skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things made for profit tend to rot, and become increasingly hostile to actual humans over time. Things made for fun do not have this tendency. Initially, most content on the web was made for fun. Over time, this has shifted almost entirely to content made for profit, and the current web is dramatically hostile to any actual human user. The discussion threads, here and a few other places, have no profit motive, so they're untouched by the plague.

To your point: the web used to be a great place to get very clear, concise stuff that cut through the crap. Some of that's still out there, but now most places pad their shit out for SEO and who knows what other tricks.
> I wonder actually where this stuff happens typically. Clearly some seems to happen before things even get to Amazon, that whole counterfeit commingling thing you hear about, where the 3rd-party stock gets used even if you buy from Amazon directly.

This is actually largely Amazon's fault, as far as I understand it. People buy obviously counterfeit items, then buy the real thing on Amazon, and return the counterfeit item. Amazon does ~zero verification of the return and puts the counterfeit item back on the shelf/bin with the official SKU.

Amazon has no concept of "open box" vs "new," and they don't want to be the arbitrator of returns.
This topic always reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C31XYgr8gp0
We know that different animals have different numbers of chromosomes. For example, humans have 46 and chimps have 48 even though our common ancestor is relatively recent. So at some point there must have been successful reproduction between two apes that had different numbers of chromosomes, no?
> And calculus has nothing to do with pebbles or counting. So what?

Coincidentally, in my native tongue, we regularly don't use "calculus" as a term for mathematical analysis any more than we use "computer science" for informatics.
At the University of Edinburgh, there isn't a School of Computer Science, but a School of Informatics - emphasis on the information processing in human and machines.

In contrast, many schools nowadays are moving away from computing concepts towards teaching students how to use Microsoft Office, which troubles me greatly.
This is what CS should be. But academic CS is full of people who really wanted to be in the math department but aren't quite bright enough to make the cut.

So they cargo cult CS into a sort of weird pure/applied-ish math hybrid full of contingent generalisations like Big O and debatable abstraction traditions - not least the idea of provability, which only applies to conceptually self-contained micro-problems and is a much harder sell for big complex systems.

The engineering track - including the theory of how to design systems so they actually work, are easy to use, and are maintainable - is underrepresented.
Note: this comment was posted twice due to an issue on HN, that I reported to @dang. Can't delete any longer, sorry.
Sounds like Light Table http://lighttable.com/

Unfortunately it looks like it's no longer under development.
What was the modulation frequency?
Are you still buying CDs?
Just to throw in my 2c. I'm a big fan of jupyter notebooks for data visualisation and prototyping pipelines. Being able to run all of your data analysis code then run your visualisation code without having to repipe your data is great.

For other projects such as bots, webapps or regular programming I'll use vscode or neovim.

Which brings me to a neat feature in vscode that has me starting to do my data vis there. The `# %%` in python files lets me run code blocks in the same way as a notebook, but then i can run the file top to bottom aswell. It is starting to change the way i prototype.
Not to mention it can open and edit .ipynb files
It's not an outlier. I've ordered things from Amazon and gotten completely wrong things- like 1 latex glove in the box instead of the makeup I ordered.

There are a lot of knockoff products on there, even benign things like birdfeeders are getting faked and sold:
https://www.marketplace.org/2019/11/18/how-amazons-counterfe...
The pompousness of HN is what makes it fun though.

And for the record, reddit is plenty pompous too, just in a covert, hipsterish way.
Worked fine for me, just used tempmail
https://share.synthesia.io/4cc3f6d7-dfdb-49b3-b16d-9c02ab702...
This totally cracked me up.
Here in California, I used to get books from Amazon that came in a box with appropriate bubble padding added. This worked.

If I try to order a book on Amazon today, it gets shipped in a manila envelope (with bubble padding built into the envelope). The tightness of the envelope damages the book.

I have no idea who thought this was a good idea, or even an acceptable idea.
Here is mine: https://gist.github.com/jay-m-z/29c145ccd21f2b70f3cafd56c6cf...

Looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/d7PSU96

Based upon: https://userstyles.org/styles/166661/orb-s-dark-hacker-news-... with bunch of my own adjustments and improvements
> But my chemistry professor? Straight F. German? D-

Too many people like to wear this as a badge.

No. It's not. It's just a sign that you were a dumb kid like so many others. The teacher suffered no consequences, and you only hurt yourself.

The smart kids put in the bare minimum effort to get through the shit teachers and leave them behind so they could go do what they wanted.

The really smart kids managed to make the teacher suffer actual consequences for being a shit. But you have to be really, really good at human politics to pull it off and lucky enough to have them give you the opportunity to punish them for it.
that’s Milton Friedman’s fault
> We don't decide if other people are allowed to do the things they're interested in by comparing their activity to something in Argentina.

why not
Agree, my main gripe with cookie banners is that they are designed to make you "accept all". But is has less to do with the layout of the banner than the fact that they pop up the second you enter the site, at which moment the mind will find all popups an annoying distraction (hence 'Accept all').

GDPR should require all websites to have their cookie settings under a standard icon in the top row of the screen, which you could scrutinize and tweak at leisure. As it stands you have one shot, short of clearing all cookies.
I am not sure how useful this 5 year old article is. I stopped following the SciRuby project a long time ago

The DaRu (Ruby DataFrame) sub-project's last commit it around a year ago, but the daru-view sub-project (visualization and plotting for web apps) seems to be maintained and updated frequently:

https://github.com/SciRuby/daru

https://github.com/SciRuby/daru-view

While I like Ruby's syntax and community, it is really hard to compete with in high-level scientific programming market when you are competing against Python, R & Julia (and Mathematica and MatLab).
To give an idea how these massacres wrecked Polish society, imagine British society (and Europe) if Germans with Austrians succeeded pursuing people from the Black Book [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_(list)
Defining a thing by what it's not. Now that is a science unto itself.
the only way to asses anything is when things are not working well. then you'll see if it was all just a house of cards.
Same here, i have been ordering with Amazon (Uk & occationally Us) for 21 years and can count on 1 hand the number the number of times i've had delivery issues.

ALL other delivery outfits are horrible in comparison, and i actually dred using any other service.
An alternative term is Deception Pattern. Might communicate better that they are often intentional.. i.e. with the intent to deceive.
BBC BASIC was noted at the time for being much faster than the BASICs on similar machines of the era. I believe this was a mix of the BASIC itself being simply better, the hardware being a bit faster, and tricks like inline asm being possible. There were even action games written in BBC BASIC.
Despondent might be a better term if it's not clinical depression.
This is just what happens with a market where you can purchase records of people's personal business. Like any other market, it will seek opportunities to grow.
> Books are especially abused somewhere in Amazon’s fulfillment. (They’re always bent, creased, or dirty.)

Interesting that you bring this up- I have noticed over the past year and a half that all my Amazon books have been showing up with damaged corners and smudge marks all over the covers.
Also depends on your reputation as a buyer on Amazon I think. If you order lots of high value items and one goes missing they treat you differently than if you made one high value purchase.

I’ve run a huge pile of apple kit through them in the last two years and when a Mac mini disappeared from my doorstep they refunded without question.

The Mac mini did make a reappearance a week later as it was dumped in someone’s porch down the road and they brought it back round. Spoke to customer services and they sent me a return label to send it back.
Is that like GreaseMonkey ?
I'm envisioning a browser extension that runs your posts back-and-forth through Google Translate and DeepL a few times, scrubbing your post of all personal markings (and nuance).
I used to be an extreme night owl when younger, I would commonly stay up until 8am playing video games and sleep until dusk. A few years ago I got into a fitness kick, and in addition to exercising to borderline excess and losing a lot of weight, I changed to an almost equally extreme morning person: waking up at 2-3am to exercise before starting my day and going to sleep at 6-7pm.

I can't say I would recommend either extreme, it's pretty ridiculous going to bed when it's broad daylight half of the year and waking up at such an ungodly hour. But I love mornings now, and it's so nice essentially being done with basically everything you have to do by noon, an extreme version of eating your frogs early.

I feel like I've lived a whole day by the time people roll out of bed, though of course that also means I'm sleeping like a small child when people are enjoying their evenings. Definitely not conducive to a healthy family life, but as a bachelor I'm enjoying it for now.
Ask HN: On Twitter, do you get spam, troll or toxic replies?
Recently Pieter Levels shared his script[0] to mute and make unfollow some of his followers by keywords in their bio and other criteria. He says that "if you have over 10,000 followers, replies on here become increasingly toxic, political, annoying" and this is his way to improve his experience.

I am wondering how widespread this problem is and what your experience is. Do you or people you know get many such negative replies on Twitter? How many followers do you have? How do you mitigate this or what did you try to do?

Disclaimer: I might try solving this problem.

[0] https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1397841228079636484 - it uses an interesting trick to make others unfollow you - blocking them temporarily.
Eat well: how to go on a content diet – The Shift #51
This just confirms what I've been trying to tell my friends for years, which is that "when you sleep matters just as much as how long" but they always seem to roll their eyes. Though it seems pretty obvious that one feels more well rested going to bed at 10 and waking at 7 as opposed to going to bed at 5am and waking at 2pm
Like this one, https://Nixnet.services
Greenplum, Postgres-XL and PipelineDB.
More a matter of business practice in general — The fact that Amazon makes it easier than any other shop is just one reason why I prefer peace of mind over the cheapest price. And yes, the law is in place but most shops make it way too difficult (Acknowledging the reason, time to refund, "Lost" returns, Direct vs. Marketplace, etc.).
A Lost Cyber Utopia: What Happened to the Soviet Internet? (2019)
I've come to believe that ideas/statements such as these are crucial, but neither true nor false. They're a perspective lens. Ideally, we should be able to slip in and out of such perspective lenses. A contradictory statement could be equally true/useful, even (especially?) if held simultaneously.

Avoiding computer science directly... Geophysics is a "telescope science." A typical geophysicist sees themselves as experts in seismic interpretation, the tool they use. When the subject turns to the actual subject (the earth), they call it geology, or rock physics. It's not an idealistic take, or a very scientific one, but it's apparently useful to their work.

To take the reductio ad absurdum head on, I don't think it's totally useless to think of astronomy or microbiology as telescope or microscope sciences. It certainly introduces biases, but it might also remove certain biases and lead to new ways of phrasing a question. It might lead to new lines of inquiry, and is somewhat descriptive of how these fields developed historically. Wasn't Astronomy Astrology, before it was telescope science?

You could go with an intentionally provocative "computer science is not about mathematics" or "not about science."

What if we were to phrase Dijkstra's statement as a question: "Is computer science about computers?" It's not a statement you can approach with empirical falsification. That doesn't mean it's false, or useless. It just means you can't treat it like you would F=ma.
Not mastodon.
Daisy Coleman committed suicide last year. Her mother killed herself a few months later. Meanwhile, her rapist is walking free, because daddy is powerful.
قیمت پمپ ایران رادیاتور ویلو
ل استفاده از پمپ پکیج مدل ویلو wilo
I used to think I was the same, but I realised (embarrassingly slowly), that every time I went camping/hiking away from artificial light I would just go to a natural sleep cycle. It was artificial stimulation all along, I wasn't really a night owl.
Would robotic AI sign language avatar be better than just text?

Would it not just have the same issue the existing product has for non-deaf people?
Government already takes a big % of inheritance.

That's why some people decline it too ( Belgium).

Default going to the state is insane and ineffective. People would give it away more during their life.
Skype, Kazaa, Freenet, Alexa.
> The elite/rich/etc don't like NFTs

Really? Then who are the people spending $512,000 on “Mars House” (or $69,000,000 on a Beeple NFT)?
> - Starting IDE itself takes too long.

It's not even an IDE unless I missed something. It's an editor with tons of plugins. And other editors with tons of plugins and LSP support, like NeoVim, can do the same things but faster. Though syntax highlighting is a bit behind until the next big update.

> - Sometimes I feel there is input latency as well.

I've had input delays up to over a second in VS Code. Yes, there definitely is input latency and that's unacceptable in a text editor.
> Given the risks associated with buying online, some customers are resorting to filming the process of unboxing expensive gear in order to create proof in the event that an order has not been correctly fulfilled.

That is exactly what I do for every >300€ purchase I make online. Otherwise, refund without "video evidence" becomes impossible for the majority of platforms.
> Also depends on your reputation as a buyer on Amazon I think

Probably. There’ll be some people who can rely on their reputation with their CC company too to do a chargeback.
Sure. Isn’t that the argument for market-based fixes to negative externalities, like carbon taxes?
This happened to me several years ago. I signed up to Audible's free trial, got a single audiobook, then decided I wasn't really an audiobook person and forgot about it. Then many months later I noticed I'd been charged monthly (I think ~$10 USD or so?) for a service I never even used, and I don't remember even giving my card details for (it is my longstanding policy never to continue with "free trials" if they ever ask for payment details during signup, exactly because I know I'll forget and get charged). It turned out to be the card I use with Amazon -- I think I must have signed up for Audible using my Amazon account and they automatically used the card I had saved with that, without telling me. I don't remember the full details of it but I ended up hours on the phone with Audible trying to claw back my money.
I think "based on" is more like implemented on top of, similar to timescaledb
I can think of one such place, a three tracks layup on the so-called "Boucle des Invalides". It is used everyday to park trains from the line 13 between rush hours but I don't remember it being used for normal traffic. Maybe back when Invalides was the terminus of line 13, but that would put us back to circa 75-76.

You can _sort of_ "see" it in this very dark video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IzCeoqn3B8.

As for UE worthiness, I can certainly imagine someone doing long exposure shots down there, and capture the kind of impression you got, but it probably lacks the mystique of ghost stations and secret places you can feel in the parent article.
> The fatal error in computer science was that it modeled complex systems without truly understanding them. Computers simulated complexity

I think this part is backwards, and I would even say that CS is about complexity itself. In some ways it is even meta-mathematical even though it is a subset of mathematics.

There is an interesting paper measuring the complexity of different things in terms of a minimal Turing machine (sorry, I’m not sure about the details but will try to find it) and it gave a relatively small number for the complexity of the base axiom set of modern maths (few kb, or maybe MB?) It really put it in perspective for me what is mathematically provable and all the rest of things that we don’t even have the tools to reason about, at most we can compute it.
You don't have to have a reason to return online order within 14 days.
You own a license to operate it with a license but without any real say as to what it does to you.

Oh, and the hardware isn't repairable and only has a 90 day warranty. It broke? Here's a 15%-off coupon to buy another landfill stuffer.
I recently had someone describe this feeling to me as "a deep sense of FOMO (fear of missing out)" and that definitely describes how I felt sometimes when oversleeping. Feels like you're missing out on the golden hour of the day that you'll never get back. It obviously makes no objective sense because late risers are awake roughly the same amount of time, but mornings just feel so much more important than late nights.

When staying up late I was basically just wasting time, but when I get up early it feels like I'm able to get a lot done in that extra time. I don't think that's actually true, I believe I could actually be more productive when often staying up late to grind programming for example, but it feels that way.
A superspreader festival seeded Covid across India
Yes, this depends on many factors, like how strongly you feel about the case, how controversial it is, if you have kids, mortgage and so on.

I'll never forget when many years ago my boss, by that time a CEO of some major publicly traded companies, called me to his office and kindly asked I moderate my Usenet activity on some niche group. It turned out he was a lurker there and foresaw certain things I said might cause problems - it turned out he was right. And that was a long time before the Twitter era.
If you like this you can also try Dark Reader, available as an extension for Chrome and Firefox. It'll make every website render in dark mode.
Even more so in the Canaries where we need to pay a lot of handling fees to receive the packages unless you want to do the customs process yourself. On a 200€ headphones I needed to pay 44€ of taxes and handling fees that was shipped from Valencia.
This!
Very often the US centric community here on HN is underestimating the sheer size and expertise in Alibaba‘s cloud ecosystem.
There actually is a process to remove yourself from Google Search results.

https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/9685456?...

https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?...
The confusion and unreality are the point. It's not supposed to be a linear, coherent narrative.

Whether by drug-induced accident or design, PKD was modelling how the 50s corporate world feels. People are subject to powerful forces far beyond their control, and they can be rewarded or punished for reasons that seem to have no relationship to their actions.

It's a kind of Capitalist Dreamtime, a 50s suburban corporate reworking of Kafka. With more drugs and mysticism and miraculous but also threatening technology.
> You can tell they're increasing the scrutiny on drivers as well with them having to take photos of the delivered item, and they've clearly always been closely tracked on time and location.

Some time ago, my wife ordered something from Amazon, and it was reported as “delivered,” but the photo was of someone else’s doorstep.

She had no problem getting them to ship a replacement, but it added a few days to the process.

The “last mile” stuff is crazy. I sometimes see two Amazon Prime Sprinters on the same street, at the same time.

It was much worse, when it was done by independent contractors. We would see these folks driving around, with so many boxes in the cab of their vans, they had to make a hole to see through.

Looked like an episode of Hoarders.

I’m not surprised they have issues. The system is basically strained to the max. It’s a miracle that it works as well as it does.
The parent commenter was out of line with their insinuations IMO. Thanks for your efforts towards keeping the web a little bit cleaner.
Part of me was hopping this would be a Black Mirror mode for Hacker News.
It makes a difference as to who's responsible for return fees.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of clouds on Mars
> if I had a company I would consider adding something into contracts that we cannot fire people due to past controversial statements.

It's not that people think you need to pay for your past "transgressions" (in their eyes). The problem is that people think they can extrapolate your future decisions, behavior, etc. based on a snippet from your past.

So it's not really about something that happened in the past. It's about something that people will think will happen in the future.
Why have you found therapy useless?

Our chimp mind is not well suited to do SELF analysis for various reasons. The danger here, while you are stuck in some hole, is that the ever imaginative chimp mind comes up with self analysis that is pure bullshit. Then things get more and more tricky. The hole gets deeper and deeper.

You need people around you who can call out the bullshit and help you climb out of the hole you have wondered into. If you don't have an authority figure or someone you respect in your life who can do it then finding an experienced therapist will help.

Even monks have authority figures around them who keep them on track.
I love this take. I guess metaphors carry a similar purpose. They help draw analogs and expand an idea
There are 915 million acres of farmland in the USA
Honestly what's the point?
There are so many ways to fail. Success is the combination of many pieces that fit together well. Failure can come from anywhere at anytime.
Maybe you should read Homer's stories, about Achilles for example.
I had a patient who was GOING BLIND and had a chance to get in a vision trial or a hair transplant trial but couldn't do both. He chose the hair trial. Over his own sight!!

I was really annoyed at him for a while because I had moved heaven and earth for him to help him screen into the highly competitive vision trial. But... his life, his choice. Even though he made a dumb one, imo.
> I think the halting problem only tells you that you cannot, in general, opinionate on what the program does, without expending an amount of computational effort equivalent to running that program. A better counterpoint is that you can't know ahead of time what values will be returned by IO calls.

One corolary of the non-computability of the halting problem is that the problem "does this line ever run" is also non-computable