skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem here is what you identify as problems the market (thus people) do not agree are problems

For example you decry the " inefficient space usage " of modern housing, and suburbs, however many people clearly prefer to have single family structures on plots of land over living in densely populated area's

I am one of those people, I would never choose to voluntary live in a dense city like NYC or even LA

I can think of nothing more nightmarish then living in a multistory apartment building. I lived in a 3 story building once, and got out of there as fast as I possibly could. Today I live in a typical suburban neighborhood, with homes on 1/2 to 3/4 acre lots and about 40-100 foot separation between home even that is far too tightly packed for me, and would prefer even greater separation.

Governments attempt to control sprawl and force more density is in part what is driving the massive increase in cost for Single Family homes.

So it is not a correct statement to proclaim the free market is not solving problems, it is that people that guide the market reject your proposed problems and the solutions you desire for the problems, in that rejection the only way to do it is to impose government regulations by force.
>2) Meat and factory farms - [...] the older the animals you eat, the more effect it has on your own aging process.

You're in luck because modern factory farming has made it possible to raise animals in record time. Chicken are slaughtered as early as 6-7 weeks old[1], and beef you get at the grocery store is probably slaughtered between 12 and 22 months[2].

[1] https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/How-old-are-chickens-used-for...

[2] https://beef-cattle.extension.org/what-is-the-age-range-for-...
Part of why I like the topic is because it’s so incendiary. After all, you’re trying to create and control a new life form. Isn’t that a teensy bit unethical?

There’s a chance that AGI will have no interest in harming humanity, too. But people talk like it’s a foregone conclusion.
As a developer, as a data scientist, as a designer, as a business leader, you are responsible for things like this. Do not make excuses. Do not disclaim liability. Acknowledge the mistake and fix it. We can do better.
I believe in the right to suicide, and I also think transaction costs matter. What if we had 25-cent suicide booths a la Futurama on every street corner? Sometimes people are going through hard times, and it needs to be easier to seek help and connect with other humans who care than it is to off yourself.
While I don’t believe the parent argument is well founded, this is also meaningfully different from the “sue the gunmakers” argument.

This scenario feels a bit closer to Walmart selling guns without properly vetting the buyer, which does seem like something the seller could/should get in trouble for.

This is also an imperfect comparison because Amazon is just facilitating the sale, not directly selling the product. But my primary point is that there are more layers to consider here.
Or more to the point, ropes are fine, books on tying knots are fine, but if you recommend them both together it is a "suicide kit."
How to increase cold email response rate?
Will be interesting to track the growth of other browsers when this launches. I personally just switched to Firefox because Chrome stops pihole from working correctly.
Some people believe in the right to doctor-assisted suicide. I don't know anyone who advocates that suicide drugs should be available over the counter to anyone who's feeling suicidal today.
What was the content of your advert?
It's a great language. I find it jarring to go back to regular JavaScript codebases after working in TypeScript for a bit now.
They probably do. Remember the terms and conditions that we didn’t read?
Leaving people behind is never the solution. You have to try and create opportunities, because ultimately that's what people need. And they will get it from someone else if not from you.

The key to a healthy society is a big fat cushion at the bottom people can land on if they need be. Unlike what conservatives and libertarians say most people will want to do more with their lives than just to sit on the cushion, but even them sitting on it is cheaper than leaving people behind, because people get damaged, turn around and spread that damage like a disease, and from then on you are fighting a cumulative network effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcBIzuuIdOA
It does not seem like they are doing 1 in any sufficient way: its pretty easy to argue that this is by far the most important special case (it’s literally life and death stakes), and they are failing at it even after a growing PR campaign and advocacy made them aware months (years?) ago.

Amazon is a $1T company. They have the resources. This is willful negligence.
Isn't "undo" too ambiguous to be useful?

Or do you imagine it as a subcommand with further parameters to describe what to undo and how?

I think a term like undo is a mistake if you think of the git history like accounting. There is, or there should be, no such thing as undo the way an unsophisticated layperson imagines they want. Instead undos are just changes like any other changes.

You don't fix entry errors by actually editing history, you make a new entry that both reverses the error and explains why.

If that leads to having to think about some problems a bit non-intuitively, I'm pretty tempted to just say tough shit, it's worse to try to simplify something if simpler really only means wrong and incomplete.

Perhaps undo was just a bad example of a git failing. There certainly are commands that could be more scrutable without becoming incomplete or wrong. But I only see it as an unavoidable process of development. It's not possible for anything to spring forth fully baked, and so it's pointless and wrong to complain that it didn't happen. So the crappiness of the early versions (of whatever, in general, not git in particular) is not damning and nothing else can ever be any different. Then the next, almost as unavoidable, at least certainly natural and typical, is that the process of imporoving necessarily means changing, and that leads to both redundancy and inconsistency. 4 different ways to do something because there is the old way and the next way and the next way...

I see only that git could improve some things in only the way is unavoidable and applies to everything everywhere, and is not a special git failing but simply life, and that most of the perceived complexity of git comes straight from the underlying job we need it to do. It may not be logically possible to have a fundamentally simple tool to do this complex job, only a simple tool that only actually does a simple job, which isn't good enough.

The best I even consider to wish for is just improvement over time figuring out more consistent interfaces and improving the predictability so that you can be more confident in understanding "when I say X, what will actially happen?".
I would group them as there's much overlap within a paradigm:

0. assembly and machine languages

1. procedural static typed (C/C++, Java, Go, Kotlin, Obj-C, Swift, Zig, etc)

2. procedural scripting (Python, Ruby, PHP, etc)

3. functional (F#, OCaml) -- to a lesser extent Scala

4. lisp-y (Clojure, Racket)

5. ref. capable: learning Rust (played with Pony, Clean)
Why on earth would they do so? I believe you 100%, but why Jeff, why?
Hmm. I wonder if HD remix would have had more success if they had the opportunity to do a few balance adjustments along the way.
This story had me thinking about the different responses from Google and Amazon for this kind of thing. If you search about topics related to suicide on google, they will show you the suicide hotline number at the top of the search. If you search amazon for suicide related products, amazon will sell you a whole kit of supplies to go through with it.

Which is why the comments about "well algorithms are hard" falls flat. Google has complex algorithms too, but they can still add a safety layer. People have specifically asked amazon to stop selling suicide kits, and as far as I have read amazon refused to change. The issue is not that amazon cannot fix this, but that they don't want to. Hopefully this recent bad press will lead them to change their tune, but it is worrying when they can't see the best course of action without bad press.
Blocking means rejection of all consent, right?

That’s great then. But I’m assuming the worst offenders who aren’t compliant with their banners also aren’t compliant in what they do when their pop up is blocked.
Wikipedia has book citations, and more and better book citations than traditional encyclopedias.

It's unclear what your point is. Are you suggesting wikipedia shouldn't also have citations to content published online, simply because it might be removed?
A closer metaphor might be banning those magnetic bead sculptures because a child might swallow the beads. They were banned for anyone to buy not just children.

https://gizmodo.com/buckyballs-magnets-have-been-banned-by-t...
I use a split keyboard (kinesis advantage) with an apple magic trackpad Velcroed (Command Strip) in the middle. It’s great, esp for scrolling.
And I suspect when you find those businesses, you find that they "cost more" than the up-and-coming startup, and by about the amount it costs them to provide better service.
In this case it just has to be harder to pull off than jumping the turnstile.
"Isn't an unstable network experience better than no network experience?"

Yes, you would think ... but that is not the case.

QA and design of modern mobile apps and software - and even devices and appliances - neglects the testing of bad network connectivity.

Both my physical Sonos devices and, for instance, the apple-provided podcasts app, can handle being fully offline reasonably well. On the other hand, if you start dropping ~50% of packets they lose their mind and (in the case of Apples podcast app) freeze or crash.
Where did the C3 crew say the service was fascist?

As far as I understand, he showed up to Congress and did a Hitlergrüße (Nazi salute) to their security. In Germany that is illegal and arrestable, so he should actually be grateful they only kicked him out and did not call the police. Germany has very strict laws against video-recording people without their consent, so creating this video would be considered another crime.

I can't speak for the content of the video itself, but I would imagine that most Germans would see "throwing someone on the floor" as a reasonable response to making the Hitlergrüße.
It’s not censorship it’s product liability. The product fucking kills children.

I think internet contrarianism has warped everyone’s brains into an unrecognizable state.

The fact that Amazon is defending this behavior instead of saying oh shit we fucked up and dedicating a fraction of a basis point of a days profit to fixing it is apalling. The fact that HN readers are doing the same is incomprehensible.

As a society we can stop companies from mixing chemicals that kill teenagers in minutes and instructions on how to do just that with standard household purchases.

We can put safeguards around sales of chemicals like that and our societal ability to preserve self-expression will be fine when we do.
>> as they unlikely to use it for preserving processed meats

Maybe, but as long ago as at age 12 I was buying it from the local pharmacy to make awesome smoke bombs.

>> In 2022 there is just no excuse for this, nobody should be deploying software in production that is capable of this kind of harm

You realize the #1 founding reason of the internet outside of sharing academic research was to distribute an entire "book" capable of this type of harm?
It probably works for groceries, but for takeout, instead of using flimsy plastic bags, restaurants here now use sturdy plastic bags, because they aren’t “single use.”

These bags are heavier, so it seems doubtful that plastic use has gone down. Does anyone track this?
Something that I notice in a lot of comments in threads like this: “but it snowed massively at N event, thus climate change is expected variance and false”
What most models show across the board is actually more energetic events, and more chaotic events. Yes there is also a general trend towards hotter, but in general the main noticeable thing for a while will be more energy for weather events to do spectacular things. This could be hot, could be cold, could be windy, either way it’s gonna get more spectacular over time.
This is bad, humans, and human crops and animals rely on boring predictable weather that they evolved for.
Let's do it the Japanese way. Kids should pass an exam to get into a good high school, and spend an hour on several trains.
It's ridiculous to compare those two aspects. Nature delivers water which can clean a spoon. Last time i checked plastic spoons didn't grow on trees. Also (apart from laboratory's experiments) plastics do not recycle, water can be cleaned and food waste in it naturally decomposes. Comparing these things downplays the enormous energy, transportation and even water consumption required to produce plastic.

Also you can describe anything with a few sentences. Just because it takes the same amount of words, doesn't make the process equally complex.
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What percentage of your customer base does the HN community represent?

Why do you “care a lot about the HN community?”

Is there something in particular that makes the HN community an important subset of your customers to care about?
If you believe in a right to suicide, don't you believe in a right to making it as low cost and accessible as possible? If you have to afford it and you have to get past a gatekeeper it doesn't seem much of a right.
Cool concept! Is there a way to auto-play the tracks?
I find myself pressing the “play” button almost every time
If the device is using HTTPS, you'd need a valid certificate for that hostname - that's exactly the attack HTTPS is designed to defend against.

And if they're using certificate pinning, it can't even be any certificate from a trusted authority, it has to be one particular authority or even that specific certificate that they use (they could very well be using an internal CA for this, as they control the other end of the connection).
They are still a thing, though I don't know how common. My own experience on leaving a big company fairly recently was they were available if you wanted one, and you were expected to write your own and submit it for approval, in German and/or English at your discretion.

I didn't bother, but if my future plans had included being an employee at a big company in Germany I definitely would have done so.
I strongly believe in the right to assisted suicide for the terminally ill, but I also believe that it shouldn't be as easy as placing an order on Amazon. Suicide is overwhelmingly an issue with folks who are mentally unwell, not physiologically. There's no excuse for what Amazon is doing here.
"Early one morning in May 1983, nine-year-old Iain Cameron looked out of the living room window and glimpsed a shining patch of brilliant white on distant Ben Lomond. This sparked a fascination with snow patches that would become a life’s work. A citizen scientist, Iain has written more than twenty scientific papers for the Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather journal; and he is the co-author of Cool Britannia (2010), a book examining the history of snow patches in Britain during the Little Ice Age. Iain’s work has been featured in the Guardian, the Independent and the Sunday Times, and he is a regular contributor to the Times and the BBC. He has appeared on Winterwatch and Countryfile and in numerous features on BBC Radio Scotland. He lives in Stirling and spends many weekends in the Scottish Highlands carrying out detailed fieldwork.
"

From:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-Ice-Diaries-Scottish-hunt...
Imho this is bias as some commenters have pointed out. Most if not all public posts are complaints.
> It might look like the number of absolute support issues landing on HN is increasing, but proportionally, the rate remains steady.

This means Strip still hasn't created a working escalation process for customers.

Going public with a complaint isn't something most people are willing to do (specially b2b) or even have the ability to do. If it still regularly occurs, you really need something better to deal with the "hard" cases.

Think about it: how many people people are able to get an Ask HN on the front page? And how is that rate growing? (probably not much). Compare that to the overall customer base and its growth.

When I make this thought experiment, it seems that many desperate customers don't reach working support through HN, and that the relative rate is still constant (and not declining) should really be a headache to anybody worried about customer support quality.
Synthesized sound (AudioContext) works a bit differently from playing videos/sound files in the web permissions model, for whatever reason. IIRC Chrome and Firefox both treat various forms of interaction as an OK to synthesize audio, so your browser probably decided you had met that criteria.

Chrome has a list of special websites that are given that access automatically, though I doubt this website is on that list...
Oof. I'm not sure this is an optimization I can go for. I feel good running a bit low during the day. I don't know how I could get enough calories in to stay sane, without having to eat too many of them early in the day or break my fast too soon when I inevitably get hungry at night.

I guess it probably is psychological like everything else. Maybe a light breakfast at 7am, a healthy dinner at 4pm, that's still a decent fasting window? I prefer to fast throughout the day though (I'm still actively trying to lose another 20lbs).
> because the US wants to hurt Russia

You seem to forget Ukraine in this equation entirely, you know, the country that is the victim of Russian aggression including murder of civilians, rape, and theft.

They are constantly begging for help to fight the invaders. Is it remotely possible that's why the US is helping for this reason and to stop Russian aggression?

Any "hurt" Russia receives is entirely self inflicted. This is a war of their choice.
> does the experience of going through US airport security ever reduce the stigma of it?

Some people feel degraded when they go through airport security, but it doesn’t carry a stigma. Nobody’s judging you for going through security so you can fly.
You can also hear it around 3:00 and towards the end, while the artist talks about the work: https://youtu.be/I_BanULj8wk
Sure except the book is actually how to hang yourself.
to be fair it's a tough problem, human errors happen, huge sums of money is involved, laws and regulations are involved, and and bad actors are almost on every few tickets like it's minesweeper.

hell amazon cant even do shit about fake reviews. these client-facing problems are really hard to deal with and cant be solved by just throwing more humans and more money towards it.
> Meanwhile, the profits will accrue to the true beneficiaries: 1) the algorithm owners, OpenAI [...]

This seems incorrect to me. The crucial parts have been reimplemented. The weights are their only secret sauce and equally good free replacements are only a matter of time.
This would be good to use for syncing clips from multiple cameras in video editing packages
Precedent.

If they artificially limit their "AI" from outside pressure, then they will have admitted that they can do it, and they'll get pressured to do it more and more. They don't want to deal with that, and would rather wait until a law is passed "forcing" them to do so - coincidentally Amazon will be best positioned to comply with that law and for some reason it'll only ever be used to go after smaller competitors.
Maybe you should talk to your boss and ask for more, instead complaining about others.
I’d argue that we already know how time works, so the proof exists up front and there is no “just in case”.

You could make an argument that there are more important things to fix, but then you’d be deciding consciously that it was okay to ship software known to be incorrect.
JSX is also not TS at all, yet it gets preferential treatment (TSX). Unlike JSX/TSX, the TypeScript used by Vue is just TypeScript - wrapped in a tag next to some other stuff, so you know where the part you need to type check starts and where it ends. All TS needs to do to support this, on a basic level, is ignore the non-TS parts, i.e. let you turn each non-TS line into a comment.

But no, even adding supported extensions to the compiler, that's right, not even formats, just making TS recognize a new extension as a file that it can load code from, is a no-go; a pre-load hook is the simplest thing to add, had they not made it explicitly, intentionally non-extensible.

I didn't even have time to get into the "stacking of language servers" (something that can and should be as simple as a pipe, and of course Microsoft has all the reasons to make it the opposite of that). So the Volar people literally had to monkey patch Node's the standard library and edit TSC's source on the fly to make anything, work, at all.

It all just goes downhill from there. Designing good APIs is hard enough - having to design them around the arbitrary barriers of some Microsoft boffins who decided to add a complex type system to a language which desperately needs a simple macro system - and took 10 years to do a shit tier job - oh, such an enlightening experience! Let's just say that I have become acutely aware that during the past year I have, well, degraded. As a person. And I literally attribute about 50% of that degradation to my ill-advised choice to do my work in TypeScript. Because like everyone I thought "hey, it's just a superset of JS, can't be that bad..."
The purity of the chemical that Amazon is selling is high enough to make it inappropriate for virtually any other (consumer) use case besides suicide. This isn't the same as what you bought when you were 12.
The most common meaning of AGI, at least in U.S., is Adjusted Gross Income.

But after searching for a while, I suspect that what you are referring to is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
I dont think these two things are necessary connected. It's possible to restrict purchase/ownership of some products and not others. There are many localities where you can't buy booze or guns but can buy pork, and visa versa. It's not a "there coming for us" kind of thing. These suicide kit items in question could be controlled without the "floodgates" opening. This is a classic fearmongering argument. Don't do this reasonable thing that most folks agree is right because it will hypothetically result in some sort of unreasonable consequence when taken to an absurd level in an hypothetical argument.
I entirely agree. My comment was directed towards the specific comment I was replying to.
Since you mentioned 2050:

https://www.marriedtothesea.com/111807/life-in-2050.gif
> HN hates Amazon, HN also hates censorship, the question is which do we as a community hate more? Should a company be liable for the free access of information?

I haven't seen anyone suggesting that Amazon ban teens from buying the book, just the dangerous chemicals. And calling that "censorship" seems silly. Is it also censorship that kids aren't allowed to own guns, or that you're not allowed to own plutonium?

> I won't even address the "suicide kit" claim since that is simply sensationalist reporting.

What else would you call a bundle of items consisting of a book with instructions on a way to commit suicide, plus all of the materials needed to do so?
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