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> On top of that they have a horrendous site and shopping experience. That people choose to go to amazon is beyond me. Don't you have other options?

Oh boy, be glad you don't have to shop online in Japan. Compared to that Amazon is the pinnacle of user experience.

Recently I wanted to buy an 4090 from a Japanese shop, and I had to go through *six* online shops to buy one. And it's not because it was out of stock, oh no, but because of various bullshit reasons which prevented me from buying one.

Some of the issues that are common in Japanese e-commerce (I've experienced all of these myself, and I don't shop much):

- A lot of shops don't accept debit/credit cards.

- Shops that accept a debit/credit card often will accept your order, reserve the money (so it's not a technical limitation), but the very next day cancel your order with a message "sorry, your card was issued overseas; your order is now cancelled, try again with a Japanese issued card"

- Shops that require you to verify through your phone to make an account (which is required to buy anything). You give them your phone, and they *call* you. You then have to pick it up, the call disconnects, then they send you an SMS with a code, which you type into the website to register the account. If you miss the initial automated call you have to wait 15 minutes.

- You get automatically subscribed to a spammy newsletter (up to THREE EMAILS A DAY) once you register an account.

- There's no "unsubscibe" link in the spammy newsletter emails.

- You need to fill out a form to unsubscribe from it, and it's not automatic.

- Even if you fill out a form it might not unsubscribe you anyway. (It's possible they're doing the unsubscribing manually.)

- If you delete an account the spammy newsletter still keeps on coming, but now there's no way to unsubscribe from it.

- If the name on your account doesn't exactly match the name on your card they won't accept it (because the name on the card includes your middle name, and that's too long to even type it into the form on the site).

- Cancelling an order doesn't actually unreserve/unblock the money they reserved, so if you tried to buy something expensive (say, an 4090 for $2000) and your order got cancelled then you need to wait for a month before that money is automatically unblocked and you can actually use it again. (Although I'm sure you could probably call the CC company's support to get it fixed on your side.)

So, no, even though I really don't want to give any extra money to Bezos the thing is that shopping through Amazon just works. I click on the item I want, I click order, and that's it. I get charged and a day or two later it comes to my doorstep. No bullshit.
One of my favourite Go security features is the single binary output, it means I can build my binaries into a distroless base image container for running in K8S. It removes a huge attack and vulnerability surface that containers introduce.

My team uses Go whereas the rest of the company heavily uses Python. Our vulnerability scanner tool detects hundreds of high score CVEs just in their container images. Comparably there have been times I haven’t updated our distroless base image for a year and there isn’t even a single vulnerability (this one: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/main...)

In terms of defending your software supply chain, eliminating the cruft that is required to run an interpreted language in a container make a a huge difference.
My tip is to ask chatGPT about things you might ask a senior dev or mentor and see what comes out. Questions about your stack, about specific problems, libraries, npm packages, algorithms, etc. Don't just assume everything it says is correct or the best option, but it can't hurt to ask.
> Everyone assumes you’re just a regular person who opts to perform poorly.

Man isn't that the truth. I can't begin to count the amount of times I've been accused of being lazy, or the times I've been told I could amount to more if I just applied myself.

Getting a diagnosis is amazing, not because it gives me access to drugs -- I don't use any -- but because it allows me to stop blaming myself for the ADHD symptoms.
Unexpected Clouds Toward the Andromeda Galaxy
During my time, this principle was followed. With one small exception: Amazon Marketplace. There everybody was extremely hands-off, at best the marketplace sellers were considered Amazon's customers, not the people buying through the marketplace. That being said, if sellers used FBA, things like returns and so on followed the same rules like Amazon's own business. I didn't really agree with that approach, but it does seem to work out quite well for Amazon so far...
HEPA and carbon filters do wonders for cooking smells, particulates etc, but unfortunately do nothing for the main reason you want air exchange with outside, which is CO2 buildup.
> engineers design cars they don't have to work on or repair, and will never drive.

Because that's what they're told to do. Very few engineers revel in making worse products for business reasons.
It's not a helpful sounding excuse. The media blew up that narrative because people felt their phone become slower over time for various reasons, but the reasons your phone would slow down would be a combination of several other factors:

1) Device might get slower due to having more stuff on it (larger indexes, less space, etc)
2) Battery degradation causing throttling of CPU
3) New OS requiring more computing power to run new features making your old phone feel slower.

Saying Apple intentionally slowed down older devices is disingenuous. Yes they did slow down old devices, but only because old devices were more likely to be devices with degraded batteries. What is a fair criticism is that Apple didn't communicate to customers that simply replacing the batteries could fix the issue, or maybe deleting some stuff from your phone.
Try to sign up for a real vacation asap

Two weeks out 6 weeks whatever you can swing

Take it

Relax

Interview if you feel like it

You're in a bad spot

Def do not quit if you are not dying

Hiring companies love to torture the jobless

Whereas they know they only have very limited runway w a jobbed applicant

Look for a 4 day work week

Consider contracting for a quick hire

Know the hiring process before you spend any real time else you could really screw yourself like spend 20 hours then bail
> they never expect things like file reads to fail.

They not only expect file reads to fail, they also expect stack overflows, out of memory etc etc. and a lot more. They also know that, more often than not, the place where something fails is not the place where you have enough information to recover properly.
Could simply be that Amazon is just very generous about refunds, so either way the customer is happy. Someone gets something they think is a bargain. Others get prompt refunds.

Politics has certainly shown that honesty isn't really related to trust.
AliExpress recently introduced 15 day shipping. You instantly get your money back shouldn't it arrive. Support and mediation being way faster and more customer oriented anyway.

No idea why people use Amazon to buy china trash, when they could buy the trash themself at at least half the price.
Buy it, measure capacity, and return it. If they don't make you ship it back you get a free power bank.
Those Chinese sellers will DDoS any investigation.

It only costs a few bucks to register as a seller, they bulk register thousands of sellers under different names. They will exploit any loophole under environment filter pressure.
Amazon is a company focused on efficiency, to the point of being cut-throat, sure. But do you have anything to back your claim? Because as far as I can tell, this is simply not true.
And assuming bugs exist, you can get inconsistencies everywhere, so I fail to see the point of this message.
I could imagine a subreddit for this, similar to the investor groups. Target 1 fake product each week. Would it make a dent?
China’s population falls for first time in more than 60 years
Me: this task is big, I’m not at all sure whether it’ll take a week or two, let’s better subdivide it into subtasks and estimate each one in turn

This guy: I am pretty sure I can get done in ~5 years

Seriously, though, fingers crossed! I no longer use CL professionally, but it will always have a dedicated spot in my heart. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this.
Trademark, FCC and other safety regulations etc
> On the other hand, a lot more people have access to the messaging traffic and can bring scripts to bear on it at scale.

Actually, I disagree here.
I would really hope the US has some consumer protection laws. If it doesn't, they should address that.

Are these fake items also accessible from the EU? I'd expect the EU wouldn't take kindly to these sort of scams.
If you speak french: https://symfunc.com
> For instance old wood double hung sash windows require a weight box to work. Those boxes can’t really be insulated.

In Denmark, this was solved by adding a second, modern window on the inside. The outside kept the same look, and it is even more insulating than a single modern window. Is it a bit clunky to have to open two windows ? Sure. But it is better than not having insulated windows, or ruining the appearance of cities.
> HTML is for structure and CSS is for presentation

These really arent decoupled.
You did not have to go as far as USA to see that. Trip to western Berlin would be enough. Countries that got under USA sphere of influence had it much better. They got lots of money with Marshall's plan to rebuild economies after war.

So even if they would knew there is a better life it was all decided at Jalta and they were most likely not able to do anything about it without straight out starting new war against Soviets running things in the east. Unfortunately scratching out a living was their destiny.
Some notes:

> But the sub $100 brands claim to be M.2 SSD, one of the most expensive and fastest formats out of there.

Well, no, M.2 is nothing special, it's a physical format and the SSD can be cheap or fast and speed usually will correlate.

Also, when Amazon actually bothered to crack down on some companies which operate with fake reviews then they have thrown out some of the most reliable USB C charger companies and yet left all the fake Chinese crap. Aukey, for example. Dell sells them, Amazon Japan sells them but Amazon USA has banned them, what madness. And to see how customers "benefit" from this: to this day there's no lighter weight 100W charger than the Aukey PA-B5 and it's like three years old.
Would be interesting if they did the same thing for their own operation. „We collect all data that we can about you, so that we can become a mega corp that can control most of your life.“ Wonder why they don’t do it?
> Every computer I've used supports NTFS in its UEFI. I even thought it was standard.

I've never seen a motherboard supporting anything else than FAT for an UEFI partition. What is likely happening is that you're booting using a small EFI System Partition (ESP) formatted in FAT32 which contains a bootloader with an NTFS driver.

It can get confusing because the EFI bootloader generally registers new boot entries for each non-ESP partition, but these are booting the ESP with the selected partition GUID.
Switzerland here, we do. Ours even takes crypto as payment for like 6 years now and next day delivery is the standard.

They also have actual support. Something that Amazon missed the boat on long ago
Lost me at cars. Cars used to be horrible. They’ve never been better.
So… stop using it?
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A funny thing I noticed when googling whether melamine was microwave-safe: I got a lot of clickbaity articles from sketchy sites. Some said melamine is microwave safe, some said it is not, and some seemed to contradict each other.

An Asimov story called "Liar!" concerns a robot which has the ability to read minds. When asked to tell what's going on in another person's mind (does so-and-so have a crush on me? is my boss planning to give me a promotion?) the robot, following its First Law directive not to allow humans to come to harm (including emotional harm), tells the querent what they would like to hear based on the robot's reading of the querent's mind, instead of the truth because the truth can hurt. When the robot is shown that its actions hurt humans anyway, it promptly shuts down and refuses to function.

These language models seem like that robot. The articles on melamine suggest to me that the AIs which generated them are producing output that their statistical models suggest the querent wants to hear, rather than output with correct answers. In light of this, it seems that using these models for assistance in coding would be like having an obsequious but shitty coworker, whose output you must carefully review and vet because even money it's not a solution to your problem, just a guess at what you want to see based on a vast statistical soup built up of thousands of programmers' efforts on millions of tasks. Which means any effort you saved up now will be paid for with extra effort later, as every programmer knows it's much easier and more fun to wrote new code than to review and debug someone else's code, especially if it's shitty, especially^2 if it's subtly shitty. It really is like Teitelman's DWIM evolved, with correspondingly magnified lossage in its failure modes!
Just hope it's safe, and doesn't overheat and catch on fire.
IANAL but it's fraud, which is a federal crime in the USA.
Do headhunters actually exist?

I've heard they do but figure they are unicorns

I've only been in the industry for thirty years tho
except for the date api... it took me a couple days to understand the silly idiosyncratic magic string to format dates.
The best thing to do is buy a brand-name option for electronics, as you mentioned. Don’t try to cheap out, and you won’t get burned.

microSD? Just buy Sandisk or some other brand with “dispatches from Amazon, sold by Amazon”, and save yourself wasting time worrying about reviews and fake products.
I've switched away from Amazon. Used it since maybe 2006, and loved it back then, but as you say, garbage.

In contrast, most other online stores (the ones I use, selling their own good quality products, not wish/ali) are now a pleasure to use, with fast and very cheap shipping.
Dude, Amazon will refund you for any reason including "I no longer need this product" without charging a restocking fee. All large retailers (Costco, Walmart, Target, etc) are like like this in the US.

Every wondered why Americans roll their eyes when Europeans brag about consumer protection laws?
He misses what (I would guess) is a major source of strong reviews. In numerous products from Amazon, I have received a card offering a refund on the item for a 5* review.
I have a routine for this scenario: open the windows in the morning for 1-2 hours, then close everything and clean the air internally (I have a 24/7 sensor running and know when the air is good or bad).

That seemed like the easiest thing to do without making much more complicated system. Basically risk 1hour of bad air for 23h of "clean" air.
1800s-Era Portraits of Patients from Notorious British Psychiatric Hospital
Would boycotting bananas help or make it worse for people in those countries?
We use OfficeVibe, and I have full employee access. There is absolutely no feature anywhere that shows me who submitted a comment. I could just about hack one together by putting each person into a one-person team, but the user would be able to see that themselves. Sure, we can imagine a conspiracy where my CEO has a special button, but I strongly doubt it.

That said, it's still frequently obvious due to people's writing styles, the nature of their complaints, timing.
You chose the worst place to get your numbers. Try browsing avito and see if any of the 10000 rub/month flats in city center are available. The numbers are there only to attract you.

But for the record none of the .ru links you gave work for me currently. Does hh even host a representative amount of jobs for cleaning staff, shop salesperson, cooks and other jobs many regular people have? How many people don't have the chance to work for good clean money and get by with gigs or grey salaries? Consider that, double monthly food expense and it may be not 50 percent but not too far. It may be hard to grasp if you happen to be in a muscovite software engineer bubble.
Pretty much any site local to your country. Amazons search is broken, finding anything is a major hassle and many of the search results are in fact ads. Checkout is horrible, Amazon cannot, or will not, give you the actual price until the very last page on the checkout flow. Shipping costs are horrendous, often shipping 30 - 50% of the actual cost. Random items cannot be shipped, for some reason you might be able to have a shirt shipped if you pick "small" or "XL", but not not "Medium" or "Large". But you can't tell the site to ignore any items that you can't buy anyway, so filtering is a manual process. Which reminds me, why does Amazon even pretend to have filters, they don't work.

The only reason to shop at Amazon anymore is selection. There are a ton of products and books I cannot buy locally. Amazon is often the only company that will sell and ship to Denmark.
AliExpress:
- better search
- delivery time suggestions usually match
- way better customer support
- No questions asked money back if the item is poor or delivery to slow
- Not believing you buy a eco brand product when you actually just buy a rebrand from China anyway.

The reality is 90% of the shit on Amazon is straight out of China. There is no reason other than lazyness to not import it yourself.
I’ve done more for climate change than that commenter above ever will and I’m in favor of any type of climate protest that they can do. Fuck up some art, who cares? We’ll all be fucked of we don’t change course soon, and some old fucker’s painting isn’t going to help us.
While you may be right, I can tell you from experience that what seems simple can sometimes be embarrassingly complicated at Amazon. I previously worked there and my team once spent 2 months adding a new option in a dropdown box. This was on one of the seller-facing pages.

There are parts of Amazon that have a ton of legacy code and ownership between those systems can be a real mess.
>No idea why people use Amazon to buy china trash

No idea why people buy trash at all.
Also I've no idea how are people unable to browse, filter products and read "sold by" information.
I personally don't buy anything that's not "sold by Amazon" or at least "fulfilled by Amazon". If such product doesn't exist there I go elsewhere.
Simple
I think there's something in-between though.

I have been sick for 1.5 weeks (which is an extreme time for me by itself), afterwards I did not feel quite normal and got right back to being sick just after a few days, progressively getting worse. After another 1.5 weeks, I almost felt normal, only super-tired, I got to rest all day, only to wake up in the night feeling sick again. Another 5 days went by, to get back to the point where I feel tired but not sick and again, I went back to feeling generally unwell, although it may be better than the last time. It goes for 4 weeks now.

Most recently, I woke up, felt sick right there in the morning, feeling like I should rest rather than work but with great mental exertion I overrode it and carried a full day, with little to no rest, every minute pushing against that feeling and doing some light exercise too. At the end of the day, I felt like I did not sleep the entire night and as I went to sleep, I slept like a stone. The day after I got that tiredness feeling without feeling sick I wrote about earlier - which felt like progress.

I don't have extreme tiredness like you describe, but something is clearly wrong and it cut my weekly work capacity by half. I never had something like. I also have been hearing about friends of friends also feeling unwell for 1 month or 2 months.
You also need to verify anyone who joins the group. Allow strangers to join and the encryption doesn't do anything. Might as well use a private group on Signal at that point.
Is it the current traffic stats for this submission? Am I understanding correctly?
1940s Philco radio sings again with new Raspberry Pi heart
The best article I saw about this was from the Hakai institute. I found it very interesting and engaging, like their article about the Fraser river flooding last year. The 360 imagery, and slider comparisons do a good job to help understand the scale of the slide. Worth the time to read it.
https://hakai.org/the-big-slide/

If you wanted to watch 50 mintues of helicopter flight over the debris, they posted one here: https://hakai.org/bute-inlet-landslide-the-extended-cut/

It looks like some researchers may have gotten lucky with the timing of this: https://twitter.com/bedform/status/1338989245487321091

And the slide cooled the inlet below it: https://hakaimagazine.com/news/massive-landslide-cools-fjord...
I would like to...but when I want to buy some random product and the first thing I need to do is find a store that sells it, and then I add the product to my cart on that store and check out, and then it shows me a shipping price that's MORE than the product I'm buying, and takes 10 days to deliver...I end up heading back to Amazon. :(
Thing is in all places I know that have competition Amazon is basically irrelevant because it's such a poor choice comparingly.

Like all of Asia, Switzerland, Netherlands apparently.
Same here, been a user from the beginning, but switched away as I was only getting used hardware (in Germany) when ordering and being sold new Amazon hardware.
The unified memory on the Apple M1 Macs which go up to 64G is really quite intriguing. I managed to create a model taking 32G using PyTorch the other day and it was able to handle it using native GPU acceleration. This is larger than any other GPU memory I have access to. Curious if this actually makes such machines an interesting target for ML developers? or not.
Expecting a large group of customers to test these things thoroughly enough to discover how fake they are is unreasonable. With blatantly intentional fakes like these, a single one should be enough to indict and imprison the seller and fine Amazon.
There are even more implementations of live queries available by now. e.g. https://github.com/samsarahq/thunder (go) or https://github.com/n1ru4l/graphql-live-query (JavaScript).
yes, mostly to show how quickly bots hit all HN submitted links
So while 1899 technically ends on a cliffhanger, it works perfectly well as an open-ended story. I'd still recommend watching it.
I've written several hundred thousands of lines of Go at this point, and the error handling mechanics have never bothered me. There are two things that bother me about errors; error messages that don't capture enough detail to reproduce the situation (user ids, for loop iterator, etc.; you don't get these in stack traces either), and people that discard one error to return another one (i.e. a blind defer x.Close()). With go 1.20, I have one less concern. If that makes you mad, I feel like these people that smugly reply "touch grass" are on to something.
Blah blah blah.

I have a machine on my desktop that composes lyrics in the style of any artist living or dead. There are maybe a few hundred people alive who can do better. There is certainly no-one I know that can do even remotely as good.

It is a miracle.

It is the pinnacle of a hundred years of AI and IT research.

It deserves respect not ridicule.
Are you willing to spend several hundred dollars buying hard drives hoping to someday get it back? Then will you spend the time testing them, refunding them, and making a bad review? And how many new scammers can pop up over the time it takes you to ruin one scammers ratings?
I returned a laptop battery that didn't match the description recently and I'm not happy. I don't have what I wanted to buy, I maybe already got back my money (didn't check yet), I lost time to fill forms, print a label, etc. I have to spend time again to find another battery and hope for the best.