skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't paint amazon subscribers as victims here.

The point of the lawsuit and detailed in the analysis is that ALL online purchases end up being influenced (controlled?) as a result. This creates prices that are 30-45% higher across all retailers for a given item.

That would include Amazon Prime subscribers and random internet guy buying the same thing from a different site.

If Amazon controls their own storefronts, that's one thing. When they can exert control over competitors' storefronts - or worse, all competitors' storefronts - that's a different matter.
Anything works at cryogenic temperatures if you heat it so it isn't.

Thus, a big part of the Mars probes', including the Ingenuity micro-helicopter's, power budgets is keeping them warm enough overnight. The Voyager spaceprobes will be shut down soon not because they can't produce enough signal to reach Earth antenna arrays, but because they can't keep the equipment warm enough to work right.

It would probably be possible to make stuff that would work cold, but there aren't enough places to use it to support the whole process.
I own a consumer goods business and sell via Amazon and traditional retailers. Amazon's 30% to 40% fee is much less than traditional retail, which starts at 50%. Amazon is where I get my best margins.
The best shade umbrella's have wind tunnel youtube videos - https://www.bambrellausa.com/wind-tunnel-test-videos.
Trees in the Townscape: A Guide for Decision Makers
Yeah I was inspired by an amazingly effective attic fan in an airbnb I stayed in a few years ago...definitely will be installing one in any future attics I own.
Which countries use them? I know Japan but I thought almost no one else did. Hotel rooms in zero countries I have visited have had separate bidets or Japanese style toilets.
No such thing as "flushable" wipes, it's an advertising gimmick
It’ll still be fintech.
An inflation rate of ~2% doesn't really harm anyone, especially not the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum.

I think the problem is rather the fact that many people have unrealistic expectations. If the economy is growing at a rate of 1% annually, meaning the entire wealth produced in the country during a whole year grows by 1%, why do people think that their personal wealth should grow by 10%, 20%, 30% or more? It's not gonna happen.
It will block all the 3rd parties that have to do anything with retargeting like Facebook, google, Adnexus, etc.

It’s unusual for sites to conspire directly and share data about IP (but that may change)
I think it was about a year ago, I spent a full day on your Docker building course and ended up building the whole thing myself. As an sre (and mostly a user of docker), digging into the internals blew me away.
Super stoked that you guys are creating these courses, the concept & quality are worth paying for
> Sometimes when doing this mental simulation, we think of a single value for a variable ("a corner case, how clever of me!")

That's not necessarily how I would approach a simulation, and not how I would speak to myself if that's what I saw myself do.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.

The premise of cryptographically secure messaging is that you have an adversary recording all your message traffic.

Lack of forward secrecy implies, logically, that if your long-term secret is ever compromised, every message you've ever sent is recoverable from the adversary's archive.

The point of forward secrecy is to break that attack, so that your adversary needs your long-term secret at the time it was used to send a message; having it after the fact doesn't help.

I'm sometimes in the mood to write long posts and comments explaining this stuff, but today, on the bottom of this old thread, if you're trying to make a point about PGP vs. Signal and don't know how forward secrecy works, I'm probably the wrong person to have this conversation with.
I'm getting a 404, what does COTS mean?
The ones in my link are even cheaper than that, as worn by every refuse collector and ski lift operator in Chamonix.
Yea this sounds amazing -- I'm sorry I missed it too.
The fun part of this exercise is that some people on HN give their real name or a way to find out their real name like the commenter did. They’re part of a pretty small company as far as I can tell. Closer to 25 people.
> But people still smoke even after seeing pictures of cancer-ridden lungs.

Great point all around. Similar to the smoking problem, I think if we want behavior around privacy to change it will require large amounts of funding and public campaigns. I think it’s unlikely there will be a grassroots effort.
I lost more than I will ever have.
Yeah that's it.

Some other notable points from that talk:

- He thinks it's not an overly difficult problem to solve. It just needs some grassroots push from a handful of people in each of the top CS departments. It's just that not many are really trying to push for it. (I assume there would be people staked in the current system, though, who want to maintain the status quo.)

- Nowadays he sees people trying to split research up into Least Publishable Units in order to maximize the number of papers.

- Coming up with Postgres would've been impossible in today's climate since the time it took would entail an insufficient number of papers to get hired or promoted.

- He thinks part of the reason that the culture has deteriorated is that Western universities have adopted cultural norms of East Asian universities, for whatever reasons.
one tiny aspect about cryptocurrencies that doesn't exist anymore on other assets: the hype

the amount of guru groups with followers, neverending notifications of volatility, new ~revolutionary idea~

it can, and does, mess with people's mind a lot
The A-Z of Iceland: Z, the deleted letter (2019)
For whatever reason HN seems to have a rather unhealthy obsession with Amazon that is evident in somewhat regular articles about Amazon’s dominance in the online retail space. Frankly it gets a little tiring after sometime , specially when walmart.com exists and these posts smells like some underhanded SEO type activities. Anyway hopefully HN moderators will take care of this before it becomes a tool in the hand of SEO agencies paid for by other companies.
Yeah....BUT those panels are designed for, more or less, static images in well lit rooms.

Things like contrast ratio, how well it does dark colors in a dark room or fast intesity refreshing (like 60Hz "fast") may be questionable. It probably also expects super consistent and clean power...some houses dont have that.

Sure you could make it a giant Dakboard with a giant static image and not really worry about burn in for years.

Ultimately. I went with a cheap panel from say costco and a roku on a separate vlan (so my overkill is a network that can do vlan segmentation). Ultimately the roku TV's can scan themselves to death and report that they are on a network with other roku TV's all they want. Or you could just get a cheap-o smart TV and hook up the appleTV (cost came into play for me). I do have some LG smart TV's, one died within 3 years already...Meanwhile my Samsung 55" Plasma from 2008 had taking a direct lightning strike that took out the others and keeps on ticking. (and resulted in the TCL roku and LG tvs being installed).

So all of that is to say. I just go cheap panel that i dont mind replacing. And just keep them isolated entirely.
>Induction doesn't work for all pans, and require a 240v line run to your stove top

And most induction tops draw so much current that you need at least 2 phases, but optimally 3 phases installed.
> The industrial/commercial cookware he lists is definitely durable

No, it is plain wrong. He recommends borosilicate beakers for beer. I think he never worked in a lab: borosilicate beakers break. Their thermal expansion tolerance is a non feature for cold beer: when did one of your beer mug broke because you served yourself boiling beer?

> Does your glassware meet ASTM Specification E960, Type II requirements? Is it manufactured from 33 expansion, low extractable borosilicate glass conforming to USP Type I and ASTM E438, Type I, Class A requirements? I didn't think so.

I call that hacker syndrome, when the typical hacker thinks a long line of impressive specs and numbers matter, because he has no idea of the customer requirements.

> Used to contain a life raft. Now, my groceries.

How easy it is to clean when there is a spill? How easy it is to replace? I have carried BRICKS inside the nylon woven bags some supermarket sell for $1.99. Rinced with water, ready in 5 minutes.

> For less than $100, I can buy a short USMC Short KA-BAR or a real M9 from Ontario for $150. This is the real thing, used by the US military.

Show off!!

If you want something to bring in a fight, get a Mark 1 trench knife: has brass knuckles for punching (and limit the risk of dropping your knife), a long thin blade for more lethality (easier puncture wound regardless of angle than with a wider blade). And in the kitchen it is ideal to break walnuts :)

Of course it does not look "nice" - like carrying bricks in a nylon supermarket bag. It is about knowing the needs you optimize for.
Both the KitchenAid and the Hobart use a planetary action which is not the best for kneading bread. A better idea is to find a small spiral mixer where the bowl rotates and the mixer blade spins in place. I have a Haussler Alpha and it's great for tough doughs, and seems appropriately overbuilt.
Do OKR’s Damage Company Culture and Performance?
I think I’d feel that way to if I had stayed in web development (which I only did as a short stint many years ago by now), and I felt it happening already.

It just doesn’t have much to do with computers and technology in the specific ways that I got enamored with computers and technology. Playing with bare metal stuff at work does. Of course, for someone else it might be the opposite.
Yup. The purpose of these laws was to make sure that local dealerships remain open, providing local jobs. They don't want all the jobs going to Detroit (these laws were passed in the 1950s, when there was fear that the automakers would use their own dealerships to drive the local dealers out of business). So they made it illegal for automakers to sell cars retail.

It's similar to the laws making it illegal for you to pump your own gas (hello, Oregon!). Someone had a bright idea that by requiring that some service be performed, it will create more local jobs, even if you don't need or want to pay for that service. You may be able to do buy a car all on your own, but there is a web of state laws that says you are required to use a middleman.
A Single Ohio Hospital Reveals All That’s Wrong with American Health Care
First the timeline, second that she confirmed she wasn't shopping around or investigating wedding-related items.
Yeap. Sensodyne Repair & Protect. It's a fairly new product, I accidentally found it at a pharmacy after reading a comment in here. Saw it at a local super market too the other day (sklavenitis).
Two things...

- Flushable wipes should be avoided ( FATBERGS!!! ) ( although they are great )

- Spray bidets can get you to overcome your fear of seeing the random poop stain in a toilet.. :)
I'd love a bandsaw in the kitchen to cut frozen food. (so I don't need to thaw the whole thing if I need just a bit)
even in medium-sized companies cto often participates in hiring process for high-level engineers. Basically the rule is if you are hiring person you are gonna interact often, you want to evaluate him yourself
Just an fyi, flushable wipes aren't actually that friendly to sewage systems.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/26...
China maintains fusion at 120M Celsius for over 100sec, setting new WR
IMHO, this [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24476300] should be de-flagged.
>I'll just pick up a new job in 2 weeks

hehe, right
The mantra I use with my team is "comment the details, document the strategy".
This is made-up nonsense, and not even current made-up nonsense.
I don’t really understand in what scenario a bum needs to be the level of clean a jet of water provides vs the level of clean a towel provides.

I mean in both cases it’s not being disinfected but you’re getting enough off to prevent underwear stains.

Convenience makes sense as a selling point, but I’m not really convinced the cleanliness difference matters in a practical way.
Quite correctly, I would assume.
I was at a printing trade conference back in the day, there was a session titled "how to beat China".

We were all tricked as the real topic was "how to offshore to China, because anything else is impossible" no doubt the talk was sponsored by the Chinese. Of course we can compete.

This article leaves me with the same feeling.
Yeah it's an end run around financial regulation. Run crypto run!
Most states' Attorneys General offices have Consumer Protection branches, as well.
TypeScript, PHP, and Python have support for typing and the commiserate IDE benefits, and I'd imagine these languages account for a super majority of software written in dynamic languages.
Many countries have them – too many to list. I think the first place I saw them was in Thailand.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/cgyz5q/countries_t...
> Shi’s goal was to turn the bat CoVs into huACE2-binding molecules, that is, to design promoters of human infection.

what is the scientific use of creating viruses that are harmful to mankind?
for me the key tweet here is:

> The two things people need to know about cryptocurrency are completely non-technical:

> 1. If it doesn't work, it's just an easy to lose casino chip

>2. If it works, it creates an end run around all financial regulation, and will be dominated by uses those regulations try to stop

(edited for formatting)
Modern US antitrust law is based solely on benefit to the consumer [1]. If the entire population doesn't care about something (by which I assume you mean they are not harmed by it or even benefit from it), then it's not prohibited.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Th...
Yes, it's different. Owning a stock is like owning a business. Unlike a coin, a business generates a profit. This means you don't have to sell the business to another investor in order to profit from it.
This really depends on location. For me for example that number would be inverted.
What an original and thoughtful take on a topic that really hasn't gotten enough attention on HN up until now.
To be fair... there was _a lot_ of heavy-duty crap back that was badly designed, poisonous/polluting or novely. It's just that you don't see it now because it's all rusted away or lives in junkyards.
I'm so happy we have these enlightened people that can intuit the truth we, the delusional can not.
Why is this downvoted? It provides useful information with sources.
It’s “not decentralized” and also it’s used to move “billions in crime money around.”

Hmm.

It’s a fraudulent “con” and also very dangerous because it subverts regulations.

Hmm.

Seems pretty contradictory, no?

You can either criticize bitcoin for not working or for working too well but Maciej seems to be trying to do both at once.

I’m not a Bitcoin user or particularly a fan but these self contradicting attack lines don’t seem likely to be politically effective. Just choose one. I’d go with “mostly used for crime.” And then add “environmentally ruinous” for good measure.
This is good he is not drunk enough to tell the main dark truth - there are no senior engineers, only some people who finally managed how to cope with their imposter syndrome. Oh whait...
People always complain about Amazon but I started using them when I could not find anything I needed at the local stores. The shopping landscape changed before I started buying on Amazon. When Amazon started two day shipping in my town it sure made it easier to change my habits. CVS drug store is a great example of a store that used to be great hat went to crap. But not because of Amazon because of short term profits and mergers. The electronic store is gone not because of Amazon but because people don't buy hobby stuff like they used to and the owner died. The mom and pop stores that are still around from way back are here because of good business practices and people like them. I don't want to go to CVS and wait in line for 30 minutes, have to enter my phone number to get the discount and then get 6 feet of receipt full of stupid coupons I won't use. Yes you need to do your research before buying on Amazon but in the store you need to check the prices too.
and the first thing to know when bringing a map and compass into the backcountry is that if you didn't use them (properly!) to get in, it'll be hard-to-impossible to use them to get you back out. There's more to it than you think!

Orienteering is a deep enough subject to be a tool, hobby and sport. Recommended skill, just for the entertainment value
I agree (as somebody else pointed out) these are more about software engineering (and I don't see a contradiction in being both, many people we consider physicists today were also engineers in their time).

Although I will point out, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem which is a mathematical statement. Whether to actually follow that result when building software is a matter of engineering taste, but the theorem tells you, at the very least, you can do so.
If you’re interested in reading Poe’s non-poetry fiction, I put together all of his short stories and novellas into a free/libre compilation for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...

Having said that, I personally prefer the writing of Leonid Andreyev (described as Russia’s answer to Poe). Coincidentally, I’ve put together a short fiction compilation for him too: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leonid-andreyev/short-fict...
I think it's a grass-is-always-greener thing?

Early in your career, you lean into one or the other. And then years later, after you're confident you're right, you find yourself trying the opposite paradigm and liking things about it.

Both have pros and cons, and if there was a correct answer we'd all just go with that one!
American, Southwest postpone serving alcohol amid spike in passenger violence
I think the first response to that other posting summarizes neatly why it should remain flagged while this one shouldn’t:

> Given the extraordinary nature of the claims, the fact that this didn't see any peer review and isn't published in a real journal as well as the clear political motivations of the money behind the study […]
I mean I hate to break it to you, but there is an undercurrent of mentality among everyone that is: people will sell you out if it means their job is on the line. No amount of friendship, interaction, or skill level of yours will come into play. When it's either them or you, they side with themselves (or the majority) every time.

I stopped playing being the good employee and just started viewing everything as a means to an end. Talking? Figure out what makes them tick. Milk everything for what its worth. Engage positively out of purely Machiavellian instinct. You shouldn't do good because it's good, you should do good because you believe there is a reward somewhere. Is it evil? Well it could be considered that way, but when you work with a varying degree of people who have different dark triad traits, you need to evaluate how much of it on your end you're willing to engage with in order to get ahead. In my life, I've found that if you don't do this, people will notice and walk all over you.
What you just described is an issue with every toilet seat... it is not unique to bidets.

What I think you mean is that the sprayer/nozzle can get dirty? Do you have similar fears of your kitchen/bathroom faucet? because there's no way anything can stay in the spray nozzle of a bidet. that part self cleans instantaneously.
Sabine Hossenfelder and her weblog have been featured on Hacker News before.

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464576

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19123099

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802674

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22033864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374602

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866927

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25140588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229677

And she's well-vetted: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/sabine-hossenf...
Well, seems unlikely but if so will readily become consensus.

To clarify, not weighing in on the unlikeliness of lab leak, only on the unlikeliness that it is a clearly identifiable uncategorically man made Chimera with obviously manipulated genetic markers.
Modern life is far more mentally taxing and stressful, so we want to go back to the "good old days".

Pre-industrial (and pre-agricultural) life was more physically taxing and stressful, so they wanted to move on to something better and easier.

At least today you can just save up, move to the middle of nowhere and live exactly like they did 500+ years ago, but with much better safety. You can even add some modern tools without much expense.

But it probably gets boring real fast.
Well, the only facilities with that many tracks are workshops, of which only a few are underground and physically separated from the main line and thus very unlikely to accept passenger traffic as they are all dead ends.

From the looks of it, you arrived at Gare du Nord and departed from Gare d'Austerlitz. The best option would have been to take line 4 at Gare du Nord and switch to line 10 at Odéon until the terminus at Gare d'Austerlitz. There is nothing interesting on the first leg beside the staircase at Cité. The second leg gets more interesting at Cluny - La Sorbonne, where the two tracks become three, and right after Maubert - Mutualité, where the two tracks split to make way for a third track to go under them. That part is mentioned in the parent article as "two-level crotch". There are other interesting places on the same line, like the "triangle" between Porte d'Auteuil, Michel-Ange Molitor, and the Auteuil workshop but they are in the other direction. Another thing to note is that the tunnels of line 10 are painted in white, which makes it look cleaner than other lines.
This is almost exactly what I got as well. Where do all the recruiters learn the things they say? It’s clear that they’re all learning the exact same material. Very poorly too... The ones who don’t go by the script are usually the ones I have the best experiences with and end up joining - ironic I guess. Maybe they’re just more seamless with the script than the others I’ve worked with. ;)
Mild inflation generally aids the poor, as they have little to no savings and substantial debt.

In the US the overwhelming majority of household's net worth is the equity in their home, which usually doesn't exceed the mortgage they still owe until rather late in life. A few people get lucky with hot real estate markets but to capture that you have to move into an undesirable cheaper area.

Financial literacy is a different issue, but to be absolutely clear, the Fed is not in the business of exploiting the poor. That's a very cartoonish characterization.
I'd love to hear more specifics. Do you have them anywhere?
Can Britain ever fix its privatised railways?
rarely, but biking is even more dangerous (though typically this is because of other people doing the wrong thing).
Intriguing and horrifying.. What happens with a ban?

I assume all my not-downloaded Kindle books become unavailable. Does the Kindle app delete the ones I have locally? (I assume the result would be similar for movies/shows purchased.)

Does it ban my credit card, name, address, or a more abstract "buying profile"?
I would consider it drop shipping if neither Amazon nor the 3rd party seller ever had possession of the product. The scenario is: Joe Consumer goes to Amazon and orders a widget for sale from a 3rd party seller. The 3rd party seller then goes to the widget manufacturer and asks them to ship a widget to Joe (or more likely has a computer program do this automatically).
https://archive.ph/9NSmg#selection-3761.52-3765.466