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That tweet has nothing to do with voting rings. People clearly upvote those submissions because they're interesting, and the threads [1] have usually been quite high-quality once we pull the weeds of people perennially complaining about the Twitter format. If you want to hunt for voting rings on HN I can tell you with confidence that those are not the right place.

If there are other links I'd be happy to take a look.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
decay starts from the reputation, then you'll see it with sales in the coming years

you said it perfectly, they are a really big company, you don't die overnight
Ah thanks for the heads up. We'll wrap it in a html picture block. (Google's https://web.dev/measure/ recommends webp, but I should have done more research)
A lesser known trick, which is not listed here, is that you can use dd to get arbitrary code execution by writing to /proc/<pid>/mem.
Even so, providing direct control of fertility by a male partner is an important problem. Currently, the only control option that permits unprotected sex is a vasectomy -- this is expensive, requires many months, and is not always reversible. On the female side there is the UID and hormonal interventions -- both of which have downsides for the female partner.
I get what you're saying, but in my mind with regulation like people are calling for, I wouldn't even have had the chance to make a living like that in the first place. To me, regulation means something like "you need a certification", "you need a degree in x", "you need to be registered as a company in y field" which are all larger barriers to entry into the field than trading fees, the potential of losing money in an unregulated market. I also feel it would do more harm than good to the economy (you're likely talking about the US, I'm from the UK, so can only comment on what I know really)..both in terms of people losing out on returns, and banks, investment firms, etc playing silly buggers behind closed doors
How long but also how long does it take before the procedure is done and your sperm is sterile. Minutes? Hours? Days?
You're better off skipping every other version of Windows and it seems to still hold true..

Windows NT good

Windows 98 bad

Windows 2000 good

Windows Me bad

Windows XP good

Windows Vista bad

Windows 7 good

Windows 8 bad

Windows 10 good

Windows 11 bad
Wrong on both facts. They often make equal profit on their own brands, and Lidl sells other brands.
I can't wait to own one of these when they start offering AMD
What is speculative about people earning money in exchange for labor and investing that in crypto? Crypto is currency not goods that they would need inherent value. It is not so much specilation but demand, supply and investor confidence. Stocks and forex are just ad much speculative. Tesla is not valued more than all other car makers because if inherent value but because of speculative value and investor confidence for example.
Sure, but smallpox may literally be the only human disease we've ever managed to do that with. If Wikipedia informs me correctly.

COVID is much more similar to the flu, which we have not managed to eradicate. It has already manoeuvred around the generation 1 vaccines.

If vaccine is mandated, you're still going to eventually get COVID. It isn't clear how your right to healthcare is being violated here - all the roads lead to the same outcome. Israel, for example, has followed pretty much the pattern we can expect to see. There are still COVID outbreaks.

> Perhaps you should dial back the anti-vax sentiments.

What anti-vax sentiments?
Apple explains security and privacy risks of side-loading in detailed new paper
Good for them I guess, but after the whole French activist debacle, I've gotten the heebee-jeebees regarding ProtonAnything.
I think the UK will be fine for a while because they still enforce their implementation of the GDPR. Once those laws change, though, I'd definitely avoid storing or processing any data over there.

I don't think the UK has that much to offer in terms of cloud and storage. All the big brands are in continental Europe or Ireland. The real impact would more likely be that externalised services that some European businesses contract dedicated companies in the UK for (payroll, data analysis, marketing, insurance, etc.) could suddenly become a subject to strict privacy rules that would make it impossible to continue if the UK were to be dropped of the whitelist.
https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
I personally think it depends on if the sales data is from FBA or sold by Amazon. If it's sold by Amazon data that should be fair game for Amazon to do whatever it wants.

I'm a little uncomfortable with them using FBA data (marketplace), since those FBA sellers are paying Amazon for all kinds of services (distribution, storage, ads, payments, returns). So it seems a little unfair that they'd be paying a company who goes back around and uses their data to launch competing products.
> Why is this different?

Employees having to bottle-pee maybe?
Same here perhaps, but on the other hand... work life balance is sorely missing. Pulling 12 hour days, working 2 jobs, saying yes to everything and everyone...
But as an Amazon employee you need to sign a non compete agreement. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/aws-case-against-worker-who-...

Or we do stop Amazon, and others, or the future will be the corporate hell that 80s movies predicted.
This is not accurate. They attempt to maximize their profits and private label brands is a major effort to do that across retail.

“With its billion-dollar private labels, Target has become a master at spotting trends, copying them, and capitalizing on them”

“Target, for its part, seemed to see the C9 contract’s expiration as a chance to do what it increasingly does best: develop and launch a stylish brand internally—and keep all the revenue for itself.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90661935/retail-thrives-on-copyi...
I presume EU customers mostly use non-EU operating systems, browsers, other software. I find it hard to believe there's a real barrier.
But everyone on earth knew this what was happening. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
Source: "Trust me guys."
yep and thanks to /u/recursivedoubts for delivering an excellent package. I use htmx then mithril for those pages that really need client side interactivity. and it's refreshing.
> It's not possible to behave in ways that won't eventually be seen as barbaric by somebody in the future

Not true, but even if it was, who cares. You’re dead and everyone who ever knew you is dead.

In this particular case, I don’t understand why anyone would care about renaming the building. It is strange to name a building after a guy who had a bunch of incorrect theories that are very popular with racists. Just rename it, who cares.
Not defending amazon but the same happens in the UK and has done for at least the past ten years. There is a German chain, Aldi, who's entire business is built around selling knock-off brands and then boasting their products are so much cheaper than the actual branded products sold elsewhere.

The closest comparison to the amazon issue would be Tesco who have a range of budget products that look very similar to the branded alternative.
Hopefully this will finally show that Paul Krugman is a hack. At this point do the exact opposite of everything he says.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/transitory-inflat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/opinion/inflation-economy...
The rap sheet you've posted seems to suport my general idea. It states that PFAS has been dangerous in lab animal trials using levels of PFAS that are much higher than environmental levels.

It seems there have been some investigations in humans, but to be honest the effects seem largely similar to a lot of other legal substances. Alcohol is dangerous to pregnant women and infants, a fatty burger can raise cholesterol, etc.

That is a cause for concern, and I've conceded this in my original comment. However, it's not the strongest evidence for a blanket ban.

Or, alternatively, we could treat this as strong enough evidence of an effect and ban many other substances that we use every single day. I can think of plenty of foods that raise cholesterol, and I can certainly think of plenty that pregnant women aren't allowed to eat because of low birth weight fears or other complications.
Where in the article does it say Gavin is earning top dollar? He is also not lying about how much he works, only how long he works which if he is billing by the hour is a problem but if he is accomplishing all of the expected tasks I would say is more in a grey area. If he is doing all of the required work in a third the time it takes others it's likely he is not in a position that matches his skill level. Maybe he likes it that way, not everyone wants to be running at 100% capacity all of the time. The rest of the article makes it clear why that is a bad thing.
> I know in the US a majority market share is the primary determinant of whether a company has a monopoly or not.

I really feel this should be considered an outdated view. Software, technology, and automation has changed things, and companies can exert market and monopoly power much more easily with less market share than previously found in monopolistic practices.

If we read the Justice Department’s own documents, we find:

> The Supreme Court has defined market power as "the ability to raise prices above those that would be charged in a competitive market,"(8) and monopoly power as "the power to control prices or exclude competition."(9) The Supreme Court has held that "[m]onopoly power under § 2 requires, of course, something greater than market power under § 1."(10) Precisely where market power becomes so great as to constitute what the law deems to be monopoly power is largely a matter of degree rather than one of kind. Clearly, however, monopoly power requires, at a minimum, a substantial degree of market power.(11)… antitrust law does not regard as illegal the mere possession of monopoly power where it is the product of superior skill, foresight, or industry.(14) Where monopoly power is acquired or maintained through anticompetitive conduct, however, antitrust law properly objects.

> Monopoly power is conventionally demonstrated by showing that both (1) the firm has (or in the case of attempted monopolization, has a dangerous probability of attaining) a high share of a relevant market and (2) there are entry barriers--perhaps ones created by the firm's conduct itself--that permit the firm to exercise substantial market power for an appreciable period.(16) Unless these conditions are met, defendant is unlikely to have either the incentive or ability to exclude competition.(17)

If we follow these definitions and discussions, it’s clear firms like Amazon and Apple have incredibly substantial market and monopoly power. To me, the fact that they may not have even majority market share in certain markets is inconsequential. If one keeps reading the linked Justice Department document, there’s discussions about percentages of market shares that the courts have typically gone off of. These are seemingly arbitrary and obviously rooted in businesses of a different type. Through technology and scale, firms like Amazon and Apple are among the richest and most powerful corporations ever, despite not necessarily having high percentages of market share in the relevant market, but they absolutely meet the definitions above. So these percentage of market share ideas are outdated and need revamped, in my opinion.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...
I still prefer the plain question and answer approach.

The OpenBSD installer follows it, for example, and makes for a very simple interaction. When SSHing to a remote host, it's quite snappy , and has no drawing overhead.
Or why Tesla is remotely disabling LTE modems and forcing them onto soon to be deprecated 3g networks.
At one point I was getting a lot of facebook ads for MTalyor

https://www.mtailor.com/how-it-works.html

which I guess is a digital app that will measure you for clothes.

I wonder if their percentages for returns are significantly different than industry averages,

if so, I wonder if the concept might not work as a add in across other clothing lines
Twenty years is a long time, the way things will pan out is an open game.

I think more realistic than a trashed economy will be a hyper-neoliberal free market economy with even huger discrepancies between the rich few and the vast majority of poor, with GM crops, terrible workers rights, masses of migrant workers without access to the welfare state, meaningless digital rights, housing and offices in London owned by the world's rich who extract rent from those who live here, and so on. A sorry situation from the perspective of EU rights, but not necessarily a catastrophe from a hardcore-neoliberal perspective.

I'd bet on the UK becoming a low-punching competitor to EU economies, and one they'd perhaps be keen to have on their side.

The question is how we in the UK are transformed by the whole affair.
Our team lost half it's resources. I'm the ranking dev as a midlevel with a junior and a contractor under me. The company decided to combine us with another team. The next step is setting up an offshore team to support some of the mature apps. They are also setting up an office in a new location to set up another new team there.

Upper management has given some hints at good merit increases and bonuses this year. I'm not holding my breath though. Their definition of "good" might be wildly different.
Even better solution, stop tracking your citizens.
Spotify Is Breaking Podcasts
When I see a funny but most times subtle anti-vacc, climate crisis denial or right wing meme on the family chat I always speak up.

Most times on memes the premis is already wrong to make a point. It's important to check and to show people with less media skills how to check innocent funny political memes for truth. Most of them just lie or misinterpret statistics or USA any other rethoric trick to brainwash meme by meme by meme.

It's important to make it visible for our Facebook scrolling boomer parents for example, to make them think before they share.

Interesting is how deep the misinformation is already rooted sometimes. In one case I lost a friend who believed in the Corvid is a Hoax lie, because I repedatly tried to convince us in our sport chat. It's sad. Intentional misinformation should be a crime. This has nothing to do with free speech.
> We can dispense now with a common myth of modern shopping: The stuff you return probably isn’t restocked and sent back out to another hopeful owner. Many retailers don’t allow any opened product to be resold as new.

That doesn't seem true. I've had more than my fair share of items bought from amazon that were clearly not new and had been returned by a previous customer. I actually don't particularly mind in most cases for electronics since after all I've returned things in the past. Of course that's in the context of electronics and I guess when it comes to fashion, it's a lot more iffy.
Except for not being able to move the taskbar location I find the UI to generally be an improvement. As for explorer I find the UI to be a great improvement from Windows 10.
why am i not surprised he's jewish
Why are so many NFTs ape-themed? Bored Ape Yacht Club, Evolved Apes, Degen(erate) Ape Academy...
Well you certainly don't want to strap a machine gun to a real dog; they have trouble with aim (depth perception is limited) and once they discover they have power many go mad with ambition and attempt to take over the feed store.
Difference is that in retailers, they take on the risk and product research. They buy the items from manufacturers, sell it and then sometimes they make their own cheap unlabeled versions (usually buying from the same manufacturer).

Amazon is offering a big open marketplace where they invite people to offer goods, then they observe which goods sell well and how are they made, then the push out the sellers and they offer their own versions of it, essentially pushing the risk onto sellers and only reaping the benefits.

They are abusing the trust of sellers on their platform and they get away with it because of their sheer size.
You're misinterpreting the GP's post, TUIs are not "thoughtfully designed with native OS controls".
And to think that Dutch is the closest somewhat-large language to English... (skipping Scots (often seen as a dialect) and Frisian (really small)).
Ask HN: What should I ask a private-equity-owned company before joining?
Hi HN,

I've recently started interviewing with a company owned by a private equity company. I've asked some of the usual questions about work-life balance, maintenance, etc, and they seem pretty okay. Some old tech, and definitely juggling a few things at once (they're small), but they don't all seem exhausted, and the old(ish) tech they're using seems to be working for them.

What else should I ask them to make sure it's a good place to work? I'm interested in skills growth, potential career growth, and (mainly) work-life balance.
I don't understand how asking for priviledges first and taking them anyway makes it better.
Better yet, OS-wide flag to force most compatible output format. No need to rob everybody of fancy graphics.
Presumably some percentage of people have just gotten unlucky (or lucky). But when I see threads from people complaining about widespread fake/damaged/etc. goods from Amazon, I also suspect that a lot of people also just click on whatever the lowest price is given that the problems just don't line up with my general experience.
I wonder if Elon Musk will have another distracting "meltdown" on Twitter soon?

He's avoided negative consequences in his previous dealings with the law and government. Has he butted heads with the NHTSA before? Does the NHTSA have more "teeth" than the SEC?
So I recently had a realization that the money the US government spends has absolutely no relation to the money the government receives they can spend whatever they want in any quantity they want.

The only barrier is inflation; however that instead means that taxes at the federal level have nothing to do with income or revenue but only inflation control. So the IRS should be the Internal Inflation Control Service.

I am still working on the full implications of that understanding but it has definitely changed the way I look at things.

EDIT: Updated to make clear I am discussing the US government, not governments in general.

EDIT EDIT: To make clear I think this is a bad thing, it is a lever that the more powerful in society have the ability to pull, in order to move wealth from the lower class to themselves as inflation is generally only positive for the asset owning class.
For apt the easy way around this is to just use apt-get since that has a traditional output.

But you make an interesting point. I've lamented the current practice of hard coding escape sequences in the past for novelty reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013556 But a screen reader could theoretically implement a terminfo entry that could be checked by an application to see if cursor control is supported. If not then it could fall back to a plain output method which I believe should make following along audibly easier.
What does this have to do with amazon? Is this just a generic "fuck bezos" comment?
What data does it even have to sell? It's basically an etch a sketch.
I got hammered making this point re: Apple and the Dutch case about their payment system, but I suppose I'll make it again.

The whole premis here seems naive. Of course Amazon is anticompetitive within their own ecosystem. If course it's not a free market, its a market with a proprietor.

The analogy I made was to ice cream parlours in Disneyland. Any competition that exists, exists there at Disney's pleasure. They could standardize prices, ban ice cream, convert everything to franchises, force them to buy Disney insurance, etc. They own that market.

I think every Amazon seller knows that Amazon creams the market, uses them for free market research and validation, and such.

I'm not saying this is good, but "red handed" seems like a very naive frame. If Amazon marketplace needs to be a competitive market, that's a question of structure, not policy. Nitpicking Amazon's policies and catching them on noncompliance may work for a lawyer making a case, but that road does not lead to a competitive market.
Because stores do not pressure sellers to ask where their product is made to then go to the same manufacturer and make a better deal and then move the sellers product to a location less easy to find....
Does this not fall under "unreasonably constraining competition" section of anti-trust laws? I'm only familiar with the US anti-trust debates (and even then, not too familiar) is there a German equivalent that should be preventing this?
This might be a plus for the customer in the short term, but how is it a plus in the long term, when the innovation which creates the new products is snuffed?
Do we know that one can avoid counterfeit goods via Amazon's brands? I'd think that one could mix in counterfeit goods the same way one could with any other product.
Aren't all those products whitelabel and don't all big supermarkets do this nowadays? I'm pretty sure all similarly packaged products from almost all grocery stores' own brands are exactly the same in all grocery stores despite the labeling being different. They all do look like the top-brand ones though.
I've found a series of auction houses around Central Texas that handle the overflow from these returns. Generally, the stuff is "new" (still in the box) but the box itself was opened, damaged, or otherwise not sellable.

The downside is that it's a total crapshoot on what's available, what it goes for, and what condition it's in.

The upside is that 90%+ of the stuff I've gotten - a tent, a pull up bar, a Roomba, and lots of other things - have been in great shape and it didn't got to a landfill. I've had to replace screws and do minor fixes but after getting it 80% off, $1 worth of parts and 20 minutes of work is a great deal.
Potentially in original dev's defense, there was a time when OTC queue libraries, like ActiveMQ, weren't usable.

During the rise of J2EE, long before Jespin, we were directed to use JMS. Because architecture. All of the products we tried for our trivial use case would ABEND or break FIFO.

We submitted bug reports, repo steps, and patches to ActiveMQ. Closed, WONTFIX.

So I gave up. Nobody has time for all that.

Motivated by postfix, I just wrote inbound messages to disk. File name included timestamp and counter. fsync() for the win. (What more could we do?)

Processing a queue meant moving a file to a different directory. Logging, archiving, and grooming were just cron jobs and shell scripts. Tada!

Like your predecessor's solution, this allowed trivial testing, observation, and admin.

I wouldn't do this again today for anything high volume. But for less than 100s of messages per minute? Probably.
Yes, there are split incentive issues here. The worker is incented by FBA's systems to repackage it for return unless the item completely destroyed. The seller is mad because they will get an angry alert from another automated tentacle of Amazon accusing them of selling inauthentic or damaged merchandise once the damaged return is discovered by another customer. The unit is considered by Amazon to have been in the seller's custody the entire time even if the unit has been maltreated by the first customer and by the warehouse worker who repacked it.
That only applies to the US, most countries has to balance their budget.
> This article is about someone lying to their team about how much they work

The article is about that if you only read the first five paragraphs. Gavin and his shenanigans aren't the real focus of the article.
Or something most craftily hidden away, and discovered.
I hate it when programs hardcore control sequences like this. Just look them up at runtime with terminfo --- it's really not that hard.
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