I have taken the time to learn rust and you're absolutely right. It's a very complex, design-by-committee language. It has brilliant tooling, and is still much less complex than it's design-by-committee competitor C++, but it will never be easy to learn.
I am not a chronic traveler but never understood the appeal of airbnb. Most low-mid to midrange chain hotels offer reasonably clean rooms for equivalent (or sometimes cheaper) price than airbnb after fees and I don’t need to play housekeeper either, or worry about weird owners, which seems to me like the whole nice thing about renting a short term place to sleep.
In almost all uses of C and C++, the language already has a runtime. In the Gnu universe, it's the combination of libgcc, the loader, the various crt entrypoints, and libc. In the Apple version, it's libcompiler_rt and libSystem.
Fil-C certainly adds more to the runtime, but it's not like there was no runtime before.
With lodging, they have the risk of people finding a listing off-platform and paying cash, but because lodging is such a key aspect of a trip, people are often willing to pay the premium to have everything vetted/supported by Airbnb.
With personal services, they're risking having that problem at a lot bigger scale: are you willing to pay your barber or masseuse 18% extra to cover Airbnb's commission? I suspect a lot of people would use Airbnb to find a reputable provider, and then make contact off-platform.
I'm hesitant to reply because it sounds pejorative and snarky, and I will be downvoted, but... you are not the target market for this. End of story.
This design is very 2025 and the rules you're judging by have long-since been thrown out the window. Most brands run on Shopify now, marketing is via myriad social channels in ways that feel insane and unintuitive, aesthetics are all over the map.
What's old is new is old is different is the same is good is bad, and what is garish to you (strangely, honestly) isn't to most; you'll see if you hang out with some young people lol, promise.
P.S. I am not young, I'm figuring this out by watching from afar HAHAHA
Mozilla has a lot more weight to throw around in incidents like this. Personally, I would never use Github. Microsoft keeps spiraling down the Enshitification drain.
> tmux is great but it's way too powerful for the 90% use case of screen - which is "let this process continue to run even if I disconnect or logout".
I guess, but does it really get in the way?
I use tmux only for scrollback and having multiple "tabs" and sessions, and not much else. But the more advanced stuff like splits and whatnot never really get in my way.
Don't know. The customer ran a radio network which was used by fire brigade(s?) in NY, so we weren't on the "coal face". It was about 15 years ago.
It was an interesting job. Among other things, our gear ran stage management for a couple of Olympic opening ceremonies. Reliability was key given the size of the audience. We also did gear for the USGC, covering the entire US coastline. If you placed an emergency call at sea, it was our radios that were receiving that signal and passing it into the USCG's network.
> Do we still retain curiosity about the world around us?
If I don't, then it's mighty strange that I've been binging Groucho Marx interviewing random people from the audience in the 1950s show You Bet Your Life for the past few hours, and his fascinating interviews with Dick Cavette and William Buckley Jr.
Anyway yeah that's literally the main reason any of us are on HN. Besides procrastinating.
I suspect it's even worse than UB. At least in that case a sanitizer can prevent optimizations and detect the later usage. If default zero initialization is guaranteed then as you say you lose any chance of an automated system detecting the programmer error.
No, I don't care about hotels or hotel prices. People need places to live. You can deal with Hotel prices a bit high. There are millions of people in rich countries right now having hard time paying rent or finding any.
If it’s a link I find interesting, I take an excerpt of it and the link and post it on my personal blog. It’s not really even for public consumption as it is for both a public link blog for myself and where I post longer “thought pieces” that may later get copied to LinkedIn after I edit them a few times.
If I find an interesting link on HN, I’ll favorite it and post the link to the article and the HN discussion.
You have every right to throw up a little bit about the performative nature of LinkedIn. But in my niche, it’s the nature of the beast.
I do keep a copy of my career document where I note any major accomplishments and the details in STAR format for future projects, review times, 1x1’s and interviews in now a private Notion page.
Some regulations are written in blood, a huge chunk are not. Shower head flow rate regulations were not written in blood.
Your post started out talking about labor laws but then switched to the FDA, which is very different. This is one of the reasons that people like the DOGE employees are tearing things apart. There are so many false equivalences on the importance of literally everything the government does that they look at things that are clearly useless and start to pull apart things they think might be useless.
The good will has been burned on the “trust me, the government knows best”, so now we’re in an era of cuts that will absolutely go too far and cause damage.
Your post mentioning “imagined inefficiencies” is a shining example of the issue of why they are there. Thinking the government doesn’t have inefficiencies is as dumb as thinking it’s pointless. Politicians are about as corrupt of a group as you can get and budget bills are filled with so much excess waste it’s literally called “pork”.
Yeah well, if you choose unwisely, you may end up having a name typical for a lower caste, and then you'd get bullied by your "compatriots". Jokes aside, apparently it's a real thing — I've heard some nasty stories about devs of South-Asian descent with caste differences on the team.
Before you get appalled by this "news", let me remind you — the caste system in India has existed for over 3000 years and was formally abolished only in the 1950s. Also the long history of cuisine culture in China and Korea includes dog meat consumption. The point I'm trying to make — some aspects of Western culture might sound equally terrible to others, if not worse.
It's worse even than the "vital apps" ecosystem - who would leave their preferred "walled garden" when so many dials have been set to make that the maximum frustration?
The conspiracy theory is that the immigration policy is about encouraging demographic shift because it benefits some politicians over others (as opposed to other explanations such as "There's only but so much you can do to discourage immigration before it crosses over into 'cruelty unbecoming a civilized society'"). It really doesn't hold up to scrutiny of either evidence (Latinos supported Trump significantly in the 2024 election) or common sense ("if immigrants cause problems, wouldn't politicians supporting free immigration lose votes, not gain them? So you end up with a state with more representation but then you hand the representation immediately to the other party? Who benefits?").
Here's a counter-hypothesis: Maybe the Dems didn't do that when they were in power because it was a very stupid idea.
> We are in the very early stages of major change and disruption
On this, we agree. Though I suspect you're thinking more "new, better America" and I'm thinking "Fall of Rome." The last one ended with a barely-managed pandemic; maybe he can top himself in round 2.
> “I’m 43 and at a crossroads, where I can either be almost done or just getting started,” he tells me. “There's a scenario where I'm basically done. Airbnb is very profitable. We've kind of, mostly, nailed vacation rentals. But we can do more.”
