skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually run an FBA business.

For me to ship 500x units to the warehouse, from my home in Australia, it costs around US$200. Factor in the FBA fee of around $3 per unit, and you get a total shipping and logistics cost per batch of $1700.

For me to ship 1x unit from my home in Australia to the US, it would cost around US$20 and take 2 weeks to get there. In this instance, I've paid $10,000 and the customer experience is worse.

Even if I were based in the US, I'd be looking at $6 per package via USPS, plus all the fucking around to label and box up those 500x units. (That's maybe $3200 total including packaging, plus about 10 hours' labour distributed over the course of two months.)

I guess the point is that making use of highly-efficient logistics services allows both small businesses and courier companies to access Amazon's economies of scale.
Ask HN: What's the current best domain host?
I've got domains on 1and1, GoDaddy and NameCheap. I don't like any of them due to various reasons including clunky user experience, hidden fees, very slow or no support. I want to consolidate them all onto one host.

Looking for recommendations of modern domain hosts that provide a good user experience and competitive pricing.

Don't need hosting, just domains.
I feel like that sort of reinforces his point tbh. But both of y’all are right on some level.
Regarding stretching, I found the book Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome to be a huge help. It has lots of suggestions for kinds of stretches to do based on the kind of work you do, but my big takeaway (and according to the author, the most important part) was how to do the stretches: only stretch until you barely feel a stretch, then hold there until you feel a sense of release. In my experience that was more effective than the “stretch until you feel a good strong stretch” strategy.

https://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Carpal-Syndrome-Repetitive...
> in mine, yes definitely 100% the second code is more readable than the first

If anything, adding a nesting level for each chained predicate makes code harder to read, and needlessly so.
funny thing is I could always do this with cracked games... and much more
President Carter comes off as a nice enough person, but the historical reality is that much of the current neoliberal economic era really got started under his tenure. I suppose it was also a response to the oil price shock of the early 1970s and the institution of petrodollar recycling in the mid-1970s, itself something of a consequence of Nixon leaving the gold standard.

For the birth of the neoliberal economic movement, aka 'globalization':

> "Countries, like the United States and Germany, better equipped to face worldwide competition and in favour of policies that strengthened it, saw trade liberalization as the right path.... Eventually, under US President Jimmy Carter's leadership and with the key support of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the results of the Round reflected a vote in favour of liberalizing international trade. Thus, the Round was shaped by the globalizing economy but, at the same time, its results gave further impetus to the globalization wave that would reach full swing in the 1980s–1990s. The GATT talks took place in the shadow of globalization: while attempting to govern the process, also built it up."

That really marked the beginning of the end of the political influence of manufacturing-sector unions in the United States as well, and it's curious that a Democratic administration kicked that off, I think.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2017.1...

Also, Carter and Brzezinski played a central role in the destabilization of Afghanistan, done in the name of opposing the Soviet Union, by approving the initial covert action program in 1979. Of course it got much larger under Reagan. The Soviets were hardly blameless, they wanted control of Afghanistan to facilitate a direct route to move their oil to the Indian Ocean, a theme interestingly revived in the Bush/Obama era (Clinton's New Silk Road, another failure). Now it's what, China's Belt and Road? Sort of bypasses Afghanistan though.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/coldwar/interviews/episode-17/brz...

It's rather curious how public perceptions of public figures have been managed over time, but the reality is that every president since WWII has been engaged in empire-building of some sort or other, often in opposition to the Soviet Union, certainly, which was doing the same kind of thing.

A world without empires and superpowers would be a much more peaceful world, I'm pretty sure.
SCSI, USB of the 80s [video]
That's a different thing - the "sufficiently smart compiler" is postulating that it doesn't matter if a language is not very high performance because somehow magically there will one day be a compiler that can just figure out how to optimise the code in every case.

I'm just saying that in this particular case, sometimes the compiler will be able to optimise it but you can't rely on it.

https://godbolt.org/z/WshcfWPEh
He was a very young president, and since he had an engineering background, he tended to get stuck in the weeds. There are stories of him micro-managing affairs, involving himself in affairs that should have been left to low-level staff. And he had a terrible speaking ability. It was not uncommon to walk away from his comments not knowing just what he had said.

As with many, he has mellowed with age. His humanitarian efforts post-administration are probably the best summation of the man. While his policies were deeply unpopular, it is notable he is one of the last presidents not to sell out the white house after he left office. He still lives in a relatively modest home.
Notifications that disappear after a few seconds are a scourge that I've seen my surprisingly tech-literate mother struggle with too. I wonder if there is any work around accessibility and ui-notification duration or history.
I consider him one of the greatest human in recent history. It is a damn shame the current climate is so politically difficult; he is not going to get the recognition he deserves for quite a while. Yes, there will be recognition, but the magnitude of what he took on, gripe-less all the while, is yet to be realized.
Not sure what you mean. If we end up with roving bands of unemployed men raising trouble, the next step for them is incarceration. The law is the law, no matter your circumstances.
I'd say it's not possible in pure HTML + JS (as in, encryption/ access control performed entirely there).

The solution (with a server) is:
https://oauth2-proxy.github.io/oauth2-proxy/
The "politician by random lottery" model has always seemed like it would get completely owned by those that don't get changed around every few years, like the civil service and the lobbyists. Even more than is already the case, since at least now you can have career politicians who can be trained by their parties in things like "dealing with lobbyists". Seriously, I love my mother but if she were the deliberate target of a months long lobbying campaign with billions of budget I fear for the actions she might take.
My thoughts on the Chinese room thought experiment is: the person in the room does not know Chinese, but the person+room system knows Chinese. I believe the correct analogy is to compare the AI system to the person+room system, not to just the person.

How do you back up the statement that "for us to consider a machine sentient, it needs to function in a similar way to us"? On what basis do you categorically deny the validity of a sentient being which works differently than a human?
>human intent involved for the current crop of AI to achieve anything

And my response to that would be "ok and"

With tools like BingGPT people were glad to test prompts saying "hey, can you dump out your source code" or "hey, hack my bank". There is no limit to the dumb ass crap people would ask a computer, especially a computer capable of language interpretation.

The number of 'things' hooked to language models is not growing smaller. People are plugging these things int calculator and sites like wolfram, and in Bings case search that is working like an external memory. We don't need a superintelligent AI to cause problems, we just need idiots asking the AI to destroy us.
Steam is pretty robust.
If delete everything but steam.exe and the steamapps dir. Launching steam.exe will basically just reinstall steam in place and have all your Games there.
Why are they calling it Taboo? It seems like Twenty Questions.
Glad you highlighted the luck part. The hostage crisis really did him in, despite the fact that, in the end, he actually negotiated to get all the hostages back safely, with the Algiers Accords being signed minutes after Reagan was inaugurated.
Not sure why you are arguing about large classes with extraneous data. If this is how you program your classes and it works for you then great but honestly you should try for small immutable class where possible with pure functions ( methods). It's really liberating.
I would wager, in complete ignorance of the real implementation, that the knowledge that they can overbook means that they can relax some of their requirements. If two servers can’t talk to each other to coordinate for a while, they could still each sell tickets.
Because it’s a word used to describe a wholly private experience, the only kind of sentience is arguable sentience.

Some argue that it requires some specific ethic heritage, a divine will, a quantum-woo pineal gland, a network complexity threshold, etc etc etc. I believe I see it in most animals, some person replying to this will think that’s absurd. Some 4chan solipsist will sincerely believe most humans are just virtue signaling NPC’s. Many communities have withheld recognition of it in outsiders or lower classes. Some believe it’s an illusion that one may shed and that their most esteemed have done so. Parents and psychologists will disagree over how it applies to babies.

There’s no epistemological way to resolve that except through voluntary consensus, and that’s an unfathomably slow and erratic process.

So yes, there will inevitably be technological inventions — possibly soon - that some people will insist deserve the rights and respects we associate with sentience, and just as inevitably there will be many people who find that ridiculous.

There’s no way around it. This is not a topic any of us will live long enough to see resolved, if we even get to see it really start.

Fretting about it is fine if you fashion yourself a philosopher or just enjoy systematizing or worrying as a hobby. But it’s so much bigger, slower, and more abstract than you that there’s little constructive achieved in doing so.
I think this a great summary. Carter is someone who, when looking back, seems very ahead of his time in his views. It's just that presidents are not assessed in a vacuum, and unfortunately he was not perceived as the president America needed at that point in its history.
Not difficult at all.

Define metrics that you both agree are an accurate measure of accountability for the role.

If the metrics are off pace, have a convo about what's happening and what needs to change to get them back on pace.

If they can never get back on pace, then there is a problem with the metric (trust in the system), or person (trust in the employee).

Again, it all comes down to trust.
That doesn't work with dynamic pages. A simple timestamp change would invalidate the hash between HEAD and GET.
The 50% figure is accurate, though. It's written in the most shocking way possible, but it's not incorrect. I'm not saying that I agree that 50% is overpriced, since electing to do your own fulfillment and advertising elsewhere will still represent an expense. Sellers may very well be pay just as much or more if they take care of their own fulfillment and advertise elsewhere. I don't know.
I use them for importing from files to tables. Run some cleanup and validation, before moving the data to its final destination. If pg crashes halfway, I still have the file imported and restart from zero.

A second use is importing httpd combined logs and doing some analysis when finding out which chains of http calls caused some kinds of behaviour. When done, the tables get deleted. It allows easy ad hock queries, correlating with monitoring tables, indexing... I used to write some python scripts, but pg did better than expected, and this way of working stuck somehow.
I’ve seen the “voluntold into politics” at lower levels: like in schools and community organizations and such. The president of my province’s dental association is someone new every year.

It seems to work, particularly at lower levels. At high levels, perhaps not so much.

I agree that there’s people who sign up out of civic duty. I think the sexiness of politics attracts the wrong people. I think this is particularly an American phenomenon, but not unheard of elsewhere. We have a handful of cult personalities in politics but 99% of the politicians you can’t even name. They’re not getting huge kickbacks or a big salary. It’s just a job.
"In parallel, the user had joined our public Discord server and engaged in conversations on how to violate the product’s terms of service, such as reverse engineering, which led to a ban by our volunteer community moderators. This was completely unrelated to the source code request, which no one, especially not our Discord moderation team, was aware of at the time.

This is a particularly funny reason from Voice.ai, since by linking against LGPL libraries, Ronsor was absolutely permitted to reverse engineer the binary under the terms of the LGPL:

You may convey a Combined Work under terms of your choice that, taken together, effectively do not restrict modification of the portions of the Library contained in the Combined Work and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications, [...]

I hope the rightsholders sue them for this scummy behavior.
> C++ is not necessarily popular for its merits. Inertia has a lot to do with it.

This personal assertion says nothing about C++ other than stating you have an irrational dislike for it. There are plenty of reasons that make C++ one of the most successful programming languages in mankind's history, if not the most successful, and inertia is not it.
The idea of AI taking over customer service jobs essentially just means "we need an excuse to stop providing customer service". The open secret is that AI isn't very good at anything. That's why you're not getting driven by a driverless car, and you still have to yell at your Alexa to actually do what you asked it to do. This CEO's statement isn't for the public, it's to pretend to IBM's B2B clients that they have something that could actually cut costs. Thankfully it can't and it won't. The social implications are besides the point given that they're nowhere near to what they pretend they're capable of. Watson was a failure, Alexa is just bleeding money and ChatGPT is already losing its luster. AI is all hype, cheap labor overseas will take your job way before AI does.
Tangle – Library which automatically 'entangles' and syncs WebAssembly
I played so much Descent on the Kali ladder, and a buddy and I would play 1v1 Descent 2 basically every day after school. The mind games around camera dropping were such a cool mechanic.

It's a shame there's apparently no appetite for that sort of 6DOF game anymore. While the quality increase in graphics, etc, is dumbfounding I also feel games have silo into just a few formats/genres. In particular anything that strays out side of the WSAD paradigm seems doomed to be ignored.

Back when I was playing Descent one of the big tips was to set up key bindings that'd let you strafe in 3 dimensions at once. So instead of WSAD, I'd have Left/Right on Q/A, Forward/Back on W/S, Up/Down on E/D and Roll on R/F. This was a big advantage over the default layout, but was probably too weird for people to try and get used to.
While he definitely deserves blame for the project starting under his watch, he still did far less with it than Reagan.

>Funding officially began with $695,000 in mid-1979,[3] was increased dramatically to $20–$30 million per year in 1980, and rose to $630 million per year in 1987

His total funding of it was around 5% of what the Reagan administration spent in one of it's eleven years funding it.
It would be even better if the AI actually worked as advertised. There's zero progress towards that though so this article is the purest of hot air.
I am not the person to whom you’re responding, but I feel compelled to say that I would very much recommend you broaden whatever literature or media you consume. Your statements are really at odds with a more nuanced reality. I don’t think having a second opinion will help much, but I don’t think it could hurt necessarily.
> practically it's simply tough to draw the line between assuring that historical data is still handled and rendered correctly and getting rid of overhead and complexity of a growing and evolving application

Agreed, the issue of maintaining accurate data (bitemporal or otherwise) in the context of evolving schema and code feels like a real puzzle to solve with commonplace tools like git and SQL.
AI will most likely eliminate most white collar workers up to and including CEOs when they are "good enough". I look forward to a board of directors replacing this try hard with AI.
Ronald Reagan and the start of corporate puppet US Presidencies. The fools had an Official White House Astrologist setting the presidential schedule. The Reagan White House was as dismaying stupid as it was dangerous, yet quite effective for the GOP. They still praise him like he was Jesus.
There are also other techniques (found after the computer's heyday), up to 8 bits 44.1 KHz:

https://www.livet.se/mahoney/c64-files/Musik_RunStop_Technic...

PS. it might not really be 8 bits, but only 93 or 107 different values (6..7 bits). More details:
https://csdb.dk/forums/?roomid=11&topicid=103092&showallpost...
Work should be about just testing everything with old people now that companies practically require them to use smartphones.
It depends on the exact market segment (Amazon does not have a monopoly on groceries, for instance), but yes, I think Amazon is effectively a monopoly. Or at least part of an oligopoly, which is no better.
Lets check it with @ElonJet
There were stories of him personally doing scheduling charts for the White House Staff. That probably was an exageration that did not happen that often, but he was a technocrat. He loved getting involved in details. More evidence that engineers generally make poor politicians.
This is not as far-fetched as it would seem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

The ancient Greeks pretty much appointed magistrates and others by lottery, and every citizen participated in a very direct democracy.

The Greeks saw this as a counter to oligarchy. I'm not sure that today's federal government is very far off from oligarchical tendencies.
Lee Kuan Yew found a way to get rid of addiction back in the 60s/70s...

You can look at the epidemiology of what's happening there and it's actually amazing. Thousands of lives saved every year just from overdoses, let alone the social damage caused by drugs.
I get my domains from Dreamhost. It works well for my needs - host with a few different places including Digital Ocean and GitHub pages fwiw
Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round
Yeah, I find it the height of hypocrisy that Google talks about the dangers of SMS-based 2FA, but Firebase, the development PaaS owned by Google, only offers SMS 2FA for their auth product despite years of complaints.
Chris Matthews touches on this and other examples in Hardball. Carter is a great man, but just wasn't a very suave politician. Another example Matthews cites was getting rid of the presidential yacht. Sure it made for a few good public points, but it handicapped Carter in losing a historically valuable tool for many informal handshake political deals.
Just noticing that 2 months worth of extra income is a 16% increase. Prices between 2020 and 2022 went up by, on average, 16%.

Also, payments to individuals and families accounted for only 30% or so of total Covid stimulus! But entities which are not people still spend money! Both on goods, services, and on salaries paid to people who then spend that money on goods and services.

It just seems crazy to me to say “no way, it has nothing to do with the $5 trillion dollar stimulus.”
Former Amazonian here, great company and all that, I enjoyed it.

I felt I can provide data here, FBA is not the end of the road, there are more levels so to say, FBA and prime etc.

Now, FBA has some potential pitfalls.

- VAT, Amazon will often store in a country where its most economical for them, ie, for German sellers, there will be a warehouse just after the Polish border etc. They will do this unless you explicitly disable this. This leads to very complicated VAT fillings and correction

- Lost, stolen, damaged cargo. If your merchandise gets damaged or stolen etc, its not so easy to get new storage space allocated/assigned.

- Recalls, if your ASIN is subject to a recall, god help you, if you use amazon, you will have penalty points on the account health page, affecting many other things. All and and FBA ASINs affected , whether youre selling it or someone else need to be removed. The recall is only finished after that. And youre paying for the storage or recovery or disposal.

- Shipping confirmation. You are supposed to inform about any package and order status very soon after the order is placed. Same for tracking status. Now, sometimes the Amazon api for that is buggy and you get heavy markdowns on account health even though you provide the data, just the feed dont work.

Still, when its all said and done, Amazon offers the best product and logistics if you just want to sell your product.

There is no way any competitor can offer the same quality at a better price.

Keep in mind, whatever the percentage is, the ecommerce business has a margin in the single digits, all of Amazon is subsidised by the money making machine AWS.
I'll echo the other sentiments here that I wouldn't consider this "static HTML", and I was expecting something about .htaccess. That said, this seems to be a strengthening of what used to be somewhat common "protection", namely variations consisting of:

- Password in plaintext in the source e.g. "if(password=='hunter2') ..."

- No correlation between password and page contents (either the content is merely hidden and shown when the password check succeeds, or lightly obfuscated/encrypted using key independent of knowing the password)

- Hiding content by using "display:none" or similar
>But it doesn't follow that the LLM sees the human as a person

I mean, technically many personality disorders prevent some people from seeing other people as persons too.
Iirc that was UC Davis (doesn't change anything except making sure the correct institution receives the black mark) and they tried to pay some org to remove that pic from the internet lmao.
In the meanwhile Steam's "backup and restore games" option doesn't really work, games are redownloaded anyways. The only way around is copying from steamapps both the game's folder and its appmanifest file.
FYI Android Firefox, since version 68, only allows installation of addons that are on a certain whitelist. For custom extensions, they require you to register on addons.mozilla.org, even if you just want to install an extension you wrote yourself.
The security industry has a lot of people looking for shortcuts or claiming to provide them.
This reminds me of an article I read a while back of weird mp3 tags.

One example was Rammstein's Untitled album, it literally doesn't have a title. How do you tag that?

(if anyone has the link to the article, I didn't add it to my Wallabag collection...)
> "poor little rich boy story,"

I think you're taking my example a little too literally there... it's an example. The point is to save the reveal (spoilers?) till the end so that you can relate to the story more.