skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. The problem is really scarcity. A venue can only hold so many people. And one of the easier ways to filter out people is to price the item so that only so many would buy a ticket.

That's essentially what scalpers are taking advantage of. They're betting that the ticket will sell for more than the cost to someone, they just have to find that person.

If tickets were $5 or whatever is deemed reasonable, that doesn't mean more people can go, it means a slightly different group of people will go.
I recently implemented layers on my site https://daniel.do/ and honestly found it really helpful in terms of explicitly organizing specificity.

It also gives you a much clearer idea of where in your styling stack something is coming from.

> Container queries

Have you ever built a piece of functionality that goes on pages you don't control? For instance, I built software that displayed a map on people's pages. but I don't know the width of the map itself. They could be displaying it on the full width of their page or in a container. Media queries don't work in this scenario. Making the map correctly responsive forced me to use JavaScript to get the element's width.

The other solution people have for this is iframes, which suck too.

Just because you don't have a need for something doesn't mean nobody does.
> No evidence is provided. I'm curious whether the author actually has evidence or is just asserting that this is possible and likely happening.

I read the title and the domain name and thought it was going to talk about a false report about students using ML on homework.
Non-transferable tickets seem to me to be a simple solution. But people want be able to sell their tickets.

So now we are stuck with high ticket prices.
"House-Price" is a terrible metric that only house sellers really care about. Everyone else is more concerned with monthly total housing costs. If house prices stayed the same and interest rates increased 2-3x that means monthly payments for new mortgages also increase. Buyers are unable or unwilling to pay the higher monthly cost so they bid less and the price comes down but their total monthly payment does not decrease.

In some sense this is a transfer of wealth from home owners/sellers to banks/lenders and hopeful and prospective first time buyers see no benefit, aside from maybe smaller down payments.
> *(2021)

Isn't it 2012, not 2021? (The article footer says "Kyle McDonald June 12, 2012")
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Country/Culture of media origin is also important ;)
Yeah, bought my first house in 1988 and a decade later was still looking at a steep loss, but by luck sold for a profit at the market peak in 2003. In 2011 it resold for less than in 2003.
There’a no consistent definition of market capitalism in these types of forums. The fact of the matter is that under a laissez faire model, this type of behavior is expected. Claiming otherwise is simply the no true Scotsman fallacy.
Quite surprised that there is this degree of mispricing. I would have thought it’s a market that is big and diverse enough to iron that out. Especially given that the participants in question would tend toward the analytical side of things
I was not possible to use a CSS variable to change the highlight colour of a checkbox, as far as I'm aware. You can use a CSS variable to set the accent-color, though.

(The workaround was creating a fake element that looked like a checkbox that overlapped the actual checkbox.)
Super late to the reply party but another thank you. I thought I was losing my mind, with like a 40% accuracy rate. Im up to like 90% just turning this on.
So funny story

Ticketmaster is chosen for 2 reasons

1. It actually does have the most robust tech - although much of it is dated

2. Most shockingly because it takes the brunt of the brand punishment

The ticketing, events, music, etc industry is built on many many middlemen. Lawyers arrange contracts between bands and venues. Promoters sit in between and set everything up but take their cut from TM.

TM is chosen because it can make a promoter fee look like a ticketmaster fee. Which makes all the accounting work when the band/venue agreement say profits are split 50/50.

While TM and live nation are joined at the hip, the above was all true before they merged. Which is also ridiculous. Don't get me started on clear channel who owned livenation and all the radio stations... Or the fact the it spun out of CBS.
With the consequence that “only rich people get to see Beyoncé live”.

Which may be good or not, I have not an opinion.
Personally, my experience with page count assignments were... loose. The goal was never "write 8 pages" but "write about idea ABC" (book just read, subject we just studied). '5 pages' or 8 or whatever was a guideline, with the expectation that to get XYZ ideas across, it'll probably be around that length. If the guideline was X words or Y pages, and I got the ideas across in less (or more), but the ideas were strong, I still got a good grade. Perhaps some of that has changed, but... "write an essay about $foo", and you turn in 2 paragraphs... you'd get marked down.

Again, it's been awhile since I've been in middle/high school, so it may have changed some.
> I am arguing that if you want to teach basketball, your students need to play a lot of basketball. Exercises will only really help them once they've experienced the game and have a burning internal desire to compete.

Well. I played basketball since 7th grade. Not just played, trained 3 days a week. Before you can really play you have to master certain elements, otherwise it's just fooling around. And at first we trained all those elements separately. Balance, switching feet, turning. Just turning without the ball. Faster, slower. Jumping from left foot, from right. Catching the ball. Throwing it. Passing. Alone, with partner, against the wall. Hook shot, but just up, up, up, get the ball up. Hook from left, from right. Then hook standing directly below hoop. Left, right, left, again. Then adding movement. Over and over again. And then actually playing.
... when the topless women are young, white, and conventionally attractive. And also the judginess correlates to local laws around the matter. I wonder if the men & women would flip if it was fat topless grannies.
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I find this kinda hilarious. For years, decades even, women have been fighting for desexualizing breasts and now we learn that men are more tolerant of naked breast, compared to women, because of we tends to sexualize them.
You know any insurers that cover missed flight due to climate protestors?

Comparethemarket says

"""You’re unlikely to be able to claim if you missed a flight due to:

oversleeping
not getting yourself organised and leaving enough time to get to the airport or get through security
a protest or civil unrest that had not been publicly announced in advance...
This is why I quit working on Frontend honestly, I was constantly juggling such bs requirements.
Even a decade ago I was seeing obvious cheating when I was TAing classes. International students would hand in an essay with clearly broken english, then follow that up with essays with complex, well written english that was obviously not in their "voice" or even in the same intellectual ballpark as exhibited in the in-person class and discussions. Even pre-internet, essay writing was widely regarded as " library stenography" by students.

The meat of the matter really comes down to the professors and how they approach the exams. Generalized essay prompts are hilariously easy to cheat on; complex hyper specific prompts that extend on something specifically discussed in the class are far harder. On-line classes, by their "mass distributional" nature (ie, save money by making them reusable) are almost by definition far more generalized than you would want.
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Thanks for pointing me to wengrow & graeber. I've not read the book, but went through the summary on wikipedia which seems pretty good. It's interesting and I don't have any problem with the claims or conclusions in the summary, butI don't really see how it critiques capitalism.

It talks about the fact that progress isn't linear and that societies don't inevitably become more hierarchical, and I agree that seems right. In fact I could argue that capitalism is precisely an example of societies becoming more decentralised as Europe moved away from feudal and state monopoly systems, and individual financial, association, labour and property rights became established. At the same time monarchic and imperial systems gave way to democratic forms of government, with a few autocratic bumps along the road.

So to me liberal democratic capitalism is much more similar to the egalitarian societies encountered by European imperialists than it is to those imperial systems of the time. The only difference is that technological advances in transport, communication and the management of complexity have massively scaled up economic activity and the benefits that flow from it.

But then from what I can Tell Mark Fisher denied that there is such a thing as an economy. I'm not sure I rally get what he meant. anyway thanks for the references.
This depends on your local market. Where I used to live I saw a sideways on my home price for nearly a decade. I watched other larger markets going up YoY. Your market conditions will probably be different than others.

My parents bought a house in the early 70s. They paid about 12,000 for it. That same house now is being appraised at about 210k. However, if they sold they could take that money and buy a comparable house for about 210k. Housing is a good hedge for inflation. It is a mediocre investment vehicle, unless you happen to win the live somewhere where supply is not where it needs to be lottery.

I bought my house and paid for it as quick as I could. The saving on the rent alone was worth it to me in my area vs the cost of the house.
A friend of a friend [1] used to walk topless around NYC on occasion. She would frequently get "stopped and released" by police. She knew the laws better than they did. She did say that she got far more verbal criticism/abuse from women as she walked around, than she did from men.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Van_Voast
Guiding principle: cross-pollination over imposed standards
>where would one suggest that most people don't experience theft?

Japan. Been here for over 5 years, zero theft.
There never seems to be a direct translation into English of compound words, only phrases :/
> face recognition on random people in photos

Except they're not. They just match faces to itself and the user has to tell Google photos who it is. Google Photos isn't running faces against a database to ID people, it only matches like faces within your own albums.
This is just my shower thoughts, but I think it's because getting tickets for the past century has been getting in line early / getting lucky, but now it's just whoever is the richest wins.
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Ask HN: How to tell how many hours of actual work a job will require?
I've noticed from reading Reddit and HN threads that there seems to be a lot of variation in how many hours of "actual work" SWEs do at "full-time" jobs. What's the best way to determine--before I accept a job offer--roughly how many hours of actual work per week it would require?

One thought I've had is to ask questions during my interviews that would reveal that information (like, "Is there an expectation here to work a set schedule? Or is the focus on getting the work done?", or "How many hours of sleep do you get?", or maybe just directly asking, "What does your daily schedule look like? How do you determine your work schedule? How do you determine when your workday is done?"), but I'm not sure how to best read between the lines of whatever answer I get back, as I suspect that at the workplaces where people work a lot, they may feel pressure to not to talk too much about it. But maybe there's a set of questions I could ask for which the set of answers I get back from employees would sufficiently correlate with their weekly-hours-of-actual-work to allow me to come to an accurate estimate, even if the answer to any one particular question wasn't enough to come up with an accurate estimate(?).

Another thought I've had is to check websites where people can leave reviews of their company, but my impression is that at bigger companies there can be a lot of variation across different teams, and so how could I tell what the expectations would be for the particular team I'd end up on?

If there are other threads where this topic has been discussed, I'd appreciate being pointed to them.

[Full disclosure: I've also just posted this question on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/y9x2xx/how_to_tell_how_many_hours_of_actual_work_a_job/]
Until you need to document something important in an email or elsewhere and have no idea how to do it effectively.
I am hearing a lot about layoffs at "FAANG", Intel, Twitter and a few other employers that are notoriously bloated. (e.g I wouldn't take layoffs at Intel as an economic indicator because Intel seems to lay 10,000 engineers off every few years because of its own perversity)

More normal sorts of employers are still reporting extreme problems hiring people. For instance I was late for work this morning because the bus was cancelled because they didn't have anyone to drive it. All the pharmacies I know are closed on the weekend. I had to buy dress shoes for a wedding and found the shoe store at the mall closed at 5PM, fortunately they opened the gate and let me in...

I don't know about software dev jobs outside of bloated "big tech" firms but I think other companies actually need to hire people to get specific things done. Bloated big co's hire people to keep seats warm.
Its so stupid, because on a mac for touchpad gestures they have these nice demonstration videos built in. They have what could be a great model for this documentation already.
In reality I kinda doubt age and color matter that much.
Nice work! I wasn't familiar with insomnia so when I read your first line there I read it as "I love not being able to sleep because it gave me time to code this project..."
When you’re talking about the price of the most expensive purchase most people will ever make, it seems like house owners (around 2/3 of American households) would be quite interested in the topic.

First-time buyers benefit from both the decrease in down payments and the easier ability to pay down principal as nominal salary grows and/or if interest rates fall during the mortgage term.
In practice, can't rich people just pay people to stand in queues on their behalf and acquire tickets the same way?
Underwriters are much more strict after the 2008 crash and it’s become more difficult to qualify for a conventional mortgage. New home builders were building less overall and focused mostly on building expensive ($500K+) rather than affordable homes. In addition, cash buyers still make up over a 3rd of US home purchases which include many investors. A healthy drop in prices might happen in the near term but any kind of doomsday scenario is unlikely to play out IMO.
This is good advice, for sure, and I've received it from wise colleagues in the past.

Where I land on this is: Undocumented behavior can be useful if you're doing something which is short in duration, and narrow in purpose. Don't build a product off it, though.

I guess in this case, it could be useful for a fallback positioning mode for the military or something.
OP states they built this because they wanted a portable version of Insomnia.
This tidbit about a prodigious undergraduate struck me. He double majored in math and physics and was about to start his PhD at Harvard. And in a sudden freak accident he was gone from existence. The universe will always remain unfathomable in some ways.

> In 1996, Qijia Fu of Hamilton College in New York — then just an undergraduate — proposed using germanium-based neutrino experiments to detect a CSL signature of X-ray emission. (Weeks after he submitted his paper, he was struck by lightning on a hiking trip in Utah and killed.)
That is absolutely not true. There is a minimum level of clothing for each environment and category. There is a standard limit on expression based on where you are and what you are doing. No freedom loving movement can ever walk away from or argue against this.

And these limits are placed by a variety of subjects such sexuality, expression, weather, relationship, etc.

We are humans who bounce between these subjects, categories, and environments. That is what makes us human and not animal.

If someone feels "constrained" they are the issue.
Looks like somebody did follow up on this in psychology:
https://gershmanlab.com/pubs/BhuiGershman20a.pdf
In a way, the actual origin of Covid is a secondary matter at this point (because it's unlikely that China will give the required evidence to definitively disprove either the zoonotic or the lab leak hypothesis... am I wrong here ?).

The more pressing matter is the conspiracies between some top level specialists and some governments that seem to have effectively pushed public opinion away from the lab leak hypothesis (where they both can take a lot of blame) to the zoonotic hypothesis (less blame) - even though actual specialist opinion was (and still is) pretty split... (Not so much if you remove the specialists with a conflict of interest and the pressure they and the governments might have been able to exert ?)
"when I were a lad"... we used to have lines given to us as a punishment. Cue Bart Simpson writing on a blackboard, but for us it was "200 lines saying I am not allowed to shitpost on HN" or whatever.

If you could program a computer to print the lines for you, then 2 pages of dot-matrix printer output was accepted. I even had a teacher give me 2000 lines - a monstrous punishment by hand - because they knew I could code. They just didn't realise it would cost me an extra 5p in paper and nothing else.

Teaching has moved on, and lines are no longer a thing.

I hope teaching moves on from essays, because they're about the same level of educational achievement. Essay-writing is no longer a skill that anyone values outside academia, because we moved on. Academia should move on.
Because what gets built is the knowledge of the system. The CRUD part is an implementation detail.
> The first one is focused more on the fundamentals of close reading and analysis. The writer needs to understand what the theme of "chaos" means ...

I think what ends up happening in reality, at least, in my experience, is that you Google "Slaughterhouse Five chaos" and trawl the first several pages of results looking for information you can essentially copy+paste into your essay (with slight adjustments to get around automatic plagiarism scanners, of course).

I did still demonstrate some kind of skill, maybe research and the ability to condense information from many sources down into a single piece of work, but those weren't the skills you mention, and it was definitely not what the teacher was intending for me to do.

The second prompt the person you responded to runs into the same issues (I can Google "Slaughterhouse Five reviews"), but at the very least probably feels like a more engaging and compelling essay prompt to the student.
> Humans be humans. Our bodies aren't inherently anything but human. Let's all grow up and normalize allowing being comfortable in any situation.

A reasonable takeaway from the article is that objectification of women is a primary barrier to that normalization. Therefore, that normalization can't happen because objectification keeps getting a pass from us.
A calculator and a language model aren’t really the same at all.

That being said I’m generally of the opinion that homework should be optional anyway, so if this accelerates the demise of homework, fine.

Evaluations should happen strictly in person under supervision. Cheating is just too easy these days.
This seems very similar to/related to conversational style differences between some cultural groups in the USA, where some groups have constant interjections from the listener side during conversation, other sub cultures here will call it "interrupting" and "being disrespectful". I've known it to cause interpersonal conflict between friends from different ethnic groups/social classes/geographical regions.

Interviews with Linguist Deborah Tannen on this topic:

https://www.waywordradio.org/tag/conversational-style/

https://whyy.org/episodes/interrupting-and-the-art-of-conver...
> Is there a better solution?

The other option is to prevent ticket resales (except through the original ticketing website at face value). This arguably leads to a more equitable distribution of tickets as your ability to buy tickets isn't dependent on how wealthy you are.

> Even if there were 5 different companies selling concert tickets, wouldn't they inevitably move to dynamic pricing for the same reason?

Not necessarily. It would presumably depend on the preference of the artists (who would choose which ticketing company they use). I see two models being popular: one with dynamic pricing where the extra money in paid to the artists. One with fixes pricing. I can't see any artists freely choosing a model with dynamic pricing where the ticketing company pockets the difference.
Yea they most definitely hold back seats for a variety of different reasons and release the holds as the concert date gets closer. You can probably find tickets day of as a result. (Mainly for seated events, less so for others)
I gave you concrete examples. In particular, on social issues American democrats are on the far left globally because of how they conceive of those issues. They view of abortion or same sex marriage as individual rights that trump society’s power to regulate. By contrast, in most countries where abortion or same sex marriage is permissible, it’s because society has chosen to allow it, subject to whatever circumstances and conditions society has chosen to impose. Abortions, for example, are widely available in Japan to 24 weeks. But that’s because of WWII-era rules put in place by the government to control population growth. The Japanese largely do not think of abortion in terms of society lacking the power to prohibit abortion, as American democrats do.
But the state-run reference stations are generally too far away from you to get that sweet sweet 1cm accuracy...

It's amazing what you can do with consumer-priced gear these days. I set up a Sparkfun ZED-F9P breakout board as a fixed beacon on my roof, and then their "RTK Facet" as the rover to do precise measurements to create a map. I could have done the basic thing I needed to by hiring a surveyor or eyeballing things with a tape measure, but this is much more general.

The GNSS software world seems to be a mess though, ripe for a paradigm shift. For example, QGIS seems to be based on flat projections with transformations rather than 3d-native - from what I can tell, QGIS seems to consider the "degree" to be a unit of length measurement! This leads to ridiculous things like being able to accidentally measure a nonsensical "cartesian" distance between two points that differs from the actual distance by a factor dependent on latitude.

I've still got to tidy up my own pipeline that lets me do things like turn N (point, distance) samples into a single point. I would have thought that type of operation would be common, but thinking about how surveyors work I guess they're usually locating points optically, rather than trying to position a GPS receiver at the point to be measured.
A system, but not AirBNBs system.