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Yes, but landlords are inherently evil so if you want to keep the slopulism going you gotta hit them first.

Inshallah

Is United Airlines “just about making more money”? Yes. Has it done so by offering people a valuable product and generating massive consumer surplus? Also yes.

It’s very difficult for the average person to use a ten year old browser; in fact I’d offer that the only way to use a ten year old browser is to be an expert and do so intentionally.

This could also be a story of technological progress. A thought experiment - imagine you, an archaeologist, recovered the remains of our civilization, from roughly 1925 to 2025, but the only surviving artifact was televisions. You know that televisions are valuable - initially only wealthy families had them - so you used them as a proxy for riches and plotted the Gini coefficient using just the size, quality, resolution, color depth, etc. You could conclude that our society became less unequal over that period, because you miss that technology dramatically compressed the distribution of this resource and that household wealth was freed up to put to other purposes.

Not buy these index funds. If you don’t want to own the entire market, don’t buy funds that seek to own the entire market. Funds like ESGV which exclude companies with poor governance have existed for a very long time - I can’t find a clear answer as to whether or not it will buy SpaceX, but I’m sure you can find funds that cater to your desires.

Fewer people go to concerts

Scalpers don't buy tickets and not sell them. The most scalped concerts are obviously the most attended

fans can’t afford the tickets

See above. I assume what you are upset about is that rich fans are the ones going.

less connection with the artists, less interest in music overall

I think you need to explain your logic here.

Standing in line is (today) a digital process that a scalper can trivially scale

Transferring tickets to friends is functionally indistinguishable from scalping

This is an implementation problem, not a problem with the underlying concept.

I agree. The question remains - why do U.S. municipalities universally and repeatedly fail to successfully implement rapid transit at an efficient price point? Buses, trains, and subways in America have ever-growing budgets (both in absolute and per customer mile terms) with ever-declining quality of service. Just asking for more tax revenue again and again is not the solution.

That wasn’t insider trading. You’re changing the topic.

There was a downward trend during the Biden years [1] but "both sides same" is not even a little bit true.

[1] https://www.citizen.org/article/biden-doj-2024-corporate-cri...

Unfortunately it is their employees that are paying the price of leadership making it rain [...]

Epic's employees reaped the gains while it rained in the form of paychecks. While it sucks that people are losing their jobs, those individuals received (much of) the upside of this investment and their jobs never would have existed in the first place had the investment not been made. Their paychecks are not being clawed back. Shareholders (including executives who are largely paid via out-of-the money options) are bearing the costs. Consumers also benefit from increased competitive pressure on Valve and subsidized game prices.

Would it be "better" if Epic had not invested in the Epic Game Store and paid a dividend or conducted a share buyback?

Overview video: https://youtu.be/YmPTfPh3T-Y

This is all good advice but it's not what I would traditionally think of as "logging" - it's something more like what the industry calls APM or tracing.

For a web service, that usually means one log event at the end of every request.

The point of a log, as I have seen it used, is to understand what's going on during a request. Yes, some of that is timing / success / failure information, but you also need:

- Logical tracing - at a high level, what decisions did we make (authz, business logic) when serving this request

- Partial failures or warnings - the request may have succeeded, but we may have failed or timed out a call to a dependent service and delivered a partially degraded response as a result

- Tracepoints to support active development - how often do we hit a certain codepath (to help developers roll out or deprecate features)

It's useful to distinguish between "context" (things we know about a request), timing, success, and plain old logging (using human language to describe to an operator what the system is doing). Context should be included with every line - I strongly agree with OP's proposal of wide events, don't make operators ever JOIN if you can avoid it - but it won't always be the same because we learn things about the request as we process it. Yes, if you wait until the end of a request, you will have maximal context, but at the loss of fine-grained detail during processing.

XHR requests to cookiebot.com -> dig cookiebot.com -> 141.193.213.20 -> ipinfo.io -> Austin, TX

Don't underestimate travel + hotels + airport transfers when you're paying corporate prices

There is excellent recent (last 10y) research on this; summary here: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr...

Unfortunately, the US and many other countries have chosen the other path (sporadic enforcement with severe punishment) largely because it's easier to implement. There's a lot of momentum to change this but it's politically difficult at least in America.

Last I checked, in the US there has not been a single instance of the TSA detecting and preventing a terror attack in its 25 year history.

And presumably they wouldn’t be shy about telling us if they had.

HN: VC is a cancer, businesses don't need to grow forever at all costs, products can be finished, what we need is sustainable small companies

Also HN: No, not like that

“I only pirate because evil corporations make it too hard to pay for my favorite content” is a multi-decade ever-shifting goalpost. Some people just like to steal shit and will justify it to themselves on the thinnest of pretenses.

Wow, sucks to bE yoU!

Reminds me of "Miracle Flights", in which dozens of people require wheelchairs to board but only a few require them to deboard. Of course, if you are in a wheelchair, you get to board first.

https://www.explore.com/1804742/not-divine-story-miracle-fli...

In fairness, no company’s mission statement says “maximize shareholder value” because it doesn’t need to be said - it’s implicit. But I agree that AGI is at the forefront of OpenAI’s mission in a way it isn’t for Google - the nonprofit roots are not gone.

Answering both of my questions, from the post:

  sleep 0.001 # Delay to allow the receiver to process the signal

This is awesome. Does POSIX guarantee the order of signal delivery? And I'm dying to see what the bandwidth / throughput of this channel is...

If only there was an entire American city filled with people and companies who had this expertise. We could call it the "Motor City".

Lots of people, myself included, pay a premium to not have a human at the steering wheel; it's nice to have the car to yourself.

I think the "lethal trifecta" framing is useful and glad that attempts are being made at this! But there are two big, hard-to-solve problems here:

1. The "lethal trifecta" is also the "productive trifecta" - people want to be able to use LLMs to operate in this space since that's where much of the value is; using private / proprietary data to interact with (do I/O with) the real world.

2. I worry that there will soon be (if not already) a fourth leg to the stool - latent malicious training within the LLMs themselves. I know the AI labs are working on this, but trying to ferret out Manchurian Candidates embedded within LLMs may very well be the greatest security challenge of the next few decades.

It's a publicly-traded company (and was private for 16 years prior to going public) so it seems likely that actually making money is at least somewhere on their list of priorities...