skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the Amazon Transparency program that some manufacturers are participating in: https://brandservices.amazon.com/transparency

It is not decentralized, nor free, nor open to everyone, but I think it's close to what you're envisioning.

Edit: I may have gotten it confused with the Amazon Elements program which looks similar.
Was it not also a thing that if you let Amazon keep your stock as a supplier, customer might get another suppliers item as they were kept together? So if I ordered a book from Amazon from AmazingVendor, Amazon might actually send me an item from ScummyVendor's stock which sold the same book.
I've received many damaged books from Amazon. Whenever I report the items as being damaged I am prepared with photographs of the damaged goods as proof, but they always send me another one without caring.

It just feels so wasteful to save money by mishandling everything to the point where it doesn't even matter if stuff breaks because it is cheaper to try a 2nd time.
If you'd have been writing python a decade ago, you'd know why people couldn't transition immediately to Python 3 even if they wanted to. I no longer work for the company that has hundreds of Python scripts left to migrate, but I don't think all of libraries needed (including some API libraries from vendors) were ported to python3 until a few years ago.
Pretty sure VBprogrammer knows what they're talking about here....
Most people doing drugs are driving with them as well. Addicts aren’t going to stop just because they need to drive to the store.

Not all drug users are addicts but addicts, especially functioning ones, are doing the day to day stuff everyone else does.

Doesn’t matter if we like it or not scientists are trying to develop a THC test for driving in legal states. It’s going suck for a lot of people until they get it right.

FYI, I believe in a form of decriminalization for drug use. I call it carrot or stick.
You raise some good points, for which I don't have the answer. However:

> Walking upright really seems like something you don't need "much of a brain" for. You don't even need to teach a monkey to do it.

You do need much of a brain for it -- not intelligence, but brain; Gould argued that "intelligence" and higher brain functions arose as a side-effect. Keep in mind that AI researchers found out "the easy things are hard and the hard things are easy" (i.e. locomotion and fine-grained motor skills are harder than they seem, while logic games, chess and go are easier than they seem).

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox):

"Moravec's paradox is the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources."

> As stated this doesn't pass the smell test because a long list of animals are able to "stand" and walk upright (cats, primates, bears, what have you...)

None of those walk upright as their primary means of locomotion, nor are they capable of walking exactly like humans do.

> Not to mention kangaroos, birds (who are also capable of things like flight with generally much smaller brains), etc.

Good point. I don't have an answer for this. Guess you'll have to read some Stephen Jay Gould. I recommend his writing, which is fascinating :)
Rediscover is a side project that I have been running for a few years now and recently made improvements to. It's the easiest way to automatically backup each weeks Discover Weekly playlist so you never lose another great discovery.

Yes, this can be done with IFTTT. I tried that before building Rediscover and found it unreliable. Rediscover also doesn't require an IFTTT account and is faster to setup.
I just proposed my team switch to this haha, awesome.
Why Facebook Filtering Will Ultimately Fail
Wasn't it Microsoft Japan that realized meetings were naturally crunched down to strictly useful ones when they went to a 4 day work week? Then more time was spent doing real, actual work and then workers being able to ACTUALLY relax at home or doing something truly therapeutic... like not being at fucking work. Not this bullshit "you can relax at work" crap. Oh, and their employees felt ACTUALLY better and ACTUALLY less stressed. I feel like this "study" is more a focus-group bullshit attempt to fight off the results of a 4 day work week.

The world is getting silly. Not because of studies like this. But because people actually agree with obvious bullshit like this. I feel like I'm taking damn crazy pills.
We set up a monitor for my wife at her large corporate job without asking permission. While the rest of her office had tiny 1280x1024 screens from 10 years ago, she had a 1920x1200 24" monitor in addition to the corporate shit monitor.

Sometimes people would ask her about it, she would say she bought it herself, and they would say "oh" and move on about their day. It was a complete non-issue.

You could argue people shouldn't be plugging in random components at work and whatnot, but at the end of the day, IT is really powerless to do much about it. Nobody's going to fire you for buying your own productivity enhancers, the situation is just too embarrassing for management if they're reasonable people.

And really, Excel is so focused on visual space that having a larger display for her is a quality of life issue that only costs $120.
Amazon's decision to employ lawyers and lobbyists instead of oversight resulted in a public black market they openly run but are not responsible for profiting from.

I am excited to see which state will have the first Amazon fulfillment center crawling with feds. They have to raid one eventually to get to the bottom of the lead, the counterfeits etc. How is Amazon preventing the EPA or the FTC from doing their job and raiding facilities?

It's almost like big oil and big tobacco again.... all-powerful companies deliberately doing wrong for profit, like Amazon they even looked too big to challenge for a very long time.

> Amazon has been selling thousands of products that violate federal safety regulations, according to the Wall Street Journal, including toys containing dangerous levels of lead.

https://www.insider.com/amazon-selling-toxic-toys-lead-poiso...

> At the time, Nike agreed to sell a limited product assortment to Amazon, in exchange for stricter policing of counterfeits and restrictions on unsanctioned sales of its products.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/13/nike-wont-sell-directly-to-a...
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Never forget.. It's not personal. It's just a process who wants to shed potential liability by applying pressure on individuals involved. Wouldn't be necessary if we had banking secrecy.
Know Your Customer laws can directly transfer legal liability to banks, but it's not just that.

The Bank Secrecy Act requires banks to provide "suspicious activity reports" on a wide variety of transactions, which can trigger seizure of funds without convictions. And structuring rules can make do the same to suspiciously-organized <$10k deposits even without evidence of other crime, which has happened to a number of small business owners who by sheer coincidence did that amount of revenue.

Filing those reports can get all of the assets in question seized, and failing to file them or filing them too slowly can incur extremely large fines. So the bank runs the risk of 1. having the funds in question seized, so they don't even get to collect interest, and 2. being fined a large multiple of the amount of money in question any time they overlook an instance. That's not directly involving the bank in anything illegal, but it amounts to "if you handle suspicious transactions, you won't make money on them and can potentially be fined lots of money". It effectively threatens banks for working with anything that looks similar to illegal transactions, even if they know its a different industry. And since the private cash transactions for this sort of work can look like either escorting or drug-dealing...
You’re not alone. Cleaning while you cook is the only way
Fair enough. I would just argue that they don't try to manipulate you at scale...
The case of “The case”. Why did I spend 7 years to write a 27000-word novel
>The best way to reduce crime is to change its definition.

Perhaps that's the fastest way, but prevention is the best way. The issue is (as always) differing opinions on how to prevent it.
You should be able to make some kind of primitive parachute. Not that makes a soft landing, but where it only crashes with moderate speed.

You do touch on a very important issue: Anyone who can move an asteroid to Earth can also extinguish at least a city at will. I foresee this business being very heavily regulated by the big military powers.
I've read about it years ago. Nice concept but if you have line of sight, WiFi with directional antennas is still better, you can get the standard 802.11g speeds (~20Mbps real throughput) at even longer range and/or in worse weather (and even some trees in the way).
Not to question their independence, but it seems to have a very positive spin for a negative article.

Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products... Former executives say e-commerce giant, which last year spent $400 million fighting fraud and abuse is kind of saying well their trying really really hard, honest.

I suspect this has less to do with the Amazon relationship than the tendency to give similar weight to both sides of an issue. It's the lazy form of neutrality where you look at the mid point on an issue rather than aim for objective reality. Unfortunately, this causes a polarizing effect as extreme views move the midpoint.
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Side bar with books and chapters would be nice too, like google photos months and years.
As some others in this thread, I feel bamboozled.

What I was hoping for is a "Lorem Ipsum"-style generator for code for like 10 different languages. So you'd have a Lorem Ipsum for JS, C++, Rust, etc.

This is just find/replacing identifiers with lorem ipsum, which doesn't really mask the underlying code that well.
Thanks, I remember you commented on my first share of the remote browser thing :)
Does obligatory voting strengthen democracy or violate its ideals?
Do you think that’s a little? Or a lot?
> For reference it's not the .dmg extension because if I go to Chrome and download googlechrome.dmg it gets downloaded without any problems.

That doesn't mean it's not the extension, as they may have somehow whitelisted their own files. I would expect that warning to come up with any file format that can carry executable code.
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The same could be said of alcohol, but I doubt most people who are drinking are also driving while under the influence.
Procrastinating and having your attention pulled in multiple places are two different problems. You acknowledge it's easier and want to do the dishes immediately. But when you realize your two year old is painting the walls with poop or filled the toilet with all the toilet paper and tried flushing, resulting in a flood... Everyone can agree, that takes slightly more precedence than dishes.
One of the things you realize quickly as you manage is that there is a more bimodal distribution of preferences for socializing among engineers. I don't want to fall into stereotypes, but there are some people that don't like meetings (aggressively) and are pretty outspoken about it.

There are a number of people that kind of enjoy it as a form of socializing. That obviously doesn't apply to overly long, poorly structured meetings that waste time. But a sizeable (mostly) silent group of people appreciate reasonably scheduled and structured meetings in the way described in this article. To each their own.
I had laser eye surgery, but I went with PRK. Less invasive, more durable, far less wasteful of cornea, and its end results are just as good as LASIK's. The only downside is it's a little less convenient because each eye takes a few weeks to heal, so people usually do one eye at a time.

The LASIK procedure is just utterly insane in comparison, especially given its extremely limited advantages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy
Most of the recent research is moving to GELU (Gaussian Error Linear Units) activation functions: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.08415.pdf
Counter example of what?

> A lot of his science breakthroughs went on unknown

I suppose if one's goal is solipsistic research, that would be fine. (We know that wasn't Da Vinci's goal, though.)

To put it a different way, suppose I have solved AGI and never told anyone.

... What good have I done?
Why does 1Password need $200M dollars?
The article talks about fake Hermes bracelets being sold for $25, when a real one is closer to $600. It's obviously a counterfeit. Does Amazon not have any requirement for a human to review a listing before allowing it up for sale?
Of course, in the Forth environment, the more any word definition bloats, the harder the stack tracing you have to do in order to understand the operation flow, so keeping things neat and to the point is even more important.

It might be a failing of my own, but I've always wanted a concatenative language IDE to have a stack window, with manual labeling, so I could see what all is on the stack and follow the information flow better.
Agree fully, and as mentioned in the article

> I tend to stay within it, but I occasionally decide to make my code a little wider.

No coding rules should be religiously held. If you're trying to re-write an 81 column line to fit the rule, even though it's concise and more readable at 81 columns, you're doing it wrong.
Once I was pulled over for a tail light out, and it turned out my license was expired. In DC, this means you immediately go to jail. Once I arrived at jail, they informed me that if I had $80 cash on hand, I could go free and show up for trial; otherwise it could take up to 24 hours for me to see a judge, who would then tell me I could go free until trial.

If I were someone else, without cash on hand, with a temporary job and kids, I would have missed work and not been able to pick up my kids from school and feed them, to say nothing of paying hundreds to get my car out of an impound lot. I realized then that the justice system is a machine that creates poverty.
My co-founder and I are both developers and whenever we used to make apps we found getting feedback on the apps was very difficult. App store reviews were very one-sided and emails were usually ignored by users. So we made HintPod it’s a SaaS platform that allows developers and businesses to get feedback from their customers directly inside their apps. What we've developed so far is called Suggestions and it consists of a list of suggestions submitted by users. Businesses and developers can also engage with the users and their suggestions through HintPod. Users don’t have to login or leave your app to submit their feedback. It’s free to use so I’d love to hear what you guys think about it. Thanks.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.

Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
> Wouldnt due dates solve some of this problem? Either "we arent going to talk about this again as a group for 48h", or "you have one week to prepare for us to revisit this."

Not really. Once you start adding specific dates around when people can discuss things, you've just reinvented meetings in a less efficient medium.

The key is proper mentoring, coaching, and expectation setting. If meetings are becoming a problem, work on coaching people how to run healthy meetings. If you just ban meetings, the same bad habits just spill over into less efficient mediums and create even more problems.
If you were trying to learn something on your and not attending a class, how would you modify your method?
That is true. I didn't think that they were doing it was the trade secret but the way they were doing it might be, unless that is pretty standardized too. I don't really know.
> Travel along an Indian highway and try to find your standard roadside motel as you would in US ala Best Western. There are no low-mid tier chains.

I agree with you, and I was very bullish on OYO precisely because of this opportunity. However they have executed terribly by really not caring about a quality experience, instead chasing short-term growth.

Looking at Indian social media, OYO's brandname is now associated with a crap experience. It may already be too late, however they could still come out of this by doubling down on customer satisfaction ASAP.

> The textbook on how fast you can scale things is being rewritten

In hospitality, just putting your branded linens into a hotel isn't really "scaling". It's about consistency of experience. And that takes a time and/or a substantial training budget to ensure at least a few people at each site are trained appropriately, and this learning trickles down to every employee/partner.
I prefer 80/120. I try to write 80 character lines, but occasional 120 lines are accepted.
I only changed L, which is nominally unrelated to all of those. You thought this was a clean, well-modularized codebase?
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It would be nice also to show the languages the repository is written in, like in GitHub. Also, I hope to see more Go code and less Python. Certainly it will reduce the servers load and less runtime surprises.
Working at a more concrete level is generally more effort and gives you greater flexibility than working in the abstract. There’s a tradeoff here, and the right answer will be different for every person, domain, and stage of development. The heuristic I use personally is that I shift to a more concrete perspective when I’m having trouble understanding something and to a more abstract perspective when things feel tedious.

I used tool-assisted incorrectly as a proxy for this scale. There are tools to help provide a more detailed, concrete view in addition to tools that speed up repetitive tasks.

There is some evidence that assistive tools may impede learning, particularly regarding navigation with GPS vs a paper map. If you just want to get the job done, tools are great. If you’re going to be doing similar jobs frequently, it’s probably worth investing the effort to try the lower-level/older method a few times; it’ll make you better at using the more modern methods. It seems that going more than about 2 levels of abstraction away from my original problem gives too little return for the effort, though— Diving into the debouncing circuitry of my keyboard is unlikely to help me diagnose a syntax error.

For learning, I’ll stick to paper and pencil, personally. I could never get my head around double-entry bookkeeping until I started keeping my personal accounts in a paper ledger book. I wouldn’t hire a professional accountant doing things that way, though: I now understand what the tools are doing well enough to appreciate both the benefits and drawbacks.

Similarly, spaced repetition systems like Anki never really clicked for me. It only started to work when I made a physical Leitner box and wrote out cards by hand. I eventually moved to a hybrid system where I computer-generate most of the cards but still print them out and review with physical cards. The extra flexibility of the concrete system let me try thing and figure out what I needed to make a system that works for me; I doubt it’s right for anyone else, but that doesn’t matter.
I agree, but this wasn't a "I'm gonna ask the judge to sentence people reasonably" list. It was an "I will not prosecute" list.
The CSME is on the PCH[1] (when one exists). (However AMD elected to put their PSP on-die as an IP-block). It is the root of trust of the system and takes the CPU out of reset even though it's not on the CPU itself. x86-based machines have pretty much always had multiple auxiliary processors/SoCs that control various aspects of the system such as the embedded controller (a direct descendant of the 8042 keyboard controller). Another example of this is the AMD SMU which lives on the chipset and coexists with the PSP (the talk in the link gets code running on this as you described)[2]. Interestingly the Chromebook EC firmware is open source[3]. Joanna Rutkowska has done a nice overview of some of the security aspects of these topics as well[4].

Ideally there would be a standard way to verify and measure all the various firmware images (and potentially option ROMs which would be theoretically measured with SRTM via UEFI) for these system processors during boot during a DRTM event (with Intel's STM/AMD SMM supervisor enabled as well) but there is a long way to go for that.

[1] https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Hasarfaty-Behi...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYvhHey_dTk

[3] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/m...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwngbUrZNg
Technically, you can demand an immediate response via email (and in some industries, this is quite common). It's the expectations around the channel that matter.
That's no Quebecois I've ever heard. Sounds like a Brit who picked it up as a second language in the home or soon after.

Even struggles to finish the sentence due to the effort of reading in the 2nd to last one. Struggles with an extremely common word, 'grand', as well as stumbling over a simple sentence. To be fair, he has heard enough French (i.e. lived and studied there most likely) to get the intonations mostly right but there are a few other giveaways too... it's just not natural or native from where I'm sitting.
True, but this isn't what you asserted.
It also flies in the face of Amazon's promise of convenience and "2-day delivery" guarantees when you have to have the same item shipped to you twice and make the trip to the post office to return the first one.
I have an HP Laserjet 6P - I bought it (used) years ago because I rarely print things, and every inkjet I owned would "clog up" and be useless when I needed it. The 6P (as well as its predecessor, the 5) was/is a "business workhorse". Mine had less than 25k pages on it - a complete "baby" when I got it; I'm still well under 50k.

When I need it, it works (assuming paper is loaded). A toner cartridge lasts forever. I've maybe changed cartridges a couple of times in the past 20 years.

The only upgrades I did to the printer was maxing out it's memory (to 8 meg) and putting in the Postscript SIMM. I also have it hooked up via a USB to parallel port cable. There are ways to get it connected to the network, but I've never done it since it gets used so rarely and only by myself usually.

It isn't fast - it won't win no prizes there. But when I need it, it works. That is all that matters to me.
That's interesting! Have you made progress on self-replication? I think it's a very important problem. I've made some notes categorized under topics/self-replication.html in http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano-20191110.tar.gz, but of course I'm no Johnny von Neumann.
I call BS on most of these. $900/MRR and the buy price is $600? Come on...
> It does not. It makes it exponentially more difficult.

is not implicit. That is very much an explicit assertion.

I'm simply pointing out that in your pointing out of cargo-cult, you've done the exact same thing of drawing a conclusion with no basis.

> Imagine having a function with 5 sub functions, and since this is your style, those functions have 5 internal functions.

is unrealistic. There's plenty of room in between "no private functions at all" and "5^n functions for every layer". It's hyperbole and bordering rhetorical.

As for tracing bugs in the way you mention - nobody in my sphere of influence has needed to do that in years, at least not on a regular basis. Tests demonstrating IPO are far more valuable and also far more quickly than tracing, narrow the scope of the problem to the point that you'll now be within one small function to read than a potentially much larger one.