skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering, if ticket resale is a viable business model only because tickets are not priced properly in the first place.

What if tickets were sold using a reverse auction system[1] instead? For instance, tickets could start at $1000 and then go down by $1 every hour until the minimum price set by the promoter is reached – or all the tickets are sold out.

This way, even if resellers bought a huge number of tickets, it's possible that they wouldn't be able to resell them for a large enough profit to cover the risk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction
The main problem is that anyone who can do both is highly incentivized to go into engineering/coding instead of product design. The pay and respect are usually much better. So then that pool is limited further to people who can design and code well, prefer design, and don't need/want extra money.

Then add on to that our current work culture prefers specialists to generalists: HR and exec teams will hire a product designer with 5 years of design experience and no coding over someone with 2 years of design experience and 5 years of software engineering experience.
Tech savvy folks, is it enough to run Privacy badger and uBlock origin (on Firefox)? I also let Firefox use its enhanced tracking protections.
I’d say that A depends on B with respect to a property P(A) of A if a proof (logical reasoning) of why P(A) holds depends on an assumption about B; that is, if some property Q(B) of B is a necessary logical premise of the proof.

The article in its final definition of “dependence” talks about causation, but logical deduction (proof steps) seem more fundamental to me. It also talks about permissible changes, but the assumption that only permissible changes are talking place is just that, an assumption about the dependency.
Spam Became Cool Again
Most of the the you see actual staff in a big organization, like hospital or government office etc do not have authority to add or remove signage. Most of the time its somebody in admin, or even a totally different department in case of government offices (to keep all locations similar) who is actually responsible. That doesn't mean that one should not give feedback, I do, & at least half of the the time it makes a difference.
Not sure HN is the best forum for debugging such issues, but nevertheless, here goes:

# lsb_release -a
Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

# qmake --version
QMake version 3.1
Using Qt version 5.12.8 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

# qmake-qt5 --version
qmake-qt5: command not found

# apt-file search qmake-qt5
qt5-qmake-bin: /usr/share/man/man1/qmake-qt5.1.gz

# /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake --version
QMake version 3.1
Using Qt version 5.12.8 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

I don't recall doing anything special to install Qt on my box, likely something along the lines of:

# apt-get install qt5-default

So in all likelihood, I have the standard Qt5 that comes with Ubuntu 20.04.5, still a somewhat popular and widely used Ubuntu version.

Hope this helps.
> Narcissism btw, is a one of those negative behaviors whose root cause is insecurity / low self esteem.

[citation needed] (no snark intended)
Yeah, I was really impressed with that paragraph. He's being kind of unfair to bitcoin, but put in context, that description is spot on.
Hey, the new branding looks exactly like what I suggested in a similar HN comment a few months ago. Good job (finally) USB people.
The first part couldn't and the second doesn't apply to the current (and I suspect any future) mechanism AI models use to generate...anything.
Because if you would pay 200$ for the concert, 50$ would go to the band, the actual value creators at the concert. If you then pay 900$ to the scalpers, 50$ goes to the band, the value creators, and 700$ to the cunts, the exploiters. They created absolutely zero, but they sucked the majority of the money. They destroy value.
problem is car owners are not only from paris but from the suburbs and need a car to commute and cant afford to live in paris to ride a bike
The way TS stuck such an expressive type system in top of such a dynamic and somewhat clumsy language is nothing short of witchcraft. And as a dev it all feels so effortless.
You can find answers to some similar questions here - https://signoz.io/docs/faqs/product/#how-is-signoz-different...

Let me know if you have a specific question which is not addressed in the above link and will try to answer
I don't like using multiple commands.

mawk 'BEGIN{b = "[abcdefois]"; l = "[a-z]"; W = "^" b l l l l l "$"}; $0 ~ W {print "#" toupper($0);}' /usr/share/dict/words
Recently on a podcast John Carmack said somebody should look into building small fission fragment direct energy conversion reactors, since despite their lower efficiency, they’re apparently much cheaper to build. Since Carmack is a software guy (albeit a very good one) I’m somewhat skeptical, since it seems like if it’s not that complicated a design somebody would have tried it already and found good reasons why it doesn’t work. The only resources I could find on such a thing was a DoE paper about some prototypes Sandia and General Atomics built. Does anyone know more about the merits of this idea?
Quite a poor proxy then if he gets credit for all the good works his dad's done - enough that you could work every hour for the rest of your life and never even come close to him.
You can speculate all you want as long as the law allows it but viagogo is actually breaking laws in some countries (faking names and addresses to purchase tickets, misleading customers, not honering refund policies, etc. ) and should either stop doing so or prevent customers in those countries from purchasing tickets.
If it sounds too good to be true...
I think Elon deserves some cynicism but it seems they really are designing this thing for cost and given the timeline and resources it is reasonably impressive to be this far, and it really doesn't need to do too much to be useful. With aging demographics I think there is absolutely will be demand provided they can land in that pricing ballpark so I'm glad someone is working on it. I think year 2 or 3 will really tell us if this is real.

With FSB they're in a tight spot, it can be pretty good is some scenarios but it's not clear it'll get to where it needs to be for L5 anytime soon. I think if they cut the price by maybe 1/3 to half and managed to smooth out the ride it'd be an excellent option for an already pretty good car and maybe in ten years we'd be closer to real car-without-steering-wheel FSD. But yeah it's hard to walk back all the hype on that.
The idea is when you need to get work done, you procra^H^H^H^H^H^H work on your emacs startup files...
They earn a metric ton from IAPs, which is almost all consumable Smurfberries and such.

I’m not saying there are no games. Games could easily be the biggest section of the App Store. I’m saying there are no *good* games, only those designed to force you to make IAPs.

Stand alone titles that cost a few bucks (immediately or as a one time unlock) are basically dead compared to the era before IAPs existed.
I was hired on words alone also: I critiqued their design, and gave them some tips and guidelines: Hired on the spot. Designed part of an app, that was so well liked, it became standard and lore.

This article in particular is next level. Even if you know UX, even if you are great at UX, this one is good.
I am trying to make it easier for us to work together with datalisp.is
I think the basic impulse is correct, actually. There's a very good chance that a person with this kind of attitude is a poor reader—of literature, at least, if not in general. If you drop them right into the heavy stuff, they'll probably bounce off really fast.

It's a skill you have to develop, like when you encounter a new musical genre. Lots of people get stuck at the "this sucks and is probably bad and overrated anyway" stage and don't open their minds and challenge themselves to understand why people like it, when encountering literature early on, similar to how many people get stuck in that same place for any musical genres they didn't learn to appreciate by age 25.

At best, they end up reading very light fiction for the rest of their lives—perhaps even YA, which is widely read among adults, in fact. At worst they decide the whole thing's a pretentious sham and they're smarter for not having engaged, which seems to be closer to the case here.

Not sure I'd go with YA if you're trying to convince someone of value in literature beyond entertainment, though. But lighter high-school tier literature, maybe. Salinger (but probably not Catcher in the Rye) or Vonnegut are decent choices, being at about the lightest end that'll still (if the reader's open to it) work those muscles. Gotta start small to develop the skills & taste to appreciate the sublime when it's expressed in written words, and to find meaning, enjoyment, and new mental tools that novice readers largely miss—which is why they often think well-regarded literature is boring and stuffy.
Drama on Wikipedia: Editors argue whether Taiwan News is reliable to use or not
Only India, China and perhaps Latin America might hold some sway over Putin. Even that seems doubtful given recent events.
At $dayjob the devs use both Azure Application Insights and New Relic. Comparing the two, I had the same comments: New Relic is appears useful but is too slow in practice. The developers generally avoid it in their day-to-day work, which defeats the purpose entirely.

We're not in the US, so the cloud-hosted version of New Relic is especially slow because of the added latency of the trans-oceanic network hop.

For comparison, Azure Application Insights can be deployed in our own region. It's not massively faster, but for some UX design reason it feels faster and more pleasant to use. It might be literally just the network latency, and nothing more, but the end result is that it's used more often.

Application Insights isn't perfect by any means:

- Deployment is a PitA and breaks regularly. The documentation related to installing it is confusing, out-of-date, and will guide you down dead ends. For example, I got the profiler component working once on virtual machines, then it broke, and I can't get it working again for the life of me.

- The underlying Log Analytics workspaces are crazy, crazy expensive. They're far more expensive than the competition, which then makes high-level services like Sentinel and App Insights built on top also too expensive for most orgs. For comparison, Log Analytics is about 5x as expensive per GB as AWS CloudWatch logs, and up to 30x as expensive as some other similar services.

If Microsoft just fixed the installer and used reasonable pricing for Log Analytics, the App Insights would be very hard to beat, especially for .NET shops.

I'm hoping open-source tools like SigNoz force down the pricing from "highway robbery" to merely "greedy".
The barrier to entry is way lower, way more developers will only learn scripting languages in their careers. A greater percentage of the projects who can succeed as a product will be using scripting languages.

Especially considering performance is often not crucial, as long as it's fast enough: worst case scenario, you just throw more servers at it.

The cost of hosting is often a small part of your budget compared to developers time (unless you're using AWS or developers from third world countries).
Typescript itself is fine. But yes, if you are using 3rd party libraries and frameworks with typescript, you might wonder if it's too late to change career and become a monk.
https://www-ikejima-org.translate.goog/projects/2018071-stam...

My Japanese is not a good as my Korean.
Waiting on the response here because there will not be one.
I would hope that public servants wait for bankruptcy so they are able to purchase the company at a favorable price before folding it into NASA.
this totally and ill add that riding a bike would need a permit or an exam where you learn the driving code. bikers are awful . ibike myself and very often im the only one respecting the code. they just reckless and dangerous to pedestrians
Please join us on matrix! Starting from datalisp.is.
Old comment thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32682264#32683540
Ask HN: What process do you use to manage your life?
What do you do to manage everything?

From the projects you take on, the tasks you do, settings goals, routines, systems etc.

I find all this stuff difficult. With so many things I'd like to do and so much i need to improve about myself, I find it overwhelming and i'm curious how you all manage your lives and what tools / systems you use to help you navigate it all.
you also aren't going to get valid color codes
I was going to shout: Do not tease me with the size of the floppy, without having a floppy drive. Do. Not. Do. This.
Honestly I've never seen ticket arbitrage as a bad thing. These venues are selling below market price and then people get upset when the obvious thing happens. Essentially they are trying to operate using some sort of private club model where it's first come first served instead of supply and demand driven bidding. Yet they simultaneously want to sell these tickets on the open market. So what did they (and everyone else) expect would happen?

I see ticket scalping as a natural and good outcome. If you want a private club then start a private club but honestly you will still have to deal with members attempting to scalp since you aren't charging market price and our broader economy uses more or less free markets.
it isnt safe. you need to be careful all the time of many things. many people have serious injuries on bikes in paris. if you know driving rules, have experience riding a bike and a helmet then it becomes less dangerous but to give you an example when u bicycle on a straight line you will be allow to continue and the drivers will be allowed to turn. 50% of the drivers dont understand that you can go straight will they can make a right turn. it is really dangerous and you always need to be careful of cars turning on you. people who tell u otherwise are just drinking their koo. aid or working for lobbies
Yeah, and in that comment he only mentions the existence of focus planes, not hard-edge occlusion (which elsewhere Guttag says is essentially physically impossible)
Doesn't really work that way in that it still reduces to an overall system that doesn't understand what it's doing (someone else mentioned GANs, they are a great example of how unwittingly incorrect ML model output can be - go look at the out-takes from any image generation model)

A better approach is good uncertainty quantification (this is not at all trivial) to quantify when the model is and isn't qualified to be making a prediction.
I know this is only looking at single words, so would miss this, but I always like to work ABAD1DEA into PoC work.
I also try to find out how and why things work, I suppose that's why I became an engineer. Thinking about the subject further, the beauty is not the rainbow, the beauty is the fantasy around it. For an engineer, fantasising can be a means to enhance creativity and out of the box thinking, which can lead to a solution, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, in the end the effect can be explained logically. The journey to come to the conclusion is like a game, and is fun and satisfying. Once the solution is known, their interest will sheft to other effects, rendering the former less interesting.
Don’t be so sure. Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, and many others have thought in tons of money.

More than AAA? I’m not sure.

But Candy Crush didn’t cost what Horizon Zero Dawn or God of War did either. Not even close. And the game prints money year after year in a way most AAA games don’t.

Unless they IAPs too like GTA Online.
I've always heard that girls/woman do mature faster, they're something around 3 years ahead

and it felt reasonably cuz I've noticed that majority of relationships in my circle are like that - woman is 2-4 years younger.

I think it could explain successed in formal education

I feel like this gap starts closing around 20s
They still have the problem of "Hi-Speed" being the slowest speed. They should've killed that name off too and required that manufacturers use the designation ½Gbps to be in line with the other speeds.
We saw the same thing happen with Eidos and Tomb Raider, but that didn't exactly usher in a new era of MacOS gaming. Time will tell how successful Macs are for gaming, but I don't think the critical issue (the limitations of the software layer) has been fixed.
Having worked as both a dedicated tester and a software developer, I've gotta say that Cypress was leaps and bounds above the alternatives before it, but nowadays Playwright is just better. Because Cypress runs in a browser context, it's very awkward to import Node modules and other reusable code where as Playwright makes it a breeze because it runs on the Node context (with ESM and TypeScript support natively).

If you're considering Cypress for test automation, I would really suggest giving Playwright a go. It fixed many of the pain points I had with Cypress. Even just tabbing in Cypress requires a plugin, where as it's supported natively in Playwright.
It's their event, they can choose to let people in by whatever criteria they want.
Because sun is green.
Nah, no need to leave them even the slightest morsel of victory. Just look at Afghanistan - both of the world's two largest nuclear militaries have invaded, both left in defeat, and both realized that escalating to nuclear weapons would cause them more harm than good.

If Russia dropped a tactical nuke, the U.S. would have to retaliate with one as well to make it clear that we are willing to. Letting them doubt our deterrence capability would be even more risky, and they know that.
The Hallucinogenic Fish That Can Give You LSD-Esque Nightmares (2016)
Why do you need a process? Try just living
>> Not sure HN is the best forum for debugging such issues

You can move the discussion to the github page. :^)
I'm uncertain, but would git clone --depth=1 mitigate this?
> That's a very thin line to walk.

The other powers would have to respond in a devastating way albeit hopefully non-nuclear otherwise they’re giving Carte Blanche to North Korea, China, Pakistan etc to use tactical nukes or even allies.
You wrote an entire sentence that has literally nothing to do with the ticket resale market and how scalping is related.

A secondary ticketing market enables scalping. There are legitimate reasons for the resale market to exist. If you think that the existence and dynamics of a resale market are unrelated to scalping... I would encourage you to look into critical reasoning courses which are perhaps available at your local community college at a low cost.

How do you propose we eliminate scalping, while preserving the secondary market? Go ahead, I'm waiting. Literally all ticketing companies are waiting for your profound insight.
You could just do full 1337 speek.
That is true. It is nice if you spend large amounts of time off-grid (and away from a car), but even that is nowadays not so much a concern I think. I.e. I can much more easily bring some sort of powerbank to charge batteries on the go than 10-15 years ago, and the batteries themselves probably have gotten better too.
> But the only reason that scalping is profitable is that more people want to go to these events at the original ticket price than there are seats available.

In general yes, however I have seen plenty of events that didn't sell out and scalpers where left still selling tickets and perhaps some people only knew about sites like ViaGoGo so bought of there.

I'm sure times when demand closely matches supply, it's still going to the scalpers because they get in there first.
That is definitely a good way to do it if you're going to go solo, but once you grow enough/depending on the product and market and who your competitors are, you absolutely CANNOT wait a week to respond to people/make sales pitches. If nothing else, a competitor providing the same service with an always on sales department and the ability to respond to important clients in hours rather than days will smoke you.

So if you know you want take this approach, make sure to do your market research beforehand and see that it's an economically viable approach. It works great for something like Bannerbear where the clients can just find another way to make images for a week or so. If it's something crucial to client deployment of their own products or if you're B2C, less so.
> so the cloud-hosted version of New Relic is especially slow because of the added latency of the trans-oceanic network hop.

Curious, does the location of the server introduce the latencies (as you mentioned you are not in US)? I would have assumed the latency because of server location would be very small.

Have you verified that the latency is actually because of the trans-oceanic network hop?
The relevant term is "piercing the corporate veil" and it pretty much only happens if someone intentionally and knowingly engages in criminal acts.
The Flattening of Meaning
Check your libraries. Some are really trash and mess with Typescript's speed. Material UI comes to mind.
AFAIK, enums and namespaces are considered past mistakes that won't be repeated again.
I've always been a big proponent of TypeScript, but does anyone else feel like the type system has gotten a bit too flexible? I recently had to fix some errors when upgrading packages on an old project, and it was not at all clear what was wrong by just reading the compiler output. For some errors, there were like 5-10 lines of confusing info/context, it felt like trying to understand the errors reported in template-heavy C++.
I like to hack on a system I call Task BATL, see profile. This lives in an ecosystem of ideas that I call Whole Productivity.

One thing I've learned over the years is that making such a system modular is a really good way to keep it sustainable and interesting. These two are really important ingredients if you are looking for long-term solutions.
> ... they do not buy what they need, they wait until the very last moment.

If someone is waiting to buy a thing not because they can't get the thing but because they want it cheaper, do they _really_ need the thing? I'd say no, not really.

Just a few examples of things where people tolerate very little waiting for: food, shelter / warm home, communication with others, transport to work place, and so on.

There's plenty of things in the economy, that people basically don't wait for, just because they might become cheaper. This part of the economy is what I would call the essentials and it won't be harmed by some deflation.

Let's be honest. We live in times where people are addicted to consuming too much of the non-essentials, which is why our ecosphere is literally disintegrating beneath our feet and above our heads.

It's a good thing when people find new ways to spend their time other than buying and using stuff they don't really need. People can get back to their misuse of consumption as a drug as soon as production and use of the non-essentials will in some distant future finally have become sustainable/green.
I came up with:

gawk 'BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1} ((length($1) == 6) && /^[a-fois]+$/) {gsub(/o/,0);gsub(/i/,1);gsub(/s/,5); print toupper("#"$1)}' /usr/share/dict/words

(caveat: it does not filter out duplicates)
Except that standardized test scores show the opposite objective reality.
At various points over the last decade, I've been picking up bargains as one generation of camera type is discarded in favour of another one. This year I've bagged a Canon 5D4 and a Pentax 645Z.

I have a Q2 as well and the one advantage the viewfinder confers is the ability to stay at one brightness regardless of the external levels of light. But latency will never match up. Hopefully I'll be dead before they stop making optical viewfinders.