skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have multiple vacation rentals and use several sites including AirBNB to list them. I've also spent a month in Japan traveling and gotten to know hosts who were on AirBNB. One host we talked deeply with after she lost all of her other bookings from a massive typhoon.

The problems she has with guests and the problems Japanese people face as a country are very different. She has had to stop taking specific types of guests because of rude behavior like flushing food down the toilet and damaging tatami mats. When in Japan, a person described their culture as, "having a very specific way of doing things and becoming very upset when people get in the way of that." With so many people having that mentality, hosting is a more friendly sort of thing.

We have different issues. We've become friendly with several of our guests, and even see some past guests once or twice a month to spend time together. When the guests come from AirBNB, we have to maintain a lot of vigilance. We've had multiple drug dealers, a large number of people smoking weed in our rentals, child endangerment, and a few parties. AirBNB has a hands-off policy and there are a lot of pieces of shit who have learned they can abuse AirBNB's system to do what they want, and we don't quite have the same culture of empathy anymore.
alright, that's it-- can we just burn it all down to the ground and start over?
How did you measure all these parameters?
If Aliens Are Near
I wonder if GPT3 could be used to infer reacted text prompted by the surrounding article..?

But for something like this which is sort of a semi-serious report I kind of have the feeling maybe they're just doing some of these as spurious redactions for the laughs.
> That doesn’t solve illegal immigration, it just promotes illegal documentation forgery and illegal under-the-table employment on top of illegal immigration.

Anything that increases the costs of illegal immigration will reduce the incidence of it. It will probably never go all the way to zero, but the harder you make it the less it will happen.

Many people, both outside and inside the system, are openly obstructing enforcement of even existing laws and policies. That's the biggest reason illegal immigration continues - a lot of people want it to.

> OTOH, illegal immigration is easy to solve, you first align the numerical limits of your immigration system with demand by retaining only in-total and not per-country caps, and then, if you want a more complete solution, you make those caps soft caps instead of hard caps by allowing supernumerary immigrants that would be qualified but for numerical limits to temporarily reside while waiting in line for a regular slot (or just bypass the line entirely) by paying an annual (or, for the bypass mechanism, larger one-time) impact fee to address expected social costs.

That's like telling people who want to "solve" a high murder rate that they should just legalise murder, problem solved. The limits that we have are the product of our democratic process, even if you disagree with them. Even many pro-immigration people are against the idea of selling extra spaces, and many anti-immigration people would be (rightly!) dubious that the people who the social costs actually fall on would see any of the money.
But that is preventing Google from being sued into oblivion by the thr record companies, isn't it?
Will probably be closed in a few years;
I’ve had to use Cypress at work, and I really don’t like it. I find the command chaining and assertion queuing to be very unintuitive. (“Do I chain this one or not? Maybe stick it in a callback? No idea!”)

It’s been a few months since I’ve touched it, so I’m struggling to give more specific criticisms.

I’ve had a really great time using Kent Dodd’s DOM Testing Library [1] for unit tests. The readability and writability of these tests has been fantastic. I wish I could use the exact same API for e2e tests. It looks like they actually do have a Cypress version of the Testing Library [2], but it seems to suffer from the same Cypress-isms that I was just complaining about.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? It seems like I’m in the minority opinion. Maybe I’m just bothered because I don’t understand Cypress well.

[1]: https://testing-library.com/docs/dom-testing-library/intro

[2]: https://testing-library.com/docs/cypress-testing-library/int...
I'm confused how this is anything other than "Coca-Cola the worlds most popular beverage maker"

Coca-Cola didn't do anything to put that garbage there, people who consumed their product did.
That might have a little to do with it, but it can't be the entire explanation. Human beings can send a man to the moon in a tin can. This has got to have something to do with intelligence. Ant colonies cannot do that. This comparison is now reminding me of Starship Troopers...
> Expr = ConditionalOr ["?" ConditionalOr ":" Expr] ;

I believe this was a mistake. "?" based conditionals aren't really a good idea IMHO.
Probably got gutted by "financial engineers" in some lease-buyback scheme.
If you like science fiction, Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep prominently features this idea.
Spinner-Free Applications – Replicache Design Document
I give it 2 years before they deep-six it.
Hunt some strange numbers with Python
This assumes a major counter factual where all of the same work was somehow more productive otherwise. Seems dubious.
I used to have a Twilio phone number hooked up to a Lambda function so that people could press the buzzer box at the front of my apartment building and it would automatically send back the required DTMF to unlock it, then text me to let me know someone had been buzzed in.

Other than that, just some bespoke Tasker automations and some hotkeys on my computer. Reading through this thread makes me feel like a rookie, though.
You have any experience with numerical weather prediction files? The ftp files you download are typically 'the whole globe' with a bunch of variable stacked like layers of images in a big image file. One of the problems is that a typical numerical weather prediction output has so much fucking data you dont need.

GFS for example. IT has maybe 200 or so timesteps in each forecast, runs 4x a day. There are a shit load of configs to run for the GFS. And each config + output has maybe 300/400 variables in each file? So you download 200 files, each with 400 images in it, each image is pretty dense. Each file is ~200 megs, X 200 files. You do the math. Get that 4x a day. And that is just one forecast model. We have lots more, and many more that have higher resolution and denser data.

The biggest problem i think is they have a goddamn free-ass oldschool FTP server. They are allowing dimwit grad school scrip kiddies to code up whatever shit they want. Infinite loops to try and download gobs of data you dont understand? sure go ahead.

They dont even know how to trakc users. they want to keep an open server, and use IP Address as unique ID. I suggested to use fucking tokens, or username/pass combo at least haha
I would love to know your thoughts about https://github.com/pragmalang/pragma
How do you automate the pronunciation? I’d be curious to know what your process is like.

I have wanted to automate my flash cards with Forvo pronunciations (rather than TTS) for awhile but haven’t been able to figure out how
> Look at Mia Khalifa as an example

Totally sounds like she's not still milking that story with her onlyfans account.
I've been using Obsidian recently and I love it. There are all kinds of interesting ways you can graph your posts too.
>meh, not really

I was basing my response on what was clearly stated. You can't just reinterpret what someone else said for them. There is a big difference between "distribution of free contraceptives" and "one child policy" and you can't wiggle your way around that.
There have been several HN links discussing this. Have you read these yet? I thought they did a pretty good job answering your questions.

https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2

https://medium.com/swlh/what-does-risc-and-cisc-mean-in-2020...
Except you'll have the Volkswagon silo, the Ford silo, the GM silo, etc. and they'll all start engaging in monopolistic behavior for servicing because they have a monopoly over repairing your specific brand of car. Call it a tacit collusion monopoly and throw in the sunk cost of a car to make it even worse. If everyone in the market behaves the same, there's no benefit to selling your car and getting another because the service costs won't change.

The best example of this that demonstrates what you'd end up with is the cost of key fob programming. The actual cost of the hardware is trivial but a dealership will charge you $250-500 to program a new one because they have a monopoly on programming the fobs for their brand. Those things should cost $50 max IMO.

The scary thing is the vehicle industry is moving this way for everything and if nothing changes it's eventually going to become extremely difficult / expensive to own a vehicle that's not under warranty. I wouldn't be surprised if they start serializing parts and then sell service plans that increase in price as your car ages. You'll pay forever.
Best Buy has become my go-to retailer for electronics and even some appliances. Just tonight I picked up an open-box samsung galaxy tablet from the store down the street from me. Discounted by nearly half, in like-new condition, and if there's anything wrong with it I can return it back to the store, instead of having to ship it back to an online retailer.

I have likewise been impressed with the blue-shirts in the stores. They seem generally on par with Microcenter employees nowadays, with more than enough technical knowledge to help me make buying decisions.
I never found the perfect note taking and/or scheduling software. So I wrote a Python script which combines several tools which together give me what I need. My entire life revolves around it, can’t imagine living without it anymore.

Getting that sort of system sorted out is maybe the most productive thing you can do because it is meta-productive.
It works both ways. People in London can benefit from remote working even if headquarters are somewhere else. In a world where work is conducted over the internet, the status of a city is dependent far more on what kind of place it is to live rather than which businesses are nominally based there. And I just don't see the rich and powerful moving from London to Frankfurt any time soon.
I'm not saying it's accurate :)

But I still appreciate that the Dark Sky feature isn't artificially limited to a particular date. They have a nice error bar on the temperature that gives you an indication of how much it's unknown.
Is it really difficult to find 10 day forecast? Windy is a particularly good app for these kinds of things.

I also run a small REST API service (oikolab.com) that provides location-based forecast data out to 10 days using NCEP service. I started out using DarkSky and Wunderground a couple of years ago but couldn't really get the type & quality of data I needed so I ended up creating one from the original raw data.

It is a 're-packager' in a sense but what we bring to the table is the ability to query the data in a time-series manner efficiently for specific set of end-users. The way NCEP's GRIB data is packaged makes it very slow and painful to do this if you wanted weather parameters to feed into other analytical models (e.g. building energy simulation, time-series forecast etc).
YEah i can tell you for 10 bucks. Try to google wind speed LAX for starters. Did you search at all? Airports have weather stations that record shit and you can get at those data.
For a brief period of time, when I was talking a lot with freelancers, I made this mistake as well! But I am a fulltime employee so it didn't take long to realize of my mistake.

For very long chunks of time it could still make sense to me if I was to pick up a sidegig, like if I could save 10h/week somehow. But saving 1-2h/week, if you don't make money that time, is not worth it (economically!). You might still hate the task or it has a high risk so you decide to hire someone to do it for you, that's fine. But no more "it's less than my rate", if I'm not freelancing I don't have a rate, period.
To put it simply, its developer experience is highly-polished
Whoa. They disabled Volvo safety system. That’s nuts. My Toyota 2016 Rav has saved me a couple of times with the auto brakes and loud beeps. It was totally worth the 2k extra for the 7 radars and 6 cameras.

I don’t care about L4 self driving. I really care about a car that is resilient to human mistakes and fatigue. Uber failed at that.
Although people think that the Fed buying bonds is "printing money", it is actually mistaken for liquidity events. If you provide cash to someone for an asset, the second party loses an asset and gains cash. Its a zero-sum trade, assuming the asset is worth its price (which with a corporate bond is undeniably true). Banks are the ones who create money, by creating loans to multiple parties and using leverage.
I read that the out of order execution of the RISC was simpler to handle with the fixed 32 bit instructions. They said Apple managed to dispatch 8 instructions in parallel whereas the hi end CISC (x86) tops out at 4.
i’ve spent quite a bit of time in cypres this year. i’ve also invested tons of time into selenium and a lesser amount into puppeteer.

cypress is great. the video recordings are very useful. the paradigm of command driven actions is nice to see step by step.

but the more time you invest you find the rough edges: xvfb and parallelization, cypress runtime crashes (vastly improved since 5.x), a sometimes top opinionated stdlib with no alternatives (cy.get errors are always fatal), and a somewhat high cost pricing model.

i understand they need to run a business but i feel like the project is one custom scheduler away from losing its value prop. the cypress website itself is actually the worst part of the entire experience
My small team added Cypress to our large React project a few months ago and it’s been great. Took a bit of work for us to feel comfortable with it but it started catching bugs that justified the time investment in its first few weeks.
Connect PineCone BL602 to OpenOCD
> GeForce now has over 2000 games available to stream - do they actually expect Nvidia to submit 2000 apps? From a dev-infra POV that’s obviously largely impractical.

This isn’t impractical – it’s entirely possible to set up a build / deploy pipeline to the App Store for mass submission of applications. It’s annoying in places, but Apple are slowly getting better at providing APIs to make this easier, and there are third-party tools like Fastlane which also help.

> Would Apple even allow that?

If they were all instances of a single white-labelled streaming application, Apple would probably require the games to be published using developer accounts belonging to the rights holders for the games instead of publishing everything through an Nvidia account. This is an established requirement in those circumstances. It depends upon how they view the ownership of what is being published. Again, setting up a pipeline for this is annoying but doable.
> The first link is useable but hardly designed to maximize views by the general public.

So you admit that forecast.weather.gov is usable to the general public, but because it "doesn't maximize views" its some how invalidated? You said above that the public shouldn't need to use an intermediary to get a weather forecast and that's exactly what forecast.weather.gov is. And not only that but its faster and better than the for profit apps such as Accuweather, Weather.com, Weather Underground, etc.

> This isn’t some major expense, even 3% of their budget spent on communicating with the general public would easily cover several clean apps etc. Instead, it’s clear their largely a giant subsidy for private profit. Other government agencies charge for this kind of large scale data access by private companies to lower costs to taxpayers by removing subsidies.

3% of a multi billion dollar budget is a lot of money also why would they waste money on a "several clean apps" as you put it when they already have a working weather forecasting app and that money could be used to address issues like the bandwidth one described in the article above, or updating weather models? It sounds like you just want a fancy new app even though they already have a working one.
Here's how we connect PineCone BL602 Evaluation Board to OpenOCD... For flashing and debugging RISC-V firmware

https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/openocd
You actually can justify cooking your own meals if you are preparing them in bulk.

If you cook several meals in one session, the average time per meal is much lower, and becomes faster than spending time to scroll through an app placing an order for a meal every time you want to eat.
This is like Google found those click-bait stories about the person who discovered a hidden room in their house, where you have to keep clicking next to read another sentence of text because it generates more impressions.... and Google was jealous of the engagement stats and decided to copy it.

It would be really, really funny if it wasn't so horribly, horribly sad.
“It is not clear why the NWS is considering these harmful bandwidth restrictions given the massive scalability of content delivery network (CDN) technology, cloud infrastructure and other technology solutions that are currently available,” AccuWeather’s Porter said. “It’s truly unfortunate that the NWS apparently does not recognize that this proposal is 100 percent contrary to its mission and its obligation to the American people.”

Meanwhile, AccuWeather's old CEO has been working hard to slash the budget of the NWS https://weather.com/science/news/2018-02-13-trump-national-w...
That means you're doing it wrong. Unless you do it to have a hobby, in which case you're doing it right.
can you explain a bit more about this? sounds very interesting
a very simple cronjob which creates a ~/data symlink, that points to ~/works/data/$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d')

why? I have to deal with a bunch of files at $job. easier when they're all at one place, and I have a clean slate everyday.
> Even more importantly, they need to allow installation of apps via links without requiring an App Store altogether.

No thanks. One of the main reasons I have had my whole family switch to iOS over Android over the past decade is that it's idiot proof. I no longer get a call that someone borked their phone because they followed the "unlimited farmville money with this one simple trick" tutorial that opened pandora's malware box.
Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal (the Shattuck translation)

It’s a surreal allegory about journeys and one’s experience when “seeking” (however defined)

This book almost electrically invigorated my sense of existence and appreciation for life’s variety.

If you intend to read it, I’d heavily recommend averting your eyes from all descriptions/ synopses/reviews. But if you must, the Goodreads description treads lightly, while the Wikipedia one has spoilers and (IMO) also misses the point
Pretty good description of the internet circa 2020

Sad days
It's impossible to get rid of fingerprinting, better to punish when it's actually abused.
Brytiago Y Jay Wheeler – Desnudarte (Video Oficial)
And you can be in the center of of Amsterdam, Berlin, or Paris within 4 hours by train.
Meta :-)
The single binary still have to embed the runtime somehow. So the container size would be similar?

Except the single bundle trimmed off unused part from the standard runtime
I am not sure of that; was flying kites brought in a negative light? No, right?

It reads to me like two "amusing" things he used to do (without moral judgement), but it could be meant to be a positive and a negative for contrast as well.

I don't think flying a kite is strongly positive, more like just amusing, so I'm inclined to say those are two surprising facts.
Weak Ties and Strong Intros
I actually built this product out (for both Uber and Lyft) - SMS/MMS-based ride requests (MMS only for sending google maps PNGs to confirm pickup location). I was about to convert it from a personal project (I used it to get rides on both services for a few years) to a "real" one open to customers, etc and then ran into snags with both APIs at around the same time. Uber's API changed to potentially require a web flow to confirm surge pricing (IIRC - now it's scheduled to be disabled entirely very soon) and Lyft's API was basically shut off entirely (there's a way to apply but I was unable to make any progress even through internal contacts at Lyft). I'll try and keep an eye out for any changes...
I was in Hong Kong. I think some sort of cellphone malfunction, but that was about it. I guess it would affect satellite phones too
I like the artistic visual touches. It's an attractive page, and bonus that it's literally a page that you only have to click to get other soundscapes, or to see the credits.

I've always wanted a super-lightweight app like this. I wear hearing aids, and it's nice to be able to pipe sounds like this through them when I'm out wandering about but not interested in talking to others (a very common thing to do in these Covid times). Sounds like this do an awesome job of masking tinnitus, which is something I and other HOH folks contend with fairly regularly.

Of course the batteries don't need to be contending with graphics and what not when used in this "background" mode, and would need to be phone aware so it can mute when necessary.
The show us and ask us sections are more positive with helpful comments. The main page is more negative but often brings up cold truths.
In Hungary people are so desperate at this point that they don't even go to the streets.

Orban was able to change the law that Hungarians outside Hungary's border who don't even pay taxes can vote (just get a small amount of money from Orban).

I already moved my assets to safer places a long time ago, as I'm not too optimistic.
I just wanted to point out that it is not Apple out of the blue made a chip better than Intel's. They have also been designing chips for quite a while. The APL0098 chip that was used in the original iPhone was introduced back in 2007.
Would you mind going into a little bit of details about the tools you use and how automation helps? I am very interested in this.
I automated my desktop environment configuration using Docker containers. I'm able to go from a headless tty to perfectly tailored desktop environment in ~2.5 seconds. First time start requires a ~40 min build, byut thereafter ~2.5s to start afresh. https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment

I did the same think for my production application environment. One command to go from no infrastructure to production grade cloud application deployment. https://github.com/cloud-computer/cloud-computer
At that point why use YAML at all? If it's generated by a program and fed to a program, you're better off using protobuf or something like that. In fact, since you're probably using the same language on both ends, why not just write a regular value in your language?

This probably sounds like a strawman, but it's not. It's how a lot of e.g. Python projects are configured - the "config" file is just a normal bit of code that gets run to produce a value. Unless you're using a programming language that absolutely sucks at expressing plain values (e.g. C or Java), it's much better than separate config files, IMO.
That won't work. Clicks are not the currency of digital ads, if everyone does this, it's an easy baseline to account for and eliminate the noise. It's a "cute" idea though that's not even a little bit disruptive.
ctrl+c, ctrl+v
Discovering Value – How SCRUM-Project-thinking causes valueless feature mills