skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> paying for the freedom to easily up and move if something else fits my fancy.

There is something to be said for this.

However, there is also something to be said for the ability to not be kicked out of your living space directly ("we have decided not to renew your lease") or indirectly ("should you renew your lease, we will be increasing rent by $500 and installing smart locks in every apartment").
Why would Google give up all that ad revenue to help Apple?
Even worse, they make them bigger for the same price by cutting quality.
Can confirm: had a wall socket next to my bed spontaneously catch fire when I was a kid.
I would say this is only normal/healthy if you have a freemium business model--otherwise the revenues to me seem way to skewed (i.e. very/very far away from 80/20).
What i am most impressed about this paper is that it is primarily from CMU with 5 authors and 1 from Google (with the legend Quoc from Google and Ruslan Salakhutdinov is also excellent). Even though the CMU team may have had the original ideas, I guess the golden age of ML adage still holds despite their contributions related to dual-masking-plus-caching - "it's a golden age so long as you have access to massive amounts of compute and storage".
Realnames stopped influencers who didn't use their Realnames from signing up.

If you didn't have contact with either marginalised groups who as a matter of survival didn't use their real name or ancient extremely online people who for the entirety of their internet experience had been known as a handle it wouldn't have crossed your radar.

But it was a huge thing.
Do not get a home warranty. It's about $600 a year and they do nothing when you report an issue. When you call to complain, they send a contractor. Who doesn't show up. When the third contractor they promise to send finally shows up, they're the cheapest contractor they could find in 100 miles and they make the problem worse. Finally you threaten to sue and they close the policy and give you cash in lieu of replacement and you take care of it yourself.

It very often costs a lot more than $600 to maintain a home for a year. The warranty service only makes money if they can spend less than that on the home. As a result, the biggest and most profitable warranty companies are the ones that promise the most and spend the least.
Intel chips are still significantly better than AMD for many common workloads. If you are running SpecCPU or Cinebench in production then AMD might be right for you; in all other cases I urge you to run your own realistic benchmarks before buying. Intel’s “response” to Rome came out in April. It’s a 28-core chip that costs $12k. The reason Intel doesn’t feel price pressure here is they are still way ahead in performance on real high-end workloads like DBMSs etc.
Strange, the OP link is taking me to:

https://csslab.cs.toronto.edu/gs/

Which I receive the message I posted above, reproduced fully below:

There is no web site here

Perhaps you were looking for the website of the Department of Computer Science. Otherwise, we are afraid that we do not know what you were looking for and cannot provide it. If you are coming through a link to an IP address, the content you are looking for may be present on our support website.
Ok, so admit 31,000 fewer immigrants and the AirBnB problem would go away, right?

Rallying against AirBnB is so silly -- no matter how you slice it it's always a minor factor in self-inflicted "housing crisis" scenarios.
About as many as I know who would consider repairing their device at all instead of buying a new one.
Monzo just launched in the US. See their announcement at https://monzo.com/blog/2019/06/13/monzo-usa/

There is a waitlist to join though.
A lot of responses along the lines of “and HOW would Apple have done this?”

Google pays Apple how much every year to remain their search engine of choice? Their corporate relationship isn’t exactly distant.
Probably extremely frequently since the GFW blocks a huge number of random things including even GitHub once in a while.
I completely agree with you, but it's fascinating to compare the attitude here vs. how people respond when simple, proven life-saving measures are proposed for roadways, for example even things as basic as leading pedestrian signals, pedestrian scrambles, road diets, smaller turn radiuses, banning RTOR, etc.

With even the hint of someone in a car being inconvenienced, a cry goes up and the whole thing is dead in the water.

Meanwhile close to 20 pedestrians are killed in the US every single day. We call these collisions "accidents", and throw up our hands about them because how can you prevent an act of god, right?
Well, I indeed haven't looked inside a dryer, but I am aware that dryers can burn while running. Indeed, as I just learned, they are #1 cause for house fires in Germany, and insurers will usually not pay if you let them run unsupervised. But burning while being turned off, powering some 5V circuit board... yes, it happens, but 75 times a year? But maybe that 'being turned off' was an outlier and most others were actually running.
If it was an apartment sized stacked unit, did you happen to notice the shaft not mounted in a bearing assembly, but instead turning inside a vinyl cup? Only took mine 2-3 years to fail to metal-on-metal... single male, bi-weekly usage equals <100 loads to fail. $10 part, took ~45 min to tear down, install & reassemble. Will be doing it again sometime this year. I think I can do it in 20 min next time... or I can buy the latest, cheaper built model for $600+... Hmmmm, decisions, decisions.
A prime example of this was the Trek Y-Foil. It is surprising how much the entire bike industry is shaped by the arcane rules of a very conservative 119 year old European governing body.
Ditto the love for PXE — booting from a SAN appliance stocked with a few dozen fast SSDs is amazing. When I was doing big VMWare deployments, I had a PXE bootstrap setup that helped me build an entire 40-node cluster from bare metal in an hour.

Even in the event you have to use some secure zone crap, it’s pretty trivial to build since all PXE requires are dhcpd and tfptd — which are often available by default on nearly any *nix variant.
So by forcing the use of illegal vpns, you can always be arrested. Or fired for not doing your job.

It's not that everything is terrible in China, it's that the Chinese government is an oppressive regime with severe totalitarian bent. Those oppressive regimes which least interfere in the everyday are the most likely to continue existing - we've known this since ancient times.

But censorship, ethnic camps, totalitarian power and mass surveillance do a reppressive regime make.
So your solution here is that instead of all these people voluntarily seeking other jobs, their department shouldn't have a reason to exist, ergo shutdown Facebook and now all these people and more are involuntarily unemployed. Riight.
Exhausted and Starving Polar Bear Wanders into Siberian City
Facebook started out as a social network where you could get what we today regard as PII (e.g phone numbers of the opposite gender and such) for Harvard students, and its engagement numbers were really good (based on Zuck’s previous experience with the Harvard-only FaceMash).

They would later expand to other Ivy league schools — aka networks — one by one, rather than simultaneously, as a way to slow their growth.

I imagine an unintended side effect of this growth strategy was the sense of FOMO that it engendered among university students that had heard about but couldn’t join the exclusive/elusive Facebook, unlike the other social networks like Friendster, Hi5 etc.

For each network on their expansion list, Zuck & team would furiously scrape the student directory to seed the new network with plausible student info.
Consumer ride-sharing (uber/lyft) is obviously exploiting "grey areas"
I think/hope that in 20 years, this will be true. I'm not sure it's true enough yet to let you really ignore the school system and/or university.

You can homeschool, though...
Fascinating, I never heard of him. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Free startup idea: property management for your own single family home. "I want to own, but I don't want to deal with all this stuff."
I think it'd really only be surprising if the Mac Pro ignored these chips when they were already available. At this point, though, the Mac Pro is shipping before Rome is available. The timing is just off. Current Xeons are faster than current Epyc's on average, so the choice today makes sense. Particularly if Apple wants to avoid NUMA in these machines. It wouldn't be unreasonable for a Mac Pro refresh in 2 years to switch to Epyc, though, if current trends continue to hold.
If property owners can make more money renting out properties on Airbnb, that suggests short term rentals are the highest value use of that property. I derive a lot of value from using Airbnb when I travel, particularly in markets with housing shortages. If an apartment can host a hundred visitors a year, is that obviously worse for the city than renting it out to a single person?
I wish I could upvote this comment 1000 times.
The plot against the Principality of Sealand
Tom, just to be clear, your counterpoint to the original wording is "Recovery codes _should_ be mandatory", correct? Would you consider "Recovery codes should only be mandatory if a user has only configured a single second factor" to be a reasonable alternative?

I have multiple U2F keys configured on all of my important accounts. I'm comfortable enough in my belief that I won't lose _all_ of my keys to not want recovery codes to exist so I don't need to worry about storing them. This places me in the extreme minority of users to be certain, but I still don't want my security weakened by recovery codes that I won't ever use.
Why not `python3 -m http.server`?
While I'm a Firefox user, that's actually evidence to xtalh's point: that bug by itself is useless, because Chrome's sandbox meant that taking over the rendering process is not enough. They only managed to escape on Windows 7, thanks to another bug (in Windows itself - CVE-2019-0808).
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Stewart’s search for a viral basis for cancer wasn’t unprecedented. In 1911, virologist Peyton Rous discovered the Rous sarcoma virus, which he concluded could transmit cancer in chickens. In 1933, Richard Shope, a physician and virologist, discovered the Shope papilloma virus, which caused keratinous carcinomas in rabbits, and three years later, biologist John Bittner demonstrated that the mouse mammary tumor virus could be transmitted from a mother mouse to her young through her milk. But it was Ludwig Gross’s work on leukemia in mice in the 1950s that would lead to the first major breakthrough in the virus-cancer link—and it was that work that Stewart took up when she moved to the NCI in 1951.
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Do you only know car enthusiasts? Most regular people probably don't even know diesels have an extra particulate filter, yet care enough to actively modify their car to circumvent it; it's hard enough convincing them that their oil needs to be changed more than once a decade. There's no point beyond regular vehicle inspections to go after the 0.01% of the population that are car enthusiasts willing to modify their vehicle and bribe their way past inspections
I don’t understand your argument at all. Is 900k/year to curate a store that’s on almost all of their products (or even one) supposed to be a lot for Apple? Seems like a rounding error to me. Not too mention that the real benefit isn’t from finding gems but from not allowing rotten content to spoil your platform. If they(FAANGs) can poach neuroscientists with 7 figure salaries like we saw yesterday, they can afford to have humans do moderation and not treat those moderators like garbage. Also they aren’t doing comment moderation, but content, mostly videos in the article it seemed. The fact of the matter is causing PTSD in your workers is an enormous (not to mention cruel) externality that Facebook absolutely needs to be held accountable for.
The comment was in regards to paying Engineers $30k/yr.
step 1. be careful what you wish for.
When they realize they are tired of the distraction and didn't really need it in the first place.
I wish i can play glitch again!
Would love to see that happening. Wonder what tech satellites use to identify atmospheric composition from orbit, and whether it couldn't be used in traffic cams?
No? It give me freedom to rent.

At any point that I feel like it, I can pick up and move. Whether it is to a place across the street or on the other side of the country.

I wouldn't have nearly that much freedom if I had the misfortune of owning my own place.
Before I had kids I didn’t want to own a home or a car. Now I want to own it because I just don’t want the hassle of moving with schools and friends and whatnot. It’s a 10-15 year period of my life that I want this. Afterwards, who knows. But there will always be a market for people who want to just settle in one place for 15 years. I don’t think this is generational, I think it’s mostly just age.
> Why is there a need for 76 lines of unsafe code?

I took a quick look, and all of them seem to be for calling functions from the C library. Moreover, nearly all of these seem to be system calls (open, close, select, ioctl...). Since the Rust compiler can't verify that these calls are safe (for an obvious example: the "read" call can write to arbitrary memory), it requires an "unsafe" block for them - signalling that it's the programmer's responsibility to make sure it's safe (in the "read" example, receiving a "&mut [u8]" from outside the "unsafe" block, and passing that slice's pointer and length as the parameters to the "read" call, would be safe).
The unsafe code uses libc API. All FFI functions are unsafe because they do not have compiler-enforced memory safety and other invariants (by definition of not being written in Rust themselves). It is the onus of the caller to read their docs and ensure that their Rust calling code does maintain those invariants before exiting the unsafe block.

The crate also has a nice design decision to have a dedicated module for using these FFI functions, and unsafe is only allowed in this module. The rest of the crate errors if it has any unsafe code.
And why do I have that bias?

Moreover, the new maintainer write his goal is to "rustify". What more proof do you need?
Recently updated the iOS app and it's definitely got quite laggy, especially on the pots screen (I only have about 5 pots too). Used to be so nippy as well.
FWIW, I use DDG, I’d still go to a repair shop rather than try to repair an iPhone personally.

I’m perfectly happy building a PC or messing with something that’s meant to be user-serviceable, or even replacing the stereo in my car, but when it comes to small things that are glued together I’d look at a professional. I can’t even manage to get screen protectors to go on perfectly straight in past experience...
You are describing young, single people, not long-term renters.
A server-optimized Ruby distribution
The example you pointed to, actually, yes it can.

Now, waiting for your reply on my previous question about the deadlines. Why lie?
It's strange that you explicitly brought up Uber and still hold this opinion. Out of all the companies, they have most aggressively skirted labour laws in every country they are in, and have been selectively banned from some countries and cities due to their continual breaking of the law. Not to mention lobbying efforts to minimise the effects of labour laws.

They didn't start as a company for the sole purpose of exploiting legal grey areas, but they certainly have consistently done so since their inception.
And in other Whirlpool news - Dishwasher catches fire "You don't think the appliance filled with water is gonna catch fire". This one needed a class action lawsuit against Whirlpool but, of course, many peopole didn't know about it since the dishwasher often comes with the house they've bought.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-man-whirlpool-d...
When one wonders how the status-quo came to be, they need look no further than the dismissive attitudes they wield.

When the GP said "Doing something > doing nothing", try to see the value in such a mindset, irrespective of whether or not some action was taken by person on the receiving end of the information.

If nobody voices their concerns, the people have no voice.
I've said this here, and elsewhere, before and I'll say it again. Any article on dev.to is by a frustrated redditor trying to make a name for himself. It won't be worth the click to see what it's about so don't waste your time.
> is bootstrapped on a highly-developed industrial product that requires extensive infrastructure

You can deploy a TCP/IP network on a moon base powered by solar cells. Infrastructure wise cryptos are way easier to deploy and maintain than having to print paper, create banks, ATMs, safes etc etc.

> what have you really gained except that now everyone else is maintaining a copy

No what you have gained is that instead of needing an entire army so people can trust your currency, you have an algorithm. Cryptos are the google of money: people trust the algorithmn because they can't trust each other.

> How about manual reversion?

Of course ideal cryptocurrencies are immutable. It should be impossible to reverse anything. But, markets usually build insurance services on top of it, which cover for all the things that the blockchain does not - at a cost of course. Still better than fiat.

> Localization isn't a bug. It's a feature.

And yet most of europe has either moved into the Euro, or pegged to it. And global central banks are more in sync than ever before. Localization is impossible and incompatible with globalized market.

Look at the Euro crisis, it was really caused by the lack of "local" central banking, where none of the countries had the option to devalue their currency. There was a lot of talk and pressure about getting out of it , yet it did not happen and people still overwhelmingly support the euro , despite the austerity. I think this shows the resilience of a deflationary currency (the euro is close to it). IMHO, the euro proved to be a slightly better option than devalued currencies , the devaluation of which would cause much more severe problems in today's globalized, self-insufficient economies than it would in the past.
MLP's "On Port 80" hits on much of the "why": Firewalls increase friction of new protocol development.

There's moe to it, but this is definitely a factor.

https://medium.com/@maradydd/on-port-80-d8d6d3443d9a
Such things exist. I hear ads for them on the radio. They pitch themselves as "maintenance insurance" or some such, but I think it would do what you're asking.
The title is misleading. There's nothing to see here folks. Airbnb _only_ rents properties. Nothing has been removed. The owners of the properties are probably making more money with short-term rentals than long-term. Everyone involved with the transaction is acting rational.
Most new immigrants don't have a budget to buy a $1M+ home, neither do locals with a $80K median gross household income, so the demand must come from somewhere else.
Moving to Vancouver from another country is much easier than moving to Seattle. And Seattle is considered to be a city with a bad weather in the US. That bad weather is actually considered good here in Canada.
I manage a web application with hundreds, if not thousands, of screens written in Angular, Vue, React, and server-side JSPs -- all of it developed over a decade-plus worth of time. While old UIs will be continually be re-platformed into the new, we will always have a legacy monolith. That's the reality of our world.

If I want to introduce a design system, where all users of these technologies can work with a basic set of bread-and-butter buttons, input fields, etc., Web Components are the lingua franca of all of these technologies. That's why I use Web Components.

Now of course, not everyone is developing on monoliths globbed together with newer tech. But the reality is, most of the software used today is written this way. It isn't pure, functional, isolated modules / apps that startups going from scratch have the privilege of beginning with. Technology stacks slowly become the consequence of business acquisitions, etc. You can exert some control over things, but it will always be a moving target.
Is this just a link to talk description for a talk that hasn't happened yet?

I'm curious how this got so high on HN with so little actual content.
I hate mowing. I don't care about lawns. But I like being in control. No more moving every year to keep rent low. Update & customize to meet my desires & save money. Grow a garden & wildflowers. Remember the names of my neighbors (because the neighborhood isn't a revolving door).

But, I've always loved the long game. Plant trees for shade in ten years. Build a pergola (more shade, cooler house). Replace the old crappy X with a higher quality model that will pay for itself in five years. So on & so forth.

You do have to learn to do some of the work yourself, because tradesmen are more trouble than they are worth for small jobs.
Tape as structural coupling is sad indeed, but from my little experience, most electrical appliances look flimsy somehow (not industrial or construction grade).
Chinese speculators reduce growth by keeping property vacant. Airbnb doesn't affect growth.

House prices are not growth, and they generate the tax revenue that you say helps get the infrastructure ready.
Pretty amazing to see him going straight from a a B.S. into designing processors and fairly quickly becoming the head engineer on cutting edge processors.
Trying to use your dominance in one space (search, or browsers, say) to actively steal data from a competitor (scrape Facebook!) with the intention to destroy that competitor is something lawyers have wet dreams about.

I mean, Facebook would have destroyed them in court.
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Ambulant reduplication explains why “tock-tick” doesn't sound right
I'm genuinely baffled that so few people in this thread see no value in Airbnb providing cheaper options for travelers. As a software engineer, one way I could advance my career would be to move back to the Bay Area. An imperfect substitute, though, is visiting regularly to maintain the relationships I built when I lived there. (Indeed, I'm writing this from a plane while flying there.) Being able to stay in an Airbnb for half the cost of the hotel makes that more feasible.
It creates an economic(and tax revenue) downward spiral in an area if it becomes a significant percentage of vacation rentals.

Real estate isn't really that controlled by market forces. Its a means to an end and pricing does not actually represent best utility.
> Browsers don’t support it, so it adds an extra build step. Type-completion has gotten slower the bigger our project gets.

This is something a faster computer can mitigate. Also I would compare the time you spend guessing what parameters actually are in vanilla JS vs the seconds you lose waiting for a Typescript build. Silicon time is much cheaper than carbon time.

I don't understand how anyone doesn't use Typescript for large projects. Javascript is just too lenient. It doesn't even complain when you're not matching a method signature that you call; you can't even catch these ninja errors let alone explicitly know they dropped on you. There's a lot of value when you have a system that adds more checks and validation before runtime.
Not a linguist, but isn’t the influence of Arabic on both languages at around the same time seem worthy of considering? There seem some similarities with some of the words they mention as similar between Basque and Armenian (note, also not an actually speaker of any Arabic dialect) like txar for evil in Armenian and sharun is evil in some dialects of Arabic.

Again, not a linguist, but loanwords from languages at the same time period make sense to me.