skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To head it off: no it shouldn't be third-party sellers - they don't get your email, any disputes etc. are through a unique-id@marketplace.amazon.co.uk address in my experience.

I have received 2 emails from an Amazon seller's personal email to my personal email asking me to remove a review about a cartridge of printer ink. The review was written by my father but using my account.

They did also email me 3 times through Amazon's email forwarding. But the 4th and 5th time was directly to my personal email which the Amazon account is registered under. They offered me a full refund and a $20 gift card.

He signed his review with his first name, and in the email they address him by that name. Yet my personal email is MY name plus some numbers.

I never responded to their messages or anything that would give them access to my real email. The only acknowledgement of their emails I gave them was changing it to 1-star and adding in that they are offering to pay people for 5 star reviews.

P.S. don't buy any printer ink from JARBO. Aside from the email spam, the cartridges run dry after a couple dozen pages.

Here is the first direct email

> Dear Customer, This is Lexi from Jarbo. I apologize for my delay contact. In order to match your order ID, I have searched it within thousands of orders.

> We received your review that the toner cartridges are not working properly and have caused you so much trouble. I understand your feelings, and hope that you can give me a chance to rectify this.

> Therefore, we'd love to compensate $20 to make up your loss. Will that be okay?

> Because I am only an after-sales service staff, in order to better apply for a refund to the finance department, Could you remove the review first? I will get the refund back to you within 72 hours.

> Here is the link to your review for your convenience:

> [ link to review they want removed ]

edit: I'm in the USA, amazon.com domain
The rule is 5 years. You've given 2 examples under 5 years. If everything is going to re-enter within 5 years without boosting then your point is moot, because even in your "massively more collision risky" example, it still abides by the rules.

If something was going to deorbit within 1 minute, or was going to deorbit within 4 years, 6 months... It doesn't matter to the creator, because they don't have to change their design at all to meet the rules.

If something was going to deorbit within 8 years (because they previously had a 25 year allowed limit), they now have to rework the design.

There's plenty of room for debate about if 5 years is adequate, but as it stands, _most_ things (under 500km) will naturally deorbit within the legal time frame anyway even without special consideration.
I mean, we could also start with basic logic: Who gains from disabling the pipeline? This absurd theory that Putin doesn't benefit from the revenue isn't even worth addressing. On the other hand, Pompeo explicitly stated the US would do "anything" to prevent Nordstream 2 from coming online, Biden alluded to the same:
Biden in Feb 2022: "If Russia invades...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

Q: "But how will you do that, exactly, since...the project is in Germany's control?"

Biden: "I promise you, we will be able to do that."

Add to that the Polish FM (husband of The Atlantic hack Anne Applebaum) thanking the US for destroying the pipeline on Twitter. Maybe you could try doing your own research-- outside of the security state stenographers like WaPo and Wikipedia.
My company is in an industry that hasn't been affected. Contrary to most, we're experiencing record growth.
The OP sounds like somebody that would do a non-through, not very competent review, and not find anything.

But it doesn't matter. MS is the one telling to the entire world that his software is not reliable. They don't get to tell it all over the world without bringing some evidence.
> If I make my money via porn (I don't, but as an example) do customers not want to have bank accounts at banks where pornstars bank?

It can be quite difficult for sex workers of all stripes to maintain their bank accounts. They regularly have accounts frozen because they receive payments from porn-friendly payment processors. This is not just "porn stars" but people that do things like OnlyFans.

So yes, sex workers have trouble accessing banking even if all they do is show their titties on camera because prudes go pitch a fit to banks.
I had several experiences with Nintendo customer service from the NES timeframe through the GameCube timeframe and every single one was amazing, legendary even.

I don't know if they're still like that, but, the past, apparent "severity" of their mandate to please customers who had issues leads me to find this story plausible.
MS isn't even giving them an idea of what sort of thing they think is going on. Completely ghosting someone is way beyond not disclosing fraud detection techniques.

"We're using our enormous market power to wreck your company and won't even tell you roughly the kind of thing we think is wrong" is so unacceptable it ought to draw an application of some kind of corporate death-penalty, if it's a pattern of behavior and not just a rare accident that goes against official policy. Certainly it's, all on its own, a strong argument that there shouldn't be companies this powerful in the first place.
This would be a big improvement over how a lot of languages handle types - namely it’d let you stop calling “i16” “i32” types when they’re actually storage sizes.

“Safe” languages like Java try to achieve safety by making you write boilerplate casts here - “short = int + int” is illegal without a (short) cast even though that doesn’t change the meaning of the program.

If it was “x = i32<0,3> + i32<0,3>” then it highlights how silly this is and maybe they wouldn’t make you write a (i16<0,6>) cast.
Companies prefer senior devs at junior pay, regardless of the overall economic climate.
Google does allow you to change the birthdate for your Google account. They could try letting the account sit in limbo unverified until the kid is 18, change the birthdate and then verify the account.
It isn't replacing JavaScript. At the very least you still need JS to access the DOM. And, for backwards compatibility, I don't see JS going away during our lifetimes. And I don't see another language being added to browsers in place of JS (not including webassembly, which is not a replacement for JS).
What’s some good persona management software for social media?
I really want to mass manipulate social media in an automated fashion. What are some good sources for accounts (personas) and what is some good software to automate posting by different personas? I know the US military uses this technology so it has to be available from some contractor or another.
TikTok data science shows looks are important for video success
Detailed breakdown of an attempt at rigorous analysis and verifying the hypothesis of TikTok actively (implicitly or explicitly) promoting lookism.
Cricket alone has 12 million subscribers in the US. Metro PCS has ~18 million. Boost Mobile has 8 million.

You're looking at 30 million+ people who flat out cannot even play the game.
Also I suppose companies never go after politicians for biased reasons, with legalized bribery of campaign contributions as the tool.
It's so unreliable I just ended up turning it back off
Elon Musk’s Phone: The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends
> Truth is an absolute defence

Depends on jurisdiction, although I am presuming OP is from the USA due to their spelling.
Helps to stay alive and in charge when your economy is still benefiting from the massive revenues the pipleline brings. It's amazing the lengths some people will go to distort reality to fit their preconceptions.
>>London, New York and Paris have multiple ballistic missiles aimed at them from different sites (that we even know about)

> We know this how?

I can't educate you on the basics of known Russian nuclear capabilities.

If you don't know about it, then you are not serious and should not be involved in this discussion.
We may live in an irreligious society, but humanity's innate desire to anoint prophets to warn us of a coming reckoning continues unabated.
Because this viewpoint isn’t consistent with his actions; he has a long history of retaliating against anyone who criticizes him, including attacking journalists and threatening them with lawsuits as well as firing employees who raise issues within his companies.
USB-IF is a forum of so many different companies the focus group probably was needed for CYA finger pointing if no other reason. If this branding doesn't work out they can blame a bad focus group and convene a new one rather than war among themselves.
Various countries = Mexico and Chili
Thanks, I use VSCodeVim at the moment because even though it's not using “real vim” under the hood the performance has been more consistent for me.

I revisit VSCode Neovim periodically but end up switching back after a day or so due to consistent freezing and cursor jitter (even with an empty nvim config and very few other VS Code extensions). I'll keep trying it out, though.
I use VSCode since switching away from Neo/Vim because things just work. I don't have to install a bunch of plugins like I used to where I don't know what works and what doesn't work with each other. For example, for Rust, I go to VSCode extensions page, click install on rust-analyzer, and that's it. I don't have to set up an LSP, syntax highlighting, etc which are each their own plugin on Vim.
> if you have an attitude that anything an organization does must be for an ulterior motive …

Well in the case where they are spending a lot of money to implement and operate a feature that nobody asked for and which has obvious privacy downsides, it does seem worthwhile to examine their motives. It’s not like we’re responding to the announcement for the next model of the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard with “hmmm, what are they up to?”
The definition is "imagined state or society great suffering or injustice" -- Google cannot cause you great suffering or injustice because it has little to no power over you. Only a government or similar can truly cause great suffering en masse.
Don't be so quick to assume. Asian cultures have a lot of shaming and they don't have this problem.
Thanks, that mixed my thoughts of inferiority for the day.
Well this sucks. It doesn't work on individual plans for cricket either. I paid for the Overwatch 2: Watchpoint Pack (mostly due to their confusing marketing around it). I've been playing Overwatch almost since the day it came out, and I was excited about it since it was announced in 2014. I was really looking forward to playing OW2....but maybe this is a good thing for me. This game encapsulated 6 years worth of my life. Lots of highs and lows. Maybe I need to move on.
Because in a MMO you would start a new character from scratch and most of "power" is tied to the character's items.

Games like Overwatch is skill based and have a skill-based matchmaking, a new player will play with other beginners, and as they get better the game will put them in matches with better opponents. A smurf in this context is someone that is already really good in the game, but because they just created a new account, they are put in matches with beginners just so they can steamroll them. And takes a good while for their account to reach the same rank as their main account.

While in MMOs there's still some skill involved, but it's much harder to compete with someone is better items, compare to Overwatch where two players with the same character have the same everything it all comes down to the player skill.

>If I can't play the game the way _I_ want to play, what use is it as a recreational activity? It's supposed to be a "game" after all so I don't understand where are all the rules and revisions are coming from.

I would argue that competitive games are less about recreation and more about getting good, which can be fun, but that seems to be secondary.
1s have the issue of always having a shitter on my team.
Doesn't really matter because of the Stadia refunds, but if they can figure out how to migrate the save files, that'll be something.
The genetic factors estimates come only from adoption data, and there are studies that condition further on things like adoptive parent material conditions. The researchers are not dumb; they have put some thought into it.
On my Apple M1 it takes ~33 seconds for cold-start. I use only vim and flutter extention. That said, my biggest complaint is that on this extremely fast computer, the lag between a keypress and a symbol is too big. I'm typing faster than VSCode renders characters. With vim mode enabled it sometimes goes super slow, with 1-2 sec between characters (but that's not always).

Anyway, agree with the author. Everytime I use web- or electron-app I'm just expecting sluggishness, ugliness and weird behaviors and refresh the page (=restart the app) all the time. It's just a norm. I guess no matter how people pretend that typesetting engine from 80-s is a good UI stack, they still have to pay huge price in usability, performance and orders of magnitude higher memory usage.
Keep building and ignore the haters. I'm sure Github deals with actual abuse issues with Github Actions (like trying to mine crypto) on a regular basis. This is neat and interesting and at most they'll rate limit it if it gets too popular. Plus you're connecting to a hosted paid service for the GPU backend side so it's not all CPU time.
Not all dystopias are of the "direct violence" type.
This is a good opportunity for Rust!
How would deleting the account in question help anyone, though? Or are you saying that after deleting, they would then be allowed to re-register after a ban? Isn't that just isomorphic to demanding Free Ban Evasion for All?
Are you in the same competitive space as MS? If so you shouldn’t act surprised.
Both things called “steampipe” are cloud-based technology services. They even both involve a CDN. They're close enough to be confusing. The name of a gas isn't. This is silly.
> And yet Google can't come knock on your door and take you away.

Not directly... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-...

Plenty of dystopian fiction involves corporations legally not allowed to do something and still doing it, because they're functionally immune to consequences. There are also degrees of dystopian between "murder corp" and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

You might have an overly narrow definition of "dystopian".
I never told my parents anything and they woke up one day to a legal notice from Disney fedexed across the atlantic.

Fun times!
Microsoft is not the Guardian of the World. If they take it upon themselves to act as such without being a responsible Netizen (cooperating with other site operators to provide a higher quality Net) then they are more interested in cementing their own position rather than being a part of a civilized Net.

Imagine if I just suddenly started spreading around rumors of your malfeasance and shadyness, and untrustworthyness.

It's a big deal.
There is a severless machine learning course that includes GH actions to implement serverless feature pipelines and serverless batch inference pipelines.

https://github.com/featurestoreorg/serverless-ml-course

Disclaimer: I am involved in it.
Email addresses aren't real-life identifiers, although they could be used that way. And on the inverse, I can buy a burner phone with cash and defeat Blizzard's requirement easily.

But it's pretty clear what Blizzard is going for here, since we know their platform is competitive and thus harsher on individuals viewed as bad actors. Blizzard knows full well that most people signing up to play only have one phone number, which is most certainly a real-life identifier for those players.

My point is that if players feel compelled to self-censor their interactions online for fear of repercussions[0], then they are not playing a game. They are instead representing themselves as individuals on a social network with competitive/gamified attributes. Requiring phone numbers to play is just a method to gently reinforce this.

To each their own - this might be exactly the type of game you like to play. But it departs pretty strongly from the classical definition of "video game" that I grew up with.

[0] For example, your primary phone number being disallowed access to all Blizzard services. Maybe they go even further and request that 3rd party services ban you for off-platform violations. Moved this down to a footnote so as not to spread FUD, I'm sure they don't currently do this, nor do I expect them to. But cross-referencing phone numbers would make it very easy to start.
*Chile
The toxicity of random matchmaking has gotten out of hand. Whenever I decide to dive into a game of Overwatch, I'm rolling the dice on whether any of my five teammates will be misanthropes, and the odds are quite high these days. I shouldn't be subjected to that to play a team based game. Your ability to play nice with others should be a data point. To make that a data point, bans need to have teeth. Bad behavior needs to have consequences. We have to disrupt the Internet Fuckward Theory [1].

People who don't like the idea of phone numbers maybe should propose alternatives, because things are not fine the way they are.

1: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/325699-greater-internet-fuck...
Does the bill literally say a news outlet needs to rely on “clicks from Facebook for money” to qualify?

Come on, you’re probably smarter than this and can present a better argument than needing to stoop to a straw man.
Exactly, I almost started writing a tool for that, because nothing else I found supports arrays and composite types. Now let's hope DuckDB does support that :)

If you don't use arrays and composites, Spark should be able to do it, right?
"Next they will want scans of my photo ID and a picture of me holding the ID next to my face with a timestamp."

Is this a bad think? F2P games are more lottery than video games. There would be statistics how many kids play it. In the best case scenario this would result in regulation of those practices.
Agreed. Anything with an app is a liability I want to steer away from.

Not only due to the obvious security, privacy and availability problems, but because the lifetime of apps is very short in the grand scheme of things.

I'll bet there is zero chance a phone app for a solar install today is still going to be working in the 25 year lifetime of that solar panel system.
Ah, Google. It baffles me that some companies even consider using GCP - it is still the same company that kills products and has abysmal customer support. AWS and Azure feel like a safer bet to me. I wonder if Google will ever get their act together, or will they go the IBM way?
Nobody? That's why the word replace is there?
It's a question of how many entities you have to trust. There are many thousands of public networks around the world and millions of people using ISPs which tamper with traffic (especially on mobile networks). With the VPN, you only have to trust the VPN provider; without it, you have to review each network you use and its ISP. That doesn't mean that the VPN is automatically trustworthy, of course, but it's a single entity.
It worked just fine against smoking.
Modal editing in VS Code is not good enough. I still use it for certain things. Just not the bulk of my programming.

When helix is more ready, I will probably switch to it.
I don't blame you for being disappointed in the situation. I would be too.

I've replaced a bunch of various appliances and etc, furnace, hot water heater, washer and etc. All have various internet connectivity options but they're all OPTIONAL. They are there at least from the start as an option for the owner to participate in, in exchange for some level of convince. That seems like a premise I would also expect from a solar panel setup ...
How is that not a game anymore?

It is certainly not a FUN game (cough Apex) when beset by cheaters constantly. I’ll gladly give up anonymity to make the game fun again.
Hippotat (IP over HTTP) – first advertised release
Important to note the relationship between Microsoft and PC OEMs. The same time period that introduced the Windows key (late 90s) was also one in which some (Be Inc.?) accused Microsoft of having anticompetitive practices in their contracts with OEMs, such as charging for Windows licenses even if a machine was not pre installed with Windows. Forcing adoption of the Windows key seems right in line with that.

I remember Linux advocates being very irritated by the sudden introduction of that key. If you got a PC in 1996, no windows logo on the keyboard. By 1998 they all had it.
A shadowban does not hide comments from the bot account but does hide it from not logged in users. It’s trivial to code a check for.

Shadowbans only work against annoying humans that don’t pay attention.
Thank you for proving my point: the government did that.
I kind of take the best of both worlds. VSCode has a lot of functionality that Neovim lacks, particularly on rendering previews of things like Markdown and Mermaid. Even outside of UI stuff, VSCode's extension ecosystem has so much deeper integration with things (beyond the level of just text/code editing, I mean). The VSCode JS Debug Terminal is literally life-changing. No more needing to mess around with debugger configs for runtimes. Literally just run the code and it works.

Despite that, I still often feel limited by the vim binding plugin for VSCode. It's never a problem though, because Cmd+J toggles the terminal visibility, and I escape into Neovim there when I need it.
> forgetting some stuff running beyond the free-tier limit

Weird, they banned my account for that. Tried AWS when it was brand new and assumed they'd just drop the instance when the free tier expired.
being able to DIY a high-wattage inverter would mean that this person already has everything they need to avoid asking this question in the first place,
I’m not talking about autovectorization, but explicit one. Autovectorization simply doesn’t work reliably enough no matter how much compiler time you spend on it, and leaves behind huge performance gains. With C, your best bet is compiler-specific intrinsics, or inline assembly, while java - strangely - has an explicit, cross-architecture Vector API, that can reliably compile down to the architecture’s SIMD instructions.
It must have been brute forced. I used to create aliases on gmail for different services - eg. john+twitter@gmail.com and it happens that alias is targeted by non-twitter mails.

In general in last year or two (wfh? hehe) I realised that I receive more and more spam for email addresses I don't share at all.

I've also created a small email-forwarding service [1] that I and few friends use for public sharing like conferences or sketchy services (of course I don't mean Amazon here ;) )

[1] https://non-public.email
People will adopt a product even if they think it might not last, as long as it's a good deal for them. When MoviePass was offering their too-good-to-be-true plan of $10/month for unlimited movies, the subreddit was full of people talking about how it was too good to last. But they signed up anyway since it was a sweet deal!
The motivation here is surely reducing ad tracking.
That would be fungi.
Good reminder for as much attention some of HN crowd gives to Google being teh ultimate evil, that pretty much every other data handler (ISPs, cable boxes, smart TVs, mobile network operators, etc.) is far worse.
I know people that use VPNs 24/7 just for privacy. I would assume there's many more that use them for the reason you described though. Torrents are less useful than ever, piracy is down in general thanks to streaming services and products having moved to SaaS. From what I can tell, the number of people using VPNs merely for privacy alone is growing and a good sign that people feel that strongly about it.