skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
_Presumably_ amazon believes that twitter has sufficient assets that a court order can leave them whole. They have a contract with twitter, so twitter can't simply not pay indefinitely it's just a matter of when amazon decides that twitter's debt to them exceeds their assets, and their revenue won't make up for it.
What percentage of homeless have mental illness or drug abuse issues?
The sad fact of software projects is that some part of the work is always a bit of bribery to keep skilled labor engaged. You’re always throwing them bones, letting them work on a few things that don’t really need to be done but make them happy. That’s lost sometimes when I’m lamenting NIH or wheel reinvention, but it’s a matter of degrees. Let them have one big thing and a bunch of small things.

Companies go off the rails and get trashed talked when they clamp down and go for zero fun, 100% financially justifiable task lists.

As a tech ages out you can’t find anyone good to work on it. And when you make them, morale craters.
If it's insured, it's no skin off their nose.

Gestures of goodwill go a long way in sales, that's why people love to pay for coffee or lunch when out with potential customers.
Certainly. My point was more though that, while I could hopefully reasonably puzzle my way through a SAT test without doing any prep, I doubt I'd do a very good job within a time limit because I'd be puzzling a lot of things out that I learned decades ago and haven't really used since without checking a book out of the library and spending at least a few days with it..
New Jersey also used AI to determine bail and it failed spectacularly: https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-supposed-fix-bail-sys...
These are good distinctions. But I think maybe the central question or line of questioning I was driving at was this: what is it that makes some given discriminatory judgment borne of animosity or pure arbitration without reason? How could we even consistently determine something like that? Even about ourselves? If it must be borne of explicable reasons, to whom must we justify ourselves with these reasons?

Personally, instead of dealing with this litany of issues I'd rather do what I normally do and just lol at people who charge me with waaaacism for whatever bizarre reason they happen to concoct today.
Can you even leave the host a review at that point to warn others?
Not all of them, just like 99%. I dont know any grift or scams that kraken or bitstamp pulled, and they have been big players from the start.
The annoyance I felt that I was a “good” postmaster and I was punished as a part of being from a tribe of bad postmasters.

Google et al. can’t tell the difference when you hit spam.

We never bought or sold any email lists, we went out of our way to ensure you wanted to be on the list- we made it single link with no extra checkbox or button to unsubscribe, we emailed only occasionally and above all we did our absolute best to make the content humorous and engaging.

You can make the case that there should be “no automated mail trying to sell things” and honestly, thats fine, but why the hell are people marking the receipts for things they bought as spam?
Semantic Scholar has 1,111. [0]

I tend to trust Semantic more than GS. GS tends to overestimate. For example on GS I have 164 citations on one paper and semantic says 150. FWIW Scite says 49.[1]

[0] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ColabFold%3A-making-pr...

[1] I'll note that this paper is an arxiv paper and has not been accepted at a conference but I'd also argue that conference acceptance means little in ML. I'll explain if anyone is actually concerned with the claim.
Charge it back via your bank and explain the situation. Worst case scenario, it gets denied, you don't lose anything either way.

The initial misunderstanding was cleared up just one hour after the booking - it should be very reasonable for the host to offer a full refund, it's not like it was a last-minute cancellation where the host would struggle to get it rebooked in time and lose out. The host is clearly being malicious here and trying to make a quick buck by double-dipping - getting some money from the cancelled booking and then relisting the property back on the market.

I am always surprised how many people don't know about payment card disputes/chargebacks or refuse to use them, even right here on HN. The bank and card networks are biased towards you to begin with, and there's no downside to losing one as long as you're not being outright fraudulent or acting in bad faith.

Card chargebacks (or litigation, if you have the means) is the only thing companies understand, especially in a country where consumer protection isn't a thing.
I’m the opposite - low hours and frequent days off don’t help me with burnout - I need to forget all about work and unplug completely for a long time.
I really like that in Rust the API safety is defined by the language, not by each library individually.

There are no gotchas to be found in small print in the library documentation, no disclaimers that the code is meant only for single-threaded programs, or haggling over how rare the edge cases are. If it doesn't say `unsafe`, it has to meet Rust's universal requirements for safety.
Anecdotal, but there is a large overlap between the breadwinning woman’s group and the divorce groups at my office. I myself fall into that Venn diagram.
Sometimes some hosts make up some ridiculous excuse to lure you into cancelling yourself to make a quick buck. A minority but they do exist for sure.

When I had an issue with "funny" hosts, I reached out to the Airbnb supported and I actually got a full refund and a discount for a future booking as an apology for the situation.

To be fair, your host was extremely rigid. Reach airbnb support, maybe you'll get a full refund.
I might have misunderstood what you've written, but is there a reason you can't use https://github.com/etemesi254/zune-image as a JPEG decoder? It has minimal use of unsafe and is performant.
Credit card chargeback?
I had the same thing happen to me. Not only do I not stay at AirBNBs anymore, I cancelled my Discover Card when they refused to fix it... after ~15 years as a customer.

Once you hit a certain tax bracket and your purchases tend to be of a certain value, you start getting a more skilled person trying to fuck you, and they often win. At this income bracket, it's time to get an AmEx (or another card with really good payment protection policies).

But in this case, I'd let the family member sleep in my bed, and I'd go stay at this AirBNB, and I'd probably trash the fuckin' place or something.
WPF and XAML are by far the worst tech stack that I've had to work on during my career. It was only for 1 year because my team got added to a massively delayed project, but I still remember the horrors. The node tree could only ever have a few thousand nodes before performance became abysmal so all kinds of workarounds were written.
Thank you! You can upvote it here (and perhaps share some ideas?): https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/discussions/468...
I'm thinking of this more in the way of "printers got so good so now they have to add tracking dots when people try to print money or IDs".

We need the same thing for AI generated imagery, video and text.
> it's pretty much a visual way to identify windows-configuration-to-register, and instead of doing C-x r w REG / C-x r j REG all the time you have a nice automatic way...

That's a great succinct way to put my longer elaborate example that's a sibling to this response.
Why would a scam operation allow someone to post something that discourages other marks from getting scammed too?
Yes, because as a mature adult , I don’t still hold grudges about something that happened over 25 years ago.

Are you the type of person that still refuses to use Google services because they cancelled Google Reader over a decade ago?

And just like I had to learn to adapt and change my behavior after failure, so did MS when it lost out in mobile and was sued.
Keep in mind without residency Americans can only stay in Europe (Schengen zone) for 90 days in any 180 day window.
That's not how the pills work. They act by reducing hunger and creating satiety at lower caloric inputs. They also often have nausea and vomiting as side-effects.
Until the friction of working in the terrible code becomes bad enough to slow down development to the point that the code owners complain about why it's taking so long to get work done. Of course they still won't support improving the code, but at least you have empirical evidence that never taking out the garbage turns makes the system look like a house in an episode of Hoarders
I almost certainly don't save any money considering electricity cost. I have a dell r630 for compute and an r730xd that I use as a NAS. Then I have one switch for the rack and a POE switch for the house. Probably 3-5amps total?

If I started over, I would probably choose more efficient gear.

That said, I don't mind paying for the electricity too much. I enjoy the warm fuzzies of knowing my data lives under my roof.
In my idiom, at least, "kind of" is not solely deminisher, but can also be an approximater - to say something "kind of upset me" _could_ mean "it upset me, but not a great deal", or it could mean "it had an effect on me which is complicated and difficult to concisely describe, but which can be approximately described as 'upset'". In that reading, this isn't a contradiction at all - "which honestly had an extremely large effect on me which was similar to, but not entirely the same as, being upset".
That's from the book "Discrimination and Disparities".
I've been dreading this. It's going to get much, much worse from here.
The analogy is between AI and the sun. Just as the sun provides free labor and puts candle-makers out of a job, AI will soon provide free labor and put humans working in industry X out of a job. Bastiat's argument is that there will be a net benefit to humanity from such free labor effects.
I have considered it, but I'm not giving my life for my country. A country is just an emergent structure. There are others like it.
It has nothing to do with Europe. It's just that competing with monopolies is generally impossible, which is why they're supposed to be illegal.

The US has failed to enforce its own laws about monopolies for decades.
Do they by any chance live on Electric Avenue?
The post very clearly explains that they did reach out to airbnb
i got a really good job off of a homework assignment so this is a hard disagree for me. of course mileage might wary
I've had too many bad experiences with them AirBNB is a liability
Some wild suggestions below about not doing it because of the economy.

You're 28 dude. Go spend 5% of the cash you have in the bank and travel the world for a year.
Most websites don't need to gather and sell your data but here we are.
Complain with him, of course. I’m sure you have a bevy of criticism about modern healthcare to offer. In the midst of this, you can pepper in your solutions beneath waves of empathy. People these days, even older men, are desperately in need of someone to relate to them intimately. Sometimes this can be a problem. But in this instance it sounds like it’s warranted. I think that jumping directly to the solution to another person’s problems may deprive them of the need to be heard as a human being and not a bug.
I unironically believe that large tech co's would do this.
I would be so mad if this happened to me, what an absolute asshole of a host. Can’t believe Airbnb wouldn’t enforce it either.
I don’t think the “kind of” here is serving to minimize the “upset ness”. I think it’s describing the fact that the person wasn’t really “upset”, but some other emotion which they can’t express, which was kind of like being upset, but not exactly the same.
Only in the last year?

It is important to remember the near-global admiration for China's lockdowns during the first year of the pandemic. Highly manufactured. Twitter was a huge incubator for it.
I can't speak to AWS but in my experience with an expired credit card and a few dollars owed on an otherwise unused account Azure will permanently destroy your data and resources after about 5 months.
The situation has gotten better over time as the OS manufacturers have locked down permissions and made background operations more visible. But many privacy leaks have been only recently fixed or remain unfixed—for instance, it was only in 2021 that Android removed the ability for apps to collect the full list of installed apps. And there have been some real stinkers in the past, like when Facebook used its app to modify people’s contacts lists to make @facebook.com email addresses the primary. Companies that make money from aggregating data will always be on the cutting edge of these techniques compared to ordinary people. The app that’s not installed leaks no data at all, and I don’t blame anyone for avoiding apps that aren’t absolutely necessary.
Type 1: Shared database

Type 2: One schema per tenant

Type 3: One database per tenant
joke all you like but if this wasn't a white cishet male author writing content for other white cishet males then I'll eat my hat.
Personally, the effort to sell me something doesn't need to be there for me to consider it noise, and where marking something as spam (or phishing) are the only ways to tell the system something is noise, I'll mark stuff as spam even if it's not an advertisement.
CSS Microsoft Bob would be fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkU4WWEUj-Y&ab_channel=LGR
There is nothing wrong with not wanting to work right now or jump to your next job if you don't know what you want. Mental health and well being aside. If you need the finances then you need a job and that is a different problem. If you have the vest and you don't need the job for money, just take the break. The stigma around it why we need to justify it shouldn't exist. We afraid it makes us look lazy, etc. Some people are maybe. But don't worry about it. Be the author and creator of your own life. Posting this question is like posting "Should I wash my car?"

I've taken myself out of work 3 times. 12 months, then 6 months and now currently 24 months. Between and around those breaks worked at various silicon valley companies (nvidia, google, startups, major open source non profits)
I am talking about the people conducting the course - Bluedot impact. The cofounder and DRI for AI safety is who I am talking about

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/profile/in/jamie-bernardi/

The researcher who has apparently created the syllabus is also a fresh PhD with 3 years of work experience.
It seems like we never learn.

There are definitely a group of people who truly need this drug (diabetics), but the obesity epidemic is the result of poor diet and a lack of exercise.

So rather than solving for the problem at the source, we're suggesting a "quick fix" which has some known side-effects, and potentially many more unknown. Historically we look at the drugs that have promised weight loss in the past, and they have all been pulled from the market, or shown to have negative consequences.

Taking the drug likely still doesn't solve the other side of the obesity epidemic, which is exercise. So are we going to pop a pill that exercises for us as well?

What will life look like for future generations when they can eat like gluttons, laze around with robot servants bringing us our every wish, and AI that can think for us?

That's not a future I want to live in. I already see parts of it with the UberEats/DoorDash, etc - where people think they are just too busy to go and do something themselves, then I find out they are watching 3 hours of television and tiktok per day.

I'm tempted to downvote myself for this rant, but I do find this a very worrying state.
I think that's part of our responsibility as engineers to ensure that technical debt doesn't pile up. Business will want to focus on pushing new stuff and engineers have to be a counterbalancing force. It's literally your job.

This hasn't been a problem in the places I've worked. Perhaps I'm lucky or it's the fact that I don't live in a very hierarchical society (Sweden).
what a greedy-ass host! they probably turn around and book these dates with someone else after ripping off the author. I think a chargeback is definitely worth a try here.
You really haven’t been paying attention to the change in strategy over the past decade when Microsoft was focused on “Windows everywhere”?
Personally, either regular tech companies in Europe who tend to be more relaxed with hiring ... but also don't pay the same astronomical salaries FAANG adjacent companies pay.

Or startups. :)
Isn’t that a bit naive? Unless you’re born rich, you’re chances of obtaining wealth are extremely slim.

I get where you’re coming from, but whether the barrier is 20 meters or infinitely high doesn’t matter in practice, because I can’t jump neither…
Of course interesting things happen outside of mainstream deep learning. The problem is that sorting by citation count is a terrible way to look broadly at research, because mainstream deep learning is so hyped up that there are just way more people working in that area than in other areas, and with more people come more citations.

It's a shame because I think that other areas offer much more interesting and technical questions, but many new researchers are only exposed to mainstream deep learning because the enormous hype drowns out everything else.
Yes, although I wouldn't go as far as to claim that current AI technology has any sort of "accessible to all" path to AGI. Accessible to irresponsible actors with lots of money? Possibly, and that's the real risk. But at least it's not an absurd comparison unlike the GP's.
Honestly I don't think it would be completely impossible now in a limited fashion.

Imagine playing a level and doing some particular feats in it. They get presented to GPT with a prompt and the story gets send to a AI voice model in game where the NPC asks/tells the player character about it.
Otoh, you did crash a confirmed booking for the host, at too late a date for them to find another guest. I can see both sides here.
I have added the rules but I'm not sure what you mean by CSS. Do you not feel like the UI is usable? I tried to create something very utilitarian - sort of the same philosophy as HN in that regard.

I did discover some performance regressions after this post, but I feel that is expected when getting the HN hug. Hopefully it was still playable for you?
I had a bad experience with airbnb too. trash company with trash employees that offer no help.
Which part was anti-scientific, offering an alternate hypothesis, or questioning the applicability of the methodology?
This is definitely a thing, and I worry that I'm guilty of it myself.

I don't know if I should thank you for this insight or if you just cursed me.
My Corp just issued a new travel policy last week. AirBNBs are completely forbidden.
I've been writing C# code since 2002, when .NET 1.0 first came out. "Modern generic collections" have been around since .NET 2.0 - that's 2005, so almost 18 years now. Their use was already pervasive by 2010, in my experience. Just about the only place where I can think of finding old-style patterns like returning nulls is WinForms and WebForms APIs from that same era that implemented the non-generic interfaces like IDictionary, and which can't be changed for backwards compatibility reasons.

I stand corrected on the timeline for nullable reference types being the default - for some reason I remembered it as being on by default for new projects since VS 2019.
I remember coveting a friend’s MT-32 setup, but when the GUS came out it was gold. It could do amazing wave-table synthesis in an affordable card. The first time I played Doom with the GUS-rendered soundtrack I was blown away at how great it sounded. I long since parted with my own GUS that I had in the 1990s, and I often wish I held on to it. They seem to be much sought after collector’s items now.
They should be there. Do you have an example?
Hashicorp Vault. Checks all your boxes, I think.

Or for something more lightweight (though it sounds like you're just about getting to the size where something more instrumented is worth it), you can have a git repo with secrets encrypted with individual keys. (git-secret and pass are two of the more popular ones here)

> 8. Bonus: How to manage non-technical secrets, e.g. credentials for web shops to order supplies? Multiple people would have to order something.

Probably using a separate system. Bitwarden, 1Password, KeepassXC.
the reality is, general programming language with FP capabilities is what flies in practice, pure FP language might be perfect, it's just hard to find coders for them, we will have to live with that.

for HPC and ML, Python is dominant, I would expect to enhance python somehow with FP instead of anything else, then adding c/c++/rust/fortran libraries(e.g numpy) for intensive computing needs.
> I assume universal self-check-out does reduce staffing needs, which is why they are all moving to it?

My grocery store has 8 self-checkout stations overseen by one employee, and like 10 or so regular checkout lanes. Advantages of self-checkout:

* Less employees to manage it (regular checkout usually has the cashier and a bagger, so we're looking at 1 employee vs 16 for the same number of open registers).

* A single entry line, so if one customer gets stuck the rest of the customers behind them aren't just standing there waiting, so as long as you know how to use self-checkout it's going to be faster.

* The conveyor belts on regular checkout are often pretty gross (dried sticky pop for example), while at self checkout you're putting your items directly into the bag after scanning them.
> "You cannot get a loan because the AI says so" is not acceptable.

To me this makes it seem like acces to loans is a right,in which case the EU should make a lender of last resort that can loan to people who would otherwise get rejected.
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?
I appreciate the thought you've put into this, and I tend to agree. Ideally, a weaker person would be able to use a tool to provide self defense in the most limited way possible without causing harm or damage to anyone other than the attacker.

Unfortunately the tools we have currently aren't great at that.
I have heard of companies reacting to a chargeback in situations like this by banning your account.
That's Mac OS 9, not System 7.5! Almost certainly a screenshot from an emulator though.
Also, the current plan is that it would be opt-in. You'd have to explicitly enable it.
4.47 rating. That is, believe it or not, a pretty appalling score, and not something I would book. Also, the host is an ass, I cannot count how many times I have had people book for family members, and I’ve had numerous occasions where someone has booked for someone else for work.

You also want to avoid 5.00 or 4.99 with hundreds of stays as they are inevitably buying or extorting reviews. 4.88-4.97 is the sweet spot.

I really wish Airbnb would just ban hosts like this, as it makes those of us who are honestly trying to provide good hospitality all get tarred with the same brush.
1 hour is too late?
Montefiore Investment sells majority stake in Gandi
Your continued series of replies seem to do nothing to bolster your argument about Microsoft.

But at the same you elaborate in great (and unnecessary) detail about the level of success you have attained.

BTW: I am hardly young. I am nearly ancient.
https://web.archive.org/web/19970625091034/http://www.berksy...
Homes are sometimes nicer than hotels, better suited for families with children.
I second this recommendation. It's not a recipe book but gives a great overall view for everything you should know about the it roles from dev to CTO and it covers the manager/tech lead path very well.
I don't think this person will use Airbnb ever again anyway.