skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about not being able to know the details as a customer, still not sure why they don't allow that.

> The fundamental problem is that the counterfeits-on-Amazon problem arose in the first place due to Amazon's method of not caring which individual item came from which vendor. Their system enabled them to not keep track of the provenance of an item. And this new system seems to require them to track genuine items. If they're going to do that, they can already do it entirely on their own end of things.

I'm not so sure about that. If there was a time they couldn't track, that's long gone. Amazon can definitely trace back what product from who was eventually delivered even if it was commingled.

They don't even store inventory together anymore, they'll have them store per-vendor.

See: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G200141480

I think the issue is that vendors are the ones that sell counterfeit, maybe willingly or sometimes unwillingly, their own supplier might be giving them counterfeit without them knowing.

Each vendor can opt-out of commingling, but then they have to print an Amazon barcode on their products to use FBA (fulfilled by Amazon).

For certain products, Amazon forces that anyways, like perishables and registered brands, unless you're approved by the brand. To be approved by the brand, you need to provide invoices from the brand to Amazon amongst other things.

If you don't want to put Amazon labels on each of your products, your options are to have Amazon track the existing manufacturer barcode, in which case commingling is also applied, but still Amazon can trace back your exact product based on the manufacturer barcode, they also won't physically mix your products with other products in the warehouse.

The other option is for you to ship it yourself and not use FBA, then you do what you want, you probably don't even need to have a barcode at all.

What Amazon then does is random product inspections and everytime someone returns an item with reason counterfeit or not as advertised, it gets inspected as well. And since they can trace it back to the exact vendor, they suspend that vendor if found selling counterfeit. Probably there's some level of like 3 strikes or appeals process, etc.

But that leaves open vendors selling counterfeit that fools the inspection or the customers. Or new vendors until they get inspected or have some customer return made. Since vendors are hard to trust, manufacturers can protect their authenticity of their products by signing up to transparency.

Anyways, that's what I gathered from reading their latest help and support, and from forums.

I'm still with you, as a buyer, I'd love to be able to see which vendor is selling commingled or not, which product have transparency or not, and even be able to filter for that in the search. I'd also love a country of origin for both product and vendor personally.
Back when I was a fresh-faced youth I recoiled in disgust. Now when I see it I greet it as an old friend, a wistful reminder of a time when the internet was still largely wild and untamed by corporate interest.
The set of homebuyers and the set of stimulus recipients in a lot of these markets are non-overlapping, too.

Crypto, on the other hand, is something I know was sold for a downpayment by several of my acquaintances, which is acting as its own form of "money supply increase" since they spent orders of magnitude less to acquire it. The anti-inflation tool creates its own inflation by turning into "new money." :)
Both of these things are true. I don’t want to fully derail the larger discussion, but having lived in both EU and US and used healthcare in both, basic care is significantly better in the EU than the US on nearly every facet. The exact reverse is true for specialized care.
Could we not have hyperbolic, bad-faith posts like this from people who clearly have no clue about SF and seem to have never even visited?

Your comment on the feces issue is a ludicrous distortion, and your lack of thoughtfulness on the very real constitutional issue with this case is perhaps even more disturbing.
Very beautiful typography. Feels quite satisfying to read.
> Let's face it: the internet is broken.

This is where I disconnect. The internet is not broken. Maybe arguably the _web_ is broken, and specifically, web pages are broken (the HTTP protocol is still a wonderful thing).

I wish technical authors would stop making the internet-is-broken meme when they really mean the web is broken. Sure, there's plenty broken with the internet in other ways (DNS, encryption, governments, ddos's, etc.), but let's not make the mistake that the internet equals the web.
Interracial relationships weren’t that realistic in the 60s and there were laws in the south against interracial marriage. It wasn’t until the 80s that laws against “sodomy” - ie homosexual relationships - were overturned. It was always those “liberal Hollywood types” pushing an agenda…
There was a time when I would have agreed with that.

What I've learned since then is that, with a healthy company culture, you can give frank feedback -- even about stupid mistakes -- without it being a rebuke.

It's also important that you target the right problem. It's only human for smart people do stupid things sometimes. In the specific DO...OD example, I'd be more interested in how it got through a code review than the mistake itself. (Funny enough, early versions of the C source for Bash itself had macros like that.)

Now, if someone exhibits a pattern of ignoring good, constructive feedback, that's a problem. The folks I've seen like that both gave terrible feedback and took feedback terribly. That's a behavioral problem, and you only get so many chances to correct that before it's time for them to find other employment.
Can you post a link to the page, out of curiosity?
I think MS will eventually get around to launching a phone again, probably as Android breaks away from Qualcomm.

MS is building laptops around Qcom chips now. That’s a good stepping stone, since you can profitably prototype a on those laptops.

MS has all the core components needed for mobile.
I don't know. In Canada housing is expensive everywhere.
I started programming in Nim around 2015 and still write code in it from time to time. At this point I would have a tough time suggesting the language to anyone for much. While you can certainly accomplish almost any programming task with Nim, how much frustration you will encounter fighting the compiler and broken / under-specified language features and semantics might be a turn-off. There are other major warts with Nim, which I'll outline briefly below.

1) Nim's leadership is awful and has always been historically. Those in charge of managing the community are more interested in their personal reputation's and resumes than they are actually contributing working software to the language's ecosystem. Even the BDFL treats Nim like their own personal compiler R&D playground. There are so many broken features in Nim which never see the light of day or never get removed.

2) Continuing to expand on the point above, the Nim compiler has become insanely difficult to work on. As more and more half-baked features have been added to the language, the situation has only worsened. There are many would-be contributors who have come into the community only to leave completely frustrated or appalled by the lack of interest in improving the situation from those leading the community.

3) The development path is driven by leadership and not the community, and leadership has no plan. This was extremely evident last year when Araq and others were asked for a roadmap for Nim and they admitted to not having one, and basically wrote one up in a forum thread. Araq and dom96 and a few others, especially those who have been brave enough to actually deploy Nim code in production (looking at you status.im) tend to dictate what gets worked on or fixed. There is no coordination amongst folks working on initiatives. You can look at the `fusion` project, which was started by Nim's leadership, drew contributors in, and then was abandoned by leadership while maintainers were left on the hook to keep things afloat until they too dumped the project.

Things have gotten so bad, that a hard fork has been in development since last year, and many of the more senior community members or those who have been around for a bit have migrated there: https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull

Nim's community now consists of mostly new members or folks who weren't really active in it before, but maybe used Nim. Of course, the leadership remains in place, but there are only a handful of folks remaining that have been around for more than a year or two. Mostly those who bit the bullet on using Nim in production or built large projects with Nim and are stuck maintaining them.

My advice would be to look elsewhere.
White-on-black is hard for me to read and goes blurry. I had to switch to reader-mode to read this. Are you on mobile or desktop?
Hi! author here.

I've seen requirements for a master's in CS or related disciplines on job descriptions for technical leadership roles, mostly at larger, older, more conservative organisations.

My work experience gets me roles as director of eng, vp eng or CTO at most startups, but for the national rail company here in Canada, I have a hard time getting considered for any jobs.
How the Intel 8088 Got Its Bus
Another example that comes to mind: There are routers that come with Wireguard pre-installed. No technical support just online instructions, forum and a custom GUI.
Stocks are still massively up even today (S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq) since early 2000, the "before times" for much of this current real estate spree.

S&P 3400 in Jan 2020, 4146 today.

Dow 28,600 to almost 33,000 today.

Nasdaq 9000 to 12,300 today.
Current OMSCS student here (4 classes down, 6 to go). I'll second this comment, so far I've been impressed with the program. It's definitely rigorous, but I've already learned a lot.
is mscs recommended for frosh?
You might be right. But I just want to add that this housing asset bubble is global in nature.

We here in Canada have been running the interest rate increase experiment ahead of the US. We've also had a much worse run up in housing prices. There are rundown shacks in Oshawa, Ontario selling for more than nice homes in Los Angeles. Where the hell is Oshawa? That's the whole point, it really doesn't matter but it's a former General Motors factory town about 1 hour east of Toronto.

Two months ago the real estate bulls were saying what you were saying now about supply. But the numbers are in for major areas like the greater Toronto area after a single 50 bps increase this past quarter like the one the Fed just dropped down south. Some suburbs of Toronto have already seen median prices drop 10-20% off their January/February 2022 peak prices [1].

The volume of home sales has plunged 41% in Toronto [2] as the market absorbed the 0.5% interest rate hike. And we haven't seen anything yet. A huge chunk of the buyers today have pre-approvals with interest rates from 75 bps ago. Around June 1 these buyers need to commit to a purchase to provide enough time for their lenders to close the deal at the old interest rates before those expire. The Bank of Canada is also expected to make a further 50 bps to 100 bps jump in rates in early June.

Anecdotally, there are already horror stories of over leveraged buyers -- perhaps amateur investors or a family that stretched themselves to the limit to buy -- only for their deal to fall through because the banks won't appraise the home at what they agreed to pay for it.

As a wannabe first time homebuyer myself, I've heard every argument you've said repeated ad nauseum up here in Canada the past half year by real estate bulls -- who I might add, have been totally right in their assessment of our crazy market which could only go up for perhaps the past 15 years -- only for the market sentiment to completely change overnight within a month or two of the 0.5% interest rate hike.

[1]: https://preview.redd.it/w61ns3b7jgx81.jpg?width=1024&auto=we...

[2]: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/toronto-home-sales-plunge-41-in-...
https://github.com/dimensionc132/deadswitch/releases/tag/v1....

Not sure. I am new to Github. I just made a new release found above.

I have tested the email. It works, provided you enter the correct server settings.

CTRL+C is disabled.
CTRL+\ not but i can add that in a future release

You assume, that the person who attacks you while you are at the machine, knows linux commands. I don't.

This is a work in progress. I am only a beginner programmer. Just trying to create something that might be useful to people.

The next iteration of this is to make a Dead Switch based website. I am already thinking about this as it will bypass a lot of issues, like someone being there at the computer.
Background: I have a CS degree and immediately after graduating I went to found my video-game startup, about 15 years ago. Had moderate to good success without ever needing to be employed.

In my case, I would say set the goal of learning difficult, rare and valuable skills (IE: interested in databases? Read 3 hard books about databases) and you will be ahead of the curve. If you can't keep up, a degree might be the choice.

If you do go for the startup way, one advice I would give my old self is to keep time to learn more and enjoy time with friends and family. I spent almost one year, 365 days, 8am to 12 midnight, no Sunday breaks, programming inside a cave. I only met friends about a handful of times. Hardly came out of the house. I think I even missed a funeral. That's bad. Don't do it.
Yes.
To help me find the most important things. To put things into the right place for finding later.
Maybe.
I think a lot of people are panic buying at this point. The fed has several rate hikes planned, so the TCO is only going up from here. I don’t see prices coming down. We could see the increase in prices slow down, but it’s almost guaranteed a house right now is going to be cheaper than a house in December. Even if the price stays the same, your rate might be 12% in November.
Or we might see a level of inflation not seen in decades. The kind of inflation we saw before the fall of Communism. Where communist governments kept printing more and more money while working people could buy less and less with it. It got so bad that eventually they just barely had enough for food.
They should release it under some sort of fair use model where they receive 10% of the profits of anyone using their technology.

Then, there doesn't need to be any marketing and limiting of availability by only having one source of product.

Product manufacturers would probably be ecstatic to generate products that have great use and public appeal, where all you need to do is be the first to be able to manufacture it.
Abletone is kind of cool though
You probably don't have kids, but that isn't an autocorrect fail!

https://www.yoplait.com/go-gurt/
I taught my spouse to program when she decided to change fields, and did a similar thing where she wanted to master the advanced stuff by taking classes (she took them for credit on the off chance she needed it in a masters program) The classes she took were equivalent to three classes majormajor suggests:

Data Structures and Introduction to Algorithms: everyone needs this and it is maybe 50% of leet code problems

Assembly Language Programming and Machine Organization, Introduction to the Theory of Computation: this is the low level of how computers really work

Operating System Fundamentals: concurrency programming plus a lot more useful stuff

I think it is definitely worth it. Good luck!
Desktop (macbook air M1)
As rates rise to more normal historical levels, and purchasing power diminishes, who will people sell their homes to? Prices will eventually have to come down.

This is the argument that homes are currently overvalued.
Slightly surprised that Harvard's School of Extension Studies didn't make the cut.
When an object is stolen from a cache which was otherwise destroyed, 1) that is by definition a statistical anomaly, and 2) it may contain information from a time/place that is otherwise irrecoverable, which could make it valuable.

Between these two facts, I think it would be way weirder if everyone quietly ignored the historical record of a specific artifact just because it was stolen. Imagine walking through a museum with a tour guide who is able to give mounds of information about every piece on display, until you ask them about a certain bust, and they say "oh we don't talk about the history of that piece" and you say "why not?" and he says "because it's not relevant".

Be honest, what you're actually saying is, "this information isn't relevant TO ME."
> A majority of consistent voters own homes and want house prices to increase.

Are there actually data that say that? I'd only expect data to exist on the first half, but there may also be data (as opposed to a fairly good supposition) from the second.
Internationally it's on Netflix but named "Dreamland" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)
> Kamran Khan, founder and CEO of BlueDot, said the company's role is to produce “infectious disease insights,” not to collect location data directly from mobile devices.

> The company procured anonymous and aggregated data from third-party vendors so there was no information about the specific device the data came from.

So as with the CDC story a few days ago, this was done with location data made available by data brokers. The root cause here is that these companies are allowed to collect and store user location data at all. Until that's banned, anyone with enough money can do the same thing the CDC or the Canadian government did.

This is not government overreach, it's surveillance capitalism.

Edit: I also hate how this story buries the lede:

> Canadians' movements, including trips to the liquor store and pharmacy, were closely tracked via their mobile phones without their knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report sent to a parliamentary committee shows.

Yes, and in fact they were being closely tracked by the same private companies before the pandemic started and will continue to be closely tracked after the pandemic is over.
Tor Browser 11.0.11 (Windows, macOS, Linux)
That doesn't explain why those same people were not doing that years prior to that policy change. SF had walkable streets not even 10 years ago, and poop patrol didn't exist and was not needed.

I think not prosecuting is one part of the solution but it needed to be implement alongside a real solution to the root problem. Many people living on the streets have mental issues of all kinds, and not addressing that while simultaneously removing all boundaries when it comes to what they can or cannot do outside, is quite obviously going to create mayhem. The cynical side of me thinks that could be the end goal, but that's a different matter.
Thanks! I was looking for a program at Oxford. USN&WR has it at #11 worldwide for CS.

The SE program at Oxford doesn't seem to be available for 100% remote study, though. Am I missing something? I love this informal, friendly Web site, and I might be looking in the wrong places.
Maybe not more interesting to you, but possibly more interesting to me!
Good luck in your studies!
I don't know why some people just automatically assume that all problematic behavior was done out of desperation. All stealing is just for loaves of bread to feed a starving family. All street defecation is an act of desperation after a good faith search for a toilet. etc.

Are people angels who only behave badly when horrible circumstances leave them with no options? I just don't understand how someone could believe this. It would seem to take a very sheltered life where ideology takes the place of real human experience.
> The mistake these courts are making is thinking that the punishment is meant for the individual committing the crime ONLY. In fact, it is a deterrent for OTHERS to think twice before attempting a crime. Rulings like this will have a very predictable outcome: drug dealers will read about this or hear about it, and they will proceed to take advantage of it.

This isn't a mistake. This was not law before they committed their offense, and it's a very restrictive ban: this is effectively adding more punishment to a crime after the fact. Worse, there was no legislation to support the ban.

> This has happened before. One year it was a clean city, then they announced they wouldn't prosecute quality of life crimes like defecating on the street... and the next year you couldn't walk a single block without having to avoid human feces. The amount of short-sightedness in the leadership of that city is astounding! At least don't announce it!

Here, the leadership of the city was trying to take action in excess of what the law allowed against these dealers. So who exactly is fucking up here? The leadership of the city?
I make good (not swe but not bad for IT) money but I'll never be able to buy anything within 60 miles of my work.
> Much more emphasis on whatever fresh sexual and gender identities happen to be in vogue right now, apparently for no purpose other than to preach about them to the viewer.

People were been just as dismissive about interracial kiss in the 60s. About gay relationships in the 70s and 80s.

Evolve or become a dinosaur.
I'm not denying your experience, but I'm not able to find that policy/guidelines, can you link to it?
I hope I'm wrong since I want the city to improve, but I haven't visited since mid-pandemic, so it could be outdated. However I can assure you I lived through it.
It can be hard enough to find a toilet as someone monied in a big city with a homeless problem. I imagine the homeless have a harder time. It's not surprising that some poop will inevitably end up in the street as a result.
I'm not in the US, but can only think of one person in my rough age and social circle that is renting (and that was because he split with a partner and she bought his share of their house). Fairly middle class cohort, mix of public and private schooling. Average house price here is about $1m, though most would have bought earlier and cheaper.

Anyone younger and buying now would be up against it. I think housing affordability is one of the biggest issues we have.
Alternatively with interest rates higher, buyers might think they can't get a higher return than the interest rate on the mortgage, thus lowering the opportunity cost of paying all in cash.
That was my experience as well working in the US (Washington D.C.) I think it is a problem you will find anywhere.
With source files and git. They aren't incompatible with using a REPL to drive your work.
Jd.com, Pinduoduo Added to Chinese Companies Facing Delisting in U.S.
My individual dedicated office is at my house. I don’t want to drive any amount of time to sit in a room at a computer and do the same thing.

Sometimes I want to work elsewhere, and will go to the park or just sit in a parking lot somewhere.

The only benefit I see to physical proximity is the unexpected encounters that can help resolve business situations or help ideas flourish.
So, one of my criteria is a credentialed master's degree at the university, available 100% remote. I don't see a master's degree in CS or software engineering on their site. Also, it seems like the degrees they do give are from "Harvard Extension", which is also something I don't want.
AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago
I live in a blue collar neighborhood of a west coast city. I’ve done extensive work to update my home, I’ve added features like central air, new floors, new lighting, and landscaping. It’s like a new house (though it was built in 1955). Both Zillow and Redfin tell me my house is worth roughly double of what I paid for it in 2015. That’s without even considering the upgrades I’ve done. A 10% drop from the current estimate is meaningless when most homes are worth 50-150% more than what they were worth 10 years ago.
Yes, I use them. There are a few filters for deleting emails from some users and others to tag my emails based on the sender's address.