skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hope you can get many companies to put skin in the game and contribute towards fixing bugs. It'll be cheaper for them in the long run than paying those external vendors.

This would be a nice world to live in, but unfortunately this is very rarely the case as you can see with most open source projects that are used in many companies and are underfunded and understaffed.

Most bigger companies value saved time of not integrating something themselves, liability and having someone else to call if something goes wrong higher than saving a few thousand bucks a year for some external vendor. Which makes total sense for something that's not your core business.
Flutes that have fipples, like penny whistles (or recorders), vessel flutes (some of which have fipples, like an ocarina), end-blown flutes without a fipple like the xiao (which also happens to have a side-blown varient).

There are many, but the word is somewhat amorphous. Personally, I would call almost anything that uses a Helmholtz resonator instigated with the mouth as the initial oscillator a "flute," but will also take it to mean "orchestral flute" based on guessed context in conversation.

The thing that makes clarinets and oboes not flutes is that they have one or more reeds rather than producing a direct Helmholtz resonator.
A water reservoir is a heck of a lot cheaper to make large compared to a hydrogen tank.
It's easier to parallelize a flow graph than a sequential series of instructions. (This is why visual flow programming caught on in embedded hardware and IoT.)
Seconded.-

(For what little it might be worth, I have recently posted/commented along these very lines ...)

Edited: Found it!

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898635

This is not an indication of any merit in the comment :)

... but as a way to showcase "prior art" in that we are thinking in similar directions (along with many people, I'm sure ...)
Perfect SAAS opportunity.
> Every monetization attempt failed (even with stuff centered around "privacy", a niche where Firefox is well known)

Again, though: they have yet to try the obvious, which is allowing people to donate to Firefox.

I have zero interest in supporting all the random distractions that Mozilla engages in, but if they gave me a donation box for Firefox specifically I'd set up a recurring payment today.

They can't in good faith claim to have tried every monetization method when they have never let users earmark funds for Firefox.
Why would one grad student have the same power as 10000 employees of a company? Surely when you're finishing with ominous repetition you must know something's a bit off[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY
We can expect Chinese versions of Microsoft apps on the Play store to go downhill at this point.
You're trying to get quantitative about a qualitative problem.
Literally you can always pull off some argument to justify anything I guess.

The Portuguese people is against this nonsense for very, very good reasons that can't be explained away.
Also common to set up "capture clauses" for lambdas as Rust does not have that in the language, IME most common with threads:

spawn({
let a = a.clone();
let b = &b;
move || {
// do something with the a you cloned and the b you borrowed
}
})
I love this attitude in theory. It would ironically put a lot of writers out of a job, though, if you required their audience to read the primary source before reading their thoughts about it. I mean, the ratio of people reading opinions about Piketty to people actually reading Piketty must have been a million to one.
moving troops to show decision/support is already not (well - just) diplomacy, though

otherwise yes - on all your points above, but the current rasha leader counted exactly on lack of all of those steps - similarly as before/after annexation of crimea

(and even after some limited physical display of western armed forces support would have happened that wouldn't have stopped him IMHO - this is based on extremely bad intel about overall mood towards invaders/occupiers of common ukrainians and his own mad delusion)
https://www.amazon.com/New-Kingmakers-Developers-Conquered-W... ("The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World")

https://web.archive.org/web/20200915000000*/https://try.newr... [pdf]
Huh, you mentioned at least robbing and murder.
So OSS frontend and proprietary backend is open source?
A few months ago I went to Las Vegas to watch U2 at the Sphere. When I learned that I needed to open the app or website in order to get in I panicked in fear of the shitty internet that is common in massive events, so I opened my tickets since I left the hotel. Unless this stuff works completely offline, it is a terrible idea.
Why do you sound like a western neoliberal politician? There are trillions of ways to fight immigrant outflows. The one the government choose to do in Portugal is blatantly unfair towards its own population.
Yep. Information is still a bit messy to navigate. I think the most "preprocessed" PGO source for now is this unfinished yet article: https://github.com/zamazan4ik/awesome-pgo/blob/main/article/...

Is a 10% performance win worth it or not of course depends on your case. For some situations, even 2x-3x performance is not worth it at all, in other cases, even a few percent (or even half of a percent) win is a huge thing (especially on Google-like scales). If different ways work for you fine - it's great since you don't need to spend your time with PGO!
Even allowing that but requiring your valid ID must be taken into the venue by yourself (or by your friends eg if you get sick and can't go) would be a big improvement, meaning ticket scalps would have to actually go or have someone on their team go along with every ticket they resell.
> bld was created because we're not really interested in build tools. We use them because we have to, but we'd rather just get on with coding the real stuff.

no interest in build tools, so let's create our own. Baffling.
The Guide on Prompt Injection
Off topic (though the post does go into it a bit): Ticketmaster's current form is entirely due to a failure of government. Decades from now, case studies will be written on how one company managed to have a monopoly on an industry that is so not a natural monopoly.
The Right Kind of Stubborn
The biggest second order effect is Portuguese people can't afford to live in major cities anymore.

Taking that into consideration the remainder is a bit academic.
p5.js is a great medium. I did a short series in this style - you can inspect it to see full source (non minified / obfuscated) with some comments here and there.

https://jason.today/falling-sand
Most people I know who work in real estate companies don't get rich.
Yup exactly. Some events are pretty bad at opening the doors early. The Brooklyn Nets seem to open 30 minutes before the game, so they need to get 20,000 people through 20 metal detectors in 30 minutes. Every second extra they add to the process is a second you don't have to buy a $25 drink, and that's how they make their money.

We check IDs for flights because airline yield management demands that there be no resale, or business travelers would be traveling on leisure fares.
> Buying something at a low price and selling it at a high price is arbitrage 101 and is free money.

A bit of a nit pick, but this isn't "free money" unless you have a guarantee that someone will actually buy at the higher price. You could buy low, be unable to sell, and end up eating the "buy low" cost.

> sell tickets at their actual market price

How do you know what their actual market price is? You have to open it up to a market, where supply/demand get to play out.

IIRC some ticketing company tried doing something to this effect by scaling prices in realtime based on how many people were also trying to buy. I believe it was widely criticized as unfair/exploitive.

So you're back to square one then, where you have to set some price.
And it works great as a standalone X11 server too.
Par Llama v0.2.5 Released
Making the corporate itself a felon is almost a joke. Zero chance this ends their defense contracts- they'll find a workaround. Assigning the felony to the corporation is just a sweet chance for the individuals responsible to offload responsibility.

Makes me think a lot of Taleb's "Skin in the Game", which emphasizes that a healthy system cannot have leaders who accept rewards without risks. This deal means Boeing leadership can continue to behave without skin in the game.
Yes, pressure them to do internal investigations (if they like to stay out of prison).

That will also keep the costs at the company and not with society and after the fact.
It's like porn. You know it when you see it and also there's quite a lot of it.
It is much rarer for a word to be created out of whole cloth. Most words come from modifying or combining existing words. Even when people try to create new words, they often use an existing word as the basis to give it some additional meaning.
This looks very good, I was just reading the code on GitHub.

I mostly use local models. I might modify 'mark' myself, or wait a while and see if anyone does a pull request.

A little off topic, but I run ollama at the command line using:

echo "what is 1 + 3?" | ollama run llama3:latest
So given that its intended mode of use is to be copied into another project and modified ... when would this maven build file in it be used? Also, I don't see that the dependencies (e.g. their `jlib`) actually get used.

https://github.com/Osiris-Team/1JPM/blob/main/pom.xml
The average rental in Porto has been exploding upwards due to the influx of airbnbnization and foreign income flooding the real estate market.

What you are describing is a second order effect.
It was not true of this world 150 years ago that any person with sufficient learning could tap buttons to create an experience to be found in the hand of the majority of living humans.

I agree power and greed go hand in hand - absolute power corrupts, absolutely - but this bit? This is new.
$75 million per year from subscriptions and ads, according to their latest report (2022 for some reason). Another commenter did some quick math to try to prove that donations were fruitless and found that Firefox could reasonably expect to replace that revenue with a donation box:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40901664

So in other words: the side projects aren't successful enough to justify not accepting donations.
Tom Blanton Wants to Know Our Government's Secrets
The fact we have had less than benevolent wizards and shamans, why would we expect to have modern day equivalent of only benevolent coders? It's such a fairy tale level of expectation that it seems childish. Spending any energy in trying to make real world a fairy tale is just wasted.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/
Using profile-guided optimization for your Go apps
AI Search Engine Multilingual Evaluation Report (v1.2)
Don't worry, it's now legal for the judge and everyone else involved to get a nice present from Boeing, as long as it happens afterwards!

:(
So who made this? Vercel? I know this is being posted by the Vercel CEO. Did you “commission” this as an ad? Or was it maybe built by a customer, and you helped him get visibility? What’s the story?

I take it that Show HN is not just about the creation but also about the creator and the journey behind what’s being shown.
Best of luck! Great project.
on my phone firefox outperforms chrome! that's satisfying
Is a trial really the only mechanism by which the government could share that evidence with civil plaintiffs?
>Federal (felony) charges

federal =/= felony
It's okay to shame bad actors.

In fact, society would likely be better off if e brought back more public shaming
So if you think a company is bad you shouldn’t work for them. Perhaps many of the people working for TicketMaster don’t think they’re a bad company.
I believe that there are exceptions to every rule :). I'm not going to argue with your experience with RabbitMQ and your solution is probably totally correct. But I think making that a general rule is a mistake. I write all kinds of software from web applications, libraries, desktop applications, and even embedded software and there is no one single right way to do error handling. However, 99% of the time, think exceptions with a very small number of catch blocks is easiest, cleanest, and most robust way to go.

I don't believe exceptions create undefined behavior -- the behavior is very much defined. I know exactly how all my apps will react to exceptions I've seen and not seen. I also know exactly where those exceptions will be handled. I'm also very comfortable knowing that there is no error situation that will be not caught and dealt with in some way. I'd like to know why you think differently?

I think the exceptions are a goto has already been debunked enough. Whether you use exceptions or not, your errors will be handled in the same place in the code. It's just one place you're wasting effort manually propagating that error to that same place and in the other you are not.
Does a mono sound take more space than a stereo sound file?

Yeah, half. Provided you don't store a mono sound in a stereo audiofile.

Same thing for grayscale images. If your white is a #FFFFFF instead of a #FF your picture is a color file that coincidentally displays a grayscale image.
So even if you don't want to do the ID thing, there are alternatives that you see all over the place (like venmo) Have a rotating QR code seeded with a unique to the user id. Then with ticket master, require a login to buy tickets. Register the tickets to the ID and then do the lookup with a combination of the ticket id, rotating qr code, and the user id.

That requires the admitter device to send the challenge back to HQ, but that shouldn't really be much of a challenge. Tickets then become linked to the user's account (perhaps you allow transfer).

This is effectively what Disney does with their ticketing system, along with at the gate them taking a picture of you so they can confirm "Yes, so and so looks like the photo".

But yeah, all of this is ridiculous on its face as the cheaper and easier solution is ticket plus ID. If you are worried about flow have signs up before check in that say "be sure to have your ID ready before you get to the counter".

The ticketmaster solutions are just bad/half assed.

That is to say, if ticketmater had just done TOPS like the article points out, you'd not need the headache they've created with needing a live internet connection to load your ticket.
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Airlines are preventing a secondary market. Unfavorable for your use case, but also prevents scalping airline tickets (while allowing airlines to attempt to maximize revenue). There are always tradeoffs and compromise.

To hack around this, I've used Southwest Airlines; I can buy tickets for folks and if they can't travel, we cancel the ticket(s) and keep the travel funds banked for another time. I hope this is potentially helpful information.

https://simpleflying.com/why-airlines-dont-allow-name-change...
There's no way that I trust the developers of a company like Ticketmaster to install their app on my device.
Market is very saturated, good luck
Honestly? I think that with OpenAI's track record we should assume that whatever the worst, scummiest answer is is probably the truth.
That's their point. They're poking fun at how the OP is speaking in absolutes about something subjective/ opinion based.
I'd note that actual -35 days are pretty rare. Per Environment Canada Climate Normal Data from 1991 to 2020, Edmonton averages only 2.5 days per year with a minimum temperature below -30.
Yeah current setup is Tanker 201, Upz RC11s, and F2 race bindings. I also have an F2 GS board with these awesome big rubber riser plates and F2 bindings as well but I don't ride it very often as I can carve the Tanker much tighter and slower, which as you know is important on narrow, icy east coast trails
A fair point; my technique is... slightly less than stellar. Especially when I hit ice, I tend to panic and try to slow down however possible. So I'll pay attention to sharpness next time I rent, but blaming the equipment is a favorite pastime of mine (read: golf).
Note this is less about Android being worse than iOS and more about the play store and Google services not being available in China, so people can't install the Microsoft Authenticator app from a trusted location.
Seeing Microsoft and security in the same sentence makes me suspicious. /s
The problem is that "bad company" is such a nebulous concept as to be useless, as the JSON license showed with their "shall not use this software for evil" clause.

No matter which company you choose, someone somewhere will find a justification for why they are actually not bad. Weapons dealer? Protecting your nation. Destroying local businesses? "They are just adding efficiency to the market". Kill someone with bad practices? "Still safer than the alternative". Ticketmaster? "The scalpers are giving a subvention for those who cannot afford the real price".

Setting up a straw "bad company" and knocking it down doesn't help anyone on the real problem of people working for unethical companies.
No this is a common misconception.

He was convicted for falsifying business records nothing else. All the records that were fraudulently submitted were starting Jan 2017.

The hush money payment wasn't illegal, hiding it was.

It rose to a felony instead of misdemeanor because it was done in service another crime which is campaign finance violation, the other crime need not be proven and he was not charged with that.

All they got him for paying cohen illegally.

Also there was some evidence introduced from his time as president , he would argue that evidence is now inadmissible and in a favourable court they will declare mistrial and ask the lower court to do it again.

If he wins again the prosecution will have to pause and he gets the delay he wants.
I see what you mean. The barcode wouldn't work offline.

It seems like that didn't matter at the venue though? The spotty internet connection not allowing the code to load was the first part of the article wasn't it?
China & India get almost all of their coal internally, so coal is also fairly sanctions proof.

The rest of your post is spot on, though.
Like a phoenix, Semiphemeral will rise from the ashes
Standups: Individual → Teammate
You know I’ve found that LLM’s are awfully good at taking random JSON crap and “converting it” to a consistent format. You don’t even need a large LLM… something like ChatGPT 3.5 or an equivalent class of LLM can do the work just fine.

It’s not perfect and requires a fair amount of effort to nail the prompt but when it works it works.
This is the old, original version by me. xpra itself ships nowadays an improved version.
At present, solar is about 6% of Alberta's electric generation capacity.

The provincial government suspended planning permission for all renewable energy projects across the province for six months, then outright banned the installation of grid-scale solar in much of the province. This resulted in the cancellation of tens of billions of dollars worth of private investment in renewable energy in Alberta.

Solar is also not as cheap as elsewhere in the world, as Canada has import duties on the cheap Chinese solar panels are driving the change elsewhere. The duties roughly triple the price, with a tax of ~160% on the purchase price and per-watt charges on the panel's rated output.

I'm sure that in five years things will start to shift. Heck, there's workers installing solar panels on my neighbour's roof right now — but it's not going to change much while Danielle Smith is in charge.
Yes. and Yes. Passion leads me to get excited even for the smallest of things. My excitement is contagious. Others react badly from such excitement. I take the brunt of their passion and then they crush my excitement, vision, dreams, and passion.

Passion is a luxury. Discipline is our bread and butter.
I read the whole GitHub page and I use Sunshine+Moonlight daily, and I still don't understand what is this for. What is the use case here? Why would I want dynamically added/removed virtual displays?
> It was a nice intro about how power shutoffs impact people with different means.

I wanted more details, honestly. Very, very few people in California have been subject to wildfire safety power shutoffs. That origin story made me think the whole thing might be a grift.
Never heard of bld before, but my read is that they were overwhelmed by the complexity of existing tools, and wanted one with minimal frills that doesn't get in the way and which looks like app code (as opposed to using a declarative language), so they wrote one. I suppose they wanted to "get it over with"... whether this is a pipe dream or not remains to be seen ;)
I largely agree with you and share your sentiments. However, in software there’s plenty of standard bearers distracting us from the real issues by trying to push for things like having CI break when you spelled something ”colour” instead of color. In fact, the whole industry is full of nitpickers who want to gatekeep others’ entries based on arbitrary rules like where braces, tabs, spaces or semicolons go, because it lets them come up with the rules and enforce them instead of doing the hard work of solving the real problems.

So it’s not so much that we don’t have people pushing for quality, we do. We just can’t agree on what quality even looks like.
It's mostly software as of late, but there's bits like this: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/the-layoff/
"Pay for itself" is probably a bit misleading. The development of transformative AGI, under the control of a single company, has the potential to render the concept of "getting your investment back" quaint and obsolete for that company. They'd never say it, and maybe some of them don't believe it, but they're effectively competing to be in control of the future of civilization. (Meanwhile, the amount of CO2 they're burning in their bid is actively reducing the chances of such a future existing...)
Exactly all of this.

I found the article really interesting from a tech perspective.

And I have no love for TicketMaster, but the migration from paper/PDF tickets to scannable changing QR codes is inevitable, precisely to combat scammers.

TicketMaster does a lot of bad things, but this doesn't seem to be one of them. And learning to download the digital tickets in advance -- either to the app or your Apple wallet -- is just a thing you learn to do, the same way you learn to download a bunch of podcasts before your airline flight that charges for (or doesn't have) WiFi. (And if your ticket was a PDF, you'd similarly be stuck if you couldn't get internet at the venue and hadn't downloaded it in advance.)
> Shutting down a company results in people losing their jobs.

And ending murder and child victims results in people (investigators, litigators, counselors) losing their jobs. Should we stop trying to solve these problems too?