skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extraordinarily myopic view of business. Most firms do not create new tech; all firms (including tech startups) need individuals capable of selling, winning over the faith of others (recruiting), and who have an eye for creating business processes and operations for delivery, support, and so on. To watch engineers attempt to do all these things on their own is also a comedy.

This idea reminds me of things developers say to disparage anyone who operates on a higher abstraction layer than they do (e.g. Rust sucks cause it's not C. Ruby sucks cause it's for beginners. Salesforce sucks cause it's not real programming.)
There are. In fact, on 60 Minutes a few weeks ago they were interviewing the main lawyer who actually brought and won the case against big tobacco. Guess whet he's working on now? Multiple states have signed on. :)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opioid-crisis-attorney-mike-moo...
I wonder if the Airbnb team has ever thought about their profit and its relationship to the externalities you describe. As a customer, I've felt like I pay for something and then bear lots of risk if it goes wrong, but the discount often isn't sufficient to cover that risk.

At the end of the day, it may still be a good thing for the temporary housing marketplace if people who want certainty (in general or just for the trip) stay in a hotel, and people who are willing to trade certainty for some savings stay in Airbnbs. This would lower demand for hotels, and therefore cost. But this is only an efficient outcome if Airbnb guests understand how the company will leave them high and dry if something goes wrong.
From Dan Abramov Twitter timeline:
"-watches Mad Men:

woah, they were so backwards in 60s

-looks at the tech industry:

oh no"
Cut down their screen time. Tell them more stories. Keep them busy with chores.
> Unless "listens to X podcast" counts as targeting

It doesn't, except to the adtech targeters who want to muddy the water.

Ad targeting in this context means individualized targeting based on individualize tracking and data collection, full stop.
I've gone through a lot of guitars including the brands mentioned and I still love my Rick and my Gibson, but I finally found the sound I was looking for a couple of years back when I got my Telecaster.
This happened to me both times I've purchased a Jeep. I did a bunch of research on models and packages, price shopped a few dealers in my area, and then purchased a vehicle all over the course of a Saturday. For the next 3 months I get jeep ads following me all around the internet. I wonder how much revenue those completely irrelevant ads generated for google.
> I would have called Airbnb as soon as I found there was an issue and made them book me in somewhere else. You are paying a service fee to them for a reason.

DoubleGlazing said:

> > We did of course raise concerns with AirBnB about the first two and left a negative review for the third. AirBnB did not care and crucially it did not seem to have an effect on the ratings of these properties. That just does not seem right.

Of course you can say that DoubleGlazing should have insisted, but, from my own experience, I agree that, if AirBnb doesn't feel like doing anything, then they won't do anything; and that any remedies to force them into action will, at best, take effect only too late (e.g., it's no good getting a response in a week if the residence is uninhabitable today).
You probably got downvoted because you can just use Google to answer those questions.
You're just posting a trite meme rather than saying anything critical or constructive about the article itself.
That's insane. How did such laws come to be? Lawyers lobbying?
Thanks. This was a disturbing read as each paragraph further convinced me I suffer from the same thing. Time to go see a shrink.

EDIT: and clearly only a narcissist would comment on how relevant the article is to them specifically... sigh
> it generally seems like alternatives to capitalism perform worse (world wars, Stalin murdering 16 million, Mao's five year plan).

> Except in edge cases which might not really be capitalism

Oh well then those weren't real communism either. /s

You aren't wrong, but it's worth noting that the US protection of capitalism (more or less) was a pretty awful force throughout the 20th century.
> Discriminating against such uses doesn't seem wrong to me since they clearly harm the creators and maintainers in their effort to actually make some income from the project

It may not be wrong, but it does stand in opposition to the definition of Open Source and Free Software (at least as defined by bodies that RedHat and many others see as authoritative on that subject).

So perhaps we could call MongoDB what it is - a proprietary software with shared code license that lets you run their code for free in some scenarios. I think that wouldn't sell to the investors and VCs as well as open source though, and would make it harder to build a community around.

And then we haven't even touched on the CLA required to make contributions to the project - I have no idea how many people and companies contributed changes or fixes to MongoDB, but they must be pretty happy right now.

Does that mean you can't have a business built around an open source project? It does seem that way to me, especially if we talk about something that scales in a number of employees and revenue. I do think that you could bootstrap a small, consultancy-style business, built around your open source technology, but definitely not something that VCs would drool over.

Also, on a related note, I'd like to add something that's rough around the edges and I'm sure someone else could make a much better case of it, but well, here I go.

There has always been a discussion on Free Software vs. Open Source [1] where the advocates of Free Software are arguing that Open Source does not protect freedom of the users (and communities) while Open Source advocates opposed that view with argument that Open Source is even more free and pure than Free Software.
In my opinion, the recent changes made by MongoDB, Redis Labs [2] and even Elastic [3] show that without ethics backing the movement, the movement itself is in danger of having its core believes changed.
If some software can't be made in a spirit of Free Software (or even Open Source) then perhaps it should be made as proprietary software with shared code license - it's not as cool, and perhaps will make the adoption harder, but at least it's more sincere.

[1] For example, see Stallman's "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software" article https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

[2] Calling their non-free licenses "Apache-2 + Common Clause" is a pretty disingenuous move, and the only reason why I see it less bad than what Mongo did being the fact that it only affects a subset of previously-closed extensions IIRC.

[3] Their announcement on x-pack did not call it open source, however the entire press release was full of "open source" this and "open source" - it felt like they tried really hard to ride the Open Source train without actually riding it.
A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
This is exactly the argument that Marxist made.

No it's not. Smart, far-seeing people observe what's broken in the system, and many of them can fix it while making money. Then, there are people who don't care about externalities, and exploit the flaws while causing others harm. Sometimes outdated laws can be modified, or phased out.

The proposal of Marxists is that they take things away by force.
4.95% flat rate is pretty high.
You don't need to know a lot about something in order to reject it. If a Finance PhD calls you with a super complex investment strategy you have no obligation to put all your money into it. In fact, it's probably prudent to reject it out of hand.
Doesn't that assume that the targeting information gets used appropriately? My understanding is that advertisers bid on placement and the largest big gets the prize, regardless of whether or not they are using it "correctly". So it wouldn't matter if BMW wants to target people with new job promotions if, e.g., Rolex is outbidding them for "luxury".

The vast majority of ads I see are of no relevance to me. It makes me assume that the companies that would have relevant products just aren't spending as much as broader interest stuff, bringing us right back to square one.
As a short-term tenant who isn't eligible for property insurance, there is no way for me insure against losses. I spent considerable time trying to get a policy after our burglary, and it wasn't possible. In my opinion, providing this insurance should be handled by the marketplace.

The problem is that Airbnb stays are similar to airline flight delays - the cost of a problem can result in many times more costs than just the cost of the flight.

The EU has very strict laws - if you booked a flight in good faith, then the airline is responsible for getting you to your destination, paying for your needs (food/housing) until that happens, and pay cash compensation of up to 600 euros.

In my opinion, the government should provide the same type of legislation for short-term stays. If you make a booking, the platform should at least be responsible for housing you for the duration of your stay.
The article is written by a journalist and contains an interview of a man with narcissism; I don't think this qualifies as someone writing a post about themself even independent of narcissism.
I disagree -- fraud absolutely justifies this -- if an overweight dark haired guy did the initial video screen and the company flew him out for an interview, but then a skinny blonde guy shows up and can't answer any of their interview questions, I don't see why the company has any obligation to fly him back home -- they agreed to fly out the guy from the video call, not the guy that showed up.
On of the few instances where I imagine a bad design would actually improve security because no malware developer would ever want to endure the headache of trying to reliably exploit these things.
You must have enabled additional block lists. Mine works fine.
Committing isn't a commitment. After making the first commit, you can use the `git stash` command to put the rest of your changes aside, and go through the normal test->amend loop until you're happy with that first commit. Then you just retrieve your other changes from the stash to make your second commit.

It's also possible to do this without the stash command, by making both commits right away, and testing them later. However, that would involve rebasing(?) your second commit on top of any changes you end up making to your first commit, so using the stash makes more sense to me personally.
"...it automatically does "git add" with the new files you added to the project..."

Uh, yeah. You don't add random temporary files (notes, temporary testing data, the florist's phone number that you'll need after the meeting you're already late for) to your projects?
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It doesn't have to be non-corrupt to be less corrupt than Chicago, Illinois. Every big city has some corruption in it, naturally, but Chicago takes it to a whole 'nother level.

After Chicago, I went north into Wisconsin, which was fine at the time. From there, I went south, to a state which still reminds me of downstate Illinois, but without the political counterweight of a major metropolis to rein in the dumb ideas. And whenever visiting Wisconsin now, it seems like they're becoming just as bad.

Rust belt states are rusting. As the factories go, the vicious and predatory all backstab each other in an attempt to get first gnaw at the bones and offal. The endemic levels of corruption were only sustainable over widespread economic prosperity, but that's gone. People with steadily declining real purchasing power since 1980 have less to steal or swindle, are far quicker to bleed dry, and quicker to quibble over their remaining pennies.

Federal leadership could probably turn the rust belt around, if that were a priority, but, well, you know... if a Democratic president with political roots in Chicago couldn't or wouldn't do it, there's not much of a chance of it happening now.
I wrote a mini guide to Go microservices a while back, maybe someone here would find it useful :) Just recently found this community so I'm hoping it fits here!
They'd end up having to remove like most of the listings in Orlando then. It's pretty difficult to find a nice house that doesn't have cameras. I've opted to just stay in apartment hotel suites instead - ends up being way cheaper anyways.
I have always liked stripe [1] API documentation. Its very well structured and does have a beautiful documentation.

[1]https://stripe.com/docs/api
I think a lot of what this person describes about their thinking process and life patterns is actually going on in everyone's brain, but with less awareness of it.

The irony is, I guess, that the narcissist part is only the part that actually making him think that these patterns are somehow special or unique to him.
I toyed around for awhile with an idea I called Gadfly. Basically it's an idea for complete opt in advertising. It would have a dashboard for setting up what ads I want to see. So I could put in friends birthdays, things they like, and around that time get relevant ads of things to buy that they may like. Or I could say that I need a new laptop, and while I browse see relevant ads for what I want. I was hoping to make ads work for me, as I do understand 1 big reason for marketing, letting me know things that I want are available.
> I looked at the home guide again, and it did say that there were cameras “at the entrance,” which these cameras clearly were not. I contacted AirBnB about it, and long story short they said the single photo above was proper disclosure of both cameras.

> A lot of other weird stuff happened during this trip stemming from this -- AirBnB told my host we asked about the cameras, he sent someone to snoop on us, he left us a bad review, etc. My favorite has to be when my host discovered that I had unplugged the cameras, he wrote:

This is why I prefer established hotels and Yelp. It's much easier to deal with professional management instead of someone trying to make a quick buck on the side.
Right, but the argument from the other side is that "real communism" can't be reached. It's a myth. What you get with the Soviets is the real communism.

That sort of ignores the actual theory of communism, but so far it's a pretty accurate assessment.
Before anyone breathlessly gushes about their life-changing fasting regime, remember that this study was done on mice.
Do you have a pointer to the questions? I've wondered how I would fare but none of the articles I've read seem to link to them.
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Has anyone encountered the interview question similar to "Tell me what happens when you type www.google.com into a browser."

This article reads like the most immense answer to that question might.
AI is making business travel better
Sure, let's go back to my payroll example.

I need to make 8 HTTP requests to properly setup my test from a clean slate, including setting up the deductions, previous earnings, company location and employee home address. If each of those requests takes 50ms, and then I need to make a request to actually execute my test, and verify everything went well, that could easily be 500ms.

And that's just what needs to happen to run one end to end test of the payroll calculation feature. It's absolutely valuable to have a few such tests, but I'm not going to run tests for all the weird one off scenarios (like what happens if someone lives in NJ, and works in Yonkers, and the company has a location in NJ as well?) because they'd take minutes to run. I could run that entire test as a unit test in 2ms for the payroll calculation. That lets me run all of the tests I need very quickly.
> Is that how you are supposed to deal with that?

I believe the commonly accepted answer is "Yes, it's not my job to give you the necessary information to improve yourself". The same people who say that also often ask "Why aren't the people around me improving themselves?" :P

(Personally, I would prefer it if people pointed out my mistakes, and I do the same for others as a courtesy, not an obligation. I do understand if they don't have the energy to do that, but I think if they don't, then they forfeit the right to complain about a lack of improvement)
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For more on that: https://prospect.org/article/how-sears-was-gutted-its-own-ce...
https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-hardened-images/
With democracy, it takes longer.
https://highon.coffee/blog/security-harden-centos-7/
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> Last I checked, they weren't a major contributor to the Linux kernel, or GNU, or GCC, or Emacs/Vim

MongoDB only needs the Linux kernel/GNU/GCC when it's running or compiling on Linux. On OSX and Windows it uses other toolchains.

And your point goes against the entire spirit of open source. No one should be forced to contribute back to open source less they be criticised by the community.
It lets WeWork's CEO shape our world. Those with money can build buildings and fund businesses and ventures that affect the reality of thousands or millions, ie the public. We would like that power to be granted appropriately.
I believe you need to prove a monetary loss of some kind to have standing to sue. The situations that I can think of that result from misinformation that cause a monetary loss are probably already considered fraud.
The efficiency of the capitalistic system is not something a capitalist strives to optimise. It is the personal utility that is the main benchmark of success.
Spotify is doing shady stuff, who knew ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley
Kubernetes vs. Docker: A Primer
I think is the only major DAW that works on linux.
I'll add to this as well. I've had two incidents over the past year.

1. I rented a place and was told that I could check-in whenever. When I got there, the key wasn't available and I wasn't able to contact the host. I was essentially just standing around for three hours waiting for Airbnb to respond. Apparently, you can contact them, but it's extremely difficult to call them if you're international unless you want to pay for roaming, which I doubt they would compensate you for, so I had to wait for case managers to reply to my email.

After fiddling around with my phone for a while, I managed to install Skype, sign up for some credits, and call them. It was resolved within an hour after that, but the non-savvy tech user would probably have a lot more trouble.

2. The second incident was when I went to an Airbnb and the electricity wasn't working, the roads were closed off for 3 blocks to the apartment due to construction. I paid for a week's stay, but I immediately left since this wasn't disclosed in the listing.

By the evening, I was fed up with the problems, so I left to another Airbnb. I contacted Airbnb, again through email support, since that was all they offer and they told me I could not get a refund since I was past their 24-hour cancellation policy. After going through numerous emails and case managers, I never received my money back based off of a technicality. Their response was that I should have contacted them immediately... but they don't make it easy to contact them.
...which happens anyway. Starting 5-10 minutes before the official earnings reports come out, investor.google.com gets hammered by bots, requesting every few milliseconds until the actual page is released.

I knew an SRE that wanted to put up a fake earnings report until the official time at which the real one was released, to disincentivize this behavior, but the lawyers nixed that idea really quick.
We expect scientists' salaries to be based on merit, not based on discrimination on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, creed, cultural background or other factors, such as age or nationality.

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264
Institutions in turn funded by some combination of the state, undergrads, or endowments.
That's a fact of life. I'm talking about how they are determining identity. Just asking for a SSN number is mostly like dealing with anonymous people (thus my question about culture).
Ask HN: What is your ultimate dream job?
What is your ultimate dream job? It could be anything you can think of: "VP of AI at Google in Mountain View", "Fisherman in the north pole", "President of the United States", "CEO of YC", etc. What would it be?

No one will judge you here. Be as honest as possible.
I'm sorry but 1), 2) and 3) are ridiculous. What are you basing those assumptions on ? I don't see how any of these points relate to UBI. Why would we be obligated to provide welfare to people who spend their allowance on things other than food and healthcare ?

4) is a very good point. We don't actually know what keeps our civilization running. UBI assumes that people have a natural drive to be productive, but we got to where we are in a context of natural selection, survival instincts and greed. Removing those aspects from society is rightfully scary.
While that idea would never work (who is going to bother with that faff rather than just googling laptops?) it does also show why Google can make so much money from ads.
>Often, when people talk about how much better old houses are than new houses (in the U.S., “old” refers to houses built in the 19th and early 20th centuries, since there aren’t many surviving houses from the 18th century or earlier), they invoke a change in the nature of labor: The houses of yesteryear were built by “skilled craftsmen,” and today’s houses are built by “unskilled labor.” These descriptions elide the fact that many of the “great buildings” in our canon of architecture were built by under- and even unpaid laborers.

That's irrelevant as to whether "we don't build houses as we used to" is a myth or not.

Not to mention today's houses are also commonly built by "under-paid laborers" (depending on the country lots of underpaid immigrants, including illegal ones work in construction), but they're still different.

>Another reason—perhaps the biggest reason—these materials are disliked is because they were frequently sold as being “low or no maintenance,” when the truth is there’s no such thing as a no- or low-maintenance material.

Spoken like someone who hasn't lived or worked in an excellent condition 16th-17th century house with minimal maintenance over the centuries... (Coming from someone from a country with many very old houses, in a UNESCO heritage city).

In any case, the whole article misses the point. First, it doesn't prove that "We don’t build houses like we used to" is a myth -- just that we have our reasons for doing it differently.

Second, it's not the materials and craftsmanship people dislike, it's the results (modernist and later architectural trends being butt ugly and cheap looking). You can make great looking and sturdy houses with modern materials too -- but few architects and builders bother.
Thanks for pointing this out! Very informative and I would have missed it otherwise.