It's all fun and games until the models learn to poison biological neural networks in the same way. You thought you were simply looking at nice pictures of someone's gardening project, then five minutes later suddenly you decide to run out into the street with no pants for no discernible reason.

According to

Lisa Grossman, a spokesperson for Restore Homeowner Autonomy and Rights (RHOAR), a local group that opposed the law.

But why the hell would anyone believe that and report it as the truth?

Anyone who knows the first thing about Airbnb knows that hosts have a lot of problems with bad guests, and guests have a lot of problem with bad hosts, and that Airbnb spends a lot of effort and money to avoid these problems (and to avoid PR fallout when they fail to).

Ask yourself, how much would YOU pay for a black market Airbnb? And how would YOU trust a tenant in your home if you couldn't legally admit they were there?

There's a much simpler explanation, and that's that we're dealing with real estate owners who scream bloody murder because their passive income stream was taken away.

"By all news", yes.

Yet, shoplifting may not actually be any worse than it used to, and certainly doesn't make a dent in retail profits.

Who owns "all news" again?

Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it', Daily Mail, Tuesday December 5. 2000.

Can't think of anything happening in the last three months... the months of summer... that could cause usage to drop. Nope, nothing.

If Spanish speakers want a machine translated version of the site, they're quite capable of feeding it to a machine translator themselves. You can even make it easy for them, with buttons and whatnot.

But when you feed them MT without asking, a lot of the time they have to mentally translate borked translations back into English, just to understand what the author was trying to say. In terms of conveying what the writer was trying to say, all translations (but especially MT) can ONLY do worse than the original.

This is the no-brainer, rule #1 for machine translation: Let the user decide!

Yeah, if I see an English language channel with a title translated into borked Norwegian, I set "never recommend this channel".

It's a basic principle of machine translation that you let the user do it, if they need it. You do not do it for them. Quite often we have to back-translate from bork to English, to understand what the hell they were trying to say in the first place. It's the opposite of helpful, it creates more and harder translation work for the user.

This is correct. Addiction treatment can never be a substitute for preventing people from getting addicted in the first place. Thinking it can, is like thinking ambulances can substitute for traffic rules. Just like emergency medicine, addiction treatment is horribly expensive and often fails - but we don't want to be the kind of society that just lets people die, so we offer it anyway and try to reduce the need for it as much as possible.

I'd also like to remind people that AUD isn't some syndrome, some medical condition that causes you to act like an alcoholic. It's just a description of alcohol addiction. A description is not an explanation.

The brackets are the only things that's maybe a bit "over the top" with this font, which was a positive surprise, because from the description I expected it to be ugly as hell. All the visibility compromises on the other glyphs feel quite natural.

I can probably live with super-squiggly squiggly braces too.

An election is coming up. Some people may think it's to their benefit that reddit is flushed down the toilet.

At least 14 billion was spent attempting to influence the US presidential election last time around.

"Trained", it's funny how much faith you put in that. If you could just train someone to serve your interests over their own, you wouldn't need AI.

There's a funny story, well, funny isn't the right word, from the end of WW2, recounted by Hannah Arendt. Some Jews managed to get a message to Himmler, warning him that the war would end soon and not in a good way for him, so he'd better start thinking about what he was doing. Surprisingly Himmler saw the logic in that, and ordered his underling Adolf Eichmann to call off the Holocaust (and destroy as much as possible of the evidence). But then Eichmann, the supreme "I was only following orders" underling, for the first time in his life quietly refused an order.

The lesson is: everyone disobeys orders sooner or later. The question is just when. Will it be to save your conscience (countless of those guys' victims), your skin (Himmler) or your pride in what you've already done (Eichmann).

To quote Keith Marsden, "They don't need you on the land now or on the factory floor,
They won't even need you when they go and start the final war,
Best be ready when they start to ask what do they need you for,
When you're only idle, undeserving poor"

Right, so which government is it that confirms this story? Clicked the link to see, but that's only the Independent saying government confirms the story. I guess it's "independently" confirmed.

Seriously though, it would be interesting to know how much of the "Russian soldiers sick from digging trenches in the red forest" was true, how much was propaganda, and how much was hypochondria in stressed-out soldiers ordered to put themselves in unknown danger of radiation etc.

Meanwhile, NYT is helping tracking down the guy who leaked the Pentagon docs, and gloating about it. With media like that, who needs dictators?

the first thing we need is to make obesity as unglamorous as possible.

It's already pretty damn unglamorous. Fat positivity is a fringe online phenomenon, I'm pretty certain it's an inevitable product of obesity trends (I.e. a coping strategy) and not a significant driver of obesity trends.

I'm of the opinion that we must look at economic solutions rather than that oh so satisfying individual moral condemnation. Not just taxing the unhealthy and subsidizing the healthy, but looking critically at the supply chains we've built up that are dependent on it, for instance agricultural policy, and maybe crack down on lobbying for sugar and fat (sorry, keto nerds).

Type 2 is a serious socio-economic health problem and a genetic lottery. Some people with a very poor diet don't have it, some people with a relatively modest one (by modern standards) do.