skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sympathize with the victims here, and these scams are very horrible.

Knowing victims of similar scams, there are a few forces at play that make people unable to see the tell-tale signs of phishing that are unique to real estate and rentals:

1. Desperation for "deals." The prices are almost always below market, and people intuitively assume things will not be around for long. The city, friends in the emigre/imigrant areas, the new employer, etc. are all to blame for increasing the desperation and help the scammer without any coordination to pressure the mark to close.

2. Intense peer pressure. Moving is stressful, but people deal with stressful stuff all the time. The difference is she has a partner, a family member or a boss who depends on her to be living in a certain place by a certain time, and rarely contributes to decisionmaking. This is a pretty common sales pressure tactic that car salesmen and conventional real estate agents use; for rentals it's pretty much guaranteed you'll have a second person pressuring the mark to close quickly at any cost.

3. Non-reversible payments being the norm. Real estate is paid with non-reversible payments. Banks could easily reverse these charges. Usually the recipients of the payments are themselves marks--ordinary people who are used as blank-check businesses and cooperate, unwittingly, as the settler of payments for the scammer. The paper trail is there and it's super easy to reverse, but banks have no mechanism to report inter-bank fraud with the proper urgency. There simply is no number to call or teller to communicate to. The banks, in this way, pressure the mark into putting it all past them because it's no skin off their back.

Society does no one favors to see past these scams. Real estate rental puts the mark into an incredibly vulnerable position.

The solutions are simple. If payment is digital, it should be the norm that it is reversible. Flexible start dates for jobs that require moving enshrined in the law (moving benefit does not alleviate the pressure to save). And a place where you can see rental rates and turnover to indicate to people when a deal is too good to be true.
The most sustainable thing for me is the 50% rule: Roughly 50% by weight of your daily food intake should be unprocessed fruits and vegetables. There is no science behind this heuristic, but it's a way to a) make sure that you're eating more non-calorie-dense foods, and b) to force you to get creative in how you plan meals. There are undoubtedly more efficient ways, but it works for me because it's easy to stick to long-term.
The answer is a habit that works for you. Find healthy food that you enjoy, or at the very least you don't mind eating. Focus on building a good habit. Realize when you get cravings for unhealthy food and how to overcome them.

I'm also on a journey: https://twitter.com/charlehan/status/1117535352275648512
Very great advice. A little nitpick - lifting small dumbbells is probably useless. The main benefits from weightlifting come through Progressive Overload, where those small weights must necessarily\* turn into big weights. If (s)he must stick to small weights, there is a very small window of benefit to weight lifting.

\* - note that in Progressive Overload you can also increase total number of reps (the true metic is increased volume over time, where volume = reps \* sets \* weight), but again, there is a small window of benefit. 100 reps of 10 lb curls isn't much better than 80 reps of 10 lb curls.
In my experience, most writers are much more detached from the business than that.

They admire working for a publication because of its journalistic reputation, are sometimes unionized [not always], and often stand opposed to business imposing its own desires ranging from editorial changes to working conditions.

So I know it's only anecdotal, but my experience leads me to believe your presumptions are largely unfounded.

Many journalists have about as much attachment to their publications as a GM factory line worker has to GM stock prices. The pride is in the quality of output. They never expect to become rich off of that work. For journalists, the money comes in publishing best-selling books—not selling 5% more subscriptions one year, or 10x ad-impressions.
My post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995933

A guy who agreed with me:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17997184

Matthew Weinberg, former Special Advisor to the SBA's Office of Investment and Innovation, disagrees with you. With respect to the SBIR program, he said:

"It’s fundamentally astounding that the federal government—not private venture capital firms or banks—is the entity backing these moonshot investments that end up changing the world[1]."
I don't know, everything about this story is strange. Last year the Ecuador embassy cut off Assange's internet access, then Wikileaks began giving public statements that it was sitting on a trove of documents concerning Moreno and the Ecuadorian government that many people interpreted as a veiled threat. Shortly after, Assange's internet access was restored and Wikileaks never released the alleged documents. The documents were obviously released anyways but there's no clear evidence that Wikileaks or Assange was involved. I'm guessing whoever was the original source for the documents released it themselves after Wikileaks declined to. This isn't the first time Wikileaks has been implicated in selectively releasing information for political purposes. Wikileaks also declined to release a massive collection of documents concerning corruption in the Russian government for unknown reasons during the same period it was releasing sensitive documents leaked from the CIA and NSA. Those documents were also released by the original sources after Wikileaks declined to release them.
If a certain US politician were hiding university grades (instead of income tax returns), then this article would be calling for the public disclosure of university grades.

If you stop to think-- really think-- about all the ideas that are springing out of the ground in opposition to one political candidate, you would see how crazy things have become. The electoral college, the number of seats on SCOTUS, etc. etc. It's wild.

Luckily, sanity will prevail.
hmm only less than 500 employees. Sounds legit.
That's a good point: the pace of technological change is accelerating.
Dominican Republic isn't exactly a model for capitalism. It scores relatively low by Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index:

https://www.heritage.org/index/country/dominicanrepublic
> Breaking compat on accident happens.

Semver would be what? Tests should catch it. Mine or yours.

> Bad pushes and releases exist.

Semver would be what? Tests should catch it. Mine or yours.

> Unpatched bugs in latest.

Semver would be what? Tests should catch it. Mine or yours.

> Wrong deployments.

Semver would be what? Tests should catch it. Mine or yours.

> Semver make it easier to spot/prevent mistakes by giving you more granular information.

None of those things are fixed by semver. What is the point of semver again?

The only thing I, as a user, give any crap about is breaking change. i.e. major version numbers.

So why not just have one or two levels?
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GCC has some options that you can specify in order to change how some of the undefined behaviour stuff is implemented.
This sounds horrible at first look but I would like to see how this looks in the real world. I assume management is part of that circle too, right?
I think the idea is those costs don’t scale linearly with the number of rides, so if you can increase the volume of rides which each have a small profit and hold the other operational costs constant or at least less than linear, you eventually get to profitability. That’s the theory anyway.
The researcher said she identified racial bias. The factors you describe are merely reasons why such bias would exist. What’s your basis for saying this researcher is race baiting, hyper partisan, or showing a lack of understanding of anything?
Big banking cartels should be broken up long before big tech is. There's a question of why only american tech companies are targeted for alleged anti-trust violations while chinese groups like huawei get a free pass.
So, because of a hypothetical concern that semver could unnecessarily declare a non-breaking change as breaking, they got rid of non-breaking changes altogether?

This seems a pretty roundabout way to tell users they don't want to be backwards compatible anymore.
Intermittent fasting is, for the most part, just skipping breakfast. I do that in combination with a mostly low carb/high fat thing, but I'm not too strict with anything. I also don't track my calorie intake.

More importantly, I believe that cutting sugar is the key to weight loss and maintenance. I mostly drink water, black tea, and black coffee.

You should make sustainable changes that fit your lifestyle, not follow a diet trend.
This article made me really happy. Our 3 year old is bound by the same rule - iPad is allowed when flying somewhere but not at home. Fortunately she has made peace with it... mostly. Every night we play Laurie Berkner toothbrushing song for her so she’ll spend full 2 minutes brushing her teeth. iPad is locked right after; every now and then she’ll try to grab it and enter some digits, and I think she is getting good at it. She knows first two digits already. At some point I’ll be forced to upgrade to touchID/faceId iPad for her as well.
That's not possible in general, for instance if you write a block of memory than execute it, you can't really define what's going to happen without including an ISA in your language spec. Another example would be executing a syscall with a not-yet-used number. The ability to do both of these things are necessary for a low-level language such as C.
You can define custom touch bar buttons with BetterTouchTool (https://folivora.ai/), and configure them to run a custom shell script. There is probably some way to call Emacs functions via shell script.

However, be warned, BTT’s interface is messy and the buttons it creates don’t look right unless you manually adjust the styling yourself. Also, macOS won’t show BTT’s buttons unless you either allow BTT to take over your whole Touch Bar, hiding Apple’s global buttons, or you expand the BTT toolbar beforehand, which must be closed before you next try to press the Esc key.
The computer vision systems could still beat real human vision systems. This could be by absolute numbers crashed into, or by having less bias than humans, or by both.

It's not even a bias problem. It's a lighting, contrast, and camo problem. You could as well claim a bias between asphalt and concrete pavement, based on what skin tones are more visible with the pavement as a background.
I've heard people say that sexual dimorphism varies by race. You can find papers when searching for it, anyone more familiar with the space able to confirm the validity one way or the other?
They obviously should but it wouldn't really help here. Realistically if a scammer gets my Airbnb email and password they're probably not going to be able to do anything that won't expose themselves, and I'd expect to eventually get my money back from Airbnb if it was all on their platform.

The idea is really to get you making a payment on their fake website. They don't need you to log-in at all, I imagine they use it to look for password re-use more than to log in to the victim Airbnb itself. Skipping login is less suspicious and when you've contacted them on Airbnb they have your name, they can put that into a query param (mine already did this presumably for tracking) and show you logged in addressing you by name.
This is more of a hint than an answer. A real answer would explain what specifically they do for each kind of expense and why the US doesn't match it already.

For example, if they have lower salaries for some things, the US would have to cut them to match what they do. The savings doesn't happen automatically.
Up for me, visiting from Berlin, can't possibly be in my cache. Perhaps the GP forgot to add the ".com"?

Interestingly, the site appears to only change the location of the listing and leaves all the other details (host, reviews etc.) exactly the same. Modifying the ID randomly redirects to the real Airbnb homepage.
Leslie Lamport has provided his own +1 to this book, as well as a thorough review here https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/practical-tla.html
I suggest to follow research-based advises. For example, there is Harvard Schoold of Public Health:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
It's not hopelessness, just not hope. As in, reading this article does not elicit feelings of Hope in the reader.
Follow a low glycemic diet. This means don't eat sugar at all, and eat very few refined carbs like flour. Don't worry about fats. The fellow who invented this method is Michel Montignac, and it became popular enough in Europe to affect the national food purchasing statistics in the Netherlands. It is very similar to the Mediterranean diet.

Counting calories is a pain, and most people won't stick with it. Instead, you have to change your diet forever and become accustomed to following it. To maintain weight, you may find that you have to follow a more strict diet once a year (no alcohol or starch) following the holidays.
Interesting. I've had the idea for generating palettes based upon captured nature scenes or animals, especially birds and fish. Now that I think about it, take it a step further to include the habitat, and there you go: ecosystem palettes.
What Vampire and similar “automated theorem provers” are doing is searching for a proof of some logical statement (that you specify). That proof search is a really tough problem, so there’s a ton of research that goes into finding ways of speeding up the search e.g. through novel data structures. Proof verification —- the process of verifying the correctness of some claimed proof —- is much faster.
If you can see a challenge, it must be reCAPTCHA v2 instead.
> Government agency usually gets perpetual use license of your product.

Misleading. The agency, in this case NSF, obtains march in rights for patents (not data) developed using funds received from them. They will only exercise that right in the most extraordinary circumstance. Basically, if you develop a cure to cancer and then decide not to commercialize it or make it publicly available, they may exercise march in rights and take it over. No agency, not even the DoD, has ever exercised it, to my knowledge.
A racial bias is not indicative of racism — and is not inherently problematic.

The entire tone of the article, and indeed her own comments, is that this racial bias is somehow problematic or must be gotten rid of.

> What’s struck a chord about Boulamwini’s work is her method of testing the systems created by well-known companies. She applies such systems to a skin-tone scale used by dermatologists, then names and shames those that show racial and gender bias. Buolamwini, who’s also founded a coalition of scholars, activists and others called the Algorithmic Justice League, has blended her scholarly investigations with activism.

The question of differential identification between white and black may merely be a question of physics (ie, any recognition system has an easier time of white people because of how optics work), and the relevant question for implementing facial recognition is if it works well enough at identifying black people to be usable. To name and shame people because their product responds to genuine physical differences in groups of people is absurd.

Comparing white people and black people without acknowledging the racial disparity in optical response is race baiting; comparing men and women without acknowledging the broad scale difference in bone structure is gender baiting.

Why?

Because there is no problem with a racial or gender bias if it extends from a physiological difference, and not willful discrimination.

Her research is the equivalent of concluding the grocery store is problematically heightist because tall people have an easier time reaching the top shelf — unseriousness unworthy of the topic, and outrage bait.
These are two very different products at two very different price points.

10TB of Table storage is 655$
10TB of CosmosDb is 2500$
We Were All Free of Facebook's Iron Grip on the Internet for a Few Hours
People have a tendency to realize certain things only when it's too late.
Or just do a quick Google search for a custom resource....

https://github.com/kspurrier/cfn-dynamodb-global-table/blob/...
Why isn't there a social network only for video?
Some of the methods sound very interesting. I would love to see if there are patterns in data from microphones, keyloggers, location tracking, etc. Realistically, though, I doubt much will come out of it (the 12-person lunch table fact is probably the most interesting one they have, or they would have given a more impactful example).

So while it would be fun, I already don't expect it would produce much... but on top of that, I would never want to be tracked that way in a workplace environment. It would indeed be dehumanizing. I will happily track myself, but there is a power relation between an employer (or even colleagues) and myself. Data about me might be negative, or positive data about me will be negative for a colleague. This is the reason why employers cannot use your data under GDPR with consent: you cannot freely give consent. A request from your boss is not the same as a request from a local restaurant to track my choice of dishes across visits: I might or might not feel an implied pressure, so it's not free. It's even worse here: this kind of data is always negative about whoever turns out to perform less well on whatever metric it tracks.

(One example of self-tracking is that I like to look back on my trips, so I have OsmAnd record every time I use it for navigation, but I deny Google Maps that permission because then it is no longer me that is tracking myself.)
Sounds like this project may be intending to write one, but is there any existing documentation on syntax colouring that goes beyond "what we thought looked nice"?

For example, what should have similar colours and why, what should stand out the most. How far apart do two colours need to be to be effective for the various tasks involved in writing and understanding code and so on. Is there s trial research on this?
Tweeting while flying kills migratory birds
It's the sum total of all that technology. If you want to filter content there are a few options:

* Look at the actual content if it's HTTP. HTTPS prevents this.
* Look at the DNS query to determine the domain. DoH prevents this.
* Look at the SNI header to determine the domain. ESNI prevents this.
* Look at the IP address to see where the traffic is going. However, this isn't fine grained enough, especially if the traffic is going to a CDN.
* MitM with a self-signed CA. This is the hardest option. It's impossible on many devices (because you can't install a root CA) and a huge PITA to install a custom root CA on devices that support it. It's also much more invasive than the other options and makes it possible to accidentally log sensitive information.

Right now a lot of devices ignore your network config and use 8.8.8.8 for DNS. At least with DNS as a separate protocol, you can block external DNS servers and most devices will reluctantly use your local DNS (which can be used to block ads and tracking).

However, once DoH starts getting adopted, those devices (and many apps) will start to use it because you can't block HTTP(S). Literally all a network admin is going to see is a bunch of encrypted connections to CDNs (Cloudflare, Cloudfront, etc.).

IMHO, even though it's sold as privacy tech, it's a huge loss for the average person that can spin up a DNS based ad-blocker right now. It's going to get to the point where you no longer have control over your own network. The huge tech companies and ISPs will control everything.
I like a lot of what he wrote about environmental concerns.

Then the swipe at capitalism. Seems like a bridge too far, tackling too many issues in one article. (Even if the second tackle was just a glancing swipe.)
You cannot give consent if you are not informed about that to which you are consenting.
Aren't those common to all compilers? So it just does everything that clang/gcc do also, but does it better?
All I need to know about personal development I learned from Pokémon
This is madness. Few years back Airbus was experimenting with electroluminescent paint on planes for similar reasons - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170627006378/en/Wor...
Remember the time Pepsi wanted to project their logo onto the moon using ground-based lasers? They hadn't bothered to check if it was feasible. Sounds like the same story repeating itself again.
Wow, is that really the case? The last “cloud provider” I remember this to be the case was SoftLayer. Is Azure really that bad?
> People ignore deprecation warnings, so the best way forward is often to break compatibility.

People don't ignore deprecation warnings, they vehemently disagree with their existence. Why the fuck are you taking functionality away from me?

Don't like your thing? Make a new one. The old one isn't hurting you. And if it is, make a new one.

> the best way forward is often to break compatibility.

This is NEVER the best way forward, this is some next level idiotic shit.

> I agree that breaking compatibility should be avoided, but it shouldn't be completely out of the question.

Why not? What in your world view makes this OK? I'm using your software because it solves a problem. I'm not using it so you can make more work for me.

If linux can make backwards compat guarantees since 0.1 then so can libraries like leftpad.

> It needs to be frequent enough that your anticipate it, but not so frequent that you lose users.

Jesus christ, if you think of your users like this I don't think you really deserve them. Your users are why your thing exists, be grateful and stop shitting on their needs for stability.
I made a tinder like guessing game for the new season of Game of Thrones
I happen to think otherwise regarding XML, and rather enjoy using all high level tooling for XML processing.
I think the key part of your answer is "IMO". Incrementing the major without breaking is still semver, where wether you think so or not. One example for you is a package that was javascript and moved to typescript. Same everything, but they increment the major.
There is a second way to look at DNS: together with CA system, it proves the website identity. When an email sends me to payment page, I look at address to confirm: yep, it says “hsbc.com”, I can enter my financial details there. Or: It says “ubuntu.com”, I can download software from there.

For that to work, there needs to be a single registry, with human mediators and subject to legal process. I want to know that even if company loses control of their private key (like microsoft.com did once), the sitation will still be resolved very fast.

Note that strictly speaking, this is about CA system, not about DNS. But those systems are deeply linked to each other, so it makes no sense to replace one while keeping the other one around.