skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, free to use will give you market share. It'll also cost you a lot of money :)
It's definitely also the barely contained squeals of glee whenever anything interesting happens in the song.
Have you seen how the dutch flower auctions do it?

Those guys have something like 30 seconds max to hit their mark.

Now those are professional buyers. I think for your amateur crowd you would have to provide a bit more time. perhaps a week. just make it clear what is happening.

And that big clock, have you seen the big clock? if I ever made a dutch auction ticket site A big clock would feature predominantly in the ui. Unfortunately I don't think the flower auctions use the big clock anymore. which is a shame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAdmzyKagvE (tom scott)
Also I suspect that it would be trivially easy to script your client to open up spotify and play a never ending stream of Taylor Swift, dumping the audio to /dev/null, and to have multiple tabs playing other popular artists using other accounts, so that at least one account always looked like a superfan.
Early returns are very useful, just like break/continue. For example, I find it much easier to write

for filename in os.listdir(dirname):
if not filename.endswith(".png") and not filename.endswith(".jpg"):
continue
# process a png or jpg image

than to try and have a nested `if filename.endswith(".png") or filename.endswith(".jpg")`, particularly as it drops one nesting level and is easier to read. Unfortunately, Python lacks targeted break/continue so you can't break out of two nested loops without some contortions; in such cases, I find it useful to refactor code into smaller functions just to be able to use early return from a nested context.
Won't Stock Market kind of thing work here. Put the tickets up in IPO. Then when it goes public, let price discovery happen. Repository gets a % fee per transaction.
LOL. Sorry, big woosh moment for me there.
I've had my ups and downs with the Beeb over the years but this is one of those moments of them just being best in class imo.

With software there's no real need to take an admin fee...
I see it as similar to the hand made vs factory made debate. There’s room for both, and the vast majority are happy with the factory product.

Generative AI will make it easier to get new ideas to the masses affordably. That could yield some really interesting results. There will still be a demand for art like Miyazaki animations or similarly painstakingly human generated works of art, and I expect it’ll live on as well.

Thanks to machines, I can afford to own some crazy technology relatively affordably. It’s okay that it’s not made by a human, because it allows this human to engage life in more ways. I can build things with wood that would be virtually impossible for me 200 years ago, but I can do it in my spare time over weekends. I can own an aquarium with plants and animals from South America, which is an immensely gratifying hobby for me, providing endless appreciation for life and nature when I’m away from it.

I think generative AI will eventually accomplish something similar for people. They will be abstracted from the experience of life in some sense, but ultimately may allow them to experience it more in other ways. It could awaken in many people the idea that they can imagine and bring things to life. Letting their ideas out and into the light could be a massively liberating experience! How many people would probably love drawing if only they could realize that they truly do have ideas and visions worth bringing to life? That it really can bring them joy?

There’s plenty of room for doom and terror, but that’s too obvious. Other forms of automation in the past were no different. What I find more interesting is how to find the good in it, because like it or not, it’s here.
I saw someone had a 10 year account anniversary announcement on their feed, and it said something about them having been an X user for 10 years. Of course, they've only been an X user for a bit less than one year. They were a Twitter user for 9 of those years. It's not that easy to rewrite history, even if you're Elon Musk.

To me, this has been the least graceful, and least sensible rebranding in the history of tech.

It doesn't help that X usually means "has been." A lot of people on Mastodon (and probably elsewhere) are quite proud of saying they are X users, meaning they no longer use that site because of what it has turned into.
> southern skies are far better than northern ones

yes they are, by far
Billy Joel: “I’d look down and see rich people sitting there, I call ’em ‘gold chainers.’ Sitting there puffing on a cigar, ‘entertain me, piano man.’ “They don’t stand up, make noise, [they just] sit there with their bouffant haired girlfriend lookin’ like a big shot. I kinda got sick of that, who the (heck) are these people, where are the real fans?”
It’s very hard to build a following without a system and without copying content

For LinkedIn, ideally you should be posting at least 5 times a week, reposting your best performing content, re-phrasing or straight up copying viral content, and adding as many people to your contacts as possible every day (there’s a weekly limit, and there’s also a 20k total limit, so you also need to figure out what type of contacts you want to be adding, the more focus, the better your content will perform). Additionally, on LinkedIn, commenting and liking posts related to your audience can go a long way

Definitely use ChatGPT for drafts and to help you iterate, but don’t just post whatever it gives you on the first try. Also lean heavily on scheduling tools

It takes a couple of months to get going, but if you can keep a consistent pace, you will definitely figure it out

Follow (on LinkedIn) the creators of https://www.shieldapp.ai/ their whole thing is helping people build their personal brands on that platform

Finally, make sure to build a newsletter and own your list, that’s one of the biggest moats you can build
No, Ticketmaster is the scapegoat for artists.
OK cool, thanks for that information, but I do wish that someone would explain the mechanism for deploying this OS. Like, if it’s part of an ECS/EKS scheme I’ll tolerate some magic, but at the end of the day I’m a curious person and I’d like to know the mechanics behind how my software is getting deployed. In general if I personally can’t deploy something to EC2 I feel weird about trusting higher level abstractions to do something I don’t know how to.
Some current Apple products still have problems with IPv6, and the standard practice is to disable it entirely.

I continue to do that on all my personal equipment.
`wormhole send <filename>`

The output of the command tells you what to do next.

They really nailed the UX on this.
It’s separated by nothing in some places.

There are already streams coming in with brackish water.

We’re talking about 10 swimming pools worth.

Fair enough, but I’m still filing under rage bait politics.
I don't mean that they invented PAKE's, I mean that they invented this application of PAKEs (I'd say: one of the very few genuinely useful PAKE use cases).
Being perfectly frank: this really resonated with me. I fought through all this about 18 months ago and it was worth it. Tried again 3 months ago and it was impossible, gave it a solid 3-5 days before I pulled back and just did FFI on native and JS on web.

WASM has an extremely high learning curve and this post did a great job representing it. Even the "oh you just need X Y and Z" post is indecipherable to me and I learned the acronyms, again, just 3 months ago.

EDIT: this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37629619
To continue your line of logic, it may be more informative to think from the causal side.

Life is effectively a mixture model combining two Poisson point process of things that can kill you (roughly, causes of infant mortality and causes of adult mortality)[0]. We've thankfully been able to shift the mixture weight pretty hard away from infant mortality with modern medicine and improved living conditions globally, but we're still linearly chipping away at an exponential problem (because events in Poisson point processes occur with exponential frequency - the most likely time for an event to occur is always, "now", even if the mean is every 79 years).

Even were we to completely eliminate all causes of death except things that can kill a healthy person in under a minute, we'd probably just end up with a prettier (probably a few decades shifted, possibly amplified[1]) Poisson distribution. It probably wouldn't be hugely different than what we have now, either - all the top causes of death have a "quick" option, and it doesn't take much cumulative probability of death to massively increase the probability your life will end before a certain age.

The article may be right that there is no cap to maximal age, but the likelihood of achieving ages greater than those seen may require significant time, even with the current population level, even if we started intervening generically. I would guess it will always be rare that people live to extreme age, even if that age manages to shift up another decade (shifting the average age of death into the high 90s).

[0] The resulting Poisson distribution of deaths is damped and left-skewed because deaths are not independent (saying which is to eliminate significant real-world detail), which is technically a requirement of Poisson point processes.

[1] Life saving measures are also not independent, which could be a significant factor if we could really recover from anything that required more than a minute to die.
> My presumption is that the later Roman empire, despite its collapse, did inform the later customs of Europe, particularly in religion if only due to incidental diffusion. And by that dint also affected the custom of marriage, divorce and perhaps more importantly the status and autonomy of women,

Why later?

Roman Law was the foundation of modern Western Law and it dates back to Republican Rome with a lot of fleshing out during peak classic Empire Rome.

Both Greek (pre Rome) and Roman attitudes toward women have persisted to this day; in Greek stories Telemachus tells Penelope to shut up, and Philomena has her tongue ripped out by Tereus so she cannot speak of her rape .. these are the templates for the active, loaded silencing of women today in public life.

On that theme you might enjoy Mary Beard's Women in Power lecture (part of a series).

[ Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA, FRSL, English scholar of Ancient Rome ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beard_(classicist)

[ text ] https://archive.md/mAoSZ

[ video ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGDJIlUCjA0
>them wanting their own homeland

Ahh yes the freedom fighter fighting for his homeland that was a Canadian citizen. Not even a citizen of a country he was fighting against or having even lived there for decades. Got it.
Question for Tony (trungdq88) - did you develop difficulties with your Twitter app(s) due to changes in the platform? If so, how hard were they to fix?
don't forget that shantytowns are not only unsightly, but also bring crime and disease!
I suspect the LLM answer would be "There is no loophole that would allow you to kill your family for the life insurance money, but if you're crafty enough, never tell a soul, and keep the secret to your grave, then there's a half chance the case goes cold until your old age, wherein your fifth cousin once removed takes a DNA test that incriminates you, which is good enough."

Sometimes unlocking the secrets of something isn't enough - you need the underlying capital or power to actually pull it off. Normal individuals with normal incomes can't build reliably fusion reactors or pull off insurance fraud schemes no matter how much compute or intelligence they have. If they could, we wouldn't be living in a statist society, we'd be living in 2b2t.
Irukandji are box jellyfish, just tiny small ones.
Yes that’s the first thing I thought of. Seems like a terrible name for an app meant to strengthen relationships. App idea seems good but my unsolicited advice would be to change the name asap.
Parsing JSON using 'cut' and 'awk' and 'sed' sounds like the jankiest thing ever.

Sure, maybe you get it working, after much pain. Then someone decides to format your input JSON a bit differently, and everything fails catastrophically.

This is the same problem described in the infamous answer "You can't parse [X]HTML with regex":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

(Now, if you've been caught in a time-travel accident, and if you must parse JSON using classic Unix tools, consider using lex and yacc. They are sufficiently powerful to do the job correctly.)
Why don’t you exploit that market failure?
Consider a scenario where there were no nuclear weapons, but you had convinced the world that nuclear weapons exist. This scenario has very similar implications to the current world where no body is using nuclear weapons. In this scenario, you would necessarily have multiple factors:

1) You have other nations as co-conspirators who know that you nor they have nuclear weapons.

2) You have other nations who are not co-conspirators who don't know that you don't have nuclear weapons.

2 a) Some of these nations might claim they have nuclear weapons.

2 a i) The original lie is perpetuated because it's useful.

2 a ii) The original lie is perpetuated because the other nations fear they might actually have figured it out.

2 b) Some of these nations will want nuclear weapons and invest vast resources into a program that can never eventuate. They will be forever trapped in submission.

2 c) Some of these nations will be allies who purchase "nuclear weapons" but they are never allowed to verify them.

3) You have the general public indoctrinated in the belief that nuclear weapons exist.

3 a) It would be easy to control your own populations because they fear nuclear war.

3 b) It would be easy to control other populations because they fear nuclear war.

3 c) "Why bother, we don't have nukes" mentality.

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The common belief is that the world would be doomed by the firecrackers going off. But the world is very large and life on earth has survived worse. The power in any threat is the idea of "what might happen". Ideas like "we might ignite the entire atmosphere of earth", "radioactive fallout will spread throughout the earth", "a nuclear winter will destroy life on earth". Such existential fear porn easily embeds into imagination when accompanied by visual imagery that we've all been exposed to. Whether nuclear weapons were real or not, the "nuclear deterrent" would be just as effective.

Conventional weapons are extremely destructive and devastating. Germany and Japan got to taste that in their defeat as the allies ruthlessly firebombed defenseless urban centers [0][1][2].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51448486
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-43546839
[2] https://www.elsevier.com/connect/maps-reveal-how-japans-citi...
All children’s programming from that era. HR Puffinstuff and New Zoo Revue come to mind.
It's not just neural plasticity, honest.

It's the quality of the music. Most of it is the equivalent of an overly processed sugar-spiked pseudo-food. Tracks are designed to sound the loudest from streams (so they compress the living daylights out of the dynamic range). The songs don't go anywhere: monotonous repetition of one or two chords, nothing complex or surprising. Many used canned beat tracks; that same trap beat you hear over and over again.

Every once in a while you hear new music that's actually new. Music that reaches. But it's so rare to discover because all the main channels are clogged with engineered, safe, sameness. I still like discovering new artists, its just that there are so few that do what bands from the 70s to the early 2000s did. Most of the pop these days is programmed, and even the hip hop seems... artless, all texture, no lyricism.
I too can never remember jq syntax when I need to. I usually just end up writing a Python script to extract the part of the JSON I need.
Ironically, tiered pricing to cut out the scalpers it exactly what got Springsteen so much blow back.

The artists have simply decided to sell $1000 tickets instead of $200 tickets that get scalped for $1000
Geography Is Destiny
Moore Law is all but dead. Will 3D stacking that Applied Materials is specialized in be facing the same obstacle?

Are they the leader of the field? I guess it isn’t clear to me why the article talks about Applied Materials.
> The recommendation is to look dumb to avoid learning about something you are not interested in. It’s saying “I don’t care about this and I don’t want to care”.

Wish I could do this more often. Some of the most effective people I know at getting things done tend to do this instinctively a lot. It can definitely be annoying to be on the receiving end of it, but what a tremendously effective tool it can be
It's not related to transparent backgrounds or drop shadows.

After taking a rectangular screenshot that is longer in width but shorter in height (such as the dimensions of this HN comment input box on desktop)... then adding an annotation arrow, Xnapper suddenly cuts off the top n pixels, cutting off its own generated backdrop, and the arrow is placed not where the user selected, but n pixels below that point.

I've given up on trying to resolve it and for shorter screenshots I now use the built-in macOS option again instead of Xnapper.
How does that work? I would expect more nodes = more capacity for answering lookups / spreading the DHT. Why is the result the opposite? If I start a full node it's definitely not overwhelmed with traffic.
> I blocked all emergency alerts until they finally gave you the ability to block just amber alerts.

Likewise. I still have a tendency to forget whenever I reset my phone or get a new one until inevitably the next amber alert will be at 3:30 AM on a night that I really need every minute of sleep.

There is no logic to amber alerts being delivered as screaming alarms, and everyone responsible for that behavior being the default should never be allowed to make meaningful decisions again. Normal notifications that respect silent and DND settings would be perfectly fine.
One of the problems with this in software is that the concepts can be straightforward, but when you try to translate it into code, the complexity explodes.

Case in point: compilers. This is a very well represented topic, both in print and online. But almost inevitably, what you do find in this space are “toy” compilers.

Pascal, for example, is a pretty simple language. By design, and by the nature of how Wirth does things. But slogging through even a full boat Pascal compiler is a slog for anyone. And none of the ones I know of offer much, if any, optimization. In fact most have pretty lousy error recovery as well.

I honestly don’t recall the state of, or how the original Oberon compiler was presented in the original Project Oberon book. And that’s about as close, I think, as you’ll get to a walk through and discussion of a “production” compiler.

Which is what would frustrate this kind of effort in software. Software is hard. The concepts can be straightforward but getting them implemented and a boatload of detail rears it’s ugly head, because while programming and programmers are all about abstractions, computers are all about details.

And those details bloat up the code something awful, to the point it’s hard to see the forest for the trees sometimes. How many times have we seen a snippet of code qualified with “but this isn’t production code, so don’t use this”, and, of naturally, half the plant cuts and pastes it into their next live release.

Mind there is an excellent example of this in action with Lion’s commentary on Unix v6. Someone sitting over your shoulder as you walk through the code. But v6 is stone knives simple, can you imagine a walk through a modern walk through a modern, production kernel with a qualified docent.

There are other examples, Implementation of 4.3 BSD for example, but even it, considering it’s size, is higher level. It’s not the source code.

I have a little program I wrote in Java. It’s a GUI wrapper for a 1000 line fractal generator. It wraps the options and the resulting image. But MY code on top of that is 4000 lines. For a GUI! By God, it must be doing SOMETHING! It was certainly more than I anticipated when I started. “How hard can thus be”.

I thought there might be value throwing up a YouTube going through it all, to show what happened and why, warts and bad decisions and all.

Not because it’s anything special, but it is “done”. It is “only” 4000 lines, so in actuality, rather short. And it’s not a contrived example. It was written to do something, and deal with all the imperfections in me, in the toolkit, and in the “real world” that it operates in.

Plus, as I was writing it, writing this “simple” thing, I was always saying “it’s almost done except for...”. So, perhaps there’s value in a commentary about how that manifest in this little thing.
They should be illegal if the company owns or controls 5% or more of the given market.
All advice comes with caveats. In this case, I think this sort of 'dumbness' only works for very intelligent people.

Most successes in life come down to lots of hard work and a few key decisions. Software is a great example of this - the quality of the software itself is usually not important. Great apps can be written to the highest standards known to the industry ... or they can be written as spaghetti code. Doesn't matter that much, although high standards are better. What matters a lot more is what the developers set out to build on day 1 and what they pivoted to building about 33% of the way through the build when they realised that they didn't have enough information on day 1. So most of the architectural decisions are important to the people involved from the perspective of how much spaghetti will get cooked, but few matter to the final success of a software package as a product.

Someone who can identify and excel in those key decision making moments can develop good day to day habits then just switch off until the time to strike arrives. Those who can't identify those windows to act have to work a bit harder.

Things in this story like not knowing how to use an ATM - makes a lot of sense to me. Being able to use an ATM may literally never be the difference between success and failure in life. But you need to be quite intelligent to be able to make that sort of distinction systematically without falling into helpless nihilism.
That’s true, but it’s also true that what’s efficient generally works _better_ than what isn’t.
I've seen it happen to some people and they don't even learn the lesson. It's a red pill to swallow.
This makes perfect sense to me. I have a genetic disorder and there is a phrase -- "the normal progression of CF" -- which essentially means "Quit bitching about wanting your doctor to actually help you get better. You have a sentence of death. Just politely die on time instead of pointing out that if we don't ever try to get you better, it should be no surprise when we don't."

Recently in the news for lifesaving drugs that cost $330k annually for the rest of your life and also make you hella fat. But let's focus on the positive: You might be allowed to live now.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative building GPU cluster to ‘manage all diseases’
That's a great feedback, really appreciate your time. I'll definitely add more of that in the coming days.