skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Younger people are talking about the pro-palestine / anti-zionist views promoted in the app as a reason that lawmakers are so motivated this time.

Wild speculation, of course.
you need to reserve and pay for a cleaning crew as if it was always a disaster.

Yet hotels manage this fine - it's just baked into the price.

I don't have a problem paying a cleaning fee. I just don't want to pay the fee AND be required to do 90% of the cleaning myself.

I'm happy to put the dishes in and then start the dishwasher. I'm not going to wait around for it to finish and then put them away. I'm happy to pile the used towels and bedding in a single spot, but I'm not going to do the laundry. I'll pick up any trash and wipe down the kitchen, but I'm not going to take out the trash or do a deep clean of the kitchen. Etc.
Not my proudest moment, I will punish myself with a 1 month HN hiatus. (so don't expect an answer)

I guess my take was what was his reason for answering what I initially posted if all he wanted was to RTFM me?
It sounds like your two options are to either charge the max to all guests and the expense of less bookings or to take the loss on the extremely dirty outliers and expect it to be made up by the extremely tidy outliers.
Surprise: An 'Extraterrestrial' Gadget Was Something More Familiar
https://archive.is/CLw4u
Yeah, they’re not the only option and certainly weren’t the first. The sort of thing they do can be a really nice option, though, and they’ve definitely expanded the set of properties available.
> now there's no incentive to opt for long-term rentals

this happened very, very quickly in some markets.. +10 years ago
In the past, I’d have tried to use Achronix’s FPGA’s for secure processors like Burroughs B5000, Sandia Secure Processor, SAFE architecture, or CHERI. One could also build I/O processors with advanced IOMMU’s, crypto, etc. Following trusted/untrusted pattern, I’d put as much non-security-critical processing as possible into x86 or ARM chips with secure cores handling what had to be secure.

High-risk operations could run the most critical stuff on these CPU’s. That would reduce the security effort from who knows how many person-years to basically spending more per unit and recompiling. Using lean, fast software would reduce the performance gap a bit.

CHERI is now shipping in ASIC’s, works with CPU’s that fit in affordable FPGA’s, and so this idea could happen again.
n100 is overhyped IMO; I would prefer vendors focus on the connectivity and application requirements first and let the choice of SoC follow. The most important factor for this type of application is really PCIe lanes. If someone (other than broadcom) could introduce a basic fanout switch with PCIE5.0 upstream and loads of PCIe 3.0 downstream ports that would hopefully open the floodgates.
Nicely executed.
Thanks to my annoyance with the last decade plus of movie colour palettes, I saw teal and orange.

Perhaps that's the real colour scheme and the people claiming blue/black are being compensated by the conspiracy too ...
AirBnB should tie the cleaning fee to your rating, perhaps a cleanliness dedicated rating.
The sad truth: get on Twitter and say a lot of weird, "high-minded" things. It's where VCs hang out, and this is the language they get from a lot of people.
The worse part is how the “success stories” or airbnb hosts have brainwashed lots of people: my middle class friends strongly oppose regulating airbnb because they dream of someday buying a place to rent on airbnb and get passive income, when they don't realize the reason their rents and housing prices are so high is because of this kind of behavior and that they'll never make it in the first place because of the high prices. The ones who owned before airbnb came where the ones who made real money.
are you doing this with pdfmarks?
we should label this movement you're describing.

how about "legal absolutism"? If it's not codified in law it doesn't exist and therefore cannot be a part of people's vernacular.

Once this takes over we can update all our dictionaries to stop marking specific definitions as being legal definitions as they'll all, by definition (heh) be the legal definition.

Or, to put it another way, this is the internet, where you're free to say whatever you want but that doesn't mean you'll be taken seriously.
> if a guest uses every dish in the kitchen without doing a wash up, they cleaning crew could be there for hours

If it is $200 then that should cover 10 man hours of cleaning in a developed country.

I had similar issues as a guest on Airbnb, paid a cleaning fee $100+ and then had complaints that I left food in the fridge (like normal a pack of milk or something not growing new lifeforms) and couch pillow on the floor. They sent photos to shove my nose into it. And it was a tiny studio not a big mansion with much area to cover

I quit Airbnb 2-3 years ago and am happy without
To be fair, two of the four discussed here (U+1F6AB and U+1F6C7) are early "astral plane" emoji just after Unicode gave up on Han unification as a plan and moved back to trying to better round-trip existing encodings. The existence of emoji in general is partly Unicode's mea culpa for attempting Han unification in the first place.

(It was an odd sort of apology, given most of the damage was already done and the astral plane should have probably opened up a lot sooner in hindsight, but it was a fascinating sort of apology in the way that emoji has done more for Unicode acceptance testing in first-language-English developed applications than just about any other block in Unicode history.)
Youtube recently gave me this neat video about an obscure historical aspect of rabies, the dreaded "phoby cat", a species of animal one time believed to be born rabid and 'patient zero' for all other rabies infections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-xcVS1mt48

I first found this channel from Tom Scott's newsletter. He's pretty good at storytelling, so I'll not spoil more of it.
It's absolutely vile seeing these comments all flagged. Using moderation tools to silence people feels extremely poisonous and I hate it.

I share some of the hackles of requiring phone number verification.

Still, I can't help but be a bit disappointed that none of the comments are really speaking to the architecture & change this article is talking about.
I still have my first car, a 1974 standard VW Beetle. It drives fine (because they're so damn simple), but definitely needs a full facelift and clean up one day.

I feel like I'm going to go in the direction of an EV kit when that day comes. I don't need more than 75-100mi range, just want to have a really simple little weekend cruiser.

There's cheap kits like this: https://electrek.co/2023/07/20/this-2000-kit-from-china-will...

Then you just have to spend like $20k on batteries from a wrecked tesla or something.
> How is distributing a model containing copyright material any different to distributing a .zip file containing copyright material? Both contain an encoded, transformed copy of the work. And both can be used to reproduce the original work. The reproduction doesn't even need to be verbatim; just similar enough to convince a court that it is plagiarism.

Because of the substantial non-infringing uses. A court wouldn't throw away a model that can do non-infringing stuff 90% of the time if it can infringe copyright the other 10%.

> Fair use generally only applies for parts of a work, and not using the entire thing. AI companies are claiming fair use, claiming that the processing is transformative. This needs to be determined in court. I think the court cases currently underway will show it is not transformative, because the original work can be recovered. Fair use is also determined on a case by case basis, so I think courts won't have the power to grant blanket permission. New laws would need to be passed for that.

Fair use can apply to any possible allegation of infringement, not just parts of a work, as long as courts find the facts are in favor of it.

Whiile fair use is a case-by-case thing, courts can set precedent that will apply to all situations with similar fact patterns.
The same lesson 30 years ago. WordPerfect insisted that their engineers write code in assembly to achieve maximum performance. Borland did not want to bet on Win32 because they wanted to have the maximum performance under DOS. Lotus-1-2-3 thought that it was ridiculous for Excel to use so much memory and had higher latency on Windows. In the meantime, Microsoft charged ahead with a focus on features and user experiences. The rest is history.
Yeah, right at the top

> We may modify this Privacy Notice by posting a new version at this website effective on the date of publication.

No actual notification needed. Are they screaming to be regulated?
>Why though?

Because most Linux distros have terrible security.

>How is that better than what we have now, where a system can be easily modified in-place without every distro needing dozens of forks for each slight preference change?

Preferences can be done via configuration. Most people do not actually want or need to modify the operating system.

>What exactly is it you're advocating for?

The root user to be effectively removed.
The star-history is looking cool :)

https://star-history.com/#usebruno/bruno&Date
> the company, which only has about 50 full-time employees

I’ve not seen a company of this size (in this space) really add features at the pace Telegram has been doing for several years. Except for the lack of end-to-end encryption in personal chats by default (and the lack of E2EE for group chats altogether), it’s a fantastic platform for chat. No other platform comes close to it on features and speed. The rest of them have been and continue to be years behind.
NYC Just Had Its Safest-Ever Year for Pedestrians. What Went Right?
Still no touch screen?
I really hope this was an experiment in using gen AI:

“Create a website for a new company that is building the next generation of computing hardware to power AI software. Make sure it sounds science-y but don’t be too specific.”
I think Joblib Memory does the trick even better. https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auto_examples/memory...
If you don't care what happens after your death, then your accounts becoming inaccessible doesn't matter, and there is no reason to do anything at all.
Indenting is not hard, and programmers should be good at it, provided they care about clean code. I like that Python forces indentation rules because it means I'll never have to read code that has confusing/improper indentation. ESLint has an indent rule to enable it for JavaScript.
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Preventing Exploits: JetBrains' Ethical Approach to Vulnerability Disclosure
> Drupal and SharePoint are not the same.

This is exactly my point. Replacing Word is impossible, because you will always have a worse version of Word. Libre Office demonstrates it pretty clearly.

Reorganizing work so that Word falls out of use is totally possible and even desirable as a long-term strategy.

Lots of people here talk about collaboration, but how many actually worked on documents where every word matters and sidenotes are important?

Are you aware of state of the art collaborative tools, like those offered by genious.com?

Or stet, for that matter?

See stet used in
https://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/gplv3-draft-1.html
At this point the cleaning fees are just a scam to make the listing fee seem artificially lower.

People did the same thing on eBay by making the items almost free but the shipping expensive, until they fixed the eBay interface, e.g. by letting you sort by price + shipping and showing shipping fees before you click.
This feels very similar to the arguments for pushing on with AI research. The argument usually ends that we must default to intervening because the risk of inaction is too high.

> And later regretted it before he died. I just hope we don't regret our inaction as well.

Yep that's very true, I also hope people don't regret their decisions (I wouldn't necessarily classify it as inaction, that sounds like the default should be to act).
Curious, which python library did you use to convert to PDFs? currently looking into a couple options myself
And that’s reason #13563 I would never do an AirBnb and we just stayed in hotels during our year of “nomadding”.
David Grusch and his testimony to Congress along with the other military pilots is really what kick started this whole thing
This does give AirBnB a reason enshrined in policy to take consistent action against misbehaving hosts, something that was lacking previously.

Also, I am not sure why you are conflating AirBnB’s authority with a local government - or course AirBnB won’t address the issues you cite in your last paragraphs as that is not their job and to think it should be is totally ridiculous. We have local and state governance to pass laws regulating behavior that is not good for society at large. AirBnB’s job is to generate value for shareholders all while operating within those bounds.
no they show it very clearly

it's not a question what is true or not, but in which context it's used and what other truth might be omitted or overgeneralized

you can be supper racist by only stating things which using the right sources would be statistically likely

Actually mostly stating "true" thinks in a manipulated and twisted context where they just omit the "right" things is one of the favorite means of groups like fascist, left and right extremists etc to engage in mass manipulation on social media (at least from the people of that groups which know what they are doing).
I'm a digital nomad.

One luggage, no permanent home, been fifteen years.

I used to use AirBnB all the time.

They gradually become more and more, well, "large company".

Governments gradually made AirBnB illegal or effectively illegal, largely or wholly killing off AirBnB in given cities, or countries.

For example, it used to be about impossible to get into Amsterdam, because of rent control and renting regulations; no supply of places to let. Then AirBnB came along, and everyone and their dog let places on AirBnB. You could get in, and at a good price. Then AirBnB was essentially banned, and now you can't get into Amsterdam.

It was always that there were a lot of people offering places who didn't know how to price what they had; so you'd see a lot of properties, but a lot were crazy money. Still, if there were enough, there would be enough places at sane prices you'd get somewhere.

These days, I still look at AirBnB, but I see that their fees have continually risen over time, and are now like 10% or 15%, and there's just no content. I was in Paris last couple of months. There was nothing viable on AirBnB, unless you wanted to pay several thousand a month. There was one what I concluded was a scam, a very dodgy letting agency, who had lots of apartments, all with no ratings, but very bad reviews on-line. I think they were continually deleting and remaking their lets on AirBnB, to get rid of negative reviews.

Finally, AirBnB itself, regarding "large company", became unreliable as a service, in that I never knew, when I came to us it, if log-in would still work.

I recall the first time log-in failed for no obvious reason, and the and the only option was "email support and we'll contact you in a few days" - and I was looking to move in about two weeks time.

After that, I put up my own HTTPS proxy, which I now use whenever I use AirBnB, to avoid AirBnB suspending my account for a few days, until support get back to me.

I also recall one episode about ten years ago where I had to phone support. It was a three hour long screaming nightmare of hell and madness.

So - fees are now rather high, support don't bother - anything but support - I had to backdoor my own net traffic to use the service, no viable apartments in most locations.

It was great, but now it's really not.

The one and critical thing AirBnB got right was building into their platform the expectation owners would offer discounts for stays over a week, or over a month.

I don't see this on other platforms, and it makes pricing on other platforms crazy. If I come and stay for three months, I expect a discount for giving full occupancy over that time. If you don't offer that, you're off the menu.
People without diabetes monitoring glucose w expensive products–is it worth it?
There is an nginx server running on debian stable somewhere in the dark heart of Germany. But I do have numerous tricks (too many, probably) to keep things quick.

But there are still ways to be quicker. For example, the header photo is smaller than the vector diagrams on the page, by about tenfold.
I've stayed at dozens of AirBnBs and I've never had an onerous list of chores or a noticeably high cleaning fee, so these complaints always baffle me a little. Are people reading the listing thoroughly? Are they choosing a place with lots of ratings and reading all of the reviews? I've definitely had some bad AirBnbs over the years despite my careful selection process, but my complains are usually about noise or a lack of supplies (extra towels and blankets for example).
Maybe that's the process PG describes themselves, but I think that the amount of different "processes" or "human equivalent to LLM decoding/sampling techniques" used by humans is likely very large - far larger than the number of techniques available to LLMs today.

Today within LLMs, there typicality sampling, contrastive search, top-p/top-k (nucleus sampling), and a whole massive amount of other more obscure techniques which didn't make it into huggingfaces model.generate() function.

I believe that the ontological configuration of humans has wide variety. As such, I believe that humans go through a diverse and vibrant amount of different writing processes - and often radically different processes can still result in excellent works!

Specifically, beam search is really only good at dealing with sequence-sequence tasks, i.e. summarization or translation. It's also horribly, horribly inefficient in the worst case scenarios. That said, it's also the only good way we know of for enforcing sequence level constraints (i.e. like this https://huggingface.co/blog/constrained-beam-search)
Airbnb did previously allow indoor cameras?!
No, for example the root user can read any file on the system. If someone gains access to the root user they shouldn't also gain the ability to read and write to every file on the system.
No, they've worked around that too -- now sellers typically include a [completely unrelated] 0.99p item as an option in the listing, which then moves them to the top of the price-sorted view.
Had an airbnb that locked out its thermostat within a range outside our preferences.

Nothing an ice pack wrapped in a kitchen towel on top of said thermostat couldn’t resolve.
Sorry I am not buying the personal anecdote as the public numbers from both orgs tell a different story. When reliability and long term support come up in conversation, Google is not a name to reach for.
The account is not locked, it's shadowbanned.
If you mean "Lisp" interpreter, then I also did something that's kinda what you're describing:

https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp
Makes you wonder if it's a test run for Taiwan.
I pay a housecleaning company come every two weeks. Two people, sometimes three, between 2 and 3 hours. $150. Or $200 if it's been longer.

I regularly see $300 cleaning fees.

And when I've had limited options and paid those cleaning fees, I think "I'd have fired my housecleaners if this was what I was getting for my money, every week, sometimes twice a week".

Let's be brutally honest - the hosts using professional cleaners are only paying for an hour or two. And oftentimes, I expect that their "cleaners" are the host's kids being handed a tub of sanitizing wipes.
It was easy enough in normal "vacation" areas. Like the NC beaches. Or ski resort areas. But, those were largely location-specific listing services - Airbnb have us one site for the world. There's no longer a need to call a travel agent if you're visiting a new area.
Does it fail on nightly?

There were some recent fixes: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/10737
This looks really interesting! One of the main reasons we've opted to writing a more complex rending code is for speed. We're getting around 500ms for a single document, which is (last I tested) quicker than any headless chrome setup.

How long does it take to render using your API? :)
To be fair it isn't very common to detail proprietary hardware in github repos. And any code for such novel processors would be fascinating but useful only for theory rather than practice at the moment. The lack of open code is a missing merit badge rather than a demerit.
You could live as long as you wanted on BLM land, as long as you kept moving.

Of course, you'd probably die pretty quickly, but nobody would stop you.

The chance of living on a proverbial paradisal desert island isn't available anymore; those places are desirable!
This is a quantum computing company, specifically for quantum ML.
I think it's a bit strange to reply directly that you did not plagiarise any images when the opening table cell background is a direct lift of the SVG from our site...
Did you ask the people who wrote the book and articles you read to get knowledge on a subject how they feel about a YouTuber earning ad money by repackaging their content ?
yeah...you need all of that if you're writing anything that will be abused by tons of users and handles data in any form.
What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?

If NYC and SF are having crime issues it does not mean Greenwich, Connecticut should ramp up its police force to make up for NYCs and SFs deficiencies.
> In my experience Airbnb isn’t even cheaper, just has more “interesting” housing available.

I think it depends. For relatively short stays of one or two people, a hotel is nearly always a better deal in my opinion (for short stays the cleaning fee alone can be a big percentage of the total price).

But for week or longer stays with a family or larger, they usually come out ahead given multiple bedrooms and the fact that the cleaning fee is amortized over more nights (not to mention access to a kitchen can save a ton of money). In this segment, though, they're really no different from VRBO or a host of other vacation rental providers that have been around for a long time.
Honestly I think those requirements are perfectly reasonable for the originally intended purpose of the site, which is people renting out their personal homes. I have stayed in several Airbnbs that had the owner's clothes in the closet and pictures of their kids on the wall, and in those situations, it just seems rude to leave dirty dishes in the sink. These places aren't hotels.

I agree that doing laundry is a bit onerous in clearly dedicated rentals, but in my experience those tend to have fewer requirements and tend to not care if you miss a couple steps unless you trash the place.
What a strange essay! To try to find out what makes a good (sorry "THE BEST") essay without any reference to any of the great essays that have actually been written? It feels a bit like the head of a university's English department setting out to discover "the best computer program" but without talking to or refering to the work of any of the thousands of people who've made it their life to study and practice the craft.
Could you explain in what way sharing non-personal data could violate someone's privacy?

You mention earlier data about your devices, this seems to me like it would fall into the `personal data` category, and be excluded.