skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Despite the great advantages of using Rails in a new project, there was an area where Ruby was not able to penetrate, and not even Rails was a good ambassador. I'm talking about the corporate world. There are of course some exceptions, and one can always point some successful corporate use cases where Ruby was adopted either for new projects or as a rewrite of existing ones in. But we're still to see a mass adoption of the technology by well established companies. There are several reasons for this, but this opinion was developed based only on gut feeling and I have no clear data to validate it. Thus, I'm not going to elaborate on the reasons why Ruby is not massively used on the corporate market.

I found this paragraph really hard to grep given how vague it is, but I'm assuming that he's euphemistically saying that his team/company was either not interested or not able to learn the language/framework. That would have been a more interesting article to me if he'd expanded on that.

If the team isn't interested in using some tech, then that's a sufficient reason itself to not use it. If they don't want to learn any language beyond what they're comfortable with, I'd be pretty concerned about that kind of culture, because it'll hurt them in the long-run.

If the issue is actually that they can't deliver rails projects to clients because corporate people can't write ruby, then that's more important than any other reason given in the article.
And how do you propose that would be done? You've totally jumped the shark here. Comparing this, an easily reversible incident, to HFT is simply nonsense. Thousands (probably a lot more?) of transactions would have occurred within the context of the bug, and decisions were made based on bad data once the bug was in the wild. There's no way you could undo that.
Well, I think the alternative is the fan-to-fan resale service Ticketmaster is already preparing to launch (in the UK at least)

https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/ticketmaster-resale
I think this is what pisses me off the most. The frontend is a complete clusterfuck, but the serverside is almost as bad. Everything is just half-assed and you end up spending most of your time fighting the tech. The worst thing is people who have drunk the Kool-Aid and just stare you, uncomprehending, when you complain that lunatics are running the asylum and the only way to win is to not play. Or at best agree but have ended up silently accepting the situation as a coping mechanism of some sort, like people in abusive relationships. "It's not that bad, there are good moments too, and besides, I'd have nowhere to go anyway."

I think I'm done with the tech industry. 98% of the sort of programming people actually pay you for is about as pleasant as a root canal. I'm currently on a sick leave and seriously entertaining the idea of changing careers to something entirely different. Like gardening.
My comment applies to situations where the ticket price is massively different than the market clearing price. If a ticket is priced close to the market clearing price then it isn't really a price control situation. I'm guessing that this is probably closer to the situation for the symphony.
The latter. Because of the table partitioning there is not much dependency between old and new data so we've seen consistent performance as you add more and more data.
Not at all. Analysis of limited data gives you wide credible intervals, the exact thing that guards against unwarranted confidence.
As an aside, and an almost cliche hn commentary, the 'everything you know ' trope is just so tiring to see.

"Everything you know about flux capacitors is wrong" -- probably, I'm not an expert.

"Everything you know about caulking in high humid environments is wrong" -- probably, I'm not an expert
The naïve Rust part is explained in a video [1] that Bryan released a couple of weeks ago; instead of using bespoke data structures for his problem, he shoved everything into HashMaps and BTreeSets and used numerical indices rather than pointers to "emulate" a doubly-linked list. It turned out that was good enough to beat C.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbGPMxs0AM
On a blog post that no news publication has ever covered, and NOT on the Microsoft docs.

Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff on the Internet that's in the public, but actually isn't.
These is seemingly getting less common. Not at all uncommon to see $1000+ VIP packages for major tours these days
At an individual level this may be true, but it is becoming necessary to ask if this is a standalone phenomena or symptomatic of a system with one class extracting resources from another. Is the problem just a pattern of fallacy in the perception of privileged people, or is this pattern borne of the group interest to extract and control the underprivileged en masse, not explicitly or consciously thought about by almost anyone but economically incentivized?

To give another ex. it used to be common for people to be really uncomfortable with the idea of women having full-time jobs. Did this interpersonal discomfort create the system of gender roles where men extract domestic labor from women in marriage, or was the discomfort a function of this system?
Or, more likely in the case of many smaller privately-held venues, get a loan from a bank secured by the future ticket sales.
Without IP there's no incentive to invest in certain things.

Particularly drugs.

The more R&D involved the riskier it is to make something.

It cost $1 Billion to make a new drug, there's no way anyone invests that kind of money without IP protections.

On the creative side, we allow companies to protect their creations like characters, films etc..
TimescaleDB clustering is currently limited to a single primary with multiple read-only replicas (which provide both HA failover and scaling concurrent reads).

So the limitation here is the storage capacity available for the nodes, and so the above reflects the amount of data we've seen in use in various RAIDed or network-attached storage environments (like the cloud).

One interesting thing here is that you can "elastically" add a new disk to a existing hypertable, and new writes will be automatically load balanced across the new disk. (In Postgres speak, we support multiple tablespaces in a single hypertable, and we allow you to dynamically add a new tablespace to an existing one: https://docs.timescale.com/api#attach_tablespace )
You're supposed to say "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful" and then you sound kind and wise like Warren Buffet.
Stuxnet.
You can buy a ticket knowing that if something comes up you will get your money back. You can decide to go to an event last minute and tickets will be available.
We are in one of the greatest bull markets in history. There are dollars, euros, yens, yuans, pounds, etc overflowing everywhere thanks to lax monetary policy all over the world.

Considering equifax is one of 3 monopolistic credit reporting agencies, you can be sure they won't go out of business. So you buy the dips.

Same thing with tesla. Same thing any established legit stock of a legit company. In a major bull market you buy the dips as long as the music is playing. But once the music stops, you don't want to be dancing.

Same thing with major bear markets. Short the bumps.
Music Modernization Act Passes in Senate with Unanimous Support
Comment above:

> Women also do remarkably well in ultrarunning.

Yes, a world record is always remarkable in the general sense.

But in this specific context (discussing the coach's claim that women are "more capable of long-distance peak performance"), I wanted to point out that women's ultrarunning world records are not particularly better or worse than women's world records at other distances, even sprints.
This Chinese belt&road thing is a bit weird, as a project: it's unpopular at home, it's controversial in the target countries, it's had no real benefit so far, and also it's tremendously expensive while the Chinese economy is slowing down. It's like the Chinese gov thinks building new roads will expand the economy, but these things take time to get a ROI -- if they succeed at all.

It really feels like a soviet 5 year plan. Bureaucratic delusion.
It's no worse than a single world interpretation: These things happen all the time, the branch of math that deals with them is called Large Deviation Theory (and it's closely related to information theory).

One of the corollaries/interpretations of Sanov's theorem is that, generally speaking, when faced with an astonishingly improbable outcome (e.g. flipping 9,000 heads and 1.000 tails out of 10,000 independent coin flips), no statistical test can differentiate between "that improbable occurence with a fair coin" and "an unfair coin" - the fair coin, when it does something improbable, with have (with overwhelming probability) a specific tilted distribution that looks unfair.
I've seen a couple comments about Arthur Andersen, Enron, and Accenture in this thread and I just want to detail everything that went down in that situation.

Full Disclosure: I recently left a position with one of Accenture's subsidiary. I also hate that company.

The Supreme Court actually vacated Arthur Andersen's conviction for their actions in Enron. The SC basically said the jury instructions were too vague, and the jury could have believed that Arthur Andersen thought they did everything right and legally but still voted to convict. Arthur Andersen was never retried since there wasn't much left at that point anyway.

Arthur Andersen Accounting (or whatever they formally called themselves) and Arthur Andersen Consulting had already broken up into two different companies. They set up some weird agreement where the more profitable of the two would pay a cut of the profit difference to the other company. Consulting is always more profitable than accounting (which is why all the Big 4 have gotten back into even in the age of Sarbane-Oxley, where they can't audit a company they consult for), so Arthur Andersen consulting had to send a big-ass check to the accountants every quarter and they wanted to get out of that. The blow up of Arthur Andersen accounting presented the perfect opportunity. Arthur Andersen Consulting changed their name to Accenture to distance themselves from the Enron scandal, but it was mostly PR because they didn't have anything to do with Enron anyway.

McKinsey, however, had consultants all through Enron. I believe Skilling worked for McKinsey right out of college and threw them a ton of work. There's no way people at McKinsey didn't know what Enron was up to, but they somehow got off scot-free
GA was also self-hosted (!), back when it was Urchin.
I'm not challenging your first or second sentence. I'm challenging your third sentence. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was challenging your whole comment, when mine referred exclusively to the price of USPS services.
I'm a big fan of Linux, but the idea that it's free is only the case, as they say, if your time is worthless.

I use Debian, which is generally considered to be pretty stable and sane, and yet I've still spent tens and tens of hours dealing with issues that simply aren't a problem on Windows or Mac. Currently I'm fighting what I think is a DPMS issue where my external monitor wont wake up from the laptop dock after the monitors all sleep.

Ultimately, I think it's a price worth paying for the experience and flexibility I want, but it's very head-in-the-sand to pretend that it's not just as expensive as Windows, just you don't pay in cash.
Hey at least I could use the IOMega voucher, I used to go to a lot of shows so I have like 50 worthless Ticketmaster vouchers from the lawsuit. Sometimes I get like $2 off a ticket, but the vast majority of them will go unused.
Data collection for legitimate purposes came up in our GDPR compliance review.

This product (https://truestats.com) collects the I.P. address and user agent for the purpose of detecting fraud (not selling data or profiling users). It is used for frequency checking and other patterns that would indicate fraud. We are still going through the legal analysis of how to deal with this, even though we have no idea who the visitors are.

I think considering the I.P. address as PII is a little much if you are not using it in a way that would violate privacy or selling the data.
The example in Trusting Trust was a very specific case: he modified the C compiler to replace a known bit of code in the login program. Along those same lines, you could possibly set up your minifab such that it inserts a backdoor into a particular RISC-V implementation. However, if I sat down and made my own chip, how would the fab figure out how to insert a backdoor? If you have code which can analyze a processor layout and seamlessly insert a backdoor, please come forward and collect your Turing Award.
Just a quick reminder, that Fathom started its Pro offering only a few days ago: https://usefathom.com/

It's also Open Source so you can see for yourself what is going on, or even self-host.
(Random numbers to illustrate a point:)

If the symphony was an auction system, tickets might sell for $110 each. It fills up with a $100 each first-come system, most people who want tickets can get them, tickets are sold at only a $10 discount of auction value, and it "feels fair." The first-come-first-serve system works well for the symphony.

If the pop-star concert was an auction system, tickets might sell for $999 each. With first-come-first-serve and a set $100 price, each ticket is sold at a $899 discount of auction value. Moreover, most people who want tickets cannot get them directly as they sell out instantly because of the relatively steep discount (90% discount vs 9% discount).

The first-come-first-serve system only works well when prices are set near a market-clearing value, like with the symphony. As stated elsewhere in the thread, people would get super upset at $999 tickets. They would think "those greedy pop-stars price tickets way too high, it's so unfair." So pop-stars are unwilling to set prices at the high market-clearing value, and use the first-come-first-serve with way underpriced tickets (getting some money back by having agreements with scalpers or Ticketmaster).

Demand way exceeds supply, tickets sell out instantly (mostly to scalpers). Most fans never get to see the concert at the "fair-seeming" $100 price and are upset at "those nasty scalpers" and pay near $1000 to see the concert anyways. But the scalpers (or Ticketmaster) are the ones whose reputations are harmed, saving the artists' reputations.
The news about Tilray today made me think about XRP or Ripple last year when it spiked to $4
Of course I don't, we all conform, why is another question.
There's a difference between seeking out human interaction and then being deceived by a company's bots, and intentionally seeking out bots.
That's part of the issue but the bigger than venues, was the merger between LiveNation and Ticketmaster, that congress decided to approve.

LiveNation is the promoter of every major artist and tour. When that merger happened Ticketmaster gained the ability to basically block any Arena Size artist of going on tour if they weren't using Ticketmaster.
Ok, so maybe people in high cost of living areas aren't discouraged when the salary scales with their cost of living. But doesn't that effectively bias gitlab against those candidates because they have to pay them more? At some point there are unavoidable incentives that crop up as a result of the asymmetry.
> Can't wait for Amazon tickets to disrupt this space and drive 'em out.

I think you'll be waiting a while. TicketMaster shotdown Amazon Tickets in both the UK and US because they didn't want to do business with them.
So I generally sort of agree with this as a rule of thumb, but you should keep in mind that you're essentially refuting the premise of "Three Felonies A Day", a very popular book on HN. (I don't think it's an especially cogent book, but still, worth thinking about!)
Suppose you live in a house, inside which you enjoy your private space. Maybe you own it or have a mortgage or something. If I defraud you in a spectacular fashion, such as forging loan applications from you and then not paying back the money to the lenders, there's a fair chance you'll end up being pursued by the lenders and going bankrupt and losing your assets including the house effectively losing your private space

In this scenario should i be jailed?
This is not unique to China. New Zealand has the TICSA requirement that network operators must provide intercept capabilities to security agencies, and all network operator designs must be approved by security agencies before deployment.

I would imagine other five eyes countries have or soon will have similar requirements.
Better than Google "having great security" would be if Google was not collecting that much information in the first place.
I mean, you can make a case for that. But you can also make a case that not much else seems to really deter these high net worth people from doing illegal things. What would you propose as an appropriate punishment for willfully breaking tax law?
> added: wouldn't the best test of an AI be to give the AI freedom and see if it recognizes itself as AI?

Not really, as "recognizes itself as AI" presupposes a difference between AI and human. Gimmicks aside (i.e. let's see what's inside me), any AI which recognizes itself as AI would essentially fail the Turing test.

To me, those bits just came off as Lost/Shyamalan-esque hand waiving without saying something definite. Anyone can write a profound question they don't intend to answer.

The spinning top in Inception, or the dream in Blade Runner, are far more intentional.
This article does use a standard unit of size, the American football field, but introduced me to a new unit for weight, the Toyota Camry.

In all seriousness, I don't mind weird units when they are a small multiple of what is being discussed. Like 2 Olympic swimming pools of beer or the weight of a fully loaded 747. But the point is that people don't readily understand large numbers. Saying the sand "weighs as much as 70 million Toyota Camrys" is no better for people than saying it weighs 250 billion pounds. How about 20 Great Pyramids? Someone who has seen the Pyramids will have some idea of the magnitude then.
To make this worse, in all likelihood the scalper was fake and it was not sold out. Ticketmaster will routinely pretend a venue is sold out when it's not and they're not shy of impersonating a third party either.
>Rust does not have this feature - unions must always have tags

Rust has had untagged unions since last year (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/07/20/Rust-1.19.html)
:) maybe in spirit? I don't know but that may be a real question in the sense of this. Funny.
Solving Low-Dim Optimization Problems via Zonotope Vertex Enumeration [video]
Because it provides an accurate value indication. Whether brokers or fans are reselling, it's going to happen. I don't imagine.moat fans are going to be keen on making sure their inventory is priced multiple times a day, much less multiple times an hour.

This also helps fans that decide they don't want to (or can't for some reason) go. They get a good indication of what their tickets are worth.

That said, i was also using liquidity as a stand in for increased availability. The fact that the market is liquid allows people a fair level of confidence that in the worst case they can recoup the cost of their tickets (give or take some percent) if they don't go.

Really, how is this any different than investing in an IPO? Those are mispriced all the time too.
It depends. You obviously need a millions of subscribers to promote the 'appetite suppressant' lollipops - and you need a TV to promote the new life insurance brand. But to triple the sales of HackRF, a couple of thousands niche auditory is enough.
The problem isn't that we don't know how to write bug free software, it's that we choose not to because it's far more expensive. It's about business priorities, not lack of technical knowledge.
Maybe, maybe not. And if that were the story we'd be having a different discussion. My points still stand though.

I don't think a company should have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars because a software bug resulted in a couple of extra zeros somewhere. Do you?

Quick edit: A thought experiment. What if the bug created odds orders of magnitude higher than this? Should FanDuel be forced into bankruptcy from the debt to the customer?
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But in single interpretation only one outcome happens on a trial. The full distribution does not manifest on a single draw. In MWI all the possibilities occur, which is different
This is pretty standard. I've had a really angry email from a bookmaker after betting on a line that was like 10% off. From the bookmakers POV if they had to honour these bets either a) spreads would be much or higher or b) spreads would be so high there would be no market for bookmakers. I would hope the bookmakers do the honourable thing and void all bets on the misplaced line, not just the losing side. It's pretty scummy to freeroll your customers.
Correct. Cheating on multi-million dollar term life policies is a bad idea. The company has high incentive to find a way not to pay. A 25k policy from your employer, not so much.
It's worth nothing that such a display of negligence didn't stop the IRS from awarding Equifax a 7 million dollar contract:

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/equifax-irs-fraud-...

And Equifax is the is same incompetent company providing identification services for healthcare:

http://www.specialtycreditreports.com/equifax-contract-healt...

Nor did it prevent 18F from awarding a similar multi-million dollar contract to Equifax for login.gov:

https://federalnewsradio.com/reporters-notebook-jason-miller...

There is no incentive for Equifax to take security seriously.
It's very likely that she comes from corporate and thinks she has to know everything. I worked for a guy like that. He wanted everything on his plate and simple things like a confluence update could take 1.5 years because of it.
Every system we've come up with has winners and losers. Sad but true.

But basically I don't believe we're on a healthy path at the moment. While I don't think this system would work for us either, from a purely nerd standpoint it's interesting to see some experimentation. Whether it works or not, we can learn something from it either way.
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The potential risk to potential reward here seems pretty low. Both a good chance of it killing lots of people you didn't need/want to, and a good chance of it not doing any damage whatsoever to your enemy. War is full of bad things and hard choices, but this sounds like the worst of both worlds. Perhaps why it never got deployed.
that's what makes this so shitty - promoters are setting the prices initially and ticketmaster is trying to remove their choice by removing all the stock and reselling it at the maximum possible price
If you build a good rapport with everyone, this is unnecessary and you can simply provide constructive feedback without sugarcoating it. The best engineers will see right through this.
of course the problem is the largest venue owner in the US is live nation who owns ticketmaster.
> I am confused that how your comment fared in upvotes somehow has something to do with the quality of discourse on HN. There was no discourse. The fact that you got upvotes but no responses means that despite the fact people engaged with your comment, they didn't discuss anything. There was no discourse. (until my own attempt at a meta-response)

Nothing to do with the upvotes, but you feeling the need to chime in and police.