skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But with hotels, too, you can end up with something that isn't to your satisfaction, contrary to how it's presented in the listing and contrary to your expectations. Hotels are likely to be more consistent here, but there's never any guarantee.

One difference is in the ability to rectify such issues. Since Airbnb is a middleman who doesn't own the property, and the host is potentially not able to be physically present (e.g. it's a short-term sublet while the host is on a trip, as opposed to a permanent Airbnb), the blame may technically lie with the host, but Airbnb's platform is also responsible. Airbnb can't pretend they're merely a passive hosting platform for hosts, and needs to tread more carefully in handling such disputes.
UP42: The open platform and marketplace for Earth data and analytics
I assume that represents a very tiny % of their transactions.
Well that's nice. Totally makes up for a theocratic dictator having their father chopped up.

I guess they have no choice but to just accept it, because of the same dictator.

Can't believe this shitty government is our "ally". Fuck the Saudi Government.
two members of my family do it on the weekend. one my friend does it on off days from job at costco.
If you look at sierra_zulu (line #3 on both plans) it took almost 22 seconds initially and after query rewrite (and no index change) took 713ms.

So that change of query alone reduced query time from 35s to ~5s, after that the seven table become the bottleneck and adding an index there reduced the whole query down to 750ms.

I should have saved the intermediate plan to illustrate it, but it essentially looked same as the second plan, except there was a sequence scan on seven table.
Show HN: RunCircle - Find runs around you and inspire others to join yours
How free do you want?

Free enough I can employ anyone at any wage, to do any job?

Free enough I can employ children and send them down mines?

Free enough I can just come around and take your house?
Duplication in State Management: A Story of a Bug
So they said something irrelevant to the context. But when I point it out, I am "taking it out of context." The problem I was raising was that it was irrelevant to the context and you don't even seem to disagree with that assertion.
Hey, if Nigeria can become an up-and-coming tech hub, so can Saudi Arabia.
Ask HN: How to go about the goal of democratising data at our organisation
Hi Everyone! Hope you all are doing great.

We(@ squadvoice.co) wanted to take your help/suggestion in something we're trying and figuring out if to build or not.
Below is the problem statement that we're focusing on majorly.
Become a data-driven organization where anyone can make decisions & leverage data in a self-service model without spending too much time on data retrieval or data query formation.
Why we're thinking we should build a solution for the same?

1) Ad-hoc analysis requires engineering bandwidth at a lot of time. And due to that product features get delayed.

2) New queries require engineering support at a lot of times.

3) Operational queries become stale (inconsistent) with changing business logic.

4) Queries timeout, run slow, etc.

5) We take lots of decision basis the data, and if data fetching and gathering is slow and time taking it is gonna slow whole org down.

We do have SQL dashboarding and things in place, but new requirements keep coming up(I guess we're trying to find new data points every day to see what we can improve which is great honestly) and application+business logic change so often that it is hard to keep it updated.

Now, we wanted to understand:-

1) How people in other organizations like yours are solving the same?

2) What are the things you tried what works and what does not?

3) How do you validate whether it is something that you should solve for or not?

4) What're technologies and gotchas that you think should we be aware of and consider for this kind of things?

5) How do you make sure, whatever you build is scalable and alterable such that if you change your application logic in future things still remains sane.

6) How do you make sure, people are able to get data they need as fast as they can.

I am already sorry if this post looks long and some redundant elements, but I wanted to communicate problem and what we're looking for help in as clear as possible.
As others have said elsewhere, it's the height that's particularly important. As I understand it, there are two reasons: taller vehicles are more likely to send pedestrians under the vehicle than over it, and the point of impact is likely to move from the legs (unpleasant but usually survivable) to the trunk (often not).
> Volvo created a “pedestrian air bag” years ago that inflated on the hood of the car when it detected what could be a pedestrian being struck.

I wonder how effective that would be - given that a pedestrian hitting the hood could be coming from a ton of different vectors compared to the collision of a driver with a steering wheel, I wonder if you'd just end up throwing more energy and chaos into the collision.
We are long past peaceful solutions. The only real solution is to kill 80% or more of the human race.

Dumbass Bill Gates should be spending his money on creating viruses, not preventing them. He had some bullshit answer about how that is not true, just give it a few more decades and reality will hit home.
> I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself.

That's a very strange quote. I want to have this much self-confidence.
They have to pay payroll tax and administer payroll. I ran a bootstrapped business, that initially had several contractors, till a day I could afford to replace (in several cases, promote) them to employees, so I know this intimately. Additionally, there are payroll costs and the accounting costs, and the payroll administration burden. For a tiny growing business with no outside capital it matters more than you know.

The 5th largest economy figures come from semi monopolies like Google and Facebook. In the beginning, they get a VC investment, a comfortable office, a payroll admin and Wilson and Sonsini from day one. In the meantime, San Francisco restaurants cannot afford cooks.
It’s more about the height of the front grill than the total weight. Cars outweigh humans so much in a collision that increasing weight is not important. However, vehicle shape makes a real difference in low speed collisions.
I dislike the Brazilian government, but the rest of the world shouldn't wash their hands of the problem either. If the Amazon is important to the whole world, the whole world should be giving that government a damn good deal to convince it to prevent deforestation.

As an European, I was quite disgusted by the reactions of the "EU leaders".
Actionable tips to make mentorships work out
It's not hard to find Mozilla's privacy policy. From here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox-private-networ... it links directly to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/ The contract with Cloudflare seems to be a lot stricter about which data they can collect.
Mobile phones are not reliable for natural disaster situations, because of channel loading characteristic on the control channel, LTE may survive better.
> Outside of US, even in first world countries, most people live in flats

That's where the overestimation comes in. You assume people are miserable and would rather live in a ridiculous house and have to take a car to go do anything.
No, I actually don't give a crap. This meta discussion aside, I actually know that my time on this planet is finite and as a result my attention is finite. Whether of not the Amazon is the Earth's lungs is a pedantic point. If it is or not, it doesn't change my stance on preserving it. So, while the article is true, I can safely ignore it because it is not meaningful. Not sure how much you know about agriculture and the Fischer-Tropsch process, but the Amazon soil is not particularly fertile and requires a bunch of nitrogen fertilizer which in turn is generally produced by fracking. Further, a bunch of that soy goes towards feeding cows. So burning the Amazon down is mostly pointless and contributes to furthering the global warming crisis in several important ways. It's important I don't lose sight getting engaged in a pedantic argument over trivial details. You see the same dynamic in gun control debates when someone re-polarizes a discussion by turning it towards a misidentification of a particular gun or whether "assault rifle" is a valid categorization of guns. Polarizing the discussion is the point, so I choose to ignore true points that are used to distract people from more meaningful conclusions. It's a very basic and easy technique to resist disinformation.
>Is a fact that radioactivity kills people.

Is a fact that water kills people. 100% of people who drink water will eventually die, and people who try to breathe it usually die even sooner.
Time stopped circling and percolating and started running on tracks
Shouldn’t “show me the profit” have been the basis for investing all the time? It’s the growth at all cost that’s dangerous.
Python: Connecting to Google APIs has never been easier
If people who would have driven their own car now take a taxi instead the math doesn't work out unless the taxis have to drive five times the average trip length for making pickups.
New iPhone? No Thanks
Strong student-adult relationships lower suicide attempts in high schools
Because stripe is essentially in the business of fixing broken, old stuff in the payment business. It made a really good core product that developers love, then branched out to other payment-related products and applied that same excellence to those products, too. It is user-friendly, has helpful support, and can be easily integrated. In short, it solves real problems without making itself one more head-ache for people.
Let's leave aside how ludicrous it is to ignore the author's half-paragraph of passionate description of deforestation as tragedy and read the tea leaves to determine he's a deforestation fan, and ignore how absurd it is to criticize a factual claim on the basis that it hurts or helps a narrative: you're not even reading the article's claims correctly.

> The Amazon produces about 6 percent of the oxygen currently being made by photosynthetic organisms alive on the planet today. But surprisingly, this is not where most of our oxygen comes from. In fact, from a broader Earth-system perspective, in which the biosphere not only creates but also consumes free oxygen, the Amazon’s contribution to our planet’s unusual abundance of the stuff is more or less zero.

The Amazon produces 6% of oxygen produces by photosynthetic organisms. The proportion of total oxygen produced by these organisms (let's call it P) is relatively small enough that the Amazon's contribution, 0.06*P, ends up being negligible.
London's Abandoned Underground – In Pictures
There was, when the mention of Tesla's auto pilot was being discussed, I believe.
What other stimulants did you try and which ones worked the best?
Well I see a Leanan sídhe sucking some mysterious lifeforce out of the programmer while "stimulating certain areas of his brain". I don't know what to make of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muse_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Spac...
The property tax system is terrible.
The Uber card has almost nothing to do with Uber (the company) and their services, they are just the co-brand partner on the card. (So they get a kickback on card activities). I mean, you get a higher cash back rate from taking the flight than you do from the Uber ride to the airport.

Usually company cobranded cards (ex. airlines, hotels) are tightly tied with that company's services, Uber seemed to just want to make a good credit card that people would like to use often, which is unique.

However, it's a personal card, completely different market than corporate cards, so not comparable.
Chinese Gaming Giant NetEase Uses AI to Create 3D Game Characters from Selfies
Rails has an --api option and most of the Rails roles offered by recruiters these days are a combination of Rails and React, Vue or Angular. Rails assets are served with webpack and there are options for React, Vue and Angular when creating a new Rails app.
If we consider Three Body Problem as hard sci-fi (see above), then Children of Time definitely clear that bar too.
main problem is all of the 'investors' should have lost everything in 08 but were bailed out, now have zero percent money, think they are special and are all desperate to land a unicorn
Assuming the site was built with the library, then this seems like an issue pertaining to the project and not the website.
McDonald’s acquires A.I. company to help automate the drive-thru
I know buildings - entire buildings that function similarly to the wework concept, individual suites, shared secretarial services, etc. But they're super specialized, so I'm skeptical that WeWork is as valuable as its sold as.
Tasmanian farmer jailed for 11 months for importing garlic
Mio: Metal IO Library for Rust
> you the experimentalist have a soul and when that soul measures the world the nice unitary evolution of the world comes crashing down with probabilities given by the Born rule.

There's a great paper by van Kampen[1] that points out that what we call a measurement and collapse of the wave function is entangling a quantum state to an irreversible statistical process. Measurement and wave function collapse are limit cases of that that are useful approximations when doing calculations.

[1]: http://www.johnboccio.com/research/quantum/notes/vankampen.p... (a version sans paywall!)
> Polarizing the discussion is the point, so I choose to ignore true points that are used to distract people from more meaningful conclusions. It's a very basic and easy technique to resist disinformation.

I'm honestly kind of shocked to see someone admit that this is their intention in so few words.
Coding interviews are broken – how to handle the process more effectively
Exploring Drug-Induced Synesthesia
you don't have to tax beef. merely remove the subsidies given to it's producers and let the free market cut down the consumption
(Amber from Stripe here. For folks following along, we're talking about the "Additional Benefits" section on the page.)

Anything that says "cash back" is automatically applied to your card spending and for both new and existing customers. For everything else, we'll give you a discount code to type into the partner's site directly!
> after veering onto a sidewalk

Am I the only one seeing a problem with someone driving on the sidewalk? Did this somehow become acceptable?

I've driven large trucks and not been forced onto a sidewalk. Maybe I'm missing something.
>hard to know if German bonds are really less safe

It's more of a currency based risk. You're probably right that Germany is as safe of a bet (if not more) to pay back their bonds than the US is. The question is how much 100 Euro is going to be worth in 10 year.
Photosynthesis releases as many O2 molecules as it takes in CO2 molecules. It also uses water and produces sugar.

I’m not sure if the released oxygen comes from the water or the carbon dioxide but it doesn’t much matter!

Edit: looks like it comes from the water. Cool!
It's a name, calm down. This is a terrible slippery slope we found ourselves falling down. We're about at the bottom of the hill where nothing can ever be said.
The UAE seems to be handling it all better.
It was FM radio, and I think the studio sends its data to the antenna using some internet link, which was down.
Orkestra Runestones
> people that must ... be a soldier to obtain subsidized schooling, trades, healthcare and housing from the government.

Sounds like joining the army is one way of getting these special citizenship benefits. Would you like to know more?
[Stripe cofounder]

Thanks! We're always paranoid that we're too slow, for whatever it's worth.

We're still iterating on the supporting models and frameworks. We think a lot about pace layering -- how do we have teams that think on multi-year horizons (infrastructure, security, etc.) alongside teams that are rapidly iterating at much earlier stages of development. I think a lot goes wrong when organizations insist on too much consistency in their operating approach.

We've now identified a few semi-formal mechanisms that have helped substantially. (For example: larger companies tend to want to aggressively standardize roles. This makes sense when operating at scale but less so in the early days. So, we've made it easy to hire for ill-defined roles in nascent product areas -- we figure we can codify those roles later as needed and that doing so sooner is a premature optimization.) We'd certainly consider writing a blog post once we feel that they might be generalizable.

(If anyone reading this is interested in helping us figure things out, please do apply. We're particularly interested in hiring engineers who are interested in these questions.)
Where's your evidence for this?
There's 195 countries on the planet. You want to go to war with every single one whose leaders have people arbitrarily killed...you'd need to go to war with most of them, including the United States itself.
The varieties of garlic were potential carriers of Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium rated the biggest threat to national plant biosecurity.
Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's great at avoiding the "benevolent aliens that are basically just weird humans" concept that most other sci-fi books seen to enjoy.
Including deliveries, please. There are way too many people living in the city right now.
For updating grids, you can achieve very fast performance using batched transactions:

https://medium.com/ag-grid/how-to-test-for-the-best-html5-gr...

If that's not fast enough, there are canvas based grid which can improve the refresh rates faster. Hypergrid is a canvas based grid, though it's not the easiest to work with:

https://github.com/fin-hypergrid/core

JPMorgan has release Perspective, which demonstrates streaming updates using WebAssembly:

https://perspective.finos.org/

Really comes down to your specific situation what approach is best.
As with all Vitamin D studies, this one should discuss or acknowledge the differences in intake requirements for people of different ethnic groups. It doesn't, which means that for some of us, the findings balance somewhere between useless and dangerous.
Yeah, but the company spent the monies, and the employee got the rebate. Seems like an employment benefit to me.
It's not classes themselves, it's the lifecycle methods, the constructor, this, state, and it all interacts. Hooks let you do more or less the same thing, but IMHO with a simpler and clearer API.

You have more control too. Look at the parameters to useState to see what I mean.
The 1860s when the Irish in NYC refused to fight for their new country, killing over 100 people and ethnically cleansing most of Manhattan? Or a few years later when two different subgroups of Irish killed another 100 of each other in the same city? These questions re-litigating history are immaterial to the fact that there is always some point at which putting groups next to each other will cause conflict, modulated by things like population density, culture, religion, tribalism vs. individualism, prosperity, etc.
> Every single Uber driver I've ever asked does it as a full-time job

There's an interesting statistical effect here.

Let's say there are 50 Uber drivers. 10 of them are doing it full-time; the others are doing it 5 hours a week for some additional income. That's 10 * 40 + 40 * 5 = 600 hours of driving per week, of which 400 is by the full-time drivers. So if you ask your driver whether they are full-time, they will say "yes" with about 2/3 probability, but the number of part-time drivers greatly exceeds the number of full-time drivers.

This effect is even stronger if you typically take Uber at times when part-time drivers are less likely to drive.

To your last point, location does matter a great deal here. Anecdotally, in my suburban area, I know a fair number of stay-at-home parents who do some driving on the side, esp. while the kids are in school. They most emphatically do not want to be driving full-time, or doing anything else full-time: if they wanted a full-time job they would not be stay-at-home parents. I am quite certain that this dynamic does not hold across all Uber markets, by any means.
Typically central government favours legislative solutions, it's primarily the gadget agencies that press for technology solutions.

Though I admit sometimes the futurist manage to create a big hype around some technology and everyone pays lip service to the coming technology rapture.
That would only work if supply and demand spiked at the same time, and I doubt that would be the case.

I suppose surge pricing and whatnot address that to a point, but if every Uber driver is scheduling their day around Uber demand, then that's hardly a sidegig.
I'm okay with that. Just don't ban them out in the suburbs!
We might launch a free version at some point. There's just so much that work that goes into retrieving requests (especially at our current scale), that we really need to charge for it in short run in order to get to the long run––if that makes sense. We're a small indie team
Maybe we should take this as evidence that fighting lies with lies doesn't work, and in fact makes the problem worse?
I don't think they go public until they sort out the financials and get rid of the stench of blatant corruption.
Non-frauds can also have capital/cashflow troubles
I don't really think any replacement standard could be fundamentally much better. Sure, you could resolve the fact that DICOM is so old that it predates widespread adoption of IEEE 754 and so does its own thing there, or minor oversights in the standard. But the fact remains that the standard is a ~5000 page monstrosity designed to cover virtually anything and there's no regulatory certifying body so nothing prevents vendors from failing to properly implement the standard (which is virtually impossible to do given that it's so damn huge and also not always entirely clear). Any standard that aims to be similar in scope and lacks enforcement will, I think, inevitably lead to a horrendously inconsistent ecosystem.
Thanks for commenting by the way!
My full income progression from a career in tech
Why do you think Liverppool denied Fekir the transfer
Just like SUVs
Keep an eye open for more Trump and Brexit style events. You don't need a nation state to trigger them.

That's the future of war.
I don't know you, but I send my love and good thoughts.
> There are some time periods (now, dot-com bust, or the late 80s & early 90s) where there are basically no viable B2C ideas available.

What leads you to believe that? I know plenty of people with healthy B2C businesses started recently. Heck, my business is B2C and while niche, it's viable for me.
Database rights are a copyright-like intellectual property regime for databases.
My municipality is using encrypted trunked P25 for police comms now. Seems better than LTE for reliability at least. Just a simple digital voice codec and optional encryption system ontop of the traditional trunked radio systems. Compression means you can wedge many more streams out of it too.

I have mixed feelings about the encryption though, especially with police data, generally I feel much of that data should be public with a more limited amount which should not. It's good to make public "there's a drunk driver on this street, right now", you just might not need to share their plate with the public.
It is a quite scary concept, effectively a kind of instrumentalization of the filter bubble.
Hmm. Good question. In my experience an NPS study isn't just the survey.
I have done it in the past and usually after you get the results you do a baseline a call/contact your promoters and detractors to learn more about their issues.

So I think it's determined by a combination of personal reach-outs and probably the same questions scoped to particular features.
Why dribble designs is so popular? You can hardly find them in popular apps