skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title itself lets you know the desire of the author to occupy some philosophical high ground, while admitting some hard truths.

They could have asked more honestly, "why is C/Unix winning hearts and minds while Lisp-based systems are not" but first they wanted to provide the given that C/Unix was clearly inferior to Lisp based systems. That was not up for debate.

So that sets the bounds for the discussion that follows, and frames the discussion as "why are people choosing the clearly inferior over the clearly superior?"

You could write a similar essay from the point of view of what you might call the "original intent" of C/Unix, which is that simplicity is chronically undervalued and everybody, everywhere, all the time, try to add "just one more feature" to make it better.
Look at where it is used. It's still a better choice for HPC and deep numerics work than virtually anything else. Which is really remarkable when you stop to think about it.

Sure you could probably eke out faster code if you're a mentat and really good at C, or know the internals of a C++ compiler very well. But then you have to be good (and find good collaborators), and you pay the toll of dealing with pointers and memory management. I'm pretty sure I could stand up, say, a fast Gentleman's method using Fortran faster than in C++. And I'm certain I can get a large team of numerics guys to do, say, climate simulations faster and better in Fortran than C++.
They probably wouldn't be ok with it. But they also probably wouldn't claw back winnings. That person would just find themselves uninvited in the future.

Part of this fiasco is how blatantly it is implementing a government's crackdown on speech.
Plants do most of their water absorption through their roots, not their leaves. They're also prone to fungal problems when their leaves stay damp. There's no reason to water the leaves rather than the dirt around the roots, unless you're applying a foliar spray or watering something like a tillandsia that doesn't normally live on the ground.

The article says it's no surprise plants panic because water spreads disease, which is exactly what we're avoiding by not watering the leaves. It's not to save our plants' feelings, although the root cause of the feelings and the problem we're avoiding might be the same.
This was a pretty standard corporate PR tactic.

* make deleting accounts hard due to "technical difficulties"

* Wait until late Friday night to put out a press release, so publications are less likely to pick it up.

* Have the release contain a meaningless non-apology

* wait for a bit until everyone moves on to the next thing

The outcry was largely contained to a small Reddit and hardcore fan bubble.

The stock didn't suffer at all.

Blizzcon could be interesting though.
This is 2007 masturbation. Starcraft caters to the competitive audience now. The competitive audience that actually enjoys RTS.
I'm surprised you still seem to recommend AirBnb despite these experiences. As a family of 5 (3 kids) I know it can be frustrating and expensive to find hotel accommodations that work. But the strange (switcheroo, don't mention AirBnb to anyone!) to downright disturbing (cameras above the bed?!) experiences would never have me using AirBnb again. Maybe I just have issues trusting people... I'm sure there are great hosts but I don't like to gamble.

Curious were the cameras in the bedroom pointing at the bed and attempting to be concealed? Huge fear of mine having some psychopath watching videos of my wife and I getting (un)dressed or intimate.
I don't think that's the case, and I don't think that's what the link you provided says. 5% of the pickle forks are showing cracks, after a minimum of 20k flights.

It's probably an incorrect analysis (maybe the didn't account for enough cycles in fatigue/failure testing given the extra load from the winglets, maybe the extra load is not well understood and they had bad assumptions). I am very harsh on Boening on how they handled the MAX development and crashes. The pickle fork situation is unfortunate but seems like it is likely an honest error that was caught in the right way and is being dealt with in the right way. I fly 737s frequently, too.
There’s also a difference between saying “freedom is great” and “violent separatism is great,” even though both phrases could be used by different people to refer to the same situation.
This isn't about airBnB, this is about all the big web tech companies, which found the algorithm and got the monopoly. They created new markets and can't be bothered to shake out the many scammers who find the myriad loopholes in their big, dumb systems. This goes for Amazon products as much as Google SEO. B/c of their monopolistic power, they just move on, and leave a wreck in their wake, which becomes our web and environments.
The database could run local.

I have experience with both and the NetBeans UI designer is hardly much different.

Now if we compare languages, Basic dialects win hands down for such scenarios.
HotelTonight (sadly recently purchased by AirBnB) has a very robust review system and a very responsive customer support system. If you ever have a bad experience in a hotel room while booking through their app you can always contact them and they will contact hotel management and the problem will almost always very quickly be resolved.

Booking.com has way more properties but does not always properly vet them. Its easy to find that you've booked a property but the property owner is miles away and does not speak your language (i.e. English). That said, their customer service often resolves things.

In my limited impression Airbnb has gotten better at customer service but has basically pivoted out of their core business model (i.e. providing short term stays) and at the same time provided huge incentives for people to mislead people with respect to the listing. They are consistently the hardest to verify (i.e. that what you are reading or seeing is real) and I would really only use them for very boutique properties that can't be found on other platforms.

In some ways it just depends on how much up front time you have to do your own vetting and how much risk you are willing to tolerate for a potentially experience. AirBnb is high in both categories with results that very rarely are worth it to me.
> I have no idea how to regulate it though, but I think we need to do something.

Why doesn't the laws apply for Facebook? Ads are something they are profiting from, therefore implying involvement and thus

Has Facebook reached the point where they could be fined for simply hosting untrue content? They curate and don't show everything so the argument of being just a "market of ideas" rings untrue.
Do you mean Google should write a better AI than the one in Civilization?

Interesting. But also consider this: in casual strategy videogames -- actually, strike "strategy" and just consider videogames -- most players don't want a really hard opponent. A computer opponent that is really very hard to beat is not what we want, because that'd be frustrating and many of us play videogames (yes, even strategy games!) to unwind; we want the illusion of challenge, an opponent that is challenging to beat but within the possibilities of every person who buys the game.

Which, by the way, is also the case with Starcraft II. Most people who bought it aren't tournament players. They expect a challenge, but not a really hard challenge. Game difficulty is all about perception ;)

PS: I shamefully confess I reloaded my X-COM (DOS!) game every time I lost one of the soldiers I was emotionally attached to. I don't like losing! :P
It's not a US/non-US thing, it's a Cirrus thing: a parachute.

* https://cirrusaircraft.com/totalsafety/
Wasn't Linux built with an incremental approach? That seems to have been pretty successful.
yeah i had a lawyer for an intimate partner.. as a habit, she would argue stuff she didn't even care about. so when she lost, i would be exhausted and she would just blow it off bc she wasn't invested.

I tried to not get sucked in, but in addition to approaching things logically, their trade is to get emotional hooks into people- a trait programmers eschew.
Because that's all they're capable of doing with it. Games can be easily repeated, have clear outcomes. There's no need for nuanced thinking or actual problem-solving. Just approximate the current scenario against previously successful strategies and pursue that strategy.

A real challenge would be to invent a new game, have both a human and an "AI" read the rules for the first time, and then compete in their first game together. Would the "AI" be able to formulate a winning strategy without historical data? If not, then it's not "AI."
Sometimes, all you need is to get people to say "hmm.." and you're off to the races.
It wouldn't be outrageous to suggest that someone who took the time to intentionally study and go into journalism, would have more than a monetary interest in "investigating things." Or that someone who had been personally scammed would have more than a monetary interest in investigating that particular scam. In other words, investigating is probably fun for her, and the added element of revenge/justice only adds more fuel to the fire.
DHH on Test-induced design damage (2014)
"Good" and "bad" in general are subjective.

I can subjectively say that Nazis are bad.

I can objectively say that Nazi policies had a deleterious effect on Jewish populations.

Similarly, I can objectively say that Beijing's policies have a deleterious effect on human rights as defined by the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I can subjectively say that the Chinese government is bad.
I don't think "cancer" is the right metaphor.

I think of government as something very complicated. So the metaphor to me is "you solve a complicated problem by dividing it into smaller simpler problems".
Yeah, I completely know what you're talking about in terms of water versus carbon dioxide.

I work on climate solutions every day. My specific focus is on carbon and mining carbon from the air. However, loss of groundwater and water depletion is such a powerful short term challenge, it can take the spotlight away from carbon. Without water, a society grinds to a halt in hours and days.

I'm interested in how others are thinking about that and keeping these balanced.

EDIT: My suggestion for your statement above is: "which will have an impact decades down the line". It's the "may or may not" that brings out the pitchforks.

Also, the "belief" thing on anthro-change is puzzling. Imagine reading notes on a discussion with Newton where someone to profess their "belief in gravity". Do we "believe in gravity" today? Wish we had a better word/term for this.
> for developers by developers

The OXO brand of kitchen utensils was designed for people with arthritis. It became a giant worldwide brand because people realized that utensils that felt good for people with arthritis also felt good for everyone else.

Not everything is a tradeoff. Sometimes we can just do better.
Gates also did a lot of Twitter advertising for himself right as this happened. Reid Hoffman did a big media push the day his involvement came out as well.
I wonder if I almost fell for this (or similar) in Pattaya, Thailand just a few days ago?

[1] - https://abnb.me/eUIhQCkMe1

[2] - https://abnb.me/DvHRkqsMe1

At first, I thought maybe this was just a shady property management company hocking two otherwise-legit, similarly-furnished condos with the same floor plan in the same building through two different accounts - but they are in different buildings separated by about half a kilometer according to the map.
The moment colleges become even a little bit responsible for job prospects you will never see crap like 'project management' offered to the unemployed again.
Does the scam described here count as wire fraud?

"In the United States, mail and wire fraud is any fraudulent scheme to intentionally deprive another of property or honest services via mail or wire communication. It has been a federal crime in the United States since 1872."

In addition, is there any prospect of a civil class-action suit against AirBnB?
In the modern internet world, there's very often little/no choice of services. Initially there is competition; one gets an edge; everybody flocks to that service; the other services wither and die.

So the idea that "I can just take my business elsewhere" is maybe a dying notion, in this modern economy. They're not brick-and-mortar stores where you can just walk down the street to another one.
This is my favourite explanation on dependency injection -

https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Dependency-Injection-Demysti...

From the article -

The Really Short Version

Dependency injection means giving an object its instance variables. Really. That's it.
Meh, those are just details. Banning political ads will definitely hit some grey area, but whatever that grey area is would be better than where we are now.
https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resource...
I'm a self-taught bio-informatician (working at large healthcare company, doing Next Generation Sequencing related things). although I am actively seeking to better myself, My code is horrible, we have one "library" (a file really) full of functions and since 2 months a couple of classes that I already feel like completely re-writing. A lot of code is in Jupyter Notebooks somewhere because we just got the hang of Git last year, let alone proper branching. Pull requests? Yes I've heard of them. Transferring code to partners is always troublesome. Man I wish we would have had a proper code-writer on board from the very start, bonus points if that someone excited about biology!

So bring it on I say! Just apply to any mayor classical bio-company. I mean biologists need to become data-scientists and computer scientists more and more, and they can use a lot of help. For example: During my internship in 2003 I did DNA sequencing, I spend all day making a gel and loading it and I read 200 basepairs of DNA of a printed paper to check my results. Today we have an Illumina sequencer in the lab, it produces 60 billion basepairs every couple of days. We are nowhere anymore without computers and computer scientists.
So the law as interpreted by the court is “irrelevant” but your interpretation of the “principal” is? There has never been a precedent saying that you could modify a work as you see fit and redistribute it.

Obviously there's a process in place for when movies are edited for TV.

Yes that “process” is that the copyright holder edits the content. Not some random third party.
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Their case, not mine, but yes, I gathered that change control could be skipped for "config-only" changes.

Don't ask me why, it sounded crazy to me too.
Well, I don’t have any idea of absolute amounts of money, but I’d be more interested in relative amounts of money before and after DeepMind.
‘China is stealing our stuff and they’re not even hiding it’: Tech Protection
The example that you used was specifically in the context of corporations getting around anti-tobacco laws. Not corporate policy against tobacco advertisement, but laws. I stand by my assessment that its a bad example to make the point you're trying to make.

> It's an important distinction to make between laws and corporate policy because one carries very high punishments whilst the other is mostly without recourse.

I agree with this.
I think most people feel that Epstein's associates were involved with the child prostitution ring. Epstein was a child sex trafficker after all. Every person who flew on his plane or visited his houses is suspect and should be investigated.
Who gets to determine what the lies are? I think the following frequently-made assertions are misleading:

(1) Women are paid 72 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men.
(2) Rich people pay less taxes than the poor.
(3) Blacks are being wantonly killed by the police in large numbers.

However, I think that in a free country, progressives can make ads with such messages, and conservatives are free to debunk them. Likewise, progressives can debunk misleading statements by conservatives.
Or on Firefox: Reload and quickly toggle "reader mode" (F9) I used a private window.
Yes, but it's very long cycle failures at low frequency, and people suspect it's because of additional stress caused by winglets. Winglets reduce drag and save fuel, it's an important change. It may have been very difficult to predict and test this failure. And most importantly, the FAA and Boeing are handling it properly.
I'm having the same experience but I keep in mind that the Trump admin lies and also promotes discrimination. I lost my job to an h1b, in a good economy it takes me 2 weeks to find a new job this is anything but a strong economy. Lie with stats how you like but you can't use lies to generate reality the real economy is what it is.
I wonder whether there is some sort of penny-wise pound-foolish mentality at work with most AirBnB users that causes them to continue choosing AirBnB to save money over hotels even after being majorly scammed like the people in this article were?
That's part of the point of being rich. Most systems favor people with more money and smarter messaging.
Is that supposed to be a joke? DotA doesn't rely on reflexes nearly enough for that to matter.
commercialinvoiceform.org, as an example.
Now that's just rude and uncalled for. Why not write a few lines and explain why you think he's wrong?
You're starting with dumb axioms. Free speech is obviously not a self consistent principle in the way that you're talking about it. Unregulated speech with no protection for fair apportionment of the channels of speech is very obviously not free. A silly example, do I have the right to speak exactly out of phase with you so that you can't be heard from some directions? Do I have a right to buy every local news station and have them all report the same thing? Both of these are me restricting your speech with my speech.

Paid advertising is not fundamentally different from these.
I've always understood there to be a difference between "laid off" and "fired". "Fired" tends to be because of you, "laid off" is more on the company's side.

I was "fired" once (well, twice, in the 90s) because I wasn't pulling my weight. I was 'laid off' once (in the 2000s) because the company was running out of money, and had to lay off around half the company. That wasn't really anything to do with my performance or ability - it was the company's finances.

Explaining "I was part of the 50% of the company laid off due to financial pressures" (or "laid off after a corporate merger") wouldn't generally have the same negative connotation.
Nah, but I do think it's healthier to be upfront about that stuff.
"Fresh" is right in the headline, and MCAS is in the article more than once. Gimme a break.
How do we avoid and prevent re-electing these types of governments?
There are many choices in the policy space, but the decision about how to treat an individual advertisement is essentially binary. The line between truth and falsehood must lie somewhere, and I can guarantee you that different political factions will have very different ideas about what should lie on either side of that line.
Cloud Foundry Open-Sources Its Certified Developer Exam Course
Thanks! What is your strategy around incorporating actual experiment data? Not sure I fully follow here.
>Progressives dominate the media

Don't y'all have Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting?
In Spain, Pedro Sánchez is the president of the government, we do not have a prime minister. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(government_title)
Reading even a bit about x86_64's complexity makes me see why Apple would want to move Macs to ARM (among other reasons.)
The bigger concern from the merchant's side is that they are almost always swallowing the refund. The refund is not being provided by the card issuer or payment network, they just remove it from the merchant's (in this case AirBnB's) account.

Declining a charge in this way is thus less insurance, and more telling the merchant "I am not paying you." While it may be justified (like in this story), the merchant is never going to be happy about losing those funds and losing the control over the funds.

I had a similar situation with the App Store where I purchased a subscription under a mistaken assumption and when I could not find any recourse through Apple or the publisher (I simply could not find any way to get in touch with anyone), I declined the charge on my credit card. This led Apple to block all activity with that card - so much so that I was unable to download any free apps until I added another payment method to my profile.

When I attempted to contact Apple to resolve this issue I was told that it was "for my security", to prevent further fraudulent transactions on my card. Explaining the situation, and that there was no fraudulent use of my card or account, just a misleading subscription did nothing to help. They insisted that the only way to resolve the situation would be if I reversed the dispute from the credit card (thus releasing the funds back to Apple), and only after that was completed would I be able to try to get a refund from Apple. Left with no other choice that is what I did.

The issue at hand here was obviously that Apple was refusing to give up control to the credit card companies. By effectively banning any user that disputes a charge they are able to force their users to keep all complaints within Apple's purview (and they do not provide a way to submit complaints digitally).
The competition is not the goal - the point isn't to see "who's better", the competition with real humans is just a tool to help improve the reasoning, planning and decision making capabilities in a less artificial environment than usually. The purpose of that project is to use Starcraft as a playground to test, review and improve reinforcement learning methods so that they can be used for other needs.

Any aspect of "fairness" is relevant if and only if it helps that goal. APM limits are important because we want the computer to choose strategies that would actually be good choices in that situation even for a human player, instead of being able to win with strategies that are powerful only because of superhuman clicking speed. On the other hand, requiring the computer to press buttons with a robot hand doesn't really facilitate improvements to the decisionmaking part, so it's irrelevant even if it would make it more fair.
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>so it might as well be those with the right values.

By 'right', you mean of course YOUR right.

You can't please everybody, so you should please ME.
>nearly 40 percent of Americans, a Federal Reserve report found, are in such a financially precarious state that they say they would have trouble finding $400 for an unexpected expense like a car repair or a medical bill.

This has got to be the most repeated statistic in reporting on hardship, but the actual responses seem way less dire: https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1118071142311288838?lan...
I don't get the obsession with the fear of death. I'm just not afraid of it. That's not bravado. It just doesn't occur to me to be afraid of it.

I'm afraid of dying, because that's probably going to hurt. I'm afraid of other people dying, because it sucks to live without them. But the idea of my own not-existing-any-more just doesn't fill me with the dread or terror that the quotes you cite seem to take as axiomatic.

It feels like I'm being offered a cure for a disease that they're creating. While "fear of death" is certainly cross-cultural, it doesn't feel to me like it's an inherent part of the human condition. It feels as if Kirkegaard is offering a Christian solution to a Christian problem, and it offers nothing to somebody who hasn't already accepted the basic premises.