skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This grip you're describing only exists because they don't leave, and nothing is stopping them. Again, no one is forcing people to sell on Amazon. They could use Shopify or sell on eBay.

People act as if you have to sell on Amazon. You don't. That assumption and expectation is why Amazon is dominant to begin with. Sellers should leave if they don't like it, and that will naturally soften Amazon dominance.
Is the free software not being cool / peer pressure thing directed at Apple? I don't think people are buying Windows because it's cool.
The CRTC News Release explicitly states:

"Today, the CRTC is advancing its regulatory plan to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework and ensure online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content."

I would ask, who decides what is 'meaningful'? This sounds like an open door to censorship to me. Was not the requirement to make 'meaningful' contributions to society the excuse used by the Soviets and Red Chinese to stifle publications.
> is that the metric system seems to have an extra 1,000 that may or may not apply.

You may be getting confused over prefixes vs base units because some pairs of prefixes and base units are so common they sort-of end up treated as a unit in themselves.

E.g. "kilo" is not a metric unit, but sometimes used as short for "kilogram", where "kilo" is the prefix for 1000 and "gram" is the metric unit. These prefixes are consistent for all metric units.
It used to be that many companies that accepted credit cards would have a backup carbon copy imprint machine to capture a rubbing of your card alongside your signature as an offline credit card capture mechanism that was reconciled later. They made a satisfying KA-THUNK sound.

Now that many cards no longer use raised numbers I expect such mechanisms wouldn’t work as well.
Hypocritical of Zuck now show news after having a major snit fit when here in Canada he was asked to support news organizations he chose not to and just block news.
>If we are so sure that these media are so bad for people, why are so many people still watching it?

Although I don't have an opinion on this particular podcast situation, this statement doesn't hold any water.
You are implying that if people do something, it must not be bad for them because.. people continue to do it.

There are tons of things people do that are objectively bad for them. Hard drugs (fentanyl, etc.) being an easy example.
I always thought containerization - including docker - was the result of Linux namespaces (more so than even cgroups). Checking again, Linux namespaces were introduced in 2002. Docker was released more than a decade later - in 2013. I believe that Docker always used namespaces - that's how they achieved process isolation. But they didn't use it to its full potential initially - including network namespaces and pods.
Sure, because people following the HN ideology have been involved in shootings because they swallowed the black pill so hard they used their death as a manifesto of why interesting software is interesting.

Oh wait, no, that was an internet incel[1]. Hacker News doesn't seem to intentionally choose hate and push others to choose hate. Internet incels do.

1.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43892189
They need to break Microsoft too. These 2 are too big and have a chokehold on many areas.
How to quickly load ~20 TiB of weather data into a new database?
Ya it's weird, but it's largely a rehash of the same things that come up every time an amber alert or emergency tone is played.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516

> When your iPhone is connected to a carrier in the United States—using a U.S. SIM or while roaming in the U.S.—you can enable Test Emergency Alerts. By default, this is turned off.

> Turn Government Alerts on or off

Seems like test alerts are turned off by default and real alerts can be turned off for iOS?
Thanks for your comment! I summarized the various points in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764585
If there are a million how to make apple pie videos and you claim you can rank it, you lie. The whole story is a lie.
Very cool. I got my first royal flush in my poker history. Too bad it isn't real $!
> when Amazon is the only place to certain things

No seller is obligated to sell on Amazon to begin with, so this entire premise is false.
Couldn't agree more. I suspect in the future software professionals will be apalled by the abuse of freedom that we currently have in languages.

The more freedom we take away, the higher quality software we produce. Looking at you, Rust.
The only way to prevent a new crisis from happening is to create a second Foundation, safeguarding the initial objectives should the first Foundation veer off-course. But for that we need two Ben Frys.
Me thinks thou dost protest too much.
> the consensus is that you can do just fine

Consensus where? many managers quote the Microsoft study that Remote work is making productivity and innovation harder for example
Asking someone to maintain an untyped codebase is like asking them to play a game without telling them any of the rules.
I was looking at this a while back and it was difficult/tedious at the time (and I think also not supported on Amazon EKS).

Has it gotten better? Any resources you recommend? Cursory Google searches on this have so much outdated info it can be hard to quickly wade back in.
My statements didn’t included citations but my argument did reference multiple studies and post verdict interviews, a subtle difference.

Here’s a quote for my 3/4 agree, 5x more likely to convict when they disagree: “ The judge and jury in the Kalven-Zeisel survey of 3,500 criminal cases agreed in 78% of the cases on whether or not to convict. When they disagreed, the judge would have convicted when the jury acquitted in 19% of the cases, and the jury convicted when the judge would have acquitted in 3% of the cases” https://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/forensic-psycholog...

Feel free to look up some more, there’s some variation here.
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Myanmar has moved to metric
hmmmm... The chart doesn't show that. It has around 10% more to drop.
I don't trust this comment.
Not to re-table a long settled debate, but I always knew that the one true pronunciation is gif, and everyone else who pronounce it gif is just weird.
The embracing of Typescript and type hints pretty much solidifies the case against dynamic typing for complicated projects.

We have projects in java7 still which span thousands of LoC and juniors can just jump in using their IDE and make some sort of contribution.

With python this takes much longer.
I think looking at cash as baseline made sense a while ago, but in this day and age, we see self employed people running a side business with a card reader and an iPad, and sell paintings on the beach for 3 hours during the weekend.

Asking these people to handle cash instead feels like an undue burden on something that is a very selective side gig. I've seen this a lot in mildly remote locations, and I'd assume they wouldn't be doing it if it was more of a burden, like having to deal with the cash flow.
I really wanted more information on that dashboard (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764585)
The only concern I've seen is people who might have reason to keep a phone's existence secret. Those with abusive partners, parents, etc.
Sure if you take it out of context.

>Morphine just that tiny pill caused terrible constipation (opioids are terrible)
I heard on NPR this morning that the test will be of an alert level that cannot be squelched by settings on the handset. Is that true?
Did you write the CRT shader yourself? Because it looks really good.
Cloudflare supports EDNS, they just don't support the optional EDNS Client Subnet extension.
Seems weird to play semantics with what is, as I understand it, a collection of symptoms.

You wouldn’t gotcha the flu because it’s not actually caused by the stars’ influence, would you?
CRTC, like most Canadian regulators, do not have the resources to enforce their rules.

This will be yet another useless unenforceable burden.
Anyone knows more about this "Nanocrystals Technology Inc., New York" company from Ekimov? I did a quick google search but could not find anything.
It's not pro-consumer in any way. If the seller can profitably list it for a given price on a given platform, competition will almost certainly drive their price down to that level. The only time a policy like this becomes significant is if another platform, or the sellers own platform, can offer the product for cheaper than Amazon (eg. maybe they can ship straight from the factory), in which case this policy would force them to raise their prices, while simultaneously removing potential competitive pressure on Amazon.
I considered this too but finally realized I may want to have the information in several places, not all behind a mirror. But th eidea i neat.

I summarized the points in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764585
Wayland doesn't break anything that doesn't desperately need to be broken. Suck it up, switch, and file bug reports.
And Amazon needs to follow the rules and laws of the place that IT'S trying to sell at.
The only absolute truth there is. Static typing is nonnegotiable.
I am blogging the IndieWeb way
Would you say they are the best tools in the worst hands?
> if you have a little kid that will be abducted or not

Presumably you're not going to have one who will be.

But that aside - this is silly. Why DUI? Why not just all adults, if you want to go police state on people?
Often, the salespeople don’t actually know anything about the vehicles they’re selling either. I’ve had salespeople who don’t know the engine or transmission configurations of the cars on their lots. I spent a long many emails recently trying to explain to a Toyota sales rep how payload capacity works. Even after meeting him in person and explaining it to him again, I was totally unable to get the real payload numbers of a vehicle I wanted to buy.
Amazon is a product search engine and should be treated as such. Vendors must have the freedom to set pricing on any platform as they see fit. If all product search engines and ecommerce platforms
behaved in this anticompetitive behaviour then what would we have? A weird commercial landscape that lacks flexibility… in the end the consumer looses because free market forces are not in play.
Can the ISP still see the IP address? And then can’t they reverse DNS lookup possible domain names?
Stop with the sarcasm won't you? As I already said I finished the series and enjoyed it. It's quite good, well scripted and beautifully shot captivating TV. It's unfortunate that it is science fiction presented as science. If you want to find available facts, as opposed to a story, it will take you just a few minutes (I think I provided a link you can start with), less time than what you spend commenting here.
Those aren't even that far-reaching theories... Apparently, Russia also did a test for this same exact thing today, so you can image the parallels that drew from a select few communities.

'Attention - remain calm': Russia tests public warning system (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-conduct-emergenc...)
Keep writing

Love your style and the comprehension ease
Your assumption here is that they have to sell on Amazon to begin with, which they do not. There are plenty of products that you cannot buy on Amazon, so your entire post is ridiculous as it shows again, you don't need Amazon to succeed to begin with.
I used to own several restaurants. This happens far more often than most people may realize.
Well you see, if you register the government will know you, and your little operation, exists, and then they might target you.

But if you didn't register, your "audience large enough that you can pull in 10 MCAN in ad deals" operation might fly under the radar!
TSBs are just that, technical service bulletins on how to fix a common issue. There's no requirement for a dealership to perform the TSB on a new car, a majority of cars with outstanding TSBs won't ever experience the problem the TSB addresses.

There IS however a requirement to fix any recalls before a car can be sold, at least in the USA. But there are MANY more TSBs than recalls.

My Honda Odyssey has a TSB for the transmission basically eating itself. The fix is a full transmission fluid change (3x drain and fill) and a firmware flash. My van is beyond the mileage where the dealer would do this under an extended warranty specific to this TSB, but I've never actually experienced any of the symptoms mentioned in the TSB. Van is a 2016 with 115k miles on it.
Wow, reminds me of going to the bar with my dad after I turned 21.

Now if you could just find a way to include faint, bad, country music and the taste of cheap whiskey.
Why aren’t America’s students showing up?
I'm not sure, but i've had my handset set to what i felt were pretty reasonable yet safe settings for emergency alerts, and got enough of them at 2 and 3am that i had to disable it.

I don't like this, i would prefer leaving emergency alerts on, but why are we testing it in the middle of the night? That's encouraging people to disable...
This is an old thought but one which favours declarative languages over procedural ones.
Is typescript strong typing though?

I’ve been through several typescript projects where ‘as unknown as any’ makes me wish we didn’t even have typescript in the first place.

If you can’t trust the type system it’s worse than not having one :/
If another ecommerce platform wants to compete on price to encourage customers to shop there, they cannot. Any discounts will only go to the seller's bottomline. How is that helping customers?
There’s a difference between production and rent-seeking.
Is this common worldwide, or just a Mumbai thing?

An almost identical news article from February this year:
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/alert-us-age...
That's an extremely naive view of the reality. Bad employees exist, and the mentality amongst Devs is pretty bad. This is visible in this kind of thread where the first instinct of a lot of commenters is to blame everything on management without even think if sometimes part of the problem is due to unprofessional devs.

I'm not saying that everyone against RTO is a bad employee or is biased (I'm against RTO myself). I'm just highlighting the unbalance and the strong unawareness of this aspect.

For those unprofessional devs, it is ridiculous to pretend that "a better standards" will magically turn an a*hole (to take an extreme case) into an angel. You are talking about "work around", but this is not a work around, this is a relatively efficient and pragmatical way of dealing with this kind of problem. What you propose seems to fall apart as soon as the dev has a tantrum and has decided that something is not like they like.

You seem to assume that none of what you are proposing has been tried, despite it being obvious. (and it also does not mean that we are not going to continue to do that, but it is just stupid to pretend that "working from the office" is forbidden while it helps a lot to ease the problems)

Let's also notice that supervising and controlling the standards to catch it up each time it slips is a lot of effort, it is pretty risky, and the devs hate it and then blame the management. What you are saying is that the management should work very very hard to accommodate an a*hole, and at the same time, asking the a*hole to make a small sacrifice is unacceptable.

> Let us not blame remote or in-office for the problems of poor management.

The point of my comment is "let us not blame management when they are trying to solve problems of devs unable to understand that their own comfort is not the centre of the universe".

Let be clear: I'm not supporting forcing working in the office. What I'm saying is that the large majority here are behaving exactly like my problematic colleague behaves, pretending that it is obviously a management problem when in fact maybe the management is just trying their best to find a pragmatical solution. As far as I can tell, RTO can be the result of management trying their best because the devs are not accepting that something is inefficient in the way they are working. It may not be the case, but the problem is that people here are convinced it is not the case, not because they have proofs, but because it is what they want to believe.
“Social media will play a huge part in bringing information to the hundreds of millions of people casting their votes”

I reject this premise, and find people who advance it to have questionable views. Social media is the modern equivalent peasant gossip. Some people are very afraid of that, but not us peasants. What sort of person fears any public opinion they do not control?
> That does not necessarily mean they have to raise prices on other platforms.

It does, since losing sales on Amazon costs them more than raising the price on other platforms then that is what they will do, since companies are motivated by profit. Amazon knows this, that as a dominant market player if they add this rules the vendors will have to abide it since they will lose more from not using Amazon.

This is how anti-competitive practices works and why we have laws against them.
And which law dictates a company must allow people or sellers on its platform?
But Nix rebuilds are cheap and fast, what’s the problem?
Why do you want to "stream" a website?

An average website is a couple megs (maybe?)

What advantage would "streaming" that have over just loading it?

How would you account for AJAXy sites/services?
We definitely did that in the Netherlands when I worked at a computer store. Credit cards are comparatively rare, and while "2%" doesn't sound much it's a significant fraction of our profit margin.

On a €600 laptop or desktop we'd earn maybe €50 to €75. The €12 is a comparatively large fraction of that. We didn't actually make that much more money from more expensive laptops, so for a €1,000 model we'd typically also earn €50 to €75, and with €20 of that going to Visa... yeah. After factoring in costs for sales, warranty, rant of the store, etc. there is not much left.

On one hand you can say "well, it's only €20", but on the other hand if everyone started paying paying by CC we'd pretty much go bankrupt.
I agree in the short term, those problems aren't entirely solved, but it does provide for an eventual serialization free way to communicate between threads.

Queues, immutable records, atomic refcounts, a global object heap for shared items. There are lots of way forward here that don't involve a full SERDES round trip.
That’s why we like Python and Elixir but not Javascript which is weakly typed. :-)

Since the author is willing to die for it, they might want to know that they probably meant “dynamically typed”. Some dynamically typed languages are strong typed, too!
"Those people over their stating their opinion aren't worth listening to; because someone else agrees with them. These people over here agree with me, and are much better to listen to."

The actual definition of "disinformation" appears to have become "anything exposing official lies"
As an extension to this, strong typing is a gateway drug to generics.

Strong typing really shines when you have generics, saving bugs at one level above basic types..
Exceptional and very fun, all I have to say.
Author here. I ended the post with:

> I can see both side of the arguments on many topics, such as vim vs. emacs, tabs vs. spaces, and even much more controversial ones. Though in this case, the costs are so low compared to the benefits that I just don't understand why anyone would ever choose not to use types.

> I'd love to know what I'm missing, but until then: Strong typing is a hill I'm willing to die on.

I genuinely want to know what I'm missing. I also outlined in the post all of the arguments I usually see in favor of not having types and why I disagree with them.

I'm happy, willing, and excited to hear what I'm missing.
I don't care how many times I see this argument; strong typing is correct. We need to keep beating this drum because every year there are more and more new developers that know nothing. We need to make good one that aren't ignorant of history and what works...because the more things change the more they stay the same.
> Discounts get confusing and bump up against weird cases like minimum advertised pricing and potential taxation on the discount.

I have never heard of this. Merchant gets the revenue, merchant pays the tax. If the debit price is $10, then the sales tax is on $10, and if the credit price is $13, then the sales tax is on $13.

> Debit cards can get a bit weird when they function as credit cards. A customer may use a debit card but swipe it as Visa or Mastercard and the fees the merchant pay will be different, setting up a constant source of frustration at the register.

Visa and Mastercard are payment card networks (PCN), they can perform both debit card and credit card transactions. If the card says debit on it, then it will be a debit card transaction with debit card fees. And no one should be swiping anymore, so I do not know what “swiping it as visa or Mastercard” means. It either says Visa or MC on the card, and that’s the PCN it’s going to use.
That sounds like AJAX, no?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967 ("Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning") is great, I still regularly use it!
An LLM to read back all the stock info you dont want to, of course. I wonder if the company will have to file as a financial adviser. Its a paid service providing financial advice and I see no usual disclaimer of 'this is just for fun' on the front page otherwise
This was the sixth down from the top when I googled "windmill noise kilometers".

https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2019/06/19/wind-farm-noise...

It is notable that the two papers mentioned used different criteria. The one claiming long-distance disturbance used "audible indoor", while the one casting doubt used "unlikely to cause problems".
Are you sure? I have had the "pending/reviewed file" feature in DevOps for years, months before it was available at GitHub afaik. But maybe I'm mixing it up.
And if a tree falls on you and breaks your leg...
We can bring up all kinds of scenarios but his point is a good one.
"No manufacturer is obligated to buy Standard Oil or Carnegie steel, so this entire premise is false."
These are generally referred to as "pay to play" awards. They're very common. People who are in the industry generally know which awards are real and which are just "pay to play" type. But for customers who aren't as clued in, more awards always looks better!
They might consider setting airplane mode or powering it off when not in use.
Amazon wants its customers to have the lowest available price. Their rule ensures that. It's very simple.
That's why I'd rather use a service without a recovery password :)
sick style!
Not to mention "hacks" would go both ways.
Time to mass-send "Over-the-air vaccination successful. Remain calm. -CDC" per SMS
I decided today I will start reading a book recommended by HN.

So I went to your link at [0a], selected last 6 months. There are 58 pages of recommendations and 15 recommendations per page. So I rolled a 15 sided dice to choose the page. Then another roll to choose which book on that page.

I will be reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Not sure what a network in medical context is but here in Canada there is the option of medical assistance in dying (MAID).

Dad considered it but as a Catholic and just as a choice by anyone it was even more terrifying than just a natural death. You have to make the active choice and I think that is what scared him. Plus at the time I wasn't really seeing the anxiety he had he was good at masking it.

He died in palliative care with assistance for any pain which was more mental than physical.
Yes, because there are not literally thousands of e-commerce stores out there. Amazon is the only one. UPS, USPS and FedEx don't exist either. You must use Prime to transport your stuff.
More proof Cloudflare is a pariah