skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pieces like this are so poor I wonder if they are planted to make anti-amazon etc arguments look dumb.

>Amazon has been accused of being “no friend of the small business” after a report discovered evidence that the online marketplace has ramped up fees and advertising costs for sellers.

I mean, Amazon is a huge mega corp, it's purpose is to "maximise shareholder value" or whatever, it is not a friend of anyone, nor is it meant to be.

>It found that between 2017 and 2022 Amazon had tripled the amount it earned from fees for independent sellers in Europe, including for listings, deliveries and digital support. That growth far outstripped the rise in sales, which doubled over the same period.

So hold on, the amount earned tripled, not the fee rate. And even if fees were constant rate, you would expect the amount to double since the volumes doubled. So fee rates, aggregate, went up by 50% in 5 years. That's only 8.5% per year. It's higher than inflation, but the years they picked include Covid when amazon became insanely busy as most businesses found it was the easiest, cheapest, best route to customers.

So the story here is actually "logistics/advertising provider increases fees by single digit percentage during huge spike in demand for it's services"

The guardian is a privately funded, non-profit. They can afford to do long term investigative journalism, they can risk offending their readers, they can take on actual commercial and political vested interests. Instead they make the left wing equivalent of FOX.
bruh they run on donations which means similar thing like reddit will happen again when they have to scale up.
Oh, that's disappointing. I was hoping for a drug that will finally help me understand how monads are just simply monoids in the category of endofunctors.
Could be this a sign of a shortage of open source programmers willing to work for free anymore, so a big company can mix and sell their code ignoring the license?

It seems that the early times of open source were much more idealistic and less corporative. This zeigeist will not return, I'm afraid.
The jank programming language (by Jeaye Wilkerson) [video]
true, of course, can't edit reply now :)
Be Wary of Smart Homes
I wouldn't call XP (Luna) theme ugly. It wasn't as clean as Windows2k but it was just fine.
Fair enough. Deliberate practice helps a lot, especially as you find new patterns.

I seem to have landed on doing the same thing, just scraping something completely and using the lessons learned to build something better.
And Apple, and Sony, and Nintendo.

Extension spaghetti is only the same API in name, given how different many code paths tend to be like.

Do you mean the hardware vendors, happily collaborating with platform owners as means to design their future hardware roadmap, leaving Khronos extensions to 2nd place, like ray tracing, mesh shaders, direct IO,...?

Also the fact that GLSL development is kind of done, and almost everyone is using HLSL to SPIR-V instead?
Guess what's not in a ROM file?
do you mean dopamine?
> The prices are reasonable, and the reason is that when procedures are not covered by insurance, consumers shop around.

You are doing some extremely heavy lifting here with this sentence alone by trying to connect two unrelated clauses. Consider the following: Is Water expensive? Is it expensive due to an innate characteristic of water, or is it expensive due to scarcity?

Now with that in mind, why is water the first thing price gouged during a crisis? People need fresh and clean water and you have individuals selling water at a premium.

The same principle applies for healthcare. Plastic surgery is optional and on an indefinite timeline, so there is no patient lock in. If you have a severe injury or a heart attack or a stroke you cannot shop around. You cannot pre-shop for conditions you don't know you have. And so you pay the crisis premium.
All of those impose capital controls, except maybe Brazil. The odds of anything beyond a token effort for show are near zero.
I like the direction you're going!

> * Items can be sorted chronologically or with an ML-powered recommender system.

It doesn't seem to be active right now. What is a realistic timeline for that to happen?

Other things I would like to see -

- Auto-tagging (gpt-powered?)and filter by tags

- Voting, for the recommender system, and as another metric of popularity

- Optional social aspect. Follow other users, maybe even add comments. (if I comment on an item from someone else's feed, maybe he can get a notification?)

I'll be happy to share more ideas if you like. Good luck!
Is this for spamming?
Plato is pretty good. He does this cool thing where the theology and morality of the city state is presented in a way which enables further development of the sciences and arts.

Really blows your mind when you start to put it all together.
Zig is the top paying language!
I'm seeing that same problem. Most of the blog posts in storybot.dev suffer that problem. They are too generic.

The only interesting ones have a lot of detail in its prompts.
Couldn’t agree more.

In my former life as an employee managing teams and projects, I was infamous for having meeting scheduled for 30 minutes which ended in 20 with a plan of action as output.

Long meetings are such a waste.
The people who care are the kind of people who make the community.

The community is the content and those who post it, aka the core that ties everything everything together.

Lurkers are not part of the community, they might as well not even exist.
You have a problem user, named Aragorn. You ban him. Two months later, he makes a new account named Estel. How do you associate his new account with his old account, so you know not to approve it? I've done moderating of an phpBB forum and having the IP address and being able to see who else was posting from that IP address was helpful (because you can look at the writing style and decide they're doing ban evasion).
> Usurping private assets is not a thing

Despite this idea being popular, it is not true in the sleightest. From Land being taken over for infrastructure proyects like highways, to peoples priavte property being taken by the police doing arrests, the idea that usurping pirvate assests should never happen only extends to corporations.

Having Amazon as a store front, and a manufacturer that can steal products and sell and promote them under amazon basics brand is one of the most overt cases for regulation to cut their company up into tiny little pieces. And yet the same goverment that will steal your farm to make a highway now thinks that taking up shareholder value is an afront agianst democracy itself
I think these attempted migrations would fare better if there was some kind of site that listed social media platforms by their number of users.
How does it turn out in practice? I don't think the central banks are as independent as it's thought. At least not in most countries.
Thank you, senttoschool.
I think you have more cynicism to develop. I would like to help you with that.

Which democracies have consistently succeeded, please? ... and whence this astoundingly unbiased, truthful information?

Big tech are the new bosses, supplanting human interaction with their measuring and calculating robotic brains; sociopaths have always ruled the world.
Doesn't anybody have any idea at all?
> The difference is

Sure, that does differentiate the two scenarios. I was responding specifically to the first scenario.

I have an arguably bad habit of responding only to specific points that people make in their arguments, while ignoring the rest of their argument until they address the unresolved point. In this case, someone tried to make a point about standing around street performers. I had something to say about it.
Semmelweis Reflex
What would you call what I'm working on, it is "parallel" but probably doesn't come under "parallel programming" in the literature. I'm still interested in it though, just haven't got around to it yet, it's a large space.

I'm not working on novel parallel algorithms that solve computer science problems, I am interested in parallelism as a general principle for coordinating systems activities.

When I get time to delve into parallel algorithms then I'll work on that, at the moment there's a lot of work in just cordinating and scheduling parallel tasks.

I am also interested in this area of database internals such as parallel query execution and concurrency control and wait/lockfree algorithms

I feel it is complicated and wide space and we deceive ourselves to think we know everything or hubris, which I expressly avoid doing.
Book Review: Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff (2013)
> "Will Alexa shut down my Kindle because I’m not comfortable with transwomen in women’s sports? Would my smart home get shut down because I’m not a fan of affirmative action?"

woke smart homes
Why should tobacco be low? It's a sustainable product: leaves from a robust plant that doesn't ask for much, picked by hand in the third world, that are dried, doped, treated, chopped and packed. Probably the worst part of all it is the filter. Why should Tesla be high comparatively?
Wolf Richter rips on this article pretty hard:

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/06/12/ive-had-it-with-stupid-stu...

> Park Hotels failed to pay off a $725 million interest-only non-recourse mortgage that matured last November. The mortgage was secured by two run-down mega-hotels in San Francisco, the 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the 1,024-room Parc 55 San Francisco.

> Park Hotels only owns the properties. The hotels themselves are operated by other companies, and when Park Hotel defaults on a mortgage and walks away from the property, it means ownership of the property will change. That’s all it means for the hotel. The operating company remains the same.

> Park Hotels has been a catastrophic nightmare for retail investors. The misdeeds that sank Park Hotels’ shares didn’t happen on the streets of San Francisco – as the company ridiculously alleged – but in the C-suite of Park Hotels and on Wall Street. And its investors and now the holders of the CMBS are getting ripped off.
I don't feel attached to that total score, but it is still gouge how good or badly received a response is and how much engagement it got.

I dislike systems like GitHub where some people obviously just farm stars. Really complex problems and good code has 10-15 stars and very little engagement compared to some js helper function that cuts yours string in half.
For small hobby projects FreeCAD seems to be fine though. Learning curve is a bit steep, but just requires that you put in 3-4 hours every night for about a month. At that point you will have learned most of it.
I pay a lot for premium healthcare in the US through my job and right now I've been in a queue for months just to see a doctor. So...it's not any different here, except we pay for it.
They went public and then private.
The basic counter point to that is that dozens of millionaire content creators partake, too.
For many people it's also a novelty to be in a MrBeast video.
For those already rich content creators an additional motivator may be the clout, of course.
Not true. Private debt (i.e. banks loans) are created out of thin air, indeed this is the primary mechanism for inflating the money supply. They may be backed by collateral, but that is not a limiting factor.
Does it really have 2000 employees? I remember when they were owned by Conde Nast and had something like 5-10 people. I know they have a lot more users now, and have added features like image and photo hosting, but to go from that to 2000 employees is quite the blowup.
I definitely agree on the regret front. I can't pinpoint the source of the regret, after all I still learned a lot along the way and spent my time working on something interesting, but somehow it's there. Just recently I picked up a project I had almost finished and then put aside for a year — mostly just to close that chapter up.
Would be great if one could have at look at the site without being forced to register.
I'm not quite sure if laxative is the correct description of this drug, even though it's official one. It is used for treatment of constipation in cases where laxatives don't help. I'm not sure if it has any similar effects in non-constipated people as other laxatives have.
Scientists achieve 1k km quantum key distribution
> Islamic finance prohibits interest

Islam prohibits Riba which roughly translates to usury or unjust gains. While today it's widely believed to mean all forms of interest, that wasn't always the case. Even Caliph Umar was of the opinion that the definition of riba was ambiguous.

The bulk of Islamic finance today involves structuring financing arrangements that are functionally equivalent to interest bearing loans but let everyone pretend otherwise.
So your view is that things are baseless if they're not written on Wikipedia? Quaint worldview. I've written integrations against two carrier billing systems in the US, in at least one case the whole system was hosted on Amdocs IPs and not those of the telco. To my mind, that is clear enough evidence.
John Romita Sr is dead
Push and shove isn’t great, the schematic editor doesn’t sensibly move wires around when you drag components, you can’t query designs with SQLish syntax to make bulk changes, there’s no room functionality, no via stitching and guarding, no multi-channel… it’s good but not there yet.
FWIW I've been a customer of Gandi.net for something like a decade now with a number of domains and many email accounts. This morning is the very first email I received from them on this (at 0025 EST this morning). I got no message about any previous email changes either. And my domain admin contact is not uniform either, email accounts there are across four different services including theirs, MXroute and GSuite. Not a spam filter issue. So yes, this feels pretty sudden here. That may or may not have been some sort of further screwup on their part, just a data point that notifications have not been uniform.
I thought this was going to be about using audio to literally listen to the database along the lines of "What different sorting algorithms sound like"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA
Me thinks similar things are going to happen (if they're not already) to Portland. I grew up there and then worked on SW 5th Ave from 2013 to 2018 and loved it. Since then I've been in Germany working. I went back last year to see family and my old "stomping grounds" near my old office and other places that I'd love to go eat at and such were overrun with folks with substance abuse issues, homelessness, etc., and many of the food carts and businesses/restaurants that I used to get fat at (I put on so much weight eating while going into the office it was hilarious) have closed and moved into suburbs or to other locations.

SW 5th and surrounding areas near the waterfront used to be the "nice" parts of town with very little open drug use, homeless camps, etc. (Don't get it twisted, I am 100% for more taxes, charity, efforts to help people get housed, get off drugs, whatever they need) But since returning the volume of people who need help is clearly turning the city into a place where businesses are reticent to invest in.
Looks more like a meme-hater's horror story.
Why are you assuming radiology wasn’t involved?
So someone at YouTube manually froze the views on this particular video at 301?

I was hoping that the video itself will somehow cover that bit at the end. Maybe I was expecting too much magic / pre-planning.
Alt-Coin-Delete: Wall Street Moves In
https://archive.ph/NXb6n
First, for at least this past decade, I have found it impossible that the same user will keep the same IP address for over two months. Storing the IP address _does not help at all_.

Second, the new user is subject to approval and all his messages are moderated until a couple of posts. If he starts posting decent material, why would you care he was banned 2 months ago -- are you really that punitative?
And if he just posts decent, insightful material for his 5 messages, gets approved and then descends back immediately into trolling, well, at least it's been a couple of months and then the couple of weeks he was under moderation of total silence, plus you have gained whatever contributions he made under moderation. I am yet to see a troll that will repeat this process (which requires insightful contributions in-between each iteration of trolling) for more than a year. That's way less moderating effort that it takes to handle new users at all...
You might want to take a look at Rebuttal of the Logicians by Ibn Taymiyyah and The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Al-Ghazali, as far as classical Islamic theological works that have been translated, those will be your go to books but they're by no means introductory works.
I chanced upon this article and found it thought provoking. I'm essentially starting from zero, as I moved from the big city into a rural mountain area 2 years ago by myself and only know a handful of people. So I've been wondering what was a good way to bootstrap a social network for someone that's just awkward around strangers. I also don't have family in this country.

Things I've tried.

Joining local sports groups, am told they're full because of too many new members lately.

Working out at the local gym, this was actually how I met my first friend. I
probably should go more often but I wanted to try out another gym.

Going to local events, flea markets, etc. I see people I know and greet them, but they're usually already with other people and it's awkward interrupting them. I generally stick around and chat for a few minutes, then I just leave because it's just weird forcing myself into a group.

Work out of a co-working space once a week. Took a bit of time to find the right venue. Most of the places I've been to, people stick to themselves. Finally found one where there's some kind of community.

As an off shoot of the above, I'm looking for a gym near the co-working area so I have less excuses not to go.
I just picked up You are Gods and it's actually pretty dense stuff and would be a poor choice if you were tired of Christian thought (even if he winds Vedanta into it). It might be worth having a look at Bentley Hart on Wikipedia and seeing if some of his other work appeals. "The Experience of God" is very good, as is "The Beauty of the Infinite". But obviously he's writing from a Christian perspective. From a completely different tack, you might read the "Tripura Rahasya", that's a good Eastern book of mystical philosophy.

Some of the stuff I found most satisfying was proper modern Christian Apologetics, such as the Handbook of Catholic Apologetics. But the Eastern writing is excellent getting across the scale of the infinite and relating that to people on a personal level.
Not just the UI. Apple products in general. The G3 iMac, Apple Cinema Display, Power Mac G4 all had pinstriping elements.
A phalanx of mace-wielders, legioned by the dozens, swathed in interlocking geometries of archaic clan and tribal shroud, donned in specters of yesteryears garb. Upon crowns they bore the half moons of sun-shielders, hands sheathed in the callused gloves bearing the earthen residue of the wars waged on emerald fields. Some festooned in old world breeches and shapeshifter's bonnets, others in the blaring colors of plebeian polo and desert-dusted shorts. Among these warriors, a solitary figure, a shielder of storms, his trusty parasol held high. Another’s lower limbs swathed in ghostly shroud, baptized by the verdant life of the fields. And still another, a tragic bride, her veil sanguinary from the love-feast unholy. Feathers plucked from the winged ones adorned the headgear of some, the rawhide caps of others akin to the primal trophies of untamed hunts. A lone paladin armored in the steel and iron of yore. Faces beneath this motley parade painted in the ghastly festival hues of the carnivalesque. A cacophony of unknown tongues ricocheted, a grotesque operetta resounding in the ears of those unversed. As they approached the maiden's tee, they were as a raiding horde birthed from some primeval chaos, an epoch more untamed than the manicured world they stormed upon. The shrill discordance of their cries echoing, their raiments in their wake, whispering tales of an infernal dimension, billowing like the smoky breath of the underworld's beast.
Yes
I got a hint of this the first time I went under, my first memory of being awake was back at home, on my sofa, upstairs.

As my mom tells it, i walked myself to the car, behaved like a weirdo with my feet on the dashboard (never done this once in my life).. sprinted out the car, up the stairs, fell, got up.. went to the sofa, and fell asleep for a few hours.

So clearly I was not out for the entire period I had amnesia for.
It makes me wonder what parts I was unaware of vs what parts I was aware but memory wiped.
Are there programming paradigms for which this isn’t the case?
We're in the dark ages wrt consciousness.

We might as well have multiple overlapping consciousnesses, some of which may experience pain during anaesthesia.
Apart from measuring very different things, the PHP page compares PHP releases over something like 25 years vs. about 3 years of Ruby releases.

Look at PHP 7.2 onwards, which is a similar timeframe, and the improvements are fairly modest.
Hey! We have that and it's integrated with all of our tools and data!
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_Shock:_When_Everything...
No, you. More than happy to debate it with you.
There is also the social and governance part in ESG.

I think the mechanism is an antidemocartic abomination and stakeholder capitalist should be rewarded with expropriation, but otherwise the values of ESG will always be random and conform to the zeitgeist of the highest decadence. Currently, Musk is evil and money is good.

It is the worst way of paving the way to hell with good intentions and I think the UN should reevaluate their approach. I don't believe UN participation is worth fighting for in this state.
I happened to be digging around hotel trade publications yesterday (before deciding that the PMS space is a crowded mess with too many incumbents and a nightmare of necessary integrations), and found this, which may back up the article somewhat:

> The steepest RevPAR declines were seen [for the last week in May] in San Francisco (-15.6% to US$108.49) and Orlando (-12.8% to US$109.48).

https://www.hotel-online.com/press_releases/release/str-u-s-...
Tesla is scored badly on ESG because they don't publish the info required to grade them. It's like a smart kid not handing in their homework and so getting a lower score than another kid who at least handed something in.

> It said that Tesla's "lack of a low-carbon strategy" and "codes of business conduct," along with racism and poor working conditions reported at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, affected the score. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called ESG metrics the "Devil Incarnate."
That is one of the many parsers listed in the article.
My wife broke her foot in Australia. Three days in hospital, surgically implanted pins. $700.

Wife said “no no no I’m not a citizen” and they said “yeah we’re so sorry about the cost” and she laughed.

Counting premiums, we paid $48k out-of-pocket for healthcare here in the US last year.
They matched the iMac case's stripes. See: https://www.theregister.com/2010/11/29/bondi_blue_imac/
Not everyone does everything with the expectation of seeing their bank account inflated in return. Sometimes people work on things just for the gist of it and I always appreciate seeing something driven solely by legitimate enthusism. :)
I was excited about Mem a few years ago. But was disappointed they did not support math/MathJax notation ($…$) despite millions raised.