skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seconding the last reply: hotels are a single, vertical property (ergo: does not take up a ton of real estate), dedicated to travelers in cities who need accommodations. They are built into the city planning for the most part to allow people to visit the town. It also supports the local economy by providing transient business to local businesses.

I don't think you thought your reply through before typing it out.

Clearly Airbnb is, even with the best of intentions, harming local economies by making housing unaffordable and/or unavailable to locals and has been documented over the past decade[0]. It's only recently (last few years) that cities have even caught up to tech like Abnb so for years they were and active drain on the local economy by dodging taxes and regulations[1]. It does NOT support the local economy in the same way as hotels and its benefits don't seem to out weigh its costs to the local economy[2].

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

[1] https://curs.unc.edu/2015/03/26/a-roadmap-to-regulating-airb...

[2] https://www.epi.org/publication/the-economic-costs-and-benef...
I have some skepticism in those regards, at least unless they make use of their own crawlers.

Bootstrapping themselves with different information sources as they've been doing is good for the very beginning as then they serve as a privacy-respecting aggregator to those sources, but as the tank man incident proved, you run the risk you'll be made complicit to censorship, whether intentionally or not.
Time to go away from GMail account...
So you're saying there's evil and suffering in the world, but God can't prevent it because he created free will? Sounds like a limit on his omnipotence.

Your explanation makes it out that free will is inherently prone to evil and suffering. If so, that would make free will somewhat inherently evil even though it arises from God. Strikes at the heart of omnibenevolence.

Either there's a limit to his ability or a limit to his goodness. No amount of hand waving can remove that.

If He is all good but can create creatures that corrupt his good works… You see the logical conundrum there, right?

I would understand if you don't WANT to see it. It feels wrong to see it. But it's there if you're being honest. You can ignore it. Many do. It's still there despite any aversion to it.
Sure, but there are many popular cases where the courtroom was used as a sympathy circus to establish both guilt and impact. It should be against jurisprudence to allow this.
A lot of doctors don't listen to their patients. Go to almost any forum where they discuss a story like this, and you can get a ton of stories of patients (usually women) who suffered for years until they found a doctor who treated their symptoms seriously. And then you have stories like this one.https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/what-if-the-doctors-had-liste...
Know what a "double 0 doctor" is? They've got a license to kill. (I picked that up in a book by a doctor, btw.)
> An big tradeoff for some is that the exit node is always chosen to be in the same geo location as the entry node. You can view this as a sop to the various on-line video providers

How could it be a "sop" to video services, isn't it exactly what they want, no more no less?
Bit of a shame? It was your decision. I don't see that as a red flag unless the candidate had time to produce running code on their own development setup. In a timed interview producing running code is irrelevant in my opinion, but hey you chose your rules and got your results.
Serde-encrypt: A Rust crate to encrypt any serializable data
I'm developing a Rust crate serde-encrypt (https://github.com/laysakura/serde-encrypt).
It provides handy traits to give encryption/decryption power to any structs/enums that implements serde::{Serialize, Deserialize}.

It is available not only std environment but also no_std. Also Intel SGX is supported.
If you feel interested, visit my repository to see other examples, check algorithms used, and give a star

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#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]

struct Message {

content: String,

sender: String,

}

// This is the trick!

impl SerdeEncryptSharedKey for Message {}

let shared_key = [0u8; 32]; // or read from your filesystem?

let msg = Message {

content: "I you.".to_string(),

sender: "Alice".to_string(),

};

// Encrypt and serialize the serde struct

let encrypted_message = msg.encrypt(&shared_key)?;

let serialized_encrypted_message: Vec<u8> = encrypted_message.serialize()?;

// Deserialize and decrypt

let encrypted_message = EncryptedMessage::deserialize(serialized_encrypted_message)?;

let msg = Message::decrypt_owned(&encrypted_message, &shared_key)

-------------------------

SerdeEncryptPublicKey trait is also provided mainly for secure shared-key exchange (using ECDH algorithm internally).
NFTs Can Fight Fraud and Increase Customer Loyalty
> As always, we don’t sell your information to anyone, and we don’t use information in apps where you primarily store personal content—such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos—for advertising purposes, period.

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/keeping-priva...

*I work for Google
This is fundamentally misunderstanding how internet advertising works:

advertises will pay higher CPM for precise targeting and attribution

publishers want the best CPM they can get

adtech uses as many tricks as possible to get as much information as possible about a user so they can maximize the CPM the advertiser will pay

Publishers just end up doing what ever their adtech partners tell them will give them the best CPM.
In a world where white noise[1], birdsong[2] and someone playing Beethoven on the piano[3] get copyright strikes/takedown notices - I don't think someone getting a copyright notice for downloading Ubuntu is that far fetched.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637124

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577
Many consumer VPNs install a client, and it would be trivial to ship a new trusted certificate with it.
It may be the Dunning-Kruger effect for civilizations. The ones that didn't reach the stage of interstellar travel think that is trivial to travel and settle in other star systems. But the more advanced ones may have different ideas, or think that it is a waste of time/resources compared with some more interesting alternatives.
Just fyi, there was a time when lego kits and minifigs did not exist... just lego blocks. More than 30 years ago, so before your time.
The story refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism, not Zoroastrian proper.

The old synthetic polytheisms were all pomp and circumstance, with the elite atheists, and poor treating it more like fortune telling + some light collective obligations for sacrifices and whatnot + entertainment. They weren't a serious competitor on religious grounds as there was no fervor of belief.

Mithraism, on the other hand, was another "new-age cult". Like today's, the older religious origins (Zoroastrianism) probably did more to legitimize it / add mystique than actually reflects a strong continuity of belief. Mithraism had the zeal and singular focus to be an actual competitor to Christrianity.
Am I weird for missing the old Windows 3 program manager? It wasn't the best but it seemed more logical than the nonsense they're putting out now. Windows 95's UI was probably the best update they could muster. Anything beyond it has been more aesthetics naval gazing and less productivity boosting tools and features.
> If the local optimal point was only available in hindsight though, we couldn't have survived as a species thus far

We didn't survive as a species thanks to life guiding philosophy or in general thanks to a conscious thinking process in which we tried to predict the future. When even our greatest people tried to do that it more often resulted in unpredicted results than not.

I can make a case for believing we can though. It is a most powerful motivator for action and association. So maybe the lesson is don't have a philosophy for yourself but have one for your would be followers?
Interesting. I thought I recalled talking about this on HN previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10355868

_-__--- on Oct 8, 2015 | parent | favorite | on: Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on...

Tor as an OS-level feature may not spark the best reaction. It's been given a bad name ("deep web," silk road, etc) in mass media and many people don't understand it enough to think of it as anything other than bad.
I think that it'd be cool to have, but I don't think that Apple would ever implement it.

jameshart on Oct 8, 2015 [–]

Agree, it's phenomenally unlikely, but then again there is a part of me which could actually imagine Apple doing something like it. They wouldn't use Tor, of course, they'd build a proprietary equivalent, and then come out on a black stage to 'introduce Apple Undercover, a revolutionary enhancement to personal network privacy and security'.
What Happens If an Astronaut Floats Off in Space? (2013)
On the other hand, a lot of VPNs provide proprietary client software (even though all the major OSes have built-in support for the common VPN protocols such as IPSec, L2TP, etc) so they could very well sneak the root cert in there too.
I wish I could pay for bbc iPlayer service outside old blighty. But they don't allow it.
You really don't need that. A few patrol boats, planes, or helicopters with one or more heavy machine guns would be plenty of deterrent. A few hundred bullets would be enough to smash the bridge of a small ship.

On the cheap, you could have a small fleet of turboprop recon planes, each armed with a pair of machine guns. They aren't all that expensive to operate, use widely available ammunition and fuel and often don't require much more than a
smooth stretch of dirt for takeoff.

If that still isn't enough, shop around for small warships or gun boats. Or mount a gun pod on your planes. A rapid-firing 20mm cannon can do a significant amount of damage since they can use explosive shells.

Even the largest US Coast Guard cutter is smaller than a WWII destroyer and outgunned by any warship larger than an inflatable raft.

Edit: Heck. If you want an even cheaper solution, board ships with people carrying knives and guns like the 1700s. Modern pirates already do this.
This refers to a specific Scotsman, John Law, not the newspaper The Scotsman.

https://www.scotsman.com/
I tried starting a business. 18 months later I realized it was going nowhere. (I also wasn't making any money, and continuing was about to get financially irresponsible.)

In hindsight, I was just working on my side project for 18 months, unpaid.

What I did was list the business on my resume just like any other job. I put myself as "co-founder" instead of putting in a fancy title like "CTO."

When questioned about details of the business, or why I was looking for a job, I just point that I'm a horrible businessperson and better off working for someone else. If pressed further, I point out that no job is perfect, and the ups and downs of a normal job are preferable to getting my way all the time but not getting paid.

You'll be fine!

Example: See how I list AppFeeds and ObjectCloud: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwbas1c/
The cost to launch that weight into space and make sure it hits its intended target on landing would make it prohibitively expensive.
BTW Jeffrey Snover said every PowerShell feature was supported by a business case. A principled approach, I thought, if mercenary.

But what's the "business case" for iteration, conditionals, addition - apart from "everyone needs these"? Though these probably weren't the features he was thinking of.
So in this hypothetical what happens to the 2.5% that lost their jobs? It seems to me that in an attempt to raise the average wage we’re reducing the cohort and removing those with little to no skills and putting them on the gov dole to make statistics happy.
There is also almost certainly an authentication mechanism in place, even if you were to reverse engineer the API. You'd need a bunch of paid iCloud accounts to have a DDoS be at all feasible with this service.

Additionally, Cloudflare themselves, one of Apple's third party partners, offer DDoS protection services. Because they see all the exit traffic, they'd be able to detect the DDoS and block it.
This is nice, however simple fully connected or convolutional networks can encode computer programs too. In fact, the hope for RNNs was that they will learn computer programs, but due to the weirdness of neural network training that never happened in practice to a satisfying degree. So finding a programming model for Transformers is not necessarily as practical as it first seems, since there's no guarantee that they will learn these programs from data.
Hey Aayush, thanks for the appreciation. Looking forward to it.
> There is no separate category of debt-based government emitted credit money.

maybe there should be
The statement isn't "Wrong.", it's just overly strict.
I find the part about guessing what the other part will say really interesting. Imagining yourself in the shoes of someone else is a fundamental human ability.
Vaguely reminiscent of how it was mandatory to make random remarks towards bourgeoisie in soviet institutions

As a child, I had a book that was like an encyclopedia of the world for kids. Neary every entry was littered with mentioning class struggle, political systems of countries and political views of prominent people. Guess what I learned from the article about Scott and Amundsen?
Will keep you posted!
Your lack of understanding is almost as profound as your faux medical expertise.
Your idea is remarkably amazing. Well, the design and layouts are pretty good. Looking forward to using the app.
I use this in combination with fish shell and it's been working really well. I can just switch over to `nu` when the task merits; no need to replace my current shell. I can also just run a one-off line like this.

nu -c "ls | where size > 10b"
My biggest problem with DDG (which has been my search engine of choice since it began) is that there's no way to verify its privacy claims.

Ideally it would be continually audited by multiple trusted third parties.. something maybe like the EFF.

Even then there'd be no guarantees, but it'd be way better than what users have now, which is just DDG's claims.
For most people the convenience of Google Pay outweighs the risk that they won't be able to buy coffee with it one morning if their account gets suspended or that they'll be targeted coffee bean ads instead of other ads.
To clarify: port 80 and 443 (TLS connections), right? Or is TLS traffic only routed through the private relay in Safari, not other apps?
Wait, so no HTTPS?
Building Waiting Room on Workers and Durable Objects
Living Things Are Not Machines: In Light of the Modern Science
BBC MakerBox: Tools to create your own digital content
A reference is just a pointer but with restrictions enforced by the compiler. ASM-wise, they're totally the same thing.

'Reference' doesn't mean C++'s reference, it means that you pass where the data is, not the data itself. Even Visual Basic had this concept.
We don’t know that Apple keeps logs. These are things they could theoretically keep, but we don’t know if they store them or not.
More of Not Hosting it Myself. NextDNS is cheap enough and does the work really well. Part of my lifestyles simplification, especially when it comes to critical services.

Had few instances where some websites do not work when ad scripts are blocked. I had to debug while traveling and my wife is not too keen on tinkering with the Raspberry Pis.

NextDNS have similar issues, lots of newsletter unsubscription just fails. For NextDNS, I can just ask my wife, "Click that Shield Icon and Disable for sometime." For Mobile devices, "Open NextDNS and slide the Disable button."
Thanks for the encouragement! will keep you posted.
> Taking these drugs will make anyone feel more focused, motivated, etc because these drugs are strong stimulants that cause euphoria, focus, and bursts of energy.

This is incorrect. If anything I'm more calm, definitely nowhere near what you describe. I'm happy, but just that. I've been happy before, I've been high as balls before. This is the former.

I'm (with my doc) finding the lowest dose that works. I'm sure if I took 4 or 5 of these in the one I'd be bouncing off the walls, but that's not the plan.

Just like someone lacking insulin needs an insulin shot, someone lacking in stimulation needs stimulant medication.

> Anecdotally, I've seen a huge uptick in posts of the format

Ya being in mostly-isolated lockdown for over a year fucks with you mentally, wherever your starting point is.

Anecdotally back it just takes one person in a community to figure it out and get a diagnosis for everyone else who exhibit similar behaviours to start thinking "wait that is a symptom too??" and get checked out. New relationship energy then fuels the desire to spread the word to anyone else who might be suffering.
Wow props for quite a prediction. You definitely deserve some recognition for that one.
How recent are we talking?

15 years ago I was working at my college's IT helpdesk. The majority of students that brought in their machines told me they didn't use their computers for anything besides MS Word, AIM, Flash games and DVDs.

Of course there were the art students with Adobe troubleshooting issues, or Econ students with STATA questions, but 90% of the time the computer was an entertainment-centric device.
> A modification in the frame of mind of genetic understanding is performed on a viral cell.

Let me be frank: this sentence is nonsense technobabble.

> A segment of viral genome which encodes part of the body viral is excised and modified.

No, this does not happen (even ignoring that I don’t know what “body viral” means).

> Indeed if you review my words you'll note that I explicitly address the lack of a defect.

And yet you use the term “reconstruct”. — Reconstruct what?

> The mRNA vaccines we know today can certainly be viewed as a modification and reconstruction of viral genomic material.

This sentence becomes somewhat true if we use “information” instead of “material”. But that has nothing to do with gene therapy (as you seem to acknowledge yourself later!?).

> Gene editing or genome editing is […]. Note the distinct concept from gene therapy

I hold a PhD in genomics. You do not need to explain basic molecular biology to me.

> Even if only from the perspective of how information on Wikipedia can be construed by the layman - such as myself.

Then I humbly suggest that your understanding of the subject matter as a layman is — evidently — fragmentary, and insufficient for making up your own definitions and claiming them as being equally valid as those of experts.
I'm starting on the second 5-year cycle of doing this. If you have done any contracting during the time I'd also encourage calling that out. Right now I'm doing contracting and working on my own ideas. I realistically expect to get burned out and desire to return to full time employment in a year (if not sooner).

You may not always have your preferred choice of company but you shouldn't need to give up too much either so long as you are not actually desperate.

Reiterating: doing what you're doing has worked out for me in the past (though saying "I was contracting" also helped I think), I'm doing it again right now, and I expect to be able to find full time roles again in the future without a big problem.
Interesting! It may be an indictment of my sour personality that I’ve only ever thought of this metaphor in terms of problems and not solutions.
> "Who's pushing whom under the water here?"

I'm attacking one specific comment (yours), linking to the HN guidelines to say why.

You're ranting about "armchair expositors of bullshit ranting about dark matter being a hoax perpetrated by cultural Marxists" [any examples of this happening?], claiming that posting a comment on the internet means the author "believes they are a subject matter expert", presumably reasoning that "posting on the internet" is something only people who believe they are experts do? Claiming that people "wear their ignorance as a badge of elitism", because "not clicking a link" is somehow a claim of eliteness? You're accusing people of "thinking themselves superior", because "not clicking a link" is the same as saying "people who read the link are plebian"? (This isn't encouraging people to read articles, this is "everyone else is so dumb, eyeroll").

In your terms, you're pushing everyone under the water. I'm pushing you and people who post similar "everyone except me is dumb" rants, under the water.
The better way to summarise would be to say that the Grundgesetz guarantees the freedom of expressing your opinion and views. It does not protect you when making false claims or lying.
Let there be light New tech for night vision
If you think the internet is reliable then your monitoring is lying to you.

Keeping a persistent connection open to a machine 1 ISP hop away for more than a couple of days is basically impossible, or at the very least improbable.

I ran an always-online game which required a non-breaking TCP session, this was the single largest cause of user frustration. I also run an IRC network which requires the same thing, and you need only look at the number of people ungracefully disconnecting in a day.

Stateless requests help of course, but I'm pretty sure you and I brush failures away because we've internalised the idea that the internet is not really reliable; whether it by wifi, a faulty cable, DNS, the router, "the site" or so on.
Automated enforcement is already easy if there was willingness to do it. The majority of non-compliant cookie banners use a handful of libraries and/or third-party services such as TrustArc so detecting these with a web scraper is be trivial.
I don't hate them! I love LEGO, played a lot as kid.
I did not say that, no.

I said that a lot of people (me included) are more used to Unix shell scripting. If PS had been released 30yrs ago, things wouldve probably been different.
People have however already become comfortable with Unix shells, so it needs significant improvements to convince them to switch the tool of choice. While PS does have improvements, they're not significant enough to relearn everything.

To me, Unix scripts are more readable though, this is simply because Ive been writing them for so many years now, while I barely touched any PS code.
Panics, Manias and Crashes [1] tells a good story about him and his schemes.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367596.Manias_Panics_and...
Maybe companies like Facebook modeled their "social graph" with hypergraphs?
Do you really think I played such a long game? In any case the other commenter is right -- you shouldn't attack the person, but the argument itself.
But his point is that's not what's being asked. The original poster in this sub-discussion said "trust on one" then posted something he regards as "truth" to counteract "the narrative".

He was rightly called out for being someone we can't trust by his own definitions.

"Trust no one" is a bad philosophy because it's infinite regress. And anyone who claims to follow that philosophy at some point reaches a point where they have to be hypocritical and trust someone because unless they've acquired all of this information firsthand by being everywhere at all times they can't say they didn't acquire the information from someone else. And since someone isn't no one, we can't trust them.
put your tests into the module!

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.
# exit when sourcing
[ "$0" == "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" ] || return 0

echo "Tests for [$0]"
.
.

this way you'll wind up able to load/source globs of reusable self testing code into the global namespace with ease.

add a [ -n "$1" ] && { undef and exit } block at the top of the file where you document the names you're using as you would in a header.c and packaging your code for reuse becomes easy.

at last count i have 19 such modules in /ops/bash. they are immensely useful to help me remember this atrocious language :)