skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK they already add VAT to their commission fees, which is what Airbnb is "selling" e.g. if you pay £100 for a stay in a UK-based short let, Airbnb's fee on that might be £15, of which £12.50 is their fee, and £3 is 20% VAT. £85 is held in trust for the host, and passed on direct.

So Airbnb's income on that transaction is £12.50, not £100.

Hosts do sell their properties on multiple platforms, and their income determines whether they have to register for VAT. In Canada it's apparently $30,000 per quarter, in the UK it's about £85,000 per year. So lots of Airbnb hosts don't currently have to pay VAT.
And that is my entire point. The range that a starlink antenna can transmit or receive at is ~10.7GHz - 14.5 GHz. (possibly a bit wider than that, but not by much) All of which is licensed spectrum. And starlink only has a license for using that band if the beam is steered at least 25° above the horizon, and 25° away from the geostationary orbit band.

Good luck doing anything other than the intended use with that.
Love this. I appreciate your building on ripgrep versus my own bulky lucene-based approach a while back (https://github.com/maximz/sift), and that you don’t require pre-indexing but build up a cache as you go.
Some of the last people in the world to be touched by the pandemic
https://archive.is/2JZ14
Ars Technica was great before it became an online shopping catalog
>(I wouldn't expect feds to tolerate Starlink selling subscriptions to Iranians or providing service to stations located in Iran.)

I would expect that, on the contrary, the U.S. would very much want to get as many citizens of a nation of interest as possible on a network they have some control over.

On the one hand, more people chatting leads to more insight. On the other hand, more people chatting creates noise that allows to hide people exfiltrating "interesting information".

On the more "businessy" side of things, Facebook and Google have been trying to enter China for quite some time. Google has through Dragonfly until there was a leak, and it announced shutting it down last year.

The problem in my opinion is that, to get those few billion people on the internet meant that these corporations had to deal with the Chinese government and "compromise their morals". If getting these people on the network is done through customer-premises equipment, it can be useful. It may prove harder to control the flow of devices than it is to control a corporation.

Facebook may as well become an important SpaceX customer. They tried to increase penetration with internet.org and deals with major telecom companies. Both have tried with balloons and drones. StarLink is a new mode (well, not entirely new, but one that has become more affordable).

It may create tensions between China and the U.S., and the former may restrict imports of these devices, but they'll find their way. It could also give leverage to the U.S.:"you want us to restrict your citizens' access to StarLink, give us something".

Who knows.
I learned today that there is already a human infect-able mutation.

https://www.who.int/csr/don/06-november-2020-mink-associated...

I admire the Danish Authority's resolve in their action for public safety. They even went as far as to cull the breeding stock for 17 million Mink. In influenza past whole chicken farms had to be culled to prevent outbreaks. The priority and protection for this luxury good has me and many others puzzled.
Related, recent article:

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200211-why-are-so-man...
Uhh.... If you're getting that effect, you're drinking a lot of alcohol, and that is not healthy for you for a variety of reasons, cancer being the least of them.
Meh, everything as a service, at some point, you're being gamed to pay for things you don't really need, just because it somehow seems "easier" to manage.

I've been thinking about trying out snowflake, but I feel like for most companies, if you have someone that can design a data warehouse schema, you can probably manage fine. Most small businesses just need to pre-aggregate their metrics and feed them into a DW/OLAP system. Then you can just have a software engineer build an API and some visualisations around the metrics.

From personal experience working on Fortune 500 projects, the challenge is actually defining the metrics, hierarchies and dimensions. You have to understand the business well, and also be technical to understand how it translates into a data warehouse.

I just started the coursera specialization on data warehousing [1]. While I do have some exposure to dimensional models and hierarchies, I think this will be an awesome experience to build a data warehouse myself.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-warehousing
I think Android chips have less die area though (because they have less cache) and many android devices are rather cheap and have SoCs produced on older processes.
"I've got the same combination on my lottery"
But there are simpler explanations, like they broadcast last weeks drawing by mistake, and once broadcast, they can't undo it.
It pertains pretty specifically to the comment I replied to. I'm not sure how that's not clear?
Nvidia Makes Video Conferencing 10x More Bandwidth Efficient
If they take my phone in court I'm not too concerned. I just don't want them to be able to sniff my personal profile info without me knowing.
I've never thought about it this way. Being very much not a chemist or biologist, are there any decent sources for reactivity of... commonly ingested things? Or any articles with more on this?
Small towns and rural make up only 21% of the US population.

http://www.ruralhome.org/storage/documents/ts2010/ts-report/...
We did expect to use more but covid changed that, that said, the problem I am warning others about is the the sales conversation was not accurate, but none of what was promised was in the contract in writing. Definitely my fault though for trusting that the roll over process is as simple as issuing new paperwork as portrayed by a guy who is just looking to close the deal. I have not had such a problem with other companies in the same sector with such sales practices but maybe that's just my experience. Makes no sense to me though coz who would want to sign a contract when you don't know what policies they might decide on mid-way, the discount offered is tiny (unlike AWS reserved where it is super clear when they expire but you also get a huge discount so it's not vague what the trade-offs are) and you are much better off on demand.
The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes was published in February 2018[0] and things have only gotten faster since then.

[0] https://goteleport.com/blog/kubernetes-release-cycle/ , HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285192
Just wait (a few years, perhaps) until you buy or rent that sweet new self-driving car and try to get out of town for some rest and relaxation... you turned off the radio, but that doesn't matter, because Big G uses the windshield as a billboard looming into your personal space, beaming ads to the most captive audience that exists.
But the venn diagram is a completely different concept and doesn't relate to the original meaning of ikigai. I think it should just get a different name since it is NOT the same thing.
That's hardly a correct comparison. Alcohol is far more readily available and accepted than heroin.
> Why on earth would you pick numbers that were certain to draw attention?

Not only that, but sequences like this are significantly more likely to have many winners (assuming the lottery allows ticket purchasers to select their own numbers).
I'm a non-programmer who is just skilled enough with computers to do some damage. Completely clueless about mathematical and information theory concepts, etc. Here's my measly two cents:

I've been running my own Urbit for a few years that I've connected to broader communities, and have found it to be a really exciting and fun platform. It feels like when I first found Usenet and MUDs as a teen in the 90s, except people are nicer. What I understand about its essential purpose sounds great — a decentralized identity that I own and can make communities with.

I am mostly a tech outsider, but I find it strange to see such a normally open-minded community (hackers) shut it down with such vehemence whenever it comes up
> please compare these with the energy requirements of the financial systems it replaces.

I don't have numbers (I suspect it's impossible to do a true apples-to-apples comparison), but I feel like Bitcoin still likely fails by this metric. I recall reading a year or so ago that Bitcoin was using the same amount of electricity as a small developer nation. I expect the other financial systems use more than that in total, but consider that these other financial systems handle orders of magnitude more transaction volume, and include a lot more services than Bitcoin does.

> We can just use renewable energy sources long term.

Renewables aren't free. It costs time, effort, and energy to build the infrastructure (solar panels, windmills, etc.), not to mention caustic chemicals for some of these, which do have negative environmental effects. Maintenance has costs, as does eventual replacement. The land required to house these production farms also is not free.

Yes, the energy produced by renewables is obviously much much cleaner than that produced by other means, but they still have costs.
And whoever decided that the Google Assistant "clang!" sound needed to be the loudest, most piercing sound physically possible to generate with a smartphone deserves to be drawn and quartered.
My gripe with cancer stats presented in this way is that they tend to only give relative risks. It matters what the risk was in the first place.

What's the oral cavity cancer risk that I'm increasing by 80% if I drink? If it's 10% without alcohol I'll be teetotal. If it's 1/10000 I'm going to ignore the cancer risk.
The propaganda runs deep.
In the UK, I think they're likely to recommend masks and social distancing for everyone until a large proportion of the population are vaccinated. And that will take a long time.

Why a Covid vaccine doesn't mean the end of face masks yet

The Guardian, 20th Nov

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/12/covid-...
Which is what I've described: early vaccination, not mass vaccination.
"Vouch" only appears for dead/flagged comments, for about two weeks from submission.
Is that how depositions work though? Being deposed means being asked questions in a very official manner by opposing counsel. During discovery, they can issue a subpoena/warrant which gives them permission to take your possessions.
Was this supposed to be on a work phone or a personal phone? If a personal phone, was it a requirement to use it for work purposes?

Most times, I believe a change to the employment agreement made by the employee would result in the employer not going forward with the hire, unless it was agreed upon in the negotiation phase. So unfortunately I am not surprised at the outcome.
The cynic in me notes that the stock exchange amounts to where moderate to middle class does all of their gambling. With most of the proceeds just consolidating up the wealth chain. At least in lotteries the programs are progressive. :D
Thank you for the tip, I could develop on a remote server just as well, and for that price I might simply buy and see. However, one of the things I love about Macbooks the most is the display - do you have experience with both?
PWAdvent 24 great browser features – from the first to the 24th of December 2020
Oh I see you were the original commenter as well. Are you disputing the idea that you tried to use the actions of a specific wild animal to justify our treatment of animals? I mean, I get it. It's a really common tactic. I'm just confused by your surprise.
lol...I was going to post 42.
It is super convenient to have work stuff with you all the time. So you can step out and be available.

Google work profiles solve this for me. I deal with sensitive information anyway. So it is separated so much that it is hard to even share links with colleagues but once you switch to work profile on Android phone (OnePlus FTW!) it works well. I am surprised this is issue in Google.
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> Yes, prop 65 is absurd.

...known to the state of Cancer to cause California...
> Lottery should be illegal.

Fortunately, we can always rely on crime syndicates to provide unrestricted access to vices (either gambling, sex, booze, or drugs) for as long as people will want it, no matter what Rulers and other "pezzonovante" think of such a vices.

Said otherwise, you can not change, and will not change, human nature.
"Ok, Google" makes everyone hate saying the word "Google". It is now linked to the emotions of frustration and anger forever.
Taking Two Different Vaccines?
China has 20 times the land area and 35 times the population of California, and you're comparing apples to oranges comparing a nation-state entity with a sub-nation-state entity that was stymied by conflict with the superior government. And you are comparing actual construction time in China with something else in California (but what, I'm not sure, because 10 years is too short if you are looking at it from public project initial very-partial financing approval with Prop 1A, and too long of you are looking at start of construction in 2015.)
Look here:
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/search.html
Isn't it great when even something as huge and life-changing as a job is subject to a contract of adhesion with no negotiation allowed? I'm sure glad to live in such a free country with great worker rights. (Sarcasm intended.)
> But taxi companies have a far, far higher bar in the eyes of the law. In most countries you can't just decide to climb in your private car and provide commercial transportation service. You have to spend a lot of time and money to get there, authorizations, commercial insurance, driver certifications, etc. Uber bypassed it by saying "we're a tech company" and left it to the drivers, making the enforcement of the law a lot harder.

Let's be real, most of it is getting a taxi medallion (sure you need a different driving license but any 18 years old can get it).

Posted it in an other thread [0] but do we really want to go back to the medallion system? Pre-Uber, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid).
The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

Also, the argument on Uber/Lyft drivers not being contractors since they can't set their own rates and decide which ride they take strikes me as weird since medallion drivers were contractors, had to charge the price set by the city and could only pick-up customers in the (arbitrary) zones covered by their medallions.

And I'm not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225648
I have an idea for a software startup. Where is best to crowdfund?
I have an idea for a software startup but no prototype, designs, or experience building software (though I have some mockups). What is the best crowdfunding site to get funds at this stage? Would you suggest other avenues to gather enough funds to hire the minimum required team to execute the idea?

I really want to bootstrap the start, so I've got no expectations of raising huge amounts. Just enough necessary to get this off the ground.
I mean cancer which risk is affected by alcohol is somewhat low as it is. I simply refuted the above statement that alcohol barely affects cancer incidence.

Cardiovascular disease however is the #1 cause of death in the Western world. And here alcohol alcohol plays a much much more significant role in contributing to mortality.
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There's no penalty for putting the label on a product that has none of the substances in it. But the penalty for not putting the label on something that does end up having a carcinogen in it is very high. So it's really in the best interest of the manufacturer to just put the label on it anyway.
Since you don't seem to get the point, I'll turn it around. How many humans are comfortable causing the deaths of if you could go back in time and make sure no animals were ever domesticated for livestock?

Are you comfortable killing a million people? A hundred million? Do you have a maximum?
You have to take the social context into account too.

There seems to be a surge in anti-anti-vaxxer sentiment (any skepticism being met with strong resistance). If the vaccine were to fail after that much hype I believe it'd be a concern for worry. (Not that I think it's likely to "fail" in obvious way, just defending OP)
Yes but! (1 + 1) * (7 * 3) = 42 =O
Whataboutism only really works with relativism, because no honest account could seriously equate Obama and Trump’s approach toward democracy and the rule of law.
Or, possibly, their drug is just different.

My grandfather was an alcoholic. I have zero problem controlling my alcohol consumption and the older I get, the less I drink. I am currently somewhere in the proximity of 2-3 glasses of wine a week, it was even less in the summer. And there is no urge to consume more.

But I definitely overindulge on HN or Reddit.
That's what Android Auto does in my car as well-- as soon as I turn the on the car on a weekday morning, it gives me directions & traffic to work. Ditto for the commute home.
> it's not like it's a mystery that childbirth is painful and that raising children is a mostly miserable affair

As someone with toddlers I'll take a stab at an explanation: we thought we went in with eyes open, but it turns out we (I?) _massively_ under-estimated how hard this level of sustained effort would be in the long run because there's no real analog for it in your pre-parenting experience.

Everyone says raising toddlers is hard work. You go into it accepting "sure, it's super hard work, I know what that's like, I can do it!". We thought of hard work by drawing from experience, thinking back to difficult degree programs, or working for a fledgling startup, etc. But in all of that experience, after crunch time, you always get to take an afternoon off once in a while, a couple hours here and there, even if it's just an evening of doing nothing every few weeks.

Nobody had "Well, what if there's a pandemic and you just can't drop off your toddlers at a sitter/parent to get a few hours break? For an entire year?" on their threat radar.

We simply didn't know what that child-rearing work looked like if it went on for months without a break. While you're sleep deprived. While your relationships with a co-parent might be frayed by stress, exhaustion, and cabin fever.

It's become very tiresome to use the word "unprecedented" in 2020, but it's still the word that fits.
Once you start playing the song once, you can generally say "repeat on" and it'll loop the song. YMMV depending on where the song is coming from.
FTA:

> The lottery organisers described it as a freak coincidence and pointed out that the numbers were drawn in a different order.

So, not the same broadcast.
Am I the only one thinking that nuclear bombings are actually good for a construction company?

It's like saying the condom industry survived the AIDS pandemic.
"..it can be used with VDM to leverage arbitrary kernel execution without the need of VDM’s vulnerable driver being loaded into the kernel."

I don't quite get this part, it seems like a contradiction? It relies on VDM but VDM doesn't need to be loaded?
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I tried it for three months. It pauses randomly in my browser and Google Home. The "radio" feature repeats songs like crazy, the queuing is super confusing and inconsistent (it depends on the "type" of playlist you are listening to IIUC) and it consistently recommended me the same songs.

It had some nice features too, but I decided to quit. Now I'm just listening to my collection of mp3s but not super happy.
The crucial data that's missing from those figures (although they're probably buried in the references somewhere) is what the initial risk of cancer is.

If the risk of cancer of the larynx in non-drinkers is 0.0001%, then a 1.4-fold increase means that a moderate drinker has a risk of 0.00014%, an absolute increase of 0.00004%. Instead if it's 20%, then a 1.4-fold increase is 28%, an absolute increase of 8%.

You could potentially extrapolate back from the 3.5% of cancer deaths being "alcohol related", but that gives no context around the related risks of light / moderate / heavy drinking.
How could that message, on that site, fall into the scope of the plugin? I could maybe see if it was a site that employees were actually using it to perform concerted activities. If the firm was hired by the company, then they can't also represent the workers. Thus, what could employees do on that site for concerted activities?

I would also guess the plugin only covers prohibited use and does not cover allowed uses (ie does the plugin say you have 1st ammendment rights when visiting Facebook?). I doubt the documentation states that the plugin shall provide users with their rights. It probably says something like the purpose is to provide users with policy or law information related to the site they are visiting so they don't break the law/policy.
An overly complex web service and web app :-)

That's my takeaway from getting it up and running as an end user for a bit.
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Well, crud. I honestly thought a 10-bit `company_age` field would be sufficient. I'll add a Pivotal story to make the database migration.
Well, I wonder how many of these studies have found a cause or just associations. I can tell you that most drinkers greatly underestimate how much they actually drink and even further if they have to report it to another person, so, a survey will always show people as moderate drinkers! Also, most regular drinkers have other unhealthy habits! Toxicity and cancer risks are also both about the dose. We all have cancerous cells in us, but they become a problem if they survive and grow (and by growing they get a bigger chance of mutating to the level they can trick the immune system). A cancer developers over the course of many years, except certain types, of course. Definitely alcohol is not an immediate killer - there are much worse things, but here we want to vilify one millenniums-old habit as the root of all evils!
Hoe gaan dit, Petrus?

> our fraudsters aren't dumb enough to pick...

Maybe they are bored of getting away with it? I think the main other necessary data point is that this was an "electronic" lottery. There was a video somewhere (can't find it) where the National Lottery supposedly explains why "this isn't unusual".

In the video they must have mentioned the phrase "random number generator" at least 5 times and never explained why the numbers aren't unusual.

Brings to mind the people in the 2000s that built dice throwing machines and then piped the results to online random number services. Whatever was wrong with our classic lottery ball machine?

PJvZ
'Covid created an opportunity': Lisbon to turn tourist flats into homes
I hope you can soon
I heard a story about some restaurant or hotel where a owner apologized for not providing the authentic experience because the original shop burned down like 600 years ago