skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus they also get to kick the problem down the road. If they have to face it, they might as well do it later.

Airbnb should be held responsible via law, not via the expectation that they care about their image. As long as it’s the Airbnb website or app and they are getting a commission, shrugging off issues like this should not be legal.
The vast majority of Airbnbs I’ve stayed in were illegal hotels/rentals... only a handful were legit renting out a spare room / couch surfing type deals and the first time I did that I had to pretend I was the host’s college friend.

Airbnb is basically built on shifting liability to shifty people running hotels out of rentals.

Also, pro tip, I’d guess at least 50% of the airbnbs I’ve stayed in do not wash the sheets in a washer (I’ve literally physically observed at least one host lint-roll follow by a spray of fabric freshener).

That being said I still use them to lower my own standards and prices below hotels, but I know what I’m getting into at least.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21409114

During those first few seconds after I hit the Autoland button, the system went through a series of complex calculations and decision-making processes to determine the nearest suitable runway based on runway length, width, and surface; fuel remaining; crosswind component; terrain; obstacles; and general weather information. The system requires an RNAV approach, but beyond that, the runway and weather criteria can be decided by the airframe manufacturer.

The system even forecasts its own weather if the nearest suitable runway is a significant distance away, long enough that the current ADS-B or SiriusXM weather may not be valid. It uses the latest weather trend information, for example, to determine if a thunderstorm might move into the runway environment where it intends to land. It will route the airplane around thunderstorms as well as terrain and obstacles, all of which it gets from its internal databases. If en route to a runway it determines, because of changing weather conditions, that another runway is closer or more suitable, it will change its destination. It can even estimate changing barometric conditions and adjust the altimeter—using algorithms. Garmin engineers say the calculated barometric readings are within 0.01 inches of mercury of actual ambient conditions.
I'm hoping id Software works a potshot into whatever they're doing for Doom
Given their history of banning pro players for their speech, seeing more of these bans for high-profile members of the community who participate doesn't seem farfetched.
Browsing through this thread, the main argument seems to be that they are most comfortable with the Mac APIs and think it would be harder to rewrite their stack using different technology. They would have to re-apply the new stack onto millions of existing images and make sure the results 100% match the previous version, which is a problem that you don't have launching a new API.

So I'm not quite sure that I understand this reasoning in your case, as the operations performed (scaling, cropping, watermarking, flipping, filtering) are available in just about any image processing pipeline, and not really linked to anything that Quartz or Mac does particularly well.
They're explicitly injected somewhere. That somewhere often is distant both in time and space from where the dependency is used - for example, if the injection happened when that object was constructed as in the example which the original article used.

If many injections are possible, then I'm in a debugger breakpoint in the code where it's used, I don't have access to the call stack of how, where and why the object was injected with that dependency.

If it's usually just "the one" dependency except when testing, then if I'm looking at the code of a particular function, I don't have an easy way to see the code that must always get executed there because it "could" be (but isn't) anything.
I was being facetious. (looking at the downvotes I dont think many people got that).

But seriously though, this isn't about pay. The guy was a fucking idiot.
They can't kick out people for dressing up as Winnie the Pooh though. That's just someone going to BlizzCon in their favorite cosplay outfit.
I've also found that my kids' school sometimes _only_ sends out notifications or surveys via Facebook, even though they have two other specific systems they pay for that are specifically made for parent/school communications.
Huh. I just realized that JSON Schema is STILL not a published spec. It is currently in draft, and has been, for a long time.
The way I see it going horribly wrong is if Blizzard over-reacts. I fully expect to see people show up in pro-Hong Kong clothing/outfits or wielding pro-Hong Kong signs. Hopefully Blizzard exercises some self-restraint when that happens or it's going to blow up on social media.

However after the "don't you have phones" fiasco, Blizzard may be so out of touch that we'll see a video of armed guards dragging away some popular twitch streamer in a "Free Hong Kong" t-shirt.
What I will say is that both extremes are unworkable—from blanket bans to the authoritarian forcing of companies to publish poltical ads against their will.

Everything was fine back when the newspapers had a healthy tension between revenues and credibility. And when the sheer quantity of advertising venues was small and the advertisements devoid of third-order ulterior motives.

Until we can reign in the excesses of online advertising, it's more prudent to be cautious than dive further into the abyss.
No one is relating this article or what they are talking about to MAX/MCAS, you're the only one bringing it up. The article even mentions "The new problem is distinct from Boeing's ongoing crisis over its 737 Max planes"
People who pay attention know that fox news is fine and sticks to the truth (perhaps a selective truth, but still truth). It's the editorial panels that run around it and look like news that are a pile of made up lies.
Round robin or following a uniform distribution?
The card issuer could easily institute a "no retaliation" clause in their contracts that forbids deactivating a user's account for a sustained chargeback.
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That is against the business model of building a ubiquitous profile on every one and selling that for ad targeting. This way he can sell each person over and over instead of making a measly $3.
Shipping containers don't need food, fresh water, bathrooms, and space to move around.
You're acting as if we can't do anything about power of Facebook. It's absurd to to conflate making Facebook take editorial control of their platform with making it the state censor of an authoritarian country.

Regulating and/or breaking up Facebook is hardly "demanding they become the final arbiter of truth." The goal here is reducing Mark Zuckerberg to the point where his personal judgement is irrelevant.
> Who's firing at the police officers and is in the same building as an innocent bystander, 9 year old boy. Seriously, this situation could've easily gone much uglier than property damage really fast.

Yes, it could have. The cops could have shot the 9 year old boy.

I'm not sure how you can see a man with a gun shooting at people and think the solution is more men with guns shooting at people.
Are political ads labeled / presented any differently than regular ads on Facebook?

The main issue I have with this is how Facebook strategically blends advertisements (which is often political during election cycles) together with organic non-sponsored content.

Anecdote: My 84 year old grandmother spends 1-2 hours per day scrolling through Facebook's news feed. When I watch her do it, she pays ZERO attention to why she's seeing a specific piece of content (to her, there's no difference between a post that's labeled "Sponsored" versus an organic post from a family member). In other words, for my grandmother, Facebook has not done an effective job at informing her when she's viewing a paid advertisement vs. organic non-sponsored content. This is a clear form of user manipulation that needs to stop.

Even when I scroll through Facebook, I often don't notice the "Sponsored" label on posts until after I've already read most of the post.

To me, the primary issue is that Facebook does not adequately differentiate organic content from sponsored content.

At least when watching television, it's absolutely clear when you're watching paid-for commercials - it's harder to manipulate someone's beliefs when they know they're watching a commercial. But with Facebook, a huge percentage of users don't know when they're interacting with an advertisement vs. organic content - this is the problem that I think needs solving.

> Zuck: "Instead, I believe the better approach is to work to increase transparency. Ads on Facebook are already more transparent than anywhere else."

In what way is Facebook transparent? Do they mean they simply disclose political ad spend? Or do they legitimately think they're doing a good job at properly labeling paid-for content?
The difference between top 200 players and the very best players is quite significant in Starcraft II. Some argue that the difference in skill between the best players and a top 200 player is the same as between a top 200 player and a median player.
I assume it is hard to objectively define and measure 'same environment' for arbitrary pairs. Using sibilings (fraternal or twins) is a way around that.
No, that's just one of the reasons. Again EU and Scotland aren't a country. I don't know why people just keep comparing different things like they are the same?

Do you want to propose a solution to people who live in catalunya and don't want independence? A referendum is a stupid idea frankly, it divides sociaties between those who want to leave and those who want to say.

People in catalunya only want independence because they are richer. What happened to solidarity?

They just want to kick Spanish people out (by the way they are spanish too in spite of all their bullshit), becuase they see them as the Nazis saw the Jews.

Let's call things by what they are. We aren't going to stand by and abandon half if catalan people who don't want to lose their rights to live and work in Spain.

You can do that in other countries if you want.
This is what companies like Lilium are aiming for [1], and they're aiming for passenger operations starting in 2025 on a "taxi" type basis, probably initially with a pilot on board, though from what I understand this is largely because they don't expect to get approval for autonomous operation from day one. Of course there's no guarantee they'll meet that target, but they're also just one of many companies working on this.

[1] https://lilium.com/newsroom-detail/taking-to-the-skies-fligh...
How is paid speech not free speech? The paid aspect is just a means to an end. Money itself should not be seen as speech, but speech that costs money is still speech. On a basic level, any self publishing on any form of media has a nonzero cost and you buy some service from some third party eventually. If free speech applied to you but not the person who supplied you a platform, then that freedom only exists in theory and is effectively useless as you can be gagged by way of action against who supplied you your megaphone.

The freedom of advocacy is inseparable from the freedom of speech. It costs money to print pamphlets, buy air time, pay people to stand on the corner, conduct opinion polls, etc.

Say that you or I have a novel political idea that we want to advocate for. How do you propose that we do so? We'd probably form a non-profit, spend money contacting potential allies, convince them on the merits of our case and to donate to us, then spend that money on pamphlets, TV, radio ads, etc. That's freedom at work.

If paid advertisements are not free speech, then the concept of free speech would cease to exist beyond street corner rants.
Mentioned this in another comment, but it blows my mind that the author ends with:

> "Even after a month of digging through public records, scouring the internet for clues, repeatedly calling Airbnb and confronting the man who called himself Patrick, I can’t say I’ll be leaving the platform, either. Dealing with Airbnb’s easily exploitable and occasionally crazy-making system is still just a bit cheaper than renting a hotel."

After an experience like that, I'd spend so much effort warning everyone I know to avoid Airbnb, even with the off chance something like this could happen to them. THIS is exactly why Airbnb doesn't care, the user is so brainwashed into still using the platform even after all that to potentially save a few bucks (which honestly, from what I have seen these days, Airbnb is basically the same cost of a hotel if you buy from any hotel deal site). I just don't understand that logic at all. Fool me once...
How do you deal with parallel tests execution? Given that they are all static, you can't have multiple tests running at the same time setting up the mocks or they might overlap
There are also some smaller-time scams hosts run. I was forced to pay a three-figure cleaning fee by an AirBnB in DC earlier this year because they claimed I left a stain on their couch -- which I never even sat on (also, I was by myself, so it's not as though another one of my guests did something to it). I appealed and asked for photos of the supposed stain, but they ghosted me and in the end AirBnB ruled in their favor and automatically charged my credit card for the amount.
Besides really bad ailments which restrict you to a bed or location or when your brain gives out (the worst option, but yes, it of course happens; stroke, dementia, etc), I try to build on two things; a) hiking/nature b) brainy hobbies and I try to combine them. I read/write parts while hiking, I program parts while hiking, I interact with my friends while in the middle of rainforests etc. If the a) falls away because of an ailment, I am perfectly happy doing b). I consciously try to prepare for the future as I have seen too many unhappy people and that really is so not needed.
That goes back to at least the 1970s.

There I suspect that the kid/woman v. dad/authority conflicts, the smart & pluck being on the first side and the obtuseness on the latter, really depicted the script writers v. the management.
Kicking people out of Blizzcon itself? Denying entry? Profiling players? I don't know. I'll let them surprise me.
My date was sending me mixed signals, so I did a fourier analysis.
Games are a lot easier to work with than real problems since they are easy to simulate and evaluate. So using games as a stepping stone to learn how to make AI's do complex things seems reasonable to me.
Introduction to Qt / QML, the First KDAB TV YouTube Series
Facebook could provide a quota of free advertising to political parties, and not allow them to buy any more outside their quota. This would be akin to government provided airtime (“Party Political Broadcasts”) as done in Canada, UK and Ireland.

I’ve always felt nervous about the role of money in politics and removing the requirement for massive ad-spend budgets might bring us closer to a more moral democracy, and away from pay-to-play.
This sounds like a system we use at work. Go take a look at Tera Term.

In the realm of programming languages it... works. It gets the job done for simple tasks. If you want to do anything complex, watch out.
This. I did not leave academia to search for fame and fortune. I left it because the bureaucracy and politics of it was terrible.
Adblock facebook ?
Do Halloween “No Candy Here” laws levied against sex offenders work?
But reaction time in a real time game is also an interesting problem with AI. If they factor out the merely mechanical (the UI itself), reacting to a situation unfolding in real time where you don't have a lot of time to think is a nice test of AI vs human strategic and tactical thinking.
It was part of my education through middle school up to 2004 and I had never used it since so I don't remember it.

On the other hand there are kids today that aren't taught proper typing and they can manage 30 words per minute at best while I can do 140 because I type constantly.
Ultimately this seems like a failure in leadership.

It took four days for a response and then it was sort of half a response.

Individual employees now go and suffer the consequences on the front lines.
One of the key dynamics of the modern era is the result of a conflict between the old beauracracy on wall street and the rising aristocracy of silicon valley tech executives. While wall street controls the flow of money, silicon valley controls the flow of information. The secret algorithms of social media companies like youtube are their primary source of power, and to control the algorithm means to have a massive ability to manipulate public opinion and control the public mind. I believe its only a matter of time until silicon valley emerges as the victor of the current conflict.
Shared this with the engineers and programmers at my company. They all had a good laugh.

Software is deterministic. Reality is not. Engineering is significantly harder than programming, and programmers have only themselves to blame for not properly handling failure modalities.
I said the same thing in another sibling comment, but I'd love to hear more if you've got some experience in the space and are willing to share!
I prefer giving power no secrecy to hide behind and limiting it by democratic control. I dont know why the assumption is always that a central power has to be some opaque inscrutable beurocracy.
Wow, I would absolutely charge that back. Which I guess would end my use of Airbnb, but I’d probably be ok with that.
> curbing CO2 (which may or may not have an impact decades down the line) is not going to be your first priority

May or may not have an impact?! 97% of climate scientists believe that the earth's climate has warmed as a result of human activities and continuing emissions will increase the likelihood and severity of global effects

Sure, we need mitigation efforts, but we also need to prevent things getting much much worse.
This is some top level apologist drivel. While the term 'athiest' certainly hasn't aged well, the concept, has. There are more athiests than ever. The question is really, what does the loss of the church as an adhoc community center mean moving foreward? How can we divorce dogma from compassion in service to humanity?
Guess we understand "clamp down hard on people" differently where not being able to participate in a tournament (private) seems very light, compared to what others can end up with when speaking out about something (see https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/spain-counter... for example)
Dunno the context of evolution goes a very long way even on the biochem.
Can you explain your reasoning behind need a PhD? It makes sense to me why you should learn a lot to understand a complex field, but I fail to see why you should also spend a few years researching a very narrow subfield... wouldn't it be better to be a generalist and be able to apply your knowledge widely, as opposed to only understanding a tiny sliver of the whole field?
I wonder how shareholders feel about this? Also, is Twitter going to be neutral on what politicians it selects that get's reach?
"Ads can be an important part of voice - especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates,"

Well, Mr. Zuckerberg; I don't think this explains, let alone justifies your policy of allowing outright lies in political ads without any pushback.

Whenever you think this company cannot sink any lower you're always in for a massive surprise and disappointment.
I just watched The Great Hack, which I can't say is fantastic as a whole, but does still raise some terrifying points of the power of targeted political ads and how they are being weaponized. I really don't see any other choice but to ban political ads entirely as Twitter is doing.

For those that haven't seen it, here's some backstory on one piece about the Trinidad election:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/t...

But basically, a political campaign was started around NOT voting as a form of protest. And those were targeted to the opposing party etc..

It is one thing if political ads were just about informing the public about a candidate, but we are far past that. This is a question about the legitimacy of our democracy now.

Anybody have any bright ideas on how to apply pressure on Facebook to do the same as Twitter? This feels to me like one of the more important questions of our (immediate) time since it effects absolutely everything.
One thing to keep in mind is that any type of auto-fly is dependent on a LOT of automation systems on the plane itself being functional. For example, instruments, sensors, autopilot, auto throttle.

To be considered safe, an auto-fly needs to be able to gracefully degrade as the subsystems in which it depends start to fail. Human pilots are trained to handle this by compensating for system failures in a variety of ways, including compensation (eg in a split flap scenario) and disabling (turning off a misbehaving autopilot). Ultimately, a human pilot can always turn off all the automation and fly the plane by looking out the window (or, in poor conditions, using gyro powered “steam” gauges).

In the case that the pilot is disabled, then auto-land is a great option, even though it’s reliant on so many subsystems. But for an always-on auto-fly, the requirement to gracefully degrade, and degrade, and degrade, and still operate at the level of a human pilot using the “Mark 1 eyeball” is a tough one which hasn’t yet been met (as far as I know).

There’s mention in this discussion of fully automated drones. But, those are basically expendable if there’s a serious system failure, since there are no souls on board.
Cloudflare Workers KV Vulnerability
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millionshort.com looks promising! I will give it a try.
Do you know what engine they use? Google or Bing, or something completly different?
I think in terms of "less mass = bad", the formal answer will be found in control theory.
Just noting that a superheterodyne receiver doesn't transmit on purpose, it's just mostly that it generates an internal frequency reference some multiple of the target frequency that has a tendency to leak out. For a normal radio this isn't too relevant as the signal isn't particularly strong or in a frequency range where it'll mess with anything.

As a bit of an aside: The intermediate frequency leaking is how the police can detect if you're using a radar detector (for avoiding tickets from speed cameras for instance). Of course listening to a faint signal like that is best done with a superheterodyne receiver, so there are radar detectors that detect if the police are using a radar detector detector nearby, which is then in turn of course called a radar detector detector detector.

wikipedia has some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector#Counter_technol...
Yeah, I guess in the context of a attendee that's "clamping down hard", I guess I'm just used to "clamping down hard" meaning something more than being excluded from a private event.
Ah, right. Obviously. Not sure how TVs slipped my mind :)
Does this article really contain a referral link for "overstock.com barstools"? I'm not sure if I should be appalled that they inserted an ad into a journalistic piece, or respect them for doing it despite how negative the reference is.