skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$ lost serving non-JS users < $ lost getting an engineer to spend his time implementing dark patterns targeting non-JS users

It's spiteful.
I wonder if someone at Amazon can take your comment alone and fix all the problems that are so apparent.

Everything you mention is a hugely broken piece. Seems like they have lost their "customer is the queen" mentality a while ago...
Also a good chunk of the crypto coins are based on a positive feedback loop between greed and electricity waste, which is kind of a scheme you'd expect from a supervillain.
What? That would help enormously. If they stopped commingling it would be easy to quickly identify and eliminate bad sellers. Consumers would also have the option of sticking to a known-good seller like Amazon and be able to trust that they weren’t going to get some comingled bullshit copy.

That’s a pretty damn far cry from the current situation.
My company has been using expo for mobile development because you can build a React app and expo does all the work to make it work on Android and iOS. It's not perfect but since we're doing React for the web app, it's allowed web devs to become mobile devs with almost no additional training.
Not strictly on topic, but I still have clients stuck on Flash. Which tools do you advise to extract text content from swf?

I tried swftools with not much success. A few commercial apps weren’t much help either. And Google’s tool (forgot its name) was taken down.
We've had a very similar experience. On more than one book our product pages were replaced with images from the counterfeit. In a certain way it was quite funny. Ultimately it was very frustrating
How WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann was stopped in his trillionaire tracks
Focus more on my career path rather than take the path of least resistance. I see now that you can actively manage your career in such a way that you decide what job you want rather than take what comes your way.

Also, I would have sounded my own horn a bit more. It's important to let management above you and your boss' boss know what you're capable of doing otherwise you become just a body that can easily be replaced.
The author of this article is turning inches into miles. SAFTs aren't dead. The SEC is alleging Telegram has failed to deliver the promises it has made, so the SEC is pre-emptively stating they need to halt delivery. Presumably, once they complete their promises they'll be able to deliver Grams.

From the SEC Complaint:

The Whitepaper spoke of potential future products and services that investors
could use in connection with Grams, but also made clear that these products were not available at the time the Offering began and would not be available by the time Defendants delivered Grams to Initial Purchasers.

Telegram, however, does seem to be in a pickle regarding the PoS consensus model. The SEC seems to be alleging that in order for the network to be sufficiently decentralized, having only qualified investors staking is not enough.

Also from the SEC complaint:

Defendants knew, however, that to actually implement the TON Blockchain in the real world, the project would require “numerosity”: a widespread distribution and use of Grams across the globe. Indeed, by definition, the TON Blockchain can only become truly decentralized (as contemplated and promoted in the Offering Documents) if Grams holders other than the original Grams purchasers actually stake Grams and, thereby, act as “validators” of transactions on the TON Blockchain. Stated differently, if the original Grams purchasers alone all immediately staked their holdings, the TON Blockchain would be centralized rather than decentralized and, therefore, subject to misuse and majority attacks. This fundamental need for additional Grams holders demonstrates that the TON Blockchain was designed from inception to require the Initial Purchasers to immediately distribute their holdings to the public.
Just to be clear, I'm against universal healthcare for this reason.

I think we should pay for the consequences of our own choices, and agree the government is terrible at deciding what's unhealthy.
This shows Oppo as being the worst -- but I have had the last 2 OnePlus phones (6T and 7Pro) that received updates within a month of a new release (and OnePlus is Oppo).
> 28 MB extra every month shouldn't even be noticeable

Parent comment suggests phishing site life-cycle <15hrs, at 400k a month that's 8333 every 15 hrs. To give an idea of how frequency sensitive this is, assume URLs are added equidistributed in time: that would be a new one every 154ms - for such time critical information it makes no sense to attempt to synchronize clients, it would require constant polling or push updates to have _any_ chance of catching a malicious URL.

At such a frequency, efficiency becomes less about bandwidth and more about the overhead of continuously synchronising so many clients (think of that 28 MiB spread out over 400k separate messages over one month, one every 154ms, that not only inflates the size, but causes a constant network usage and processing that is far less efficient than a single 28MiB download).

Or you could just send the URL hash when you visit a URL... (do you request any where near 8k URLs every 15hrs?, 1 URL every 154ms? no), it's so clearly a simpler solution that will be faster for everyone without letting bad URLs slip through before a latent sync.
Unfortunately this case may be a bit different. When you order this book by pressing just the Buy button, as in shipped and sold by Amazon, you get the counterfeit.

I know because I ordered two copies last week. Both came and both were counterfeit.
Downvote walrus01 all you want but I’ve never met a person in real life who eats Soylent. If it weren’t for HN or Reddit I’ve never even know it existed.
The poster was making a point that this kind of ban is a huge slippery slope. They were not speaking in support of the ban.
As someone who hates this practice, including store-brand labels (ie Sam's Choice)...

At this point I'll happily take the Walmart-specific version over the risk of an Amazon supplied product.
It's always nice when other people decide what I should eat on the assumption that I can't consume in healthy moderation.
s/Internet's/Web/

The most creative Era of the Internet was the Web.
For decades I have loved Ritchie's design aesthetic. Some years ago I met one of his close family members without realizing it and we bonded over our love of both classical studies and indigenous issues. At some point through random chats I talked about what an influence Ritchie was on me. My friend was shocked that I had heard of her relative whom her family considered as a pleasant eccentric, and she was gobsmacked when I told her stories about him that she had heard for countless years from the man himself over the holiday dinner table which everyone had rolled their eyes at. The concept outsiders had heard of him was astonishing. I was similarly amazed that my super smart friend was so close to him. As time proceeded I became something of friends with Dennis, not close, but someone he at least knew and we exchanged some amusing letters and gifts.

When I called my friend to tell her that Dennis had passed away it was the first she heard of it.

Not everyone likes Dennis' design aesthetic but it's been valuable to me in my career to find someone else, someone well known, who had similar predilections.

Dennis was genuinely a wonderful person who had excellent design taste. I miss him though I can still meet with him any time I like by thumbing through the K&R.
It's not like shopping at Wal-Mart isn't without its own kinds of bait and switch practices.

There was a time when I went to Wal-Mart to buy a new package of cheap cotton ankle socks every month or so, incrementally replenishing my cache, over the period of about a year.

The exact same brand, make, and size of socks, what were ostensibly identical, would vary in their constituent materials at what seemed to be random. One month they'd be ~80% cotton. The next month ~80% polyester. For what appeared to be the same damn product.

I don't know if this is something the big brands do in cooperation with Wal-Mart, or if it's entirely out of Wal-Mart's control and something Hanes/FTL has started doing independently. But next time you see packages for socks, check out the contents. In Wal-Mart the contents are printed on an adhesive-backed sticker. They use a sticker because it gets switched all the time, presumably to whatever was the cheapest recipe/supplier at the time. There's basically no persistence to what the SKU actually represents.

The Wal-Mart advantage, in my opinion, is that I have the opportunity to actually scrutinize the instance I will take home of the thing I'm purchasing, before doing so.

With Amazon I can't possibly know if they'll send me the 80% cotton or 80% polyester variant of the same SKU.

I've noticed similar practices with canned fish. Depending on what day of the week it is, the same canned fish e.g. beachcliff sardines in water, will have salt or won't have salt in the ingredients list. It seems to correlate with the country of origin. Same SKU, different ingredients. You have to look really closely at the package to notice it, but you definitely notice it when eating the stuff.
There are good and bad abstractions, and the whole issue here is that filesystems are a good abstraction, both intellectually and ethically, and the "new" replacements are mutually incompatible lies that reduce your ability to accomplish what your goals with your device and simultaneously try to take ownership of the data and the device away from you.
As far as I'm concerned, macOS Catalina never happened. I'll wait for the next major version (10.16), which will undoubtedly be a maintenance release with almost no new features.
> 1. Authors ignore how long it takes to bring a new nuclear plant online (>7 years).

Most of the wait time is due to lack of demand, e.g. it takes multiple years to build a pressure vessel but this production could be ramped up 10-100x if need be. The Quora source you cite actually says 48 months for modern reactors so I'm not sure where >7 years came from.

> 3. Authors ignore the waste storage problem, which is a debt future generations will be saddled with for hundreds or thousands of years.

There is no waste storage problem. This is a myth that should have died a decade ago. Vitrified nuclear waste is inert and harmless. Modern reactors are also able to consume most of current waste. We already tolerate far worse waste products from e.g. the coal industry where it's a non-newsworthy occurrence for toxic tailings to completely destroy river systems.

> 4. Authors ignore the power storage problem, which causes lots of energy to be wasted.

The energy (not power) storage problem is unique to unreliable peaky power sources like solar and wind. Nuclear power plants provide a consistent and diallable power output. Energy storage is also a big impediment to large scale rollout of renewables because energy storage costs are superlinear with respect to demand.

> 5. Authors ignore energy efficiency trends (electronics get more efficient over time).

Increase in efficiency does not lead to decrease in consumption. It does the opposite. Look up induced demand.

> 6. Authors ignore the safety data and that safety incidents are likely under-reported.

Nuclear power is orders of magnitude safer and cleaner than anything else that exists including renewables.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

This comment is entirely misleading and the author is seriously misinformed about nuclear power. This should not be top comment on any discussion of nuclear power. This is just perpetuating FUD and myths that have all been deconstructed years ago.
> Previous cases already established that if a crawler can see the data without any session cookies then its okay.

I'm interested in this, but I'm not sure how to learn more - can you give me a hint?
Google wants everybody to sell Android's phones - that's how it promotes Android OS; that's how it competes with iOS. That's why Android OS open sourced by Google.

But at the same time, I think Google wants to sell it's own phones and competes with other Android manufacturers.

That's conflict of own Google interests.

And "other manufacturers" mostly care about their sales, - they don't really care about Android OS success - that's for Google to care.
That mostly feels like a myth to me?

It’s not that bulk. Chips come in bigger bags - use a clip. Bread comes two loaves, freeze one. It’s very rare I see something but it’s an unusable quantity for a family of four.

Now that said, when I lived in a tiny apartment getting 36 rolls of toilet paper at once was annoying, but I made it work.
Uranium is the most energy dense material on this planet, check out energy density of various fuels on wiki. Uranium like any fossil fuel ie crude and coal has waste issues, its also, due to its energy density, more of a hazard that a tank full of coal or gasoline. Saying that in the 50's nuclear aircraft were built and tested but the risk of fallout from any number of potential aviation incidence put paid to that idea becoming common place. Smaller nuclear reactors are still used in secure trusted locations though, like submarines, ships and even the US embassy in London (you'll need to analyse metadata to find that out). I do sometimes wonder if the eco warriers are Nazi's hiding under the green banner, wanting to send everyone back to the stone age or whether they just like acting as the brake on technological developments that could otherwise rush off into the sunset. Any country would be sensible to have a range of electrical power generation technologies, the isotopes from nuclear fuel can be used in medicines, depleted uranium in military armour (tanks) and ballistics. In fact when the US dropped the nukes on Japan, the ensuing scientific knowledge gained spawned the radiotherapy developments in cancer treatments, after it was observed that nuclear radiation killed stem cells in bone marrow and the spleen. Doctors even worked out the minimum amount of stem cells and spleen cells to kick start the immune system as a result of the WW2 nukes.

So its hard for many to quantify the benefits of nuclear power and military experiments, but the problems still remain, how to deal with the waste. Robots need to be made nuclear proof, there is a spill over into space technology here as space is highly irradiated, so solving things like Fukashima and Chernobyl will benefit space exploration even more. And there is the attainment of knowledge which gets us closer to understanding and importantly, controlling fusion.

Besides waste disposal could be made into the fastest fault lines of two plates of the earth crust, effectively sending the radation back into the earth's core. If people are worried about radiation, they should look up Radon and granite rocks. That kills more people than uranium waste.
It's not what most people think of as bread but I tried Nancy's Silverton's pizza dough and enjoyed it a lot (link below).

We did a test and letting it sit in the fridge covered for 3-4 days definitely improved it over the suggested same-day use in the recipe. A longer, slower rise seems to be the trend if you can find the time, and the fridge ensures a consistent temperature. It also made it easier to work with, the recipe was quite wet (I've heard wetter is better for pizza dough but it was super sticky).

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/10/nancy-silvertons...
>> Maybe there is a place in the market for framework to implement a flash-a-like in a HTML5 Canvas?

If by "framework" you mean "easy to use tool" then I agree.

Programmers are often the last people who should design tools - they dont bat an eye at having to edit a config file, tweak settings, install plugins, manage dependencies, run a compiler or other batch processing tool.
Google has run a similar service for a while (Colab) and they have methods to detect crypto mining within their instances. I'm sure Paperspace does too.
I think that a lot of people miss the point that most people don't care about updates. Most people want a phone that does the same thing when it was bought and as many years later as possible, as the battery allows.

It's the same thing around passwords. People don't use weak passwords or reuse their passwords because they don't know any better, they do it because they do not care about whatever is protected by the password. I personally couldn't care less if someone stole my Facebook or that some bad actor may abuse something in my phone to send something to China. These digital things rank very low on the list of my priorities, and like me are a lot of not very technical interested people.

Some people buy cheap phones knowing they won't get updates, we know, we don't care. And we are happy to have the option not to care, we do not want more expensive phone with constant updates, just like we don't want the mandatory use of password managers. If we cared we'd buy/use them.
Second on TJs butter. For quality to value ratio of most foods, TJs blows Costso out of the water imo, and you don't have to buy cheese in 3 lb blocks.
The funny thing about Walmart 3rd party, is it always seems to be drop shipped by a competitor, and comes in a clearly branded box. I've gotten boxes from Newegg, Target, Wayfair, and even Sam's Club.

Still a better option than Amazon (for now, at least).
Easy for who? Amazon knows which seller sent in the inventory for every order, so they know to punish the right seller when a complaint comes in.

You are correct that customers could themselves choose better sellers, but most customers don't care and prefer cheaper over more reliable. That effect is not enough to help "enormously".
So was it a fake or just not retail packaging? Lenovo always sends me parts in plain cardboard boxes.
As a German, the way Costco operates is really interesting.

I guess the closest comparable thing to Costco in Germany would be something like Metro or Selgros.

Tho access to those isn't "gated" with a membership fee, but with a business license, as their target audience are actually other businesses and not individual customers.

Where do US American businesses go to buy their wholesale supplies?
> When you order this book by pressing just the Buy button, as in shipped and sold by Amazon, you get the counterfeit.

i think most items that are "sold and shipped by amazon" are commingled as well.
I think you're thinking Amazon separates its own SKUs from third party SKUs. That's not the case, it's all comingled.
Stop gerrymandering my push settings
...I can't tell if you're being hyperbolic or what. It was incredibly popular, and I'd suspect most US-based HN users are familiar with it.
There's definitely a mix of good and bad as language changes.

Losing the word "meme" to the colloquial definition is a loss and a massive disappointment to me, because I think the gene analogy is insightful. When I talk to people about memes-as-in-memetics they're bound to get confused or even disbelieve me that it had any other meaning.

I've been accused of man-splaining in situations where I am legitimately being helpful, am an authority on the subject, and have good intentions, so I kinda don't like that words contribution, personally.

Literally should mean literally, and only literally, because it's useless if it doesn't.

On the other hand, there were all sorts of weird and redundant words that existed in English that probably shouldn't. This probably isn't true, but the word "praxis" seems like it exists because someone important misspoke when trying to say "practice" and then insisted it was a word in itself.

My impression is that the effect the parent talks about is real, though. There is a lot of regression happening in the language even as people get more literate, and the echo chamber of the internet reinforces trends into more lasting changes.

My biggest gripe of all with anyone effecting change on language lies with the marketing-focused actors who think they're doing their job well when they:

1) Appropriate colloquialisms and push them into the mainstream where they have more staying power than they otherwise would.

2) Refuse to expose people to words they're not familiar with because it might not appeal to them. Ever consider some people might want to learn new words? That starts with exposure. Lowest common denominator advertising is a well-funded stupefying force.

3) Create new words and change meanings to suit their narrative/sales pitch. A recent example is an article CNN ran about a new alternative to vapes and cigarettes. What they described is actually just a different kind of vaporizer. It emits nicotine vapor. They're calling it something different to avoid the stigma that shallow media coverage of vaping created, and making the word more ambiguous and less useful as a result.
He has some type of captive control of SoftBank. Strange.
The Budapest metro is the second oldest metro in the entire world. Only preceeded by the London metro. Boston is the 6th oldest beaten by Chicago in the US.
Why PlayStation Is Ready to Win the Next Gaming War
I'd imagine customs can identify "that came on a boat from China but says 'made in USA'" more easily than "the internal electronics in that charger aren't up to snuff".
Right - that is moving the goal posts though: This was talking about being in the top x% of the rich. If you don't keep working at it, you will drop off that list pretty quick. It is pretty much a slippery slope when you don't know how to manage money. And there is probably a very very miniscule portion of the top 1% of rich who live on index funds. When you're that rich - these don't work the way it works for us.

I did acknowledge the luck part in being rich. I do acknowledge it is far better than being poor. But if you want to remain rich and ensure your generations remain rich, that's a ton of work.

PS - seriously rich might mean different things for us though :)
Why wouldn't it be easier to rebuild this in the midst of a recession from scratch when rent is cheaper.
Do we know that Amazon doesn't comingle their "sold by amazon" stock with FBA third-party sellers? I can't see anywhere that they say they don't on some research, and it would seem to be an obvious thing to do.
A sad reminder of the Geeklist old days. I'll give it a spin, congrats on the launch Adam!
But it doesn't matter because you - the user - aren't exposed to the benefits or even the abstraction of that database. You don't get to make arbitrary queries for metadata. You get access to whatever half-featured interface the vendor bothered to implement, whereas the database is optimized for their operational and datamining purposes.
I definitely agree - luck runs out faster than money when you're poor. Or the chances will be to secure basics rather than your future.
I disagree about the meat. Publix has much better quality chicken and pork, especially their Greenwise brand. Costco chicken is freakishly big, even compared to Tyson or Purdue at Kroger. I used to find weird spots on the chicken breast and thighs I haven’t seen elsewhere. The chicken is tougher as well.

The wild seafood is great. Choice Beef is the same as anywhere and I have no complaints. Prime beef is a great option but I rarely buy it.
I still love my MacBook despite all its flaws, but I can’t wait to see what the rumored October event will bring to the table.
I'm not asking what webRTC does worse - obviously it's going to improve over time, I'm asking what it can't do that flash can.
As I understand it, the principle shenanigans going on with commercial flour is that they add enzymes (if you're doing this at home, it will be malt) to the flour before you take it home. Unless I'm quite mistaken -- please tell me if I am -- the whole point of a slow/retarded proof is to give the enzymes a chance to break the starch down into component sugars. When more sugars are broken out, you get both a nicer taste (it's sweet!) and a more beautiful crust (the sugars caramelize/brown).

But with home-milled flour, are there no enzymes at all? What happens to the slow-proofed dough?