skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you hired it for specific reasons, finding a low cost option quickly or treating yourself to _all the things_, and I don't think AirBnB tries to do those things well.

Try hiring hotels or hostels for large gatherings: bachelor/bachelorette parties, weddings, family vacations, etc. and I think it will be easier to see the difference. They compete more with vacation rentals, which seems old-fashioned since their online inventory always sucks.

I also think hotels are impersonal. As mentioned in this thread, they market themselves as "having a local experience" and I think that's been an effective message. I have gotten great recommendations from hosts on food, dining, and things not to do and I get to choose the location/theme of my stay too. Do I need to work? Am we relaxing for a couple days? The choose your own adventure aspect means that AirBnB is the starting place for all those searches, not hotels.

I also think there is a real lack of comparable options to hostels in the states so those could be similar jobs here (not abroad). I know of 1 hostel in my hometown near the airport (top 20 US city by pop).

I do agree that great hosts will push up prices to be comparable to hotels and the gap is closing steadily. I think you can still find great middle ground in most cities.
I actually dislike Git profusely but these arguments are very, very poor. git checkout --branch vs git branch --chekout ? Depending on how the wind blows I could see myself leaning on one or the other. WHO CARES? This is not even a paper-cut level of annoyance.
No, this utility does not "do" anything to macOS, it just generates a wallpaper that makes the menu bar look the desired color.
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Liberals are actually racist against white peoples, so they makes sense
+1 it's a show stopper for me with a 10tb db....
Something pretty similar happened in the US with Ticketmaster. https://www.wired.com/2010/11/wiseguys-plead-guilty/
I turn off all sorts of animations, movements, and transparencies in iOS and macOS. For the menubar, it goes to my desired theme[1] irrespective of the wallpaper when I set display to “Reduce Transparency”.

System Preferences > Accessibility > Display ~ Reduce Transparency

1. Dark for Dock, Menu, etc but all others Light.

a. Set theme to Light, then run

b. `defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes`

c. Logout and Choose “Dark Mode".
Buzzkill! I think it's more a matter of that those who are in a position to do so are used enough with git-cli that they are happy with the status quo.
It says it uses flex and bison for CSS parsing, which was true at the time of writing. It was replaced by a hand-written parser by Dave Hyatt in 2016.
really nice quote, this comment is only commented so I can find this again.
Why? Apple were creating PII. They were not storing or processing it. You can probably break the GDPR by incorrectly handling the IDFA you get from Apple, but that does not mean that Apple are breaking the law.
Not really any new information. This came out during the New Zealand shootings where the RCMP were showing up at Canadian's houses talking to them about 'supporting trump' or 'having viewed the shooting video'. Admittedly our police were less problematic compared to the police in the NZ.

The more interesting thing if you google 'Brenda Lucki' in the news. TONS of groups are calling for her dismissal. They call her racist, but don't worry our blackface prime minister supports her.
Right. It is ridiculous to say that DoH enables malware because it has always been trivial to bypass DNS-based access control with or without technologies like DoH. In fact, if anything, using DoH would be a particularly cumbersome way of doing it when there are many simpler solutions. Like for example, just putting an IP in a text file on a REST endpoint.
They didn’t create highways to challenge thought
And there is zero evidence to the contrary.
Just by being in a group that can afford to fly at all you can be certain that they'll emit much more CO2 than average.
You should, or do you just merge updated remote branches into your stale local branches? A lot of new developers seem to do that here until we explain to them how it messes up the history.
FINALLY, long overdue.
> 11% of the world’s population took a flight

That sounds implausible to me. Perhaps by dividing the number of flights by the world population. But I can't conceive more than 800,000,000 different people flying last year
I don‘t care about me being surveilled. You will understand this when you become a father

He's OK with random strangers surveilling his children then? Because no child molesters have ever been employed by the public sector, of course. And no government has ever leaked data onto the dark web. Honestly, there should be a parenting license people need to pass with exams.
The author is an employee of JetBrain.
I believe JetBrian is using jlink [1], a tool that let you embed the modules of the JDK you need with your application, for all their products since they have migrated to JDK 11.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/tools/jlink.html
When I first started writing software I would often rewrite third party libraries I didn’t understand to reduce complexity.

After growing up and becoming wiser I came to understand I did this all because I didn’t invest the time to learn how these complex things worked. It also made me feel smart to write more code. Big mistake.

I can’t help but think a little bit of this pattern rears it’s head as the motivation for things like git GUIs.

There will be a maintenance burden and no matter how careful you are there will be bugs.

I write scripts for complex but infrequently used operations and drop them in ~/bin
I will just say I agree in my own words "the DOM sucks for user interface development". I don't know why people are always so quick to defend it, or insist on being ardent apologists for it. It's a crap foundation for what we've been building on it for decades. It was never intended for this.

Yes, I am forced to use is, as we all are. But, I tell you, I miss Swing and actual GUI component libraries that were designed, and implemented, from the ground up to be used as GUI.

I could rant until the end of my career for this mistake of a path we all took in the 90s. HTML/Hypertext was a game changer. But, bastardizing this implementation into what we have to deal with today was a total and utter mistake.
Nah, don't worry about it. I understand. Also graphics under Linux tend to be a PITA sometimes.
>Wait what?? Are you serious? Please tell me you are not serious Man are you in an Apple PR bubble if you believe that, iOS most certainly has been impacted by viruses, malware and vulnerabilities

Well, since you're outside the PR bubble, I'll be eagerly awaiting for your examples of viruses in iOS devices. I'll be patient.

Spyware you'll find a few (they exist in any system when you can't trust the developer 100% -- even Facebook app functions as malware, in the sense that it got data it shouldn't), that are stopped when found out, exactly due to developer certificates. No malware in the wild (virus, trojans, etc) infecting iOS devices, due to no sideloading and sandboxing.

While at it, also refute the "50 to 1" Android to iOS malware ratio as given in the post -- and that's from an antivirus vendor:

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security...

You're serious and I'm not after all. And you're also outside the bubble, so you'll have access to plenty of material...
Are memes the digital gateway to social media manipulation?
Well the example I like to give is that pre WW2 many countries gathered completely normal census data, but of course during WW2 Nazis used it to find out exactly where Jews lived. So the data was collected with perfectly good intentions and it was then used to kill people.

To which of course all I hear is

"Well yes, but that's not going to happen to the UK, so I don't think it's important"
Is bundling the JVM with the app really such a huge deal on desktops? I know it would add a bunch to the binary size but what are the other issues?
The people who care about "looks good" are also usually decision makers and funders, so yes, it does matter - regardless of your opinion on whether it should or shouldn't.
Heh... I wonder how much of the USA you could power by extracting energy from that thing?

Unfortunately it's a park, so you'd have to find a way to do it very unobtrusively. Maybe tunnel and drill into it from outside the park? Call the Boring Company. :)
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The Firefox versioning numbers are lost on me.

I have no idea of the importance between 83 vs 80.
This is your brain on 5G - - CANCER for everyone without discrimination !
You mostly lost me at "point-and-click", but I'll bite.

git rebase -i {hash before your changes}
git push -f

And since you talked about point and click, you could easily enough use github permissions on branches to prevent this on protected branches or you could configure your git repo to disallow force pushes. To get specific branch protections on a normal git repo you would need to use a hook to validate the update before it's accepted.
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It's true though that you need explicit consent for sending PII under GDPR. Whether IDFA is considered PII (I think there are strong hints it is) is up to the jury. More surprising is that Apple is hellbent to defend this when they've only their pro-privacy stance to loose.
Fair enough. The blob stores a diff. The commit stores a reference to... the diff. This is a division between the concept of the object and the implementation. But it's not an example of a diff-storing model failing to model git as it is; git as it is is storing diffs.

If a commit references a "blob", and the "blob" that it references is, in fact, a diff, why would we say that the commit "does not reference a diff"?
We're the exact same except for the squashed merge (which I have no real objection to doing)
Can we talk about how the Airbnb founders managed to hold onto 45%+ of the company after $5B+ in funding?
Yes, but they are also an example of why people don't like Java UIs.

I.e. the amount of UI problems you have with it when using a tiling wm or wayland (or both) are just sad and make it unusable. Other widely used UI's might also have problems but at least are somewhat usable under wayland and/or tiling wm.

Ironically many of this problems go back/are rooted in to AWT...

In the past Intellij did work if started directly by x (without a wm) which was pretty cool for some very very neach use cases, but sadly (through reasonably) this isn't the case anymore.
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So between the user and the network operator, who should have the final say? It seems like you're saying, "it should be the user when I'm the user and it should be the network operator when I'm the network operator". But I don't think we can have it both ways.
I actually never want to see the Dock or rarely see it, so hiding it does the trick for me. I use a launcher (Alfred with Powerpack) and Toggle (⌘+tab) if I'm switching apps.

Anyone know of a way to reduce the delay while auto-hiding the menubar? The day I find a way to instantly show the menubar when cursor-hover, I will hide that too.
Not to mention that there are lots of things we should have precisely because they are a threat to the state: encryption that the government cannot break, automatic weapons, individual autonomy, etc. These things all can be abused by "the bad guys", and will be, but we accept those risks because they are inherent to being free.
>> You can allow a user to sort by likes, retweets or time. Anything else is considered publishing.

>I think this is also editorial in nature.

Ah, but the distinction is that the user is the one performing the editing, and not the platform.
Source: TFA
Skija (the graphics library in TFA) is in the JetBrains organiation... https://github.com/JetBrains/skija/
That breaks a very simple rule that a VCS tools should adhere consistently. Do not make destructive changes unless explicitly told to. Since most other commands to not allow you to do this without -f, the same should apply here.
> GDPR effectively prohibits ANY opt-out.

This is absolutely not in any way a true statement. The GDPR applies to very specific things, and I don't think you could find a reading of it where it applied to maintaining the IDFA on a phone.
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I read the method used to measure efficacy: They have tested 44,000 people. 50% got a placebo, 50% got a vaccine. Then has been giving them the freedom to get the covid.
95% of the 50% who got the vaccine haven't contracted the virus.

Correct me if I am wrong. Supposing a random person has a 5-10% chance of contracting the virus (according to average cases/testing worldwide), should the efficacy be 5-10% * 95% = 0.7%-0.5%?
I’ve tried describing merging and branching to non-programmers a few times. I try not to.

I think of git as a filtering function. It’s hard but changing stuff is dangerous. So I figure making people spend a few minutes googling to be able to do something isn’t so bad.

That being said, it’s used by more non programmers than any other tool.
Ask them if they'd also be fine with hackers potentially leaking
all their account data to the public.

There are enough real-life examples, like the Equifax debacle or
that "dating" site where multiple people committed suicide when
their online identities got leaked.

The only way to guarantee personal data cannot be abused by
anyone, authority or not, is when those data don't exist at all.
We know that governments are too incompetent to follow best
practices in security, we know that this kind of power gets
abused with barely any limits because there's no
accountability(e.g. when a prominent German singer did a concert
police officers made 83 lookups of her data in the police
database just in that single night. Nothing ever came out of
it even though the police had to admit those numbers aren't
possible without abuse).
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Genetic pacification worked to fix European criminality: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1474704915013001...
You are pretty much on point. I believe that's really AirBnB's market.

Some people are confused and surprised they expect hotel services(airbnb is to blame for this as well) instead of more "adventurious" accomodation offered by private owners.

AirBnB is the eBay of short term rental with the good and bad parts. Booking.com used(and mostly still is) more a kind of Amazon.
I'm trying Pulumi at the moment, it seems pretty nice so far - I love that it's not "yaml templates" or some other DSL, but just regular code.

But it seems like it covers a bit of a different space to Ansible... Pulumi will boot up your infrastructure but you still need something like Ansible to install packages on the nodes afterwards.

My impression of Ansible in the past was that it's more complicated than it was supposed to be.

I kind of hope Pulumi will extend in that direction over time, I would rather use one tool for everything and I don't see why it couldn't. The docs for writing your own providers are a bit weak at the moment though.
That seems to show that the R part of R&D has remained static (in terms of the Federal Budget) but the D part has fallen. At the same time there have been very large tax incentives for "D" in the USA. And the R bit is the bit that I would point to in terms of this discussion.
None of the Apple II's competitors exploited that, though. EVERYTHING in that world of software was built around tight hardware assumptions. Atari, VIC, Commodore, none of them ever shipped a faster CPU. That needed to wait for later architectures.

No, the Disk II was absolutely a masterpiece. Go back to the linked article, think about everything this very complicated chip did, and recognize that Woz made a card that did exactly the same thing out of 6 chips you could buy at Radio Shack and two tiny ROMs.
There is a fundamental design flaw with Helm
There is a fundamental design flaw with Helm, leading to dramatic long-term consequences and you have to solve this now. My view is that of a DevOps manager in an enterprise engineering team.
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Reminds me of someone I knew in college - uber wealthy rebel kid of the owner of Empire films. Wore an oxford button down with the stenciled words "kill the rich their kids are evil" at Harvard. Not ironic at all, last I heard, he was on the ICAAN board voting against net neutrality.
I wonder if guest could also post similar sum before they get to use services. After all guest can cause massive amounts of damage. Maybe something reasonable like 25% of property value... Just to make sure that both sides are honest. Ofc, this will be returned if locations is in perfect condition after the visit.
Stack exchange has multiple answers for most questions. It's not a useful metric; the domain is inherently complex. git has warts, like c++, go, react, npm, rust and all their cousins.

It comes with the territory. We're dealing with tools borne into world where they are, more and more, expected to be suitable for any purpose. Tough mandate, and not the tools fault.

One day git will be supplanted with something that has a different set of issues. Progress.
If we must truly progress to a world where flights become a luxurious rarity, what will happen to economies transformed by tourism, I wonder.
Does having music while meditating not defeat its purpose? I was under the impression meditation was about cutting external stimuli.
I don't think so.

If people live 100 years, you have 1% of the population die each year. In the US, COVID has killed a quarter-million, which is just under 0.1%, so an increase of under 10%. You'll barely see a 10% increase on a noisy chart.

In practice, that's a 50% increase some months, and a 1% increase others. So it looks underwhelming. But it isn't the same people.

But it's definitely not just people who would have died anyway. We're also at just under 1 in 30 people infected. If everyone caught COVID, you'd naively see 30x as many deaths, or 7.5 million dead.

Practically, not everyone would catch COVID, and by demographics, I suspect fewer would die, so we'd be talking maybe 2-3 million excess deaths if we let it burn. And probably another few million with long-term disability.
Forgive me for my ignorance, since my knowledge of advanced physics and orbital mechanics are limited to KSP, can't we build something like this on orbit, thus saving a lot of headache from landing and constructing on the moon?

A stable polar orbit is easier to get to and return from the moon.
I'm a fan of nuclear power, but if the sun gets blocked out, nuclear isn't going to help you. Sure you'll keep your lights on, for a short time, and you get to watch total environmental and civilization collapse.
Apple is changing it to be opt-in starting 2021. You will be asked any time an app wants to access it.
Yep. And 87% of American Airlines passengers fly “once a year or less.”

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/09/american-airlines-amazing-s...
I think you are in the minority. EC2 is popular.
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This has always felt like a strange concern to me. It’s a bit like refusing to have gloves in your house, so that a burglar can’t borrow your gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints.

Adware, spyware, and malware has always had the ability to avoid system DNS. At its most basic, they could hardcode lists of IPs into their malicious code. At its most complex, the same building blocks that DoH/DoT use were available to them: they could build similar tools that tunnel over HTTPS/SSH/etc, whichever protocol they felt was least conspicuous on their target system. Drop a list of hostnames into a pastebin post, tell your malware to check the list for updates, profit.

DoH in Firefox simply makes the above issue harder to ignore. Before this, an enterprise or individual sysadmin could implement DNS inspection at the border, see logs showing their users browsing naughty websites, and feel like they’d made progress. But they’d always be blind to attackers (or nefarious users) who just didn’t bother using the stock DNS offering to bootstrap their hijinks. Detecting that has always required device-level monitoring or further MITM of traffic; learning about DoH makes that more obvious to sysadmins, but it doesn’t materially change what adversaries were able to do already.
Certificates or radius authentication that's setup on the host using cloudinit or similar.
How to use git is difficult to teach to people who are not familiar with version control. I think sometimes this community forgets that version control is not common knowledge outside of the tech sphere.

A graphical client like Sublime Merge makes it easier, but not easy.
I dunno, given a server upgrade (of itanium servers, in 2018!) shaved 15 minutes off the maintenance window [1]

Don't get me wrong, I don't think the whole railway system is a small feat - i wouldn't want to be working on that project, but it's definitely not to "next generation" standards in 2014 (and definitely wasn't when i visited in 2018)

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation...
In Florida a significant portion of the mandatory reading books when I was in school were books that were previously banned.

Including, 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-- for that matter.

A number of books listed in the article are in the ALA list, which gives a historical perspective on attacks on these works: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks...

Books from this list that that aren't on the current ALA classics list (though they're also elsewhere on the ALA site but without context, e.g. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks...):

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/789/adventures-...

http://collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-on...
I would hope you could expand on this a bit?
It wasn't clear from the article, but wouldn't "aviation emissions" also include emissions from goods transport, not just passenger transport?
I bet that nefarious group is "airline pilots".
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I still prefer getting an ad about a video course I can buy than a random spam video about a mobile game I will never download.

Advertisements keep the internet going, if anyone has a different business model then please say it, because people right now are not willing to pay for news, social media or YouTube.
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> I have it configured as my git mergetool

How are you doing this? I haven't seen any merge tool, let alone a standalone one, in the JetBrains toolbox. What am I missing?
Yes, and they had millions of mainland Chinese tourists in 2019 and into early 2020. Amazing they did not get buried by covid-19.
It's hard to imagine how this could be easier or cheaper than just launching another space telescope. I see from the article that it uses a spinning liquid mirror, so yes, that would require gravity to work, but how many extra launches would it take to get the telescope to the moon and also the lander equipment.
I still don't understand why we can't just use bash (or some better language) and reject merge requests that don't have things split up into units that are either pure or who's side effects are idempotent.
It's not just the UX. It's the concepts the user has to understand in order to use git (without shooting their feet off or consulting a guru frequently).
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k8dash got a shout out in the article for some code they re-used from it.