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This sucks. I was doing exactly this yesterday and fortunately figured it out before sending money that I could not do the booking. Instead I told the people I wanted to stay close to me "book it and I'll send you the money."

I bet AirBnB people read hacker news.

Folks: I should be able to pay for another user's booking. It just can't be that hard. I set the dates, supply the payment info, anoint another user of your platform to reach out to the host.

Alternatively (if there's something with payment processing that I don't understand), the user who wants me to pay chooses the dates, writes what they want to say to the host, and then passes the baton to me for supplying payment info.

I've paid for friends and family to stay in hotels a zillion times. I was amazed that your platform does not allow this. Now I'm appalled that it allows situations like OP's to happen. And for the record, I was not thrilled to have to disclose what I was paying for my friends. Until this is fixed, will actively try to use hotels for this in the future. (This was a unique case.)
> how AirBNB will ban you for traveling with a banned person

Why do they need to know?
Obesity is one of those areas where if you don't suffer from it, solving it seems easy... "just" eat better. "just" exercise.

Problem is, once the body's mechanisms get out of whack, it just doesn't work that way. When you try to lose weight via calorie restriction, especially if insulin resistance has set in, hunger is going to catch up to you. Study after study has shown this.

Drugs like ozempic, metformin, even wellbutrin... They act on those mechanisms, and that's why they result in weight loss. If you think people are taking those medications and then binging, that's honestly not what's going on. Once those feedback mechanisms are under control, you're simply not controlled by hunger anymore. That naturally leads to weight loss.
Ex-Amazons are valued in Silicon Valley explicitly for the hard edge that being socialized there is supposed to have imparted.
Lightning-Fast Search with MeiliSearch and Elixir in Record Time
Sure, but refusing to do business with someone is legal in most cases.
There's Americans that hate Hershey's too. I'm one of them.
BitWarden just announced secret management.

https://bitwarden.com/products/secrets-manager/

For AWS definitely use SSO with short lived credentials and proper landing zone setup.
So distribute those taxes to the poor.

Problem solved. It won't hurt anyone but anybodybwho is already doing the right thing will be far better off.

If people who choose to drive (and it will be a choice because non-car infrastructure is part of the plan) pay more, then nothing of value has been lost.
AirBnB is like a no-recourse Paypal for random third parties of unknown psychological stability. You do not contract with AirBnB. I recommend staying well away from them.

I have my own horror story, involving an overflowing toilet and hysterical accusations from the host.

We noticed the toilet was backed up in the bowl in the morning and alerted the host. The person the host sent round to look at it found some kind of cosmetic wipe, then the host leapt the conclusion that we were at fault, thinking they were nappy wipes. We were not at fault; we use laundered reusable cotton wipes. In any case, this lead her to not fix the problem!

In the evening, after we came back to the apartment, the toilet started overflowing when the apartment upstairs flushed. Then the apartment upstairs had a shower; water was coming up out of our shower, out of the toilet, flooding out of the bathroom, into the living area. We had a toddler, and toilet water started flooding into his bedroom too.

After some heated phone conversations, the apartment upstairs was determined to be the problem (she was flushing cosmetic wipes), and still the host was incredibly nasty, because we weren't grateful enough that it was cleaned up late at night.

I deleted my AirBnB account after this experience.

It's not worth the risk. Not once.
Not every online discussion has to be a formal debate with months of preparation. Sorry I didn't "have my papers" handy.

If you're interested, you'll go looking on Twitter, Telegram, etc. on your own accord. If you're not, you'll resort to gaslighting and smug nonsense. Simple.
I've fasted a ton including every sort of IF and up to 7 days water/10 days fat fast.
Didn't do anything for fat loss.
Read here if you care: https://exfatloss.substack.com/p/19-fat-loss-experiments-ive...
Just say you’re staying there.

The last few Airbnbs I stayed in had self-checkin. I never saw a person, host or owner. There’s an easy way around this issue, as crafty as it might be.
If you have 600k$, you should be able to get a passive income of aprox. 2,500$ a month or more on avarage from it. If you are single, you may cancel your flat, put your things into storage and use your parents or a good friend's home as your official address, buy a small used camper-van (not too old) and start travelling. I doubt that you will need all the 2,500$ a month. When you feel that you have travelled enough or just noticed that you did not like it, you may resell the camper-van and continue your life as usual. -- I did something similar myself in Europe, except that I worked a bit from the camper-van and after some time become sort of semi-nomadic (travelling in summer and dwelling in winter, short trips in spring and autumn).
Unlimited power makes everyone irresponsible actors. Nvidia already stated they expect a million fold processing power in 10 years for AI.
The front and rear wheels have different angles of attack on the vector of the car, so they have slightly different friction vectors.

The result can be oversteer (when the back slide more) or understeer (back slides less).

And it can change depending on road conditions, tire inflation, velocity, acceleration/deceleration. And of course changes radically from vehicle to vehicle.

Covered in depth in the movie Cars "You need to turn left to turn right". :-)

Of course the same thing applies to two wheeled vehicles also - see trail braking.
Incredible how much benefit alphafold has brought. And all of that from a less than 100million parameters model.

I might be dumb but could they scale it up and make an alphafold 3 with maybe like 10bln params? Would it be a lot better assuming the same training effort is put into it?

If it does, can't biotech companies just go nuts and make a 100bln params internal model and have all the protein structures they want?
The one game that always puzzled me what Diablo 2. I never saw it run better than on a Voodoo 2. It was butter smooth. I compared it to a TNT2Ultra and maybe an ATI Rage 128 and none of these came even close.

To this day, this remains a mystery.
Isn't that that the argument from pro gun people? It's people and the culture, not the guns. See Sweden for an interesting example. One of Europe's highest gun ownership with little gun violence back in the day. Then it changed and it's now a daily occurrence with gang shootings while the number of legal guns was reduced.
> I like to setup tools that catch my mistakes

If you write unit/integration tests for your code, you already have all the tools necessary to catch those mistakes. You also have general knowledge at your disposal on writing code smartly as to avoid potential mishaps.

You don't need a whole another programming paradigm to do all of this.
It seems notable to me that Aarch64 is the only general purpose "clean sheet" ISA designed after 1990 (after POWER) that has condition codes. This seems like a prime example of something constrained by 32 bit ARM compatibility -- both porting software, and in the shared pipeline in CPUs that implement both.

On the gripping hand, there are a number of cores that implement ONLY the 64 bit ISA, starting from ThunderX, to Apple's M1/M2, to the latest ARM cores found in for example the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1/2 phone SoCs -- from memory only one of the three core types in those SoCs can run 32 bit code. ARM has said all their future ARMv9 cores will not have 32 bit compatibility.
665k plus stock grant sounds risky. Play this wrong and you could be out on the street by your mid-forties.
I would point to this as a practice that works, it is about controlling the breath instead of observing it

https://help.welltory.com/en/articles/3973614-long-exhale-fo...

I was taught this method first at a Kempo Karate dojo in the late 1980s, it was also in Yoga books. It is associated with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagal_tone#Respiratory_sinus_a...

and well established scientifically today.
I agree that it's rarely a good idea to do this; it's a red flag at minimum when you see it. I'm just trying to reject the notion that it's categorically unsound to do this. I've personally seen the safe-trait example while reviewing a crate, and there were indeed plenty of comments documenting the assumptions. As long as there's absolutely no way for anyone to cause these assumptions to be broken from the outside, there's no way to cause UB, and it's not really useful to call the interface unsound.
What makes you want to apply reductionism at level 100%. A discussion might help.
100% agreed.

Diet advice from naturally thin people is like dunking advice from Shaq. "Just walk up and put it in" won't cut it for those of us who have a screwed up metabolism.
Think about what inflation is. Does the US make inflation real by acknowledging it? Or is it there even if we don't recognize it?

The cracks appear the same everywhere. You have large debts that need to be paid. You want to exchange cash for value. If you suddenly instantiate cash in large quantities to pay those debts, the ratio of cash:value suddenly gets a lot bigger. People start saying "hey, I was saving $10 bills in my wallet, and now everyone's passing around $1000 bills, what's up with that?" (hyperbolic and illustrative). Foreign entities taking your local currency start saying "hey, if you're gonna keep printing this stuff, I'm gonna need more of it to stay ahead of the curve and get 'my share'". Everyone needs to nudge up prices a little bit because they buy from others who raised prices, and that means labor prices need to rise. etc. etc.

When it is easier to get ahold of currency, the "value" of the currency goes down. If you're not producing increasingly more valuable stuff to offset that, it starts to mean prices rise.
I'm sure it is but it also has negligible application to quotidian grunt-programming which is regrettably what 99.9% of people on HN do. Learning a skill that seems never to get used seems completely pointless to me. That's a critique of industry, not of linear algebra by the way.
If a service stole $950 from me, the last thing I would be worried about is getting banned from the service

They would not get a single cent from me for the remainder of my life and in fact I would do plenty of things to cost them business at any chance I will get.

AirBNB is also not the only short term rental option out there. E.g. Vrbo
Imagine Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown for the 99th time then some randos show up to defend Lucy saying some really obtuse and ignorant shit like it was "a simple mistake".
You are the one that brought up CPU architectures. Except for the now aging S390/z that will probably last in a few installations forever and the 5 people that pay to run POWER workstations the world is little endian.
What happens if you find unsafe deeply nested in some dependency that you need? Like a web framework or maybe a graphics engine that's not so easy to find a replacement for?
I did a 1 year break that turned into a 3 year break, living out of a backpack and bike on 20K savings when I was that age. I invested decently and traveled cheap and ended up coming back with slightly more than I had when I left. Got a job teaching English for a year just as a break from the grind of travel. I have some friends that are richer than me now. No regrets.
This is similar to saying a hiring interview is only discussion, and any acknowledgment of employee skills or hiring techniques is just bs managerial posturing.
Has anyone benchmarked bun against graaljs?
For example, I have these questions when opening the interface

https://imgur.com/a/WeCGy2n

In addition the time seems to go negative and the game never ends in some cases?

https://i.imgur.com/2cEbcKo.png

I have been unable to connect with another player so can't comment on the game-playing experience
How can they avoid future trouble by not refunding a 1 hour cancel? The next person who makes a similar mistake will chargeback too, unless they aren’t aware of it. For a company, the only way out of it is to stay within common sense, because that’s what all their clients have in common.
Haha. I had the same reaction. Clearly this person has never had to deal with addresses in a database.

There are any number of ways to represent the exact same address (apt vs. unit vs. suite vs. '#', 5 digit zip vs. 9- digit zip, st. vs. street), and there are cases where the same address serves multiple people (private/virtual mail boxes). A billing address is a loose identifier at best.
Yes it was intriguing. It was a programmable GPU in a sense. The drivers downloaded micro code for the triangle shading.
Me too. Error handling is a problem that programming languages still struggle with (witness Golang). But IMO Java does it really well.
Amazon Fresh is my nearest grocery store but I bike two miles farther just to avoid it.
Qantas has announced plans to create 8500 new jobs over the next decade to grow Australia’s biggest carrier now it’s back to reporting billion-dollar profits after COVID-19 read more

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/qantas-commits-to-...
I was also involved in game graphics at that time (preceding DirectX) and do not quite remember that as you do. Debugging graphics on PC was a pain, you had to either use WinDbg remote mode (which was a pain to set up to get source symbols) or SoftICE and an MDA monitor. That's just for the regular CPU debugger because of the fullscreen mode. There had not been a graphics debugger until DX9. Meanwhile all consoles could be debugged from the same dev machine, and starting from PS2 we had graphics debuggers and profilers. Even the OG xbox had PIX, which introduced pixel debugging (though was a bit of a pain to set up and needed the game to submit each frame twice).

HW OpenGL was not available on the consumer machines (Win95, Win2K) at all, GLQuake used so-called "mini-driver" which was just a wrapper around few Glide APIs and was a way to circumvent id's contract with Rendition, which forbade them from using any proprietary APIs other than Verite (the first HW accelerated game they released had been VQuake), by the time the full consumer HW OpenGL drivers became available circa OpenGL 2.0 time, DirectX 9 already reigned supreme. You can tell by the number of OpenGL games released after 2004 (mobile games did not use OpenGL but the OpenGL ES, which is a different API).
This is exactly what happened with eBay and PayPal. The scammers learn how to work the system and “innocents” on both sides get screwed.
You don't even need to do this much. If you started as an entry-level new grad engineer at a FAANG-equivalent company at 21 you'd have 600K saved up by 28 by following the normal career progression ladder. You wouldn't have to hustle or grind, just coast. And not have obscene expenses of course.
Location: Mount Gambier, Australia

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Programming and Linux administration has been a hobby and work experience is in first level support. Some of my personal projects can be found on my portfolio webpage. Confidence level is at a junior level in programming, so I'm looking for something at that level to feel where I belong in the industry. Unfortunately I need to be remote for the time being, living in a rural town and I am not in a financial position to relocate.
Put a "do not disturb" sign on your door, every hotel room has one.

I too don't like it when room service touches my stuff (it is a mess, but it is my mess!) - putting a DND sign on the doorknob and not removing it for the whole stay fixed that problem for me.
>You may end up with an incomplete python without proper tkinter, ssl or zip support.

I specifically said after installing dependencies, which is mentioned in the documentation.
I call these “KPI overlays”. As in, I need to get in the way of what you’re here for to hit my KPIs.
I often keep commented out wrong code with an explanation of what is wrong with it in the comment. But most of the code I've written is experimental, often involving reverse engineering black box systems so they can be used in unconventional ways for research purposes. So that commented code is a series of clues into the hidden state of the black box and thus are important for gaining further understanding. Once I've figured out the puzzle then I decide whether it's important to keep those comments. If the code is passed on to someone else I'll often delete the comments, though I may copy them to a wiki for my own reference. If I'm the only one working on it I like to keep the comments unless they start making the code unwieldy and difficult to work with. I do replace the commented out code with a detailed description of my understanding of how things work, often quite extensive comments. I've had to work with too much code written by other people that is impenetrable because they didn't describe the codes purpose which makes making changes difficult. Keeping code "clean looking" is ridiculous in my opinion when the goal should be keeping the code maintainable.
It had work in it that I put in before, but it wasn't entirely all mine, nor did it have all the original work I put in the first time.
As a modifier it's kind of a mollifier

Edit: just looked it up and wikipedia has a difinition I didn't know :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollifier

However in the colloquial usage 'round these parts mollifier means to soften or make gentle

https://www.etymonline.com/word/mollify#etymonline_v_17411
Yeah, but if I have to file a chargeback, I probably don't want to do business with them again anyway.
My understanding is that even with GIL removed today, Python is still not a performant language for cpu-intensive tasks, be it single core or multiple-core.

Python is better used as a glue language and leverage numpy etc to do the heavy lifting, numpy can work with multiple-core just like c/c++/rust languages can.

If you really need launch multiple python processes, the multiprocessing module comes to rescue.

While not ideal, I don't see a showstopper to use Python for HPC's high and parallel computation needs at all.
I don't know if it counts as a true AmEx, but I have a free one through Wells Fargo
It happens often, we sell fairly expensive items and regular confirmation and tracking number emails still get reported.

I am certain rising ipv4 prices are dictated by spammers but only availability.

No one likes spam but when you have to send legitimate emails you quickly learn the other side of the problem as well.
Everything about this is silly. You can contact hosts beforehand on AirBnB and I almost always do that, and certainly would if I was going to be booking an even slightly unusual situation (for someone else). I've booked for third parties before too and did exactly that, during a COVID lockdown when we needed to find a place for an old couple.

I'm not sure I believe the host either. Perhaps AirBnB have changed things, but as far as I knew from talking to hosts before, the host could always refund up to the booking date, they had tools to do more than guests in exceptional circumstances. And it's in their interest as this dude is now going to give the host a 1-star rating.
I have tried a lot of different alternatives to Zapier
and in my opinion, they are not even close in terms
of productivity.

I can get things running with little fuzz and it keeps
working for the most part.

Now that just means it works for my needs and the
connections I need to make.

I have stopped using Zapier because they are far
too expensive for my budget.

Now I make do with a few Perl scripts for what
I really need and ifttt
I used to do something like that whenever I was in a hotel that charged outrageous fees for WiFi (this doesn't seem to be as common nowadays, though oddly it's more likely to happen in a "luxury" hotel than a "business" hotel).

Nothing damaging or malicious per se, but "Oh, hey, I think I need a fresh copy of every Linux distro"... stuff like that.
Maybe your market is different, but Airbnb is hardly a monopoly on either short term housing or vacation rentals these days. The entire travel booking industry has caught up.

Similarly to the OP, both my wife and I had to pull teeth for weeks to get the full refunds we were entitled to after booking airbnb units. We both had dozens of stays and 5 star reviews under our belts prior to those experiences, dating back through 2013. In my case, it was a unit that the host admitted was infested with rats prior to arrival. In my wife’s, it was a unit that didn’t remotely match the photos of the listing.

At this point it’s my very last resort for booking any kind of stay, which is to say I’ve effectively sworn off the service. Since then, I’ve had no trouble finding vacation rentals elsewhere. For $900, yeah, I’d chargeback in a snap.
IME, the larger a company, and the longer it exists, the more it asymptotically approaches evil, and the less awareness and responsiveness there is to actual end-user experience, and these two factors in the end are the demise of large companies.

Google, Facebook, AirBnB and I would say now Amazon too, are all on this path.

No one like them or trusts them, they are broadly considered evil and their services are used where there are no reasonable alternatives or their monopoly hold of whatever form acts to prevent users from leaving, but the moment there are reasonable alternatives, those companies will be deserted.

Speaking for myself, I have used AirBnB a great deal over the years - back in the early days I thought it was an amazing company. Now I avoid it as much I possibly can; hell, whenever I come to log in again I have no idea if log in will even work, with whatever latest false positive alarm that might have been introduced. It is my last choice, not my first, and I would be very happy never to use it again. When people are writing that about your company, the writing is on the wall.
I travel for work approximately 120 nights per year, and have done so since 2011.

The number of times room service has barged into my room without my knowledge and/or permission can be counted on 0 fingers.

If this has happened to you you may want to reexamine what hotels you stay in because the only thing you have to do to not experience this, even if you forget to hang up the "Do Not Disturb" sign, is lock the deadbolt on your hotel room door.
That may be the case, but I think the point still stands. A lot of people can respect their partner spending 10 hours a day to get money to contribute to a collective future but not respect them for spending it on a hedonistic pleasure they don't share
On the bright side, this would probably happen only if the host country doesn't block these crops and continue enforcing those patents as the situation gets dire.

A sane gov. would pull the brakes pretty fast.

On the dirty side, a gov could be forced in that situation as a condition to receive foreign investment or other critical foreign intervention. We've seen it happen with water infra built under a condition of monopoly, an puting the country's water at the mercy of an international company.
Who does untargetted layer 3/4 DDoS? Why would an attacker waste money booting a website that gets 0 visitors?
I BOUGHT a Verite card because of vQuake, and it wasn't worth it. When I moved to a Voodoo3 it was amazing.