skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^ Perfect demonstration of the bikeshed effect.

You could have looked at some commercial supply catalogs and seen that trash cans used by businesses cost significantly more. You could have searched around and found that businesses and other institutions have significant costs for installation, maintenance, tracking, abuse, environmental factors, etc that require more substantial solutions to mitigate.

Instead, I'll summarize that into this rebuttal comment, and I may even convince you that a $10 trash can that goes next to your toilet [0] won't work as a city trash can. But it won't stop the next person from posting the exact same type of anti-enlightening comment and thinking it's insightful.

[0] These days it's $50 for a 44 gallon Brute, which will still get stolen or tip over in the wind.
Weird. Out of the four major delivery services, DHL is by far the best and most accommodating.
What are you talking about? LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice that has developed extremely far while OpenOffice has developed almost nothing since the fork. It's been almost a decade of development that it is behind on. It makes a million times more sense to retire OpenOffice and point users toward LibreOffice.

Edit: Oh you are the same guy who said this downvoted comment:

> LibreOffice with its infantile icons, weird UI changes and borked equation editor looks way less professional than even the ancient StarOffice which was the base of OpenOffice.

So you are aware of LibreOffice. That's an OK opinion to hold (I firmly disagree), but it certainly doesn't make LibreOffice not an option compared to Google. CVEs and exploits in OpenOffice due to lack of development are a bigger issue than "I prefer the icons."
This is a pinnacle of modern philosophy. Applies across all spectra of system design.
> I understand the orthodoxy, but the computing industry has had four decades of overwhelming deflation and has been quite vibrant the entire time.

This is an interesting point I haven't thought of. Perhaps the reason it happens with the computer industry is that the utility of digitization is so high that the impetus to do the work now usually outweighs waiting for a cheaper price. Thanks for the insight, though. It has changed how I view this issue.
The whole point of a "ring species" is that the ring isn't closed, and the individuals at its ends are not compatible mates.
Blocking one sender at a time does nothing to stop spam if you can’t cut off an entire service.
I should add that I always select "available for pickup" when searching for something. In other words, stuff that B&M stores sell.

But even still, the third-party sellers aren't as bad on walmart as they are on amazon
Rational/ irrational here depends on the unit of measurement. A full circle (360 degrees) is rational if you measure it in degrees, but irrational if you measure it in radians (it's 2 pi radians).
When this scandal happened, I vowed never to buy DRM or Sony products again. I haven't. I'm not entirely sure what this has achieved, but occasionally I send a message to organisations saying that I'm not going to buy their media because of DRM.
https://archive.ph/jbuSK
There have recently been layoffs at Scopelec, an Orange subcontractor. Some media in France hinted at a link between these layoffs and this sabotage.
For clarity's sake, alldayeveryday is pointing out that Larry Fink is Jewish.
Flea Markets are great. You can find obscure stuff you didn't even know existed or that you needed. Amazon is a flea market shoved into a Costco with bots stocking shelves with whatever shows up at the loading dock. You think you're walking into a reputable retailer, it has all the signs and signals of one, but you're not.
Linkace does all that and self host. Also free auto saving to internet archive.

No worry about a company going defunct or reneging promises down the road
I prefer the GeoPackage format [1]. Very similar to SpatiaLite it is based on SQLite, but as official OGC standard I anticipate better integration and support in the long run.

[1]: https://www.geopackage.org/
You might enjoy "The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCBvaj4eSg
You do get the junk quickly and can send it back easily.
> but ability to travel in the EU westward toward greater opportunity seems like a big one.

Main reason why Germany wanted to extend EU to East countries. They benefited from it more than anyone else.
Someone in the postings wonders what would happen if Retail was split from AWS.

Good question. Supposedly Retail is not profitable and AWS carries all the weight for the company. I don't know if that's true or not (?)

Anyhow, I don't think it would make that much difference. The reputational hit that Retail takes every day probably does not carry over much to AWS, nor does AWS good will (if there is any) help Retail at all.
We spend all this time inventing coding practices and even languages to make our software more secure and then we're reminded that even at the limit, shit like this would still be happening. Sigh.
Don't linger too long. You'll wind up like Alice.
> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152...

Which has been thoroughly debunked by the scientific community. "Food and Chemical Toxicology" is not a respected journal, and most famously published the "GMO foods cause cancer" paper that ended up being retracted.

Here is a good video on why the author is a quack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwoRsj7AE7A
Apparently it's also trivial to use it in Python via `pip install spatialite`[1], but the GitHub repo [2] seems to be dead.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/spatialite/

[2] https://github.com/malexer/spatialite
He does deserve credit for two great achievements.

But that credit does not extend to letting him get away with being an asshole. He is frequently deliberately offensive. He promotes dubious ventures. He's frequently in trouble with the SEC for violating securities rules, including the latest debacle with Twitter. He has been over-promising and under-delivering on Tesla's FSD for a really long time.

I own Tesla stock because I believe in the company and think it has, and will, do great things. But that doesn't make Musk less of a jackass.
Aliexpress is getting better on shipping times!

I placed an order June 30, it arrived July 17.
Nah, Ibuprofen definitely affects the kidneys. It's on my mental list of medications never to try again. It always leaves me writhing in pain (thought it was my lower back that was on fire, turns out it was my kidneys).
Now who’s putting the token into who?
Ask HN: Which book are you reading, since when?
On another post people commented reading 4- 12 books per year.

What book are you reading since when, and how far have you read it?
does this discourage opportunistic code cleanup?
No, thanks. There was a reason why Pratchett described his characters the way he did and this show didn't respect that at all. This show didn't get inspired by Discworld, it just used some character names to get some track that it wouldn't get otherwise.
For the life of me, I don't understand the appeal of Airbnb.

In my experience, the prices are comparable to local hotels of the same quality - especially if you also take into account hotel amenities like room service and breakfast not included in Airbnbs. So I don't see a cost benefit.

I have never in my life had a hotel cancel a reservation on me. Never. On the other hand, in only a few months of using Airbnb regularly while traveling for work, I had three last-time minute cancellations. This makes renting through Airbnb incredibly stressful, because then I have 'will they cancel on me last minute?' in the back of my mind, and who needs that extra stress?

Finally, when something is wrong with the Airbnb there's not really anyone you can call to fix it, if the host is unresponsive. I was once in an Airbnb in Nevada where the temperature outside was higher than 110, and the air conditioner was not working. It took the host something like 12 hours to get back to me, and that was only to tell me that they've scheduled a repairman to come in a few days, when I would no longer be there. On the other hand, if you were to have broken air conditioner in a hotel, you'd be switched to another room promptly.

So I just don't get Airbnb's appeal. It's not a good deal either money-wise or stress/quality-wise.
It's the amount of in-your-face this stuff has become. White guilt is getting kinda ridiculous.
Isn't the vaccine derived polio simply because it's the cheap version? If that's correct then the direct answer to your somewhat rhetorical question is: subsidise the expensive version globally so that we don't have to later pay for the externalities caused by a riskier vaccine?
Stop using so many CTEs
Can’t you just buy one of those laptop stands with a fan integrated into it for cooling and accomplish something similar?
Yeah, but the information percolates, eventually

And I mean, the biggest competitor of MS Office is now Google Docs.
Is there an opportunity to create a marketplace that does meaningful validation and testing of the items on it, such that when you buy a product, you can be guaranteed to be getting the real thing?

What could a competitor do to attack Amazon here?
No permanent damage is your threshold for what is acceptable? There is plenty of discomfort long before we get to permanent damage. Are you really arguing that companies should base their product designs on whether or not the problems they create for their users are permanent or not? No company with any hope of success would ever use such a criteria.
Did you read the rest of the thread before attempting a knee-jerk “gotcha.”
My solution was to buy most stuff from Costco/Target/Best Buy instead. Their buyers do good enough vetting that it saves me a bunch of time.
With all the hand-wringing about how Amazon has completely monopolized online ordering, I'd think that having a true "honest broker" storefront would be a fairly natural way to compete.

Amazon has become a truly awful storefront, and this has accelerated markedly, in just the last couple of years.
"Superstition" does a disservice to the fact that many scientists internationally were reporting on efficacy with ivermectin.
Meanwhile the information coming from "reputable" sources in the world have proven to be less than accurate if not complete misrepresentation

Edit:

There is no such thing as 'the science'. There is science. Which is testing and questioning to determine facts. Anything more must be "trust in the science of..." some actual thing. And that actual thing is not public policy.
We have sufficient evidence that the CDC and NIH are interested in appeasing their corporate sponsors and otherwise believe themselves to be beyond reproach
I'm a zsh user, but one thing I miss from bash is /dev/tcp redirection.

~ echo <>/dev/tcp/google.com/80
~ echo $?
0
~ echo <>/dev/tcp/localhost/80
bash: connect: Network is unreachable
bash: /dev/tcp/localhost/80: Network is unreachable
~ echo $?
1
I think people who think that commit messages don't matter, should be forced to maintain a code base written by colleagues of the same opinion for the next 5 years.
This is pretty much it. People always say it's random mess or fake, but "youxian gongsi" is literally "limited company" and based on Shenzhen. I do a lot of hardware ordering and speak none of the language and picked this up over time.

Chinese company names are generally [location] [selected name] [what they do], like Baidu is Beijing + Baidu + Netcom Science Technology.

The transliteration in the tweet: "shenzhenshizhengshunzidianziyouxiangongsi"

Shenzhen-shi (city), Dianzi (electronics), youxian (limited), gongsi (company)

"wu long da sha b dong" seems like it's Five Dragons Building (https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.... ;some kind of office park?), Building B, and a suite number. The first line is something like "Longhuan 1st Road, Jinglong Community, Longhua Street, Longhua District".

It just looks like a mess because people are not used to it, and in chinese writing you don't separate the characters - it's "有限公司" for limited company, not "有限 公司"
The ratios are mostly correct, but the absolute numbers are wrong these days. For example, memory read latency can be 45ns (not 100) with a decent DDR4 kit and data center latency can be 10us (not 500us) with infiniband.
M2 Incissor is about on par with the M1 Omega.
I’ve gotten around venmo bans with a new email address, new card, and staying under the KYC transaction size limit

actually not necessarily even a new card if you’ve used AMEX Send thats valid in lieu of the exact same AMEX Card it was linked to
I fundamentally disagree with your analysis - most areas of the US are not remotely diverse in culture compared to London.

The way I estimated gun murders was by taking a guess at around 40%, on the basis that conservatives (likely to be pro-gun) claim that 6 in 10 gun deaths are suicides, and they likely over-count.

By a "combined" value do you mean for England and Wales (which is because that is the reporting authority), or for gun deaths overall (which is because that is what is reported by the CDC - I'm sure this is broken down elsewhere but I only had a few minutes)?
I think "onn" is just Walmart's "store brand" for generic electronics[1]. Kind of like "Insignia" and BestBuy. The design and manufacturing is all outsourced and these are usually quite crappy as one would expect.

> Walmart is Onn’s parent company. Onn is Walmart’s generic brand electronics label, and Onn products, including Onn TVs, are only available in Walmart stores.

[1] https://sycamorenet.com/blog/who-makes-onn-tv/
I think we only need to look at China to understand why people have these attitudes, and I think it is an important lesson to learn. There's two critical components to this. First, the Chinese people trust their government. They are not afraid of that information being used against them, unless they are doing something wrong (and wrong to the collective people, not just something illegal). They directly see how surveillance has reduced child trafficking, theft, and other such hard to trace crimes. This builds confidence in their government and confidence that the power is being used for good. Second, for your average Chinese person, life has gotten substantially better. A significant amount of people have been lifted out of poverty. It is not uncommon to hear about people being born in rural impoverished farms and then owning Ferraris when they are older (not your average case, to be clear). This further builds confidence in the government because things have gotten so much better.

But China has something to learn from the West too. We've already lifted the vast majority of our people out of poverty. It is harder to continually improve peoples' lives when you have to invent new things rather than play catch up. Hyper-growth is unsustainable and eventually China will have the same slower growth as the West (be that 5 years or 50 years). People get used to whatever situation they are in and expect different things. People in the West don't have as much trust for their governments and are more afraid of turnkey tyranny than they are of gaining a better life. In other words, they are more afraid of losing their good lives.

With the West I think we can see the connection between governments and companies. We were fine with those companies taking our data because they made our lives better. But things have stagnated now and the bad outweighs the good. We've seen these companies abuse their power, but in many ways we still trust the governments to reign them in. But you're right, governments are also capable of the same abuse, or even more. That's the danger of turnkey tyranny though, that it is the actions you give to leaders you trust that are abused. It flies under the radar and those powers are given with good intentions.

I also think tech illiteracy plays a major role here, but I've already written a lot (and barely broached the subject)
Ah, yeah, I suppose. Maybe I need things spelled out for me.
Backpack, RaspberryPi-Style
Well, that’s one application of a Raspberry Pi.

I am quite sure there are a dozen more, anyone?
PowerQuery in Excel is basically free and extremely powerful. Give it a shot.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-data-from-...
There was one that conceivably could have been a bad OCR attempt to read Chinese characters using a Latin alphabet which is weird, but some of them do also look like bad/non-standard Romanisation attempts (with an odd lack of spaces etc.). Odd because I'd think technology to accurately generate standard (pinyin) romanisation must be reasonably good by now.
Then how is that a convincing argument that Elon is the reason that Tesla is successful.
How many exchanges building on this before we reach a particularly helpless flavor of solipsism, you think? I'd say about three more posts.
It's so absurd that there is such a thing as OpenOffice partisans but... here we are on the Internetz.
While the term applies more broadly, it's called a “ring” from geographic examples where the ring is closed geographically, with adjacent/overlapping incompatible populations, but where there is a literal ring of geography wherein adjacent populations interbreed continuously except the two adjacent incompatible ends.
Beats me. It's even a Paperwhite, not like it's completely prehistoric either. The book was Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Hell it's even freely available in html format, but I wanted to buy it anyway because I like to support authors of great books whenever possible. I've not yet tried to sideload the free version, but I bet it would work...
i envision an app with geoloc and crosshairs on the cam with a glowy button that makes a satisfying sound. Something like send in the goats

Then deliver them with drones for instant gratification.
OMG this is fantastic! Thank you!
Rayiner, I have the conventional, non-Twitter non-message-board definition of racism, the same definition I'd get from a random person I stopped on the street. There's no interesting conversation to be had if we're going to just say "racism means whatever I can persuasively argue it means". You can "persuade" anybody of anything on a message board just by exhausting them, which is how a lot of really stupid lefty thought happens.

So, no, I'd ask you to try again to square the Republican party of Paul Gosar and Steve King against a Democratic party that has none of those figures.

You made an observation that implied it was somehow risible to think the GOP is a racist party. I don't think it's especially useful to designate one party or another as "racist". But what I said is true: it is not a mystery why people think the GOP is racist: there are out-and-proud racists in high elected office in the GOP, and there aren't in the Democratic party.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_metabolism#Acetaldehyd... it seems the ascorbic acid MAY help neutralizing free radicals produced when Acetaldehyde breaks down, though that paragraph seems to be in the context of a pregnant person metabolizing alcohol for some reason.
Yeah, I should have clarified that I thought this was an example of incentives being correct.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/485535/google_throws_its_wei...

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?
And a terrible return policy
-knuckle is much closer, isn’t it?
I don't spend a lot of time on Youtube, and rarely have the patience to watch the sort of videos people make in hopes of earning money, so I don't have much of an opinion there. I did install SponsorBlock recently, just in case.
It might have some explaining power but I can think of counter examples from my own personal life. Schizophrenia just like autism a very defuse category that covers many non overlapping conditions.

I think this silly joke by jreg about Schizotism/Autizmophrenia explains it best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuFSnhKG9I
I've had this happen on certain times and like a sibling comment I also wonder whether it's YouTube trying to shed some load in busy times. Maybe even A/B testing what user profiles would notice and switch back manually and who wouldn't care enough.

I've also seen it happen when a browser can't keep up, eg. freezes for quarter of a second due to excessive swapping or some OS thing fighting for resources.
> but I guess they have no incentives not to

I'm surprised that reputation didn't do it. (But I agree; Amazon's behavior certainly seems to show that they don't care.)
It's in the actual-money economy as well. That was the point of the article.

Anytime you have thousands of versions of things to sell (Amazon) you're going to need a ranking mechanism. And ranking mechanisms can be gamed by bots and other tricks.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried Creation Crate?
Just had an ad for Creation Crate[1] pop up on my feed.
Looks like a fun way to learn some more electronics, beyond the one class I took in college. Anyone tried it who can give some feedback on it?

[1] https://www.creationcrate.com/courses/electronics
Every company including tesla does, but never $100M+ judgement and multiple suits from state governments because they refuse to change things (thanks to all the fanboys for elon no doubt). One lawsuit claims it is SOP lol.
That's a good point, but the same thing can be said about food, or even discretionary leisure spending. It's a scalar result rather than a binary one. So to me, the real question is do we need more or less manufacturing/consumption in the world today?
Oracle or ex-Sun employees? There is still some Sun culture left in that particular silo.
I still end up using Amazon for a lot of things, but I do find the gibberish chinesium crap somewhat amusing. I won't buy anything that isn't sold by Amazon, brand name, and not a battery or other really common counterfeiting target.

I also use eBay sometimes, but the prices are 9/10 times higher than Amazon for brand name items.
Walmart does dropshitting too. Hell, even Home Depot is getting into it. You can often find the same piece of garbage furniture on all 4
If I were to argue that Tesla succeeded in spite of Elon, how would you disprove that?

I could point to his bitcoin investments, many discrimination cases, failure to release Autopilot (against his own promises), SEC action, and Tesla share price manipulation as examples of him hurting the companies success, and directly connect them to his actions. Could you do the same for the companies success?
They're literally the same - I see the same product sold by shady third parties being sold on both sites. At least with Walmart you can select "Available for pickup" and get products that Walmart themselves sell and stand behind.
> But I think that's the nature of selling to developers; they are the types that want to explore on their own. If the docs don't cut it, your company is dead.

Amen, if potential-customers must schmooze with sales to get access to the docs or pair-program with a sales-engineer to get Hello World running, then I get worried (reasonably or otherwise) about things like:

1. The product is a tangled mess so a native guide is required to get anything done, and they've given up on making it independently-navigable.

2. The vendor's business-model is to lock you in and then bleed you dry. (Possibly by paying for said native-guides.)

3. The vendor is focused on selling to management rather than making a product that'll work well for engineers.
The majority of SpaceX's launches are for themselves. No customers could support the scale that they wanted and needed, so they made their own customer in Starlink.
Does immer have the same drawbacks as immutable? It uses proxies as opposed to hased array map tries.
Bots that buy things only do so to address a temporary inefficiency in the market - they won't work perpetually and you can argue their actions do provide value.