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Similar to Lyft/Uber, AirBNB increased the reach and variety to meet consumer's short-term housing needs. The old "people prefer 70 different spaghetti sauces to 5" thing.

Some aspects of the experience has worsened, and I've been using them since the beginning. Lately these business-oriented AirBNBs have taken over, one I stayed in sent a massive list of paperwork to sign that included requirements like having to send license photos of any additional guests. Having to clean the place is not technically something you do at a hotel, but many AirBNB hosts now come to expect it despite charging cleaning fees. At a hotel you hand them the CC, they hand you the keys, and that's it.

The best thing about AirBNBs still remains the fact that you can easily book a treehouse in Tennessee or a palace in Cambodia. That and staying with local hosts who have deep experience wherever you're at is always a unique joy.
"Feeling resigned to just not understanding this one as a lay person."

The biggest and most important step is to make sure you drop any mysticism about what a "dimension" is. It's just a necessary component of identifying the location of something in some way. More than three "dimensions" is not just common but super common, to the point of mundanity. The location and orientation of a rigid object, a completely boring quantity, is six dimensional: three for space, three for the rotation. Add velocity in and it becomes 12 dimensional; the six previous and three each now for linear and rotational velocity. To understand "dimensions" you must purge ALL science fiction understanding and understand them not as exotic, but painfully mundane and boring. (They may measure something interesting, but that "interestingness" should be accounted to the thing being measured, not the "dimension". "Dimensions" are as boring as "inches" or "gallons".)

Next up, there is a very easy metaphor for us in the computing realm for the latest in QM and especially materials science. In our world, there is a certain way in which a "virtual machine" and a "machine" are hard to tell apart. A lot of things in the latest QM and materials science is building little virtual things that combine the existing simple QM primitives to build new systems. The simplest example of this sort of thing is a "hole". Holes do not "exist". They are where an electron is missing. But you can treat them as a virtual thing, and it can be difficult to tell whether or not that virtual thing is "real" or not, because it acts exactly like the "virtual" thing would if it were "real".

In this case, this system may mathematically behave like there is a second time dimension, and that's interesting, but it "just" "simulating" it. It creates a larger system out of smaller parts that happens to match that behavior, but it doesn't mean there's "really" a second time dimension.

The weird and whacky things you hear coming out of QM and materials science are composite things being assembled out of normal mundane components in ways that allow them to "simulate" being some other interesting system, except when you're "simulating" at this low, basic level it essentially is just the thing being "simulated". But there's not necessarily anything new going on; it's still electrons and protons and neutrons and such, just arranged in interesting ways, just as, in the end, Quake or Tetris is "just" an interesting arrangement of NAND gates. There's no upper limit to how "interestingly" things can be arranged, but there's less "new" than meets the eye.

Unfortunately, trying to understand this through science articles, which are still as addicted as ever to "woo woo" with the word dimensions and leaning in to the weirdness of QM and basically deliberately trying to instill mysticism at the incorrect level of the problem. (Personally, I still feel a lot of wonder about the world and enjoy learning more... but woo woo about what a "dimension" is is not the place for that.)
Can someone ELI5
Yeah just wanted to say, I am also one of the persons who has immensely benefited. So it may sound like paid, yet lot of people have immensely benefited like people from India, Nigeria, etc..

Check this article[1] to know a bit about philosophy of fast.ai and why it's so popular

[1] https://future.com/the-rise-of-domain-experts-in-deep-learni...
I refuse to use any FaceID system but the fingerprint scanner on an iphone is just a quick-access unlock vs a manually entered passcode/password. Eg. if you lose your thumb that unlocks your cellphone you can still enter your full length password and reconfigure the biometrics.

Seems like this article is about a new consortium trying to do global single sign on and is selling it as "no more passwords!"
Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal
When I was in a hotel last time, there was no room service either, but that's fine for me as long as clean towels and bed sheets are provided at the lobby whenever I need.
Most would be quite surprised by how resourceful the military can get when a need arises. It's simultaneously impressive and scary.
They forgot China
In my place, it's called "USB Card".
> monstrosities

Spent a minute trying to figure out if you were trying to make a pun (mono or sites, or idk) before realizing that’s how it’s spelled. I gotta get some more sleep.
Not enough.

This is timed so perfectly for me to say this. Building things still is great but the amount of stack-specific knowledge I need day-to-day is skyrocketing.
The problem is when the dev is not the one being pitched to. I've been in calls where the dev team are the ones being pitched to and we ask for the cons and get useful answers.
This is ridiculous. Dozens if not hundreds researchers have confirmed the high MW oligomers correlated with pathogenesis. I have. To say that he found this or everything relied on this theory is absurd. We've know this since the early 90's when Lesne was in high school or earlier (e.g Glabe and Cotman's work at UC IRVINE and Christian Pike now at USC , my work etc.) . this is way before Lesne even considered a career. It used to be called "micelles' or soluble abeta. Also the post doc supervisor repeated the data and found the same thing so she took him at his word. I can't stand this ridiculous media that make this out a scandal and create false disinformation that the entire hypothesis is based on this.
I mean sure, but none of our therapists know anything about how to construct a solution where the water recycles so we don't end up paying 300 dollars a month in water while trying to get him to not fixate on running water all day long. It actually seemed like the kind of thing that HN might be good at, thumbs up for the aquarium idea which I wouldn't have thought of.

on edit: changed a no to know, was multitasking.
Ask HN: What are you reading for leisure?
Phrased differently, what are you reading that's not required _of_ you _by_ somebody else? (Mainly school and work)
How I Decide Which Feature to Make Next
Before this, the M67 grenade was designed to be familiar to soldiers that grew up throwing around baseballs.

I find that incredibly similar to this.
Taking before pandemic numbers of GDP and population numbers by 2100 from here https://www.populationpyramid.net/population-size-per-countr... , the top 15 of economies will only account for 40% of world population. ~25% coming from India and China as you said.

So 6 billion people living in these "small economy countries" will not appreciate your sentiment.
Interesting. In my area (Southern California), the Monarchs seem to really prefer the Tropical (Asclepias curassavica). We plante it when a local Monarch enthusiast recommended it. Now that we're more educated, we've been gradually getting rid of it.
I wonder did there’s an opportunity here. Like…. Hey, I’ll move to one of these countries and start a business doing _________ because in a shrinking population that’d be great!
Interestingly, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is a childhood polio survivor and fights for eradication funding.

https://rollcall.com/2018/07/10/mcconnell-gets-personal-disc...
German tourists told to use colourful luggage to avoid airport delays
I've worked for software companies most of my career and they understand from the top down that getting work done doesn't equate to interaction with other people. In the few other places I worked there was obvious tension in the style of workplace behaviour.

I think this is a misunderstanding.
Flash drive is the one typically. Lot easier to say than yoo-ess-bee…

But just realized they aren’t drives any longer, but solid-state storage. Reminds me of my dad who called any music storage “tapes”, even CDs.

Could be “removable storage” but a little clunky. What is a better word for removable? Portable?
Analytic philosophers (I am one of them) have produced excellent work that engages deeply with the phenomenological tradition. Dan Zahavi or Tony Chemero come to mind. But "continental" philosophers (Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Heidegger) have produced extremely deep, much more influential work. That's because they are the phenomenological tradition.
I loved the call back:

> “he was busy with the lasers and the raccoons”
> his defense of racialism

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As a parent, an Airbnb (or any vacation rental) is 100x better than a hotel. We've got 3 young kids, so multiple bedrooms, a kitchen, and a separate common space where adults can hang out after kids are down is absolutely crucial.
The thought of cramming the whole fam into a hotel room, or having little kids sleeping in a separate room (and freaking out alone in the middle of the night) sounds like hell to me.

Hotels are fine for business travel for me, where I don't care much about the space and just need a clean, reliable place to sleep.

disclaimer: I used to work at Airbnb, so biased.
I doubt you'll find anyone who believes that it's ideal that the US is solely or primarily responsible for world peace, but it is an important role that we play. Further, not only is it morally reprehensible to allow the world to fall into chaos on the basis that "we ought not have to" as we retreat within our own borders, but it violates our own self-interest--as our partners fall, we become weaker economically and militarily, which leaves us vulnerable to attack.

A shared responsibility for world peace probably looks more like "more involvement from our NATO partners" (which we're actually beginning to see now that Europe is waking up to the fact that their peace is a property of NATO protection rather than some foregone conclusion). It decidedly doesn't look like the US dramatically shrinking defense spending (the US only spends 3% of its GDP on defense and that's on track to fall to 2.7% by the end of the decade), but more likely having our partners increase their own contributions and involvement.
I think you might have got that flipped around. I've known many more people that found white-spaced based languages harder on the eyes and more annoying to deal with.
Just the deaths might not be a good characteristic to measure overall impact. I'd count loss or gain of life opportunity ( e.g. -deaths*life expectancy + births*life expectancy + still_alive*delta(life_expectancy) )
This is a lagging indicator.

A more leading indicator is "Countries who have reached peak births".

The world itself has reached, or is approaching, "peak baby" - though this will be a long plateau.
I think it’s arrogant to think a few privately owned guns can actually compare to the massive armory of the US government.

Also, it’s funny that when people actually fight back against government abuse (George Floyd protests) the gun owning demographic seems to find it wrong to be violent despite claiming guns are meant to be used against the government.
They absolutely should not have done that, but it has nothing to do with the anti-vaccine stance in the U.S., and even in Pakistan:

> "'The CIA is not exclusively responsible for the problems we have in getting children vaccinated but it certainly didn't make it anything easier,' says Anthony Robbins, the co-editor of the Journal of Public Health Policy. Robbins wrote an editorial denouncing the CIA use of fake vaccination programs back in August of 2012. Even before bin Laden was killed in 2011, the Taliban had banned polio immunization in the parts of Pakistan it controls. The Taliban claimed the polio drops sterilize Pakistani children and vaccinators were American spies.
I learned (the hard way), that hotels have "ghetto rooms," that they can't book out to other guests (think next to the elevators or vending, or with dysfunctional amenities).

If you book with one of the booking agencies (I will not name the two that I used), the hotel will often give you one of these rooms, off the bat. You can complain, and they'll get you another one, but that is not something that you want to do, when you just checked in at 11PM, and your first meeting is at 8AM, the next morning.

BTW: Hotels are not supposed to do that, but they do, anyway. It's hard to prove.
Wow, I found your site a while back via Google looking for Krazy Kat online. Not surprised to see that you are a HN user. Thank you for putting these online and going to the trouble to scrape everything together!
Large corporations trying to be "cute" really deeply annoys me. I have received enough "Alexa find me a software developer" emails to last me until the end of days.

Recruiters tend to be pretty nice to talk with generally - unless they're single client recruiters... and Amazon seems to be particular unchoosey about who they let wear their name around. I have a moderate amount of difficulty even comprehending why they advertise so aggressively, as someone in the Vancouver market believe me, I know that Amazon is literally always hiring, just like I know that EA would be happy to have me as a tester any day of the week. The issue isn't that we aren't aware that you're hiring, it's that working conditions and compensation are poor and most of us would prefer a job that lets us sleep at night.
I've read the Tiffany Aching books aloud to both my daughter and my son and they both loved them.

Partly (mostly?) for the spectacle of me trying to read a Nac Mac Feegle accent :)

FWIW I only recently learned that "crivens" is maybe a real expression, a much-shortened form of "Christ defend us". In the same way as "God blind me" reduces to "blimey"...
I blame the string theorists. A single time dimension ought to be enough for everyone.
For the love of god, can you just show me the code without all of this typing animation? I’m trying to actually understand what I’m reading but it keeps looping and deleting the text.
One example of right/wrong I was talking about was appropriateness of using a particular English phrase in business communication. The person criticised someone for using it when the usage was completely in line with the dictionary, but conflicted with their understanding of the direct implied meaning of the phrase.

Like... It's in a freaking dictionary.

(All L2 English speakers)
I'm not sure how are you getting "look up to" vibe, Andy commented that[1] before vlang was released, solely based on feature lists from vlang's website.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19086589
raises the interesting question of how best to suppress China's technological development. Are there any existing cases where a country's development can be stunted? (outside colonialism of course, that would be bad)
It was literally in the article. Apparently I'm the only one in this thread who bothered to read it.
Clandestine activity in Pakistan has nothing to do with nutters in Rockland County.
I think the original poster's claim of lasting twice as long is a big exaggeration, but it'd be interesting to see a source. Regardless, cars are likely more expensive to maintain now with all of the added complexity / sensors that can break (remember when everyone could work on their own car? I bet they didn't factor that negative into hedonic adjustments.)
There's a lot of learning to get to that point that we have had as relative professionals that someone off the street just hasn't. Since smartphones took off, people haven't been getting more computer literate and competent the way we predicted they might looking at the statistics around the turn of the millennium.

The journey to functioning website may never have been easier than it is right now, but it's still a lot of effort to ask of someone, and it's contrary to the point of society - if chefs are forced to grow wheat just to have bread at their restaurant, that's not efficient. It may be better bread, and they ought to have a right to if they choose, but an effective society will optimize such that they don't have to.
I don't think dill presents any issues, but we haven't planted any.

We have a lot of bronze fennel (which is non-native but heavily naturalized), and it's a host plant for the swallowtail butterflies. We get a lot of them too.
Gitlab had hardcoded passwords...? Excuse me?
Well in theory it's quite an adventure to get support and secure funding and generally make something possible, so the credit is not completely misplaced. And like other commenters said, nobody thinks they did that with their own hands. At least nobody in their right minds.
Children go through puberty anywhere from 8 to 19. Generations ago, 16 to 18 was fairly common. Going through puberty late does not equal never going through puberty.
B-trees don't work well for CPU caches; 64b lines are typically too small to gain much. (OK, the M1 has 128b lines, but still.) And you still get the branch mispredicts, and a significant increase in code complexity, so hashing is still significantly better. (I've seen C++ projects where the main structure was a B+-tree because the lower levels could be residing on disk, but where they maintained a separate hash table in memory to skip the top first few B-tree levels!)

> I would be interested to learn more about when that's the case. But, it's also not very flexible. You can put an `int` in it, great. Can you put `std::pair<int, int>` in it? Does it work as well?

If by “it” you're talking about std::unordered_map (as key); yes, you can, but you'd have to supply your own hash function, because std::pair<A, B> does not have a std::hash specialization. (It's a bit sad, but the problem is highly specific to std::pair/std::tuple.) Likewise, you can use any arbitrary type you create yourself, as long as it has operator== and you've written a hash function for it.
Breaking news! Some humans lose sight of the big picture!

Tune in tomorrow where we reveal that water is, to the shock of everyone, wet.

The irony is that the real big picture here is that Rust's entire purpose of being is absolutely about $businessLogicSolving. There's a real problem where software written in C or C++ for $goodReasons seems to always wind up with large numbers of security vulnerabilities caused by memory safety bugs. That's bad for business. That's basically why Rust exists.
Yeah, extra spatial dimensions might be common as grass in visualisations, but extra TIME dimensions...
those are pretty unusual.
Something where you can exploit cheap elderly labor. Their government pensions, supported by the shrinking working population, won’t be enough to retire
you mean hydroelectric batteries?
It's some interesting psychology.

I've had discussion with a guy in lab of a top university and they believed 911 was an inside job. steel beams and all that.

It doesn't seem to correlate to technical ability, there are something in psychology that draws a certain type of people towards conspiracy and in which they go into a mental state where normal explanations are removed from their logic and they go seek outlandish explanations or slightly hard to explain things and turn a twist into it. I don't understand why but I think a pretty decent amount of people subscribe to this kind of thinking.

Neurology researchers here, please give us answers.
Tricky Bash Tricks: Avoiding annoying messages from sqliterc
EDIT to king_magic: man I don't know what your deal is. I bet it's really good on paper. Just not as good in living it out, hence depression.

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I wish I could press a button on the user interface to talk to someone in person. Real life. You and I. Real Meat. In person. king_magic and daniel-cussen.
The marketing seems pretty straightforward? M1/M2/M3 (and their sub-variants) and fan/no-fan are the two performance aspects, and then you just decide whether you want a 13"/14"/16".
Airbnb isn’t the only platform, so it’s unclear that even if Airbnb started trying to do this (which they likely wouldn’t, hosts are their source if income) that the host wouldn’t rebook on VRBO, Homeaway, etc.
For a couple of years, I’ve been thinking about whether there could be a simpler language that gets rendered into safe Rust the way Nim is translated into C and compiled as C. I’ve concluded that it is possible, but only if there’s a substantial chunk of AI sitting “in between” that analyses the code you’re writing in the simpler language and queries you, the coder, from time to time.

I’m not sure how coherent I can be describing what I have in mind, but for example: let’s say you’re happily typing and the AI chimes in to say to the coder: “Hey, it looks to me like you may be assuming, in what you’ve written so far, that your process A will always end before your process B. Maybe - maybe - in the real world that’s so. But I can tell you that logically it ain’t so. What Rust code do you want me to write, here: 1) one that just goes from your process A to your process C whether or not your parallel process B has finished or not, or 2) Rust code where B always waits for A, A always waits for B, or both wait for each other, or 3) unsafe Rust code that leaves this possible race condition intact ‘cause your sure- you’re willing to bet the company - that not just this version of the program, but all possible future modifications of it, are never gonna encounter a real-world instance of B being delayed? And do you want any telemetry (asserts) (”fries”) with that?”

Exactly how the AI can borrow check without you doing much if any borrow checking is maybe harder to describe; but might involve informing you that the code you’ve written so far allows simultaneous updating of a variable, and what would you like to do about that, if anything? Would you like some telemetry to let you know if such nonsense begins to happen during a run? (Fleshing this out may be non-trivial.)

The AI would also bring stuff like badly formed loops allowing buffer overwrites to your attention, of course.

I’m quite sure that creating such an AI programming helper/translator into Rust would be difficult. But I suspect it’s possible, and I want one. I’m retired, I won’t be building it.

See verdagon's very interesting comment here (and the replies to that) for what's already being done at least a little along the same lines.
I would say video is ok for superficial understanding, but hopeless for proper learning where you need to find your own pace.
Don't play poker with an autist.

I have two autist adult children. Both with amazing super powers.

In my house their abilities were always discussed and viewed as super powers. They are both capable of things others could only imagine. Focus, recall, logical reasoning are all on a level above most. Not to mention the ability to count cards.

The Monotropism theory speaks more completely to my experiences raising both of them.

> Recognise what someone’s passionate about and learn how to become part of the attention tunnels which come with monotropic focus, rather than trying to just reach in and pull the person out of the flow states that are so important to us.

This I believe is the most important statement in the entire article. Yes, providing tools to navigate the neuro world they live in is important. However, to shunt or not understand their ability is to loose sight of the outrageous things they are capable of. Helping each of my children to learn their strengths and the power of their ability to use flow states has made a world of difference.

Additionally, girls tend to be not be recognized as autist as early as boys. They are much better at masking. However, the Monotropism theory much better aligns with girls than other theories.