skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Airbnb is bad, it's really bad. You're gambling with the possibility of completely ruining whatever trip you had in mind. I've had both cases where a host cancelled last minute and also where I tried to cancel months in advance and was denied. Both of those experiences cost me more than I'll ever save by using Airbnb in my lifetime. I'm never using Airbnb again if I can help it. The last time I booked a hotel I felt so much less stressed and I realized whatever premium they charge is 100% worth it.
Then the host will just not go through the cancellation process and solve it out of band to avoid the fee. That happened to me earlier this year, 2 hours before checkin told me that something came up and I couldn't stay there. Sent me a ~95% refund but never cancelled the booking within Airbnb. Complained to Airbnb about it, but all they did was remove my negative review.
A lot of horror stories in this thread. The worst I had was the listing said it had a hot tub but it was being repaired.

The new AirCover would probably solve a lot of issues in this thread https://www.airbnb.com/aircover
Why GitHub Is Killing Atom Text Editor
"The survey polled 2,000 workers and found that 54% reported feeling pressure to show their online status by replying to emails and messages, adding comments to Google Docs, or updating project management tools."

But that's work, though? I don't get the disconnect where management somehow holds the incompatible views that programmers should be robots that only make code and lots of it, but also think that they need to make water cooler chat to intangibly generate synergy and value (and hence MUST return to the office so they can do this at a real water cooler and nowhere else).

Regardless, software engineers are paid to do non-coding tasks, which includes sitting, doing nothing material and thinking, commenting and documenting things, responding to emails and making idle chat over apps equivalent to water cooler talk.

I would like to just quietly program all day, but I can't, my butt and my head don't have the fortitude.
This is great!

Exactly what this thread is about; everybody should go through this.
Ah, thank you. That's the context I needed.
I won’t disagree with this take, but why should I care about any of this? The reason I don’t own a house is because prices are so high. But my solution is to just live like a local wherever I want and pay someone else’s mortgage. It’s a lifestyle that suits me and I have the cash flow to do it. Do I care that I am in a house next to some owner who doesn’t want me there? You own a house and I don’t, so screw you. I know this sounds a bit nasty but I am offering a genuine take that puts airbnb as sort of a weapon between the haves (house owners) and have nots (nomads).
The comparison with airlines is timely: "The Competition and Markets Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority have published an open letter to airlines, warning them about their obligations under consumer protection law." https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2022/07/22...
The physics in that book was horrible, and not a guide for understanding. Case in point: there is in fact a STABLE planet exactly in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, which was supposed to be so unstable due to the effects of three stars, which gave the book its name.
Pretty tough to pick just one! But I will submit the humble but incredibly versatile CHP-170 cutters. It's a small pair of flush cutters, with about an inch of cutting surface and a slight angle.

The nominal purpose is for cutting leads of through hole components on a circuit board, but it's useful for pretty much any application where you need to cut something small and hard. (makes a great toenail clipper, for instance, lol).
..and can two of them create a Time Cube?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-time-cube
Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring meches to build robots that build solar farms
I just wanted to say thanks for https://github.com/dolthub/go-mysql-server

This is incredibly useful for anyone who wants to build their own DB or wrap another datasource so it's queryable via MySQL protocol.
I've only had great experiences and am very selective with which AirBnBs I get. If you want a nice house/apartment to explore a city from, hotels don't cut it for me, AirBnB or VRBO are the only games in town.
NE Scala Symposium Feb 2011

http://vimeo.com/20262239
Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala

or maybe

http://vimeo.com/20293743
The Guerrilla Guide to Pure Functional Programming

(At work, so I can't check the video)

Both of them were excellent speakers
Meh, what a weak response. This is a maximum fee. It would be more effective if it was a minimum fee, with the maximum equaling the total cost of the stay. So if you book a week-long vacation at 3k and it gets cancelled last minute, the fee should equal 3k.

FWIW I haven't had a bad experience with AirBNB yet over the years and handful of stays I've been in. The one in Iceland smelled slightly like piss and dog odor, but it was tolerable. Aside from that, the other experiences like in Hawaii or some random off-grid cabin in Oregon were pretty good and much cheaper than the alternative.

That said, I believe AirBNB is another "too big to fail, too big to care" tech company like Amazon, Google, etc. They continue making billions while screwing over thousands if not millions of people all the time, so why invest in improving the customer experience? They have no incentive to do so until their profits take a beating.
REPL for V programming language (https://youtu.be/Pvbv4b9TibA).
So why not just stay at hotels next time? I know Airbnb are good for families but just pay a little more for hotels with a kitchen.
Along with higher fine, prevent re-listing unless you offer the original guests right of first refusal at their original price.
Recently stayed in hotels in Seattle and Sunnyvale, CA for a few nights. The one in Seattle greeted us at the reception with "we don't do room service", even though we were staying for a week and it was about 300/night. Ridiculous.

Sunnyvale was a Hilton garden Inn and while uninspired, was completely fine - clean and quiet.
good choice. My first was going postal, and is a great self contained book
I've never had this experience with AirBnB - although I have had some crappy ones, but not nearly this bad.

I was just in the process of booking a car on Turo yesterday for the first time in a while, though, and did see a ton of listings where the owner says things like "go read these rules that are linked from my profile page; if you don't follow them to the letter I won't hesitate to cancel your booking last-minute"

Pretty offputting, honestly. If I could stomach driving automatics I'd just go to Enterprise.
This would only be a concern if you're paid by hour. I would think Elon's companies have mostly salaried employees, and that should be more objective driven. Even without that consideration, if that claim was true then why are there so many companies outsourcing to remote teams around the world.
Yeah the Pomsky one is already way better because you can easily see that &# are literal characters, not some weird regex thing you've forgotten about.

That's one of the biggest issues with regex - mixing up data and control.

But I would still expect a robust codebase to have a proper number parser if you want to parse this sort of thing.
Keep in mind that SNAP did +50% a while back the day FB crashed after a dark earnings call. If you own SNAP, you know you’re in a rocky boat.
Not all functions are best evaluated through ROI, but if you're an executive whose hammer is ROI you'll start to look at everything as a liability. Free markets are generally better at allocating capital than central control. It's also more flexible in adapting to different measures of success.

Standardising work is especially important that it's done by the participants in said work, and not dictated from above. That can be done democratically.
I am sincerely hoping that she didnt give it to you by leaving it on a park bench in a Washington DC suburb...
Hotels aren’t necessarily more expensive for short travels unless you are booking some of the bottom end airbnbs. For long stays though airbnb almost always wins out.
If any of you are in California and are interested in creating a habitat for Monarch caterpillars around your home, I highly recommend Narrow-leaf milkweed. It's one of the native milkweeds and its the favorite of my caterpillars (they hate Showy milkweed).

You can find nurseries with Narrow-leaf here:
https://calscape.org/nurseries.php?id=434&showmap=1

Or you can grow from seed:
https://larnerseeds.com/products/asclepias-fascicularis-narr...

I do both, since you can never have enough milkweed!

Here's a video of a Monarch butterfly recently flying for the first time after pupating on our Salvia:
https://studio.youtube.com/video/edTgi7f1NlY/edit
I read Ceballos the other day, a brilliant conservation biologist talking often of the 6th mass extinction, saying in an informal context that homo sapiens would not survive it.

I know that kind of science, i have read thousands of articles these last years. I love dystopian Sci-Fi too.

I think it's a special moment when you see the experts discussing the possible extinction of your own species, and that every dataset, every model, points a bit more towards it.

And i see climatologists, Mann included, saying climate impacts are coming decades in advance.

What a time to be "alive".
a better practice in ruby is to use the \A and \z anchors for beginning of string and end of string, ^ and $ are beginning and end of line in ruby as far as I know
Airbnb has been more expensive then hotels lately and there is absolutely no reason to book airbnb unless traveling in large groups for larger homes or secluded mountain locations.

Hotels are nicer in almost every single way.
And I've made jokes that have fallen flat before. Go figure.
Shaka, when the walls fell!

I watched that episode in the last year and didn't make the meme connection until I was reading someone mention it somewhere. It would be interesting to have a modern take on that episode. The thing with memes is they don't necessarily convey an idea or a point that furthers a discussion. They're often just a way to relate something in the current context with a past idea (for a laugh), so it almost seems that a language based on memes would just end up stagnating culture.
Actually why shouldn't hosts be able to set any cancellation policy. Or even use policy. Then it is up to renter to review the small print. It seems only reasonable for me.
SonicWall: Patch critical SQL injection bug immediately
They should really make it more clear what places are owned by property management companies vs people.
What is your goal in getting credit? The CEO doesn't give a flying fuck who wrote the code. If your goal is to get promoted into a managerial role or some additional compensation then talk to your boss directly about it, say you want some tangible and intangible recognition of your successful work on this. If you have no such goal then stop worrying about what the CEO thinks of you because he'll forget your name 3 seconds after he learns it.
Yeah Uber drivers wanting to cancel but not can drive a lot of shitty behavior on their behalf, like intentionally driving in the wrong direction.

I've found this kind of behavior is much more common abroad than in the US.
I let local native milkweed grow wild on my land, specifically for Monarchs. I saw at least 3 this morning (unlikely to be migratory, I suppose?)

Hopefully my property can be a stop for some of the migratory species!
Yeah but does it make sense to suggest to rewrite software that are years old, have collected solutions for years and know how? Maybe rust devs could end wishing that things were written in rust and start writing things in rust
Meta commits another $150M to its Oversight Board
Yep, I think most would agree that traveling by car significantly increases the risk of being in a fatal car accident, yet this does not deter people on a daily basis.

A lot of these “X increases the risk of Y” might be true on the whole, but there are so many variables that are not captured and can very drastically affect individual outcomes.
If that were a great strategy, they just wouldn't rent until a few days before.
To me a hotel and an airbnb are 2 totally different products. I prefer using airbnb (or vrbo) because I can get an entire house (yes I know this is technically possible with a hotel, but typically not) with a kitchen, multiple bedrooms, etc.

And I shouldn't jinx myself, but I've used Airbnbs on every trip I've taken, and I've yet to run into a real show stopping problem. Not saying it doesn't happen, just pointing out that it's not as frequent as you are making it out to be.
>find our stolen packages (as if that ever happens when the less equal animals are victim).

I've read so many accounts of people with Ring footage of a theft who tried to give it to the police and they refused to even look at it. I don't think I've ever heard of someone actually getting stolen property back outside of a Mark Rober video.

The police surveillance state isn't there for you, and people need to realize that. <stage whisper>It's there to serve the interests of Capital</stage whisper>
Yeah but I swear they were listed primiarily as “usb sticks” years ago.
They're both helpful. The problem with yours is, it leaves out any mention of the characters, and makes it kind of an abstract sci-fi'ish story.
I think I get your point, but at the same time I disagree.

1) The differential of a function (at a point), dy, is not notation, it is a concept.

2) The differential of the function y = x, dx, is not, then, a notation, either; and, since the derivative is 1, dx = 1 Δx = Δx = x - x0.

3) You can argue, of course, that using dx instead of Δx in dy = f'(x)dx is "notation," but I think the above shows that it is more than that.
"gum stick" per my wife (I'm a "thumb drive" guy, myself)
Countries with Declining Population 2022
WeWork either owned or rented all of it's properties. Airbnb is a tech platform that doesn't own any properties so by definition it's a tech company. I hear the same argument about Uber not being a tech company but they are too. Airbnb and Uber build apps and benefit from being a tech company because they can scale globally without investing in properties or taxis
Ok lol I'm not sure how "autistic people always say that tho" is a useful counter to my description of my experiences. You can't really get an insight into other people's mind, so it's impossible for either of us to say how our theory of mind stacks up against anyone else's.

Mine is generally useful for acting with care and grace towards other people, which is how I want to act as much as possible. I don't know if that's Proper Behavior, a term I feel like you should be willing to define if you're going to use.

And mostly unrelated but I explicitly reject the label of high functioning for myself, and the model that groups autistic people into high and low functioning. I can't exist in the contemporary world and meet my obligations without my supports. Autism is fully disabling for me without accommodations that I am by no means guaranteed. In this I have more in common with your "low functioning" autists than I do with most people in this forum, and I don't accept this language that distances me from them.
> Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit.

You don't have to imagine. This happens quite regularly with Wizzair nowadays.
Hahaha, my first thought as I clicked the comments was "I wonder if Chris already has this in DifferentialEquations.jl" and here we are.
Partly why I just stick with the chains, at least for now. Very very predictable, and while you won't get the best experience at the hotel, you get a lot of guarantees that it at least won't be a bad experience.

Maybe this will be different when I'm traveling more for the sake of traveling, but for the most part I'm traveling to see something specific in a city rather than the city at large.
If that's what you think a manager does then you have only had terrible managers or have never managed people yourself.
I mean, it’s also true that not all supercomputer groups want TFLOPS of SIMD. Some video gamers are happy with consoles made in the 1990s. Why single out the crypto people?
Wow, thanks for that.

Placebo's "Without You I'm Nothing" is one of my favorite albums although I've never checked out any of his other work, heh.
I've worked in two small companies and people get attribution for what they did. It is so much simpler to know who is involved, and nicer, too. You can reach the right people when needed.

The time someone takes credit for my work and refuses to fix this, I run. I can, there are so many nice places one can work at, especially with the raise of remote work which I happen to like.

I would not expect my bosses to take my credit. And I do recognize their involvement too. Actually, we edit a public open source project and publish extensions for it, and individual contributors are listed as authors, instead of just the company name.
...and our modern phones don't look like the "Phone" or "Dialer" app icons on my phone. Icons are idioms.
The Toll of Fireworks
jrochkind1 and ratww at HN, ratww their eyes open!
No I'm saying Tiktok is much worse
Oh I completely forgot about politics.

This kinda thing definitely seeped into politics. Especially with Facebook memes, even my parents couldn't escape those :(

And yep, programmers in 2022 are definitely not a group known for originality! Even (we) the dissenters walk in step...
Ask HN: PayPal dismissed my claim, saying I didn't provide evidence (yet I did)
Hi.

I apologize in advance, but it looks like it's my turn for social media big tech support.

I had a situation where OVH abused a PayPal authorization to charge me 1200€ for a "private cloud" credit I never asked. OVH refuses to refund me changing the reason for it every time, but well, that's another topic.

I filed a PayPal dispute, I added exchanges with OVH as evidence, where they constantly insist on me having this "credit" still available for me to use, and my insisting on not wanting it for any purpose (the 12€ I added were enough for my test) and not having ordered it.

Finally, PayPal ruled in favor of OVH claiming that I "never provided documentation to prove this credit".

Not only I did (OVH messages), but nobody asked me for evidence at any point: I could have provided extra information/screenshots where it is shown. I am positive OVH was requested multiple times for documentation to support their claims, but that was never the case for me, not sure if that's normal.

Now I'm stuck with an absurd amount of credit on a cloud service I have no use for (and worse, it expires in a year), and apparently there's no UI option for me to contest this PayPal ruling. Phoning them I found no option to talk to a person.

Other than lawyering up and contacting consumer protection organisations, what else is there to do? Anyone at PayPal can give me a hint?

Thanks in advance.
> it sounds like the sort of story to be wary about mentioning in future interviews

Nobody expects honest answers when it comes to this sort of questions. If you reply honestly, you are condemning yourself to a life of 9-5 jobs. The correct answer to this sort of questions is a generic response "I am looking to explore new opportunities", or something similar.
> Over the past 3 months, I solo built an entire application from scratch that was presented to the Board 3 times

Before I address your concern, May I know who presented the app to the Board 3 times? If it's you, then they already know you are running the show. May you can stress you on few things like - challenges, uncertainty, ambiguity - you faced
In semi-related news...

https://www.techspot.com/news/93980-14800-asrock-mining-rig-...
Doctors routinely tell patients to use way above the maximum OTC dose when instructing them on how to treat difficult muscle problems like back problems. (Please don't do that except under specific instruction).
> Breathometer, a breathalyzer that plugged into your smartphone, made “Shark Tank” history. The product earned investment from all five investors on the episode, including Robert Herjavec, Kevin O’Leary, Lori Greiner and Daymond John, in addition to Cuban.

Starting a business to the point of being successful is an outlier. Consistently picking out which of those to invest in is even fut her out.

Well, at least at large scale.

Companies with less ambition (e.g., local mom & pops) might know something the big shot do not?
No offense but if your boss thought of, designed and delegated to you a project, then he did build it. Most programmers on HN are competent enough to put together a project based on specs, that’s kinda baseline to be considered a programmer.

If you identified an opportunity, presented it to him, drove the process of getting it prioritized and built it, then you deserve credit and he should 100% be mentioning you.
> Don't want bad blood with the boss as he's a nice guy

Doesn't sound like it. He may not be outwardly evil, but... there's not much he needed to say when presenting this to people. "I didn't do this on my own - pmanning11 worked with me on this".

Unless he's screwed up by not following some particular policy about 'work being done offshore' or something similar, in which case... he's still not 'a nice guy'.

If there's any support/modifications that need to happen to this, everyone will find out pretty quickly that whoever they thought built it didn't build it.
Exactly. In Umberto Eco's "A Practical List for Identifying Fascists", the one that is be being displayed here is this:

The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for...

"Libs" (or whatever the villain of the day is called) are so terrifying we're cutting off baby penises with a lawnmower in full view of our cheering public but so weak that all we need is a single person to call us out in a nasty email to completely defeat us (please send money to our campaign against lawnmowing baby penises).
Milkweed is a very interesting looking plant. It's pretty and ornamental, Should be more popular in gardens. Especially in city gardens.
They find you a new place now https://www.airbnb.com/aircover
> Reddit - find subreddits where your devs are

yikes. We've been seeing alot of advertisers sneaking into discussion forums and stackoverflow posts lately. I wonder how much more astroturfed engagement is coming from advertisers.
Just looking at "murder", "homicide" or "manslaughter" crimes with guns and knives doesn't tell you the whole picture; many knife crime victims will not suffer life ending injury, just really really nasty ones. This is obviously also the case with criminal gun usage to some extent too.

If you look at knife crime in the UK, especially in deprived areas, it's been a growing problem for a long time.

For example, there was over 15 thousand knife crimes reported in London alone in 2019/20, many of which are armed muggings etc.
Hypocrisy is a way of life, if not a requirement, as far as EVE politics go.
Also handy for CI pipeline-hosted tests of code that targets cloud services.
I really think that an "open the file as this user or group (also constrained to the current user's permissions)" option will solve the security problems better than the "open the file relative to this root" one. Or, failing that, an usable capability system (not SELinux).

I don't think just checking for symlinks really solves anything. It may make your bugs harder to exploit, what is always good, but people use symlinks, so you have to support them, so the bugs will stay there.
I always loved reading stories from eve, but when I tried to get into it I didn't last more than a couple of weeks.
Nothing will ever change until we start putting executives in jail.