skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
look up? You're not going to be able to see any but the brightest astronomical features with your naked eye.
Make it like Rammstein. Scalpers and resellers are out, prices are low. Of course it is still hard to get Tickets.
As a kid, this would have been absolutely nerve wracking for many people. Especially if the oral exam was in front of the entire class.
Yeah, I know. The abundance of mediocre copywriters helps me maintain my client portfolio. I’ve had clients drop me for someone cheaper many times before, but they often come back after having a bad experience.
As opposed to when most tickets were bought by scalpers, in which case... mostly rich people got to see Beyoncé live.

Certainly a few people occasionally got lucky, but I guess what I'm wondering is, is "band members and managers earn more of the money they bring in" actually a bad thing? Won't this lead to more performers joining the field, long term, and more options for listening to music?

Seems like a good thing to me.
> 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.

I think a big part of the problem is: it's challenging to estimate the demand for events. It's just less risky to consistently underestimate than over estimate. A sold out venue is annoying to fans who can't attend or who have to play a lot. But an under-attended event can be financially bad for the performer (depending on how deals are structured).

Combine that with the limited number of venues that can accommodate large audiences, and I think it's generally not surprising that this is a persistent problem.

I think there is a good solution; it just takes more work on the part of the performer: ticket pre-pre-sales. If the performer can "sell" all/most of their tickets before they even start talking to Ticketmaster, that should give better control over pricing since they can "rightsize" the number of performances they do in each place.
You can ban resale (except at face value), and enforce this technologically. Some people are doing this already.
“I remember being a bit nervous on the first visit. Not because I thought I was doing anything wrong, or because I was worried about getting "caught".It was more like stage fright. ”

“Sometimes I would open another tab and load Flickr or Open Processing so I had an excuse if someone asked why I was comparing every single computer.”
If HR isn't there to protect a company, who would? Or is the argument that it isn't needed?
More or less what scalpers are.
Yeah this is very market dependent, especially with regard to whether there are state/local income taxes or the government depends mostly on property taxes. Here in NYC I’d expect to pay $10k or less in annual taxes for a property in that price range, however there are city and state income taxes plus apartment building building common charges.

It’s hard to compare this stuff apples to apples, but the one constant regardless of locality is that higher rates significantly reduce buying power for people relying on mortgages.
> So that means you can end up installing some non-free firmware, potentially buggy/broken, and get zero updates for it without manual intervention?

The alternative is that they don't install any firmware, your installation is broken or crippled, on another computer you search desperately for the correct firmware, which when you find it (on some byzantine and bitrotted manufacturers' website) has some impenetrable process that only works on Windows to install, is often buggy and broken, and there's never been an official update. If you need to manually intervene you might as well reinstall the OS because you didn't take any notes on how you did it last time, the manufacturers website has disappeared, and you're downloading the updated driver that might fix the bug from all-the-drivers.disco or a Discord server run by H4r&dw3r3-wiz4r&d88 who was probably not born in 1988.

For me, there's a huge leap from installing drivers that you're necessarily going to install anyway (because you're installing on the box that has the hardware) to adding optional stuff in. As long as it doesn't install the drivers silently, but installs them loudly. I'd love to even see a EULA pop up that indemnifies Debian from problems stemming from the nonfree drivers, to provide the appropriate level of intimidation and aversion. I would also request exclamation points, possibly a bright red or yellow color, maybe a blink.

I wouldn't be entirely against exclamation points, bright red or yellow, and blinking, for enabling nonfree repos, but there isn't exactly a high bar to jump over currently. The bar seems exactly high enough to keep everybody from complaining for very long.
Do you have a single api.http file or do you you multiple {route}.http files?
AI 2022: The Explosion
Coatue ventures' take on the AI renaissance
In that case, we can further automate this process and just leave humans out of it - pipe the student's generated essay back in, emit grade, done.

This reminds me of a moment that has stuck with me for a long time. Some time in the early 00s, I was wondering around town with a friend fairly late at night. We watched a waste truck picking up outside a building, there were stacks of Yellow Pages piled up, as they had just been delivered everywhere, like they used to.

My friend and I joked that they could have saved on transport and fuel by backing up the recycling trucks directly to the printing presses.
Well, they aren't wrong. Nonconfrontation + mimed politeness are better descriptions than "good listening" when you bluff your way in a convo you don't understand.

Reminds me of the "Place, Japan" meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/place-japan). The first panel can have an American not understanding a foreign language next to a disgusted soyjack, and the second panel has a Japanese guy smiling while he doesn't understand a word next to a "clap clap" retard soyjack screaming "amazing listener!"
Its so ironic reading this, considering most of the “conveniences” of modern ios are clones of some popular tweak on cydia.
So automate. If computers are better than students at writing essays, they're probably better than entry-level hires at writing whatever documents you need.
> but from what I have seen it looks just like the old school way of writing inline CSS.

Sure if you think of it that way because you only added say the `rounded` class to an element, which just adds `border-radius` to it. But once you start composing with more the comparison starts breaking down, and then once you introduce variants it's like comparing apples to trains.
> pointless essays that ask them to regurgitate content (as opposed to essays that teach writing skills or critical thinking, which remain valuable).

It's all just a question of time. GPT-3 can regurgitate content, GPT-4 will exhibit writing skills, and GPT-5 will write with critical thinking... at least on the level that an average student does today.
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Except government can't stop growing, so that eventually doesn't end well.
If it's just one student, then I think you should just talk to them about it and verify. Education is not a 'gotcha' game. If you're in the US, these students are the ones paying a lot of money to get that learning and degree.

If it's a lot of students, then you likely need to rethink using essays and the like. Not that they aren't useful when done honestl; they are incredible tools for having students learn.

But the near future is only going to be filled with this more and more. You're not likely to be able to outrun OpenAI and GPT3 on your own. Heck, even the whole CS department isn't going to outrun these companies. In fact, it's not a bad idea to put your essays through such tools to see what comes out and then build from there.

The nature of learning and education is changing very fast these days and clinging to the old models and methods isn't likely to be the best strat. Innovate, try new things, talk with your students, brainstorm, etc.
> design-collapse we've had where all icons are either some circle or rounded square (often with a circle inside).

ive noticed this myself, now that almost all icons after bigsur have the same shape it takes me a lot longer to find anything in the dock / applications folder

this is really frustrating and disappointing to see things like this deteriorate like this and nobody seems able to stop it...
How does this work in a primary school setting? Do students respond with aizuchi as teachers explain? Are they expected to (as in the teacher will call out students not engaging in it)?
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The whole weather vs climate argument.

However when you look back over the last 200 years, one of the striking features is that every 10 years or so people are concerned about something very different than they were before, and which was often a result of a crisis that few were ready for. For example nobody in the Clinton era would have predicted 9/11. The 2008 financial crisis caught most of us by surprise. COVID was on nobody's radar. Nor did we expect Russia to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine (nor to lose if they did). And so on.

I can't tell you what we'll all be worried about in 2030. It won't be COVID or Ukraine. My guesses include financial collapse, climate change, the collapse of Russia, the invasion of Taiwan, and so on. But odds are that it will be none of those things.
What's more likely is that coursework will be abandoned and all assessment will be done via invigilated exams :-) (As it was in my degree in fact).

I've marked 'essays' in computer science (billed as reports but equivalent enough for these purposes) and I think they are mainly set because the university wants the students to be able to write clearly which is a reasonable ambition.

It's often really hard to assess 'understanding'. It's possible to detect non-understanding more easily - you ask enough questions and hope that the non-understanding slips. I guess you try to give students enough rope to hang themselves. Or of course sometimes it is obvious that they don't understand things from the get-go. But it's very hard to create questions novel enough that they can't basically be gamed with regurgitation. Universities do try but still difficult.
That's not needed anymore when using auto-layout, introduced in 10.7 if I remember correctly.
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My guess is that moves will go down even further over the coming years. Anyone who bought or refinanced a home over the past decade would need a hell of a good reason to sell and buy a new home in a new location with interest rates going up like they have.
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I'm a developer, and get tons of inbound request from recruiters.

Most dev friends tell me they experience the same. But, it seems to happen in my email/text in ways that always feels a little clumsy and cold.

Because free food is awesome, I'd more readily trade a few mins of attention to get hooked up.

I thought about andrew stuart's old freepizza board and figured there could be a way to help connect sponsors and hosts. It feels like a fun experiment.

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The downfall was fragmentation. They merged Keras after TF started having multiple competing application libraries, each managed by different people (and each fighting for promotion, as you say). Keras just happened to be the most popular. Even after Keras, various teams (e.g., deepmind) have decided to make their own libraries.
Indeed, as Erdogan, Orban, and Trump have shown, the path from democracy to autocracy is very short, disturbingly so. What's needed is a treaty organization that promises to invade and restore democracy in the case certain conditions are not met. A sort of inverse Nato if you will.
and then you look at some monocultural societies, and don't see much of "high trust" there either...
You have priced out part of your fanbase which can create resentment, and concerts where only the rich people attend are not the best, ambiance wise, especially if you want to play other songs than the radio hits.
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At least for CS courses this means kids will never have the chance to work on something simplistic that can be coded up in 2 hours.
Could be wrong but the Economist doesn't usually make predictions like this? This article doesn't have the same depth they usually write to. The reasoning behind their predicted price slump is that interst rates are going higher, making homes less affordable. But I think they stop there without looking at any other factors. Such as, the tempering effect of rising commodity and labor costs of new builds. The other half of the article is about knock-on effects of higher interest rates and the predicted price slump.

I guess I'm not saying their predictions will or will not come true, just that they don't support them.
Life is too short and there are big problems to deal with - my grocery bill went up by 25% in the last couple of months, and my salary is still the same. My rent went up by more than 9% this year.

I don’t feel bad for people dropping hundreds, thousands of dollars to watch a band or a comic. I don’t feel bad for TM either - they are a monopoly.

The Whole situation is just terrible. Same for sports events

Me - I’m happy watching my favorite artists on YouTube or buying their singles or MP3s wherever available.
I think he's using logic.
I'm always excited by newer features to CSS that make older JS-only methods obsolete.

I wonder if it's just about how some people's brains are wired.

I grok CSS. I won't claim to know everything about it, but I'd say I'm 90% proficient and prefer it to JavaScript.

But I think this is because JavaScript somehow never fully made sense to me. I can read it and figure out what it's doing, but it was never intuitive to me the way CSS is.

I read comments on HN frequently from people who are good a JS, but can't deal with CSS.

I think it's just how some languages "click" with different people. Some are comfortable in Lisp, while others are AP/L, or Rust, or something else.

Perhaps it's good to have multiple ways to achieving the same thing, rather than obsessing about one perfect/standard/preferred/"best practice" way of doing things.
As a person, who, on occasion, has to read email from people, who send me things, I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. I do, technically, have to read some of them as it is part of my job description ( not completely unlike the teachers ) and very much a captive audience.

And I get that it is hard and everyone has their own idiosyncrasies and all that jazz, but, and this is probably the only time I will defend corporates, were it not acceptable language enforced by HR, those emails would somehow be even worse than they are now.

So the goal is the same.. give the audience what it wants. What do I get? Well, it varies..

edit: I am really enjoying the link provided, but clearly this guy is talking about a very different level of writer.
Physical blue books and an ink pen in an auditorium within a time limit. This would work easy enough for in-person (on-campus) students. Not so good for online/remote.
Cash at the door? Or physical tickets sold around town the day of?

People have a love/hate relationship with the frenzy I guess.
how costly is in the US that diference (of power consumption) in a year?
For a couple of years now, I've been threatening to live abroad while still remotely working for US companies and getting paid in USD. Taking the digital nomad show international so to speak. You could move around to your advantage where the USD is strong. I have one attachment that is keeping from doing it, otherwise, I'd be typing this comment from a beach on the other side of the globe.
> Current situation: tickets are priced at market value thanks to dynamic pricing, so they no longer sell out instantly

And that means that ordinary working class people can't afford a lot of concerts any more. Entertainment only for the rich elites, bravo.
Is there tooling to find the global minimum price for an instance with certain characteristics?

I found it easy enough to do that in one region, but I've got some compute workloads that just read/write from S3 and are not latency sensitive.

They do need 128 GB RAM and ephemeral disks.
How many stars had that apartment? How many stars you gave in your review?
What makes Airbnb not reliable is not cockroaches, but no negative reviews. I prefer Booking, because my reviews even negative are not removed like on Airbnb.
TIL about Zig. It looks like it's been released a while ago (2016) but when I searched for how they handle concurrency all I could find was it's still in the research phase :(. I thought I was going to be able to find at least a design document like with Swift:

https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9...
How will you prove whether it was resold at face value or not? I could see a 'refund' and then it replenishes on the website, and then ID verification to use it. Like refundable airline tickets with a fixed price.
I’m surprised neither of the links have transcripts. PBS usually does.
I have a Japanese friend, and we have relatively philosophical conversations, talking about ideas. Often when I make a point he acknowledges it with "thank you" which always intrigued me. I always wondered whether this was a literal translation of an aizuchi.

Can anyone here shed some light?
What to do when you're all out of puffins
Ticketmaster has exclusive agreements with most large music venues, artists have no real choice. (I have booked large venues before.)
It's not a joke. Social media is heavily curated for a specific agenda/angle (at best) and generally full of dis/misinformation. Why on earth would anybody consider what they see on social media to be representative of reality?
Persuasive writing section?

"Write a persuasive essay regarding why the essay you're writing deserves the grade you choose based upon your knowledge of persuasive writing techniques and your classroom participation."
> Do we enjoy being held for ransom?

Yes, one of the main goals of the world bank and western global economic policy after world war 2 is to create an interconnected world where countries like Germany are dependant on Russia in the hopes that this forces peace talks by making war more costly. The idea is that they are also dependent on us and we can sanction countries like Russia or Iran or North Korea into working with us instead of fighting us.

The issue with this policy is that we need to make the first move in good faith but if countries don't return honestly then our sanctions remove luxury goods like McDonalds while their counter sanctions remove necessities like heating. The second part of the issue is that once sanctions have been applied there no second step and the sanctioned country will just ally itself with other sanctioned countries as a matter of necessity thus pushing them further away from us and closer to all out war.

To protect our selves we need to be self sufficient in these matters which makes the whole thing not work as we will have no leverage other than war.
Relevant to this discussion is that between then and now we have discovered a lot about the ubiquity of chaotic systems, and their practical consequences for forecasting.
Demilitarized Zone (for example, border between North Korea and South Korea).

Edit @Brian_K_White: I don't either. Bad analogy.
It is not simpler, since MWI still needs the Born postulate to actually predict the results of quantum experiments. It replaces this idea of the wave function collapsing with a redefinition of what a measurement apparatus / observer is (in MWI, a measurement apparatus exists in a single "branch" of the wave function).

This is especially problematic because QM doesn't predict any particular decomposition of a quantum state into particular classical states. That is, the Schrodinger equation doesn't actually predict that a particle has some amplitude here and some other amplitude there, as is often presented; instead, it predicts that it is described by some vector which can be decomposed in many different ways. You can say it has some amplitude X here and some amplitude Y there, but with any 2 points in space-time (adjusting the amplitudes). Or, it can have some combination of position and spin with amplitude X, and some other combination of position and spin with amplitude Y. You can choose any basis you like for the measurement, and you will get the corresponding answer.

But, for MWI to actually predict experimental results (and the classical world we live in) you not only have to choose to look at a single element of that basis, but you also have to believe that the classical basis is somehow preferred.
In these discussions, there's always an implicit assumption of certain intentions being the "real" ones. Statements like "police were created to..." first imply that there was a creator whose intentions define the police through incarnations, a kind of "god of police," and, more likely, if it was not a single individual, it is a "pantheon of police" composed of its creators and sustainers. And then we have the image of the state as a composite entity which exerts control over the pantheon without being corporeal itself, maybe as the composite will of a class of people.

To me, this idea of the personification of state power into an all-powerful driving force seems more mythological than the importance of individual decisions being made by those who carry out the work of the state. An individual officer may have a similar belief in the intentions of the state, but their actions are ultimately their own.

It seems ironic that the more we tend to be critical of state power, the more we tend to mythologize it into a kind of personification. You might not fall into this trap, but many do. But why should the intentions of the composite pseudo-entity matter more than the intentions of the real individuals who carry out the work? Isn't each police officer a person who has different goals and ideas about who they are and who they serve? Is this really so insignificant, or is it so overwhelmed by institutional goals that it becomes irellevant? Or could the real people and not their abstractions be the real bedrock of civilization?
Honestly as an American living in Japan, it’s nothing like anything I’ve experienced in the USA. My wife will say “Hai” about as many times as her conversation partner stops for a breath, which felt very unnatural to me in English (she’ll replace it with mhm’s in English and it still feels quite aggressively frequent). Maybe the same idea but the execution is a different level.
Dynamic pricing isn't the issue here, the issue is that the extra profits generated by dynamic pricing are going to ticketmaster rather than to artists.

If artists took home the extra profits, there would be more incentive for the market to provide more quality artists, more concerts, and cheaper prices, supply would meet demand.

But since the profits go to ticketmaster, ticketmaster might not even have higher total earnings if it increased supply, as prices might decrease faster. Higher supply of concerts would also give opportunities for competitors to ticketmaster to emerge, as it would have to control a bigger market.