skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a transaction of the style of musical performances, I think it’s inevitable that an entity like Ticketmaster would begin to exist. The issue is that we have a many to many to many relationship between fans, artists, and venues.

In database design when you have such a pattern it is common that you’ll have a new table to maintain the complex relationship. It doesn’t make sense for venues to sell tickets because each artist has their own tour through many venues. Selling tickets for a tour becomes a hassle as many venues would have to coordinate. To complicate things, opening acts often switch during the course of a tour. Conversely, it doesn’t make sense for artists to sell tickets because the process of coming up with the ticket price and negotiating with the venue and handling transactions and returns , etc. is not their core competency.

This is why promoters like Live Nation exist—to bridge this gap and take on the capital risk necessary to put on a large tour. They aren’t necessary but their value to venues and artists (the business owners) is palpable. For Taylor Swift to go on a world tour, an amount of centralized coordination makes it much easier and much less likely to end in financial ruin.
After all your time contracting, how easily can you find a new contract in terms of weeks/months spent searching for one? The reason I ask is because I'm getting tired of bureaucracy too and have been considering taking a break and getting into contracting as a software engineer for a while to see how that goes...How reliable is the pipeline of work in the software dev contracting world if you want to maintain access to a steady supply of income/benefits?
And EU countries are happy with that? Does at mean that major clouds should not be recommenced in EU? I think most of the people in EU never heard about decision above.
Firstly, the reals contain the integers, so there is an isomorphism as I said.

Secondly, discretization absolutely is universal. It's literally in the laws of physics for one (particles are discrete, energy levels are discrete, etc.). For another, are you suggesting a physical alien species will have a continuous number of appendages, or organs, or that their population will somehow be continuous? I frankly don't see how you can possibly escape aliens capable of math developing a notion of basic counting.
It's the flipping octopods man, they've realized its their time and this is the opening move before Great Cuthulu ascends from his dread city of Ryleh and brings about his nightmarish blood soaked rain of horror, which will be carried out by his cephalopod minions.
> That is you have your MX records pointing to `mx.example.com` in your example.com zone config, and enable the Cloudflare proxying of it (usual orange cloud in the UI).

Support for such use cases is imminent: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-route-to-workers/
Russia doesn’t own the pipeline. And they used the damage to Nordstream 1 as an excuse to demand that Germany accept supply through Nordstream 2. Russia had in any case turned off all supply via NS1 to Germany. So no real harm to Russia and strengthens their energy blackmail position.
> If I can get a better salary and working conditions at some crappy no-name startup, why would I choose to work at an organization that respects my craft so little they haven't bothered to maintain their software for a decade?

Amen, couldn't have said it better myself. I'm sure it's very worthy and all working on a genomics project that aims to eradicate some killer disease, but you need to live and provide for your family while you're doing it.
The issue I have with posts like these is that when you compare and contrast anglo/american culture with "other" cultures, you handwave away specific examples of "others".

"The majority of people" is a pretty broad group here, from Portugal to the Russian far east, Namibia to Papua New Guinea, Chile to Mexico. So when you say:

The majority of people don't actually have Facebook feeds from people they haven't seen in 35 years. Their friendships are based in the communities they live in - the people they trade with for food, clothing, and other necessities. There's a much greater sense of mutual interdependence, not so much the concept of isolated individual success followed by what, retreat to a gated community?

Does that really apply to all non-anglo/american cultures? You would have to be extraordinarily knowledgeable of near thousands of human cultures to know this.

it's rather startling how class-stratified and wealth-stratified American society has become, very similar to the posh/prole divide in imperial Britain.

It'd be a challenge to claim that the "prole/posh divide" in Imperial Britain was anywhere near as strong as some of its contemporaries - say the Qing Dynasty or Ottoman Empire.
Warning sign. You can't even select the text on the site.
People sometimes communicate unclearly on purpose:

* to avoid committing to some specific work.

* to avoid revealing that they haven't done some expected background investigation or groundwork.

* to try to cover up simply not knowing stuff.

* engineers may overthink a question and the answers for fear of saying something incorrect, because almost everything is riddled with conditions and limitations. And sometimes incomplete counts as incorrect. It's hard to know which may be relevant to the situation being asked about, leaving the busy-brained techie flustered. "Oh, in C, you use the + operator to add numbers. Oh but wait, if there are overflows, it is undefined; don't interpret my answer as meaning that you have a nicely behaved, safe addition. Oh, except for unsigned types ... I should also warn you that the operands possibly undergo promotion to different types, and one operand is converted to the type of the other according to some hairy rules that have portability implications; just try to avoid mixing signed/unsigned or integer and floating."

Politicians are evasive. Canada's Justin Trudeau has become internationally noted for using questions as prompts to dump carefully scripted messages.
> I think there will be some growth in mastodon

Growth has already been extreme in the last days: https://datasci.social/@estebanmoro/109370591683609825

I don't like the comparison to email. Email providers don't normally read or moderate your content, because it's not publicly hosted by them. The fediverse is more like a bunch of forums where the admins have decided to connect their users.

I hope there will be even more diversity in the rules and features between instances. When instances disagree about each other's rules or (lack of) moderation, they can reduce visibility or completely block each other. Some instances have already silenced the flagship instances, because they honestly look like a startled flock of birds in a too small room.
Russia raised a stink when their bridge got blown up but nothing but crickets over the pipeline.
Complexity, life, spirit ...
Absence of pain is never a sufficent base, otherwise killing as much people as you can (painlessly) would be the highest good.
Only lick the boot, don't swallow it whole.
FiwixOS 3.2 Released
That's just the "following" section of TikTok, which only shows content of those you follow.
I had a very old BMW once, and the pedals were close enough that you could brake and blip with different sides of your foot, not really heel and toe.
Were they holding hands? Or one sabotaged one pipe and the other the other?

Do you have anything to support this other than your word here? I believe you of course, but its better to have some evidence or something.
Yeah, grandparent's copy-paste is bullcrap, if you don't believe the cause or the leader, why put in the super effort? Especially if it looks like the "leader" starts with a "You're all my enemy" attitude, and he still hasn't put out a roadmap to greatness (he's made a lot of dirty laundry public, is he keeping the roadmap a secret?)

Yeah "Want to go hardcore, click 'Yes'.". Hardcore to where, doofus?
NS2 was already dead in the water at that point and Russia had already turned off the tap on NS1.
Also only one of the two NS2 pipes were destroyed, while both NS1 pipes were destroyed.
I think that pretty much rules out the US as a culprit.
And Russia has something to gain by blowing up NS1: Possibly getting out of some long-term contracts that would involve some hefty fines for non-delivery (without just voiding contracts outright which would look bad for potential new customers).
I think the honest answer is, it depends where you work. Where I work, we have that autonomy. But we also have leadership that understands and respects the software engineering craft.
!g search produces google results
Germany and Russia were negotiating resuming pipeline operations when Nordstream was blown up. And oh, I don’t know seems pretty obvious that Russia has ZERO motive to blow up its own 10 billion dollar pipeline.
Why Electron, can the same thing not be accomplished using the File System Access API or using Native Messaging from a browser extension? I doubt a majority of TiddlyWiki users are going to be happy if Electron suddenly becomes a requirement.
Here is the lawsuit filing [1][PDF] I am curious if this would have occurred on rooted and de-googled phones using alternate operating systems.

[1] - https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Complaint_W...
Just because something is a social construct doesn't mean it's worthless, impure or required to be rejected.

Going from self-reflection to nihilism is a pretty big overreaction.
And three of them are FAANG. They could certainly afford it.
Made an account to say “their”. We are talking about cloudflare and cloudflare users. Their gender is not relevant in this conversation. At the end of the day we are people.
It's a classic. Attack yourself and blame the other guy. This is how wars often start. The problem is that these cases are purely speculative, when executed right.
Brave search, which tries to pull in Discussions results, vs Google who originally had a fantastic discussion search feature, but it was killed to optimize the Ads business.

Brave has been better than DDG, and the only reason I use Google now is product & price search. Google’s shopping / product search is still unmatched for price comparison and retailer discovery, given many companies feed inventory data to Google for Ads.
How is it even possible to learn this much math or organize such complex ideas. Undergrad comes nowhere even close to this. I guess the leap occurs in grad school. But even though, this is way more advanced than 99.75% of math papers I have read.
Here's a reality check for you.

"Fire brigade relaxes strength and fitness test to make entry easier for women" [1]

This stuff has precedent.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375381/Fire-servic...
Here in Montreal we have a bike rental service (Bixi). You have to return the bike to one of the many bike stations otherwise the meter keeps running.
I have never seen a bixi abandonned in the middle of the sidewalk.
Instead of banning those scooters, maybe they should simply force the companies to provide designated parking spots and force the users to use them.
https://search.brave.com/

I've been loving it
The least amount of friction would probably be a public google spreadsheet.
It's fun to do the former, but "quick stop" is not a good description (unless you're really quick)!
Wickr is a notorious hideout for pedophiles sharing CSAM. I wonder if that had anything to do with this?
FYI, Gaeilge is compulsory all the way up to the end of secondary school in Ireland (17/18yo).

It certainly had its naysayers, but learning a second language is shown to improve empathy and cognitive abilities in children.

Certainly there's an argument to learn something more practical, but at least Gaeilge acts as a bulwark to the onslaught of English language media from US/UK that could easily drown out a small open country like Ireland's indigenous material.
In the link you provide, I don't understand why Russia couldn't just turn the gas flow off rather than destroy the lines, if the purpose is blackmail.

Also, if you look at the two recent times the US accused Syria of chemical attacks, both turned out to be misinformation, as determined by the international body that investigates these things. Yet the first time it "happened" was called back to as evidence that they "did it" the second time, even though neither even occurred.

https://apnews.com/article/chemical-weapons-syria-archive-al...
The monopolies in each segment collapse without the vertically integrated monopoly.

Today you can’t start a ticketing business because Ticketmaster owns so many venues and they won’t use you. You can’t compete in ticket resale because Ticketmaster’s resale gets inventory even before retail tickets are sold.

If these were separate companies there would be no reason, and it would likely be illegal per the breakup ruling, for every venue to use a single ticketing service, or for a ticketing service to use (give a huge advantage to) a single resale service.

The problem isn’t dominance in one segment; that is normal and fine and self-correcting. The problem is leveraging dominance in multiple segments to exclude competition in any of them.
The rot in Twitter was deep, it seems. Culling 70% of the workforce might not be enough.
Not sure why are you singling out US here. People all over the world like "ecsotic foreign" stuff and pay premium for it. Starbucks has 2000+ stores in Europe despite having a lot of smaller (and sometimes shittier) smaller shops. Same as in US.

The truffle flavor is no different from the fake "college t-shirts"[1] that big pseudo-american chains like NewYorker[2] sell all over the Europe.

[1] https://www.newyorker.de/products/#/detail/05.03.105.0679/00...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yorker_(clothing)
Agreed. Huge change over the last 10-15 years. My first job in the space had a view that obviously a mere software developer wouldn't be paid more than even a postdoc scientist. And as postdocs weren't paid all that well, you see where this is going.

These days more biotech companies are computationally/software focused. They understand that to pull in strong talent they're not operating in the same academic science world.
Until the next company commits fraud to skirt regulations, yes.
I took it for a brief spin, but pitched it as soon as I realized it doesn’t have a “project” concept (or any documentation worth mentioning).

It’s a pity, because some of the other features seemed interesting, but not actually usable as an IDE.
It solves the problem, that the money is protected (in the same way that I assume something like "manual multisig", which I assume exists, solves the problem in traditional banking).

Nothing can solve the problem of protecting you from "bad men" who want to hurt you and don’t care about anything else.
My fault! I’ll fix it when I can. Appreciate the report.

Edit: fixed.
Why not? I’m sure some oligarch buddy of Putin made a lot of dollars on the price effects.

I don’t know or care, but the number of bots that appeared after this happened makes it seem more like a Russian coverup than an American one.
I've been part of a number of recruiting exercises to hire 20-100 SWEs at different levels. DE&I is front and center, both implicitly through corporate culture and explicitly through reminders, comments, etc in the process. It very clearly influences outcomes.

I've come to terms with it as the results have been pretty impressive in the last place I worked. It creates a 'put up or shut up' environment where excuses don't really get much traction. I led a team of eight SWE and six were women, representing both the top and bottom of skillset and teamwork in my crew, one in particular being easily top three engineers I've worked with in my 25 year career. She has the potential to go very very far.
Maybe you just weren't paying attention as much. They did talk extensively about it.
There have been a few people that examined the topic of YouTube thumbnails, even with a/b testing and statistical analysis (since YouTube allows you to change it and gives good stats). It really does matter to getting views.
Good point. Thanks for the perspective.
Having friends in childhood/pubescence is a survival level necessity for most of the kids. We all know countless examples of awful things done to keep or gain the position in school/class hierarchy, to fulfill expectations, to deserve respect of peers.

This urge dissolves in most of the people towards adulthood and maturity, when we are learning to find inner support, to form our own opinion about ourselves and to rely on that opinion more than on an external judgement.
Ukraine also had a rational motive, but has significantly less underwater capability than the US/UK. That said, they're very resourceful, good at finding new ways to apply modern technology. I think it may have been any or a combination of the three. America is obviously the prime suspect, due to Biden's public albeit deniable vague threat.
I tried it on my supermicro server and recall it causing problems, so I have to turn it off.
Surprised nobody’s mentioned streamlit yet.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding your use case, but if you want to create web apps out of your backend work, streamlit may be your ticket for “easy to understand on the back end, hyper-simple front end.”

At least worth giving it a look.

https://streamlit.io/
Being more important doesn't change the laws of physics. Trains always have the right of way, then large boats, then aircraft, vehicles with flashy lights come after that.

From what I've seen around me, firefighters tend to be pretty careful drivers even when running with flashy lights, but there was an unfortunate break down here. Condolences to those involved.
> So is what you're saying is your concept of freedom of speech is the correct version? You've also not backed up anything as to support your "much more likely" claim.

First of all, Elon has always said that he intends to practice "freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach" - which he explains to mean "we won't ban your account, we will just stop showing your tweets to everyone if it's not the right kind of speech". So already this idea that he believes in absolute freedom of speech is obviously wrong.

Secondly, he has a long history of seeking to silence his critics. Firing employees that publicly contradict him is mostly understandable; but accusing the rescue diver that said his ideas were stupid of pedophilia, and hiring PIs to try to "prove" it, is certainly not.

Thirdly, freedom of speech is a relatively simple idea - it means that you believe people should be free to make their opinions known without being silenced or unduly punished for opinions. There are various complex issues related to the details of what it means to silence or unduly punish, and to cases where the freedom of speech of two individuals can come in conflict. But it is very clear that someone who supports freedom to express certain legal opinions and NOT other legal opinions is not in fact advocating for freedom of speech.

> Are people not allowed to be upset if a brand starts introducing content they don't want their children to be exposed to, whether you agree with that or not?

They are allowed, but they are not allowed to then also claim that they are pro free speech.

> Do you support influencing, manipulation, of children and young teenagers towards permanently physically altering their body - like cutting off their breasts?

No, and neither does anyone else beyond some demented extremists. I do support children and teenagers getting access to medicine that allows them to live the best life they can, and if their doctor and parents agree that involves puberty blockers, I support them having access to that.
Yeah I only heard of it as a place to buy hard drugs.
I'm using Android Chrome on a network with a PiHole and didn't see any ads either.
Hmm.

Is it conceivable to you that women may also be inherently less interested in tech- and more so in people-jobs compared to their male counterparts?

Maybe this interesting talk titled "Autism and the male brain" can serve to enlighten you on this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjE_yaJjXE8
Yes, VSCode for Go is buggy. Often requires a reload too see a new package.
Is there any open source projects on genomics that I can start looking into as a hobby rather than jumping right into a full time position in this field?
What’s naive is entertaining for a second the notion that Russia would blow up its own 10 billion dollar pipeline. Not only does it make NO economic sense, strategically it makes Germany less dependent on Russia, which is a bad thing for Russia. Not to mention the US explicitly threatened to “end” Nordstream as the German head of state was standing right next to Biden. Such a coincidence that the pipeline was blown up as Germany and Russia were negotiating resuming operations.
What is the name of this product model? It sounds amazingly useful.
I have experience working in academia. I started out working for a medical school in fact, on bioinformatics. It's been a while, so I have kind of forgotten the problems, but I'll do my best.

1. Academic code. Not one institution would pass the Joel Test[1]. You pretty much covered some key points in your first paragraph, so I see not much has changed. The best predictor of how something will perform in the future is how it has performed in the past. Just hiring good software engineers won't change the system in which they work.

2. Academic bureaucracy & administration. I've worked for large Fortune 500 companies with less byzantine org charts. I've been matrix-managed. The siloing in academia is crazy.

3. Advancement. Because it's academia, advanced degrees are everything. My first boss in academia had a PhD. His job? He ran the student computing lab. My second boss was an MD/PhD. Great guy, but treated everyone like a lab assistant. I went to graduate school for one year and realized it wasn't for me.

4. (added after reading other comments). Completely unrealistic understanding of what developing robust, complex software is like. You touched on this by mentioning how many projects have 1 maintainer. I remember seeing a doctor shopping around his project plan. I'd say it would be a challenge for a high-performing 5-person team. He thought it was a job for a single entry-level programmer.

1 https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
The idea is moreso that Meta abuses the visa system to hire SWEs on the cheap.

Because America has a moderately[0]-restrictive immigration system, people who come here on a visa are committed workers. If you decide you don't want to work for one company after moving here, your options are to leave the country in 30 days or find another firm knowledgeable enough about the immigration system to adopt your existing visa application.

The reason why this happens is because the system is designed to be deliberately difficult to use. The idea being that if it's hard to hire an H1B visa worker, you'll hire an American instead. But because this works as intended, companies that know how to work the system get access to hordes of cheap, pliant labor. So instead of protecting American workers, we protect well-connected businesses that can screw over American workers.

[0] Compared to EU nations, at least
If you go to academia, you're certainly are not going for the money.

People can work for less if they are visibly valued, or where they are doing some heroic stuff that appeals to them personally.

People can for some time withstand being treated as second class, being overworked, etc, if they are paid a lot.

But if it's neither, why would anyone bother?
But Meta is free to hire the best no matter where they live.
Try Budibase. It should help you out
So who won from demo being taken down? I know a bunch of researchers (amateurs and grad students) who lost.