skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And no peer-reviewed research, apart from the dozens of widely-cited academic papers on this? All of these are just from one lab, not even including groups like CHAI: https://www.anthropic.com/#papers

Which of these papers track AGI Safety and are also published in peer reviewed journals like SIGKDD, NeurIPS, AAAI etc?
Airbnb hosts these days are insane for real.
You pay a premium and still you do laundry, clear the garbage, mop the floor and what not and still be charged for cleaning.
Commenting as a "host" on Airbnb: yes, it's a reeaaally nasty company with absolutely horrible "support", from the hosting side as well as from the guest side.

In this particular case it's an unkind and nasty host as well; they could perfectly well allow the guest despite Airbnb's policies, though Airbnb would say that their laughable "Aircover" "insurance" would not apply to the rental.
Are you actually likely to win this chargeback? I'm sure that airbnb made the terms very clear in their million page T&C's document...
I've only used AirBNB a few times and it always sucked. The fact that you have to pay a cleaning fee, then you have to do all these chores on the way out (strip linens down, do dishes, take out trash, etc.) never made any sense. I just wish hotels would have found a way to compete better for longer term stays. You should get some kind of price break for staying longer in a hotel.
Getting yourself banned off of Airbnb for $950 doesn't sound optimal unless you are swearing off short term lodging around the world (outside of hotels) for the foreseeable future. That's one of the negative externalities of capture-the-market VC investing - getting banned on one of these platforms cuts you off from almost the entirety of supply because of how marketplace dynamics work.
I was never a fan of the 3dfx dithering/filtering, personally. Things usually looked just a bit too muddled for my taste in most games. It wasn't as bad as others (I remember the Matrox M3D having some very interesting features, but Image quality was definitely worse than Voodoo. Marginally better than a Virge at least, lol.)

16 bit on TNT was fine for most of what I played at the time, although at the time it was mostly Quake/Quake2 and a few other games. Admittedly I was much more into 2d (especially strategy) games at the time, so 2d perf (and good VESA compat for dos trash and emulators) was more important to me for the most part.

I think 3dfx had a good product but lost the plot somewhere in between/combination of their cutting 3rd parties out of the market, and not deeply integrating as quickly vs considering binning. VSA-100 was a good idea in theory but the idea they could make a working board with 4 chips in sync at an affordable cost was too bold, and probably a sign they needed to do some soul seeking before going down that path.

Now, it's possible that comment is only discernable in hindsight only. After all, these folks had seemed like engineering geniuses with what they had already pulled off. OTOH, when we consider the cost jump of a '1 to 2 to 4 CPU' system back then... maybe everyone was a bit too optimistic.
I did approx 12 month sabbatical when I was 28, back in 2013. I travel a bit, spent few months in hometown I left when I was 15 and then move away again realizing why I was so happy to leave it in first place.

Looking back to that year I am happy to say that I wasted a year of my life with nothing good or productive that come from it. But maybe that was exactly what I needed to go through.

If you feel like doing it, than why not do it. Life is long and you can always revert.
LC interview is biased towards people who are into LC/Olympiad/competitive programming or who have enough free time and willingness/desperation to grind LC.
>Note that Uighurs are majority Muslim and they aren’t all being exterminated (certainly some are), but the primary efforts seem to be making that region and ethnicity much more similar in culture to Han-Chinese. It rings of the “white genocide” and “Jews will not replace us” slogans.

This is quite the impressive paragraph. What are you even saying?
I just did this last year. I just got my boat, which is also my home, and in terms of outgoing, it's very little. We are talking £1000 a year for license and insurance and £50 a month heating in the winter.

The problem I have is that companies will generally look for any excuse not to hire people. A year gap is a red flag, and you 'should' be perpetually 'grafting for money', and my skills (even though React, Redux and HTML haven't changed at all in the last year) are considered out of date.

Eventually I will find a job, and I'm not trying to hard. I worked on a sideproject during my time off to keep my skills active, and I'm not in a rush to back to work.

But in terms of what I got out of it, I went to a bunch of music festivals, started going to pubs and clubs a lot more, and started enjoying life a lot more.
If this is how the service is going to work - why would I want to be part of it? I'm not interested in playing some VC's network effects game.

The era of free money is over for now, they're going to want business soon.
Airbnb customer support is terrible. I placed a booking and got complete radio silence from the host. Support wouldn't provide a refund until checkin-in failed.

I had already booked a hotel, and don't use Airbnb anymore.
It’s ridiculous - and Airbnb perpetuate it. 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. It works, just barely, as long as you only book places with like 50 stays and a score in the range I mentioned - which isn’t something you expect your average Joe to realise.
> The effects of studying "for the test" as you put have been measured, improved test taking skills tends to be worth ~30 points which is not that significant. This matches my anecdotal experience and that of people I know who run SAT prep courses.

I see this often but I suspect that it is lumping "Took a prep class for 1 hour on a Saturday" and "Spent 6 hours a week for 52 weeks with a tutor" in the same category.

Any tutor who only gets a 30 point increase won't be seeing much business among the folks I know.

However, I do agree with you that firming up skills is a remarkably quick way to get a significant boost. Being able to add 2 + 2 and come up with 4, repeatedly and accurately is often a big deal on these tests even with a calculator.
Copying isn't theft. If you bought the ssd it belongs to you in its entirety regardless what state you decide to configure it into.
> Clearly it's possible for depression to be affected by discussion with people around you.

> If that were not possible, then how could therapy have an effect?

Because therapy is more than discussion.
This is a good point. It makes it seem a lot more binary, actually. Either I think I can get my money with enough legal work, so I keep serving them, or I don’t think I’ll be made whole so they’re fired as a customer and their assets get liquidated (modulo anything that is paid up like reserved assets that are paid in full).

Again my enviable FICO score and decades of responsible borrowing mean I’m speculating quite a bit here
I think there are some aspects of this rule that are still undecided. See for example:

- https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues/8...

- https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues/2732
I ran into a similar situation- booked for my wife to have a girls getaway, the place was disgusting and unsafe (no walking path up a hill covered in snow) and had to book elsewhere because the host wasn't around when they arrived.

Airbnb refused to help, because per Airbnb policy, me booking for my wife counted as a "third party booking".

They tried being reasonable up until the person said "well if your wife damaged something you wouldn't want to be responsible would you?" and I pointed out that legally, in my state spouses are responsible for debts incurred by their partners. Mentioning the word "legal" put an immediate stop to the conversation with a blunt sentence along the lines of "we have done all we can for you. Goodbye."
Why didn’t they do a chargeback?
An airbnb feels like 'mine'. Whereas a hotel I have no confidence that some overzealous room service won't barge in and try to change the towels while I'm using them!
Cambridge Analytica was actually pretty irrelevant.
For the curious, in Switzerland, you don't keep ammo at home, there's proper registration of weapons with proper background checks, and it's treated more as a means of national defense, so having lots of guns is going to get you odd looks from people. Guns aren't seen as something for personal defense: that's the job of the police.

In other words, Switzerland has a much healthier attitude towards gun ownership and usage.
https://archive.is/oG9k6
Appreciate the feedback! That was a typo. Just fixed it. Glad it resonated with you.
Just about any time I've tried to pay attention to my breathing, my heart rate goes up, so I totally get where you're coming from here.
You realize that is the way to get in all of the best paying companies as a software engineer?

No I didn’t do it. But I have 25 years of experience in the industry and was able to get a remote role via a slight pivot.
Finally published to the Terraform Cloud public registry
As a startup CTO that has done 15+ years of this, I believe very strongly that your hiring process relfects deeply on the core software belief system you hold on.
That's why bureaucratic/non-engineering organisation will tend to over-emphasize references and tests, big tech will over-emphasize CS40021 style exercises and whiteboarding "shame on you", and the rest of us, other stuff.
My advice for job-seeker: look very deeply why they ask things during the process and you will be able to fairly predict your future there. Make sure it matches you needs and wants.
For the process-builder: are you sure those deeply-held beliefs are filtering what you need or is it filtering what you want...?
Note that the cancellation policy for Hosts is quite generous: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/990

This lets a host dump you three days before your booking and get away with "only" 25% in fees.

AirBnB definitely invests in their inventory (the hosts).
Or just say that you’ll be staying there even if you're not and not trash anything? I feel like any normal person would not just throw $900 bucks away like this, probably because they wouldn't have planned for a $900 bucks extra spend. What is the host gonna do?

What if you book for a couple and the one that booked gets sick and has to return early? This makes no sense, I feel like most people would've edited the form through support and just added themselves in and not use airbnb again after this.
True, but Airbnb isn't the only option. In the past I simply used local companies that specialize in that. It's extremely common in tourist heavy areas. And you don't have a laundry list of things to do before your checkout like some Airbnb hosts expect you do to. The keyword to google for is "vacation rental".
They said "kindly". Claire isn't a real person, that was a an intentional scam.
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> I think your bar for evil isn't low enough.

I'm sure you do, but I don't mind. A bar for "evil" that counts cruise ships as "pure evil," is a step or two away from being like someone raving on a street-corner with a sandwich board, telling everyone they're evil and going to hell.
I wonder what the outcome would have been here if the author just turned this into a game of chicken with the host.

It sounds like the host said "You can't have this reservation you made", the author said "Okay, I'll cancel", and the host said "Whoops too late".

Since the host is the one who was requesting that cancellation, I'd be curious what would have happened if the author replied with "You can cancel the reservation if you can't fulfill it, not a problem".

Obviously no ruling out that AirBNB wouldn't just charge the author and not give access to the property, but seems like at least a higher probability of success.
WPF is the best desktop GUI framework for enterprise applications. WPF and Prism with third party contols are still unmatched in terms of productivity. Even good old Delphi or VB6 are not coming close.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to make a game where failing a level is impossible?
What popular games do this and how do they judge your performance?

Do you think it would be a good idea to make a level-based puzzle game like this?
It definitely shows how much potential improvement there is for test suites in TS world.
It is the SI prefix for giga, and commonly used instead of B for "Billions" outside of the US when writing "Harvard's endowment fund is currently worth fifty-three billion US dollars".

53G$ == $53B USD
We're talking companies, not open-source projects, protocols or non-profits.

Europe has a bigger population than the US, so listing competitors that are much smaller than their US equivalents is not a good sign.

Those companies located in the EU are mostly owned by US and sometimes Chinese investors. The reverse is not true - most US companies are almost exclusively owned by Americans. Americans own around half of all global financial wealth.
And that’s the entire purpose of the article. “I pulled myself by own bootstraps by calling my parents and asking them to write me a very large check and to put me in contact with someone who could give me a path in”
Being skeptical is good, but keep in mind that sometimes people speak the truth. You can't just disregard stuff because sometimes people exaggerate, even if some exaggerate strongly. You have to use good sense and judge.

The 50- and 60-year old tanks Russia's sending now, are they so useless that the Ukrainians need no weapons to defend agains them? Use your good sense and judge.
> EU don’t have the same kind of laws that don’t obey other countries laws as I am familiar with

No other country's laws would be involved in the scenario I asked about. It does not violate any US law for a company that has stored data in US AWS to retrieve that data.

The French authorities would be asking the French company to give them a copy of data that the French company controls and has legal access to. All the French company has to do to comply is make an API request to AWS, something they presumably routinely do.

If merely storing documents outside of your own country, but still within your control (in the sense that you can retrieve them any time you need them by asking whoever/whatever is holding them for you in the other country), is sufficient to make it so your own country can no longer legally compel you to turn over copies of those documents I don't see how that would not lead to massive problems for that country.

Wouldn't every company making consumer products, for example, store all documents produced during design and testing outside the country so in case safety issues arise later investigators can't get those documents to help build a negligence case against the company?
In my experience you still have a 3-4 interview loop on too of your take home project.
There are systems to follow the subject. I configured my work’s cameras to show a few key cameras on the live feed, but several more are quietly recording. When we review the footage, I can follow a subject across my entire array of cameras. I can track someone from the point they enter the parking lot with a plate camera.

I had facial recognition in a nightclub over a decade ago. Modern cameras’ capabilities are scary.
There’s no realistic way to drive straight (unstable equilibrium), so “straight” is really waving around it constantly. People who ride on easy mode (i.e. no hard tricks or turns) just learn to wait for a correct phase to start turning without realizing it.

You don’t have to steer anywhere to start a turn, in a sense. You’re always turning and only have to stop countersteering at the right moment.
There are lots of alternatives. Agoda, Booking.com, and many similar sites offer short-term apartment rentals. Also, in much of the world outside the US, hotels are a better and surer bet than short-term apartment rentals.

Look at it like this: Would you pay $950 for the privilege of using AirBNB? I sure wouldn't. An "AirBNB Membership fee" on the order of $950 should seem absurd.
For most people I can't imagine that keeping AirBnB "happy" is so important that you wouldn't try to get $1000 back. But, yes, it's a problem when keeping AirBnB, Google, Twitter, etc. placated requires rolling over.
Companies want you to file the dispute through their support system using their existing process.

Once you file a dispute through the credit card company, the dispute process is moved to the credit card company and now the company has a LOT less power on what might be happening. They also get severely impacted from having a high amount of charge back and hurts them the next time they want to negotiate their credit card rate.

So from a market perspective, it makes total sense for a company to ban you. You're causing them problems, refuse to follow procedure on how to handle the dispute, and hurt their bottom line in ways that could impact them at the rate of millions of dollar. They would rather not have you as a customer at all than deal with you again. Statistically, a customer that uses charge back is a lot likely to end up using it again, so they avoid themselves future trouble as well.
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just go through with the original plan.
One use case for generating group elements with verifiably unknown discrete logs is for a commitment scheme, like a Pedersen commitment.

In a Pedersen commitment, you have two generators, let’s call them G_value and G_blinding. To commit to a value v, you choose a random blinding factor v_blinding and form the commitment C_v as

C_v = v * G_value + v_blinding * G_blinding

Later, you can publish (v, v_blinding) to open the commitment.

Pedersen commitments are really useful because they’re homomorphic: adding commitments produces a commitment to the sum of the values. So you can use them to do a limited form of computation on hidden data.

Where does the verifiable generation come in? Since G_value and G_blinding are both in the same prime-order group, there exists _some_ value r so that G_value = r * G_blinding. If someone knew this relation r, they could forge commitments, for instance

C_v = (v+1) * G_value + (v_blinding - r) * G_blinding

and claim that C_v is a commitment to the value v+1 instead, because knowledge of the relation r lets them “slide value” between the “basis vectors”.

So Pedersen commitments are only _computationally_ binding: finding r requires solving the discrete logarithm problem, which we assume is hard, as long as the generators G_value and G_blinding were generated through some verifiable procedure.

On the other hand, though, they’re perfectly hiding, since knowing r lets you find a valid blinding factor for _any_ value, so even an infinitely computationally powerful adversary can’t determine which value was used after the fact.
what about GIL? https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock

why python can't thread? impact of GIL on python https://pythonspeed.com/articles/python-gil/
So, what are they wrong about?
Best Western hotels are individually owned and operated, and Best Western itself does not lose any money from chargebacks, the motel owner does. Best Western gets paid their 10% to 15% of gross revenue royalty either way from the hotel owner.

Hotel owners, however, can and do ban individuals for chargebacks.
You assume you have a choice in playing. Most of the supply will never consider listing on multiple marketplaces, because its a massive hassle. $ABNB is up 48% YTD bucking the rest of the market, they have strong financials and are massively profitable. The growth-at-all-costs play DID work, and now you have no choice but to bend the knee. Edge cases like this will never materially affect their business.
+1 to this. Come through Berlin, I'll show you around. Seriously, travel!
I am a host and an often traveler.

AirBnb doesn’t necessarily side with one side or the other, but rather, there, customer service is outsourced to the Philippines and they just don’t care. The side you wins is the side you can say the magic words that specific agent wants to hear.

I’ve had guests stay at our place and get a refund at the end by lying, and even admitted to me, he knows how Airbnb support works so knew what to say to them.

I’ve been able to get damage claims paid by Airbnb when guests refused.

Looking at this host though and reading the reviews, this looks like a complete scam. Claire, for one, is definitely not real. Also anything under 4.7 on Airbnb is generally not good. I generally only rent 4.8 and up. The first review (I hough it may not have been up when he booked) mentions being hit up for money, bad checking, etc, lol of which point to a scam.

Had it been me, I wouldn’t have cancelled and would have just said I’ll stay there and been done with it.
If these drugs prove workable over the long term, pretty soon everyone will suspect you're on it, because the majority of people will be. There would be no more of a stigma about this than taking a medication for blood pressure.
I'm a Nokia fanboy and will sadly admit that you're right.

They made a -lot- of stupid decisions, both in sticking to 'what they knew' and bad decisions with cutting-edge tech (N900 comes to mind, you couldn't get one in the states with the right bands for 3G).

I will always love the Lumia cameras however, even their shit tier models had great image quality.
Simple composable components are especially important for complex projects. The larger the project the less likely that the assumptions made by the framework will be a good fit for it.
> have heard of companies reacting to a chargeback in situations like this by banning your account

Reporting this back to your bank, better yet, with your state financial regulator and maybe a federal copied, usually gets this swiftly reversed.
It will depends on the local laws/regulations that apply to distance-selling and the card network rules. Considering there is clearly no bad faith involved from the buyer (he's not even trying to weasel out of the booking - he was looking forward to use the service he paid for), I'd say he has a good chance.
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I'm confused by the banning comments. Can't you just create a new account with a new payment method and different email address?

Maybe I still have too much of that 90's internet mentality, dunno.
Unfortunately, I found that the best way to resolve these situations is to post publicly on Twitter about what happened making sure to @ the relevant company and # the relevant things.

If the support group won't help you, then maybe the PR group can.

Basically your attitude has to be "either you give me my $900 back, or I'll make sure this problem costs you more than $900 in bad publicity."

The math becomes better for them to give you your $900 back, if they can publicly look responsive to complaints or maybe even get you to take down your post.
Uh yeah that absolutely can happen. Car rental companies are known to ban people who do chargebacks. If you refuse to pay a business what they think you owe then there’s a decent chance they won’t want future business from you.
Why are they using AI instead of real talking heads? Something doesn't add up ...
Haha hopefully without the disgust ;)
edit: oh wait, is this why they sometimes cause vomiting? Like you literally feel sick?