skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had something very similar happen to me when a mudslide physically prevented me from getting to the property. You'd think you would be able to get a full refund, but the host had to approve and of course they didn't. $400 in my case. This was years ago, and I've never used the site again.
> you're all sitting quietly in class and suddenly the computer plays a lion roar

INTERACTIVITY
Why? If you have a non-public function and all its potential callers are known, what's the harm in marking it as unsafe and documenting its invariants in the idiomatic way (a Safety comment)? Your case of implementing a safe trait via unsafe code seems like it should be quite rare, and even then the trait implementation should document the assumptions it's relying on as part of an unsafe block. If you neglect to mark other possibly-UB functions as unsafe, this becomes harder to ensure.
Get an air purifier that kicks up its power when it detects “low quality” air. Worked great for us in a condo. Even cooking went kick it on.
No, therapy usually involves lots of homework as well. The talking part of it is essential to get there, but if you just go to therapy to talk it won't help much.
I think the logical conclusion of this argument is that reparations should be paid for from a wealth tax? (as opposed to the likely default of "from general revenue")
More generally, the problem is how the profits from the saved labour are shared around society. That distribution need not necessarily be distributed in return for labour.
I took 6 months off in 1992 an it was the best decision. My wife and I did an around the world trip.

Work will always be there. I’ve been working for 45 years. But getting a chance to explore, learn, do whatever when you are young is the best. The most boring people I talk to at parties graduated at 22 and I’ve been doing basically the same job forever. If you saved that much money, you obviously know how to work hard … spend some time to make yourself an interesting person. You have a whole life to accumulate responsibilities.
The designer was called Blend - it was started by a dev that, among many other things :), created the designer for WinForms. And the hacks they had to make in WPF to support any VisualStudio designer (WPF had to detect if it was running in designer mode and do things differently https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.componen...)
what's wrong with "watch -n 5 cat /proc/battery" ?
>It should be trivial to ban a certain billing address,

Everything is trivial when you aren't the one who actually has to implement it.

If you ban a billing address: what if someone else moves to that address?
Wow, I need to make a new crash blurb
And phone number, and fake name and address (you can do very creative things with billing addresses and have it still match - the matching is very fuzzy).

But yes, these companies will lie and break the law when it suits them, no reason to feel bad about giving them a taste of their own medicine.
I would absolutely end any customer relationship with Airbnb for a $950 host scam. If they can’t fix that they don’t deserve your business and you are better off off their platform.
> Probably the best method is to just train it on int4 in the first place

Unclear why you think that since experiments show the opposite.

In general the gradient seems to get too "bumpy" to do good gradient decent at lower levels of precision.

There are some papers showing that making the training loop aware of quantitization can help ultimate quantizied performance but I'm not aware of this being implemented at large scale.
But the purity is implicit.
Nothing will stop you from refactoring add into an impure function. As a programmer you have to maintain this mentally by remembering which types are pass by value and which are pass by reference.
How is it blaming the victims? The initial depressed person that "spreads" their depression to three other people around them is as much a victim as anyone else.
If you truly think "functional programming is natively supported in almost all modern languages" then you really don't know what modern FP is about.

For instance implementations of monadic control flow, effect systems, higher kinded types, algebraic data types, exhaustive pattern matching etc are all laughably unergonomic or entireley missing in most "popular"/"enterprise" languages. Just having a labmda doesn't FP make.

To me, FP in modern functional languages provides abstractions that enable much more straightforward problem solving and understandable code with fearless refactoring. Haskell and Ocaml are the pragmatic leaders here I think, with honorable mentions for things like Scala3, F#, and (kindof?) clojure.

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At least historically, eBay was the same. Anything other than Positive: A++++++++++++++++ Fantastic seller meant that they shipped me a cinder block rather than the MacBook I purchased.

>If you get a 4.8* or below review, you get a cranky email from Airbnb saying that you suck and red warnings all over the “improvements” section of the admin.

The one stay I've had at AirBnb--a lovely place in Maui (mostly because the hotels were so expensive and it was nice)--there were at least a couple pleas in the various information about talking to them before leaving anything other than a 5 rating because they might lose their super-host status.
There is no cleaner syntax than Lisp's. It is essential to Lisp's expressivity.
Usually this goes like "don't hire the spreaders, and get rid of those who are already employed". It is very difficult and costly to actually help people, compared to make it not your problem - that's capitalism for ya.

That study reeks of corporate consulting and management. And it's out there now, research is going on about this.
Sure, but it has triggers. What if those actions act as a trigger for other pre-disposed people?
If you like to pay for an AI ML course being taught by someone whose entire ML education is 6 months of independent self teaching (as per his own LinkedIn) go ahead, be my guest.
Agreed. I don't think the PC demoscene at that time even had 6000 sceners that were well-known enough for Gravis to send them sound cards.
The way I have my trackpoint set up (low sensitivity, no acceleration) makes it more accurate than trackpad, even. No acceleration means it always behaves extremely predictably; for me it's most useful when typing in forms and clicking around in them. It's extremely accurate and useful when set up properly. You can make tons of fine, precise movements and clicks when filling out documents and forms without even needing to move your hands from the keyboard.
Perfect landing, incredible, you can’t get better than this

Score: 99.2 point landing
Speed: 1.0mph
Angle: 0.2°
Time: 52 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 31.5mph
Max height: 389ft
Engine used: 99 times
Boosters used: 7 times
https://ehmorris.com/lander/

I think my initial conditions were advantageous..

Great game!
This game is damm fun. I had no idea you were playing.
There's actually a long tradition of this kind of thing.

As an undergraduate, my first-year maths "course notes" were actually a textbook in all but name, produced by the Mathematics department and sold for a very modest cost, bypassing the publishers and the campus bookshop because the markups by both were outrageous

Even if you'd paid the authors $10 per copy it would have been a bargain.
I don't understand why anyone would still bother with Airbnb.
So many headaches.
I've used booking dot com, to reserve real hotels or apartments managed by real professional people, all over the world, for over a decade and counting, and I never had a single issue.

Airbnb is built on evading taxes, skirting the law and exploiting the real estate market to the detriment of the local population AND the traveler.
Don't support them.
After playing I Have No Tomatoes I’ve accepted there is room for a limitlessly playable game.
You should not be issuing chargebacks all the time. Most businesses will resolve without resorting to that. Airbnb absolutely failed here.
Another notch in the "AirBnB is a totally different experience outside the USA vs inside of it".

Every story I've heard, as well as my personal experience, is that people outside the USA are very customer service oriented, want you to have a good time exploring the place they live, and are generally very attentive and accommodating.

Inside the USA people are just in it as a side hustle. Usually it works out fine, sometimes not so much.

I've never had a bad experience personally, but I've had some pretty amazing experiences outside the USA, but never within it.

(Stuff like hosts buying us groceries ahead of time because they knew we were arriving late, personally showing us around town upon arrival, paying for my offsite parking when my rental car wouldn't fit in the provided garage, etc).
It also sounds like it’s a bad thing. But one of the standard plays for startup executives is to deliberately create an influx of people and culture from Amazon, in order to inject fear and grind into an organization they see as too fat and happy. Not only do they believe this effect exists, they lean into it.
I only use Airbnb when I have no other options (no nearby hotel or I have too many people). Which has been a total of three times ever.

It certainly doesn’t make me want to use them more often. Hosts always have insane rules like I basically have to be a full time cleaner and also the only parking is three miles away and I can only eat in exactly one place.

And I always have to live in fear that something will come and I’ll have to cancel and lose 100% of my money. Why is it that hosts can have misleading listings and cancel days in advance while I have no power at all?

Really tells you who Airbnb’s customer is.
Let’s try it this way: what if two people, unlikely as it may be, generate the same key pair? Two people know the private key, and factoring is still hard.
You should put it all on black 28. If it doesn't roll, put 65k on 1st third. Thank me later.
Copenhagen (well, Denmark) has two NFC card (Rejsekort) readers at the front of every bus, with more at other doors on busier routes (ending A or C). People with commuter passes can vaguely wave them towards the driver as they board, or generally not bother.

If you want to be infuriated by how slow things can be, try a bus in Malmö.

Malmö (I assume Skåne) has a 2D-barcode-based system, where everyone has to validate their ticket on the barcode reader when they board a bus. This is about as reliable as you'd expect, including the usual fiddling with brightness settings etc. They used to have an NFC card system, but for some reason discontinued it.

[But I think the GP meant a system with ticket barriers on the metro/trains, like London, Paris, Rome and Madrid.]
Acceptable comment until the last paragraph. God forbid someone have non standard work hours, or take a break, or a day off, or be retired... Maybe you even match with people in a different time zone...
Genuine question: how is therapy more than discussion? Afaik therapists use nothing but words to effect their treatment.

I am specifically referring to therapy as distinct of psychiatry (which uses meds)
> You would just walk in, pick stuff up, and walk out. That’s it.

In my friend's case it was walk in, spend a half hour working out the app issues, pick stuff up, and walk out, get charged for something you didn't take, go to Amazon to ask for a refund.
The big question here is how to construe the relationships between these parties:

1. The company that is the original and primary developer of a product's source code
2. Users, either a) other companies, or b) an individual using the product personally
3. Competitors that would use the source code to sell an identical product

To have a chance of maintaining a sustainable community you typically exclude 3, and 2 pays 1 (modulo segmentation/whitelabeling). The problem is users don't want to give any one developer complete power over their systems and their knowledge to be used as leverage against them, so they want some compensation that guarantees this doesn't happen. I'd say this is the basic market economics-oriented reason why Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Open Source licenses exist; its purpose is to be that compensation and guarantee that freedom.

The problem is that the design of Open Source licenses have over-corrected and resulted in communities that are unsustainable and unable to bring software up to the level of fit and finish that users have come to expect from closed-source products whose lock-in could be leveraged to exploit users.

Open Core doesn't work because it yanks the incentives out of alignment and by construction causes a conflict of purpose.

I suspect a MariaDB Business Source License (BSL)-style license [1] is probably the best tradeoff for a company and community relationship. The basic idea is to start as one type of source available license, and then after a period of time the license of parts of the code 'decay' into a second, typically more libre license. This pushes the company to continuously innovate so their license is worth the cost, and if the company goes totally sideways users are assured that they can pick up the pieces after some fixed delay. Time is the correct dimension in which to solve this problem.

[1]: https://mariadb.com/bsl11/
An important thing to remember is that the chargeback doesn't necessarily absolve you of the legal need to pay.

Just because the credit card company claws the money back doesn't mean that a merchant can't come after you in court/debt collection.

It's not common, but for a big enough transaction, there's nothing stopping a business from coming after you.
The only one I know in SF was down in the FiDi, and I can’t imagine that area had much traffic during the pandemic, and I question how much it has now.
> I think my example of a pitfall trap in 4 is sufficient to demonstrate that

It is an isolated narrow context. The problem with ASI is there is no such limitations. I addressed this point in the post, but another example would be the Kobayashi Maru Test.

Or rather, there has been no system devised that humans have not found a vulnerability. Why would AGI be any different? Alignment/containment must also address the possibility of human exploit of the system as well. So we are back at the beginning in either case. Which means a human could still devise a trap for the AI to leverage its ability or modify its alignment.

> Similarly I'm not convinced that the scope is broad enough that it really cannot be reasoned about at all, either in its entirety or by breaking it up into smaller components

We are already having challenges in this area. Example...

“The size and complexity of deep learning models, particularly language models, have increased to the point where even the creators have difficulty comprehending why their models make specific predictions. This lack of interpretability is a major concern, particularly in situations where individuals want to understand the reasoning behind a model’s output”

from - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03494.pdf
Key words being "plausibly deniable".
If college is the only way to make a good living, then rational actors will game and lobby their way to getting in.

Even in the 1990s, a CS program was easy to get into and a local 4 year degree was sufficient for most lines of work.
I replied to a related comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35034184
I really like Java. Also Go, C, LISP. I find most of the languages I like are very pragmatic. I'm much more interested in getting stuff done than being clever. I used to quite like C++ but it seems like a minefield of features and gotchas these days. I'm very much a fan of the principle of least astonishment. I feel like Java manages that well and not being a kitchen sink language aids in that.
Most new systems languages have this now.
This kind of article makes me angry because an extremely similar situation happened to me. I made a reservation months in advance, only to have Airbnb cancel it on me days before the flight out.

I panicked and booked another place, only to try to cancel the booking a few hours later when I calmed down and realized it wasn't large enough. But I couldn't, because of the cancelation policy. I contacted Airbnb customer support and they wouldn't cancel it either, so I ended up having to pay the entire bill.

The supreme irony of course is that Airbnb cancelled a reservation I made months in advance without a single penny paid to me for my inconvenience - but when I cancelled because of Airbnb's incompetence I had to foot the entire bill. Truly absurd.

Airbnb completely lost me as a customer at that point, and I'm someone who had spent quite a good deal on Airbnbs in the past. Hotels have never cancelled on me days before a trip.
How did you find the courage to take a 65% pay cut?

I'm in a very similar position to what you were probably in and honestly taking a random office job does feel like the "right" choice here.

I could never stomach a 65% pay cut though because I have dreams/goals of someday not working at all. I save a significant portion of my income and live well within my means all toward a goal of retiring hopefully around 50 or 55.

One could reasonably ask why I am delaying pleasure now for pleasure then, but my answer is simple. While I am burned out and while I am struggling, I'm not sure I am struggling as much as I would be at 50/55, potentially battling some horrible illness, and unable to stop working or even cut back because I had saved so little.
With the same name? I think the probability is low enough to accept the false positive.
Yes at the very least chargeback gives you leverage.
>"Can’t believe Airbnb wouldn’t enforce it either."

They'd lose money if they did. They understand they can get away with it because nobody can raise enough hell for anything to happen.
Paper says that for some kids, CBT and mindfulness can increase negative symptoms, or have no effect.

Not surprising, because they don't address the fundamental issues. Why would mindfulness help with depression, better than teaching these kids how to grieve in an effective, healthy way?

CBT can be helpful, but it 'intellectualizes' problems too much. How about teaching these kids how to increase their self-confidence? How to identify their emotional needs? How to build their social skills, resolve conflicts in relationships, and assert their personal boundaries? Most sure aren't learning that from their parents.

These interventions are far too superficial to obtain the intended results. I'll be pointlessly provocative now: they almost seem intended so that teachers/interveners can avoid having to deal head-on, one-on-one, with their students' "messy" emotions. No need for school adults to have empathic, difficult conversations with kids whose parents are undergoing a divorce. Instead, just teach the kids (as a group) how to intellectualize their emotions, or distance themselves from them. It minimizes the role of teachers and other trusted adults as a social support system, it places the onus on kids to "fix themselves", and it downplays the importance of emotions in causing these problems in the first place. It makes things very impersonal. Imagine if sex-ed classes were founded on Victorian notions of decency, would they be of any help? It concerns me that so many intelligent, thoughtful scientists are barking up the wrong trees. If they refocused their efforts, they could be far more effective.
Funny, I know to hit the spam button at the top and the unsubscribe bottom buried in a link at the email footer. Am I blind? Have I somehow clicked "spam" and "unsubscribe" hundreds of times without seeing an obvious "unsubscribe" button at the top? Very dubious.

Nope! Just checked Gmail WebView. There is a toolbar at the top with a very prominent"spam" button, and two kebab menus with "filter messages like this", "report spam", "report phishing", but no unsubscribe button.
My school's gifted and talented program contained the top 10% of students, or IQ 120. Anything more restrictive would not be politically acceptable or practical.
Sounds horrible. Why don’t people just learn how to fast?

Prebiotic fiber while fasting feeds gut bacteria so you won’t feel overwhelming hunger. Electrolytes/mineral-salt stop “fasting headaches.” With prebiotics and drinking tea my stomach doesn’t even growl while fasting, and I’m more productive. Most people just need to try and they’ll find it’s easier than they thought.
paying colossal annual fees on a credit card does come with a few perks

edit: they do have cards that have no annual fee. disregard my comment.
Let's don't blame people but the toxic learnt behaviors.
Why not just tell them you’ll be there yourself too?

It’s not like they’re going to drop in unannounced, ID you, and if you’re missing a few times while your friend is there, make a case to cancel the booking in the middle of it.
Ramp load/unload still wears it, it's the basic physics.

And the failure rate of drives with an agressive powersaving[0] says there are some truth to it.

[0] WD Green, remembrr them?
It’s not even really a language as much as it is an interop layer of sorts. It’s a collection of functional operations on numpy arrays, and a capable JIT. It’s main draw is honestly autograd, and if you’re using that, you often can’t use while or for loops effectively, can’t index numpy arrays without .at[], and should avoid side effects, so strangely it’s neither it’s own language or Python any longer
Nice work. Here is some feedback:

1. Go has a major bottleneck and that’s the growth of its memory size when it’s under pressure. Templates bloat the memory quickly and make the site less performant at scale (aka if you put it on Heroku, you’d need more Dinos to support the traffic, which costs more.). Instead of GO templating, you can produce static pages and fill them up with JS Ajax or React, or whatever your front end flavor is and make that call a Go API you produce with the framework instead. This also helps you turn your site into an app if needed as well.

2. Saw somewhere you had database incremented user ids and other models? Not safe as it allows any bad actor to peruse your user base. Always do UUID as a scramble that can’t be iterated on.

Keep hammering. For everyone who says you don’t need a framework in Go, there are at least a few newbies who learn how to set up and run their Go server and stack from your framework.
Absolutely agree, and smaller companies can even afford to fully disclose their core values and non-technical expectations towards the candidates to make sure the process is a win-win for both parties.

We update and share these points within the team and with the applicants even before they make the first contact with us:

https://stratoflow.com/our-recruitment-and-onboarding-proces...
I've tried to get into Smalltalk many times but I find I always get turned off by the required, clunky, development environments
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Likewise there’s nothing preventing you from suing the scammy host in small claims court. You probably won’t get the money for a while, but once you get the real estate lien you’ll see it sooner or later.