Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

Post by dendriti » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 1:43 PM UTC

alecbz wrote: post #224

y7 wrote: post #177

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We're presumably speaking about a shared bathroom in your home, not about travel accommodation. It would infringe upon a fundamental need for privacy that people have: having a space that is yours alone, where you are free to do whatever, without being observed by others. I've seen some (studio) apartments that have a private bathroom that outside the front door, but still inside the building. I would very much disli…

I lived in a dorm for 2 years in college. Not only did I not have a private bathroom, but I also had a roommate, so really I had no reliably private place at all. It was fine. I mean occasionally privacy would be nice, but I also enjoyed the increased sense of community in the dorms. Maybe you'd hate this, but that doesn't make it a violation of human rights or anything.

Post by VincentEvans » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 1:45 PM UTC

selfhifive wrote: post #250

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> In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can't? I always suspected the electoral majority is not particularly bright (which sort of contradicts the idea of near-100 being an average IQ nevertheless) but if this is "unusually smart" then things feel really creepy.

I have met people who can't and people who won't. Also, a lot of people in their 50s and above aren't solving this.

Post by dathinab » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 1:46 PM UTC

DominikPeters wrote: post #124

I see this as high-IQ software developers building systems to shut out non-high-IQ people from society. Managers look at these CAPTCHAs and think "oh I could solve these no problem, let's use them". In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people or by ML bots. Arkose Labs (the maker of this particular captcha) explicitly advertises that their methods can keep out "low-skilled workers" on "human fraud farm…

Post by Monotoko » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 1:49 PM UTC

eptcyka wrote: post #95

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> Their audio captcha (no longer available?) involved listening to 3 MIDI tunes and picking "the sad one". Given that a large part of the world doesn't use the major/minor dichotomy, or even equal temperament, this seems like a terrible way to verify someone is a human... My favourite recaptchas, if one can have such a thing, are the shape sequence selection ones as they don't make significant assumptions about cultu…

The best one is the chinese captcha, I think. You just slide a puzzle piece into place.

Post by ghaff » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

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I've never understood this concept. Reddit is the worst, though at least you can argue that they probably have all the figures to back up the idea that engagement is much higher when they push someone onto the app. For a travel app which you are only using a few times a year I can't imagine this holds. It seems like it's product managers justifying their investment in the native applications in a lot of cases.

A company I worked for in the past explicitly made the mobile web version worse so people would use the app. They did it because with the app they could send offers through push notifications. Ugh.