skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it went from just the founders couldn't afford rent to a lot of people couldn't afford rent.

Lots of property management companies basically stick a human face on AirBNB and then rent them out for short term for far more cash. Has been happening for the Toronto area for sure.

Then you've got the unruliness of guests, especially those close to the bar districts - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ghost-hotel-byward-mar...

And then you have hosts that cancel on you, often the same listing goes back for a higher price, because they know they can ask for more.
NeurIPS 2019 Will Host Minecraft Reinforcement Learning Competition
I maintain a static HTML file with all my bookmarks, which also includes embedded search boxes for Google, Wikipedia, etc. It forms a much better home page + new tab page than anything else. File is automatically sync'd between various devices using variois tools.
IQ works just as well within families as it does between them, meaning that it predicts difference in success even between children in the same family.
Looks like the "Ad" indicator has almost evolved into its final form now. There's not even any color distinction any more, and they've put it in the same location as normal results' favicons, which is a spot that people will become blind to very quickly.
So you're saying that [grin] it's absolutely irrelevant?
Of course working memory is important and should be tested in an IQ test. But so is being able to use tools to augment yourself and work around your weaknesses.

And having a specialized ability to memorize numbers is quite useless.
Potential for harm is only one side of the equation, benifit needs to sit on the other. Considering we are talking about cosmetics minimal benefit is combined with direct contact, regular ingestion, and even occasional contact with the bloodstream.

Harm is also more of a continuum than a binary situation. Ten individual sources of say lead exposure may not be that harmful on their own, but they add up. When talking about public heath we have often gotten it wrong by saying it’s low enough not to be an issue.
Show HN: How I made our whole Python infrastructure 20% faster with 1 change
So they wanted to speed up numpy and machine learning algs and I have no idea how I was going to do it.

To cut a long story short, I compiled python 3 for servers with a customized makefile:

```
./configure --enable-optimizations --with-lto
```

and then, I replaced `-O3` in make file with `-Ofast`.

That was it. And of course, I wonder why these are not defaults.

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Netlify can also be very simple to use. You can literally give them a folder of just HTML, CSS, and JS: https://app.netlify.com/drop
He definitely plays the youtube game, perhaps too well, but his advice is consistent and well explained. I just take it as the cost of free; he presents it the way he does to maximize youtube profit, I have to wade through click-baity titles and repetition, but there's some high quality information underneath it all
> can publicly comment on what they do.

I can. During a short stint in an ad tech company in Shanghai in 2016 (my second time in ad tech after running an ad farm myself in my teen years), I noticed that Samsung Internet (a browser) does not require permission for sensor data. Then, just few month later, Chrome team put sensors live without them too.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18247690

I remembered reading about Kalman techniques used in radionav in high school, and it instantly came into my head that you can as easily reverse the process to substract clean, kalman filtered, signal from noisy one to get an "anti-pattern."

And with it you can easily do whatever you want from FFT, to reverse manchester coding, to more esoteric techniques to quantitise it.

Everybody in the collective got quite fired up with it, thinking about it being a "that's it" moment for us to do some sweet arbitrage on ad exchanges with it. We were few weeks from filling a patent, but it was decided to keep it hidden after all with logic that: 1. big ads will shoot us down, 2. botters will get whiff of it, 3. patents don't work for "small" companies

I got symbolic premium, arbitrage results were far from super good as originally expected. At that point we found a silly thing: 20 to 30% of MoPub traffic had accelerometers and gyros playing same data in a 5 second loop!

Later after I left the company, I learned of ours sales people finally managing to sell it under wraps to "somebody big" , whose identity I was not told

I do remember right around that time flaming on bugzilla with either google or mozilla employees who claimed that you can't extract fingerprint from 60 hz data, and me claiming otherwise to no avail.

My point was to put mandatory permission prompt on it, and I remember being turned down.
How building an IDE extension changed the way we shipped code
And yet there's a thousand vulnerabilities from C/C++ code being used out in the wild, stemming from bad memory management, whereas we don't see those with many other languages.

Yes, there are still other types of bugs that are language-agnostic, but a language definitely can reduce the chance of creating a certain set of bugs in the first place.
Is the idea of a finder's fee so negative? If banks regulators and the banks came up with a plan where sniffing out money laundering was rewarded and banks made extra money helping the justice system take on financial crime...isn't that the best possible outcome?

Of course the danger of such a system is banks would be overzealous in their reporting in the hopes of getting a lucky payout. That's another pitfall that would need to be addressed with fines or incentives. My point is that it's not inherently bad when businesses are rewarded for doing the right thing.
The problem is finding a physio that's worth a shit. I've dealt with serious injuries and complications (and recovered) over many years and I can tell you that most of the physios, chiros, trainers, and acupuncturists are no more useful than YouTube and some are even counter productive.

What I find interesting is that you'll hear similar types of comments from both people who know what they are doing and people who don't. For a lot of people "usefulness" for a professional is based solely on whether they say things they want to hear.
Lucky if you're a person with the drive and motivation to go out swinging the bat.
Been learning Rust for the past few weeks.. absolutely love most of it. It's the first low-level language that actually feels right to me. Of course, I'm one of those weirdos who actually loves JavaScript. I also appreciate Go and C#. Rust just feels like most of the right trade offs, and once Futures and Async/Await stabilize, it'll be IMHO feature complete.

As an aside: The community needs an abstraction for WebAssembly's File System that has something like fcntl/flock functionality. As it stand's the Node interface for emscripten targets isn't good enough. Would love to see a bit more collaboration on this regard for sync and async interfaces for FS I/O that supports file/record locking in a more abstract runtime. Though this has been a pretty big shortcoming with Node since early on imho.
If you are worried about the security provided by the tor browser then you should be using projects like whonix and tails. Both of them try to block (or redirect it via tor?) all non-tor traffic, which should make it significantly more difficult to mount an attack.
I haven't looked into compiling Go to JVM bytecode, but a solid way to do that would resolve an ongoing tug-of-war at work, and avoid a lot of résumé-driven development of stuff maven central already had.
That is not the content of the article. It just states that they put a gym in the inpatient facility, and people's mood improved.

"MORE" effective? No claim of that. The original paper title is: "Positive patient response to a structured exercise program delivered in inpatient psychiatry". Its irresponsible to suggest that exercise alone will help everyone - as someone struggling with treatment resistant depression, exercising even 5 times a week didn't do what a low dose antidepressant did. Sometimes it IS chemical.
Elm is also inspired by Haskell, but has a (intentionally) very simplistic type system.

It lacks essential abstractions such as type classes, resulting in very boilerplate-heavy code.

Maybe this trade-off has helped it gain adoption and is the right choice for a simple language that purpose built for UI generation. For me it is way too limiting.
Does the webflow save to a git repo?
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I was just going to mention that I don't like when designers put these system-specific icons in a place where user content can also go. Someone can just use a favicon with a black "Ad" text and it will look just like Google's own ad indicator, which then becomes a candidate for phishing or at the very least can mislead users into thinking they are clicking on vetted ad content. The previous design where there was a dedicated location for the "Ad" indicator is clearly much better. I am surprised by this change.
None of the popular high quality IQ tests (WAIS, WISC, Stanford-Binet, Raven’s, ASVAB) asks about Sherlock Holmes.
And what's your objection? Zork good Fortnite bad?
So HTML should not be concerned with supporting web application workflows? What should people be building web applications with if not HTML/CSS/etc.? If HTML doesn't support common use cases (by supporting additional markup) then everyone will have to roll their own. And if the only tools they have to do that are ugly privacy invasive monstrosities like fingerprinting, what will they use?

What should replace internet advertising as a way of funding content? This is not an advertising industry problem -- it also affects publishers. Will they have to start charging everyone micropayments to view their content? How will this affect the ability of third parties to index and archive content?
They are mandated to do flagging, but cannot be forced to be good at it. An incentive would not necessarily make them better at it, but it would still add rewards to all the cases they do find, despite all the squinting and bugs and carefully assigning the lowest performers to the task.
The idea, presumably, is that the "finder's fee" is money paid to the bank for finding money laundering, and that fee outweighs the profits from the transactions themselves.

"Fees" are not levied against an institution, "fines" are. And in that light, yes, fines are indeed too low to thwart a failure to identify the correct transactions.
Quantum Shannon theory with superpositions of trajectories
There are actually a great many of these "mechanical movement" books from that time period, circa 19th to early 20th century.

They are contemporary with similar books on "electrical machinery" (generators and motors, mainly), "steam engineering", "home and farm improvements/implements", and many other similar subjects.

Some were aimed at the professional engineer, while others were meant or accessible to the ordinary person with such interests or needs.

I enjoy discovering and adding these books to my collection when I can find them at used and antiquarian bookstores.
I'm not sure what it is that you think Microsoft did with IE but Google is doing pretty much the same, in the sense that their app ecosystem is all-or-nothing. And even worse in the sense that it's tied to the cloud account - back then, you didn't need a Microsoft account to use Windows.
Not everyone believes that advertising is inherently bad, or that being able to track the effectiveness of particular advertising campaigns is bad – as opposed to tracking individual users.
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) video puts you in the cab of a self-driving truck
There are fields that are currently over-whelmingly dominated by men. If you are a man, and you are in these fields, it seems like women just don't want to get involved.

But if you start looking with fresh eyes you start to see again and again and again small things, apparently insignificant things, that all combine to say "Women aren't welcome here." This is a single, simple, tiny, apparently insignificant example, but it's utterly ubiquitous.

Your dismissal just makes it clear that you either haven't noticed, or don't care. It's a sobering thing to realise that there is just so much subliminal repelling of women from fields such as finance, programming, physics, mathematics, engineering, and more. If you start to listen to women instead of just saying "it's all in your head" then you'll learn something.

And it's horrifying. I always feel guilty that when I get tired of the fight I can give up for a while. But that's because I'm a cis-het white male, and the system is biased in my favour. Others can't choose to give up - and it's relentless.
> again went to the HR and said I can't be a part of this process, as my conscience does not allow me to do that.

Technically, you were not a part of this - some salespeople lied to the client and your company got the contract. You did not partake in this. If you want to only work on contracts that were won 100% ehtically, you probably should open your own company, as, from what I've seen, you won't find much companies (in the "generic software development" market) doing that. Or, more realistically, work for a company that writes software for its own use and not for clients.
Absolutely 100% agreed. I started with that assumption and figured that even with very conservative numbers I'd be well below the number of driving fatalities. I did that calculation as I wrote that comment and didn't retroactively edit my initial reactions or change any numbers to fit my bias.

I'd love to see someone figure out the real numbers here.
If you are referring specifically to marijuana, never. However, I do code frequently when I take amphetamines. I get in the zone much easier and am able to focus longer.
Flotato – Drowning in Browser Tabs?
Got any sources for that?

Edit: lol, downvotes for asking for sources? "Hacker" "news" is just full of gems!
I'm put off (not because of the formatting):

http://try.purescript.org/?session=60f1839b-bd82-d9af-75ef-d...

It adds weird syntax where it doesn't matter, like "<>" for string concatenation, but it doesn't cut down on noise where it does matter, i.e. the "list of records" in the example.

I'm also wary of a language that puts "pure" right in the name. Purity is nice and often beneficial, but there's a point where it just becomes a crutch. That point which is where the FP adherents and the mainstream diverge.
Olive: A free non-linear video editor
I’ll opine that C# is much less verbose than Java in practice - language features like properties, reified generics, functional-like programming with Linq, tuples and its jilt-in support for async APIs mean you can be surprisingly succinct.
I have no capability (nor much of an interest) in even beginning to judge these authorities. That's my point: I trust them blindly because if they turn out to roll dice when making regulation or approving aircraft - it's still better than me doing it.

Now, the situation is a bit special now that there are efffectively TWO competing authorities. It's not that there used to be just one, but that one used to be the authortitive one (or that they spoke with one voice). This complicates things. So OK - when there are conflicting information I might trust the cautious one. But for all practical purposes, these authorities are opaque to the average traveler. I must either trust them or stay on the ground.
This really does answer the question, spot on. The client side app does see the key(s) but it does not send them to the server. This is how E2E encryption works, browser or otherwise.

I'm not sure specifically how Tanker is storing the client-side keys. Generally the client-side keys would be encrypted using an OS-level keychain.
Last time I was in a position to try, not so much. I emailed about 15 such contractors at least close to the SW US (I'm in Phoenix), and didn't get a single response. This was 5-6 years ago.
There are two other living combinations that we did not figure out til recently, one involving sea life and the other involving lichen (in case you missed them):
general public:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-shel...
source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191779/

general public:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/how-a-gu...
The squat style has a lot to do with body types I think. His squat style completely cleared up lower back and hip pains I was having with high-bar. I think people should try both and see where their bodies are most comfortable.
There are ways to be reclassified as a undesirable persona
Good call, sir, would you like to keep your job? Or your infrastructure or your Bridges? Asking for a well informed friend. And well uptateable friend if I might add. "swissparanoia" hashtag
Pendant is spelled correctly. After all we might be wearing charms against fun.
Companies are run by people and their objectives are not and need not be entirely economic. I often hear people say "well companies are legally required to maximise return for their shareholders" but that is not at all the case.

Sure, some company management may be spurred to be good actors because they feel it will cause long term vale creation.

But then again you could just do the right thing because by and large people are not assholes.

That's why when I hear of exploitative predation by companies I get so mad: because it's ultimately exploitative predation by people. Even if the person on the phone to you / writing that code may not have enough context to understand the evil they might be doing, someone set the context that way, and in many cases it was deliberate.
You can put AWS Engineer on your resume.
TweetNaCl is roughly equivalent to libsodium, on which Tanker builds. Tanker is easier to integrate into your app because it takes care of key sharing, multi-devices, user group managment, etc. These are all things you would have to handle by yourself using just a cryptographic library like TweetNaCl.
See my reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19984423
> on page content (much more useful IMO)

In your opinion? On what grounds can you make this claim, as if there didn't exist a multi-billion dollar industry focused on maximizing ad-targeting usefulness, as if ad companies haven't tried context-based targeting and just decided to do something else that apparently makes them less money by being less useful.

Do you have any serious evidence that "knowing everyone’s intimate details means your random context-free ad will result in someone buying something" is a bizarre belief instead of a fact that a capitalist market has settled on?

Edited for clarity
Not to mention minimizing risk of injury.
IQ is the best test we have to predict economic success.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2007-strenze.pdf
An idiot with capital will, relatively quickly, lose all of his capital through wasteful spending. You see this all the time with lottery jackpot winners, those who receive a large inheritance, etc.
Yes. It also provides a really nice UI for building our www site which we like to rev frequently. Webflow is the bomb if you are familiar with HTML and CSS. Super clean HTML, total control over all the css attributes, drag and drop builder.
Andrej Karpathy has a nice blog post on this: https://medium.com/@karpathy/software-2-0-a64152b37c35

The idea is that more and more software development will be "deleting" code, and re-writing that with neural networks.
Not the OP, but Zork was easy to put down and pick up later, and it wasn't multiplayer. It's the comparison that ignores something really interesting.
Keyboard jockeys pretty much always have tight pec minors. I started watching other people's body mechanics years ago and I had to stop looking at my coworkers because it was distressing. Tight pecs can cause a lot of mid back problems which is how I got diagnosed.

I had this weird muscle spasm a couple inches below my shoulder blade on one side, when holding my arms out in front of me for long. Asked someone about it and they checked my shoulder rotation and told me I needed to work on that.

Test: Stand up and relax your arms at your sides. Get your arms into your most comfortable 'resting' position.

Now look at your hands. In a healthy, balanced adult body your palms are supposed to be facing each other, not pointing straight backward. When I first started working on mine, I was at almost 170 degree angle between my palms. Shoulders nearly totally rolled forward from tight pec minors. After working on it for a while I had it briefly down to around 30 degrees, but I just checked and I'm back up around 80. Back to work I guess...
social intelligence or creativity

IQ predicts those as well, not just mathematical ability. The theory of "multiple intelligences" has serious weaknesses which have not been addressed by its proponents, chief among those is that the "different intelligences" are highly correlated.
> In 2019, there is a strong bias to write Web service applications in the same language as the client.

where is this bias? The majority of enterprise development still happens in Java and C#.
> identify weak links through the flow of prana/inner breath

I've reaped great flexibility and pain-relief benefits from yoga movements, but could you elaborate on this inner-breath part?
So Apple is going to do a 180 and suddenly switch to being anti-privacy and pro-advertising. Disable the Safari content blockers they only recently added, end the advertising campaigns they just started using. And all for a tiny 1% of their revenue ?

Privacy is a fundamental part of Apple's selling proposition and personal to Tim Cook given that in many cases gay and other minorities are killed due to privacy leaks.
Word tests are used as part of good, high quality IQ tests (e.g. WAIS and Stanford-Binet, though obviously not Raven’s). They are in fact one of the most useful and predictive parts (I.e. they are most g-loaded). They are biased (i.e. not measurement invariant) if you compare subjects from different countries/cultures, but they are not biased if you compare subjects from the same country/culture. For example, the score on word analogies sections has exact same predictive validity for white Americans as it does for black Americans. See Arthur Jensen’s “Bias in mental testing” for a very comprehensive treatise on the issue.
We can increase the FLOPs of a CPU by reducing resistance, increasing the size of cache, reducing distance between I/O devices.

Might IQ be a measure of the aggregate of the benefit of equivalent measures of neurons?

For example, we know that MS patients have autoimmune diseases that attack the myelin sheath on neurons which slows their neuronal processing speed. Perhaps higher IQ people might have more Schwann cells to speed neuronal transmission more than lower IQ people.

Maybe the diameter of neurons or the width of the gap between the synapses. Or the sheer number of neurons and synapses might be different.

IQ could be an indirect measurement through test taking, that approximates a combined measure of all the physical properties of neurons and their arrangements that contribute to higher intelligence.
$20. Also, not sure if you're aware, but the Trump admin just decided to keep the genocidal white guy instead of the heroic black woman...

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/445004-mnuchin-harriet-tu...
Fallout: Reading Kernel Writes from User Space [pdf]
There was a company out of San Francisco some years back that built several versions of an auto-foiling kite powered trimaran. It looked really cool.

https://youtu.be/1QzT_PBLSXo
Tedious: "too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous." -- TAOP qualifies, for me anyway. Have fun if you like it.