MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-05-14 01:59:39+00:00
AirBNB forced hotels to MASSIVELY upgrade.

There used to be very few hotels with kitchenettes, any space really beside just a bed.

There's way more suite and kitchenette options.

Lots of people travel for longer than just a night or two, or to travel beyond just business, where you might want to be able to actually enjoy being in your private space.

Hotels weren't really designed for this.

They wanted you to never be in your room, and instead upselling you at the bar.

Now, you can pretty easily find relatively affordable hotels that have many different types of rooms layouts for all different purposes.

Now, that defeats a lot of the point in having an AirBNB.

As you said, AirBNB is really only good if you're traveling somewhere with lousy hotel options, you're going to be staying somewhere for a long time, or traveling in a huge group, or you want to host a rager party or something...
by AstroJetson | 2025-05-14 02:00:36+00:00
I would love to find Decaf cold brew, but it seems the only way is homemade. I do miss coffee after 20+ years. I grew up on “field engineering blend” where it poured like 40 weight motor oil.

Ditto on getting older sucks, but I’ve been told not getting older sucks worse.
by A1kmm | 2025-05-14 02:00:40+00:00
However, it also becomes a human intelligence vs system problem, where people are exchanging notes about the model offline in terms of how to get it to offer the most favourable outcome.

If the insurance company models loss-causing outputs as Bernoulli trials (i.e. each time the LLM is used, it is an independent and identically distributed event - equal chances of an error), but they are actually correlated due to information sharing, then that could make it harder for them.
by subpixel | 2025-05-14 02:01:03+00:00
People want a hotel like experience where it all just works.

Airbnb had novelty, inventory, and savings as its special sauce.

Nowadays we all know what a sub-par, overpriced Airbnb is like and it’s worse than a hotel because it’s usually far more inconvenient.

So we’re back to a hotel like experienced as the desire: convenience, available, and competitively priced.
by nine_k | 2025-05-14 02:01:39+00:00
Did you notice that the search at Amazon is not that precise? It's not because they could not make it more precise. Equally, did you notice how milk and bread are in the opposite end of the grocery store? It's not because they could not put them next to the entrance. I suspect that a similar factor can be in play here.

As of slowness, I suspect they don't have a DC an Australia, so your packets need to travel across Pacific and back.

I also suspect that their web site already brings enough customers, and a serious rework to make it more usable won't bring in many more customers, and any more money. Investing in that is likely a poor business decision. I bet their resources mostly go to protection from fraud, legal battles, and other non-engineering concerns.
by zwaps | 2025-05-14 02:01:52+00:00
I hate modern coffee. It tastes like sour water, or at best like tea.

It tastes nothing like good coffee, the properties of which we already figured out long ago eg. in a good Italian espresso.

And then these people dump all aggregates of milk in their 19ml of white roasted coffee, only to guarantee that they do not taste any coffee at all.

Here is a hint: If you do not like coffee, you are allowed not to drink it!

Save the rest of us from your unroasted, watery garbage.
by westondeboer | 2025-05-14 02:01:55+00:00
Shepard Fairey just announced a new print called “DEI-TY,” which critiques recent political efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the U.S.

Fairey is best known for his Obey Giant campaign and the Obama “Hope” poster. His work often explores the intersection of propaganda, design, and civic messaging.

This new release continues that tradition. It might spark discussion around the role of visual culture in public discourse and how artists respond to policy shifts.

Curious what others here think: Can politically charged art still move the needle, or has its impact faded?
by powersnail | 2025-05-14 02:02:21+00:00
> shampoo did nothing to your hair

I don't know the scope of "nothing" in your statement, but shampoo does help remove dirt and oil, in a way that washing with water only cannot achieve, which is the number one goal of using shampoo for most people.

This is verifiable by observing and touching hair of other people's hair before and after shower, which eliminates the possibility of shampoo manufacturers secretly altering what you perceive with your fingers.
by dayjah | 2025-05-14 02:02:53+00:00
The Airbnb review process is so weird I can only assume it’s actually broken.

Give someone three stars; which is “okay” (airbnbs own language) and you’re forced into specifying why a review (or part of a review) got three stars. The canned reasons are pretty negative (“felt unsafe”, etc). The “write in your own reason” option is limited to 50 characters.

So you’re incentivized to select 4 or 5 stars which allows you to click through the review without any other entry requirements.

I only give truthful reviews and I’ve only had three cases (out of ~70 stays) where the host was an asshat in response.
by int_19h | 2025-05-14 02:03:08+00:00
Serfdom was not universal in Europe, not even at the time when it peaked.

However, OP didn't talk about owning land but rather about "permanent land rights", which usually means the right to use land. That is, it would still be owned by the feudal, who might be able to sell it to another feudal, but the peasants that lived on it and farmed it were necessarily part of the deal and couldn't be just removed from the land at a whim. That was not an uncommon arrangement even in places that had serfdom.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-14 02:04:08+00:00
> you can feel that shampoo did nothing to your hair

Huh? It removes oil and dirt.

If I go for a couple days without washing my hair it gets greasy and gross. Water by itself doesn't remove oil buildup.

And yes of course it's like soap. But it's milder. Technically it's a detergent because soap is too harsh.

I've never heard anyone say shampoo is a scam, this is definitely a first...
by jampa | 2025-05-14 02:05:10+00:00
There are even more search issues that sometimes make it unusable:

- Impossible to filter / search by rating, which is a must-have if I am going to travel, no way I am risking staying at a first-time host, a lot of horror stories from forgetting bedsheets to outright scams.

- There is no way to see the precise location, which is understandable for safety in some places (mostly listings in areas with "single-family" similar neighborhoods, like Orlando suburbs, you don't want to advertise your home as "available"). But, in some cities, for example, in Rio, a large radius can make you uncertain if the apartment listing is beachside or in the favela's entrance.
by strken | 2025-05-14 02:05:21+00:00
While there are scepticism and hostility as a result of fear, I think HN is often so focused on trying to understand the world that it neglects to consider the people. I read most of the scepticism as being more about reconciling two conflicting bits of information. It's an impulse towards risk management, not fear management.

I've been helping a friend interview, as well as casually keeping an eye out for a new job myself, and we've noticed that the market is down, but we're still employed, still seeing messages from LinkedIn recruiters and positions on job boards, and my friend is still getting interviews. I got this job a year ago, got an interview for every position I applied to, and this was the top of my list. Meanwhile, Shawn K has applied to nearly a thousand jobs and is driving for DoorDash. What's different? Have things changed in the last 12 months? Are my friend and I also going to be in trouble? How do our resumes differ? What lessons can I learn? Am I safe?

The unfortunate reality of seeing a car crash is that the first thing we do is slow down our speed, tighten up our driving, search for hazards on the road ahead, and look to our own safety. Only after all that do we think "I hope they're okay".
by 9283409232 | 2025-05-14 02:06:05+00:00
Airbnb has been trying to push their "experiences" and they are mostly bad. The ones that were recommended to me were either far out of my target city or very nondescript. I hope more cities start to regulate Airbnb out of existence. I was comparing hotels and Airbnbs for a recent trip and found 25 houses that were Airbnbs owned by the same person. Completely absurd.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-14 02:06:07+00:00
> It's more comprehensively safe than Rust

Yeah. By adding a runtime.

> Fil-C achieves this using a combination of concurrent garbage collection and invisible capabilities (each pointer in memory has a corresponding capability, not visible to the C address space)

https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/tree/delug...
by toast0 | 2025-05-14 02:06:11+00:00
I dunno. Coffee flavored beverages are objectively bad coffee, but can be appealing to coffee dislikers. I used to hate coffee and love coffee ice cream.

Now I drink coffee with a lot of cream (but no sweetener), which is kind of the same idea. My pallete has matured enough for me to prefer not to have k-cups, but not much further than that.
by 9283409232 | 2025-05-14 02:08:14+00:00
Maybe I'm just not in the right cities but people say 2 things: Airbnbs are just as expensive as hotels and hotels have upgraded and I never see these two things as true. Airbnbs are typically cheaper than hotels and hotels, at least where I travel are still just a bed and a bath. Extended stay hotels have kitchenettes but extended stay hotels have always had kitchenettes and they were always the most expensive options because they are typically purchased by businessmen who have high budgets.
by nine_k | 2025-05-14 02:08:31+00:00
AirBnB allows you to find a temporary dwelling in places where hotels are few, or absent.

AirBnB also provides extra capacity when a city or town gets overcrowded due to an event (matches, concerts, convents, etc). Building a proper hotel is much more capital intensive than converting a house or an apartment into an AirBnB place, and back into a normal long-term rent unit, or your own abode, when needed.
by juancn | 2025-05-14 02:09:11+00:00
Building the set of used files or objects (which is what mark does in a mark/sweep).

Sometimes it's too expensive to mark in place, even if it's a bit that you need to write to disk and keeping a set of references may be prohibitive (or the structure holding the references is mostly/effectively immutable).

If it's all memory and mutable it doesn't (normally) really matter, but when it's not, you ideally would have some mechanism to move the code to where the data is, rather than stream the data to where the compute is (it is really wasteful for large scale data processing).

In any case, you would not be moving/scanning the files themselves, but the metadata is what you want to read for the mark phase.

The article if I understood correctly implies that the files and the metadata of the files (Kafka queues and so on) are separate, so presumably, the metadata is much much smaller than the data itself, but still potentially large.

For example if you had a large scale content addressed store (think a massive version of git's blob storage), you typically add to something like that and keep a few mutable root references to start your GC from to seed a mark/sweep.

Following the git example, the roots would be the branches, tags and reflogs, and the metadata you scan the transitive closur of the trees that are reachable from those (simplifying a bit) but not the file blobs themselves.

I use git as an example because a a CAS lends itself very well to large scale distributed systems because you can reason about it as an immutable data structure, but you can still change it effectively with sane semantics.
by avmich | 2025-05-14 02:09:19+00:00
> A modern authentication flow in 2025 should be built around strong, user-friendly, standards-based mechanisms: > Passkeys (FIDO2/WebAuthn): Phishing-resistant, device-based login using biometrics.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I heard that using biometrics for authentication was found bad some years ago and other ways for that were required?
by shadowgovt | 2025-05-14 02:09:49+00:00
The conspiracy theory is that the immigration policy is about encouraging demographic shift because it benefits some politicians over others (as opposed to other explanations such as "There's only but so much you can do to discourage immigration before it crosses over into 'cruelty unbecoming a civilized society'"). It really doesn't hold up to scrutiny of either evidence (Latinos supported Trump significantly in the 2024 election) or common sense ("if immigrants cause problems, wouldn't politicians supporting free immigration lose votes, not gain them? So you end up with a state with more representation but then you hand the representation immediately to the other party? Who benefits?").

> Trump closed the border within weeks

Then what happened?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/the-us-tr...

Here's a counter-hypothesis: Maybe the Dems didn't do that when they were in power because it was a very stupid idea. There are many, many ways to "solve" the border problem that leave the country far worse off than when the problem was just unsolved. What is your trust level in this administration finding them?

> We are in the very early stages of major change and disruption

On this, we agree. Though I suspect you're thinking more "new, better America" and I'm thinking "Fall of Rome." His last term ended with a barely-managed pandemic; maybe he can top himself in round 2.
by iLemming | 2025-05-14 02:10:07+00:00
Yeah well, if you choose unwisely, you may end up having a name typical for a lower caste, and then you'd get bullied by your "compatriots". Jokes aside, apparently it's a real thing — I've heard some nasty stories about devs of South-Asian descent with caste differences on the team.

Before you get appalled by this "news", let me remind you — the caste system in India has existed for over 3000 years and was formally abolished only in the 1950s. Also the long history of cuisine culture in China and Korea includes dog meat consumption. The point I'm trying to make — some aspects of Western culture might sound equally terrible to others, if not worse.
by kortilla | 2025-05-14 02:10:31+00:00
Some regulations are written in blood, a huge chunk are not. Shower head flow rate regulations were not written in blood.

Your post started out talking about labor laws but then switched to the FDA, which is very different. This is one of the reasons that people like the DOGE employees are tearing things apart. There are so many false equivalences on the importance of literally everything the government does that they look at things that are clearly useless and start to pull apart things they think might be useless.

The good will has been burned on the “trust me, the government knows best”, so now we’re in an era of cuts that will absolutely go too far and cause damage.

Your post mentioning “imagined inefficiencies” is a shining example of the issue of why they are there. Thinking the government doesn’t have inefficiencies is as dumb as thinking it’s pointless. Politicians are about as corrupt of a group as you can get and budget bills are filled with so much excess waste it’s literally called “pork”.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-14 02:10:41+00:00
If it’s a link I find interesting, I take an excerpt of it and the link and post it on my personal blog. It’s not really even for public consumption as it is for both a public link blog for myself and where I post longer “thought pieces” that may later get copied to LinkedIn after I edit them a few times.

If I find an interesting link on HN, I’ll favorite it and post the link to the article and the HN discussion.

You have every right to throw up a little bit about the performative nature of LinkedIn. But in my niche, it’s the nature of the beast.

I do keep a copy of my career document where I note any major accomplishments and the details in STAR format for future projects, review times, 1x1’s and interviews in now a private Notion page.
by d-moon | 2025-05-14 02:11:15+00:00
- radhard electronics require a different sdk to maintain good seu/tid, and also require a higher layout overhead to maintain these metrics.

- radhard sdks aren't offered at sota node sizes.

- they are much much more expensive

If they can partner with a chipmaker (AMD :^)) and use that as a way to collect some meaningful data, that would be useful at the very least.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-14 02:12:27+00:00
> Do we still retain curiosity about the world around us?

If I don't, then it's mighty strange that I've been binging Groucho Marx interviewing random people from the audience in the 1950s show You Bet Your Life for the past few hours, and his fascinating interviews with Dick Cavette and William Buckley Jr.

Anyway yeah that's literally the main reason any of us are on HN. Besides procrastinating.
by femto | 2025-05-14 02:13:42+00:00
Don't know. The customer ran a radio network which was used by fire brigade(s?) in NY, so we weren't on the "coal face". It was about 15 years ago.

It was an interesting job. Among other things, our gear ran stage management for a couple of Olympic opening ceremonies. Reliability was key given the size of the audience. We also did gear for the USGC, covering the entire US coastline. If you placed an emergency call at sea, it was our radios that were receiving that signal and passing it into the USCG's network.
by arp242 | 2025-05-14 02:14:10+00:00
> tmux is great but it's way too powerful for the 90% use case of screen - which is "let this process continue to run even if I disconnect or logout".

I guess, but does it really get in the way?

I use tmux only for scrollback and having multiple "tabs" and sessions, and not much else. But the more advanced stuff like splits and whatnot never really get in my way.
by kevinsync | 2025-05-14 02:14:33+00:00
I'm hesitant to reply because it sounds pejorative and snarky, and I will be downvoted, but... you are not the target market for this. End of story.

This design is very 2025 and the rules you're judging by have long-since been thrown out the window. Most brands run on Shopify now, marketing is via myriad social channels in ways that feel insane and unintuitive, aesthetics are all over the map.

What's old is new is old is different is the same is good is bad, and what is garish to you (strangely, honestly) isn't to most; you'll see if you hang out with some young people lol, promise.

P.S. I am not young, I'm figuring this out by watching from afar HAHAHA
by bsimpson | 2025-05-14 02:14:47+00:00
With lodging, they have the risk of people finding a listing off-platform and paying cash, but because lodging is such a key aspect of a trip, people are often willing to pay the premium to have everything vetted/supported by Airbnb.

With personal services, they're risking having that problem at a lot bigger scale: are you willing to pay your barber or masseuse 18% extra to cover Airbnb's commission? I suspect a lot of people would use Airbnb to find a reputable provider, and then make contact off-platform.
by pizlonator | 2025-05-14 02:15:17+00:00
> Yeah. By adding a runtime.

So? That doesn't make it any less safe or useful.

In almost all uses of C and C++, the language already has a runtime. In the Gnu universe, it's the combination of libgcc, the loader, the various crt entrypoints, and libc. In the Apple version, it's libcompiler_rt and libSystem.

Fil-C certainly adds more to the runtime, but it's not like there was no runtime before.
by JohnMakin | 2025-05-14 02:15:36+00:00
I am not a chronic traveler but never understood the appeal of airbnb. Most low-mid to midrange chain hotels offer reasonably clean rooms for equivalent (or sometimes cheaper) price than airbnb after fees and I don’t need to play housekeeper either, or worry about weird owners, which seems to me like the whole nice thing about renting a short term place to sleep.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-05-14 02:16:24+00:00
This looks really interesting! Optimisation problems like this are so much fun to solve and seem like such a natural fit for the SaaS model.

Could you give more of an idea about how much it "took off"? Based on earlier comments of yours, it seems that you have some paying customers. Has it grown very gradually? Do you have much churn?

Also curious how you have been splitting your time between algorithm development for the underlying optimisation problem (probably the most interesting part to me!), AI front-end (a neat value-add on top), marketing and dealing with support? If you have the time and energy, I'm sure a blog post or similar would be interesting to many people.
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-14 02:16:47+00:00
Warning against Shanling devices. I bought a M0 Pro and it worked fine for about a year and then stone dead. No customer support at all.

Now I'm looking at the Sony Walkman waterproof headband MP3 players. They were released almost 10 years ago, but price, function and quality seem to be good. No FLAC for you though.
by fisherjeff | 2025-05-14 02:17:29+00:00
Think of normal mode more like adaptive cruise control with lane keeping. When everything works, it’s much easier to control the car, but if the data necessary to feed the control laws go bad, the car has to drop back to the regular old gas/brake + steering wheel (i.e., direct mode) or it may crash. Getting the handover right is obviously tricky though.

In this case, if your IMU or airspeed data looks bad, your attitude estimate can’t be relied on and you can’t be certain that any derived values you’re controlling to are valid or stable. Current designs assume the best course of action in those cases is to hand control over to the pilot.
by tharkun__ | 2025-05-14 02:17:50+00:00
It's the "ponzi scheme of capitalism". We're all playing because we've not come up with another better way yet. We've tried others but they weren't great either for various reasons / still are.

It should be clear to everyone that you can't forever grow profits, even if you assume that you're the only company in that segment. At some point you simply run out of uncaptured market to grow from. But you "have to grow" and you even have to grow the rate at which you grow.

Of course that leads to certain incentives. Especially if there actually are competitors in play. And then throw in inflation in general and some of your "growth" is actually eaten up by inflation too.

If there's a winner somewhere that means there's a looser somewhere else. It applies in business overall and in the stock market. If you make a profit from selling high after buying low, there's someone that sold to you at the lower price and they lost (either they lost out on more growth or even made an actual loss overall because they bought even higher).

The whole idea of "value add" is really just "exploitation" in various forms in many cases. You need a raw materials supplier to add your value. That raw materials supplier could've just taken the raw materials and "added value" themselves. But instead you got them to sell to you somehow and they lost (for whatever reason, such as missing knowledge, missing capital etc.). Over time that might change and they acquire those things and take over. Little by little. Bow you're the looser.
by lmm | 2025-05-14 02:18:19+00:00
> we were going to throw out our desktops and do all our work on phones and tablets! (Someone who kept insisting on this finally admitted that they couldn't do a spreadsheet on a phone or tablet.)

We're almost there. The cool kids are already using 12" touchscreen ARM devices that people from 10 or 20 years ago would probably think of as tablets. Some kinds of work benefit greatly from a keyboard, but that doesn't necessarily mean you want oneall the time - I still think the future is either 360-fold laptops with a good tablet mode (indeed that's the present for me, my main machine is a HP Envy) or something like the MS Surface line with their detachable "keyboard cover".