skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first internship had me and my then flat-mate (he was independently selected for the only other internship spot, neither of us knew about the other’s application, while overseas on Erasmus study, which is uncanny) adding “pay this invoice with online payment” (PayPal/Stripe/…) functionality to a product that handled time-tracking, tax reporting, and invoicing for Freelancers, with a enthusiastic user-base of SMB/sole-traders and a high UX-bar.

It was the number one UserVoice request and we were incredibly lucky to have the entire feature ownership to pair develop (with minimal but stellar oversight from the tech lead) and it had a huge multiplier effect on the product offering overall.

I’m very grateful for being in the right place in the right time and it’s contributed a lot to the “valuable code is the code that your users are benefiting from” lesson that constantly reminds me that book-smarts are nothing without a solid understanding of user needs.
No, they're suggesting that SBF is in their jurisdiction, which gives them substantial "do what we say, or else" power.
it is more than that,in short,rust is not really designed for shared stdlib,yes you can hack it but it is untested and u are on your own
Compare it to operating finances of other open source projects, run by foundations, within a similar complexity (possibly lower, but within order of magnitude):

Blender: ~1 million (2020)
Libreoffice: ~1.3 million (2021)
Apache: ~900k (2017)
Debian: ~340k (2019)

One can argue that browsers are exceptionally complex (even linux distros like Gentoo that build everything - including the kernel - make exceptions for firefox due to its complexity) but even considering that, the figures are staggering by comparison.

To be absolutely clear on this we have a situation where:

- most Mozilla advocates & supporters are so because of Firefox

- most of Mozilla's income comes from Firefox

- most of Mozilla's income does not go towards Firefox development

- Mozilla continue to provide financial supporters with no means to donate directly to the Firefox project

- Mozilla's income is 2 orders of magnitude higher than any comparable charitable foundation

Add to that the decline in Firefox's userbase & the stewardship of the project becomes really difficult to justify/defend
Congratulations, you've found the market-clearing price.
All of us should be considering it. If it (hostile takeover and or maniacal management) could happen at Twitter, it could happen almost anywhere else. Better before it happens again. I used to think it unnecessary for software, but I was wrong.
I think there is a mechanical linkage in almost all manual cars. For the steering there absolutely is, almost no cars are actually drive-by-wire in that sense. You probably won't be able to do anything with the car with no power though, because everything has electrically actuated mechanical lockouts, and the engine won't work because it uses an ECU.
It's not comparable because computers are things but women are not.
Why does Microsoft always seem to pick domain names that are indistinguishable from phishing scams?
I went to a concert that requires you to match your ticket, but allowed you to sell tickets on a site they control for the face value. I think the buyer has to pay a transaction fee as well.

I got the tickets by signing up and they took my credit card, and charged me when I was next in line and someone had tickets for sale. It was pretty neat, though I suspect I lucked out because a bunch of people sold their tickets when they announced vaccines would be required (September 2021).
Atomic v2 (pending) - OSS Clockwise alternative with fine control and training of AI assist for time blocking & get together w/ 1:many + outside user - this will be impactful
There is no such thing as a "fair" way to sell anything where demand vastly outstrips supply.

There are just choices about what resource you want to prejudice for: money, time or luck.
using stdlib? i am not talking about bare metal mcu boards here though
I just watched the entire label live video demonstrating the features. Looks super solid and easy to understand. Great UX all around. Nice work.
Installed it on my Intel MBP, upgraded my virtual machines to a new format version and now regretting it. The Bootcamp VM does not boot at all and the Win 7 VM is in an infinite restart-repair loop.

Thank God I have backups to revert to.
When we were all WFH'ing during Covid, I couldn't stand listening to presenters saying "Next slide please" over and over. We use Google Meet at work and it doesn't provide any way to give others control of your desktop or slides. So I built a Chrome extension that allows multiple users to control a Google Slides presentation from within Google Meet. It's only got about 2K installations, but people have simulated almost 250K slide clicks with it in the past 3 years. So this is probably my most impactful contribution, especially on my own mental health having to never hear "Next side again".

Homepage: https://fonner.gitlab.io/shared-slides-clicker/

I wrote a blog about some of the trickier parts of building it here: https://jedfonner.com/2020/11/06/shared-slides-clicker/
Dompdf is a good html to pdf library for PHP.
You celebrate, because more likely than not you dodged a bullet
Considering that SBF was reported to be "under supervision" by the authorities, it doesn't seem too implausible that the Bahamian government showed up to their office and politely requested an employee with access to transfer the funds, and for them to keep their mouth shut.
x86 ≠ Intel. There are three companies that make x86 cpus
A nights & weekends project that has since become a worldwide federated database and software infrastructure.

Took ten years of managing it alone, but it’s been in the hands of a pretty capable team, for the last few years.

It was/is a free project, designed to Serve a pretty challenged demographic. It has turned out to be quite successful, for a number of reasons; many of which have little to do with me, as the new team has taken it to the next level.

It is not hyperbole, to say it has saved lives.

I’m leveraging that infrastructure as a component of the app I’m developing, currently.
I use AMD notation personally.
Sometimes the illness is better than the cure
Thanks

I gave up after 45 minutes... They want so much information/cookies/tracking but even after changing browsers and (temporarily) disabling all security/privacy, I couldn't download.
When exchanges registered in the Bahamas are in danger of losing customers money, Bahamian government has authority and duty to seize assets to protect customers. Bahamian government is taking custody, it's not their money.
why not find something that you would find rewarding to work on, even if it's on the side? the things i've done that feel impactful are little tools i've made to help the people i know
I think you will find much more support for the idea that Twitter could operate with fewer people than the idea that Musk's execution of this idea is the right path to get there.
It probably looks like someone showing up with a court order, but government agents with the right to use violence to enforce court orders is a large portion of what gives such orders teeth.

Of course, violence isn't the only sort of coercion... but it's part of it.
Added a "reply" button to Wikipedia discussions; design was later picked up by the Wikimedia Foundation and properly productionized. Probably saved a lot of people some time, because what you used to do was open the source code for the entire discussion, scroll down to find the comment you were replying to, and insert your comment after it in the code.
Let's see how Elon goes bullying Moody's.
Maybe they could be affected and needed plans to avoid the impact as well, but unlike stock markets you can’t say pause payments globally for half an hour just to get through the leap second.
Even the best engineers get tripped up during interviews.

This phenomenon is absolutely everywhere.
It seems like this would produce the same outcome as Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing. According to this article, fans hate it [1].

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gx34/blink-182-tickets-are...
Understanding the Safety Dance
"Papers, please."

How could it be done without invading privacy?
This is what newer Pearl Jam concerts do - they sell on Ticketmaster, but made a deal where you can't transfer the tickets to anyone else, and must present a Photo ID upon entry to the venue with a name that matches the name on the billing address.
What value does he derive from us underestimating him?
The Taycan shifts into second at 62mph. Seems it's not just for racing, it's also an efficient freeway cruising gear loosely comparable to overdrive on ICEs.

And I imagine even the single-gear EVs have a final drive. What if that ratio were adjusted to be shorter?
Ticketmaster collects a "service fee" when you resell on their app
This is neat. I've been using Oracle's Email Delivery service because it's dirt cheap -- I didn't know I could do it for free using Workers. I'm going to try this.
I'm mainly using amd64 nowadays don't know what that has to do with intel.
main page links says there are 20 comments here

but i see only 6

why?
I'm guessing things might have been a bit different if it wasn't also playing with people's health?
Being an ad exec he probably lied about what he was contributing to the company.
Yup. The full instructions can be found online but in general,

When you get to that step, press Shift + F10 to bring up the terminal, then type "OOBE\BYPASSNRO" and press enter.

The installer will restart but this time will have a "I don't have Internet" button that you can use to bypass this nonsense.
Adding shows seems like the best response if it's possible.

More work for the artist though, and for the mega-popular (Taylor Swift atm) it might be hard to schedule enough shows.
The client didn't lose a billion dollars. Their investors did.
Time to curb the data brokers
journalist's thread about this repeatedly updated story: https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593789809952116736

also from today* "Ex-Twitter employees are left in limbo with thousands in expenses after Elon Musk layoffs…"

* https://fortune.com/2022/11/18/twitter-former-employee-expen...
Back in the day, The Who was presenting "Tommy". First time they were doing it live again. The "cheap" tickets were $75. This was a smaller venue.

$75 was a bit of money to be sure.

Back then you waited outside record stores to buy tickets. You'd line up, and sometime before the sale, they'd come out and hand out numbers, say 1 to 100. Then you'd sort by the number. Then they'd come out and say "We're starting the line at 37". 37 would be the front of the line, everyone else would sort behind that, wrapping around at the back. #36 would be the last in line.

When I went to buy Tommy tickets, they were also selling another acts tickets.

Since the tickets were so expensive, I went out of my way to go to a lower income neighborhood with the hope that there would be less folks in line to buy tickets, simply due to the price.

In the end, I got my ticket and the lady behind me did not. If they weren't selling the other act, maybe she would have made it.

When the Rolling Stones with Guns and Roses in LA went on sale, they gave out wristbands days in advance. My spot in line was around the building, the first show was sold out before I got there. The seats I did get were basically lousy when I did get them. That took an afternoon.

When I went to buy tickets at the venue, they handed out numbers, but they didn't scramble them. The numbers were random, but #1 was first in line. As soon as I got my number, there was a guy offering to buy low numbers. I had not doubt he was going to buy the 8 ticket limit. He wasn't a fan, he was a professional scalper.

U2 tried to sell tickets over the phone in LA, trying to route around TicketMaster. It literally disabled the Los Angeles telephone system for several hours. You'd pick up the phone and not be able to hear a dial tone (I was listening to the modem trying to dial in to a client site). It would take up to 30 seconds to get a dial tone, and good luck getting your call through anyway. Total disaster.

Taylor Swift sold out 2M tickets. I don't care what the time frame that was in, that's a boat load of traffic. Think not of the 2M they sold, think of how many were not sold. I think there are few companies that could handle that load, especially something as specific as selling seats A29, A30, A31, and A40 to Bob Jones. Let's see a paper on that locking problem.

The production company sets the ticket prices, TM sets the service fees, if you want to save on service fees, go to the venue. I'm not defending TM, they certainly don't need me, but it's been an intractable problem for a long, long time, at all sorts of levels. If you think TMs fees are bad, try StubHub.
An ICE car doesn't "need" more than one gear either, but it would be extremely inefficient with just 1. More gears means lower torque and power required at sustained load and speed. Hence why most EV truck transmissions (light, medium and heavy duty) have more than one gear.
AWS Sam CLI and Terraform: better together
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the preview of AWS Lambda local testing and debugging on Terraform. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, and version cloud and on-premises resources safely and efficiently.
For one American medical workers earn absolute insane wages compared to their European counterparts.
Snapchat pays Google cloud $400MM a year. Using these cost metrics, are Twitter's compute needs 9X those of Snapchat? maybe so. seems reasonable to me. And then perhaps, this person is saying that cloud (Google or otherwise) is not the way to go for Snapchat

https://www.vox.com/2017/3/1/14661126/snap-snapchat-ipo-spen...
Few systems actually should need to depend on the clock tick matching actual elapsed seconds, and those who do depend on accurate elapsed time usually only do so short-term (while the program is executing) and don’t need to correlate that time with calendar dates and time-of-day. Most applications could very well live with an intermittently slowed-down time-of-day clock upon leap-second insertion, or a fast-forward upon leap-second removal, and use a different API when they’re interested in accurate elapsed time. But APIs have conflated those concerns, increasing the likelihood for something to grow when e.g. unix time diverges from accurate elapsed time.

I like to think that applications should be written under the assumption that the computer could be used by time-travellers, with the clock reflecting the respective changes to “local” time. That is, you would have calendar dates and wall-clock times reflecting the time travel, plus an elapsed-time clock reflecting the CPU’s subjective time. Then design your systems around that. As a consequence, they should also be immune to leap seconds and DST switches. But I guess that’s too much to ask. ;)
I worked on a system for querying letters from prison inmates that would allow advocates to detect and respond to abuse by guards or fellow inmates.

While I don't think I had a huge impact compared to other contributions, nor did it scale to billions of users, I like to think that it helped at raise awareness about abuses in a dark corner of the world. It is still in active use.
They do, if you look at the docs Raymond linked that's actually the first step.

However that doesn't tell you about the presence of a portal or if HTTP traffic is actually possible.
I guess this makes FTX's $250K a month spend on AWS downright thrifty.
And measure time in powers of ten while we’re at it. None of this 24 x 60 x 60 nonsense.
Now thinking about how this applies to the acute mental health wing.
I have one of those in my '06 Maserati. It's a pain in the ass in some ways, but it's still more fun than automatic.
I think one reason why artists don't take the Dutch Auction approach is that they want to recruit new fans, including kids who might not have much money. They also probably don't want to be seen as greedy.

In the absence of some system that prevents resale, scalpers will likely still buy up all of the Taylor Swift tickets before they drop to a price that is affordable for these less-affluent fans.

The bots will likely still win if they can determine how many tickets are left and how fast they are selling.
Armed government agents show up to your door asking you for half a billion dollars. You tell them "can't do it, I need this other key that's held by my partner in a different place". What do you think is going to happen next? "Understandable, have a good day" and they go home? Or they hold you in jail until you somehow find a way to comply?
The UTM experience (https://mac.getutm.app/) has been stellar for me. Knowing that others have commented on this being a rough initial release, I really have no reason to try it out.

And while UTM was relatively unknown a year ago, it's become quite popular in my circle of Apple Silicon users, so I imagine VMWare's reception on Apple Silicon is going to be lukewarm at best.
Most of the cost is people. It’s not much use calling it an ICU room unless there are doctors and nurses and anesthesiologists and other specialists on call to actually care for people intensively. Plus a janitor or two.
We could call that problem something fancy like the Byzantine General Problem and try and figure out ways to solve it mathematically.
This really made me reconsider my phrasing, and then the basis for my assumption about “fairness”. Thank you for your thought provoking comment.
I assume those are there only for fun. Not much different than driving a manual transmission these days.
Anyone here who can explain how to force Hyper-V to use a specific network adapter for the default switch?

I like that one because it provides NAT + DHCP, creating another switch doesn't.
"I will sell you this ticket on the marketplace for $facevalue if you will paypal me $500 - $facevalue"
The system proposed in this post has the advantage of correctly pricing every seat individually without anyone having to put in multiple bids. The people buying earlier are paying the highest price and get to choose the best seats. Those buying later would pay less but the good seats would already be taken.

A Vickery auction would not, I think, lend itself to that kind of price discovery.
In the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” the author Gallwey suggests complementing your opponent on a certain technique if you want to see it immediately worsen. E.g. “wow your backhand is really coming along” if their backhand is killing you, then they’ll start thinking about it and it’ll get worse.
It's straight up supply and demand. I have no idea why anyone is surprised why scarce goods are expensive. Their is no solution. Idk unless you want to socialize entertainment or something. Give out entertainment credits.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought "automatic transmission" refers to one with a torque converter, and DCT is its own thing.
It wouldn't be. Clearly age brings medical problems. However, I'm saying that the cheap access to hospital care afforded by Medicare, could be skewing the distribution of ICU patients. If we had universal medical insurance comparable to Medicare, the ICU population might be closer to the demographic norm.
Does it matter where they live if they still work for California companies remotely, and perhaps are subject to Californian labor laws?
> Two buyers might try for the same exact seats at the same moment, but that is much less likely in a slow single-bid auction like this

Well except that everyone would try to grab the very last ticket, which would be the cheapest.
I once saw a Facebook group with the cutesy name "life is a stockholm syndrome and I want my money back". That's spot on.

Happiness is preferable to suffering.

Suffering is a natural part of life. So is happiness.

Suffering is inevitable. Happiness is not.

For some people the happiness outweights the suffering.

It's not a given and you can't really know in advance, but I'm pretty damn sure that having a narcissistic psychopath for a mother tips the scale towards suffering.

Sometimes the happiness outweighs the suffering by such a large margin that you can't even imagine that for others it's the other way around. Maybe you become one of those people who put other people in literal cages "for their own good" - you can get involuntarily hospitalized for expressing doubts in the value of your own life, you know. Even if you're right. Especially if you can prove it.

So that biases the answer you'll get, on top of the natural bias towards self-preservation and reproduction. It still doesn't make it anywhere near truthful.

Ever look up the origins of the word "proletariat"? It literally means "breeders". It's the people who own nothing but their own lives, have no capital other than their time and body. We're selling our lives to the highest bidder out here, man. We're cattle.

Would you teach your kid to be aware of that predicament? No, you would teach them to avoid the subject entirely. For their own good, you see.

Many people are forced to be alive, and just rationalize around that to make the process of staying alive comparatively easier. You can probably imagine what reasoning around such traumatic cognitive dissonance for the sake of sheer self-preservation does to your overall cognitive abilities, and by extension to your ability to make the world a better place so people honestly want to stay in it.
It seems every few years someone learning Asm for the first time stumbles across the dichotomy, and writes an article about it --- in favour of the Intel side. This is one of the earlier ones I remember: http://x86asm.net/articles/what-i-dislike-about-gas/

Also, it's worth mentioning that what people are normally referring to when they say "Intel syntax", beyond the syntax in the oficial docs, is more like "TASM IDEAL" than MASM or Intel's little-known "official" assembler (named ASM386.EXE, seemingly rare and hard to find these days); in the former, a label is consistently an address constant and all memory operands are enclosed in [ ], while the latter distinguishes between labels and variables.
>"Big lie" propaganda is profoundly effective,

I mean, people still believe we put men on the moon, and people still believe the Earth is round! /s
I'm terrified!! What will we ever do?
MetaAI Galactica generates infinite fake science
Yeah, I guess. EA by definition is doing good.
I've been using the beta every single day.

I run a NixOS VM on my Macbook Pro, its transformed the way I develop.
Checkout Hashicorp founder's NixOS setup here https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config
There's an idiotic paywall, but seriously, does WaPo believe what they wrote there?

Seriously as bad as that other paper saying we should probably let ourselves get robbed a bit more.
Make it a lottery. A toy example, instead of selling 10,000 tickets that sell for $1000 sell 500k “lottery” tickets for $20 each. A lucky 10,000 get to the concert. The artist/venue makes the same amount. Everyone gets a chance at seeing the artist for a reasonable price. Would work for very popular artists with young fans like T Swift. Lottery tickets would need to be non-transferable as well.
Yes, or could simply be a live market for the tickets where people can put in limit orders etc. Then would converge to fair market value quickly and people would still have the option to bite the bullet and pay the higher prices.

Though volume/liquidity would be at question, but bots/arbitrage would hopefully help there.

If they really want to set artificially low prices and prioritize fans over scalpers then they need a queue and a process by which they verify the queued person is human. Lots of labor involved. Though maybe using SSN (in the US) to limit tickets per buyer?
It's standard practice. You don't roll out updates until they are tested.