skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I've been seeing a lot of anti or negative AirBnB reviews and comments recently and honestly, I have to ask... where the hell are people staying?

I've booked about 10 AirBnBs over the past month, while travelling through Europe. I basically had to as my mental and physical health had deteriorated due to staying in hostels, with the never ending cycle of snorers, lights on, late night returns, etc. And hotels were absurdly expensive.

Each AirBnB that I booked, in

* Barcelona, Spain

* Amsterdam, NL

* middle-Germany

* Denmark

* Norway

were all someone's extra space in their house they had; or a side unit to their main house; or their entire place and they were on travel or business outside the country.

Additionally, ALL of them I booked were far, far cheaper than hotels by many margins, and I could cook to my diet in many of the spaces I stayed. That really helped cost wise too.

None of them had ridiculous cleaning requirements OR cleaning fees (and I clean the dishes and pots and pans I use by hand simply because I need them again or otherwise, and I'm not an animal). None of them had ridiculous AirBnB fees, although most were pretty much a good deal, and then AirBnB fees made it a bit less of a good deal.

Sorry for this sounding a bit preachy, I'm well aware of the damage AirBnB does to communities, cities, countries even but I'm baffled how many shitty experiences it sounds like people are having recently.

(there's a BIG anti-tourism/anti-AirBnB mentality and movement in Barcelona, which I experienced first hand not getting any change back for a 10 euro bill on a 2 euro purchase; minor but still, sheesh)

On the other side of that, I'm also fully on board with properties that were bought explicitly to use as AirBnBs or rental homes for tourists, to return to market, and I really hope that does happen. I say that because as evidenced by my experiences, there are still places that sort of follow the original ethos of AirBnBs: rent your extra personal space out.

I typed all this from a small basement area in Norway, that I booked on AirBnB, which is very comfortable, and relaxing. I made some great pasta too, which honestly I can't say I've ever been able to do in hotels. Also, I have far greater concerns with hotels and *bugs than with AirBnBs and similar stuff, but that's just me

Honestly though, I will probably avoid using AirBnB in the future as best I can, especially as it seems unnecessary through Japan.
> That includes the knowledge of how to cause her optical/neural pathways to be excited in the particular way that corresponds to "seeing red" even without the corresponding external stimuli being present.

Having knowledge and actually doing it are trivially different things (try sex: knowledge of sex and doing the deed are vastly different things).

Now, if she exercises her knowledge by stimulating her optic nerves, that's the same as seeing the apple. But that's not just "reading about it", it's a physical act of doing!
Yeah, but some people switch to adjustable rate or balloon mortgages when they can't afford fixed. This is what I did when I bought my first house in 1988, with fixed rates over 10%.
Honestly all the interjections make me feel like they're being overeager and fake (which was mentioned in the article), and that makes me uncomfortable.
And that's why festivals are more popular. More tickets available and the price / band is significantly lower.
AirBnb lists some hotel rooms in Mexico.
Yeah, and what the above is forgetting that most of the payment is interest. So it may have been no different than paying a landlord. My experience renting houses in the 2000’s was that my rent was about the same as my mortgage payment + taxes would have been for the same house. Add in maintenance and it was several hundred per month cheaper to rent. Even the house I live in now I rented prior to buying and my rent was 12% less than my monthly mortgage payment. It really only made sense for me to buy because my city was seeing 10% yoy rent increases that I expected for several more years, which meant locking in a price with a 30 fixed gave me and expected monthly savings.
Specially if they are married.
DMZ?
Pretty much confirms what we already know: standards are declining, more unqualified students are attending university because the job market demands it, colleges make bank on tuition and don't want to stop the gravy train. Now online even offers another way for administrators to cut costs while reducing the quality - but no one really cares. Most students want their degree and want to get out now - not blaming them, they're playing the game.
Yeah, high prices suck but I do agree and fail to see what, exactly, is wrong here?

Don't get me wrong, I don't like TM, I don't like monopolies and I don't like high prices, but... price = equilibrium between offer and demand, it's the basics of our capitalist society, and all this look like to me is that TM is doing a good job at figuring out the equilibrium price for their tickets?
I can't resist to propose my own solution: a cli tool, plain text based, curl, and Rust https://hurl.dev

The market is overcrowded by good solutions, best wishes to other tools!
Well, it was in an Swiss university and I'm Spanish so I'm not sure if American oratorion had anything to do with it.

But, in general, oral communication is harder than written. Written form allows you to take time to form sentences, correct mistakes, reorder thoughts, follow an outline... Oral communication, on the other hand, forces you to think and speak in parallel. It's always going to be harder.
I don't get it. What flab do men have?
Property taxes in WA wouldn’t be much more than $13k if the home had an assessed value of $1.22M.

It also isn’t uncommon to see a big difference between the sale price and assessed value. One datapoint would be a $4M purchase that is only taxed at $2.2M the first year after the deal closed. At least in King County, the valuations do seem to “catch up more quickly” after a sale, so at +1y it might be $2.8M, at +2y it might be $3.3M, but to be paying >$30k here in taxes you’d need a >$3M assessed value home.
I switch reddit accounts every year. It gave mostly consistent results for my last five accounts.
Inert is needed for <dialog>
> particularly colder countries

Keep in mind average breast size correlates with colder weather.
I would love an option to opt into something like "reader mode" but maybe not quite so restrictive. (I can use some custom CSS to highlight code and some JS for interactive examples.

Right now I need to worry about the user's contrast preferences, light/dark preferences. Decide if I want to force a decent font or end up with the user's default (which probably sucks). I need to decide the text size (because their default probably sucks) and decide how wide the reading area should be.

What a mess to try and just pick something that the user wants.
The article mentions Washington having a biometric privacy law too, but it explicitly excludes facial recognition:

RCW 19.375.010 (1) ... "Biometric identifier" does not include a physical or digital photograph, video or audio recording or data generated therefrom...
I have had and have many friends who have had similar horror stories from holiday apartments and even B&Bs and hotels, as well as Airbnbs rentals.

There’s a pretty simple correlation most of the time: the cheaper the accommodation compared to the local market, the higher the chance of disappointment.

On the other hand, when I take Airbnbs that are only a small discount compared to a reasonable but completely average hotel room from a reputable chain, they are often fantastic.

Bad and scammy holiday and short term accommodation is surely a problem, but Airbnb and their rating system doesn’t look any worse than many other alternatives from my experience.

Many of the comments here show more about the author’s attitude toward a once popular start-up than much else.
When staying at a place for longer than a few nights, hotel rooms are not as attractive as apartments. Having a full kitchen, separate dining/living/bedroom spaces available makes a huge difference. Whilst you probably can get a small hotel room for the same price, I can certainly see the appeal.
As a current homeowner in a state that only tempers rising property taxes I would very much like the assessed value of my house to drop as I like my neighborhood!

Of course if it doesn't and I get priced out then I get to pay off my mortgage and find a new place to live with a nice little cash bonus!

I also like the idea of deferred property taxes... that is, you can choose to limit the rate increases and pay the difference at the time of sale. This way you can stay in your neighborhood but you don't get a giant cash bonus for your role in creating inefficiencies in the housing market.
It's awesome to see such a widespread response from outside the video production industry. Blackmagic has been charging ahead with Resolve development and managed to carve a niche of the industry most people thought was impossible.

I'm excited about the possibilities this could bring. For now I mostly just have a lot of questions. This sounds like it will be for smaller production work, like vlog/podcast/promo shorts where the iPads limited storage will be capable.

The cut page is a nifty idea, it makes tasks like interview string-outs and cut-downs a fairly straightforward process. I don't know a single editor who uses it though.

Color wise, assuming I can sync my stills and take the iPad on the go, would be useful in some scenarios. But that's an expensive commodity. Generally when we go to color, it requires far more storage than an iPad is capable of.

I want to love it. But right now, I'm far more skeptical of its real world usefulness. I mostly just have a lot of workflow questions. I was personally hoping for something that was more of an extension of the desktop app than a standalone product.

One thing Blackmagic needs to do is bring the advanced Resolve features into the support realm and workflow documentation. The collaboration server and the cloud sync are mystery products. There's almost no formal support or documentation on how they work, how to solve a sync issue or overwrite when they happen, or to get actual feedback on issues from real engineers.
Is there somewhere I could see this pic as it would appear to the naked human eye?
Probably not true at the university level - they'll detect bullshit a mile away.
> Modesty was developed across multiple societies as a way of equalizing physical attractiveness.

I would argue that this is forgetting how violent the world used to be. Most people were farmers, which meant most men were stronger than they are today. Meanwhile, women didn't have bras, tampons, or other hygiene products because they didn't exist yet. There was also no DNA testing if you were attacked, no cameras in the area to witness the car, or the attacker running. If you were attacked, say, in a farmer's field with nobody nearby, it was only your word against his. And if he was smart and masked, and you didn't know who it was... well, sucks to be you in every way. Good luck finding a husband. Remember there were also no government programs either - your social circle and (sometimes, depending on era) charity organizations were your only recourse. For those who didn't have a good social circle, all you need to do is crack open Oliver Twist or another Charles Dickens book.

So, if you were a woman, dressing immodestly was (not to be victim-blaming) asking for trouble (especially as that was a trait that only prostitutes in the era tended to do), as was being alone anywhere, or even just not being at home - and if trouble happened to you, seeking redress could be quite difficult if not completely impossible, in part due to the lack of things we have today. So, you probably didn't want to do that...
Yeah, there seems to be a general sentiment that if a computer can do it, it wasn't worth a student doing it anyway. But presumably (?) there is a line to cross where that ceases to be the case. So where do you draw it?
Previous discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8894902
amazing number of downvotes on 'horn' -- actually, as an urban rider, the horn is very useful. Plenty of comments here have to do with the freeway or during an event that has already started.. thats not the purpose of a horn. The horn is to tell others you are there before an accident starts, in a setting where they can hear you. Amazing antipathy for a safety statement here..
I covered this point in my last paragraph. The problem with students isn't that they can't follow directions or collaborate; it's that the hate school and don't want to be there.

One of the reasons they hate school and don't want to be there is that they are compelled to do pointless, grinding busywork, all day, every day. That's why they're using GPT-3 to fake their essays. Even three hours of reprieve from the system is worth cheating and dishonesty, and all the better if it helps their GPA.

I harbor no beliefs that a teacher can walk into the modern school system with a creative, exciting lesson plan and inspire students to perform. The system is broken and fundamentally flawed. It cannot be fixed. You are certainly correct that the best way to get consistent results out of your institutionalized students is to grade to a rigorous, clear format, but in doing so you've only played your part in reinforcing the exact system that drives them to cheat with GPT-3.
Skill? No, volume. Yelling and thumping things gets noticed. It doesn’t enhance or explain the message. Many people will choose to avoid the bs with unedited social media sites. Perhaps those who depart aren’t the marketing targets?
Titanic Visions, Part 3: An Adventure Out of Time
An airbnb (often) has a washing machine, a kitchen you can cook on and a fridge you can store food in.
Sounds like the problem isn't so much with the assignment, but with the idea that assignments only have value if they are graded.
> We really really really want them, for their own sake, but we cannot make them work.

Sure we can. Bohmian mechanics showed how back in the 50s.
I wonder if the same thing would hold in countries where women wear the hijab or niqab.
https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra
> how you end up with stagnation (see CPP).

C++ isn't stagnant, if anything it should slow down a bit as it moves faster than an overcaffeinated hamster on a rocket.
> our condo expressly forbid short term rentals, and had language around minimum length of stay and lease approval requirements. It only stopped when we started fining them $1000 per incident.

At least this part sounds like the system working correctly?
I don't think it'd do well even for an open-ended assignment. The best language models I've seen are still easy to detect as bots if you read multiple paragraphs of output.
Dozens of papers co-authored by Nobel laureate raise concerns
Correct. I'd add that with ARC (or ORC even), there's little reason to do manual memory management (alloc/free), even for embedded systems. ARC is an automatic memory management system based on reference counting, but there's no "runtime". It actually injects alloc and free calls at compile-time based on static analysis.

ORC adds runtime GC only for cycles, and will be the default in Nim 2.0.
You might have saved my butt by pointing that out early on in the torrent of people. Thanks.
Do you have a source for the last sentence?
I agree with you but I think that dumb + size => complicated which is where I live. When you have a playbook that is thousands of tasks long the dumbness leads to exactly the problem you have with Python.
Did you read the article? In Japanese culture, those sorts of exclamations are an integral part of good listening. Its probably pretty hard to just switch that off when you're put in a context with a language barrier
Well said and written! Your bad teachers would be proud.

The theme in the comments seems to be "X is simple, therefore rote practice isn't valuable."

But that glosses over the fact that fully understanding and being proficient at X is often a prerequisite for learning X'.

Or in other words, calculators can do arithmetic. If we skip mastery of that, how do we propose to teach children differential equations?

What is probably more important is the grading-side of ML: by leveraging more ML to auto-note and -score the mechanics of assignments, we free up teacher time to focus on interpreting and suggesting improvements for students, which many teachers are currently too overwhelmed to do.
yeh, another signal that you're over-complicating things.

I stick to VerbNoun function naming, and usually code in Go where short (1-letter short) variable names are idiomatic.

If I can't VerbNoun a function, then I probably need to rethink it.

Part of the reason I don't do anonymous/lambda functions too happily - it's actually harder to read a stack of anonymous functions than a stack of VerbNoun named functions.
No one is saying physical attractive was not valued before. But it is super charged by some media as basically the main value of a women. Then a literally unattainable image pushed as the ideal via photoshopped pics an video.
Essay cheating is really annoying. I've learned a foreign language to the point where I've joined a rather large facebook group where students from that country studying abroad ask for advice about problems. 1/3 of the posts are students who are caught cheating asking for advice or asking for recommendations / trying to find someone to do their homework for them. It's made me really dissapointed in my schoolmates to see how they can just talk so openly about it.
The end of the article shows a request for just that, doesn't it? No clue about the API though...

Depending on your workload you might be able to actually substitute a single 8xlarge with two 4xlarge for example... A while back I was actually doing something like that to save some money :-)
My heart was stolen.
I didn't work there, but for all you old-timers, I attended the Brass Ring job fair at the Santa Clara convention center, early 1997 before Jobs rejoined.

I distinctly remember the Apple recruitment booth was empty, vs all of the high-activity booths around them. I remember it vividly because it was sad seeing how far they had fallen, people weren't interested in even talking to the recruiter.

Imagine getting a job at Apple in 1997 and never selling a share. I know some people that have been at Apple for 12+ years and are planning on retiring next year, they are multi-multi-millionaires just from regular stock grants.
* these findings suggest that that doesn’t necessarily mean that they will react favorably to seeing it around them.”*

Well, yeah. Either you're going to be the type of person who thinks it's shameful, or the type of person to ogle them and make them uncomfortable, or the type of person who now has to try very hard not to ogle them. None of those are good reactions. Personally if I were in a place with topless women I would leave. Not looking would take too much willpower.
I worked with React.js for more than 5 years in a big projects and I finally burnout of it, I agree with all you said, React added a extremely complexity for simple thing, added a lot of side affects that sometimes are hard to debug and fix, fix re-render will be your daily work more that create features and in the end you get a slow application in mobile devices due the size/re-render etc.

In the end I decided to re-evaluate was I was doing, I want make the web better but with React.js I was doing worst the web
Am I understood right that it is legal to drive while being smoked in Florida? In our country this is a recipe for losing your driver license.
This story isn't a very new one, and overall repeats the same dated philosophical standpoints about both art and privacy, but man is the author's storytelling gripping. It was interesting to read about the secret service and how they didn't quite know what to do throughout the entire investigation. Or Apple, who opted to strong-arm blogs from allowing the photos rather than talk with EFF lawyers privately.
It's funny to think how such an unsolvable question of "What Is Art?" was the deciding factor in how each party handled a case that could have easily been fought for and against the project fundamentally.
I loathe the editorializing here.
Is Outlook going to come with an AI that helps an engineering manager succinctly express the pros and cons of two competing approaches to a nontechnical audience and then justifies the decision to go with one over the other? What if these approaches are novel or otherwise something an expert system can't "know about" (or look up on the Wiki)?
Yeah container queries are what I'm most excited about looking at this list. I was pretty bummed out to see they're only supported on 63.75% of browsers, and notably missing on most mobile browsers, where they'd be most useful.
"Traditional institutions, like home ownership, marriage, and religion, are fading in their appeal."

I think you might be reversing cause and effect. Millennials are less wealthy, and thus less able to purchase homes, get married. Traditional religious affiliation is declining, but it's debatable to what degree religious impulses have declined and to what degree they have simply found new forms of expression (e.g. into astrology, QAnon-style "theories", "General Artificial Intelligence", spiritualized ecology, etc.)

"People change jobs more frequently now than in the past, and consequently they tend to move around more often."

This is a false statement. The decline of residential mobility and its impact on labor market dynamism is a hot topic in U.S. economics research today.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/04/541675186/fewer-americans-are...
https://workofthefuture.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2...
In my required college 1st year writing class I had to read a lot of my peers' writing. Most people have not learned how to do this. They do not understand the concept of stating a premise and then supporting it with evidence.
Reminds me of the horror of living in a foreign country, bluffing that you're understanding a convo, and then getting asked a question that you didn't even know was a question and you certainly don't know the context.
That's incredibly slow compared to usb
Great now students can use this free up time to do more productive things.

/s
There are historical reasons, like the fact that LE was created to protect a special class), which deeply impact the way LE is trained, which dictates how LE interacts with normal people. There’s what you suggested, that they want great stats, because political careers are made off of stats, and winning high profile cases (there’s a long list of questionable cases where DAs railroaded a person or group just before they ran for governor or congress.

The book “Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice” discusses a lot of the failings of the system, and gives suggestions on how to fix the system without tearing it down. In discussing the failings, he gives a lot of thoughts on why things are as they are, etc. It’s a pretty easy read.

In case you missed the link on the origins of police somewhere else in the comments: https://worxintheory.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/origins-of-the...
As a person who had to make some custom newsletter compatible with IE8 few years ago, for the 1% who still used it but among of them some were the most important investors, I feel this.
Airbnb and hotels both have their place. Airbnb is at it's best in spots like coastal California where a place with outdoor space, cute decor, and a kitchen is really nice AND you can always go to a Holiday Inn off the 101 if things go sideways.

Avoid in places you haven't been to before or when you'd be really screwed if it ended up being unsuitable.
The median income for the US is higher than the median income you provided for NYC, therefore it seems reasonable to assume your numbers are incorrect.

I then provided rent prices for an expensive neighborhood of NYC to illustrate how a $100k+ income can disappear on rent alone. A $100k salary is not a lot in NYC.