skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've received a counterfeit item ordered through the amazon marketplace the other month. When I requested a refund there wasn't even an option to signal that it was a fake, the closest item on the list was something like "doesn't match the description" or something of the sort. I suppose it's technically true but the fact that they don't even attempt to single out scammers from potential honest mistakes at this level doesn't really bode well.

I must say that I don't really understand this strategy, although of course it's hard to get the full picture when you don't have access to the raw numbers. It's not like Amazon is aching for money so why risk their reputation like this?
So your big point is that it's all a big "maybe."

Aren't you missing a rather larger point that we're also currently polluting the planet in the process, smog, water tables, rivers, ocean trash, deforestation, excess meat consumption linked to chronic disease?
That's probably because North Carolina companies (especially in Charlotte) pay horribly, especially now that homes are becoming more expensive there, like every other large city.

Furthermore, Charlotte is heavily banking and finance, and thus lean heavily on H1B visas for most of their enterprise jobs. I've had recruiters contact me for jobs in the area and the salaries were a joke. Honestly, I don't know if they were for real or just using it as 'proof' that they couldn't hire any Americans so they could forward off a few hundred more H1B petitions to USCIS...
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This would be a concern if DNA was something secret like a password, but it isn't, it falls off you all the time in the form of hair and skin cells, so if there was something valuable in your DNA, your employers could get it easily anyway. And if your DNA was useful to insurers you would pay yourself for them to get it, because knowing that your risk of dying from certain disease is higher is also required for preventing that.

In general trying to keep DNA secret to prevent discrimination is a losing game, a better strategy is preventing discrimination itself, which we already have to do for DNA variations that have visible manifestation. Moreover if the number of people who need protection from discrimination increases, we'll get better at preventing it, which would be useful for the people who are being discriminated now.
I don’t think this an entirely fair comparison. STM provides essentially primitive operations, Async just builds a higher level API on top of them for common pattern. Not unlike the relationship between errgroup and go routines.

Strategies solve a different problem, in giving control of evaluation order of pure values. STM is aimed more at traditional multi threading
As a fulltime web dev, I had a guess of who's cloud that was, but had to look the name up.

They may have numbers due to Chinese usage, but no Western company is going to use Chinese hosting, ever.
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This rings true with my experience also. A couple weeks ago I bought a bunch of computer parts online, the majority from NewEgg and a MSI motherboard from Amazon. Hooked up everything and it wouldn't post. Thinking it was a power supply I swapped out and tested the new power supply in my old PC and it worked, so I took the old power supply and put it in my new PC and it didn't work. Returned the motherboard to Amazon and bought different brand from Best Buy and it's been working like a champ ever since.

On a different shipment from Amazon I received a small bathroom rug. The weave of the design was off by over an inch on two of the sides. I've never had such bad experiences in the past from Amazon than the last couple months.
That is such a stretch I'd need a yogi to grasp it all.

There are plenty of ways to protest that are just as effective as a pop up that only appears on a specific site for a specific lawyer that don't involve messing with work code.
Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher Bach" does a very slow gradual walk through Gödel's incompleteness theorem. If you can get into his writing style, it's a good way to really "get" the points.
It's not about whether I trust the leaders. Even if they're trustworthy, their job is to work for what's best for the union as a whole, and that's often going to be different than what's best for me. As anyone who's worked in big companies can attest, there are all sorts of ways that facially universal policies can have disproportionate impact on specific people or teams.
crmrc114 shares almost all of their DNA with their parents, children, siblings and cousins, in addition to the mentioned grandparents.

I'll bet you a dollar that neither crmrc114 nor 23&me asked /all/ the stakeholders in this particular transaction for consent.
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I'm quite hurt by the recent pattern.

Disruption, freedom, ala internet diverts energy away from good old solutions.. for a while, until it spoils itself under its own flood. By the time we realize, old businesses have suffered tremendously.

Stress is good for health, but too much too fast is called a disease.
Compared to more recent drugs, it is
Comcast forcing you into a business plan to get even remotely adequate upload speeds is a pure scam.
Google Cloud could have easily dominated the market if they were willing to share their internal technology instead of knock-offs they offered. Now it's too late, competition improved their mediocre offerings and outside TPUs there is no advantage anymore.
Don't get me wrong, I would love fiber. USI has been laying down fiber across Minneapolis at a very fast rate over the last 10 years. I think almost half the city is covered now. But I really like my neighborhood and I don't want to move. I am sure USI will get to me eventually, but it will take time and my road will be expensive due to being on a hill above the street level.
We stopped ordering bird food because it kept arriving opened. Hello no I’m not feeding my bird preopened food. Who knows what contamination it’s got.
My main issue here would be the fact the data is being sold to a private pharma company. The 'help' you are talking about might come at a huge cost, this simply helps them develop ever more expensive drugs because they are the only ones holding the data.
Just look for another job, don't even waste a single second of your life considering that offer.
I worked for a company that would allow us working from home some days a week, and we even had some remote colleagues. At some point, our manager made us install one of those applications, which denoted he didn't trust us anymore. The app worked exactly as you say, and it was frustrating and infuriating at the same time. It would "measure" your productivity based on the mouse and keyboard activity, giving ridiculous results like a 20% or 30% of effective time worked. Surely a monkey banging on the keyboard would have a much better score, but that's not what developers get paid for. Not only so, but I had the perception that the app had a special preference for taking screenshots when I was on Slack or writing an email, which feels like an utter violation of privacy. Obviously, most of us either left the company or refused to use the tracking software.
Be conscious of the value you can provide and look for someone that judges your work by your output, not by the number of keystrokes you do a day.
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Google has a lot of security teams since they do all of their infra themselves. The people who push security patches to peoples OS's is a security team, and they used that channel to push a message similar to this.
Darwin's make is GNU make.

$ uname -rs
Darwin 18.7.0

$ which make
/usr/bin/make

$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0
This is such a weird response to me.

The WSJ personally proved that Amazon doesn't have additional seller checks around food suppliers to make sure they're reputably sourcing their products. But because we don't have evidence that people are (currently) taking advantage of that, our response should be different?

If my website has an XSS vulnerability that exposes my database, and someone tells me about it, can I downplay the issue by saying, "you don't have evidence that anyone is currently exploiting it"? Would you feel comfortable continuing to use my software if that was my response?

> Attempts to list a protein powder, a pea-powder dietary supplement and a face sheet mask—all from the dive—elicited a request from Amazon for proof of purchase.

Amazon does have quality control metrics for some items, but doesn't use them for food -- meaning that in practice buying food on Amazon may not be much safer than buying food on Ebay. In that sense, think of the WSJ article as a public disclosure of a vulnerability in Amazon's quality control measures. A vulnerability that we observably know exists because the WSJ personally verified that it existed.
No, work stealing is pretty high overhead.
It's easy to win arguments when you make them up yourself to knock down. That comment is responding to and inaccurately paraphrasing me. I'm right here. I suggest you rebut something I actually said.
You are not wrong, but it isn't a major issue for me.
As a Google Cloud Platform customer, this is pretty concerning news and seems likely to drive me to start looking at alternatives and also likely to avoid placing any dependencies on Google-specific platform features.

So, if any Google Cloud employees are reading this, please report back that this just killed any interest I had in Anthos, Google Cloud Run, the managed Google "Kubernetes Apps", etc. Pretty much anything that isn't basic compute VMs, storage, or out of the box Kubernetes.
Personally I think that this entire sector is due for a reduction. Companies like Facebook or Amazon or Google or just soaking up employees to work on things that don’t really matter. Once they figure that out and manage more efficiently, there will be layoffs followed by the inevitable commodification of CS talent. This field isn’t special, it’s like any other field that went through a boom phase and a later regression to an equilibrium point.

Soon everyone in every role/industry will have rudimentary programming skills and use them on top of safe platforms that don’t needtremendous specialization. It’ll stop being a differentiator and it’ll be more like a basic qualification.
No. The Information is brilliantly sourced.
Non-paywalled link?
Every company should question the businesses they're in periodically. But having that discussion leak to the public is disastrous. Trust in executive decisions at Google must be extremely low if all their internal business keeps becoming public knowledge.
Ok, now I see your point. It seems you're advocating for intuititionistic logic: you only consider a proposition "true" if you can build a proof for it.
Classical logics (and, therefore, classical mathematics) assumes that it makes perfect sense to talk about the truth value of a proposition without computing/proving it. Even undecidable ones are either true or false.
We should set the economic growth to less than zero but odly it only can be set between 1.7% and 3.7%.

Sadly we can image the end of the world but not the end of capitalism
I would bet most of this users clicking things they should not. recently my company put out a phishing email and people clicked on it and then started a thread on the internal forums about how mad they were the company would do this (they had to take extra training if the fell for it). Another co worker was telling me about his old position where he put the thumb drives in parking lots and people would pick them up and plug them into their work computer, and the would get mad that their security team did this exercise and caught them.

Yes a lot can still be done with security on machines and traffic, etc.... But the human factor is hard to control and fix. If someone sent out a phishing email with a link that said "click here to see magical unicorns jumping over a rainbow", someone would click it, i know poeple i work with who would click it. It gets, frustrating at least for me, since i have a lot to do with security where i am at.
My home state is chock full of sweetheart deals that benefit nobody but the corporations. It has a freaking ton of heavy industry, but the people in the state end up subsidizing out of towners with money that should be going towards their own kids' education and healthcare. And they're PROUD of it.
One Woman found the fat loss code
To be fair, if you are taken over by ransomware, it's probably the best decision to start from scratch and redesign your network so that this sort of thing is mitigated in the future.
It is neighborhood by neighborhood, with the best service in places with AT&T fiber to offer competition with Comcast. I moved from West Oakland, where my choices were 3Mbit DSL or Comcast, to San Jose, where I have gigabit fiber from Sonic (with AT&T plant). AT&T fiber is available up in the hills in Oakland, and there are still parts of SJ without fiber service.
you forgot that some of us are debating the sign-off process as well. the most surprising aspect if you ask me...
The top 1% isn't getting income via employment payroll.

They own entities globally and can afford to give themselves a dollar a year salary. If you are only raising employment income taxes you have to get it from the middle class.
Anybody knows what to do with an SPA that, without js, only displays "loading..." and doesn't generate any preview on any platform (whatsapp, telegram...)?

This is for a hobby project, so rewriting it to do server side rendering etc. is not an option.
One thing that would help a bit is have more liberal SF style labour laws and other laws - ban non competes for example like SF does.

But that would require a complete rebalance of power from states to federal government.
This isn't about OOP vs. FP.

This is about OOP vs. everything else.

Rust, Go and javascript are three languages that are moving away from the OOP paradigm. None of those three languages are classified as functional.

>Is there some resource you can point to that says in the past when faced with situation X developers tended to use pattern Y, these days that has been superseded with way of doing things Z?

No. A general trend is an anecdotal observation. Still a quick google search yielded: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/images/fpvsoo.jpg

Take a look at the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

While I don't agree with a lot of it, I think it sums up my opinion really clearly. It's not about DP's but because DP's focus around OOP and the video is a criticism of OOP therefore the arguments apply to DPs.
> From a similar perspective for journalism, I think there's an argument that can be made that it's better to get most of the information out right away, even if some of it is inaccurate, and then correct the inaccuracies later, rather than wait until every piece is confirmed and edited perfectly to release the information. Argument to extremes, think of a hurricane or volcano explosion.

Following the argument to the same extreme, it's a bad idea to get out the information "there is a hurricane or volcano explosion due south of you" immediately, and to wait until the flight north begins to issue the correction "actually, it's due north of you."
well.. I was getting at, it still can be mentally difficult to pry yourself away from it, even if you financially can 'afford' it.
For an assembly line worker who can serviceably crank out features from JIRA tickets in $framework_of_the_month, maybe not. But that's not what CS education is for.

For someone who's genuinely, deeply good at it, who can think and debug and design from the network consensus protocol to the CPU cache line, there will always be work. Even within hot companies populated from elite schools, these people are few and far between.
The Medium article covers why using that correlation to assume causation is a problem, using other experimental variables that were shown to have a correlation with homicides.
Let's hope this idea catches on with patent trolls too. It's about time they outed all the businesses that don't agree immediately to settle.
I had this epiphany last week when I was looking for a winter neck tube (literally just a piece of cloth sewn in a cylinder shape).

I ended up giving up because it was impossible to tell the quality and materials of anything I was ordering.
I grew up in C-U and still dearly miss the area. Would definitely move back to the right job.
Differences in research reporting: Men more +. Should they exercise restraint?
You have to wonder whether "must be number 1 or 2" came out of some pop-management text.

What exactly is wrong with being on the list of potential cloud providers for almost every project? Have you ever been on a non-MS project where someone didn't at least mention GCP instead of AWS?

Google being as profitable as it is can afford options. Why not sit around in number 3 spot?
The person you're responding to didn't say that.
I mean - honestly - most people that work in computers don't work for FAANG, or even a FAANG adjacent corporation. I like job stability (and with my health issues, job stability and good health benefits are always at the top of my priority list), so most of FAANG (and many start-ups) are lower on my priority list; I know I could almost double my income moving out of higher ed. but that comes with different costs and benefits.

You're treating this like monetary value is the only motivator for people. Let's pick on medicine; a general practitioner consistently makes less money, but they tend to have greater, more regular contact with their patients, which may be a strong motivator for them over becoming a surgeon for more money. And to boot, the surgeon is more specialized, so they have simultaneously learned less than the Gen Practitioner, but more specificity within their selected specialization. This is similar to boot camps, that provide a very narrow skillset that give someone the best chance of getting hired into that very narrow position type; where as, someone like the OP and I are happy with our broader knowledge that gives us different benefits.

And probably most importantly, what do I care that someone else has optimized their job path for monetary gain. I could assign 5 minute increments to worrying about each person and still not make it through all the idiots that are employed in the tech industry in my lifetime.
> all the jobs are, ironically, in places that really don't want to grow

That's a little misleading. True, SF and Seattle have zoning laws which are a significant part of the reason for housing unaffordability (e.g. 75% of Seattle is zoned for single family dwellings, prohibiting even short townhouses), but it's likely that many of the smaller cities in the article either do have such zoning laws already or would adopt them once increasing density motivates local homeowners to "protect" their neighborhoods. (Heck, in many smaller towns it is illegal to grow veggies in your front garden or let your lawn grass go brown.) An overbearing notion of house-property-values and everything associated with that mindset is not the province of big metros alone.

Meanwhile, the recent efforts of cities like Seattle to enable smart urban planning, public transit, and bicycling, even though laughably puny by European standards, are still significantly ahead of the rest of the USA.

Most importantly, sprawl is devastating from an environmental point of view - it massively blows up per capita carbon footprint. Well-planned, dense cities can include parks, green space, and even urban wilderness while still accommodating density and drastically reducing car travel. It is a matter of political will, not technical feasibility.
Instagram is no better. Maybe worse.
The high density of urban areas and the usage of public transit are much better for the environment than suburbs where you need a car to do anything.
Maybe they shouldn't be in the political ad business if it's too hard to do it safely. Imagine if we said the same about driving cars or sale of high explosives or thwarting counterfeit cash.
Having enough money to retire early is having wealth.

Sort of. There's two pieces to FIRE. Saving aggressively, yes. But also by learning to live modestly, you need less wealth to retire. So half of FIRE is accumulating wealth, but the other half is needing less wealth.
Some of those comments below the article are just scary.

People demanding death sentences and that Iran/China/Russia/North Korea be nuked, over private business data leaks?

It's like the problem of attribution never has existed, nowadays the "smoking cyber guns" are apparently everywhere.
There is little need for this if one is using a text-only browser such as links/elinks that does not process Javascript or CSS. AMP look great in links/elinks, without any filtering. This is for folks who do not use text-only browsers and prefer to leave Javascript enabled.
It's so disingenuous to call out employees advancing their agenda when the corporations themselves are constantly abusing their power to advance their agenda.

> And the risk of people abusing power to advance their personal agenda is NOT something that would get passed easily once discovered.

Yes, it is. It get discovered all the time and no one gives a sh*t about it.
> If it hasn’t been solved yet, it’s probably not that trivial. How many is “too many”? What happens if I change one attribute every week or so until I’ve completely changed the product?

The problem seems trivial, especially for a company of Amazon's size. All they'd need to do is have some prominent part of the product description (say the product name) be unmodifiable without review and approval by Amazon, and have reviewers that are trained to spot patterns of fraudulent behavior. Any legitimate issues caused by the review can probably be mitigated by giving sellers the ability to get pending changes pre-approved before they go live [1].

If a seller doesn't want to go through the approval, they can delete the product listing and create a new one with a new description, but they'd lose all the reviews. Seems like a fair tradeoff.

However, all that would cost a little bit of money, and would require staff. Amazon probably made the business decision that they like money, and don't mind the costs of allowing the fraud since it's mostly borne by customers.

[1] so the Amazon review for a legitimate product name change can happen while the packaging is being redesigned, and it can all go live in a coordinated fashion
Ask HN: How close are we to westworld type humanoid robots?
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Can you tell me where the money from Colbert's Americans for a Better Tommorow SuperPAC has gone? He's not legally required to tell us, yet a revelation that a political group receives money from people with money to spare is framed as shocking... I don't know what is interesting about this story.
I think the simpler answer is that data shows that it’s good for Amazon’s sales, so they have no incentive to fix it.
Conspiracy, computer misuse laws for one and if you targeted CNI sites - much stronger laws -)
However, jury verdicts of acquittal are unassailable even where the verdict is inconsistent with the weight of the evidence and instruction of the law.