skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If AirBnB was more up front about expectations it would make their review system a lot better.

Better for consumers but not better for AirBnB. The fact that potential customers assume that 5-stars indicates an exceptional rather than standard review is an advantage for AirBnB. Revealing the actual rating expectations would cheapen the perception of all the existing reviews.
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I'm seeing it where I am at least. It used to 10-12 dollars per lb now it's down to 6 dollars a lb. A month ago I got some at 8 dollars a lb and I already thought it was a steal.
Thank you for pointing this out, it took me a long time to find this ( https://iconscout.com/licenses ) - and in the process I became extremely confused about what license one gets when they use the different plans (free, 69 per year, etc) -

What started out as, this might be cool - (I'm always looking for ways to reduce size of fonts and icons!) - to how does this work? (tooltips would be helpful for me, I have no idea what things are supposed to DO on this page, like the bottom right and bottom left icons..) - I also could not find details on how to use the code (where is the cdn / download css etc like font awesome has)

After spending so much time trying to find the "how" - and then looking for the license restrictions, and seeing there are all kinds of other upsells and more restrictions on uses - this won't be bookmarked or used by me or anyone I know.

Not that this thing is bad - it may be great for some people for some reason - there are many things that have those kinds of use restrictions that may be useful for people, but will never be on my consider list.
Didn't realized they stopped making them... love the devices myself, have two as well as a couple chromecasts, and a couple nvidia shield tv devices. Only thing missing is a nice home media server interface for them, but I haven't looked in a while, someone may have one or more now.

70% of the time, I'm on the shield playing video from my nas in kodi... most of the rest, casting to audio + speakers in the bedroom with rain/storm sounds.
You could say the same thing about most violence in movies though. Tonnes of popular action movies have the main character casually shooting dozens of people, and portray it in a positive light (ex. John Wick). I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing either, it is reasonable to have violence and torture as a plot point in a movie, and portraying that violence accurately would just be upsetting to the audience.
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Microdosing is mostly hype. I know many people who've tried microdosing. Does it give you a 5% edge? Maybe... but sometimes it distracts and subtracts 5%.

It is not NZT from the movie Limitless, despite media hype.

As a productivity drug, amphetamines far outclass psychedelics.
It's a show attended by 2.5 million people over 20 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Livestock_Show_and_Rod... But it's already started so I guess it's happening.
Encryption isn't like transparent walls in my opinion.

In the real world, the police can get into anywhere, and get basically any physical object, once they have a warrant. Most people seem to agree that is reasonable -- I don't think there is a big push for an easy way for people to hide physical objects from police.
Exactly, the problem for the baddies has been solved since at least 1882 (Frank Miller iirc: Edit Wiki says yes). So this argument about security is obviously just what information they're getting.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what they don't know, but lawmakers are supposed to enact laws based on the benefit for their citizens. Seems not to be the case here.
Pinterest wrote up a brief paper explaining their rollout of a knowledge graph aimed at describing their users' tastes - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.02106.pdf . This paper won an award under the industry category at IWSC 2019. You can read more about what the knowledge graph enabled at https://business.pinterest.com/en/blog/introducing-the-pinte...
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I agree with you. I think the next few JDK versions will bring back a lot of java devs. There was even a talk at the recent kotlin conf around it.

A lot of the back-end Kotlin I see. Is really java lite. A lot of the beneficial features I see of the language aren't really being used. At that point, why not just use Java?

I make use of a ton of features outside of Java. But I'm a very small minority from what I've seen.
I'd love to see someone try running a TV network off of DO spaces :)
Nahh. Just "npm update --save/--save-dev" and you will be good. /s
Before HipChat was Skype-for-Business...uh... Lync... uh... Office Communications Server... uh... Exchange Server Instant Messaging (using Windows XP’s Windows Messenger) back in 2001!
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Not to mention, this work isn't technical in nature. It's very quick to pick up, probably more so than landscaping tbh.
Did you give her a hint about the mistake ?

if she just slipped it sucks (let's say doctors have a lot to worry so this is not bad)

if she did truly misunderstand, it's tough to tell
You will be able to boast of 99.9999% uptime up until that sprinkler goes of. And with luck, it could be decades until it does.
I have a few features I want in a work chat app:

Room topic with link support, private rooms, the ability to add more people to that room, direct messaging, phone notifications (and proper sync and the ability to set do-not-disturb), and emoji/gifs. I know some folks don't like those, but I think they are fun and help convey emotion that is otherwise lost in text.

Nice to haves:
Search, pinned items, api for bot integration. Color themes. Limited markdown support.

What I never want:
link expander: seriously, I don't like it - it takes up space for no value. WYSIWYG editor: I don't think rich text beyond simple markdown is useful.

Hipchat was ok. Slack is ok. I think Slack is a bit better as Hipchat had regular outages.
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Comes up after DDG-the-artist related links at #3 or #4 on anonymized google. Seems ideally ranked.
> Hand donations are rare, because few families are willing to donate limbs fearing disfiguration of the body even though a prosthetic limb is fitted to the donor’s body.

Can someone explain this? Is it an Indian thing?

If I died and donated my hands, I would be proud for them to be missing in the casket. I can only see because two people donated their corneas.
Probably the closest to what you are looking for would be a bluetooth audio interface... then using your phone or other device to do the actual playback. Chromecast devices aren't too far off themselves, I wish Google was more open with them though, per another comment learned they don't even make the audio version anymore.
LOL. Maybe.

In any case, there will be no talking if the parent would need to trust you but doesn't. That doesn't help kids.

You can't change the law, but you can avoid having identity information to report. Parts of the solution probably involve non-attributable cryptocurrency and tor browsers.
Yea, under this definition, every time someone points a gun at someone it's torture. This sort of re-definition of terms reduces the public's trust in academics on an important topic.
Personally, no, I'll be the first to put my hand up and say I don't have the patience to try and deal with the bureaucracy but I do believe that there are some people who go into politics to genuinely make a difference and improve the society. As cynical as we can be about politicians, for sure there are people out there who would just like to 'fix' things. - Usually the roadblock to that is the interest bodies with influence.. It's annoying at best, but I hold out hope..
simulated execution is absolutely torture, yes.
Isn't this basically the plot from silicon valley. That show is so on point.
I don't see why it's limited to short text messages.

Your pre-shared OTP can be a rack of 8TB hard drives delivered to an embassy by the Marine Corps which covers a whole lot of documents and media before it's exhausted.
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There's almost nothing in the manufactured housing (AKA "mobile home", AKA "trailer" AKA "HUD-code home") industry. The industry experienced a severe contraction even before the Great Recession, declining in the 2000's from its most recent boom years of the 90's.

In that earlier era, there were several vertical software companies selling Windows and DOS dealership management systems to the many independent (mom-and-pop) dealerships of manufactured homes

By the time the industry started to recover in the last several years, they had all gone out of business. Because of the timing of the near-death of the MH industry, none of those companies even tried to move to web-based SaaS products.

As far as I know, the only new dealership management (line of business) system for the industry is my own SaaS product, which I started selling a year ago.

I'm a software developer, but my family owned a dealership for decades, so I know the business well. The industry is weird, and different enough from automobiles and motor homes that software for those (seemingly related) industries isn't really a good fit.

I've had some success bootstrapping my business. The industry is big enough at this point that I can make pretty good money as a small player, but it's still small enough that it's unlikely to attract any big operators. The market is too small for them, I'm pretty sure.

I think it would be difficult for someone who doesn't know the way things are done in the industry to create software for it. It's certainly possible, but for sure you'd have to partner with someone who has expertise already.

But I guess that's true of almost any niche industry.
Erdos[0] certainly felt his creativity was helped by caffeine (and amphetamines). From personal experience, math professors seem to be the most reliable academic users of nicotine and caffeine. I'm skeptical they are all deluding themselves.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
... and we already have an increasing number (5+) of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the greater Houston area. I do wonder if we'll end up cancelling the Rodeo part way through.
Yes. Google and Facebook revenues, for example, are almost entirely from advertising and their ad business models hinge on being able to sell their ability to target very precisely.

Every data point gathered builds towards a more comprehensive knowledge they have on you. It hardly matters if you never log in to a third-party site using credentials from Facebook/Google/etc., that's just icing on the icing on the icing for them. They'll know if you logged in regardless, as long as their widgets or services are in place on a site.

While cookies are certainly the most common means of following you around the internet, there's other means of fingerprinting that, while perhaps not as laser precise, certainly provide more data than most people realize.

Why do you think ISPs are so ardently against people's ability to use them as dumb pipes? And why has the smart TV platform landscape grown like gangbusters (spoiler alert: Roku's CEO has outright said why https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/20/17595384/roku-ceo-anthony...)?

edit: clarifying grammar
The only thing mention in the article is that torture can lead to false confessions, which are undesirable but very far from showing that torture is not effective on net. What's the best citation for ineffectiveness?
For that matter, a usb3 power + standard audio interface to the speaker + amp... then you can use a pi board or any future device with single usb3 connection. It's already relatively ubiquitous.
I suspect much of the hate for slack is from two types of people. Those who are too young to know the tyranny of email and those who used to ignore their email. As to why it’s so popular, it was the first good business chat solution that went mainstream. And I still haven’t seen another that matches it’s quality
I had all of the notification options disabled in the app and I was still getting them. I even submitted a support request thinking it was maybe a bug but the response I got back was that it wasn't possible to disable the notifications I was getting.
Two of the paper's authors wrote up a helpful history of knowledge graphs that would be interesting for those who enjoyed this submission - http://knowledgegraph.today/paper.html
Social groups don't spring up out of nothing. They are formed by shared interests, goals or experiences. This is why you had friends in school, and also why they are drifting away now.

Volunteering is a great way to gain that interaction around a shared goal.
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Sia is a lot more than a low cost storage platform. It's a full reimagining of how the cloud should work with an emphasis on user ownership and control, open access for developers, and ultimately decentralization that allows users to be certain their applications will always work (no more "RSS Reader is shutting down").

This post is intended to address people who do not feel that decentralization can be cost effective at scale.
All that's being disabled is external control through Phillips' servers.

If you're willing to set up port forwarding (and DDNS if needed) there are apps that allow you to enter both internal and external addresses, so you can still have external control.
There is way too much hand-waving and assuming going on this article. It is a load of BS that does not take into account real-world inefficiencies. e.g. sometimes buying in bulk is more expensive than buying at retail, esp when you need consistent supply. Sure, you may need only an hour of sysadmin time a day, but what sysadmin will let you employ them an hour a day? The buildout did not list a CPU. The assumptions about uptime are over-amortized, an outage given the resources they quote may average out to 95% uptime but their latency for getting systems back up is going to be absolutely terrible and I’d be surprised if outages were shorter than a day or two on average. They aren’t factoring in cooling. They aren’t factoring in the drastically reduced lifetime of drives in their ridiculously cramped and under-ventilated cubbies. They are completely ignoring diagnostic time, presuming they can only quote actual repair times, which is an absolute joke given the lack of smart hardware and enterprise DC management. They think they can average out throughout over the number of drives not taking into account per-channel limitations. They are not taking into account the extra time to build and dismantle systems in their hacked-together IKEA shelves. They are underestimating the costs of electricity at commercial rates. I could go on and on, but suffice to say that I would never, ever use their network for any purpose without another backup (which they don’t finger into their costs, of course ;). I thought B2 was risky; this is taking it to an entirely different level.
But you wouldn’t know if you were boring to other people would you?
Looks like a legit solution to me!
And now you've blocked me copy-pasting my novel's manuscript...
the fact there is no "household" or "user targeting" to be found in this comment thread with currently 265 comments tell me there are only clueless pundits.

every single advertising company already sell advertisements by "household" where they clump together all accounts assumed to be from one user and their family/roommates, effectively going back to aggregate IP targeting, but not saying its using IPs because that tarnish things with GDPR et al.

also, even if not using household, they sell by "people targeting" vs the old "device targeting", which again breaks all account separation people here assume.

I strongly suggest people minimally interested in privacy or advertising to create an account with any advertising network, or at the very least look up youtube videos on how marketers create and target campaigns.
I have a hard time believing there's actually much google-specific adaption going on for anyone except the biggest HN nerd.

My girlfriend types whole sentences into it. People in this thread have search examples like "harry potter sport". I look at my google search history and it's just generic search strings that DDG has no excuse to struggle.

Having to "tweak your language" just sounds like a cop-out to me. And I think people really just mean you have to add more context to DDG queries because it's easily confused. Like how "elm list" gives great results in google and bad results in DDG.
I believe so. I don't make a big issue out of it... but anything carrying the word const I expect it to be fully read-only with no "buts" in between throughout the whole execution of the program. I guess if they used "readonly" as C# it would make more sense?
Nonsensical until someone aged 25 gives nCov to their grandparent aged 75, and that person dies. Suddenly, your work just doesn't seem so important.

(don't have to wait for a vaccine, we can return to life when there's a reasonable therapy which should be 2-4 months... unless all 50+ late-stage drug trials all fail...)
As the author states, encrypting your data impedes scanning it, so any encryption that is actually worth anything inmediately puts them at fault, so it wont be applied.

Any unmonitored user upload is at risk here.

This is dark.
Where I'm from we'd call them shoutboxes, I forgot they even existed but spent a fair chunk of time in them!
I would change the footer of your website. The yellow background / white text combination is really hard on the eye. I would switch to a lighter shade of yellow for the background and black text instead.
My problem with Teams really boils down to the absolutely terrible desktop user interface. It's fiddly, hard to work with, and hard to figure out how to do a lot of things. You can't make the window smaller than a certain (way too large) size, and you can't have more than one window. It's just painful, intrusive, and unpleasant.
Is it telling that I assumed this article was about a struggling European ecommerce conglomerate?
Crystal, Nim and Julia are modern languages and reasonably easy to start learning. Crystal is very close to Ruby in syntax (but not identical). It is not cross-platform yet, but developers are working on a Windows port. It is not yet at version 1.0 (Nim and Julia are).

All are general purpose languages but each language has attracted developers concentrating on different fields. Julia is designed for high-performance scientific computing. Nim has generated interest from game and graphics developers. And Crystal has become popular for server-side Web development. But you'll find developers using these languages for a wide variety of tasks.

Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org/

Julia: https://julialang.org/

Nim: https://nim-lang.org/
If you check the apps I currently offer (link in my profile), I’d have a hard time asking for recurring payments. I’m basically implementing missing OS features.

I have other products in the pipeline where I will consider a subscription model.
I like the shared workspaces feature.

If your company works with customers directly (a project for example or sales support), it’s easy to create a new channel, create a share link, and send it to an admin on the other side. Now you’ve connected two Slack instances of invited users to a channel. Cuts down on email threads and phone calls. Life saver for where I work.
I clicked on the link thinking that this was about the card game “Lunch Money”. Disappointed.
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We have reserved a booth and planned to launch our SaaS product in SXSW. Hopefully they will refund. Probably a local positive coronavirus discovery forced the city. Just guessing.
From article:

“As citizens of a democracy, our suggestion here is certainly not to constrain how media depict interrogations and torture .... Rather, our aim is to draw attention to the prevalence of this trope and hope that screenwriters will exercise more caution in using torture as a plot device.”

IMO this is not different from shocking a flatlining patient; it does not work, and {may be a missed public education opportunity, may lose some credibility points}

http://www.aed.com/blog/tv-myth-shocking-a-flatline-heart-rh...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258134/
Do you have similar issues with streaming on other devices? What about video streams... I found that cutting the wifi channels to half their max (while reducing theoretical bandwidth) cleared up a LOT of the buffering issues in my home.

Also moving the main router higher, and/or more centrally located can help... if it's a really big home, strategic repeaters can help too.
I tried DDG half a year ago when I also switched back to Firefox, but didn't like the results at the time, so I switched to Startpage. Then for the past couple weeks, Startpage has been having technical issues, so I tried out DDG again. And it's nice. Like I don't even think about it. I'm actually impressed
Swift’s var and let are also good. There is no “default” but “let” is obviously preferred
I have an Ryzen 9 3900x with an AMD GPU, I haven't manually installed any drivers and everything I use it for (web, compiling, videos), works.
I too find it hard to talk to strangers. What works for me is to encourage people to talk more about themselves and by remembering details use that in future conversations with others.

If you are a native to the town, then surely you know other people and have some "history". If not, then you can ask about things that you notice and share contrasts with where you originally came from.

When I go shopping, I talk with other shoppers. Chat with the shopkeeper. When taking a walk, I say hello to others. Comment on their dog if they are walking with one.

Yes, it does take effort, especially when you are introverted. But each little success provides incentive to try again. It is rather like debugging a program in a language you are learning. You try this, then that. Observing and understanding as you go.

Think of other people as microservices with undocumented API. You start with doing what has worked in the past and then experiment with new approaches.
> That means doing your part to not be a vector of infection.

I believe I do my part for this and every flu season which literally kills 50,000 Americans each year. The extra dozen deaths from this new virus really don't change my existing habits: I wash my hands frequently, thoroughly wash fruits and veggies, I stay home if I'm sick, and I get my flu shot each year. I also get regular check ups.

I also try to eat a rich, varied diet, get good sleep, do some exercise, don't smoke and avoid over drinkings or overindulging in sweets/fats/salts.

I also, and this is real important for me at least, try to avoid getting stressed over things I have no control over. Again, this is just me.
It's about 5 'US standard drink's according to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content

Which at 18ml ethanol each equates to 9 UK 'units', which is about 3 and half pints or ~90% of a bottle of wine.

Of course 'trashed' or 'drunkenness' both depend on the person, and are subjective anyway, and the time taken to consume them has a big impact too - necking 4 pints is very different to a bottle over the course of a full evening, for example.

But personally no, I don't think I'd program very well in either case.
Turn 'em off if they're not contributing.
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The solution isn’t stop your life it’s maybe see your parents/grand parents next month...
Not in my area. But if that trend goes so far that I can no longer simply avoid using shops that do that, I can always use a one-off card for them, much like I do when buying things online.