skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently discovered some really bad effects from Amazon third party sellers. For a lot of item, 3rd party sellers are listing inventory they don't actually have. I think what is happening is that if they are out of an item the listed, they just order from another store, like Bed Bath and Beyond and ship it directly to the customer. It even arrives as ordered by a random person you have never heard of from BB&B. It might even be a slightly different product brand name but probably the same manufacturer. I believe there is another variant of this where you simply list inventory at a higher price and hope to pick up orders. For example, maybe BB&B lists an item at $30. The seller lists the item at $40 on Amazon and if someone orders, they just direct ship from BB&B and pocket the difference. This gets really bad for gift registries. You list an item when it was in stock at $30 on Amazon. That item goes out of stock but one of these 3rd parties lists it for $40 and someone buying you a gift decides to purchase that instead. Next think you know, a random BB&B order shows up at your door from some random person you don't know. Amazon has your package marked as shipped, but can't produce a shipping number, and everyone is very confused what this BB&B item is. It's such a mess and I can't believe Amazon is tolerating this crap. I just told Amazon the item didn't arrive because they can't produce a shipping number and the item is slightly different. I just cancelled the order and got my money back. I'm not going to do extra work because some person in North Dakota wants to play Amazon games.
Unless you are one of the two names plaintiffs in the lawsuit, I'm not sure how that's relevant here.
There is still the Nitro classic with just the extra account features, the game subscription is an extra piece if you want it.
Infrastructure isn't a big challenge, and plenty of utilities have some out stating this.

The biggest change will probably time-of-use pricing for the places that don't have it. EVs can be charged overnight very easily, when the grid is underutilized. If you encourage this with pricing, you actually even out grid demand and make it easier to manage.
It's been a while since I've programmed for Windows but I'm so glad to be away from the LPCS_LONG_SHOUTY_NAMES. It actually kind of hurts my eyes to read this article due to all the normal text/SHOUTY/CamelCase changes.

It would be nice if there was a windows.h replacement that used namespaces, typedefs, enum classes, and bitfield structs to make typesafe non-namespace polluting names for everything while still being compatible with Win32.
Yeah I hand't heard much about it so I assumed that area kinda died. It had a short time in the sun.
''Eyewitness memory is reconstructive,'' said Dr. Honts, who is not associated with the safety board. ''The biggest mistake you can make is to think about a memory like it's a videotape; there's not a permanent record there.''

The problem, he said, is that witnesses instinctively try to match events with their past experiences: ''How many plane crashes have you witnessed in real life? Probably none. But in the movies? A lot. In the movies, there's always smoke and there's always fire.''

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/ideas-trends...

See also “Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident”:

https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co...
> How does the theory of a faulty AoA sensor align with eye witness accounts of smoke coming from the plane?

They don't need to align. Eyewitness accounts are so bad, it's surprising they're allowed in court.

"Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts - Eyewitness testimony is fickle and, all too often, shockingly inaccurate"

> Many researchers have created false memories in normal individuals; what is more, many of these subjects are certain that the memories are real.

> In one well-known study, Loftus and her colleague Jacqueline Pickrell gave subjects written accounts of four events, three of which they had actually experienced. The fourth story was fiction; it centered on the subject being lost in a mall or another public place when he or she was between four and six years old. A relative provided realistic details for the false story, such as a description of the mall at which the subject’s parents shopped.

> After reading each story, subjects were asked to write down what else they remembered about the incident or to indicate that they did not remember it at all. Remarkably about one third of the subjects reported partially or fully remembering the false event. In two follow-up interviews, 25 percent still claimed that they remembered the untrue story, a figure consistent with the findings of similar studies.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-...
Amazon has a monopoly. It's censorship.

If they were not a monopolist, then they could claim curation.

Once you achieve monopoly status, you can't claim to be a simple business anymore.
I think the thing that irks people is that they are doing a whole show and dance about how they pulled the books. If they just kept silent and pulled it using the same qualifer it uses for janky cellphone chargers and contaminated dog food, no one would care. The problem is that Amazon's marketing department would very much so prefer that you do care, enough so that you keep using them for toilet paper and HDMI cables.
This one is golden:

"What's the best way to indeed start a process on an OS x machine?

What is the best way to start a process on Mac OS x Snow Leopard?

There I just need to be able to run the OS x.exe from the command line and it's working fine (make it available in Windows). But I'm on an Mac and I haven't figured out how to do this for a Linux machine.

Another reason I ask is that I only have a Unix shell running with the Python process in it (it's my an Ubuntu machine, nothing didn't work in the shell).

Thank you in advance"
Steve Jobs was one of these people.
You're late in the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKCVol2iWcc
While this tragedy might sound like a typical crash scenario, it was particularly puzzling to the victim’s parents. Why? According to Atlanta magazine, she always wore her seat belt and never had a speeding ticket. So how did she suddenly lose control of her car on that fateful evening? Sadly, this unsettling question remained unanswered until several years later—after many more drivers suffered similar fates.

I don't understand why this paragraph was written this way. Driving highway speeds and hitting a puddle of water seems like a reasonable cause to lose control of a car and result in the crash. I don't understand why this would be puzzling. On the other hand, the lack of airbag deployment would be puzzling.
JavaScript Foundation and Node.js Foundation Join Forces
Blogs
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http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/
https://www.fast.ai/topics
https://blog.codinghorror.com/
https://www.gwern.net/

Books:
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Founders at Work
First it'll be the bottom half, then the bottom two-thirds, then the bottom 90%. Automation isn't going to stop at manufacturing, truckers, and retail workers: it'll hit radiologists, accountants, lawyers, etc eventually.
Think we're overdue some scientific validation of the effectiveness, or otherwise, of this alternative cure. :)
Witness accounts are famously unreliable [1] [2]. They are saying that the flight profile so far matches what they saw with Lion Air 610. Until the FDR and CVR are analyzed the only reliable data is what they have from ADSB and whatever Satcom they have.

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/23/eyewitness-acco...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-...
The Green New Deal: The enormous opportunity in shooting for the moon
Sounds like ‘to big to fall’ which to me is one more reason to let it go down.
This basic problem can always be summed up as something like: "Extreme nerds who are almost completely divorced from the needs and skills of 95% of all computer users are BAFFLED by the fact Social Effects Are Real, and people do not know how to run their own servers. News at 11." and it's extremely predictable and always on-time.
Didn't you read the part about the transponder being switched off?
This is beautiful. I want to know:

1. Do they share their platform for others to create similar content?

2. Where is the personalization? I was unable to see how the content was being personalized to my ability. Maybe I missed something?

3. If they don't share their platform, is there any equivalent open source platform or software out there that can provide me this?
I love the shareware concept. I think ads and baiting people into MTX due to the psychology of humans is making companies too much money to ignore.
the good news is that virtually all of the software in the linux ecosystem is missing the last 20%, so there's plenty of opportunities to train.
I think a reasonable argument can be made that the books they pulled are entirely about unscientific cures and the Bible is about much more than just the line you quoted.
> It angers me that Peter Thiel simultaneously advocates AGI and maintains a hardened bunker.

Yes, because if there's one thing that will stop a paperclip maximizer, it's a bunker made of useful matter...
I wasn't referring to taking a "below market salary" by any means. But the advice to "learn leetCode and work for a FAANG", sounds like generic advice you get from r/cscareerquestions:

Q: "I live in Omaha Nebraska with three kids and a wife. I'm a self taught developer. I've been doing PHP/WordPress sites for 5 years and I want to know what should I do to change jobs"?

A: "Learn LeetCode and move to the west coast so you can work for Google".
Wolfenstein: Ray Traced Using WebGL
I miss this model for games. Demo disks were my favorite thing in the world. I'd play a demo a dozen times or so before I decided that it was worth begging a parent to buy the game for me.
I wonder what percentage of questions just need a correctly working example because the questioner is unsure of how to use a given API. Automation of this I imagine could actually be doable.
Stop being so hysteric, if you want to avoid first-party analytics then don't use the service, if someone reads my blog I have the full right to find out how long my articles are read. Protesting against first-party tracking is like protesting against visitor counters in shops and security cameras, luddism.
>3. The only one we have details of recommended bathing your autistic child in industrial bleach.

What the fuck? These weren't parody books were they? I just can't believe that was published in a book seriously promoting autism cures...that's so fucked...there's people out there stupid enough to follow that advice...
> you need to win the argument about how to think like a rational adult

I was watching the flat earther special on netflix last night and I was thinking, that although its ridiculous to believe in these things, society needs people who are distrustful and challenge science/popular consensus etc... thats also part of being a rational adult.

I use to believe fat was bad for me, I need orthotics for my feet, babies need to be bottle fed in sleep in a separate crib, I need to be on all sorts of medications instead of eating healthy etc... but thats just because I was butt owned by what societies consensus was.
One of my favorite mobile games (an old Popcap title) used to have a version which cost ~$10 and was just a no-frills port of the original.

No ads, no permissions beyond file storage, no issues working offline.

But you can't buy that anymore; now the only option is a 'free' version which has ads that you cannot pay away.

Fortunately I can still download the old version from the app store; now it is called 'zzSUNSET <game>' in the list of purchased apps. But I'm amazed at how consumer-hostile game companies have gotten; I guess the ads must pay out the wazoo. It makes me really hesitant to try any new mobile game, especially since I don't really have much time for them these days. I'm not going to spend 30 seconds out of every 1-5 minute diversion watching an ad, that's ridiculous.
And when activists launch a boycott on said publisher, small bookstore or author, using the fact that the book is not sold on Amazon as precedent that there is something wrong with the content?
Where do you draw the line though?
I thought AT bindings were primarily for downhill skiing, but with the option to unlock the heel for climbing. But my ski experience is cross country using NNN and NNN BC bindings, and the ones in the picture look like old school 3 pin bindings.

Edit: Viewing on desktop, it's clear these are not 3 pin bindings.
I can’t comment as to your job prospects, but the few people I know that chose to not finish their degrees and instead start companies tend to exhibit the Dunning-Kruger effect with respect to their understanding of CS fundamentals and software development best practices. If you’re looking to remain a software dev, as much as it pains me, you may want to look into Leetcode, Project Euler, TopCoder, etc and assess your skills.

If you aren’t married to being a dev, you might want to look into a product management or business development role as those roles may better use your experience
To build a client-rendered site? No, vdom is not required. To build a tool with multiple render targets? Maybe, or at least something similar.

In particular, the trend of rendering a page via a node.js server, and delivering the rendering logic to the client so that subsequent renders do not require a full round-trip is pretty alluring if you're building something more complex than a blog or run-of-the-mill ecommerce site.

https://catberry.org/ is one of the older examples I can think of that do the above sans vdom, though now that I look at it again, it seems to have changed quite a bit in the years since I first found it.
> It’s working in Seattle...

Not for artists it’s not.

“in spite of decades of indisputably strong development, Seattle’s share of cost-burdened renters has barely budged.”

“...by overbuilding housing for the wealthy, Seattle has achieved some short-term improvement in affordability for the middle class, at the expense of substantial displacement and continued upward pressure on the most vulnerable. In this, it is similar to California as a whole, with the state’s 300,000-unit surplus for above-moderate income earners, in spite of Seattle’s proportionally superior housing production. As the city considers a greater emphasis on inclusionary zoning, even supporters of robust development have begun to question some of the core assumptions of supply-side models.”[1]

[1] Seattle, a Cautionary Tale for Supply-Side Housing Advocates https://knock-la.com/seattle-a-cautionary-tale-for-supply-si...
You can support the long-tail without facilitating people harming themselves or their children with demonstrable misinformation.

There's long tail and long tail. Amazon can still sell books about how to repair and maintain a 1936-era WLW Crosley Radio without also selling books informing the unfortunate gullible about how to "treat" their children's autism by DIY at-home electoconvulsion therapy.
The reason given is “security”, or to copy paste from the link I have given: “iTunes backups are disabled to prevent plaintext leakage to iCloud or insecure systems.”

I have a negative opinion of Signal because they have not dealt with this for years and have been stubborn on that point. Please read the comments on the link I have given and also look at issues they have closed on the same topic. Their responses on the issue tracker don’t look user friendly. So I go with what I’ve seen (which is available for you to examine and make your own inferences too).

For a very long time, I’ve wanted to recommend Signal to others (I still use it, but not for anything that I’d want to save for longer). But this particular issue, introduced and imposed by the Signal team, is a deal breaker. Which average user would want to rejoin all groups or lose all chat history because they bought a new iPhone? If this self-imposed issue is not an example of being user unfriendly, then what is?
You have the legal right to do so, yes. You'd have to probably jailbreak your console, which is also your full legal right to do so.
That article doesn't seem to be trying to paint Andrew Yang as a white nationalist. It literally quotes him disavowing support from white supremacists and their beliefs.

It does say that his popularity on the internet extends to 4chan, where racists make racist memes about him, and it quotes a tweet[0] by him regarding a New York Times article[1] about death rates among white people, but I don't really see that as white supremacist.

[0]https://twitter.com/andrewyangvfa/status/1010207553324806150

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/white-minority-populat...
My understanding is this was more precise data than ADS-B. Perhaps I’m wrong - I’m legitimately asking.
We had geese and ducks when I was a kid, and can attest that Chinese geese[0] make wonderful pets (and can even roam through the house if you have tile floors :)). We also had Tolouse geese who were absolute monsters, and mallard and Peking ducks that never really demonstrated any affection for humans outside of a food supply.

We could pick up, pet and carry our Chinese geese, and they came when you called. They even used to wait at the end of the street and fly along with my father as he drove home.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_goose
Eh what? Westworld is rated 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.8/10 on IMDB. True Blood is rated 69% and 7.9/10 on the same platforms, respectively.

Which ratings are you looking at?

EDIT: I also checked Metacritic. True Blood is rated 68 on average across seven seasons, meanwhile Westworld is rated 75 on average across two seasons. If you take the Metacritic rating peak of Westworld (Season 1) and the Metacritic rating peak of True Blood (Season 3), True Blood is only four points ahead.

Given the difference between the Metacritic score and the Rotten Tomatoes/IMDB scores, I'd be inclined to chalk it up to different audiences. But even on the preferential platform Westworld basically at parity with True Blood, not "far south" of it.
Did the caps like, assault your eyes?
Flag on the field: assertion without supporting evidence and with obvious counterexamples (Wal-Mart, Alibaba, etc.) close at hand. Ten yard penalty, repeat first down.
It was my understanding that all/most/all-controllable radios were shutoff at some point. There was some maintenance data from the engines that factored into the search location, but otherwise it wasn't transmitting anything.

I havn't followed very closely, so take that with salt, but it's a starting place if anything.
I don’t really think Amazon has a monopoly. They control 5% of all retail, and like 50% of e-commerce. It’s far from a winner take all point too, I think there will be a lot of fragmentation in the next few years with niche sellers like Etsy becoming more popular.
but what about the ma's and pa's
> @Piccirello: What viable alternatives exist that don’t directly charge the user and therefore disadvantage the less privileged? Is JavaScript-based crypto mining feasible?

That leads to an interesting thought. Ads are definitely one of the more egalitarian ways of getting payment from people, as they sap time and attention somewhat equally (or randomized along a fairly predictable spectrum not affected by most differentiators, I would think), and in proportion to how much you use something.

Also, the ones problematic form a privacy perspective likely screw people over equally as well.
I've been where you're at a few times. The best advice I got is: nobody will contact you for a job. Go out and make it happen.
People convicted of insider trading get prison sentences. Was theirs a violent crime? No. Did they cause a recession, harming thousands of people? No.

They're sent to prison because it has a deterrent effect, in an industry where insider trading is easily accomplished by also hard to prove in court.

Same goes here. The public has no ability to audit FB's data collection and sharing practices. We simply have to take their word for it when they announce a new "privacy-focused Facebook".

If prosecutors can find a criminal charge that sticks, any conviction should lead to jail time.
It's the community. I joined a discord server a few months ago to get support from some product (I can't remember what), and once I started using it I realized there are vibrant communities for all of my hobbies and interests. I now have a bunch of new friends that are into building mechanical keyboards that live in the same city. I would never have met them if I hadn't accidentally stumbled onto Discord.
Not quite because the Airline can turn around and sue Boeing so there is some recourse. Furthermore, people aren't blaming Ethiopian airlines they're blaming Boeing, so the reputation damage to the airline would likely be minimal. The reason why they can't easily sue Boeing over the grounded airplanes is that they don't own them, the banks do.
The problem is it is really hard to have standing. The victims are children: their parents are supposed to protect them in this case, but the parents are being mislead... Teenagers could perhaps sue, but I suspect austic kids are less likely to attempt this even if they could.
Don't slit your wrists with Hanlon's razor.

As a rule, it has high performance, but as a policy, it's trivial to exploit. Children figure out how to play dumb before they figure out how to articulate complete sentences. If you let conmen do it, they'll bleed us all dry.
A flight data recorder provides a lot of information. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder

We could stream this information via satellite uplink. Instead Radar and transponders is used to keep a close enough location to make recovery generally strait forward.

It’s really turning off the transponder while over the middle of the ocean that’s the issue for MH370.
Boeing unveils its brand new 777X airplane
You can't claim that Mentos cure or treat cancer and market them. You could sell Mentos as a "dietary supplement" and even say that it "supports system health" if you have any data about it, no matter how bad. If you are a doctor, you can actually treat people with cancer using Mentos, but you can't market it without approval (good luck with those lawsuits, though!). Books don't cure, prevent, diagnose, or treat disease, so they aren't under the purview of the FDA.

The real problem here is the dominant market position Amazon has. People figure if Amazon bans something, the book will be completely inaccessible. This is sometimes true. Nobody freaked out when their local indie bookstore didn't have "Mein Kampf" and "Middle Eastern Terrorist Bomb Designs" (it's real!) in stock because they figured they could just get it somewhere else if they really wanted to. Whatever you think about this, one company having over 60% market share in books (higher in some categories) is concerning. I have been using https://www.alibris.com lately.
Aren't youtube ads pay per click? In which case adblock doesn't cost the creator money (if you weren't going to click an ad), and their viewer/subscriber count is still normal (important for non-youtube sponsors)
And? I'm not clear on what that changes.
Thanks, brilliant work! Some questions are downright hilarious (see a suite of automated packaging techniques [0]), and the broken English just adds extra ESL credibility to the questions.

[0]
>I want to write an update statement with a sequence of values I can run through a database. i've written the below code to broken up my character string into the columns. All of the articles i've read seem to suggest that I 'll need a suite of automated packaging techniques for my environment to all update the database.

What s the best way to update the column ids?

Thanks
That's OK: everybody is inexperienced until they have experience.