skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this, it provides a huge level of context as to how bad things really are and lays it out in a fairly decent way.
Demons Crest on the SNES was an absolute blast, don't know why it isn't talked about these days. I think its better than the SNES castlevanias, and close to Metroid.
Yep. I despise TM and think this needs to change, but the only thing it's going to fix (from the consumer's perspective, not the artists et al) is the abysmal and abusive customer service (that doesn't really exist), not the high prices. The prices are pretty much exactly what the market will bear, and that will be true no matter who the middleman is.
Yes

> I can assure you after having been in multiple unions that they serve themselves first, then their members.

The doctor's union for senior doctors in New Zealand is an exception to that rule.

I have had similar experiences as you with unions I have belonged to, but still, they were useful when I got into a dispute with those evil powerful people who had the power over me.

But you are not wrong
I've thought about building personal site, but the opportunity cost is just too high. The time I spend making a site has to come from somewhere and there just isn't anything I do that I want to take time from.
I wonder if self-hosting away from giant cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCloud would be better for the internet too.

Self host at home should be much more common than it is…
>In other words, the artists, venues, producers, and Ticketmaster are in cahoots to fleece fans for as much money as possible

yes, but they are in cahoots with the fans to fleece the fans. Fans are willing to pay big money to see these shows, that's who pays the high prices. If fans didn't pay the high prices, the prices would drop.

Your comment (the word fleece) suggests you are at least somewhat judgmental about "greed": this type of judgment is why bands try to pretend that they sell the tickets for a "fair" price, and that's what creates the 2ndary market, and that's what creates the kickbacks and the need for a scapegoat.

you expect to pay a high price for a Picasso at auction. You should expect also to pay a high price for sellout, SRO, line around the block shows too. Who should collect that money? fans who got in first? fake fans who pretended to be fans to get in first? People who are attracted by the arbitrage price differential? Or, I dunno, how about Picasso? The band.

The biggest fans in football, season ticket holders who slog through all the bad seasons, frequently sell their superbowl tickets when the price gets high enough. They'd rather have the money, that's the nature of money, and people.
This needs to be seen more widely and is entirely true. I had friends who worked in ticket brokering and the depth and collusion of that market is a fascinating rabbit hole. In fact a lot of what happens is probably illegal.
> There's no reason that Winamp couldn’t be in the position that iTunes is in today [...]

It is in exactly the same position as far as I can tell – i.e. replaced by streaming services like Apple Music.
>If we go by this philosophy, the most import decisions are when you were born, where, and into what environment.

Isn't that basically the gist of TFA?
Yes, it seems like in 1985 Ticketmaster and the couple of big competitors they gobbled up (I recall there was at least one other called Bass) could justify their existence decently. The operated brick and mortar locations where you could buy tickets, as well as a call center where you could call in to buy tickets. Today though, arguably without their many tentacles like Live Nation that guarantee them a cut of everything, they have no moat at all. Oh gee, if only we could figure out how to charge credit cards, show a seat map for you to pick your seat, and print barcodes on paper / email a barcode to attendees. So yes, I would expect that relative to verticals where things require actual ingenuity or skill to do a good job, it would be easy for people who operate venues to either just roll their own ticketing systems, or contract with dozens of vendors who would compete on their value. Of course, venue owners who are not themselves part of Live Naton itself could do this today, but the gross agreements where ticketmaster inflates fees and splits them with everybody in order to gain an exclusivity contract makes this uncommon. The whole thing is so corrupt and greedy it's sickening.
Thanks.

At the moment forgejo does not have features I'm interested in as I'm not making my internal gitea instance public. However, I'd be interested in it if it provides support for things like hierarchical project grouping and organiation/group-wide project and issue tracking. So I'm going to keep an eye on the project to see how it evolves.

One thing that concerns me is Forgejo's statement that they will diverge further from Gitea without migration commitments. This would make it harder for me -- and others -- to switch after upgrading to Gitea 1.22 and later. A similar concern is the other way around: if I switch to Forgejo and want to move back to Gitea, I won't be able to if the projects have sufficiently changed (e.g. if they implement project grouping differently).
> The Obama administration was pro-monopolist basically across the board for eight straight years.

It might be more accurate to say that rubber-stamping mergers maxed-out under the Obama DoJ.

Comcast - NBCUniversal (2011)

AT&T - T-Mobile (2011)

Express Scripts - Medco Health Solutions (2012)

Google - Motorola Mobility (2012)

Anheuser-Busch InBev - Grupo Modelo (2013)

US Airways - American Airlines (2013)

Oracle - Sun Microsystems (2010)

Comcast - Time Warner Cable (2014)

Heinz - Kraft Foods (2015)

AT&T - DirecTV (2015)

Administrations before and after were almost-but-maybe-a-tiny-bit-less eager to approve competition+job killing mergers.

What DoJs were not eager to do was push back against pressure from Elected Congresspeople who 1) held DoJ purse strings and 2) had elections that needed funding.
> Add $.70 for a cheap toy and you have a happy meal (McDonald's buys toys in bulk - you can't get toys for that price unless you are buying thousands)

Most of the toys these days are cards, but you don't need to buy in that much bulk: https://www.orientaltrading.com/toys-games-and-novelties/nov...

The first one has 144 mini skateboards for 20 cents each.
Well that's good. Antitrust action isn't meant to suddenly fix anything overnight.
I'm pessimistic about the likelihood of any new "wild" internet ecologies thriving the way they did in the past.

If you think of hypertext as a medium, it's been pushed to its most logical extreme already. There's not a lot of boundaries to explore.

There are weird places online already, sure. And curiosities still abound. But idk… I wonder if a generation lost in cyberspace is exactly the reason why we are actually so unhappy with the internet writ large.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Right, normal users do not have Windows admin.

I've had it before on servers, but only our local client team has it onsite.
I don’t see how that solves the potential problem. You could still end up in the same place of “balancing out” where the extra money from your kidney becomes something you need i.e. a transfer from poor to rich people.
Seattle proper != King County. Amazon is building out big across the lake in Bellevue. It's Seattle's local municipal government that's gone rabidly anti-business more than the county or state as a whole, although Washington is never going to be confused with a purple state anymore after the last 5-10 years.

Amazon is not the only F500 to be divesting headcount within Seattle city limits in favor of elsewhere in the metro area.
Sure, what could go wrong?
This opinion piece is less a incisive criticism of NPR than it is a resume line item for Berliner applying to The Atlantic. His three leading “big” examples are largely wrong. The Mueller report didn't say “no collusion”. Barr did. The report said that it was not possible to conclude with prosecutorial confidence what level of cooperation had taken place because there had been so much obstruction of justice, so charging for that would be the appropriate law enforcement action after Trump resumed his role as a regular citizen.

Conversely, the Hunter laptop thing has never been a compelling above-the-fold story. Hunter Biden is a politician's kid, not some elected official or, ahem, a politician's kid who has been appointed to a cabinet or advisory role within an administration. There has been no evidence that implicated Joe Biden was a meaningful participant or benefactor in whatever name-dropping grift he's gotten on at. Why would a news outlet spend airtime on this?

The lab leak story is somewhat more compelling. Although I think at this point because of analysis that concluded there were two different, yet closely related strains of the virus simultaneously present at different sections of the wet market, it's hard to conclude a lab origin is more likely than it coming from wild origins. But at the time he's referring to, it was simply a matter of dogma to conclude a lab origin was off the table.

And commenting that the DC staff is 87 Democrat is... amazing. That's the natural demographic of DC, one of the most Democratic regions in the country.
I mean it's not that hard to eliminate all other traffic on a closed network like that, at least where there's millions of dollars at stake.

Must be nice to open Wireshark and see _nothing_.
The Analog Web
Yeah, couldn't possibly be that he got approval for outside work. That's too hard to even comprehend.
Collusion comes to mind. A group of companies colluding likely has a leader.
I like:

1. The Neocities random page: https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=random

2. The Neocities recently updated page: https://neocities.org/activity

3. Status Cafe: https://status.cafe/

4. The MidnightPub: https://midnight.pub/
The Latin language borrowings tend to be closer to the European versions orthographically, to the point where you can understand the general intent of a lot of notices even without speaking a word. Common German words like Leben and Mutter and Fuß might be derived from the same root as English words but you'd never guess based on how much evolution has happened in the language since. Conversely a lot of English words are so close to Romance language equivalents that if you're struggling for vocabulary there's a decent sized chance that an approximately similar Latin-derived English word with local pronunciation (and appropriate conjugation) will be understood.
Considering that they're basically calling for the the overthrow of the government, maybe that's appropriate?
The your first visible submission is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33107108 which is not a document
>it doesn't make sense to color it differently.

It totally does, because the "vanilla" German you learn back home in the US will be less useful to you in Austria due to the difficult dialects, than it will be in Germany where you'll have an easier time.

Signed, someone who learned German before moving to Austria. drops_mic.gif
Canada is about to become a 2nd world country. No industry, no ability to own a home, no healthcare [1], only one party, banking restrictions, etc etc,.

1. Healthcare is where you can see a doctor.
Which reminds me of my favorite interpretation of "They're made out of meat"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ
>derived directly from the individual's actions.

Are you saying that a person's actions aren't influenced by their environment?
Spellbrush (YC W18) hiring an anime-loving distributed systems engineer; Tokyo/SF
It completely, utterly, baffles me how other people live in such a different interpretation of reality than me. For myself, the last decade of media has been completely dominated by race-based and identity-based ideology and discussion. I've given up all mainstream media and I still cannot escape it. The fact that someone exists where they can with a straight face say that they think race is an under-discussed topic just blows my mind. To the point where I seriously have to consider whether I'm even replying to a real human being and not a shill / LLM.
If the Live Nation one could be undone, and we could ban TM from operating venues and LN from selling tickets, and ban TM from having exclusive deals or sharing any of their "fees" with anyone else in any way, it'd be a start.
I don't think that the statement implies the model is anything close to being uninhibited, just that only internal and well known public test suites and data were used to rate and soften its ability to discuss topics.

So even if the model is adjusted afterwards, likely the changes will only be slight to cover those few category of cases they didn't anticipate and probably won't make much difference.
> Ironically, the more that a news organization pretends this purist ideal of unbiased news exists, the more biased it becomes in its effort to hide its natural biases.

"Citation needed".

I don't disagree with your general premise, that journalism always has some level of bias; it's likely impossible to create an unbiased narrative. That said, I find it difficult to get on board with the notion that seeking this perfection is self-defeating.

I also find it difficult to believe that choosing to simply get your news from two "known biased" news organizations is the more correct choice. Some of the so-called news reported on by a certain news agency is factually false. It's misinformation, and the only use it has is exposing the bias of the agency. Presuming the agency on the other extreme end of the spectrum is doing the same thing, all you have are two pieces of incorrect data. You haven't learned anything because there's nothing of value to be learned from something completely false.
Don't have any data I must say, just a series of discussions here and elsewhere over the years, voicing either appreciation for the platforms above or displeasure with the logistics/price of TFcloud, e.g. with one I remember

https://old.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/eaq8bh/terraform_em...

The vast majority of projects that I've come across at work just had the tf CLI wrapped in a CI/CD pipeline + some bucket, but the managed competitors seemed to come up more often (compared to other tools/platforms) when people wanted to use/were using something as a service.
Perhaps it's really just a perception thing, I never checked their financials

edit: I think I went off-track from the point. The point was that the ones selling managed versions were not the hyperscalers, but people building wrappers and similar around it. The other commenter with the list of fork-backers illustrates that nicely.
Correct, but it would give an actual market opportunity for new competitors.
I would download the safeway app. Hamburger buns are $1 usually. Ground beef is $0.99/lb. 10 lbs of russett potatoes makes way more than 8 happy meals. frozen orange juice is like $1 each. This is insanity, and exactly expresses my point above. And if you go to a food bank, it's all free. Most are throwing away entire grocery stores worth of food.
Some years ago, I read a programing book, and it explained, paraphrasing:

> There is no disc included with the book. All the code printed on the page will have to be typed in, by you. This is deliberate. Typing is sloppy, but programming is precise, and it is imperative that you develop attention to detail if you are to program successfully. The intent is that you develop increasing attention to detail along with the programs in the book, which are in order of increasing complexity.
That's a silly measure, though, and not what anyone actuallywants to know when deciding their eating habits. What matters is amortized dollars per calorie, or maybe dollars per time period, and grocery shopping easily beats fast food on that.
It's amazing how surprised everyone was that the whole thing worked phenomenally well. It went against a century of "expert" advice. It literally did the exact opposite. The purpose of the system is what it does [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
If my local affiliate talked about LGBTQ stuff I would probably start turning the radio on again.
He's the young man who doesn't cook for a family I was talking about I'm guessing.
> so why are we even bothering with this BS and just not using another service?

Because the venues are locked into exclusive contracts with Ticketmaster. This is why them being a monopoly is bad.

Many bands in the 90s attempted to work around the system and they all ultimately failed.
> Unfortunately a solid number of these things would rely on the moral equivalent of slavery.

Weird conclusion to jump to. GP did not suggest grocery stores staffed under threat of jail time anywhere.

Better public transit benefits everyone. Better urban design favoring walkable neighborhoods benefits everyone. Better zoning allowing neighborhood shops at street level benefits everyone.
I'm sorry, but it does have a different meaning. The gendarmerie are military units, police departments are typically civilian units. There's a clear difference in reporting, accountability, access to weaponry, training, and cultural expectations.

It's not just a different word. Maybe you are from a part of the world where military operate the police force and we have different experiences? I'm from the U.S.
Have you considered pursuing them in small claims court?
Ok, so not really free housing.
holy shit yes
Oh this site is so friendly to fresh accounts, to shadowremove submissions. Here it is, about Lise Meitner:
A Passion for Science (archive.ph)
https://archive.ph/z9i46
1 point by Frummy on July 16, 2022 | past

The other newspaper article enclosed in the nuclear book is about italy with stuff underlined.
There's also notes and calculations, now that I looked in some other pages. And a poem.
RIP Internet of old. The Internet is truly going to shit from all angles. Squeezed by ever rising costs to get on the net. Bombarded by ads on every single page (trying to browse the net on a mobile device and most sites take up 40-50% of screen real estate on ads). Subs on top of subs for every single service. We really are entering a dark era.
Anyone within a 100 ft radius of my PC is in my house and could just come over and poke at the mouse.
> In early October, El Salvador’s police announced the seizure of 2,026 firearms, including 1,371 pistols and other small arms

> Imports of certain high-caliber firearms are prohibited. Arms for personal defense or hunting may be imported but are strictly controlled

No open carry either. Sounds like gun control to me. It goes way beyond “putting gangsters in prison” and a large part of the plan is investment in education to get kids away from this path.

One thing to note is the 72000 in prison did not receive a life sentence. They will be released at some point, and one has to trust that the “integration” part of the plan will work.

There are also an infinite amount of reports of police abuse, violence, unlawful imprisonment, and media being silenced. We’ll only know the true cost of this many years from now.
Why you're overspending on Observability vendors, and what to do about it
I'm definitely in the camp that has moved my tiny company infra to opentofu. Thanks for all your hard work.
This arguments get used again and again but it does not make sense. The hard part of building nuclear bomb is the enrichment process. Ukraine inherited ready to use ICMBs and bombers. What they did not have was the launch codes / devices. This could have been manufactured.

Ukraine had huge arms and aerospace industry. They would have capacity to replace detonator units. See [0][1][3], they designed and built quite a lot of ICBMs. Saying they would not have control over missiles they designed and manufactured does not make sense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartron

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KB_Pivdenne

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA_Pivdenmash
I sense a lack of quality look up!

Start here:

https://www.racket.news/p/new-npr-chief-katherine-mahers-gui...
Right.

In the specific case of the Post Office miscarriages of justice, the system as a whole included Horizon central office staff who made manual and sometimes incorrect adjustments to the individual Post Office ledgers, and the discrepancies were later blamed on the postmasters.
> Maybe you should educate yourself some before writing posts you know nothing about.

Except another commenter, obviously more versed in the field than I, specifically highlighted how this efficiency is calculated differently based on what is specified as the denominator, and the rules are apparently different for the US vs. Europe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40055464. So perhaps it is you that should educate yourself.
The policy doesn't say all outside works is banned. It says approval must be sought. Do you have any evidence Inskeep didn't have approval to post on Substack?
Today's game isn't loading :-(
I hope the advertising revenue is meaningful, because boy does it detract from the user experience.
Not to mention that I don't think anyone but a few niche enthusiasts even have the hardware to do it even if they had the skills and inclination. Who's going to walk around with a 15 year old laptop brute-forcing wireless USB encryption, or find some obscure hub and do it on a modern laptop?

I'm not going to say the likelihood is "zero", but I am going to say it's so close to zero that it's really not worth even considering.
I was about to comment that the qualification is insane when I realized that red is green and green is red.
you would have the opportunity to argue whether you were fired for cause (which determines eligibility for unemployment insurance). in general that's hard to win if you just don't show up to your assigned work location, but there may be grounds to argue that mandatory relocation beyond a certain distance constitutes constructive dismissal.

but notice pay and severance are not mandatory for at will employees. the company basically gets to decide whether it's worth paying you not to sue them.
Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Insightful Review Analysis
NPR has been downgraded, intellectually. They follow the rest of the news, discussing the same topics with the same framing as the rest of the media, following whatever hot topic there is at the moment, no matter how trivial. News and discussion is often spoon-fed in bite sized chunks that miss nuance and lack the willingness to go past the headlines to the real meat of the issue for fear of boring less sophisticated listeners. Its become boring, repetitive, and uninformative in the vast majority of the stories I hear on NPR One. It is a sad state of affairs.
> And, the hallucination problem has only gotten worse, as AI models feed on content generated by other AI models.

They state this as a fact, but I haven't seen this yet.
First Screw-Bike [video]
For us, because of our apartment we were looking at very young (less than a year old since we didn't have a separate bed room).

They showed us studies that even infant adoptees tended towards the educational achievement of their genetic parents, not their adopted ones, for example.

Again, I don't even know if it's right or wrong, but the agency we were working with thought we should know that.

EDIT: Okay, here's an example: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adoption-and-genetics-imp_b_4...

And reading that I'm reminded of the agency we were going with: PACT in Berkeley.
100% chargebacks have changed in the last 2-3 years. I had a vendor send me the wrong part and refuse a refund. Even showing that they sent the wrong part despite ordering the correct part, my chargeback was denied.