skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valid question. I was switching bank accounts at that time, so it's possible the card was not expired but linked to an account that did not exist anymore. Might also have been the account itself and not the card that was listed (Lastschriftverfahren, where they take money directly from the account). I'm fuzzy about the details, not really because it was particularly long ago (~2 years), but because it was confusing back then.

Edit: Had a look at my writeup in my blog [0], Lastschrift it was. Amazon picked a bank account that did not exist anymore to pay for the order. When that bounced came the fees - and while one fee for that would have been normal if I had given the wrong bank account (which I'm pretty sure I only did, if I did, because their system did not save when I changed the bank account before), to take multiple fees for one order was in no way okay.

[0]: https://www.onli-blogging.de/1832/Meine-richtig-schlechte-Su... (in german)
Thanks, that's interesting, I didn't know that. On the one hand, I shouldn't be surprised since vendor lock-in is the standard way tech companies try to gain corporate advantage. On the other hand, it's kind of depressing to learn once again that customers count very little and no matter what these companies say, they will always try to abuse us in every way the law allows.
90% private, 10% business. Literally anything from iPhones to a single duct tape. Food only for shelf-stable stuff since I live next to a grocery store.
I don't understand that. The 'than I really have to' bit, is Amazon now so entrenched that you can't get around them anymore?
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Mathematics is the intergalactic language.
Product is looking very promising.
Unfortunately using Indigogo. This is literally the worst crowd funding platform I know. Lots of scam going on and Indigogo doesn’t care a bit about the backers because they get their share. Therefore this place is dead to me.
APFS still defaults to case-preserving:

[nathell@macmini /tmp]$ echo first > A
[nathell@macmini /tmp]$ echo second > a
[nathell@macmini /tmp]$ cat A
second
I’m Australian, and have heard this sense of “audit” approximately once before in my life, from Americans.
Oh that clarifies it. Thanks for explaining.
> if >50% of people on each of the left and the right would agree that someone has done something so egregious that they should face consequences

Is that really achievable for people who are political figures? That is, for someone attributed to a "side", is it actually possible to get the two sides to agree on anything? We've seen the defense of some quite spectacular indefensible behavior lately. Attempts to investigate The Jan 6 incident have been filibustered.

There's two aspects which really ought to be separated:

1) is this behavior bad?

2) has this person done that?

Much of the partisan fighting over racism and homophobia disagrees at #1. Much of the disagreement over sexual assualt happens at #2; if an event happens and only the victim witnesses it, is that sufficient proof?
This doesn't work consistently (in Berlin at least), especially with Amazon and DHL. There is no guarantee over that the package will be shipped via DHL / Deutsche Post, and I am at this moment dealing with Hermes and DPD refusing to deliver Amazon packages to a DHL Packstation.

On top of that, DHL refuses to deliver to their own Postfiliale locations at times, DHL express even explicitly say they cannot do this.
yea I’ve spent an absurd amount on Amazon and now they don’t bat an eye on returns. I reported that my expensive ultra wide monitor hadn’t arrived, they sent another and then the first arrived. I had to contact support and tell them I got two because they had already refunded me. They won’t risk losing their whales.
From the Archive: The Day They Hanged an Elephant in East Tennessee
I have been saying since I was in high school in the late-90s/early-2000s that there’s isn’t enough being said and done about actually figuring out what about modern high school incites so much violence, and not just the deadly kind. All the energy goes into locking kids down more, controlling their lives, and doesn’t actually cure the disease.

In my fifteen years of office work, the worst I have encountered is a single shouting match between a developer and his boss. The developer started it, and ended up finding a new job within the week. Contrast that with my four years of high school where I was physically assaulted at least twice, and encountered fights almost weekly.

I didn’t have the luxury of consensual association with that institution. I couldn’t just leave if things took a turn. I think imposing so much inescapable structure can cause certain types of kids to lash-out like a trapped animal, because in an entirely literal sense they are. I certainly felt very trapped myself in a very real sense.

Having talked with teachers and administrators about this, they can’t seem to fathom what I am saying. I think it comes down to educational work having a self selection for people who thrive in such a structured environment. Many of them having never experienced anything else, going straight from college into teaching.
you'll find comments in the post explaining that he's facing the wrong direction
No, it definitely works without errors, as long as the UTF-8 text is in ASCII space.
Crypto is dependent on the current financial system, otherwise it has no value.

It really is just fiat currency with extra steps.
I tried it a while back in Firefox and after a a few days I noticed memory usage in Firefox was going way up and whenever I opened dev tools everthing would slow down drastically. Removed the addon and everything went back to normal.

Anyone getting these types of issues still? I would love to start using it again.
I have the best online shopping experiences with merchants that are primarily B2B but also allow private customers on the side.

Bonus points if they have a proven billing system that still runs on AS/400 and produces nice invoices in Courier font sent by physical mail.

I either buy at these merchants or offline.
Imagine an alternative reality where Borland did not went greedy, Java 1.0 would just be like Go, while .NET Native would just be improved VB 7 and a new language C# (just a kind of "managed C++") making COM developer friendly without C++ boilerplate that persists to this day.
3 out of 5 books I ordered there were what a regular bookstore would have called a "Mängelexemplar": folded in pages, accidentally cut corners, missing pages
You would have to look for places in quieter parts of a city, smaller streets, not high-traffic or touristy. It's actually not that difficult to find these in Paris, place where you can know the owner and hang out (you still pay of course). You have to start slowly, you don't come in the first day, drink a coffee and stay 4 hours with friends, you have to build the relationship with the place: come a few times, begin to know the place, the waiter, the owner, ... and after some time you might be recognised as friend and the place will be a nice spot.
Yeah, I’m in the U.K. and I don’t think I’ve ever had a real issue with Amazon. Deliveries are on time 99% of the time and returns are simple (they even covered a £60 Post Office return of a heavy product I decided to return, because their only option required a printer and this was mid-pandemic so I had no way to access one).

Based off this thread I might think twice before ordering expensive stuff from them though - however I usually find other places are better value for expensive electronics etc. anyway
Interesting argument because it implies that launching more "free speech" platforms (e.g. Parler) is actually worse for free speech.

Note that twitter still allows pseudonymity that you're talking about.
Bitcoin mining is a colossal waste of energy (given it's at about 1.2MWh currently to confirm a single transaction, and that number is basically nondecreasing). People playing video games are at least deriving some enjoyment from it. There are less wasteful methods of exchange than BTC.
I assume it must be location-dependent.

The only problem I've had over the past year or two was with a headset that didn't work properly. I returned it via a UPS will pick up the box and slap on a shipping label option. They never did. But there was eventually a tracking number in the system anyway. UPS basically shrugged and said that the computer says it was picked up. But the refund went through anyway. I assume Amazon decided that UPS had picked it up and lost it.
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Didn't you dispute it at PayPal/your CC company/your bank?

Or were you afraid of getting banned from Amazon?
Maybe "computing science" would be more accurate
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All cryptocurrency depends on consuming resources, whether that is CPU/GPU calculations or disk transactions (Chia burns up SSDs at an astonishing rate).

It can't be any other way, the "work" and consumed resources are the value, if it was quick, simple and efficient, it would have insane inflation rates, or the entire space would be run through quickly, entrenching the majority of wealth with the early adopters and making it impossible for new players to enter.
Unfortunately none of the major crowdfunding platforms support our country to collect funds. It's sad that you have a product but would not be able to launch it because of these issues. We somehow managed to go on IGG so that's the best bet we have right now.
I will fight for WFH and an occasional "office day" once every couple of weeks.

I don't miss the 45 minute commute, the loud open-space, the ~20$ launch breaks...

However, I see the value of an occasional face-to-face, organic flowing conversations, and plain-old watercooler chats.
Chris Rock had a good story about when he got rich enough he just got brand new teeth. It’s something I’ve thought about. If you get to a decent enough income level, why not just pay the price? One medical tourism visit to Costa Rica, and voila, problem solved.
Mouse plague deals fresh blow to Australian farmers
Thanks and appreciate the feedback
Computer science research is mix of (at least) mathematical, engineering, and scientific traditions that varies by subfield. Among the subfields I'm most familiar with, theoretical algorithms are mostly mathematical, while algorithm engineering is closer to engineering. Data compression has both mathematical and engineering work, while bioinformatics is a mix of all three traditions.

It's not always clear what is computer science and what isn't. For example, you can find both mathematicians and computer scientists in theoretical computer science. In bioinformatics, you often see similar work from people with CS and life sciences backgrounds.
> What happens in a few years when the screen goes out and Ford no longer maintains the part

Not only that - what is currently happening with Nissan Leaf can serve as small glimpse into the future: perfectly good cars made obsolete because of insanely priced or just simply not available batteries

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/jifmmg/owner_of_allel...

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/replacing-the-nissan-leaf-batte...
Amazon has different face masks for different countries even though Same Executives handle multiple countries. As far my interrogation with one of Amazon's customer care executives most the calls with language setting to English all over the world to amazon has been handled mostly in India due to cheap labor workforce.There customer care exectives has some base limit for refunds apart from which requires approval from Manager and authorised representatives after Investigations. However there are many allegations that the amazon is not treating with same level of gentleness to all other developing countries like India.

Vox media Podcast How amazon became giant and dominates the Indstry
https://www.vox.com/land-of-the-giants-podcast
If I were to decide that I wasn't going to use Amazon starting tomorrow, I'd be spending a whole lot more time checking a bunch of online stores, paying for shipping, driving around, etc. So, yes, they are for a lot of things. While I certainly ordered from them pre-pandemic, the pandemic has brought home to me how many things I can just order rather than put on a shopping list and drive around to stores to find and purchase.
My understanding of this contradiction was that it took time for the medical community to switch from an individual medical perspective to a public health perspective.
For preventative measures used by doctors and hospitals the expectation is that they should be proven to be nearly 100% effective because doctors and hospitals are responsible for the wellfare of individuals.
But in a pandemic situation even a measure that is only 10% effective would become very compelling if it could lower the reproduction rate to less than 1, not because of the change in probability of infection for individual encounters, but because it has the potential to change the trajectory of the pandemic, which could save many more lives.
So there really is no need to assume some conspiracy or lying on the part of the medical establishment: there was a natural progression to a more rational viewpoint.

A similar thing happened with testing: for individual care tests have to be nearly perfectly accurate even though in the early phases of the pandemic, faster less accurate tests might have made a difference if they had been available.
I'd expect "engineer" (ingeniør) to be a protected title in Denmark just like Sweden, which requires a math heavy university programme?

So the way to call yourself a software engineer without a math-education is to move to a country like US, making even the "Software Engineer"-title problematic.
Well that is the point. Consequences for "bad" behavior should not be equal in cases when 90 per cent of population agrees and when 40 per cent of population agrees.

Let us stop thinking about racism and homophobia for a moment and think of marijuana legalization instead. This is precisely the case when an aggresive intolerant minority used to destroy people over nothing. Most legalization projects were pushed through by ballots, where the aggressive intolerant minority could not intimidate the voters into silence.

Interestingly, the vote results usually did not align with the partisanship of the voters. There is much more ideological diversity within the parties than generally recognized.

And, as a result, many people no longer "face consequences" for smoking weed that only a vocal minority considers taboo.
I'd rather they interview real skills used on the job, and since it's already what I do day to day, I don't need to prepare. With small companies leetcode is a waste of time because they don't have time to do rounds and rounds of interview like big tech, so using leetcode for 1 round mean they only have another 1 or even no round left for the real stuff, system design and the like.

An example of good tech interview at a company (not in Australia) I interviewed recently, is a take home test that encompasses doing 1 or more PRs to fix issues, code reviewing someone else's PR, and document a simple security audit.
Here's the lot and the spray device I'm talking about: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5853027,-122.4086661,3a,75y,...
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Sorry this is the best pricing we have right now. And no plans yet for the 6" version, depends on how we do on this one. E-paper is quite hard to source and is expensive.
Given that most people don't use POSIX rather GNU extensions, that is besides the point.
In the US, I tend to favor one or the other of the big US NYC "camera stores" for electronics. (Or a local Best Buy.) The prices are usually the same and I feel they're probably a bit safer if there's some sort of problem.
Amazon UK usually refund you as soon as the package is scanned into the shipper's tracking system. I've dropped off a return at a Hermes point and received a refund notification while walking back to my car.

There is the caveat that they will recharge you if the item isn't in good condition, but if they never receive it, I guess they can only assume the shipper lost it.
Thanks! this looks really good. The fact that you did your programming class in IIT Bombay further motivates to work hard for my "dreams".
This might not be foul play - lots of textbooks are formally out of print and printed on demand by the publisher. The quality is lower for that reason.
In the Wikipedia article on "Lunch atop a skyscraper", there is a section about the process they went through to attribute the photo to Charles Ebbets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper#Author There is no mention of this photo, and it looks very little like the photo of him on the (deceased) artist's home page: https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/about-the-artist/#...

I'm quite certain that the picture is not what it claims to be. But I'm glad the Reddit thread got me to check it out.
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Isn't it a basic consumer right to take items out of the packaging, try them, and then return them?
> A system of people is a system of people, whether it is a church, company, municipality, whatever.

Different systems of people behave very differently with different kinds of motivations, stimuli and sanctions, on the individual and collective level.

And while there are many variables besides profit, it is money (and capital in particular) which enables most activities of a commercial corporation - not voluntary willingness to work or serve for some purpose; and it is Amazon's profit which the organization is designed to promote and maximize, over anything and everything else.
I'm guessing it's more price-dependent. I'm sure Amazon would refund a headset and not really care if they got it back or not. But try getting a refund on a $5,000 studio microphone and you will probably have an entirely different experience.

Somewhere around $1,000-ish seems to be the magic threshold where their rules change and you get lost in the management void.
This by the way is the most arrogant comment I've seen on this site.
That's what I usually recommend to clients who are too early too work with us. I usually give them a list of starter ideas so they can at least build up some content.
In the US marijuana legalization exists in a superposition: it's still illegal federally, just not enforced by the states. Sometimes it's also enforced by drug testing employers, even in places where it's legal by state law.

> There is much more ideological diversity within the parties than generally recognized.

Party discipline (yes, on both sides) aims to suppress that. e.g https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/republicans-who-vot...
I find the announcement confusing. Is the company shutting down?

Existing instances will continue running "indefinitely". How can a company be shutdown and promise to run forever at the same time?

How does this affect phabricator on premise and phabricator online?

The 1st of June is tomorrow, today is a week end. This is a zero day notice for users, including paying users. Hope you weren't planning to start a new project on Monday. Ouch.
Unfortunately, I am not sure this is working well. There is a low-quality article on top this pool right now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27330400
Google has history of this user logging to protonmail including ip adresses. Google gives that log to US agency, US agency correlates that log with the log coming from ISP and identifies the user.
I run my own Wordpress site precisely because I do not want its very existence to be subject to someone's elses whims.

It is only inefficient if you do not consider freedom and independence to be valuable.
It's a bit remiss of the author not to mention that Book Antiqua is a clone of Palatino.
Kind advice to everyone willing to share their write ups: avoid Medium.

I can’t read the article because of the signup wall. It is cheap and easy to set up a blog on your own custom domain.
>If you do a surface level reading of text, you're going to get a surface level understanding of it.

I'd take this comment more seriously if you cited Marx in a primary text making this distinction, and not some secondary Wikipedia defense. Note that none of the citations in your copy/paste are from Marx himself.

Also, in the definitions given above, personal property could very well be private property, in cases where it was not "gained in a socially fair manner", which seems like a highly subjective criteria.

edit: for those who are silently downvoting, keep in mind that the poster I'm responding to criticized my 'surface level' reading of a primary text (which I readily admit to) and then, rather than presenting a more thorough understanding of the text, copy/pastes a vague summary of an argument, which fails to even properly make the distinction he wants to prove.
I’ve noticed society also tends to be surprisingly supportive of people who were once drug addicts, even in spite of any crimes they committed during that time. It’s recognized the effort it takes to change and sometimes evens seems to be perceived as making you a better or more impressive person than someone who never took drugs in the first place.

Maybe these things have to become so prolific that it touches a critical mass of society until we learn how to properly conceptualize people with a past and provide for a path of redemption.
Thought precisely the same thing and I think the author's disposition is deeply ethically for this reason. Other convictions expressed in the piece are similarly flawed. For me, many of the views expressed are anathema to how to be a good professional.
Uhm.....I don't see how living in an affluent community has anything to do with that - few years ago I lived in the dodgiest part of town and never had any issues with Amazon either. I'm guessing you have that view because Amazon in US leaves parcels on your doorstep? Literally never heard of that happening in the UK. If you're not in it goes back to the depot, maybe they'll leave it with your neighbour if you're lucky. So....if you count my own front door as a "secure delivery location" then...yeah? Where else would it be delivered? I guess you could have it delivered to a locker, but if it goes back to the depot I just have it redelivered on Saturday or Sunday when I'm definitely at home.
Feeling bad, and actually being bad, isn't the same thing.

That's why punishment is required - both as a deterrant, and to inpart (to the people who suffered) a sense of justice being done.
They can correlate your login timestamps with emails you send to gmail users and identify your protonmail account.
> Feel free to try to guess which GURPS book from Steve Jackson Games that would be, but you would almost certainly be wrong.

I love this comment so much :P
The information is available in supplementary material section.

For VIELIGHT NEURO GAMMA it's 40Hz

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.26.21257833v...
Interesting.

> On June 14, 2019, the NTSB revoked OSHA party status because of a breach of party participation rules. On June 11, contrary to party agreement obligations, OSHA released a report to the public that contained large portions of nonpublic draft NTSB material and also failed to provide investigative photographs to the NTSB as required by its status as a party to the investigation
cannot edit my comment above but left out the key word:
deeply ethically FLAWED.