MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrjay42 | 2025-06-24 18:42:26+00:00
I'm French, I've been in hotels and AirBnBs all around the country and in many countries in Europe (Finland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and France obviously).

About your question, in French hotels: 100% no. Obviously NOT, you don't have to come to the hotel with your own bed linen and whatnot. Hotels in France work exactly like anywhere else in Europe: you book it, you check in, you use the room, you check out, "ciao | bye bye | merci bonne journée" :3

In French AirBnBs (or "home rentals"), and in AirBnBs in Europe: it's a whole different story and it's so completely random. Owners make up rules and regulations, costs and additional costs.

I'm not talking about local 'tourist tax', but literally in some AirBnBs, you see a note when you arrive there: "if you touch that pile of towels, we charge 20€.", "If you leave any dishes to wash we charge 50€", etc. It's crazy in many ways: those costs are NOT announced beforehand (or never accurately), and the rules are completely wacky.

This is what the article is partly about, it has become a cash grabbing, tasteless experience, where greedy people with side hustles are not only destroying local housing prices, but also destroying the actual "(Air)BnB experience".

The conclusion could be "let's all go back to hotels", but this would be massively simplistic :(
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by CoastalCoder | 2025-06-24 18:44:05+00:00
This greatly concerns me.

I'm not a historian, but this reminds me a bit of the prelude to the French Revolution: a growing list of grievances against a ruling class by a population that feels abused, disenfranchised, and numerous.

Even if one expects to enjoy a sense of Schadenfreude were such a revolution/slaughter to occur, our staples of daily life (food, medicine, electricity, fuel) are distributed over such a geographically large network, that almost everyone on the country would suffer greatly.

I imagine.
by mikepurvis | 2025-06-24 18:44:16+00:00
Not that I don't also wish for a return of more whimsy to software development, but those risks are real— there have been some pretty high profile embarrassments over the years in connection with pranks and easter eggs. The GMail "mic drop" is an obvious one, also the Spider-Man PS4 proposal was another, plus of course stuff like the GTA Hot Coffee minigame.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-24 18:44:36+00:00
I did get a weird interaction in China fwiw. Let in fine but at one point i sat down to have lunch at a restaurant and 2 English speaking police officers sat down at my table and started asking if i was doing well etc. I just chatted making sure not to say anything negative about the government, talked about tourist sites and they left, they were fine, no issue. Just a weird interaction.

I guess it's a routine part of China's paranoia. They definitely do do weird things to check if tourists are causing trouble in some way i guess. I imagine that sort of interaction alone would scare off trouble makers and it's probably effective honestly.
by lxgr | 2025-06-24 18:44:54+00:00
> Apple does not attest because they were lazy.

Apple used to support attestation, so while their decision to discontinue it for passkeys might have many possible motivations, laziness is the least likely in my view.

My personal take is that they've done the world a favor by removing it. If they hadn't, Google would have probably followed suit (possibly even doing it in software using some handwavy "Safety Net" arguments), and 1Password, Bitwarden, Keepass etc. would be locked out of more and more sites.
by nixosbestos | 2025-06-24 18:44:57+00:00
Between ASUS's incompetence, refusal to support LVFS, refusal to publish BIOS updates for USB4 or for basic security/UEFI issues, their garbage software on Windows, and the amateurish/rude behavior from Asus-Linux folks... I have lost all will to buy anything ASUS again. And it's a shame, this G14 is my absolute favorite computing device of all time.

Once again, I do not believe that these HW manufacturers understand how much good-will they squander by being cheap arses on the software. If only there were an established company here showing how things could be done....
by cschmidt | 2025-06-24 18:45:00+00:00
This paper has a good solution:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14903

You right to left tokenize in groups of 3, so 1234567 becomes 1 234 567 rather than the default 123 456 7. And if you ensure all 1-3 digits groups are in the vocab, it does much better.

Both https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13423 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00178 (co-author) both independently noted that you can do this with just by modifying the pre-tokenization regex, without having to explicitly add commas.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-06-24 18:45:02+00:00
I'm sure it happens, and they also don't systematically check phones when entering the US, it's probably exceedingly rare and I've never witnessed it despite travelling to the US 3 times since Trump got elected.

Case in point this is only the 2nd story ever to come out about someone being detained / refused entry for content that was on their phone since Trump is president.
by OptionOfT | 2025-06-24 18:45:05+00:00
The modern iDrive 8 from BMW is an absolute hell.

No knobs for temperature & heated seats, but multiple pressed required.

Constant flashing of blue/red in the temperature adjust buttons when cooling/heating.

I'm looking for a used one, and I want one with the newest motor that I can get which still has iDrive 7(.5)...
by keerthiko | 2025-06-24 18:45:21+00:00
from the article:

> "They threatened me with a minimum fine of $5,000 or five years in prison if I refused to provide the password to my phone."

this isn't real/legal/enforceable (as the law currently stands) is it? how does one protect ourselves against this turn of events upon entry when the immigration officer's claim fails the smell test?
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-06-24 18:46:01+00:00
Based on decades of experience with my family: it's only political correctness when other people do it. When they do it, it's just common decency, common sense, family values, etc.

And as far as the original story, individual border agents should absolutely not be doing this to people because they have a meme on their phone, doubly so one where Vance shared a version of it himself. There is straight up no justification for this.

Dark days for the values the US professes to represent.
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by MrJohz | 2025-06-24 18:46:41+00:00
I know Cargo recommended your approach for a while, but ended up recommending that all projects always check in a lock file. This is also the norm in most other ecosystems I've used including Javascript and other Python package managers.

When you're developing a library, you still want consistent, reproducible dependency installs. You don't want, for example, a random upgrade to a testing library to break your CI pipelines or cause delays while releasing. So you check in the lock file for the people working on the library.

But when someone installs the library via a package manager, that package manager will ignore the lock file and just use the constraints in the package metadata. This avoids any interoperability issues for downstream users.

I've heard of setups where there are even multiple lock files checked in so different combinations of dependency can be tested in CI, but I've not seen that in practice, and I imagine it's very much dependent on how the ecosystem as a whole operates.
by lol768 | 2025-06-24 18:46:46+00:00
> In 2023, when tourism rates had yet to fully recover from Covid, over 66 million people visited the US from abroad. I don't have more recent statistics, but I'm going to assume that the number is the same or higher this year.

World Travel & Tourism Council says international visitor spending is going to drop by $12.5bn this year (down 22.5%).
by amluto | 2025-06-24 18:47:08+00:00
Given the effort involved (unusually-shaped 3D printed duct and housing for the whole gizmo), ISTM it would make a lot more sense to fit the duct to the trickle vent and operate it in positive pressure mode. This would have lots of advantages:

- With positive pressure, the intake air doesn't pick up contaminants from the wall cavities and other nooks and crannies within the building envelope.

- A fresh air supply fan can be fitted with a high-quality filter (HEPA or near-HEPA) to supply air with approximately zero PM2.5. (This is a very, very effecive way to get indoor air that is cleaner than the outdoor air without substantial power consumption.)

- You can open the door without moving the fan! You can leave it on with the door open! And it may improve the air quality in the rest of the living space more than the under-the-door scheme.

In a very cold climate, it might make more sense to put something like this in a different room so that the unconditioned supply air could be mixed with conditioned indoor air farther from where anyone is trying to sleep.

For what it's worth, there are a couple vendors of paired decentralized ERVs that alternate which one is supply and which one is exhaust and blow all the air through energy recovery cores that buffer both temperature and humidity. They're intended to be installed in holes in the walls, but it ought to be possible to fit them to windows or trickle vents with some creativity to operate them without any permanent modifications to the structure. In a climate with serious weather, energy recovery can substantially improve comfort and efficiency compared to using unconditioned supply air.
by nostrademons | 2025-06-24 18:47:21+00:00
I'd interpreted GP's comment "parts of the US have weather/climate that is prohibitive for outdoor activity" as specifically referring to the South, much of which is extremely unpleasant and borderline uninhabitable without air conditioning.

I don't know much about the Midwest but I grew up in Massachusetts (one of those northern states with good health & life expectancy but a reputation for bad weather) and my sister lived in Houston for a decade (which has mediocre life expectancy and bad weather). In Massachusetts, the winters were cold and snowy, the summers are hot and humid, and you had about 3 weeks of good weather in the spring and 2 weeks in the fall, but you sucked it up and went outside anyway. The snow wasn't going to shovel itself. In Texas, you stay inside in your nice air conditioned home all the time, unless you're getting into your nice air conditioned car to drive to a nice air conditioned indoor place. Nobody goes outside.

I'm in California now, in a town that is both hilly and walkable, and a lot of the residents here live to 95. When you're climbing the equivalent of 200 stairs each time you drop your kid off at school, you get a lot of background exercise without really trying.

I'm fairly convinced that exercise or the lack thereof and relatedly the rate at which people go outside is a major predictor of health outcomes.
by rattray | 2025-06-24 18:47:43+00:00
Hmm? We have a REST API, CLI, MCP server, and SDKs that all offer the same data/functionality.

MCP is for AI agents, the CLI is for one-off commands by devs who like to poke at things or CI scripts, the TypeScript SDK is for production software written in TypeScript, etc etc.

Was there something we're missing from the "data platform"? A SQL interface?

(I work with yjp20)
by pixelesque | 2025-06-24 18:47:47+00:00
I doubt it's that high with loads of Canadians not visiting the US.

I planned last year to stop off in Hawaii and Seattle on the way from NZ to the UK this May, but in March this year I altered that and just did Vancouver instead as the stop-off.

I know several friends and colleages who have also done similar (even two didn't go to weddings of friends in the US).
by Someone1234 | 2025-06-24 18:47:49+00:00
It is worth noting that the US has been doing digital device searches coming up to twenty years now. I had my phone searched back in the early 2000s, and my most recent US Visa required me to list all social media accounts.

I've even read (but not experienced) reports of GrayKey or UFED being used to download someone's unlocked phone for offline analysis also. Your choices at the border are either: Unlock your phone and MAYBE get let in, or refuse which is best case a guaranteed entry refusal or worse case a 5 ban (for "non-cooperation" as inadmissibility reason).

The US (and UK) treat non-citizens terribly at the border; even with zero history or justification. It is even worse for non-white Europeans.
by AdamN | 2025-06-24 18:47:49+00:00
This is really just the essence of bureaucracy - which is the problem with these rules that sounds fine if you don't think about the implementation of them.

Trump himself probably wouldn't care (which is why he thinks these rules are fine - he knows what should be a jailable offense) but of course the bureaucracy needs to make rules that any of the thousands of border guards can follow. The outcome is a bullwhip effect and you get this (or worse).
by arlort | 2025-06-24 18:48:08+00:00
Yes, the moral difference is in the motivation and consequences.

We take into account motivation pretty often to evaluate morality not sure why you can't apply it here

TSA's purpose is prevent harm to other passengers (effectiveness is debatable but not the point), the east German border guards were there to keep control on what information the population could access and share

They are not the same thing even if the means look the same
by perihelions | 2025-06-24 18:48:29+00:00
Isn't the politics the entire point though? US federal law enforcement isn't jailing people over funny pictures; they're jailing people over funny pictures *of powerful government officials*. It's an instantly-recognizable trait of a certain kind of country: like "you can't refer to Xi Jinping as "Pooh", you go to jail for that", or "you can't talk about the King of Thailand's body weight, you go to jail for that"—it's a archetype of *that* kind of place. Everyone knows what it means. "You can't make silly pictures of Vice President Vance—you go to jail for that".
by stephenbez | 2025-06-24 18:48:52+00:00
Another option is to do margin borrowing on some investment assets that you have. Because it is a secured loan the interest rates are much cheaper than credit cards. Schwab has a good set up, it can be configured to automatically do a loan if you withdraw more funds from your checking account than you have. They currently charge about 12% but there are other options around 6%.

My friend used this set up for his emergency fund since he felt like it would be better to earn an investment return and take a loan in an emergency instead of sitting around having your money earn minimal amounts in a checking account.
by deng | 2025-06-24 18:49:14+00:00
> Yes, that's a French thing, always has been - sorry if that's the first time the author went to France and rented a private flat there ...

Not just in France, in Germany also not uncommon when renting a "Ferienwohnung". You usually also pay extra for cleaning if you stay for more than a few days. That's just how it works here, but of course it needs to be mentioned in the listing.

> Plus, why would you even need a drier mid-June in Florence (when the temperature hovers between 30C and 40C during day time...) - must be an American thing somehow.

That's indeed hilarious, but oh the horror of putting wet clothes on a drying rack. Driers are simply not that common over here. Electricity is expensive, it's not good for your clothes, plus driers are the number one electrical appliance for creating house fires, so no thank you.
by wang_li | 2025-06-24 18:49:23+00:00
I went to Canada 10 years ago. When they asked why, I told them I was mailing a birthday gift to a Canadian friend and I wanted to be the one who had to pay any duties or taxes. They had me pull over and go inside. Where they asked the password for my phone and then took it. A couple hours later they came back and gave me my phone, charged me ~$100 and let me go through. When I got to my car I found that they had opened the package I was mailing and a number of things had been moved around, from which I concluded they had also searched my car.

i drove to Surrey to a UPS Store, resealed and shipped the package and returned to the border. The US Immigration officer asked why I was only in Canada for 30 minutes, I explained, he laughed and sent me on my way.

Moral of the story is that every country can and will search your stuff and detain you and often turn you back for no meaningful reason.
by mcosta | 2025-06-24 18:49:26+00:00
My point is that Copenhagen is easy. Both "EU defined" metros in Spain are 2x and 3x than that. So Copenhagen is not an example of "it is posible everywhere".

I mean, for example, in Madrid a neighbourhood has no electricity because is has been taken over by drug gangs. But at the same time it has electricity to grow marihuana. I guess that is a problem Copenhagen does now have.
by Retric | 2025-06-24 18:49:47+00:00
> it's whether they want to invest it or spend it to begin with.

Again deferring that choice isn’t making an investment. A jeweler buying 1kg of gold doesn’t need to be making a productive investment to claim they are.

Thus creating an incentive to tie up productive assets for tax reasons rather than maximizing total efficiency.

> Loans are often used

We can get into all kinds of game people pay with loans and the tax code but that’s irrelevant here.

My initial point is someone can’t invest all their assets as you previously claimed people could via loans which is a silly tangent because that cash is investable. Which means both investing and spending money occurs when anyone is investing and thus deferred capital gains are simply a handout. Zero net gain for society lots of gains for the people getting the handout.
by rattray | 2025-06-24 18:50:37+00:00
How many tools does your agent have access to?

At Stainless we use https://github.com/dgellow/mcp-front to make it easy for anyone on the team (including non-technical folks) to OAuth into a pretty wide variety of tools for their AI chats, using their creds. All proxied on infra we control.

Even our read replica postgres DB is available, just push a button.
by Dracophoenix | 2025-06-24 18:50:55+00:00
> but there is in fact precedent against trying to hire a sound a like over the one you want to sound like. You can't be in talks with Scarlet Johannsen, reject her, and then hire a sound a like and say "talk like Scarlet". It's pretty clear at that point what you want but you didn't want to pay talent for it.

You're referencing Midler v Ford Motor Co in the 9th circuit. This case largely applies to California, not the whole nation. Even then, it would take one Supreme Court case to overturn it.
by jajuuka | 2025-06-24 18:51:02+00:00
https://theconversation.com/tourism-to-the-us-is-tanking-fli...

Nope, tourism is tanking. There are numerous stories about tourists being detained for little to no reason and eventually deported.

Travel warnings from various international orgs like Amnesty International and other governments have been mounting since 2019. It also doesn't help when the president attacks the country that makes up a large portion of tourist like Canada.
by HillRat | 2025-06-24 18:51:46+00:00
It's been interesting watching who actually places rule of law and liberty above partisanship -- the Cheneys, tellingly, or Bill Kristol, or the Cato Institute -- and who has cheerfully befouled every declared principle they held in the name of untrammeled power. There are a number of law professors who talked a good game about common law liberty when the bad guy was the EPA, but signed on with Trump I and II the second they realized that tyranny was going to work in favor of their chosen policy preferences. Deeply dispiriting.
by umanwizard | 2025-06-24 18:52:49+00:00
(Not the person you originally replied to).

Zero, but that's not the same question. If something I think is unacceptable happens at a low rate, the fact that I think it's bad doesn't mean it's necessarily rational to change one's travel plans because of it, if the rate is low enough.

If I go to Iceland, there is some nonzero chance I'll be killed in a surprise volcanic eruption, but I wouldn't let that deter me from visiting Iceland.

The relatively high violent crime rate in US cities which was already present before the current administration is already a much more real reason not to visit the US than authoritarian border guards, although I'd argue even that would be a bit exaggerated.
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-24 18:52:53+00:00
I'm working with NRF5 SDK. Most of its source is available (no idea if it's free software or not, but sources are there). The most glaring exception is softdevice - that's BLE implementation, it's huge binary blob, taking control over most CPU.

Their newer SDK based on Zephyr RTOS, I didn't work with it, but I think it's mostly open source as well.
by ilaksh | 2025-06-24 18:53:07+00:00
What kind of models do they use for reviewing the actual plans visually? A normal SOTA VLM like Gemini 2.5 Pro? Or do they stop short of that and just make sure that all the required documents are included in the submission?

I suppose for basic gotchas like clearance to a property border you could give a normal strong model the ability to zoom into an area of a plan image and look for something that says the distance measurement.

Or maybe they have trained a custom model that really understands plans in depth.
by LorenDB | 2025-06-24 18:53:13+00:00
I can't believe that nobody has yet mentioned the Intel Arc Battlemage B580. Same $250 MSRP (which has inflated, but every other GPU is inflated too, and the 5050 will probably inflate as well), but has 12 GB of VRAM and bats just below a 4060 Ti 16 GB[0].

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-24 18:53:40+00:00
If I buy a Tesla and use it to do Uber driving, I am there to protect my asset. I am making the decisions about whether to use FSD or drive on my own, depending on the location, weather, etc. I have a degree of control over the rides I accept and the places I go. I can have some of my personal items in the car because there's never really a time when the rider is there and I'm not.

If I buy a Tesla and put it into robotaxi mode, I am not there. I am not making decisions about how the vehicle should be operated. I am not in control of ride selection. I can't use my car to store personal items, unless I'm OK with the risk that they might be stolen.

There's a huge number of problems that could happen to any robotaxi vehicle. When that vehicle is part of a fleet, it's no big deal to the fleet to lose one vehicle. When the fleet is owned as a unit, the costs of those problems are spread out.

As an individual owning a vehicle that intermittently joins a fleet, the fleet still feels the same way about my vehicle, it's no big deal. But losing my vehicle is a huge deal to me. It is not a class of risk I would want to take on unless the revenue is insanely good, or Tesla finds ways to assume the majority of the risk and minimize the financial and convenience risks I have to take on. Both of those paths substantially impact whether it would be a viable business for Tesla.

The only way to make it a good deal for Tesla is to make it a shitty deal for the vehicle owner, and vice versa.