skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great that the perpetrator was caught, and I don't think there's anything more that Airbnb could have done in this specific instance.

But the article then highlights more (separate) incidents where Airbnb potentially has more responsibility because it was the hosts themselves taking the actions, highlighting weaknesses in Airbnb's background check process:

"Lapayowker’s lawyer, Teresa Li, says the suit was able to proceed, despite the arbitration requirements in Airbnb’s terms of service, because the company hadn’t done a thorough background check of the host. Airbnb only flags prior convictions, and though the host had previously been charged with battery, he wasn’t convicted."

The article then goes on to explain that Airbnb had under-resourced their trust and safety teams. As part of the 2020 COVID layoffs, Airbnb also laid off their entire trust and safety team in Portland, Oregon.

I don't want to quote more from the lengthy article, as it's not my piece, but it seems like Airbnb could be doing more to improve the safety of their platform; such as mandating keyless entry (which would have prevented many incidents, including the aforementioned rape in the lead of the article).
30 year olds with masters degrees who are still living with their parents? There must be additional information because this is just crazy. In 'flyover' country you don't see this. I'm assuming this is California or NY?
Its known as the mind-muscle connection. What helped me was visualization, slow eccentrics have helped me with some body parts (also, instead of dropping to the bottom of a movement, like a push-up, try to pull yourself down; if you're squatting, pull yourself down using your erectors instead of just dropping, etc...), and a lot of time. I'm still not there with some body parts / movements, but I have muscle development on those areas, regardless.
> But the idea that the whole world changes their values and language constructs to not offend American sexual oppressive culture is still stupid.

I completely agree with that. If anyone demands that then that I would certainly not agree with that. But, I don't think that is what this is about at all. It's my impression that most people who think Coq should get a new name aren't "offended", they just think it's a bad name and that Coq should have a good name.

"Pick" actually sounds like penis in my native language (danish) as well, and I'm pretty sure that a danish company launching a product for the danish market would avoid the name "Pick". I assume that if you where to launch a product in the Netherlands you would avoid naming it "Pick" as well?
the people stuck in minimum wage jobs long term are those who have no interest in creating value (just keep doing it the hard way). This attitude is a great way to get stuck at minimum wage forever.
What We Learned Doing Fast Grants
The biggest help is that you understand why certain things happen to you so that you can accept and move on from them, rather than be eternally confused and ashamed that you seem to have greater challenges with basic things than everyone else. You can do things to treat the symptoms, but there's something to be said about also accepting who you are and being able to laugh at yourself.
I read this post from 2015 yesterday and was amused because the guy clearly seemed to have ADHD in my opinion [0].
Then in the comments on HN somebody mentioned that the author recently wrote about being diagnosed at 40, which may be an interesting read here [1]. The author says it was like living the Truman show.

ADHD can be harmful and comes with a bunch of comorbidities that can also develop later in life. If you have trouble listening, tend to hyperfocus on things but also emotional states, etc. I recommend going forward with a diagnosis.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495535
[1] https://www.raptitude.com/2021/03/what-raptitude-has-always-...
If you raise your children well, it loads the dice for them having a better life than you did, but doesn’t guarantee it.
Exactly, yes. I do not know how easy it would be to create a container with an old 32-bit version of Ubuntu, Debian or even Fedora, one old enough to run WordPerfect 8 well. But if someone could do it, the app could be packaged as a Snap or a Flatpak and in theory it would work on any modern x86 distro. I'd like that very much.
Will 2025 finally be the Year of the Linux Desktop?
Do you have any specific examples?

I'm fairly certain I was taught about conflicting evidence and, even more importantly, differing interpretation of events in school, for example we discussed the role of the US and the Soviet Union in the cold war quite extensively and controversially.
Agreed. The one time I used it and it made sense was being home sick with kids. It was a life saver to be able to have everything delivered in that case.
Maybe a few other American destroyers had already collided with cargo ships earlier that year...
That would be an oversimplification. Physical development depends on other factors besides testosterone level. Men and women are different genetically, even if they have unusual hormone levels.
Neither is Ericsson. In fact they are #2 and #3 when it comes to market share in networking equipment. Since Huawei is banned in many European countries now, I bet most sold networking equipment in Europe right now is European.
"Careful" is not a perfect translation of "vorsichtig". "Vorsicht" has a connotation of avoiding danger. So if you have to be "vorsichtig" to avoid being misunderstood, that doesn't just imply that there is potential to be misunderstood, it also implies that it's dangerous to be misunderstood.
If you get an MBA I highly recommend a marketing class.

Otherwise it might be good just as a defense against psychology tricks.
ADHD-PI at 38.

Well, it didn't help except to try psychiatric meds that I can't tolerate. 25 years after dad declared "Damn psychologist [sic] quacks don't know what they're talking about. They're liberals trying to control boys with medication. It's a myth!"

And now I can't interact with people properly because they all think I'm a weirdo.

How many close friends do I have? 0

How many friends do I have? 0

How many acquaintances do I have? 0.25

How many family members do I have? 1

It's not even recognized or appreciated by Americans, they just automatically reject me and then must gossip about how I'm a terrible weirdo. I still try, but there's almost no return on effort. I shouldn't even bother because it's futile.

It's why I do most everything for myself, by myself, and I never depend on anyone else unless I pay them (transactionalization and commodification of every interaction).

If you don't plan on having a family, I highly-suggest staying in top physical and mental shape, or you'll end-up warehoused in some disgusting, horrible place at the end of your life where your life will be hell and cut short.

How many times have I thought about suicide? Hundreds. Seriously? Dozens.
> You have very, very, good odds of doing better than your parents if you manage to get to age 25 without incurring a felony record, addiction to something that will likely kill you or too many child support payments.

Sure, maybe if your parents are affected by one of those factors.
How does blocking tracking pixels "mark the end of email read receipts"?

How does blocking tracking pixels mask your location, browser and OS? To do that, you have to block all resources that get loaded over HTTP. Since my mailer defaults to rendering messages as plain text, I already have the equivalent of Mail Privacy Protection. And my mailer won't send read receipts without checking with me first.

I found the breathless tone of the article and the general hyperbole annoying. And the article contains grammar mistakes that meant I had to re-read several paragraphs. It's a courtesy to readers to check your prose.
Be careful with that. Wegmans (using Instacart) has different per-item prices for pickup/delivery than if you picked yourself in-store. Sometimes it's substantial.

https://www.reddit.com/r/instacart/comments/i1uw2o/massive_m...

> The AVERAGE markup of items in my order is 35%

> The highest markup of an item was 733%. To put this in perspective, if that item had been $10, I would have been charged $83.30 for it.

> Another item was marked up 220%. This item cost $4.68, I was charged $14.99 for it, and if I look in the Wegmans website that item is listed for $8.04. How can they arbitrarily charge more than the actual listing on the website? How can they charge almost 3 times more than the actual cost?

https://www.wegmans.com/service/faq/online-grocery-ordering/

> When you shop online with us, you’ll find our prices are about 15% above in store, which includes the cost of shopping your order.
I believe Cambridge is quite good (the best in the UK I believe) at spin-outs (at least for hard-tech companies) and that's what has given rise to the "silicon fen" [0] and "the cambridge phenomenon" [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Fen

[1] https://cambridgephenomenon.com/phenomenon/
Safari is just Webkit like Chrome and Edge. The only real competition is Firefox.
Mountain bikes, gravel bikes, are slow

Given the huge difference between the 2 I'm not sure what you mean? Also because these days 'mountain bike' is an umbrella term, whereas gravel bike is still rather specific. E.g. that last link shows already a rather specific segment of maountain bikes: dual suspension, quite a lot of travel on the front suspension, totally suited for going down the hill fast as well.
I have a reMarkable 2 for a while now, and I'm super happy with it. I specifically didn't want an Android device because of the obsolescence. The reMarkable doesn't run much in the background and does its job well.

I bought it to read my IT books, works perfectly. I'm also an artist, and even though I didn't expect much from the pen, sketching on it is very fun and I find myself filling a page of sketches almost every day.

Having full access to the underlying OS is also a big plus, even though I didn't do anything with that yet.
I grew up in poverty and never expected that I’d do anything in life because of learning disabilities and poor home life. Except I happen to have been born with a gift of an excellent memory. I’m may be slow to learn completely new stuff, but I will never forget it and I can immediately start incorporating new skills into existing skills. I work hard because it’s shown that little by little my life improves.
Why would it be nihilism? A person's purpose in life doesn't have to be tied to working hard (especially if that strategy has diminishing returns).
But I DO care about cookies. I want to opt out forever.
Thanks for your more nuanced take.
Yeah, I'm from china. Thx for your patient answer.
> the search field in the start menu

That's one of the worst offender. It opens a separate windows instead of searching in the menu itself, and returns a lot of crap (including web queries, wtf) except what it supposed to do: searching in installed applications. That can be done, at the expense of an additional click. Very poor UX by mixing concerns that belongs to different applications (Explorer and the browser).
Not to send an AirDrop to an Apple phone, no. That requires the adhoc p2p wifi scheme they are using, plus the keys/certs.
This is not correct, you can receive files from non-Apple devices without any Apple keys. I’m still working on sending so haven’t uncovered the demons lurking there…
Show me the data that supports this claim. Big claim, zero citations. As an American I've never met anyone who thinks wealth reflects "wealth of the soul."

In my experience people here are Christian, in which case there's that verse about heaven and wealth and the eye of the needle (Google it) or they're atheist and don't believe in souls.
> That and not simply being able to drag and drop mp3s to listen to.

Doesn't Apple Music support this? I have many MP3s I've dragged and dropped into Apple Music and then played them on my phone.
They don't have LLCs?
Yes, and WinWorld and other places. But these are not legitmately-licensed copies. There's no such thing as "abandonware" and Corel still exists.

Mac WordPerfect and Linux WordPerfect both have completely legal freeware versions. That's why I wrote the blogpost.
I've used Travis, Circle and GitHub actions.

Travis I've heard not so great things about since the buyout. GitHub actions is great (also one less vendor is a benefit) but Circle were worth the money, mainly because of better docs and sales engineers who really wanted to fix out problem. We had a monolithic app that sometimes took 40 mins on a (badly maintained) Concourse setup that changed to about 2m40s on Circle. I bet we could have done the same on GHA but it would have taken longer.
PG has a related essay: Why Startups Condense in America

http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html

He actually has several essays on how to try to create a Silicon Valley in other geographic areas, but this seemed the most relevant.

tldr:

1. The US Allows Immigration.

2. The US Is a Rich Country.

3. The US Is Not (Yet) a Police State.

4. American Universities Are Better.

5. You Can Fire People in America.

6. In America Work Is Less Identified with Employment.

7. America Is Not Too Fussy. (If there are any laws regulating businesses, you can assume larval startups will break most of them, because they don't know what the laws are and don't have time to find out.)

8. America Has a Large Domestic Market.

9. America Has Venture Funding.

10. America Has Dynamic Typing for Careers. (Compared to other industrialized countries the US is disorganized about routing people into careers. For example, in America people often don't decide to go to medical school till they've finished college. In Europe they generally decide in high school.)

11. Attitude (There's one item conspicuously missing from this list: American attitudes. Americans are said to be more entrepreneurial, and less afraid of risk. But America has no monopoly on this. Indians and Chinese seem plenty entrepreneurial, perhaps more than Americans. Some say Europeans are less energetic, but I don't believe it. I think the problem with Europe is not that they lack balls, but that they lack examples.)
Eh, how about the reasons for the Iraq war, or the nice brochures the AEC gave the people of Utah about the innocent fairy dust raining down on them from the atmospheric Nuclear Tests in Nevada ?
Why does the millionaire's kid deserve a better shot at success than the plumber's kid?
> It's important to note that an ADHD diagnosis does not necessarily end with stimulant medication

I expect this is truer for adults, as they have agency over the matter. Children don't get a choice.
It's because immigrants proactively make their lives better while average Americans reactively complain about why their lives aren't perfect
Meanwhile the majority of computers use open source software as their OS....
The did take responsibility. That's what the money was for. Except it went to the victims rather than Attorney General and regulatory agencies.

Do you feel the same moral indignation about crimes committed in hotels? Here are NYC stats from 2017:

> In 2017, there were 2,656 hotel crimes reported city-wide, compared to 2,223 in 2015, a 19.5-percent increase... This includes felony assaults, which soared 51.9 percent, from 81 to 122, and third-degree assaults, which jumped 38 percent, from 255 to 352.

How much should the hotel where the 2017 Las Vegas shootings be liable for?

https://nypost.com/2018/06/04/crime-in-nyc-hotels-has-skyroc...
While I'd appreciate such a law, I doubt it would work in practice.

First-party can turn it into a cat-and-mouse game where they'll introduce some minor changes that require third-party apps to be updated over and over again. We've seen this happen with some education related app / system in Sweden where people built a better third-party app / client.

Finding a decent, enforceable solution this way is certainly not trivial.
> About the best you can do is if you know beforehand roughly how big it will be, is to reserve that capacity with std::vector::reserve().

But be careful not to call reserve() in a loop adding data to a vector - will allocated exactly what you request and not do exponential growth.
I mean sure, there are some people who (sacrifice their whole lives for their oil bosses and) make high salaries, but these corporations will pay the absolute minimum they can and unless you are unionized you have no chance of a fair negotiation. And every time the pipes break plants/animals/ecological systems die. And it poisons our water, the single most important shared resource we have. And when we burn that oil en masse our planet’s climate balance shifts and plants/animals/ecological systems die. And going back this oil comes from the European conquest and mass genocide of indigenous Americans. A highly strategic, centuries long conquest that openly called for the eradication of an entire race of people. We literally live on and extract resources from stolen land won via carefully planned out genocide. There were ~100 million indigenous people in the Americas before European contact. 1/5 of the worlds population at the time. “Exploitation” is a euphemism, all things considered. It’s more like “extremely violent” and “deeply sick” IMO.
How Do You Make a Robot Walk on Mars? It’s a Steep Challenge
I don't see how its in anyone's interest to generate more rent-seeking giants. All these R&D statistics are bullshit as they work on tax data, which in turn clearly incentivises companies to classify every programmer or engineering salary as research. A healthy world needs more dynamic startups, not more anticompetitive giants that squeeze or buy everyone else. The US or Chinese advantage is not quality engineering or better companies, its just financial engineering and huge state or venture financing specifically intended yo generate winners.

I'm happy that the EU still bets on the small guys.
I don’t think you mean that exactly.

I think what you mean is that the super-wealthy are the primary benefactors of the system which everybody else (mostly the moderately wealthy) is forced to pay for.

But you’ll never get ‘fairness’ by force. Whoever wields power will use it to their own benefit.
That is not even close to what nihilism means.

I don't think we should be lying to children. We should teach them honestly, even if the truth sometimes hurts. Maybe some of them will eventually be able to make life better for those who are less fortunate.

And just because somebody has next to no chance of living a cushy western lifestyle doesn't mean they're screwed and shouldn't bother. People can still live fulfilling lives.
This is something that I think a lot of people at overlooking even they reference pro racing: they ride the bikes their sponsors make them ride. And the sponsors have incentives that are not strictly limited to winning.
Truth be told the idea of race should have no role in scientific or medical datasets as its purely idealogical.
> Do you honestly believe this? What would you tell this to someone who wasn't born into wealth or opportunity? You're pretty much screwed, don't bother?

What you say is that one should lie to people for their own good.

Also practically, none of that implies that doing absolutely nothing is a good idea. You are better off to work then to not work. It makes you eat better, buy new computer once in a while or new sofa. However, don't expect to become rich by working hard in your dead end job with zero chance of promotion.

And you wont be telling those people anything new. They all know that no matter how hard you work at moving those Amazon box in warehouse or driving Uber, they are earning for immediate survival and wont raise through the ranks.
I suspect that's more due to "popularity" or richness of the ecosystem than performance necessarily.
All the time! I'm at 200% right now, on HN. Too much eye strain otherwise. My vision got worse during the pandemic. I think I'm spending more time in front of my screen. I'm trying to take breaks but it's easy to just keep rolling.
Those migrant workers in China are literally getting a better life through hard work or at least a better life for their children. They're not exploited, they're exploiting the money being offered them by the wealthier city people. Their work might not be very attractive to westerners, but neither was our ancestor's work, yet it still improved their and their descendants' lives.
This has been my concern. (Typing from my phone which is in my hand for hours every day)
A lot of IRC networks didn't require registration. That was the use case chosen for Elite Dangerous' Fuel Rats [1]

The ability to just drop in, ask a few questions and log out is great.

If I join a even a medium sized Discord server, I suddenly get tons of notifications unless I manually change the settings for the server (God knows why discord hasn't set up a user side default setting for that)

Also, a lot of communities grew in and around IRC chats, which means a lot of people with the habit. With the usual Relevant XKCD [2]

[1] https://fuelrats.com/
[2] https://xkcd.com/1782/
Is ‘brain drift’ the key to machine consciousness?
Corel LinuxOS was a good distro in its time.

It had IMHO the best version of KDE 2 I ever used.

Corel sold it off and it became Xandros, which was also a good distro and had a freeware version -- but both are long obsolete now.

https://boxofcables.dev/corel-linux-1-2/
There are a lot of things people believe, the real question is if it's true or not.
>> What would you tell this to someone who wasn't born into wealth or opportunity? You're pretty much screwed, don't bother?

I think it's better to be realistic about your chances and it may help to drive the political discourse into the right direction as well. After all this is a political issue.

In the end as others have said here it's more important to have a balanced, happy life and good health than to chase the lotto ticket in a rigged game.
Another "poor Europe, too scared, too insular, too antiquated" article. I wish my trends site still worked since this seems to be a bit of a theme recently.

Something is out of whack about the priorities here. Yes America has FANGS and is at the cutting edge of slinging ads and casino style VC culture. But have you seen the state of US banking and payments infrastructure? Plaid is pretty much cutting edge for god's sake. The US is so far behind in banking and actual useful technology it's quite funny.

Things like GDPR and OpenBanking point to an alternative way of doing technology, that to my value set is better than the ability to inflate ridiculous Uber/WeWork/etc. valuations with no correlation to real world value.
There's bigger issues IMO, based on the article:

* Accepting hosts with prior criminal charges for battery, who then proceeded to sexually assault a guest.

* Under-resourcing trust and safety teams until it became such as big problem, the CEO had to step in.

* Choosing to lay-off the entire Portland trust and safety team during COVID, telling them to relocate to another country (Canada) during a pandemic (!!) at lower pay, or lose their jobs.

I used to work for a 'sharing economy company' (no, not Airbnb, but also not naming names), on what you'd call "trust and safety". I don't feel like we got enough resources.

It was less about trust and safety, and it was more about, "How do we make problems disappear?" There were plenty of sensible ideas that would've improved safety for our users, but they were ignored.
So you think that the abundant, cheap, raw material that made it into European factories that spurred the Industrial age materialized out of nowhere?
> The wool has been pulled from GenZs eyes (or was never there, given what they've grown up in) and they see the world for what it has become..

I have gen z kids so I see a lot of what goes on in their schools and how their peers act, and it does give me some hope for the future. They are the most inclusive bunch of kids that I've ever seen -- they are incredibly accepting of differences and do not tolerate bullying. It will be interesting to see what they do in the future.