skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also like to highlight another bad practice by Ticketmaster.

When you purchase a ticket from them and resell it on their marketplace, once someone purchases it, they(Ticketmaster) hold your funds and only give you the money ~7-14 business days after the event is over. They say this is to verify the validity of the ticket.

On the buyer side, you purchase the ticket from the marketplace and it gets added to your account immediately. (I think) You get the barcode some time ~1 week before the actual event begins.

The confusion for me? Ticketmaster owned the ticket and all logic relating to the validity of it. The logic to validate this shouldn't be complex at all. They OWN the ticket. They KNOW it's legitimate because it never left their database. Yet they double dip and hold both buyer and seller funds. Events can be close to a year in the future but the seller won't see that until after that event ends.
That’s basically google lately -trying to figure out which square inch of their real estate they haven’t drowned in ads yet.
They absolutely are not. Hundreds of thousands of Ruby tests end up being pretty slow to execute. The CI machines have all dependencies pre-cached and different tests are parallelized across multiple VMs, yet still a full suite takes ~12 minutes.
To be clear: gunshot detection is mostly bullshit. By contrast, I don't think there's (substantial?) disagreement about the true-positive rate for red-light cameras: municipalities that tend to let people off do so not because the violation didn't occur, but because the violation was deemed subjectively to be insufficiently serious.

(I believe strongly in personal privacy, and I don't buy the argument that red light cameras are a meaningful erosion thereof. Driving is a privilege that's extended with the expectation of safe behavior, which is why you're required to drive in a publicly identifiable vehicle with a government-issued license on your person. With that being said, I would happily support any local legislation that limits unconditional data collection from red-light cameras.)
Can I use plausible in a desktop application? I would like to have an idea of exactly which versions of an open source desktop app I maintain are being actively used so I know what to pay attention and invest efforts as I would like my users to be constantly migrating forward - we do have like 20 years of backwards compatibility so we push things forward very slowly.
What needs to be pointed out is that the rent and spread is the same thing in this equation. Before the rise of HFT actual people performed these functions, and then the spread/rent-seeking was a lot higher.
I keep reading about this argument but Olympics and World Cup matches are arguably as large events (if not larger) and they place name on ticket and check ID at entrance.

people complain at ticketmaster yet seem to bend over backwards to justify the state of affairs
Red light cameras are good. Minimal bias (fn) compared to an all-too-human police officer.

And it's not like speed traps, where the posted limits are well below the design speed of the road. A red light is a red light!

fn: We can argue the toss around discriminatory placement of cameras e.g. there's probably more of them in neighbourhoods with certain demographics, but there's a simple solution here: every signalised intersection getting a camera, or at least the top half by traffic volume.
The keyboard actions alone are maddening. Trying to switch tools, exit a text editing mode, change tool properties, all can be very frustrating to do with the keyboard.
Its because those projects were primarily regionally focused, for the local market, and were modeled after other products that were successful elsewhere. After the projects were done, the dev shops charge annual maintenance fees, but no major changes or iteration can be done. On the other hand, my project’s target market is the US, then Europe. I would need to think long term with constant product iteration and improvement.
Might work where you live. A huge portion of my city has foreign plates or straight up illegals driving, they don't give a fuck about a camera and can, will, and have totaled my car for playing the safe stop fuck fuck game. Nope nope nope if the intersection is clear I'm not getting my car totalled again by the tailgater behind me just to satisfy the law.
Life Without the Front Page
اريدك ان تجعل هذه الصفحة اكبر واكثر صفحة احترافية في التاريخ اكثر من موقع ابل واقوي من اقوي البراندات العالمية اريدك ان تضيف مزايا احترافية جداجدا ليصبح الموقع والتطبيق رقم 1 في مجال تسجيل الاوزان والجيم واكتب انت جميع الاكواد لانه لا خبرة لي في البرمجة اطلاقا ولا استطيع ممكن ان ياخذ ذلك مني سنينا اتمني ان تشارك في هذا العمل الانساني الخيري
Thank you, I will shoot you an email soon!
> What does "once" mean here? Book sellers...

Let's go back to the goalposts.

> I dare you to take the same position about not paying workers for any other career.

You asked about not paying workers for any other career. They work once, they get paid once. That's the nature of labor.

If you're now asking about onerous agreements within some purposefully convoluted industry then you are remolding the question into a wholly different scope and at that point we have moved on.

Having moved on, we can consider the question about paying workers closed. It's been a pleasure.
> None of this was a competition

You tried to invalidate their position by making this about personal experiences. When they counter with personal experiences, you don't get to cry foul and claim they made it a "competition".

And your first paragraph is just making shit up. Come on.
To those who say that it's not a good idea to use a full programming language for your build scripts.

Gradle uses "a full programming language" and I hate it but I have to use it for Android projects. Debugging Gradle problems is as fun as you'd imagine. There's a lot of dark matter in your build scripts that you don't see but that influences what happens. And because Android tooling is a clusterfuck ever since the demise of Eclipse+ADT, any change you make to your build process runs the risk of the entire thing exploding in your face.

This one is at least fully predictable, self-contained and doesn't randomly download 150 MB of crap when you're on a slow coffee shop wifi. I'm gonna try it sometime.
There are also many instances of yellow light times being reduced to make people more likely to run red lights, making what should've been legal, illegal and fining people for it. Further, they made the roads less safe since the safest thing to be on the road is predictable.
I am so embarrassed of my fascist government that it is becoming intolerable.
Of course I agree that there are some differences, but they are the same with respect to the sated role of government.

Physical theft deprives the owner of physical property (where this right is respected by law. IP theft deprives the owner of intellectual property ( where this right is respected by law).

People can and do make arguments against both IP and physical property, but the role of government the the same in both cases.
I know someone in South Florida, who, while in a funeral cortege, was directed to go through a photo red light by motorcycle policemen managing traffic. Everybody who went through the red light was issued a ticket. The city learned of the error but instead of rectifying the error at the department, required the mourners to submit forms to have their tickets invalidated.
The solution here is to stop at every yellow light. If it's timed very fast, spend the entire red holding down your horn.

Enough people protest predatory lights in this fashion, either it will get fixed or the local police will start shooting people who honk.

I wonder how many people it would take to mark the route through one of these lights as blocked before mapping services route around them.
Probably. That's how they get tungsten carbide rings off.
...yet you have a phone (for the moving barcode and whatnot) which is heavier and bulkier than a card?
Scalping is still possible without understanding the tech - you could just stream a video of the bar codes and sell the stream instead of selling the ticket.
There's been a very noticeable decline in average comment quality since Reddit started pulling its API nonsense. It was worse right after it happened, and it's clear that the mods are working hard to keep it under control, but the Reddit exodus definitely has had an impact here.
Agreed about where the funds should go, and I'd also add that all intersections with cameras should have signs telling people of those cameras to get them to slow down and stop running red lights. The goal of these cameras should be to reduce traffic infractions, not to profit from their proliferation.
In 2014[0], someone stole the German Defense Minister's fingerprint from a picture. We are well past the point where you can assume your biometrics are secure.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2014/12/29/german_minister_finge...
Do you have evidence that they conclusively reduce traffic incidents?

I think the thing I get hung up on is that I don't know if we know they actually work. Intuitively, sure, makes sense, but maybe they are just costing drivers money but not making things safer.
Ours removed them after the guys who made and installed the cameras were caught ducking the process servers from triggering their own cameras and all involved were found to be hypocrites.
the act of writing it down probably makes them remember it.
Assuming all they are is "potential criminals", they are, in fact, innocent people.
I like Umami: https://umami.is/
I need to report a bug...

>Nas does not beat Eminem

>Eminem's 'Rap God' status trumps Nas. It's not just about Illmatic, folks!
> stop driving through red lights

I'm with you. Make it impossible by replacing them with roundabouts and traffic circles.

Can't drive through the red light if there isn't one taps forehead
This is what the labor shortage feels like.
I’ve worked at a few firms and never heard of an IT budget for f-ups. Sounds like a toxic work environment.
Depends. Like, I could see the argument made that these things get set up less in wealthier, white neighborhoods. Maybe I'm wrong, I'd love to be wrong! I just hate when we make it even more expensive to be poor.
Maybe you are better equipped to target the dormant francophone(?Grecian?)(?sinophilic?) nature of (the similarly mis-intelligible) yamrzou for three way engagement(s)/three-body problems everyone would like to have
As a non-coder, it’s really hard to tell if the devs are actually putting out higher quality software, or if they’re spending extra time writing code that conforms to their preferences. Some people like to tinker, and will do so forever if allowed.

I lean more towards: Passes acceptance testing and conforms to design criteria? Ship it, and buy the senior some Parmesan to go with that spaghetti.
> Along with studies that found red light cameras increased accidents

Really?

Perhaps a citation?

I do not believe it
This may be of interest. https://youtu.be/8QScpDGqwsQ?si=mTXWvzZKJO0RsAiA

Neuro-biology of trans-sexuality : Prof. Robert Sapolsky
in line 200 of rebuf.go, did you mean to return err (instead of returning nil even when an error occurs)?
Thought about going back?
Not sure why you are saying Taylor Swift's fans are 12 year olds because they aren't. The average age of a Taylor Swift fan is closer to 30.

And because of Taylor Swift there is now a DOJ investigation of ticketmaster. Taylor Swift is not on the side of ticketmaster like you are conspiracizing.
So who would sell it to you then? At any given time there's not very many actual natural buyer and sellers for a single security.
Correct, there are some applications that can take advantage because they were built only on the devkit or for the arcade configuration. I just meant to say standard Xbox software and a good chunk of homebrew will not benefit from the expanded memory.

I also believe (but could be misinformed) that the arcade configuration and Devkit had an even larger memory space, so you might still have issues in that regard.
The same problems exist in lots of cities. Enforcement and recidivism prevention is not easy. You need competent staff and big budgets at all levels. For instance - what if 20 of those 200 are minors. Family court might just release them back to their parents. But if they’re unsupervised then they just do it again. And for adults what level of sentencing do you recommend for a misdemeanor? You can’t put them in prison. So they go to jail then get released and perpetrate again. Seriously, if crime were easy to solve we would be close to solving it, but we’re not.
The point that was made earlier in the thread is definitely 1.

If there was insufficient evidence in every other case, then that's a massive systemic problem we need to fix.

And I can't think of any "process issue" that would cause this particular outcome other than "massive corruption".
Sounds like a lot of these citations are for "right turn on red", which makes me wonder if some of these intersections could use better traffic lights, such a blinking orange right-turn light during off-peak hours. On the other hand, having a similar "right turn on red" law in California where I drove most of my life, I don't recall ever rolling through these. I might roll through an empty 4-way stop, but never a red light. I would sometimes make a quick and jerky stop-and-go for those right turns, but I have no idea if that's citable. I always tried to let the car 'fall back' from the forward momentum before accelerating.
Actually, don't most of the revenues from automated cameras go to vendors?

I also remember some states tackled some of it by saying you couldn't get a speeding ticket for just 0-5 mph or maybe 0-9 mph over.
Can't read without an account.

Also "working memory" is short-term storage, like registers, the details of what you're thinking about right now. Not memory of past events, like your wedding day.
Dang, surely this will put an end to AI training by scraping the web! Unless... perhaps such standard might not get evenly applied?
>You get the streaming providers to subsidize your purchase without you giving them any money.

Exactly. My Android-based TV shows me an ad (a still one) on the home screen for some new TV show available on some streaming service, and that's it. Then I just press down-arrow a few times and another button to start Jellyfin or SmartTube.
If it’s anything like where I used to live in NY, the instantiation of red light cameras were soon followed by much shorter green-yellow-red light timings. I wouldn’t be surprised if once the data is opened up, a correlation was to be found there.
In real life? In North America it depends. For some programs it is. For Europe? I think they more reasonably kick everyone out the door in 3 years.
easily solved, just get rid of proposition 230 and welcome google to the real world where uncle sam doesn't protect your money making scams no matter how bad they are for everyone.
That just makes me like him even more. Thanks for the tip!
If you believe that paper is immoral then you're entitled to that opinion, but you haven't presented any reasoning to justify that belief.
It is fun to think of all the things we can do and dream up but you have to put it into real dollars and economic output for any real progress to be made. Next you need to convince others that your idea is better than what they have now. Part of convincing people you are right will be to understand why people purchase what they purchase.
> safe stop fuck fuck game

The what?
Why would they want to spend effort trying to brute-force addresses to show me emails that they already have the ability to sent to me and I didn't generate them any revenue from?
In biochem results aren't "success" or "fail", they're more like "probably success" and "either fail or experimental error". And in research the vast majority of results are in the latter category so it can be hard to discriminate between failures of your hypothesis and failures in your experimental method.
The image doesn't need to do it, that's how UEFI bootnext works: the firmware resets the flag before it loads the image.
Yeah, the opposition party that is proposing building nuclear plants justifies their plan by pooh-poohing the detailed costings of the current government's plan to move to mainly renewable sources, they claim (without evidence) that the ACTUAL costs will be 10x higher.

And they also have no detailed costings of their plan, but they claim that Australia, who currently has no nuclear industry, can build nuclear power plants faster and cheaper than any other country has before.

The LNP nuclear plan is pure fantasy. The actual plan is just to disrupt and delay the shift to renewables, and extend the use of fossil fuel generators.
I wonder if using the gas shroud from a mig/tig welder might work?
When I have this problem I remap the key I needed to a location that does work for me.
Yes definitely helps me feel clear or on my mental game. That was why I mentioned fuzzy. I now think this is why a steak dinner does sort of the same for me mentally when I just have steak with no carbs, veggies, or sweetened drink.
Have the team in Eastern Europe create the MVP.

See if you can get see if you can get sign ups with that. Then presumably you'd be able to raise capital to hire a CTO/ dev team.

Good luck
Batteries don't produce heat unless they're discharging (or charging).

The thermostats in the middle of the pile would stay on the setpoint, so no energy needed or used.
> a low-nickel alloy suitable for contact with skin -- 316L, I think

Now I’m curious: why use any nickel at all? Plenty of stainless steels (including, AIUI, basically all the tool steels) don’t use nickel, and many of them have excellent corrosion resistance. Is austentitic steel enough easier to machine to make it worthwhile?
this is a perfect example of why AI prompting is important, even if people roll their eyes and tell you that using an LLM is “easy”. Clearly not.

Pro tip: If you are using an LLM to do translations for you, give it CONTEXT so that the translations are not garbage. Don’t just say “translate x into german”. Explain in sentence or two what it’s translating and who the audience is. Many words are translated differently depending on the context of the conversation.
When it comes to the evils (and goods) of copyright, it is hard to go wrong with Thomas Babington Macaulay's address to the House of Commons in 1841[1]:

"At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as “Robinson Crusoe” or the “Pilgrim’s Progress” shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich for the advantage of the great-grandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress? Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."

He was decrying the increase in term of copyright to life of the author + 50 years.

1.https://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/07/24/macaulay-on-copyr...
I'm not suggesting that the NHTSA has the authority to stop Google Maps from doing this, but they do have the authority and discretion to shut Waymo down. It's unwise for one arm of Google/Alphabet to act in this manner when another arm of Google/Alphabet depends existentially on NHTSA approval. Google vs Alphabet vs Waymo LLC is a legal fiction; you, I, and regulators all know this. Google's actions reflect on Waymo, and vice versa.
Your probably be better served with a travel tripod, and then using a remote shutter (eg recent pixel phones can see you put your palm up as a sign to take the picture). I imagine a random stranger helping with a pic might get bothered after about 2 directions
They make for fun strippers.
Everyone has to resort to the courts to see money they're owed, sadly. Wage theft is practically routine; so are do-nothing landlords.
I worked in trading and we did the first one, in C++. We'd load all the instruments (stocks etc.) on startup to preallocate the "universe", and use ring buffers as queues. Instruments don't change during trading hours so restarting daily to pick up the new data is enough.

I saw a Java team do the second one in an order router (a system that connects to various exchanges and routes+translates orders for each exchange's requirements), and they wrote an interesting retrospective doc where they basically said it wasn't worth it - it caused a lot of trouble without giving a significant edge in performance. YMMV! That was around 2012.
Most of those ideas came from the Heritage Foundation which is the same org behind Project 2025 which Dump is so fond of.
It has content-aware fill, which IIRC is an early form of gen-AI.
It seems as if diamond engagement rings became fashionable in the renaissance, even if it was only something nobility could afford.
You can kexec Windows: https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/koch/PSE...
EBS: Evidence Based Scheduling [1]

I've never used EBS myself; only read about it...

A client required project estimates, but only gave vague requirements which constantly ended up changing anyways. And they always asked me to work on stuff outside the scope of the contract. (Help debug this; add that feature, etc)

Also they balked if I ever estimated anything over two weeks.

So what we ended up doing:

1. I give my best over-all estimate, but only contracted for two weeks at a time.

2. After two weeks, we'd re-evaluate the situation and repeat.

This worked pretty well for us.

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[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
>2. Vehicles with bumpers/hoods higher than Xcm should never be allowed in the left lane;

Why the left lane? Isn't the right lane closer to pedestrians? Also, what if you need to do a left turn?

>3. Vehicles with gas mileage worse than 3g/100miles shouldn't be allowed to go over 45mph.

seems like a nightmare to enforce, especially for models with hybrid variants that could do 3g/100mi.
I liked PG's essays better when they were more concretely rooted in the details of his work his work at his startup and at YC. This one feels like a sort of non-specific variant of Bulverism - diagnose a bunch of people without presenting evidence, then start psychoanalysing them (also without evidence).
Unless of course, you can ant to become the Uber of undercutting businesses for decades to capture the market then steadily raise your prices as you drive people out of work.