skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I studied it under the name of "Informatik" (Germany), which seems to be the most commonly used word in Europe.

The Wikipedia article for "Computer Science" has relevant information, quote (some line breaks added):

In the early days of computing, a number of terms for the practitioners of the field of computing were suggested in the Communications of the ACM—turingineer, turologist, flow-charts-man, applied meta-mathematician, and applied epistemologist. Three months later in the same journal, comptologist was suggested, followed next year by hypologist. The term computics has also been suggested.

In Europe, terms derived from contracted translations of the expression "automatic information" (e.g. "informazione automatica" in Italian) or "information and mathematics" are often used, e.g. informatique (French), Informatik (German), informatica (Italian, Dutch), informática (Spanish, Portuguese), informatika (Slavic languages and Hungarian) or pliroforiki (πληροφορική, which means informatics) in Greek.

Similar words have also been adopted in the UK (as in the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh). "In the U.S., however, informatics is linked with applied computing, or computing in the context of another domain."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
"Data science is not about data" - I can see a pattern here
I wonder actually where this stuff happens typically. Clearly some seems to happen before things even get to Amazon, that whole counterfeit commingling thing you hear about, where the 3rd-party stock gets used even if you buy from Amazon directly. (How this could be worth it to do at all vs. the reputational damage is unclear but I guess they're always chasing the small efficiencies... still you'd think it would be easy for Amazon to track the actual source of fake/nonexistent items even when they're mingled like that.)

I'd have to think theft by the warehouse workers is pretty rare, it feels like the kind of thing they'd surveil and police quite zealously.

You can tell they're increasing the scrutiny on drivers as well with them having to take photos of the delivered item, and they've clearly always been closely tracked on time and location.
Diversity and interesting things for one. It was just so much easier to find interesting things in the past, because everyone was trying to do something naughty in a good way.

Now you can't take a step without hearing people talk about how they are joining Slack or whatever with great comp as a Team Lead and building slow as hell software.
We often measure the loss in dollars, or more likely in number of lives. We don't have a measure for the vast amount of human capital that was destroyed in the second world war.
I think he means person without a home.
The RATP really doesn't care. If they did, they wouldn't leave it to rot for years in non-secured locations known to attract vandals.
Slightly off topic, but Sony do have pretty confusing naming schema, externally.
There are some good points in there, especially "none are above me". Not just at work, but in all aspects of life, treat others with respect as equals. It doesn't matter if it's the janitor or a CEO or the homeless guy selling newspapers in front of the grocery store. Try to at least meet everyone at eye level, understand them and empathize with their situation and motivations.

As for the workplace, be loyal to people, never to a company. The company will kick you out at their unfeeling convenience, but people can and will respect you and support you.
It is NOT over. At our company we had a hybrid model where in each room everyone was able to work AT the company but still had the option to work from home. This way we prevented some psycological issues which some got after working from home to long with wife/husband and kids. I really like it and hope we continue on it. sure everyone had to communicate when where was at the company and home but it works till now! Btw our company is near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Homeoffice isnt something thats common here but gets more and more interest (for whatever reason). I personally prefer working at the company and once a week at home.
I'm genuinely surprised that people have such vastly different experiences with Amazon. I made 231 orders with them last year(lockdown....) And haven't had a problem with a single one. Couple times I wanted to return something they just refunded me without asking to send the item back. Everything arrives next day, always(here in UK anyway), and the customer support is stellar compared to literally anywhere else. Anyone who has ever had to contact Currys customer support should know what I'm talking about.

Like, I see all of these comments on HN all the time but I have the exact opposite experience - they just have no competition over here. I'm at a point where even if something is slightly more expensive on Amazon I'd rather buy from them as I know their CS Support won't try to screw me over.
I suggest a combination of theory (videos/books/papers) and practice.

For practice; I highly recommend learning Haskell. If you are new to functional programming then learning Haskell is challenging and frustrating but as with any new topic the key is to not give up but keep probing. A good recent development is lot of mainstream languages are beginning to include functional paradigms such as lambda, closures etc., For example Java introduced lambda expressions, Javascript has had them for a while now. But from a first-principles stand point Haskell is as good as it gets so please do learn and code in Haskell if not at work then at least side projects.

For theory I've found following material super useful.

0. This[0] is an incredibly awesome lecture where Phil Wadler takes us on a whirlwind tour of computer science. He talks us through different foundational structures on which almost everything (hardware and software) about computer science is built. I watch this lecture once every few months :-). It helps you build up context and ground various topics.

1. The one and only SICP. Book[1] and lectures[2].

2. Automata theory[3]. This isn't an easy course but gets to the heart of the matter i.e., the meaning of "function" and what how can it be mechanically "computed".

3. Category Theory is where lot of active research is happening in CS theory. This is a very good lecture series[4]. The pace may seem a bit meandering but don't be put off. Bartosz is a gifted teacher and works incredibly hard to disseminate knowledge. For evidence just look at a recent post on HN[5] about an article he published.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeRVdYN6fE8

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...

[3] http://ce.sharif.edu/courses/94-95/1/ce414-2/resources/root/...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LbkfSSR58&list=PLbgaMIhjbm...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991300
Does running your own business appeal to you?

Consider a position in hard-sell sales to give yourself a different perspective. A more aggressive approach might give you a better idea of how consumers think.

You don't have to deal with the latest trends, resume driven development or corporate nonsense if you work for yourself. Web development is an open landscape for adventurers.
Happened to me with a phone. Lego can check the completeness of packages by weighting grams, Amazon can't check the weight of a package with a phone ? Only could solve the problem with the help of the police. Then they would not cancel the attached carrier contract (which does not make sense without the subsidized phone) because they said Amazon's systems can create contracts but not cancel them. Again only the police helped.

In the past I've got sent sometimes used electronics sold as new - recently I got 3 times used electronics as new in a row. Isnt that fraud?
Hmm, where are you from? I'm from norther Spain and those nouns don't suggest anything related to science for me. "El matemático" may be, but just because we associate it with a theoretical field, "Informático" is a practitioner of "Informática", as "Químico" is from "Química".
I find it especially galling when for a document title search, I’ll see public domain reports (NASA NTRS PDFs for instance) ranking higher in Google results for buying a print on demand copy via Amazon at significantly inflated prices, or honestly just what is plain disgustingly greedy, the many charlatans selling them as kindle ebooks, sometimes as multiple skus with different prices, trying to profit from people that don’t know any better.
I've never seen a big rewrite succeed. I've seen rewrites used as an escape from facing the hard problems of an existing system, and I'm as guilty of that as anyone. This point is a reminder to myself to address the problems of the existing system rather than avoid them with a rewrite.

"Face the problems" might have been clearer, but this point is inspired by a time where, in hindsight, I should have got up from my desk and physically gone to another building to talk to the people who could fix the problem. I also should have spent more time reading and and changing legacy systems instead of avoiding them. It means, to me, to get close to the people and systems involved with the problems (or who are causing the problems). Sometimes the problems aren't that hard to fix, but to fix them you'd have to learn a legacy system written in another language, or contribute to another team's project, etc, and so I think of it as going to the problem, you just need to be where the problem is.
I already give people reasons they should avoid them. Even when I tell them you have to tell Alexa to delete history at the end of the day they’re not all that concerned. Useful list of tips here :

https://voicebrew.com/alexa-day-30/alexa-privacy/
LLVM switching off will be a big deal. They might even move to Github after this as they moved their repositories to github, too.
Show HN: Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board
There are lots of places where someone can show up and get work done. University students will know a few places, on and around the campus.

I just can't think of a collaborative space where like-minded souls collide, aside from perhaps hacker spaces. Is there anything like those Paris cafés where seemingly all famous artists went and drank together?
Provided the items are fulfilled locally (as in Japan) the packaging and delivery tends to be pretty much flawless. I'm honestly surprised by the number of English books they stock locally.
Yes, they are mere suggestions. You are doing great with the site, attracting attention to Dark Patterns in general and now with HoS to the specific parties involved. Highly appreciate the effort, thanks.
Easily one of the best add-ons I've installed. Thanks.
The same for me. I had one damaged product, a pack of pork rinds that opened up because it was too tightly packed next to 5L of olive oil. Because of my experience with their customer service (and delivery service which is second only to DHL for me), other merchants need to be substantially cheaper.
The USPS shipped weight of the package was less than the weight of the camera. There actually was evidence.
Sadly I have a me-too experience in ordering English books from Amazon UK for shipment to Romania. Packages don't arrive & surprisingly, Amazon seem to have no idea as to the carrier responsible. On two occasions, books arrived and Amazon had marked them down as 'lost' until I told them otherwise. Time to look for another UK bookseller but finding one who's learnt from the positive side of the Amazon phenomenon is difficult.
And never enjoy a night out? :thumbsdown:
paperd.ink is a 4.2" e-paper display coupled with an ESP32 microcontroller. It's open-source,
fully hackable and all the PCB and 3D printing files are available on our Github repo. It’s low
power so you can run it for a month on a single charge. Update wirelessly using WiFi, Bluetooth. Display your calendar, to-do list, weather, custom images, whatever you want. Code using
micropython, Arduino, or ESP-IDF.

It was too hard to launch a hardware product on a shoestring budget dealing with way too many issues amidst the pandemic. But thanks to the HN community, we got a great response last year on our prototype which gave us confidence to move forward!
I consider Amazon a malicious website. Just take the books being deleted off of peoples’ Kindles.
I remember when PS3 was launched, some vendors announced "PS3 BOX", put the price around 10% lower than the real price and sent only the box.
While I get the frustration, I also don't understand the logic of continuing to order from a restaurant when you have frequent bad experiences with them. Is it really surprising that after a while Doordash just doesn't want to be in the middle of that relationship?
This hasn't even started trials, so its as good as my cousin freds snakeoil potice.
I need to understand more about the physics. so far the most convincing argument goes for mass.
I don't think you need to be envious. The degree isn't important as the learning and doing science is rewarding in and of itself, even on your own. You're already applying your mind.
>Does it hurt when you push the roots from outside at your face? Also does it feel mushy or liquid-ly at some point.

I don't think so.
Or British East India Company. Not like either wasn't predatory back in its heyday.
I once got banned from a pizza place for this. I had some fussy eating friends and would order pizza, but they would frequently screw up orders like “no cheese”, sometimes even multiple times in succession, as in I’d order it, tell them they screwed up, they would send a replacement and it too would be screwed up… eventually I “wasn’t allowed to register any more complaints”.
Yes, but the only reason you can imagine it this way is that the many other possible ways are ruled out by the fact we do not observe them.

There is no purely logical reason the universe couldn't be such that a person's soul is capable of moving the air, such that they can actually speak.
They inject something in the gums that removes sensitivity there so you feel nothing, and then have half your face frozen for 4h afterwards because it acts on the nearby nerves that control your facial muscles.

Having experienced both (frozen and not frozen), I can't tell what's better. The feeling when they're digging in the tooth without freezing isn't great but it's not painful either; the feeling when they put a needle in your gum to inject the product isn't great either but then you don't feel the procedure. I'd say it's different but equivalent in terms of discomfort.
I ordered via newegg, a NZXT case for my computer which was S$180, it seemed to be less than retail, and in Singapore it was $350 at the time. What was strange tho was other cases were listed for: S$2##.## Shipping...

This 1 case was listed as free shipping. So I ordered it, was charged S$180, and 2 weeks later received a brand new, unopened, case, with glass panel all intact no issues.
At the end of the day most big companies have found its a better strategy to trust/not dispute customers in these situations. If they wanted to I don't think that would hold up, it's not as though you are opening it in a controlled supervised environment.
I mean, their Sony OLED TV series is literally called the A8, so I'd also guess an A1 is a TV
Are you insinuating that accidentally killing 6 people with engineering oversight is not a bad day for the engineer that designed that bridge, via sarcasm?
Are we talking about the name of a fruit that comes from the same place where the name was borrowed from? If so, why is that surprising?
It was in this story, but there have been cases of people shipping rocks or sand to match the product weight.
You must have a very secure delivery location, and I'm willing to bet that you probably live in a more affluent community, if what you're saying is even true. That and/or you're having stuff delivered to Amazon locations.

Not to mention not everything is shipped from seller / manufacturer to you via Amazon.
If I was a god I would never send anyone to hell to burn forever in fiery torment. For this situation I would be very very tempted to make an exception. Anyone who sets up an automated system designed specifically to hassle people for seeking recourse for being wronged, deserves every form of torture they get.
I say resubmit this. I opened this post from /new then the tab got buried, very sad to see nobody noticed it.
I feel there is something universal about the phase in which the company enters and it is interesting to learn what moves companies in different phases.

Growing market, good press around, apologists for your brand, regulation and anti-monopoly scrutiny seems far away. Then the company is risk-taking, 7k$ that somebody occasionally may cheat is nothing in comparison to a possible blog post saying how awesome the company is. I think miraculously Apple is still here now, Google and Amazon were here 10 years ago, now AWS is here, Microsoft came here again recently, etc.

Then times come that bad press is there regardless of what you do, regulators watch you carefully. Then the user support becomes some scripts to follow, revenue over the next months (or launch before the next promotion cycle) is all you care about. Here I think how Verizon were super greedy and tried to milk the Droid brand within the 1st year, essentially killing it. I think the problem is once you enter this phase, it self-reinforces to stay here.

I have a theory why Google moved from one to the other and I have no view on the others, but at least here I think it was majority external factors not withing the company.
I was aware of "Sitepal" since before 2010.

https://www.sitepal.com/demo
> Good work can be judged by good managers, and rewarded, without anyone having to play bureaucratic games.

I lost hope this is possible. Even as a non-manager architect, I struggle to see good work if it's not made visible.

Fortunately, making good work visible takes little effort from the doer: take "before" and "after" screenshots; update the docs; if you improved performance, leave some plots behind; talk about your work and the benefits it brings.

All in all, if you are a software engineer, stop treating yourself as a code monkey and start treating yourself as a problem solver. You don't hear plumpers showing their hammer, they show the pipe stopped leaking. Same with software, stop showing code and start showing their effects.
There are countless alternatives. Why did you choose Google?

> TL;DR It's a small fraction of users who are affected

Yes, though any of your users can be affected, randomly, without warning.
Running a business may appeal to me. I am not sure if I am really wired to be a sales guy though. I am more of an introverted, analytic thinker. A few years ago I sold several tens of thousands of dollars of stuff on Ebay over the course of a year. Then I got out when it stopped being profitable. But starting a business from the ground up is a different ball game.

I could probably learn the skills to be a competitive "Web-Dev" for local businesses. It is a really low capital requirements business to start. Basically 100% knowledge. The thing is, once a business has a website they don't need a new one too often. My local market may be pretty well saturated. I supposed that I could sell to the wider world.

My niche would be minimalism. It really irks me how bloated the modern web is. Problem may be that most businesses think they need 5 mb of javascript to look professional. Maybe I could use CSS for professional looking, light weight pages.
That is not completely true. Thermodynamics tells that, overall, to produce energy, you must spend a lot more energy. You may think to the nuclear plant: it doesn't build by itself, you produce lots of environmental pollution to get it
Automotive companies joint technical specifications for vehicle communications
So if my neighbour is abusing their Amazon account, if I get an empty box instead of a $7000 camera I get FBI to surveil me? What a fantastic idea, and it absolutely won't lead to any sort of discrimination whatsoever. I can already see the house listings "in a good neighbourhood, Amazon parcels arrive without a police surveillance van".
Well, it's possible to donate or transfer assets as part of a liquidation.
Am I the only one who had trouble finding the parameters menu in instagram?

Same thing for google mail.

Sometimes I wonder if it's crappy design or because they would prefer default settings (notifications etc)
Go to the US. Australia cannot compete on salary, even after cost of living differences. You can easily earn double in the US.

The E-3 visa makes it a lot easier than other countries, too.
First OTRS goes closed source and now Phabricator decides to call it quits.

The Wikimedia foundation seems to be a bit on a bad luck streak regarding some of the OSS projects it uses. Would be really cool to see a Phabricator fork though. Especially the issue managment is unmatched in my opinion. Having a single pool of issues works way better then having issues per repo if your working in an organization.
Yes, interactive language exercises. Use it to create tailored dialogues, like the Pimsleur tapes.
Systems that lack forward secrecy are by design incapable of preventing archives of eventually-plaintext messages. There's nothing you can do about it; every message you send is irrevocably a part of the adversary's record, and, because you rely on a single long-term key, you know eventually that record will be plaintext. That's why forward secrecy is such a big deal, and why every modern messaging cryptosystem uses ephemeral keys.
I wonder how many product designers read this as a learning opportunity. This site clearly states that dark patterns are effective (if evil).
Programming languages are not full linguistics, at least not yet. We focus primarily on syntax, semantics and pragmatics. All of this, though, is firmly rooted in mathematics, defining grammar as expressions and mathematical relationships. This then enables formal mathematical proofs where we can reason about outcome.
I don't know if there exists such search that you mention, or it is more of an optimization of language features to problem space.
Perhaps in a future where we're able to program our machines by having a conversation with them...
Planned obsolescence at its best! What happens in a few years when the screen goes out and Ford no longer maintains the part? A switch or knob is an easy repair. A lcd screen with an embedded microcontroller sending undocumented I2C commands to the other car components maybe not so easy?
Amazon JP got a little worse ever since they started having their own delivery, which is not great compared to Yamato or Sagawa, which they were using before (and are still using sometimes, it's not clear under what conditions). But the difference is almost at the level of nitpicking. When you're used to top-notch service, and you suddenly get a subpar experience, that's kind of disappointing.