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The problem is the marketplace. Amazon was great when they were an online retailer. The marketplace has brought in vast amounts of garbage, and now ads for that garbage.

The regulation you mention will probably only make it much worse. It is being advocated for by the third party sellers that are making in a bad experience in the first place. I don't want to see them at all, much less give them more prominence.
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Terrible book that has some gems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21769264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19059590

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25309966
> That sound more like an anti-feature resulting in unstable programs that almost work.

It's both. It will generally ignore non-ascii data, but that is very commonly something you don't care about, in which case it's a net advantage over plain not working at all.
AI seems to me as quite experimental. Designing better benchmarks (that is less cheatable) will help. Publishing code will go against IP policies, that should be handled at the political level : do you research for profit or for knowledge ?

But yeah, code adds transparency and a whole lot of cheats... The funny thing is that any well organized coder will automate report production, so it's not like it is hard to do...
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>the bill would prohibit election officials from sending absentee ballots to all voters, regardless of whether they had requested them; ban using tents, garages, mobile units or any temporary structure as a polling location; further limit who could vote absentee; and add new identification requirements for voting by mail.

>Partisan poll watchers would also have more access and autonomy under the bill’s provisions, and election officials could be more harshly punished if they make mistakes or otherwise run afoul of election codes and laws.

Why does the United States allow anyone to vote without identification is a shocking question to be asking in 2021.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying they have no use, I'm saying I can't find a use for them. I just want to be very clear I'm saying me personally and not others.

Wrist notifications are kinda nice, yes, but I almost never don't have my phone. I've also had one broken screen in 11 years of carrying Android phones, so I'm not the typical user. Always having it with me kills most of the utility of the watch for me, I think.

I also use finger unlock, because I'm Android. I don't use face unlock even though it's available because I think finger is far superior, to the point I won't buy a phone that doesn't have it. I skipped th ePixel 4 totally because of the lack of fingerprint. If the Pixel 6 has no fingerprint, then I'll skip that too.
Let me tell you this: I'm from the Flemish part of Belgium. YouTube and other sites with ads can't figure out that I don't speak French.

So even with this simplest of use-cases: GPS says I live in Flemish part, never search in French, etc. Still they sometimes show me French ads, which is a total waste of course.

So I don't believe the tech is so crazy advanced already.
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> Helpful sites handle this by offering to compute shipping at any point in the order

Exactly. Some sites have an input field on the product page, under the product price, so you can add your postal code and see the total price
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The "PC twitter sphere" as you describe them are only interested in one thing: doing what is easy and public for burnishing their own stature, and nothing else. No real problems will be solved by them, because they prefer having the public think they are solving them, rather than putting in the actual work and disciplined thinking to do it.
I think another place people can end up here is if they don't know what the compiler is doing under the hood, it's easy to assume the shortest code will perform the fastest or something like that. "Presumably this cool trick avoids these extra steps" type of things.
I normally go with a range, not a specific number. I would be happy if I made between x and y. This allows you to set the actual minimum and give a higher max than you expect. Normally, they will pick a number in between.
> make you pay 0.01€ for shipping

Hard to imagine they (bureaucrats drawing up the regs) didn't see that coming. I'm guessing they did, but saying they enacted legislation to protect small sellers was their real goal.
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> they don't know or don't believe they can look things up in their history

My browser histories are never complete. This is for multiple browsers across multiple machines.

It has become so commonplace for sites to be missing from my history that I've all but quit looking.
A couple months back, I needed to buy car insurance. Literally, for six months, I had been being bombarded by Liberty Mutual. But I didn't google for car insurance. I the shitstorm that would create. Instead, I thought of 3 of the major ones, priced them out from their own websites and got the cheapest one. One mistake I did make was I went to one of those "compare rates" meta-sites, and the bastards wouldn't leave me alone for a few weeks. One of the companies I priced asked if I had previously had them. I told the truth and a local agent sent me email after email until I told them I already had bought a new plan.

It wasn't until some time later when I saw my next Liberty Mutual ad that I realized that they had never even crossed my mind during this whole process. Ha! I still chuckle. Now I am even more conscious to avoid things that I see a ton of ads for. I hate ads!
Perhaps a notable difference would be the civilians that could come into proximity of the target from the point of deploying to the point of executing.
Ironically, one of the proponent documents of QUIC and HTTP/3 (https://http3-explained.haxx.se/en/the-protocol/feature-udp) actually calls out how QUIC doesn't solve this problem either. Middleware boxes are blocking or deprioritizing UDP packets already, so UDP based 4.5 protocols can't solve the very problem they claim to.

Circumventing badly behaving middleware is obviously not actually possible. You can't account for every protocol-breaking/limiting decision every middleware vendor has ever made, and the "they'll come around" argument is a better argument for NOT using QUIC.
Race is not a factor here. You can blame a gay person for bad actions without being a homophobe.
By framing that as “exclusion” are you assuming the women-only labs would be worse places to work than the men-only labs?
Same here, but I can not go camping for a living and I enjoy building things with code after midnight.
I've been working on something along these lines [1].

See the "fork" statement which is close to the "what if" branching logic referenced in OP's article. I've been trying to revisit some of these concepts for chatbots or game AI. Reach out to me if you want to discuss via voice/video, since this topic is what my PhD was on.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/dmpl/
For skiing, if you want to do it for life, always buy decent boots and ask pros where they get them fitted. Most people ski in boots a size or two too big or with poor cuff alignment (even people at a high level). It is much harder to improve and enjoy your time on snow with these things not addressed.

The consumer approach would dismiss getting a professional fitting as overkill and unnecessary but they really limit their enjoyment.
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The transpiler could in theory generate code in the native language. You can see for yourself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27032399

Please file bugs/issues if something isn't working.
In my experience code quality falls out from making mental simulations easier to produce. Abstraction boundaries should be drawn where mental processing starts feeling burdensome.

When running abstract mental simulations, do you assume that I/O operations succeed or fail for knowable reasons? It seems likely. If the code were expressed to match your mental simulation, for example by not performing I/O within the function, but by merely receiving I/O messages from a foreign actor, it seems like you're not far away from offloading the full mental simulation to something like quickcheck and writing down explicit invariants!
If they ask me for email or full address to show me shipping prices, I just close the tab and never go back
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I've definitively not bought something from sites that didn't offer me the "complexity" of that user experience, and insisted I enjoy the "simpler" user experience of entering an email address, shipping address etc. pp. before getting told what this would cost me.
It's pretty clear that you didn't read the article because Stoller outlines why it's a monopoly very explicitly.
A note about the 'Ka-Bar' knife, since I've both been in the Marine Corps and am into knives: the military doesn't use it. In the real world, if you want a knife in the service, you typically buy it yourself.

Does the USMC still use 'bayonets'? Yes, in certain circumstances they're issued--but it's not common, and it's not the Ka-Bar, it's another brand (I forget which one).

TL;DR: Ka-Bar 'USMC knives' are a marketing gimmick.
Yet another reason why ad blocking is ethical.
The main reason to wear these is abrasion resistance for working with ropes and tools. They are not needed for everyday skiing and a goretex glove is going to be a better and easier choice. Unless you really need that snowgun maintenance crew chic.
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> Still, the bill includes a provision that could make overturning an election easier. Texas election law had stated that reversing the results of an election because of fraud accusations required proving that illicit votes had actually resulted in a wrongful victory. If the bill passes, the number of fraudulent votes required to do so would simply need to be equal to the winning vote differential; it would not matter for whom the fraudulent votes had been cast.

Wow, this establishes an incredibly perverse incentive. If a party believes that they will lose, they can engage in fraud in favor of the opposite party (e.g. burning boxes of ballots in safe districts), and spoil the vote. If the same party is already in power, it would appear that they could just keep playing this game, pardoning the offenders each time, and maintain control of the "interim" government indefinitely.
Strange that.

I'm not really responsible for getting edible food, drinkable water, warmth, cover, shelter from the elements, protection from hostile animals or enemy humans.

I also don't have to actually make anything with my own hands.

So, yeah, indirectly I do some of these things by earning a salary, paying bills and buying stuff, but I not sure that the work I do day to day is much more complex or responsible than what an equivalent neolithic hunter gatherer would be doing.

I don't on a daily basis do things that could get me or my family members killed if I did them wrong.

Also a lot of what we consider primitive skills take a lot more art or technique than we appreciate. Flint tools look like they might take real skill do do well.
> Your question resonates a bit with the "Never Split the Difference" method of asking an open ended question immediately after receiving an offer. "Can you explain how you came to this number?"

While the general advice of open ended questions is sound, this question rarely works with companies. They'll simply respond with a vague answer.

"We did market research and determined that this is a competitive rate for your skills."

You have to counter that showing actual market data that disagrees with them.

I'm a but surprised no one mentioned the other "trick" in NSTD: Politely insist on a fringe benefit that they cannot provide (e.g. N weeks of vacation). This will make them more likely to increase the compensation to counter the benefit they cannot give you.
I came here to say the same thing. That seems to be the key point of their argument and it's glossed over in two sentences. Unless Amazon is punitively punishing sellers who sell off site cheaper, it doesn't seem like there's much there.

They mentioned the "algorithm" which seems to imply this isn't an agreement entered into by the seller. Is Amazon crawling other market places to check seller prices against their site? Couldn't sellers circumvent this by using a different name?

This allegation is put forth without any supporting evidence and, considering the amount of crummy things sellers do on Amazon already, it seems trivial to circumvent.
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eh. the 5 quart hobart is the same capacity as the 5 qt plastic gear break the first time you knead machine. and it really is a joy to use and break down.

it does stand a bit taller and weight about twice as much.
A nag every 5 minutes to do so, lags and slow startup time due to all the stuff running in the background and, to top it off, horrible settings menus as the actual picture is not the main focus.
I think for the typical consumer, most time spent on Amazon support are shipping mistakes. I didn't get it, the quantity is wrong, or in some cases, I got too many. Their support is fantastic on all accounts... they've never even hinted or accused me of being dishonest. If I get something later that was already refunded...they just tell you to keep it. That small gesture goes a long way, to me.

If you get junk from Amazon, just send it back. No support needed.
This is a wildly romantic and patronizing view of our ancestors. Our ancestors had FAR harder lives with more complex responsibilities than anything you have today.

It's just so ludicrous to sit on your couch, eating takeout food, paid for either by social welfare or white-collar work (also done from your couch) and spitball "oh, our lives are just so complicated and hard now".

No, your life is stupidly easy now. That's probably a source of problems in-and-of itself, but that's another issue. You aren't worrying about starving to death, tracking prey through the forest, gathering enough roots to survive the winter, your children being eaten by wild predators, or jesus, the other thousand things your ancestors had to worry about on a day-to-day basis just to stay alive.
Python has a PR problem:

* That it's a dynamically typed language
* That it's not a serious language like C or C++, suitable for writing a 50 line throwaway script

I'd like to convince people that both statements are false. But probably best to use the github issue tracker than HN comments.
How do I purchase package insurance on something Amazon ships to me?

In theory, Amazon's T&C's attempt to pass on the risk of loss to me after delivery of the item to a carrier. In practice, this is far less clear, because of merchant agreements / cardholder agreements and overall FTC regulation of goods sold directly to consumers.

But it may be moot, anyways: if Amazon decides to screw me, they have a bunch of digital assets that they hold hostage and will remove my access to if I initiate a legal dispute or chargeback, even if I'm in the right.
That is exactly why you never throw the first figure. If you throw out 120, and they expected to pay 200, you just lost out big time.
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That sounds incredibly slow in comparison to a bandsaw (also cheap crap from harbor freight -- but I got mine 20 years ago and it's still ticking along fine)
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I think this is Amazon's goal, where you're expending energy not to buy from them. You need a reason not to and then it only lasts for a short time period.

They're banking on being people's default retailer which lets them get away with this behavior.
I'm confused. Why wouldn't they pay you the minimum you requested. Why would you put an upper limit to your salary? Is this some strange game people play?
Haha, pretty sure the author doesn’t expect anyone to take this post entirely seriously.
If they make you sue when the case is clear-cut, good regulatory regimes charge punitive damages to discourage the customer-hostile behavior.
> Hacker news and /r/programming is only good to get general ideas and keep up-to-date. The comments are almost worthless.

Maybe he is on to something.
I think this is due to the reliability of rifles now though?
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> And we just let them do this.

And by “we” I hope you mean consumers as much as the people who built this. Some may say this is a systemic problem and I don’t necessarily disagree with that but I think that narrative obscures the fact that the average person literally does not care. Maybe privacy-conscious tech nerds on the internet care but normal people really do not care at all because if they did they would not consent to it when purchasing an iPhone or Android. The public is well-aware of the lack of privacy of these devices yet their behavior does not change.

If you are a tech person who cares about your privacy then buy a Linux phone. Apple and google and government are not going to change this when there is no significant public will to change this.
Everything you say is true but provides no actual tactic to get the employer to offer a higher pay.

> I am in the business of providing value. That's what you pay me for and it's commensurate with the amount of value that I can provide.

"I can get the same value as you provide from someone else in your city/country for cheaper than you ask for."

When you go shop for products, will you pay more for a product made in an expensive country despite it having no advantage over the one made in a cheap country? (Assuming no sweat shops, etc are involved).
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> As a result of this they produced languages and frameworks like Go, Dart, Angular and Tensorflow, which display ignorance if not outright contempt for modern programming language theory.

This is a non-sequitor. Google hires a lot of PL PhDs (I'm one of them). And for relevant teams there is a "Domain Expertise" portion of the interview. And many of the people working on the languages and frameworks you mention have such background.

You don't like these systems. That's fine. But "Google would do it all differently if they just hired some PL PhDs" is just false.
Yes, it supports static generation and you can do a `next export`. So, it can generate HTML export, perfect for SEO.
Exactly - IDs are required for pretty much everything else we do. Voting should be no different.
Considering he doesn't use ad blockers, i.e. he sees ads at all, he may not be a data privacy expert. /s
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Because somebody, somewhere, finally got their shit together and decided that it's not a protocol without two independent implementations and a continually updated conformance test suite.

It's the future. It might happen.
Yes, it is a helpful step towards locking in minoritarian rule. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/advantage-gop/
Your argument is that forward secrecy is important in messaging because forward secrecy is important in messaging?

I'm not trying to be argumentative here, I actually don't understand what the reason it's so critical is, nor have I really found any explanations online. For text messaging where you don't really go back to read your old messages, sure, forward secrecy makes sense. Email seems to be a different story where user expectation is different and forward secrecy both precludes many desired features and also doesn't provide significantly more security, other than in very limited circumstances.

Also, I'm not an advocate of PGP at all. If people can use Signal for their usecase, great! They should do that. But Signal's model does not work for everyone's usecases. How do I send a Signal message to security@example.com to report a vulnerability? Is the entire security team supposed to share a mobile phone with Signal on it? What about banks that need to send secure email to each other, but must retain all messages for compliance purposes? (Again, I'm not advocating that PGP should be used in this scenario either, just that there's room for a better solution here, possibly without forward secrecy by default).
This. I've also noticed that websites that don't run without JS are either interactive apps (for which it is understandable) or sites that want to load JS from so many places that I simply can't be bothered figuring out which ones to whitelist.
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I have been, over-time, retro-fitting my home with pro/commercial-grade infrastructure items such as: quarter-turn marine-grade ball valves for the water-main; toilets, clothes washer, fridge and dishwasher; recessed sillcock valves; outdoor hose reels and hoses; sprinklers (this is a biggie as so many sprinklers are one-season junk); heavy-duty light switches; ceiling fans (the wonderful Big-Ass fans stuff); locks and latches, fencing hardware; outdoor lighting, and so on. Stuff that is fairly invisible but which offer high utility and, especially, durability and trust without being inconvenient or weird.

At one point, years ago, my brother and I considered creating a web site that explored these kinds of high-integrity options, and acted as a directory and maybe a review site as well. A site that evangelizes high-quality, well-engineered items that are easily integrated into a home and provide much greater longevity without costing a fortune. "Overkill" is probably too strong a term for the idea.
tbf I mostly do it for EBay type stuff
It's mainly on Pixel phones, ironically. Has something to do with the security chip they come with
I think popularity was the wrong word. More than anything I am concerned at how democracies are catering to Chinese audiences, ignoring the Chinese government’s authoritarianism because economics trumps democratic values. Maybe acquiescence would have been a more appropriate word.
If you're frequently being paged for stuff you literally can't fix, then the process/monitoring/alerting has broken down somewhere and needs to be fixed. If it can't/won't be fixed, then the company needs to hire ops people whose specific job is to react to and triage system failures -- devs should not be treated as escalation machines. If the process can't be fixed and the company won't hire people to handle the process, then you quit.
They'll deliver something, but I'm not so sure it'll be worth $7.95.

I don't even trust Amazon for buying books any more. Of the last batch I bought, about 30% have blotchy, blurry font, making me suspect they're knock-offs printed from imaging the original. Often it's the same imprint but one book has crisp clean lettering and the next has varying fuzzy blur around every letter.
There is rather scant evidence of two-shift sleep presented here; a single quote from some unknown writer and a single experiment with broadly interpreted results.

I'm not convinced.
I have thought about doing derivatives and such algebraically when possible. It should certainly be doable, and I already have a system for moving things around to achieve these kind of things. This may be a thing in the future.
We know that Einstein's General Relativity can't be quite right
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