skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon wants to be the place with the lowest prices, and to be known as such.

If Steve wanted to sell through a traditional retailer, he would wholesale to them and they would set the price to whatever they want.

Amazon's model is different, but not really. Imagine Steve could come in to negotiate a wholesale price with an Amazon rep.

Amazon would say: "Steve, we want to have the lowest prices in the marketplace. We checked 10 other stores, and the lowest price we found is $10. So, if we make a deal today, that would have to be our retail price. Now, working backwards, if we subtract our profit margin and expenses, the best wholesale price we would buy at from you is $3. Take it or leave it."

Also, what are these competing platforms charging much lower fees? In any case, if you're not profitable selling at the lowest price on Amazon, you don't have to sell on Amazon. You can go to these other platforms, or set up your own website. And the reason you won't want to do that is because actually Amazon offers a lot of value both to sellers and customers.
https://github.com/gentoo/pax-utils/blob/master/lddtree.py already does this. Cool to see though, very useful
> It's simply not possible for me to live without constant human interaction.

It is possible, because many people do it. But if you have already made up your mind that you cannot do it, then you cannot.

My suggestion would be to change your mind and decide that you can live without constant human interaction and want to figure out how to do that. Then put in some effort to figure out things that make you feel good while being alone.

Others have posted about pets. I agree, they are great companions. Spend some time volunteering in a local pet shelter to see if you might like a pet. Having something else alive in the house makes it feel less like you are living in a box.

Learning how to be happy and make the best of your life is a lifelong project. It requires effort every day. If you are lazy about your life, you'll likely be unhappy with it too.
> This is a reminder that you do not own the services provided by companies like Apple. We need an alternative to the App Store. Self-hosting and side-loading apps are the only way we can retain control over the tools we depend on.
I wouldn't say it's the easiest path, but a critical path. A social security number is usually required to provide identity resolution confidence (name, birth date, and address are insufficient). Don't take my word for it, that's straight from the Internal Revenue Service's Privacy Impact Assessment for it's ID.me identity proofing partner [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pia/id-me-pia.pdf (Pages 2-3)
I took it to mean that workers did what was asked and no more — so productivity stayed constant.

Which was contrasted with engaged employees, who sharing in more of the profits, have an incentive to increase productivity — eg, by inventing a tooling improvement for the assembly line.

I think the overall point was employers are “penny wise, pound foolish” in that small productivity “gains” caused employees to disengage which is causing long-term slowdowns in improvements — improvements typically driven by employees stepping up and doing more.
A Practical Guide to Light
Zen 2 beats it for price to performance, and much faster? It’s not even twice as fast. Nothing has doubled for close to a decade, and no difference in most real world usage.
Shape as Points: A Differentiable Poisson Solver
I'm honestly surprised 20% time is still a thing at Google. I would say around 8 years ago when I spoke to a Google employee they were saying it was there but basically the 20% time went towards things that were basically just an offshoot of that department anyway. And then I haven't heard of the 20% time at all in the last..maybe 5 years, although I don't really know anyone who works at Google anymore. It kind of reminded me of the vibe with postdoc students having to stick within their advisor's field versus really being able to do projects for themselves.
That's an interesting idea. However, I am terrified that if I do show up in court and do lose for whatever reason, then I will forever lose my chance at recuperating the funds. Maybe someday, they will realize that banning me was an error or the laws will change, and the decision will be reversed and the funds will be disbursed to me. I don't want to do something dumb and lose that opportunity. I've actually had a successful crowdfunding campaign in the past, but I do feel like raising money for something like this would just be shouting at a wall.
> Not only Walmart had literally nothing to show for that

You don't know that. Neither do I. That's the point. This was a 3-week long trial. Obviously there was a lot of stuff presented other than just a missing videotape.

I agree this was a civil case, Ms. Nurse is not on trial for criminal activity. But private individuals and companies do not have the right to detain you, the fact that the jury did sided for Wal-Mart on that part of the suit suggests they may have had some cause to do so. I don't think that is victim-blaming, in this specific piece of the trial -- not the others -- the jury did not find her to be a victim.
You don't need a full sized computer to be connected 24/7, Just grab a Raspberry PI or any (sometimes even cheaper and less power hungry) equivalent, flash the smallest OS of your choice that does what you want: serving videos and files, seeding torrents, hosting a node of your favorite communications platform, etc. You can keep the system on SD then use two USB drives for data, the second rsynced to the first, so you have some sort of redundancy without RAID. Total cost less than $100, possibly a lot less if you already have some parts (used hard drives and USB enclosures, SD card, etc). SSD drives would be overkill and more costly.
If well tuned (drives spinning down when not used after a safe limit, say 2 hours, efficient CPU throttling, etc) It could draw less energy than the smallest lamp in our house: totally sustainable.

About the software, I have a dream (tm): NNTP expanded so that it can be integrated with other services, include small binaries natively, or magnet links when above a certain size, the torrent being automatically created, seeded and linked by the originating user's client, employ enough security to become troll/vandal proof, etc. The infrastructure is already here, but the protocol is too tied to the limitations of the Internet in the 70s and 80s and takes for granted that everyone is a gentleman, which makes it hardly usable today.
That is frankly a deeply stupid sensationalist assumption of "structural unemployeement? straight to genocide!" The main origins I can find for it are outright projection from The Party's leadership who treated their people as tools and property who existed only for them. It showed in many ways from their military doctrines to lack of investment in even their intellectual workers like doctors. Lumpenproletariant were treated far worse than even homeless vagrants in the most callous of capitalists.
Not even late Rome with its later high levels of unemployment and unrest was so cruelly stupid. They knew panem et circenses was the cheaper option in spite of the expense and the whinging of patricians about politicians appealing to the masses with quality of life issues. If the marginal cost of goods goes to nill guess what becomes cheaper than dedicated genocide bots which will lead to retaliation? Building more and using the excess to support them. Let alone what sorts of tasks become possible with a large excess, and the nature of veblem goods.
Yes I agree with you. I wish I could find a study that clearly shows that unvaccinated people are more likely to transmit the disease than vaccinated people.

There are studies, but the ones I have found compare only people are infected. And when you have COVID you're contagious, vaccinated or not. This is then used as a basis for claiming: "See vaccinated are just as, or even more, contagious as unvaccinated!". That's what I'm trying to disprove.

Example of what I have found:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
Surprising Sydney isn't to be found on this list.
Yeah rural Irish roads are something else.

There's an oft-posted meme of a barely accessible country trail in a field with a 100km/h speed sign but this is actually quite common there.

But I can imagine how this is super dangerous. I don't want my car second-guessing me constantly either especially if it can do something dangerous. In rural Ireland in summer you'd often be meeting a tourist coach on a bridge with centimetres to spare. Really not the time for my car to suddenly pull at the wheel.

I think instead of mandating this stuff we should just focus on full self driving. If the car knows so much better let it handle the driving and let me do with my time what I wish as a passenger.

It also takes a whole of complexity in terms of driver/car interaction out of the equation.
> Well Israel is a US ally that serves US interests

The US is an Israeli ally that serves Israel’s interests. Our federal intelligence (CIA) and law enforcement agencies (FBI) are subservient to Mossad.

The FBI scooped a foreign intelligence operation setup ahead of time to film and celebrate 9/11 and they all walked. The CIA was completely unable to stop foreign assets from fabricating evidence for the Iraq war, serving none of our geopolitical goals (but all of mossads).

Our leadership, democrat and republican, must kiss the ring of AIPAC to get elected and does so. Trump and Hillary got on the same stage and swore allegiance.

A huge chunk of our congressional leadership are dual citizens, able to leave the country at the drop of a hat and live comfortably in another sovereign state.

But ignore all of this, Russia is the real threat. The pathetic gas station of a country that recently had it’s only aircraft carrier killed in dry dock by a crane that fell over.
No company has a 401k?
I’m sure we’ll be fine without forced physical spam going paperless, or using other carriers instead of turning them into amazon’s slave and spam deliverers. The USPS already uses private carriers for remote places. I don’t get the resistance to forced spam.
AWS EC2 instances tend to scale key metrics in line with one another 1 vCPU + 1 Ram Unit, 2 vCPU + 2 Ram Unit, 4 vCPU + 4 Ram Unit, etc. So it is impossible to source an instance with a High Ram / vCPU ratio. I found this annoying as I wanted lots of memory to hold a large data object but wasn't so worried about vCPU performance. Also when I wanted to upgrade on EC2 to an instance with a more powerful GPU (more cuda cores, more onboard RAM) again I encountered a similar problem. I had to use an instance with 8 GPUs - an instance type that no longer has capacity on us-east-1. This larger instance type was almost too expensive for my requirements. It was also pretty slow, probably because it was a virtualized machine (?? I am out of my depth here but it would seem this could be a cause of weak performance).

I have discovered that unless you are boiling-the-ocean either mapping genomes, folding protein structures, or training CV models, you probably can get by with older technology provided you can run on an actual piece of hardware and not a virtualized instance (again could be out of my depth here).

I have successfully launched two very stable, powerful enough for my purposes, GPU-enabled instances. I thought that if other people had a similar need for low-priced but powerful computers for a short period of time, there might be some community / club that could be built around this need.
The primary signals I use to judge the worth of a video are 1) its prominence in search results, and 2) the video itself.

This is because dislike counts are in my experience extremely unreliable—they may be elevated for stupid and irrelevant reasons on a really great video, or they may not be significantly elevated on a video that is very much not worth my time. Anecdotally (though no more so than any other account in these comments, AFAICT), I've found this to be true even on videos with relatively objective subject matter.
I would be very curious to hear of cases where any fact checking at all was done by legit publishers.

Everything I've ever heard about the publishing industry contradicts what you have supposed. But I don't have any real evidence!
Soviets Confirm Accident at Leningrad Nuclear Plant in 1975 (1990)
It isn’t delivered to every household.
Yep, but we will be told that this doesn’t have a tech angle which is why it was flagged despite a dozen other non-tech articles that somehow managed to pass muster today…but coincidentally were not critical of topics that a segment of society seems to feel are not to be criticized.
I didn't see anyone claiming to be a subject matter expert in math/science education in the article. So a second possibility remains open: they believe that it's possible to raise reasonable objections to this proposal without being an expert in education specifically.
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Who "puts liability on" someone and who enforces the ownership of property in your example, without being the same tyranny you are trying to avoid?

Tree falls on house, tree owner doesn't want to pay their liability, what happens?
Is it really fully remote? Or is it work from home only remote? Can you work from any country you choose?
The general issue here is that compatibility and vendor independence are both highly desirable features in the market, which tends to favor lowest-common-denominator technology standards, since all of the vendors want to maintain their competitive advantage. This goes both ways: keeping the good stuff proprietary and locked in, and refusing to buy into attempts at open standards offered by a competitor.
https://www.modernatx.com/pipeline (Select "Cancer Vaccines" from Modality)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29398187
>Perhaps they have video of me drunkenly bumping into the stove knob

What?
“Try, If You Can, to Remember Everything”
> 1:9 like:dislike ratio to tell you it's not worth your time

Is this really a good metric? Counterpoint: many news videos related to Covid are heavily downvoted. Does that mean that they're bad coverage? or that people don't like to hear what the news has to say?
Seems like it uses ELF parsing, I wonder if it works on non-native binaries (lddtree does not)
> Even 10% of that income to address this problem would hire literally tens of thousands of people to tackle the issue.

Tens of thousands of people moderating comments sounds like the worst of both worlds. Not nearly enough to keep up with volume, and way too many to ensure quality moderation. You'll get a horde of randos deleting stuff in idiosyncratic ways while bad stuff keeps getting through anyway.
This is not true. You can work from home, but you cannot travel and work.
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Practically, I don't think we're there yet. Yes, you can probably make a lisp-like that evals a currently existing crdt tree. The problem is, half the point (and the difficulty) of a crdt is constructing it so incomplete combinations of state updates kinda still make sense. I don't want a partial update causing the execution of gods knows what. And if we get real strictly transactional with the code tree updates, what's the point of the crdt in the first place?

I'm not sure these issues can't be overcome, but it's admittedly still an open problem.
Telephony central office switches are an example of the sort of systems you are asking after. A typical switch is designed to run for 30 years with less than 30 minutes downtime in all that time. Ericsson AXE and Western Electric are two such systems I have worked with. More recent example would be the Erlang language and the related OTP environment.
What? new CLI utilities are not in rust?

And yes it's very useful, can do more than pax-util's lddtree(libtree can help packaging your binary with all its libraries in one package), just installed and looks great.
The packaging thing (and I don't necessarily think "put it in Docker" is a great answer, especially if you're using Python as glue -- why isolate your glue?) is something you kind of solve once and are done with. You probably already want/need a common development environment between people that is close to what you deploy, and adding a fixed Python into the mix with pyenv or whatever is not a big deal.

I don't know, I've generally had a good time with. You have to know how to do it and where the foot guns are (I'm still learning), but it's better than being comparatively gimped in development velocity using Go, never mind Rust or C++.
I don't mind it. So long as repair of the system is free, paid for with taxes on alcohol.

Making non-drinkers pay to install a system (that can fail, and require maintenance) to prevent drunk drivers is not fair otherwise.
I grew up evangelical. I have heard multiple pastors in multiple congregations explain that the existence of Israel is divine, that god himself was responsible for it existing after X thousands of years and that everything they did was god’s will.

This was all of course necessary for the rapture. For more look up Hal Lindsey’s “Hinge of history”

Israel/AIPAC on the other hand is mostly composed of atheists, who are more than happy to participate in evangelical delusions to keep the money flowing.
> Well Israel is a US ally that serves US interests, namely it is by the Suez canal one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth. One could argue that there is a lot of political support for Israel in the US but it really comes down to geopolitical interest.

If Sisi blows up Suez, USA is much more better off! =D And if he blows up Tiran, even better — they will have to buy US oil too.

That's more "geopolitical" for ya
I concede that in haste I wrote "to" instead of "at". Amazon offers preferential treatment to suppliers that don't charge less (to consumers) AT other retailers. And before you say it's up to the retailers what to ultimately charge the consumer, this is not true in today's economy, where sites like Amazon, Newegg, eBay and Walmart act as marketplaces enabling direct manufacturer to consumer sales.

Although I made the initial mistake, I'm pretty sure you just piled on with more bullshit. I'm rather confident Amazon has a good read on what its suppliers charge other vendors, just Wal-Mart and Target do in the B&M space, and that they do very much care.
Yes, I shouldn't have mentioned Catholics and Mormons. The official bit of dogma the conservative Catholics care about is abortion. I'm not sure what the Mormons care about. But I don't think dogma is more than rationalization for most of these foot soldiers. They have this in common with conservative Muslims, Hindus, Jews, animists, and atheists. They want the people they approve of to dominate people they disapprove of. The rationale comes after and cleans up the mess. They learn about the approved hierarchy of power from their leaders and community. And in the US the word has come down from the elect that Israel, or right wing Israel, is their ally. Millenarian theology is just window dressing. Netanyahu mocks Obama before the US Congress so he's their man. It didn't begin with Netanyahu, but he knew how to ride the wave. This is why the Right in the US could turn on a dime and start loving Putin: he hated the same people they did. Dogma is just window dressing, a pretty screen over an ugly truth.
> We wanted to let you know that your eBay account has been permanently suspended because of activity that we believe was putting the eBay community at risk.

My eyes cannot physically roll any further. I recently bought an SD card from eBay. It was 256 GB and when I plug it in to my computer it reported more space. Some odd multiple like 261 GB. I ran f3 [1] and found sure enough the card did not have the storage it promised.

I asked eBay for a refund. They refunded me. I gave the seller a negative review in an effort to warn other prospective buyers. eBay refused to ban the seller. Further the seller sent me an eBay message threatening me for my negative review and eBay did nothing.

What is happening to you, if you genuinely did nothing wrong, is a symptom of some alpha-level ML/algorithm-based fraud detection that was made by some data scientist with poor data or no clue. And support is not trained to address this.

[1] https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduct...
Scientists have dropped limits on how far human embryos are grown in the lab
> this angle seems really out dated. the us alliance with israel is not about religious reasons.

It absolutely is. Israel, without the protection of the evangelical voting block, is essentially apartheid South Africa.
Not having the USPS won’t affect that. I know someone who lives in Alaska and if you think the USPS delivers there or in a timely manner, you’re mistaken, it’s seasonal and not USPS. The oil payments and other incentives do fine, nobody is there because USPS can spam you. If we could have spam block, I wouldn’t be against it as much, we shouldn’t cut down trees so you can have ads forced into your home without consent.
If you think farmers are quaint small independent workers, you’re also mistaken, they’re extremely educated, very high tech, and have Internet, the idea of them being hicks that use mail is outdated by decades.
Mail in voting should be skipped over for online voting. We have all the information online and could reach more voters, cities have many more options and rural areas are more easily reached by internet than physical mail. Developing counties skipped home phones for cellular, this is a complex unnecessary step.
You can do a passable job with just + - and | if you need to. Have done that for a ucontroller's cli.
Google won’t allow account creation from a low reputation IP without a phone number AFAIK, so a person that can’t afford a phone or Internet that’s trying to set up an email account in a library or Internet cafe will, for all intents and purposes, be denied service for being poor.

I hope they appoint the fruit ninja as head of the DoJ so he can slice Google into a thousand pieces :-)
A majority of Gen Z investors think crypto will make them millionaires
If ARM wants to do business in the US, they also need an entity there.
there is also altcensored, but it's kinda slow and can be a little unreliable.. It has a lot of content from 2014-2018 that has been removed by Suzan Wucccicizchzky
I have successfully used CPAN, Maven, NuGet, Homebrew, and other packaging systems while knowing little about them. You can copy a snippet, install the package, and get back to work. Why should Python be any different?
Porting 16-Bit Windows 1.0 Applications Into Native Windows 11 Programs [video]
Grocery Bag Using Django (Part-6) – Deployment on Heroku
This is surprising, considering his entire cabinet has Israeli citizenship.

He’s opening the door to reprisal against his inner circle, so he must feel like he has no choice.
https://archive.md/OOnct
Where are you seeing rust? Or is this just tongue in cheek?
Strong disagree here, there's little advantage to make separate lambda functions for each route in your server app. Microoptimizing cold start from an extra route is usually not an issue in these usecases. Keeping everything in an http library as you would without lambda is the simplest, as your routing logic is together and it's easy if u move off lambda.
There are some people whose complaints I can understand. But I don't really understand who's being harmed by a $4000 listing for a book that's worth 60 cents. Nobody is actually going to buy it, right?