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> Fans are furious!

Fans who remember when Ticketmaster didn't have a vertical monopoly on arena tours are furious at how everything they warned other fans or the industry about 20 years ago came boringly true.

Fans who had a slim chance of affording a $60 ticket that they had a slim chance of actually buying under the old model are furious because now they have a zero chance of affording any ticket to any in-demand show.

Fans who could always afford and always bought $250 tickets, whether through resellers under the old model or first parties under the new model, are less angry but still have complaints about how Ticketmaster is still as bad 20 years into selling tickets online at the actual ticket sales motion - carts getting dumped out before the end of the transaction, timeouts due to overloaded infrastructure, bad venue experiences. (Resellers could actually exchange money for goods and services about as well as or better than TM, and when the tickets were legit they actually got you into the venue 100% of the time.)

All three face the same core problem - Ticketmaster's monopoly makes their lives worse.

Artists _who are big enough for TM to pay attention to_ are about the only typically shorted party who like how this played out. The rest of the industry is basically locked out with few or no alternatives depending on the market.
IIRC the way someone reimplemented flexbox was to take the layout tests and iterate until their implementation passed.

https://yogalayout.com/
Time to register a new domain and incorporate someplace else.
That sounds expensive for something that he is giving away free.
And can cut spend on office space.
I don't believe "feeling" has anything to do with the MWI interpretation. At least I've never heard it described that way.

Given the equations that describe quantum mechanics (ie Schrodinger equation) MWI is essentially the "null hypothesis". No equations that describe collapse have ever passed the rigor of experiment and all collapse theories require modifications to the mathematics of QM. The burden of proof here is on theorists that support collapse theories not proponents of MWI.
lol too true.

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GIS software is indeed messy, but not because the people writing it don't know what they're doing. You seem to be approaching things from a Cartesian perspective, but GIS almost always works in spherical coordinates because the earth is (approximately) a sphere. It makes a lot of common operations easier too.

Imagine you go on a road trip (along the surface of the earth). How far have you driven? In spherical coordinates, that's just changing two angles. In Cartesian coordinates, it's an ugly mess. Doesn't hurt that it's a lot easier to measure angles in surveying than distance.

However, certain GIS systems like QGIS and arcGIS are designed for making maps and have to display things in a 2D space. Thus, they have a projection mapping the spherical coordinates to Cartesian canvas coordinates and back again. This leads to unintuitive behavior, but it's mathematically hard to do better.

Now, the user interfaces and the terminology and the subtly disastrous inconsistencies between different data sources? Hot flaming garbage, all of it. These aren't problems with the underlying data models though.
> I not infrequently travel for 2-3 weeks and, while I definitely appreciate a refrigerator I pretty much never find I need a full kitchen.

I'm guessing you're a high income individual with no kids then?
Hey OP if you are reading this - could you not perhaps use one of the recent free voice to text converters (I think openAI recently released one - whisper, Mozilla also had an old one that was bought by Baidu I think) to add subtitles? - assuming the language is covered (edit Hebrew does appear to be covered by whisper)

If the only requirement is "subtitles" and not "100% accurate subtitles" or "time synced subs" it may be a bit of a headache, but not too bad.
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I'm aware, because I read about these things in some depth, but not everyone knows about certificate transparency. Why would they if it isn't highlighted?

As I said, it's not mentioned in the Certbot documentation. There's no warning. It's not obvious at all.
It's a non profit, and they do sustain themselves with donations at this point. I thought we were comparing team to impact but I agree re: business functions.
I had to read that three times to make sure I was reading right. That's very...open...of them.
Not switching jobs is probably a mistake... The job market is incredibly tight, so it's the perfect time. Once the layoffs start it'll be harder to find work.
Depends how it's losing. Could be like Yahoo! who just accepted its fate and sank as gracefully as possible, or could be like Apple who fought back.
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I found it very interesting that I haven't heard of this before. It seems pretty analogous to Fuse on Linux, and I wish there was more stuff built on it.
There was a UK comedian (can't remember their name) who was so outraged at the markup the ticket sales middleman took he refunded all of those who paid and refused to do any more gigs at venues who only sold through that platform.
Every area is different, some places the norm is to price the house low and then take the highest offer, other places price the house high and then take the highest offer (that will be below the asking price).

Arguably if the house doesn't sit on the market for about 3 months it was priced too low, and if it sits longer it was priced too high (this can also depend on if it is empty or inhabited at the time).
not even close to the same thing
I think the issue is less about the changes they need to make, and more of the spectre of a potential lawsuit.

Lawyers have a distinct upper-hand here because they are doing this in bulk and are probably using this as more of a "side-gig" to fill in extra work hours that they can't otherwise bill to clients. So the opportunity costs for them are pretty low, basically court fees, but the potential earnings are pretty high, since it's probably cheaper to pay out the lawsuit than it would be to hire a lawyer to fight it.

Plus, these are a potentially huge lottery ticket. If the company fails to respond to the lawsuit, a default judgement is issued and who knows how much they could earn from that. So like 4 hours of work for tens of thousands in payouts.

And it's only mom-and-pop companies that suffer. Companies that can afford staff counsel are just going to spend the few hours to become compliant and get the lawsuit dismissed.

Getting sued sucks. You have to quickly come up with a retainer to give your counsel. Probably a few hundred or so to respond to the suit, but after that, five figures isn't unusual. Yeah, you'll get some of that back if you win, but you still have to be able to come up with it at short notice.
It’s good for people who want to sell and live in something smaller, since the market inflated the delta between differently valued houses on an absolute dollars basis.

And in the age of increased nomadic living, emigration to low CoL countries and multi-generational households, there might not be much of a replacement to buy or begin to expense.

Just explaining, not advocating for selling one’s home to retire.
Narayanan (~randomwalker) is writing a book about, & with likely title, "AI Snake Oil".

Of course there's plenty of BS around the domain – every epochal advance arrives inside a phalanx of pretenders & hypesters & scammers.

But the rapid progress in the field risks nearly any tangible statements about "AI that does not and cannot work" – the book's stated theme – becoming invalidated by on-the-ground events between composition & dead-tree printing.

Thus this viewpoint will more and more be driven towards a sort of timeless mood of generic skepticism & even denialism. There'll be a big audience for that. It's comforting. It meets people at the limits of their understanding. It assuages their fears.

But like a head-of-lettuce, it won't age well, except in comparison to even shorter tenures.

I think this 9-para, ~500 word… 'essay' – dare I call it that? – is an example of the trap Narayanan finds himself in.

Sure, essay assignments have all sorts of long-recognized limitations, dutifully recited here, as could have also been said in the 1990s, or 1960s, or 1930s. But their longevity in education – their 'lindyness' – suggests they had some value, as both exercise & evaluation. No easy replacement was found in the leisurely decades (centuries?) they were relied-upon.

Now, through K-12, they're done-for, in just about any case where a student remains unobserved, with access to LLM writing-assistance. In another 2-5 years, LLMs will not just be writing A+ Senior-in-High-School-level essays, but postgraduate star-student level papers.

Against that, Narayanan offers hand-wavy bluster: that somehow, in unstated ways, the "teachers and adjunct professors [who] are underpaid and overworked", who already in the ancestral environment had to depend on the "easier" but "mind-numbing" and "easier to grade" essay-assignments, will somehow now figure out a better approach, in a more-difficult environment, where their go-to solution for generations has been yanked away.

Sure, little Timmy has never swam before, but throw him into the deep end. His problem isn't "callousness or incompetence", so he'll figure it out! Narayanan's understatement: "The adjustment will be painful, for sure."

To the extent there will be adaptations, they are unlikely to come from the AI-denialists, who underplay access to these tools as no-big-deal.

Adaptations could include uncomfortable steps already on the rise, like closely surveilling students in tech-excluded environments, to be sure they practice, & can perform, those thinking-steps that we'd rather they not fully outsource to cheap thinking-substitutes.

Or sessions with AI tutors, who can drill students in more-intensive ways than those "underpaid and overworked" teachers in large institutions have historically managed.

Workable solutions will more likely be inspired by Stephenson's (1995) 'The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" than Narayanan's (2023?) 'AI Snake Oil'.
> the dev live-streamed almost every minute of development

Is there an archive of this dev work?
Not sure if it has been mentioned, but the increase in ticket prices is probably directly related to the collapse of record and CD sales over that past 20 year. Back in the day when live concerts were "cheap" it was partially because live concerts were used as a way to promote the sale of vinyl and CD's where artists made most of their money.

Today with streaming and considerably less revenue coming from record sales, artists have turned to live concerts as their primary revenue source, and to make a "living", they need to maximize revenue from that source.

As a result, in exchange for a nearly unlimited supply of recorded music at low prices, we need to pay significantly higher prices for live performances. It's a tradeoff. Not sure if it was worth it, but there is not going back.
From a slightly different perspective, and not entirely disagreeing with you but moving into a related discussion: as an industry we sometimes forget that we can build higher level debuggers just like we build any other higher-level abstractions. If the question is "how do we insert a console.log here?" (or a logging.log() to a file on disk. Or RS232 null modem command sequence plus log ASCII. Depending on the app and era) it's sometimes fine to say that question is too low level on specific output format and that we should be reaching for higher-level debuggers.

I understand the problems that higher level debuggers take time for someone to build, install, or at least train on using, and that's often time that projects can't afford, but there can be huge benefits to Developer Experience if you build or find debuggers specific to your abstractions, especially in places like functional programming pipelines.

(As some easy examples, I've worked with the Redux Dev Tools a few times and getting a "redux-eye view" of an application's data state is sometimes incredibly more useful than trying to add a bunch of console.logs into all your actions and reducers manually. Similarly, I've become a big proponent lately of using RxJS-Spy for RxJS work: it adds a single operator `tag('pipeline-name')` that is a no-op in Production builds and then gives you a great Dev-time API for observing [or debugger breaking] specific pipelines or pipelines filtered by regex of name, all without manually adding or removing `tap` and `console.log` in those same pipelines.)

We don't always have to stick to lowest common denominator debug tools. We don't still need to make sure that we can pipe to our dev terminal over serial port to get our debugging done or log everything to plaintext files that are hard to manage. I think sometimes people forget that.

Similarly, I do find a responsibility that if I write code that is best debugged with higher level tools, that I make sure to document those tools, and try my best to train people on them as they ask.
Would you mind to elaborate how A (the ability to intercept traffic) leads to B (the ability to make Let’s Encrypt issue a certificate for the (any?) host? I fail to see the connection
> released on Steam

Y tho

Edit: in fact RCT2 is on Steam, so I guess you buy that and then run OpenRCT2, pointing it to RCT2's resources.
I think they are implying Rosenzweig is as capable as 20 devs.
Good riddance. Don't forget the innocent subscription and cookie popups.
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> Couldn't this guy just hire a professional captioning service or offer transcripts to users that may need it?

Yes, and that is neither cheap or easy.
> Cash buyers are generally about 25% of the market, which is a good chunk, but not enough to prop up prices if the other 75% of buyers they're competing with have had their purchasing power drop by 40% in the past 6 months.

In aggregate in the U.S., but this and much other commentary in this thread doesn't consider enough the vast variation in local markets. There are spots where there's a higher percentage of cash buyers due to wealthier people living there, a larger contingent of foreign buyers, or people who sold homes in very expensive areas to buy in slightly-less-expensive areas. I'm seeing this where I am, where people are moving from the city (where a 1 BR apartment is easily over 1M, a 2 is 1.5-2M, etc.) to the suburbs, where an 800K house is considered pocket change.

Not to mention some people have access to "cash" without having it. Some mortgage brokers, even from large banks, can arrange to let you use collateral to help guarantee a closing within a short time (eg. 30 days) letting you waive the finance contingency.

In a given real estate transaction, someone waiving financing contingency is going to fall in to the category of "cash buyer", and it might not be obvious that the cash shown in the holdings (if it is even shown to the seller as proof of funds) came from a loan.
Come on. No one uses the term 'dry up' for a temporary condition.

The money dried up

the aquifer dried up

the relationship dried up

the oil dried up....

People use 'levels are low' or something similar for temporary conditions.

I'm not really going to debate this anymore.
DNSSEC doesn't yet support multi-provider DNS solutions and Route53 only recently (little over a year ago) started to support it.

Other note is I've had exactly two people who it prevented from using a site. One was at a coffee shop and another in a hospital where I assume they both were rewriting DNS for some reason.
Oh, yeah well that's not a real open source license. Apologies I read the "open source" more as in "it's on github" and was a little confused what all the organizations and definitions have to do with the actual idea
“Once you get the pattern down”, just like learning other subjects like math? But many kids don’t have it down. And there are gradations in complexity. An 8th grader who’s got it down and a 12 grader who’s got it down will produce different artifacts and should have different assignments.
Actually looks kinda appealing? I'm using the Flatpak on NixOS right now, and it's left a bad taste in my mouth. Tracking upstream Mesa drivers and pre-configuring MangoHud makes a pretty strong case for using the Snap.
Or institutional buyers will just continue absorbing housing stock as it goes on the market, and converting it into rental units. Squeezing more people out of ownership and into permanent rental.
While I don't doubt the majority of homeowners prefer single-family homes, I've known a fair number of condo owners (and renters) over the years, and none of them were "settling" because they were too old for yard work. Some made that choice for financial reasons -- condos often cost less than roughly comparable SFHs even when you figure HOA fees in -- but many made that choice because they prefer urban or oceanside living. My former roommate of many years now lives in a loft condo in a dense urban area, and it is more or less his dream house. Currently I live in a SFH on over an acre of land in rural Florida, and while there are some lovely things about it, I would trade it for a condo in certain cities in a heartbeat. Not everyone places a high priority on being able to smoke a brisket in the back yard.

Yes, this is all anecdotal, but I can't help suspect that you're doing a bit of "this is how I feel, so surely it's the way everyone else feels". :)
It’s boneheaded stuff like this that turned me against most accessibility laws in general. They sound like a good idea, but the implementations tend to make the perfect the enemy of the good and raise the barrier to entry too high for anyone who doesn’t have their own legal team.
And this is a problem why?
This was my thought as well. We keep hearing about how artists are struggling to make money on album sales thanks to the rise of spotify and the demise of CD sales. Wouldn't playing the same venue for a week+ means less inter-city travel, less work tearing up/down the stages, and a lot of income from steady ticket sales?
There are also commercial services that use a combination of automation and people fluent in the languages at play that are both very inexpensive and rather quick in terms of turnaround. We've used them for internationalizing training videos and the like as well as subtitling movies — we have to use essentially "airline" edits of movies, and sometimes they don't have the languages we need (e.g. French for Canadian customers).
Loved this. Thank you for sharing.
What is the Administration’s statement here?

That Twitter important to national security but is not a public utility / common carrier or subject to strict 1A protections?
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Wouldn’t an easy fix be to switch to a domain managed by a more sane organization? Like .com? And of course not use an Israeli hosting providers.
Did you even bother to look which browser implemented the features first? Will you update your priors based on what you find?
The stock market is down, which makes it a good time to start buying

Outside the US it's worse because of the strong dollar.
In Denmark it's illegal to resell tickets above face value. It seems to work OK.
Obligatory story how someone tailgated to apple’s office long after being fired to finish his project around ‘94 I think: https://youtu.be/Dl643JFJWig
Yeah, people who like looking at synthetic images will have easy access to more synthetic images (and could even generate them on their own machines).

But they are not harming anyone else.
To reduce inflation you have to lock up actual money. Locking up goods will do the opposite.
NYC vacancy is around 4%. It's effectively impossible to get below 3% due to people moving and renovations. The meme that the issue is vacant units is pretty much just straight up false. Yes, there are some luxury condos that are largely vacant, but those barely effect the rental prices of normal units other than maybe encouraging building luxury instead of normal housing.
And better than any windows laptop on the market with the same performance profile.
Phased arrays are good at rejecting incidental interference, which is why they were used to address radar jamming. Of course that also meant that billions were poured into developing technology to counter that resilient property. Anyone capable of blocking GPS on a non-trivial scale would be easily capable of blocking Starlink as well.
It is actually quite inexpensive for most and very easy, but expense is of course always measured in relative terms.
Color me, personally, surprised. Between publication bias and the general public ignorance of AI and its evolving capabilities, and over a decade of results in AI health being overblown before transformers, how could we have predicted that post-transformer results in AI health would continue to be overblown?
I don't think anyone is surprised except the people who get easily influenced by alarmist news journalism.
> Back in the day when live concerts were "cheap" it was partially because live concerts were used as a way to promote the sale of vinyl and CD's where artists made most of their money.

This is backward. Albums were where the record company made their money. Only mega-stars made their money on albums. Modern musicians have always made their money from live performances, and especially from merchandise. Albums were essentially marketing to bring fans in to concerts. This is why so many artists live on the road.

Artists, and record labels, are certainly making less on albums now though, and I wouldn't be surprised if the labels are now nosing in more on concert profits to make up for it.
you should add subtitles to your videos.

Either just auto-generate them with a service (can even use YouTube as someone mentioned), ask for the community to add subtitles, or hire transcribers if you’re willing to pay

Can re-show the videos one at a time when subtitles are added rather than immediately doing it to the full batch.

You could even just move the site to a Youtube channel, as youtube provides subtitles.

Besides getting around this, having subtitles or a transcription of your videos actually makes them more useful. My hearing is 100% fine but I find that subtitles make me absorb the information better.

I get that this is a PITA, and I agree that subtitles shouldn’t be required. But if you really want your site/videos to stay up it shouldn’t be that hard to just add the subtitles
Thanks for the clarification! I find this topic fascinating, but am definitely still learning it.

My impression was that the underlying assumption (or at least, the end goal) of the physicalist interpretation is that this physical process can ultimately be used to predict how consciousness arises. But if there is no expectation of similar patterns across individuals, I would imagine the usefulness in that sense is limited. So, perhaps this isn't an end goal of physicalism.

In which case, perhaps neither party expects there to be a solution to the origins of consciousness, maybe!
I’d argue it’s better for artists, because more people get a chance to see their shows.
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