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Ignoring this author for breaking the house rules and thinking he is in the right. The reality is Airbnb's are slowly being regulated away due to both the poor behavior of guests and bad hosts that have allowed guests to remain unchecked. All it takes is one bad stay for your reputation with your neighbors to be ruined. I am on good terms with mine, but realize that, if I hosted a stay that brought too many guests or had a party, I'd lose that good faith instantly.

It takes one bad guest for your neighbors to be against you.

I have exterior cameras (3, recording all exterior entry points) - and noise detection devices. I quickly check the cameras at check-in and then once or twice during each day of stay. Goal is to make sure the number of people matches the reserved guest count and no parties are occurring. I don't allow guests to bring any outside visitors. I have a very strict limit on 6 people max. My house rules can't be any more clear on this - and I've still encountered a few guests that have broken the rules. They risked their stay being terminated without refund.

I charge $725/night for 6 guests - I haven't had any complaints about the cameras. 60+ reviews, 5.0 stars, been doing this for a little over a year. I am super upfront about cameras in the house rules and house manual. If I did not have the cameras, and some of the rule violations I've had, I'm not sure I'd be able to keep hosting (my county requires a special exception). It's tough out there for Airbnb hosts to be good neighbors.

Also, fun fact, Airbnb does NOT protect you from damage causes by pets.
Even less than that according to the link in your sibling comment.
Yeah, Chrome's automatic registration of external search engines on first-use is also hella convenient. Firefox only reveals its weird "Add this search as a bookmark" ridiculousness. If Firefox is for the open web, making search easier so I can avoid default google addressbar searchs with "site:hostname" would seem right up that alley.
I wonder if this has any correlation with something I have noticed -- I have yet to do a vacation rental, but when I go shopping online for them and look at the photos, lack of curtains (or the gauziest excuse for them) is almost uniform out in rural Missouri. Everyone wants a peek.
Hopefully not by the same guy who ran the scots version of wikipedia.
If that many users are happy why does it keep losing market share?

Personally every other release they remove features I like and make arbitrary UI changes. The only reason I'm still complaining and not using something else is because I don't like the alternatives either.
Measure the pet dander concentration before and after a rental rather than cameras?
I did this and the landlord contacted me saying the internet needed to stay on because he had a front doorbell camera. I’m not sure what Airbnb’s policy is here so I plugged it back in.
They were probably worried about border seizures or even forced nationalisation.
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I agree that they shouldn’t charge that much, but it’s definitely worth that much, and probably a lot more.

Maybe they should have done a charity auction of a few doses at the beginning to billionaires to show what it’s really worth, for the marketing value of “you’re getting a medicine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for free.” Maybe that would convince the anti-vaxers?
I imagine it has less to do with accuracy and more to do with not wanting legitimizing their rule.
> I'm not saying adding a carbon tax should be the only solution or even the best longterm solution. But the issue is that we cannot ban cars or flying or oil or plastics without seriously disrupting the whole world. So that's a nonstarter for me, we just can't do it, even if it would, in fact, be the best solution if you only consider the environment.

Oh, we can totally ban plastic, or at least all plastics that are not biodegradable. We lack political courage to do so, and it will cost money. I pick up a lot of litter and by far the bulk of it is one-time packaging for snack items. (It's hard not to conclude, as if studying humans as animals, that we're a bunch of fat little monkeys that can't stop eating and must carry food with us everywhere we go.)

I don't think we can ban flying though. What we need is not electric jets, because batteries will not compete with liquid fuel for energy density. We need carbon-neutral production of jet fuel, either through a process like biodiesel or a chemical process that takes electrical energy as input, e.g. from solar or nuclear.

> So we're down to mitigating damage at this point,

Oh, we are so fucked that it's almost pointless. Literally every thread of our economy is not sustainable. Crank the handle of time 1000 years, even with no growth, and every single thing we do goes off the rails. We're depleting all the resources on this Earth and even if we halt the CO2 crisis, there's a hundred thousand minor crises vying to metastasize into something as bad or worse. A thousand years, ten thousand years of modern tech living, and this planet is a tech junkyard with precious little biosphere. Humans will either go back to being monkeys eating bananas or Earth is going to be a desert hellscape pocked with nuclear-powered Arcologies.
The title is not supported by the article. The article says the new battery can handle more charge/discharge cycles.

But energy storage and weight are in line with other batteries.
Eh, if you only know someone had a pet because you spied on them I tend to think you're just being nosy.

Obviously it doesn't apply here specifically, but there's a reason evidence obtained illegally can't be used to prosecute criminals. If we accept that two wrongs make a right then everyone is just worse off.
I don't think that I'll find any cameras, hidden or otherwise in a hotel room, which I rented anytime soon.
precisely!
Certainly, but that doesn't justify spying on guests.
Does "Restore previous session", literally the first setting not work? Firefox will reopen my tabs only if my computer doesn't cleanly shut down or I don't close it before shutting my computer down.
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It does not work because of our insurance system. In all other businesses it would work.

Ask yourself what a security package in any German car brand costs extra. Camera in the rear, extra airbags, lidar/ai, speed sign scanning,.. that is not default but a very expensive extra.
True, but cancer is typically a disease of the old age. I do not remember it exactly, but your chances of developing cancer at 70 are several thousand times higher than at 20.
Just fyi the new acronym CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) is much more fitting.. CP just makes it seem like dudes getting off on pictures and not evidence of a crime having taken place which is how I had it explained to me.
I'm not talking about experimental fringe therapies here. We can talk about insulin if you want ;)
As opposed to trusting Google?

A company well known for refusing to hire human beings when their flawed machine learning models are a less accurate but cheaper option?

Again, Apple is not scanning images until you try to upload them to the cloud. Just like Google.
> refuse to send sms messages to my Google Voice number

Try getting a Twilio number in another country where they can't tell. I won't say which one works for me publicly here in case there are employees of those companies lurking here.
Nice feature, although I wish firefox could fix the other side of the cookie nightmare: auto-fill the (now humongous) forms we need to fill in for our cookie settings, for each website. I feel like I am applying for a mortgage a few times a day now.
Extracurricular activities are a way for US students to stand out in terms of college admissions. When I was in high school our college advisors told us that Universities look to fill niches in each class year. Good students are relatively interchangeable, but if the University wants a Lacrosse team, an Equestrian team, some Oboe players, and stagehands for its drama department it will look for applicants that have those backgrounds already. So, if you happen to have decent grades but a background in some niche thing, you are much more likely to be selected. So in that sense, going from a B+ to an A- in terms of overall GPA isn't going to help as much as having some in-demand skill.
In my experience and opinion about studying till High school and then University here in Ontario, Canada:

- Canada seems to be obsessed to maintain high-stats. when it comes to 'literacy rate' - that is why till Grade 12, education is intentionally dumbed-down to the point any kid could just do bare minimum and still pass. Even if the kid is dumb-as-bricks, they can choose to do watered down versions of maths, physics, chemistry and still complete their High School Diploma requirements.

- However, as soon as you enroll into STEM program at University, it is on-par in terms of difficulty with their counterparts elsewhere. What was a easy-peasy style of mathematics taught in Canadian High School makes way to the old 'no-calculator and Professors don't help' style engineering calculus and maths.

This is where I found students who had studied even in 3rd World countries like Pakistan and Eritrea (I kid you not) had advantage in math and science courses throughout their degree program. Heck, it took me few tries to get into the groove but in process wasted 1000s of dollars and couple years trying to retake the courses.

The severe downside is that if your kid has above-average intelligence (as it was in my case) and if they join the Canadian education system at young age (in my case at age 13), by the time majority of these kids become adults, majority of them (as in my case) permanently loose their spark and thus get destined to think only inside the box.

I don't want to rant but another thing I notice is the leniency showed by Canadian Education system when it comes to the whole 'culture' in K-12 years. It is hands down meant to destroy bright minds / make them outcasts. The whole toxic culture of labelling those who are intelligent and/or less fashionable as nerds/geeks/dorks and nonsensical encouragement for sports and arts activities ends up alienating majority of smart kids and many just intentionally dumb themselves down to blend in with their peers.

Had the Canadian education system taken leaf from countries like Singapore/India/Pakistan/Iran/Russia/China and actually made efforts to academically grind their students and to promote discipline (with uniforms and academic competitions leading to glory) - Canada would be producing far more intelligent adults.
The current status is: Canada manages to 'import' bright and gifted scientists / university students from all corners of the World and is happy to grant them passports and claim 'Canadians are damn smart' -- what really is smart if you can take army of Canadian children and ensure they are smart-as-heck when they become adults.
Built something similar that runs on a Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/livioso/smack
You can click a modifier key (ctrl, alt, shift) to open, rather switch, a URL.
Super interested here. Is there something you recommend?
I'd like to know more about your target user base. For example, would your product be a good fit for a small, bootstrapped SaaS provider?
I hope they had a bit less fun than the American teenager that edited most of the Scottish Wikipedia pages with nonsense Scottish!

https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-languag...
Well... Then what is the problem right? Huzza for free capitalism.
I completely agree with your comments - but I am still grateful for Firefox, in spite of these user-hostile UI changes.
Just wait until a 14 year old masturbates in private, and the landlord will have a lot more to worry about. (Maybe even undressing would be a problem?)

Even restricting the cameras to less-private rooms wouldn't be sufficient – I doubt it's unusual for parents to sneak an extra child or two into a property, e.g. by bringing an air bed to use in the living room.
And then people stop using it as much and, in many cases, drive instead because transit becomes less attractive.
The key difference: the insurences in Germany would never pay that.
Mostly common sense. A stranger could walk their pet onto the property without permission. Is it the renter's job to run them off? If not, where is the line. There's clearly a grey area. The renter not allowing the visitor into the building (because the renter doesn't want pets) is reasonable. Preventing outside visitors? Grey area, and open to interpretation. I would consider it reasonable, and would push back if the landlord complained.
Firefox does not start for me anymore. Gives a blank error message and the content area is blank. That's finally it, I guess.
Just a reminder it was the US that blocked vaccine exports.

While we in the EU let the free market handle things.

Of course, EU countries were smart enough to buy vaccines collectively :)
Congratulations, Arnaud! I really like the idea of your tool. I was using many tools to track dev productivity in the past – with all kind of charts and plots. Somehow, I never got answer to the question "what do we really spend time on? Is this mostly bug fixing, delivering new features, and how does it affect our KPIs?". I like that Echoes focuses exactly on that.

I've got one question – would it be possible in the future to generate some kind of alerts for the managers when for example the technological debt is growing above some threshold?
Great, this is really going in the right direction! So far I had been using different firefox startup profiles for different activities to emulate this behaviour (works even for extensions).
There's no way the Chinese govt won't abuse it to track down whistleblowers (ie: leaked document pictures) or dissidents who has pictures that are unapproved by the authorities (Winnie the Pooh memes, Tiananmen Square, etc).
This ignores the nuance that 500m of China's population lives a poor life in the countryside and are not really contributors to China's massive CO2 emissions. If you look at folks living in or near cities, China's per-capita numbers outpace those of the US by a wide margin. In other words... China has more polluting behavior to correct per-capita where the polluting occurs than the US does.
Internal is best. Show leadership within your team. Take things off your managers plate and do it for him/her. Don’t go around your manager.

Given there is a lot of fluidity in the market now, some team will lose their EM. Ask for the opportunity to lead that team. Offer to do the job without a title change. Then ask for title 6-12 months in. It’s easy for your boss to give you a role without a title change due to org dynamics.
Herd immunity 'not a possibility' with Delta variant
I think the question is: since it is a secret database that contains pictures that are illegal to view, how can you be sure that everything in the database is actually bad?
I do it in a VM in Esxi. It’s just for some minor chores so doesn’t need to have any performance, but it’s good.
FTE? DACH? I guess people can deduct EU from context
Religion shows we can create very detailed belief in ornate ideas that are scientifically nonsensical. It’s possible the concepts linguists seek to develop are similarly self reinforcing feedback loops that are meaningless to science.

There’s been an explosion in biological science since Chomsky became prominent. He even admits his work is abstract and to serve his ends. We may be putting more into his ideas due to his fame and infamy than we should.

Trial and error, social constraints on sounds and the mechanics of biology can explain it elegantly. What do the ornate theories and ephemeral organs provide except to satisfy “linguists” biological agency to create and imagine?

Linguistics came about in a much less scientifically aware era in human history. My money is on it going the way of religion; an abstraction that’s so
orthogonal to advancing science we leave it behind.
> One of my real pet hates is software developers who assume everyone's running their software on an excellent internet connection

Maybe it's a process problem, not a developer problem. Like management prioritizes a dozen analytics trackers and ad partners without any tooling for performance testing on a range of devices.
Why does HN have such a bad font size? I always have to set it to 120% otherwise it's so small I can't even read it on my big ultrawide monitor.

This is the only website which I have to scale up on every computer...
Any idea how to figure out which camp a particular school is? There are wealthy zip codes with excellent public schools, but there are also crappy private schools so the public/private distinction is not always telling. Scores also don't work because they test dumb rote learning and have become gamed. I would love to find a school where teachers are the kind who know math/other subject "intuition" behind the knowledge like they had in some Soviet schools.
We got this amazing Airbnb in Tahoe last year, and it had an electric anti-bear fence around it and a lot of cameras.

The instructions for getting settled in the house were first how to disable the electric fence then how to unplug the surveillance system during the stay, and obviously how to reenable them all on checkout.

This is how it should be done.
Right? There are people seriously saying they’d rather 3rd party apps ship all your images to whatever YC startup has integrated with NCMEC as a service with god knows what privacy assurances.
None of which are universally effective. Some rely upon RF detection, others the presence of IR illumination, and yet others the reflection of the CMOS chip.

But, a hardwired camera with no active illumination, behind an opaque sheet of IR transparent plastic (basically the kind of plastic on many modern electronics) would be incredibly hard to detect (without tearing everything apart).
Neither is a car or a dishwasher. Yet, they are convenient to have.
Even Germany bought from Pfizer, not from Biontech, which indicates that the differences can't be as wide as you suggest (or as gp suggests)
That's actually an excellent idea!
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This is an interesting and thought-provoking way of framing this! I'd never thought of pay increases/decreases in these terms before (or not consciously), so thanks for sharing this.
Lived in Scotland for 20 years, really doubt 1.3m people even know what Scots is let alone speak it.
I went with an Erin Condren vertical layout coiled planner, which is very colorful and pretty, so I don't think that is what you are looking for ;-).

However, the same brand has a line of neutral & undecorated planners with blue/black/grey covers. This one seems like it would raise no eyebrows at work: https://www.erincondren.com/camel-customizable-vegan-leather... .

However, they offer fewer layout options in this line than they do in their more popular offerings.

Levenger, as I mentioned, also has some good options, although they are pricey. ARC (I think that's Staples' store brand?) has a line a lot of people buy. Both of these are discbound, which is a choice you either really like or don't.

Filofax & its ilk also have a lot of options that would look fine in a professional setting.
I have had a little exposure to high-end (you know the company) management consultants. They have far more exposure to C-suite folks than most. Their view of them is... not flattering. Which is kinda funny considering how many of the consultants will end up in those positions—though, I mean, who wouldn't want to, if you knew how well they're paid, the kinds of perks and deference they get, the coddling, the valuable information and opportunities that are handed to them, and yet how little actual work they can do for all that (remember the experienced CEO who came in to be the real pro manager in charge of the company early-ish in the show Silicon Valley, but was absent screwing around with his hobbies or other business ventures half the time? That's not fiction).
I read all the pitfalls of this and am convinced it's a bad idea, but what do you mean about people using it to ruin people's lives? How would someone misuse it in this way?
> I haven't ever used a car to go to work in my life.

Think that depends a lot on where you live. When I was a student, I didn't use a car at all, but my wife did during my PhD to get to work, and now we both have to have cars because our commutes are not practical by public transport. This is living in the Midlands in the UK.
The "Restore previous session" checkbox is the first setting in the preferences for me (wording may differ a little as I'm not on the English version though).
Doesn't that work for you?
I am sorry you had that experience. Mine was similar (around 1990s).

But these days, integrated classrooms (as mentioned in your article) tend to be staffed with two teachers: one with a general education background and one with special education. They work as a team and can provide differentiated learning paths. The lower teacher/student ratio can help both the gen ed and special ed students.
> The active and inactive tab colors are so close

Just use another theme.

> Massive amounts of pointless padding.

Yeah, that's a bit annoying, but it goes away if you use vertical tabs through an extension like Sidebery. Tbh I stopped noticing it after a couple of months.
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literally got turned down to purchase property in a manufactured home park yesterday; because they have a "minimum credit score 670" rule for occupants. (My credit score is >750; but the unit was going to be occupied by my daughter who has some chronic health issues).

if that's not housing discrimination, I don't know what is.
Now look at which races are overrepresented in which classes and you will understand systemic racism. Intent of the landlord is irrelevant.
fulltime employement and the dach region (germany,austria,switzerland)
The site they choose to demo forgetting about is HN?!
I think it's easier to do it within your company. Trying to learn management AND a new company at the same time would be pretty tough. That's how I did it, and I think you'll find it's pretty common!
It's also ignoring other species.
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Did this ever go away? 99% of programs do map/reduce all-day long.
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For those who are wondering what makes these new batteries so special, here's what it says in the article:

"What is new is the resilience of the battery. Historically, lithium-metal batteries have been plagued by premature death, with previous record holders accomplishing just 200 cycles before seeing significant drops in capacity. The chemistry developed by the PNNL team was able to maintain 76% of its initial capacity after 600 cycles, blowing the old record out of the water. There is still work to be done for sure, as currently used EV batteries typically last for around 1,000 cycles."
Yes you can be trespassed for doing it in places that ban it but I don’t think you’d be arrested unless they asked you to stop previously.

It should be allowed in ALL public places, especially if it’s visible.
The "success" of lobbying on a new scale when supra-national orgs, national governments across the globe enact laws to "nudge" you into getting vaxxed, propped by the whole of the respective countries journalism-landscape.

What a "proud" moment for Germany.
This is good to know! Maybe it's because I worked with mostly 20-something's in my last job, and they were always obsessed with the newest tech fad.