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Ask HN: Has anyone had any luck dealing with Airbnb when things go wrong?
Context: I was in Paris staying in a month plus long Airbnb when our airbnb house key was stolen from us. We ended up staying in hotels for two days without our essentials (medicines, clothes, passports, etc), during which our host basically offered no alternatives -- he told us plainly he was on vacation and wouldn't return to help us for two weeks (had an extra key in Paris). After spending two days trying to figure out solutions which were repeatedly shot down by the host, we ended up deciding we had to get a locksmith to cut the lock so we could get in, we couldn't spend any more time without our essentials. Cutting the lock ended up being about $250 and re-keying the locks ended up being another $750. The airbnb was still unusable (we needed a security fob to get into the building each time, regardless of the unit keys), so we ended up booking another Airbnb and starting a claim with airbnb.

Throughout the entire process Airbnb, basically has kept repeating that the host committed no violations so they can't help us. I don't fault the airbnb host for the stolen key, but I do find it fairly unreasonable for us to pay the full cost of this, when the larger problem exposed was the host has no backup plan.

Has anyone dealt with a situation with like this? Am I out of luck because we bothered to help rekey the hosts unit and we should have simply left it unsecured after we got in? Do I have other avenues I should consider outside of Airbnb and the host to get some assistance?

Pretty at a loss for what I'm supposed to do, I just keep getting passed from team to team on the Airbnb support side hearing the same things. Is this just a known risk with Airbnb that you're completely on your own if things go wrong and I was just too naive to count on anyone to help?

Also what would have happened if we weren't fortunate enough to be able to pay for this in the first place? Would we just be out on the streets?
Right, the normal way for Phoenix LiveView apps is to make the registration / login exist inside your regular controllers / actions since a LiveView cannot directly modify your cookies or global session (with some caveats).
My side projects bring in exactly $0.

I do have a side business as a beekeeper... that brings in maybe $1k per year if lucky.
Mazewar was the first FPS, but Wolf3D was a totally different class of game, and every FPS since then has been an imitation of Wolf3D. Agreed about CKeen.
My problem with macOS is that I bought a mac expecting free OS updates. However since my macbook is my desktop killer, I have multiple external monitors connected with USBC to HDMI adapters. Everything I have seen since Big Sur indicates external monitors are iffy in big sur. I'm sorry, I'm not wrecking my environment because apple hasnt seen fit to fix external monitors in over a year.
On the other hand, having as many users as possible use any password manager at all is an immense challenge as-is. It really doesn't matter what gets them using one as long as they do. If an OS-native one happens to have the lowest friction, so be it.

For everyone else, sure, there might be 100 people in the world that will actually audit their open source password managers. But that isn't exactly moving the rest of the industry forward (be it from the engineering perspective or the user perspective).

In this case, (almost) perfect is the enemy of good.
Just listen to it. It is absolutely not about advocating in favor of ivermectin. It is about very wrong information spread against ivermectin as a response to the misinformation spread in favor of it.
Banking apps are often the worst from the speed and user experience perspective as well. It's like they hire worst developers to work for them.
If secrets don't imply deception, that that seems to me like saying knowledge is useless.

All truths or falsehoods are within some context and cannot be divorced from context.

What does this have to do with "danger" or "evil"?
Brave Talk
A bit of pushback here. There are a small, vocal contingent* of users who like to sing the praises and drown out real concerns.

* based on Play store reviews versus the vociferous defense one finds on here & r/technology when the issue is raised
Connecting Google Maps and Sheets to Solve the Traveling-Salesman Problem (2020)
I'm in the midst of learning Go. So I "ported" this in Go lang as an exercise [1], including some tests and benchmark :)

[1] https://github.com/241m/rot8000
There's UV light in sunshine. Maybe they should grow the protein outside.
I'm your average loser. Is it perfectly doable for me? I don't think so. I might as well be an astronaut...
There's very little downside to them being offline. Sure, they're losing ad revenue, which is bad, but it's not like an AWS outage or Netflix going down. When Reddit blows up and takes half a day to come back online, its users just come back later. There's no mass exodus over downtime for them. As a result, they don't invest much in reliability. Things break, things get fixed, eventually.
"Initial"? You haven't proposed any way to improve the weighting, so it would just be H index forever. We'd be baking in a cultural presumption that researchers who are more cited are more likely to be correct. A really dystopian prospect.
> it's the healthiest thing you can eat

So do you also believe that cholesterol is good for you?
This attitude is exactly the problem - we are selling our data in exchange for a service. If it's value were $0, Google would go bancrupt. So this 'pretend the service is free' thing needs to die because Google has been able to make billions. Clearly they are making a profitable trade. It's basically digital barter

Where there is profitable trade both parties have certain responsibilities.

Personally I stopped using free services everywhere I can because of this legal vacuum leaving me exposed.
It saves battery by streaming the music from Spotify directly over the internet, rather than through your phone.
Not only that, but then you'd also write it in a way that low-key suggests other people probably also want to do the same thing to be just as cool.

Problem is that there are so many different people, and so many of them don't even know how to operate a device that isn't completely pre-prepped for the lowest bar to entry that they can never be as cool. /s

I guess this is the kind of data point that people might use in reinforcing their bias for a choice they are about to make. If you take two brands, platforms, systems etc. and just search for switchers between those you'll find the exact result you'll like.

Going from Debian to Arch? Amazing! Debian sucks for reasons X and Y and Arch is much cooler. But switching from Arch to Debian? Hah, those Arch losers are missing out on A, B and C so they are so uncool! Heck, you can make this even smaller. Using OpenSans as your Font? Boo! Use Fira Code, that makes your code so much better! Pick any microcosmos and you can find migrations in all directions.
Full time or a few hours per week for 18 months?
agree, editing the title to include "unpowered" or "gliding" would be more accurate
But that half of their lifetime accounts for more than half of their weight.

Good article by Michael Pollan about how cows are raised:
https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/power-steer/
This is as a response to absolute bonkers explanation to how a rocket engine works.

I tried to keep good ratio of actual factual explanation to "swipes", which I think was fully deserved. Sometimes, somebody needs to at least hint you you are telling complete and utter rubbish (ideally backed by some explanation).

Now, I don't want to say everybody has to know physics or how an engine works.

But if you are starting to explain to people on HN, be ready to get fact-checked. You need to learn some.
For things requiring the server to be there anyway – the exact same way an SPA would work, but a little faster round trip.

For things that should happen instantly on the client, you'd run some JavaScript on the client via a pcx-hook (JS escape hatch), or using a tool like Alpine.js to handle purely client-side interactions.
The more you eat beans the more your gut flora adjusts to it. Stereotypical bean eating families like Mexicans and Indians are not full of farts.
The overwhelming majority of microplastics come from larger objects degrading through use or exposure to the elements (mostly tyres and synthetic clothing, but also disposable plastic exposed to UV).

They're not actually "micro"-sized out the factory.
Well you can manage to run the Wolfram Engine through a jupyter kernel directly in VS Code. Although, I believe when I set it up the output was an image, no matter the object being returned (for instance 2+3 would return an image of 5 black on white).
A few years ago someone ported my google voice number out without my authorization. The normal methods of contacting Google was useless. I eventually went to people in my linkedin network at Google for help and they were able to get me in touch with the right people. Google should be embarrassed...
Not in this specific case.

> We fabricate such physically transient electronics systems using degradable polymers, compostable conductors and dissolvable integrated circuit chips that naturally vanish into environmentally benign end products when exposed to water

This particular design isn't supposed to breakdown into microplastics, and builds on their work of biodegradeable pacemakers.
Google has something like 95%, 75%, 75% and 90% of each of those markets.
ee/ee's? or ze?
but it's a captive market!
We've banned this account. Religious flamewar is not allowed here.

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Nyxt 2.2.0
That's a nice takeaway. I was having a conversation with a friend about favorite book genres a while back, and mentioned that I liked reading biographies. The response I got was essentially "Why would you waste time reading about someone else's life?". Your comment would have been a good answer. Thanks for sharing and you've inspired me to do something similar with my home page.
I really wish people who downvoted this would explain. Like it or not, the first amendment does not apply to private companies. This conversation is not about what's fair, it's about the actual state of things. Shouldn't you be mad at the constitution and our founding fathers instead?
The Story of Civilization
Sadly, pip install (at least on macOS) is a huge barrier to entry.

First, install Python 3.

Oh wait... you probably need Homebrew to do that. So install Homebrew.

... but Homebrew needs Xcode, so install that first.

OK, assuming you've now got a working python3, you should probably use a virtual environment to avoid messing up your system. So learn what those are.

Or maybe you should use pipx for that? So go and learn what pipx is, how to install it and how to use it.

Done all of that? Great, now you can install JupyterLab and start using it!
I know that M1-based Macs can only support one external monitor, but Intel-based ones can support at least two.

I'm able to run two external monitors, plus the internal display, on my work 2017 15" MBP and my personal 2017 13" MBP. The 13" MBP is running Big Sur, but work hasn't approved that for the 15" one yet.

Big Sur has given me no issues with the multi-monitor setup.
The reported CFR may be in that region, but most credible sources estimate a much lower real CFR, due both to many undetected / asymptomatic infections, and confusion between deaths with & deaths caused by Covid-19. For a statistical reporting agency such as the ABS to claim to know the actual CFR with any level of certainty seems careless at the very least.
As a vegan Hindu it makes me sick thinking about making a food have the taste and texture of a dead animal. But I do understand the desire to keep eating what is familiar
The End of the Universe: Asiatic Modes of Production and Crypto
That doesnt sound right.

I’m sure I eat, on average, at least 6 oz/ day. I estimate I eat anywhere between 50-100 kg/ year or somewhere between 5-10 oz a day. Probably closer to around 7. Or about three times your estimate.
A NAS is generally safe if you don't do anything stupid with it (there are footguns available of course). But you can easily cut it off from the broader internet entirely.
Another annoying thing with the urlbar is when searching something (at least with Google).

Say you have set Google as your default search engine and you type 'giant books' in the urlbar (sans the quote marks). It will show that results page from Google. But say you want to look for giant books _only in your country_. So what I usually do is to add '.co' (or your country's suffix) after the '.com'. You'd tape on the urlbar, scroll until you find the '.com' and add the '.co'.

But nope. It won't let you modify the URL. For some weird reason it keeps showing the query string you originally typed, in this case 'giant books'. I haven't been able to find something that lets me modify the URL when searching something. In the example, I need to type 'google.com.co', retype the query string and search again.
Yes but there are plenty of Mi A1, A2, and A3 in use today.
> It's important to note that almost all of the land that cattle are raised on is unsuitable for any other purpose

The land used to grow the food used to feed most cattle most definitely could be used for other purposes or just left alone.

The vast majority of cattle aren't grass-fed on the high plains just before slaughter. Sustainably produced beef like this simply can't scale and is too expensive for mass consumption.

Most cattle are fed in feedlots using grains produced en masse for that purpose.

That is why beef production has such a huge carbon footprint - because of the massive crop fertilizer inputs needed to feed massive quantities of cattle.
>> This implies that Xiaomi, and most likely all Chinese phone vendors and by extension CCP, has backdoors in all these devices.

They don't need backdoors. They are the "administrator" of your phone just like Apple is on iOS and MacOS or Microsoft on Windows boxes.You are just a guest.

It just happens that the chinese admins(aka vendors) don't mind being nasty and clumsy at the same time. All the manufacturers/vendors are controlled by their government(more or less).

That being said I don't buy chinese phones or software unless I have no choice but I don't trust Apple to shield my data from various governments either. It's just a matter of lesser evil.
Another pointlessly cryptic title. Yawn.
DHS seeks contractor to run migrant detention facility at Gitmo
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I didn’t describe the active threat correctly — not zoom bombing (auth system saves day), MitM from us or 8x8. We are closing off this attack surface in a followup release.
Thank you for your response, Chris. It's much appreciated!
Their customer support is usually pretty bad in my experience.

My uncle is a super host/spicy landloard and might have more stories. I will ask him when I next see him.
'dev task', 'shannon wasn't a programmer', 'don't know about buterin, dean' -- There in lies your problem, seriously
*on earth.

How could it be? All of the dependencies on producing meat the old fashioned way already exist, having to recreate all of that in an artificial environment will of course be more expensive. A lot of costs to create meat naturally are externalities, there would be less externalities to an artificial system of meat production. It can't compete.

In space though, where you have to create the dependencies no matter how you do it, reducing them to the minimum required to produce the meat itself is a lot less intensive than creating grasslands, or growing grain, and growing living animals and keeping them alive, providing them air and water, etc. So lab grown meat is still an important realm of study because if things go well for humans we will need it.
They make the world a better place by providing products and services for their customers.
Considering that the first cellphone was in 1973, predicting the ubiquity of mobile phones in the 1980s is like predicting that the internet is gonna be a big deal in 2010.
That's warm :)
Why should I care if the CCP have the theoretical ability to censor what I watch, when Twitter, FB and friends actively do?

It seems I should be more concerned about the proximate threat.
>One of the biggest opportunities in technology right now is to re-run the Next/Apple playbook and create a new hardware/software technology company focused on developers.

If it was focused on developers, it would by definition not be re-running the Apple playbook. Developers are much too small a market to justify that level of investment.
LXC is needed to run the services that Android provides, for Android applications (Surfaceflinger, Audioflinger etc..)

Android ships with it's own init system that does a lot more than just starting/stopping services. And integrating those services manually into regular Linux desktop's init system would have been painful to say the least.

That's the reason Anbox runs the whole Android subsystem in it's own LXC container - to avoid having to patch the Android init system and various system libraries to load Android libraries from non AOSP paths. (Like /system/ , /vendor etc..)

From what i remember, The original Anbox used patched version of Android frameworks, that sent the application render data to the Anbox session manager running outside the container [1] , which then created the application windows and rendered it there. This was okay on desktop systems, but on mobile phones (Sailfish OS, Ubports devices) that were trying to use Anbox to provide app compatibility, this had a significant amount of overhead, that made it unusable.

Back then there was the sfdroid project, that tried to patch the Android frameworks running inside Anbox Container to directly create Wayland windows and render the applications directly (kind of like how Chrome OS used to do), instead of having the Anbox session manager do it [2,3], bringing back most of the lost performance.

From the looks of it, Waydroid seems to be doing something similar [4]

1. https://github.com/anbox/anbox/blob/master/docs/architecture...
2. https://github.com/sfdroid/anbox/
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78N1C2-6t3I
4. https://github.com/waydroid/android_hardware_waydroid/blob/l...
"That isn't flying, it's falling... with style!"
What do you think wage theft is? If you’re getting paid half as much as someone else doing the same job, I’d call that “outright wage theft” too.
Yes, Lenovo is a Chinese manufacturer
We will continue to see posts like this till enough users are turned off by them and Firefox will no longer be a viable browser to run as a user or support as a dev. You are comparing the last truly free alternative to a browser built by ad grubby organisation. While a vocal minority keeps doing this the rest of us are happily using it without issues.

You don't like Firefox? Great! Chrome is just a click away. Feel free to enjoy the 'personalised' ad experiences there. Just don't spoil it for the rest of us happy users whose best outcome at this point is a few more ad free years of Firefox before morons like this who don't have big picture in mind end up killing it for good.
You don't need a browser to sandbox a program. I personally sandbox Zoom (which I'm required to use for classes) in a Bubblewrap sandbox and seccomp filter. This offers sandboxing capabilities unavailable in the browser, such as W^X enforcement and resource restrictions (CPU and bandwidth limits).

For other programs (not Zoom), I can (and do) also completely block off network access.
Super exciting, thanks for sharing!
A way of life for some:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-division_multiplexing
Wait until the conspiracy theorists see this!
The article is overly concerned with financial cost. Lab-grown meat doesn't need to, itself, directly displace meat through financial competition. Meat can be pushed out of the market by other factors:

--The increased world-wide food requirements making land-use more efficient for crops than resource intensive animal protein.

--Either pricing in, or social pressure towards, reducing carbon emissions can push production lower & prices higher.

Maybe other factors too, but these can, themselves, gradually shift meat out of the marketplace.

In this scenario, vat-grown meat won't be displacing traditional meat, it will simply be filling the gap left by meat as it leaved the market for other reasons.
I've been using a poor-man's version of this using a tab-to-window chrome extension for a while https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-to-windowpopup...

seems like the desktop app doesn't support extensions yet (need my vim and snippets), so I'll stick to the original for now.
I can assure you it’s very very…very.. easy to get enough protein. I have been gaining muscle while just barely caring about what plants I eat. Cheap too. I spent about the national average on food costs for the month.

The modern American diet consumes about double the protein needs.

For a plant based diet one only needs to invest maybe a day or two of research to figure out what foods to eat to get enough protein.
This is really interesting to see. I've been trying to solve a similar problem over the past few weeks - bundling up a Python web application as an installable Desktop app, in my case for https://datasette.io/desktop - so it's really interesting to see how they've approached the problem.

I ended up including a full copy of Python using https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone - it looks like they've bundled a Conda environment using https://github.com/conda/constructor

I wrote up detailed notes on how I solved the Python bundling problem in https://simonwillison.net/2021/Sep/8/datasette-desktop/#how-... and in https://til.simonwillison.net/electron/python-inside-electro...
That was very helpful, thank you - I didn't know all that, and even if I did, many others coming across this probably did not either.

I still don't feel like going traipsing around minefields. I'm sure there's a benefit from tying together all Google services - for me, it just keeps me away from most of them. And I even pay for Google One.
FiveThirtyEight forecasts are very questionable themselves. Been completely wrong on multiple counts.
There are two backup solutions on windows, 'windows 7 backup' (yes, wtf) allows you to make exact copy and clone it. There are also paid solution.

File history is for all your files, but it is amazing at it. You can roll back to a particular version from particular date