skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AirBnB service has become awful. We checked in at a place with smoke alarms going off non-stop and a full-blown roach infestation (all dead roaches, but we counted about 10-15 in the kitchen cabinets). Only started uncovering roaches after I tried to disconnect the alarms and a few dried up roaches fell out of the smoke alarm casing. I'm from the city and have lived in apartments with roaches. Not a germaphobe but I know a full-blown infestation when I see one. Needless to say we were pretty pissed. It was like 1AM so we ended up getting a cab to a hotel nearby.

Easy refund right? I had videos AND pictures of the whole thing (multiple kitchen cabinets, about 5-10 roaches on their backs each. smallish 1/2cm german roaches). Submitted it to AirBnB. What happened after was a complete shitshow that I never want to go through again and is the reason I will never use this service.

* Automated customer service kept closing our case because we were traveling and did not respond immediately to their questions in 12-24 hours (got basic questions like CAN YOU PLEASE DESCRIBE THE ISSUE? despite having submitted 10 images of ROACHES). Each time your case closes you get a different representative so we had to re-iterate the same story.

* AirBnB passed responsibility of refunding off to the host, who was playing dumb with us and was basically non-responsive for a week and pretended like nothing was off. They (host) later admitted to the airbnb rep that they did pay for regular pest control services.

* AirBnB told us we were not eligible for a refund because there were not obvious signs that it was a health hazard (such as bed bugs). What? This was extremely puzzling.So if you can't find proof of bed bugs you're SOL?

* Unrelated to the pests, but the host charged us an additional $100 as part of our stay for cleaning fee despite the fact that we left immediately and the only things that were out of place were the kitchen cabinets opened containing dozens of roach carcasses. Try making sense of that.

All in all after some pretty heated exchanges with the reps at airbnb and threats to publish the images online to expose the host they relented and gave me my refund. Will never go through this again with them.
Why don't you? Our economy is becoming increasingly intermediated and employees are increasingly losing their rights (and access to basic services like healthcare) by being mislabeled as contractors. There's a myriad of issues with affordability in the housing market and AirBnB exacerbates them.
Today, you would probably consider Argon2 since it specifically came out of a competition for password hashing functions.

Historically, scrypt, bcrypt and pbkdf2 have all three been widely used.
Is there a big tech company that people brag about working at anymore?
I mean, that's a fair point. The total volume of the elevator cable would be greater than that of the Earth. The mass might still be less since we're not building it out of iron here, but effectively we'd have a binary planet with the centre of mass well outside the Earth's surface.

I'm not sure that that system would be unstable in human timeframes since the two would be tidally locked, although it would certainly alter the engineering stresses in ways that I'm grossly unqualified to calculate. I think a portion of the cable might be under compression rather than tension? I guess it depends on the rotational speed of the whole system.

Speaking of which, substantial amounts of energy would need to be spent accelerating the spin of the Earth/space elevator system to maintain a 24-hour day/night cycle.

However, Luna's presence would perturb the whole system, either tearing it apart with tidal stresses or being ejected from the system before that could happen.
Oddest thing out of the NY Times. Slow news week/month, I guess?
You can potentially come to a solution/agreement with a single neighbor. Less so if you’ve got a brand new neighbor every 2-3 days.
Just out of interest; which ones would you consider high-end?
You haven't addressed the most important points at all, and keep coming up with toy models based on exponential growth. All of the models ignore the realities of how mechanical things work and how they can break and how they actually operate (just for a basic example, there is no mechanical system we have any idea how to build that could move any amount of the Earth's mantle in any way, since the mechanisms would simply melt) and rely on the ridiculous idea that this exponential growth can actually be maintained indefinitely to paper over various other omissions.

You also don't need to be a materials scientist to know that you can't get water or oxygen out of rock with sheer mechanical force.

Your estimate for the energy of the sun takes into account all of the energy sent in all directions in all spectra. The amount reaching the earth is significantly less - 1.73e15 W, or about 10^9 times less - and the amount that can realistically be captured is far less than that.

Overall, don't worry: there is exactly 0 chance that any human advancement will disassemble even a dwarf planet in the next millennium in the real world. Just because Freeman Dyson could write some back of the napkin computations it doesn't mean this is actually possible in any meaningful way.
Here's something to aim for: Drink enough so that at least once per day your urine is clear.
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That sounds like you're twisting the facts to fit a narrative. It's not clear a report was made by the first investigator.
The first link appears to have died, at least from my point of view, so I’ll just ask — what era was this early private police force from? In Rome for example it seems like a lot of state-like functions were performed by wealthy/prestigious patrons, right? So the line seems a little blurry there.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear that bounty hunters and private security pre-date the police.
I can't believe he didn't show the Device Manager window.

You know the one that you go to in hopes of figuring out why that USB peripheral or PCI card you plugged in isn't working, only to get a tree menu with a hierarchy of random categories, then a property dialog with zero real info?

That thing has been a decades old nightmare to me, and it still hasn't changed.
Oh, with AI game players, can't you just insert a print statement in code to simultaneously log all weights' changes and their accompanying changes in performance etc in a file and get another AI like some multi-parameter regression to search for correlations in it?
Airbnb greatly contributed to the housing shortage in Vermont.
Cities and etc have zoning laws because it does matter what kind of activity happens next door.

I lived in a town house association where the unit’s being rented were the source of noise, trash, crime, etc.

People renting often don’t care as much for the neighborhood/ locals and they can move on at will. And you'd be surprised how much random citizen land lords are terrible at just being land lords.

After the numbers of rentals were reduced (and background checks required) the neighborhood improved greatly. It was like turning off a light switch on noise, litter, crime, etc...
In my experience, people don't start out with the goal of loading indicators on buttons. It's usually the mistaken idea that avoiding a page reload will make the action faster. Instead, you now have a slow Ajax call, and the button appears broken, so now it needs a loading indicator.
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> As of mid-2002, they have not built a worldwide space object tracking system comparable to those of the United States or Russia.

A 20 year old article on a topic that changes a lot.
Here are the URLs for all the nine parts, since the articles don't link the others in the series:

1. Calculator Chips - https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco...

2. TI TMS1000 - https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco...

3. Rockwell PPS-4/1 - https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco...

4. Intel 8048 and 8748 - https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco...

5. Motorola 6801 - https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco...

6. Fairchild F8 and Mostek MK3870 - https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco...

7. Zilog Z8 - https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco...

8. Intel 8051 - https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco...

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You can always book a hotel. AirBNB will not and cannot provide you a 100% care free experience because some guests are indeed liars and there are all sorts of scams both on the guest and host side. It's a kind of ebay. It's always a hit or miss.
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> they have no online history making it hard to distinguish them from a bot or puppet

Huh? Airbnb has the entire transaction history that matters – proving that this specific user paid a specific amount of money for staying in a specific place for a specific amount of time.

Thinking that you need to prove "online history" (how would you even track this?) as well is absurd.

My theory on this is the same as usual – Airbnb outsources or understaffs their customer service department as usual; some stressed out agent closed the case without even looking at it. Making some noise and opening a separate case will probably work if you're bothered enough.
Gee, how about having a parade of random people showing up at all hours of the day/night just to start? The erosion of community. Further commodification of housing so that only the rich and upper middle class can buy a house in any city?
I still thing a lot of it transfers over, especially if Starship works as intended - send Starships to Mars often with proof of concept tech and any customer payloads & have part of it pressurized with prototype life support system. If it works fine after the trips on multiple occasions, you can be reasonably sure it will work with a crew as well.

Possibly more sure than the "classic" testing (and paperwork) heavy model that usually does very few actuall test flights due to costs.
Next time use this simple strategy: Leave a 5 star review, collect the 30$, then change it to a 1 star review.

Ideally Amazon would do something against this, but I think they just don‘t care.
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Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
That's extremely frustrating. As a host I would very upset if Vrbo held my guest's funds after a refund.
I agree with all of this. We are building web 'applications' now, not just websites. Users expect interactivity i.e. state management, animations, modals, dialog boxes... We have moved all of the UI patterns from the operating system into the browser, for better or for worse (probably worse). We have made front-end developers today what used to be Winforms devs, JavaFX/Swing devs, Cocoa devs... but without the basic OS UI frameworks they could build on top of before. Never mind the limitations front-end devs still have to deal with- like being asked to theme a <select> god help you!
At least it’s pronounceable and “photoshop” and “illustrator” are pretty self-explanatory. Acrobat isn’t I’ll grant.
You basically just rationalized the ChatGPT Development Team, coming to everywhere near you.

Yes, someone who appears to get things right by accident would eventually be removed in almost every place I’ve worked, except when that person was in charge.
The Pharaoh’s Trumpet
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try to do that with adobe product and they will send their lawyers after you as if you murdered their cat
I booked a place for 30 days, the listing said 100% refundable. So I did it. 2 or 3 weeks before needing it my plans changed and I had to cancel. Airbnb told me that its longer than 28 days so the cancellation policy is up to the host who decided it was non-refundable. This was never relayed in any way during the booking process, not mentioned in the confirmation emails, nothing.

I ended up being able to negotiate a partial refund, but I still lost around $800.

The same place was listed on agoda.com which is fully refundable up to 24 hours prior to checkin and I've always had good experience with agoda support.

I'll never, NEVER, use airbnb again. It's a scam company.
I think because of NodeJS. All modern toolings are built upon NodeJS.
It never stays that way. It starts as

foo(int x, do_bar_t)

With time, it turns into

foo(int x, int y, do_bar_t)

and eventually

foo(int x, int y, int z, int w, do_bar_t)

It's too tempting to add 'just one more' flag. You de-duplicate common functionality but increase overall complexity.
Rhetoric is commonly introduced this way in college composition courses. Here's a good approachable introduction:

https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/csu-fyw-rhetoric/chapter...

Typically when I hear the word rhetoric used in the way you're defending, as a pejorative autoantonym, it's by political talking-heads trying to dismiss an argument of an opponent.
Sadly it's really difficult to do all three well :(
-Have several goals in life (career, family, etc.)
-Have a support system (friends, family, relatives, etc.)
-Have several hobbies
-Exercise and sports
-Travel
-Give back (charity, etc.)
-Read
-Stop eating carbs
-Take regular 30-60 sec. cold showers (shock therapy)
-Meditate
-Take regular walks
The coolest thing I have seen is that people meet up on a pre shared frequency at a given time and take roll call. If that doesn’t sound exhilarating, it might not be a hobby for you.
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Well they are a company that needs to sell magazines/newspapers. Good for them I say. I think predictions can still be useful even if they are wrong.
My parents use pen and paper as a password manager and it works pretty well for them -- invulnerable to hackers, they never forget passwords, etc.
First, the physical: sleep well, eat well, practice sports

Second, the surroundings: analyse your immediate surroundings, and what/who is causing stress. Toxic friends, too much alcohol, etc.

Third: find a higher peace-bringing meaning. Wether it is a goal, or friendship/love, or even religion.

Also: work on redundancy of your mental health. Have your 3 pillars of strength in a healthy state: work, belonging (love/friendship), hobby. If 2/3 are good, then you have the strength to work on the third. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. 100% work-driven is not healthy, and actually counter-productive! Eg if works goes bad, then you have a crushing nothing going on for you. Then good luck improving your work situation while feeling crushed. Make your mental health resilient.

I also highly recommend you seek professional helpers: sport coach, psychologist, or just talking it out with friends regularly.

Another great helper is having habits. Take the habit of scheduling a meeting with a friend once a week. Take the habit of running on Sunday evenings. Habits can be the autopilot of your mental health.
It gets easier, my 3 year old is "all grown up" now. I actually already miss the baby phase, it happened so quick.

> keep up with technological developments like I used to, which is unfortunately eroding my value as a developer

Not sure why you think this is so, there hasn't been much change in the past few years. In any case, I don't think keeping up is important for seasoned developers. So you skip a few version of React and pick up the next shiny thing that comes in a few years, I don't think it really matters.
This is a very uncritical article that basically relies on marketing material of two companies (POLARISqb and SavantX). Most people in the QC field are extremely sceptical about D-Wave, since there is no conclusive demonstration that their system has any advantage over optimized classical algorithms.
I think the natural evolution of programmers is to become more capable of building complex systems until you reach the realization that just because you can build it, doesn't mean you should. You then think hard about how to build as simple system as possible. The front-end space hasn't historically struck me as filled with a lot of grizzled systems programmers that have learned this lesson, so we get what we have today. Eventually they will learn and thinks will start becoming more minimal.
>For instance, car keys.

Have you ever owned a push button start vehicle? It is a strictly superior UX.
I think there's a point to be made about single family dwellings, but it's hard to imagine how a 50 condo building would operate without one. Who takes care of the pool? Or fixes the elevator?

The governance is definitely poorly structured, though. In my (limited) experience I've seen a board that gets elected and then proceeds to abuse their power to advance their own financial positions.

I think there should be a 3rd party company that competes for the management contract and annual contracts are awarded based off democratic vote from all the owners.
well, why would you pit a paid software against a free one. obviously it is free so they are giving it away because it must be a crap software. no way. /s
There's a big difference between dealing with something from a neighbor's property once in a while, trash ending up in my property, guests not following neighborhood rules for parking, etc., and having to deal with it every single day.

Neighborhoods have a lot of societal norms, my house has frequently been referred to as "the rental" even though I've lived here for years and the prior tenants also all had long runs here... even being a rental house in the neighborhood is considered strange here.
In the USA fish for sushi is suggested by the FDA (and required by local law in some places: New York city comes to mind) to be frozen to -31F for 15 hours (or -4F for seven days), specifically to kill parasites. Given that virtually all salmon in the US has been frozen, I wouldn't worry about parasites in salmon sushi here.
Show them. Since you’ve got them set up, if you are called on for tech support (especially around a password), remind them that you can’t help them if they don’t have the password in 1Password, because you can’t debug those things.

It took 4–5 years, but my wife is now a 1Password advocate and tells people that it’s the best way to protect themselves. Sort of like a feature of our banking apps‡, she has been convinced by the fact that the 1Password URL matching provides strong anti-phishing protection.

For the most part, my family has found it easier to remember that they only have to know one password than to put up with my complaining that they’re not using 1Password and I can’t help them because they’re not…

‡ The feature for the bank was the "spending notifications". Almost ten years ago I installed the "spending tracker" app from the bank, and about a month or two after, I got a notification of a 0.01 charge from a company we have no business with. After I tapped through, I noticed that it was on my wife’s credit card, so I notified her that her card had been skimmed and she needed to contact the company. We knew before the bank knew because of their feature. She installed the app the next day.
High end graphics cards have been using 512 Bit wide memory buses for a while, so I don't think that's it.
It could also be an issue on the China side. The whole COVID/lockdown debacle has probably set things back a lot longer than they would have hoped.
I briefly touched on it above, but it's basically that you can mint as many keys as you like and require quorum to transact.

2/3 and 3/5 are common.

This way it's hard for a theif to find enough keys to steal your BTC, and you get additional backups in case something happens to one or more of your keys.
I used to work at 1Password, and have been a happy 1Password user before that. I recommend it _all the time_, and I carry around a $20 1Password gift card in my wallet to give to people when I recommend it. But I have been trying to get my mom setup on it for months and it's still a struggle :( I was hoping this article was going to say, "FooPassword has great security, and amazing UX and even your mom can easily use it", but alas...

The problems my mom experienced setting up 1Password, some I had never encountered. There are at least a handful of things going on that can cause problems, including web browser, internet connection, 1P browser extension, 1P desktop app, OS (at this point my mom has become unfamiliar with all desktop OSes since she has primarily used her smartphone for over 6 years and rarely if ever uses a desktop OS). There are enough opportunities for issues to occur that are trivial for me to troubleshoot, but are non-starters for my mom. And I suspect that my mom's experience is very common :(
You can define "HSHG_D" before including "hshg.h" to get the definitions for the dimension you want to use. Throughout the documentation I'm talking about 2D, because I think it's relatively the easiest to understand with not so much to write. In 1D, you wouldn't know the proper order of arguments to some functions.
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I see you played the man and not the ball. I like that approach. You can quickly prevent a team from fielding if you break their legs.