skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give an example of a time that's really worked? I enjoy giggling along at that sort of thing but I assume most managers see right through it.
Shape-shifting jacket automatically gets warmer as the temperature drops
I strictly disagree with you here.

Most of the content in a master's program can be found online (or otherwise in the relevant textbooks) -- if you're paying to do it as a class, you're paying for structure and the piece of paper, and that's about it.

PhDs are start-level research jobs. You'll probably learn things (equivalent to a master's) during your first year or two, but you'll become an expert in your field via a PhD because of the fact that no one else is working on the topic to the same degree of depth that you will be.

(In fact, the fact that this comment conflates PhD with masters makes me suggest that the poster doesn't actually interact enough with folk that have either to have internalized the distinction.)
Thief's last name is just an initial.

I say "thief" because that's how it looks to me. But how can I or Amazon be confident given the evidence I've only just read about?

What would help is posting up front a list of evidence that would convince Amazon in case of a dispute. If Amazon does not provide this then perhaps a third party could figure it out and post it.
Right, plus when launches are cheap and routine we can actually start assembling larger scale projects in orbit.
I generally agree that random individuals shouldn't be providing this sort of information. Rather, I think there should be a considered, bureaucratic process, perhaps with a waiting period, and with that, most people should be allowed to peacefully self-euthanize.
That’s exactly what this is.
They scrapped the fine as of 2019.
> Paper mills are believed to be fueled by unrealistic publication requirements or quotas, combined with monetary publication rewards to authors [2-5]. Where unrealistic publication requirements are widely applied over long periods of time, this could create a broad and growing base of paper mill clients. To both meet client demand and their capacity to pay, paper mills will likely aim to generate large numbers of manuscripts at minimum cost. This will likely require at least some falsified or fabricated data, as performing genuine experiments could render manuscripts unaffordable.

> At the same time, externally supplied manuscripts should resemble genuine manuscripts if they are to be accepted for publication, so paper mills need to balance their requirements for efficiency and volume with the requirement that their manuscripts also appear to be genuine.

^^

the paper doesn't say too much about the state of research around CS / BigTech related topics. I have been browsing arxiv (and arxiv-sanity.com) for more than a decade and doing so on at least a weekly basis for work and to satisfy my private curiosity. My interest are mostly classic CompSci topics and Security. The genre seems increasingly polluted by papers which can only be described as BS research.

You can usually smell the bad with a few simple rules that help to know what to look for[1]. It increasingly feels like dumpster diving in the domains around AI/ML. My partner who is in healthcare tells me that medicine is even worse whenever I complain (though I have no evidence for it other than anecdotal).

[1] Hanson 1999: Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/netbib/efficientReading.pdf

recent (published in the past month) random examples of what falls IMO into the category of BS papers (these aren't outliers but are becoming the norm!):

P4-to-blockchain: A secure blockchain-enabled packet parser for software defined networking: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016740481...

Security & Privacy in IoT Using Machine Learning & Blockchain: Threats & Countermeasures https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03488v1

REST: A thread embedding approach for identifying and classifying user-specified information in security forums https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02660v1

Artificial Design: Modeling Artificial Super Intelligence with Extended General Relativity and Universal Darwinism via Geometrization for Universal Design Automation https://openreview.net/forum?id=SyxQ_TEFwS
i'm not! where i live, we have public health insurance and private health insurance (if you don't know, wikipedia has a good summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_%C3%9Anico_de_Sa%C3%BA...).

i can go to a public hospital and get most procedures done -- the problem is, a lot of them, specially electives, take a LONG time (sometimes, over a year). but i can do them, and i'm not going to get bankrupt if i get bitten by a snake.

but i also have private health insurance -- i pay it myself for me and my wife. why? because sometimes, i don't wanna get into insane lines and wait for hours on ER. also, i can get elective procedures done a lot faster -- which means i'm not crowding our public health care system.

what i mean is: everything i can do with my public heath insurance system i can also do with my private health care system. it's just a matter of how fast it is.
What if NPM is down?
You wish.
Worse, as OP states, they can cause you to lose money. They can be worth less than zero dollars. Pay piles of taxes on the exercised options and then watch the company get gutted and preferred investors take everything.
Could still be handy for people who don't mind the URL loading big but might later want to copy-paste it somewhere in cleaner format.
Is YouTube Down?
https://www.youtube.com/oops this is appearing for me.

Seems like another YouTube outage.
One of the biggest issues with Vim emulation in VSCode is that VSCode has no concept of text objects. Because of this, things like "change inner word" or "paste" will always have to delete text character by character and re-type (in the case of the latter). It's sort of like watching a ghost type. I'm still very impressed with how well it's all working. Atom has AMAZING Vim emulation, but its text rendering engine is different. It'll be interesting to see what the Oni folks come up with.
EBay in 2017 was a giant shitshow (and probably still is, but I don't use it anymore). Both their security and support are complete trash, even if you happen to be lucky (like me) and they reply quickly.

I woke up one morning to get an email notification thanking me for purchasing a back bumper, a wing, and a few other parts for a 2012 Hyundai Genesis, which I obviously don't have and neither have I made that purchase. The fraudster even put their real delivery address and name less than 20 miles away from where I lived (which I reverse searched and confirmed that the name was associated with that address). I immediately notified eBay about this, they refunded me the purchase, and asked me to change my password. I did all that, removed the perp's address from the account, but eBay didn't have a legitimate 2FA solution, so I was kinda out of luck here.

Lo and behold, the day after, I wake up to info on my account (name+address) changed again. They couldn't change the email, as I have 2FA on my email account, but they did everything they could aside from that with my eBay account. This repeated at least one more time afterwards. By the end of this saga, I just gave up and closed my eBay account after getting my refund.

I just did some googling, and it seems like eBay STILL doesn't support any form of 2FA aside from SMS-based one (which is exactly how, I suspect, they got into my account in the first place, as I didn't get my email compromised). What a shame, but oh well.
Indeed--I don't advocate either of those. Rather, physician-assisted suicide should be more broadly allowed.
> The general view is sellers need to take fraud into their overall operating expense budget, just like department stored do with shoplifting.

How’s that work when selling a single item?
You can, but you pay storage fees. So you have to consider whether your items are going to sell quick enough and warrant the storage fees.
Nice! I did read the editorial, by the way. I just missed that link.

According to that, e-bikes aren't the greenest form of transportation. Walking, biking, and e-bikes came in at the same level of "greenness".

Although the paper itself points out that it's very likely overestimating the impact of bicycles, because the lifespan it assumes for them is too low.
This is neat! Love it when pure frontend web apps can be run from the home screen on iOS
That may work but only if you don't have any significant assets. If you do then you risk getting a massive medical bill and then the hospital will go after all your assets.
To further my assertion here - most big tech companies that I know of (at least, the ones I've had direct experience with myself) literally puts people with undergraduate/master's degrees into the same hiring pool -- even if folk think they'll get a leg up because they'll have the title of a "master's", it functionally makes no difference at a lot of (top) companies.
You know, I'm surprised that those mailbox stores don't offer exactly this sort of service. Buyer and seller give a deposit to a postal store, the seller mails product to the store, the buyer inspects the product at the store and decides whether to keep it, and, if so, pays the balance to the store and walks out with the product, and presumably there could be a process for undoing it by returning the product to that same store later if a serious problem has emerged. I guess it's a lot of overhead for buying a video game or something, but it would make sense for $500+ transactions.

Those stores already have notaries, help with shipping, provide mailboxes, and the like. It'd fit pretty well into their wheelhouse.
The fact that it would save money may be part of the problem. The massive and very redundant health insurance bureaucracy employs a lot of people.

In the realm of government contracting and large scale policy decisions like this, efficiency is often politically inconvenient since it means jobs may be lost.
You would need to file in Federal court.
> Do elites ever give money to deregulate?

Enron lobbied for deregulation
Why would he contact the buyer outside of Amazon? He would go to the police to point out his issue with the buyer, there's absolutely no need to contact him outside of Amazon.

I'd rather think that Amazon would be forthcoming in assisting any demands an investigation would make, like provide all the information regarding the seller and buyer on this issue to the police.

Sure, it would be nice if Amazon would withhold the money from the buyer until it is proven that the seller has obtained the item, but how does this get proven?
I sell quite a bit of vintage music gear on Reverb. I initially had some struggles with customers, but they seem to have mostly kept riff raff out. I think the fact that its still slightly a niche site keeps the volume down low enough to keep humans involved. As they were recently purchased by ETSY, Im wondering if this sort of service will start to drop off. Fingers crossed, Im selling a vintage Oberheim right now that I would be sick if a similar circumstance happened...

I stopped using ebay for the reason that most of the sellers just werent trustworthy enough. Amazon keeps trying to blur the line between marketplace and the company, which IMO is a bad move. I think they should run it in a similar manner than reverb, charge higher fees to pay for it(within reason) and actually do something to scammers on both sides of the transaction...
What Stable Kernel Should I Use? (2018)
Would that service be indemnifying the seller from fraud? Or is your assumption that the platform would just make the right call?

Probably it's because the platforms don't want to make services to root out fraud because then they become more responsible for owning it. Outside services can't break in because the platforms aren't going to put trust in them. Those services would have to own the cost of fraud.
It doesn't clean AMP URLs?
everything is fine for me
That joke boils down to "just do what we say even if we're wrong". That message isn't going to fly with a lot of people, especially in the US, where many are deeply suspicious of the government. Reminds me of Steve Bannon telling some Republican congressman "look, you really have no choice, you have to support this proposal". To which the guy replied "last time someone told me I had to do something I was 18 and it was my daddy, and I didn't listen then either".

"Do what we say or we all die" is also not a great message...even if it's true (which, personally, I doubt).
Unfortunately, there are plenty of categories that are absolute breeding grounds for scammers. Camera lenses is definitely one of them.

As a general rule, if the main differentiating feature of the product is hard to verify, or if the product is expensive and easy to resell, stay away.
Good but not scam-proof, there can be a brick in a camera case in a box. The verified shipping says camera in a box. I don't really mean brick here but the item could be a defective item, a different model or something the verification process could miss.
You have to take into account the impact of manufacturing the things, too. The paper that elicash linked to in his comment is well worth a read, as it attempts to consider the entire environmental impact of the transportation methods broadly, including manufacture.
>From what I have been told by healthcare professionals, medicare has less incentive to negotiate cost, less incentive to investigate fraud, and therefore lower administrative cost.

I don't think that's more likely to explain the cost saving than the sheer scale advantages of having a unified bureaucracy rather than countless of small insurance agents.

I will dig the source out when I'm home but (I think it was Paul Krugman) who went over the administrative overhead in one of his blog posts. Medicare and Medicaid both have administrative costs of less than 1% of their budget, the private industry clocks in at more than 15-18% IIRC. I have trouble believing that this is mainly fraud detection considering that it's consistent across other countries with consolidated healthcare sectors.

A single large administration can simply streamline these processes better than thousands of individual companies. To be frank the insurance industry seems mostly like an employment program for the middle class white collar sector.
I think this is the wrong lesson and people are generally too extreme when valuing this.

Are there risks with ISOs? Yes.

Should you value them 1:1 with cash? Probably not.

Should you value them at $0? Probably not.

People should make decisions based on the company, what they're doing, and how much they trust the board/founders.

It'd be a mistake to categorically dismiss equity since that's the best way to leverage your human capital into wealth.

It's also a mistake to think that equity is valued exactly at what the company is advertising it as when trying to hire you.

There's some risk, but engineers should consider their options.
> 1) who in there right mind would buy something online where there is no protection (sellers aren't the same as they have to sell somewhere to make a living).

Buyers also generally have to buy somewhere, especially for necessities. The difference is that finding a place to buy is easier than finding a place to sell.

> 2) most buyers are honest who just want their item. Profiting from fraud as a buyer is a lot more work as they need to resell the item to gain currency, which is risky (both from exposing themselves to stolen item investigations as well as being a victim of fraud themselves as a seller).

You don't have to just resell to profit. Just buy stuff you want anyways then complain.

> 3) imagine if sellers could just ship rocks to buyers instead of cameras without consequence. Every scammer and his dog would be in on the gig without 5 seconds. (1) becomes even more bleak.

The current system works because there are many buyers and few sellers. Most people are honest. And everyone buys things. But most people don't sell things. Skewing in favor of the buyer makes it so the few sellers aren't overrun by fraudsters. If even 10% of the dishonest people in the world were actively selling stuff on Amazon, it would probably be a huge problem.
Ah, right. I should amend the parent as there are a few other open source alternatives. That said, matrix (from what I can tell) is much more widely used.
> Isn't this a form of escrow service?

Sort of, except the agent wouldn't be handling (receive and/or disburse) money. They just certify and record a part of the transaction (i.e. shipment).
I assume the point (if there is indeed such an operation) is to ensure that the Democrats nominate the least electable candidate possible. (Of course, Trump looked unelectable back in 2016, so why would they have helped his campaign before the general? Because any other Republican would have been at least as hawkish on Russia as Clinton? I dunno...)
probably x-rays and not photos
Because a lot of liberals post here and liberals love telling you about their opinions on stuff like this.

Flag, hope that mods do the right thing and realize this isn't on topic for HN, and move on.
obviously not well, but a one-off sale is a relatively uncommon transaction, so it doesn't get optimized for.
It's not just a plain old flashcard app, the point is to implement a scheduled recall system to help you memorize the content effectively while minimizing effort.

Anecdotally, it's also a lot more engaging than your average flashcard app. Using Anki feels like playing a video game, except that you also get quite valuable results out of it.
It's almost as if every dystopian/cyberpunk scenario is coming to life (or will some time in the future)
That's not what I said, but perhaps you have to define what you mean by "hold them responsible". As I interpret that phrase, no, I wouldn't hold them responsible as such, but that they are willing to work there in any capacity says something about them.
Ask HN: How much did Amazon pay for Datarow?
I hear that this company was acquired by Amazon but there hasn't been any information on the amount it paid. Is it public information that just wasn't indexed anywhere ?
It is still a useful feature for people who want (or need) to run legacy apps or OS versions under virtualisation (VirtualBox etc). Forcing that use case to use CPU emulation would have a performance cost.

Although, they could disable real mode support in some CPUs as a market segmentation mechanism. Running a 64-bit OS with EFI boot, most users probably don’t really need real mode support.
What about bots?
> Too over simplified??

Probably. These shipping services don't really have any expertise to accurately judge the quality of many of the items they ship. They just move boxes around.

Some rando at FexEx Office doesn't really know how to determine that your DSLR has the advertised shutter count, nor do they know how to verify the SMART status of those hard drives you shipped, nor would they be able to validate the authenticity of your designer handbag.

There are specialized consignors popping up online that do have the ability to do these things, though.
It's the same thing with taxes: we can debate about what the right level of taxes should be for this person or that, but all the effort and money spent filling out tax returns is pure waste.
I work in NYC. My commute from Brooklyn in now about 30 minutes, 20 of them on a train, the rest is walking and waiting on a station. It's the shortest and least stressful commute I ever had among several cities I lived. Dense cities have upsides when you live inside them.
Oftentimes, a promotion means some combination of:

being in a more visible position;
more responsibility;
possibly people or more people reporting to you;
communicating with higher level people more often.

In these cases, it makes sense that the person showing the ability to handle that while performing their job is going to look like a good candidate for promotion.

On the other hand, if a promotion just means more money, a title, and keep doing the exact same thing you were doing before the promotion, yeah you have a point. It seems legit to be able to bring results to the table.

"I built the most widgets in the department ten out of the last twelve months, I think a move to senior widget builder is appropriate."

It's hard for me to come up with many promotions that are entirely the second type though.
What I meant was that speed is the magnitude of velocity, rather than a vector.
One architectural difference is that the single-paying entity's job would be primarily to pay. The job of the many current entities is to not pay -- and to develop labyrinthine, nondeterministic, unknowable structures of great complexity to that specific end. Payments for care under our for-profit system are actually called "medical loss".
You just described exactly what Stockx does with everything sold on their site. I think it’s good for everyone, because of the chance of getting fake items.
Right, but my point is how much more will it cost? If we're concerned about giving the 1% UBI, then it will, by definition, only cost 1% more. I personally don't think that's a problem. Also, if you want to means test it and only give it to poor people it's by definition no longer UBI, it's just welfare.

Do you have any economic analysis you can point to that show commodity prices will inflate significantly under UBI for more than a short period of time? This is a criticism I see often from opponents of UBI, but I've yet to see an actual economic proof for it. In the real world prices generally tend to converge over time based on margins rather than on what people are willing to pay. It's not clear that UBI would immediately increase cost of production for commodities, so basic competition in markets suggests that prices would largely stay the same. This, of course, doesn't hold true for things like housing and healthcare that exist outside normal economic markets.

It's also worth noting that there's a good chance UBI would act to reduce the hours worked by a significant number of people such that their total income remains the same as before. For example, if your target income is $50k and you're having to work two jobs today to make that much, the result of UBI for you would most likely be that you quit one of your jobs, still make $50k total, and use the extra time to have a better life. I don't put much stock in the idea that everyone who receives UBI will immediately turn around and use it as additional discretionary income rather than changing other behaviors that have knock-on economic effects.
There's probably a masterclass in the making regarding this, but the Anki defaults can and probably should be tuned. In particular, the multiplier for time between reviews should be tuned until you're hitting about 80 percent successful reviews. I've doubled mine and it really helped.

I think there's also a setting to limit new cards based on review size, and that also helps avoid review hell. I imagine it's not the default because a popular use case is students in courses where there are high stakes deadlines.
Maybe that was an innocent person. Scammers are known to use other people's addresses, they know when the person is not at home and when the package arrives and just go loot it.
How can you possibly doubt that? What have you seen to convince yourself that catastrophic climate change is not real?

Or perhaps you're taking the other rational position - that even if we did what they say, we'll still die...

Oh, and the joke boils down to no such thing. It is very explicitly 'even if we were somehow wrong about climate change, there are so many other huge advantages to getting rid of fossil fuels'.
Why would the insurance company send you a bill? The healthcare provider sends the bill, as they are the party that is owed.
> Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo.

That this has been allowed to go on in a land of plenty is an utter disgrace that I can only hope will not go down well in the pages of history.