skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm - this is really a deep issue here. How should we learn about these new treatments? Shouldn't we wait for the dentist to learn about it and evaluate - wouldn't someone with more background information be more suitable for that and maybe save us from traps? On average I would agree with that - but there are cracks in the bureaucracy mainstream medicine machine: https://equilibriabook.com/, and also I believe that communities like HN can be somehow trusted - it is possible to be better than the average: https://zby.medium.com/rational-patient-community-6d3617dffc...
The writing quality is so poor that I suspect artificial voting is at hand.
Invention Dice – Atomic Shrimp
Because Amazon has allowed their store to be filled with buyer-beware scams. Much of their electronics are knockoffs - good luck buying legit batteries, chargers, etc. You're shopping, with inventory commingling, from who knows who. Is the device actually new, or is it a refurb or return? Etc.

For any substantially expensive device, they can also void the warranty by not being an authorized dealer. Or at least create a hassle for the person attempting to use that warranty.
It works all over the place...

Your buddy is over at your house and they're bitching about their significant other.

"Well, you could try listening to your SO's complaints, weighing them for validity, and consider acting on them."

Your drunk buddy will almost certainly take that better than if you told them they should shut the hell up and listen to the valid criticism levied against them by their spouse.
For every PhD saying something accurate there's hundreds of far more popular disinformation sources that are backed by superstition and sometimes funded by superstitious conspiracy peddlers, and sometimes by cold war enemies. Social media is by it's nature manipulatable, those with the bots and the money win. Not to mention plenty of people with phds are looking to make that Dr.Oz money or just being a plain superstitious human being that doesn't care about the truth.
> a quick read of any Communist literature (yes, even the Manifesto) would correct this notion.

You must have missed it. And by it, I mean the whole document. Here's an extract from one of the dialogs:

> Question 3: How do you wish to achieve this aim?
> Answer: By the elimination of private property and its replacement by community of property

More extracts:

> What will this new social order have to be like
> ... Private property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement – in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods.

And more:

> Finally, when all capital, all production, all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation, private property will disappear of its own accord, money will become superfluous, and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain
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> What will be the consequences of the ultimate disappearance of private property?
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> ...

Karl Marx studied Property Law and his pamphlets before and after the Communist Manifesto were all about abolishing the personal ownership of property!
Do you live outside the EU? After 50M€ of fines, they seem to finally understanding the meaning of the word "privacy". A few days after creating a GMail account (for my printer), I even received an invitation to do a privacy checkup.
Next week: Opt-out for the cameras on amazon devices to inspect your package opening process and send it for internal review.

Data sent over neighbors wifi via another amazon device
This reminds me of my father's advice to every client (he had a corporate litigation practice):

"When you feel the urge to write an email, pick up the f*king phone instead. When in 5 years you're being cross-examined you can say 'I don't remember saying that' and you won't be lying, because we're too old to remember things, and I won't have to bill you for the time it takes to read all the f*king emails."
Another one for the ‘nurture’ crowd
> This was despite the fact that when boxed the Sony a1 weighs 3.22 lb (1.46 kg), and the Chiles’ package was listed by UPS as weighing only 2 lb (900 g).

Not sure why Amazon was still arguing at this point. If UPS confirms the package was basically empty, then Amazon has no reason to believe the customer was lying.
If the company issues "must WFO. mandatory." order , I will comply with it .
There’s probably a practical argument to be made against the theoretical possibility of building such a system: I think that just the halting problem is proof that we cannot implement a system that does this.

But I think there are two arguments that might be worth more from a practical perspective: first, there are certainly programs with sections that could be optimized if you knew of some restriction on inputs. However, you could do that with tools available today (turn a variable parameter to a function into a constant, then compile and decompile the program). But by extension there must be programs whose representation is already the simplest form of expressing the computation they do (eg. hailstone sequence).

Second, there are real world influences that reduce a program from theoretical computation to the practice of it (I/O considerations are just one example).

The language that could be fully analyzed would have to strip some of that complexity and in process become sub-Turing-complete.

Since my team at work maintains something like a data flow language, I always find a different question that interests me: what if we selectively gave up Turing completeness? What if we embraced pure functional languages for more of our work? What could that buy us in terms of maintainability/quality of software?
MAD doesn't work when the people who get destroyed aren't the people who launched the missiles. It isn't enough for them to be other people from the same faction.

When Kennedy was considering nuking Khrushchev, he had to face the reality that, if he did, his own family would die, and if he didn't, they probably wouldn't. Khrushchev, mutatis mutandis. If Kennedy had given the first-strike command, an individual colonel in a missile silo pondering whether to disobey wouldn't face a similar choice; he would know that, whatever he chose, hundreds of other colonels at other missile silos would launch their missiles, the Soviets would retaliate, and his family would die. So his only self-interest was not getting court-martialed for insubordination.

The difference with cancel culture is that there is no Kennedy and no Khrushchev who has the authority to not fire the missiles. Every missile silo independently decides whether to fire and who to fire at, but they compete with other missile silos on the same side to demonstrate greater viciousness. And, instead of killing a million people, every missile kills a ten-thousandth of a person. So it's more of a grinder, as you say, than a firestorm.

So, there's no net gain, but abstaining from the witch hunt is not a Nash equilibrium. It may even put you up at the stake next week when it's seen that you were insufficiently enthusiastic about today's Three Minutes Hate.

More concretely, if you choose not to fire your employee because there's a social media hate campaign directed at him, whether you're right or not, that won't provide you any protection at all when it comes out that twelve years ago you posted something anti-transgender. Or pro-transgender, depending on who's canceling you.

Your optimistic prediction would be true in a world where collective action was easy, and we had plenty of free software, no global warming, and no taxes, just volunteer work.
I’m in Europe. Earlier this year, I ordered from Amazon Japan, the package arrived quicker than things I had ordered earlier on a European Amazon and it was insanely well packaged.
> In Marxist theory, the term private property typically refers to capital or the means of production, while personal property refers to consumer and non-capital goods and services

Hmm... maybe I misread the Communist Manifesto or something, but I did not get this. In fact, you can almost feel his hatred about the whole idea of personal ownership. This even extends to marriage and having children i.e children should be raised by the commune rather than individual parents.
Age is not even close to being some sort of GPG replacement:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:agevspgp
existing threads in same topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317946

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27318141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27326312
The UK government uses public schools to push their preferred narrative around British history and “Britishness”.

However, I think the real reason for schools is that the government sees a return on investment via taxation of a higher skilled workforce.
I trust amazon 1st party store shipping

I do NOT trust the million other people selling things on amazon storefront hoping that you don't notice they're not actually amazon
I know. Didn't you notice the ";)" ?
The comment was a joke in the same spirit as the parent comment.
like what services ?
What is particularly stupid is thinking that people don’t change. And that’s especially true with things posted when you are a teenager. People judging someone through a post made when they were 14-16 year old (or even 25 years ago) should be the one fired.
One prong of an approach would be to maintain a reputation that didn't make this seem instantly plausible.
I agree. I don’t books on Amazon anymore here in Germany unless I cannot get the book anywhere else.

As for Amazon Japan, their packaging is most often top-notch although that’s more related to Japanese mentality than to Amazon‘s policy.
Don't use Amazon all that much but from the comments here and in other articles that seem to pop up more often recently I figure now time has come for Amazon to finally milk that sweet sweet trust relationship.

I've recently used newly opened Amazon.pl, first purchase and I had to wait +5 weeks for a small item. I'm not used to navigating the labyrinth of checking whether something is fulfilled by someone or whatever. I just had the displeasure of buying something from a dropshipper.
Check the package weight when its shipped.
The latter. Counter is stored persistently; power is needed only to decrease the counter (according to the article).
The winning strategy for Amazon is to segregate by loyalty: Have an absolutely stunning experience until you are addicted, then let you have bad products and focus on newer clients.

In fact, nothing tells us we all see the same prices either. I suspect they only show me more expensive items, because I can find my A4 paper at 6€ elsewhere instead of 10€ on Amazon. And same goes for most other stuff. Maybe after a few years, Amazon profits off us with a hefty margin. Price segmentation by (reverse) customer loyalty.
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> without the need to destroy large patches of land.

As long as you do not have uranium mines in your own back yard.
Well, it was pretty clear in this case as even UPS confirmed the package was way too light to actually contain the TV.
Look, we're stuck with some big businesses; it's hard to have a cell phone without the big three carriers. But there's no reason to use a big bank that doesn't care about customer service. Credit unions have big ATM networks, and most of them have good customer service, and some of them actually have interest rates on deposits (as much as anyone does these days, but 0.5% is better than 0.001%). Even doing banking at a brokerage is a step up vs a big bank.

All that said, a registered letter often helps, and so does copying said letter to their regulator and/or a relevant member of congress. If I had a major issue and couldn't get anything done, I'd try protesting at their corporate HQ.
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Lots of books on Amazon are now printed on demand. In theory a smart and possibly environmentally friendly practice.

But you end up with smudgy pages from a bad printer, pages missing, and a book binding not lasting more than a day.
Mass influencing with added custom targetting. Or fake id-ing someone else. Honestly I can’t think of anything other than that. It’s just information pollution for the most part probably. Now if they would have worked on a digital sign language avatar, that would be something innovative or useful.
Silent auto-update would also be normally classified as a deliberate RCE vulnerability or a backdoor, but for some reason most people are okay with that.
Apple itself tracks you, yes. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223).

As said above however Apple does not consider this 'tracking' because they don't share the information with third parties.
Recently i ordered something via newegg, after a week they canceled order bc seller didn’t ship, then next day it arrived in amazon box
Because Amazon co-mingles inventory from sellers by UPC. So if one crook ships in empty boxes and you buy from someone else you still can get shafted and the honest seller eats the costs.
I imagine they do some type of internal checks to see if it is a residential address and if there have been similar issues in the area. If they feel like the buyer may be lying then I'm sure they have some way to turn the matter over to investigators who may monitor their financial records and may even send police or FBI to surveil them.
there used to be citus but now it's part of microsoft Azure
As a rule I don't order from Amazon beyond a certain price point. I purchase from a physical retail store. First couple of years of Amazon in India was really good. Good collection, low prices and good customer experience. But as their orders and catalog has shot everything about them has become a shitshow, at least from what I've observed. Also they have significantly ramped up 3rd party sellers and given extremely high density of retail stores in India I might as well go visit those stores and cut out Amazon. If I run into problems I can "physically" visit a store and talk to someone; with Amazon I might as well have better chances of talking to God.
"You could just write that routine in plain assembly, C is really just a syntax"
Common Film Formats and Types
I literally had an Amazon delivery person (err..1099 contactor?) throw a package over the fence at my apartment complex last year and hit my window. They do not care, add to this the piles of amazon boxes the differently-housed are grabbing off of porches and it's a real mess.
English Grammar Error Correction Algorithm Using NLP
The one thing Amazon provides is trust and this is their main asset. All of their wares you can buy anywhere, buy on Amazon you have reviews and a third party (Amazon) who mediates.
Now the big BUT. Amazon integrates every step and thus loses the mediation ability and they are losing the trust with fake reviews.

Nowadays I research items on Amazon and search specialized shops to get them from and maybe get someone to chat with about the stuff I am going to buy. Because I can't trust the reviews on Amazon
Four Laps – A looping ignite talk recorded live. (5 min video)
By stopping it from happenings o often. Since they have no control and it clearly happens all the time, it's on them.

It's such a common scam to buy stuff and return an empty box. If they've deemed it not worth the cost to check returns it's again on them.

But now those returning empty boxes will probably add rocks to match the weight or so.
These are like dispatches from deep within a cult compound that can only be made by ignoring virtually every metric of human well-being. Poverty, illiteracy, infant mortality, etc., one could go on for days, they're all better. But from within the cult, it looks like "disaster" for other people to use the electricity they bought how they want.

I find it revealing what happens if you say "oh, well, if you're worried about pollution, let's do nuclear." The strange thing is, somehow it's still a problem for them. One begins to wonder if the real issue is not pollution, but simply using plentiful electricity for purposes the complainers don't approve of.
Caution is still advised. ML identity-matching using your writing patterns/idiosyncracies will likely be a thing in the near future.
I have an always recording CCTV camera outside my door. I just unbox it in view of that camera, and then show the goods to the camera in detail.

Then any claims of missing/wrong/damaged goods go through smoothly.

Most security cameras don't have autofocus, so showing closeups of scratches doesn't work...
Yes. If the message is unable to be delivered to the recipient via iMessage, then it is sent as SMS instead. So for example if you try to send a message to someone and their phone is turned off or doesn’t have signal, it will eventually fail and then send as SMS.

This is all controlled via a setting in iOS iMessage settings “Send as SMS”, which I believe is turned on by default but I’m not sure. So your mileage may vary.
This is certainly one of those instances where I'd raise hell, but I actually avoid trying to file lost item claims with Amazon for smaller ticket items. I know they have automated systems in place to prevent fraud, and I'm terrified that reporting for smaller ticket items will get my Amazon account banned. I've had a friend have this happen with his Doordash account; the sushi place he orders from a lot was pretty bad at sending everything he ordered, and after reporting this to Doordash every time, they eventually disabled his account. To this day, the restaurant is still on Doordash.
TV? This was an order for a mirrorless digital camera.
Trying to get back on track in life
I am really socially, vocationally, and intellectually alienated and I have been for a while (years). I don't feel that bad day to day but I do feel bad that it seems that life is passing me by. I am not working or earning anywhere near my potential or interacting with people as I should be. I was wondering if the community here, such as it is, has any tips for daily exercises or practices that can help me get back on track in a kaizen or incremental way a little bit every day.

For example I am so alienated, I don't even know what goals I would like to pursue.

I have been interested in technology and computers for years and have some experience with Unix SA, programming and networking but at a hobbyist than at a professional level.

The cloud and countainers and all the programing fads and stuff are actually becoming off-putting to me. I see the space (CS / SE) as increasingly over saturated with bullshit.

This puts me off from wanting to learn more and try to find work in the sector. Maybe something more applied like embedded or graphics processing or GIS mapping or numerical processing would be interesting but frankly I am beginning to find the cutting edge of most of what is talked about here on HN to be off putting. It seems like fantasy and free money is driving work rather than real innovation or utility.

Anyway right now I am working a low skill "dead end" job not in computers or tech and am trying to figure out how to apply myself a little bit every day during the time when I am not working, to get into a better position in life. Maybe a good job in tech would be something to aim for. Maybe something outside of tech. I have a BA from a number of years ago...

I have found therapy to be utterly useless for addressing real problems. I have a dysfunctional and semi-estranged family and extremely minimal social support outside of family. I live away from my parents who are older and checked out.

30s...going on 18 still waiting to "start" life...
I've read his two-volume book on mammalian hybrids. He guides the reader through some thousands of reports, and some suprising commonalities can be seen that are hard to discount, even if specific cases may seem unlikely.
Yeah, no kidding, which is why you got immediate pushback on how naive contrarian nonsense that expressed view was.

"we should make more paper to save the earth from co2" is some real... whatever.

You both know better and can do better. Are you willing?
> The size and novelty gave people the freedom to be themselves and find friends easily.

This is precisely why most people are happier at university than high school, imo
Of course, there's interesting work to be done at all levels of the stack. However, not every company will allocate time for solving frequently-encountered problems with creative solutions. Often, it's "ok, what's the minimum amount of time we can spend to fix this problem *right now*?", rather than "how can we make sure we don't have to re-solve this problem again ten more times in the future?"

Not me, but a friend described a whole team of engineers at his company hired to put out the fires caused by using database software that is a poor fit for the application, rather than biting the bullet and either 1) performing a migration or 2) rolling their own solution.
To me, it boils down to RAM.

One can choose to store the data in weird ways that map to the screen, or use table lookups. From there, unrolled code can go damn fast too, and in all those scenarios, RAM is used to cope with goofy addressing.

Then comes 7 pixels per byte!

On the plus side, doing that, plus the high bit shifting pixels a little to provide a basic color attribute bit, meant getting a 6 color display instead of a 4 color one.

6 colors is enough to do basically anything. 4 is not quite enough.

But, that also means having to either shift data prior to blitting it to the screen (slower), or preshifting (faster), and more preshifted data copies are needed because the color by bit position repeats every two bytes, not every byte like pretty much all the other 1bpp + artifact, or 2bpp systems needed.

If one has the RAM, fact is the Apple did not have screen DMA wait states slowing the CPU down. That meant getting the best of 1Mhz.

It also made the system easy to accelerate too.

A 2 to 4Mhz Apple performs very well on software sprites.

But even the stock machine could deliver quite a bit more than one might expect, given things could fit into RAM.

4Mhz can deliver a side scroller on par, BTW. But, that would still be a RAM challenge to hold the diversity of images seen in something like Keen.
Being freelance or just remote employee in a different timezone works as well.
Article on How the video was made is here:

https://medium.com/the-rectangle-behind-you/the-making-of-fo...
Most users don't know it's a marketplace. And Amazon tries to hide that. If they want to own the shopping experience, they also have to own the returns, fraud, bad reputation etc.
Wait till your IP address gets banned from something for being a source of spam
Is the fear really justified though?

My first thought is to ignore them because they’re usually microscopic in terms of scale but I’d love to hear from someone who has had their business targeted by a mob and what effect it had on the bottom line and morale
This is what chargebacks are for and even if you get banned over it for this much money I’d say it’s worth it, heck for 7k I’d take it to court. Would be an easy judgement based on the label weights alone.
“convincing your friends to switch to it” is the real issue. Or remembering which platform various friends use and keeping that straight. And when you have multiple friends who prefer different platforms, figuring out the intersection of messaging platforms that they all use. Or when you have a friend on Facebook messenger but you don’t know their phone number, or a friend who can’t have WeChat installed on their corporate phone, or any number of other situations.
existing threads on same topic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19677721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127387

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684321
They're just following the script.
This is not trustworthy. They dont really confirm at all. I've had them be off with label weight by multiple pounds before.
Le Guin's essay "Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown" https://books.google.dk/books?id=ksOjjuy3issC&lpg=PA7&pg=PA1... is pretty appreciative of The Man In The High Castle.