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>But, as someone who is privy to a ton of A/B testing in this area, the opposite nearly always results in higher conversion

I suspect this might be the case initially, but eventually consumers will get fed up with being tricked again and again and refuse to deal with that particular industry (and A/B testing won't predict that).

I know this is the case for myself and local services (e.g. cleaning, lawn mowing, appliance repair). I literally will not search for any of those things because I don't want to have to sort through bullshit.

Same thing for restaurants that expect a tip. I might uncomfortably pay it, but would never go back there. (note: tipping culture is very different in Australia compared to the US, as are minimum wage laws. Your local barrista is probably getting $35+ an hour on a weekend.)
Yes. Just require that the price you see is the price you pay. Full stop, no exceptions, not even tax or tip. But I guess I'll take this step in the right direction.
Maybe the same good solutions could apply to both unrealized gains and prop 13.

Cite the asset as an illiquid, fully-contained asset, have the taxes accumulate as a debt against the asset, and then owe all the taxes at sale time.
The co-op makes and offer, and I guess you'd negotiate, then accept it if they offered enough. Voting shares would be a major part of your compensation like with most companies. You might offer them a premium because you'd expect to be exempt from industry-wide anti-labor actions like the recent layoffs and those old anti-poaching agreements, but that would be for you to decide.
Hopefully, I think the generation after Gen-Z will rebel against a lot of that on your list. I'm already noticing my nieces and nephews make a point to spend time with their real-life friends even when their parents are glued to their phones.

They are a generation who collectively "lost" a year because of zoom home schooling and so they all seem to make a point to have other outside activities to connect with their friends on. I know most of us had that too, but for some reason it seems more important to them than it did even for me.
The main reason for the resort fee is the 3rd party booking.

3rd party charges 14-18% commission, and a lot of big hotel uses resort fee to reduce the commission.

I just wish the big brand uses the power like airlines (3% commission) and negotiate the commission down to 3%.
These people are making money hand over fist, cleaning should be on the hosts, it is their duty to provide clean accommodation.
Nb. health insurance profit margins are now capped, in the US.
So do I.

If I knew how hard it is to square software work with having a family, I'd have chosen a different career track.
The recent Hanukkah of Data puzzles have some truly excellent "Unicode art" (using more than just ASCII chars).

https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh

(source: I am the creator of Hanukkah of Data)
> cleaning fees, things that should all be spread across the nightly rate.

The thing is, cleaning genuinely costs a bunch when a guest departs. It’s a per-stay cost.

This doesn’t mean it’s reasonable to hide it. Having a rate structure that has a nightly rate plus a per-visit rate or, equivalently, a first-night rate and an additional-night rate is just fine as long as it’s advertised. And a search for a stay of a given duration should show the all-in price.
These articles just show how detached people are thinking the "on an iphone" is somehow new and never before seen. They've fallen prey to their own marketing ideology.

What "big tech" is doing is not new it's the same game that companies have been doing since there have been companies. Common carrier status was always about not being party to messages of your users. Big tech is absolutely party to the messages of their users, even private ones. We all know it, they do it intentionally and even the stodgy old people on the supreme court can clearly see their game.

If you're going to "control the narrative" by choosing what people see and what the don't, then you need to be responsible for what is displayed. This isn't and opt-in level of control there's not even an opt-out. They blatantly decide what the news is and feed it to you, no matter what you try and do to search around it.

It has always blown my mind that google maps has no option to show all the points of interest no matter how far you zoom in. Just one tiny example of a service populated by users but then controlled by the machine.

Be a common carrier or don't be. This manipulation game needs to end. I don't know what the court will do but hopefully provide guidelines on what common carrier is.
Spotting a Hidden Exoplanet
How many of these have you actually observed happening? Because your assertions that they are "silent" (in the sense of the original piece) seems wildly out of line with what I've seen. You might try watching the documentary I linked to see how you're wrong about recorded music, for example. And if if your only experience of product development is that sort of top-down drudgery, I'm truly sorry, but it absolutely can be richly creative and collaborative.

> You must have miscounted because I cant find another 2?

That you're blaming your failures on me is not a good sign, so this is probably my last reply. I also mentioned improvisational music and movies. I could also add staged theater, in which much of the creative work happens in group contexts (starting with table readings, going through all of the rehearsals, and often after).
Don't you need some empty space (ocean or desert) downrange, just in case a launch goes bad, as it happened with Challenger ?
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The cleaning is a one time fixed cost for a stay. It's the same for a one night stay or a week long stay. There is a one to one expense per "purchase". Not so with your taxi example.
As someone who's followed pretty much this exact advice the article lays out since I was maybe 14 or so, I found it very useful in my life.

I was interested in physics actually. So at 14 as a B student at a school district in the middle of nowhere, I went on to self-learn calculus up to what amounts to AP Calculus by 15, published a minor physics paper by 16 (when I started working in the particle physics lab at my state college), and graduated high school a year early at 17 and entered a top-tier public school. That was years ago, but I've done pretty well since, and I attribute a lot of it to constantly comparing myself to larger-than-life masters like these to be constantly paranoid about how I can move faster (this comes with a need to be self aware and to self-manage well, including giving yourself breaks and listening to your mental/physical health of course, you don't need to be a Terminator and I don't recommend it).

The big value for me I'd say was a replacement for the lack of role models in my surroundings and getting a sense for what a really high bar looks like. At least for myself, striving to be a flawed human that has also mastered something is a bad target (but inevitably where every human ends up).

If you actually want to land there, you have to aim even higher.
Oddly enough, I was not misled and assumed that it referred to Adobe Type I, given that is HN and end of Type I diabetes would be making headline news in most all other news outlets. Which it is not.
Maybe try https://9p.io/sys/doc/9.html

My take is that plan 9 is basically a "pure" rewrite of a unix/posix OS, that takes many underlying principles of unix to their logical conclusions, without the taint of the incremental evolution of the existing systems, yet nevertheless informed by the lessons learned operating real OS systems. The incompatibility is why it hasn't moved forward, though many of the good ideas that are compatible with systems like bsd/linux have since been ported over.

It is really useful exercise to consider, in hindsight, how could we have built a better unix? And a bunch of really smart people participated and came up with some great ideas.
> I'd much rather Grandma have to learn to do something slightly differently

This attitude is responsible for more harm than any other single idea in software development.

Do not break your users.

You think you have a choice here but what really happens is Grandma stays on old software forever because the beatings have taught her to never update anything. And the really sad part is that she's right.
This misses the point that it's not useful to have the one-time costs separated from the nightly costs when trying to compare options.
This is coming pretty hot on the heels of Biden's announcement. Does anyone know if this was already underway when Biden made this a key aspect of his SOTU address? It seems kind of weird to front-run the President (of your own party, in particular).
T-mobile advertises monthly fees inclusive of all taxes and fees
> 1) US practice is that TV showrunners are writers

Is that different in any other countries? I'm having a hard time imagining what other background a showrunner would come from. E.g. the directing skillset is somewhat related but ultimately very different.

> 2) that all the writing for the season isn't done before starting production.

Well you certainly can't do that for a 22-episode season, especially as writers very much adapt in real time to what's "working" in the show. It's quite common for a character intended only for a single episode to turn out to be unexpectedly extremely charistmatic and quickly turn into a main character, because of the actor's performance.

But for an hourlong 8-episode prestige drama for HBO, it's not uncommon for all of the writing to be done ahead of time. Or at the very least, the entire story is "broken" (outlined) in detail, even if the dialog isn't written out.
Can I contract for the co-op?
"It can be a challenge for them to get executives on board with something that seems so subtle, but I do my best to provide them with the right language and tools to prove the value."

For larger firms, getting a conference room full of executives involved in design approvals - whether for logos or websites or packaging or whatever - is a huge waste of time and inserts all kinds of personal bias and counterproductive decisions. The result is often design by committee, or purely "data driven" designs that lead companies down the path of mediocrity and following yesterday's trends.
Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
Having fewer children should be celebrated not looked upon as a failure. The world doesn't need everyone having six kids anymore.
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Thing about bars is that they suck ass, though.
>What the kind of heuristic am I expected to use to avoid getting swindled?

Giant, bold text that says "price is all-inclusive. No additional fees!"
AI chatbot “Sidney” is misbehaving – Nov 23 2022 Microsoft community thread
running your own mail server is an exercise in pain. not sure if you're brave or dumb, but props to giving it a go.
> This is also a case where consumers say they want one
thing, but their behavior is a different matter. For
example, pretty much everyone says they prefer the full
price to be shown up front in search result pages. But,
as someone who is privy to a ton of A/B testing in this
area, the opposite nearly always results in higher
conversion, where there is a lower up-front price and
fees are only tacked on during checkout.

That's completely wrong. People don't want hidden fees. They chose those options that have hidden fees, because the fees are hidden and the total cost appears lower. Your AB tests don't compare what consumers want but what consumers are tricked into accepting.
Yes I think CA should be the next state to rid itself of sales tax!
Yes please. Also kill tipping on food delivery apps. It's a mandatory fee, effectively. They ask for tips before service is even rendered. WTF? Just increase the displayed prices by 15%.
I realize that this will probably be down to the configuration of OpenCascade itself, but the STEP file exported from the "Simple vase" example is for ISO 10303-214. This standard has been withdrawn and applications should use ISO 10303-242 instead.
So in this example, are the laid-off workers investing money to the coop? Are they getting paid? Who contributes the money for the marketing budget, for example?

And if the people investing aren't the workers, how is it different than the VC model?
>how much it costs to clean a unit shouldn't be a separate calculus when comparing rooms

The cost to clean shouldn't. The fact that there's a large fixed charge that's going to be amortized across the number of nights you're staying is relevant though.

Yes, by all means give me the total amount for the stay length. But show me any fixed charges so that I can maybe decide it makes sense to stay longer given part of the cost is fixed.
https://archive.ph/fTByy
Yeah it's interesting that I find myself saying something positive about Comcast. Their Internet pricing is similar. Advertised at $72/month, that's exactly what I pay. No additional fees tacked on.
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No, it doesn’t. It requires only private force and the absence of government force used to prevent the use of it.
> Which you should

... have done a long time ago.
Do you know of any good alternatives to geoserver if i have a PostGIS db with some feature gis data and i need to expose it to other people through a Web Feature Service?
This just sounds like gRPC reflection. Was it more comprehensive than that?
The people investing are the workers, and (I am including all co-ops here, not just the one that we're discussing) sometimes the customers.
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For legitimately separable things—-like a carry-on bag or assigned seats—-I think unbundling is a good thing. Sure it feels a bit annoying to see the price go up and up, but sometimes you don’t need those things and the search engines should be able to get you an apples to apples price with a bit of elbow grease.

It’s the non-optional fees—- resort, regulatory compliance, or living wage—-that are truly pernicious.
Stressful job = long-term sick due to stress, presumably.
Most of the computational cost of producing an output token is spent on consuming input tokens (including previous output tokens that are fed back in); only the final unembedding matrix could be eliminated if you don't care about the output logits for the context.

So it's not correct to only modify OpenAI's prices to account for the ratio of context tokens to output tokens. Both of them get multiplied by 20 (if that's what your ratio is).
Curiously, a lot of the before/after examples given in [0] actually already had a sans serif font on the "before" side, so that was actually not the main change.
Is this the first public evidence of the rogue Bing/Sidney being tested in the wild? It's a post from an Indian user on the Bing feedback forum from November 23rd last year - coincidentally a week before even ChatGPT had been released.

I grabbed a full page screenshot here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/bing-november-2022/...
As one of the club-recommenders, this is specifically because socializing for the sake of socializing is boring. One phone call every few months or a few hours in person a year are enough to be completely up to speed with someone. Any more than that and it gets awkward unless you have very good chemistry.

I don’t want to give the wrong vibe: I love said phone call or in-person hours.

The activity, even if it’s a meal or a walk, make it infinitely better and something that can happen on a more regular basis with less-close friends. Golf gets a lot of flak for being a game that men play because they’re too toxically masculine to ask their friends to just hang out. My perspective: there’s something to be said for people being too boring to just hang out with as often as you would be willing to play golf with them.

This might be an extrovert/introvert divide. Extroverts being driven to have more casual friends where you need an activity to avoid awkwardness while introverts limit their friends to those with whom just existing is entertaining enough. The club attendance would be for extroverts here.

I would tend instead to think that it’s a transition in civilization where we just have more fun things to do and don’t need to sit around “talking shit” as the article mentions. Roman gladiator events were a big deal and everyone attended, now you pick what sporting events you want to watch from home. Why would I sit around doing nothing when I can find people and make relationships while simultaneously having fun doing something I enjoy? Your comment portrays them as mutually exclusive and they aren’t.
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Hi HN,

nudedisco is a simple album discovery tool I created to aggregate album reviews from a number of my favourite websites and blogs.

As someone who spends most of his professional life working with React and "modern" frontend stacks, it was a lot of fun to go back to basics and create a server-rendered website.

The site uses Elixir under the hood and is deployed to fly.io.

The code is available on my GitHub profile: https://github.com/soulprovidr/nudedisco

If you have any thoughts or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks, and enjoy!
I don't really get these arguemnts on why CDK is bad. I've got around 3k accounts, 300k aws resources, 1k devs, all working fine on CDK... I've never seen where functional / declarative change mattered. My issue with TFN is a half baked turing language that I fight a lot, and CFN is terrible for IFs or massifly repaeated.

I talked with the team building CDK... their market analysis was essentially: SysDEs love CFN or declarative. Developers hate repeating themselves and lack of abstractions. I generally agree with the latter. The lack of real modules, dependency management, compilers, etc are a put off for CFN and TFN for me. I'm loving CDK.
Compound interest over tech debt can snowball to quite impressive sizes.
Why would you want to retrain it from scratch every day? Stable Diffusion doesn't do that either.
Teaming up with a bunch of recruiters, product managers, and rest-and-vest engineers sounds like a winning strategy.
Adani manipulated Wikipedia entries using sock puppet accounts and paid editors
You don't address any actual points or provide counter-evidence, only that "I know people who don't like EVs".

I know people that don't like cars, and still have them. It's not a very compelling point.

You know what would be compelling? Telling me why ICE cars are superior to EVs, beyond what I've already discussed. I suspect you don't have any evidence however.
Obviously you can never say never, but in my experience AirBnB is very rarely more economical than a full service hotel. And residential homes are rarely in as convenient a location as a hotel.
It’s amazing to me how mismanaged “the church” has been the last 60 or so years. This is the kind of thing they owned (feed poor people) for centuries as it legitimized their influence. You still see it in many parts of the world. It’s as if they became more obsessed with their own internal affairs and politics they didn’t bother to notice that a political wing was subverting them by taking their job. It’s no coincidence we see so much moralizing and other quasi-religious posture from them. They’ve been better managed then and have eaten the church’s lunch.
People regularly crap on authors for changing their own work, “Han shot first” is an outright meme, and I’m going to predict there’s an overlap between people who don’t want authors to change their own work and people who don’t want other people to change author’s work post-humously.

It’s just especially egregious to change a work when you aren’t the author because fundamentally any such editor is somebody who isn’t good enough to make their own classic but is arrogant enough to think they can improve an existing one. People see how people are abusing their legal right to something that’s part of the culture in the interest of their own greed and narcissism and see that as particularly egregious.
The other reply mentions backblaze. Whether you choose to use them or not their published driver statistics are quite useful:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-202...

A well chosen model has an AFR of well below 1%.
To get about say, 100TB, you'd need a dozen drives or so with ZFS and a nice enclosure. It is unlikely even one of them will fail in a given year and you will not experience data loss.

Here is a $100 case:
https://ja.aliexpress.com/item/1005003125774264.html

Here is some YouTuber shoving 100TB into it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boKmZKTKXHc
Wow I usually dislike design rework but the new logos look great. Except for RetailMeNot, the font was more funky before
That was the case before and is still the case, just most of the time they ignore it. It is really looked at when a state borders another one with no sales tax.

Some time back that was also the case with online sales. That you paid the tax of the state where you bought if it if that state had a tax nexus there - otherwise you didn't pay sales tax and were expected to self report the use tax.

Except no one did. So sales tax was required to be collected by online sellers always.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/21/heres-what-that-supreme-cour...

As to the use tax - when I bought clothes at Mall of America in MN (2010ish) and lived in northern Wisconsin I'd remember to add that to the tax reporting.
For many NHS workers there is even a stronger incentive not to work at least not for the NHS.

The UK has a life time pension allowance once you reach it there is a huge tax penalty.

NHS workers have a defined benefit scheme on which you can easily reach the LTA within a few decades especially as a doctor.

Once you do that you are stuck with a massive tax penalty that makes it utterly pointless to work because your take home can be literal pennies as the tax liability after reaching the LTA is 60% which in a DB pension would be added to your annual tax bill unlike a defined contribution pension which will simply be raided by the HMRC when you retire.

Also previously HMRC has raided pension funds firstly by introducing the LTA then by shrinking it the LTA now is circa £1.2M the LTA of those who retired a decade ago it was £2.5M…

So if you can afford to retire early you also are incentivized to do so because it locks down your pension and secures it from any future raids by the government.

I can’t stress how terrible and backwards the tax system in the UK is.

It forces a tiny minority to pay for most of the tax burden whilst providing them for absolutely no benefits in return since nearly every benefit in the UK is means tested and the bastards know how to pay the least so they conveniently chose which benefits are means tested based on the highest earner in each household.

So if your partner works whelp no unemployment or housing benefit for your most likely… someone in your household earns over £50K? Well no child allowance…

At £100K you also lose 30 hours of free childcare per week and tax free childcare I known people that took a pay cut and turned down bonus payments because those benefits can easily be worth £20-30K of salary at 40% marginal tax rate in London.
Hilarious! That's one way to describe history of three decades of that company.
because not everyone is affected the same way. Some populations have no trouble making as many babies as can be fed, to this day. Other populations are living the "Idiocracy" parody in real life.. The plants in the garden compete, and you bet fauna does, too. Reproductive failure due to social and psychological pressures is not "better" it is illness.
I don't even understand this.

I show up at a clean place. After I leave, somebody needs to clean up after me to make it good for the next person. No matter who does the cleaning, the hosts or somebody they hire, this takes supplies and labor. The only person putting money in is me, so the cleaning obviously has to be on my dime. I just want the pricing to be transparent in the details and included in the headline numbers.