skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is Amazon crawling other market places to check seller prices against their site?

I didn't sell directly on Amazon for long enough to find out, but from talking to other merchants, I understand that they were/are doing this.

IMO, even if the merchants enter into those terms willingly, it's still anticompetitive. Amazon is effectively creating a protectionist trade zone like the British used to enact in the 1760s and 1770s. The merchants enter into it because the alternative is "don't trade with a huge portion of the market" and also maybe face predatory attacks from Amazon-friendly merchants.
I understand that it's visually unpleasant (not to mention potentially dangerous for epileptics). That said it's literally just a rendering of what the system rule dictates. Lower dynamism systems tend not to be as flashy.
"...In practice though, it is not necessary to write verbose code like this. All browsers follow the robustness principle..."

I don't quite like this line-- pointing out that others are following the robustness principle, so we needn't bother.
A couple of things that I've learned about the country as I've watched the Cancel culture war:

1)Many believe having freedom of speech means having freedom from consequences of your speech. And not just governmental consequence but all consequence. That's wrong and always has been wrong, if rarely enforced. Speech has always had consequences but those consequences weren't cancellation. Not for white folks anyway.

2)White people can't live in the same world with the same rules that they've created for other people. Cancel culture is very much a thing and has been a thing used against Black folks and other minorities in America for decades. The list of things we get canceled for far exceeds exercising our freedom of speech. Here's a short list:

A)Our names. Got an ethnic name? Expect to get less interview callbacks.

B)Hair. We've had to lobby for laws to protect our right to wear our hair in 'natural' or 'ethnic' styles.

C)Actual Freedom of Speech. Try and bring up racism or discrimination practically anywhere and see what happens to you. See Colin Kaepernick.

D)Skin Complexion. Light-skinned privilege is a thing. Google 'colorism'.

E)Accent and use of language. Google 'code switching'.

You get the point. If the only thing you have to worry about is if you actually said something dumb in your past and if it's going to come up, then you have it good. Other folks are getting canceled just how they exist, from traits they can't change, and they have been for decades.

And even with all that, I still think Cancel culture is pretty shit because the mob is a broadsword, not a scalpel - h/t "The Siege". It doesn't stop at Trump, it keeps going to folks like AGM. But I'd love it if those fighting against cancel culture also fight for those who aren't white men complaining about it on Twitter and Hacker News. Fight also for those who have been victimized by cancel culture before it had a catchy name and impacted the white and powerful. Probably won't win until you do anyway.
If you follow someone that closely from location to location you won't need to cross check your ads to learn stuff about them, I guess.
I know you said similar discussion, but just in case someone else was confused for longer than they should as I was, this link is not about the same book.
Why Don't Americans Use Bidets?
You could find a MOOC (Massive open online course) for pretty much any programming language you want. Here's a pretty good one for Haskell.

https://haskell.mooc.fi
Just bought one two days ago. Reviews were good, and I’m not disappointed.

(Paired with a Moccamaster)
Not sure the downvotes.

As a non-american(as this is a worldwide site), I was literally wondering the same thing.

Having no form of identification? That's crazy... Not knowing the specific challenges.

In Canada you don't need to have "ID" as govt form of identification, you still need to be able to identify yourself.

They offer 3 options.
Passport/driver's license/provincial I'd card.

Then if you don't have that, there are secondary items like student id + utility bill, or indigenous status card.

Then lastly, you can have someone who does have ID vouch for u.

"You can still vote if you declare your identity and address in writing and have someone who knows you and who is assigned to your polling station vouch for you.

The voucher must be able to prove their identity and address. A person can vouch for only one person (except in long-term care institutions)."

Source: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&do...
Indeed, that's a fair point. Perhaps it's not quite as easy as I initially imagined, but that doesn't really ease my concerns
The difference is that crypto trading is entirely unregulated, and the markets are massively manipulated.
The difference between $30 and $40 is not much. I think a 100% difference is hard to reconcile (unless the parties really want it) but it's almost always more important to get the right person than pay 25% less.
Please explain how day trading is gambling but long term trading is not? It seems in both cases, you are gambling on the price going up.
To be absolutely clear: I hope no one is suggesting that there should be any voter ID laws that aren’t preceded by ensuring people have ID (free, easy access).

The voter ID discussion should be phrased as “assuming 99.9% have ID, do you think it’s a good idea to check it when voting?”

The answer to that question is: “yes”.

The other question (much less interesting!) is “assuming ID access and possession is as skewed as today, is it a good idea to require ID for voting?”. The answer to that question is an equally easy “No”.
If someone is consistently profitable/market making/etc., then they are making the market less volatile than it would be if it consisted solely of retail gamblers like those described in the article. But the same can be said of popular stocks, which are actually more volatile than the most liquid cryptos nowadays (GME, AMC, etc.).

The problem, to me, isn't that people are allowed to invest their money freely in digital markets (regardless of asset). The problem is that so much money has been injected into assets that people feel (correctly) that they are falling behind if they don't try to play the game. The hidden inflation tax really harms people who lack a high degree of financial literacy or who lack the discipline required to make balanced, long term investments (i.e. a vast majority of people). For most of human history, saving was the key to building upper middle class wealth. Now, good luck with that as M2 grows by 20+% in a year and CD's are paying record low interest rates.
The most ethical thing to do is to ban the formal exchange of cryptocurrencies. The same way that the USA bans online gambling.

Cryptocurrencies are essentially distributed ponzi schemes (which are also illegal), with a side order of immense waste of electricity, waste of advanced manufactured goods, and enablement of ransomware.

Its getting to the point now where we need to begin contacting our democratic representatives and requesting that they ban them, and submitting citizen's petitions and direct ballot actions.
Yeah, I agree, we may have bigger fish to fry with an entire party actively trying to redefine what voting is in America. It seems like if they didn't win that there certainly must be voter fraud and more minorities voters should be disenfranchised (or enough votes thrown out by 1 party lege committees so that they win) and if they do win then clearly voter fraud was no where to be found.
Can you support big numbers?

When I input 3^4^5, it outputs infinity.
"WHen making terribly misogynistic comments his INTENT wasn't to be misogynistic, it's just based on his experience that women are driven primarily by their emotions and unable to handle pressure!"

Really solid defense!
Except that the lawsuit literally says the opposite. That Amazon punishes people offering lower prices elsewhere.
doesn't answer the question posed in the title.
I'd be interested in a site like that, as I have a similar appreciation for high-quality stuff that's built to last. What kind of dishwasher/fridge/laundry appliances did you end up getting?
Bandsaws should only be used to make other larger bandsaws per @MatthiasWandel

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MatthiasWandel
Each time there is an election here in California, I get to vote on presidency, senators sometimes, representatives, propositions... and then a whole pile of people I've never heard of, who have minimal bios, and about whom no meaningful research is possible beyond what basically amounts to advertising. The work required to choose which candidate makes sense for these lower tier positions seems basically impossible and I do reference a number of voter guide sites.

Realistically, if someone who cares enough to put some effort into it cannot reasonably convince himself that he is making informed decisions for the approximately half of the ballot that these candidates for whatever, is it really unfair to assume people who don't care and are forced to vote will do anything but vote randomly or purely by party affiliation?
I am planning to replace my existing tv from one of dell's conference room line once it finally quits on me.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-55-4k-conference-r...

The down ide is that they are up 25% in cost over 2019 but
Your point might be true in small sub-markets - for example for AliBaba imports, especially those where tens of sellers all import exactly the same items at broadly similar prices.

As a general point, it's not even close to being true.
In my two days of usage so far…. not much. I read about other grinders having issues with grounds being stuck in the container but this one doesn’t appear to have that problem.

I think I read that the + model has a redesigned ground container to tackle the static issue - had seen some mention that static was more of an issue with the older “non +” model
In the steel-manned implementation, I would like the plots and tables to be auto-re-generated on publication, from submitted code. That would ensure that the results can have no “hidden state” and the paper cannot claim anything more than what their publicly shared implementation guarantees.

This is par for the course in theoretical work; we should strive to apply the same standards of rigor to experimental work.
Add a miniscule amount of water to your beans before grinding
And by meatspace cash, it has to be pieces of paper and metal. If you use a debit card, the payment network knows anyway. And that might not even be good enough, if you carry your phone, they have your location at that time, so if someone really wanted to, it's probably not even hard to correlate the relatively rare cash purchase at that exact time and place and know it was you anyway.
Another obvious example here given the people on this website is servers: if you're going to have a home server, unless you can go put it in a soundproofed room in the basement, you're going to want to use consumer-grade fans that aren't inherently screamingly loud.
> In essence, my suspicion is that at Amazon's scale they literally can't afford to let customers pick their own shipper. That's one variable too many to manage for their massive logistics problem, and the expense of building out the support for that would never be recouped.

I don't get it. All the alternative carriers are obviously in their system already, since deliveries obviously get routed via all of them, and (presumably) some algorithm selects which one that is in each case. All it takes is to put one more selection field on the order (and I guess in the customer profile, for a personal default value) and then use that if provided and the algorithm only if not provided. What's so hugely complicated about that?
> Would it be acceptable to claim “well, physical altercations are just going to happen because you know people will get mad at each other from time to time”?

Are you willing to punish people with jail time or worse for falling in love and adopting the behaviour that goes with it? This is the other extreme of your argument, and there are many places in the world where this is the social norm.

The PI can do everything he/she wants, love will happen and people will behave accordingly. The point is acknowledging that this is not a problem that arises at a single point in time allowing you to fire the offender, but that it happens along a continuum that will constantly decrease lab efficiency.
Are you teasing us: do you actually use a compass camping? I've never met someone (who wasn't a Boy Scout) that camps so hard they need a compass! (Said in a joking yet genuinely curious voice.)
I agree. When I buy through Amazon Prime, I can safely buy with one click because I can see the exact price I will be charged and, usually, the exact day it will arrive. For next day delivery, I can't recall they have ever missed the date.

It's logical that they add the cost of shipping to the item price, but their cost must be much lower than alternative sellers, as it is hardly noticeable on low-cost items, and comparable to prices charged by Walmart, etc. who charge extra for shipping.
Sure, the follow-up to "how did you get to this number?" is -- whether or not they actually reply in detail -- always "See, I did it this way, and I ended up with this other number. What do you think causes the difference?"
I guess they bought in bulk and repackaged?

I know somebody who sells stuff at Amazon as a third-party seller. It’s a common strategy to do exactly that: find items that are selling for more than the local store, buy it from the local store and sell it on Amazon. There’s more to it for selecting which products to sell but this is basically how it works. There are people selling courses teaching these things.
I wonder if this article is making this too complicated. It seems to argue for a cooperation and relinquishing of economic power as a way to retain influence, for example by letting the dollar lose its reserve status. That sounds like a disaster, giving up a primary advantage the US has in global influence and authority. The other primary advantage, military strength, seems like it may also diminish if the US doesn’t step up (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/2050-chinas-militar...).
That is reductive and doesn't make it negative sum.

You identified the reasons of outflows and neglected to identify the reasons of inflows, or the magnitude of either.

Any supply and demand system is negative sum by your standard.

Remember to always ask “Did I just make a separate fictional higher standard for an asset class just because I don't like it?” If you create a criteria for crypto assets that no commodity, currency, equity, or property can meet, the question is why? Is it ignorance or intentional?
I consider the major difference among them is that if you’re putting money into something long term then that’s more of an investment-

Investments are gambles but they have more substance than a quick roll of the dice as your investment affects the outcome.
Interestingly the Dyson fan is significantly louder than a cheap WalMart fan.

https://youtu.be/dS0oFmzU06g
Gems?
Who cares? Retail one-at-a-time vote fraud doesn't scale, is extremely risky (it's a felony) and doesn't happen at problematic levels. On the other hand, disenfranchising the 13% of black Americans who lack a photo ID is obviously going to swing elections.
How is the reportage of a true event not journalism at all?
Probably the lesson is most stuff boils down to product market fit. Speaking of product: the app is not available through play store, isn't it?
Thanks. I should try it out.
I've been considering the economics around a startup company that exclusively produces home appliances & tools that are purely electro-mechanical in design.

I know I am not alone in saying that I would happily pay a 2-3x premium for any appliance if it were engineered properly and actually left out all the ridiculous technological bullshit it never needed in the first place. To this day, no one at Best Buy can explain to me how WiFi helps me clean my clothes better or faster.

Also consider the current economics around the chip shortage... Relays, A/C induction motors, electromagnets, switches and all other essential macro-scale components required for building a washing machine or clothes dryer can still be built by human hands in any factory on earth. Not only are all of these things available now, they are arguably the superior engineering choice when making something intended to deliver value to the end user.
I can rank items by price plus shipping (and filter out stuff I need to wait to arrive from China) for all eBay's inventory, not just some subset of it which they do the fulfilment for.
I'm not the person you're asking, but I tried a question very similar to that once. It -- the question -- did not have the intended effect. The negotiation itself left all parties happy though, so what do I know?
There's an open-source project called grip [1] that can render markdown to HTML that looks almost identical to the GitHub rendering. It can do either live preview or export to HTML. I use it for previewing GitHub READMEs while I edit them, and it does an excellent job for that purpose.

[1] https://github.com/joeyespo/grip
No worries, I appreciate the straight talk!

The industry I'm in requires a ridiculous amount of pre-work before a client is willing to sign a paid contract (should've mentioned this is a B2B industry). I'm in the signing process with a client now, so will have a paying client and proper users later this year (high volume of users with this one client).

I def hear you that paying, validated customers gives direction and purpose to the whole enterprise. I'll focus on achieving that. The funding is more for the fact that I have major features that I can't implement myself while also rolling out to this customer.
What's the main difference between Virtuoso+ and Encore? From just a quick glance, Virtuoso+ has a number of features that aren't very useful (like a timer, or LEDs/display) while having seemingly identical burr system?
Is normal stocks any different?
Ask HN: Most Valuable Jobs of 2025?
Four years from now, what will be the most valuable job fields? AI? 6G? Biotech? Clean energy? Quantum computing? Something else entirely?
They're similar, but day trading can fuel a gambling addiction, especially when untrained investors start to try and recoup their losses by taking bigger risks.
And the seagulls uttered 'nevermore'
> I can imagine some kind of task-graph programming model emerging there allowing for very complex applications

This is why I hate technology. It doesn't need to be this complicated.
I think it has become easier to buy bottom barrel stuff on Amazon for sure, but with a little price comparison with known good brands, fake spotter, and common sense, I'm pleased with about 95% of my purchases there and if not it goes right back and I get my money back.
The desktop program does technically have the capabilities of that, but lately I've been focusing a lot more on the web version, that unfortunately doesn't, so results are 64-bit at the moment. I have been waiting for a proper Rust library that can do this, so that it could work on the web version as well, but so far, that has not happened, so I'll probably do some work on properly supporting big numbers on the desktop program soon.
Awesome, kind of like the "negative visualization" practices the Stoics recommended, haha.

I feel like this would be a good approach for me to work on my aversion to failure.
What Are Microservices? – Advantages of Microservice Architecture
> For next day delivery, I can't recall they have ever missed the date.

This depends a lot on where you are (or at least, it did). I canceled Prime a couple of years ago, because among other things, I hardly ever got things on time, whether it was next day or two day.

I don't really use Amazon much anymore. I go out of my way to find other retailers whenever I can.
Relevant comic: `Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer` https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...

There's nothing wrong with having a loose cached copy of a program in your head. The real problem is getting distracted and having to rebuild that cache! This is why open plan offices don't really work for coding. You need as few distractions as possible, and have to be able to dial in and have laser focus and have everything else tuned out. One thing I can't forgo is music however, as it makes all your coding seem epic, and activates creative parts of the brain.
Love how extra the choices are XD All OP/level 99 items!
Anyone who does any backcountry camping should have a map and compass and know how to use them.
This should be illegal. Why politicians don't stop this?
I've tried something similar but find it much more difficult to keep those sleep periods constant than I do with just one sleep period.
"people who think they're fighting back usually don't do the minimum to defend themselves"

Do you have any data on that? I rarely see people become excessive in defending themself.

"Your right to defend yourself means doing the bare minimum to stop the threat against you or others. It doesn't mean 'standing your ground' and 'fighting back' like they think it does."

It does mean doing the bare minimum. Who decides that? Usually great deference is given to the individual in the situation because it's not possible to cover the nearly infinite factors under legislation. There are states where you can 'stand your ground' in that you do not have to prove that you tried to run from a place you were legally allowed to be before defending yourself. Just because the words are in order does not mean that you have the option to do the first two. Things happen fast. You can skip levels in the force continuum if the lower levels are no longer an option.

With all the cameras in schools, I would think a review of the tapes should give a pretty idea of who struck first. Depending on the location, if neither party can be confirmed to be the aggressor, then both parties can be charged with a lesser grading or offense. So it would seem that treating both students under the harsh no tolerance policy would be inconsistent with the laws of the real world and society's views.
> front end AND back end AND... AND... AND... AND... AND... AND... Seriously, why are [full stack] webdevs paid so little.

Two reasons: 1. everyone calls themselves this these days, and 2. they are often quite weak in each of those parts of the “full stack”
There's an old quote to the effect that, if forced to choose one thing to destroy: either the Principia Mathematica or the Sistine Chapel*, choose the Principia. The reason? The Principia is a monumental achievement, but it's also universal, and it can be rediscovered. The paintings are the unique creation of one moment in time, unduplicatable.

*Or some other work of art; I can't remember the original exactly.
We made the mistake of ordering a Sunbeam set of chef knives w/wood storage block off Amazon for the kitchen at my last startup.

Every knife was dull and identically serrated like a budget steak knife, despite presenting as a comprehensive set of chef knives. The whole set was almost completely useless.

Sunbeam is not the reasonable quality brand it once was back in the Sears days, stay away.
Interesting! One thing that stood out to me quite a bit is that you had a clear definition of what "success" means to you.

Startups can be wonderful, but only if you (I) learn to enjoy the process. I'm glad you were able to find a way to enjoy your day to day and not continually defer enjoyment to the future!