skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to feel like, and talk about, Amazon as a great customer service-oriented company. There's a few reasons that ended, and I no longer believe it to be the case.

- Prime Exclusive Items was the big one. Amazon arbitrarily selects everyday items that people regularly order like diapers and razors and Blu-ray movies and marks them "Prime Exclusive", meaning you can't order them without a Prime subscription at any price from Amazon. This isn't just Prime exclusive pricing, and it's usually not even being sold cheaper than other retailers. It's literally Amazon just saying "f--- you for not having Prime, shop elsewhere!" And often, I've done just that. This has been going on for years, Amazon has not so much as commented on the practice despite massive forum threads about how arbitrary and punitive it is.

- Annoyingly complicated return mechanics. Around Christmas I bought a thing, and then bought a better version of it, both on Amazon. This was a Blu-ray set, so a small item, and it was shipped and sold by Amazon. I was confident I could return it because I'd seen all the ads about free returns at Kohl's. But it turns out, only select items can be returned at Kohl's, even if they're, you know, small items sold by Amazon like a Blu-ray. I had to pitch a fit to get a return label to drop it off at a UPS store, because the Amazon guy couldn't do a return at the Amazon return desk at Kohl's, when the only reason I was returning it was because I bought an even more expensive version on Amazon. Amazon has half a dozen return options, and it's a toss up which one will be available for the given product ID you want to return and how much it will cost to do so. If I buy from Walmart, I can just take it to a Walmart store and it's done.
Oh man these guys think this is fraudulent? They should come to China. When rebates were all the rage, where the ride hailing companies would pay drivers subsidies, they developed software that could fake the GPS address on the phone and pick up fake rides without actually driving and get massive rebates
It's already on GitHub, the shell script is just a wrapper to handle automating the download and install of the latest release.
It's doable to a good extent. I had a Blackberry Passport from 2014 that ran BBOS, which was a non-Android OS. Around 2016, BB added a "Android compatibility layer" (not sure how it works), that allowed for the install of APKs for Whatsapp, Instagram and a number of other apps BB users didn't have native equivalents for. Worked fine, but I'm sure app firmware updates caused issues.
Driverless car fleet can reduce traffic by at least 35%, research suggests
And you'd think Americans would think fondly of people who try and do that today, but instead we separate them from their kids then throw them all in internment camps.
Even the Jaguar I-Pace's software is sluggish. It's almost like they do this on purpose.
Friend, foe or unknown force flying overhead?
If their GitHub account gets hacked, so do their customers. What's the fundamental difference?
I'm a big fan of munificent's work
I also think upstart was a bit nuts... but how do you think about openrc vs systemd?
> grow up and function

What exactly do you mean by this?
We absolutely love Alpine, but it's been hard to integrate with other systems because of it using musl. For instance, our dns resolvers do not work properly & our monitoring solution is incompatible with musl.
There are other groups who heavily use these features. We've got over a thousand custom emojis in my Slack at work. Our interactions would be just slightly less rich without :badpokerface:, :sadpanda:, or :superhero:.
Did anyone try introduce an animal in such a closed system, insects for instance. Does it self sustain ?
How does this add anything to my process compared to npm tasks, that do the automated work right now, together with out Gitlab CI system?
It's not any better. This past year I've driven something like 2 dozen rentals from a variety of manufactures, they all suck. The only saving grace is sometimes I can use CarPlay and I'm much happier for it.

The fact that I have to struggle to adjust the climate control while driving to click through their terrible interface is just insane.
I think the point isn't "look new terrarium tech was just invented". I think it's "this terrarium lasted 47 year sealed".

Given that the terrarium guides I could find with a quick google suggest opening the vessel for gas exchange and fresh water every 4-8 weeks (depending on guide and plant type), the 2444 weeks reported here seems to be a long time.
Maybe housing the homeless in the most expensive places in the country to live is a bad idea.
FCC Chairman Statement on T-Mobile/Sprint Transaction [pdf]
You can argue that the real serious time is spent on the peripherals in order to read old media. I haven't seen a full list of formats for both computers and video tape (plus cards, paper tape, etc) but it has to be pretty big.
The idea has been put forth here and other places quite a few times that a lot of the recent EU regulation exists because of a lack of influence of those companies.

Granted, you also would want to belive those regulations and laws are good things to enjoy that argument.

I agree it is a strange POV. If anything I'm pointing out how kinda terrible that is as an argument.
Mr LaBeouf comes from a broken home. His father has struggled with drugs and alcohol to self medicate his Vietnam War PTSD. He started performing at age 10, pretended to be his own manager to get signed with an agency. He's exactly the "live without a net" kind of guy we're talking about.
GitHub and Export Controls
'ardy42 is presenting the part of the argument that Lyft and Uber can't say aloud but almost certainly believe.

Lyft and Uber have a vested interest in making their objection seem "pro-consumer," when they're primarily anti-worker; lower prices to the consumer pumps up the demand curve and Lyft makes more money.
As with things like "what else could Facebook do?" the answer is "make less money but not screw people". Or in the case of Facebook "stop operating", I guess. The problem is that they have been doing the 3rd party seller thing for-friggin'-ever at this point, and plainly do not give a damn about the many problems with it or they'd have either fixed it or stopped. They screw people daily and absolutely don't care. It is the only possible explanation. They've had a ton of time to realize they're doing it and stop. That regulators haven't slapped them down hard is a sign they have no power to enforce basic norms and standards in our markets anymore—this is as obvious an abuse as it gets.

Hope they'll fix it before they lose customer trust? Hasn't it been a decade or more now? They do. Not. Care. As long as the money keeps coming in. They are scum.
Since it's HTTPS, a signature or checksum are pretty pointless, TLS will do the certificate checking and encryption for you.

Your assertion that "if your server gets hacked, so do your customers", also applies to a checksum, as the hackers would just change the checksum listed on the website.

If you have a problem with piping curl to bash, then you can just not do so, you can download the bash script, see what it does, and modify it before running it. It's only 140 lines and it's fairly simple.

Further to your point, the bash script also does checksums internally!

Putting releases up on github isn't a bad idea, but their github account credentials could also be hacked, so it's no more secure than this really.
Thanks, I'll check it out today
Read a Paper: Reflections on Trusting Trust
A de-Googled Huawei might actually save Samsung's folding phone line. The Galaxy Fold was a PR disaster, whereas Huawei's Mate X had none of those issues in bloggers' hands.
Don't Google's servers also run a custom systemd-less Debian derivative? https://www.usenix.org/node/177348
I don't like it when my process init and logging system also tries to manage my volume mounts. If I unmount a device, I don't want systemd going behind my back and remounting it for me.

It's non standard behavior changes like this that drive systemd hate.
That same old war, even today.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Private labels can set quality levels - for a price - if they want to. Most are trying to be cheapest and so they don't.

Private labels order from the brand names. Sometimes they order a different recipe, but often it is the exact same recipe as the name brand just the box is different. If there is still more pickles in the vat after making 1000 jars of the private label they will finish the vat into 17 jars of their brand. Sometimes a batch will not meet the brand's quality standards (taste) but it is still food safe so they dump it into a private label box with lower standards.
the media bias score of nypost base on adfontesmedia is only 20,selected Story.
https://www.adfontesmedia.com/ .
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings
As a chinese some mistakes in article
1.the phone bells the ban of trains or flights. all because the debt which courts can not enforce. all the methods only want you obey the judgements.

2.alipay the paypal of alibaba, has a system, like the ebay store rates, the score now can benefit the Second-hand trading.
all these system is about economy. Nothing with
political issue.
For better or for worse, VCs need heuristics to filter the likelihood of you pulling off what you're claiming you can, and prestige and depth of education is one of those factors, as well as employment history which also selects on those education factors.

An associates from a community college isn't going to get you a meeting with a VC, nor is it going to get you past the resume screen at google to run around the education filter.

This is also able to be circumvented by network, which is very easy to do if you are already at a high end university which will hold your hand grooming you for meetings with VCs they introduced you to, or where you can at least just ask your friend from college for an intro.
Running random automated scripts from the web is not a good idea
Very valid point, but Tesla's fleet will drive in a greater variety of weather than Waymo's, potentially gathering a better data set. However as another comment points out it could all be garbage data.
this is quite a jerk move. Even if Mr. Assange was charged of some crime, shouldn't his personal possessions at least go to his family?
I agree with you on the touch screen interfaces, especially considering how long people keep their vehicles nowadays. I have had my Tacoma for 11 years. Had I gotten one with some sort of touchscreen or other display interface, it would seem like utter dog shit now using a touchscreen and computer system from 2008.

That's the first thing I think about when I see new cars with their fancy displays. How will this look and perform in five years? In ten?
Keep in mind that uber was successful early on not because of price, but because it was significantly more reliable then a cab. I was willing to pay a bit more then a cab to get to the airport because I knew I could count on that uber to arrive at my house on time.

Uber and Lyft are not trying to be cost competitive with cabs; they are trying to be cost competitive with public transit.
This is why I always buy my phones upfront so they are mine free and clear.
Not exactly. The percentage that Lyft takes is the same, so Lyft actually makes more money from these price-hikes. The ones suffering are the passengers.
I have the same getting stuck problems plus resolving issues as soon as systemd-resolved is in the game
Somewhere, a few programmer are cursing, knowing they will have to rewrite their code to support bigger arrays
This case shows how "open" Android is and how free is "free trade".
On a larger scale, wouldn't this be Earth?
Metal additive manufacturing has never solved a cost problem AFAIK. The problem it solves is the manufacture of parts that have physical characteristics that are difficult to machine, or in the case of Inconel, materials that are simply difficult to machine period. Neither of those characteristics are going to be a problem for the Starlink antennas.
That or MS throws a ton of discounts at your enterprise in hopes of enticing you to use Azure.
political problem don't need score system.
I've actually had cars with fantastic voice recognition, but they have always been when using Android Auto in the car (so it's not really the car doing the voice recog)

I used AA a TON in an Audi TT convertible and it would correctly understand me even while driving on the highway with the top down!

Funnily enough, the built-in voice recognition in the Audi was horrible and was hard to get working right even when sitting still.
> And suddenly Uber/Lyft are like any other Taxi company just with a massive valuation.

What taxi companies have drivers as actual employees and not independent contractors?
I recommend watching this to give you some perspective on the SystemD hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

I too was furious about the existence of systemd, but now I realize that was mostly because I don't want new things and consider many new things to be bad because they are new and there have been a few 'bad apples' in my personal experience
AntiX Linux is my current favorite which happens to be systemd free and runs with lighter weight DEs. It takes up only about 500MB of RAM sitting still, so pretty great for older systems and laptops.
Apparently it took over a year for the coffee to kick in! I just always shrugged and thought it was a cutesy name for a company that did something boring like dig tunnels. I cannot believe that pun escaped me for so long. :)
One person's 'tone policing' is another person's 'advice on how to most effectivly get your point across'.
From what I observe, the hate from systemd USERS towards non-systemd advocates is higher than the hate of non-systemd advocates to systemd.
I'm sorry to hear that. Alcoholism or just an expensive habit?

If alcoholism, luckily it is taken "more seriously" than video game addiction. Although now as I get older I just realize addiction is a trait we all have the propensity for, and some people just manifest it in healthy ways where as some of us in not so healthy ways. I have people in my family that were compulsive gamblers, alcoholics, workaholics, and drug addicts, sometimes a combination of all four -- all different forms of addictions. Sometimes I view my video game addiction in that light: "well at least it wasn't drugs or alcohol" but, who knows, maybe in 50 years we will find out that it harmed me just as much.
you can find discords for many topics that have the feel of old forums.
I wear the hat everyday - a good conversation starter. Some people guess it's an accounting company name.
Huawei and other mobile “tech giants”: you should break free from Android
A blog on this general attitude: https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-09-24-is-curl-bash-insecure-p...

The difference between a digital signature and HTTPS for identity verification is probably somewhat of a toss-up, and a checksum hosted on the same server as the download is mostly useless for anything but ensuring your download of the malicious version completed successfully.
I mainly use FreeBSD, but I have a number of Linux VMs that I use where appropriate.

The big thing, for me, that systemd brings to the table is consistency. Managing services on CentOS is the same as managing them on Debian which is the same as managing them on OpenSUSE. This makes it a lot easier to deal with the various different Linuxes.

Also, it seems to make writing a service a lot easier. Instead of the service needing to daemonize, write out a PID file, or whatever, it can just be a program that does its thing without forking, sends its output to stdout/stderr and systemd takes care of the details. I tried to go through this exercise on a FreeBSD system and ended up just installing 'pm2' to do it for me. I subsequently figured out what I did wrong, but pm2 is working and I see no need to change it.

Obviously systemd isn't suited for every use-case, but it doesn't seem nearly as bad as some people make it out to be.
The pedophile problem of the Internet companies
Like 95% of websites with JavaScript? :)
When low paid workers coordinate their efforts to increase their pay it's called an "artificial price surge" and allegations of fraud are thrown around.

When highly paid executives, investors, and board members coordinate their efforts to increase their pay what does the media call it?
True, but having trains stop in Rochester MN and Waterloo IA makes sense if the track is already close. (Note I didn't say the same train - scheduling is more complex as is the track which now needs switches, but express trains that bypass the small towns make sense)

You wouldn't do the track across WI without looking that the bigger cities in the way and deciding where to stop. You wouldn't stop in every small town, but the bigger towns...
It's worth emphasizing that Tesla is strong at software relative to other automakers; in absolute terms, the (non-AP) parts of Tesla's software frequently have user-facing problems [0] and appear to have been built on a Babelian tower of hacks [1]... but it's still better than the rest of the market, and it keeps improving month over month.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/search/?q=reboot&restri...

[1] https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376
> The problem it solves is the manufacture of parts that have physical characteristics that are difficult to machine

I thought this is the case. Thank you for answering!
I don't disagree with you, actually. I was fixating on his unproven statements and I couldn't see past that. Can't really argue with you.

Was the documentary "When We Left Earth"?
Unicode and Character Encodings in Python: A Painless Guide
If all it took was the threat of tariffs to bring Apple's manufacturing back to the US, I seriously doubt the Trump admin would have been the first to think of it. Apple might move parts of their supply chain to places like Vietnam or India, but definitely not back Stateside.
It's not meaningfully different than downloading software with an installer/install script and running it on your machine. Though obviously, you could just curl it, read it, and then bash it.
This is really just a Makefile in yaml without lots of the features and the milions of support articles.
They are aiming for 1223 kmph (760 mph) on Earth, I wonder how that differs with lower gravity.
All the risks are skewed to portray a traditionally projected hopeful image when the reality is: the risks are skewed against the average person.

Most start-ups (businesses in general) fail. Hard Work® and Dedication® will only get you so far in this country even though that's the garbage fed to many for generations. A great idea is certainly a good start, then ingenuity/creativity/follow-through go a long way, but many times, success comes down to dumb luck, timing and resources. For evidence, look no further than successful companies that push new product/service lines out which fail and are abandoned--it happens quite often.

The American Dream® often boils down to simply rolling the dice. It turns out, you can roll the dice more times if you have more money/wealth when you start to play the game. Everything that isn't the cost of the admission fee can be manufacturing new dice. Heck, with enough money, one can even purchase loaded/weighted dice from your local politicians but I digress.

For many, it's hard to roll the dice when you have to decide if you want food and housing or to play the game. Yes, rewards require risks, that's what our economic system encourages (and I agree with this approach) so one shouldn't be risk averse, but everyone needs to acknowledge that risk is a very relative/proportional quantity that needs to be considered for each case.

Relative risk for Jeff Bezos starting a local business (let's say a simple coffee shop) is not the same as the relative risk for your local barista turned manager wanting to take their years of Hardwork®, Dedication®, and intimate knowledge of the industry to spin up a business. If Bezos cafe fails, he probably didn't even realize it (a drop in the Olympic sized pool) but if your barista fails, they could be on the streets. Bezos can simply hire others with intimate knowledge and operate at a loss for far longer than your local barista can. They need to eat, perhaps their family does. Perpetuating this oversimplified view isn't good for our society and keeps tossing blame on otherwise productive citizens who simply weren't rewarded the same starting hand of cards and opportunities to seize.
> Health care is not needed. Undergrads are mostly young, and without kids. It is unusual for them to visit a doctor.

Jesus Christ. Please don't take this as a personal attack but it boggles my mind that in 2019 this is a situation accepted as perfectly normal by a large number of people.

In many countries in the west, this is not even a question that arises. I assume you are based in the US?

That someone has to make a choice between potential financial ruin in case of an unforeseen illness or "saving" on insurance and staying solvent to pay for shelter and food in the most powerful country in the world beggars belief.

So what if I fall down some stairs and get multiple complicated fractures? I can just as well call it a day and shutter all my hopes for making it in life because the hospital bill will be punitive.

Sure, it's unlikely to happen, but the discussion here is about the fact that if a person has money (and insurance) then this would be "merely" a painful experience, whereas if they "saved" on insurance and paid for food, shelter and education instead then they are pretty much done for.
> Why do you need "a decent wedge of cash" to have a degree?

I can’t shake the feeling, though, that after a certain point, in certain (important) circles, “affordable” degrees (like the one I have) are effectively the same as having no degree at all.
I read everything I could find on systemd to form my own opinion. I used FreeBSD for a decade and have many years of Ubuntu/upstart experience after that.

Based on my experience and all the anti-systemd posts online, I expected to dislike it.

But on it's merits I really like the consistency it brings to the "system layer" of the OS.

I find it's shame when developers skip over systemd for consideration, adding extra layers of complexity when systemd alone would have been sufficient: For example, using Docker when the basic isolation features of systemd would do, or using "forever.js" to manage Node.js processes, when systemd could could be saving 15% memory overhead per process, using software already installed in the base system.

On the other hand, I do support diversity of software and am glad to see some other options still being promoted and used. The dangers and weaknesses of monoculture in the physical world apply to software systems as well.