skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bands != Ticket Master. Right now the easiest way to release tickets is through a central authority that takes fees to manage them, and then control the resale market. You can take the tickets elsewhere like Stubhub but that introduces 25% in fees to have insurance that if your tickets aren't valid and don't get you into the venue, you can have a refund. It's still impossible to check the tickets you purchase on these sites are authentic too - ticket fraud is a wide-spread multi-million dollar issue in the resale market (as you will see in the news from time to time).

If you move this to NFTs you have a few advantages. The workflow would look like this: Band creates NFTs (maybe via a website?) and they now exist in the bands wallet. Band puts them up for sale with a smart contract. Fans buy the tickets. Fans can attend the gig by showing the ticket is in their wallet to enter. Fans can resell the tickets if they're allowed to via another smart contract with the a small royalty going back to the band. Don't want the ticket to be resellable? Add a boolean flag to the NFT in its metadata. Want to check the ticket is authentic? Check it's tx history back to the bands minting (or check the NFT address exists in the list of valid tickets on the bands sale site or something). There are some UX issues here but they should all be solvable. Use a chain like Avalanche and the tx fees are $0.02 at the moment.

Essentially the whole man-in-the-middle central company that manages the creation, sales, resales, etc, becomes an open-source peer-to-peer infrastructure. This same thing could be true for game licenses or really any truly digital item. These assets become programmable and new business models are becoming viable while old business models are in theory obsolete - obviously this has some huge caveats: the UX on web3 sucks, we need to migrate from proof-of-work so it's not environmentally awful, and we need to disassociate ourselves with the scammy $1m NFTs. Also some edge cases need to be solved like how customer service will work if something goes wrong.

I mean the most fundamental thing about the blockchain and NFTs still blows my mind from time to time - these transactions are atomic and stop double-spend attacks. I can set up a transaction with you where you pay USDC and I send an NFT for a bands ticket, and we know for certain that at the end of the tx you're going to have that ticket and I'm going to have that money. No "you send it first, I don't trust you" or escrow service needed. The fact we can stick a Turing-complete program in the middle of that and add things like verification the ticket is from the set of authentic tickets, or that it's only valid if the USD is worth 1.25-1.30 Euros to avoid slippage, is just awesome (to me).
Haha ya I haven't taken a T break in years, but you are right that when I did and I finally smoked again, it was like remembering why I smoke in the first place. I am at a point in my life where I have kinda stopped trying to have self control in this regard and just made it part of my life. I'm 36 now and had never smoked weed until a trip to Amsterdam when I was 25. I get something from smoking, but it's muted for sure now-a-days with my tolerance, and I need to smoke the strong stuff.
It was one of the worst things they did for a sizeable subset of users and devs; for "the business" though it may well have made sense in financial terms at the time. With the public API before it was heavily locked down I mainly used it in third party Twitter clients to avoid seeing the (revenue generating) ads in the official Twitter apps - I know many others who did the same. An open, freely usable Twitter API can actively hurt revenues at a time when Twitter desperately needed to demonstrate ability to generate profits.

As long as Twitter remains a publicly traded company, I imagine this unhappy continuum between "Twitter as universal protocol for short messaging" and "Twitter as large publicly traded software company" will always put competing pressures on how open a standard Twitter can ever really become.
Programming languages like C and C++ have been used to write user space apps for decades. A language which can only be used for kernel space code is a niche within a niche within a niche.
If Rust were only capable of that it would barely register on anyone's radar and be dead on arrival. In fact it's only recently that serious work was started on using Rust in a mainstream kernel (Linux); every project that Rust is known for is running in user space.

People are confused about what system programming means and a lot of that confusion comes from parts of the Rust community which want to carve out a niche for Rust and keep claiming that Rust is particularly suited to system programming, as opposed to Go or D or other languages which are in reality also capable of tackling many system programming jobs, but have a garbage collector.
I honestly don't think the growth is in the wealthy. I know wealthy people and they really haven't changed their habits much.

The people i know who use this sort of thing - booking flights on private jets - are all in their mid-30s and not even remotely wealthy, they don't own their homes, etc. They are just well paid engineers or engineer couples. I can't get my head around it.

I think the best analogy is the growth in status { vehicles, watches, ... }, which also has not been driven by the wealthy, but rather status differentiation between the relatively-affluent-but-still-w2 and the next tier down.
Why the attitude?

I didn't mean to come across with attitude.

Only that your question about intrinsic value seemed rather .. weird.

My point with that parentheses was that there are a lot of things that has no intrinsic value but still has value on the market.

Can you provide some examples, please?

I can think of plenty of market assets which have what we might say is slightly abstract kind of value -- "brands", naming rights to stadiums, etc -- but still, it's pretty straightforward to see the intrinsic utility they provide, and that this easily translates to dollars.

With NFTs though -- there just isn't it any. Other than to sell to the next sucker in line.

EDIT: Wait, I can think of one asset class that compares to NFTs: signed sports memorabilia. Which of course have crap resale value (except for items signed by ancient players like Joe Dimaggio). But the modern versions team franchises regularly crank out -- not so much.
A per-cursor form of talent is burning passion, focus and interest, which leads to better & more practice. The person who is willing to push hard into their field is probably %80 of what people call talent. And then when they encounter the obsessed after the fact, they call it talent because they're effectively the same outliers.

Beyond that, what you describe as talent should be called built in ability, much like IQ or similar, because current usage of talent is too muddled with the well practiced.
I pretty much always wear business casual (which I find quite comfortable) on a plane. I don't know. I certainly wouldn't call someone out for wearing sweats or whatever (though I wish people wouldn't wear sandals). But business casual feels appropriate to me for the most part. Who knows? Maybe it gets me better treatment.
A lot of sensational press relies on people making assumptions like that. Maybe they aren't tricking us in this case, but newspapers definitely do do that sort of thing all the time.
>I'm guessing critical mass sometime in the next 18-36 months.

And I say in 2025 I'll be having the same discussion I had in 2017 and I'm having right now as somebody will reply to a comment I make on HN telling me that whatever cryptofad of the day is 18-36months away from mainstream adoption.
No need to rehash the mask debate. I’m sure you’ve met people the past 2 years who have already explained to you their side of things
Really with small planes it's going to be the number falling out of the sky. Juan Brown on the Blancoliro channel on YT goes over this pretty commonly when talking about small aircraft regulations.
Cool kids are talking about qutrits
That article states that they only have access when you have iCloud enabled.
Not super surprising. I get constant flak from management just for pointing out bugs in other team's components and offering fixes, due to the negative optics, and it sounds like the author was not only organizing employees to jointly negotiate wages internally, but also talking to the press.

Tech company employees outside the marketing department are generally preferred to not say anything publicly at all. I've helped author a couple official engineering blog posts, but those always go through lawyers and marketing before release. Lots of companies like Google also hire very expensive consultancies to prevent unionizing as well. So she set herself up to battle a company that just needed a legal excuse to get rid of her at that point.

> At the end of my tenure, I was isolated, had my Slack messages surveilled and used against me, learned that Apple had access to my personal iMessages, and received several reports of requests to disparage me and my statements

Hopefully she learned a bit. She complained a lot about her Slack conversations being surveilled, but you should always assume your employer is screen capturing your computer, recording your microphone, keeping your web cam on without your knowledge, and possibly sending your emails and other communications to your manager for reference or even approval before passing them on to the intended recipients. I've seen all these things and been asked to help set some of them up. You've usually given up any right to them not happening on a work computer at some point during new employee onboarding if not sooner.
The entities giving cash back (banks issuing credit cards) profit more from the interest from people who do not pay their monthly balance more than the loss of giving everyone 2% cash back.

Merchants (generally large merchants) do not offer a discount for paying with debit cards because people spend more money when using credit cards.

There are some notable exceptions that offer cheaper prices for using debit card, such as Target that offers a 5% discount for using a debit card to pay. Hence I pay at Target with a debit card.

Basically, other people’s cash flow problems and/or inability to resist temptations to spend more than what they have results in profit for merchants, banks, and people that pay their credit card balance every month.
I would say learn Scratch programming first.

Hear me out. It runs in the browser so there is no setup.

You can see all of the blocks so there is less cognitive overhead trying to remember syntax.

There is a huge community, they had 30 million active users last year.

There are tons of books, courses, videos, and a forum to ask questions.
Sound statistics = defending slavery?
There is. No private money. They are contracting services.
So why is it a form of theft to make noise while you are trying to enjoy a forest, but not theft for pilots to be prevented from enjoying the sky?
Look into gitjournal if you're storing and editing markdown from git repos: https://gitjournal.io/ It's very nice in my experience.
Percocet isn't illegal. Her abusing Percocet without a prescription is.
If you want total accuracy, then the only solution is to analyze your HTTP logs like this. You won't get much in the way of knowing your clients, except what comes through in the HTTP requests, e.g. URI, IP address, browser and platform, but you'll also know you're not missing any requests.
There's a minimum to be sure - but you can join a competition-focused gym and start going as a spectator to meets even if you're not at a level to qualify yet!
Those folks are more than happy to help you develop along that road :)

But if you're competing as a male and can do a 1 rep max of either >300lb squat, >250lb bench, or >450lb deadlift, you'll likely be able to find an amateur competition to participate in!

As a final note, if you've never worked towards a 1 rep max, you likely have no idea what your upper limit is. I certainly didn't – my deadlift max wound up being nearly twice the weight I was expecting when I started.
New Holographic Display Hacks the Light Field
Okay, I'll admit I just want it to be more like Plan 9. sysctl, ioctl, fcntl, sockets, could all have a file based interface. Maybe it isn't any better.
Agreed, with the caveat that how you make drugs available can have consequences of at least as much gravity.
If you're going to do drugs always test them. A test kit is cheap, have heard of too many people dying from Fentanyl when they thought they were taking something else.

https://dancesafe.org/shop/
I love the church’s http://familysearch.org non profit genealogy site btw. It’s totally unexpected how good it is from a UX perspective for a property built by a religious organization, and it goes toe to toe against for profit sites like Family Tree and Ancestory. Thank you Mormons!

https://www.familysearch.org/en/about/
I rather think it's more like getting a free sample of pie from the deli and only eating the whipped cream.
I'm working on local-first OSS for this sort of second brain thing called OpenMemex. The data store is sqlite (wasm/rust frontend) with programmable integrations in mind:

https://github.com/austinvhuang/openmemex
brought to you by LightFieldLab:

https://www.lightfieldlab.com/

uses phase interference to generate imagery
Wow nice job. I want to find a drop-in solution like this for projects where I use llgal/lazygal/etc.
Decompression is fast if you do it right (using anything from the Oodle pack is a good first step towards doing it right).

Hopefully a game doesn't need to parse a whole lot of things, however stuff needs to appear in memory, it can be stored that way on disk, possibly compressed with aforementioned fast compression libraries.

There is nothing special about loading data onto the graphics card, if you know what you are doing it is just copying data, and no point on the path is slower than disk.

I know there are games that somehow rely on thousands of shaders. Like most games you can just not do that, or you can store the compiled shaders so that the compilation only needs to be done on first run.
I get the feeling that for non-interactive workloads you want to go as big as you can get. There are many problems you can just crunch through using a computer engineer’s cleverness instead of overdoing it with your own. These are usually throughput problems and the solution domain is distinct.

When humans are involved you don’t want a single failure to be felt by everyone at once. And they get grumpy when we don’t pretend their button click is the most important thing we will handle today.
https://matomo.org

That's the only full featured open source competitor I am aware of, so it should be mentioned.

https://snowplowanalytics.com/

Somewhat FOSS. There was a story there, but I don't remember the details.

If you don't need much, plausible.io is decent but very low on details.

Cloudflare seems to offer the same amount of data as Plausible, unblockable, and with no JS to load [especially if you pay $20 for the better analytics], but I don't know what data they lose by browsers that cache dns queries etc.
Why would anyone ever assume that Apple is telling the truth? Because they say so? (lol)
This is one of the tools that I use everyday but I don't appreciate it much because it always works for me and I don't think twice.

Thank you to the authors for working on it. Time to send them a donation!
well, I have to ask what is that sport
It says that he/she is bold enough to say what's on their mind, even if it runs the risk of being against the grain.

If there's one thing I've learned in life it's that your best bet is to keep your head down, do good work, and don't get in the way of others who are trying to do the same thing.

Hate that sentiment all you want, but even you probably benefit wildly from all the people surrounding you who are dealing with difficult shit but don't put it on you, or let it affect the workplace. It's standard etiquette and we're all better for it.
Not a vaccine hesitant here, still thinking this sort of paper is bollocks.
See https://www.kermitproject.org/ - Columbia Uni closed down the project in 2011 but the project moved to a new web site and Frank Da Cruz is still working on the code! At this rate I may need to start looking for a CP/M-80 computer :)
Probably makes more sense to compare it to Qataris with the same ages, if those figures are available.
Thanks for the extensive reply. I also had some good experience with Go so far, so I can understand how you came to that point ;-)
I have yet to find actually comfortable shoes for business casual.
Airline schedules have certainly been more erratic over COVID with at least a couple of well-publicized major disruptions at a couple different airlines. That said, things seem to be running relatively smoothly at this point and I haven't personally had any issues.
The paper's author has already explained to you how thread safety can be achieved in a production-ready gc. This is not something that is particularly difficult to engineer and is quite orthogonal to whether one chooses to use tracing gc, ref counting or Rust-like borrow checking.
Products dont kill good ideas,
People who use those products do.
It's not the same, a proper laptop with a proper keyboard is another game entirely.
LG Display brought a reclining curved OLED throne to CES this year
> You've usually given up any right to them not happening on a work computer at some point during new employee onboarding if not sooner.

Perhaps for anything that happens on the computer itself, but I'd be surprised if this covered using the camera to record the surroundings.

Edit:

> Apple had access to my personal iMessages

It is unclear whether this was personal iMessages on a work device, or on a personal device. The latter would be a problem, of course.
US considers cutting off Russia from global financial system
“New York Times”: Exorcism in Lieu of Enlightenment (2020)
I think two books would help. The Dip and Atomic Habit.

The Dip will outline this idea of keeping at it as things don’t really pickup right away.

Atomic Habit gives some great ideas on structuring things to make them habits. Setting your environment up to make it easier to get started etc.
Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends
Nationalistic flamewar is not allowed on HN and posting this sort of nationalistic denunciation is not ok, regardless of which country you have a problem with.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

"For Messages in iCloud, if you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your messages. This ensures you can recover your messages if you lose access to your Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple."

The key to iMessage backup is stored in iCloud for convenience for the end-user. The password has to be stored somewhere. Other e2e messengers usually don't have message backup or have only manual message backup where you are responsible for not loosing the key.

Apple is not able to access iMessage if you don't enable iCloud backup for iMessage.
I don’t know anything about business jets, but bad weather can result in changed plans however you fly, and especially with smaller planes. Deadline pressure is a good way for a private pilot to get killed due to a bad judgement call.
The efficiency, the dosage limitation and convenience is amazing, and its been a a few months when I smoked a joint. But I still find the joint to be better experience, not sure why, maybe the trace amounts of CBD.
Am I a weirdo for using the console (F12) in my browser for calculating stuff like tips, rent/utilities for the month, and other such things? Lol.
I have long complained that "amber alerts," "silver alerts," and in some states "blue alerts" have seriously degraded the value and functionality of these alerts through desensitization. The original design goal that lead, through many evolutions, to EAS/WEA/IPAWS/etc, was an alert system that would cause the public to take organized, pre-planned steps within 30 seconds of the issuance of the alert [1]. While we no longer worry about nuclear attack on such a short timeline, earthquake early warning has once again highlighted the requirement for a system that is immediately recognizable as requiring protective action. Overloading EAS with these types of messages, while politically appealing, has effectively eliminated the ability of the system to demand an immediate response. This will, ultimately, endanger lives.

Ultimately, nothing should be issued via EAS that does not require prompt and decisive action. This is not an exotic category: tornadoes, flash flooding, large hail, tsunamis, earthquakes, and civil and industrial emergencies are all reasonably frequent real-world events in which prompt and decisive action by the public saves lives and property. Unfortunately we have completely tangled them in with "a child was abducted, or a senior citizen wandered, or a cop was shot somewhere in the state," a scenario with no generally understood action for the public. That information should be disseminated using means other than the distinctive EAS attention tone which has always been intended to be reserved for those situation in which you must act immediately [2].

This doesn't mean a return to the old situation in which only POTUS was authorized to issue emergency messages, but it should mean that emergency message issuance is limited to scenarios that meet the same general criteria of requiring immediate action, regardless of their originator. The NWS and state governors (really their EOCs) do produce such alerts, but they should receive specific criteria to require.

[1] It had been determined in the 1950s that action within 30 seconds would produce substantial (e.g. 70%) reduction in fatalities in the case of an unanticipated nuclear attack, but that warning greater than 30 seconds was not always feasible. Improved early detection systems such as OTH radar have made this issue somewhat obsolete, although more recent developments such as HGVs and nuclear-armed "sea drones" like Kanyon have potentially brought it back to relevance even just in the case of nuclear war.

[2] Really the attention tone is a leftover technical detail from an earlier implementation, but its use has been specifically protected because it is so well recognized by the public as an indication of a national emergency. Unfortunately that protection is at the whims of legislators which frequently expand it to include whatever is politically appealing, regardless of actual outcomes.
One could also see this as them using this as an opportunity to advertise their allegiance to the ideology of the ruling class.
The note taking space is interesting to me. You say the problem is solved, and yet, every time I see a new app in this space, I perk up because I hope that maybe this is the one that will resonate/work for me.

Note taking is a deeply personal process. Physical notebooks as a medium are infinitely flexible but apps are not. This means that 100 different people writing notes on paper might be doing so in 100 different ways.

I’d argue that this is why this is such a crowded (or rich) product category.

I often find that <very popular “ultimate” note taking app> is not for me, and I find myself hoping for something that fits my particular needs and habits. I’ve occasionally thought about trying to build my own.

All of this to say: I don’t think the cynicism is needed here. Even if this is a solved problem for you, it’s not for all of us, and I think the evidence that this is true is found in the fact that developers keep looking for new ways to solve this problem.