skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Amazon having big ads saying "massive discounts on prime day", I as a buyer might well consider $3000 down to $100 is in fact a massive discount rather than a mistake.
As far as I know in Switzerland this is symmetrical and an error on one party's side that is considered to be "obvious" to the other party makes it possible for the disadvantaged party to void the contract.

Not sure about other countries.
F-Droid isn't a platform either, you can run your own repository where free speech is priority if you want and offer your own version of F-Droid that comes with your repository compiled in as default.

F-Droid too is just a set of protocols. The default app is open source as well and you're free to modify it if you want.
If those links don't help and are ignored by google, how do they help hide the "real" links?
If they can find it, the government will seize it, don't worry. They even double dip: they seize both the stolen goods and the money paid for them, using the forfeiture doctrine unique to the US. Then, the payer has to prove he was buying in good faith (which will be a steep hill to climb, given the usual conspiracy between buyer and seller of stolen goods) in a separate lawsuit against the government if he wants the money back.
It’s also worth noting that it will support standard NFC payments, so you don’t even need a separate card; standard contactless cards or mobile pay will do.
> What’s wrong with it?

Nothing, the article mostly talks about frozen / pre made low quality meals.
It is also used for altitude sickness, maybe less of an issue in Africa with less high altitude mountain areas than South America.
In some cases, yes, but to the extent that third parties sell on Amazon you could easily have a Chinese sole proprietor shoot himself in the foot. The concept carries up to multiple employees, it’s just diluted. Does dilution affect morality? I don’t know. I kind of suspect not though.
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For me, this is really the answer. It’s a fair move in the realm of the game being played, especially considering the big player. I don’t think the move is always fair with any match up in capitalism, but for this scenario it works on a moral level.
Got an email reminder from Jetbrains yesterday about my IntelliJ licence renewal —

"This is a friendly reminder that we are going to charge your MasterCard [last four digits] on October 16, 2019, for the next year of your subscription".

Reminder 3 months out from renewal (& IIRC nearer the time too). Nice to see a company with belief enough in their product that they expect you to renew on that basis rather than through forgetfulness.
I might also add that Robert Mercer donated to both Trumps campaign and to prominent Brexit proponents. I forget exactly who but like I said it's all public knowledge.
No new way to format a string?
Do you know that food and farming is heavily regulated and subsidised?
I got amused by scanning a QR code
> if you don't understand their motivations and reasoning

Their motivations and reasoning is well understood. It changes nothing. What they are doing is still wrong.
What I usually do is I use a virtual Revolut card that I keep frozen when I'm not making payments. Unfortunately some companies don't accept prepaid card as payment, but in those cases I simply don't give them my money.
It's not about winning - people will complain because that's what people do. Users complain about free products as well, sometimes rightfully and sometimes with too much entitlement. It's not about the monetisation model.

Creating something and putting it out there for free or for a one-off payment is the cleanest possible model.
I've had an Amazon (Marketplace) order cancelled on me, which was due to a pricing error (£500 instead of £1000), and there's nothing I can do about it.

I kind of expected it as it was too good to be true, but what annoyed me was that it took them a week to cancel it.
Nikkei and Bloomberg seem to have an ideological axe to grind. From someone who's on the ground here, China's manufacturing base is shifting up the value chain pretty rapidly, which naturally shifts its relative attractiveness to foreign companies as a source of contract manufacturing.
The article seems to imply that it’s not very far along, they only said it was tried on rats and collected data at 10x the bandwidth of existing methods. Then said they announced to hire.

Tech like this is bound to happen at some point in the next... 20, 100, 200 years? Someone’s gotta be first in line as it happens.
>Guido disagrees and rejected the idea multiple time in the last 2 decades. I think he worked on Python for a long time too :)

Guido also rejected several ideas that would totally fit with Python in those decades. There are lots of concerns (including implementation ones), not just what fits with some hypothetical "Zen", which was never meant as a contract anyway.

Besides Guido finally agreed to it, and even quit because of it.

If Python was to be kept "simple" at all costs, it would have added 20 other things, from operator overloading to yield from over those decades, some far more complex, and non-local than the operator change.
But the bright possibly partially self taught "bright kid" wont have the same support structure. Its just like WASP kids with a rich mommy and daddy who can support them in unpaid internships for those high status jobs.
Because microwaves are mostly used to reheat ready meals, not to cook from scratch. That's potentially a public[1] health problem if there's little regulation of the sugar / fat[1] / salt[1] content of those meals.

[1] Public health talks about the whole population, not just the individual. This means you look at risks across a large group of people. Some people eat fat and are fine, some people eat salt and are fine, but across the population these things are eaten too much and they cause harm.
Is this type of technology ready for mass production? What kind of price breaks are we talking about?

I’ve worked a lot with exposed pcbs or pcbs that are shown on business fairs or shows, so it’s very interesting.
I rent cars from a rental company that seems to have a pricing mistake and the prices are $0 for a week's car rental. Sometimes at busy periods, the price goes up to $0.25.

I've been doing it for 3 years now, and every time the member of staff at the desk looks at the price and goes "whoa - that's a good deal!".

There's no fake names, hacking, or free trials involved - anyone can get the deal by clicking the right buttons on their website. I would guess they have a very complex pricing database, and the boss said "we aren't competitive, reduce all prices by $10 per day", and that left some prices at or below zero...

Is it morally wrong? How is it different from my neighbour lending me a car for free?
Free speech in Germany is not based on the same definition as free speech in the US. The constitution and the BGB/StGB outline fairly clearly what is and isn't illegal hate speech and what is free speech. You have a right to free speech but no right to hate speech, simple as that. Here Gab is in clear violation of NetzDG and Hatespeech Laws with no Provider Privilege. (I'm also German and I recently visited a law course for a semester at my Uni, so I'm familiar with the basics)

The only people that seem to really have an issue with our current hatespeech laws are the AfD fraction in the Bundestag.
> It’s kind of interesting- the asymmetry of moral expectations and entitlement.

First, there is an asymmetry in power too. Amazon can afford to double check or triple check everything if it makes economic sense.

Secondly, companies does not have morals. If you allow big corporations to change prices as they see fit because there is a "mistake". Companies will exploit that to their advantage with psychopathic precision.

You will get your package at home and then you will be informed that the price "was a mistake" and was 10% more expensive. They will print prices in adverts and then say that it was a mistake when people gets to the shop.

Companies are not human beings, as other comments already have said, to involve morality in this issue makes no sense whatsoever.

The real question is: is this an efficient way of improving the consumers well being? If this rules avoid companies of abusing price changes and labeling anything as being a "mistake" and at the same time it encourages better quality on price setting and the "punishment" is not big enough to send all companies to foreclosure. Then it seems a very good deal.

It makes economic sense.
> Be it ordering some product online or booking a flight or other travel ticket or ordering a service

That's true, but all these places already track the living hell out of you. Even the newsletters they send over email have tracking information. By the time they've sent you an email after your first purchase, they know everything they need to show you relevant ads (in fact, that's probably why you made the first purchase...). I doubt bulk analysis of emails can show anything that is not already known way before the emails got sent.
I strongly disagree. You're thinking purely from a software point of view - advertising is still extremely useful for any kind of local business or startup.
I remember when Netflix started automatically playing trailers (or their own version of one) whenever you rested on a title for longer than a few seconds. And I remember looking up how to disable this feature but you can't. I'm sure there will be "well actually"'s for this but when I checked, you couldn't and I don't bother every day checking to see if it's there.

I noticed the Netflix app on some older smart televisions don't have this feature which I can only speculate why but it's like an upgrade watching on those old versions.

I think it's clever, it gets the content they paid for playing on television sets sooner. Trailers can draw people in to watch something they might not have the same way the beginning of a book can suck you in sometimes. And for users that don't like this feature, it keeps them scrolling. Cause every time you scroll over to the next title, the trailer stops and you reliably get about 2 seconds before the next trailer starts playing.

So I started scrolling faster. I think what happened next was that I realized there was nothing interesting to watch much sooner than I would if I wasn't scrolling as fast to avoid the automatically playing trailers.

Their original content comes out so fast and different people in my social circles are so excited about completely different ones and recommending them to me all the time that they just all seem the "same". Something about not having months of hype and advertisements, big reveals, franchises, etc. makes the Netflix originals feel like the product of an assembly line than legitimate inspiration. Like they're doing sprints for creative work. There was a thread a while back on HN about "Bright" when it came out. I remember there was a comment suggesting that the plot/setting/actors/world seems like it was generated with neural nets or something. That's how they all feel to me.

Also the recommendation algorithm gets some things right about me. Most things probably. But it's noticeably more exciting to use when scrolling through someone else's profile. Because it's all new stuff. It's completely tailored for someone else. You're likely to find titles you wouldn't bother to search for specifically (typing in the title) but you're surprised it's on their and you want to watch it immediately. I like The Incredibles but I don't want to watch the Emoji Movie.

So I think they're getting eaten from a couple of angles. original programming is soylent green, other media companies are taking their balls home, the interface is designed in a way that reveals the lack of interesting stuff quicker, their price went up.
> If you accidentally purchased a bag of M&Ms from Amazon for 500 dollars instead of 5, they will let you undo it.

Of course, and they do it out of self-interest. On one hand, 495 dollars are not worth losing a client for life. More importantly, it is not in their interest to scare people away from using their service. The story could spread and cause significant damage to their reputation.

> On the other hand, if the matter is reversed, Amazon is expected to be a good sport and take the loss

Yes, because the situation is asymmetrical. Amazon is afraid of losing customers, but customers are not afraid of losing Amazon.

> I just think it’s amazing how frail people’s morality is, how it goes out the window when certain conditions are met.

I don't think that the majority of people nowadays believes that "the system" is fair. Most people perceive the game as rigged in favor of the rich and powerful, so they feel no moral obligation towards them.

But you are right, human beings are depressingly flawed. Many people will steal or take an unfair advantage if they know they won't be caught. The customer taking advantage of a mistake to receive an unfair deal and Amazon not paying taxes are more or less the same behavior.
We'll see I guess. "Big news" is often about China collapse. I like to look for "small news" that not many people pay attention but they show a bit different picture. Picture of China moving slowly and patiently in many directions to make sure collapse will not happen and that nobody (that is US) can stop China economy development.

It is worth to read about huge investments in many African countries and generous credits Chinese government is giving away. In fact, the only missing piece is a big oil producer that will agree to abandon trading oil in US dollars (Iran is a candidate, that's why US suddenly started pushing on sanctions against it.)

It is worth to read about new routes from China to Europe. Right now there is an operation train connection between China and Poland (Slawkow) that uses wide rail (https://euterminal.pl/en/). Another train connection like this will be available soon to Vienna.

A few days ago final agreement was made to built a highway that would connect China and Berlin.

Chinese investors own almost whole harbor in Piraeus, Greece.

And so on. For me it looks like a plan to be able to trade with Africa, Europe without risk that US can stop this somehow. I would not underestimate China, although, personally, I am not very happy about China expansion, as their political system is truly horrible and against human dignity as I perceive it.
Right, Uber excludes those who have the least. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17450526
> Fresh vegetables, meat and dairy from nearby farms.

You'd think so, but I've found so many bad fruits and vegetables at Safeway and Whole Foods in Redwood City that I've pretty much given up on getting my produce from there. Local family run markets like Sigona's and Draeger's are much better quality, even if they are a bit more expensive.

I'm not sure how the big supermarkets manage to screw up the relatively short supply chain from farms that are just a few hours away.
Nice to see such improvements.

Congratulations on the ongoing work.
I said it would be a start, not a final solution.
A lot of countries including Nintendo have moved and are moving to "Southeast Asia".. Okay so sue me for not reading the article first; Nintendo is mentioned. Giant is another. Not sure how widespread it is but it's real.
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But it's only possible at the very high urbanisation/population density of the Netherlands, which in turn is only possible with very strict zoning - and more importantly, strong popular support for it. It's just not politically feasible (i.e., wanted by the people) elsewhere.
What spreadsheet software isn’t?
I agree, but my intention was to point out downsides of current US home ownership mechanisms.
Interesting to compare this to religious morals: "Thou shall not steal" has nothing to do with the the victim, only the actor. In secular morality, things are more nuanced and the wealth/likeness/actions of the victim help determine how "bad" the act was. Amazon being large/rich changes things compared to a small m&p shop. See also: Jack and the Beanstalk, Robin Hood.
It always seemed to me that the long pauses between "man... one... giant leap" are consistent with him realising that he made a mistake (dropped the word "a"), and then deciding to just go ahead.
Basically UNCOL, TEGRA, AS/400 TIMI, z/OS ILE, CLI, ...
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Nim sounds like a perfect opportunity for you :)
These look lovely.

Can you talk a bit about how the PCBs will work in production?

How do component silk screens work? What about fiducial marks? Do machine vision systems (when looking for fiducials) cope with the graphics or do they get confused?
That's a really broad question. I'm not sure what you're asking here exactly, since I can't remember complaining about something that could be taken as a problem.
Vietnam is actually very attractive, since it also has a FTA with India. It's in the middle of the Asian Tigers and China, and is also not subject to the colonial 'english-only' education system that is ravaging India and causing large-scale unemployment.
In addition to what bendbro suggests, which is actually quite close to reality if oversimplified, banks also have sovereignty concerns with data that may have additional classification and regulatory strings attached. In Australia where I’m based, ‘material’ data such as financial and audit information must be kept in country and its veracity attested to, which is why so many large banks here at least still have big iron in managed data centres for most of their core transactional systems.

Edited to specify which sibling I was referring to.
This is because (at least in many shops in the EU) ordering does imply a sale, no contract has been made, it is only a notion of intent (which if you read the T&C in the order confirmation you'll find pretty often). The contract is only made when the company ships it, thus agreeing to the sale.
Not a terrible idea. Society can call this problem domain solved, and outside of the purview of copyright.
I think free speech is usually seen in a non-national context in a sense of "you can say whatever you want. No exceptions". So Germany does not have that at all.

"Hatespeech" on top of the "legal"/national definitions for what is sometimes also called free speech (but isn't at all) are just contraptions to censor people, usually the political opposition.
Because it is far superior to any italian sports car on any parameter that matters outside of a track.

If you want a great car (we are of course ignoring fuel costs here), it is the most comfortable thing you'd ever park your buttocks in, and a much more well thought out vehicle. The usual Lamborghini or Ferrari would in comparison feel like a Peugeot 104 on a good day.

If you want to turn heads, this certainly does it better (although a Lamborghini or Ferrari is likely to get more attention from kids).

Sure, a Huracán has a faster 0-100, but if you want to enjoy the car outside of the track, it would be awful to drive in. Plus, it's still slower than a much cheaper production sedan (Tesla Model S P100D Ludicrous). If you're not going to be the fastest anyway, you might as well be the most comfortable.

None of these high-end vehicles hold their value anyway. Hell, there are really no new vehicles that hold their value. Only classics do.
Probably around half of frontend developer jobs I see nowadays are for projects using react; and that number keeps going up.

If you do any web development at all, chances are you will have to work in a React codebase during the next decade
Yea, this would be bad. But, 14.4$ per bushel was in line with historic food prices. https://ourworldindata.org/food-prices

However, as I said this is more a thought experiment than a practical solution. Higher food prices would result in less meat consumption, food waste, and likely less obesity. The most likely outcome seems to be more food production in less ideal locations not farming a literal desert using desalination.
> "you can say whatever you want. No exceptions"

Does anywhere have that? The US certainly doesn't.
a counter-counter argument (or ,, just argument?)

> because it facilitates and profits from rule and lawbreaking,

Every business profits from grey areas, and even from regulations which give them advantages. Hotels are also big offenders to this (regulate against their competitors/barrier to entry even before airbnb).

> they become a problem when they stop being random

When there is demand, people find supply. People want ways to live temporarily, and airbnb accelerates this trend. People believing their neighborhoods should never change by tourism/immigration/gentrification are not necessarily less evil

> by encouraging people to break social contract

the social contract may need an update? It's not like anyone ever signs those anyway. People move a lot nowadays, and maybe the idea of an idyllic quiet downtown neighborhood cannot exist without paying premium anymore. There are trends like digital nomading and remote work which are in a steady rise for a decade, and it will only keep rising. Airbnb is perfectly positioned to serve this alternative social contract
Banks used to store peoples gold, now they store data.

I don't think any serious bank will consider trusting outsider with their core business.

And mainframes are essentially early on premises clouds.

And today's, cloud offerings still don't do what mainframes did as easily.

(and there are several things that cloud does offer that mainframes can't do)
Build up formal foundations eg. complexity, runtimes, grammars, state machines and proofing (use something like coq to get used to it). Learn an imperative (c), a functional (haskell), a declarative (answer set programming or prolog) and an oop language (java). if you understand them you can easily switch between languages. do math and ignore ai because it's just simple math. Do something with parallel computing eg use MPI, OpenMP or computations on the graphic card. keep coding.