skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original was in early October and it seems HN hasn't cared at all until now...

Airbnb Is Fundamentally Broken, Its CEO Says https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38007056 (October 24, 2023 — 1 points, 0 comments)

Airbnb Is Broken https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927536 (October 18, 2023 — 3 points, 1 comments)

Airbnb Is Broken, Its CEO Says. Here Are His Plans to Fix It https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37770529 (October 4, 2023 — 3 points, 0 comments)

Airbnb Is Fundamentally Broken, Its CEO Says. He Plans to Fix It https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37747173 (October 2, 2023 — 2 points, 4 comments)

Airbnb Is Fundamentally Broken, Its CEO Says. He Plans to Fix It https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736226 (October 2, 2023 — 4 points, 1 comments)
"Sosnojabłko" would be just silly.
Why? He damaged citizens of a country that has an adversarial relationship with the country he is a citizen of and lives in.

Maybe, and I stress maybe, he might be the kind of guy that his government gives up in a deal for some other benefit. But that both, wouldn’t happen just because he was identified, and he’s unlikely to be someone the US would care about in a realpolitik deal given how small and obscure this scam was
If only go had lambdas, functional interfaces and record classes...
This is only true because the speed of light is fairly low relative to the size of the universe. If it was infinite, we’d be bathed in light.
When you pay a several hundred dollar “cleaning fee”, it tends to make you feel a little put out when you read instructions asking you to empty all the trash cans, strip the beds, do the dishes etc…
Remember when Musk called some guy in Thailand a 'pedophile' for no reason at all, and it immediately became international news with those keywords. That was so quirky!!
Ask HN: Good resources for shipping AI products?
We're building an AI tool for backdrop build and want to ship in 4 weeks. We were hoping the community could share good resources you've come across for building out an AI product from 0 to 1.

We're looking for boilerplate code like Vercel AI templates and good practices for RAG (like the blog from Anyscale), prompt tips, etc. Basically a guidebook for hacking together an AI tool, optimizing for launching and experimenting quickly.

Any resources are appreciated!
Ehhh. I’ve seen some pretty egregious cleaning instructions. Obviously it’s wildly subjective, but there’s a line.

I’m totally happy to take out the trash on my way out, or strip the linens and leave them in the laundry area!

Scrubbing toilets and showers, or hand-washing all the dishes I used (both real requirements I have personally seen)? And then charging a multi-hundred dollar cleaning fee? Yeaaaaah, that’s a little ridiculous.
the article I read on google news said they believed lights used for cleaning may have been used, so yeah
At the University of Maryland in the late 70s we put the FORTRAN program on punched cards and wrapped some sort of batch language around it all to compile and run it -- as I recall -- has been a long time -- then output was on fan-fold paper that the operators provided back -- UNIVAC 1100 series -- also as I recall. When I discovered ASR 33 dialin terminals it was heaven in comparison.
I'm sure there are some cases where Airbnb is a good solution. I've never really understood where a hotel isn't a much easier option for most. Plus many HOAs have banned short term leases like Airbnb.
Do internal dialog loops count in that category?
build some EVM (ethereum virtual machine) scaffolding in a local environment at

https://scaffoldeth.io/
Chomsky is quite explicit that this is not due to any big conspiracy, but something that arises from how different interests align. It's sort of an evolutionary process, but this is (too) often stated as intentional agents behaving with some clear "conspiratory" goal.

E.g. on journalists: "I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."

Isn't it quite an extraordinary claim that e.g. ad-funded media would be independent from their customers (the buyers of the ads)? Ad-funded media that doesn't please the ad buyers doesn't stay in business for long. This is discussed in Manufactuing Consent at length and the discussion doesn't resort to any conspiracies.
Getting an AI to iterate with dev tools like a human
The inability to filter by bed types is frustrating. If you're traveling with a group that needs 3 or 4 king size beds, good luck sorting through it all.
Customer support is mentioned only once, in passing, in this article.

But imo customer support is a huge problem for the platform. If you have a trip planned around staying somewhere and there's some major disaster, you need to be able to reach a reasonable human being who has the power to help you in some way, immediately.

AI is not going to fix that.
Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite
I have noticed there are certain job titles that will pigeonhole you… if you’re going for a development position then never put anything QA or TPM on the résumé. Ie make sure the resume is tailored to the job.
I like to think that I'm (M58) one of the youngest software engineers to have learned programming on punched cards. When I was in high school, and buddy and I took a numerical methods programming class (Fortran) at the local university. They had us do our first two assignments on punched cards. I believe my buddy still has his card deck.

Funny story. As a freshman in college, I took a Lisp class. Nothing but terminals in computer labs in 1983. The system was buggy the first week and the backspace didn't work. I remember thinking "this is as bad as punched cards".
MiniGLUT: Single-file GLUT implementation without unnecessary dependencies
"Holding a dominant position or a monopoly in a market is often not illegal in itself; however, certain categories of behavior can be considered abusive and therefore incur legal sanctions when business is dominant."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
WindowKill: A Window Game [video]
Here's the link to the game itself: https://torcado.itch.io/windowkill
Sometime back watched a video explaining how Fernando Alonso's breaking style is similar to ABS, but with him modulating the brake force he was able to outbrake others and gain time lap over lap.

Got curious, tried at low speeds & surprised how much the brake force modulation reduces the stoping distance. It has become a habit now and when the speed drops like maybe to 40mph or less instinctively modulate the braking.
We anecdotally fit a number of these scenarios suggested. My wife in gas SUV commutes to work, but that is short 4-5 miles each way. I work from home with electric vehicle but do more errands and kids activities. After 4.5 years, I barely have 12,000 miles on the car; though, in the last year it has been closer to 5,000 miles, maybe.
I think the crux of the argument is what you think about private git commits. You may think of them as "holy" history. Assuming the commits are still private, I give them no more prestige than the editor's undo log.

What do you think of the editors undo log? It's a very real historical log. Should it be treated as "holy" history too? If not, what makes the undo log less true/important than a private git commit log?
> booking.com has its own issues

Don't get me started on Booking.com!

I booked a hotel last minute, grabbed a pizza, then when I went back to the app to check the hotel's address was greeted with a message that the room was no longer available. As it turns out because I was the one who had booked it, but leading me to think that the booking had somehow failed, despite being previously confirmed.

I booked the next available room (at a higher cost), and headed to the hotel.

When I went to check in, I was told that I had two rooms, but that I couldn't cancel one because it was past the cancellation window, and to contact Booking.com. Booking.com said it was up to the hotel, despite the double booking being caused by their shitty app UX. Wise.com (who I love for transfers, but shouldn't have used for this card payment) were powerless to help.

tl;dr Don't use Booking.com. I'm just glad it was only a one-night stay!
I had forgotten all about DAK! Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. I still have some of those cassettes stashed away somewhere. I can only imagine what's on them. ha!
Cryptocurrencies in Pakistan: A high-tech replacement for hawala-hundi?
Having a kitchen on vacation has been such a life-changer for me! Cooking meals is a big part of how I relax.
The hostapd support is also buggy and has actually been getting worse over the years.
> I guess the EO takes care of that in their eyes (outlawing open models).

The EO doesn't do anything even approximately like outlawing open models.
> two guys from Florida

And that's all I need to know. I avoid buying from, selling to, or doing business with anyone from FL if I can, I've been burnt too many times. I'm not sure if the state attracts shady characters, or produces them, or both.
Would this give you more information?

https://archive.ph/HRuyf

Basically Starlink revenue is projected to exceed launch revenue next year to become SpaceX’s largest revenue source
I've heard that “first world” and “third world” are considered a bit too sensitive today, so let's say “world M” and “world N”. Anti-fraud systems in banks and payment processors form world M do not like withdrawal requests coming from world N, and vice versa. Only a small number of people travel between two worlds, so they can be pressed to make extra steps and go through extra checks. In addition, Russian banks work differently. From the very beginning of internet shopping era (happened well into mobile phone era) they enabled SMS verification. Almost any time you buy something from a local service, you are redirected to your bank page to enter the security code, then proceed back to the seller. This requires participation from mobile phone operators that alert the bank if owner of the number or device IMEI changes, and so on. After you typed the code from your phone, getting money back in case of fraud is your problem.

If money transfer between those areas is complicated, what can you do? You can buy expensive goods with local cards from local backdoored computers, and ship them to local addresses. Then they can be transferred to be sold on the other side. Extra money you spend on that are not yours anyway.

I'm no expert, but something tells me that deliberately not paying low level mules is a sign of: a) the scheme being near its end (sooner or later the audience would spread the word that “those guys never pay”, and new mules would be hard to find), or b) driving the competitors with low recruitment abilities out of the market. Maybe this leak is really a sign of some quarrel underground.
I've never see that detail, that's incredibly insightful. Granted, for outside the EU it doesn't win much, but I'm guessing most reasonable places would defer to what the host country intended.

That being said, as another commenter pointed out, the "make available as service" language is a bit weaker in EUPL than AGPL.
Except it itself is exposed via a public API. Context interface also exposes a chan

Done() <- chan struct{}

What are you trying to say? That using a chan as a function argument can shoot yourself in the foot? The whole idea behind channels is to not shoot yourself in the foot with mutex's, deadlocks, etc. What are you trying to say? Wrapping a chan in a type handle is safer than passing a chan of a type? Nope.
Yes! Citations:

https://coltura.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Infographic-G...

https://coltura.org/gasoline-superusers-2-report/

https://www.theverge.com/23934889/electric-vehicle-ev-transi...

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-cars-were-alread...
I believe even regular contacts provide some amount of UV protection.
In the USA, you need an FDA variance to operate one at events. https://www.proxdirect.com/support/variance has some info but the most important parts are:

- Laser projector must be mounted and have the lowest point on the beam at least 10 fee above the floor and 10 feet horizontally from anywhere a person could go -- this is why many laser shows just do "laser sky" effects that are just projecting wide horizontal lines even though they can do up/down effects as well
- beam must be terminated into something non-reflective -- can't shoot it off into the sky
- absolutely no scanning the audience -- again, the lowest point of the beam has to be at least 10ft above the floor

Related standards:

- ANSI Z136.1* ‘Safe Use of Lasers’ (currently available, but general for all laser use)
- ANSI Z136.10* (to be published shortly, but specifically covers laser light show safety)

https://www.lasershowsafety.info/us-laws.html has more info including some about how to possibly do audience scanning with special equipment, but you can see from all of these rules why it's a lot easier to just avoid lasers for events and clubs. Pyrotechnics are a lot of red tape too.
Hey some people like debasing themselves with C; I'm not gonna kink-shame.
There's no reason the party with unsafe UV lights had to be a crypto-party. While I'm no NFT bagholder, it bothers me that the article is mostly about dunking on cryptobros than talking about the dangers of hazardous lighting rigs at a show. At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing? It's not like you can DYOR.
Learning to use Vim! I've tried three times before in the past 10 years. This is the first time it actually clicked. It's the first time I've tried Neovim. It's awesome and I feel like I'm playing a game with myself while working. I thought it would take much longer to get to the speed I'm at now. I've been using Vim exclusively for a month.
I don't think brake by wire is legal in the US. Don't know about other places.
I have unfortunately learned the hard way to exclusively book with "super hosts" unless the listing is very convincing.

That said, it's a great way to find awesome stays in little, out-of-the-way places (my wife and I rarely vacation in large cities or super touristy areas. It is SO MUCH BETTER than staying in hotels- cleaner, quieter, usually with laundry and a full kitchen, and cheaper than a motel.

If we had little kids it might be a different story- through them in a pool is a great way to tucker them out, and a hot tub is probably the only thing I actually miss.
If something is being presented as the equivalent of a B&B, charged a cleaning fee, and being asked to do a full cleaning--yes, I think that's ridiculous. AirBnB isn't presented as couchsurfing or spending a weekend at a relative's house.
Why is everyone else only talking about UV? Unfortunately I can't access TFA in its entirety so maybe it discusses both?
Bytes: A fast, lightweight and customizable text editor
I’ve always found the history of heliocentrism useful for thinking about this. They may have been “correct” in antiquity but the model they had was not that good.

I think it’s incredibly valuable to be able to apply it to politics enough to understand what is normal and feels natural to us (liberalism, capitalism, technology) was not always so.
What if they provide an NFT as compensation for those who burned their eyes? I bet more than half would accept it.
Might use activations rather than weights in the title then. Weights are commonly done, activations are not.
> Except that wasn’t the messaging at the time. The messaging at the time was that masks didn’t work. Then, when the supply chain caught up and the authorities wanted to impose mask mandates, the messaging changed and they said masks did work. The “facts” were manipulated in order to align with the desired policy outcomes.

That isn't true, at least in regards to the CDC's guidance. The CDC was up front about the reasoning from the beginning. There were others who repeated different variations of this, which has clouded this topic for a long time.

> March 24, 2020

> “Facemasks may be in short supply and they should be saved for caregivers,” the government agency says.

> https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-27/timeline-cd...
Source for "green lasers"? All the reporting I've seen says that they used disinfectant-grade UV lamps as blacklights. https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1721602536225091716
I thought Intel was looking to do some RISC-V development?
Just because your machine runs Linux and the server runs Linux doesn't mean the code is going to work on your computer. How are you supposed to test failover on a cluster that kicks in when hitting 100k QPS? It's just not practical to run the whole stack locally on your machine.
> For larger groups and families I have used other services where I can communicate directly with the owner

Which are those services and how do they differ from Airbnb?
Which I think is the case now but the beta access to Claude 2 has had a signup on their site for months. I am not as interested in having to go through AWS Bedrock before even experience the potential performance of the API. I give a lot of praise to OpenAI for how quickly they are both scaling and releasing.
Hotels are way better stays in most cases.
Working on a programming language competency scale for myself. The idea is to give one's self confidence at using a specific language. Everyone learns programming differently obviously, but as someone who's self-taught, it might be useful for others.
Learning Lua and (re)learning C.
After 20+ years of Java and Python the minimalism is deeply satisfying
I've had the repossession notice situation (was some apartment building in Seattle and the host had clearly leased out the entire floor and just Airbnb'd the individual units out. He said ignore the eviction notice). Never had anyone kidnap me, thankfully. Can you say what city that happened in? If it weren't for shady hosts trying to just make a quick buck (landlord, but worse), I don't feel like it would be all too bad.
+1 I've also got some friends who do sound, lighting, and DJ for anime / furry cons. It's a fun little niche.
Maybe my company address is not good enough. Never heard from them unfortunately. Tried a couple times.
Yes, it would actually. I’d take socialism over religious extremism. I mean, look at how they responded, as you said. But I don’t blame them, it makes perfect sense why they did that. I blame the US officials who thought it was a good idea to back up those mujahideen. The US officials who sabotaged peace talks to keep the war going. The anti communist ideologues who damaged this country in ways we are still seeing play out today.

And let’s not skirt the fact that the US was in it to secure natural resource rights. We weren’t saving their country as much as saving our access to it. The mujahideen knew this as well, so not sure why they’d be grateful.
The article seemed to suggest UV not IR before the paywall cutoff. Is this from the article or are you speculating?
I'd imagine that will start to switch back the other way at some point. Decrease prices to gain market share and get you locked in, then increase prices to earn more money to keep VC's happy
This is me, it was my pandemic hobby and then it just stuck. I’m still terrible on pretty much every front but I’m constantly improving.

Take your time with modular. It’s easy to get carried away and overspend. Each module is deeper than it looks and you really benefit from getting to know each one.

Edit: and, of course, VCV Rack is the best.
Airbnb is a blight on neighborhoods and the housing market and the second it's legislated out of existence the better. Fuck these assholes, fuck people who buy houses just to airbnb them, fuck people who rent airbnbs and are noisy and disruptive. We can't turn the mansion into a multifamily house, but we can rent it out to assholes a few days at a time.

I don't want to see hungover strangers making half-assed attempts to cleanup a house they don't give a fuck about when I'm walking my dogs Sunday morning. Fuck off, neighborhoods are for living and for community, not this bullshit.
Take a look at nix-shell scripts. Much simpler, lightweight and fast. Start of a build script from a C project of mine:

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#! nix-shell -i fish --pure
#! nix-shell -I https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/4ecab3273592f27479a583fb6d975d4aba3486fe.tar.gz
#! nix-shell --packages fish gcc gnumake gmp git cacert
...build script goes here...

-i fish: I am using fish shell.

--pure: Environment is as pure as it can reasonably get.

--packages: Packages from nixpkgs to be made available in the environment.

-I <github_commit_hash>: pinned to a specific git commit of nixpkgs. This script will give you the exact same environment with the exact same packages with exact same dependencies forever.

You can drop into a shell with the exact same configuration by using the cli command nix-shell with the same options.

Admittedly this is not as declarative as using flakes, since it's a script, but hey, I'm lazy, still didn't sit down to learn them once and for all.

Reference: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-shell
I work with a developer who’s a year older than you and says he was in the last class at his university to learn on punch cards, so you probably are among the youngest. At least for mainstream use; I’m sure younger computer history geeks still learn to use them for fun.
Good stuff!

I started getting in to this at the start of the year. Already had an old, dusty MicroKORG and MIDI interface to use it as a controller, but recently splashed out on a bigger controller as the Korg's tiny keys were hurting me - plus, I wanted something bigger to get better at piano!

A couple of free soft synths I'd recommend are Surge XT, and Vital.

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/

https://vital.audio/
I wish dalle3 had inpainting and variations.

They are competing with an awesome product in midjourney and need to have at least these as minimum features if they want to compete.
saving the world, one block at a time...
That's what I'm running now with 125% scale and it looks perfect to me.
I'm not referring to the general case, but this specific case.
Groundwater. The issues, the proposed policy solutions, the technologies to support study and engineering, and potentially overlooked avenues to get a lot of freshwater otherwise destined for the ocean into the ground instead.
The cleaning and cleaning fee issue came to a head and went off a cliff after Covid. To maintain their business, AirBNB wanted to guarantee guests that places had been disinfected. Hosts didn't want to pay for that out of their end, so fees were added.

I moved cross country and around for a time in that period and I ended up staying in many many airbnb's. I was asked to clean up after myself, and I was paying a hefty cleaning fee, and ... and I would walk barefoot in my AirBNB for 5 minutes and get filthy feet, so the place wasn't ever actually being cleaned at all.

I switched to hotels, which were a complete bargain during Covid anyway. Also, if you're living free-n-easy, extending your hotel stay is generally easy; extending your airbnb because you are liking the location, if it's a nice airbnb, nope, somebody else rented it for the weekend.

Also, the whole "5 star rating system" (and this goes way beyond airbnb) where the host gets punished for ratings imperfection, puts a lot of pressure on calling out a grubby but really nice host elderly couple. These rating systems should always be on a curve, 5 out of 10 means average and most of what you are offered is 5 out of 10, pay more to get more, or something.

I remember some the earlier days of airbnb which were days of innocence, friendliness, and unique experiences.