skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very short sighted. Lower prices inevitably come at a cost to quality. Normally this is corrected for in physical stores (you can see if something looks cheap), but it's not so easy with online shops. So yea, everything's cheap now because Amazon/Walmart/Temu and the like drove prices into the ground, but it's also all garbage. And the quality alternatives? Mostly gone because consumers flocked to cheap products.
Another thing what's missing is the effect of holding a magnet next to the screen (smiles)
Magento was badly designed- infinite levels of directories. Good luck on upgrade. There’s plenty of self hosted online stores. That’s hardly the problem.
Yes, nested comments are coming very soon, hopefully this month. It will make it a lot more like a git branching system!
Hasn't WalMart been doing the same thing for decades, but in bricks & mortar retailing?
It tastes relatively bad. Almost like having some fresh cut grass in it, and leaves a quite bitter aftertaste in your throat.
> Yes, typing can be a pain in languages that don't support inference, e.g Java can be tedious

Java has had some type inference for almost 20 years, and local variable type inference (i.e. `var person1 = newPerson();`) for more than five.
When I say adequately tested, I mean much more than unit tests. Unit tests aren't going to give you bulletproof code. They don't detect bugs that arise from interactions at a higher level.

An arbitrarily complex type system, with dependent types, could detect any bug, since it's formally equivalent to requiring the program be proved correct. But using such a type system is so onerous that I don't know anyone who realistically does it in production.

If you wrote such types, you're basically giving a formal specification of what the program is supposed to do. That could then be used, and likely much more easily, for high volume property-based testing.
You can have a high IQ while having wrong axioms or bad facts.

Those humans who recalled incorrectly could have a 130 IQ, proving my point above and making your ad hominem reddit speak luddite insult fall flat.
This is a classic programmer response. The problem is not Amazon's software, it's their marketing, distribution network, huge audience that searches for products exclusively via Amazon, "free" and very fast Prime deliveries, etc. That doesn't all happen via simply open sourcing some code.
There is no evidence you will become a serial killer, but there is no evidence you won’t. I could certainly construct plausible scenarios where you do and even write a book about it. Therefore we should lock you up now.

Banning things on the basis of evidence free speculation is a really dangerous road to go down.
The unpopular truth that is spoken of in teaching circles is cultural.

America is a diverse nation and the people entering it right now don't value the Prussian style education system we have or more aptly don't see the value in it.

Couple that with public school administrative politics (as in office politics) and you see why high performing teachers flee out of those districts and into more highly rated ones.

Education starts at home and if that isn't there for whatever reason then the whole system falls apart.

What's even worse is devaluing an education to get failing students out the door.

Whether intentional or not the implications are the same. You now have a massive under educated poverty class that can be cajoled by populatists and others into votes. This is how democracy dies.
I think you made your position clear enough already in the other threads.
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There will continue to be uses for gasoline and similar, but the usefulness of an engine relates to the availability of the fuel. Making a new kind of engine that runs on a new kind of fuel is somewhat of a dead end unless you're 1) envisioning a niche application or 2) expecting a wide take-up. But people are largely switching away from combustion engines, and synthetic fuels seem to work fine for the remaining ones. So I think we're going to end up with gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel compatible engines, not whatever this stuff is.
Did homeschooling just fall off the face of the planet? Stop sending your kids to these kinds of schools. Take the initiative to be learned enough to teach your kids at least the fundamentals, and then instill in them the drive to want to learn more. It's made much easier with the advent of the internet.

And someone's probably going to respond "but muh socialization!" In what other real-life scenario are you going to end up with a bunch of people who are almost identical in age, with little to no responsibilities, regurgitating shit with no incentive other than that you have to be there, or else? You don't. After that, it's off to either real school (university) where people are all at various stages of their education throughout their life, chasing education in fields that actually benefit them and the rest of society; or they work a job where there's even more diversity and generally less interaction with people.

Lower school is an alien place to be, and always has been.
The seeds and leaves are edible. They just don't taste good (and aren't juice).

>I seriously don't get it—if you don't like fruit why drink fruit juice

So you include the seeds, rind, and pith in your juices, right? Or are you just a pretend fruit liker as well?
> It’s not a good look

The look isn't the issue. The fundamental substance is what counts, and it seems terribly mismanaged to not spend most of this money on development and documentation, both of which scale extremely well.
But it isn't. I have said nothing of the sort you say I said. Surely you must be able to see that, no?
That is outside the Bosco verticale.
It was a pretty settled point two decades ago.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...

There was maybe a lull during the early-Facebook era, as more grandparents adopted the platform while retaining their manners and social decency.

And then they too realized they could post whatever they wanted about "The {Noun}s" without consequence.

And now we're here again.

There's a lot to be said for talking to someone's face and having to deal with the consequences of your words directly.
AI girlfriends imperil generation of young men
"One of the cities leading the way in embracing sustainability and environmentally friendly urban design is Milan"

Milan is one of the most polluted cities of the western world (looking at the data[1]) and a literal death trap for cyclists and pedestrians. The numbers of car is out of control.

So... there is a long way to go to make it sustainable and environmentally friendly. Some token building for multi-millionaires doesn't really help, sorry.

[1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air/urban-air-quality/europ...
Are these people who used types but didn't like it, or people who never really used it and refuse to even try it?

IMHO these are markedly different scenarios: the first is essentially just a difference of opinion, the second is a rather myopic attitude.
Are you sure

a) any of those countries were actually meaningfully "communist", and not merely authoritarian countries calling themselves so, and

b) if they were "communist", that this was actually in any significant way causal in the failures?
No it's not, I had it just now.
Allow users to choose how the alert is handled. I would leave these on if I could make them silent, but I can't. It's either world-ending screeching, or entirely off. So off it is. For folks who don't know to turn it off, they're going to have their day rudely interrupted to no benefit due to the godawful alert implementation.
Indeed, I encountered the same. Rock solid otherwise, so far!

Something at the end (bankruptcy) besides just locking up (other than the mute button) would be a nice touch.
I think this underscores that these problems are more complicated than may want to acknowledge. I don't think you're doing this, but part of this thread started as a pushback to the simplistic sentiment that implied we just need to decriminalize.

As you point out, we can simultaneously criticize our current policies while acknowledging simplistic replacement policies aren't really solutions.
why is Azure a no-go?
- it's the only other place to get an OpenAI service
- you can have dedicated capacity for it if you're big enough and it's worth it
- you can literally turn off public endpoint for it and make it inaccessible, and expose only through a proxy like this
- you can load balance across multiple openai deployments for regional efficiency and rate limit issues

(not trying to push for Azure in general, just trying to understand why even in the OpenAI use case, Azure is a no-go)
I have to wonder if the author has ever used a strong, dynamically typed functional language like Clojure or Elixir or if his dynamically typed language experience is limited to JavaScript, Python and very similar languages.

It’s very easy to make up one’s mind about something and then completely stop learning.
My gmail inbox is pretty damn clean. I don't get anywhere near as much spam as I used to, even in the spam folder, by at least two orders of magnitude. I'm fairly certain they're already deleting a lot of really obvious spam without even dumping in the spam folder.

I'm curious how they intend to identify "emailers who send more than 5,000 messages per day". Spammers have a long litany of techniques for avoiding being identified as the same source: hacked accounts, pwned boxes, randomized text, etc.

It sounds like they're trying to do something about the legally-allowed unsolicited-commercial-email, compelling mass mailers to follow existing laws. Which is cool and all, though for the most part US companies already seem to comply. (The one exception I've found is the Red Cross, whose unsubscribe link keeps telling me I've already unsubscribed and I eventually consigned them to the spam folder.)

It'll be nice to have that fixed, but I didn't realize it was a big problem. It doesn't sound like it will do much for the more serious fraud and harassment.
300k is a lot to be fair. And if that’s not enough it’s something like 20$ a year. It’s the only way I found to block ads (except in YouTube) on the iPhone.
High test coverage is useful in the environment where the code is not adequately typed. That's because static types adequate to make the code bulletproof will also detect the problems unit tests could detect, rendering high unit test coverage superfluous.

So, how often is poorly typed code out there? From the popularity of test coverage tools, it must be ubiquitous.
FBA as a separate business would be interesting for sure. It would separate out the value of Amazon marketplace from the value of outsourcing your order fulfillment logistics.
Its a bold demonstration that you have the Sigma Grindset needed for success.
No.

Schools have MORE than enough money, they're just run by morons that don't spend it wisely and instead bolster admin pay and waste it on stupid seminars by grifters like Ibram Kendi.

https://www.newsweek.com/public-schools-have-spent-21m-diver...

Just because a social media account posted what they were doing and people got justifiably angry about it doesn't mean it's "right wing extremism".

You seem to be having a bit of cognitive dissonance going on. You're pointing out that public schools are a failure while simultaneously saying anyone questioning how they're run is obviously a "right wing extremist". How about placing the blame on the actual people running the schools instead of the people who are telling you why they suck.
Alex Jones and Fox could exist without permission or friction

They have both been sued for billions of dollars and lost in court for sustained campaigns of damaging lies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/us/politics/alex-jones-sa...
In large cities or tourist towns you'll likely find a shop that sells nothing but olive oil and will provide you with bits of bread to dip in order to sample it to find one you like, like an ice cream shop.
Yet you made no reference to it in your poorly executed attack.

How about just a baseline do juries even understand what it means? “Numerous appellate courts have cautioned trial judges not to explain the reasonable doubt standard to juries.” https://judicature.duke.edu/articles/taking-beyond-a-reasona...

The term is quite literally meaningless to some people yet: “In one case, a jury asked for a “layman’s” explanation of “reasonable doubt,” and an appellate court said the trial judge acted properly by simply rereading the original charge.”

I could go on, but instead I am going to simply ask you for some demonstration as to why you think it is commonly applied.
This is basically where I am at. Most libraries and applications are trivially typed even in languages with relatively poor type systems like Go and Java. The necessity, or even benefit, of weak and/or dynamic typing is extremely rare and most languages have workarounds or escape hatches for those exceedingly rare cases.

Dynamic typing also makes a ton of optimizations basically impossible and even after monumental efforts languages like Javascript are still quite slow, inconsistent and memory inefficient outside of trivial benchmarks.
> Strong static typing is useful in the environment where the code is not adequately tested. That's because tests adequate to make the code bulletproof will also detect the problems strong static typing could detect, rendering SST superfluous.

Ok, but it's cheaper to not have to write those tests than it is to write those tests.
I still bemoan the half-assed RBS type system in Ruby 3. I think Ruby actually had a cool chance to explore what inline type hints would look like in a very meta-programming-y environment. While RBS works, it's a hassle to keep updated, and I think adoption is just going to remain low forever sadly.

Sorbet [0] is close, just wish the syntax wasn't as verbose as it is.

Crystal Language [1] is even closer, I just wish it had better IDE support.

[0] https://sorbet.org/

[1] https://crystal-lang.org/
See https://awesome.ipfs.tech/ and https://ecosystem.ipfs.tech/ for some projects using IPFS
I believe they meant recreationally legal. There are lots of medications that are also used as recreational drugs (cocaine, opiates, etc.) but their use shouldn't be conflated.
The bundling thing is interesting because the only streaming services I have are ones that come bundled with a different service (like HBO Max that comes with my internet plan)

How long before someone cuts a deal with multiple streaming services and offers a streaming bundle for slightly less than paying for them separately? Would have been unthinkable a few years ago but it doesn't seem that outlandish now.

And the bundle provider offers a unified app that aggregates all the content (we're already kind of seeing the beginnings of this) under one login.

If that happens then the future's streaming services start to look a lot like today's cable networks. And the future's "bundle providers" starts to look a lot today's cable companies. In fact, if the "bundle providers" bundle streaming with Internet then they are today's cable companies.
I've seen it come up often in collaborative text editors.

Also see: https://github.com/yjs/yjs
I don't see how paying teachers more solves any of these issues:
"The advent of remote learning during the pandemic altered students’ routines and led many to conclude that in-person attendance was optional. School districts have eased grading policies that penalized students for missing class or turning assignments in late, further reducing incentives to attend. After years of Covid quarantines, parents are more inclined to keep kids home for minor illnesses or mental-health issues. Technology isn’t helping: There’s evidence that absenteeism had already begun rising in the years before the pandemic, coinciding with the explosion of smartphone and social-media use among children — which increased distractions and weakened students’ connection to school. Those problems only worsened while schools and other activities were shut down."

These are all solvable with parents and policy which should not cost any more money.
For sure, when nested comments are added audio will link to each other more easily and the distinction between a "new recording" and a "comment" will be less. Instead audio will just be linked to where you recorded it.

I've already replaced a few group chats, it's good for conversations that aren't urgent like talking about ideas.
I wonder how confusing this is for residents of areas that don’t observe daylight savings, such as Arizona, Puerto Rico or the Hopi nation.
I'm pretty sure, that cleverly combining various unit types and their capabilities/attributes would allow to cover 90% of what's needed to emulate Deployments and StatefulSets.
Was wondering that too - I'm surprised you can't swap out the innards for a newer model since the sizes haven't changed over the years. It would be like getting a new motherboard and battery. The screen I guess can just keep being reused.

Saying that, Apple would have had to design it with that in mind, and that possibly caused enough of a burden that they didn't bother.
> This is also precious coming from an industry that uses automated emails for rejection. Yeah you don’t want to write 80 personalized rejection emails (probably way more) aaaand we don’t want to write 80 (or more) cover letters. I feel that’s pretty fair.

This is such a brilliantly good point!

Before getting my current job, I think I had applied to around 180 companies (getting about 10 callbacks -> 3 on sites -> 1 offer).

And I totally used an automated script I wrote for creating cover letters. It was basically a general template about me, listing relevant skills and interests, a blank variable for company name, and then an area where I could say why I wanted to work for XYZ.

Made that part of the process so much easier.

Interestingly, being on the other side, when I’ve reviewed candidate applications before phone screens or interviews, I always enjoyed reading cover letters.
If truly none of it ends up the gas, that's cool. But I don't quite believe it, because it's happening in the context of combustion. Maybe if you route the vapor away from the liquid before burning it?

There are other questions: What's the toxicity in a spill? What does refilling look like?

It's an interesting piece of work, no doubt, but this is nothing that looks production-ready.

I don't have access to the original paper (even through SciHub) and it might answer some of these questions.
Oh boy that's kind of grimly hilarious, depending on one's attitude towards cellphones in prison.
For those not logged in to twitter, Ben is also on a Mastodon instance

https://information.garden/@benfry/111176713441913283
"Strong typing" was a poor choice of terminology here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing
Dynamic typing doesn't exclude the compiler from being able to detect some things that would cause errors at run time. It just means that these turn into compile time warnings, not compile errors.

In Common Lisp, it's common practice to not accept code unless all such warnings are gone.
Wait until you learn about what happens when the electricity stops working
Yeah all the conspiracy people are going nuts about it.

I have a family member thought an amber alert like system being introduced to the uk would bug her smartphone... my response "why would they need to, you already have the smartphone lol"
yeah, the smileys that took me off. on the show? alright, will try to find it on high sea. thanks for the info, mate.
I disagree.

Let's use your example. The sellers should stop selling that item on Amazon, and sell their light bulb on Walmart, or where-ever. Customers who really need that will go find it at Walmart, or where-ever. This strengthens the competitors to Amazon, which is bad for Amazon and good for the consumer. The consumer also find the lower price that they wanted. Alternatively, they buy the alternate product on Amazon which would be cheaper than the inflated price (per your example). Again, good for the customer. Everyone wins in every scenario except for the seller, which is how Amazon
and every wholesaler operates.

Suppose the FTC wins this case and sellers can put whatever price on whatever site. Amazon, like any store wants the lowest price. Not to mention there are only some many items you can show on the first page of results. They will find some other reason to remove these sellers and/or their items.

Now maybe there's another case to stop that behavior too. The result is that companies are not obligated to let sellers on their site. That is insane.

In summary, there will never be a scenario where Amazon allows sellers to sell the exact same item for more than Amazon's competitors, unless the government forces Amazon to let sellers sell whatever on their site.
You probably mean static type checking. I've used strong typing in the first half of my career and have no hard feelings about it. So no, the opposition isn't about no experience with one or the other.
Same, and I'm very progressive and completely disagree with her Objectivist philosophy, because she's obviously not a philosopher. She's a great writer though, her work can motivate people, and has for sometime made me reflect and move forward with my life.

But I believe it might be toxic for the HN crew.

Let's be frank, people don't read much on average, so they take whatever book or author you read as your own personality, when in reality people should read many books with different ideas, so you can form your own.

One can learn a lot from reading from Friedman to Marx.

This is why I also think that one should read all the classics instead of chasing book recommendations, any community you ask will give them recommendation for non-technical subjects that are from their own worldview, which in turn, will make you not smarter, but likely more stupid than you initially started before you've read those books.
> It is literally Amazon’s business to offer pricing at equal to or better than their competitors.

For their own products they can.

For third-party items, Amazon is free to lower their margin.
Just call it public funded healthcare or socialized healthcare. I'm assuming you believe it's a better option so presenting the positives of this system should be enough. I think cons should be presented as well though, because no system is perfect.
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that's a good point. not finding a partner is not because of to much work, but because of not thinking about finding a partner.

which i think can also be interpreted as: if you didn't think about finding a partner, then maybe you weren't ready to get married.

but you are ready now, because now you know why you want a partner, and now you can look for the right kind of person.
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