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Airbnb Is the Next Groupon (It Just Doesn’t Know It Yet)
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> Sure...but not solving quickly, at the expense of all else.

I really, sincerely, think they do. It’s just that their optimizations focus on the subset of problems. For example:

> Rust is optimized for solving certain problems -- but solving them robustly, not quickly.

This is basically the same thing as saying: when the problem one wants to solve quickly is robustness, Rust may be a good choice.

> Python comes a bit closer, but Python also wants to be readable; I don't have to worry about that.

There are some problems I associate with quickly solving in Python, and others where I find it exceptionally slow. Sure, readability may be a contributing factor. Another is immature/complex tooling that makes static validation or dependency management a slog. Another still is that a lot of its concurrency story is in flux and you have to spend time researching approach and compatibility if your problems are concurrency related.

I’m still not trying to discourage, but I’ve spent most of my career working in scripting languages (those which most prioritize “rapid prototyping” and “repl driven development”), and ultimately when they’re applied to use cases that they’re not designed for their velocity is consumed by tooling.

My advice, intended with kindness and encouragement, is to consider which problems you wish your language to be able to solve rapidly.

To your points about velocity aids, expressiveness and transparency aren’t just velocity amplifiers at the time you write code. They also (can) aid velocity of reading comprehension, editing/refactoring, review. This is a place where Python does very well in terms of velocity: even when I had read less than 100 lines of it, I could generally review work and ask important questions about what it was doing in... well, frankly a shorter time than the JS I was actively working with as a lead at the time.

It’s clear you want a language that enables devs to dev fast. But what are they doing fast?
Keep doing this work. We need sound moderation. It's required to have an open forum like this on the internet. HN is literally the only place I will discuss anything online. And it should be recognized that the rules and the general willingingness of the users to follow them combined with the care taking of those rules that make HN work. Keep at it Dang. It's nice to skip politics for a while.
Exactly. And even if it does eventually get uploaded, I might be using my devices not in a data connected area. It's just a lazy architecture.

Edit, may not be entirely laziness: see this response to my question - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787066
Bitcoin sent to right-wing activists before Capitol riot from foreign account
I have some knowledge of mic'ing acoustic guitars and there are some similar issues. In particular, with an acoustic guitar, most of the sound comes from the soundboard, which is also the case for a violin and cello. With the bigger instruments I can definitely see the issue is that the soundboard and whole body are enormous. For acoustic guitars, the typical advise is to use a condenser mic and aim it at the 12th fret (avoiding most of the fret noise and not getting too boomy from the bass of the body/soundboard), about 12 inches away using a mic stand. I think condenser mics are pretty much the best option here as well.

Personally I don't like the sound of a close-mic'd acoustic guitar. Unlike cello and violin, there can be a lot of fret noise and wound strings can be quite squeaky. Classical guitars have different, quieter wound strings under less tension, and nylon for unwound. This is also to reduce fret noise and squeakiness, but personally I prefer the full sound of steel strings. I've been working a lot on getting my fretting technique more clean to eliminate all of that mess and sound more professional, but to be honest I actually prefer to hear my own guitar live in a quiet, resonant room and not through a recording. Bathrooms with tile are great, if a little small! Of course that sounds like complete garbage if you try to record it. But it is absolutely heavenly live :-)

For the doublebass I can imagine you'd be best off with a mic stand at a couple feet away and seeing if you can get a mic that has a very narrow response angle (almost a directed mic).

Cheers and happy recording.
I didn't find any links to the original page on HN. And second: may be the timezone accounting would be great. There is friday morning at may location now, but I still see only thursday.
Your issue might be the “similar roles.” Software engineer numbers on levels is very accurate, but don’t expect a similar role to pay similar, they’re not comparable.
>Why can't I have an entirely offline driven system?

Because that's less profitable for the corporate data barons.
Hey, I also just wanted to say that I know you FOSS folks are overworked and under-appreciated, and a lot of us really do appreciate you. I know you all get bombarded with all kinds of BS all the time, and I'm thankful that my patience hasn't been tested to such an extent. Thank you.
Elon Musk Donated $5M to Khan Academy [video]
>>Tesosterone is also linked to a greater sense of fair play, both as the recipient and the benefact

I speculate that is likely why libertarianism is the most male-dominated political ideology, and its adherents have the highest income levels.

Testosterone could also explain why libertarians are the most-rational/least-emotional of the political typologies:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22927928/
I finished my bachelors this year, nearly twenty years after I started. I likewise suffered a bit of inferiority anxiety related to not having one. After I shared my accomplishment I learned quite a few people in my organization didn’t hold such a degree (much to my surprise).

Congrats on pursuing it. It’s a worthy goal. I wish you luck.
Wine is really cool but last time I used it on my Mac I couldn’t run a program due to open gl version issues... does anyone know if/when that will be fixed?
They already do it in the coops to increase number of day night cycles.
The original Jurassic Park movie showed a program called fsn which ran on Irix systems—which were also used to make digital effects for the movie itself. It has been cloned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)

As I recall it didn’t look particularly smooth in the movie itself.
Also the corresponding Devuan (systemd-free Debian) release names, with "Bullseye" equating to "Chimera":

https://www.devuan.org/os/releases
Each device should be as capable as possible. There are features not implemented on the wearable, and there are features not implemented on the phone, as someone else pointed out, they could not change a basic setting from the phone or the wearable.

I understand there's a feature set trade off, I don't necessarily want a wearable that connects to the internet itself.
Why can't I write code inside my browser?
That's why you have a replica bunker just below it, just in case. Gotta stay antifragile.
Literally every can is plastic lined. They used to use wax on them, but plastic was cheaper so...
https://listifi.app/

Sharable lists. Always public lists optimized to quickly create, share, and explore lists. I’m currently working on adding more social features. Right now I support allowing users to star lists, vote on list items, and add comments.

Some ideas I have are: allow users to suggest list items, public editing of lists, and figuring out ways to make it fun to add lists to the listifi platform.

I welcome all feedback!

Examples:

- https://listifi.app/u/erock/knowledge-management-apps

- https://listifi.app/u/erock/xmas-movie-list

- https://listifi.app/u/neurosnap/gender-neutral-baby-names
As someone who writes open-source, I'm always happy to see other developers use my code to build cool stuff, and I expect nothing in return.

I'm also happy to see small start-ups rise faster by using my software.

But if those theoretical start-ups, whose business wouldn't exist without my software, grew to dozens of employees, made millions of dollars, and still I wouldn't see a nickel.. That's when I would start to wonder, why am I doing this for free?

Incidentally, the bigger the company, the less likely it is to contribute back.

To conclude, that sounds like false equivalency to me. It does matter who is using it for free and profiting.
I wanted to reply to my own questions (let's say 1-4) with some follow-up, because I didn't realize how complex the system was until I read the linked article.

1) The article mentions the drop locations need to be places where another person stumbling upon them will be super unlikely, and which also haven't been used before (not regular, recurring locations as I assumed).

3) There is still likely a fair bit of risk to the buyer, but the writer seems to believe they can plead innocence

4) Addressed in the same as 1, and with drop locations being new every time, making more involved drops may not be as much of an issue

(2) still begs the question, people making lots of drops seem to have a lot of risk; if many controlled buys are taking place, officials can crossreference the lists of people who have been near that location. Once they identify people who make the drops they can then watch the people who are seen in many of the locations, subpoena location information from Google, etc. until they catch them in the act of making a drop or gather enough evidence to indite them. These people could then face very serious charges of conspiracy. It's not unlikely that these people could then be turned informant. Get enough surveillance on, or cooperation of the people making the drops and you can then use the same techniques to suss out the sales layer. Rinse and repeat.
As a musician, audio engineer, and software engineer, this just blew my mind. I can't believe I've never heard of or thought of this until now. But my primary focus has been non-audio software through the pandemic, so I haven't been actively trying to find solutions to this. Thank you.

What applications would you recommend? Can it also do video, if not each link in the chain, at least one camera for the conductor (the node providing the metronome audio)? I realize the conductor would hear nobody at all, until playing back a recording from the end of the chain. Playback of said recording could begin after the song, or one measure into the song if there are no tempo/time changes (NINJAM style).
I recently had blood work done bc I thought I might be low T and mine was actually over the high band. I am a pretty serious hobby jogger. I run every day and I try and follow something close to what a serious HS runner would do. Is that why, or enough to explain it? Idk, but I do know if I didn’t exercise to compensate for screen-life, everything would be fucked
Always asked myself how this came about. Is there somewhere I can read about it?
The failure to understand A/B testing, the 1:100 subsample and what role it plays is huge: this is not censoring news or blocking news, its Google trying to quantify its effect feeding eyeballs to the news sources in search.

Why? Because they want to offset the "value" of the feed, against the implied cost of their news aggregation under the coming Australian mandated payment for news content.

I don't have much skin in this game despite being an Australian, I think the main thing for me is the complete mis-characterisation of the A/B test, and what it means.

We do A/B testing all the time. There might be an ethics issue in this, much as Facebook experimenting on sad/happy news raised issues, but I think this is on the evidence something google HAS to do, to balance out the economics of the cost/benefit across this area. I think its heading to some kind of least-cost reconciliation, not unlike peer settlement.

Disclaimer: this is my theory. I don't work for google. I know google staffers of some years, and ex-staffers. This wasn't informed by talking to them.

I said as much in the Graun comment-is-free space too.
Yeah: it is maybe worth noting explicitly for people that the speed of sound is sufficiently slower than the speed of light that two people laying instruments on opposite sides of a small stage can actually, if they have pickup mics and headphones using software carefully designed to minimize latency, be reasonably far apart over the Internet and have the same experience (such as between a bunch of musicians living in San Francisco, or all in the same region of Los Angeles).
Thanks, im sure there is some research, but coops i've driven past seam to still use normal day/night cycles with like skylights... anything with entirely artificial light?
There's lot of edgy people on Twitter... lots of folks with hammers and sickles, ironic or otherwise, in their handles, despite the many documented atrocities committed by communist states.
> layer-2 like scalability

Sorry, I'm not familiar with any blockchain layer model. Do you have a reference to the model this "layer-2" comes from? Clearly we're not talking about the OSI network model.
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Apparently it might be a case of mistaken identity: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/good-news/2021/01/15/joe-pig...
Thanks for the explanation! Key escrow is hard, eh?
115200 by default (it's what iBoot initializes it at), but I spent a chunk of yesterday's live development stream yak-shaving a way to smoothly switch to 1.5Mbaud in a way that lets my Glasgow-based auto-baud-sensing serial interface resync cleanly (turns out: it seems to be impossible using any single byte repeating with 1 stopbit and no pauses due to ambiguous framing; I had to use a multiple-byte pattern).
The only entity who says it's not "open source" is the OSI, which is mostly funded by corporations, who are in the business of cloud computing.
> But it's considered rude even for doctors to say you need to lose weight

Really? Is it a US thing?

I'm overweight but not obese, and basically every doctor I've seen for various issues (blood pressure, back pain, sprained ankle) told me to lose weight, in two european countries.
How Is HotWire Able to Offer Such Low Hotel Prices?
Can you name a single no-panty cafe that's actually operating then?
Well, the Apple M1 is an embedded SoC after all :)

Thank you!
I'm out of my league here, but I get the impression that Intel can't take their same design and pass it off to TSMC to print up chips at 5nm. I think it's more than that, but correct me if I'm wrong.
3ms by sound is only 3.36ft away.
Underrated comment. The more I think about it, negging is almost a defining characteristics of the profession, isn’t it? C programmers complain about languages like D or Rust as fancypants languages that just add syntactic sugar. Vim users shame VSCode users ‘because who cares about nice features anyway’. People who insist in using Mutt and Pine to read their mail because ‘pretty GUIs are for pansies’, command line vs. GUI, Linux vs. Windows (and conversely, Windows vs. Linux), IRC vs. Slack and a million other examples.

We are a bitter bunch, LOL
Great links; thank you.
Oh wow, another retro computing system I now need to go exploring.
Regardless of whether it's true, I don't see how this is relevant. The parent wasn't saying it's better to be poor, they're saying it's not helpful to not move. If you had a high paying, physically active job that you could do without injury, it would be better for you than any of the other combinations of pay ranking and level of activity. Likewise if the cultural ideal at the top was not decreased activity. If everyone had sedentary jobs and the cheapest food was the worst for you, you'd probably expect those with a surplus of money to be able to compensate better. Those without the need to compensate will be better off, but rich sedentary people will still need to.
Shaming isn't an effective public health measure. It didn't work with AIDS. It won't work with COVID-19.
Wait, I’ve been ignoring this article all day and now I’m winding down and find out that people throw out their bean juice???
I want to share with you an important quote. It sits at the top of [0] and is used by libertarians, but it is applicable across the political spectrum. "We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis." ~ Milton Friedman

The goal of staying politically informed is not so that you will necessarily take direct action. It is so that you will be able to take direct action if it becomes necessary for you to do so.

As many others have pointed out in the thread, it is quite selfish for you to do what you did. Millions of folks do not have the food security, income security, or essential freedoms and rights which are secured to you. However, selfishness is not inherently bad. What is bad is the myopia and the willingness to be ignorant which comes with it.

At the end of "Game of Thrones", nothing of interest happened. We all just turned off the TV and went on with life. However, politics is not just on TV. Your username suggests that you live somewhere in California; I live in Portland. Not all of us have your luxury.

[0] http://www.erights.org/
Fill me in? What recent fiasco?
Composition Is Interpretation
I'm surprised Twitter is archivable in the first place, the whole thing being a pile of JS crap

Up until a few months ago, you could still get the old UI if you used a suitable UA header, and until more recently, the "plain HTML" mobile.twitter.com version was available.

But with those shutdown, they are definitely trying to make it hard to consume their content in anything other than their "approved" way, which makes one wonder...
Most blue light glasses seem to be just fashion accessories [0]

As sister comment recommends Axon and other brands seem to block a different wavelength and tout better results, but I have no first hand experience and I don't think there is much independant studies done on their glasses specifically

[0] https://blog.themigrainereliefcenter.com/can-blue-light-bloc...
https://roo.health

I wanted some changes with my current fitness tracker like making my own custom workout so ended up making my own.
Yes, in large part as it is a policy biased toward status quoism. Those with complaints against the status quo, reasonably or otherwise, are disadvantaged if discussion and debate are restricted.
A website where people can easily swap books

https://www.swapiverse.com/
>The using downvotes to remove noise/unhealthy conversations

This is a pipe dream.
Number 2 and 3 are false.

Edit: I want e2e encryption but not censorship resistant, not when it starts getting used for inciting to violence. Search for eg "WhatsApp lynch mobs" or "Facebook Myanmar genocide".
I just noticed this and would have replied sooner if I'd seen it. We do use captchas sometimes for logins, especially when HN is under some sort of attack, which happens periodically. But we try to minimize it.

I'm told that hCaptcha would be better than you-know-who but haven't had the cycles to look into it yet.
You may in fact be right, but I'm keeping away from neural network and AI/ML approaches for now. Part of my motivation here is as a crutch to human understanding - I want the system to be able to fail conclusively (i.e. "no such program at this size and with these assumptions exists" as opposed to "I couldn't find anything"). It's a lot easier to search for a 5-instruction sequence mentally if a computer has told you there _really_ is no 4-instruction sequence.

This is a lot of compiler-type stuff, some bespoke optimizations and - like you say - tons of effort in pruning the search space. The backend to this is a SMT solver, but I have done a great deal of stuff to not get taken hostage by the mysteries of SMT solving (lots of tiny solves rather than handing huge parts of the problem to the solver). SMT solvers are great, and I encourage people to learn to use them, but they often need lots of domain-specific help.

I do think that once I start bootstrapping our way up from short sequences to putting together bigger programs, there will be some AI-ish stuff happening. There are common patterns to how we put together programs that feel like they could be "learned" (after a fashion).

The other big white whale here is to generate a program from a specification rather than from a black box. At the moment the superoptimizer can only make a better version of something that already exists. I do have a few ideas here, too, but there's a stretch goal.
The Intercept definitely did not try to suppress anything. Greenwald’s accusation that it amounted to censorship was beyond ridiculous. He wanted to publish a hatchet job against a Democrat, based on shoddy, unverified claims and mediocre, unverified physical evidence. The Intercept instead wanted to uphold bare minimum journalistic integrity and even offered to publish the piece if Greenwald would edit out the extremist rhetoric, claims of widespread liberal bias in professional news rooms, and unsubstantiated speculation against Hunter Biden that was purely playing into the hands of a fascist Republican administration.

Instead of adhering to these basic Journalism 101 bare minimum requirements, Greenwald decided to throw a tantrum and call it censorship, when really it is plain as day to any fair-minded outsider that there was utterly zero censorship towards Greenwald, the Hunter Biden story was crap and major news rooms were right to ignore it, and The Intercept did nothing wrong in that particular scenario.
By bringing national law to bear on Facebook, Twitter, etc. in such a vivid way, it sets a precedent that other countries will follow (like EU members). Now, because contradictions b/w any two bodies of law may come into existence, this will lead to blocks of countries that share a similar body of laws regarding speech meaning greater accommodation and less censorship. If there is a high degree of disagreement, however, there may be a good number of such blocks which means decentralization of social media. So either these companies face increased regulation, or they will be force to retreat from global dominance.
It's malicious actors all of the way down /s
Shame about the login filters. Not going to associate my ID with either of the Two you selected.

For the first 50 books, I'd read 38, wanted to read about 9 and couldn't care less about 3. (William Faulkner and Thomas Mann. Probably, they are the ones I should read first!)

Of the top 10 it was 9:1 read:want. I think I found the result pleasing but also surprising. I expected far more to be unread and unwanted overall. Most of them I'd read before leaving Universty.

I got tired of clicking through your social capture. I'd have done more than 50 if you got rid of this burden.

So: what's being harvested here? Explain to me how this affects SEO, or income, or anything specific. What was I doing in either clicking, or ignoring the social login?

edit: hmm. -2. is this bad karma because I sound boastful? I'm a 59yo, if you live long enough, you will read books on the classical canon of books to be read. Is it bad karma because I think Thomas Mann is boring? (I loved watching death in venice, but magic mountain was interminably, prosaically dull dull dull and I couldn't finish it) or because I dislike William Faulkner?

Or maybe because I asked what the login focus on FB and Apple was, and if this is (organ) harvesting?
We just did an extensive remodel of our house, which was around $200k to complete. I had lots of conversations with the tradesmen involved. The master tradesmen, plumber and electrician specifically, each made between $130k and $150k in 2018. They’re also actively turning down work and begging for help that’s worth a damn. The general contractor easily makes north of $200k, judging from his lifestyle compared to ours. For reference, this is Columbus Ohio. So while the median income listed above is a great income, the upper end of incomes for tradesmen can be quite high.