skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how much time you've wasted with this, my feeling is that overall you still lost. They owe you money for the time spent as well. Good on you for publishing this, but you should have mentioned their company name in the title, so that hopefully it show up in search engine results and this alerts others to not collaborate with them.
and this isn't much different from "we're making the world a better place by ____" https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso
> While search engines do exhibit the benefit of highly parallel divide and conquer, Google was really the first to take it to the limit.

Inktomi were doing it first - since their inception, and they started long before google. Their founder, Eric Brewer, also came up with the CAP theorem.
You misinterpret my statement, that is all. I mentioned "women in tech" as an example, because those articles are usually political. They tend to be about alleged discrimination and demands for special treatment of women in tech. That is politics (special treatment of a specific group of people is a policy).

If you don't do any of those things, your person is not a political issue.

Also I didn't say you shouldn't be allowed to post political things like "women in tech". Hacker News policy says that, and bans people for commenting on such threads under the pretense of the policy.

Stop misinterpreting my comments.

And nobody is forcing you to use your body for politics. You don't have to identify as a feminist, either. Feminism is not synonymous with women.
How do you know what’s terrible advice and what’s not?
It’s unfortunate, and Airbnb makes enough in service fee that they should be faster to help on these cases. Once I was in SF and my Airbnb cancelled on me right at check-in time. I was tired, had luggages, I just went to the hilton and checked-in. It was really hard and I had to argue but Airbnb ended up reimbursing me.

Still, I’m scared about the next time I’ll run in troubles with Airbnb.

I find it more and more expensive, and I feel more and more taken advantage of whem they lie anout the pricing (the total amount can easily be thousands of dollars more than what you think when you look at the price/night, while they could show you the real price per night they choose not to)
Yeah, a really nice site. It's not slow at all from what I'm seeing!
I checked and it worked ok for me? Perhaps HN didn't like the colon after LinkedIn. Thanks anyway
Show HN: Get IMDB ratings when browsing Netflix on your Android phone
I’ll second that, if you’re on a budget rent a room at someone’s place instead of a full apartment, much better experience.
What is Empire? Is it a video game? I only know it as a post exploitation tool.
They could, but open source has a poor track record of making an easy solution for something this comprehensive that a regular user can set up.
I don't think I've ever even remotely thought about posting anything to the feed in LinkedIn in. I visit LinkedIn only when I have to, and I do see this kind of thing you're talking about. I always wonder... are they actually using it non-ironically as social media???
I've always wondered what the computing landscape would be like if DEC hadn't been so desperately afraid of undercutting their mini/mainframe business, and unwilling to serve the small business and/or home markets.

All of their early micros were hobbled in some way to make them not-quite-compatible; the Rainbow, despite running MS-DOS, was not IBM PC compatible, and the Professional series had incompatibilities with standard PDP-11 systems. The Rainbow didn't even include a FORMAT command for formatting floppy disks; you were expected to buy preformatted ones from DEC, and using standard 5.25" floppies with hub rings was a good way to kill your floppy drive due to the RX50's mechanical design.

Probably the best shot at a home PDP-11 came via Heathkit with the H11 and H11A machines, but that was a small niche.

Even when they finally admitted to themselves that micros were the way of the future, they concentrated on the enterprise market, to the exclusion of all else. Back when the Alpha was the performance king, I would have loved to be able to have one, but the cost was well out of reach of mere mortals.
I agree with so much of this article, and yet, when I desperately needed a job at the start of this pandemic, LinkedIn was there for me. I got more interviews than I would have thought possible at a time when most companies were going into hardcore “wait and see” mode. I ended up getting a great job.

So yeah, like for many folks, it feels like a very weird but essential place.
The 256gb version is $400. But even if the author had messed that up, or had (like me) bought it in a country with VAT so they paid more for it, does that really matter?
Greta Thunberg Meets Sir David Attenborough
It seems to work now. It couldn't find an unique profile, or something like that. Probably a LinkedIn glitch.
Apparently not possible for PDFs, see https://superuser.com/questions/1243405/using-process-substi... . TIL
Your third upload failed to analyze, so i tried it again[0], this time it succeeded. Nice.

[0] http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/4205995#annotated
Everyone that cares about security hates VLAs, that is why ISO acknowledged the mistake of placing them into C99 and removed them from the standard in C11.

Also why Google's Kernel Self Preservation project for Linux has sponsored the 2 year effort that it took to clean up Linux from VLA usage.

You arguments for VLA adoption are meaningless when companies like Google and Microsoft are voting with their wallets against them, and WG14 has acknowledged their mistake.
I find it hard to believe it doesn't share any code, it was a near copy.
Extending the Life of Your Laptop Battery (2007)
Neat little trick is to put emoji in front of your name. Automated tools refer to you as "Hi <emoji>", making them easy to ignore.
Thanks. I appreciate the explanation.
>Still, I’m scared about the next time I’ll run in troubles with Airbnb.

I've had good experiences with https://vrbo.com

But as with anything else, YMMV.
My single Apple TV remote with only 7 buttons and a trackpad controls everything. The AppleTV itself wirelessly, the TV power on/off and source via HDMI-CEC, and finally the external amplifier volume via IR, which powers on/off itself when sound is received or idle.

The TV automatically switches source to the game console when it's turned on and vice versa.

Couldn't be easier.

I haven't done any fancy hacking or special hw to get this working, just basic Samsung, Apple, a decent amp and a few minutes adjusting the settings of each.
Liechtenstein for hire at $70k a night (2011)
On the contrary, YOU should start thinking for yourself.

All the articles you quoted merely repeat the same correlation of high housing prices and unemployment that started all the speculation. They don't give any insights at all, and they don't even mention rising rents as a cause (which was what we are actually discussing). Only the solutionsdfl site mentions "foreclosures" as a reason for more homelessness, without giving any numbers (like what percentage of homelessness is caused by it). And it doesn't say what caused the foreclosures. Does economic success in a region increase the number of foreclosures?

Of course on a simple level, saying "lack of affordable housing" causes homelessness is true. If you could give everybody a free house, there would probably be less homeless people. However, that is also in itself a completely useless realization, as housing is not free and space is limited.

And, more specifically, it was not what we were discussing. We were discussing the claim that rising economic success of a region caused rising homelessness there, by driving existing renters out of their homes. None of your articles provide any information regarding that claim.
> I think this is a case of the headline and article being written by different people.

But you don't prove this. Let's see these rewards. No, a grant of $70k in 2013 isn't it.
What did you build? How fast? Then dive deep on the technical and user stuff to test if HE(!) was really the one who drove and understood it.
As they mentioned further down in the article, they later got access to data on how affiliate references were performing and used that to extrapolate over the 120 cases that were missing data.
Yeah, but they push the pauli exclusion principle to the extreme, meaning there's hardly anywhere within its structure for particles to not exist.
^H is the ASCII control character for backspace. It has nothing to do with vi, and everything to do with a terminal. It used to be common knowledge that when you press Backspace, sometimes ^H appears on your screen (if the program in question couldn't handle control characters natively). Naturally, in forum posts it started to have the meaning of "delete" for humorous purpose.

Its modern equivalent is HTML tag <del></del>, which also means "delete" due to the common knowledge of its meaning. One doesn't have to be a front-end developer to understand <del>, and one didn't have to be a vi user to understand ^H.
I suspect subpoenaing information is far cheaper than seeking warrants to perform physical investigation, even before you consider the investigation.

Defending the subpoena is only expensive if they defend it.
> The first thing we need to do to have productive conversations about privacy with non-technical people is to stop pretending they are ignorant or unable to understand trade-offs.

And then those same people complain about folks who won't vaccinate their kids, saying they're being selfish.

Without realizing they're doing exactly the same thing.

They are ignorant. They do not understand the trade-offs.
For something a touch more down to earth regarding medicine:

House of God, by Samuel Shem. It might be difficult to believe, but this book is very realistic. Much more so than many other insufferable navel-gazing books about medical work taking grand philosophical stances.
Walking is one of the best things in my life. It's very centering:

- it unglues me from devices (I don't listen to anything during most of my walks)

- it makes me open to sensual details of the world (such as: frozen dew on grass makes nice crunchy sound when walked on)

- it makes me explore and connect to my surrounding area

- it makes me feel good after I've finished the walk (nothing like coming back home after a nice walk outside).

Sometimes I feel like I'm too tired to go for a walk in the evening, but it's just "brain fog" from all day of sitting and thinking and being stressed in job. If I force myself to go out, usually I feel ok after 10-15 minutes of walking and can easily walk for 1-3 hours feeling energized rather that tired. For reference, my daily average walking distance over past 2 years is 5 kilometers.
Many publishers explicitly forbid VPN accesses or proxies. So it is more probably just accessing lecture resources.
As a philosophy graduate I would say that learning philosophy solely from books would be a very ambitious / dangerous attempt. The philosophical books can be very persuasive for the beginner in the field, leading to many misconceptions. I would recommend to take part in some (university/on-line) courses, but not in one, but at least two from different teachers.

As for the books, Plato (Socrates dialogues) is must have to understand the field. Also it's fun to read, so it's great to begin with :) The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle is another beginner friendly book which lays field for others to follow; it's much more practical/friendly than the Metaphysics, which should be approached only with an assistance of a good teacher (unless you're a genius like Avicenna or Thomas Aquineas).
that is really cool. I feel like that in and of itself would be a great app, with some sort of vetting / bg check / social proof baked in of course.
Had terrible experience with AirBnB support. I had to reach out to them on Twitter and eventually someone got back to me!

You would expect their site to have a clear link to support. Good luck with that.
That a dev of an arbitrary tool may not bother is understandable. However, the dev of the flags parsing library should bother.
Change Monitoring for Websites
I think most users never even heard about Adblockers or how it will improve their web browsing life considerably. It's the thing people never know they want.

On other story, I give my junior advice that she should install adblocker on her browser, her reply was: "How can I watch the commercial then?" Umm...OKAY.

My assumption:

1) people just didn't know better or

2) they actually loves those flashing ads all along
As a counterpoint whenever I have caffeine I am maniacal focused on something and turn into an asshole for at least 12 hours. It warps me as a human.
Huh, that's better than what I was expecting.

I'll need to dig into the apis, but I don't see a reason why this can't work with those rules. I got hit with some ridiculous money laundering laws when I made more than $1k a month and needed to basically get an accounting colonoscopy or incorporate to continue which would have cost a lot more than I was making in a year.
It really sucks that most GPUs don't have CEC. Even the high-end ones.

The price for CEC-USB dongles is outrageous too.
No wonder he had issues contacting support - they just recently fire a whole bunch of people.
"As many have noticed, our product line has been getting smaller and our tech support has been slowing down to a crawl. Unfortunately, the pandemic has been the final KO blow. It has hit our little town hard and we have not been able to recover from it. As of Tuesday, 11/24/20 17:00 EST ZaReason is no longer in business."
and still there is no generator that creates efficient and partialy streamed readers/writers for high performance protocols or resource constraint environments (as less pre allocations as possible, zero copy concepts,..., streamed reading/writing, good inline possibility, ...)

100% fix formats with no self reference or for example checksums that sits in front of the checksumd data (no streaming possible)...
Yeah, nowadays it seems like twitter is the most reliable way to get in touch with support for medium/big companies. Especially if you publicly shame them...
Well, it exists! It's called CouchSurfing. See https://www.couchsurfing.com/.
There isn't one "you" here, there's two: the website and the advertiser.

They don't trust each other; each has an incentive to defraud the other.

That's why they run separate servers. Auditability.
So form over content then?

I love the design of the site, but the first game I checked is Assasins Creed Black Flag, because I know that game has a very clever UI solution present in at least the early games in the series.

There is nothing in this site about that feature and you cannot explain it with a simple tag. The name "Game UI datase" suggests a bit more than mere tags.

For the interested, the UI solution I was referring to is how the functions of the buttons on the right side of a common joypad are communicated to the player. When one of the buttons is pressed, a short description of all their functions will appear in the top right, layed out in the exact position they have on the actual joypad. Press a modifier key that changes the functionalities of these buttons and their descriptions will change while the modifier key is pressed.

This ensures that you will never forget what all the buttons do, which is a common problem for me as I don't have a lot of time to play and can sometimes leave a game for months before picking it up again.

The website only shows the "empty/unpressed" state of this element of the HUD, skipping one of of it's most innovative features.
TBF I saw the demo right away, it is normally at the top of all github repo readme's
Yeah, researchgate is a shame. There ought to be a niche for an academic website, but it hasn’t worked out. I get more value from connecting on Twitter. Turns out that plus biorxiv/arxiv/[insert your discipline’s version] works better.
The Perils of File Typing
It would only be interesting if you survived an interview round. Which obviously didn't happen.

Getting a callback based on fiction is called Salesmanship. Translating that callback into a profitable deal/gig is what separates the wheat from the chaff. So nothing to see here. Don't kid yourself that you got a glimpse into anything.

HR is just doing their job finding people with impressive backgrounds.
Netflix and all the other streaming apps insist on locked bootloaders.
Me too - I expect those badges to provide dynamic status information, not just be static links. However, I found the "example" link just when I wanted it, as I'd finished reading the list of features. There are enough demo links now, imo.
No, anticompetitive behavior is not determined with a single question. It's a whole field of study. You may as well say companies evaluate their code by the single criteria of "how fast does it run?"

With a price artifically approaching zero in a product with high margnial cost and higher long run average cost, product tying with android and google search at the least, dominant and uncontestable market power, there's a lot of bells ringing here, and more than enough to suspect significant deadweight loss to society and, yes, "harm" to consumers.

All of these terms have specific definitions, by the way. They don't just mean good or bad. And that list is far from exhaustive.
> Someone with a water tank in (say) Seattle, Washington is not "hoarding water" "at the expense" of someone in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,

Well it sure ain't contributing to the "hydrologic cycle" if it's in a water tank. That's a tankful less water in that cycle. And multiply that by everyone else storing water, and before you know it that's a noticeable impact globally, including both for Addis Ababa and the rest of Seattle.

This is, mind you, precisely why a lot of municipalities don't take kindly to people collecting rainfall, or to people damming up streams or rivers without doing the necessary due diligence on ecological impact assessment. There are downstream impacts to these seemingly-innocuous things.

> I think fundamentally you're just wedded to the the idea that water gets "used up" in the same sense that, say, oil, gets used up.

Nowhere have I even suggested that to be the case, and yet somehow you think I'm the one strawmanning here. If you're going to deliberately ignore my point and substitute it for one that's obviously false, then why even bother to respond?
+1 for Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance -- it was that book that made me sign up for philosophy 101 at Uni.
Modern? It's a trick that's probably as old as discrimination itself. Here's a rare case of an American judge speaking openly about this - the quote is from a 1941 Florida Supreme Court opinion (Watson v. Stone):

"I know something of the history of this legislation. The original Act of 1893 was passed when there was a great influx of negro laborers in this State drawn here for the purpose of working in turpentine and lumber camps. ... It is a safe guess to assume that more than 80% of the white men living in the rural sections of Florida have violated this statute. ... There has never been, within my knowledge, any effort to enforce the provisions of this statute as to white people, because it has been generally conceded to be in contravention of the Constitution and non-enforceable if contested."

Note, by the way, that this also references the other common trick - you can also make rules that are seemingly not arbitrary, but are easy enough to challenge for those with the right knowledge and/or means.
Serbian Air Defenses Did Hit Another F-117 During Operation Allied Force in 1999
In R all functions are anonymous functions. Functions are created anonymously and then (usually, but not always) assigned to a variable using the assignment operator.
I worked on Vax/VMS about 19 years back. Their documentation was the best. There was a mailing list of vax users, one of the best I have ever been a part of . The people were extremely helpful for a newbie like me. Part of the old internet that is dead now .
Same here.

Also, 40-inch 4k screens don't seem to exist anymore. The 43-inch and above have a MUCH larger inter-pixel gap which I can easily notice when using them as a monitor. 50-inch and above are too big for desktop monitor use.

I think the panel manufacturers realized they torpedoed their high-end monitor market with the 40-inch 4k screens which is why they had to nuke them and make the 43-inch displays so crappy.
The author does a poor job of abstracting the button in the first place, and completely fails to make his own case as a result.
I understand the fact that the author took the matter in his own hands and claimed what he was owed but this article is just another proof that instead of doing our jobs and spending our time more productively, we always need to play the "lawyer" and the "detective" because some people/company always abuse their position of power. The author did manage to get his money, but at the same time pointed them a flaw (the affiliation page) in their little scheme, which means that he didn't help protect anyone else that wants to start an affiliation with them. And yes, I understand that this is "how the world works" but still, I always get bothered by this kind of behavior. Maybe an alternative maybe, would have been to stood up by just ending the partnership and finding another company that treats its affiliations with more respect AND post the article in order for others to read the bad experience he had.
on a separate note I think smart TV's are either going to completely die or a massive operating system consolidation is about to happen. I work with a lot of consumers directly and so many of them just hate their smart TVs and opt to use a roku/fire stick/apple TV instead. add to that most major cable providers have so many streaming services baked into their own cablebox OS and there is a lot of redundancy.
My view on the acquisition is that Salesforce needed a "chat" communication tool so instead of building one they purchased one. This is smart. However, it will require Slack to change to fit into the product catalogue, and that change is what will kill Slack.

This is unlike the Heroku acquisition in 2011, where Salesforce just wanted to enter into the "cloud" market but didn't really need to bundle the product into the rest of their systems. As far as I can tell, Heroku came out fairly unscathed and used the money to improve themselves/continue operations.

I think the Slack as we knew it is probably not long for this world. It will be absorbed and mutated to live inside Salesforce.
I've probably had 10 such cases in the last 5 years: speeding tickets from countries I have not even driven to, medical services double-billed to both my insurance and credit card, ... all $100-300 range.

I'm confident I could probably recover most, but at this amount, I just don't want to deal with it. It's one of those cases where I wish I had a personal assistant. It makes me think there's room for a "consumer debt collector" service with a revenue share model.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320430
I have a nitpick however on one technical explanation: it is said that scrolling is sometimes avoided because it was expensive on old hardware. On all consoles, the background had an x/y scroll offset which allowed to scroll it with no effort. What cost in moving the camera was changing the sprites to be dragged while the camera moved to give the illusion they were not moving relatively to it.
SIMs in IoT devices are soldered down. They look like a regular surface-mount chip, black package and all. It's called an "eSIM".
All the ways Microsoft Teams tracks you and how to stop it