skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t believe they were offering the same hotel room at different prices but rather more pricier options to different users. From the WSJ article that is the source of the CNET one:

“ Orbitz executives confirmed that the company is experimenting with showing different hotel offers to Mac and PC visitors, but said the company isn't showing the same room to different users at different prices. They also pointed out that users can opt to rank results by price.”

https://archive.is/tQQrY
Could also be:

"Despite all the nastiness of their mods, they’ve generated billions of dollars of programmer productivity to the world, but who knows how much it could have been if the moderation was done better?"
If you read the article they highlight the fact that they omit routes and prices at times that can be found on IATA.

For me, speed is one factor of product quality, but result integrity is the thing that I care the most about.
This concerns me. I doubt the product will actually become better with more VC money thrown at it. We will probably see things like premium content now.
Can you access a running CloudFlare worker from the internet? It would be fun to spin up ephemeral fibridge[0] instances to provide byte range access to large local files for backend services.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/fibridge-proxy-rs
And those would be?
Criteo: Migrating Arbitrage to Apache Mesos
> Well it's an ad absurdum in my opinion because the moral judgement applied to capital punishment it's radically different from the one used to judge overcompensation in other scenarios.

That's not what reductio ad absurdum (fancy latin for basically proof by contradiction) means. You're claiming that the comparison is inapropriate. reductio ad absurdum means that the comparison is good, but the thing being compared to is rediculous, and since the rediculous thing is the same as the main thing, the main thing must also be rediculous, and therefor false.

> Taking away benefits cannot be compared with taking away a life.

Why not? I don't see anything inherently contradictory in doing so. Whether or not the comparison is compelling is a separate question.

> Otherwise you could argue that prison is not the right answer to certain crimes because there could be death penalty for a atrocious enough crime.

Yes you could. Lots of people do. I don't support the death penalty myself, but there certainly exist people who do and its a practise that is still extant in some parts of the world.
AMD Zen 3 Powered Ryzen 4000 Desktop CPUs Launching Later This Year
Remote Positions for Royalty / Equity
As a pretty avid answerer on SO (>5k rep, >100 answers), it's surprising how much money people are willing to throw at this. The staff's apparent inability to interact positively with the community is a huge red flag[0], especially as the primary value they have as a brand is the size and quality of the community. I would switch sites easily if there was a compelling alternative, but I haven't heard of one.

0: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...
No, I was kind of hoping the interview would go into the ethics of it all beyond just 'how do your friends react?'
I have a decently expensive Bahco socket set. I find that because it's expensive I always know where it is in the house, I never leave it behind in the shed when I move, I always make sure each tool goes back in its proper place after I've done with it.

I tend to find that I treat cheap tools with a lot less care and attention. Flaws in their design (e.g. susceptibility to rust) takes care of the rest.

Maybe it's just a quirk of my personality but I'd have spent almost as much replacing cheap tools. Besides, it cost about two hours worth of labour at hourly rates in my area so one decent job and it's paid for itself.
I have settled on Zettlr too and the tipping point was Zotero support. Since I'm still settling into it, I'm curious about Obsidian too.

Ultimately, it's not the tool itself, but the consistency with which I use it that had impact.
Thank you!

Sure, so one thing would be that CEL looks to be designed for writing expressions inside something else - like configuration files or other kinds of policies. So for example, its used within Firebase security policies, which are a superset of CEL. oso is a standalone policy engine that you add to your application as a library, and supports writing full policies made up of multiple rules and expressions.

Also, CEL is primarily based around protobufs as the core data objects, whereas we built oso to write policies directly over application objects in any language.

Otherwise, we definitely share a similar view on many parts of the language design.
Yawn.

Also, since when was Julia so popular with the average redditor such that this AMA could be found on the frontpage?

I smell a paid promotion.
> Not sure why this is being posted now.

This kind of thing often happens when an interesting link is mentioned as a comment to some recent event. I linked to it somewhat recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790516), but that was over two weeks ago, so it probably wasn't my comment which led to this being posted now.

> However, it seems out-of-touch today, because of years of work in building more reliable systems out of distributed components has made the internet and scalable internet services possible.

And yet, it still happens. That comment I posted was about a computer most people didn't even know existed, making their own phones (which can be considered computers nowadays) unusable. A more recent event would be the Garmin servers going down, making many devices unusable.
Change of treasurer for manjaro community funds
I disagree. I think the anti-Trump crowd would've happily been on board with HCQ if Trump had said it was helpful and then scientific studies then also concluded it was helpful and that was the end of it.

Instead, the FDA publicly retracted it's authorization for the use of HCQ and said it did more harm than good, and so public sentiment solidified behind the idea that it was stupid all along. If the FDA hadn't done that and the treatment continued to prove effective, I think we would all generally be on board with it.

There are a lot of ways in which it turns out anti-Trumpers are exactly the same as Trump supporters, but the anti-science bent isn't one of them.
Are you a freelancer?

In a couple of years I would like to start gradually scaling down the number of hours I work. But right now I am a salaried employee and I have no freelance experience, so I'm not sure whether that is the right avenue for me.

Any thoughts are appreciated.
Working harder doesn't equate to working more.
Don't underestimate the technical illiteracy here. A significant number of people don't really understand how the address bar or an URL works in a web browser. Use web searching as a substitute of typing an URL is common, and some can't distinguish the "search" function of an address bar and the "enter an URL" function of an address bar. Searching "Google" in the address bar to access Google in Google Chrome is not unusual (sometimes you'll get a search result of 'Google' at Google, sometimes you'll be autocompleted and get a Google homepage, users don't notice the difference). This is also the underlying basis of Google's idea of abolishing the address bar - some users don't understand it, a Walled Garden is "better".

I'm not saying that I support Google's idea, just to point out a phenomenon that exists.
And then there are denied claims and out of network costs.

People often think of their insurance as good (or will respond so on surveys), until they actually call upon it and it evaporates, leaving them with multiple hundred-thousand-dollar bills related to the treatment of cancer.
Build better alternatives and I'm on board. In the end, Google is a business - I would promote my own shit on the first vertical as well.

You: I wish people would build products that successfully compete with Google.

Also you: It's fine if Google do things that stop their competitors successfully competing with Google.

This is literally exactly the reason why anti-trust laws exist - to stop a company who are successful in one area (search, advertising) unfairly dominating other areas (maps, translation) by suppressing their competition. For all you know there might be a map provider that you'd prefer - but while Google leverage their advantage running the premier search engine to put themselves at the top of every geographic search you're never going to find out.
Why would they? The wages are shit and the living conditions are terrible. It’s way worse than working on the oil rigs but the pay is like 1/4. Of course legal workers arent running towards these jobs. Like literally any other job will pay better and cause less damage to you body and health.

If farm workers payed fair wages and provided good living conditions and proper safety and ergonomic tools then sure more workers work be citizens but the disconnect is so large farms would have to double or triple wage costs so it’s easy to claim that they raised wages a buck or 2 and there were still no takers.
Goodness, I'm blind, completely missed that shot. Thanks!
Firefox releases come out every 6 weeks. It helps to put something in the title that explains what's interesting about this one.
nobody bothers to buy it, sellers just get a better margin.
Only you can know what you like.

The more movies you watch, the better your intuiton for predicting if you'll like the movie by watching the trailer will get.

I found imdb scores are good to have a general idea.
Eg I probably won't like a movie with a 5.9 score, even if the trailer seemed good. Or I'll give a movie with a >8 score a chance if the trailer is okay, but sometimes I know a movie is not for me by the trailer, no matter how high the score is.

For everything in between I decide mostly by the trailer and the past movies of the director.
> Currently what you can do as a website owner is to use Google Adsense

Nooo! This is not what I meant. I mean that embedding a search engine to your website without the user moving back to Google. So every website has a search engine for the entire internet. Not just Google. I want search to be kind of affiliate revenue to Amazon. So the developer embeds a search engine on the search page of a news website they get commission off the ads in a search result if the user decide to use search on the news paper's website. A search engine like Google for global search not just site-limited search.

Like do what Google is doing to websites but in reverse. Commoditize search. It'll require something more to get it right/product market fit but it's possible if you be creative.

Google is not the end product, its a compliment to websites. Websites need to commoditize Google instead of it being the other way around.
They probably have been taking their lives all along.

The knowledge that repeated head traumas can cause suicidality has only been widespread for 10 to 15 years. Before then for example it was commonly believed even by experts that the only head traumas that can cause permanent problems are those where the victim loses consciousness right after the hit.
I have yet to see any serious discussion around making the standard library less... Spartan.

Sometimes I question my own sanity because my love for this crazy little language :-)
I mean, there's some amount of code Google really doesn't want to share (it's not shared with me and I and I work there) for various reasons including security. So I imagine there would be downsides ( and not a whole lot of up, much of the useful stuff is already shared)
NoLinePump, ZeroLatencyGains, etc. A marketing person would have a field day naming your idea!
There's something horrific about running a society in such a way that the Just Another Faceless Junk Store on every corner is so worried about chasing growth that it decides to "hack its customers instead of treating them right".
Among my friends who are laid off from the virus, I've seen a great deal more of them painting and recording music; they're not aspiring to "make it," they're just doing more of their creative projects. Very small sample size but it makes me sad how it took a global pandemic to give them the time to do their things.
Who is "our" in this sentence, Rite Aid?
OK. What, in your mind, should grocery stores do about shrinkage? Bear in mind that grocery is a notoriously low-margin business, and stores can and will be shut down if shrinkage at a location is too high.

Perhaps also consider that there are different ethical questions around stealing luxuries than around necessities: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-ethical-fourier-transf...
This is interesting. If data confidentiality requires process isolation, then how can CloudFlare workers be safe?
I can't pinpoint the exact moment but I noticed I've been finding more and more answers in the official documentation, GitHub issues and project source code. Maybe Google got better at indexing docs or people started writing higher quality documentation but where I used to land on SO multiple times a day I will now visit it a few times a week at most. Also when the mentioned sources hit a search result it's almost always better quality (SO has gems for sure, but I often encounter outdated, incorrect or half solution answers and the format is not structured so that you can share your process which makes it hard to examine how someone got to that point and where to take it from there - unlike say GitHub issue thread).
Quantum communication isn't communication in the sense that you can decide what to send. You have a shared quantum state due to entanglement and you can guarantee that both sides see the same information when they observe the state but it's more like putting two identical messages into sealed envelopes and sending them off to be opened later (with the caveat that because the message hasn't been determined until it is observed you can prevent anyone from knowing what it is ahead of time).

Much more detailed explanation here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2016/05/04/the-real-r...
Donald Trump Jr suspended from tweeting after Covid post
The essay was written six years ago, and yeah, it doesn't work for explaining why the George Floyd case resulted in widespread protests.
You also can't guarantee that you won't be hit by a meteorite and yet you leave your house.

If you worry about the signal not being received and the inability of air traffic control to spot the irregularity, then only initiate safety landing when the plane receives an answer-signal. Otherwise, let the plane fly however it wants and let it crash somewhere randomly because most places are better equipped to handle a random plane landing than a regular airport.
Backblaze introduces Cloud to Cloud Migration
Harbor frieght sells the same shit for years at a time. Their sales are always rotating. As a customer I basically have enough info from 3 months of their ads that I have 0 fomo anymore and also I have a good idea of what the price on an item should be. So essentialy all of their targeting taught me how to maximize them.

Also due to any lack of slack in their product line, I don't have anything I'm missing out on.

So basically, sell me latex gloves for <$7 or I'm not coming in. Magnetic screw trays for $.99 or the bigger ones for $1.99 or not coming in. I can wait literal years for that motorcycle lift to drop to $250 instead of $475.
True! Probably the only relatively big quality-of-life improvement so far.

Reformed error handling in it's current form is not there yet.
No, it's still going. Not sure they're producing anything below 22nm, though, and purely low-power (FDSOI) parts.

There's also TI's site in Freising which is a notable fab producing analogue parts.
> The continued investment implies that the market has spoken: Your data has value.

That's a dangerous assumption to make, even irresponsible post-2008.

It's also a fallacy which gets used by scammers often.

For example, some in the spam industry relied on that fallacy to sell malvertising schemes to rubes. Because somebody must be making money off spam, right? But the scam is selling the scheme/software to enough spammers to extract a nice living before each of them predictably jumps ship. So the answer could be, "no, they aren't making money," or, "maybe, but you won't be," and the incentive to sell the systems is still there.

Data may have value, but continued investment in it is certainly not enough on its own to elucidate what that value is.
The resolution is fine if you're in close like we were. But then you lose out on the room details which were needed the final composition, hence the CGI extension. The resolution is only a problem if you shoot pulled back and then try to crop in later.
Americans Receive Mystery Seeds in the Mail, Mostly from China
> Let's say if in the case of Mr. Floyd another one of the officers had said, "get off him, this submission hold is not in line with department policy" and the officer got off Mr. Floyd and Mr. Floyd had not died. What then?

Then we'd never heard about George Floyd.

Not to say there is no serious police brutality problem, but it's worth remembering the huge selection bias in what videos go viral and we end up seeing.

There is over 1 million cops in the US, and out of however many million interactions they have with the public each day, an overwhelming majority are perfectly fine.
The George Floyd case is the straw that broke the camel's back. The thing everybody was talking about was not the fact he was murdered – it was the rioting, the looters. The controversy. The conclusion of this comment was intended to be “so the article's not wrong, it just isn't covering every case” – but this actually turned out not to be the counterexample I thought it was.

I heard about his murder before the riots, yes. But it was just “oh, look, another guy murdered by the police in the US, now what's going on with that x86 operating system?”. It wasn't on the news until there were protests, and wasn't really international news (except BBC and the like) until there was rioting.
I'll have to take your word for it – I'm curious if you have tried it though. I can certainly imagine that it might be feasible (even at lower resolutions) with enough stirring of the 'linear algebra pile'.

Not meaning to rain on your parade though – congratulations on a great idea!
No way to prove it, but I'd actually be pretty surprised if you're right about millions of people knowing what it actually means.
I think the phrase "it’d be much better as five much smaller articles" can be interpreted in two ways:

1) "I would prefer ..."

2) "It would be better ..."

You can be in the habit of giving people the benefit of the doubt, that when they say "A is a better coffee than B" they are merely expressing an opinion, because you think it's too tedious to say "For my taste" before each opinion.

But I hope you see how the phrase literally is "It would be better" as if there is an (obvious implicit) standard by which we can all agree to judge things, and from that standard, "it would be better if".
I’m currently looking into porting some lambda functions over but I still haven’t seen anything that would indicate I can compile inside a cloud flare VM and then push custom binaries up to the workers to run.
If you credit your bank account do you have more money or less?

Financial Income is in a denomination that is not yours. When you receive more of the denomination you are receiving more of somebody else’s liability to you.

That’s more negative (more credit)
Laptop suspend, ALSA sound, Bluetooth, and WiFi are almost always sources of constant frustration. I loved Linux but until they get that ironed out, I won't use it for a desktop solution.

I hate getting jerked around by Apple but not as much as I hate driver issues.
As in sales clerk. Ring up sales, stock shelves, putter about and put things in order. Read a book or knock out some pushups if it's a really slow day, everything's in order, and the owner's not a dick. That kind of thing.

[EDIT] sense 5 in Webster's 1913. Apparently it is, or at least was, a US usage.

5. An assistant in a shop or store. [U. S.]
Hmmmm, I wonder if this just isn't changing market preferences.

I also grew up backpacking with external frame packs, PMS boots, and scratchy wool shirts. My current outfit is nowhere near as durable, but it's 5-10 lbs lighter. Thinner nylons, smaller zippers, internal frames, synthetic boot materials, lightweight fabrics, etc... the weight has to come from somewhere.

I still have my old Kelty external frame pack. I haven't used it in 20 years and I probably never will again. It's just more fun traveling with less weight. If that means I have to replace gear more often... it's worth it.
That's the kind of video countdown I like: quick and over in less than two minutes. No long, overdrawn filler in between each item.

At the same time, I'd like to see an article that explains why he considers one plastic chair superior to a different one, or what was the basis for ranking the chairs in the order he did.
Oh absolutely, but to be fair the specs of the base level Mac Pro aren't really relevant to anything. If you're spending less than 5 digits on your Mac Pro, you're not doing it right.
> Amazon backports security updates to Amazon Corretto

There's a flaw in your logic there...

JWS is gone in new versions, so there aren't any security updates for it in the newer versions either.

You can't backport a patch which hasn't been written.
Reddit Mascots on Desmos
Agreed on GC, I don't really point people to GC in general because there are so many good local music stores which are invested in their communities.
I'm sure many folks would be really interested to see two things:

1. A blog post around a reproducible benchmark between QuestDB, TimescaleDB, and InfluxDB

2. A page, like questdb.io/quest-vs-timescale, that details the differences in side-by-side feature comparisons, kind of like this page: https://www.scylladb.com/lp/scylla-vs-cassandra/. Understandably, in the early days, this page will update frequently, but that level of transparency is really helpful to build trust with your users. Additionally, it'll help your less technical users to understand the differences, and it will be a sharable link for people to convince others & management that QuestDB is a good investment.
But if Google search didn't send me to Google maps when I was looking for maps then I would explicitly go to Google maps. In that case there would be no chance for any competitor to do better.
> For customers that want to migrate 50TB or more to Backblaze and store it with us for at least 12 months, we’ll pay the data transfer fees from Amazon S3. In the last 90 days of this program’s private beta, we’ve migrated more than 2PB of customer data out of the cloud oligarchy and into Backblaze.

This is so cool. Great work on Blackblaze’s part to provide a competitive storage system alternative.
I recall Jason Fried talking about he uses a fat whiteboard marker (as opposed to a thin marker) during concept design sessions to resist the temptation to start working on details too early.
The first Italian Space Fund is born: 58M to fly among the stars
Yes exactly.

I wonder how the developers feel - working for a leadership team / company that apparently doesn't care much about ethics.
India is cheating
Sarajevo in the 80s was pretty good and it was still behind Zagreb and Belgrade. I moved to northern Italy in 92 and the standard of living wasn't that much better for most people compared to a larger Yugoslavian city in the 80s.
Right now our production backend relies on Postgres, Django, Kafka, Docker, Nomad, Celery (yes, those queues probably should be folded back into Kafka eventually), and lots of other open-source tech. I'm not sure if I should share much, and can't talk in depth anyway, about the embedded stack. And then there are the tools for developing the algorithm, and custom systems for assembly/test/pack in Syracuse.

Our web application is mostly TypeScript, React, RxJS.