skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless I missed it, he didn't really talk about why these names exist, other than to suggest it might be a troll?

Related, I don't understand twitter as a place for long form content. It's difficult to read and it can't be easy to post.
You sometimes can't even get the right thing from official brand stores. I bought a thermal paste product from the official Amazon ThermalGrizzly store (I did check) but Amazon delivered me a fake. Amazon co-mingles inventory.

The only reason I could quickly tell it was fake is because ThermalGrizzly provides an online serial number verification system, which isn't very common among most products. I'm not sure I'd trust Amazon for anything.
A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to order a couple of pairs of Levis jeans.

There was no way I'd do that on Amazon.

I got them from Costco, instead.
That is very well put. I used to have this anxiety of never going back too, just like you described. Now I think I may have somehow changed perspectives and consequently changed my whole worldview and convinced myself that the cost of keeping all that up is too high, and embracing change and it's tingly-itchy feeling is the way to go, so I naturally feel slightly more inclined to change and not look back.
The author writes:

> how can you protect yourself as a consumer?

Followed by a tedious list of hoops to jump through around verifying authenticity to a point where you might not get stung.

At this point, is it not better to just give up on Amazon and use a retailer that takes its product sourcing more seriously?

Continuing to use Amazon when you know how full to the brim of scams it is, just seems to me like rewarding them for bad behaviour.

Take your money elsewhere, with everyone else, and let the invisible hand of the market give Amazon a bloody good slap.
> Maybe my reasoning is too simplistic here, but I'd think NYC was only vulnerable if they too had a poor vaccination culture.

Not the case. Vaccines aren't 100% effective. It's possible for an unvaccinated person to infect a vaccinated person. Ideally, everyone is vaccinated, and the risk becomes extremely small.
I recently started reading Discworld after many years of thinking I would not like it – I honestly don’t know why!

The humour is great and it has way more fun with itself than I expected. If like me you have been putting off after ignoring many recommendations: just give it a try!
Try alt. clients: Newpipe, Freetube, Invidious
Any model benchmarks on common tasks?
Its funny how much less online shopping Im doing these days specifically because of my bad experiences ordering from Amazon.

I feel super old school going into stores, and even my girlfriend complains about it, but I no longer will risk the annoyance of delivery times and returns processes - nor the risky health effects of buying food online or clothing or kitchen ware that I'll interact with often.
It must be nice to be able to implement substandard solutions and treat them as if they aren't substandard.
Stop defending poor coding and lack of skill.

Everything you're saying is an excusory situation for hiring poor coders at minimum wage who can't or won't read documentation. This is 80IQ points South of frankly most of the conversations on here.

Yes the rest of us cope with security incidents. There will always be security incidents. Stop defending practices that leads to them.
On the other hand, much of what passes for "reputable" brands is just reselling the crap from the same sellers, but with a "trusted" name on it.
Something similar happened to me. I bought something on eBay for about $50 and then the seller never shipped it at all. I messaged multiple times and finally got a response saying something weird like "I didn't think you still wanted it." Of course I did...

Eventually he sent me a $7 partial refund and then I was locked out of doing anything at all. I even tried contacting eBay and because it had taken so long they were no longer liable. Frustrating, but I just let it go.
This video gives a very concrete example of a non-repeating pattern (Penrose tiling) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34
As a team lead I insist on a link to a ticket for stuff that is related to a ticket. When moving to another ticket system, I insist either on keeping older projects on the old system, or alternatively on migrating old tickets to the new system and keeping the original references; the same way I insist on keeping history when moving from one source control system to another one.

Also... why would a company go through 3 different ticket systems in 5 years? That must cost a lot and definitely is not gonna help convincing people to use it...
I use Brave so I have a bookmaking app built in.

I have one common set of bookmarks on my phone, tablet, desktop and laptop along with the best default security and privacy available in a browser.
Optimizing Pruning in Herbie
>Looks pretty straightforward to me

Really? What's the difference between a Core i7-10710U and a Core i7-10510U?

How can you tell that the Ryzen 7 5800U has Zen 3 cores while the Ryzen 7 5700U only has last gen Zen 2 cores from the name?
Wrong. Your job is to play mind games, because that's what keeps you getting paid and puts you ahead in line for raises and promotions.

The mind games are so structured that a product may hopefully emerge from them, but if you want to keep food on the table, never forget what comes first.

If you fail to build a product, the team takes collective responsibility and they can RCA that and design more effective mind games for the future. If you fail to play the games, you will be singled out and fired.
If you're not aware of it, the Annotated Pratchett File¹ is a joy for the dedicated Pratchett reader. It collates explanations and observations on the many, many well-layered jokes in his works. I read a lot and felt like I was getting some pretty obscure jokes, but the APF opened my eyes to historical and cultural allusions that had whooshed en masse over my head! I'm in awe at Terry's erudition. I wish he was still around writing for us :'(

¹https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/
Actually I think it was Roger Gregory or Mark Miller who came up with the term "enfilade", and I don't think enfilade wids and dsps have to be monoids necessarily. I'm not sure, though.
Probably videotape the unboxing of the item and document that whole inspection process. I’ve heard about people doing that on used clothing websites like poshmark and eBay. The sellers document the condition of items before shipping to have evidence to dispute with. These sort of online deals became hostile in the past so now there’s like inventory documentation overhead to deal with.
All this cheap junk follows a fairly reliable markup scheme:
Factory sells for 1x
Taobao sells for 2x
Aliexpress sells for 3-4x (2x Taobao)
Ebay sells for 8-10x. (~2x Aliexpress)

I think Aliexpress is usually about 20% of the Amazon price, but depending on the item I agree that it can be 10%.
I don't consider 40 to 60 older or boomer. In NZ boomer usage of Instagram is 3.2%.
> Spreadsheets like 123 started becoming mainstream in the late 80s, then slow slide to "High Level" started. Then the trend greatly accelerated when presentation software became mainstream. Before that, it was easier to talk details then to create a slide deck for an overhead viewer.

I think that in some cases the absence of limits or costs can make things worse. Suddenly gets way cheaper to collect a bunch of numbers and analyze them? We'll no longer be careful and thoughtful about what we subject to that kind of analysis, because it's so cheap.

My go-to example of this is kanban boards and similar tools. They clearly lose something if you translate them from a physical board with physical limitations to a computerized "board" with practically no limitations. The computerized version is better from some points of view (who likes limitations?) but also so different that it's arguably worse in some ways, depending on what you want the board to accomplish.
Nah, whereas 927 should die in a fire, 1053 is extremely insightful and empathetic. It's the only XKCD that I would frame on my wall.
you're exactly describing medicalization, where relatively common human variation is pathologized so it can be separated and treated, without asking to what ends?

a diagnosis becomes an excuse for the inconvenience of having to deal with differences among ourselves. it's ok that we have to deal with discomfort and even (some) conflict. that's an essential part of life, otherwise we may as well be robots.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are very dangerous places for a Jew to go.

Things are changing with the Abraham accords, but in general Jews do not travel to Muslim majority countries - they would be killed on sight.
Is there a meaningful difference between ban and restriction? It seems pedantic. But maybe wrt specifically gun law there is a difference?

I never implied all guns were banned in Chicago. "some of the strictest"
Low doses of asprin are (were?) sometimes used as prophylactic treatment for people at high risk of stroke or heart disease.

It's not a panacea--and more recent data suggests that it's probably overused--but the idea itself isn't bonkers.
Take to social media. Plead your case to the masses. If you are cute enough (I suggest a puppy in the screenshot) it may go viral and get noticed by PayPal's marketing people. They have actual decision powers. That is how consumer service works these days.

These guys did eventually get they money after the morning news shows featured thier song.
https://youtu.be/5YGc4zOqozo
FYI: The broker fee situation in NYC is substantially related to rent controls. No reason to show the apartment yourself if you can't get more money from the tenant by doing that.
>"Ummm... the fact that most people prefer Airbnb to anything else seems to directly contradict your statement."

This is a fact? Could you please provide any meaningful citation or even the slightest bit of supporting evidence of this "fact"?
There are definitely bots to buy things. Finance alone does a fuck ton of automation to buy things at far faster reaction speeds than possible and then there’s the eBay/Amazon/whatever online retail bots that exist to scoop up in demand items to then flip
The thread didn't answer the question.
I'm not up to doing that, because lawyers. Also, the fault really lies with the hotels; not the booking services (one hotel was in London, another in Manhattan).

However, if you search the English alphabet for the letters between "N" and "Q," you are likely to find the first letter of the name of each booking service (not hotel).
Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C+
"The science" as a body of received knowledge refined from the rough consensus of a moment among working scientists is something distinct from the practice of actually doing science. The latter mostly interests those doing it, and mostly frustrates everybody else with its apparent wishy-washy attitude toward questions of public policy.
The idea is that these names are generated pseudo-randomly or arbitrarily because they have no brand value. Sellers that use them run through "companies" quickly as they get banned for forbidden practice or because their reputation tanks. Then they create the next seller account with another name.
But you agree, don't you?
SEPA sounds like a nice way to move cash around, don't get me wrong. But personally given the chance to use a credit card versus an even-smoother-than-US debit transaction, I'd still probably choose a credit card from a decent issuer. The biggest reason is because then its never my money getting tied up in any kind of investigation for any amount of time. While with SEPA/debit, if there's potentially a dispute its your money on the line. So for this example, I would have never lost the 1,200€, because their charge wouldn't have been trying to take my money. I would still have all my money, just a bit less of a line of credit on potentially multiple lines of credit available to me.

And that's before things like extra warranties, cash back benefits, etc. which I realize are a bit more complicated.

I've never used SEPA, but I'm curious how it would have played out here. The OP would have disputed the charge, what recourse would OVH have here? Would they be able to assert they did deliver the product and thus should be paid? Not saying I agree with OVH on this, but that appears that's OVH's position allegedly.

In your instance, you had customers refund legitimate transactions. What recourse would you have in that? Would you be able to dispute their refund and thus tie up their funds, or are you just out those funds until lawyers get involved?
The people with their tongues on the leather will tell you they're the smartest, I'm sure.
Boötes Void: What is this patch of space with few stars?
Huh? Finding a way around the rules you find inconvenient but still ostensibly want to follow is the heart of religion!

See: sabbath elevators
I drink cold brew coffee. Normally I leave the coffee to brew for 24 hours. I’m considering of buying ultrasonic cleaner for brewing my coffee. I wonder if that’s going to work.

Watching YouTube videos on smoking / flavouring liquor using these cleaners gave me the idea.
> The nature of aviation, where unplanned problems result in unplanned non-optional landings in random locations (instead of just pulling off the side of the road), would rapidly turn aviation into the most dangerous transport mode. Aviation would soon become unsustainable, and available to no one.

I didn't argue for no regulation. I argued for less regulation.

There is regulation that provides almost no safety benefit (because there is already plenty of regulation), while increasing cost noticeably.
I was just looking into this for handling typescript integration with postgres. I think there's a lot of opportunity to make that work really well. Zapatos and pg-typegen are good steps but it could be even better.
This happened to me in Boston. I was going to run the marathon and knew that I needed to book way ahead to ensure I could get a decent room, whether hotel or AirBNB. I booked an apartment in Back Bay. Two weeks later, the host realized it was going to be marathon weekend and tried to triple my price. When I refused his offer, he canceled me.

Fortunately, it was still early enough that I was able to book a hotel near the finish line. Unfortunately, that hotel ended up be the host of all of the press and press conferences when someone bombed the finish area.
I'm sure it's just random chance that Elan has been very closely involved in managing 2 different companies (SpaceX, Tesla) which have seen such massive growth over the past 2 decades. /s

By your "make the case" criteria - has there been any business leader who clearly deserved credit?
Oh, for sure, that would be nuts. 0.1–1% of applicants.
That sounds like a religious question - cue joke about fate or acceptance or higher purpose? But thank you - I appreciate learning about parallel social systems.

The obvious answer is to either avoid getting in the situation or to suck it up and account for getting ripped off as the price of learning. Vet your choices more carefully, use prepay, avoid systems where you don’t control the direct debiting of your accounts.

More generally, ask the question of your social group who will have specific knowledge and strategies that fit in with the rest of your social rules. Asking here seems like you would get poor advice because we don’t have much motivation to have learnt appropriate hacks for your issue, and mostly will have little experience of your issue.
Same situation. Got them from the Levi’s store. In my mind Amazon=counterfeits/stolen

I’d only order very specific things from Amazon and as a result haven’t actually ordered in a couple years.
The US is really a bad example of capitalism (and it's not a real free market either). It doesn't help that it's the US tech companies and culture that are dominating this world; and they are bringing their ugly/stupid dark patterns with them (like not showing the total price and hidden a gazzillion fee that double the price initially shown).
This is where I walk away. There are work environments where this is not necessary. I would also point out that your whole post illustrates what we have been talking about in this thread. I have a different context. It might not fit your reality, but there are better words to use than "wrong".
> Shared experience sure is getting smaller.

It will be interesting to see how shared experiences evolve. We used to be limited by geography and subsequently cultures were geographic in origin. As geography becomes less of a limiting factor to how we share experiences, cultures and sub cultures will co-exist with the geographical cultures as well.

I feel like we are in a transitional phase. Marketing works most efficiently when everyone has the same shared experiences. When marketers and widget makers have to increasingly create for niche sub cultures, the profits are less. Instead of making one ad for the super bowl, now marketers have to make an ad for each social platform. Instead of making one style iphone cover, there now has to be custom or curated designs for all the markets.

I think eventually the profits will win out and or people will recognize the detrimental effects of lack of shared experiences, and somehow technology and society will coalesce around a broader shared experience environment.

A hurdle to this happening is the fact that people love being part of sub cultures or "scenes". It may take a while.

It is getting increasingly harder to socialize with people in general. There are so many references that the conversation has to stop, everyone has to view the video/tik tok/post, then the conversation can move forward again. Professional and educational settings I do not think are immune either. People are becoming so much more specialized in their fields that it is harder to identify with others. This would be less of a hinderance to socializing if everyone had a larger portion of shared experiences.
I just feel like there is an adequate "middle option" where you get a hotel room with a den and rely on the breakfast bar / hotel and local restaurants, to plug the gap while still paying the average hotel room price. I could see marginal cost savings cooking, but even the price of groceries (especially when not local-savvy) is quite high.
Recreating the house beats of Skrillex and Four Tet (2021)
One of the posts contains a screenshot of a vendor's company name and address.

The company name (and words in th address) may look really long and suspicious, but it's just because it's transliterated from Chinese.

OP says these are all 'shell companies', but AFAIK it's more onerous and costly to register and maintain a company in China, than in many states in the US.
Sometimes an autistic man seems to pick fight in an overspecified context or over topics that seems to yield no benefit to him. That incentivize adversaries to shut down the conversations and those seems to be some of places where "There, gotcha!" could happen.

Autism is overrated too, and everyone(including themselves) has preconception that autistics are always logical and intelligent. That could lead into a tunnel vision that their words spoken by them are explicitly chosen unaffected by anger or frustration, and sometimes that could lead to silly situations as well.
> Even with Elon the company barely made it many times

This is the crux of my argument. If Tesla failed, would it been because of Elon? Did X.com, Boring Co., etc fail because of Elon?
Yeah I haven't bought anything on Amazon for a couple of years now. Got burned once too many times. I went back to buying mostly in local stores. If they don't have what I want, I go online to manufacturers' websites if possible, or to reputable sellers.
Completely beside the point. It's exasperating to see an identical tangent on every discussion.
The case that is mentioned is Oberdorf vs Amazon. Here's an article from 2019. https://www.courthousenews.com/amazon-back-on-the-hook-for-d... I can't find anything more recent. The case is interesting as it needs to make a decision if Amazon has the same responsibility for Amazon marketplace as it has for its own listings.
Oy, yeah. Getting people to even consider changing jobs is really tough. I've been surprised by it in the past, but I'm less and less surprised by it as I see it happen more.

I feel some of it myself, so I can understand it, but it's crazy hard for so many people.
E: ignore this

I think that would require a modern species to be compatible with a direct ancestor from the distant past, with generations of incompatible beings in between. Otherwise there is no "ring". But that seems 1) unlikely, 2) untestable.
While reading your post I kept thinking "de-interleave the bits of a single counter" since I have used that before to great benefit. It does suffer from issues if your sizes are not powers of two, so your grey code modification seems interesting to me. I'll be looking in to that.

FYI this also extends to higher dimensions. I once used it to split a single loop variable into 3 for a "normal" matrix multiplication to get a huge speedup. Unrolling the inner 3 bits is possible too but a bit painful.

Also used it in ray tracing to scan pixels in Z-order, which gave about 10 percent performance improvement at the time.

But yes, I must look at this grey code step to see if it makes sense to me and understand why its not helping you even with reduced cache misses.
> when it was first performed by the wrong people

That seems a bit reductive. From my understanding, it's not so much by the wrong people but rather without deliberate, conscious choice. Chiefly, anabaptists reject the notion of infant baptisms because an infant can't meaningfully repent and freely proclaim their belief in Christ. Which, as far as religion goes, seems like a reasonable position.
OK to pep up your language centers?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/escape-from-sp...
Survivorship bias. Elon has led many failed companies, success doesn't imply correlation.
Huh? The number of commits is irrelevant - the number of changed lines/ files is what matters. 20 commits can result in a couple of lines in one file changing (I've seen it happen) and 1 commit can have 100s of files changed (usually when some commonly used symbol has been renamed).
I hear you.

In regard to Polio vaccines, there is some head-scratching to be done if you go down that rabbit-hole. It’s all ancient history now, but the numbers of polio cases was dropping even before the vaccine roll-out. I don’t know enough about it to comment beyond that. But, I do know human nature: polio outbreaks were terrifying to parents, and there would be every reason not to be a bit skeptical when a solution to the problem was found… that is, it wasn’t a time for clear thinking in the midst of the panic. It’s precisely times like that when people are prone to overlook things.

For instance, imagine the chaos that could ensue if a disease that was overwhelmingly trivial and asymptomatic was advertised as possibly being 10 or 20 percent lethal? Heck, I bet folks would be so scared that they’d shut down entire countries, weld people into their apartments, gulp down horse de-wormer, mandate experimental drugs, etc. Of course, I exaggerate. I doubt something like that could happen in modern times. But, if it did, the skeptics back when it was going on and even after the panic had died down, would most likely be pilloried and accused of being unthinking idiots. Just saying.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/
Not really. I chose to work at Google specifically for that reason.
Almost every large city has one...

The first city I checked, DC, does not (listed in Google's hotel search). The suburbs have several, but that's a terrible option if don't want to "commute" during the trip. Downtown DC does have other chains that are extended stay, but I haven't found a good way to search for "hotel with a kitchen and living room" - basically requiring me to know which brands have those amenities.
Bowel motion is a common phrase where I am. Bowel movement is too.