skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[..] Web SQL Database was a prior API developed by Apple.[12] But Firefox refused to add support for it and argued against it becoming a standard because it would codify the quirks of SQLite.[13][14] It was thus deprecated in favor of IndexedDB.[..]

Mozilla again.. The real joke is, Firefox is now the only(?) browser using sqlite out-of-the-box for internal databases.
They should do that, but also, a diaper is one of those products that shouldn't even be returnable to begin with.
At least in the country where I currently live, almost nothing is as highly regulated as the field of education. Also, teachers have a _very_ lobby.

To get an AI-based program adopted would be an uphill battle against all forces. Almost Herculian, I would argue, and almost guaranteed to not be worth it.
I like the idea of having limited but higher quality interactions.

Another way to encourage this I think is making it a paid service. Filters out anyone just using it to look at pictures or waste time.

I liked the bumble founders idea of having LLMs trained on peoples texts/social-media activity and having them talk to each other and then matching people based on that. Might be a good way to determine that one daily match.
I saw this pop up at some point in my ui. There was no chance I was putting any data into an app that'll be cancelled. It's not giving the app an fair shake, but at this point Google has to re-earn that. They could start with an upfront message saying the minimum time it will be supported and how to export data if/when desired/needed.
The problem is not about just pollution, it’s about their commitment to use their profits to drive the lobbying and bullying anything or anyone that comes across as a threatening to their business. Not just that, they publish “research” which is essentially disinformation campaign against anything. And many more..

Overall, they deserve the hate.
"Amazon removed the review a few hours after Bloomberg published this story."

Disgusting and absolutely par for the course with these big web companies.
So to avoid the risk of someone wardriving your neighborhood and hacking into your camera, it's better to...send all the data to China and trust them to protect it?
This is what happens when customers don't understand the separation between product manufacture and product fulfilment.

This was Amazon's fault (for re-selling a returned product as new) but it was also the reviewer's fault for blaming the manufacturer instead of the fulfiller.

I see it all the time in product reviews. A one-star review because "PRODUCT ARRIVED LATE AND BOX WAS DAMAGED BECAUSE UPS THREW IT OVER MY FENCE!!!" is a totally useless review and doesn't help anyone, except maybe letting the reviewer vent their anger.

Product reviews are not the place for this kind of review, unless the fault is clearly on the manufacturer themselves, or the manufacturer's customer service has been poor.

Interestingly though, Amazon seems to have addressed this problem in their Marketplace seller reviews. If you view the profile of a Marketplace seller you'll see "mini reviews" of the seller themselves. When people rate the seller poorly because of delivery problems, the review is greyed out and a note says "Amazon takes responsibility for the fulfilment of this order". It's been like that for years, and I don't know why they haven't extended the same system to product reviews.

TL;DR the reviewer shouldn't have written a product review about a bad fulfilment experience, but Amazon should improve their website to make the distinction clearer.
I've also received a speaker that was clearly yellowed from years of use inside a smoker's room, it smelled awful too. I'm pretty sure someone pulled a switcheroo scam there.
I'm pretty sure this is the worst website I've visited in a long long time.
Under the current medical system a cure for cancer will mean financial problems for hospital systems, doctors, nurses, and the entire medical establishment.
Punishing major corporations at scale might help prevent the next multi-generational fuckup, and help pay for the energy and changes moving forward.

I'm not really sure what it is you are trying to defend here? I understand arguing that you can't guarantee a different approach would have led to better results, but in this situation it seems fairly clear that corporations being open and honest would be superior.
Maybe this needs some structure where people get to test the waters first.

Going on a vacation with somebody new seems like it could be a huge amount of fun but it really could go bad. The right kind of group could also create a safe-feeling environment.
Understatement of the year. The last one America built cost $30 billion.
And the password is either "figure it out for yourself", "check the packaging", "try 123456 backwards", or "I don't know"?
“We take issues of this type very seriously.”

Yeah, after they happen. None of the activities their spokesperson describe are proactive. Everything is in response to a terrible experience. Which is fine for a small company, but even rare bad experiences happen with enough frequency at scale that if you’re not anticipating them you’re already behind the curve. Which is one more reason I don’t shop at Amazon anymore.
This is a great run down of the process to extract the firmware from these types of devices without desoldering the flash. I've done a fair amount of reverse engineering and a lot of devices have similar vulnerabilities.

I think more time needs to be spent looking into these commonly used, cheap IoT devices and educating consumers on the risks of using a poorly secured device on their network.

The upside of these vulnerabilities is that you can run your own code on these! 'Declouding' is great as it can extend the lifetime of these devices and make using them more private.
I’ve received opened packages of baby food from Amazon. Of course, I immediately threw it away and didn’t even bother returning it, knowing that somebody else would end up with whatever was in the package. Amazon has some real problems and I cancelled my prime account over this and other issues
You call it a lifestyle preference, I call it staying alive. But that bag of potatoes I just bought wouldn't be in the grocery store without a long chain of greenhouse gas emissions.
Not OP here (but building in the same space).
The reason you instrument LLM data is usually to improve quality/speed of your applications. The tools to extract the insights to enable that, and the integration with your LLM experimentation workflow is the differentiator between a general observability solution and LLM specific one.
I've received great many things from Amazon sold as new that were clearly used. For important ones I've returned / replaced the items and amazon never made a fuss about it. I've always got an impression that they know this is going on and outsource returned item verification to customers.
Soon the role of the Indian call centers will change from running the scam directly to making spam calls to trusted contacts of the intended mark to collect voice data for TTS model fine tuning.
I just visited the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen and they seem to have good working relationship with Danish detectorists, explicitly thanking them for some finds.

It might be a better attitude than criminalization. People are still going to do it, so instead of repression, try to reel them in and teach them the basics for harm reduction.

Wait, can't something similar be written about pot or abortion?
I've been using https://github.com/tom-doerr/zsh_codex with gpt4-o and it saves a lot of strokes as compared to github copilot cli to query, since I just have to press ctrl-x in addition to the prompt.

Magic-cli also seems to be using same workflow as github copilot, so I'm not rushing to use it.
Money grab by an irrelevant, corrupt, and desperate US colony.
Geopolitical and Environmental Risk Monitor
I don't think the rotor is made from solar cells. See the solar cells get covered up at 158 seconds:

https://youtu.be/bf7RjMUXomE?si=PZsAkrJeQ4ichWaw&t=158

...but the electrostatic motor is pretty cool, and is key to the ultra light weight.
Today's AI benchmarks are close to meaningless
not to mention langsmith? braintrust? humanloop? does that count? not sure what else - lets crowdsource a list here so that people can find them in future
Using your logic then, what’s the difference between a universal income and a universal basic income? There doesn’t seem to be any.

You seem to have confused yourself into thinking that since you could run a “universal partial basic income” scheme that the definition of the term UBI must refer to a general framework that can accommodate this. But that is semantically backwards.

UBI is universal full basic income. Partial UBI is a different thing.

It’s like saying you can do a 360 flip and then doing a “partial 360” where you turn 180 degrees.

“Full basic” means it meets your basic needs. It means basic. Binary.

“Partial Universal Basic Income” equates to “Universal Not Basic Income”.
Scaling your engineering team from one to 50 and beyond
Wow this man really screams charlatan
They could also read every review for every product as it comes in and proactively notify the seller or take steps to mitigate the problem.
I don't buy things I need to rely on from Amazon.
I’ve cancelled Prime and just buy things from Target, Costco, Home Depot, etc now

Amazon is just full of junk, the 2-day shipping too often becomes 3-4 for me, and general concerns about the health and safety of products on there (I have no idea how people trust them enough to buy things like toothpaste or other stuff that goes in your body)
What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?
Lmao what? Braindead take.
In space, a thin sheet of lead is not radiation shielding but a radiation amplifier.

The problem being that high-energy cosmic rays are unlikely to interact with the lightly built spacecraft, going right through it. But if you add a thin layer of a good radiation shielding material, then there is substantially increased chance that they will interact with that material, and produce a very large spray of secondary particles. And those secondary particles will also be going fast enough that when they hit more shielding material, they will also result in more particles.

Then some of those secondary particles will be neutrons, which will easily penetrate the thin shielding (lead half thickness for 4MeV neutrons is 68mm), and irradiate the surroundings.

This has been very clearly demonstrated on the ISS, any metal tool has substantially higher radiation levels around it.
I agree mostly.

However, I think we need to add that being one of "the most productive engines of society" comes with great responsibility. The record profits for share holders and executives may not be enough incentive to maintain appropriate levels of that responsibility.
oh cool. do you also consume OTel? or something else?
I thought the US was imposing import tariffs on Chinese solar panels?

The article mentions that China is giving low-interest government loans to manufacturers. That's something we should offer in addition to subsidies.
I'm not disputing that Meta is doing build-time query->query ID replacement. I'm disputing the that they are doing that(/have to do that) because it's the only way to satisfy security requirements.

It makes sense for many more reasons to do that, e.g. to validate/automatically optimize your database schema and indices. Especially if your base database is quite schemaless (such as the TAO system, which they used for a long time), that can be crucial for performance.
Some more resources on self hosting and homelab: https://www.avni.sh/posts/homelab/building-your-own-homelab/...

And my advice to someone considering to start self hosting: Start with a setup that consumes less power and once you have the 80% the idea of the services you want to keep running 24x7 then you scale up your server or build/buy a new one.
The real Satoshi could prove themselves with the keys to the first wallets, forum account logins, and probably lots of evidence of actually doing the project- early prototype code, handwritten notes, etc.
Stories like these are the reason that I put my cellphone on a tripod and open every single package, I ever get from a retailer on camera, recording it. I do this in full, and take the necessary time. This has allowed me to continuously fight all silly return issues I've had.

It's ridiculous that I have to do this. It's saved my bacon twice (once literally with a computer). But the $5 tripod was worth every penny.
This was great, I loved all the parts it was super thorough :) You have to love serial ports on embedded devices, especially non password protected root access
I remember that 20, maybe 25 years ago, the major oil companies were all rebranding themselves as "energy" companies because "we all knew" that we had to be weaned off oil and onto alternative energy sources. Then somehow that effort seems to have petered out.

What happened?
It's not just that either.

Talk to them about investment / romance scams as well. Unfortunately, most folks do these things "willingly" and get in deep.
> 1. The words aren't in context, which leads to "flashcard blindness", where you see a word in context, know that you recognize it, but can't remember what it means.

Clozes should help with this. If anything, I sometimes find it easier to remember words when they're presented in a sentence, though obviously you have to be cautious of overfitting.
Isn't this a prime example of how protectionism of nascent industries makes sense?

Convolt seems to indicate they would have been able to deliver on time if panel sales hadn't plunged 50%. Wouldn't heavy tarrifs on Chinese panels make a lot of sense here then?

I understand we need expansive solar yesterday, but that's even more of a reason to ensure we have the capacity to manufacture.
They feature a tweet with him advocating breaking up Google because it's progressive.

Yet this site pretends it's about free speech?
I have more faith in the US gov or WTO being toothless in addressing an unfair playground

> Chinese-backed companies have distinct advantages over competitors in the U.S., such as heavily subsidized supply chains for raw polysilicon and unfinished solar modules, as well as low-cost government financing
DEI in America looks like happy little video trainings about the importance of diversity, a poster, and a person who talks to higher up folks about the importance of hiring qualified candidates of all stripes. It is mostly a soft push in reality in the direction of diversity.

Whereas Czechia is very humongous racially and indeed culturally America is only 58% non-hispanic whites. 42% NEARLY half of your qualified candidates are for all jobs are actually non-white. Diversity is far from useless.
sorry, yeah I meant the other way around.
The greatest failure of our time is that there isn't a viral, ad-free website or app for children and teens to just go and learn math on their own. Everything worthwhile requires a credit card, user account, and monthly subscription. Children don't have credit cards, email addresses, and access to the latest iOS device. They do have time and at minimum sporadic Internet access. If we managed to create Wikipedia, we can manage to create a similar site for enjoying and learning math.
I saw a _nomap once! Mentioned it to those around me and nobody knew what it was of course. Must admit I didn't know of optout until now either
Could be literally anything. Amazon does nothing more than a weight test for inventory verification. Sellers have put bricks in a box with the correct barcode for some product send it to the Amazon warehouse where it enters the pool of inventory from multiple sellers for that product. When a sale comes through the seller's account Amazon takes a random item from the inventory pool. Chances are it won't be a box with a brick in it so it gets sold and not returned. Some other seller is going to have the brick in the box delivered to one of their customers and lose a sale and reputation from people who have no idea what really happened. And because Amazon doesn't track this stuff (not cost effective) only the fraudulent seller knows.
Managers should just set their expectations with the expectation that they would get bad information from time to time. Maybe you lie, maybe it actually took 3 days, in either case the shop shouldn’t be so brittle where it matters either way.
And unfortunately the people pushing for using anti-oil energy policy are implementing it it appears to gain more control over the general population, and to implement more authoritarian policy.

The fastest and non-violent way to achieve the most efficient results is through the relative free market, education and voluntary adoption - and through purchasing power, but not through forced purchasing power - nor nonsense tax policy like the "CO2 tax" on all fuel - and therefore all products and transport involved with production and distribution of all products vs. only having a CO2 tax specifically on products from countries who's CO2 emissions are increasing or skyrocketing; penalize weighted based on actual emissions; whether CO2 emissions are actually harmful or not, CO2 can be released without releasing polluting particulate - of which CO2 isn't pollution itself.

Edit to add: use your words folks.
I do have to wonder if Target or Wallmart have this problem, particularly with Wallmart going the same marketplace model.

Clearly something is wrong with Amazon's return process, but just curious if this is unique to Amazon or just known more with Amazon due to scale?

I have seen a few of these articles and the thing I have not seen outlined, was this a case of the original person packaging up the order to make it appear as new? Would it have required Amazon to fully open the package and possibly break a seal (even if it was already broke, but if they tried to make it appear as new)?

It is also worth being very clear here that his incident happened in 2020. A lot could have changed about their process. It doesnt excuse it and they clearly still have a problem, but it is an important detail that is quite a bit into the article.
Teachers are surrogate guardians, the more communication the better. Children are not rational enough to make many decisions.
Luiss Rossmann says Aliexpress is now better than Amazon.
Humans evolved from some of the most inhospitable climates and continue to live in such environments to this day. Humans will do what we've always done - adapt and overcome.

I mean how many people thought you could build a bunch of casino's in the middle of a desert and think people would move there and it would grow into almost 3M people?
I did this: I studied pure math in uni because “it could be used for anything.”

I hugely regret this.

1. I didn’t find it that interesting, and so I don’t feel like I got much out of it.
2. I found later that I learn math much better when I can “hang” the ideas off practical examples. For example, I learned math for the sake of understanding deep learning far better than I ever understood math before.

Ultimately, I think it’s far more important to study something that interests you, and to learn the tools you need as you go.
As noted in the article, returns are high volume and it's hard to thoroughly inspect every item. Somebody on a line probably saw a package that looked like it hadn't even been opened, and said "cool, that's an unopened return, I don't have to spend time on that one, on to the next item". They made a mistake. It's not that it isn't bad, it's that it's bound to happen.

The bigger issue is used items being sold as new. That could be a mistake too, except it happens way too often to be a mistake. That's lawsuit territory. Amazon needs to fix that.

But to me, the more interesting issue is how one bad review can tank a business. I'm assuming that's what happened in this case, and that's how the article portrays it. Of course, Amazon should have removed the review in question, because it was ultimately their fault and not the business'. However, my hot take is that I think prospective buyers are at fault for seeing a product with an overwhelming number of positive reviews, then seeing one bad review, and thinking "Gross, I won't buy these diapers, the company sells them with shit inside!!!"
All human civilization (not just use of fossil fuels) is going to cause some level of environmental damage. This is inevitable. The cost of "restoring the environment" is infinity. So, it's really just a question of what level of damage we're willing to accept. Different people prefer different levels of damage on that spectrum.

If not for fossil fuels then we would be living in essentially an 18th century civilization. A lot more stuff then Netflix would never have been created without the safe and cheap energy supplied by fossil fuels.
They have an actual sql-datebase on the client as cache, but still no offline-mode? Damn it. This must be their most demanded feature for years.
Ask HN: Developer Certification?
I've found myself recently out of work and back on the job market so I'm considering taking some popular software engineer certification exams to spice up the resume a bit.

*I'm wondering what everyone's opinions are on the value of certifications for software engineering specifically?* Any other related opinions on the matter are welcome as well.
> Infineon did not report the flaw to NASA because the company did not know what the transistors would be used for,

Either the parts were in spec or they weren't. Which is it?
> like allowing manual code edits

That's just another escape hatch tbh. Don't get me wrong, if the system actually allows me to define what some of them call "code blocks", "logic blocks", or whatever, where I can run actual, arbitrary, code, I am the first whos gonna thank the developer, regardless what it runs, python,lua,js,ruby, whathaveyou. (Not that it is all sunshine and rainbows with these, they usually have other limitations, like not being able to deal with actual packages, have weird ideas how external libraries can be installed, or not allow them at all...)

But while this is a really good escape-hatch, it still is just that: An escape hatch making up for a fundamental limitation of the idea behind the whole thing, and that is inflexibility. If I have to write parts of the logic in arbitrary code anyway, then usually it's more work to do that and integrate it with the rest of the flow, than just simply writing the whole thing as a python or go service.

So as for an answer to your question: No. I don't think so. If someone makes it happen somehow, I'll be very interested in how they do it, because I don't see how, other than making the exact visual-proglangs the article talks about where where we put a GUI on an actual proglang, and at that point the question is "what's the point".

> One of the reasons is it just happened to come first with technology progress

Sure, but a long time has passed since visual programming was first tried as a concept, and IMHO, if it were possible to build that tooling, it would have been done by now.

The problem, I think, is that textual code, for all the differences between languages, still shares common properties between all languages, that make it much much easier to develop tooling for it.

For example: `git` works for every kind of plaintext. No exceptions. LSP needs to be implemented for different languages, sure, but it is a common concept, relying on commonalitis between languages; e.g. all programming languages have some kind of identifiers, subroutines, types, etc. The same is true for a lot of other tools as well, e.g. patchfiles and diffing.

Visual Proglangs do not share these commonalities, not just with textual code, but with each other. Every one of them brings entirely new and different ways of doing things, and while that is beautiful on the one hand, it makes it really (and I actually think impossibly) hard to develop common tools to deal with them.
I think it has wrong perspective culling. Seems like the rays are not properly clipped in the view plane so it appears like the view has a "fish eye" effect.