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Civil Rights Analyst Calls FedEx Surveillance Program 'Profoundly Disconcerting'
Ticketkmaster earns interest on cash they hold[1]

This is cash that ticketmaster is holding

Therefore they will be earning interest on this.

[1] see interest incom on their latest 10-K https://investors.livenationentertainment.com/sec-filings/an...
If you have young kids that you would like to infect with the virus of mathematics, I highly recommend "the story of 1" by Terry Jones (of Monthy Python fame)

They cover how we went from objects to abstract concepts, and how 1 and 0 were "invented".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tm18iapVlI
> It seems like a lot of people would agree with these in those cases but not in the case of feminism. I think that partly this comes down to a sense of "but I don't hate women, I just think they're better placed doing the housework and child-rearing".

I think it's a bit cynical take, (but what do I know, I'm from Scandinavia and I've rarely heard anyone say that anymore) behind why people have have some reluctance.

Most guys with reluctance towards that, from what I've compiled either comes down to two points:

1. Gender(women) is a significantly bigger proportion of society compared to a minority ethnic group, and you interact with this group way more heavily. Hence even marginal preferential treatment can have big noticeable effect on your surrounding.

2. Related to 1, but a sence of lack of reciprocal benefit from these policies. While policies and law changes have put more women in work, expectation (culture) on men haven't much changed. (we still see financially successful men as attractive) Equal share of housework and childrearing is high up in preferential personalities in partners among women, but what people feel attracted to have changed more slowly than the policies or realities.

It's easy for many to argue "well if they still judge me for my financial utility, why am I wrong for judging them for child rearing and housework utility? (so I can focus on my career)"
I didn’t read it as a joke
PolyBlocks – code-generating, automatic, model-driven AI compiler engine
It is also often the reverse: sellers on Temu (or Ali Express, or any number of other sites) selling knock-off versions of hand-crafted items spotted on Etsy and elsewhere. Heck, sometimes the knock-offs are sold on Etsy too, often using the original maker's images (I doubt the product received will be anything close to an exact match). A friend of mine doses corsetry and related clothing work and sells in part through Etsy, and occasionally has a significant problem with this.
Goldman Sachs seems to agree with my assessment:

https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/...
> Diamonds aren't worth what you have to pay for them (try re-selling a diamond)

If you buy a complete ring, you're usually getting quite ripped off. But if you buy a stone, complete with its certificate, it shall be worth what the market says it is worth. Competent jewelers will have no problem with you coming with a stone you bought or with an old family heirloom stone and put it on the ring you want: you'll pay his hours and the material for the ring but that's it. And the stone is worth its market price.

Diamonds above a certain size (whether they're natural or synthetic) are engraved now. You keep the certificate and you'll be able to resell it.

You can buy synthetic diamonds, they're cheaper than natural ones. And there's also a market for these.

Note that I'm not saying that the market ain't going down. What I'm saying is that you can definitely buy a stone at its market price and resell it at its market price. That's how the markets do work: be it stocks, gold or diamonds.
You really should be a little more sceptical about what you read.
This is a horrible horrible idea.

It'd then be impossible to buy a few tickets to an event with the intention of finding people to come after the fact.
Most flight WiFi networks don't block DNS traffic, so if you set up a custom DNS server, you can tunnel everything through DNS. It's slow, but it's free internet!
Free Internet was a very bold proposition. I used it a lot, via roaming, from a country that was in the very-expensive-roaming lists.
The Magic of Clip Path
Agreed. At least in my office, certain features (videoconferencing/meetings/calendar) get tons of use every day. Microsoft made this product that was a commercial success by any measure but cannot seem to execute well on it.

That said, it depends on what you compare it to. Microsoft Word is also a longstanding success, and the development velocity on it is glacial. There are bugs in Microsoft Word that have sat unfixed for years and years -- Teams has changed pretty rapidly by comparison. I think the difference is that Teams is newer and feels more like a product Microsoft should be actively developing.
Hatch is very featureful and achieves a lot, but for me, a lot of the defaults and how it's configured is entirely backwards from what I expect. I've concluded it is not for me.

My concrete suggestion is that Hatch would be better for me if it was developed by a team and not a single person. Then its core ideas would be judged by multiple people from different angles. As it is now, it's written to the taste and philosophy of a single author.
I like this explanation, but how would you apply that logic to

If (god does exist)
Return true
Else
Return False
I guess that is a cool feature. I generally can't see my multicam live previews because I'm doing both the recording and being in the scene.

A bonus of davinci resolve is that it runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
I think it’s misguided. If the cell carrier can’t deliver its service to normal people doing normal things without inconveniencing other customers, it’s the carrier’s fault, not the users’. No way am I going to treat the service I paid for with kid gloves to make Verizon’s job easier.

(Not talking about edge cases like BitTorrent or such. But if a carrier advertises watching streaming video on my phone, I don’t feel guilty downloading an app update. If their tower couldn’t handle that, it’s on them, not me.)
Why did end up stopping your service btw? Sounds like an awesome contribution to the free internet.
> They just didn't care to enforce their policy.

Unfortunately enforcement requires man-power. Even if you can automate a lot of the process, you still need people to deal with false positive and other disputes. Man-power costs money.
Sex and Age Differences in Personality
I believe the words. Even the intent. I don't believe it'll be particularly effective though.
Show HN: Cup: A lightweight alternative to What's up Docker, written in Rust
I booked a flight a couple of weeks ago. Southwest was still cheaper than American and Delta for the flight I was looking for, even before thinking about two free checked bags. Adding in the fact their seats are bigger and free checked bags, it is definitely a better value to me.
I don't live in CA or any of the places you listed.

People move to where good jobs are and I never think of the places you listed for good jobs.

Retired people generally want to live where the temperatures are warmer and don't have to deal with tons of snow.
The housing first program shows that it is way easier to treat the causes of chronic homelessness if you put people in housing. The total cost when counting ER visits and police intervention is 4x less under housing first. The evidence is clear. Believe it or don’t, but reality is the thing that exists even if you don’t believe in it.
ST's HAL is so talked about and so complained about precisely because it's pretty good. I can bring up a lot of stuff using their HAL, whereas you should check the similar frameworks from other silicon vendors. They usually are much much much worse!
>> and an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract

> Was it eating their bandwidth even if it was served through Cloudflare? LOL.

On the paid plans, I think Cloudflare charges for bandwidth. Also, you still need to pay for bandwidth from the origin to Cloudflare. And if it's scraping, it's likely to be a lot of cache misses that need to go to the origin.

> Is web scraping now considered a cyberattack?

I've run sites that attract scraping... Aggressive scapers can effectively DoS a server; and if they're trying to get around rate limits, that can look like a DDoS.
Please define "commercial use", because it means different things to different people.

Also, lots of organisations have a blanket ban on AGPL, so offering it under an alternative commercial license is a great approach to enable them, but explicitly blocking it for "commercial use" makes it no longer free software, which would be a shame.
Had fun googling those system names. NX801: https://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/axil/axil.nx8...

200 9.1GB SCSI disks for 1.8TB!

And still only 4GB RAM on that SQL Server 6.5 box they used for TPC-C. Wild.

And yeah, $770k for that server.

Edit: I guess whilst I'm at it...

Data General AV8600: https://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/dg/dg.8600.es...

HP NetServer LXr Pro8: https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/hp/netserverlxrpor8.pdf
A profligate waste that's very on-brand for Dubai. Glacial ice doesn't taste great anyway, because it's pretty much distilled water.
yes, I took that for granted -- but my point stands. it takes more than one intransigent politician.
Don't know why this -- or a bunch of your other posts -- are dead.

But the reason is the rest of the countries that don't have this problem take care of their people (positively and negatively, e.g. social services or prison).

For example much of the EU has:

- A social safety net that allows people to reintegrate into society if a catastrophic event happens, rather than throwing them out and letting natural selection decide who gets back up on their feet

- Better health care (for mental health and addiction, to simply not being a constant drain financially and emotionally on patients)

- Housing is more accessible and egalitarian, leading to -- unsurprisingly -- less homeless. The ones that do end up homeless will likely be able to find state-funded housing with reintegration programs (rather than homeless "shelters" and halfway "homes")

- Less income inequality and less "otherism." Homogenous populations and a lack of individualism == "that could be me at any point; I should help when I can, so if I ever fall into such straits, others will do the same." Reminds me of how I haven't heard of the "golden rule" (treat others the way you want to he treated) in decades

- Notable mentions: homelessness in the U.S. pretty much guarantees you do not have: a permanent address, so you most likely cannot apply for jobs or other programs (which necessitate a permanent address). Bank account? Good luck with the prehistoric KYC laws. Also in most of the country barring massive cities with public transport, you need to own a car for transport to most jobs. Don't? You're automatically disqualified from 95% of jobs that you could be eligible for. Cars are expensive

Basically, a lot of systemic problems that culminate in a not insignificant portion of homeless being forever locked out of society
For me in Chromium, I got the error message "Some fonts could not be loaded" and the body text was in an actually readable font, unlike in Firefox.

I got annoyed that the page hijacked right click and key navigation, so I wanted to print to PDF — which didn't work. Chrome printed a single blank page. Firefox managed to print, but also only a single page, and when zoomed in the font got interpolated (= blurry), instead of being more readable.
Not only is fining Boeing into failure possible, it would be highly beneficial for the government. Being the biggest creditor, the government would take over the company temporarily. The business itself would continue under government trustee-ship, the only losers would be the shareholders and executives. The government would likely quickly sell off its holding at fire sale prices so new shareholders and executives would take over.

GM was too big too fail, but fail it did in 2009. Boeing could/should be similar.
Step ladder and rock or three get you in very many places. Does not mean we shouldn't punish anyone who did it extremely harshly.
We were experimenting if it could potentially help in taking that off the plate. Feedback taken we will work on improving that or taking a call based on how it performs.
Jack of All Trades, Master of Something
Dyson to axe around 1k jobs in Britain
I have a job where I do actual work. I have clients who require my assistance to perform their jobs effectively. However, the jobs _they_ are doing fundamentally do not add value to the world. In turn, that means my job adds nothing of value to the world. Yes, I am on anti-depressant medications primarily because I am wasting my time on this planet performing a bullshit job.
We'll never get insight into Putin's mind and any explanation why he decided to launch an invasion. Depending on his motives and goals, you can say he got a slap on a wrist, or that he gambled all and lost all.
I have been using a flip phone always (since the early part of the century anyways). Some time I have carried a smartphone (without service) to serve as a camera and have a little connectivity (wifi) for looking stuff up when away from the desk. Still, a smart phone would probably be useful (some many text these days). What are some of the options available for something simple (linux or the like if possible).

What are Hacker News readers experiencing with alternative phones? I tried an Openmoko phone way back but i was a bust (never worked and the bricked on an update). I like wha I see in the PinePhones but am just not sure. I really like the Rotary Un-Smartphone but not quite enough functionality. I would like to hear.
> The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) still grows on a few scattered islands in the Caribbean, including northern Cuba and parts of the Bahamas.
Depends on exactly which usecase:

* Evading corporate IT: I do not recommend doing this.

* Normal[0] remote access to a machine: Yeah, running a remote desktop in software on the machine[1] is almost always going to be easier, cheaper, more performant, and more flexible than anything you tack on externally.

[0] Where "normal" remote access means it doesn't need to work when the machine is kernel panicked or in the firmware setup screens.

[1] The machine itself can be whatever you want. It can be an always-on desktop, but it can also be a laptop that sits in the corner and that only boots up when you poke it with a Wake-on-LAN packet, or a VM on an ESXi cluster, or a (carefully secured) Hetzner Cloud VM. That part is dealer's choice depending on your needs.
It would be, but this is the opposite because competition is not on equal grounds. Preinstalls are hugely important, defaults are important and even if your software is better than the manufacturer's, it will not be preinstalled and you will have less access to system functions and your software might break on OS upgrades.

See any sherlocked app, e.g. sidecar, continuity cam,... and antitrust law suits.
One of the solutions they mention is underutilizing links. This is probably a good time to mention my thesis work, where we showed that streaming video traffic (which is the majority of the traffic on the internet) can pretty readily underutilize links on the internet today, without a downside to video QoE! https://sammy.brucespang.com
I also enjoy declarative UI. I hated imperatively building up the interface with jQuery, even with the helpers it just felt so tedious. This library is my attempt to have my cake and eat it too.

Like I love being able to just write <div><p>hello world</p></div> in my javascript, it feels very nice. At the same time, with React I absolutely hate it when I do things that are inherently imperative.

A prime example is the following: I have a list of items that can be named by the user, so each item's display name will be a text input. When the user clicks the "create new item" button, a new item is added to the list, and the text input of the new item is immediately focused as soon as it's added to the DOM.

^ doing this in React sucks.
Effective CSAM filters are impossible because what CSAM is depends on context
Yeah, it wildly depends on the maturity of the field it seems
Hiring low level interchangeable employees is always hard to do remotely. This is one place where AI should take over.
The Washington state tax package was to coerce Boeing to stay. To which to ate it and proceeded to move its HQ to Chicago and migrate manufacturing to North Carolina. WA state != US gov. Contrast Microsoft to Boeing. Taxpayers dob’t have to feed Microsoft to get them to work on public works. They are self-motivated to improve their environment, which in turns improves the quality of life for their workers and the residents.
Patents already have a limited term, why would we want this in a policy?
Hacker: Those stupid website makers, they didn't think of this hole.

Website makers: There's a hole here, but we make it super slow so nobody in their right mind would use it and even if they do then there's no problem whatsoever. It would only waste their time.
I have very mixed feelings about that stadium, (and the Raider's stadium linked above).

They're marvels of engineering. But, what a cost to get some pretty grass. Especially the Madrid implementation - not just the engineering of the lifters/underground facility, but the ongoing electrical expense running all those lights and irrigation systems? Maybe it's really just a drop in the bucket of building a massive stadium, or running a professional sports team, but I can't help buy think we (humans) have our priorities all mixed up.
I definitely read his article as being a sort of "people keep asking me" as though they approach him in his daily life / his uncle wants to know. I suppose another reading of it is that he's referring mostly to comments on his blog, in which case this makes sense.
No this is great, thanks for sharing. I've had several people point me to things in this thread that I'd never seen before, and I appreciate it.
It looks like Armin Ronacher answered this question in the issues when he was maintainer (https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/issues/316#issuecomment-158...):

> While I understand the desire for XDG, I personally hate it because it encourages common files to be in different locations on different operating system, driving up the complexity for everybody. Once you go down that path, every single documentation has to explain different paths for different platforms and configurations, how different configs can affect where stuff is. It gets gnarly quickly.

> I do not believe the benefits outweigh the downsides and XDG is generally not enough of a standard that it prevents people from putting stuff into the home folder. If you want to relocate `rye` there, you can already do by exporting `RYE_HOME`.
What does "curated" mean when the obvious move is to just sell whatever you find on AliExpress? I would be extremely skeptical that someone who sells "curated" products like this actually evaluates each product they're selling.
The cost of incarcerating someone for a year is about 5x the value of the car. Bring back banishment.
> there used to be non-smoking dorms for students and visitors who preferred to live in a smoke-free environment.

What do you mean ‘used to be’? To my knowledge, every dorm in just about every college or university is now non-smoking.

What there no longer are, are smoking dorms.
So it’s just:

In universe 1, the function looks like `return True` and in universe 2, it is `return False`?

And it’s computable because nothing is really computed?
Channel-based programming, perhaps? From Go style to Erlang shared-nothing, those approaches offer some of the properties you’re looking for.

Or maybe the holy grail hasn’t been created yet in this category: a compiler that can transform arbitrary computations or expressions of computational goals into their maximally parallel form, where locks etc. are compiler output artifacts a la assembly instructions rather than things programmers regularly interact with. Some academic languages and frameworks have made strides in this direction, but I don’t know of any that have caught on.
Uninsurable cars sell pretty well from what I heard from UK... Where they had large number of issues with Land Rovers. People only notice they can't insure something after they buy it...
It's fascinating to have a conversation like this in the context of AIPAC and the Gaza war.
The page fights against zooming by reducing the text size to compensate.

I can zoom in somewhat only if I press Ctrl + fast enough many times in succession, but then it is easy to overshoot.
>> everything breaks and is bugged

In my Fortran IV class fifty years ago, and it was not unusual for the Burroughs mainframe to be down when one showed up with punch cards or showed up to punch them.

Modern cars are vastly more reliable than the ones I grew up driving. Modern tires last a lot longer. It is true that sixty years ago one could pull tubes out of the TV and test them at the hardware store's plugboard; but it is also true that new TVs without such troubleshooting options are much more reliable. I think that we got our current TV because my wife wanted to watch the 2008 presidential debates. It still works.
Add me to this club of JSX hackers: https://crwi.uk/posts/hiccup/

I used this approach to make a syntax highlighted text editor in < 5kb of JS: https://crwi.uk/experiments/text-editor/
Pure free marketism is not the answer to everything. Things that are risky, demand a lot of capital investment, and are strategic are not best done by the free market since there are gaps between the profit-motive incentive and long-term strategic assets.

Boeing and Airbus are the backbone of civilian aviation, if one was to falter there would be a massive gap in the market until a new entrant would be able to create a good enough product to fill it, during this period a shortage of planes would have cascading effects through many other industries.

The theory of an efficient market doesn't consider the in-betweens where these gaps can exist, in the long run an efficient market would stabilise itself but who is supposed to suffer the pain of a market failure until it stabilises itself when that can take decades? Government is the way humans have found to collectively act on those gaps, it's not the most efficient way per the free market utopia but it's necessary to dampen market swings when they happen.

This applies to many other industries, it's naïve to believe that no company should have support, it's also unfair in the general sense that some get it. It's a trade-off and finding that balance is where complexity hides away, just trying to shove that complexity away from a spherical cow model of the economy is not realistic, it's pure dogma.
"Repetition is to education what repetition is to education". It tooks me time to strike me with its second mesmerizing effect: I had to hear this sentence a single time before it deeply engraved in my mind, in such a way that it most likely will stay there until I die.

Not all learned/acquired behavior works like that, at least at the subjective level that we can experience as human being (putting apart obviously the fact that we all have different subjective experiences).
That’s not really how the law works though.

You need to actually prove with evidence actual wrongdoing on their part as a person. Or at a minimum prove that they failed in their fiduciary duties - a frustratingly murky concept.

Innocent until proven guilty, burden of proof etc all still applies.

Some general sense of well you were at the helm and everyone is angry thus you go to jail isn’t going to stick legally.

That’s not to say I’m against it, if they can manage to find suitable evidence they absolutely should. Just saying the article is big on emotion (rightly so) and thin on legal basis.
Fair, I was looking at the Ikon Base Pass but yeah if you want the big one it's a lot more