skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it's about what the astronauts themselves would consent to. It's about congressional hearings, what the talking heads on MSNBC and Fox News would say, and what all of that might mean for the lives and careers of many thousands of additional people who have no intention of going into space themselves.
I used to work there until end of 2017 in a senior role, running the infrastructure development department.

During my time there, the company would never actually do something that was technically wrong (or lying), with a couple of exceptions where some individual went too far and wasn't caught in any review. There were certainly UI elements that were misleading or suggesting (never claiming) of something being a freebie when it was included in the chosen rate. These sort of changes consistently received internal criticism, but ultimately due to the outstanding A/B testing tooling, were shown to be worth too much money for the detractors to succeed. There were maybe a handful that were rolled back due to internal criticism.

In any case, it seems unlikely that booking would implement the change you describe.

NB: the actual availability was always controlled by the hotels, as were the prices - booking does not own inventory, unlike some of its competitors!

Edit: removed surplus punctuation.
I was championing keyboard diversity.
There are such varied supplements out there that this title feels vague. The study focused on antioxidants.

Browse the top results of a search for “cancer supplements” and look at their ingredients. You’ll find the majority were not included in this study.
A 'podcast' is (or was!) a media file located at the 'url' of an RSS feed item 'enclosure'.

When a podcasting downloading application (aka:'podcatcher') 'subscribes' to the RSS feed, it gets notified (actually via a 'pull' or 'ping') that a new latest item is available. The application then automatically downloads the media file and places it in a playlist in your media player for offline use.

At least that's how it always used to be when we started building these things years ago. ;)

Hope this helps.
No word on how females regard male buttocks?
I think A/B testing went horribly right here. They make the most money they can comparing all the scenarios they ran, but the user is left with a shitty experience. But they keep coming back, converting, booking...
Grades vs. SAT scores: Which is a better predictor of college success?
I wish I worked in a domain like this. Most people who comment on my area of expertise are asking questions and those with projects are hello world level.

The projects that succeed to working prototype are one off itch scratches or API Jigsaw projects. Mine included, most of my code is API glue. But I never see HN as having utility in this way. But I'm in a small niche.
The terms are not mutually exclusive:

* You can be both a democracy and a constitutional republic (India, USA)

* You can be a democracy but not a republic (UK)

* You can be a constitutional republic but not a democracy (China)

* You can be neither a republic nor a democracy (monarchies through history)
5000 USD seems high to me as well for a student and you don't know what his girlfiend does. It does not really matter how high that amount as long it can cover unexpected expenses.

When I was a student, I made sure I always had at least 1000 EUR on my account, basically treating the 1000 as 0. I cannot remember ever running into debt this way.
Jason Scott uploaded all the video he took trailing to places making the BBS Documentary to the Internet archive. There is more there.
We'll see how it plays out, but the situation that I've described isn't really different from the one we have today (because we have a monolith). Hopefully, it will be better because of how the Go project is trying to get library maintainers to follow semver and avoid breaking changes. When we need to upgrade a dependency, we can do so in one diff, catching the errors with the compiler and test runs. If the upgrade seems risky, we'll watch that deploy carefully, and we already have a process for "risky" deploys. Plus, these are likely some of the easiest changes to rollback if need be, because they are unlikely to change persisted data.

Ultimately, though, if we find that this plan reduces velocity, it won't be that hard to change later.
There are gigantic amounts of stats available. Start at jancovici.com but any half decent honest search on the web will show we're scraping the barrel of easy oil, and the rest follows. Why do you think shales and fracking have seen a boom, do you think this is the cheapest way to get oil/gas? Same for deep seas drilling. How do you propose we convert the universe into energy, more tokamak or stellerator? When/how will that work can you show any evidence that it will help, and by when?
The proportion world-view has the same problem. If you kill everyone but one person, they can't be exploited by other people.
Interesting, either there are 2 camps on HN, or a nuance I don't understand.

In one discussion, HN readers are upset if Facebook is made to filter misleading ads. "Let the market be free". And the slippery-slope argument is often used.

In others, HN readers want government to crack down on false/shady advertising. Or the negative externalities caused by the gig economy (Uber/Airbnb).

Can someone explain the difference. I don't think it's solely based on govt vs private industry doing the control.
Number of still living humans who have walked on another world (2011)
That’s true - and I didn’t think about that - but, the article also profiled people on social security that get debit cards directly from the government. Do those go through the banking system? Honest question. I don’t know.
The Octopus from Outer Space
"I learned how to acquire new subjects because I had to walk into class and pick up everything that the people had done before," Nerode told The Sun. ... Nerode remarked that "there was no such thing as an academic advisor for people going to college."

This is important. A fellow like Nerode could walk into any university and be fine, and his background is a major reason. Nowadays, universities are open to much wider swathes of the population, and these people need support services, or they'd fail out. Everyone who complains about the growth of the administrative hydrocephalus must consider this fact.
I use Expedia, it's the same. But it's always cheaper than contacting the hotel directly either via website or phone. Always.
That's exactly right! Source: I designed and built a version of their experiment tooling (the last iteration before they had proper mathematicians to get it more right).
One thing that I dont think people are aware is that Booking.com uses extensive A/B Testing in the development of the website. This gives us the website that is extremely efficient in getting bookings but full of dark patterns.
Aliens would be cool but I highly doubt it. In my opinion from all I heard and read it really sounds like an unknown weather phenomenon.
> If the federal government wasn’t “subsidizing” the same states that vote against “socialism” they would have to have more economically (not politically) progressive policies.

Restating, is this what you mean?:

Federal "subsidies" allow states that vote against "socially" oriented policies to avoid implementing more economically progressive policies.
This is the scarcity tactic straight out of Influence by Robert Cialdini. Its a hardwired response that works on a lot of people.

Good book to raise your awareness about how you're being manipulated by sales and marketing.

https://www.influenceatwork.com/principles-of-persuasion/
Show HN: The Offline Writing App – Disconnect Your WiFi to Focus on Writing
The term has been somewhat evolved to mean an 'episodic' series of media files (audio or video). Which is why so many places call them a podcast now.

Rather like when people online post a big blurb of text anywhere and just call it a 'blog'. it diminishes the true meaning of the term.
Don't have access to the full paper, but it seems like this study was based on asking patients whether they were taking supplements, as opposed to administering placebo/supplements and measuring the outcome. I would imagine that the worse your cancer is, the more likely you are to try things like supplements and whatnot. Did they manage to control for this?
> "I think it’s fear of the unknown for many."

Is it? The poorest people are more likely to be primarily cash users, based on what I've read, e.g.:

> "...Seventeen percent of all black households and 14 percent of all Hispanic households had no bank account in 2017, according to a report from the FDIC. Some have poor credit; some work jobs where they’re paid only in cash. Cashlessness isn’t an option for them..."

From https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/cashl...
I completely understand that you need to start with epub books. But do you have longer term plans to partner with the proprietary ebook providers? There are a lot of older Kindle eBooks without audio versions that I would love to listen to during my commute.
Yes, this was for photographers and lab techs who were buying and using Kodak gear and supplies. Every darkroom had one of these, or one very much like it. Nowadays you have to look online and download pdf’s for this sort of thing.

I have an Ektar 203mm lens in Kodak Supermatic shutter, the upgraded version of the anastigmat listed here. The Ektars were Kodak’s top-of-the-line lenses and it still works pretty well on my field camera.
...which is pretty big. Back when I was with them (long time ago), a big thing internally was enforcing hotel prices (i.e. the hotel couldn't offer a room for cheaper). Basically there was the feeling that it got us a lot of bad blood (and yeah, was ethically questionable, though TBH at least with the folks I talked with — mostly IT, though in Booking you _could_ talk with some C-levels as a grunt dev — that was a distant 2nd concern), _but_ if we didn't do that then price comparison sites would eat us in no time in favour of someone who did.
> I think a car is going to need a Theory-of-Mind to navigate complex social driving environments

As someone with a lot of experience in self-driving cars, my opinion has changed over the course of the last decade from "we can create smart enough models of these separate problems to create a statistically safer product" to "first you need to invent general AI."

It becomes immediately obvious as you encounter more and more edge cases, but you would never even begin to think of these edge cases and you have no idea how to handle them (even when hard coding them on individual cases - and you couldn't anyway as there are too many) so you realize the car actually has to be able to think. What's worse, it has to be able to think far enough into the future to anticipate anything that could end badly.

The most interesting part of self-driving cars is definitely on the prediction teams - their job is to predict the world however many seconds into the future and incorporate that into the path planning. As you can guess, the car often predicts the future incorrectly. It's just a ridiculously hard problem. I think the current toolbox of ML is just woefully, completely, entirely inadequate to tackle this monster.
Thinking about my experience with flow states (coding, biking, climbing, music...) I would still object that just because I can perceive subject and object as unified in a flow state doesn't make the distinction meaningless. If I fall from my bike and hit a tree, aren't the consequences different depending on whether the branch breaks or my arm breaks?
> Although I refer to conventional languages as "von Neumann languages" to take note of their origin and style, I do not, of course, blame the great mathematician for their complexity. In fact, some might say that I bear some responsibility for that problem.

From the paper. Whew.
LOL, per capita.

How is that metric useful in any way, besides deceiving people and accuse other countries of being the bad guys?

It's industry which pollutes, not people. That's why it's so pointless to blame plastic straws and other silly things like that.

Maybe if we stopped buying things from communist China things would go better.
Satisfaction and Conversion can be so much at odds with each other sometimes. I see this in other markets a lot too :)
Just to clarify here, I'm talking about driving on the edge of available grip, NOT the wholesale sideways drifting tech - that is mostly for show.

Of course, in road racing, these skills are critical multiple times per lap.

On the street - there are still too many examples to list from direct personal experience.

Long trips, find myself in a severe snowstorm, or an ice storm where it's too slippery to even stand, cars off the road everywhere, I'm able to drive (w/ managed sliding) to make it through to destination or shelter just fine. Similarly, coming onto a muddy or oiled patch, same thing -- very handy to be able to both minimize the consequences of lost grip, or recover from a sliding situation without hitting anything.

Also the occasions where an obstacle is in the road by surprise behind a visual obstacle -car pulls out, parked in road behind corner, whatever, available space is closing -- being able to drive with precision at the limits of available grip makes the difference between a <whew - close one!> and a <mash the brakes, turn the wheel, bash into whatever> incident.

Obviously, alertness is key to everything (even w/ the best skills), and of course maintaining safe distances, etc. is also key, and the basis of any sound skill set.

Edit:, additional clarification, the traction controls in many modern cars also eliminates the option for many of the high-slip-angle moves. You'd have to turn of all thise features, or unplug the fuse, which is not possible on the timescale of an emergency maneuver.
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
"Rosenberg shot down anyone who chose not to watch the show just because a woman was the hero: “That’s called misogyny, and I’m so damn tired of it."

I usually avoid shows where women are the heroes now because it can't just be a show where a woman is the hero. It has to include uber-liberal political messages shoe-horned into every turn and anyone that doesn't like the show is immediately considered a sexist.

The last Ghostbusters movie is a good example (although not a show, but the idea is the same). I really gave it a chance and it was a steaming pile of shit. One of the worst comedies I've seen in a long time. Anyone that had a negative opinion of it was banned from commenting on sites like Twitter and Facebook.

If you look at some of the comments women make against men on twitter, they are pretty horrific and almost never get removed. This is the double-standard that has become commonplace and really needs to change.

The problem is that nobody wants equality..they want superiority. They want to continue to have this special treatment on social media and everywhere else where they can do no wrong and anyone that has even a hint of a negative opinion about them are fired from their job and removed from society.

To me, this seems like the 1950s all over again..but the roles are reversed. As a white male, you really have to watch everything you do and say..even if it's well intentioned...because your words may be twisted into something racist or sexist and your livelihood destroyed.
something smells fishy. He never looked at the object with his own eyes. C'mon. How can you not verify with your own eyes whether this thing was real or not? He says he was trying to capture the best video for later analysis. He couldn't have just glanced at the object for a second to make visual confirmation?
Acccording to [1] just 67% of all UK trains arrived on time (no more than a minute late), with 2.8% scheduled trains cancelled all togther.

How does it fare against other EU countries? What is so different abount Japan trains, that they are just 0.7 minutes late on average?

[1] https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1630/passenger-performan...
Free-electron lasers could use _coherent_ soft-xrays to basically "Hologram" the interesting parts (maybe after grinding it to be very thin).
Alright HN, hope you enjoy this side project I finished up on the holidays. It's a simple static site built with React, Tachyons CSS and deployed to GH Pages. Here's the source if you are interested: https://github.com/nlaz/the-offline-writing-app.

I know there are plenty of holes in the actual usage. Don't it take it seriously. Cheers!
"I'LL BE BACK" is "return". "STICK AROUND" is "while", according to the list of keywords: here:https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC#brief-overview-of-the-ke...
The photons (let's say) that cause the inverse square law of the E+M force aren't on-shell photons [on-shell]. So, they're not photons that are "traveling" or are "emitted" in the same way that radiation is---they don't carry any energy away. Similar with or whatever. The 'force law' isn't susceptible to low-intensity counting issues.

In the last case---radiation---the photons are on-shell (so you can, for example, count them) and inverse square does degrade when you hit low counts. However, time-averaging restores it on average.

[on-shell] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_shell_and_off_shell
China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak
Tried registering, but the password input in the Android app doesn't support pasting text...
Most Chinese don't hate the party, this is hard to believe for many people. As interest-vested, the most common way is buying over-priced condos, you don't want to lose money, and you want to double what you invested like so many others did.
No, that is return.
The Importance of Recurring Revenue in Your Business (and How to Implement It)
Edit: This comment is completely wrong, I take it back unreservedly

Can you explain why you thought this comment required a throwaway? I have seen many people express similar sentiments without anonymity, and can't think you anything in it that would get someone not hired, for example.
I come from decades in the healthcare field (and published). Honestly? I would take with a grain of salt pretty much anything i see published these days.

A. Friend 1, follows the MDs orders to the T. Is dead in 6 months.

B. Friend B. MDs you have 6 months to live. Get your affairs in order. It's hopeless. Friend B? Fuck that, I feel great.

Friend B? Alive and running off to a yoga class. 14 years later. Healthy as can B. As he says, Chinese medicine. Just do your homework.

Food for thought ... :-)
That isn't really accurate. You are "pressurized" by the water around you. When the air comes out of your air tank, it's volume is dictated by the pressure around you. (Edit: this pressurized air has a higher partial pressure of the constituent gases which causes them to be absorbed from your lungs into your blood and then into your other tissues which eventually changes the partial pressure of the gases disolved in them, the reverse happens as you ascend and theses gases work their way back out into your blood and then lungs.)

"Feeling" changes in pressure depends on air space that can't equalize that pressure. One reason masks (which cover the nose) are used rather than goggles (which don't) is so that you can add air from your lungs to the mask and equalize the pressure. Otherwise you could give yourself a black eye or suffer a severe injury.
> Every time I try to argue around the subject and ask questions about it I get downvoted to oblivion or get answers like yours.

That's because you aren't asking questions, you're making vague points with question marks at the end.

> If these people were actually worried about climate and all related subjects they would be working on providing actual things reasonable people could do to help as oppose to calling other names and demanding they stop using plastic straws by showing pictures of turtles.

One thing actual reasonable people can do is stop pretending climate change doesn't exist and isn't a problem.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...
> Either there are 2 camps on HN

HN commenters come from all over the world and have various backgrounds and viewpoints. Do you find that commenters always echo your viewpoints? Likely not, which should be proof right there that there are at least two camps. Trying to categorize such a large and varied group of people into a small number groups is likely going to be problematic, as is trying to simplify the positions of the commenters you read.
I really don't understand why companies insist on doing the scummiest thing. I know, I know. Profit, but they must surely think before doing this stuff right?
Not booking.com, but travel sites definitely have gotten caught using Math.random() to generate the "x people are looking!" alerts.

https://twitter.com/OphirHarpaz/status/1184486445039411201
On long distances, anyway. The evidence for inverse square laws over short distance is much weaker, and so there is room for curled-up "extra dimensions" we sometimes hear about, both in extensions to the standard model and in stringy ideas.
i was not expecting to see an elephant seal at 2392 meters!
That only works for products with a B2B business model possible. That's not all products. And it's hard to build something with a "sane" business model when there's a lot of VC-funded products that are acting as loss leaders to suck the oxygen out of the room so they can develop a monopoly in a space.
> Unless they can keep expanding their userbase forever, they can't and don't over the long term (though a relatively high initial price helps there).

And that's okay. People who bought the software can keep using it and we don't have companies that are forever old hanging onto the market "just because that's what people buy".
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When I worked there a few years ago, I was actually surprised to discover that all these teasers were actually factual, including the "X other guests are looking at that hotel" and "Y rooms already booked in the last X days".
But the way they are phrased can definitively be misleading, which is what the article is about.

It's at the same time great and sad that no single sale genius is behind those teasers, though, as virtually anything can be tested online by anyone and only actual bookings will decide what sticks.
It used to work the other way too: once a particular phrasing have been approved by the A/B experiment engine, it's very hard to get rid of it. Unless there is a new regulation of course. Regulations were also taken very seriously, but to the letter. Meaning those dark patterns will likely stay online whenever they are not regulated against.
Deprecated `exec` command is hell to use

Curious what makes it hell to use?

Unfortunatelly there is still no way to run CI file locally which is major turn down

I don't think thats correct. As you mention there is `exec`. Do you know of better alternatives?
Yes, I'm sorry that the UI support on Android is a bit limited. Input support is a bit lowest-common-denominator there to work around keyboard bugs.
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The problem with antioxidant supplements is that they don't necessarily work well with metabolism.

After the antioxidant hype and supplement boom yielded no health benefits, there have been multiple large studies showing no effect or negative effects. They can remove benefits from physical exercise and increase cancer risk. Vitamin C can remove benefits from exercise.

Overall the risks and benefits are small, but basically they are all useless. If studies show benefits, it can be because some of the subjects suffered from deficiency. You should take them only to treat vitamin deficiency or increased need. Taking more and more of the good stuff is not automatically better.
The "throwaway" you're responding to was made in 2017 and has over 13K karma. At this point I strongly suspect it's just a handle rather than something used for some singular purpose.