skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this train of thought and it aligns well with how I think about the world. You treat state actors differently than citizens and, living under a state, they are absolutely in your threat model for home security. Police get it wrong sometimes. Sometimes they act maliciously.

Counter point. My security system is not easily taken offline (resilient against cutting power for 2+ hours, cameras are all PoE, hard to find the drive storing footage, etc.). If the state enters my home COINTELPRO style, or gets the wrong house, I want footage of that encounter under my control when it’s time to go to court.

I think this line of thinking lines up well with my original comment. We shouldn’t look at this technology as an all encompassing shift towards centralization of power. There are uses that gives power back to individuals. This power is a good thing on an individual level and dangerous in aggregate.
It should be, but I suspect most people fly under the radar.

My brother in law worked as a tax accountant and business management professional for many different entertainers before becoming CFO of an niche business management company. Sorting out the taxes for Michael Jackson and the crew for the Bad Tour and later the Dangerous Tour was a huge undertaking, especially since with the latter Michael was donating his estimated profits to various charities as they went country to country.

He's met lots of different folks over the years, but his meeting with Sheryl Crow was due to Michael: she was a background singer on the Bad tour and came in to try to understand the tax documents he'd prepared for her. Also, Slash (who was on the Dangerous Tour) is a pretty cool guy — my BiL went to a number of gigs to be sure the money was being spent "correctly" and hung out with the talent and crew quite a bit.
I used their "Global Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)" value, page 9 of the pdf.
I spent some time in Sweden. Old folk in the region I was in would do this quick inhale of breath instead of an "uh huh" kinda "I'm listening".

The thing is... it was like a tiny, frightened gasp. The first dude that did it made me worry he was having a heart attack!
You mean like Project West Ford?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
TM finally cornered the aftermarket, probably been dreaming of it for decades.

More evil in my opinion, they have enforced a KYC policy around tickets, where attending without a smartphone and app installed is increasingly impossible. Thanks to Covid making it acceptable. TM has dynamic barcodes now, a printout is no longer sufficient.

I loved live music for a long time and we have a concert location locally but this looks like the end of the line for me. I want to attend anonymously, pay cash, and have a paper ticket as a souvenir.
"As long as it's not damaging anything, why should I care about someone having cows?"

Noise, smells, sanitation, etc
While the notion of treating these systems as “sociotechical” rather than purely technical is probably a good move wrt actually improving people’s lives, I can say from my own experience in academia that there are still way too many academics working in this field who don’t think it’s their problem. I’ve personally raised these types of issues before and been told “we’re computer scientists, not social scientists”, as if “social scientist” is a derogatory term. The biggest impediment here is, in my opinion, overcoming the bloated egos of the people who think the social impacts of their work are somehow out of scope. All is well as long as you can continue to publish.
You're not telling me anything I don't already know about physicalism or Mary's room. What's in dispute here is whether any physical action is a legitimate answer to the Knowledge Argument, so I'm going to ignore the rest and focus on this disagreement:

"Imagining" is not the same as surgery. Do you agree or disagree that Mary constructing a red LED to experience redness is not a legitimate response to the Knowledge Argument?
Yes. I used to be a hardcore materialist, I studied applied physics at university as a young know-it-all, and never reflected on how absolutely weird "experience"/quale is until years later and changed my mind. But if anyone can explain how to get from matter to experience I would be relieved :)

What do you think?
To be fair though, that sounds... mostly legit, what you did that is.

Ie in many cases in school i don't think they actually care to teach you the subject. What good is that subject really going to have on your life going forward? Even if the sense of ethics or history-repeating i suspect it's quite low.

What those meaningless tasks can do (though highly dependent on the person, i assume) is teach you how to research, how to communicate, and how to cite.

At least that was always my takeaway from many subjects in school that were subjective (ie not math, science, etc). The content is often the least important aspect of many early learnings. .. but then again i loathed school growing up, so who am i to speak on the subject lol.
You'd be absolutely nuts to think you'll ever get a rate better than 1.9% average over 30 years. I am deeply envious!
The question of reasonableness cuts both ways: the high cost for the Airbnb unit plus the added fees including the cleaning ones, and the lists of guest to-do items upon check-out. The two combine and quick it becomes the feeling that you're paying a lot more than a hotel and yet have a lot more servicing to do yourself. If there is a very high cleaning fee, it becomes increasingly unreasonable to ask a lot of your guests to spend time cleaning everything before they leave.
> That was much harder to do, in the past

Is there any evidence for that? In one of David Attenborough's documentaries, he talks about that. Research showed that people are quick to point out that a baby looks like the father, even when the father isn't the biological father. The inference is that cuckolding is a common occurrence.

You're right that people would go to great lengths to ensure fidelity of the women, even executing them for infidelity. They wouldn't have bothered if cuckolding wasn't common. The recent movie "The Last Duel" was historically accurate in that it was a duel to the death over whether a knight's friend had sex with his wife or not.
Issue 31482: Huge amount of goats teleported (2010)
Am I reading you right? You are saying that the vast majority of people in your social circle have been in the same job for 15+ years, and yet they are under age 50?

That would be astonishing, unless you are in some really unique industry.

Perhaps if it's one of the big consulting firms, maybe. They start right out of university and then follow a career track which can easily go 15 years to partner level. And for those willing and able to live that life, I imagine they don't change jobs as often as others.
Solution: become a death metalhead. Top bands are 20$
>With an option for mortgage owner to buy out the lender after 10 years without additional costs.

What does this mean? Are there usually early repayment penalties for home mortgages in Germany, or is it simply not allowed?

In the US, I have never read about not being able to pay or a penalty for paying the entire mortgage at anytime.
This is not dynamic pricing. This is a price ratchet based on diminishing inventory. There may be an algorithm at work here, but it would be superfluous. All they need to do is set thresholds that increase the price over a known quantity of tickets.

Dynamic pricing works as a mechanism to bring more supply to bear. You can't do that with concert tickets. The only way it would work with concert tickets would be that as an individual concert's seats started to sell at a certain velocity, then another concert would be added for the following night. That would bring new capacity online, which would bring the market back in to "balance". This would go until there was no more demand. Their result would be the maximum number of total tickets would be sold at the maximum price possible. That is different from "15,000 tickets sold at the highest price possible".

This is nothing more than a way to disguise a significant price increase.
Why are you insulted by such a claim if you know it's naive and false?
> And suppose Mr. Chav has grown up in England, but is uneducated and isn't even sure who is the Prime Minister.

Easy: The head of lettuce.

More seriously, this stuff comes up with historical events, which is only to be expected given that the human mind is a tale-spinner of ill repute that has a habit of creating and re-creating stories and convincing itself that this new version was the way it really happened. Records might be incomplete, or even wrong, but they don't flip things around quite as avidly as the human mind. Of course, I don't know how much known facts about cognitive science are allowed to inform philosophy...
Previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644990
All this makes me yearn for the days of Windows 10 Mobile again.

I built a very simple websocket based app and there was not only support for "you need a long lived TCP connection and occasionally might need to read from it" but "you need background services that might depend on the state of the radio" and more.

Honestly it was an absolute dream to develop for, and it's a damn shame upper management seems to have had a fit that they weren't winning out of the gate.
We run a very large installation 100% on spot and have done for a few years. We serve our web traffic, do background work, etc. all on spot instances.

We see similar mismatched pricing all the time and take advantage of it. One additional area not called out here is the difference between c5.24xlarge and c5.metal instance pricing. These are pretty much identical hardware but metal instances are often cheaper.

As you go down this path, do expect to see a lot of weird things that you'll have to track down. For example, when we introduced metal instances we found that the default ubuntu AMI launched with a powersave cpu governor. Non-metal instances don't support CPU throttling so it never came up with c5.24xlarges. When we first launched metal instances the performance per instance was significantly worse and took a bit of work to track down.

Recently we've seen a lot more spot interruptions and it's pushing us to incorporate more 6th gen instances to get us more diversity. We've also temporarily switched to capacity optimized over price optimized and we've enable capacity rebalancing.

It's absolutely a win for us from a pricing perspective. Our traffic is extremely variable each day and very seasonal throughout the year. RIs don't make sense given <12 hrs daily peak and 10x difference between July and September. However, just plan for some odd surprises along the way.
> « Non-paternity events » occur at a rate of a few percents a given generation at best

I thought that widespread genetic testing has shown it to be much higher than that.
Over half of them is season tickets where reselling when you cannot go is well supported via their platform.

Either way you buy ticket as a registered buyer and it is so frowned upon that anyone going into anywhere public for profit resale would risk to loose their season or right to buy.

Sure, nothing is 100% and also no solution for one time concerts - but just wanted to say regulation and fair prices sometimes make sense.. tickets for $1000 is nuts I'm glad this hasn't materializd here (yet?)
> It comes down to understanding the nuances, and mutual respect, I think?

I think that's a great summary.

Look out for companies that try to manage what they don't understand. It can lead to the 'car mechanic phenomenon'. I call it that because it's like the feeling some get when they get the bill from the car mechanic. They can't fix it themselves, so how do they know if someone's pulling one over on them?
Yooo, his performance is immaculate, had me dancing to the entertainer like it was 1913. Yeee!
> Google Photos recognizes EVERY face

No. It does not "recognize" a face. If you take a few pictures of another Google user, it won't say - "Hey, here are all the pics of John". It will just allow you to lookup all pictures that match a face. Its clustering and not recognition.
There's rules and regulations against it, for one. Should locals be allowed to do whatever they want on their property with no regards to how it will impact neighbours and local economy? There's a reason we have zoning laws, etc, in place. There's lots of things we stop locals from doing because it's for the better of the community as a whole, and renting out short-term to tourists should be one (and, again, it sometimes already is but AirBnB allows them to skirt the regulations).
> You can't fire anyone, you can't sue them

Yes you can. And there are no win, no fee lawyers who hope to make a profit at it.

https://www.nhsnegligence.co.uk/sue-hospital-for-negligence/
That's 36 classes per *day* (900/250 workdays)

I don't know how many people were working on that

but when developing standard library you do not really want to rush designs. You want to be very, very careful about it.

Here's a book about it from one of the most experienced people in API/Standard lib design on the planet

https://www.amazon.com/Framework-Design-Guidelines-Conventio...
Ask HN: Why is everyone's marketing blurb so bad?
What is up with the amount of high profile projects who can't just say "We do X for Y"? Why does it always have to be some 'value' and 'impact' and 'delivering' and other ambiguous words to describe your thing?

Are these products a form of résumé wankery or is this actually trying to sell me something when I see this? Sometimes I WANT to use or WANT to buy something, only to become very skeptical when it comes to the marketing copy.

Also, contact-sales-for-pricing guy and login-to-demo guy, you're on the list too! I have a single break in the day to review your product, stop resisting.
That's an excellent idea. I'd even consider paying a subscription for it (assuming I used Airbnb again, which I might with this service).

Could Airbnb challenge it legally though?
Those worlds are states in superposition, the term "world" is an allegory to help people understand that those states don't interact due to linearity of the Schrodinger equation, because not all properties of linearity are obvious.
Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on Cod.
For what it's worth, music genre definitions are murky, and blink-182 were bred from a punk scene, and, to a lot of folk, blink-182 is a punk band (even if they are pop-punk, they are related). I was simply ironically pointing out the juxtaposition of $600 tickets with the DIY, keep-costs-low ethic made popular by punk bands.
What would you pay for a one screen, 4K plan? $15?
Github Star link looks fixed.
Especially when the article itself notes that LiveNation often also represents the artists.
NYC is a little slow to the table. My local school system added Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Diwali, Lunar New Year and Eid al-Fitr as holidays last school year. They were one of the last school districts in the area to do so.
There are a few technical reasons I don’t see this as a real threat:

1. There isn’t a particular part of the constellation that passes over China. There are probably a few launch groups that never or rarely pass over China, but a majority do. An adversary would have to destroy or disable a few thousand satellites.

2. Anti-satellite weapons aren’t nearly plentiful enough and given the ground support required, I’d be surprised if launching more than a few per day is feasible. A counterattack would come too quickly.

3. Precise positions don’t help that much. Even knowing a satellite position to ~2m still requires some active tracking on the interceptor. It’s not much benefit over knowing the position to 1km.

4. The debris created would be catastrophic and likely to damage the ISS even at Starlink’s low altitude.

All of the first three apply to GPS as well even though it’s only ~32 satellites.
Dark matter affects some galaxies, but the rotation of others is completely explained by the observable matter. Why would one galaxy be influenced by its many worlds twins, but not another?
Mary is using sensors either way: they either come pre-installed or after market.

On a more serious note, I'm taking the question in the article at face value, "Has Mary learnt anything new about the colour red upon seeing the colour for the first time?" If the author really meant it to be a question about the subjective experience of seeing, they should have simply written a better question.
Most places will tell you 40 hours a week, but in reality if you want to move up you gotta be the person that puts out fires and is available on call to fix shit when it breaks out of the blue.

There’s some companies that have solid process and don’t require more than 40 hours a week with the ability to advance, unfortunately most companies aren’t like that.

One mistake I’ve made that I won’t in the future is to stick my nose and fix things that aren’t really my responsibility. There’s a fine line to walk between revealing your other strengths where you can help other teams, but more often than not you end up with more responsibility and doing 2-3 other peoples work.

You have to be careful getting involved in other departments even though you can do it better than those employees and can fix urgent problems. You get stuck with more permanent responsibilities that weren’t part of your main job duties.
The first section (regarding the FOIA request and looking back from "ten years later") is from 2021. There is a signoff just before the picture of Steve Jobs that states "Kyle McDonald June 7, 2021".
Totally agree with that; it is a pretty common approach. The only part I don't agree with is calling out the price differences as some kind of "gotcha" that AWS somehow missed, particularly given the speculative "lost revenue" data which have no basis in reality.
It's impossible to know. Ticketmaster is opaque and the artists are under NDAs. However, if you think about it logically what incentive does Ticketmaster have to pass on the profits to the artists? The deck is hugely stacked in their favor and the artists don't have a lot to negotiate with. It's not like they're going to switch to a competitor. The most they can do is threaten to not tour or tour only in small to medium venues--and even those medium venues are getting gobbled up by TM.

To be fair, I'm sure artists like Blink-182 are still getting a decent chunk of change from the tour, especially from merch sales. But I also think Ticketmaster/Livenation is feeing them like mad and walking away with the lion's share of the revenue.
For those who might be interested, the Behind the Bastards podcast did an episode on Pullman and the issues associated with the Town that led to the strike:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
Are there payrates at Alphabet lower than at Google? Typically, I have always read the acronym in relation to high paying jobs or high performing stocks.
> It's bad news if you bought a home and the market falls.

If you sell it (quickly).

I happened to buy in 2007. House prices fell. But...

I sold in 2020. Overall 38.5% price appreciation in 13 years. (Inflation over that time period was roughly 25%.)
Apple's own products do this often. For instance, an instrument in one of my tracks in iOS GarageBand is listed as "Kind...ass". It's supposed to be "Kindergarten Bass".

https://i.redd.it/0ncp6hgad7v91.jpg
It can be quite instructive to "excel pretend" that you're buying your house and renting it to yourself.

Buy a few landlording books and read through them, and then vigorously track everything that would be a "rental expense" if it were a rental property in your spreadsheet, then at anytime you can "back out" what you would have had to pay in rent assuming some % profit. Add that to rental comparables from your area and you can get quite a good idea as to the true cost of home ownership (and renting).

Or you can do a simple version of it by calculating what the IRS would allow you to deduct as depreciation and assume that's roughly the maintenance cost.
Did the tickets ever get cheaper as excess inventory showed up? THAT would be dynamic pricing.
Why do artists sign with TM / Live Nation? Because they know Live Nation will make them the most money for the least hassle and risk. Artists may also lack a little creativity on what a fan experience looks like. more on that below.

I dislike Ticketmaster as much as the next person, but no one is holding a gun to Blink-182 to come out and perform in a nationwide tour with TM taking all the upside. I just can't fathom that negotiation taking place, unless TM was also guaranteeing revenue to the band, i.e. taking downside risk. Theres no point to that. Also, yes, LiveNation controls an impressive number of venues, but they dont control all the venues, not be a long shot. If the TM deal was such a raw deal for artists, nothing prevents artists from just hosting their own concerts in publicly owned venues, setting up longer term performance residences in interesting locations, or expanding the fan experience from the tired formula of "opener act, 2x 1-hour sets, and an encore" to something better like a collaborative fan experience over a whole weekend. Plenty of opportunity for creativity on the artist's part that would make the artist less money in a night but yield a potentially waaaay better lifestyle and creative process.

At the end of it, Live Nation is a publicly traded company, but not a very attractive one. Lots of debt, rapidly increasing labor costs on the event hosting side, household budgets getting a major squeeze which will impact entertainment spend.
> I held her back a year in preschool

This (or backing up a year any year) might have helped you too.

> and put her in a private school that mixes multiple years in the same differentiated class.

This might backfire, for the same reason that you had trouble -- differentiation is difficult to do in practice.
And your childhoold school might have been less differentiable than a modern public school, which has the benefit of computerized material and automated adaptive tests.

Of course, if the private school solves it by having a far lower student:teacher ratio, then of course that's better than a public school, all else equal.

Another thing parents can do is, instead of switching to private school, put that money toward hiring PTA-sponsored assistant-teachers in the classrooms.
Just follow what congress members do: https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violation...
If you want to leverage cheap spot, use us-east-2 / Ohio region. The prices are typically half of what you see in us-east-1.

Also, it really helps to analyze at the AZ level. Certain AZs lack instances or have very low spot availability and contrary to recommended best practice, reducing AZs can sometimes be beneficial (I am looking at you eu-central-1a).

While lowest price sounds nice, they can be really messy in terms of spot interruption rate. It is much better to set a max price and choose capacity optimized with as many instances as possible.
I am not so sure. In my understanding of the block universe, causality doesn't really exist, and the universe is simply a consistent solution with boundary conditions both at the beginning and at the end of time (as well as in space).

The game of life is perhaps a nice analogy here. On the 2d grid of the game of life, a glider seems moving in a certain direction when time moves forward. But in the 3d grid, where time is the third dimension, a glider is just a static volume of space.

The reason we experience time is that the evolution of the block universe does depend on the dimension you look at (e.g entropy generally increases in the positive time dimension), and because our consciousness is an emergent property of a self-sustaining structure within the block universe, it's plausible at least that we perceive movement in time different from movement in space. I realize this is very sloppy wording but I'm having trouble finding better words to describe my intuition here.