skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, that’s how most email correspondence worked when I lived in Japan. Nearly every message had a paragraph of fluff before getting to the unpleasant details:

Dear Customer,

It seems that the leaves are once again turning to their Fall colors, and the chill of an autumn breeze is once again upon us…

Also we haven’t received your television license fee yet and it would be most appreciated if you could please send us it immediately.

Warmest regards,

-X
Take a look at inventory: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ACTLISCOUUS

We have a ways to go to get back to "normal" whatever you define that as.

Locally and anecdotally, I've noticed houses are sitting on the market much longer, and I'm starting to see "price lowered" emails from Zillow. We've definitely entered a cooling off and people are moving less.
1:3 hours sounds super aspirational even for only the hardest of classes like organic chemistry and fluid dynamics.

But your napkin calc isn't addressing the bit where you only take 1-2 classes like that per semester and pad the rest out with things like literature and electives so you could have a life.
Is that true now? My understanding is the chip shortage isn't just in high end new chips, but also older chips for use in things like cars and other embedded applications.
Teachers have turnitin that kinda does this
Blink-182 tickets are expensive because a lot of people want to see Blink-182 and there are only so many concert seats.
Yep, this sounds like Ken Paxton trying to get some limelight a week before early voting begins in Texas. Its supposed to be a close election for Paxton who has basically abused his office in all sorts of ethical violations[1] He also been under indictment for securities fraud[2] and recently decided to literally run and drive away in his car to avoid being served[3].

This is Paxton's incompetence for those unaware:

> Six of the people indicted last year on allegations that they were involved in a scheme to force teenage girls to “exchange sexual contact for crystal methamphetamine” are now free.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/elections-texas-presidential-elec...

[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/15/ken-paxton-securitie...

[3]https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/26/texas-attorney-gener...
I'm reminded of the balloon boy case years ago. The mother was Japanese and they didn't get her a proper translator even though she had a very basic level of English. She kept saying yes to the detective during the interview and he took that to mean confirmation not "I'm following along with what you're saying". Caused a lot of problems.
It sounds like true freedom is the life of an itinerant drifter - no ownership of anything and no social connections to tie you down; a bit ironic it would seem to me.
The media? Aren't we hard-wired to seek attractive mates because attractiveness is correlated with good health and genetics?
Sort of, the bigger problem in the US is that the US market is short something like 6 million houses due to zoning rules.

Volume is going to dry up significantly, and prices will go down a little bit - but there won't be a deluge of forced sellers like there were in 2008 because most people are on long-term fixed-rate loans. The majority of sellers will be divorcees and estates, as individuals chill in their 2.625% APR 30y fixed's - or own their homes outright.

Unlike 2008 we're not coming off a deluge of building, quite the opposite - and unlike 2008, most people don't have 5 houses on variable rate debt.

tl;dr: Prices will go down a bit, but the market is so short housing, it won't really matter.

Longer term anyone who buys at 7% APR will just refi down when rates drop - and probably cash-out refi at that.
Deepfake Phishing
A post about what seems to have been a pretty impressive Facebook phishing attack using (kinda) live deepfake video of one of the poster's friends.
People who want to see a specific artist have no choice but to pay those crazy prices.
Not saying you are right or wrong, but you seem to be over indexing for Covid. Most people seem to have moved on finally, and even the last bastion WFH will come under pressure with the bad economy.
That's awesome. Thank you for sharing.
> reserve huge blocks of tickets for the band

Wait are you saying this is what happens or this is the theory? Any shows I've been given a friends/family ticket they just put your name on the guest list and you show your ID at the door. Unless this happens at massive venues (like stadiums) I don't think this is normally true.
Google Photos recognizes EVERY face even if you don't tag someone. It can show you a big array of every person in every photo you've ever taken. Tagging just puts a name underneath the picture and allows you to search them by name.

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128838

My google photos has a "photo group" for every person I studied in college with (from a series of photos I took at a dinner with everyone present). It even has barack obama, which it recognized off a shirt a friend was wearing. I tagged none of these poeple.
The Database GitOps Landscape
Go through tools and database systems including Bytebase, Liquibase, Flyway, Sqitch, Atlas, Prisma, PlanetScale, Neon, and Dolt
If millennials were as wealthy as earlier generations at the same age, I think you'd be right. But millennials hold about half the fraction of national wealth that the baby boom generation did at the same age.
Hotel is a room, Airbnb is a home. The difference in amenities is important and when, historically, Airbnb was cheaper, it was often superior to a hotel. Nowadays, Airbnb often costs more than a hotel, and so it’s a trade-off: pay more to have a kitchen? Another aspect is per-person cost: a hotel room is typically limited to 2 people, whereas an Airbnb can be dozens, so with higher capacity requirements Airbnb can still work out cheaper.
So you know that the US(?) economy is already in recession right now? While I suppose it's possible, you're saying it's confirmed, would you mind sharing what brought you to that conclusion?
Took me 1.5 months, after what was effectively a 3 year misstep. I took a 6 month gap.

Note, I didn't say you have to write stuff you'd brag about every time. Just be able to do it sometimes.

Pro tip: Use python. Even if you don't use the language normally. It is so good at the questions used in leetcode.
Given that they have a working space station, I'm certain China has enough launch capability to make the Starlink orbit hell with several well-placed rockets undergoing very dirty disassembly in orbit.

(In fact, among the things that makes that scenario less likely is the fact they have a space station and would like to keep visiting it without worrying about passing through a Kessler cloud).
Yeah, and only a few million people had acess to slow ass speeds that took you days to download a small video.

Google and Facebook brought billions of people to the internet and gave them access to information they would otherwise have no access too. Thanks to them selling ads.

How would YouTube which give everyone free access to billions and billions of hours of content for free be possible without ads?
This is a great analogy, but also in experiments the presence or absence of the measuring device like a beamsplitter determines the outcome. The measuring device, the which-way detector is the observer, and it can be regarded as a quantum mechanical system. It's correlations with the rest of the system causes the particle behavior.
Usually former but when I am constructing a sentence using translator, it changes to latter (English is my not mother lang).
> The fact that there isn't even a proper translation of the word in English, though, just proves that native English speakers aren't as aware of it as Japanese speakers.

But then, a few paragraphs down, the author uses the term "active listening." Ho hum
Verizon notifies prepaid customers their accounts were breached
All of which is true, but Mark Anthony gets us well into the historical period.

We have a pretty good sense from that of who did and who didn't get around.

It's surely the case that the vast majority of Japanese on Hokkaido are not descendants of Mark Anthony. On Kyshu, maybe, the Portuguese contributed some genes there.

We can really only be detailed about this with a Y chromosome for a man, or mitochondrial lineage for a woman, and that only covers the case of lineal descent.

Not only can we not determine with confidence who is or isn't a descendent, even given a complete DNA sequence we don't have: most of those descendents won't have any Mark Anthony DNA at all! Chromosomes are more chopped than sifted, if that makes sense, I'm going on memory here, but somewhere around the 12th generation, we start having phantom ancestors: they existed, but left no record in our genes.
This article was a bit of a whirlwind for me, I had many of the reactions he later mentioned hearing in comments. I think where I settled is that this was an annoying invasion of privacy and ruined a good thing. I loved hearing about people recording music videos and doing real things in the stores, sucks to see that abused and put at risk.

Stand out for me, however, was this line from the EFF: “if you're ever thinking of doing something like this in the future, give us a call first.”

I think taking that action would have altered my opinion on it. Does anyone know if such a reach out would actually get a useful response?
https://mobile.twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/150019042966...
Hopefully it should get better soon-ish, but concurrency (and even parallelism aka threads) unfortunately is probably Nim's weakest point at the moment.

On the good side, compared to go, Nim's interop with C is fully transparent (since Nim uses C as a backend). This means easy access to C libraries, but also makes it very appropriate for embedded targets like microcontrollers (especially with its ARC memory-management system, which is static/deterministic automatic reference counting).
Have you given A grades to papers that you are certain were generated by LLMs? Or have you spoken with educators who have?

IME, LLM-generated papers are more likely to generate concern about mental health than As. Seriously. I've had faculty comment that they are concerned that a third of their students are suffering from some sort of actual mental illness, and when I explain LLMs they are incredibly relieved that there is a possible alternative explanation.
No policing system is perfect, in any complicated enough system there will always be rules that undermine that system slightly. It's like asking "why is cancer a thing, it undermines living organisms".
Some people hear "Al Capone was only ever jailed for tax evasion" and think to themselves "that murderer deserved to be in jail, getting him jailed was just even if it wasn't for his biggest crimes"
> Kitchens are not a big deal for me when I travel. A fridge is nice but you get a small one you can use a lot of the time in hotels these days and minibars seem to have mostly gone out of fashion.

For me this is true if I'm traveling for < 1 week If I'm gone for more than that i don't want to eat every meal out and want to have some food + drink stored in my accommodation.
This really got me thinking, so here's another comparison to draw on:

As a teenage musician, I hated drilling my scales and etudes. Why bother when practice was limited and I had cool ensemble and solo rep to learn? What I didn't understand and appreciate at the time is that all the technical drudgery serves a very real purpose. Most of the existing pedagogy is directly pulled from, based on, or references real repertoire which you'll undoubtedly encounter in your musical career.

All those scales in intervals? Well, you can't even begin to make a complex passage musical if you can't execute the technique! Arpeggios in weird fingering/shifting patterns? Turns out that some very exposed orchestral passage necessitates that you use an oddball fingering because it's just not practical to do anything else in context. That entire development section in the concerto you need to cram for an audition? Good thing that one of your etudes book was effectively variations and embellishments on that section, so you can lean on muscle memory and focus on making it sound nice!

Essay writing is much the same. No matter what I'm writing - an e-mail, a project proposal, a performance review, whatever - I'm trying to communicate a point. That means constructing an argument and supplying evidence. And doing so in a way that your audience will grok without any additional intervention. You build this skill by practicing, sometimes in ways that seem dumb, boring, and disconnected from reality. Not every pedagogy is ground so well in reality as my music example, but I can't imagine that the cynical take that it's all purely to automate grading is a rational take on things.
I've used AirBnb 3 times in 2017 in Japan with mixed success.

I will never ever use it again. Apart from being a terrible company that doesn't give a shit for the cities and communities they're destroying there's just a host of practical reasons to never ever use them.

It starts with the key exchange. In a hotel you just get the key(card) handed, go to your room and be done. You'll never have to go through shenanigans like those described in the article.

Much worse is tip toeing around neighbors who, rightfully, hate your guts. Or even worse, tip toeing around other guests, which were not part of the description.

Don't get me started on hidden cameras, which may or may not be advertised. If I pay big bucks for a room I will absolutely not run a "The Conversation" type sweep of my private quarters.

There's huge scam and safety issue with all things AirBnb. No thanks!

If anything goes wrong in a hotel there's somebody who can deal with it. I had some bozos having a party in the room above me in a hotel in Prague. A call to the reception resolved the issue in 5 minutes.

It's not the quaint experience of a host providing personal guidance to a city. Often you wind up in a bland, badly designed cookie cutter apartment managed by a faceless company.

Hotels set minimum standards. Essentially I get what I pay for. I can splurge and stay at the Hyatt or a LeMeridien, or I can travel more on the cheap and get a good bed and a reasonable bathroom at an Ibis.

Think you got a bargain with AirBnb? That may have been the case 8 years ago. Nowadays I can only suggest: Best of luck with that one.

Support if something fucks up? Well, you just read the article I suppose.

AirBnb wound up on my eternal shit list. I wouldn't touch them or any of their properties with a haz mat suit.
> Sick and tired and almost lost an expensive long-haul flight thanks to these muppeta.

Should have paid for insurance?
Building an interactive WebGL experience in Next.js
Discovery of non-linearity in the evolution operator would falsify MWI. Like e.g. this germanium experiment gave a positive result.
I took the LSAT some years ago (mostly just for curiosity's sake). When I turned my documents in to the lead proctor, she stopped me and said something like "you were to write your essay!"

Confused, I told her I had, to which she loudly stated "you printed your essay, and that's not permissible!" Once I figured out she meant cursive writing, I told her I hadn't written anything in cursive since maybe 4th or 5th grade, and after that I typed most of my long-form homework on my trusty Apple ][e and "printed" handwritten notes, as I still do today. She turned a bit pale and then turned to the room, interrupted the test, and asked how many candidates were also "printing" their essays. Essentially everyone raised their hands.

It turns out the poor older lady was a grade school teacher and had been instructing children how to write in cursive since the days of yore. When she faced the fact that those habits hadn't stuck with any of the once-4th-graders sitting in front of her, she turned even paler and went to get a drink of water. I felt a bit bad for her.
Yeah it can depend. Especially on weekends. Sometimes it just makes sense to take get a ride.
Man, I hope all the electronic food ordering sites are like that

Every restaurant here takes online orders, but ordering online tacks on 10% or more in fees. I just call them on the phone to avoid the fees, since it seems insane to me to pay $8 just for 2 seconds of using a web app
It's an optional activity. If it was healthcare I would be with you. But if they pay $600 ... that's the market.

If suddenly the market was more competitive, I bet the cat is out of the bag price wise. Maybe fees would be lower but "People will pay $600... so we charge that." is going to be the case for these concerts.
> This is a freaking temporary thing.

Why introduce this? No one else is suggesting the levels could be here forever.

> The Mississippi has always ebbed and flowed.

If your inference is that these historic drought levels are a regular occurrence, you may want to reconsider what historic means.

> A few years ago it was threating to top the levees.

Is your point here that extremes cancel each other out? How is that logical?
That is only if you decided to believe in what media says. Pick your priest.
That comic reminds of the current state of azure machine learning. What a mess. I'd actually love to use GCP at this point, I've never had such a weird insanity of SDKs with Google Cloud.

Though I agree that it is very weird that google is treating TF as an internal product, versus something more akin to GCP. There's no reason for them to do so especially after they had the chance to break and redo tons of stuff for TF2.
> free students from the drudgery of pointless essays that ask them to regurgitate content (as opposed to essays that teach writing skills or critical thinking, which remain valuable)

That's something that sounds good on paper, but it's incredibly difficult in practice. For one, students are all over the place in ability, so what's critical thinking for one student may be the most boring of intuition for another. Evaluating students based on their critical thinking is ripe for subjectivity. I've had multiple teachers who were great at teaching, but clearly had favorites and that was very discouraging for students that were on their bad side and received arbitrarily bad grades. The English teachers I most appreciated followed a boring rubric that incentivizes more formulaic writing.

Also, regurgitating content is an important skill as well. Half the formal writing I do at work is documentation, which strictly falls into this category. The other half is design docs, which arguably is a form of regurgitation as well. I'd come up with the design anyways, and the doc is just to share it to others.
I was having the same question.

Original situation: tickets are priced too low, and sell out almost immediately, with scrapers buying much of the tickets, then reselling them. Fans are furious! Plus: the band+seller is leaving money on the table, scrapers are making a killing.

Current situation: tickets are priced at market value thanks to dynamic pricing, so they no longer sell out instantly, and scrapers are discouraged from buying them. Fans are furious! Plus: the band+seller make more money than before, scrapers make close to none.
There's zero 'relationship'. SetApp bundles popular Mac software, of which Paw is one.
Just checked Faang and none of them have DNSSEC enabled:

for d in Amazon.com Facebook.com Apple.com Google.com Netflix.com ; do delv "$d" @1.1.1.1; done
People like you are going to be the first ones whining when their government imprisons them for nothing.
Yes - I don’t know if anyone tried this again in future episodes - it would be interesting to see.
Is there any work on updating CSS browser defaults? Even if it must be opt-in to keep backwards compat, having the possibility of starting any css file with 'use-defaults: 2022;' or something like that would be great.
There is also hopscotch - unsure about licensing but it is self hostable
The sweet spot for me is Vite, which comes with PostCSS built-in, and the nesting plug-in which follows the CSS spec.

Vite takes care of the boring stuff, I can write vanilla CSS with nested declarations in it, and it just works.
I couldn't live without SCSS mixins, extensions and maps. The sheer tedium of doing it vanilla would drive me insane.
> The "don't use icons, use words" rule resonates with me. I really dislike android drawing(and other similar) apps that present a cluttered interface with a dozen of cryptic icons.I much prefer words.

Yeah. I've used a Mac for the last few years at work, and I think the Windows task bar is unambiguously superior to the dock. A big part of that is how it integrates text, which just seem to take far less cognitive load to process. With the dock, I frequently have to pause for a couple of seconds and try to remember which inscrutably-styled circle I need to find to open the app I want.

Though a dock interface would probably be better if each app picked a distinct object to use as its icon, rather than the design-collapse we've had where all icons are either some circle or rounded square (often with a circle inside).
Lots of comments here from people who haven’t read the article and don’t know about the scalper-eliminating on-demand pricing it’s actually about. Or that it addresses supply-and-demand near the end with some interesting comments on Garth Brooks:

Country superstar Garth Brooks—who has called out dynamic pricing as well as suggested that the secondary market should be “illegal,” has more or less solved the problem for his fans with one simple trick: He adds shows until they no longer sell out. In recent years, on single tours, Brooks has done the following: He played nine concerts in a row in Edmonton, Canada. He played a dozen shows in Chicago. He played six in Kansas, nine in Tulsa, and eight in Denver.

Indeed, the headline doesn’t seem particularly supported by the actual article to me.
Postman is the new Dropbox in terms of useless features for the sake of growth or whatever.