skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Airbnb is getting banned across cities in Europe and locals are beginning to hate on it + staled growth it's about the time to hand the equity over to public investors and cash out.

I'm not very bullish on Airbnb, I used to practically live in Airbnb for over 3 years, but for the last 2 years I haven't even logged in and been only using booking.com.

I remember years back in London an Airbnb host that wasn't even the owner of the apartment but a tenant herself told me while moving in "tell everyone you're a friend, it's not allowed in this building but everyone's doing it"

Now landlords and building owners are catching up and most new developments are forbidding this contractually, while others do what they can to prevent their neighbours from letting to strangers.

I'm probably missing something, but I think the company is going down and they're pulling an exit scam.
Definitely. Some companies that have been private for a long time allow their employees to sell a percentage of their stock in these later private rounds.

It's not necessarily the same price you'd get on the public markets, but it can help give employees some liquidity.
> Ecommerce is very mature and stable thanks to WooCommerce

Unless you have a very large set of products, in which case Wordpress grinds to a halt.

Unless, of course, you find the magic plugins that don't update product counts on every update... or figure out how to hook into the system and override it myself.

I meant to write up a blog post about this, but honestly, once the problem was solved, I had very little interest into peeling up that particular bandage to poke around underneath.
I worked with them for years, mostly UniVerse and UniData. The short answer is no, I don't think there is a reason to base any new work using a Pick based MVDB. Don't get me wrong, I see some value in what they were trying to accomplish, but today there are NoSQL solutions which are far superior to how these old Pick style solutions were built. File corruption was a real pain and normal reality, searching, sorting and managing the data took a full time DBA/SysAdmin for even smaller implementations. Mixing the language and database as most of these systems did too was a mess to manage, version control was a pain usually, value typing was not good and error handling was always a challenge to do it even just ok at.

To be fair, I do see some elegance in how they work, but just the trade-offs today aren't the same, so IMO there isn't a good reason to use them when we have graph databases, the modern NoSQL solutions and SQL for that matter.

Essentially, a current document database does more than these solutions can and more reliably.

This is also why, I didn't see NoSQL solutions, like Mongo et al, as something so revolutionary when they came out, to me they are just a modern twist on things we have had for decades.
Why? What definition?

The refusal to collect costs those polluters put on everybody is as active an decision as the decision not to collect taxes (tax breaks) that you'd otherwise use to keep the country running for everybody.

It's an active policy decision to have the state stay passive and do nothing.
I drive a 2017 Toyota Auris and (still) own a 00' Corolla.

The difference in the level of safety between these two is patently obvious.
> whats the carbon footprint of producing a single van?

Are you saying they should repurpose already built trucks, instead of buying new ones? Then we would have to calculate how long the new electric trucks would take to offset their emissions.

If buying used was not on the table, this question is moot.
It's pretty popular in the Europe and is a Dutch company.
Well, Atlanta has integrated over 10,000 cameras and 200 pole mounted automated license plate readers. The per capita statistics are distorted by the relatively small boundary of the City of Atlanta, but there are still a lot of cameras.

[https://atlantapolicefoundation.org/programs/operation-shiel...]

[https://www.muckrock.com/foi/atlanta-325/2018-vigilant-data-...]
Consumption is lower at night and peaks during the day. So there is already spare capacity in the system, although it might not be clean energy.
> random people are trying to manage 15+ listings in many cities.

They're just normal professional hotels / hostels / BNB now

> 'adventure' given by some random guy with no professional experience.

The tour I went on was with actual professionals

Point being, Airbnb may be same feature wise, but the offerings have become more professional, which for me personally defeats the purpose of Airbnb.
If they're wildly profitable, why would they need this latest funding round?
Related work: https://github.com/xinghaochen/awesome-hand-pose-estimation
I vouched for this because while the post sounds nuts, it's clearly quoted from the article and Byrne himself.
> Not for everyone.

Except for some rare counterexamples, it does.

> Once you've understood something, doing it 10 times won't help.

That is simply not true. Repitition helps to strengthen memory. Even if you understand something now, it does not necessarily mean you will still understand it tomorrow or next week. Repitition as a homework is actually a simple and efficient method to increase the likelihood that knowledge will be remembered.

> Which is a good way to amplify the problems for people whom parents can't afford the time or never got the education to be able to help.

This is also quite wrong. Do you really think it helps children that suffer from a lack of parental support if more children artificially suffer the same?
Children need every little bit of support they can get.
UK, South Africa recently both acknowledged that they do bulk collection too.

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3164/two-states-a...

The US got there first, but it seems other countries have been rapidly catching up.
Sink or swim is poor management, but if you're young, at your first tech job or haven't experienced anything better, how would you know?

My first dev job was so terrible, I almost quit this career entirely.
I feel like the feature doesn't go far enough. They should force you to acknowledge that the phone app is not safe for any sensitive information because the phone networks are fundamentally insecure.

If the web didn't have SSL, there would be PSAs about how you should never trust it for anything, ever. However, the current phone network is in this state, and we're all okay with it and we act like this isn't a crisis.

Honestly I think Android and iOS should both blast warnings all over their OS about how dangerous it is to trust the phone, and how you should avoid using it for anything that requires privacy. Never trust a call from anyone, period, until we have some kind of cryptographically secure system that assures us of the identity of the party calling us.
I just bought Lenovo Thinkpad p52s. Bigger battery and all physical ports (HDMI, ethernet) including USB-C charging.

I'm running Pop_OS (built on Ubuntu), and it's been my daily driver for 6 months.

I was using macOS for 5 years (mbp 2012) and then Lubuntu for a bit. This setup has been as smooth as a macbook.

Installation was smoooooooth. Pop_Os distro has built-in Nvidia drivers, so wifi, bluetooth, nvidia card worked out of the box.
The p52s also has a SIM card slot, which is the only thing I need to mess with.

Usability is comparable to macOS. It has the cmd+space shortcut built in. It has multiple workspaces with keyboard shortcuts for moving between them as well as moving windows to different spaces.

Carbon X1 would run the same, but has less physical ports -- depends on your use case. Can vouch for this setup though.
The biggest opportunity I see here is if they can push a youtube alternative. It's the perfect moment with the ongoing controversies and the upcoming election. With a couple of billion they can pull most of the youtube stars on the condition they simply air some ads for the company. And if they manage to get some talent in a few years they can take a stand against western advertisers.
It's very unlikely that this article was written with any direction, payment, or remotely direct incentive from Apple. This is how the author writes, and anyone familiar with the author's work (he has written many iPhone camera reviews) will find this to be not at all unusual.

You can say the language is "marketingy," sure, but it is extremely unlikely that the author is involved in or paid by Apple's marketing or advertising team.
I wish we could combine all this stuff together regardless of media. I'd use it in a heartbeat to curate class notes and recorded lectures! Particularly with a community this would be awesome, harnessing everyone's highlighting to pull out a veritable "best of" the course, without losing any context!
> People don't use Netflix et al. because they want to follow the law

This is true for some people. For others, it IS because they want to follow the law, and also for those other reasons.
>> or have received pre-seed rounds of under a million dollars

Our priorities as civilisation are seriously wrong when these enterprises get any funding. "Under a million" is a vast amount of money - that can be used to actually make someone's life better or save lives.
I don't see anything in these statements about the usefulness of academic macroeconomics, except insofar as certain actors believe it. Is that right?
Using the Angular Builder for Netlify
Do delivery trucks typically consume 90%+ of their battery on a daily basis?
Honestly, tests and by extension testable code. The amount of enterprises processing tens to hundreds of millions of dollars (either business value or actual revenue) without tests of vital parts of their software is something which is mind blowing. You can sometimes not fathom how they are comfortable with changing a line without having tests to back them up. They f5 a page or recompile the server software, redeploy click through it and "yup it works let's ship" and then a few days later find out it broke a csv import of the external warehouse inventory system which runs once a week because they removed a dash between sku and title for better SEO in the online catalog. Oops, good luck finding out where the problem is because you have zero integration tests. A few million down the drain because import division couldn't possibly know what to forecast on due to no stock data. And this is not an exception to dumb bugs and malfunctions occurring because developers don't write tests.

You can start an entire business in consulting on test automation and you would never run out of work.
I had the unfortunate opportunity to integrate with Adyen around 2016-2017 and it was super painful. The API didn't make much sense to me and the documentation was hard to navigate and understand. It all looked very rough and rushed to the market.

Granted it was "a long time ago" but I can still remember the pain.
I think your third point supports the OP original point. Stripe probably isn't "really" worth that much now.

EDIT: wanted to mention that my impression is that they're a great company, just not worth $35B.
Not the parent poster but I don't think that's what they were going after. I think they were asking whether the valuation is fair relative to other companies that are operating in a very similar space with similar ambitions. GS is an investment bank. A fairer comparison would be SQ, PayPal, Adyen or First Data.

Square's market cap is $25B today on the public markets with a 2019 estimated net revenue of $4.5B and almost $100B in transaction volume. I don't have any insight into Stripe's numbers, though I'd guess it's probably not 40% more than that? Willing to be surprised of course, it's a great company.

The real question being asked here is: "Is Stripe's valuation likely to hold up when they go public one day?"
To be fair, it's an important aspect of security discussions.
The Rust of ten years ago bears almost no resemblance to the Rust of today. Its history is interesting to people involved in the project, but it wasn't really used seriously until 1.0 was released.
Note that 100kWh/day * 100,000 vehicles is 10,000MWh/day. If a typical nuclear power plant output is about 500MW, that's 12,000MWh/day.
Why concurrency? And why advocate a particular solution? A good solution, in my experience, isn't any particular implementation: it's to think about it, really hard, using tools that help you think about hard things... like math. "Actors," is like... soy sauce.

However there were nuggets of gold in the original. Looking forward to finding the new bits and gems again.
This discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21016645 has more comments and only recently fell off of the front page.
I find it hard to have meaningful text conversations, but I also think phone calls are super intrusive. So I'll schedule calls or video. It sounds like a lot of ceremony, but I like specifically dedicating time to build relationships with people, so I think it's perfect.
Scaling Your Team and Culture with James Allgrove (Stripe)
Its only "popular" because for a long time it was the only choice in Europe pretty much. In several countries it still is.

It also was total garbage developer friendliness wise ~5 years ago.
Payments traditionally has been very fragmented. I think the biggest winners will continue to be Mastercard and Visa as all of these ancillary services will continue to move payments towards digital both on the consumer and business side.

I haven’t used the two products, but is Stripe 50% better than Adyen? Why would I use one versus the other? How easy will it be for Lyft to develop its own payment technology?
Sorry, I wasn't clear - I meant across all delivery services, not just Amazon.

It'd be interesting to see how many people actually use that option to consolidate a significant amount of items on Amazon, though.
Isn't it more like 10,000,000 kWh, i.e. 10000 MWh? New nuclear units go up to 1600 MW of output, so it's less than 10 hours of output from a single reactor.
Not to abuse this post's comment section but I recently noticed that on IE11 mobile, image captions overlap with the article's text. I don't think this is relevant enough to formally file a bug report (browser seems to be grade c) but in case someone working on the site's CSS reads this and feels overly bored, well..... ;-)
The market value is lower than the maximum value that would be paid for fossil fuels because pretty intense competition drives the price down pretty close to marginal costs. Fossil fuels (obviously) aren't capturing all of the value they produce.
> Promo-for-product is still an ad - sometimes called an advertorial.

Are you suggesting that Apple gave or lent the author products with a contractual obligation that the author write a positive review? I think that is extremely unlikely, and I believe anyone familiar with how Apple works with reviewers/influencers/content producers would agree. I would need to see compelling evidence to change my mind.
Sure, but there's no way to unbundle the very useful notifications service with... everything else. It's not the notifications service that's the problem, it's everything else you're required to run if you want it.
Yea, I'm pretty cool with this IPO as the company has built into filling quite a good niche while also putting pressure on MasterCard/Visa to clean up their monopoly softened act. I hope they find good success in the long term!

Edit: Oh please ignore my blindness, I didn't realize this was just a pure valuation announcement.
So if I understand correctly, the business model is to be the only seller in this exchange, with a profit margin justified by the convenience of instantly available Bitcoin funds.

Would it not be possible for a competitor to undermine this business model by running an exchange (based on the same technology, perhaps the same implementation) where selling is more permissive?
No – as much oil and gas must be left in the ground as possible.

Depending on how much of a global temperature increase you're willing to tolerate, there are specific limits (carbon budgets) to how much fossil fuels we can burn. This is discussed at length in the IPCC's report: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-2/
I think this most effectively demonstrates why I like a lot of OOP: it can be verbose. This is example function is relatively illegible:

alignCenter :: [String] -> [String]
alignCenter xs = map (\x -> replicate (div (n - length x) 2) ' ' ++ x) xs
where n = maximum (map length xs)

One of the most verbose languages I've used, Objective C, has made this a best practice. Despite the brackets (which scare people off), it can be some of the easiest to read code.
There is a older, but seemingly relevant, question/answer for this on stack overflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5611541/92359

> if you shrink a table, or update a partitioned table (causing a row to move to another partition) or if you are rebuilding a table, or export/import a table, or... or... or... the rowid will change.

If the rowids are not stable across db operations, it wouldn't make sense to use them for implementing index-free adjacency. Do any alternatives remain? If not you're back to joins.

One of the reasons why Neo4j can use index-free adjacency is that the ids used for nodes and relationships are pointers to the location of the nodes and relationships in the relevant store files. Those are stable across updates and deletes of other data, and when you delete a node, all its relationships must be deleted first so there are no hanging relationships.
Amateurs rarely benefit from pro grade equipment. Atleast photography is somewhat cheap as a hobby. I see friends buying expensive amps or guitars because so and so uses them and they end up still sounding the same. People who were buying all these cameras, were never photographers to begin with, they jsut wanted something to record their memories with, and a smartphone is amazing for that.

If you compare like to like, same sensor tech, same quality glass .. there is absolutely no way a tiny sensor can out-resolve or out-perform a larger sensor when it comes to image quality. There are other metrics where it can - for e.g. power consumption/heat output, ability to stabilize the sensor (smaller = easier), faster readout (generally easier on smaller sensors), etc.
AV is almost a cargo cult nowadays. Born for windows, now as a de facto must have for corporate IT. Everyone use it. Either no IT bothers to question why is it needed, or management hold beliefs from the 90s that AV is useful
Any plans to support the opposite feature: selling Bitcoin over the Lightning Network?
Chef Is Contracting to ICE
I agree with you that standard of living is an important thing to maintain for things to actually gain any traction. But first world standard of living is carbon-heavy and fundamentally at odds with the environment. I get downvoted every time I point this out, but it's true. Avocadoes and fruits flown in from Mexico and Chile year round are problematic. Eating meat every day is problematic. Chinese shit that breaks in a month is problematic. New phone every year is problematic. 3000+ sqft house is problematic. "Traveling" is problematic. Luxury cars are problematic (even Tesla - according to an estimate by Swedish researchers, even before you start driving, your Tesla has already emitted up to 17.5 _metric tons_ of carbon dioxide - you need to drive a gas car for 8 years for it to emit this much).

So no, not "stop doing things", but not buying shit you don't really need would be a good start.
Disagree. All it needs is a couple of curated/reliable repositories doing the rating. ( They can even be commercial. ) A scaleable and easy job because it's all "free", thus it creates a social web of trust among curators & end user alike; beating the Google Play Store due to effectively not having a ton of taurus feces apps. It has the potential to not only make money, but save a ton too.
Extra interesting as things like https://github.com/sethvargo/chef-sugar have removed themselves pending Chef canceling that contract.
I mean, if they're not being used most of the day, you bought too many...
Residential net consumption is more complex than that due to solar and wind. There is a duck curve, and sometimes the lowest energy prices are in the middle of the day, for wholesale it could be negative.
Show HN: Create Modeled RESTful API Using Spreadsheet as Database
Nobody does have an expectation of basic privacy on the sidewalk and they never have, from mutually disconnected agents like watching neighbors, random photographers, the occasional store camera etc.... The argument isn't even about these things. It's being watched by a vast interconnected network of AI-monitored facial recognition cameras that all feed into a centrally readable series of government databases which are cross referenced with other personal records of people (that can also, by the way, be hacked) and is also sold to bigcorps for intrusive, constant monetization that is a whole different order of privacy violation in any public space. This is what saying you have no expectation of privacy in public completely misses the larger point about... The latter is a much more terrifying prospect and it's well on its way.
The first EPA assessment of dioxins started under the Carter administration, but wasn't completed until the first or second year of the Reagan administration. The lead author ended up reassigned to a tiny branch office, and working in basically a broom closet. Or at least, that's what he said, when I tracked him down to ask questions.
Making Repl.it Collaborative at Heart
I am also planning to get a non Apple laptop, my macbook air is even more older than your MBP. Some more options : Fujitsu U939X and system76 ones
Virtual Particles: What Are They?
ATL is the fraud capital of the USA and they're really only counting the tiny part of true Atlanta. San Diego has NBSD and several large shipyards in a small area.
I have a Carbon X1 6th ed. running Xubuntu. Even though I came from a Macbook Pro, I've been pretty happy with it. I opted to upgrade the CPU to the i7 8650u. It's fast and very portable. It did feel a bit frail coming from the MBP's aluminum body, so I just bought a sleeve for it.
Y’all, UFOS aren’t fucking stupid

Obviously their tech is vastly superior to ours, except for cloaking and espionage?
Only ~10% of the world's GDP runs through the Internet right now, Stripe is working to raise that number and I fully support them. Their brand, their message, their product is stuff I study as I work on my own projects.

I feel this valuation is well-deserved. I rarely feel that way nowadays. This company will be around and still relevant a decade from now. I'd love to see them challenge the dinosaurs in the financial sector.
These two are really coming up as some of the most toxic cofounders I've seen in a while.
yes this (traveling and growth) is great. Also, amount of energy consumed historically correlates with quality of life.

Emissions are bad, but technology plus well thought-through policy has a potential to reduce them dramatically while both stimulating growth and energy consumption (nuclear + renewables and storage, electric cars, trains, etc.)
Which brings another point: I think it would be more productive to focus on direct damage to environment and health than on CO2. "You will be more likely to die from cancer and your children are going to be less intelligent if they grow up here" has more appeal than: "in 25 years there will be serious food/arable land shortage mainly at the other part of the world".
You mean Texas, that relatively flat, famously windy state where pollution can easily blow away, and yet still has some of the most polluted cities (https://www.click2houston.com/health/report-ranks-houston-am...)? It sounds like they could stand to have a CARB of their own.

> I'd guess wildfire emissions(smoke) are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than vehicles.

I can't take this seriously.
As far as I know, DHH isn't a big fan of investments in general.