skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a theory on what happened at NewEgg with this motherboard:

1. GN gets motherboard from NewEgg, never opens the shipping box.

2. GN sends motherboard back to NewEgg, as allowed by NewEgg’s policy.

3. NewEgg decides to decline the RMA just because they can, claiming whatever excuse they are forced to make up when anyone asks. (NewEgg went back and forth regarding whether it was thermal paste on the motherboard or damaged pins on the CPU socket.)

4. GN knows they didn’t damage the motherboard, since they didn’t even open the shipping box, so they relate the story to their surprisingly large audience, and the whole story blows up.

5. NewEgg goes “Oops, bad publicity, we’d better refund them.”

6. GN wants the motherboard returned, too.

7. NewEgg goes “Oh crap. We said the motherboard was damaged, so if we actually send the real motherboard back, GN will see that it’s fine and know we lied. But GN said that they never opened the shipping box, so GN has never seen the motherboard. We can just send back any old motherboard which is actually damaged. Genius!”, and NewEgg picks a motherboard which is marked as damaged in their inventory system, and ships it to GN.

8. GN opens the newly-received motherboard box, and finds it indeed has damaged CPU socket pins, but also finds an RMA sticker from Gigabyte, with an RMA number on it. GN investigates, and finds out the whole history of that board, painting a very ugly picture of NewEgg if that was the motherboard which they were originally sold.

NewEgg is now in a bind. They can’t admit to lying about blatantly refusing legitimate RMAs, nor can they admit to knowingly shipping back a fake damaged motherboard to GN. So what they will probably try to claim is that the damaged board was the one sold to GN, but that it was a mistake in inventory management. However, this story still would not explain why NewEgg’s returns department missed seeing the huge RMA sticker from Gigabyte, and why they sometimes claimed thermal paste on the motherboard, and sometimes damaged CPU socket pins. Unless, of course, NewEgg lied and shipped a fake damaged motherboard back to GN.
Actually the non-bitcoin fork is the one that didn't reverse the transactions. Bitcoin proper is the one that did reverse them if memory serves. I'll grant that sometimes memory does not serve though and I'm just too lazy to grab the citation right now.
There is no need for reproduction biologically. Socially, sure. But if anything, offsprings put the survival of the parent at risk (more bellies to feed, more risks to take, more exposure to disease). However there is a psychological need to reproduce but certainly secondary to intimacy, which makes sense since children require a stable environment which is only helped by parents' intimacy.
Somewhat related:

Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (2008)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770531
Everyone thinks that they are immune to advertising. But study after study shows that’s not the case. Those overbearing ads played ad nauseam work. Those idiotic spam emails selling boner pills work. All that invasive tracking and fine targeting works.

Pleasant it might not be, and its ethics are dubious… but on the whole, it helps sell shit (though advertisers are notorious for using inflated and half baked metrics to overstate the return on investment for their services).

Coca-cola and Geico and the cheesy injury lawyer in your hometown don’t buy advertising on a lark. It makes them money.
Really well put. There is so much simplifying going on with Covid that I wish someone could make a comment like this in a whole range of current topics.
Yeah, I meant music theory. Playing a music instrument is a skill that can be learned (if you have what it takes :) ).
I agree, at some point drilling down lower on a biological scale provides no additional value. "Love is nothing but atomic particles interacting" is the logical next step that is just as useless to state
I think its great to see more conversation about natural immunity but at this point I have no desire to be brought into the administrative fold. Will the U.S. strategy of kind of ignoring natural immunity pay off by leaving behind no precedent for how much natural immunity counts? I was never particularly envious of Europe where you got a 6 mths pass.
>if that were the case we would all run "programs " 24/7 on our computers and produce infinite value.

Ever heard of bitcoin mining? j/k :D
I mean, there are real things that are harmful where the impact can pretty much only be demonstrated in a statistical sense.

Balancing harms like those against other outcomes is why we have politics.
How do you do a double-blind study here: A significant portion of people would be able to tell A=440 from A=432 with no external reference. Do you screen both tester and recipient for the inability to distinguish?
> 3) in the past social, family and intimate stability were probably a lot more important than today

Many past societies did not have atomic families like we do today.

In fact, even couple-marriage is not _that_ old (several thousands of years)? I remember reading about this stuff in "Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", which, while somewhat dated (125 years ago or so?) is quite interesting. Matrilineal societies, group marriage (i.e. being 'married' to all people in a certain category so that if you travel to another village you have people in your 'family' or 'marriage group' there even if you've never met them) and other arrangements.
Following the killing of several key products over the years I don't plan to rely on Google going forward. In this context I am going with Fastmail and custom domains.

I am old enough to see my generation has been part of an experiment. Hook people on Saas and then figure out how to bill them. I plan to pay for dedicated services going forward when I can.

We are the gold in other companie's gold rush. I see my value now and will distribute my coin where I choose.
I wrote a successful track based on this called “Natural Harmonics” [1] and it’s tuned to 432Hz. Definitely gives it a different feel.

[1] https://g.co/kgs/A6Vpi8
I love material reductionism.
It pretends to explain the thing it actually renders meaningless with its "explanation".

This "explanation" is utter rubbish mumbled by the philsophically inept.
It even pretends to be "science" all the while bringing in their "darwinian" "evolutionary" philosophy.
(One thing I wonder often is, don't these people know fallacies, e.g. when trying to prove sth. to be caused by evolution, as a proof for evolution, while assuming evolution to be true in the first place? Classic "begging the question"-fallacy.)
We needed to scale quickly, AWS allowed us to consolidate a lot of services, and our team made the collective decision to migrate and take advantage of all there is to offer. It's worked out very well. We spend more, yes, on services but less on hours spent working.
Unpopular opinion here: the more I use Vue, the more I realize that it started off doing things differently because it thought it was smarter than more established frameworks. Over time, you're seeing it copy a lot ideas from other systems because they're actually hard earned lessons. Vue is the manifestation of the frontend hype cycle. There's no reason to use it over something like React which is much better supported
This hope died years ago, when the early bitcoin enthusiasts were replaced by the modern "number go up" ones.

This won't ever happen because pretty much nobody who matters wants this. BTC today is firmly a "store of value", where "value" is measured in USD, and the only point of it is to buy it low, and sell high, for USD.

You won't find many today who think buying pizza in BTC is a good idea.

BTC is also completely unsuitable for using as a currency given the block size limit.
It doesn't address anything because the statement is just untrue, but by using it and later on putting in some ameliorating statement your text gets to be both factually true and espousing something which is wrong. The best of all worlds.
> We just never had an alternative before.

Please do more research on the ‘Free Banking Era’, private currency was common.
A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index
How do you get the clients is my biggest issue.
This doesn't sound right to me, are you running your WASM in a worker so it doesn't block the main UI thread?
But in this case, crypto is superior to government created currency is just about every objective way. The only argument I feel is still valid is in regards to volatility. But that is mostly because crypto is still tethered to fiat trading pairs. Once it is truly stand-alone and loses that volatile connection to fiat, there will be no remaining compelling arguments against it. At that point, it’ll be time to show empathy to the biggest fiat bag holders.
> Government controlled currency is terrible for individual freedom and for democracies. We just never had an alternative before.

Gold, free banking…state-backed currency is the historical exception.
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There is an actual useful use for cryptocurrencies which is sending money anywhere around the world instantly with small fees

That is incredibly useful for developing countries and the ecosystem of p2p allow in and out to fiat in a relatively smooth way
No, because it is the kind of blanket statement that is a huge red flag for someone constructing a story that sounds nice to them.
Sort of, but you'll run out of BTC after some period of time. The transaction fee ends up in the hands of the miners.
Advancing Digital Agency: The Power of Data Intermediaries [pdf]
I haven’t researched but this feels quite plausible. I think it’s important to remember how few people could be involved in this decisions, there could possibly be just two people on the Newegg side making the majority of these calls.
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> other than unappreciated I am starting to feel dirty every time I am at a company..

i left corporate america for that reason, amongst others. started my own business. its great. bonus points i only hire people i can work with and there is no HR or politics to muck things up.
Arguments – Greg's Wiki
Create a machine learning model with Bash (2020)
No, what is being said is that love waxes and wanes. Maybe you are unfamiliar with the idiom and thus are having problems understanding what is written.

I understand what someone means when they say something wanes. They means it wanes; it fades over time. If they meant to say it both waxes and wanes they'd have said that instead.
Yes, but their claims here can be falsified with math and references. I am unable to do so, has anyone else?
> Or you could make it known you want to confound a startup.

How would one go about that effectively?
Whether they would sell below market rate is subject to strategic, legal and even political factors.

However, bare in mind there are math involved here.

If the market sells 1 ton of iron for 20$ (manual labour) and I manage to get a truck I could either sell 1 ton for 20$ as the others and make more profit than them, or I could sell, let's say 1 ton for 10$. This is a strategic move that would squeeze the competition, but it means I sell more product for less money than others. It's not 100% the correct move for every company at every buisness sector.

There are even more agressive moves, selling goods bellow cost in order to squeeze out the competition. There are even less companies that can pull this off.

At the end of the day, technological advantages are ephemeral and are meant to be used (by whichever strategy) while the competition hasn't caught up yet. When the competition catches up prices inevitably fall (unless there is a cartel of course but that is another topic)
Helping a crtiter whelping a difficult litter seems like a good example of an experience that would re calibrate a person's "Disgust Scale"; but thats not an event that has notably changed people's political views.

"Liberal vs conservative" or "Blue vs Green"; the political divisions in a society are less about the rallying points at the political poles and far more about the way people organize and relate. Swap half the planks of a political platform with the opponent's text and see how few jump ship.
> Another guaranteed scientific finding: buying our t-shirt will increase your programming skills by over 9000!

Okay, fellow kids.

This report doesn't surprise me. The JS community has devolved into bunch of people who re-invent everything in 2-3 year cycles. It's Silicon Valley in online clique form - and that's coming from being both deeply intertwined in it for the better part of a decade, and working in SF big tech.

It's pretty much all hype now, and the 'vibes' have gotten so toxic and corporate that it's hard to really enjoy doing FOSS for Javascript nowadays.
I'm not sure this is limited to SendGrid. Are there comparable email services that don't use shared IPs or that have done a consistently good job of stopping spammers? I've had moderate-to-poor luck with Mailgun (Yahoo and Microsoft don't really like them much).
> Issues india has had with its currency

Pray, enlighten us.
I've been exploring lately, and the only two I've actually tried so far are SendGrid and Amazon SES. Both of them have a free tier that lets me play. Both of them have so far had pretty poor deliverability due to being in blacklists, though SendGrid has been better.

I'm just looking for something that doesn't cost an arm and a leg for the minimal email volume I send, and that has better deliverability than sending myself with a VPS, as there's usually at least one bad actor in any /24 your typical VPS will land in and that punishes your deilverability.
I remember back in the day before websites started focusing on input sanitization you could get away with really messing up website designs with that Unicode character. Long time ago I made a group on Steam with just the Unicode RTL character, years before they started banning the character. Then a decade later, some Russians found it and started using the group as their clan tag to make their character info appear backwards in Counter Strike GO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCw_cYIY_g
Would having the contract defined in immutable, executable code also allow performing more complex transactions with confidence, in your opinion?
Our solution was to build middleware/interfaces that only push jobs after a transaction has committed. There is still room for some inconsistency -- a failure to enqueue a job doesn't rollback a committed transaction, for instance, but in practice that is rare.

Agreed on the Redis health being critical and if it's unhealthy you can't trust anything. We over-provision compute and memory and enable persistence as a result. We are also mindful of our payload sizes, which we also compress. Additionally any jobs scheduled beyond a certain time threshold are committed to the DB, not Redis, and we have a periodic job that adds them back to Redis as we approach their scheduled time to run. This is good for both durability and keeping the surface area of Redis work smaller.

It's not perfect and there is probably a day where we switch it out but for now we have developed a deep understanding of Sidekiq and Redis and get to leverage the larger Sidekiq ecosystem. This has worked well for us to the tune of about 35 million jobs a day.
Cryptocurrencies are supported by more democratic means than fiat currencies. Anyone has freedom to use the cryptocurrency or not, which affects its value. The supporters of some cryptocurrencies often have quasi-religious faith in it. Support and consent from humans does have value.

Compare this with a fiat currency whose value is supported mostly only by a government forcing their citizens to pay taxes in this fiat currency, and forcefully taking down alternatives.

Which of the currencies has more intrinsic value? What happens when the government can't manage to ban the alternatives anymore?
Any bitcoin related assessment that cites the Tulip mania is inherently suspect.

It conflates two different, unrelated concepts: the tulips and the mania.

We have not banned tulips because of the Tulip mania.

Bitcoin and blockchain are genius technology, on par with the greatest achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics.

That some of this technology is misused and misinterpreted, incorrectly assessed, used for scams, has no bearing on the technology itself.
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But there's no need to look into fish or gorillas, as a child I was very different than today.

Hormones, neurotransmitters, all make a big difference, sure.

But humans do not show such a pronounced dimorphism and human minds are extremely complex things, surely the brains/minds of male/female share a lot more than they differ on average.

There are outliers -- like a man pumped with testosterone, a leader's brain flooded with dopamine, an adrenaline junkie, a nymphomaniac and so on, but these are outliers.

My problem is people who take the "men produce billions and billions of sperm and women ovulate once a month, therefore men and women are completely different" -- that's a tendency sure, and there are differences and different drives, but not to the extent people interpret them to be.
> It may be amazing tech, but do you really need it if you can KISS without it?

I am only half joking when I say that most developers would say yes due to Resume Driven Development
These companies also don’t all have the same margins, so benchmarking on a sales multiple doesn’t give a good feel for valuation. Everyone does it anyway though, so in that sense it works.
I’ve been treating SSH keys in the same way I would a password. Each service gets a new key generated for it.

From doing some reading though it sounds like I might be wasting my time. Apparently it’s fine to have one key for an individual machine and to use that for everything.

What’s everyone else’s take on that? Are you reusing a single key or generating each time?
Exactly. Plus, when provided a system that requires no trust (BTC, for example) why would anybody prefer a system that requires massive trust and faith (fiat currencies)?
I don't understand this. If they buy BTCINR, they will hold and own BTC, BTCINR will go up, and USDBTC will go down (ever so slightly, or not at all) due to statistical arbitrage traders. No direct USD transaction took place. In what way are they supporting the USD? I get the separate point that BTC
itself may displace INR, but not the USD point.
That too, but if half the planet planted a tree per month that would be 42 billion trees to remove sun's energy.
LMAO. I am wondering if working my way up to middle management would make it worth it. What's your story, if you'd be willing to share?
I had an intern once who wrote similar code. They confused 12 hour and 24 hour clocks, so the code would break after lunch.

Unfortunately, the intern only worked the mornings, so it took several days of back and forth before the bug could be finally put to rest.
> JavaScript is in a tremendously better state today compared to the first survey in 2016. Back then, only 21% of you used TypeScript, compared to a nice 69% today.

... what? Typescript isn't Javascript, just like C++ isn't C. They're two completely separate languages controlled by two completely separate entities.

Typescript is cool but it's not a replacement to Javascript. I don't see the point of implying that not using Typescript is "not nice".
> Google cloud took two hours and trashed my Python installation.

I don't see how this is possible. What happened?
What is evil?

I don't believe that Thiel wants harm to come to people as a primary goal. But I do believe that he and I have extremely different values. Thiel has said that the world would be a better place if women never got the right to vote because, on average, women vote for policies that he thinks are bad. This indicates that Thiel values particular policy action more than providing franchise to people. That's... pretty bad in my opinion.
very cool! thank you
Whenever this type of criticism is made about a digital property you need to ask if that behavior is incentivized by the design of the product or is it just human nature.
Aren't the calls recorded? That would make this kind of deceit actually encouraged by management?
Geez I'm getting old. For a second I thought you had one of these https://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/ccd/mainframes/p010.htm
I'm reusing the same key per machine - but it's mostly just due to convenience and laziness.
> What is disingenuous about saying that the literal definition of woke seems like a good thing?

You're pretending to be wholly unfamiliar with the subject of culture wars, when in reality you are very familiar with them. That's disingenuous. The other poster seemed to have endless patience with you pretending "not to understand" and "not know" things which you know and understand perfectly well.

I don't know why you can't just stand up straight and argue for the things you believe in, instead of trying to play some mind games, lying and cheating? If your cause is worthy and your arguments are good, then surely you can achieve your goals without resorting to lies?
Most teams need them. But many teams do not value them.

That's my experience anyways. It's hard to find a place that will value a generalist. It seems much of IT performance is gaged off of the image perceived by others - the image that you're an expert in something, that you're fast, etc. Mostly things that generalists aren't, simply because we incur the penalties associated with context and stack switching.

I would love to have consistent work, working in one stack, on just a couple apps. Instead it's constant reshuffling, multiple roles in a single position, etc. For example, I tried to post to a new team to avoid this, but they said I'd be a shared resource between two separate managers, two tech leads, and multiple apps falling under two different programs. W T F, that wasn't in the job description or I never would have posted.
They did say it waxes and wanes.... I even quoted it to you, so that would be 2 times that you didn't read it. In fact, GP used it twice, so it would be 4 times.
I love this style of clear, unambiguous writing starting with no knowledge assumptions.

[but] The author is missing or skipping key pieces of information about why we use the notes we use, how they were derived, and why they sound the way they do to us.

Edit. There was zero sarcasm in my comment. I really love this style of writing.

The missing concept here is the harmonic series. A pitched note is not generally a sine wave, it is properly modeled as a series of sines waves combined. These sine waves go up in mathematical multiples.

So say we have a note at 100hz. Simplistically it is actually 100, 200, 300, 400 etc all at once. So if 100 were A, 200 is A, 400 is A, 300 is … E, so 150 is E. Etc.

None of this is arbitrary because the When the waves combine the result is more ordered or more chaotic, depending on the ratios of the waves, which our ears hear as consonant or dissonant.

Best I can do from a phone.
Decades? Murderers get less than that.
You do know that India has probably one of the best centralized payment systems in the world right? Read about UPI aka Unified Payment Interface.
Most other languages would require `eval` and having incorrect code as syntactically correct string literal.

But because Perl is parsed as it is executed, incorrect code raises syntax error only when it is reached by execution.
Man, I wish I could downvote these threads. This low-effort karma farming garbage belongs on reddit, not here.
Then: we will create a peer to peer digital cash system. No intermediaries or trust required.

Now: we use the Crypto.Com Visa™ credit card with a Bitcoin sticker on it.
Tesla Chip Shortage Fix Was to Pull Steering Components Without Telling Buyers
Consulting gigs tend to be flexible with regard to side projects. Just convince them that it won't detract from your ability to get their work done, and that the IPs are distinct and have no overlap.