skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been using Airbnb on and off for 10 years and I'm really not convinced it's a better model than traditional hotels. Maybe it's because I'm always looking at the cheaper end of the scale but when browsing Airbnb I can't help but feel suspicious at most listings, based on previous experiences. It's ALWAYS shittier than the pictures. Often there's a feeling of "oh well could be worse, we'll just deal with it" after walking in to these places.

I just checked a bunch of normal boutique hotels and their listing inspire much more confidence and are actually cheaper. At this point I have no idea what Airbnb offers that hotels don't do better.
Javascript is Typescript - TS is a superset of JS, so valid JS is valid TS, although you'd almost certainly get lint errors in dev complaining about lack of types.
Basic UX is not that hard.. why isn't there a "Next Episode" button?
I personally haven't had much chance to use docker with Haskell specifically, but I imagine that it would definitely work, it would just take a bit more work to get going, so I just take the option that is less friction (at least for my specific usecases). Nix is also somewhat popular in the haskell community - especially when it comes to GHCJS (with tools like obelisk making it easier to develop cross-platform apps using web tech). So I just go along with the flow of the community, personally, especially considering that I use Haskell exclusively for my own personal stuff (sadly).
But, somatic mutations are still the cause, it's just most of the time the immune system gets rid of the mutant cells.
Check how trackable you are based on the browser extensions
I dunno, I hope one day I'm as viscerally excited about fixing some bugs as this person.
Of course there is still trust involved. Every time you cooperate with somebody else booth of you have some assumption what the other will do. You trust that a webshop will send you your product after you have bought it, etc. To give a foundation for this trust we have laws. It would be illegal to sell you a product and just keep the money without giving you the product.

This is the same with data protection and GDPR. They could just say that they deleted it and keep a copy on their own. BUT using such systems or asking them (in a documented way) to delete your data is a really strong signal from your side what your assumptions are. This will make the fines much higher if a data protection authority would find out that a company kept the data when you have already shown your strong request to delete it. So in a way these mechanism should make it easier for you to trust the other side to do their part because the fines will just get bigger.
As far as I know most UK universities tend to have focused degrees - you sign up to a particular course and that area is what you focus on for 3 or 4 years. The good side of this is the focus on a particular area, the downside is that if you choose a course that you find that you don't like it can be difficult to transfer to other courses unless they are closely related.

Mind you - my experience is 30+ years old at this point.
Nowadays not too much. For a while flymake languished while flycheck got faster, more, robust, added languages, etc. Probably just a function of when op started using Emacs
> culminating in a stay where the residence was completely unsuitable for habitation (extremely cold & heating was broken, no linens/towels, mold & damp issues) and airbnb caught us in some sort of bizarro catch-22.

This isn't normal? Unfortunately I've used Airbnb twice and this was my experience both times. Put it down partially to someone else booking it and probably being a bit cheap but yeah I'm just gonna use hotels haha. At least you can point issues out to them in person.

For me Airbnb has a reputation of being the place landlords list the shitholes they can't rent to people normally
Just wanted to add some basic chemistry information as background

Hydrogen (H) can be split from water (H2O) with a by-product of Oxygen (O).
Hydrogen is hard to handle logistically (as discussed elsewhere in the thread), and the real idea in "Power to X" is to include Hydrogen in another molecule with better logistics.
Main contenders are Ethanol (C2H5OH, alcohol), Methane (CH4, ~natural gas), and Ammonia (NH3).

Ethanol and Methane are by far the nicest products: already used as energy carriers, easy to handle, relatively non-toxic, but they have one problem: They require Carbon (C) to manufacture in addition to Hydrogen. Even with increased atmospheric CO2 levels, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is only on the order of 400 ppm and extraction is expensive.

Ammonia (NH3) is synthesized directly from Hydrogen and Nitrogen (N) which is makes up 70% of the atmosphere. The Haber-Bosch process used for this synthesis is a cornerpiece of industrial chemistry.
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> Assuming you had any preference at all of which of the major parties get in, by voting for a third party instead of one of them, you in fact increase the chance the other will win

You need to use Esperanto contracts. When Esperanto was new, what they did is had this chain letter (or something?) where they said "If 1000 people agree to learn this language, will you also learn it?" and then they collected signatures and once they had gotten 1000 (or whatever the number was) then many of the people actually learned it...
Agreed. They're nonsense. They either test irrelevant capabilities that anyone with Google and Stack Overflow can solve, or they are hoop-jumping for the sake of it.

If you can't tell whether someone is just talking the talk or actually has done something during a 30m+ interview process, then you're not asking the right questions.
That's not what my comment says
> Measurement and enforcement isn't so easy

True, that's why we need such extreme and exaggerate sanction that the other side know it's a large net fishing so most fishes pass through but only one caught is so expensive to being not worth the risk. That's the most classic strategies we have seen few times in the past, and back than it works...

> I see that in the US

It happen also in EU, for instance in France it's mandatory to provide washing machines spare parts for 5-7 years (I do not remember exactly the terms) BUT such parts are only sold to "certified repair centers" witch are generic repair shops who have paid "specific training" on yearly basis and so are "eligible as certified repair shop for $YouNameItBrand", they do not even use much excuses, the laws allow them to restrict part supply...

> No. I don't like the idea of compelled sales

Consider a thing: spare parts in many cases are not profitable to be sold directly to customers. For instance a pump manufacturer for dishwashers might have some private agreement with some top brands that they buy it's pumps only if they are not on sale abroad. If you mandate "sell disassembled and assembled anything" any OEM are trapped: they can't made cartels, because parts prices must sum up not too much more than the complete device with the sole exception of reasonable packaging/shipping fees. If you leave a formally open market for some parts you'll have it, for others no.

> Not sure. Planned obsolescence isn't always a bad thing.

It's not IF you can recycle, like there is no issue in planning a car for just two years of good quality service if the used car can be disassembled and recycled, otherwise the trade off between the initial lower costs and the obsolescence to push innovation vanish in waste as we see today... It's not wrong saying "since thing improve more or less regularly it's a good thing pushing new one even if they are only a bit better, not enough to convince most customers to made the switch, but it's good only if you have solved the circularity of the supply chain issue IMVHO.

Like some here say: "the plastic gear is a sacrificial part" a cheap one, perhaps easy to replace, who happen to avoid bigger damage, sure it can be. But hey we know better safety. For instance in my country we have dropped cheap fuses for AC home electricity for far more expensive thermal and differential switches just because they last decades and you can re-switch them as you wish while fuses might last equally ONLY if no overpower/short happen. Such switches can be recycled not fully but "a bit". The game is the same. If my mixer can last 10+ years, I can change blades as needed, there is no need for sacrificial parts, it's better produce far less, having them more expensive and keep them for a decade. In 10 years they have not improved much, there is no benefit in a quicker market since there is no circularity.
Looks fantastic. I'm tinkering with a better way to communicate with text (Slack just doesn't work), but this seems to be really great for video meetings.
thank you for sharing your experience, that is also a route I am considering (not out of reactivess lol) however it would require a different kind of effort (visa and such).

What "professionally hurts" me more is that my current management experiences seems to be disregarder in favor of my technical background.
Either I am being delusional at this point, even though I am pretty sure I can bring quite a lot to a startup in terms of org and growth, or I am not reading this right (and I am thankful for the replies in this post that are helping my observing this situation from a different angles)
The solution is social, not technical. The relevant authorities have the right to audit the process and do so in certain cases.

Keeping your data after this request has a tiny benefit to the company - not that many people retract access, and one individual's data is not that valuable. On the other hand, intentionally keeping and using that carries significant financial risk of fines if found out; so a prudent organization simply won't do that - otherwise, it'll just be a huge expense for no good reason after e.g. some disgruntled ex-employee blows the whistle on this practice.
I have a hard time imagining a more accidentally complex piece of software than a web browser written in C++ and in Rust.

All the chaos of the so-called web standards, decades of accumulated C++ complexity and the eccentricity and burgeoning complexity of Rust on top. Getting assigned to such a project must be akin to punishment.
Ah, that’s fair, I thought you were arguing that the health benefits seen from weight loss can be attributed to healthier diets alone.
I am from Ukraine and since the war has begun some random outages happen almost every day and there is almost no way to fix those. So we learn to get a maximum from all services that keep working and pray every start of a day that an air alarm will not be yelling today.
Seems surprising at first sight that they still bothered to do the fancy process thing, if a regular blade made from that ore would have been about just as good. But us who live in the 21st century should not have any difficulty at all understanding the power of brand.

I imagine it going like this: first, blades from a certain region start making a name for themselves for superior quality (thanks to the ore). Then a few things happen side by side, augmenting each other:

- higher prices allow smiths to spend more time per blade

- blades from that region become a status product, giving them almost exclusive access to the market segment that is willing to spend extra on fancy craftsmanship, resulting in even more time per blade

- export markets get flooded with fakes that only claim to be from the high reputation region, some of the fancy craftsmanship ends up serving as a sign of authenticity
No, not remotely. Please read up on liquid democracy. By intervene I meant withdraw their vote from their delegate and cast it themselves, at any time, for any reason.
I remember that behavior from a few years ago! I also remember the problem "just sort of went away", and I want to thank you for making that happen!
> Lets call that steel from Damascus.

That's confusing to me, what exactly was from Damascus, the steel or the forging technique? Reading the article OP cited says: "This suggests the possibility that the low levels of vanadium found in the genuine wootz blades of Table III may have resulted from ore deposits in India where the wootz steels were produced. "
Recommended: Search Youtube for "Social evaluation by preverbal infants". We are basically born evil (to like people that hurt people that are not like us) and empathy (towards people that are different) is learned through society.
Debug the web in 3D with the 3D View tool
Ok, I just went back to see what I did. In fact I echoed a script into sqlite via stdin, not by using `-cmd ''`. In that case, I didn't need to use the :memory: table, and sqlite exited normally when done.
Well, as I said, in my opinion people can be blamed given the readily available information and in regard to the multi-decade irrational fear of socialism. Willful ignorance is a thing.
>I never want to write Go that interacts with a database again.

I LOVE Go ! I think it's the bee's knees until you have to write DB code ! I'm hoping "go generics" will take care of some of the table-mapping/orms/multiple-types etc madness.

But yea, I still love go :)
It’s supposed to go down and reset expectations. Instead the central banker goes on TV asking people to not request pay rises, which is equivalent to saying “the situation is totally out of control, the CB can’t and won’t do anything”. Which prompts everybody to ask for a pay rise because the central banker just told them to revise their inflation expectations upwards (hence strikes). Then he pretends to raise interest rates (he can’t really because it would upset Johnson’s main constituency) and nothing happens, apart from inflation going up. That was a majestic show of incompetence. Not the first one from the current breed of the British Conservative party, that appointed him.

It’s not by chance that countries like Italy and Germany, that are way more reliant on gas than the UK, have a much lower inflation and still an almost normal core inflation. They have a central bank that, Lagarde aside, is not a clownish shitshow.

It should be said that much of current inflation is due to the disruption of the British supply chains that was caused by Brexit. Short of re-joining the EU, that I’d vote against because we must stop putting up with the antics of the Englishman, the only way out I see, as a rando with some interest in economics, is a 1980-style recession.
this is barbaric
> By that do you mean you present a theory about why people behave the way they do (whether or not they know it)? Or do you mean you can logically deduce the way people should behave?

No, I guess you could do that, but I meant: Do you want to live in a situation where anyone is allowed to kidnap and torture anyone? It's not really in your interest, is it?
This just solved a problem I have that I never knew there was a solution for! It seems really weird to me that every OS doesn't have a native solution for changing external monitor brightness; I thought it was down to the monitor but clearly it isn't. Thanks for the link and thanks for your work on Lunar!
This looks amazing! Congrats

The games look particularly interesting - I've been in meetings where everyone uses awkward verbal games to break the ice, but this would be so much more fun
Beside it's definition grapes have some advantages over other fruits:

- they are many per single plant respect of most berry-alike fruits

- their plant last for decades with very deep (even 10+ meters) roots, so it's something able to survive bad weathers in many part of the world, they are also easy to collect by hands

- wine taste good alone, mix well with meat to made sausages etc

We can use kiwis for instance, but they are more fragile and they are relatively new in many parts of the world...
Ask HN: Why did you buy Atlassian products for your business?
What makes Atlassian so popular with enterprises? Is it the brand, level of support for enterprise tier?
I hope so, last time i checked about 6 months ago, I spend a day trying to make the most basic of queries work with mysql8, was a complete disaster.
DARPA: Blockchains Vulnerable to Centralized Control
Researchers at the gonzo Pentagon research agency responsible for introducing the world to stealth bombers, insect-sized surveillance drones, and the internet itself have some reservations about the blockchain technology underpinning Web3.

A newly released report commissioned by the Defense Advanced Research Project (DARPA) titled “Are Blockchains Decentralized?” found key vulnerabilities potentially capable of jeopardizing blockchain tech’s supposed “decentralized” ethos.
> It's pointless to design a component to outlast a device's useful lifespan by a decade.

No it is not because it can be reused in the assembly of another device. This is not commercially incentivizing though. Think of a car, if EV motors are build to last 100 years then it would make sense for the manufacturer to buy back used EVs and reuse the component, no? Even if it would be commercially more expensive it should make sense because otherwise those components go to the landfill.

> anyone can build a bridge that stands, but it takes a good engineer to design a bridge that barely stands

This analogy does not fit the current climate of consumables because bridges are built to survive a long time, they are not built for 5 years. The "bridge that barely stands" emphasizes the minimum amount of materials to use to achieve the goal - to make sure it stands for a long time. Consumer items do that already, use the minimum amount of materials but do not make sure their creations live for more than a couple of years - inverse to the analogy.
Tor Project Status – “Experiencing Network DDoS of v3 Onion Services”
Also - actual mettalyrgist talking about knife myths

https://youtu.be/swkZgWWJ8yA
> If you are using C strings in C++ you are either doing something incredibly low level or don't care about performance at all.

…or interoperating with C code?
> Not necessarily. You’re claiming your worldview as universal.

So you're fine with a system where anyone is allowed to kidnap and torture you? That's in your interest? No, I didn't think so and you agree with me.
The Criminals in the Kremlin
Dropbox is one of the subscriptions I'm most glad of paying.
In chaos some see order.
Personally I appreciate the sarcasm —- for me, it speaks to the very often shoddy analysis that ends up in common circulation.
I must say I am extremely disappointed by my FairPhone 3+.

I have had mine now for about two years, and on the hardware-side it's okay. The camera is garbage, even on the model with the better camera (3+). The build quality is okay. I like the ease of ordering new parts, and it disassembles relatively easily (especially compared to all other flagship phones I am aware of).

The thing that makes is borderline unusable for me is the software.

A software update broke caller identification in LTE networks. All incoming calls would be marked as "Unknown number". This is worse than it sounds, as you can not call back if you missed a call, as you don't know who called. The support said it was aware of this issue, and that a patch was "on the way". In the mean time we should just disable LTE. Well, since the 3G network is dead, the only other option is Edge, which is utter garbage. They fixed it after three months(!).

A while later, the automatic display brightness adjustment just broke, randomly going to the lowest brightness setting, and then recovering a couple of seconds/minutes later.

My Fairphone got the android 11 update a month ago (better late then never), but that just broke more things. YouTube playback of anything more than 720p is unwatchable at 10-15fps. I get regular messages that something crashed due to being out of memory (nothing I was doing crashed). I sometimes cannot open the android dropdown menu, I have to really exaggerate the gesture to get any response.

I am seriously considering flashing a custom rom, as I have had less pain and problems with LineageOS in the past.
Worth noting you can get a free poster of these, which are great for the wall and the wow factor. Took a few months for mine too arrive.
It already exists. Search for “AI for creative writing”.

Training suggestions based on the users’ own writing is going to restrict your user base to people who already have written extensively (less inclined to need help). And actually it will limit their expressivity instead of expanding it.

I’d think that people don’t really care if it runs in the cloud (they trust the cloud with their emails…).

Despite the “echo chamber” critics that are valid, this is still a good idea. Like a personal writing practice.

Obviously not great if your goal is to be truly creative
Potatoes[0]: £0.36/770kcal[1]

Rice[2]: £0.45/3650kcal[3]

Pasta[4]: £0.46/3710kcal[5]

Normalized to rice:

Potatoes: 3.79 rice_cost_units/kcal

Rice: 1.00 rice_cost_units/kcal

Pasta: 1.01 rice_cost_units/kcal

Tesco does not list calories for potatoes, and for the dry foods only provides calories for the cooked result, so I used values from the USDA nutrient database. The value for potatoes is optimistic, because the cheap potatoes are "imperfect", which suggests there will be significant loss from trimming inedible parts. Assuming efficient technique (pre-soaking dry foods, chopping potatoes small, reducing heat input to minimum once at temperature, covering cooking pots, using insulated pots if possible), cooking cost will probably be similar for all three, although pasta can be eaten "al dente" (undercooked), which might let it beat rice for total cost.

[0] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/292332517

[1] https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/170026/n...

[2] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300843799

[3] https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/169756/n...

[4] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/297844134

[5] https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/168927/n...
- Resume screened by in-house recruiter

Are they fully up to speed with what you really need, as opposed to box-ticking? (eg seniors might not have the official certifications and degrees, but they will have the years of experience)

- 30m call with them

What can the in-house recruiter ask that the hiring manager can't? What's the point of this interview?

- Resume passed up to engineering

- Hour-long call with hiring manager (typically the engineering manager of the team the candidate would join)

This is the most important part. If you can't decide after talking to someone for an hour, why not? What more information do you need that you're not getting?

- Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing

Waste of time for both sides

- Presentation of technical assignment to the team

Again, waste of time for both sides, including waste of time for the team. If you're hiring a senior, what is the purpose of presenting to the team?

If you're hiring for an architect, where communications is more important than technical skill, have them present on something in their expertise (eg, for a security role, the structure of PKI CA/RA/VA and the relationship between chains of trust and root certs).

- Offer
>I genuinely don't understand the criticism beyond "well, self-described low-status men are getting passed over because people have options." Should they not be getting passed over?

You seem to miss that outcomes are not only getting worse for men.
The middle class enjoyed a decade of extremely low interest rates on their mortgages.

Covid has been a mixed bag and it has really depended on what sort of job you had. Many in the middle class have office jobs that 'just' moved to WFH and all those people actually benefited financially from the situation (cost of commute disappeared overnight).

I don't think many people have felt any change following Brexit so far...

NOW is the rude awakening: Prices up, interest rates up, back to office. Perfect storm on personal finances. Whilst unemployment is at record low it is predicted to go up as well.