skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so pissed at my 2004 self.
I was in 2nd year university and won a bid to create the website and ecommerce platform for a local event. The website was for:
Event information, Team Schedules, Buying merhcandise, and event tickets.

My partner and I created, to our knowldge, the first ticketting system with live purchasing for seats at a stadium where you could choose your seats. Ticket master was not doing this at the time.

We drew the stadium with squares. It showed reserved, and purchased seats while selecting.
It even picked the best possible seating so it wouldn't leave one spot vacant if you choose the "get me the best availble seats for N people option".

It was a huge success for a stadium that seated 8k people.

After the event was over, the main attraction host team asked us if we could do the ticketing system for their games. Their games were at the ACC.
After a couple weeks they came back and told us it wasn't possible because Ticket Master had the rights to the stadium.

So what did we do?
University was stating up soon so we went back to school.
My business mind didn't even think to turning it into a service back then because we assumed ticket master controlled everything.

Forever facepalm.
You should join Amazon and do that, and you can come back here and apologize in a couple of years when you get pipped for wasting too much time on legacy code
As someone who is also impacted by recent layoff and on H1B i feel like a headless chicken trying to figure out what to do.

Everyone expects to do several round of interview and also if you are not in leetcode mode its hard.

One of my best prospect company, announced a lay off too :(

Having said that load of people have helped me in referring to their company and doing everything to help.

Be empathic to the people who are laid off and also this country needs immigration reform.

Having no clear target on when i will get a green card (maybe 10, 20 or even 100) its making me reconsider my decision to stay here a lot.

i am just ramblings on immigration and i know only Indians are suffering the most compared to others.
"No, money down!"

These climate conferences are so frustrating. Everybody knows it is a real time catastrophe, but nobody is willing to be the first guy to lose money trying to fight it. They'll make all of these promises that amount to nothing while their countries are destroyed by climate change.

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If you are actually doing 40 hours a week, you're probably working at least 60 hours.
Arguably, that's Zelensky's main strength: he's a comedian and did tours; he's a showman, a diplomat, a talker.

His primary role viz-a-viz the war is going around talking, doing meetings, and drumming up support. Get him on a 12 city tour, except instead of cross-dressing and telling jokes he's cutting deals for aid.

He's no general, and it's likely he doesn't know jack about actually fighting a war. Nor does he need to: he's got actual generals for that, ones who have been fighting w/ the Russians on and off since 2014, on top of real-time intelligence and assistance from the 30 -- say it again, THIRTY -- countries of NATO.
Because solar and wind are intermittent. UK for example had 11 days in a row in 2021 where wind farms stayed under 20% of capacity during Feb-March [1], the low-season for solar power and high-season in power consumption due to heating.

At the national grid level, you should also want to account for rare, once-every-few-decades scenarios.

[1] https://reports.electricinsights.co.uk/q1-2021/when-the-wind...
>Gangwon government is not going to honor outstanding debts, here, is because the value of the collateral[1] has fallen below the outstanding cost of the debt.

Just because a deal goes badly for you, rarely do you get to kick over the table and walk away.
I feel like you missed some qualification here:

> I still believe that suicide should never be the option

From the rest of your comment, it sounds like you were facing some form of severe but ultimately temporary problem.

People considering suicide are not necessarily in this same boat, and circumstances make all the difference.

To believe that suicide should "never" be the option suggests that you're only considering a subset of people who are in a similar situation to the one you faced. There are plenty of situations which give a reasonable expectation of permeance, or cause such severe suffering that while possibly temporary may not be worth enduring.

To me it comes down to the freedom to choose, for people of sound mind making a rational decision. I'm young, healthy, and generally happy, but there are absolutely situations which may affect me in the future over which I would prefer death, and I firmly believe I should have the freedom to make that choice if the time ever comes.
Medical residents work 80 hours a week. And that's an average over 4 weeks, so they could work 90 easily one week.

40 is nothing...
? When your message is readable on the other side, on the app which we are supposing has a "problematic" privacy policy, it is unencrypted. Encryption is a matter in transmission. The data acted upon (e.g. displayed) on the other application has to be finally unencrypted, or decrypted.

Alice sends message "Hi" to Bob through app Alpha; it is encrypted during transmission; Bob receives it on his app named Beta - but Beta manages the message in fully readable form, "'H'-'i'", and does what its coders want with it.
If you had a browser build as a working implementation you’d get a ton of interest quite quickly
There's blood in the water now, thrashing. Should have bought silver, LOL.
This design is basically a square aspect ratio. One of the reasons one turns into the the wind is to reduce windage. Because this design is square, you get no real benefit from doing that. But that's just in a storm event, which would probably be fine way out to sea.

If you only have 5kts of speed to throw at the problem of navigation, you will almost always be getting pushed down wind. Again, this could be resolved with a bunch of very powerful tugs, which I suppose could escort the "ship" through troublesome areas. As in, anywhere near land or shallows.

Say there is a 30 knot wind blowing. You negate 5 knots of that. Now you are moving at a maximum of 25 knots in the wrong direction. Of course, this is limited by the hull speed, but I don't think it's the hull speed that limits this design to 5kts. So say it can get pushed through the water at 10 knots by the insane amount of energy absorbed via windage... that's 240 nautical miles per day. Possibly in the wrong direction! That's 444km or 276 miles. Assuming the wind could blow for 5 days in a direction towards land, that's a lot of distance from shore until the captain is happy.

Even if the hull speed is 5 knots, that's still a big problem once you multiply by time.
The new CEO of FTX just released a declaration: "Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls..."

"In the Bahamas, I understand that corporate funds of the FTX Group were used to purchase homes and other personal items for employees and advisors"

Sam Bankman-Fried's hedge fund lent billions to... Sam Bankman-Fried (Paper Bird is his entity), so that's at least part of the answer where the money went.
I won't use a walled garden for task management again.

I use org-mode in Emacs, which syncs to an iCloud folder, which the beorg app on my iPhone reads. It's 2-way read-write, but I mostly read on the iPhone.

I used to use RTM, web and Android, but it had bugs on Android they could not reproduce, so they couldn't fix them (making a new task had a 66% chance of disappearing).
Bitcoin has in fact lost more value than the Argentine peso (or any other fiat currency) over the last year, and this is its largest fall ever (it has fallen over 70% twice before, but I think this is the first time it's ever fallen 73%), and this is a big concern for its use as a savings vehicle, though only a minor inconvenience for its use for international remittances.

Also, because the US$ has itself lost about 10% of its value over that last year, the fall is even worse in real terms than in nominal terms, closer to 75%.

Over other periods of time, like the last two years or the last six months, this is not the case (that is, the peso has done worse than Bitcoin over those periods), and certainly anyone with savings in Bitcoin is hoping that a year from now it is at or near its current value, or even above it, rather than having fallen another 70% to US$4500. But it could. There is no guarantee, and my observation of periods of past Bitcoin volatility does not make me optimistic that scam artists will go away as a result.

There is no prospect that the peso will have equal or higher value a year from now; both the general dynamics of central-bank-controlled fiat currencies and the specific pathologies of Argentina militate strongly against it. The long-run expected value of the peso is zero — it's not a question of whether it will inflate over time, just how fast. Plausibly ruining the peso's usefulness as a unit of long-term account or a vehicle for savings is a worthwhile tradeoff for improving its usefulness as a medium of exchange; that opinion certainly has widespread acceptance among economists.

So clearly anyone who invests their savings in pesos will inherit the wind; it's possible that whoever invests their savings in Bitcoin will as well.

But maybe not.
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The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried will leave deep scars
Yes indeed massively impressed with this machine. Cost bugger all as well (Lenovo Neo 50S gen3)
FTX: “'**** the regs' they make everything worse”

FTX employees submitted payment requests through an online chat platform where a disparate group of supervisors approved disbursements by responding with personalized emojis. Other practices included the use of an unsecured group email account as the root user to access confidential private keys and critically sensitive data for the FTX Group companies around the world, the use of software to conceal the misuse of customer funds; the secret exemption of Alameda from certain aspects of FTX.com’s auto-liquidation protocol. Also, the audit firm for the Dotcom Silo was Prager Metis, a firm whose website indicates that they are the “first-ever CPA firm to officially open its Metaverse headquarters in the metaverse platform Decentraland".
A bit of a snooze fest, but features for websites like twitter are weird, sometimes I forget to remember that people _like_ Twitter, so in some ways more of the same executed well is what you want.

But is there any other company doing well on a subscription model? Medium valuation is like 600 million, but they’ve slowed down right? Substack 2021 revenue was 9 mil but I assume they’ve seen big growth in 2022. Most of the “opportunity” I’ve seen people refer to when talking about twitter was the fact they only reach ~10,000 businesses for advertising. How big is the market for social media subscriptions, I guess that’s what they are trying to create.

New York Times has 2 billion in revenue so with his citizen journalism comment I guess he’s going for some of that (anyone notice the callback to Newsroom season 3 there?)
https://archive.ph/rule4
Red Delicious 25

Granny Smith 53

McIntosh 45

Cortland 24

Either I have never had a good apple or there is something off with this list and the reviews. Could it be they are using imported or out of season apples?

This list is pretty much the apples I have access to locally and they are all perceivably better than some of the international variety that are ranked higher on that website.

The comment section for Cortland is savage and honestly I agree with a lot of it.
Waymo shows off its next truly driverless prototype car
This is why I will only take remote jobs. I got sick of spending two hours a day in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
The article's about health care, not healthcare the neologism.
I agree, it's unfortunate how it ended.
My first real contact with cybernetics while being younger was a book "Cybernetics and character" by Marian Mazur (printed in 1976). Later chapters bored me but the beginning of book had impact on me as showed me a bit different mode of thinking which I believe improved my understanding of complex systems.

In book he tried to model different psychological behaviors, like conflicts, using cybernetics language and try to draw conclusion and what such simple models can tell us.

Also in introduction Mazur argued that science should not have artificial bounds as "subjects" and closed walls - there are many problems that arise in many different fields, with many different point of views. That also changed me in a way that I started to actively engage with totally different fields of science. At all, cybernetics is about abstract ideas that are quite universal.
> Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster?

Because speculation is at the core of capitalism.
I wish the TLS Name Constraints extension were widely supported. Then browser vendors could just say that until that law gets repealed, they won't accept root CAs from any Turkish entities without a Name Constraints extension limiting them to only sign within the .tr TLD.
"If you are actually doing 40 hours a week you are productive as hell."

That's assuming that the work you've been set to do is productive, and you're doing it in a productive manner.
For instance, I've spent weeks grinding away on features that never get used by customers. Is that productive?
I've also spent hours trying to fix a bug because of infrastructure/platform/tooling constraints that means the code/compile/debug cycle is stupidly slow. Is that productive?

I don't have the slightest doubt I could be a lot more productive than I am now while working less hours. But it's often down to factors that are more or less out of my control.
I mean that the mental model dates from the early Industrial Revolution (I previously thought that it wasn't created until the Gilded Age or the Victorian era), and is overdue to be revised given the rise of white collar work.
> This one is really an example of the US having a 3rd world safety net

You are grossly under-estimating the safety net in 3rd world countries. While overall everyone might be poor in terms of $-terms, but there is a strong culture of helping each other out. That doesn't exist to the same extent in US.
How so? The cryptosystem in question is WebPKI. CAs form the roots of trust in WebPKI, as you mentioned.

> They hold the roots of trust but charge for there services and are for-profit. Without any competition we would have a terrible monopoly.

This hasn't been true for years! Let's Encrypt provides free certificates to anyone with a domain. They issue millions of certs a day and secure a massive chunk of the web[1].

I think everybody is in broad agreement that the CA system is brittle, vulnerable to mismanagement, bad actors, etc. But "something better" is very hard to identify and implement. Churchill's saying about the "worse system except for all the others"[1] applies equally well here, IMO.

[1]: https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/petermillett/2014/03/05/the-worst-...

[1]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/case-studies/lets-...
I have EXTENSIVE experience with this, as I’ve dealt with it many times as a brand owner.

The strategy is to attack them from all sides.

1) Shopify DMCA
2) Cloudflare DMCA
3) Web host DMCA
4) Look at any widgets or services they use on the page - DMCA
5) Get a lawyer to email them notice of violation and lawsuit
6) Google DMCA
7) Registrar DMCA

I’ve had most luck with 1 and 2 (most responsive). Others can work but take more time 2-3 months.

8) Order from their store (If they are selling) and write your company name as customer (so they can see you are buying to pursue legal action).

9) Start adding any relevant keywords they might be using on their domain to your website to catch any traffic (like variations of your trademark).

With all of these listed, the best method is to cite your Trademark # in each email. There’s a specific template for each service provider which needs to follow guidelines for takedown requests (such as your signature, mailing address etc), make sure you include all those relevant points or they may ignore your request.
Yeah, let them eat cake i guess?
yeah i was very surprised to see this on an okta domain. you probably shouldn’t be putting out posts like these unless you’re literally announcing a 4 day work week
Client side exception when scrolling down a little and back to the top on mobile safari, so much smoother than the regular scroll

Also doesn’t play nicely with the fade in of the safari bottom toolbar
Could a friend hire him for their company for a fictitious salary or something like that to keep their immigration clock going?
For me, the 40 hour work week is okay but I think the problem at least for development is getting non-technical people to be responsive or provide the necessary input to keep me busy. When I'm support duty for a sprint, I find myself twiddling my thumbs sometimes awaiting a response to a question on a ticket from a user to confirm or get more context for the issue so I can do my work as there's only so much looking at logs, source code, and the like to tease out the cause of the issue.

If anything, I think companies who have more knowledge and process based workers should look to use the free time for learning/studying. Maybe give funds to take courses whether they're online or offline to help such workers (myself included) improve our skill set. I'm not against more free time off for the same pay but I just think there can be more uses of the time than just being off the clock is what I guess I'm saying.
The weird thing to me is that the total mass of silver mined is only about 8x the total mass of silver, but the price spread is 80x.

Copper is much more abundant, over 400x more copper than silver has been mined, but silver is almost as scarce as gold. It really seems like the price spread should be closer.
Is novel research worth doing? Evidence from peer review
Personally, I feel that it's too little.

No one is perfectly productive. If you devote 40 hours to something, you're going to spend at least 10-15 hours out of that on non-productive busywork.

There are also some tasks that just require extended periods of focus before something "clicks". No way I could write or code if I was told to pack up and leave after a fixed amount of time.

Also, I've always found that when I'm working hard, I'm more creative in my hobbies as well. I make music as a hobby and whenever I've taken a break from work, the music just doesn't flow.

Caveat: I work for myself so the work is both important and enjoyable to me, and I don't have to deal with office bureaucracies. If I was working for someone else, I might have different views.
I heard George Soros gave $200m to Sequoia to give to FTX to give to antifa to smuggle yellow cake disguised as children's pronouns.
Medical residents tend to be highly stressed, and these practices were apparently originated by a man who used cocaine in the same manner as coffee.
Most of these reports are basically scams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g
> Do you have a deficit of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine?

What evidence exists that points this is the cause of ADHD? Wouldn't a dopamine deficit be more akin to Parkinson's Disease?

Also, last I remember reading, I am pretty sure we are not fully aware of why stimulants help people with ADHD. I think the leading hypothesis is that dopamine plays a role somehow, but I thought that he yet to be fully observed.
My reply will not meant to convince you because I agree with you :-)

> "The day comes where you continue doubling down and you lose a substantial amount of capital in the process."

- I believe that continue doubling is one of the most fatal stratetegy. Sadly, I made this mistake multiple times, which caused me a extensive loss. The only solution I come up is, while continuing doubling, cut loss if there is a certain amount loss reached (like 10$ or 1% of the capital). That was the actualy reason I implemented the bot where it automatically closes the position for me;
since in a loss , "fear" does not let me realize what's happening and instead of a cut loss I adding more into a losing trade.
> Semicolon is a strange example when so many successful languages don’t have them.

They usually have another statement terminator instead, like a newline.
The only game I play with any expectation of improving is League of Legends. In that community there's the concept of "mental," e.g. your ability to stay calm and think. Players will talk about "improving my mental" like they talk about practicing combos or learning more about game sense. As if they were Buddhist monks and not teenagers playing video games. I think this is because League is a uniquely frustrating game for the same reasons it can be uniquely rewarding: teamwork matters a lot. It is easy to get frustrated. It is very obvious that people who don't get frustrated easily perform better.

If you're upset at the idea of people yelling at you then you just have weak mental and need to improve. Alternatively, you just might not enjoy that kind of ultra-competitive game and should find another game to play. Either one is absolutely fine.