skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Does anyone have different experiences?"

Having used AirBnb for 6+ years, yes. Without AirBnB, we probably would not be able to live the lifestyle we live (nomadic in SEA with 3 people, usually 2-6 months in a place)

The long durations and space are definitely something we need. Some other benefits I have found:

1. Kitchens. We can't live without a kitchen of decent size. Sink, full-ish fridge, counter space.

2. Lots of choice in terms of location/look/layout/price/etc. Hotels are mainly in tourist hubs, and in SEA, usually are either decently priced and of questionable quality or much more than we want to spend (especially once you factor in AirBnB monthly discounts).

3. I trust AirBnb customer service more than hotels. Most hotels in SEA aren't chains so you are at the whim of the owners. I have had nothing but good experiences with AirBnB customer service. They can be helpful when things are getting lost in translation as well.

4. Depending on the Host, Airbnb cancellation policies tend to be more flexible, and because it's not a chain, hosts are usually more accommodating. Less "I'm sorry sir, it's company policy".

5. Airbnb's interface tends to be much easier/nicer to use. Everything is in one place, you don't have various hotel booking sites to deal with, the map works really well and you can filter by many different criteria.

6. My wife loves searching through Airbnbs for treasure :)
Expecting police to prevent all crime is fantastical. Police generally serve to enable punishment, deterrence and incapacitation of criminals.

Furthermore, there is a distinction in motivation between propaganda and journalism, but the information itself is unaware of this. If a terrorist beheads someone, then sends a video of it to a journalist who publishes it, is the journalist simply reporting the news, or are they aiding terrorism? Certainly, the video may influence the audience, and cause fear, as the terrorist desires. How we can, or even whether we should solve issues like this is a polarising topic.
I've thrown away my own art before -- not only art that I didn't want, but also art that I wanted but just didn't have space for.

Once I throw it away, I don't mind if others make money off of it. I'd rather have someone make use of it, and someone appreciate it rather than it going completely to waste.
Hurray! The labour party (finally) voted against drilling for oil outside Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja, in the very north of Norway, near to or above the arctic circle.

This has been a long fight for the enviromental lobby.
But really, it should have been obvious.

We _know_ that if we want to limit global warming, we can't even extract all the oil from currently developed fields.

In addition, an oil spill outside Lofoten could devestate the cod population of the north atlantic ocean, and destroy industries both in Norway and elsewhere.
Tl;dr Her husband divorced her, then remarried without telling her. When she found out she posted two comments on facebook basically saying "you left me for that horse". Then he died, and she travelled to UAE for the funeral and was arrested.

There are a lot of implications here. Firstly can the UAE please provide a list of people who will be arrested if they travel to UAE for "cyber crimes" and extending down to issues of freedom of speech ...

It's a fascinating time as legal regimes start to shake out the differences in countries.
I've stayed at VRBOs all over Europe, and they have mostly been good experiences. The main problem I run into is that checkin often takes longer than a hotel, but other than that they are mostly superior. As others have mentioned, they have kitchens, are in good locations, and are typically cheaper. They become much cheaper if traveling with friends where you may have needed multiple hotel rooms. So my current thinking is 1-2 night stay means hotel, but any longer and I start looking for AirBnbs.

I've also noticed that a lot of boutique hotels (5-10 rooms) often list on the VRBO sites now. The last time I was in Greece, all of my island accommodations were booked on VRBO type sites but were really just small hotels.
Not if the government/insurance gets involved.
Interesting article but doesn’t really support the headline. You could probably collect a bunch of still lifes and ask why Victorians were obsessed with bowls of fruit.
TLDR: a few screens of rumblings about how a person was informed that he/she was laid off as part of big (25%) company laid off
While it's become impossible to browse the wider Web with Google, it's getting a bit easier elsewhere.

A few helpful search engines:

* https://millionshort.com/

* https://wiby.me/

* https://pinboard.in/search/

A recent movement to build personal Yahoo!-style directories:

* https://href.cool/ (my own project)

* https://indieseek.xyz/

* https://districts.neocities.org/

* https://the.dailywebthing.com/

The above resources are focused on general blogging and personal websites - for software and startups, I would refer to the appropriate 'awesome' directories. (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome or https://awesomelists.top)

If you know of any more, please list them - a small group of us are collecting these and trying to encourage new projects.
There is an unintended consequence with this push into reporting and tracking personal health information (PHI). Alexa et. al. do NOT personally identify (yet?) the person activating the device. If my wife asks Express Scripts for prescriptions and it says "Your Viagra will be delivered at 10:00 a.m.", what if she doesn't know I take it? What happens if your nosy neighbor activates it when you step out of the room to snoop in your digital medicine cabinet? In most things you can have security or convenience but not both.
At least they're trying to manage it responsibly:

> We’re going to have to remove inactive collaborators and enforce 2fa, because commit rights will effectively become npm publish rights.
The law is not a waste of time. The law is clearly intended to prevent disruption in the online news / publishing space to protect the big players from competition. In that sense, this law seems like it will be extremely effective.
The texture of oil on canvas is extraordinarily complex and subtle. You would need billions of pixels and polygons and trillions of rays to even begin to capture the heavy impasto of Van Gogh or the coarse diffusion of Bacon.
2 years back Brian Dean published statistics from analysing 1.3 Million YouTube videos[1].

Couple of key insights were,

Comment count strongly correlates with higher rankings

Average length of first page video is : 14 mins 50 secs

I would say, if someone starts a new Youtube Channel today with original content. Unless it is >10 mins (purposefully not being succinct), cautiously scripting the content to encourage comments (which are likely to be off-topic, polarising, memes, sarcasm etc.); then there's no way the video is going to be on first page (or) gain large subscribers.

[1]:https://backlinko.com/youtube-ranking-factors

Edit: Added /n for insights
The post unflatteringly compares Google with DuckDuckGo. But doesn't DuckDuckGo use Google's technology?
You're not really supposed to stand on one side on an escalator.
In certain places it became the social norm, but when long escalators are loaded up it leads to a majority of the weight being on one side which in turn leads to more critical breakdowns where all the passengers are dumped to the bottom.

Ideally everyone should just stand in the middle.
This extract is from Delancey Place, which sends a daily email with a para or two from a fascinating book. I am rarely disappointed with their choices. Affilitate link to buy book is at bottom of email, but they seem to invest far more heart in this effort than the revenue would support. Sometimes, curated discovery is just what you need in a rushed morning. Very recommended.
If it is not viable to actively moderate all the content, there are two conflicting concerns here:

1. Online services should maintain an acceptable legal and moral standard of the content they serve.
2. Online services should be able to profitably facilitate the communication between millions and billions of users.

Which of these concerns seems more important to you, regardless of what you believe is an acceptable legal and moral standard?
Paint, as understood by oil painters and artists, sounds like a slightly different animal than paint as understood by house painters, wood finishers, and other sorts of people with more prosaic requirements of their paints.

Bob Flexner wrote a book for wood finishers, Understanding Wood Finishing, that breaks down oil paint in simple terms for the rest of us:

Some oils (like linseed and walnut) are drying oils, and can be used as a finish on their own, but don't really form a hard film finish.

For that you need a varnish, which is an oil cooked with a resin.

Paint is a varnish with a pigment added.

That's different from an oil mixed with a pigment mentioned in the article, which is probably fundamentally similar to a straight oil in terms of its properties. Maybe somebody who paints with oil paints can weigh in?

His columns in Popular Woodworking and other woodworking magazines are worth a read, as is his book, if you're interested in understanding what you're really working with.

Tying this all back to the article, I'd disagree with the claim that paint is "colored glue". One typically doesn't glue things together with paint, though that is a sometimes unintended consequence of putting something on top of something else with an incompletely cured layer of finish. You certainly couldn't use e.g. linseed oil as a glue in a joint where oxygen isn't getting in readily like a mortise and tenon joint.

A discussion of oil vs varnish here:

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/finishing/oil-...
Facebook for Egoists
Posted by an hour old throwaway account referring to a pseudonymous Medium writer discussing an anonymous company's two year old laying off procedure.

I wonder how this made it to the front page, and what we are supposed to take from it other than "company lays people off after assuring them it wouldn't, employee wasn't given much notice and online accounts were locked out during the dismissal call" all of which, in my experience on both sides of the table is completely normal.

It is standard corporate hedging and damage control, and it doesn't make it right, but it is pervasive.
No thanks. The only issues that I have with moves like these is when they become Googlish and mandatory rather than optional. I use Alexa everyday. I like Alexa. I don't want to get rid of Alexa because it's prying, but I will.
Same. Much like card skimmers at ATMs and gas stations. I know they are out there, but I've never found one.
Some explanation of why GF/GA ratio can be taken as a proxy for competitiveness would be good - it's not immediately obvious to me that it is.
Yeah, it seems a natural consequence of the combination of vast amounts of recent content with the fact that people mostly want recent content. To pick one trivial example from yesterday, if I'm looking for help with an interface issue with some current version of a program, forum posts from 10 years ago are probably not useful.

Information that people regularly access for whatever reason will tend to remain relatively visible. But, yeah, relatively obscure older content is just going to get drowned out unless you know exactly where and how to look. One might argue with Google's criteria around relevance. However, that older information is going to get harder and harder to find just in the natural course of things.
I can't help but being impressed by Norway and the decisions they have made in regards to their oil.

It would be very easy for the country to rely on their oil only, and forget about everything else. But instead, they realise the importance of renewable energy and try to build a sustainable future.
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Aren't your national newspapers interested in this? It might not become an international scandal, but some newspaper attention will get noticed, and will likely get mentioned again and again in every political discussion about the impact Facebook has on our society.

Also, report it to the police with all the evidence and screenshots you've got and just let them handle it.

It might not bring down Facebook on its own, but it will add to all the other demands that Facebook needs to get a better handle on this sort of thing.
Now all we have to do is convince the politicians in the US to walk away from their (perceived) oil as well off the coast of Alaska.
Perhaps enough for a minimum wage employee to service a report?
Depends on state laws on video voyerism. Some states (all states?) it is illegal to put them in voyeuristic places (bathrooms, bedrooms). If that's where you find them, you could just call the authorities at that point.
The first paragraph of the article mention the story of Tim Bray[0], which is exactly about this : Google forgetting an article which did not change location.

[0] : https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/01/15/Google-is...
Lots of open source projects are well architected and cleanly written[1]. Demanding that they also be problem free, or future proof, is a red herring. I've never heard any proponent of clean code claim that these are side effects of clean code.

[1] Examples I can think of off the top of my head: KHTML/Webkit, Hanami.rb, the Go standard library, sqlite...
What does leaving the house accomplish? It's not
like you suddenly will interact with people.

Not all things that involve leaving the house involve meeting new people in person - but almost all the things that involve meeting new people in person involve leaving the house.
I wonder if it's more commonly used that way in Australia?
Yeah, but how DDG was able to show "the new original"?
There is a reason: it is called "the right to appeal".

You can appeal to the real justice system and if the platform is wrong it has to pay the legal fees and re-admit the content

Now you simply can't
It's a natural movement of power between older and newer generations. As power transfers, the recipients change strategies from attack to defend.
Cars are Red. (Not true in general but true for a subset, which does not make it true in general)

So no, cars aren’t red and pains isn’t glue.
Ah, yes, I watched this series a few years ago and just realized that it may have inspired my post above a bit.

PS: I just shamelessly throw in another excellent BBC documentary series here: How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand [0]. I sometimes see it mentioned here on HN, but it cannot be mentioned too often. If you haven't seen it, please please do.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0
My question is whether gravity works like light, or whether you can just ignore the planets in between. When for example you calculate the effect of the sun on the earth but venus or mercury happen to be in a line of sight, does it influence the sun-earth calculation component? (Of course, the other planets have their own gravitational influence in line with r^2.)
Crawling isn't the real problem, nor is the bulk storage for the crawled pages.

What do you do with these pages after you've crawled them? You need to build an index out of them, and serve that index out of some kind of low latency storage (DRAM, Flash). That makes increasing the index size very expensive. The index size has to be limited, and selecting the right pages to include in the index is thus a core quality feature for a search engine.
Same issue for me on the questions. I could see from the Spectrum 48k manual that there was more that could be done than writing plain BASIC but didn’t know how to find out more. I didn’t have any idea what all those POKES I saw in others’ code (typed in from magazines) were doing.

Same issue when I got a BBC B. No reference beyond the simple user guide, and I couldn’t find anything out about other books that might be available by asking at the library, because they didn’t understand what I was asking about.

Getting onto the Internet in 1994 made a huge difference!
Since David Cameron days, the UK government has had every intention of turning UK into another China, at least as far as surveillance and censorship goes. They just can't do it so obviously, so they do it in a round-about way like arguing for "porn filters" and later for other "serious crimes". And then you wake up one day that they use the filters for whatever they want.
This child-porn and terrorism is the propaganda catch-phrase to make people agree with it. Like the UK porn-filter.

While it never will happen, this rule would mean that the BBC should be banned too. It published fake news that started the Iraq war, and one of the famous hosts was a child molester.

Instead they will ban sites that disclose the military propaganda that is published by the government media. Will they now try to block wikileaks and other similar journalism?

My greatest fear is that these waves of censorship are there to remove resistance against a 3rd world war. The US, Israel and UK are currently very aggressive.

Just as an example:
Propaganda on Iraq and Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7eW4ASIo3I
I've had this conversation a million times. I think when you're learning and working on your own to build a skill, do it fast and do it over and over. When you're working on a shared code base, you need to be more cognizant of your actions, of maintaining the established styles and conventions. I've know very few 10x or 100x programmers, and am not one myself. But I have had to deal with people who sacrificed quality for speed and every time a code review for those kind of people comes my way, I know I'm in for a ride that will take me away from the work I need to be doing.
Unless you're talking about the US Army, there's always someone bigger.
Is it a necessary to have a ability to live stream of police brutaility? Would a delay of lets say 1/2 day and distribution after moderation or by regular media be that bad? As long as you can record a video and store it live on cloud storage hindering cops from destroying video. That should be enough of a deterrent for officers to avoid police brutality.
Not disagreeing with you but can you get a full genome for $1K? I assumed that was only partial.
No, it uses Bing AFAIK
Previous discussion from when Tim Bray's article was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16153840
> Sounds like a great argument for Medicare for All, the NHS, or other nationalized systems.

There's a good chance that NICE won't be willing to fund these treatments at all. Which is in no way a criticism of them (QALY is the just the most sensible semi-objective thing to base these decisions on) - but is worth highlighting when you say "free healthcare for all".

It's only free for the healthcare considered to be good enough value for money.
Tons of awesome stuff, especially around GEGL, but this one is truly fantastic:

> This includes support for CMYK ICC profiles in babl (at this point, through LCMS2), direct CMYK support as part of relevant GEGL functions and core operations, and support for reading/writing CMYK data in TIFF and JPEG files. While not done yet, this work goes towards adding first-class CMYK support to GIMP.

GIMP's poorer CMYK handling was one of about three reasons it didn't take pride of center in a small graphic design shop (attached to a professional printer) I joined as an undergrad.
I find it baffling how western nations can't understand how they're now providing ideological justification to the same stances Russia and China are taking towards the internet.
UK laid out plans to end the internet's Wild West days and regulating big tech
Part of the problem is that their algorithm has become weighted against blogs and personal websites.

> Rumors spread that large link pages (for surfing) might be considered “link farms” (and yes on SEO sites they were but these things eventually trickle down to little personal site webmasters too) so these started to be phased out. Then the worry was Blogrolls might be considered link farms so they slowly started to be phased out. Then the biggie: when Google deliberately filtered out all the free hosted sites from the SERP’s (they were not removed completely just sent back to page 10 or so of the Google SERP’s) and traffic to Tripod and Geocities plummeted. Why? Because they were taking up space in the first 20 organic returns knocking out corporate and commercial sites and the sites likely to become paying customers were complaining.

https://ramblinggit.com/2018/08/when-the-social-silos-fall/

SEO seems to have become a huge obstacle course that smaller websites can't play.
This article is good, but these conversations here on HN always bug me.

Yes—write a ton of code.[0] Just do it. Make your favourite couple languages extensions of yourself.

Yes—think through your code really clearly. Spend a day on your migration or other data-structure altering changes. They're going to echo throughout your whole application and, ultimately, organization.

[0] The closer you get to the API, the faster you should code. Not the interface definition itself, that should be thought through, but the code that responds to a call to the interface. The serializer, the part of the controller that calls the render, these parts are easy. Just roll them out. The models and migrations are much more important. Spend time there. It's not an all or nothing thing.
The internet is so much bigger than just websites. HTTPS is great but VPNs provide encryption at a much lower level, where it should be. Even when using https you are exposing a lot of unencrypted data because https is an application layer encryption. It's not enough.
> Alexa et. al. do NOT personally identify (yet?) the person activating the device

Alexa may not, but the “et al” (sidenote; only the “al.” not the “et” is an abbreviation) is perhaps overstated: Google Home, properly configured, uses voice matching with users registered with the device for personal information, and provides more generic access without a voice match.
Do dutch state railway companies not receive funds from taxes?
> It's definitely a failure in the development process, for the software that is supposed to work in some bigger time frame, and not only shortly.

This is why I've recently started abstracting time/date calls in all my work so that I can test using arbitrary dates/times rather than using the various "now" library calls directly.

This has already had the side-benefit of allowing me to deal with stuff like the time arbitrarily going backwards when NTP synchronises the clock. I don't typically rely on wallclock time for sequencing, this just keeps things a little more robust.
Puppet agent setups have been painful fro us so we switched to Ansible. Our Unix Ops team are separate from our App Support team and both wanted to use puppet, but we had problems with conflicting puppet agents and conflicting agent versions. There are probably workarounds, but the App team decided to go with Ansible while Unix Ops stuck with Puppet.
It seems like the loading behaviour is not chosen by the sites, per se. The options (lazyload or eager) are documented as being 'recommendations' to the browser. The default setting is "auto" which means it's up to the browser. So theoretically the browser could still give the user a setting.
Maybe it's medicine. It's being applied in an attempt to better the host's health condition :-)

I believe we can all agree that the command line and the whole PowerShell thing in Windows is...funny.. to say the least.
5y ago: Heartbleed
Also in the era of deep fakes, the ability of free, live and broad distribution is even more fuel to the fire.
I'm having trouble imagining that Google would be more limited by the ratio of hardware power vs data size today than it was in the early days. If keeping the whole index in DRAM is now a requirement, then yes, I'd expect a hugely reduced overall dataset - but wouldn't that affect way more sites/pages than the comparatively few dropped historical records?

I still suspect that this whole thing is more about bias (and personalization, be it correct or incorrect) in the results.