skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He can show invoices that are over a year old. Which means that for at least a year, he held _at least_ two cargo containers of high end clothing somewhere before selling them in bulk on Amazon. He has no warehouses, no physical storefront, nothing - that doesn't strike you as strange for someone with 1.5M of merchandise?

That is a _ton_ of merchandise both in terms of physical bulk and space, and in cost to have sitting around. Unless he's doing tens of millions of sales a year, that is way too much inventory to have at rest.

Insurance could tell you nothing was ever covered and never spend a dime - but insurance is a heavily audited industry and at the very least they would do an investigation. Keep in mind, it's not like Amazon got in a few cargo containers of high end clothing and fed them into a shredder - they kept in a warehouse and sold it and got enough complaints about them not being genuine articles that they de-shelved them from inventory, gave him 30 days to retrieve them and only then after his refusal had them destroyed.

For what it's worth, removing THAT much merchandising from shelving is a serious labor and time sink. You don't do that because you got one or two complaints about crushed boxes or off sizes.

Which think of this in reverse - if Amazon told you that you needed to retrieve your $1.5M of merchandise in 30 days or it would be destroyed, would you just roll the dice on that? Even if you can't afford freight, you'd still go haul as much as you can in whatever you drive and hock it on the corner.

The only reason you would let Amazon bulk destroy merchandise (with significant notice and several reminders from them, after signing a contract that pre-dictates out the terms of rejected merchandise), the only reason you would let merchandise sit like that, is if it has no significant value. When the cost of freight exceeds the cost of goods - then yeah, don't freight it and absorb the loss because it's less damage.
> and got acquired by an advertising company

lololol

I just can’t tell what time period he is talking about

When was he there to watch it fall?

2019-2020 finally had companies moving offices into parts of the bay that many more people actually wanted to be in

Leave the bay area and good luck finding people to talk about some obscure package that is going to soon become treated like a unique skillset requiring years of experience
I used to code on the bus while commuting to work. There were many interruptions that meant it would only be successful if I optimised it such that I could start/stop at a moment’s notice. Through this experience I learned that you definitely can do highly productive programming work in tiny burts.

Patterns like these were helpful to getting there:

- “do the simplest thing that could possibly work”

- yagni

- shorten the code-compile-test loop

- don’t put up with slow tools

And others made it super super efficient.
The fact that "lambda" came from "lambda calculus" is of such little relevance to mainstream programming today that we don't need to be reminded of it every time we want to write an "anonymous function". IMO, Clojure did the right thing there.

I'm not against the concept of lambdas (obviously, I love them since I made a scheme dialect with them for video editing). The word today is too specific for a plethora of subtly different representations/implementations of the "lambda" of "lambda calculus".

If "lambda" is supposed to mean "function", choose "function". No harm done.
Whether or not bitcoin was a good example, the sentiment still rings true for me. I have felt this sense of superiority myself and seen it in others. There is a taboo around "wasting" energy, but what is or isn't waste seems to depend on the individual.
> The downside was that both are extremely capital intensive

There is another small downside: They still need to be profitable.
> I also learned that the biggest LPs were pension funds. The money was going to the government! Many of the Venture “Capitalists” were actually agents of the socialist pension funds

Snort.
Dubious. They're doing all they can to kill it with censorship. It takes more than just new tech to keep something afloat - you also have to treat your userbase well.
This is _exactly_ the situation that this society came up with a new agreement to avoid. E.g. Presumption of innocence, and Habeas corpus to mention two.
That's because she is a common peasant.

She only thinks she's somebody.

No one knows who the fuck she is outside of China.
That's late-stage Facebook. The interesting part of Facebook is when they beat Myspace.
Porsche Turned the Tallest Building in the World into a Digital Billboard
The Gmail logo looks like the Joomla one
I hope the fall of Silicon Valley takes with it these overlong, self-important essays about Silicon Valley.
People with expensive price tags need to come up with larger and larger projects to justify their own price tags, especially when you are dealing with things like logo redesigns, which are near impossible to tie to actual revenue of a business.
the audience here tends to have more of a Computer Science background rather than a traditional Mathematics background, and HoTT feels more like a CS theory than like traditional math. When I read about the kind of reasoning that lead to ZFC, I get frustrated because that style of thinking feels unnatural to me. HoTT feels more like how I think, when I’m trying to solve problems. Not that I could productively do math research in either system - I’m not a mathematician at all! It’s just an aesthetic judgement.
You're not wrong, but if you're trying to view your local city hall meeting minutes or paying for your garbage bill, it's not like you can go somewhere else.

And it's true that the people paying for it could go elsewhere, but page performance probably weighs pretty low on that list.
For a second, I was afraid it was going to be Nathan Myhrvold.
What is SSH session control?
I always thought geographic zones for remote employees are a bit weird. Living somewhere expensive (within your country) seems like a lifestyle choice like any other. People would think its rediculous if we had different salary bands based on other lifestyle choices like how much you like to go to fancy resturants or something.
This also works for distractions. I plan to only watch 5 mins of a series and then end up watching the whole season.
in the case of software.codidact.com, they seem to have included the subdomain

https://twitter.com/CodidactQA/status/1321237358776373248

https://i.imgur.com/cdh8rKZ.png

edit: prepending software.* to a domain prevents the subdomain from being removed, https://twitter.com/lukerehmann/status/1321310972468973568
I've also tried messaging this same format of unique link and the preconnect slides right into the DMs
While I agree with the absurdity of this article; Rob, the creator of Soylent, is far from a "nobody".
There is enough justice done to the term in Haskell. Won't blame you for it. But other languages aren't on the same footing.
The code is not what is hard.

It’s the logic and process flow that is hard. It’s the edge cases that bites you, because you didn’t account for it.

The code is just the translation of your logic and process flows, into something that a compiler can understand, so that it can be reassembled into binary code.

Regardless, these no-code tools will just add another layer, which will require some specialist to know how to use such tools.
Isn't Front Page written in code ? Seems like we are just moving code around between common tooling and tooling we generate ourselves? What is "no code" really about? I'm genuinely asking.
> If you didn't exist you wouldn't have preferences.

So if my living self prefers to live and my dead self has no preference, on average I prefer living over dying
Both WhatsApp and Skype have web versions that, at least for me, work just fine. And Chrome's spellcheck is miles ahead of MacOS
He tried to remove the inventory and wasn't allowed to.

>When he tried to submit an inventory removal order through Amazon's web portal, it wouldn't let him.
A few things:

- In my case, my supervisors mostly had handwritten notes which rendered that point a bit moot. However, when I send the almost-complete draft to a professional copy editor, it was indeed a pain to add the comments. Either handwritten+scanned, as acrobat comments, or word comments, they had to be manually input into the markdown file.

- Everything else worked relatively better. It was a bit tedious to type loooong pandoc commands "pandoc --filter=... etc etc" so I recently coded pandocmk [1] to make my life easier. It's not super well documented (but it's a quite short script, so readable), but the idea is that you type the command line options as metadata at the top.

[1] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/pandocmk
What Cambridge Analytica fiasco?

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/10/06/1602008755000/ICO-s-f...

The more I learn about CA and this so-called "fiasco", the more I realize other companies know far more and actively did far more than CA did.

They were an easy scapegoat for Hillary Clinton losing what should have been the easiest Presidential election win in American history.

The fact someone made a few hundred thousand - million off a documentary is even more pathetic.
You need to evaluate the lisp at the bottom of the file, so that `M-x new-day`, `M-x today` and the other stuff gets loaded.

I've got a bit of code in my init-files that does that automatically, that's linked to in the readme. But as a quick alternative you can scroll down to the end, to the line that starts:

"(defun new-day"

Select that line, and all the way down to the line that reads "(require 'ob-org)", and then run "M-x eval-region". That will evaluate the region and make the two new commands available.

Otherwise copy and paste the lisp from here into your emacs init file, and reload everything:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md...

That will cause anything named `skx-startblock` to be evaluated automatically from an org-file on-load, and will also run the contents of `skx-saveblock` before saving any org-file, if present.
A friend of mine worked for a company whose operators answered late night tv infomercials. They had humans answering the phone, but everything about it was scripted and highly optimized. Purchasing the thing was very very easy, but after that there was an upsell gauntlet to get through before hanging up. "This is rediculous, I don't want to hear about this" "But sir, people call back after they've missed these offers etc..." The ONLY method to escape it was to say "I will cancel my order". Additionally the call center employees would be fired if they deviated from the script.

Given that, it's quite easy to see why it's hard to find a customer service phone number or any other option except the one they want you to find.

Personally the one that annoyed me was amazon customer service to find "Package says delivered but not received". Searching for this finds lots of variants in the quick-search bar, and a "helpful" faq that says something like "ask a neighbor" or "look under the porch", but no way to contact customer service about it despite forms for hundreds of other meaningless interactions.
My phone recently bricked itself, requiring me to factory reset my iOS.

Because of the redesign, i decided to try out Apple Maps before attempting to re-install Google Maps.

Have yet to re-install google maps since, with Apple Maps actually much improved.
Well time to change that, get outside in the sun.
Regarding forced arbitration: isn‘t the party that forces arbitration by law required to pay for it and if they refuse, then it can be brought in court?
Not just safe, but very important for health.
Rust should only use "closure," lambda isn't used as far as I know.

(I spent a bunch of time trying to sort this terminology when writing the book.)

That said, I don't really know if I'd agree that it's archaic, just less common. Python being an extremely popular language that uses it explicitly (as you say) makes it hard to really suggest that it's archaic.
I think one more reason is leaders who are leading nowadays compare to older times of around 2010... Leaders today want quick results, Fail-fast. These management graduates leading companies today, don't understand empathy, research investment, innovation. They don't encourage grass-root employees to spend time on their own choices and innovation.. everything had to be justified by business and ROI.. innovation is just a bucket and used to showcase to senior leadership..
The only thing that I would confuse Google Drive with is Google Chrome, because that one actually looks like a disk
Some quotes from the recent antitrust report from Congress. These were presumably verified and run by Amazon with opportunity to respond.

>In another example, a third-party bookseller told Subcommittee staff that Amazon delisted 99% of his business’s inventory in September 2019.1674 The bookseller requested that Amazon return its products, which were stored in Amazon’s warehouses.1675 As of July 2020, Amazon had only returned a small fraction of the bookseller’s inventory and continued to charge him storage fees.1676 Amazon blocked the bookseller both from selling its products on its marketplace and retrieving its inventory, precluding the seller from trying to recover some of his losses by making sales through another, albeit lesser, channel.

>During the Subcommittee’s sixth hearing, Mr. Bezos testified that Amazon “invest[s] hundreds of millions of dollars in systems” that police counterfeits.1823 However, Amazon’s approach appears to be ineffective, resulting in suspensions of many innocent, third-party sellers, with devastating effects on some sellers’ businesses.1824

>One third-party seller told the Subcommittee that Amazon blocked some of her listings, citing a number of her products as “inauthentic.” 1827 The seller provided evidence to Amazon that, not only were her vendor’s products authentic, but Amazon actively sold the same products, sourced from the same vendor, through its first-party sales.1828 Despite elevating the issue to Amazon executives in July 2020, this issue has still not been resolved as of September 2020.

I've had very similar experiences, as I've discussed [0] here numerous times. I currently have an antitrust lawsuit against TP-Link [1] for making false counterfeit complaints against my Amazon account.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16562550/thimes-solutio...
I’m sure after this change was made some manager said “great job, people are clicking so many ads now!”
I moved to the Bay Area in mid 2019 from another country. I've had discussions with my American colleagues where I asserted that we were overpayed for what we do. They insist that it's deserved because we're the top engineers of the world working at a top company. But I'm 100% certain the only reason we're paid as much is because of the insane cost of living in the Bay Area. I know many great engineers, or even my former-self, in my home country who are not paid even 1/3rd of what we get paid in the Bay Area. I think this WFH revolution will be a real reckoning for the software industry and the entitlement of many Bay Area engineers.
I do a lot of hiring in this field. I have zero interest in anyone who changes jobs regularly. This might sound mean, but I promise I mean it as sincerely as possible. Grow up, focus on your life, and stop worrying about the things you can't change. You got to where you are for a reason. People rely on you. The first thing you should do is work extra hours to make up for the slacking. You will feel good. You also need to take care of yourself. A proper diet and exercise is extremely important. After that, get a wholesome hobby you can pour yourself into. Master something.

Good luck. Honestly
Wasn't there a bit of research on viruses that could introduce genetic material capable of producing light sensitve ion channels in neurons?

Mayhaps that combined with near or far infrared? Might explain the uncontrollable migraines due to the relative prevalence of thermal sources, and over stimulation of neurons is definitely an invitation to metabolic stress. The body's reaction may very well be vasodilation to remove excessive waste product.

We're firmly in wild-ass guess territory though.
What part of the XBOX was invented? It was just Windows 2000 running on storebought PC parts.
Im ok with the onus being on the seller to prove they are selling real goods.
Very fascinating study. Thanks
> I organize my bookmarks bar by favicon color without labels. Gmail was fourth, after the EFF, Youtube, and SMBC. Now I will be kicking gmail to the end of the bar with the rest of the multi-colored icons which can't be sorted and remain indistinguishable from each other. I may be a small data point but Google just effectively killed their premium placement in my bookmarks which will lead to checking my web mail less frequently.

I dislike the redesign as well, but this paragraph is very much a "Hacker News Moment" :)
The piece of shifting layout that annoys me the most in Google search results is the “People also search for” widget. It appears if you visit a search result and then hit the Back button. I usually want to click the search result below the one I just visited, but by the time I’ve moved the mouse to that search result, the Google search page has inserted the “People also search for” widget in its place.

Google Search’s addition of that dynamically-appearing widget two years ago was the primary reason I switched to DuckDuckGo.
The first thing I noticed when I saw the new logo is that while it is animating, there is a single-pixel flickering line between the vertical legs of the "M": https://imgur.com/a/qRhvDSb

Clearly nobody tested this before pushing it to hundreds of millions of users!
> - if inkscape writes out a partial file because full disk and you fix the problem, the partial svg will no be rebuilt

You can use the `.DELETE_ON_ERROR` phony target to solve this problem. You can read more about this in this short article:

https://innolitics.com/articles/make-delete-on-error/
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
I wonder how often that behaviour causes someone trying to click on the first result to accidentally click on an ad instead
Wow, Binney's analysis of it being a thumb drive leak is pretty laughable. Apparently the fact that the files came from FAT is a smoking gun, or Wikileaks "conspired" to doctor them like that.

So much more likely that Wikileaks, or one of the hackers, simply copied them to a thumb drive at some point.
Those are some of the most confusing icons I've ever seen. WTF is Y with a few arcs?

Even if I had memorized what every icon means, I can't tell them apart without looking closely because most have the same shape and similar colors. "Everything looks the same" is not good design.
When I started my career a simple interview and can you start Monday sufficed. You’d be be let go by Wednesday if you couldn’t produce. I’d return to that, it worked. Perhaps with a few harder questions about hexadecimal and a code review.
For Windows folks: where does Uniscribe fall in here? Is it not even used anymore?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/uniscrib...
Why would insurance ever side with a person making a claim? It would be more cost effective to always deny claims regardless of legitimacy

Answer: Because contracts and if the insurer breaches them courts get involved and penalties get handed out.
It is different this time. I am a really good coder but I am using no code tools as much as I can. I only use code for new projects if I absolutely must.
I'm paying $50/month for 10 down in a larger metro area to a provider who effectively has a monopoly. $100/month to help subsidize an alternative to that could be worthwhile.

They probably won't provide service in my area, but it'd be a nice alternative if they did.
If software can read your mind, but doesn’t know that you will act as if it can’t read your mind, then it can’t actually read your mind.
No, it depends on the rules of the particular arbitration group, which can be modified in the contract. For the AAA, the one bringing it pays an initial fee and the parties split the ongoing cost, but a final award can include costs going to one side if the arbitrator decides that.
People always hate on new logos (see Instagram, Airbnb, Starbucks, etc [1]) and love to make big sweeping statements about how dumb/useless other people are. In 6 months no one will remember or care.

[1] https://www.creativebloq.com/branding/controversial-4132378
This, and as someone who recently found out that they have a severe vitamin D deficiency, I was surprised to know that it's not something normally checked for in yearly blood tests.
You are now my political leader. I will remain a law abiding citizen of the United States, but I will follow your leadership, and your example. I will work to execute your policies. I will follow the regulations you suggest. You may even tax me. Send me a venmo request. I will do what you ask, so long as you do not ask me to commit an act of violence, but I do not think you will. Please, Kanye, rescue us from oppression, save us from the evil octopus of the New York Times and Trump, Biden, and Nancy Pelosi, the serpentine robots that feed it. Teach us to pray again. Teach us to love again. Teach us to find the genius inside. Forgive us our debts. Help us grow more and better food and find better ways to produce and distribute energy. Work with Elon to take us to Mars.

Can't believe I read the entire thing. What the hell did I just read
Bangladeshi hackers claim responsibility for attacking French commercial website
Some guy at Google is patting himself on the back for a Job Well Done because the customer engagement metrics are much higher than anticipated.
Is this supposed to scare people away? Lol, talk about an empty argument. See if you can somehow link him to flat earthers or the anti-vax movement as well.
So tell me, if you got three choices, Russia, Ukraine or Afghanistan, which one would you preferr? The one that actively hunts agents, the one where you might die to an IED, or the one where they're more likely to try to pay you huge sums of money to look the other way?
That sounds like the kind of thing someone wearing rose-tinted glasses would say. The author even mentions William Shockley but fails to note that the man was authoritarian and divisive to the point that his best employees left him to form their own company.

The Silicon Valley of the 20th century had its share of politics and backstabbing, and certainly money was a big deal; Shockley's former employees enlisted the help of a businessman and investor to found their new company, Fairchild Semiconductor (named after the investor, not after any of the engineers!).

I'll absolutely agree that many of the big names in SV software businesses are greedy outfits that are actively making the world worse, but it's incredibly disingenuous to suggest that's all it is, and ignorant of history to suggest this is anything new.

The piece should be titled "How I Was Naive About Life and Finally Realized It's Not All Roses".
> If you believe we should never use nuclear weapons, then don't have them at all.

Tell that to Russia. In the short amount of time only the USA had the bomb the USA bossed them all over with threats of using it.
I gave up dual booting after they released WSL2.
Not because it's something I don't like, but because it's misinformation.