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Ask HN: Sold a 1K item on eBay; chargeback occurred–eBay collections, now what?
I sold a MakerBot printer on ebay for $1,000. The printer was used, but was in almost new condition and worked flawlessly. I indicated it's condition as used. When the buyer received it, he instantly started sending me incendiary messages about how he was expecting a new printer (I didn't give him the original box, or things like that). The messages were borderline harassment with lots of expletives. For some context, this was one of the messages: "Bi*h I paid over 1k for this new not a used one. U fake a* broke little bi*h what a broke a* bi*h ur a f**g joke".

I politely let the buyer know he could return it, but didn't hear anything else from him. A few weeks later, I learned that he issued a chargeback with his CC company. I submitted evidence, including a screenshot of the original posting, as well as the messages, and my request for him to send the item back. I learned a week ago that the CC company approved the chargeback; and now eBay is telling me I owe them $1,000 or it will go to collections.

I feel like I've been scammed and I've lost my printer. I wonder if anyone has any advice for remedying this situation. I've read that I could go to arbitration over the chargeback, but I don't know if that will work with ebay's ecosystem and it seems like a pain.

Thanks for any advice.
I'm contemplating enrolling in this.

Right now I'm a net generator, even with our 100 deg days, but I am not 100% off grid. The Panels charge the Powerwall during the day, the Powerwall is drained overnight.

The batteries currently do not survive the night. Even though the house cools down, it retains enough heat that the AC still kicks on, thus draining the battery. Note my AC is 78 all day/night. We got a thing from the power company "do these things on this day and get power credits by lowering your usage", and, of course, we already do all that...no credits for us!

So typically during transition at dawn, I pull in grid power.

But I'm still a net generator, they get more than I take.

The concern was simply if I enroll in this, then the batteries kick in and drain even before the evening, and I go to grid power sooner.

But, thinking about it, "I don't care". It's an offset. They're draining because they need the load NOW, and I can provide it. Later, when things settle down, I'll pull it back.

I think this works out, simply as a "be a good citizen", use my battery to prevent someone in Fresno's AC browning out late in the heat of the afternoon.

Maybe I'm just being whimsical, but I'm still thinking about it.

Also thinking about bolting on another battery, I already have two.
> ...This is level of efficiency used to belong to the US.

I doubt that.
That aspect that you just mentioned, the unmonitored poll worker: if that's true, it needs to be trumpeted far and wide. Note the partisan rejiggering of the election systems underway.

However, since the tales of fraud involving mechanical voting machines in big cities are well-known, I do have to question whether you are using hyperbole or ignorance for the only-paper-has-had-big-fraud statement.

The seals on electronic voting systems didn't need to be tampered with.
> So you'd propose forcefully building your preferred style of housing everywhere, even if the local residents don't want it?

Forcefully? When someone builds an apartment building on their own private property and voluntarily rents the units to other free actors, then obviously nobody was forced to do anything. The neighbors, on the other hand, would like to force the property owner to do something else with their land.

It's very important that we get this part clear in our minds. Zoning is coercion, not the other way around.

You'll sometimes see headlines about a "single-family home ban" whenever a city does zoning reform. No such thing exists. When we allow more uses on a city lot, we obviously have banned nothing.

And, I care about as much what the neighbors want me to do with my private property as I care what they think about my right to free expression. It's not subject to a vote. These rights are codified in our Constitution. They are not subject to a popularity contest. Some things are fundamental. We wrote those things down in a special document and put it in a folder titled, "things you don't get to vote on."

> Short of declaring a dictatorship, it won't succeed to force everyone to live in the same style of building. A very large part of the population has no interest in living in a high-rise apartment.

It's an enormous country and those people should feel free to hit the bricks (they can move, in other words). Or, hey, this is America. If you want to control what happens on a piece of private property, then buy it.
> Some nuclear stuff is lost and lying somewhere

And as the Wikipedia article referenced in the post I originally responded to makes clear, the Navy doesn't just leave the stuff there; it keeps track of it and monitors the state of the nuclear materials in it. So there are contingency plans in place for incidents like this, even though they are extremely rare (2 of them in all of the decades that the US Navy has been operating nuclear submarines). And no harm has come to any member of the public as a result of either of these incidents. So talking as though this represents a serious danger to the public is not warranted.

Also, these are military reactors, not commercial reactors. Commercial reactors can't get lost this way. So using the Navy examples as though they reflected the risks of commercial reactors is ridiculous.
> Opression is necessary to development.

That's one of the main theme's of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Always nice to see how classy the HN comment section is.

Well done, everyone.
Indeed; check settlement used to be small planes flying the checks to the nearest Federal Reserve every night where all the checks from all member banks would be reconciled and money transferred from the bank where the check was drawn to the bank where it was deposited. Then the checks themselves, having been stamped, would be flown to the originating bank and kept on file. A "bad" check would get stamped and returned to the depositing bank.

The bank where you deposited a check would in fact be lending you the amount of the check until the settlement was complete - hence the daily deposit limits and such to limit the bank's exposure.
cash back *rewards.

Please don't use your credit cards for cash advances unless you REALLY know what you're doing and why.
I'll take your word for it with respect to Melbourne, which is a lovely city I thoroughly enjoyed several decades ago. "Spaceport America" is a silly boondoggle that will never launch an orbital flight and will eventually be absorbed into White Sands missile range. Getting from anywhere in Colorado to any populated location not in Colorado takes longer than an hour. b^)
A 10 week jail sentence for a racist video making fun of a terrible tragedy bothers me a whole lot.
At least from the systems programming perspective I think productivity gains have been significant. Valgrind had _just_ appeared as I was doing my undergrad and it allowed me to focus on the high-level math of data structures -- as an example -- compared to my non-Valgrind using classmates that were struggling with memory bugs (which, of course, I did too, but to a less degree). C++ has noticeably improved since then, if you can hew to the newer bits of the language and keep all the arcane bits in your mind. Rust has arrived on the scene, inspired by Cyclone, C++, SML and is a serious jump in productivity over C++ because the compiler keeps track of all those arcane bits. If you squint, Go's in the mix for web stuff that doesn't mind GC. It's a shame ATS didn't become more of a thing, Ada has made real strides back from the dead, especially if you can stick to SPARK Ada.
We're even seeing more formal verification of complex bits of software in systems-land, something that seemed basically impossible when I first read about Coq twenty something years ago.

I do admit, though, that front-end seems like a wild west presently, to my ignorant eyes.
There is a single "eco" light on the dash that is based only on revs - if you engine brake downhill and are using nearly zero gas it still goes off. I've considered pulling the bulb for it
I've installed a few dozen HP LaserJets recently and haven't needed any kind of account.
Weird, I submitted the exact same link yesterday and the dupe detector didn’t trigger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32477938

No worries, it’s a great article and I’m glad folks are reading it!
> If it worked from the start, it wouldn't need to be fixed later.

True. But you ignore the fact that NO SOFTWARE IS EVER DONE. Software always has bugs, and even if it didn't, it will bitrot as the business needs change.

In theory, it's better to have 100% working software. In practice, that never happens (or only happens for a few weeks at best). Eventually the software needs to be changed. In that case, software that is "written for humans" will always be easier to change than "software that used to work, but now we need to change it, but nobody understands it".
The US wants Russia (and the entire rest of the world) to adopt its way of life and liberal-democratic/neoliberal/globalist values.
Please point to the "boon". If you mean people got to keep their jobs = boon, then I guess you are right. The problem is, wealth was transferred upstream, en masse, and not taxed anywhere near labor.

Here is some data that solidly debunks your disguised claim of "trickle down":

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-has-grown-90-times-f...

http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/19Daily/1908/19082...
That's obviously not what I'm saying; you're being difficult for the sake of argument. I've already stated why insider trading is and should be illegal.
mash "back" long enough and you'll get home... it might not be the best thing, but it works.
Vscode is all dandy and fine until you try to debug something and inspect an object in memory only to find out that msft programmers hard coded the object representation as a string [Object object] cause they couldn’t be bothered to properly implement the debugger.
It's not that consumer debt "helps to fuel" the economy; consumer debt is the only reason the economy hasn't collapsed in on itself already.

Henry Ford wasn't a good person. He was a rabid antisemite. But even he knew that he wouldn't be able to sell cars indefinitely if people couldn't afford to buy them, so he raised wages. The bosses, as a class, no longer have to do this. They can make enough fake money out of debt to keep their businesses alive. So that's what they're doing.

All this means we get artificial mediocre prosperity that is contingent on their piles of money getting bigger (i.e., all economic growth, meager as it has been, goes to them). And we know that they are willing to crash everything (or, to give an example that has actually happened, make lots of people sick with Covid-19) to keep themselves in charge and their piles of money growing bigger.

If the consumer debt game ended for some reason, the whole system would collapse immediately.
Not only is it "no", China is in a population loss spiral. It's estimated that their population will halve, from 1.4B to 700M, by 2050.

Everything they've built is beginning to fail due to lack of new workers, and an excess of non-productive people.

In a country where most people earn around $1000/year.
Fair, sorry for the sort of attacky reply. I think there's an urge sometimes when presented with human rights abuses in other countries to point to hypocrisies in the west, of which there are many in a way that seems like it's just aiming at making people throw up their hand and decide that there's no good guys so we can't complain about anything and I think I reacted to that type of opinion rather than anything you said in particular
I'd also have it empty before filling, so it never accumulates.
Standard advice, get a lawyer
Rozelle's group at Stanford has consulted at the prefecture level with the CCP [0]. The PRC is de facto federal with a significant amount of leeway at the prefecture (state) level. In fact, a number of PRC policy initiatives are often done in coordination with research groups at Stanford University. The Guiding Cases [1] is another ministerial level initiative that Stanford has consulted on.

[0] - https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/reap/content/reap-home

[1] - https://law.stanford.edu/china-guiding-cases-project/
Ok, I read the article. The defendant did not share the video publicly, he shared it with two whatsapp groups. He was also not the one to make the racist comment in the video. Was his video offensive? Sure. But being offensive should never be a crime.
Replace "Legacy Team" with "BAU Support" and new team with "Projects" and this mirrors what I see.

The people who keep the lights on aren't doing anything exciting to write down in a report. Or if they are, then that is bad news. The best you can be is a butler - invisible but effectively keeping things running smoothly.

But your pay/wage/salary won't be invisible to the accountants who see you as a cost centre.
5 Years of Kotlin on Android
Would you mind sharing your approximate gross profit margin? And, can you share info about your marketing spend as a percent of gross sales?

I ask because most lower-margin businesses tend to be brick-and-mortar and service-based, like a restaurant. If a typical restaurant's profit margin is ~3-5%, then going from 3% credit card fees to 0.1% fees could conceivably increase their profits by 60-100%. So, if your margins are <10%, then I understand how transformative lower network fees could be hugely impactful.

For ads: Many ecommerce businesses spend far more than 3% of their gross revenue on acquisition/marketing costs. So, in some ways the 3% credit card fee is closer to a marketing expense that increases conversion rates - and payment network fees are often less than overall facebook/google ad spend. So, if you're spending >3% of your gross revenue on ads, then the high conversion rates of credit cards factor into your advertising acquisition costs.
exactly,
Just like getting assigned book reports, but for software nerds!
> I was very surprised when later (about 13 years ago) a US friend told me that they were still using cheques for most things.

I was married with kids 13 years ago and I never touch checks - that’s not a wide spread US thing, it’s a generational thing. Anyone who used checks for ‘everything’ 13 years ago was a massive outlier.
The law says that the bank needs to give back your money immediately, at least in my country. If it turns out that it was your fault you don't get to keep the money, but you will have money to pay bills with during the investigation.

Laws and security adapts to whatever medium people tend to use, so common problems tend to have solutions. The laws in Europe are made to make debit card transactions and security reasonable, because almost everyone uses debit cards.
The link you provide points out the SALT deduction cap of $10k. With the standard deduction up to $12k+ now, if your only itemized deduction is your property and state income taxes, itemizing isn't going to be worth it.

We were so close to losing the cap on SALT deductions with the Inflation Reduction Act; I'm super bummed it didn't make it into the final bill.
The godbolt link is only a simple sample.

Rust does not support view pattern (called in Haskell) or app pattern (called in Racket). And that has been implemented in this library.
If you are talking about programming languages - it supports Golang, PHP, Java, Ruby and more. Mostly any frontend/backend languages (other than mobile development languages)

You can actually treat the Nimbus workspace as your laptop on cloud. If there's anything you see not supported on Nimbus at the moment, you can create a workspace, install as many packages as you need. And once you want to share the set up with the team, you can snapshot it and create a public (org-wide) template out of it.
You Shouldn't Use Manjaro
It's interesting when you think about the concept of how our own minds work. There are lots of studies about splitting the path between the two hemispheres of the brain called corpus callosum. In these situations people will sometimes exihbit "split" behaviour but over time that subsides and the brain is able to more or less subconsciously coordinate. Some of the patterns of behaviour are contrary; one hand does one thing, the other hand stops it. It's truly remarkable.

In any event it might be a loose association, but I do agree with the overall _title_ (and that Octopuses are pretty cool). I hope we're able to recognize any intelligence way may create if we do so successfully.
There's a lot of cool things in here, some we're excited to explore and some that I'm first hearing about right now

We could jam back and forth on this but generally we're not dogmatic about the "middle" of the process, and we suspect the implementation will change over time for a variety of reasons (even faster builds, smaller images, less dependencies, etc).

The only thing we're dogmatic about is the experience and the fact that it emits an OCI compliant image (that can indeed be run on any orchestrator).

If you're interested in contributing or jamming on this wanna shoot me a DM on twitter (JustJake) or email at jake at railway dot app?
You can do all this pretty easily using `pgAdmin` without having to remember any commands. If you do this infrequently, then great use the GUI. If you do it frequently then learn the commands I guess :P `pgAdmin` can help with that too though as it usually shows you the queries it is running.
I don't want some third party doing the bank transfer, just lets the banks 1:1
(I’m a cofounder there)

You are correct - haven’t actually done this yet since we’ve had no chance to so don’t take too much from this policy until we’ve done it a few times!

We set up hedgehog.vc which is what we’d use to fund ex employees if you’re curious.
This has little to do with the banking system and everything to do with counter party risk. As a consumer you don’t know if you are getting ripped off. Having the weight of a credit card company on your side makes it much easier to buy something knowing you have fraud protection.
Thanks, I’ve faced this issue but didn’t know about gnu fold.
This isn't hard: whatever a local assessor determines it to be, something they already have a lot of experience doing.
Words words words - if all of this can be mitigated then why have it in the first place? You work at a startup that hits and need to shell out 6 or 7 figures to exercise… “Bu bu but you can get it back!!” Just change the rule then! What is the benefit? It only harms employees of new ventures
I agree. Those damn computers are becoming too fast. It is time to to slow'em down proper so we can pay more for a hardware.
Giving someone your bank account number (~EU ACH info) only allows them to send you money, not take it from you. It's not a secret, some retail businesses list it on their websites.
I can imagine that arms equipped with significant neural processing would allow higher-level signals to be sent from the central brain. Rather than in most animals like ourselves, where the motor cortex basically tells which muscles to contract, the arms might be given a signal to feel around and lift a rock, or just explore and report back. Basically, leaving some or all of the planning to the brain, but offloading control. That, plus tightening the feedback loop between sending (touch) and actuation would make for some pretty useful advantages I would guess.
I read the parent comment as sarcasm, but I may be wrong
All MacOS patches (whether minor or major) all take 20-30+ minutes. Even on the new M1/M2 chips.

It makes keeping MacOS up to date in an enterprise / corporate environment a pain (an employee updating their computer in the morning puts them out of commission for 45 minutes - then complaints of missing meetings, etc)
This is really cool, one nitpick on the basics tutorial though. It could be confusing for beginners to write `select distinct(event_type)` because it makes it look like `distinct` is a function, and makes it looks like distinct only applies to certain columns. I've seen postgres beginners confused by syntax like this writing queries like `select distinct(event_type), magnitude` and expecting the query to only do a distinct on `event_type`.
> they lack the authorisation to do so

How does the German banking system prevent an unscrupulous online retailer from charging you 500€ for a 50€ item? Or charging you twice?
You don't need to go to court to reclaim a fraudulent debit. For one, there's limits in place on card transactions and bank transfers with every bank. In every (read: two) situation I've had where my card was skimmed/used without permission, the bank cancelled my card and refunded the amount within 24 hours.
>> In the history of post-Securities Act American stock lending, I don't think this has once happened for a public stock.

Not sure about that, but we were about a day away from that happening in 2008. AIG lent out high-grade bonds and invested the proceeds into illiquid higher-yield mortgage backed securities:

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/what-went-w...

AIG's near collapse was partly due to CDS and party due to sec lending.
Why does it have to be since the fork? Do you just arbitrarily remove the part of its history that make your coin look like a complete scam? People had to wait days for their transactions, many ended up falling off of the mempool, effectively becoming reversed transactions. The fees were absolutely unpredictable, people had to pay $100-$200 just to move their coins.

And after the fork BTC still makes you overpay ridiculous fees and the network is almost always extremely slow (except when no one is using it of course). Paying more than the 1c it was designed for is basically the norm now. That's why people like you try to gaslight everyone else into believing in the mythical LN that solves everything (allegedly, but not really).

Here's the proof:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

See how it never even gets close to 0 even after the fork? Now compare with BCH.
> For one, they lack the authorisation to do so

I suppose someone should tell the criminals.

> there's a limit (which I can change) to how much can be transferred per day.

I expect many banks/cards have this ability as well. People just don't use it.

Hell, I have a virtual card I frequently use on websites that has a $50 limit per day. I'm sure most other companies have something similar available.
I’m for reinvention, and if thinking radically is what it takes to make the more typical and known processes evolve, so be it. I do have skepticism about a model liberated from the text file - most tools fall back heavily on our use of language as our most powerful tool, the extent that a visual system like a UI replaces that usually represents equal constraints on what you can do.

But constraints are what make programming languages great and easier to work with than machine code. If this boils down to a hierarchy of constraints the question that needs to be asked is “why are there so many different ways of constraining a program’s behavior” (via programming languages)? If there were only one way, much of the innovation wished for here, as abstract as it may be, would have probably already been worked on. Instead the base shifts constantly and the techniques for building changes everywhere.

Sometimes I wonder why all of programming can’t boil down to C code. Python would first be translated to C, Rust would be an analysis engine for C, etc. It is elitist to make programming a meta language and field of study just to understand and use effectively, even if not consciously done. The lack of standardization, compared to what could be, drives this complexity. You’ll know programming has revolutionized again when an order of magnitude more people can do it without dedicating chunks of their life to it.