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> but adding more will help, along with adding laws to limit the number of Airbnbs allowed.

Right exactly. You build more and you limit the number of AirBnBs.

> As much as you're afraid there is, there isn't infinite demand for Airbnbs. There are only so many hosts with so much money and only so many tourists and staycationers with only so much money.

I largely disagree with this, but it depends on where you live. They are subject to some market forces sure, but also induced demand and simply supplanting residents that might be forced to move between AirBnBs, and even in off-seasons it can be a situation where the owner just leaves the property empty to capitalize on appreciation.
I would love to team up with someone like you. Having a person that can start a new code base and not be overwhelmed by the task is a godsend. I'm much more comfortable diving into an existing project and extending it or fixing bug than I am starting something new. Somehow it's just more natural for my brain.
How does that work for location?

Also, an empty folder with photos is almost certainly implying lack of permissions. Very few people never took a picture.
As long as we're throwing out stupid triadic models of humanity -- [Pythagoras said that] human life seemed to him comparable with the festival to which people flocked form all over Greece in order to see those magnificent [Olympic] Games. This is an occasion for which some people have gone into physical training in the hope of winning the splendid distinction of a crown, while others are attracted by the prospect of buying or selling for profit, whereas a further category again – and these represent an especially good class of people – are interested in winning neither applause nor profit, but come merely for the sake of the spectacle, to get a thorough look at what is going on and how it is done. And we too, said Pythagoras, as we enter this life from some other kind of existence [as he believed in reincarnation], behave like people who have moved out of town to join the crowds at this sort of show. Some of us are enslaved to glory, others to money. But there are also a few people who devote themselves wholly to the study of the universe, believing everything else to be trivial in comparison. These call themselves students of wisdom, in other words philosophers [“lovers of wisdom”]; and just as a festival attracts individuals of the finest type who just watch the proceedings without a thought of getting anything for themselves, so too, in life generally, the contemplation and study of nature are far superior to the whole range of other human activities. (Cicero, Tuscalan Disputations, 5.9)
I recently did the same - needed a laptop, but balked at the costs for an "occasional use" device. Even a non-shite Chromebook (so decent ram and non-awful CPU) was £500+.

I got a used ThinkPad X1 from 2017 for £200 from ebay and it has been superb so far. It is modern enough for me - USB-c charging, Wifi-5, win11, 3ghz quad-core i5 etc.

I feel like it is very much luck of the draw for what the condition is like when you buy used, but for the ThinkPad X1 I got it appears to have held up very well.

Highly recommended. Will do the same again when I need another.
Check out Free Pascal (FP) if you haven't already. It supports many platforms.

You can check on their site if it supports CP/M if you need that.
I would not be surprised if it did.

The TUI IDE is very similar to Turbo Pascal, and lightning fast. The language has a lot more (advanced) features than Turbo Pascal, but you don't have to use them if you don't want to.

The generated binaries were also very small, similar to C, when I did a quick test of it on Windows, some time ago. Under 50 or 60 KB for a simple hello world program.
"Stupidity" (term picked after Cipolla) is not a benign explanation. The entity stuck in the ice of Cocitus, at the bottom of hell, in Dante Alighieri's Commedia, is an apex of impotence.

But yes, it is an interesting proposal (perspective) to "resist from tempting explanation and picking the less attractive first" - just like the grit in delayed gratification.
Go for the T480, it has 4 cores and 8 threads compared to the T470 2 cores 4 threads. Big jump if you do anything like compiling.
ChatGPT shits code
It is a contract but not necessarily the contract. The proposed written contract may have more terms and conditions. By buying and selling without a signed contract, you're agreeing to basic price and quantity without having to read and agree to a potential litany of other terms. Like what happens when you buy something from a store.

So it may not be relevant for this case, but in general buying and selling without a contract saves you from having to pore through legal details.
great tip, although this situation should be way clearer than it is...
I can believe the CEO, CTO, CFO, etc would be subject to more scrutiny, but for a lot of the new VPs parachuting in and running the show on this kind of thing I'm sure they're comfortable.
I only go to F-droid for these utility apps.

Guitar tuners, flashlights, QR scanners, etc. Open source hobby-sized projects which are done when they're done.
> Is it really out of the question for manufacturer’s to ship a particular version of a device and software for a target country?

Another means: is it really infeasible for a nation state to intercept and modify devices that are being sent to a specific country/person?
'Chinese storm' looming over Europe's EV sector, Renault chairman warns
That sounds like batteries change
Doing what kind of work? And with what kind of screen brightness?

I like Lenovo laptops but I never got that kind of battery life on them I got maybe half or sometimes only a third of what they advertised.
Yikes. Don’t be like that.
Same is true for consultancies. They effectively offshore the brainstorming for you, but the ideas they sell you on don’t have to work and the consultants usually aren’t even incentivized for it to work after the duration of the contract.

I wonder if there are any good books out there for these sorts of businesses in modern times, doing a kind of shovel selling during a gold rush sort of business plan, not really caring if the ore vein is even real, just serving the lemmings their desires.
You hold a small to mid conference in SF and the plurality of your audience and presenters will not need to pay for a place to stay. That means the quality of your conference will increase significantly.

Place it in another major city and they can easily fly there and find a place to stay there. Being a major city their companies may have subsidiaries there so they may be able to do other company work and add this onto a company trip.

And if you’re an international conference, you should probably limit yourself to something like 5 cities or else everyone from outside the US will likely struggle and not be able to make a real trip outside of it.

Holding conferences anywhere outside major cities does not seem to make any sense to me.
You don't hate other people's houses until you're forced to live in one of them.

Then, I agree on the point of someone else blasting a hole in your house.
So you buy a new laptop every year?

What do you do with your old one? Throw it away? Or sell it? If you're selling it who do you think is buying it?

You do realise most people don't need the fastest processor, an 18 hour battery life, thunderbolt 4 or WiFi 6

And better screens and lighter weight are relative. If I upgrade my 10 year old laptop to a 5 year old laptop I'm still realising those gains. Next year a better screen will be out. Presumably we can agree that today's best screen is adequate, despite the knowledge that in the future it won't be the best screen, so if it's adequate today, why would it cease to be adequate in 1/3/5 years?
Since Apple controls the App Store they would likely be sued into oblivion.
I used Delph professionaly for several years in the 90s, and liked it, but really got tired with Borland (and subsequent owners) mis-managing the product and the language, as did Anders Hejlsberg, who left Borland for Microsoft, where he created C# - IMHO a much better language & architecture to invest your time in.
Google Play is a rootkit. Google will fully cooperate with any government. If you use GrapheneOS on a pixel device your bootloader is closed source and the system-on-chip is largely undocumented and impossible to audit without serious resources. So yeah. Shit's fucked man.
How does Apple make money with this exactly?
Gut feel and entrails?
Doesn't answer my question. I wasn't trying to imply that M1 are a bad value...
I really enjoyed my T460s from a job back in 2017. My main complaint was the rather anemic 2c/4t CPU.

I have a LG Gram 15 that is pretty decent, but very wobbly/flexy. It's saving grace is the lightweight of it.

My 16" MBP M1 Max is phenomenal, but very heavy, and I move it 5-10x daily.

I plan on replacing it with the ~2025 MBA 15". My wife's 13" M1 MBA is great, but the 13" is not nearly as comfortable for a single display as the 16".
Did sanctions really intend to affect regular people who have exactly zero say in the matter though?
That's a good phrase, true or not. Poetic licence.
That only works for software with simple linear versioning. If i have two major versions (say 2 and 3), i could still release a minor version to the older major version (so i would release 2.8, then 3.0, then 2.9, then 3.1).
Yeah the classic management by spreadsheet. Intentional "X percent voluntary attrition" might look good in a spreadsheet ("Y million saved in severance!"). Somehow it never takes into account that it's the best people who leave and those who stay won't have a very strong morale.
Performance is a space where they can actually make good-faith arguments that their software isn't so bad. Privacy or personal control over one's machine are out the window already.
I agree with TFA. Probably the best value for the buck is a 3 year old high-end Thinkpad (T or X series); you can often find one for €250-350, as many businesses will be replacing whatever is at the end of their 3 year cycle.

I've been getting a new one roughly every 3-5 years and they definitely stay good enough for another 5. My latest score is a T495 (replacing an 11 (!) year old X230); it has 4 cores (8 threads), 24GB of memory, two NVMe drives, 4-5 hours of battery (~270 cycles), full HD 400 nits screen, and a GPU that actually handles some games. It's definitely less powerful than my M1 Mac mini, but it's good enough to the point that I'm not missing the extra horsepower all that much, even when doing "Actual Work" (it can get tad hot tho).

Also, developing software on less powerful hardware has another, indirect benefit: your software tends to suck less, because you have less cycles to waste.
And that is just one factor in having pre-emptive laptop renewal cycle.

In general it makes IT happier to have more homogenous fleet, makes managing things easier, possible to have spare parts at hand etc etc.

It also removes the need of negotiations if someone "deserves"/needs new laptop or not, which might otherwise be discussion wasting the workers, IT depts, and possibly managers time.
Musk stans are not "The People".
You will act as if app store is still the only way to install apps on your iPhone.
Thanks, I've fixed that section since I kind of mangled it.
Misread this as Rascal and thought it would be about Turbo Rascal Syntax Error.
Also, good luck walking anywhere outside the strip. I tried to explore a bit like I do other cities - on foot - but sidewalks end a block away from the strip.
A guy I talked to the other month will as a summer intern be tasked with trying to build a drone detection and jamming system.
Looks really nice and well integrated. I'm a bit surprise to not see any mention of soft body.

Does any one know if they've implemented the "small step" paper as well?
Unfortunately I don’t understand why anyone finds my comment very insulting. However the primary moderator (dang) appears to agree with you it seems.

It’s unfortunate that calling out other’s bias is off limits in society too much as it’s often the primary reason people advocate their position.

HFT is not anything like what critics claim and those critics have severe biases.
> Year to year most upgrades are pretty minor.

Really this depends on the year. We're in a more chunked paradigm now when significant progress is happening more intermittently.

That doesn't mean buy new. Wait it out a year or two and buy used.

Some years matter. Most don't. You can exploit this.
I'm not a big Rust guy and have no plans on really diving deep into it for any of my projects. But I'm very impressed with what people have accomplished with it and I love the tooling around it. So I still think I might be using it for things. That said, I don't currently program in C++ either and suspect that the features they (C++ and Rust) enable don't contribute to the success of the projects that are made with them as much as other things having more to do good project management.
> middle age rural village in Germany

Especially after the plague would have been a much nicer place to live for most people than an average ancient Roman city (or even Rome itself given that's its population was only sustainable because of immigration)
Ask HN: Is LinkedIn Premium worth it?
I know we all may have different goals, but I'm curious if your own goals made LinkedIn Premium worth it for you.

My personal goals are more profile exposure and trying to organically grow my network + steer new eyes to some open source stuff I'm working on w/o spamming a bunch of people.
I hit a turning point at some point where I stopped being afraid to read library code and ctrl click through things. Not sure when exactly it happened but I think it was related to some imposter syndrome and holding the library code as “holy”.

Looking through library code instead googling can be incredibly productive and polishes your code reading skills which are very important.
You’re celebrating the possibility that EU regulation will remove Apple’s ability to enforce good user experience?
IANAL nor French, but reading the article, is this just saying that French police can get a warrant, issued by a judge, that allows them to tap a suspect's device (not longer than 6 months)? I just want to make sure I got the facts right.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/06/france-s...
GP is relating a personal experience at a SF conference, which is what the article is about. It seems like the most on topic thing ever.

Why are you bringing up stuff about Vancouver in Canada?
They collect your data and sell ads to advertisers based on segments you fall into
They would be free to move to android. But we all know they wont. I wish it would happen.
I have not directly bought a computer in 13 years. I’ve been a programmer for 10.

My daughter uses the one I was issued at coding bootcamp in 2013. My home recording studio uses a 2010 mac mini. My wife uses an out-of-warranty one from my work, as do I for my home dev machine. My son uses a really old cheap laptop that was laying around.

I installed SSDs and maxed out the RAM on all of them.

Maybe people are attracted to the latest shiny thing, or give up early on a computer that would go to scrap without a little TLC.
I bashed together the linked fft visualization code and my hat tiling code, the result looks pretty cool!

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1cUTNiln5fMupkrlPwGK...

(explanation of the tiling code at https://www.hgreer.com/HatTile/ )
I have heard of this magical beast "readable code" but have not yet encountered it in the wild.
Apple is selling ads on its iAd platform, developers can opt to display them in apps to receive a percentage.
Violent crime rate per 100k residents.

SF - 715

Orlando - 744

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...
Remember, this is the project that raised ~$30m from Benchmark and Sequoia.

There was a controversial "quality doesn't matter for software products" post and discussion[0] here on HN a few days ago and this is a beautiful example.

Product may matter eventually, but you can sure surf the hype for a long time before the reckoning comes (and if you're lucky, you may even be able to get someone else to hold the bag then).

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615286
What’s delusional is highly paid engineers not investing money in essential tools to get their work done. A new laptop is 1-2% of the annual salary of many people here.
What's your top three?
https://searchads.apple.com
Not sure how you did that. The point was about using cluster bombs on civilians.

The Ukrainians will be using them in their own country. Not on civilians
> incredible privilege

Bah. It's spoken from a place of valuing yourself. We can choose to be a victims of "the system" or we can choose to be powerful people and place boundaries on how we want to be treated. It might take some time to locate a job that treats us well, but contrary to the Marxist view of business, not all businesses are exploitative.

> Many people are in positions where they would struggle to find another job that doesn‘t pay less, if they can find one at all.

That's convenient rhetoric, but who exactly are these people? It sounds like these are just abstract "people" based on an assumption that almost all businesses are exploitative, and that the few unexploitative ones actually pay less (my observation is that the exploitative ones pay less and the unexploitative ones both have a better work environment and pay more).

Depending on the industry, it might take some hunting to find good management, but there's no reason you have to quit your current job while you're looking. And you might need to gain some skills if you are working in a low skill industry, but even there, you could apply to Trader Joe's instead of Walmart, for instance.
Not just infra. It’s the tests, it’s the crud, its getting clients and config setup, it’s banal decisions around copying existing patterns or trying to refine them for next gen copy pasting.

It’s fun early in career, but gets boring fast IMO. These are good things to have junior and mid eng cut their teeth on.
Because Apple is not and never had been anti-advertising.

They've been promoting privacy but that's different.

And they run an entire ad platform in iOS. Why would they kill that entire line of business?

And for Apple, it's good to have lots of apps that can monetize themselves through advertising when they can't do it through purchases. Blocking ads would drive away a huge number of useful apps.
Rewrites are a phenomenal way to sprint through an incredible number of Chestersons fences. That is one way to find out why they are there though it’s just a bit more expensive
Are you tired of wrestling with YAML in your Kubernetes workflows? Look no further – CueLang might be the solution you've been searching for. CUE (Configure Unify Execute) is an open-source language with robust APIs and tooling that simplifies the process of defining, generating, and validating data configurations.
> GIL removal doesn't mean "make all of this lockless"

Literally speaking, that's exactly what "removal" means. As far as I can tell, GP was wondering why there's so much discussion about replacement, since simply removing the GIL wouldn't break single-threaded code.
I agree that it's a little silly, but I mostly use it to abstract over BYO LLMs and extract information from documents. It's nice to be able to quickly prototype something and swap out the underlying language model than set up a whole pipeline with Apache Tika, ETL, etc. Once the idea is feasible, then sure.

That said, langchain is really inefficient and I often find I can re-implement the pieces I need much faster than dealing with langchain's bugs and performance issues.
RISC-V next?
I just bought a new Macbook Pro and have been using it for ~1 week.

Even compared to my previous 2019 Macbook Pro, it's a huge step up in build quality and speed.

If you spend any time waiting for code to compile, web pages to load, or dependencies install, I'd say buy the fastest laptop you can find. I'd guess this new machine has already saved me around 20 minutes of waiting. At that rate it will pay for itself in around 6 months.
If you're just using the laptop to write and browse the web, maybe it's ok to try to save some money.

Even ignoring economics, I spend like 12 hours a day staring at this thing. It's really important to me psychologically that the screen be high quality so I don't loose my mind.
I also have a maxed out Mac Studio when I need the extra cores and don’t need the portability. But I haven’t looked into hackintosh options for a long time. Perhaps I’ll check it out again some time. Thanks for the tip.
Short Impressions from the Linux Desktop UX
Sorry to ruffle some feathers, but I don't understand how the Linux Desktop in it current state can be promoted as a viable working environment for non-technical end users. Can anyone explain? Thanks
Sadly it seems not to be available for such systems.

Though for reference compiling my sample "Hello World" script on TP gives me a "hello.com" file which is 8320 bytes. 64k is as much memory as I have on the machine, so if it were 50-60k I'd be worried there would be no space left for anything else!
Click through rate (CTR) is `people clicked ad / people shown ad`. Conversion rate is `people bought thing / people clicked ad`.

For Google search ads pretty good CTR would be about 8%, and a pretty good conversion rate would be about 5%. So it’s more like 1/250 buying if you’re doing pretty well. At average costs, that’ll be one conversion for something like $40 in ad spend. More average would be like 2% and 3% so more like 1/1700 and like $70 per conversion.

(Display ads are more like 0.3% and 0.6%. So more like 1/50,000. Costs are cheaper.)

Those prices are _average_. There’s no flat rate for these—they’re an auction. So generally your higher margin items, especially in industries with higher average click/conversion rates, are going to end up with higher bids and higher costs.

A bank will pay a lot more to convert someone to a mortgage customer than a restaurant will pay to convert them. You may end up paying $30 per click for someone searching for mortgage refinancing. Assuming the same “good” search conversion rates, you’re paying $600 for the conversion at a $30 CPC. (I suspect the conversion rate on something like mortgage refinancing is probably lower.)

It’s been a few years since I was forced to live in the advertising world but (1) no it’s not a money printing machine (except for the ad networks) and in fact (2) I’ve literally never seen a directly attributable positive ROI. Mostly the gap is explained away as "well, it's building _brand awareness_". Most of the positive results I’ve seen were… questionable. Usually “you didn’t acquire new customers, you took existing ones or existing leads and funneled them into your advertising pipeline and attributed them there”. Think advertising on your own company’s name—people searching for your company by name were almost definitely going to end up there anyway.
18 hours advertised is usually running a locally stored video file on loop at medium to low screen brightness and some light web browsing.

My 18-hour laptop is more like 8-10 hours of real work usage, which is still fantastic compared to the 2-3 hours I would get at similar tasks 6-7 years ago.

Another big change is improvements to sleep and standby time. I can use half the battery, close the lid, and be reasonably confident that the other half will be ready and waiting the next time I need it.

EVs may actually be an apt comparison, where an EPA rating of 300 miles is more likely to give you 240 miles at highway speeds, or 150-200mi between charging stops since the optimal charge speeds fall off above a 70% charge.
I like both types of work. It’s fun to do greenfield projects because of less maintenance and the ability to do it the way you want. But it’s also fun to take something years old that’s barely working and try to gradually improve it while minimizing down time.