skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if a single unsatisfied customer is able to take down a product then there must be dozens or hundreds of profit motivated take downs

Not sure what the intent of this observation is - the same is just as true: 'if a single competitor is able to take down a product then there must be dozens or hundreds of profit motivated take downs'.

> The article is not naming an exact competitor, but dismissing the accusation as "it could be an entirely different random person" does not change the issue's substance: Amazon is broken.

Considering there are only so many no-buckle belt vendors, stating that it obviously a competitor casts aspersions on these other vendors without any evidence. But no, it indeed does not change the substantive critique of Amazon.
This is a very cool idea, although it's worth noting that it won't work for some people. Many people get motion sick from VR - I'm not sure of the percentages but I've heard it from several acquaintances.

Edit: Also some people don't have a Facebook account; that seems more common among HN's demographic.
Anything that breaks and changes semantics should not be allowed into the language. Let Python be Python, not a Frankenstein's monster of ideas like C++. If it were an idea that were Pythonic, you would not see the confusing examples I've seen in the comments. C++ is the poster child of trying to do too much with the language and it losing itself due to death-by-committee. It's very sad that Python has started down this road.
Gives me a chuckle to see "Conway's Game of Life" in the "games available" list. You can certainly call the meta-activities like collecting patterns or building a big thing like a Turing machine in GoL hugely fun and game-like, but the 'simulation' itself really isn't a game under most definitions.
The GoL scene (nor hashlife) didn't exist back in ARPANET days though, so I guess the 'games' bucket would have still seemed most appropriate.

There's still no recognised creative genre for this kind of set-it-up-then- let-it-solve type of media afaik! (demoscene is closest) but I think (and hope) it's gradually emerging.
I don’t think a competitor did that. I think it might be due to a mislabeled BOM or some other issue.
Can this person do the same to another competitors item.
Can a regular person do it for any item at Amazon.
If not then it probably due to some other issue and not a competitor item.
Well, it'd mean that any site blocking hotlinking would also automatically block direct bookmarks/URL entry, too, which isn't really in the "interest of the user" either, I'd say.
And has a 1 second response. That is worth something.
Must have taken a few pointers from Rock Cornish Game Hens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_game_hen
There is something we can do: regulate them.
Why would you want a solution that makes one family be treated as if they're above everyone else by birth? Is that the signal that as a country you want to give your citizens? I cannot understand how people consent to monarchies in so called developed countries while at the same time making huge fusses about everything else related to equality.
This is the point that people who say "but what about tourism?" completely and spectacularly miss.

Versailles is one of the most visited places in the world. Having no royal people in there makes zero difference to that.

We could have the tourism without the actual royals, 100% no problem there
I too have recently surprised myself by shopping at Target.com after being unable to find a trustable product on Amazon (latex pillow). The experience was worse but I trust their merchandising more.
But if you aren't selling anything that lets you keep copyright forever.

And it seems very difficult to calculate a percentage among mixed works.
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Thanks, I think I missed this point.
Being a bit older this is no different than seeing the 70's hippies generation that helped fighting the dictatorship, working in capitalist right wing companies.

Eventually other things in life are more relevant and all that idealism fades away.

Even Linux will eventually be replaced by something else, when all the kernel engineers that helped its adoption are gone.

It won't be tomorrow, but it will come.
I was with you once, but last year's I got tired when people set up networks of 2-6 computers with daemons that run in a wildly different ways, and it's not clear how to fix their failures, where configs and metrics and logs are. I'd honestly prefer overengineered kubernetes setup nkw, only for some more standard way of doing things between projects.
They're also creating an opportunity for competitors to capture their former market after they finish pissing everyone off.
GitHub search is notoriously poor, though—it can only match whole words (e.g. the query "FooBar" does not match the text "FooBarBaz"), and it doesn't support regexes.
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> There's already a "under penalty of perjury" in the DMCA for rightsholders.

What about it? It only applies if it can be shown that you intentionally lied. There is absolutely zero penalty for negligence. Even a $20 fee for misfiling would lead to a drastically different environment around DMCA notices.
Under-pillow speakers are decent if you are a side sleeper. It’s nice not having something in your ears all night.
A 50 percent chance is a lot better than 13.9 percent.

And the average clearance rate for murder is around 60.

Given that police prioritize some crimes over others, one should be careful in using the stats for things they don't place a priority on as a basis to pass judgement. If the violent crime rate could be lowered for example, say by removing the ability of a violent gang to operate (i.e., arrest and convict them), this frees up time to go after other crimes. We are looking at the current equilibrium achieved as a result of all their efforts, not some law of nature that happens either way (i.e. fixed clearance rates).
> ...bordering on c-span call-in line territory and really off-putting and demoralizing.

Is this a roundabout way of complaining that you can't block or flag people you disagree with in meatspace?
They must already have been killed then. Clearly there are relevant numbers of users using Signal before the TLS proxy was published.
All independent media disabled their Websites/TV stations/Radios in Poland
Thats the trade off. If you have everything supported upfront then the loading performance would be abysmal and it would take 2 minutes to load the entire app on a desktop machine. This is perfect for browsing through code.
Preprint, pre peer review paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.04.21251134v...
I am not moving goal posts, we are discussing about Rust here, C and C++ WG members don't pay for membership, the languages Rust is trying to replace, but apparently it doesn't fit into your world view.

Again, please provide a famous programming language thriving on the market that fits your beloved world view.

If you don't have any to share, windmills are over there.
This will be me in 60 years .. minus the customer loyalty.

I've been thinking about doing that with billboards to remind people about the bad politicians that we've had right before elections.
Many will talk of title to a crown. What right had Caesar to the empire? Might first made kings, and laws were then most sure When like the Draco's they were writ in blood
An important point to make imo is that algorithms will not be close to human decision making until we hit AGI. No matter how complex they get until that point you can always cheat them in absolutely ridiculous and more importantly reproducible ways. Meaning scams scale and can do way more damage than a human error.

> Maybe this means web-scale sites like Amazon's marketplace aren't viable. I'm fine with that implication. Stores like Target and Walmart seem to have the same prices with human-curated inventories

Not only are they viable, they are hugely more profitable without the human expenses. This inhuman model - yes, I think that is exactly what it is - will displace everything else that simply can't compete in runaway capitalism.
Also eyeballing the team, looks like nobody in particular has a security background. Worrisome...
I mean, it's also bug squeezins
I watched Burning and Parasite as a duology, both have very similar themes about modern day Korea. I'd suggest you watch them back to back as well.
Is this really a sad story about the state of the Competition between Internet providers? Is three Mbps the only service available, or is the user refusing to switch to some other faster service? If the former, what is stopping over the other providers from coming in to fill the obvious demand?
The product I make is a very specialised system in the agriculture industry. The first 10 customers were a mix of old clients from a previous job and new clients who read about the product from an ag news source. I had to rely heavily on my personal reputation in the early days but that has become less important now. I also hired a sales coach to help me (technical background) break through my limitations in closing deals. One interesting thing was the original direct sales model was terrible, drove 45,000km that year around my country doing delivery and training to ensure those customers had the best chance of success. Sold some gear to a customer who rents the equipment out and all the subsequent growth came from that model.

Those first customers didn't turn out to be as critical as I thought, the real change came from finding a scalable business model. There was no way I could have continued what I did that first year.
I work at a medical simulator training device company - we’re quite small, just 20~ people making these devices in-house. We’ve been grappling Amazon’s Seller Central for quite a while now. Because our simulators look medical in use they keep taking them down and banning them. It’s like playing whack-a-mole and it’s been basically impossible to reach a real life person to explain the issue.
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I believe you just defined "a bubble"
But the existing semantics are very confusing to anyone who is used to Python, which seems like a bigger problem.
What information do retail investors have access to now that they didn't say 3 years ago?
Or rather: you can tell who earns the money for amazon. Current revenue is pretty much 50/50 for AWS and advertizing -- retail is barely breaking even. Source: this weeks Economist article on Bezos stepping down.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
An excellent essay, one which brings back many memories of the 1970s.
I don't want to put words in the above poster's mouth, but I think they're just saying that it isn't fun to listen to incoherent rambling and the occasional racist rant. Based off of a few hours listening to the infamous .435 in Los Angeles [1], I'm inclined to agree

[1]: https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/14747
I'm glad someone said it this is genius if that was the intent.
The three different substances that Amazon said the item contained were

* methoxetamine, a synthetic hallucinogen

* jimson weed, a literal weed from the Americas that causes severe hallucinations and paralysis

* coca leaves, a traditional Andean herbal stimulant that are the natural source of cocaine

None of these items are related or similar at all, and none of them would be used in making belts. Seems like a difficult error to make through mislabeling!
Sure, and I'm not advocating to build a Rube Goldberg device, unless it's purely for learning purposes. But why go to great lengths (and expense) to avoid having to SSH into a server for your personal projects when you could run them on a Raspberry Pi or a $5/mo droplet?

The issue isn't that people need more than a LAMP stack, it's that for some reason software developers in the 2020s are scared to or think it's beneath them to install a LAMP stack of their own.
I would add to that the final hurdle of sketchy third party sellers, it feels like very little now is sold by Amazon.

Salomon, Nike, and Garmin all got direct purchases from me recently because of what you describe.
I think it's residue of two bubbles ago.
Your snippet would be condensed into 1 indentation block with pattern matching. In scheme it'd be even more explicit that we're deconstructing command, therefore much much easier to follow logic. No need to worry about cmd, args, etc.

(match command
(("quit") (display "Goodbye!"))
(("look") (describe current-room))
(("get" obj) (character-get obj current-room))
(("go" dir) (set! current-room (room-neighbour dir)))
(_ (display "Invalid command")))
Starlink is for you.
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Deploy stacks in parallel with AWS CDK Pipelines
With the advent of higher 4G coverage and now even 5G, are these types of wireless home internet connections not a real option in the US?
I agree, he is crazy, my kind of crazy. I hope it works out for him and his community.
Have you considered sending an email instead?
So you want us to just stop fixing bugs and pushing out those fixes to users? That feels risky, if you do not want to upgrade to solve known problems, that's fine, feel free to skip upgrades. But why would you want to prevent those who want to run secure systems that ability?
Doesn’t other languages have block scope and shadowing is not an issue, but in Python it will reassign instead of shadowing?

In my mind that is not well thought out.
when I worked at google "don't be evil" was not anywhere in the new employee stuff, or anywhere else I saw after.

That said I agree entirely: what one person says is good and evil is depressingly variable (to use the internet extreme: to a nazi capturing jews is good, because jews are evil - which to you and I is [presumably] clearly insane)
>Can we please banish consumerist entitlement and corporate nonsense from the videogame world please?

That's gonna be a "no" from the world.
github1s.com doesn't seem a very fortunate domain name as it's obviously based on github.com - it's well plausible that it will be taken down sooner or later.
Haha, you went there. Brave! But some good points. But how do you determine when all the facts are out and it’s appropriate? When circumstances do not favor the deciders as a class or their allies, the facts will probably tend to take far longer to come out. When they are favorable, they would likely determine that all facts are known immediately.
To author, I added for my blog, https://www.boxpiper.com/. It works as you said, but it slows down the website a bit.

Can you have a look why exactly it happens?

Installation feature is cool. Kudos.
This game is not for you then.
The eurosceptics never gave up in the face of impossible poll odds; why should republicans?
I am aware of the concept, but curious if this is the case here.
This. This just nails it. I honestly was in awe when I saw this repo, you don’t see these very often on here. So much Tier 1 talent in all aspects - product, UX, and tech.

Flawless execution on all fronts. I’ve always wanted an easy way to preview a repo in VS Code and this is it.
I guess in the same way that white South Africans immigrants to the US can be considered African Americans, and Russians can be considered Asians.

Otherwise no, Pacific Islanders are not Asian. They even have their own checkbox in ethnicity polls.
Follow up: that's a really neat paper! The wind results are super interesting. I just wish the paper explored the lag more readily, and more importantly talked about the physics at play there. The description "a wind filtering mechanism may be responsible for the strong correlation, but the exact nature of this mechanism is beyond the scope of this paper" is at the end and it just leaves so much more to be explored! Do the authors really believe it's the wind that's responsible? Would it not be more likely wind-associated properties such as moisture transport? It would make sense for there to be a hysteresis tied to water vapor concentration (LWP/PWV) tied to large scale shifts in circulation.
Until last year 3mb/s was one of two options available to me, the other was 15mb/s with terrible ping and an extremely low download/upload limit. Fortunately, Utah hasn't allowed these companies to stifle competition and now my highest speed available is 100Gb/s fiber connection, though I only pay for 300mb/s.
As someone from India, it is unbelievable that someone from California - an affluent state in a first-world country - has to actually pay for a 3.5Mbps connection in 2021. For context, I was paying around $11/mo for a 40Mbps connection in 2016.
That is true for me as well. Every year I quietly hope that Rich Hickey will soon reveal a new breakthrough.

On the other hand, all the “new hot” features in many other languages have mostly been available as libraries in Clojure for a long time — there’s nothing specific so far that I strongly wish existed.
It's a great article. And for me, terrifying, in a few ways.

For one, it seems to be a great example of how nationalism can trump other ideals. And secondly, because spycraft seems to go along with warfare.

The scariest part of this is that national and even potentially ethnic/racial competition seems to still be a (secret?) part of many worldviews. As an extension of an often unvoiced but very prevalent type of lingering Social Darwinism.
I was shocked just how cheap a bill board actually is. Thousand dollars gets you a few days worth of impressions
Expertise and company size aren't related, though, and I didn't mention it. There are ranges of expertise across large and small companies. Above a certain size, businesses are subject to the pathologies of the corporate world and can become real stinkers despite having money and (possibly sidelined) expertise.
What was the fix?
This is insane!!!!!!!!!!!
not sure the benefit, but it does work well
It might have been a mistake to use the word 'cute', monarchies are an ugly business.

But countries where the powers in charge are closely balanced enough that the transition away from a monarchy to something else slowly (maybe leaving the monarchy itself intact as in the UK) are much better than the ripping off the bandaid approach seen in Germany or France. Moderate political change is generally a better idea than radical change.
More importantly, as computational hardness of mining increases, the energy consumption will increase exponentially. So whatever the absolute consumption now (even if it’s disputed), growth in BTC usage is definitely not sustainable.
So, so obsessed with vaccine, we did not even try simple obvious treatments until now ?
It’s already over
Accurate, obvious, hence not very useful.
There's an excellent movie along the same lines, called 'Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri'
In a non-dystopian world, though, the algorithms can make life way better. We could have filters that catch more scams and abuse than typical humans do... and then reasonable humans behind that are responsive and fix the carnage for where they go wrong.

Of course, that's not what we've got...
Whom does the armed forces pledge allegiance to? In the UK, it's the monarch, not the government. That balance of power (military v political/legislative) gives you national stability.

You don't want one person having both.

Its the main reason royals serve in the armed forces.
Worse receiver, but better antenna:

From the linked article: "... With their system [...] they were able to estimate that the minimum dish aperture required to observe the Vela pulsar would be 6m, noting that the Vela pulsar is probably the strongest pulsar ever detected"

As a kid, I built a crystal radio. There it was the same: with a very long wire, even such a simple radio could receive far-away stations
> This isn't rocket science; plenty of other organizations have ways of disseminating information to millions of people so that everyone knows what's up.

Is that so? Do people know when WhatsApp is going to add feature x or address bug y?

> Thanks, that's a small step in the right direction which I hadn't seen. Still, it comes after years of being almost entirely mum on the subject

Does it? Or is it possible that you also hadn't seen all earlier instances where they made statements like that? It's just that that sounds very possible to me, given how many different issues there are that affect many different people.

(In addition to the other questions you mention seem unanswerable, unless it really is there one and only number one priority, which seems unlikely given e.g. events like the outage not too long ago.)
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The thing I noticed about my behaviour when I got rid of my car is I didn't drive so much.
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> Stores like Target and Walmart seem to have the same prices with human-curated inventories, and I don't really miss the millions of extra products Amazon has.

I'm sure most people are generally happy to wait 2 days for something to arrive as well. Honestly, it almost feels like Amazon is trying to become an Alibaba and potentially look to take them on with the level of product quality that is now available there.
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I worked with code generators that use extensively `.format` or `%`. The code of those generators is too difficult to follow. In my previous job I was able to rewrite from scratch over of those generators with saner jinja2 templates. But for inherited/external code that task is not always viable. So, f-strings bring the benefit of being clearer, while keeping the existing code.
The cutesiness of the Royal family is pragmatic as well. She can take some of the State Dinners that would otherwise go to the PM.

It seems silly but the US has to have the President go to everything and time is money to the President.
Very little, as I understand it, and, from my experience before and after Paul Graham officially relinquished control, from all the evidence.
My bad I didn’t mean it as a comparable benchmark. Just a different benchmark that is interesting to me :)
> Imagine if the real Superbowl wasn't held in 24 years due to global warming and may never happen again, perhaps then it would be more of a priority.

Given how much of a priority climate change has been in the Netherlands... I don't think so. Though I guess part of it is because it wasn't a guaranteed every-year event in the first place, so it's not that much of a change.
5G doesn’t penetrate walls, so the individual would a hardline to an in home source.

4G could be an option but 4g carriers do not cater to internet only plans, preferring to push mobile hotspots as a solution.
As a side point: there is the adage that infrastructure is key for economic success. But then the internet connections I had in the states and the mobile phone connections were really, really awful. But still, major tech players are from the states. I think infrastructure is overrated.
I agree but think it's a bit of both and depends on the project. I e.g. don't think SDL needs more exposure. Everyone in game dev knows SDL.. many game engines / frameworks are built on top of it.
I just had shoulder surgery and I happily bought these direct from your website. Thank you, and I’m sorry this happened to you.

p.s. Can’t wait to try the drugs.
Afaik raw.githubusercontent.com was third party as well and lived for a very long time.
Good point. Make a minimum fee of $1000 times X years, or whatever is enough to find the right balance.

The ultimate goal is to put as much work into the public domain as possible, since that was the original goal of the framers of the Constitution.
Can't agree more with you.

I have the same experience with the django ORM.

At work all the Go fans are advocating against ORMs because the exact reasons you give.

Then I look at the code they write, and just seeing hand written sql migrations ran by very flaky bash scripts makes me cringe.

Let's not talk about all those sql queries embedded in the code....
This business model is nothing new. The BBB has been operating this way for years.