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As a customer, I find OYO hotels to be very bad. There are hotels that I otherwise would not even have gone to (since low end hotels in India are appallingly filthy), but the OYO label lends them greater credibility.

I avoid OYO when I can.

A general thumb rule I follow for booking hotels in India is : if you are staying with family, go for hotels priced around or more than 40-50% of the price of the top end chain hotels in that city. For example, in Delhi, try not to book any hotel priced below Rs. 3500 per night. Chances are high that it may be cockroach-infested and grimy. Many of these now have the dreaded OYO label attached to them.
They should all be directed to the lectures of Jordan Peterson! :)
And the usual way people have tried to solve the solved-microtransactions-problem is by gaming the system, which is exactly the history and outcome of the current situation.

The 'microtransactions problem' using 'aggregation/centralization' you're describing would be readily identified as the newspaper industry a few decades ago. Nowadays you have to wrap it up in a healthy dose of cryptocurrency scamming, federated networking bullshit, and other huckster lingo to make it seem like a radical approach.

Newspaper companies, which allowed patrons to exchange a few cents for a daily source of vital information curated by professionals across a wide array of expertise, distributed money received in patronage towards the journalists, editors, fact-checkers, you name it.

Of course, that isn't the full story. What newspaper companies did was become the mouthpiece of the government and eliminate any useful information, filled nearly all the pages to the brim with huge obnoxious ads with little text remaining, started some perverse incentives with journalist pay forcing the smart ones to abandon ship a long time ago, and helped build a mass culture of frantic zombies who cannot tell the difference between fact and fiction, parroting whatever they read as a sort of social lubricant, and trained to resort to looking on a page for the local weather information yesterday that could be far more accurately sourced now by looking up to see if there are clouds above.

Good riddance to 'content creators.' Don't let the door hit you on the way out, and HN will never receive a cent of my money. :D
As one of the maintainers of runc, I cannot agree with your general thrust more (I am obviously biased since I work for a distribution company -- SUSE). I don't agree it should be containment-per-binary, but I think that containment should be transparent to the operating system so it can be managed.

Currently the idea with k8s is that you just destroy anything that has broken state and rebuild it somewhere else. While this is the easiest solution to the problem, I think that containers should not always be treated like disposable objects.

I think in many ways, Solaris Zones (and FreeBSD Jails to a lesser extent) did this right. Every administrative command in Solaris is zone-aware and you can manage your zones like you manage your host. On Linux, containers are completely opaque root filesystems which contain who-knows-what and are completely unmanagable or introspectable by the host. Everyone is cargo-culting and creating hacks around this fundamentally opaque system to try to make it less opaque (or just giving up and making it easy to purge them).

I'm working on some improvements to the OCI image-spec that _might_ help with introspection of images[1], but runtime introspection is going to be quite hard (needs runtime agreement).

I get that it's no longer sexy to work on container runtimes, now that everyone is losing their mind over orchestrators (and I imagine soon they'll be losing their mind over the next big thing). But I think that improving these fundamental blocks is pretty interesting and might result in better systems.

[1]: https://github.com/openSUSE/umoci/issues/256
You can believe in so-called natural rights as much as you like, that doesn't make them any more real. In fact you can set aside the concept entirely; all so-called "rights" are mere artificial constructs of hierarchical societies. You have the privilege to do whatever your particular society permits. You can call these rights, but they're certainly not natural.

(Meanwhile, I live in a society with absolutely no gun rights, and I'm extremely glad that I do. I much prefer my "right" to live in a city where guns are difficult an expensive for criminals to procure. It keeps me and my family much safer than your gun rights. And that's not an opinion, it's a proven indisputable fact.)
What are the odds between the two options. One, he took a low wage job at a young age because that's what everyone but the rich have to do, and then spun it as a story about how he always had a vision and it makes a good story. Two is that he actually made a plan to be running an international hotel company and made calculated choices to do so, without any of the benefit of experience to inform him of what those steps would be?
Oyo's trick seems to be that they're not building hotels themselves (which is obviously slow and very expensive), but they're applying branding & quality control to existing unbranded hotels and taking a hefty cut in exchange for distribution.

There are plenty of budget hotel chains in India (Treebo, Ginger, Lemon Tree, Fab, etc), some of which have been around for 15+ years, so obviously Oyo has done something right to leapfrog all of them.
Good point on the MMU performance advantage and trade offs involved. When everyone's heads were on fire, made sense to indiscriminately mask off user controlled pointers. Now that the dust has settled a bit I imagine we'll see more usage of memory mapping tricks in performance critical sections.
If you succeed in eradicating Facebook, Google, and credit cards, you will not be able to use them anymore. Why is it unreasonable to stop using them a little early?
Thank you for the sources. I’ve read about the latter but not the others.

I don’t know if inequality can be reduced on a macro level, but I would not bet on it.

Some things can be changed and some can’t. Your example of maternal health is great—we should be focused more on those types of biological things we can change, imo. Who cares if someone is richer than you if you are healthy and happy?

But inequality seems to be something nature loves. The sun gets 99% of the matter in the solar system, for example. Humans decimated all other large predators—examples abound.

Concentrated freedom and decision making power (for which money is just a proxy), might be a necessary evil. I think barring a drastic black swan paradigm shift (world government, computer overlords, or maybe some undiscovered push to an equilibrium driven by globalization...), there’s not much that might change that.
I must admit I don't really understand Stripe's competitive advantage. When Uber wants to charge a customer's credit card, their main concern is the payment processor's commission, isn't it? It seems like the ultimate commodity business. Why aren't there 10 payment processors all competing to charge Uber's customer's credit card for a razor-thin fee?
I absolutely agree with you - this is bad allocation of money and effort.

I just cannot think of a niche where these units would actually make sense.

It is a terrible idea to use these for disaster relief - never mind the cost, it would be better to ship in an equal weight of water.

It is wrong to use these wherever there is salt water, or polluted water - it would be far cheaper to purify whatever water there is.

And it is a bad idea to use them at remote locations, as emergency supplies or wherever reliability is important. Again, equal weight of bottled water would be much cheaper, and safer - bottled water will not break down.

I invite anybody (Mr Carmichael Roberts or company itself) to outline a scenario where this technology is preferred over reverse osmosis, or bottled water. The "Applications" page on the company web site demonstrates IMO 100% wastefully inappropriate applications. Happy to comment on any specific one of those.
This is not new. This underemployment because of competition for odd jobs also happened under Hoover in the late 1920's. Hoover also put tariffs in place against foreign goods to prop up american made goods. That didn't work, it just removed affordable goods from the shelves.
Go and talk anyway but without voting rights they can't affect change. They can however tell you the best course of action to save their investment if you can assure that it will happen. Show them that their effort will not go waste and they can try.
Thank you for the advice! Selfish aside, but is there any chance I could ask you to upvote the question? It's not going to appear in the Ask section until it has more votes, and I'm afraid it's going to sink off newest soon.
Oyo's CEO was indeed "wealthy": so much so that he'd get a a whopping $4 in pocket money every month when in school. Better off than the average family in Orissa, sure, but not exactly trust fund territory.

https://www.livemint.com/Companies/7CN7u5d4i3bfYgBAZLdLpM/Wi...
Post interesting content!

If you think something's really good and is getting ignored (there is randomness as to what gets upvoted) email the moderators (hn@ycombinator.com) and if they agree it's good they'll put it in the second-chance queue.
>more importantly, he is very impressed by Cody's skill to sell this unit and far wide

That is a really bad reason to invest, given the stated aims of the fund.
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Stupid question: how does a $245 million dollars bring a company's valuation from $9 billion to $20 billion?

Last I checked, $245 million =/= $11 billion
Why cons cells?
Their ideas around product design are basically opposites, it would be a pretty rough merger I think
Really comprehensive answer. Thank you. User name definitely checks out.
I listen to 4:

[0] Giant Bombcast and Beastcast (Premium)

[1] Colin's Last Stand (Side Quest, KnockBack, Sacred Symbols, and Fireside Chats)

[2] Retronauts

[3] 8-4 Play

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[0] https://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/

[1] https://www.patreon.com/colinslaststand

[2] https://archive.org/details/Retronauts1-100

[3] http://8-4.jp
Long time Vancouver councillor Gordon Price put it this way:

"As the rate of change slows down, the perception of change increases."

It explains why areas of the city where development is occurring all the time takes new developments in stride, while in old neighbourhoods even a single family house converting into a duplex is 'radical.'

https://pricetags.ca/2017/02/08/census-as-the-rate-of-change...
well, if the sub-culture takes off among young people then it could supplant selfies as the means by which people broadcast what they are doing 'right now' ... interestingly that would drive down interest in going viral as a sudden spike in visitors could kill someone's site until the next day
> Doesn't seem covertly racist to me, but maybe I choose not to see it. It's bad enough on its face so no need to add racism really.

Arguing about whether economic policies are racist is a purposeful distraction. As if screwing over poor black families is completely reasonable as long as you're also screwing over poor white families.

As soon as you make it about race, you divide the poor into separate groups who are nominally at odds with each other even though in practice they have the same interests (e.g. lower housing costs). Then they fight against each other instead of fighting together for lower housing costs. It's a divide and conquer strategy to preserve the status quo.
The Sony A7 Mark III is an astonishingly good camera. If I was buying today it's probably what I'd get. The only sticking point is glass: Sony make some great stuff but it can be eye-wateringly expensive.

I wish Sigma and Tamron would release their EF- and F-mount full frame lenses with Sony E-Mount and native autofocus performance. Or at least provide a first-party mount adapter that achieves the same.
TripAdvisor ratings are very indicative and the portal usually shows prices from various booking sites. Then I call the hotel directly and 90% of time I get a better price and a room of choice guaranteed right them which is not at all possible over booking sites where you get a room type and get assigned one when you check-in. Definitely direct booking when the property is on AirBnb - in this case almost always owners themselves ask me to book directly with them and bypass AirBnb.

You are bang on about the cost threshold.

Pro-tip: for real hotel locations use Google Maps in satellite mode. Esp. useful in hill stations and beaches - you'll avoid hotels that claim to have a view but forget to mention it's the bus-stand view.
It works by comparing the voltage potential across two or more points (in the case of the watch it's comparing the right arm against the left)
True, but I think the housing problem is much bigger than the traffic problem.

If the price for housing getting better is traffic getting worse, that is a good trade IMHO.
It's a combination of pulling and notification. The sqlite DB table is structured like a log, so clients basically just need to keep grabbing the latest id. In practice it's has proven to work pretty well. The code I have public right now does not support HA, I have a private branch that I'm still testing.
Automatically monitoring an ILS approach is not that difficult from the cockpit if the frequency can be sent via ADS-B.

Beyond that it gets really hard because visual and circling approaches can be in any heading, as well as large cross-winds.

In this deviation, the pilots literally got lost. Kind of tough to do much about that.
The head of MI6's wife had a Facebook account and she shared pictures of their holiday at the beach. (2009)

Information leaks easily. Which is the reason you shouldn't believe the vast majority of "conspiracy" theories. Not even a little bit.
Your views are factually incorrect, don’t suggest any real solution, and in my view somewhat extremist. A realistic solution must consider the in turn actions of all influential parties invloved.

It’s economics. It’s requires modeling, strategies, and thinking equally about all parties because it doesn’t matter whether you like them or not it matters what the future would look like a few years out.

This is not personal I have no ties to ad revenue or professional writing. It’s about putting emotion and philosophy in one basket and solutions in another. You’re allowed to have both, but the latter should be dispassionate.

Just one example on the facts, writing professionally is provably a useful skill. Take even what you may consider a mundane job of writing instruction manuals. if it weren’t useful there wouldn’t be jobs and people being paid money to do it. There’s all kinds of writing jobs that require little independent domain expertise. That’s before we even discuss original or creative content.
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You are ultimately saying within a sovereign nation you should abide by the law of that nation but the cultural values of another.
I've got a fair bit of domain knowledge and experience (in both the medical and software engineering aspects of this topic). I'm pretty comfortable taking that "risk".
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As a counterpoint, I've been happy with Oyo hotels. I've stayed in Oyo hotels in Kerala, Gujarat, Delhi, Mumbai and Bihar and of them were decent. The only trouble I've had on one occasion was locating the hotel.
Easier than you would think. I basically replaced the etcd KV API with a SQL based one. But that means I kept the majority of the k8s etcd3 driver in place which has all of the complicated k8s specific code.
It does pass through with a front mounted camera. There’s also cameras in the eye well- so that config problem is taken care of :)
This is not a solution. I specialize in cancer treatment and I have spend countless hours trying to track down people who cannot receive calls from our medical center. These people have missed multiple opportunities for more timely appointments, in many cases putting their health at risk. Many of them don't receive the voicemails we leave either. There are many situations where a non-contact would need to reach you and some of those situations could be urgent, so blocking all of them is not a solution. For example my friend's parents were in a car crash and she got a call from the hospital they were at, which obviously wasn't in her contacts. We should be working with whoever has the oversight for this to eliminate robocalls. Not sure if that would be the government or phone companies, or device manufacturers.
As dumb as that Cupertino quote was, remember that it was just one person who was behind it, and went viral just because it was that dumb.
It's lead I (accross the top of the heart). For lead II you would need an electrode on the left leg.
No, because when there's fog, the strobe gets reflected within the cloud everywhere. This is SFO after all.
I never intented anyone to directly use it. The "selling point" is what I'm going to put on top of this. This is intended to be an internal library. Hence the stupid puny name.
Look, if anyone wants to business in China, they would have to comply to the demands of government there, that's no question. It's common sense and nobody can avoid this. I think the question we need to ask is what motivates Google to return to this market? Does the costs and benefits analysis report show enough evidences to justify this action?
Addictive?
Yup. Non starter. Hopefully Nvidia wakes up and creates a console with a packaged GPU of theirs. I'll happily buy an appliance but I'm not spending anything on a machine that requires me to actively participate in the Facebook ecosystem.
PayPal's P2P transfers are free and have a high limit. Zelle might also work for you.

I've done a lot of work in payments and there just isn't a great, no-limit solution for consumers. It's because they want to charge the higher-volume users to make up fot the free users.
Congrats on shipping! Add support for RISC-V too? Their designs are pretty similar.
There was a contract and a vesting period along with stipulated details regarding what happened with WhatsApp for a certain period of time.
Is he saying FaceBook should have broken that contract and done whatever, or that they were too accommodating?
His comments are either clueless or pure bullshit spin.
> This is the first mention either of us have had of "linear-time" outside of a discussion about specifications.

I mentioned it before, and my point isn't about linear time in particular. If you write a specification of an algorithm of time complexity T(n), the expectation is that interpreting the algorithm would take p(T(n)), where p is some polynomial (i.e. no exponential slowdown or worse). This is what I mean by "efficient".

> but that is not how Coq interprets types at all; from its perspective, types are terms of independent interest, and are moreover themselves inhabitants of some other type.

That doesn't matter. I can specify a function by giving it a type -- say it's a function from the even naturals to their Goldbach pairs. Turning this into a program requires finding a lambda term that computes such a function.

> There's no special notion of "finding an inhabitant" as distinct from normal program execution

What I meant was that a type in Coq is not a computation (although it could be the result of a computation), and a computation is not a type (although it could produce a type -- Pi types).

> I am not saying this is not a meaningful distinction in TLA+

In TLA+ there is no such distinction because you cannot talk about a program that computes that function, but always the set of all programs that do (you can, of course, give more and more detail to restrict the set, i.e., create subtypes, but there is no "the computation"); that set is always either empty or infinite. In fact, if it's non-empty, it's always too big to even be a set (it's a proper class).

> Sometimes executing it is tractable and sometimes it isn't, but I don't agree that writing an algorithm to solve such a problem automatically transforms your domain from "efficient, everyday programming" to "ineffecient, specification-driven programming."

I am not talking about writing an algorithm to solve such a problem automatically, but about a programming language that always does so.

> So I'd say these ideas have been a success, though hardly an unqualified one.

They have been an abysmal failure when it comes to synthesizing anything that could be considered a replacement for programming. But we're talking about two radically different measures of success. I'm talking about a commercial process of turning lead into gold, and you're talking about turning a couple of lead atoms into gold atoms in a particle accelerator.
The advertisers have better data though as they usually switch promo codes quite often. Also, as with most advertising, you only see the effect of the aggregate campaign.
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Because I see people sharing Instagram posts on Facebook through the integration, I’ve considered creating an account

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It's been possible to share directly to Facebook for a long time - the change was that the facebook posts stopped indicating the photos were from instagram. There used to be links and references back, but now they seem native.

One could argue that this could have privacy benefits (i.e. you don't have direct access to their instagram profile from facebook anymore), but in any case it's part of Facebook wanting Instagram to fuel native Facebook use.
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Have you tried setting it to Comfortable? That's pretty similar to classic Gmail.
USA is in danger of squandering the AI race to China, House report warns
Just install the standalone Nix installer like you would on any other (non-Nix) distro (see this part of the Nix manual: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-quick-start ). Both Guix and Nix are designed to work on top of 'foreign' distros, and this includes using a standalone Nix package manager on GuixSD and a standalone Guix package manager on NixOS (or both the standalone Guix package manager and the standalone Nix package manager on top of Arch Linux, etc. etc.)
It means a VC paid $245 million to purchase 1.225% (which is $245M divided by $20B) of Stripe's stock.
Avoid the post with more than a hundred of comments for a while. The post with a docent of comments usually have some interesting technical discussion.
"Borishov" was awarded for a "peace project" in 2014.

In 2014 Scot Young died after falling/jumping from window.

He said he'd been dangled out of windows by Russian heavies previously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scot_Young
Sir I believe you may be ignoring the penchant for clickbait journalism these days. I'm not saying it's fair but it's effective.
We actually don't use the localizer to check for an incorrect runway or taxiway landing because the pilot can choose to do so and we don't want to issue nuisance alerts. Runways don't move often and we've found that a GPS and two databases (runways and airport ground features) are sufficient to determine if the pilot is approaching a runway or not.

We use inputs like GPS position, ground track, ground speed, altitude, and a phase-of-flight state machine that's determined for individual aircraft. This allows us to tailor the criteria for determining if the aircraft is landing for different aircraft. For some, we use throttle and landing gear position and others we use speed and altitude above the landing airport.

As for accuracy, we have minimum levels of GPS figure of merit where there's enough certainty to issue alerts. I don't remember the number off the top of my head, but in the US WAAS has made GPS quite accurate.
Some good technical info here: https://problemkaputt.de/zxdocs.htm
Great idea. But how to change the template or add more data like custom fields? I've been using Meta Box plugin (https://metabox.io) for custom fields and can't live without it.
To run a race you need a finish line. Last time there was an AI race all parties staggered to collapse, no finishing tape in sight.