skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there are hundreds of hotels with a hundred different websites or no website at all in any given city, and hotel rooms are largely fungible. I want to sleep somewhere and I have a budget. Searching hotel by hotel is infeasible even if you can find them, and you often can't.

A "middleman", or search engine, or discovery system, or price comparison site, is worth a lot to me and to most travellers.

Edit: it's worth a lot when you... don't speak the language in the country the hotel is in... when you want the consumer protections of the country you or the middleman is based in... these sorts of concerns are much more of an issue in some parts of the world, and this might be reflected in the fact that Booking.com grew up in Europe.
Which human population is the most genetically unique?
Thanks! Here's a great subthread from one of those: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16524533

(I just added it to https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights)
Convenience mostly, and I've sometimes gotten better prices that way.

They make it easy to see available options in a city and compare prices. And making the reservation through them is often easier than getting in contact with the hotel.

Assuming it works, that is.

Never again.
> Seeding the oceans with minerals could help slow climate change

So that's why they release contaminated water from Fukushima: to fight climate change. Thank you Japan. /s
As the parent helpfully detailed, you may work for a charity or occasionally help out at a school where they have AD/central management but not have a dedicated device. In addition, it is easy to be working with 2 or 3 non-profits at the same time and nobody wants 4 machines to juggle.
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I've used aqt[1] before but it doesn't look like it's seeing 5.15.11 yet, just 5.15.2.

[1]: https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
> The alternative is that either browsers will be the only users of QUIC - or that each application is required to bring its own QUIC implementation embedded into the binary.

This is already being done with event loops (libuv) and HTTP frameworks. I don't see why this would be a huge issue. It's also a boon for security and keeping software up-to-date because it's a lot easier to patch userspace apps than it is to roll out a new kernel patch across multiple kernels and force everyone to upgrade.
But it's still illegal for me to download a movie without a license, even if I just intend to make AMVs with/ "transform" it.

OpenAI's entire argument is that they think this shouldn't apply to them, because they don't want to have to make deals with the original content authors in order to get legal copies to use in their training, because that would be expensive.
Samsung is developing an IoT payment card
None of these concerns apply to Starlink. The satellites orbit low enough to quickly decay if they lose power. They deploy even lower than operational altitude so any associated junk comes down even faster, and the deployment method of just spinning and unlatching the stack, combined with SpaceX's philosophy of using repeatable systems (eg mechanical separators instead of explosive bolts) means that Starlink launches produce minimal debris and any debris produced is short lived.

The issue with the Dish satellite is that it's close to geostationary orbit, which is a limited resource and where the atmospheric drag is low enough that they are essentially up there forever.
So it’s good I’m not using it :)
Call the booking.com property and negotiate a better price directly with the host.
They offer virtually no protection anyway if a booking goes bad.

Guests and hosts both win if you cut the booking.com middleman.
Well, you'll end up even poorer and more miserable in the end if you have it your way. But at least you get your treats for a few more years.
ASCII protocol buffers as config files
Interesting, I would have thought in many cases it is maybe not trivial, but easily doable at worst. Do you have some personal experience with that?
It’s a de facto monopoly - break them up!

They don’t care about screwing up because they dominate the market so much. They’re enjoying the benefits of the existence of little alternative to them.
Um, a "world model" in the context of AI doesn't mean a map of the globe. It means a model of reality as humans perceive it, with all of the cultural, social, historical, etc. associations. And that is what AI plainly does not have, either by design or by happenstance. That's why you get hallucinations, and why you have to train a LLM to respond in certain ways to certain kinds of prompts. A LLM is like an idiot savant, very clever in certain ways, but it just doesn't "get it."
While Rust won't let you share a non-atomic variable across threads without going through a lock of some form or using `unsafe`.

So for both Rust and Go you'll get atomic accesses when you need them, and for C etc you only get atomic accesses if you ask for them. Which pretty much speaks to the different programming models: Rust and Go will only compile the subset of possibly-valid programs that can be expressed by the language and proven by the compiler. C compilers will only reject code they can prove is incorrect.
That is due to software, not the lid sensor.
How is that any worse than the links to X which could lead to an error message or a login prompt or a blank page or the right X or a different X or 1000 X’s from followers screaming “squee” or some thread involving that X is which is backwards, forwards or random order?
I was as confused as well. Clicked on the first one thinking I was going to a game, using this "new database."

But I like the idea!
The model didn't hear it on the radio or had to access a library, it was directly fed raw copyrighted media. There are no such nuances here.

The act of getting heaps of copyrighted media for commercial use without paying clearely breaks copyright
Same. plus Tesla.
RTT?
Isn't the point of QUIC to offer high performance and flexibility at the same time? For these requirements, a one-size-fits-all API is rarely the way to go, so individual user-space implementations make sense. Compare this to file IO: For, many programs, the open/read/write/close FD API is sufficient, but if you require more throughput or control, its better to use a lower-level kernel interface and implement the missing functionality in user-space, tailored to your particular needs.
Is there a way to get time to be 99% or 100% accurate? time.gov shows that my Win11 and Android Pixel are off by almost a second. It'd be cool if it could grab it from the atomic clock.
If you're traveling to an unfamiliar area, and especially if it's last-minute, and you aren't wedded to one particular hotel brand (or they have no availability), then finding a decent room is currently a big pain in the butt and there's no good centralized way to do it.

booking.com frequently appears at the top of searches for "hotels near..." and other third-party travel sites, like tripadvisor, link to it.

They've done a good job of getting their site in front of eyeballs. Like others, I've tried them, and like others, found them to be awful and now actively avoid them.
I am all in for training data being fair use as long as ML-infered data are not copyrighted.
I think most people consider it settled science/argument at this point. As a veteran of the 2005-2015 internet flamewars on climate science it definitely just bores the living shit out of me to even think about it again. And all the climate science sources from that period (Skeptical Science, Real Climate, Tamino's blog) also don't publish anywhere near the amount they used to.

If you disagree, then be the change you want to see in the world... Setup a website, pull the data, build your own model and publish it. Once you've got it going, I'd guess that Tamino would be more than willing to correct all your mistakes in your model.
There's a pretty big jump from "machine learning is not inherently different from human learning" to "machine learning models are people".
I'm not misinformed. There are other comments here that make that point, and I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779383 is a reasonable rejoinder.

I think it's fair to argue that exported files should not have redirect links enabled, but as a software engineer I can imagine the complexity involved, or that there are still reasonable malware concerns. Perhaps the decision to have the exports include the redirects should be re-evaluated, but I certainly wouldn't attribute it to malice.
Hey everyone, really excited to hear your thoughts on this release from me and Max. We're working hard to open-source more messaging channels soon!
I don’t see any screenshots on the website
My phone has the FM chip enabled, using a 3rd party app, works fine to listen to local radio. The problem is I like AM talk radio, so streaming sounds better than regular non HD radio.

I really wish there was an HD Radio chip for phones. almost all the stations in my area have HD radio stations on both AM and FM.

Also, I still use a headphone jack to output my phone to my car. I'm on the edge about upgrading my phone just because of this.
iPhone 15 Owners Say BMW’s Wireless Charger Is Frying Their Devices
The problem is not if software engineers are engineers or not, the problem is with defining software itself, as an EE myself, I do software, we learned how to write programs even in assembly back in the school too, however, you have now (at that’s even before the AI LLM hype) a horde of people who call themselves “engineers” after attending a 3 weeks bootcamp in some front-end framework or library or some data analysis course, they will know how to import a library and repeat some known processes, they lack what every engineer should know, architecture design, I personally believe that if someone can convert an abstract idea into an applicable design, is in fact an engineer, software or not.
Contemplating the risks and vulnerability this produces is itself part of the terror.

It's possible state-level actors could use public safety hoaxes to cripple an economy in the short-term with panics and interruption of events and in the long-term by preventing published in-person meetings of people for any purpose, including education.

Domestic criminal mischief, by teens or adults, scaled by technical means could also accomplish the same ends.

Perhaps police departments and education institutions will need to filter emergency comms to require origination from a STIR/SHAKEN-valid source.
> Have you been completely asleep at the wheel

Can you please edit out swipes like that? Your comment would be just fine without that bit.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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Startup founder to VC: We're going to build an AI that can do X!

1 billion dollars later: We discovered we can't do X because there's this thing called "undecidability."

Undecidability puts fundamental limits on what we can do with computers. You can't even do simple things like write a program which can { determine if two programs are equal, determine if two programs would have equal outputs given any input, if any program will return a "1", if any program would halt, ... }

This feels kinda important considering what people might try to build using AI.
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> QUIC is roughly TCP-equivalent not HTTP-equivalent, and we do have a BSD sockets API for TCP. You might be thinking of HTTP/3 rather than QUIC; HTTP/3 actually is HTTP-equivalent.

No, I understand QUIC is a transport and HTTP/3 is the next HTTP protocol that runs over QUIC. I was saying QUIC can be userspace just like HTTP is userspace over kernel TCP API. We haven't moved HTTP handling into the kernel so what makes QUIC special?

I think it is just too early to expect every operating system to have a standard API for this. We didn't have TCP api's built-in originally either.
> Hollywood relies on China to stay afloat. What does that mean for movies?

That they are all crap ?
Relying on a percentage of 1 bilion people to make revenue, is stoopid at best.
It has to be a lot more than 200k, but the principle still applies.

If you owe some government 500 billion, you are probably also a government.
> they'll continue using 'learn' as a stand-in for 'human learning' even when discussing ml adjacent topics, and that is damaging to effective discourse.

Whoever doesn't understand the term are non-experts. It's not an issue among people who studied and research the topic.
I don't know about that. Without middlebox problems we might have used SCTP as a basis and upgraded it. But it's so different from TCP that I doubt we would have done it as a modification of TCP.
An easier first step before nuclear is reducing our power requirements. This one gets laughed out of the room both because we don't think purple will accept it and because there's a direct correlation between GDP growth and energy consumption, we don't care enough about energy use to give up GDP.
In this case, the technology is so new and so transformative, this question can’t really be answered by the law.

Perhaps existing law can help inform, but the question of how we handle LLM technology should not be left to the courts…it must be answered by our culture.

First, fair use has basic assumptions which are being violated here. The LLM use case is so far outside of the original concept of fair use that it’s not useful to draw a connection. Creating something which approximates an intelligence requires new thinking based on what outcomes we as a culture want.

It’s like a restaurant selling an all-you-can-eat buffet for $24 only to be greeted by a child with an infinite appetite.

Our friends at OpenAI have introduced us to questions we didn’t know we needed to ask…questions poorly addressed by systems like fair use, patents, and even capitalism in general.

The primary questions I see are:

- how can we truly guarantee long-term, equal access to LLM’s for all Americans? Our copyright instincts suggest that the inventors of the technology should be allowed to determine its usage, but given the scope and scale of LLM’s, I’m not sure that’s true.

- how can we legislate safety, to guarantee sane controls are in place for researchers?

If we can guarantee safety and equity, I believe LLM’s have an incredibly bright future.
I was generic in how I described it because I didn't want to talk about the system (it doesn't matter).

The system was for a very specific use case and the set of rules were all specific to that domain. The domain was not related to workload management or jobs, but you could generalize what it did in those terms.

edit: removed some snark. I did want to rewrite this into an in-memory data structure (Elixir-based). It generally worked but the postgres solution was actually really really good for the domain it was built for.
It's a wonderful business model. They are effectively just a proxy for scheduling and payments, where they take no risk and trim a bit of revenue off as payments fly by. Their biggest hassle is probably the moderation of reviews.
I didn’t get my refund after a trip was COVID cancelled in 2020. The money had already been paid to the hotel, and the hotel owner (in Marrakech) only wanted to promise me I could come back in 2021. So they are not acting as an escrow as I thought.
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Sorry, do you have some proof that they pirated content that the scrupulous copyright holders themselves don't? That's not the issue at hand and, AFAICT, nobody is accusing them of doing it.

Nobody is ignoring it, that would be a crime if they did, but since there's no evidence of it... you're being upset at your own hypothetical.
Sounds like you just described a hybrid, only needs a larger tank.
A Dark Forest strike?
This is where the "verified somehow" kicks in, I don't have the answer for our intellectual minds :)
But it isn't secret communication, which is the necessary requirement for collusion. An agreement doesn't have to be written or even spoken, but the FTC does have to prove that a secret agreement exists, which is really hard to do without a written or spoken record.
As others have noted, depends on which stars you're using as reference points. We've done some interesting long-distance parallax stuff at the demo scale, new horizons took some pictures last year to that effect.

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasas-new-horizons-conduct...
The creator of Rerun (Emil Ernerfeldt) also created egui [1], an immediate GUI library for Rust. The library is similar to Dear ImGui but it is written in Rust and can be used for desktop and web apps (compiles to WASM and uses WebGL, demo [2]). Desktop apps can target OpenGL (does not display correct colors on macOS, does not work in VirtualBox on Windows) or WGPU (uses native APIs for each platform, works without any problems, but the binary is a big larger).

[1] https://github.com/emilk/egui
[2] https://www.egui.rs/
I think this is a quirk of Windows and Android machines, which do not aim for perfect precision.

macOS is generally accurate to less than a tenth of a second (assuming desktops - laptops maybe less so, as they sleep a lot), and Linux will be just as accurate as long as it is running ntpd and not systemd-timesyncd.
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Humans may read entire books, movies, art, music, and fit these complex ideas into a neural graph that does not resemble the original.

Then humans can output information related to that medium from their neural graph in an expressive form.

The word human can be replaced with the word GPT-4.

So time to ban humans learning?

I think not.
I want a middleman to hold my money, if the host fucks up, he will not get the money. That’s why you use escrows, but Booking.com doesn’t act like an escrow, so don’t use it.
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Difficult Conversations. So much stress and anxiety comes from anticipating, avoiding, or not knowing how to have difficult conversations.
> AFAIK this how you get Glock foot too - drawing a weapon with round chambered, rather than draw-load-fire.

Not quite - it's usually on the reholster, not the initial draw. Crucially, this means that the policy of carrying without a round in the chamber can still yield the same failure case, because if the weapon is fired, it'll be loaded when you go to reholster unless you intentionally clear the gun every time. Which, for a failure case caused by literally keeping your finger on the trigger while reholstering, is not gonna be avoidable if that's your bar. Someone who hasn't trained enough to meet the most basic of 8-year-old kid-level gun safety isn't going to be reliably clearing before reholstering either.
The economic impact discussion to my reading is actually intended to establish standing, by showing a concrete and particularized harm to the plaintiffs. Generally, a well-formed complaint is trying to establish that there exists a 'case or controversy' which the court is able to redress, not necessarily to answer all questions of law, and generally not to make prophylactic arguments about your opponents' hypothetical defenses. The USPTO document is being used as an example of OpenAI admitting copyright infringement, which they seem to have been happy to do -- one hopes that they fully anticipated this lawsuit.
My neighbors have something crazy emanating from their house. None of my Bluetooth devices, from Bose to Plantronic to new AirPods Pro, survive signal connectivity when I walk past their house. The connection gets very disrupted and the devices have trouble reconnecting.

So I have to leave everything off when I go for a run and not connect headphones until I make it to the end of the street. It’s weird.
Spacex lost a Falcon 9 due to pieces not following certificate performance.

https://parabolicarc.com/2015/07/20/spacex-statement-loss-fa...
"the BIPM collects time measurements from national timing laboratories around the world"

I'm really interested in how this is done with multiple clocks over a distance. Can anyone explain? It feels like it would be very difficult since asking "what time is it there?" at the timescale of atomic clocks is kind of a bit meaningless? And that's before considering the absolute local nature of time and the impossibility of a general universal time per relativity.
I've been wondering about this very same question a lot myself and accidentally stumbled across the answer just a few days ago:
Efficiency of turbines smaller than grid scale is simply not anywhere close to what piston engines can do at e.g. car size. Even at naval scale, turbines only win in use cases where power density is more important than fuel efficiency. Helicopters are deep in the (specific) camp of power density beats efficiency because carrying a heavier but more efficient engine would easily eat the fuel savings. Fixed wing aircraft gain range by climbing high, but up there both efficiency and power density of piston engines decreases dramatically with decreasing air density, so they are also in the camp of power density over efficiency (turbines are also affected, but not quite as much).

Note that despite all this, the Otto Aviation 500L that is all about fuel efficiency at high altitudes uses a piston engine (they probably put a lot of effort into their turbocharger, those can lessen the impact of thin air)
That has more to do with Musk 'doing a Yeezy' than anything the company did.

I agree with the sentiment that the reputation hit is imaginary, and really only serves to prevent stiffer fines.

Actually, they shouldn't be charged a fine, instead, they should have to go and get it back.
It’s a tired meme, but I thought the same until I came across a wireless card that was a slight variant of the norm. Four hours wasted one afternoon.
> There must be tons of ad free iOS apps

You say that but they’re actually really hard to find because discoverability in the App Store is terrible. There is no way of filtering for them either.

By the way, that’s a very cool app - thank you for sharing!
Given how much "X" has put into sandbagging and crippling the logged out user experience, it might make a lot more sense to keep using Twitter but only in logged out views because the signal "X" is sending is that is truly costing them a lot of money they are acting like they can't afford. (It truly is terrible now: no thread views, weird full screen ads, random reCAPTCHAs.)

(I feel like a hipster on this discussion, I stopped using Twitter way back in 2016 before it was cool when I saw it's retweet/quote-tweet tools used to launder targeted misinformation from its terrible personalized ad networks all being abused as a cynical political tool. It was terrible before Musk got involved. "X" is a lot worse, but the downhill started years before, according to this early Twitter adopter.)
You can still search and then book directly. Enough of that would perhaps make booking fix their issues.
It boils down to the reason the people who post such content refer to themselves as "creators" and "influencers." Most of the time the only thing they influence is how people spend their time at that moment. But there are enough people in the world that it is easy for them to repeat what's already been done a dozen times, and manage to have an audience who hasn't seen it the first 20 times around.

TikTok actually specializes in having a gazillion people all do the same thing, and feel like they are all influencers while they're at it.

The illusion of importance is a very strong draw.
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