skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For in-stock, Prime-eligible, fulfilled-by-Amazon products the delivery has nothing to do with the seller. The shipping vendor (to me) is Amazon, the warehousing vendor is also Amazon, and they're using the typical UPS, USPS, and sometimes FedEx suppliers.

I'm choosing between pictures, descriptions, and reviews of products on Amazon. In that context, the individual seller (and there might be a dozen for an individual product, though typically only one marked Prime) has nothing to do with the delivery, and it's a question of the quality of the actual product.

For what it's worth, I have Prime, live on the end of a private cul-de-sac and have zero problems with package theft, typically filter by Prime-eligible products, and have bought thousands of dollars of stuff on Amazon. I can think of two instances where the products didn't get to me, and one of those was an exception to my Prime-eligible filter. The other time, I waited a week for my 2-day shipping, contacted Amazon, and they shipped a second unit. A couple days after the second unit arrived, the original also made its way to me at the end of a long, tortured journey through the wrong state, no idea what happened there (I contacted Amazon when it arrived and they said I could keep it...good service!)
Postgres supports json_agg which solves n+1 and also cartesian product problem. It's neat, hasura does it nicely for example.
Yeah, the tallow and subsequently good fries of McDonalds ship sailed literal decades ago now.

On a lighter note, if you've yet to hear this news, I think you can officially say you're old now.
Suppose I want to order a Logitech C930c webcam, there are currently 18 different offers on Amazon for that. The reviews on the product page should be reviews of the webcam, not of any individual seller experience (should be in the sense of "Amazon wants it this way" and "because that's what makes sense for Amazon shoppers"). If I'm on that product page reading reviews, I'm researching that webcam, not the seller who happened to sell it to you.

You're more than welcome to review the seller shipping experience (which shows up on the seller detail page that probably gets little traffic), but anything you post about a seller-specific incident on the general product review set isn't helping anyone.
You got it — the timing is good for this step, which is adding a new citizenship. Then he can drop his US citizenship in the future, after his new one is established.
on iOS web apps don't get:

Access to files (or any persistent storage)
Any kind of background tasks.

of course you need doordash, an order form, to be a native app.
It's a file from freesound that captures the male "A" vowel, but slowed down like 20x.
> As always, if you follow the money, Amazon has little interest in doing so...

They had little short-term interest in doing so. Now people know the reviews are fake, and Amazon's reputation WRT finding good products and believing you'll get an authentic product is edging towards the gutter. I know I'm very careful of what I'm buying from whom on Amazon now. Combined with them not always being the cheapest for a long time now, and there's less and less reason for me to give them first consideration.
Well, they tried to write a new browser engine in Rust but gave up and got laid off. A few pieces got integrated into Firefox but the browser is still wildly insecure (cf. the article).

Turns out "Rewrite it in Rust" is actually really hard when you have millions of lines of code. Even Google probably can't rewrite Chrome from scratch.

Maybe if we just try harder, communism will work. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
Almost beyond parody at this point.
Reference if anyone cares: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-08/why-pm-says-nsw-is-go...

They have done very good at tracking and locking down the few cases that get out, even with very low mask use in the general community based on what I've seen. People were sensible when it mattered most.
I tried to leave a positive review for a product I liked, and Amazon blocked it as fraudulent seemingly at random. Then when I ordered a second one, the box came with one of these cards inside. I guess Amazon is making a token effort to fight these, but it's clearly not working in the slightest.

Many other scams are also alive and well there. The shipping and return policy are what keep me there; the store is crap.

I wonder if there's an opportunity to make an alternative storefront for Amazon with its own reviews and decent search. Probably would violate the ToS or some other lame thing.
Yeah, I find 2-4 star reviews to be the most illuminating.

Perhaps that'll get gamed next. Sigh.
The important question is how much demand does each dollar of marketing create. It would be poor decision-making to just assume marketing is a bad idea because they are already able to sell through everything at current prices. Presumably there’s somebody doing that math at the company.
Are all of your assets original? The avatars look very suspiciously like the overland trainer sprites from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire. When I was a kid I made “custom” Pokemon trainer sprites for fun and these look like something I would have made; just take a sprite sheet from spriters resource and edit away...
This is tax fraud, if you're willing to commit crimes it is very easy to avoid taxes.
To be fair OpenSSL was mostly ignored by industry and the community until heartbleed.

“At the time of the Heartbleed attack, the OpenSSL website listed just 15 active developers, most of whom contributed to the project on a volunteer basis. But not all changes to the OpenSSL software are written by these 15 people. Rather, these developers help to filter and organize suggested changes from a larger community of people who make occasional contributions.”

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/19/18076318/heartbleed

If you want the government to have more competitive Federal salaries for developers then write your Senators.

As a note, I’ve seen some truly awful software written by highly paid devs, so, just paying more won’t necessarily fix the problem.
SpaceX Starlink: Will it work at sea? Elon Musk weighs in
I'm not surprised. I'm within the top 70k reviewers in the UK, I constantly get emails (I've no clue where they're getting my email address) from random sellers offering free products in return for reviews. They don't explicitly ask for positive, but its clear what's what they're wanting.

Typically they'll request you buy the product and then paypal you a refund once you've done the review.
Intel to Acquire SigOpt to Scale AI Productivity and Performance
> The same HDL that can be configured into an FPGA can be used to make chips.

Not exactly, you'll likely have to replace FPGA HW blocks for "hard IP" such as I/O (especially high speed interfaces such as HDMI/DP, MII, but also RAM controllers), power and clock management...
As your edit conveys, they still do use Beef Tallow.
Yeah I bought one of the first gen Ecotanks for a college clubs when it came out. IIRC the bottles and the reservoirs come in two sizes, the normal ones and the double sized ones like the T542. One bottle is enough to refill up to the line so the use case is just to refill when the tank is almost empty.

So I don't think we ran into this because someone ended up breaking it a few years later but looks like it still has some counter bullshit for the waste ink pad but it looks like you can work around that fairly easily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDi4YdzXkD8
This is not limited to Amazon. I once received an email asking me to review a Magento plugin (on the Magento Marketplace) after commenting positively on their forum. They promised a $75 Amazon gift card in exchange.
If it's an Amazon Marketplace listing, yes, in the form of a seller review. If it's sold and shipped by Amazon, then no.
I really miss my headphone jack :(
If only the modem didn't take 20 seconds to power up when you unlock it.

and didn't crash randomly

and had good support for MMS by software on the application processor.
What do you mean by 'virtual spaces for social'?
>I can’t really grasp that. Do my thoughts make sense? Where’s the flaw?

This is the "Argument from Incredulity by Implausible Consciousness Substrate"[0]. Other examples include Searle's Chinese Room, and the China Brain thought experiment (what is it with China?). To your credit, you've immediately spotted the problem - how is the actual human brain any different? It's also some sort of broadly mechanistic physical system, unless you're into divine spirits (but that just moves your problems).

The flaw is that there is no flaw, the only actual argument is your personal incredulity. And the reason your intuition is giving you bad results is that scale matters. The implausible substrates are far, far too small to realistically encompass the computation that a brain does, and this makes them poor "intuition pumps" (a useful phrase coined by Daniel Dennet). Your field of rocks looks more like a football field of sand, ankle deep. And of course, manipulating them one by one according to a tiny set of rules is absurdly distorting in time - to properly capture the sheer amount of parallel information processing, perhaps you should instead imagine them buzzing and vibrating and bouncing around and exchanging information and state with the grains around them in highly nonlinear ways. Does this start to sound a bit more of a plausible?

[0] A subtype of the "argument from bad analogy", which goes: 1) make absurd analogy, 2) point out that analogy is absurd, 3) wave hands
what?

obviously there is one, its the force driving the typing of these words. It isn't the machinery typing them but the fundamental quality of the machinery that feels like it does.

Of course I can't prove my consciousness to you, but I operate on the assumption that p-zombies are nonsense, so, it should be entirely possible to prove your consciousness to yourself, albeit difficult due to lack of meaningful language labels for subjective experiences.
Sorry, but I don't get your point.

I think that, independently of the original meaning of the parable (which is not at all what we are discussing here), it indeed is a nice example of having to accept the terms you negotiated without looking at what terms others get. I used the same example to explain why I think this situation is a bit different. But it is just an analogy, nobody is claiming this is the right interpretation of the biblical text.
I agree with you, but I also feel the entitlement problem goes both ways. Just because you choose to work on an open source project and it becomes popular, it does not mean you are entitled to be paid by the people who use it. If you ultimately want to be paid, don’t spend thousands of hours of your life working on something that has no guarantee of you being paid.
I think this sounds nice but it feels difficult to me.

One property you might want would be that, in some sense, parentheses would always remain balanced. I think this would be very hard if not impossible to get from the graph-of-byte-ranges representation. But I’d be excited if someone figured out how to do it.

I think a particular part of the problem is to get the diff algorithm to match parentheses correctly. Consider some changes from A to B:

1A (a b)
1B (a b) (c d)

2A (define p () (a) (b) (c))
2B (define q () (a) (b) ) (define q () (p) (c))

3A (a b c d)
3B (a b) (c d)

4A (a b c )
4B (a b) (c d)

5A (a b c)
5B (a b) (d)

I think in these examples it’s relatively easy to pair up parentheses in a reasonable way though there are already some tricky cases. As you get more of a tree structure and want a diff algorithm that can think of operations like wrapping, splitting, and spreading as basic operations as well as appending and deleting, I think it becomes even harder to make the right call. Indeed I think computing this kind of diff of s-expressions is computationally a harder search problem than diffing files.
My favorite 1-star Yelp review was for a restaurant with outdoor seating. Paraphrasing, it went something like this:

> Burger was good, but it was 100 degrees out and windy! I can't enjoy a meal in that kind of weather.

I'm sure the manager stepped up their weather control after getting that scathing critique.

If I'm being charitable, I suppose that would be useful for an out-of-towner who was unaware that the area is hot and often windy. But to mark it 1 star as a result is useless.
I believe it was software. I got different behavior depending on (a) which USB port I tried to connect it to (OK, that looks like hardware), but also (b) what mode the phone was booted into.
Well, Romanian passports aren't uncommon among Russians in London. It's just not a very official scheme.
Why not work out in the open? Nothing innovative or secretive going on, right? Bridges being build are not walled off with armed military around them right?
How many products have you reviewed? Why do you do it?
My only computer has Linux installed on it. I wouldn't be able to take an exam that required a windows computer.

If you make exams online, you should change the format to one that is better suited to people having access to the internet. They did that with our exams, and it worked perfectly fine, sidestepping the issues with these exams.
I agree that is part of the problem, but I think the real problem is that even if you accept the premise that it would take just a weekend it is still the wrong analysis for the company. Even a job that you can complete in an hour is easily $100-200 worth of direct engineering costs.

I think the real problem is that most developers naturally plug in the value of their time on a hobby project/in school (which is ~$0/hr) when deciding if a time-cost tradeoff is worthwhile. Since the answer is almost always no if you incorrectly value time at $0/hr and management usually can not do the analysis themselves, management pattern matches and determines that spending money on developer tooling is essentially never worthwhile and that sums like $5k (which few people would spend on personal projects) are outrageous. If the correct time-value analysis was done, you would get outcomes more like electrical engineers (who generally make less than high-end software developers) where companies will spend literally $50k/yr/engineer on tooling to make them 50% more productive since that actually makes perfect business sense based on the amount they are being paid. In contrast, if you went to management in a software company pushing for a $50k/yr/developer expense they would probably laugh you out of the room or require some totally outrageous improvement like 10x for everybody.
I have received similar offers before inside of my Amazon packages -- offers that mentioned a particular seller's name on them, for products that have multiple sellers listed on Amazon's website.
I’m glad to see this be recognized. I’ve left companies because of strong meeting and ping culture: chat ops is depressing and disruptive to me.
Without being able to eat vegan fries, I will still avoid McDonalds.
>Say you know (for whatever reason) you're 90% going to fail - do you accept that? Or do break out the Hail Mary cheat - what have you got to lose?

This is almost the critical pass/fail decision in my opinion, because in the real world, on actually difficult or unsolved problems the correct decision is to escalate, clearly communicate you have an issue, and either be directed to someone who can get you unstuck, or inform resource allocators that additional resources will be required to fulfill their request.

There is nothing more destructive to organized, value producing work than to vouchsafe that it's a'ok hunky dory when it isn't.

I'm pretty sure I made it through some of my own coursework by the skin of my teeth because I could at least describe in enough detail where I was coming up short that the instructor had confidence that with more time and experience I'd get it.

At least, I think. I'm still a bit fuzzy on thoss last couple years of college from the sleep deprivation. I get bits and pieces of lucidity in between the recollections of "Oh God, I need sleep."

Theoretical Comp Sci is still "that one class I'm not sure if I really got anything good out of besides intuition into what is and is not a candidate for being computible", and Linear Algebra was "I've killed more trees writing out the work for these problems than anyone should reasonably have to."
Autocorrelation has been used in psychoacoustics at least since Licklider's work in the 1950s. But I'm not sure if I've seen this style of visualization before. It looks a bit like the output of a strobe tuner.
De wet is eindelijk ingediend, maar wanneer er gestemd gaat worden? Er is vziw nog geen datum. Dus, vooralsnog geen wet in werking. Het ZML stukje gisteren vatte de verwarring mooi samen.
I would record a video in advance or failing that flunk out. This calls for absolute rebellion against the system
O and I almost forgot to mention that it uses the hn firebase api.

Metric show on p90 notification times at sub second from firebase to your inbox
I'll be honest, that's not how open source worked ever. You solve your own problem. If other people share the problem they will help. Entitlement is thinking that people owe you something.

If you don't want corporations to fork, use GNU licensing. If you don't find their feedback on modification useful... Ignore it
How will they measure this? Are they going to do genetic testing of all cast members?
More details here https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/11/09/armenian-pm-announ...
The vegan cheeses I’ve sampled tend to fall into this uncanny valley of cheese flavor. Like yeah, its sorta like cheap bag cheese, cheese with more sweaty feet undertaste that I couldn’t not picture once I made the mental connection. Usually doesn’t melt, I've taken a torch to some trying to get it to melt and just end up searing it.

Vegan burgers sometimes suffer from this when they lean away from the bean/tex mex route and try and tackle a hamburger. It ends up tasting like the grease is masking all the flavor, and it isn’t pleasant rendered fatty grease like in a burger but vegetable oil and a surprising amount of it. I don’t know if its the way its prepared or what, but imo its a tough prospect trying to ask $15 for a burger that tastes like oil soaked starch, hidden behind the aioli on the bun hoping you don’t notice. Impossible burgers fall into this grease pit area for my pallet, I’ve tried them pretty much anywhere I see them at least once and no matter how they try and hide the patty with the other components it still stands out like a sore thumb to me.

I’ll wait another 5 years and try again. Hopefully more food science development can iron out these kinks.
Would love to see this applied to financial price signals.
Same here. Recently, if it's anything that's health related, I absolutely avoid Amazon because of the mass of fake products out there. I needed some vitamins recently and my first thought was that I'm better off paying CVS or Walgreens prices and being practically guaranteed that the product is legit, versus trying to weed through the fake reviews and counterfeit products on Amazon.

That thought has occurred with increasing frequency over the past few years as Amazon continues to completely ignore the issue.
I've always thought the struggle of people not wanting to pay for software or expecting you to go out of your way for free comes primarily from the fact that for things like software (but this also applies to art) there is no physical product.

Of course, this is just unfounded speculation on my part, but I feel as though there is some kind of sub-conscious thought, brought about by years of being taught that generally speaking, things that are larger or have fancier packaging are more valuable, and that exchanging money should result in something that you can hold and take stock of.

Software (or really anything in the digital space), while being something that we can cognitively see, is not something we can hold or even try to accurately value using any rough method we usually come up with to do so.

On top of that, digital goods are only ever seen as a finished product, and the average person can't fully comprehend the effort and time that goes into producing that finished product, meaning that effort expectations range from "click a button and it's done", to "I reckon I could make this in a weekend".

Personally, I think this dissonance between better valuing something physical can be seen in peoples willingness to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars for an iPhone, but absolutely refusing to pay 99 cents for an app for the iPhone you just bought.
> Lack of safety is a feature in game development,

Bullshit.

How many games have had releases delayed and major wrenches thrown into marketing plans because of progress ruining heisenbugs? How many failed certification passes from banal data races and other undefined behavior?

We trap UI in actionscript or javascript, and gameplay programmers in other scripting languages - perhaps python or lua - for faster iteration times, hot reloading, and safety. Because it's difficult enough to keep the build stable when it's merely all the engine programmers who should know better screwing things up with C++.

This results in large messes of poorly performing, poorly optimized, garbage-collector laden code that Rust would handle much faster. We're leaving lots of performance on the table, often for little other purpouse than "safety".

Console first day patches may have taken off some of the pressure for getting the first release right, but handhelds aren't always online and still have a pretty high bar.

> the optimizations required are typically unorthodox

Rust's `unsafe` keyword and intrinsics let you do all the unaligned intrinsic-laden data-racey technically-undefined-behavior micro-optimizations you might want to do in C++ in Rust just fine.

It'll hopefully trigger a more stringent code review and force you to justify your pile of bugs, but that's a good thing. Or you can skip the code review if your entire company really disagrees.

> a super strict language slows development down

C++ is also super strict, just in an unenforced-at-compile-time way that result in plenty of late nights chasing heisenbugs. Don't get me wrong - language strictness can slow development down - but that's one of the reasons people eschew C++, too.

As for C++ vs Rust? I'm going to spend more time and be far less certain of catching the issues in a C++ code review than I would be in a Rust code review. And while it took a few months for my development speed in Rust to catch up with my development speed in C++, it did happen.

Rust merely forces you to acknowledge when you're being sloppy.

> Additionally, object ownership can be unclear in a game development setting, which typically makes use of global variables for state.

I have solved so many sources of endless heisenbugs by eliminating some of these global variables. John Carmack as far back as 2013 was using phrases like "horror show" to describe similar parts of his own codebases[1] and has been agitating for more functional styles.

An unclear mudball of global variables is entirely possible - and easy - in Rust if you really want that. You merely need to make it either thread safe, or resort to `unsafe` if you really can't tolerate the overhead of not having threading-related heisenbugs.

[1]: https://youtu.be/1PhArSujR_A?t=125
Yeah - just go to vipon.com. They run an entire platform for this.
If its a third party seller and they dont ship the product, this seems appropriate.
And maybe it was aliens, we don't know yet. But it's not really helpful to suggest random theories without a shred of evidence on the off-chance that they might be accurate, because that rabbit hole has no bottom.
Which.co.uk is basically this, it’s great but they can’t always keep up with every product category
It's certainly not without restrictions. You can't stay for more than 90 days. You can't work there.
You don’t get to take advantage of these benefits as a US citizen.
Cinelerra-GG: “Our developer Good Guy has passed away”