skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, it's a hatchet job that groups relatively innocuous things with dangerous things to inflate numbers. For example, take this:

>1,412 electronics listings falsely claimed to be UL certified—indicating they met voluntary industry safety standards—or didn’t provide enough information to verify the claim.

Falsely claiming to UL certified is dangerous. Not providing enough information to verify the claim is pretty benign if they actually meet standards.

This isn't to say that they aren't largely correct about Amazon's commitment to quality and safety. Just that this is an alarmist piece that doesn't rest on sound reasoning.
YouTube flags robot battle videos as “animal fights”
With hole for logo
Not. Here is the real screenshot https://d.pr/i/4yEClL
Thats a good start. What about telling them to never answer a call from an unknown number. Any legit call will leave a voicemail and that will weed out a large number of scammers.

Next, if the voicemail is clearly a robot voice, make sure they don’t respond until checking with you first. That should weed out another big chunk.
instead of trying to quantify this statement, let's look at trends and actions in governance (since this is not new)

from the Global Climate Action Summit 2018, convened by CA Gov Jerry Brown:

Every 5 weeks, China adds a fleet of electric buses equivalent to
the entire London bus fleet – 9500 buses. Technologies are now
market ready, societally acceptable and economically attractive to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport by 51% by 2030,
through electric vehicles, mass transit and adapting the global
shipping fleet. A complete global and technological shift to electric
vehicles now looks very likely and, given recent announcements from
cities, countries and car manufacturers, is possible between 2020
and 2030. However, the transformation will slow dramatically without
strong national and city policies, for example setting target dates to
ban internal combustion engines.
Magit is a good one. But its an emacs package and, well, I wouldn't want to shy over the fact that it may require some effort.
Thanks for the author recommendation, had never heard of him.
Proof?

We do have records of the arguments that were made for the elector system mandated by the Constitution, and they demonstrate that your "precise idea" is a fabrication.

Here is some reading for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._68

It had almost nothing to do with the practicality (or lack thereof) of the popular vote. The debates focused upon balancing the right of the people with the right of the states, i.e., the ability of states with large populations to make the votes of smaller states irrelevant. Hamilton also focused on the need for trusted electors so that the people both had a say, and trusted individuals could avoid rash populism. I.e., the value of a representative form of election. The transient nature of the college was also important. The electors would have one task, and then be dismissed. They could not be people with a vested interest, such as members of congress, governors, etc. This also made them less likely to be influenced by foreign powers, as they would not be electors long enough to be so influenced.
> 40 hours of work for a two week sprint

You're my hero. For real!
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I considered leaving it in, but I figured it would be a trigger point for people to brush the rest of the sentence off as unimportant just because they didn't like one part of it. I'm not sure if you proved my point or if I inadvertently fulfilled my own prediction.
They know that there are elections in 2020. They might be playing for time until then.

But if Trump is re-elected...
I have a very simple bookmark let that only shows items sold by Amazon.com without having to filter by category. I think part of the issue is that their site UI is pretty horrendous, and makes it difficult to limit searches. I do however notice issues with some items sold by them, but primarily with descriptions being incorrect or them combining a bunch of items with reviews, sometimes for completely unrelated products. I personally try to avoid third-party sellers for the most part. I would love to support smaller businesses, but to be honest you're probably doing most third-party sellers a disservice by buying on Amazon, especially if you think there is a possibility that you'll return the item.
Silly Question: If online advertising is a near duopoly, why are there so many trackers?
Or perhaps they’re so KPI-focused that they do know they’re screwing up the customer experience, but they don’t care, because customer experience isn’t a KPI and so won’t get them promoted?

Interesting factoid: I’ve never seen Amazon attempt to take any net-promoter-score-like “Would you recommend Amazon to your friends” measure. Google does these (I just had one pushed on me while using the GCP console.) Apple probably does them somewhere, even if I haven’t noticed it. Facebook definitely does them. But Amazon seems to be actively resistant to collecting this information. They seem to not want to quantize customer-experience into a KPI.
This looks interesting, but the syntax seems like a major obstacle. "( /( * --->n( +--->n1 ) )2 )" instead of just "n * (n+1)/2" seems very unwieldy. Why the big arrow prefix on variables?
Yeah I always see scrum masters as trying to play engineering manager or play at a role that isn't theirs nor are they qualified for. They also seem to think most engineers are stupid and can't even walk without hand holding.
There's a persistent market bias that Remote Workers are a cybersecurity risk, that's a Big Problem.

> https://smallbiztrends.com/2019/08/remote-workers-the-bigges...
If you look at what people have to go through in 2019 for an entry level job at the coding fields, everyone hates it and it's not just 'toxic' for female coders.

Take a look at /r/cscareerquestions on reddit. People grind for 18 months at a time on leetcode and interview prep, like how rich suburban kids prep for the SAT, and then offer this advice up as the pro-tips others can use to get their foot in the door of a high prestige tech company.
Not to sound pedantic, but I think it would be wise to always use "Amazon.com" when talking about Amazon.com, instead of just Amazon.
Hi guys. Any feedback would be really appreciated, thanks!
Attempting to solve the quality problem is possible. I imagine it's easier at Amazons scale because of the amount of data they have.

This should raise a number of questions.

So, why don't they put forth a solid effort? Is it due to regulatory reasons? If so, should they not publicly state that to put pressure on legislatures or to have a real public discussion.

Jeff Bezos signed the new purpose of a corporation [1]. The first bullet reads, "Delivering value to our customers. We will further the tradition of American companies leading the way in meeting or exceeding customer expectations."

Does he not mean it? How does he define value?

[1] https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redef...
I think the root of the issue I am getting backlash on is team work vs individual work. If you are using Agile as a process to just organize work then ignore all my comments. I am using Agile/Scrum as a way to build strong development teams (not just groups of individual developers).

For the locking sprints, that is a matter of protecting the developers from management and the customer. The product backlog can be moving target all day, but the sprint backlog needs to have some backbone so the developers have focus and are not pulled different directions every day. If the sprint backlog needs to change then the developers will come to me for help. Our history is from a very chaotic environment and the developers really like having some sanity/consistency with defining the sprint and holding it still. If the customer wants something else, then we can deal with that in the next sprint.
This is a totally solved problem.
In the normal retail world, sellers are responsible for the defective items they sell, regardless of if they knew or not.

If you buy a defective thing from best buy, they are responsible.

They may turn around and sue the next person up the chain for doing the same (selling it to them).

This incentivizes companies to be careful who they buy from.

The problem here is that the article refers to them as "third party sellers". They aren't in most cases, amazon just has a large distributed supply chain.

If you want amazon to care, make them liable for the stuff sold on their website, the same way best buy is for the stuff in their store.

Problem solved.

This will not destroy their business - it has not destroyed any other business.

It will simply cause them to care.
I think that video was made by a comedian, not actual engineers.
China has to avoid alienating the American people, who largely support China over Trump on the matter of tariffs.

So by playing it cool and letting Trump get in a few rounds of tit for tat, China is expecting not to have to take more drastic measures in order to win.

I expect that China's restraint will pay off, as the trade war has already sent the economy into the early stages of recession, and China still has a year to let Trump dig his own grave.
There is either no plan, or there is a plan to utterly trash the US and it is working.
There are dozens of us who use Mercurial! Dozens!
> long term solutions such as public transportation and the elimination of the suburban commuter lifestyle

Would it be too off-topic to mention the most effective solution: having fewer children?

> a country as densely populated as Singapore

Nope, population control seems on-topic.
> Before they release it, they need to prove to themselves it's safe (I'm speaking morally)

I don't think it was a moral question. I think the lawyers got involved and were uncomfortable with potential litigation exposure.
Hi, I think we can objectively say that Slack or VS Code (Electron) are beautiful, while fractal or Notecase (Gtk) are not.
They need to appear "tough" for their internal audience, even though they are miscalculating at every twist and turn.
A Pair of Sneakers Explains the Billion-Dollar Sneaker Resale Industry
> Honestly, the part about agile I dislike the most is a dedicated scrum master role

That's not a part about Agile, but about Scrum.

Also, the “dedicated” part isn't even essential to Scrum.

> We had agile coaches at my company recently and it was one of the more painful experiences of my career. They would try to add [...]

That's a different issue than a dedicated ScrumMaster role, and anti-Agile, as team ownership of process is central to Agile. Consultants external to the team (whether internal to the org or external there, too) trying to impose process is the antithesis of Agile. There might be a role for coaching in Agile, but it certainly isn't process advocacy.
I already used a host mount to inject SSH keys. I guess I can just skip the rest and automate the steps to pivot fully into the host.
I really struggled to use it, this approach looks a bit more straightforward.
> VLA typedef ... I have no clue how this could ever be useful.

I used this feature recently. I had several arrays of the same size and type, and the size was determined at runtime. The VLA typedef let me avoid duplicate type signatures which I find more readable.

int N = atoi(argv[1]);
typedef int grid[N][N];
grid board;
grid best;
grid cache;
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Homeowners Make the Best Landlords
Why does “the world is dominated by people whose opinions are fundamentally shaped by what others are saying, and moreover, by how frequently other people seem to be saying it“ imply an elitist vs populist class divide, rather than applying to EVERYONE? I can honestly say I have never met a person whose thoughts were not primarily a construct of their environment. Take everyone I’ve ever known, and have them born 2000 years ago in Greece, and they’d probably believe that slavery is fine, child sexual slavery is a perk of being rich, and that it’s perfectly normal to burn heretics. Anyone whose thoughts weren’t dominated by societal cues would probably end up in jail.
I never checked, but I always assumed this. It just makes sense given time is probably the most important factor in those interactions.
How else would we teleport matter, if it wasn't via information representing that matter?
Plugins. The security nightmare of desktop applications and the main reason Google store / Apple store is banishing developers accounts left and right.
Like Schneier always said "you can always create an unbreakable security for you but smarter ones will find holes in it". I'm curious how this one will hold on long term, let's say an year from now.
First teleportation of 3D quantum states
"primarily the mom & pop businesses that are going to fire on a whim"

Talk to some people in the hospital business who are over 50. I have a friend who worked for a huge hospital, was good at her job, had been doing it for many decades. One day an HR person called her into the office, said she needed to take a test, and said she had to leave that day until she took the test, administered by some 3rd party. A younger worker, doing the same job, also didn't have this credential they invented, but she got to stay. She wasn't making as much money because she hadn't been there as long.

My friend had a couple of weeks to study for this test, which was about the physics of the machine she had been using for 30 years. She failed the 1st time, they wouldn't tell her her score, and wouldn't tell her what she got right or wrong. The test itself was ridiculous: how many of us could explain in detail the physics of how our hard drive works? She was given a small severance and told to sign papers that I'm guessing gave up her rights to sue. And besides, it's well known in my area that suing a hospital is a fool's errand. The local lawyers do so much business with hospitals that they won't even take cases against them.

If you tell someone "your job ends today, but we'll give you a month's pay if you sign these papers", many people have no choice but to sign: they can't afford to have zero income starting today.
I second the 'customization' label (though perhaps themability is a better one?), for me applications that do not use the desktop look and feel are a negative thing and something i try to avoid, so the 'look' is certainly subjective.
> SQLite is extremely reliable and durable for large amounts of data (up to 140TB).

This has not been our experience. Our experience is that it sort of bogs down around 12GB in file size. linux box, ext3/4, spinning disk (not SSD)
Spotify and Telegram are both examples of good looking Qt apps, but I prefer standardization of the menu bar which neither do very well.
it is ridiculously expensive to drive in Singapore. The saying is always that the license to drive a car in Singapore can cost twice what you paid for the car itself. As a result, driving is an absolute luxury. For its population of 5.6 million, there are only 600,000 cars licensed to drive on Singaporean roads[1]. Even if all of those cars started running on electricity it would be a drop in the ocean compared to the ~ 68,100,000 tons of oil SG exports[2].

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/24/news/singapore-car-numbers-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_industry_in_Singapore
Did your toothbrush have lead in it?

Hyperbolic example I know but this reporting shows that you don't know definitively.
Sending Even a Tiny Message Through a Black Hole Would Make It Evaporate
That more or less qualifies as a fake.
The problem of many web-based businesses is, they can't decide (or don't want to) if they are more like the phone company, or more like a bricks-and-mortar business. If they are like the phone company, they are not responsible for guaranteeing that what you buy over the phone is legit, but they also don't get a cut. If they are like a bricks-and-mortar business, they do take a cut, but they get liability. It is similar to Facebook, Twitter etc. trying to sometimes act like a phone company and sometimes like a conference hall.

The reason is clear: they want to be compensated like a retailer or conference hall, but have the (relative lack of) liability of the phone company or the postal service, who don't make any claims that communications via their services are going to be honest, just that they allowed the two parties to communicate.

Gradually, they are all going to be forced by society (not only government) into one role or the other, but I am not surprised they are trying to put that off as long as possible.
Toys from the Seventies and Eighties could be poisoning your children (2015)
But it seems like you're criticizing something which, if he didn't do it, you'd criticize him for not having done it.
Have a look at a google search on “cargo ship pollution” and draw your own conclusions.

Simply moving cargo, the lifeblood of our economy, across the oceans burns hundreds of tons of fuel oil - releasing more (and more varied) pollutants into the atmosphere and oceans. One ship, by some reports, emits as many emissions as some 50 million (or more) cars. And there are well over 9,000 on the ocean.
Planck mass charged gravitino dark matter
That's just the decrement operator and inequality operator!
You emphasized the wrong word.

It is the Arch User Repository.

> DISCLAIMER: AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.[0]

[0] https://aur.archlinux.org
Hm, maybe. It depends on how easy their training code is to use and how long retraining would take. It presumably will take at least a week because 345M took about a week, but I'm not sure I want to spend the money on a week of a very large cloud instance (which would be what, $300?) for what is probably a substantial but not stunning improvement in generation quality.

I might rather wait for the next leap, from something like a Sparse Transformer approach which can get global coherency by having a lookback over the entire poem or getting a better poetry corpus with delimited poems (rather than entire books).
The bias is moral – Artificial Intelligence
The US has 330 million people, China has nearly 1.5 billion. No I think the US is just fine.

Per capita only matters if you're okay ignoring the bulk of the problem.
GIMP and Inkscape are still using the ancient GTK2, GTK3 is generally a lot nicer.

i.e. Transmission uses GTK3 and looks like this[1] on OSX.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_(BitTorrent_clien...
Glad to hear; I'd really like to see us improve some of our import capabilities at GitLab. We've created a separate team specific to importers and have started moving much more quickly here. Thanks for your patience.

Please let me know if this issue addresses the problem you encountered, would love to make sure we're prioritizing it. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20780
Trade with USA is just 2% of China's GDP.

Were it to take a short, controlled dip into recession to teach US a lesson, it would not be really noticed domestically.

And it will be a much better alternative than to let China to slowly bleed as manufacturers leave the country just to be able to sell to US in long term.
Dropshipping and the dream of selling anything online without having to manage products, warehouses, customers is what happened to amazon. I often get bombarded with "make quick money selling on amazon" ads. Quality has gone down, you never really know what you are getting anymore unless it's from a well known brand. But customers have also become lazy, not doing any research, buying things that are way too cheap and then complaining about the quality.

Bad products and fake copies have been available for years you just had to know where to look... it's just easier to find it now.
s/FCC/human nature/
Yep, though actually "Nickel & Dimed" (the book's title. The Amazon page is mistitled).
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It seems like the main problem everyone has with Amazon is their curation. Or, to put it more amusingly, “they have too much stuff!” (They have the good stuff you want, but it’s buried in bad stuff that you don’t, too.)

Is this really Amazon’s problem to solve, though? Or is this just a symptom of a bad value-chain ecosystem? Shouldn’t other players be cropping up to be external “shopping search engines” that find you the real, quality items on Amazon’s (and other stores’) huge junk-piles, the way that Google finds you real, quality web pages among the junk-pile that is the web?

Sure, it’d be nice if Amazon solved the problem itself. But I don’t see a reason that it has to be the one to solve the problem. Amazon can just provide infrastructure to allow anyone to sell anything, and then someone else can build “retail experiences” on top. Just like AWS isn’t trying to be Salesforce with a full platform experience.
This assumes you know everything bad in those purchases. In the article they talked about buying some children's products and found one with levels of lead that exceeded federal limits. limits put in place for safety. Would you know that about any of the 150 items you purchased last year? In my purchase history I know I wouldn't.

We don't tend to know all the details about everything we buy. We assume the purchase was fine if it looks like we got what we expected, it wasn't broken, and it was at the price we expected. But, when it comes to things like product safety we trust what it says on the label. In some cases those are known lies. Like the helmet in the article that was labeled as being DOT certified but wasn't. I would not have known this if I were in that situation. Would you have?
Oh my god the stupid it burns.
>Internally, China is destroying its people's savings, purchasing power, environment and health to achieve China's 'great destiny'.

More reference is needed. As a Mandarin Chinese my impression so far is otherwise.
Electric cars are not at all "counterproductive" for long term solutions to climate change. They are one piece in the big picture of fixing climate change, drawdown.org ranks electric vehicles as #26 on their solution list. (https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank)

Also, by your qualifying "long term" I assume you think they are fine short and even intermediate term? Given the urgency of the climate crisis, short and intermediate term matters - a lot.

I agree with you that public transportation and the "elimination of the suburban commuter lifestyle" (hard to define, but giving you the most charitable interpretation here) is very important. However, we don't have to choose one or the other, the decision as to which car to buy is typically an individual decision and I would think it correlates well with support for greener public transportation. Additionally, I fine it hard to believe that even in the long term there will be no need electric cars in more distant areas. Finally, development of electric cars and their infrastructure will also support electric public buses used for public transportation.

I'm glad Singapore is pursuing public transportation (a no-brainer in a city state) but the claim that it is not a "proper solution" isn't helpful and worse, it assumes that there is a solution. There isn't. There are MANY solutions which will be implemented at different speeds, with different levels of effectiveness and by many different organizations and individuals.

In general, it is better to encourage any useful efforts on this front rather than arguing that solution X isn't "proper" or less effective than solution Y.
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Right. Amazon has become a better showroom than a store.
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