skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can decide what types of mail you do and don’t want from marketers. Register at the Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) consumer website DMAchoice.org, and choose what catalogs, magazine offers, and other mail you want to get. You’ll have to pay a $2 processing fee, and your registration will last for 10 years.

Is it just me, or is it insanely fucked up that in order to reduce the amount of junk mail you have to 1) first provide your information to yet another third-party site, and 2) pay money.

This is beyond backwards.
"US has over 750 complaints of Teslas braking for no reason":
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-750-complaint...
I’m not convinced it’s so trivial just because it’s entertaining.

These are Russian mil bloggers. The most pro Russian military needs you can get. Some of them are embedded with the troops. They have only recently started to be very critical of Russian military leadership. I think it reflects an inflection point. They’ve lost a lot of their officers. Their leadership is shit. Their units are disorganized, demoralized, and comprised of various half depleted units smushed together. Their logistics and intel are poor. I think its just a leading indicator of reduced fighting capacity.
https://youtu.be/iKTBaF7kpBI
It might be a slogan that gets advertised more, but users don't give a crap about choice when all they want is read misinformation on social media, post personal data in public and watch cat videos on ticktock.

The amount of 'taking things back' might only apply to those who 'had' things to begin with, and only a subset of those that still want to 'have' things. I fear most people neither know nor want to know about any of this.
Under the hood, it's a credit card; you'll get a credit line much larger than the $2. How it impacts your credit depends quite a bit on how many other accounts you have, and for how long; a thin, short credit file will be more heavily impacted by a new account.
> Or it can be is as simple as saying a caste system is dumb

Agreed.

And this ironically is the crux of the problem: most Indians find it dumb, don’t care for it and hope it dies out soon. But some groups would like to keep using it as yet another way to divide for myriad reasons: vote bank politics being the biggest if you follow any Indian politics at all. Preventing base bigoted discrimination is a reason too, but a very small reason.

This group equality labs is less of the latter and more of the former.
Fallacies of distributed systems
I actually suspect something different is happening.

Local optimization beats global optimization. It's why Google went to the crapper too after it reached some number of employees. With 100+k people, no one cares about Google, but about their success within Google.

Someone at Amazon is meeting their short-term objectives and getting their bonus. "The brand" suffering is much more amorphous and harder to translate to a KPI.
The author thinks the parable they heard concerning silly traffic priority negotiation would be too horribly impractical to occur in real life; but they clearly have never been on a winding (mostly) single lane coastal road in Southern Italy, e.g. Amalfi. Silly and impractical negotiation between drivers is exactly how it works, or rather, doesn't. Although in this case it manifests the complete absence of planning rather than too much (the point of the article), because nobody sane would plan to allow tourist busses to travel bi-directionally on a geographically-constrained winding road that barely enables small cars to pass two abrest in many places.
> Brave is basically arguing that third party marketing-distribution networks which use personally identifiable information to target ads are bad.

>I think it's pretty reasonable to suggest that exposing that they do so via a third party marketing distribution network which uses personally identifiable information to target ads may have been a misstep without arguing that means they can't advertise at all

But in this case there's no targeting involved? They just told the "third party marketing-distribution network" to send ads to every household within a given zip code.
I can't afford to live in NYC or SF or LA either, but that doesn't mean I can't afford a place to live.

If someone cannot afford to live in the most desirable locations in the world, but they can live almost anywhere else, that is not a crisis.
Those are 2 very different things.
> Having a non-monarch head of state wouldn't have inherently resulted in anything different.

The Queen is unelected and has the power to dissolve parliament. That’s fucked. At least without her the person doing the shitty thing is subject to being sacked.
I was once attracted to it, and to EA, because of the surface-level values. It seemed like a community that wanted to acknowledge their own biases and work past them, yet in practice, it is a community that uses intellectualism as an aesthetic to confirm their preconceived biases. In its malignant form, you have LW and adjacent communities engaging in scientific racism revival. In the less malignant form, you have people working backwards and pretending that the conclusions they came to were "objective" because of the flowery Bayesian language they dressed their thought experiments in, as if they're constantly doing complex Bayesian inference in their heads. In the end, what was striking, to me, was the lack of humility you'd expect from those who agreed with the LW premise.

Similarly with EA, I liked the idea of optimizing charity for the most good, but in practice, the community seems to have no problem dedicating a ton of money, time and effort to MIRI and adjacent groups and people, because they've managed to use their intellectual aesthetics to spook themselves into believing that science fiction is reality. As a result, very real problems people experience today are discounted in favor of whatever scary future AI meme is spooking the community this month.

It's really kind of funny when you think about it, it's just a shame that they suck up so much oxygen in the room.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MusicalEpisode
I had a PO box that I kept for my side business. Never really used it other than to have it as my address, but I received so much junk. I had to go in and clean it out every week. If I didn’t, I’d get notices from the post office. I finally asked them stop putting in all the junk in my mail box. They said, I’d have to call them individually to stop.

That’s when I realized, the post office actually makes money from doing this so they have zero incentive to stop.
Actually housing IS one of the things I cannot afford -- if you are talking about SF, LA, NYC, etc. But luckily for me and everyone else, those are not the only places one can live.
I'm also not a lawyer or CPA, but I believe if a US person is a partial owner in a foreign corporation, the company is required to do their accounting by GAAP standards. So, if the company is in a country that follows IFRS standards, it would have to do their books twice.
One reason it's good for PostmarketOS to support lots of old models of devices well (rather than, say, just new Pine and maybe Purism) is that it avoids the risk of mobile open source Linux failing altogether, should 1-2 device vendors somehow drop the ball. This has happened multiple times before.
I've experienced sites with infinites scoll footers where the disable button is... on the footer.
A month into Kagi and not one fallback-search I've made on Google yielded better results.
I'm glad to finally have the option to use an essential web service without being turned into a product for advertisers. Would definitely pay more if I had to.
This is why I covered the internal cam on my model y. Basically, I can't see the video, only Tesla can, and the video would never help me in an accident, only hurt me.
Is there anything you can do for landline spam calls? Or spam texts? My family is inundated.
180$ for 32Gb ddr5 is cheaper than what the same ddr4 kits have sold out for the latest years.
Copyright 1991
If the USPS offered a subscription service where they throw trash away instead of stuffing it into my mailbox, I would pay it with a smile on my face. I don't even care that it probably meets the definition of a protection racket.
Given the histroy of unintended accileration its really absurd not assume this is not more of the same.

I would require really strong evidence to believe it is anything else.
Is HN GFWed yet?
Artists Have Been Painting Inside This Spanish Cave for 58,000 Years
That may be true in the short term, but comparable Intel processors actually cost a lot more because the motherboards are more expensive and power consumption over time will make the less power efficient Intel CPU much more expensive than AMD.
Short little post about Fallacies of Distributed Systems. These are some thoughts I feel often get downplayed when engineers are designing microservices.
This looks very interesting and I love the care that was put into avoiding more dependencies than strictly needed. Just make the progran do what it needs to do and nothing else, and make the effort to do it portably and future-proof.

This gave me a feeling that each day is less and less easy to get: that this software was not just written, but carefully crafted.

> This website was written in pure html and css by hand, contains no Javascript, doesn't use cookies, doesn't track you and still works pretty damn well.

Definitely subscribing the mentioned feeling. This is clearly an effort of the author to get away from superfluous layers, an ideal that sadly is getting lost in a world of prebuilt bloat. Props for that!

Little typo:

> with a serious of Bash scripts

Probably wanted to say "series" here right?
Is there a list of settings to change for eg. firefox (in about:config) on linux to achieve the same thing, maybe even without an extension?
I practice stoicism in my day to day life, or try to stick to it best I can. That said, stoicism only helps me with actions I choose to take, it doesn't override the fact that internally I would be furious. I'd end up channeling that furor into something healthy. I also think it's healthy to convey to other people how you feel, especially if you are someone practicing moderation with reactions.
"Sudden acceleration in Toyota vehicles" [1]

The first major cause of unintended acceleration was found in March 2007, when an engineering analysis showed that unsecured all-weather mats had led to pedal entrapment and drivers accelerating up to 90 mph with decreased braking power...

...Early on, Toyota suggested that driver error was to blame, saying that some people may have hit the gas when they meant to hit the brake...

...This led to Toyota sending a letter to the owners of the affected car, a 2007 Lexus ES350, asking that they bring their cars in to switch out the all-weather mats...

...After this recall, Toyota decided to revise the internal design of their cars to ensure that there was "10 millimetres (0.39 in) between a fully depressed gas pedal and the floor," but decided to only implement the new designs upon the next "full model redesign", which wouldn't take place until 2010...

...In an attempt to hide these defects from investigators, Toyota switched to verbal communication on the defect rather than traceable forms of communication. As a result, many new cars were knowingly produced with the same floor mat issues that had been identified as being having the potential to cause SUA problems in association with the defective pedal design..."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration...
While I agree with all the issues you brought up, Amazon is still so much better than anything else that I hate having to go outside of Amazon to purchase something online.

To me the Amazon search box feels like the GPT-3 of matter. I can imagine a thing that I’m not even sure exists, I can type a description of it into the search box, and then have that object in my hands within 24 hours.

I agree with your criticisms and I hope that Amazon solves them very soon. But none of that makes me not want to use Amazon as my first stop for shopping.
For comparison, here's an Anandtech article from 2015 talking about falling DDR4 prices at roughly the same point in the adoption cycle: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9864/price-of-ddr4-memory-dro...
Probably they are considering the data for California (relevant to this discussion) rather than the US as a whole. Although the link you posted doesn't break out the percentage for California, it does say that 20% of western state alfalfa is exported.

However, the percentage is less important than the overall amount.

"If California only produced enough almonds for the United States, than it would have about 8 percent more available water. If California only produced enough alfalfa for the U.S., it would have at least 3 percent more available water."

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/stor...
You are already paying a lot more than that for the USPS. $2 extra to save myself hours of sorting through mail for the next 10 years is worth it.
Go do a change of address on the USPS website for the previous residents. Costs a dollar or so per last name
It is common for PM-plus-president systems to have the PM govern and the president be allowed to dissolve parliament. They are usually independent enough unless the president is seeking reelection.
Google images page is an example
Interesting to see a 24gb option. Was thinking for my next build 32 seems a little thin but 64 too much. 48 would be a neat compromise
The tradeoff is that you can mail anything anywhere in days for extremely cheap. Mail is cheap because of spam mail.
Captain Toad is on my radar. Overcooked is nice for like... the first hour, then my brain goes mushy because it's too repetitive and my daughter goes into panic mode because it gets too fast, lol.

Super Mario Odyssey was good early on, but now she gets bored because it's too easy to play as the hat. If she plays as mario, it's too boring for myself, but playing by herself is still too challenging.

The other ones, I will try! Paw Patrol is indeed too easy, she played harder games with me (we played together Sundered, which is metroidvania coop, quite hard for myself too) and I was keeping an eye on it and determined she would learn anything new from it.

It's particularly challenging to find for kids "hard but not frustrating" because their frustration meter is quite lower than that of an adult.
This has happened to me as well.

Amazon's "customer focus" is a misnomer, because the resellers are more important customers than the buyers are.
A Canadian perspective is given in "Prorogation: A Powerful Tool Forged by History"

https://www.lawnow.org/prorogation-forged-by-history/

In recent years, Canadians have tended to treat Prime Ministers who attempt prorogation with enmity:

https://archive.ph/nKG0a
I thought he referred to sticky footers.
That's okay. The menu items in the header will drop down on hover, making it very easy to use when the user is scrolling the page. :)
Thank you, that's amazing list
I hear that drachinifel intro…

Edit: https://youtu.be/fkRJxgYgTVA
Great introduction to hull design
That's placing an awful lot of faith in this third-party website doing what it is intended to do, as opposed to other possibilities such as it not doing much of anything at all, or worse yet, exposing your data at some point.

Instead, my approach whenever I receive junkmail is:

1) I write to the sender to request that all of my information be removed from their databases and that I did not consent to receiving any information from them.

2) I file a report with the Better Business Bureau: https://www.bbb.org/file-a-complaint

3) If they have a public-facing presence on a site like Google Reviews, Yelp, and so on, I leave a review detailing that this company sends out spam.

4) And most importantly, I keep a spreadsheet of companies that have sent me spam, and try to avoid ever giving them any of my money or labor.
We're at the point where both MacOS and Windows have an advertising ID. It can be anonymized, but I can't just turn it off.
This is wrong.
The prime minister technically asks the queen to do everything, he is only an adviser to her.
All of the PM's powers are actually the queens, if she was removed he would retain any of his powers (prorogation included).
The only difference would be that he wouldn't have to ask, but the asking is more ceremonial, the queen has no real choice but to do as he says.

TL;DR asking the queen to do things is just a ceremony with no real impact on the PM's powers, removing the queen is removing the ceremony not the powers.
So you think their plan was to send this to people who already signed up for…retention? Seems very unlikely. I’d imagine awareness is a much bigger problem vs retention for them at this stage. Also the rest of the copy doesn’t make much sense if this was the case. You clearly want it to be true that something nefarious is happening but all evidence points away from that.
Pick up the phone and then immediately hang up. That will often times tell them that the line is dead.

Pick up the phone and ask them to put you on a do not call list. Surprisingly that works for some of these.

Pick up the phone and fuck with them. “911, what’s the location of your emergency” is my standard greeting no matter who calls me. Or tell them you are a Jehovah’s witness and as them if they’ve heard the good word.

Tell them this is a cell phone and your state allows up to $$$ per phone call if you take them to small claims. This usually works well with asking their full name and the name of their company and the name of their supervisor.
javascript:( function(){ let i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *'); for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if(getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'sticky') { elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]); } } document.body.style.overflow = "auto"; document.body.style.position = "static"; })()

here's the script for people that want to see the stuff without all the url encodings. oh and I added a thing that stops them from stopping your scrolling(think the kind that pop up an ad or something and stop you from scrolling)

one of the most useful bookmarklettes that I use many times a day. I got it from the original author too I think
How anyone can read that text and not see that they are being burried under piles of bullshit, is beyond me.
For context, I will actually be making substantially more - at least one order of magnitude - wherever I land.
This is why I stopped donating to KQED.
> Why do people post "news" from 4 years ago? News mostly isn't relevant a few weeks later

This is just a report on something they do, not a specific event or a revelation. It's not the kind of "news" that stops being relevant. It's equally relevant every year unless something changes.
There's room for an amazon competitor -- it would be really capital intensive.
The 2 year contracts are really just payment plans in disguise (sometimes there isn't even interest!); I'm not sure there is any major provider that wants your phone back after your contract is up. (I have personally not had a cell phone contract in over a decade.) This is a relatively recent change, within the last 5 years or so. Back in the day, yeah, you were just renting your phone. (And the same might be true of your wired ISP. You definitely don't own your CPE unless you made some special deal.)

Netflix vs. buying physical media is not clearly an ownership thing. A year's worth of Netflix's middle-tier plan buys you 9 DVDs. (Actually, I don't think they make DVDs anymore, so BluRay or something.) So if you were going to watch more than one film a month, you come out ahead there.
‘Demand’ includes availability of funds by potential buyers (and what they consider expensive) which is directly influenced by stock prices (which have seen major drops this year), and by interest rates.

The amount that can be loaned/supported by a given income, and hence a lot of underwriting standards, are based indirectly on the cost to service the loan relative to the income the person has.

The lower the interest rate; the bigger the loan someone can get if they shop around for the same income and assets.

This isn’t perfectly linear, as principal payments vs interest payments have different ratios based on interest rates, but it very much applies.
It’s possible I’m lacking imagination after ~20 years of web dev experience, but I can’t think of a way to systematically prevent this. I can hardly even think of a heuristic to detect it which wouldn’t be either overly broad or overly specific. A spec which privileged more of a page’s “chrome” as part of the browser UX would probably make that more realistic, at the expense of being a very high value attack surface.

This is almost certainly better addressed by discouraging and shaming than by trying to fix it at the browser level. I agree with the clarity and brevity of the article (even if I can’t muster such brevity to save my life). And it’s very rare that this kind of UX is any more onerous to me than closing the tab/leaving the site.
The BBC has a very long history of catering to the needs of the Government and 'Establishment'. They are not the 'impartial' provider of News that they are imputed to be.
I'd guess supply outstripping demand - but am open to suggestions from those understanding what the stars are currently doing.
> While everyone hates tar, because it's impossible to remember the correct cli-options to it

Huh? You must be kidding me, there are people who have trouble with tar, enough to warrant an XKCD?

`tar xvf filename.tar` is so trivial I don't even think about it - it's just some muscle memory at this point. There's `x` for eXtract, `v` for Verbose` and `f` for the Filename to follow. I only check manpages if I need to exclude some directories or do filename transformations - because my brain is too limited to remember all those details.
As long as the manufacturer has a Amazon store set up that you buy from it’ll be fine
I had an Alexa ~4 years ago, and I found that (a) it seemed to keep switching to playing clips from songs on amazon music (which I don't subscribe to) vs spotify (which I do) and (b) it would often play a very odd version of common songs when promoted. Like I'd get a live version some other nonstandard version, when searching for the song in spotify gave the album version. I wonder if whatever difference exists in their search process vs the standard spotify way could be responsible for what you're seeing as well (edit, though I realize you didn't have this problem before).

Anyway, I stopped using alexa because music was all I found it useful for and it became a pain, and not worth the privacy implications
The domain name itself is a pretty good investment too, I imagine. It used to belong to a professor I had in college, and I remember reading his tweets over the year or two before the sale about how many inquiries he had been getting for it: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/newaddress
> One of the major set backs for building more in Bay Area and San Francisco is not NIMBYism or zoning.

The Bay might be the worst major metro in the US for both NIMBYism AND current zoning in terms of building affordable housing...
It's $119,136 not 92k:

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocit...

And that's of 2020 so out of date.
The problem with PowerShell (aside from its verbosity) is that you essentially have to relearn the name of every command and every option, throwing all your existing shell knowledge out.

I earnestly used PS as my main shell for a number of years, but this learning curve was just too steep. Once WSL turned up I jumped ship.