skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will need to read it myself, but this review gives me more confidence for a view I’d already had: the so-called leaders of the world are just morons filled with hubris, and usually bought off by rich, talented, executives from private industry. Accordingly, the rich get richer and they pull the ladder up behind themselves.
Seems like it’s not so simple to say that ticketmaster is getting artists/venues max profits. If you look at how much money could be made by scalping (before it became harder), that was money people would have potentially paid to the artist/venue instead.
What prediction is that? Are you arguing that two rocks or apples or people are actually "can't tell them part" identical?

It works for electrons. But when was the last time that you interacted knowingly with a single electron?
people really loose sight of “normal habits” when talking about sex. there’s this intense religious shame, so the folks with the most fucked up libidos assume everyone must be like them. i see posts like this as a confession, much less an anecdote
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure this is not nearly as gray an area as you think. Have you ever read an IPO prospectus or a quarterly report from a publicly traded company? They include big lists of risks that can all threaten the performance of the company. Those are there because you have to be truthful with your investors. If you lie to raise money, that's fraud. If it doesn't actually already work and you tell them it does, it's a problem.

What I think in this case is that it's a pity that she wasn't prosecuted for threatening people's health with unreliable test results. They didn't "run out of runway" while in research mode: they were already selling a defective product that is safety-critical. Google Jean-Louis Gasse's piece on his personal experience with Theranos results. It was incredibly callous to gamble with people's lives that way. I do understand that it was easier to prosecute the financial crimes, but it's still unsatisfying that they were not held to account on those actions.
The norm that you need friends is so hardwired in society that it's taboo to even suggest you can be happy without them.
You just start caring. When you dedicate your time to it, you'll find out how to deal with each person uniquely as you should do.
Só finally we get bloody self driving cars!

Glad to see Waymo pulled it off after so many years.

Hopefully if this SF test works they will expand rapidly.
Correct, operations are all done fully local to the browser. If you opt in to the Cloudflare DNS option, it'll check using the hostname only.
My wife was diagnosed Devic's disease, a rare disease with a grim prognosis. Almost every paper we could find on it had the name of a doctor that worked at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale. We lived in Arizona at the time so we went there and found that doctor. He corrected her diagnosis as MS, not Devic's. They both suck but Devic's is much worse. We paid out of pocket and getting the correct diagnosis was worth every penny.
If these can be made more cheaply / improve geographic distribution for landlocked people who want fresh oysters, those are real wins. Especially if cheap foyster takeout is used as a substitute for more ecologically intensive goods like cheap beef takeout.
That no one know how truffles smells and tastes, not even "experts", was the important part of the article. Also informing on how, when and where to get and ask for real truffle.

Artificial is bad if served as the real thing, that most certainly is harmful and dishonest.
No, wapo doesn't, but its author may
I'm against pure speculation, but forbidding futures outright would feel ... wrong. Locking prices for contracts up front is a useful thing.

However, it might be much more interesting, and societally more beneficial, to require that anyone trading in commodities futures must have, at all times, the facility to take delivery of the contracts. The upper limit of exposure for a trading desk would therefore be bound by the capacity of their physical infrastructure.
What makes it set up to function the other way round?
No no, they literally have to use GPT-3 to write their compliance documents.
Why are people so quick to remove all agency from women?

I find it hard to believe these women have no other options than to sell their body.
Bread freezes just fine, I could name you a bunch of 3 star Michelin places serving frozen bread every day.

You still want a humidity controlled oven for reheating, so not necessarily super convenient at home.

A high-end baker I work with (https://triticum.net/) only sells frozen bread, everything comes with extensive instructions for reheating.
DHCP option 43 is often used to indicate if a mobile network is metered. (May be other ways, this is the one I'm most familiar with.) I'm guessing your "spare mobile phone" is Android?

Apple caches a lot of info about networks it connects to. So it's probably caching that it received this option and "knows" that network to be metered.

Best solution for this is to have either more control over your mobile network so it's not sending that option, or more easily, name the mobile network something else from your home one.
It does carry a certain meaning, it comes from a certain Columbus guy.
What happened in the last few weeks regarding decentralized finance?
And a natural lust to boss others around.
For me, the most surprising part of that article was that almost the entirety of the increase in the US inflation rate occurred before the invasion of Ukraine [0]. From reading mainstream news I had assumed the it had increased substantially since the invasion, but it appears that is not the case at all.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
Burning Man-style ticket sale systems require a lot of extra workflow features, like a waiting room, ticket claim, raffle selection, identity confirmation. They have multiple phases of sales where the price increases. They have hardship tickets, if you can prove you simply can't afford the normal price.

Resale for above original value is not allowed, and if you're reported the ticket may be forfeit and original seller banned. You can transfer a ticket to another person using their ticket management system, and I imagine you could also "sell back" your ticket to be given away at the box office as hardship tickets.

Most people do buy as many as they can and sell or give away the extras to their friends or people on forums looking for tickets. While controversial, it is nice to go to an event with your friends, and it does feel like you're helping strangers who are interested enough that they hunt around on forums for a ticket.
The child did not lose a mother, if he/she never had one. Also she'll be out around the time the child will start elementary school. So yes the child will still be in a better spot than 99% of all children in single family households and probably than almost all in low income ones as well.
This was cool to read, because it indirectly taught me to understand HSV.

I've always had trouble understanding the colour spaces other than RGB. After reading that article, I understood a little more about the luminance due to the greyscale used. From there I searched for "rgb vs cmyk vs hsv" and found this: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-rgb-cmyk-hs... (with annoying "sign up with google" popovers)

From there I wondered if there was a visualizer for the HSV cone, and yes there is! https://color.lukas-stratmann.com/color-systems/hsv.html

So, if you're out there wondering if you should write that visualizer that you had a weird idea for, please, please do so. It may help some random internet person understand something :)
> paints the problem contributor as the average person

I'm confused, it's not?
I work on porting Linux DRM drivers to NetBSD.
One of my clients back at a large financial software and data provider, was a southern market making firm.

They kept complaining about "the whole desk being slow" and we spent weeks trying to figure out what was wrong with our software.

Eventually we figured out the whole firm was nuts about golf, and they'd all stream golf tournament to their workstations at the same time and saturate their ISDN or whatever they had.
Completely tangential:

I tried VMWire fusion to run multiple browsers to get tickets for Glastonbury.

Are virtual machines ever not slow?

Running 9 virtual machines on an M1 mac, did not work...

I needed to be able to take over at any point, to enter the credit card details etc if successful, so puppeteer would not have been a good solution.

I think I need to rent multiple devices just for the day it seems. Chrome offers multiple profiles so I had 9 browsers, but you only get 60 refreshes per minute n an IP address. I would need to redirect some of the chrome instances, and have the screen real estate to handle it.
Most market-based solutions have to be looked at carefully to make sure they don't just translate into more inequalities.

Food, shelter, education and other basic needs are supposed to be taken care of in developed countries (by definition) in the 21st century. Just leaving it up to the market means that poorer people won't have these needs fulfilled, and we can't pretend that it's just fine and so be it.

Maybe energy prices should be proportional to your wealth, like fines in some countries.
I recently started to use helix (https://helix-editor.com/) and it felt like a step forwards. A modal editor, way faster than VS Code, and with a nicer design than vim, e.g. selection->action instead of action->selection.
This doesn’t sound very true to me. My guess is that there are a much smaller number of people willing to pay $4k to a scalper for tickets and the price reflects the small supply of scalper tickets.
As far as biological reactions go, in certain countries lots of people visit public saunas naked and find nothing sexual about it. People’s perceptions of nudity vary by culture.
Windows Updates are downloaded via HTTP but signed in the package themselves. This is why Delivery Optimization (peer to peer distribution) can be used. HTTP downloads for WU are also good because it allows upstream proxies to cache the content reducing overall network load.

Thus: Hijacking WU to download malicious content takes far, far more than just DNS hijacking. You'd also need to subvert the WU signing system. (This is more nation-state level stuff.)
>As an individual, I don't even have knowledge, let alone control about the energy consumption over the production process of things I order. It won't improve anything to put responsibility for that consumption on the buyer, at least not without significant changes that could better be solved by putting an appropriate price tag on consumption.

But at the end of the day, the buyer is always right. It's easy to abdicate responsibility of production based carbon emissions to the producers, but if your buying choices actively disadvantage producers with lower carbon emissions (eg. because they cost more and you only care about costs) why would you expect producers to do anything about it?

>It means to reward saving energy compared to other costs.

Isn't there already an incentive to save energy? It's a cost, so businesses are already incentivized to save energy wherever they can. Higher prices incentivizes that even more.
It wasn't during college (I dropped out) but in 2020 I did the audio version of "How To Win Friends and Influence People" which had a profound impact on how I handled day to day conversations.

A few others:

The Simple Path to Wealth - JL Collins (changed my entire investment strategy)

Breath - James Nestor (something so routine but there is so much to learn)

A Short History of Everything - Bill Bryson (silly, but its a pretty large and encompassing look at various parts of life from the galaxy to the planet to cells)
> or even no meat in their diet. You don't have to agree.

Somewhat irrelevant, but: do parents actually have a right to enforce a no-meat diet on their kids?

I understand (say) having a "no meat in the house" rule, telling your kids not to buy meat products with your money, and/or only cooking vegetarian food.

But requiring your kid to adopt a vegetarian diet at all times--even when they're away from home--seems excessive.

Maybe it's OK at age 5, but once the kid is old enough to understand the distinction it should be entirely their choice.
> The lack of race-based disadvantage is labelled "privilege"

For some reason we seem to be changing the meaning of words lately. It's troubling to me.

We already have a word for lack-of-disadvantage. It's called advantage.

Privilege is a loaded word, it implies "unearned" advantage, this word is chosen for it's negative connotations. Accusing people of unearned advantages is inflammatory does nothing to address the real problems of inequality.

"Check your privilege" is really just coded speak for calling someone racist to win an argument. Shades of Godwin's Law anyone?

The art of subtly/persistently changing the meaning of words is a weapon used in politics and cultural wars. Orwell wrote extensively on this.[1] Once you understand how this works you begin to understand why politicians speak the way they do.

A journalist can choose to call a group of armed men "freedom fighters" or "terrorists". Each word has a very clear/strong connotation, one group good the other bad. Once you've got a definition like this to stick, you've set hard limits for what is deemed acceptable discussion and debate. Once a group is labelled as terrorist it becomes hard to say "what they are doing is good", as you're in effect saying "terrorism is good". This was the entire point of Orwell's idea of Newspeak in his novel 1984, where the official language was engineered to make it impossible to hold the idea "Big Brother is bad".

I'm not making a judgment here on anything related to the present and past history of racism in this country, and what should/shouldn't be done about it. I'm merely pointing out that I am seeing that more and more we aren't using words the way we used to, and this seems (to me) being done on purpose to win political arguments, shutting down entire avenues of reasoned/civil debate. I don't know to what ends this will lead us, but I do know it doesn't end well when a group with a political power begins subtly defining an out-group.

Whether or not you believe anti-white racism is a real thing or not, I worry that the use of the term is on the rise. And that this may not be a bug, it may be a feature.

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

[1] https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
These authoritarian twitches will cause vast damage ahead of settling, though.
I have a similar need for work (k8s instead of docker) and I just use the routing table on my router and `/etc/hosts` files (need domain names fir certificates) works easy.
Computers work with perfect representations of pi all the time. The TI-89 will do it routinely.

All of your objections continue to apply just as strongly to human mathematicians as they do to computers. But you apparently believe there is a difference between what the mathematicians can do and what the computers can do. This is false. Any problem that occurs in computers' representations of values will also occur in human representations of values.

Using your example, a system that is sensitive to differences so fine that they cannot be held in any realistic amount of memory is quite possible. But humans will have just as much trouble using it as computers do. If it is easy to show that x=pi in particular causes trouble, computers will find that easy too, using the same tools -- symbolic computation on pi -- that humans do.

The fact that computers have discrete internal representations is not relevant to anything. All human mathematics is also performed using exclusively discrete representations.
You've got it exactly. This is also part of Windows captive portal detection, which makes what you say even more important. HTTPS would actually be a step backwards here.
Grindr barely has any features, it’s basically a site for people who are cruising for sex, like a decentralised gay sauna.

Gay guys (I am bi and use it) just need text and photos to show off their pecs and dick pics. Grindr has successfully constructed a dick pick delivery service that works, put some ads and a Grindr plus if you want to talk to people further away and that’s it really.

It’s not been product market fit, it’s product market perfection. There is no need for any new feature and I haven’t seen them add any in a decade.
Empty Classrooms, Abandoned Kids: Inside America’s Great Teacher Resignation
Love the Chip Letter!
Yeah, I know, but NAT’s side effect of preventing all sorts of remote access is quite convenient, I don’t have to trust the cheap router or cheap internet of shit device to do the right thing firewall-wise.
Lotteries aren't fair.
I think it's fine to work on and release these models, where things fall apart is in how some large companies market them.

Listen to 1:35:30 of this Bill Simmons podcast interview to see how an average person interprets the capabilities of these models: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh...
This is the kind of biased reporting that hurts journalism as a profession.
It is not journalism's job to sell the public on anything. It's journalism's job to report the news.

And if a large portion of the public doesn't believe the news is being reported accurately, that is a very big problem for journalism.
Moral: “if there is a lot of work involved solving a technical problem, there’s probably a lot less work involved solving it non-technically”
I think we will probably see a lot of minisplit type heat pumps being installed in the coming years. In addition to being easy to retrofit, they have really high efficiency ratings (20+ seer).
Waiters in restaurants used to serve the real deal expect you to do this, just like sommeliers will expect you to taste the wine before agreeing to buying the bottle.

They want people to know they're served real truffles, because that's what weeds out competitors cheating on products.
Kill it with fire, nuke it from the orbit.

There, fixed.
It’s more prevalent in North America to imitate, while in EU there are many good vegetarian food options that don’t just try to imitate the meat version. Also generally have not found the “meat replacements” in the US and CA to be that good.

But the reason they try to imitate it (presumably) because it is easier to get people to try it.
We like things to be "fair" and to have mutually beneficial relationships in our work life. On top of that we all struggle with being vulnerable so your idea of a friendship built on top of mutual reliance seems really difficult to pull off.

Far more likely is you needing to accept that you will be doing most of the maintenance work around any of your adult friendships, and they might not have any "benefit" outside of being one of the few balms to existential dread.
Node.js 18.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda
I don't think it's too bad. Kiosks aren't overly prevalent, so unlike particularly egregious clickbait examples (Dentists hate this one simple trick for perfect teeth, etc), I had less stake in the result.

I was still curious about the content (which is how a title is supposed to work, right?) so I clicked it anyway, and learned about a kernel parameter I wasn't aware of.

It's a good article, thanks for writing it.
The spam filter stuff used Paul Graham's word probabilities described in his seminal article A Plan For Spam. It changed those probabilities a bit, to better account for the number of emails a word appeared in. But in the main, my article was about a statistical method (NOT Bayesian) for combining those probabilities. The word probabilities were Bayesian, but the way of combining them used frequentist statistics. Even so, spam filters that used the technique were always referred to as Bayesian as if nothing frequentist was involved.
Yes. I've been involved in a few. Well, the resolution and accuracy were part of the audit scope, certainly.

Quite common in real-time sports betting world.
That sounds... character forming.
Sure, but some people are naturally better at that than others. I'm sure practice helps though.
Thank you.

Every time anyone in the office had to go on their website, everyone knew from the groans, moans and thumps.

It’s an abomination.
I'm highly doubtful that billionaires want to do away with capitalism.
As a parent, I agree. I will also say it’s the hardest job I’ve ever had, and I would not recommend it to others if a future caregiver is what they’re hoping to get out of it.
Here is a good summary: https://accessibility.princeton.edu/how/content/lists

WAVE is a great browser extension to have for frontend developers: http://wave.webaim.org/extension/

It helps you identify aspects of your design that might not be accessible.
This is ignorant and wrong. You are assuming that colorblind-friendly palettes are worse than others, but that isn't the case. In my experience, colorblind-friendly palettes actually tend to be nicer looking.

It's not wrongthink, but you might just be a jerk.
>Do we remember those who decided to sit at home and never travel?

That's a problem with your education in history, not the reality of past progress or markets. Not to mention that your response has barely any relevance to the point I made.
I would like to make a suggestion: put your Mastodon or Twitter handle in your HN profile. I was going to follow you on social media, which is how I get links to reading material.
It's called, "In Demand." Once a campaign closed on Kickstarter, the funding button would redirect to any URL you wanted, generally your website. I knew that campaigns had a long tail in traffic or that sometimes your campaign would get a press hit at the end of the campaign reporting how much money they raised. If you didn't have a Shopify to continue collecting orders, you left money on the table. So basically KS funneled visitors to IGG via Press > Closed KS Campaign > IGG In Demand. The first campaign we did this with was Baubax, it got a press hit from the NY Times 13 days after the campaign was finished on KS. If they didn't do In Demand they would have lost out on $2.4 million.
I hope that the inflation reduction act will help with lower income families in this regard. Up to $8000 back on a heat pump install at the point of sale. This could make the install only a couple thousand.
D8VK project – implementation of Direct3D 8 for DXVK
Here's a link that bypasses their paywall

https://archive.ph/TjePd

— Made me chuckle, cheers :)
The screenshot of the table has new nuclear as the same price range as onshore wind, so we should be able to offer about half-that.
Design Patterns in Java.

First time i've seen and experienced the power of abstraction in programming.
Let them wear coats, said the out of touch queen of the freezing peasants.
"How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams. I have purchased and disliked every book he's released since then, but I found quite a bit of useful, actionable life advice in that book. I can honestly say that the book changed the way I look at life and made me a more positive and ambitious person.

This one was right when he was just on the edge of being overly impressed with himself, so the lessons include more humility and less lecturing. His later books still have useful material but the delivery and underlying smugness is jarring.

In short, it's a book you can get a lot from without liking or agreeing with Scott Adams on most of his public opinions.