skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah. Booking doesn't do it because it's big enough that it would get called out - externally and internally. Also, is actually much less snake oily a company than its reputation here or else I wouldn't have worked there for as many years.
They'd still be cool even if they were here to strip mine our planet, anally probe us, and then enslave our species... it would just be a kind of shitty situation all in all though.
I would also add that I get a little ticked off when I have to adjust my password manager's defaults - in this case reducing from 64 to 32 characters.

In the past I have very-often stopped exploring a new thing at this point but this time I am continuing! Looks great and I also eagerly await more details of it's implementation.
It looks like I need to write a followup with more details about how our migration looks!

Since we're using GraphQL federation, we have a gateway which serves up our complete GraphQL schema, pulled together from a collection of services behind the gateway. We can move individual properties over from our Python monolith to new Go services and the clients will never know. Plus, we can do side-by-side testing in the gateway by making a request to the monolith and to the new service and comparing the results (something we don't have yet, but plan to).

This is definitely not a big bang rewrite. It's about as incremental as it can be, because we can move individual GraphQL properties over and the gateway stitches the result together.
Pilot Who Filmed Tic Tac UFO: ‘It Wasn’t Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics’
On Safari, just use StopTheMadness. It will prevent these types of hijacks.
This is just a summary of this article in NY Magazine:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-a...
Just because a very large and well known company does something, does not mean it’s a good idea.

If you put something in a JSON column you give your DB some expectation about the data.

If you store your data in a binary column you are just doing what the database already does in it’s backend with it’s normal columns, and any optimizations it might make are lost.

It might result in cost savings, but in my experience cost savings at the expense of transparency/usability are always a bad idea.
IMHO, the proper answer to such government behavior should be - to tell them, to suck off apple pure out of tetra pak.
Or simply some FOD on the FLIR lens or sensor that bounced around a bit as the plane was moving.
Does this guy think we were born yesterday?

> predictions I made ... that ‘the ecological footprint of human activity is probably shrinking’ and ‘we are getting more sustainable, not less...’... our population and economy would grow, but we’d learn how to reduce what we take from the planet. And so it has proved. An MIT scientist, Andrew McAfee, recently documented this in a book called More from Less, showing how some nations are beginning to use less stuff: less metal, less water, less land. Not just in proportion to productivity: less stuff overall.

That's the kind of evidence he gives?

* "Some" nations, not all nor most, nor the largest ones.

* "Beginning" to use less stuff, not "using" less stuff.

* "less stuff: [one kind], [another kind], [a third kind]" - not using less generally, but using less of certain kinds of things, albeit important ones.

and so on. This is Junk commentary. I wouldn't be surprised if even his sources are also painting an overly rosy picture.
Thanks for the references. I've heard very good things about Forth but didn't know about Bell.

I don't have any pressing problems for these (or any other language) to solve but the conceptual differences are intriguing. I think that one has to decompose problems very differently with Lisp and Forth. It will not be as straightforward as learning a standard library and figuring out the calls.

Do people use these languages for scientific and technical computing the way one might use Matlab or Mathematica?
I’m not sure how you can project anything into space that would be seen with continuity by both man and machine to look and act the same (keep in mind IR and visible light have different properties). If you’ve ever played with a laser pointer you’ll know what I mean: it drives the cat crazy when it jumps/skips/disappears because now it’s being projected on a different plane of surface (in the air: a different cloud or haze). It’s the continuity of movement (rather than many other “UFO” sightings reporting an object “suddenly appearing somewhere else in the sky”) that makes this all the more intriguing. An explanation Must take all this into account, and whatever it is, alien or terrestrial, it’s really cool tech, much more exciting than what you describe.
So, you don't watch shows where the woman is a hero, no matter what, simply because having a women as a hero indicates that the movie is full of uber-liberal political messages?

What are the uber-liberal political messages at every turn in Happy Death Day 2U? Or Men in Black: International?

Why not simply say that you don't watch films with uber-liberal political messages, no matter who the lead is?

> Anyone that had a negative opinion of it was banned from commenting on sites like Twitter and Facebook.

FWIW, a quick search of Twitter shows that isn't the case now.

I believe most of the complaints were about people panning the movie before it was even released. That is, opinions from people who assumed that simply because it was a re-make with women as the leads, it must be horrible.

Which is rather different than making an informed opinion.

Eg, think of the people who protested the Battlestar Galactic remake, including people who protested that Boomer had to be played by a man, not a woman. Many people changed their mind after the new BG came out, which shows the poor basis for the original opinion.

That the most recent Ghostbusters happens to be widely panned after due consideration doesn't make the original ungrounded opinions correct.

> The problem is that nobody wants equality..they want superiority.

I want equality.

> this seems like the 1950s all over again

What's the modern reversal for men on the streets pinching the butts of random women?

What's the modern reversal for the 1950s having the heads of nearly all of the Fortune 500, and nearly all members of Congress, and the President and nearly all of his Cabinet, and nearly all of the military leadership be men?
I was long time booking.com user until they declined to resolve an issue of dishonest property description. Their response was:

Resolving complaints after check-out is challenging and less likely to result in compensation. In the future, communicate any complaints to the property during your stay, so the staff can ensure the rest of your stay is comfortable.

My reply was: ok, there are choices. I switched to Google Maps, check reviews there, and prefer booking directly on the hotel/owner sites.
America has only two cities: the rest are suburban conglomerations. Actual cities have buildings over four stories and apartment buildings everywhere.
As much as I want to believe, I feel like this almost has to be some sort of disinformation campaign, either to cover up some sort of testing that the US military is doing and thinks someone else might have seen, or to make US adversaries think that we've made some sort of fundamental breakthrough and we're ineptly trying to cover it up by calling it a UFO. Probably the latter.

Would be interesting to read the article about this in 50 years or so once the political landscape has changed and it's safe to declassify, but I doubt I'll be around then.
The CIA Says That It Loves Winter. It Also Loves Torture, Edward Snowden Reminds
That sounds like Hanlon's Razor.
This worked for me as a student at UT Austin (population in the low 40ks) in 90s/00s: be polite, ask for a change. Most administrators don’t care what your story is (so I never bothered to explain mine), but they do understand the system isn’t perfect. EDIT: and they really want written documentation.
That's still trying to control what people think. In a free society, people should be allowed to think for themselves, even if that means they will sometimes be wrong.
I use booking.com both as a customer and hotelier.

Usually I’ll search booking.com to find a hotel to stay and if the hotel belongs to a brand let’s say Hilton or Marriott I’ll email them directly to get a better price.
For smaller hotels or apartments I use booking.com for the security it provides me with. By security I mean that in the unfortunate case that the hotel of apartment I booked is overbooked or something similar, I trust booking.com and on its ability to force the hotelier to reaccomodate me somewhere else. I’ve had this happened to me previously as a client and booking.com managed to straight it out.
Now if you book directly through a small hotel or apartment or even use the likes of Airbnb or something at points you risk being out of accommodation and just getting your money back which in a busy season that there is no availability left in the area and the closest room is 2 times more expensive than you booked.
I know that people think that’s an extreme scenario but let me tell you that I run my hotel like airlines do. It’s cheaper to overbook and relocate someone to a near hotel having 105% capacity than having running lower than 100% on high season. And of course I had that happen to me as a client previously and just getting money back wasn’t nice at all.
But overall look at hotels and email them, most hotels will knock off the 15-20% commission booking.com is charging.
Thanks, that really helped. Good point about knowing-what-you-spend before checking out.
I think I’m going to make that a habit too (albeit cashless).
Does sound similar!

We have established the rule that each service owns its own data.

We've already got Stackdriver set up to give us distributed tracing and have set up standards around logging.
Don, you are very welcome!

Alexander Karaberov's article (linked above) is an important contribution.

You are correct that since an Actor can have many addresses, it is not clear what it would mean for an Actor to have an identity."

PS. Excellent SNL Santa :-)
I think you are missing a nuance:

Very many agree that Facebook cannot be trusted. They would ruin a good number of peoples lives a day given that 1) they could get away with it 2) they would earn more money that way.

Around here (Europe) however we already have kind-of-working regulations for ads and it would be nice to adapt those to work for booking.com as well.

Edit: removed "happily" in "happily ruin a good number of peoples lives" as I guess they'd rather prefer not to if it didn't cost them money ;-)
whatIsBestInLife = [
“Crush Your Enemies”,
“See Them Driven Before You”,
“Hear The lamentation Of Their Women”
]
If ItsJudgementDay then...

I can get into this, it’s what JavaScript should have been. Much better then that Samuel L Jackson language with only one statement...
I seem to recall this too, as well as others claiming to have worked at booking.com saying these things were knowingly false.

Edit: it's quite possible that I'm mixing up memories of a company other than booking.com
That was CheapOair, a brand of Fareportal. Different company.
Sure, sorry about the password blues. Let me know what you want to hear implementation-wise and I'll get on it after streaming!
Omemo: End-to-end encryption in XMPP clients
It would help if you clarify what exactly you’re trying to develop. Is it a simple blog? Do you really need code in the backend? Do you need to integrate with other systems in the back end?

Basically what are your requirements? Is this a personal project or something at your job? What languages or frameworks is your organization already using and people are familiar with?

More of a meta point - these comments are something else. I see everything from React to using some solution that gives you containers out of the box.

This focus on languages, frameworks, and infrastructure tooling, instead of working off your requirements is generally guaranteed tech debt in my experience. If all your doing is building a simple website, who exactly benefits from all the added complexity?
Are some of the reasons its increasing there is because its always warm and it offers the most money/help to the homeless?

A good amount there want to offer a universal basic income of what 1k to every person. I guess you can live off of 1k a month in CA?
Yeah, the Cyberdyne Systems Model T-800 is coded in Rust...
Can an autonomous car beat the best version of Frank Martin in The Transporter series, let alone any of the Fast & Furious drivers?

Now we have the answer. It’s game over people! Even the fictional drivers in the movies have no chance against real world AI today.

This means in the future when an autonomous car or robot is chasing you — you may as well give up. You just better hope it doesn’t get cheap enough that someone can simply hire a swarm of robots or autonomous cars to kidnap people or incapacitate them or wreak havoc en masse (eg crashing into 10,000 gas stations at once).
There's an elephant in the room comparing the two. A month ago, Epic (Unreal Engine) acquired Quixel Megascans - a company which makes photorealistis materials.

This scans are going to be included in for free in UE4. This is a huge deal since all developers will have access to 100,000+ sleek assets from the start.
Mega RIP to the man responsible for a huge chunk of my childhood. I used to run Nucleus in Texas and Tennessee when I lived in those states. Was how I met my first friend in TN, when he logged into my then-blazing 9600 baud capable BBS, with LoRD and Sinbaud and The Pit and Baron Realms elite and Tradewars door games.
In six months... Why they can't do this tomorrow is a mystery to me, it is not like they have to do something extra, they just have to stop being dishonest.
How is this different from photoacoustic tomography?
How to Analyze Your Total Addressable Market
Thanks for the suggestions and the offer to chat!

We've been doing SSR for quite a while now and are improving our CDN use as we go along. We already took steps to ensure that there's no user-specific information showing up in our server-side react rendering which would damage cacheability.

Our frontend infrastructure team essentially owns the React render server. I'll let them know you offered to chat.
Vim: You don't need NERDtree or (maybe) netrw (2016)
You should add "upload / sync with decentralized storage" to the future goals.

Seems like a logical next step to have it sync to an IPFS or Dat drive. Not sure how it would be implemented though.
This repository is under a username that, according to their profile page, belongs to someone at Elastic. How does it have anything to do with Booking?
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Seems like this would have been a good opportunity to actually show you the relevant data they’re collecting from your visit.
I was looking at an otherwise nice flat to rent in Amsterdam on Reguliersdwarsstraat, but the balcony had a scenic view into the vast expanse of Booking.com headquarters open office space cubicle wasteland, which was waaaay too depressing to look at every day, so I decided could not possibly bear living there.
He's often critical of Russia despite being a guest of that country, and has expressed a want to return home on the record numerous times.
For this reason I use Kayak. Far cleaner website, no gimmicks. Surprisingly it is owned by Booking.com

And of course once I have a sense which hotel I want to stay at I try to book at their official site, so they don’t get charged an extortionate commission, and I get the points and elite status benefits.
I remember reading that article at some point in the past. Pretty ridiculous, having a customer lie to themselves. I can’t remember what site that was, either.
I think it's worth it. Everything is lambda-in-a-straight-jacket-like. The question is how can you mix and match straight jackets, and how convoluted is programming.

Also look at https://github.com/conal/concat
Just going to tag on this; I’ve come to use Booking.com preferentially as it seems the least irritating, and I don’t remember the last time I was sold something I didn’t want from it. Guess I just blur out the bad bits?
That’s exactly it.

There was another paper that showed dosing with supplements prevented improved fitness as well.

Oxygen radicals do cause damage in the body, but they are also important signals and invoked in programmed cell death.
This fails because of illegal dumping. Make trash sufficiently expensive and people will just dump it by the side of the road somewhere.
I thought of another one, you sell health insurance and want to assess their health and your risk without asking the person. Heart disease got it, blood flow problems got it, liver issues yup, digestive issues yes. Ultrasound is used in many diagnostic tests this would be an insurance companies dream technology.
“Are the variables "copied"?”

Thinking in terms of C-style variables may be unhelpful. Instead, consider Smalltalk “variables” as scoped names bound to heap-allocated objects. You can bind as many names as you like to a given object at any time, and each name is usable within the bounds and duration of its scope.

What the VM does under the hood is more complex than that, natch, but as long as the user-level abstractions don’t leak (which they shouldn’t) the mental model works.
Yes it isn't so much cash vs card. It is just that with a card it is very easy to fall into the "I'm in a rush just grab what you know" trap. You get to the check out, you rush to pack the bag and just tap your card against the reader and leave. I didn't even check the amount as I didn't need to enter a PIN thanks to contactless.

So cash forced me to pay attention. There is no reason you can't do that with a card, I just needed the cash method to force me out of my bad habits.
Why don't you think people are aware of this? Seems obvious that they do this because they know it increase sales. Not like it was made up as a nice consumer-friendly feature by one of their UX engineers.
Sometimes it has an easy explanation given typical information asymmetries and incentive structures. For example, you don't give away any of your external intel during a war (i.e. cold war) in the case that you are identifying something by your enemy that might be trying to hide from you. Letting them know you can detect them would be stupid. Also, for similar reasons, record and catalogue every strange phenomenon in case it could be something.

The natural correlate from a citizen perspective is that the government is hiding something (i.e. UFOs). Of course it is, that's the point. But then the point becomes less of a point the less justification there is for wartime behavior, which then leads to increased speculation that the government is hiding something which at some points boils over into widespread public sentiment.

Then at that point there is both incentive to do selective release and for the media to cover it since they know readers want to read about UFOs, etc.

I think that's the Ockham's razor here.
I wonder if some of those "guests" are website scrapers or other automated systems from competitors that are looking to get pricing info.
You need to see it coming and plan accordingly further ahead, yes.
There is definitely some sort of disinformation campaign, I guess its aimed at other nations. [0]

I'm guessing this is part of the campaign, or else maybe alien tech? [1] I'll assume its to make someone else think we have tech we may not have.

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29232/navys-advanced-a...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjwkw/bob-lazar-says-the...
Fascinating Sunday read, thanks.
Because their huckster marketeers will point out that if they aren't the scummiest someone else will be who will then make more profits. There isn't anybody that is simply satisfied with what they make.
Thanks, I appreciate the detail. This is still muddy to me:

- Booking is a company using deceptive practices to increase its own sales

- Deceptive political ads, even outright lies, are free speech (because there is no measurable "sale"? Surely there is a benefit, likely larger the more they mislead.)
Mycorrhizal fungi: all you need to know about the Internet of Plants
There is a Joe Rogan podcast with David Fravor, a pilot who also saw it. I believe he explains it's all visual locking but there are a lot if different camera types.

https://youtu.be/Eco2s3-0zsQ
It’s funny that none of the things you mention in your last paragraph are handled any better in Python. Without type safety, you instead have to deal with bugs caused by inane mistakes. If we’re talking about generics, the conversation has shifted from “writing scripts that does x” to “maintaining a production system” and for the latter, golangs type safety, out of the box excellent default tooling and easily grokkable concurrency primitives make it far more maintainable than Python.

Things are also easier to change in go because of the type system and interfaces. The former catches most the obvious incompatibilities, the latter ensures that abstractions don’t leak across different system boundaries; whereas in Python there is a tendency to pass a do everything objects across the system.

Error checking has improved substantially with error wrapping in go 1.13. Not only can you locate precisely where your system failed; you have to be explicit about handling errors. I do concede that pre error wrapping the error handling was garbage.
Thanks for the comment! A couple of things about this...

1. the Go team is working very hard to ensure that there are no such compatibility issues. Code written for Go 1.0 should still compile with Go 1.14 beta today.

2. It's possible there's more we could have done along the way, and I tend to think that statically typed languages make it easier to safely refactor more ruthlessly. But I do think we've actually done quite a bit of change incrementally along the way. Our move to React on the frontend and GraphQL on the backend have been good examples of that. Plus, we did a huge refactoring a couple of years ago to draw better boundaries in our monolith, and that has made a move to services possible.
Google Self-Driving Car Ride (2011) [video]
I worked for a while in Riyadh, which is a very conservative city. The manager tried to have a "bonding" chat, and confided to me that he felt a little western because he often caught himself looking at pictures of women.

In my mind, I was thinking "Dude, if being straight is the worst of your troubles, you'll be just fine."

However, I did meet a lot of people who were definitely individualistic. Most of them thought the regular hand or head chopping was barbaric, and felt the city culture should be more modern, like it was once.

As the "token westerner," they confided this stuff easily with me, but it was clear they worried about the repercussions if other people knew they thought this way. It was a very interesting perspective I was immersed in.
Thanks for the correction.

Got it from a web site on names. I guess they were sloppy on the phonetic rendering.

Not enough due diligence on my part.