skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget counterfeits for a second.

Even trying to find something like an ultrasonic cleaner on Amazon is like straight going through AliExpress.

But wait! Unless you're buying a very very expensive lab model all the "name brands" look to be sourcing the same way and adding a label too. So the name brands are AliExpress with maybe better QC and 200% markup.

But wait! Even looking everywhere else it's the same situation as Amazon!

It's almost like the entire marketplace is overrun with untrustworthy cheap crap no matter where you shop and getting something you can trust is decent is only for large institutional or business actors and the wealthy.

Which is to say I think the problem is bigger than just Amazon.
I'm still on a Lexmark E232 I bought back in 2006. I've printed like 80k pages and the thing keeps working fine. I bought it for less than $150.
I find this hard to believe. Amazon happily sells returns missing parts as new, or ships counterfeits sold and fulfilled by Amazon for months despite reports in the reviews and subsequent returns. I should know, I've had both happen repeatedly on different items.
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I appreciate the humor but I also think working in tech is much easier. Like you can be 25th percentile programmer and have comfortable salary/job security vs 99th percentile violinist.
Thanks for pulling out the data! One problem is that "somewhat", "very", "completely" don't give a good picture of how dissatisfied these 2.7% of patients are. It's possible some of them developed serious dry eye which can be totally debilitating.

This doesn't mean the procedure shouldn't have been approved, it most likely means that folks need to do better patient education and qualification. Not everyone needs to be a good candidate.

It's also possible that these results vary a lot between LASIK docs. I'd expect that some qualify patients more thoroughly than others. Risk for developing side effects can be assessed beforehand, to some extent.
Yeah, totally! It's great for working on small objects, tiny screws, and so forth. It's honestly like an everyday superpower.

I take my glasses off to read up close; I can't make out faces across a room without them, but at close range they actually make things blurrier. Contacts kill it, too, which is why I didn't use them for long. I've been thinking of getting a pair just for using in VR, since my glasses don't fit well, but I dunno.
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All tom7 things are glorious.
I've never used it, can you explain why you don't like them?
I don't disagree with the article. Without articulating it, I always thought so--precisely that makes many meetings so infuriating for me personally. I don't have the job title of therapist or actor/background extra.
Huh? How so? I'm pretty sure I'm not in any.
Sometimes things go rather sour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis
Can you reach out to sir@cmpwn.com? This sounds like your account confirmation email was never acted upon.
Yeah, the difficult part is that the seller just returns under a different name. Enough complaints have come in about marketplace seller GreatElectronics4U? OK, Amazon bans/suspends GreatElectronics4U and the guy behind it starts selling stuff as AllTheBestElectronics4U. Rinse and repeat.

This isn't like the old days when a ban on doing business under your current name would be a death blow ... start a new seller account and your junk still shows up in Amazon search results, just like it did yesterday.
IMO that's more of a symptom than it is a cause.

Re 1: Mid-western/"fly-over" state folks have been hit by large amounts of change in the last few decades. The "white working class" (especially male) was overthrown by globalization, immigration, by a renewed push for women's rights, LGBTQ rights and so-on. Wages went down, social rank went down and opportunities dwindled. No training programs, no social programs, no healthcare, nothing.

This has led to a reactionary position of "returning to the good old days" of manufacturing, of mining, and conservative ideologies. To when they could pursue the American dream. I think it can come across the way you describe but it's driven more by fear and lack of opportunity than by some intrinsic arrogance characteristic.

These are the folks who were left behind by the Democrats in 2016. The status quo genuinely wasn't working for them. Not that the alternative was better, but it was an alternative to a system that wasn't working and from their perspective they had nothing to lose. That's why we find ourselves where we do.

Re 2: "There is no shortage if you pay enough" has more to do with the zero marginal cost business models that yield staggering quantities of revenue and profit per worker. Apple makes ~$40B per year in net profit off of 123,000 employees. That means could give each of them (including FTE geniuses and sales people) a $350,000 per year raise and still break even. There's tons of head-room here.
How many pilots does the Navy have?

I’m pretty sure it’s a small percentage of people in the Navy.
You can also flip the HAP bit in the bios descriptor region on the newest Intel chips (that me_cleaner does not support) using the Intel flashing tools. It's just called "reserved bit" and defaults to false.
216 responses is not enough to gain data on the few people who were dissatisfied.
> The general move towards "crime is no big deal" and "should not impact you later in life" is quite disgusting.

I have not noticed any such general move.
Did you miss this part of bullet #3?

>These moves are separate from those that block sites as required by U.S. or foreign law, such as those featuring child abuse or with copyright infringement, and from changes designed to demote spam sites, which attempt to game the system to appear higher in results.

The article directly refutes what you are claiming here.
Short answer, yes. I was accelerated in the local high school, but that didn't work out for a number of reasons. So basically my dad decided I should take classes at the nearby college. It was unusual at the time and place, but he had quite a forceful personality.
I did this for a few classes because my teachers had such a thick accent that I could barely understand them. I figured out that if I read the book beforehand, I basically knew what they were going to say and I could follow along much easier.
Good, now I hope the Swiss grow a backbone and demand the same. Twint (Bluetooth payment in Switzerland) is absolute garbage because of this.
https://wt.social

First I've heard of this, and there's no pricing (or really any) information on the website. Anyone have experience?
Most work places are heavily dominated by the extroverts. The sales and executive teams are all extroverts. So is the marketing team. IMO it's fair to consider the other side of the coin, there's virtually no way that extroverts aren't going to continue to rule the workplace.
I will usually write one or a few tests that exercise ideal 'happy paths' before starting proper implementation, assuming it can be done fairly quickly. I don't hold on to these very tightly; they will often change as things go forward.

Once I have those basic tests passing, I will often write a couple more tests for less common but still important execution paths. It's ok if these take a little longer, but only a little.

Beyond the obvious 'test driven' benefits, I find that, especially for the first round, writing those tests helps me solidify what I'm trying to accomplish.

This is often useful even in cases where I go in feeling quite confident about the approach, but there are some blind spots that are revealed even with the first level, most simple tests.

I find the basic complaints that others have posted here about pre-writing tests largely valid. "Over-writing" tests too early on is, for me, often a waste of time. It works best when the very early tests can be written quickly and simple.

And if they can't be, then I'll frequently take a step back and see if I'm coming at the problem from a poor direction.
> That's the AI effect.

Indeed- as that coined term suggests, "AI" has such a philosophically-tied definition with moving goalposts, that in practice it gets slapped far too liberally on anything 'magical' having to do with computation. (As long as it's still trendy to do so, at least.)

'Machine Learning' is at least a little more specific of a term (if still rather general).
This setup could be blown away by the wind that accompanies the hail storm.
This is an example of the generic-ified form being useful. They're not a WW2-era party that's time traveled to 2019, but they tick all the boxes. The person I replied to suggested limiting the term to discussion of WW2. I suggested that terms like this always go generic because the ideas never die with the movement.

New movements tend to take on the language of movements that inspire them, or people use those terms on them because they seem to (or do) share many of the same attributes. For example: people who call anyone who suggests a better social safety net socialist, communist, Marxist, or more recently: bolshevik.

Where are we in disagreement? Your example is one I would use to support my own point.
I'd recommend taking a look at Cypress. https://www.cypress.io/
Don't forget Paul Dirac, a true intellectual contemporary of von Neumann.
Instead of overfitting , it's more related to exploitation vs exploration. We see more men related to programming might be just that women are not given opportunities to explore the programming as a career.

When AI makes a decision, right now, people only uses the probability output. Hiring A has .6 probability while hiring B has .4. then we will hire A instead of B. However, if we consider the confidence intervals, the decision might not be that clear. Say +/- .5 to hire A but .2 to hire B. If exploration is considered too, very likely that we will give B a chance.

AI is in the realm of probabilistic decision making, while normal people don't follow. The bias is not from the training side. It's the decision making process incorporating AI should change.
Well I'm not happy about Orgzly, but it's the best there is right now
I was advised to skip LASIK recently, as I was told I'd need it again when I got older and expose myself to all the same risks of a bad result over again. I instead decided to invest in much nicer contacts which has been life changing. I didn't realize there was that drastic a difference between crappy contacts(not even necessarily cheap) and good ones.
I'm growing increasingly pessimistic about posts like this which claim to have a nuanced understanding of [child development] but actually rely more on personal feelings, anecdotes, and pseudoscience.

A smart girl who grows up in a school where everyone's getting pregnant at 14 might end up pregnant at 14. A smart kid who grows up in Flint might have to deal with the same lead poisoning as everyone else, with potentially varying symptoms. A smart kid whose parents are depressed in its adolescence might be depressed.

There are many potential causes of burnout and it's extremely unhelpful to assume that we know what's happening to these kids based on "I know a guy who knows a guy". What you're essentially doing is framing a kid's failures as a moral issue of perseverance and study skills when it might be, but it also might not be.

Imagine being naturally competent but having a mental illness that invites the public to inject their own personal biases.
I'm waiting for the day when a TDD advocacy piece describes how to handle "Substitute Algorithm" refactoring.

As a concrete example, consider Robert Martin's prime factors kata at http://www.butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.ThePrimeFactors... .

Martin write "The final algorithm is three lines of code".

However, it's a very slow algorithm. His resulting Java API accepts an integer as input, which is an implicit promise that the algorithm should handle 2^31-1 as an input ... which happens to be prime.

But the implementation will take a long time.

I want to see a refactoring which adds the test for 2147483647 (or 9223372036854775783 for 64-bit integers), discovers that it fails the test (by taking too long), and then use that to drive the refactoring.

It's not hard to think of other complexity issues, like replacing a N^2 sort with N long N, or naive substring search with something like the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm.
It's interesting that the StackExchange community explained the answer better than the professor did in the original question.
I found TDD unpractical. Can recall one situation when used TDD. I was writing a printf-like formatter in C++ and prepared a lot of tests cases in advance. That approach worked well at early state of development. however, further development had revealed quirks I hadn't predicted. As a result, the number and complexity of tests got increased.

My typical practice is to work out an API, write early scratches of implementation and test only simple cases. Then I can inspect two things: how the API works in real code and what else should be tested. In other words tests help to establish an API, then to stabilize the implementation.
>It's been discussed to death

Where?

>overseas sellers simply have a massive advantage in starting new seller accounts on Amazon.

Why would it be any easier for an overseas seller to start a new account after being banned? Amazon blocks related accounts whenever they can track it. Sellers can get around that by having employees or relatives open accounts in their name. This is just as easy or difficult in the US as elsewhere. Regardless, it's something Amazon can't completely fix: they need a way to determine an account is related to a previously banned account. When they do determine that they will quickly ban the new account.
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There's a difference between "conspiracy" and "class solidarity among the wealthy". You're totally right that it's probably silly to attribute this to all management/ownership explicitly collaborating together on a scheme they're keeping secret from the workers, but I'd argue that the comment you're responding to is also totally right to point out that things can structurally support each other in a way that ultimately ends up being a small group of rich people working to keep a larger group of poor people poor, simply because all the small incentives for the individual decisions can support the larger structural whole. We can still attribute that as "wealthy people promulgate a narrative to inspire false hope" in a meaningful way, as long as we don't take it from an individualist frame.
And lead contaminated toys could give children lead poisoning, developmental delays, etc. I'm just waiting for Amazon to get sued for their reckless endangerment.
My brother is a genius and also a violin prodigy. He works as a programmer, but has zero ambition. He does his work, goes home, and plays video games. He has done this for 40 years. He could have been one of the best violinists in history, or made an impact in medical research, or any other number of things.

When we talked about it in the past, his reasoning is: "life is short, I'm going to have all the fun I can before I die."
This just exposes how simple STEM degrees really are. No one is going to finish a bachelors in literature at age 9.
I presume they’ll just block Apple Pay in Germany instead.
What about having public artwork that isn't commercial instead?
Note that this research was done in 2017. You can see the press release here:

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/current_results.asp

Sample questions from the test are available here:

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/sample_lit.asp

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/sample_num.asp

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/sample_pstre.asp

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/sample_reading.asp
Ask and you shall receive, my favorite horror story:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...
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It does, but, for most people i know (including myself), they consider them totally worth it. I got halos after the surgery (went away within a few months, thankfully) and somewhat dry eyes (still got it after 2 years), but having dry eyes and needing to use eye drops a few times a day instead of dealing with glasses/contacts is definitely a trade off i am very happy with. And the doctor told me about the possibility of that before i decided to go for LASIK, so I wasn’t even that surprised at all.
About 7-10 years ago I tech-MBA-style consulted with a half dozen medical scan reading via machine learning startups in Southern California. In each case, I noticed the CEOs being overwhelmed by their investors, loosing control as soon as their potential was validated, and sold to giant healthcare corps, most often against the protests of the founders. In each of these situations, the startups were working with large offshore teams annotating medical scans for their ML training. I was usually hired to write a prospectus or similar investment document, so my exposure to each startup was brief. But in every case, the founding team kind of were knocked off their feet by the aggression of their investors. I checked back with two of the CEOs about two years ago, and both of their startups were shutdown after acquisition.
> You should not be employed in this industry if what you wrote here is how you think, period.

That seems pretty personal. Not that I'm hopping on dang's bandwagon, but you can't post that sort of attack and say you're not doing anything like that.

I've wound up seeing a lot of your recent posts and I can understand where a lot of your responders are coming from... you are very strongly opinionated and have no problem crossing the line from "I hold this opinion" to "you're wrong for not agreeing and therefore you <insert consequence>".

THAT's the behavior that's getting you the pushback. Be more open to discussing things and comparing experiences and maybe you'll see more cordial response back.
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1. The average US employer is entitled and arrogant. The "everything is belong to me" attitude is rampant.

2. The idea that "There is no shortage if you pay enough" is BS is just whining because employers just really want to underpay and overwork people and are defensive anytime they aren't able to accomplish exactly that.
I think it just depends. A lot of ski areas are right along interstates, like I-90 in Washington, so if you were going to run a rail line along I-90 between Seattle and Yakima/Spokane, it might be economical to build a stop at Snoqualmie Pass. There are also often small towns and communities that might benefit from being connected to the bigger city by rail year round, like the Colorado mountain towns.
>Would this be more common if more parents were aware it was a possibility?

It should get less common, if more parents understand the developmental and psychological damage to the child.
Good call, I forgot they don't all have ethernet -- the L5xxx is in fact the most recent one I've purchased [L5200DW to be exact] -- stone reliable so far with low volume
What advice would you give to a teenager attempting a similar feat?
I am a little unclear on what the editorial bent of this is. Are they trying to use this as another way to say that Amazon unfairly compensates workers?

If so, it seems like a cheap target. I've always known mechanical turk as a way to get dead stupid tasks done by people, but not as a way to earn a living.

How much should someone be compensated to do something so simple? At will? I don't understand. MT has been around for a while, this isn't some new sinister plot to undermine the workers of the world.

I also have seen some people who employ workers through MT support a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage. It's up to the person deploying the task, not Amazon.
Or just hold Amazon accountable for the products they ship and sell through their website. As a consumer I don't care about the logistics of fulfillment; I went to Amazon.com and paid money to Amazon.com, ergo I bought it from Amazon.com and they should be accountable.

Then let Amazon sort it out with their suppliers if they're receiving counterfeit goods from them. If Walmart was receiving counterfeit goods from supplier for their stores, they would probably cut ties with those suppliers.

This problem exists because Amazon is not being held accountable for what they sell to consumers.
Leaders inspire, managers motivate.
Why is SE removing links and community ads about legal issues?
I block doubleclick and randomly get a degraded YouTube page with no content outside the video box rendered. It also goobers up the browser history so you can't go to previous videos.
+ Impact printers are the most reliable. That's why they are still available new. They last for decades. They don't run out of ink, the print output just become progressively lighter. eBay often has used impact printers stupidly cheap. Ribbons are still around. Ribbons can be reinked if you really want, but at 100 pages per year, you'll probably never have the chance. They are eminently hackable at the low level. The downsides: slow for graphics, centronics or rs232 interfaces typical, They're obnoxiously noisy. Don't play well with CUPS for graphics.

* Laser printers are reasonably reliable for occasional printing. But my more recent experience is that they are getting "ink-jet" like planned obsolescence/built-in failure modes because otherwise they're not very profitable. Other's have mentioned Brother, and I had great experience with cheap Brother printers back in the early 00's. Even their inkjets. The last $80 Brother I bought started producing crap after about a year of light use (I had a Brother laser-fax that went five years of moderate use).

+ Inkjets are reliable if you use them all the time. They have amazing color. They're cheap to run if you're willing to refill cartridges. The two go hand in hand, the low cost from refilling cartridges ends aversion to printing. The commitment to printing all the time justifies the overhead of learning to refill cartridges efficiently. Refilling cartridges efficiently makes printing all the time no big deal. Refilling all eight cartridges of my photo printer takes about twenty minutes now. Less time than going to the store and buying a replacement.

+ If you can live with only printing 4"x6" a Canon Selphy 1300 is an option for ~$100. It uses dye-sublimation and 108 sheets of media can be bought for ~$30. Not exactly cheap, but the process is reliable because the rate of consumption is fixed. Each print uses the same amount of "ink", the "ink" is stable, and the whole process is predictable. 4x6 will work for a shipping label if that's all you do.
How many quality opinions did your friend get? I also know people with DED and from my experience not all docs understand the disease well. Obviously you know more than I do, but I'm very skeptical that there isn't more to the story than "a lifetime of drops". Also, I hope your friend has tried autologous serum drops.
I think this comes from an over correction in views of work. The younger generation has seen their parents enslaved their entire lives and know they don't want to live that life. I believe this is where the entitlement comes from, it's not that they think they deserve to be paid for nothing, but that if they're going to be forced to be imprisoned in an office all day then they want to be compensated handsomely for that sacrifice. Values are changing. Corporate American is stuck on a 60 hour work week that pays you for 40 hours and the youngest generation values life more (after seeing their parents give up everything for work) and they're also more in tune with the 3 day work week or 5 hour work day schedule. The younger generation values a healthy lifestyle while corporate America wants to work you to your death. Eventually there will be some swing back from the younger population, but I suspect most of the correction will appear on the corporate side.
Not a fan of that name.