix was just taking it apart and moving the reels to an unbroken cassette. Once I had the tape itself break, and a bit of scotch tape got that working again :-)

The results are plenty good enough. My relatives were quite happy to be able to see their old home movies again by clicking a button on their Roku rather than wrestling with their long lost VCR or 8mm camera.

Seriously, this isn't rocket science. It's much easier than recording LPs onto cassettes.

The result will be converting 8000 tapes and their storage problems to two 10T drives, which aren't a burden to store. Though you should copy them to new drives every year or so.

Saying one doesn't have $100,000 to do a 2% better studio job, so throw all the tapes in the trash, is a choice I don't understand.
Ebikes have recently become really good and they flatten all hills with ease.
Most times founders do have very good intuition because they are building product for themselves first and the various complexities may not be important earlier in the cycle. However if you are going in the new field and well past "early days" then having product managers with field experience could be very useful. For example, you want to build new glucose meter and you know the tech but have no idea about regulations, customer preferences, competition, history of dead products etc. In addition to what has been described in article, I would say followings are also responsibilities of product manager:

* Design meticulous user studies, evaluate prototypes with customers, identify problems earlier.

* Research options for external interfaces for the company including supply chains, offshore options, vendors, partners.

* Do analysis of competition, their strengths and weaknesses. Estimate their future trajectory, influences, cost structure, customer opinions and actions.

* Perform retrospectives for successes and failures that happens within the company. Create systematic log of these analysis and ensure failures don't repeat but successes do.

* Make sure there exist systems for various data collections including human resources, engineering (bugs, backlog, hours spent, LOCs), customer support etc. Help turn these data in to dashboards. Lead analytics and insights in all aspects.

* Take a detailed look at the history of the field. Why past product failed? Why some won in competition and some lost? What customers rejected? How laws changed destiny of products? Lead the "lessons learned" storyteller role.

* Create systematic database of who's who in the field. Everyone from previous founders, star engineers, politicians, activists, biggest fans, partners etc.

* Ensure there exist efficient measurable pipeline for lead generation to customer acquisition to customer exit interviews. Influence strategies for sales, marketing, evangelization. Ensure company can preemptively avoid or at very least detect churn much earlier.

As you can see, founder alone may not be able to do all of these + product design + engineering efficiently and comprehensively. I would also say good product managers are never just product managers but also able to take over partly or completely sales and/or marketing. Also many good product managers are not generic MBA types but rather very specialized in specific field with solid design skills and experience in their field. The way I look at it is founders provides intuitions while product manager brings data and systematic analysis.
Free speech doesn’t mean the right to insult or spread unlawful things online. Whilst I do find it concerning that the ISPs are self-censoring, blocking access to a video of an act that contradicts all of our democratic rights (freedom of movement, freedom of religion, freedom of thought) can hardly offend anyone.

Free speech is the right to express an opinion without being penalised. Left wing and right wing lunatics are free to distribute their wicked thoughts online, just as the US gun lobby and alt-right fanatics are free to publish whatever they like on the fifth amendment. Fine with me. It doesn’t hurt or ‘harm’ anyone.

A video of a fascist wacko shooting 50 people down is not freedom of speech. It’s illegal and sick.

Don’t confuse the two.
import typing as ta -> ta.List...
I don't know about regular vim, but you could do this with NeoVim.
Shouldn't you know that there's a good chance a listing is illegal and/or against HOA rules if you're booking a place in an apartment complex or condo?

I rarely book Airbnb's, but the only places that make sense as far as being "least likely to be against the law" are single family homes or Airbnbs run by a professional rental management co.
Interesting to know. Thanks.

If so, what other than lack of interest stops PRC citizens from learning about the Tiananmen square "mystery" when they travel to Taiwan?
Yeah, I think it is for VS Code and Azure Data Studio and I think the tooling team likes it -

* https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-postgresql
* https://github.com/dbcli/mssql-cli
People can be asked and answer truthfully while animals are unable to do the same.

There are definitely gay people who get married and have kids though. An alien who doesn't understand humans might classify them as heterosexual.
Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0094/55.0/DLM...

Admittedly, the Chief Censor only published his decision on tuesday, so everything the ISPs were doing before then, they did on their own.
I got that feeling when I first started off working, it goes away once you see how the sausage gets made.

I think this is a good blog post describing the scale of the problem: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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That shouldn't be an issue. Having a wildcard cert for .checklyhq.com shouldn't preclude you from having a separate subdomain cert for blog.checklyhq.com etc.

In fact, we do this for our own SaaS and never had a problem. Our AWS instance is protected by *.mydomain.com SSL cert but we have other servers running on digital ocean etc. that have their own subdomains and their own SSL certs.

The tricky thing for us is to filter out the subdomains that we use (e.g. [blog,status,www]), and prevent our customers from using them as their own custom subdomains with our app otherwise our whole DNS redirection doesn't work.
> What other multi-billion dollar co is remotely comparable?

Uber
Why do you say life is worse here?

We’ve banned most semi auto guns.

And his writing and video have been classed as objectionable...

Why’s my life worse off for the governments actions?
Because physical separation when not done fully usually means a bike path you can't get anywhere on. Being on the main road allows you to go anywhere a car can. Being on a separated path makes it a pain when the separated path is a secondary thought.
Hackers conquer Tesla’s in-car web browser and win a Model 3
The process and rationale for redesigning a web app to drive engagement is not really comparable to that of redesigning an aircraft instrument panel to promote safety.
You are crazy and this could work. However, if you’re going to run a staffing agency there are multiple ways you can do good with it. There’s only so much money to go round and your customers are not going to pay you more money because you donate a lot of money to charity though it may help with marketing and sales. Ultimately the money is either going to come from you or your employees. You’ve decided it’s going to come from you, which is greasy. You do what you want with your money. Staff are not going to work at below market rates for a company just because the owners donate a lot of money.

There is absolutely no way you will be able to skimp on sales and focus on service. Real businesses pay people large sums because they think they’re worth the price, not out of the kindness of their hearts. If you want to donate a lot of money you’re going to be doing the same kind of work as now and donating more money. Services don’t sell themselves.

If running a staffing agency and donating money doesn’t sound super rewarding all by itself consider taking on people who need a break, training them and sending them out into the working world until they move on.

Look at what Lambda School and Jessica Livingston are doing.
http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/women-learn-to-program-t...

Could you sponsor one person a quarter to do this, to come to your office while doing it and get paid, and then work for you for nine months after?

Or you could work for a company or organisation you actually thought was making a positive difference in the world. I think Lambda School is awesome because they’re trying to make a Lin education that leads to a good job available everywhere. I’m sure you can think of some company you admire.

Or look at the 80,000 hours job board, the product of some smart people looking for jobs that they think will make a big positive impact.

https://80000hours.org/job-board
Those multi use paths in my city are almost all full of people on their phones. You basically have to go at walking pace.
The EU country with the highest rate of cycling is The Netherlands, followed by Denmark and Finland. The EU country with the lowest rate of cycling is Malta, followed by Cyprus and Spain.

Finland is sparsely populated and almost entirely subarctic. Malta and Cyprus are tiny islands with year-round sunshine.

You might think that bad weather and low population density are insurmountable obstacles to the widespread adoption of cycling, but you'd be objectively wrong. The key factor isn't climate or density or hills or infrastructure, it's culture.

https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/campaigns-guide/cycling-le...
Except this is hate speech. Or are you saying it isn’t
Everyone wants to have an opinion, and to publish said opinion, before they have any justification for an opinion. We’ve seen this over and over again, from both the left and the right, and yet it remains a blind-spot.

Recall the MAGA kids who brutalized the peaceful Native American. Recall Trump directly ordering Cohen to lie to congress. Recall any story where in the rush to gain clicks, everyone jumped to ill-informed conclusions.

The problem is not an idealogical press. That is capitalism at work. American history reveals muckracking as the norm rather than the exception.

The problem is the speed at which this now occurs. The true driver of ‘clicks’ is the astonishing efficiency of forming and disseminating opinions that stoke ideological mobs, mobs which are no longer limited by geography or synchronicity.

I’ve long believed that the only solution to a truth-based press is to replace opinion with primary sources. Now that there are networked cameras on every corner and in every pocket, this shouldn’t be far off. However, the advent of deep-fakes certainly throws a twist into this story.

Ultimately, those of us who value reason and logic should form our beliefs slowly, relying on primary sources as available. Although ideology and unreasonable conclusions dominate American politics, there is no reason for us to do the same. There is no urgency to form a conclusion here, unless your livelihood depends on publishing stories that will drive traffic.

Spending any mental energy on this, at the present moment, is a waste of time. The report will be out soon enough, and that will be the time to even entertain making judgments. More likely than not, however, the report will lead to more questions than answers. At least for those who value knowing the truth over making a buck.
Uber was for awhile, but would argue now it’s become mostly regulated...drivers have to get the right TIC licenses, airports have official signage for rideshare.

Airbnb to me still feels like the Wild Wild West (Uber circa 2013) and they take so little responsibility to make sure listings are legal per terms of whatever city it’s located in.
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Definitely agree. The previous WordPress editor was clunky but, Gutenberg definitely make writing a bit more complicated. My current setup for writing is https://scribewp.com and https://bywordapp.com and both apps have increased my productivity. While it's not pen and paper it does get the job done.
I have no scientific rigor for this, but the possibility for relationships that do not bear offspring makes a ton of evolutionary sense.

By including homosexuality into a species, you have members who are able to gather and process energy without contributing to population growth. Population growth is a good thing, but too much is detrimental to the species (at least if you don't have access to agriculture). In addition, if the species is a social species, you can have richer communities without the burden of additional offspring, including non-binary genders (as primitive gender roles need not apply to homosexual members). This is especially true for humans, as our offspring is unusually vulnerable for an unusually extended time. Include adoption into the equation, and your species would have a bank of potential parents for abandoned (due to death or otherwise) offspring: in humans, bearing offspring is risky and consumes a lot of energy. Evolutionary speaking, it's not a good thing if all the energy expended in that newborn is left to waste.

The possibility of homosexuality is mathematically optimal and it is therefore a deeply natural phenomenon. You don't even need to look at the animal kingdom, it's right there in nature (assuming I'm correct, but I think my argument is compelling).
It's nice you were willing to go to that effort and expense for your family, I hope they appreciate it. But it isn't necessary to go that far if it means throwing the tapes away because it is too expensive.

I never bothered to do it, but the audio/video sync can be addressed with a video editor. The point was to capture the information on disk and toss the tape. Anyone can sync it, cut it into clips, etc., later as there would no longer be any urgency. Many TVs also cut off the edges of the signal, and nobody notices. I've even seen many movies on TV with the edges cut off, such as everything above the eyebrows. No, I don't think it was filmed that way :-)
Agree, it is difficult. The examples were meant to illustrate this.

>If you choose to operate a general purpose forum, morally you are pretty limited in what it is acceptable to silence.

I sort of agree, but isn't this almost tantamount to forcing people to listen? Philosophically, rather than actually of course, there is no clear line.

And why should speech be limited to opinion? It is free isn't it? And where has there ever been any verifiable line between opinion and fact? I would argue fact is a subset of opinion, and that all speech is actually opinion.

That is why I stressed the importance of only limiting the effects of speech, rather than the content. It maintains the rights, but also the responsibilities of the speaker.
I wouldn't say they derive most of their revenue illegally without more data, but regardless it's hardly alone. The ride-sharing services were the first of the modern companies push this model of "implement first, work out legalities later". Many of the scooter- and bike-rental outfits have operated on similar profiles.

Arguably the granddaddy of all of them was PayPal, which substantially strayed into banking territory without ever getting the appropriate accreditation.

Honestly, it seems to me the way much of this legislation moves forward. I don't know that I love companies flouting laws, but when those laws are kept in place against public interest (thinking especially of the state protection of taxi services), it can be hard to muster any serious antipathy towards them.
type annotations are actual objects instantiated at runtime, usually only done at module import for non-local annotations but done each function invocation for locals. this is nice for extensibility as it makes interacting with and extending the type system as easy as writing any other normal python but in older versions of python it was extraordinarily slow, particularly with generics (as they were previously implemented by creating new actual typeobjects each time they had arguments applied (to be usable as baseclasses) - this has been corrected in 3.7 with the addition of __mro_entries__). 3.8 is however making annotations evaluated on demand not eagerly pretty much removing all runtime performance impact.
I see a lot of up and coming angst from politicians about how Amazon the platform, and Amazon the product(s) should be broken up due to unfair advantage over other retailers trying to sell on the AMZN platform.

Is AMZN’s framework similar and does it not mimic a lot of massive sales platforms from Costco to Walmart, and even to smaller grocery stores who share their shelves (the platform) with products often times mixed with self branded products?
It's the same in Seattle's Sodo district. It's now filled with campers.
As someone who has worked with Eric Traut (the primary author of this from what I can see) in a previous life, I will say you can take this to the bank any day of the week. One of the best developers out there
> To many corporate executives, a machine that can learn more about their customers than they ever knew seems magical. Think, for example, of the moment Walmart discovered that among the things their US customers stocked up on before a hurricane warning – apart from the usual stuff – were beer and strawberry Pop-Tarts!

That sounds like a SQL query, especially since it dates from 2004. I doubt the execs found it very magical. Walmart has invested deeply in analytics for decades. They are very competent at it.
I don't want people to see X doesn't constitute X SHOULD NOT BE WATCHED no matter how loud you scream.
Probably not, as the Environment was using WiFi on the GDC showfloor. Because it’s SF the internet is great, but WiFi and floor interference from several other booths should be a factor. So my guess if it should be comparable, but for different reasons.