skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm clearly not a single guy renting 4 bedroom victorian homes. I'm more talking about the people who charge you $80-150/night to clean a 1 bedroom studio, especially if it's a guesthouse in their back yard and I'm asked to do half of the work (put dishes in dishwasher, take out trash, take sheets off bed, etc) and still charged more than I know it costs to clean. Also the fact that it doesn't show up on the map when plotting trips, I have to go into the listing and wind up rejecting half of the options after.

At that point unless I'm looking for a specific experience (cabin in the woods, victorian 4 bedroom home) I'll probably just get a hotel to not have to deal with it.

I think my biggest issue is the DAILY clean fee. I'm fine with a one time clean fee if I'm there for 3-5 days. Hosts aren't coming in and rolling my sheets every night.
When both drivers are in error, people blame the computerized one more
I'm no encryption expert, but depending on how the data is partitioned it can be easier to securely prune encrypted data than unencrypted data. For example, securely wiping an encrypted drive is as easy as tossing the key.
I don't think it will change as long as the US is the hegemon superpower. Not because they are evil or anything, but because individualism it's the core tenet of the US.

Communal and unified?, 90% of the Americans would say that's communism
depends what you’re doing. For querying large datasets? 100% with you.

For data cleaning, processing, analytics, ML on decently large datasets? Spark wins out
See also: "baker's dozen".
The big thing I always see is that it has a few important limitations, and those limitations mean that extra optimizations can be used.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/146186
That's not Europe vs America, that's some parts of Europe vs the rest of the world.

Public nudity is very much the exception globally not the rule. But it's interesting what selective stuff people give the US credit.
I was surprised to find that my county (Harris, TX) was one of the nine counties "most central to the overall structure of the food supply network".

Not much farming happens in this county, nearly zero industrial farming. In the few spots of undeveloped land a few people have some cows, mostly for tax purposes. One more thing, Harris encompasses most of the greater Houston metropolitan area. It's mostly city and suburbs. So what gives?

"We did this by looking for counties with the largest number of connections to others"

Ok, well there's very little farming in the surrounding counties relative to California and the corn belt. We're quite a ways from the Rio Grande valley (which does have quite a bit of farming).

So this still doesn't make sense.
It's once a year here, for cars as old as mine. It's not a big deal though; it takes less than an hour and you can usually go without even having a reservation. Costs less than one tank of gas.
Device Identifiers and Fingerprinting on iOS
In addition, not read this paper but it's high on my to-do list:

"Learning by Association in Plants"

extract of abstract: "the possibility that plants are also able to acquire learned associations to guide their foraging behaviour has never been demonstrated. Here we show that this type of learning occurs in the garden pea, Pisum sativum. By using a Y-maze task, we show that the position of a neutral cue, predicting the location of a light source, affected the direction of plant growth. This learned behaviour prevailed over innate phototropism"

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep38427

Incredible, if validated.
Sorry about that. I thought I'd copied it right though Imgur redirected on me and I apparently got the wrong one.

The Mastodon version should work:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103056466726303338

Actually: I've looked for the image by description on Imgur -- it doesn't seem to be there. I'd included the article title, authors, and source links. :(
It's about the original source, per the guidelines.
GPS WAAS is good only down to 200 and 1/2 (200’ above ground cloud base and 1/2 mile visibility underneath)

Cat II ILS can go down to 100 and 1200RVR (100’ bases and 1200’ of runway visual range)

Cat IIIc can go down to 0/0.

200 and 1/2 is perfectly usable for most day to day weather and is certainly good enough for unexpectedly incapacitated pilot.
Filippo Valsorda (Go's current crypto maintainer) took a little bit of time to look at the cryptography used by restic: https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/
I am not sure what you mean by 'strategy' here, don't Chess, Go, and No-Limit Hold'em fall under those categories?
I'm sure that's not true. I've heard a great rant from an Intel CPU engineer about how CISC is a great fit for large OoO cores. Like how memory RMW instructions can be thought of as allocating physical register file resources with no architectural register file requirements, no extra instruction stream bits required, and no confusions inside the core about register data dependencies of the instruction.

It'd be fun to throw together a modern CISC-V or something that does a better job than x86 from an instruction encoding efficiency perspective, and see how it stacks up against modern RISCs.
I am not sure why, but reading this article just made me feel pretty ill. How does someone (multiple someones?) have the moral ability to do these kinds of things? I seriously can't believe the whole stack, from AirBNB to the scammer, just let these kinds of things go. At the end, where the author states she will continue to use AirBNB because it is cheaper kind of rubs me the wrong way. For a company to allow such slimy things to happen with minimal recourse would just turn me off from them forever. And the scammer? To just rip people off, knowingly ruin peoples vacations (and other things, but I imagine mostly vacations) because "money" is just ridiculous. These kinds of stories just hurt me. I wish people were better, but I know these types of people won't stop scamming.
Some have mentioned this, but it's true: jump at every opportunity you have to do any kind of public speaking gig - whether it's a 10 minute thing or a 2 hour thing.

This is what I've done - and though the first time is incredibly nerve-wracking, especially if it's a longer presentation, it only gets easier from that point on. But you do want to make sure that you know your material very well - the goal is to be as knowledgeable as possible of the topic on which you are speaking. Be prepared for questions.

Personally, I've found that presenting the topic to a friend or family beforehand helps immensely. Writing and reading your PowerPoint (or equivalent) is one thing, but learning how to transition naturally from point-to-point and from slide-to-slide is something else entirely. You'll also find, while presenting, mistakes that you didn't notice simply by reading through it and you can correct those mistakes before they serve to embarrass you publicly.

I recommend staying away from coffee before presentations and instead, drink an herbal caffeine-free tea to calm your nerves (chamomile works wonders for me).
From your perspective you died. From the copies perspective you are continuous.
> crap like 'project management' offered to the unemployed again.

The thing is, no one (who's responsible) will hire a project manager who has no experience in the field. At least in software, I'd never work for a project manager who has no experience as a software developer. There are just too many cases where naive assumptions are wrong.

I suspect that Laura Ward (from the article) is in such a situation. She's trying to enter jobs in a management role where she's fundamentally unfit.
I think that depends on how you use Reddit. You're right, there are lots of teens on there, but I'm not subscribed to the subreddits they frequent, nor do I browse r/all, which is the equivalent of Youtube's "Trending" tab.

r/webdev for instance is one of the subs I'm subscribed to, and the culture there is not really meme or inside joke-oriented like a lot of the entertainment-type subs are.

The other day I was googling info related to legal review of real estate documents, and my top search results were all keyword-heavy content mill articles that weren't helpful at all. I decided to do the same search with "site:reddit.com" added, and the information was much better, as you're often hearing people's stories of working with lawyers when buying property. It was very helpful to get this kind of 'organic' information instead of the 'corporatized' version that's really a lead-up to their sales pitch.
Syncthing and s3-fuse to create a local pipe to s3.

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
Maybe you'll be happier with:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/102376653178100454
Several decades later, I keep not aging out somehow :)
> Oracle JDK 8 contained some small parts that were proprietary. And they mostly had the proper package name. You took the risk.

I did not. Some libraries I depend on did.

> You mean, bundling a JVM exactly like all JetBrains IDEs currently do?

Yes. I'm researching how they do it. Previously it could be done with one command. Jetbrains use their own patched JVM and have JVM experts on their payroll. What they do goes way beyond my current skills.

> That's a problem with the Scala compiler AFAIK, not with Java.

From a JVM point of view, Scala is just one more library. The problem with Scala right now is that it doesn't support the module system. This means yet another dive at a lower level to try to fix any issue that appears.
But you are ignoring the difference in power that people have in this context. Especially in this age, when inequality is so high, it is naive to consider money to be an unbiased tool.

Especially when we already live in a massively unequal stage where a few coorporations have access to the most popular websites, magazines, newpapers, tv channels, allowing money into this equation as an unbiased tool will only increase this inequality in the ability to spread a message.

I think we as a society should make changes so that money has as little influence as possible. Of course, that battle will never end and there will be pushback from the small minority of people of have the overwhelming amount of wealth in this world, but changes such as banning political ads in twitter is a very good start.
If the rules are consistent and persistent, then you should be banned again as you have criticized Golang, but furthermore, provided zero substance to back your criticism.
Give it time!
Hmm... this is the classic worst case, sure. But there are lots of value for a local small charity to have a simple database to manage work schedules for volunteers. So, again, given a somewhat power user who is not a coder, how should they "whip up" a simple database app?
Fun fact: In the old days, as was unix tradition, bc was a thin wrapper on top of dc (desktop calculator) which is even more spartan than bc. It's quick and tiny, you can pipe things to it. It syntax is postfix, unlike bc which is infix. It's stack based with conditionals, so you can write full programs in dc if you have some free time. It's also got arbitrary input and output radixes.

An elegant weapon for a more civilized OS! Eg:

echo 16o 5 5 5 ^^p | dc

https://linux.die.net/man/1/dc

PS: (insane?) people have written some big stuff in dc (because it's there?). I'm drawing a blank if it was Zork or Lisp, hard search to do...

PPS: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Dc
" Someone who wants to sexually harass a person via Facebook isn’t going to be deterred because they might get reported (and then... presumably nothing?) for sending an emoji." No, but person reviewing such reported content now have in their guideline that emojis count too and know what to do.
you smell Melanchon, go kill yourself
It redirects to Million Short, a search engine that removes results for the top N websites.

Helpful for filtering out the Pinterest/Yelp/AngiesList/Home Advisor spam that fills the first several pages of results for most local searches.
I love their tag line "Everyone deserves to be connected."
> I would love to see data on that; That majority is not silent, is inexistent.

This seems often like trying to explain colors to blind people. Even worse, to people that are not blind but refuse to understand even really simple concepts that everybody out of the bubble can see inmediately.

The population in Catalonia is 7,5 millions, and the people that voted independentist parties are 1,6 millions. Have you consider the possibility than not all those "inexistent" people are independentists?.

Lets assume that some strangers would appear at your door requiring politely you to leave your home and work and go away because you aren't in the right kind of thinking and your bloodlines are Spainted. Oh, and you are not a US citizen (or a german citizen, french, whatever...) anymore.

Would you fight back for defending your rights and your home?

If the separatists really expect all this millons of people lowering their head, going to the exile and leaving in peace without a word they are even dumber than they seem. They will wake up and eat them alive.

> protests have been focalized in a small area, a single street...

If you really want to educate yourself, a simple search in youtube will provide you with plenty of data that debunk this idea. Think about it.

> I don't trust you

Good. As I'm just a stranger in internet, this is the right thing to do. By the way, I don't care about who do you trust either, so is not a problem at all. Go out and explore the world by yourself. Cheers.
Concussion Research Has a Troubling Patriarchy Problem
Plus it was described as a language to solve Google problems. And we all wanted to be like Google.

In fairness there is a category of systems for which it was about the least-worst fit at the time: distributed concurrent systems where a JVM was unwelcome. Pascal and its progeny were seen as passé, C/C++'s deficiencies well-known by this point, the scripting languages woefully underperformant, the JVM was the punchline of many jokes despite being a phenomenal engineering achievement, D still mired in some kind of civil war over standard libraries and I imagine thousands of other contenders for an undiscovered throne.

But without Google? Pike? There's no chance any of this would've mattered enough.
The $900B reason GE, Ford and P&G failed at digital transformation
One problem is that we have two extremes:

- Twitter: no political ads
- Facebook: any political ads, including lying.

It would be nice to at LEAST have an agreement that ads saying things that are objectively incorrect should not be run.

For example, if I ran an ad that said "Hacker News was owned by Rupert Murdock" (which is false) then this ad should be blocked.

There might need to be some penalty applied retroactively. Like if you're busted running a fake political ad your company is on timeout for 60 days.

To be fair, I realize this is a difficult problem this is why we might have to add a penalty period.

Surely we can live in a world where we have facts, right?
or, restic is your NAS backup while Nextcloud is your open source dropbox, roughly.
More Inclusive Science Journalism Is Better Science Journalism
It's even worse when you consider how it's based in binary gender thinking. Are a transgender person's nipples allowed, or not? It ends up being such a mess. A gender-neutral standard would be better.
It’s rhetorical.
Read a book loudly. Listen to audiobook or a language course and repeat simultaneously after the lector. Try doing these in different languages. Drink water while doing these.
Compare that to 100% of My priceline bids being accepted by hotels that were much better than expected and at rates about half what you'd book directly.

I'm so glad now after years of never booking an airbnb I can say that with pride. I never gave this scummy company a single dollar. I knew who they were from the first experience.
group dependencies as in

def send_alerts(services):
for person in everyone:
services.mail.send(type="alert", person)

?
> Inversion of control is a pattern that works just about anywhere.

That was what confused me about IoC/DI when I first started hearing the term: it seems so fundamental that it had never occurred to me that there was any _other_ way to write software. I was surprised that anybody was surprised by this pattern.
>it would be impossible if the server would not send locations of opponents behind walls

Wouldn't that require the server to do some amount of 3D logic every netcode tick for every player? And then you'd get into real latency problems, since either you do rollbacks to account for when people are allowed to see each other or you let the fastest connection win.
>you can't "train" a cat to obey you and do your biding by giving it rewards like you can with Dogs.

You totally can shape cat's behaviour by reinforcement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNiL9Hv2V5Q

It may be harder than for dogs, but it can be done.
Itanium was one of those scenarios where theory blew up in practice. In theory it’s great for software to have complete control of instruction ordering. In practice, software simply doesn’t have enough information at compile time to do that. As proven by the fact that even Itanium moved to an OOO architecture in Paulson.

It comes down to memory latency. Even an L3 cache hit these days is 30-40 cycles. It’s hard to predict when loads and stores will miss the cache, so there is little a compiler can do to account for that in scheduling. OOO can cover the latency of an L3 cache hit pretty well. And once you add it for that, why not just pretend you’ve got a sequential machine?
Re-releasing old content is not something you consider "stale" ?
You can implement it, albeit more slowly, in pure python using just 20-30 lines of code. I wrote a blog a while back showing how kmeans can be used to identify dominant colors in images. It has many applications and is a handy tool to use for roughly grouping data. Care is needed to pick the optimal starting centroids and k.
I think it's always a mix of things which lead to the success of any language ecosystem. I think Go has at least 3 things going for it:

1. It got the *initial push* from its Google pedigree which allowed it to gain attention and traction

2. It meets the *merit threshold* so that when people gave it a try, they wanted to continue using it

3. It had a good *product market fit*: in the world where Go was released, *a lot* of server-side software was being written in scripting languages and there was a clear value proposition for a fast, compiled, statically typed language with good tooling for handing server work.

I think Dart fell down on that third point. Front-end development is very different from back-end, and people already had toolsets they were familiar with based in Javascript. Switching to Dart would have meant throwing out all these separate inter-operable tools and betting on a new paradigm.

I think that's why something like React or Typescript could really explode in that space: they could be added incrementally to a project while still keeping most things familiar.
The biggest, I think.
Shame is a very good immoral deterrent for the eager to deceive. Imagine knowing your future progeny are ashamed they come from grifters? (Quite astonishing people don’t make the connection that we are alive now on a world stage.)
Windows minions are supported, but I'll confess I haven't done much with them. I manage Linux servers exclusively.
3. Discover that your realistic military combat game neglected the effects of the sun heating your robots and that they now consistently overshoot targets during the day and undershoot targets during the night.

(And the million other complexities that exist in the real world).

Fundamentally I think the biggest advance in AI for real world applications (military and otherwise), is one that can learn quickly enough that we can train it in the real world situations.
There are whole sections about his specific history at each company and stage. If you’re looking for three sentence summary then I can’t help you.
How would that even work?
this is why many rich people recently moved to CA?
something zionisty is happening over there, i wonder what it could be? something to do with china? hmm
I don't think it's unreasonable to say that "you cannot use our game world / universe" in your game? Valve and Blizzard came to a pretty reasonable arrangement.

AFAIK Skeleking -> Wraith king was a purely -China- ceremonial thing
Nice piece, albeit a little bit clickbaity (par for the course with vice). It's a single small-time operator, maybe 2 guys, with a few properties across a few cities. Yes, technically it's nationwide, but the scope is that of a small time con, not some extensive and deep operation.

To summarize, the photos and listings are fake, with fake host names and the requisite fake reviews. When you arrive, you get a call 10-30 minutes before check-in and told the plumbing is broken, I need to move you. Then you get put in a "flophouse". I suppose the move is so that the actual address where you will stay isn't listed on AirBNB and you won't be able to street view it, etc. Because otherwise I don't see the point of not putting you into the crap house at the listed address.

Through a process of sloppy ops work on the scammer, and tenacity of the author, she uncovered the name and other personal details of the perp and confronted him. He then removed any digital trails of himself which he had so stupidly had publicly available before, thinking they couldn't be traced back easily.

It's a great revenge story, the kind that gives you vicarious satisfaction.

My only question is, why didn't the author call the FBI afterwards?
>The structure of the business drives certain decisions. I'm not saying it's a hive-mind, but pretending a business is just a bunch of individuals is too reductionist.
Also, since ActiBlizz is a publicly traded corporation, there are people in that organization that are legally or contractually obligated to make decisions in the best interest of ActiBlizz.

Sure, but at the same time executives in these organizations do have power. Twitter just walked away from that sweet political ad money for ethical reasons, for example. You just have to find the correct arms to twist.
It’s not just Europe though. For example Australia has similar sensibilities too.

Maybe a more accurate description might be: countries predominantly atheist verses countries which are not.

Regardless of you want to define it, a female nipple is still no more offensive than a male one.
It’s Boom Times for These Daring Firefighter-Scientists
Thanks, OSTree sounds like a good place to start.
You have to hack them to get the real price? That seems profoundly wrong to me.
I use borg on a small VPS that hosts my side project to get free backups.

Borg runs doing incremental backups to a local directory. I sync the borg backup folder to a free BackBlaze B2 bucket. The whole thing comes in around 5GB of backup including database backup and all the hosted files and configuration files.
> Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that in the unlikely event of a data loss you can just restore it. Likewise, restoring data should not be complicated.

So does it have a GUI Version?
Yes. I'm in charge of booking a ski trip for ~15 friends each year, and the amount of reading between the lines I have to do to make sure everyone has a comfortable place to sleep is crazy.

Tons of places count sofas/pullouts/day beds in the "Sleeps # of People", and they often count the temporary beds as space for 2. So you'll see places that say, Sleeps 16, but there are only 3 or 4 real beds.

Hotels have it right up front: 2 Queens. Period.
Ted talks about Neurotech you must watch