skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance is not a panacea. It wouldn't have gotten him moved up in the waiting list to receive a replacement quicker, and the claim likely would have been denied, and they'd have expected him to go through an appeals, which would be a pain, and might not get the result he wanted. A police report will probably be required. Even if successful, when insurance claims are made they often go to the CLUE insurance report, and make many forms of insurance more expensive or harder to get. https://www.carinsurance.com/clue-report.aspx

The other thing is that you're assuming there was no insurance. Maybe you're right but I doubt it, it was probably insured by Fedex and the uselessness of the insurance was included in "Fedex wouldn't do anything about it".

The "requesting a signature" part is something they often neglect to do, or do carelessly.

At any rate if the person making the trombone case can't be bothered to ship it properly, it's still Fedex's fault from the musician brother's perspective, because he knew firsthand that the driver failed to deliver the item directly to him.
It's important that the original URL be used so that readers can see what the domain is. It's for that same reason that HN doesn't allow link shorteners.
Why do Python lists let you and= a tuple, when you can't and a tuple?
Wrong question as usually both are combined

Edit: as already in other posts highlighted they are two different dimensions
If you're ordering with Amazon, the phone app will notify you when your packages are delivered. You could probably create an app that pings the tracking information every so often for other sellers.
So then, any country that wants to become more economically competitive against the US (even Canada) is a national security threat?
This isn’t a fuzzy abstract line-in-the-sand thing; social logins are specific libraries, and either you’ve got those libraries in your app or you don’t.

If Instagram is using https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/ with the little “log in with Facebook” button, it’s a social login. If they have their own proprietary way to do it in-house, it’s not, and not subject to Sign In With Apple.

That easy.
What’s the point shopping online then? You might as well go out and buy it if you have to drive.
It does significantly reduce the problem.
If the data differs between users, then it can be PII — this is confirmed by the fact that browser fingerprinting works.
My last girlfriend was largely the opposite, especially after the relationship had aged some and she seemed to assume we'd be staying together. She was very independent, and didn't really like doing a lot of things I wanted to do, and kept her own friends separate from me and did things with them on the weekend if I was doing something she didn't want to bother with (such as packing up to move in with her).

I ended up backing out of moving in with her because I didn't feel very close to her and that we didn't do enough together. Shortly after, she dumped me by text and ghosted me.
I read this and thought “no, the iPads still have them right?”. I went to check my new iPad and... sure enough, it’s gone.

I didn’t even notice.

It’s one of those little moments when you take a step back and realise how much things have changed. I don’t think I’ve plugged any headphones in anywhere, in at least 3 or 4 years, and I didn’t even realise the jack wasn’t there anymore.
...which drives me nuts. I need the equivalent of a dummies guide to tell me which one to pick. obxkcd: https://xkcd.com/1987/
The way this story is different is that the company's reaction was "Fuck, delete this" instead of "Fuck, we're rich!"
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However it is _required_ that you add Sign in With Apple. I'm all for privacy but I disagree with this move because apple said "You must add Apple Sign In" rather than "You must allow one form of anonymous login" which means they are forcing developers to use their tools.

Additionally, if the app only has FB or Google login and you don't use either, you can just not use the app
The door to door electricity sales are often scams -> and always totally misleading.

They claim to be working for your electric company (not true), they claim to keep your service you need to pick a provider (not true - you can keep your existing provider even with retail choice and even if you do nothing). They always seem to lie about the price (sometimes its ridiculous).

I've had them at our door. We have a locked building - the guy claimed that a neighbor suggested he talk with us. But he couldn't tell me which neighbor (this is a small condo - I know everyone, all our doors are within 30 feet of each other). He couldn't even point out which neighbor it was.

I do know of some folks who signed up with these guys and bragged for a bit about how much they were saving. Then they went radio silent.
Of course, Kernighan's lever is most useful on individual projects. In an industrial context there are often other constraints. Nobody is saying that you have to always write the most clever code you can. But if you never do it, you will improve your skills very slowly, if at all.
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New EU rules insisting on 2FA for online shoppers is bad news
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We are looking for a software engineer to take over a mixture of backend development, web development, data analysis, and AWS/GCP dev ops. There will also be some machine learning in the near future. Basically, we need someone with good software fundamentals and the ability to pick up whatever is needed (our stack is currently Python/Flask/MongoDB, though you would get to decide future directions).

This is to replace me as I head back to grad school. Our other engineer is primarily focused on game development, though he is super-sharp and shares the load for non-game work as well.

We are also looking for another game dev. Our game uses the Unity engine.

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Maybe I'm just missing your line of reasoning here. I thought you were saying that you expected people on HN to rush to the defense of intellectual property as a viable abstraction for understanding (for example) software or research. Do I have it wrong?

Yes, companies exist in the real world. The real world is full of open source. And full of companies that produce open source material and don't regard it as "intellectual property" except insofar as to license it to protect themselves and their users/readers/customers.
I just say, even if it's a bug, there's no guarantee it'll be fixed on a timeline that's agreeable to our deadlines. Find a workaround.
That privacy seems a bit overboard though. This is fine if a user can create his account directly inside the app. But it's not very clear how to support a workflow where you have an organization with multiple users authorized by an admin to use the app. How can the admin add a user to his organization, if he doesn't know in advance the user randomly generated email? I guess you could send an invitation code, and let the user enter that code after the apple sign in, to associate the account to the authorized user. This sounds more complex for the user than a workflow where the admin can directly authorize specific emails.
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Same. I also want to live in a world where I don't have to fight with paywalls to read a newspaper.
”Under that system, if you go outside the US, disassemble your own phone and mail it to yourself, you would be charged with "counterfeit" because the parts have Apple logos.”

Anybody can go to court with about every claim, so, yes, you can be accused of that, but If you can argue those parts were ‘made’ by taking apart an original iPhone, there’s no way a judge will rule them to be counterfeit.

Also, I write ‘argue’ and not ‘show’ because, in such a case, the burden of proof would soon fall on the party claiming the parts to be counterfeit.

And yes, there likely is a judgment call to make for the judge in this case on whether buyers could reasonably expect to receive original Apple repair parts.
We're leveraging Amazon facial recognition for a time tracking kiosk, and it's scary creepy how good their technology has become.

We'd tried it a few years ago and it was too unreliable, but now it's amazingly accurate.
This is a common perspective, and it is generally correct and worth considering.

However, for a company like Apple to change its stance would take a long time. Culture is sticky and, furthermore, they simply don't have the mass data collection and processing pipelines necessary for such an about face. There would be a fairly long period (my guess is years) during which consumers would be able to change providers.
It prevents covert malicious behavior by the issuer (i.e. they can't just change a database entry and deny they did so).
> the company in the DO debacle was happy to pay

Best as I can tell they are a early stage startup surviving off startup credits from DO. Also $5 doesn't go far towards support costs. After a minute or two troubleshooting and they are already losing money.
Ask HN: Does anyone need free ecommerce dataset crawling?
Hello,

We are testing a machine learning algorithm that extracts automatically data from pages.

Instead of testing on random data maybe we help someone.

Thanks!
What does OJ have to do with a lawsuit and money?

OJ was tried criminally and was found not guilty (I assure you the state of California has more money than OJ, yet he prevailed).

OJ was then sued civilly for wrongful death by the Goldman’s (OJ probably had more money than the Goldman’s) and yet the Goldman’s prevailed in the civil suit.
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That approach might have made sense 10 years ago but it's no longer tenable now that the threat environment has escalated. Organizations will now have to roll out patches immediately even at the risk of disrupting mission critical operations.
Oh, I forgot about iPads, iirc some recent models still have them. Although, technically, those are soon going to be "iPadOS" devices.

I don't share your outlook, for whatever its worth. I use the headphone jack on my iPhone 6S daily, because I really don't want to deal with pairing and charging.
In relation to the FAQ question "Will the affect you if you don't have an iOS device?"

I think the answer is might, probably should, and likely will. Enough apps are cross-platform or share backend code that developers "forced" to include "Sign in with Apple" on iOS may just include it across all their apps/sites. (Especially because they will want iOS users to be able to access their information from desktop browsers.)

It might be a rising tide that lifts all boats in that sense. Especially if Apple keeps their part of the bargain, it might even make sense for non-Apple device users to sign up for an Apple Account/iCloud just to use "Sign in with Apple".

I think that's an interesting question not enough people are thinking about yet.
I wouldn't touch the gaming industry with any investment.

The bubble will burst sooner or later. The esports investment never return a profit. The loot box crazy are finally being regulated. And gamers are fed up with the AAA industry treating them like gambling addicts.
The problem is its not so easy to share spectrum. In reality you can only have a single transmitter/receiver on a given frequency band in a given area

In reality that hasn't been true for decades, beginning with the initial work on spread-spectrum communications in the WWII timeframe. But the regulatory system has yet to catch up fully with the technology's potential.
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Curious if cause and effect could be reversed here. Perhaps it's "People with superior general knowledge have greater intellectual humility"? Perhaps it's a feedback loop where they both impact one another.
You're right, all extremists are like that. The thing is, the OP was claiming that we need to talk to these people, respect them, engage with them, etc., even when we're just taking a ride in a taxi. My position is that, no, you don't need to try to talk to extremists when you just want to get from point A to point B, and also that trying to change these peoples' minds rarely works out.

Finally, no, singling out one group does not make you look like an opposing group's extremists. If you complain about neo-Nazis marching in your city this weekend, for instance, that does not somehow make you look like an extreme leftist. The simple fact is that right-wing extremism is very common these days among certain groups of people; you're probably not going to find any extreme leftists in a random rural American town, for instance.
Is there any word on when this is going to be enforced as a requirement (assuming you already have FB/Google etc.)?

Is it implied that as soon as iOS 13 goes out we'll start getting app updates rejected unless this is integrated?
A few years ago the guy I was sharing an office with at work was cleaning off his desk and found a stack of resumes. He said they were all from the batch that I was hired from and asked if I wanted to know why I was picked. Very cautiously I said yes. He told me I was the only one who when really pushed during the technical interview said "I don't know". Their initial strategy had been to start easy on some topic and just keep going deeper until they had a measure of what level the applicant was at. After a certain point they were just surprised at how far people would carry on into nonsense.
I would hope at least most of the debugging happened before the code made it to production.
Would this be any different from selling a car that used aftermarket repair parts such as a sensor, muffler, or electronic switch? This seems like the most equivalent situation to me. A Ford is still a Ford even if I went down to my local auto parts to purchase replacement parts for it.
I pad mini gen 5 has headphone jack as does the iPad 6 I have, wouldn't have bought if it didn't I use it among other things to listen to podcasts in bed with my comfy memory foam headphones (that double as ear plugs).

It's funny, I would never buy a.mac but I live my iPads as media consumption devices that just work they are fantastic.
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- it's more difficult to implement than FB sign in and websites don't get any of the benefits

It's standard OATH just like FB

- Apple drops users or apps without second thoughts from their ecosystem, and the web is not used to this (and is not going to change)

That's no more of an issue than if you are using any other IDP that could also drop you.

Maintaining new sign options is already a hassle, adding a new one that will only be accessible to a relatively small user base, with a number of hoops makes it seem less worth it.

iOS users are a small user base?
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they don't actually teach software design to any meaningful degree in higher-education classes.

your gut might still be wrong. its a very hard thing to judge. but you don't have a real handicap here.
Depends on how much time/trouble it would be to consolidate in time for that last mile. You could expend more effort combining things, than you would save in just doing the last mile in separate trucks.

I'm not saying this IS true, I don't know. Just that it is logically possible. Combining two different systems for a last mile delivery is not trivial.
When I was first learning and there was a system Python I would install packages, then 6mo to a year later I would find something old. Because the OS came with Python and some number of libraries and because I modified that somehow, I couldn't get back to a known state without reinstalling my OS or updating/removing things likely causing problems. Everything I did were separate test projects, so it never made sense to install libraries globally.

Even now for many languages I shy away from installing globally (I usually install to user if I'm lazy). I feel like in almost any language a "project" (venv) should be taught early on and be simple to use. Basically, the first time you need a third-party module. I feel like newcomers should be shown the REPL, how to save code to a file and run it, standard libraries, then a workspace and how libraries work. Python could be a great example because of the batteries-included model I don't need external libraries for many tasks.
Any news on Swift for Tensorflow?

I’m skeptical of how much practical benefit it will provide but still willing to take a look at it.

There doesn’t seem to be any mention of it here.
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IIRC users have the option to share their real email or not.
But they don't, really. They just need to work in the browser.

I uninstalled Spotify long ago and just run the browser player now. It's more limited functionality, but that's Spotify's fault.

Can we please stop assuming we need native app support for everything?
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There's also a strong correlation between strong communication skills and strong technical skills in our industry that demands frequent learning of new skills. So not only does strong communication augment technical skills, it also signals its strength which is also valuable to software developers.
Could this make accounts less transferable between platforms? Eg, an audio book app account?
Scroll up.

"As previously disclosed, Amazon.com is not FedEx’s largest customer."
Rofl, none of the Chinese copies are better than their originals. The only reason there are Chinese variants is protectionism a la firewall.
And atmospheric entry 10x extra. Unless you want to go the "bank account is drained" route, in which case they boot you out with feathers glued to your arms and wish you best of luck.
Or BeOS or DragonflyBSD.
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Junior programmers find an amazing amount of system-level issues.

One noob came to me with a serious codegen bug in GCC, where even with `-O0` it would fail to correctly run a trivial for loop. Another found a huge security hole in `sudo` that gave everyone unrestricted access. My favorite was one who asked if the JDK standard library had any known bugs processing the letter "g".

They all turned out to be user error, if you can believe it.
They already do this for a large portion of Prime deliveries in India. Don't see why they wouldn't expand it to other countries.
> I regularly judge books based on their cover

I do, too. I've noticed something interesting. Fantasy book covers use a different style of art than scifi covers. You can reliably pick out from a distance which are fantasy and which are scifi.
Where "on the hook" is shipper files a claim through a byzantine manual process to get some subset of the wholesale, not retail, value. You can't file the claim until after a multi-day "investigation". So if you ship a replacement right away, and they find the original item days later...too bad.
This has been useful to us because you can clearly show from the photo that Amazon delivered the device to the wrong house, and therefore a refund gets issued with no hassle.
The problem here is very basic:

Why should an app be listed as free if using it requires sacrificing my privacy to use it? That's fundamentally not free.

If the app cost me money then I've purchased an app I cannot use.

This is very simple: they're saying that you cannot require Apple's (and by extension your) users to submit to abuse of their privacy in order to use your app.
Not really, this is turning into the equivalent of a six year old replying with "why?" to every answer, except you're adults pretending to be oblivious.
It's NASA. Why don't the Brits understand acronyms?
This is what I'm hoping, that the Apple sign in and the user privacy features it provides will raise the bar for consumers, and eventually every consumer IDP will be expected to offer these protections and control.
A Mac Mini is a consumer level, medium powered at best device.

It doesn't come close to an iMac or an iMac Pro.
I wonder what could be done in a game style with this, but with the graphics and solar system "engine" of Kerbal Space Program.
If we are taking a historical view, the US went through the whole cold war and came out as the winner after decades of spying, propaganda, meddling here and there, anything that could give an advantage.

All these mechanics are still there, those agencies are still running. I can’t imagine taking rose colored glasses and think the US and China are that different when the proverbial shit hits the fan.
Choosing a curated language subset is exactly the "how do I curate the language" problem being referred to. The solution is not to subset a language, but to refuse to superset it. Stop building DSLs and frameworks and domain-specific abstractions and just stick to a flexible core.
How? Is it because you have "proof" that it's a real user?

If you watch the presentation or read the transcript, you'll hear that they already do a bunch of fraud prevention. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Apple is doing much more anti-fraud/fake account work that most others are able to.
Teach him to fish and meet him at the front desk.
When I read things like this, I start to wonder: when wealth inequality is discussed, how is it measured? I recall hearing that Jeff Bezos regularly loses billions due to fluctuations in Amazon stock. How much of the "wealth" in wealth inequality is actually based on paper gains? In other words, it seems that the richer you are, the more exposure you might have to the vagaries of the market. Maybe you are rich enough that you can afford to take that hit, but you will also likely lose more in dollars, I would assume.
They probably could, but the question is whether it makes sense for them to do that within the metaverse or outside of it?

If it's easier or more rewarding for them to create these games or other content outside the metaverse platform, then the metaverse gets less useful, less used, and doesn't happen.
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I remember reading about company money in history books. Looks like we’re going back in time.
You can definitely make sparks from metal-on-rock contact, FWIW. Concrete contains gravel for filler material etc.
FWIW, in my opinion, it's pretty gross to make parenting out to be this egotistical, self centered thing. You're shitting on the most consequential experience that most people have in their entire life.

And, aside from that, you're just plain wrong.
i try to remember: "i like liking thing."

this seems to help me avoid intellectual-ier-than-thou attitudes and behaviours. it's simple in its elegance to me:

1) i like to like

2) in order to like something, a manner of understanding is always involved (in maths it's empirical, in watching a magic stage show that fools you it's in a less direct understanding such as 'i understand there's a person attempting to create a sense of awe and wonder even though i do not understand the methodology of the trick')

3) so intention to like -> (as leads to) liking

4) and intellectual humility -> understanding

5) so intellectual humility -> understanding -> liking things

inversely,

intellectual arrogance -> ignorance -> not liking things

i don't want to do that thing. the ignorance and hate thing. it is - at least figuratively and perhaps moving toward literally - the only thing i actively do not like.
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