skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "gambling" implies that there are decent odds that you'll walk away with nothing.

This is obviously a high probability event in options trading.

Odds you'll walk away with nothing if you buy into Tesla? Close to 0. Odds you'll lose >50% of your money - not 0.

If you think buying into a global market index fund over a 30-year horizon has a decent probability of a negative real return - not to be rude - but you're a bit clueless about finance.

Sure, if you buy individual stocks - for any horizon - that's roughly "gambling". You could even call buying into the S&P for a <10 year horizon "gambling" - although, statistically, your chance of a negative real return is VERY low, and your chance of a positive real return is VERY high.

This isn't what normal people think of when they think of "gambling".
That sounds like an unanswerable question.
There's plenty of ways to commit voter fraud. The fact that the most blatant and easy to catch was so successful should be worrisome to anyone.
the chances of me ever having a say in how i use the toilet is probably 0 or less
On the bright side, there's a spec.
As the parent of a 2 month old: I wish my sleep were a mere two shifts!
In France, they have a different website for the general public ( https://www.rs-particuliers.com ). Its search function is terrible: you basically have to look up the RS ID of whatever your are looking for on the pro site first. But you even have free shipping when ordering during the week-end.

Don't they have similar sites for other EU countries?
While I don't know about this specific person, more likely on HN "CTO" is just a self-appointed "fake it til you make it" title. The amount of times I've casually poked at a "CTO" profile here only to find them to be a recent
bootcamp grad working at a company of 2 with no funding...
All the major app stores restrict pornographic or sexually explicit content.

But if you Google "porn app", the 4th or 5th search result (SexTechGuide) is a page that features the app, with a review, pros/cons, and the funny icon.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ansell-Glove-HyFlex-11-542-Light...
Then as soon as they realize you're not that they'll stop talking to you, and the comment still holds. Perhaps a better phrasing of the phrase might be "...means (they think) you have something they want", but it still applies.
Most if not all of the weekly webinars and all the recordings from TinyML Asia 2020 and TinyML Summit 2021 are on this youtube channel: https://youtube.com/c/tinyML
Nobody can really prove it. But each side can have some supporting evidence.

The shipper might be able to prove that the transport company picked up a package. Beyond that it's all hearsay if we are talking about fraudulent sellers.

The transport company might have evidence of a tracking number and thus most probably an actual package making it through the system. Shipments do get lost or stolen though. No way to prove anything really.

The customer can't prove it either. There are enough cases of packages with a tracking number having arrived at my and other people's doorsteps without the tracking ever showing that it happened. Why wouldn't the opposite be true? Driver just needs to scan package arrival not actually deliver. Of course there can be repercussions and I'd gather it's easier for a package to be stolen off other parts of the delivery chain. Anyway in this case both the shipper and customer have 'proof' / no proof to various degrees and in reality something 'fell off the truck'.

It's all about being convincing enough to whoever will be adjudicating this but 100% proof is impossible. The closest the customer could get I think would be 24h Video surveillance of their front entrance. No motion detection, just 24h continuous tape.
On a daily basis? No, I don't. And I live 15 minutes outside of the nearest town, a mile from my nearest neighbor, so if I get by driving once or twice a week, surely those who actually live in cities can get by without driving as well.
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It's not the same because the culture is different.
That policy assumed good faith on the part of the consumer. The original thinking was likely 'OK, if they return it after <timeframe> it's because it was a lemon/never worked right/etc' rather than for abusive reasons like 'TV returned right after Superbowl Sunday' (because they had their party and no longer need it) or 'returned laptop after 6 months' (because the school/work project ended and they no longer need it) So the assumption baked into the policy was that buyers wanted to legitimately own the thing they purchased rather than using the refund policy as a way to get a free short/intermediate term lease.

You seem to be saying 'well they did say any reason' and that good faith on the part of the buyer didn't/shouldn't enter into it. Yes they did, and people behaved the way they did. Now the generous refund policy no longer exists. See how that works?
It is disconcerting that your post, which is factual in every statement, is downvoted. Truth is downvoted on Hacker News? That is fucked-up behaviour. We can be better than this.
global production needs to be reduced
This is why I never buy certain kind of stuff at Amazon, or at least check others first.

Camera and so on, check B&H first.

Other electronics, check Best Buy first.

TV, check Costco, they have 7 year warranty and great prices.

Food items, check Walmart first and maybe Target.

Home improvement stuff, check Home Depot.

N95 masks, never buy on Amazon, you never know what you’ll get, check office stores and Home Depot first.

And so on…
I can attest to this. When I've mentioned owning own I've had a couple of folks snear upon it as though I've affixed a dildo to my toilet seat. The idea that it might be at all pleasurable is grotesque to them - I wonder if they usecheap single ply?
Looks cool, but is it in the same category as anything in the article? This just seems like a good brand.
Point taken.

Though currently during the pandemic the amount of driving I'm doing is limited and tends to low speeds and short distances.

I found it ironic a few years ago when I did a bungee jump that the jump crew had no significant jump injuries after more than a 100k jumps, but they had lost several crew members to road accidents.
| regular Joe

I see what you did there...
I know someone that was on the Dart team. He's a PLT expert. In fact that's rather understating it. Don't mistake some pragmatic choices in language designs targeted for business use with ignorance.
Heavily depends on model, and well, its designed to sit in some heavy duty clothes.

Some ejection seats are supposed to be sat in, continuously, for over 10 hours. While letting you still function.

That said, the cockpits tend to enforce certain posture.
That's a shame; I hope you feel independence in other ways.
> The older I get, the more I appreciate dynamic languages. Fuck, I said it. Fight me.

The other ones are quite obvious but this is the one that really resonated with me. People, with experience, tend to get more pragmatic and less "academic".
I don't use toilet paper at all any longer, haven't bought or used a single square the entire pandemic.

Then again, the RH here is usually around 25%.
Exactly this. A flat earth model can be extremely useful and convenient, and highly accurate depending on the use.
And you can find stuff like "Nuclear Grade Duct Tape": https://www.mcmaster.com/fastening-tape/nuclear-grade-duct-t...
I’m one of those who claim to not (or seldom) be affected by ads, and I’d say my payment history can back that up. I usually buy based on other people’s experiences, eg by scanning 1-star reviews for red flags, or asking people I know about their experiences. When it comes to groceries I just buy products with certain traits (vegan, low on sugar, organic, low waste,...) which usually limits choices to products which are not advertised. Same thing with organic/sustainable fashion.
It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
Also, clearly that person makes a lot of money to not care about costs, they can afford convenience. Not everyone can, which is what makes the "I got mine, so what about everyone else?" attitude dangerous in any circumstance.
> The older I get, the more I appreciate dynamic languages.

Exactly the opposite for me. I just can't stand hovering a variable or a parameter and not getting its exact type, or typing "." after a variable and not having my editor gives me all the available methods on that variable, or running my code just to discover that it instantly crashes because I made a typo or forgot an argument or passed the wrong argument or tried to call a method that doesn't exist on that variable or whatever other issues that happens only with dynamic languages. What a waste of my time.
Maybe best to just disable it for now, I played with e^x as well and the results were off as well.

Ignoring these, I really like Kalk!
I have one of these, the LED is dumb but the digital timer is really nice for repeatability in how much you grind.

Wasn’t willing to pay even more for one with a scale
USD is not backed by gold, mainly so the federal reserve can print money to control inflation. And, if necessary, indirectly tax the poor or financially illiterate by devaluing their savings.
There is lot of modern technology/appliances that Americans strangely refuse to adopt, induction cooktops and combination washer-dryer washing machines for example..
(I have to admit I was maybe a little too annoyed at Stoller's devotion to repeating essentially: "DID YOU KNOW THAT FREE SHIPPING ISN'T REALLY FREE GUYS??? But maybe everyone else didn't find it as patronizing.)
Well said. My comment was phrased in response to its parent comment looking askance at "amassing enormous citations." There is love of truth and not all is corruption.
This is the humor I needed on a long weekend Sunday morning. Do tell us about the industry's dark secrets, 10 years experience "senior engineer".
Without Evan im curious how the project will carry on. He really knew every part of that codebase and all the edge cases. Time and time in the forums I would propose seemingly good ideas but be shown very quickly and kindly by Evan why doing so was going to increase tech debt and wasn’t the best way forward for the project. Not to say it cant be done but losing Evan on the project is just such a huge loss.
Important considerations. Also regarding the power of scale, I think people are happy to go straight to Amazon instead of shopping around because they're confident the price they get is going to be at least as good as anyone else.

So consider my proposal to add to the lexicon of common market regulations: Same Price for All. You can't charge one customer any different unit price than another. (You can add a flat transaction/processing cost and maybe price-proportional fraud-insurance fee.) Volume, customer non grata, negotiated deals...nothing changes the advertised price.

Believe me, I'm one of the most laissez-faire people you're going to meet. But I think this ends up being healthy for all for the same reasons that other anti-monopoly laws do.
As a bonus, those infrared thermometers often have a little laser pointer built-in, which means it can double as a cat toy.

Laser pointers marketed as cat toys are often tiny little things that require annoying & expensive button-cell batteries.

My infrared thermometer / cat toy has a pistol grip so it's easier to hold, and runs off a 9V battery that lasts much longer.
Again, without any real knowledge, this is all speculation on my part, but: I’m assuming multiple shipments for different customers are combined at different points en route, so Amazon is optimizing for cost by choosing the shipper that makes the most sense (for them) for all of those customers.

Maybe it’s in fact trivial, but at Amazon’s scale I find it hard to imagine that any changes to their shipping algorithms are that easy, at least compared to the increased revenue that goes along with it, which in this case presumably is zero.

If you’re willing to put up with all of Amazon’s other crap in exchange for convenience, you’re unlikely to drop them because they won’t allow you to pick the shipper, at least until someone else starts taking business away from them.
From the MidWest -

I've personally been using a bidet since 13. Installed my own in the family home.

In my personal region, and what I've found to be true of a decent, err, portion of the MidWest - the very act of washing in-between your arsecheeks, especially your actual anus, is seen to be gay/homosexual by many. Keep in mind, to these people I've referenced, to be gay/homosexual is one of the worst things you can be on this planet.

Yes, this is completely and utterly irrationally idiotic. However, it is truly true. A few decades from now I presume most of those that perpetuate this ideology will be dead though. Bidets are great, wash your butts you nerds.
A better approach is usually to write test covering all edge cases.
I'm not saying that and I acknowledge that China and the US fought along the side of the Soviet Union. Though it is funny that you ask others not talk about history while your point seems to be based on that.
The TinyML book by Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake is an invaluable resource to getting started! Above all else I would recommend coming up with the top level details of a potential project as you work through the book' tutorials. Learning by doing (especially something one enjoys) is above all else the best way to truly grok something.
Depends a lot on the roast for me. Darker ones seem to lace less flaky floaty bits after grinding
This probably means that a significant number of important apps are still coded in Objective-C, which would not be a big surprise. Is the momentum of Swift language adoption slowing down? If so, perhaps Apple is also hedging their bets.
It's apparently useful for police departments. Or so says every police show ever...
Not to mention that the "single quote" in the article is hardly from a "unknown" author (Charles Dickens), this BBC article on the same topic [0] has several other quotes from well known literature in the same period.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783.amp
Less than 5% of the people I've known didn't have significant driving associated with their work.

This is over decades, across different metro areas.
Here is another example

https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/nnugs0/psa_...

It seems Amazon is ignoring the Opt Outs or resetting them for some reason that they arent clearly disclosing.

Note i cant really test because i dont keep these types of devices in my home. In fact i dont even install the Amazon app. I just set a bookmark on my homescreen in IOS for smile.amazon.com
How do you know your SO wasn't getting ads for wedding rings simply because she was thinking about getting married too?
It’s not a “claim.” It’s legislation, meaning the law. The US stopped backing up dollars with gold decades ago. I don’t know of any country still on the gold standard, certainly no large economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
Well that is a super helpful pro tip! You have just opened up a new world for me. Thank you.
Agreed. That is literally what journalism was invented for... writing down what actually happened (so those who weren't there can be aware of what happened). It was originally invented by the greeks to keep the government accountable to the people by letting the citizens know what their government was doing. That's why the first thing even modern dictators do is try to frame the media as the enemy of the people.
You’d think that if they knew so much then they’d know to stop serving me ads for services I’ll literally never use. I am very surprised at how bad the ads I get are and how much they miss the mark and are a complete waste of money.

I get that for some people advertisers seem omniscient but man do they miss the mark with me. Getting Trump ads (I may as well carry a bash the fash bat) and advertisements for services that I am completely against. It’s like, “how fucking dumb is the algorithm? Do they really think I want to work in an Amazon warehouse when I make $400K/yr??”
Problem is the way AWS is marketing it and people gobbling it up.
The electronic bidets will run the water at low pressure for a few seconds to wash that away, the cheap ones will raise above behind a guard and the water pressure causes it to lower which also causes it to run for a little before use
I agree that the Dell XPS line does not reaaly fit the "business" look-and-feel like a Latitude or Thinkpad. But after several years of doing heavy sofware dev on one, it is has earned my respect. It is nice to have a machine with a non-brick-like form that still does not compromise in performance (and you can bring to a businesses meeting and not look too RBG....). IMHO the XPS line is designed to compete with MBPs as high-end work-capable machines and it does a darn good job of it...
Was one of the first folks to try this thing out. Found this to be a solid way to learn some Redis internals. 10/10
I see you recommended a few books and also said that 'a good book on negotiations will differentiate between strategies where the relationship is important and where it isn't'. What is one such book?

I'm new to negotiations, having been avoidant my whole life. I've started with GTY and Chris Voss's masterclass, but I know there's more out there. Someone here on HN mentioned once that 'salience models' are the now the cutting edge of negotiation theory, but I haven't been able to find much useful beginner/intermediate stuff on that.
My TOTO Washlet is such a joy, the automatic lid and the heated seat. I smile at the nightlight.
A lot of people would say "consequence culture" is a valid viewpoint on this, that people just need to face the music for the things that they say, and that there's nothing nefarious about it. That's well and good to claim, but I have yet to hear one of these people be anything but angry when a lefty is torn down by a right wing mob, which has me lumping them in with the partisans.

Maybe a charitable interpretation of the motivations fo that philosophy is "my mob is correct, your mob is not", but the end result is the same.

While I guess it is possible to have another consistent view, I think they mostly boil down to the specifics of where to draw the "bad speech" line. And I think in reality the vast majority of people who don't take a hard free-speech-for-all (asterisk: except people whose words are so horrible that a huge number of people agree) stance on this set the line based on their own politics rather than any stable set of principles.
I end up reading the source half the time, anyway; documentation is often incomplete, dated, and possibly incorrect. For code, I'd prefer the time go into designing a cleaner interface and making what calls do obvious.

That said, I find high-level documentation for larger systems to be very valuable. I also find Python's docs to be lacking compared to Java's; I'm often left wondering about the definition of what type is returned, exactly what parameters should be, and which exceptions are raised. Java's docs are very explicit about all these things.
Danish secret service helped US spy on Germany's Angela Merkel: report
I don't understand the TP thing. You need to dry up with TP anyways.

I certainly don't want an integrated seat that gets filthy with splash back when somebody takes a dump. I can understand the wands more, but still they risk getting very dirty from various users with various skill levels. We use wet wipes which is not ideal ecologically, but a bidet risks being far dirtier than a shopping cart handle and we conserve elsewhere.
Is the answer "no"?
I really like the sentiment, if not some of the specific examples given. An example of my own: I went through several grocery-store-bought hair clippers before getting some "pro" clippers: Oster Classic 76. They work better, they are more repairable and serviceable, and they've lasted me for years.
Do artists need social media to be successful? On quitting Instagram [video]
It worked as it should have been - situation got resolved and on top of that Amazon got reputational damage.
Knive does the work of scissors and it can hack, hammer, and prepare fish or small game.
Interesting concept. I could imagine a slightly modified approach being used as a learning tool for making large/complex codebases more approachable.

Want to understand how Clickhouse works? We've got this challenge with 20 stages that teaches you the concepts, using the CH codebase itself, not re-implemented in the language of your choosing. Learn the storage format & use the internal codebase classes/data structures to implement some things.

Now, the learner has a more holistic view of how the technology works and hopefully an increased likely hood of contributing back to the open source project.
Is there anything similar for Python?
I don't know why we're even comparing to other sites though, this issue is about Amazon without Prime vs with Prime.

The same item, if you look at it logged out, will show 15$ + 8$ shipping, but when logged in will show 23$ free shipping with a nice big Prime logo next to it. That's the issue at play, not what some other sites do. This is plain misleading and deceptive.
This is why I want to have a “dumb” TV, I only want it to support high quality video and multiple inputs and have no brains at all. I can’t find any decent so far.
> What percentage of that group do you think will continue to use their 5G phone? I would guess upward of 80%

I know. But people still smoke even after seeing pictures of cancer-ridden lungs. We're all little crack addicts.
> and then a whole pile of people I've never heard of

From the outside, it looks crazy. So many service positions that are treated as political positions instead of employee positions. So many positions that should have qualifications as a requirement for employment (e.g. education, certification, training), turned into positions that have no qualification requirements save for one: get elected. People of no competency mucking up jobs that require competency. Coroners who have no education whatsoever! Animal Control guys with no animal training! Sheriffs and whatnot with no legal training! It’s fantastically insane!
More importantly, why is The Atlantic publishing a story about why Americans don't use bidets?
Cost, or drag, is also much higher with day trading. You will pay transaction fees more often. And day trading means you are paying higher taxes more frequently. Holding means you are profiting off of money that would go to taxes if you sell.
Kind of cheaper to use a watering can and a free hand.
The mixer paddle goes all the way to the bottom of the bowl, and so does the whisk attachment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBxEyzqUY0
I am guessing that Melville's most selling book in his own lifetime was 'Typee'.
Maybe you should pay for a navigation app too
I guess the main problem here is why are you starting with the idea it can be traded for gold?

It cant. The answer is because they said so. Just like you cant redeem it for state-hoarded lumber. See? A completely arbitrary example. “Why cant I go to the federal reserve with a million bucks and trade it for lumber?” You would ask “who told you that you could?”

There was a time when the US dollar could be redeemed for gold. That stopped almost 100 years ago, and all those people that avoid discussing money in polite company turned out to grow up completely ignorant on money topics. That’s it. I’m not saying that as an insult, I am saying that multiple generations of people did each other a disservice and have outdated understandings of the concept. The US dollar is not backed by and cannot be redeemed for gold.

It would be more productive to erase your concept of “backing” and “redeem for gold”, and start over from scratch, instead of trying to conform new understanding to those concepts.