skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have this in my jurisdiction. Now you can get a useless (because you can carry max 1 and cant re-use it for much) paper bag that uses more energy and creates more pollution than a plastic bag.

This only hurts poor people anyway, it's easy for comparatively wealthy people to just buy new "reusable" bags every time they need them, or to truck the paper bags home in their SUV. Poor people who have to walk or take public transit, and choose between buying a bag and a food item are who will suffer. But I feel like that's the point

Imagine being so out of touch to actually buy in to policies like this.
I was thinking that the other day, but for a different reason. In the beginning, quora, medium, substack, etc, they succeed due to good content. Once they build a reputation, they open the floodgates and throw it away. For the past few years, I skip over medium links -- not because paywalls but because it's probably low quality garbage. HN substack links have generally been good quality. But the last couple I've seen here were trending downwards.
So no mention of banning the book with the instructions? I guess some kinds of speech are more protected than others (book with instructions vs recommended products). Or is it that Amazon has the deeper pockets?

My biggest question is how these teens are purchasing anything unsupervised on the internet.
For older people it'll be nice to have it autoplay without those steps you need to click.
You can add a checkbox for that and like a ?autoplay=true :)
> The point here is that someone shouldn't be able to decide, in the course of 5 seconds, to engage in a permanent decision like this.

Is it a right or not?

> we should be pretty sure

In what sense is it a right if someone else has to agree to it?
What you are describing is not "climate change" but "climate staying the same".

Climate change refers to the climate moving in to a new state, not the usual oscillation between ice-ages and interglacials which is a state the climate has been in during the whole period humans existed (actually upright apes of all kinds, modern humans haven't been around that long anyway).

Your first link is a well known climate denialist who also believes in other bunk such as intelligent design.
OnceUponABot: Create illustrated stories with GPT3 and Stable Diffusion
Ingesting table salt or drinking soy sauce is also a method of suicide and has killed many children and adults. Plenty of items that have perfectly legitimate uses and which should remain 100% legal can have deadly effects if misused. You can try censoring the information on how to misuse the substances, but that's never going to be very successful.
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I'm guessing that "and for the .1%" is not something he actually said...?
> EDIT - I guess maybe all "bundles" could require human curation before they are allowed to be displayed. It would be a gargantuan task but it's a valid third option.

This is the correct way to handle it. It being a "gargantuan task" doesn't matter. Everybody would freak out if the local supermarket advertised this kind of product but somehow "tech" (read: online retailers) can get away with this because they are big?

Amazon posts billions in profits, it can certainly afford to control their algorithms. If it's impossible, then stop using algorithms and use human curation like literally every brick and mortar business.
Regarding your last reference on jellyfish, the author is "[a] Journalist passionate about cutting edge technology, space and fighting climate change."

A quote:

For a long time the scientific consensus was that we are causing a jelly Armageddon and that we need to stop it before our oceans’ ecosystems collapse. Scientists have suggested we change our eating habits and start fishing and eating jellies. Some even thought we should geoengineer the ocean to have more nutrients and oxygen so that the jelly’s predators could grow in number to fight off the hordes of these squishy devils. In his incredible documentary ‘Blue Planet II’, David Attenborough suggested that we should set aside a third of the world’s oceans as marine reserves, where human activity is banned, to help fish stocks recover and to rebalance the ecosystems.

So, an interesting article, but obviously alarmist.
> I don't know anyone who advocates that suicide drugs should be available over the counter to anyone who's feeling suicidal today.

Chances are on HN you'll find people sufficiently detached from reality to advocate for this.
If you want to talk about non work things, find people who aren't your co-workers. It's OK to only do work things at work, and to separate personal and professional life.
The question was has your scenario happened.

That said, it's a poorly phrased scenario. Anyone can sue for any amount.

Like Jason Scott's talk "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars" - https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-17-archive.html...

Even having a maximum doesn't mean that someone can't file a suit asking for more.

So, who has won a case similar to what you described, and with a $5 million settlement?

And, why was that gratuitously high?

That's important, because we know there are decades of propaganda for why business owners need protection against excessive lawsuits, where the actual details show it was not excessive, most famously, Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants. That last one shows how the jury awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages, which was reduced to $480,000 by the judge - and was still higher than what Liebeck sued for.

That said, you should also address why there are lawyers with that business model, which might be less common elsewhere.

1) The US system prefers a more caveat emptor approach, where issues are resolved though civil lawsuits (or, alas, binding arbitration) than through government organization which can investigate cases of food poisoning.

2) The US's private health-care system means the poisoned person is by default obligated to pay for care, unless someone else can be forced to pay. If the food poisoning requires hospital care, this can be quite expensive.

3) The US does not have strong job security laws nor a strong social safety net. If someone get food poisoning which keeps them from working for a couple of days, they may easily be fired, and find themself in economically precarious circumstances.

Because the US prefers lawsuits to resolve these things, there are lawyers who specialize in this area.

Change the laws - have strong food inspections, switch to single-payer health care, improve job security, and strengthen the social safety net for unemployed people - and there will be significantly less call for this business model.
It's more like if a gun store sold a kid a gun and recommended they buy a booklet titled "School shooting for dummies" and then that kid went and shot up a school.
Regarding steel, it is being made carbon free by LKAB in Sweden. https://lkab.com/en/press/hybrit-the-worlds-first-fossil-fre...
> unless it somehow interfered with your work hours

This doesn't sound like a particularly difficult bar to clear.
My last roommate was planning on ending his life and once we found out and talked with him about it, the situation escalated and we called the authorities. They searched his room and found this exact product. He bought it off of Amazon.

It’s astounding how many odd chemicals you can buy online without a reason for using them.
High concentration products are nice because you can dilute them as needed without having to keep a ton on hand.
How about not using bundling algorithms for chemicals and pharmaceuticals, the entire category? And stick to recommending cute t-shirts and such?

Amazon’s recommendations are mostly crap anyways, even for mundane, straightforward stuff. They shouldn’t be recommending anything dangerous
This resonates* heavily.

I moved to writing web-code for personal purposes only. Now, I specialize in other types of technical areas for paycheck purposes (C++, Git, PM support, computer HW maintenance and procurement, similar overly niche technical tasks, etc).
> It’s not censorship it’s product liability. The product fucking kills children.

Amazon sells millions of products that could, in fact, kill children. Just go to:

Health & Household > Health Care > OTC Medications & Treatments

That clearly isn't the issue at the center of this lawsuit, since if it were there are far lower hanging fruit.

> 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.

Because once you do that it only emboldens additional lawsuits and calls for censorship. In effect Amazon would be admitting all future liability, every product that could kill a child (which, as I said, is millions) they're now liable for.

> As a society we can stop [..] instructions on how to do just that

You start with "this isn't censorship, this is access to chemicals" but end with "why can't we as a society censor this type of information?"
Why is it legal to buy a gun but illegal to decide to end your own life? The hypocrisy is through the roof. How are we free if we are forced to live?

Btw: we should not encourage suicide. I think we need to help people that are in a position where they are considering and also there are things that are deeply f'ed with our society to begin with that slowly push people to this (ie helping suicidal people is a drop in the bucket if we don't fix fundamental issues)
Probably the only real reason I avoid JavaScript is this mess.
OS/2 was known to be rock-solid back in the day. It was the OS of choice for a lot of financials. Everyone moved to Windows NT when 4 came out, though, because of the way Microsoft did licensing.
Update: I guess I can't page dang, because I can't flag my own question. Anyone care to flag the above comment for me?
This kind of thing is what, to me, puts into doubt the idea of a full migration to electric ground transportation in anything less than a scale that could range between fifty and one hundred years.

We need to double our power generation and transportation infrastructure before full electric transportation is possible.

We can't build anything at scale any more. The CA high speed train started as a ten billion dollar promise. It quickly became $33 billion. Now it is at over $110 billion and no idea of when or if it will be completed. I would not be surprised if it ends-up somewhere between $250 to $500 billion dollars. People will work on this thing their entire lives, retire and die before it is finished.

Cost overruns and what is indistinguishable from systemic incompetence means we cannot possibly afford both the time and cost of doubling our entire power infrastructure in support of electric transportation. In other words, before we can dream of such things and approach large projects, we have to fix the cultural, bureaucratic and structural problems this nation has.

BTW, for all his faults, Trump was the first US President to seriously engaged in some of this work. I don't remember all the details. I do remember reading about such things as the permits and process to build a road or bridge being reduced from decades to perhaps a few years. We are in desperate need of more work on this front.

Today electric vehicles exist in this gray area where they don't demand enough electricity to create serious problem most of the time. Here in CA we've already have the government ask electric car owners to alter charging behavior due to power grid problems. At some point we will start to approach various thresholds that will make electric vehicles very problematic without matching infrastructure enhancement at local, city, regional, state and national levels.

Not sure we can make that happen. We can't have every project cost ten times more than planned and take ten times longer to complete. That's not a formula for success at all.
The law basically says a panel with the capacity to receive a TV signal via integrated receiver is a TV. That means you owe a fee for the privilege of owning such a device. Simply removing the receiver circuit is not valid, since it can be repaired.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer/phone_interne... Has a summary.
Yeah that’s super jaded. Seriously consider stepping back and thinking about how much grief the parents are going through.

I have a young child who has voiced suicidal thoughts and and it’s so fucking hard. The pandemic has been really rough on a lot of kids.

Thank god we are we’re finally able to get professional help (after almost a year of waiting for an available therapist).

You don’t know shit about the circumstances of these families, and jumping to the conclusion that the parents are at fault and not at least considering that a $1T company could lift a finger is kinda messed up.

Sorry for the angry tone but I’m seeing a few folks make comments like yours and it’s infuriating. This isn’t some joke topic and the Silicon Valley contrarian attitude really is frustrating to see on this thread.
LWTs were added for a very simple reason: stronger isolation where the performance trade-off makes sense. Nothing to do with the GP comment.

Until recently they were indeed slow over the WAN, and they remain slow under heavy contention. They are now faster than peer features for WAN reads.

However, the claim that they have many bugs needs to be backed up. I just finished overhauling Paxos in Cassandra and it is now one of the most thoroughly tested distributed consensus implementations around.
The type of people who run Amazon have zero social conscience. As another example, just look at how badly they treat their warehouse workers.
This is the problem with mixing law with tech, the requirement should not have been with the websites. but each browser, should have come with the capability of auto destroying cookies and also making cookies isolated.
Btw, ‘Explosion of a Motor Car’, also by Hepworth, might be closer to now-familiar grindhouse cinema, and also had some special effects: https://archive.org/details/silent-explosion-of-a-motor-car

But yeah, about the OP film Wikipedia notes:

> As in other instances of the very earliest films, the film presents the audience with the images of a shocking experience, without further narrative exposition.

So indeed the genre seems to have proliferated right away.
I don't live in Ireland, but from what I've read: you need to pay annually for a license if you have anything capable of receiving TV, even if you don't use it.
The deployment of Starlink in Ukraine is an US government operation, make no mistake about that.

Now, a remote-controlled boat (I have no idea if that's what was used) is not something difficult or expensive to build starting from an off-the-shelf boat or even from scratch. The difficulty, if it is to be used over long distances, is indeed the telecommunications system.
> That's the nature of censorship

Censorship does not involve the exchange of money for goods.
I suppose technically a panel with HDMI input counts anyway these days, because external receivers put out HDMI, but I don’t know if the prosecution of the law has caught up to that.
When you choose something or someone you are assessing a value to it... that is the whole point.

You do not date X bc you prefer Y (higher value). You do it with everything... we do it. It is just how things are... that you choose one over the other makes the other the not chosen side of the thing. So yes, in some way you can see that as discrimination (even if we do not give it political meaning, it is still)
This is the case in Vermont already. Most people just end up using the reusable bags.
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zeeker/
Why is it amazon’s responsibility to safeguard your children? That’s your responsibility.

They can still figure out how to buy the items separately, and Amazon isn’t inducing suicidal ideation.

Perhaps your kids shouldn’t have unrestricted and unmonitored access to order things from Amazon? Start there, instead of insisting that Amazon do the parenting for you.
Customers that bought this product also bought...
So, you see zero problem with someone spending 5 seconds to think about a decision and then taking a permanent decision like that?

Really?

Or are you just hyper focusing on an irrelevant dictionary definition of the single word "right", that nobody else was using?

That is why I said you were being obtuse.

You focusing on a single word is missing the point, and I don't know why you would focus on the word like that.
My roommate was planning on using this to end his life and after we confronted him he said he chose this because you essentially fall asleep and don’t wake up. Sounds painless but typically those who use it can’t give thorough reviews on the product.
I agree could be a false quote. Try resubmiting and ad that does not imply he said something he did not (or even more fun try submitting the same type of false statment in support of Newsom and see if that goes through.)
You tend to have to write a bunch of code that mostly catches problems you don’t have.

Personally, I’m marginally on the side of using TS even for small 1-2 person projects, but only slightly, and I can understand the case not to.

Well designed projects are no more complex than they need to be, and for many smaller projects that means — at least for web ones — that you have few significant “type barriers” where types are non-trivial and communicate or structure things in a way that is useful. And the type-heavy areas also tend to be where the app is ingesting data from a non-local source — exactly where static type checking is useless. (It’s always extra annoying when you’re fighting the type checker when writing the code that really ensures the data has a valid form.)
I certainly didn't say anything remotely that, and if you have to put words into my mouth to argue against, you've already lost the argument and you know it.

Answer the question instead of deflecting by making shit up:

So do you also believe the lie that the election was stolen from Trump and he should be immediately reinstated as president so he can pardon everyone who stormed the Capitol and attacked police and spread feces in the halls of Congress and strutted around carrying Confederate flags, and that the FBI planted classified documents at Mar-a-Lago even though he refuses to state that on the record in court, but that Trump also declassified those very same classified documents that the FBI planted with his mind?

Or don't you want to admit that your side and your leader is batshit crazy and delusional, and there's absolutely nothing comparable on the other side? Or do you subscribe to the right-wing conspiracy theory that the mob of Trump supporters that stormed the capital and attacked police officers and set up a gallows with a noose and tried to murder the Vice President at the January 6 insurrection was actually all Antifa crisis actors?

And what the fuck is wrong with being anti-fascist anyway?
Jimi Hendrix neither had alcohol or heroin when he died.

He aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Specifically, large doses of the sleeping pill Vesparax.

Opioids kill by slowing breathing, full stop. The medical term is "Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression." Narcan very rapidly reverses this, which is how it saves lives.
And then they'd sue Amazon for "promoting sex kits to children."

This type of lawsuit/logic/reporting is an absolute field day, you just have to come up with the clickbait "[frequently purchased together items] kit promoted TO CHILDREN."
An SNL skit that I want to watch...

Moses and Aaron are standing in front of Pharoah. Evidently we're several plagues into Pharoah not letting the Israelites go. The scene starts with chitchat on this matter then Pharoah shaking his head no.

Moses and Aaron step aside to huddle to discuss which plague to bring on next. They come back, and one says to Pharoah in a booming voice: "Since you will not let my people go, the Land of Egypt will suffer a single-use plastic bag ban!"

Cut to Egyptians walking about with their arms overflowing with stuff, people cursing that they forgot their cloth bags, angry arguments all over the street, and various individuals spitting and daring to curse Pharaoh's name.

Cut to Moses and Aaron in front of Pharoah. Pharoah looks haggard. Pharoah sadly nods yes.

The skit ends with a line of Israelites, overseen by Moses, as they march towards the Red Sea. Each holding several reusable cloth bags.
Scummy as that is, I don't think that providing the banners should be illegal, as otherwise it's a hop and a step to "providing software that can be used illegally is in itself illegal". Which makes text editors illegal without "safeguards" baked in.

However, if OneTrust are selling the software under the promise that if the customers configure it that way, then it's compliant, then that's some kind of misrepresentation (which is illegal, software or not). Just as if I sell a USB flash drive as an anti-5G-field dongle, that's illegal, but it'll not illegal to just sell the flash drive.
I almost feel like grocery bag and plastic straw bans were a psy-op by the plastic lobby. These seem like the least consequential, but most inconvenient things to start with. Every time I use a paper straw, or have to buy a $1 "reusable" grocery bag I think of how many people this will have turned away from further plastic restriction.
Seriously... I understand the concerns here but I'm so disturbed by some of the comments, like the idea that "teenagers would almost certainly not be interested in learning how to cure meats." Statements like that make a lot of prejudicial assumptions.

I'm so tired of kneejerk reactions that X is involved in some tragic events so we should ban them, as opposed to looking deeper into the real reasons things are happening. It's much easier to blame Amazon (who I do not have positive feelings about) for selling sodium nitrate than it is to deal with the socioeconomic and environmental circumstances leading to someone wanting to kill themselves. Pills and purchasing restrictions have become the "let them eat cake" of the 21st century.
> Really?

Yeah really. What right should I have to tell them to do something or not do something with their own body and life?
I get the impression IR35 killed that
You can go to Sigma Aldrich website and buy tens of thousands of other chemicals as deadly or deadlier.

Also I disagree that the concentration is not used for anything else.
Because teenagers with suicidal thoughts are most often lacking the sense of perspective about their situation they would gain with maturity.

This is a case where rigidly-based reasoning about rights fails the common-sense test.
You can bet that if this recommendation engine problem was costing Amazon money a technical solution would have been in place years ago.
First off, that is a huge problem as it leads to saltwater innundation of major rivers in breadbasket regions.

But there are many other effects to expect. Wet bulb too high, temperatures too high for crops to survive (only needs to be a few days a year), droughts that destroy crops, floods that destroy crops and wash away top soil, reduction in glaciers drying up rivers that provide water to ... crops.

If you salt the earth where the majority of food for a species grows. Then you can expect a large reduction in the population of that species.
The point is signaling how perfect California is. Practicalities aren't an actual issue.

I love my reusable leather bag, it works great. But I'm glad I can get a bag when I forget it without a huge expense.

Goodwill around here has a decent selection of "used/donated" bags that they put your stuff in, often they're pretty decent and not just a reused grocery bag.
Citibank probably didn’t give them the new card number. There’s a link somewhere between stripe and Citibank that is tied to your account and not the specific card