skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's unfortunate. I've been using Chrome redirector extension and all my Amazon orders were automatically smile-eligible, with Signal Foundation receiving all of it. This was probably the easiest, most hassle-free and cheapest (as in - free) way to support organizations.
> A metric for every preview?

That is not what the original blog post said. They are basing their whole argument on a single event.
"Loneliness is when we are surrounded by people and feel misunderstood by others."
By this definition a prisoner in solitary confinement is not lonely. That seems problematic. The overall argument might still be useful, but I wouldn't call these things definitions, just implications (IF you are surrounded by people and feel misunderstood by others THEN you feel lonely).
To be 100% fair to them they did let me know, and my manager did try and work with me.
I've personally used chrome extension "Smile Always". It automatically converts all amazon links to amazon smile links.

This is sad. I am currently at $417.30 in donations to my local charity. Amazon is in denial if they think this hasnt had an impact.
Amazon actively made choices to prevent purchases from contributing towards Smile donations. You had to type the URL and make the purchase from smile.amazon.com. When they say that the program has not grown to create the impact that they had originally hoped, it is a complete fabrication. It did not grow because they made choices to prevent it.
Yep, i was pretty pissed when they started that
I would assume the recipient would know if they exchanged a good or service to be taxed. Usually family members know they are family members.
Similarly if you write a sudoku solver in prolog, you automatically get a solver AND a problem generator, both for unfilled and partially filled grids.
Making of video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVC4IyRTG8
Past the limit to edit or delete, so a clarification is in order: "Europeans" is too generic and collectivizes blame, which is not my intent and would be unfair. Please read this as edited below. Lesson learned!

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Equal pay for equal work is not a hard concept to understand - it is basic fairness. Deriding advocates of this as "SJW in SF or NY" or "self-anointed do-gooders" indicates a lack of empathy, lack of thought around the broader implications, or in the worst case, capitalistic psychopathy.

Sure, you were able to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". On the other side of the equation, the company paying you a pittance used your capitulation to drive down wages elsewhere, including in its home country. There's a reason why maybe women as a group in this day and age continue to earn only 82 cents on the $ that men make [1]. It is easy for a company to play off the "Nigerian" group of workers willing to accept a pittance against the "Women" group of workers living in a High COL area. Sure, you got your quadruple pay, while some woman here went without money for medicine and died before her time.

Nigerian Low COL today can be attributed to colonialism - European colonialists extracted the multi-generational wealth in that region and left it impoverished within a short period of time, and it takes time to build that wealth back (real rate of return is typically 2-3%) so everything costs less because that's all the people living there can afford to pay for local consumables and durables like, well, food, or housing.

Now the (actual or philosophical) descendants of those European colonialists and colonial companies play off the impoverished Nigerians against the local Women to exploit both groups.

So instead of fighting to correct the structural injustices of either colonialism or labor exploitation, the English-speaking Nigerians 'pulling themselves up by their bootstraps' lobby for the continued abrogation of equal-pay-for-equal-work and deride the people advocating for structural justice in the form of equal-pay-for-equal-work as "social justice warriors in SF or NY" or "self-anointed do-gooders". Bravo!

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/01/gender-pay-ga...
Microsoft blocking accounts that are the source of abuse reports doesn’t necessarily mean Microsoft has investigated for themselves the validity of those abuse reports. At least that’s how I interpret what the op was saying.

I would hope they did investigate too otherwise it’s too easy to DoS a valid customer with fake complaints.
My assumption here is that the replication model described is one leader, multiple replicas - so all writes are applied to the leader and the followers are only used for reads.

This is a pattern commonly used with other databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL which avoids a huge amount of complexity involved in multi-leader setups.
A History With No Name
The lack of boilerplate. Low ceremony.
Just write the code, save the file and run it.

That in itself is a great feature.
> All US charities have received $400,026,236.70 as of December 2022.

$400 million in donations to charities and Amazon has the gall to say "the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped."
I'm a big Rust fan in the sense that it's the language I go to nowadays to write anything serious. But it's quite a lot in terms of bootstrapping.

Whereas this? Just the very basics, fully portable, pretty much any C compiler has you covered.
My understanding is that Boston Dynamics videos are heavily staged, their robots are much less impressive in real life conditions. I saw that in an article many years ago, I don't know the situation today.

But it doesn't mean these videos are fake, the robots are real, the movement is real, no hidden cables, no VFX, they are just following a predefined routine in a controlled environment, and I am not aware of Boston Dynamics claiming otherwise.

I mean just look at the linked video, it is comically obvious that it is staged. And well staged I must say.
Your indentured slavery comment is a classic strawman and doesn't even apply. It's not a voluntary situation that someone signs up for.
I have built 3 spec houses. I don't believe that laws and regulations were excessive. As I have said before on this forum, we don't build log cabins anymore. Houses are very complicated and dependencies and issues are often important and obscure. Regulation is necessary. I believe the issues holding back production of houses is too little suitable land at a reasonable price, the high expense of materials and labor, and inflationary expectations.
Well yes, "metaverse" as a term and concept obviously existed before Facebook co-opted it, and using the original definition even Second Life was the metaverse before the "Meta"verse.

Unfortunately for the author, as far as most of the rest of the world is concerned, "metaverse" is a word Facebook invented. They own the term and they control what it means in much of the public consciousness (Facebook's products and platform.) The definition based on Neal Stephenson's ideas no longer holds any real cultural value.
Musk is/was distracted by the ongoing Twitter fiasco. How a single person can run 3 massive companies simultaneously without things going sideways is beyond me. He needs to decide where his focus is best spent.
I'm honestly surprised smile went on for as long as it did. It always seemed so out of character for Amazon.
Not that it matters to most people, but I'm surprised this didn't break the Dictionary app on my 10-year-old version of OS X (10.9 Mavericks). Wikipedia inside the Dictionary app looks basically identical to how it did a week ago, even though aiui it's basically just rendering the Wikipedia page (in a now terribly outdated browser engine) with some custom CSS. I wonder why it's still working.
Any possibility of there being a self hosted purchase option?
The video makes very clear that this is a very 'staged' setup. The motions aren't fully choreographed - the robot does seem to have a little autonomy for things like balance - but the majority of the moves have been planned out by engineers.

I bet if you tried to replay this with the toolbag a few lbs either heavier or lighter, it would fail.
Very nice corporate speak for “our financials look bad for 2023, so we’re canceling program that’s eating our margins”.
Microsoft to Layoff 10k Employees
It's the opposite of my life: someone stole my hundreds of vinyl records, and now I own a car. (The two are not related except insofar as my priorities have grown more responsible over the years.)
Is file copying speed crucial enough to be worth paying for?

This is just my opinion so it may not be worth noting, but I would personally not pay for anything to speed up file transfers when I can use free software that can create multiple TCP connections for batch file transfers to overcome the round-trip-time and/or slow registry options in Windows.

I would first tune the windows registry to match the expected usage of the network with The SpeedGuide TCP Optimizer [1] This appears to work on Windows 11 even though they do not state it. Then I would just install Cygwin or the Windows Subsystem for Linux and then use the lftp client to do many SFTP threads. The lftp client can even split one massive file into multiple threads. For HTTPS there are download managers like DownThemAll that can speed up downloads provided the website supports Range headers.

[1] - https://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
Totally agree regarding the UK, I was mostly trying to understand where the belief in the "lockstep decline" of the other countries (Germany, France, ...) comes from.
>I'd watched bits of it but this confirms that the process involves choreographing every little detail.

Actually if you watch it all you'll see it's not fully scripted. Much of the routine is task based, letting the robot figure out how to do it. Wtch part where they basically say "Go pick up the bag to your left" and it locates, moves to it, and figures out visually how to pick it up. More and more of these routines are goal based, unlike the early Spot dances which were purely coded moves.
US resident visiting the EU at the moment. It’s indeed enjoyable to be in the highly-regulated EU in many ways. I think it makes their typical crowded city more practically livable than the equivalent in the US.

But I also like being back in the states where the government doesn’t seem to meddle with daily life quite as much.

Collectively, the EU is probably better, especially in crowded cities. Individually, it’s not so clear.
Non-Lazy people want to get things done and lazy people slow things down and impact non-lazy people’s ability to get things done.
"Amazon shutters unprofitable philanthropic program."

I particularly like that the email I got addresses me (despite the many tens of thousands of dollars I've spent through Amazon over the past two decades) as lower-case "customer." My default position on the various AWS keynotes about the power of data / personalization is "you first, buddy."
I don't have the affliction (yet) but between the new cabinet and the 9 crates of records, my studio apartment is already feeling a bit on the cramped side ;-)
That’s true, method_missing is both much more common and much worse
Sounds like a PC LOAD LETTER issue.
The fun part of Amazon Smile was that it let customers decide how they wanted to change the world…but now they’ve decided they - Amazon - know better, thank you very much.

This is surprisingly honest for corporatespeak and I think reflects the god-complex which tends to follow people who spend a lot of time taking in billions of dollars.

The reality is there were a lot of charities - maybe even most of them - who were getting donations which were completely incongruent with Amazon’s moral sensibilities.

There’s no law saying they have to let customers pick, and this isn’t worth “outrage”, but I think it’s behavior which signals a lot about the way Amazon’s top leadership has shifted.
I'm sad, but unsurprised to see Amazon Smile go. Retail isn't exactly high margin to begin with, and Amazon has made a specialty of squeezing what margin remained. As Jeff Bezos said, "Your margin is my opportunity." So, when Amazon announced Smile, I was very surprised that they weren't adding a surcharge for the donation, but rather where making the donation out of whatever margin they earned on the product.

I guess with the current economic downturn, Amazon has decided that there is insufficient margin to continue taking a cut out and donating it to charity.
Sometimes a pattern of an individual's learning beliefs about X ends up something like this path over time:

1. X? I don't know anything about X.

2. X is TRUE.

3. X is FALSE!!! (How silly to think it was TRUE! I'm on a higher plane of existence now!)

4. X is generally TRUE, but with caveats Y and Z.

5. X seems less relevant than P, Q, and R.

6. Better understanding of P, R, T, and V. But Q doesn't seem as important as it used to.

At each step of understanding evolution, someone at an earlier step of belief evolution probably seems less enlightened.

And someone at a later step, along the same path, might also seem less enlightened. (Unless you have an opportunity to understand their thinking, and choose to take it, and are able to understand it.)
tangential but the size of 4090 seems to be a mistake and hindering usecases like this. I believe NVIDIA changed to the samsung process a bit late and it produces less heat, but they have communicated to OEMs about the cooling requirements so nobody wants to redesign their card. I expect some aftermarket brands to create "slimmer" 4090 coolers to enable aircooled dense 4090 workstations.
Link to the abstract page for the PDF-allergic:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3571230
One million eligible recipients around the world, according to Amazon, so $400 per recipient over the decade the program has existed.
Watchig this making of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVC4IyRTG8

You may find it's less staged than expected. (though obviously a lot still is as they progress at goal solving). This is very unlike the purely scripted early Spot dances.
What the actual f*** did I hear? Alan Turing's mind revived by AI, talking to AI
Maybe related, I had a few emails by alleged security researches, linking to standard tools, often even misinterpreting the results or maybe just too lazy to have a real look at them. Maybe, "security research" has just entered the "script-kiddy" age at a larger scale?

The list provided in this comment [0] looks much like it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435222
Very cool - something I don't expect to need very often but likely critical when I do. I can't help but feel there was a missed opportunity to name it 'unpackman'
Good luck with eating lettuce fertilized with pig/human manure. There is a reason we have health codes. It is the same reason why people in the middle ages boiled all thier food, never ever eating "fresh" vegitables. And if anyone is worried about antibiotics in meat, have a look at how many different drugs are found in human poop. There are a thousand little ancient diseases out there that we in the west have largely forgotten about. Start pooping near where we grow food and they will all start comming back.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-ed...
It's getting harder to get a web-searchable answer, because in countries like Kenya 'good' jobs like this aren't publicly advertised. Yes, really - not publicized!

Fact: a lot of jobs (in Kenya, at least) from corporations and international NGOs, come with a deadline to submit your application - yet, the job isn't posted anywhere until 1-2 weeks before the deadline, AND then only on the company's website!

Kenya has private job posting sites that obviously crawl the company's pages for listing updates; and this helps to at least get the jobs publicized. But none of these sites have the sophisticated scraping systems like i.e. Indeed.com

For "social enterprises" work, it's all made worse because of the bad press and lawsuits that Sama/Samasource -YET AGAIN- and similar companies have been getting into within the last year, re: https://www.wired.com/story/social-enterprise-technology-afr...

These Companies have now stopped (i.e. hidden, temporarily) their listings for "content moderators" and "image labelers".

I guess the only way Kenyans are going to find about these jobs are through some connection with current employees; informal sources like Whatsapp groups; or Sama's recruiters sourcing exclusively within the country, so as to not put more international spotlight on their company.
Amazon treats their engineers so poorly that they have to set up training pipelines directly into middle schools. Maybe they think they can make them drink the kool-aid before they grow their critical thinking skills.
maybe it was inspiration for it. time period lines up.

Edit: just watched this. Boy, is Clark going to be pissed!!!
Exactly what is "less ideal" about it? SQLite has distinct advantages over n-tier databases: it's embedded, so you're not round-tripping to the network for fetches, which makes simple query patterns that are untenable for things like Postgres reasonable for SQLite. It's also, of course, faster (about as fast as you can possibly get) for some access patterns.
$13,000 USD in 1980 isn’t adjusted for inflation.

And if you’ve ever lived in Vietnam you’d realize the comparison doesn’t make sense.

Vietnam is still very poor today. Netherlands in the 1980’s was a developed nation.
On the other hand, anecdotally, I had trouble getting companies to even invite me to an interview until I "amped up" my credentials on resume. It have landed me three jobs I was well suited for (in different industries). Otherwise my honest to god résumé left me not even with an opportunity.
One can be known and loved by others, but lonely, marooned & castaway on an island. Alone by definition is just "all one" - no others, which is not #1. One would be better off consulting a dictionary before going on a definition tangent.
Thurston was very active on mathoverflow snd a lovely character. His answer on "What's a mathematitian to do?" [1] is fairly famous by now. It's been already on HN a couple of times [2]

His geometrization conjecture is at the backbone of Perelman's proof of Poincaré hypothesis.

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematici...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23461983
For years and years I've used `dtrx` ("do the right extraction") (https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx/). Maybe I should switch to unblob?

It looks like unblob has the right behavior by default that I have to alias for `dtrx`:

alias dtrx='dtrx --one=inside'

But I'll probably want to create an alias for unblob to change default depth to 1.
Something similar happened to me - I had a car stolen (a block from the Fremont, CA police department, no less), and when it was found a month later it was full of stolen goods. I found bolt cutters, several garage door/gate openers, an LA sheriff gun holster, a gold ring, gloves, a car jack... lots of supplies that one would use to steal things with. And the police told me to keep it all and do whatever I wanted with it!
Taking something that doesn't belong to you and selling it is theft and sale of stolen property no matter how much you dislike the theoretical person you invented for this comment.
Good question!

I'm not sure.

I hope I'm curious enough that my knowledge doesn't atrophy and that I care more about the quality of my work than it might sound when I talk about it on HN.
And yet there are many, many people serving a decade or more in prison for possession of less.

There is no case to avoid drug law reform, disagree on the nature of what is required but /something/ needs doing. This bullshit where there is nothing like the rule of law and equality before it has to go. It's a cancer that eats away at society and however bad you think it is, it's actually a lot worse.
Or even worse "A Display Processor": http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland... . At some point the GPU becomes too important for graphics, and gets a specialized sub-processor.
Somehow being coerced to work long hours had been conflated with choosing to work long hours.

Some people really enjoy working. I know, it's hard to believe :)
I've been experiencing exactly the same thing over a number of sites for the last few days too, with exactly the same user agent in this post. The annoying part is that it is not really 'spidering' web sites, but rather continuously hammering a list of non-existent pages which appear to be from a years-old version of the site.

Generating 404 responses puts a considerable load on WordPress sites and generates a lot of network traffic, but these have been relatively easy to block because of the predictable user agent and URI path prefixes. I'm thinking about blocking the Azure ASN completely, or developing something akin to Cloudflare's "are you a human?" interstitial page when requests come from cloud provider ASNs.
I think the cartridge on my turntable may have already been replaced, but I'm not sure. The previous owner said it was her ex's and that he'd serviced it when he owned it, and the current cartridge is a Grado, which I understand is a reputable brand? I've still obviously got a lot to learn about vinyl haha.
Absolute peak corpo-speak. I think I can translate:

> We don't want to send smaller amounts of money to a huge amount of charities chosen by users, since some users likely chose charities that we do not support. It also doesn't allow us to print out those huge oversized checks for photo ops. We will continue to give a bare pittance out to a small number of organizations selected for peak public relations points while minimizing cost and maximizing tax write-offs and greasing the right palms to advance our business.
Unfortunate. It was a decent source of donations for the schools in my area here in AZ.
More options is better
They have a 'making of' video on their page, and while yes it's a predetermined route, the process of making it work is both fascinating and extremely impressive. The robot is doing some level of thinking on it's own and it processing it's environment by itself. It's very cool.
Specifically, a Macbook Air M2 ranks more or less like a NVidia GTX 970 of 2014.

But... the GTX by itself has a 145W TDP, whereas the whole laptop has a TDP of 20W!

This is super impressive imho, but of course not in the raw power department.
That's the average, sure, but since Amazon allows each customer to pick a charity, I imagine some charities got a lot more, and some a lot less.

According to my account page, I've generated $100.71 for the charity I selected, and, overall, they've received $273.64 as a part of the program. So I guess the charity I selected wasn't all that popular. But I expect other, more mainstream charities, were.
That’s an amazing scene but is it like from the directors cut or something? I’ve seen that movie at least three times and have no memory of it.
More than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless
have a cat? cats love sitting on the top of crate of records. it looks/feels just like that scratching pad you so desperately want them to use. they also love the height of having a couple of them stacked on top of each other. at least, mine do. i just so happened to have a bit of wood left over from a project that is 95% the width of the crates that i place on top. now, it is the perfect cat ledge, but now the stylus is the only sharp pointy thing that comes in contact with them.
Professional Growth
One of my favorite things about AmazonSmile is that I got the pick the charities based on what I considered important. Many times charity giving by companies can have different motivations (an example is Microsoft "donating" Windows and Office to schools so that that is what kids grow up more comfortable with).

By being able to choose who go the donations, it felt empowering and less likely the company was using charity to pursue secondary interests.
Well, we may still worry about green computing. 50K requests/day per site isn't nothing, just for scans. Is does sum up considerably.
Why diets don’t work, according to a researcher who has studied them for decades