skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. It's not a distribute problem (Amazon is centralized) it doesn't require trustlessness (Amazon trusts itself), but it is something where you want an auditable ledger. Say, an append-only database.
your link states:

"To classify a case as a false allegation, a thorough investigation must yield evidence that a crime did not occur."

2-10% provably false allegations does not mean 90-98% are true.

i have little doubt that most allegations speak to truth, but it also seems to me that trying to manipulate numbers in this way isn't beneficial.
I try to do my purchase's based on scientific research methods. There needs to be benchmarks that you can use to compare the products. That is however problematic for some products, such as books.

What's even worse then fake reviews is fake bad reviews where competitors give your products a low rating. If your first review ends up bad you are screwed, unless you get 100 good reviews to compensate.
I think ultimately it's very dependant on which sites you frequent. Like with many things, it's absolutely a case where the only good answer is YMMV.
Historically, Europe was decimated by something much smaller than an ant.

Additionally, in an unknown strategic situation, it is generally inadvisable to turn your situation with asymmetric information into one which informs the other players of your true state of play.

Now you might say, its would be pretty obvious that we're a comparatively primitive society. Maybe, maybe not. That makes a lot of simple assumptions about the nature of technology, instellar travel, and the possibilities of subterfuge and misdirection in a game with unknown players, unknown context, unknown goals, of unknown capability.

So from a purely theoretical perspective, I respectfully disagree.

The rational strategy is some function that trades off information-gathering directly against information-hiding on your own state of play.

Our species is arguably being the crazy ones sending out signals blindly into the ether without a care...
Ideally, yeah. But often PDFs are integrated with the web experience as another web page. Or atleast that's how I treat them. I have 2-5 research papers open in my tabs at all times, and I browse through them like I would with any other article.

Sure if it piques my interest I would download it, organize it but I wouldn't go through the pains of doing that for every pdf I lay my eyes upon.
If they roll out the "Firefox user affluence survey" and start reading all your bank account balances (or do whatever you would find objectionable) I'll make sure to remind you of this post.
Apparently not in tech though. All the recent sexual harassment accusers are employed
hack into your partner's phone pics, text message and listen to calls to know if he is cheating - hack into any bank website - hack into any company website - hack into any government agency website - hack into security agency website and erase criminal records - geniushack08(protonmail)com
In case people aren't making the connection, this ties in with the net neutrality issue in the US.

The core thing that they are attempting to do is to declare that the internet is no longer a river of information that they just pass along. Making this change is really important if you want more control over what people say and do on the internet.

Without net neutrality, it is easier to start funnelling more and more people through monopolies that cooperate with the government. The Chinese apps are a good example of that.

Make no mistake, the United States is no longer the bastion of freedom you believe it to be. And many in government would _love_ to be able to more effectively stifle political dissent and move to a one party system.
You're assuming the CDS buyers were victims of fraud. A lot of the time they weren't.
I'm pretty committed now to a no-car-ownership lifestyle in the Bay Area, and my commute to and from work is optimally 45 minutes to go ~8 miles. It still feels like a huge sacrifice that I moved down the bay and added ~15 minutes both ways.

I'm not sure I could even imagine commuting six hours a day - that has to be soul crushing. And I love riding trains...
We’re pretty bad about frog boiling. When we amend a spec we think about how much more we added, not how big it’s gotten.

It’s part of the disconnect between new and old employees. Everyone who has been there for three years learned the system one piece at a time. They don’t understand why the new people look at them like they’re crazy.
I have to correct that actually PoS is voluntarist. Node operators don't collect fees in RaiBlocks. They operate just to secure the network and their own investment.
In my previous location I rode the bus about an hour each day to work. Noise cancelling headphones, plus some good podcasts and a subscription to audible made me quite enjoy it. I almost miss the fact that I'm about two hours a day short on my podcasts and audiobooks.
Which is a sinister part of the whole "buy a nice house far away & commute". The further from work, the less time you even get to spend at that nice house...
> The core idea (deploy an easter egg via an add-on) seems pretty reasonable. Looking Glass is a really cool idea for users who want it.

But who actually wants it? Who wants a fundamental part of their daily work suddenly manipulated by somebody else at a whim?

What if Ford decided it would force-push add a cool "Star Wars" tie in to its cars (no pun intended on "force push")? That's a mission-critical part of my life, I drive my kids in it. Don't mess with my car over-the-air without telling me, I don't care if it's all fun and games to you, to me it's my life.

Same for my browser. It's not a toy I use for fun. It's how I see my medical records, pay bills, transport extremely sensitive and confidential information... I don't want anyone to suddenly push "cool fun easter eggs" to it, under any circumstance.
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> Can you elaborate on that dynamic? Is it as simple as "women are drawn to men with money and power" which is what men think, or is there something more to it? How is it pressure?

Not the other poster, I assume they are taking about inherent power dynamics in the workplace. So not two random people at a bar, but let's say an employee and a boss, or a boss's friend. In hopes of maintaining the status quo with their boss, the employee might comply.

(I know HN is full of rebellious individuals who'd never acquiesce, but for a more commonplace example, think of happy hour functions where the boss buys everyone another round and there's the pressure to finish that shot.)
Are you arguing the American type of poverty is unique and because of addiction it’s too hard to try?

That linked article suggests that there may be a genetic component to addiction. So? There is a well established link between income and addiction too, between inequality and addiction as well as between education level and poverty, and between addiction and education. Things are connected. Is the American situation really so unique and special that nothing can be done?

There are some pretty concrete examples in the article of things that would make a massive, positive change that would last generations (eg, build a sewer). It’s not all hard.
I'm told that Chrome has been faster fixing security problems for quite some time (and their sandboxing model was better by default until e10s rolled out globally), so the only valid concern is likely to be Privacy. :-(
Stallman puts himself forward as an authority on the best way to use the internet, even though doesn't actually use the internet in any recognizable way.[1] He comes off like an internal combustion engine designer who has never been in a car, declaring himself a traffic flow expert.

[1] "I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation)." (https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html)
It was never an add on. It's built into the core of the browser.

You can hide its button, but all the code is still there.
It’s like a dream. It makes sense at a certain level but is completely nonsense on others.
> We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter

https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/940627812259696643
Is there video available from multiple jets? Maybe they didn't ever clearly see it. Maybe they kinda thought they saw something, and lead themselves to believe they did because the other jet was so sure of it.

About the radar comment: how often are there false positives on the radar? If they didn't see anything at all, would they have written off the radar results because they normally get that kind of noise? Maybe after thinking they saw something, they read too far into the radar noise.

Yeah, I know I'm proposing a couple coincidences, but we only hear about the situations where all the coincidences line up. And really, a couple mild coincidences lining up like this must happen often across the world, and seems more likely to describe this case than this being something extraordinary.
I like how the "height" of conservative thought is to spin terrible things to somehow depict benefit for the individual.
Just post and damn the internet points. There are hundreds of firefox employees browsing every firefox thread, and a far larger proportion of them are going to downvote than would a more representative group of technologists or firefox users. Bad PR for firefox could potentially financially affect them personally, so it's totally understandable and human (though annoying.)
The parent comment was referring not to Carolyn Cherry's 3 hour commute but Michael Perkins 80 minute commute.
This point remains: A rulebook that - if taken literally - leads to suffering is not a good rulebook.
When WASM only give's a 10% increase in performance, is it really worth it ? While at the same time using "hardware" shaders gives 1000% increase in performance. If the goal of WASM is not performance, what is the reasoning behind it ? That you would be able to compile any!? program to be run in the browser !?
Does anyone know what technique they're using to generate this? I've seen similar things done with LSTMs, but the results generally aren't nearly as clean or comprehensible as the text here.
> Someone installed software on their systems without their knowledge or explicit consent.

this is what was wrong about the whole thing. What Jascha Kaykas-Wolff heard from the community, that "the experience [we] created caused confusion" is NOT the point.
what did i just read!? this is pure comedy gold. i'm genuinely interested in how it came up with some bits.
> Running a company by polling random employees is not an established successful management style. Its only you who is suggesting it,

He's suggesting that the most simple, stupid check one could think of (polling random employees) would already have shown this to be a terrible idea. They didn't even go that far. That is indeed a bad sign.
I think the Web is unredeemable at this point; there is so much entrenched complexity, ugly hacks, centralization, and misuse of various technologies that it can never be undone.

Somewhere, an AMP developer coughs indignantly
I'll be honest, I've definitely read fanfiction that was far less comprehensible.
Eich says Mozilla is interested in integrating their BAT token into Firefox in the future too. His ability to make that happen is partly why they got so much funding and token sale proceeds.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/94211584408716...
I suspect you're right, but it would certainly be a tectonic event, and could potentially affect Linux's competitiveness until equilibrium recovered.

And you're right about "most" being wrong. "Many" would have been a better word, particularly if talking about the most popular.

(Another non-upstream-reliant distro that I find fascinating is GoboLinux. Very against the grain/orthodoxy!)
Tom Delonge is out of his fucking mind.
I had those same thoughts. Bailout the people and let the banks burn and then buy them up for pennies since that’s how an efficient market would have worked. Well an efficient market would have done so sans any bailout but still.
Nuance is the enemy of persuasion.
How many species are at the hockey stick point is unknown...depends on what numbers you plug into the Drake equation variables. Could be rare or lots of us.

I think the rest of your comment is plausible.
Yes. It's my second browser (and was my main browser until I switched to FF Nightly in the summer). And no, it isn't faster - at least not for me. And it hogs memory as if there's no other software running on my PC. I'm really happy that I can use FF again instead.
See also https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto , a replacement board for the ubiquitous Casio F-91W, also using a TI microcontroller.
Yes, I understood as much.

It's also useful for people to understand that longstanding disagreements are still there. People have been sharing their estimations of the Mozilla organization and for many people, that estimation took a huge hit with the Eich business.

If we're not willing to keep talking about controversial issues, even at the risk of flamewars, we just retrench in our old us vs them mentalities and bubbles. And that has proven to be bad in all sorts of ways in recent history.

Anyway, I thought it would be useful to register another opinion explicitly. I hope it is taken well.
I'm looking forward to your detailed response to my upcoming policy white paper entitled "Retrospective prison sentences for War on Drug Proponents: recommending another risible policy measure"
The fact that they're doing this and the fact they're actively trying to export their political ideology via their Confucius institutes, etc. terrifies me. As China's influence grows, I worry they may make implementing similar systems of condition of doing business with them and that developing countries (in Africa especially) who are becoming increasingly reliant upon China for development funding, will lack the power to push back against this dystopian bullshit.
viewing the web as a lost cause or irredeemable is not the same as saying it has nothing to offer. 'leaving the web' also doesn't seem very pragmatic, at least until something better is available.
I rated a book poorly (1-2 stars). This book only had 3 reviews after one year since it was published.

Crazily enough, after my review appeared, two days later this book had over TWELVE glowing reviews, all of them Five-stars

...
The benefits of that nice house (and the neighborhood, schools, etc.) are ostensibly more so for the benefit of the family than the long-commuting employee themselves -- whether misguided or accurate.

When one is single and (relatively) unattached, the calculus is different, as Silicon Valley neatly shows.
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Additionally unstated is the fact that she is in all probability using the weekend hours to informally catch up on the sleep deficit she's building up during the weekdays. Nor does it account for the unbooked health costs associated with such a lifestyle which will likely see her lose an additional N% off her total lifespan, and substitute some of that pay off into america's err... interesting... health system.
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I find the video a little odd. The pilot is tracking the object in his center of view but is not turning aggressively to intercept it.
Problem is, the only trains here in Southern California go in the L.A. → San Diego direction. I would love if the 91 had a railway running in parallel, but unfortunately that doesn't seem likely.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a nameless wage slave deleting posts — forever.
The solution to this is: more train lines, more frequent and faster trains.
This is nothing new. There has always been "sell offs" in the Open/Free Software sphere. An old-ish example that comes to mind is SourceForge. When it started, it was the place to host and search for Open Source or Free Software. It was amasing. Little by little, the service started to rot, became full of ads and just felt sketchy.

Then GitHub arrived, and a fresh platforfm for hosting open source software was born.
We should still be able to ask them to make a reasonable effort, which keeps the fake review economy at bay
The relative narrative coherence and the use of the term “predictive keyboards” instead of Markov-somethings has me fairly convinced this was actually just written by a human.

Still funny, though.
There was a slightly more complicated calculus for the main person, she had to give up participating in her children's before/after school life except on weekends/adopt a 4.5 hours sleeping regimen, and she had to / wanted to earn enough of a cushion in earnings/savings because a Los Angeles job with seniority paid more than any job she could get closer to her home in Hemet including commute costs. I can feel the pain in the writing about what sacrifices she made so her children could have a better life, but it worked out for them all it sounds like.
I think it's about domains of control: I expect that Google controls which image appears on their home page; I expect that I control which add-ons are installed in my Firefox.

If this code had been in core-Firefox, we'd never have noticed it. Counter-intuitively, maybe it wouldn't have felt as invasive, because I know that Mozilla controls core-Firefox, not me. (And I choose to defer to their judgement, because my other options are to defer to Google or Apple.)
i have used at least 4 different distros for gaming so I have no idea what your comment is supposed to be about.
I'd be interested in hearing how this compares to TPU.
There surprising little to a typical funicular train. Just two cars, a long cable, some track, and a big electric motor.
I do not think so. Public service must make money somehow. Most times it is advertisment so js required. Sometimes it is spionage, but they must look like usual thing.

Get a hosting from shared server account (few dollars a month). Or distribute your files from cloud storage, like AWS S3 (5 gig free for first year) and upload with native app without JS.
Definitely not part of his degree. I think they had a professor who's specialty was that sort of thing so it was a "sought after" elective.
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There is more than 3000 games on Linux on Steam right now. A lot of it is indie, but still thats a lot of games.
I love this. I'd say it needs two features though;

1. Record your composition and share it through a URL. I imagine that when you click "record" it starts a timer to capture when you play/pause a specific sound.

2. Have a "Random" button that randomly plays sounds indefinitely (probably no more than 5 or so at the same time).
After reading "The Dark Forest" I've leaned towards the idea that we are under pervasive observation (likely by hard-to-detect autonomous AI agents of some form, the origin of which is relatively inconsequential) and once the probability tilts towards a non-zero value that we are a threat beyond a certain blast radius we'll be wiped out.

If that were true, and the message of that being the case were delivered somehow to our governments, the general status quo around these phenomena and the propaganda steering people away from caring about them would be explainable. People have barely gotten used to the idea of mortality, but to know your race was doomed to extinction with certainty would almost certainly cause massive civil unrest and a major disruption to almost all human institutions and culture that assume our collective future is unbounded.

Perhaps this is too tinfoil but it's an internally consistent story, perhaps with the exception of how or why these agents would be detectable at all, when they surely could conceal themselves completely -- perhaps it's just probabilities though since there would not be much downside of detection by a primitive civilization such as ours.
Well yeah, that I totally understand. You don't get involved with people under/over you in an organization. Or teacher/student or anything where there is an existing power differential. That's just not right for the reasons given. Perhaps that's what she was talking about.
The government could have bought the banks for cheap, stabilized them and resold them on the market. That way shareholders and employees would have lost but not bank customers.
I don't think our roads have the capacity to allow everyone to be sitting on them in their own personal automobiles all day. And even if they do, the roads won't actually function as transportation infrastructure.
There's a lot of self-policing

The crux of my point is that I was really puzzled for a long time as to how on earth I could interact in two forums with some of the same members and people who are openly, persistently and consistently ugly to me in one successfully self police in the other and refrain from harassing me. That blew my mind for the longest time. It made no sense at all.

I eventually concluded that a difference in moderation must be the difference that makes a difference.

Perhaps that should have been said privately. I am not prone to flattery. That isn't the point of saying it here.

The point is that it is a clear example that demonstrates the power of moderation. As someone who has done some moderating myself, it is an intriguing contrast.
Reminds me of Sam Cookney, who found it to be cheaper and a higher quality of life to commute from Barcelona to London than to live in London.

His blog post: https://bestburgerinnorthwestlondon.wordpress.com/2013/10/24...

A Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/commuting-fro...
I'm a fan of Mr. Robot and this add-on went well over my head.
Still a better Harry Potter fanfic than My Immortal...
Interesting. TIL
Is the iPhone X racist now?
This. Also, I recommend you upgrade to SSD before donating.
I strong disagree that Mozilla is a good company at heart.

They are horribly mismanaged on every level.

They have burned hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a second rate browser that has seen its market share collapse.

They took hundreds of millions from Google and in exchange unquestioningly supported Google's advertising and surveillance agenda.

They have consistently failed to introduce new features that would actually benefit new users.

They blame the "standards process" for their lack of innovation and features that benefit users when they know that the standards process is a b.s. game. For profit corporations break standards whenever it benefits them. Firefox is the only browser that follows standards written by Google, Microsoft, and Apple, while the other 3 break them, or force through their own changes whenever it benefits them.

Apple blocked 3rd party cookies and Microsoft defaulted to Do Not Track while Firefox kept doing Google's bidding to collect their checks. Just one example of many.

In the place of real innovation, being truly independent, and actually standing up for users Mozilla gives people dumb crusades like Net Neutrality.

Firefox could have used their market share to develop truly innovative features, like what Opera tried. For that matter they could have partnered with Opera to create standards for a true open web, but of course they never did that because the Google bucks were just to sweet for them.

Mozilla has been a failed organization for a long time. This is only the latest reminder.
Maybe there's a market for verified customer reviews of popular items - even ones that aren't big ticket. Consumer Reports might grow to cover additional items and perhaps develop a browser extension for subscribers who gain access to trusted reviews.