skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Driving has been made impossible

Maybe this is a good thing.

> restaurants are too expensing for the similar service and quality you can get in London

Is this something that a mayor can control? there are things such as minimal wages that can interfere with service prices on which a mayor has not influence.

That being said, I don't know if Villani will be a good mayor or not. But there are a few things I appreciate.

He is (as expected) very knowledgable in scientific and technological matters, and this is refreshing compared to other politicians who are clueless.

He had an international career. Most French politicians don't even speak English and have never worked in a foreign country.

I listened to him in an interview where he talked about ecology, energy and so on, and he was well-aware of the challenges we're facing.

Overall, he sounds like a reasonable, practical, person to me. Not overly ideological.
Compared to many other moneymaking genres, MMOs are expensive to build and maintain and difficult to get right. The vast majority of them are massive, pricey failures including one of Blizzard's. I can't imagine any decision-makers at any major game studio thinking not-developing an MMO is leaving billions on the table and, to me at least, it seems they're likely right.
It matters what the actual political content is, yes.
Jho Low Gives Up $1B in Assets to Settle 1MDB Suits
Why “Corn Fed” Is a Slur
that's interesting. what example problems incremental refinement isn't able to solve?
I have to wonder how seriously Southwest and Alaska Air are reconsidering their relationship with the Boeing and the 737. Rumor is that SWA might be considering a switch to Airbus.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-boeing-737-ma...
AWS IAM: Understanding Key Concepts
> a well executed strategy with few errors often wins, even if it wasn't optimal

I think this is hits the chord with why a lot of people are talking about this bot as cheating more than they are being outplayed.

It's like fighting an aimbot in an FPS. They arent outsmarting you, but the mechanical consistency is inhuman and you are unable to force mistakes. At best itll feel like playing someone on their best day.

The heart of gaming, and why starcrat2 in particular is popular, is finding ways to play around each others mistakes.

Honestly, they should reduce Micro to the point that humans can bully it a little bit. How does the AI handle finding new ways to trade units to its advantage against a mechanically stronger opponent? How does it try to bait the human into having to take fights with unfavorable units / strategy.. as opposed to beating through them with mechanic mastery
Choose the one you can learn the fastest and be most productive. This is a flame war waiting to happen.
Depends what sort of company you wish to produce. 23andMe you could definitely have done without a PhD as its much more traditional market fit "lets do logistics". But Illumina to produce the micro array in the first place or have the software to optimise probes etc. that takes a certain level of understanding have noticed or seen the value of that thing laying around in academia before it was mainstream. All the interesting new ideas/IP are sat within an academic network more than a company one at the moment so accessing that network is a big reason for a PhD.
>> The main downside for me concerning AirBnb is it takes a long time to analyze the listings to find quality accommodations.

In my view this is major. To describe it better - need to read "between the lines" of misleading representations of properties.

Lots of property owners goes to great extends to make property look way better, bigger, nicer than it really is and to conceal obvious negative points that become apparent even before you are given the keys. Then the list goes on.

AirBnb expects and encourages misrepresentation of properties and misleading descriptions to stimulate cash flow. Try to get refund from AirBnb for misprepresentation or deliberate omissions of negative points.
Let's not forget that their next big release is a WC3 remaster .. womp womp.
Everything about this is awesome... except that the recognition is done over the net on their side, and they're selling you a lifetime service for a one-time payment, and we all know how this inevitably finishes.

I would be a lot less hesitant if they promised to make the software available for self-hosting if the business faces any sort of difficulty.
That account (in the linked tweets) makes absolutely no sense. It actually brings up more questions than it answers. Since it's very vague we will just have to assume never once was the alleged gun found on the person they finally arrested or anyone else. It's of course unclear if he was actually the person "described" (as male, no further details given) in the report. And of course you'll also have to take the NYPD at their word in a prepared statement to the press as to the veracity of this report they allegedly received about "man with a gun." I wonder how'd they find this unrelated man without gun they ultimately arrested based on such a thorough description ... ?
The whole notion of country shouldn't exist in the conversation of "global warming". Unless Germany plans on building rockets and leaving the planet entirely, they'll be as affected as everyone else on the long-term scale.
The ghost of Henry Ford is ruining your development team
I work on a presidential campaign on the digital side.

1 - If you take away FB advertising, then you reduce political upward mobility of many lesser known candidates.

2 - FOX, CNN, MSNBC and others will have an unfair advantage to promote an insider candidate or a candidate the bosses at these networks want to help promote.

If you're okay with the above outcome, then push to end FB advertising. I can tell you from the inside, FB is tremendously important in giving smaller and lesser candidates a fighting chance against those backed by big money, establishment and insiders.

I'm even curious if AOC herself would have been able to prevail without FB advertising.

Even something small as promoting an event like a town hall, greatly benefits the smaller candidates, IMO.

As for twitter advertising, it wasn't helpful for us and it only constitutes a small fraction of "digital". If you look at the campaign spending data across you'll see a similar trend. So it's an easier decision for twitter.
Twitter admits that it showed more ads to less popular users
>It’s the rear spar pickle forks which crack
The cracks form in the outer chord of the rear pickle forks (Figure 1) and the behind lying safety straps, just where they pass from the rear spar of the center wingbox to the fuselage side of the aircraft, Figure 2.

>This is also the area where the fuselage side has a cutout to let the main landing gear strut fold in with its attached wheel.

>The combination of a wing center-wingbox pushing wing and landing gear forces into the fuselage in an area where the fuselage has a large cutout for the folded main landing gear makes this area complex regarding forces and how these work the parts during flights.

>The stress spectrum in the area can also have been affected by the later fitting of winglets on the NG, not foreseen in the original design of this area.

>Winglets change the pressure distribution of the wing to a distribution spreading further outboard, by it increasing the wing root bending moment.

https://leehamnews.com/2019/10/08/boeings-737-in-another-pic...

So Boeing also made changes from the 737 to the 737 NG without complete reanalysis of how the changes affected all the parts?
Sounds like something that, once it becomes perfected, could reduce the required number of pilots on commercial passenger aircraft from 2 to 1 (at least for smaller planes).
>I know quite a few bio/chem people working in pharma as well. That industry is booming but mostly for the people that own pharmaceutical companies not their employees. There's a reason that most biologists from good school would rather be bad data scientist that good lab workers in pharma/bio tech. The pay is much worse and pharma/bio tech don't treat there employees nearly as well as big tech companies do.

yep, that's why i left the industry. the companies know that the science staff are willing to work for less, so long as they have the opportunity to do what they're interested in. so they end up working for much less.
Starcraft is an incredibly complex game. 10^26 possible moves at any point (you can click/drag anywhere on the screen, pressing a keyboard button as you do so), imperfect information, real-time constraints, etc.
>and the NFL's stance of blacklisting and penalizing prominent players won.

We don't know what would have been the result if the NFL had simply ignored the whole thing and let the players peacefully protest. A lot of effort was put forth by the NFL and the president to get people angry about that before they shut it down. Maybe don't do that.
It’s illegal across most localities, if not banned by the lease when not outright illegal.

Tokyo has a similar registration requirement as SF now, and even in Taiwan I almost always have to identify myself as a relative of the host.
Agreed. They would only lose a fraction of the 0.5% anyway, since they would just run other ads in their place. This is all about Facebook controlling the political process.
> The main downside for me concerning AirBnb is it takes a long time to analyze the listings to find quality accommodations.

How do you corroborate the information on those properties? The clean, affordable, well-placed hotels I've stayed in had reams of reviews and news articles from various sources to confirm they were indeed clean, affordable, and well-placed. The cost of faking all those sources must be orders of magnitude greater than faking property images/reviews on AirBnB.
What would that look like? Would it just be WoW with a Starcraft skin? Would getting it wrong be worse for the brand than not doing it?
I've never read "I contacted AirBnb and they solved my problems!". It's always they dick you around and offer you very little of your money back to make you go away, happy that you got anything.
Yeah I very much doubt Trump is wasting his money bidding on impressions for people likely to support Democrats (assuming he can accurately mimic the dems’ targeting) just to slightly raise the cost of Democratic campaigns
In the article he declares he is doing stability control as opposed to guidance control, and only the latter is regulated.
1. Create a realistic military combat game with AI that learns from thousands of players and builds on that knowledge across multiple games/matches.

2. Load that AI into real-world Terminators.
Edison lamented the primitive aspects of light stuff on fire for energy
> This tendency is has particularly glaring and tragic effects in discussions of how communities should handle reports of and design systems to prevent sexual assault.

These effects are not "glaring and tragic", they're actually quite beneficial. Sexual assault is something that's very often perpetrated by narcissists and sociopaths, and the best way of holding such folks accountable and keeping them on the tight leash they need to be kept on (for the sake of everyone else's safety) is precisely to carefully and methodically ask questions like yours. "Social space for abusers to operate" is the natural outcome when people don't ask these questions.

You should be very suspicious when you see someone taking offense at e.g. a request to be precise in their language, or confirm your understanding of something like consent - that's a narcissist's M.O. Keep these people at a distance, and you'll avert a lot of problems for you and those around you. Sometimes including sexual misconduct.
> I guess some is the key word. It makes sense to disallow charge backs for Kickstarters and such, because that whole premise is: You pay me a certain amount of money, and I'll try my best to get you something in return.

Sure but at the same time, fraud is fraud. If a project is fraudulent, then who should bear the consequences? That's not that simple. Ultimately, backers do pay Kickstarter, never the project creator directly.
CAPS is not supposed to be used because you have an engine out under most circumstances - you are perfectly capable of dead-sticking a Cirrus onto a runway just like any other small GA plane. And it's not a gentle float, it's ~1700fpm or about 20mph, straight down. The airframe and seats absorb a chunk of it but compared to a 500-700fpm descent on an engine-out landing, pulling CAPS because your engine dies with any sufficient landing area in range (including open fields) will rightfully earn you quite a bit of ridicule.
That's irrelevant. I'd argue, at a minimum, that this falls under fair use, if not by statue/regs, then by principle.

Obviously there's a process in place for when movies are edited for TV. More times than not, nowadays it's not even for censorship, but to cut down time so they can add more commercials. That's more of editing a work specifically for direct financial gain than what we're taking about here.
You don’t need a PhD, but it helps.

If you want to have a decent shot at getting funding from biotech VCs, the team overall needs experience in biotech AND startups, and the less experience the founder has in biotech the more the team will require to compensate for the deficiency. And vice versa for business experience, a freshly minted PhD is going to need team members with significant biotech BD experience.

A PhD or MD counts towards experience in biotech. MS + years of industry experience also counts, as would BS + many years of industry experience.

A PhD is nice because because it demonstrates deep experience in a narrow field plus an understanding of context. The context part is key. Autodidacts tend to miss out on the context, and their learned knowledge tends to be more fragile as a result, so there is a slight bias towards advanced degrees.

Insufficient experience is a hard no for biotech. Nobody wants to see another Theranos, and notably biotech VCs didn’t put any money into Theranos. We’d like to keep it that way.
1) Not enough for starting a biotech startup as OP would like to do. Having a PhD means that you've spent years on a certain subject. You cannot just read a book and be up to speed on biomedical research and CRISPR.

2) Having hands-on experience in wet labs is useful and relatively easy to learn. People can learn wet lab skills sufficient to carry out experiments (i.e. pipetting stuff together) in under a year. This is not what research is about though.

3) True

4) You don't need a PhD. But to truly succeed in biology, you need to learn things from the ground up, which takes years of studying. If you just read a few books, you will be able to understand certain parts of it, but as a founder of a biotech startup, you will be the equivalent of a tech startup founder blindly following buzzwords such as "blockchain".
I grew up reading newspaper comics during the “Calvin and Hobbes” era. I read Peanuts but I never understood its appeal as seemed extremely dull.

Later I read a collection of Peanuts from around 1955 and it was incredible. Kinda like early Simpsons
> regardless of what others think about it

This is why it is selfish.
I have the same experience with people dropping John Stuart Mill quotes in particular as if that was all that was needed to win the argument.

Those are elegantly worded claims and conclusions, not compelling arguments and evidence to ponder.

The mic very much did not drop after you quoted some smart dead white guy. Please, we're still waiting for the actual payload.
They're framing it positively to distract from the fact they can't do it, the reality is they've spent millions of $ on compute and yet their agent is still terrible at strategy (and tactics sometimes too), they probably decided it's best to stop now before sinking even more money into it.
Why do they cost $3M?
Even in localities where it is legal, the ratio of "hosts" running their operation in accordance with the law is comically low. There is a serious enforcement problem and it's largely because AirBnB does everything it can to not cooperate with local government.
Regardless of the political motivations that precluded all this controversy, I'm happy with the end-result - someone should be holding Zuck's feet to the fire. It's been too long that Zuck's got to play in the playground without supervision.
> Anyway, they level of independence that Catalonia has had in the last decades is much higher that before that “annexion”.

I am sorry to say, but this is the misleading part. You can't compare the situation hundreds of years ago with today's standards. Politically, Catalonia has less level of independence than 300 years ago. After all it had its own political institutions, courts, laws and coinage of money; all of them separated from the Kingdom of Castile.

The annex I was referring to was political, economical, legal and monetary unification after Catalonia defended a different candidate for the crown. And this is the level of autonomy that some Catalans wanted to regain.
Charging upfront and knowing exactly what something will cost you for what you get is Apple’s business model, not Google/Facebook where they wave free things in your face to distract you while the other arm reaches around to your back pocket.

You may balk at Apple’s high prices but at least you’ve chosen not to pay.
They famously tried to make another MMO in the past (Titan) and failed.

They scrapped it and its corpse ended up becoming Overwatch.

It's not (or at least, primarily not) that they're scared of cannibalizing WoW's playerbase: it's that MMOs are incredibly hard to get right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_...
then their user bases blooms as all the bots are registered to keep crawling
>This is a terrible article

From what I have read up till now on thedrive, the whole outlet is terrible, all their articles seem to be drivel like this.
The flaws of incremental refinement should be obvious to anybody who's worked in a codebase more than 5 years old built on that approach. Maybe it could work in theory, but in practice, the iterations on crap produce more crap.

As far as a specific example, I remember a discussion with Uncle Bob where he specifically mentions banking and accounting as systems that shouldn't use that approach because you'll build the wrong thing.
It seems like this could be a language feature. The key would be an explicit declaration of the identifiers that the function expects to be bound in the calling context. So when declaring the function you optionally specify the dynamically scoped arguments (separately from regular arguments) that callers must have in scope. Doing so allows you to use those dynamic variables within the body of the function.
Hm... when I think "worse is better" I'm not thinking of software that is "rock solid, fast, and small". Have I been misunderstanding the essay?

I thought most of these applications start out small but they're nowhere near rock solid and haven't been optimised for speed. It just gets the essential features in the hands of the people who need it and works just well enough to be useful.
I've found MyBatis Migrations [0], to be very useful. I like the fact that you can do a DB dump of your current database state and set that as the 0th level of migration and then continue from there even if you've never done migrations before.

It's also extremely straightforward and simple as it doesn't try to be part of any ORM.

Highly recommended.

[0]: http://mybatis.org/migrations/
Well thats certainly something to dig into. Thank you.

However, this search box doesn't adequately explain who is seeing these ads. It does expose which state the ads are shown within, and the general demo (age, gender), but if I am not mistaken the ad targeting service is way more fine grained than this. Isn't this stuff down to the zip+4 or even, "near a Starbucks"? Facebook faced a lawsuit[0] in 2019 for Fair Housing Act violations, the complaint alleges that facebook let people advertise housing while excluding "Hispanic", "New Parents", etc in the target demographics.

It also looks like I can search back 7, 60, 30, 90 days or "All Impressions". There's no way a librarian had any input in this.

In addition, I suspect that if I were to actually do analysis here Facebook would start demanding PII, especially if I start crawling the searches. Is there an API for this? The infinite scrolling is IMO useless for any real use cases such as monitoring political ads in general.

It does appears as if I could use this search box to find one ad campaign or all of one org's campaigns. But I kind of suspect I'd need a whole bunch of grad students to do data collection?

Do you know if other platforms also expose some political ads?

[0] https://www.salon.com/2019/08/21/digital-redlining-facebooks...
This plumbing switch-er-roo scam is not new. A hotel tried the same thing on me in Paris in 2000. I booked a hotel in district 1 and they tried to move me to one on the edge due to flooding. Luckily I had been warned by a friend and refused. After I made a fuss the manager magically found an open room for me.
Liars begat liars.

Zuck lies, and he likes earning revenue off liars as well.
To be clear, my objection isn't to all online advertising but specifically to Zuckerberg defending Facebook's current policy with an appeal to free speech. It's not for Facebook to protect your rights here.

I don't think any Government should force Facebook's hand; rather they should seek to protect their social license and act independently in their own best long-term interests—as Jack Dorsey recently did for Twitter.
“If I had another choice, I would not use Airbnb again,” he told me. “I was very put off by getting scammed. But at this point, I feel like if I want to travel, there’s not really much else I can do.”...how about HomeAway, vebo ? There are other options.

Also of course airbnb is to blame for handling the support issue poorly, however my experience with airbnb has been nothing but amazing.

Same nonsense can happen at any 2-3 star hotels.

Never book airbnb without some research. If any issues come then file a complaint before your trip ends and ideally within first 24 hr.
You know what would be helpful? A button in the web browser that the user can click, which creates a full page screenshot and dump of a bunch of helpful data points for debugging (e.g. URL, cookies, history, console logs, network requsets, assets, RAM use, IP address, user agent etc etc.)

Basically a neat way to export a pseudo-stack trace from the application environment with screenshot and all potentially useful info.
Microsoft Tapped the Autism Community for Talent
I strongly prefer what we have now to the authoritarian "society" you have described. It sends shivers down my spine to think that there are westerners advocating such things. You can always move to China, they have everything you sound like you want
I think part of the problem boils down to "90% of everything is crap."

What most people know of astrology is "popular" or Sun Sign astrology which posits that all 7 billion people on the planet can be broken up into twelve sub categories depending on the (astrological) month they were born in and we can then predict that roughly one twelfth of the human race "will fall in love today!" or whatever (even though some of those people are infants).

Predictive astrology caters to the omnipresent human need to reassure ourselves that things will be okay. It's the stuff that shows up in newspapers and magazines and it has little to do with what serious astrologers do.

But it helps pay the bills for some people. So it's probably here to stay, though most of it is amazingly eye-roll worthy.

(Said as someone who actually believes in astrology, yet hates "popular" astrology with something of a burning passion.)
No— I’ve been burned before with upgrading soon after release and I worry that some of my audio software won’t work.
It takes your brain only 100 To 300 milliseconds to recognize familiar music