skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I get your point but how is Ticketmaster not a parasitic price-gouger?

Ticketmaster isn't the true price-gouger. It's actually the artist + promotor + venue that collectively set the high prices. Ticketmaster is just the administrative computer system to implement the high prices that the artist/promoter/venue want to charge.

For example, top artists can negotiate to get 105% of ticket's face value from the concert promoter. Indeed, people have speculated that Taylor Swift had so much leverage in negotiating the terms of the Eras tour that she got 110% of the ticket's face price.[1]

If Taylor gets 110% of the ticket money, how does that leave anything left for the promoter and the venue?!? With those artists' financial demands, you now have a math problem: where to get the extra +5% or +10% and also pay the promoter+venue without taking a loss? By charging extra fees.

It's a very clever bit of financial sleight-of-hand. The artist/promoter/venue can all charge more money but hide the blame by embedding it in Ticketmaster's "convenience fees", "service fees", "order processing fees", etc, etc. In this way, Ticketmaster is perceived as the parasite.

Your question where Ticketmaster is already assumed to be the "bad guy" means Ticketmaster's deliberate manipulation of public perception is working exactly as designed.

[1] https://archive.is/J5Eg3
I'd expect life elsewhere to be much like ours in general, especially when you consider the full range of life both present and past on earth. The course of evolution is necessarily going to be similar anywhere - bound by the rules of chemistry, going from simple to complex forms, single cellular to multicellular, a full range of sensory modalities developing, predator/prey species evolving under similar high level dynamics, etc, etc. These types of generality have nothing to do specifically with life on earth.

Of course the details will vary, but I'd expect alien animals to be recognizably animals, even if they include some novel aspects specific to their own environments.
[I work at Protect AI] You're spot on for data being the jugular, interestingly with exploits like this as an attacker you could quickly go for attacking model content but also have credentials that would grant you access to data in many cases.

These tools can serve as the first opening but a sizable one when looking to attack an enterprise more broadly.
I work while wearing costco $10 socks and have been using the same socks for 5 years.

I've made $XXYYZZ.WW while wearing these socks in 5 years.
This is so sad. If all decent people leave Russia or die in prisons, who is left to rebuild the country after this insanity ends?
I see, well in that case just search for ESP32 on Amazon and get one for a $5, then look for a few videos on Youtube who to program for a ESP32 board and you will probably learn as a first example something to control the board's LED. From that you will be half way, just modify and try things out ; )
Give a flight crew film lights and they will scare the plane away, but teach them how to light for film and they will fly that plane for a lifetime.
You can setup redundant local servers too.
And I know multiple people who refuse dates from
those who have a zodiac sign that is “incompatible” with theirs. I think we can safely disregard that as a factor, despite how relatively not-that-rare it could be.
S mode already exists, and it's ideal for implementing this pure remote Microsoft centric vision. The rent-seeking has to stop.
That is not a SQL mistake, but an implementation choice. Most modern databases can determine where indexes should be added, and add these automatically. E.g.: https://www.oracle.com/news/connect/oracle-database-automati...
Commodities, Generics, and Software
I'm not sure whether there'd be legal liability; that would probably depend on whether the third-party was aware of the scheme, and how often they 'enabled' it. I doubt that the SEC would be found to be an accessory the first time this happened (unless they'd been specifically warned), but if this happened frequently, I think they'd likely be found guilty by way of 'reckless or wanton negligence'. They might even be subjects of civil actions by victims of these blackmail schemes at a later date (if the circumstances were right).
Incandescent suffers the same issues if run off mains. I think the filament itself has a bit of a filtering effect (it takes time to heat and cool), but for sensitive film work I assume you'll need power conditioning either way.
I can confirm that we're seeing 2x to 3x faster (RPi 4 vs RPi 5) in some of our early tests
https://www.sec.gov/tcr
Taxes. Tax laws take so much money from these companies, it's impossible to reach that amount. Like Sweden and Denmark, when a company wants to grow past a certain point, they leave the country and incorporate elsewhere.
How about 185339150 or 0x0b0c0d0e?
I should have been more specific, i had mean to say carbon arc, as those were alot different that todays technology, though I'm not sure about the level of UV protection offered back in the 70-80s
At the same time, pretending that brains don't obey the laws of computation has its own implications, which can confuse unprepared minds into thinking:

1) That brains are something supernatural, instead of physical information processing systems that can be analyzed and understood as such.

2) That digital turing-complete computers are limited and can't possibly do the kinds of complex processing that biological computers can do

Which is also misleading

A brain is not a Turing machine, but a Turing machine can be a brain. Biological brains are just a subset in the space of all possible computers

But I don't think either of us is confused, so this is just a conversation about the semantics, which I'm not very interested in
The NVMe network server is part of systemd? Umm.. is that really relevant for an init replacement?

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
Even if every user had dozens of queued up messages, I don't think it equals millions in storage costs. Maybe I'm naive, but I have a storage/database/queue with billions of records and it costs <$700/month.

shrugs
I think the former is far more dangerous particularly if a monopoly because there is no feedback loop.
How many of these restaurants print a brand new menu every day? Are there any figures on this?
You can definitely get high with a placebo. I have seen people in festivals getting high just by touching people, the "explanation" being that the people were sweating the drugs and by touching enough of them, you get enough for yourself to get high. This is as convincing to me as homeopathy, so definitely placebo, and it happened to people who took these drugs before and are familiar with their effects.

And here, they are not giving you a big dose of MDMA so you can dance until sunrise, they are giving you a moderate dose of amphetamines to (tentatively) boost your ability to solve a maths problem.

Unless you have already trained yourself, don't overestimate your ability to discriminate, the placebo effect is really strong here.
Then, they can text me over SMS/MMS like they already do.

Besides, some of the examples you mention I'd rather have via email instead of text for record-keeping purposes.
O.o TIL. That's weird, apple users already have plenty of lock-in and own-data-inaccessibility, but so maybe they figured they clearly don't care? Weird as heck either way

Then what I can recommend is installing the desktop client on a server somewhere and reading its sqlite-like (but with some flaky encryption extension) messages database
Not surprising, there is a decent value proposition in buying a thin client and leasing online compute.

Certainly you can get a used PC for less but most new PCs start at $500 with limited storage. Getting a fully functional PC for $X/month could work for certain values of X.
The royalty interest is probably the largest take for the government in this case. Typically that would be between 15% and 20% of the gross revenue generated by the leases.
It is a coincidence. You have a 1-in-10000 chance of getting any 4 digit number and they assign 5.5M a year, so we can expect that 550 people get their mother's year of birth every year. You just happened to get 1961.

(Total guess but how cool would it be if I was right?)
I think it's pretty clear the context is commercial air travel here.

"Starvation, suppression, and evacuation" needs neither "emergency landing" nor "don a parachute" to be added to it to be understandable. Both are just prerequisite steps to the "evacuation" mitigation.
this is a very real and powerful force that apple has shrewdly monetized
It's an intuition biased on my own preferences, and a bit of a "Misnomer" because ideas can also be beautiful, but:

IF we assume that:

1. "Beautiful" (nice "looking" / "sounding" / "moving" things) things will be easy to create.

2. "Meaningful" things are, and will continue to be, harder to create.[A]

Then it seems that the only thing that could differentiate you is the quality of your ideas, and the meaning you are transmitting.

Put another way -- if everyone can create "Beautiful" things by default (in the world of static art, we live here now!) then why choose one piece of art over another?

This is my intuition about it, at least.

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[A]: I think this is just a fundamental property of "meaningful" things. They require more computation, which means more scarcity.
I'm one of those who needs to upgrade and the pre sales part is hell.

Either your not big enough to get any priority. They never reply. Or the costs are just too stupid for a personal account with 5-10 mailboxes.

I host on-prem too, via colocation which then increases the cost ten-fold. It's as these companies don't want customers.

Liked the look to IceWarp suite and yet they've been non-existence in sales that I end up expecting though out.
I remapped my caps lock as a modifier to let me use my central row keys as arrow keys, also stuff like caps look + space bar = return, caps lock + Z = delete and so on. It's quite handy.
My lawyer stopped using signal due to the sms support being dropped. It became too much of a hassle and wasn't worth it.

Many of my family also dropped Signal.

It is now really only used by the hyper-privacy conscious.
Walking has become either paywalled, miserable, or impossible for too many people in USA, and routine walking is generally deleted from the culture.

It should be better. Somehow much of europe manages to allow people the possibility to step outside and easily walk anywhere: shops; restaurants; even paths along rivers, through forests or farmland -- places that would, if in USA, be fenced off and posted with (bullet-holed) "no trespassing" signs.
Sure, happy to provide more specifics!

Our main issue was the lack of a synchronous gauge. The officially supported asynchronous API of registering a callback function to report a gauge metric is very different from how we were doing things before, and would have required lots of refactoring of our code. Instead, we wrote a wrapper that exposes a synchronous-like API: https://gist.github.com/yolken-airplane/027867b753840f7d15d6....

It seems like this is a common feature request across many of the SDKs, and it's in the process of being fixed in some of them (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio...)? I'm not sure what the plans are for the golang SDK specifically.

Another, more minor issue, is the lack of support for "constant" attributes that are applied to all observations of a metric. We use these to identify the app, among other use cases, so we added wrappers around the various "Add", "Record", "Observe", etc. calls that automatically add these. (It's totally possible that this is supported and I missed it, in which case please let me know.)

Overall, the SDK was generally well-written and well-documented, we just needed some extra work to make the interfaces more similar to the ones we were using before.
W365 enterprise is really nice. I actually provisioned one in a personal tenant for myself recently. For me, $80/m to not have to think about a physical windows box ever again is a pretty easy sale.

If you prefer to work on Apple hardware and absolutely must use Windows, this currently feels like the best possible arrangement. Your MacBook is the only machine you ever need to touch again.

The privacy stuff doesn't really work on me anymore. Too many security edges and other things I already don't take care of with a physical box. I am not adding much value by keeping this stuff in my house vs in the cloud.

The final nail in my windows machine coffin is the fact that I don't play games anymore. I much prefer portability & assurance over anything else. My house could completely burn down and I could be back online the moment I have a new machine in hand without a single byte of data or user session state being lost.
This has been the goal for every software company for awhile now and is the direct result of rampant piracy in the 90s and early 2000s.
That's actually because most cards (or merchants, perhaps) have a limit for tap to pay that is different to chip transactions ($100-300), and if the gas station does a pre-auth for $125 or so (which is what a lot of Safeway gas stations due) it hits that and requests card insertion.
I guess. The old "Hackers on a train" dilemma.
Manifest V3 applies to all Chromium based browsers, including Brave.
I care, actually a fair bit, but only because I work in a building that has two areas that are complete dead zones for cellular reception, and our IT department blocks WiFi calling (but not iMessage data). Blue bubbles can message me in those areas; green cannot.

It's not at all unusual for my phone to explode in dinging when I leave one of those areas.

I wish they didn't block WiFi calling, because my cellular reception at home isn't great, and I'd use it there. We have an internal WiFi network separate from the public one, with per-user authentication, so you don't have to worry about visitors overloading the infrastructure (it's a hospital, lots of families and patients in addition to the staff).
The service is written in C and resides at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/storagetm/s...
It sort of becomes a people problem as people use messaging to communicate and organize events and exclude you because you'll break group chats.

Probably not a big issue if you already have a solid social circle of old tight friends who don't care about you breaking chats as they can also call you, but it can be huge issue when you move to a new city and trying to make new friend, as any extra friction you add to groups lessens your chances of being accepted and invited further.

Yeah, people can be quite lazy and petty even about such trivial things, when they don't know you and don't have any attachment to you yet, and you breaking group chats won't improve your first impressions and chances of being accepted. Hence the ever increasing loneliness crisis we're facing.

Thank fuck I live in Europe where nobody uses iMessage for group chats. Honestly fuck Apple for creating that unnecessary friction, it's not like they couldn't have accommodated blue bubbles to not break group chats but it's more profitable to emotionally extort people to buy your iJunk by making them feel outsiders.
Back to your original point: please don't support an organization that doesn't share important values of yours! That is absolutely your choice!

You've named several products that share your values. Perhaps those would be a better fit if you were to donate.
Rumors of startups' deaths have been greatly exaggerated
I've been on a couple of film sets and when those big lights are on you better not be caught unprepared especially not when they are focused. The lights are usually kept running between takes (and during shorter breaks) and you will definitely realize you are 'in the beam' when you walk across the set. Another commenter here mentions UV protection built into make-up, I wasn't aware of that but it makes good sense.

One thing I learned while webcasting Yves St. Laurent's fashion show in the mid 90's is that the flowers wilt within minutes of being placed due to all of the heat from the lights. So the way they dealt with that is that backstage there is an absolutely enormous amount of flowers ready to be deployed and they just cycle through flower arrangements continuously for the duration of the show so that the flowers are always fresh. It's tens of people walking to and fro without pause.
SoulSeek allowed you to browse the entire directory being shared, so you only had to search for one thing you wanted and then could look through everything an individual was sharing.
The last line from the article: "We must not forget that 20 years ago only a fraction of the performance of current hardware resources was available, and despite these restrictions, performance database-based applications were developed."

I think you have a mental model in which these people are spending weeks and months optimizing a system they should just upgrade while the real tasks languish, but in my experience, probably all they are doing is just paying a bit of attention every so often and simply doing things that don't require 32 cores and terabytes of RAM. A lot of things don't need that power.

20 years ago you had a lot more real variance in power. If your 100MHz server couldn't handle it, maybe your 400MHz server could, and the gap between those two systems is probably even bigger than the numbers imply because that 400MHz was probably equipped with better everything else (RAM, disk, cache, better performance/cycle for the CPU) to go with it. Nowadays, with CPU speeds having stalled, it's easy to go wide and service lots of diverse queries at a time, but if you have a particular query that your lowest-end DB node is struggling with, there's a pretty decent chance that just pushing the button to go to a bigger node will have a distinctly sub-linear result on performance improvement. I've certainly seen this from a number of teams in a number of places. You can push a button to get more CPUs but you can't push a button to get much better CPUs. Some better, yes, but not like it used to be.

If you just try a little, modern commodity systems can do a lot. Even with only 4 cores and 4GB. Just try a little. Yes, there are absolutely tasks that that doesn't work with; if you've got 10,000 hours of video to re-encode that system isn't going to cut it. But a lot of developers are really bad at understanding how long things should take and don't realize that the thing that takes two minutes during CI really should take something more like 50ms because https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ and somebody really ought to look into that rather than just bump the CI node size again hoping it solves the problem.

(And for Pete's sake, when bumping the instance size does happen to not solve the problem... turn it back down again! Despite what I just wrote I do understand there's a time and a place to spray money at the problem, but when spraying money at the problem doesn't even help, STOP.)
Both are allowed.
Unfortunately you'd be eating that dinner by yourself....
People are deep-faking endorsed advertisements
Probably the angle is to find some way to tell the EU to get stuffed as far as opening iMessage up goes.

Apple only has to comply with the law. The issue is that the EC is on a high right now trying to see how far they can enforce control over US tech companies, so they might just go back and double down with more legislation if Apple finds a way to comply with the law without complying with the outcome the EC actually wanted.
Had a similar moment with playing around using smart contracts. As a joke I wrote a crypto for the company I worked at, which then got added to employment contracts, and an internal DAO styled administration layout.

After coding this out for a few hours I realized I had re-created the company scrip, except on a blockchain. I ended up turfing the project and spending some time thinking about how horrific a future technology like this could create.
you can also do compile time strlen(), if you are ok with goofy variadic templates
yes, and then you need to have engineer with $300k salary to support your app/postgresql cluster, load balancer, fallack, backups, security, etc with unknown quality.
but I'm confused by that.
The Great Cajun Turtle Heist
This is backwards to what I am used to; self-hosting is normally the free option and hosted is paid, this is common among many projects.

We also certainly hear about companies or individuals looking for an easy way to send money for FOSS projects they rely on, so hopefully it works out for you!
Great way to find things and get more learning content out there (directly or indirectly).
See also NOWEB, a system that developed the ideas of CWEB. Wrote my dissertation using it.

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/
Impressive!

One thing I find unintuitive is the implementation of variable length units (like months or years) as an averaged constant. Then again, perhaps that’s the point - and e.g. working with months without specifying a calendar is just unintuitive.
$6 million per year on outgoing SMS?
Do not send SMS to users, make users send SMS to you instead to confirm their numbers! I have this solution for years and it works >90% of the time. The rest 10% is calling a verification number which drops calls with busy signal (no fees for the caller) but sees who is calling and is able to verify their number.
Do you ever see the salesperson again after the sale? I just went straight to the service department.
There’s probably a few things at play.

First, not every iPhone user can be iMessage-only and SMS is a shitty experience. In most non-US countries, they’re not winning the iMessage shame battle, they’re driving people to WhatsApp. They’d probably rather people use the built in messaging app, which will incentivize you to use iMessage.

Secondly, getting more involved gives them opportunities to embrace/extinguish rcs (they said they won’t extend it). If they can use their market to force encryption on everyone, for example, that makes them look like the good guys against android makers. I could also see them trying to genuinely push UX improvements (eg stickers) on RCS and exiting iMessage from European Markets entirely.

Finally, If the EU forces open iMessage, it’ll probably force open other messaging services, which gives RCS an opportunity to grow. See point 1 about them losing already in Europe. Or gives Apple a horse in the race even if they simply withdraw iMessage instead of opening it up.
There doesn't seem to be a way to pay annually, which I'd prefer to a monthly payment. £5/month is just a little high, but I'd merrily pay half that or £30/year.
Earthtunes app lets you listen to Iceland's intensifying earthquake activity
Kias get stolen so often you can't insure them in some places; hyundai's have that "catch on fire spontaneously" controversy, and that steel shavings in the engine problem; nissan has their infamous CVT transmissions. I don't know much about mazda.

It's hard to find a reliable car. Last time I dug into the subject it was a stress-nightmare
Username registration is currently being tested: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-...
Ramaswamy Shares Crypto Plan, Making Him the Only GOP Candidate Who Has One
100% this. I'm not interested in these kinds of usages of LLMs but if someone is paying you to access your API directly you should be letting them do simple stuff like have sexual conversations.

OpenAI's filtering is probably the most annoying part of ChatGPT and it makes it useless in so many cases. I can't tell you how many times I've uploaded a picture of a a place from Google Maps or of a location somewhere (that happens to contain a person) and tried to ask for details about the location to find out more info about it just to be shutdown... "I can't help with that" well then you're slowly making yourself useless and not worth the $20/mo.