skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it's a really informative interview, and fun too. Great read.
Same. I didn't mind someone reviewing my code, but I sure as hell hated having to give one more than once or twice a week. At "end of sprint" I'd be besieged with requests for reviews. I'm talking like 5 or 6 in a day. It was annoying as hell. I complained about it, nothing was done, so I left.
> Essentially, people buy something, put something else in the packaging and return it for full refund.

I purchased a open-box Apple Pencil from Best Buy a couple years ago. What I got was someone else's returned pencil with totally shot battery. I took it back to BB and showed how the S/N on the pencil didn't match the box and they believed me, but I guess they could've thought I was the one pulling the scam. Anyway, they gave me a new opened Apple Pencil.

Now here's the weird part. The brand new pencil didn't work. I was sure BB was going to think I was scamming them, so when I returned it I asked them to verify the S/N matched the box and that it didn't work, but they didn't care, they gave me another new un-opened Apple Pencil which I verified worked there in the store.

Last year I purchased a 65" Hisense from Best Buy. Got it home, opened the box, before I even get it out of the box I see the upper-right corner of the screen is shattered. Take it back to BB, they swap it out for me. They have nothing but my word that I didn't drop it myself (I hadn't).

Last month I purchased a Westinghouse inverter generator. I was nervous it would be damaged during shipping, so I purchased it from Home Depot and had them ship-to-store. It turns out that they just FedEx it to the store. It doesn't go on a truck or pallet with a bunch of other items, so this doesn't reduce the chance of shipping damage. I pick up the generator at the store and notice the box is pretty beat up, but I bring it home anyway. Take it out of the box and it looks okay outside, but I pull the maintenance panel off and sure enough, the plastic air filter housing is cracked. Back in box, back to Home Depot. They order me a new one, no questions asked. When the new one arrives, I take it out of the box and inspect it at the store. Fortunately, no damage.

Which is all to say: yes, sometimes it's customer fraud. But sometimes the customer, like me, just gets unlucky. Most bulky goods I purchase these days are not adequately packaged.

I'm sure my "customer returns too much" rating has gotten dinged lately.

Edit: on the other side of the equation, customers have to deal with fraudulent merchants:

"8TB External SSD" for $89:

https://www.amazon.com/External-Solid-State-Drive-Portable/d...

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/wgepyv/im_assu...

Fake 5 TB drive:

https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/wh1s9z/fake_wd_bla...
How do I know the bank is talking to the real title company? Hackers have been know to put fake numbers in emails.

Will they pay me back if the money is sent to the wrong place? Probably not.
I apologize if it sounded like I was judging your character, or if my comment was otherwise clumsy.

What I meant was it's most likely broken third-party power-supplies, using sockets without proper grounding, or problems with the electrical wiring.

You mention a fried motherboard -- this is not caused by the board itself, but from too much current being put through the board.
Reading this excellent article has made me decide to stop taking credit cards (or any electronic payments) for my small farm business. The card companies and their online cohorts are bad enough to deal with as a customer, and this story shattered the last of my trust that using these systems is safe as a merchant. I am already losing money on every sale anyway, because my family eats our potential profits (literally). Sales will be cash only from here on out, because these risks are not worth the potential costs.
they did, in fact, very clearly justify why this should be illegal.
More people own CD players than record players. Indie bands would be better off selling CDs if that were really the main intention.
I just checked "Californication" (used for all their other examples here: https://soundcloud.com/honualx/sets/source-separation-in-the...) in RX9 Music Rebalance with the setting to "best", and I wasn't very impressed.

Seems like this tool might be better than Izotope's.
Interesting that the screen is around the same weight as a macbook pro. Is that right?
Yeah - it seems more strange thing are getting folded into feminism. I cannot really point the exact problem but my wife feels that like the feminism is not anymore about helping women but just one talking point for white and rich Democrat males.

Maybe it is school closing during COVID. Maybe it is all these transgenders in women sports. Maybe it is spending money on bike lines so that white rich man can drive their bikes but moms will small children will suffer. Or talking about random things while abortion is getting banned. Maybe because you cannot be feminist if you do not agree with the entire agenda of Democratic Party (gun control, role of the federal government, smetc.) I do not know.
it's the same economics as spam: a million phone calls are cheap to buy. you only need a small percentage to respond to make a tidy profit.
Speaking as a man, there is an option on the table that I may be a woman when I die (seems unlikely, but it is there). I know people who've taken that option up, so it isn't even that unusual in my circles. This somewhat changes the nature of the debate. Particularly since now people who genuinely believe that men/women face some sort of entrenched political discrimination, theoretically, switch sides. It wouldn't surprise me if sooner or later there is a scandal of desperate students choosing to be women to gain access to scholarship money for example.

The meaning of "feminism" can't possibly be the same as it was 50 years ago when facing that sort of cultural pressure.
i hope you're correct, but i suspect that swiss bank accounts, shell corporations, clever accountants and "gifting" money to friends and family will say otherwise.
People that don't like it generally have used macros that are more sophisticated than just blindly copy pasting text into your source files and have became aware of how absurd that is.
Considering how often and violent prominent feminist authors have been disagreeing for decades about what will or won't advance the broader feminist cause, pretty much everyone feels some sections of feminism are "weird and scary" to them.

This is a big reason I'm not a fan of the magic win-a-debate cheat codes of casually throwing things like "sexism" around, because talk to feminist A and they will tell you "X is sexist! You are sexist!" and then you change your view or behaviour to be the opposite of X and you'll get scolded by feminist B for holding the opposite view!

Pornography is a classic example; to some feminists it's inherently sexist, to others liberating. The sex-positive view is more popular, but hardly the only view out there. Outside of some core issues, there is quite little agreement and consensus. Not surprising people – especially men – have started shrug and stop caring. This, of course, is also sexist according to some.
What's with the infighting here? Nothing about the post comes across as conspiracy theory level or reputation ruining. It makes me question the motives of those implying he's crazy, to be honest.
My disgust reaction is provoked by enough transhumanist ideas that it feels more dystopian than utopian to me. I guess I'm too... human... to trans-human too hard.
I think the United States is more about charging people with crimes and ruining their lives that way rather than disappearing people. Russia might kill you with Polonium and make sure everyone knows it, but America will straight up “legally“ torture you in prison via several means and then argue successfully that those methods were legal and convince the world you weren’t tortured. Anyone who’s a target for that treatment, though, knows that’s a lie.
Is this really the CA DMV's jurisdiction? Where's the CA DOT? How on earth is the DMV the best positioned agency to take Tesla to task on this egregious issue?
Usually the developers of the subdivision? Hence the buyers of the property?

I take you’ve never asked utilities the costs for hook ups? They are happy to give you a quote.

It’s sure not the taxpayers the next town over paying $50,000 for a sewer hookup.
I think that the way K&R writes C is probably idiomatic C just de facto. But it's also reasonable to believe this style is completely unacceptable for maintainable code today and should fail review for example.

So, it's not crazy to argue that because idiomatic C isn't acceptable therefore rule out C as a language for an organisation to use entirely. Clearly if you don't have an alternative this highlights a problem rather than itself being a solution. But it might be a reason not to do whatever it was you were thinking of doing at all. Do you really need to write micro-controller firmware for your project? Isn't there an off-the-shelf component where it's not your problem to maintain the horrible C code that makes it work?

[ Or you could go all Oxide Computer Company and decide no, C is just terrible so we are going to use Rust and if we need to rewrite the firmware on this switch that's what we'll do. That might make total sense, if you go into it clear eyed ]
This was information that should have been supplied during discovery. All that Jones supplied was the results of a simple search, which as we now know was only a small fraction of what should have been given.

5A - due process - due process includes supplying all information. Which Jones didn't do, and very arguably, the plaintiffs were entitled to this a long time ago. But this is unsurprising, as Jones has steadfastly interfered with, manipulated and otherwise messed with the discovery process.

Then the lawyer, after not doing so when asked by the plaintiffs, tried to claim to the court that it was all privileged information, and the judge said that it was plainly not, and that if he wanted to flag that which was subject to privilege, now, he could, but Jones's textual communications with other parties could in no way be classified as "attorney/client" as you state.
If you are a FP lover but want to try a gel for convenience, I found the Pilot Hi-Tec-C in 0.5 mm to give the writing feel most like a FP. (https://www.jetpens.com/Pilot-Hi-Tec-C-Gel-Pens-Standard/ct/...)
Nobody should be making content for ad revenue, that's my point. If people are willing to pay for it, just sell content. Books, movies, songs work that way. Even blog posts can be sold, that's the entire Substack business model.

If nobody's willing to pay for it, then they can either offer it for free, or not make it at all.

I think we would all be better off that way.
Just a quick thought... wouldn't it be a bit more practical to implement this behind some form of "load balancer"-like system at the network/io layer? Are self updating processes really the right abstraction? Seems like it kinda flips reliable build/deploy processes on their head a bit.
Yes, he appears to be unreasonably dismissive of the blindly obvious history and the current situation.

As an aside, this tracks with his choice of employers - at least one of which was a known and documented NSA collaborator (as well as a victim, irony of irony) before he took the job with them.

As Upton Sinclair remarked: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Joining Google after Snowden revealed PRISM and BULLRUN, as well as MUSCULAR, is almost too rich to believe, Meanwhile he asserts and dismisses Bernstein as a conspiracy theorist. It’s a classic bad faith ad-hominem coincidence theory.
Selenium would do that, in python, no worries.

Alternatively, have a batch script that just runs (Assuming windows) taskkill /f /im firefox.exe which would kill it. Then have firefox startup with no tabs loaded.
It says something that there are people who appear to be able to talk but can't recognize their own country on the map (any number greater than zero is remarkable).
note, musk created his twitter account in 2009... shortly after he became tesla's CEO. So unless you're talking about the original roadster, his twitter account existed before those people learned about tesla/musk.

Musk has pretty much used Twitter has his primary media communication method. Going so far as to say Tesla has no marketing budget because he's such a star on twitter. He has practically zero reach elsewhere. Sure, if he publishes on another platform, people will pay attention, but he doesn't... twitter is pretty much the way he communicates with the world.

If you dont think twitter is the reason you know Musk, then let me ask you this: who was the CEO of Fiskar? They released their EV product shortly before the model S. But you dont know the guys name do you? The product isnt why we know musk.
Update Scanner. I use it a lot to track airline prices/sales.
> First off, his "fuck up" was leaking it

That may have been a fuck up, in that he didn't intend to do so. But it was still information plaintiffs were entitled to.

> second it's still protected under attorney client privilege if AJ didn't authorize it

This is wrong. The vast majority of that information was discoverable and should have been discovered beforehand, but Jones withheld it. You can't refuse to "authorize" the release of discoverable information, which is probably why his lawyer didn't (initially) try to claim privilege.
Body modification is not self mutilation, although I would tend to agree that the lack of functionality is probably not transhumanist
Michelle Goldberg has been on this topic for a while and has some issues with confirmation bias.
> I think it's pretty ugly to get a head start in a race and then feign harm when anyone tries to boost up the people that got held up at the starting line so they can at least get within range of those that got the headstart.

A gold star for your effort Jjeaff, but I'm still about 110% convinced that holding any group of people back for the sins of others is racist and morally wrong, not effective, counterproductive, and certainly no longer necessary.
The law is explicit in this case that the attorney client privilege is waived by the attorney not asserting it within 10 days, and the judge has already explicitly oked sending it to the j6 committee, and the judge has already only very slightly less explicitly oked sending it to whoever else the plaintiffs attorney feels like (with the exception of some medical information).

Is that law unconstitutional with respect to letting attorneys waive attorney client privilege? I have no clue. In practice it doesn't matter, the cat is out of the bag already and no one has even begun to advance such an argument to the court.
"I'm a Jewish grandson of Holocaust survivors. I'm also American."

Fair enough. My Jewish roots (int al) are rather more convoluted than yours.

"I'm pretty happy our country has not adopted laws against holocaust denial in the way Germany or Canada have."

Both of my parents were soldiers and I grew up in West Germany and the UK in the 1970s-1990s (on and off, here and there!)

Tort is to do with contract law.

Be American as much as you can - and I will stand in your corner for that too. However there is some history here and Jones was riffing and profiteering on an event that was nominally genocide and he described it as such.

Please don't mistake free speech for hate and spite.
There’s a downside to this as well though.

You end up trying to debug/understand logic that slips through your hands like wisps of smoke.

It’s a trade off, just realize you are building a system that’s harder to reason about and add more observability and/or an ability to interact with the live system.
Coming soon to 'new':

"Ask HN: Why does this guy keep picking up my calls when I always try scamming him?"
Where are you living?

Here in Argentina until this year we called "Russian" everyone form the former Soviet Union. Now I try to memorize the correct nationality of each immigrant, but I can't identify the country they are from. Can you distinguish Argentineans from Brazilians?
Your armchair assessment is quite obviously spot-on. I hope the forthcoming lawsuits fine him into oblivion.
Those Swiss bankers are equally indiscriminate. They allowed a minority of wealthy refugees to hide value and allowed Nazism to hide expropriated goods and money, stolen from those self same wealthy refugee's less savvy compatriots, and continue to hide this wealth alongside the more quotidian tax avoiders and druglords and arms dealers.

What I find fascinating is that even after panama papers the banking system is reluctant to really tackle the problem. We learn more from whistle-blower and (possibly law breaching) seizure of strong boxes, than we do from Swiss banks voluntarily. They really only love money. Social justice is nothing.

Swiss neutrality is an enabler of bad things, in finance.
Econs say fiat currency is almost meaningless outside of when it’s actually being traded for goods and services. One way to express the value implied in currency is what a constant amount of it may be converted to across different goods. Or if speaking of difference currencies, how much a known constant good/service costs in the local currency and compare that across currencies. This is the basis for the Economists Big Mac index.

So yes, when capital as the aggregate of whatever asset gets hoarded away by few people there is inefficiency. An efficient market looks like every market participant (supply and demand side) having only that marginal amount of resource needed to make their marginal contribution towards the total output. It’s also in no market participants interest to run advertisements since they will sell all they produce and have enough resources to produce all that they can. Like producing construction nails or any other good or service that’s never graced an ad.
The opposing, though not necessarily contradictory cliche is of course some variation of “a lie makes it around the world before the truth is out of bed”. That’s the problem, there’s plenty of situations where the lie has done it’s damage long before the truth can achieve much beyond the academic.
It’s also interesting because he could still be 100% correct and they actually be crisis actors and the whole nine yards but that doesn’t actually matter in the outcome of the case as far as I can tell.
> But it was still information plaintiffs were entitled to.

Some of it was (such as the text message that they sprung on Jones during the trial), other parts were definitely not. Both sides seem to agree that there is data involved that would be attorney client privileged up to that privilege being waived.
"National Security" response implies cooperation with NSA and destroys NIST's credibility.
look at all the new cars. if they arent fully hybrid/electric, then they are these small displacement 4 cylinder engines. The v8 has essentially died out, or is on its last leg. V6 are super rare and only for the top trim cars. (look at 3 series bmw for example.. all the way from base 3 series to m3 and what has changed over the years)

In europe its alot worse than the uS.

Each new car generation that comes out in the US is now losing horsepower as the manufactureres have to hit environmental regulations.
This was gone into during the damages trial. When he got kicked off youtube his sales and profits from his boner pills went way up.
"Feminism" can mean a lot of different things to different people. Perhaps young people tend to associate feminism with identity politics, which even a lot of progressive people aren't interested in even if they agree with traditional feminist ideas.
Notebooks from Japan usually take FP ink well. Notebooks from American/European companies (usually made in China) usually don't. Clairefontaine/Rhodia is the main exception, though I think the paper is actually made in France.
He didn't promise shareholders anything. He signed a contract, which is almost the opposite of a promise.
> forcing someone to buy something that they don't want to own or run

After they signed a contract to do so... and that is the entire purpose of writing up the contract.
Just a follow up. My two conversions so far, Lalal.ai has been better. Especially separating drums from instruments. I'll give Stemroller a few more tries as I am always looking for options.
What even is a feminist? Considering there's TERFs and SWERFs, there is no one agreed upon definition, and if there ever was, it's changing.
It's gotten to the point where people going out of their way to say they support this sort of talk are kind of weird. You didn't have to make that your headline, but you decided to make it that. You could have just said you think what he is saying is problematic etc, if you disagree with them you can say you disagree.
Is there a place to register a new did method? What does sidetree have to do with W3C sidetree spec?
> I hope that it isn’t too late to try to fix what we’ve destroyed.

It will be like pumping the brakes and critically thinking, while staying in a landslide (caused by you, but blame assignment will not do much at the moment). Climate change will not wait. Extinct species will not pop up back into existence. Asteroids on impact course (if any) will not stop moving for that matter. We need to run faster than ever to have a chance to fix at least some things.
Yes, despite our rhetoric to the contrary, the rule of law is still quite strong in the USA.

Thank fucking god.
Where does one submit an method implementation?
It's definitely a possibility to design some form of RPC mechanism and have multiple parts of your application run as essentially a distributed system. There would still be the problem that the "main" application part is expecting the rest of the system to behave in a certain way and if it is maintaining state, the state to be in a certain form. So I'm not sure that you would really win much.

Also, part of the idea is to make hot-reload as little additional burden as possible. Proper compiler support would be the real solution to that but in the form presented in the article you can at least quickly switch between an efficient static build and a dev version, something that would be hard to achieve with an RPC mechanism.
What, or where, is the "I" in this deal?
That's a good one.

BTW, it's case sensitive:

"on independence day": “At 12:00 AM, only on Thursday, only in July” (0 0 * 7 4)

"On Independence Day": “At 12:00 AM, on day 4 of the month, only in July” (0 0 4 7 *)
They might jail him for perjury though...
What amazes me is after 400 years the brewery shut down in 1970. That’s actually fairly sad.
Publishing falsehoods about other people is not always protected speech. (Whether the other people are considered “public” or “private” changes the standards for deciding if the speech is protected.)
The only true way to go. Honestly nothing has made me consider going device free like all of the telemetry these days.
If the trillions that was spent on defence was spent on a space station, there is an argument to be made.
> Presumably if the fine is bigger then the delta between the current share price and what Musk offered,

Not necessarily. There's a world where Musk really can't get the financing together, and stumping up the $44B in cash is too much of a hurdle to be worth-while.

Imagine, you could either pay $1,000 as a fine, or spend $10,000 on a car that you're pretty sure you could sell for $9,200. Obviously, in absolute terms you're better off buying and selling the car. But if you only have $5,000, it might not be worth the hassle to raise the other $5,000 to be able to buy then sell the car. Not to mention the risk that once you get the car, and go to sell it, there's a chance it only sells for $8,800.
I've seen other sources saying $45m: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/05/1116099506/alex-jones-infowar... ...

But why do they listen to him?