skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I saw a post on HN (or maybe reddit) about using reverse dutch auctions for these sort of situations and how it provided the fairest outcomes for all parties.

It was the first time I had ever heard of that concept, and since then I have felt that it really is the best way to create a fair market clearing price for all participants where the maker with a limited stock of product (taylor swift) and the buyers (fans) get to participate.

Edit: oops - I can't find the original article I referenced, but someone else posted this on the same concept which is now on the front page of HN:
https://barnabas.me/blog/2022/11/selling-tickets-fairly/
Architecture as Metaphor by Kojin Karatani.
maybe the city should fix the dangerous potholes instead of blaming the scooter
I'll second the recommendation of Bryson's A Short History of Everything. The thing I liked most about that book was its depiction of truly exceptional people in the history of science.
Little bit unconventional, but try writing your front end in Elm, and use the elm-ui library to avoid writing html or javascript.

It compiles to javascript and will generate an index.html for you if you want.

Elm is highly opinionated… maybe you’ll love it, or maybe you’ll hate it, but it’s a good fit for what you want to do.

https://elm-lang.org/
Social apps are easy in, easy out. Physical interaction with friend is greater effort unless you're roommates or very welcoming neighbors.
1: Porting YNAB from a spreadsheet to a C# Windows app back in 2006. (People tell us YNAB has changed their life)
2: Subsequently helping build the YNAB company/team. They are an amazing group of people and I’ll likely never be prouder of anything in my life.

To be very clear: I can’t take credit for the original idea or spreadsheet. That would be our original founder, Jesse.
USN-5686-1/2: Git incorrectly handled certain symbolic links and certain strings
There’s still an asymmetry in that a single counterexample can destroy a theory.
I use GoAccess. Free, open source, run it from the command line and it can spit out an HTML file full of plots. Works in offline or incremental mode.

https://goaccess.io/
We attended a few gigs in Italy this summer. Two of them we bought tickets first hand, they were indeed tied to a name with ID required. Was ID checked? Nope, of course not. One was a medium sized venue (3000), one a stadium, and one small (c. 300).

Tying to an ID is a nice idea in principal...

Another gig we bought tickets second hand, the seller had to go through the original site to return their tickets and then we could purchase them (I wrote a script to poll the site to find available tickets as they had sold out quickly). Did they check our IDs? Nope, of course not.

Requiring ID and having to return the tickets to the original site for resale is probably the optimal solution. But in reality if IDs are not checked it pretty much falls apart.
As far as rejecting perceptions i think going straight to solipsism is a big jump. We may live in a reality that we have no access to. Donald Hoffman's theories in this area are fun.
Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money by Kojin Karatani. Awesome interdisciplinary work that let me understand some mathematics (coming from a background in Philosophy and Literature).
Because most venues have a contractual agreement to only use ticketmaster to sell the tickets.

So not only would they have to sell their own tickets, they'd also have to provide their own venues. Taylor Swift is powerful, but not "build my own stadium to perform" powerful.
DeFi summer was, if anything, a ride of high-octane. Now that capital has learned that high APYs are unsustainable the notion of "Real Yield" [1] should help stabilize DeFi.

1 - https://cryptobriefing.com/real-yield-mania-hits-defi-five-p...
Nobody is breaking the rules because they don't know them
Apparently the venues control ticket distribution and ticketmaster has bought them off.
Which would personally tell me that the ethics and hatred towards Ticket Master was only skin deep. As soon as the money spoke.... Sigh.
More than 100 firms affiliated with FTX are filing for bankruptcy
Rev match, double-clutch, float, are all a part of the art of a manual, necessary or not. They're fun.

Done correctly, I seriously doubt any are any more damaging to a synchronized manual than regular old shifting.
So I'm not an expert, but I did look into this area previously for an idea and I found that ticketmaster has a lot of exclusive contracts or outright ownership of venues. So if you don't play with them you don't have a place to play.
The perception of profit maximizing ticket sales at each event will hurt total profit of the artist over their career.
All kind of models are possible: associate your social ID and prove you've distributed band related content early in their career; associate multiple past purchases - for things like merchandising, fan specials, behind the scenes etc. etc.

The main theme is giving band and labels tools to maintain and curate this relationship with the fanbase, and only then add ticketing on top of it. If you have a certain mass and sign multiple names from the same genre, you can leverage that data to "migrate" say Green Day fans to some new alternative/punk band and offer them discounts, under the assumption this could build strong preferences for that band in the future.

Instead of maximizing present ticket revenue and "burning" a band's current fanbase, you maximize career-wide earnings, fan number and impact. That's a kind of moat that's unbeatable.
The pursuit of profit, purely for the sake of profit and no other goal, is malicious.
I think when dealing with chronic issues, it might be better to optimize for luck. [0] A little ridiculousness like homeopathy might be worth it to find the thing that actually works.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fFY2HeC9i2Tx8FEnK/luck-based...
Don't Make Taylor Swift Fans Angry
Improving Synthetic Data Distributions with Conditional Sampling
This is 100% correct. Sort of like cable internet: seen as a luxury so it’s seen as waste to go after them.

But here’s the thing: the law should apply equally. If the FTC did go after a couple of these ‘ frivolous ‘ monopolies, it would set the tone across the board. This is an area where everyone can meet in the middle..
I'm happy with VS Code for Python. It does everything I need and it's fast enough — never had any major bugs with it. I keep my setup simple though.
I wish there was a way to run Ameboa and early Python together on QEMU, but the HTTP download links on the Ameboa site are down.
The written word is underestimated as a tool of leverage by many technologists.
That donation may well be just as important for google than it is to mozilla. They are much better off without a huge lawsuit and paying out “pennies” each year.
Fingers crossed that it eventually works but for me it invariably results in a crash or graphical corruption making my VM unusable regardless of the distro (have tried Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc)
Android uses a vendor DHCP "option 43" set to ANDROID_METERED or something like that. If you Google for something like "iOS set wifi to metered", it looks like there's a user accessible setting.
The mega venues all have exclusivity deals with Ticketmaster, usually because they're owned by them. None of the mid sized venues in my city use Ticketmaster, they're all on AXS(not much better imo) or self host. But if you're putting on an arena show tour you're stuck with Ticketmaster.
The claim being made is that Apple will remove Rosetta 2 in the near future and that "they can't wait to get rid of it", which has no basis in reality.
that's really interesting, thanks. I guess it remains to be seen how this situation evolves.
See also paralysis by analysis or Hamletism.
Most probably a crap lawyer - 90% of "lawyers" posses a single skill - to convince the poor soul using their services, that such a "deal" is advantageous.
> "Exactly when Donne turned from Catholicism to Protestantism is the central boxing ring of Donne studies"

It's pretty damning about the state of modern literary criticism that it ends up dwelling on the life more than the poetry. Perhaps cruxes exist that can only be elucidated by reference to the life, but damn it, focus on the effing poetry.
This is super cool but where is the second bearing you mentioned?
Jesus, people see nazis behind every blade of grass nowadays.

Pray tell, what is antisemitic about "YewTube?" Just that it's one letter away from "JewTube?" Sure, but if the creators intended to be antisemitic, why not just call it that then?
This feels a lot like a BASIC and logo had a child and that is not a bad thing. Love the easy graphics, simple syntax, and removing all the punctuation.

Love the a = number input typecast.

End will be a source of bugs. Use endfor endelse endif endwhile. This helps new programmers track nested loops and logic. Yes, end is simple, but end applies to many things, and will end in a pattern where people will start doing this to sort it out:

end
# while

Also, inline comments should be ok. Then you get end # while instead of the above two liner.

Honestly, this is a nice little language.
At the end of the day it didn't blow people away and that's the real reason it failed to land. You can't release something like this on the heels of Stable Diffusion and not expect people to be underwhelmed. This is a user-centric design problem.

It actually takes experimentation and skill to get anything useful out of Galactica and you have to actually have some sense of prompt engineering principles for it to work. Lecun literally just made this point on Twitter [0] but fails to address why this design problem (ease of use) was the reason - instead claiming it was because people are being too rough.

Compare that to all the recent StableDiffusion/Vision Transformer demos where people with literally zero computer literacy can just type in a string of nonsense and get out something interesting. The barrier to entry to a "first meaningful paint" for stable diffusion is being able to speak English and having access to the internet. That's it.

Discussion about AI safety are always present when new FOSS AI tools come out. But when it "just works" and "works like magic" then those voices are drowned out with: "OMG it's the robot apocalypse, but check out this silly picture"

[1]https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1594001407958564864
Wish there was a downvote button. The last thing I want to see on HN (or anywhere else for that matter) is thoughts on Taylor Swift
Good. IP should not be a thing anyway.
There is wechat which is a 'superapp' that works almost like an OS with its own repository within the app.
I definitely recommend reading the dead postings. Sometimes they're nuts. But often they're just speaking truths that the dominant moderators don't want you to hear.

For instance, I'm routinely voted down for speaking of the needs of the artists and writers who are damaged by piracy. The downvoters seem to hate the mention that piracy corrodes the free market and denies rewards to the artists. The downvoters like to imagine that they're keeping the discussion free from Holocaust deniers but stomping on political ideas they don't like is a big part of it.
Show HN: A customizable homeschool curriculum based on great books
Assembling an educational curriculum for your homeschooled child is way more work than it needs to be. Comprehensive prepackaged curricula often cost thousands of dollars, are boring and don’t provide much in the way of customization. Video-based online courses aren’t academically rigorous and require kids to spend too much time in front of a screen.

Great Books Homeschool aims to solve that with an editable K-8 curriculum compiled from the best books and activities for each subject. The curriculum is fully customizable, so you can move the material to different places in the schedule, remove items or add your own. Academic records are automatically created (no more ring binders).

For the past decade I’ve been seeking out and testing the best and most enjoyable learning resources for each subject while homeschooling my two kids. This project aims to share the fruit of that effort with other homeschooling families.

I'd welcome feedback!
It was literally milliseconds away from a massive catastrophe.
Looking at abudabi123's comment history, I think they're a GPT-3 bot or something.

Everything is vaguely on-topic but also vaguely gibberish.
How would a system that generates false information (especially likely for fields that are not well represented in the training set, based on the site) help with brainstorming for practitioners in that field?
Ticketmaster has exclusivity contracts with the major venues. I believe Pearl Jam ran into this issue where their concerts had to be held in out-of-the way venues.

Quote from Rolling Stone article:

The web of exclusive deals is what hurt Pearl Jam the most during its aborted ’95 tour. Locked out of mainstream venues, the group sold tickets through newcomer ETM Entertainment for shows at fairgrounds, soccer fields and state parks in such distant locales as Casper, Wyo., and Las Cruces, N.M.
Hesse's other books are also well worth reading, if you liked Siddhartha. My favorites are Narcissus and Goldmnund, The Glass Bead Game, Journey to the East, and parts of Steppenwolf.

His perennial themes are coming of age, division within the self, and intellect vs intuition/emotion, success in conventional society vs renunciation and seeking on the spiritual path.
What is a reverse dutch auction?
So in Chicago we have the infuriating practice of "dibs". People leave out all manner of large objects in street parking spaces they've dug out when we get lots of snow. You know what the city does every few weeks? Streets & Sanitation workers drive around and collect up all these abandoned chairs, couches, cones, etc because it's discarded stuff in a public space.

Why not do the same with e-scooters? If they aren't properly out of the public right of way and secured they should be collected up and treated as abandoned. Eventually scooter rental companies will need to start charging people significant fees for not properly parking scooters when they are finished with them.

I'm in favor of people learning how to use e-scooters correctly because they are a great mode of transportation in cities. We've all just become so accustomed to the impacts of cars that we don't complain any more. (Pollution, noise, collisions, fatalities, space required for parking .. all far worse than any annoyances caused by scooters.)

Just like anything new people need time to adjust and learn how to have scooters exist sanely in a community.
Unreasonable thought experiment - Taylor Swift has a monopoly on her music catalogue. If we removed that monopoly and allowed others to perform and sell it, it'd reduce costs for working people.
I was referring to "This reminded me a little of Hedy language".
I just find it interesting how we believe we are so much more advanced than our ancestors and know so much more, but when it comes to living "The Good Life" they were still talking about the same problems we are struggling with in modern society.

Maybe overall we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the wisdom of the ancients in favor of our modern obsession with data.
What? The article talks specifically about his upper-crust background and his professor parents. You're the one laser-focused on race here. You got triggered by the headline, and you missed the forest for the trees.
VMware turns Apple's latest Macs into Windows 11 PCs with new Fusion 13
I believe the problem is that fans perceiving a “that’s life” sentiment from Taylor Swift will hurt her total long term profit.

And that’s in addition to Taylor Swift, personally, wanting non-elites to share in the show experience, which I have no proof of but happen to believe
We did this for Prince and the NPGMC after Ticketmaster was unable to stay online to sell small numbers of tickets to large numbers of fans. Maybe six weeks of code* and three dozen servers outperformed the behemoth.

Seems to us that it takes a Prince, a Pearl Jam ... or a Taylor Swift ... with the seat filling power, the independent vision, and the interest + will to take on such problems themselves instead of have it all "handled" for them by the revolving door group of industry insider managers and label execs.

To the sibling note, yes, it may also take alternative venues, or other cleverness. NPGMC for example created a "club" of "members" at scale, that allowed a variety of workarounds not available if albums or events are "public".

* Note: We already specialized in handling landing pages and sales for live streaming events because we'd found while we could deliver the online video events, even mega brand sites couldn't handle the flash traffic for scheduled sales. So, we had know-how to rapidly apply similar concepts to this.
FTX begins strategic review, seeks court relief to pay critical vendors
Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16, 2022 and now
Most hospitals in the US actually are non-profits, but that’s really beside the point. Just because something is for profit or non profit does not allow you to immediately conclude anything about its cost. For example, the government in my city built a 3 stall public restroom at a cost of $638,000. At this price, if I wanted to have a restroom built on my behalf, I’d rather hire a for-profit contractor to do it instead of the putatively non profit state.
That seems like overactive pattern-matching to me. Yew is a plant.
Water from a pond and tap water are both heterogeneous mixtures of things dissolved and suspended in H2O, they are in fact very different. A synthesized chemical will be identical to the same chemical produced in a plant. The synthetic counterpart will just be in a mixture with distilled water or a neutral food grade oil.
Someone on HN recently pointed to News as Facts (global aggregator) and it's pretty solid IMO:

https://newsasfacts.com/

There are some fairly quality regional aggregators, for California for example:

https://www.rtumble.com/
The Edsel of My Dreams
I don't understand why you assume that what you describe is either unacceptable or not worthy of existing on the net. Sounds like a perfectly useful instrument to me

(Also I may be wrong but i think the disclaimer was in articles. I don't recall visiting the mission page ever)
Yea the real issue isn't ticketmaster or resellers, it's just supply and demand. If there are 3 million tickets and 15 million people want them you're gonna have a bad time, there's no way around it. Ticketmaster certainly isn't helping but Taylor really just needs to do more shows to solve this.
There are a lot of applications in the world that don't run on a regular processor under regular linux

The guy is overgeneralizing IMO. You can delve deep within the sub millisecond world even as a regular dude with a regular computer and a regular OS by just doing everything in an interrupt context
They enforce it in their Virtualization framework: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/08/04/virtualisation-on-apple-...
I’m no expert, but last I heard Live Nation (TicketMaster’s parent company) owns the venues and the promoters. Essentially they make it near impossible to have a tour and play on large venues if you are not using their whole “stack” of services. Many artists tried and failed to operate without them. Pearl Jam being one of the most notorious examples.
Try the FTP archive at https://archive.org/details/2014.11.ftp.cs.vu.nl maybe, it seems to have the Amoeba files (unlike mirrorservice.org, which only has the Minix ones). The ArchiveOS page at https://archiveos.org/amoeba/ linked from the Wikipedia page also has some.
You’d make a good point if the result was the same. It isn’t. Truffles (or anything we eat) is not a single chemical, it’s a dance of every molecule that creates it.

I don’t particularly dislike truffle-flavored products, but I know they’re nothing like the real thing. Same exact thing goes for wasabi. Some “wasabi” products are just vile.
> I ported the HelenOS kernel to RV64 in 2016, but I've never properly finished the user space support. I hope this board will be a good motivation for me to finally push the entire OS to the same level as x86-64

https://twitter.com/mdecky/status/1397892220225736711
On point 1, how would you know it is improbable? We're back to the initial issue of having nothing else to compare it to. Perhaps it's not improbable but in fact inevitable? Can't tell with only one example.

On point 2, it only looks to fulfill a functional specification if you beg the question. Otherwise, we're simply generating a description of what is.

Stephen Meyer is a founder of the Discovery Institute, a political group who lobby conservative issues and state as part of their mission to promote "a rigorously God-centered view of creation". That doesn't mean Meyer's work on intelligent design is incorrect, per se. But it does strongly suggest that he is starting with a conclusion and then working backward, which is the antithesis of proper scientific research. There are also plenty of eviscerating rebuttals to Meyer if his bias doesn't dissuade.
Or a rich potent wine with the sweet distinctive scent of Linden tree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqlYGuZGVM
I tried it again this morning. I'm getting all of the output properly this time, but it has hung partway through every time I tried.
Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says
(up to a specific limit)

Historically that limit has always been waived during bank collapses, although my inability to remember a specific historical counterexample does not disprove its existence.

edited to add the limit still exists on the books for marketing purposes, in a weird turn of events unregulated non-banks liked to market that they're "as trustworthy as a bank" because they bought a bond policy for the FDIC limit so feel free to write them a check for less than the FDIC limit because they're bonded. The unregulated industries would get REALLY mad if the FDIC limit were doubled legally because then they'd have to pay about twice as much to get their bond. Then the FTC got real mad and I don't recall the outcome of that story although I don't see many references to the FDIC anymore in marketing material from unregulated companies, so that must not have gone well. This all went down in, like, the 80s not like last week or whatever.
If VS Code is sufficient, emacs or a vim derivative is probably better. If it's not, Jetbrains is the only game in town these days.
>Get ready for a lot of "we used AI to write an academic paper and it got published in this journal" stories.

Already happened, and the linked example is far from the only case: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01436-7

As someone who used to work in science, I feel the general public doesn't have much of an idea how flawed the peer-review system is in practice. Low quality journals that simply print anything aside, this was an issue long before such language models became good enough to write papers, because humans are perfectly capable of producing nonsense research without the aid of machines. I'm not sure what philosophies/religions will replace the current cult but ultimately it's probably a good thing that this blind belief in such institutions gets eroded. They should never had had that much power over people's minds to begin with.
Right, most people need clearance from the tower but if you're More Important like those fire trucks, then that's not necessary.
> anything you buy for $5 in a supermarket is neither rare nor luxurious

When it's sitting next to a $0.89 box of Kraft macaroni, the $5.00 box definitely feels like a luxury.