skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people in this and other recent threads talking about counterfeit items...please be aggressive about reporting these to customer service! It's only happened to me once, and customer service just refunded the ~$50 purchase without even asking me to send it back. A few days later I saw the seller was no longer on Amazon, so I suspect this is something Amazon is starting to take more seriously.

Amazon really needs to do a better job of clearly showing which products are sold by third-parties and how well-vetted those third-parties actually are. I've not seen anyone say that a "Sold by Amazon" product is counterfeit.

This said...
I've come to rely less and less on Prime for actually meeting its 2-day promises. Most of the time I don't care when it shows up, but when I do care, I've lost all faith that Amazon will actually pull through so I end up just buying locally.

If volume is the issue, they really could incentivize the "no rush" shipping more than the hokey $5 credit things.
Many thanks :) I'm glad it resonated.
Don't forget stairs that land on surface that is sloped from one side of the stairs to the other. What height should that bottom step be? Will the inspector measure both sides? Do you shoot for the middle being right on and each side being a bit too high and a bit too low?

Watch the height on the first and last steps. The middle ones are the "easy" ones.

In bigger cities there are companies that only frame stairs. It is amazing to watch them - they can do it in their sleep. I watched one crew finish up some complex stairs in less time than our framing crew would have spent making a game plan.

There is detail in everything and until you've done that job you really don't notice it.
Yep. I note that the LifeHacker article here gives tips on avoiding fakes, but none of those tips apply to the very guy in the article!

I'm plenty willing to be a diligent buyer, it's not much different than avoiding phishing attacks, but at this point any item with Amazon as the seller may be compromised, and there's no way to tell in advance.
You could be right. But from what I’ve read there’s a very small number of large owners who are almost certainly manipulating the market to enrich themselves while the vast majority have such tiny stakes as to be utterly insignificant in the scheme of things. Once the botting and laundering is unachievable, there may not be much of a game left for these players and I think all it will take is one or two deciding the jig is up to tank the market permanently. I think the libertarian ideologues will probably keep holding even if the music stops, but that won’t be enough to sustain any of this growth.

Read up on Spoofy and Picasso if you want to get a sense of some of the shenanigans going on here. This crescendo of growth is largely artificial, not even speculative in nature.
Yes, that's what I meant by "some unicode type of thing.... reminiscing to an old bug emerged two years ago" in my last post...

But on the hand, note the strong pattern of "0xCC" and "0xCD" (could be a coincidence to the x86 Breakpoint/INT code), pacing at a fixed distance throughout the code, as well as the numeric characteristics those parameters (or simply garbage code) to the "0xCC" and "0xCD" exhibit. I just feel that if there are certain numeric relations among those code chunks (for instance, all falling within a certain relatively narrow range, as all the parameters to "0xCD" are less than 0xA0 but above 0x80, a width of 32 units), it probably tells something (assuming it has been crafted in that way, with a meaningful purpose) -- but of course, my chunking method might be wrong and each character point (or instruction) might be longer 2 bytes...

And also note that a 12-MB buffer data devised within 10 minutes always seems to be a bit brute force -- so buffer overrun is quite likely in such case; and then out-of-bound data triggers some unhandlable action (as the app crashes) throughout all the exception handling stack -- in the simplistic scenario, would be a segfault -- but of course, that cheesecakeufo could do a bit more exploration with this buffer overrun -- but I guess that normally takes more than 10 minutes, for normal people....

I stopped working on this bug -- it would be a luxury to play a whole afternoon with this puzzle...do you have any further findings? Well, if I had more time, I probably would change the code a little and open it on an extra device, and see if there are any different effects...
This framing of the issue is typical for the mainstream press, however readers should note that this scheme changes nothing about the cost of driving. It only changes who pays, and how. Today everybody pays the costs associated with driving in Manhattan, even though driving in Manhattan is only practiced by a tiny minority of people. Congestion pricing will shift part of that burden to the people who cause it, which is perfectly fair.
A better description using the OSI Model: This certificate is perfect for someone who works at the Application Layer or Layer 4 and above.....
> their absence indicates that they do not agree with the narrative that the price of games needs to go up

Their absence suggests to me that the writer of the piece didn't have access to that information. Wouldn't you need inside information to come up with those numbers?
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Energy-efficient LEDs are just a few atoms thick
I'm failing to see how your anecdote about how you're happy to pay for something you admittedly don't care about is relevant.
Maybe the difference is that Stiftskeller offered rooms so it's not technically a restaurant?
Can confirm. Dallas had a lot of malls. While a bunch are dying, there are a small handful that are as strong as ever.

The Galleria, NorthPark, and Stonebriar are thriving (and Willow Bend is doing OK for now, though it's had turbulence in the past). The Galleria and NorthPark are both somewhat upscale (but with non-upscale sections), but Stonebriar isn't. Basically, all of the non-upscale shopping is being consolidated in Stonebriar. The people who used to shop at dead or dying malls like Prestonwood, Valley View, or Collin Creek now shop at Stonebriar. The market has shrunk a bit, so multiple locations aren't desirable, but the market for these stores does exist, just all concentrated into one location.
I won't say I agree with most interview processes for software, but here's more food for thought:

CPAs presumably have been externally certified, so perhaps you only need to check "team fit" things.

Sales interviews: if you can't sell me on yourself, why would I hire you? The interview is enough.

Lawyers I would assume have some number of public items for me to look at.

Software engineers: none of that applies. If they've contributed to open source, maybe you can look at that, but many of the great engineers I've worked with have not.
Hear hear! Scrum predates Agile. It welcomes mixing in other tools as needed, e.g. XP, Agile, etc. After 15 years of professional software development, I just picked up a scrum master certificate a couple days ago after my employer paid for the class. I'd rather see teams using scrum than just winging it unless they are provably experienced or extraordinarily competent. Individuals can be good at their work but it's often difficult to get everything in sync on a team, or even if the team is super amazing the complexity of getting things done in a corporate environment with lots of moving parts and dependencies is usually aided by using tools such as scrum. Even when a complex corporate environment commits to trying to follow it, it's still a struggle to get the basic elements of scrum adhered to (enough time with product owner, enough time figuring out dependencies, any time at all spent identifying ways the team could do better in the future and reduce friction, impediments, or needless work). Take a look at the Scrum Guide - I'd be satisfied if just the few events in the minimal scrum framework could be fit in, but often not even that happens.

* edit: provably
I do share your appreciation for simple, static pages that get the job done, but the layout on this site is totally messed up for me, totally unaware of dpi I assume.
> The only product that Google has that has anywhere near the required market share to be considered a monopoly is Google Search.

What about Android? Did you ever see an Android phone sold without the Google App ecosystem? Oh, and the GApps tracks you everytime, even with GPS off it constantly tracks you. the only way to disable it is to reinstall with AOSP or CAF-based build. That seems pretty abusive and anti-consumer.

And we're skipping Chrome/GoogleSearch combo, DoubleClick, Youtube...

Google not only has a very monopolistic position in certain services, but also has a lot of control over the most used web services on the world (without being in a monopoly situation), and uses it to actively track it's users and get revenue with it. Google is one of the companies I trust less.
Here in my area, 2-day Prime means 3-4 days. Their guaranteed delivery date is always 4 days away, but about half the time you'll get it in 3. But they still call it "two-day delivery"
The current plan is to remove it in 11.0.0, if you know of anywhere this is unclear I can take a look and have it changed.
It's not like they're living on the moon, Hawaii is a U.S. state and they decided to accept customers from there.
Opposite here, I'm receiving most packages same day (evening) at this point.
I'd be happy to assemble all of my office furniture if my company paid for it -- though paying $100+/hour engineers to do the work of a $15+ handyman seems like a bad deal for the company - especially when the guy that assembles desks all day will do it faster (and correctly).
If I worked in a physical job, I don't think I'd want to give up twenty minutes of my break for a workout with my manager...
Somebody needs to take the risks of designing, making, and selling a RISC-V processor/chipset and associated peripherals. Frankly, someone like a Broadcom, who has the expertise, and wants a royalty free rpi, might just work fine. I can't immediately imagine anyone else big enough doing it without upsetting the market too much. Sure, an open foundation could do it if they raised enough cash, but it seems unlikely.

Having the backing of industry/academia/hobbyists is no small feat, and I hope RISC-V can keep pushing further into the consumer market.
Doesn't this beget an economic feedback cycle? I.e., if it's more cost productive to send to a landfill, then more waste will be sent to a landfill, and so the costs to do so will go up as "demand" (waste) outstrips "supply" (landfill space). Then the cost effective pendulum swings back to recycling. Is that already happening?

In some ways, recycling should pay for itself. Consumers generate raw material for free, which through aggregation, sorting, and rectification (de-generating into raw-er materials) gains value for recyclers.
Except that many (most?) of the people driving around New York city do not live in the city.

We don't even let people from outside the city send their kids to school there.
Instead of piracy just don’t buy the games. I usually wait a week or two after release to see if the game is even worth looking into.
I've done one (mentioned elsewhere here) that I'm almost certain was exactly that.
But the "right to an education" doesnt feel like a right in the same way as "the right to free speech" is it "the right to not have your house used as quarters for troops"... What makes that difference?
Currently I don't do take home assignments or code challenges because I don't have to in order to get the kind of jobs I want. So far when I apply for new opportunities it's with multiple companies so I have options. That gives me leverage to pick and choose what kind of process I will endure. How is it any different than companies dismissing candidates for arbitrary reasons. It's the privilege of not being desperate and we need to yield it as much as possible in this current employment climate in order to improve conditions for all.

The last take home code challenge I ignored didn't stop them from bringing me in for an in person. I gladly coded there for them on a whiteboard since BOTH of our time would be at stake. Apparently my refusal to do the challenge wasn't a big deal since they still extended an offer. Companies will adjust if the majority of candidates refuse to participate in this kind of thing.
Also not noted is the portion of people driving in new york city that do not live in new york city...
Yes, that makes sense. While the initial thought might be "why change what works" my thought is that the whole operation strikes me as one that is just barely making enough to run the ads at all, rather than some sort of well-funded enterprise that is just not making new ads.
I barely had issues with 2-day, 1-day or even same day Prime (not Prime Now) deliveries in the Sacramento area. Probably becasue we have a huge UPS & Amazon hub here.

once in a while they will miss the window but will notify right away and deliver it within the next day, pretty early in the day
Wait, did the Stack Overflow community compile these answers into the ordered list provided by the book?

What I had assumed is that the "author" of the book hand picked these answers and arranged them together along with their chapter names into a narrative to aid understanding.

Is my understanding incorrect?
This is such a good explanation of why I have a hard time working with folks who always approach technical problems with the attitude of "why don't we just do this?"

It's the just that gets me. They are too action-oriented to think about the details or ask someone who's done it before, so they start down the path of (to use the author's metaphor) buying cheap lumber and calculating the angles for cutting the stair boards. They follow through with that and finish the rest of the stairs with the same attitude.

Now the stairs are finished and installed (shipped) - they look terrible, they're wobbly and too steep and everyone who walks on them in either direction trips. Then begins the never-ending process of in-place improvements: using a sander to even out the angles, grinding down the too-long screws that stick up, pounding on warped boards to straighten them out. We can't fix the angle or the poor spacing of the steps though, because everyone's gotten perversely used to it.

When the whole house gets built this way, you live in a perpetual fixer-upper, where each component is either under revision or you've settled for it being "good enough" until enough work has been done to make everything else a little less broken.
Is it though if the family traditions and ideology are passed on through the adopted member?
Amazon Prime is great in the UK. I'm surprised that it's two-day shipping in the US. That doesn't seem like a good deal at all. In the UK I regularly get items from ordering to my doorstep in under twelve hours and I don't live near any major city.
You mentioned a scenario where police beats a thief. How is that not violence? What's your position? I am really curious.
The Tether Conundrum: a look into a suspicious cryptocurrency
Meanwhile Gen Y are playing with cryptocoins.
Gen X are sitting on stock.
And everyone older is collecting a pension.
I think outsourcing is precisely what we're doing; we're good at that.

Spaceflight is easy, creating a nuclear battery might be easy too, maybe even something we can outsource, but it's the one thing we definitely do not want other countries working on.
Exactly!

I recently needed an HDMI cable. At Amazon, it's like $7. The ones that Best Buy/Target/etc have are around $12-$15. For surge protectors, it's been a toss-up as to whether they have something that I think I'd trust, or something that is Barely Adequate. For finding an X-to-Y (e.g. HDMI to DVI-D) cable or adapter, good luck -- they often list it and then say, "Oh that's not an in-store item".

It's especially egregious with books! Every time I am in a bookstore and see something I might like, I nearly always can find it on Amazon for about 2/3 of the price (or less if I buy used). If I'm browsing fiction for something to read, but am not desperate for a particular resource, what am I paying for?

I hate boxes, but it's rare that my "Must have it now" impulse outweighs the knowledge that I could get the item for much cheaper. I do hate cutting down boxes, though. =/
If this is true how come that the spectre/meltdown discovery came from external vendors? Black box testing is essential in security and majority of the bugs found with fuzzers and other black box methods. Just because you have visibility into a product it does not mean that you are going to spot the bugs even less, you won't be able to identify security related bugs. Just to give you a really simple example, flying is one of the safest activities for humans yet all of the airplane producers have "closed" development models. It just proves that safety has nothing to do with open or closed development methods. Another angle, do you have documentation of any bridge you use? I don't think so. Yet, it is extremely safe to use bridges. I think people are trying echo the mantra that opensource is safer and testing is the only way to produce reliable products when we know for fact that other engineering disciplines do not use testing and open development, yet produce much safer to use products.
That doesn't really happen in the us.
The terms state Free 2-day shipping to the contiguous US. It states 5 day shipping to Hawaii and Alaska

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

I suppose it could be more clear, but I do not see where they guarantee 2-day to Hawaii. You live on an island in the middle of the ocean, expect shipping delays.
The CSS Grid kicks ass and here's how easy it is to position stuff
After spending years building next-level video conference systems, I reluctantly came to the conclusion that even perfect video and audio, with the ability to move around independently, didn't come close to being there in person.

A hypothesis I haven't seen falsified is that smell or pheromones are part of the human bonding mechanism, even for business relationships.

Another thing you lose through videoconference is the potential for violence. Even though it almost never happens in business meetings, perhaps there is a part of our evolved brain that's active when interacting with someone who could, in principle, punch you if you offended them, and even business relationships are affected by this. Underneath our sophisticated neocortex lives the brain of a small mammal.
“We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, photographers and students who have been brought up in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective, and desirable means of using our talents…

…We think there are other things more worth using our skills and experience on…

…We do not advocate the abolition of high pressure consumer advertising: this is not feasible. Nor do we want to take any of the fun out of life. But we are proposing a reversal of priorities in favour of the more useful and more lasting forms of communication. We hope that our society will tire of gimmick merchants, status salesmen and hidden persuaders, and that the prior call on our skills will be for worthwhile purposes. With this in mind, we propose to share our experience and opinions, and to make them available to colleagues, students and others who may be interested.”

— First Things First, 1964

http://www.designishistory.com/1960/first-things-first/
I saw a tweet about what it looks like (in some piece of software that at least manages to render something): https://twitter.com/BagusAlexandria/status/95347388267712921...

The fact that the embellished t's form these big overlapping blocks makes me think that it's hitting the worst-case behavior of some text layout algorithm.

I don't understand what all the hex digits and apostrophes are for, though.
Prime doesn't mean 2-day shipping for anyone anywhere. It says as much in the terms

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Most of my shipments come in standard-size boxes with air-filled pouches.

What if these were rented from USPS, re-usable, and highly durable? What if the mailman picked up my empty shipping containers for re-use? What if the shipping containers had inflatable bladders to hold the contents steady and absorb shocks?
> always be cheaper for outdoor+active wear

This is interesting - my experience is that outdoor gear is one of Amazon's absolute weakest markets. I can't remember the last time they beat out my alternatives for backpacks, tents, etc.

There seem to be a bunch of factors in that. One is that buying offbrand is rarely a good idea (since you end up stress-testing everything), so people go for less-famous branded stuff instead. Two is that close equivalents aren't - I can buy any charger with the right voltage and plugs, but not any equal-size backpack. Three is that outdoor gear already has a lot of tiny-margin sellers; between REI, Campmor, MooseJaw, and ActiveJunky rebates there's very little room to undercut.
There isnt much damage. No money is lost, it just moves. Admittedly into fewer hands. The damage is mostly capped at $150 or so, I would imagine.

Normally in a ponzi there is a pretense of a business that you are funding and so you can really empathize with those who were fooled, but no one is being fooled here. They know the risks. This is a ponzi game, not a ponzi. It's social gambling.
Not all assignments are created equal. Like with anything it has to be well done.

When I hire people I craft the assignments for each candidate depending on the role and the person on the other side. It's also important to communicate the expectations and the desired outcomes. And it's also important to give an opportunity to the candidate to have a follow up requirements discovery step where they can ask any questions about the assignment.
What are the multiple open source implementations of the Linux API?
But who controls it? Does it go straight to Bitfinex wallet?
I'm going to be making a new chart that is more about features than command flags. I'll include the licensing information. Thanks. https://github.com/beyondgrep/website/issues/80
Wehe on the App Store
UAE has built the world's largest water reserve in Liwa desert
"In the U.S., a public education is considered a right. Driving is a privilege, not a right, and so the same considerations don't apply."

I find this conversation very interesting - first, the thought provoking notion from your parent that supporters of congestion pricing invoke a "libertarian but only for this" exception that they wouldn't apply to other goods like schools.

Then your (obvious) reply that driving is not a right, but a privilege.

I would counter that while driving is certainly a privilege, the roads themselves are a right, or a public good, comparable to schools. So regardless of what hoops you have to jump through to purchase and license your car, once jumped, the roads are analogous to the schools.

FWIW, I am personally enthusiastic about congestion pricing and have heard nothing but good things about its deployment in London. I would like very much to have it considered here in San Francisco.
The only Weihenstephan I knew before reading this was Weihenstephan Milk [0]. I'm guessing they are a different company though.

[0] https://www.molkerei-weihenstephan.de
The poor get conned the most, but it's done in bulk to make it worthwhile. Scam emails, phone calls, TV priests, and so on. You'd probably lose money if you scammed them one at a time.
I am not sure when this mantra will stop that open source is safer when we know that it isn't.
Oh, yeah, I'm aware of many of the reasons that IA64 failed.

Intel could have solved this problem by contributing to GCC and LLVM instead of keeping their optimizations proprietary. Then they would also be more easily auditable as well.