skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Europe at least the dedicated electronics retailers are clearly cheaper than Amazon, and of course do not commingle. Returns may be a bit more cumbersome, but honestly who returns electronics anyway? Usually you know pretty well what you're getting.
If you don't care too much about the price, the time difference is low: you spend some time looking at an online retailer (maybe typing in your address), but you save the time you would waste searching Amazon for the correct listing amongst all the knockoffs, sent-from-Hong-Kong etc.

If you care a lot about the price, you already need to consider other shops, since Amazon isn't necessarily the cheapest anyway.

I have ordered one thing from Amazon in the past five years, where the manufacturer only sold to consumers through Amazon.
> I think it's probably harder for outsiders to understand the nuance.

No, it's simple. It's called game theory. So, who benefits from the publish or perish system that drives this profoundly fraudulent behavior and outcomes in science?

You are avoiding the "who" question. Why not maybe, perhaps, identify the who and get them removed from their position?

It may or may not even be a fellow scientist.

> lack of publications

uh huh, science is not and never was a stationary process.

It's absolutely disgusting that modern academia is filled with so many cowards and buffoons that the state of modern science has reached such a low.

> Even switching to industry isn't so easy without publications

Well, this is stupid. The only thing useful to corporations is your training and not your novelty.

Any novelty is a cherry on top, cream-of-the-crop pick and has nothing to do with being "hirable". But, that is also just an unchangeable aspect of our competitive reality and is thus entirely irrelevant to this discussion.
The main thing to watch out for is monopolies. If customers always have enough choice then the customer and workforce satisfaction will get sorted out eventually, as those organizations will be selected for and companies won’t be able to exist without doing that right. It works really well, and is actually a strength of our free markets. Governments and committees stepping in and trying to fix the system tends to make it worse because the people who fall through the cracks have no recourse, and they also inadvertently create monopolies by making the system more complicated and expensive for new entrants. For all the complaining, “neoliberal capitalism” has made it the best time to be alive there has ever been, and the remaining problems tend to be around choke points where there is some kind of monopoly power and proper competition is missing. Amazon is getting there. But even so, reading through these comments, there’s plenty of discussion of how Amazon is so much better than the previous experience of many people. Amazon got to where it is today because overall the customer experience is so much better. It has raised the standard to a new level, which we will happily now complain about until someone else figures out how to do it better.
That quote is a textbook example of self-deprecating British humour.
Clickbait title.

TLDR: Google will auto-enable two-factor authentication (this was announced a couple of weeks ago). Also, you can now "password-protect" myactivity.google.com. The end.
You're right, we made a mistake. I checked with my partner. Thanks for pointing out, it would be at least 1-1.5 months for 2000mAh. Talk about short selling yourself!

E-papers have a slow refresh rate, it takes about 5 seconds to display a completely new image. And considering it takes about 15 seconds to connect and download an image (based on network speed), we get current spikes upto 300-400mA during WiFi transfer. We can expect conservatively a 1-1.5 months life from a 2000mAh battery.

The mAh unit enables us to compare batteries easier I believe. Standard LiPo are 3.7V so given a mAh rating its easier to know which will last longer. While for a Wh unit you would have to calculate it.
Like others have said - be careful with this option - there are a LOT Of examples in the Google Fi forums about people doing a chargeback with Google because of charges they felt were fair or fraudulent via Google Fi, and next thing they know their Google Account (Photos, Docs, Email, etc.) is disabled.

I would watch the same thing with Amazon (Music, Alexa, Photos, AWS, etc.)
But a group trying to get someone fired for what they did or said in the past is the individuals in the group exercising their own protected political speech. It's difficult to see how that can be made illegal without curtailing political speech itself.
I asked my dentist about novamin after it trended on HN a few months ago.

Apparently every toothpaste brand has a number of proprietary compounds that, according to their own research, is the biggest thing since flouride. Sensodyne has Novamin, I don't know the name of Colgates, but I am sure they list it on one of their websites.

Why HN has taken to Novamin, I don't know. Maybe it is because it was taken off the American market?

Anyway, it doesn't seem like Novamin makes a real difference:

According to a 2020 literature review,

> ... the objective of this review is to find out the current evidence available on the use of Novamin as an agent for remineralization.

> ... and at 6 months’ time point the p-value is 0.81 concluding that there are no significant difference of remineralization process obtained by using traditional toothpaste and Novamin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068624/
Bitcoin is crypto v1.0

Never buy into version 1.0.
Ya the guy has barely read or understood the article he is basing all his complaints on.
There was a time when that was definitely not the norm. You looked a book up in a big Books in Print volume and an order could take quite a long time to come in. Yes, the situation improved over time with certain big city bookstores and then Barnes and Noble prior to Amazon. But I can certainly remember a time when getting things generally that weren't in local stock took considerable effort and time.
That sounds crazy complicated for what's essentially a simple CRM. There are TONS of these available as easy-to-use SaaS, probably niche ones for this type of charity too.

Also, as usual, the software itself is rarely the problem. Maybe ask yourself why are they still on pen and paper in 2021. My guess? Major resistance to change, employees lacking IT skills, etc. Basically, you will not only have to pick a CRM but manage the organizational change, educate employees, etc.
From the perspective of the U.K. I can’t imagine it being a very good idea going to university early. One reason for university to be better than high school is that you get to feel like you are learning a lot about your chosen subject, and you get a lot more freedom in how you do it. This is probably still mostly the case if you are under 18. The other purpose of university is socialising people into acting like “well-rounded” middle class adults, and in many ways this is an improvement from high school (for one thing, the students are willing and if they don’t like a situation, they can just leave). I would worry that socialising wouldn’t be the same for someone under 18. Obviously a lot of socialising revolves around alcohol but not drinking needn’t be a problem—the bigger issue is that a lot of socialising may revolve around places where alcohol may be served from which a 16 or 17 year old might be excluded. I also don’t know the laws about living alone at those ages either—if one were not allowed to live like the other students it would not be good, I think. It’s surely different in the US where lots of things are cut off from anyone under 21.

I suspect the argument against would be that the social aspects don’t matter, but I just don’t buy it.
Update: Please check my next comment in the thread. It should be around 1-1.5 months for the 2000mAh battery.
Could someone please screenshot the Instagram post and re-upload it somewhere else for those of us who don't have an account. Thanks.
This is scary as people working at the shipping companies figure out that stealing packages is actually a DMZ of inter-mediation and for the most part they can get away with it.

I'm sure this refund kicked off a serious investigation inside of Amazon/FedEx/UPS as this has been getting pretty bad - so for us to notice theft with SOMEWHAT regularity, I imagine it has to be an insanely pervasive problem.

The Google Fi forums seem to mention the phone-then issue regularly... "I ordered Pixel 6 and never received it", etc. etc.
Bought a 55” tv from Amazon. The UPS driver came a knocked on my door saying, “it’s very large, please help me bring it in.” I went out with them to the truck where the tv was sitting on the pavement. Helped carry it to my house. Driver left. I opened it up, took it out of the packaging, pealed the plastic off the front, plug it in and turned it on. LCD panel was cracked internally. Went to the website and requested a replacement. It arrived the next morning. Was fine. I packed up the broken unit, stuck the UPS label on it, scheduled a pick up. UPS came by and grabbed it. Took a month but eventually the website acknowledge receipt of the return. Zero issues with the return.

Once preordered a Blu-ray from Amazon JP. It arrived on release day. My only complaint is they won’t ship Blu-ray’s from adult video producers even if the title isn’t hardcore porn.
Towards truth, or?
That's a very relativistic definition of morals. That's not too say it isn't valid, but there are tradeoffs to adopting a framework like that. One of them is that it inevitably shifts over time, making it more prone to abuse.

On a separate note, I don't agree with your breakdown of people because I think it's possible to have principles that are not partisanship but are also orthogonal to "mob good" vs "mob bad".
And you should comment on-topic or not at all.
Is open box always a return for you then? I got a coffee scale with obvious usage stains on it from Amazon, but honestly it works fine and a quick cleanup was much easier than a return.
Was that $700 just for two bath taps?
How do you think any other system would work. At least we get to vote with our wallets about which companies should live or die, it’s been working pretty well. At least greedy people will treat us well to get our money. Other systems select for people who love power, and they tend to not be kind once they get it. Fear is a pretty effective way of keeping people in line.
Also functions as a mild laxative..
> IMPORTANT NOTE: SunBook is no longer available because the Pixel Qi transflective LCDs are no longer made.
I haven't really found Amazon to be consistently more expensive or slower, but yes I normally order that kind of thing from B&H (or Adorama).
Here's some good background.

https://fee.org/articles/the-origins-of-the-public-school/
I think the root problem here is that some employers think that social media mobs somehow represent public opinion. They do in a trivial sense, but in the vast majority of cases just ignoring the whole thing is a reasonable course of action.

There has to be more accountability here. It should be possible for a potential employee to see a company's past actions with respect to this sort of thing. In general a potential employee should know going in that an employer is so unprofessional that they might throw them under the bus for something as trivial as social media.
So, in other words, there really is not any "publish or perish" in academia. It's simply that to outcompete your fellow graduate students in getting a top job in industry (or a tenured position in academia) you need to have the most publications with the most "novelty". And that can be justified at any cost.

So, is this, at the end of the day, that the ratio of students willing to study graduate level studies, and jobs that require graduate level studies is dramatically imbalanced?

Sometimes, we as humans like to avoid the obvious discussion because it is the most uncomfortable discussion to have.

The truth is that we need more restrictions and an even higher bar on education that artificially pipes the best of the best in corresponding numbers to estimated availability of jobs in 4-5 years.

I am pretty sure that the medical world already does this.
I highly recommend everyone to keep in the bathroom cupboard a cup of baking soda submerged in water to make it paste-like. Rub a finger-tip's worth of wet baking soda over your tongue after you've flossed and brushed your teeth and tongue (tongue cleaning is important - I use my toothbrush). Then rinse mouth and teeth with this baking soda and saliva for a minute or so, before spitting out.

This is the most effective addition to a mouth cleansing routine I've found. I may apply this wet baking soda "paste" multiple times a day, especially after eating or when I feel a rise in mouth acidity. Also, when I happen to get acid reflux or know I'm going to throw up I pre-emptively keep baking soda in my mouth to protect my teeth from acidity.
"Get Schwifty"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ctK1aoWuqY
I checked Ali but couldn’t find anything in a good size. Do you have a link or keyword? Thanks
Multiplayer Learning in Public with Roam Research
Same thing happened with the original Xbox. Xbox box were being sold on ebay.
The idea that a field can be reformed by making it worse until it suddenly faces a reckoning and emerges much better is ... I don't know where people keep getting the idea that this might work. It has never worked in any field ever in history.

The thing that can happen: fields gradually split into rigorous and non-rigorous camps. Like with evidence-based medicine, or chemistry/alchemy. Depending on the field, either might prevail in the market. Medical research and bridge-building are mostly rigorous, programming is mostly non-rigorous.

AI/ML has a range of rigor levels, from fairly good to total crap. I think people in the field have a reasonable idea which is which. It's frustrating to people outside the field that think they can just take the technique with highest reported performance numbers and expect good results.
Let's Play with FFT
A bit short on memory and hardware support is still a gamble.
Three things are absolutely true:

1) Package managers are a huge security risk.

2) Recursive dependencies massively increase that risk.

3) You should check all your dependencies into your repo, or at least some kind of manifest with secured signatures of those dependencies, and never automatically update dependencies.

I see a few things that can improve this situation by quite a lot:

1) Languages should provide an extensive and expressive standard library of some sort, either one bundled with the language, or a tightly vetted and controlled set of first-party dependencies.

2) Package managers should not automatically resolve recursive dependencies, but should force users to manually add all dependencies of any dependency that is added. This additional friction would force you to acknowledge all the risk you are taking on by adding dependencies, and it would force the ecosystem as a whole to reduce the number of dependencies.
The author already gave it away in the abstract, though. Up to two digits is a good indicator of bullshit (by both author and review). [1]:

>> score of up to 93.30%

[1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D16-1254.pdf
Building on-demand staging environments at Paystack
Super cool! I did this same thing use cloudflare to change the CSS on the fly.
A few years ago I started a new Twitter account. I only post links on one certain topic, and I almost never comment. I follow a handful of people I care about, and have a handful of followers -- three digit numbers for both.

And with that, I've achieved a kind of "zero troll" sweet spot. I also have almost no replies, ever -- but I'm not much of a fan of social media anyways. If you use Twitter mostly for "lurking" -- to read what others are posting, but without interacting -- maybe you avoid painting a target on your back?
What's affordable? Waveshare.com has raw eInk displays. 10 inches depending on features start around $130USD.
HA isn't really about 100% availability. Any single system that promises such is extremely likely to be misleading you somehow. Your in-flight query is going to get interrupted no matter how fancy your clustering is, and I struggle to even come up with hypothetical use cases where this is something you can't afford to have happen, ever.

All you need is that in the event of a failure the clustered system can still recover quickly enough (to a well-defined state!) that the application layer can deal with the transient failure without significant impact on users, maintaining the illusion of availability.
A day in the life of an engineer working from home [video]
"How to Opt Out Of and Turn Off Amazon Sidewalk":

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-opt-out-of-amazon-sidewalk-5...
It's a lot easier than not using Google anymore. But the one thing that's hard for me to buy without Amazon is best seller ebooks. There just aren't that many alternative ebook sellers apart from indy books.
> Pixel Qi transflective LCDs are no longer made.

Because they were of poor quality, poor reliability and high cost. The Jepsen reality distortion field only lasted for about a year.
Sure, but this is a trap. You’re just trading time for dollars, and you are not growing your personal value.

One thing that distinguishes a professional is the focus of what they work on. If somebody tells you what to do, and it’s not in that narrow range, you are not a professional anymore; you’re a stand-in for a professional, and you’ll get treated poorly.
We are very very far from doing anything large scale with these sort of technologies. Most of the research mentioned in the paper either cannot self replicate or requires significant external manipulation to do anything useful (think EM fields, sound waves). They are pretty typical for biomedical engineering, they are not some major advancement in the realm of science fiction.

The innovations mentioned are a good start but it is unclear whether the current lines of research (bottom up engineering of a cell via chemically engineering a cell membrane) will bear fruit. They have some applications in carefully controlled environments like for medicine but the technology itself would not directly lead to the resurrection of dinosaurs. The infamous xenobots are basically overhyped. They primarily rely on biophysics simulations to find candidates "bots" that are made by gluing together muscle cells. This is very far from how traditional biology works. I know this forum is obsessed with bioelectricity and the research came from the same labs but in terms of practical applications it is highly doubtful there will be any unless it can be combined with other technology.

For true synthetic life, look into minimal cell projects that start by reducing the number of genes in a cell to a minimal number required for self replication (very similar to a program reducer in CS). Other efforts would involve replacing the traditional DNA ATCG nucleotides with other types of nucleotides. The Central Dogma is called the Central Dogma for a very good reason.

While I profoundly disagree with the claims made by the paper with regards to xenobots and similar biomedical engineering gimmicks, the rest of the overview is quite sound, especially the areas on genetic circuits and organoids.
It could be related to historic Scotland -> Poland immigration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_diaspora#Poland
I find it quite ironic that every time some unethical academic behaviour is published on HN, there's several posts about "move to industry this never happens here". I mean this is HN, a significant portion of the industry is working on optimizing for clicks and keeping people engaged (addicted?) to some platform or the other. Let's not even talk about the blatantly unethical (and often times illegal) things that happen in the startup world to increase evaluations, secure funding etc.

Now academia has lots of issues, but to say industry is better... It's sort of like telling an amateur athlete who is upset by some competitors using caffeine (or amphetamines) to instead to professional sport, because they are more ethical. The stakes (and money) are much higher so people are more willing to cheat to gain an edge.
This is the best single source of information on the topic: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

I’d just read through that.
I had two expensive cameras stolen in transit - Amazon replaced both.
That would be interesting, if universities had full time academic integrity officers whose job was to detect academic fraud.
Tangent. Do you actually mean native Android?

I've interviewed a couple times for Android dev jobs. The managers always ask if I've written native apps. I tell them I have written some apps in Java for Android, but haven't written any native apps. At this point they usually look confused or ask a for more details. Then I explain that actual native Android is C.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11830598

https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/
I'm confused by your comment. You're making a claim that E-Ink is suppressing innovation. I state that doesn't seem to be the case in my industry, ie: the display industry. And you're asking me for evidence? Shouldn't the person making a claim that a company is suppressing innovation (ie: you) be the one to provide evidence? This is equivalent to someone saying Microsoft is suppressing innovation in operating systems. I would then respond saying I know a bit about operating systems and I don't see that. Then that person saying where is the proof that there isn't suppression by Microsoft. Do you see how your comment comes across?

> Why are we as consumers only now getting one choice of a 20+ inch eink screen?

You as a consumer can buy a mile of E Ink fpl if you like. They'll sell it to you. Then you can go and figure out how to laminate a >20" TFT backplane to it. Good luck getting that size in less than 1 million unit MOQ quantities especially now with all the backplane shortages. Good luck trying to convince VCs to fund your display startup with the billions you'll need to construct a physical factory. If they say they'd rather fund an AI, machine learning, internet services startup, tell us what convincing argument you'd use to convince them otherwise. No snark. Genuinely interested to see how you'll solve this problem that we in the display industry genuinely face.
So your "career" is just "work" or "job". Which is fine, because everyone has a career then, even if you stay at home for your children.
I’m using Peirce’s definition of the normative sciences[1]. As is not uncommon in English, the same words or phrases can denote different concepts and the wiki link you shared is a case in point.

[1] https://www.isko.org/cyclo/peirce
This sounds like a very bad deal.

I would not sign it.

I've sold software to medium-sized US corporates without being a US-based company. It was not a problem -- the only thing they cared about was making sure the dispute clauses used US law and a US jurisdiction.