skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unless they teach computers how to screw up in the exactly the same way that Johnny does every time he writes a sentence

You can ask an image generator for something like "Barack Obama painted by Picasso" and get a passable result, so it's probably possible to augment a writing model to mimic the style of Johnny's past essays.
I've jumped back into doodling on guitar after a mid-20's post band break up and... it's totally different this time. I am so much more interested in scales, building chords by manually and so forth, when I was younger I wanted to play songs.

The opposite is true for my math. I enjoyed algebra as a kid and hated trig and calculus. Now I am much more interested in calculus and don't like algebra algebra.

Sometimes there's different ways to learning, I have no idea.
> Essay-writing is no longer a skill that anyone values outside academia, because we moved on.

Downvote because essay writing is essentially researching a topic, forming an opinion, and communicating that opinion. This is applicable in almost every knowledge job.
If an artist wanted to allocate tickets by lottery at lower than market price, they would need a solution that would prevent ticket brokers from vacuuming them up and reselling them at market rate.

For instance, at time of sale (or signing up for a lottery ticket) they could ask for your name and then check everyone's ID at the door to make sure it's a match — just like airlines do. But this would introduce long delays.

Another option would be an app that used FaceID at time of lottery signup and then again to pull up a barcode to display at the gate, to make sure it's the same face.
18-20 years ago I would just put randomly generated gibberish in my papers after making my point and showing competence in the topic but not having met the minimum word requirements.

The educational attainment from my peers was so low that teachers were pretty understanding and gave high marks because I did the point of the assignment.

Reminds me of that, but GPT-3 is pretty impressive.
Don't put the grid on the body:

https://jsfiddle.net/y15qszjp/
You and antihero are talking about two different kinds of "good listening," though.

"Being a good listener" has both a practical and a social component. You are referring to the social component ("in Japanese culture..."). The tenets of social interactions in Japanese culture which have been ingrained in speakers of the language to one extent or another. The performance aspect of the act of listening.

antihero is talking about the practical form of "good listening" when they say "that makes you a terrible listener though." That is, what is the function of "listening" in a social interaction? I would hazard a guess that they believe the function of listening is to understand what another person is saying.

And by that benchmark, an individual who is not actually reaching any sort of understanding is a "bad listener" irrespective of how successful they are at performing the cultural/social component of the act of listening.

There's the additional implication that because signaling you are understanding when you are not leads to misunderstanding (which is the antithesis of the intended function of listening), it makes the listener an even worse quality listener than if they were not performing.
What? You honk your horn every time you enter an intersection where a driver is present and could cross your path? Because if they're already crossing your path then honking your horn is the last thing you should be concerned with.
Starlink already is a valid military target in time of war.

Also, the way the orbits are established and the fact that Taiwan is roughly equatorial, I thin every satellite eventually passes over it. Starlink is not geostationary
Flexbox can do it https://jsfiddle.net/fenys70z/
As CSS gets bigger and more needlessly complex, I wonder if people start writing compile-to-CSS languages that aren't just supersets of the status quo.

I could imagine (and I think I am possibly observing) CSS going a similar direction to JavaScript; we might soon see the CoffeeScript of CSS, and then eventually something more sophisticated and well-designed like the Elm of CSS.

CSS — like JavaScript — might become the styling bytecode of the web.
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I don't understand why this is news. Oregon is full of weed stores literally on the same property as gas stations. So a big chain is carrying legal weed... who cares?
If I'm understanding your explanation right he says this at the conclusion of a point. If so this is more in line with my experiences in discussions in Japan, acknowledging that you've made a point and thanking you for sharing it with them without necessarily accepting it.

Weirdly the best example that comes to mind was when I was buying a car and discussing the price against my needs and why I wouldn't want to pay what they were asking. The salesman would acknowledge the points I made with a "Thank you" and then proceed to argue against them.
Show HN: Weather the Trip’ Built on Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
Hi there Jason Marks here~

I’ve been browsing hacker news for years and am happy to share with the community my latest project Weather the Trip. Weather the Trip provides you with forecasts and recommended departure times for your road trips within the U.S. I did the whole legal zoom LLC angle trying to bootstrap this idea to something. So far this is a difficult process but I find it fun and rewarding.

Download link > www.weatherthetrip.com/download

If you are unacquainted, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) helps you create a core business logic library that includes all the tools and convenience to compile directly to the platforms you would like to build for. You get to keep all the benefits that native applications inherently have without having to port the business logic amongst the platforms! The native portions of the Android and iOS app for Weather the Trip are pretty much just view related code.

I think KMM is a great platform but I feel obligated to a few critiques. Right now, there are not a lot of third-party dependencies that are interesting which also compile to the swath of targets available. Worse yet some that are interesting get out of date fast since KMM is still not beta (the caveat is SQLDelight for ur tables which is [in fact] delightful). The first party core dependencies do have you covered for all of the essentials: Net, Serialization (no XML), Datetime (no formatters at the moment), Concurrency.

Concurrency has additional complexity to get right. The first party coroutines work great but not all targets know what a coroutine is (looking at you iOS). Out of the box you are not able to use coroutines inline to something like a Reactive pattern for all targets. I ended up deciding on flinging out results through interfaces and catching and redirecting using native abstractions. It isn’t elegant but works without getting too clever. This path does require a contract with the core library where calls must return data or an error to the target.

I will end on an acknowledgement that other multiapp platforms exist. I am a believer that native apps always outperform alternatives in UX. I won’t bother ranting against other multiapp platforms. If your skillset fits a certain platform then do that. If you are willing to pickup Kotlin, Swift, etc. then KMM is worth your time.

Still reading? I’m also on twitter @jmarks213

Still still reading? How about some inflammation???? Do you think the Kremlin is in the Kotlin? side ways eye emoji
There was more commentary about it when it was posted in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23487178 (although I didn't go through them all looking for endorsements)
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Are you sure the essays are set for that reason? I had to write essays and reports a lot in my CS course but the reason was pretty clearly because the professors didn't want to do code reviews. They certainly didn't care about clarity of writing given the absolutely minimal feedback provided on those reports, the general uselessness of what little was provided and the fact that by the time you reach a university you've already sat through many years of educators teaching you how to write (or trying), so CS profs have no edge there.

What taught me to write wasn't school or essay writing homework, not even at university level. The crucible that forged my own ability to spell and argue was the internet. Slashdot, blogging, later HN.

If I was a teacher trying to teach people to write, I'd be tempted to pick some reddit forums, and ask students to find a comment they thought they could add to, then submit (to me) a set of replies to them. Online forums give you real time feedback in whether your argument landed or not, whether people understood what you meant and so on. Literally every mini-essay is graded by other readers, in real time, on demand (maybe not on writing quality but it never is, not even in school).
Isthmus of Tehuantepec was used as an inter-oceanic passage in the 16th century
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I found that in elementary or secondary school page minimums were used to as a cheap proxy for effort. In college page maximums started appearing to encourage concision. Different needs for students at different points in their education.
I think you're on to something here.

My local anecdote - a few of my realtor friends said roughly 70% of all transactions in the last two years in Santa Barbara area have been cash deals. They also said currently those deals are all dried up. From what little research I've put into it, from the county assessors office it looks like 2.5k homes were sold last year in the area. Now think about this, we had an overwhelming number of people from LA and SF flee to Santa Barbara during the pandemic. How many of those people had temporarily won the stock option start-up lottery, ie. any tech bubble employee - zoom, pelaton, doordash, etc, or had a house that had spiked in value willing and was willing to swap homes. It doesn't take much when housing supply is at historic low and temporary bubble demand skyrocketed to throw the market all out of whack. Personally, I know at least 10 people that traded their zoom stock for all cash housing deals here in SB at the right time. Now that stock is worth 1/8 of what is was. I imagine that this scenario played out a few hundred times just in our little town. Extrapolate that nationwide, you can see what might have contributed to massive asset valuations that quite literally, don't make sense. In the long run, it shouldn't matter, however it will be fun to watch it all play out.
> the RFC that Google and Microsoft forced through the IETF to open-wash it

This is a gross misrepresentation of the situation. Yes, Google played a significant role in the development of HTTP/2, QUIC and HTTP/3, providing the starting point for the development work in each case, but there was no open-washing: there was a collaborative process with the involvement of many interested parties, and the end result was significantly different from what was first proposed, and significantly better. This is how IETF works. Google did not control matters in any way, nor Microsoft.
Clothing, I would argue, is one of the things that give a human dignity, and raise the human above an animal. Work is another thing that falls in this category, as does not raping each other (some animals don't care). This is something that our ancestors understood well - look at how well they dressed despite the great economic difficulties in doing so for many of them. Animals don't wear clothes - and humans who get angry about wearing clothes make themselves animals, as do humans who despise working, or humans who attack people. These are fundamentally animal-like traits that we should be above.

Animals are not meant to be an inspiration for tolerable human behavior. They attack each other, kill each other, eat each other, commit incest, and so on. Just because an animal doesn't wear clothes, and that humans are a form of glorified animal, does not mean that it follows in any way that humans should be okay with doing the same.
Big Tech keeps winning because we all hate our political opponents more than we hate the abuse of our privacy.
unfortunately the positive outcome they often have is teaching people that is a very bad idea to have goid-faith interactions with last enforcement.
What's the price of a GPU- the MSRP or the current bid for the only one available on eBay? In my opinion, it's the value I can actually buy the thing for.
If you want to see a band locally and are appalled by the ticket costs it's often better just to show up on site. The dynamics change a lot once a show starts if it's not sold out.

Separately last century I had a plastic wallet containing a photo booth picture of me with the word 'press' Letrasetted over it. I was able to hang around by the stage taking photos with a camera that had no film in it sometimes, saw some pretty big name acts doing that but it wouldn't work these days. I also used to sneak in back stage a couple of songs into sets.

More seriously the touts need to sell tickets once the music has started...and will negotiate down a lot...
Apple's portable devices are too sight obsessed. Need to feel more. Would love a full-width slideout HTC keyboard on the iPhone for textual composition on Keynote, Notes app. A slideout HTC keyboard Braille reader, writer would break new ground for accessibility. The battery thickness and feel of the edge should offer the choice of being more masculine or feminine or indeterminate according to consumer's desire. Use more ceramic materials for better connectivity.
Do you seriously believe that until the end of time no court can sign a warrant demanding Google search it’s database of photos across all accounts?
I'm impressed by how this panned out. A few months ago, before things had worsened this much, Emad(Stability CEO) was talking on discord how happy he was about the inpainting model being trained and released soon.

At that point, I assume RunwayML too talked about releasing it.

Then, a few months later they released it.

And suddenly the response is "How dare they"?
7punches: Experimenting with approaches to cross-platform mobile development
I figure these tools fall in a similar category to web scraping which is legal. What you can’t do is copy the file. If you can demonstrate that you are modifying the source data then it’s a new work. Style is not protected by copyright as much as famous artists may want.

Where copyright may be applicable is when the models reproduce original art without modification that a reasonable person wouldn’t know the difference.
Seeing a lot of long term analysis in these comments, I would add: Whenever the boomer sell-off begins, that will be the paradigm shift. It may be in 5, 10, 15, or 20 years.
"Back-channeling" is the English linguistic term for the concept, but 相槌 is actually referred to in normal conversations in Japanese, while most people (the author included it seems) don't know or use it in conversation.
It's an Asimov story whose title I forget. The truth in question was a defense against nuclear bombs.
English is de facto required in Middle and High School in Japan, and many parents pay for extra tutoring. Many of the best corporate positions require you have a minimum fluency.

In other words: I have no idea where you got that idea.
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That’s exactly the problem; the only group that ends up earning more in this case is Ticketmaster, not bands or managers.
You're absolutely correct. A big chunk of the extra fees on ticket prices goes back to the venue. Ticketmaster is just a cover, because everyone already hates Ticketmaster.
> The classic 5-paragraph essay (intro, point #1, point #2, point #3, conclusion) is the foundation of the vast majority of non-fiction writing.

Never heard of this format or it being some kind of standard. Is five paragraphs really an ‘essay’?
To add my subjective opinion:

I came back to frontend development after a break of 10 years. Back then there was jQuery, CSS and HTML.

I found that the complexity of the tooling had increased 20-fold. All these build and task runners that were cool for a year and then a new one came along.

Those were the costs, but what was the upside? It seems that you can do maybe 10%-20% "more" than back then. It seems to me that this is a very very steep price to pay.
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While I broadly agree with what you've written here, I think that:

> Airbnb needs hosts for its revenue. Clients are the product.

is not a useful way to think about this. AirBnb lives in a sort of weird parasitic-symbiotic relationship with both its hosts and the "guests". They are not trying to sell "guests" to anyone (they may do data collection and sale, but I think this not the cornerstone of their business model): what they rely on is an abundant supply of matching properties (not hosts!) and "guests". The hosts as people are irrelevant. If they lose "guests", less revenue. If they lose properties/listings, less revenue.

> Is the business model unsustainable?

The original AirBnb model (people renting spare rooms in their own homes, or maybe a casita on their property) was sustainable, but growth-limited. I don't know about the current one.
I think its a function of time and demographic change as well. It's not just that they're popular, but the people they're popular with are now older, have better jobs and more disposable income. Look at the ticket prices for any popular bands that are still doing shows from the boomer's generation like grateful dead. Ultimately what I'm saying is their target market can bear higher cost tickets, so now they cost more. I don't get why millennials are still shocked by this.
I thought you had to show actual damages to sue in this context? How does a state assume the role of the people transgressed and then not pass any money from the suit onto the people impacted?

So tired of governments using people as a means of attacking corporations only to not provide the people with relief. Otherwise, it needs to be criminal. But, they can't unless a specific individual is found to have broken the law, but that's what the layers of separation and plausible deniability are for.

How does any of this benefit the people?
Well we can go to concerts. Just not the expensive ones.
Evidence is provided, of a sort. The first link goes to a report by a journalist who interviews redditors who claim they are doing this and talk about why.
> That means constructing an argument and supplying evidence.

Ah wouldn't it be fantastic if school essays were more like proving to your boss that you followed the spec to the letter and less like... Following the spec to the letter.

That's the difference and it makes all the difference.
I think it's unfair to expect individual journalists to be able to change this. It's the incentive structure around them that forces this. The game does a good job at expressing this by giving you crickets when you take a photo of another guy in a hat or of people getting along.

What's the solution? Who knows...
The 5-paragraph essay is the larval form of the 6-page research paper. As a scientist, you will similarly face reprimands from reviewers if you deviate from the format.
Maybe, but it would be a highly non-classical computer. Probably it could cheaply render the most physically plausible paths to specified outcomes, and quickly factor large primes.

Nb. quantum also highlights assumptions made by our brain's rendering engine.
You ogle for about a minute and then you get over it and grow up. Good grief.

This attitude that women must be modest because men are helpless and not in control of themselves is not exactly beneficial to men, and also not true.
I hated those. I can write reasonably quickly thanks to cursive, but it still felt like my hand was the limiting factor instead of my brain.
So HTTP is the old school Star Wars fans pretending the prequels don't exist?
This is a typical comparison between capitalism and communism. In capitalist countries, given a scarce resource, what determines who gets it is generally money. In the USSR this was often determined by queues. [1]

[1] https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/queues-in-ussr...
This sounds like its own huge maintenance burden for me as a library developer. If I picked a particular hash function, it's because it fulfilled my requirements. I'm not necessarily going to have a list of backup options that meet those requirements and also don't negatively impact other parts of my own code.
To be cost efficient with day-ahead hourly pricing, you need a faster (level 2) charger as there are only few extra-cheap hours in a day.
The other side of supply/demand is the supply.

People sitting on 2% mortgages are not going to move. There's a lot of housing inventory that's locked away now [1].

We're going to enter a lower supply, lower demand market. The prices might not move much.

[1] Maybe downsizing Boomers will balance this. I'm not aware of any measures of this trend, though. And a lot of Boomers just sold/downsized to take advantage of the high prices.
> The article mentions that Garth brooks solved this by doing more concerts (e.g. 9 in a row in the same city!), but that's obviously not viable for everyone. Is there a better solution? Even if there were 5 different companies selling concert tickets, wouldnt they inevitably move to dynamic pricing for the same reason?

It's a little more complicated when you realize that Ticketmaster is owned by Live Nation, a conglomerate which has bought out most of the major performance venues over the years. Many bands (including Blink 182, I believe) get contracted to Live Nation for the entirety of a tour, which means that they will only be performing in venues that Live Nation owns and operates, using Live Nation's ticketing system (Ticketmaster) and accepting all of the terms and issues that come along with that.

As a condition of the 2010 merger, Live Nation promised the US Justice Department not to retaliate against venues that partnered with other ticketing providers until 2020. Because they violated that agreement, it was extended until 2025. You can look at that as "Live Nation is legally prohibited from retaliating against other venues", or you can look at it as "Live Nation has already demonstrated that they will leverage monopoly power in flagrant violation of the law, and in 2 years they will be permitted to with no recourse". Both are true.

You can refuse to use Ticketmaster, but that means likely getting locked out of most of the venues you'd want to perform at - both the ones owned by Ticketmaster/Live Nation and the ones that have an exclusive contract with them (ie, de facto owned by Ticketmaster/Live Nation).

Look at how things went for Pearl Jam, and realize that Ticketmaster/Live Nation has even more of a vertically integrated monopoly now than they did 30 years ago.
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