skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that shoppers are getting shipping for free when they receive "free shipping" is a bit of a tall tale on both the retailer and consumer side.

This article talks about the fact that adding an additional shipping charge is painful after years of conditioning customers to expect that charge to be $0.

Yet it's not as if retailers have had to eat 100% of that cost in the absence of a separate line item on the order. Consumers are aware that shipping charges are often priced into the base cost of the items, especially from online-only retailers who don't need to maintain the illusion of having the same price in store and online.

Personally, I like the idea of baking the shipping cost into the price of the item. (I also like the idea of baking gratuities into the cost of restaurant meals.) And if a company then wants to offer some discount for quantity or loyalty or whatever, that's fine.
Last big layoff I was a part of in the before times, I was working for a huge aerospace company who just lost out on a major gov contract. We were told layoffs were coming, and they would happen on a certain day. You would get a phone call to come to your manager's office for a private meeting, or you wouldn't and that meant you were not laid off.

So everyone is sitting at their desk, too keyed up to do any work, just waiting to hear who's desk phone is going to go off next.

My call came late in the afternoon (about the time I was starting to think I was safe). Everyone in the cube farm knew you just got hit as you walked toward the boss's office where the boss and the HR lady were waiting.
How is that not applicable when one doesn’t need to save for their pension?
fast, free shipping is the reason online shopping is dominating retail. If I have to wait a week and pay to return stuff, I’ll just go buy it in person. Then at least I’ve got the perk of it actually going through a legitimate supply chain and probably not being counterfeit and/or unsafe, like many things on Amazon these days.
It was never really free shipping, it was built into the price. Consumers like to buy stuff for the price listed, and not see additional fees and charges at checkout.
Why would you pick the "Iliad" though?

1) The "Odyssey" is more interesting and far more often referenced in arts and culture.

2) It's not an English book so you are going to suffer from double the translation misfires (Greek -> English -> Chinese).

There are lots of choices for literature in English that are just as or even more important than the "Iliad".
Tesla will not be able to deliver true FSD with its current purely computer vision based stack
I think the wasm C API is not going to live up to the promise. To actually use high performance features you need many additions to that API that most implementations provide, thus making it less portable.

Source: I contribute a lot to wasmtime’s C API and build Redpanda’s Wasm Data Transforms using it
Gatekeeping privacy settings behind a premium subscription? Miss me with that.
Huh, I'd swear I'd seen that too, but looking at the alpha blog post [1], they do indeed say:

> The official release of COSMIC DE will debut on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, which will be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Running and testing on 24.04 gets us closer to a final, polished release.

I'm assuming, but not sure, that 24.04 will be released in April, 24, though its version might just be a reference to the Ubuntu version it's based on - it would be pretty quickly after the Ubuntu release.

Although the distinction between "official release" and "final, polished release" might indeed mean that the 24.04 release would still be alpha?

[1] https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha
I've always been a fan of generating mazes by randomly printing /, \, or a space. It ends up slanted, and there's obviously no guarantees of solvability, but it's surprisingly good for how simple it is.

Here's a bash version in 50 characters (https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/26011/7934):

w=(╱ ╲);while :;do echo -n ${w[RANDOM%2]};done

and how it looks like:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/fRX05.png
> Why, my Chinese students asked, will we read this? Because you need to prepare for American university classes, I replied. But more importantly: because this book might just change your life! I said this without apology or awkwardness. I believed it! Ultimately, if a great work of history and literature does not have the potential to change a student’s life, to shape their character or transform their worldview, there is no point in teaching it!

Love the boldness and clarity here. Whenever a classic movie is showing in the theaters that my wife has not seen, I tell her "we gotta watch this." It's not that I even enjoy or think of these movies as my favorites. It's that there is something in the movie that might stick with her and change her (and me).
For the first time in many years my family cancelled our Amazon Prime subscription. We did it for a lot of reasons, but one of them was the (somewhat obvious) realization that free shipping isn't free, it's just prepaid and subsidized.

A quick look at eBay auctions for a given item will reveal (quite quickly) an interesting phenomenon: eBay Sellers will list the same item several times over with different prices, and different shipping costs. They often add up to the same total cost, but clearly buyers have different tolerance thresholds for what they'll pay for shipping vs what they'll pay for a product.

Much like with anything else that's "free", it's not free. Someone else is just paying for it (and sometimes that someone is just you)
> a system which allows me to interact with TSV files with SQL

ClickHouse and DuckDB can both do this. Pretty sure AWS has some built-in stuff for this too.
I believe there are studies that show even East Asian origin babies are less active and more docile than white babies.
For individual models I've seen Model Y as #1. But seems like growth has stopped, so paralyzed is still appropriate, and they only have 2 models that sell significant numbers
I read the Pournelle threads linked. To save others the time: it's clear from the messages that the people writing them didn't like him. It's not clear to me what he did that they considered abuse. The most concrete things: something about trying to access MILNET apparently unsuccessfully; writing in Byte about his experience with the lab guest account; saying ARPANET instead of internet.

I can believe the guy was abrasive, but I regret wasting the time trying to find out specifics.
Eclipse with PyDev had awesome support for types in python 2.* before they were a python 3 thing. It actually worked really well for the 90% usecase and was my secret weapon about a decade ago.
I don’t think this is true, at least in electronics. The price in store at competitors is the same as the price on Amazon but with free shipping… I see it more like the shipping costs are similar or less than the overhead of having a brick and mortar store, so it works out anyway.
> Seceeding when you hate your neighbours is a dumb and dangerous move, that has historically caused more than one war

Secession is sometimes necessary for freedom and self determination. People should do it more often, instead of trying to live in unworkable Byzantine unions. My home country exists because we seceded from Pakistan. Yes it meant war. Folks like my uncle has to kill a bunch of Pakistanis to do it. But it was totally worth it. We now navigate our own destiny instead of being tied to an overbearing neighbor.
> For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

The basic social contract of the web fell apart long ago when almost everyone decided that Google was the only search engine worth serving and started aggressively blocking other crawlers.
> Because the local time is the thing that you have immediate access to, with no additional conversions applied.

Only in the sense that BIOS systems historically programmed non-DST-aware local time into the RTC.

Other than that, you actually have no-conversion-needed access to UTC or something UTC-like. Linux mostly tracks the conversion from the hardware clock (TSC, for example) to UTC. NTP gives UTC, and GPS gives something that is a lot closer to UTC than to local time.
Overproduction of what? Not of houses. Not of medical services (it takes forever to get an appointment). Yes, maybe there was/is overproduction of software nonsense, but I don't think that's overproduction overall in the economy; rather it's a misallocation.
To be fair taxes in Norway are not at all low.
Surprisingly good for what purpose?
You can always read financial reports like 10-Ks and see what the company says and what their number say. Numbers like that don't really lie.

The media has never been a "source of truth" at the best they act as watchdogs, at the worst they are propaganda. You can still find answers for yourself but good information has a time cost.
If a colleague of mine died, and management described this as "they are no longer with the company", this would create some huge trust issues if I found out. Which in any place I've ever worked, I would find out.

"Passed out" is just a verbal typo for "passed on", an accepted euphemism in English for someone dying. I think that slip is forgivable, clearly not ideal, but human beings make mistakes. I also agree with the parent comment that it isn't management's place to provide details about the death, but IMHO they have a responsibility to say that's what happened.
I can see your point, but prefer to stick to rock-solid, unimpeachible arguments (Apple Music for iOS, Google Chrome/Play Store for Android). I shy away from Safari/iOS because Apple is using iOS' dominance (in operating systems) to gain an advantage in web browsers - but that browser is only available for iOS and MacOS. They've steered very clear of using iOS' dominance to push for browser dominance in every other operating system not owned by them.

Going so far as to not even release a client leaves them with a relatively safe defence of only pushing for deep system integration with their own products, as opposed to market dominance in web browsers (as they're likely to be accused of).
> The worst thing is most of them don't even have actual responsive websites. It's just a literal PDF download that you now have to keep panning left right on a tiny screen.

I could almost get into it if it were a large screen tablet mounted at the table, with a great UI, where you just tap, tap, tap out your order, hit submit, and poof your drinks and food arrive. Pop in your credit card to pay, and off you go! At least make good use of the digital user interface. Reduce inefficiencies like the wait staff having to make dozens of trips to collect your drink order, come back, take your meal order, come back, take your credit card, return your credit card.

But, no, they digitized the only part of the restaurant that already was working pretty efficiently in physical form.
Is there a plan to adopt more of the VSCode ecosystem like VSC plugins? This would tremendously drive adoption.
Dental amalgam is the biggest usage, as the article makes clear.
I run a small online store for decal’s for the geek market. When I say small - I mean I regularly only have 4 items listed. Think HANKA Robotics, TARS and the like.

I keep my costs to the bare minimum. I started it because I wanted decals no one else was making. I cannot justify feee shipping.

In the UK I eat the cost as it is about £1 to ship UK wide. Posting to the US is now around £7. I need to send tracked thanks to the selling platform.

It honestly pains me to have to charge shipping - but I could’t do it any other way. I can only imagine the costs that are associated with this for bigger outfits. Heck. Even Amazon has a logistics company now (but I suppose that’s where the Prime premium comes in!)
You can print molds that you literally cannot machine.
Yes, but half of BYD's cars are hybrid. Only ~1.6M are EV. They've also been around making batteries since 1995 and ICE cars since 2003.

It's not like Tesla's subsidies have been small, but BYD's have been enormous.
This looks excellent. I love the cross-pollination of good ideas that seems to be frequently happening between the Laravel, Phoenix, and Rails frameworks.
Agree, except "backdoor" is really just any automatic update tactic.
Systemic Risk Concerns Grow Among Money Managers at Real Estate Woes
I was surprised a few years ago to learn that in some parts of Europe, it's common to include the sales tax in the price on the shelf. That makes quite a lot of sense to me, but here in the states shelf prices are often just the sale price - taxes are only shown at checkout.
So the two things we're comparing are:

1. Signal, where an attacker with granular access to AWS's global network logs could perform traffic analysis to match timings between sender and recipient IP addresses, which would work for some portion, and narrow things down for some other portion. The attacker would then need to combine that with data from mobile networks and other ISPs to link the sender/recipient IPs at a given timestamp with a subscriber.

2. Other messaging platforms, including Matrix, where they can just check the server's database to get a table of what user messaged what other user at a given time.
Why Some of Apple's Biggest Fans Are Returning Their Vision Pros
It is classified as a symptom, not a condition. Those are different things. Only a subset of ICD-10 concept codes are considered conditions. But in certain areas of mental health that distinction is rather arbitrary.
I'd second OP's opinion as a 1.5 Gen.

Immigrant parents (Asian, Latino, Eastern European, African) in America will push their kids harder because when you're an immigrant, a mistake like getting suspended in school or a DUI can destroy any chance at naturalization because you need to establish "Good Moral Character" [0] which is largely at the discretion of the presiding interviewer and a backlogged USCIS Immigration Judge

[0] - https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter...
Trimmed title: "Systemic Risk Concerns Grow Among Money Managers as Real Estate Woes Cause Turmoil"

https://archive.today/eb2lt
Interesting.

I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts.

I'll give Bitmagnet a try for an Indexer.

I did find that IPFS, with a pinning service (I won't shill the one I used in particular), was a bit easier and just worked for everyone who tried to use it.

But I'd like to get my bittorrent presence up to the "just works" level also.
> there is no market for web browsers on iOS

I find this difficult to reconcile with the case against Microsoft, which I understood to be about pushing IE on Windows.

Are you saying that the case against Microsoft wasn't based on anticompetitive attempts to dominate the market for web browsers, that the law has changed since then, or that Windows is somehow different from iOS legally?
Most other OEMs have (way way) more than four models, so that kind of list doesn't really make much sense to begin with.
For me it was scouts; the scout master would bundle us all in the back of a van at night, drive us a couple of miles in a random direction and then task us to find our way back to camp with nothing but a map & compass.

It was a real adventure; we had no idea that the troop leaders were 50 meters away keeping tabs us through night-vision goggles all night.
The smaller cores are not really much different from having other applications / kernel / device drivers running concurrently with your workload.

Bad design: see N cores, split work into N partitions, start N threads, each thread processes one partition.

Good design: see N cores, start ~N threads, each thread takes 1/M of work at a time, M>>N.
Nice overview of pg-osc. I'd like to also mention pgroll, which has some similarities, but does this at column level rather than table level and takes things further: it can expose the old and new schema simultaneously (using views), which means you don't need to maintain backwards compatibility code in your app.

Disclaimer: I work at Xata, we maintain pgroll.
It does not sound as ominous if you also include the next line he said.

"We kind of dug our own grave with the Cybertruck. It is going to require immense work to reach volume production and be cash flow positive at a price that people can afford. It will take a year to 18 months before it is a significant cash flow contributor."
>Under what criteria?

If maintaining the property value is a better move in your risk analysis, over making income from renters. Maintaining the value of your $100M+ tower makes a lot of sense if you are expecting commercial real estate to turn around soon. If you convert it, it will probably never be able to sell for more than a fraction of that and investors get hosed.

>posit circumstances

Massive deregulation in what qualifies as legal arounding housing would be one major chip. The other would be massive devaluation (which probably depends on the former point), such as massive amounts of housing going up in neighboring areas.
Exactly what 'management' do you mean? I ask because this is a frequent astroturf point timber companies use to claim that they need to have larger, cheaper timber leases.

The forests were fine for a very, very, very long time before timber companies were around to help 'manage' them. Many species require forest fire as part of a larger biological cycle. Forest fires are OK. Let them burn. The problem is that we're trying to insert our human stuff into the forests, at which point all of a sudden they are something that requires 'managing'.
It's right in the Chicago metro area, not off on a rural lake.
Are your parents still alive and in Russia? Is it easy for you to leave them?

I would leave my rotting country (Slovakia) in a heartbeat if it wasn't for my old parents. I have a decent salary here but I'd gladly take a pay cut to live in a proper Western country.
Either you charge shipping or you provide "free shipping" and make the products more expensive.

Usually the second option is more lucrative because it feels more attractive to customers, and if someone buys from a cheaper-to-ship location or buys multiple products you save more on shipping without passing the savings to the customer.
I knew the linked-in-the-article https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/ which is also great. A bit meta on the widespread use of linear models: "Transcending General Linear Reality" by Andrew Abbott, DOI:10.2307/202114
I think the idea is, no attacking. Retaliation is fine.
It's not a safe area to be around. The ground shifts, the air is death. The water is death. Really not worth it. There are some great videos on youtube about these places. They make clear why nobody lives around them.
My biggest complaint is that lying is just completely endemic. The best liars, who lie so well you question if they're lying when it's right in front of you, are at the top, and you just progress down from there with everyone playing along to known lies. Finding and working in areas with people who care about the truth is like a priceless haven.
The difference here is the outlook on AI compared to crypto. In the past year alone AI has started shifting the way entire industries are working, and everything points to the trend continuing. Crypto never did that outside of the speculative investment space.
Nixing Technological Lock In
Donut.c without a math library (2021)
I was thinking the same thing!

The huge padding is the thing I hate the most about Gnome, and if Cosmic will have the same issue, well, then that's a bammer.

With Gnome, however, there are extensions and themes that allow to alleviate the problem, even if partially. And I don't think Cosmic will have any of those on day one (if they there's no customization built-in, that is).
Methane is more potent, but a lot shorter lived. https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/methane/
Drama. Crawlers have always been controversial.
I think it's important to add to the article. Like I said, the one bit of CSS you added is nowhere near the functionality of the Tailwind example you were comparing it to. Without an apples to apples comparison showing _how_ Tailwind should've done it, your words have less power.

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I read your other article and it still feels superficial and missing details. You compare a demo of a commercially available (effectively "closed source") template against a page you built, but don't provide the source for the page you built. Apologies if it's in the article, but I couldn't find it. I did find the simple blog template on the Nue site, but it had considerably less functionality than the Tailwind demo.

It's still not an apples to apples comparison, because you're comparing a site built with Nextjs to whatever you built. Of course static HTML without JavaScript is going to load faster than an SSG site.

I think the ending quote in the second article is completely unrelated to Tailwind and I'm not sure why it was your conclusion.

> The fact is that Tailwind's popularity will eventually fade. CSS-in-JS is trending now, but standards are forever.

Tailwind isn't CSS-in-JS. You don't need a build step to write it. You need a build step for important features like tree shaking and dynamic properties, but it's not CSS-in-JS.

Including that hurts your position because it sounds like you don't understand what you're arguing against.

Lastly, why so much hate against Tailwind? Positioning your framework as "Nue and semantic CSS vs Tailwind" doesn't make me want to try your framework. Show me why your framework is good and let me bring my own solutions to it.
Folks have been translating Homer for centuries, any modern translation is going to be adequate.
https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/bracket-tax/

Maximum is 17.6%. I pay 42% in Germany. I happily take those Norwegian „high taxes”.
What you propose is exactly what's been done by the kernel. They are integrating the language in a non-mandatory way, to both exercise the kernel side and the language itself. The unstable features haven't been stabilized because either they have open questions on their implementation (and having a customer using them helps define them) or no-one has cared enough to complete them (and having a customer using them gives them the extra push). Either way what's happening now is exactly the process you are proposing.

The article is about updating the Rust version the kernel targets where a feature they use (offset_of) was stabilized.
Do you think Microsoft would have been safe if they had never released IE for Macs?
Go to google maps and zoom out, urban sprawl is not the problem. You are talking about ending a way of life that untold millions aspire too, I wonder what kind of affect that would have.
Symfony’s dev toolbar has got to be one of the best.

https://symfony.com/doc/current/profiler.html

Always miss this in my RoR projects.
At one place I worked I really needed a piece of hardware. I found the best hardware for the price and sent it to my manager. A couple weeks later it was delivered to THEIR desk. So I bought it myself and went to the CEO and asked if he'd cover it, he did. Then when they went under the next year everything went to auction. So I went and bought it again.
I meant population primarily.

Norway is roughly the size of Montana with the population of Minnesota.
Ok. How much less efficient is this process compared to mass-fabrication techniques?
Oak Park in the 19th century was not quite as urban as it is now.
This was a low quality clickbait fluff piece. The article did not match the headline at all. It gives the authors vague musings that some online retailers bake the shipping cost into the prices and offer free shipping, as has been the case for decades. It does not give any evidence whatsoever that the trend is going towards paid shipping.