skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot worse. I bought an RCA minifridge, "sold by amazon." 10 months later the compressor starts clicking. I check the "RCA" manual - it's clearly written by a non-native speaker in broken engrish. Nor does RCA make this model apparently. The listing now has the same fridge with a different logo on it.

I complain to Amazon that it's counterfeit, and need a refund despite it being 10 months later. I ship it back, get a refund less than purchase price. They charged me a restocking fee. They're now going to sell it used.

They know it's fake - they knowingly sell fake things.

I just use walmart.com now. I spent ~80k on Amazon over the last decade, and they will never get another penny from me, even if they fix this. My two brothers stopped using amazon too. And my wife. Walmart has most things Amazon does, as a first seller. Their 3rd party sellers are the same as amazon - just less of them. Because walmart actually investigates and kicks people off for selling fakes. Amazon literally knowingly sells fakes themselves. Prices are same or less. If I want aliexpress, I'll buy there. But I don't.
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Why not progressively reduce the angle to the cone's surface to keep the angle to horizontal the same all the way up?
Never, and I don't consider any job that demands this. Learn what work-life separation means.
Jack is indeed a common nickname for John.
Filtering by seller doesn't show up consistently-- I've yet to identify what exactly the pattern is, but, once you've drilled down far enough into their search results, it usually shows up for me.

It very rarely shows up for me after a general search (from the search bar on the Amazon homepage), though-- for example, if I search for "T-shirt" from the homepage, I can't filter by seller, but, if I drill down to the "Men's Shirts" category in the left-hand bar on that search results page, I can filter those results by seller (and select "Amazon.com" to see things they claim they're selling themselves).
Ironically, it looks like Walmart tries to out-amazon Amazon. They allow third-party sellers, etc.

I stopped shopping at Newegg quite some time ago because the explicit reason I was coming to them is not to buy from third-party sellers.
> this lady

Erica Klarriech, PhD

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Klarreich
Have you considered that you might be a normie?
You might reach out to Michelangelo van Dam. He knows this story well, and continues to be an inspiration in the PHP community. He’s @dragonbe on Twitter.
The ISS is about the same distance from Earth that New York City is from Washington DC. It's technically still in the Earths' atmosphere.
Even in German, appears the term was closer to "formal system", not "programming language".

"Kalkül is the German term for a formal system—as in Hilbert-Kalkül, the original name for the Hilbert-style deduction system—so Plankalkül refers to a formal system for planning.[2]"
That's right. That's a general proof technique: to assemble a structure from a bunch of parts or layers, each of which adds to or multiplies the size of the structure, and possibly the various factors may be known only by upper bounds.

So there is room to improve slightly by brute force or more careful accounting, or a lot by finding an alternate construction.
OK, fair enough. A MIDI file would contain the musical information necessary to generate any notation. Thanks for the reply.

I see indeed the link to the Mcleod pitch method paper is dead. I'll see about hosting it in a git repo.
Time investment to weigh and verify incoming items (did they mistakenly buy green cabbage instead of romaine?) is still significantly less, even when factoring in the 5 or 6 taps to refund orders via my phone.

I've tried the other services (Instacart, local stores) but they are even _worse_.
You want less of something, tax it.

Trains, buses, bicycles, etc. are not or should not be goals in themselves. Using fossil fuel for manufacturing and not vehicle fuel is not the goal in itself. Less CO2 (or other pollution/resource use) is the goal, so tax all fossil fuel and let markets figure out what is efficient.

And if you think expensive gas is harsh on the poor, address that separately a la basic income proposals.

This all is quite impractical, so people will just go on searching for the keys they dropped in the sewer under the lamppost where they can see.
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Amazon has Prime Now, a grocery delivery service mostly via Whole Foods and a few other stores in major metro areas. Grocery delivery isn't anything new in big cities, but their UI and selection is far above anyone else.

(Unfortunately.)
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So I don't even see the point in taking attendance (and as far as I remember at my university in the UK lecturers didn't even take attendence), but if you do, what's wrong with taking a register at the beginning? It's probably cheaper, less error prone and the teach can use their discretion if a student is a little late to class because of ~reasons~.
Agree 100%... But keep in mind the iPhone launched in 2007. The App Store launched about a year later and was really what made the iPhone a platform (that satisfied the Bill Gates test, created wonderful network effects, etc).

Apple having a spot in everyone's ear sets them up quite well strategically. While Google, Amazon, etc have been battling it out with in-home devices, Apple went straight for the ear.
Work like your job doesn't matter
This video talks about the quality of spectrum from various LED light sources and why it matters. IIRC they suggested amber LEDs in addition to white. https://youtu.be/5U-F7EhLp7g
I guess someone should produce the GPU I want “locally” as well? Or maybe my vaccines? It seems like you have a computer to post this (in which 0% of the parts are made “locally”) so maybe you should practice what you preach.
So did you indeed loop over every possible frequency?

I know I attempted a Goertzel-based pitch detector once, where I looped over frequencies and picked the one with the largest magnitude. I picked 25Hz and 4200Hz as my limits (from a piano).
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> if god would to exist, he would have been the loneliest thing, and in his grief and loneliness, he gave birth to otherness, and here we are.

You might enjoy this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hidden_Treasure
Green bell pepper in Japan. I saw a Hello Kitty cartoon that also used pepper.
> This sort of thing doesn't work at schools that don't have such a high bar of entry.

This was the policy at the community college I went to. No one took attendance, and it was the students' responsibility to make sure they did the work and prepared themselves for exams if they chose not to show up.
I think it is surprising, especially considering the free open source options available that are not far behind intellij offerings like VS code.
It doesn’t do rasterization or culling in Numpy, so I wouldn’t call it a complete rendering pipeline.

Cool proof of concept — But not particularly surprising that you can do matrix multiplications on points using a matrix library. Pyrr is another good library that is built specifically for this 3D use case.
There is large gulf between what 'people on the internet' think and the priorities and interests of government regulatory bodies (and corporate boards). Whether people on the internet think the ozone hole is a hoax or not would have very little impact on the process and outcomes.
Thanks man! I'm thinking about writing a few blog posts too, even if no one reads it I think it would be a motivator for me. I'll definitely post my projects on here when they get to an alpha state :)
After decades of problems with overpopulation now they have depopulation to deal with. Doesn’t really seem like an issue to me. The population has needed to be reduced for a long time due to limited space and an over-reliance on imported produce. It will be a difficult change but one long needed.
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I never go to YouTube looking for a recommendation of something to watch. The recommendations algorithm is entirely useless for me. YouTube without a recommendation algorithm is just fine.

I go there either because I'm linked to a specific video, I'm searching for something specific (too specific for the recommendation algorithm), or to check if any of the few channels I follow have posted anything new.
Bullshit. Sell it to the highest bidder and let the owner be responsible for the way it’s run. If they screw up they will lose bigly.

Down with monopolistic and state-appointed committees and organizations!
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The 'fix' the article suggests are common 'lockers' folks would go to pick up their stuff. Amazon has these - though they are not shared with other vendors. Super convenient when flying back and forth to a location. I can amazon prime a charger or something to a locker and have it in a day or two.
A use-case where slower framerate is an upgrade - rare, but they exist.
Years ago when I was trying to clone Firefox’s and Chrome’s code bases WebIDL capabilities in order to simplify native bindings in Titanium SDK, I would have killed for such an article. Very interesting!
"GitHub intends to store every public GitHub repository on film reels coated with iron oxide powder, which can be readable for 1,000 years using either a computer or a magnifying glass. Those who wish to add their code to the vault have until February 2nd, 02020 to do so. At that point, GitHub will take a snapshot of every public repository, and add it to the storage vault. GitHub plans to update the library every 5+ years."
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I buy so much stuff on amazon, and have never had a fake anything. Can you give more detail? I’d love to know at least what kind of product it was.
PIA went from a Freenode sponsor to owner a couple years ago.

https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn
Inc is basically blogspam. I've never understood why it's as popular as it is. This title is clickbait.
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And not just in America. It's common in Australia too, and apparently it dates back a long way in England. Jack has become a lot more common as an actual given name over the past few decades, though.
Did you attend any events, watch anything related to the field, or read any articles related to it? That's bare minimum research right there.
I have a three drawer underdesk cabinet with five wheels. The fifth being on the front of the file drawer. Don’t think that one is tipping over.
Here’s the story of a game I made in 1994, when I was 12
Stop fantasizing about getting something I will never have.
... because "philosopher's stone" isn't well known in USA and "philosopher" means something different.

Perhaps because USAns don't have as much interest in pseudoscience as British ;-)
That’s an interesting point of view. Do you think engineers are much more “interchangeable parts” than most HN folks seem to believe?
We had a on old WM clone, mlvwm

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-miyata/mlvwm.html

Modern fork:

https://github.com/samdmarshall/mlvwm

And finder clone, with GTK1.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020408211103/http://www.udk-be...

Modern GTK2 fork:

https://github.com/samdmarshall/xap
We don’t want people to die from brain farts.

We are also dumber when stressed, when sick, and absolutely so when we are both at once.
There is a game that does this. Exanima by
Bare Mettle Entertainment. This is my first time with an account here, and I felt compelled to post this.
Classes shouldn't be easy. I had the privilege as an American of studying at a university abroad that used the English system of marks, where a top grade began at 75%, and that was difficult to attain. The quality of education I received there was exemplary, and the grades were not inflated, at least not to the extent I've seen at American universities.
Opening a drawer in a hurry could pinch your other fingers, or break something sticking out of a drawer. Whatever you do will be a compromise.
Some of these don't exist anymore. Nextec from Patagonia, huh? I've given up finding a breathable waterproof layer. If it's heavy rain then I accept I'll get sweaty underneath, if it's cold then water resistant soft shells are awesome.
>Even for an informal system, there's always a last person allowed in, and hence a cutoff.

Is there really? In my faculty, doors were kept open. I entered lectures at 20% of time left and nobody would bat an eyelid.
When it comes to electronics and plastic wares, most of the stuff on Amazon is just white label products from Alibaba suppliers. Most of the time the same stock photos are used in both the Amazon and AliExpress listings.
For such a wildly ignorant take as "“At least we’re aren’t Google!” is pretty much the best they can say" I'd suggest the eye roll emoji instead.
Technically, name must match a name on the account.
> People breeding below replacement? The population is shrinking, and that's terrible.

Why would that be terrible? People don’t want to have (as many) kids, that’s none of NYT’s or government’s business.

The “problem” is it becomes harder to milk the remaining herd and create more debt when it becomes increasingly clear it won’t ever be paid back.
"When it comes to geniuses, the inability to hold down a job, eccentricity of style, rudeness, etc, are features, not bugs. The potential benefit to society far outweighs the very real inconvenience they cause to the people around them."

I think that this is purely an illusion due to a selection effect.

People associate (technical, scientific, artistic) talent and intelligence with mental illness because the people with mental illness that they are aware of have to have compensating qualities in order to be noticed, achieve notable things, and/or lead anything near a normal life. But the ones that don't, are essentially invisible or easily dismissed (criminals, homeless, not working, etc). It doesn't matter if you're a genius or not, you'd be better off not dragging around a ball and chain.
I had to do this for my mother's roku powered smart TV.
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I thought we were the crankiest group in cyberspace.

Anyway, how NYC-centric is it?
> Ah, I thought—this is precisely where linear algebra can come to the rescue! Just like in CLEVER or PageRank, we can begin by giving everyone in the community an equal number of “morality starting credits.”

Two metaethical presuppositions stand out:

* That right and wrong (or right- and wrong-making action features) are discrete and quantifiable.

* That right and wrong (or ...) are expressible over communities as consequences to external individuals, rather than the properties of (potentially ineffectual!) actions themselves.

Written as counterclaims:

* We have no reason to believe that any right or wrong action corresponds to a particular number of morality credits, or that actions are independent (consider: most of us have some sort of intuition about bad things being excusable or forgivable if done only once).

* We have no reason to believe that the outcomes of our actions are what make them actually right. Consider the murderer who cooperates with the "moral" group to find ideal victims, but fails to kill them out of cowardice or incompetence -- a reasonable intuition to have would be that the murder is bad, despite external cooperation to the contrary.
Besides reading about them has anybody had first hand experience with "breathable" stuff that actually keeps you dry in real rain? To me this stuff seems like a mythical beast that is supposed to exist but I can never find.
A great deal of their reputation is based on their ability to produce precise quartz movements, ostensibly resistant to temperature changes, etc.
Never ever.

Current company has 400 employees my team is around seven but we'll have to grow very fast very shortly.
In this case it is bad user experience.

That set of drawers is not sizeable enough to warrant tipping protection that is so unfriendly to the user. If it were a 2m high filing cabinet, I would agree, but it isn't.

Dressers made of thin, light wood, filled with drawers full of clothes and/or toys never have this safety feature, and those are the things which need it most; they all require (or recommend) that you instead strap the top of the dresser to the drywall, assuming that it is both against a wall and that the wall is finished with drywall, and not some other wall material, such as brick, which is common in certain geographies.

Too many people commenting here completely missed the point of the linked website entirely, immediately homed in on some minutia, commented with some variant of "uh, actually...", and even got that wrong, arguably.

It's really amazing to me.
> Why aren't these counterfeits and/or Amazon getting sued by the original companies?

They need to know the counterfeits exist in the first place. Amazon doesn't even give the customer the option to mark their returns as counterfeits. This is why I suggest that if you encounter a counterfeit product on Amazon, you should document it and report it to the company whose product was counterfeited.
Mike Crawford was homeless, he would live in a tent and cook with canned food and a gas stove. It is a matter of finding the right clients that actually pay you than keep you from being paid. Start out small and work your way to larger clients. Mike is dead now, but he made it from homeless to having an apartment in the Portland area.
Thanks for reading! Whoa, do you still play BW once a month, or is that SC2? I never started playing SC2, so I actually had to look up Artosis pylon. I def remember Manner pylon though :)

And hmm, I actually didn't think I'd find ANY readers at the intersection of startups, CS, SC, poker and basketball. Assuming most people on HN are interested in startups and computer science, I'd imagine that the limiting area of intersection would probably be SC ∩ bball (at least more so than SC ∩ poker or poker ∩ bball), so it's pretty awesome that we share all of those!
At our family gathering for our white elephant gift exchange my present was a Google Home Hub/picture frame (bought it last year yet no longer want any type of listening device in my house minus Siri on my phone).

I was sorta surprised that wasnt the most coveted prize of the exchange that the majority wanted to steal. About half said they didnt want any creepy listening device in their house.
I was also homeless a while back, but I was able to pick myself back up due to the existing support systems for the homeless, both public and private in the US. I eventually landed a job as a developer by the numbers ie I sent out tons of tailored CV’s and cover letters to virtually every job listing. Unlike you, I didn’t even have a degree back then. Just keep trying Jack. Luck favors the bold and persistent. Having a portfolio of projects also helps a lot
Bingo, we emit all our logs as JSON for ingestion into ES to allow easy analysis.
It's not symmetric at all ... “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” ---> “[Moral people] are all alike; every [immoral person] is [immoral] in [their] own way”.

There are many more varieties of immoralities than there are of vanilla morality. Immorals are not only thieves. Immorals will cooperate with each other to further their agendas but recognize the vast spectrum of immoral motivations and behaviors. Corrupt politicians rely on Cambridge Analytica ... it's clear to [most of] immorals they're being immoral, they're under no illusions.

What is most interesting right now, to me, is the very real delusion I think I'm witnessing in the most "moral" segment of the US population. I grew up an Evangelical Protestant, child of missionary parents. To watch the current political support from this segment of a figure most would have unequivocally condemned 20 years ago is fascinating. I've recently watched a number of videos from Frank Schaeffer, including one dissecting US Attorney General William Barr's Notre Dame speech discussing general US morality [1]. Maybe I'll be corrected with grace in the afterlife, but I think Frank gets a lot of this right. (Frank's father, Francis Schaeffer, provided the underpinnings of the much of what became the Moral Majority and follow-on movements/organizations from the likes of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham, etc.)

[1] https://youtu.be/dVt3DvCedOw
Dabbled in FBA before. I stopped when I realized the game can be won by volume shipment and pricing wars. Brand registry is also a way to own your listing. Would buy a 30$ ebook if you write all the ins and outs.
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> No name brands, just loads and loads of direct from factory crapware and knock offs in all shapes and sizes.

But Alibaba at least doesn't pretend to be anything else.

And, to be fair, if you know what you want, a cheap Chinese piece of crap may be just fine. A lot of my electronics lab is from Alibaba--the rest is from people like Metcal/Oki, Agilent, etc. that I paid a premium for once I knew that I would use it enough to warrant spending the money.

The problem occurs in that I used to go to Amazon when I didn't quite know exactly what I want and could browse, read some reviews, etc. I no longer do that anymore.
Usually it's best to pick up one of the "good for new people" bugs and then work your way out from there, eventually reading (or at least skimming) most of the code and understanding the build tools.
This also makes me laugh out loud.

If Amazon gave two craps about some of this stuff it would be cut WAY back.

For a few years at least every Apple branded product on amazon I bought was 100% fake - lazy fakes too. I ended up having to buy from Apple directly to get something legit. You are telling me brands haven't complained about this? I find that totally hard to believe.

The crap amazon sells is going to bring them down.

I've got used stuff sold as new (complete with debries from previous owner).

If they cared they would.

Have sellers post $1,000 bond to sell, scaled up based on sales volume.

Enforce clear fraud issues with account bans and forfeit the deposit (ie, the whole changed 5 star listing selling a totally different product).

Segregate inventory by seller, and enforce consequences on seller for product quality issues.

Have a QC team sample 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 100,000 items and 1 item per seller each year. If it claims USB 3- test to spec, claims waterproof test to spec, claims safe for kids - test for lead. Whoever does this will win in long run. Who wants lead in the product they give to their kids.

This reputation issue could bleed into AWS. Why trust a company that CANNOT get control over its marketplace. The fakes are horrible.
That isn't going to happen tho. People will be living in space way before they figure out how to get along because getting along is something that humans will never do: maybe what ever species we evolve in to might but that is surely thousands of years in the future.
Please tell us the product name so we are aware.
That, or z coerced x and x's cooperation with y has no direct indication of their morality.
This person might not want the fact of their former homelessness tied to their real name, which posting their CV on a public site would do.
Note that the traditional date/sign assignments don't even resemble the current calendar relationships. Most people were born with the sun a full sign off from what pop culture horoscopes say. Plus, for a bunch of those who think they are Scorpio, the sun was actually in Ophiuchus on their birthday.
Very cool. Back in 2004 I used to have business card-shaped CD-ROMs that booted Tiny Core Linux. They were always eye catching. In fact, one of those was a factor that landed me a job in a small startup in Palo Alto called VMware...