skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had something similar happen to me a few years ago where we booked in an emergency but the place was under construction without us being informed, and neither my wife or I could stomach it. We got another airbnb and got our refund in a few days amicably. It didn't really bother me personally, because I understood there were multiple parties involved.

It is a difficult problem. Hosts need to be able to cancel for extreme situations, such as damage to the unit, or some other emergency. Realistically, the vast majority of people who can afford an airbnb can float for an alternative place for a few days, although especially on longer stays, that might not be the case. There should at least be a priority routing inside airbnb customer service to immediately escalate to a supervisor and resolve the situation via an alternative booking, if someone comes back and says "I have nowhere else to go". It sounds like you did not get to that point to find out if they have that, but I can see how you felt like you were in an unstable situation.

It's hard for me to draw a line on what is a reasonable expectation here, but I guess they should try to provide immediate funds for everyone. Since at least a subset of people will not find their current process reasonable, and when that happens, they will find it extremely distasteful.
“The safety and speed of Rust makes game development a true joy.”

I’m not an expert in game dev but I keep scratching my head on the concept Rust game engines. The above statement is about optimizing for the wrong things, IMO. I want simple and fast development loop. It’s why Lua is so great for game dev and why there’s so many custom scripting languages. Maybe Rust game engines need to expose their API using a scripting language rather than Rust.

Of course, there’s plenty of game engines and plenty of room for experiments, so I’m delighted to see another.

Would love to hear from others who develop games on how they feel about writing one purely in Rust.
> I think that we're finally reaching a critical mass of people understanding the nature of the proposition.

Most people have only heard of Bitcoin and think crypto is about sending digital gold coins to people. That hasn't been relevant in years and the crypto industry moved on from Bitcoin half a decade ago and pretty much all of the development and activity happens on Ethereum.

Most people have never heard of Ethereum and only a small portion of those that have understand what it is. I don't think we're anywhere near a peak
Working class and middle class are not mutually exclusive.
well then you'll love apps on smartphones! they don't do anything complex, think of each app as a small garden that has a wall around it to keep out any complications. Luckily, they frequently allow for in-garden purchases so you don't even need to leave to get more fertilizer, etc. and the gardeners even get paid that way, no worries! they were even able to do away with the reference cards!
These are all examples of tradeoffs that have been made, and just collecting examples of the downsides of those tradeoffs without mentioning the upsides.

Touchscreens are objectively worse than dedicated buttons, but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit. additionally, the UI can be less confusing because the button text can change depending on what you're doing, vsm a single physical d-pad and an "ok" button.

Similarly, games have traded off fast startup time for richer textures and assets, and the ability to patch bugs.
I think several years back, AirBnb was cheaper than hotels (but they've gotten more expensive over time).
It’s not really more expensive. Cheaper than a decent hotel usually. Way more hassle sure.
The rise of professional airbnb renters have also lowered the quality quite a bit. When a lot of listing were for apartments that the renter used for themselves part of the year and rented on airbnb when they weren't there, you could be sure to have decent bedding, etc..

Instead in professional airbnbs, there's a race to the bottom with extremely bad mattresses, uncomfortable beds, heaters that don't work to save money.
JFC why does "It Takes Two" require 19.13 GB of network to update, but only 10.00 GB of disk?

This is like the time I decided to give Battlefield 2042 another try. It took like 2 hours to download, going less fast than my 100mbps connection. Then it sat there for an hour, before I came back to Origin. And then... it told me I needed to update my game. Which went at like ~3 mbps average for another two hours, and hammered the shit out of my disk.

Just ship the updated game! Stop making everyone go through every delta! Assholes!
I have had a similar situation, but in mine the seller immediately re-listed the property at 4x the price I paid. Airbnb says they can’t do this, but they literally did, on the same account.

I had 3 terrible Airbnb scam experiences in 2022, so I’m never using them again.

(My most hilarious one was that a host with like 25 positive reviews, listing said they had a hot tub and shower on property. It turns out this meant that we could go her sisters house, a 30 minute drive away, and we could ask to use hers. We tried this and she told us to piss off. That was a fun one.)
Yeah, with all the money being in software (at least in western nations' job markets), it's honestly amazing the hardware keeps getting better and better. I guess we can thank the Asians for this, especially the Chinese.
IMO feature phones with music and texting > smart phones with everything and social media.
Same situation: AirBnb bedbugs ruined our family vacation. They gave us a partial refund and paid for a night in a hotel but didn't cover the rest of our stay.

We were staying in a super touristy area during peak season, and the last minute hotel cost us $2000+ more than we had budgeted for the trip.

The host was completely non-responsive and our polite but negative review was removed by AirBnb. None of us have used AirBnb since.
This just in, Windows isn't UNIXy, film at 11

Let me know what shell scripting selectively builds only the artifacts whose dependencies have changed (honest question).
You are making 'letter of the law's arguments for a very much 'spirit of the law' issue. If we just grant you are absolutely correct for argument's sake, it would plainly indicate the letter of the law needs to change.
The Eurofighter is not the same type of jet as the F-35. It can't deliver nuclear weapons, for example. AFAIK there is no other 5th gen platform for delivering those available to western countries.

I think I got the original idea of the "requirement" from this article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44740/germany-has-chos...

But I might've misread it, this might only apply to that particular sale to Germany.
I struggle with this too, but I find your reduction of a complex topic extremely ignorant and borderline racist. Your phrasing plays into a classic far-right trope.

I do believe there are city people and rural people. Each has a right to choose for themselves. Forcing unwanted change on either group is wrong. Towns and cities should chart their own courses.
Hotels don't cost much more when you account for all the various fees and unreliable service or unexpected state of the property.
I agree this isn’t a differentiator and or complex but could be used for common courtesy / digital tracking… why can’t FedEx/ups notify me when something was delivered…or give me a better delivery window than “tomorrow between 9am and 7pm”. I’m in an industrial complex with 8 other retail businesses and today a package which I didn’t know had shipped to me (or delivered) was left outside a door of mine next to public parking. This behavior is the norm at my location.
I think you're right, I got confused. Posted a link to my source a bit below, and it refers to exactly what you're describing.
If you set your Xbox settings to "Go Offline" on console or PC after you lose the connection, your Game Pass games will work for up to 30 days before an active internet connection is required
>For example, Canadians are culturally similar enough to take the US test (including some US-specific general knowledge questions

Any IQ test with any sort of validity will not contain any country-specific questions. ("Regatta" became irrelevant as a "gotcha" for those questioning the validity of IQ tests so long ago that it's long since become an emeritus member of same, really.)

> and mathematical notation) but score higher on average due to a variety of social factors.

I am not aware of any evidence that Canadians score higher than Americans on IQ tests when normalized by audience.

Americans do quite well on PISA, for example, compared to their ethnic relatives <https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco...> Asian Americans do better than Asians; whites do better than Europeans; Latinos do better than Latin Americans; and blacks do better than Africans.

Hispanics and especially blacks' scores drag the US average down. Both white and Asian Americans score higher than Canada (and white+Asian is essentially Canada's racial makeup), and higher than New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Norway, and the UK; Estonia is below US Asians but above white Americans. Norway is by far the wealthiest Nordic state but its average is only two points higher than the US national average, despite not having a demographic that is 13% of the population and scores 85 points below the white American average.
For their occupants, maybe! It's getting harder and harder to see over the front hood. My wife, standing straight, is invisible to a new F150.
Yes. Now add 1,000 other regulations. Oh my, how the price of housing has gone up!
> Putin would never throw an atomic bomb to the US because the US always knows where Putin is and we would just bomb him back and terminate him.

What if he just goes underground? Russia doesn't have a single nuclear bunker? What if he's terminally ill and doesn't care? Do we know USA would retaliate with another nuke? Are you confident of that, or maybe USA would hold off?

So many uncertainties and in contrast you have a man speaking without a shadow of a doubt.
But Game Pass as an option didn't even exist before – more options is still net gain. However, if/when we get to the point where Game Pass is your only option, that will be a different story.
Maybe hosting this service behind a firewall / on a private network would make the most sense. I notice many people here are running Tailscale at home — perhaps this is why?
The Linux firewall is designed specifically to be able to track and count packets by IP address and other metedata, and can do so extremely efficiently.

Setting up an IP based rate limiting rule in nftables takes a few minutes at max, and I am not a professional sysadmin.
VanadiumOS: Portable, multi-user Unix-like OS
> “It’s more important to get started than to have a perfect start.”

So true. This goes for your first job as well as any side project or company you want to build.
More accurate title: some aspects of technology have gotten objectively worse.

E.g. for cars, the whole touchscreen thing instead of knobs for things like temperature control is worse, but on the other hand cars are safer than they used to be.

Similarly, while yes there are some aspects of video games that have gotten worse, like needing to download a patch for an offline game, there's some stuff that's better: there's a veritable mountain of indie games out there with great content for a great price. WAY cheaper than games used to be, when you look at inflation.
It works pretty well. AI can generated SQL with Common table expressions, window functions, and many kinds of joins.
I'm having a hard time not seeing this take on BTC as being a version of the Galileo gambit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Galileo_ga...

The problem with reasoning that way is survivor bias: we remember the things that did change the world, and tend to forget the things that didn't. Or, even when we do remember things, we tend to do so in a selective manner. Beanie Babies, for example, did change the world, after a fashion, but not exactly in the way anybody thought they would at the time. Beanie Babies themselves mostly died out and lost all their on-paper value, but not before kickstarting the rise the rise of eBay and PayPal. But that isn't quite what any of the "this time it's special" people had in mind. It turns out that, all too often, the dichotomy turns out to have been false all along, which leaves plenty of room for literally everyone to be wrong about how things are going to play out.
Note that avionics and sensor packages may not be the same across all allies (US tends to withhold their best sauce for themselves, second-best for closest allies and so on), so not quite the drop-in replacement. Although admittedly avionics are less likely to require replacement in the field.
> ATMs never solved skimming

They actually did with the emv chipped cards and mutual authentication, not that this was your overall point but still.
The Tesla can play AAA video games as well. Not sure what else you want out of your infotainment system.
> I'm not sure what to do about single use plastic cutlery.

Wooden cutlery.
> I just wanted to point out that using DI and a framework supporting you using it, you are not in control what you get as dependency

Not even remotely true. Why are you under the impression that you aren't in control of what dependencies get created and form your object graph? Either you've got a misapprehension or you've got a terrible DI framework
The door.
It addresses different bioinformatic use cases, but plink2 is an open-source tool that is widely used and makes extensive use of zstd. In particular, it accepts both gzip- and zstd-compressed text files as input, but output commands that can generate large text files often only have a zstd compression option.
On a similar but slightly different topic, I used to think Terraform was the be-all end-all until I realized you don't manage Kubernetes with it.

To my knowledge, https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/kubernetes... less people use this than use Helm charts, Kustomize, or some other Kubernetes-.yaml formatter

Then I get confused on where Vagrant provisioning fits into all of this.

Or Ansible/Chef/Puppet.

I just spin up a DigitalOcean droplet (I think I usually do it in the GUI to be honest, lol). Then I SSH into it, git clone a repo, docker compose up or (sometimes terraform apply) and I'm done.

Where does it grow from there?

I feel like based on the comments here, some people would even argue Docker is overkill there, or anything that isn't a monolith (small services glued together) is overkill.
Paying 17% premium for the privilege of being ghosted.
I can relate to so much of this but I also recognize that among the people I work with today this tinkering mindset isn't common among the developers. The tinkers tend to be much better at troubleshooting, are often more creative but they aren't necessarily better developers.

In short the domain has become just another office job for most of these people rather than something they love.
If you showed someone from 30 years ago a modern video game, a Tesla, or even TikTok, it would absolutely blow their mind. So the author comes up with some nitpicks and declares "technology has gotten objectively worse". I guess the title checks out.
I consider it to be a pure green in the sense that it was a single green phosphor used in the display. It is true that in terms of light nanometers there are different shades of green and Apple's wasn't what RGB green is, but it was a fully green pixel.

I do own this exact monitor, I should recap it one of these days. The plastic is very yellow now sadly.

Quite a lot of phosphor formulations existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor#Standard_phosphor_typ...
LangChain: An interface for composing chains of LLM calls
# Used for Alexa, I guess, who cares

User-agent: Amazonbot

Disallow: /
There are many flaws with airbnb customer services. Most obvious problem that they give hosts much more leverage than clients.
Advertise a very nice apartment in a desirable location, then last minute redirect the guests to a slightly less desirable location but still "similar".

Good old bait and switch.

Besides issuing a prompt refund and hopefully banning the fraudulent host, what exactly is Airbnb supposed to do in such situation?

They operate a platform, not an hotel chain. They have nowhere to actually host you and are in no contractual agreement with the guest to actually get you a place to stay whatsoever. Buyer beware so they say?
Wouldn't Maverick convince you that sticking with F-18's is A-OK?
The market is not being "disrupted" in any genuinely innovative sense, the employees are merely having their bargaining power undermined.

The real solution here is sectoral collective bargaining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_collective_bargaining
> ... any Linux/Mac OS/BSD user can use it without needing additional software ...

In my experience, `make` also needs to be installed. (On ubuntu it's part of `build-essential`).

I guess more precisely, `just` might not be available in all package managers?
I don't think it's a decline in safety as much as a decline in Airbnb itself. Not only has it become bigger, which allows them to care less about screwing customers and be bolder at committing fraud and breaking various laws, but it becoming bigger means more bad actors (from slumlords to outright scammers) are now abusing the platform.
+1 on Elements of Statistical Learning.

Here is how I used that book, starting with a solid foundation in linear algebra and calculus.

Learn statistics before moving on to more complex models (neural networks).

Start by learning ols and logistic regression, cold. Cold means you can implement these models from scratch using only numpy ("I do not understand what I cannot build"). Then try to understand regularization (lasso, ridge, elasticnet), where you will learn about the bias/variance tradeoff, cross-validation and feature selection. These topics are explained well in ESL.

For ols and logistic regression I found it helpful to strike a 50-50 balance between theory (derivations and problems) and practice (coding). For later topics (regularization etc) I found it helpful to tilt towards practice (20/80).

If some part of ESL is unclear, consult the statsmodels source code and docs (top preference) or scikit (second preference, I believe it has rather more boilerplate... "mixin" classes etc). Approach the code with curiosity. Ask questions like "why do they use np.linalg.pinv instead of np.linalg.inv?"

Spend a day or five really understanding covariance matrices and the singular value decomposition (and therefore PCA which will give you a good foundation for other more complicated dimension reduction techniques).

With that foundation, the best way to learn about neural architectures is to code them from scratch. Start with simpler models and work from there. People much smarter than me have illustrated how that can go:
https://gist.github.com/karpathy/d4dee566867f8291f086
https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/03/attention.html

While not an AI expert, I feel this path has left me reasonably prepared to understand new developments in AI and to separate hype from reality (which was my principal objective). In certain cases I am even able to identify new developments that are useful in practical applications I actually encounter (mostly using better text embeddings).

Good luck. This is a really fun field to explore!
If host cancels within a certain time of the booking, they should pay a fee. Its simple, they need to judge weather or not to list. But airbnb doesn’t want to do that because it would reduce their listings. Ergo, users just eat it.
> Good thing we arrived at 11am and not 6pm. or we'd be literally f*cked for the night.

Was mostly suprprised to read this, as if they'd never even heard of hotels. Depending on the location, a hotel may or may not have been available, but there are shocking number of hotel rooms available on any given night in almost any location (U.S. in my exerience)
If you showed up and there was a construction going on it most likely was a scam. Very common on Airbnb unfortunately. And there aren’t that many parties involved, just you and scammers, and, of course, Airbnb, but this is when they really become “we are just a marketplace”.
AFAIK, you have to do this before.

Maybe this has changed.

The first outage I had, you couldn't even sign in.

The second outage, you had to set it offline before your internet died. This was when Rogers was down in Canada.
For Social Status. The top of society’s social hierarchy.

And there’s even more money than FAANG employees… in specialties. And better job security.
I'm sure everyone has their own reason, so I'll just speak for myself.

I don't understand why we spend so much time and resource getting better at war when we (US citizen here) are already so extremely good at it. Atm, the US has 11 aircraft carriers, which is just shy of half in all of the world (not to mention many belong to our allies).

We have crazy drones, missiles, submarines, nukes... How much better do you need to be at war? The truth is, if we wanted to light up some country or other, we could totally do it - the reasons we don't are ethical/economical/politcal, it's not because our war planes are not advanced enough.

Instead, what if we invested the same set of resources on public school systems or water desalination technology? Just let the 11 aircraft carriers ride...
It's rarely the best move to base careers around your hobbies. It tends to ruin your love for the hobby more often that make your work a joy.
No, I think that games that couldn't be patched were, at the very least, just as good and very likely a lot better than modern games. At the very least, the fact that the game couldn't be patched meant that companies invested in QA and testing. In those days, "going gold" or shipping the master ROM was a big deal, and so companies went out of their way to ensure that their product didn't have any huge showstopper bugs prior to launch.

In theory, modern games, with patching could be even better. They could be just as well tested as older games, but also ship patches to fix the things that do slip through testing. But in practice nobody does that. Instead, game developers just compress the schedule, knowing full well that they can now ship games with totally breaking bugs that get addressed with multi-gigabyte "day one" patches.
I read the above statement as "militarized aggressively (in comparison to the rest of the world)". The US is/was essentially able to outmuscle multiple regional powers to such a degree that they stopped even trying to compete militarily. They were/are on a different technological level, if warfare were a technology.
+1 for this, when I was coming in as a complete newb to neural networks, this was the clearest and most accessible material I found.
I taught college for a brief time. Catching cheaters is hard work, and unpaid, and it's perceived that doing it too much affects your chances of getting your contract renewed. "Let the employers or the next course level sort them out" seems to be a more pragmatic strategy.
Yeah the financials of falling fast don't really work out. You get a few tries but with that amount of cash burn if you don't have success you are in very deep shit.

All these small launch companies are in deep shit, they raised a lot of money when the market was hot but they are all literally just burning cash like crazy and the market has proven to be way smaller then claimed.

You will see a lot of these companies go bust in the next couple years.

> Two Rocket Launches per Plane Launch would be an Awe-Inspiring strategy to achieve more rapid iteration!

That is impossible with the plain they have. That would require a costume plane and then the finances of plane based launch makes even less sense.

Also launching the plane isn't the constraint so this wouldn't actually improve their finances.