skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I used booking.com, I remember that the cancellation policy differed depending on the specific hotel. Most have free cancellation but only if you cancel more than a day before your booking.
Which might still depend on your accent!
Still yes US holds main strings. This act is about grabbing it all, so my high certainty prediction is that US would loose all it had. (read my longer post)
Do you go around posting every anecdote you have about bad drivers too?
I recommend everyone read "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman."

The parts on Brazil were particularly interesting.
It really is the question - why do you live? What is the purpose of anyone life?

There does not seem to be any purpose to anything in the universe. But we can choose what we want to do.

So the answer: Because we want to, because it is exciting, because it inspires, because we can.

Because this is what life is about.

The movie Avatar made in box office $2.9B. This is exactly the same amount of money as SpaceX asked for an actual moon landing of $2.9B.

Have you asked people who watched Avatar what is the purpose of watching Avatar?

Instead of making a fiction about going to a moon, we can actually go to the moon.
Google's advertising tech targeted in European publishers' complaint
> i also think it's like freedom of speech, in theory it sounds great but in reality you end up with nazis walking around if you don't have the ability to deter them.

I mean this in the most gentle and sincere way: This is just fascism of a different color.

When you support the curtailing of freedom of speech, then you enter into a slippery slope where it's possible that new regimes can use that power against you.

In all but the rarest cases where people are harassed and driven to commit suicide [1], hurtful words are just words. Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you.

If you eliminated all of racism, sexism, and anti-LGBT feelings from the world tomorrow, you would still run into people that dislike you. That's just how people are. We're evolved apes, and a lot of us make in-group/out-group decisions on the most trivial lines. Class, style, designer clothing, attractiveness, rivalry, sports teams, school, etc., etc., etc.

No matter how many layers of protection you put on, you will always run into hate and unpleasantness.

You can't remove one of the most liberating and important features of our democracy - one that anticipates all types of futures and stands against any of their possible tyrannies - just to not have hurt feelings. That would be the mother of all bad trades.

When things get physical, there are laws to protect you. Even hate crime laws that escalate punishments. These are adequate protections.

Your brain is going to have to learn how to dust off the hurt. That's what makes us rugged, fierce, and independent.

I've been called a "f*ggot", bastard (it's true), short, ugly, and many worse, entirely hurtful things throughout my life. I'd like to think I'm doing alright despite it.

[1] Restraining orders and other legal protections for people being abused and bullied, especially online, need to be further developed. That said, there isn't a fine line between what politicians such as Ted Cruz face on a daily basis from Twitter and what pushes individuals such as Near to commit suicide.
date-fns has the same fp variant which can make a lot of sense.

A note from personal experience: never mix fp and normal variants of date-fns and lodash in one project. If you import isAfter from date-fns/fp in one file and date-fns in another (or your editor imports it for your) you‘re gonna have a BAD time.
Unfortunately many don't. Standard Datalog for example doesn't have disjunction which you need to model sum types as relations.

My preference is to have sum types modeled separately from relations as just a complex type that can be related as well. This is the approach taken by Souffle, a C++ Datalog implementation which supports sum types.
elements.map(toSomethingElse)

Reads like Hemingway to me.
Yes, we are a result of evolution and it is our evolutionary imperative to find and fill any biological niche available. You can try denying our nature but it is a futile endeavor.

However, these "locusts" can discover and create. We can do art, science, understand the Reality and the Universe. I find this absolutely beautiful and breathtaking, especially for a "swarm of locusts".
Don't hold your breath. We have plenty of political forces here that don't like encrypted communication. SPD in Germany would gladly see Telegram be completely banned.

They even brag about this in their own party-media: https://www.vorwaerts.de/artikel/innenpolitik-spd-gegen-tele...
Many of the "Covid-19 increases risk of XYZ" popular media articles lack baseline comparisons to other virus infections. (Disclaimer: Yes, we know Covid-19 isn't the flu, and it's more deadly.) My point is: how much does heart-disease risk increase post-Covid compared to say post-Influenza? Is it comparable or is the risk magnitudes larger than with other virus infections? This is an important benchmark, I understand scientific journals don't cater to laypeople but popular media does.

From CDC website: "Studies have shown that flu illness is associated with an increase in heart attacks and stroke. A 2018 study found that the risk of having a heart attack was 6 times higher within a week of a confirmed flu infection."
There are other apps that run on the background, that's just the official Apple one.
What is a POD?
The ball shaped powerups add more bullets, the rectangle shaped powerups increase laser strength. Starting point is wherever your first bullet returns.
This is a really poor take and you know it. State can exist in functional systems - as results of computations passed to other computations. Recursion where the new argument is the state.

No one was saying "don't use state" they were saying we need to adjust how we use it.
Obviously, the app will need that access privilege to perform its task. Now, you’re in the bind: Do you trust apple to use these privileges on the device only - and not track you - or do you care about being tracked by others. Depends on your risk profile, I’d say.
If anyone needs a typed JS version of Python's range, I prepared this code to be a 1:1 match with the Python API. It also uses generators: https://github.com/graup/pythonic-ts/blob/main/src/iterators...
Is it comparing vaccinated vs vaccinated + infection or simply vaccinated vs infection (regardless of vaccination)?

Do we have data on specifically unvaccinated infections?

Otherwise we can only speculate on whether the long side effects of infection are less severe with vaccines than without. Considering the general hospitalization rate between unvaccinated vs vaccinated, I know what my guess would be.
Are they asking this because you are under-performing in their opinion?
> Reading anything more into it is prone to error.

That doesn't mean people in positions of power won't try and make inferences
You need to speak to an attorney.
I had that in Asia quite a lot with Booking; that's not my problem though; it's theirs. But that's why I do not use them (booking) whenever I can prevent it. Hotels.com has this rarely but when they have it, they make sure you are well taken care off; I got much better and far more expensive hotels for the same price in those cases. I discovered ny favorite hotel in the world (so far) by a double (double double; the overbooked twice for the same room) booking; everything was full so they booked me in a hotel in the middle of a nature reserve which was much more expensive at that point, but I paid nothing more of course. Very nice for a business trip where I was supposed to sleep in a concrete bunker in a city.
...and that's a generously low lower bound, because at this point, the only thing that could prevent a percentage approaching 100% would be a (near) extinction event like an asteroid strike or an all-out nuclear war.
Poor performance is more likely due to how transformer neural networks view numbers. It memorises them like words instead of modeling their numerical structure. Thus even if it’s seen the number 3456 and 3458, it knows nothing of 3457. Totally different embedding.

It’s like a kid memorising a multiplication table instead of learning the more general principle of multiplication (related: this illusion is why big models are so popular. Memorise more stuff.)

Paper (NeurIPS/DeepMind): https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00508
Nice schizo-post
there's a lot of pleasure in mechanical exercise, it's the reason people go to the gym or play starcraft. You don't really need to be good at chess to get fun out of calculating chess moves. It's true that it's like solving puzzles, but puzzles are very popular! It's like working out for your brain. Even at the GM level by the way chess is really 99% tactics. It's not like some 4X strategy game, it's by its nature almost always concrete.

And because everyone can blunder at low level play a blunder doesn't mean you lose the game. It's with higher ELO that the game starts to become more punishing.

And you definitely can get to a good strength as an adult. 2000 is strong club level, which if you really want to do it is a few years of dedicated training. And even at your average club rating of say 1700-1800 you can play decent games.
Well, I guess it depends on the definition of "success". I tend to leave projects unfinished, so finishing my projects would be something I do care about. The projects are aimed toward collaboration, so adoption would be favorable... but I could also use the finished product by its own. It would just be rather lonely.

To wrap that thought up: I guess I don't care too much about success in regards to adoption and this becoming actually the world of VR after the C64-homecomputing-uesqueness that is the Quest and Meta et al.

In my free time I work on some projects at various scopes, and they built upon each other.

So, for a starter: currently I'm working on a plugin to enable me to use the janet language in godot. Because I like it. I think it was a mistake that javascript has the syntax that it has and even though I can't relocate the video that claimed that js originaly was supposed to be a lisp, this would have been magnificent! Well, as I said, I like it.

And I want to develop something in it: at first I want to bootstrap me an OS-shell in which I then could implement vr representations of tools like a filemanager and a spatial Lisp codetree editor. I will definetly need an integrated webbrowser that you could place anywhere like a TV. Also handy would be a way to peek and poke at the host operating systems desktop. Also an HTTP server. And while were at it also slap in some IPFS and GNS ( www.gnunet.org ) and the 9P protocol for good measure.

So that's as for how much software I guess I dream to write. Well, one key at a time.
But what would you want all this for?

Well, it is absolutely understandable that the zuck would have wet dreams over ready player one.

But instead, or even meanwhile, I could imagine a decentralised DIY scene of VR homebrewers: Let's imagine I pulled through and my software is setup and running on your VR machine. You load up the vrkbnch and it presents you with your garden of code; Your Lisp code is visualized as trees that you can modify with various tools to cut or copy or search and replace, you know, just like in a normal editor.
Well, I don't know yet if visualizing code like that is actually advantagous to software development in any way, but lets imagine this is the most efficient way to code in VR: you can grab your code "branches", cut them out and put something new in its place. I think it might be a neat idea and would like to try it out. ^^ Also I have some ideas for spatial vr keyboards...

So you got your garden in which you tend to your code and you can of course programmatically change your environment, you can add other rooms to your world and each room is just another VR experience you can been working on.

You can also create rooms that really are links to outside systems containing their "entrance" room, akin to an index.html file hosted on some webservers. Or perhaps a auto generated lobby that contains all their shared VR experiences?

Also, rooms could be packaged in fossil-scm.org repos. I really prefer how fossil keeps the repo in a sqlite db file over the mess that is /.git/

But yeah really at the beginning of that first project... but this is the big picture
Telegram as a corporate messenger, cloud storage and a tool for communication with customers are just some of its features. In this piece, you will learn how to use Telegram for business purposes.
Except hotels.com has been a nightmare lately too. The f-ing penguins! I’ll try to find an article and post it.
The issue isn't tooling, it's hardware resources and in some cases licencing.

While the problem isn't inherently trivial, the issues the tooling can solve is, which is the order of startup and is usually solved with a waitforit startup script, as these services generally talk over network with each other.

The real challenges, like determining seed data etc is too project specific to be abstracted away.

Not to take away from your problem domain, it would be nice to have framework to use so the developers don't have to wire the plumbing for these automations manually anymore - it's just not going to solve the issue that developers will have to wait for the ci pipeline to get their results
Sure, but don’t pretend AWS is purely driven by innovation and delivering value to customers. Just say that AWS is trying to extract as much money as customers are willing to pay regardless of how little something costs them because they have a moat.
What are you struggling with when trying to skip elements?

> Is it bad to use map?

No.
The airbnb style guide bans usage of forEach too for the same reasons
Build/Run a website archiving thing for the small-web (i.e. doesn't focus on the larger sites).
Based on this comment alone, I can tell you would enjoy "The moon is a harsh mistress" by Robert Heinlein. Recommended if you haven't read it already!
I still rarely see a sizeable project without a lodash dependency. It is sometimes just one or two of the single function npm packages though.
Remember when the wordle guy said he doesn’t care about money?

That was a few weeks before he sold it for millions.

Turns out he cared a lot about money after all.
Ask HN: Google Adwords Support Assistance
I've a problem with my AdWords account being paused and hoping anyone can help as the standard channels are making no progress.

This has happened when updating a few accounts from Individual to Organisation as a requirement to keep running Ads.

Basically I've submitted paperwork 11 days ago with this and 3 other accounts in a batch request. The guys updated 3 of the 4 billing profiles. The other 3 accounts (all pretty much identical to the one not done and standard ads, nothing dodgy grey zone to the rules) were updated quickly but seem to have missed one.

I've been following this up every day or 2 for over a week now and they keep telling me the account will be fixed today + they will contact me with update later that day but neither ever happens.

Now the account is paused and I've a very pissed off client.

Does anyone here have weight in Adwords world that could help? Something seems to be broken in the request process. I can't find any other escalation option so here I am.
Anecdotal, but I’ve canceled booking.com reservations probably 50+ times over the past decade without issue.

They certainly use nefarious UX patterns like “10 people just booked this location!!” But I’ve always found the “free cancellation by” dates to be reliable.

On the other hand, booking hotels directly is an absolute nightmare of interfacing with whatever broken systems the underfunded “IT” departments of said hotel have bolted on. At that point you might as well just call the front desk and wait 20 mins to be transferred to 3 different people.
‘Futurama’ Revival Ordered at Hulu with Multiple Original Cast Members Returning
Signal would either have to go to China or Russia (where it would dance to their tune) or shut down or quietly comply.

It would be "NoSignal" from this Act on.
Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis
I think you're a bit too optimistic on solar deployment for residential areas. Sure, you're probably right in California, but Norway won't be powering their homes through roof-top panels.

Also, most people don't live in single family homes, they live in 30-100 family apartment blocs, where even at the equator there won't be enough roof space to power the whole building through solar.

Wind does have a massive land use problem as well (as does hydro). In most of the world outside the USA, there aren't huge swaths of unused land anywhere near residential or industrial areas.

Which is why for example France has green-lit 6 new fission reactors, and the EU in general is looking at declaring fission green energy to get the required subsidies. This is also why Germany, that went all in on wind and solar and even has a few days each year where the entire grid is running on wind+solar+hydro, still produces about twice the GHG as France (both total and per capita).
I'm creating a video game. I am being way to ambitious, and I am sure to fail or give up along the way, but honestly working on it has been so much fun, that I don't really care. Programming it and seeing progress, as well as the occasional funny bug has made the entire progress so far really fun and motivating.

I've also immersed myself in game dev blogs and podcasts and similar, which is giving me new things to discover and learn about, so I no longer have that problem of "what am I going to watch on netflix tonight", since its a new world for me to discover. It's opened up the things I watch because I have never immersed myself in things like what makes a game engaging or similar, so its all new and interesting to me.

There's a chance I'll get tired of it eventually, but right now I don't see it happening. I'm not worried about not finishing because I've had fun along the way. It was worth it in that sense already.
There's a dedicated nft button on most full sized keyboards
One size doesn’t fit all. Wait until you’re bought by another multi billion dollar employer and expected to scale out to their workload…
This sounds quite illegal. I'd say don't do it and keep log of your communication with them. Also, talk to a lawyer.
Is your knowledge out of date? .NET Core is no more, we're on .NET 6 now.

What libraries are you referring to, because outside of niche things like WCF there's very little left that doesn't run on every OS .NET 6 runs on now. Of course COM won't run on Linux.
20 executives fired would be enough
On some level it makes intuitive sense that people listening to the moth would relate the stories they heard to other stories, either that they had experienced directly or indirectly, fictional or non-fictional. It does seem really personal and almost invasive regardless!

I can only assume/hope that people consent to bring imaged like this.
Why first time in history? Iraqi WMD? From Fox to NYT, all supported the invasion. Steele Dossier? All major media outlets (except Fox and OANN) supported its claims and took Russiagate as fact.
Rust API for the Firefox Profiler
But software developers know. Surely, surely, there can't be anybody who knows, understands and still supports this stuff‽
Anybody actually surprised ?
A fully self-hosted alternative to GMail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Keep and Google Drive (including the office suite apps), just as user-friendly and capable (in antispam, security, synchronization and so on).
I mentioned it in an earlier thread, but why can't we just select from indexes directly as if they were tables or views?

I mean sure, most of the time the DB is clever. But sometimes the developer knows best, why not provide the tools?

select i.OrderNumber, i.OrderDate, o.OrderShipped
from ix_Orders_OrderDate i
join Orders o on o.OrderNumber = i.OrderNumber
where i.OrderDate > '2022-02-01'
There's not caring about making £50/month from some AdSense code Vs not caring about a £xM payoff.

I'll allow them this one.
> birth lottery

Elon Musk was born in South Africa so compared to anyone born in the USA or EU he has lost the birth lottery, I guess.
Regardless of how you choose to interpret my comment, it is the case that both `break` and `continue` are literally never necessary, as those two constructs can be implemented in terms of `map` and `reduce`.
What Is a Metaverse?
You're confusing greatness with your approximation of goodness
> You can go five miles east instead of west

You can also go five miles south instead of west
That’s not critical ffs. Federal law requires all kinds of things that are not critical (I.e. does not even result in a fine for operating it on the road with it broken). Side curtain airbags, reverse, a rear view mirror, etc are all not critical nor legally required to operate a vehicle on the road.

Manufacturer mandates for general safety have only a small overlap with what is critical.
It's an illness of the epithelial tissues, - ie the surfaces of your organs, especially the insides of the vascular system that pumps the blood around your body - sure there's a lot of epithelial tissues in your lungs but they are all through your body, especially in the circulatory system and heart - it's not really surprising that damaging that results in strokes and heart attacks.

It's also not surprising that it results in the virus travelling through the entire body
That depends on the tokenization scheme.
You probably booked a VRBO accommodation; you have to be careful not to do that. Those really suck service wise. They might be nice and cheap but if something goes wrong, hotels.com isn't going to help you, while with the non-vrbo places they do. Places that are VRBO have a large VRBO logo next to them; they are not hotels.com bookings, just affiliates. Shitty, but I guess they found a way of making some more money.
That doesn't fix their problem. They want everyone on the same schedule so that some people aren't getting it earlier than others. They want everyone to start at the same time.
Is wood considered a polutant when not burnt?
In the UK at least, and in general I think, this is not really true. There is plenty of land that is marginal for arable farming purposes and this is what is targeted for wind farming.
Not heard of this particular script before (although I see the answer was already posted), but it seems a bit redundant to have created an incompatible system when shorthand was in widespread use in the UK at the time, albeit mostly only used in a secretarial context.
On the one hand yes, I find chess a miserable hobby sometimes for these exact reasons. On the other hand, I think it’s been a hugely valuable life lesson and a boon to my focus and willpower. But I don’t understand how you can think chess isn’t satisfying to weaker players. An attack that comes off, even if it’s unsound, is one of the most beautiful things in gaming for me.
Try not buying them.
> In the US the people elect a government

Considering that voting rates are around 60%, eligibility rules are often a joke, and most of those votes are typically wiped out by FPP anyway, it's more like some people elect a government...

This said, the US declassification system is as good as it gets. Most countries on the planet don't have anything comparable, and anything deemed a state secret will forever remain as such in those countries (at least officially, bar revolutions). Not even Western Europe is particularly good in that regard. Somewhat ironically, and particularly on Cold War matters, us Europeans are often keeping secrets that would otherwise embarrass the US government, which wouldn't be possible if US agencies kept them on their books.
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