skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point, I've probably booked four dozen Airbnb stays over the past 7 years or so. Given that, I'd say two of the simplest steps you can take to limit your chances of booking really bad Airbnbs are to 1.) limit your bookings to those places where the host only has one listing and 2.) limit your bookings to owner-occupied places. It seems like the worst elements of Airbnb are largely eliminated when staying with the host, rather than insisting on having the entire place to yourself.

I've written-up other advice regarding Airbnb bookings here - https://blog.michaelscepaniak.com/how-to-find-choose-and-boo...

With that being said, scams happen and there's no simple, full-proof way of completely insulating yourself from them.
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It's fairly well documented and quite interesting that the only reason Pollock is acclaimed is that the coked out CIA hatched a long term plan to use taxpayer funds to bid up the price of the worst and most incoherent art works they could find in order to somehow confound the Communists. There's no evidence the Soviets fell for the ruse, but the western public sure did!

https://medium.com/@MichaelMcBride/how-jackson-pollock-and-t...

https://www.christopherhallart.com/blog/2015/2/10/jackson-po...
Is there a monospaced Comic Sans I can use in my IDE?
America is helping Europe stop making a huge mistake by introducing Huawei backdoored products into its infrastructure. On one hand, you have a valuable ally who has kept Europe peaceful for 75 years, the longest period of prosperity in European history. On the other hand, you have an authoritarian communist state that runs concentration camps and murders people and harvests their organs. There shouldn't even be a question here, but there is.

> the US was willing to underpin global free-trade

And a terrible deal that was for the American people. Foreign policy objectives were pursued with either callous disregard for the American people or outright malice. We got completely screwed so they could create middle classes in foreign countries who hate us.

> If this continues I'll give it 10-20 years before there's a major decoupling even between the US and Europe.

Europe has already been pushing this for a long time. Despite all we've done for them they insist on being spiteful little jerks. We've been in Europe for so long and taken care of everything for them for so long, that they grew to just count on it and they weren't very appreciative. They've lectured us for 70, well, 60 or so, years since it took some time to rebuild after everyone butt fucked the hell out of them for WWII, with no repercussions at all. Now there is a president putting America first and they don't know what to do. America is realizing that maybe we don't want to spend so much of our money protecting an ungrateful Europe and maybe Europeans can do it for themselves for a change.
Depending on how much product roadmap he set before he shuffled off the mortal coil, he may well be.
Don't we normally strive to be above average?
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Odd - searching for "Block Brain" on the iOS App Store doesn't show me your game within the first 5 clusters. I wonder if there's any ASO you can do for that, or if it's just not indexed yet?
> And where are they now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Most android cameras recognize QR codes. Chrome has a QR code scanner built in, look for the icon at the top of the keyboard. Facebook has also had a scanner in their app for quite a while but of course that’s not native to Android.
Wow! That was an impressive list of features and improvements.
It's a shame that you require onsite visits multiple times a week for only 20-30 hours; I am a local-to-Philly .Net software architect and while I would love to pick up another 20 hours a week of work, I have a full-time job so cannot meet onsite between 9 and 5.

If you can be lax on this requirement I think it will expand your contracting pool greatly!
Mathematics is used in statistics, physics, biology, finance, engineering, medicine, social science and more.
Even in the 15th century, most mathematics was done by non-mathematicans, it's not a new thing.
How does certificate signing not mitigate man-in-the-middle? Say you have control of DNS and you can fully impersonate and replace any server. You present a valid certificate for the server. It has the public key, which the client uses to try to encrypt traffic. The man-in-the-middle doesn't have the private certificate. You convince the client its talking to the right machine, but then you can't understand anything the client has to say, because it uses the legitimate public key.

Say you have control of the infrastructure and you forge a certificate. You'll have a hard time getting the client to trust the certificate unless you have compromised the signing key of a certificate authority and generated an apparently valid cert.

So, can it entirely prevent it? Can I get verisign to issue me a certificate for G00GLE INC.? If you can alter the client's list of trusted authorities, you can make yourself an authority, but you've already compromised the client. If you can get the server's private certificate, you've compromised the server. You can get creative, sure...probably, you stand a better chance of beating the people in the chain than the technology...but the difficulty of doing so seems to amount to 'mitigation' at the least.
I am a big fan of git but honestly, if you can't recognize that there are unlikeable things about it you're suffering from some kind of stockholm syndrome. Just start with the fact that several of the most common actions / commands are named in ways that are either directly misleading or at very least severely conflict with standard use of common version control terms.

(one of my favorite, for example, is that `git checkout` causes silent data loss while every other git command will print out giant errors in that scenario)
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IP space is getting pretty pricey these days, unless you want to go IPv6-only. And whatever the evangelists say, that's still to un-realistic for most people.
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Start by going to a bar and just being there. Become sort of a regular. It's very easy to do and you don't need to do anything demanding or anything you don't want to do. Just sit there and be around people. You don't need to talk if you don't want to. Natural conversations and connections just happen. Don't force it. Be patient. If you are there long enough you will become a regular and meet other people in your neighborhood. From there you can branch out into other activities; just the act of being around people will open up doors that you didn't think were there.
Developer Instinct
My phone is a rooted Android phone, though.
Stock iOS camera has supported QR codes for a few years now
Or.. they could not oversubscribe their lines? Cuts into their profit margins, sure, and they'll need to reinvest in their infrastructure, but it makes the whole business a lot less unethical.
99.9% of the information in your computing life is not human readable; it's encoded in radio waves and electrical pulses that your senses can't interpret.
I have wondered if it made sense to re-write these top style tools using ebpf https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/ but I think ebpf requires root.
> The actual design was implemented in a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. This is basically the biggest FPGA you can buy that doesn’t cost thousands of dollars for a devkit.

Note that this bit is rather outdated. :) The FPGA on an entry-level development board (like a Xilinx Artix-7 35T) is comparable in size -- as well as much faster! -- and you can go even bigger without stretching your budget too much.

If you're willing to get a little adventurous, in fact, you can get an FPGA that's over ten times the size for under $200:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32907109444.html
Uh, they just released $250 disposable ear buds. They replaced a trackpad that replaceable batteries that worked fine with a new model that has a non-replaceable battery.

Apple seems particularly responsible for driving the demand for "truly wireless" ear buds as a status symbol.
1,000,000 times this. Anyone who thinks there is not a generic "anti PROC" sentiment is forgetting what it was like to be an American in 2003 when every European personally told you how bad you were for allowing Bush to exist
I find comic sans much harder to speed-read than other fonts. The trope of "comic sans is bad" has become an overused meme, but it is rooted in truth in my opinion.

To me, declaring that you like Comic Sans is like declaring that you like the Kardashians. Doesn't mean you're a bad person, but it certainly calls your taste into question.
How do you know they are more effective at it? Who is telling you this? Someone who is driving a barbarians-at-the-gates narrative, and stands to profit for it? Someone who spent their life working in a department that is always asking for more money?

All we have to go on is the word of insiders who work for the various ministries, and all of these insiders have their own agenda. They certainly aren't opening up their organizations to outside verification of their claims!

Also, consider the context in which these negotiations take place. When NK negotiates with the US, this is the most important diplomatic conversation they have going. They are obviously going to put a lot of effort into it - as the outcome may be existential to them.

When the US negotiates with NK, it's just one of five dozen plates it is spinning at any one time. Whatever the outcome is, it's not going to be an existential crisis for the US. It's unlikely to be the most important diplomatic conversation it's going to have, and the Department of State, and the CIA will prioritize its resources accordingly.
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At least for me on linode, it's less-bad than others I've seen. Google doesn't typically get nasty; I think I can only think of a few sites that are especially bad (linkedin and arstechnica forums are two that come to mind). That probably has to do with me using the same IP for ~2yrs now, so it doesn't have reputation problems.
Safeway tracks my buying habits and their app suggests coupons for products I buy often. It's probably a loss leader sales tactic but I manage my spending.

If you are paying attention, there's (I think) a reasonable trade off by some companies. I'll take 3 minutes before each grocery trip to save $20+ a month via coupons in exchange for my purchasing history.
Google Compute Engine didn't even exist at the time that slide was made, or at least was not publicly available. That slide was about government intercepting Google's traffic, not cloud customer traffic.
Specifically, Elon Musk is a very toxic person and it shows in his tweets.
Project Farm channel on Youtube
The chip readers still have the problem of being too damn slow in the US. Often taking more than 5 seconds to complete the transaction. It may not sound like much, but that adds up over time. Apple pay is instant, although it has the annoyance that the range on the contactless payment is about 4" (10cm) too short so you have to wave your phone all over the reader until you find the one spot where the antennas line up just right to get the read.
This gets repeated over and over, but if you look at the literature, empirical studies are split between _may_ slightly help to no observable difference. Where things get interesting are studies that take into account letter spacing, they show that Comic Sans spacing may somewhat help. Still, if you apply the same spacing to a regular font, accuracy increases about the same. The accuracy increase is so minimal that it probably presents no practical advantage AFAICT.
The jew forgot to say thanks. So here's from the Chinese foundation! Ty
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"A tiny percentage of people have become super rich at the expense of everyone else."

The economy is not a zero-sum game. If someone continue to work and invest after reaching $100 million, and goes on to billionaire status, that's better for society than if he or she stopped working and spent huge amounts each year.

Roger Federer's net worth is estimated to be $450 million. At age 38 he is still giving his all on the tennis court. Why should we impose a confiscatory tax rate on him and dissuade him from playing?
Brb, forwarding this to Hillary Clinton.
Looks good, could this be integrated into n8n.io to be used to drive a workflow?
Interesting point, it's a hard problem to define exactly what the rules should be especially when the violations are so personalized and well obscured. And an awkward transitional period while companies that built their business around the assumption that they could monetize models of their users on behalf of their customers either collapse or totally change their business model.

I hate to look at specific outcomes, but perhaps a useful question would be... is there a way to both pay your tolls with a RFID thing on your car or license plate reader and also not give the DOT a complete record of exactly when you go through each toll plaza? What would the counterargument to this be?

I have the feeling the counterargument is going to be something inane but emotionally based like "So that police can find your car if it is stolen" (which I strongly suspect is nonsense and that it is totally possible to do make this impossible without you actually giving them some secret code to do so) rather than "so that when we get hacked the mob knows when you're home".

Maybe what we need then is a regulatory system where you must assume that you have been hacked by the worst possible opponent and that they have administrator access on your servers. Then have a checklist for what things absolutely must not occur -- like that if Facebook can tell when you're not at home because of your phone's GPS under absolutely no circumstances should this information ever be linked to your home address via any identifier. But as noted, the line is currently comically fuzzy, and where that line should be needs to be a lot clearer.

Do I really mind Amazon knowing my purchasing habits on their website, even if they use algorithms to make recommendations or modify prices for me? Personally, not especially as long as it's anonymized in their model well enough to not leak my PII if someone hacks the computer with their datasets.

Do I mind if them getting hacked will let someone figure out my shipping address and when packages are getting mailed? Or get my order history? Yes. So I'd say an Amazon employee should be totally unable to access that information and would need to have my explicit permission to access my account information. I don't think that's currently the case, and I think it should be enforced by regulation that doesn't allow them to collect it if they can't or won't do that. Of course, currently I have no power to make that the state of the world, but that's ideally the point of elected officials, to speak for the people.

Maybe the appeal to "do you want the mob to know where you work, when you're home, and how many kids you have" is sufficiently concrete to make this more obvious to people? But I kind of agree it's a lost cause after Obama betrayed his pledge to get rid of the Patriot Act.
Guilty. I have an AccessDB right now that reads from 3 different management systems to create tasking for a small office and about 450 external independent contractors. The first system is via a web scrape because the API costs too much. The second system is via a SOAP API and the third system is based in MariaDB. It reads data from each system and restructures it for tasking then analyzes and reports on the performance of the completed tasks. It also sends out nagging emails for tasks that are lagging behind and does a million other little things. To say it is a mission critical application is an understatement.

I have been a "developer" or should I say, I used to be a developer since the COBOL/DB2 days. I have used a vast array of systems and languages over the years but I have always had a love for the simplicity and power behind Office. But, the times they are a changing. Right now I am learning Go with the intention of marrying it with VueJS so I can at least pretend to be somewhat current.
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How about this for a start:

>The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment
There was major foot-dragging when Germany wanted its gold back. Leading to the obvious conclusion that the gold wasn't there at all, and Germany was just holding worthless paper that did nothing more than point to a line entry in an account book somewhere.

> “Why would it take 7 years, unless there was a possible issue in getting it together, to return 300 tons? It could be done certainly in several weeks or even months – but 7 years?” Lanci questioned. “In my trading days, I’ve taken delivery of gold and silver and I’m aware of the physical logistical limitations. The time requested to deliver the 300 tonnes seems excessive – whether it be 5 or 7 years.”
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You go to market with the printer you have, not the gizmos you'd like you have. You'd wind up printing something anyway to let people know about the NFC tag. And if you are printing something out, you may as well just add a QR code for folks who like that method.

There's a "if you give a yak a razor" joke in there somewhere.
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One jew does not a sailor
Chinese proverb.
I agree with you. Most stuff in Snapchat is pure political propaganda and/or leftist brainwashing, which tiktok specifically bans.
It's clear that you've thought about this, so what do you suggest is the appropriate way to have a constructive conversation with someone who openly endorses atrocities? The pro-atrocity side is welcome to describe the crimes they support in warm, fuzzy terms that do not offend those with delicate sensibilities, but the anti-atrocity side cannot even freely state their case because it naturally involves invoking the truth of horrific events. Are we bound to stay silent about such actions because those who support them may be offended by being associated with their plainly factual content?
Not sure who "many people" are, but no one in this thread is claiming that git is unworkable, only that it is confusing. A collaboration tool like git is highly subject to network effects. The usability delta between git and a given alternative must be very, very high before people will leave git for the alternative. Ergo, git can be both awful and "good enough" to have a majority market share (although I don't think anyone is even saying git is awful in this thread).
Did the FOIA requests include NSA? You’d want a copy of FOLKLORE if it’s releasable; there’s at least one Cryptolog article about it that’s been declassified.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cray+%22folklore%22+site%3An...
At Facebook now. In general, people who have been here the longest are the dullest. The good, creative ones leave by approx 2 years.
I wonder how much of this is due to Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother.
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Oh yeah, like getting a new machine through purchasing and certified for the SCIF is a walk in the park...
How is that relevant?

20 to 30 years is almost my entire life