skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped using Airbnb in 2015 after my account and card was used to rent a place in Guangzhou, China for a month. I live in America, and have never been (or planned) to travel to China.

Airbnb's response was okay, and implied this was a "common scam". After that, I bailed. Not staying on a platform that can't implement basic security (at the time) like 2FA.

Hearing about all of the other problems people are experiencing on Airbnb now makes me glad I stopped using Airbnb. I guess I got lucky with the customer support on my issue.

These companies that disrupt industries seem to all have a common arc to them. At some point, the benefit they provided stops, and they start causing more harm than good.
The headline implies the self-driving vehicle was driving itself. This was not the case.

> According to Toyota, the self-driving vehicle had stopped at a T-junction and was about to make a turn under manual control of the operator using a joystick. The vehicle then collided with the athlete going at a speed of around 1 or 2 km/hr.
This isn’t the best advice, unfortunately. The best advice is to follow https://www.nhc.noaa.gov and your local NWS. Model forecasts are surprisingly unreliable and each model has its own biases, which is why the job of weather forecaster still isn’t automated. NHC has arguably the best tropical system forecasters in the world and their products are publicly accessible for all. Follow them first and foremost.
Bare function pointers are, but not state-capturing ones (see my other comment for why that is). Without state capture, closures really aren't more ergonomic to use than enums in most cases, and are often less so.
I don’t think I’ve ever flagged anyone, I rarely even downvote.

With that said are you trying to make a case that analogies to the conclusion that some German cartographer drawing nice straight lines on a map of Africa in 1860 or whatever was a win for Africa?

The Middle East is a mess for a number of reasons, and in fairness some of them (like sitting on the tectonic fault line between Europe and Asia) predate predatory colonialism.

But most of them don’t predate predatory colonialism. The world powers of whatever era slicing and dicing it, toppling stable regimes, setting up pliant authoritarian regimes to extract resources cheaply, and generally raping the region senseless plays uh, a meaningful role in it being a mess.
If given the choice: Pay 100% of taxes over 1 billion, or re-invest that in your business, Amazon would probably actually be 10x the size it is now. Basically use it on growth or lose it... can't self-indulge over 1 billion.
My career experience is along the data science / civic technology / transportation engineering & planning / open data.

I’d posit that customers of “high-end project management financial reporting software sold to very large customers” is starting to get niche.

Again, my point isn’t to say that these people don’t exist. My point is that “data wizard” increasingly means not Excel. Plenty of non-tech firms are happy to hire entry-level “data scientists” who write some SQL queries, gin up some reports with spiffy graphics, and bang together a dashboard in Shiny or Tableau. It used to be that this kind of basic reporting work was done almost exclusively with Excel. Even if Excel has exclusivity in some specific industries, Excel’s influence and utter dominance just isn’t what it used to be.

Put another way, I’ve taught intro R / Python skills to enough undergrad and grad students in professional career tracks to see that the future for Excel looks weaker than its past.
Got it. There are no human rights. Thanks for spelling it out for the rest of us.
It's not just the self-deprecation, it's the poking fun at companies along the way. The Pentium II burning ad is a classic. As was the Mac vs PC ads about a decade ago.

The last Apple computer I owned was an Apple IIc. I used a MacBook Pro for work a few times, and just never enjoyed the experience of it. I just completely never got the same level of joy using it than I did when I first got the Apple IIc.
I dislike these mega-platforms like Airbnb and Uber as much as the next guy or gal, but asking them to change is silly. Regardless of how much we try to tame these beasts nothing can change the fact that any relationship they're in is going to suffer from an enormous power differential.

If you're a business and you embrace something like uber eats or Airbnb, you're giving away the most valuable thing your business has - your direct relationship with your customers. Once they start going through and intermediary platform, they're no longer your customers, they're the platform's customers. You now have exactly one customer, the platform. And that's a really nasty place to be since your one customer now has control over 100% of your revenue.

I understand that it's tough to not be part of these platforms, and you'll definitely make less money in the short-term. But if you embrace them, sooner or later you're going to get screwed big time.
The link appears to be about tricking the GC into not triggering, by exploiting its threshold strategy.
Ones interested in senior level people.
Thank you! We'll email him!
Columbus is cheap compared to many places but not super cheap. It’s more so that’s just the going rate to rent a house that allows dogs for a few weeks. Go look at what a hotel costs each night.

If they rented for 21 days and paid $5,000 total, that’s $250/night which will get you a decent hotel in Columbus but no dogs, no yard, living in a hotel versus a house…

So I’d say the price is about spot on for what I’d expect.
> “Everyone involved promises not to identify anyone” - see response to first point.

They legally promise via some form a non-disclosure agreement. A violation means they are liable in the case they are the source of a breach, which can both provide incentives and recourse. Certainly not ironclad, but it is stronger than just a vague "promise."
> This argument is far from original; lambasting public schools for tormenting their inmates and ruining the country is one of Britain’s oldest traditions.

Pink Floyd's The Wall, anyone?

> The author also makes good use of his own [1970's] memories at Radley College. The school was trapped in the past, both the 1940s and 1950s—playground games were an endless fight against the Germans

No different from 1970's Czechoslovakia playgrounds.

We're talking only 30 years after a big, devastating war; it held a lot of cultural influence.

If we look at television and film related to WWII:

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

still plenty of action into the 2000's.
Do you have examples of #4?
>Rather, it's fading your own instincts when they reach extremes and telling you to make impulsive decisions,

Its not just instincts, if you extend the analogy, people dead or injured are not fighting. If a real estate speculator is underwater they aren't buying. Even if they want to buy they can't. Lots of people recognize that Miami/Vegas/Phoenix houses in 2010 were crazy cheap but people who weren't scared were broke.
see also felicette.

https://github.com/plant99/felicette
Yeah, and if he gets sick and infects someone who dies, too bad for them, right?
The sewer museum mentioned in the article is excellent. Easily on par with the Musée des égouts in Paris. I highly recommend it.
> Microsoft Authenticator solves both of those problems, as they have recently (less than a year ago iirc) added a “backup to cloud” feature.

Is this to the same cloud that Microsoft gives unfettered access to all its customer’s Cosmos DB data?

2FA backups are fine but they need to be onto local, offline, disks. Automated cloud backups that can be decrypted at rest are no longer “something only you have”.
I'm talking about relatively simple cases like spinning up a phpbb3 (web forum) instance. The minute you have multiple users writing comments at the same time from different apache/php instances is the minute your SQLite database starts to fall over.

Every write (aka: every comment post) is an exclusive write on SQLite. A full lock that prevents other processes from reading. (Ex: User#1 writes a comment, but User#2 hits refresh. These two items will be sequential if you use SQLite... when normally they'd be concurrent in most other databases)

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SQLite is an exceptionally good database for many purposes. But it has its weaknesses. There's a reason why MySQL and PostgreSQL exist after all.
Academics bypass PINs for MasterCard and Maestro contactless payments
Well, on one hand you have mass ideological repression, concentration camps designed for cultural genocide against ethnic minorities, and censorship that means you can't trust common knowledge, so we don't even know if the persistent rumors of mass organ harvesting from religious dissidents are true. But on the other hand you have the capacity to manufacture respirators and stop pandemics dead in their tracks, not to mention most of the world's microelectronics (particularly if you include ROC), and PRC was vaccinating people in July of last year, only four months after the first vaccine was developed (in March in the USA).

Meanwhile, the EU has banned borax on grounds that amount to pure superstition, California has banned xylene, Texas only recently repealed a years-long lab glassware ban, the US Supreme Court didn't legalize screen-scraping until this year, and the USA still has 1% of its adult population imprisoned, just like shortly after the lead-driven crime wave crested 30 years ago (I guess its legislature does get some things done; they also direct the world's biggest military budget). Also, the US maaybe just passed 50% of the population believing in evolution, and gifted programs are being cut out of their high schools because they "promote inequality". And apparently police killing people with impunity is a major political cause in the US now? And let's not forget that Armadillo Aerospace had to abandon their working rocket engine design and restart from scratch because nobody would sell them peroxide, probably due to the US regulatory regime surrounding product liability. And when Clinton launched the National Nanotechnology Initiative in 02000, instead of diamondoid mechanosynthesis we got the fraudulent rebranding of any random submicron particle research, down to the study of medieval stained glass, as "nanotechnology".

In short, the US and EU are stupid enough that they're dooming themselves, regardless of whatever happens in China. I can empathize.

Having your government run by the kind of people who would vote for Donald Trump might be okay as long as the government doesn't control anything important, but inevitably putting the foolish and stupid in charge of the wise and learned is going to end in disaster, as it has with the covid pandemic. On the other hand, dictatorships and monarchies are no guarantee of wise leadership, often the opposite; they tend to oscillate randomly, often when succession happens. Marcus Aurelius is succeeded by Commodus, who is succeeded by Pertinax, then Didius Julianus, and the country is thrown into catastrophe. Qin Shi Huang may have been an asshole who destroyed China's cultural heritage, but he wasn't the fool Qin Er Shi was.

I'm not sure Star Trek is a worthy ideal; it's a militarist naval soap opera that doesn't begin to grapple with the political and psychological implications of post-scarcity civilization. Let's have the courage to imagine a future worth living in, and then create it.
Wasn't it Karl Marx himself that said that Socialism is a pit stop on the road to Communism?
An adversary still has to get the manager DB and the key to unlock it (your password manager DB is encrypted with a key, right?).
China is closing off and turning inwards. It's a fundamental political drive due to their communist party structure. They can't continue to let the wealthy get richer because it threatens their grip on power, so you see Xi reverting to traditional socialist policies and cracking down on everyone that threatens him and his supporters.

So basically they're just rushing to steal and copy all the technology they can, so they can make everything they need for themselves internally. Their goal isn't to compete internationally, just to be self-reliant enough to have a reasonably good economy while maintaining absolute political control.

China probably doesn't care that they can't access IP from other countries again. They've mostly gotten what they need.

The alternative is that the party gradually loses its power, and that liberalisation eventually makes the whole system collapse. It's the exact same forces that made the Soviet Union collapse and it's well known that this is Xi's biggest fear.
the red pro line significantly predates the SMR/CMR debacle.

edit: or the plus did? well. they've successfully managed to confuse me, which was probably their goal. apologies.
All great points, but one things is for darn sure -- the best course now is to assume a bailout from the Fed. Not doing so means you miss out on the upside. In the chance event they dont bail out [rich folks and asset holders], we're all in trouble anyway, so whats the point being right in that case?
> For all its innumerable faults, flaws, and outright human rights violations: the West of the latter 20th century seemed like a plausible v0.0.1 of some future, hypothetical, benevolent society.

A large digression, but I do wish we didn't need these silly ritual flagellations each time we mention that the West was actually pretty good. To call these things "human rights violations" implies that the West defied some accepted standard for how we treated people, but the West was always on the leading edge for human rights (slavery, colonialism, racism, etc were normal on virtually every continent until the West decided they were wrong). We often talk about the West as though it is some great failure because it didn't emerge from the mists of history fully-formed and prepared to adhere to our modern moral standards, ignoring the fact that our modern moral standards are precisely the product of millennia of Western progress.
Is that ever the stated goal or complaint? Anecdotally of course, but I have never heard anyone in traffic wish that the road could carry even more cars at a higher rate. They want there to be less traffic. Building more lanes never accomplishes this.

Take Atlanta for instance, something that would actually help traffic would be to build bypasses with no on ramps that circle the city. Every time they build a new loop so that truck traffic can bypass, more houses are built near that loop.
Yes, some phones have speakers.
Yea I think that'd be an interesting approach - and ODBC takes care of all the annoying bits for you (providing you with a single unified API to interact with instead of tailoring the commands to each specific driver).
One of the classic "illegal" strategies in a bad market is a bear raid when waves of short sellers short a stock so much it keeps going down in price and owners panic sell, further extending the crash. When the bots figure this out they'll all do the same. Nice.
This comment should be the parent of mine. You’ve laid out a far more detailed and compelling case for what I called a “queasy feeling” about how the West lost its stride.
The `--step` flag will definitely be useful for me, didn't know about that.

My one tip I'll add is to use the `--diff` argument when running a playbook to print out the specific changes made for each step. For debugging, use `--diff --check` to see all the changes that will be made - useful if it's been a while since you last run your playbook over a host.
Bluetooth headsets work even when the phone has a headphone jack.
Highly recommend reading Stealth War if you want to understand China. I have a better understanding of China, and much less understanding for weird US posture as a result.
But, according to the article, ARM Britain didn't sell to China, SoftBank (Japan) did.
"these flights"?? what are you talking about?

The original title, and the title still on the article, is "What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History?"
I would guess in this case it's just normal merchant fees (no larger than 5%). But I don't know how this all breaks down. It's not like they take 30% when you use Apple Pay at a store. Ordering coffee in an app seems more like an extension of that.
Business as usual, nothing to see here. Any company looking to do business with China will face the same fate.
> Arm Holdings, the SoftBank subsidiary sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors

The story can be shaped in many ways. The fact is that after that transaction, that consortium owns more than half, and SoftBank is a minority investor, which means that it's not theirs anymore. I might be missing something, but once you surrendered the control of the company, can you really say it went rogue?
Which sounds good. But who around here is quitting their job making $150,000+ to go make $40,000 working in government?

Giant democracies seem like an inefficiency waiting to happen. Too many people, too many interests, too much muck in the machine. We need more local government.
No, both are equally despicable. The distinction was to show that ain France you are more or less screwed depending in the house.

I am glad that you don not get emotional when you are robbed of your property, good for you. Well, except if you were never robbed - which can explain this.
It might even temporarily block you and put out the message that they are seeing suspicious "bot" activity from your device.
> the USA

But, according to the article, ARM Britain didn't sell to China, SoftBank (Japan) did.
Sadly, no. Puppet masquerades as being declarative just like Ansible does. It's very easy to get into a situation where your Puppet class is just a fancy shell script which works the first time and then fails because a file doesn't exist or something. There is nothing to lint for this or to protect against this.
This reminds me my older project called xql, for node.js:
https://github.com/jsstuff/xql

and fiddle:
https://kobalicek.com/experiments/fiddle-xql.html

Interesting how all these builders look the same :)
Human Dx is hiring part-time community/growth team members
SoftBank sold ARM to China, not Western companies.
I've never really understood the value of price-matching. Unless you have a gift card, or one store offers free shipping, why both with a price match? Just buy from the cheaper place.
It's about the perception of security and reducing friction. Everyone knows Google, so you don't have to convince users of the trustworthiness of a lesser-known brand or open source project within the sensitive context of increasing security.
Good summation. Exactly. They are solving for different things. Cockroach is solving for consistency of a distributed database. Scylla is solving for performance of a distributed database.

For interested readers more can be found here:

https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/21/cockroachdb-vs-scylla-be...
Cheaply writing a fast interpreter [video]
WebGPU enters origin trial in Chrome 94 beta release
Apart from the fact that the article doesn't support the point you're trying to make, as pointed out by other answers, historically, we have an excellent example of an extremely successful empire that embraced diversity and stuck around for, depending on how you look, a couple of millennia, namely Rome. Embracing diversity was a key factor in how Rome managed to expand and conquer it's (typically significantly xenophobic) neighbors. Rome co-opted territories it conquered, giving the conquered peoples a path toward Roman citizenship, while crucially giving Rome manpower for its armies. In more detail: https://acoup.blog/2021/06/11/collections-the-queens-latin-o...
I agree with your point. In fact it's the approach I'm doing myself in my current UI lib (which has a very specific use case but the point still applies).

https://github.com/ensisoft/gamestudio/blob/master/uikit/win...
This article is ridiculous and makes me think the author doesn't understand the way the world works.

Do they really think airbnb will self-regulate and solve the affordable housing problem? Just because the author asked them to?

These problems need to be tackled by local and state governments. We should never trust a corporation to act in the people's best interest. The goal is to make money.
Yep

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline_prote...

We're literally still violating treaties with them.
Most people have a paypal account they can use instead of Apple/Google. It's also a lazy payment method, a couple clicks and you're done
Note, you say "leadership of western corporations", but in the case of high speed rail, Japanese companies are involved too, and have fallen to the scam just as well.
There are lots of people working in tech without formal CS education who will do poorly if quizzed on asymptotics, graph algorithms, dynamic programming etc without considerable preparation.
I see a huge amount of capital going into the crypto space. I would say learning Solidity would pay off big right now.
> Renting is part of "investing".

And?

> I'm talking about social and economic impact

With this approach we should not invest whatsoever in rare diseases. Or help disabled people because they are less useful for "social and economic impact".

Just look at the number of rare diseases, or disabled people. They are statistically irrelevant. Screw them.
Because china, unlike most of the other countries in the world, has a massive population and resources to get atleast partially self sustaining.

Also, the fact that exporting manufacturing to the east let to a lot of short-term profits for western companies.

The question is at what costs, looking at climate change, the current shortage of nearly anything manufactured right now and the destablisation of society thanks to the dropping of quality of life of many people in the west.
Who's the main currency manipulator? The US, and its many, many trillions of dollars in debt which other countries are forced to purchase in order to participate in the global market. As long as the dollar remains the world reserve currency, i.e. as long as the US monetary hegemony lasts, the US will remain the leading currency manipulator. They've shamefully printed about 10 trillion dollars the past couple of years.
Yeap. Dealt with Airbnb mishandling my issue over a one night $50 stay.

Owner of room apparently leaves the door key in a mailbox. Previous renter apparently took it with him when he left leaving no way of getting in. Owner obviously did not live nearby. I eventually waited for someone to exit the complex so I could get in. The door to the apartment had a computerized lock but that basically meant I could not leave the room at all. Room of course was also not cleaned from the previous customer since all the towels didn't appear to be thoroughly washed if at all. After waking up at 4AM to bug bites I basically frantically made sure none of them got into my luggage for the last 3 hours or so I was there.

What did airbnb do? They "refunded" my cleaning bill and ended it at that. For 2 weeks I had to go through their support on the website only to be stonewalled or ignored. I sent them pictures of my hand that had bug bites, I sent them the text messages the owner sent, even though it was on the Airbnb platform. No dice. Finally I ended up getting through to someone via their Twitter account and was eventually able to get a refund for the night.

Of course I left a negative review on their page warning others about the possibility of being stranded if the previous guest forgets the key and also their lack of cleaning, but it got immediately buried by their algorithms.

That was about 4-5 years ago, never used Airbnb again.
Don't blame the victim because someone was running a scam.
If your passwords are leaked in a data leak, they still wouldn't get your 2FA. So I wouldn't say it entirely defeats the purpose of 2FA.
MIT is not a single entity.

Good security in one group does not mean good security in another group - at all.