skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if it says so on Wikipedia it must be true.
The “hidden tax” described in the article is to sellers, not consumers. Free shipping is subsidy for consumers that costs Amazon billions of dollars. I have personally never seen what you’re describing.
Probably you’re right I shouldn’t have pointed the finger towards a single faction
If you have an embossed credit card and the store has an imprinter, that's still true today.

I don't expect any store anywhere to have an imprinter, but it's definitely an option.
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MEPs want to tackle inconsistent rules for airline carry-on luggage
> The advantages to the cashless society far outweigh that small benefit to the average person.

You present that as a fact, but it is far from. The jury is still out. And I would also question whether this is a case where "average" is even the relevant metric - is it ok if a chunk of the population looses access to shopping, because VISA or MASTERCARD decided do cut off their access? Cash is controlled by the state, but digital payment systems are not, and unlike cash, do not ensure equal treatment.
You pay these fees so the products aren't cheap. And Amazon (using its size) made it impossible for sellers to sell their products cheaper elsewhere.
This is anticompetitive.
In that case you would often need gold, not cash.
Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
The legislation sounds probably terrible and awkward, but the chosen headline is maybe a bit inflammatory: "The CRTC requires all online services with more than CAD $10mn (USD $7.3mn) in revenue that operate in Canada and that offer podcasts, to register with the government before Nov 28."

We're not exactly talking about little mom&pop hobby podcasts. If you're bringing in $10M in revenue, you're a major media operation -- podcast being in that case really a kind of marketing label for what's basically a "radio station."

So given how things work in this country it was only a matter of time before the approach that the regulator here takes to major media operation around content would apply.

These laws probably confuse and enrage many Americans -- as they do for many Canadians -- but they've been a thing for decades; in large part they reflect two unique aspects of Canada: 1) its cultural and economic position in regards to being a separate country (believe it or not) adjacent to the US while being on the whole linguistically, economically culturally similar enough that there's a constant struggle to not be completely subsumed 2) The unique position of the French language, French Canadian, and Quebecois culture in confederation. (And, increasingly, indigenous culture)

Canada is in a constant struggle to localize and protect local culture. And in the process there are often dubious monopolistic forces that inject themselves into that process. But the argument (not my argument) is basically that in a "free" and "open competition", the US would basically bury/eliminate Canada.

Finally, Canada is officially "multicultural" rather than "melting pot" by stated ideology; which means that state institutions / regulatory agencies actually have concrete roles in protecting cultural diversity. Again, controversial, but likely a foreign approach to Americans and most Europeans (not all) whose societies operate with the assumption of single unified ethno-linguistic nation state. (This is explicit policy choice made by governments in the 70s/80s in an effort to stop the Canadian state from disintegrating under centrifugal separatist forces.)
I'm impressed the chapter by chapter worked. I tried something like that and had to use a RAG like approach where I provided the text with each question, and used Claude.
They’re not stealing $3 sodas, they’re stealing entire shelves of razors and shampoo and beer, stuffing them in garbage bags, and then selling them on 14th and A next to my apartment.

I see this Every. Single. Day.

It’s not bodega owners getting hit, it’s mostly franchised retail. CVS, Walgreens, Target seem to be the most common.

I asked an AP at Target why they don’t stop them, and he said it’s store policy that unless they’re lifting a felony amount, there’s just no business reason to stop them. They’ll be back the next day anyway.

People who don’t live here (or who live in nicer parts of the city) really don’t believe it, and it’s frustrating being gaslit about something you see almost every day.
the "author" fed a bunch of text into a prompt generator and spit out a list with referral links

web 3.0 looking good
From my comment

> Sure cash should be accepted in shops selling essential goods. But other shops should have the choice.

That basically covers you whole list, except if your argument is that gaming PC parts shop should absolutely accomodate cash in case homeless people need an RTX3060 over the weekend.

Also fundamdentally a bank account should be a legal right (it is in many countries, if it's not in yours it's a more critical debate than cash), and with it should come a debit card. Sure some people won't be able to use it for a reason or another, but they can get help. The same way not everyone benefits from cash.
did you read it all? it claims the prices are higher due to the hidden tax and that amazon is price fixing by threatening to block 3rd party sellers if they sell at a more reasonable price elsewhere. this doesnt necessarily mean that consumers will get a better deal elsewhere but it is probably unhealthy to put all that price setting behaviour in the hands of one company.
What about the google tax?
Up until about 10 years ago one local grocery chain required you to enter only the last 4 digits of a phone number. I have no idea who thought that was a good idea.
Being without internet can be a great opportunity to focus on skill-building offline. For your design work in Figma, you can sketch ideas on paper and refine them digitally later. For coding, download relevant documentation and tutorials beforehand.

Books on React Native/ReactJS can also be handy. Consider working on personal projects or code challenges to sharpen your skills. Plus, offline time can foster creativity and problem-solving. Embrace the break from distractions, and you'll likely return with fresh insights and improved skills.

Enjoy your time in the middle of nowhere!
An excerpt from: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/

Amazon binds its sellers over to something called Most Favored Nation status. That means that sellers can't offer their goods more cheaply than they do on Amazon – even if it costs them (lots) less to sell in Target or direct from their websites. This means that every time a seller adds a dollar to their Amazon sale price, they have to add a dollar to the price of their goods everywhere else, too.

After a bunch of state AGs filed lawsuits against Amazon over this, the company promised to cut it out.

They lied.

A new filing in California's suit against Amazon reveals that sellers live "in constant fear" of retaliation from Amazon if they allow their goods to be sold more cheaply elsewhere.
His thinking here leans on assuming that there's a qualitative difference between LLM's "understanding" and our "understanding" that justifies using the term for us, but not for LLMs. Maybe there is, but their reasoning ability is sufficient that I don't think is at all a given, and at a minimum an assertion that should make you ask someone how they define "understanding", because defining that in a way that is focused on reasoning-ability that will exclude LLMs but not exclude some people seems tricky.
28 years ago, a book club began reading one novel. It’s finally reached the end
What about this but only for fiction?
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Better off is relative I guess is the point I'd raise here. Are most peoples lives easier, with overall life expectancy up, and general health as well? Yes. Are we closer to the possibility of an overnight event that could lead to the overall near extinction of the species? Well, that one's a yes too, though perhaps it could be argued that we've moved back a little since the 60s. Though, with the doomsday clock at 90 seconds right now, at least some would take the argument that we're still closer now, considering the number of players on the world stage being a bit less predictable than when it was just two major nuclear powers squaring off.

Sort of reminds me of economic cycles -- with great leverage comes great liquidity, but also, great instability.
Seems like you have described apps for snoop-phones. Those are a refresh-less, not device-agnostic browser apps with no tabs, no ability to change a font-size and limited ability to block ads.
>> I don't agree with his take on LLMs.

His take may be a bit jaded from his own experience.

He worked as a Lisp hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab when AI research was peaking in the 1970s.

The commercialization of Lisp and early AI effectively destroyed the hacker paradise he worked in and the following "AI Winter" devastated the research and its funding.

These experiences lead him to start the GNU project, so the net result was good for software, but definitely colored his perspective.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Harvard_Unive... for more details.
That’s likely because the non-prime vendors have to lower their prices to match prime, or they wouldn’t sell much.
A more charitable take is that Amazon is raising the price (for the nth time) of prime, and introducing a small discount if you put up with ads.
How come archive.is works for me?

I have set up Cloudflare DoH in my router, I block other popular DoH servers on my network and I also redirect any other DNS queries (UDP 53) to my router's DNS (which in turn uses Cloudflare).

And at least in my region (EU) I did not notice any issues with 1.1.1.1.
3D Printer Uses Magnets to Break Speed Limits, Print at a Table-Shaking 800 Mm/S
One-layer deeper question: How much power/influence do people closely tied to Ford Motor have at the Ford Foundation? Looking here - https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/board-of-trustees/ - only Henry Ford III is an obvious "Ford Motor / Ford family" member of their Board of Trustees. Behind the scenes and deeper? Hard to know.

Bigger picture: Since CR has been doing at-scale quantitative ratings of cars for decades, it should be pretty easy to run some stats, and see if they have a meaningful pro-Ford bias.

Opinion: If I was running both Ford Motors and the Ford Foundation, I'd be telling CR that I wanted 100%-unvarnished-truth reviews and ratings of Ford Motors products from them. Because done-right data from CR would be a ~99%-independent check on what my underlings at Ford Motor were telling me. (And, yes, cheating in Ford's favor would be damn likely to turn into a disastrous scandal.)
And im not sure how a requirement to register translates into censorship.
Sure, but my point is that we don't "need" a new act, as the OP states. All hope is not lost if we don't get one.

Bad precedence and an unclear act makes Lina Khan's actions very difficult, but not quite impossible.

The split nature of Congress, its showmanship and quorum rules make getting a new act very difficult, but not quite impossible.

We should be pursuing both paths in parallel.
I disagree. While corporate interests make social networks worse, regular people are tend to be major asshats on any social network, a concept that was already known in the late 90s and today it is widespread, and crosses any cultural, economical and contextual reason. It is safe to say humans on the internet eventually behave like asshats.

The real difference between social media and real life is that you can get punched in the face for being an asshat, and in general we have a lot of brain power dedicated to making sure we fit into our tribal group and physical context.

Mind you, I did not say the Internet is an absolute negative, but in my view, the enormous benefit of instantaneous communication is negated by the impossibility of measured discourse with more than two dozen strangers.
> How is any of this related to consumer level users wanting to keep IPFS data alive?

I'm saying that "consumer level users wanting to keep... data alive" is unrelated to IPFS.

If someone wants to work in that space, they can do so in separate projects (there are already many). Such projects could make use of IPFS; but they could also use HTTP, Bittorrent, GNUNet, Dat/Hyperdrive, Freenet, ED2K, FTP, or whatever seems appropriate (ideally, all of the above and more).

Presumably such projects could encode their text using UTF-8, to 'democratise saying things outside of the Anglosphere'; but that shouldn't de-rail the Unicode consortium into a multi-year crypto pivot.
The change on twitter to not show replies, mixed with multi-message splitting is infuriating and should 100% disqualify twitter links from being posted. (I feel the same about paywalled articles FWIW)
Our coming ai overlords laugh at problems resulting from not using word vectors and instead using the modern equivalent of hieroglyphics.
> but it does require an in-person doctor visit

Are you 1000% positive about this? Check your insurance provider for some kind of Nurse Practitioner telehealth visit as an option.

Do you have https://www.zoomcare.com/ Or something similar in your area?

The other thing to do is ask about a waiting list. Or, like you mentioned, call right when they open and ask about cancellations for the day.

Yes, it sucks, but if you want the appointment you have to deal with it.
Could someone please edit the headline to include "(2022)"?
But there is enough cash to partially function.

And partial function is better than no function.
I knew Louis Brus during my Bell Labs stint 30+ years ago and am thrilled that he was recognized. Terrific human being and brilliant scientist.
I don't see the problem with this. They don't have to sell on Amazon to begin with. Amazon obviously wants their customers to have the best price available. Sellers can just go off Amazon if they don't like it. If sellers end up raising the price on other platforms as a result of this rule, then that says more about them than Amazon.

Demanding the lowest price does not harm consumers. Overstock, Wayfair, Walmart and others do the same thing. The result is the lowest price for a given product on all sites. This is unquestionably good for consumers.

If the price is higher then the fault is simply that of the seller for raising it. All e-commerce sites want the lowest price for their customers. Of course, people don't see nuance and just see BigCompany bad.
Run your own resolver on a vpc (perhaps in a different country, pay with bitcoin, adjust on your level of concern) and WireGuard to it (perhaps WireGuard over a service like mullvad)
Good luck competing with AWS! went great for my serverless platform startup (and everyone else..)
Do you use something besides 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1?

99% of the time I just talk directly to the root servers from my home network and pre-cache the most popular places I visit. Unbound also supports DoH but most distributions of Linux do not enable that compile time flag in their Unbound package build and I have long since stopped compiling things as most distributions finally started using the right security options in their builds. I also have DoT running at home which the cell phone figured out on it's own.

I keep DoT Unbound DNS running on several VPS providers that also talk directly to the root servers just in case. Useful for cell phones. My ISP is a tiny community ISP and would never filter any results and DNS privacy is just one tiny piece of browsing habits. Until encrypted SNI is fully adopted by all SSL libraries and applications they can still see where I browse unless I am using my own Tinc VPNs or SSH tunneling.
I disagree about apple maps, I like it more than google maps now. I wouldn’t exactly call Google Drive/Docs a perfect experience either.
I agree with you. I quit using Amazon late last year and it's pretty easy to change to different vendors. Hopefully more consumers do this so that vendors don't have to use the Amazon price everywhere else on the internet.
Usually you only have 1-2 cards you want to hold. So it's 1-2 clicks.

If you had to throw them, it would be 3-5 clicks.
I think you are only referring to Europe when you say most countries. 80% efficiency is very common. In most countries near equator and south of the equator, and United States.

And I said 60% average on a cloudy day.
What about landlocked countries that have little rainfail & few rivers as water source? Or big countries with dry interior?

Even if potable water were free, if it needs long-distance transport then it can hardly be cheap.
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it feels like every time I go into Jira with the intention to do something, I'm shown a needy modal about some new feature that I really don't care about. and then I can't remember why I went in there in the first place. it's horrible to use.
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LLM observability is an absolute must-have for anyone running something in prod (or prod-like). While all the observability startups are great, you're essentially sending all your OpenAI usage history - prompts, generations, chats - to a random third party.

So this script deploys a basic proxy in your Azure account, catches all incoming OpenAI requests, stores logs in your own resource group, and comes with visualizations premade (charts, timelines, chat history, cost estimation, etc).

Thanks for any thoughts and feedback!
You can use REST client that support local workspaces and not require login https://nativesoft.com
I will roll the dice with my answer. I'm sorry if it seems trite or dismissive of your concerns, I'm well intentioned!

Alright, thinking back to the fun I had thrown in the deep end with passed-down ex-work computers from my father: IBM 8086 and the MS-DOS 3.1 manual, and later on a 286 running Lotus Notes and some nifty File Explorer thing which I cannot recall the name of now--I was a bit older than yours, but I'm trying to adapt!--I would:

- throw the little tiker in the deep end (to some extent) and give him something he can figure out (and thereby take a feeling of ownership, mastery, and achievement over-- that is what you'd like to pass on and instill, essentially, yes?). this was my more practical suggestion. next I'll hit you with my slightly more zany, out-there one...

- get him a (cursed) old IBM ThinkPad or Toshiba. rock solid. Can take a beating. Got some miles on it. And old. Like so old that he has to use older software. Hear me out. I think that, if you plan a whole succession of machines over time to upgrade him in to (when the time is right), you can basically give him a "re-experience" of the development of tech, over time. Ideally, you'd be able to select a single machine that you could (depending on your inclinations and 'pain tolerance' perhaps), "expand" with him overtime by tinkering with the hardware to upgrade it to successive generations. Tho that may be overly-ambitious (for anyone!) and more trouble than it's worth. But I think there's good to be had in seeing the natural progression (Same way that a good physics or math course will take you through the derivations and historical context).

Anyway, I'm probably overthinking this, and I'm sure you have a bunch of your own ideas that are way better than this anyway, but just wanted contribute my little share in the hope that it helps you and he! :)
Is there a reason it's only playing sound effects on the left side? Using macOS/Chrome/Earbuds there's nothing on the right.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
Who are you to decide what other people should consider essential?
Training language models with pause tokens
The UI problems are a symptom that Jira is complex, and they push that complexity onto the user rather than offering a simple product that forces everyone to operate how they recommend you should.

The freedom Jira offers managers is not for the benefit of any workplace I’ve ever been. I much prefer every single tool I’ve used that isn’t Jira for this reason.
By snoop-phone, do you mean stalkerware? I have not heard this phrase before. Thanks in advance for the clarification.
similar is happening in gas pump manufacturing.

What are you basing that on?

why recompile it without the BT when it could be working right now

Why would someone recompile anything when they could just turn it off?
Wiremock
Wow, this visual programming interface really helps kids viscerally experience the power of programming. Well done!
I don't think that this is associated with Atlassian (the JIRA company) in any way. Or at least I can't find any association on this github page.
Coming from the Apple ecosystem, this is solved on macOS/iOS by a native implementation of 464XLAT on the device (particularly the CLAT relay part.)

If you have a working NAT64/DNS64 setup, macOS can make a AAAA (ipv6 DNS) request to ipv4only.arpa, and observe the form the result comes back as, in order to learn the IPv6 prefix used for IPv4 compatibility on the network (eg. 64:ff9b::/96), and if it's not given an IPv4 address via DHCP, will set up a local interface at 192.0.0.1 that is the default route for all IPv4 traffic. Anything sent to this interface will translate the address to the corresponding IPv6 compatibility address and send it to your IPv6 router (which should use NAT64 to send it to the destination.)

In this sense, you don't need any IPv4 infrastructure at all in your network (no DHCP, etc) and all traffic on your LAN will be IPv6, but IPv4-only apps (including those that hardcode IPv4 addresses and try to connect to them) work fine.

A quick web search says that linux has a similar thing implemented as a userspace daemon (clatd) which presumably does something similar, and importantly doesn't rely on LD_PRELOAD hacks like this article suggests (LD_PRELOAD doesn't work with static binaries like those written in Go, for instance.)
I've been surprised at how much I like Rust for backend work, but looking at the read me I have no idea what the case for this tool is. What do you use it for?
Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen it here in Britain. Some smaller businesses might insist on a £5 minimum spend if you're not paying cash, but even that has become very rare since the pandemic.
I flushed a flush for this reason :(
Your experience could be done here in the US as well. Doing a transfer within the same bank is usually pretty instant. I could get a new account at my bank and a digital card to add to Google Wallet in a similar timeframe.
Wow. I’m impressed. Well done!
Most Americans that I have pointed this out to look at me in disbelief. The vast majority have never heard of US Customary Units. Whenever they refer to their system of measure they say imperial, and many are unaware that volume measure in the Imperial system is different from US Customary. I fought again the use of imperial as the name for the system for over twenty years in a multinational company to no avail.
That's a very naive view of the free market. What has been happening is Amazon consolidated the market, creating artificial barriers to entry as they do so (e.g. any and all exclusivity deals). This was always their plan, and they operated in the red for a very long time to get there. Hardly fair competition.