skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is price matching in online shopping a scam?
Price matching is a promise from a seller (typically, and intermediary) that if you find a good somewhere cheaper, they will return you the difference (after you already paid the more expensive price). The premise is that it's better to make some profit, or even a small loss (with a view to, maybe, keep the customer for a profitable transaction at another time) than sink sales costs and walk away with nothing. However, in my perception, it's not how it works - "price matching" is just a language used to increase conversion for sellers with trusted brand (e.g. Booking.com vs some cheaper website the customers don't trust), where they promise the price will be as low as anywhere on the internet, but actually, this rarely/never happens.

Given that a lot of industries where price matching applies (concerts & transportation tickets, accomodation) also almost always utilize dynamic pricing, by the time of processing a price matching request by the seller, competitor's website almost certainly will change the price to something more expensive. On top of this, the price matching procedures (all sort of price comparison engines I've seen) are designed to be slow (e.g. 24h response time) and generally speaking, in spite of trying (multiple times, including big companies like the aforementioned Booking.com), I never succeeded to get a price matching return.

Hacker News, have you ever managed to get a price match on a hotel/concert/flight ticket? Any tips? Is there a business incentive there I didn't mention that could be useful in my future claims?
That's inevitable. What is preventable, however, is having taxpayer money flow out of the country to foreign corporate interests. As an American, I'd rather get screwed by an American company than one from, well, a whole host of other countries.
Very cool.

Your results look much better than the washed out AI colorization that I've seen in the past.

I think you could charge money for this service.

A suggestion for something fun to do / marketing tool: recolorize this video frame-by-frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw

Feature request: colorize B&W comic books. I really want to create a full color book of Calvin & Hobbes comics. (Not for publication)
Formally exempting overseas territories like Puerto Rico seems to me a reasonable compromise.
Is that true? It always seemed to me that it generated commits periodically from its internal representation. The Git history seems way less granular.
And just say the wifi was down if you don't want to connect; it seems to be down half the time I want to use it anyway.
Yes, sorry, that is a byproduct with this design, can't be fixed because of limitations on mobile browsers. What phone are you using? On most newer phones there is enough vertical height...
I work remote and prefer to do so, and yet I sympathize with this so much. Why does everyone feel like we have to split into pro-remote and pro-office camps; it's obvious to me that each has its pros and cons.

Although I LOVE working remote, I sorely miss those interactions that happen at the office. I find they make me happier (being a socialite), help me build relationships that lubricate work interactions, and often are a much needed break.

However I count myself extremely lucky: my company will pay for me to fly in to HQ several times a year and put me up in a hotel and I take them up on this. I spend 1 week in the office, I plan on getting ZERO sprint work done, and I simply use that time to reconnect with my colleagues (who try to fly/drive in that same week), do group activities, planning meetings, eating out at night. It's simultaneously energizing AND exhausting.

After that week is over, I feel so much better and I fly back to my home office and find that I have a renewed sense of energy and creativity and am also much more productive with my "real" sprint work.

So I guess I get the best of both worlds! If you can get your company to do something like this, I highly recommend it. Although I know it is quite expensive.
You mean except for Chromium as well. All this talk about Manifest v3 which has already resolved most issues and delayed launch to finish addressing the rest literally provides more privacy than the approach before. Whether you want to make it easier for malicious extensions to spy on you is a different story, however I'd imagine that there are other filtering mechanisms outside the browser if you want to give adblockers more control.
The opt in by default in Brave vs Firefox's opt-out by default does speak value.

While a feature can be good/suggested to be enabled, a user won't know to look for it unless advertised or in settings. Most of the features in Firefox seem to be behind about:config changes. I imagine most users just install software and go on with their life instead of configuring.

Can be a double edged sword though. No sites that are memorable off hand, but I have had site that Brave with Shields w/defaults would not load vs stock firefox + stock Ublock would. Note sure if this is due to the "opt in" by default breaking a site.

Edit: Brave is opt out, Firefox is opt-in. I had them backwards.
It is a bit more nuanced. I bought a 3 month old "side project" which had like 10 customers at the time and I have bootstrapped it into a low 7 figure business with a totally new tech and lots of pivots/business changes. I call myself the founder for all practical purposes. Everything about this business was setup by me and the team I built from the ground up except the initial market validation which btw we have changed anyway since the customer profile is now different.
So it is good for something at least?
It’s not just those issues. The original Impetus for the jones act was to keep a strong merchant marine for war time, so we subsidise the us merchant fleet so that if we had need during war they would exist.

I find this difficult because my outlook for those kinds of conflicts indicates it’s not necessary to have such a fleet, but if you need it, it’s too late to decide. Those ships are a multi year build.

I would think some flexibility and also some accounting of exactly how many us merchant boats we’d need should inform changes to the Jones act.
Weightlifting is the best anti-depressant I've ever tried.
It's interesting that the article and the animations still lean on the concept of the proton having an "inside" with some kind of boundary. It makes for interesting animations, but that's not really a good way to understand anything at the quantum level. The particles and forces that make up a proton have probabilities of having certain features like momentum and velocity, and they are more likely to be within a certain area, but there's no "inside" for a charm quark to pop out of. The measurement that finds a charm quark/antiquark pair is just showing a certain state of the system that under standard conditions has a state we call a proton.
Also spent a few minutes browsing around and found https://github.com/creationix/tedit, a web based editor that reads and writes directly to git (I think).

Like I said Tim has quite a few projects that interact directly with git.
The number one reason I see is remote work enables the ability to travel and explore. And some prefer async work also. It can't be possible in an in-office work.
Thats lucky for you but you must be aware of how uncharacteristic that is. When you get a new job that commute disappears unless the new job is close to the old job or you up and move.
I felt the same, I was working for a startup in a startups incubator, and I enjoyed being at the office, with other startups, different projects, sometimes helping each other and weekly after hours meetups. During COVID the whole building was empty and it was sad. Also, at the same time, we started hiring remote employees on another time-zone, all of this started to feel impersonal and dehumanizing, so I left.
Discovery of exciton pairs could enable next-gen technology
I do not understand your point about his "Just Cause" pun. Other than that it can mean two things simultaneously depending on how it is interpreted.
I hope you know that the salary of a skilled developer in the valley could afford hundred acre palace estates in parts of the US....

Those salaries can afford to come down.
One of the reasons I'm a big proponent of WFH (at least for tech careers) is precisely because WFO involves such a staggering amount of wasted time for everyone, but it's so baked into the business culture that few people seem to notice the full extent of it.

I think I understand where you're coming from, but I strongly disagree with the implication that WFO means collaboration/interaction and WFH doesn't. WFO makes the cost of interaction so low that it tends to get abused. YMMV, but I've been WFH almost entirely for the past decade and one of the key benefits is that gets things closer to the sweet spot in the right amount of interaction, and the collaboration is of higher quality. *

WFH vs WFO has so many facets and tradeoffs, but for software companies at least, I'd be extremely skeptical that WFO produces better outcomes for the company on average.

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* I don't fully know all the reasons for this, but I suspect it's because remote interaction encourages proficiency in a richer set of collaboration tools, and so we learn to naturally flow from tool to tool based on what is the best fit - chat for spitballing, email for thoughtful protracted debate, a Google doc for hammering out proposals and requirements, etc. In nearly every case there's automatically a searchable history created. In WFO, it's typical to lean way too heavily on face-to-face, which is extremely costly in the moment, it doesn't encourage putting much thought/preparation into the communication, and it also lacks any sort of history keeping (unless done manually), so information is lost or, worse, the face-to-face collaboration is then followed up with using the same tools to attempt to recreate what was discussed/decided (so redundant effort).
than most of our brains represent, perhaps ... but clearly there are people who see things others don't ... give them the ability to see at these scales, and enough explanatory skills, and perhaps it will become something even a child can understand.
I have not, and it may be my lack of understanding, but I don’t think taking care of babies during a meeting is a good thing.

Unless you and I have very different types of meetings, the ones I have are usually short and focused and I would be very annoyed if someone was constantly interrupted or distracted (just like I would be if someone is constantly checking their phone).
Dangerous trend. Soviet Union fell apart when due to Gorby's anti-alcohol program, people saw the country they lived in with the sober eyes for the first time...
FYI: The Nozomi Shinkansen would take 13+ hours from NYC to LA at max speed if it was going on a straight line the entire time and completely ignore any constraints like mountains, etc. Even in this ideal scenario and it being subsidized to cost the same as an airplane ticket why would anyone choose the train?
Hasn’t been heard from by one person that he doesn’t want to talk to
I have checked; this move is likely the main reason why Slack was for sale. Slack even tried to make an anticompetition claim against Microsoft for this reason [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53503710
That doesn't sound healthy.

Im no social butterfly, and understand initial boundaries are important, however stone walling everyone at work makes for a miserable work place for your colleagues, and for yourself (due to all interactions being ultimately pointless beyond strictly business).
Pass on this "analysis". I'd rather speak with actual merchant mariners with 4+ decades experience in the industry and reams of data of actual merchant marine businesses and a bunch of other stakeholders like shipbuilders, DoD, municipality water utilities techs who have to deal with the industry on the coal face, ecologists, marine biologists, etc. to find out where the real skeletons lie in a scrap-vs-support discussion of the Jones Act.

This kind of pablum that passes for "analysis" thrives upon readers not bringing externalities into the picture. When you lossy compress these types of decisions into a unidimensional pricing metric, the blowback from overlooked information always comes back to bite you in the ass after the ones who can monetize the externalities have long since absconded with the money and saddled the rest of us in taxes with the clean up bill.

I'm completely open to scrapping the Jones Act and in fact my personal inclination is to scrap it. Once I find where the externality debt the authors were so desperate to hide is buried, and priced that into the full evaluation, like any balanced business decision should be made. After seeing up close first-hand the disaster that is Chinese food biosecurity, I'm not at all impressed with these capitalism über alles boosters who are not putting forth a proposal in good faith, instead just putting in a negotiating ploy.

We see this all the time in our profession where someone blithely ignores technical debt of all kinds to meet a metric, grab their bonuses, and jet out the door before the business realizes they've been conned.
Thanks for the clarification.
I understand the nuance of your point much better now.
Asynchronous is the new norm. If I were a parent, I would absolutely push back on less important meetings and ask them to email me instead with a summary.
0. Don't beat yourself up. Mens' bilogical clocks tick later than womens'. If your wife wasn't excited about it then it makes sense you would just go along without children until you are 40. Also don't let anyone tell you that kids are just a "want" or something, if children are right for you, they're more than a "want".

1. Get some feedback from professionals about whether you are mentally healthy enough to make important decisions. If not, try to get healthy before proceeding. But the default will be for them to tell you to wait and see, which closes options for you and your wife. If you get the feeling they don't really care about you and they are just giving the easy answer ("another decade of therapy at $100/hr, then ask me again"), seek another opinion or try to assess the situation yourself. Everyone has some mental issues and sometimes you need to move on with your life.

2. If you believe children are right for you, talk to your wife and bring her for counseling. If she's not on board and doesn't get there quickly, consider whether you are really right for each other. You have 40 more years together. Divorces are easier without kids, and if she doesn't want kids, then she hasn't "wasted" her child-bearing years on you, so there will be less pain.

3. If she's on board, go to a fertility doctor without delay, even while still trying naturally.

4. If it doesn't work, then you have to consider what to do next. Sometimes, trying and failing gives you a new outlook, and you'll value the relationship you have with your wife more, and move on with other meaningful pursuits. But also perhaps not, and you may still need to consider starting over with someone else. But there's a risk you will end up alone or with a bad marriage, which is pretty common.

5. Consider religion in your life regardless of what happens.
I don't like WFH, but I hate WFO more. Actually, what I like is WAFO: "Work Away From the Office".

I usually prefer cowork spaces, or coffee shops as a fallback. In such environments, socializing is possible, but opt-in. People around are not (usually) your colleagues. But they're still people, so if you're looking to make friends over coffee or lunch, it's available.

You also have expectation of privacy. No one looking over your shoulders and drawing conclusions. Whether your screen is filled with code for 10 straight hours (which often goes unnoticed in the office), or decide to spend your time watching YouTube clips (which may raise some eyebrows in the office), in a cowork, no one cares. It's your process, you're the adult.

> But shouldn't we rather work on fixing those things instead of...

People will be people. You can't fix that. The social dynamics are too complex. The challenge is akin to not thinking of a pink elephant.
Probably my favorite non-POSIX tool that I insert into my pipelines whenever anything takes more than a few second. I find it super helpful to avoid premature optimization. If I can quickly see that my hacked together pipeline will run in a few minutes and I only ever need to do that once, I'll probably just let it finish. If it's going to take a few hours, I might decide it's worth optimizing.

It also helps me optimize my time. If something is going to finish in a few minutes, I probably won't context switch to another major task. However, if something is going to take a few hours then I'll probably switch to work on something different knowing approximately when I can go back and check on results.
Using AI to Translate Speech for a Primarily Oral Language
"working with business" suggests we must be talking about different situations.

I'm talking about a company building software products they sell, eg an enterprise software product like salesforce, google cloud, aws, splunk etc. Not internal software or software built for a specific client.
New MIT system could cool buildings up to 10 Degree Celsius without electricity
You can consider whatever you like, they are still "things that pop up" that most people simply don't want.
I built something similar but much more simpler. Yours is way better but check this anyway: https://combinedsearch.io/
Are you advocating for crushing dissenting voices?
At least psychologically, there is a big difference between having an authority correct you versus having a number of minions each pushing their own opinion on you.
> I wish that we could all collectively agree that this is a PREFERENCE

If you read my comment, that's also what I'm saying in the first sentence. I think the issue is that living that preference within one company is really hard. A remote-first culture is usually very different from an office-first culture. I would never want to work remotely when most of my team is sitting in the same room every day (done that, been there).

So, what will happen is that will be an increasing number of remote-first companies, and people who like to work remotely, will work there. This way, the preferences can be shown.

What will the remote-first companies' share be of total companies? Who knows...
>We also don’t want ships operated with the oversight of nations like Liberia in our coastal waters.

What are you talking about? There's tons of those already, they just can't go between 2 US ports directly.
network effect, as much as I like Matrix idea there is no chance it can compete with WhatsApp

now give me Matrix client with basic SMS support (I don't need even MMS) and I'm installing it immediately to replace my dedicated SMS app

I did same love with family as poster, from Signal with family, WhatsApp and SMS just to WhatsApp/SMS combo though already years ago after PIN nagging
Gaia’s Stellar Motion for the Next 1.6M Years
There is nothing to substantiate

1. The law was passed

2. Websites complied with the law

3. Web browsing got worse

Has “surveillance capitalism” subsided at all after the GDPR? Did any company announce that it affected their revenue negatively?

How many people are saying “we are so glad we have cookie banners everywhere”. I’m also sure that every small business is glad to have to decipher the huge law.
> Did you ever think about how you'll never again be able to stay up all night and research new technologies, or have a hobby like kayaking, or .. All because of parenting?

I'm not even a parent and I know this is ridiculous? Of course you can't take a newborn kayaking but Jesus, to say "you'll never again be able to...have a hobby like kayaking" is the most obviously wrong thing I've ever read. It invalidates the rest of your post.
As soon as a company's IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south?

Outsourcing was happening long before the pandemic. If a company wanted to outsource work to cheaper devs they've been able to for decades. There's nothing about WFH that changes that.
Yes, but GCC has several internal representations, Gimple and RTL.
Unless everyone on a single team chooses to work either from home or the office, communication will suffer for the people working from home, since it's just far easier to talk to people in the same room than it is to type stuff.

Personally, I find working in an office to be borderline unbearable unless I'm participating in making all the noise that's being generated around me.
I haven't made a write-up of this yet, I still need to figure out how to self-fund it. I normally do more layman scientific writing like this: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-klimt-color-enig...
First result from Reddit for the OP URL:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3rumq8/y_combi...

lol
Check out https://combinedsearch.io/ as well
The annual post congress malaise goes by many names. Conflu, CCCbola, Congress Plague, Congress Colds, "I didn't drink that much tschunk why do I feel shit a week later", etc ;)
80% of SaaS business out there are just excel files with a better UI and a more scalable database.
Also check out https://combinedsearch.io/
Would love to join, my email is in my profile :)
Alternately find a company that supports a mix of in person and remote work and provides the tools to do "in person" things like white-boarding and the culture to provide "coffee chats" and other camaraderie building events.

I think that a lot of people who dislike WFH are missing the sense of community more than are actually missing talking with someone face to face with a cup of coffee in their hand. Not always the case, but I think those are two separate audiences that get clumped together in these conversations.
Thanks, that is my point exactly! I was expecting the good ol' "Get some friends and stop complaining" argument here and it's completely besides the point. I am talking about group identity of teams and understanding social dynamics. It greatly increases my intrinsic motivation working for a team I identify with on a personal and social level instead of "for the company"