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I wonder if someone at Amazon can take your comment alone and fix all the problems that are so apparent.

Everything you mention is a hugely broken piece. Seems like they have lost their "customer is the queen" mentality a while ago...

It's a bit scary that the Tesla Model 3 doesn't fare well at all.. and this is the same company shipping live metal torpedoes in parking lots via the Summon feature.

Scary.

First off, these diet studies are not science. It's a lot of drama and PR push by so-called "scientists", it's a bit sickening to see this crap play out.

Observational studies on diets or food intake are useless to draw conclusions that are then plastered all over Daily Mail and so on: people actually read this shit seriously.and it affects people's lives. All based on shoddy, PR-centric "science". I would actually want to see something like "dietfraudwatch" that shames these researchers who don't have high standards to begin with.

He does not convey anything new and it almost feels like he is milking the limited fifteen minutes of limelight a bit much.....

This is a ridiculously clickbait and incorrect title. I would expect this from CNBC or CNN or the Daily Mail. Not HN.

The participants were literally examined using a single night's sleep pattern. This is dangerous "science".

Remember, centi-medium posts often have two sides to the story.. this person describes one incident with "John" based on a biased, self-reporting and frankly not a great story either: actually seems to portray the author in a bad light even with his one-sided story.

The carelessness and dangerous way this entire thing has been "rolled out" is alarming.

People are touting this as some sort of "amazing" feature, I think this guy Elon Musk is a crazy whackjob who puts people's lives at risk.

All the videos I saw from Tesla were " ideal well-lit" situations; well of course! University graduate students have Legos and basic robotics that do that crap. Getting it to work in "normal" (read "edge-cases) is the most difficult part. And they conveniently just ignored that part.

It's insane people are putting these death machines on public roads.

Before people claim "this is just a parking lot", imagine how many parents use their stroll-cartd with babies in them or how many kids run around in parking lots.

Maybe this is the highest form of intelligence?

Octupuses also have a very short lifespan which seems apt: you don't need societies, buildings, relationships etc if you have truly mastered the sole purpose of your existence really well - the nature of procreation and empowering the next generation to survive.

Human beings are actually awful at this it: makes me wonder if all social, cultural aspects are truly "too complicated" ways to achieve what octupuses have mastered through a much simpler process and potentially without needing arbitrary things like consciousness.

This is a nice PR twist in what's effectively a simpler story: mismanagement, absolutely horrific train systems, downright fraudulent monopoly with no updates to any technology. Well what could go wrong?

I remember just a few years ago, sitting in an Amtrak admiring the view... Well the train tracks for three hours really while waiting out on a BNSF rail to pass through. Yep, oil and shipment are more important than human beings.

And the dining car was an outright joke, they microwaved some shitty prepackaged food even then. This was on multiple long hauls, mind you, not one of those short day trip feel good trips (which I admittedly took as well).

I would imagine they have one of the highest attrition rates ever for any tech company.

I am a lifelong Amazon customer but choose never to be an employee of theirs.

I couldn't believe it at first and I tried "the next sentence is garbage":

The next sentence is garbage. The author says that 'The next sentence is garbage.'

2) I can do anything (in this sentence).

3) So could you (in this sentence). This is garbage.

4) It's just a (in this sentence). Again garbage. Let's say the author writes 'So could you'. The sentence is still garbage: the word 'it' is a single-character word whose meaning does not exist. Let's compare this with

5) Let me try (in this sentence). This is garbage.

6) Can I (in this sentence)?

7) Yes I (in this sentence).

8) Does anyone (in this sentence)?

It is obvious from the preceding statements that these sentences are not true of any sentence, but of a series of sentences. It is not obvious how these sentences differ. Perhaps the author means it: I can do anything. Perhaps he means it: it's just a series of sentences. But then he says, 'So could you'. So how do these

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I don't know if I should be scared or amazed.

He has put words on paper that confirm. He garners attention and speaking fees. He has no incentive to speak the truth or actually help people gain expertise. He is almost a fraud. I can't believe I paid for his crappy book. I feel like an idiot. His "story" about the Korean airlines and the general conclusions he draws borders on the racist and superfluous.

He is a hack. Full stop. He is nearly a fraud.

Perhaps carelessness is a strong word and implies incompetence. And perhaps its not incompetence I am complaining about but the rather fastidious and casual way of "move fast, break things, exponential growth" that builds the following without a strong foundation.

Seeing way too many "incidents" these days ....

I would like at least one company to post an "incident" reveal in a more honest way:

" Due to our carelessness and relatively insecure practices, we had improperly disclosed user accounts to a moderately savvy hacker. We realize this is our fault.

If you'd like to help and given that we have your attention now, it would be valuable if you can help pentest our servers: the attacker used a simple SQL attack based on an unpatched server via CVE-3245. Are we missing anything else? Please let us know.

Thank you."

I would like one company to post an "incident" reveal in a more honest way:

" Due to our carelessness and relatively insecure practices, we had improperly disclosed user accounts to a moderately savvy hacker. We realize this is our fault.

If you'd like to help and given that we have your attention now, it would be valuable if you can help pentest our servers: the attacker used a simple SQL attack based on an unpatched server via CVE-3245. Are we missing anything else? Please let us know.

Thank you."

In a weird way, if you intentionally lose your personality traits, skills, love, passion completely and thoroughly, then perhaps you really have "killed yourself".

It's a cost a person pays and a million dollars probably ain't enough to a lot of people compared to the missed opportunity cost.

"helped" -> could it mean that he oversaw a group or a team that found these people? Or as a consultant perhaps...

I wish Hacker News had a section called Daily Factoids .. this particular article is really interesting but isn't News.

It's really interesting to note that on the same day that MSDN Magazine said they are ceasing publication, Linux Journal says too..

Completely random but interesting.

A lot of developed nations are piggybacking on the educated, talented people from India. It's only fair India got its fair share back.

More importantly, corruption and backstabbing has so far ruined such talent, spilling into developed nations; so if there is a somewhat level playing field being established through ISRO and via Indian startups for Indians, then that's a great start.

If anything this will help lift a lot of people out of abject poverty and disease.

Yes money will get filtered through politicians and corrupt machinery, but the people and their children will have the tools and education over time to course-correct their own country.

Again a priority for the US.. Imagine if British in late 1700s had said and made sure that "we will only hand off this beautiful country to you if you abolish slavery". It took a whopping 100 years before anything happened.

These are all imagined, self-righteous concerns.

Leave a country to sort out its own misery in its own time. We have meddled and tortured enough out of these countries already.

If there is any priority or imposition, I would want to think like Bill Gates... His priorities are aligned with the well-being of the developing nations not the US.

Every single one of these new fangled issues was not an issue thirty years ago in the US. So...

What makes the West the arbiter of such issues for other countries?

Western concerns imposed on developing countries is not a good idea.

Life here is safe and sound for us to think about climate change and other things. When people in India don't even have clean water or electricity they shouldn't give a shit about environment or other things.

It took the US 200 years of development before it started working about these things. And the US is / was a developed nation.

So would this mean you need a partner such as HSBC to overcome the KYC?

Curious how this sort of high level crime can continue in the UK even after all these articles and investigations...

Majority of Chinese students would want to stay in the US. Based on my very informal unscientific study over the last many years. Recently the visa backlog implicitly pushes people away, no lack of demand. In fact too much demand.

You have all the right facts and stats and information but alarmingly lacking the right context in which these facts and stats apply.

I am seeing this as a sign of a person living in absurd comfort (includes me too) and trying to understand a developing nation without having to go through any of the difficulties.

This comment is regurgitating stats and numbers without much context.

I feel that over-priveleged peoples in the West with a really good life and pretty much every comfort available, often tend to just look at these superficial charts and numbers and tend to gloss over the context in these other countries.

It's pretty sad really that you are comparing China to the USA in this way just by mentioning that the USA is a oligarchy and somehow that's worse than being in China. The US at least has the option. Chinese people do not.

This worshipping of communist governments and downplaying the USA's freedoms and comforts really need to tone down a bit.

I used to think like this before. But then I realized the survival of these companies (similar to natural selection) is based on these efforts which makes it almost the exact opposite of cancer.

To a customer, if the value add is ride sharing to exist in some form, companies actively bidding for that customer's attention and eventually their pockets is inevitable.