skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ehm, nope. Unless your complaint is a very obvious one (i.e. seller didn't send anything at all or the item has visibly not been delivered from the tracking info), good luck.

E.g. I had obviously fake EEPROM chips delivered, they weren't even new (they contained data from the previous use!). I have opened a dispute, posted the evidence that the chips are relabeled fakes - and promptly got it rejected both first time and on appeal. The grunt handling it had absolutely no idea what my complaint was about, I have received my goods, so what more do I want?

Fortunately it was only a few euros worth so not big deal - I have opened the dispute mostly to point out that the seller is a fraudster, not to recover my 15€ or so back. Tough luck ...

Over the years I had more luck sorting complaints out on AliExpress directly with the sellers because they are afraid of losing their ratings and thus a large portion of business (people usually sort by price and then by ratings). The support staff is hopeless in these cases.
If I were trying to be sneaky, could you create a series of hashes of the name/email/address/bank type of info to stored on GDPR deletion request that could then be checked against any new account creation? Since the only data stored after deletion would be a hash with no PII remaining, is this a viable workaround?
I bought a lightphone. It's expensive and buggy, but it helped kill my phone addiction. Dumb phone with music and maps.
A scientific approach would be to have a large number of program requirement documents and a large number of programmers, and assign a methodology to half the programmers, forbid the method to to the other half, and then measure the output from the exercise along important axes like time to completion, correctness, and compute resource consumption. This has been approximated in studies a small number of times, but with too small sample sizes. Achieving robust results would be enormously expensive.
Cell phone is how my daycare communicates with us. We've only had our daughter in daycare for 3 months now and already we've had (very)two minor medical issues they needed/wanted our input on. It's also the device I use to organize who is picking her up from daycare at the end of the day.
Not really, as GDPR is not only about screwing up big companies.
Certain kind of data must be saved by companies (like financial transactions).
You can request the deletion, but they are still allowed to save some of the data.
Mexico City. Just don't do the dumb risque stuff Americans take for granted as reasonable (going out late alone, doing drugs, etc.).
> It's exactly how totalitarianism looks like..

Ofcourse it does, a corporation is a totalitarian organisation by design - I don't understand why anyone is surprised to learn this. Any disobedience or herecy and you are removed with prejudice.
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Conhost is not really a terminal emulator, except in the sense that it’s a square box to type into. It is not an emulator. Design, Architecture, implementation all completely different and gimped.
Most of the time, people deciding to STFU because they don't know enough simply don't speak.

On rare occasions, I have said "I don't know enough to draw a conclusion". The result is usually hell to pay.
Perhaps you could clear up the problem b y defining it for us so that we have a clear target to aim at.
Who guarantees the "kings and aristocrats" are really the ones pulling the strings? They are frequently just puppets.
Yeah, I opted for a smaller phone this last upgrade (in what, four years) in hopes of using it less and being less noticeable in the pocket. Used to have this big screen phone with which I wouldn’t have much issue watching or reading stuff on. Now with a much smaller one, “not” having a huge screen to consume media on, making it less attractive to do so, and it’s been working pretty well I think. Couldn’t bring myself to go full dumbphone, er, feature? phone.
DJI Mini 2 Pro is the drone of choice for Ukrainian military - 600 USD on Amazon. Chinese consumer tech - low price, do-the-job.
It is an upper bound for something, but not the upper bound for that algorithm.
In the city, yes.

But my point was, there are other people around. Yell, bang on a house's door, go into the gas station, etc etc.
Google has become borderline unusable for finding something that's not popular that's more than a month or year old. Multiple times I have spent more than 5 to 10 minutes trying to find something I have read a few years or even a few months ago and it's next to impossible to find it, even with time gating the results Google just keeps returning popular search results over specificity. The long tail is just ignored in their current algo.
* PowerToys Run - Alfred

* Windows Terminal - iTerm

* Snipping Tool - Clean Shot X

These are not fair comparisons. The Mac tools you list here are much more powerful than the Windows counterparts, and there are good enough built-in alternatives (Spotlight, Terminal and the default screenshot tool).

* PowerToys FancyZones - Moom

This isn't fair either. FancyZones is much more powerful; Rectangle is a better comparison.
Serious question for HN: How do we replace eBay with a reliable, sensibly run public service?

It's extremely disheartening that it's now 2022 and we haven't figured out a way to replace eBay.

It's the most basic form of commerce. Select a product from the listings, check the seller's reputation based on how active the seller is, ask a few questions, finalize a transaction. On rare occasion, in some markets, adjudicate a dispute.

Everyone in the world should be able to have access to this service for essentially free.

eBay is such a basic thing that it was started as a hobby because of course people should be able to buy and sell online with minimal friction. It's obvious.

Why don't we make new things like this anymore?

I hear all this hype about the fediverse and web3 and crypto, but the reality is that the public cannot even reliably send messages to each other without invoking a big tech company.

Crypto barely works and there have been billions of dollars made and lost just trying to keep track of account balances.

It feels like we're forever away from having a well run public global market.

Uber and Twitter and Netflix and eBay and the rest of the "essential" services seem so basic, but we can't seem to get enough nerds together to start replacing them.

We're each individually globally connected with more bandwidth than I ever thought would fit in my pocket.

But I can't hail a ride without involving Uber.

I can't deliver a 140 character message to a lot of people without involving Twitter.

We can't crowdfund the creation of great art, unless we all pay Netflix to do it for us.

> Don’t use eBay.

And, as OP is soon to notice, it's very hard to sell used electronics without using eBay.

What can we actually do, today, as hackers, to replace eBay?

If I was actually going to do it, where would I start? Would replacing eBay be a government project, a web3 project, a federated network?

Is there actual hacktivism to be done here by simply replacing services with p2p equivalents without engaging in the current corporate system?

I've had enough of relying on companies for what should be human to human services.
If only that were the case
Is it good to not care?
Wow. Just wow. No point in trying to have a conversation with someone who is just going to rotely reiterate ideological talking points.

But I will say on one point (Companies that were financially irresponsible or poorly run should naturally fail when economic times get rough.) These companies ere struggling because the government shut everything nonessential down. The point of the PPP was to make up for that fact that the government, during a global pandemic that killed millions wouldn't let people go to work.

Next time you want to discuss the merits of the PPP, step outside of your tech bubble and think about what COVID was like for all of the non-tech companies whose functions can't be done from home.
Is this a way around Reddit bans?
Intelligence is a tool. If it isn't actually used (i.e. applying grit), it is useless.
I've definitely had this problem. There were times I lost my phone and had to get back home. No one would let me use their phone. It was not until I begged a gas station attendant to let me call someone I knew who could pick me up, that I was able to get home.
Regards the licencing: you are right. I was a vit blinded by the core gnu tools.

Tiny wrappers do not work since .NET, while being very Performanz will never be C like tiny.
Counter of viewers does not equal amount of people who watch. Bots, people who only listen, people who forgot to disable video, autoplay (that time you find out your YouTube has been playing for days and you ended up in that video), attention span diversification, etc. Pageviews does not equal amount of people who read a page either. Its annoying when such gets extrapolated.
Came here to say this:

VD may be it, or even indirectly a measure of 'not getting outside' enough.

Even the sunlight may not be it, literally a walk in the woods might be providing the effect.

Or rather 'spending too much time in our own minds' etc..
Sunlight and gardening have had such a dramatic impact on the way that I feel, it's unbelievable.
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That's nice and all, but when I travel overseas having a universal translator with me is super cool.

Being able to order a safe reliable taxi in most major cities, also super cool.

If you don't want email on your phone, don't set it up. But having a map that redirects me around traffic accidents in real time saves me a lot of time.

I'm not going to argue against smartphones being horrible little dopamine boxes, because they are, but you can get a smartphone and set it up as a purely utilitarian device rather easily.
I think the reason we can’t is that even “just” defining the target state and path to get there is insanely difficult to get agreement even among people who staunchly and genuinely support some version of “solve the equality issue”.

When will we know we’ve solved it? When outcomes are equal? When 100.00% of unequal outcomes can be explained as the outcome of individual and family choices? When 99% can be explained?

How should we treat inter-generational wealth and property ownership? If I’ve worked all my life, lived prudently, carefully spent less than I earned, should I be able to pass along only my old baseball mitt to my kid? Maybe $100? Maybe $100K? Maybe $2M and the paid-off house under the condition he takes care of his mother? If one kid gets a musty baseball mitt and another a house and $2M, is that OK or not? One kid gets a house and another a house and a live-in elderly mother; equal?

Different people feel differently, even if they’re both “all for solving the equality issue”.
Fish or cocktail?
You make it sound sinister like you’re expecting to be mugged, but I’ve called 911 on behalf of others by being the first to come across their roadside accident 2 different times in my life, and the first one wouldn’t have been able to call themselves due to injuries. Not having a phone would have meant leaving the scenes, driving to the next exit and finding a gas station or house, explaining there was an accident and pleading to use the phone, drawing out their time sitting injured on the roadside by several minutes before emergency services were even notified.

I’ve also been the first to report tree limbs blocking roads and a water main that burst to non-emergency lines, again expediting services to fix them and reducing inconvenience overall.

I’ve never felt like this was some conditioning of paranoia, only that I was enabled to help in ways that I wasn’t able to 20 years ago.
This doesn't well thought out either. What if you need to send larger amounts of money? Sending out money to everyone works when it's a reasonably small amount.
> I thought that the reason why they aren't made much any more was due to milage standards, but that wouldn't be an issue for electric trucks.

I'm guessing we will see something like CAFE standards for EVs when they become a majority of the market. Maybe they'll call it CAKE (Corporate Average Kilowatt-hour Economy). The same people now complaining about carbon emissions from ICE trucks will in the future complain about the appalling electricity consumption of electric trucks.

I really don't see the climate activist people saying "our work here is done, let's pack up and go home!" when the last ICE vehicle rolls off the assembly line. The battle lines will just shift and the Cybertruck/F150 Lightning/Hummer EV/Rivian R1T will become as reviled as their internal combustion counterparts are today.
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In what way is multiple assignment and tuple unpacking not imperative code?
Mobile phones, particularly smartphones, are incredibly useful devices, particularly while mobile, and it doesn’t seem weird to be uncomfortable when one doesn’t have it.
Video games involve a lot of storytelling. Stories can be super powerful, and I think the world definitely has room for more games that depict and explore the experience of poverty. But that absolutely HAS to come from a place of direct experience. If you read a couple books, interview a couple people at a shelter, and then make a game - it won't be a poverty simulator. It might simulate the theoretical economics of poverty, or a birds eye view of the day to day mechanics of it, but that's not the same as the actual thing. SimCity is a city simulator, but it doesn't simulate what it's like to live in any city, or what it's like to be a city mayor or even a city planner.

Video games can help people understand things, just like that pulp song has helped people understand, but just like the pulp song it has to come from direct first hand experience.
At work I use Scala and it's of course rock-solid, but it feels like a drag to develop and deploy–taking minutes to iteratively develop, and tens of minutes to test and build an assembly jar or Docker image. For a side project I'm using OCaml and greatly enjoying the fast feedback and deploy experience. For parallelization, there's not really much choice than to use multiple processes for now; but in the near future true multicore support will be shipped. Performance is very reasonable–most of my responses are in low milliseconds. Take a look at https://aantron.github.io/dream/
Dev tasks. Yes. Admin tasks: not so much. The ask is not to create a windows client env to administer Linux machine. The ask is one management surface for Linux and Windows servers.
I have found smartwatches a good for this purposes. With cellular connectivity you have emergency services, calls, certain notifications, maps, and NFC payments. You cant procrastinate on it as easily as with a phone.

Many in this thread suggest a feature phone. Anecdotally, a friend of mine went this route, but people became suspicious of him. Especially when meeting new people. His dates thought he was cheating on his (non-existent) wife, or that he was hiding something in more general sense. He returned to having a smartphone after a year or so with a feature phone.
I find it nicer to look at a huge map, when visiting a city.

Maybe a 100" TV would be about the same.

But sadly, it is harder to get paper maps now, for obvious reasons.
The root of the problem is that services like eBay or Google don’t have any incentive to handle this properly. It’s the same reason they don’t care about quality or reliability of services they provide (although eBay really isn’t as bad compared to google), they only care about keeping up appearances.

It’s not a technical problem, and not a problem specific to eBay. The only way to fix it is to introduce laws forcing companies to handle those cases properly.
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Iran and the US.

Initially it was because I became a US citizen, I didn't really feel the need to do anything with my Iranian citizenship.

At this point though, it's a backup. Some things would definitely be harder for me in Iran - but depending on how things go in the US - I might feel like I'd be safer in Iran.
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Consider a multitude of people who are going to buy food at a fast food place, and they all have $10 to spend. They all have the same opportunity to buy food there, but the outcomes (the actual items they buy) will likely be very different. If we then decide that "salads are good, meat is bad", then we can start to talk about "inequality of outcomes" with respect to salad eating. But is this really a problem? I would argue it's only a problem if we don't want humans exercising free will, and want to impose our "enlightened" views on them.
> do you suppose that we should remove the profit motive? What do we replace it with?

Not remove, layer it. In the past we have had public universities and big "free" "innovation labs" from private those NOT managerial driven but just "we have big money, we fund some very skilled technicians who innovate on their own and see the outcome, something very nice for our business will appear". Such model have produced the most quick and revolutionary innovation we have seen in last century et least.

My view is: States funds public universities whose target is pure research, innovation for humankind. They do not produce goods, just ideas and initial implementations. Companies for their profits, States for Citizens needs pick those ideas choosing what to implement, sell etc. Private research can't really compete so there will be a bit but not too much to steer society in dangerous evolution, States having the biggest concentration of talents and research can surveil and make Citizens informed enough to decide if something is good or not.

> My take is that involving profits is a way to introduce rules and score keeping to the game.

Although in practice we have seen the contrary: some innovate better than other conquering certain positions, than they start killing potential competitors thanks to money they have amassed... IMVHO innovation can only be stimulate by intellectual means, push needs and rewards means pushing dangerous innovations,, something good can arrive, but also much bad things.

> right now, for example, we have a crisis in food production

And it's cause is only partially the climate change, much is due by for-profit market moves, where it's more profitable having big food players instead of countless small ones. That's why IMVHO profit must be contained, it's not self-contained because the ideal free market can exists, only if kept free by force, by nature it derive quickly toward hierarchy against humans needs... The main point here is that States as Democracies represent the sole real free market: the people, all together unable to really form a monopoly or oligopoly.

> It just feels like people who want to completely drop money or profit from this usually don't have a great plan.

IMVHO money is a very misunderstood topic: so far money are a kind of substrate of anything lent to states in the form of public debt; that's not "money" that's a very old scam, dating back from the '300 or even certain Greeks polis. Money must be a unit of measure of a substrate, determined, not owned, by the public, no private parties involved. A symbol we use to weight nearly anything.

If we made money like that, than profit change aspect: we do not have financialization much more than a thin layer because having no value as a substrate have no value, so no option for profit, at all. In that case a company can have benefits from good ads, but can't live only on ads, it need something valuable underneath etc.

That's the real key all actual élites do not want because actual money is the best way to keep people in line with soft tie almost no one really see and revolt.
I've been a happy Ebay user for 14 years, 100% positive feedback both as a seller and buyer, and the rare problems were always solved promptly by the support.
They once even called me to give support on sunday and were extremely polite and supportive.

Now does this mean Ebay is perfect? Nope, not even close, but hanging up users calls sounds very new to me; please, if there is more to this story let us know.

On a second thought, you may have triggered some of their scam detection algorithms.
I built my reputation in years by initially buying and selling small parts and objects, then more expensive devices and instrumentation, and would never trust anyone with a fresh account and no feedback points suddenly selling stuff for hundreds pounds.
However, hanging up your call still isn't the proper way of giving support, so I'd like to know more if there is more.
There are some options here on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43122175/automatically-h...

Prettier options to extensions like Rewrap, one of those might fit your use case.
So what I did was put acme-dns on a publicly accessible server I have, and use DNS zone delegation to that, as like you, my provider basically gives you an all or nothing API key as far as DNS access goes.
You know, medical emergencies are a thing. You could always come across someone that needs help.
My solution to this problem (anxiety at potentially missing some very important incoming message) is to wear a watch that has wide area connectivity and syncs with the important message streams (voice, signal, work slack, sms, email, not social media). The watch has a good enough UX to receive and act upon messages, but sufficiently crappy that you want to ignore it unless it's indicating some hair-on-fire situation.
..but it was a typo, yeah?
In case you weren't aware of it, this watch[1] might interest you. Open-source hardware and software. I'll probably end up getting one for Christmas this year.

[1] https://watchy.sqfmi.com/
In a supply constrained economy (which USA currently is, can see this from inflation), the supply of goods is zero sum. The government printing more money and giving to other people makes the money you have worth less, so even if the government gave you as much money as before you will now effectively get less from the government.

The "economy is not zero sum" argument comes from other parts. If you work harder and produce more goods than before, then that is not zero sum, since you added goods and therefore didn't reduce the worth of others money. But this is a very different scenario.
They aren't desperate enough to pay respectable wages yet.
Yes I don't not disagree also, not with this.
Generally, no.

GDPR specifically carves out keeping data for "legitimate business needs" including fraud prevention and so on. Whatever data Ebay (thinks it) has about this person that they are using to enforce the ban would be data that they would argue falls under this clause.
I’ve settled on similar setup. One nice thing about is there many tools that can work on this type of note setup, so you are not locked into one tool.

Working Copy works decently well on iOS. Gollum [1] on desktop operating systems provides a web interface to the notes. For some shameless self-promotion, I’ve been hacking on a clone of Gollum called Smeagol [2]. It is written in Rust so it is quite a bit faster to install and run on some of my low powered systems than installing Gollum.

[1]: https://github.com/gollum/gollum
[2]: https://smeagol.dev/
Despite the horrendous tone and attitude, you're 100% right. I prefer working from the office because I get to be less lonely for a third of my waking life, probably in part because I can rarely get that kind of social fullfillment from my private life. I'm just not quite sure what's so bad about not wanting to be unconditionally alone 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
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Carry a ye olden flip phone for this; they tend to work even without a SIM for 911.