skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is more complex than it seems. Amazon could easily stamp out all fake products by giving the manufacturer the power to single source a given brand. Unfortunately, that would also give that manufacturer full pricing power across Amazon, and that's a very bad thing for Amazon. The manufacturer could practice price discrimination in certain lower income markets while at the same time, being sure that discounted inventory does not end up on Amazon. No such limitation would exists for other sites, putting Amazon at a serious competitive disadvantage.

So Amazon wants the distributors of a certain brand to compete with themselves and push the prices down. But that opens the door for fakes on the site.

Nothing I said above should justify co-mingling inventory from different producers when a risk exists that fakes will be introduced in this manner, that's squarely Amazon's fault in their pursuit for faster delivery times. That practice leaves consumers without any ability to avoid fakes, destroying trust in the Amazon brand itself.

I think the solution is a system of financial bonds, where the seller would pledge a significant sum to be accepted in the co-mingling bunch and benefit from fast delivery etc. A single fake product traced back to it would result in loosing the pledge.
> "trickle down" economics that never happens

Never say never. The problem is that "trickle down" economics happens to some degree. This is a problem because it convinces a large number of fence-sitters that all is good, at least compared to the straw-man opposite extreme: that no inequalities would be allowed at all under anything that has 'socialism' in it's name, be it democratic or not.
There are dynamic IP DNS blocklists and they are usually pretty accurate. Also, usually, your reverse name is pretty telling with home ISPs. Sure, you might be lucky with a small ISP, but then, with a small ISP, chances are they wouldn't mind giving you "static" addresses anyway.

Though indeed it would be an interesting experiment how domain and IP reputation actually interact at large email providers.
sounds like Land of the Blind (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433405/)
You can use something like hifiberry or justboom to embed a spotify / airplay compatible amplifier into your speakers: https://www.justboom.co/product/justboom-amp-zero-phat/
How does price matching the Target web site work? Do you have to notice the discrepancy at the checkout, and then go to customer service for a refund, or do you dispute the price with the cashier, or some other method?
Going to a gym two to three times a week for small group training sessions.

In terms of investment, it is not as expensive as private training and it keeps you on track. The real investment is in you. Your most important asset is your ability to produce income. Having a healthier body helps maintain that ability. The damage that I do through typing is only barely counteracted by these training sessions. I don’t take typing for granted, having had soreness and pain for many years, and going to the gym and lifting weights has been the best action I’ve done towards addressing that. For you young and older people out there, do not take your ability to pound at a keyboard for granted. One day, it may start to lead to soreness which goes away after some rest. Eventually, the soreness does not go away.

The true returns are the cumulative effects of sticking with a healthy habit. You may not become “jacked” and super muscular but you will become fitter.

After almost two years, the benefits of regular exercise are so apparent that I have to hold back getting on my bully pulpit to encourage other friends to do so.
Sanctuary Cities – for Whom?
by no means am i saying that everyone will have the same experience as me, in fact im a rather rare example as despite having experimented with some of what are classed as the most addictive substances there are i have developed no addiction, nor was i doing it to escape, hide from something or console myself, i did what i did out of pure curiosity.

however you are right, drugs affect everyone differently but its a pretty established fact that the chemicals contained in these "products" are far from harmless and all evidence points to them being more dangerous from a mental health standpoint than most classic psychoactives
People have always attempted to take on mortgages they could not afford. In the more distant past banks turned these fraudulent loans down to protect themselves.

In the mid 2000s, mortgage lenders were working with the customers, agents at countrywide for example, were helping their customers fill out documents fraudulently. (Years later a few would go to prison for this.) This was not a failure at the bottom, the system allowed those who would attempt to commit fraud, commit said fraud because they profited from it.
So the question is: why is the "uberspy" Uber app not cancelling the ride once rider and car are not on the same location anymore?
i personally think MOOCs need to tie up with actual well known universities to issue certs that count for credits with colleges. otherwise i see no actual value in "paying" for these vs just following along at my own speed. the google cert for things(for eg android) comes kinda close but whenever i think about pulling the trigger my mind just goes "what employer is looking for this cert?how is it relevant" and i back off instantly
Is it possible that 6 years was their vesting schedule?
Yup, all you gotta do is get your fakes to pass SPF and DMARC/DKIM!
Do you believe, as Israel's Basic law states, that the right to exercise national self-determination in Israel is "unique to the Jewish people"?
Assuming they don't understand "am considering".
You're right. The items have to be scanned for inventory management anyway when they arrive and are put in the bins at Amazon. Might as well just scan a second bar code to note where it came from. Or do it as a combined QR code. Lots of room for extra data in there.
Causal effects between subjective wellbeing and cardiometabolic health
The Landscape of Tactile Typography
Evidently Oliver Selfridge [1] said a puzzle based on deriving the radius like this once tripped Feynman up...

"Puzzles from last week" http://web.media.mit.edu/~walter/MAS-A12/week11.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Selfridge
> Its because the society in general hates these kind of successful non-conformist. No one likes to see a hugely successful anti-pattern to their whole life.

This is just wrong. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Musk that have nothing to do with him being a "successful noncomforist", whatever that means.
This is an interesting phenomenon. Enforcment of prohibition and regulation of a substance is less effective as value to volume ratio increases, but as 'potency' increases so does public support for regulation/prohibition. In the US, THC is increasingly difficult to prohibit even in states that still try, partly due to the industrialization of creating concentrated forms, and it's relative ease of smuggling vs raw marijuana.
> part of the problem is its lack of consideration for large existing codebases running in production

That's just untrue. Almost half of the Rails core team works at GitHub and Shopify which both have huge 10 years old codebases and I can tell you they take breaking changes very seriously.
No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data
So they were warned of possible actions that might cost them, like going private.

Damn if you do, damn if you don't.
Similar story while in Delhi, refused to issue refunds for obvious fraud. Closed account and opened chargeback for every journey, since they wouldn't even help me figure out which were legitimate. I see no reason to put up with "economies of scale"-quality support bullshit when it comes to personal transportation, they lost a customer.

Lifetime value in this case was sharply negative
All your examples are empty when I open them on Safari or Firefox.
I find that getting good exercise also helps me think. I feel more creative and happy if I’m getting my 30 minutes a day.

But it’s also about discipline, this sort of thing can only be accomplished with discipline, which is what really lets you accomplish things.
The first question when a recruiter reaches out to me is what’s the company, so I can look them up and see if their products/services align with my morals. I have declined many opportunities at cancerous companies that do analytics, advertising, etc.
Does anyone have experience of using Bitmark, either as a customer or as manufacturer? It seems to be a public ledger for individual units of a product for handling warranty and returns. Andrew Huang, who is involved, describes the system and some of the scams they are trying to mitigate:
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4981

I'm curious about people's experience in practice. I would think this unlikely to help but Huang is smart and has lot of relevant experience. Bitmark's javascript laden and (to me) slightly off putting site is at: https://bitmark.com/
I didn’t get this feeling from the proof in the article. I thought there was a kind of poetry to it. The diagram and colors make it reasonably easy to understand and they emphasize the geometrical nature of the proof, which uses only elementary math: the formula for the area of a triangle and Thales’ theorem (If my memory is correct, I haven’t used that name since high school!).

On the other hand, a “proof with words” would likely have derived the explicit formulas for I_n and C_n in order to prove the relationship and would have been much more clanky.

If I had to make a comparison, this felt like reading good functional code. Concise, a bit mysterious at first, but once you understand what it does you feel enlightened. (Vs eg. wading through for loops and index arithmetic, which also does the job but is more tedious to read)
I get the advantages of generic algorithms. But sometimes overfitting can be very useful. Imagine wind or water turbines where this method could be used to increase their efficiency based on the individual hardware.
Has anyone compared this to Selfoss? It uses a similar stack and I've been using it for a while with good results
1. Learning Chinese characters with Anki. After a decade out of practice, I realize I would have done a lot better in my college studies if I actually studied. Wild idea, I know.

One thing that prevented me from memorizing characters was the idea that it wasn't worth doing. However, this passage from the Self-Regulated Learning paper [0] that circulated around HN convinced me otherwise:

"We need to understand, too, that our capacity for storing to-be-learned information or procedures is essentially unlimited. In fact, storing information in human memory appears to create capacity — that is, opportunities for additional linkages and storage — rather than use it up."

2. Learning (even very basic) Chess has opened my eyes up to how interesting a "solved" game can be.

[0]: http://www.excaliburtsa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Se...
Completely agree that financial institutions encourage inprudent behavior. Nevertheless people are responsible for the choices they make.
Because when the rated party also rates the rater, ratings are essentially useless. The question you ask yourself is: is this person so absolutely awful as a passenger/driver that I'm willing to risk being kicked off the platform to get them kicked off?
> We wrote about weed day in and day out, extolling both real and exaggerated virtues of cannabis. The company told us to describe it as a miracle plant that could do all sorts of extraordinary things, including halting migraines, resolving insomnia, and, um, curing cancer.

Assuming the linked article is not itself fake, it sounds like their employer was involved in some strong astroturfing.
Ahh the famous Google Products Forum, where all the complaints and bugs are promptly fixed by real human beings!
Which one was hardest and easiest?
Scientists Discover Female Termites Who Don't Need Males to Reproduce
I'm not a fan of Zuck or FB, but they did sell it (for more money than most users on this board will see in their lifetime). It's not like it was stolen and they have to walk away.
I wouldn’t rationalise it, but I would at least understand if you need the money - I myself have done things that I’m not too proud of when times were tough.

But when you’re in a position to leave, please do so.
Usually, it's a scratch-off code that either can only be used once, or tells you how often it has been used.
Deborah Tipton Wages a Million-Dollar War on Fraternities
Out of curiosity, what did you hate about JS before you learnt it?
"And most importantly it doesn't add CO2 to the atmosphere."

Manufacturing bio diesel creates CO2.