skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason my experience has been the opposite: higher prices when going through the hotels directly. My thoughts were that clients booking directly are not really comparing so less price sensitive and thus the hotel charges them more. The difference has often been around 10%.

The UI of hotels website is also often terrible and I absolutely do not trust them with my credit card info (nor do I wish to send them a SEPA deposit which I have seen at more than one place).

For flights on the other hand I take the airline website any day.
No, they were with me. Can't disconnect from everything.
It got many comments quickly and I guess the HN anti flame ware algorithm deprioritised the post.
Apple also collects telemetry by default. Stop pretending this is just Google.
Here's my take, from January 2017.

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/we-need-mediums-editor-not-m...

Basically, the incentives are misaligned, which will inevitably make it worse for writers as time goes on.
By the way the idea that Loudoun county handles a third of global internet traffic is ridiculous. Some guy from the chamber of commerce said this in the 90's and journalists have been parroting the statement ever since. Sometimes as much as 70%! Since it's not based on reality they can just make up anything.
> what those CEOs are doing to let a situation roll like this for so long. How boards accept this kind of thing?

It's approved by the board. They signed off as part of some strategy. No way a ceo outside of Zuck is permitted to lose money like this otherwise. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWLO/twilio/net-in...
Because the financial inefficiencies produced by individual owners currently take the place of trillions of dollars of subsidized housing that would be paid by the government to institutional investors to build and maintain housing affordable to teachers, retail workers, police, and firemen that institutional investors DON'T WANT TO OWN MAINTAIN OR BUILD.

I am an individual property investor. I'm a landlord of a single 2-flat up-down duplex. I don't make as much money as I COULD make if I had endlessly deep pockets. It was sold to me by another individual real estate investor who owned and maintained it for 25 years.

Do you know why he sold it? He wanted to buy a luxury property that he would make more profit on and require less maintenance.

Without individual investors with limited pools of money investing in lower margin properties, simply hoping to augment a retirement account or 401k...

Affordable housing would cease to exist.
AI service or feature that find common ground and rephrase concerns to help people find agreement.

In this contentious world we live in, I feel like all we really need is a little more love for our common earthbound inhabitants.

This could work for neighborly disagreements or even bigger stuff.
Disclose that there's a per-county E911 fee in the ad.
I cannot actually answer your question: I'd probably call back and if they still don't, I'd ask what to do.

What I can give you is the next best thing: A way to self-check. Most fire extinguishers have both an expiration date and a pressure gauge. You want the pressure to be in the green and the date to be in the future. They usually last 10-12 years with proper care, but you still want to regularly check these things.

My source for this: An inspector, who checked the extinguishers for the pharmacy I worked at back then (was employed or contracted by the pharmacy chain). It has been over 10 years, but it doesn't look like this information is out of date.
Previously, yes. I try to avoid talking about the labor issue because well, exactly what you pointed out. My comment above deserves an asterisk in this regard, it occurred to me but I figured repliers would suredly provide worthy counterexamples that I could just upvote, which was intellectually lazy of me and I do apologize. To future readers, consider this reply chain the asterisk I guess.
the difference is that with google you can trace the source of the statement, and with chatgtp they only option is to believe.
Baby isn't being raised by a machine. How is this different from a crib mobile (for entertainment) + video monitor?
Eastern Europe is not just ex-USSR countries, and even there you can still travel by plane. Only Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have closed airspace.
>>Maybe their business model isn't even viable

Twilio needs to figure out that that even is...

They seems to be pulling in 100 directions from Automated Communications, to Authentication, Serverless Cloud, To Transactional Email, to Video Services to what ever else.
When she was little, my daughter was looking at a globe once and thought it was hilarious that Greece was on top of Turkey - "I don't like greasy turkey, but if that's your thing..."
What do they do with the closed offices? Moved to remote or completely removing those locations incl all employees there?
A few reasons, including that it set off the flamewar detector a.k.a. overheated discussion detector; and we downweighted it because there have been countless yet-another-layoffs-story posts recently, so the bar for interestingness has to be higher. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... on the latter point. Also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Hasn't helped me. Each team I run to seems to be worse/harder than the last.
(More robotics, but if you'll accept it)

Workers of the dirtiest, least desirable jobs ( sewage, septic cleanup?) get paired with a robot that handles the dirty work.

No job loss, critical infrastructure remains, just less toil for the human.
I think your pattern is right except for "its weird and undocumented" - I have found the maintainers are superb at docs -

e.g. deps.edn -

there is a "Guide" https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli

there is a "Getting Started" https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started (it's branded as an overall Clojure getting started but the core of deps is just the clj/clojure command line tool you would use to install clojure)

there is a deep "Reference" with a "Rationale" https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli

spec

Spec Guide - https://clojure.org/guides/spec

Spec Rationale https://clojure.org/about/spec

Spec API reference https://clojure.github.io/spec.alpha/

Spec resources (brief) https://clojure.org/community/resources#spec

(Rich Hickey also gave a couple of spec talks that are on YouTube)

Also, for my money, deps.edn is way more composable than lein, does not feel weird to me at all. Ditto for spec vs prismatic schema which preceded it. I think the latter case is one where people were more miffed that the official solution displaced a community beloved tool, but to me it genuinely seems really well thought through. There are some flaws discussed in the Rich Hickey talk "Maybe Not" which led to an experimental (still beta) spec2 but spec1 I still find miles ahead of what's available for the languages I've worked with.
The media chases money, and clicks and attention work for that, but so does other stuff, eg, bribery.
I'm not sure about that. Private health care is largely beneficial in countries with strong socialized health care. I'm definitely no expert on financial regulation, but I see the practice of "flipping" businesses as the real problem. Where I live, we've recently introduced a "house flipping tax" (which doesn't go far enough, in my opinion, but that's another conversation). A similar approach could be taken to private sales of businesses: if you buy and sell a company in a relatively short period of time, the gains (from the sale, from income, etc) should be taxed at a steeply elevated rate.
Man, i need to use Wolfram more. Not being math focused i guess i tended to ignore it, but that's a really cool and easy feature.
To add to the last bit: It's trivial to get ChatGPT to evaluate actual code it can't possibly have seen before and correctly produce the expected output. Only limits on the size of context and output stops it from being turing complete.
Absolutely!

Something that's great about part time programs is that everyone you're in school with is in the same boat - they already have generally decent careers but are ambitious and capable enough to make the investment in furthering themselves (or pivoting) - that's a great group. The full-time MBAs kinda felt like "kids" in comparison - I don't mean that as a put down, they were capable and driven in their own way, I just think the part timers are special in that way.

Something that worked for me - I didn't feel the urge to graduate quickly (would be different if I needed the degree to pivot roles) so I graduated in 5 years whereas others did it in 2. This had multiple benefits: I got to focus more on each class w/o burning out, and I got to meet WAY more people and do many more social things - ski trips, study abroad, etc.

I also took the strategy of trying to learn what I don't know. My background is in engineering/tech/economics, so I made sure to not take any "Managing IT" type classes and to test out of as much Econ as possible. Instead, I focused on things I didn't know anything about (entrepreneurship, marketing, competitive strategy etc.) All of that served me well.

Mainly, the MBA is social and fun. A bit after I graduated, I opted for an in person graduate program in Data Science and promptly bailed. The social element was so boring that there was no reason to be traveling to campus - was missing out nothing compared to studying at home. But the MBA, the material is good but I found the social/personal evolution just as if not more valuable.

Happy to answer anything else. What school are you going to?
You don't want an Object Relational Mapping library in a language that discourages object orientation.
The iron law of social media is that those paying for attention (soon, Twitter will prioritise the tweets of those who pay the $8, they claim) are less worthy of attention that those who get it organically. Like, there'll probably be exceptions at the edges, but it's likely a decent filtering heuristic.

Even dating/hookup sites, who pioneered this mechanic, have backed away from it somewhat; Grindr allows people to pay for temporary boosts up the top of the grid, for instance, but it _rations_ this; there's a cooldown once a user does it.
It's not "black" because it's bad. It's black because it's a turned-off screen, which has a black colors. Black Mirror stories are bad because the Mirror reflects bad/broken people, not because the mirror is is bad. A White Mirror would be a screen that is turned on, but also reflects images.
I didn't try to shut down the criticism, that's not remotely what I'm saying. But if all you have to say is LLM=bad then what are you actually saying?
I tried getting into Clojure (I have an undergrad Lisp background). I just couldn't become productive, and the tooling seems fragmented. Been moving many of my workloads from Go to Rust.
It is cringe in both good times and bad....

lets just cut it completely.
You can understand the 2020/2021 hiring at certain companies with a very clear pandemic-related angle like Zoom. But I've lost track of the number of non-answer answers, both public and private, to why companies apparently overhired. We hired more than we meant to. How does that happen?

Especially at a company losing large piles of money.
Pardon me for interrupting in the middle of a “LITERALLY HITLER REEE!” but LOL if you don’t think every every other political party isn’t trying to appeal to some caste or the other particularly at the local level. Of course they do because democratic politics is about people first and ideas second. In India jati is the basic unit of society, in Ancient Greece it was the Demos (which is exactly the same thing) and in other countries yet other tribal groupings.

But that’s not the end of it. Sure Hindus (who are not nearly as monolithic as you think) appreciate that BJP seems to be supporting their values but that in itself would not have been enough. Modi’s success comes from being perceived as someone who gets things done. I was recently Gujarat UP and Delhi and talked to people from all walks of life. There’s a huge amount of optimism that life is getting better and rightly or wrongly Modi is getting credit for it. Maybe it’s a mirage. Maybe it would have been just as good with someone else but this is in fact the perception on the ground and those who want an alternative ignore it at their peril.
The safety standards are the rating. Someone can build a house for "better than code" and they can advertise that too, but a "rating" here would be the standard that for example a building with X floors needs to follow to ensure it's earthquake resistant, can bear at least Y amoung of weigth, resist to Z winds, etc. The mix of all these things are what become the building standards or "code".

Otherwise to do ratings like you suggest you can only do it to mass produced things, in this case the closest would be mobile homes or prefabs, since you can actually destroy it and see how difficult it was and give it a rating.
If you want a complete, integrated "stack" that stitches some of the most common libraries together in a uniform structure you might have a look at kit:

https://kit-clj.github.io/
Low-Power Intel 13th Gen T Series CPUs Finally Hit Market
The final shift: Which manual transmission will be the last?
Yes, hence the clarification ("Aww, snap.") Incidentally, Ubuntu forced people to move to buggy 6.x at some point circa mid last year - another reason to avoid such distributions.
Is it more than 1 story?

Then run, don't walk, away.

Don't do tall buildings in seismic zones without the benefit of an incredible amount of engineering practice, inspections, audits, and enforcement. If you suspect the locals are corrupt, your safest place during an earthquake is a straw hut or reasonable facsimile thereof.
I think Tyler suffers from a form of the curse of knowledge....if one is 5x smarter / more knowledgeable than others, it can result in thinking one's opinions are necessarily knowledge.

One thing in particular that he gets wrong is that he seems to have a heavy bias toward ~neoliberal economic policies.
The international community was involved in the disarmament process. I doubt very much that the Pentagon lost count.
Here's an out there suggestion: See if you have a paintball store near you, call them up, and ask them where they send their air tanks for testing/inspection. Last place I sent my paintball gun air tank to get inspected, they also did fire extinguishers.
> What happens in that scenario? Well, they should be sold.

Exactly. They'll be sold to people who will live in them, and they won't be rented anymore.

So if you want to move to a city for two years for a temporary job contract and rent a house... you literally can't. Because nobody will rent to you, because all the houses are occupied by owners living in them. Which is a disaster for rental demand.

Remember that a lot of people want to rent. They prefer to rent instead of buy, for various reasons from flexibility to it just making more financial sense for various reasons.

This is why if you take away the profit from renting, people who want to rent will be out of luck.
I wonder if a company should hire as many people even though the Covid drove unexpected traffic. I mean, shouldn't we build systems that scale by adding machines instead of adding people? Even if a company wants to hire for growth, shouldn't they hire a team of 2 or 3 to test water first, namely hiring for results instead of for investment?
sounds like a possible way to detect who will be on which end of the spectrum /s
Is this a repackaged "Megane X"? https://en.shiftall.net/products/meganex

If so, that's great! Previously it looked like Shiftall had a great product, but no budget to bring it to a large market.
The one where we stop wishing AI or whatever other toy du jour will solve all our problems. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don't buy your utopia, no matter the label.

I guess my utopia is where people stop making utopias and start behaving pragmatically.
That doesn't make any sense, with a larger population you can just grow more food as long as there's space. One person has been able to farm far more food than they could eat from the early bronze age onwards and population growth has been mostly linear since, up till the last century when it became exponential with mechanization making food ridiculously plentiful.

The problem with tech progress is that it's cumulative and you need to figure out the prerequisites first and with a small number of people. After that it just snowballs faster and faster. With a larger population you also get ever increasing chances for someone to invent something new.
Sort of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
The whole entirety of the problem seems to be politicians allowing them to pop up in same place residental zones are. No doubt because it looked like nice money.

> Local jurisdictions can tax the value of the computer equipment inside the buildings without having to provide many government services — giving Northern Virginia a steady stream of funds that, officials say, can go toward schools or affordable housing.

That will get the problem "solved" by datacenters leaving.
Of course there's a European style in contrast to the American style.. Single payer coverage governed by a government/quasi-government body with no profit taking and rates for drugs and care negotiated by the payer. Some have free point-of-service care, some have copayments, some have private insurance or supplemental insurance but the contours are the same.

There are dozens of huge pharma companies in Europe inventing life-saving drugs with plenty of profits to go around, this conceit that we need to price gouge Americans to pay for Research while the same firms spend more on marketing than R&D is just the dumbest thing.
Yes, that's the point. But you continue on until the disease is eradicated, not just until a person's individual anecdote is that they don't know of anyone who has had it recently. That's the point when vaccination can safely cease.
Does your company not have a discount beyond the minimum price thing?

Because it's always worth contributing the max to ESPP no matter what happens, then selling as soon as possible, if you have that. None of the tax optimization stuff is worth it. It's just an option to get 15% more money in exchange for getting paid once every six months.
Not sure what you are equating this to in software, but if it is security vulnerabilities, incompetence has probably more to do with it than time pressure. It takes about the time to write a parametrised query than to concatenate your strings.
I've spent shitloads of time drawing but there's something mechanically wrong with how I do it—my marks don't come close enough to resembling what I'm trying to do. Weird lumps and squiggles everywhere.

I'm sure I could fix that, but the focused practice on just making straight lines or circles or re-learning how to hold a pencil or whatever would be boring as fuck, so I'm never going to.
> outputs that are untrustworthy

Seems like this is an interesting engineering or product problem worth solving. History is littered with big problems that were solved. Go look at flight, within 50 years we went from "it's not possible", to it's too fragile, to jets, to international airports and mass transit never before possible.

If you work in tech I think you've slept through your life.
The problem is that second step is EXTREMELY difficult to conduct and confirm. Given that and the extremely low risk of issues with vaccinations why risk it. We thought we were close with polio but there's been some recent back sliding on that front even here in the US with some weakened versions of the virus successfully infecting unvaccinated people.
> OTA's are fine for price discovery but you often get a better deal (and better service) from the hotel/brand directly. The front desk knows you booked via an OTA instead of the hotel directly.

I know anecdotes aren't data, but I've had the opposite experience.

Front Desk: "Hey, I see you booked with Expedia. You know if you booked directly with us, you'd get a better rate!"

Me: "Oh really? Thanks! Can I book tomorrow night at the same rate as tonight?"

Front Desk: "No, sorry, tomorrow night's rate is twice as the rate you have from Expedia."

Me: "Ok, I guess I'll book at Expedia for tomorrow night as well, since they have the same rate that's half of what you're offering me."

I've had this happen so many times!
> 200 DEC Alpha CPUs

I have a half dozen of the motherboards and CPUs from that job. The story I heard was that the studio had gone bankrupt, and what i got was the last rack of the Alpha farm, which hadn't gone with the others because it had been spare and not deployed with them or something like that. There were 9 in the rack, IIRC.

I used them as linux routers and small servers from ~2004 to 2012. lovely little systems and rock. solid. I loved the security of having hot spare hardware (an otherwise unknown luxury at that job), but only had to use a couple of the "reserve" systems in all that time. Lighting kills everything when it wants to, can't blame the hardware for those.

"Otter ebay that" but I don't feel that it's likely to go where its appreciated if i did that.
Maybe this sounds a bit sad, but I'm personally super excited for when something like copilot turns into a full-on coversational code friend / assistant.

I see it being super productive to always be pair programming with an AI, and not have to type every command out... or better yet, that it provides suggestions without me needing to prompt it to do so, thereby giving this feeling that I'm just hanging out with someone and doing a more traditional pairing session
This is becoming a genre (of fiction)
I've heard some people cite quantum physics to explain free will and consciousness, although these arguments always seemed completely unsupported and a form of "god of the gaps" reasoning to me.

But being charitable I suppose if you subscribe to the idea that creativity and consciousness arise from quantum behaviours then perhaps it makes sense. It would suggest we likely have the architecture of an AGI completely wrong currently though, so I'm not sure how this really relates to AIs like ChatGPT.
It sure is a good way to communicate that you don't care about my privacy and should not be getting my money ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Benchmarking a 1.44 MB Floppy Drive
I feel like that would be my killer app to get me into the space. But I wonder if it’s worse for your eyes than staring at a monitor all day, or if the optics make it no different because you’re still focusing at a distance.
"PII" is often a straw man based on a few narrow categories defined by corporate interests. I consider IP addresses and what code I'm working with much more personal and sensitive than say the association between my name and my social security number.
Libertarians: this is why we have building codes. We don't need builders cutting corners and harming people years down the road, because profit convinced them that was the right thing to do for their own interests.
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I've never used the guard on that machine, and never had my hand cut off...
I mean, no we are not aware of a connection to any metropolitan area. Which is the point. If the lack of derailment coverage was just pro-metropolitan bias you wouldn’t expect Billings, MT to be receiving the entire attention of the media right now.
Or just move elsewhere where it isn't a problem. Hell, they shouldn't be built near the housing in the first place but someone probably lobbied their way into it...