skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've figured out what bothers me about this article. I have nothing against refusing to work for a company that is in a business you don't approve of, but imagine for a moment what happens if this movement actually succeeded in depriving government policies they don't like of technical support. What do you think anybody who is not a programmer would think?

In case you're wondering, think about how non-Trump supporters felt when they learned that Twitter and Facebook had more power to communicate with the public than the President of the United States. Even left-of-center figures like the current President of Mexico (no Trump fan) found that disquieting.

If you don't like a government policy, sure, you have the right to not work for a company that's enforcing it. But, on the off chance that something like a general strike of programmers was able to veto government policies, don't expect those who were previously in favor of those policies to meekly decide that the programmers are in charge now. More likely, it will add to an already growing sense among all the non-programmers, that a fairly arrogant and not especially socially adept tech elite is trying to decide government policy instead of allowing elected officials to do it.

Fortunately, this particular movement probably has little chance of achieving its aims. Good. If you want to change government policy, in a democracy, you should start with the assumption that the way to do that is to convince a majority of the voters that it needs to be changed.
Yes please. I'm tired of not being able to afford living in my own city.
As far as I'm aware, it's flawed in the same way as the PHP popularity stat: domains that report it in an HTTP header. I don't know about you, but I don't put a header advertising that I built a site with Python and Flask or whatever.
EU cities will do absolutely anything to lower housing prices except build more housing. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en...
Is it really because of AirBnB?
"According to him, he is a great man and could do extraordinary things, but he does not always try his best"

This is right here probably a major explanation for the whole phenomena. I have seen this exact attitude with individuals who are in their 30s and living with their parents. Something in their upbringing gave them this immense sense of worth but the world isn't rewarding them for the little work they do as much as they think it's worth.

So, since their whole worldview cannot be reconciled with how they are treated outside their family, it makes sense to retreat to that very same safe place as before.

He is right he could do extraordinary things, but first he needs to work hard to get there.
If there's a ton of dedicated circuits highly optimized for each specific task, then I don't know why there'd be 10+ of them per task as OP claims. :)
We will fix on our own planet faster and better by also learning how to go beyond it. The lessons we learn and the technology we develop by doing so will help those on Earth. For this reason, it makes sense to allocate a small percentage of our resources each year towards these efforts.
Quick scan, seems like the kind of thing I would like to use - as putting bounties on issues and putting up money for them is great. The ability to crowd source this is even better.

However as rysolv is right now, the first two lines keep me glued, the third line:
"Import an issue from Github that you think needs more attention. This can be one of your issues, or from a project you support."

I'm lost.

I start to scroll a bit.. the next section with pics - I have to squint to try to see what they are about.. I see the text to the left is talking about github this and language specific to git.. so it's not for me.

I've been publishing web sites since around 2003, I do ftp, cpanel, directadmin, plesk, some linuxes stuff, php.. been modding wordpress sites since it first cam out, css..
But I don't git (yet)..

I have hit github hundreds of times since so many people link to stuff there - and I eventually figured out how to download a package from there a couple times - but the layout makes me want to pull my hair out, and how it really works I don't know yet - and me wanting to give money to developers shouldn't be impeded by me now understanding git terminology and navigation.

I was able to quickly see a list of stuff on bountysource some years ago - and click to support issues presented there - and add some text and all that - and I think anyone without developer experience could chip in the same way.

I'll eventually learn git,and hopefully find a way to skin it and remove the big box at the top begging me to sign up and probably enjoy how great it is one day - since everyone seems to like it - but I'm in no hurry, and I'm super busy already.

So maybe it's a great presentation for those who know git on site and don't struggle to understand push, pull, issues, branches.. I still don't understand why some let me download a zip in a click and others have me looking for tabs -

anyway - I'd maybe make the front page you have now as a how-to for developers looking to get paid to see how it works - and make a different how-to for people that want to get shit done and have some cash to throw at issues.

There are plenty of people who have some dough to spend, and want features for apps, and have less tech experience than I have. I'd suggest a list of popular feature request, an easy way to search for feature requests other have posted.. and at the end of the search page a "new issue creator" (dang that git language sneaking in, perhaps "post a new..bug fix. feature request.." and have the search term they just used already filled out for the title..

then they could just add a few more details, hit a check box, and put in their email for confirmation..

or something like that.
Better make sure your pipe does not have a welded seam or you're going to be in for a surprise. The proper name I think is 'technical tubing'.
I have seen techies use carbon ads [0]. You can also try buysellads [1]

[0] https://www.carbonads.net/

[1] https://www.buysellads.com/
That'd be it. There was an entire dimension going on there I was unaware of the ranked choice. I was thinking FPTP. Thank you for the reference.

So there is no general 'nay' vote on a proposal except to vote it at a lower rank than the default option? I think I get it now.

I'm actually kind of glad most people don't want to make any statement at all. It isn't really something tht should matter. Beyond my vocal opposition to lending any credibility to the original smear with regards to RMS, I'm kind of in the camp we should all just move on. Most of FSF's insiders that have a problem with him have more than enough points actually relevant to his missing opportunities to make a worthwhile push at ousting him without relying on controversy and lies, but they'd also have to defend it from an equal playing field then. LLVM, GPL issues, etc... Though even looking into the LLVM controversy, I can still see the wisdom in not accepting it and keeping GCC monolithic after having come across a few oldtimers who were there back when proprietary everything was the norm.

If someone is to be dismissed, let it be on technical merits. Not some tabloid smear.
Why stop at COVID? If you watch the news you probably think that America is either becoming a communist country or about to be overrun by fascists.
List of Contaminated Cell Lines
> Anyone looking for cheap travel would be making a mistake if they're using Airbnb IME.

Can you stay an entire month at a hostel? Usually not. It's also the end of the spectrum in terms of privacy, although there is couch surfing also.
Paris isn't making it's money from tourism, just like NY. There are other industries and inhabitants that the get displaced from the city if there's less rental property available.

Tourism isn't a particularly profitable industry anyway.
They probably meant the Mediterranean part of France (Marseille, Montpellier, etc), but yeah, that comparison seems a bit odd to me too.
> Many cell lines that are widely used for biomedical research have been overgrown by other, more aggressive cells. For example, supposed thyroid lines were actually melanoma cells, supposed prostate tissue was actually bladder cancer, and supposed normal uterine cultures were actually breast cancer.

(...)

> Contaminated cell lines have been extensively used in research without knowledge of their true character. For example, most if not all research on the endothelium ECV-304 or the megakaryocyte DAMI cell lines has in reality been conducted on bladder carcinoma and erythroleukemia cells, respectively. Thus, all research on endothelium- or megakaryocyte-specific functions utilizing these cell lines has turned out to be misguided, serving more of a warning example.
TIL, I don’t have a job? Guess it’s an Office Space situation. Better get my own stapler.
Yeah you do realise that most people are not techbros with 100+ salary and are affected by people like you and in some cases have no places to live becasue of airbnb taking flats from regular city dwellers?
Maybe think about why people call you a rape apologist.

You are not technically wrong but the context in which you present this makes it very tacky.

We can always talk about corner cases and what not but in a civilized society always ensuring the consent of both parties to the fullest extend is a reasonable stance to take. And yes, violating this rule and failing to acquire to get consent from the other party is a form of violence.
You can chuck the same hook (as seen in the original link) into your theme's functions.php file. Or make your own plugin to hold miscellany.
Whether you like it or not, the world is becoming more connected and global. If you don't like that, don't pretend that it's one company ruining the world for you. Just admit that you don't want to share your neighborhood with tourists.
Let's assume that this is true and there is a way to leverage waste heat from mining perfectly. This would reduce the cost of mining and the savings can be invested into more mining.
I posit there is a difference between the safety of millions of people and the functionality of my stupid website.
Why should cities have any authority to tell people what they are or aren't allowed to do in their own, paid-for apartments?

This seems like the worst kind of "because we can" meddling.

I could imagine if, say, someone were running a call center or mini-factory in their home; there is an argument (although one I do not make) for zoning. Simply using a residential unit or building for residing by people, however, shouldn't be any business of anyone but the people so residing or the people who own/rent the space.
Which cities are forbidding new housing? There are new buildings being built in my city all the time, while (and probably because) property prices are skyrocketing.

I would appreciate some references.
I hesitate to admit this, because it makes me look stupid but you are right.

I should remember to use the reader mode more often.
The last few times I went to Europe, my Europe-based GF made arrangements for our accommodations, and it was always AirBNB that she booked without knowing that she was doing so; many European AirBNB hosts apparently also book through other sites with "hotel" in the name. Regardless, they were far superior in quality to the hotel rooms we had shared, superior also in location, and equal if not superior in price. That makes me wonder why hotels offer much smaller rooms with fewer amenities for the same price. AirBNB only works because of that discrepancy—if hotels gave better value for the same price, people would prefer hotels.
I've had the book reviewed and edited by several people (mentioned in the front matter), and you're not the first person to complain about the long-winded style. This likely means that we collectively screwed up with regard to the English layer of the book.

Thanks for the feedback; I'll let my reviewers/editors know, get this fixed in the second edition, avoid doing that in my future writing.
> TechDirt is a SELF-PROCLAIMED rumor mill.

I think you may be confused. The articles' consistent and well done sourcing is a solid opposite of rumor-mill behavior.

> It is not a reputable source for anything and the owners make no qualms about it.

Obviously not true as even a casual read will attest. As evidence I offer the site, in partial or it's entirety.
Yeah, I feel like the product side of enterprise software involves lots of box-ticking features for someone with purchasing authority. The rest is driven by timing, sales, and support contracts.
How very American. Sex? Oh no! Weapon rights for extremists? Oh yes!
While this is indeed a possibility, your certitude is unwarranted.
Brief photo theory interlude: beware of rhetoric about photographs "revealing" or "exploring" things. These photographs are telling a story, and have all the subjectivities and editing that we take for granted in written works. They are not empirical evidence, they are works made to represent and persuade.

When you see something framed this way, proceed skeptically!
If the computation had utility then it would be predictable.

Think of calculating digits of Pi. You can calculate the digits ahead of time and stockpile them, you can use your stockpile to do a 51% attack.
Have you spoke with someone about it? IOS and Android can easily analyze what you say and send relevant keywords home. This is very evil genius in a way that they do not send your voice feed neither your full sentences but only keywords that the law describe as "metatags" that courts found no to be an abuse of your 4A in the past.

In fact, you didn't even have to be on the phone. You could just come home and told you wife what you bough. That would be enough to send keywords and know what you maybe interested in. I know for fact my cable box (Spectrum) is listening and analyzing to my conversations. We used to talk with my wife about the most crazies stuff and less than 48 hours, Spectrum TV, Sling and YouTube would inject relevant ads. Some were extremely home made and amateurish but always spot on.

Do an experiment in home. Talk about something you dont have or is irrelevant to you. For example if you have no kids start talking about them. Use keywords like "our first child", "baby sitting", "hospital", "giving birth", "baby shower", I bet you less than 48 hours later your TV will be interrupting you with ads related to baby products; ads you have never seen before.
I don't know, insofar as I don't have a view of who does what with each housing unit in the city, but I'd imagine to a large degree yes.
I think there's some confusion over whether the term fit means just attaining an ideal body weight or also having a lean and muscular appearance. The latter isn't so easy to achieve through just walking and diet, but many people are only interested in the former.

Whatever your goals, it's hard to go wrong with a mix of weight training, cardio/walking and eating right.
How many van-lifers have small children?

Also, it seems to me that AirBnB has democratized micro hotels at the cost of unattainable housing for would be residents. I feel conflicted using the service the more I see its impact.
> if supply is restricted. Demand goes down

Luxury goods can behave oddly, but in general demand is independent of supply. Restricting supply causes prices to rise, which lowers demand (at that high price). The underlying demand (at the lower price) remains constant.
>Maybe I should just go back to buying everything with cash

You should.
Sounds like you read Skin in the game :P
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075HYVP7C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
The CPSC can initiate Involuntary recalls, but they always try to negotiate voluntary recalls first. Involuntary recalls always get right leaning individuals to start screening about governmental overreach, and to start looking at how to kill off the the CPSC. So it is very much preferred to try to get companies to agree to voluntary recalls.

As a result of that, and the additional red tape needed to issue an involuntary recall, the latter are very infrequent.

Normally, this is in the company’s interests too, since refusing to issue a suggested recall can make the company look bad too, since it can look like the company not taking safety seriously.

On the pure regulatory side, the CPSC can issue safety standards, but basically has to give industry a chance to first develop voluntary safety standards. If the industry does so, and the CPSC believes compliance will be high enough, then it cannot create its own standard.

Thieve is an implication that if the industry created standard is good enough, but companies don’t comply, the CPSC should create a mandatory standard that requires products provide safety equivalent or better then said voluntary standard.

Only when industry refuses to create standards sufficient to address safety concerns is the CPSC supposed to create its own out of whole cloth. Obviously, just the threat of doing so frequently gets the industry to create or update its own voluntary standards.
I am happily admitting that! Though strictly speaking I have no problem with tourists (except hen parties/stag parties), I have problem with city spending more effort on keeping tourists happy than residents happy.

And for example refusing to fix sidewalks and having funds to advertise city as a tourism destination.

While hotels take over local cinemas, shops, apartments, restaurants and other objects used by local residents.

Airbnb and similar is making it more problematic - as something that was constructed as apartments may easily turn into a de facto hotel.

What is especially irritating for real residents in the same building.
I reject your theory. I think issues with housing come from the inability of cities to build more housing, the lack of rent-controlled places, and investors who buy housing and do not rent the place out. On the other hand people travelling with AirBnB are much much much more prone to visit the small businesses in the district and the city, eat out, etc.
> Something in their upbringing gave them this immense sense of worth

Is there an abundance of this in Japanese culture that I wasn't aware of?
The old news catechism applies:

Bad news is good news.

Good news in no news.

No news is bad news.
> How many van-lifers have small children?

How is this relevant? Not everyone wants children
most of us also dont want home prices driven up by hedge funds and 2nd/3rd/4th mortgagers buying a house just to airbnb
I'm not so sure about that. I think most people won't continue reading a book that they don't like after the first few minutes while taking the description/summary into account. It would have to be well recommended for me to consider that.

I think fiction is going to move more and more towards the web novel model, where extremely long stories are published on a chapter by chapter basis. It has a far higher chance of attracting new readers, because new stuff is constantly happening surrounding the work.
GitHub Actions actually requires you to explicitly pass secrets to individual steps. If you're using GitHub Actions, what got leaked was the commit metadata, and the codecov token itself. Unless you manually passed the entire environment to the codecov step, that is.
Incredible, and what a great write-up. I think that's the front-runner at the moment :)

Edit: addendum:

To correct my own comment: I guess technically this doesn't pass the "without any other bugreports" criteria, so it's in the same category as the Mozilla issue report, and perhaps the sort algorithm is the front-runner.

Perhaps it'd be possible to add some kind of focusing criteria around the 'size' of the module/component - since any large enough codebase is - at least using today's development methodologies - likely to include bugs.
Exactly. Just like the rise of domestic extremism is a consequence of young men being left behind by technological progress and algorithmic echo chambers. Seeing no way for themselves in the world they are easily radicalized on social media. The mentally ill carry out spectacular displays of violence once they are nurtured by these groups. "Cracking down on domestic extremism" is a convenient way to maintain favor with the upper classes who are fearful of the discontent and militant attitudes and supposed actions of these groups (people are claiming membership in movements that have no central authority). It does not address the problem though and actually "cracking down" will only further inflame it. The solution is finding a way to offer these discarded people a way forward, real opportunity where they can see themselves being somebody that matters in their community. Attaching themselves to an extreme ideology is a cheap, last ditch effort to be somebody.
Well, technically, as long as they deliver a single shot they're plenty dangerous to others and afterwards they're dangerous to their owners/wielders.
I have been staying in european airbnbs for the last couple of years. Most excellent. You are wrong.
> We’re not meant to totally avoid touch and eye contact and movement.

Meant by whom? Perhaps you aren't, but to make that claim for others is to fundamentally deny them their agency, as if they are mentally incompetent. I don't think these people are, for the most part, mentally incompetent.
IIUC while floc does indeed build a profile browser side it isn’t something that advertisers can track with the same precision as they can with 3p cookies.

So while it’s not the holy grail it does appear to be a small step in the right direction from the status quo.

Do I understand the situation correctly? Genuinely curious.
Airbnb has become synonymous with cheap tourism and overcrowded capitals, but is it correct to put the blame on it? Or it is simply cheap air travel and higher affluence (think of the entire eastern block of Europe, China, etc.) that brings so many people to the tourist hot spots? Is there any data to check what's Airbnb actual contribution?
Excellent read, but not only for the bonus part. If anyone else enjoyed it for the EE / computer engineering part, I recomment The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder.

He followed, in a sort of embedded way, a team of Data General computer engineers in the late 70's, as they went through a death march to produce a 32-bit micro. Sort of like this blog post, but the book got a pullitzer.

http://www.ancientgeek.org.uk/ed/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine.p...
Can you get it to successfully work on this page?

Zapping elements gets rid of the pop-up, but also makes scrolling impossible.
Don't help your kids with their homework
Zoning laws. Airbnb only works because it is a workaround for allowing “hotels” to be in non-commercial areas.
Sex worker is used as a term to describe someone working in the sex industry. This includes pornography actors, onlyfans models, prostitutes, and many other things. I believe that people working in the industry prefer this, as it emphasizes that what they do is in fact work.
Hotel prices have regulations included. Most airbnbs save on this. Some also mange to even avoid taxes, directly or by hiring illegal workers.
> but can you provide proof when "deceptive editing" occurred?

The Wikipedia page has plenty of examples and sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#Content
> A friend of mine who’s a strong advocate of this philosophy said that the reason why Keynes is so popular in the real world (fiat currency, national banks, micro/macro economics) is that it gives politicians something to do.

That’s a projection of the Austrian school’s overtly anti-empirical approach onto Keynesianism.
Can some explain what's happening better than I understand bitcoin? Wouldn't the idea that there is less miners be a positive for the price point? Supply and Demand? I mean if you have market of frozen orange juice, and they announce dry season will produce LESS juice, the price will skyrocket. So wouldn't less miners for something like Bitcoin with hard set limit of coins, be a positive for its price?
> The company dissolved its press office and doesn’t usually respond to media inquiries, however.

Well, that's one way to solve the problem.