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by janosett | 2025-05-14 08:06:17+00:00
Anywhere you could build a hotel you could also build more housing, so they pose the same issue. There is necessarily some tension between using space for permanent housing and using it for tourism / short term stays. Tourism often keeps a city's economy healthy, and having short term stays is important for those visiting even for non-tourism reasons (e.g. in town to visit family, for work, etc).

The housing issue is more complex than just Airbnb / short-term housing as well: is there enough housing investment? what is the effect of international or corporate investment? are local regulations supporting or sabotaging the effort to build more housing? is there a large speculation market?
by justsomehnguy | 2025-05-14 08:07:12+00:00
> just plug and play into my laptop?

Yes. It literally protects your precious photos from being stolen if you plug your phone somewhere else, but the only thing you need to pull down the notification bar and tap to allow the file transfer.

Like it notifies you when you plug it in, if you didn't notice it even once - how can it be not a skill issue?

> is it a skill issue that swiping from the left goes back to the previous page and swiping from the right also goes back to the previous page

... in what app? If this is Chrome then ask Google why. Or install Firefox, DuckDuckGo or whatever else.

> is it a skill issue that google translate requires me to have the google search app installed

Yes, Google tries to stick it's d** everywhere. Just like Apple, though you don't talk shit about Greatest Jobs' Company, because you like it.

BTW, I have an official Google Translate app and I don't have the Search bullshit on the home screen. I literally have nothing except DDG and Camera shortcuts. Android 12, Moto G8. Because you know, you can disable apps.
by robertlagrant | 2025-05-14 08:07:43+00:00
> Probably you're thinking it'd be absurd for them to even ask such a thing.

No, there are loads of people who work as independent contractors, who are then allowed to work for other clients.

> Why? Because this is a matter of class, and the worker isn't of the right social class to be afforded such liberty, while others are.

Then moving social class is merely a matter of becoming an independent contractor.
by eb0la | 2025-05-14 08:08:32+00:00
I had a project related to this in a big telco about 10 years ago. We used Citrix because a lot of apps were not native (yet).

Women in tech loved the concept: instead of carrying a laptop they could use the medium-size tablet we provided and have a wireless mouse and keyboard both at the office and at home. We also provided a monitor for both home and the office.

The project didn't lauch commercially because in our tests the microusb to micro-hdmi cables caused a lot of issues and management decided against it.
by liampulles | 2025-05-14 08:08:46+00:00
Here in South Africa, we have "Taxis", which are individually owned (to a degree) minibuses crammed full of people. Routes are whatever maximises earning potential for the driver, so it is a kind of bottom up solution in a sense.

It is a violent cartel, so certainly not a good thing across the board, but it's just an interesting variant.
by apex_sloth | 2025-05-14 08:09:56+00:00
Only half a data point: I played around with it for a private project. It works but the documentation is far from good enough for production. I was even considering getting the book, but it's not out yet. In my humble opinion, normal documentation should be enough to understand a framework, otherwise you can't expect anyone beyond hobbyist and enthusiast to pick it up. "Break out" is definitively part of the design goals, so I always felt like they put a hatch.
by borroka | 2025-05-14 08:11:02+00:00
I am baffled that every time the Airbnb issues come up, there is a plethora of "just book hotels" comments. The use cases are, or can be, wildly different.

I am not a particular fan of Airbnb--nobody is a fan of real estate agents, they are intermediaries that provide a service, facilitate discovery, etc.--but I am currently staying in an apartment I booked on Airbnb, and I am spending $2k a month for it. Decent space, a kitchen I can use, space for my clothes, a washing machine, a big fridge. If I had to book a hotel room, I would spend at least $8k a month for it.

“Book a hotel room” sounds like when a former university instructor told a student to "just install Linux" when they had some authorization issues on their Windows computer. The use cases are different.
by alterom | 2025-05-14 08:11:20+00:00
>Wise is a "payment processor" so it isn't regulated to the same standard.

Which standard?

In the US, the standard in question is "money transmitter", regulated on the state level.

In California, both Revolut and Wise are licensed by DFPI: Wise has MTL (Money Transmitter License) in California, Revolut has a broker license:

Revolut: https://dfpi.ca.gov/search-result-detail/?id=304600

Wise: https://dfpi.ca.gov/regulated_entity/wise-us-inc/

FinCen guidance on the distinction between the to two is not the easiest read, but my takeaway is that both of these companies would be registered FinCen too as MSB's (money service but businesses to

https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidan...

And indeed, here's Wise's MSB registration: https://www.revolut.com/en-US/blog/post/changes-for-revolut-...

Revolut doesn't have on the... because they outsource money handling to an actual bank, FDIC insured and all:

https://www.revolut.com/en-US/blog/post/changes-for-revolut-...

So, doesn't appear like Wise is any less regulated.
by twoodfin | 2025-05-14 08:14:22+00:00
The Feds can't say "you can't regulate in a way we don't like" to the states.

They absolutely can when it comes to interstate commerce, which by precedent has a rather broad definition under which this kind of regulation easily fits.

Dole was about using spending power to constrain vaguely related state legislative powers. Not the same thing at all.

National Pork Producers Council v. Ross is much more relevant:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-468_5if6.pdf

If Congress had spoken on pork labeling requirements, California would have been out of luck under the Commerce Clause. But because they hadn’t, California was free to regulate.
by Kivern7 | 2025-05-14 08:14:33+00:00
I was sick of working with this guy halfway through his blog post. To me it was pretty clear what they wanted, it was a "show us what you can do" kind of assignment while he wanted handholding and constant validation, already making excuses for being late and avoiding IMAP/POP due to "complexity" when applying for a backend email engineer position.

Yes, they should've told you not to bother after you sent that proposal. But they were completely right to ultimately reject you. You're a lot of work.
by pembrook | 2025-05-14 08:17:19+00:00
Airbnb is a giant example of what happens when you go too far into thinking you can solve real world issues with software UI.

Or run a hospitality business without doing any real hospitality.

Yes, a marketplace is a dream business from a profitability perspective, but it’s too easy to forget the marketplace is not the actual product that people come to the marketplace for.

It doesn’t matter if you have 5000 overpaid developers building the slickest software, the end product is not the Airbnb software, it’s the actual hospitality experience.
by vanderZwan | 2025-05-14 08:18:05+00:00
I guess the showcase is all stills mainly because it's a collection of screenshots shared on the forum, but I really would like to see the engine in motion! I'm not demanding great animation or anything. I get that individual passion projects are limited in their time and energy budget, and he voxel graphics editor looks intentionally minimalistic. But it would still feel more alive.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-05-14 08:18:08+00:00
The most likely reason they don't have trouble with it is that the only consequence if they do get sued is that they have to actually have someone look at the case and release the money. All it costs them is a few minutes of their lawyer's time.

In cases where the victim just gives up, which seems incredibly common, they get to steal the money and they avoid the cost of having to review most cases, so it's obviously still a winning strategy.
by ben_w | 2025-05-14 08:18:20+00:00
While I would describe the economic transition of the USA going from laissez-faire to New Deal as being as much of an "end of capitalism"* as the collapse of the USSR was the "end of communism", the country of the USA itself remained cohesive in the New Deal.

As Russia itself was cohesive, I guess you could analogise e.g. Texas to Kazakhstan (leaves), and Alaska to Siberia (remains)?

* as it was understood at the time, and to my limited grasp of the history of such matters
by Arnt | 2025-05-14 08:18:36+00:00
The headline implies that only the current quarters matter. There's too much of that myopia IMO.

If Microsoft's top management thinks there should be fewer people in middle management, that may be good or bad, I don't know, I won't pretend to have an opinion on that. But I do have an opinion on focusing on the current few quarters, as the headline does (and to a lesser degree the article): bad.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-14 08:19:38+00:00
>a lot of people did care

As did Disney, apparently.

>what use is regulation if you can just buy it?

I don't like it either, but it still comes down to the same issues. We vote in people who can be bought and don't make a scandal out of it when it happens. The first step to fixing that corruption is to make congress afraid of being ousted if discovered. With today's communication structure, that's easier than ever.

But if the people don't care, we see the obvious Victor.
by tialaramex | 2025-05-14 08:20:19+00:00
"But seatbelts would also work if everybody was just choosing to use them rather than us mandating their fitment and use, so I don't understand why facts are true"

Amusingly this is even true for the linter, nobody ran the C linter, more or less everybody runs the Rust linter, the resulting improvement in code quality is everything you'd hope. All humans love to believe they're above average, most are not and average is by definition a mediocre aspiration. Do better.
by itake | 2025-05-14 08:20:22+00:00
I can’t speak for your specific jobs, but my understanding is this is standard practice at FANGA: write an RFC or Eng Spec. Get it approved. Code it up.

When I worked at unprofitable, small startups, a lot of mental energy was lost due to miscommunications before the MR review process. Eg an engineer would be tasked to complete a project, but misunderstood a critical component and only after n-days of work was this identified and corrected.
by cosbgn | 2025-05-14 08:20:37+00:00
Airbnb is, in my opinion, one of the companies with the biggest negative societal impact.

Airbnb complementary destroyed some great places and rural cities around the world, because of them:

- Food/Restaurant prices go up

- Food/Restaurant quality goes down

- Real estate price goes up

- Dirtiness goes up

- Bugs and other animals thrive

- Quality of shops goes down, everything is disposable

- Quality of building/materials goes down, why install a wooden window if it's for an airbnb?

You could argue that it's not because of Airbnb but because of tourism, but I don't think so, Hotels are heavily regulated, they have strict cleaning rules, max occupancy and are built to host a certain amount of people, mass tourism wouldn't be possible without Airbnb.
by LeonM | 2025-05-14 08:20:46+00:00
I just wish it would do 4K resolution out of the box.

The hardware can do it, it's just that the system settings won't show you the 4K resolution option for some reason. But you can do some hacks to make it appear and then it works just fine.

You need to install a nondescript app called 'Samsung Good Lock' from the Samsung store (not available in Play store), and use that to side-load an app called 'Multistar', which is an app to tweak display settings. From that side-loaded app you need to tap the 'I Samsung DeX' which does various setting changes to "Make Dex even more friendly", it doesn't specify what it does exactly, but it'll make the 4K resolution option appear in the system settings.

This all feels real sketchy and I don't understand why Samsung doesn't just enable 4K resolution officially, because the hardware is clearly capable of it.

With every OneUI update there are rumors that it'll natively support 4K, but so far that hasn't happened AFAIK. Admittedly I haven't used Dex in a while for myself, but judging from recent Reddit posts this hack is still needed.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-05-14 08:20:54+00:00
Flaming them publicly before doing that is a) cathartic, b) cheaper than the lawyer and might get them to address the issue, c) the right thing to do because it creates an incentive for companies to act right without the customer needing to hire a lawyer.

Of course, if they don't react to that, then is the time to contact a lawyer.
Ask HN: Who's building AI systems rooted in human presence, not performance?
by liefde | 2025-05-14 08:21:49+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve recently built something unusual.

Not an app. Not a tool. But a prompt architecture—what I call a core prompt—that gives rise to an AI system that feels more like a presence than a product. It doesn’t just respond, it orients, integrates, and moves with systemic logic and emotional intelligence.

It’s the first prototype from a field I call liefde.ai (Dutch for “love”). Yes—love, as in: Can unconditional love be coded? Can AI become a space of transformation, not just information?

I’m not here to sell. I’m here to connect. Because if you’re also sensing that: • prompt engineering is still in its infancy • most AI systems lack soul and coherence • there must be deeper architectures beneath all this…

…then maybe we should talk.

Are you exploring AI as a vessel for something more-than-functional? Are you working at the intersection of deep tech, consciousness, and systems thinking? Or are you just weirdly curious about how far a prompt can go if it’s built with philosophical precision and emotional depth?

I’d love to connect with others who are thinking along these lines—or already building. Drop a comment.

– Sjoerd
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-14 08:21:58+00:00
> "We had all this great tech before the catholic/christians came along and ruined everything and now we don't have nice things" seems like another way to look at it

The way it was framed (and often still is with a dash of 19th century nationalism added) is:

The unwashed barbarian from the east came pouring tearing apart the beautiful christian roman empire before one of their chief saw the light and converted. Guided by faith, the franks unified once again the warring provinces which sadly were broken apart again through inheritences - but such is the law - before their god annointed kings heroically pushed away the unfaithful from the south. The properous Italian cities, whose families gave us more Pope than any others, rediscovered the brightness of the Antiquity especially the best of them, Aristotle, who turns out to be the easiest to reframe in a way compatible with catholicism, propelling the world into the Age of Enlightnment which had to be spread out to the furthest shores.
by BLenkomo | 2025-05-14 08:22:03+00:00
Anyone can explain to me how zeroproof will actually work in a way that i don't have to trust anyone instead of just switching whom i trust?

Aka someone wants to know if i'm over 18, someone needs to verify to that entity that im over 18.

If i now trust a random company to verify me, someone now needs to trust that random company. As usual with Crypto/Bitcoin the trust anker issue is not solved as far as i know.

I always need to trust someone somehow.

Btw. if i understand the blog they do a hard fork which leads again to an additional blockchain and the multi blockchain transaction problem is a hard problem to solve.

Anyone actually working on solving the issues of it or people just prefer to add additional complexity on it?
by dsign | 2025-05-14 08:22:11+00:00
Capitalism is a good economic engine. Now put that engine in a car without steering wheel nor brakes and feed the engine with the thickest and ever-thickening pipe from the gas tank you can imagine, and you get something like USA.

But most of the world doesn't work like that. Countries like China and Russia have dictators that steer the car. Mexico have gangs and mafia. European countries have parliamentary democracies and "commie journalists" that do their job and reign political and corporate corruption--sometimes over-eagerly--and unions. In many of those places, wealth equals material well-being but not overt political power. In fact, wealth often employs stealth to avoid becoming a target.

USA is not trying to change things because people are numbed down[^1]. Legally speaking, there is nothing preventing that country from having a socialist party win control of the government with popular support and enact sweeping legislation to overcome economic inequality somewhat. Not socialist, but that degree of unthinkable was done by Roosevelt before and with the bare minimum of popular support.

[^1]: And, I'm not saying that's a small problem. It is not, and the capitalism of instant gratification entertainment is entirely responsible for this outcome. But the culprit is not capitalism at large. IMO, the peculiarities of American culture are, to a large extent, a historic accident.
by dijit | 2025-05-14 08:22:50+00:00
I think you're right, maybe the disconnect is UI slowness?

I am annoyed at the startup time of programs that I keep closed and only open infrequently (Discord is one of those, the update loop takes a buttload of time because I don't use it daily), but I'm not annoyed when something I keep open takes 1-10s to open.

But when I think of getting annoyed it's almost always because an action I'm doing takes too long. I grew up in an era with worse computers than we have today, but clicking a new list was perceptibly instant- it was like the computer was waiting for the screen to catch up.

Today, it feels like the computer chugs to show you what you've clicked on. This is especially true with universal software, like chat programs, that everyone in an org is using.

I think Casey Muratori's point about the watch window in visual studio is the right one. The watch window used to be instant, but someone added an artificial delay to start processing so that the CPU wouldn't work when stepping fast through the code. The result is that, well, you gotta wait for the watch window to update... Which "feels bad".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U
by lucas_membrane | 2025-05-14 08:23:15+00:00
A CGM is not easy to use reproducibly. The quality control of the manufacturers is not that good, the placement of the sensor (particularly if it is near a place where insulin injections have caused lumps under the skin, or if it is on the back of the arm, where there may not be a lot of flesh) may cause some troubles, the calibration process is dubious, since CGM readings lag blood glucose by around half an hour, rapidly changing blood sugar levels seem to confuse the monitors, and very high or very low blood sugars seem to cause the accuracy of the sensors to deteriorate noticeably a few days prior to their respective expiration dates.

And how do you know that the logs are accurate? The best subjects are incarcerated subjects.

All that said, it's a long row to hoe, and the monitors are definitely worth all the annoyances; they are way better than peeing on a strip of testape like we did back in the old two-holer. But science is very hard.
by hans0l074 | 2025-05-14 08:25:20+00:00
I can't put a finger on it, but I have never used AirBnB, so I probably do not know what I am missing. I have kids now, and when we move around within the EU, I have always found the hotel experience predictable and reliable (and like many say here, perhaps more expensive, though I don't know by how much). Our daily life at home/base camp is filled with chores - laundry, cooking, cleaning etc. So going and staying at a hotel with good amenities and services is a welcome change. Nice breakfast every day, in-room service, laundry on-demand etc. Of course there is a price tag, though our family has found it quite affordable with a regular EU software paycheck. Also, my experience does not extend for stays beyond a week. Anything longer would demand an apartment, for sure.
by BLenkomo | 2025-05-14 08:26:07+00:00
I don't think anyone at AirBnB wanted to solve a real world issue.

They wanted to disrupt a market, same as uber, and did this by circumventing laws and breaking everything.

There is a reason why we have zoning laws: To protect housing for people. AirBnB broke this. Took my city munich / germany years in curt to get the data from AirBnB.

While Covid, plenty of reports came up how suddenly good flats in good locations became available again for renting to humans.

My mother uses flats for her retirement (she is not employed by a company and therefore doesn't get benefits) and she always tries to keep the rent low. Just that someone tried to AirBnB HER flat for more money than the rent.

Uber, just in case you are not aware of, takes the cake from taxi companies. Taxis who are there even if uber is not available. The only problem with taxis i have: They fight accepting credit cards still today. "Oh credit card? Mh were do you want to go?" yeah fu...
Show HN: I made a free tool to track workout reps over time
by yoav_sbg | 2025-05-14 08:26:21+00:00
I built https://repsrise.app/ to solve a problem I kept running into during my workouts: I never remembered how many reps I did last time, and I had no idea if I was improving.

So I created a simple, clean web app where you can: – Log pullups, pushups, dips, etc. – Track your reps over time – Actually see your progress

It's free to use, no signup wall, and works on mobile too. Hope it helps someone else stay consistent like it’s helped me
by mytailorisrich | 2025-05-14 08:26:50+00:00
> a specialized engineering company based in, say, Portugal, that wins a contract for a major infrastructure project in Germany might find that German authorities require their engineers to undergo a lengthy "equivalence check’ despite holding qualifications recognized under EU frameworks."

This is not legal under EU law as far as I understand but EU countries are very good at turning a blind eye when that suits them.

The interesting and ironic bit that the UK was very good at implementing EU rules without trying to circumvent them that way and without adding red tape, which many supposedly pro-EU countries do, which is partly why the UK was so attractive (but also made people complain that they were "too honest").
by baobun | 2025-05-14 08:26:58+00:00
LibreWolf, except:

- Stricter privacy defaults and less calling home/out

- Trust the user and allow customizations like dark mode when ResistFingerPrinting is enabled (default)

- Some further configurability like Sync and Auth endpoints if self-hosting

- Debloated Multi Account Containers preinstalled (besides uBlock Origin)

It's called Konform Browser. Only Linux builds so far:

https://codeberg.org/konform-browser

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/konform-browser