skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The median in April 2020 was supposedly around $75 (1), but it of course wildly varies from host to host. The common perception is that they significantly increased during and after the pandemic, but that as far as I know isn't reflected in more recent data (2).

A lot of the objections around the cleaning fee are that hosts often have long lists of chores they expect guests to do in addition to a large cleaning fee, and sometimes those chores are not spelled out until you check in.

1: https://bnbfacts.com/airbnb-cleaning-fee-how-much-hosts-char...
2: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/travel/airbnb-has-a-plan-...
+1

I pay a premium subscription to not see ads, and I wish were able to disable shorts as well.
Go through your credit card - you can generally get a chargeback if the vendor has been unresponsive.
Marketing working is exactly what makes it unethical.
I'm curious, how did you find a condotel to buy into? This is the first I've heard of something like this, and I live in a pretty touristy area of Florida.
> But it's a hard pill to give up the FAANG compensation

Sounds like you need to decide what are your priorities first? I.e. choose between money, time, or anything in between (part time, sabbatical, etc). Then, commit and act.
Why would you use the built-in apps? Samsung is notorious for how much tracking data they collect. I would rather just use an Apple TV or Roku and leave it at that.
> Smart Summon

How often do you use this and how well does it work?
Yep.

Float around and find out.
Mobile and fixed systems like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar exist around the US and are reported to be able to pickup baseball sized objects from the other side of the continent (and that's what they claimed a decade ago before the upgrades).

They're just typically not used with such precision because of the sheer amount of false positives they'd generate and how little concern there typically is about something so small.
It's listed as an "early access" feature on the US website, and seems to be only available if you're logged in.

That seems disingenuous, because they've been doing it in other countries for a long time, including for logged-out viewers -- presumably because they were legally required to.
The interesting data they provide is how they move and the air currents that cause that motion.

Amateur science is still science and woe betide the free people that moves towards reserving science to professionals disproportionate to risk of harm.
some of us have been waiting for 29 years.
For this millenial, stuff is cheap. Space to put stuff is expensive. It is far too easy to get all the stuff you'd ever want, but unless you can afford to live in a giant ranch-house, the clutter will drive you mad. So yeah, getting rid of things makes me very happy.
Word of caution since this is posted the same day this news came out about a similar service here in the Netherlands going bankrupt: https://www.nu.nl/economie/6251507/verpakkingsvrije-supermar...
If I won powerball lotto money, I'd want a big plot of old growth timber with a decent sized creek running through it. I'd build a small cabin, run fiber internet to it, and I'd be good.

I'd bet that combination is rare. Especially old growth forest with fiber internet access, but with powerball money I'd bet I could find something.
Pelican makes a 30" rack depth portable case. Not quite 40" but almost there.
I see this statement a lot, but the US spends about 2-3x the cost per capita for healthcare than the rest of the OECD. That includes both public and private spending. (see https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm)

We can afford it, with or without the military spending.
We should probably go beyond the verbiage of recall but right now since it is removing a feature I think that recall is appropriate. A better verbiage might be safety reversion .
Well search has become a lot worse than the heady days of Lycos and altavista
Very sensible limitation, otherwise we would just have another dialog to deny or accept on every website.
I'm imagining the Commander in Chief having to show up to small claims court because he shot down your $12 balloon with $400,000 worth of ordinance.
> basically steal it back

This brings up an interesting legal question.

Is it illegal to steal back your own property? Even if you trespass onto private property to do so, the person would have to get the Police involved to do anything about that, at which time you can say "Sure, I'll take the trespassing charge, and while we're here I'm leaving with all of my property".
I'd hope so. If not then you probably shouldn't be in charge of delivering a summary.

I used ChatGPT to give me a list of test areas for a certain type of scenario. And it actually pointed out one that I had inadvertently missed. Now if it said something off the rails I would've known that too.

I've probably had 100 conversations with ChatGPT and I can only recall one blatent lie that it told, which I think was P != NP. Which maybe wasn't a lie, but it didn't have sufficient evidence to make that claim.

I've actually so far gotten more accurate information from ChatGPT than I did in Wikipedia's earlier days -- where I discovered that Matt Damon dropped out of Harvard because he was too stupid to make it there.
What? I don't see any ads unless they're embedded in the video by the creator...?
Obviously attention should be drawn to the fact that there is a critical safety update being pushed OTA, but "recall" is too overloaded a term if it means both "we're taking this back and destroying it because it's fundamentally flawed" vs. "a software update is being pushed to your vehicle (which may or may not be fundamentally flawed...)"

How many times in history has a vehicle recall meant the cars were returned and destroyed?

What makes this situation any more confusing than all the previous times vehicles were recalled?
The whole entire Russiagate thing was a complete fabrication and tons of articles were based on it: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-p...
This is why I've always appreciated Costco - they substituted out shopping bags for cardboard pallet cases. So the waste that walks in through their front door walks out with customers and is put to a productive use. Rather than being performative and de-packaging items before a customer sees them they actually do an effective job at reducing waste by reusing items that would otherwise just go straight to recycling.
I am going to the grocery store, not blowing up a pipeline. I doubt Kroger is going to remotely activate my baseband modem. Even if they did, I have an anonymous phone with a burner SIM.
I have bog standard subaru EyeSight lane assist and dynamic cruise. It's quite nice, even though you are still "driving" and ready to take control. It reduces mental CPU by 50-80% (driving for me is practically like walking to begin with, largely subconscious). It's great in stop-and-go and long highway stretches.
OK, then the mechanism that let's websites prompts to install apps should be removed so apps are on the same level as web apps. Otherwise, the situation is part of the anti-competitive lock-in. If that won't be removed--and we know it won't be--then this feature needs to be added and will not make the situation worse: it will just mean that there is a hope that some of these websites prompt you to install a website instead of an app. If you want to stop getting prompted to install anything at all, then you need to either remove support for push notifications from apps--which obviously will never happen--or add support for push notifications to random "uninstalled" websites. (And if you don't like being prompted to activate push notifications for things, there should be a global switch to disable that feature... as they say: this isn't rocket science.)
Maybe they can do something about the endless crypto scams about "elon musk projects" that use (really lousy) deep fakes and the same script across dozens of different advertising accounts.

Doubt they will though.
To lie is to tell a deliberate falsehood - to say something you know to be untrue. Sometimes this is taken to be acceptable - to tell a "white lie", e.g. in response to, "Does this dress make me look fat?"

Saying something incorrect, but which you believe to be true, is no lie.
Peer review does not look at data integrity, and rarely looks at methods. Studies have been done that show that peer review only catches something as gross as improper participant randomization 50% of the time, and finer details less often.

At a higher level, the purpose of peer review is to determine if the results of a paper are prestigious enough to be included in a journal and should not be construed to impart validity.

My personal opinion is that more people shouldn't move towards self-publishing and drop the facade of Journal peer review all together.
Google's Chatbot Panic
"How cowardly"
Alright, I think we have reached a point in the conversation where you are too emotionally compromised to continue and hurling insults instead of having a calm conversation. I wish you all the best
Fear Made John McAfee Rich. It Also Ruined Him
Even if you assume replacement parts are marked up 5-10x over cost, wiring harnesses are expensive. Here's the one for my car: https://www.hondapartsonline.net/v-2012-honda-fit--base--1-5...
Musk stans poison discussion so thoroughly that it becomes impossible for people do differentiate between Paul Verhoeven levels of sarcasm, and the ernestly held opinions of his fan club.
It's anecdotal, but my experience with corporate owned apartments over past 6 years in Bay Area, when it comes to maintenance/rent hike has been positive. I think increment has been around 2% usually. Lease length are 11-15 month usually. And deposit is usually lower than most independent listings I see on craigslist.

They can however at times be slow, and frustrating, for some random things you'd need. But I can deal with it.

In contrast, my girlfriend who lived in a shared apartment with independent landlord, wouldn't fix heat, and then did a cheap replacement, which broke in few months, and refused again. And now she's out of the apartment, not giving back the amount he owes to her. I'm not sure if there any data to backup, but at-least in city, it seems like independent landlords are possibly worse.
Firing these four missiles isn't a significant use of their budget. If they start firing four missiles to destroy every three balloons out there it very quickly will be a massive cost.
I think you may be right that a simulation of intelligence—in full—either is intelligence, or is so indistinguishable it becomes a purely philosophical question.

However, I do not believe the same is true as a simulation of limited, superficial hallmarks of intelligence. That is what, based on my understanding of the concepts underlying ChatGPT and other LLMs, I believe them to be.
I won't get too much into this, but the basics of it are that they are the dominant voting bloc for the last 50 years in America, and in such a time they presided over / voted for:

- when given the choice of oil vs the future of humanity, sided with oil for 5-7 decades

- shipping manufacturing overseas, destruction of the middle class, destruction of unions, free trade agreements. Let me emphasize how explicitly boomers destroyed unions. It was a common negotiation tactic of companies to basically pay the existing (boomer) union workers more and guarantee THEIR benefits, but the new people coming into the company (non-boomer) would get no union benefits

- privatization and deregulation of mass quantities of society and the economy leading to, most prominently in my view, a nonfunctional healthcare system and monopoly/cartel in practically every identifiable market

- deficit spending that essentially enriched their generation at the expense of future generations

- benefited from vast amounts of federally funded education, then underfunded and ruined higher education for future generations

- destabilized society at fundamental levels with the war on drugs when they were the generation that most pervasively used drugs in their formative years

- reaganomics led to the great wealth divide, and those formative economic years were driven by the boomers greed as they moved up the corporate ladder

- the vast expansion of military spending

- the suburbs, while invented by their parents, taken to absurd and destructive lengths

Basically, given the world on a platter from WWII postwar dominance and the greatest technological growth and development ever, they have saddled future generations with debt, a ruined environment, massive corruption, and vast entrenched social and racial problems.

Their final gifts will be bankrupting Medicare and Social Security after politically underfunding them or outright stealing from them for 50-70 years as part of runaway deficit spending and military spending. Which is why I advocate denying them those benefits.

It is a generation obsessed with materialism, hedonism, and selfishness. Now, I'm not going to say that other generations are some saints or won't be corrupted by the materialism of midlife like the 80s/90s of the boomers, but at least there is acknowledgement of global warming, racial strife, the drug war, and having to deal with them rather than push them to future generations.
I mean "real" in the sense they do not have a foundation. Animals have personalities, you cannot prompt them to change them at will.

These "ai" systems do not demonstrate many of the metrics by which we measure intelligence, emotions, and behaviors in living creatures. They have real problems with consistency and hallucinations, but this is expected if you understand the algos, data, and training.
This is a non-statement. NATO is 29 other countries besides the US, all with their own motives, and you can contrive of motives for every other global power with the means to blow up a pipeline; the "opportunity" part of it doesn't even make sense.
>How would the FSD beta program kill me?

By crashing in a way that is fatal to your life
There is evidence, it’s just anecdotal and every contrary comment is the same.
The only interface the computer normally has to the cable is the single control pin on in the middle of the MagSafe connector, so they are likely having to do something more sophisticated than UART.

(Apple could have had you plug the other end that has the USB-C connector into the computer to do the firmware update, but that isn't particularly intuitive or user friendly).
Accusing people of being shills goes against HN rules.

I don't like the simple-minded demonization of China by people who don't know anything about it. Unfortunately, that's 99% of English-language discussion of China nowadays. That doesn't make me pro-Chinese-government.
Sounds to me like you are doing weather balloons wrong.
Why do you want money? As any financial advisor worth their salt would tell you, money is a means to an end, not an end in itself, and it's up to you to decide what those ends are.

It's very possible that you'd be perfectly happy on less comp, in a role that's more fulfilling. IME, this is a fact that people realize 4ish years into a high-earning career.

For me, I realized that being happy every day is immeasurably more important to me than making a marginal pre-tax $150k/year, and that the FAANG environments are intentionally designed to be incompatible with what brings me happiness, day-to-day. YMMV.
Wait. This package is in use in production at WhatsApp and the only mention of that is many levels deep in a comment thread on HN? That's seriously burying the lede.
No, I just assume I'll get it in a few years, although neither of her siblings got it.

I'm less healthy than she was at my age (52). My exit plan doesn't involve long term health care insurance, that's for sure.

Mom's still alive at 75, so that's a long run with this disease. I would say it's been about three years since she has declined to that stage where no mentally well person would want to be alive.
> Weather balloons are easily 20 feet wide at altitude.

But this is not a weather balloon in question but a pico balloon. 14 cfr § 101.1 4 provides the limits on them.

> you've always got a sizable package of hard electronics dangling off the balloon for sensors and telemetry

Both the weight and the density of the payload package is limited by law.

> Ingesting that is going to cause damage, guaranteed.

Excuse me but i am going to believe the FAA on this over your say so. They say pico balloons are fine and they are extremely risk awerse. If they say it is fine then they are fine by a wide margin.
This is the definitive book:

https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructu...
Plenty of stores selling in bulk allow self-service. Customer weights their own container, prints a barcode.
This. I remember being part of an SAP acquisition where they regaled us with tales of decades long tenure, during the pre onboarding meetings. When we finally got our usernames, they were a couple letters and some numbers. We were no longer people. We were numbers in a sea of over a hundred thousand other numbers. The address book felt infinite. Getting changes through took weeks. You could die there without almost anyone noticing because you only needed to put in the most minimal amount of effort. It was truly amazing to see how much of a slow moving human assembly line the place was.

This is your target, if you want to do the minimum and wow people but the "wow" is equally lackluster.
I will read that.

I can also add unit tests but then its only me. The development team is way bigger and it feels more like a drop of water in a big lake.
“having makes up for the lack of being”

(Badly translated from Italian: L’avere compensa per ma mancanza di essere)
In 7th grade I had a question once and my teacher said he didn't know and he'd get back to me. And then he did! And I was so excited that he'd gotten back to me, but I'd also forgotten entirely that I'd asked the question in the first place; it was just a passing idle curiosity. For some reason he got really upset about this, and looking back I guess he must have put considerable time and research into finding out the answer, for something that I was really just spur-of-the-moment wondering & completely forgot about 20 minutes later. Although I think he didn't realize that the fact that I'd forgotten the question didn't really diminish the joy I had at receiving the answer days later.

Anyway, it was during us studying the U.S. constitution and the question was about the order of succession in the case of the concurrent deaths of the president, V.P., Speaker of the House, and President Pro Tem of the Senate, so that it went to the Cabinet; I was wondering what order the Cabinet officials succeeded in. The answer is the order in which the positions were created, so Sec of State first, then Sec of Treasury, etc. I didn't remember this all these years later; you can find the info here: https://www.usa.gov/presidents#item-35877
Thanks. Based on this description, I'm not sure how much it will be a cloud service, a web framework, or a collection of components. :-)
Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing more about it in the next months.
Kudos to Apple for doing this. It's honestly very cool of them
I had plans to do something similar and I'm happy you've saved me the time. Thanks for sharing!
I wonder if APRS transmitter would be acceptable as transponder.

It should be possible to make a tiny, cheap ADS-B transponder. They are similar to APRS, with GPS and VHF radio. But there really isn't a market now for small ones, and there are regulations that make expensive.
The UK is island nation with controlled borders.
America is the size of continental Europe.
In America a rocket launcher was found near a elementary school in California.

Rocket Launchers are highly illegal.
We have a massive amount of illegal weapons coming from south of the border.
That's Obama had a big scandal called the fast and furious (https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/obama-relents-in-figh...). The illegal guns they sold the cartel were coming back over the border and being used in crimes.
> Colonization is his goal

Bullshit. Colonization _might_ be a side effect. Bilking various governments out of subsidies and fat contracts is the goal. Just like every other single Musk venture, it is based entirely on feeding at the trough of federal largesse.
Those are still ads and there are solutions to filter them out that Youtube could be more proactive about surfacing to premium users.
i'm not sure if vine was a true failure. the only difference i see between that and tiktok is the focus on music and the less rigid length requirement.

the users loved vine and it's still quoted in tiktoks

i think it's because china is able to dump money it was able to take off more
None of these will reduce the amount of plastic going into the environment. There is no “offsetting” plastic.
Not reliably. Best would be to seek consultation with a medical geneticist.
Pretty sure every service like this goes that route. I rent a car on Turo, mainly because I don't need but it's upside down for now. It seems like there's many who run it as a side business, with a fleet of cars. This month Turo actually started issuing guidance on punishments for those who receive parking complaints, having too many cars parked at one house.
That's a good idea for late spring and summer, but right now we're just snow, ice, or slush, driving by faith mostly.
Find a university to work for. The money will likely be less, the time off will likely be more, and the working environment will be relaxed.
using ballons as a ddos attack, making the usaf spend 500k per each
I don't fully understand what should I do now?

I'm trying to create order, clarity and alignment but people don't want that.
Often in AirBnB you can find a stand alone house. In a hotel generally you have a hallway with rooms, one of those rooms is yours, and all the other rooms belong to other people.

The stand alone house can have a yard or a distance to the next house.

Sometimes you can find AirBnb right near a place you need to be in the next morning whereas a hotel might need to be a long ways away and travel between the locations can be problematic.
It is for some of us! Probably not in the cards for everyone, though.
Where do you live now? If I had to do this I'd do the following:

- Move to 2nd tier, lower cost of living city. My hidden gem: Chicago. Public transit, plenty of housing, culture, arts, #1 food city in the US, international airport with flights everywhere, half the housing cost and 3/4th other expenses as NYC and SF. 2nd option is Philadelphia for the same reasons and proximity to NYC for the weekend trips or to go into the office.

- Take a pay cut working at a financial, industrial, retail company as a cog while enjoying a stable 9-5. Lots of options remote and local with the resume you have.

- Work on side projects, hobbies. Decompress.

I wouldn't worry about your skills with "real world" tech stacks. It's straight forward to pick up.

Edit: I know calling one of the largest cities in the US a hidden gem is odd, but tech and Chicago / Philly? Not often considered.
No, you got it entirely wrong on purpose. Maybe don’t do that.
Which corporation, if you don't mind me asking? And did you have a background in IR/library science specifically, or just a generalist?
> They'll just write it off as live fire training.

And then someone will complain. "If you're explaining yourself, you've already lost."
Was the recall a voluntary recall by the company or something the company was told to do by a regulator? To me, recall means much more than just having to have the company replace something. It means they have to do it at their expense. So in this case, it's not as bad for Tesla's bottom line if it is just an OTA update. A recall is something that the car industry is used to doing whenever they have to fix a mistake. I would not be surprised if the industry doesn't have ways of writing those expenses off in taxes or something, so need to be able to specifically itemize the recall work.
Only about half of murders even get solved, so it's no surprise the lack of response to your bike.