skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just ordered a MyQ garage door hub from Amazon Warehouse (listed as missing or damaged original packaging). When I opened it up it felt a little off. The protective film on the device had obviously been removed and reattached and nothing fit very well in the designated slots in the packaging. The device itself had faint scratches and dust on it.

I decided to check the model number and sure enough, it was the previous model. Someone had obviously ordered the new model (presumably because the new one gained support for Apple HomeKit) then stuffed their old one in the box and done a refund through Amazon.

Amazon handled it fine and I got a replacement that was correct but now I'm pretty skeptical of how Amazon processes the returned items they place up for sale again.
Yeah, don't deploy it when its in beta or its first few releases. At some point it will be stable and safe at which point everyone from then on will benefit.
No idea, I freaking love it and no one would confuse me for a mathematician or physicist. (I'm using Versor in C++.)
They’re low because of television.

Hollywood is a cred game. The actual money since the 1950s has been on television. In fact Hollywood has never been as profitable, inflation adjusted, as it was before the commodification of television sets.

Source: I study history of film. To think of Hollywood in the 20s, 30s and 40s - think of Silicon Valley. Entire cities were made in huge lots behind LA studios. Nobody does that anymore. Gone with the wind, inflation adjusted, is still one of the most expensive and profitable movies ever made.

And yes, trust me - as far as they know (and a lot of things have been tried) Hollywood makes what it makes because it sells. It’s an industry like any other. Instead of cars they sell movies.
Civil disobedience
> During a gold rush the best way to make money is to sell shovels.

That's never actually true, it's just a nice saying. The most money is always made in owning a super structure business - in tech, a platform - that has very wide appeal, rather than concerning yourself with trying to compete to sell shovels to a temporary gold rush.

Selling shovels is an opportunistic business, only good for a short-term run. The real money is always made by focusing instead on larger, longer term opportunities that are sustainable.

Some things persistently ignored about the shovel selling business during gold rushes: most of the shovel sellers lose their hats in the bust, because they don't see it coming and they carry inventory and speculate on demand constantly. The history of gold rushes is that the shovel sellers frequently miscalculate the duration of the rushes. They get hammered when it ends, most of them go bankrupt (see: every oil boom in US history).

It's better to be Exxon or Chevron and own large reserves in the ground, not the primary company selling little pieces of gear to Exxon. It's better to be the majors in the Permian (gold rush) making money long-term off the reserves, not the little shovel sellers that constantly boom and bust with each big blip in the oil market.

It was far better to own refining and pipelines - chokepoint super structures - during the oil boom in Standard Oil's time, than to be a shovel seller to the oil industry or oil wildcatters.

It's better to be Rio Tinto, Newmont or BHP and own the mines & supply than to be selling mining equipment. BHP is a $137b company, Rio Tinto is a $91b company. The shovel sellers are comically tiny by comparison, borderline irrelevant in size versus these juggernauts.

For the last century it has been better to be De Beers than to be selling diamond industry equipment.

During the car boom in Henry Ford's time, it was better to be one of the surviving majors than to be a shovel seller. This fundamental is always true.

During the mobile gold rush it's better to be Apple and Google than ARM, Foxconn or Qualcomm (Samsung for their part covers all the bases). The super structures - Apple & Google platforms in this case - usually by far make the most money, the shovel sellers are typically much smaller and less profitable.
How do you know I'm vastly underestimating the size of the problem? Do you have a source? Random sampling from the ingest stream sounds like a good start for your base rate. Once you have some metadata about bad actors, you can also start hunting their videos and compare your random sample collection stream to the ever-improving bad-actor collection stream.
Direct action.
This all depends on the school district and/or state. Many places, you have to actually get degrees in Education rather than random subjects. (And you are expected to do this to stay employed, rather than to get pay bumps).
I’m half surprised Amazon doesn’t have a widget or something that displays the virtual dash buttons

I say half surprised. They’re probably avoiding Apple’s 30% cut or something
You often don't even know what you want until you build it, try it in PRODUCTION.

I prefer a scientific method to discover what we really want here.
Brasil and the rest of South America. But yeah Brasil can become China’s meat basket.
That's the ultimate lost bet when bidding on Amazon returned merchandise. A pallet full of dirt likely in the boxes of expensive brand name items.
Yup: Their "all" was a high powered, loaded gun, cocked, no safety, hair trigger, ready to go off at any time.
Oh, its you again. I don't mean that in a mean way, but your comments do stick out as being burned out/not happy.

I'm happy you opened up a little as to how you feel. If you want something that's 80% business 20% tech, I can high recommend getting into "high end" consulting. "High end" just meaning rich people, their houses, and a small smattering of businesses that they themselves have a high earning to effort %.

I don't mean writing code, I mean doing networking/server work/maybe some desktop stuff. I know that doesn't sound glamorous, but you get to make good money (really good money), most jobs are DONE when you're done, and it's generally very low stress. (learn and understand VLAN's and that level of networking and you're already in demand for a lot of people)

Most of the job is learning to setup/meet expectations, know how to talk to those kinds of people, and other business end skills. You'll also never age out - these kinds of people have long ago learned to identify other markers and often are older themselves.

I did this for years and it fit all the things you say you'd like and it left me with plenty of time to write code on the side (or not, the time is there to do what you love.)
Exactly.

Previously the US has been run by people who are the scrupulously honest, diligent, forthright types. And anybody who was willing to get a little aggressive walked all over us. Trump totally flips that dynamic around. He is the guy who is aggressive, belligerent and unpredictable. As much as he may be a reprehensible human being, I’ve been on the other side of the table from people who negotiate like this and it’s refreshing to have one of them in America’s corner.
Common people, laymen, don’t completely understand it the same way you might, full of nuance.
Learn yourself some Org Mode.
I believe this is covered by Section 230. Would expect to see this thrown out, but law is crazy so who knows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
I once went to an emergency room near Philadelphia -- Bryn Mawr -- and I was there for tops 2 hours. They didn't do anything fancy, beside an EKG (if you can even call that fancy).

They sent me a bill for $15k.

Luckily insurance covered 80% of it... But still! It basically maxed out my out-of-pocket for the year. And for what? An EKG -- at the time -- cost, on average, less than $100...

I remember calling the billing office to try to figure it out. They sent me the bill for $15k directly, so I thought that's what I owed AFTER insurance. Needless to say, I was panicked. I remember telling them, I'd sooner leave the country and move to Europe than pay them $15k, if that's what it came down to. I remember the billing office basically threatening my life. And then when they found out I had insurance (not sure why they didn't know that I did already), they suddenly got much more friendly.
Are you sure? If not yet, soon.
This "everything as a service" industry is a terrible deal for consumers. It's a great deal for companies though.

Why should I pay a constant fee for things that should have been one time purchases?

Why should I lock myself into a proprietary ecosystem?

Why should a pay a membership fee to Cos. who just want to harvest my data at every turn?

Lawmakers, in the spirit of promoting competition, should seek to lower switching costs, increase price transparency, increase interoperability, reduce network affects, and lower barriers to entry for all fields, tech especially. Generics, in every field, should be encouraged and widely available.

1(see Spotify, Netflix, most terrible VC ideas(Bryd, Line) etc)
2(see Amazon, Apple's walled garden of hardware and software, etc)
3(see Amazon, most membership clubs)
I think we have to consider the idea that Tesla is run by a futuristic utopian maniac who doesn’t take “no” for an answer. I mean... possibly.
Follow-ups of any kind usually do worse. There's a power-law dropoff of curiosity under repetition.

Skepticism featured prominently in the original thread, so your accounting should probably give it some retraction credit. It even helped create the follow-up, since Schneier cites it.
Well if the original gave the impression that kafka and zk were the same kind of software it must have been pretty bad.
I buy many retuned items from Amazon warehouse. I find that about 5% of them are like this - people put either their old item or some other junk back in the box. Just happened again 2 days ago with a stroller my wife bought.
Or, for a pre-split alternative, foam water pipe insulation:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/M-D-Building-Products-1-in-x-72-...
Boy do I have news for you.

"How the CIA Hoodwinked Hollywood

Since its inception, the agency has wooed filmmakers, producers, and actors in order to present a rosy portrait of its operations to the American public."

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/07/op...
Yeah, I’m generally gonna choose to shop at other retailers, who charge flat prices and don’t try to optimize for net profit.

Waaaait a minute... you don’t think the wily motherfuckers could be using all their data and resources to boost revenue on the a la carte side, do you?
GitHub Government Takedown Notices
One of the best articles I've read on the internet so far. Eye opening.
It depends on the industry but margins in manufacturing are often enormous. I once worked in a factory making action figures. We could make a few dozen for under a penny in energy and material costs. Those sold for ~$19.99 each.

It turns out that all the cost is in marketing and distribution. And for asian manufacturers the internet era has decreased those costs a ton. They can outsource them to eg. western youtube price arbitragers and focus completely on volume to maximize their government subsidy.
Right, but let's say you didn't do that because you weren't well-versed in the legal system, so all you did was register your copyright, then transfer the registration to your friend, who then stashed the documentation in a filing cabinet.

Should you have to be an expert in the legal system to avoid losing your intellectual property when your house burns down?
Pretty common practice in parts of India too.
Unless the autopilot sped up the vehicle, it sounds like the driver was going at least 13 mph over the speed limit. By speeding, the human driver increased the danger to himself and everybody around him.

I truly am sorry he died. But I don't think Tesla should be on the hook for the scenario he seemingly created.[1]

[1] In my ethical framework, adults are responsible for their choices, and in a functioning democracy, for obeying even laws they don't personally like. I realize I'm in the minority on this.
I wonder what effects on the ecosystem it will have when the ice sheet is too small to introduce comparable amounts of sediment into the ocean.
Actually, github monitors for that. They discuss it a bit at https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-token-scanning, although the list of companies is a bit outdated.
It's a bit weird that having the agent make up stuff about itself randomly ("I'm a construction worker" or "I build antique homes and refurbish houses") is considered a good response. Something like "I don't need to make money, I'm a bot" is what I'd expect. Or alternately, in a game situation, the bot could be playing a particular role it's given beforehand and judged by how well it stays in character.
To be clear, "size" here refers not to the volume of undesirable content, but rather to the total volume of videos submitted to YouTube. In order to use automatic classification, one needs to examine every new video submitted. YouTube gets (last I heard) double-digit hours of video submitted per second. You have to scan an appreciable portion of the video to determine if it's objectionable.

Edit: the common suggestion that you can just ban the few bad actors effectively ignores decades of research into spam detection. Accounts are too easy to create, you have to go after content.
GP said $150k in revenue, not profit. If their operating costs are $149k there isn’t much anyone can do without a loan or outside investment.
That's like saying when implementing a function you shouldn't call another fn, you should copy and paste its implementation so you don't have to flip to another location in the code.

The right way is to learn what the function means so you can set see calls to it and know what it does.
Not only is this an excellent project, I think this is also an incredible collection of books you've chosen to feature. I also really appreciate the art choices that have been made for the covers.

I have many of these in epub from Gutenberg, but plan to replace them with your versions when I have some time.

I know others have already asked about bulk download--have you considered offering a torrent of the full library or possibly one for each file format?
I've encountered another scam regarding Amazon returns where the seller would ship from overseas. The item I ordered would be nothing like the description. So I filed for a refund and the seller was like "sure, here's the form and you can pay for shipping". As you can imagine because of the postage rates differences, it was a lot more expensive for me to send it back vs. the cost to them to ship to the US. In fact the shipping cost was almost the cost of the item.

I contacted Amazon customer service and they issued me the refund without requiring me to send anything back but I wonder how many people just gave up. Amazon's customer service is a huge part of the reason I order so much through them. I feel comfortable buying things off of Amazon and has never had to "eat the cost" of shady sellers.
The point of civil disobedience (often) is to wind up in jail. Civil disobedience doesn't mean "no consequences", it means enduring the consequences as a form of protest to illustrate how absurd they are.
See also Joseph Tainter's "The Collapse of Complex Societies" (1988).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter
>but they don't add up to needing $100 billion to implement them

Then give dividends?
No, but money worries can exacerbate anxiety. If the drug is marginally effective, the money may provide more (but _far_ from complete) relief.

Context: I have a long-term anxiety condition (GAD+OCD).
Even from your browser you can still connect to the official ACiD BBS http://piranha.zapto.org/.

I recently posted a link to an interview with the creator of "Tradewars 2002" - a BBS door game. A bit different niche from the same era.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2019/07/19/gary-martin-creato...
A lot of the products seem to be small household items, like razor blades, trash bags, water filters, and the like, that when you run out you are (1) probably going to want to replace with the same brand, (2) probably don't want to put off replacing to wait for a bargain, and (3) probably will still buy even if the price is a little more than the last time, but within the normal Amazon price variation.

Also, according to their documentation, pressing the button queues the order and sends you an email, which includes price information. You can cancel the order before it ships. I'd expect that the normal flow for most people is to press the button when they notice they are running out of something, and then check the order details when they next deal with email.
Google does that for any query that uses advanced search operators.
"Structural change" actually means "letting so-called experts who have made every prediction wrong so far, control public policy based on their new predictions". No, thanks.

Or, to put it another way: you think the crisis modern civilization faces is that we don't have enough central coordination to enforce what needs to be done. I think the crisis modern civilization faces is that we have too much central coordination, so people who don't actually have the knowledge and predictive power they claim to have can mess up everyone's life instead of just their own.
I had a similar experience with an expensive Toto toilet seat from Amazon Warehouse Deals.

When it arrived, it was clear the packaging had been opened (which I expected), but:

- the toilet seat had signs of handling

- it didn't work when installed

- the previous purchasers return note was in the box. IIRC they said the reason for return was that they changed their mind about wanting it

My guess is that they bought a replacement on Amazon, and fraudulently sent back their old non-functioning one in the new packaging.

Amazon gave me a refund without fuss.
> Jira is a disaster of UX.

Yes. It's crazy how many times I've made mistake in Jira or was surprised by it. It feels like there is no consistent in Jira and each feature has its own set of rules and logic and all these features were tacked on to create Jira.
Because the instance is used mainly by people outside the company and these individuals do not have the expertese needed to use a VPN?
I'm curious how it even totaled 370k. Returning enough items to get that high should set off alarms!
I'm more inclined to think the utility is a pretext.

If you do human sacrifice, it's probably because you want to do human sacrifice. Smart people can always come up with a pretext.
what about the claims that the server has access to group chat logs?

because yor denial, only covers the moderation sugar on top. the damage is already done. a long time ago.
Thanks for all the great effort and progress. Better error messages would be awesome, but this composable multi-thread support makes Julia even more absurdly powerful and versatile! The priority makes complete sense.

The Julia team and community are constantly advancing the frontiers of language design while grounding it in real number crunching applications. I wouldn't be too concerned about trying to have the same documentation and content approach as the Rust community as their goals were to usurp the mindshare of systems programmers (C/C++) with a novel ownership paradigm.

Looking forward to the progress on error messages.
For better controlled research on the effects of green spaces have a look at Ming Kuo's work. E.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245234610_Aggressio...
Brex sounds like it’s headed for bankruptcy based on the article. They’re unprofitable now, and have incredibly risky clients sitting in front of what feels like a looming recession.
The post you replied to mentions other methods to separate a service, not being hardened enough is only one of the reasons you would want to do that. A major one being that many Jira deployments are only useful internally anyway so there is no reason to expose it to the outside world.
The Kuwaiti oil wells and Y2K are not great analogies. They are both orders of magnitude easier to address, there aren't wealthy and powerful elites stymying efforts to stop them, and they don't require everyone changing their lives drastically to make a dent in the problem.

I've heard this idea from more than one libertarian friend that "change is not bad" in relation to climate change in the last month, so it makes me wonder whether a think tank is spreading this talking point virally.

To counter with another analogy - this attitude is like living in a crackhouse steadily filling with trash and roaches and termites and not addressing the problem because "change is good" and "we can adapt".
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The fact that nuclear reactors are used in one step of the long process of manufacturing some nuclear bomb components does not give anyone license to confuse nuclear bomb test fallout with nuclear reactor waste.
Curiously, that’s the opposite of what they say about cars
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American Indians had never seen medieval Europeans as the Europeans that started going to America had been coming from Renaissance Europe.

I have read that for some reason during Renaissance Europeans started preferring natural body smell and bathing less.
That's true, regardless. They paid tax earning that $100M. What they do after is irrelevant, as neither dividends nor buybacks are tax deductible.
Urban planning in US cities is pretty shit. Even the “well planned” green cities could use a lot of work.
Because there's a lot of preexisting mathematical physics work (ie legacy code) that uses basic vector algebra, so you have to know that, whereas you can get away with not grokking geometric algebra, so plenty of people do.
For the Amazon-compatible "azw3" files that I'm seeing, I'm curious why the book cover thumbnail images are a separate download from the ebook file itself?

Unless I'm missing a trick, it seems like you have to use Calibre (or some other application) to re-build the "azw3" file with the cover thumbnail properly embedded. Why not just ship the ebook files like that to begin with?
That's an interesting question. Fe and P are probably the most relevant nutrients that are abundant in suspended glacial rock flour. Since Fe3+ is pretty insoluble in seawater, the suspended (vs. dissolved) load might actually matter -- wind-blown dust would be the #1 competitor. The first relevant paper I found suggests the dust still dominates [1], but it was clearly enough of a consideration for them to write a paper about it. And sometimes the wind-blown dust is actually glacial rock flour [2], so the plot thickens!

[1] https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-015-0091-6

[2] https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL046573
I have a roll of black circle stickers in my bag and I regularly put them over small cameras in public (such as the ones hidden in video advertising screens).

They're purposefully non-destructive and I've even made the effort to select a sticker type where the adhesive doesn't leave a residue when peeled off.
On earth there is life capable of existing in water far hotter than boiling. Not little bacterias either. Actual multicellular animals.

Catastrophic change will leave pockets of deviants in some dark corners of the earth that will remain protected somewhat. These deviants will go on to populate the world.

There was one such catastrophic change that happened before. A meteor. Wiped out an entire class of creatures called dinosaurs, now replaced with mammals. Mammals at this time lived as tiny rodents underground.
The GP talked about people entering the surveillance game in general, not necessarily operating their own blimps. Smaller outfits will find ways to game the existing rules and add surveillance capability thereto.
How effective are “demo walls” in selling B2B software?
Forget returning that much. Even just spending that much at Amazon to begin with should set off an alarms, e.g. is this a stolen card? money laundering?
It seems like someone could start an insurance company, where all customers had to claim they had no insurance, but then sent the bill to be reimbursed.
I Restored a Bell and Howell Model 34 Oscilloscope