skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say, I think that vaccine advocates are making a tactical mistake by characterising those who do not like or do not want the vaccine (and say so) as "fake news", "designed to look plausible", and so on. They have a different view to you and people can have differing views without either of them having hidden agendas, being evil etc.

Before you ask, I'm keen on vaccines (and have had AZ), but I'm an old git, it makes sense for me. Younger people could make a valid different choice, and others would be wise to respect that choice.
Property rights only exist in the first place in the form of threat of violence to constraint others. It's a societal compact that comes with responsibilities, not just rights. The fact that it exists only as the threat of violence is incidentally why the person who invented libertarianism - Joseph Dejacque - opposed property rights, and cited Proudhon's famous "property is theft" in the letter that first set out libertarianism as a political ideology.

It then gets comical when people try to use the "threat of violence" right libertarian mantra in defence of property.

If this use did not impact neighbours, I'd be entirely with you, but it does affect neighbours. You're arguing you should have a right to harm others, while they should have no recourse.
The company has the option of doing it voluntarily, or the regulator can start the process of forcing a recall.

Obviously there is less red tape required to formally ask a company to consider a recall then there is in issuing an involuntary one.

And yeah, there frequently are not legally binding regulations in many areas of product safety, because the CPSC is required to defer to industry creating its own voluntary standards. Only if the industry refuses to create good enough voluntary standards, or too many companies fail to comply and create safety issues can the CPSC create mandatory standards.

Other regulators may not be as constrained here, but there is still a general culture of “government telling us what to do”=bad, so better for industries to get together and tell themselves what to do. Industry created standards can often update faster to changes in the risk landscape than bureaucrats can anyway.
Not just zoning, AirBnBs (at least in the US, and I would assume the same is true elsewhere) often evade taxes, facility safety requirements, and other requirements generally applicable to commercial short-term rentals. As a result, on the things outside of those requirements, they can offer more at the same price.
This treatment of secondary currencies (regular ones included) is not universal across the world.
SaaS idea: a tool that monitors your advertising profile (keys, whatever you want to call it) and gives you the same information that your browser+adtech markets are auctioning about you. Also allows you to delete keys you don't want to share.
Many reasons. To minimize the chances our health care system is overrun and new mutations don’t emerge it’s beneficial to maximize public immunity to as many variants as we can as early as possible. Additionally the booster shot may come in the form of a third dose anyway, so there may be no personal benefit to waiting either.
In the age of social media, the loudest voices are frequently intolerant minorities who've virtue-spiraled themselves into extreme positions. The current opposition to FLoC is a great example of this phenomenon in action.
Google and Facebook both have in-store conversion tracking:
https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6100636?hl=en-G...

https://en-gb.facebook.com/business/help/1150627594978290

Wouldn’t be surprised if this data is used to refine which ad these platforms should show you.
Web devs learned how to program, coal miners didn't.
real estate has always been an asset class, nothing evil there. it's just a fact.
The key is that soda and juice both contain way more sugar than you should be consuming regularly. 1 can of Coke contains roughly 140 calories of sugar which is roughly 100% of your daily recommended sugar according to the American Heart Association. (a can of orange juice is 160, though some weird regulation means they don't have to count it as sugar). As such it is pretty much impossible to have a healthy diet that involves regular consumption of soft drinks. Once a week or so is OK, but more than that is probably bad. (unless you are exercising for more than 3 hours a day)
Partially AirBnB can be blamed. But one needs to also point to the elephant in the room, inflation.

Eurozone and US Central Bank policies are more-or-less "Cash is Trash" so markets react by throwing their savings at literally any asset that can, at least in theory, preserve value, including real estate.
Poor families can already not really afford to live in the city where they work as cleaning staff, in retail, as handymen, etc. These people keep the city running, not the AirBnB landlords or hedge funds.
The thing is though, the reason a place is a tourist destination is because it is special in some way. It’s appropriate for the government of a tourist-driven economy to act to preserve that specialness. Sometimes that means less tourists but higher revenue per tourist.
I live in this neighborhood and it's easy to see how you could get a Tesla up to high speed and quickly encounter a tight turn. The entire area is full of that kind of layout. It's all long roads with curves around trees.
The apartment I'm renting would definitely be on AirBNB if it weren't for the pandemic. The owner told me that. Not a prime location, but access to multiple public transport options right across the street.
Hester Ford, oldest living American, has died at 116
Negatively affected how?

If it's noise, there are already rules and enforcement mechanisms for noise that can be used.
yes! unless you can call a 1 hour commute into the city still living in the same city.
It's very hard to glean your point from this off-hand statement. I can imagine a very wide range of things you're trying to communicate but unless I delve into your post history then I'm simply guessing.
I once stayed in a AirBnB in one of the largest international cities in the world. Every room in the apartment was converted into an AirBnB rental, and the listing didn't make it apparent that this was the living arrangement at all.

There were 12+ people staying there in an apartment meant for 2 - 4 people at most. And that was just one apartment in the building, I assume more apartments were converted in a similar fashion because that's easy money.

They certainly weren't up to fire code. There weren't any emergency lights that would go on during an emergency and mark the fire exits, because there were no fire exits. In the event of a fire, panicked people would fall all over themselves in the dark as they all scrambled to the only exit, and the mass of people would most likely block it.

That's how they're able to give "better value" for the same price or less.
I didn't expect this, the security argument invalidates 99% of cryptocurrencies and leaves Ethereum and Bitcoin as the only winners. Bitcoin is technologically unimpressive and Ethereum is quite successful technologically but it is having scaling problems.

You know, this is quite ironic because cryptocurrencies are reaching a dead end, through their own flaws.
I’d imagine that scaling feeling a bit large for many on HN, that’s the resolution Apple ships at 27”. But if you like it that’s great!
I had a wireless USB hub from iogear. I thought it was awesome; I could put my printer on the other side of my apartment. The speed was slow so anything that depended on speed was not great, like a flash disk, although it did work.

The worst part was the drivers. Instead of something totally invisible, it required the installation of these ugly drivers. They were written by a company other than the manufacturer and were never maintained. They required an old version of windows. Eventually I ran it in a VM and shared the printer on the network. When I finally got a wifi printer, I no longer had any use for the thing.

I was so excited for the standard and for devices to be native wireless USB and to have built on drivers on all operating systems. Searching for updates or new products using the standard was very hard because "wireless usb" just turned up wifi dongles.
I noticed this too, because it seemed to be a common theme for many of the men, and also, pretty relatable. Who doesn't think of themselves as capable of "extraordinary things"?

If they could recontextualize failure as adversity: a key part of learning, and making progress, the failure could build resilience instead of compounding to a point where they feel like they are better off giving up and isolating.
If those are the only things that makes someone happy (it's not necessarily; all people are different, but let's say those are the basic needs at work here), and they aren't getting either of those things, then they can either give up become shut-ins and stay on that trajectory, or they can do everything they can to figure out how become the kind of person they want to be, or at least become a happier or wiser person. Those are the options, perpetually keep trying to become a better version of one's self more capable of happiness (and maybe failing, and probably having some miserable experiences on the way), or give up (and definitely fail, 100% of the time, right out of the gate). Or suicide I guess, but giving up is basically suicide with an exceptionally long and pointless epilogue.

Once somebody gives up, from that point on they are no longer victims but the cause of their own problems. It sucks and it's not fair, but adult life can really suck and is definitely not fair. We only get one shot at it so might as well go out trying to do best we can.
so, aren't tesla coming with an attention system and aren't tesla autopilots allowed on the pubblic road to the condition that a driver is always attentive?

I'd say there have been enough death from inattentive drivers and it's about time the legislators and licensing bodies start looking into the issue.
What's to say Chrome will actually respect the opt-out headers in the first place? It could easily go like the DNT-headers, which was just interpreted as a signal to please-track-harder.
Hey that's cool. I appreciate your feedback. I'm no expert but others have said they really like it.
Maybe it's subjective? I've no idea tbh.
All valid suggestions, but at the same time the burden of this ought not to fall on the consumer. Additionally, even though a small number of individuals may have the motivation and technical ability to opt out of everything, they're still trapped by the network effect of everyone else doing it.
> These type of people has always existed, they used to be secluded at a monastery and then it was socially acceptable for them to be isolated all of their lives doing little or nothing, reading and "praying" and "meditating" all day.

Monks are not idle.

Monastic life involves significant amounts of manual labor and service work. There is no comparison.
I’m glad the article mostly restrains itself from the “wacky Japan” angle, and states pretty flat out that a “rental sister” is pretty analogous to the role of a social worker.

It’s weird that people marvel over “host” and “hostess” clubs in Japan, when I know of many restaurants in the US and Canada, where the main draw is that a pretty girl/guy will be nice to you for your time there. Is it the exact same thing? No. But it’s clearly serving the same niche.

The difference seems to be that in Japan, the exchange of social services (in the broadest sense) are pretty direct and straightforward. In the west, there’s a taboo about paying for social benefits, so people have to pretend they actually want to spend $20 on a crappy burger that happens to be served by an attractive woman.
Maybe fire departments will need to start dispatching liquid nitrogen tankers to Tesla fires now.
You know, on the other hand, you're calling this person a troll.

I prefer to listen to what they have to say, especially if it means that I have a chance to make my future writing better in some way. (And I already have one concrete issue that I've remembered and passed on to the people that I've been working on my book with, so it's a net win for me.)
What's with news stories without any visuals? It's a story about cameras, lenses and pictures without any pictures!
Yes, even though RT2 had better graphics, it didn’t capture the simplistic feel of the original.
> Just admit that you don't want to share your neighborhood with tourists.

I do not mind sharing neighborhood with tourists. I'm happy to have a hotel across the street, in fact I had 2 hotels within 50m of my last place and I didn't mind it, even if it was occasionally quite noisy in the evenings.

What I do not want to share with tourists is the floor in the residential building where I live, and that's a big difference.
I've been playing around with some of these ideas for Python notebooks.

https://github.com/srush/streambook

This is a proof of concept that combines Jupytext for markdown readable notebooks with Streamlit for in-order execution+caching. More difficult to get some of the more advanced features of Pluto / Livebook due to Python state management.

Curious to hear any thoughts.
We’re Finally Getting a Picture of How Dangerous PPE Is for Wildlife
Imagine than 10 years ago we had couchsurfing trying to promote hosting visitors free of charge. Adding a fee per night triggered a change in the entire real estate market.
The "market" sometimes drops incredibly cancerous waste chemicals in the water supply.
The Fed – Beige Book – April 14, 2021
EU countries have a history of this kind of clumsy intervention in the market.

The market is how we as a society value collectively decide which things are more valuable than others. If hosting on Airbnb is more profitable than traditional rental in a given market, that means that Airbnb is the more valuable use of limited land and building space. Who are these anti-Airbnb activists to decide that they know better than the market what's important?

Our prosperity as a society depends on allocating scarce resources to their "highest and best" uses. Banning economic activity on the grounds of badfeels makes us all worse off.
Before Airbnb, your neighbour couldn't just start renting out (a part of) their house to tourists. In many European cities, and I imagine other places too, zoning laws and permits were in place that prevented that from happening. Then Airbnb came along and disrupted the market by rewriting the rules, or rather selectively forgetting about some of them.

This has a real impact on the people that live in those cities. Without it, there would still have been plenty of people that wanted to travel to these places, but without part of the housing supply meant for citizens going to tourism, the price of a room would simply go up.
True. However, this headline mentions the key detail of the tragedy.
The blog is generated by Hugo and rsynced to NFS. It is a static website.
The issue is always a shortage of housing caused by zoning. Case closed. But let's pretend for some reason we can't build.

As you say, there are two housing supplies in a city. One for long term residents and one for short term residents.

The larger the ratio of short term supply to long term supply, the lower the prices and the more people will have an opportunity to visit the city, while prices will rise for property overall (assuming the city refuses to build). The more you constrict the supply, you start pricing out visitors from poorer areas who could never afford to live in that city, even if short term housing was banned altogether.

Everyone wants to use an example to show how your policy helps the little guy, but the reality is that there are winners and losers on both sides. Arguably, the poorest are those who could never afford to live in the idyllic tourist hotspot in the first place, so you don't want them to ever get a chance to see it? The people making the biggest fuss about AirBnB always seem to be middle class NIMBY's.
What do you mean when you say, "treating developers like loot crates?"

I understand your point that developer effort is valuable and should be directed toward features that have impact on the business and customers, but I don't see how that relates to the loot crate analogy.

Is this about objectifying people? Is it about gambling related mechanics? I'm honestly very confused.
I've yet to see the city-level arguments against AirBnB that aren't simple money grabs by the local tax authorities, or protectionist nonsense for the large hotel businesses (which reduces back to same).

Both of the cities in which I live are huge tourist destinations and maybe the harm you are describing is totally invisible or something, but I haven't seen or experienced it, or known anyone else who has, despite living in the ground-zero neighborhoods for such things.

I certainly don't believe anyone has a right to infringe upon the quiet enjoyment of anyone else at home.
Some social media is interested in my real identity. Reddit, and to some extend twitter is not. Reddit doesn't even care if you have multiple accounts, as long as it is not to evade bans.

Bankers are only interested in my actual identity because the government force them to.

Amazon is only interested in my identity to sell me stuff.
> FTP is clearly a protocol made for command-line comfort

GUIs did not exist when FTP was made. Frankly, the concept of user accounts didn't either, so the anonymous access hack was a product of its time and not an intentional design decision.

I am confused though, because FTP being a protocol means it is fairly standardized in terms of commands and expected output right? Are there FTP servers that spat out wildly different responses to typical commands? Because if so, SMTP/POP3 should suffer from the same thing, but I don't recall many email client developers complaining about it.
The fact that X is not the only issue does not mean X is not an issue at all.
Rust. The documentation is incredible.
It is true that the Airbnb needs to be in a place people want to travel to. But a lot of people want to travel to a lot of places – almost any city is included in this criteria.

It is a lot of work, but not for the property owner if you just hire someone to manage the property. Short term rentals are far more profitable than long term rentals (even though most of it is adjusting for risk, for both vacancy and property damage).

It is a serious problem, especially in the current housing market, that people with marginally more access to capital are able to buy investment properties and take priority over people looking to buy their primary residence. Sellers are incentivized to take cash offers instead of financed ones.
> if it's so bad, why does it work?

As a currency? It doesn't. Do people actually think that Bitcoin is succeeding as a currency right now? If you want to talk about the market deeming something sufficient, the market has broadly, almost universally decided that credit cards are preferable to cryptocurrency.

As a speculative investment? Because of what I said in my last paragraph.

> chaumian coinjoin

I've seen multiple vulnerabilities pop up with coinjoin wallets, plus the process costs extra money to do, plus it's not network-wide so the coins involved can still be blocked from future transactions. I don't understand why a community would go down that route when solutions like zero-knowledge proofs already exist and have a better track record. I mean, that's supposedly the whole thing with Bitcoin, right? Stability and security?

The single advantage that coinjoins have is that they don't require iterating on Bitcoin itself, which the community seems to be desperate to avoid. This is something that pops up a lot with Bitcoin-centered "solutions". We have coinjoin, because having a coin with real privacy guarantees would require iterating on Bitcoin and we can't have that. We have the lightning network (which also has serious privacy problems) because building a completely separate layer that operates off of the blockchain is preferable to the community over fixing the problems with transaction delays and fees in the coin itself.
I've always wondered if you were a recluse but had an excellent diet/fitness routine that the social contact benefits for health would not matter anymore. It's actually the best possible scenario for getting extremely fit because you don't have a job or social obligations.
Alot of babies saw an oppurtunity to gain power and took it.
> Perhaps a better metric would be the information content,

Celebrity gossip tabloids!
Housing would become more affordable if you let people build more of it. Do EU city centers need to preserve every brick on every 400 year old horse shack?
Probably a good idea to be skeptical of everything you read. But often that’s not possible.
The surveillance companies have started us down the path of bad faith by nonconsentually tracking us via protocol and implementation bugs that leak identifying information. IMO Firefox et al need to keep working towards a better-specified JS runtime without these security vulns, so that when the layperson complains about big tech surveillance an easy answer is "Stop using Chrome".
Graydon Hoare is a OCaml developer.

Graydon Hoare mentions Rust as linear ML in C++ clothing.

https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/1154476823557754880

I empathized the can't deny relationship between Rust and FP. It doesn't means Rust is a pure FP language. I always said same thing about C++ templates too.
Absolutely true.

At the same time I've noticed I'm much hungrier if I don't exercise. And exercise displaces time I could be eating. So, at least for me, it seems to have an indirect impact on weight loss.
Why 100% renewables? Biofuel is renewable but also emits lots of carbon and air pollution. Nuclear is not considered renewable but is low carbon and clean air. Seems like the the term allows undue wiggle room. Might want to require that it be generated with energy that emits less than 50 gCO2-eq/kWh on a lifecycle basis or something more specific.
You totally can. I have seen people living in them for months. To learn a language, or in party hostels to enjoy the summer. When I was young spending a few weeks in a hostel was my favorite way to spend time between house hunting in a new city.
Back in the 1970s, I heard a story (from my dad, a USAF officer) about a young officer in a foreign air force, from a wealthy family, who was in U.S. pilot training in San Antonio. Supposedly the young gentleman bought a tricked-out van, with a bar and a bed and everything. He got onto the freeway, put the van on cruise control, and went into the back to mix a drink. Fortunately, no one else was injured in the ensuing crash that killed him. (I have no idea whether the story is true and am disinclined to research it.)
Or they will attempt to pass on the cost to EV manufacturers and/or owners.
Must be a conspiracy.
> But such policy might be impossible in historical city centers such as Paris where buildings have historical value, and are probably one of the reasons for tourism in the first place.

How many percent of buildings have any significant historical value? Maybe 2%?
There are a several studies published for different countries.

US: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-economic-costs-and-benef...

US: https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-when-airbnb-listings-in-a-c...

Barcelona: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009411902...

Berlin: https://www.iamexpat.de/housing/real-estate-news/study-airbn...