skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't do that and none of their competitors do that. Booking.com charges hotels 15% in commission on their sales and that's it.

This is how Expedia worked for many years. Booking didn't start out doing this, but I think both are now large enough that they all do a bit of both.

Some googling suggests Booking may not be buying wholesale directly, but may be just listing inventory from other wholesalers.

There's a good episode of the Acquired podcast on Booking.com that goes into some depth on their business model if you want more info.
Good catch, though the paper says PMT (at least they use the acroynm). I struggle to believe anything from Hamamatsu costs $5-10 ;)

The arxiv Paper says they use an R1924A PMT : https://www.hamamatsu.com/us/en/product/optical-sensors/pmt/...
In a nutshell, this is the same as to what Ripple / XRP has been accused of, the difference being that Ripple had better lawyers and probably more money, than LBRY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY

> The SEC alleged that LBRY, Inc. had sold LBRY credits (LBC) to fund their work without registering them with the SEC as a security, a violation of securities laws. In response, LBRY's CEO began a public relations campaign to gather support among blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiasts, and to argue that the SEC had mislabeled LBC as a security. On November 7, 2022, the SEC won the lawsuit when Judge Paul Barbadoro of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire granted the SEC's motion for summary judgment. In 2023, LBRY was forced to close due to fines related to SEC fines.
The Notion setup he showed me wasn't some fancy overengineered "life dashboard", just a pretty basic Kanban board with notes, no fancy process. So it sounds about right.
>Prices of cars increased with 50 %

So has real estate.
No, definitely not. The first and only time 24x7 missed a check payment and blamed their IT department was enough for me to start a 'plan B' and that ultimately saved the day. Of course their outward messaging was the everything was absolutely fine right up until the moment they were declared bankrupt.

Likewise 'IBill' and a couple of other cases besides. Regardless of origin: if they really have IT issues that can cause this then you should find an alternative. Unfortunately the 3rd party booking sites are so few in number when it comes to volume that your options are very limited.
It’s impossibly easy to block resolution of txt records, for instance.
If it washed up on a beach why is it assumed it came from an aircraft or rocket? A ship seems like a far more likely source. Things go overboard, even containers, often enough.

I think the better question is, how old is it? And given the ocean currents, where might it have originated?
The new GaN chargers are nice and compact, but for some reason only available as third party accessories. I'd have thought laptop manufacturers would be jumping on the tech, but even Apple are still shipping bulky power supplies.
Don't forget the Spectrum ZX Next (https://www.specnext.com/) if you can get one. I managed to get a N-GO clone from ebay last year (https://manuferhi.com/p/n-go-full-include-wifi-rpi-zero) which is excellent.
I've responded to other similar comments, but there are a few things which I think make this a dark pattern: the modal pops up after scrolling far enough down that you’re absorbed in the content, the “continue reading” is not styled as a button, and is accompanied by a chevron to the right which implies navigation away from the current content (I want to scroll down, not go right).

I agree there's a bunch of people who call anything they don't like a 'dark pattern', but I think this crosses the threshold for 'dark pattern' to be a reasonable description.
RUSI wrote about it, page 25 of this report:

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-r...

BTW, if you like reading longer reports on the technical/military aspects of this war then I can recommend RUSI. I haven't seen a better source so far. They release a report every now and then.
> Canvas is Skia

Canvas is Apple Quartz. They implemented it in WebKit for their dashboard widgets (which were implemented what we called "HTML5" back then) which leaked into Safari, and it turned out to be so useful that it got adopted in other browsers as a WHATWG standard.
They probably are not Java bytecode despite using the same magic number:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_class_file
The email address isn't what's important, what is important is the payment details associated with the account.
In large part it was because they had access to land taken away. They had little choice.
My money is on much less than the time it would take to send the extra bytes over the wire. But I suppose measurement is key :D
English people shouldn't bear guilt for it either. They should learn about it for sure, it's history.

But why people think it's okay to hold the current generation responsible for things previous generations (in this case quite far back) did is just juvenile.
That smells like a hack.
> Linear A is completely undeciphered, so amateurs have done exactly as well as professionals.

Academics have absolutely done better than amateurs by virtue of continually validating the fact that it isn’t decipherable.

The comment isn’t even bashing amateurs - it’s bashing crackpots, who tend to be allured towards the mysterious, especially if their crackpot ideas won’t be inconvenienced by facts.
I’ll assume “LTL” stands for “Limiting Talc Liabilities for Management”
Sources or calculations please and please elaborate on the system boundaries. Thx in advance.
Scrambling implies something quick. This has been going on for too long to use that term.
Emacs is a lisp environment, with an editor housecoat on.
If you’re working for any of those companies even if you are in the office, more than likely you are working with people in other offices on your team.

But then again, I have no idea about how colocated the teams at Apple and Google are.
I (thought) I saw where the article was going before it got there, but, the notion that the 'optimization' actually __increases__ gzipped sizes surprised me (I thought the conclusion was going to drive at 'it makes no difference', or 'only a byte or two saved').

I don't have a site that sees a ton of traffic, and I know what some of my direct competitors spend on IAAS (and how long their pages take to load). I'm orders of magnitude below it - hence, I do not spend much time investigating optimizations. I can name a list as long as my leg as to where I bet I can win quite a bit on optimizing for IAAS cost or UX speed. Business-wise I decided it's not (currently!) worth investigating.

One of the more intriguing ones on my list is that I __do not minify anything__. My reasoning is that post-gzip, who cares. It's such a tiny difference. Yes, turning e.g. class names or whatnot in the CSS, or local identifiers in javascript, into short letter sequences means even post-gzip it'll be smaller, but by so little. The reduction in file size when e.g. eliminating all unnecessary whitespace is really, really tiny.

For any site that isn't trying to optimize for 'millions of hits a day!' levels of traffic, why _do_ you minimize all that stuff? It makes the developer experience considerably shittier and the gain seems a few orders of magnitude too small to even bother with it.
That is... interesting that they do not even use HTTPS or any type of signature for that info.

So a man in the middle could prevent updates from happening, and freshclam wouldn't even throw a warning?
> But if you don’t like Google’s business model, don’t use Google.

> And where are people going to go to host their videos for free at scale? It’s not like any little startup can come along and profitably host videos.

If I could get off of Youtube, I would. Like you say, there's not an alternative. It's not even about where I host my videos, that's easy to solve. It's about where everybody else hosts their videos, whether or not I can view a video that gets linked to me, whether or not I can view documentation that companies and events are hosting on Youtube. And it's about where it's possible to put videos where anyone at all will see them.

It is not possible for people to avoid Youtube. Which, it seems like you know given that you're arguing that this impossibility is precisely the reason why a Youtube competitor won't steal their lunch. It's laughable to call consumer relationships with Youtube consensual. And again, you know that, or you wouldn't be so dismissive of people suggesting that bad policy could impact Youtube's network effects.

You can't both have your cake and eat it; if you're going to argue bad Youtube policy won't impact Youtube's bottom line and that there isn't an alternative for people to jump ship to, you can't then turn around and argue that everyone who's using Youtube is there by choice. The fact that there largely isn't a policy Youtube could implement that would cause a mass-migration is exactly the reason why it makes sense to get the government involved in antitrust. The fact that mass-subsidy below-market offerings for hosting make it impossible for a market to compete with Youtube's hosting is exactly why the government should be looking into this business model.

There's a fun trick companies like to play where they offer a service that is massively subsidized by investors or another part of the business, use that to drive any meaningful competition out of the market, and then argue that their unsustainable business is now essential and that this excuses anything they do. And it's mostly bullcrap. We know that Youtube is not playing fair; you know that Youtube is not playing fair or you wouldn't be so confident about its market position.
FWIW if you ship source maps, then you can have the best of both worlds.
Aaaactually… professionals map jj to Esc.

JJ Abrams disagrees, though.
Hilton does price matching.

Also, I understand outside of the US, credit card rewards aren’t as lucrative. I get 20x points per dollar from Hilton for staying and an additional 14x from Hilton for using my cobranded Amex Hilton Aspire card when paying Hilton directly.
It sounds similar to ArchiveBox (https://archivebox.io/) - which is not a bad thing; if it is, then the more, the merrier!
I think it's a flawed analogy. An ant doesn't possess any abstract thinking. No matter how you'd dumb it down, an ant won't understand you're a thinking entity because it has no such concept.

Aliens might be very different from us, but surely there's some dumbed down way we could recognize/conceptualize them. There might be some cases of extremely enigmatic alien species, but I think that would be rather rare, and the majority would be quite recognizable (physical body, metabolism, reproduction).
>The primary focus seems to be maintaining the status quo, particularly safeguarding pensions.

Pretty much yeah, but is it a surprise that people vote to keep their cushy standards of living from the past?

Sure, none of those voters cares that the economic landscape has changed since the boomer times when Europeans companies ruled thew world and brought in the most profits and tax revenue, which allowed easy funding of the generous welfare system we enjoy, except that now we're not producing the same amount of money to still afford this lifestyle, so something will have to give, since the current trajectory seems to be ever increasing taxes on labor to fund welfare, while economic prosperity and competitiveness declines.
It’s kinda wild that the two executives committed fraud to export weapons technology to a major military adversary in contradiction of international agreement… and ended up with 10 and 12 month sentences. That seems really light to me!
It seems to me that medical bills would be a major contributor to distress.
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As as sysadmin, Dell hardware is more of a joke the more expensive it is. I contracted for a company that makes pans (I guarantee you have one.) And they used all dells servers standardized across all their infra. Kind of smart except for the part where Dell engineers decided a module that does RAID across 2 SD cards of all things is a good and resilient idea for storing the boot operating system.

If you're a sysadmin in the Pittsburgh area and got woken up by your boss at 5 AM on a Saturday in July 2020 just so you would go plug in a USB in the back of a server, I'm sorry, it's half my fault and half Dell's.
I'd rather have some Keynes than get pissed on with some 'trickle down' economics.

I would say, I'd bet nobody having an argument about economics here has actually read much Keynes, or anything about classical/neo-liberalism. It all just turns into "I recognize some word related to the right, so I'll virtue signal and keep hyping it." Or more, "I see a free market economy argument happening, I must jump in and comment because markets are from God and I must support".
Reads like a "too big to fail" argument.

It works for the banking industry I guess so why not here too.
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And this explains why CapitalOne can give customers 10% back on hotels booked their portal…
Now there’s canvas as another paid alternative to blackboard. I think it’s seeing relatively wide adoption.
Bell labs is long gone but the site has since been redeveloped and now is a mixed use Office/Hotel space. I think redevelopment started in 2013.
your argument could also be used to reject most of earth science. we will likely never, at least in our lifetimes, go to some other planet that is in any way like earth. Therefore all of earth science is simply observations of what is in front of our faces when the universe is likely different.
Perhaps you're processing confidential data/communications.

The "uncompromised security" line suggests that the product is targeted at this group. The Intel CPU shows that it's actually aimed at people "just running Linux on a desktop anyway".
Booking.com owns priceline & agoda.com

Both expedia and booking.com know better about the market condition than the hotels.

When they realize that rooms are selling fast in the area, they sell the room as prepaid rooms. If the nightly rate is $100, they sell it for $120-150 and they pay hotels $100 - 15-18% commission.

They also buy google ads in the area for the top results during that time. Most guests don't even realize they are clicking on their ads.
Man I felt the pain of the 2 years one.

But 2 week estimate to rewrite a billing system? After 6 weeks "window to try our new business model was gone"?
Looks better? Highly subjective. I have some kind of birds that build nests in a corner of my front porch that's about ~18ft above ground. I'm not sure a plastic own hanging out up there would be the most welcoming.
I see this type of reasoning a lot and it feels like it should have its own named fallacy. A tiny percent savings on a huge cost is a moderately big number, yes.

The problem here is that you've switched from proportional thinking to arithmetic thinking in the middle of the thought.

In most cases, if you started with proportional thinking, you should stick to it.

Example of the fallacy: 0.1% of my salary goes to avocado toast, which might not seem that much, but over ten years, that's a thousand dollars!

The fallacy here lies in the fact that a thousand dollars is insignificant over 10 years, but the statement makes it feel significant by switching from proportional to absolute.

"The avocado toast fallacy"?
This isn't Cyberpunk 2077. The US reaps huge benefits from having companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft subject to their laws and regulatory oversight, and owned by their capital. This is why lobbying is such a profitable business.
https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/concrete-roads/ 400 miles, apparently. But much less common outside of the east of england.

Concrete is also commonly used on heavy industrial estates - if they've got hundreds of 40 tonne lorries making sharp turns every day, they need the durability.
For a personal computer, an ARM-based computer does not make sense, for now.

On the other hand, for a very cheap, secure and fanless (i.e. reliable and silent) network appliance, like a firewall/router/NAT/Web server/e-mail server etc., a small ARM-based computer, e.g. one with RK3588, may be the best choice. (but not all ARM CPUs are documented well enough to make them more trustworthy that the Intel/AMD CPUs)

If your insecure personal computer is shielded from the public Internet by a secure firewall, you need not worry that its remote management features, which are supposed to be disabled, can in fact be activated without your knowledge.
Conspiracy theory time: deliberate acts to provide Casus Belli for American invasion. Along the lines of Colin Powell's vial of anthrax at the UN or the "baby incubators" statements from a Kuwaiti princess a decade earlier.

The article states "closely allied with Russia" and the current establishment desires to punish anyone who doesn't distance themselves from Russia. The emails might be nothing sensitive to the state but they can just lie and say "Mali is deliberately intercepting emails meant for the military". Well that wouldn't even be a lie because someone did set up something to catch emails going to dot-ml which were meant for dot-mil.

A nice war helps also helps with elections at home.
The on-site warranty is really good (especially if you're a business who has negociated the price away with volume) but it just carries you for 5 years and after 5 years you can't fix your machine because it uses proprietary everything.
Compression aware minifiers are definitely a thing.

Instead of trying to make the code as small as possible, they will try to make it as redundant as possible. For example by reusing names. For example "message="hello";print(message)" can be minified into "hello="hello";print(hello)", which may compress better than "a="hello";print(a)".
That's what they said about Van Moof, and plenty of other companies that ultimately went bankrupt.

They had a pretty bad loss two quarters ago:

"Net income was $266 million, compared with a net loss of $700 million in the prior-year quarter"

https://s201.q4cdn.com/865305287/files/doc_financials/2023/q...
In Switzerland though copying for personal use is legal - not so in Scandinavian countries
Iron-air is going directly to grid storage, there's a commercial facility being built right now.
How quaint indeed that you delude yourself of establishing i said it as a bad thing.
null-ls is now archived so you don't need it (dark humor). Anyway - you needed it for linting\formatting etc.

Modern syntax highlighting comes with treesitter, you don't need anything but theme that supports it.

You also don't really need Mason unless you want an automated way of managing your providers. And LSP-config+Co is needed anyway - neovim\VSCode and other editors use it all the same.

>Also I don’t know what world you live in ...

We were talking about building a config, not about learning every dark corner of it. You don't have to go much further than Packer's or LazyVim readme.md to get a grasp of what's going on. Things were much harder when it was vim and vimscript + some plugins.
Very neat, thanks for creating it
We do speak of dynamic phenomena as "existing" all the time.

A river is made up of different water molecules every day, yet it's the same river over millennia.

In the same way, countries (and other abstract entities such as companies) exist in the dynamics of human interactions.

So yes, humans must perpetuate the concept by re-telling it, but somewhat paradoxically it's not a lie as long as they do so.
It is not just git though. It's looking at no code participation as well.
But will you survive to enjoy those beenfits?
Ticketing systems are only awful if they try to model everything. … Which is something that ticketing systems tend to evolve towards over time. Maybe it’s some organizational phenomenon vaguely related to Conways law…
> not sure what you mean by information density. I’m not sure how much denser information could be without making the font smaller

The existence of the share and vote buttons under each card and comment means fewer submissions and comments are visible on the screen at any one time.

> auto play videos can absolutely be disabled (even on ads)

Only on the card view. If you tap on a video submission it will auto play.

The rest of your comments are opinions, and while I respect them, I don’t agree. I tested the app before making that reply. Maybe you should accept that different people like different things than you do?
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They didn't say it stabilizes, though. You'd think they'd mention that if it did.
Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
Since the configuration is done in (dot)files you can version and track them with git. If you want several setups you could have them in branches and just ´git checkout X´ in your .vim or .config/nvim directory to change it and it would affect settings and plugins (as they're also just files).

I don't need it but I can see the use. I do have a dotfiles repository however it's very common in Linux and Mac, don't know about Windows. If I setup a new machine or spin up a VM I just have to clone that repository to have all my configurations for everything (even addons for Firefox and Chrome).

This article[1] is a good starting point if you want to try it out.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
My understanding is that quantum gravity is a gaping hole in our theoretical understanding of the universe, and until that hole is plugged, we have no hopes of finding a One True Theory. That's quite different from quantum gravity being The theory.
Or simply a lack of operating cash and they use this to jump across the shortage hoping nobody will notice.
The Czechs are buying the conventional variant of the F-35, not the vertical landing variant.
Care to share some references? I’m not well informed on this subject, and the disagreement here makes me think it’s wise to just go read up on the details.
This is the one: https://netanimations.net/Flashing-Under-Construction-Signs-...
You can they are called SRV records but browsers don’t really support lookups that way.
Working with Booking.com as an affiliate over the years I have experienced so many broken things and a sheer indifference / ignorance from the company.
For instance, their referral program was long abused by scammers who would place a hotel booking using stolen credit card and then claim 5% cashback via numerous online cashback services. Book a €5000 resort stay using someone's else card and get €250 out of it almost risk free. Fraudsters with the IP addresses from Palestine were happily exploiting this and Booking's anti-fraud systems were largely non-existent..
Hard to say as the green transition is poorly defined. However, lack of transition is much easier to define and to evaluate. According to a recent French government report [1], the cost of non action is significantly higher than transitioning to a net zero GHG economy by 2050.

[1] - Rapport Pisani-Mahfouz
https://www.strategie.gouv.fr/publications/incidences-econom...