skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lessons from America’s astonishing economic record
Unfortunately, this is the result of years of AB tests that prove that urgency messages increase conversion.

They don't stress customers just for the sake of having a less pleasant experience.

I work in the online accomodation business, BTW.
Funny, usually HN comments reply to factually incorrect articles with well informed rebuttals rather than just shouting them down and insulting everyone.
But it's not "native"!
What is an example of an empire that failed liked this?
> Welcome, 172.26.31.197 :-)

Well hello there, reverse proxy!
A human rights activist on finding joy on the internet
> People eat salmon raw at sushi bars. I’d be pretty unconcerned about the food safety issue.

That's because other people have prepared the fish for you. [0]

> Sushi-grade fish must be frozen before being consumed, to further prevent any of those food-borne illnesses, and this is usually done via flash freezing, sometimes immediately after sushi-grade salmon, for example, is caught.

[0] https://aksalmonco.com/blogs/learn/sushi-grade-fish
This was the first video of the actual liftoff that I have seen. I looked for something a few hours after liftoff but came up with nada. I can compare this to US missions: there is always something quickly on Youtube, clearly marked.

ESA get your social media presence in gear !
I travel a lot.

I used to use various sites, but I realized that if I concentrated on Marriott/Bonvoy I could reach their highest status level (Ambassador). I've almost reached the dollar value and night count to retain my status through 2024, and it's only April!

I'm quite happy with them. I get a lot of free upgrades, lots of points for free nights, free breakfast, late checkout, etc. And if anything is the least bit out of order, they fix it for me.

I hate AirBnb. There are lot of bad actors now, and AirBnb customer support is useless. Even if I need a flat for a long period (like a month or more), I try to find an independent agency and use them. Searching on AirBnb can be a good starting point: if the listing shows an agency name you can usually find them on Google. AirBnb "protection" is useless anyway, so I don't understand why I should pay such a huge premium for it.

Booking.com is fine. I didn't get stressed out about the messages that the author writes about. But now I only use Booking.com when there is no Bonvoy hotel in the place I'm going. I have never had to escalate anything to Booking, but in general the places in booking are as described. There aren't as many bad actors as there are with AirBnb.

EDIT: I'm not employed. All my travel is personal travel paid out my own pocket.
I've been booking using booking.com for several years, but not exclusively.
As the author notes, it was not always full of dark patterns as it is today... and it's always been reliable and easy to book, view locations, compare prices etc. One of the best UIs for booking hotels I've found.
I sometimes check AirBnb as well (if hotel is not my favourite option for some trip) and even the hotel's websites directly. Booking.com seems to get lower prices or at least match the hotels in most cases.

There are lots of other websites for booking hotels. But after trying a few, I don't see any advantage over booking.com so that's what I use (and ignore the dark patterns if possible).
I have no need for real-world implementations that do not work as well as I need them to work. KaTeX is proof that math can be displayed properly in a browser-like environment. Anything less will not do it, at least for me. That's why I have exclusively PDFs in my digital library, except for books that are just text, like fiction.

No hopes and dreams needed, just use PDF. But making epub work properly for math is not a problem in principle, just make katex work in an epub reader, problem solved.

And people who are satisfied with substandard solutions are actually part of the problem, not the solution.
No idea. I always do trial error on new microwaves.

Typical household microwaves I’ve run into generally didn’t offer me to change the wattage, but instead had a number between 1-10 to choose from.

Just start at a 1/6th power or less if you’re worried and see if the fish cooks at all.
Yeah, I called it an epicenter. I agree with you: if I had to pick only one it'd be Silicon Valley/Santa Clara County/San Mateo.

(Am I totally breaking the metaphor there by allowing for multiple epicenters? Perhaps. I guess an earthquake can have only one epicenter. But there could be multiple earthquakes, with multiple epicenters....?)
> The candy offering is absolutely distinct

I like how grocery stores carry "theater packs" of candy. Perfect for a special home theater experience, along with some popcorn of course.

Unfortunately I don't have an icee machine at home.
Way back in the day I had a flash games website. If I remember correctly there was another game like Crush the Castle that actually came first, though I can’t remember the name now.

Anyways, it’s not like Angry Birds didn’t refine the formula. The slingshot mechanic was better for touch screens, the different birds types, and making the art cutesy.
I love this kind of efforts to make the web more palatable, although changing the wording of some phrases seems to go maybe a bit too far.

For me I'd rather have a cross-browser solution in the form of uBlock Origin's rules. Is there any place where someone has collected some useful ones for booking.com?
This is brilliant! I was irritated by Booking.com nudges for a long time but I thought nothing could be done about it.

Now I want to build a similar extension. Leave a reply there if you know some site that badly needs de-stressing.
The history of SPARC, its not just a Sun thing
That's not how salmon is cooked usually. Your recommendation would produce a poor product.
After browsing hotels for some time I've seen booking.com show several hotels start to sell out of rooms. That usually causes me to hurry up and book, but after several hotels showed full at once I got suspicious and checked my partners phone. The hotels still showed as available there. Dark stuff. Their website is otherwise pretty good though and I still use them.
This is why I sometimes hate a/b testing. I'm sure someone at booking a/b tested these things and saw an increase in revenue. The thing that these tests don't measure are very long term effects where people either start to hate your product and look for alternatives, or become so numb to the changes that the initial novelty effect wears off. The person who ran the test gets a promotion for increasing revenue during the quarter but the net result is a massive negative for the longevity of the product.
> you can have functions like pdf_page_cmd_l(page, x, y)

oh, no, please don't.

just use c++ and you can have namespaces or classes to control visibility - there is no need to take on all the other c++ stuff if you don't want it.
Every word is a mapping of meaning, no? Hunger is universal yet every tribe has a different word. Audio, visual, physical actions represent hunger.

Map the 70 emotions, dozen tenses, handful of modifiers and suddenly the only missing variables of state and desired state will bring about a framework to allow universal translation.
1. Most companies aren’t in the business of making tasteful offers.

2. Why would they double this person’s pay? This person no longer has a job and needs one!
well they might as well be heading into an extinction level event.

They might take their final crumbles before it all goes to 0
This is the sort of technology that I'd never use in its early stages because it just doesn't pass the "grandma" test for me.

As in, I don't care WHAT medical expertise and studies and whatever you could possibly throw at me; I can imagine grandma being like "nope, that don't seem right," and THAT being overwhelmingly wiser than anything else.

(This is something like a reverse Chestersons fence?)
The Full Vermonty podcast had an episode recently with a death doula and talked about some of the options in VT. It was worth a listen if you're interested in some of the options outside of the routine.

https://www.thefullvermonty.com/episodes/tfv47
In the name of one company's idea of "safety", AI models probably gimp out a lot of what would make the humourous subtext understandable in the first place. In the future, the only people remaining employed will be those with the rare and unique talent to subvert elite sensibilities.
illegal where exactly?
> Nice example of speech that is currently not allowed on Twitter.

It is an example of speech that free-speech absolutism would permit. And example of the sort of view that I would not permit on a platform I am running. And yes, Twitter and most platforms ban it for good reason.

> An insane slippery slope, from "Non-inclusive Language" straight to genocide! This is laughable...

A great example of the way free-speech absolutists don't engage with the consequences of their views. Which is why I'm done here.
Wait, you didn't see numbers and analysis in that article?

I'm willing to believe the numbers are falsified, the analysis is biased, and the author is a dirty commie, but it seems odd to claim there are no numbers. Are you sure your head is clear on this?
I delivered a presentation generated by ChatGPT and got the full mark
It is all so funny.

> arrest of a suspect in connection with the leak of Pentagon intelligence to an online gaming community known as “Discord.”

... leak of Pentagon intelligence through interconnected technology of people talking on device and sevice know as "telephone".

That's you, that's how you sound.

"Discord" is the problem, not that they gave high security clearance to underpaid twentysomething with zero scrutiny because it's easier to be dumb and trust nothing bad happens than do a proper threat estimate and conform to recommendations even if it costs a bit more.

With all the decades of history of military officials leaking secrets to impress random girls.
Those were "public" as in state-controlled. These are "public" as in publicly traded. Very big difference.
>"even liking porn on Twitter and no I'm not joking here"

I guess they learn from the best.
> my favorite thing on YouTube.

Off topic, but can we have a thread about our favorite things on YouTube? I also have one, and I'd like to see more like this exact thing above!
The poor are already given money for food and other necessities through government subsistence programs like SNAP and TANF. Something else is going on here.
Why not just give cops the slingshots we used in childhood?
This is also a great aid to learing LaTex. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to make an OCR system that generates the appropriate LaTex from an picture of an equation?

Turns out the answer is yes:

https://github.com/lukas-blecher/LaTeX-OCR
Please tell me you're aware that those "non-sensical" classnames are machine generated during a production build? An eng isn't manually choosing that name.
Not sure why you’re getting downvotes, your post is completely spot on.

That a professional jury awarded the prize to an AI-generated image is proof that AI has reached a good enough level to fool a trained eye.

To come later, with prior knowledge that it was AI-generated, point out “tells” and generally armchair-quarterback the process, proves absolutely nothing about the jury’s competence.
WW2: 1939-1945

IPO years per my research -

Raytheon: 1952

Boeing: 1962

Lockheed Martin: 1994

Northrop Grumman (pre merger): 1939

Hard to find clear sources on this, but doesn’t seem like the major defense contractors we’re talking about were public during WW2.
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see also: facebook
Loyalty programs are just a scam for you and the hotel to rip off your employer, right? Or are you really getting a cheaper/better deal than using a marketplace such as booking.com
> What does this add?

Sigstore in general? A fancy, colorful website that GPG does not have.
Big companies don't provide security as well. Job security as it was avaliable a generation ago does not exist in US as far as I know.
Cuz if you can fool the govt into getting funding, you can fool the market too. Both are dumb in different ways.
The freezing is only because of parasites, not microbes. It doesn’t kill microbes. Practically all of the fish you purchase is actually sushi grade, having been flash frozen on the boat, it is a meaningless term. If you go to a restaurant, supply store, or a fish wholesaler, you will have a hard time finding any fish that is commonly consumed as sushi that isn’t labeled sushi grade. It’s like how nearly everything that doesn’t have wheat in it is labeled gluten-free, it isn’t because they did something special.

Her temperature charts show it getting well above 140°F, which is the temperature at which all of the parasites die, and they do not form spores or come back later. So it is completely safe in that regard also.
FTC warns 670 supplement sellers on false marketing claims
These persuasion messages seem untrue - which makes me not trust other parts of the website.
That is not a problem with A/B testing. It's a problem with the values of the company. I've worked with people who will say, "Oh, this tests well, but we don't want to do it because of [long term concerns X and Y]."

People who value revenue metrics over all else will still do shitty things for users even if they don't A/B test.
Most suburbs are reported on by the newspapers of the neighboring city when something newsworthy occurs, educational or otherwise.
A long time ago, I was surprised to discover that a mainframe always runs at 100% cpu usage. Its OS makes sure that multiple VMs, each of which has a long list of real-time and batch jobs, neatly prioritized, keep it well fed. An interactive user need an answer now, but a clean-up job can literally take weeks to run. When I looked amazed, the operators told me ‘This thing is so expensive- it cannot be wasted’
The issue is that booking directly is usually crappy and the hotels rarely care (or are under gag order not to say otherwise).
I had an incredibly bad experience going through public schools in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin in the 1980s and 90s. I did my best to hide it, but I began suffering from gender dysphoria starting at age 7. I was known by my classmates as the weird Jewish kid, and I stuck out badly in every possible way. I was a year younger than most of my classmates because I skipped third grade.

I was bullied for years and treated as a behavioral problem by my teachers. I hated every minute of school. It has always been a prison for children who are different.

My mother became a substitute teacher for the Madison Metro School District in the late 1990s, after I had graduated. As she learned about the way these institutions are actually run, she saw the need to apologize for sending me to school instead of just letting me stay at home to learn what I wanted to, at my own pace.

At a minimum, the truancy laws need to be abolished and you should be automatically exempted from property taxes if you homeschool your children. We have the remote work and the Internet now, so there is absolutely no humane justification for forcing all children into the same cruel torture chamber just for making the mistake of being born in the United States.

I am 42 years old now, so I've had decades to reflect on all this and consider my position very carefully. Edugenic harm is very, very real.
Monoculture is stuck. Media companies are stuck to monoculture. There's a whole wide world of actual culture out there waiting for you to turn off Netflix and go outside.
Artists learn through blood, sweat, and tears. No artist achieves excellence without significant effort, and won't arrive until they've attempted original works many times. And they can spend their entire lives without ever finding any success or actually being particularly good. Are their outputs colored by the culture and prior art they've experienced? Absolutely. That's how learning works.

Compare that to AI. It doesn't do any actual "art" work to become an artist, nor do the people who train it, it just sucks up what's fed into it, without the consent of the creators. Then, it can create much, much faster than an artist without breaks and without pay, and it is owned and directed by a huge faceless company as, effectively, a fleet of mindless slaves, diminishing the livelihoods of the very people absolutely essential in training the model.

From a moral perspective, all you really need to ask is, would these artists have consented to this training if they knew mindless AI slaves would replace them?
Because they fought very hard to open those stores over the last 20 years in the very neighborhoods you’re talking about. While at the same time forcing out smaller stores that were there for decades. What changed?
What’s reversed about it? I guess the fact that it is a reason to not introduce a new thing rather than a reason to not-get-rid-of a long-kept thing?
> in a world where the main sources of new power (solar and wind) and storage (batteries) are still dropping in price dramatically

If you take a look at the figure in the OP pdf (Levelized Cost of Energy Comparison—Historical Utility-Scale Generation Comparison), you'll see that this is no longer true. They are increasing in price in the last iteration.

Many energy technologies fall exponentially at small scale and then start to increase in price due to externalities at scale. This 'cost scales to first order with generation scale' hypothesis was first put forth by Komanoff in 1980 [1] and may well apply to wind/solar as scale runs into issues related to intermittency and land use (e.g. transmission, NIMBY)

[1] free pdf linked on https://komanoff.net/nuclear_power/
Why do you think there is an issue?

The FSF - and Stallman! - publish PDF documents. At https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?path=/archives/202... you can see Stallman uses xournal to fill in a PDF form.
Yep. But the chances are greater that the startup will die in a given timeframe.
In my experience Hilton, Bonvoy-affiliated, Sofitel, etc give better prices when a member and when you book directly than via any other channel
I wonder can I...opt out i I have a battery?
It's not the fault of the tests. It's the fault of the people who choose value short-term conversion metrics over everything else.
I edited my post - better?

My earlier comment was downvoted in record time for stating the same, so I made a new post. What's the reason to have such a guideline? I suspect manipulative downvotes to silence my opinion. Otherwise, why not comment and correct my fallacies instead?
Can also power a fan to keep the inside of the car cooler on hot sunny days.
There's currently a case pending before the SCOTUS involving discrmination against asians in universities, but the point of the matter being that this won't change anything. You don't end discrimination with laws that nobody follows.
Yes but having them as NFTs makes it harder to do that, not easier.
Only true for the big-brand hotels in my experience. This is almost always true for flights though
Even if you're using C++ internally, you're likely exposing a C API behind extern C, so you don't have access to those features at the API boundary.
Sure - plenty of other places to talk other than Musk's living room, but still a shame to see it get destroyed given lack of any real alternative. It did/does provide some value.
Yes, that's part of their strategy.

But it doesn't apply in my specific case. I'm not employed. I pay for everything out of my own pocket.

I bet a better deal from Marriott directly as a member than by going through a third-party.
You see it's chicken and egg, but then ask why people are upset that the giant chicken with the ability to put out 10,000 eggs a week dropped a feature that was already in their product.
Xe is really just branding, not a description of a particular microarchitecture or family of microarchitectures. Intel's most recent integrated graphics still isn't at feature parity with their discrete GPUs; they haven't added raytracing support yet, either.
Yep, and I'm talking about hypothesis testing which is what's being done in the paper.
On the hunt for the businessmen behind a billion-dollar scam
When I was a kid I had seen on Discovery/NatGeo a microwave based crowd control device, which had precise control over the area over coverage such that out of 3 people standing side by side it would only affect the one in the middle as needed. It would just heat up the water in your body & you would be forced to flee.....
A lot of sites use GraphQL under the hood for the official frontend but expose more restrictive REST APIs for third party users. I suppose this is understandable because it's easier to document REST APIs and people generally can't cause quite as much unexpected trouble with them.
So how do they know what my income is? They gonna kick my door in and arrest me if I lie? Send me a strongly worded letter?
Ask HN: Is open source less tolerant / open to beginners now?
My observation is that it has become harder to be a new contributor to OSS / break into it since 2020. Does that track with other peoples experience?
The point more generally is figures that can't be reached with the denominator. Rounding errors can only account for some of that, but there's plenty of cases where it can't.
Accuracy of Geographic Data in PostGIS
And Sorceror.
I’ve seen it on signs on campus.
One HN phenomenon that is genuinely puzzling is illustrated in this thread, where a view is expressed in a non-inflammatory way and is moderated into near-invisibility because of it's unpopularity.

OK fine ... but then there's a non-insignificant amount of responses, indicating genuine engagement with OP's position.

Now you have to squint to read the greyed-out post if you're interested in what the discussion is about, and likewise with your response, which is again well-expressed if not popular.

IMO, moderation should exist to keep discussions within HN guidelines, which these posts clearly follow. Instead it's plainly "I don't agree with you so I'm going to try to vote your view out of existence", which doesn't even work as folks still engage/respond.

Is there any way out of this? HN is famously the best-behaved discussion site on the internet, but this seems to be an unfortunate tendency that happens fairly often.
Thats a fair point. I just flew to Europe for <$600 on a direct flight. Pretty sure that wasn’t even possible in the 90s, adjusted for inflation. Prices are definitely lower and more competitive. The experience has gotten somewhat worse though, unless you go through all the annoying hoops of TSA Pre/Global Entry/credit cards with Airport lounges etc etc
Feels like opening the cell door for an innocent prisoner,

who had their conviction overturned, but was left to rot in jail.
Just create an "Ask HN: " thread?
Higher education is also more expensive than ever, but most of that money is going to bloated administration positions and programs that didn’t exist a decade ago. Just because money is being spent doesn’t mean it’s being spent on teachers.
How about other types of discrimination? I’ve witnessed several other types that happen all the time, no one discuss or even finding it normal, on top of this is the accent discrimination, having a “non normal” one will get you excluded from “big clients” meetings, not allowed to or encouraged to have a company wide seminars etc., other type is cultural discrimination, regardless of the race, sometime just not having the same “local culture” is enough to be subject to that, other type of discrimination is political one, either being left or right, when a company is actively pushing for either side, or clients who won’t work with you because they don’t like your political views or some of it.