skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ordered from Amazon Japan for the first time last week and the delivery speed was excellent. I would say the packaging was sub-par compared to other Japanese retailers though. CDJapan is just as fast and ships me books in better condition than any UK store, and proxy shipping from Buyee.jp redefined what packaging means to me. Seriously, it’s almost worth using them just to get some top quality cardboard!
I feel like that if I get up early enough. (I'm a night owl but my sleep is all over the place.)

Getting at 2-4am, feels great, like there's plenty of time and the hordes are fast asleep, or going to sleep. Finally I have a stretch of time to get some real work done

Getting up at 7am doesn't have any of that benefit. There are too many people around by then.
In Berlin, if you live in the ground floor of a residential building, you're stuck being the building's personal packstation. No mail man will bother ring all the bells of the building.
So are ads, as they stimulate overconsumption.
This distinction sounds quite contrived to me. Surely you could see that, in most cases throughout the history, when a united identity emerges out of several different tribes/groups whatsoever, there would be a leading group that exerted greater influence either by force or by (economic etc.) strength. Seldom is the case that all tribes decided that they were absolutely equal and would form a joint entity with the same amount of voluntariness from each side.
Hedonic adaptation. I love amazon. I probably place 200+ orders a year, and I have plenty of issues. But that doesn’t make it vastly superior to the alternative.

For example, I bought a projector on BestBuy. They had the dimensions wrong and it wouldn’t fit where I needed it. With amazon, that would be a simple return. With BestBuy, a simple return and a 15% restocking fee. Good luck reaching someone at BestBuy to explain why that fee should be waived. With amazon, it would be a simple chat.

Amazon is infinitely better than most other retailers. People just forget how good we have it.
The electoral college was not originally winners take all.

The problem is that going proportional only works out for the states if everyone is doing it, otherwise a massive winner takes all state is that much more important to swing.
I’m using repair and protect, and I have no idea whether it’s doing anything. Experienced a much greater impact by cutting out most added sugar from my diet (including in coffee).

On Regenerate NR5, there seems to be skepticism on Reddit. This analysis looks solid:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dentistry/comments/2afh74/has_anyon...

It suggests they’re using fairly standard ingredients that are present in many toothpastes.

Caveat emptor..
I've never had a problem with returning stuff in JP (granted all of the stuff I returned were DOA so...)
I’m a million miles from this area, so I’m interested: [why] is a machine killing people more immoral than people killing people?
Is it a tax avoidance scheme, like high-end art?
Delivering in a Hokkaido winter sounds like an epic undertaking considering the amount of snow.
Notable failures both personally experienced and famous usually involve great amplifications of the issue resulting from attempts to fix, often with increasingly urgent and hasty actions.
>>> If I can't find the most important part of your writing in 3 seconds, I've already moved on.

You should try to to qualify that with the kind of writing you mean, because taken literally, that's a weird way to read anything. For instance, what is "the most important part" in War and Peace, or Song of Ice and Fire, that the reader should be able to find in 3 seconds?
This is the most bad thing I’ll say about amazon is that the counterfeits are becoming an issue. I saw one person who, perhaps wisely, said they won’t buy anything to eat or drink on amazon because one bad counterfeit could be catastrophic. Your point about safety equipment is a similarly good point.
I don't think its necessarily the time of sleep that matters, but the consistent time of sleeping and waking up, including a long enough gap between (sleep hours). For me, that was what really helped.

Waking up early does boost confidence/ ego a bit though.
If you order that much then Amazon has little reason to loose you as a customer, so of course they will not bother you.
Almost all actors have bleached teeth. I think this creates a false sense of what teeth are supposed to look like.
This is also why the current definition by some western governments/parliaments of what's happening there as "genocide" has credibility issues in some eyes. If everybody suddenly agreed that "genocide" means "systematic attempt at cultural assimilation" then fine (would also mean that such "genocides" have been taking place all the time, since group identities disappear and reappear in an endless ebb and flow, maybe not so much in the modern world with all these nation borders, but much more commonly throughout the history), but just as this chain of comment reveals, 1. a more universally accepted term (also in e.g. the Canadian government's own report) would be "cultural genocide" and seldom would people use "genocide" to mean something without actual mass murdering 2. even the idea of "cultural genocide" is to some extent subject to debate.
I was thoroughly confused when I found out how the US high school math curriculum is structured. To this day I can't remember what the hell is "precalculus". In my country I had separate textbooks on: functions; equations and inequalities; sequences and series; planimetry; stereometry; goniometry; analytical geometry; combinatorics, statistics and probability; complex numbers; mathematical analysis. Every time I refresh my knowledge on what "precalculus" is I promptly forget it again because it doesn't correspond to any of the fields that we were taught and that I'm used to think in terms of.
I wouldn’t order a camera from a store that doesn’t specialize in photography (B&H or moment.com). You can ship things to any FedEx office store and pick it up with your ID. The package is insured by FedEx in that case until you show them ID and receive your package. I’ve done this frequently for jewelry and just picking up mail when visiting USA (I’m an expat at the moment)
Typical Bezos.
Boblberg – against lonelyness (red cross/Denmark)
This - the startup industry is full of late night owls and spike-oriented because they are kept awake by screen light and by the contraption they are mentally building.

And this sounds ridiculously lazy to physical workers, and even to my former self, when I woke up at 4.30 in Australia to cut the first trees at 6:00 ;) That was the only moment of my life where I wasn’t depressed. Maybe this blue light has a very palpable effect on sleep cycles and depression, after all.
Amazon in Germany can also go very wrong. This is why I stopped ordering there:

I ordered a bunch of small electronics stuff, about 100€. In the order process Amazon selected an expired credit card (which I'm sure I had replaced in the settings already). They then split the order in parts and for each order part demanded an additional late pay fee, because the card was expired. This is despite me calling them to stop the order or to correct the payment method, before the package had arrived.

They couldn't help, I was promised a call back, never arrived. The chat support deleted the expired credit card from their system, only to cut the connection as soon as I asked for a solution for the fees and to know why the wrong card was selected. Later, that expired credit card turned up in my settings again.

In the electronics stuff that arrived, a converter I bought was evidently fake. It was also a converter, but it had different markings than the one on the product photo (including a missing CE symbol). I sent that back. A short while later, Amazon accused me of not having sent it back and wanted me to pay again! I still had the proof of having sent a package, which made them shut up.

Never again.
I've been using protonmail as my mail email service for probably close to 6 years. Earlier iterations of the UI were obviously basic but it's perfectly functional now and works very well and certainly not for "occasional use". The web client UI is great and has come on leaps and bounds particularly of late.

The mobile app has some way to go but more than adequate for daily use because I'm using it daily.
These words overlap with IT too much. I’m suspicious that they refer to Computer Science specifically, but please prove me wrong.

I always find it slightly irritating that my learned peers from the Information Technology team — they who rigorously study the practice of managing Jira installations, Windows 10 upgrades, finite Active Directory domains, and the long term effects of CISCO certifications — have land grabbed the English word Information.
It is also something that changes as you age
I think the competition from local retailers is important in this. I’ve bought books from other Japanese stores, like CDJapan, and the packaging is excellent. In the UK all retailers seem to ship books poorly now. Waterstones is no better than Amazon sadly.
I am not a fan of Amazon. They sold (Amazon Choice, so they bought and then resold) me a chair that had a staple sticking out of one of the feet, that caused significant damage to my hardwood floors. Fuck them.

At the same time, I think it is naive to expect a customer support rep in the Philippines to handle this sort of situation. They do not make 7K in a month. If they bought the empty box at a brick and motor store, I wouldn't expect a cashier to be trained in dealing with a 7K fraud issue, and the general manager may not be able to resolve it on the spot either.

My guess is they eventually did a google search, and thats how they found advice telling them to email jeff@amazon.com. They have a large team of people managing that email and advertise it for situations exactly like this. Its hard to interface with a 2 Trillion Dollar entity but I think it's fair to say they do a ok job.
It's pretty obvious that the reason the NYT is doing this is that someone was fired who they saw as being on the same side as them, for online speech they were extremely sympathetic towards, due to stuff dug up by Republican supporters. This particular issue is heavily tied to the US political divide: supporting Palestine is seen as a left-wing thing, and labelling those people as anti-Semites a right-wing tactic.

Which, I think, probably says something about how likely it is that people genuinely believe the talking point invoked in this article that the right-wing is the real cancel culture. If it was, it wouldn't be so shocking that and news-worthy that it happened, and the sole other example in the article wouldn't be someone from 2004 who built a career in media thanks to the supposed cancellation - exactly the kind of thing the press would point to as proof "cancel culture" isn't real if the left were the ones calling for her head.
Poor opinion piece.

Not a single mention of Ethereum switching to proof-of-stake which will reduce the power requirements by ~99,9%. Because the author doesn't know or because he wants to only show one side of the argument?

The "article" is written by the author of: "Against the smart city". So I'm gonna go with him just wanting clicks and to show only one side of the argument.
Can someone explain to me why I’d want an “NFT”? What’s the actual point of it? It can be used to prove some “ownership” of a digital work - but when no one cares about that ownership, how can it actually have value? If I change a byte in the work, it’s also a completely distinct work of art meaning there is no problem creating thousands of copies with thousands of owners? I might be a boomer but I just don’t get it.
Google gonna Google.
croc wasn't recommended by people on HN who knew something about cryptography, and they actually warned against it.

They recommended Brian Warner's magic-wormhole, Signal, Tarsnap, age, Signify, Minisign, libsodium.
I think screens just keep us awake as I.T. workers. Unnatural as ever, much more probable in my opinion.
"obsolete". The way you guys talk was funny at first but now it's plain sad.

I hope your funbux go to zero.
No database works well across network partitions for general use (you can designate one region for active business transactions, but that means the other regions are effectively offline during the partition.)

If you understand your use cases and your application source code, you can go a long way towards some kind of multi-region HA that does something acceptable during the partition, but that's a pretty big if.

Source: DBA.
Hmm, maybe I'm wrong then. Though I could imagine that if this happened to you legitimately that you would have some legal recourse to get your money back; you fulfilled your end of the return by posting it, its not your fault the courier screwed up.
"Well" isn't a binary thing.
I have always worked with the concept of what I call “trouble nodes.”

These are basically graph vertexes; places where two (or more) things interface.

Every “node” is a potential quality hit. A lot of my refactoring involves removing these, using techniques like deriving base classes, protocol defaults, or recursion/reuse.

As an example, a couple of days ago, I refactored an SDK I’m refining. It has an auth capability that uses an API key (bearer token), in a Basic Auth scheme. It does this via a common method that generates a URL request, and adds a header.

But servers that run fastCGI don’t like auth headers, so I was forced to add the option for query arguments to deliver the tokens.

So I basically “kludged” it, and added the arguments to the URI in all the places the requests were being built. An ugly, clumsy, lash-up (I was in a hurry).

This was months ago. I forgot I did that.

As I was reviewing my code a few days ago, I saw this, and was quite embarrassed.

Not only was it sloppy, but it was dangerous. This was auth stuff. The worst kind of place to have rotten quality code.

The refactoring was a pretty intense effort, and removed dozens of “trouble nodes.” It was fundamental stuff, and required a lot of testing. If I had taken the time to do it right, the first time, it would not have been necessary. I’m glad I found it before it became a problem.

And I slept like a baby, that night (waking up frequently, cying).
Good, but please don't disable right-click. Should not have to use Absolute Enable Right Click Firefox add-on in order to ensure a link opens in a new tab.
There was a classic French TV series Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq with Claude Brasseur and an excellent cast from La Comédie Française, along with a very catchy theme music on the harpischord by Loussier. I don't know if it's on any streaming service, however.
If the alternative was going home to a home I didn't want to be in, maybe?
Likely to be Amazon Flex (https://flex.amazon.co.uk/). Anyone can download the phone app, go to the Amazon warehouse, and start delivering packages.

As you can imagine, quality of delivery is pretty variable. I had an Amazon Flex worker steal a phone that I'd ordered - Amazon refunded with no questions asked and as far as I know didn't bother to investigate the theft.
Lol, so true.
Soooo many counterfeit books on Amazon, especially textbooks. Nothing quite like dropping > $150 on a big book only to get an obvious inkjet job in the box.
sorry people are making a fuss about this

i don't agree that society was 'made for' i think it's mostly biological / planet rhythm on average

that said i've been alternatively morning dude / night owl.. I have no idea why or how this change
There is no way this is not copied by Indian pharmacies in a whim, IP is nothing these days.
Let me try explaining a few ways:

1. ---

You don't need to assert absence, the abstraction inherently ignores that which is left out, and the reader remains ignorant of it (that's the point, in fact). The abstraction asserts that the information it captures is the most useful information, and arguably it asserts that it is the only relevant information. This may be correct, but it may also be wrong. If it's wrong, any bugs that result will be hard to solve, because the information necessary to understand how A links to B is deliberately removed in the path from A to B.

2. ---

An abstraction is a conceptual reformulation of the problem. Each layer of abstraction reformulates the problem. It's lossy compression. Each layer of abstraction is a lossy compression of a lossy compression. You want to minimise the layers because running the problem through multiple compressors loses a lot information and obscures the constraints of the fundamental problem.

3. ---

You don't know a-priori if the information your abstraction leaves out is important.

I would go further and argue: leaving out the wrong information is usually a disaster, and very hard to reverse. One way to avoid this is to avoid abstractions (not that I'd recommend it, but it's part of the tradeoff).

4. ---

Abstractions misrepresent by simplifying. For example, the fundamental problem you're solving is moving electrons through wires. There are specific problems that occur at that level of specificity which you aren't worried about once you introduce the abstraction of the CPU's ISA. For example, bit instability.

Do those problems disappear at the level of the ISA? No, you've just introduced an abstraction which hides them, and hopefully they don't bubble up. The introduction of that abstraction also added overhead, partly in order to ensure the lower-level problems don't bubble up.

Ok, let's go up a few levels. You're now using a programming language. One of your fundamental problems here is cache locality. Does your code trigger cache misses? Well, it's not always clear, and it becomes less clear the more layers of abstraction you add.

"But cache locality rarely matters," ok, but sometimes it does, and if you have 10 layers of abstraction, good luck solving that. Can you properly manage cache locality in Clojure? Not a chance. It's too abstract. What happens when your Clojure code is eventually too slow? You're fucked. The abstraction not only makes the problem hard to identify, it makes it impossible to solve.
Well just so you know the past populations were not necessarily more in love with the treatment of indigenous.

Here is an editorial from 1888 about the first Prime Minister of Canada and his starvation of indigenous, doesn't necessarily seem to me that everyone was on board with the treatment back in 1888.[1]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1888_Editorial_carto...

Also a better chance of what succeeding? Do you know the history of Canada? The displacement of indigenous was the point of the policies.
Also, knowing why all of the power tools are pneumatic, rather than any other kind of power helps. They need to be small, and stay cooled well.
What’s changed is that they don’t care about packaging books anymore. Previously they would ship books inside of an airgap in a box, or at least inside of a tight box that would prevent damage. Now they will just throw it into a Mylar envelope that offers no protection against bending.
Ask HN: What’s the best event logger and why?
I’m on mobile but wrote up my context and observations here as further background: https://link.medium.com/Wt2Lx882Fgb

Very curious what the HN take is — I am more of an analyst/data scientist.

Since asking around elsewhere, I’m hearing good things about Rudderstack.
I relate so much to this.

No matter how early (or late) I get up, my day is not done until 3-4am when I had time for myself without the bothering of others/society's expectations.

During the week, I'll sleep 5-6h and start to work, on the weekend I'll pay my sleep debt and sleep 10-11h.
Well, I agree with the title, and some of the reasoning, but it doesn't go far enough. I think school in general is stupid. It's an extreme view, I know.

I think education is good. But that's not what school is. Everything a kid learns in 13 years could he learned in 5, and then they leave missing very important skills. Many kids that graduate high school then choose to take on 5 to 6 figures in debt as their first financial decision of their lives, out of this weird pressure to know what they want to spend the rest of their lives doing, which they're somehow expected to know after spending 13 of the previous 18 years of their lives having to ask permission to take a shit. In my opinion, school turns people, most of whom have amazing potential, into losers.

The major motivation to have a mandatory school system is to take productive adults who would spend a decade caring for 2 or 3 children and put them to work and outsource the rearing of their children to one professional child raiser per 30 or so kids. Very economical. But it is hell on our kids, and hell on our civics.

5 years. That's all it takes to learn what you need to know in school. Reading, writing, some literature, arithmetic geometry and algebra, basic physics, chemistry and biology, some domestic history and civics and some world history, then toss in a bit about how to handle finances and you're done. 5 years. And that's much more than we are requited to know within the 13 we spend right now.

And we can teach our own kids. And we should. If I can't be trusted to teach my kid what I learned in school, what does that say about the school I went to?
The debate on social network and fora equivalence seems to never stop. Social networks (Twitter, Facebook, ...) are structured around individuals. The profile of each individual matters. Fora (Usenet, HN, Reddit, ...) are structured around discussions. The topic of each discussion matters. (The topic being indirectly set by the article submitted in HN's case.) You can have topical discussions in social networks, you can have an identity in fora, and yes, there's a socialization aspect in both but their core focus differ.
Exactly. We never needed machines before to kill each other or commit genocides or kill babies. We even vote murderers into office.
I did not mean that EU laws make returning on Amazon easy in general but that these laws may make Amazon less likely to behave the same in a way they do e.g. in the US.
You're right. That doesn't mean that some shops won't ask and expect an answer though. So even though you're legally not required to do so, you'll have to go through an argument about that with the shop, which is annoying and time consuming.
Or vinyl albums, adds an extra dimension to listening to music.
New Technology Aims to Make Marine Protected Areas More Effective
People really do be misunderstanding the significance of Bitcoin being priced in USD. An inversion of what it means in almost every context.
Aomori, but yes it's amazing that everything keeps working in those conditions (in general, not just Amazon).
That post is by a completely different Bartosz.
This will upset the diaper face brigade.
Can anybody comment on whether this actually works properly and does what it claims to do?
> Only same-species couples can reproduce

This “definition” can so easily be reduced to the absurd by simply going back in time in steps to the common ancestor of, say, humans and dogs, and then going up again, to then by transitivity prove that human beings and dogs are the same species, yet they cannot reproduce together.

The classification of “species” is entirely arbitrary, any “definition” of it offered is shallow and pædantic.