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> Today the rule is "The needs of the many, outweigh any rights of the individual"

Yes, many people think this nowadays. I think because they did not experience the downsides of this or it is not relevant now.

I think most people tolerate manifestations of this quoted idea to some extent now, when it makes sense to them or it is close enough, and is bearable, like some of the pandemic restrictions.

True, this sets up a dangerous precedent, but I don't think it's certain most people completely bought the quoted idea in general. With some of the less sensible restrictions and mandates, many people realized just how wrong is to take that idea as gospel for every possible situation.
I was a paying Privacy customer in the past; I’m only a free customer now because you give too much functionality in the free tier plan and because of the occasional incompatibility with some merchants.

I normally immediately end my relationships with companies that make a change that invalidates all the effort that I have already put into the company. Why? You just zeroed my sunk cost and made the cost of switching vs cost of staying the same.

I would like to stay with Privacy but I really want some assurance that you’re not going to do it again.
Contact the Better Business Bureau. They will go to work for you on this maybe. eBay is a despicable company.
One thing I didn't notice: are they usable over prescription eyeglasses? If not, they'd be a non-starter for me.
All I’ve ever done is a donut tutorial but I still love it. A fun 8 or so hours!
I'd say like with all freelancers and contractors, it's "I can't double my rates because then I'd lose half my business".
Murder? Wasting his time dealing with business matters instead of technical ones is... murder?

I despise the... the use-of-the-most-extreme-word-possible-for-more-mundane-things-to-try-to-make-some-point-more-forcefully. (Sorry, I don't have a word or a concise phrase for this.)

But hey, it could be worse. The article doesn't say he was tortured. It doesn't call it terrorism.
Similar experience, replied elsewhere in the thread. I had some luck contacting the Better Business Bureau. eBay is a dumpster fire, better move is to never use them again and warn others against it.
they're veracious consumers.

Nothing much more than that really.
I took his graduate programming languages class. He was a great teacher.
yeah - I never got into the working outside.
> As though we should be able to sustain growth infinitely.

isnt that the basic assumption that underpins all of our economics though?

maybe im missing something, but minus that (overall expansion/growth), things start to look more like zero-sum?
Sure, but why would they? I can’t think of a good reason.

Regardless all citizens are eligible and should be given an SSN if they apply.
You made an awesome game that really hits home the concept that arbitrary execution interleavings throws a wrench in poorly designed concurrent algorithms.

I was teaching some people about threading recently. Some materials I used include https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61b/fa15/book1/java.pdf#pa... (4 examples of the producer-consumer problem) and https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/threads-cv.pdf (even more examples of broken producer-consumer). I would love to see these textbook examples incorporated into the game as new levels!
Something a lot of people don't realize: they've taken like $3+ billion in private funding since 2018. I think a lot of those store exclusives and free games are investor money going up in flames lol
> But a shallower explanation is the essence of what encyclopedias are all about, IMO

I think that’s due to encyclopedias having been sets of books with limited space.
Smallpox eradication also required mandatory vaccination in many countries; antivaxers are not at all a new thing.
Elastic makes the bulk of their money from log search. Developer productivity tools like Splunk as main competitor.

So that’s where they’ve invested a lot in tooling and visualization.
You’re right. I was off by 10 years.
> This is why the Reddit AntiWork subreddit is interesting right now, we are seeing a country wide revolt which could spread to neighbouring Western countries.

how big is this movement, actually? personally, i quit my job without knowing about “anti-work”, and without the goal of making any point. then i was very confused when multiple people IRL told me they respected me for it, and learned about anti-work. it happens that there’s some overlap between their complaints and my reasons for quitting… but their complaints cast such a wide net that it’s not surprising. so i’m not yet sure how much the anti-work label or the community actually affects things on the ground v.s. just showcases popular sentiment and actions that people would have taken anyway.
The name "privacy.com", while impressive as a domain name has always kind of confused me. As far as I'm concerned it's a service that protects against credit card theft, privacy unchanged.

With modern fraud prevention and financial regulation, we simply cannot expect actual privacy with payments or really any finance.
I closed my eBay account after I saw what kinds of scams and misrepresentations they have been allowing in the GPU market. For example, people selling literal pictures of GPUs instead of the real thing, but putting it in the GPU category and listing for $1000+ dollars.

It’s almost as if they’ve given up on their whole mission of being a safe and reliable place to buy and sell goods online. After all, who actually wants to pay for moderators? Not them, clearly.
That's just all online reviews. I have never trusted them since I did a review of some LED light bulbs on Amazon. They were green and buzzed. I gave them one star, talked about the color rendering problems, and uploaded a screenshot of my spectrophotometer readout so that you could see just how green they were. Amazon sent me an email saying that didn't meet their community guidelines. Meanwhile, a bunch of 5 star reviews from similar sounding misspelled common names remain up!

My takeaway is that I've minimized my interactions with Amazon's fake reviews. I don't trust them, and if I need something "for real" (not on a whim), I just go to a reputable vendor instead of "Aliexpress but with 100% markup". (The reputable vendor still marks things up by 100%, of course, but at least they're not Amazon.)
I don’t see a compelling reason not to use black? Actually since he argues nothing really is black, probably it’s harmless to use it!

I’m also not sure if this article is about print, screen, or both.

I prefer black on white for default on a page, the user can adjust their monitor or use a css patch to their liking.
Hacker News is the most heavily moderated, manipulated and astro-turned forum I've even seen, but you don't realize that until the mods start suppressing your posts and comments. Titles are constantly edited for no apparent reason, users who post unpopular facts are permanently penalized, and you can watch as negative stories about large tech companies are quickly flagged off the front page.

There's zero transparency here. At least on sites like Reddit you can track the censorship in real time.
And it could prevent me from driving somebody to a hospital resulting in their death.
I believe it was one of Steve Blank's fairly complicated books that differentiated different kinds of new[1]

Simplifying dramatically, there's new solutions to acknowledged problems and unacknowledged problems.

What you say satisfies the first one.

The unacknowledged problem requires you to first connect desperate ideas and consolidate them together in the prospect's mind. Then you need to convince them that it's a suboptimal state of affairs. Then you need to convince them that an amelioration is attainable. Then you need to convince them that you provide it.

Contrast this to the first one. The prospect knows things are suboptimal, has a current insufficient remedy and is open to a better one. You need to convince them that you provide it.

That's way way easier - like orders of magnitude, a "completely different problem domain" kind of easier (It's worth noting that elevator pitch templates address the easier type of new)

Next task, solve the first one in under 5 or so seconds of exposure: connect ideas, show it's a problem, demonstrate the mechanism, and propose a plausible solution that's easy to participate in.

Maybe that's trivial for you but I personally have very little aptitude for that and struggle immensely with it

[1] all those startup books become a giant soup after you read a bunch so sorry if this was like Moore or Christensen, I think it's Blank. If anyone remembers exactly where this was I'd love to find it again.
Computers are infinitely flexible. The LHC has no chance of providing any insight on, say, large population behaviour, but that’s one of the many things computers can do.
>there probably was some solid evidence against Ms. Nurse besides just the videotape.

WTF are you talking about? Can you even read what you wrote?

>The shoplifting charge was dropped in March 2017 when the store’s asset protection specialist failed to show up to court

This course case wasn't about whether Ms. Nurse shoplifted or not.

She didn't. There has been no evidence of that. Not only Walmart had literally nothing to show for that, they destroyed the evidence on purpose.

This court case was about whether Walmart was to blame for false imprisonment - and, frankly, they are not.

The police and justice system are at fault here. One doesn't need much to have a reasonable suspicion to make an accusation - mistakes happen; arresting someone has a much higher bar.

And the continued harassment from Walmart was what merited her 2.1M.

Let's stop with victim-blaming, shall we?
Ok super. I'll send you an email to start the conversation but I'm going to sleep now as I'm in Europe ;-)
Oh my that's awful! I thought you had encountered some sort of accessibility issue (which are serious on their own) but middle-click and right-click don't even work. How could they ship this?
In the USA, I was allowed to blur my residence.

After Google did a second, or third, drive by; it was back up.

I got it blurred again

The only caveat is Google said they won't unblure it ever.
And yet, when you see the number of views shorts get compared to other content on Youtube, you could conclude that it's a success for Youtube...
Hostile political forces are present.
“Shadow government” = “Deep state”?
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They were an ally too in 1967 when they bombed the USS Liberty, killing 31, injuring hundreds, then covering it up. The history is so sullied at this point that it's all just an anti-semitic plot, a conspiracy theory.

https://www.realclearhistory.com/historiat/2018/06/06/why_di...
Where is the Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type for syntax trees?

It seems instantly obvious to me (which is a disclaimer encouraging you to be suspicious) that the answer is: exactly nowhere. Syntax trees have conflicts.

If you and I have the same syntax tree, and then change the syntax independently, the results have to be merged, which may be semantically impossible.

The kinds of operations you'd like to have on a syntax tree data type are not conflict-free.
> I used to believe this, until one of our political parties officially adopted the position that the 2020 election was stolen from them

That's not new, though, really; it's new for the US, but it's a pretty common thing in the developing world (and was somewhat common in Europe pre-WW2).

The right sort of leader could absolutely have caused a similar reaction in the US 70 years ago, and the US _did_ have another weird political moment around that time; the McCarthyist panic. If McCarthy had been a weird narcissistic president rather than a paranoid, and then lost re-election, what do you think would have happened?
>In reality if you take a sample of 8 billion people somebody is bound to record 10,000 consecutive coin toss wins

Math does not check out. Perhaps you meant around 33 consecutive coin toss wins?
Same here :) Talk to you tomorrow!
I hate when you think you've made a good point only to find that Socrates beat you to it! I think his sentiment is valuable, but I don't think that kind of extremism is the answer for most people. There is a fine line between a crutch and a ladder, and if you don't take the time to figure out which you are using you will find yourself spending more time leaning than climbing.
Exactly. As well as more efficient ways of keeping people updated. Think of all the people who have to enter a ton of stuff in to Jira and then give the boss a verbal status report.

And let's not forget obviating the need for status reports entirely. I've been part of teams that got solid work done without ever having to give status reports to anybody. We'd ship early and often; our "report" was frequent results.
Why is it a bad thing? It's a personal choice, so let them be. That used to be the popular identity. It's only because now STEM is associated with money and power that people are butthurt.
Having kids helps. Mine likes to build the sets, sometimes with help, but he'll irreverently tear them down for parts. I like that the official builds don't stick around. We do our own thing. Most of the weirdly shaped one-off parts do get repurposed, except, sadly, the dart launchers, because the darts fell victim to the Jaws of ADHD Oral Fixation.
FWIW, Privacy cards, like all credit cards, have expiration dates so you'd have to refresh all your cards eventually anyway.

What I'm wondering is: why am I hearing about this over HN and not an official notification or email? Did I just miss it?
I don't see why. You haven't provided any reason for this other than your insistent assumptions about the needlessness of carts in digital purchases -- but all other digital games stores have them, as well as almost all other ecommerce platforms. If literally all your competition are doing something, and you're not, that's probably meaningful.

>"The absence of a cart implies that EGS are not prioritizing making it easy to purchase games"

Despite your use of quotes, I didn't write that. I said "its absence suggests to me that the store's primary purpose isn't to easily allow humans to purchase games", which is entirely different. Don't put words into others' mouths, or don't feign respect.
Well in some location a person can walk out with zero pushback by staff or security jobs.

Pass temp immunity for any security guard stopping lifting and this will dip.
Yeah, for chain-sawing videos it was VERY helpful. Although in egregious cases usually there are a few comments warning the viewer as well.
I’ve been using the free tier for about two years and love it. I’m not associated in any way. It works flawlessly, just as long as the merchant accepts prepaid debit cards. I’ve created hundreds of privacy cards and have only had a couple of merchants not accept them.

As a side note, the integration with 1password (whom I have worked for but no longer) is just :chef_kiss: You can create a privacy card from the merchant’s checking form and it gets saved in 1Password.
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> Most capital investments do require a more skilled workforce to get the expected return on investment.

Does it? I have no idea whether this is true or not, but there have been plenty of counter examples throughout history. The spinning and carding machines during the industrial revolution, automated checkouts, ... Even in your example, the next step in an automated warehouse where the employee is just there to make sure everything is working correctly.
This practice is anti-consumer and pro-Amazon. The "fair pricing rule" means the Amazon-related costs of doing business are spread across all a business' pricing rather than only the Amazon-sold merchandise. This can mean higher prices for non-Amazon customers. This benefits Amazon, has some (possibly small) negative effect on margins and/or sales for the business, and costs customers more.

The best you can argue for is that if you are an Amazon customer, you're paying less for the convenience of Amazon than you would be otherwise; but it's not clear that's a net win for consumers at all.
Ruby is also a pain in the butt, fwiw. It's just slightly better because gems are standardized, but you still need something like rbenv to manage Ruby versions, and gods help you if you need openssl.
Wait, you were actually being serious? How about this one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-document... / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spying_on_United_Nations_leade...
In addition to others comments, these need to be much longer to be effective. 5 to 10 minutes is not long enough to really bore me

Great idea though!
you just described proper poodle breeders: hypoallergenic, ~50lbs, bred for good demeanor (part of standard description, i believe) and do extensive genetic testing to exclude problematic lineages.
Not the OP, but Mercari is a good one. (Maybe there are others?)
When I use a regular credit card to buy something, do Google/Facebook/etc end up being able to link the purchase to my identity to market to me etc? I figured that was the privacy part.

I agree that as a potential customer my main interest is about credit card theft/abuse.

(This does make me wonder if they are mis-marketting focusing on privacy, instead of controlling damange of credit card theft, and sketchy merchants who charge you reoccurring charges you didn't realize/have trouble canceling, etc. That's my interest).
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Yeah, one can imagine some kind of public-private partnership that combines "love for a specific breed" with "ease and fairness in finding & adopting the dog you want."
ASK HN: Is there a market for lower spec GPU Cloud Compute?
A while a go I needed to use a GPU enabled computer to run some deep-learning models. I used AWS (naturally) and all was good except the price and performance was not great. I then had to use more GPU compute and didn't want to use AWS or GCP. I also didn't need the latest and greatest GPU specs. I found a solution that is affordable and with good performance. I am now thinking there might be other people with a need for GPU compute but not at AWS prices. People who dont have the skills to build the hw/sw set up but do need machine learning compute capabilities. Over to you HN? Does this resonate with anyone?
Yeah, unfortunately the model starts wanting to end the story after 5 minutes :/
> And every time someone wants to join/leave you'd have a bunch of paperwork to handle.

I don't know about you, but I'd hardly call updating a membership list held by the organisation itself "a bunch of paperwork". It's about as simple as record keeping gets.

I'd argue that maintaining all of the crypto mechanics of a DAO is a lot more work than updating a single database table!
No, my apologies if I came off defensive or aggressive. I just wanted to clarify. Thanks for your comment.
That maybe the case, but your inexperience shows, namely because different programmers have different styles or ways of doing things, so on a big system which has had numerous programmers working on it, in the absence of management installing a design & coding guide, you will end up with a can of worms!

So how many ways could you come up with that accesses data in a file? You have an OOP filemanager class which can handle CRUD to ISAM and RDBMS (SQL) back ends, the windows API's both to disk files and ODBC if the RDBMS doesnt have its own library. If you dont check and enforce basics like this, you will get eloquent functional code that meets the remit but doesnt fit into the app, eg some procedures which read and write to a file using win32 apis but ignores the OOP filemanager that exists and then the OOP filemanager class doesnt know what files are open on what thread.

The problem here is management didnt have any rule book for the basics, they also couldnt or didnt want to pay for someone else to look over the code to ensure standards/rules were being met. And then businesses wonder why their apps gets pwned so easily? Shareholders dont always learn because they dont fire the board who presided over such fubars either. And so the cycle repeats.
My main card changes all the time because it keeps getting somehow obtained by fraudsters, and then cancelled. I checked and this is true these days of many of my friends too.

It's definitely inconvenient when it does, especially when that involves updating a bunch of different accounts/vendors.
> The concept behind zconform is to eagerly load all possible protocol conformances and store them in a map keyed by the protocol’s address in memory.

if it works well in most scenarios, couldn't this just be implemented directly in the swift runtime at some point?
Or they might hold the line. Corporate execs got their agendas (egos)
It probably would not teach them anything because what the AI was saying would be unrelated to the child’s environment.
I've been having a lot of fun with the SQLite FTS library. The best public-facing demo I have is probably the search feature on https://datasette.io - e.g. https://datasette.io/-/beta?q=fts- that's powered by my https://github.com/dogsheep/dogsheep-beta tool.
Looks excellent, and I'm pleased to see you've provided the relay connection style pagination, using keyset pagination under the hood. That's awesome!
https://www.noodl.net/ maybe?
I'll take your word for it :-) I don't really remember the early web well enough to recall. I was much more IRC/Gopher then WWW back then. Also, I was too cheap to pay for Turbo-C on windows back then, so I was using linux/gcc. I missed most of the early IE 'fun' :-)
I’m not associated with Privacy in anyway. I’ve had a couple of inconvenient things happened to my account, I can’t remember the details right now, but in interacting with their customer support I got the sense that it was algorithms that weren’t tuned correctly yet. That may be what happened with you?
I think that (on paper at least) it makes perfect safe to allow graphql to be your only hammer (or turtle). I don't think federating graphql over bespoke swahger/json, sql, redis, soap is inherently better - expose graphql and federated graphql:

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/v2/

Smack graphql on your postgres, and on your ldap, and your graphdb - and federated them as graphql?
>If someone (or yourself) needs medical attention, call an ambulance. If somebody is in danger, call the police. If you need to go somewhere, call a taxi. If none are available you can also ask someone else to drive.

I know many of us here live in California, New York and other more populated areas so it is understandable we don't know what life is like in other areas.

Some people live in rural areas where it is not practical to just wait for a cop or ambulance. You would die if you did. Some small towns don't even have taxis.
I have a couple of Reolink PoE cameras that live on their own VLAN without internet access except for NTP. I can access them through the LAN, and outside the house using a Wireguard VPN.
I also had a very old account, and sold things infrequently.

Went to sell something last year, and they immediately wanted a pile of personal information and bank access that I'm simply not going to give them or anyone like them.

And that's how I stopped using Ebay after 20 years. Not like there aren't other places to sell things.
On a mostly unrelated note, I've always thought that there should be two color scales for a display; one for UI elements and text, and another for images. For full-screen video, I can switch the brightness levels on my monitor, but for websites with embedded videos and white backgrounds, I have to choose between the video being too dark or my monitor doing a fair imitation of an SAD lamp.
Ebay flies under the radar for having some of the worst customer service of any company, tech or no. I got defrauded on their platform last year, they sided with the scammer and I closed my account I opened in 2001.
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