skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overbooking is never the fault of third party sites, they literally make an API call in real time and ask if they have inventory available. For smaller chains and boutique hotels the backend is probably a system that is calling into the HMS in the same way Expedia would.

What you are experiencing is either the hotel manager verbally committing to rooms and not logging them into the computer to try and skim money, or they had something happen that impacted availability (no hot water, housekeeping couldn't turn over rooms, etc)
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Out of interest, are there any other groups where you believe that it would be dangerous for members of that group to be "aware of their ethnicity"? Or is it only Jews?
The way Microsoft wrote code for 40 years was an attack surface. The absurdity and fragility of DCOM and ActiveX without meaningful security or development rigor.
Is this based on any experience or research of yours or is it just the bias that it sounds like?
I used to work at John Deere.

The monopoly status and the amounts we can extract from parts and services is astronomical.

Taught me lessons about never wanting any companies to control over me like that
Well, they didn't die because they revolted. They're dying because two guys are conducting a street to street war.

Which is more condescending and neocolonial: To believe (hopefully) that a country may be able to hold onto a democracy, or to think they're incapable and will inevitably fall into chaos?

My only original point was simply that this chaos wasn't the aim of the West - nor does it benefit anyone. But I always find these arguments that the West is responsible deny agency to the actors on the ground. Surely these two men realize that house to house fighting is not good for the people they wish to rule, and they don't give a flying fuck. To say their "need" to wage war is just a secondary or tertiary result of Western interference is to say thay all their actions are merely reactions, and has overtones of the worst colonial racism. At least the American policy of promoting democracy relies on hope for a more prosperous life, which is powerful enough on an individual level to overcome fear.

To answer your question, a polity can only do its best to promote its position and try to gain friends and allies. The American revolutionary cry of "Liberty or Death" goes a fair way toward absolving us of hypocrisy in promoting popular revolution in service of self government. People don't have popular revolutions without believing in what they're fighting for; the North Vietnamese didn't, nor did the Potemkin sailors.

One of our most shameful hours was failing to defend the uprising we promoted in Hungary in 1956. Yet if we had, the narrative against us would have been that we intervened with arms against some wildly popular communism we had fomented some fascists to fight against. We get no credit for the ones we won, that are thriving in their independence, like South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, all of Western Europe.

Hah. I'm ranting.

Like your username btw.
Are there anything similar to this https://github.com/yinshanyang/cli-d3 for Plot?
Sounds very similar to the conclusions reached by Dr. Kevin MacDonald from the complete opposite perspective.
1Password goes down, warning users that their password has been changed
Looks like both the website and most of their servers are up? 15 offline as of this writing:

https://mullvad.net/en/servers
But if there's an expected value from the rest of your investment that you're not counting, then it's not an honest way of looking at things.
> conspiracy theories

You mean speculation, not conspiracy theories
Slightly off-topic, but I wanted to share what a joy it was to use VitePress to build this new documentation site. We already use Vite for Plot development: instant hot module reloading is fantastic for iterating on tests as you can instantly see the visual effect of your code changes. VitePress brings the same experience to docs, and the default theme (which we use with minor adjustments) is beautiful out of the box.

For this site, we wrote a little Vue component to support server-side rendering for Plot (as part of static site generation at build time). There’s just a little adapter to convert Vue’s hyperscript to the standard DOM API here:

https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/main/docs/componen...

The end result is that all the Plot examples are authored simply as fenced js code blocks, but we get server-side rendering so the plots are already rendered when the page loads with no reflow! You can see an example here:

https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/33c5560e24aee08cdb...

(For plots that would be too expensive to serialize to inline SVG, we render them client-side-only, and use requestIdleCallback or an IntersectionObserver to defer rendering to avoid jank.)

Add to that, while we were writing the docs, the VitePress team incorporated minisearch for instant search with no dependencies on external services. Huge kudos to Evan You and the VitePress team for building such a great product! It’s a huge boon to the open-source community to make it easier to write beautiful and usable docs.

Oh. And be sure to try dark mode!
I recently bought windows tablet for ham radio stuff (digital modes, etc).

Initially on windows 10, i upgraded to win11 and tablet experience was miserable, to say the least. Half of (tablet) stuff working in 10 won't work in win 11.
This was a good talk on routing https://theamphour.com/626-intelligent-routing-with-sergiy-n...
In Home Assistant a voice assistant is a combination of a speech-to-text, conversation and text-to-speech engines. A user can create as many combinations as they want. For a conversation agent, it's text command in, text response out. We already have the option to use OpenAI GPT 3.5, so it's possible in the future to hook it up to a large language model and allow it to control your house.

Fun fact: we supported Almond (later Genie), the IoT AI from Stanford which they released a couple of years ago. It would convert natural language into their ThingTalk language, which could do things like you mention. It was not popular at all and Stanford ended up shutting it down.
Github auth seems broken for me on chrome mac, anyone else ? Here's the error on the login page : You are already signed in, please try signing out and signing in again, or contact us for help.
Sometimes I get sent to a profile page, but trying to create a project sends me back to the login page.
A chat interface won’t replace UIs but give LLMs access to a component library, and it can piece them together to form an interface.
Since ChatGPT plugins can call apis with no issues, this capability should already exists.
Looks fun, but doesn't look like it will be open source. That's a shame, since it considerably raises the risk of adopting such a platform.

EDIT: the author claims that it will be open sourced soon :)
The extra delay comes from resistance and capacitance in the circuit, which makes electrical signals slow down (this is the ELI5 version). DRAM cells and long wires in the DRAM array are big capacitors and they are driven by circuits with fairly weak output (the resistance). Device physics makes these resistances and capacitances extremely hard to reduce. That is why on-device latency for DRAM has held fairly steady at ~5 ns for a very long time.
when I'm building circuits, usually I know what I want to design on a high level, but once it comes time to turn the schematic into a BOM, I get bogged down in minute differences between similar components

e.g. most recently, I needed a boost converter with at least 300mA sustained I at 3.3V coming from the lowest V source possible (alkaline battery powered gadget) After an hour or so of searching I had to choose between TLV61220 and TPS61021A . Maybe there is a better third chip? At this point I ran out of time to research and just figured this the TPS61021A would do.

Digikey/Mouser/etc have parametric filtering (when it works), but optimization among three variables is not the strong suit there, especially when you have, say, an 8mm square to fill and cost is a factor (and availability/flexibility between footprints)

I would love to use this as a fair recommendation engine (that isn't sponsored by TI, skewing all results towards their products) where I can give it my circuit's minimum/recommended/maximum parameters and have it suggest applicable parts, or even take my finished designs and suggest cheaper alternatives for parts that match the design's footprints but have lower capabilities, if that's all my circuit needed in the first place.

(just threw my query into chatgpt and it suggested https://www.ti.com/product/TPS61221) not bad.
I don't encounter overly clever code too often. But I do see excessive levels of abstraction all the time. Occasionally I'll see someone that doesn't use enough abstraction.
Go to your local historical farm and look at what people used to live in. Or find a documentary on YouTube about any area where people still live in mud huts, tents, or other tiny houses. They manage to raise kids .
GM created its own open-source software protocol
There is no search limit on Kagi. Do you mean you were not comfortable to pay 1.5 cents per search?
I think I might’ve jumped the gun. The Mullvad website is not working for me, but I think it’s my ISP…
> There's no better reminder that only a thimbleful of useful human knowledge is actually found on the internet.

Or in books, for that matter.
You must have had some issue being understood, or you wouldn't have adopted the careful speech pattern.

I suspect it's hard to do a realistic test. Two of the most common use cases seems to be kitchen timers and playing music. Both imply a noisy environment.
English speakers are pretty confusing talking about the clarity of liquids. Often colorless, clear liquids are called "white" (like white rum). Transparent brown liquids (whiskey) some people will say are not "clear", which they reserve for the colorless liquids. There's a word "limpid" which might be useful though definitions sometimes mean just transparent or both transparent and colorless.

The author suggests it's something like the clarity that Homer was observing and that's been my assumption for a while. It's unsurprising that we're confused what the word might've meant, given how imprecise we are about similar topics.
Basing one's philosophy on magic beliefs and unquestionable appeals to authority (book or person) is building a castle on reclaimed land. Religion is a fanciful prison of illusions, delusions, and oft able to rationalize suffering imposed on others as "good".
There are a lot of smart people in rural areas. They may look dumb and speak slow, but get to know them and you eventually discover they have a PhD.
I have one of Fender's Mustang amps, and one feature I really love is that it has a built in audio interface. It sits on my desk and is constantly plugged in to my machine, so if I'm ever noodling and want to start recording in GarageBand I can have a track going in like 30 seconds.

It's really nice to have an interface that doesn't require me to try to route audio through my computer. It just works exactly like a (slightly complicated) regular amp all the time, and behaves exactly the same while recording as it does when it's not.

It's got all kinds of built in amp sims and effects, but I play it on the same setting about 95% of the time (I've never been much for tone chasing). But it also has a built in looper, which I use all the time.

I really love the thing, great piece of hardware. It's got some warts but nothing I can't work around.
If it's pollution, which pollution?

This study lists the likely suspects (scroll down for the table), but is not quantitative enough to show which have the highest impact.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807371/

My guess: it's lead from gasoline- we've contaminated all top-soil with it. The effects are going to be around for a long time.
There’s also the very old-fashioned “talent & passion” thing.

Some people have it; some don’t.

If someone has it, it’s generally attached to a persona with various drivers and flaws, and it takes a good manager to direct that talent and passion.

It can get even trickier, when we have teams of these folks.

That’s not a popular stance, these says. We’re supposed to come up with process and technology, that lets mediocre managers run teams of mediocre workers, yet produce excellent results.

Lemme know how that works out.
The US has achieved air dominance over Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia managed to down a stealth aircraft, and if you read about that event you realize their air defense system was very advanced. Likely better than what Russia has now (roughly the same systems, but better training and discipline).

When the US has air dominance, the only strategy to launch missiles - of any type - is shoot-and-scoot. That can work with man portable missiles like Javelin, or pickup-truck mounted missiles. But it won't work with anti ship missiles. Those you can launch from large platforms, such as huge trucks, surface vessels, ground silos, or aircraft. If the US has air dominance, all of these are as good as dead once they fire their missiles.
> Is there no tractor manufacturer who could step up and advertise their lower TCO with their open repair policy? And if not, and if the demand was so strong, why wouldn't a new company have sprung up to compete on that basis?

Sometimes companies will always make more money by not giving consumers what they want. As long as all companies care about is making as much money as possible, they will exploit consumers whenever doing so makes them the most profit no matter how consumers feel about it.

A company could come up and meet the demand for tractors that consumers can repair, but that company would lose more money by not screwing over their own customers than they could ever hope to gain by enticing them with a repairable product.

A company that let's customers repair their own tractor gets a one time purchase and nothing else. A company that forces their customers to pay for highly overpriced repairs and parts gets that same one time purchase but also secures an endless revenue stream that stuffs their pockets with cash over and over again for the entire lifetime of the tractor and then it starts all over again when that same company claims they can't (or wont) repair it anymore and the customer has to make another new purchase.

The market (and shareholders) will not tolerate leaving huge stacks of cash on the table just to give consumers what they want.
And battlestar galactica.
Well it took 10-15 years for imgur to suck like photobucket and the other sucky image hosting sites that came before it.

Imgur was good for serving as a quick cut and paste to share images. It was not good for being Reddit or image sharing and discovery. It filled a need better than anyone else and now it doesn’t.

I don’t see the value in creating an account to upload an image to share it for two people to see it. It’s just an extra step. It’s not just the hassle, it’s that I don’t want a profile of all the images I’ve ever shared.

I was always surprised by how gracious imgur was and wondered how they made money but assumed their costs were super low. And I suppose it was fun while it lasted.

This also makes me really appreciate my $30/year shared web host that’s run without problems for almost 20 years (knock wood). Images posted there never go down. Or at least I get to choose when they go down.

I think everyone would be better off by just paying $50/year for a random host that ran email, cloud storage, images, etc and could be easily ported to any competitor by copying some files and changing DNS.

SaaS ultimately lets you down.
The less common "Move slow, and break things" engineering.

> The environmental consequences are enormous

The consequences are not enormous. Should SpaceX do things better? Yes.
systems programming and HDL are quite enlightening, though bordering EE. Really gets deep into how computers work and what they really are, so you are not just dealing with a compiler black box on a high level language. Being able to understand and write your own device driver is great

for maths, I think being able to quickly read binary and hex or at least quickly gauge the magnitude of a hex number is pretty underappreciated. Multi variate calculus and linear alg was also very useful in general in reasoning about programs especially those involving lists, vecs, matrices, and ML

compilers are great too but I feel like most resources and thinking around it is a bit too focused on parsing and the frontend, not enough on the "essence" of languages and compilers, abstraction, and more recent developments in static analysis other than simple typing
How is this?

https://kagi.com/search?q=Python+str+split&r=us&sh=gJnPl4gj5...
I'm personally a fan of mushroom hooks (3M Dual Lock) besides the high price, because it's less spiky than Velcro and has more lateral rigidity (though unfortunately you need 3 pieces on each side in a triangle for a robust stable mount free of tilting wobbling). Though I actually wouldn't recommend it for mounting a phone; I added a piece to my phone case, but took it off because it kept catching onto my hand and surfaces, and ended up with more entangled dust than soft Velcro.
This is a very underrated thought. Untold amounts of suffering could be alleviated, if we made an investment of political & human capital.
Think whatever you want, but know that the idea that "everyone was racist", or that any Westerners were at the humble vanguard of anti-racism, is utter bunk.
Honestly, I think anti-racism, anti-slavery, and anti-misogyny was more of a 20th century movement. What's happening now is not so noble.
I’d argue the first Bourne movie was pretty realistic. It was the sequels that built things up too much.
At least for me individually 5G has been a worse experience vs LTE because of how quickly it drains the tiny 2,227mah battery in my iphone 12 mini, turning off 5G doesn't noticeably affect my cell performance while at the same time increases my battery life by 1-2 hours. I can't imagine how bad it'd be if i had a ultra-wideband plan, that radio requires a giant cutout in the metal frame which is also only present on u.s. region iphones. 5g ultra-wideband has always seemed like just a party trick to me (who would ever need gigabyte speeds on a phone??)
First of all, thank you so much for HA. My family uses it daily and despite some of them being at first resistant to anything smart they now can’t imagine life without it.

I have a general question about HA: the main issues I’ve had with it have had to do with specifically only two points.

1. The recorder module has brought the system to a crawl when a single rogue device on my network kept spamming MQTT with status updates about power consumption and eventually killed the SD card it was running on. Some aggressive ignore statements in the config fixed the issue but I still see this as a major pain point as there is no indication of anything happening. Is there any plan to introduce any kind of housekeeping into the recorder module besides periodic purges (which in my case were not enough to actually keep the system running)?

2. I like to have control over my computers so I did not want to use a pre-installed image of HA for RPi. But the alternative is a cumbersome process of installing it in a Python virtual env and keeping things updated which is not ideal. Are there any plans for improving this installation path? Or alternatively some sort of advanced version of the HA image which would allow someone like me full control over the base OS while keeping the benefits of the cohesive self-updating HA distribution?
So you agree that Marx and Engels were racist and rescind your point “I read a lot of Marx and Engels, who wrote at a similar time, and they don't sound racist?”
Guy probably claims to be a Christian also. Pro tip, the big guy wasn't into killing people, either.
I recently did an OAuth integration with an API that documented its OAuth endpoints like all its other endpoints: including a mention of OAuth in the description but giving explanations and examples with curl, just like it would if there were no standard.

It was way easier than anything else I've done with OAuth (except log in as a user).
"Without prejudice to further consideration of the legal characterisation". I am using that in every conversation I have with my wife.
Big fan of D3.js and now there is Observable Plot! I am building several data visualization software for exploratory data analysis:

RATH, auto exploratory data analysis: https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath

GraphicWalker, embeddable data exploration component: https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker

They are using vega-lite for now. But there is a limit of building more fancy and customized visualizations. It seems Plot has a more flexible layer based visualization system that can support larger design space.

Is Plot stable enough now to migrate from vega-lite based system to Plot based? Are there any large milestone or roadmap of Plot in future?
What's stopping Reddit from making a copy of every Imgur-hosted image linked to on Reddit, hosting it themselves, and thus ensuring that nothing is broken for Reddit users? Or just buying Imgur, for that matter?
They weren't the only ones making this mistake at the time.

I remember having a "ruh-oh!" moment when a junior dev showed me his latest DHTML web page that did something we'd previously been doing in VB. The sudden realisation that this was significant and I'd better get on with learning it or be left behind was painful. The urge to continue dismissing the web as a good information source but not somewhere you did things was strong.
Previous HN discussion on the subject with 82 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20638158

Myself I have never understood why the debate. Oceans can appear to be very dark on cloudy stormy days, and the sky can be red, giving an impression of a wine like colour, or at least wine in a container.

What is more interesting is that is was not until the 1850s people started to debate the description. So for nearly 2500 years nobody seems to have thought twice about it.
typical narcissistic answer. they'll defund it and never technically "stop"
I'm am exactly the same. I feel bad not using Firefox but yes I also feel the pain of the performance issues.

I do feel like brave drains the battery pretty badly on macOS.
How are there 27k studies?
I wish I could shout this from the rooftops—though I fear most people would simply call the police. :- )
Just try their swiping.

I use it. I don't like it. (I haven't found anything else that's much better, and that's with a fair amount of SwiftKey use; nothing beats now-dead Swype.)

Routinely - routinely - I try to swipe out "and". Often, I get "abs" (I don't work out, let alone write about it), but the most common and bizarre one is "Abbas". The only Abbas I know is the Palestinian president, and I don't write about him at all, let alone enough to justify having that be a common word that comes up.

I realize that with put/out/or it's just not easy to distinguish. But I'll live with that. Abbas?
Wikipedia's headquarter office has been hit by a bomb threat
Apple says this is a list of their App Store user counts, and the things they’ve listed are their app stores.

Perhaps they’ll release those other numbers in a different document.

I can’t say why Apple appears to be doing things this way. I was only pointing out why Apple may not have included them here.