skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even as Palm Springs' tax revenue from home bookings has dropped by about 13% over the past year, hotel tax revenues are up by about 1.5%. Combined revenue from the two types of stays — known as transit occupancy tax — is down by about 3%.

This backs up anecdotes I’ve been hearing about people going back from AirBnB to hotels. The consensus seems to be that the price difference is diminished and the high variance in quality is not worth whatever discount still exists.

I have some good memories from the early years of talking with hosts and even having them show me around, it’s a shame that it’s become so transactional but I don’t see how it could have scaled any other way.
So I'm an epidemiologist and/or a disease ecologist depending on what hat I'm currently wearing, so I think I count as someone who can address your question.

And I'm going to give you the epidemiologists favorite answer: "It depends."

Having a math and computation background certainly helps. There's a conference I go to every year that I refer to as a hypothesis generating conference - I go and listen to talks, and write down ways to address problems primarily with computational models that the presenters (mostly clinicians) think are intractable.

But I've also seen people with very strong math and computation backgrounds run completely aground, either by being in love with a method more than a question, or just utterly lacking subject matter expertise.

I think there's two more cultural things that are plaguing science, that don't necessarily get fixed by "take more calculus":

1) A desire for there to be rote guidelines. "In case of X, I do Y." A lot of the push recently (see the "Use confidence intervals, not p-values" or preregistration) are about making better rote guidelines, but they're still rote. As an example, the JAMA journals prohibit the use of causal language unless you're reporting an RCT.

Which is mostly fine. Except, on occasion, when you get a mathematical model accepted into a JAMA journal. A model that is inherently causal, but doesn't fit "the list", and you end up writing the equivalent of "Two plus two is associated with an outcome of four."

2) Publishing. But not in the normal way people bring up publishing. There's a desire for papers to be a complete story. To be done. The experimental sciences sort of leaked into everything, so there's a notion that all studies have a beginning, middle, and end that closes the book on whatever small bit of a project you're working on, versus something closer to living progress on a question.
The whole point of things like this is to force the open internet to be the one to fork away. The network effect is solved by having enough money to take over an existing network.
Palm Springs is awesome in the winter. It's a mecca of modern architecture!
On session replay, clarity if definitely comparable to an extent. Keep in mind that the tool is very fine-tuned for a more marketing use case (w/ heatmaps, analytics, etc..). On the other hand, Highlight.io will monitor the content of network requests, trace request all the way to your backend, let you inspect the DOM, report on errors and much more.

Regarding the request features I mentioned above, we launched several features in this space today in our launch week: https://highlight.io/launch-week-2#day-2
Not OP but I think it's a lot about familiarity. I'm sure chrome has most of the things I use in firefox. But I'm just not familiar with it anymore so I always revert back to firefox if i need to use the dev tools.
Val<<>> when they inevitably introduce templates and stringstreams
The context of this thread is the cost of training brains and models on comparable tasks. Not that the model is comparable to a human in every way.

If you want to be pedantic then 6% of the human brain is the visual cortex but then you also have to argue that AlexNet is horribly inefficient to train. So you cut the brain cost to 6% and the model cost to 1%. They're still within an order of magnitude (favoring the model) which I'd say is pretty close in terms of energy usage.
Maybe we could do a double blind (including scientists) study where everyone waived their rights & are recorded then in another "typical" conditions study do none of that and compare the two and see which one seems to have the best, most accurate results.
Saved you a click: Singapore.
There are a number of statistical software packages that have, as you refer to them, "easily runnable happy paths".

I'd assert that these are the source of many of the problems, because statistical reasoning is not purely algorithmic.
there's a lot of people who visit palm springs party at night and sleep through the heat of the day.
Interestingly, the list of weather records data shows that the extreme highs are really scattered throughout the last century. It seems probable, though, that these will all fall in the next couple decades.

Africa: 1931

Antarctica: 1982

Asia: Tie, 2023 and 2017

Europe: 2021

North America: 1913

Oceania (incl. Australia): Tie, 1960 and 2022

Oceania (excl. Australia): 1973

South America: 1905

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records
Ok, so it's actually just 1 dark pattern - it's tied to Instagram.
What is the mechanism of exposure?
Do you have a source on Angular Being deprecated? That’s big news that I’ve missed if true.
China doesn't need a war to become 'Number One'. China will become 'Number One' anyway, because it's just arithmetic. China is growing faster than the US, so eventually it will overtake the US and take the 'Number One ' slot automatically. A war would only slow China down, so China will avoid a war as much as possible. That may be foolishly construed as 'weakness'.

The US knows that the only way to remain 'Number One' is to stop China by warfare. Unfortunately the US is no longer the US of 1942 but merely the US of 2023.

So yes, the US and China will go to war, a war that the US is no longer capable of winning because it no longer has the manufacturing capacity it once had, and it only has a quarter of China's military-age population.
A point of clarification: angularjs is officially deprecated. Angular is very much still being developed and used for new projects.
The OKRs at my workplace are self-defined and self-rated. It's a total sham. Every cycle I will write OKRs for things I've already completed, or things that will be completed a week from writing. And I'll leave 1 or 2 items I know will extend to next cycle. And 3 months later I mark those few as 'done' and make up a couple more. Nobody cares. My manager doesn't care. Nothing changes at all in the org. I've been doing this for over 6 years. I'm not sure who exactly looks at the OKRs, but I assume there is a dashboard- somewhere that I don't have access to- with numbers in green and red that must mean a lot to somebody I've never met.
Sure. But, if the point of de-carbonizing is to stop extreme weather altogether, we're not going to achieve that, ever.
Everything we do is open source. Our roadmap, weekly tasks, etc.. So far, this has worked really well for us and made it easy for the community to be involved in what we're doing.

There are lots of fun challenges in front of us regarding incentivizing the community (bounties, etc..), as well as open sourcing more of our product processes. If you have any other pointed questions, happy to talk to them.
Good take on the competition, and I'm looking forward to trying out Highlight.io.
Real physical quantum computers exist, they just can't do anything useful yet, and in particular they haven't achieved fault tolerance. Quantum sensing took 46 years before there was an application. The idea of quantum computers has only been around for 38 years (Deutch's paper was 1985). They seem highly analogous to me and I don't see what distinction you're trying to point to.
“Angular is officially deprecated”

Snark or lack of knowledge?
Pycharm does a good job
I actually watch YouTube videos of AWS Reinvent all of the time on YouTube and there are no ads.

I pay for tutorials from places like ACloudGuru and PluralSight. Well I get reimbursed for them. But I did pay myself before I started working at my current company.

And this gets back to if you value Youtube enough and don’t want to see ads - pay for YouTube premium.
Why prepared rotisserie chickens are cheaper than ones you cook yourself (2022)
It's autopilot on steroids. Ignore the bad suggestions, use the good ones. Increase your WPM for $19/month.

You can ask it to explain a method you don't understand. People say it makes mistakes, but it makes far less mistakes than I do.
Nicole Nguyen: What Threads Needs to Beat Twitter
https://archive.is/zYWcf
The frustrating thing is that this is both the final nail in the coffin for computing freedom, while also having a legitimate use case. I'm seeing new banks that flat out do not have a web UI at all. The reality is that desktop OSs and browsers have done nothing to stop the fact that it is trivial for a regular person to accidentally install malware which is completely transparent.

Online fraud and theft is exploding right now and the average person is simply not capable of securing a laptop so the companies have decided to only allow secure access through a phone which can usually be trusted to be malware free.
Second and third examples produce errors:

No such layout `elk` found. Did you forget to import it and `cytoscape.use()` it?
I genuinely have no idea what N-Point definition of open source you’re using.

The term “open source” doesn’t have a singular definition. I liked the comment somewhere in this thread that if you stuck 5 HN users in a room you’d get 12 definitions for open source.

Sounds like people need to come with more precise terms like “GNU Open Source” or similar. Because at this point we’ve gone too far and there will never be a singular definition for “open source”.
There's also VAL: Variable Assembly Language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Assembly_Language
This is awesome! So basically GPT-4 is the winner far ahead of alternatives. I don't see Bard in the ranking though
Tree style tabs along with changing the CSS to remove the tabs from the top of the screen has been a game changer for me. Back when I had an M1 macbook air, it was the difference between everything feeling cluttered to feeling like a real laptop screen.
I have not seen a high quality article from them, perhaps ever.
netflix and prime videos throttle quality for linux users.
I don't think this is being pedantic. We here talk about languages like Rust, Val, and also C (which we attempt to replace) as languages to interface directly with the bare metal. Think device driver or a kernel itself.

To me it initially looks like WASI does not let you use WASM as a bare metal language (I don't know enough about WASM to judge whether that's even really sensible). Instead, you have a layer on the bare metal (or even several layers above) implemented otherwise, and then you can use WASM still further above, to interface to that layer.

But again, maybe I misunderstood.
What type of role is she freelancing in? Tech market's changed quite a lot after the CovidMoneyFactoryFactory ran out of Beans.
But isn't it worth spending a few years poking around before we lock ourselves into fifty more years of bad ergonomics, now that things have clearly reached the point where there's credible motion towards a C alternative?
The door revolves on upon graduation as it does on admittance . MIT seats are scarce because so many want access to the influential network of MIT alum, as MIT students might be favored in highly sought after jobs. MIT maintains the scarcity by not increasing enrollments thereby giving seats only to the remarkably well prepared or well resourced high school students.

Bur it makes me wonder 1) Why must the brand MIT be such a ticket to supposedly meritocratic job market? And 2) why must college attainment be seen as the only way of passage into the middle class?

Jim Crow effects persist today because of the dearth of social capital for many black Americans that both prevents entry into a highly selective launchpad into gainful careers and only has such power for the outsized role social capital plays in job prospects.
> Just because you can build a microchip doesn't mean you can build a spaceship and vice versa.

A recent incident of a submersible built by someone with aerospace experience comes to mind.
how do I validate my keyboard initially? how do I validate my mouse initially?

something would need special treatment that would be an attack surface.
Angular is officially deprecated by Google? news to me. Wow.
That would seem pretty likely to me. Only reason I can really think of.
You have to request to get access to the code, so I think everyone understands that it's not open source
Why don't the OKR advocates tell us how to 'correctly' implement them? Start by telling us who should define the OKRs and how granular they should be for an engineer whose priorities change week to week.
Rancher Desktop is a great way to do this while avoiding the anti-commercial rules of Docker Desktop -- it is fully OSS (Apache 2.0) and comes with the engine (virtualized on both Windows and MacOS), the CLI, and a (unfortunately limited) GUI client.
https://archive.is/RiD5H
What I don't understand is what the wahalla is really about, seems to be one of two:
:the board granted themselves an unusually high amount of stock when it was granted
:the company did performed too well in the interim bringing the value of their comp too high

seems odd to me as options are granted to 'upper management' as a performance incentive, so the lawsuit brought forth seems to base level br about the company doing too well
, that is to say if it is not about the first reason all along
The Death of Infosec Twitter
> but I really, really hope Mozilla doesn't even remotely consider implementing this.

Apologies for the simple question, but wouldn't forks of popular browsers crop up without this attestation API implemented? Or is it a thing where websites themselves would potentially refuse traffic from browsers that didn't support it?
You are totally right - both more and better matters. There are many good papers on the importance of data quality, Textbooks Are All You Need is one that comes to mind - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
I thought Scott Alexander's take was interesting https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-match-school-and-s... and the phrase "laundering privilege" stuck with me. It's like a crypto mixer but for privilege.
>it's 2023, we have the means to cheaply record and store audio and video evidence for basically any medical experiment. we can record every patient reaction and opinion without relying on the reasearchers' hearsay. we also have the means to store and distribute all the binary/textual raw data gathered throughout the experiments

This is a great approach IMO. Additionally skeptics (for example anti-vaxxers), should be physically present at the trials.
This gets me wondering if Switzerland has an equivalent font, and what they'd call it since 'Helvetica' is already taken.
I'm in Austin (104 F / 40 C at the moment), and there aren't many tourists around or anyone doing much of anything. We're praying to the renewable gods that ERCOT has its act together. The risk of a power outage now is a threat to human life.

That said, the prices on Airbnb are cheap: $40-110/night for downtown prime locations. During SXSW last year, comparables to my place went for $900-1300/night.
Not so. The 3/5 rule and the Electoral College gave slaveholders drastically more power than they should have had.

If the president was elected strictly based on votes cast, the North would have dominated every election.

Not only did the South have completely disenfranchised slaves who nevertheless added to their masters electoral votes, but they also had much more limited franchise even for white males.

The constitution was set up to let the South prevent the vast majority of their people from voting without giving up much political power as a result.
It seems to be a coin flip. Whichever comment gets upvoted early on continues to be upvoted and becomes the consensus.
I know the women in my life feel structurally much safer. They don't have some weird attachment to the companies, but recognize that the overall system involved makes the possibility for shenanigans much less likely. There's an emergency contact button right in the app, linked to the GPS tracker.

It doesn't take a genius to see how that is safer than jumping into a random car with no record of having done so.

They're not saying "surely the ride share companies do it better"; the reasons why they think it's better are apparent to them with little trust needed.
tbh i feel like many posts on HN shouldn't make it to the front-page. HN is filled with smart people with tech skills and I have a feeling many of them are gaming the algorithm for self-promotion. Even just getting your friends to upvote something is kind of disingenuous since it bias what should be more objective and we know that people do tend to follow others (social proof.) I don't have a solution. This is symptomatic of quite deep and complex issues. maybe someone will solve this one day.
Being on the board of directors isn't really a job. You have power, but it's extremely part-time. People serve on many boards, usually while also having real full-time jobs. While they typically get compensated, it's usually in the area of 80k a year or so. Often, they also happen to be large shareholders, but that's because they purchased it, not had it gifted because they were on the board.

If you're saying $20-30 million is not hyperbole-inducing, I suspect you're thinking more of CEO pay, but CEO is an actual full-time job.
Google restricting internet access to some employees for security
So much this. Emphasis on that first clause, but 100%.
Aren't quantum effects supposed to disappear in the macroscopic world? How is this explained?
I wonder if this is more directly caused by the mod strike. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-s...
In other models I definitely get wider responses with higher temperature, hallucinations too, but not a breakdown in structure with endless sentences, few line breaks, poor spellings and grammar, etc. Though I've not tested for such things systematically-- this is the first time I've notices this sort of behavior in a model.
In Fall; or, Dodge in Hell we're invited to consider whether reincarnation can be nudged, and for one character it involves building a VR rig for flying like a bird. Strangely those VR gaming places don't offer any non-bipedal experiences.
Further, if the stock is stagnant or declining, this would be taking money from investors via stock dilution. If Jim puts $10 into the company for 10 of 100 total shares, and you increase the shares to 200 by handing out money to executives - Jim now owns $5 (10 of 200 shares) with his other $5 being used to "print" the shares.

This is not currently the case with Tesla, but the stock has a reputation for being volatile.
You should read the article, they aren't asking for more regulation, just more skepticism out of publishers and that scientists keep their raw data available for inspection by peers.
TIL, moodle has not API, cross that off my list of software I’d ever recommend, thanks.
Lots of political opinion posts. There seems to be an influx of non technical people posting culture war nonsense.
I listed a house recently and have been checking all my guests reviews before accepting a stay. I always look at what the hosts that reviewed them have listed. It is almost never a single or even 2 or 3 properties. Almost everyone had at least 10+ properties listed. Most have more 20+ or even over 100. I feel like that really changes the dynamic and foundation of Airbnb. Since I started hosting I've now heavily prioritized being a guest of hosts with a single property or small number of properties. It's a much much better experience by far.
I unironically use this application in my day job, especially for exec-ing into containers (the ‘E’ shortcut is great).
if you're going to cheat a man do it honestly
I'm willing to believe that. I consume my video entertainment on an ipad.
Communities aren't monoliths.

The groups of people who criticize real tangible languages and people who have the skills to critique the design of abstract language design don't necessarily overlap.
How Microwaves Cook from the Inside Out
This simple program demonstrates that 8 audio speakers can deliver completely different customized signals to 8 specific locations.

This has applications for surround sound and directed energy.
Java's designers have consistently mentioned the approach they're taking that Java has the last mover advantage. They cautiously see what features other languages applied, and take what gives them the highest value compared to the complexity introduced.

Java's virtual threads are already superior to golang's approach because they're working on structured concurrency from the start.

Value types are a huge proposition, but they seem to be coming along nicely. They have already baked in nullables/zero values into the design, something that is a pain in golang, and a big gotcha and source of bugs.

The interesting thing is that Java already beats golang because of its superior GCs, particularly in large programs, so it will be interesting to see what sort of performance improvements come out of value types.
They could, and they wouldn't get the keys needed to do this attestation. So no DRM content for you.
You linked to the comment section, which is kind of confusing.
This is under the assumption that brains start at random (the Tabula Rasa theory of the brain) but that doesn’t seem plausible to me. Brains have the benefit of some amount of pre training at the time of birth. That’s why spiders don’t need to be taught how to spin complex webs and why humans don’t need to learn how to manipulate abstract mental symbols (i.e. language).
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36763718
People keep saying that. However, in my personal experience, GPT-4 is great help at requirement gathering. I regularly give it sporadic meeting notes and text chats and get very well organized requirements back.
Are you just making this up as you type?

Here's the curriculum for CBSE.
https://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/CurriculumMain24/Sr...

Most state boards are similar to this.

Similarly most Chinese students end up learning calculus in school.
Well Lake Tahoe supplies the drinking water to much of Northern Nevada and Northern California. If the lead is improperly shielded or shielding has eroded then it's a pretty straightforward journey from there.
Fractionated coconut oil or gtfo.
If you want to see an exercise of writing Java in Python look no further than the logging module source.
My previous job used GitLab. I agree that it's less polished and more clunky, at least for the overlap of features it shares with GitHub. (Mostly code hosting and collaboration m.)

I think where it shines is as a DevOps platform. I'm not sure I would say any of the features are best in class but there is value in centralizing them in one place. It takes a lot of investment to get that value though.