skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Bitcoin maxi this is fun to watch. It's like the 08' financial collapse all over again, but there's no bailout coming this time around.

I think it is glaringly obvious at this point that most of society does not understand how money works, and will fall victim to the same old scams no matter where they manifest.

This entire crypto collapse has been a long time coming. You can't simply manufacture money out of nothing, nor can you inflate debt endlessly.

Bitcoin as a community has distanced themselves from 'crypto' and these boiler-room pump and dump scams.

Bitcoin maxis fight for the simplicity and real-word cost behind proof of work for a reason. Bitcoin may be arbitrary digits in a ledger but it isn't free to make. The supply is capped, yet the work anyone can put into securing the ledger is unbounded.

Regardless of where you choose to invest, self custody is king. Get your tokens off exchanges. Not your keys, not your coins.
Now they have a moat too
I am absolutely genuine, and I think you do not understand the average American. The rest of the world may dream about our wages but it's still putting lipstick on a pig. Most the people I know can't even feed their families right now, let alone buy a book for pleasure. I'm not sure where you are getting your information from but the lives of college-educated middle-class Americans and above are not representative of the majority. I will clarify, I obviously DO NOT think that my situation compares to someone in another country, specifically under-developed ones. In the context of books and recreational activities, however, I think you are vastly overestimating the US.
You're really asking why it might be against the law to fly drones over military bases and take/distribute videos?
I'm the dummy (I live in Houston) who would try hot water. Why doesn't that work? Does it freeze?
TicketMaster has exclusive contracts with the vast majority of venues and just about every large one. These contracts include kickbacks where TicketMaster will add $X of fees to each ticket it sells and pass back Y$ (Y < X) to the venue.

It's essentially the venues and artists outsourcing the job of "being the asshole" to TicketMaster as a large chunk of the money eventually flow back. They get to publicly blame TicketMaster, claim they have no involvement, and still get their slice of the "processing fees".

If you are attending any event and you can actually buy the tickets directly at the box office then go that route. You'll likely save anywhere from 25-60% off the price of the tickets. Plus you'll get actual physical tickets.

Sure this doesn't work for some crazy in demand show, but nobody goes to those anyway right?
I worked in the industry for a while and I agree with your points. I would add though that Ticketmaster is incredibly entrenched because Live Nation (parent company) is also a promoter and also owns many venues or has exclusive contracts with venues and they also have contracts with artists specifying that they will tour to venues affiliated with LN. Vertical integration.
Beatrice Tinsley
Many people think Assange "stopped being a journalist" when he seemingly sided with Hillary Clinton's opponent (after Hillary Clinton joked about murdering Assange.)

Anyway, anybody who expects a journalist to be unbiased is utterly clueless. And anybody who expects a journalist to like a politician who hates him is being willfully idiotic. If any politician wished you dead, you would be rationally compelled to oppose that politician no matter how shitty their opponent was.
US healthcare is in shambles. Most people are a serious injury away from financial ruin. I cant see how to fix but cant see its continuation either
I wonder what the carbon footprint of that is.
I've also done this before. After I was done, I couldn't focus properly for several weeks. Turns out I was largely just pushing back rest that I desperately needed, and I had to pay that back in the end.
This is from 2021 but it does show how heavily China has invested into Africa to support their Naval and Maritime shipping.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9554253/How-China-b...

There has been some speculation that China is effectively trying to take control over Africa and has been rather successful at doing so on some fronts.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18417/china-taking-over-a...
There’s a guy in my neighborhood who rides an electric stand-up scooter, who wears an aerostitch and a full-face motorcycle helmet while doing so.
An even better analogy would be a mailing list, instead of directly emailing/cc-ing recipients. Definitively not "private messaging".

If I delete my email account, and/or remove it from the list, there's no expectation that my prior emails are deleted for any of the other list subscribers.

The mailing list archive isn't pruned of my account and everything I ever sent will still be visible.
For your last point, if you just continued to adapt 12tet music into other systems I think it would continue to sound strange? Not totally sure, you'd get used to it to some extent but I think it would always sound noticeably off esp if you were familiar with the piece in 12tet like we are with this one.

But there are entire music traditions using other tuning systems and they sound "normal" to the people who grew up with them. Notably the 24tet used in arabic music but there are literally dozens of others around the world.
Yes, it's well observed, but the fact that only the top level is considered 'unsustainable' is an issue - level 4 is already sub-optimal as there is no margin. And there are 3 levels above that.
Nonprofit Hospitals Put Up Obstacles to Help Needy Patients
If they do it in an egregiously anticompetitive way, it is already outlawed.
Archive.today link: https://archive.ph/A1M2G
We talk about prognosis from different entities.

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/konjunktur/eu-kommissio...

EU commission thinks, it will be a loss of 0.6 %.
I don't like them by themselves, but I love them with other food. For example, with a nice nutty cheese and maybe some fig jam. The sourness can be perfect with a sweet counterpart.
Everything bad anyone ever said about the Big Dig applies to healthcare.

It's a giant feeding trough for the subsidized industries. They get rich. The people who make the feeding trough run get power and influence. Taxpayers get poor results per dollar to the detriment of all the other things society could have spent that money doing. And idiots who are hoodwinked by the veneer of plausible deniability defend the system.

Either massively socialize it or massively deregulate it, I don't care which. Neither can be worse than what we have.
That’s too extreme.

Plenty of good journalism that is critical of the government and “the establishment” happens in the US[0][1]. There are also cases where 100% legit journalism is unreasonably attacked and punished. Both of these things can be true; we don’t have to declare the US as either 100% perfect and free or 100% corrupt and authoritarian where every single instance of “real” journalism results in torture and murder.

[0] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/finalists-fo...

[1] https://theintercept.com/2021/12/26/us-military-impunity-gen...
He did not “process them into a news-worthy form.”
Why is there a secondary market anyway? I don’t understand why ticket prices don’t just rise to the optimal balance of supply and demand. Same question I have for the allocated bourbon market actually...
Because it's not Ticketmaster you have to overturn, it's the venues. They have exclusive deals locked in for several years.

Can you convince a small venue to use your new system? Maybe? But since the big venues use Ticketmaster, it's advantageous for the smaller venues to use the same thing.

Can you convince a big venue to use your new system? Absolutely not. You're some unproven little company.

Example: Broadway theaters. There are three organizations that collectively own the vast majority of the Broadway theaters, Shubert, Nederlander, and Jujamcyn. These are very wealthy and very old fashioned organizations. Even when it's time for them to renew their contracts, do you think you can convince any of them to leave Ticketmaster/Telecharge? Not a chance in hell.

Lastly, Ticketmaster already covers all of the use cases that these venues have. It doesn't do the best job, but it does the job. Even if you do a great job of covering 90% of the use cases, they won't switch to you if there's even one thing they need that your alternative can't handle. Even these small and rare edge cases are absolutely essential to their business. To even come close you will need to hire several experts in the ticketing industry to learn that business to even know what these cases are.

Ok, so let's say you hire ticketing experts and you build a system better than Ticketmaster that does indeed cover 100% of the use cases the venues have. And you have perfect timing, the venue's exclusive deal with Ticketmaster is coming to a close and you have the opportunity to sell to them. Can you do it? Can you convince them to take a huge risk to use your platform? What's the upside other than the fact that its nicer for ticket buyers? Sticking with Ticketmaster is a safe bet for them. If you fail to convince them in that one window, you won't be able to try to sell to that venue again for several years.

TL;DR: Ticketmaster's customers aren't the ticket buyers, it's the venue.

Source: I have worked in ticketing in the past.
No (in those good times, "software development" was not overloaded to mean everything/anything so that all is said to be proficient at it).
Because it's illegal: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-restricts-drone-operations-...

https://faa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...
He isn't visibly a member of a protected class so don't expect the ACLU to do much.
How did they do algorithmic pricing then? Send updated price lists every morning to all ticket vendors via fax?

Ticketmaster today is significantly worse than even the entity I remember in the 2000s. The worst they'd do is charge 20% out of thin air for a "processing fee", and in any case, there were alternatives available, like buying paper tickets from record stores or directly at the venue.
This is great. But I'm even more interested in computers than in consoles. :)
Yes, the Soviet Union was actually quite enlightened on the science front, and they were especially good in teaching Mathematics and elevating talent. Just compare a soviet era math textbook to its “western” counterpart, the former is much more in-depth. Also, they were famously anti-religion, putting science above it.
Note, this isn't for all types of aerobic activity. They're specifically saying that high-intensity aerobics, such as sprinting, are beneficial.

> "Our results indicate that unlike fat-burning exercise, which is relatively moderate, it is a high-intensity aerobic activity that helps in cancer prevention," adds Dr. Gepner. "If the optimal intensity range for burning fat is 65-70% of the maximum pulse rate, sugar burning requires 80-85% - even if only for brief intervals."
Not when the money never existed in the first place.

These shitcoins with billion dollar market caps never actually took a billion dollars into any accounts. The volume is fake, the activity is fake, the price is fake.
Yes and they used the insane amounts of money they made in those days to close a potential vector of attack by purchasing LiveNation. Feds still should have prevented that merger.
A Farewell to the Model T (1936)
Yeah, but the "money" is irrelevant. 99% of their buying power (which in a simple sense is what people usually mean when they say wealth) went away.
You are correct!

For us in particular, celery is already on the chopping block for another package, so we haven't bothered fixing it yet.
And we understand that's a vague definition, which is why in 2025 we will be issuing licenses for journalists, and ticketing people who report without a license.
They will use this to capture all crypto and regulate it.
Problem, Reaction, Solution. I think FTX was only caught because Binance exposed them too early before SBF could bring regulation to the exchange and insulate himself. Him, his family and GF all have ties to people that could have made this happen.

Now no matter what the end game is regulation, either by someone like SBF to make it happen or knowing full well it was going to blow up. With regulation they can protect the fox in the hen house like they do with the stock market and keep all the control.

If you don't think so, read in depth what Bernie Madoff did and how connected he was. The best part is, stock market still allows PFOF which he invented to help with his Ponzi scheme.

Just my take on it all...
Both are true, it depends on the value those services provided and crypto provide now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
As a capitalist I would still say it's recommended reading. That said, if you're only reading that and not Hayek/Friedman/Sowell then you're doing yourself a disservice but that's your problem.
related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kShIppJtHiY

Every Phish tour starts the same way. Enter the lottery and hope to win tickets in some random spot.

Don't win lottery and join the Ticketmaster queue. Watch the site fall apart for an hour. Crashes at checkout and you're back to the end of the queue.

Go on Stubhub and pay 2x or more for the "big" shows (Halloween, NYE, etc).

But hey, also crashed chess.com.
"In short, this is what’s wrong with broadband in America. It’s expensive. Most people can’t choose their carrier. They add bogus charges."

To this list I would add that lack of choice of speeds, whether you want a faster speed or want to pay less for a slower speed. There is simply a lack of choice.
Great suggestion. If you're in the Midwest you should not miss VCF Midwest (http://vcfmw.org/sitearchive/2022_vfinal_20220906/), there are 10-15 vendors selling old computers there.
I promise you will have no problems selling it if you list it...
New CEO Says FTX Suffered 'Complete Failure of Corporate Controls'
I spent a fair bit of time with APL back in the 80s on IBM 3090 mainframe and a 3278 APL terminal and I have to say that if you've got an "APL shaped problem" and some familiarity with the language, it's easy to read and not so hard to maintain.
Learning curve is a bit steep, though...
I've never had a McIntosh that wasn't grainy and bland. Where do you find good tasting ones?
We are not compression algorithms! If we were, we could replace the most common block of boilerplate code with token 'A', the second-most block of boilerplate code with token 'B,' and so on, writing programs in very few bytes. God have mercy on anyone trying to debug such a program, though.

Any language with no boilerplate at all is a black box of incomprehensibility. Java has, I think, more boilerplate than average, while some other languages have less boilerplate than average.

IDEs can help with some of this, which is why I finally stopped writing all code in vim.
Indeed.

Andrew Schulz's Beef with Ticketmaster | Joe Rogan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS8a1rnPGGo
Some people still hold moral above money.
Very possible. I think of their approach as "experiment and remix," that is they test a lot of the technical and supply chain ingredients for new products years in advance, then combine at the last moment to create a widget for the public to buy. I've been watching the pieces of their VR/AR effort come together and my guess is they will do surprisingly large volume for how expensive the headsets will be. Collaboration, but done well.
I'm not sure that's the best comparison. Regular pilots are even somewhat detached from the effect of their weapons. It's hard to compare directly to handling a gun.
OP mentioned on reddit that he’s planning on updating the graph with new data as he makes improvements
"Don't buy Tony's magic beans. Tony's magic beans are a scam, they're not really magic at all. I buy my magic beans from Frank. Everyone knows that only Frank grows real magic beans."
> You can argue that people can go to the library,

Where I grew up, my town library did not have any tech or programming books. Forget new jornal issues or cutting edge science books.

"Just go to the library" is such a first-world-and-megacity thing to say.
You're right: The tooling ecosystem for text-based programming is already very mature, which is why I wouldn't want to replace it. Current programming languages are stored as text anyway (trying to replace an entire established ecosystem without any steps in between doesn't really work, see Microsoft's constant failures attempting to bundle new things).

That's why my imaginary editor would work with that format, just in a more semantic/graphical way - as an enhancement rather than a totally new way of doing things. In fact the most practical way to go about it (let's work within the current ecosystem as much as possible!) would probably be to make a VSCode extension.
"The issue highlighted in the article is no other VoiP/chat program will continue to record audio in the background. "

Just tested in a call with Skype. Closing the windows still has the program running, recording, and the call is still active.

Ditto Camfrog.

Ditto Paltalk.

That's because most actual programs have a 'minimize to tray on closing' option enabled by default on install.

It's been like this since 1998 or so. I've been undoing that option for at least 20 years, because when I click X I expect it to GTFO.
Yale and Harvard law schools abandon U.S. News college rankings
I'll be polite and assume this is not an attempt to start some anti-semitic flamewar to diverge conversation from topic, but it sure looks like one.

Israel as a state would like to be seen as western democracy and approached accordingly, which brings inevitable requirements on the behavior of any such state. What they do, and how they do it often leaves a lot to desire, or even hold some basic human rights threshold.

There is a reason why West bank is for decades often called 'biggest concentration camp in the western world'. How they often shoot to kill civilians throwing rocks (or unarmed female journalists), how they use these 'non-lethal' weapons in a very lethal way against innocent bystanders, and yes including babies. How these crimes go completely utterly unpunished due to rampart camaraderie (I mean former/future PM is former spec-ops team leader, so lots of things get a pass)
He's always been the "one take" guy for me. And it's not as easy as it looks--he'll spend 10 minutes wandering seemingly-aimlessly around London, and pass by a certain landmark within 5 seconds of mentioning it in his script (which he also memorized). It's bananas and I don't think many people even consciously notice. That's why he's so happy when he nails it. I think it's cute! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgRRFRaMFcc
> Thanks to civil forfeiture, he’ll likely never get his stuff back from the Government MAFIA’s attempt to terrorize him into silence.

Maybe, but I suspect the Streisand effect will be strong here, and there will be some enterprising lawyer willing to enhance the brand.
Sweet, when is Google getting raided? Also note it says "drones flown over places around Area 51" which likely means the publicly accessible areas outside of the base.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Groom+Lake,+Nevada/@37.275...
To put it into perspective I work for two years at Amazon to try to create a competitor to Ticketmaster. Our ticket sales infrastructure wasn’t quite as polished as Ticketmaster is but it was passable. What killed the product though is that we couldn’t get any reasonably sized contracts in the United States. So even a company with the motivation to burn capital the size of Amazon couldn’t swing competing with Ticketmaster.
Streisand Effect 101. The website is still up, it actually looks rather tame, and I'm sure if it had actually classified documents or similar on it it would have been seized by the FBI.

https://dreamlandresort.com/
Nice since the 4clojure exercises went down, which I had a lot of fun with.

* Just found this! https://4clojure.oxal.org/ Yess
How is he being validated? He flew drones over restricted airspace.

This is like if I said the government had aliens in the white house, I jumped the fence, and then while getting arrested said "they are trying to stop me!"
No, it uses battery power to self balance once it detects you standing on the board, the nose will stay up at a standstill.

This also means if you run out of battery power the nose will just drop on you.
Let's see. LYV is the parent company (including venues, etc).

They are worth $16 billion (or about 1/4th an Elontwitter).

They had revenue of $6 billion and made a EBITDA of $573m.

So disruption of the Ticketmaster monopoly is going to result in $500 million? Perhaps?

They don't seem to be printing money as much as everything thinks they are. Someone could buy LYV and show people how you really milk a market to death.
Yup. Any company offering that will rugpull you in the future, even if that may not have been their original intention. Therefore you should regard them as radioactive and pull all your money from them - and any "institution", contract etc that does invest in them.
Some artists and performers have goals separate from "extract the maximum revenue possible on every sale", they may want to price their tickets so that young fans or other people not in the 1% of income distribution can attend their shows.
> Economically, it doesn't seem to make sense for artists and venues to be giving so much money to a partner who is delivering so little value.

Artists and venues receive a part of the fees that TicketMaster charges. TicketMaster's essentially being paid by artists and venues to be the bad guy.
the docs are missing but this looks good https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js
They won't. The algorithm he used was basically just a quadratic sieve which can be quickly run on a computer (i.e. seconds). Simple algorithms (polard rho eg) can factor numbers of this size in fractions of a second. Humans are hopelessly outclassed here.
"Fast" is not relevant - the runtime would be just as fast if the code was written in plain words. Code size is also irrelevant unless you're called Elon Musk. The only claim left is that it's a productivity boost, but I just can't see how a language that needs a special keyboard to be written can be written more productively than actual words, especially with modern IDEs.
Discord is a massive data store. They hoard messages. The only reason for this is to someday sell it. It doesn't matter what the CEO says, it's the investors that own it. They either have to become profitable, or sell.
> Is that so hard to understand to the left?

What ‘left’? Let’s not bring America’s two right-wing parties into the picture.
How do you define hate speech?
The way the system is supposed to work is a desperate run from US authorities, ending up trapped in a country that the US is hostile to? Sounds like Snowden and Assange did it the same way.
Funny enough I vastly prefer Gala to Fuji.

And my girlfriend swears by Macintosh apples.
It's not clear from the wording if the drones were flown over Area 51 or if they were flown nearby.
If he got busted for flying drones over military bases, then I have no sympathy. If he was only republishing images captured by somebody else who did that and already published them, then he did nothing wrong.

It's not clear to me which of these happened.
Attacking an electronic voting system requires changing a few integers. Surely this is much easier than stuffing ballot boxes all over the country. In functioning democracies, the polls have observers from multiple parties which makes ballot stuffing infeasible.
If crypto has an "ethos", it's decentralization and departure from human institutions. The FTX fiasco is the opposite of that.
related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect