skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to only use Airbnbs a couple years ago.

Lately the service really became horrible: Last minute cancellation, soulless places run like an industry. prices on the same level or even more expensive than hotels.
Customer support is also completely unresponsive.

I'm now going back to hotels 90% of the times where I can expect a consistent quality of services.

They grew too fast and got arrogant in the process. I hope they quietly go away and get replaced by a company that does this correctly. I heard only good things about HomeAway lately
Cow belches. But it turns out that extractors have been massively under-reporting their own belches. Anyway when the frozen polar methane bubbles (i.e., explodes) out, and the permafrost melts and decomposes, cows will be the least of our problems.
In practice it will be a dull button saying “$12 plan” and a bright shiny button saying “$2 DISCOUNT” with everything else in fine print.
Thanks that makes perfect sense. Often it's the tooling and library experience that makes a difference not just the language.

I feel the same way as you do about python about C#/.NET, and I'm happy to have picked C#. I think for most things it would be as good as Python, e.g. web-dev, app-dev. With Xamarin it's a great choice. For data science I'd have to go running to Python or R (maybe I'd do as much in C# as possible), but luckily I don't do much data science.
Are you serious about the Huawei talks?
While I agree with you (hobbyist DSLR photog with everything from 14mm to 500mm lenses) that field of view is more precise, I think most people don't know the correlation between the two. I'd say that far more people in the general population understand the 35mm equivalent.

The main camera is a wide by traditional standards, but not by phone camera standards, where the main (primary, "normal") camera has always been a wide angle, so nobody whose primary camera is a phone would think of it as wide.
Of course it's all estimates and they are getting more granular and coarsely precise with new discoveries and techniques. The Smithsonian Mag has this[1] to say:

>“The climate impact was enormous,” Robertson says. “Dust and soot from the impact and fires would have created an ‘impact winter’ with zero sunlight reaching the surface of the Earth for a year or so.”

>"Organisms that had somehow managed to survive the intense heat and fires now faced a new threat. “Loss of sunlight would have eliminated the phytoplankton base of almost all aquatic food chains and caused complete collapse of aquatic ecosystems,” ... All told, what evolution took over 180 million years to build up could have been cut back in less than the lifetime of an individual Tyrannosaurus rex. Death came quickly at the end of the Cretaceous."

>"... Pollen and plankton, Robertson points out, actually provide a more refined picture of what happened in the wake of the impact. Nevertheless, the available fossil record shows that about 75 percent of known species completely disappeared, and things probably weren’t rosy for the survivors. “It’s is reasonable to suppose that the 25 percent of surviving species had near-total mortality,” ...but these fortunate organisms were the ones that would go on to set the stage for the next 66 million years of evolutionary history."

[1[]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-happened-...
Scala is a pretty immutability-functional-happy language. My point was that the mutation/readonly functional/oop comparison was unfair.
Did that actually happen or did we just outsource all the dirty stuff?
"Is your point that the Mini-14 should be regulated the same way as a Colt AR-15?"

Partially. It's allowed in some places where the AR-15 is banned. People tend to react to the tactical appearance. There's almost no functional difference.
Climate change? I thought it was about Bezos taking a snipe at Tesla because SpaceX is way ahead of Blue Origin.
or are you a sore person who cannot compete in AI competitions??
One of the interesting things too is the fact that in WW1 & WW2, we had a thing called a "Battle Rifle" and these were higher calibers, such as .30-06, .303, .30-30, etc...

These "Battle Rifles" were able to reach out to thousand plus yards and still be effective for a regular grunt. These rifles and their calibers were meant for killing, taking body parts off, creating gaping wound channels.

I don't remember exactly when, yet sometime after WW2, the US Forces surveyed and found that they weren't engaging targets 800-1,000 yards out. Instead, they were engaging targets in the 50-300 range.

The US military decided that they wanted to carry more ammunition and bring the engagement zone down from the 800-1k to the 250ish. This resulted in a smaller cartridge (.223/5.56). The strategy moved to taking the enemy combatant out of the fight by injuring them instead of killing them. This had a huge advantage in their eyes... rather than the main goal of killing, they wanted to injure. By injuring, it took them out of the fight, but it also took precious resources away from the enemy, which now has to care for their injured comrade.

Why don't we hear anything about the larger calibers, which are meant to be truly destructive?

I loved your write up, cthalupa and i find it a shame that people, when discussing topics such as this, don't even know about the items they're arguing about.
US takes 'richest nation on earth' crown from Switzerland
They could have found “anything” in his bag. No reason to believe he was carrying anything at all.
They could have come up with a million reasons to detain Manning; killing a witness that could've brought Assange to American soil doesn't seem like a likely move.
Ah yeah, I think you're absolutely right: this is much better. It's been a while since I've implemented Fibonacci iteratively haha. Thank you for pointing this out. :)

Personally, I still find the functional version a bit more direct. The iterative code still relies on me understanding what the program is "doing"; it requires me to hold state in my head and think through "okay, now `prev` has this value and `cur` has this other value" to reason about what's going on.

I would be interested to find some people with minimal programming experience and show them imperative vs functional implementations of simple functions or algorithms and see what they prefer. Maybe I'll try to do a small study on that or something.
So does chopping down trees and selling the firewood.
Its a good point, but a perverse argument.
Bacteria can mutate quite quickly and wipe out an entire species pretty fast, reducing biodiversity.
Nature is a non-linear system, and once things start to collapse, many things will collapse at the same time. We can deal with many challenges, but not at the same time.

Given enough time, perhaps we would be able to work around the disappearance of bees, for example. But that assumes the structure of society can survive that long. Climate change can cause agricultural collapse (due to droughts, floods, blights, etc.), which will lead to food shortage leading to revolts and famine. How many bee pollination researchers will be able to work through that crisis? Governments tend not to survive so well through disasters on the scales we are talking about.
When a VC raises a fund, they usually try to return the money in 7~10 years after they start deploying the capital to startups. In other words, they want to exit their position no later than 10 years and usually shoot for 5~7.
I'll play devil's advocate - in what way is it wasting people's time? People (myself included) find meaning in posting their opinions on platforms like HN. Why would this meaning diminish by the intent of the original message?

I would argue that although this behavior might be considered on the "trolling" spectrum, it's on the benign side of the spectrum, close to the Socratic approach.
I was thinking of a 12" glass sphere with an 11.5" black sphere inside of it. The black sphere would be the thermal mass (maybe full of water) and it would have temperature sensors all around. Then in the space between, some air. Get a baseline temperature reading. Then pump in a tiny amount of CO2. Check temperature delta.

I wonder if something like that has been done.
> There is no one brand of AR-15.

I see what you're saying but a better way of saying it would be: 'Armalite is the brand, but it's like IBM - there are many IBM-compatible models'
The metric is whether you can segment off a portion of the gun owning populace to push your gun control platform. It's a lot easier to accomplish if your hunting community doesn't join in the fight.

You know how it goes "First they came for the socialists..."
They did use SCCS, RCS, and CVS, and also commercial SCMs such as PVCS. There were also file systems with integrated revision support on VAX/VMS and other "midrange" systems such as Norsk Data/SINTRAN. Of course, most people were applying adhoc "Cognac" SCM: rename your old revisions by appending ".old", ".vo" (very old), ".xo" (extra old) and so on until it becomes untenable, store individual customer builds, etc.
3D printing the lower receiver for net gains in a government buy-back program is a hilarious idea.
The threat to the southern European olive
My dad had a '91 Plymouth Laser RS and he sold it because it basically said to the cops "point radar gun here."

He had to take one ticket to court because he was being passed by a Caddy, and the gun picked up their speed rather than his.

It was a blast to drive though.
At least now there’s a bond yield inversion to give the prediction some substance.
We just outsourced all the dirty stuff.
"And since investors are just as stupid as anyone else and just as susceptible to fall for herd-like behavior as anybody"

Well, you're commenting in a thread about how they didn't. This is one of those instances where I read something and instantly invert it in my mind and think "that makes a lot more sense".
I would not go in their current state. It's only one rung above visiting N. Korea in my opinion.
In a very general sense, feedback loops seem important in many areas.

A couple of potential examples: software engineering and animal intelligence.

In software there are loops between the programmer and various levels of the development process, from compilers to test runners all the way to user testing and feedback.

A large function of animal intelligence may be to integrate (in a very broad sense, not mathematically as used in the article) information about the environment in order to regulate the organism's place in it.
Not true. Very short term effects correlate to solar exposure, where CO2 effects have a built-in long-term filtering that stretches out the response time, averaging out shorter fluctuations.

Temperature is increasing not because of increased insolation, but because of increased retention.
Sounds like air-soft pellets. I imagine most are made in China.
The benchmark [1] that Neo4j uses in its advertising [2] is from 2014, so not much newer either.

[1]: https://github.com/opencredo/neo4j-in-action

[2]: https://neo4j.com/business-edge/connected-data-cripples-rela...
Look, say what you want, but nearly everyone in the finance community (public equities, private equity, etc) knows this is coming. You're right, it's impossible to know when exactly, but there's hardly any doubt it's coming soonTM.
Poloniex has zero fee wire transfers (other than the wire fee you pay) into USDC which you can then trade on Polo with (paying fees) or withdraw the USDC anywhere you like that has better fees.
This is pretty irrelevant to the modern world.
Colt traded on the name alone, thats it.
Colt also hasn't been a top tier vendor in at least a decade, pretty much every vendor makes better equipment.
This is a bit like saying "F1 doesn't produce useful cars", isn't it?

The point of a competition is to meet specific parameters as well as possible and push the boundaries of what can be done. It's not meant to create a "daily driver".

I realize he argued against this with the coin flip test, but that is why you'd ideally want to have many of these competitions over time. If you start to see the same names popping up at the top regularly, you know there's some sort of significance to them. Teams would ultimately want to trend towards whatever wins competitions most consistently, so they'd want to rely on models they think are the most likely to perform in a real world test. They wouldn't want to simply rely on a coin flip.

And in large competitions, you have the chance of batching the top performers together and seeing what is common between them. Presumably there's a reason these models pan out over the rest in aggregate; are they worth pursuing a bit?

I think we agree at the end though, even within my analogy. A huge value of F1 racing is the publicity the teams give their sponsors. They might learn some information that can be pushed down to their consumer vehicles, but it's marginal compared to team winnings and the value of saying "See? Our engineers are the best".
I disagree with this so much. Data is used for far more than ads. If you can't collect data but your competition can, they'll run a more efficient business, offer better products and be more adaptive to change.
This is the kind of stuff better foreign relations would smooth out nicely. You'd never see a news headline. There'd be zero drama.

How do you have better foreign relations? Better compatibility between legal systems would be a start. What sense is their putting a westerner up against a socialist legal system? They're not citizens. I can only imagine how much this man is being traumatized by this.

Reading material on China's criminal justice system (pdf): https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

China has different types of detainment. It doesn't specify if he's in the administrative kind or the one facing much more serious repercussions.

This is just one area where China's incompatibility is going to end up costing it. You don't see the intellectual property stolen / royalties, and people who would potential bring wealth to China if they weren't so stubbornly insistent on maintaining an oligarchy.

Who is China's gov really working for? Nobody knows, it's so opaque. But if their system - which they subject their own citizens and foreigners alike to - was so humane and just, why not show the innards of it to demonstrate the virtuosity and benevolence of it?
This is your opinion, unless you actually did a survey of violating a citizens privacy by big tech. Have you?
> The Mini-14 is a tactical rifle (note caps)

I think I'm just overlooking something , but I'm not quite sure what you mean by "note caps"?
Three billion birds have been lost in North America since 1970
IPO are basically a big-ass roadshow - you need to drum up excitement with institutional investors so they start salivating at the possible money they can make.

This does seem early, but I’m sure there is some rationale to stay on the big bank’s radar screens and have them knocking down Airbnb’s door to be the lead bank on this deal.

I’m sure someone from investment banking will be along to add some color.
Your local tire shop will not be delighted about this. I'm told the spray in gloop gets everywhere and makes changing the tire (removing it from the rim and installing a new one) hell for the techs.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10811 is an useful counterpoint to this article's comments on ImageNet overfitting (esp e.g. §3.3, "Few Changes in the Relative Order").
Good point, perhaps. I'm not familiar with reporting requirements for online sales in business returns. I did manage a small restaurant at one point, and I don't recall that we had to track customer identity.
I mean, I'd push back against some of it myself, but how many people are arguing that e.g. methamphetamine and fentanyl should be freely available?

Of course, it's all up for debate. I used it as an example because it's the status quo, so it's a good refutation of the statement that this new law is "crazy" in the sense of it being radical and unprecedented.
"Have you ever read a BGP table"? Arguing that there are too many people in ad exchanges is a very weak argument. This is the internet, which enables global scale exchanges of all kinds of things. GDPR is a law designed for the 1800s
Tardigrades are amazing because of the range they can survive in. I mean it's amazing some animals can live in 99C water, but perhaps they die from cold at 97C.
Can someone explain to me how the US military is still unable to distinguish pine nut farmers from IS Jihadi terrorists? Where is all this advanced military tech I keep hearing the US military is developing that people are mistaking for aliens?
Yeah, you're not very good at reading. What part of "thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it" did you miss? Would "box office flop" even exist as a term if the box office was not the main source of revenue for films?

And since we're here, from where did you draw the impression that it was otherwise?
So I can cross my fingers and hope that the AliExpress AR-15 the 8channer is using will jam.
> Aggregated clicks probably wouldn't.

> Selling ads based on personal data is selling your personal data. The personal data provides the value to the transaction.

What about selling ads based on aggregated data? e.g. put users into buckets, then sell ads for those buckets.
Is this anecdotal or do you have empirical evidence?
> to someone who owned a ferret for 4 years while living in CA

You mean a criminal? It is a crime to own a ferret into california or to smuggle them in.
According to this site [0], there actually has been a dip. Here's an excerpt, draw your own conclusions:

"Essentially, with access to a more granular data set than had been publicly available, the economists could see that growth in manufacturing over the decades was almost entirely a result of statistical adjustments for improvement in semiconductor performance."

[0] https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/manufacturing-job-loss...
Indeed, I was recently intrigued to learn for how long the connection between anthropogenic CO2 and global warming has been suggested. Someone recently post this short "note" in a newspaper from 1912: https://i.redd.it/iay5mutszgg31.jpg
> and I'm willing to accept that as a side effect Google will have slightly better ads.

This is so out of touch that I have to assume you are trolling or work for "ALPHABET". At least that would be an explanation.
> companies often forward that data to others

Why not just outlaw that?
> Any measure of the cost of climate change is to at least some degree speculation, whereas any attempt to measure the direct amount of money given to fossil fuel companies can probably be much more exact.

It's dishonest to differentiate these and just opens up the agents to game your definitions. Which they of course are doing.
$35B startup Stripe considers move out of San Francisco
Whoever said it about cars was right.
> People don't use mass transit when the density is too low for it.

This isn't quite right. There are many reasons people use public transit besides convenience (poverty, disability, inebriation). My home town is very spread out (1000 per square mile) and many of its buses run only every hour or two. This doesn't mean there are no riders, it just means that people who can drive do.

Density impacts the costs of operating transit and makes it more cost effective to provide higher quality transit. Higher quality transit means more people will use that transit.

> Nobody wants something which is worse than what they already have.

I want something better than what we have, which is walk-able city centers and less space wasted on mandatory parking. Just because driving has been subsidized for decades doesn't mean we can't stop subsidizing driving and shift that money to subsidizing mass transit instead.
Thermodynamics doesn’t work like that. There’s no undo button.
The amount of change you would see from that is going to be really way too small to get an accurate reading on. You'd also need to run a control experiment with heating the ball with just plain air (rather than air + extra CO2), because the glass is also going to act like a greenhouse trap anyway.
Wow, this is such an angrily indignant article.

It borders on zealous idolatry frankly.
I guess I just don't get it. On my Linux desktop at home I'm ludicrously more productive than with my MBP. It just seems like every little thing gets in the way. Docker is significantly slower, package distribution is terrible (in speed, availability, and consistency), and finder has to be one of the worst ways to browse a filesystem. I could go on but it doesn't even matter because I can't be productive with that awful keyboard anyway.
This "5.56 is designed to injure not to kill" thing is another gun policy canard. What's true is that the Army concluded that the ability to carry more rounds was more important than the ability to hit at a long distance, and that in a military tactical situation, any non-trivial rifle injury is sufficient to neutralize. It is absolutely not in reality the case that an AR-15 is a less lethal weapon than a handgun.

And, of course, injuries from rifle rounds are not the same as injuries from handguns, as this trauma doctor ably explains:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-i-...

Unfortunately, that's not the only narrative you can get on rifle injuries from civilian trauma doctors; there's also the famous (and amazing, excellent) narrative from the doctor that coordinated an ER receiving mass numbers of patients in Las Vegas after the Mandalay shooting.
Amazon Copying Allbirds
YouTube removing “channel verification” from BigClive's channel
I didn't say that there was something wrong with it, I said that it doesn't count as being respectful of user data.

That said, almost all EULAs and privacy statements I've ever read have not been forthcoming about the use of data. They usually state, in broad terms, that they'll share unspecified user data with mysterious "partners" for nonspecific reasons.
That line of thinking is also used to argue against gun control. “Don’t blame the guns”

But whether or not you subscribe to that thinking, most people can agree that it would be great if China stepped in to do something to control the illicit export of Fentanyl (keyword: illicit, as in not fentanyl used for legitimate medical purposes).
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Ask HN: What Happened to Edna Piranha?
She seems to have deleted all her profiles and last interviews are from 2014/2015
That is incorrect. States do have the power of preemption, but state officials can only issue directives to local government officials when there is a specific enabling state law. They don't have dictatorial powers.
Those are called services and important part of the economy.
>Maybe they do know what an assault rifle is and just assume that their voters don’t.

They know what their voters think an assault rifle is.

And what their voters think assault rifles are is anything painted black and lacking a "traditional" appearance, which is why rifles identical in mechanical function to "assault rifles" tend not to be banned by the laws these politicians think their voters want.

Ignorance of this voting bloc about the way guns work (and the qualities that make one better suited to a particular task than another) acts in the favor of those who are against their prohibition. Being on national news and saying a barrel shroud is a "shoulder thing that goes up" does not help endear people who know that's false to your cause.
"Tactical Rifle" is also a model of Mini-14.
strcpy_s has no manual entry on Ubuntu, while "man strcpy" and "man strncpy" work as expected.

Why would that be?
> You should always be seeking to make your code as concise as possible while maintaining clarity.

Absolutely.

> It's that "while maintaining clarity" bit that's the tricky bit, really. On this, I think we agree.

Yes.
How is it not a matter of familiarity? Just because it's not intuitive to you doesn't mean it's bad. I find anything not in an S-expression to be atrocious. Doesn't mean I can't learn and understand "horrible" syntax where I have to separate things with semicolons...