skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That "some cultures" tends to be known as "high context cultures".

https://sites.psu.edu/global/2020/04/18/japan-high-context-c...

> Just like Saudi Arabia and Spain, Japan is also characterized by high-context communication (R. T. Moran; N. R. Abramson; S. V. Moran, 2014, p. 44). Some of Japan’s traditions, values and norms have supported its high context communication. According to Hofstede’s culture dimension, Japan scores 46 on individualism, indicating that they are more likely to show characteristics of a collectivistic society; such as putting harmony of the group above the expression of individual opinions and people have a strong sense of shame for losing face (Hofstede Insights, n.d.). With this, the Japanese have established an in-direct and non-verbal communication within their inner circle rather than the outside circle of the world. Thus, in Japan, communication goes non-verbally, through subtle gestures, facial expression and voice tones. However, this can be a big challenge for foreigners and westerners that do not understand the Japanese language and communication.

https://kosoadojapan.com/high-context-culture-japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c...

You even get some difference in the cultural context between men and women, and urban and rural, and north and south within the United States

For an example of a low context culture... Switzerland https://www.worldbusinessculture.com/country-profiles/switze...

> On the whole, the Swiss believe in plain speaking and place directness before diplomacy. It is expected and respected that people will speak their minds, without feeling the need to couch any uncomfortable messages in a softer way in order to spare the feelings of the audience. The type of coded language used by the Japanese or the British can be misconstrued in Switzerland as prevarication or even deviousness. Better to say what you mean and mean what you say.

> As has already been stated, however, this directness of approach should not be confused with confrontation or aggression – it is more the result of a desire to get to the truth or the empirically provable right answer.
To quote Braveheart, "Every man dies. Not every man truly lives"

Or, as St Ignatius quoted to St Francis Xavier, "What does it profit a man of he gains the entire world, but suffers the loss of his own soul?"
https://archive.ph/hlpXJ
In multiple subthreads here, people are embracing the idea that if machines can just write all the prose -- great, why should humans bother?

As with image generation, one thing I think we haven't adequately considered is once a sizable fraction of the available online data is machine generated, but isn't marked as such, and we begin training models on the outputs of the last generation of models, structurally we can enter a different regime. A sequence of models each trained on the prior model's output can converge to meaningfully different behavior, because we're repeatedly, incrementally changing the task by changing the training data distribution. If _all_ the data is generated by the prior model, this process seeks a fixed point which is reflective of the model architecture and not the original training data. There's a very real possibility that using generative models more (and publishing their outputs) can make these models worse in the future.

Weirder, however, is no one has really had the opportunity to look at what happens to human language when a sizable fraction of what we read is produced by these models. Will we normalize any quirks of their output? Will we reproduce or incorporate any idiosyncratic features into our own writing? How will we adapt in a changing linguistic environment?
I think some artists would prefer to have an audience of teenagers and megafans (usually people without a lot of money) to a bunch of MBAs and professionals who can actually afford the tickets at market rates. Pure supply and demand is great if you don't care about who is your clientele but audiences are not undifferentiated.
My mother’s parents were from a small island community in Norway. They were second cousins.

One time I got drunk and made out with my second cousin who still lives on that same island. My friends and family who witnessed the course of events were merely amused and not at all disgusted.

Inbreeding ain’t going nowhere in coastal Norway!

My (not at all previously related) wife thinks I’m insane that I love telling this story.
Keep in mind that hindsight is 20/20. The author may have been able to pay for an airbnb or a hotel but not both at the same time, which is what they would’ve had to do in this situation.
Not understanding how everything has to follow ultra-capitalism-free-market capitalism rules.. especially if the original artist/seller doesn't want it.

Fixed fair prices for such a thing and just first-come first-serve is imo the right thing. E.g. my soccer club has much more demand than places, you can sell your ticket, but selling for higher prices is forbidden. That's good, because it is for the people and not the riches.

Please just not shrug every problem off with "what's bad here, only riches now can have that"..
I'd generally agree, with the caveat that running a video editing workflow off of a NAS/SAN would want all the speed it can get, which is 10GbE at this time on MacOS/iPad OS (AQC107 chip).

So for copying files over it's bit slower, but for working with stuff it could be a pretty big issue. I really don't know; I haven't tried it as my iPad Pro is an earlier non-TB model.
He's on the ballot next month. So of course he is.

Not a fan of mass surveillance, but my gut says this is the wrong person to fight this fight. His motives are questionable, and it shows in specifically targeting private business and not working to "ensure the privacy and security of all Texans" from government and law enforcement.
As things stand I'd need a significant pay rise to start working from an office again. Bills and mortgage increases have eaten the benefits I got from not having to travel so if I had to travel into work most days I'd be significantly worse off.

There seems to be an implicit assumption that WFH is somehow less productive. I've not seen much evidence of this personally. It certainly makes management harder but it's a small price to pay when it's saving a bunch of travel costs for the employee and office costs for the employer
> Dynamic pricing isn't the issue here, the issue is that the extra profits generated by dynamic pricing are going to ticketmaster rather than to artists.

If that's a problem for artists then why do artists chose to do business with ticketmaster? Selling tickets isn't exactly high tech...
The problem is the market filters them out.. because the dishonest ones are more successful and the law does not care about foreign customers.
Cash at the door would just mean endless lines — people paying with their time instead of their money, and the value of that time is just wasted rather than captured by the seller.
That would be quite dumb. Whatever you put in that orbit will decay within a few years.

Given the current situation, USA/SpaceX is in a far better position to quickly repopulate LEO with satellites when the debris has fallen down. In that case, they may send up satellites armed with weapons that can shoot down anything being launched into orbit to create debris again.

I don't think entering into that kind of conflict with USA is a winning proposition for China unless they have their own Falcon 9 or Starship-like rocket.
It absolutely could. You could have a permission to do a lookup on the contacts list. These lookups could then be logged and tracked.
Key difference:

> the only one available

vs

> all the tickets since day one
I'm going to need a citation on that.
As an aspiring sidewalk linguistic I am very stimulating by this post and its comments. For a brief but significant period of my youth I was taught that the “mm-hmms” and “uhh-huh” that characterize the English version of “aizuchi” (a commenter has said that this is called backchanneling in English) was uncouth. That’s stuck with me.

What’s striking me the most as I age is that “uhh-huh” and “mm-hmm” often serve as indicators to the speaker to continue with what they’re saying. This is important to me because what I’ve found is that, American English speakers have a habit of putting a tone on many of their speech patterns that could easily be taken in the form of a question (where the last word of the sentence has a slight pitch increase) or is a rhetorical question in and of itself (“Y’know?”).

I understand how alternative interjections can communicate engagement with the speaker (“Wow”, “Really?”, etc) but have also observed instances where these interjections in general can suggest a sort of condescension against the speaker from the listener.

Language is bonkers. I have a hunch that we are in a very chaotic age of communication dynamics.
Maybe globally true but if you live in a strong developed country I disagree. Looking back at a +-150% value increase in 20 years I'll take a slump but every other indicator like more pop and less being built works against this theory. Ofcourse I can see this in less desirable areas of the world being true or regions like china with massively bloated housing sectors.
Sure, processes can shut down and spin up any time, but I’d rather not have to just to update credentials.
Because my time is valuable and a majority of the time it’s a lazy reference to some societal phenomenon to generate a clickbait headline. I don’t owe these people my time and they should do better.
"Descent from antiquity" is a technical term that means that a specific linage to antiquity can be confirmed, typically via historical documents.
One could choose to believe that concerts are substitutable goods, and then instantly there are lots of other choices at non-crazy prices.
That only works when you drop in subtle hints of that this way of coding has surpassed our usual way of coding as state-of-the-art in 1970-something.
> Now the extra money that used to go to scalpers goes to TM instead, [...] Isnt this...not a bad thing?

The problem with setting your ticket prices too high is it stops young people joining your concert-attending fanbase, leading to your fanbase ageing. This is what happens to opera houses and similar institutions - they 'market price' the tickets to $150 then find all their customers are in their 60s.

Of course, for a band it might be less of a problem than for an institution - the band ages at the same rate the fans do, after all. And merely offering $50 tickets that get brought by scalpers and resold for $150 doesn't solve the problem.
> My strong intuitive hunch is that we'll never build something electronic that can experience things (that it feels like something to be that device).

The Bekenstein Bound tells that us that any finite volume has finite information. That means our brain is describable by finite information, including our feelings. So why can't that information be translated into an electronic form?

The only way out of this conclusion is to assert that "experience" cannot be captured by physics. Is that your position?
Microsoft and Amazon Get Early Win in Lawsuits over Flickr Photo Uploads
Ask HN: How much would you pay for a fast TypeScript typechecker?
I've found that it's a large hassle to setup these devices on a new WiFi network, and now it's going to be bricked completely. I wonder if in general it's better to just get dumb LCD devices that don't need to connect to Wifi.
How so? Where is the line drawn? He's comfortable recognizing people's faces, we all are. That's not really what Googles doing though, mine is closer. I would draw the comfort line at amortizing what they know about my pictures with data they've only gained through other people's uploads, I think.
Mary would probably not be able to see that the apple was red.

Just like I can’t hear the difference between sounds in many Indian words Mary would not be able to differentiate colorized things from non colorized things. Her brain would have learnt to ignore the color signal that the eye provides. Just like my brain has learnt that the different sounds in Indian words is not worth processing.
The 5-paragraph essay as taught in schools misses the point. The point of an essay is to make a single cohesive argument, preferably in as few words as possible.

"Write a standard, 5-paragraph essay discussing the theme of chaos in Slaughterhouse Five, making sure to cite several examples from the text, 1000 words minimum" is a ludicrous assignment. The assignment should be: "Argue whether chaos is a significant theme in Slaughterhouse Five, 5 pages maximum."
> Isn't "HTTP pipelining" just normal usage of HTTP/1.1?

> Anyone that doesn't support this is broken. My own code definitely does not wait for responses before sending more requests, that's just basic usage of TCP.

Yep.

There is some "support" a server could do, in the form of processing multiple requests in parallel¹, e.g., if it gets two GET requests back to back, it could queue up the second GET's data in memory, or so. The responses still have to be streamed out in the order they came in, of course. Given how complex I imagine such an implementation would be, I'd expect that to be implemented almost never, though; if you're just doing a simple "read request from socket, process request, write response" loop, then like you say, pipelined requests aren't a problem: they're just buffered on the socket or in the read portion's buffers.

¹this seems fraught with peril. I doubt you'd want to parallelize anything that wasn't GET/HEAD for risk of side-effects happening in unexpected orders.
It's unreasonable to expect AirBNB to enforce your HOA rules. That's a private contract between you and your neighbors.
They also sell beer in gas stations too!
Dispensaries generally have to comply with regulations to put the items in a paper bag and staple it shut. If you get pulled over and the bag is still shut - no problems. Consider it equivalent to 'open container' concept for alcohol.

(In USA if you are of legal drinking age, it is okay to drive with closed containers of alcohol and generally very not okay to drive with open containers)
I've seen Muse at least 25 times and have paid face value for tickets when buying them direct through TM for almost all of those times. I saw them first in 2006 for about $25-$35 at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC for the Black Holes tour. Since then, they've become more and more popular, causing ticket prices to go up. Totally fair. With their 2023 Will of the People tour, dynamic pricing essentially sets the floor of ticket prices much, much higher. I'm seeing 200-level seats starting at $150 per ticket at some venues. Apparently that was the point where I'm fine with just completely missing the tour. I suppose the system works in that regard.

The specific implementation of it is also not great. TM has you wait in a queue to select seats; the position in which is randomly assigned. This is to protect the servers from the thundering herd. (Lousy but fair.) When you finally make it in, you need to choose your seats and book as fast as possible, because dynamic pricing can cause the seats you selected to move up in price while you are selecting them, and the implementation doesn't let you OK it and move on, you have to essentially hope you choose and confirm before the price you locked in goes up. If you don't, it says, "sorry, the prices have gone up since you started, please choose new seats." This is both a super crappy UX and it ensures that they milk every last cent from people, as you can't lock in a price by moving quickly.

The thing is, I'm not sure if the dynamic pricing floor ever gets dropped. Are they fine with not selling out venues because the people get priced out? Or do we wait on the secondary market to try to push prices back as demand recedes?

The previous system sucked quite a bit with scalpers. However, the new system seems like it brings a whole new set of problems with it and it has made me question whether I even like going to concerts at all. Maybe I just don't care much anymore and this is a bridge too far. I don't know.
I was at Apple 2006-2010 and worked with many who were there during SJ's return. It was drastic in both product and headcount cuts.[1] SJ was many things but above all, he was feared.

[1] roughly 1/3 of the company https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/29/1997-apple-bites-the-...
Where do you live in NJ? The average effective property tax rate is 2.470% of the home value. Property taxes would be ~$38k in Gloucester county(across the river from Philly).
Hahaha! Oh man. I read the headline, and I instantly said "Good."

Click the link and saw the 'Good' and had to crack up laughing. Wish it was kept as part of the headline on HN.
Sometimes the artist doesn't get a choice (e.g. a particular venue wants to use Ticketmaster because Ticketmaster will let them bolt on venue fees).
This is an old citation[0] but it's pretty difficult to find much on it. It doesn't look like it's very popular but I remember reading an article years ago that discussed "advanced" or "centaur" chess (human + computer teams) and their ability to beat computers alone. This is assuming that the human is already at the forefront of human performance in chess, though.

[0] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/wh...
If I had to bet, Ticketmaster has lock-in agreements with venues (especially arenas) that only allow tickets to be sold through them exclusively.
I play tennis, soccer, ultimate frisbee, jiu-jitsu, disc golf, rock climbing, hang gliding, whitewater kayaking, bicycling, and kite surfing, and I've taught many of the same to beginners.

I assure you that the instruction only works when the student wants to experience the final form, and they will not get any sense of what the final form is until they have "fooled around" and have an actual desire to learn the sport. At every level of their progression they need time to experience unstructured performance for fun. The same is true for writing.

Kids love to write when they're young and no one's hovering over their shoulders grading them. It's only once they get hit with the five-paragraph essays and the term papers and the dry grammar exercises that they learn to avoid writing, and associate it with boredom and stress.
Those type of assignments are part of what "inspired" my daughter to skip out on all her high school English homework, forget the humanities, and study engineering in college. On the one hand, great, we need more women in engineering, and she's good at it (and graduated from a top college). On the other hand, the humanities are great too and it would be nice not to turn people off to them with that type of mind-numbing work that is not only subjective in content but also subject to the desires of the professor.
I don't believe it's their intention to fuck the community over, but more to try to secure some of that CHIPS money. Intel, TSMC, TI and Samsung actively have fabs being built, but they are slowing them down right now. TSMC is the only one actively saying they are cutting CapEx next year while Intel has actively canceled orders for some of their new fab tools but have not admitted such.
Well you have a whole article, as well as lots of great debate in these comments telling you why it is (or isn’t) good.

That’s the beauty of using those reading skills you mentioned.
Show HN: Bull or Bear Game – The Higher or Lower for NFTs
It's crypto Winter, the market is down and we are rekt. So we made this little game to cheer up the Web3 community. Guess which NFT collection has the higher floor price.
Inspired by all the time we whittled away on higherlowergame
Bands typically get a fixed number of comp tickets that are intended to be used by friends/family/media/guests, not resold.
Ask HN: Consultants/contractors. What kind of equipment?
Just curious. Is there specific brands/models laptops that are more consultant/contractor-friendly? What is your preference?

Thanks
The issue is there are a lot of rich people. Shows like this used to be <$100 not that long ago.
A space station doesn't mean you have a lot of launch capability.

Its and its not clear how you standard rockets can easily be used as anti-sat weapons, and if that makes finical sense.
Twitter and TikTok are still pestering me. It's not too late to ban it outright.
Postel's law has turned out to be a disaster for security, and for extensibility. If everything you can get already means something, nothing can ever mean anything new.

"Be clear about what you will accept", instead. And, make sure there is an easy way to discover why it was not accepted.
This is intentional. If Taiwan knew they could rely 100% on the USA then they wouldn't need to invest in their own defense. This posture puts Taiwan as responsible for their own defense with the US as an insurance policy/economic backstop, in case mainland pulls a rabbit out of a hat.
Payback time here is about 100 full charges (IONIQ5, Nordpool day-ahead pricing).
Well, an interaction that leaves a persistent change in state in the "observer".
Yeah, a USB-C hub should do it. Also some cameras record directly to USB-C drives.
> Amazon skirting tax laws

Never forget "skirting consumer product safety regulations and trademark protections". Their entire retail business at this point is no more subject to regulation than buying "designer" handbags off some dude's street stand.
> I can't see how this result proves anything. Consider the analogous experiment of "Mary learns to cycle by reading books". Surely she can learn all the physics behind cycling without truly knowing how to cycle, and one could similarly conclude that there is something beyond the physical mind behind this skill.

This is indeed one of the standard responses to Mary's Room, where experiences like "redness" are not actually knowledge but are an "ability". So Mary doesn't actually "learn" anything new technically, but she acquires a new ability to experience redness when exposed to it for the first time.
I couldn't finish the article either. I guess the author was trying hard to be funny.
When I taught a class, I had a strict 3 page maximum on lab reports for this reason. So many people are used to turning in 10's of pages of drudgery. I just want a few that get to the heart of the issue.
He is still part of the special club that we are not invited to. Among people with current or former titles, titles still matter.
Well queues for proletariat and magic vouchers for the actual commies that would allow them skip that nonsense.
This is going to be wildly popular on film/TV sets
Bliki: Conway's Law
This paradox only shows that the definition of knowledge used to produce it was wrong.
I don't think there's a difference there. If there are no GPUs available for MSRP and dozens or hundreds available for 2-3x MSRP, the price is 2-3x MSRP. Whether it's day one or day N, the price is what you can buy it for that day.
Given that the lineage has not died out, the average number of ancestors per generation is not zero. If you assume it is 1.2, that would mean about 2M descendants, which seems much more reasonable.
Artists don't choose to work with Ticket master. Pearl Jam and the Justice Department tried to beat them some time ago. It's a great story to check out if you're curious about how this industry works.
Nearly my entire neighborhood consists of old Gen Xers and Boomers living in 2500-3500 sq ft houses, sometimes alone. It's insane. These people have decades to live in many cases. They are taking up these huge houses in smaller cities like mine so where are families going to go?
Pearl Jam fought Ticketmaster in the 90s and it forced them into a weird career route. This has been going on that long.
Leader corruption depends on power and testosterone (2015)