skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The market is set by what customers will pay [...] The Internet hivemind will always think it's entitled to ignore the laws of supply and demand

And this is why "the market" isn't perfect, and flat-out sucks for some things. It doesn't have to be this way. Springsteen should be able to say "I want to charge $40 per ticket so my loyal fans, no matter what their financial situation, can see me perform", without having to deal with the scum of the earth buying up those tickets and reselling them for $300 each. (Whether or not he would want to do this is another question.)

The funny thing is that this setup is perfectly possible now that we have all this digital infrastructure. Back when tickets were just a piece of paper that people bought anonymously from a box office, it was damn near impossible to stop people from scalping them. Today we can tie a ticket to a person's real name, and check IDs at the venue. We can prohibit ticket transfers, or at least require that they be done via the same marketplace where they were purchased, so they can only be resold for the amount they were originally paid for.

Supply and demand are only laws when you allow a market to set prices, instead of letting a the seller price how they want, and sell directly to only their final end customers.
What I had read somewhere is that some of the features of C++ are slow and will require runtime support with extra functions, but some features of C++ are as fast and efficient as C so is not a problem.

I dislike many of the features of C++ and would do them differently, although some things do help. For example, I think that they should not have allowed to overload = and , operators, and I think that features of GNU C such as zero-length arrays and zero-length structures are helpful even though apparently in C++ a structure cannot really have zero length (but in C it can), but my opinion is I think it should be possible for your own structure or union type to overload any operators that are not already defined, including reading through and writing through a pointer (if you define the structure type as having a specific type that it points to; by default it does not point to anything). For example:

struct X x;
struct X y;
(...)
*x=*y; // This line can be overloaded assignment and dereferencing
x=y; // This line cannot be overloaded assignment
x+y; // This line can be overloaded addition, since addition on structure types is not normally defined
EO cannot be used to drop pending litigation. It would require a different mechanism
The federal government banned non competes last month:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...
If COVID taught us anything (spoiler: it didn't) you need to start worrying about it even before people catch it. Have a pandemic playbook and follow it, for one.

It's like 2020 is on replay, with the exact same downplaying, nearly word for word.
As that article states, they spun it off as a separate company in 1994, before digital photography hit.

Kodak management's mistake was laser-focusing on consumer imaging, and spinning off all of its other businesses like chemical, medical, office systems, etc. Consumer imaging was the one thing that dropped to zero in value as it became a commodity, and Fujifilm survived through those other businesses.
Dig up and ask John McCain how successful campaign finance reform was. I'll wait. ;@)

Or: Bob "gold bars" Menendez, Rudy Giuliani selling pardons for $2M USD, or almost every form of paid lobbying and campaign fundraising.

(Cooome baaack. Thhhhe caaaave issss tooo darrrk.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...
Some programs will work in C as well as in C++. It does not mean that it is not a C++ program.
Theory of the median voter and all that
I mean, I don’t expect Google to be more pro-consumer than Epic either.
It's straightforward to square the statements. The first one is about expected political will. The second one is about something that happened with sufficient political will.
Why haven’t you stopped already then?
You are being disingenuous with your own tone, you started up comment by calling their post a diatribe against factory farming.
iTerm2 is still the best terminal emulator on macOS, thanks to the hard work by @gnachman. I've tried to switch to alternatives like Kitty and WezTerm several times in the past decade, but none of them beat iTerm2 in terms of stability, feature richness, and ease of configuration. While iTerm2 may fall short in rendering efficiency, compared to how well it performs in other aspects, that's a minor concern.
I use ebay a lot. I think it is fine.

The difference between ebay and others are several: much better search. It's set up to allow customers to target what they want. Better filters. It includes the capability to have a complex user defined search that emails any new items that meet the criteria to the customer. Layers of search: one set of results can be searched to provide another set. It's amazing how other sites don't do this.

The result is that ebay provides benefit to customers that in practice is not so easily gamed by big sellers. It gives you very, very, very niche results. E.g. arts and crafts pottery of a particular vintage and maker and color.

I've found replacement parts for kitchen implements that haven't been manufactured in 20 years.
he forgot the most important ones!

- https://web.archive.org/web/20130216132858/http://www.cantri...

- https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/12/bonhoeffer-on-stupidit...
GFS? Google hasn’t used GFS for, like, fifteen years.

You can totally build stuff like Megastore or Bigtable (or Spanner) on top of S3. You use a log-structured merge tree. That’s how these systems work in the first place. In the log-structured merge tree, you have a set of files containing your data but you don’t modify them. Instead, you write new files containing the changes (the log). Eventually you compact them by writing a complete copy and deleting the old versions.

This works just fine on S3, and there are even some key-value stores built on top of S3 that work this way. Colossus is cheaper for short-lived data.
"While no one was behind the wheel during my rides, Waymo has remote operators that sometimes provide guidance to its vehicles (Waymo declined to tell me whether—or how often—remote operators intervened during my rides). And while Tesla’s FSD works on all road types, Waymo’s taxis avoid freeways."
Live Nation / Ticketmaster is also an excellent example of a bad for consumers monopoly.
Use SL30 to get 30dollar off
It’s true but that first condition does have a lot of weight behind it
The majority of employees didn’t care about a lying CEO or alignment research: they wanted the stock payoffs and Sam was the person offering it - end of the day that’s what happened with the coup.

Now Sam is seen as fucking with said stock, so maybe that isn’t panning out. Amazing surprise.
Yeah, this is exactly what's happening.

Epic: Google is bad!
Google: Epic is bad too! They're only looking out for themselves.

Epic is accusing Google (and Apple) of being monopolies since it wants to play in the app store space.

Google is saying Epic is selfish as well, and it wants an opening only for itself to make money.
It runs locally! You’re the one paying for the compute by virtue of having the computer it runs on.
> Recently Ian Carroll posted an overview [2] on X where he attempts to untangle the mess of the chaos surrounding Gamestop and its stock. I'm not going to pretend to understand the (dys?)function of our financial markets or everything that he shared, but my eyes are peeled.

So just so you're aware... this is not a good source for financial understanding. This is the financial equivalent of someone who struggled with high school physics going to the Wikipedia article on quantum chromodynamics to then turn around and explain it to you.

Like, the explanation of derivatives is wrong. Leverage has nothing to do with derivatives; derivatives are essentially trades that are trading on the value of another asset rather than the asset itself.

The short answer as to what has happened is GameStop is a video game retailer that hasn't been managing the trend to digital distribution. For $REASONS, the stock experienced a massive bump in 2021. The rapid inflation caused Robinhood (among a few other apps, but mostly Robinhood) to suspend the ability to buy shares, for reasons beyond proponents' ken [1]... which caused it to be interpreted as some financial conspiracy to keep the hedge funds alive at the expense of regular people. When the resulting short squeeze proved less calamitous than expected [2], the people who bought high have turned to increasing amounts of copium to motivate why the short squeeze hasn't happened yet, and turned to anything they can find that might enable them to trigger the "real" short squeeze (which at this point is no longer a mere short squeeze but a total financial apocalypse).

[1] The simplest explanation (though not entirely accurate, it is sufficient to get the reasons why across) is that Robinhood was borrowing money to buy the stocks on users' behalf, and the counterparties effectively did a margin call on Robinhood.

[2] One hedge fund failed.
I think the line is

> you would be lucky to get this employee to work for you!
Amazing stuff. I don't know why Apple and Google do this performance art or who it convinces. If these clowns even just let us point out theyre charging 30%, it's morally defensible. The chain of you must use our payments => we can charge you whatever the "market" will bear => btw you can't tell anyone is absolutely indefensible. It absolutely sickens me to overcharge people for Cupertino and Mountain View's sake.
You did well: there is never a rule against one-off contract. I can assure you the CEO has a one-off contract, and that lawyer has a one-off contract, at the very least :D
Fecality factor?
Well mostly I was fixating on the health insurance, and how health insurance's growth rate has slowed, but healthcare costs have gone way up in general and health insurance covers almost nothing anymore while deductibles have also gone up (for me). But again it's about rates, and I guess when I look at Figure 3 again it just seems deceptive.. a personal computer purchase for me includes a GPU and those prices did not decline (the total cost of a gaming PC like tripled over that time period). Overall this just seems like it's cheer-leading industries that are shrink-flating: health insurance that covers nothing, shit tvs, cheap crappy PCs, airline fares (ever shrinking leg room?).

Edit: Also probably because I remember when the dollar had WAY more purchasing power, so my baseline is skewed already. But this "increase" in purchasing power is just a return to more normal levels. This data feels more relatable.. slightly less purchasing power since 2019 https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/purchasing-power-constant...
I suppose that means I have to learn it now. I'm about half-joking: I've deliberately sought to limit myself to tech further on in the hype cycle.
third option is dispose of them by letting whoever can't find a job fall into (if they're lucky) being NEETs at a relative's house, or (if unlucky) meth and fentanyl addiction in encampments, scrounging off scraps, essentially in a waiting room for a quick death, while the masses are distracted by mass media with one unrelated distraction after another

in the meantime, the defeated homeless addicts serve as a "reserve army of labor" or as george carlin put it to "scare the hell out of the middle class" in other words, keep wages down and enforce docility for those who are still lucky enough to have jobs

The third option is what is happening right now. It's pathetic. The ruling class has perfected its use of media technology to influence the masses so well that we can even analyze, discuss, and reveal their methods without fear, because even if we announce it from the rooftops the masses will still turn back to their TVs and tiktoks and forget they heard anything, dividing their attention among 100 distractions to keep them from ever banding together.
I think the idea would be that the government would collect the same amount of taxes, but the taxpayers would get to directly allocate their portion where they want it to go. They couldn't decide to not pay taxes at all, or even pay less.
Slowly repeat after me... "Java and JVM are not the same thing." Do it ten times every morning.. jk. JVM always gets a bad rap because of Java. Matter of fact, JVM is an incredibly good piece of tech.
>Epic’s proposal removes Google’s ability to implement trust and safety measures that keep Android users safe.

you vill ovn nothing, und you vill be, uh, safe
My name is Julius, I’m a 19-year-old kid from a small town in Germany, working for a tech startup. This is my first public post because I believe it can make a difference.
I have always loved video editing and started projects at a very young age. When I aimed for bigger challenges, like real jobs to build my reputation, I faced loads of skepticism due to my age and lack of experience. I ran out of ideas on how to get more projects.
Creating my own clothing brand taught me most Adobe programs, website design, development, and online marketing.
During this time, I met many talented video editors, software engineers, and marketers aged 16 or even younger who were highly skilled but struggled to find jobs. And platforms like Fiverr were tough for newcomers due to competition from established creators.
What if young people had the same chance to work for companies or freelance as those with degrees? There would be soo many more very successful young creators.

I have a vision to make that happen.

How? I have the perfect idea for an easy software product and I started developing it using no-code tools, but when it started to take up more time and effort I decided to share my story, my vision, and validate my idea more. I want to find out if people face the same struggles I did. If you could answer any of these questions, it would be a huge help and motivate me to keep going:

Young Video Editors: Have you struggled to find projects and build your reputation to learn and improve? Would you use a website that suggests micro-projects and pays you to complete them?

Brands & People: Would you post a project (with footage already shot) and a budget from $20-$500, pick a creator from the applicants, send them your footage with a briefing, and let them edit it within your chosen timeframe?

I’m creating something everyone can join. Now I’m looking for young web developers, designers, content creators, and anyone who shares this vision and wants to change this world, especially with the rise of even younger, more talented kids that want to work on new online projects.
You are the future.

Contact me on Instagram: @ju1iuscr
Can you name what thing they mention in that blog post is anti-consumer? I can't find anything besides handwaving about security. It's comical considering AFAIK you could always download APKs and install them by flipping a switch and tapping an alert or two.
Forget the leading zeroes, what’s with the lack of capital letters? I know that I’m old and accept that, but they help a lot.
I like clown tears.

Google and Epic, please cry harder.
I see people in every related discussion thread convinced by this kind of performance art, people who don't really understand when a corporation is propagandizing are incredibly common. Corporations wouldn't do this if it wasn't extremely effective, unfortunately.
It means that to an expert on the item in question the appearance of the item is completely consistent with its age. Sort of like people who can make a painting recreating the brush strokes, paints, etc. such that it is difficult, if not impossible, to tell it apart from the original. Now in this case it is a bit different since it is an "original."

My Dad never did anything that would make someone looking at the gun think it was some other version, the most common 'ask' there was that Colt Single Action Army (SAA) revolvers, which are famously "The gun that won the west", original generation (i.e. produced from the original Colt dies and tooling by Colt) are more valuable than second, or third generation guns. An expert in Colt firearms can look at an SAA revolver and tell you from which generation it was made with some level of certainty.

But lots of guns were abused and stored poorly and developed rust or other imperfections. My Dad was able to cure those imperfections and restore the gun to a condition it would have, had it been stored properly its entire life. And yes, that did increase its value, mostly because the gun just looked better.
Haven’t you heard? One dollar == one vote.

So, who has all the dollars, and therefore all the votes?

If you don’t have any dollars to buy off your entity in Congress, then how are you going to get the laws changed?
>Mendota is a medium-security federal correctional institution and an adjacent minimum-security satellite facility.

It's also one of the more unpleasant FCIs. There have been a lot of scandals, including sexual assault, murder, and other abuses by staff. They've also had a questionable number of inmate deaths, mostly during the pandemic. It took a senator complaining for the then director to resign. It's been a couple of years since then, so maybe it's gotten better, but I kind of doubt the improvements were drastic.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/14/people-in-the-...
My daughter was in highly rated school in NoVa some teachers would pretty much just put on youtube and be done with it. Now in CA again highly rated school just really sad especially compared to the school she was in Ireland. I am not even focusing on teachers that actually don't know the subject they are teaching. I mean teachers that will go into conspiracy theories or just blatantly say I am not in the mood so just basically do whatever.
> But nobody says "why do I have to read Frankenstein?"

They really do. Secondary school students famously often don’t “get” good books and think they’re awful and pointless, much as people who’ve not been exposed to a given anything-but-totally-non-challenging musical genre will often think its masterpieces are boring and/or bad.
> you can’t is because it’s unsafe to expire old data in such a system if any backup is writing

I did this, I just don't expire any object created in the past week.
> Fujifilm survived and then went back to photography and now makes instant photography film again

It's actually funny how Fujifilm's single largest generator of revenue is again analog film
Essential for who? Lots of other storage solutions if S3 is too simple. Distributed databases. Or fire up an EC2 cluster and install anything you want on it.
> Do you still need terminfo?

Here is one way to answer the question.

- ANSI escape sequences are a standard, and have been around since, what, 1976? Almost fifty years.

- POSIX doesn't specify terminfo.

- POSIX describes a tput utility command which supports only three operands: clear, init and reset, and mentions the TERM variable without giving concrete requirements about it.

Clearly, the standard-conforming, richly functional solution is to use the ECMA/ANSI control sequences!

terminfo is nonstandard, vendor-specific, legacy Unix cruft, standardizing which POSIX was not up to the task.

Any purely software based terminal emulator you're likely to come across will speak ANSI. Where you have the support problem is with legacy terminal hardware.

What is worse:

- our program that uses ANSI escapes not working with someone's nonstandard hardware terminal, but otherwise being highly portable; or

- our program requiring termios not working with any terminal, when ported to a certain platform, due to lack of termios on that platform.
Isn't this what YouTube looked like circa 2008? I remember the title, description, and comments were to the right of the video. Then they moved the title and description to below the video, and everyone hated it. This feels to me like just undoing the previous redesign.
A currently running backup process can create a new reference to an object which is more than a week old. Meanwhile, the garbage collection process can be deleting that object, but the deletion operation hasn’t finished yet. CAS gives you a lot of options to do this safely.
There's a huge difference between failing Calculus and failing Algebra. Calculus is not required for most degrees. Algebra is required for almost all.
Nice Movie recommendation website.
FWIW AnyBox also will save SingleFile archives and make them searchable to spotlight. Big fan.
But now unfortunately the Wikimedia foundation has a motive to block such a proposal, in order to not threaten their revenue stream

And that's the problem with making money off convenience. If the free thing becomes better, then it cannibalizes the paid stuff. So if you take this approach to funding, you will want the free tier to be perpetually bad as much as possible.
There are so many AI critics in the comments. It's a pity they ignore all the good features in version 3.5.0 and focus only on a small, completely optional feature.
Finally, a solution for those endless scrolling sessions! Excited to try this out
Bahahahaha.

I wrote a Perl script for a client to provide CSV records as results to search queries sent by the main application, a custom tool in Microsoft Access my friend had created.

We managed to convince the client to install the Perl script on IIS on some shitty little Windows NT box they had. There was no cloud, and no web services hype yet. Linux was still an experiment for college kids to work with... Windows NT was the future of enterprise servers that did real work.

Anyhoo, our crappy little "web service" did the job. The client's sales personnel were able to upload, search for, and retrieve the process analyses they used to sell new equipment to their customers.
Emacs in the 2020s is getting better and better as an application platform. Everything is faster thanks to native code compilation. There are multiple frameworks for interaction, including transient, forms-mode, widget.el, probably some others. There's native support for SVG, formatting and styling text, displaying bitmap images, etc. It's cross platform. You could do a lot worse.
This is such a cool idea! Movie nights just got a whole lot better
Actually they probably are that busy and aren’t trying to impress students, they’re trying to grade a bunch of exams while reviewing a paper while writing up research while writing a grant and also having a personal life.
Sharing this for absolutely no reason ;)

https://krita.org/en/donations/
Rescheduling marijuana is a multistep regulatory process set out in law that Biden initiated with an executive order the month before the 2022 midterm election, so its kind of weird to call it election year pandering.
I’d let junior developers work
from my home if they really wanted to hang out.
It’s pretty common in chatrooms, forums, etc. Been commonplace for at least two decades.
I agree. I've only used regolith once, and it was a work computer that I didn't feel like copying my config to and didn't want to spend time configuring from scratch. It was nice in that case.
I always invest based on a d20. Back when BTC was $1 I rolled one and got a natural 20 so I knew it would take off. I put my life savings into it and cashed out last year. Now I own three yachts and two islands and have the whole day free to troll on HN.
I know just what you’re saying, agree, and think you accidentally overlooked one other proven alternative: centuries of lentils and grains complete essential amino wisdom used in parts of India and likely elsewhere.

Anecdotally,
We don't eat or are able to digest the majority of even those crops. Cows can eat alfalfa which is nearly free to grow and provides free fertilizer for the soil for future rotated crops. Not growing alfalfa would mean relying more on fossil fuel derived fertilizer and increase carbon emmissions from farming.
Oh for sure. That's not the tough part. :)

jank uses immer for that: https://github.com/arximboldi/immer