skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WebAssembly optimization with AssemblyScript
> So it looks to amazon as being successfully delivered to the return warehouse, but what actually got delivered was a brick, to some random house

but how amazon does not check the quality of the return?
I mean, even if UPS confirms that the package arrived to right address, wouldn't someone from amazon warehouse check if the package is valid?
And here we get to the real issue you have. It's not that they started by introducing an example, but that they didn't 'both sides' it... or just pick exclusively on the left.

I don't think even this needs to be politically motivated. For this kind of article you want clear and obvious examples, that are also come up with enough credibility to not be outright ignored. Otherwise you have to get down into the weeds of a very particular situation to clearly establish that the example is misinformation, and not just information.

When it comes to obviously outlandish yet widely acknowledged statements... I don't think I have to go too far out on a limb to say the right is a particularly good place to look.

That's not to say it can't be politically motivated, but I don't think it needs to be.
Thanks! That's correct, e-paper displays and the silicon chip prices are high right now (the last we checked before our campaign launch in April) plus the inflation and uncertainty around shipping. The answer to your question is difficult to give right now, it depends on how many orders we get and what price we're able to negotiate. We put all our savings into the prototype and have been bootstrapped, thus the crowdfunding. Hopefully we'll be in a strong position with enough orders to get good prices after the campaign. Hope that helps!
My understanding is that if you dammed every river in the US worth damming for hydro it wouldn’t even cover a quarter of current energy needs. I tried a quick Google and couldn’t find anything to back that up though. So I could be wrong.

I’m pretty sure hydro is a dead end. It can’t supply our needs today, much less in the future. And they’re environmental disasters both upstream and downstream.
Why does there need to be only one public key per user?

The authorities only have to look at the leaked information, contact you, and ask you to generate proof that you signed the contract.
I had already disabled this when I noticed the menu option. Am actually curious as to how legal it is to even have that option available in the EU.
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Me neither! Don't know how or why it suddenly appeared on the HN main :)

Just to provide a bit of the personal context: this article caused creator of DaRu (Sameer Deshmukh) to contact me and propose to work on DaRu together, and so I did (see @zverok here: https://github.com/SciRuby/daru/graphs/contributors). I also was, for some time, SciRuby/DaRu's mentor for Google Summer of Code (and, IIRC, it was my initial idea that daru-view grew from).

Also, since that article, an independent dataframe library https://github.com/ankane/rover was created by Andrew Kane, handling some of API and implementation in a cleaner way.

That being said, I am not sure that DaRu, or Rover (or "dataframe" idea in general) has enough visibility in the Ruby community. It is mostly thought as "some special scientific thing", while I believe in 2021 it should be seen as one of the necessary everyday high-level datatypes.

That's what I'd focus this article on if I'd written it today.
I find it offensive there's no dark mode. It's discrimination against people with a vision disability. It's a small and insignificant change on their part, could be made in 5 mins.
I’ve found kitty super useful for testing multi-service programs

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control.html
>Please support this with data. It doesn't literally burn for it; fires are down, what, 90% from a century ago?

Got a source for the "fires are down 90%" statistic?

I think it's pretty clear that GP was referring to climate change, which wastes of energy like NFTs and BTC exacerbate. A side note - climate change means that bushfires are more common and their severity is worse than in the past. I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that the world burns for it.
why is it FUD? Because environment impact is not that big?
Idea: We could stop using cryptocurrencies.

Any downsides to that?
It's an obvious slippery slope. Once the network is established, they will likely start offering something like "Amazon Mesh" where Prime subscribers enjoy "additional free WiFi coverage all over the world", because it's just a no-brainer. They might cap speeds as a fraction of what the device enjoys (e.g. 20% max), as to not "disturb" the owner, but that's it.

This has already been done by ISPs in several countries, Amazon is not breaking any ground here.
there are crypto-coints that don't depend heavily on cpu/gpu calculation.
It helps a lot for sensitive teeth.
Whenever there's an article about an obvious outlier case (still outrageous in its own of course) you can assume that the top comment will be general complaints about said company's decline, often not representative of people's experience as a whole.
You can buy it on Amazon but you have to be careful about the source.
Wow, excellent work. Love how much effort has gone into the readme.

There was definitely a gap here and you filled it :)
We live in a planet with limited resources. If someone expends these resources in ways that I consider reckless, selfish and stupid, I will complain.
Coming from NYT or any other MSM outlet... ironic much?

The media has always been the source of weaponizing people's past, today with even less regard to their current status or any other factor.
The environment take on NFTs must be the most stupid. Ethereum is about to switch to PoS and on Tezos you can already have cleanNFTs because of Tezos being PoS since inception.
No they don't. You have to look for it. Crest and Colgate both have versions, the stannous has additional bacteria killing properties and filling in porous teeth as well that the potassium fluoride doesn't have. Plenty of research available online
I never had a problem with counterfeit goods until I received a fake board game - took me a while to realise it was fake (horrible quality) - when I did they refunded and I got another one that was real - fine.

Since then though I won’t use Amazon for anything remotely safety related, think child car seat - nope, some equipment for rewiring house, nope.

This also makes me think about higher end purchases, whereas before I was like 100% Amazon, they have lost the trust I had for them and doubt they will get that back.

My main issue is that by the time I realised it was fake the game had been stopped and seller removed so they probably knew the game they sent me was fake (because of other complaints) but they made zero attempt to put it right. It seems if customers report fakes, customers who potentially also received fakes are not alerted and that is a real problem for me.
Private property isn't "anything you can own" here, it has a very specific meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_ver...
Is Curon a Returned remake?
I really wish the term capitalism hadn't been invented. Maybe it was useful in the 1840s, but in my lifetime it always seems to yield a thin hand wavy way of looking at things... whether your pro or con. The mental equivalent of shouting to win an argument.

Whatever your definition of capitalism, I'm sure you can find examples outside of it. There are an infinite number of variables besides profit. Profit isn't the only possible motive for such systems, and it only takes one.

A system of people is a system of people, whether it is a church, company, municipality, whatever.
I found a Javascript implementation of Eliza somewhere ages ago and
thought it made a good 404 page [1] on a site I don't intend anyone to
visit.

[1] http://dashborg.com
It’s a standard expression, not an Americanism.
Amazon used to be my #1 shopping place (save for groceries), years ago but I rarely use them anymore.

Last hard drive I ordered from them came wrapped in factory issued static plastic bag, and NO padding inside the Amazon issued cardboard box. I of course returned it after confirming it was broken.

That's not the only reason I gave up on them. Searching is getting really hard, reviews are meaningless due to fake ones, counterfeit products, ...

To me it looks like they've decided to run the business to the ground and cash in a monumental amount of money.
These are interesting points, but they very much read like post-hoc rationalisations to me. Let me take a different tact, I want to try challenging some of the more fundamental assumptions.

Do you really believe in the quality of Leetcode as an evaluation criteria, or are you trying to justify it? Google used lateral thinking puzzles for something like 8 years before realising they were completely useless (not just unreliable - they had zero predictive power). We have precedent for these companies using selection methods that are bananas, and smaller companies copying them.

>There are other situations, such as when measuring actual ability is sufficiently difficult or impossible

Sure, that's an example of why the market might be irrational. But then I'd ask: do you think it's extremely difficult/impossible to judge other programmers? I mean that seriously. I don't find that difficult. I can usually size up another programmer pretty quickly. If I sniff around a bit and look at some example code, my intuitive read will be much more three-dimensional and reliable than giving them two Leetcodes. You don't find that to be the case?

How much do you spend on hiring one candidate? I'm guessing tens of thousands, if not more. You can't invest a day into trawling that candidate's GitHub? "But not all candidates have a GitHub." Ok, but some do, so that's not the reason.

What I think is actually extremely difficult is a large, beurocratic organisation developing a replicable, second-hand evaluation system. It's a standardised test, and it has the same problems as most standardised tests.

> you get a process that is reasonably good at eliminating false positives

Right, it's good as a filtering mechanism. But if it's just a filtering mechanism, it shouldn't take up the majority of the interview.

Like, here is one of the assumptions you're making: most good engineers grind Leetcode before a new job. I don't think that's true. I think the number of people who grind Leetcode, even among the best candidates, is extremely small. Like <10%. If that's the case, it's inherently a very flawed criteria. If nothing else, you're filtering for the candidates that everyone else is filtering for - which means you're filtering not for capable candidates, but for candidates who are overpriced.

Here's another thing that's absent from these discussions: algorithms questions were developed before Leetcode existed. They're not designed for a world where you can game them. Leetcode is a bug in the system, but a lot of your justifications are, "it's fine, because the selection criteria is actually designed to select people who game it." Really? You want people to game the criteria? I don't buy it.
Just use temp-mail.org or something similar.
looks awesome. what's the realistic battery span if it is set to refresh a webpage/large image every hour?
Strange take. The amount of NFT transactions must be minuscule compared to all the DeFi.
Once you've established a monopoly you can start degrading the service
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Ivan illich
What intellectual is supposed to even mean? It depends on the people you follow similar to any other social media site. If rather the people you follow you check the trends it's similarly horrible as any other social media site.
Lol.

Discussing math while hiking is great, but regular meetings in cafes are a whole different animal. There's something about the repetitivity, the short meetings, the "mundane" atmosphere etc, which is good for me for math discussions. Hiking trips are too "special" to bring the same experience.
Well there is nothing for them to check. From what I've read, they wait two weeks then mark the package as 'lost in transit'.

I think for the last-mile of delivery, couriers rely on the actual address written on the package, not the address that the barcode scans to. I might be wrong though.
so true, I ended up going a "dumb phone" for my day to day and have just started to tell people I only check email from work. I think it confused more than pissed anyone off. I tried to have back my work phone but still need to take calls when not physically in the office on a work day.

While I love the idea of the librem5, I don't love it $1200 more than my dumb phone.
IIRC the "0" as a natural number was "invented" much later than the other natural numbers. So the argument still holds, I think.
It would be an interesting experiment if you could show me the GitHub repo of the best written open source FP project you've ever encountered and I could point out its flaws and rank them on a scale based on how critical they are in terms of maintenance and performance.
This is great, now I know what to implement when I develop to retain customers and make it hard to leave.
Well, you can disagree with it if you want, but look at the results. They seem to be happy with it, and I do like the idea that making laws should not be a full time job.

What sort of system do you think makes more sense?
They do still occasionally have flash sales that I’ve gotten brick-and-mortars to match. But yeah, their business model has shifted away from undercutting everyone; makes sense but it’s disappointing.
I think it's an extremely generous assumption towards Amazon that all they did was fail to refund "in the first customer support call".

I don't know about you, but I've never filed a police report because someone made me call twice to resolve something.
Computer science is the study of computing things. In fact, virtually all of math used to be about the study of computing things, until about 200-300 years ago, when the study of mathematical structure branched of the science of computing things.

Computer science has existed for thousands of years, the naming has just been a bit off.
I assume when you say just that, it will write an entire page.
"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"

Yeah, for years I've been taking photos and/or video during the process of unboxing expensive items received via mail. Heard too many horror stories over the years.

FWIW I would never purchase a $7000 camera on Amazon.
I have to agree with damaged books. It seems Amazon is using lower quality packaging material today than they did a few years ago.
There actually aren't countless, almost all of them have been broken (many by Google actually), there's just one alternative, hcaptcha, which has been around only the past couple years. Back in 2014 when we first added the captcha for too many api requests, there was no other option.
I used to live for many years in a "bad" area of Berlin, where my packages were constantly disappearing, not arriving, taken by neighbors (who put an X as a signature), or left by the delivery people outside our building door.

After a few such accidents, each of it super tiring on its own to get things reshipped or reimbursed (and often I failed), I decided all this modernity is not for me. Nowadays I rather buy whatever I can physically in a store, even if it's a bit more expensive.

But again, that's an experience from a "special" part of Berlin, not the standard one I guess.
I think it's a bit like financial narket predictions. imagine a thousand traders making bets on the market, at least half of them are wrong and only a small percentage do way better than average.

Writing science fiction is also an act of prediction. There must have been a thousand authors who started out around the same level of success as PKD. Over time though, his prognostications were just so on point, so uncannily correct, that now we see him as the Warren Buffett of Science Fiction, someone with predictive skills that seem impossible to rack up to pure chance.
Yet somehow returns end up back in the warehouse where they are picked as "new" sales to other customers.
Performant as a measure of speed against rival BASIC interpreters.

BBC Basic is recognised as being one of the fastest floating point BASIC interpreters written for 8-bit CPUs. This was partly down to how the language was coded (in 6502 originally), and certain aspects of the BBC Micro's architecture. Although the BBC Micro's CPU was only running at 2Mhz, it had fast RAM chips with little to no contention, despite sharing memory with the video system.

These benchmarks give some indication of relative speeds to its contemporaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugg/Feldman_benchmarks

I've run those benchmarks on the Z80 version. It is faster than the native BASIC of the Spectrum (Sinclair BASIC) running at the same CPU speed (3.5Mhz).

https://github.com/breakintoprogram/next-bbc-basic/blob/main...
Is synthesia an actual word? I'm not able to find any reference to it that isn't the piano software or this. Are you thinking of synesthesia?
Based on what metric? Amazon took over Elastic's open source server and another major one IIRC. That was huge. PostgreSQL is not about to disappear.
Does dark mode help those with visual disabilities?

I whole heartedly want dark mode HN but your comment seems insincere and hyperbolic.
I stopped trusting amazon when they removed the ability to report product issues, like knockoffs or scams.

Removing the links just affirmed they don't care whats in their marketplace, and they just backed that attitude up with their recent lawsuit claiming they're not responsible.

I've even reported people who include the "$5 for a review", but they don't ever do anything about it. What trust have they earned except from a few people not complaining?
It's real -- look at biogerontology
I found sensodyn repair and protect less effective than regenerate nr5? Anyone else used this product?

https://www.regeneratenr5.co.uk/products/advanced-toothpaste
SPOILER AHEAD

> Pat (a character) decides to strip naked and move in with the messy and penniless protagonist just minutes after meeting him for the first time for a job interview. This happens over a couple pages with little explanation.

You find out a bit later in the book that Pat has the ability to change the past, and that she can remember the unaltered past but nobody else can. It's also strongly implied that there is some kind of deep, unstated connection between the protagonist and Wendy. The unspoken implication here is that the protagonist and Wendy were married in the "original reality" (or at least an earlier one); Pat wanted the protagonist so she changed history to take them out of each others' lives.

Ubik is a real trip, and a lot of it makes sense only in retrospect.

Also, the Andrew File System makes a whole lot more sense to me now, after reading the novel: https://openafs-workshop.org/assets/2019/slides/2019-06-20-0...
For returns you have to print a barcode and put it in the box. You don't get your refund until they physically scan the code in the box. Maybe it's not standard everywhere, but this process has been around for some years now. If the package never gets to the return center, no refund would be processed…
What visa did you use in that time?
No, at best maybe an email but it does not show up in recent orders on Amazon.

The plus side is Amazon is really good about refunding - I had kindle and music trials that I thought I cancelled, go for almost a year+ and they refunded the entire subscription.

The amounts of $9.99/14.99 are small enough that it's noise on the credit card amount, and it's all auto pay to pay in full anyway. So unless you do quarterly audits, you won't catch it.
> This has already been done by ISPs in several countries

Nah, that’s not even a little bit the same. With the ISP versions they’re using _their_ bandwidth, not yours and they own every part of the user sign-on (making them, not you, responsible for abuse).
Please commit more blatant academic fraud
Irony is the bird feeder story originally came out before we knew amazon was using their market insight to steal and knockoff their own sellers products. Likely amazon was the one making the knockoffs.
The fundamental problem is that cryptocurrencies serve no legal purpose. They make a few people rich at the expense of others.

If they continue to operate, even with wind or solar, those green energy sources can’t be used to help with the legitimate electricity demand, so we rely less on gas power plants.

As I see it, the best course of action is to ban any bank/company from exchanging money for crypto and vice versa.
It is both a waste of time and easy to game. The reason it's a waste of time is that it's easy to game, so some of your rivals will be gaming it. Which means you have to do it too, so it just becomes a dumb tax you pay every time you interview for a new job.

That's all from the individual candidate's perspective, of course. From the employer's perspective, you're still only going to have a minority of your interviewees having prepared their cheat codes. So you're evaluating based on ability to prepare a cheat code. Which IMO is retarded. If there wasn't a site dedicated to preparing cheat codes (which is how it used to be), then it would be sensible.
> Security and reliability are more likely to go wrong in the seams between components. That means literal integrations, but it also means organization seams.

Elon said the best part is no part. Parts between systems, interfaces/valves/pumps/APIs/whatever, are often modelled not after what makes the most sense for the final system or product but often follows the organisational structure of the people making the system. So it makes sense that these interface parts are often what creates problems.
And some people use a checkmark for "wrong" for some reason
The authors did not do their homework. There are active NFT marketplaces on PoS (i.e. Proof of Stake) chains that are very active right now. NFTs in general are not bad, Ethereum in it’s current form is problematic for the environment, existing PoS chains are not. Hic Et Nunc [0] is one of the NFT marketplace with large user base that runs on a PoS chain - Tezos [1].
I did not expect such a misinformed article from the Guardian.

[0] https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/
[1] https://tezos.com/
The dirty book thing is so weird, often covered in some weird kind of glue-like "stuff"...
Kataw-An insane fast JavaScript toolchain
Are the journos finally feeling the heat themselves?

journos are one of the worst offenders in this toxic climate.

Weaponizing tweets only loses its power in only two ways, either by every reasonable person and institution realizing that this is stupid, or by mutual assured destruction.

Unfortunately I think we're well past the point of no return, so I'm looking forward to the latter. So let the cancelations continue until moral improves.
I simply unfollowed everyone. My LinkedIn home page is pretty much blank. There's a script somewhere to batch unfollow your contacts.

It worked so well that I did the same with Facebook and Twitter. I don't even like those websites. Visiting them is more like a reflex.
Do you guys think that managers should have some tech background so they could assess any situation and get better decisions. I've been involved in a few projects were the lead senior developer was having difficult times with the manager. Any thoughts?
Would be 3-4 days on 2000mAH battery
Ethereum is also moving to proof of stake pretty soon.
People don't want to talk to computers, that's why chatbots (in their current form) fail one after the other. People also don't want to listen to emotionless robots. As long as this technology is not 100% accurately mimicking a human, the Uncanny valley effect will kick in and just leave an uncomfortable feeling.