skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you contact the seller?

When I started selling, I made errors shipping small items that resulted in similar situations for my buyers.

Basically I put First Class postage based on the ordinary rate table. But the packages were “irregular” per USPS First Class regulations. The difference was about $3.xx

When I found out I refunded the whole order (they were <$15) and got on with life and everyone was happy (enough there was no negative feedback).

YMMV.
You can often also update your microcode by updating your BIOS/firmware.
eBay and PayPal are no longer part of the same organization.
They would have spent similar amounts when hiring contractors for FOSS solutions, because governments work with big consulting agencies regardless of the software source.

Red-Hat is hardly cheaper when playing at this level.
Ask HN: Is there any way one can connect independetly to the Internet?
By independent I mean - without an involvement from any commercial or government entity.

Assuming money is not an issue and the only thing that mattered is a completely self reliant connection to the wide web.
The article talks about options for remaining contributions for which they can't get in touch with the contributor, and says:

"We can check if copyright even applies to the particular contribution. Very small contributions may not be covered by copyright, and hence may not need a license agreement."
mRNA Covid Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers
When delusions become a self-fulfilling prophecy, not unlike Kayfabe
Another advantage of pirating: If you play 4K you actually get 4K, no throttling for weird reasons while internet speed is fine. On Netflix you can’t even see or verify what quality you’re actually playing (on an iPad.)

Also, it still works when crossing borders. I live close to the border between Netherlands/Germany, and moving a few km to the east means i suddenly can’t stream many videos anymore. It’s idiotic.

Want to stream while using a VPN? Nope… expect trouble too.

So many annoyances.

PS. I pirate even though i also pay for the streaming services…
Grossman continued to press for more information. He spoke with Channing Robertson, who was a Theranos board member and a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford. Over two conversations, Robertson told Grossman that the company’s technology was sound.

This is the most galling part. Dr. Robertson is currently a professor emeritus at Stanford. When Jan Hendrik Schoen [0] was caught doing scientific fraud, his alma mater, University of Konstanz, stripped him of his PhD. I'm not saying Prof. Robertson should be stripped of his PhD, but I feel like Stanford could make at least some symbolic gesture to distance themselves from this affair.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal
Agreed. I've done Seattle to Portland in 2 days a few times (200 miles total, which I split as 120/80) and while I'm glad I did it, I've realized that I like 30-60 mile rides far more than 80+. It wears you down.
Httpd is my favorite. So many features and flexibility make it highly satisfying.
I don't think most people expect the next version of the license to ... lead to a completely different license.
Is it? Was the "100 rounds per minute instead of 5" not an obvious advantage?

It's not like LibreOffice produces 10 pages for every 1 page I write in Word.
The Theranos case is much worse than some sophisticated SV investors getting duped.

The Theranos board had numerous senior US military ex-officials who were expected to sell into their former commands and the VA system. This woman should spend the rest of her life in jail.

What I don't understand is how a non-doctor got significant funding for a medical company, given the amount of regulation that industry faces in the US. It's truly bizarre.

I've followed the rise of various medical device and pharma startups, and they all had a senior doctor at the top. (FYI: US doctors can make more money from affiliated hospital lab service companies than traditional patient practise.)

Dr. Sherman's Apotex generic pharma company had an incredible rise to the top of Canadian medical companies, worth billions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sherman
> You are assuming 0.76% prevalence.

I am not. I'm using the numbers from the paper to illustrate a point.

Even if seroprevalence was as high as 6% at any given time (which is about as high as it ever was in NYC, for example), an 11% difference is 0.66%, or 1 case per 152 people wearing masks. And that's in a fully unvaccinated population.

We're simply not talking about huge differences here. Certainly nothing close to a statistically meaningful difference in R0.
Omnia acquires Patagona to become Europe's leading pricing software provider
It is in fact too cynical. The company that wanted to sell this drug isn’t the same as the companies selling recurring treatment to people with this disorder. Your cynicism has blinded you to the fact that the marketers of this drug do not have any economic motivation to do what you are suggesting. Their economic motivation is to sell the tiny number of doses required to treat everyone in the first world (2,000-3,000) at a price high enough to recover their investment and make a profit.
My dad has done it twice and I believe the first time (56:13:00) he didn't sleep at all. The second time, 12 years later was 70:21:00.

Congrats on the ride! I still don't quite understand what it takes to be able to push through beyond what most people would consider immense fatigue.

Did you find it harder physically or mentally?
Maybe you can try Rivian, might have better luck
What I mean is if an avatar outit hashes to X, change one shade of grey by one LSB and it hashes to Y. You now copied the outgit, and have the earliest hash of your clone on the blockchain. A human has to review if it is the same thing or just had miniscule modifications. Something like neural hashes may eventually solve it somewhat.
Also the German Otto Hahn and Japanese Mutsu.

All three of the Western-alliance ships had significant technical as well as cost problems. The Hahn and Mutsu were refitted with conventional propulstion, the Savannah retired and now a museum ship in Baltimore, MD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Civi...

TFA does make the dual claim for the Birkeland of being both autonomous and emissions-free. Though one might make a similar argument of barge traffic drawn by electrically-powered "mules".

Or possibly even their non-electrified original inspirations.
10 years, and still experimental, and they got it right.

We're here 40 years later and all of that is forgotten and thrown out of the window. Often by Apple themselves.
> If you are using off the shelf hard cores in silicon, you need to trust the vendor

if i dont have options for alternatives, i think its completely rational to use something without trusting it. i would say that this should be a default attitude
Using a telegram bot to help me manage a solar off-grid setup
It's OK not to like it. We don't want your negativity there anyway :)
Slow transitions are a pain yes, but many UIs without transitions can be a real pain too. Random stuff opening and collapsing without a subtle transition can be really confusing. It’s definitely not just an aesthetic thing.

In my experience somewhere around 150ms hits the sweet spot of not being too annoying and still easy to track the spatial context of what’s going on.
How do you propose to do so? The internet is literally an inter-network of commercial and government network infrastructure. The entire fabric is commercial or governmental.
China had an amazing free game community, which made so much awesome unique stuff. Little Fighter 2 still rules.
I was shocked and delighted to find that, after pairing a Bluetooth keyboard to my iPhone, the default emacs-lite Cocoa keybindings work there too. C-a to beginning of line, C-e to end, etc.
How disclaimer is confusion? People will have to check anyway without that information available.

It is not outdated, just may be, you don't know. Better to have the information available than not. It's simpler than not having it.
I did try to use ace-jump in [emacs](https://github.com/winterTTr/ace-jump-mode) but i don't quite get used to it, since it's limited to the current buffer as you see it, i rather use isearch directly or better ace and isearch combined https://github.com/tam17aki/ace-isearch
Setting web development environments and mobile dev environments or anyway in which different languages are involved. NixOS have some documentation on it. Like I said, this wasn't because they (NixOS and Guix) implement it bad, but because of my time constraints as mentioned before.

But it also felt like, apart from learning the new way of using my system which NixOS/Guix works, now I have to work with how to deal with different languages. To me this felt like a big overhead. As a n00b of NixOS (not a n00b on Linux BTW), I have questions like doesn't this mean I will have lesser support on setting up something new development when something new comes along? This honestly have made me take my time on going back to NixOS. Cos I cannot just compile the packages directly like I could in normal Linux distros. Right? Or do correct me I am wrong. Like I said, the time constraints (+ pandemic) have made it hard for me to make time. Maybe you could correct me if I am wrong somewhere and make me understand it better. :)
You can disagree disrespectfully as well, I don't really mind.
Tell HN: Amazon fraudulently canceling orders as returned items
Just wanted to let people know incase there are sellers that are having to pay return fees for items that Amazon has canceled due to the state of emergency and highway washouts in British Columbia.

I just got scolded by the rudest customer service rep I have ever dealt with. Apperantly I should "Know full well that BC had a weather event and that my items were damaged" which is another lie as I tracked them and they never left the Amazon processing center.

But anyways I assume what they are doing is clearing up space for new deliverable orders as the center is jammed full of packages that are for addresses cut off from the lower mainland. All new orders are being rerouted from the east rather than the south, but instead of reshipping the items at their southern warehouse, they just claimed they were all returns and placed the owness on the sellers for returned items.

I guess doing the right thing would have eaten into Amazons profit margins, and if those margins are not big enough...well I guess their billionaire owner wont be able to take another joy ride into space.

Dealing with Amazon customer support is felling more and more like dealing with an abusive partner.
Super fast carousel and slider with touch for optimized websites
Modern browser offers really good options these days to create much better user experience for sliders and carousels than existing libraries offer.

This project utilizes what is available in modern browsers resulting in a super lightweight and fast slider, greatly reducing the javascript footprint and increase performance to meet todays standards
Do you count Github as proprietary software/SaaS?
Really slick and fast and tiny slider
> Only spacex here is a unicorn.Everything else has been acquired or listed

I don't know what your point it, almost every company mentioned in this article has been acquired or listed...

> the author seems to talk about billion dollar start-ups, not necessarily just unicorns but only in the past decade.

They list several companies made in 00's; Mulesoft, Dropbox, Uber, Whatsapp... Qualtrics was made in 2002 almost 2 decades ago.
>If they cave and sell it at a price that doesn’t recover their R&D costs (mentioned in the article to be hundreds of millions of dollars), then that’s that, they’ve just lost all of that money. If they sit on it there’s at least a chance that someone in future might pay them for it.

sure a chance in that it is not impossible the same way that a talking centaur with the ability to blow up planets with its mind is impossible, but given what we know about economic reality it is practically impossible that the million dollars per patient will be paid.

There's a saying that one should not throw good money after bad, in this case it would seem they are refusing good money because it won't cover the bad.

Also tax writeoffs exist, so I'm not sure what that R&D actually cost them?
Given how ridiculous my comment was I didn't feel the need to preface it with any sort of sarcasm warning. My apologies.
Campbell's Law: The dark side of metric fixation
>At 332 meters, this is the deepest any human has ever scuba dived. Set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014.

Yes. It took him 12 minutes to descend to depth... and 15 hours to ascend.

But if you take a look at the wikipedia article for deep diving you'll note there's a record for a "simulated" dive that's much deeper, 701 meters, done in 1992. Simulated how? Why was it never repeated? Well...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180127104927/http://gtuem.prae...

>Hydra 10 was performed in the Comex hydrogen hyperbaric facilities in Marseilles by three professional divers.

>The dive protocol included: 4 weeks of pre-dive period, 2 day of confinement at 10 msw, 13 days of compression to 675 msw, 3 days of bottom stage between 650 and 675 msw with an excursion dive at 701 msw, 24 days of decompression with 8 working dives in wet chamber.

How were the accommodations?

>A 35 m^3 cylinderical chamber (internal diameter: 2.3 m - length: 9.35 m) with living area and sleeping quarters and sanitaires.

Cozy. Spending 42 days in a steel can pooping a foot away from two new best friends must have been interesting. Did they have fun, at least?

>At 650 msw (6.6 MPa) and deeper, we particularly observed:

>- An increasing HPNS with: slight tremor, myoclonia, mysmetria which induced psychometric and intellectual performance decrease.

>- A dyskinesia associated to proprioception troubles with muscular weakness.

>- A decrease in appetites which required a change in the divers nutrition.

>- Sleep disturbance with decrease of deep sleep phases.
Yes. Really hard to Google for.
This policy is called "fee and dividend", and has a pretty well-fleshed out wikipedia article[1]. IMO it's the best way to implement a carbon tax while avoiding "yellow vest protests" or deepening inequality. A carbon tax will tend to increase the cost of consumption, and consumption makes up a larger part of your income the poorer you are. But with a dividend to give money back to households, you offset this, so a poor household that lowers their carbon footprint enough can even end up ahead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
No, it's not possible no matter how much money you have. Communication networks in all nations are owned by their respective governments and some government mandated monopolies.
Truly hard to say without knowing the commenter's income. I know that's significantly higher than my effective tax rate.
that reminds me of when I tried to soldier an extra chip on my PS1 and instead pulled up an original one oops
I don't think they are available as standard components, but there are companies out there that make sockets for mounting DRAM chips to allow for debugging.
I think Oil is really interesting as a concept, and seems to evolve in a slow but determined fashion. Have people started to use it though?
I've not touched any standalone web-server like Apache, nginx over past two years for my web applications because Go's built-in HTTP server is production ready. It's one of my favorite reasons to develop in Go and makes portable deployment a breeze.

Lesser number of software to run on the server has resulted in predictable performance and larger savings on cloud costs.
God, that was a bit cringey to sit through, but it's not wrong.

I see the situation like this: when I was very young, my dad and I would go to get various things done at the shop of a gunsmith. The gunsmith was a real country guy, and a hunter, and he had hunting dogs. Often there would be a dog sitting by the fire and I would pet the dog while the adults were doing business. What I remember of the dogs was that they were always covered with ticks. Why? Well, they were working dogs, and the gunsmith just had no consciousness about sitting down and tending to them and removing all the ticks.

Well, that's how almost everyone is: afflicted by various harmful thingies, with no awareness that they are, or any notion that they should be doing anything about it, or any idea what treatment might be effective. They just go through life covered with ticks, and so are all their friends, and nobody thinks anything of it. It's normal. We have no idea about the disease and no idea about the treatment.

Meditation is how you tend to yourself and remove the ticks and put medicine on the injuries.

If you want to try it to see for yourself, this is the stuff that I recommend, that I do, that worked for me:
https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...
Kubernetes Ingress Part 1 – Kubernetes for Beginners
Yes, it's amazing how civilized people can be when their paycheck depends on it XD
Nim performance tuning for the uninitiated (2017)
As somebody who has been using Microsoft stuff for years and paid through the nose for it, can you take a guess on why Microsoft is going this shitty path since Windows 8 came out?

I have issues with a LOT of stuff, but ads on the login screen, telemetry that can't be opted out of, privacy invasion, Cortana that is literally malware and the list can go on for days - which people did push for this? The janitors?

Excuse me, but your explanation is just a personal anecdote. Management approved on all this crap and bloatware, you can't realistically cop out that "ohnoes all the PMs at Microsoft I've ever known are more interested in the company's image etc and haven't been actively pushing for this stuff".

I mean, we SEE IT. How tf did all this stuff end up in the OS? Somebody stumbled and landed face first on a keyboard and this crap wrote itself?

Edit: how can upper management ask for this stuff from their underlings if they have no clue about what is happening or what the users want? I also apologise for the harsh tone, but I am so done with Microsoft products I can't help being upset.
Can it enter the password required to decrypt my LUKS partition?

Lately this has been my biggest barrier to leaving a computer fully remote.
A drug with high cost of production that’s not needed very often will cost a lot of money per dose. The article mentions that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on R&D and clinical trials, and maybe a couple thousand people in the first world have this disorder. Development costs have to be recouped entirely off of first world sales, since the rest of the world isn’t going to ever pay any appreciable amount of money for a drug, so even if they could sell this to everyone in their target market the breakeven cost seems like it would be about $100,000. Since they’re not going to be able to sell to everyone (there are limits on what various governments and private insurance will pay for medical treatment), and since ongoing care for this disorder costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, $1M/dose seems like a perfectly reasonable price.
People have been paying RedHat very well for FOSS for decades, it is at least possible. Just don't get bought by IBM.
Thanks, I was just thinking this month how I would like to write lisp without parens.
The post doesn't answer the question, but rather just lists some reasons indexes in in-memory databases could slow queries.
Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
> in the places with universal masking, there is essentially no Covid (most of Asia, even cities like SF).

Just completely, utterly wrong. Japan had a huge spike this winter. Korea is currently at all-time highs. Vietnam is currently near all-time highs. Thailand peaked at 20,000 cases per day, and is currently at 10,000.

These numbers are lower than the US in absolute terms, but claiming "essentially no Covid" means only that you aren't informed of the reality of the situation. Covid is running rampant across Asia, even now.

> There's evidence that even a small portion of people wearing them in public reduces the incidence of disease.

There is literally no evidence of this. The few RCTs that have performed suggest the opposite: you have to put masks on a huge number of people (hundreds to thousands) to prevent even a single case.

> And your takeaway is that it's mass hysteria to encourage an extraordinarily cheap NPI?

No, my takeaway is that there's very little evidence supporting the use of masks. Because there isn't. And most of what there is, is of exceptionally low quality.
https://archive.md/UIvxP
A few years back I made a small web game, and then found out it had been ripped and posted in a Chinese website (translated to Chinese). Far from pissing me off, I'm flattered anyone bothered doing that. Up to this day this is my biggest source of traffic.
Hardware operates differently to software - it's impossible to verify hardware after it's been manufactured+shipped to you, so you need to trust the ENTIRE manufacturing and ownership chain of EVERY SINGLE COMPONENT. This is true of both open- and closed-source hardware.

Look, don't take my word for it - take the word (and more importantly, the reasoning) of the guys behind the Novena open laptop: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5706
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29290405
It's not the developers who are afraid, it's the companies who want to use the code for free, for proprietary purpose, and redistribute it. They want to take as much as possible but don't want to give anything.
Is this intended to include the featureset of Signed HTTP Exchanges (SXG) as well?
It is an anonymous e mail address, there is no way for anyone can actually prove that they are the contributer.

not a lawyer, obviously
>does anyone know a rock solid/powerful brand I can buy instead of Dell? I kind of miss Micron PCs.

I've had good experiences with HP Elitebook x360.
it would be cool if maxima could be used in such a way. similar to how sympy is used in python. i have a feeling it is definitely possible. maybe someone knows if any work on it has been done by some third party
IMO that's exactly the argument why wee need a carbon tax. The status quo is that the only people who are really doing anything at all are some governments and the wokest part of the population. That's not nearly enough - we need all the companies and the whole population too. We don't just need to incentivize doing something else, but simultaneously disincentivize doing a lot of what we currently do, so everyone actually starts looking for alternatives. We can't just make emissions illegal without shutting down society, but we can (and should) make them painful.
> That made it impossible for some companies to contribute.

It did all right regardless. Why bother with coddling the companies? As someone who wants software patents to die in a fire, I think coddling of this kind is counterproductive in the long run. I do buy the rest of their arguments though.
What does the patent cover in this instance? The very concept of patching the gene? Or is it the mechanism of doing so?
Yes. A competent researcher deciding to investigate their products can reasonably be expected to find a new, unique vulnerability of this severity given a few weeks to maybe a month of effort. At a standard consulting rate that amounts to a few thousand to low tens of thousands of dollars, so a $40,000 payout is a fair amount for the amount of effort and difficulty to find a bug that totally invalidates the security of a major service by a top, world class cloud provider.
100 km is doable for basically anybody, I did 100 km when I was completely out of shape and weighted 130 kg. The main problem was PITA from the seat, not exhaustion. I think doing 10-15 km/h on a reasonably flat terrain for the whole day wouldn't be a problem for vast majority of people.