skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Airbnb there is one price displayed on the map (the daily rate), then when you click on a place, the fees are added and the price changes. But that still doesn't include tax and local fees which add more to the price when you go to confirm. So what you see on the map is quite less than the final price.

I believe there are laws in some locations that make Airbnb show the price upfront on the map and they do for those places. But it doesn't seem to be the norm in the US.
When you target Americans, you can use a single language to hit 239 million people with their native/first language. You can't do that in Europe.
Unless you're buying domains in bulk, a .com is going to be ~$11/yr even for a reseller. So Cloudflare is assuming you'll buy some additional service down the line. Domain registration is a loss leader. You should be aware of this. I agree $60/yr is high. I'm sure NetSol tacked on all kinds of BS "features" to justify that. But the bottomline is you can't make money selling domains alone.
What do you mean by "positive value"? Isn't any winnings positive, regardless how taxed?
IMO, multi cloud is the future, just as eggs can’t be in one basket. I’ve been building a distributed database for more than 7 years, and find that many of our customers had been using different databases in different cloud vendors before they migrate to our product. E.g, one customer used Azure MySQL, Cloud SQL for MySQL, Aurora for MySQL.

Another thing I find vendor lock-in is not nice, for example, one customer, which is also a big customer of one cloud vendor, has suffered a lot from the cloud vendor’s own database. The customer finds the database it is not stable when its data size grows, has to spent a long and tough time to upgrade to the new version regularly, couldn’t get a good-enough service it expected before.

IMO, not only for our database, but also for other applications on the cloud, supporting multi cloud is mostly a MUST. And we also need to build an easy-to-use product, provide a good-enough service for our customers.
Gnome commander is OK for me; where does it fit on the family tree? 'tis easier for me to let my eyeballs do the walking than to figure out and type a regex that is going to find just what I want.
Gaming the algorithm clogs up the recommendations system and folks end up with trash reccomendations.
Thanks! I've changed the URL to that from https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/everybodys-free-to-wear-s.... More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32334595.
I've put in production numerous models with millions of tabular data points and a 10^5-10^6 feature space where tree-based models (or FF nets) outperform more complex DL approaches.
Only if it's more efficient than the alternative.

It may be that having special cases and extra complexity has a higher overhead than just getting everyone to use the same path, even if that looks like "more" work from a distance.

I dread to think how this may work if an individual has multiple income streams, some possibly for the public sector (so would be tax exempt), and how that may affect the total used to calculate tax brackets and similar. And the politics of defining that - no doubt whatever rules you use for this they'll be some situations that people consider unfair.

It also makes it easier to compare income against the private sector, as each dollar income means exactly the same if both then go through the same tax system.

The US tax system is already designed to put as much burden on the individual as possible (for whatever reason - possibly mostly lobbying from the industry that has grown up around this complexity) - more complexity feels pretty bad to me.
6k seems to be a really low payout given the potential impact (particularly with respect to personal data), the work needed to discover such vulnerabilities, the revenue of cloudflare and the potential money that could be made by a blackhead. Or am I naive?
The United States Water Crisis
Many real world problems that result in data are decidedly medium: small enough to fit in excel, large enough to be too big to comfortable handle in excel.
Thank you for your nice words!
Frankly, it is the first time we have made this feature public. We've been running it on some of our friendly projects and just reached the point when we have confidence in taking new clients.
I believe free online materials can be tremendously valuable, but...

> To see how effective these courses can be, look at Big History’s impact on students’ writing skills, and particularly how it helps close the gap between high- and low-income students. At the beginning and end of the school year, teachers who use the course get a measure of how well each of their students is writing. According to the OER Project’s internal data, on average, only 26 percent of the students taking Big History in low-income schools start the academic year rated “proficient” or better in writing. By the end of the school year, that number has jumped to 62 percent—which is roughly on par with Big History students at private schools.

Color me skeptical that a history course can magically turn students into proficient writers over one school year.
Think of it this way. If you didn't do this for 7 years, would you have regretted it ? There are lot of people who are stuck in their miserable corporate/shitty jobs and want to do their own thing. Are they really better off than you ? I would say No. You did something YOU wanted to do. Even if it failed, you learned a lot and should have no regrets. You did what you wanted to do. Many of us don't have that luxury or the guts.
In the US, one of the loopholes in rules requiring STIR/SHAKEN and other protections was that smaller carriers, usually serving rural or under served markets, were exempt. This became a profit center for them as they became one of the only means for these spam calls, which originated in overseas call centers, to connect to US callers.

Thus the smaller carriers were incentivized by profit to connect the calls.
> I feel the opposite, these kinds of projects imho are just moving terminals away from their key benefits, being simple, predictable, brutally functional with no gratuitous animations or flourishes

This stuff is not "new" at all. It's just the latest twist on the ANSI art of old, and the use case is similar.
Psychedelics can be extremely helpful for most people.

But don't ever give LSD to somebody fighting schizophrenia. It will not turn out well. But I have seen MDMA lead them to believe actual treatment is possible, and find it.
Why would a human do that, and why would it work?

How would that work for effectively finding the boundary of an ellipse or a spiral shaped set?
First sergeant*
Based on the performance of publicly listed companies in the last 15 years, the stock market has rewarded companies with great cash flow, high profits, and relatively rosy outlooks.

Of course there is an underlying assumption the government will bail out simultaneous/systemic big failures, but it does not seem accurate to assume any random business will be bailed out.

Edit : fixed typo
> The carriers are clearly customer-hostile

It’s actually not the carriers. The carriers actual try to actively block spam.

It’s actual the Twilio’s of the world that originate the bulk of the spam.
MC meets MS Word, no thanks, MC already has everything + fluffy feeling you are on 80386. Sometimes I just go there to relax
How many "normies" know what an IP address is?
Possibly because it reduces the available jobs for humans in the area?
> What meaningful file operations do people do day-to-day?

Copying stuff out of my Downloads folder, for one. I tried doing that with MacOs' Alfred for a while (select in finder -> shortcut -> fuzzy search destination -> move to), but a decent enough bookmark system in a two-panel folder works better for me.

I also often just dump new documents in a standard location and reorganize it later, as that's more user friendly than your average file requester and postpones one of IT and life's hard problems.

All in all, pretty similar to what I did on my 286. There's a little bit more file search involved (at least on my Mac, less so on Linux) and iTunes/cdrip/beets took a lot of effort out of organizing music.

Sure, I don't need a secondary fm for that, but then again, I don't really need a git client/IDE, either.
These

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery

could make a big difference in grid scale storage.
I can't recall ever having the screen blank when I was actively using the information on the screen--that implies everything you need being on one screen, something I find very rare.

Blanking when thinking or diagramming is another matter, that's happened to me plenty of times. It's been a long time since I've written much of anything in the way of paper notes, unless what I want isn't text it's easier to just open an instance of notepad on another monitor.
> I feel like I am intentionally being taken advantage of by TikTok.

Well, you are. That's true for all of the "attention economy".
Someone mentioned it on a Django forum thread about async ORM [0]. It seems to have been ignored. Super cool idea and execution! I hope it gets some more exposure.

[0] https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/asynchronous-orm/5925/51
> Is it because file usage in general has declined? Generally mabye, but not in that target demographic.

Absolutely file usage has declined, even among power users.

My god, two decades ago everything was files -- my MP3 collection, all the photos I'd ever taken, everything I'd ever written. My whole life organization was based around organizing files inside of folders.

Now it's all Spotify, Photos, Docs. Everything is search-based rather than folder-based, thank god. A handful of playlists, starred items, a handful of folders for select projects, and that's it.

And then all of the power user stuff, when it comes to coding or otherwise advanced processing of files with data? It's all command-line now, also thank god -- you can do pretty much anything you want, rather than be limited to the feature set of your secondary file manager. The command line was pretty limited in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Now we're thankfully in a different era.
I'm considering porting git-crecord to it, but the lack of documentation isn't particularly motivating :)
Which is more evidence that "around 2000" is on the earlier side of "around".
Yeah I guess I've only worked in those big 500 companies.
^ The fact I haven't lived in my numbers area code for a few decades as well I've noticed the exact same thing. If I don't have a contact for a number from that areacode it is 99.99999% chance of being a scam.
Oh! I took that to mean that you thought Airflow shouldn't do it, not that Airflow thought Airflow shouldn't do it.
We put processes in place because not everyone is an expert and because humans make mistakes. Shipping new features at a company of CloudFlare's maturity and scope should have a launch checklist. That checklist should include verifying the security of new API endpoints. This was a big goof up and I think my criticism is warranted, though I could have worded it more charitably.
"The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself"
"This isn't the first data issue for Equifax. In 2017, the company revealed that the personal information of nearly 150 million people was compromised. The company eventually reached a deal to pay up to $700 million to state and federal regulators to settle probes related to the incident, the largest settlement ever paid for a data breach."

They have a history of screw-ups and yet they are still in the credit reporting business.

Perhaps they need their trustworthiness score lowered so that customers will know that they are not reliable.
This sounds like the pitch I got from a friend who drank the Theranos kool-aid.
Listening to uninterrupted noise helped millions to focus
Make your own cardboard DIY arcade games with Tinycade
> Wen did you last see Magnus play on Chess.com?

About 10 weeks ago.

https://zwischenzug.substack.com/p/magnus-dominates-titled-t...
Depends on the country. I think it comes down to availability of cheap labour for call-based vectors.

French numbers can get tons of spam calls, because there’s no shortage of impoverished French speakers in the world.
They're having stack overflow?
I was in high school when this came out so I can recite this song word-for-word because in 1999, it was all over MTV, the radio, and most importantly, on Napster. I remember the original 1997 edit (even though I first heard it in 1999), because that was the version I downloaded off of Napster as a 15 year old.

Even back then, there were all sorts of weird attributions to it (I think that my Napster copy had a Kurt Vonnegut credits, though the author was Baz Luhrmann in the meta data) and conspiracies about it. But I remember learning fairly early that it was some newspaper column.

The other part of this is that the 7:10 version has the “Everybody’s Free” sample from Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” — which like every other 13 year old girl in 1997, was a soundtrack I knew backwards/forwards/upside down/verbatim.

Like the people on the podcast, this has remained a weird earworm that I can just recall instantly in weird places.

What a weird but great song. And as I am now in my late 30s, the advice is good!
Ok, so this normally tackle in Clojure using namespace keywords correct?
* Fortunately the Unicode database contains a mapping of which characters are single width and which are double. Rich (and Textual) will look up this database for every character it prints. Its not a cheap operation, but with a bit of engineering effort and caching (see lru_cache) it is fast enough. *

A bitmap sounds suitably compact and fast. There are likely to be large intervals of double-only or single-only items so it may be even smaller.

Regarding your hiring it would be nice to actually get a reply, and say why if you don't want a person.
As a schizophrenic I'm super interested in obtaining a source code and a dataset
Netflix’s lawsuit against the ‘Bridgerton Musical’ could change online fandom
You are saying it sounds as if he his explicit denial is what he was saying? You're like a kid that hears another kid getting upset at a mispronunciation of their name. "My name is John," he whines. "Sounds like you are Joonnna," you taunt. It is an exceedingly childish thing to do. Maybe others here aren't mature enough to realize you are being a bully, but I'm not stupid enough to think that "not X" said with emotional force means something "sounds like X". I'd also rather give this response rather than making spyware go through the humiliation of repeating himself. He got downvoted because he cussed, not because intentionally distorting what people say is funny.
Aren't the robocallers paying for VoIP services now?
Fair enough. I've only ended up staying at an AirBnB once so I'm not terribly familiar with their interface.
Having worked at a car dealership some number of years ago I was surprised and amused by the way that this business has been soaked in (what would only recently come to be referred to as) dark patterns for so long that they have acquired an almost folkloric categorization scheme, with pithy, locally conventional names identifying almost every well-worn dark pattern sales track. The one they'd use internally to sum over your experience above is "sticker is quicker."

I think my favorite out of all of these was "grapes;" the term used by Ford salesmen to refer to fiercely brand loyal pickup truck buyers. juicy and easily squeezed.
>"the goal should be to counteract the fundamental forces pushing manufacturing to geopolitically risky regions, and Intel is the only real conduit available to do that."

I wonder if it's fair to assume based on this the US gov will prop up intel as a foundry for as long as necessary, to secure it's own supply and reduce reliance on Taiwan/TSMC.
The major carriers have this but charge for it. Like $5/mo. It's pretty sad.
That’s a pretty great algorithm.

Here’s why I use Cytron’s: you’ll want dominator trees anyway since they provide amazing short-circuit solutions to lots of otherwise annoying problems. Once you have an implementation of dom trees, it’s so easy to implement dominance frontiers, and then it’s trivial to just compute the optimal phi placement from the frontiers.

And then you can reuse the results of the dom analysis for other optimizations downstream from SSA conversion.

So, it’s not that Braun et al is a bad algorithm or that it’s harder to implement in isolation. It’s that Braun’s is harder to implement if you have already built a dom analysis, and you’ll eventually want the dom analysis anyway. So might as well start there.
This sounds so similar to the shit I've heard about the end of Stan Lee's life, except I think the villains were his children-in-law rather than business partners?

I wonder how many similar stories are happening, or about to happen, to people who built a lucrative business around their job as social media influencers.
Aside from what others have pointed out that it's perfectly okay for a scientific study to have limited scope and not try to solve the entire problem of how to lose weight and keep it off, which inherently requires following and monitoring people for a very long time, even the case you're describing here isn't necessarily all bad.

Given a person undergoes an intervention, succeeds in losing 40 pounds, then gains it all back over the next five years, that sounds like failure in a vacuum, but that means they spent five years not gaining more weight. If the non-intervention counterfactual is they would have ended up 40 pounds even heavier, then intervention is still a win. Yo-yo dieting with lifetime net zero progress is still better than steadily getting fatter for the rest of your life.
Consider that a lot of people were going to war until recently ...
How much co2 will this release and can we afford it?
Here's a working link to Kiwix since the link on the page 404s: https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/
I'm currently fully burned out at my job and contemplating (and soon working towards) a career shift from fintech to something (hopefully) more creative. It's absolutely terrifying, in a capitalist society, to consider voluntarily leaving a high-paying job with no guarantee of finding a better one, especially when there are mortgages and bills to pay; so I fully relate to the fear and depression and misery. Especially when I've had four years of being proud of what I contributed to my job, and now hate it all.

All I can say is good luck, friend, and hopefully we'll both find a better source of both income and fulfillment soon!
Well, grandma does need her bloodwork results. And she's the one most likely to fall for a robocall scam anyway.

And do you think illicit callers are going to follow the law? They're already committing wire fraud, and the software already exists.
I have a theory - tree based models require minimal feature engineering. They are capable of handling categorical data in principled ways, they can handle the most skewed/multimodal/heteroskedastic continuous numeric data just as easily as a 0-1 scaled normal distribution, and they are easy to regularize compared to a DL model (which could have untold millions of possible parameter combinations, let alone getting the thing to train to a global optimum).

I think if you spent months getting your data and model structure to a good place, you could certainly get a DL model to out-perform a gradient boosted tree. But why do that, when the GBT will be done today?
Do you estimate the analyte levels and then use those to calculate your summary statistics (bio age, polyamines level, etc) or do you estimate the summary stats directly from the spec data?
Too bad it's not TUI, I was hoping to see an improved version of midnight commander :)
Back in the 00's, the J2ME IRC channel was perfect for this. You could describe an architecture or an implementation and get different views from friendly expert peers. Non-toxic, too.

The C channel was the opposite. Any question was met with "google it" or "we're not going to do your homework for you." If the question was really specific, then the conversation turned to how it wasn't good for discussion in this channel because it was machine dependent.
...and you were probably making kick ass gourmet hot dogs, but just couldn't make the unit economics work.
Yes, we are taking this topic very seriously, especially in the light of recent genetic testing controversies. We will work hard on not only making the science behind our reports solid, but also making sure that the reports are communicated clearly. Early generations of the technology will mostly focus on overall health status and fitness. As for disease diagnosis, every single case will be worked out individually, will be tested, and will also be subject to regulatory scrutiny.
The carriers could absolutely implement authenticated caller id as a very first start. Then, you can at least trust the caller ID and screen/block effectively.
Things seem to be improving: I’m getting fewer and fewer “neighbourhood” calls.

I suspect the vector is moving away from VoIP systems and more toward buying masses of prepaid plans and stuffing them into various contraptions that hold hundreds of sims to blast out messages/calls.

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005004095035108.html
You seem to have a strong belief that reality has objective definition, and that yours is it.

Much of the value of psychedelics is in unseating us from assuming that what we have always thought was real necessarily is. In most cases it mostly is not. Yes, rocks are hard, and fog is soft, but the ways the world works are very different from what we picked up as children. It is extremely rare for people to have rethought everything in light of later experience, so most cling to falsehoods they have not examined.

Psychedelics do not convince you that falsehoods are true. They help you question things that often enough turn out not to be true.

Afterward you still might believe things that are not true, but that was where you started.
This is PRECISELY why Equifax needs to have the hammer dropped on them: they are screwing the people who need a break the most, and this is in situations where people cannot select a credit reporting agency. Equifax an involuntary monopoly where service providers/retailers only use Equifax (or use them and one other agency but default to the lower credit score because reselling those loans nets more of a referral fee to the dealer/retailer in question).
I was just curious about how these rates scale with inflation, seems like 1972 to now is a factor of 7.13, so $2.15 would be $15.33, and $5 would be $35.65
As soon as my 2nd vax dose was 14d behind-me in May 2021, I went to Iceland – which had just recently reopened to vaxed travelers – to see the Fagradalsfjall eruption. It was just a ~50m drive from Reykjavik, plus a ~1h20m hike.

It was spectacular - launching large lava plumes on a roughly 8-minute, reliable cycle, and feeding ever-growing lava fields out around both sides of one hilltop that was ideal for watching the volcano. (The rising lava fields made that perch unreachable just a few weeks later.)

If you've ever wanted to see an eruption up-close, with actual hot flowing lava, get there while it's going/growing. (Of course, this could stop tomorrow or continue for months.)

A good writeup about that time of volcano-tourism: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/chasing-the-la...
It's not recent but IRC is good for authentic human online engagements.
Interesting, so do you avoid describing one programming language as being "more powerful" than another? They're all Turing complete, after all... it's just a question of how fast you can develop in one, right?