skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if it's public, and you don't know who the callers are. If you do know exactly who the callers are (since it's a private function), and you have internal documentation that lets contributors know of the proper invariants, then it's entirely possible to prevent UB from ever occurring even if the function is marked as safe.

By itself, this is usually not a good idea. But in some cases, it's necessary, e.g., an unsafe implementation of an external safe trait on an internal type that only your internal code will ever see.
Damn I need to get on that grind too. Any tips on getting to the interview stages? Did you just message recruiters for those companies?
Sorry, I don't think I get the joke. For context, I'm european (Netherlands). What other kind of "change" were you alluding to I could make? I'm not sure what it could be. It seems the root of my issue is that _having_ to do something makes me dislike it, to the point where my brain just mentally blocks and says "nope". I realize it's not normal, and it's a more (very) extreme version of procrastination perhaps.
It doesn't seem like the author intends to use AirBNB ever again, so a chargeback seems like the right solution...
So you use another email address next time if you must
This is a big, big company problem in my opinion. If you have a dev force mostly just adding to an existing system, they never learn design skills.

Those that built the system inevitably leave over time, and now you’re stuck unable to attract talent because “old tech stack”, and without staff that could build something new.

Don’t stay at a company that’s gotten into that state. If your young, try and gain a mix of experience so you can actually gain those design skills.
Sadly the world moved in a different direction from Mark's prediction "calm technology". I go to some effort to make my environment calm.
Fun game! After climbing to 1 million feet, it took over 500,000 more to finally reverse direction with the ship pointed down and the engines firing.

Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth

Score: 869.4 point crash
Speed: 7757.3mph
Angle: 62.2°
Time: 1319 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 7757.3mph
Max height: 1549465ft
Engine used: 11 times
Boosters used: 351 times
https://ehmorris.com/lander/
I used airbnb for a couple of years but soon became apparent that booking through a hotel website directly was cheaper and lots of times included breakfast and you don't have to be their housekeeping at the end. I don't know why people still do it. Since then I've only used it as backup for last minute bookings in the middle of nowhere for just a night if I can't camp because it's raining.
Just have a friend use their account. Or make a new account. Or use VRBO or a number of Airbnb’s competitors. Or use a sock Airbnb account to connect with a host and then negotiate directly.
I don't know why nobody is suggesting this, but wouldn't the simplest thing be for the author to say "oh oops, yeah, OK, I'll stay there then" and then just... not stay?

What was the host going to do, go make the guest show ID to verify they're the author?
How do you leap from banning black box AI decisions to thinking it means everything is allowed?
Sounds like one of the best things to research and publish in order to help people. And, oh my god, this comment sounds like "just let sleeping dogs lie"...
Separating out confounders is easier said than done. When you look at the performance of black people raised in white families they are still exposed to media, teachers, and peers who have expectations of them based on appearance. Even with that population, racism remains a confounder.

Likewise while you can look at historical Jews as a poor population with high IQ, you have the confounder that even then Jews placed a strong cultural value on education and intelligence. And therefore, even while they were poor, Jews were likely to work to improve themselves on both. Therefore this leaves open the question of how much of the difference is due to this cultural factor versus innate genetics.

In the case of Vietnamese boat people, we have families that literally risked their lives for a chance at a better future. This attitude taken to a new country suggests that we should expect them to make the most of any opportunity that they can find. How much of their subsequent success is due to this attitude?

On Nigerian immigrants, I'd need to see a source to believe your "generally better social outcomes" comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Americans puts the 2018 median household income for members of the Nigerian diaspora into the USA at $68,658. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-26... the median household income for white non-Hispanic households at $70,642. At least on the easiest to check social outcome, whites are still doing better.

That said, Nigerians who arrive here tend to be motivated and well-educated. I'm not sure how you can distinguish that from genetics. Doubly so since the poster child for racist claims about IQ is the poor performance of US blacks. Blacks whose African ancestry includes a significant share of Nigerian.

So yes, we can cite volumes of statistics. And it is easy for find lots of books like The Bell Curve that actually do. But when you dig in you won't find a single statistic whose difference can be clearly attributed to genetics rather than some cultural factor.
671 flips, lol
Arthritis drug mimics “young blood” transfusions to reverse aging in mice
Yes, and it's an excellent read.
I have fun with myself imagining the world we would be living in, if we had the same kind of brain fucked law makers when the "knife" was invented...

We would have to chop our steaks with chopsticks I think!
At some point or another, you may need to raise money for your startup. Whether it is because you need it to get to the next phase in your milestones or to beat your competition, the day will come eventually. Even if it is not right away.
No. Make whatever you want. It just might be good. I dont have examples off hand but alot of modern games are super easy. Worse yet some are never ending. So when you mesh easy and never ending the only thing left that you need is some kinda hook to keep the person playing.
There's a body of evidence that some adults that practice mediation will have anxiety or depression worsen instead of improve (~10-25% depending on the study). Even this simple activity with thousands of years of history is not well understood and can do harm. Other interventions have even less history.

One thing about being an adult is that if mindfulness increases your anxiety you can choose not to practice it. Children are often forced into mental health interventions by schools. Imagine being compelled into doing something that worsens your mental health by someone trying to improve your mental health. The authors are correct that we should be selective about which students get which treatments. Often these are applied more broadly than is appropriate. The authors make no claim about the size of the impact of this practice, or the number of students negatively impacted.

Note: I'm from the US, the paper specifically comments on the UK education system.
It should be trivial to ban a certain billing address, plus a lot of companies require SMS 2FA now, and most people do not have multiple phone numbers to burn. Besides that, I think AirBnb might require you to upload government issued photo identification too, but I am not sure.
> (insulation, ending car dependency, and legislating products that aren't landfill help the poor rather than hindering them)

That's not at all what "Fit for 55" program is about. I agree, those things, over long enough timespan (say, 20 years) could be net positive. Instead, "Fit for 55" means imposing additional "carbon tax" on many industries, and on goods imported from China, based on how much carbon was emitted when producing them. And given the short, 7 years time frame the net result of those policies will be what I originally claimed: pushing everyone to poverty.

EU politicians say it quite openly really, that in order to "save us from the climate catastrophe" we need to sacrifice the standard of living.
One usecase Matrox kept doing well was X11 multimonitor desktops. The G400 era was about the time I was drifting away from games and moving to full time Linux, so they suited me at least.
I’ve gone back to my 30 year class reunion. No I don’t still hold grudges against the people who picked on me as a short (still short) fat (I got better) kid with a computer who couldn’t talk to a girl if his life depended on it (I’m happily married).

I really don’t think about it. We talk. We ask about family, etc
There was a time, not so long ago, when you could 'fix' the things that didn't work in the world by building a new app or website. This is how airbnb came about.

Sadly, that is a lot harder now, because all the apps have already been built and they're huge and have all the users. And now millions of people have to deal with the side effects or poorly built or abusive online services which are too big to disrupt or change. Policies upon policies, which, when applied to particular cases mean 'you gave us your money, now it's ours and you get nothing in return and we'll get away with it'.

I think time is ripe for new disruptions.
> I might not need to add anything to .*rc files if rtx is in my path

Generally speaking you'll probably want to use `rtx activate` in your shell rc. However you could use the shims instead if you just wanted to add a directory to PATH instead.

Of course you'd be getting rid of one of the major selling points of rtx by using shims, but it's so much faster than asdf the shims aren't as bad as they are in asdf.
I mean it 100% is ultimately discussion no matter how much one wants to shroud it in academic ivory tower BS.
Are they going to have bed checks?

But depending on the circumstances of how the rental is handled with respect to checkin etc., if the host is going to be an ass, now you have someone else thinking they have a bed and the host won't let them--because you already told them you won't be there.

It does sound in this case though that they could have just checked in with their friend and then taken off.
Obesity is unsolved. If you know what dietary intervention will cause significant long-term fat reduction in a majority of people, please demonstrate and you'll win the Nobel peace price.

We just don't know. Trust me, this is kind of my thing.

That said I am also naturally skeptical of quick fixes. The known side effects of these drugs seem meh, but I worry about hidden ones. E.g. I've heard these described as "chemical starvation" - doesn't exactly sound healthy long term to starve your body?

I strongly disagree exercise has anything to do with the obesity epidemic. Exercise is great but not related to obesity.

edit:

let's debate this guy and not just downvote, plz?
Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh are two distinct and different retail entities. The subject of the post is specifically Amazon Go. That being said, on the most recent earnings call Amazon also announced that they were "pausing" the rollout of Fresh stores.

“We’ve decided over the last year or so that we’re not going to expand the physical Fresh doors until we have that equation with differentiation and economic value that we like, but we're optimistic that we're going to find that in 2023,” [1]

[1] https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/amazon-halt...
Meh, Amex denied my chargeback when StubHub was illegally refusing refunds for events canceled due to covid. I don’t think there is any card out there that hasn’t gotten much tougher on chargebacks recently due to both the covid shitshow and the massive increase in chargeback fraud.
London has two types of schedule for buses and metro trains.

On the most frequest services, the timetable says something like "every 6-8 minutes". Otherwise, it gives the exact time. With the former, the bus isn't going to wait if it's 'early', and waiting 1 minute vs. 5 isn't going to make much difference to your journey.

Since even the most frequent services aren't so frequent overnight, you often see a mix.

London bus 14, for example: https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/timetable/14/?fromId=490011285E2&dire...

Incidentally, at times I noticed the same slow pace of Berlin transport.
Thank you! Will check them out.
He paid for a service they didn’t provide. So there is definitely some argument to it.

I guess they could say they will still provide the service? lol
Are you rapidly mouth-breathing? The point of focusing on it is to make sure you are doing slow, steady nose-breathing. Slow nose-breathing causes your body to produce calming biochemical signals (for most people).
Rough approximation is reasonably straightforward, but it quickly gets complicated if you want more precision. At a high level cars want to roll because momentum is resisting a force being applied by the road. But, dig deeper and things get even more complicated.

An uneven amount of weight is distributed to each tire through a turn. Tire temperature, tread, pressure, etc impacts the surface in contact with the road. Even slicks don’t have a uniform pressure across the surface in contact with the road. etc etc.
Any programming language represents limitations placed on the underlying expressiveness of the hardware. By this argument raw x86 asm is "more expressive" than any higher level language.

The whole point of a programming language is to provide you with common patterns/designs to simplify reasoning about your program. Even base concepts like a "function" or "struct" is really a limitation on the underlying expressive power.

Immutability/purity does solve real problems for programmers: it means that you only have to reason about mutability at the margins of your application. I think people who don't have experience with functional style don't realise how helpful this is. I choose to use functional languages because it makes me a better developer - I am able to write code that I am not diligent/smart/disciplined enough to write in an imperative style.
That seems like more a ‘pro’ than a ‘con’
'Forget' a nice swiss cheese behind the heater.
Had a similar experience with an ethics-free host. Support was execrable. So canceled my account and use VRBO or hotels.

Don't understand how AirScrewYouAndB is still in business.
Open AI is one of the actual research organizations promoting AI Safety work. However, this has more to do with funding and the money put up front by the original founders - Elon Musk, Sam Altman etc, who themselves are not AI researchers, yet AGI enthusiasts.

Open AI published a number of papers, essentially and implicitly supporting the position of the AI inexperienced founders. They try to highlight AI safety aspects quite frequently. But I would not take it too seriously, just like you wouldn't take a Facebook employees endorsement of Zucks vision.

If you are familiar with ML, you would know that L2 norms are a key optimization metric in ML. L2 norms are basically Pythagorean hypotenuse computations in high dimensions. I will take AI safety research seriously when they start discussing the risk factors associated with Pythagoras theorem and how we as a society must deal with it before we become a slave to L2 norm driven super intelligence.

If you want to really talk about human risk from AI, Tesla's self driving killing machines are already here along with ML guided drone bombers. It's no different from Therac 25. If we are not discussing these and creating a course about super intelligence, it's just mental masturbation.
Not quite yet, but I'm working on a feature that will enable that: https://github.com/nitnelave/lldap/issues/67
Yep, sounds like third-world boiler room and will explain the determination to make a quick buck and screw the customer despite an honest mistake.

Chances are, the listing itself is a complete scam and there would’ve been something else gone wrong if the booking proceeded, but the author being honest about the third-party booking gave them an easy way out to begin with.
I would say that a better analogy is that you've already got an experienced crew, some swinging hammers, some lugging nail guns and everyone's really quite good at what they do. But the plans from the architect are just really hard to build. You and the crew can do it, for sure, but the issues are not going to better or worse if the guys use the table saw to crosscut some of the framing elements or someone gets one of those new german tool widgets. I mean, sure, the tools might make a small difference to the process, but the overall experience will be dominated by the fact that the thing is just hard to build.
Much smaller than you'd hope. HN is very much mainstream these days. I asked how one would represent a pure function in a language that didn't support pureness/immutability and got `fn f(a, b) { return a + b; }` entirely missing the point.
Many states have laws that are specific extra penalties for this sort of malicious behavior. Not only could it cost you the cost of undoing any damage you've done, but criminal charges on top of it. probably not the best advice to be giving to people.
This is a scam. We were almost a victim of something similar, but through Expedia. The scam is to induce you to cancel so they can extract a fee.

Basically the listing was nonsense, but we didn't notice it immediately. In our case the flat in Paris was both in the 2nd and 14th androssiment, somehow. It was listed in the 2nd but elsewhere it says 14th.

Of course we went to cancel but there was a 30% fee. We explained it to Expedia customer service and of course they're useless and said the fee was legit and didn't understand the scam.

We took it up with our bank (Chase) who took months to resolve it, we basically kept on getting passed up the chain of people who examine the claims, until we got to a high enough level that they actually understood the scam (after a hour explaining it several times). We were fully refunded our ~$500.

Of course we never will use Expedia again. We generally stick to booking.com because they seem to side with the customer most consistently. Free cancellation, or pay at the hotel is a must. One of the main reasons to avoid AirBnB is that they will keep your money in most cases.
it was the case when they were the hot new disruptor. By now there are alternatives for house/apartment rentals, so they can't dick around and rip people off like that anymore. They've been called out on "cleaning fees", at some point may be forced to implement a sane cancelation window as well.
100%.

I've heard the theory that once we discover the cure for obesity, it'll be over in 2 years and nobody will miss it. What, like 40% of Americans are currently dieting at any given time? And that's with a ~0% success rate.
There's also no national statistics collected in either the US or Canada on whether murders/crimes involving firearms are 'legal' or not. Which is relevant to these debates and you'd think would be of interest to authorities.
Couldn’t agree more. Travel travel travel. By land and sea. Did it twice, for 6 months and then 10 months. To see a big chunk of this world we live on (only for a brief period) is something few humans in all of history get to do. And then for the rest of your life, diving into the memories and telling the stories is about a million times better than you can imagine even while travelling.
Where I'm from FAANG pays the average for the market salary. They might be more attractive as a bullet point on the resume or because of various other perks (both related to the job directly or not at all).

In the world outside HN I very rarely encountered people who'd turn away from any kind of hiring process. Maybe one in fifty candidates?.. I don't have the numbers, but I think I only met such people twice in my life.

I bailed from interviews for different reasons, but I think that homework is a legit way to test someone's skills, so I wouldn't mind that.

The reasons I cut the hiring process short in my job hunts were most commonly:

1. Employer is an MS Windows shop. Sometimes it's hard to figure this out from the job posting.

2. Employer requires employees to use company-provided tools s.a. code editor, or antivirus etc. In other words, an over-reaching IT.

3. Crazy / not very smart / borderline criminal employer. Examples include a guy who had "scrum cards" deck on his desk and essentially showed me to the door when I asked if they used this stuff for real. Another one who couldn't get my homework to run, asked for a Docker image, couldn't run that either, asked for a VM image, couldn't run that either...

----

There's one litmus test I have when interviewing that turned out to be surprisingly precise, and I don't know why. I ask potential employer if they ever use git-merge. If the answer is "no", the company turns out to be intelligent people who are nice to work with, and if the answer is anything else, it turns out to be dysfunctional in more ways than just infra. They will have toxic culture, under-the-carpet skirmishes where each department undermines another department, while at the same time trying to do as little work as possible.

As you can imagine, unfortunately, I had to take jobs where the employer answered "yes" or "sometimes" etc. That's how I know :(
It’s simpler than that: typically there is an underlying factor that causes both the unemployment and the divorce. It could be depression, sustance abuse, poor impulse control, anxiety disorders, any number of things. You can’t control for all of these. Some are hard to measure, some will yeild inaccurate measurements because the men in the study lie (or don’t even realize they have this problem) etc.
A ton of jobs have become obsolete. The candlemaker did lose his job to technology. It’s not obvious that other sectors will be there to offer them a new one, so the fear is justified.
Sure, but when the US population grows by 10% (for example), Shouldn't there be a ~10% increase in elite teachers, allowing for elite colleges to expand hiring by 10%?
I had no issues charging back thousands because of covid cancellations
Russia is running out of armor and mechanized infantry. You can see this reflected in their own military documents. Their new organization schemes keep the tanks in the back and minimize artillery support, preferring to send small squads of underequipped, dismounted infantry. A shovel is a reasonable weapon for hand to hand combat, but hand to hand combat is not an important part of modern warfare. The story is that some hapless mobiks are being thrown into the meat grinder to a greater extent that before.

It's not an important story. just a symptom of a continuing theme.
The former:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/work-is-at-the-co...
Thank you! This helps. Yes, at this point, it's just a hobby project. I was exploring what are my options, which unfortunately seems like not much. I agree, the H-1B rules are so frozen in time. If anytime, the US would benefit a lot more and generate more per capita income if they allowed individuals to express their enterprise irrespective of their visa status.
Note: you can run your own resolver not at your home machine
100%. But that's why I mentioned performance. I work with realtime audio, and this puts most of the "pleasantly solve the problem" options off the table.
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly

Nvidia had a supercomputer and great hardware design software tools that were a trade secret and basically behind an off limits curtain in the center of their office and it helped them get chips out rapidly and on first turn. First turn means the first silicon coming back is good without requiring fixes and another costly turn.

I'd say 3dfx weren't poised to industrialize as well as Nvidia and they just couldn't keep up in the evolutionary race.

I'm not sure I understand where your worse is better idiom fits because 3dfx was better and Nvidia was worse but iterated to get better than 3dfx and won the day. Truly if worse was better in this case 3Dfx would still be around?

On the other hand triangle based rendering is a case of worse is better and Nvidia learned that and switched course from their early attempts with nurb based primitives.