skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A phenomenon that unites these points is the result of extended COVID WFH: in the aggregate, to some significant degree, remote work habits seem to be persisting in in-person work environments. It’s a double-edged sword: You’re pinging the guru down the aisle for advice rather than walking over to her. So no one gets to overhear the guidance, but then again, she can triage your request with her Slack usage.

As a result, our in-person work situations have never been so quiet (outside of lockdowns). The value of in-person is thereby seemingly perceptibly lessened. Are we losing or recouping the value of that serendipitous spark of collaboration that executives wax poetic over? (Was it ever a thing?)
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I've had good luck with AirBnB, but did have one similar experience, and there's no chance the place genuinely had reviews as good as were on the site (it was damn near a perfect rating). It was gross, plainly violating fire code (basement-of-a-house "apartment" without a single smoke detector anywhere in it), cluttered with the owner's (?) extra junk, tons of half-finished DIY work everywhere (exposed wires sticking out of open switch boxes and empty ceiling light boxes!), actual no-bullshit graffiti on the ceiling(!?). It looked like a friggin' trap house.

But it had damn near a five-star rating and the reviews were like "great place for my family!" et c. Something shady was going on, both with the host and with AirBnB, to make that happen, I'd say. It was shockingly bad.
A Tesla Model 3 charges at the rate of 3~ per hour using about 1.2 kw. Over 12 hours that's about 36 miles each night.
Starting off the new year without a smartphone
I see 24GB Tesla K80s on ebay for $90...what am I missing?
oil supplies are so vast that they are practically infinite : we must stop using it because of the emissions. peak oil has always been junk science and clickbait news.

synthetic hydrocarbons as energy storage is interesting, but all about the economics.
Apple, knock on wood.
>If they decide to do a new UI theme for a macOS release, you generally see it everywhere

The corollary is that any Mac application that hasn't been touched in 5 years will quite likely break when Apple makes some sweeping API change.

I'm much happier to be able to run my Win95-era utilities whose developers are long gone at the cost of some older UI elements.

>why allow such things in the first place

Many of these things were built and designed at a time when computers had 4MB of RAM. Every additional layer of abstraction has a very real cost.
If that’s the case, all the more reason to be mad at Airbnb for removing legitimate reviews.
People love to talk about smart things. But when asked question about real implementation, people disappear, because nobody want to take even abstract (ethical) responsibility of consequences :)
No, it will just make it - marginally - cheaper. But the basic challenges remain just as strong.
I know a person who works in tech, is very smart, has plenty of gadgets -- he just can't take this seriously and uses a single txt file in Dropbox for all their passwords (that are all just human-generated, reused, MyRandomW0rd123-like passwords). Claims to be optimistic and thinks that they're not going to be that person who gets hacked.
I wanted a term to define companies/apps that solely exist to skirt laws and regulations and then I realized it's the entire whole of "gig economy" companies.
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Both of these are reasonable guesses. A slight variant on 2 is that they are actually just a mess; lots of big companies have bad accounts payable teams. It’s typically not something where the CFO is measuring team efficacy based on supplier/vendor satisfaction. You could say this is another way of putting “sun optimized”, but it doesn’t even need someone to be actively trying to stretch terms (though that absolutely happens too).
Things worth doing in space that are more promising than Mars:

- A robotic Venus lander that can survive for a few days. The last lander to take pictures on Venus landed over 40 years ago, and it only operated for half an hour.[1] Venus Surface temperatures are around 475°C. The electronics overheated. Now we have silicon carbide semiconductors and laser welding, so continued operation at those temperatures might be possible. Here are most of the existing pictures of the surface of Venus.[2] It looks more interesting than Mars.

- A Europa lander. The recent Europa flyby shows much more interesting surface features than Mars. What are those long, thin features? Not rivers; rivers don't have right-angled intersections.

Mars is nearly airless and boring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_14

[2] https://www.popsci.com/yes-weve-seen-surface-venus/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s98cHbM1cRM
> i couldn't check in and went elsewhere.

> But i didn't want to cave in and called AirBnB. Thankfully, airbnb fully refunded the payment and i was able to find another accomodation in the last minute. I don't recommend this host unless you want a stressful start for your vacation.

I'm pretty sure your review got removed because you didn't actually check in. I'm actually surprised the system even let you write a review given the circumstances you've outlined.
This analysis about the impact Airbnb was having on Amsterdam disagrees: https://www.ing.nl/zakelijk/kennis-over-de-economie/onze-eco...

The city has passed laws to keep down the amount of temporary rentals so the balance has undoubtably shifted by now. A later analysis by the same bank (https://bnb-beheer.nl/blog/2019/03/06/prijseffect-airbnb-op-...) says as much.
Maybe we have different mental models and that’s what drives this conflict? I certainly wouldn’t say that first do this then do that is my primary mental model, in small blocks yes, but once you get past even 1 file that breaks down. Once you introduce threads or the network these assumptions have to go out the window anyways.

It’s funny you mention recipes, because i’ve always been frustrated by traditional recipe descriptions that muddle concurrency and make it difficult to conceptualize the whole process. E.g. the table structure here is superior to step by step http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/158/Dark-Chocolate...
Oh huh I didn't even think of that (opening directly in the Store app). Agreed that the title situation is annoying. The fact that they're even separate store IDs is really frustrating TBH.
BitTorrent then, under this perspective, is "less massively, less redundantly replicated" since people only hold onto and seed the torrents whose files they store locally, but they do not just go on and download and seed everything out there. Seems like a nice compromise to me, but obviously risks data becomming irrevocable in some cases.

Is this also how IPFS works?
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it's interesting, when you start getting into debating politics in your teens it's easy to fall into the trap of attacking authors instead of arguments, then as you get older you try to be better about this and then it turns around again as you age because giving the people the benefit of the doubt again and again and spending time dismantling their arguments only for them to turn around and publish the next article repeating the same things is a waste of time
Recording of cellular physiological histories along optically readable...protien
So I can buy pictures with photoshop ?

Not defending kdenlive but photoshop is a bad example
> If the second glass of water has no salt in it, then salt will start crossing the membrane and equalising the salt levels in both glasses.

Is that correct? Normally in osmosis water will cross the membrane to equalize concentration of ions right?
I don't know what primitives or parameters Apple's iCloud Keychain is using.

But I do know that it has made all of the non-techies in my family using a password manager. They just use the suggested password generated by Apple when signing up on random sites as well.

(But only works on Apple's devices and browsers obviously)
FWIW... I set up 1Password as a business account for demo and eval.

I hated it almost every part of it. If you are coming from Bitwarden, Dashlane, or Lastpass, the UI makes little sense. All three of those used Lastpass's initial UI. It's a better UX.

I couldn't get off of 1Password fast enough. Something about their desktop app it seemed overly heavy/slow.
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Hey HN. I'm a principal engineer, previously worked w/ FullStory building the mobile analytics library from scratch in Rust, Objective C and Java, including a TypeScript-based playback front-end.

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What more do you want to do? You don't like it so you don't use it. Sounds like problem solved.
No. Absolutely not. Trust is built up over a significant period of time through… work. When I see your work is good and you are putting in the effort, it builds trust in you. I will never come to trust you over a game of kahoots.
That last point - that housing is too expensive - is not something that airbnb causes or can fix. That's a supply side problem and the solution is housing construction. It may marginally exacerbate the symptom by providing liquidity.
Great advice overall !
No this is incorrect, I know people that left from Portland and Seattle following the "firey but mostly peaceful protests" the fact of the matter is they gutted the police, the police that remain know that if they actually do their job they're likely to be the next national outrage, and they are being told by their bosses and the politicians to do nothing. As such the criminals now know they can run wild with no prevention it isn't gentrification it is what happens when an entire city turns their back on any semblance of law and order. Portland will not recover for a long time if ever.
This is why I always wait for red wine to dry before cleaning it off my carpet.
Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Scalene now incorporates AI-powered optimization suggestions
Scalene new release includes AI-powered optimization suggestions with OpenAI.
It's always a balancing act, I suppose. Portland, like many other West Coast cities, is set in a truly beautiful location, with a marvelous blend of mountain and water; and with all the big city amenities on top of it, it does make for a strong proposition.

I myself moved from a big metro area to a smaller and quieter (but unfortunately not safer) city in a different region of the country, because I didn't care for those big city amenities all that much. But I can easily see how someone could live with the faults.
This is why hotels exist, so you don't have to deal with random scammers who decided to rent out their house.
Colonizing is Mars unrealistic. Mars is too hostile for our type of life. Maybe machines can "live" there. Developing the science and technology to make Mars even slightly more viable is going to take a long time and we're going to need a healthy Earth while we work on the solutions anyway. So why not make sure we have a healthy Earth in the first place? We can keep an eye on Mars as a stretch goal but it's always going to be pretty far down the priority list. I know that's not the romantic view.
Different rules for articles, which happen on the person's website vs the comments here. Obviously the guidelines do not apply to other sites than this one.

And one man's snark is another man's sense of humor, humanity's grandest venture so far would be to learn to live in peace and to evenly spread our wealth, not to manage to hop to another planet and die there. And as dismissals come this one is anything but shallow, in fact, it's deeper than it needed to be.
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Previously discussed in August 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28325563 (74 comments)

Credit: Thanks to @rosebay for pointing this out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218449 (now dead)

Also see additional interesting submissions from jesseduffield.com:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jesseduffield.com
I'd agree with almost all of that, but with two additions: I think we can locally approximate reality as an axiomatic system, with the axioms just being the stuff we've decided to treat as true for the moment. When the context changes what counts as an axiom changes, but that only rarely happens to me with chairs.

Second, I think there's at least a rough partial order on the things people propose as axioms: the order of how surprised I am when someone contests one, if you like. Very surprised, if it's the existence of external reality; not too surprised at all, sadly, if it's whether biologists are to be trusted over the pastor at their church on the origin of species.

The nice thing about that machinery is that when you meet the second sort of person, you're not forced to believe that they're fundamentally irrational and immune to all reason.

One more thing: trusting experts is a very convenient heuristic for me individually, and I use it all the time, but it's not epistemelogically all that useful. In principle you can always replace an appeal to the authority of a genuine expert with the evidence that they rely on to come to their judgement: if you can't, then they're speaking outside of their expertise. No one of us can win an argument on the internet that way; time is finite and we each only know so much. But if we all chip away at it, by supplying evidence where and when we can, we might get somewhere.
Here is an example: One Yelp employee had his friend write a negative review for the business that said 'no' to Yelp extortion/tax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQAAauJlPq0
I would think aggressive enforcement and fines by your HOA would lessen that activity.
diet, exercise, and sleep
Does Oregon have the strictest laws? I thought they aren't doing anything new when compared to NJ, CA, or NY.
Given the circumstances mentioned in GP's comment, it appears they are living in a condo, and the HOA is constructed to cover the rules for the use and maintenance of jointly-owned portions of the building. This isn't a case of "HOA is mad that next door neighbor used a wrong species of grass for their lawn."
Linux does this by breaking things wholesale. Any Gnome extensions etc. need constant maintenance or they break in between versions, while Windows provides binary compatibility and doesn't even require recompiling.
My takeaway from dealing with a condo HOA is that condos shouldn't legally exist, because people owning fractional buildings is doomed to result in structural collapse. Elected residents aren't qualified to make decisions about long-term maintenance which becomes more severe and expensive over time, and they have perverse incentives to avoid spending money. Faced with a substantial enough cost, board members can opt to hide problems while they try to sell their own stake in the building.

That's being said, $&@# AirBnB.
Fourth, if private security violates your rights you can sue. When government violates your rights they typically get the case dismissed due to 'qualified immunity' which USSC made up in 1970s.
There is a significant chunk of backend devs who subconsciously and consciously avoid the complexity of front end dev and at the same time, snark about the alleged simplicity of it.
I mean, that's pretty easy, it's gotta be Buzz Aldrin.
Here’s the Dropbox paper[0] and presentation(YouTube)[1] on zxcvbn from the 2016 USENIX security conference:

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=vf37jh3dV2I&feature=shares
Great points and thanks for the tailscale mention. That is exactly the product we needed this week. One thing not mentioned is how to make product led growth accelerate by word of mouth and how to encourage that. It’s the key to acceleration imho. That is hire to get a network effect. From the last century but this was how AWS started our Blackberry if you go farther back. The value proposition is individual to team to enterprise but how do you get team success to multiply. The term for this was influential end user marketing. :-). Who you get is as important. The opals trope was are these people who give more advice than they receive. Those are really important folks :-)
Pick a hotel chain that you are familiar with. No more $100 a day cleaning charges, no more of cleaning utensils, etc.
I think it is a hard question to answer.

In a very real sense, most people do not even recognize there is an actual option to move. Yes, there are all sorts of costs associated with the moving and there is stress to be incurred as a result, but I think most people do not even entertain the idea of living anywhere else compared to where they are for numerous reasons including familial ties.

And then there is the 'why should I leave' aspect of it? Maybe if I stick it out, it will get better ( especially if I own that piece of land ).

In short, I would like to be able to say that it is economically prohibitive to do so, but, I dunno, I moved from the old country to US. And separately the moment I heard a first shot in my neighborhood in Chicago ( and police came to my door asking if I saw anything ), I was out of there in a couple of months in the suburbs.

I think people feel safer being where they have always been ( as unsafe it may be to an audience from a statistical point of view ). It is the environment they know. For all they know, anywhere else may be even worse.
People's associations are part of their actions and a relevant part of the context of their writing. The commenter didn't necessarily entirely dismiss the article or the argument because of it, but it is potentially valuable information to have.

It's not necessary to evaluate every work completely stripped of context to engage with it honestly. Articles are written by people, with motivations for writing them, and nothing is gained by pretending otherwise.
News is the content someone doesn't want printed. The rest is advertising.