skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point but a very different problem.

It's easy for a city to limit the number of hotels being built to limit the number of annoyed residents like you, if they want to.

It's not as easy to limit the number of apartments being used as airbnbs, because at time of sale or even city zoning, they're just regular apartments.

So it's not about whether one is more annoying than the other, it's about controlling the amount of each.
....no?
As a digital nomad I live my life in AirBnBs (with the exception of the occasional hotel and housesit). Over the last 2 years I have stayed in ~20-30 AirBnBs in Asia and Europe (we were going to do the Americas this year...alas).

Without AirBnB I don't know how we would be able to live as digital nomads. Hotels are not acceptable because they lack kitchens and laundries (and laptop friendly workspaces).

I understand that we're not the normal tenants, we stay for weeks to months, recycle when possible and rarely if ever make any noise that would irritate other tenants. But I like to think we're not detrimental (I understand this is a little #NotAllMen).

Interestingly, AirBnB is far from a perfect solution for us either (some of the AirBnBs we've stayed at have been absolutely shit). But one of the things the we value as digital nomads is living as the locals live (or as close as possible). Going to the supermarket, living outside the old town.

As far a bad tenants go, before we left Australia we owned an apartment in a fairly average apartment block. There was a council flat within the block, and the tenant was nothing but trouble. Leaving rubbish and furniture around the property. Drinking to excess. Having raging arguments with associates. It does not take AirBnB to have problems with other parties within an apartment block.

(None of this is necessarily negates what you say, just an interesting counter point)

Edit: I would love to know why people are downvoting?
Some interesting discussion here [0] about an OOP solution to the expression problem (object algebras).

[0]: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4572
As always, it is truly amazing that Wikipedia, a top-10 global website, has none of this stuff: https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=en.wikipedia.org
Yes! PDF forms are amazingly complex. Text in PDF is very complex and the forms themselves are a kind of templated vector graphics. Multiply this by all the weird and corrupt PDF forms out there which Acrobat support and you have a challenging task.
No, state sponsored - or more likely city sponsored. If you attempt to run wires around your neighborhood to provide TC, Telephone, and internet (you need to do all 3 to have a chance at making money) you will be shut down because Comcast already as an agreement with the city to not allow anyone else to do it.

I'm assuming a serious plan to run wires above. That is you have found deep packet backers to fund you; you have found qualified people to do the work; you have figured out all the other details to do this. There are good reasons to stop someone running cat-6 wires everywhere, but here I'm assuming you have figured out the right way to do this - whatever it is.
I prefer using ⌥ to be honest, because I like my key repeat.
OK, they added various ways of data compression, but PDF is, basically, a text-based format.

As far as I know, any PDF can be losslessly converted to an equivalent PDF that can be edited in any text editor, even Notepad. And yes, you could fill in the forms there, too (if you were stubborn enough)
> It's not noise

In terms of HN’s overt purpose, it is.

> it's a valid market signal

Every expression of anyone's reaction to a brand is “valid market signal” on the level that that is true of this, but that doesn't stop most of that from being noise in an HN comment thread.

> So I'll side with automatically appending one such comment in every Google thread until their behavior visibly changes.

Such an automated comment would still be noise, but would have less of excuse of being a valid market signal than comments posted organically, even if that was an excuse (which it's not.)
I agree with many of your takes, but I do think reading a book like a novel can give you even more than a vague memory.

I actually agree with that. I think it depends on the nature of the material, how much else you already know about the subject, your intention in reading the book, etc. I was being a little overly general in phrasing it in terms of only walking away with "a vague memory".
> So the only question i have is: why? Really. Why would anyone go through the trouble of porting compose keys to macosx, when macosx native solution is so much better?

The only reason I can think of is that some people like to have the hold key action repeatedly type the specified character and the compose menu gets in the way of that. This is a relatively clever way of keeping both features active without having to repeatedly resort to terminal commands.
Probably should speak for yourself.

We definitely look at the accommodations while looking at a place to travel to. If it’s too expensive, we won’t go. Airbnb is significantly less expensive than hotels for many places. We couldn’t even get a damn hotel when we tried to visit Rome. (Short of them being $300+/night, way out of our budget)

If the only thing available is extremely expensive hotels (especially if they’re not even giving you anything for that cost) then we skip on the location. We just don’t have the money for it.
Why shouldn't we have great recall of the details of books we read? All of the things you describe about actively engaging with the works you read are obviously correct (taking notes, summarising main points etc.). But often, I (and I dare say most people) fail to follow up with them effectively. As I see it, the author's question is: can we create a new medium which affords such active engagement with the works we read more effectively? Incorporating spaced repetition is a very good first step.
Because you don't certify the vote of the USA. You certify votes in precincts that get a couple hundred, maybe a couple thousand votes. Then you aggregate up and up to each state and start assigning electoral votes. I was a poll watcher for many years, for both the state party and individual candidates. Our polls closed at 8PM local and by 8:10 we had certified counts sent to the county office, unofficial results taped to the door and we were headed home.

There is honestly very little reason to have election counting take days unless there are irregularities and the vote tally is very close.
Slavery is what it is, and it's good for business (in a 18th/19th century sort of way). If you can enslave people and force them to create wealth for you, you can spend the money on other things such as enslaving more people or convincing the rest of your population this is a good thing they should support.

Chinese history however is riddled with empires who eventually overreached their attempts to control everything and failed. All it takes is to mess up the economy so bad that most people suddenly are poorer, and some internal/external entity offers a better deal. A billion starving people can overcome any obstacle if necessary. Thus enslaving people to create wealth for you is another hedge to failure if you are a government.
Stock market to disconnect from economy in 2021 as companies expand layoffs
Han Chinese are paid to move to Tibet and then "act" Tibetan, for the benefit of Western tourists. My friend's sister is employed in this manner. It's enough to fool people like you, but it doesn't fool the local Tibetans, who are being sidelined more and more.
More Important Than a TPS Designing a Realistic CTF for DEF Con Safe Mode
Yeah, thinking about it more I do feel that this is a justifiable cost.
Did the conversation just go from "smaller is better" to "just use a CI pipeline to do the missing stuff"?
>a fundamental definition of "usefulness" is directly (or exponentially, rather) related to the size of the network. It's not the only aspect of value, but it is exponential, ad hard to beat.

No that is not true. Judging from my experience with various subreddits anything above 100k quickly becomes trash. You don't need as many users as possible.

>One of the reasons amoral commercial efforts like fb won is because this modus operandi happens to harmonize standard commercial MO with what a network is.

For what facebook wants to be i.e. a profile for all your contacts that is indeed the case. For hobby/activity related communities that's not true.

>I'm not sure this relates to federation though. Niche communities don't need to be federated.

It does relate to federation because right now if I open a new subreddit I am bound to the wishes of the company and they can change the UI in such a massive way that any community that benefits from long-form text posts quickly dysfunctional. I have noticed the gradual decline in content and comment quality on reddit since the redesign and the push for mobile app usage and it's slowly creeping into every subreddit out there.

With a federated alternative to reddit I could launch a server on my own and have control over how the community evolves over time( or rather, people who have the community's best interests in mind can in general). I hope someone takes what Mastodon does and make a reddit alternative.
Automate Your Code Fixes
> Just yesterday they flew with 18 fighter jets and a bomber across the unofficial but mutually agreed border between Taiwan and China.

There is no official border between these 2 "countries". They both officially claim they own the the other.

And China has made it plain that, as long as Taiwan is not pursuing independence, everything can be made as usual. That's backed by many popular demand from the ordinary people.

It's like US wont allow USSR to deploy nukes in Cuba. As long as you Cuba dont do that, US are OK with the communism on the island. Otherwise, sorry, you are risking the whole life for this whatever ideology you are pursuing.
(Late correction: I meant to say 'proselytising', not 'evangelical'.)
And what makes it worse is that particular part of SV is a public transit black hole. When I worked at Apple, they did a great job of providing their own commute-time transit options. However, if you needed to travel to or from the Apple campus in the middle of the day, you had to either drive to work that day or be willing to spend a lot of time on a bus, particularly if you're going somewhere on the peninsula. On the one or two occasions I fell ill enough to want to go home in the middle of the day, I really should have called a cab to take me to the Caltrain station instead of taking a bus that seemed to take a tour through every neighborhood.
Hey! Polarized looks pretty cool. Question, has this feature (forms) been merged into the public pdf.js master yet?
Apache OpenWhisk is a truly portable Serverless Platform
This is a necessary consequence of compressing any non-trivial idea into a single headline, and if you assume without evidence that the only two possible narratives are "no remote" and "all remote".

Both articles, despite your insinutation of different narratives, contain the same quote "I don't believe that we'll return to the way we were, because we found that there are some things that actually work really well virtually,"
Median US household income rises 7% to $68k in '19, poverty falls for fifth year
I still don't get the new "distributed" version of c2.com. It looks like a failure, based on traffic rates. Ward is a smart person, but he laid an egg on that project. (Ward pretty much invented the wiki concept.)
I guess someone had to ask this...

Does it run under WSL?
Not so. Most people lose money on it. He has a knack for sticking other people with the bill for his bankruptcies while he gets his money out in time. The only bank that still wants to do business with him is the Deutsche Bank, and a lot of people suspect there might be some sort of money laundering or other questionable transactions going on.
I wish this was empathised. The game could start with an optional conventional battle.
The Lispers contend that the use of parens is merely a surface detail which the reader can get past with a bit of effort. This is clearly true for some people, but I don't believe it to be generally correct.

Much of what we do when reading (whether code or text) happens at a low level, way below conscious thought. This allows us to, for example, skim a list and spot the desired entry without having to think about each one. Formatting and punctuation provide guideposts that help in this process.

Similarly, the syntax of most programming languages contains a wealth of punctuation characters. A well-formatted and idiomatic program can be skimmed quickly, without the need for understanding each symbol.

Lisp, in contrast, removes all of these guideposts. So, in order to skim a Lisp program, the reader must understand at least the general nature each symbol s/he encounters. For example, a cond is a much different operator than an add.

So, although I like the benefits of Lisp, I dislike the syntax so much that I have avoided using it for decades. Fortunately, José Valim has created a language (Elixir) which provides Lisp's benefits but uses a syntax (mostly Ruby) which I find appealing.
I grew up in a city, I have no desire to live in the burbs in the next decade of my life. I suspect that most 20 somethings view it the same way.
The world magically ignores that? The excesses of the cultural revolution are covered in gory detail in any reasonable class that covers the modern history of China. The Maoist struggle session looms as large in the western popular imagination as the Spanish Inquisition and honestly larger than any of the historical red scares.
Sure, its a structured format, so you totally can extract the individual fields. AFAIK Adobe sells a server product that does that, but I'm sure there's competitors and I have seen the underlying parsing in feature in PDF libraries before.

That said, plenty of users of PDFs have a very paper-based/manual workflow still, and not the motivation and expertise to run and update an online form thing. Or they need to have the ability to handle odd inputs anyways, because paper forms have even worse input validation.

And from a browser/user perspective, the feature here is useful because people expect me to handle PDFs and do not provide nice web forms. They might have terrible reasons for doing so, but I still need to live with that.
VSCode C# extension supports all of those.
It's "pop science" in the sense that he's taking academic work and making it palatable to a general audience, minus the rigor and complexity. His sources were books like Fisher's Genetical Theory of Natural Selection and papers by WD Hamilton.

It's not that it isn't serious. Pop science doesn't have to be BS. But it often risks conveying to readers that they have a better grounding than they actually have, which The Selfish Gene has also done. Pop science books are good ways to attract young readers to the sciences and to keep older readers engaged in it, but they are not in and of themselves contributions to the field.
This is a bit of an over-used joke.

Given this is explicitly being launched under "Area 120", "Google's workshop for experimental products", I think it's fair to let them ship things, try things out, see what works, and close what doesn't.
Transport Layer Security Is Not a Substitute for Virtual Private Networks
Around ‘93 or ‘94 is when we got our first home PC. We were no where close to affluent.
Not GP. I agree with all of your points but I think it’s realistic for property owners to want to not live near Airbnbs. Especially on the lower end of the Airbnb market.

This is a nuanced issue, but as someone who used to famously defend Airbnb, etc, i feel the consequences are very real.
Think Google's obsession with machine learning has got out of control.

Looking at some of the other announcements on their blog, there's no way that an actual human either wrote those headlines or came up with the product ideas in the first place:

* Fundo: a virtual experiences platform for creators

* Shoploop: an entertaining new way to shop online

* AdLingo Ads Builder turns an ad into a conversation

* GameSnacks brings quick, casual games to any device

Has anyone been round to their offices recently to see if they're okay?
Many people enjoy living in cities and do not want to move to the suburbs.
yea but they will never understand the cultural nuances that it takes to become part of the "in" group, and from reading these articles, it seems that "in" group nepotism is rampant in some places. A caste is not just a name, its a cultural legacy you inherit from your parents, their network and society. Even if you ignore the name part, there are some hidden advantages that are conferred to people of higher castes that probably can't be taken away.
Yelp data shows 60% of business closures due to virus pandemic are now permanent
so you are fine with allowing all the human atrocities by CCP because of what usa has done in the past? i cannot make heads or tails of this perspective

as one of jewish descent, i am glad usa denounced the holocaust during ww2, and didn't use its past injustices as an excuse to remain silent
> I've literally never gotten a job based on someone I knew

The industry is changing for new entrants, and it is considerably different today.
Yes but it has to started by someone who is willing to sacrifice something to obtain it. If its only people who have nothing to lose that are supporting it then its hollow and nobody will shift. Its by having positive examples that we can inspire more intransigent types to come with.
There are many things that are not unlawful but people assume they are, for example workplace discrimination(like forcing extra workloads on people on work permits) based on immigration status is 100% legal.
of course no one wants an air bnb neighbor. when you own a house and the property next door is a renter that’s worse than an owner there full time. what if a fence needs to be replaced on the property line? you think that owner will care as much? you put so much of your money and value into property that you want everyone around you to do the same. the shared investment makes everyone try a little harder. short term visits or even renters don’t share the investment and don’t care
Hah, that's funny. I had a horrible night at a hotel in Ireland, where the room next door was partying and the attendant was just powerless to stop it (he tried).
How does it compare to traditional banking's carbon cost? Don't forget to factor in the carbon cost of the calories used by all the people that work there and their commutes. Without a comparison point, you really don't know whether or not carbon is a weak point for btc.
And vscode has them for Typescript at the least, I suspect several other languages support them.
For context Android 10 was released over a year ago.
That sucks. I'm sorry.

The only semi-constructive thing I can say is "This too shall pass."

In 1998, at 18 years old, I was literally the boy in the bubble, living in forced isolation for over a year. Atypically, I was also very extroverted.

I was extremely fortunate to have access to dial up modems. So between CompuServe, and starting my own BBS network, I cobbled together a social life and some income publishing my own shareware.

It sucked. But it was also awesome.

Those online relationships were just about the best I've ever had. More like penpals than drinking buddies.

Alas, nothing is permanent, and I was eager to return to the real world.

As for the environmental noise, I'm sure you've investigated noise canceling headphones, white noise machines, and maybe even noise dampening acoustic foam on the walls.

Noise pollution is terrible. Especially if you're sensitive, like my sweetie. I hope you can find a corner in the basement, or open area on the roof, or something. The noise in our prior condo was terrible, driving my sweetie insane. Our neighborhood had gotten popular. So much new construction, new roof top open bar across the street, 3:00am deliveries in alley below our bedroom window, etc. There was literally was no peace.

If you're working remote any way, maybe you can peace out somewhere else. Anywhere with broadband and strong coffee.
You do realize that 99% of the traders/investors could care less about the carbon footprint. They are focused on the volatility and profit.
Going to a particular page and only having to render that one page. Large HTML documents are unwieldy.
Disrupting the business. Which at some level translates into time and money I guess but it seems different from "We handed over a bunch of money for something that it turns out we maybe didn't need." (Though Apple has tons of leased real estate in the Bay Area so I'm pretty sure they'll continue to find plenty of use for the campus.)
There is not one yet afaik.
The problem is the majority of people aren't ok with the removal - they want special rights, reservations, and treatment.
The sheer power of all these people combined will overthrow any decision made by the government in that direction. These people aren't stupid but just uninformed/uneducated.
It then goes into politics - the leaders are way too dumb or just don't care. They fail to spread awareness to anyone whatsoever.
No it's not the opposite. Tim Cook made two statements to bulid a slightly nuanced thesis, and both articles presented the nuance, and some commenters are inventing a one-sided straw argument to attack.
What you are saying has some truth. Maybe I am not involved in the right communities. I will see what communities are out there and where to find them.
I see this everyday (before COVID) when my Indian colleagues go to lunch but don’t ask that one guy bc he’s from a lower cast.
Coronavirus recession ends for rich but is far from over for poor communities
That actually sucks, because I was considering it.

I don't need 5G, but 3G is a bit too slow. I mean that's going back in time a decade (literally).
Fair point, but why should anyone bother investing time and effort into using the thing if it's just an experiment?

Certainly not going to shift my team or multiple teams onto it if I can't trust it's going to be there tomorrow.
> People have different passions mine is a criminal free world.

Is this a joke, or just naivety to the point of comedy? Mind you "criminals" can be anyone if its politically convenient.
OK, I found the bit I was remembering:

The UK actually declared war on Japan nine hours before the U.S. did, partially due to Japanese attacks on Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and partially due to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's promise to declare war "within the hour" of a Japanese attack on the United States.[1]

I had forgotten the part about the attacks on Malaya, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#Afterma...
Apple Platinum: arguably the acme of classic pre-compositing GUI design
Good one in the sea of evil
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=privacytoolslist.com
What's in a title? "Paris hails victory". No. The city government of Paris hails a victory. Whether that's a victory for the city and its inhabitants is a very different matter.
US policy has been moving towards energy independence from Bush, Obama, and through Trump. We're pretty much there now, OPEC can't drive up prices without US shale producers ramping up production, sharply limiting their control.
You say in jest, but this simple upgrade very likely improves the lives of more people more significantly than some billion dollar unicorns ever do.