skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are fake listings a problem? Absolutely. But is it the primary issue? I'm not so sure. It seems like Amazon is doing all sorts of things but not actually addressing the root -- inventory co-mingling + sketchy 3rd party sellers that can come back overnight.

Simply ending inventory co-mingling would likely handle a substantial portion of counterfeits since Amazon is sourcing their stock through standard channels.

Amazon knows this. There's probably cost models somewhere in HQ. But ending this would mean: slower delivery times, and Amazon would have to carry the inventory on their books. I'd gladly wait an extra day or two if I know the item I get is legit (just like pre FBA/3rd party days). Instead, Amazon is burning goodwill and cash on efforts like this one.

If anything, Covid-19 has forced other retailers to up their online game. Its accelerated my spending shift away from Amazon as I'm tired of fraud. Fraudulent items can injure, poison, or even kill people. Thanks, but no thanks. I'll wait another day for that delivery.
Hopefully similar, but better.

Just like Apple didn't invent MP3 players, but it did invent the iPod.
I also see this as more of a TestFlight style acquisition for product integration
What's shocking is that this even had to go to court in order for it to be recognized as a 4th Amendment issue (and 1st and 5th... and probably more).
It's explained in the announcement. Perl 6 was already renamed to Raku, but calling the new Perl version Perl 6 would be confusing, so they are directly jumping to 7. They even show other examples of version jumps.
yes, we'd all be better off if we had to pay for our email accounts.
Are they named after a very large tropical rainforest?
UMTS (3G) is still up and running in many locations, sometimes HSDPA (3.5G) is faster than congested/low signal LTE and it still is totally adequate even for video streaming.

Those are early 2000's technologies which telcos are upgrading from to increase subscriber density, but on the customer optics, they are mostly equivalent to 4G.
I know, but I can't stop comparing it to Moria/Angband.

I know the timing changes everything (and Nethack is more like a text adventure lore made into a top-down RPG), but the environment and tasks ingame aren't so that different both in Diablo and Moria.
Hm? The back button seems to work as expected on this site.
> Unfortunately, we're left here to speculate on the internet.

If we made scientists responsible for hand-holding every crackpot on the internet through the body of research leading to their conclusions, the scientific progress of our civilization would stall. Case in point, this information is readily available to you yet you would rather speculate than get off you ass and hunt it down:

> I don't believe the regulatory agencies are doing most of that. I believe it's an FAA/Boeing self-certify situation.

Why, you might ask, don't I get off my ass and hunt it down for you? I could. I know where it lives. Through experience, I also know the look of a horse dead-set on not drinking, so why should I waste time leading you to water?
It’s rude
IMDB was written in Perl, notoriously. Seeing that the layout has not changed in ages, I can only assume it's still Perl.

I'd imagine a bigger rewrite effort would have led to a more slick iteration on the UI, and it seems the legacy HTML templates are still baked in.
Having a database is a useful advantage over Vercel.
Herd Immunity Threshold for Covid is likely much lower than initially estimated
> probably collapse $array[$x]->{foo}->[0] to $array[$x]{foo}[0] ...

Yup, one's been able to collapse exactly like that for more than twenty years.

https://metacpan.org/source/LWALL/perl5.002b3/pod/perlref.po...

That's from 5.002, from last century, and it wasn't introduced on 5.002.

Beginning from v5.20, one's also been able to use the postfix dereference syntax, turning:

say join "\t", @{ $foo->{bar}[0]{quux} }

into:

say join "\t", $foo->{bar}[0]{quux}->@*;

Whether that's better or worse, it's debatable.
I can confirm, that even on beta 1, it runs really, really, really well on the 6s.
I wonder if they rewrote all of the UI in swift or just really cleaned up the libraries because the perceived speed, that thing makes a end user device feel fast because it quickly moves you from on screen to the next when you command it to, is improved over 13.5. I can also confirm that it runs really well on an ipad (5 i think) with the same generation SoC, though I have seen more bugs with things like widgets.
In my limited testing, all of the apps I run often work, i love that it tells me when an app is trying to use network discovery and allow me to block it.
I might install it on my daily use phone by beta 2 its so good.
Awk and Ruby aren't on your list, any experience with those that you could compare/contrast with Perl?
And to think that all it took was printing off more than $35,000 per tax payer which will then be multiplied by 8x through fractional reserve banking.

The inflation will eventually haunt anyone with an income based off of a static dollar amount, yet those are the people who got a sliver of the avalanche of money.
Yes, of all the Perl books in my collection Tim Maher's "Minimal Perl" (Manning) is still the one I dip into regularly.
Am I the only one who actually clicked through the link and is confused? It looks like a rant thread, with no specific information or links to blog posts, against Windows 10. I was expecting to get a link to a blog post, tweet, etc that showed specifically what MS is doing, with I don't know, some proof or facts? It doesn't seem like any of the HN commenters have clicked through; I know shocking...

All it is is some text that says:

Are we going to get treated to spam popups advertising Edge and having it duplicate our data from Firefox without asking every time Microsoft decides to update it from now on?

Love rebooting my computer to get treated to a forced tour of a browser I'm not going to use that I have to force close through the task manager to escape, and then finding out it's been copying over my data from Firefox without permission.
wrong, but it's worth finding out why that's an incorrect assumption on your own. Don't trust comments on the internet.
Other than soil depletion, it's perfectly sustainable. We've been doing it for 10,000 years. Of course, we also figured out how to revitalize soil a long time ago, vis-a-vis ruminant fertilization and crop rotation. But the soil nutrients are supplemented with artificial fertilizer these days for efficiency.
How often will this stupidity come up? Looks like some never learn.
This is a very easy setting to disable in your iCloud account.
Sorry, to me a roguelike must be top down and turn based.

I have a good list here. Nethack, DCSS, the old TOME 2.x releases, SCrap...

I avoid CDDA because I hate games with no clear ending or objectives ingame.
They don't use non-standard records; if your resolver protects your privacy by not sending them your IP, they will intentionally return bad records specifically to fuck with you.
> Now the question becomes "do you trust the grandchildren of the rich more or less than you trust the people's government?"

Yes, I trust a collection of 3rd-generation rich more than I trust a government that is currently led by Trump. Some of those kids will be good, some will be bad - but they'll have diverse outcomes, while relying on the "people's government" is a single point of failure.
I'm not even sure that's definitely a black man, rather than just any person with some kind of visor or mask. There does seem to be a face in the noise, but human brains are primed to see face shapes.

The deeper reform that needs to happen here is that every person falsely arrested and/or prosecuted needs to be automatically compensated for their time wasted and other harm suffered. Only then will police departments have some incentive for restraint. Currently we have a perverse reverse lottery where if you're unlucky you just lose a day/month/year of your life. With the state of what we're actually protesting I'm not holding my breath (eg the privileged criminals who committed the first degree murder of Breonna Taylor still have yet to be charged), but it's still worth calling out the smaller injustices that criminal "justice" system inflicts.
You don’t need an app iOS and Android have easy to access do not disturb modes you can schedule or manually enable.
Because if it's a part of a native app you can later download the "rest" of the app and it still has all your data already.
But can I ask for credit card information and not use "Apple Pay". The "instead" is super weird there.

"Apple Pay" doesn't mean Apple Card. You can have a bunch of different credit cards loaded into Apple Pay.

Also, why not just PWA ?

I hope companies go with this instead of PWA for the simple reason of bloat. Apple's payload restriction on App Clips is something like 10MB. Most PWA's blow that cap loading the page header and footer.
Say you have a widget toolkit that doesn't support touchpad gestures. The maintainers of that widget toolkit would be more willing to integrate this feature if there's support in both Xorg and Wayland compared to Wayland alone.
This feature can be turned off. Search for “automatic downloads” in settings.
Agreed on this – everything in Matomo is slow and I find the UI clunky.
Data collection becomes an anti trust issue because as you mentioned, you cant really opt out of the data collection part while continuing to use the service. Even a small social network is sort of a monopoly if all of your friends and family is on that network. That way, even the competitors wont solve the data collection part. I am assuming unless the rules are in place, every one would just keep collecting maximum data.

Adversarial interoperability also means there is incentive for both the incumbent and competitor to keep innovating to keep the audience there (and be mindful of newer ones emerging) and hence the best for the customer.
I've been working for 10+ years for the same company.
We have kinda of a solid product in the market, and by "solid" I mean "it pays the bills for a bunch of people, consistently".

We're in no way a stellar company, we're more on the "dark side" of SaaS, and the reason as to why we have a selling product is that we cover, on the cheap, a real need from our customers.

I'm _just_ a developer, and even thought I have a personal relationship with the founders (10 years back it was just 4 of us) it's been increasingly difficult to get them to discuss product development based on "what the client needs". And that is after 8 years of development of a parallel, competing product that got nowhere except eroding our first one.

I think the first question to ask is if the people that can take the decisions are willing to take them.
Have you seen it being used in the wild already?
The battery life wasn't artificially reduced, it was naturally reduced by years of use and charge cycles. Apple should have done a better job of communicating why they slowed down the systems, and perhaps made it an option rather than just doing it, but having had devices that shutdown because of the battery (while it still had a charge, but was not capable of providing power to the CPU running at full-speed) I'd have preferred slow downs to random shutdowns.

The latter makes the device unreliable and unusable, the former makes it reliable and maybe unusable for some applications. It's also rectifiable by replacing the battery (which I've done on several iPhones myself, and used stores for others just for the convenience). That last part is what Apple should have communicated to people. We did that with my dad's old iPhone 6 and it went from "slow but usable" to "like brand new and snappy".

EDIT: A note, the device I had that did that to me was a laptop with a spinning disk hard drive. When the battery started failing the laptop was fine until I hit the GPU (which was often, I was in grad school and doing a lot of graphics programming). Plugged in there were no issue, but on battery it'd bring the system down when I ran anything that made the GPU and CPU run close to full-speed. Fortunately I was able to get the data off, unfortunately I'd pretty well fucked the system before I realized why it was happening (so it happened a few times) and ended up just replacing the whole laptop rather than just getting a new battery.
Starbucks, founded 1971, fifty years old next year. Caterpillar Inc., founded 1925. Ford, 1903. 3M, 1902. Kroger, 1883. Campbell Soup, 1869. Pfizer, 1849. Proctor & Gamble, 1837. Colgate-Palmolive, 1806.

Some people already do incredibly stupid things with their companies for short term gain already. Do we need more of them to?
What I extracted from that is that corporate security people investigating random members of the public isn't considered weird.
> You can go to linux. Things will be better, but not perfect
A lot of people say Linux is not perfect or it is not as good as windows or mac.
I have used all three operating systems and all of them are not perfect, Linux may be the best among them for a software engineer.
Good. Currently I have to modify my hosts file or use something like NextDNS to block Google and others from gathering data from me even when I’m not explicitly using their services.
About 80% of ME/CFS patients know the day they caught the virus that caused their ME/CFS, but the other 20% don't. Whether that is because 20% of sufferers have a completely different trigger circumstance or because they were asymptomatic is unknown, like I said there has been almost no research in 70 years since the first outbreak was classed as mass hysteria and its been ignored and patients abused ever since until the last 2 years when research finally started to trickle in and get funded.
ClickJacking target?

I would have expected the App Clip UI to have better integration with OS or Safari browser chrome, so that it wouldn't be possible to spoof from a web page.

Since it floats entirely within content, it seems like you could make a click jacking attack from a Safari experience.

Just one screenshot, maybe this is mitigated somehow...
My father runs a Woodcraft franchise, and the past few months have been significantly better than average for him. Since people aren't spending much time and money on activities and dining out, they are investing some of that in hobbies they can do at home instead.
It is, but I don't want to disable it. Some apps I want to be synced on all of my devices. It's the one-time or short-term use apps I don't want. The ones that Apple is targeting with App Clips.
Hi, thanks for posting this. I have two simple lightweight use cases and I would like to know if those fit to this platform or not.

1. A simple Python script with two-three dependencies that needs to be run everyday once. Basically I am looking for a crontab in the cloud.

2. A very lightweight script that needs to be run 24/7 and would not consume more than few MBs of RAM ever.

None of these two needs an HTTP endpoint.
Yes and developers in their 50s retired in their mid-30s after making fortunes writing Perl.
The Moose library is a pretty advanced OO library that was inspired by Common Lisp's CLOS & Smalltalk I think. Most Perl developers I know use a large amount of libraries as the language itself is lacking in many areas. A lot of people are fine with that, but I prefer kitchen-sink languages which are fairly opinionated.
Yeah, but that's something most people will never try.
As a short summary about Perl 7:

If your Perl is old-school, that's OK. Use Perl 5 and we'll keeping supporting you.

If you your Perl isn't old-school, use Perl 7 and get new features.

If you're not sure, ask us and we'll hold your hand to help you understand.

We're here to make sure you're OK.
My graduate school advisor is a big name in satellite-based navigation (e.g. GPS), and I spent a lot of time learning about state-of-the-art advances in GPS techniques such as precise positioning. I was surprised to learn that many of the former students in our lab went to work for John Deere of all places. At the time, I also had an image of outdoor farming being fairly primitive, but this was an eye-opening revelation to me.
Are there apps which are text-only and look good ?
610 people under 44 is terrible.

But you do realise over 120 THOUSAND died in the US in total. 610 out of 120,000+ is a mere half percent.
> APIs for automatically pinning icons to the Taskbar never existed

Well, afaik from 98 to XP it was just ‘put your shortcuts in the Quicklaunch folder’ (dunno about Vista and later).

I'm tempted to run Win10 just to see what happened to it in the past decade.
That's easier to secure vs. a field of marijuana so there might be other reasons besides growing.
And the reason they probably want to stay an ad company is so they don't get stuck with IBM sized workforce.

Their lack of customer support is border line criminal.
Was that order fulfilled by Amazon? I have a suspicion that some of the "counterfeiting" is done by substitution of inventory by a bad actor, and FBA silently ignoring that.

VendorA sells a good product with decent margin using FBA as their fulfillment mechanism.

VendorFakeA claims to sell same product with discount and sends seemingly valid inventory to FBA - which co-mingles the inventory and throws away the receipts.

Customer buys something from VendorA but gets VendorFakeA product instead.

It's like a supply-chain joe-job but VendorFakeA profits.
If you want to create something of high quality you should pursue something that you are passionate about or already have a lot of knowledge of.

For example, I like table tennis a lot, if I could work a few years on whatever I want, I would create some tool to improve the ways you can train in table tennis, for example create some TT robot that you can play against, or some AI to watch you play and show what you are doing wrong or how much spin/speed was on the ball.

If you want to make something that's useful, don't make what everyone else is making or, if you do, make it A LOT better.
never turn down a free taco!
Like the bicycles from 19th century, bigger front wheel.
Show HN: A Chrome extension to burst your filter bubble
me too! #gowildlife
A lot of Debian's packaging tools are written in Perl.
This article is at too high a level of abstraction. It doesn't make sense to talk about the huge, almost almost entirely automated farms that grow crops like corn and soybeans in the same way as the farms that grow fruits and vegetables that are still mostly picked by hand.
Corporations are psychopathic by nature, with few exceptions.
I meant in more of a generic sense (as to where they were usually applied) than the specific definition of the law. Will definitely read the book if I can find it somewhere. Not based out of US, so might be difficult to find.
That's funny but DVC was not started as Terraform for Data. We were just focused on data versioning and ML workflow (pipelines, metrics etc...). But it kind of becomes Terraform for Data. It is a very good analogy.

PS: I'm one fo the DVC creators.
i leave distros all over the place, on thumbdrive on nas on disk, any free media usually has linux distro or image on it to be used or bit bucketed by the end user, thier choice.
Just a little note, Perl 5 actually has (in my opinion) excellent coroutines in the form of the "Coro" module hierarchy. Good enough to run a web service on.
I ordered a well-known baby-bottom cream. The product gave her never-expanding rashes for a few days. Then I realized the color slightly differs from the same cream bought at the local pharmacy, and that many 1 star reviews also report knockoffs version of the cream. In some cases review pictures show that the packaging itself is clearly fake.

I write a 1-star review explaining the above, and saying that the anxious parents are now in an unbearable situation after applied a fake, potentially harmful and untraceable product to their newborn bottom.

The review does not respect community guidelines and won't be published.
How "popular" is the record you're updating? If it isn't commonly requested, it might just not be in the Google DNS resolvers' caches.
Well, _people_ have opinions, and therefore a group _contains_ opinions, but a group itself is incapable of thought - and therefore of forming opinions itself. A political party, like any other group, is simply a big pile of individuals who happen to fly the same flag. Disagreement between them is not hypocrisy of the group.

Man is not the member of one group only and does not appear on the scene of human affairs solely in the role of a member
of one definitive group. In speaking of social groups it must be remembered that the members of one group are at the same
time members of other groups. The conflict of groups is not a conflict between neatly integrated herds of men.
It is a conflict between various concerns in the minds of individuals.
Ludwig von Mises - Theory and History
So you're a little bit of firebase a little bit of Herou? I guess consolidating managed services can have value.
There are a few threads in Twitter where people are discussing the validity of this article's claim. Here are the two most prominent (referenced in the article) [1], [2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/TomAnthonySEO/status/1275524965077524482

[2]: https://twitter.com/SimoAhava/status/1275151672218705922
I'm not certain the differences, but there's been a similar effort as a joint venture between Alcoa, Rio Tinto, and Apple to clean up the aluminum smelting process. [1]

The aluminum industry is notorious for having incredibly high energy requirements, and being price sensitive to changes in energy contracts. The economics behind smelters are challenging and at an unimaginable scale. Having an electricity interruption of more than a handful of hours can cause the aluminum in-process to solidify, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the smelter and requiring months to fix. This paper [2] describes a framework for making decisions to enter/exit a market based on variability of inputs, investment required to exit/enter, etc. While the example in the paper is focused around renewable energy, it can be applied to other types of facilities. We covered this paper for about 2 weeks during undergrad, which at the time was painful, but it was one of the most interesting papers and concepts I've read.

A great video outlining the refining process is available in [3]. Having worked there, I promise the safety at Alcoa is now far superior to what's shown in the video. Paul O'Neill hadn't become CEO yet [4].

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/05/apple-paves-the-way-f...

[2] https://www.imse.iastate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/16/files/2...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5wPJp-hasU

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/roddwagner/2019/01/22/have-we-l...
Emphasizing the RAM would also be nice, which jumped from 1GB to 2GB for the 6S.
The main idea is that it's very unlikely to make something that will benefit every human on the earth. Choose a specific niche/category you are interested in and improve it.
You left-out unrolling @ :).
What does "Alexander" refer to here?
Yes, that's EXACTLY the same as controlling an officers paycheck. Thank you for pointing out how right you are.
Because they're not in the business of providing information, transparency or journalism.

They are in the business of exposing you to as many paid ads as possible. And they believe providing outgoing links reduces their ability to do that.
Two big differentiators IMO are the NFC tags to launch the App Clip and the deep integration into Apple Maps. Fortunately, I don't think either are particularly proprietary (just well thought-out scenarios), so perhaps this will lead to an uptake of Instant Apps as well.
Calling something both production grade and beta at the same time seems like a contradiction to me
It seems within Apple's style that they will eventually require this to be implemented for certain types of apps.