skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just plain giving them heroin safely, cheaply and predictably can help addicts start to get their lives back on track

That's part of Switzerland's drug policy since the late 90s of the last century. It was confirmed multiple times in referundums by the public and I think it's overall very successful.

The greatest success, in my opinion, is that it completely reversed the image of heroin consumption. By turning it from a "hero" drug to a total loser drug.

Cool kids don't do heroin nowadays.
Choosing vector database: a side-by-side comparison
If our nations air traffic controllers can figure it out I think big business can too.
No, this is the average across all land mass. You get where the majority of land mass is right? (Hint: not Northern Europe)
No, they should be able to set their own pricing as they see fit.
We don’t fully understand how human intelligence works, yet that doesn’t mean we aren’t intelligent
I don't even know where to begin with this comment. Do you know what anticompetitive behavior is? Do you know how markets are supposed to work? Amazon is leveraging their position in the market to unfairly disadvantage their competitors, thereby distorting the market, decreasing its efficiency, and increasing end prices for consumers everywhere. Market-distorting behavior like this is why antitrust regulation is necessary to keep markets functioning efficiently.
So, to be clear, you have no problem with Amazon writing their own laws and collecting their own taxes? Because that is what they are effectively doing.
You got it the wrong way round. The perspective of people that stand to gain from AI is colored, rather than the one on the sidelines being biased.
A statistical model cannot understand anything since it does not think in the first place.
Perfect summary, thanks a lot! :)
If sellers were obligated to sell on Amazon that would be the case, but it's not, is it? Ironically, people complaining about this are exacerbating the issue. If sellers who actually cared left Amazon it would loosen Amazon's dominance in e-commerce.
Mean vs. Median
Tech is omnipresent, is flush with cash that it frequently uses to disrupt (drive existing businesses out and then monopolize) and has an outsize influence on people. It absolutely should be first on the list for anti trust action. and it’s Lina Khan.
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Just change the SKU of the product so they are "different". Big box stores do it all the time to reduce the probability of price matching.
Pihole is preconfigured to use multiple DNS. I use cloudflare and OpenDNS and exclude Google.
They are able to do so, but Amazon is not obligated to have them on their platform if they aren't providing the best price to their customers.
It's not so much an unpopular opinion as an unfortunate one, especially for the hacker in question, and those who have the misfortune of being physically located around them.
Specifically, because their actions may or may not make them a lawful target under IHL for kinetic force. While the hacker themselves may not be interested in laws, you better believe the State whom they are hacking is interested in whether their act just reached the magic threshold to lawfully drop a missile on them.
Ummm why didn't my two aces qualify for jacks or better? Also if I changed enough settings (moving the bet up and down) then the game glitched out on the first deal.
I don't, we have a definition of what's essential businesses. That's how it was handled during the covid lockdowns, shop owners know where they fit on this line.
Yes, we could. Or rather, NASA could. But it hasn't a priority yet.

Before going to Mars, the experiments will have to be done.

Another way to try it out is: if people are healthy on the Moon's gravity for a long term, then Mars gravity is likely healthy too.

So this says that in reality, going to Mars is not close, as neither of these experiments are immanent.
even beyond that the DNS works fine but the filtering would be turned off.
Possibly, but we are discussing things currently designated as crimes.
Ask HN: Going against a multi million $ company
I've found an idea that I'm passionate about (data science and marketing), and I was searching for existing services and found atleast one. If I built this service, Optimonk would be my direct "competitor".
The service is 'automating pop-up discounts and upsells'. Now, I'm only building one of their features and have some ideas that can potentially improve on their existing service. I looked up reviews for their website on trustpilot, and except some "customer service" complaints could not find anything else.

How do I objectively know if I should commit to it?
> I don't believe that a merchant is allowed to do this?

A federal law was passed over 10 years ago allowing this.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/new-rules-el...

> A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discount or another incentive for using a certain method of payment, as long as you offer it to all your customers and disclose the offer clearly and conspicuously. For example, you can offer your customers a discount or a coupon if they pay with cash or a debit card rather than a credit card.
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This was blatant monopolistic behavior, control over prices outside your platform with the threat of platform access to enforce it is a slam dunk case.
I used to take tier1/2 at a multitenant call center and one of our clients was Ethisphere - the "most ethical companies" people. They email blast companies every year to get them to take the stupid self-answer questionnaire and pay a couple thousand and get to call themselves ethical.
You are feigning confusion, you do understand it. Please don't propagate this mind virus here.
I personally don't assume any such thing.
Some would say that the way commerce works is sellers can sell anywhere at any price that a buyer wants to pay.
The Numbers Game: Where does Vivaldi get its version number from?
Hacktoberfest – AI for open source contributions
I have been researching a lot around open source contributions, especially around hacktoberfest. Wrote this post to express my thoughts on the overall OSS contribution ecosystem for newbies.
That assumes time to wash is linear to surface area. It is harder for heavy people though to wash themselves tho, harder to reach everything including tools, more tools required, more time spent not actively washing while the water runs.
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/musk-x-twitter-charge-all-u...
AH, memories. Card faces are from real machine - Novomatic American Poker 2 - back in time did lot of hacks on this platform. Even wrote a emulator in x86 assembly to speedup the development.

This Godot game is quite good to recreate the atmosphere of the ancient video poker machine. Lacks only cards autohold and sound could be a bit more polished, but these are minor things that could be easily improved.
This is actually the real problem. Police patrols have to be directed somewhere, somehow. It's either the whim of the commisioner, or gut feeling of the officers, or machine learning software.

When one says that machine learning software is terrible, you have to trust either the officers, or their boss. I have a feeling that the same people who criticize the software trust rank-and-file officers even less..
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ is your friend :)

crowdsourced auto-skip for in-video adverts.
This had been the bane for my existence for quite some time.

Instead of localdev, i'd just spin up a DO server and develop things there. It's not great -- it's not as fast as my macs, have to have 2 sets of local dev env. But once i get things working in DO it serves as my staging/prod env.
That's not how commerce works. Commerce works by following the rules of places that you are trying to sell at. You can't sell anything anywhere.
In a way after 45 the rush and ocd of younger, inexperienced years subsides you do see life at a slower pace, take more in and that can be a satisfying thing. For me personally the quality vs quantity thing that came more into focus in my 40s.
The issue here is that Amazon's behavior makes the switching cost higher than it would otherwise be. You are penalized for the existence of Amazon even if you don't use Amazon.
Just as an informational point, it's generally highly discouraged for foundations or non-profits to have board members (the ones that have the legal control) take a salary as it creates a conflict of interest that's hard to work out of. So if you help found a non-profit, raise money, and then want to do it full time, a lot of times you'll invariably lose control — and there's good governance reasons for that, but it definitely matters who the board ends up being.
As I recall, TikTok was known to lie about them to give people the impression there were getting more attention there than on competing platforms.
The prerelease finally supports ipv6: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases
except if it's server swift code, then it doesn't do what the user expects at all
One of the big revelations I had when I worked with a marketing team the first time was so long as you pay the fee and have a good enough write-up, you'll get just about any award. No one checks the claims, just waits for the check to clear.

That year we "won" the Red Herring, WEF Innovator, and I want to say Red Dot, and a couple of others for stuff that was not innovative, nor applicable to half the stuff we claimed it was. Of course we were also a Top Place to Work according to several big publications in spite of the dysfunction and high turnover.
Also from an outsider, you're talking about the Democrats -- right?
Thank you for preserving and sharing that little bit of history.

"The Internet is for those that agree with us" has a long tradition.
I already have that. Plus, you might have missed that I am talking about development environment.
That's a reason to have a bank with traditional branches. Also a reason for land-lines that don't require a separate power source.

I think South Africa has had power problems in recent years, might be good to look at how they've dealt with it?
Well I think most people already assume they can be inflated. It sounds like you’re suggesting that platforms might just hit a button and “gift” a video 1 million views. Currently, they’re certainly already gamed, but this gaming is done the hard way: promoting videos, putting them on the user’s front page, etc.

I’m not in the industry, but I would imagine that companies cannot just invent view counts out of thin air because it would represent the defrauding of their advertising customers. The views can be “faked” any other way they like, so long as they views actually occurred. Advertisers don’t care if the system was gamed so long as they’re getting eyeballs on ads.
If Google doesn't renew the deal, someone else will. There are multiple companies who would happily take it.
I have never needed to buy things so urgently that this would ever come up.

If a store's CC reader is down, then I'm just plain not transacting their that day. That's fine: there are other stores.
As soon as I observe the behavior or output of an agent or AI, the configuration of my brain changes. This is somewhat tautological as observation is connected to memory and thus brain changes.

I guess the more interesting question is whether there are lasting changes. I'm not an expert in learning, memory, or brain development. Even without much knowledge it should be clear that frequent interaction will have lasting changes. For example, ChatGPT is biased in the sense that it does not know about all the books that haven't been digitalized. Used frequently, those missing books will be reflected in my brain.

Another example could be a chess training AI. If I train with an AI, I could have blind spots in the landscape of chess skills that are deliberately (or not) excluded. So clearly, this AI would change my brain but not only in a way I intend.
Moneris just had an outage a week or two ago on Sat.
> The nature of how LLMs hallucinate

oh here we go. You're one of those people conveniently restricting this accusation to a machine that scores a 130 IQ (https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/11t5bhh/i_just...), instead of also including humans, who notably will send someone to prison 1000% sure that they witnessed that person doing the thing, when in fact, later DNA evidence exonerates them (https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-...). Fucking LOL. Get out of here, doomer, the rest of us have AI-enhanced work to do.
> Why are you putting the onus on the retailer?

Because it is their choice.

> I'm happy to offer a discount if someone wants to pay via a non-credit card, but I don't raise my prices because of it

This makes no sense to me. As the leader of the business, you have the option to

1) deny all credit cards

2) accept all credit cards, but not offer discount for debit cards

3) accept all credit cards, but offer a discount for debit cards

It is just a business decision, and if you are not choosing 3, one would hope it is because you are earning more profit by going with option 2.
Nobody was forcing anyone to drive cars fuel powered by leaded gas either, could it have been so bad? And if it was so bad, why were so many people using it?

I would say that the answer to solve this is education, but unfortunately many states have decided that education is the bad thing, instead of blantantly misleading information. Even if you could teach it successfully in school, how many adults are going to go back to school to learn the media they're consuming is bad? If you're an ardent fox news viewer, how will you view that information?

It's not a solve but it's a help.
We should expect more licensing of tech companies in the future. Both in terms of the kinds of services that will require licenses to operate, and in the number of jurisdictions that require them.

If you want to run a hotel or a burger joint or a general contractor, you need a license. It will be difficult to push back against the idea that tech companies should be treated the same.

Not saying that this will be a good thing. Just that it will happen.
I'm saying it should be a mix of the two. The output should be interactive and change the code on interaction.
I really hope to see someone trace and deconstruct the level of bizarre conspiracy theory generation around this event.

For those not aware, I've seen (mostly through semi-related posts on e.g. Reddit) a lot of people forwarding and subscribing to all kinds of absolute nonsense ideas about this event "broadcasting a signal to activate the Marburg virus" or "being particularly painful for the vaccinated to hear", or "likely to start many small fires in modern devices".

I bet that kind of stuff goes around about lots of events -- but I am curious if this one has become so popularly expected to result in bizarre catastrophes just because it's national? Or are people just _much_ more gullible this year?
> this is rural Mississippi we're talking about

Sounds like you might have as many biases as you presume that they have.
So instead of banning the bad products, do you propose modifying the human genome or pretending that there's no problem at all?
Frankly, hearing him speak about various things, he just sticks to the position he thinks is right and doesn’t really give a rat’s bottom what the “left” and “right” thinks.
Amazon is abusing it's monopoly power to hurt competition, when Amazon is the only place to certain things, consumer cost will go up.
How is Amazon forcing them to raise prices on other platforms pro consumer? The only one who benefits from this arrangement is Amazon, everyone else including the consumer just loses out.
> He gets calls throughout the week, but "mostly on weekends, mostly from people that are drunk."
I am a big fan of RMS and I find promising to promote his way of naming things everywhere. Here are two recent links which explain this word choice.

[1] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#26_Septe...

[2] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#11_Septe...
Everything you're stating is false. Amazon is trying to do right by its customers, and they are not obligated to let sellers not give their customers the best price available. Sellers are not obligated to sell on Amazon.

Your conclusion that this increases end pries for consumers has nothing to do with Amazon, but the sellers themselves.
VergeCast just did a pretty decent discussion on this recently:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892279/today-on-the-ver...

And an article on The Verge: Lies, Damned Lies, and Social-Media Metrics Those view counts on Twitter, TikTok, and Netflix? Be skeptical.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/those-view-counts-on...
Hm, is the forced price country dependent? Because I’ve actually bought or found several products via Amazon, that I later started buying for less on the seller’s private store. Germany.
And being incompetent is possible even if you’re DJB.
Amazon is not forcing them to raise prices on other platforms? Amazon is telling their sellers that they must offer the best price on their platform. That does not necessarily mean they have to raise prices on other platforms.
What does breaking up Amazon look like? I’m genuinely curious because half the comments I see in here are “break up Amazon!” or “break up FAANG!”

What does that look like? What would Amazon look like if broken up?

In the end we all know lobbyists from Amazon will somehow influence their outcome.
Make things that people use happily. That's the only thing matter. Microservices, K8s, noSQL, chat GPT integration, SPA, all are secondary. Don't make a hammer that no one uses. Think about how people use it, how people sell it, how people manufacture it, how people fix it. Don't silo yourself into whatever specification the world scoped you in.
My productivity in rust is so much higher because of the help I get on correctness. It's not even remotely a competition.
And a demon summoning is one of the worst imaginable places to have dumb mistakes in the instructions and incantations.
I think it's also worth noting that Cloudflare's implementation is EDNS compliant. The EDNS extension for sending the client subnet is explicitly optional in the standard.
At this point it's beyond a hill I'm willing do die on. I'm not really interested in discussing it. If you don't get it I probably don't want to talk to you about it, I might even think less of you as a software developer. The amount of pre-existing respect for someone I'd need to have before I engage in a good-faith discussion on "are types good" is pretty high.

edit: To clarify, I am on the "types good" side of things
They're obligated to by the grip Amazon already has on the e-commerce market. Letting Amazon make anti-competitive moves that increase their grip will only worsen the situation.
This is a [relatively] simple decision ... albeit with some [possibly] not-so-simple factors:

- could you work for them and make them better with a better payoff? (I see they only officially have a Customer Success Manager opening in Hungary right now - but most companies will hire someone who'll make them better even if the opening is not "officially" open, presuming the expected payoff is high enough)

- how long will it take for you to build your "single feature" competitor?

- do you have any [potential] customers lined-up to try your new service?

- can you (as a single developer) handle any/all support, sales, etc issues that will arise if your service gets used (before you get enough money to hire more staff)?

- do you have any other differentiating factors in what you want to build vs what is available - locale, industry segment, etc?
This argument can be made about any US digital tool that stores data. I'm sure >99.9% of NHS employees use Apple and Google Android phones, which likely have access to their emails. Office365? Is there even a reasonable UK office suite? Seems to me like both emails and Office docs will contain plenty of stuff about patients.

It might be a good idea for them to look for UK companies first but using Palantir or not is unlikely to materially change anything.

To think that when push comes to shove Microsoft or Google (see Nest for one example) is less aligned to the US government than Palantir seems naive, if that's the fundamental reason you have in mind.
>> I thought that as a pioneer in the free software movement, he would fully support LLMs that democratize skills and make them universally applicable.

RMS worked on early AI research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab in the 1970s.

LLMs are fundamentally different than many of those early AI systems in both goals and how they work.

It is likely that he views them through a different lens and sees their shortcomings in sharp relief compared to the early AI systems he worked on.
I had to look up 2C-I. Phenethylamines in general seem pretty interesting, encouraging even.

I wish we were studying them with competency, in environments that were fully untethered from absolute profitism, LEO fear, politics and other non-medical agendas. We could use some better tools to address the negative effects of our increasingly complex (and decreasingly prepared) living.
An interactive intro to CRDTs
Its not aimed towards fullstack anyway. You CAN write webapps, and leptos is an amazing tool! But developing in leptos is a huge bottleneck. It takes to build than angular, and that says enough
OK, taken the unexpected comments :) I will do a longer write-up here and point to this block to join the comments together.

The aim of this dashboard is to be always-on with the following information displayed (a link to an image of the dashboard, there is not much available at this moment: https://imgur.com/a/pHSIBcO)

- current time and date

- current temperature as seen by Netatmo in my neighborhood

- estimations for rain in the next 60 minutes - from Météo France

- weather forecast for today and tomorrow

- all family calendar merged for today and tomorrow + specific events within 6 days

- alerts when there is a water leak, or when something is broken, or when flowers need water

- when are kids coming from school today and tomorrow

- information when I am driving or biking from the office with estimated arrival time

This is powered by a keyboard- and mouse-less old Raspberry Pi and displayed on an old screen mounted on a wall (one day it will be neatly mounted IN the wall. One day.). It is displayed with

I am not a developer but wanted to do the software part anyway myself. There were several changes over the last 7 or 8 years. Initially I wrote a backend that would query the information from the various sources but I ended up with a purely client-based SPA that connects to Home Assistant, which in turn retrieves all the information and keps state.

The frontend was the opportunity to learn JS/TS/Vue and I rewrote it three times to learn Quasar and recently to move to a pure Vue3/Vite/TailwindCSS frontend. It was a fun trip. It helped me enormously to also learn how to interact with APIs in less-ideal conditions.

I also tried to directly use the dashboarding capabilities provided by Home Assistant but I did not really like everything. I may revise this one day if I get a touch screen (a touch monitor) because then it makes sense to use the widgets HA has natively.

Coming up next: the ability to have several screens switched by a button