skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "fair" method would be to reliably slice tickets into ticket classes (location, etc) and then let people select the tickets from the slice they want, and then basically do a reverse auction and set all the prices for that slice to whatever would sell them out exactly.

However, this leaves money on the table (if there are five seats, and ten people, and the fifth highest amount paid would be $10, then they get $50, even if one person would pay $500 for a ticket).
High trust isn't nearly as vague as you make it out to be, and basic etiquette is only correlated. There's lots of research in this area. Francis Fukayama published the influential book "Trust" in 1995. Some key highlights about what high trust is. 1. "The most important habits that make up cultures have little to do with how one eats one's food or combs one's hair, but with the ethical codes by which societies regular behavior". 2. "Among the cultural habits that consitute virtues ... some... in particular, reciprocal trust - emerge only in a social context". 3. "The social virtues, including honesty, reliability, cooperativeness, and a sense of duty to others ...".
This is just the introduction to the ideas of trust in society and how it functions, it isn't a vague concept though.
Electric cars are going to make it hard to explain to the wife/parents/kids/probation officer/etc why you're stopping at the <all vices sold here> store. Gasoline made a great cover.
I’m not immune to worrying about the doom and gloom news. But what I decided is that there will be jobs for programmers for as long as businesses need custom software. The various scary economic news suggests that maybe things will get worse for workers. And even if the news is wrong there’s always a down cycle eventually. But I don’t see how software people are more exposed than anyone else in any profession that draws a salary.
And I would really like to book a table at Gabrielle Cafe tonight. So hopefully they'll fix their load balancer or reverse proxy before too long.
> authorities can see through the shit-show.

No, they hire the authorities, and the shit-show goes on forever. The gig is only up when they've passed their overvalued business on to late investors, who demand to be paid through strategic neglect of core functions, price rises to rational market values (or higher), and moonshot PR.
It's not identical but it definitely demonstrates where the departments' priorities lie. They are self serving monopolies, first and foremost.
Tangentially, one time I read the question “at what point are you functionally not related to your ancestors anymore?”

I knew my great grandparents until their death when I was 18. My great great great grandparents would potentially view me as “their” descendants but I wonder how much further. Going back 8 or 10 generations means there are so many descendants (thousands?) that the relationship is meaningless.
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No artist is going to price their tickets at $50 face value, then shrug when TM sells them for $500 and keeps the additional $450 for themselves.

Of course Ticketmaster isn't just keeping all the extra money. They're probably splitting that with the performer as well.
Seems funny that you’d decided you were making three points before you even knew what the topic was!
I wonder if this will affect the split between term papers and in-class essay exams. My wife is a professor and has historically assigned the former, on the theory that it's more flexible for students and there's no downside if the final is open-book.

But it seems that in-class essay exams may gain popularity if professors believe that students will use AI tools on term papers. Students who don't use tools like this might also advocate for (or simply select into classes that use) in-class exams.
What radiohead did with Ticket Trust is probably the right balance, they made it so you could resell the paperless tickets, but only through Ticket Trust which didn't allow you to resell them for above face value.
Support matrix - https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support

You can run a GUI but it would currently run on the CPU not GPU. Reports are that the UI is quite snappy running on the CPU. The basic Asahi install is Arch with KDE. Linus apparently put Fedora on his travel laptop. What Linus was complaining about is Chrome support, which is coming or maybe is already available - https://twitter.com/asahilinux/status/1507263017146552326?la...
I used to enjoy Airbnb until I ended up in a place with bedbugs. Never again.
Yeah I hated Ticketmaster for many years, but this is the primary reason I didn't care too much, because I could just print the ticket and not deal with any of their tech gimmicks. Printing concert tickets was basically the only thing I still used a printer for, because a printed ticket was still the most reliable means of getting into the show.

Ever got down to a venue and had shitty mobile service? Ever had your phone die or crash at an inconvenient time? Ever lost data?

Even worse, turns out if you don't have Chrome set as the default browser app on your mobile device then the app is completely worthless and loads no pages (tested on Surface Duo 2). The same problem exists with their website when viewed from Edge on Android: you can't load your account page or tickets at all. Chrome only. Don't worry, there's zero mention of this anywhere on the app store so if you're trying to figure this out while in line at a venue, well fuck you.

So now we have to deal with all this bullshit simply because we can no longer print my tickets.
In my anecdotal social circle, which skews older millennial with no tech representation outside of myself, I only know of one person who has jumped around to several jobs. A small handful have changed jobs once. The vast majority are where they started, 15+ years in now.

The boomers lived through 11% unemployment. It may not have been job hopping by choice.
Between TicketMaster and LiveNation (same company) the number of non-affiliated venues is slim these days. Kikagaku Moyo just did their farewell tour and refused to use any TM venues forcing them to pretty much only play at smaller indie venues.
> I really don't get this.

The promise of AirBnB used to be you could get a spare room / apartment in a place where the locals actually lived, rather than the hotel & convention center district that's 2 blocks from the airport
Don't forget crack pipes.
Seems reasonable to me that they’re now giving 5 machines of extended package support and patching to everyone and to mention it to their users.
Agree. it's not art. he made literal spyware
Elon Musk’s language about Tesla’s self-driving is changing
Android still has an API to allow access to all files that were previously allowed. It just requires an explicit opt in from the user.

https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/manage-a...
Absolutely... There's no denying that SF is going to be more expensive based on natural barriers. However, this same sort of dynamic plays out in many more cities than SF
The problem with an apprenticeship model is that the field is moving so quickly. In many cases the younger programmers are better than the older ones whose experience is already going obsolete. The tech they learned is no longer used, and the best practices of yesteryear are now frowned upon.
You’re right. The strategy Brooks is taking (based on what the linked article in the linked article says) is that he announces a set of shows. If they sell out and the secondary market prices are very high, he adds another set of shows. And then keeps doing that over and over again.

The problem for his fanbase is that there is no reliable way of knowing whether another set of shows is going to be added. So you have to gamble on whether to wait for another show to be announced or to buy the tickets on the resale site.

Some factors affecting the situation include the fact that the band is scheduled to be in another city on some near-future date, as well as the fact that the venue is scheduled to host a different band/event on a near-future date.

The Garth Brooks solution isn’t really a solution but it does make things a little better.

Pre-pre sales are also something that will help, as you mention.

But ultimately, without some sort of legislation, there is almost certainly no solution to the “problem” of a band choosing not to maximize revenue.
The Minneapolis City Council can vote for bonuses for MPD: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/10/03/members-of-mpls-cit.... Don’t act like they can’t exercise other oversight.

The point is that a democrat signed Derek Chauvin’s checks. A democrat has authority over the department’s training and disciplinary policies. Insofar as police unions stand in the way of reform, democrats are responsible for that too.

Those democrats obviously want to shift focus to Trump voters in Kansas with “Blue Lives Matter” lawn signs. But those Trump voters are just heckling from the sidelines. They’re not the ones with actual authority over how Minneapolis runs its police department.
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Woah woah, that's not a crack pipe! That's a 'flower vase'!
Stay in better ones?
It's not so clear to me that's any worse than the current situation with scalpers. Replace "elites" with "those that managed to get the ticket purchase page to load before all were sold out".
I see a future for a new financial product where the existing owner keeps paying the 2.5% motgage but is sells an option where he’s contractually required to sell it for the balance of the mortgage and rent the house for the current mortgage payment. In the old days there was a transferable loan, those don’t exist now but you need a new product to extract value out of an artificially low existing mortgage
40 people? Why does it take 40 people to run a ... no just kidding.
Apple made store computers available for demo and he didn't bypass any protection to run the software, and there isn't any agreement you have to sign to use one of the demo computers that lists what you are and aren't allowed to do with them. I agree this is on the edge, but looking through the CFAA, it isn't obvious to me which if any section applies here.
In order to do that, we would have to be able to measure “learning”, and so far, we have only been able to measure “ability to regurgitate facts”. It does not help that the mainstream educational paradigm is “to fill the blank slate that is the student”.

See: John Taylor Gatto’s book on this subject— The Underground History of American Education.

There are other educational paradigms, but they are radically different — no tests, no curriculum, no “fill the blank slate”, no measuring.
> how much does the situation improve if you unset the Env vars after reading them?

How would you do that? They still are in /proc/, aren’t they?
Is he though? I would imagine in all those intervening years, at some point the male heir got cuckolded by his wife.
It seems okay here. Are you on a VPN, proxy, etc?
I swear, we’ve gone over the hill with these dotcom companies.

I stopped using Amazon and went back to shopping at my grocery store, Costco, IKEA, etc. You get to actually see what you’ll be getting, bring it back the same day, and know it’s not some fake that you need to ship back the next day. Hell, even the dollar store sells me better junk than Amazon does, and cheaper too.

I stopped using Uber and went back to taxis. Three times now I’ve arrived at my home airport to Uber surging their prices to $100+ for a simple airport pickup. The last Uber I took in Vegas decided it was ok to run red lights and Uber wouldn’t do a thing about it. No thanks, I’ll take the fixed-rate taxi service, or even just rent a car.

I stopped using AirBnB and now book hotels. Prices are comparable, and the quality is far more predictable. It’s getting harder and harder to find good listings, and when my family shows up and the place “isn’t as described” it’s a real downer.

A recession of sorts might be the perfect thing to force these companies to start focusing on their product again, instead of this growth-at-all-costs mentality.
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What's the status on RDAP? I keep hearing about it but even the official page (https://www.icann.org/rdap) doesn't talk about anything beyond 2019.
Students are not the only ones who needs to learn critical thinking, the AI needs to learn it too.
You've got the right idea. Large stadium bands are almost always a poor value proposition, and that was the case even before dynamic pricing. Some of these shows are definitely cool, but the price relative to smaller touring acts (who are often just as if not more talented) is so astronomical that it never made sense to me
Nym sounds like Tor with a blockchain financial incentive to keep it perpetually decentralized.

[1] https://nymtech.net/

[2] https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/reward-sharing...
>wants to dominate you and determine your way of life. They want to tell you what you’re allowed to desire.

I'd like to note that corporations do want the same thing. I believe all power structures converge to this, no matter their origins - an abusive partner, a out of control corporation, a totalitarian government, a fanatic cult, law enforcement when given too much power.

So what remains? Forces that keep the system in balance, "checks and balances" as they say. I don't know the recipe and I don't believe anyone does. What I'd just like to point out is that corporations, as they are, are not exempt from abuses of power.
Really, in general, any time you want a real "home base" you don't mind spending hours in if, say, some outdoor activity gets rained out, AirBnBs are far nicer than a hotel. Hanging out in a hotel room sucks, hanging out in an AirBnB can be like hanging out at home except... kinda better, in some cases and in some ways.

Or for any getaway kind of situation where the point is mainly to be at the place that you are staying, not necessarily to get out a ton. Hotels are terrible for that, aside, perhaps, from ultra-expensive huge suites (I wouldn't know, I've never tried one, too pricey and I have a suspicion it'd still feel like being in a hotel room).

They're also great in rural areas. Often you can get an AirBnB much closer to some 2nd- or 3rd-rate way-off-the-interstate attraction you're interested in, than a hotel. Otherwise your only options would be camping or an RV.
Every artist has the moral ability to do that, but not every artist has the financial ability to do that. Ticketmaster draws a lot of (well-earned) hate for their scuzzy practices, but those same practices make artists a lot of money.
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Why testosterone and not greed or pride?
I agree with that! my ansibles are for really straight stuff deployed to a few boxes. Where I work, oddly enough at Red Hat :), the very large playbooks are definitely difficult to work with. It's hard to say though if a custom Python app of similar size is really any better though, unless your developers are Michelangelo.
MWI is exactly as simple mathematically as CI, so not sure what you mean by "simpler".

MWI still postulates the equivalent of wave function collapse, but instead of it happening only for the quantum system being measured, it is happening in the mind of the observer, as each "version" of that mind gets entangled with a single "version" of the outcome.

Even if you were to accept that this process is more natural (so not an "assumption") than wave-function collapse in principle, that simplicity completely falls apart when you then need to recover the relationship between the probability of observing a certain outcome and the amplitude of that outcome in the wave-function.

CI just says "when a quantum system described by a wave-function interacts with a measurement apparatus that measures in a certain basis, the wave-function gets updated to one of the values of its decomposition in that basis, with a probability equal to the modulus of the square root of its amplitude in that basis". Of course "measurement apparatus prepared in a certain basis" does a lot of work here, as we don't know how to define this in terms of a quantum system.

To make a similar quantitative prediction, MWI needs to define something like "the number of worlds", so that it can then say something like "when a quantum system interacts with a measurement apparatus prepared in a certain basis, the measurement apparatus becomes entangled with the quantum system such that for each value of that basis state there is a number of worlds proportional to the square root of the amplitude of each value of the decomposition in which the apparatus sees that particular value; if we were to compute the probability that we happen to live in a world where the apparatus is showing the value X, that probability would naturally be higher the more worlds there are where it shows this value X". So, the MWI has to actually introduce extra elements (the worlds and their number, and the observer wanting to compute a probability) to explain the actual measured results of quantum experiments.
The problem with setting your ticket prices too high is it stops young people joining your concert-attending fanbase, leading to your fanbase ageing

Totally a tangent, but I've noticed this with sports cars in recent years. The companies like to portray an image of glamorous professionals driving their cars and most times I see a Ferrari or a Porsche nowadays a more typical, older person is behind the wheel. I'm not judging if that's a good or bad thing, but I find it amusing versus the branding image. Could, too, all the fans at a highly priced Taylor Swift concert end up being 50+? :-)
Autoscaling group with mix instance type spot strategy does that. You can even give weights to instance type, giving more performant/higher capacity higher weight and it can choose the cheapest one with the weight in mind.
I’m quite introverted and wasn’t at the level that your daughter is, but apparently did well enough at an impromptu speech in college that I had a very cute girl from the class look me up and add me on Facebook.

I still absolutely hated doing it though.
Little public interest in the secret service pursing a 25yo megalomaniac moron, who thinks installing spyware makes him the hero against the forces of institutional evil.

I imagine apple contacted the secret service in the first place because they weren't sure what else he'd done, other than, installing spyware across NY's apple stores.

Once they realised it was just an art project, I imagine they backed off to be kind, not because he couldnt be prosecuted. He clearly violated the CFAA
1. the tickets are sold by TicketMaster using dynamic pricing to extract the maximum price per ticket

2. the concerts are held in almost exclusively TM venues, leading to #1

3. the concerts are produced by LiveNation, which is TM, leading to #2

4. the bands are more and more often signed to LN for their tours, leading to #3

if you need more info you can do your own research.
In SMTP, isn't it especially valuable to have DNSSEC for using DANE and not having to rely on the centralized web PKI?
Yeah I realized that's all I need after a while.

Nice to have a file with some calls to make right in the client. Can take those to an outside app if needed.
80% of twitter users are bots. probably half of those are controlled by orgs similar to CIA Mockingbird. i imagine this is elon trying to get twitter staff to revolt and cancel the deal?
Chain-of-trust

The problem you've described applies to a lot of stuff, from hiring to finding a reliable mechanic. I've started relying more on word-of-mouth, whenever possible. Let someone else waste their money trying out new products/services.
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Isn’t that question easily answered if we know if it’s a “factual” or “lived” subject that is being discussed?
By forcing you to stay in their system it makes it easy to identify scalpers by account behaviour. No need to pin tickets to your name, just bring down the banhammer on accounts with suspicious activity.
What percentage of the audience do you reckon can outright buy houses with cash in the area where they live?
I don’t share your enthusiasm. Essays are a great way to learn structured writing for kids.
Neat idea for a tour. We've been looking for a way to construct a musical history trip in Austria and maybe Germany. There are a lot of options, including some river cruise tours.
Moreso it’s because Blink 182 is essentially classic rock at this point. And classic rock tours have always been absurdly expensive. Nobody is going to see them because they just really love what Blink 182 is doing. They are paying a premium for a shot of nostalgia that can’t be had anywhere else, and they can charge these prices because the entire fanbase is over the age of 30.
My 30-year mortgage is locked in at 2.875%. My overall mortgage payments would go up 60% if I took out a new loan for the same amount at 7%.

On one hand, this means that prices need to come down to get houses into peoples' price ranges. On the other hand, if the market is down, there's no way in hell that I'm selling my house. A loan at 2.875% is almost like having free money, so even if I need to move, I'd prefer to rent out my house than sell it.

It's unclear if we will see low prices, but fewer sellers, or high prices, but fewer buyers. What's clear though is that this is going to be a low liquidity housing market without a lot of transactions.
Ahh paying $600 for a ticket. Now that's PUNK ROCK.
The absolute amount of logistics required for a show is tremendous, and if you look at a tour schedule you'll often see that it's absolutely packed - no time to add in extra shows if others sell out.

This is why the artists will have fan clubs and such, it can greatly help them determine what they could sell and how many shows. Sometimes you can switch to another venue in the same city, but that only works when they're both owned by the same company, usually. And it other cases you can open up more "seating" but that really only works when playing to stadiums.
Are you telling me this? Or are you going to pay a bounty?
Funky. Works fine on Firefox, just borked on Chrome.

So maybe this should be "Ask HN: Why does https://www.opentable.com/ work on Firefox, but gives me a 403 on chrome and hang when I try to connect with wget?"

Modernity is weird.
I thought the whole deal with ticketmaster was that they can charge hidden fees on behalf of the band and take the blame?
They have a long list of things you can't complain about. One example is things that the seller can't change, like a loud train nearby. At least when I last used it if a single sentence in your review violated one of those policies your whole review was deleted and you couldn't submit a new one.

Interestingly their dispute process is very buyer-friendly, though. When a seller demands money in compensation for damage they often lose. I believe this is because Airbnb is on the hook if they can't collect from the buyer.
I don't know about the logic of it, but I think it makes sense. Everything else has a cause, making a special exception for gods seems suspect.
For this? No. Years ago we were working on a project and the default color of the form elements was a real sticking point. For some of them we ended up rolling our own, but others we just suffered with the default. Accent-color would have solved a problem we spent months working on and agonizing over.
There is a budget hotel chain in the UK (premierInn) where if you complain you get a free breakfast and if you make your complaint official you will get a full refund. They have remained profitable for many years despite the obvious incentive for people to make unwarranted complaints.