skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure Amazon has some smart people looking at the numbers on this, but as just one anecdata, my family has been buying a ton of stuff from Amazon since they were just books. Now we buy things that are repeat purchases or a couple of trusted brands (e.g. Amazon Basics or Anker). For bigger purchases (like a medium-basic coffee machine) we're either looking at Costco and Target, or researching a lot on Consumer Reports. Wirecutter used to be good, but hard to trust these days too.

We definitely spend less at Amazon because of lack of trust and counterfeit concerns, and it seems directionally true for the HN crowd. That's got to be a worry for anyone at Amazon - if the people who were early adopters are starting to leave your platform, that's got to be concerning...
People who save in FedBucks are no closer to owning a home in California. If you’re saving in FedBucks you’re treading water as the printer goes burrrr. Mostly likely you know saving in FedBucks is a fool’s errand and convert your money to Wall Street assets. Crypto is an alternative store of purchasing power that’s not currently run by New York bankers.
It's different because it has Amazon randomly selecting who gets paid to write a review, and the reviewer doesn't have any incentive to lie since they get the $10 regardless.

Sellers are currently paying people (in money and product) for 5 star reviews, which is exactly the problem I'm trying to solve.
They’re way too negative and usually list weird one off problems or shipping issues.

The real action is 3 star reviews. Those people have really given a lot of thought to the review.

Also the reviews with pictures tend to be useful.
> I can't imagine how I have survived since 1997 without buying anything counterfeit off Amazon

Did you authenticate everything you ever bought from Amazon?

I noticed my SanDisk SD Card was fake when I studied the printed logo closely with a real one I had bought before.
Why did you basically copy-paste this chain of tweets: https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1360343382556483587

or are you the same person who authored them? (doubt that)
I can't recall the specifics, but keep running into issues when setting up port forwarding, attaching networks, etc. where I end up chasing the reason things don't work down to "docker inspect"-ing things. Usually it's some step I missed or overlooked, but the state I'm in just doesn't do anything useful. It makes sense I end up in that situation because I'm using something that maps to docker commands. I guess I expect a PaaS solution to own more of the system and tell me something like "the way you try to proxy doesn't make sense with the container you spawn", or "you added a network to attach to, and made other changes, the app will be restarted to apply it".

To be clear, I didn't want to say Dokku does things wrong. I'd like something that can validate changes and expected state. But if Dokku is supposed to be a "thin layer", that's cool.
Anyone who is serious about ML (and by serious I mean like actually training fairly big models with lots of data for a project or as part of their job) is going to use cloud resources or at least have a decent gpu(s) at home. At no point will they ever look at getting a laptop to do ML one. Not only are you going to pay extra for less performance, but even with CPUs (which are still important for ML since you need to not only do the matrix math on GPUS but also prepare the datasets and set up the GPUs), you are not going to reach even close to the power that desktop chips can put out in any laptop with any manufacturer.

As for general targeting of engineers the history of MBP pretty shows that they don't really care. Things like virtual escape key on the touchbar, shitty keyboards with sticking keys, hardware designed to not be reparable, and more recently, releasing the M1 models with a spotty backwards compatibility of software out the door is really not something that would be done if you were targeting tech minded people.
FAANG pay relatively well in UK, only about 30% less than in the Bay for equivalent levels in my experience. For small companies and higher levels difference is likely higher.

EU definitely pays worse and most of western EU has crazy high taxes. Financially you'd be better off outside the EU.
Forget about TSLA's market cap for a second and look at their actual manufacturing quality, where defect rates are higher than almost all other automakers:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/tesla-lags-auto-industry-in-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/edgarsten/2020/11/19/tesla-reli...

While I appreciate that it's exceptionally difficult to build an automobile manufacturing and supply chain from scratch, let's not pretend they've somehow overtaken conventional auto companies and that's why their stock price is high.

Given the disproportionate share price when considering comparable EV sales, I'd say TSLA market cap is a function of the MDF - the Musk Distortion Field - rather than actual tangibles.

That's not to say the two are completely disconnected. The MDF explains why TSLA doesn't spend a cent on advertising, which obviously boosts margins.
I noted that here:

> Even among developers, only ~25% of them run a Mac. Linux has that many developers and the rest is Windows.

It's less than 25% among general users...
I think we can all agree that SF as well as Cali has a problem in terms of homelessness. I think we can also agree that homelessness leads to criminal behavior. I expect if I lived on the streets I'd do whatever I had to (illegal or otherwise) to survive.
What I don't understand is why people think the solution to homelessness is more policing. I mean, just think about that, how is homelessness going to be solved with more cops?
A portion of it was sourced from openelections, yes. These were attributed in the PRs, but not in the README for the repository. We've corrected this oversight in attribution and issued an apology.
AI requires analysis of natural patterns to learn and understand reality. This is unacceptable to far left, since many natural patterns display inconvenient truths.

Therefore, AI research is unacceptable and they are trying to cancel AI research and censor and deplatform AI researchers.
That might be the case. But something still smells in the many worlds theory---it's hard to reconcile conservation of energy or mass with the notion of an infinitely branching multiverse, and if there is no way to interact with those other branches, are they real or just a story we're telling ourselves to try and justify the math?

if they are just a story, it feels like a complicated story to get to the goal.

At the same time, I completely agree that the story of wave function collapse also smells. It creates a distinction between observer and observed reality, and that creates its own set of paradoxes (we can put Schrodinger's cats in nested boxes all day long, and some of the boxes even include experimenters who think they are observing the cat, but experimenters outside the lab don't agree with them that they are the observers!).
I think you’re looking at this too much from a pure demand theory point of view.

Ignoring the moral issues with distributing a live saving vaccine based on who has enough money, I don’t think that free market pricing would have made things much faster.

It’s not like any random person can get into the business of complex vaccine manufacturing. The companies and the government have already been scrambling to get it out faster but even if you believe that there is/was more room to incentivize the 2(?) main companies making the vaccine then again the government(s) could just say pay the companies more/less based on the timing of doses.

However I really don’t think that additional profit motive was a factor here. If there was more room to say build another factory at some high cost, I find it hard to believe that these companies would decide not to and not offer governments an offer to expand capacity (eg. we can give you X doses and bump you up but we need more money to build the factory).
Both Apple and Huawei have been stockpiling on silicon wafers for months. The silicon shortage is becoming real.
You think working for Google is a net positive for society?
Certain things it's impossible to avoid - I'm trying to buy 18650 batteries for a flashlight and it's overwhelming trying to find legit sellers. There are some classes of products where it's really hard to tell what's real (reviews not matching product description, obviously fake 5-star and 1-star reviews etc.)
Yeah the Toyota 2.0 system is pretty lousy. I rented a 2019 RAV4 Hybrid for a road trip from the Bay Area to San Diego. Lane keep assist didn’t work well, even in broad daylight. One of the blind spot monitors was broken (missed a semi that passed us), which was a shocking failure. The adaptive cruise control was good though.
A lot of the time it's stupid things like advertising a product is glass or crystal when it's actually clear plastic. I got burned by that once. I've also seen manufacturers get burned when they put their branded merchandise up on Amazon only to have a clone/ copy sell under the same SKU. The manufacturer ends up fielding the returns, getting the 1 star reviews, and has little ability to prevent the copycat products.

It's not always "Nike" or some big brand, often it's smaller brands who have built up a reputation but don't have the legal team to fight with Amazon and protect their product from pirates.
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It doesn’t - but if 80% of purchases end in returns you’d know to stay away.
This inflatable foot/arm rest is incredibly dorky (you feel SO SILLY blowing it up on the plane!) but it's been amazing for when I was traveling internationally for work frequently. It's my #1 tip for anyone on long flights- because it inflates you can custom-rig it into unique spots for a specifically shaped arm or footrest. I end up using part as a footrest and another part as a pillow against the window. https://www.amazon.com/Flypal-Inflatable-Blow-Up-Cushion-Fli...

The other key item I bought is this giant inflight blanket that compresses down to nothing but makes you so cozy and gives privacy- it also has a pocket for your earbuds and phone: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006LR6ILQ
The about says:

Property based testing framework for JavaScript (like QuickCheck) written in TypeScript

source: https://github.com/dubzzz/fast-check
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You are clearly missing the essence of this conversation as "foolishness", "stupid" and "dumb" are all words that are considered ableist.

What you are saying is that the use of the word "retarded" is viable because it means "foolishness". However, the word "foolishness" shares the same baggage as "retarded".

You use another synonym to mean that the company does not have the intelligence and awareness required to monetize its invention properly.

Reread this sentence that you wrote: "I think simply "retarded" is also effective and concise, uttered not in a spirit of wanton bullying, but rather for the purpose of vivid illustration of behaviour that is, in fact, profoundly stupid."

Now ask yourself what the vivid illustration you are painting is.

In the end, it boils down to a simple fact. The use of these words will hurt some people and discourage others from interacting with you.

Trying to justify their uses does not come off as mature but as resentful and bad-tempered. Especially in a professional setting.

Imagine talking to a business leader who has a child with special needs that is called "retarded" on a daily basis. You may be in a job interview where the interviewer happens to be on the austim spectrum and regularly has to deal with people who call them "retarded". What about a CEO who is struggling with bipolar disorder and whose actions are described as "foolish"?

In all of these cases, you are hurting or discouraging someone with your choice of words.

It may not be in the spirit of gratuitous bullying, but the words still carry meanings. They stigmatize an already marginalized population. They carry meanings you may not be familiar with yourself but that others are very intimate with.
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They could still leave seller feedback. Amazon has both seller feedback and product reviews two separate metrics and seller feedback impacts a sellers standing on Amazon where as product reviews only reflect on the product.
Sure, its probably a better definition of "free action" but I am very convinced that those are necessary conditions (though probably not sufficient). Additional time can be an external input, that's fine, its only important that its the _only_ one.

Any definition of free will that doesn't appeal to dualism will allow programs to have free will, that's just par for the course.
Lots of APIs pop out JSON.

JSON schema let's you make that a bit safer.
Somewhat reminiscent of the GME short squeeze phenomenon. New entrants buy expensive homes, they go up in value because of nimbyism, more people buy homes at the higher prices because they saw the others return, and have to become nimbyist themselves in order to further constrain supply to see return. It just accelerates at each iteration as the next wave has to constrain supply more and more to break even.
The advantage of NNTP over IMAP is that your database logic is actually very simple (it's essentially an append-only list, although you do need also need a hashtable for message IDs), and your I/O bottleneck is largely going to be on what is effectively a key-value store for the actual message bodies. This is contrast to IMAP, which is essentially a database synchronization protocol that wasn't designed as such, and thus requires the server to keep track of a lot of extra information to potentially keep clients in sync.
Actually Wirecutter has gone down the toilet and is just as scammy and pay to play as everything else now.

https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...
My last review was declined by Amazon and they didn't even bother telling me the reason, why the review was declined...
I'm under the impression that you didn't read the article, as that's not its argument whatsoever. It's about how ethics play too little a part in the design and implementation of AI systems. The blame is placed squarely on the people who write the software, not on the programs themselves.
> a Chinese super-spy managed to open up specific server that the juicy target was getting and solder some special chip onto the board ...

That's pretty much it (if the story is not bullshit). That, or cooperation from Supermicro or whoever was their distributor to the target.
Fascinating question that I doubt we will ever know the answer to.
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Yeah this model sucks, unless they give you A LOT more of these options than they would give you RSUs. Then it could work out, if you believe in the company.
I have only done the Au-US flight a few times but it is an absolute killer. One time I had the strongest, suggariest coffee I could get the the airport Starbucks to rid myself of my spare change and the resulting crash knocked me out for 10h of the flight. It was amazing.
Pretty much every residential system and every commercial system has a battery backup.
Eh, the game goes both ways tho. Factories love to feign innocence over defects and dispute penalties and commonly drop QC themselves and then baulk at redoing. Everybody is under pressure and there's angels and demons on both sides.
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Both would be good to file. I’m happy to investigate myself if you don’t have the time.

One thing to be aware of is that some other tools that integrate esbuild do so incorrectly. For example, the 3rd-party integration of esbuild into Webpack mis-configures esbuild in a way that causes issues with JSX: https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader/pull/107. This isn’t a problem with esbuild itself.
“People are calling out injustice rather than letting it slide” is the viewpoint he’s endorsing, which is an “attempt to silence dissenting views”? Silencing dissenting views has a very concrete meaning, which has apparently been hijacked by some people to fit their narrative of a non existent cancel culture.
It's incredibly convincing given what happened with opiates and the current hundreds of thousands dead from overdoses over the past 20 years or so.
Why is this downvoted? Lol this is clearly satire.
Your entire counter-argument against me rests on the strawman that I proposed "banning offices", and is therefore invalid.

I never suggested "banning offices" (how would that be achieved, exactly?). In fact I specifically presented a model in which voluntary offices / co-working spaces exist for those who want them.
You're just describing the Early Reviewer Program and suggesting all other reviews be banned.
I guess you didn't get the memo.

The interception is done during shipping, and no soldering is needed - the item just gets replaced en route.

This has been the story for literally decades.

Also, if your board has IPMI enabled, then you're already pwned without any soldering.
When a question is asked Amazon will email blast some small percentage of people who have purchased the product and people selling the product. If a customer who got this email blasts chooses to respond to this email, they may answer the question the only way they know how - completely irrelevantly. Beyond that, I've definitely seen answers where the answerer clearly thinks they are answering a human and not posting to a public page for everyone to read.
I thought about this as well but reality TV shows are still enough of a spectacle that it's clear that big money is involved.

Survivor placed the contestants on an island competing in elaborate challenges with camera's everywhere for a million dollar prize.

The Bachelor featured a wealthy suitor/suitress and a dozen attractive people of the opposite sex dressed in ridiculously expensive clothing again with camera's everywhere doing extravagant things.

Anyone can end up on YouTube, only certain people can end up on TV and viewers always have this in the back of their minds.
They’re loading ad after every choice which seems to take a long time for me (iOS + Safari)
The answer is pretty obvious: by not caring if it is under 500ms delay.

unless you get a Quantum A.I. that can predict seconds into the future... mine just said musk will start a Q.A.I. company with some shady zero-equity A-round disguised as pre-sale. Oh wait that's not my QuantumAI, it's just my tweeter tab.
Thanks for sharing. I’m not a Microsoft apologist, but that “Dear Valued Customer” is a clever, corporatey middle finger. I’d have been so pissed :)
Oh,

Fox is not like a half-crippled* rdbms of late. The "database" is the whole program! (forms, menus, the database itself, etc)

* in the sense that RDBMS are relegated to data storage, when in the case of fox was open to make full apps
I was there.

It was a lark. It certainly wasn't "sponsored". The dot com collapse was still to come. Nobody had any expectation of it changing anything, or getting refunds. At the time there was no possibility of getting an XPS13 with no OS, never mind with Linux supported. It got some attention for Linux, which practically nobody had ever heard of before they saw the picket signs. Linux didn't own server farms. There weren't server farms, unless you count racks of Sun pizza-boxes owned by whoever had software on running on them.

I guess you had to be there.
>So, what, some time after the line, after a sale was made, during fulfillment, a Chinese super-spy managed to open up specific server that the juicy target was getting and solder some special chip onto the board somehow in a way that worked instead of bricking the board?

I'm not sure why you're implying that you need a super-spy to pull this off. If this was done at the factory level they likely had access to the same manufacturing equipment used to make the motherboards, so there's no need to manually solder anything. The implant was alleged to be a surface-mount component so it could be as simple as reprogramming the pick-and-place machine or swaping out the reels. Given that this is china enlisting a couple of technicians to your cause wouldn't be too hard[1]. From there once they figure out a particular order is going to a juicy target they can ship the bugged boards in place of the untampered boards.

> But you need actual evidence for such a tale.

Agreed. My main takeway from the article is that this hack could happen, not necessarily that it has happened.

[1] it's not unlike the concerns that there are NSA backdoors in intel cpus (eg. AMT/vpro, or RDRAND), or windows (NSAKEY).
Amazon de facto approves of this - reviews of products which mention "this product came with the offer of payment/discount for a positive review" are deleted.

So Amazon not only doesn't care, they are encouraging it.
Here’s an example from real life just last week. Clorox ToiletWand Refill. Go look on Amazon, I’ll wait here. You’ll find many different sellers, some obviously “third party”, and some that look original but when you delve into the reviews you find stuff like this: https://imgur.com/9vyE8kq

I didn’t want to buy a toilet cleaner that would fall apart and make me fish it out of the toilet, so we went and got them from Target instead.
Toyota Broke Its Just-in-Time Rule Just in Time for the Chip Shortage
Or, add a flag to indicate "Potential paid review" along with discounting it in the avg calculation.
It's weird to see how the skepticism is so one-sided on this issue. Any time I've commented that I believe the hack is probably largely true even if the story details aren't 100% accurate I just get downvoted to oblivion and/or called names. My kind of skepticism is open to all possibilities.
>Notably, one of the criticisms at the time was that Bloomberg didn't name credible sources with first-hand accounts of the events — understandably given the sensitivity.

It's not just that - it's that no other reputable outlet was able to confirm the story, and many tried. This just doesn't happen with controversial but true stories with many sources - some of those sources will be willing to talk to other outlets.
It's not a completely foolproof solution, because competitors with dirty tactics can write fake negative reviews.
I’d consider looking for referrals for an accountant in your jurisdiction for the first year or two. Income tax is pretty straightforward. Other things like sales tax, worker’s compensation, etc can all get complicated fast...
Yeah! I live in a condo, with no outdoor space. I as able to convince my partner that the Ooni was a good investment to take camping, to friend's yards, and airbnb's while we travel. It doesn't get as much usage as I'd otherwise like it, but both me and my previously skeptical partner are just so pleased by it! Worth both the price and the storage we have to maintain for it and it's accessories.

Having said that, it does take a significant amount of the trunk, so.. meh.
I have been interested in using openBSD beyond in my router. Is it usable as a daily driver?
I’m surprised you are surprised by this. Did you expect them to admit their servers were compromised?
Is that you Seth?
Craigslist approves: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/
I absolutely shop more at Best Buy, Costco and other places because of this reason. Whatever I buy at these places, I know they stand behind the quality. Do I go to Best Buy for a $10 cable? No. But a $3000 DSLR, I would rather buy from B&H.
> I read last time that Bloomberg rewards the authors of stories that cause stock swings

They ended that practice well before the previous story was published.
Fuzix on the Raspberry Pi Pico
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Was the whole tower planned to be used by salesforce? It seems like large towers are rarely occupied by a single tenet. They usually rent out a lot of space to other companies.