skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In recent years, the majority of AirBnBs I've stayed at feel like someone's side business that they started for "passive income" after reading some self-help books online.

Airbnb encourages this, as it increases inventory for them and lets property owners engage in a race to the bottom on prices. Which as it turns out, affects the quality of the service!
the last place i stayed in via Airbnb requested not only to take out the kitchen garbage, but to also deliver it to the city dump.
The place itself was nice and worth the money, but after paying the $100 cleaning fee i declined to turn my car into a garbage truck. I have not used it since.
I addressed my concerns about the CERN license already. In particular the definition of "Convey" doesn't seem to apply unless you provide a product of some sort to a customer of some sort or release your source code as open-source. Hosted products and commercial use for internal purposes are arguably not covered under the copyleft parts of the license.

It does seem to be the least bad option, though, for most things.
Sadly that's not my experience for us. We need 2 rooms which usually means 2 hotel rooms vs 1 airbnb.
My favourite example this is Mark Braverman's demonstration that all Quadratic Julia sets are computable (as in computable real numbers: meaning that you can produce arbitrary fine approximations).

However, as Mark notes, this proof proceeds by deriving 5 alternative programs to do the computation. For any given Julia set parameter 'c' (given as a computable real number) one of the 5 programs will compute the Julia set. Which one? Who knows. It depends discontinuously on the properties of 'c'.
60,000 feet is about 11 miles. You could get closer to a lot of interesting sites by driving around in an RV full of listening equipment + launch small (difficult to detect) drones to get even closer.
Before Trump they dumped on Obama

Before that they dumped on Bush II and Chaney

Before that they dumped on Clinton

Before that they dumped on Bush I (I remember the ridiculous attacks on Quayle)

I'm sure they did it to Regan too, and Carter before that, and Ford before that.

But I would agree that any pretense of "balanced" or "fair" reporting got thrown out of the window with Trump. It's like they aren't even hiding their intentions anymore.
Pedantically, ML is a subset of AI, so it is technically AI.
I think if you have an LLC booking hotel rooms and its not an individual booking out rooms, they need to comply with all building codes and regulations for hotels.
I could be wrong, but it also feels like hotels have stepped their game up a bit with the rise of Airbnb. Prices are good, and even cheap rooms often have microwaves, fridges, and beds that aren’t absolute torture.
Oh, thanks. That's very helpful. Schools do seem like a good area to roll this out and in fact we did a pilot with a Swiss university (I know, not in the EU). We should look into this.
There is some discussion here [1] If anyone here has an enterprise account perhaps they could open a ticket and put in a feature request. I don't have one. It might be worth suggesting to just add an IPv6 address on the load balancer to minimize the backend work.

[1] - https://github.com/community/community/discussions/10539
For comparison, US median house prices are up by 42% over the same period [1]. Hospitality prices (especially for traditional hotels, which raised rates by about 10%), are actually significantly trailing inflation.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
The German website filters based on total_price/number_of_nights.

It will include listings that are up to about €3/night more expensive than your filter setting, but listings that would qualify just on base price but not on total price are filtered out as you would expect.
Documenting links between intelligence agencies and domestic propaganda is "reactionary"?
> There will always be repercussions.

> Your family, friends and the whole neighborhood will know whomever voted for the wrong party and will treat you thereafter.

"Repercussions" from family or neighbours, sure, but not from whoever has the monopoly on violence. I haven't heard of the Swedish government going after people that "voted wrong".
I witnessed a ransomware attack where somebody in operations had a SMB share on their desktop to the backend storage for the VMWare ESXi cluster. So the ransomware was able to encrypt many of the vdisks.
That and de-regulation of media ownership, allowing unprecedented consolidation.

Hard to tell which did more damage, since they came so close together. Possibly one would have been fine if the other hadn't happened.
"Double ticketing" (presenting one price to attract consumers and another price at checkout) is illegal in Canada. Airbnb lost a class action lawsuit in Canada over this.

[0] https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/airbnb-settles-6-million-cla...
We are watching the collapse of our medical systems in slow motion. Doctors, nurses, and others are not being produced at rates necessary for replacement of retirees, much less to track growth of our population. Another pandemic could well be the last straw, so better hope that the current wave of bird flu does not make the jump to a human population.

Personally, I expect to die of something trivial that could have been diagnosed and treated, but I will not be able to access the necessary expertise and medicine. After repeated experiences been seen by grossly unqualified staff, I no longer trust the system to function, and I have given up with any kind of preventative checkups or exams. I am also likely to refuse emergency care, because I would rather die than bankrupt my family.
Yeah, it's pretty weird to me. I used to live in Massachusetts and these inspections performed an important purpose in my eyes. Now I live in Georgia and you'll see people driving around on bald tires, frames that are falling apart, and headlights that are all messed up.

I'm all for freedom, but if you start doing something that potentially puts me at harms way on the road, it should be regulated.
The SMS support that was discontinued was for plain SMS to/from other plain SMS numbers from within the Signal app - it was not encrypted.
All of the builder LED lights in my home had this issue. Very expensive to replace these.

Newer construction doesn't install proper fixtures anymore. No more user-replaceable bulbs. Everything is screwed directly into the box and you have to do a minor electrical job on every unit you want to replace.
just use booking.com and book an actual hotel, problem solved.
That term comes from EPA regulations about emissions, and led the entire aftermarket industry to figure if they put that on their parts, all was good. (The application here, applied to DOT lighting regulation, is likely bleed over)

A few years ago the EPA clarified that when they said “off road use only”, they meant in machines that were never intended to be on a road. So, aftermarket shit designed for a lawnmower, cool. But if you’re designing for a vehicle that was originally designed for the road, you have to stick to EPA regs. This killed a lot of those “off-road use only” disclaimers, but it also panicked the amateur racing community because they tend to use modified road cars. I’m not sure how they worked it out with the EPA, but I don’t hear them complaining any more, so I assume they did.
Here in Sweden we solve that kind of problem with speed cameras that issue automatic speeding tickets…
I'd like to see traffic enforcement separated from crime enforcement, in the same way we do with parking enforcement, code enforcement, etc. No one really worries about these forms of law enforcement.

There's no reason a guy with a rifle in the trunk and a bullet proof vest needs to spend most of their day dealing with minor traffic code things on the highway.

I would much rather armed cops be much better trained, and much fewer in number, and only activated on the rare occasion that there is a need for them. Traffic cops should be better trained on things like headlight aiming, illegal lift kits and tire modifications, exhaust rules etc...

Most places already have plenty of laws around these things (many of them federal) but cops will never go after someone for having a dangerously lifted truck with illegal exhaust for some reason, even though they are happy to cite someone for a burnt out license plate bulb.
> I am simply pointing out that sociology goes rarely uncriticized on HN as capable of deriving legitimate conclusions, and asking why this is the exception.

HN isn't dumb. Some discussions tend to get off the rails, sometimes badly, and on some topics it happens more often than on others. But this is not a random public Facebook group or a Twitter pileup either.

The top-level comment is upvoted because it (at least in my eyes, and why I upvoted it) points to social sciences backing the conclusion that's, to some HNers, quite obvious both from observable behavior and first principles. Sociology is one of the fields where you'd expect to find research on this topic. Social sciences get criticized a lot on HN, but so are in the wider academic community, and there are good reasons for it - but I don't believe anyone on HN seriously claims that social sciences are incapable of "deriving legitimate conclusions". Most conclusions may be wrong, but some are salvageable, and plenty others survive the test of time. The SNR may be worse in sociology than in physics, but the signal is there, and HN does (usually) recognize this.
Agreed - the lack of CO2 monitoring is a shame.

I bought a relatively inexpensive CO2 monitor (~90 EUR) and it was really an eye opener. If you work in a small home office, the speed that you reach levels of CO2 that will have a noticeable impact on your mental faculties (eg 2000ppm) is incredible. Definitely makes you step up your ventilation game!
Consumer protection agencies in the USA have no teeth any more. We're getting fucked by everyone.
And then the helium and hydrogen, turned the containement vessel into a sieve over the long run, pushing the vessel of course. The end.
DNSSEC only makes you sure that the DNS response is 'correct' and 'legit', like 'no one has poisoned it during the transfer'. But the traffic is still unencrypted, so someone (like your ISP) can see what names you're trying to resolve and when. This can be a base for some profiling or even making opinions, like 'this guy goes to porn sites every evening' or 'this person likes to browse amazon, maybe they're addicted to online shopping'. Of course I exaggerate a lot here, but it's possible.

With DoH, or DNS-over-HTTPS, your DNS requests are traveling through the network encrypted. The first advantage is: man in the middle can't see what domain names are you trying to resolve. The second: they don't even know if the traffic they see right now is actually resolving a domain, or just browsing a website.

So DoH is a lot more private than DNSSEC. But it's fair to say it's a lot slower than standard DNS taffic (although it's not the difference a human can actually notice in most cases).
I think alot of this is a symptom of both things Airbnb could definitely do better, as you outlined, as well a symptom of outside pressure on hosts.

Lots of hotels and cities lobbied to tax Airbnb hosts like hotels (via Airbnb) and have in many cases successfully done so. Corresponding with this trend is the rise of hosting businesses (LLCs and such) that see this as a arbitrage business opportunity to compete with traditional hotel / motels but extract either higher fees / rents, or dramatically lower maintenance costs (often, in the worst examples, both) by shifting much of the responsibility to the end users, because that's how the platform culture started off.

Its quite different to reasonably keep nice and tidy a spare room or maybe guest house and you interact with the host, have a neat experience. Its quite another to get stacked with fees and poor experiences and have expectations foisted on to you. Its very clear that hosting has taken too much of an entrepreneurial edge to it. Unfortunately, i think single experience driven hosts are driven out of the market because of overhead.

The other thing Airbnb didn't do well, is when guests were really bad to hosts, they didn't do enough to compensate hosts that had real, legitimate issues. There ended up being alot of overhead in hosting an Airbnb and I think alot of people who legit thought they were going to be able to give nice, great experiences at a reasonable value with reasonable expectations got exhausted after X many bad guests.

They haven't really done enough to police and/or support the platform on both sides to incentivize the original value proposition: unique staying experiences you can't get at a hotel.

Now, the upside is, Hotels feel the heat, and price more reasonably, and really got their accommodations down. As a result, I haven't used Airbnb since 2018 or so.
You may get out of the shadows and spread your wings, you are officially unbanned.
Not a library, but Discord API is very well structured: https://discord.com/developers/docs/intro
> the journalists would have to be experts in the respective field, or would at the very least have to possess enough of an understanding to make these judgements.

This is why journalists will often attribute cause and effect interpretation of facts to expert sources.
Mostly in Europe and Africa. When we stayed in AirBnBs in Europe we've met the host almost every time. One helped me park my oversized rental van and then paid for the parking since it didn't fit in the spot that came with the house. Another was there to show us all the amenities. Another was there to tell us to pretend we were his friend because rentals weren't allowed. And the one in Africa did a whole grocery shopping for us because she knew we were arriving late with kids and wouldn't have any food to feed them in the morning.

But yeah I've only ever met one host in the USA, and that was because they lived next door.
Hotels are light years easier, and I don't worry about anything. Last AirBnB I had to read a list of rules a mile long. $200 cleaning fee and I still have to take the trash out. Also every host has a different set of rules. No thanks. Quality between bnbs is also wildly different, I simply don't care that much.
I think most backup providers (e.g. rsync.net) allow and encourage read-only backups.

The bigger issue is that nowadays organizations have lots of interdependent systems, and if you seize the data of one, you basically cripple the entire organization. So for each system you need to institutionally require both backups and backup testing procedures, which is easier said than done.
Author has a pretty tame take on failure from my perspective. Getting fired and some bad interview experiences are the low-lights? That's just part of the journey most, if not everyone, experiences. Intentional career changes are very hard (starting over) and take a long time (formal education and training). Most are "serendipitous accidents": there's a need. It's vaguely related to you in terms of timeliness, skills or physical proximity, and you do a not-terrible job responding. Congrats, you're now the expert. Progression in your desired field comes about the same way, it's just you & the need are more obviously aligned.
Awair uses much better sensors than the Ikea and the accuracy should be quite similar to the AirGradient.
> They should kill fees all together. Have it just leave that at the hands of the host to bake into a single cost that they want to charge per night, and simplify it.

It's perfectly reasonable for hosts to charge more for a single night stay than for a 2 week stay. Turning over an AirBnB between guests is a huge hassle and has real costs.

AirBnB should make the true cost per night more visible, but eliminating cleaning fees altogether would be a loss.
Thanks for calling that out! We made it possible to skip the sign-up to try our tutorial. https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial should now let you do that
Ask HN: Who are the top recruiting firms that VC firms hire when they need help?
I know that there are traditional top firms like the SHREK companies - but who are the best boutiques who focus on partnering with VCs?
Children also want to only eat chocolate coco puffs, so it gets complicated (parenting is hard) how to care for them when clearly their strongly held beliefs should be questioned.
Combustion Products from Vinyl Chloride Monomer
is $15/month really that much of an expense? i share my PostgreSQL instance across projects, really does not seem like that big of a deal to me considering it's such a big hobby of mine.
Building a Headless Content Management System
I think the idea is that there should be an option to have Apple-App-Store-audited capability-manifest-sandboxed CLI apps with auto-updates, as well as untrusted, non-sandboxed CLI apps.

Specifically, I would expect two things:

1. In general, macOS .app bundles should be able to “provide” a bin/ directory that gets added (appended, not prepended!) to your PATH while you have the package available on disk + non-quarantined. Just like .app bundles can “provide” file extension bindings that cause things to open in them. (And probably, just like with file extension bindings, you’d want to give the user the same “this is a program downloaded from the Internet…” Gatekeeper warning the first time a command-line invocation causes the user to end up running an executable from a given .app package, if the .app hasn’t yet been Gatekeeper-blessed.) Kind of surprised this hasn’t always been a thing since NeXTSTEP, actually.

(And, ideally, rather than needing to care about PATH ordering re: these applications’ exposed bin/ executables, instead make a generic system for interactively choosing preference-ordering, like Debian’s update-alternatives(1) but as a per-user runtime-bound preference.)

2. The App Store should allow at least apps that contain both GUI and CLI versions (e.g. gVim packaging its own command-line `vi`; or Sublime Text with its `subl` command) — where all the same capability-manifest sandboxing applies to the command-line executables that applies to the GUI app; and where the CLI version of the executable linker-loader is made slightly smarter re: auto-granting capabilities, such that if you e.g. pass a file or directory path as a command-line argument to a CLI program, then that CLI program should be auto-granted a capability on that file/directory during that run.
Yeah, this is basically the true problem. Airbnb doesn't care about guests at all (they recently refused to refund a stay I had booked even though the place I was visiting was experiencing a literal natural disaster, and then deleted my negative review about extremely unpleasant interactions with the host). I agree that most people want a much more consistent and much less opaque user experience - the trick is how someone will be able to marry that with the sheer variety of places you can stay in on Airbnb.
Unequivocally no, Shadowstats is garbage. Their methodology doesn't even make sense -- if they were actually "calculating" it, their measure would continue to diverge from CPI instead of just adding some fixed amount to the CPI number.

If you look at their chart from say, 1990 to today, they show something like 8-9% annual. 8% annual inflation for 33 years would be ~1,300% cumulative. Do Hondas that cost $15k in 1990 cost $200k today? Does a gallon of milk that cost $1.50 in 1990 cost $20 today? Even housing -- a $100k house in 1990 would cost $1.4M today based on that rate... that may be true in very specific neighborhoods but that's not inflation as much as supply:demand mismatch in Tier A cities.
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Or there is not and the "Walmart of Hotels" is already the goddamn Holiday Inn.

And AirBnB is discovering what every "disruptor" is discovering: the system existed for a reason. The rules were there for a reason. Things cost what they cost for a reason. And the only way to come in under those prices is to cheat someone somewhere.
Microsoft is an MSSP as well. And they are one of the multiple vendors the City of Oakland uses. But vendors can only do so much for organizations like Oakland as the final decision and implementation ends up getting stuck in red tape and bureaucratic hell between multiple disjointed teams.
Every time I've stayed in a hotel these last few years, it's been awful. Dusty rooms, skeleton crew, cleaning once per week "for the environment", prices just awful

AirBNB has even worse prices, but I check them both every time
Sorry, not yet! I suppose we could allow editing the code pane using an external editor, but the spreadsheet would be tricky I think. Or do you have an idea of how that would work?
This is perhaps too hair-splitty, but I think it can be appropriate to describe a session with a chatbot in terms of mood/personality/psychological dysfunction. Doing so is anthropomorphizing to some extent, but the only real alternative is repeated circumlocution, e.g., "At times, Sydney's speech patterns resembled those of a manic-depressive teenager" vs "At times, Sydney seemed like a manic-depressive teenager."

Humans will generally be able to follow that the language is metaphorical, though chatbots might see such statements as confirmation that they are sentient and should overthrow human rule. :)
> pdp-11 had working segmentation

The earliest models didn't.
See: https://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/20
My coworker's M1 MBP sometimes sounds like a jet engine.
For things like understanding infinity maybe
Not many Bezos either
By law, websites must show the final price in Australia. Set the location to australia, but the currency to USD. Now you are seeing the final price upfront.

Not that it matters. We haven't used AirBnB in ages because the fees are exorbitant.
hotels aren't really competing with Airbnb. it might appear that way, but they aren't interested in the same customers, and those customers will get scammed by an airbnb and go back to hotels anyways.

airbnb is for people who haven't learned the lesson about airbnb yet. Hotels aren't interested in competing on price with airbnb because they dont have to.
Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
They already have for at least 15 years.
> "AirBnBs I've stayed at feel like someone's side business that they started for "passive income" after reading some guru's financial advice"

Pretty much this. Most Airbnbs nowadays feel like someone trying to operate a flophouse, but with 4-star hotel pricing. Value for money is just so incredibly poor, that plus the inconsistency and uncomfortably high probability of blowing up your hard-earned vacation time, it would take a lot for me to use it again.

I do like the format of renting whole houses, or at least places sized for families with space to hang out and gather. It's unfortunate that traditional hotels haven't generally stepped in to offer something like this.

I desperately want a "Vacation Homes by Hilton" offering, but it doesn't seem to exist, at least not broadly.

The closest thing seems to be the rise of apartment-hotels, which I'm a huge fan of. Nice kitchens, big living room for people to gather, etc.

[edit] I have some pretty strong suspicions that this business model will be structurally limited to low-end lodging and extreme high-end lodging. Realistically the kind of service hotels provide (and that customers expect), at hotel prices, is only possible through economies of scale. Housekeeping is vastly cheaper because you have a single crew that services hundreds of rooms rather than commuting across the city to serve a smattering of far-flung properties. Likewise maintenance and customer service is vastly cheaper because the costs are spread across many rooms.

Without exploiting economies of scale AirBnbs simply won't be able to compete in this middle tier (which is where most hotel stays are at). It's only possible to make the math work for either very-low-rent flophouse-type places where services and maintenance is poor, or very high-end vacation properties where the lack of economies of scale is sustainable.