skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The fact that Tesla can simultaneously demonstrate brilliance and incompetence in the same vehicle is not surprising, considering it is a high-tech software company trying to master complex manufacturing processes that took established automakers more than 100 years to perfect."

High-tech software company?

Tesla is an automaker, not a software company. Sure, Elon comes from the software/tech/payments industry, but putting Zuckerberg in charge of Exxon wouldn't change the fact that Exxon is an energy/oil company.
There's nothing wrong with adding your own checks based on your specific needs, but you need a baseline to build from. An early-stage startup or a small business just doesn't have the expertise to build a comprehensive fraud prevention system. Fraud prevention providers have huge databases to train their models on and an enormous amount of experience and expertise.
You mean Dr. Josiah Carlson, PhD?
Does anyone know if the brand mentioned (Ajinomoto) is any better than Accent? I mean, MSG is MSG, right?
If they kept the original story with a huge correction/retratction notice and all associated details, anyone who read the original could find it again.

As it stands now, anyone who doesn't happen to catch this will have no way of finding out in the future that the story they read may have been partially or wholly false.

I don't like the idea of erasing history this way.
Thanks. Really, I can't understand how wouldn't you learn at least conversational language if you live in a country where it is spoken all the time...

I have a feeling that if not Ukraine, then something else would have happened anyway.
I agree, Kim is the puppet master here.
Everyone else is just an actor.
My opinion is he wants to start mining and selling its huge amount of rare earth minerals with the sanctions lifted.
I'm not sure at all he's really interested in reunification.
Something like the current Chinese model would fit perfectly his ambitions. And keep him in power for long time.
The Quagi Antenna Turns 40
Twice in the last decade Nielsen has paper mailed me wanting to collect TV viewing information over a future week. They even included a $5 bill in the mailing with promise of more at the end. I was rather excited since finally Futurama and Stargate could have some support.

But when it became time to fill out the logbook I couldn't actually do it. I finally figured out they couldn't care less what TV I watched, and were actually trying to work out what ads I had watched that had aired at most in the previous 24 hours. Kinda difficult information to provide when using DVDs, Netflix, and having cut the cord many years before. There was nowhere to even say that you watched stuff on Netflix. You could only supply channel names and times!

(They also never bothered to check their help email worked, which it didn't. They apologised several weeks later.)
plenty starved, but sure they worked.
What examples? I don’t actually live in Seattle proper, as it’s far too expensive. But the surrounding areas are also absurd in price.
You probably still view ads on the Facebook platform, though, right? You may not contribute much to Facebook's analytics platform, but you're still making them money when they display ads.
But the major would still be called 'theology', which is the relevant fact in relation to these statistics. And yes, people do use the word theology to mean that. I mean, check the first two sentences of the wikipedia article:

> Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries.

Or see what theology departments have to say about it:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/field/field_document...
> This differs from eg electronics, physics etc, because I am biological

biology has everything to do with physics and electronics (and chemistry etc).

it’s just a frame of reference that decides what you choose to classify as one or the other. But the laws of nature are consistent no matter what you’re choosing to call it or which aspect of it you’re addressing.
The information Facebook collects on you isn’t for sale.

And even if was, that stuff is basically data exhaust that is collected from usage of a platform they own. By using the platform you have made the choice to give up some of this data all on your own. But that’s not what they do. Their product is selling ad space.

You yourself are still not being sold.
Like you, I would prefer that the "three editors" to whom that link refers actually be named. I suspect that if the story had appeared without byline (kind of difficult with NPR's format, but e.g. Economist does it), the reporter would have remained anonymous even after the retraction. ISTM, however, that other organizations would have just thrown their source under the bus, like e.g. Rolling Stone with their UVa rape story. Perhaps NPR will do that eventually, but they haven't done so yet, to their credit.

HN prides itself on its wisdom and judgement, but we got this one completely wrong too. When the original story appeared, nearly everyone here swallowed every detail of this whopper completely, while the few who didn't (hint: me!) saw their comments downvoted to oblivion.
12 shares?! I assume that is as low as it sounds.
They're not at all! They put up that act to make people believe they are so that it introduces an element of uncertainty into the calculation. Like the parent said, going to war with the US is suicide, which no rational leader would do but a seemingly irrational/insane leader might. This adds an element of risk to the US and make us think twice about intervening.
Time. Nothing will come of it and it will cost you your wasted time.
I was going through a divorce and needed the funds secured until I could deal with legal issues to ensure that they would be available
They're just android apps so I doubt you'll have any issue adding your own apps when this thing gets through to release
dude, much better pic!
Real People Are Turning Their Accounts into Bots on Instagram – And Cashing In
If you squint just a bit, these impersonators look a lot like headhunters / recruitment agents.
hahaha man. Thank you. I upvoted :)
Ask HN: Are you still using REST for your new projects?
We tried GraphQL but ended up going back to good old REST.

We found that implementation of GraphQL in the server became too complex once you introduce authentication and authorization.

Also, since GraphQL assumes the client knows what it wants to receive, some cases where the data was unknown couldn't be solved elegantly. For example receiving a tree with an unknown number of levels for describing menus and submenus.

This was over a year ago so I'm guessing the waters are more clear now.

Is everyone moving to GraphQL or are you still using REST for new projects?
I think the BBB used to have much better reputation for their business ratings.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, must complaints leveraged against a company through the BBB are exaggerated claims that would be better suited for a poo Yelp review.

The only time I personally check out a businesses BBB score is if I am currently having issues, and am trying to find out of it is a common issue with the company (which would mean it will likely be a reoccurring issue in the future) or if it is a one off issue.

But then again, I take all only based ratings/reviews with a metric ton of salt.
I think you need to stop reading tabloids and watching junk TV opinions when trying to inform yourself about the rest the world.
More:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918969

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924044
First, "don't make mistakes" is a policy so idiotic in its conception that I don't think there exists a good-faith argument for advocating for it.

Second, a "cover-up" is when you hide evidence of your past misconduct. Pleading guilty in public is in every possible way the literal opposite of covering something up. If they'd just deleted the article with no commentary at all, that's covering up the mistake. Leaving the original URL up with a notice that they erred in publishing the original story isn't.
Yet, it apparently did meet their standards of reported evidence a couple weeks ago. That means they owe a detailed explanation of what exactly changed in that time (some info has been given by the ombudsman) and how the failure will be prevented in the future.

The original article should not be removed under any circumstances because it serves as part of the reporting record of NPR. For people to form accurate conclusions about the veracity of news sources, their failings must not be buried from view.
What's relevant is how the term is used in the statistics we're discussing.
Seems to me the fit that matters is within your innermost team members. If you can't trust your teams to hire for themselves, you have other issues.
Editorial selection and emphasis introduce bias, where over a long term, it is hard to determine the truth. This doesn't mean readers should only trust their prejudice as you suggest in your final sentence, but that readers should be aware that they are getting an editorialized version of reality.

Let me give you an example (hopefully avoiding a debate on the topic): are pit pulls more dangerous than other dogs? First to be clear, I have no dog in the race (ha-ha). Local newspapers write stories covering dog attacks, mentioning the dogs were pitbulls. My friend who does pit bull dog rescue points out that papers only cover pitbull attacks, and never attacks by other breeds. By only covering pitbull attacks, editors and writers have biased the general public. At this point, I don't know the truth: are pit bulls more dangerous? Do editors consider writing stories about attacks by other breeds at all?
I don't doubt their ability to defend their own territory and your point about that is correct. However, I don't see South Korea being the aggressor. If there is a war, North Korea would be the aggressor and I doubt their current ability to successfully invade and conquer South Korea. They would have to acquire new conventional capabilities to do that and a viable economy is necessary for that development.
Then you go to jail where you belong if you're a serial killer and/or rapist from the 80s
I'd appreciate getting the spreadsheet, if you don't mind - then I'd know what to track, what to examine. I keep meaning to do this again - I did 2 weeks a few years ago and it helped a lot (e.g. I was sleeping better and was full of energy), but ... life keeps getting in the way.
China HAD to have played a major part in this. They dont’t need the US playing a more active military role in the region. Have to wonder if/what Trump’s actions has contributed?
I must admit I find the EU pretty progressive and thought-leading lately - ironically using the tool progressives despise the most: Regulation.

When they banned all filament lightbulbs, everyone was saying how bad it would be for the economy, but the industry was just forced to innovate and just a couple years later everyone is 95% on LEDs.

Farmers will cope - and the demand they create for new solutions will accelerate supply much faster than any voluntary solution.
What if humans have long left the Milky Way galaxy

If out descendants become intergalactic spacefarers, then we probably won't ever all leave.

and aliens visit us then?

Those aliens will probably be our descendants. They'll just have to look up the information in their archives. It's not like keeping raw information is going to become so expensive, we have to delete it.
But why are they separated by workspaces in the first place?
I'm not saying it shouldn't be illegal to provide the metadata needed to interpret a large number. I'm saying that lots of large numbers need no metadata to interpret them. For example, if you came across a number consisting of the raw text of this comment represented as ASCII and encoded with base 256, you'd easily be able to figure out what it said with no metadata at all. If this comment contained something illegal, then you'd easily be able to obtain that. Metadata isn't needed.
The Japanese concept of “misplaced kindness”
True, I do favor the mouse. I should have said, "If I'm going to wake up a computer using the keyboard."
Oracle Releases GraalVM 1.0
One of his last jobs was the Spectrum Next, the Spectrum for our time. https://www.specnext.com
You mean like the massacre of No Gun Ri and the general policy of shooting civilians in the Korean war? The Gwangju massacre?

Oh you don't mean the atrocities of the dictatorships in the south under the US military occupation, you mean the north.
This quote is brutal:

> A Tesla spokesperson said the primary car evaluated by Munro was built in 2017, adding: "We have significantly refined our production processes since then, and while there’s always room for improvement, our data already shows that Model 3 quality is rapidly getting better.”

Sounds like Tesla is agreeing that they sold sub-par vehicles?
In addition, the land given to railroads was checkerboarded, meaning the they were given every other 640-acre section along the railway extending a few miles on either side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
This is a new era of realism in politics.

For most of history, politics is realism, just with an overlay of reality distortion to steer things sometimes.
Freelance Pricing: How does that work?
Curious what kind of products do you sell?
You can always change premises.

While both sides express that premise, I don't see the North Korean Regime just giving up its power. Perhaps Kim, like Deng Xiaoping, might introduce the economic reforms that his country really needs.
Rate Limiting: A Useful Tool with Distributed Systems
It looks like Amazon's patches are already on their way in: https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/4855
In the US, transit lines are almost always government-owned.
I just checked the ingredients on my liquid aminos and it doesn't say msg. Their website says they don't add it, but there may be "very small amounts" that naturally occur from the soybeans. Please explain.

P.S. I have no reaction to MSG I just don't understand why you would think someone is being irrational.
The article rather understates the use of glutamate in the body.

> it is an essential building block of protein found in muscle tissue, the brain, and other organs.

It's not only found in every organ, it's present in 99.6% of all human proteins, out of 20328 only 72 do not use glutamate, and of those 29 are keratin proteins.
Here [1] are NPR's own published guidelines on why they will supposedly not remove stories:

>"We are guided by a newsroom policy that says it is inappropriate to remove content from our Website. If a report is inaccurate, we will correct it and state why it has been altered. If relevant new information emerges, we will update or do a follow-up story. But our content is a matter of public record and is part of our contract with our audience. To simply remove it from the archive diminishes transparency and trust and, in effect, erases history. This is not a practice engaged in by credible news organizations or in line with ethical journalism."

[1] - http://ethics.npr.org/memos-from-memmott/how-to-explain-why-...
A lot of people also make a mistake of benchmarking Redis on multi-core machines. Redis is single-threaded, so it'll never be faster if you have multiple cores. To properly benchmark Redis on a multi-core machine, you have to run more instances of Redis on the same machine (1 instance/core).
Super cool, first photo from the trash eater thing - the guy operating it is missing safety glasses.
Many people don't know that tomatoes, cheeses and other foods naturally have MSG. And:

> FDA considers the addition of MSG to foods to be “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS). Although many people identify themselves as sensitive to MSG, in studies with such individuals given MSG or a placebo, scientists have not been able to consistently trigger reactions. [1]

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/FoodAd...
The best way to encrypt any data is to make adversary think the data does not exist.

For everything else rubber hose cryptanalysis will work.
It's still nuts that one satoshi is equal to 73 of any nation's currency, inflation or not.
Please refute any of my arguments
This is the secret genius hypothesis. I don't give it much credit, considering how the administration is flailing on almost every other front. It is possible that all of this was Trump being very clever. But it is as easily explained by him being an impulsive fool, and that explains all the rest as well. But if he keeps on making big foreign policy gains like this, then I may have to reevaluate.

FWIW, this definitely caused me to up my estimation of him. It went from "absolutely dismal," to "very bad." I'll also note that it's just a bit too early to tell whether this will ultimately result in a good outcome. Shaking hands is a big step. But actions talk louder than photo ops.
Software for backing up sites.
"Mark Memmott, NPR's standards and practices editor, would not comment on the retraction. But he told me he could not recall another retraction since he joined NPR in 2009. (We did turn up a 2002 story that was eventually taken out of distribution, following a previous Ombudsman's column.)"

https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2018/04/12/601650762/...

Either this is a rare corner case in journalistic ethics that could be handled a few different ways or there's simply some disagreement in the profession (and among NPR staff) about how to deal with it. Regardless, the comments below characterizing NPR's retraction of a shoddy story as "Orwellian" are... entertaining, I guess? If only they'd save us from the tyranny of the state by relaxing their professional standards a bit.
This injection thunk I wrote in order to do facilitate remote code and context (file handles, event handles, shared memory maps etc) injection: https://github.com/tpn/tracer/blob/master/Asm/InjectionThunk...
It's still on archive.org . Apparently NPR started forwarding to a new URL after doing the retraction.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180403204501/https://www.npr.o...

I got the original URL from the original HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16752468
False. Stallman's work and vegans/hippies are unassociated. Veganism is an unhealthy lifestyle. Hippies are dropouts/losers. Don't spread around unhealthy advice.
A lot of words here to basically say “yeah it’s true but it’s not original and is kind of mean.”
I see it differently. A merchant who takes fraud seriously is someone I would trust more.
I disagree. Facebook makes their money from advertisers. The advertisers go where people are, but they are also careful about paying. For example if their product is only applicable to one gender, but the ads would go to everyone then they'd want to pay half as much. Sites that do not have demographic information about their users consequently can't charge anywhere near as much as Facebook which gets advertisers to pay more for the demographics they want.

Even if everything in your FB profile is a lie, your friends then provide the demographic information about you. eg you are going to similar to them.

And because you are on Facebook, you are now available to the advertisers.
That could describe the situation when you're drinking MSG-laced soup. The liquid will race ahead of the solids ingredients like noodles and get absorbed first.

If MSG is sprinked onto something dry, like some types of snack food, which is then washed down with a drink, it could also be absorbed fast.
When VC == BS
Why wouldn't you censor ideas that you know are false, harmful or both?
The previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502074 has lots of interesting links and anecdotes.

[E: if you ever wanted to know how data and anecdote differ, dive into that thread]
Wow good catch, you may want to share this as a top-level comment.
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I'm okay with Eclipse. Here's why. As a consultant working at clients typically there's enough lockdown where I end up having to use Eclipse. Because of that I haven't had much opportunity to actually use Netbeans or IntelliJ at a client. So like someone mentioned below I just sucked it up and dealt with it.

It's not perfect and I definitely get some cryptic errors but I'm actually pretty happy with it now. You should definitely add some plugins to make life easier. I like the TypeScript plugin by Palantir, SonarLint for Eclipse, DevStyle by Genuitec, and the Gradle Buildship plugin. eGit seems particularly buggy but I like it. If anybody has any alternatives I'd love to hear about it.
Fraud falls into a weird category of crime where:

- happens globally (far outside of local police jurisdiction)

- per event small monetary value

- widespread but difficult to tell how connected (is it tens of thousand of fraudulent events from a single actor or tens of thousands of different actors?)

All of which adds up to there not being a clear cut law enforcement agency to handle these types of things (aka you can't reasonably ask the local police to help you track down a scammer in singapore).
This is the approach the British and several other governments took for finding a reliable way to find the longitude of a ship at sea [1]. Dava Sobel's Longitude is an interesting but quick read about the problem and John Harrison's eventual solution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_rewards
More than 120 homeopaths trying to ‘cure’ autism in UK
I'd love to see an infusion of Indian culture into the Fremont art scene.

I haven't, though, because artists were displaced by engineers. This has nothing to do with Indian culture; it has everything to do with STEM steamrolling the arts scene.
Privacy requires some censorship. For example, a law that makes it illegal to take certain photos lacks teeth without a corresponding law that restricts publishing them.
Anyone not using a space-cadet or Symbolics keyboard could have remapped the mouse buttons to Ctrl and Meta to avoid Emacs pinky, but I still find it hard to believe that GNUmacs prior to the rise of Lucid/XEmacs had any real mouse support at all.
What? Retraction: the action of drawing something back or back in. If something is entirely incorrect and someone is trying to produce truthful content, admission and removal is entirely acceptable.

Besides, it very may well have been demanded by their legal department to avoid any repercussions from the mischaracterized party.
I don't think that's true. The charges were "conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and criminal copyright infringement." The court said he caused MS $700,000 in lost sales.
Found it from another comment (that is top-level): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16943135 Quite damning!
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This is what I worry about as well.

To be sure: if this is a good faith approach to Unification, it should be up to the respective peoples to decide what their political fate ultimately is. I don't see the South Koreans willingly wishing to be ruled by the Kim regime.

But if its a ploy to get the US out so that Kim can strong arm the South Koreans... that is bad news.
The EFF opposes the Right to be Forgotten. Some of their staff talked about it at Defcon two years back. In too many cases it simply leads to censorship.

Freedom of speech, and its implementation by the Supreme Court in the US, makes this kind of legislation impossible.

There are trade offs. Even if you can afford to get your criminal record expunged, data collection firms can still hold a copy of your record while it was public; so it can still show up on some background checks.

We need to move away from the stigma of lifetime labels more than we need to be able to erase the past.
High level languages made it easier to write complicated programs without shooting yourselves in the foot.

Big 5 want to hire like crazy is a myth.