skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure that it can control prices

Amazon very often competes directly with sellers on the Marketplace, and often undercuts them on price.

There are products they sell below the purchase cost, sometimes below manufacturing cost. You can't compete with that unless you have piles of money to burn.

They sell at a loss until they shake everyone loose from a product, then dominate all sales of that products on the Marketplace, raising prices to profitability when they feel like it.

Don't forget they get all product sales information and statistics from every seller on the Marketplace - basically all the market research necessary to pick only "winner" products to sell. Then, when they feel like it, they require sellers to produce original invoices proving purchase of the items. These invoices conveniently contain all necessary information for Amazon to start buying the items directly themselves so that they can sell the item at a loss until you can't compete anymore, leaving Amazon as the sole source for the product.

Wanna be part of Vendor Central - selling directly to Amazon? They dictate the pricing and strong-arm you into selling exclusively to them in many cases. There is no negotiation - there is no adjusting pricing based on quantity ordered. And as much as people might want to think Amazon just buys enough quantity to get what they want - they don't. They just tell you what it will be.

> or exclude competition to that extent?

They can ban you from their Marketplace (the largest consumer Marketplace in the world) at will, with little to zero recourse on your part, via an opaque "Seller Performance" team that only responds to email, sometimes, and provides vague responses to what policies you might have broken.

That is, if you somehow get the eye of the Seller Performance team upon you. The reasons they go after certain sellers and leave others alone are as mysterious as the team behind the decisions.
This might be the nerdiest article I've seen.

Also a great illustration why CoinJoin is not a complete transaction privacy solution for Bitcoin.
8chan and its ilk are primarily symptoms. Of just exactly what, I'm not sure. But major factors in the US are very likely ongoing deindustrialization, increasing wealth inequity, global climate change, and changes in gender roles.

Which of those are ultimately good or bad is another conversation. Although I gotta say that gender roles certainly needed change. But the fact remains that they're happening.

But of course, 8chan and its ilk are also mechanisms that exacerbate those symptoms. However, while shutting them down may be morally satisfying, it's no substitute for actually addressing (yeah, politics speak) the underlying problems.

Not that I have much of a clue how, sadly enough.

This ain't going to end well.
Biden wrote the patriot act and Clinton couldn't pass it at the time, but Bush was able to.
Nikolai Kardashev (of Kardashev scale fame) died
This problem in particular is directly related to the resources you are putting into solving it. More/better FE devs, better QA, more time to develop etc. There's a reason you will rarely see a broken hamburger menu on a Google or Facebook site, even though those companies aren't launching rockets.
I can think of at least one other way to get rid of Nazis, as depicted in the Quentin Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds.
We're living in Kardashev I, but Kardashyan III civilization. I'm very sad...
We were planned to use these technologies to build our MVP with scale-up in mind too:
Instead of OpenID and JWT we wanted to use Redis.
For front-end: React.js + ES6.
For back-end: PHP 7 (Laravel 5+) and Phyton 3.
For the database: MySQL 8 (MySQL improved a lot after this version) + Redis.
Flutter for MVP.
And Kotlin and Swift for the final product.

But I decided to build our MVP with ODOO ERP and CMS to test and then when is needed develop our own product.

What do you think about this?
> Widespread propaganda about kids sexualization/abuse and genitalia mutilation on these platform is A-ok and a cause for celebration.

Citation needed.

I see Facebook/Twitter/Reddit in the unenviable role as having to police minimum local standards across the world's largest online community. They also have to do it while running a publicly traded company in the USA, which means they need to optimize for minimum moderation costs.

> You literally can't express any opinions going against the current flow of ideas without being labelled as hostile

s/going against the current flow of ideas //

I straddle the line between US liberal/conservative depending on the issue. I've been labeled lot of things by both the majority opinion holders and minority opinion holders. It doesn't matter. People need to put on their big boy/girl/whatever pants and realize it doesn't matter what you are labeled. People call you far worse behind your back... the internet just allows you to hear it and reduces peoples' social filters.

> Anyone thinking these shootings are due to 8chan is a fool, plain and simple

Citation needed.

I treat {4Chan, 8Chan, 9Gag, etc} as a proxy for "long tail opinion holders" who gather in the same place.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that being a social outlier with no outlet for discourse/self-importance/identity/hope is strongly correlated with those extremism/terrorism, but that doesn't preclude 8Chan from being part of that process of extremification.

I listened to a podcast over the weekend about a Philipino guy who worked as a Facebook moderator. He quit for many reasons, but among them PTSD, nightmares, attraction to sexual images of children, attraction to bestiality, etc. He might well have had those same tendencies before he moderated for Facebook, but the exposure to that content was what accelerated his problems.

The Chans are an exposure channel. They probably help in popularizing fringe ideas, but they also attract window shoppers looking for identity and an ideology that social misfits might be willing to try on. Shutting down the window shopping isn't nothing (although I will admit I don't know that it can be done while preserving the intent of the principle of Free Speech).
Has debt forgiveness ever been used in a modern industrialized economy? The only instance I am aware of was of the Allies doing it in occupied Germany post-WWII
I used Hangouts on Air to live stream several weddings. It was great because you could set it up ahead of time, send out the private link to whoever you want, and the link would work both during the event and after - no need to upload the recorded video. Oh well, time to look for something else now.
What percentage of minorities do you think would find this funny compared to the majority?
No, I believe it will make them appear like a monopoly and the consumers as a monopsony.

For example, imagine if amazon caves to the consumer group and makes toothpaste $1. Then suddenly the other sellers of toothpaste all charge $1. That would show amazon had pricing power over the market and that amazon is in fact a monopoly. Further it would show that amazon was using it's monopoly power to gain excess profits.

Note: I'm not an expert in economics and have a habit of being wrong.
Fed Reserve to Create Payments System
Cloudflare can't block access to a website. They can protect their customers from DDOS attacks, and they happen to do it more cheaply and effectively than one could do alone. If they refuse to service a website and that website gets DDOSed off the internet, that is not cloudflare's fault.
I have mixed feelings about this. We are increasingly seeing "cool tech" in the biotech area, but it often doesn't look to me like it really supports better health per se.

Better health seems to come from "living right" and that would be better supported by companies that help people exercise, eat right, improve the hygiene of their homes, etc. Gyms, urban planning, worker's rights advocates and so forth seem to do a better job of actually serving a goal of better health.

But you don't really get to claim credit for dramatic health improvements via those pathways. You don't get to claim "Our gym helps reduce the incidence of cancer by preventing it!" In order to make impressive claims about curing cancer, you have to first wait for someone to have cancer, then fix it. Prevention isn't an exciting, drama-filled field. It's not where the big money and the impressive headlines live.

I have concerns that getting better at the biotech approach helps create a monster, but there's no stopping it because preaching about diet and lifestyle will never have the same sizzle as "curing cancer."
> Can't we start there?

I'm not sure that I'd have a problem with starting there. The problem is, we wouldn't stop there.
the "Let's" part is literally an encouragement. Surely it can be made legal (e.g. by obvious irony). In a case like Elonis v. United States the defense was that the statements where more of "I have a wish to kill X" instead of "I/you/we/they should kill X".
Europe's record heat melted Swiss glaciers
> You'd need to pin all transitive dependencies as well and cache the venv.

I think to do this stuff, you need hooks in Jupyter to setup and teardown the venv before it runs the kernel. (And generally Jupyter would want to clean up unused venvs to mitigate the teardown hook not firing.)

> Only issue is that it'd be really space inefficient

A venv is overkill. You can just run the kernel in a regular directory, and `pip install --target kernel_dir foo-bar-pkg` to put packages directly in it. As long as the linker sees it, third-party libraries will work. This technique is used in the serverless project[1] to bundle dependencies for use on AWS Lambda.

> Not sure if you'd need to find older versions of new direct dependencies to avoid conflicts.

Curation is a solution to this. Stackage[1] is popular in the Haskell community; they build a consistent version set of everything every night and curate stable releases periodically.

With curation, a date and a set of top-level packages is enough to pin your dependencies.

[1]: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage#frequently-ask...
[2]: https://github.com/UnitedIncome/serverless-python-requiremen...
#godwinslaw
Not him, but I would do it because I can.
> So if science and logic one day

Keyword: if.

Evidently you believe science and rationality is the path to evil. Why is that?
There wouldn't be! However, if your assumptions that consumers are all happy with amazon are incorrect and there are things they would like changed at amazon then there would be an advantage to collective bargaining to combat amazon's monopoly power.

Also, such collective bargaining could be used to bargain with companies other than amazon.
Popper didn't exactly write a massive book on this. It was just a footnote in which he coined a memorable name for it.

> Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Popper argued here that we should try rational debate, but reserve the right to use force when debate has become impossible (due to intolerant people using force themselves, refusing to engage in reasonable debates, etc).

The issue isn't tolerance IMO, but the self selective societies that online forums can create.
Between your link and this interview I saw yesterday with a 12 year old girl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUSPmg3MJZQ), I am beginning to believe that all of us adults are much much much dumber than we think we are :D
Free speech does not apply in any of these cases. These are all privately owned platforms. The first Amendment protects the populace from the government policing speech.
> There's quite literally no humor on this

I'm sure more than one person said this about Lenny Bruce, probably during his obscenity trial.
Data is available here as an Excel Spreadsheet (sort by SECONDARY_ENTITY_BUSINESS_NAME): https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/pdf/PerformanceData/...
If the purpose of the project is learning and experimentation, then there's not much to recommend veroboard. I have to think so carefully about how to place components, where to cut tracks to make connections, how best to route jumpers, etc. and after all that, it's difficult to change things when debugging or just to tinker.

Breadboards offer a huge amount of flexibility over veroboard, at the expense of size and permanence.
The sad part of this whole article is this method of scanning a laser beam had to be devised to side step a patent that uses common galvanometers instead. So there isn't any new 3d printing technology here. Only a clever method to circumvent a silly patent.
Last time I was in Death Valley in December I could barely get any signal outside of Furnace Creek. Even in FC it was terrible. I had two cellphones on T-Mobile and AT&T for that matter.
Climate is defined as long term averages of weather, so a single location can have a climate that's different from another location.
It's not a campaign against free speech, it's a campaign against collective organization of murder.

What a sad time

How about the free speech rights of the 22 people who died in El Paso?
Perhaps what would help in understanding the views espoused by OP (which I find very helpful) is to consider the idea of justifiable homicide. In France, when the police kill knife wielding maniacs, it seems to be black and white, however when cops in USA kill a mentally unstable person in self defense, the line gets murky. It gets completely greyed out when Mesa PD kills an innocent for not being able to follow contradictory commands. Where do YOU draw the line? What about moving the line to China and the Muslim minoritities being ethnically wiped? Talk to a Han Chinese on the street and see if they see it your way? Same with Palestine and Israel. The world is not black and white.
Living car-free in Berlin is ridiculously easy. I have my own bicycle, but still grab a Jump bike when I've walked somewhere and need to get home faster/easier.

But this is the summer. I haven't done the winter here yet. That'll be the test.
She forgets that the Amazon marketplace is made up of sellers and the prices aren't controlled by Amazon for a lot of their products. These are inherited from the distributor in most cases. Sure Amazon fulfills the orders but it's not like Walmart that controls the entire process. There is more freedom in Amazon.

Anyways, this is just the hip thing of today. How about making a service better than Amazon? No that's impossible?? Well you can bet there are a million people trying right now so there are and will be plenty more alternatives.
To be fair the article is about banning a site in part to nazi influences.
"Shirking tax" is one of the weirdest moral calls I see regularly. Everyone structures their finances to avoid tax - if you can blame companies for anything it's that they lobby for extra loopholes. Further, sending money to the government is far from an effective way to help society, this blog post argues well for that: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...

Further, the government is one of the few entities that can spend money to make the world worse. You can donate to charities to help people in countries you haven't heard of, you can buy a yacht and leave them alone, but if you pay that money in taxes then part of it will go to blowing them up for some inscrutable reason.

Again, it's not that companies are saints or that they couldn't do better, it's that hammering them for tax avoidance is probably not the best thing to pick from the long list of corporate ethical failures.
> ...arranged for the checks to prominently display the funding source—“UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.”

The funding source is not the United States Government. The funding source is US taxpayers.
That's not even remotely true. I've addressed it many times here in the HN comments. I'm just tired of repeatedly giving the same explanation over and over.
Other articles by Tom Mahood are a great read as well. Highly recommend subscribing to his blog. There is lots to learn from his piddling around the American Southwest.
>From what I've seen, 8chan certainly seems to be in the action category.

Users on 8chan, perhaps, but no the website itself. 8chan has cooperated with law enforcement against individuals making legally-actionable threats effectively since the website's beginning.
He forgot the most trivial of all: Check your load. If higher than x don't continue. That's what I do in my bench scripts.

x being something between 0.1 or 1, depending on your needed accuracy.
One of the problems with many "smart" locks is that they tend to be made by people that don't have a lot of experience making locks. Many smart locks are vulnerable to many types of physical attack, including very old exploits that most locks (even many cheap locks) defend against.

For example, here[1] is a "keyless bluetooth padlock" that can be opened trivially by rapping the locking pall with any hammar-like tool ("rock"). (it also has far too much around the shackle, so can also be opened with a a simple shim (e.g. a small cutout from a cola can). Another common problem are locks that don't seal their electronics securely, so they can be attacked by simply unscrewing a panel, ripping out the electronics. and touching the battery wires to the locking pal's actuator.

However, that type of problem are simply poor designs. In theory, in the future better designs could be made that include protections against well-known attack methods similar to what is already included in many "regular" locks.

A fundamental concern with locks that depend on radio (or worse, the internet) is what the lock does when when the radio/internet communication fails (for any reason). Does the lock fail-open, or fail-closed[2]? Did the lock even address this important question? Does the lock open if someone unplugs the router? Or does it trap people behind the lock if a fire destroys the cable/DSL modem? Physical locks also have failure-mode concerns, but they tend to be limited to something happening locally, With "smart" devices, you are adding remote resources (like the internet router in another room, or remote servers, etc) as a critical component of the lock's security. That is a terrible idea if you that remote resource is intrinsically outside your control.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbXC5LR8aQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-safe#Fail_safe_and_fail_s...
On "invisible death":

Regularity, order, and prompt obedience to command are qualities which, in modern armies, are of more importance towards determining the fate of battles than the dexterity and skill of the soldiers in the use of their arms. But the noise of firearms, the smoke, and the invisible death to which every man feels himself every moment exposed as soon as he comes within cannon-shot, and frequently a long time before the battle can be well said to be engaged, must render it very difficult to maintain any considerable degree of this regularity, order, and prompt obedience, even in the beginning of a modern battle. In an ancient battle there was no noise but what arose from the human voice; there was no smoke, there was no invisible cause of wounds or death. Every man, till some mortal weapon actually did approach him, saw clearly that no such weapon was near him. In these circumstances, and among troops who had some confidence in their own skill and dexterity in the use of their arms, it must have been a good deal less difficult to preserve some degree regularity and order, not only in the beginning, but through the whole progress of an ancient battle, and till one of the two armies was fairly defeated.

-- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/...

There are three uses of the word "invisible" in the text. Two refer to invisiblbe causes of injury or death, and their psychological impact.
That is the difficult part. You probably won't find the high paying jobs up front. What I had to do was take a modest salary up front and then revolutionize the business from within before I saw any major payout. This is how I prefer to do things though. If you are looking for good pay but don't necessarily want to bust your ass for unknown payout, you are honestly better off looking at some mega corps and getting what you want up front. The equation seems to be:

Megacorp:

- Large up-front salary and benefits package.
- More bullshit process just to get an interview and a job.
- Non-existent-to-modest growth path.
- Work just enough to get by or as hard as you can stand to, won't matter.
- Contributions can feel meaningless due to all of the layers of people and process involved.
- Stable work environment, you feel like your job will always be there.

Mom & Pop shop:

- Regrettable up-front salary and marginal benefits.
- Can be hired on the spot, will likely interview with the owners of the business on first or 2nd round.
- Can work your way onto the board and can have major pull on decisions.
Sometimes, you will even become the executive decision maker for an entire project due to the team scale.
- Must work your ass off on an almost daily basis because you have a small or no team.
Conversely, this also means your successes are directly visible to the business owners,
as you don't have to fight through middle management, HR and other team members to get to your kudos (money/position).
- Contributions can feel incredible if you are on a successful project, or at least moving it in that direction.
- Potentially more unstable work environment. Smaller businesses are much more likely to fail,
so this can add to your stress levels significantly.
Especially, if your project is the only thing keeping the lights on.

I found my current role on a StackOverflow careers posting. Nothing special at first glance, but I've really enjoyed the experience thus far. It really is what you make of it when you take up a position at a smaller business. I will never have this amount of impact at a place like Google/Amazon/Facebook/Microsoft.
Well, not if you make a mistake that leads to you being unable to send a message back. That's part of the plot of a sci-fi story I read: there's a machine that does this, and the messages stop at a specific point in the future. (It's 'the Arrows of time' by Greg Egan. The Orthogonal trilogy is good stuff.)
So long as it is a private entity freedoms don't play a part because private entities don't owe other private entities any freedoms.
You mention "objective truth value" and "Objectively wrong", which the parent comment says " But the point is: who´s to judge which ones are right and which one are wrong?"

Sure, we can say 1 + 1 = 2, and that's objectively correct. But in terms of morality what is "objectively right" and "objectively wrong"? Moral objectively usually comes from some base assumption that has to be made. Whether its the existence of a higher being, happiness meter, or utilitarianism.

"Instead, we want a system such that over time, the objectively better views dominate and the objectively worse views shrink in influence." According to history, I wouldn't really say this is guaranteed either, but that's my opinion.