skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every business has started doing this and I'm glad there is finally some consumer protection happening.. It's worse than the bronze/gold/platinum 'memberships' or 'package' schemes that have shown up everywhere. My dog's boarding place hit me with three fees on pickup (they also have like 200 permutations of packages that try monetize every possible marginal activity - taking pictures with your dog, letting them hang out with staff 'up front', allegedly watching movies with them, each individual toy or treat, etc).

It's sad that we have to look to government to solve basic stuff like this. I'd rather not regulate everything to death but the alternative is annoying shit like this. Like I could try to go to another dog boarding place, but there just aren't that many of them and they probably do the same thing. I bet they're all owned by the same private equity firm anyway.
A lot of it too is just lemmings being lemmings. There are no shareholder activist investors involved when your local brewpub tacks on a 25% service fee. That's just them doing what their other asshole small business owner friends have been doing and not a farsighted play or anything. I know they are assholes because I've overheard conversations of these types many times, especially during the pandemic complaining how none of their staff wants to return to work for the wages they are offering. For a lot of business owners, they end up looking at the numbers alone, weighing what they mean for their immediate cash flow much more than how those numbers impact their employees or even overall customer relations.
Sellers can still make it very clear how much of the sum were taxes.

Here in Germany every bill, every receipt will contain that information. (I mean, obviously, it’s legally required.)

Different sellers do this differently in terms of clarity, though I think this has little to do with any kind of price signal to the buyer or sticking it to the government or something like that.

My feeling is that the more likely it is that the customer is a company (which do not have to pay VAT) the more clearly do sellers communicate the VAT part of the price.

In fact, if you are not selling to consumers you can ditch that VAT altogether when you communicate your prices. Alternatively (when talking about online retailers) they may provide a toggle to switch between being a business customers or a private customer, e.g. here the toggle top left next to the Conrad logo: https://www.conrad.de
If it costs 2k/mo just to insure, maintain, and pay taxes on your property, how is somebody renting something comparable for 3k?

the landlords in your neighborhood are only taking 1000 a month to service their loans, their overhead, and then take profit? Sounds like a tough business
The reverse is also plausible, and whites could begin to show in-group preference again.
Is it possible to generate the matplotlib (or whatever charting library) is used to make the visuals?
If we had a standard sales tax, sure. But when sales taxes vary by city and county, like they do in California, it's very painful to do that -- and that's only 1 of the 50 states!
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I've heard their pension system penalizes older doctors with more taxes once they accumulate enough years so its better to retire at that point.

The other thing is junior doctors can't progress forward in their training and career as there is limited training slots for specialization. So they end up logjammed being in the low rung doing scutwork at little pay.

Also doctors pay has not kept up with inflation for the last decade. Right now what they really want is full pay restoration but the government isn't budging.

There is a Reddit subreddit where UK jr doctors chat about this stuff and its very enlightening.
Canada currently feels more divided today than anytime in my life. I am not sure it is the best option to point at. I am not sure the source, however the data is starting to show that the housing issue is in fact a direct result of more immigration, so we may see a significant shift towards less immigration in the coming years.
I ran into the exact same issues as the author of this post the other day. I have a static site built on Hugo that I (amateurishly) set up a year or so ago, and would like it to have better support for photos & galleries, but lack the time + skill to implement that.

I spent a late-night research session a few weeks back running through many of the main options they mention only to settle on the conclusion that there wasn't something that had the compromise of features, simplicity, and price that I was looking for.

I didn't check out write.as when I was looking into things though, so maybe that'll be my next failed experiment.
Not at all. A great example is health codes.

Serving good, safe food is something pretty much every food business wants to do at the outset. Nobody opens a restaurant thinking, "Let's see who we can get sick!" But imagine your hamburger stand is next to a guy who's willing to cut corners. Use the older meat. Buy from the dodgier supplier. Maybe spend less labor time cleaning. Suddenly his prices are lower and you're losing business. Other restaurants nearby are too. You're faced with a choice: do you cut corners, or go out of business?

So if you talk with restaurateurs, you'll find that most of them are in favor of health codes and health inspections, because although they can be a pain, they're keeping competitors on a level playing field. They like food safety laws for suppliers even though they make prices higher, because they don't want to have to worry about giving their customers unsafe or suspicious food.
You've made one huge mistake: Davinci's $0.02 is not just per 1k tokens generated but also context tokens consumed. So if you generate 50 tokens per request with 1k context, the price is actually 20 times as large at $0.40 per 1k tokens generated - much less palatable, costing 3 times as much as the cloud hosted version of this.

And that's not even taking into account the gigantic markup cloud services have.
Who was forcing them? Their workplace? The same workplace that makes them piss in a cup to work there?
Keep your documentation up to date with your code
> to taxes not in the sale price

This gets complicated and there's good reason.

The taxes depend on where you take possession of the goods. If you purchase an item and walk up to the checkout counter, you pay the taxes there. On the other hand, if you are buying lumber in Kansas City, KS to be delivered in Kanas City, MO - you pay the MO taxes (4.225%) rather than the KS taxes (6.5%). So, putting the taxes on the lumber ($3.35) in KS would be $0.22 and if it was to be delivered on the other side of the state line, that would be $0.15.

If you were to say "ahh! Lets solve this by having taxes paid for where you buy it instead" then everyone incorporates in Delaware and you get some sizable data centers in Oregon and sell everything online from there... and you've got other problems with states trying to collect sales tax on goods delivered there.
> the awful truth is that a lot of people would rather pay $45/month for 1 Mbps DSL than pay $50/month for 1 Gbps fiber

I have never met these people, and my sample includes four grandmas that are 70 years old. Quality of videocalls so important that 1 Mbps internet is worth $0 to them. Gaming is leisure, that's different - some people buy $1000 golf clubs, and $5,000 bicycles, some don't know what to do with them.

> I mean, the people in my town could afford 100% fiber optic internet, but the phone company can't afford to stop using the copper network when it can still charge people premium prices for subprime service.

Sounds like a monopoly has your town by the balls, that's not a healthy state of capitalism / free market.

These "artificial scarcity" techniques are cancerous tumours, if we allow them to fester and grow they will bring down the whole system.
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I have used it to find all the jobs I have worked as a SE (3), including some that shifted me internationally. Many more interviews for other jobs were started through it too.

I have a nook in the geospatial field that helps narrow the competition but for the most part it’s been great.

I can see that mileage may vary depending on circumstance through.
There's a point where you graduate and mature your products, reaching out to adjacent markets. Startups can't and shouldn't do that. If you're a big company acting like a startup, you're losing ground.
Ask HN: How do you background check a startup as an employee?
Got a job offer from a startup. The job itself and pay are really attractive. A friend knows one of the founders and vouched for them. However... their main investor has some really red flag BS about NFTs on their website that makes me hesitant to leave my FAANG job. Any advice on how to background check a startup/VC firm?
Things that wouldn't work in America, #47.
bowling is fun, maybe karaoke if you're in a city

if it's a group with a common interest, you can rent a room in a dance studio or something similar, set up tables/chairs there, and have a hobby night
Again, something is going over my head.

Cedar has nothing to do with AWS except that it's open sourced by AWS (I think?). It has nothing to do with IAM, an existing way to model policy specifically for AWS owned resources.

What you do once you model your application's authorization concerns in Cedar to make it so action:foo is exposed as usable on resource:bar is up to you, and your business. An anaylzer can be implemented on top of this for your domain and offer the functionality you're describing, but that seems out of scope for Cedar the modeling specification and evaluation engine to provide.

Imagine Cedar as a way for you, a SaaS provider, to add granular access policies like AWS for your own specific resources be it customers, rental cars, food orders, or advertising campaigns. I suspect the majority of use cases aren’t multi-tenant SaaS concerns but very complex authorization over resources internally across services in an organization. Does micro service A have access to update data on resource bar? It’s still hard to model and enforce those things as organizations grow, especially in a domain specific way.
If the taxes are just and sensible, you have nothing to fear.

If the taxes are silly and ridiculous (which many are), then they should be rolled back and people should know about them. That's not conservative, it's just common sense.
Consisting of multiple parts "made by different people" describes virtually every piece of desktop software.

> If we could choose between a reality where both the ad blocker and ad blocker extention creator had access to your browsing history or a reality where only the browser did don't you see how it would be better to live in the second reality if the adblocker worked just as well?

No. My agent is uBlock Origin with a very large dependency attached (Firefox). The value of your proposition is null.

Your response amounts to a form of begging the question, anyway.
Not really, if the guild founders include self-taught coders then they will make provisions for their fellows.
I could not find any great documentation. I mostly learnt by reading CadQuery's code and implementing in Typescript.

Once you get how it works googling the name of the OC methods helps sometimes. But there is not much around.
> The Latino voting bloc, growing every day, votes against immigration reduction (or even enforcement, via sanctuary cities) out of ethnic solidarity.

This is not universally true. While many Latinos do indeed vote this way, others resent having to compete for jobs and social services with more recent arrivals. Geography and background play a major role
Companies know that the number of people who would boycott them for a small fee is extraordinarily small. Most people take their medicine and move on with their lives, since its not like you have an alternative for most of these goods and services in life, or the alternative operates the exact same way. If it didn't work well these practices wouldn't be so widespread.
> It's a heck of a ride.

Funny, you conclude that way because a lot of my background processing and moments of sudden clarity happen when I go cycling after work.
> I thought I remembered that the 7900 XTX trades blows with the 4090 in some games even with both cards at stock settings. (Though of course the 4090 completely blows it out of the water in other games.)

Yes, that's the way averages work ;) 4090 is 127.7% of 7900XTX performance averaged across all reviewers at 4K in non-RT titles. So a good game for a 7900XTX is rubbing shoulders with the 4090... and a good game for a 4090 is doubling the framerate of a 7900XTX.

4090 is not lower power than a 7900XTX though. Which is to be expected because it's a significantly faster card. However, the 4090 does undershoot its specified TDP quite a bit, it's 418W average in gaming (on the next page) yielding 107% perf/w of a 7900XTX (so it's slightly more efficient too, just delivers a lot more frames).

https://www.3dcenter.org/artikel/launch-analyse-amd-radeon-r...
It's complicated.

They'd really prefer not to be in that position, but they learned the (extremely) hard way in the early days of the Internet that when you have the largest OS install-base (And MS still has like 29%), you have some obligation to the global community to police it. Because Lord knows individual users don't pull upgrades in fast enough voluntarily, and an exploit shared by 29% of computers can be easily weaponized online.

The Internet would be much, much worse if not for the steady drumbeat of OS vendors forcing users to patch vulnerabilities via upgrade pursuasion.

(At least until someone finishes development on that vulnerability-free OS. What did they call it? NonexOStant?)
As fully signed up C64/SID fanboy, Chronos on the Speccy is probably my favourite piece of music in any game.. Absolute 1-bit sheer heaven..
Parking lots, malls, outside of movie theaters, woods, riverbanks, people’s houses, old docks at lakes.

10-20 friends used to show up at this one lake easily off one group text. We’d spend hours talking, sitting on an old wood dock drinking beers and skipping stones we picked up from the loose gravel along the shore, and yelling to hear our echoes spread through the mountains. One time we hung up a rope on a thick tree branch and went swinging off the hill and flinging ourselves into the water. As the sun would begin to set we’d lite a small bon fire on the shore and sit around it staring into the flames philosophizing, occasionally some guys and girls might wander off into the woods to make out, smoke some weed or do who knows what. And when it got very late, we’d drive out to whatever burger joint was still open and sit on the curbs in parking lots eating greasy food. Always 10 or 20 people deep, just hanging out. Just another random day in our lives, oblivious to the dark shadow slowly crawling across our world.
Let's come back when they actually launch something
What does a consumer protection bill have to do with regulation?
Thanks!

Yes, joined CadHub last year but yeah, a little quiet. I'll say hi again
While different, it irks me that there are a bunch of hidden fees with UberEats and DoorDash. Not only do delivery companies charge the consumer fees, but restaurants generally raise their prices by 50% if you are buying through an app. That delta is not shown anywhere.
sounds interesting and well thought out. do you have any viable alternatives for people who don't gamble or drink?
Sales tax is at least easy to calculate back of the envelope.
A lot harder to do online without knowing the zip code . People are sometimes vary of sharing that just to see full price
> It is a choice to deny it to them. Why?

Because the choice to just give it to them will have consequences and will very likely fundamentally change the nature of the society we live in.

> So a handful of people can become obscenely wealthy. That's it.

That's one consequence. I highly doubt that would be the only one.
Regulation isn't a singular thing. People want more good regulations and less bad regulations. Even when good regulations exist, people want competent enforcement of the regulations.

California passes a lot regulations, so there is a lot of red meat for either side of the regulations good/bad arguments.
And expect lower salaries as a result. Nothing is free
I doubt that. Heat and alcohol are two examples that are doing just fine.
I really don't know why anyone thought this would be a good idea. Even in very left and "woke" circles I've seen very little support of this.
> His works also get a ton of coverage.

Yet I had never heard about him before. And while I could find a hackaday article, I didn't find anything more mainstream. So I would estimate that 99.9% of the population will never hear about him.
For a website called printmag you'd think they would have heard about contrast. #EEEEEE body on #FFFFFF is a shitty combination.
I think we're getting wires crossed. I know that, and I know that Cedar doesn't solve this use case. I was jumping on with Krab's comment mentioning why something that works like a policy simulator isn't sufficient.
A ton of creation happens in conversation or collaboration with others, even if this author doesn't think so.
Please provide said photos, and while you're at it, proof that these photos are indeed recent and taken in the watershed affected by the incident.

I hear this over and over and over, but I've never seen actual evidence that these pictures are authentic AND reflect the widespread condition of the area.
Totally agreed. I lived for a time in Australia, where all the prices included tax. The price you saw was the price you paid. When I got back to the US, I wondered what the hell was wrong with me that I spent my life seeing our much more confusing system as reasonable.
There’s an O’Reilly book on data engineering. I’d recommend that. And then the data engineering podcast from Tobias Macey is really good, too.

I’d stand up a set of replicas in a sort of datamart for those thousands of report end users. If the reports are read only and they are then a replica should be just fine.

And an even beefier replica for the analysts to create the reports. You might then graduate to something like looker or tableau.

Happy to chat more about this. This is what I do all day. I love this stuff.
> There are far more global oil reserves today than there were in 1980

No, not really. The big shift was shale gas; the rest was mostly incremental. And again, starting from zero production a couple of century ago and going to zero at some point in the future (because gas and oil are finite resources) pretty much implies a maximum at some point in between. The concept of peak production is as inescapable as gravity. It can be delayed, but it is bound to happen. And when we realise that it is declining, then it’s too late to put alternatives in place.
Happy user [0] of Bear Blog [1], would recommend.

I would also recommend spending less than 30 minutes setting up a blog if you have less than 4 posts written. [2]

[0]: https://thrice.me/

[1]: https://bearblog.dev/

[2]: https://www.benkuhn.net/writing/#set-up-your-blog
Knowing how litigious the USA is these settings make me very nervous. Good way to lose everything because someone trips on a rock and blames you.
>Mary Lincoln Todd waits for Booth to do all of his theatrics, instead of immediately screaming "EVERYONE WITH A GUN SHOOT THAT MAN".

I think you're using videogame logic to analyze a human situation. People do not react that way.
They aren't changing every single tag in the store.
Hopeless.

That's a tough word. It feels like a loop: The mere fact that I feel hopeless makes me feel worthless which makes me feel hopeless.

I've never struggled to find work but I've had two tragedies in my life that feel similar -- a very big loss that maybe has a way for you to assign blame to yourself (blame that is likely less deserved than how much is being assigned), a loss that feels like your future is blurry or that makes you feel like the dreams you planned on are not possible any longer. OK, that's probably a good place to stop with that ...

You are by yourself in a car in a Burger King parking lot, but you are not alone.

Today, an untold number of people are reading your words, some of them are sympathizing with you, some have prayed for you[0], and we're all rooting for you.

You haven't given up. I don't believe you will.

What you've written sounds like you feel like you're at "rock bottom" right now. When you hit rock bottom -- whether it was "on purpose" or just a subconscious reflex -- you took action. It's really hard not to let circumstances like this make you feel like you're unqualified/incapable -- consider that getting hired for a job is all on you and you've done it twice. Getting laid off -- frequently -- has nothing to do with you or your abilities.

Let yourself feel hopeless for a little bit -- at least, don't let yourself feel guilty for "being normal". If you haven't already found a thousand people to talk to, reply and I'm sure we can figure out a way to exchange numbers outside of an HN comment thread (I'm pretty easy to track down). If not, I wish you and your spouse the best through all of this -- give them a hug; they're rooting/hurting for you, too.

[0] raises hand looks around puts hand down
It's presumptive that any problem you might have could possibly be solved by a state paid "life coach." I'm sure there's a segment of the population that could use this, but likewise, I'm sure there's a segment of the population that's facing unique enough circumstances that a "life coach" would come off as a slap in the face.
Siri & Alexa (and I think Cortana) are She's, so there's that. Maybe it's just like how boats are always referred to as She's.

Also reminds me of the NY Subway voices where a female voice was used to convey helpful information while a male voice was used to give instruction. Pretty sure this was all based on user testing/responsiveness.
I completely agree... My comment was based on the assumption this conversation isn't about helping your buddies through a tough time, it's about who to network with when you've been laid off.
> We all know what products companies/individuals would pay for, because we used to build/buy them.

Why wouldn't the traditional approach of starting a company to sell those things work?

Co-ops have never been a successful software business model. Not even once that I can think of.

That model seems to work ok for open source, but since you are talking about building things people will pay for, I'm not seeing how it would succeed.
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Describing the "nudges" as gaslighting is very funny indeed
This PR had just tested running DuckDB-WASM. For more complex computation, I am planning to build a computation engine to generate SQL and push it to DuckDB or other databases. (I built a POC like this in another project, RATH, but the SQL is push to clickhouse instead.)

If you are interested in this, welcome to discuss with us in the PRs/issues on Github or in our Discord: https://discord.gg/Z4ngFWXz2U
The thing I'm missing in this discussion is that there's very few people out there making whatsapp or figma. The vast majority of software development is perfectly served by submitting forms, as mind-numbingly boring as that sounds I think its true.

I feel like the primary challenge of the field of software development is actually to guard simplicity. Local-first becoming a standard is not unlike SPA becoming the standard: it hurts simplicity and digs the hole we are in deeper still.

To help with this, I think any new technology proposed should advertise when it should NOT be used. In this case, I think, this disclaimer should probably say: "most of the time, for most applications, this should not be used".
Because it’s there.