skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What people in this thread aren't getting, because they're not in the industry as a 3rd party seller:

Amazon is double dipping, because not only do you pay them a 15% fee to sell anything on their platform, now, increasingly in order for your products to get ANY visibility and traction, you also have to spend ~15-20% on advertising in order for your products to not get relegated to the 2nd or 3rd page, where customers won't go.

This isn't because Amazon is evil. This is mostly because Amazon became too successful, so now where 4-5 sellers used to compete in a category, you now have 30+. So now you have no choice but to get them into a bidding war with each other for front page space, eating into their margins.

Who's the main beneficiary of this? Amazon, of course.

What's scummy of them is that they fully recognize this, yet refuse to reduce their 15% fee. In the past, the fee represented money paid to Amazon for your products to be visible on their platform (and for hosting product data and images). These days if you JUST pay the 15% fee, you will get literally 0 visibility and never get off the ground.

But that's not all folks!

Another way they're being scummy is having piss-poor algorithms that prevent you from raising the price on a product and disabling the listing for something they consider a high price. Well, obviously if you've created a system where you take 40% of the 50% markup, you constrain the 3rd party seller to never making more than 10% margin. Remember, this 10% must pay for

1. Returns

2. Employees that manage the catalog

3. Employees that manage order processing

4. Employees that deal with Amazon customer communication

5. Developers that make integrations for fulfillment purposes and help develop software to make catalog management easier.

Is it any wonder then when this big brother is telling you to stop hitting yourself, while using your own hand to do so, that people get mad?

Yet ANOTHER way they're being scummy is blatantly ripping off successful products, pushing them down, and promoting Amazon Basics brand or whatever they have now, selling the exact same thing.

Tails I win, heads you lose indeed.
Also, re: this caricature you make of these "keto" diet cancer plans, it's not true that the "body still runs on glucose", in fact only 25 grams of glucose are manufactured by the liver per day in the absence of dietary carbohydrates. And I don't claim to know the mechanisms, but I know FOR SURE that human beings (and no other animal for that matter) evolved to live on candy bars and sugar water, and that replacing one's diet with something species-appropriate and nutritionally replete is bound to have some effect.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN, and please especially don't post supercilious dismissals of the community. Such perceptions are nearly always in the eye of the beholder and make such comments particularly tedious and degrading. That's why the site guidelines include: "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been doing this repeatedly—can you please stop that, and stick to posting thoughtful contributions to whatever discussion is at hand?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29111916

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28633369

I understand the need/temptation to posture defensively against the community/the masses/idiots/society/whatever—I don't mean this pejoratively; I think literally all of us do it—but because it's such a mechanical reaction, it makes for particularly low-quality comments.
Interesting find, appreciate it. Going to follow up with her
Dr. Cook was probably my favorite professor I've had here at UT. I had the opportunity to learn functional programming from him in both Haskell and Agda through the two PL classes he taught here. May he Rest In Peace.
I know. I wan't necessarily commenting directly to you, but this reason has been cited by a ton of people who don't mind having forced office days.
High level computers draw each other almost 100% of the time and beat humans 100% of the time.
> This will be especially true in immigrant and tech-worker parents who know the value of a strong STEM education. Only people who suffer will be kids from families without the means or the desire to go beyond public education - most likely the same people that these initiatives purport to help.

Short term schools like Lowell are switching from using test score to a lottery based admission. And so are UC schools! So the smart kid interested in learning but who doesn't have parents in tech to send him to private tutoring better be lucky at the lottery or have the correct "holistic" attributes his target school will admit on!
From the post game interview

Q. What was the decisive moment?

“I don’t know,” he [Carlsen] says. “But it felt like at the end when I got [133. e6] and maybe there was still some miracle defense there, but it didn’t really feel that way. At that point I felt very, very good about my chances.”'
What country does? Even the US has laws against libel, hate speech, etc.
Are the Equitable Math folks the entirety of the stakeholders involved? Will "all children be at the same level up until their last year"?

If no to both, it does seem an awful lot like invoking the motivations of some of the people involved as a boogeyman rather than making an argument about the final recommendations themselves.
> People like that don't have a habit of changing their opinions, that's who I'm talking about.

I think this is a pithy description of human beings. :)

Of course, it's a habit we'd all do well to do out best to develop.
If it quacks like a duck, smells like a duck, tastes like a duck, looks like a duck, and assaults your personal bodily autonomy like a duck...it's a fucking duck. If you see that they lied about how far they'd go once, why continue to trust them or bother with pointless distinctions on to what extent it can be called fascism? It is what it is - resist it and vote out these politicians while you still have the opportunity to do so. The same political orthodoxy which prohibits wronghthink on covid vaccinations and passports is going to lie about the extent of its reach forever, until it doesn't need to lie anymore because it will just put political dissidents into prison.
Every single one of your numbers can be orders of magnitude off. Many people search without buying, there can be hundreds or thousands of fares for a single flight, and industry margins are razor thin. If you're lucky enough to actually get a commission (unlikely), your percentage will still be junk. Skyscanner (much bigger than you) is earning in the single digit percents and I have no doubt there's a cap in many of their agreements.

Pretty much any other computing service has a better ROI.
It would certainly be a news story if someone used a U.S. built submarine to attack the U.S. State Department.
..but includes a cryptocurrency scam scheme.
Sweet! This ought to be perfect for anyone wanting to create a short intro video.
Because competing with steam through exclusive deals and free games is not competing, it's racing to the bottom. I don't see any actual improvements or innovations in the Epic Games Store, it looks like a pure money grab.
Once the system is setup who is in control is going to be irrelevant. I believe the best approach is to educate the citizens so that 1) They follow scientific methods; 2) They are more resistant to advertisement/propaganda; 3) They are keen to corruption and willing to protest.
I can choose to willingly not go into a closed space with 1000+ people. The risk of exposure is going to be higher in the office. I have no qualms with meeting my team for lunch or dinner or even a team offsite for a whole day once a month but the notion of coming into potential close contact with hundreds of people day to day is very scary.
Here is a noted leftist writer who is not necessarily arguing for the strongest case of "blank slatism" but is definitely pushing in that direction here, claiming that inherent differences are overemphasized.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/09/we-dont-know-our-pote...
You got me thinking now...

How many chemicals/materials have different names depending on their state of matter, versus just having an adjective prepended?

When ice melts, it's called water. But when steel melts, it's just called molten steel.
3:1 isn't anywhere close to enough. That's the recommendation for graphics and UI components. For body text, WCAG suggests 7:1 and even that can be too light if the font is a thin style or is small.

Not to mention the various environmental factors that affect the contrast ratio in practice. Crappy LCDs in poorly lit environments rendering with buggy software. Err on the side of darker is better.

Here's an eminently readable site. Now sure it doesn't use #000 but it's also way more than 3:1 contrast ratio and uses reasonably sized generously-bodied fonts: https://www.contrastrebellion.com/
Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015)
Scott Manley on SpinLaunch: https://youtu.be/JAczd3mt3X0
It was an absolutely incredible match to watch live. Historical.

My jaw dropped when Magnus ignored his rook being attacked at the end in favor of the potential fork with his knight. It is ultimately what led to the sure win.
> Bit of a spoiler :(

I get your sentiment but this is really exciting news in the chess community. A win after so many years!!
Yeah, well...

1) At least they didn't choose that very word for their user id.

2) Old proverb about echoes: "As you call into the woods, so they answer back". All you've written so far sums up to pretty much exactly that generalisation.
> Most obese people find it extremely hard to stop being obese and often fail despite immense effort.

I used to help out at a slimming group. Like many self-improvement quests, the effort waxes and wanes. Much as I wished for people to achieve their dream of being slimmer, and even though their wishes and often their attempts were laudable, I wouldn't call them "immense". They're people, most wanted an easy fix and struggled to remain dedicated when faced with the harder bits.
Yes, I remember reading about "separated at birth" twin studies, too lazy to look it up right now.

But I remember they found a surprising amount of similarities in twins brought up in different environments.
I find this debate a little strange. My position is that youtube is a private company, they should be allowed to do whatever they want, and people should be able to choose a video service that meets their needs. If you feel that youtube is so dominant that this is cramming a "no dislikes" policy on the whole world, isn't the problem really that you think youtube is a monopoly, not dislikes per se?

Edit: I clearly didn't word this well, because people are responding to me with things I agree with. Let me try again. Certainly, everyone can and should complain about this if you want to! (You have my thanks in this case, I don't like it either.) I'm just saying that in a "normal" situation you'd be able to respond to this change by switching to a competitor. I don't think the complaints are strange but rather the lack of complaints about the fact that there are (sorta/kinda) no alternatives.
I laugh when I hear that phrase - back to normalty. We are never going back to how it was. Society has been irreversibly changed now and people's entire perception of the world has been dramatically altered.

There is no future without scheduled, forced vaccinations. That is not normalty returning. That's insanity.
What makes that kind of hypocrisy okay?
Regarding being cloud provider agnostic: it’s not always for fault tolerance, there can be a couple different reasons.

1) it gives your company a stronger bargaining position with the cloud provider.

Granted, my companies tend to have extremely high spend- but being able to shave a dozen or so percent off your bill is enough to hire another 50 engineers in my org.

2) you may end up hitting some kind of unarguable problem.

These could be business driven (my CEO doesn’t like yours!), technical (GCP is not supported by $vendor) or political (you need to make a China version of your product, no GCP in China!)

Everything is trade offs. AWS never worked for us because the technical implementation of their hypervisor was not affined to CPU cores of the machine, meaning you often compete with other VMs on memory bandwidth. — but AWS works in China (kinda). So my solutions support both GCP and AWS as slightly less supported backup.
Upstate NY, like Albany ish. We have bratwurst here. Actually being at the nexus of historic Dutch, German, Polish, and Italian immigrant populations, we have quite the selection of tasty cured pork products.

Sindoni Italian sausage is world-class. Aldi has a good selection of brats. And my family is from Western NY so we get Salen's hotdogs occasionally. I forget the name but there's a really good kielbasa at the grocery too.
The Bonsai Bandit: Store owner turns bad experience into fictional short story
In the game theoretic sense, it was move 130... Qe6 which moved the endgame from drawing to losing. We knew that under perfect play the game had been drawn since 115... Qxh4, since that's the point at which the pre computed table of endgames has the position (which is also why we know the exact move where the game from drawing to winning under perfect play).
> Most obese people find it extremely hard to stop being obese and often fail despite immense effort.

Calories in vs calories out. Simple as that.
I have had lots of interesting conversations with random people at bars, but I have noticed that generally it is only older people who are comfortable with it. The last time I tried talking to someone my own age they just looked at me like I was crazy and then turned away from me without even responding.
This one's funny because the actual behavior is egregious enough without having to be artificially inflated.
I love the fact they can convince VC to spend $80mil to try this.

20 year ago, most of space experts probably laugh at SpaceX for even trying to reuse the rocket by landing it back on earth vertically.
Here is the original article concerning the thefts:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/122291004/bonsai-band...
Regardless, NSO rules over international law.
"first they came for the dislike buttons..."
I had been using privacy.com for around 6 months to pay my Xfinity internet bill. Last month, it stopped working randomly. I wonder if this change will fix my issue.
This discussion is mostly about 8th grade and up though.
I don't, and I think the strongest argument against the dislike counter is that it encourages people to. Dislike counts aren't an accurate metric of what people "out there" think because they're heavily dependent on who ends up seeing the video - it's easy for a video to have lots of dislikes even though it expresses popular views, or few dislikes even though it expresses unpopular views.
It actually is a search engine now. (It uses Google Search via https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/)
Thanks! I'll have a look at your app. It sounds promising.

I really hope we get out of the boxy design in 5 years, and I hope it'll be thanks to Svija and Moos!
> Perhaps not, but the purpose of the public school system is not to turn out a couple of geniuses every year. It’s to maintain a well-educated populace.

It should be both.
Utterly insane. Not only required a bunch of stamina but careful work to not trigger a draw.
Thanks for that example!

Can I ask where is good to trade info and stories about this stuff? I have been on FT for a long time, but never came across this level of fare exploration. The extent of my enthusiasm is years ago jumping on things like the Icelandair or BA WT fare mistakes. Never actually searching / generating fare loopholes.

Maybe I'm reading the wrong forums. Even just to hear about it interests me (to know what I'm missing out on)...
Third point, and I'm going to end it here: I myself suffered from Multiple Sclerosis when I was younger; it was retrospectively very easy to correlate, at least in a large part, with diet and lifestyle. The changes I had to make to be in remission were DRAMATIC but worth it. I don't think I would've been insulted to read about people in similar situations experiencing remission from lifestyle adjustments, in fact, I would have been extatic to find out I'm not condemned to slowly drift into being eventually wheelchair-bound, as my doctors were predicting.
My Washer/dryer is going on strong.... 17 years later
Right up until our strong pool of unvaccinated folk provide the evolutionary opportunity to infect the vaccinated pool. Why that seems to be exactly what's happening right now with omicron. But since fatality rates are decoupled from virulence rates as long as you survive long enough to spread the thing, we're all stuck waiting another couple months to sort this out.

I'm 100% on team life finds a way (tm). I don't need you to think that way but I'm going to continue thinking that way and we'll see how that goes.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, what you wrote to me here is absolutely dripping with condescension. Maybe we just don't agree on what that word means? In my view, writing the following to a stranger whose life you know nothing about could be a passable definition of "condescension":

> If you want to stop feeling bad, you need to actively start figuring out new possible ways to feel better. Working on building relationships with friends, neighbors, members of your local community is a good place to start.
It comes from a real place of privilege to claim schools holding advanced students back never happens. To name one specific example with the most capable, Miraca Gross ran a longitudinal study with children scoring above 180 on IQ tests and found stark differences in motivation, satisfaction, and accomplishment depending on their level of academic acceleration[1]. (Terence Tao was “Adrian” in this study and was one of the models of successfully educating an advanced student). Kids might do something more with math out of sheer boredom, or they might just devote their energy to Pokemon instead—believe me, it’s not just the below average students who feel the urge towards everything else you mention.

Every student, no matter how capable, benefits dramatically from instruction tuned to their level and ability. Claiming advanced students will take care of themselves is an absolute failure in an instructor’s duty of care towards them, an excuse to make the teacher feel better about not having the time, interest, or knowledge to provide proper instruction. There is no merit to the notion.

[1] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf
How do you figure left-wing opinions are dominant on the internet?
Exactly. They can't mandate a vaccine if you just sit at home your whole life. But if you enter the public sphere there are certain rules you need to follow, and the state can mandate those.
Looking at this as a single instance of censorship as tyranny might provoke ridicule, but I see where OP is coming from.

Taken in aggregate, in a world with multi-trillion dollar corporations censor their users, it's not ridiculous to talk about this as tyranny. There is no one tyrant, but every corporation rules like one and taken as a whole, the "world's government" (in this case the set of the most powerful corporations) is tyranny.

Anyway, I'm neither here nor there on the argument, but I don't see what's so laughable about OPs offhand comment.
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

Between this comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29419551, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423080, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29419708, you went way over the line and well into bannable offense. You've also been posting flamewar comments elsewhere too. That's not gooo.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
The discrepancies I'm talking about is not between Illustrator and your browser, but between different browsers/renderers. Filters in particular are problematic.

You have to be careful about what you mean by "SVG effects" since the spec is quite large and has many ways of doing things, and different software may not agree with how they work. I don't think any renderer passes the entire standard test suite.
You can watch the commentary by Judith Polgar. Of all the people I enjoy watching her live commentary because she has amazing insight into best moves and explains the reasoning behind it.

For few of previous matches by Magnus, she found moves that even Magnus had missed.
That's also about not calling attention to its cult-like characteristics. DIE is a little too on the nose for a group that demands conformity and unpersons those that dissent.
The longer the centrifuge arm relative to the length of the projectile, the less of an issue this is. We're already talking about an extremely long centrifuge arm.

Attach the payload at two points in a narrow V, equidistant from the center of mass. In the instant before release, fire pistons that slightly extend the upper arm and retract the lower arm, applying the exact amount of force you pre-calculated was needed to counteract the differences in rotation between those two points. Release while this (hopefully uniform) force is still being applied.

Yeah, you're jolting the hell out of your payload, but that's peanuts compared to what it's about to experience anyway.
You’ve probably already heard about it but “The Mom Test” is a pretty good read.
Do we really need undefined behavior?
For my eyes black on white is far superior. White on black results in haloing around all text, whereas black on white results in generally pretty crisp text. This is why I use light themes and high-contrast mode for anything that supports it. (The glaring exception is Spotify)

The basic idea is that for folks with blurred vision (not out of focus, literally blurred), bright colors will erode into dark surroundings. Dark text on light background means the text is uniformly slightly lighter than "ground truth", light text on dark background means a distracting halo forms around the text.
Usually hunderds of lines of set up code point out the issue in the code itself -it's usually a smell of a god object/function that has too many responsibilities
In practice, yes. It is codified into law in countless nations and there are no major movements to change those laws. So in terms of the reality of being a living human being in any given society (free or not), yes, bodily autonomy is limited by many, many things by the state, one of those being vaccine mandates. You may not like it, but that is simply the reality.
https://www.gog.com/game/while_true_learn
I really really really really really really really really LOVE THIS.

1 feature I love to see, if possible, is to implement either youtube videos or Gifs.

(Would be cool if there was a really basic keyframe animation tool bar, but thats a lot of work) So don't listen to me.

But overall i love this. Thank you for making this!
LCDs of the 1990s had ghosting, and this was solved with pointer trails and other accessibility features, like disabling animations. People should be able to make the choice of outdoor visibility versus update smoothness.
I have hundreds of cards! Why are you forcing me to do this?! I have no time! Honestly, I'd probably just move to my main card, which almost never changes! Tomorrow you may decide to do something again! I really don't have time to babysit this! You should grandfather all cards and allow customers to change them if they want, otherwise, they should be valid till their expiration date! You're asking us to do a lot of work during the holiday season - this is crazy, really!