skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try managing a massive set of inter-dependent repositories too big for a mono-repo with git, then you will know "hard to use". Your only real choice in this case is submodules, and those bring in an additional layer of pain.
This looks quite extensive. Does it rely on a clean install to start with? (this seems to be the single point of failure for most FIM systems I've seen so far)
>Only people in the US will pay $25+ for a t-shirt that costs $1 to $4 to produce.

As a Westerner this drives me nuts about about buying clothes. Every time I buy any article of clothing I feel it right in the sphincter, getting ripped off 10x - 100x. Is there any way for folks in NA/Europe/etc to get clothes at or near cost?
Some product pages have images that zoom when you hover them, some instead have images that pop open in a (terrible) lightbox. No rhyme or reason as far as I can tell why some are one way and some are the other.

Especially for electronics or computer parts, if you don't know _exactly_ what you're looking for down to the part/model number, you're not going to get any help on amazon.com. I get the feeling they don't do any actual categorization (like say newegg seems to do) and instead you're actually getting just full-text search on product descriptions.

If you really want the part soon, you'd be fine with either "Prime" or "Prime FREE One-Day", right? But you can't search for both at the same time, for some reason they are mutually exclusive. So you duplicate the browser tab and search for "Prime" options in one and "Free One-Day" options in the other, like a caveman banging two tabs^W rocks together. I just noticed there's yet another option, a checkbox under "Delivery day" reading "Get It by Tomorrow".

If you _do_ know exactly what you want, good luck getting it because of the whole similar products from different sources getting intermingled in inventory.

I'm frankly blown away by how user-hostile the whole thing is. Prime shipping buys a lot of goodwill, it seems.
Ask HN: How do you like to be interviewed as a developer?
For innumerable times it is discussed on HN that interviewing process is broken. Hence the question.
You can look at it from another point of view: elevators have so many safety mechanisms nowadays that they can fall 84 floors and still not cause any injuries to their passengers.
I disagree with Hunter S. Thompson's portrayal.

You'll have to forgive me for paraphrasing, "a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy". Which I find extreme. But Thompson was great at grandiose phrasing which is also why I like his writing.
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This is not the first time. Huawei was banned from supplying for India's National Broadband Network in 2012, and has again been banned from supplying for India's 5G revamp.

Not all employees would be in on the espionage attempts either. It'd have to be a very limited circle that knows about it.
I have never seen that happen in real life.

So you can continue to blame people for not understanding the design or you can design systems around how people actually react.

"Delay in response to a fire in public buildings is likely to depend on the nature of the present activities in which the individual is engaged. For example a delay is probably more likely when the activities have a clear, expected sequence of events each of which lasts for a few minutes, such as having a meal. The sequence of ordering, eating, paying, for instance, is rarely broken in a conventional restaurant and so people anticipate completing this sequence before they move on to other activities."
http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9228/1/CANTER_159.pdf

People don't take their luggage from airplanes during emergencies to be assholes. They do it because the 100 times they left a airplane before this is what they have done.

Stop blaming people for bad design.
True, thought the fact that it took 84 floors for the safety mechanisms to kick in seems problematic. What heuristics did those automated mechanisms have to work through before triggering, and why did they take 84 floors to do it, I wonder.
As a counter example: the ordinary VW Golf IV of Pope Benedikt XVI sold for 190k EUR back in 2005
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You’d think they would have at least one smart person like you guys in their 300,000 employees to make these obvious fixes to solve all their problems.
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> Any given item in Amazon's database (where 'item' == 'something that has its own page') can have multiple variants on color, size, and other varieties. Each variant may have its own price. So if you want to sort items by price, which price do you use?

Use the lowest price, but include filtering options to exclude items based on the criteria that makes them different (e.g. show only Small shirts that are Pink or Yellow), and use the lowest price of the items matching the filters.
I am reposting this because a mod detached it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513479). I did in fact write this to nickpsecurity, as he and I are both active lobsters users and this is directly responsive to what he wrote above.

The following comment is neither off topic nor correct to detach. So, here it is again.

(Someone has already messaged me on lobsters expressing similar frustrations. To whoever is reading: please reach out. I have been collecting examples of bad behavior for some time and intend to release a list soon.)

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Howdy from someone who writes substantive comments for the showdead audience. I'm https://lobste.rs/threads/shawn on lobsters.

I was embarrassed to be classified with the 99% of useless or negative comments, at first. But the truth is simple: few people who value their time write for the showdead audience. It’s so hard to participate constructively that it almost feels impossible. But it’s not.

Till now, poor moderation decisions have caused community members to quietly leave – as yummyfajitas did – rather than risk standing up to Dan. After all, if the entire community likes him, the simplest explanation is that you are the problem, not the moderator.

But nobody can be perfect all of the time. It’s inevitable that mistakes will be made, and it's worrying that Dan tries to seem like an omniscient, benevolent steward who makes no mistakes. If you try to disagree with some of his decisions publicly, you are eventually banned for doing so, regardless of truth. But for better or worse, that’s his choice to make.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18153219 is a pretty standard example of what happens when you try to appeal a decision, or merely ask "Why?" publicly. (All of my emails to hn@ycombinator.com addressing Dan have been ignored for months, so there was little choice but to try asking on HN.)

Feel free to privmsg me on lobsters if you want to chat further, or email (see profile).
Any feedback on this idea would be highly appreciated.
You forget to mention that both China and the African Union denied the hack, and that the report came from "anonymous sources". Not saying that it didn't happen, but it's far from confirmed, just like the Bloomberg report.
You should be annoyed. I routinely buy 'name brand' clothes here in Vietnam and I pay $4-5 for a shirt or shorts that have $50 price tags attached to them.
The amazon website is horrible, but it's fast and they have the lowest prices (or at least they make it seem like so). Also, they show all the relevant information that you need to purchase different sorts of products. For example, let's say you search for a Fujifilm lens. When you open the product page, it instantly shows you a way to check if the lens will actually fit your camera, I love that stuff! ... and the reviews, how do they get people to write reviews for even the most obscure things?
Linux support on laptops is much more mature than it was 5 years ago. I'd still avoid anything with an nVidia Optimus setup, but Intel graphics has had decent drivers on Linux for a long time now.

I was a little worried about hardware support, so I bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. Pretty much everything worked out of the box. But my friends tell me that the Linux experience is good with other laptops too.
I’m not sure why this was downvoted so heavily, because it has a point. The US is obviously not a trustworthy partner, but neither is China.

At least American companies still reside in a somewhat democracy where they’ll actually protect our rights, even if we’re European. Sure it’s not for noble goals, they want to make money, and they won’t if they don’t care for data security.

Google cloud is the prime example of this. The European public sector is spending billions on Clouds these years, and none of that is going to Google, because Google doesn’t protect your data the same way Microsoft does.

I can physically visit the Azure instances that house our data, and nothing but our data, and it never leaves the union.

Maybe the NSA still listens in, maybe China does too, but it’s not legal for them to do so the way it would be in the Alibaba or google clouds.
It was very simple, I kept all the "logical" addresses the same, but swapped some low address bits with high address bits at the memory controller interface.

With this, the slowly moving indexes became big jumps. This avoids reading the same row over and over again (mixed with other requests).
You pretty much have no idea what's happening in China. These companies are not happy at all to cooperate believe me. Jack Ma has expressed this many times, as much as he could without getting in bad terms with his own government. These companies are playing around in order not to comply with the government (which is exactly what US companies are doing as well). Pressure from the public or from other countries should get these companies some leverage when negotiating with the gov.
and when is firebase going to be sunset for the newer shinier thing? google has a huge problem with sunsetting services that work for something marginally better
What do you think of Sewbots, which made quite a few headlines last year?

http://softwearautomation.com/products/

“A new t-shirt sewing robot can make as many shirts per hour as 17 factory workers”
https://qz.com/1064679/a-new-t-shirt-sewing-robot-can-make-a...
Original interview source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinto...
Chinese government control is much worse, are you high?
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"If is a centuries old anti-Semitic trope to see powerful, evil but smart Jews behind everything."

Of course, but I get that vibe from some of the criticism of Stephen Miller I read, too. I bet there are not too many people defensive of Miller and Soros equally.
Just curious. Are they made with the same specs or are they lower-quality counterfeits? I used to check out some cheap knock-offs in another SE Asian country and they were all lower quality than genuine items.
Unfortunately that also sounds like an even stronger incentive to cancel the service. But I guess everyone is motivated differently.
Do we get the FASTQ files?
Uhmm, maybe it depends on the phone? I backpacked Europe 4 years ago without a data plan and I have all my location history logged, it seems like it kept it on my phone while offline and then it uploaded it when connected, I used a Galaxy S5 btw.
Hi again. I don't see how that draws any limit/distinction - it was 2 examples of rules that can be broken, not sure how that helps explain the difference, or why you said that. I wouldn't say bedtime is a moral rule/principle, or that breaking it is unethical. Maybe could make it clearer for me which one was supposed to illustrate what, if one was meant to be ethical, one moral, or something, I don't know. I really have never heard the words used with much or any difference. (I'm no expert, but have read dozens of ethics books, studied ethics/moral philosophy at uni etc)

I'm just guessing here, but maybe you have a religious value system, with absolute moral commandments or something? All I have (as an atheist) are ethical/moral principles exactly like 'cheating is wrong'.
The list is also a little unfair. Latitude didn't die, it's just a renamed and built into Google Maps. Picasa is also questionable. Google Photos does more and I end up using it more than I used Picasa. Google Talk. I guess I don't know what was lost. A chat box still appears in Gmail. Google Video seems replaced by youtube and google drive. Google Gears was subsumed into web standards.

In other words the list is padded IMO. Services that actually shut down like Wave for Google+ or Reader are in a different category than services who just became part of some other product.
That happens in one of the futures we're trying to avoid. In the rest it's just a bunch of opportunistic bad actors. Today there are a few heavy-handed government issues but the vast majority of the problems we face day to day are a result of smaller players who behave badly. So while it's always nice to secure against a joint CIA/NSA attack, if you can't then it's still OK to secure against identity theft.
Safari is pretty good, and while it's not open-source, it's from a company that so far has proven to be respectful of privacy.
> Could it be that Snowden's legacy has resulted in a decrease in net productivity from stressed Americans?

In the short term, it’s entirely possible - there’s probably some productivity metric (it’s not exactly a well-defined term) that was negatively impacted. Long term, honesty is the pillar atop which so much of what’s good in life is built (and that does include some measures of productivity: effective business decisions are those supported by fact and grounded in truth). There’s just no frame of reference in which an honest person can support sacrificing the truth in exchange for some temporary, perceived improvement in quality of life.

It’s a pointless endeavor, anyway: anything built on falsehood will, eventually, be exposed. Leaks happen. Though Snowden is exceptional, his story is hardly an exception to the rule.
I think this is a horribly bad idea. Daycare caretakers are the most loving and caring people I know. Putting them in a position where they have to argue with 3x richer people about hundreds of dollars is going to stress them out and needlessly strain the parent-caretaker relationship. I also can't imagine that's good for the child.
Ideally, I'd like it to sort based on the options I've narrowed by. I've come to realize it usually sorts based on the lowest used price for something that bins into the same item. Which is fairly unhelpful most of the time -- sort low to high results in either things that are generally less expensive, or things that are generally subject to super sketchy price manipulation by 3rd party sellers, even when I've declared I want to buy new, from amazon only.
If data is anonymized properly, aren't we just enabling the creation of better, more effective medicine?
I have had this happen with my Xiaomi android phone. I've had a couple of times where I get ads served pertaining to conversations I've had with random people when my phone is laying nearby, silently listenting. No googling the topics from my side, simply random conversation.

It even seems to be able to translate conversations in my native language into displaying English ads. Creepy as hell.

I'm thinking of going back to Apple, it's just that their phones as so bloody expensive now. Sigh.
> and arguably the consumers who use it

The consumers who use it have no goal other than getting stuff they think they need, faster.
> Why on earth would the nationality or religion of the guy matter?

Seeing the comments, it clearly does.

> Why does whether he meant harm matter?

That's kinda how we do morals around here? We treat a person that intentionally means harm to another person (e.g. if somebody shoots another person with intent to kill) as morally negative, and we usually treat actions that did not mean any harm with much less moral scorn, even if they led to bad consequences - e.g. if a car accident happens through no fault of anybody and still there's a fatality, we treat it as much less morally repugnant than, say, unsuccessful murder attempt. Moreover, in criminal case, to prove guilt, you usually need two things - actus reus (bad deed) and mens rea (guilty mind). Intent matters there too.

> It would not matter to a crocodile had he chosen to wander into a zoo enclosure.

People aren't crocodiles though. People are subject to moral judgement. That said, if somebody wanted to feed a crocodile that he genuinely believed is starving and in dire need of food, and the crocodile killed him, I don't think the person would deserve the kind of derisive mockery we see here.

> No. He was killed subject to the laws and customs of an isolationist territory

Yes, he was murdered. If you follow your moral relativist stance, you'd very quickly arrive at the conclusion that virtually every atrocity in human history - from ancient genocides to the Holocaust - is completely fine and justified, since it was OK by the rules of whoever perpetrated it. I don't think you really believe that.
"Would you see any problem if Facebook funded a PR group to push news stories focusing solely on the fact that George Soros is totally a Jew?"

I see a problem with demonizing Facebook and their management based on things we imagine they could do if they were in fact evil.
In my own experience, https://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/ makes all the difference in this world. The main complaint still remains: the CLI UX (yes, CLI has a user experience!) is really bewildeirng because switches change commands in really, really significant ways, so much so they ought to be different commands. And operations have totally different ways to express "work with repo only" "work with index" "work with working tree". And then git reset does not touch your working files but git reset --hard ruins your day unless you build a safety net: https://gist.github.com/chx/85db0ebed1e02ab14b1a65b6024dea29

Back to the tutorial:

> you can only really use Git if you understand how Git works. Merely memorizing which commands you should run at what times will work in the short run, but it’s only a matter of time before you get stuck or, worse, break something.

> Half of the existing resources on Git, unfortunately, take just that approach: they walk you through which commands to run when, and expect that you should do fine if you just mimic those commands. The other half does go through all the concepts, but from what I have seen, they explain Git in a manner that assumes you already understand how Git works.
Yes, only you and only you should have the right.
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> banned from supplying for India's 5G revamp

That is bordering on fake news. Huawei was not part of the inital group of companies invited by DoT. I have no idea why Huawei was exculed earlier and then invited later.[1] Bu then again, that's Indian babudom for you.

> Not all employees would be in on the espionage attempts either. It'd have to be a very limited circle that knows about it.

My point was entirely about what would be in any company's rational self-interest and the findings of Western countries that evaluate Huawei equipment. Honestly, I wish the Indian governemnt would do something similar with all vendors.

1: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/huawei-gets-g...
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Yes, you buy them directly from the Asian companies, just don't expect being able to change if they don't fit, becaus1 even when they accept to do it the round trip takes too long.
> I have better things to do than to navigate through ticket creation UI 20 times.

Thank you for being that sort of person.

I know some people who would take great pleasure in knowing that they would get paid for spending just that time, no matter if they achieved very little doing it.
Yeah, I was really hoping the article would address this. Were the safety measures designed to kick in at the 11th floor, or were the passengers just lucky that they were at the 95th floor instead of, say, the 80th floor when the elevator took 84 floors for the safety measures to stop the elevator?
I actually emailed one of the contributors from crust and unfortunately the impression I got is that it's still very much a work in progress (but good if you want to actively contribute to the project I guess)
Pretty hard argument to make after the US decided Canadian steel is a threat to national security.
Also from their privacy policy;

Dante Labs will not sell, lease, or rent your individual-level information to any third party or to a third party for research purposes without your explicit consent.

So they will sell your data unless you specifically look for, find, and check the opt out. What happens to your data after that is out of Dante Labs control, so any other assurances they make are irrelevant.
Still absolutely better. Even automated factories require workers to maintain. It also employs a lot of blue collar jobs (shipping, maintenance, etc).
My guess is that there's some sort of velocity/acceleration threshold. So since the elevator car was still attached by other cables it didn't fall fast enough to trigger the mechanism earlier.
Your calculations weren't quite correct because you didn't account for all the different survey answers. If you account for all of them, right now about 21% [0] of clothes are nearshored, and in 7 years about 30% of clothes will be nearshored. That's about a 45% increase in the amount of clothing nearshored or 13% decrease in the amount of clothes manufactured overseas. Vietnam's share might still increase though because it may take more of the declining Asian share.

[0]: Using the midpoint between the two survey options and 60% for 50%+: 6.21 + .45.03 + .35.04 + .25.05 + .15.15 + .075.18 + .025.33 = .21025
[1]: With the same method: .6.24 + .45.04 + .35.14 + .25.18 + .15.22 + .075.15 + .025.03 = .301
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Mine would be a new X220 form factor thinkpad with modern battery tech and... any linux OS. It's OK though; I've got enough X220s and batteries to last me the rest of my career.
Interesting. That's around the liquid hydrogen range - still cheaper than helium, but probably not as easy to work with as nitrogen. I guess their requirements for critical field were high enough that the 77K GdBaCuO performance wasn't good enough?
> In the absence of consequences, they are obligated but not accountable to the daycare.

I think it's beautifully HN-libertarian of you to consider "no financial consequences" equal to "no consequences".

Our daycare solves this with peer pressure and stern looks and it's super effective.
I’m thankful for automotive safety that saved my daughter’s life when she ran into a traffic light pole at 60MPH yesterday. I’m replying to your comment because her accident was caused by somebody turning left a second or two too early.

My girl was driving a Kia Soul. It’s not an expensive car, but it’s still safe enough that she and her passenger will only experience a week or two of soreness. If I had the same accident in my first car, a 77 Corolla,I would probably have died.
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