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I travel 3 times a month for the last year and use Booking. I've never had a cancellation. I take advantage of their platform moreso than they me. I book refundable no-pre pay hote…

>I would guess that for every 1 software engineer there are 100 people doing this kind of 'manual data pipelining'. For what time of company is this true? I really would like someo…

You can't deduct losses against regular income. The idea is that if you win $100,000 one day and lose $100,000 the next day you should be taxed 0 since on net you won 0 total. Unde…

My jumbled brain definitely read this for a split second as Artificial Intelligence causing a 787 crash.

I have been consistently bad at predicting things related to AI, but I never get the insistence that a personal assistant would be that valuable? I honestly don't think it would sa…

It does seem far more straight forward to say "Write code that deterministically orders food items that people want and sends invoices etc." I feel like that's more the future. Hav…

I think this is the spooky part. I feel dumb saying it, but is there a point where they are able to coordinate and build a factory to build chips/more of themselves? Or other thing…

It does either get very exciting or very spooky thinking of the possibilities in the near future. I had always assumed that such a robot would be very specific (like a cleaning rob…

Agreed. By HN standards I am a very shitty programmer, and as of a year ago I would have said it takes up about 25% of my time. I pretty much just make demos to display some non-co…

I was wondering if more sites will start to drift to a system where they require you to be logged in to an account attached to a SIM card in some ways. I feel like accounts that re…

I agree with this - but sorta comforting? Like this would imply the AI may only do so if they chance of success was like 1% and the other 99% would give away the cards of it and ot…

I feel like its often people talking past each other. I currently live in NYC and am very congestion pricing. Cars are a major negative to most people in the city. But I have also …

I disagree that any car mechanic working a local auto body shop knows engines well enough to design one. They just know which parts are broken. Similarly we reach a point in coding…

OP mentions the lawsuits did not succeed Its not like the courts are investment banks with an evaluation arm. They are just judging if anything reaches the point where shareholders…

I wonder if people that were writing code in assembly complained that people learning more modern languages didn't really know how the 0s and 1s work. I'm not sure where the line i…

I am not the biggest Bond fan so feel free to ignore my opinion, but it seems possible that Amazon is less of a bean counter than a traditional studio? They will throw money at the…

I thought that at first, but if you look at the movies its hard to say any have much prestige? And you could probably make the case that getting more eyeballs on it will, if anythi…

I have a theory for the swiping behavior of women. When they swipe right, it will most likely be a match, and they mentally don't want more than X active conversations at a time. T…

If the IMF was loaning them 1.4B to do economic development then its reasonable that the country not keep a massive liability on its balance sheets. Imagine I wanted to loan your c…

I highly recommend people get a food scale/measuring cups and weighing everything single thing they eat (even small things like nuts and cooking oil) for at least two weeks. After …

I imagine this could have more to do with how isolated these environments are? There are more unique species on mountains or islands because it is hard for those species to leave a…

>This paper shows that the main grid in the world’s fifth-largest economy was able to provide more than 100% of the electricity that it used from only four clean renewable sources:…

Fwiw this is a graph of being diagnosed with cancer, not dying.

I haven't heard this before - the change isn't that large but but it really does drop after 80 My inclination is that this could still just be a selection effect. For people who ar…

Fast food causing people to eat badly reflects poorly on US society as a whole, but not sure if it reflects badly on the US healthcare system. Especially if the stats show that the…