skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like this: A company contracts with a factory, they want 100,000 pair of shoes. The factory however is going to make a million or keep making it until there's no one to buy it. These are called "ghost shift" goods which is the bulk of counterfeits. If the product is not a limited run and still being produced the quality will be exactly the same. If the original manufacturer is no longer purchasing then the factory will very likely use cheaper materials.

The brands know this happens, they really don't care, what the brand will do is send a couple workers to the factory to be QC buyers. The factory makes a million items, and the QC workers will go through and pick out the best 100,000. The other 900,000 will be sold in the the developing world. The brand will typically take the 100,000 then send them to the US or Europe to another factory where they will have tags sewn in them and possibly some more labels or insignia attached. If it's a particularly premium brand they will add some secret identifying marks that even this LegitCheck website is unlikely to know about.

Those secret marks are typically for extremely high end goods that have lifetime warranties etc and the only time it's checked is if you send it in for warranty work.

A LOT of these goods are completely indistinguishable and will even make it into the retail supply chain. Particularly at stores like TJ Maxx, Bealls, and Ross et al. Though they go through a series of distributors that will basically only exist for a few shipments to avoid liability after some previous large lawsuits.

Ross and Burlington will also knowingly buy the ghost shift goods but keep them unbranded and sell them in stores with no labeling at all. You can find these clothes and they will have a tag sewn into that has a lot number. You can take that lot number and put it in to import manifest search engines and find out what brand was also importing them.

This would be where you find your coveted Fake / Knock off high quality with the best success.
Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer
Victims, whether or not they are educated, or even if they are stupid as they have been called, are still victims. You are exercising crazy mental gymnastics to victim blame, it’s exactly what people do when a girl is rapped and they say she should have dressed to provocatively.

It’s the stupidest thing I have ever heard...to not protect someone because they should have been smarter than to act upon a desire selfish desire to make money, well no shit that’s why fraud and cons work, because almost everyone acts on the desire to make money. It’s why people have jobs and work, that doesn’t give employers a green light to defraud employees.

Should all those old people who fall for scams down to the Nigerian price email scams not be protected because they are stupid and acted selfishly?

Let’s say a casino rigged a deck of cards or rigged a slot machine and falsely advertised the odds of winning to the public, would victims not be entitled to protection because they are stupid and acted in a greedy way to get rich?

Why shouldn’t the victims of Elon, all the Twitter bots , and those behind them, that are pumping and dumping Doge be protect besides calling them stupid and greedy? What is it is shown millions of the victims are actually just kids that idolize musk? Are they still just stupid and greedy and thus deserve to be scammed?
The headline is pretty much a lie here.
This is like asking an open source maintainer what their motive was to contribute to an important piece of software, since it’s going to be hosted on a for-profit entity like GitHub. The motive is that reviewing is necessary to make science work (and secondarily it’s required for promotions etc.) The problem in this setting is that Elsevier is part of the equation and demands copyright ownership, which makes it much worse than hosting on something GitHub. Unfortunately “just stop contributing” isn’t a good answer, because that would throw out the baby with the bath water, and scientists care very deeply about the baby.
More evidence that the Wuhan lab-leak theory is the correct one
Take a look at spacebuckets ( eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceBuckets/ ) works awesome for cannabis -- but also: lettuce, herbs, cuke, growing aquaponic pineapple in the winter in Oregon, etc. You can get a bucket (or larger controlled envrironment) and control the whole thing via Pi and this thing is cool too -- https://github.com/kizniche/Mycodo

e: and we're working on this :)
> and passing in an immutable parameter, would introduce copy-on-write semantics.

Yes that’s the point the author is making. His scheme incurs strictly less overhead than the scheme currently used.

Some people may want to program in a “value oriented” way without pointers at the C level for various reasons but for efficiency reasons they cannot.
It's generally accepted that cats were useful for early humans because we hoarded grain, and so the cats were anti-rat machines. The anti-snake traits of kitties may be an older and just-as-useful reason we tolerated (and loved) cats than just protecting grain storage.
1. This isn't worthy of HN.

2. The default colors are all wrong (my own unwavering opinion). If the maintainer wants his own defaults colors, he can apply his own configuration for this and offer such scheme to those who prefer the same choice.

3. We all can crack at some point in time. So we need to be big and allow the space for both such discussions and the occasional blowout, but at the same time not be abused by it. Arrogance only reflect really badly on yourself in the end, but it can happen to the best of us.

4. Maybe someone is color-blind? Who knows? We must expect variety.
The "fungus like" organism in a mutualistic relationship with bacteria is evocative of the structure and life style of the pre- or proto-eukaryotic Lokiarchaeota recently cultured and imaged by Hiroyuki Imachi et al.

"Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface". Nature. 577 (7791): 519–525. Bibcode:2020Natur.577..519I. bioRxiv 10.1101/726976. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1916-6. PMC 7015854. PMID 31942073.
Ah damn that's a real shame, something to be said about how rarely restrict is used(I usually only touched it for particle systems or inner loops of components where I knew I was the only iterator).
If they had gotten all of the concessions they wanted, there would have been no reward.

If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this?

The PR doesn’t tell the story like what came out during court procedures.
My main problem with counterfeit cards is when someone pays for authentic cards but they receive counterfeits instead. If both parties knowingly buy and sell counterfeit cards I don’t have any problem with it.

In addition to counterfeits not being tournament playable, they are not collectable either. It feels good to own/play cards which are rare, valuable, and a part of MTGs history.
The point is that keeping the distinction clear in your head between numeric semantics and sequence of octets semantics makes the problem universally tractible. You have a data structure where with a numeric value. Here you have a sequence of octets described by some protocol formalism, BNF in the old days. The mapping from one to the other occurs in the math between octets and numeric values and the various network protocols for representing numbers. There are many more choices than just big endian or little endian. Could be ASN infinite precision ints. Could be 32 bit IEEE floats or 64 bit IEEE floats. The distinction is universal between language semantics and external representations.

This is why people that memcpy structs right into the buf get such derision, even if it’s faster and written for a mono-Implementation of a language semantics. It is sloppy thought made manifest.
"The more description you have the higher the value of the item and the lower the price seems in the customer's head"

I'm not sure having longer descriptions is so much a trick as it lets the customer buy with more confidence. The customer knows they are getting what they want, and when they get it, they know what to expect.
Thankfully some paywalls also don't work.
How about those explanations:

It didn't matter before, as compilers were not optimizing as much, code had a much closer 1:1 correspondence to assembly (if you are passing it by pointer and not register, you would want to make that clear in code).

It's much easier to implement in simple compilers. On the side of the callee you don't have to check if you manipulate your arguments, which is generally hard. Being able to manipulate your arguments is another shortcut for keeping the compiler simple.
On the side of the caller you don't have to check if you hand out a mutable pointer.

Also finally and most importantly: memory access was much cheaper in terms of cpu cycles. Just look at cdecl: all parameters are passed on the stack instead of registers.
Our current calling conventions stem from performance hacks like fastcall that were only optimizing for existing code (you pass big structs by pointer by convention).
Yeah if you put just a number, no unities and no decimals my opinion of this restaurant is also going to be just an integer number, below 1.

Like this https://www.brooklynbarmenus.com/

I think it might be actually illegal to not have prices on menus
> copyright be damned

What? Do the journals get copyright over the authors too???
Wuhan is the capital of Hubei and is going to attract the surrounding area (if a virus jumped to humans in Sidney, NY it would probably be detected in NYC). Distance from Yunnan will also be a factor and the virus jumping to humans from Yunnan to cities anywhere in the north will be much less likely. A proper model would look the migration of people and animals between different cities and provinces in China.

And again there's the SARS-CoV-1 where bat viruses in Yunnan jumped to people in Guangdong, 700+ miles away. And you'd have to look at the whole population around Wuhan where it is the closest major city (and Wuhan itself is the largest major city in central China, which makes it comparable to massive cities like NYC).

The probability is likely closer to 10%, and SARS-CoV-1 already lost that die roll and wound up in Guangdong. This time you rolled and got a 10% result. That isn't very unsurprising. Your p value is not significant.

And, yeah, I don't think that they've done everything they can to survey broadly. The studies that they've done tend to collect a bunch of bats from a particular cave and sequence the viruses in them and then draw broad conclusions about the whole province. There's only two sarbecoviruses sequences they've found in Hubei. I'd be much more comfortable with statements that SARS-CoV-2-like sarbecoviruses aren't found in Hubei if they'd sequenced 100 of them.

EDIT: Yeah so Wuhan is 6% of the population of all cities in China of roughly its size. But Shanghai is father away so its 24M should be weighted less, so with Tianjin and Nanjing. Beijing is way further away and its weighting should be fairly negligible. Chengdu and Chongqing are slightly closer. Of the top 10 Guangzhou and Shenzhen are both similarly close and in Guangdong where the SARS-CoV-1 spillover happened. My 10% gut estimate still looks pretty good -- "pick a random top 20 city in China somewhat near Yunnan where the bats are" and Wuhan is not that improbable at all.
Indeed, windows is moving in that direction. Back in the windows XP era, it really did feel revolutionary.
It feels like a PR disaster to everyone involved even if they're not part of the actual lawsuit. See also: Sony
Even 100% efficient agriculture is meaningless in the face of overburdening absolute demand.

Raising efficiency and means of exploitation may also induce demand ("oh we're so eco-friendly").

The point is: Life needs (contiguous) undisturbed wilderness.

And ecological management?
That this would even be necessary is testament to our fuckup, but yeah that might actually be topic's biggest benefit I suppose.

Pre-industrialisation life managed itself just fine for millenia.
French press coffee and drip are so different though!

French press has a rich mouth feel, but it can be kind of muddy. Including literally, the last sip generally must be left in the mug. It's good for a medium-grind French roast; a nice French press Kona can be sublime.

Drip is brighter, cleaner, and the flavors of the coffee really come through. You can get even sharper separation of notes with an Aeropress "Americano" style, but that is decidedly thin.

Which can be nice, but to my taste, most medium and light roast coffees really shine from a Chemex. You can get good results with Hario filters but the filters themselves aren't as good and you kind of have to fiddle with it. Fine ground, but not espresso fine.

Sure, I wouldn't use a machine, my goodness. But that's mostly because I'm a snob, a coffee which would be better in a Chemex will also be better from a (clean) drip machine than from a French press.
see also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/07/cathy-merril...

Pretty bad piece. If you worry about mentoring not happening, the natural response is not "cut people down to just primary work hours", but doing your job as a manager an make sure people get to mentoring, and make sure they have time and resources to do it?
Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack
Try but since its more of them that devs have to support (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage...), problem is still the same.
Fedora Silver Blue may now resemble somewhat he's talking about in the video, give it a whirl!
Yeah, but the average debian user just uses apt. Other people do other things, but as a debian user my experience is basically just one place, which is what matters.
You seem to be knowledgeable in this area. Is it weird to ask you to summarize these links, especially in the context of the more concrete discussions in this thread?
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086403
Indeed mine have anti-snake protection capabilities that also cover items such as nailfiles, pens, and plastic toy springs
Yes, I volunteer for something that requires a week of training. I volunteer a day every month or so.
On the flip side, I found out recently that if you are sharing a printer connected to a Linux machine using CUPS, you can print to said printer FROM AN IPHONE!

This blew me away when I first tried it and then digging deeper realized it's b/c Apple was the maintainer of the CUPS library. Kudos to Apple for that integration!
It's not a fault of the runtimes, but of how optimized the library implementations are. The Java grpc library has had a lot of love.
That's an interesting fact, thanks!
>> Emails with multiple "From" fields in the headers

Do you think this is still possible?
It doesn't have to be supernatural. We know, for example, that dogs can smell various diseases. Also, someone pointed out that as people age and become ill, they tend to do less outside the house, and shy animals will start to come out and stay closer.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Blanket ridicule of such phenomena is just as irrational as are many superstitions.
Yeah I don't know how they got away with that!
I found it very difficult to read this as it started out with the whole 'I made a bad analogy about coffee making that nobody understood, and actually is probably not realistic but anyway now let me tell you what my point is referring back to this bad analogy periodically'
India is hiding its Covid crisis – and the whole world will suffer for it
Oh, the stuff that's coming out of this lawsuit is gold.
No they wouldn’t. They already run their own store where they take 12%. Tim Sweeney has been a vocal supporter of open platforms/markets for many years. This action is costing Epic TONS of money. In no way does it make financial sense whatsoever. If you read the internal Epic documents from this case, it becomes quite clear that this is Tim Sweeney’s personal crusade against Apple.
Agreed. One of the best restaurants I’ve ever eaten at had a single 8.5x11 slip of paper for the main menu (and a weighty tome for the wine menu).

Another place we never even got a menu - the food just started appearing, much to our confusion! Apparently it was a prix fixe multi-course meal arrangement, and you get whatever you get - the server had assumed we knew. The food was fabulous, but it took three hours longer than we had planned to spend.
> 2) Regular expressions can only parse regular languages

This is false, regular expressions as popularly implemented can parse non-regular languages.

For example, /^(.*)\1$/ is a non regular language.
> a straightforward implementation based around a regex

A "straightforward regex" is so large/complicated the solution actually uses a JS code generator.

Yes, decoding is only part of XML parsing, and you technically can use a regex for the coding.

But 9/10 times sometimes rolls a regex to help parse XML they fail miserably. Including AWS engineers.
In addition, established scientists are rarely the first author on papers. It's usually a grad student or postdoc who does most of the work and gets first authorship. A publication in a top journal can literally make or break their career.

If someone decides that their group won't publish in top journals, they're hurting their own students, which probably discourages people from doing so.
You're not wrong. There was a legendary librarian named Jeffrey Beall who cataloged a whole little industry of predatory scientific publishing. Here's a quick article that mentions his work:
https://publons.com/blog/bealls-list-gone-but-not-lost/

It'll be a long time before the traditional journals lose influence, but lots of the newer journals that arose were scams or ways for professors to publish what they wanted. It's a mess.
From 1.8M Years Ago, Earliest Evidence of Human Activity Found
I've sometimes wished that I could buy ebooks at book stores. I too like the serendipity of wandering aisles and picking up random things. I wish I could take a book to the counter and ask for the ebook version that they could email to me.

Instead, I wander the aisles, then pick up my phone and buy the ebook on Amazon.
I think we really have the iPhone jailbreakers to thank for that. U.S. developers were allergic almost offended by anything that wasn't ASCII and then someone released an app that unlocked the emoji icons that Apple had originally intended only for Japan. Emoji is defined in the astral planes so almost nothing at the time was capable of understanding them, yet were so irresistible that developers worldwide who would otherwise have done nothing to address their cultural biases immediately fixed everything overnight to have them. So thanks to cartoons, we now have a more inclusive world.
> The <center> cannot hold it is too late.

Never fails to make me chuckle
> And if you look at what is happening on Bandcamp or Soundcloud or YouTube or wherever else young people are trying new things you see a tremendous heterogeneity of inspiration and not a lot of concern for where the sound fits in.

One way I have heard to mentally categorize things: What is the stereotypical musical instrument of that generation/genre?

For jazz and the silent generation it was the saxophone, maybe others though.

For rock-n-roll it's the electric guitar, no question.

The 80's was the electric keyboard and synths, kinda.

Today? The laptop.
Yes, and yes. Not "any conceivable" but "any conceivable gravitational observation".

The trouble with dark matter is that it's unimodal: It exists to fix a problem where our theory of gravity disagrees with observation, but at the same time the only way to measure dark matter is by observing gravitational effects.

The only true predictions made have been "if dark matter is actually x particle then ..." Or (weaker) "if dark matter has non-gravitational property X, then..."

And thus far all prediction of those sort have been refuted.
Modified gravity would not cover the main case for dark matter, though, which is not galaxy formation or patterns of motion we observe.

Rather the main case is the ratio of protons and neutrons to photons produced during Big Bang nucleosythesis. We know the ratio of the number of protons to number of photons. We know the number of photons in the universe (most of them are in the CMB), and we therefore know the number of protons. That means we know the amount of "normal" matter in the universe, and it is far less than the total amount of matter in the universe (that survived from baryogenesis). This requires there to be "dark matter" in the universe.

The other effects like galaxy formation and stellar motion in galaxies are just things that might be caused by dark matter (though that's come into doubt, as Sabine points out). The real reason to believe in dark matter is Big Bang nucleosynthesis.

Sean Carroll discusses it here: https://youtu.be/tZQadPmTd84?t=4642
I suspect you might like C--.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--
Apple Pay is a pretty great experience when buying stuff online. I don't have to create an account, just hold my thumb over the button on my iPad and my details and payment is entered automatically.
Les NewsQuakes renforcent l'engouement pour DOGE – Digitalisia
Alors que le monde attend l'apparition d'Elon Musk au Saturday Night Live - et un éventuel clin d'œil au meilleur ami de la crypto
> Like what other stuff?

Total suppression of the free-press and banning debt and interest, for example.

It only lasted for a few months so it's hard to say how far it would've descended into nightmare, but we have a long, long history of miserable socialist states with lofty initial ideals that survived beyond their honeymoon period for the purposes of that analysis.
I've always taken it as a response to people trying to force regex solutions for all text parsing problems beyond string.split(), perhaps making the unfair assumption that the asker wasn't already aware of XML parsing libraries and just wanted to try it with regex...
Rethinking Capitalism (Documentary)
Excess deaths in a decent model account for other explanatory factors (war, sociopolitical things, etc.) that are not linked to the factor in question (covid-19 here). I'm not suggesting the crude arithmetical number of excess deaths is the key, but that a nuanced estimate of excess deaths in a model that accounts for other significant factors is a far better measure than anything else we have available.
Journal Nature: Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)
Then why did Epic ask for a special deal from Apple?

Can I use in game currency bought from somewhere else in FortNite?