skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all the valid questions though? Aren't they? Author is raising these Qs to bring the awareness that Airbnb is not transparent and willing to share these data with us and that is the point.
Proactive vs. Reactive Teams
> Masks can't be sealed and all the studies that say they are somewhat effective use mannequins with perfect seals.

That's not true. Here is a lit review that shows you multiple avenues of evidence that show masks are effective:
http://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf

> Real world data from Florida shows schools with and without mandates had the same rates of infection which mirrored the general communities.

Again, mask wearing is effective. Mask mandates may not be. There is a difference, and the difference is compliance. If people don't actually wear masks, that's not evidence that masks don't work.

http://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf
Pokemon is the biggest example and it's been ingrained in fans for 25 years to

1. choose 1 or buy 2 versions of a game that is 90% the same (example, Gold or Silver, whose differences are in some dozen pokemon exclusive to one version)
2. a year or two out, receive a 3rd version with extra content charged at full price (Crystal). Often acting as the "definitive version" for that generation.

It's not the most common model, but a few other franchises outside of pokemon have definitely applied their own take on it (often Nintendo related ones).
> On iOS, you can back up Google Authenticator. It then restores with your 2FA codes intact.

Source needed. I just opened Google Authenticator on iOS, and it isn’t an option. Googling confirmed that it isn’t supported on iOS.

If you try to restore the phone from the backup (whether iCloud or local backup), it will restore the app, but it will have no 2FA codes present.
I launched things. Can't tell if they are startups or products
Korea, too. One of the funny things about a regional war with China is that it would at a stroke end the historical Korea-Japan rivalry/feuds.
I do not consent.
I agree with you socialism on paper is great and probably the best system there could be. However IMO people are greedy by nature and without a complete nationwide zeitgeist change, it will never be properly implemented. Someone in power will always get greedy and ruin it for everyone else.
Today at work we just talked about the problem you‘re solving, funny to see this here.
We maintain a couple of importers for competitor data, most of which are DB dumps or collections of pdfs and images.

We‘d love to have it be somewhat self-serve at some point, but it‘s a difficult problem. It‘s also sensitive data which we don‘t want to handle outside our systems.

To give you a price point idea, we charge about 3k for an initial import, so about the same as we charge for a year of service.
I've updated the title to say that it's the "Biden Administration" that is weighing this decision, which I believe is a more accurate headline. The article says he is in talks with Anthony Fauci about it.
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This is only for Google-specific services that use 2FA (and it works with any authenticator apps, not just Google Authenticator, because this functionality is dependent on the service, not the app).

So if I try to do this for my Google account 2FA (with Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or literally any other authenticator app), it works. But it won’t work for any of my other 2FA accounts, like MSFT, Discord, etc., no matter which authenticator app I use.

To your defense, Google Authenticator added the option for restoring from local backup fairly recently, but only for Android. And even then, no ability to sync it with multiple devices.
Exactly--during the pandemic we've gotten used to traveling with our dog and can't imagine leaving him behind anymore. Its crazy how expensive places are when you bring the dog. And we want a yard and clothes washer.
Being able to read solidity alone lowers your barrier to entire emerging ecosystems.
Right but why don’t they sell before the calamity if everyone knows these cycles repeat? People get caught up in it because they haven’t experienced real pain themselves, think something new exists and because they believe they’ve made money because they’re astute and that they correctly assessed the market it becomes real.
We all know minimum wage will only be 18.50/hr by then, though.
Examples like this lend credence to the belief that there is no rule of law in China.
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Thanks for introducing me to the word "malodorous"
>and I don’t see people having underground casinos where they are losing their life savings.

well, it wouldn't be very undergrounds if you saw it, no? I have little doubt that they exist, even if I cannot prove it. Underground betting rings is almost a cliche in modern media.

>Microtransactions give the brain the same chemicals but without the possibility of a cash payout

no, games do that (outside of like, Steam Marketplace where you can apparently sell digital items yourself. So the money traded IS the rush). MTX are a monetization taking advantadge of that dopamine rush. And nowhere close to the first one.
The homeless encampments are not caused by housing costs.
I find it more than a little disturbing that most of the interest in this comment centers on people trying to refute what amounts to a parenthetical that while a lot of things were looking pretty awesome in 1960 in e.g. the US, being black or gay probably weren’t among them.
What about this link? Seems pretty straightforward to delete an account for me:

https://authy.com/account/delete/
Is no one going to mention Rust? If HN is good at predicting trends, then we're about to see a lot more Rust in a few years.
It's a matter of definition, but I feel technology can do more than just make our lives more comfy. Anyway my point is that the chase for comfort can actually hurt us. Maybe we should try some carpentry?
Insurance companies also have a particular interest in making sure that uninsured healthcare costs are sky-high, while they negotiate better insured costs.
Cordova predates Electron. Webapps in a WebView container were on iOS first and still have quite a market share. This has nothing to do with payments.
I didn't know either. I just thought it was because reddit in general is quite left leaning. But the post above triggered me. I just thought I was the unlucky target of a mod with a bad day. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Thank you for the insightful comment. While there's similar concerns for health, I think financial circumstances are somewhat different.

Few people have any interest in finding out "who that person with cancer in that small town is", but "who is that unknown multi-millionaire in my parents' village" might be more tempting.

There's no political issue around individual health issues, but individual wealth is very political. I can definitely understand why someone wouldn't want identifiable information about their personal wealth given to third parties, especially not to US universities, which have a tendency to be rather left-wing and full of ideas of undeserved privilege that many don't share and would not feel comfortable knowing that their private information is shared with them. An angry research or student taking to Twitter to call out the evil capitalists isn't that crazy of an idea.
It’s not about identifying you it’s more about using the data from you and Weaponized in it against you. Citadel Securities, the market maker, is known to do this kind of thing to rip off retail traders via data obtained from trading platforms such as Robinhood, webull etc. This is an uneven battlefield and it’s obviously wrong and that’s the reason why we don’t want our data to be shared, it amounts to spying on our behavior in order to control, profit or what other nefarious reasons.
dylan522p says above:

> Chips themselves can be sold, yes. The IP cannot be licensed to non Chinese based semi firms.

I'd be astonished if licenses to Chinese SoC designers prevented products with those SoC's being sold outside China. So RockChip, Spreadtrum etc would be cut off from the rest of the world? Or forced to license separately with Arm UK for chips for products that are to be exported? Seems very unlikely.

Plus I'd expect we'd have seen action taken already if they really had broken the terms of the licensing.

Agreed that we're all speculating to some extent though!
> This article appeared in the Books & arts section of the print edition under the headline "Noblesse disoblige"
I wanted to check out Squeak so I went to the squeak.org website and ran into so many broken links on the wiki.
> Also by its nature spending more time on a piece of code doesn't mean you'll be more productive (in fact I've found the best way to deal with a bug is often take a break and come back and reread your code likely you'll spot the mistake far more easily).

Or realize you don't need the code at all and there's a way to do it better.
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If anything given the cost of high quality ingredients, high end restaurants might even be losing money on food alone, and may depend on alcohol sales to make up the difference.
> I wouldn’t be surprised if linguists find a new “internet dialect” of English in the future as well.

You might be interested in "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by Gretchen McCulloch. McCulloch is a linguist, but it's a light/layperson's book. I really enjoyed it.

https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/
It's hard to separate the two in casual conversation if you're not explicitly intending to. E.g. if someone says "it's a bad time to drive into the city I should do it later" it's easy to interpret that as "there is too much traffic there would need to be less" but it's the exact use case adding another lane allows, more cars decide to come in until the pressure is enough that for additional cars "it's a bad time...". Same with the houses, they instantly popup because there is now more capacity to take people in where there wasn't before.

Clearly you can't build enough roads to satisfy this relationship to the point the physical distance the car can reasonably travel in a day is the limiter instead of the number of cars that can make it should there be a road available to fit them which is why it's not an answer for congestion in large cities but it can be the answer to capacity into target cities (barring enough support for more efficient means like mass transport).
No sarcasm can be apparent enough for everybody, according to Poe’s law.
This. Last summer, we rented a space due to wildfires going on and too much smoke in our area. We saw the pictures on the listing with more than 100 guests giving 4.5+ rating in total for cleanliness and that convinced us to stay there for a few days until the smoke clears up in our area. When we visited the apartment, we just put our stuff there and went out for dinner and spend evening out and when we came back slowly we realized how dirty, bug and mold infested that place was. After checking with Airbnb they kept telling us to deal with host and all they did at the end was...you guessed it right...refunded the cleaning fees ($20). terrible customer service!

One simple fact Airbnb does not understand is: vacation rental biz is built on repeat customers coming back to the platform often. If folks like us get such a bad experience in staying first and then dealing constantly for weeks with AirBnb customer reps, that experience would make sure we would never rent again on Airbnb. This is the biggest problem with their business right now...their customer service is just terrible.
Any added margin that makes your product more expensive, that does not go into your pocket, is bad for business.

It's basically a form of someone stealing from you.

The user was willing to pay $4.50, all of which you could have had, but $0.50 went to a parasitic third party.

We can look at it from the point of view of the transaction between the buyer and seller being arbitrarily robbed of $0.50.

We can also look at it from the POV of the supply-demand curve: fewer units are sold of the more expensive product.

Both these effects hit you: you're selling less because it's more expensive, without you getting any more of the extra per-unit revenue.
What are some of the sites that the ‘power users’ initially seed with their memes?

Are there any patterns to (profiles of) the power users, or customer segments you know about the power users? Amateur versus professional?

Edit: I see you mention “a lot of my users run fairly large instagram pages (50k+ followers)”, so other sites or segments?
https://archive.is/XXQKO
Being black or gay in the west was better than being black or gay in any other part of the world. There are still countries where homosexuality is punishable by death. Being black or gay in the US in the 1960s was worse than being white and straight in the 1960s, but my precise point in my sibling comment is that this a stupid criticism because the West was pioneering equality.

There seems to be some widely-held superstition that if we acknowledge Western progress, then we will stop progressing.
Agree. Retail investors have no access to data, and are deeply being exploited. Crypto helps with this.
That is a very good point, and the reality is even worse on platforms that tailor the information to the individual with no high level overview or possibility to inspect/regulate who sees what.

Humans are highly malleable. Not being able to know how private companies create bubbles of information and feed certain ideologies is a recipe for disaster.

Giving everyone a megaphone is dangerous. Sane people don't usually pick up megaphones either. Further detaching sane people from the discourse leaves an echo chamber of dangerous thoughts.
Why are you still staying on the market if you are convinced that a big drop is coming?
Or that capitalism was an inextricable part of democracy, and bringing the former would inevitably lead to the latter.

A quite foolish assumption given the 20th century counterexamples of capitalism + authoritarianism - Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan.

In the 90s, Wall St. and corporate America bankrolled the largest ever lobbying campaign to open US markets and the WTO to China, and got it by 2000.

Just two decades later and the result is massive inequality, a decimated middle class, vulnerable supply supply chains, and rising authoritarianism again.

The US has stupidly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the Cold War.
A sobering story for all those who forgot what the word sovereign actually means.
China also has some unique ineffective areas. One example I ran into a little while ago was that China has essentially a review board that approves video games to be distributed to the Chinese market. A particular political backdoor to expedite the approval process was exposed, which quickly lead to an extreme backup of the approval queue as the party clamped down on that backdoor and made the entire video game industry wait several months to a year for them to get their ducks back in a row.

Additionally, if you want to publish in China, it is advisable (although I don't think strictly required... yet...) that you provide some way to block any messages in your game that the party disapproves of. For some sorts of games, this is basically untenable.

Essentially, China is effective where its policy of iron-handed top-down dictatorship is effective. It is less effective at bottom-up development, except insofar as that bottom-up development is done with the express intent of being a tool of the iron hand (but the iron hand's whims can change, so that presents a moving target).

I suspect what we'll see over the next hundred-or-so years is that the iron-handed approach is effective while it has intelligent leadership (and though I disagree with China's politics, I'll concede they're making strong strategic decisions). Inevitably, though, every empire has stupid emperors and we'll probably see China stumble when its turn comes.
the people in the public sector don't know any better. It's going to take regulation and legislation to force a position into standards-compliance.
In almost every mention of Sykes-Picot, not laying lines along "actual sectarian, tribal, or ethnic distinctions" is brought up as a contributing reason to present-day strife. I believe that in the US, people who publicly champion diversity typically also align with political movements which partly blame where the borders are for strife.

An I wrong? Is it a big tent ideology and they don't share the same views? Or do people hold both ideas simultaneously? If so, how do you reconcile them?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25299553
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-curse-of-sy...
Slowly converging to MWF shots & house arrest for anyone who skipped one out of the most recent 131 shots or some such.
Black box ML models: the latest in code obfuscation ;)
The virus will mutate no matter what regardless of vaccine. It's not the vaccines that are driving mutations. The vaccine basically programs a set of immune system regex stream filters. Maybe some mutants get past it, well then the immune system will generates another response to it as it goes on to infect other cells in the body etc...

Some of the original variants are thought to have arisen out of immuno-compromised pre-vaccinated patients. Maybe they got IVIg, monoclonal antibodies, or convalescent plasma.
Great point. Agreed. My comment above has too narrow a view.
> The Chinese government will ensure that no Western competitor will "win" in China. Period. I understand why to a point. My main issue is with the West being completely oblivious to it.

> If China wants to impose such restrictions on Western companies, they shouldn't get access to Western markets. And that's it.

And there are people around who give this a pass. And usually the defense is "China is just following Chinese law".
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It isn’t “the same cloud” that you were talking about, it is iCloud.
The IAP model became dominant on mobile largely because of Apple's store policies and their refusal to allow other forms of distribution. Meanwhile Steam and many other channels are largely pay-once, and they exist only because of the developer freedom that you decry.
Fair enough. I would extend not generating clicks as an example of my point but I do think I tried to too narrowly explain why things are the way they are without reflecting on other alternatives too much.
I'm very sorry to hear that. Normally, I would suggest mentioning extenuating circumstances to your boss in 1:1s as a way to build trust and open communication, which theoretically should mean that you'll get a little bit of a break when you hit bad times.

Bringing medical information (bipolar diagnosis) changes things a little bit. It's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can protect you a little bit through process. It's harder to fire you if you have a medical problem than it is if you have a performance problem. On the other hand, it can lead to being sidelined on other projects if you are deemed unreliable.

Personally, I'd probably speak up and say something to my boss about it and try and establish some empathy and trust, but if you don't trust your manager or don't trust your company to do the right thing, I can understand staying quiet.

Best of luck.
I'm glad to have my ignorance dispelled :-)
I think Dune by Frank Herbert might become relevant.
Why did you call it Lemonade?
That definition still seems to define “outlaw” as a kind of revolutionary, albeit with different, more nebulous, goals than the traditional kind of revolutionary.
Do you have any paperwork with specific definition on the terms/conditions of your exercise period?

Is it substantially different than what you’ve been told?

A compensation and benefits attorney would love this case, for a ‘modest’ fee.
I recently wrote one: https://github.com/epilys/sic
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The key is to not reintroduce competing foods. To pick a cliche thing, if you reintroduce oreos then yeah, the broccoli will pale.

The key is to break the flavor dependence, then to only have healthy foods.
> the market is more volatile than underlying values so this is a natural certainty

What do you mean?
Hotel chains are also bad. They buy land and erect huge for-profit properties. I mean, I could have lived downtown if it wasn’t for Radisson. Where pitchforks at?
People are selfish, including government entities. Electing different people won't work, because they'll still be selfish (ever wonder why politicians always seem to get rich after being elected?).

The solution is to construct a system where selfishness is harnessed for the betterment of society. People will work 10x harder for themselves than for others. Fortunately, we know what such a system is - free markets. Free markets in America produced the highest living standard in the world.
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It looks like there are actually 3 different pricing/license options. https://sixtyfps.io/#offering

- GPLv3 - free

- "Ambassador" - free commercial license (after approval), in exchange for marketing as being built with sixtyfps and authorization to use your logo and feedback

- Normal commercial - paid

I kinda like the addition of the "Ambassador" tier. Seems like a fair exchange for an in-development framework, and would be a good option for people that are building a new product and don't yet have the revenue to justify the cost during the prototyping phase.
Some of the best engineers on the planet over there on the west coast.

Body of water immediately west of them.

WHAT IF they were to build large scale desalination projects capable of providing irrigation-grade water?

Just a thought.
From this post, my inference is that they're in the process of being certified, I'd guess they can operate during the certification process?

https://www.reddit.com/r/newtonco/comments/nx06ft/state_of_t...
Hey hackernews!

Ive been building this Covid project for the last 18 months which is an accounting server that manages double entry bookkeeping transactions and formats them nicely in either SQLite or MySQL.

Its mostly command line driven right now but also working on a GUI frontend here:

https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger-web

The goal was to make a server that could run perpetually and when i wanted to record my accounts i could do so via a script. Also wanted to analyse the financials via the database directly and i found that current accounting software didnt really let you do those simple things.
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And if China is in China, they can follow Chinese law. Once they come out of China, to do business with the West, then that excuse doesn't cut it. (Just like the way that Western companies have to follow Chinese law to do business in China.)
It's not even the technical challenge that is the big issue. It's the political one. Trying to get vendors to provide API access to migrate data away on a scalable solution will be a no-go for most of them.
IMHO, non -inventory / -peristent shooters have a pretty high efficiency by this metric. You drop in, enjoy yourself, then drop out.

(said as a UT / TFC / Tribes fan)
I wonder if that's not a universal systemic phenomenon.. I see that in companies, people even..