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>While I’m frustrated at the realization that Chess.com has a conflict of interest

There is no conflict of interest outside of keeping games fair. They are a platform that hosts chess matches. That's it. Banning an admitted cheater who admitting to cheating in order to make more money is not a conflict of interest at all - it's what would keep people from using their site.

>A far better solution is to tell Niemann he has been flagged

And that's happened. And Niemann STILL cheated. Did you see the letter the Chess.com folks sent Hans? Hans admitted to cheating, was banned, was allowed to come back, and cheated again. Chess.com was extremely lenient with Hans, and admitted as such.

>he’ll need to explain why he made the moves accurately

That's where the whole "the chess speaks for itself" thing came from....he was put on the spot in the post match interview against Carlsen. He couldn't explain why he made some of the moves he made and would fall back to "the chess speaks for itself" line. That's why people are suspicious of him.
Yeah, this is basically why Android One, Pixel & Nexus phones, and phones with “Stock Android” we’re/are so popular among tech people because they didn’t come with the carrier or OEM forced uninstallable crapware.
This is precisely the type of programmer I avoid hiring.
primarily the bad use of cadaver dogs isn’t in finding buried bodies but in allegedly being able to say that the body was somewhere else before it was moved, like the trunk of a car or a bedroom etc. cadaver dogs are basically used to frame suspects by claiming that the dog smelled the dead body somewhere where only the suspect could have been, therefore proving they killed the person. it’s complete bullshit. can dogs detect corpses? i think they can. can they detect where a corpse was, but no longer is, days or weeks or even years later? absolutely not, but cadaver dog handlers will testify under oath that they can
> This is absurd.

I fail to comprehend why you would say so.

The parent's (D_Alex's) thesis, if I may presume so much as to formulate it, is that (1) NATO is a threat because it is "expanding eastward", i.e. admitting countries that are more likely to have a military confrontation with Russia; in which case NATO will be obliged to come to their aid, in which case we are all dead. This is similar to how WW1 and WW2 started, only people didn't have the capacity to destroy all human life on Earth then, as they seem to have now.

Your thesis is that (2) Putin/Russia is a threat because it has nuclear weapons, which it can use, in which case we are all dead.

I am not disputing thesis 2; but it does not, in any way, undermine the validity of thesis 1. Both thesis 2 and thesis 1 may be true at the same time; and it is thesis 1 that I was responding to in the subthread started by D_Alex.
It's one thing renting a room in the host's own living apartment (like the old couchsurfing) and another renting a room in a shared rented-out apartment. The latter one might be plagued way more by the mentioned fake reviews.
My sister uses AirBnB quite frequently because her and her partner are both Vegan. Having a kitchen is a big advantage over hotels.
I've used Airbnb ~30 times in multiple countries and have never had issues.

Some places have been dirtier than I expected (nothing horrible though), some were much smaller than the pictures suggested, but the for the vast majority of cases it has been a good experience. When the experience wasn't good, I rated and commented accordingly, so the host got their rating lowered and maybe did something about it. I also met some of the owners, which was a nice experience.

For work I had to travel for 1, 2, 3 weeks at a time and it wouldn't have made sense in economic terms to get a hotel, so I'm glad airbnb existed.

New hosts might be an issue, but hosts with good reputation are, in my experience, not a problem.

I can see the problem where whole neighborhoods get used for airbnb, driving costs up for residents. I imagine that's a tiny minority of cities...where jt makes sense to enforce laws to avoid this. For the rest of the cities? In my opinion airbnb is a net benefit: if creates a product that didn't exist before and allows buyers and sellers to benefit from this transaction. For me at least (and the people I know which is, admittedly, a non random sample) it has been a good experience. I'm sure in most places it's riskier than hotels. Yes, there's a trade-off.
> but American involvement there is the only reason why South Korea exists and we don’t have one giant North Korea.

True, but nobody knows how a unified communist Korea would have turned out. Without a direct threat at their border and an easy bad gut to point the finger at, they might have progressively opened up à la Vietnam (the closest comparison we have).
The point is that YouTube has managed to survive and even thrive despite hosting tons of content which infringes on copyright.
Maybe “TF 3” or whatever they call it will be ergonomic and a pleasure to use, but that was the promise of TF 2, and unless you wanted to use Keras it was anything but. I’m glad I have been able to work only in PyTorch and Jax. Maybe TF will get better but I’m not holding my breath. On the other hand, XLA is very nice, and I hope they continue to develop it.

I hope torch has a convincing distributed tensor API coming soon. Their development on ShardedTensor seems to have slowed or stopped recently, so TF’s DTensor is definitely ahead, which is a shame. And of course TF’s ecosystem for the whole lifecycle is more mature with TFX, TF.js, etc, but torch is slowly closing those gaps, and hopefully that will continue.
You know where I have never gotten scammed? A hotel. I would stay in a cheapish hotel before staying in an AirBnb.
Legality and stubbornness.

Same reason we have dozens of languages with very minor differences (not different paradigms), endless discussions on formatting despite opinionated linters/formatters existing, bike shedding meetings, and more.
When you put it this way, it does make the game even better.
Perhaps I misunderstood the example but I thought the point was precisely that there is a dependency between Occupation and Location which individual tags cannot express...?
Effect size is a thing. The US incarceration rate is >3× comparable countries. If the effect size of incarceration rate were similar to (or larger than!) other causes, the US would have to be consistently 3× comparables in other social statistics, like GDP per capita, inequality, or diversity, to achieve the same crime rate. But it's not, which means that the other factors must have greater impact on the crime rate than incarceration rate. Ergo, locking people up is not the most effective solution--there has to be something more effective out there.
This is correct. I'm able to grab most users' comment histories in under a second and it tells the data sources at the bottom.
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I think that's part of the point of this article: a warning to others who haven't heard yet that AirBnB = scum.
I do not understand the incentive for this "Project Wisdom". From the official description in the project's home page:

> Project Wisdom will be able to read plain English entered by a user, and then generate automation content written in the Ansible syntax: Ansible Playbooks and Ansible Roles.

Do Ansible users really want to input plain English? I would not even know how to say what I need: "make sure journald is persistent, up to 1GB, then install zsh with my laptop config if it's in a laptop group..." That's awfully imprecise. Nobody wants to program in plain English. And the more technical the task, the less suitable plain English becomes.

And even worse: the goal is to convert plain English into yaml "code", mostly to "make it easier for beginners to learn Ansible". I think it is not helpful at all to throw blocks of generated code to a beginner.
> all the demands for interactivity that users have nowadays and the complexity this brings regarding rendering logic, state, etc.

Are you sure users are really the ones demanding this?

It's more likely that "modern FE" is imposing this additional complexity on itself for other reasons, because most sites are still boring old crud apps that don't need anything "modern". The canonical example is the Todo app, which is...crud.

I don't think it's the users fault.
That's not what I said. I said they never will be removed. Politics in the US have crossed a point into some kind of dogma.
Acknowledging that it is a big city, and “high trust“ is a vague concept:

I strongly disagree with the characterization that New York City is “the furthest thing from high trust I can think of“

I have interacted with thousands of strangers there with near perfect shared understanding of basic city etiquette. That etiquette does not include warmth, and in fact the way that we have all learned it is someone being quite rude to us when we break the etiquette, but that the city functions at all suggests they are doing something right.
Yes, I agree. However, this is the main execuse Canonical devs cite when asking why they wouldn’t provide a *.deb package. When one pushes more, they do not elaborate and roll back to the maintainability execuse.
There are always layoffs. Layoffs don't make a recession. Do you not think people get laid off and businesses are failing during good times? Of course it happens.
That video itself immediately suggests some ways Niemann could offer to demonstrate he is not cheating, beginning with changing (under supervision) into clothing provided for him, and minimizing the number of people present at all stages.

In any such proposal, he could reasonably require the same of his opponents and any monitors present.
I found the Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/53946710 (or https://archive.ph/2fO1l)
Perception is a hell of a drug. You were a "trailblazer" in one of the nastiest, evilest segments of modern tech. I was glad to see the Cuecat crumble as a product, I remember being a tiny, tiny mirror of the information to hack the product, and I also remember (as a 17-year old) getting a nasty email from your legal team that taught me an early lesson in "might makes right, and corporations own the world". Your team was one of the ones that set the stage for the dismal state of online rights. Thanks for that /s

Even though I never used it for anything, I was proud to disable the serial number of my old Cuecat on principle

I wish we could see the votes on this thread just to see the ratio your post is likely getting.
That's fine, but lots of people also enjoy working with Python. I happen to not particularly like Python all that much, and that's never really caused that much friction (responses tend to be "yeah, that part isn't very good" and/or "right, I see where you're coming from"). Frontend on the other hand...

I don't want to paint with too broad of a brush. Some of my best friends are frontend developers! But a community can have a certain "atmosphere" or "vibe" to it. I do a lot of Go programming these days, and I find the "vibe" in Go is one of self-righteous arrogant twattery. Does that mean every Go developer is like that? Of course not. But I found that's the overall "vibe" in the community nonetheless (it's a bit better than it used to be though).
I don’t disagree with you, but the fact is the public transit isn’t free in NYC.

Is fare evasion a thing? Sure. But when prosecutorial discretion decides that public transit is going to be de facto free, that’s a governance failure that undermines confidence in government.

If the DA wanted to be the public face of a movement to transform public transit by eliminating fares, that’s one thing. Saying “we’re not interested in prosecuting theft of services”, that’s not the same.
It's basically what Google AMP tried to do but then everyone hated them because they're Google.
Timing Attacks on WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema Can Reveal User Location
And I prefer Airbnb because sometimes I can't afford hotels. It means you're richer than me. I'm glad there are offerings for both of us.
Same here, also europe, been doing airbnb and similar websites (before airbnb was popular) for more than 10 years and it’s been nothing but good. Went to a hotel this summer because prices were too high, kids complained how small it is. Besides airbnb, next is agro tourism, which is also great. Having breakfast at the hotel is nice though
You shouldn't be able to because it's a condition of our allowing your company to exist at all, and it's a law. Incorporation is not a right, it comes with strings attached, though fewer and fewer over time.

Even more fundamentally though, why should your employees care about your property? If you're worse off but they're better off, they should do it. Your wellbeing doesn't enter into the decision, just as their wellbeing doesn't enter into yours.
Previous reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32671805
WiFi will do 50 meters, but depending on layout and obstacles, you could be looking at 20. Might be the same for BLE?
It started as being intended for VC, right? I remember YC being an investor and Paul Graham saying great things about the founders. Certainly they must have been counting on growth. Did they plan to just capture every airbed? Or to do to hotels what Uber did to taxis (both good and bad)?
Also been going down this path. pyinfra is overlooked I think.

It's not perfect, I still feel like I'm dropping down to just hitting `server.shell` a bunch , but at least as a programmer first, it feels more comfortable vs the mountains of yaml (and doc searching) for Ansible.

On the whole it's a less frustrating experience. I still have a vague feeling that in my case - where each server(s) is generally customised per client and I've never felt comfortable just pointing ansible (or pyinfra) and a configured server and re-running it - that perhaps I would really just be better off with a bunch of shell scripts. I don't generally tear-down and throw-up multiple servers a day, week or even month.

rrconf sort of fills this but works off a bit more infrastructure than I want to manage with its different git repos per action.

[1] https://github.com/rrconf/rrconf
Maybe Anvers is derived from Amberes: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvers#cite_note-espagnol-5
Problem is not scam itself, but how airbnb handles it. If customer with 10 years old history, reports problem, it should by treated seriously. Not stole with "more proof needed" tactics.

If hotel chain electricuted people in shower, it would get fined and closed pronto.
It is a common misconception that SSO is useful only on enterprise scale and that companies where SSO and provisioning is crucial for security have huge IT budgets. Any scale-up still on the way to profitability needs it at few hundreds of employees and it’s really hard to justify 100k budget for it. Couple junior admins for provisioning and accepted and misunderstood risk of credentials explosion look more attractive than tripling the bills for every subscription. Who suffers? Customer who is exposed to cybersecurity risks.
Oh my, oh my, how the tune has changed on hn and social media on this and uber.

Whereever people sense they can make a buck or save a buck, laws amd regulations be damned.

I have never swayed an inch off my view.

I knew first hand how this affects housing prices and wear, I live in a severly affected area and pay the price for it, literally.

Same for uber. Neither is cheaper than the previous thing, hotel offers better bang fpr the buck, uber has surges and exploits the drivers and isnt even cheaper. Nope, I dont qanna hear about these drivers wouldnt have a job at all without uber. Lol.

Just because some tech bros with sexist issues can make an app and a service without customer service does not mean jack shit.

Airheadbnb is being declared cosa non grata in more and more places, uber is literally outlawed in half of europe.

Theres your business, kalashnick and the other pajasos.

If I had my own country or my way, I would send these clowns to prison no questions asked, to, you know, disrupt them a bit.

Do not come have a shit in my place.

I am all for the strictest and heavy handed regulation on these matters.

Hotels expensive? Well, then stay at home or go to a motel or some cheaper destination. If its too expensive, your kin has no business being there, mate.

Taxi too expensive? Get a car, use public transport. Walk.
Screw uber and the consumers of it.

I have sympathy for the drivers waiting in the dark on italian airports, but not uber, its a zero sum game to increase prices later on or to have a self driving fleet which then somehow makes this non viable business model good?
Hell no, this is a deliberate scheme to burn through investor money.

Airbnb and Uber are the scum of the earth, its a shame the population let them get away with this stuff for a while. People are inherently and helplessly stupid on some things.
In hindsight, its always easy to play the innocent one with a halo hovering over the head.

I wonder where the fierce hn defenders of these models are today.
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Good things happen when developers are involved in Ops. Most developers would prefer to develop and not focus so much on Ops, and so they take the steps to automate the Ops as much as possible and essentially make the problem go away. Dedicated Ops staff won't do that because that would put them out of work.
Is that really so weird? That's a very common version of time travel in SF, perhaps the most common. You can travel back in time, and you think you're changing history, but through a series of unlikely coincidences you end up being the person who created the history you were trying to change.

Come to think of it, maybe that's more common in short stories, where the "gotcha!" format works. It's probably harder to spin that unchangeable-history gimmick out to novel length, whereas "you can change history and it has endless weird side effects" can work well in long form. I can't think off-hand of any time travel novels with unchangeable history.
> Nature sounds would be best, still working on it.

I can absolutely recommend this site* so much that I've even donated to it on occasion.

* https://mynoise.net/
This is fantastic. It lays out very neatly how the dynamic develops as you zoom out, through repeated games and repeated "tournaments" in an ecosystem of strategies.

Another insight from the excellent book "Lying for Money" is that the optimal level of fraud outcomes may not be zero, because there's a cost to checking. Higher-trust societies can spend less on checking, while lower trust societies bear a cost both in terms of transactions that don't happen because of mistrust and because those that do happen are more expensive, even if legitimate.
Fan of https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated
> I feel like the author must know this

The author does know this, it's a reference to a couple paragraphs above:

> [...] and the HTTP protocol version, which is a fixed string which is always set to HTTP/1.1 and nothing else.

> (cool bear) But what ab-

> IT'S SET TO HTTP/1.1 AND NOTHING ELSE.
> Who are the supposed "independent thinkers”

People who say what I want to hear of course!
Many worlds is just some peoples favorite because they get too weirded out but indeterminism. They prefer a billiard ball universe and so invented the hairbrained many worlds theory.
Switched away from Postman to a native Mac app and my RAM couldn't be happier (https://paw.cloud)
There is a reason there is a lower bound on age allowing you to be elected. I do think there should be an upper bound as well.
Biden did make it unambiguous a month or so ago: If Taiwan is invaded, we would defend them.
I like this modern time fortune teller
Having stayed in some truly shitty hotels I would have to disagree with this sentiment.
Last time when I have checked what sha256sum (from coreutils) does was one year ago.

At that time, on x86 CPUs (I have not tested on ARM) neither sha256sum nor sha224sum nor sha1sum used the hardware instructions (and I have compiled them from sources, with the appropriate flags).

Because I have a Zen CPU (but that would also be true on Atom CPUs or Core CPUs since Ice Lake), I have to use "openssl dgst -r -sha256" instead of sha256sum and "openssl dgst -r -sha1" instead of sha1sum.

The openssl implementation uses the hardware instructions where available and in that case it is several times faster.

(The "-r" option flag in "openssl dgst" selects an output format that is more similar to the sha???sum tools, i.e. hash value followed by file name, but openssl still outputs an extra character, which must be accounted in scripts.)
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Jevko: a minimal general-purpose syntax
Journal seeks to upend sci publishing, only reviewing not accepting manuscripts
Well the "Air" part is for air mattress, which is no longer true, if it ever was. The name was supposed to connotate a very spartan take on a traditional bed-and-breakfast. I've never heard of anyone booking all-inclusive travel through airbnb.
Well for example in germany Art 10(1):

>Das Briefgeheimnis sowie das Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnis sind unverletzlich.

>The secrecy(privacy) of correspondence and the secrecy of mail and telecommunications are inviolable.

And it's more or less the same in Switzerland....but honestly in what country do you live where privacy is not a fundamental right?

It even part of the UN Human Rights Convention:

>Niemand darf willkürlichen oder rechtswidrigen Eingriffen in sein Privatleben, seine Familie, seine Wohnung und seinen Schriftverkehr oder rechtswidrigen Beeinträchtigungen seiner Ehre und seines Rufes ausgesetzt werden.

>No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her private life, family, home and correspondence, or to unlawful impairment of his or her honor and reputation.
For some reason I really enjoy the way you describe the moon as having "a diameter of less than 1 light year.", which is also true of my cat and the shoe I am wearing. And everything else I have ever seen or will experience in my life.
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DV was SD and lossy video compression, even if you used AVI as the wrapper format.
It's always a complicated issue. Depending on the city/region, tourists can be the life blood. More than a few places that I've visited you're a welcome addition to the local ecosystem, bringing much needed revenue.

There is always a healthy layer of NIMBY, I want to be a tourist but I don't want tourists to come where I live.

Sure, they should be regulated, and in many places in Europe they are regulated.

Any business/housing has the potential to be bad for neighbours, which is why we have zoning and planning laws. Bars and nightclubs, industrial businesses, apartment buildings. Short term rentals are no different, rules and taxes should apply. Fines should be imposed for rowdy party behaviour (which is one of the more negative aspects of short-term rentals).
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They decided to ban me over a small misdemeanor weed charge from my younger days (6+ years ago).

For reference I have great reviews both staying and hosting in the US.

This was after an my first international booking when they ask for passport pic.

They let me know after I was in my room and told me I had to GTFO and where absolutely no help at all.

Been using booking.com, locations can be hit more miss still. The nice apartment I’m at now in Mexico City shower hardly works for instance.

Also it’s pretty much a meme now that hotels are about the same cost after fees and usually much better service.
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I think you know the answer to that.

Perhaps I meant a normal debate and not something horrific and obvious.