skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone currently going through Airbnb hell, I’m really annoyed because on one hand a short term rental market is so necessary for so many people. On the other hand I despise Airbnb for enabling the following scenario: I rent an Airbnb in the Toronto suburbs, there is WiFi advertised, as a remote dev my livelihood depended on it. I get to the place, WiFi didn’t work, and there was zero bedding on my bed. I contact the host and he tells me he doesn’t speak English well (Chinese) but that I can just try fooling with the router. I do so. Another guest then proceeds to blame me for the broken WiFi and threatens my life (I literally have a picture of a note left addressing me on the router). I then call Airbnb saying I don’t feel safe. Airbnb legitimately sides with the host to my total shock. I sit there thinking what the hell and just eat the loss and rent the next place.

Airbnb is so supply constricted that it virtually always sides with the host. Compare that to NYC housing laws which are some of the most tenant friendly I could’ve written myself. So Airbnb screws individuals through various policies degrading consumer protection.

The world decided zero interest rates were good, so Chinese investors like the aforementioned buy places outright with minimal capital down and rent them out to local Canadians at a premium, driving rent and prices up. The result is that domestic markets have been brutalized and the rich have won in the zero rate economy, especially on housing.

I’ve had 8 Airbnb experiences and 4 turned out awful, the other four were fantastic. I used to think the company was amazing for building this new market now I’m completely jaded and feel bad for hoping this company rots
Agreed. Copyleft Free software with an option to purchase a non-copyleft license exception is strictly better than proprietary software, which in many cases is the only realistic alternative. If there's something immoral about selling these exceptions then it's also immoral to release software under permissive Free licenses, which is a very unusual belief.

RMS discusses this here:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html

"I consider selling exceptions an acceptable thing for a company to do, and I will suggest it where appropriate as a way to get programs freed."
> In other words they would have already proven themselves in the market if that were the case. You would have extraordinarily productive teams using these languages -- along the lines of what PG hypothesized 15+ years ago.

There's K and Kdb, et. al. (I think they're on to "Q" now.)
Why is this sorted by author name ? Site is very spammy and unusable
Wow, what a way to go. His music reminds me of Blaze Foley’s sound. Deeply American. And much like Blaze Foley I believe Olney will now find fame (as so many artists do) in death. The irony is strong in art (would make a great Latin phrase).
> It also doesn't leave much to the imagination.

I never thought of it this way, thanks! Last year I went with a short resume without the coursework and I got 2 interviews from 30 apps with a cover letter. I managed to get feedback last time that they were “looking for someone more experienced” so this time around I tried to enumerate my experiences...but I guess I overdid it.

> Whether or not it is true... you have a massive amount of frameworks, languages, and libraries on there as well... for those of use that have been in the industry for a while its kind of a red flag that you don't know any of them particularly well. Try honing it into your best skills and your favorite technologies

Thanks! I didn’t think about this, I basically tried to write out a summary of what languages/frameworks I used in that project. I guess I should cut it down to be less specific like just python, SQL, google cloud instead of going into particular libraries and technologies.

Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate the time and perspective!
My first drive was just 16MB; It was so useful.

And I never successfully used a rewritable CD, something always seemed to go wrong. I wasn't quite rich enough to burn a fresh disk each time, instead I would append new files to regular CDRs until it was full or I lost it.
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> I don't know if you're familiar with FreeBSD's approach to backwards compatibility in general, or just making a general statement about monorepos.

I'm a former NetBSD developer, I left when I got fed up to re-invent the wheel. I spent many years after that supporting a commercial special purpose FreeBSD-basde distribution, and I got a fair share of conflicts on mailing list again "the old guard" (Warner & co) over various subsystem, and had to go as far as calling off an incompetent kernel committer working for Intel at the time. All my grief from ~10 years ago is publicly available in the mailing-list archives.

> FreeBSD's also got a Linux syscall emulation layer, which implements (some of) the Linux kernel's (stable) ABI.

IIRC, it is mostly vestigial, unless it has been going though a major updates in the past 10 years.

> That really isn't true. The point of the stable/ branches is the kernel KBI is stable for the lifetime of the branch.

Branch lifetime is irrelevant. Linux makes backward compatibility an utmost paradigm. I'm sure a 2.4 era binary will still work on 5.4, nearly 15 years later.

> Sure. But you can implement a patch and advocate for it against the existing implementation?

Unless you are a committer, the chance of getting ANY significant patch in is pretty much nil. As I mentioned previously, mailing list are NOT for discussing any significant changes, this is done behind the scene in private by a de-facto pseudo-"committee". The development process is closed to a few elites, generally small group of committers ruling over code sections. By the time any patch is ready, its author drops a +5000,-5000 lines turd^Wdiff that is utterly impossible to review. For lack of a better word, BSD are not remotely close to being open to outsiders. I know this by experience.
What I found more interesting was that "...there is no relationship between milk fat intake and telomere length among adults who consumed low levels of total saturated fat (tertile 1), but it is strong among adults who consumed moderate or high levels of total saturated fat."
I was disappointed to learn that the two filesystems don't actually interact with each other.

My initial impression was that somehow it managed to update the metadata of everything in a way that both FAT and ext2 could read the full disk image.
> I'm not heterosexual. The LGBT community has made it crystal clear they want nothing whatsoever to do with me.

Care to expand on your experience?
At the company level of conversation, the UI of AWS services isn't that big of a deal. The people with budget authority usually don't even see the AWS UI and have most likely never logged in.
They wanted my high school GPA and SAT scores to complete my application. I had my bachelor's, and 12 years of experience at the time. After moving to Madison, was glad I refused to give that info. They like their implementation teams right out of school, and work them to death
I don't much care for this take. In my opinion, a private and profitable space company is a massive, game-changing advancement in human progress. Maybe, just maybe, we'll actually send people to the planets when it's in somebody's direct financial interest and ability to do so, rather than have to beg a bunch of image-sensitive politicians to fund it.

Against that possibility and chance, I honestly don't give a damn about whether or not some of the footage is public domain. I'd rather argue about who has the right to do what with various bits of launch footage from our Martian colony. Beats the heck out of having more public domain launch footage to use in sci-fi movies, and having our crowning achievement in human space exploration being a handful of short missions to the Moon that left behind absolutely no useful infrastructure, and was only done to show up our geopolitical rivals.
See also Definite Clause Grammars (DCG):

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

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/dcg
Yes, I thought we'd had this discussion before...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353352
I have a one plus 6 and materialistic crashes almost every time I open it from a previous session. It also often crashes when reading articles even on a fresh instance
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Zsh to Fish: my fish shell setup
You look at a place like Toronto or New York and see the amount of damage done. Airbnb has created an entirely new way to speculate in the housing market while skirting all sorts of consumer protections, taxes, and local laws. Frankly I’m starting to despise the company and can’t believe nothing has been done about this in more states
Personally after going through it, I found myself wondering why the hell it's not more widely discussed how common it is. (Also, how much less common it is after 10 weeks)

Without that knowledge, when it happens there's the immediate fear that there's something wrong with you, that you'll never be able to have kids, that it's hopeless. When in reality it happens a lot, including to countless couples who go on to have big happy families.

They say if we were able to track 'unrecognized' pregnancies, the total rate of miscarry across all pregnancies is likely much higher than 25%
All interventions will hurt the economy. If they didn't then they would already be happening as the most efficient use of capital.

But all flights worldwide only account for 2% of all CO2.

Industrial output accounts for 22% and electricity 28%.

If we regulated all electricity to be carbon neutral, that would make electricity cost more and harm the economy, but it would have a huge effect on emissions.

Flying just isn't that important to climate change, but it is quite important to the economy. Not a lot of goods move by air, but people do. A lot of the world depends on tourism. For some countries, it is the main contributor to their GDP.

Yeah, I fly a few times a year, sometimes to the other side of the planet, for business. And also for tourism where I spend a bunch of money buying local goods.

I also use a lot of energy. I pay extra to make sure that energy all comes from carbon neutral sources. That makes a much bigger difference to climate change than using a plane.
Predator and Reaper drones are armed, but as far as I know humans always control the weapons systems.
Just about every innovative idea in Lisp has been adopted by other languages now. Except for s-expr syntax. Draw your own conclusions.
A research team builds robots from living cells
Yes. The optimizations for the perfect life are boring, learn how to love the life you're living not chasing milestones.
I was in a similar position with Physics and did several years of postdoc, toward the end doing some teaching too as it promised a better chance of a TT position. In the end, got the position but got disillusioned with the horrible politics along the way, I'd moved research area toward computational biology meanwhile and found that politics in Biology was way, way worse than I could cope with. Moved to industry with some collaborations still going on low key, onlly regret being that I didn't switch to industry sooner.
If the fridge manufacturer goes bankrupt or changes how cold their fridge can get, I also go out of business in this contrived example. Do you also want to regulate these business decisions too? Shall the regulators intervene every time there is an ios update?

A better analogy is I produce aftermarket software/hardware for the refrigerator and want to force them to accommodate it (with the govt stepping in to determine which kinds of features they can and can't add on their own, e.g. browsers) and even sell it to customers for me.

As for your last question, the browser is the regulation. It is a very specific software product. In the case of apps, there is an open-ended range of function. Regulators must determine in detail which of these are to be protected. Presumably they must allow apple to block some apps like (easily-categorized) malware, but what about borderline and controversial decisions based on quality or ethics? Regulators are now deciding the detailed functionality of the product and preventing apple from differentiating their product. Shouldn't consumer choice be the deciding factor instead?

And as for browsers, again Microsoft was supposedly a monopoly. Not just their own niche store, but most of the entire market for OS's.
> It's even more frustrating when I hear non-POC's

If you want to talk about white people say white people.
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Neither of those are Google cloud related
Me too, I saw it live on TV - along with millions of others... everyone was in stitches because they thought it was part of the act.
Ultimately a tale of persistence in contacting support. Someone less confident or desperate or aware of their rights and associated costs of the issue would probably have not followed through.

Ultimately also a sign that Stripe's fraud prevention and support are pretty bad. Not Google-Level bad But certainly if it takes an active g tech literate merchant a day to resolve such an issue this is 100% on stripe and the author should not have gone through this pain.
I think we shouldn't badmouth all of politics because of these kinds of subject matter. The front page has lots of politics in the form of issues with major societal implications and it's good that there's lively public discourse about them.

Spreading the politics = bad meme just makes the public disengage from the good part of politics (active civic discourse), whereas the ultimate thinking behind the meme usually is that professional party-politicians in high standing shouldn't be listened to too much. So it's kind of self-defeating.
The Dactyl is a bowl shaped split keyboard that you can 3D print the case for. From what I've read it's a very complicated build.
> I fundamentally disagree with the idea that the system can somehow overcome poor implementation

If very large amounts of 'implementation' have to be done on top of the software, then that's also a sign of bad design. It should be handling more of the implementation and making it more streamlined.
I was not really announcing a new Web site, which I do intend to do at HN once my omelet is ready for actual eating, but just replying to the post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092248

of rahulchhabra07.

His post was interesting to me since it mentioned some of the problems that I saw and that got me to work on my startup. And my post might have been interesting to him since it confirms that (i) someone else also sees the same problems and (ii) has a solution on the way.

For explaining my work fully, maybe even going open source, lots of people would say that I shouldn't do that. Indeed, that anyone would do a startup in Internet search seems just wack-o since they would be competing with Google and Bing, some of the most valuable efforts on the planet.

So that my efforts are not just wack-o, (i) I'm going for a part of search, e.g., solving the problems of rahulchhabra07, not currently solved well; (ii) my work does not really replace Google or Bing when they work well, and they do, what, some billions of times a second or some such?; (iii) my user interface is so different from that of Google and Bing that at least first cut my work would be like combining a racoon and a beaver into a racobeaver or a beavorac; and (iv) at least to get started I need the protection of trade secret internals.

Or, uh, although I only just now thought of this, maybe Google would like my work because it might provide some evidence that they are not all of search and don't really have a monopoly, an issue in recent news.
Show HN: Hire product and business managers using take-home assignments
Filling large arrays with zeroes quickly in C++
That's how I read it. It might happen selectively based on some heuristic though (that would be my guess).
On one hand, I'm pretty excited that something from the universe of Ghost in the Shell would become reality; on the other hand, it's a slippery slope to some dystopian reality where ethical considerations are completely removed from battle.
Great. Super. Has it been ported to a "real" VM yet? I'm going off of Wikipedia and the 16-bit windows error below.

I can see that the "radical: always-debug, always-on might need a real VM, but it's apparent there isn't enough base for this to produce a true VM.

Is it really impossible to port to the JVM, the javascript VMs, or something similar? Otherwise I fear this is doomed to toy status.
Are you saying that good music is necessarily oversimplified? I am not sure that I follow.
Is this not typically (read: always) the case with new technologies though? Before any production or engineering could be done, a model must be created. The fact that a model exists strongly implies that it is physically possible.
Yeah, no point in going via an extra city if you're not going to stay there for at least a day!
Thanks. I intend to announce the alpha test here at HN, and I will have an e-mail address for feedback (already do -- at least got that little item off my TODO list although it took 36 hours of on the phone mud wrestling with my ISP to set it up).
Epic is not Epic

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_Store
Excalidraw – a whiteboard tool to sketch hand-drawn diagrams (excalidraw.com)
Yes. And yes. I'll do anything to hang out with people, especially the ones I like.

You sound like you're making an excuse for a lack of friends by implying there is no one worth being friends with? Perhaps I've inferred too much, I sure hope so...
What do you mean by this? All major corporations use private internal data to drive their products, including competing with their own customers. Amazon's ecommerce business is notorious for this and a reason why other major retailers tell their vendors not to use AWS. This was all just discussed days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22079174

That being said, and with 15 years of adtech of experience, I guarantee that there's absolutely no usage of business customers' first party data by Google's adtech system. While companies can use it to match and target their users, they have to do explicitly with lots of restrictions and protocols and it's only become more limited with new privacy regulations.
ULTRARAM

Sounds like something decided by committee.
F-35 logistics system to be reinvented and renamed, official says
> > FreeBSD is an operating system made by developers who are also system administrators.
> Definitely not true (or at least, in no respect different than the developers of the broader Linux ecosystem).

Maybe not so true today, but back when Linux first started, one of the main differences between Linux and FreeBSD was that BSD was written mostly by coders who worked as professional sysadmins, and Linux was written by coders who were mostly software engineers.

That's why Linux had all the new features, and BSD had all the stability. Because sysadmins cared about stability more than features.

It's sort of why their respective philosophies diverged.

I know because I spent a lot of time in the late 90s with the core committers who had been working on BSD since the 70s and 80s at Berkeley. They were all sysadmins.
One of my favorite recordings, period, is the Charles Rosen treatments of Beethoven's late piano sonatas -- two of these pieces are mentioned in the article.

I'm not a musician, so I don't grasp it at the level of the author, but wow. They are dreamy, sublime, mesmerizing. I've been listening to them for 15 years and they are still a favorite. (Review: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/beethoven-late-piano-son...)
While working in technology in biz ops and strategy roles, I found that it is generally difficult to screen candidates for non-technical roles using just a resume. Degrees don't necessarily correlate with on-the-job skills.

Instead, I found actual take-home assignments to be a much better predictor of a candidate's on-the-job performance and hence a better method of screening.

This was the inspiration for building this tool. It's free to use. Welcome all feedback and suggestions.
Haha, yeah it's the "just" part that's the issue. In all seriousness I'm actually helping my wife learn to code at the moment. Her last job was as a pharmacy tech, but she hated that job and isn't satisfied with me as the sole breadwinner. She hadn't even touched the command line until a couple of years ago. She's come a long way from zero and is now learning React, but it'll still be at least another year, maybe two before I'd say she's ready to produce something professional-quality on a professional schedule. And that's with me taking care of the bills, funding the educational resources she's using (not a 4-year degree), doing a LOT of tutoring in the first year and and passing along insights I didn't get until my first job. And she's put a minimum of 30 hours a week into it, often more.

I can only imagine what someone with greater responsibilities, less time and no mentoring would go through. Not saying it can't be done, clearly it has. But just because a few talented/lucky/insane people can start from nothing and strike it big doesn't make it accessible to the average coal miner. If it did our salaries would be a low lower.
Open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging cleared tissue
Install it and try it. It might surprise you.
Yes. It's called "Premium Access Addon". They charge additional cost of $40 /year.

More info here - https://blog.bitwarden.com/premium-access-for-families-organ...
Oh, thanks for clarifying, I confused them with different Epic indeed.
Hey HN!

I am just one of the contributors

I made my first ever open source contribution on this project and about to fix the latest issue, very excited to share this project here! :)

Here is the repo: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
i wish i was a US Citizen so I could work on things like this. I assume you'd need TS-SCI....
Do these free audio books collection also has transcripts? I want to use them to train my Speech to text model.
I grew up a strict southern baptist in Wisconsin of all places. And I can tell you that while there was very little "beef" between the religious and the non religious. There was a metric $#!t Ton of "beef" between religious people.

Between Baptists and Catholics for instance. Or between jews and muslims. Etc etc etc. Clashes of religious dogmas have been raging just about as long religions have been around. If I remember correctly, Ancient Egyptians attempted to strike entire dynasties from the record because this Pharoah believed in One God, or that Pharoah moved the capitol too far from more appropriate lands.

There has been history altering levels of "beef" between religious peoples over the millennia.
NextStep pulled from Berkley BSD, so some of that lineage is still around. Darwin has pulled from both NetBSD and FreeBSD, themselves derivatives from the Berkley distribution.
And the first essay linked, about crash-only, screwed up the analogy so badly...
What the way to leave if you know it will happen soon?