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Vrbo is blocking new Washington, DC reservations during inauguration week

The Verge

Vrbo previously stated it was evaluating new bookings and that it would “take appropriate action in coordination with law enforcement” if necessary. In comparison, Airbnb not only blocked new reservations, but it canceled existing ones as well.

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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

In granting standing, Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, part of a two-judge majority held “Although Fearless will presumably need to change its contest rules to bring itself into compliance with § 1981, that burden pales in comparison to the interest in rooting out race discrimination in all its forms. We are evaluating all of our options.”

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Extra Crunch roundup: BNPL bonanza, scraping Toast’s S-1/A, early-stage SaaS pricing

TechCrunch

ET on Twitter Spaces , Managing Editor Danny Crichton and immigration law attorney Sophie Alcorn will discuss whether remote work is making H-1B visas less critical for international founders. “Of course,” he notes, “self-evaluation is hard, especially when you’re asking someone else to pay you for something you’ve created.”

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Life360 makes millions selling location data, and it’s about to buy Tile

The Verge

if we found that the average user had a problem with it, we would re-evaluate”. In comparison to services like Credit Karma or insurers that have launched tracking apps or devices, Cyphers pointed out that people join Credit Karma frequently with the “sole intent” of finding a credit card or loan.

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How might we safely pass the buck to AI?

The AI Alignment Forum

The developer also runs targeted evaluations of M_1 , for example, removing AI safety research from 2024 from its training data and asking it to re-discover 2024 AI safety research results. One method is to perform a holistic control evaluation. But I think this comparison is misleading. Two paths to superintelligence.

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5 Lessons Learned from Testing Databricks SQL Serverless + DBT

Towards Data Science

To really understand the cost comparison, let’s just look at an example cost breakdown of running on a Small warehouse based on their reported instance types : Cost comparison of jobs compute, and the various SQL serverless options. In the table above, we look at the cost comparison of on-demand vs. spot costs as well.

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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

The Verge

Epic’s complaint argues that behavior also breaks the law. But the comparison to Netflix or Spotify is beside the point. Apple might not want to hammer out new App Store arrangements for subscription gaming services, or review processes for evaluating every new title on a platform like Microsoft’s xCloud.

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