skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I'd say while channels like Tom Scott and Smarter Every Day are good, they "encourage" a shallowness and a certain homogeneity

It's only about the "money shot" the punch line and that's it.
OpenOffice is just such a much more obvious name.

LibreOffice might as well be named "OpenOffice, err, well technically LibreOffice but it is basically just an updated version"
It seems to me that, regardless of whether or not there is true efficacy in the actions of hostile intelligence, domestic intelligence will always see it as a threat. Given that perspective, I think a government's desire to spy domestically comes (at least in part) from a desire to counter that threat.

So I kinda think the boogeymen exist but, to your point, they are not necessarily as effective as they would like to be.
Amazon Shipped Fake Nvidia 3090 for Prime Day Special
I play a lot of card games with my kids.

I wanted a new card shuffler.

All I got was pages of the same 3 models of shuffler from every nonsense name brand you could think of.

But really just 3 choices…
Whoops, I guess you're right. I read about ring species long ago and I definitely misunderstood the concept, so I'm glad you corrected that. I was thinking all neighbors are compatible, but incompatible with the opposite side.

However, because of the impossibility of contact between the two temporal ends, I'm not sure what the value would be in thinking about a temporal ring species?
Yes, because Amazon has created perverse incentives for anonymous manufacturers to fabricate as many "brands" as possible, there are now so many of them that they crowd out actual brands. The original purpose of a brand name was to give a reputable seller a recognizable way to differentiate a quality product or service from anonymous competitors. But search and recommendation on Amazon favors the anonymous sellers.

Amazon today is less about selling things to consumers and more about selling consumers to anonymous Chinese suppliers.
Paypal doesn't assess a forex fee as a separate line item, maybe. They document[1] that the "conversion rates" they give are 3-4% worse than wholesale, which is at least as bad as every credit card I've ever held.

[1]: https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/where-can-i-find...
Ah, I see. I’m wrong, unless I’m correct, in which case I’m irrelevant.
Yes, I'm well acquainted with the popular stance of focusing on a great person's irrelevant flaws, and justifying it as having some sort of "balance".

Even Einstein has been attacked in this way. People try to dismiss him as a great man because he treated his wife poorly.

Steve Jobs disowned his daughter. He rooked Woz in the Atari deal. He's been nasty to a lot of people. It doesn't detract from his incredible success.

The point is, we all have our flaws, and zeroing in on a great person's flaws as a way to diminish his achievements is, frankly, small and petty.
I don't like having to give AliExpress my phone number.
Looking at the name of the company, reading recent reviews, and ensuring there is a non-obviously-fake address associated with the business doesn't sound like a tedious list of hoops to jump through to me. You should do all this stuff on any marketplace, Amazon or elsewhere.

Honestly, if we're talking about convenience, Amazon is pretty much the best game in town. They have many documented failings and faults, but being inconvenient isn't one of them.
And yes, it was sold and shipped by Amazon.
That might be true from my own frame of reference but not so to an observer, right? How can we say there are 3 spatial dimensions at all if what you say is true? What you’re describing suggests there are an infinite number of dimensions based on the different frame of reference for all observers. Why do we then believe there to be 3 dimensions? Is this just one of the cases where 3 dimensions is a useful model for calculation but not really true in reality?

Undoubtedly there must be something I’m missing here—I’ve taken physics courses but clearly I’m no expert. :)
Please don't go down this line of reasoning. I think we all understand that a family run farm or shop is going to have their children work there at some point. This is not a problem because the parents (usually) have a vested interest in their children's health.

However children working on farms loop hole is rife with abuse: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/12/04/more-us-child-workers-di...

The reasons why we have prohibitions on child labor in general is exactly the problem noted in the OP. Desperate parents will essentially put their kids at risk (even sell them) and unscrupulous employers will abuse children.
> US citizens need to start feeling embarassed that we can no longer manufacture simple objects cost efficiently

UK citizens need to start feeling embarrassed that we can no longer manufacture simple objects. Period. We buy all our crap from China. I'm so ashamed.
It is fine for, like, getting an HDMI cable.

I would never buy something from Amazon that touched my food.

Electronics more complicated than a cable require some review, figuring out if there's a reputable brand underneath, etc.
Okay...now assume that I took Probability 101 as an undergrad, got an B+, and kept the textbook.

If we knew how many companies Elan has lead, and the percentage of barely-founded little companies from ~2003 which have been as successful as SpaceX and Tesla over the past 2 decades, then we could perform the calculations, and see what the odds actually are on Elan hitting two such jackpots by random chance & survivorship.

Elan's Wikipedia entry only has him leading ~10 companies. If you could name a few hundred more, that would help your case...
So I am assuming you are putting Hacker News in the "fell for" category?
Yeah. That was ... awkward. I liked Charles Dance, and I love Anna Chancellor.

I probably will give it another go, sometime. I like most of the cast.
Regardless, the last time I went into a Wal-Mart where my parents live, it wasn't just that they were prioritizing the onn brand stuff: it was literally all they had. Reliable third-party brands like Anker weren't even on the shelves anymore.
This is a great analogy. Would you say that Michael Jordan is only successful because of the owner of the team he played for?
This just in: companies lie in line with mainstream politics to get more business.
> if you truly use it as a 'lap' top, it'll be quite unpleasant.

Sounds not too different from Intel MBP's. I could never use my MBP as a "lap" top due to how hot it got.
> massive shift in the way people work

sounds like he's talking about remote
In The Netherlands we have 2 big mainstream shops for electronics, this is Bol.com and Coolblue.nl. Bol.com started out as a webshop and moved into a marketplace idea (like Amazon does). I know a lot of people that prefer Coolblue over Bol because of this exact reason. Every product that Coolblue is selling has at least some kind of guarantee of quality, because if it is bad, they will have to replace it.

Sadly enough, at this point Amazon.nl is overshadowing this by giving insane discounts and refunds to customers, so I hope they do not win over Bol.com, but I am anxious about it.
> Do I want to have a critical piece of open source financially dependent on Google with their conflict of interests wrt Google Suite or rather have it with Apache that has no other interests?

We really have no other choice. The amount of security bugs lurking in OpenOffice is substantial and is widely considered a major risk. OpenOffice no longer has the manpower to find them or keep track of them. There's a reason why almost all Linux distributions have abandoned it for LibreOffice. OpenOffice is quite literally dead. It's like saying I'll stay on Linux 1.0 because that's before IBM started sponsoring it - the battle is completely lost.

As for funding, Google is almost irrelevant considering all the other people on the Advisory board, including GNOME, Red Hat, KDE, Collabora, and so forth. Even more funding is being provided by the new business partners who take LibreOffice and offer long-term enterprise support versions and contribute back, and there are four companies doing that (Collabora, allotropia, Adfinis, and CIB). Calling LibreOffice financially dependent on Google is completely unfounded at this time.

Heck, when your article about Google supporting LibreOffice was written, Google Docs was much younger with far less chance of success. It could have easily ended up in the Google Graveyard and I don't blame Google for hedging their bet on it.

https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board...
Happy to see this discussed on HN because I've constantly been stressing about this whenever I shop on Amazon. "All these brands are Chinese with random combinations of characters for a name"

I've looked at laptop cases. Here is a sampling of brand names: Lacdo, Voova, KINGSLONG, NIDOO, tomtoc, MOSISO, INVZI, XMBFZ, Arvok, Kinmac, Londo...

I've bought cases for my ipad and work laptop from Lacdo and one for my upcoming MBA from Voova. They're actually great, but I worry they're made with Uighur slave labor or toxic materials or something.

I'd prefer not to support Amazon, but where else am I supposed to find stuff like this? Do I buy my electronics (eg. Hue lights recently) from Best Buy instead, which has a worse return policy and whose Geek Squad worked with the FBI to violate customers' rights?

Edit: Also, a few days ago I went on a search for a desktop organizer. Here are some brand names: DALTACK, ARCOBIS, DEZZIE, Hossejoy, Greenco, AMERIERGO, SONGMICS, X-cosrack, Marbrasse, Citmage, Samstar, Beiz. It goes on forever.

I checked Walmart and Target too, but wound up buying this one from "Lavatino" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PL59RL6 The product is actually awesome. The compartments are the perfect size to hold my coasters and I organized everything that was loose on my desk with room to spare.

So, it feels great to get something I needed, but the whole process still feels bad somehow.
Another possibility is Rust continues to get more advanced in ways that remove constraints over time, making it less complex to use in practice. We already see a lot of (small, incremental) improvements of this type, where a bunch of compiler work goes into proving that new cases are actually safe and therefore allowed

Basically what I'm wondering is if Rust has room to become that language that's learned from the ways Rust has been clunky in the past, without introducing dramatically breaking changes
So smart people don't know when they're wrong because they're smart enough to convince themselves that they're right, and dumb people don't know when they're wrong, because they're too dumb to see how dumb they're being. We can't win.
> Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite

In what world?
There have been periodic bug fix releases all along, this is the 13th of them hence 4.1.13. If this project said "We're not really doing any new work in OpenOffice, try [link to] LibreOffice for that, but here's our latest bug fixes" nobody would have a problem with that at this point. The name was valuable years ago, it's less valuable today, and at least there'd be a link.

But the claim, all along has been that this is still an active project, it's earnestly shipping new features just... never quite yet.

Here's what they told Apache's board earlier this year:

4.2.0 is the next minor release, planned to be released into a beta phase.
We have missed our goal on going into the beta in 2019. [...] An alpha and/or beta release is planned for the next quarter.

And here's what they wrote to that same board, two years earlier:

4.2.0 is the next minor release, planned to be released into a beta phase.
We have missed our goal on going into the beta in 2019. [...] An alpha and/or beta release is planned for the next quarter.

They last made a feature release in 2014. Windows 10 didn't exist. It was still controversial that Ben Affleck was going to play Batman. Barack Obama was President of the United States of America.
Whoops. Of course I had to use c for every value so the magnitude exceeds c. FTL travel!
See also this blog post on USB-C hubs: https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.h...
>It is fine for, like, getting an HDMI cable.

Only true for what are, now, low-end HDMI cables. Really difficult to get a good one that's actually within spec for high-bandwidth applications.
> zero risk

* if you live on a spherical planet with spherical people
I'm not suggesting Musk should "get away" with doing bad things. I am saying it does not diminish his contributions.

Being a jackass is hardly the worst thing a person could be. In fact, it's pretty ordinary. We've all been a jackass in our own lives here and there.
The terms aren't equivalent here. The maximum fabric frequency is defined in the FPGA's data sheet, but rather than defining bytes per transfer * clock speed over some bus, it defines the highest frequency signal that can be sent between two logic blocks of the FPGA. It's measured from the output of a register in one logic block, through the shortest path on the routing fabric, into a LUT that itself is registered. This is typically what the bottleneck for performance is on an FPGA. The logic block might only have a latency of half a nanosecond, but it could take another 2 ns to get the signal to the next logic block.

The RPi's CPUs operate at 1.5 GHz (1500 MHz) or higher, meaning there are 1.5 GHz signals being sent around inside the CPU. The logic in this FPGA under the most ideal theoretical conditions can only operate at around 400 MHz, and for a "real" design, much slower than that - hence my reference to VexRiscv. It's an extremely simple core by modern standards, clock-for-clock it's way slower than the ARM cores in the RPI, yet it's only capable of hitting 200 MHz in (this) FPGA.

To elaborate a bit:

An FPGA has a few major components, but from a logic perspective, the two to focus on here are the "slices" and the routing fabric. The slices of the FPGA implement user logic and are very simple. They contain a few LUTs (look up tables) which implement logic functions. In the case of the Xilinx 7 series architecture, these can be either 6 input 1 output logic functions or 5 input 2 output functions. Other FPGAs can and will be different. By "function", think logic gates. For every combination of inputs, is the output on or off? The logic blocks also contain a number of flip-flops to hold state. There is one for every LUT output, so twice the LUT count (on 7 series). There are a few fixed function components to improve performance of common logic types, such as the carry chain for an adder or multiplexers. Some FPGAs bundle hard-cores for various logic, many have hardware multipliers that can be used, more complex (and expensive) ones can even have CPU cores (Xilinx Zynq and Intel/Altera Cyclone V for instance).

There are thousands of these slices on an FPGA. The smallest member of the Artix family has 2,000 of them, the largest contains over 33,000. The big Kintex and Virtex parts can have hundred of thousands. In order to do anything complicated, you'll need to use many slices to implement logic, which are connected together through the logic fabric. You'll see things like "logic depth" which is the number of LUTs connected in series before connecting to a register. The greater the logic depth the slower the design. The shorter the logic depth, the longer the pipeline. Cue Netburst style concerns. If you don't have to worry about hazards, it's completely fine, if you do, it's a nightmare.
You have to evaluate if a product is worth counterfeiting. For many goods the clone factories aren't going to bother. Amazon is also a convenient onshore gateway to Aliexpress resellers with less shipping ambiguity.
So a person that wins the lottery twice is good at the lottery? You need to make a causational argument, and so far everyone in this thread has replied with a correlationary argument.
50 terrible coding tips for a C++ developer
“He never mentioned that he was the inventor and listened patiently when the person selling it would ask if he had taken it before."

Oh my god he was a saint.
If I were in his shoes, the question, "Have you taken Ibuprofen before?" would instantly lead to "Well yes, I invented it.".
I've been on both sides of this table, and somehow I've lost both sides.

At this point I've given up using eBay due to it. The scammers on both sides know exactly what to say and do to somehow win even if you can prove you shipped the item / the item could never have been shipped to you (ah yes, a 13oz package somehow contained this heavy equipment).
Nah you’re fine - I try to avoid saying things like “never actually work” because there’s always someone on HN who will point to one working example as if that absolves my point, but sometimes I forget.

I’ve had thinkpads that don’t work either. The issue is suspend still doesn’t work reliably going on twenty years - even in the case where the laptop is explicitly a Linux laptop made for this purpose.

It means my default assumption has to remain that it probably won’t work (or at least I shouldn't expect that it will). I’m tempted by the framework because I like what they’re trying to do, but if suspend is still an issue it’s imo not worth it (even ignoring the bad battery tradeoff). That’s even ignoring the continued distance apple keeps putting between themselves and everyone else with their custom hardware.

Also the modular ports are essentially built in usb-c dongles. It’s not obvious to me why this is better than just having adapters. It takes up internal space and may be partly why the battery life is bad. Instead of adapters you have modules - is this a win?
As the purveyor of this shirt, it warms my heart to read this comment. We pretty much copied New Relic's model for this, and it worked really well. For awhile it felt like we were more a t-shirt company than a software company.
I no longer have the patience to navigate Amazon's terrible search results and have lost trust in the quality of their inventory.

Nowadays I only order from Amazon if the order is a time critical item that only they can deliver on time for a reasonable price. That's less than 5% of my purchases in dollar amount.

I've been a customer since 1997. Amazon has impressed me with their ability to play the long game, and I don't understand the long term incentives favoring Amazon here.
I think most of the complaints are directed at the amazon.com. They do not at all reflect my experience with amazon.fr - yes there's no name crap but there's also lots of legit stuff, and it's the majority that comes up in search results (confirmed through third parties recommending the same legit stuff with amazon links).
That’s really great. But we’re talking about the terrorist state of Russia here.
As least the password isn’t “12345.”
There was an amazing radio piece a while back about an outfit in NYC of a guy who had a very lucrative Aamazon copy-cat service: it was run by a family of Hassidic(sp?) Jews in (brooklyn?) -- and what they did was have a bunch of them scour Amazon for top rated items - then have their connections do quick knock-off and sell them. it was a fascinating story... Ill see if I can find it.

They were on the early side of this phenom as it was a few years ago...

But this model is with pretty much everything these days Etsy, Amazon, Alibabba-importers etc...

Consumerism is cancer.
Is there anyone making money from this project? Like a company is selling support contracts for it, or straight up selling it as is? Besides that, I can't imagine what could compel someone to work on this. If Oracle has a full time engineer on it, that just seems like a waste of money for Oracle, and a miserable time for whoever is stuck with the job. There just has to be some malice, or ulterior motives involved in keeping this project alive, if it's not making money and it's not attracting developers.

Even if you believe this has a redeeming quality or two over Libre Office, it would still be a better investment to send a PR to LO, or just suck it up and live with whatever gripes you have while you use the vastly superior product.
This is the common scenario if you have multiple family members who want to jointly rent a house. A hotel doesn't quite cut it for that. Granted you can all book at the same hotel but it isn't the same as renting a whole house for a week.
Is there anything like this for time-series sensor data (temperature, humidity, etc)?
N-Sphere
I've listed a few things on Amazon. This is very much true. If you don't have a registered trademark youre a second class citizen. You can't upload a video, for example.
18 Nov 2020 "Research early in the pandemic suggested that the rate of asymptomatic infections could be as high as 81%. But a meta-analysis published last month1, which included 13 studies involving 21,708 people, calculated the rate of asymptomatic presentation to be 17%. ... Byambasuren’s review also found that asymptomatic individuals were 42% less likely to transmit the virus than symptomatic people." (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03141-3)

7 Jan 2021 "The baseline assumptions for the model were that peak infectiousness occurred at the median of symptom onset and that 30% of individuals with infection never develop symptoms and are 75% as infectious as those who do develop symptoms. Combined, these baseline assumptions imply that persons with infection who never develop symptoms may account for approximately 24% of all transmission." (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...)
The lack of spaces is somewhat normal if you assume that chinese doesn't use spaces when writing, like a name is just the glyphs combined together in one word, while in English normally there is a space between F+L.
I wonder if there is something special about birds in the immediate post-Chicxulub period that makes the bird species hard to arrange in a tree. You might expect that the few surviving birds were rapidly diversifying into ecological niches that were vacant after the asteroid. The sorts of genetic changes that make interbreeding impossible might lag behind (Eg changes in numbers of chromosomes) since the frequency of such species-bifurcating events would be based on other mechanisms not related to available ecological niches.

So perhaps there's a period in which birds that look completely different can still interbreed to a larger extent than now? It would be like ring species, but taken to an absurd degree. I'm kinda riffing without really knowing what I'm talking about, but imagine a world where birds of all shapes and sizes can interbreed and occasionally do so.
There must be an interesting story behind Apache’s dogged insistence on OpenOffice.