skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still browse AirBnb's listings on occasion, but the last few trips have ended up booking directly with hotels, Lodges/Inns/BnBs, or vacation rental companies. When taking a look at the true prices, inclusive of fees, and what level of property I get for them today, Airbnb often comes out much more expensive for comparative properties. I might still have better experiences in less touristy locations than the ones I travel to. Not to mention the ridiculously strict long-term cancellation policies Airbnb allows hosts to apply that wouldn't fly in any other style of vacation housing.

I loved the service back in the early twenty-teens, but I had a strikingly bad experience with a home I tried to book in Boston.

The owner found out her home listing had rats a few days prior to check-in, and admitted to not being able to get rid of them fully before the date, leaving the possibility of rats getting poisoned/killed by the traps she set up. All of the communication was via @airbnb.com emails I had responded to, but Airbnb's support couldn't find any records of these messages. It took multiple calls and entirely too much effort to get an eventual refund plus a tiny credit on their site -- not nearly enough to book a replacement property that close to the date anywhere within city limits.

Meanwhile, like I mentioned, the prices of properly licensed and managed vacation options have become competitive with Airbnb while offering more reliable and flexible wrt date changes and cancellations.
I'm not suggesting anything specific. Personally, I think allowing permanent public access to your server backups sounds like a terrible idea, but it's your data and you choose your threat model.
Why do you assume that the linked paper hasn't already taken this into consideration? They know that they're basically just structured aluminum foil, weighing in at 1 gram each, and completely dumb; why would they be assuming orientation at all? The reasonable thing to do would be to assume random orientation (especially over time, i.e. rotation, and over the orbit).
While Facebook is obviously not bound by the first amendment, the fact that something is paid doesn’t undermine its nature as free speech. Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” which sparked the American Revolution, was published and sold for profit. https://www.printmag.com/editors-picks/power-of-print-common.... (Though Paine donated his share to the Continental Army.)

Paine got his message out by contracting with for-profit publishers to disseminate his book. Facebook is just the new version of that.
What die shots are you looking at? I'm looking at a Silverthorne die and most of the frontend is taken up by the L1I$.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/bonnel...
I have a friend who is transitioning f2m and recently had top surgery. They were extremely excited that being topless was no longer a crime. It helped put some things into perspective for me.
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I think this may be why some groups use it. I have involved myself in many online business groups (real estate, mlm, etc) and they have a good reason to use facebook groups. They are very easy to control what voices are heard. For example to submit a post to one group which you have to pay +$2500 to enter every post has to be approved by the administrator before it's visible.
This will devolve into a 'what is consciousness' debate, but honestly does it matter?

To your consciousness, there is no gap, just the novel experience of watching someone who looks an awful lot like you die. If the consciousness is copied perfectly from a to b, is there a difference in it at that point?
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As the old comparison: Dogs excellent are for people who want to be worshipped as Gods. Cats are for people who want to wake in the night to find a God sat on their chest demanding a sacrifice.

Few people have seen much of my cat, because it takes her a bit of time to get used to new people[†] and will scuttle off when they are around. But she is quite attached to me. She misses me when I'm away for longer than usual and is very fussy when I come back, despite having a full bowl of kibble all morning she'll often wait until I come home at lunch and have me sit near her while she eats, she plays with me like an excited kitten at times, etc. She is happy to order the lodger around too when I'm away[‡], and will let her guard down enough to play while she is there (though usually not enough to actually play with her). There are a few others she will come out and greet, though no others she really relaxes around.

[†] she was a rescue, though I don't think she was abused explicitly in her first six months, just ignored (as she'd have never put up with kids, and her age suggests she was a Christmas kitten) so she didn't learn that a fair number of us humans are pretty decent, but we don't know for sure as she was left outside the RSPCA in a box heavily pregnant.

[‡] apparently when I'm not there, the lodger gets woken up at 0730 sharp, which is the time my alarms normally go off six days a week, and breakfast is demanded, if I am there she usually sits with/on me purring, waiting patiently, perhaps being fussed and/or massaging me, while I snooze the alarm a few times.
Yahoo! back in 1998 was a web directory, structured like a phone book. Being the age that I was then, my favourite site was something called Maniac Joe's WWF page, which had reviews of the latest Raw episodes, Pay Per View Specials, Midi theme songs and pictures.

I had a 30-min per week time allowance on the INternet-connected family computer, and I pretty much spent it all on that site.

Those are the types of sites I miss. Single-topic with incredible depth of content, and written in a funny, friendly tone without the "content strategist" tone of voice that's all too common on "fun" websites like Vice, Gizmodo etc.
Almost airport with runways long enough to land G3000 equipped airplanes will have a published approach. What will be interesting though is how this system handles circle to land approaches.
They don't really count as the computer game genre "strategy games". Computer strategy games tend to have many orders of magnitude more complex rules and state than Chess, Go or poker, so the game-play is very different and making an AI for them is also very different.
What does spark win at exactly?

Dask+Perfect is a much better experience all round including perf, with virtually none of the cluster management hell involved.
We got this last week. I just called Spectrum to cancel our service. It’s good enough for the price, especially since Spectrum raised the price of Internet to $69.99 this month.

- Speeds vary, but we seem to average around 100/20. The highest I’ve seen is 150/50. The lowest is 50 down. I have (separately) seen some awful upstreams—around 2 Mbps up.

- Latency is server-dependent but worse than cable. It’s probably not good for latency-sensitive applications (like some games).

There is one important caveat: T-Mobile uses CGN. Their network is IPv6 with 464XLAT bridging to non-IPv6 sites.
Imagine you are SpaceX. You are going to be launching a Starship. Given how booked your launch manifest is, would you rather launch a cubesat or a full-sized payload? Which would earn you more money?
I would pay a lot of money to be able to play a human level Emperor+ level AI on civ
> Corporations and their boards are not blood-bound to do everything in their power to maximize value. They can act ethically, and it is easily (and morally) defensible that acting with values is in the long term interest of the company.

Sure, but literally anything can be “acting with values”, depending on the value system chosen. There's no particular reason that would be determined by the political preferences of employees. It would be more natural for a corporation interested in sacrificing near term returns for some kind of ethics to do so based on the shareholders preferences than employers (or, if the gesture at ethics was intended as a long term business health approach, to do so based on what it was expected potential future customers would respond well to in the corporate story.)
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>On second thought, you never owning a cat again is probably the best choice.

The net take away for me as well.

From OP:

>Unbeknownst to me, people were messing with the poor guy all night during a party

Doesn't say a whole lot of positives if OP is freely acquainted with people who willingly hurt/disturb animals.

I own multiple cats. Have a child. We foster additional cats as well. I've never seen anyone hurt by a domesticated cat(non-feral) that didn't have it coming.
Blizzard accidentally stumbled on the biggest business model of the 2020s-2050s: digital retirement homes combined with the GenX/Millennial equivalent of re-releases of Beatles albums.

I realized I was aging when I figured out that WoW Classic is Oldies Radio but for people in my age bracket.
This is an outrageous position to take. You’re basically acknowledging that Thiel could come to face physical violence due to Gawker’s irresponsible actions but that he could just change his actions and choices to avoid this. That is, it reads like “No his life isn’t in danger if he goes out of his way to avoid the danger”.
Plus the dining area in hotels is usually far removed from any guest rooms.
That sounds pointless. If you have real crypto, tossing the key (in a way that it cannot be recovered) is absolutely enough.
It wasn't just Activision-Blizzard banning Blitzchung and confiscating his prize money. The official Hearthstone account on Weibo also parroted the Chinese government party line, "We will, as always, resolutely safeguard the country’s dignity" in Chinese.
I would hope the home internet is set up differently than a "hotspot" plan, because they will be very many use cases
I'm in agreement with that sentiment. For any given opportunity, even if it's "obvious" that someone should have done it, doesn't mean it's been done before. If something seems like an opportunity you should probably try to validate it, instead of immediately discounting it. That's how I started my last company!

But there's no doubting that some sort of counter-intuitive or hidden insight is necessary. Even if that insight is: "people think this is obvious and not worth doing, but it actually IS worth doing." RE: Zero to One.
Hate towards people should not be tolerated. Comments criticizing a person or group of people should not be allowed.

Comments criticizing corporate or governmental entities should be encouraged.
I think we have been desensitized by all these SpaceX rocket landings. Propulsive landing is not as easy as it seems.
> an inactive brain reboot is possible

You don't need to die to demonstrate that. General anesthesia suffices.

(FYI, for the benefit of those who have never experienced it, GA is a very different subjective experience from sleep. Even in dream-free sleep you wake up with a subjective sensation of time having passed. Not so with GA. The time you spend in GA is just completely gone. It feels like you went through a time warp.)
> You can implement it, albeit more slowly, in pure python using just 20-30 lines of code.

This is a good exercise for anyone starting out learning about machine learning, but I'd always stick to a well known library if I was actually using it for something else.

> Care is needed to pick the optimal starting centroids and k.

Definitely, and I think that speaks to the laziness of the linked article that they just say "Use the elbow method" for choosing k. In my ~4 years of being a data scientist I've never seen or heard of this working for any "real world" problem. Metrics like silhouette scores are much more useful and quantifiable.
It's short-sighted because breaking of mos maiorum for YOUR immediate political gains is how you legitimize the actions of the psychopaths who will break it further for THEIR gains 10 years down the line.

Eventually this process gets you to the Saturninuses of your world and the streets run with blood. You, who did not appreciate history, has just repeated it.
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This also isn't thread safe, but that's not a problem if you don't run parallel tests in the same process. Using the same stateless test doubles in all tests also solves the problem. I often find myself wanting stateful test doubles though.
Paramedics still classify a person with no heartbeat as "dead". This is also part of the reason consent to restore life to someone at this stage is not required. At least that is the training I get a couple times a year from paramedics.
I've loved using restic sofar. I've got about 3TB of stuff backed up to s3 using the restic cli. It is simple and just works.

If anyone though knows how I can more easily restore a file that would be great. I have to supply the restoration snapshot ID right now, and I'd rather just do 'latest' and have it find the newest version of the file in all of the snapshots and restore it. Is this possible
?

Something like:

restic restore -i '/path/to/file.txt' -i . latest

instead of:

restic restore -i '/path/to/file.txt' -i . search-file-snapshot-list-for-big-sha-here
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I honestly think this is only "scary" the first time.

After that, you will have the experience of "dying and being resurrected" and since everything went fine that last time, the next time is less of a concern.
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Depends. Do the ramifications of your business values follow me around to a restaurant, dentist, or park? Do they affect my family? If yes then yeah, people should be able to ensure the ramifications of them follow you there too.
You may way to look into biotech incubators such as IndioBio[1] to get an idea of what it takes.

[1] https://indiebio.co/
Thanks for the feedback! Really helpful
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Once at a previous company a job candidate was hyper nervous. He had flown in from a few hours away. I hadn't seem that level of nervousness before (or since). I really felt for him. I ended up taking him out for an early lunch together with some coworkers. That "loosened him up" enough so that we could conduct a proper interview.

He ended up being a very valuable and (and liked) employee for like 7 years.

And that nervousness - not really visible at all, after he got to know the people at our site.

So: My recommendation if you think have a potentially great but also very nervous job candidate: Take your time. Change the scenery. Etc.

(In this particular case I was pretty sure he was smart, just based on his application.)
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In a self defense scenario running away (if you have a clear and safe exit) is the best possible option. If someone is breaking into your house from the front, and you can safely exit the back - GTFO to safety and call law enforcement.

That being said, if your back is against the wall you have every right to defend yourself.
At the risk of getting too meta, I think it's more about the purpose of the joke. If it points out something in a funny way, that can be appreciated, but if it's purely a joke (as seen on reddit, though reddit is of course not the only place), it's just not what people come here for. If you want to read puns or rickroll references in the comment threads, I don't think HN is the place one should be looking.

Specifically for u/SiempreViernes: I did understand the joke, but I did not upvote it because I don't think it is the kind of content I want to see more of. (But I did also not downvote because I think it received enough downvotes and I don't want to add more negativity.)
Actually you can use rclone as a backend to send your blocks to wherever rclone supports. quite nice.
“WhatsApp did not identify the clients of NSO Group, who ultimately chose the targets.”
by definition that liability is someone else's asset. it may even be yours: many pension funds seek uber-stable paper among other things to diversify risk.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21411403 is a later post, but uses the original title.
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> I contacted AMEX, but they partner with AirBnB so I was denied a credit there as well.

Thanks for that, didn't realize they deny chargebacks in cases of fraud and misrepresentation. Partnering with a company that engages in widespread global fraud and illegal activity is an interesting choice for Amex.
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Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21411312 .
That's like asking what a markdown renderer offers that Wordpress doesn't.
in India I tried finding Airbnb’s in mumbai and hyderabad, some were hotels and guest houses, others were shady and often misrepresented.
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No, it's a huge inconvenience. I suspect that once their place gets booked via AirBNB, they jack up the price on HomeAway/VRBO and see if they can get a better price, then cancel the AirBNB if they do. It's risk free for them to cancel, so why not.
The press is nothing more than a collection of private organizations and until the advent of the internet and sites to include facebook many of their shenanigans went unchecked.

the is the problem with free speech, you accept you will have both and good and hopefully with a preponderance of free speech the good will out weigh the bad.

once you start trying to limit who and where you give bad speech the edge because those who set the rules also determine which is which

the real threat to free speech and democracy is from those sitting in office successfully scaring the people into letting them set limits on who can say anything and what they can say when in reality the only group that should face any such limits are those in office and those beholden to them and the party they represent.
If you watch the show "Altered Carbon", I kind of felt like there was an unspoken idea that all of the characters are in fact deceased many times over. The capability of replicating the exact consciousness of any of them exists of course.
I got a 2 month gig lecturing basic CS after finishing my degree. It was a pretty transformative experience - the first two lectures were among the worst experiences of my life! Panic in front of 200 people. After that it was fine.

Since then volunteered recently to speak at tech meetups, etc. Organizers are usually very happy to find more speakers! Still get the heart rate increase, sweaty palms, etc but apparently it no longer affects my speaking :)
Having been hospitalised following a bite from one of our cats (caused by a dog scaring him witless) I hadn't realised how dangerous their bites are - I now know that if you get a proper deep bite from a cat get medical attention.
Some popular Rust projects include actix-web (HTTP serving), diesel (database ORM), Firecracker (micro VMs for serverless). Web APIs and virtualisation / cloud computing are also areas where Go is popular.

They're both statically typed compiled system programming languages; both trying to provide solutions for safe memory and concurrency.
But is this an argument that quadcopters be regulated less, or that motor vehicles be regulated more? We've lived with the carnage motor vehicles wreak mostly out of blind habit: it's taken as normal. But that was true of many destructive activities in the past that we eventually stopped or mitigated. Certainly that's one big motivation for autonomous vehicles, which are the ultimate example of taking control away from the hands of the user.
After that the copies will be deluded into thinking they survived death while in fact they died.
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> No one has said anything about harassing Blizzard employees. What on Earth are you talking about?

> Too bad. They should be dreading this event. Blizzard have publicly fucked up in a very big way, and now the people that represent Blizzard are going to have to deal with that.

What do you think the Blizzard employees are going to "have to deal with" if not harassment at BlizzCon?
Give him avocado rolls on sushi platter?
=3= Mmmm, Nintendo's more "the Apple of the gaming industry". Super-closed, walled garden ecosystem, stubbornly oblivious of and draconianly IP-protective in response to online phenomena of game streaming (to the frustration of their more aware American branch), etc.

Also, did any computing company eventually turn their products into slot machines? Because Konami would be the THEM of the gaming industry: https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/12/20911313/silent-hill-slot...
Not sure how this topic could be covered without a mention of Dr. Ning Li's work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning_Li_(physicist)
Wrong. Check the Cirrus POH and exactly the opposite you said is true. In an engine out over the minimum altitude and under the pull speed, use the chute.

Chute pulls are almost 100% survivable. Landing in a field is a much lower percentage. Just hitting nearly invisible power lines can slice a plane in half. You also have a fire danger when landing off airport. And many dead engine landings result in landing short of the field.

You aren’t going to get ridicule from the Cirrus community for pulling the chute and even if you did, it’s less ridicule than crash landing into a field that looked suitable from 2000 feet up.
This is something that's really nicely supported in Julia: https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl
I think I started my post with "some of these issues extend beyond such narrow groups," which is to say that the situation is not one 100% bounded by class, race, or other common labels, though there are probably correlations of various strengths with many labels.
Uber allegedly paid $100k ransom and had hackers sign NDAs after breach
I'm a happy user of Android Brave browser, and even I know that there will never be enough users for BAT to take off. BTW, the desktop Brave browser on Mac OS is horribly slow and has compatibility issues with Chrome extensions that it says it supports.

Fortunately the Android browser's adblocking is very good, and the ability to turn scripts off with a single toggle means I won't be switching anytime soon.
AFAIK Skeleking -> Wraith king was a purely -China- ceremonial thing

Yes, the "pressing ceremonial reasons".
That sounds like communist socialist facist nazi etc. propaganda to me...

...at least that's the knee-jerk defense you hear from the priests of our current system (most mislead or benefiting from the corruption). If you don't support our current broken form of capitalism, you're labeled a blasphemer.

Heaven forbid we, as a society, re-evaluate the functionality of something adopted hundreds of years ago and adapt/change it without offering an impossibly proven successful alternative. Because, you know, the current economic system we have was proven successful before it was adopted.

It won't necessarily be trivial or painless but it will be less painful than it will at a later date, unless we want to pass the burden down to future generations.
If your work will pay for it, I've had good results sending people to the Dale Carnegie course.

One of my engineers had almost crippling anxiety speaking in front of even small groups. After the course, she had the confidence to speak up and lead meetings.
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Gresham's Law hits the sharing economy…
If you want a more complicated transform on lots of data your fancy sql won’t help.
Ha, you ascribe national debt to the wealth status of corporations?

I hope you’re somewhere you don’t do your own taxes.