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Show HN: Invest in Airbnbs Like Stocks
Hey HN - I’m Ryan, the co-founder of Arrived.

We made it possible to buy shares of vacation rentals, starting from $100. Investors earn the booking income & property appreciation from being an owner, without all of the work typically involved.

Airbnb’s can be a killer business. They have helped vacation rental owners generate over $150 Billion in rental income from serving a billion guest arrivals, but less than 0.5% of these guests have been able to participate in the owner side of the Airbnb economy.

Arrived is the first company with SEC Qualified offerings to buy shares in individual properties like this. We launched rental home investing last year and have funded $55m in rental homes across the country so far. And we are excited to launch vacation rental investing on our platform this week. Would love any feedback on our vacation rental launch.
Spate of new research points to the potential harms of artificial sweeteners
Apple Kicks Off the Cell-Calls-from-Space Race
Sounds like stateless customer service, the ultimate result of applying functional programming principles to running a hotel.
If we didn't already have mandatory jury duty, I don't think there's a hope in hell that you could get a bill passed requiring it today. If you did manage to get a bill passed, I think the courts would almost certainly strike it down.

We have become much less keen on requiring people to work against their will. Jury duty is grandfathered in, but new things of that kind wouldn't be lightly accepted.
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller: First US PhD in Computer Science
"The first two doctoral-level degrees in Computer Science in the US were awarded in June 1965. This paper discusses one of the degree recipients, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, BVM." - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.01765.pdf
Fair point, but it still highlights the issue that bugs me: the reason why they are amazon only is to pay for the site. If there was a business model that supported this aggregation without pay-for-traffic, I bet we'd see a lot more products from a lot more potential sources.

BTW, not saying that no model can exist (subscriptions, whatever) but that most implementations appear to fail out and leave us with affiliate links.

But yeah, I jumped over the main point.
What other use cases did the community come up with?
It's mostly a curiosity. Occasionally things like this occur: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i... . TL;DR exploited an accidentally turing complete file format to execute instructions inside a virtual machine.
I don’t know, radiation is very easy to measure, has a very well-understood effect (the previous century was pretty much about getting to learn every interaction of radiation and the human body), and I don’t think that those fallouts even measurably increase radiation level compared to the usual background one.

In short, radiation either has an immediate, very apparent and deadly effect, or a simple stochastic one that basically linearly increases with radiation exposure.
Tell HN: ArXiv won't let authors remove their paper from the website
I submitted a paper to arXiv, but for some reasons decided to remove it. But this is the response I received from arXiv:

"""
Thank you for reaching out to us regarding the requested removal of an arXiv article. Unfortunately this is not a simple request, and requires additional evidence and/or documentation than has been provided. Removal requires evidence that the submitter did not have sufficient legal authority to grant the applied license to the work, and/or agree to the terms of submission. arXiv will not consider removal for reasons such as journal similarity detection, nor failure to obtain consent from co-authors, as these do not invalidate the license applied by the submitter. See:

[1]https://arxiv.org/help/license
[2]https://arxiv.org/help/policies/instructions_for_submission
[3]https://arxiv.org/help/policies/submission_agreement

If you have evidence that the submitter did not have the right to submit please provide it. Otherwise we consider the paper legally deposited and cannot be removed. More information regarding Cornell University's policies on copyright infringement is available at...
"""

Is this really "open" if the author has no right to remove their work for reasons other than what's mentioned above? I find it unacceptable that arXiv treats authors' work this way.
>As a remote worker who plans on buying a home and putting down roots in the small, middle-of-nowhere town I live in, no way in hell that I'd accept a job offer from a company that dangles RTO over my head like this

Well, they can be honest about it, "we have no plan...", or they could potentially lie or be ignorant about it, like your current employer might be, and change their mind down the road.

I'm also a remote worker living in a small town. But I'm a realist as far as understanding that this might not last forever. Perhaps it turns out there's a competitive advantage to office work after all? If so, can't blame companies for wanting to return to those conditions.
I always here that Microsoft employees should know that their software never works that great. I often wonder somebody must know what Microsoft employees think. I mean, don't Microsoft employees talk to people outside of Microsoft?
Sounds kind of like the old mainframes that airlines use. And I would think the same solution applies: rather than replacing it per se, why not wrap the SAP data model by creating bespoke "gateways" that expose a more business-domain-oriented UX — where each thing people want to do is just one obvious button, but drives all those same complex SAP processes underneath?
Security, scaling of development, and progression of language features.

The larger a code base gets, the more complex it can be, and frameworks help abstract ideas (like design systems), rather than having to repeat component code, css, each time it is needed. Also, if more developers are being added to the code base, the scaling of a project can get quite large. We have over 50 developers working at my company coding on the website.

Security is another. When updating a list of items (for example) from a fetch, vanilla js will require direct modification of the html, whereas a framework like React will handle that, with best security practices applied, as the code has been written and production tested.

I'm not going to deep dive on language features, can be quite subjective, for example how great Typescript is (compiler errors > runtime errors), or how SASS fills in a lot of missing features for CSS, etc.

I think some websites could be done in vanilla JS/HTML/CSS, but as the site scales, I feel at some point a developer would build their own framework to make things easier and streamlined. It's what developers do.
Don't know why you are being downvoted.

CA: $788,679 [0] * 0.73% [1] = $5757.3567

TX: $315,235 [2] * 1.69% [3] = $5327.4715.

[0]: https://www.zillow.com/ca/home-values/

[1]: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-property-tax-calcula....

[2]: https://www.zillow.com/tx/home-values/

[3]: https://smartasset.com/taxes/texas-property-tax-calculator#:....
For Midjourney certainly, but Stable Diffusion and DALL-E?
This is the reason most medical studies look at all cause mortality. Cause of death reporting is prone to all kinds of medical judgement and human error that cause reporting specific causes of death to be problematic.
I'd say it's subset of perfect solution fallacy [1]. Every edge case is seen as a problem that has to be solved, at any cost.

One of the root causes is that when you're designing something, you really suck at understanding costs of your solution.

To you, the cost either seems close to zero (because you are familiar with your own solution), or cost doesn't matter because you think you're solving problems that are essential to domain.

Somewhat counterintuitive, the more senior folks are, the more likely they are to be affected by it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
I'm on a contract for working in an office. I was employed to do that, signed up to it. I am offered some remote working capacity, during Covid it was 100%! But whatever I get is not my primary working condition.

If you intend to do a 100% remote job as a life plan, don't take a job that isn't contractually 100% remote.

I feel like we're in a weird place wrt WFH policies atm.
Funny you have a quote from Ellison. I was at Oracle in the 90s, and "Oracle Apps" had its own building. At the same time, I was on lots of social events in the Valley and always running into Stanford IT people, and all of them could rant for hours about Oracle Financials.

Apparently Stanford had its own homebrew system, and some dean had decreed that they had to move to Oracle Financials. For literally years, these poor people struggled with it.

I never worked with that or SAP so I can't compare them, but I think both are the Full Employment Act for consultants.
If anyone is looking for something more production ready (that uses webGL), I highly recommend https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

we use it to built https://flux.ai
Can you share a little bit about how Amazon handles on-call? Do they make their dev teams be on-call for their product areas, do they have first line responders/SRE, and things like that?
Honest question—do actual real people use Facebook share buttons? Have they ever?

To me it looks like it has always been a fairytale made up by Facebook to spread their analytics scripts all over internet.
For anyone interested in giving it a try, here is a signup code for $50 in shares in any of the properties: "hackernews". Thanks!
OT: That's a really broken 'R', looks backward to me.

I lost interest the last couple years. Looks different with hack event sessions. Wonder if I might get into it this time.

It would be great if we could have a HN post/threads for projects looking for contributions. I'd be much more into that.
Yeah, I jumped to a conclusion. You make a very valid point about inclusivity of listing all the products recommended (or recommended highly enough), not just the ones that pay a vig.
nicotine actually stimulates your acetylcholine receptors, making it a mild nootropic and can be taken in non-smelly ways (patches, gum, etc).
Modern humans grow more brain cells than Neanderthals
GPUs are already pretty generic. The main diff is that a GPU will execute N threads in lockstep, where N = 32 or 64, like a very wide and always-on SIMD.

The dedicated render pipeline still exists, and is still needed for things like Z buffering and interpolation, but you'd be surprised how much of what used to be fixed hardware is being emulated by the driver.
Yes: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/466798/does-...
That problem isn’t unique to government. most sufficiently large public companies do the same thing.
Andrew Orlowski! He writes for the Daily Telegraph, which is the UKs equivalent of Fox News. Everything is uphill from there
What is “corporate interests”, exactly? Biggest corporations today are overwhelmingly aligned with the Democratic Party, though in fact the oil industry is pretty much the only exception. Look at who they donate money to. At best, you might ask why Republican Party is putting their oil interests ahead of everyone else.
Well, what isn’t a carcinogen? That word gets thrown around way too much — most food items we regularly eat contains several carcinogens, but besides increasing the statistical chance of cancer they are not imminently dangerous without further clarification on the metric of the effect.
Thanks for the advice! Very helpful. Do you have any general tips for negotiating a salary?
The Orthodox Christian version of stoicism is to recognize that your selfish desires and fears ("passions") aren't who you are, that they're more like spirits who want to bring you down, and that once you observe them and set them aside you can be who you truly are, which is an image of God, i.e. infinite and eternal love.
> I don't understand what problem they're trying to solve

I don't use React. I learned a little bit of Vue. I'm definitely not an expert, but I think there are (at least) two problems that they solve: consistency and reusability.

Consistency: I think the hope is that if you're a React programmer and you see a brand new site written in React, you'll understand it, whereas if it used vanilla JS, it might be written in any number of ways.

Reusability: if you start writing your own reusable functions in vanilla, you'll eventually build your own React -- it's the build vs. buy decision.
By that reasoning if you sold someone a tomato, that's 10g of tomato solids for each 200g of tomato, and actual tomatoes need to be labelled as "contains 5% tomato".
As a person who does voice work, this is both exciting and worrying. I love the idea of convincingly altering my voice for certain things, such as quotations, but this kind of tech also greatly lowers the barrier to entry in the spoken word profession.

Coincidentally I also do a lot of work in illustration, and AI is likewise encroaching on my work in that space. How expensive is plumber school?
On every rewrite, the system gets either better with time or abandoned.

A system completely broken forever is something only the upper management can create.
>A promise from your employer means very little.

This is true, and I think actions speak louder than words in this case. If you see your company not renewing lease, or growing without expanding office space, I think you can take that as a good indicator they won't change tack so hastily.
I don't know of anyone that considers jury duty an "annoyance for a cause greater than ourselves". Normal people know intuitively that it is a waste of time, that lawyers, cops, clerks, and judges are just running an extended grift on working people and the rest of society, and that nobody will be harmed by their lying their way out of having to miss work for 7 dollars a day.
The web was originally created to share documents, so interactivity and extra functionality was an afterthought. As the web became more popular, websites started to add more functionality similar to traditional software programs.

Eventually, the original guideline of HTML for structure, CSS for styling, and JavaScript for interactivity started to not really make sense anymore for many websites, because as pages became more interactive, the lines became blurred. If you look at a site like GMail, where does the page structure end and interactivity begin?

With large parts of a page being interactive, it becomes difficult to manage all the state involved, especially if it’s a “live” page that updates in real time and may have several people viewing it.

Frameworks were introduced as a way to manage state and allow websites to re-render efficiently without hard page refreshes.
Haskell and many related languages certainly don't shy away from trying to make it intentionally Turing-complete. I wouldn't say they have succeeded at making it intuitive quite yet though.
They had a great formula. Used to get some good scoop, a humorous spin whilst having a decent level of factual accuracy.
Sadly, they now need to compete with social media and memes, the newer generations of internet user treat websites as a secondary source of news and entertainment.
It's because code that failed to be profitable is worthless. It's a form of debt. You have to spend money to find engineers to work on it (and to even confirm it works in the first place).

If someone said, "Hey, I built this highly customized engine for a new type of car, but it costs much more to produce than consumers are willing to pay for it," would anyone want that? If there were a way to make this code profitable, wouldn't investors have put in a small amount of money to get there?

The goal of a software company is to create customers, not code. If you can build a software company with no-code and Airtable, that's better than writing an app from scratch. The key thing is the customers, and if a business doesn't have them, then the business has no value (and indeed has negative value).
Ask HN: Is AWS SSM (or other services) down for anyone else?
We're experiencing production issues due to SSM in us-east-1.
>For those who went through the dotcom bubble is this reminiscent?

One of the world's largest tech companies slowing hiring from a decade of absolute torrid pace of recruiting is not at all reminiscent of the dotcom crash. Yet?
It is true that causal analysis (root cause analysis) can be helpful in debugging just about anything. But, it requires looking backwards, which people/organizations don’t really like to do, in my experience. “Who wants to focus on bad stuff? Just patch it and move forward.”

The article mentions chaos in support of causality, but it is most likely a dead end for root cause analysis.

For anyone interested, here are some free templates/examples for root cause analysis:

https://www.smartsheet.com/free-root-cause-analysis-template...

Edit:
And here are a couple of additional resources (note that the author R. Cook of “How Complex Systems Fail” has recently passed away - https://twitter.com/lund_hfss/status/1568242140546744322
)

1. A past HN discussion on system failure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25550685

2. “How Complex Systems Fail” by Dr. R. Cook

https://how.complexsystems.fail/
I noticed the change right around the time they stopped having a distinct landing page for "theregister.co.uk", which I preferred because of their slightly more provincial bent, and instead started redirecting everyone, everywhere to "theregister.com".

It's sad, because much of its appeal was precisely how different they were from common IT coverage that was and still is mostly written for non-IT types.
ERP lockin is enormous.

Most companies stick with a single ERP provider for 20-30 years. And 80% of attempts to swap in one ERP for another fail. Usually after customers waste millions of dollars and years of engineering work.

The underlying complexity of the physical processes managed by ERP is enormous. ERP systems are digital models of a company's physical operations.

Platform lockin and platform innovation are inversely proportional. Companies like SAP in ERP, and Epic in EHR, simply don't have to innovate to make lots of money.

That's one reason why technological change in those industries is so slow.
Most of my side projects are written in plain HTML/CSS/JS. Of course, it's deemed "not acceptable" by current industry standards. But i work for myself, so i dont care.

https://github.com/altilunium/
> The two way curve, now that would be a real challenge

Aren't OLEDs more or less printed? Other option would be to cover the back with RGB quantum dots and excite them with three scanning lasers tuned to their characteristics.

... and we just invented the ORT, or "Optical Ray Tube"
Ah, the WEP. Loved me some Chip's Challenge and JezzBall.
Just as an aside: This document is interesting. Not saying it isn't valid but I'm just wondering why a bank produced this. It's not just an economic forecast of the health foods market. It's an entire breakdown of the nutrition. Who is the target audience? It looks like the work of some consultants possibly
Already found that. Thats what I meant with "Auto Dark Theme", however it does not work :).
If you guys think JIRA is bad you should check out BMC Remedy...
The poster was the tech lead, per one of their comments.
thats why people never get addicted, oh wait people abuse them habitually all the time.

drugs of any kind are addictive, infact even mere behaviors are addictive let alone drugs.

Its truly a mark of an individual in denial when they claim their favorite drugs aren't bad for them.

yes drugs are bad for you.

yes even weed is bad for you and is very addictive.

And people always bring up the medical use, but we all know what its going to be primarily used for.

We need to treat these drugs like we do other medicine, criminalize it if its not a prescribed one unless its very weak.

Its a huge problem if we let people ruin themselves with this garbage under the guise of decriminalizing for medicine, when we already are able to just prescribe them as medicine usually.
Is this the digital equivalent of listening to tapes via a walkman?
These are "Little Penguins"[0][1].

Apparently they have a lifespan of ~6.5 years but there's quite a few of these that are exceeding that expectation quite well.

[0]: https://www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/conservation/our-work/lit...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_penguin
The notion of wearing sports uniforms began in the mid-19th century. There is no denying that sports uniforms have managed to capture the attention of every competitive softball team. You just cannot ignore the significance associated with team jerseys. As we all know, softball is a team game.
Cropping the outliers is often a hidden abstraction. That might be good for recognizing things but for making things it's likely to be a problem--take the cupcake example. What's the robot (program) going to do with the cupcake? Probably don't want the cups to go in the mixer.
We're currently in the process of leveraging Github discussions for that.
So am I gonna get dozens of PRs for some of my dead 10-year-old personal projects again
Upvoting you because you're being downvoted and I skimmed the page and somehow missed it at first too. The answer is:

> The plan is to make curl do websockets similar to telnet/nc. That part of the work has not been started.

Edit: Come on man, whoever downvoted me too. It's easy to miss if you skim. I included the answer in my reply. And I tried to save the poster some karma because I thought they were being downvoted more than they deserved. Some people just can't be happy.
For anyone wondering what the difference is between R3F and Use.GPU:

R3F is a react reconciler for three.js. You manipulate a three.js scene, which the classic non-reactive renderer then draws.

Use.GPU does not have a non-reactive model nor does it have a notion of a scene. Components just compose and expand to produce lambdas which make calls to the GPU.

It's basically React without a DOM, where components can _only_ render other React components.

The docs go into detail of how this is accomplished and what it means.
You have fallen quite a ways short of demonstrating those "revealed preferences". All you have demonstrated is that those two people apparently don't agree with your preferred courses of action and that you don't have a particularly good grasp of how long it takes to get a nuclear power plant built in the United States.

> They also prefer that to coal power, or any other course of action.

Pretty sure Newsom is in favor of increasing grid capacity by way of renewables. Just because you don't agree with a course of action doesn't make it not exist.
> https://usegpu.live/docs/guides-shaders

> Use.GPU has a powerful WGSL shader linker. It lets you compose shaders functionally, with closures, using syntactically correct WGSL. It provides a real module system with per-module scope.

> The shader linker is very intentionally a stand-alone library, with no dependencies on rest of the run-time. It has minimal API surface and small size.

> Every shader is built this way. Unlike most 3D frameworks, there is no difference between built-in shaders and your own. There is no string injection or code hook system, and no privileged code in shader land. Just lots of small shader modules, used à la carte.

I see this project is written in Typescript and Rust, so.. is this shader linker written in Rust?

Could I, in principle, reuse it for running everything in Rust, with no Typescript in the frontend?

What I actually want to do: use this with https://sycamore-rs.netlify.app/

That is,

> https://acko.net/blog/the-gpu-banana-stand/

> To recap, I built a clone of the core React run-time, called Live, and used it as the basis for a set of declarative and reactive components.

Replace Live with Sycamore
Graydon Hoare: 21 compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes
Scoold
Mozilla CSO demands fines to curb Big Tech surveillance