skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an amazing story but I believe it is a coincidence that you just happened to notice more than non-coincidences.

I say this not because I am especially skeptic or rational, I say this because a similar thing happened to me yet I know for a fact that it was a coincidence. It feels unbelievable yet 1/1000 events happen every now and then. All in all, if Facebook knew you were a technical person it’s not unlikely that an ad for a water proof usb stick would be relevant to you.
Their wikipedia has a long list of incidents that I won't relist but it's not a straw man to discuss the credibility of a source.
It's because Airbnb (ab)use the same kind of hole in the law as Uber does. Hotels have to follow more rules and can't build a room in random buildings that happen to be available but build lots of rooms in huge buildings. The problem isn't hotels but that Airbnb isn't seen as hotels as they should be. Luckily some cities are waking up and stopping the abuse.
The kind of properties which are under debate are not detached farms in the countryside. They’re apartments with lots of close neighbours typically. Things are very close-nit in Europe. There are popular tv comedies about the trials and tribulations of living in apartments in European cities. Community living is taken very (some would say way too) seriously in many European countries.

Honestly it’s very easy to find explanations of the problems from different perspectives if you google. (I’m on mobile)
why use a word with a known definition to try to mean the near opposite? its confusing.

if you think the thing sucks, just say it sucks.
Ah, yes, the hedge funds, too. So many evil groups conspiring to ruin your weekend.

What you describe is only profitable if lots of people want to travel to the destination and they can keep the properties busy (it's a lot of work). What I hear is "I don't like to travel as much as other people so I don't want to be inconvenienced by them, and I'd rather they don't get to travel."
Residing isn't the same thing as having different people in and out on a daily basis, with no connection to or accountability to the community and one's neighbors.

There's also just a raw market concern: using housing stock + AirBnB as an investment/storage for wealth has serious effects on the ability of people to live in these communities. The market is amoral; it's up to us to elect leaders who constrain it with rules that reflect our values.
We generally measure the success of news by user engagement, and bad news is often more emotional and engaging.

Perhaps a better metric would be the information content, but that's difficult to measure and most people probably don't care.
Project Veritas has a history of being so wildly deceitful[1] that if they said the sky was blue, I'd want to look outside to check myself first before I believed them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#Content
Interesting article. However, I find some claims regarding Flink to be inaccurate:

> Flink is split into two apis - the datastream api is strongly focused on high-temporal-locality problems and so can't express our running example

While the streaming API doesn't have the relational SQL syntax, it should have all the necessary building blocks to do anything that can be done with the table API.

> The file source appears to load the current contents of the file in a single batch and then ignore any future appends, so it's not usable for testing streaming behavior

The file source can be used for testing streaming behavior, for example by using a directory and using a PROCESS_CONTINUOUSELY watch type. See: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/dev/d...

> Flink also has a 5s trailing watermark, but it doesn't reject any inputs in non-windowed computations.

This is expected, that's how Flink deals with late data by default, so that it doesn't loose any. But it can be done using the Datastream API, afaik. In winodwed computations, allowedLateness(...) can be used to drop late records: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12.... If the computation graph has no windows such as the article example, the low level operation ProcessFunction can be used to access the watermark using timerService.currentWatermark() and to drop late events. Keep in mind though, that this comes at the cost of parallelization as the data stream should be keyed in order to be able to use timers (see for example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47071833/3398493).

Also, it seems very odd to me that a watermark of 5s is used while the expected out-of-orderness is 10s. The watermark is usually set in accordance with the extected out-of-orderness, precisely to avoid consistency issues caused by late data. Why did the author choose to do that?
It could be worse. You could concievably buy Voltaren again soon.

Usually you make a 5-10 year purchase, like a TV or a large kitchen appliance, and they keep showing you ads for the exact same model.
Maybe? Seems like that's assuming a lot about a person's life.
You're giving this troll way too much food.
I miss the days when Google was AND search always and by default.

Now they're terrified of not returning any results. Even when there aren't any results, they return a page full of ads that looks like results - at some point in the last dozen years, the empty "no results found" google page bit the dust.
Flats being rented on AirBnB is definitely competing with long term residents wishing to rent flats.

What is more visible as due to COVID this flats become available for a normal rental.

Obviously AirBnB, booking.com are only one of factors.
Why is a third booster shot bad news? That seems like neutral news and possibly even good news since it means we have a solution to the problem.

Edit: if you’re going to downvote this comment that’s fine but could you do me the courtesy of explaining why? I don’t understand what the flaw is in my reasoning and I am curious to understand it.
Ironically, maybe confirming that people are interesting in those articles, I was curious what you can not do if fully vaccinated. There are two things you can not do according to the CDC:

- Visit indoors, without a mask, with people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19

- Attend medium or large gatherings

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vac...
The definition of what counts as ML/AI can be fuzzy, but I don't think the original PageRank algorithm would qualify as ML/AI under any definition: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
AirBnB is the single biggest external lever on - already short supplied - residential living in most Western cities with tourism, wouldn't you agree?

In a world with 10 years of pretty much global Quantitative Easing policies it's certainly not one company driving the trend here, but if it's a single company who happens to have an outsized negative effect for local residents with quasi institutional, short term rent which outprices any local regular rents.... yeah, I'd say that is an issue very well worth addressing.
Effectively a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26852399
> the amazing CGI::Application framework

Year 2000 called, it wants its webdev paradigm back.
this experiment was created in about three hours of code on one Saturday and another two on Sunday. Before posting here I've cleaned the code a bit and added some icons.

I really don't like the code right now, because it has a lot of if else (i intend to get rid of that) and I also don't like the interactions.

The basic mechanics uses celular automata, where the next state of the simulation is defined by it's previous state plus some rules. To accomplish this, I'm using two maps. I have a branch where I'm using only one map, but I'm still not happy with some aspects of the simulation.

As soon as I have a better code base and better simulations, I'll release the source code on my github.
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I worked at a startup that considered liquid lenses from a French outfit for optical applications back in the early 2010s. Problems with the technology include reliability (not great having fluid near electrical components), repeatability, and focus time. It's also hard to expect that the lens can easily 'snap' to focus, since there will be some play in the polymer / motor drivetrain. Mammalian eyes require a complex biological support system to keep them functional over years and decades. An unfortunate aspect of polymers (like the skin of this lens) is that they do not maintain flexibility in the long term.

Perhaps there's been a leap in the technology, but I'd avoid the first generation if possible, like I do with all newly implemented tech, since I consider the camera a critical function of my smartphone.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26852399
The parents are paying for everything. Food, housing, etc.

To me it seems like this is basically an extreme on a spectrum of people who are struggling. I have always had difficulty socializing and there were years where I lived with my parents and struggled to find an adequate job. For at least two years I had completely given up. And with my poor self-confidence and social skills, I would not often attempt to socialize then or now.

But your income is a huge aspect of your identity in this world. Without any income or a good one, it is going to be hard for anyone to be confident around other people. And with no income for an extended period, that type of shame will make you want to avoid people altogether.

Even the last several years where I have had income from online contract programming, I have basically been a hermit and rarely attempt socializing. I feel that honestly part of it is just that I don't think people are comfortable around me. But a big issue is the poor income and lack of self-confidence that comes with that.

And reinforcing this stuff are my health issues that have caused me years ago to abandon the idea of high-paid stressful jobs. I have not considered a job with a commute in many years.

I feel like what I need is an income about four to six times what seems comfortable for me to maintain. Then I can get out of this financial hole, move back to the United States, pay for good health insurance and hopefully resolve my health issue, and hold my head up high as a property owner.

I am not dependent on other people or totally isolated, but I do avoid socializing. My dream is to design, build, and manufacturer robots, so I am experimenting with computer vision.

What I do not want to do and don't think I could do even if I tried, is a hardcore 9-5 job working for someone else on projects that are a total waste of time. I would rather continue to be poor.

And I will just mention one other thing. Appearance may also factor into this sometimes. Notice that one of the men pictured has mixed blood. That bit of difference that he has could be just one more factor contributing to his isolation. For me, I am quite self-conscious and often am not even sure if my facial asymmetry is in the normal range.
Google does this shit too, to a slightly lesser extent.
It's terrible, but post-purchase advertising is an entire field of advertising, trying to get you to keep thinking about the product, trying to encourage you to re-purchase the product after it runs out, and trying to encourage you to recommend it to others (by keeping it top of mind).

https://www.shopify.com/retail/examples-of-great-post-purcha...
>sex work is NOT real work

What a weird perspective. Do you consider performance music or performance artists to also not do real work? Do you think that successful internet sex workers are putting in less than 40 hours a week? I can't speak for them directly, but I would bet successful sex workers are putting in at least that much if not more time than that per week to ensure their business is successful. In fact I would guess (and I'd love to hear from a professional) that they prob burning the candle if they expect to build their business.

Such a weird perspective to have. What is it that makes sex work not work relative to other kinds of creative/ performance based 'work'? I mean, even a greeter at walmart is putting on a kind of show, at a fundamental level, whats the difference? Is it not enough effort in your perspective? Not enough time per unit effort? Is it that they get paid to much? Too little? In your perspective, what qualifies as 'real' work? Is a lecture at a university 'real' work (trading your time and a perspective, only communicated; nothing materially trades hands) not real work? Is a laborer putting up concrete block not real work (trading their body and their time for money)? Is marketing not real work (you don't create anything)? Is management not real work (you don't explicitly 'make' anything?

Even just in asking the question, it makes me consider that you may have a poor definition of what 'work' is if you don't consider modern sex work as 'work'. I'm interested to hear how you define work.
Highly recommend the "Coronavirus Good News" twitter account

https://twitter.com/Coronavirusgoo1?s=09

It's uk based but a lot of the info it retweets is globally applicable
yes to some places. there was an article on how all of the residential units in the town of Crested Butte, CO, are owned by people who don't line there and the units exist only for renting to tourists at this point.
This is exactly true. I live in one of tourist destination cities. Some property owners in my building tried to make quick bucks in short term rental market. Last summer, police had to show up to calm down British blokes who were playing it a notch too loud. I do not know who cleaned up the puke in the elevator, but hopefully the property owner got hit by a decent bill.

AirBnb is all about making profit by externalitising the cost to someone else.
Well, another approach would be to do some controlled experiments: Pick a selection of somewhat-uncommon products. Get some volunteers to set up Facebook accounts on clean computers and phones with no adblockers. Monitor their incoming advertising messages for 2 weeks.

Then randomly assign the products from the first step to the volunteers, give them information about the product on paper and ask them to hold verbal conversations about such such products.

If they start getting adverts that happen to match the subject of those verbal conversations, something is going on.
Like the previous 20 times it already has?
A PR is roughly the same as a stack of Gerrit CLs.

The difference is that Gerrit tracks the evolution of, and reviews, each individual commit.

With a PR, you lose history when rebasing and all commits have to be approved as a whole.
Yea, I don't see the problem with it unless the person who is doing it wants to change but can't. 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.

How is it much better to slave away at a minimal wage job at a McDonald's or a desk job shuffling papers for 40 years surrounded by people that treat you like shit? (service workers have horror stories to tell about bosses and customers alike).
Have puts on all of the miners and Microstrategy.

Months out, enough time for Bitfinex to get curbstomped by the DOJ, CFTC, or NYAG.

Also enough time for them to expire worthless.
"Why should I get this shot instead of waiting for the one that works?"

Do I really need to clarify that I am not the one asking this question?
very badly, sometimes randomly, magic 8 ball

would not be surprised if some dev somewhere considered naming his/hers first born "/tmp/first_born" until coming up with a better name

we can also add mathematicians and physicists to the group of people that are exceptionaly bad at naming stuff
I really dislike that kind of search because I'm forced to scan the results to see if they really contain what I'm looking for. Try searching "arm" with anything programming related term and count the articles about armchairs, it's infuriating.
They contribute to dearth of social participation, declining population, and I'd reckon are a net drain on the country's productivity.

They're symptomatic of something gone very wrong. Withdrawing from the world for a prolonged period shouldn't be so appealing that an entire social class develops around doing so.

Not to say I don't sympathize, ofc.

The problem does seem somewhat overstated though. Wikipedia says ~400,000 people in a population of 125 million.
What right do you have to use the threat of violence to constrain others with rules using a residential unit peacefully and in accordance with the safety/quiet enjoyment laws that govern normal, safe use of such space?

To believe that you have some right to control the events in the home of another person (that doesn't affect you) is the part that, to me, is entirely amoral. There is no reasonable basis for it, in my view.

Substitute "having boarders" with "having kinky/non-heteronormative sex" or any other thing the neighbors would object to that doesn't affect them and isn't their business to see where I'm coming from.
Wow, this is great.

The fact is can connect to existing nodes also makes it can also be great for operation and administration - instead of building an awkward admin panel, you can just having a collection of scripts.

The Elixir community is insanely productive. Also, the Elixir system is impressively pretty balanced - productivity-wise like Rails, concurrent-wise like Erlang, and continuously brings novel yet practical ideas to life in a robust manner!
Some facts. - I am a professional stuntman

This place never ceases to surprise me.
I believe there’s research in the social sciences that show that social contact and connections have a very positive impact on people’s health.

Of course, such studies measure the average so each individual’s situation may be different. But it’s also not clear to me why it would be different for such large of a group.
For the time scale, I was working for Nokia in 2003 and this was already researched back then.
> it’s a pretty long logical leap to deduce from the fact that they heard a lot of opinions and made a (perhaps incorrect) judgment call that they don’t care about sex trafficking victims.

Before passage: LEO warned lawmakers and those lawmakers minimized and gaslighted their expert concerns - concerns voiced by the exact people in the best possible position to know.

After passage: LEO exampled the harm done by FOSTA/SESTA and how the law was further endangering sex trafficking victims. In response, lawmakers crowed about the success of the law - w/o offering anything at all that might indicate success.

Creating a law that further harms and endagers sex trafficking victims while pretending the opposite - this seems like a fairly stellar example of not caring about the well being of sex trafficking victims.
Superior location? That’s a new one for me. That’s what I always compromised on knowing that there was more space, cheaper etc. Lucky you!
It's good to see a country finally take a firm stance against global warming.
Sounds like a job for Ada
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Woh. This is a really fantastic post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts/knowledge.

What's the name of your book that you published in November?
I drank very little soda as a kid. Once I got to college, though, I felt like I needed to be a cool hacker dude, and that included lots and lots of Mountain Dew. I'm on to Coke Zero these days, and cutting that out too, but I've got no one to blame but myself for my soda habit.
Please don't impute bad faith on the part of others.
Cities, or rather city governments represents their inhabitants, and inhabitants are negatively affected by having lots of short term rentals as neighbours, that is why.

If there is a big market for totally deregulated cities, I'm all for some cities choose to make residential areas free-for-all. But I certainly wouldn't want to move to a place like that.
People in the comments seem to be oversimplifying this, as the question itself is complex and interesting.

Tourism can decrease housing supply, making is less affordable for long-term tenants. At the same time it can also increases city and local business revenues. This is a tradeoff that cities should consider and decide where they want to stand.

Of course if you have unbounded house construction policy, than tourism would not effect long-term housing prices much (Though it can impact price distribution in terms of location). 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.

On the other hand, short-term housing, especially through things like Airbnb, can often be offered by people who just have a spare room and who otherwise would not bother renting it out. Allocating this type of housing to tourists might not hurt the housing market by a lot. (Though I do wonder what percentage of Airbnbs actually have such a situation)
> If all of their skilled engineers leave, the bad company cannot run only on the basis of MBAs juggling balance sheets.

The MBAs can just outsource the work.
I’m not sure whether that would be wise to do for WP. It will show that WP can and is willing to basically push any update to sites running WP just to further a cause of the company.

Mweh if it doesn’t break anything. But terrible if it breaks something.
airbnb is synonymous with short term tourist rental, which if unregulated leads to dissolution of whole neighborhoods, which get converted into defacto hotels with total disregard of regulation and zoning. those places become unlivable for long term residents. there's a reason hotels are hotels and not just apartments in some building. note i've never said cheap: in my city, airbnbs and hotels are about the same price in similar locations.

if you think of all the ways you could make airbnb service better, you end up with a hotel, basically.
I don’t think the timing allows this
Linking to a Wikipedia article doesn't seem like a great way to convey an accusation, especially when you don't want to address the content.

I suppose you don't want to also link to the defamation lawsuit Project Veritas recently won against The New York Times.

Concerning the actual content, I don't see how you can chalk this up to selective editing, the guy goes on for quite a while describing CNN's tactics.

What context do you think was left out?
Here in Brazil the pandemic is currently in the worst phase it has ever been, with no signs of improving in the near future.

I'm glad that other countries can have good news to share but unfortunately that is certainly not the case here.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted for this. AirBnb's valuation is basically extracted from society by pocketing the difference to anyone needing to follow regulations.

AirBnB does not create value, it extracts it from communities. It's not the kind of startup anyone should be cheering on
This has Big Hikikomori written all over it.
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That residential property is increasingly bought as investment by both small and large players and this is one of the factors driving prices up is a fact. See for example Figure 1.3 here [open access]

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-11674-3_...
Good man. I really appreciate it :)
Be interested in any thoughts you have. I don't mind if you are critical. And hope you enjoy it ^^