skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading so many "frustrated shopper" posts is... frustrating.

• Search problems?

Also use Google to search Amazon. And clicking through to similar products in Amazon's comparison section is one of the best ways to find things. Of course don't ONLY search Amazon...or any other online vendor. I've listed some extensions that do a lot of heavy lifting. Yes, manipulating placement in search result is sub-optimal for the end user, but with some browser extensions and an overall strategy, Amazon will always have a place in my overall search strategy.

• Quality problems?

Install the Fakespot Chrome browser extension. Avoid products with few reviews initially. Read the 1-star reviews to see if there's a problem you can live with (e.g. complex installation). And Amazon is NOT right for some kinds of products.

• Price?

Check WalMart and local stores online first. Many stores make in-store pickup painless, e.g. Home Depots lobby lockers. Enter code, grab your stuff and go.

Install the WikiBuy and official Amazon Chrome extension. WikiBuy often shows you the same product cheaper on eBay, and Amazon will sometimes give you a coupon if you follow it's link back to Amazon it when you are shopping elsewhere (e.g. Walmart).

I like to always look for a used fulfilled by Amazon product. There is often no significant issue, and small issues can be overlooked. But even if you get a backwards or missing part the return is pretty painless.

For simple stuff, of course check AliExpress and Ebay first.

• Overall experience?

Amazon should not of course be relied for everything, by anyone, ever. Microcenter (as several have pointed out) is currently great and reliable for computer parts.

• Shipping speed?

Yeah, don't trust the two-day shipping. But the (sometimes) free one-day shipping option is awesome. And complain from time-to-time and get discounts on your Prime. Sure, some people are dropped for complaining too much, which really sucks. But it's pretty rare.
It's my pleasure to help, friend! The world financial authorities have been very unfair to Argentina, I think, regardless of the debt situation.

Yes, definitely check out the standard deduction. In your case it will probably save you a lot of money. Here's how a typical US tax return looks:

W2 worker non married:

~15% tax rate federal (first 10k is tax free)

~6% tax rate state (some states do not tax)

~7.5% payroll tax (15% if you are a 1099 contractor, not w2)

So you can see that it's typical to pay less than 30%. Even if you make $110,000 per year, your rate will be about 30%. Only if you are an athlete or insanely senior programmer will you pay 40-50%.

But, since you do not physically live here or work here (like for example a bartender), I think you will be ok.
And then it wants to finish those updates after you restart. This cost my wife so much stress when she'd fire up her laptop right before delivering a lecture, only to find it busy for minutes completing the update.
Having run a newspaper, I can confirm that advertisers do contact management and say "I didn't like that article, do something about it or we won't be advertising with you again". And the financial pressure is intense. You have many, many staff to pay, and the commercial pressure to keep advertisers happy is real and difficult to manage.

I can totally believe that the magazine caved in to pressure from an advertiser to sack a journalist and pull a story. It happens every day. Luckily I never had to do it, but there were times I was very tempted.

I totally agree with his comment that the only way journalism is going to survive is if readers start paying for it. What we have now is mostly not-journalism.
These guys take it very seriously.
Lake Peigneur Sinkhole Disaster
Queue in c# with Examples
It seems a number of us have had bad run ins with Sir_Cmpwn. I too have had issues, it’s a shame because I think he’s a brilliant guy.
Dunno but every LG phone I have bought from the "G" series has kept getting update for the last 5 or more years. It may not always be kept up with whats hot and buzzing but its better than no updates. But I agree... One of the biggest things of Linux is package managers... Why didnt google do a clean package management setup is beyond me.
The link was for the comment to respond to. This argument about commenting custom is completely uninteresting and off-topic. I'm leaving this as a courtesy, so you can try to think from someone else's perspective. I sincerely hope it will help you with other problems in your life.
I just had Apple replace my battery on iPhone 6S Plus for $30. Took them roughly an hour to do so. Phone feels like new with this battery.

So I think the new tech can be a pain in the ass for regular users to repair. Their authorized shops have all the tools to do so. I bet the unauthorized shops have all the same tools required too.
That’s what got me into it.

I’m not particularly social so qso’s around the planet aren’t really interesting to me beyond the basic astonishment of how far 5 watts can go.

The ability to tx from a weather balloon at 20 miles up and having an emergency means to communicate are way higher on the list.
Geohot is normally an emacs user?
Ziff-Davis magazines (original owner of PC Magazine) were never known for editorial integrity, even when they were in print format...
My understanding is that the group policy business is 100% intentional, and it's how you're supposed to do it. If you're an IT guy responsible for a whole pile of PCs, you need a way to stop them rebooting all the time, and this is how you do that.

MS know how their bread is buttered. Who there would dare shut this down? The program managers know that if they break this stuff, there'll be a legion of angry IT guys clubbing together to pay to have them killed.
> Time isn’t a very big factor

If that's true, then I'd hope the analysis to mention something like "and an hour or two" in addition to mentioning the dollar cost savings for 1000 rounds.

> there three different types of equipment you can use in reloading.

Presumably their up-front purchase cost is significantly different. The OC's link didn't mention that, so I'd assume the cheapest option.

> Typically you can do ~50 cartridges an hour.

This cheapest option means that, according to that site, the savings range from $7.68-$66.50/hr (not counting equipment purchase?). That strikes me as a significant, if not very big, factor, if someone considers this a chore, rather than part of the hobby, since that range of hourly rates is at least the same OOM as what people would value their time at.

> easily put out 750-1000 per hour

As little as 1 hour per 1k is, I agree, insignificant, even for someone placing a high dollar value on their chore-avoided leisure time. How much more does that equipment cost?

Do those time figures include extra time to recover the brass, and any other differences (positive and negative) in handling pre- and post-production? It's easy to focus on only the most time-consuming part of the process, but everything adds up, and, for beginners or other low-volume participants, it can inflate the per-unit time cost.
Not parent, but : school in Edinburgh. We code-switched, although the term wouldn't be coined for decades yet. RP in school, some variety of Scots (or whatever we're calling it) outside school.
It would be wonderful if car makers could position the interior door latches to make this the natural way to open the door. E.g. just under the window near the pillar.
There's no contradiction. 70% of our premium-quality ad deals for high-end adblocking Brave users (who are off the grid but who use search and ecommerce more often than average) is > 40% of the bots and lower-value users converting via programmatic, which is in turn > 0% for pure ad-blocker free riders. Clear?

You keep abusing "scam" without saying who was deceived. No one was. Our users won't become non-blocker users (if you think so, you are deceiving yourself). But some of our users want to give back and not just free ride -- probably around half, judging from wallets as a fraction of browsers with token features.

In any event, since we agree all users have a right to block, the only relevant calculation for publishers is our something vs. the free-rider nothing. Anything positive is found money. But as I wrote just above in this reply, I bet we easily beat the average revenue from a programmatic ad slot. We'll find out, and in no way is this ongoing experiment a "scam". Our users and publishers already win, vs. pure adblockers or the truly scammy ones who take pay-to-play ad whitelisting fees.

Browser is always in the middle for users who don't curl directly. We are one among many browsers. Your last sentence is confused about who chooses browsers: the user, who has the right to block, donate, share private ad revenue, work directly with our publisher partners using the token. These are all non-scam options with growing adoption, from trials and betas to final releases and real revenue. We are working with other browsers to standardize bottom up. Ta!
Its a more insidious form of fake news than foreign intelligence disinfo operations.
WSJCoin: To Understand Cryptocurrencies, We Created One [video]
I have a t410 and can ditto this experience. You probably could get it for $70 from someone who doesn't know what they have.

I was running Lubuntu on a decently reliable PNY USB stick, but I would probably advise against this because my filesystem corrupted itself and I've since been wayyyy too lazy to reinstall and reformat everything.

I'm not a programmer by trade so I just use my LG Zone4 to do everything digital in my life currently.
Use Django. Check out the major frontend frameworks (React, Vue, or Angular) and pick the one that looks good to you. From there, you should be able to find tutorials on how to hook up that framework with Django.
To continue with my coding analogy... German is like Java (huge, sprawling, full of conceptsextendedwaypastthepointofsanity), English is like C++ (mashed together out of two different languages and made to work, mostly), Khmer is like Go (favouring simplicity over expressiveness).
Windows feature updates are pushed down the same pipeline, and installed automatically.
I think it's important to support the ARRL. The publications, event-management, and advocacy are extremely valuable to amateur radio.

But a vote for new leadership is one way of supporting the ARRL, and a far better decision than simply cancelling one's membership.

I know most of the signatories of the letter and they are all bright and thoughtful people. It's also cool to have Perens involved, since he's a celebrity outside amateur radio. I believe he has a quad antenna visible on his rooftop in the Berkeley hills.
Guy who stole jailbreaks from IRC and went public with them, falsely claiming he created the hacks.

Creator of "live hack" youtube videos he later admitted were scripted and fake.

Founder of ridiculous self driving car company that never had a chance of going anywhere.

He's a charlatan.
I'm in Montana and we have a local Loch. Except it's pronounced "Lock" (but still spelled "Loch"). But is isn't actually a Loch, just a reach of the river (that runs through it).
A blast from the past. But one which I've been thinking about again lately.

VR/AR will change IDE/PA UI constraints. Alter the economics of information display. "Screen" real estate gets cheaper. There's more opportunity for "I'm just guessing, and you probably don't actually want this, but just in case, it's here off to the side, where it won't bother you, but is available at a glance".

"Oh, you just typed an import statement for an npm module on github? Well... just in case, of to the side, here are its npmtrends, alternative modules, recent news and discussion, analysis of repo, of code, of forks, of issues, of its dev community and individuals, a performance profile from its test suite, ... [90% cache hit with week-old tolerance; $0.05 spent on Lambda/GCP for update; the following items are also available...]"
> no expandable memory

I always buy the max storage iPhone, and every time I fill up maybe a third of it - after years of use.

The vast majority of people really don't care about this.
Hit the nail on the head!
My hat to you, sir. Sometimes, the best incentive for honesty is the punishment of dishonesty.
spoon feeding is a trickle not in the spirit of open source
I found the blockchain use case flow chart here to be excellent. pg 42
I’m slow and take my time. Some do much more, but have auto-fed everything.
The stunt performer seemed a little unnecessary but good vid regardless.
I too bought a Windows 10 Pro license, which was quite expensive. A while back I heard about the long-term service branch and I wanted to buy a legal license, but apparently it's only available for businesses and it requires purchasing at least 5 licenses. You can buy a LTSB license from third-party Russian vendors, but I think that's legally grey.

Recently I heard about Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, which allegedly doesn't include all the bloated crap and lets you disable most annoyances. But I haven't been able to definitively confirm this is the case. I read somewhere you can upgrade from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Pro for Workstation, but it's quite ridiculous to pay them even more money just to remove / disable some features.

I've run a few programs that let you disable most of the things I don't use or care for... But you have to re-run them each major upgrade cycle, because Microsoft usually re-enables a bunch of crap after upgrades.

At this point I've pretty much accepted that Windows 10 is diametrically opposed to my interests, so I just try to avoid it as much as possible. I dual-boot Linux and Windows 10, and I only use it to play games which I can't easily run on Linux.

To anyone that feels like they have to comment because they're happy with Windows 10 and all those features: great for you! You can stick with something that you like and works for you. I'm not trying to force my preference down other people's throat.
There's definitely a causative relationship between A and B, although it's not the only factor (of course, safer road design is probably a more significant factor)

When mandatory helmet laws were introduced across Australia we saw a sharp drop off in casual cycling rates which we're only recovering from now. If we never suffered that drop, perhaps we'd have a stronger cycling culture today.
> How does this apply to the types of programming like encryption where it is oft advised to not roll-your-own?

It basically doesn't apply to widely-used open source software.

Or to put it another way, you can always maintain an internal fork that currently has zero changes from upstream.
Ask HN: Examples of AI ethical principles?
Hi. I work in the investment field. The firm I work at invests in AI companies from time to time. Without presuming to know investees' ethical situations better than they do, I would like to be in a situation to at least recommend best practices -- or conceivably on the more activist end of the spectrum require that investees acknowledge agreement with our ethical principles around AI. Before beginning a discussion around this within the firm I want to educate myself. We as a firm need to figure out what our principles are. What links and advice can you share for our reference?

For this purpose please interpret "AI" extremely broadly. Unfortunately I can't give specifics about the type of investments we make.
It is most certainly not fine.

Regardless of individual choices to share private data, the platform itself is a large step in the direction of something horrible.
Why did they choose to implement various functional programming concepts from scratch? Were there really no suitable preexisting implementations at the time?
No way, Beta 1.7.3 is my favourite version. I'm going to have to try this.
The entire source of Minecraft has been available to mod authors for quite some time.
If Blizzard released their games on Linux I'd be incredibly happy. Most of the time I boot Windows 10 it's to play Heroes of the Storm.

Have you had any luck running it with Wine?
> It could not tear up thousands of contracts, so it tried a more subtle tactic: policy holders were sent new papers, with the offer of 100 francs for the trouble (about £10). It is a measure of the bureaucrat’s art that almost all did sign, but the Georges declined.

US banks tried the same trick during the 2008 mortgage crisis. They mailed letters to certain mortgage holders that would have resulted in non-recourse (walk-away) loans becoming recourse loans.

The US DOJ also tried something similar. They sent letters to large companies requesting their boards not fund lawyers for CEOs, so that the DOJ could increase their conviction rate against white-collar defendants.

Bureaucrats.
>these days it should be possible to build up a pattern of when you use your computer and do the update when it's never being used

This'll work for 99% of cases. The remaining 1% is millions and millions of people.

I wonder if the system could give you a few weeks grace time to update, and if you keep ignoring it the system starts slowing down (while explaining why and asking to update). Some people will try to ignore forever and there needs to be some way to motivate them to choose a time (instead of taking control away and risking choosing a very bad time).
yes, you are correct! it should be 1, not 0.
Minimum wage and free healthcare today, the gulag tomorrow!

Gulag, Canada. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to. Let's call the whole thing off!
That's basically using a proxy, and so it has the same security. If the proxy is/geos bad (say, your VPS provider reveals your IP to some interested guys with guns), then you lose (anonymity). If your proxy remains good, then all that can be learned is the transactions originated at the proxy. However, the proxy does serve as a potential pseudonym, and so if the collection of transactions reveals something identifying, even if any one transaction doesn't, then you lose.
A weird bug in macOS Safari breaks the save dialog after saving a web archive
Windows 10 Education also lets you do this, and is a lot less expensive than Pro. Sometimes it's free to members of certain organizations.
When I was in the agency world, I was frequently inheriting spreadsheets from other teams that needed to be updated with new data, or often overhauled completely.

You definitely have a lot of moments similar to reviewing others' code where you go "Hmmm, this doesn't seem to make sense. Am I missing something? Or did they just do this flat out wrong?" Often the answer was "yes."

There's also a radical spectrum of Excel skills (much like coding). I took a 50MB Excel report that took hours to update manually and brought it down to <1MB that refreshed when you clicked a button via web queries. There were significant savings for the agency as a result as that had to be updated weekly, simply from cleaning up a spreadsheet.

Whenever possible now, if I suspect a spreadsheet tool or report I've built is too complex to grok just by quick perusal of some formulas and clear naming conventions, I document the hell out of it in a separate sheet or our knowledgebase. The pain of deciphering those things is real, and I would never wish it on anyone.
What Is Internet of Things/ IoT
> "There is no evidence that people want to use these things."

He was correct - there was no evidence, at the time, that people wanted to use a mouse.

Also, obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHzHVF-4Mg
“by default”
p53 in pdf :)
Hasn't AppSync already solved that problem?
There isn’t a very large market for this phone.
Check the books from http://www.itchy-coo.com/
"Harry Potter" in Scots is the way it ought to be read.
This was my first encounter with the term "native advertising", and it's a perfect term for describing the bulk of YouTube content. A welcome addition to my vocabulary.
Worldwide Holidays Days API
It was a long time ago but I think I just of felt like ok, I get it.
It was the eighties.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/suspected_dark_web_...
"That mean't you had to be all in" if your business is not registered, you're not a business. Seriously, that's a small hurdle. I'll bet the long tail of unregistered business revenue from Stripe is very small, and likely overshadowed by just a few large enterprise accounts.
You should consider trying something like Sober October. No offense, but keeping that up sounds like a quick and painful way to burn out.
There are proxies that REALLY WANT TO CACHE and those REALLY DON'T LIKE large, indeterminate-length response bodies.
This is actually quite interesting... I wonder about the link between fonts like this and the idea that writing is better than typing for remembering things?
Or, if you're fairly confident the pivot is fairly static and you just need to tack something on, then don't be afraid to do it if a custom calculation isn't solving it for you.

It surprises people but there's really no reason you can't do that if you just need it to work and/or look a certain way.
Is this a reference to how they probably thought it wouldn't be a problem because people couldn't get pricing info fast enough at the time?

If so, I don't quite buy that. Maybe that really is what they thought, but it seems pretty dumb. The info was surely available. The average person might not be able to get to it, but someone working in the financial industry with access to specialized feeds could have.

It sounds like this was common in France but not elsewhere. Was something different about France that made it seem reasonable?
The product key re-entrance (or perhaps it was the first one? I don't remember now) dialog is also stupid in that the moment it detects you've entered the last letter, it immediately starts the activation process. Everyone who is used to typing in or pasting the key and then pressing Enter to submit it will end up canceling the activation, since the automatic focus immediately goes to the Cancel button when it detects the last letter entered. From my vague memory it was not like that in previous versions of Windows (enter product key, then press enter/click the button to continue) so what irritates me the most is that someone deliberately added code to implement this behaviour in opposition to probably every UI guide ever created.
There's actually a thinkpad X230 tablet edition. I'm typing this on an X230 (non-tablet) and fairly happy with the device. But it won't be out of the box tablet-like on Linux.

Quick search for Ubuntu Touch seems to suggest Canonical stopped working on it and it's now maintained by the community.
People often if not always compare their <$500 Android to an Iphone.

A fair comparison is a Galaxy S/Note vs Iphone and aside from the cpu the Samsung phones win IMO
This latest academic journal hoax is over-hyped and the reporting on it is bad
DHS Press Secretary on Recent Media Reports of Potential Supply Chain Compromise
It’s not how things work everywhere I’m sure. But it seems likely in this case. As such, the content doesn’t surprise me, and I would put the blame solely on the author in this case.