skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> basically anyone with an Amazon account ... Amazon supposedly is cracking down on this but I have yet to see any meaningful evidence of any real enforcement.

Amazon has "Amazon Invoice Verification" for sellers selling large quantities of merchandise. But I personally do not want Amazon trying to check if Mr. Doe just wants to sell a couple extra tubes of deodorant he bought by mistake.

Can that be abused by thieves? Sure, but not everything is fixable.
Those are certainly real problems, and I'm not a cell biologist, but I'm not convinced these problems are insurmountable.

For instance, it might be possible to use ECC to get around transcription errors. It could also perhaps be ensured that any rogue "clinical biocomputer" could be easily treated with antibiotics or specifically engineered bacteriophage virus.

Like I said, the technology is very far off from having real world applications like this. At the moment it feels like we're in the analogue of the 40s and 50s for conventional computing. The field is still just inventing the very basic building blocks. It's going to be very limited in use, wildly dangerous(look up mercury delay lines) and unreliable for decades to come.
You're just lying with extra steps.

The definition of an MSA is basically the "economic gravity well" of an urban areas. This is casually obvious just by looking at the nice green map they give you on that page.

If you think some guy 2hr northwest of Bangor or 3hr out of Vegas into the Nevada desert is in an urban area I'll sell you some beach front property in Arizona.
Absolutely not! I can't think of any major economy that is more of a hell-hole than the USA. That applies over so much of the major features of the place: extreme politics, gun violence, "justice" system, policing, prison system, healthcare, gerrymandered elections, racism - loads of stuff where the problems may exist elsewhere (including the UK), but to nowhere near the same extent. The UK may have some problems, but it's nothing we haven't been through before.
Yes that's the term "learned helplessness".

I am curious: what made you able to leverage the US education system? Was there a relative that influenced you to study? A teacher? Were you a part of a community program? What do you think got you out of the cycle?
Ask HN: What are courses are you planning to buy for Black Friday?
Any good recommendations for developers?
It predates my lifetime but it’s been really fun to learn about how stuff used to work. (Which I guess is some form of nostalgia)

There’s a bit of a boom in retro computing in general right now. Many independent makers doing hardware and software with cool blogs or YouTube channels.
It sounds like somberi is bringing home the point that they went really far out of their way to a very different culture to work hard and make a way for themselves and try to beat the odds? Isn't that the very idea of America?
I don't like having to watch a pot to make sure it doesn't boil over. Also I was drunk so I just hit start and let it do it's thing
You would be surprised: At the 6-month followup in Pfizer's trials, there were more dead in the vaccine group than the control group. It was very low, like 18 vs 15 IIRC in 40,000 who had been given the shot, but it's still enough to question the official claims.

That said they also lost track of or dropped 500-1000 people from that 40,000 sample.
Oh you know what is at every single garage sale and flea market? George Foreman grills. Those must have been a real bust!

I finally found a second-hand air fryer, but they do seem scarce so far.
I read this as a joke. Touché, you've scored a point on the public defender meme account.

In case someone reads this as sincere:

This type of cognitive dissonance is neither necessary nor allowed for a public defender. In the first instance the day-to-day reality of unjust governmental administration is so insane that, not only would nobody from outside believe it, but it becomes counterproductive to engage in rationalization fantasies like the parent describes. I don't need to concoct a reason to feel sorry for my client--there are too many obvious real ones. I also don't need to feel sorry for every client to do my job well.

In the second instance, I am actually confronted by evidence all the time in a high-stakes adversarial environment. My client is going to jail for stealing diapers. If he makes up a story that he's not reselling them on ebay and I believe that story, I'd better be sure that I'm not going to get some PayPal statements in discovery the night before trial.
You don’t understand, tomorrow everyone is going to move to Mastodon and Elon Musk will have to declare bankruptcy.
@renewiltord Are you saying there is a
"someone else has my address" flow for exactly this scenario? I didn't see anything remotely resembling it. Let me check again.

Not an issue. Thank you for your response.
You have to sue them. If nobody sues them, then they will simply keep doing it.
thanks for playing! glad you like it
Ask HN: Where are the standalone ActivityPub clients?
How exactly do you plan to do with without also blocking a regular person from doing price arbitrage? Or selling extra items they have in the house?

There's tons of stuff on Amazon that goes for more than retail, and people buy it for the delivery convenience. And there's nothing wrong with that.
You delegate and subdivide. I get a gang together and each person steals $50 at a time, no more; if they get caught they get let go or it’s very minor.

You collect the materials and farm them off to Amazon.
The rebuttal was explaining the trend that does exist.
Pulled from @dang’s profile:

> Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
A reduction in telomere length from 50 years to 40 years makes no sense. Telomeres get shorter with age. A good anti-aging therapy would increase telomere length...
The analogy extends pretty well in America if you just make it about cars.
It's also nice for reheating leftovers since they get nice and crispy.
i think right now the protocol and the people who run popular mastodon instances are being treated as the same thing - mastodon.social and various affiliated servers are trying to build a community based around a certain set of values and type of content, and feeding all of tumblr into that might cause some drama.

it's unquestionably good for the protocol to have more people using it. but it might not be good for mastodon.
Sri Lanka, now Ghana. The US Dollar is going to be a wreaking ball across a bunch of economies.
Some societies do better than others at stopping crime too. Can we set our bar to match Singapore in that respect?
As with most things it's not that black and white. Ngāi Tahu are actually the biggest polluters of the water supply where I live as they cut down acres of forest to create massive dairy farms. The creator of this software picked a really great name since it actually promotes NZ conservation. I've donated my time and money to plant native species in NZ and I find your position ridiculous. Does everyone need to run their language past some woke authority now to make sure it doesn't offend some guys on the internet? If you want to help out with conservation why don't you spend your time volunteering for one of the many tree planting charities?
Great project! Would be interesting to see tie breaker information too. For example, Uruguay and South Korea tied 0-0 but Uruguay is listed 2nd in Group H ahead of South Korea. Maybe because Uruguay had 1 yellow card and South Korea had 2?
> Also: Being tracked while on someone’s property isn’t exactly the same as tracking someone across unrelated properties.

Do you consider Apple-made devices property of their buyers or do they forever remain property of Apple?
my coworker is from turkey. wears a hijab. or did until very recently, interestingly enough. nice woman. very smart. fiesty.
Now you have posted here on HN, I'm curious to know if Googler saw this post and escalated the issue.
I don't think I understand.

This pari-mutuel system (I always knew the system but did not know the name) seems near canonical to me. And the incentives seem clear cut. It seems to me that if you feel the odds for or against any prediction are wrongly calculated, then if you submit money to push those odds towards the correct ratio, then you should, on average, expect a return.

... I maybe should actually run simulations to check that, that's just what my intuition is telling me as to how it would work.

I'm trying to understand what you are proposing and the motivations for it.

By ratio, I assume you mean the ratio of the pool for and the pool against? So if prop A has $100 and prop B has $10, then the ratio would be 110/10, or 11:1. So your procedure would be to add a fixed number to this? Either 112/12 or 13:3? or perhaps you meant Prop A $100/(110/10)+2 and Prop B $10(110/10)+2

So Prop A is ~11.1
Prop B is ~2.9

Am I understanding this right? What do we do with these numbers?
Without the h3 pawn, white could capture at g2 after black moves from f3 to f2.

Edit: Regarding your second point of getting a mate in one, I think you are misunderstanding the goal here. It's to construct a mating sequence that is as long as possible, and which permits no shortcuts (in this case the position has a mate in 2 but no mate in 1). A shorter sequence can always be constructed by taking the end of a longer one, so that's uninteresting.
Alameda traded using insider advanced knowledge of what coins FTX would list and delist. "The scale at which Alameda has been frontrunning FTX listings is "much, much greater" than what we've seen before in crypto"

https://decrypt.co/114708/alameda-research-18-tokens-insider...
The war in Ukraine and Russia, the pandemic, lockdowns, the economic crisis. I mean this era we’re in should be called the Great Methylation.
You need a server to federate your content with other instances. There are no "standalone" installations besides using the web client on your own machine (which I would not recommend).
Usage of bitcoin statistics are available since epoch. Blockchain advocates always seem to forget about the public nature of blockchain when I bring up adoption. Look at a blockchain explorer. It’s all right there.

Your references to the UI/UX nightmare that still is blockchain only further highlight my points.

The surveys are hilarious. Setting up an account on Coinbase with an email address to trade on their internal order book has nothing to do with blockchain. It could just as easily be swapping virtual poker chips on a gambling website. Yet in a survey that counts as “blockchain”.

I generously “plucked” 2017 because that’s what you put forth as a best-case date to start triggering adoption. Yet here we are.

Timeline matters (though not a race) because blockchain is a doomsday preacher - “it’s about to happen” and then it never does.
This is about organized retail bulk theft. Punishing the individual shoplifters is useful. But it's also useful to crack down on secondary markets through which (mostly) stolen goods are shifted.
Signal to noise in the context of discovery of public content is just hard. If you remove discovery, or limit it to curated content you can get around it. Haven[1] (my project) skips discovery and makes every source for your feed opt-in, but I'd love to see more attempts at curation!

[1]: https://havenweb.org
I agree! I have seen this happen to me years ago when Gmail debuted. But, this used to work - at least for Facebook. So, someone changed something at Facebook I guess - and decided to canonicalize the email. The other mystery of course is how the email set on my OG a/c just disappeared. It does not show up. Anyway, I will see what I can get done through official channels

P.S. I did start off with [Help HN] in the subject; but for some reason that was auto removed by HN. So `[Help HN] text` became just `text`. I eventually edited the subject to at least put in `Help` there.
If that were actually true someone could hold up a sign in front of CVS or whatever saying "please buy me a stick of deodorant", and I can guarantee you someone will.

They can go to a soup kitchen, or a church, or a food panty and ask for basic necessities.

Americans are very generous, especially conservative ones, who lead the world in charity and generosity. There is no excuse to steal when you can just ask.
It is a valuable activity that Amazon and eBay will ship any product to anyone at a fair price with a minimum of obligatory hoop jumping.

The more pressure they receive from the public and regulators to put a stop to those dastardly shoplifters, the more room Nike has to stop people from selling Nike shoes without a badge of certification from Nike.
save the data and give it to someone else who can use it?
just keep it anonymous.
>Now everyone you see is an untrusted stranger.

People have been complaining about this since the advent of cities.
It seems you are a fan of closing down urban retail
“If space is made of entanglement, then it emerges out of a fundamentally quantum phenomenon.”

This makes sense to you?
[Cries in European]
I've found these in CVS's near Detroit. I had no idea it was due to people stealing them and reselling on Amazon.
Sounds about right to me.

PlentyOfFish was run by one person for years. Moot ran 4chan with the help of 1 part time engineer. Whatsapp has 55 employees and over 2 billion monthly active users.

I get that Twitter has some unique challenges like handling tweets from celebrities with millions of followers, but there's no reason it needs thousands of employees.
Like Tinder? Why does this matter?
Yes, for some 10 years at least.

You are thinking of denard scaling. Transistors have been shrinking and counts have been increasing.

Anyway, where did you hear Moore's Law ended 30 years ago?

People were saying it was going to end, not that it already ended.
Before I read your book, I thought, "I know all about search!"

After I read it...

"...I knew NOTHING about search."

No book has ever knocked me off my pedestal so brutally and so thoroughly.
I don’t know of any states that have made it near impossible to prosecute shoplifters. What are you referring to?
Myself and many others were privately joking that it seemed like a fake exchange before it went down - because we've been in the space for a long time but don't know a single person that ever used FTX
China’s Zero-Covid Policy and Authoritarian Public Health Control
Thats exactly what my vision is for comments on Haven[1]. Without webmentions, you're just telling your friends/followers what you think which enables private comments/conversations on public content.

[1]:https://havenweb.org
Mushed potatoes
Same. I was lucky to see it on film once, and the theater projected it without masking, so you could see one of its most brilliant touches, that it has two aspect ratios (1.66:1 and 1.33:1) [0] depending on the scene, which enhances the "rewsreel" effect, as if unrelated stock footage were spliced together. i believe the only home video version that faithfully reproduces this is the criterion dvd, done so at kubrick's explicit demand.

The cinematography overall is brilliant, which is a hallmark of his movies of course, the most famous examples maybe being 2001, and Barry Lyndon, in which he used astrophotographical lenses to capture scenes lit only by candlelight.

Gil Taylor, Strangelove's DP, was a wartime aerial photographer for the RAF, and went on to shoot Star Wars. [1] Just so many fascinating levels of unique brilliance went into the creation of that film.

[0] http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f3/t000289.html

[1] https://ascmag.com/articles/wrap-shot-strangelove
I think cars are only a symptom of the real issue, which is that the scale of modern society is just too big for our brains to comprehend or handle. I don't think getting rid of cars would necessarily help one cope with the fact that 99.9999% of people you see are untrusted strangers.
It seems like you are a big fan of judging people on the basis of superficial appearances.
None of that addresses my question. They could still have the software emulate only what a C64 SID can actually do, but allow you to enter notes on either a musical staff or at least a piano roll. Or heck, even a step sequencer. That seems infinitely better than entering hex digits into columns.
You can't get the money out, it all goes to charity. So while you're not betting free money, you are not betting your money either, it is consumed before you bet either way.
I'll remember this if I ever recreate my RSS to five-column-PDF-emailed-to-myself-every-morning setup. I had to do some ungood things to make BBC articles safe for LaTeX back then.
What is the cause of the arrest drop?

Prosecutor policy, police strike, Covid masking and office closures confounding the operation of the law enforcement system, or something else?
Without odds/probabilities this is much less interesting!
They were already invested in Twitter, simply kept their shares after going private.
CTWC is yearly, and is neat, but most of the community and talent is developed at the monthy tournaments called Classic Tetris Monthly. The guy in charge, Vandweller, doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves for fostering the communtiy. If you're curious, here is the twitch. https://m.twitch.tv/monthlytetris They also upload to YouTube under the same name.

CTM is where rolling was first demonstrated. Eric getting to glitched colours happened during CTM. They also had a level 49 line cap (now 39) prior to CTWC this year because they had a full 10 months of tournaments showing the necessity for it. CTWC did not heed their experience, unfortunately. Also the past three champions are frequent winners of CTM. Except Joseph, who used to be a big part of the scene, but he's off to try other things.

Anyways, I recommend CTM over CTWC as a starting point if you're reading this and are curious.
A better way to look at it is how much is immigration of wealthy people propping up the UK economy? If you look at the number of new £1m+ apartments in London (which even if you are a couple of well paid engineers you probably could not get a mortgage for), then it paints a pretty stark picture.
‘Moving Backward’: In Xi’s China, Some See an Era of Total Control
This may seem like a dumb question but why not use a laptop?
I've always been impressed with B&H since they had customer support actively monitoring photo.net in days of old.
> The other problem is resorting to force. If you mandate something to a Texan, you better believe they're resist the hell out of it, even if they know it's in their best interest otherwise. I have several friends that knew it was in their best interest to get the vaccine, but their libertarian values/morals drove them to take a stand against their companies who tried to compel them to take it.

It is immensely satisfying to see people finally, finally saying this on here.

Somewhere around a year ago in one of the covid vaccine posts, the top post was something along the lines of "Fine, I don't care anymore, I'm done trying to help these people" in reference to mandating/coercing people to take the shots. I responded with "And their response will be 'Finally! That's all we've wanted this entire time!'. People on here [HN] don't seem to realize just how much 'these people' value freedom over safety."

My comment did get a lot of upvotes, but the large thread that generated had so many people who just didn't understand the sentiment at all, it was an amazing demonstration of the bubble HN exists in.
Alternatively, humanity could just bore of the entire notion that the internet needs a single, centrally-controlled virtual town square for short-form text broadcasting.
>you still need to live in a society with the guy who just lost his house. The guy that now has nothing to lose

Go too hard the other direction and the the people who have more to lose will risk it all rather than watch it slowly erode.
As stated in another comment, the articles claim makes no sense. More shoplifting = more prosecuting has nothing to do with there having been a change after some event. There could still be a linear relationship between incidents and prosecutions, but a lower line after George Floyd. Specifically, a single cross sectional data point cannot prove anything about a time series or a claim about it.
One of my favorite books in this space is “BioInformatics Data Skills.” It’s just nice concise coverage of a lot of basic tech skills like git, bash, tmux etc. and then coverage of basic bioinformatics skills.

For me coming from a SWE background the computational skills are very easy to pick up especially if you work with bioinformaticians you can ask questions. It’s the genomics knowledge that is very difficult for an engineer to acquire.
This reminds me a lot of OpenID over a decade ago. The idea was anyone could setup their own identity provider on their own domain and login anywhere. Unfortunately it became "login with google/facebook" which is a real shame. I hope sites don't restrict ActivityPub usage to only a few big players.
Look on LinkedIn for a contact who might be working there and ask them for help.
Oh no, inconvenience! Welcome to everyone who needs to buy some rubbing alcohol. You can live with it just fine.
How about instead of Thanksgiving, have Shitgiving?

As in, instead of feeling thankful for what you got (easy for the healthy, fat, and rich), start to give a shit about those who are less fortunate than yourself? Even if they are not the least fortunate, and can have the luxury of lightbulbs...
The Biostar Handbook: Introduction to Bioinformatics
I hope this technology, if successful, doesn’t get stuck in the land of very expensive, exotic cancer therapies. Epstein-Barr virus, for example, is nasty, and if you are over the age of 20 or so you probably have a latent EBV infection. A safe vaccine that could clear an existing EBV infection has the potential to prevent quite a large set of nasty conditions, cancer and otherwise. Think of it as something like the shingles vaccine, but a bigger deal.

It with also be interesting to see if the technologies used could lead to dramatically better vaccines for ordinary acute conditions. There is some evidence that people with pre-existing cellular immunity to intercellular antigens expressed very early in the lifecycle of a Covid-infected cell confers very strong immunity. The current vaccines don’t provide this sort of immunity, but the cancer vaccines are mostly targeting cellular immunity to intracellular antigens.
It's like HN on Russia lol. No arguments, zero construction, boring.
I think 0 / 0 is more like infinity effective.

That said, dogs and tasmanian devils do have transmissible cancers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698198/
Neither is ethical, because the company has the option to reduce customer costs while increasing margins, and they are doing the opposite. This is especially true for monopolies.

But that's actually why, despite my complaints, I'm not worried about Intel's actions here. I don't think Intel is offering good value compared to their competition.

The markets where Intel has wins are niche workloads and consumer (AMD is supply constrained and focusing all efforts on the high margin cloud/enterprise market). Otherwise they are losing, and offering lower value will make them lose faster.

So to summarize, I think it's not only immoral, but a losing strategy.
Having the penalty be a slap on the wrist and having the person is released same day, it’s essentially the same as not prosecuting them. NY state bail reforms, and in San Fran;
“ In 2014, a ballot referendum passed that downgraded the theft of property less than $950 in value from a felony charge to a misdemeanor.”
Most major stores and chains are willing to sell stolen goods.
The government already has a mandate to prosecute crimes. It doesn't have a mandate to interfere with liberty. If they aren't going to do the job they already have why should they be allowed to find another excuse to avoid doing that job?