Airbnb claims it charges about 16% fee on top of the actual rental price.
https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/how-much-do...
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diziet commented on Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion · Posted by u/WolfOliver
My biggest gripe with Notion is that it doesn't work offline. Would you addres this?
I run a batch inference/LLM data processing service and we do a lot of work around cost and performance profiling of (open-weight) models.
One odd disconnect that still exists in LLM pricing is the fact that providers charge linearly with respect to token consumption, but costs are actually quadratic with an increase in sequence length.
At this point, since a lot of models have converged around the same model architecture, inference algorithms, and hardware - the chosen costs are likely due to a historical, statistical analysis of the shape of customer requests. In other words, I'm not surprised to see costs increase as providers gather more data about real-world user consumption patterns.
Aren't advances in KV caching making compute cost not quite quadratic?
diziet commented on Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staffers $100M bonuses bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh
Whether this is true or not, this is a clever move to publicize. Anyone being poached by Meta now from OpenAI will feel like asking for 100m bonuses and will possibly feel underappreciated with only a 20 or 50 million signing bonus.
diziet commented on WeightWatchers files bankruptcy wsj.com/articles/weightwa... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
If you think it's important for you, awesome. I personally think nuclear proliferation is a more important issue for the world than if I lose weight or not.
And that's okay for me, and it should be okay for you, too.
You can do more things to change your future healthspan than you can do things to change nuclear proliferation. A major positive impact of exercise is stronger bones and less risk of major injury from falling and other accidents.
The first of many I suspect. The United States has spent the better part of a century now projecting soft power all over the world, in a number of ways, many not even necessarily nefarious. We're a reliable member of the global community. Well, were. Since the first Trump administration we've steadily been losing that global influence (largely to China) because dipshits who don't understand international relations keep getting put in charge of international relations, not the least of which is the Toddler in Chief himself, and think it's a waste of money.
Then they go on to complain how China is stepping into those vacuums and gaining that influence, the irony completely lost on them. Or they're just flagrant con men, take your pick.
I am not sure if we read the same article, but the article I read specifically calls out funding by nations as problematic:
> This is because WADA relies heavily on funding from stakeholders, some of which have had the highest number of doping cases to investigate, such as Russia, China and the US. This in turn creates serious challenges for WADA in maintaining its own independence and impartiality.
The US has had more olympic medals stripped than China due to doping, but less than Russia [1]. This could be because China is better at hiding/masking it. It could be because US athletes get tested more thoroughly. However, the article calls out the relationship between funding and nations that are interested in doping and winning athletic competitions as problematic. Your... quick dismissive and berating diversion to our current administration is not very enlightening.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1288717/countries-most-s...
diziet commented on Brood War Korean Translations blog.sourcedive.net/brood... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I was able to understand the Google Translate version well, but I am very familiar with the intricacies of BW and zerg 12hatch openers.
Chatgpt and Claude did an incredible job translating the korean text:
Claude:
Today I'll teach you about the 12 Hatchery build. I'll explain the types of 12 Hatchery builds, their advantages and disadvantages, and the build orders in a simple but detailed way.
Against Protoss, this is the build you use when you want to start with the most economic advantage. Against Terran, there are several builds you can do with 12 Hatchery, so I'll explain some of the most commonly used builds.
The first is the two-hatchery build that starts with 12 Hatchery:
12 Hatchery
11 Spawning Pool
10 Gas
This build uses early gas, and it's often used when you want to quickly transition into a three-hatchery build with three gas bases.
The second build is:
12 Hatchery
12 Pool
12 Gas
This build allows for moderately fast tech tree and moderately fast three-hatchery expansion. This build is commonly known as the "safe three-hatchery" build, and you can think of it as a build that enables both quick Mutalisks and quick third base.diziet commented on Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023) arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241... · Posted by u/amichail
Here have some edge cases for chess, fortresses. The first three are "0.0" in the fourth black wins.
8/8/8/1Pk5/2Pn3p/5BbP/6P1/5K1R w - - 0 1 (white can not free the rook)
1B4r1/1p6/pPp5/P1Pp1k2/3Pp3/4Pp1p/5P1P/5K2 b - - 0 1 (the rook can not enter white's position)
kqb5/1p6/1Pp5/p1Pp4/P2Pp1p1/K3PpPp/5P1B/R7 b - - 0 1 (Rook to h1. King to g1, Queen can not enter via a6)
2nnkn2/2nnnn2/2nnnn2/8/8/8/3QQQ2/3QKQ2 w - - 0 1 (the knights advance as block, so that attacked knights are protected twice)
In the first both Stockfish and Lc0 think white is better (slightly on a deep ply). In the second and in the third they think black wins. Lc0 understands the fourth (applause), Stockfish does not.
Links to these fortresses to those without familiarity with chess:
https://lichess.org/analysis/standard/8/8/8/1Pk5/2Pn3p/5BbP/...https://lichess.org/analysis/fromPosition/1B4r1/1p6/pPp5/P1P...https://lichess.org/analysis/fromPosition/kqb5/1p6/1Pp5/p1Pp...https://lichess.org/analysis/fromPosition/2nnkn2/2nnnn2/2nnn...
Playing on a diagonal board is very frustrating. I estimate hard to be a bit under 2000 elo, medium around 1400.
Seems like this practice in general shows that a true free market doesn't exist in the airline industry. If it did exist then flights like these wouldn't be profitable to sell in the first place.
I could imagine situations where airlines need to get pilots/crew/planes to some location for the next flight and somehow recoup costs there, and are willing to cut prices on such multileg flights to take business away from their competitors... but I generally agree with your statement.