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There are quite a few topics in CS I like, from compiler construction to robotics. That was the "hacker tech" for me. For a long time, I managed to have work with an interesting angle, but slowly it got to the point where I'm solving a fucking npm caching problem that caused a junior headaches, moving a server with an EOL OS with minimal service interruption, looking for another 2FA mechanism, and getting older tools to play well with mobile. None of it is interesting, and it takes a lot of time.

Not that it used to be better: many of my fellow students ended up in business administration. Some might even be architecturing COBOL systems on an IBM mainframe.
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I use uBlock Origin and have an iphone. Unfortunately getting an adblocker is not as trivial, so inertia took over and I see ads on youtube app and I see ads when generally browsing the web on the iphone.

I notice that over the course of the last year either some really sophisticated newer algos are being put to use, or the collaboration and sharing of information between ad networks has been streamlined or increased in some manner because I'm being served ads that are creepily relevant. But in any case, the clues and data you leave behind, they're aplenty and quite suspect to being compromised and pounced on by ad networks. I think at this point if you wanna play tango, don't only just play defense (ad block), go on the offense as well and use adnauseam to pollute the profiles they've built of you.

I want to articulate as well the annoyance I feel when being served targeted ads: an ad, if it's related to my interests, even tangentially, it does grab me, and no doubt it probably compels me to make some decision one way or the other. Particularly, what gets me, I believe, is both the mental overload of being served ads of "relevant" things which will attract my attention too much and clutter my mind and distract me, and the sheer arrogance of pushing things it believes are relevant to my interests.
I'm Not Scared to Reenter Society. I'm Just Not Sure I Want To
> If you accept the customer for cheap stuff but refuse to help him when he gets scammed on an expensive item, you are the bad, pathological, person/business.

For every refund system you will unfortunately get people who attempt to game that system. They'll buy many negligible cost items without issue, then a single high cost item that they'll claim never arrived hoping they've outsmarted the store or algorithm. These bad actors are why honest consumers have a hard time. I don't know what a business can do to actually differentiate the two.
This is why I’m glad I don’t live in America. The brain washing from the media left is as bad as the crazy stuff the right believes.
> If you’re doing something that’s not immediately obvious, explain what you’re doing!

Agreed. Comments have their place, and some code is unavoidably involved, just by the nature of unavoidable complexity. The solution isn't always to write simple code. If it were, we wouldn't bother studying clever and efficient algorithms.

Also, it's important to ensure comments are updated when code is changed. I don't know who originally said it: Stale and inaccurate comments are no longer comments, they're lies.

That blog post looks worth reading properly, I admit so far I've only skimmed it.
That’s retribution, not justice. There is no payment or compensation for lives lost that makes people whole. Many problems can’t be fixed through punishment, and this is one of them. Instead ask “why” until you hit the root cause, and address that.

Thankfully infrastructure collapse is very rare. So let’s not lose our perspective here.
Thanks. I googled for cola-flavored caffeine powder, but couldn't find anything. Do you have an example?

The caffeine content of Coke is relatively low (only about a third or fourth of coffee, and lower than other cola products), which makes it practical for me to sip it all day. I guess I'm as much addicted to the taste as to the caffeine.
The results for hydroxyapatite seem to be mixed, some studies have found it has no statistically significant benefit over fluoride toothpaste [0], while others have found some benefit [1][2]. Interesting none the less, thanks for linking to it.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41405-019-0026-8

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25019114/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121804/
A friend of mine is a drummer and recently created https://loopsome.com for a similar reason
It's not about free shipping. It's about the ability to ship a large product (e.g. a washing machine) often, and at no cost, to a very large number of people. The cost for this is still low, but it's growing fast.
The cost is high though. Amazon is already much lower quality than they were 10 years ago.
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And the US caused the Chinese Civil War? I don’t think so.

The US also supported China against Japan during WW2. Apparently that doesn’t matter.

https://www.britannica.com/place/China/U-S-aid-to-China
> But why?

Because the top article is a NYT article, and this forum is largely American in composition. There are interesting discussions about free speech rights in other countries, but in this case it’s reasonable to assume an American context.

> Do people from other countries deserve to have their digital pasts weaponized

I’ll remind you that presuming good faith is a rule here, this is a nakedly bad faith interpretation of what I said.
GitLab employee here.

It started that way for sure, but we’ve evolved with boards, milestones, epics, swim lanes, burn down charts and a lot more.

We have a whole group in our engineering and product org focused on making it even better: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/plan/
> Just because something can be formally and precisely described doesn't necessarily mean it's

> ... (aesthetically)

The 'aesthetics' part is an interesting argument I didn't see, and yes, I agree that a particular concept arising in different areas of math is 'aesthetically pleasing'.

> ... "mathematical"

That's the part I have a problem with, mathematical objects are (more or less) exactly those that can be precisely and formally described. "Lambda calculus is a more elegant mathematical object" is not a statement I have a problem with, "Turing machines have a lesser status as mathematical entities", on the other hand, is sort of weird.

> So for Turing machines, maybe a question we might ask is, "how can we ensure Turing machines always terminate?" This is a much harder question than say, imposing a type system on untyped lambda calculus which unconditionally makes all terms terminate, while still retaining the ability to do recursion and useful work.

You can bound the number of steps or the size of the tape :)
That's not a "well, actually", the point I'm making is that other computational models (TMs, pointer machines, RAMs, counter machines) are more natural formalisms to think about some problems. Sure, logic/proof theory is intimately related to lambda calculi and it would be extremely unnatural to formulate the same ideas using Turing machines, but for things like analysis of algorithms, complexity theory or numerical analysis it would be similarly unnatural to use lambda calculus as the computational model instead.

They certainly aren't lesser forms of math, even though one might find them less aesthetically pleasing.

> ... it feels remarkable that both Turing and Church came up with their constructions to describe computation formally!

It is. It completely blew my mind when I first learned about that fact. If computation can be exactly described by different formalisms resulting in the exact same set of computable functions, then it must be a very fundamental feature of how "things" work!
Also interesting is Estonia's X-Road platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Road
I'd hate to find out the hard way.

"...brand-new Tesla Model Y's glass roof flew off on the highway..."

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/10/05/tesla-roof-flies-off-bui...
you just described a loss leader
Which of Lisp's philosophies and principles does Clojure violate?
Not quite sure how this is going to be successful. Uber and Lyft already hemorage cash on ride-share -- how is a co-op whose workers can (and most likely will) vote to increase wages able to not only compete but make money?
Sure. Amazon should equally value customers who buy $2 gadgets per year as ones who buys $2000 per year. But somehow business owners (restaurants, SaaS, retail, etc.) learn that complains and refunds from cheap customers are much more common and complaints are not polite. I really do not know why and I did not believe in that. But when you run business you learn fast.
Agreed 1000x. There is rarely a single best in all categories good for something. Instead, you have to pay attention to what you’re optimizing for. The industrial/commercial cookware he lists is definitely durable but also it’s huge, may consume a ton of energy and will not match the decor of the rest of your kitchen.
> The DNC is the leadership group of a political party; it's not a government agency.

As a response to my point, this implies there was zero Gov business ever handled the DNC servers. This seems unlikely, given it is common for officials to remain active in their party while in Gov employ.

While Secretary of State, HRC routinely used her personal Blackberry to conduct Gov business. DNC servers are a likely candidate to have handled that mail.
I've mixed filling.

I'm sad, because:

- I started using Phabricator in 2012 and tried some contribution back then, when I was still learning. I learn PHP working on contribution.

- The product is really awesome and back then, the difference with GH and others was even more striking. Draft PRs years before GH, proper issue management with work board years before GH, a lot of automation (Herald) and an yet unmatched ability to customize the interface, and build extensions to the program. In peculiar, behind able to define custom lint and unit test and have them integrated to the UI is awesome. I've seen others good ideas come before its time, in peculiar with integrated CI/CD, being able to see links between everything (issues, diffs, wikis, ect)

- The codebase is awesome. I mean, they build a fully modular system from nothing, just raw PHP. In my sense, they build one of the best PHP framework along the product. The architecture is nice, and they had really great ideas (overheating queries https://secure.phabricator.com/T13133, EditEngine/ApplicationEditor: https://secure.phabricator.com/T9132). Bob, Chad, and Evan are awesome devs. They helped me improve and shaped me as a developers. They also created a fondation of craftmanship with stances like: "Don't create to much config, it is a sign of badly designed product" and so on

- I learned a lot about infra deploying phabricator.

- They was a lot of humor back then: https://secure.phabricator.com/T10000, https://secure.phabricator.com/T10054#151066, https://secure.phabricator.com/T6389

For all this, thanks Evan, and others. It was a nice adventure. I will really miss this...

... but for me that was expected, the contributions shrinked, the core team went from 3 to 1. External contribution was also more and more difficult and while I understand the reason (reviewing and maintaining is more expensive than doing all yourself), it build a model that only depend on the willingness of one man. Also lack of proper integration with Gitlab/Github (Nuance https://secure.phabricator.com/T12739), sticking to an old, pre React area JS framework called Javelin did make the end inevitable. I did see the contribution decrease overtime(see https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/graphs/contributors). In the last years, Phabricator was just a ghost to me, sadly...

I hopes that Evan is well, and the end of adventure is not to bitter.

I think too much depends on Phabricator for it too end like that, and I'm looking forward to @20after4 or others to fork. Maybe it will have a second breath.

Anyway, so long and thanks for the fish !
How "pwned" went from hacker slang to internet's favorite taunt
rich person is still more efficient at doing _what_ ? if we are talking about getting money to people who need it sure doesn't sound like it, UBI/direct money gives 1000s of poor/middle class people 10,000 which can honestly be life changing vs a rich person who just shrugs and puts it in a bank account so sounds like its solving problems for people to me?
Withholding shipping info after payment is processed? That would be illegal. All Shopify sites will show it to you after entering your address and before payment. It’s hardly a reason to not shop at small business.
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digikey and mcmaster are wonderful things to know about.

at least in 2012 or so, digikey still had call centers in minnesota and the upper peninsula, and still taught all their call center reps the nato alphabet. There is nothing more crisply charming than a call operator who sounds like Bobby’s mom from Bobby’s World reading you back your resistor SKUs in flawless and rapid phonetic alphabet.
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Exactly. If you are at the point where your only recourse is chargeback, then you are at a bridge-burning moment. The company has treated you so badly that you’re willing to light the relationship on fire. Why on earth would you want to continue being a customer of that company? I’ve done a few chargebacks in my life and they were all against scum-of-the-earth companies I would never do business with again.
/r/buyitforlife is great for this sort of stuff, if people ever need something specific.
Homeownership is already heavily subsidized by tax breaks
Some electronics vendors have figured it out too. A Parametric search first approach means I can find exactly what I need.

Will I ever find the rs-232 transceiver that I need on Amazon? Unlikely.
not to mention free and easy returns for anything which is trash or doesn't work out
We actually do use them for some things, especially some low cost items Amazon doesn't sell directly and resellers mark up significantly because that's the only way they can make money on a $3 bottle of shampoo or whatever it is. Also for dry goods, Target often has things Amazon doesn't have. The only downside is they don't have free shipping unless you hit $35, so we try yo save up items until we have enough to hit that mark.
I agree. “Worse” considering the scenarios where your needs are not exactly the ones that guided project development.

A simple example would be gloves. What would be the pro version of a glove? The ones used in steel mills? If you want a glove for riding a bike, you’re better of with regular biker gloves. If it’s a glove for winter, maybe skier gloves and so on.
Costco sells hearing aids significantly cheaper than most audiologists. You can see some prices here: [1].

You do lose some things. There are store-brand hearing aids that are equivalent to some popular brands but missing a few features, and you don’t get a 30-day trial period.

I tried buying through them but went with Kaiser since service is better and I had insurance that would pay the extra cost.

[1] https://clark.com/save-money/costco-hearing-aids/
No, because they are incentivized not to. The point is customers are willing to pay for hidden fees otherwise online stores wouldn’t separate things out.

It’s the same reason airlines added all those fees, people prefer to minimize sticker shock rather than minimize actual costs.
So what you are saying is instead of getting emotional, we should get even by reverse engineering the LTV algorithm and “lose” packages as often is still profitable for Amazon so we can buy things at near cost from them?
I’d wager you’ve clicked hundreds of ads here, just on hacker news! You might have not known they were ads but they were ads none the less.
I don't think he is grasping... You quite clearly indicated the entirety of Apple in the comment. If you did not mean to do this you should have written the Apple watch specifically. It's not like the comment would have been any longer.
Also, that stand mixer isn't going to fit in my kitchen cabinet. Compare that to my consumer-grade Sunbeam. It's smaller, and the top part (motor, etc.) separates from the stand part via a quick-release button, so it fits on a shelf which isn't very tall at all.
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In the biz. What you need to do is address each issue with dispassionate detail in the response. Make no value judgements in the individual responses. Feel free to use words like “incorrect”, “false”, and my personal favorite, “logical inconsistency”. Quote specs, RFCs, platform dynamics, everything. Use diagrams, flowcharts, whatever it takes. But again, dispassionate, detached, and nonjudgmental. Then...

In the very last paragraph, as a conclusion to YOUR exercise, explain how the utter lack of competence in the subject matter displayed by the consultant has resulted in blah, blah, dollars, time, effort, all down the drain. Emphasize the harm to the organization and how it affects the trust required between different groups.

I guarantee it will get you promoted or fired. Which one depends on the organization and I expect you already know what will happen.
Andrew Kane created a dataframe gem fairly recently: https://github.com/ankane/rover
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"I don't think corporations/businesses are to blame... The average consumer is extremely ill-informed."

This is very unfair - the average cobsumer is purposefully mislead on a daily basis, for example applle forbids apps from informing consumer that 30% of their donation to a charity is taken.

With industrial goods, there is a whole department who's job is proqurement and to know what they are buying. And lets not pretent no funny business ever happens there either.

But lastly, some consumer good are better - DSLR's beat any industrial cameras, and commercial dishwashers are a toally different beast, unsuitable and dangerous to a naive user.
I've read recently that it may have been her daughter that took over her identity.
I'd never though this asked in HN, but it says a lot about how much "nerds" we are.
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Yup. First thought on the shopping bag was "how heavy is that empty?". Designers were not worried about over burdening whatever carried it, necessarily.

That mixer likely won't handle a small load (as in, a single family sized loaf).

Spot on though about some of the stuff. That knife is nice, although being edged on both sides is a liability.
Testimonials aren't a bad thing though. I think every dev should have their code read and evaluated by at least one other person, although getting as many people as possible to read it would be best. If code legibility to help team members understand, debug, and improve upon the code is essential, the best metric to use for code quality would be their collective feedback on said code.
I would direct you to the article which makes the case that not selling on Amazon is not really an option due to their customer base and the fact that they use their monopoly position to penalize you for selling on a marketplace with lower fees, causing all prices to go up, even on other marketplaces. Simply reminding everyone that people can vote with their wallets/feet is an exercise in substituting the complexities of the real world with the ideals of free market proponents. The public cannot be expected to make short term aggregate decisions against their own personal benefit for the collective long-term benefit. That's pretty much the entire point of regulation.
Using a ka-bar for hiking is a terrible idea. At 0.7lbs it weighs as much as a quality sleeping bag/tent/pack. Also, you likely don’t need a knife. Scissors are much more useful, and micro scissors weigh less than an ounce.

Ultralight hiking adds an interesting forcing function to gear - correctly “built” (as in not overbuilt or under built). Bring the gear which matches the need. In essence, the complete opposite sentiment of this post.
> Back us on Indiegogo

Unfortunately Indiegogo/Kickstarter type funding makes this a non-starter for me.

On a larger note, I wish products would explicitly state it’s in a crowdfunding stage instead of misleading people and them only finding out when they scroll to the very bottom of the page.
I don't really have complaints about store brands in general, I think the quality I see is par for the course for non-high-end brand-name items, especially for non-food items (where some are better than brand name or white labels of popular brands, but the average quality seems lower).

I have had good experiences with Amazon Basics and Amazon's clothing brands.
This assumes you are absolutely certain you know what the code should do. And that it does what you think it does. Hence while you might think “performs its task” is an easily defined I’d disagree. I’d take clear code that wasn’t working over code that was hard to reason about and somehow worked every day.
That's true unless you get acquired. At that point, your title is what your new overlords will use to determine your role, salary, and even whether to lay you off.
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monopoly? walmart costco canadian tyre london drugs ikea are all huge retailers with billions that are trying to provide online platforms like and none of them come close. bestbuy and wayfair are the only comparable one imho and they still kinda suck compared to amazon
Like the Hobart mixer from this article, I always find it interesting that many of the best "overkill" objects are simply ones from the early/mid 20th century before manufacturers figured out it makes more economic sense to pump out low quality shit that will break just after the warranty expires.

I'm into old school espresso machines, and there is a robust market (and some fascinating refurb videos) for older, lever espresso machines - the quality and design is just much better than any consumer-grade equipment that is sold today.
> Withholding shipping info after payment is processed?

I said submit - as in to the site.
Conversation at the dinner table often leads to loose tangents. I'll be unable to convince _you_ that this is a subject that had no recent online evidence, but _I'm_ sufficiently convinced knowing the whole situation and aware of what information _is_ shared.
> The average consumer is an idiot, so the bean counters keep milking them... They want pizzaz over functionality and durability. They want shiny stuff in a bigger box... The industrial, military and commercial market doesn't mess around. They want to purchase equipment that works reliably and performs to a specification. It's professional and their livelihood depends on it. It sort of self filters the entire market. Shitty things drop off the radar due to poor sales.

This sounds like a cool hobby and conversation starter. But it's hard to take the author seriously when he proselytizes on the practical virtues of buying ejector seats over retail chairs. Industrial goods are often built for very specific use-cases. If those use-cases don't align with your own needs, you're just paying a lot of money for something you don't need. And often, something that fails to deliver on your actual needs.
Work/utility gloves are a good example where the commercial-grade options are awesome compared to what is at Home Depot.

For example, Ansell HyFlex gloves are standard issue in Amazon warehouses and they’re awesome for chores around the house too. They fit really well (and come in more sizes), they’re durable, and they are comfortable to wear for extended periods of time.