skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of their fans aren't going to the show at all. Demand far outstrips supply.

In effect the number of less wealthy fans who can get into a show is a lottery. Ideally you would do just that, lottery off some tickets at affordable rates and sell the rest at market rate.

But the market has adjusted to that too and re-sellers dominate such lotteries. If you offer the opportunity for arbitrage, the market will take advantage of that opportunity.

So just sell at market rate, cut out the re-sellers entirely.
That doesn't work for honest people when the person who used their ID is the one who can't go.

And you now have a new scalping model where you create a website for people to submit their IDs ahead of time and pay a fee to have someone try to get them a ticket in the two seconds before they sell out, but they buy 2-4 tickets per ID and resell the others.
Make tickets online $500. When you arrive you're given a special ticket-locked voucher that lets you go back to the website and get $480 back (assuming tickets are still $20 like when I was 20 years old).
There is a large community of folks that simply can't stand your employer. I hate to break that to you. The anti-competitive antics and open source washing has no end
Thank you! Straightforward. Wish all titles were written like this.
I mean, Google Drive has more uptake than any of these things. We're comparing PAKE-driven file transfer schemes.
That doesn't line up with my own experiences at all. Many of the hardcore FOSS devs I know focus on their passions, at a detriment to their career.

> A popular, well-known FOSS project enhances your career better than one that is unpopular and obscure

I just don't think any of us care about that when choosing FOSS products. You're talking about an entirely different class of developer and massively generalizing.

> Younger developers who didn't live through the Unix wars and the rise of GNU/Linux and all that are deaf to the issues.

Again, incredibly generalized. Many young people today express the exact same hardcore stances toward privacy and security, and are the reason why we have things like Matrix bridges.

> Asking the kids not to gather in some Discord group is like asking kids of yesteryear not to hang around at the mall

You got close, but still missed it. The reason so many FOSS products choose Discord is the ease at which they can build large and successful communities, due to the networking effect Discord provides. If a FOSS tool could match that level of discovery, that would be a step up, but it still doesn't solve the other big issue: Discord is where many passionate, creative people are.

You can provide a product that is better in every way, and FLOSS, but without a successful marketing campaign and a bit of luck, no one will ever show up.
Deregulation had a lot to do with it.
Cloudflare. I code all my side projects these days to run on cloudflare workers/pages. Free hosting off the bat, free KV storage, free S3/R2, Cron triggers, lot of other free stuff I haven't messed with yet
These days Rust is both my day job language (I work on systems for autonomy in tractors) and my hobby language. It's my preferred tool.

I have attempted similar systems in C++ before, and got fairly far along at times. But Rust really solves a lot of problems, I tear my hear out a lot less.

This is a "systems" type of application; this is a database and compiler and a virtual machine and language runtime. I'm not super concerned with optimization at this point, but I will likely have to be at some point. Being closer to the metal is key for me on a project like this.

I'm likely to e.g. rip out RocksDB and replace it with my own database engine at some point (something I work on here and there as another side project, unpublished still.) I will also likely need a better garbage collection solution. With Rust I have options.

The community of libraries available for Rust is good. The right tools are there. And the language is expressive enough to make it work well.

That said, I have mulled writing the "host" portion -- the layer that manages network sockets and web endpoints, in Elixir/Erlang:

The 'daemon' portion of the system sits behind an RPC layer built around ZeroMQ -- so that layer can be restarted/upgraded without losing active network connections. Or can sit on a separate machine for scalability reasons, etc. So it's entirely possible to split what I'm calling the "host" (network facing layer, what we used to call a "frontend" when I worked at Google, but most people think of that term as referring to a UI layer) from the backend "daemon."

Anyways for me this project ties together a bunch of interests in systems programming I've had for years. It becomes a kind of synthesis project.
That's right. Its almost true of any story. But you have a chance of verifying something. Occasionally a story will turn up on your doorstep - you should see if the story checks out with your personal experience.

However, its entirely true of stories in Antarctica. This is because all the nations of the world agreed that they should keep a whole continent pristine - with no one ever allowed free access. Incredible.
Watching Americans map their ideas around rabid white nationalism onto Hindus says more about the naturally violent tendencies of the west than it does about Indians.

Typing hindu in all caps does not change the heterogeneity of the people and it doesn't change the millenia long welcoming nature of the native people of this land.

The HINDU only exists in the imagination of the western academic.
When I was a kid, I don't remember that my parents ever thought me that I shouldn't eat slugs. Somehow I figured it out on my own.
https://nitter.net/snowmaker/status/1705643839443403263
> In a sentence: because doing FOSS is just a way for some people to enhance their careers.

Doubt

It’s just that most people are on discord. I tried running a matrix space/room for support but people would keep asking if I could use discord instead. Kept the matrix room running for a while but nobody ever showed up while the discord server was at over a 1000 people. Left both after the project was archived.
You're absolutely correct! But in this case - part of what Lou Reed sold to the public since the very beginning of the Velvet Underground was a palpable contempt for mainstream notions of what was "acceptable" whether in terms of sonics (his solo "Metal Machine Music" album), lyrical content ("Heroin", "I'm Waiting for My Man", "Sister Ray") or attitude. So I'm genuinely surprised that long term fans of Lou's would be surprised that he'd play the hits with a begrudging sneer.
Thanks for the feedback!

We just made update to drop CEFR standards and just show language proficiency.
Because the majority of the fans wouldn't be able to afford to go.

This damages the act's fan base, which in turn negatively affects future revenues via streaming, merchandise, co-branding, and future ticket sales.
Lewis was quite religious himself. He wrote more nonfiction books, many of them Christian books, than fiction.
> They take an Internet full of wall-gardened social networks to be the norm; it's what they were already born into.

And it's the older developers' fault for letting that happen!
For my setup I use HDD's. I am rarely dumping huge amounts of data which needs to go in a hurry. My network is 1gbit which is slower than SATA 2 anyways.

I guess YMMV based on how fancy a setup you need.
Operation Blue Star was run by Indira Gandhi, the child of an atheist socialist and an atheist Parsi.

It was a hard decision, it was badly executed, but it was not rooted in religious extremism.
Twin XL Beds Took over College Campuses
barbecue sauce stocks going up
Given that I eat lettuce every day, how come I never got rat lungworm? Am I incredibly lucky? Or is getting it from lettuce incredibly rare?
My personal opinion is that by misusing the term open source, you're causing confusion. Open source is the term that I understood to be OSI definition since childhood.

It would be like someone changing the term 'anime' to also include western cartoons. There would be no shortage of confusion. It doesn't matter how the Japanese use the term anime. For western audience, it has a different connotation.
Yes. Unfortunately none of this is easy. Even if you are sure you are not in a deteriorating cult (pleasant one or not) there is still a ton of blind spots not stemming from social environment but your ego for the lack of a better term. Cognitive biases are a real danger and both advertisement and cognitive warfare target those.

This is very much an asymmetric struggle. While you might be a sensible person when you are paying attention to the right aspects, most of the time you arent. Or to quote the Provisional IRA of all people

>Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.

I dont see a way around regularly checking if you have gotten unlucky and carried away. Its really easy to just be opposed to a caricature, figuring out and accepting that you have become one as well as a reaction is quite a lot harder. Mitchell and Webb made a great bit about checking regularly if you and your friends are maybe the baddies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY

If people around you take offense to you doing that, thats a very valuable indicator. If this leaves you with a collapsed reality model, dont worry, thats normal. Stuff is just complicated. Fortunately less bad is often a very reachable bar.
I don't know what exactly you mean. It's not impossible to go to antarctica. Theres someone that posts every couple of weeks here with their blog from antarctica... There are regular cruises. I myself have been working towards getting a job there
I just got into university and they tell you to install a root certificate authority to connect to the network. Literally allows them to MITM HTTPS traffic without causing SSL warnings
A shortlist from the top of my mind:

* Individualised settings per contact

* Who is this person to you?

* How often do you want to engage with this contact?

* What kind of ambitions do you have with this contact?

* More refined suggestions based on the above

* Training module to improve your social skills

* Knowledge base

* Regular blogs/videos/podcasts about the loneliness topic

* Seasonal events and designs
My current work is using LLMs in fintech, but my background is in entertainment and has been where most of side projects have gone. LLMs are great generative tools, but Agents are reasoning tools. They implicitly execute an algorithm and interpret the results. An agent will never reason as well as imperative code.

I think this is why agents appear suited to entertainment, but this is almost a different topic that I could rant about for hours. There’s a whimsical element of randomness in what the character may do that the programmer does not need to explicitly design. However, I think that whimsy has limited reach, so while the developer may be more amused by their own creation it has limited appeal.
lol grift at its finest
Thanks!
We are working on customizing the AI companion to handle custom questions. But at this stage AI should automatically generate technical questions based on job description.

Once you create a job description you can test how AI will do the interview and adjust JD again if necessary.
You sound like a great person to do a user interview with :)
Would you be willing to answer some questions in a private chat or call?
Stupid question, and maybe I should have web searched for it, but why did the fuselage expend? Something to do with the heat generated by the high speed and hence by the high friction?
I've found that campers/hikers anywhere are generally very approachable.
I dont see how gun control could be effectively implemented in the united states. There are SO MANY guns already in circulation... what good could you possibly do towards controlling it?

I know this sounds defeatist, but I actually think just having armed guards at schools is the only game-theoretically sound solution
Violin plots should not exist [video]
Thanks a lot for the input! I've noted it down (and already saw some overlap with what we have in the pipeline) :)
>The reason it takes so long is because first it searches for the source CMYK color

Why does it need to find the source CMYK color in the DB? All the information from that row you either have or you can calculate without hitting the db, no? I mean, since your input is a CMYK color, you can just run the same mapping function on it and get the lightness/chroma/hue values corresponding to it - without touching the database.

Actually, do you even need the db for anything? If I understand correctly, it can go like this:

You are given an input CMYK values, a hue OR lightness OR chroma value and a scale factor,. Say you're given C,M,Y,K, attribute = "lightness" and scale_factor = 0.2 and direction = 1.

(a) convert the CMYK value you were given to H/L/C (running the mapping function).

(b) given a desired "smallest granularity" (e.g. one matching the precision you already have on the db), just run a loop on the H/L/C value you got in (a), incrementing L from its original value up to the max value you can go given the scale factor. For each step you have a new L value, say L' value, and you can combine it with H and C, to get: H, L', C. Convert that back to CMYK using a reverse mapping, and that's one of your answers. Increase L' another step and repeat.
The phenomenon you're describing is certainly true, but the cause doesn't resonate. I'm almost 40 and super happy with my life, much more than when I was in college. However I still gravitate towards music I've known for decades rather than listening to new stuff. I actually find listening to new music mostly unpleasant now, which is weird because I consumed records like mad till 25 or so.

I do believe there's neural plasticity we can lose as time goes on. Maybe those people, and myself, got busy for a while and forgot how to listen to new music, is all.
I've done the same and was pretty dead set on it a while for gaming. And then I got a steam deck which can sometimes dip into the 30s or even 20s and I realized that it does feel jankier but it's definitely an acceptable trade off for something like the mobility of a deck. I'll even crank up graphics on my gaming desktop sometimes now just for eye candy even though it runs closer to 30-45fps.
Block stuff? Absolutely! Just don’t go monitoring communications and searches or else you end up with a surveillance state like China
All you need is a yardstick and a friend with another at a different latitude so you can measure at the same time (using an accurate clock or a video call). Alternatively, you could test in two locations at different times at local noon in each longitude (even works if you spread the measurements across years, as long as your dates are fairly comparable).

The ancients had an estimate (accuracy notwithstanding) for the diameter of the earth. It's not hard to suss out.
Can we also feed them plastic waste?
Your point about the terminal being the bottleneck is interesting btw. I recently did some large imports into postgres in .net, and was running in debug mode, which had many queries logged to the debug console. Removing that logging led to about a 10,000x speedup. I wonder how much terminal output like this costs in terms of lost efficiency :).
The only thing I can say right now is: you are absolutely correct.
This is something we need to address asap (and will!)
I quickly scanned the article, so I might have missed this, but can someone explain how sites like StubHub get away with what they do? As soon as I found out about them, I immediately thought "aren't these people just scalpers that offer tickets on the internet instead of standing out in front of venues?" If the argument is that they're not scalpers, they're resellers, then I'd like to try selling some concert tickets in a parking lot and see what happens if I made the same claim.
>In truth sales and marketing are orders of magnitude more valuable

As someone who's been on both sides of the fence, this isn't true either.

Both engineering and sales are important, and there are probably as many entrepreneurs who have failed by spending all their time marketing and selling a shit product as there are those who get bogged down in technical minutiae.
I use what sounds like a similar approach: cheap Digital Ocean instance, nginx, BIND, Let's Encrypt, Namecheap, DNSMadeEasy (for secondary DNS) and whatever stack the app uses.

I have a private GitLab instance (also at DO), and put a gitlab-runner on the web server so I can do deployments straight from GitLab's CI.

I'd probably look for an alternative to DNSMadeEasy if I was starting from scratch, but adding a new domain there is easier than finding something new, so inertia keeps me there.

I've considered using containers, just to keep things more modular, but I haven't yet bitten that off (yet?).
I am paranoid about these things myself, and one of the few people in my circle who actually like being GDPR-compliant. So this was a no-brainer to me.
> Inevitably groups form around a skill, programmers hang around programmers and so on. Since programmers "create" all the value we believe we should get paid the most etc.

Programmers do get paid a lot, relatively speaking.

The disconnect is that programming and creating a business are different skills.

There are occasional examples of someone programming a thing so useful that it sells itself, but they are extremely rare. Most of these success stories come with major marketing attached, although it’s often hidden. In this case the person was marketing through Twitter, including promoted Tweets. It’s not mentioned in the article, but the business is more about cultivating a social media presence and getting a fractional percentage of them to convert into sales.

There’s nothing wrong with this, of course! However, the marketing and personal brand angle are often overlooked by indie hackers who think they’re going to make a great business that people will just discover randomly and pay them for.

One of the best examples would be the indie hacker who first got a lot of attention for his job board business. There have been hundreds of indie hacker job boards popping up ever since, but none of them get the same traction as the person who built it as a Twitter sensation. The Twitter presence and ensuing brand recognition was a key part of the business, but it gets overlooked by people who are just wowed by the MRR numbers.
From what I understand, with structural colors the structure is causing certain wavelengths to preferentially reflect or transmit, or behaves as a diffraction grating to split the white light. What you're describing sounds like fluorescence.
NASA just doesn't have the funding for any large missions.

Small missions, maybe, but not for a large return-flight mission like the Mars Samples mission would be.
Is there a problem with the term "source-available"?
The logic doesn't quite work because the same number of people would get to go in either scenario
Or, if you want to be a purist, there's this. [0](thank you whoever submitted this to HN a while back!)

[0] - https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/
This looks great! Sadly I can't check it out right now, as I don't have my Android phone with me. Do you happen to have an iOS version as well?
There is work currently being done to turn this idea into a usable paint :
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf7207
Website hosted on BitTorrent and P2P networks/browser
Evolution is a process that blindly accumulates beneficial mutations, that seems somewhat different from learning.

It’s easy to prove that just because a process is driven by a characteristic doesn’t necessarily mean the output of that process would also. Example: when I grocery shop while hungry, that hunger may cause me to make irrational decisions, but the collection of items I buy aren’t themselves hungry.
this is a p2p website i made for two p2p web browsers

browsers are called agregore and hybrid(fork of agregore), these web browser supports bittorrent, ipfs, hypercore and others, the browsers uses electron

main feature of these browsers is that you can use p2p links directly on webpages, basically href attribute will have a p2p link instead of http, like href="bt://infohash/some/file.txt"

watch these videos and you will understand very quickly what this is and what can be done on it, a regular web browser, but it supports multiple different networks, hybrid even supports tor, i2p and other overlay networks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciRWmEhL8e8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiRVQ2uSvPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw7RlTf-YVg

on agregore my demo website is

bt://924f476c4f118d2df5e5049e56e376fa9053159fb3edc6259ed014389a1d64a5/index.html

on hybrid my demo website is

bt://519fd269515e133386b91c05dac229c75fbc8b69bd5f263de466507fe7845844/index.html

here are repos for the website

https://github.com/soccergrass/agregore-test

https://github.com/soccergrass/hybrid-test

the website is like a general social posting site where you make posts

the website uses gundb and indexeddb for syncing and persistence

hyperdrive and ipfs for file storage

bittorrent for distribution(BEP 46) https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

it was surprisingly easy to make content for these browsers, for a developer nothing really changes, you will just make links with different protocols like "bt://infohash/some/file.txt" instead of "http://domain.com/some/file.txt"

here are the repos for agregore and hybrid

https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser

https://github.com/HybridWare/hybrid-browser
I'm not even sure solo is at a disadvantage here - on the contrary, regular companies are bogged down by a massive tech pit, because of which they can't move fast, and only keep adding to that according to Conway's law.

Imho 90% of 90-developer companies out there could be replaced by 1-2 devs working same hours but more efficiently with a more efficient stack. I'm not even joking!
Contrary to many of the opinions in these comments, I actually appreciate Sabine's videos that are not in her area of expertise.

Not because I think they're accurate, or fully informed, or anything like that.

But because usually they're a decent attempt at grokking important information from another field, which is a challenge we face nowadays in this sea of conflicting information about everything.

When she gets something wrong, it's another indicator of how even a trained scientist can still make mistakes in these interpretations, and so brings me to a more realistic expectation of what myself, or any other person, could do on their own.

Her latest video on how to do your own research puts this challenge in perspective.