skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incentives are just completely misaligned. There are more ways to pretend you're helping than to actual help, these ways are cheaper, and nothing incentivizes punishment. The buyers of the snake oil are just as happy as the sellers.

But even if the abuse, the double-counting, and the fraud were all fixed, voluntary offsets would still look silly. Buying a carbon offset in a market of whoever feels like participating is about as good as buying the NFT for Manhattan. Offsets are only a finite resource in a virtual sense. We can't take their price seriously as a moral indulgence.
It takes 90-120s to compute the answer. I just checked and the bot died mid-way computing answers earlier in the day and picked up from later point in the queue. I fixed it and you should get an answer soon.

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Turso introduces embedded database replicas
These sorts of bills aren't necessary if you create an environment that provides enough competition. A lot of areas are getting more ISP's coming in and laying fiber which is forcing the big companies like ATT and Spectrum to compete. Imo the government stepping in is just another instance of them refusing to use the tools at their disposal to break up monopolies and instead inserting themselves into a position that gives them more power over the internet. As usual they create problems and then come up with MORE laws to fix the problems they've created, which inevitably leads to more issues down the road.
First, disclaimer that I do not mean my post as a reason not to pursue antitrust concerns. By all means, look for them. If they are found, make rules about them.

That said, I have specific doubts. For one, search has always been crap on Amazon. I could believe they tried some of these tricks, but I confess I have my doubts they would execute on them well.

For second, some of this is standard BS that retail has just accepted. That is, bringing on "experts" from in the retail industry would almost certainly bias you in some of these directions. The standard contracts that retail stores have pushed for a long time are such that they absolutely should be curtailed. They can be good tools for small companies, but it is clear that as companies get larger, they amplify power imbalances.
It's unclear whether this matters, though. Some CPUs speculate through unconditional control flow as if it is never going to happen.
Can you?

I'm a type 1 diabetic, I have a continuous monitor that tells me what my glucose level is. This monitors actual interstitial fluid level and not blood sugar, this means there can be a pretty large delay between what's measured just under the skin versus what my blood stream is experiencing. If a rapid drop occurs there can be a lead time that I'm unaware of it, but others are because I'll behave in a 'cranky' or 'sharp' tone. I'm not aware this is occurring when it does. A little sugar and a few minutes and I'm back to regular me again.

You are in far less control of your actions then you believe. Internal self awareness is a poor mirror of reality.
> It's going to come out that Amazon calls the manufacturers for their basics goods, sends them the leading competing item and has them make it with slightly less expensive components to undercut the cost of the competitor.

They won't need to even call. Most FBA product listing inventory can be received directly from the factory (so Amazon knows exactly where it's made) and they can just go to the factory and offer to do 10x the volume for the exact same item (at a much higher discount).
What PI do mobile games even collect? Is it just payment history?
Maybe because the fact that a (presumably) healthy adult such as yourself chooses not to procreate because it "seems so difficult" indicates that there is something very sick about the society that we live in.
macOS Sonoma is available today
I'm a simple man, I see "but with Rust," I upvote.
If that were the case why did humans not evolve to have 17 times more female babies than male?

The chance of a billionaire having a son is 65%. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161014-why-billionaires...
Parking is expensive. Space for a 20 year old truck would cost me $300/month.
I looked into Wren and others a little while ago and raised my eyebrows when I saw that all that was needed to completely offset my impact on the environment was a tiny sliver of my income! I don’t recall the exact number but it was under $60/mo.

That’s it? For my travel, growing and shipping and refrigerating all of my food, digging up and purifying all the special metals in my devices and appliances, throwing all my waste in a landfill?

It just doesn’t add up. If net zero were that cheap and easy, it wouldn’t be a problem.

It seems like they’re selling a way to feel good about yourself without a real lifestyle change. Having said that, though, I do get the impression that the proceeds are put to good use.
This is bad epistemology. I can't possibly verify all of the facts of physics, chemistry, biology, history, economics, medicine, law, politics, etc. through my own senses and through people that I know personally. It would be impossible to have any knowledge of the world that way.

The real solution is to carefully select a variety of experts who you trust as sources of information, and rely on the consensus of those experts to determine what is true, while maintaining a healthy level of skepticism.
Paying a small amount for property tax or insurance is different than paying full rental/mortgage each month.
The same Canadian deputy PM who's grandfather was at the very least an editor for a nazi newspaper?
I realized I didn’t finish the story on this comment.

5 years later, our son’s recovery is a daily miracle. He’s a happy, healthy 13 year old with only a shadow of his former symptoms.

We were able to achieve symptom reduction through long course antibiotics, inflammation reduction supplements and medications (Tylenol and steroid bursts), and eventually having his tonsil’s out. After that we would have done IVIG if needed.

We maintain some inflammation reduction supplements but he’s off the rest of the meds and doing really remarkably, knock on wood. If you’re going through this with your kid, I send you all the love in the world, and hope that you’re able to relieve their symptoms as well.
Whole language has been known crap for a long time among teaching academics and professors. It’s just taken a long time for that to filter down to policy changes in schools, and for some reason the whole “controversy” became newsworthy within the last couple years, as if we just figured this out.
I do not see the purpose of excluding Walmart from "grocery store" when it sells the most groceries in the nation. Costco and Target are also sell huge amounts of groceries.
Apple Releases macOS Sonoma
At my local supermarket, there is a store-brand option in basically every popular product category.

And I can't even recall visiting a major chain grocery store where this was not the case (at least not in the last 5 years).
I guess that's a hazard of being in a near constant state of war and seeing practically every country as an adversary.
I switched from TST to sidebery because TST was unbearably slow (about 3 years ago).

Did TST improve on this front?
what on earth did iOS change that impacts your amazon business?
That isn't the thing Rust does, and is slower, so then people won't use it.

The advantage of Rust is that you can produce efficient safe code. The disadvantage is that you have to learn a different language first, which deters adoption.
Also because when you have operations with very differing range you they end up computed at the worst precision level without regard to the effects. In a fixed point implementation you would make the two scales different types and when doing computation involving both get an opportunity to preserve the precision. E.g. by dividing down the larger range one first rather than letting the smaller range one get crushed by the worst precision

Often these issues can be handled with very careful floating point order of operations (so long as -ffast-math isn't used...) but since its all implicit it's very easy to get wrong, while in fixed point you're forced to confront the scalings of different variables explicitly.
> three of the five words in the The Cat in The Hat title are noncontent words

Wat? They're all easily sounded out, and only one word (the) is "non-content".
Reducing only slows the process. It can theoretically buy time to solve the climate problems but it doesn't solve them on its own.
I don't disagree with that but nonetheless it seems like the behavior they are in trouble for (telling suppliers they can only sell on Amazon if they don't offer cheaper prices elsewhere) is something that tons of other retailers do.

I really don't mind their being a different set of rules if someone has the ability to dictate most of the market, but exclusive deals are routine for smaller players.
> For that one, it's mandated by publishers.

I believe the publishers want DRM. I'm not sure they want DRM that effectively locks in their readers to the Amazon ecosystem. I don't believe publishers would be upset if I could directly purchase books from Apple, Google, Kobo, or any other similar vendor directly on the Kindle.

Is the audiobook market different? I know Cory Doctorow for one would like to sell his audio books through Audible but they require DRM. Care to defend that?
> Neither is Amazon

The lawsuit that is the subject here details Amazon's durable monopoly power in two markets.

But, yes, if Amazon did not have a monopoly, it could not, obviously, be illegally maintaining a monopoly.
> Neither is Amazon in e-commerce, they hold ~39% of the US market and (...)

From the link:

> The complaint alleges that Amazon violates the law not because it is big, but because it engages in a course of exclusionary conduct that prevents current competitors from growing and new competitors from emerging.
I've been thinking of a similar project but over SSH rather than a browser based thing.
Maybe they "prefer" it, but still end up buying other versions for $reasons (space, cost, convenience).

I also "prefer" print editions in terms of a Platonic ideal of a book sense, but the last non-art-book I bought in print was Iain Banks last novel bought before he died in 2013, and I read that as an ebook - I bought the paper copy to complete the set only.

If I had infinite space, and never travelled, I might buy paper copies of every book I cared about. But I don't have infinite space, so I don't.
> It is not if you cannot prove that the price that the customer pays is now higher.

That's according to a peculiar interpretation of anti-trust law.

“Due to a change in legal thinking and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, antitrust law now assesses competition largely with an eye to the short-term interests of consumers, not producers or the health of the market as a whole; antitrust doctrine views low consumer prices, alone, to be evidence of sound competition.”

Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
It used to be about science, and then veered into politics.
This analogy doesn't work; in your coffee example, the cafe is complicit in benefiting from the manufacturer's cost-cutting (at the expense of the children). But the only injured party in the Unity case is the game developers themselves, who presumably are already aware what their own interests are.

To fix your analogy, it would be like a coffee manufacturer who apparently somehow screws over their customers (cafes), so you decide to retaliate by boycotting the cafe.
Amazon does currently have a "seller fulfilled" Prime service. They disabled for awhile, and recently brought it back

Consumers pay for Prime, and with it the 2 day shipping on eligible items, and so they prefer buying items with Prime eligibility. I must disagree with the "costly" description, as cost incurred shipping with Amazon and drastically lower than shipping with other services.

Having worked with dozens of businesses on establishing their Amazon account, there are very few that can move the volume needed to achieve the economies of scale necessary to match the costs of using FBA services.
Pretty close!

Albertsons owns: Acme Markets, Safeway, Haggen, Jewel-Osco, Kings, Pavilions, Plated, Randalls, Shaw's, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets, and Vons

Kroger owns: Baker's, City Market, Dillons, Food 4 Less, Foods Co., Fred Meyer, Fry's, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, JayC, King Soopers, Kroger, Mariano's, Metro Market, Pay Less, Pick 'n Save, QFC, Ralphs, Ruler Foods, Smith's

And now Albertsons and Kroger are merging together into one gigantic holy-shit mega corp.
A bit off topic.

What kind of garbage is this site? There's no way to go back. It pollutes the whole history. I can go back up to the last 15 visited sites and all of them are this site.
Here's a trick for reporting your transfers https://www.reddit.com/r/plaintextaccounting/comments/16d2xk...
(alias the account names to expenses/revenues temporarily).
The lowest price I can see when I upload my stl is $150, which is quite a difference from $30. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
The trouble with this argument (which gets made a lot) is that this is basically every large retailer. Walmart has great value, Safeway has safeway select, Target has good and gather. In all of these cases large retailers take well-performing products (i.e. look at their sales data to see what is selling well) and creates mimics.

They put the generics right next to the original products, and then charge the original seller for better shelf placement (as well as for various other things -- getting a product in a retail store requires a fair amount of payola in some form or another).

All of this adds up to basically the same thing: amazon copies a product and ranks it highly unless you pay for better placement.

You can say that this is bad, which sure, but it seems hard to make the argument that this is specifically illegal for amazon when it's widely practiced in the industry.
No, she does not. Even ignoring the fact that posthumous Nobels aren't granted, her efforts towards the elucidation of DNA structure were not sufficient to merit the prize. Specifically, the prize it not awarded for merely collecting experimental data. In this case it was awarded for building a model that was consistent with the data and also explained a fundamental biological problem ("it has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests A possible copying mechanism for the genetic material?"). Franklin (and everybody else) knew it was a helix, but it was Watson and Crick (not Wilkins; he shouldn't have received the prize either) who had the fundamental realization that DNA was double helical and formed complementary base pairs.
I'm curious which takes longer, parsing or planning.
I don’t hear that blue over hired. They seem to be severely short headcount for the work that needs to be done. I think it’s more that inefficient management structure failed to capture process improvements so everything is just really hard and inefficient on a day to day pace. Most resources are dedicated to firefighting so it’s hard to make improvements. I had heard that Amazon had similar problems and instead of fixing recurring systematic process problems the Amazon model is to throw headcount at the problem.
There’s a problem with assassinating war leaders. Replacements are more likely to have fresh ideas and might be more effective. Even if they are not as good they will certainly be new. One of the biggest things that loses wars is that high level leadership gets stuck with senior people who aren’t flexible. Generals keep fighting the previous war and losing. If you take out the generals they get replaced with newer, fresher people.

You’re actually doing your enemy a service.

A better strategy might be to ignore the ineffectual senior leaders. Target the effective subordinates people who get shit done.
Nobody said that they did.

Though sometimes they do. Do you think the unmetered connection a data center buys is oversubscribed by their ISP? They pay for it not to be, and then they use the full capacity. It's still not metered.
Burning methane that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere is a good thing.

Better yet to actually use it for something that will offset fossil fuel use though.

I think they burn the various CFCs and HFCS they extract from old refrigeration units for similar reasons.
> LEOs advance the qualified immunity argument all of the time

This isn't that.

Qualified immunity "grants government officials...immunity" [1]. Sovereign immunity is immunity for a state itself [2]. In 1946, the U.S. waived its sovereign immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act [3] under certain circumstances. This case was about whether those circumstances were met.

The court found it was. That means sovereign immunity is waived and the TSA isn't immune. It has zero bearing on the officer's own culpability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act
In the case of the original ARM2 hardware things are scarce/expensive now.

Those outside the RISC OS world may be surprised that in market potential terms RISC OS peaked at 2. By the time 3 came along PCs were displacing the Archimedes almost everywhere, and one consequence of that is a lot of software, especially early games, never made it even to the Risc PC.
CET complicates software virtual machines in several ways, e.g. deoptimization and exception handling. It's the wrong solution to a software problem that should never have arisen and just makes software even more complicated. An unfortunate metastasis of running unsafe code without checks for too long.
iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F
I don’t understand that question. What system can distinguish lies from truth better than each person for themselves? To me, the question is more freedom of speech or less freedom of speech. At best retaining the existing restrictions would have a neutral impact on both, and likely would restrict the truth more than lies.

After all, the truth is often more quiet than a lie.
Sam Altman claims “AGI has been achieved internally”
What inflammation reduction supplements did you use?
As I said above, staples tend to have store-brand equivalents.

But you don't see Walmart creating store-brand knock-offs of every popular product on their shelves.
Did you find any schemes where you were satisfied they were genuine? I'd love to know where I could donate money where I could be confident it genuinely had an impact
Unfortunately it has not gotten the attention it deserves from the medical community. Their consensus is that you only get it once(generally). I've had 3 documented cases, the last in 2019, and that one put me out of commission for basically an entire month. I'm hopeful that future medicine eliminates this disease entirely.
Demonized? Maybe not. But these games should be 18+ like any other gambling product.
Who could imagine!! My Lord, what a surprise!
Not to be rude but you made millions on the backs of Amazon. Now you’re complaining that you have competition.
So with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo: Sony has about 50% market share and Microsoft and Nintendo have about 25.

That’s a very different (I’d argue healthier) world than online retailers where Amazon has like 36% but the next largest (Walmart) is like 6%.

You need to weigh the market share against the number of players in the space.

Also that’s not to mention how all 3 major game console players have some kind of moat or walled garden (exclusives.)

Most online retailers are basically interchangeable, but Amazon is still the single largest player by far at 36%
What about seaweed?
Carbon Capture Scam
Munich Court Rules Netflix Is Infringing Broadcom Video Patent
The same was true for music once upon a time, but that didn't stop Apple from negotiating for DRM-free with the publishers.
Show HN: Automated Cloud Cost Reporting via Terraform
My name is Ben Schaechter and I’m co-founder and CEO of Vantage. Previously, I worked at AWS and DigitalOcean.

Today we’re launching automated cost reporting via Terraform.

As primer, Vantage is a cloud cost management platform that allows you to create dashboards and reports for members in your organization based upon certain infrastructure primitives. For example, you may want to create a cost report for certain AWS member accounts with specific cost allocation tags. This is usually a pretty manual process for configuring and clicking in our console to create a corresponding report.

We’ve increasingly heard that developers want to automatically manage these dashboards and the creation of cost reports via Terraform. Our Terraform provider now allows this to happen with a few different resources we’ve exposed including filters, cost reports and dashboards. This means you can express your FinOps/cloud cost dashboards as infrastructure as code and run `terraform apply` to automate the creation of cost reporting, alongside deploying your infrastructure.

All of this is just the beginning of what we are calling “FinOps as Code” which is a world where you can apply more automation to cloud billing. Soon we will expand this to other primitives on Vantage to things like setting budgets and alerts.

To check out this first iteration, you can create an API key here: https://console.vantage.sh/signup and review our documentation here: https://docs.vantage.sh/terraform
Yeah, I’d certainly say “in” isn’t somehow difficult to sound out, though “the” is a bit weird and not necessarily intuitive (plus we don’t always pronounce it the same way)
I always disable SIP on every Mac I own. It's not very useful and I can run whatever I want on my hardware.
Amazon could leverage their market power to benefit the consumer like Apple did when they eliminated music DRM.
Maybe they're talking about https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm which is used for web-llm (https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm)? Seems to be using TVM.
Step 1 - buy something “full of carbon” or potentially “making carbon” (like a future cow farm)

Step 2 - get paid for “offsets” not to do that thing that you never did
They didn't say don't use carbon sequestration. They said don't expect it to be the solution.
It is/was also the biggest outlet for UK, USA, French, German, covid ... disinformation.
Nah. You buy stock in the law firm(s) representing Amazon on this. Assuming they're a publicly traded.
Google used to have a feature to suppress sites or domains from your personal search result. This was back in the day where any programming question would lead to a paywalled site like experts-exchange which was a frustrating experience so it was easy to block. I suppose google removed that feature because it messed with monetization possibilities in search, but it is another indication of the way that google has really deprioritized the quality of the search experience for the user.
That's awesome, thanks for the links.
Why is kernel32.dll running in user mode and not kernel mode
Project Ideas
I want to build something for fun, do you have some ideas for something that would be fun to build. It would be interesting if I get to implement some mathematics in it.
There are projects that use old Kindles for such things. Anyone know of one that uses old Nooks?

(I could Google; more fun to discuss it here.)
Can we please keep these low-effort flames off of Hacker News? 1password is clearly offering value to somebody, as they have millions of users. Feel free to criticize it, but at least give specifics.
And Walmart has been repeatedly sued for doing it, just like Amazon is being sued now.
Might as well write a custom language and model editor too. These are all worthwhile endeavors but they are distractions if your goal is the game itself.

>you're still creating games.

No, every moment you're writing or debugging engine code is a moment you're not working on content.