skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had thought it was Peiwei as well but Peiwei doesn't serve korean BBQ bimibap (maybe its their newest item and I haven't seen it yet). Everything else in the story matched 100% with Peiweis decision making.

Peiwei has had some... questionable management choices in my opinion. They revamped their website not once, but twice overhauling it with a new webstack in the last 2-3 years. Everytime its been changed, its gotten significantly worse to order online. They originally had a perfectly fine site built in PHP now its in ASP.net. They had broken functionality on their chile ramen noodles for about 3-6 months which is strange because I reported the issue to corporate and it didn't get fixed.

I didn't quite understand their marketing strategy until I read this article. I remember when poke bowls were introduced. Then dandan noodles. Then thai peanut noodles (which was removed). They are trying to do everything, which never works out at the end. Peiwei has a lacking brand identity, they do everything but at an extremely mediocre level.

They just.. simply are copying the current trends. Japanese / Korean fusion used to be the hottest trend in this market. Then it shifted towards hawaiin and pokebowls. Now the current hot trend I would say is streetfare food / tapas (taiwan, singapore, and thai).

Source: I eat at peiwei maybe once a month for 3+ ish years, personally have met the owner of Panda Express, and consulted with many growing restaurant and national chains as well.
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In their defense, I do like the quick answer buttons sometimes. There's lots of cases where "Okay, thanks!" or "Got it, will do" is all I need and if it offers that, great, one click and done.
That's 'The Space Merchants' taken to an extreme.
Definitely. I'm not one to chant "legalize and regulate" at every vice in society, but this is one case where we should most definitely legalize and regulate.

When I said there was no good solution I was thinking more for people who want sex without paying for it.
I understand, but that's such an "old world" style. It's like building a datacentre, in the age of cloud computing, simply because owning big iron is an indicator of success (all the big boys have datacentres, right?).

In IT, tbh, I think we should just own it. There are more productive and creative ways to send out that sort of signal.
I could see why they don't jump into the review verification side though. If they acquired one of these apps or built their own and another fake review comparison engine outperformed Amazon's, they'd have to deal with the backlash of why theirs isn't good enough.

It feels a lot like Consumer Reports to me, where the reviews of products are handled separately from the vendor.
Mapbox is a better product and a better development experience. It's also a better styling experience. It's a great case study on the pursuit of quality as a way to draw people in.
Brands are our gods
The "smart" autofilling of details like address and subject matter are interesting and possibly useful, but I am disgusted by the idea of letting google talk for me.
I don't think so, I think this is for professional users. Grandma is not gonna realize that the slightly greyed out text is not already there, and also that tab actually writes out the text for her.
Is this some kind of belated April Fool's joke?
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
Yes, and any organisation of that scale will have bureaucracy. My point is that he could avoid needing to build another one by using a fund that already exists and has a proven track record.
Google News Revamped – News Aggregator Using Reinforced Learning
> But still leaves the window wide open to sneak-and-peek to mirror the drive of a matchbook left in a hotel room, and then later acquire the phone.

MacBooks have full disk encryption so you’d have to break that, too, but since we’re talking movie plots rather than real-world risks for most people take a moment to think about what else they could do with physical access: install a camera to record passwords, drug your water glass, or simply have someone demand you unlock it or else. If you’re Jason Bourne you need more than a consumer OS gives you out of the box.
Thank you for your decision.

From Milton Glaser’s essay, Ambiguity & Truth:

> Let me read you the road to hell, a series of questions that become more difficulty the deeper you go. the first couple are easy, would you—

> 1. Design a package to look larger on the shelf?

> 2. Do an ad for a slow-moving, boring film to make it seem like a lighthearted comedy?

> 3. Design a crest for a new vineyard to suggest that it’s been in business for a long time?

> 4. Design a jacket for a book whose sexual content you find personally repellent?

> 5. Design an advertising campaign for a company with a history of known discrimination in minority hiring?

> 6. Design a package for a cereal aimed at children, which has low nutritional value and high sugar content?

> 7. Design a line of t-shirts for a manufacturer who employs child labor?

> 8. Design a promotion for a diet product that you know doesn’t work?

> 9. Design an ad for a political candidate whose policies you believe would be harmful to the general public?

> 10. Design a brochure piece for an SuV that turned over more frequently than average in emergency conditions and caused the death of 150 people?

> 11. Design an ad for a product whose continued use might cause the user’s death?

> When i gave this test to students between the ages of 21 to 28, i discovered that in a group of 20, 3 or 4 of them were willing to go all the way—that is, participate in
advertising a product whose use might cause the user’s death. these were generally idealistic young people as yet seemingly uncorrupted by money or professional life. However, they drew the line at harming their family, friends or neighbors.

https://www.miltonglaser.com/files/Essays-Ambiguity-8192.pdf
A study that shows the price variability of app development
I don't have the studies handy, but the general consensus is that you're gonna have a bad time if your team spans more than nine time zones.

In practice what this means is if you're based in the US, you can either focus on having teams in Europe or Asia, but not both.
Hey! A quick backstory - we were working with businesses to offer text-based counselling to their employees and found that everyone that we spoke to at these companies had a friend that wanted to use our service too. So we just launched spill for the public. You can sign up on the site and I'm happy to answer any questions :)
What's the best way to reuse those js visualisations from powerbi elsewhere? Has anyone tried it? Is the model well documented?
I don't think a native English speaker would benefit much from this feature. But as someone for whom English is a second language, I am sure that I would have appreciated this when I was less fluent in English.

I am now trying to learn French, and I find myself searching to the most trivial sentences in linguee.fr. Learning grammar and vocabulary is one thing; knowing the idiomatic way to express one's message is an entirely different beast. Things that might seem obvious to a native speaker, e.g. the difference between "I'm fine" and "I'm good," are completely unapproachable for a non-native speaker for the first few years of using the language. Now that I am fluent in English, I would find this feature annoying. But I wish I had access to something like this 10 years ago.
Clippy 2.0.
Google's smart displays will start shipping in July
Google Assistant will call businesses and schedule appts for you on the phone
Except that with many governments, you have democratic or procedural recourse (When some low level clerk at the DMV arbitrarily cancels your driver's license, you can almost certainly escalate, demand more transparency, etc. When some low level clerk at Amazon closes your account, you are screwed. Appeals will give you no transparency.)

With business, your only recourse is the equivalent of moving to a different country.

It's the perfect storm of bureaucracy, the-computer-said-it-so-it-must-be-true, for-profit motives, and lack of transparency.
Nope, you are confused about the meaning of cam-out. Flat head is actually significantly less likely to cam out than pretty much any screw fastener type besides inverted hex (allen). Cam out is when the torque applied acts to ramp the driver out of the fastener. The problem with flat head is that drivers do not self center, making them poor choices for power tools.
There's a reason flat head screws are still used extensively in firearms manufacture, and it definitely isn't a manufacturing convenience. Carefully driving a flathead screw is much less likely to damage the finish of the fastener, provided the correct driver is used.
Agree. While predictive keyboard is really helpful on mobile (the Windows Phone one was amazing) because it's inconvenient to type on a small on-screen keyboard, and some daily-life interactions are repetitive, on the email side it is the reverse that's apply: most (personal) mails are a priori different in content and a physical keyboard does not justify external helping system. Especially that being a Goole product, you can be sure they will reused everything you type to know more about you.
I think Amazon sends emails saying "someone has asked a question about this product," which can make it seem like someone asked YOU, even though they send the email to a lot of people.
Dont do this in production without backup tools but we use unsupervised learning for anomaly detection. We're machine learnists so this is natural for us and we originally built the system for a mega Corp and made it open source (though not all parts are yet public). Catch is it's not real time but he system outputs outliers every few hours or daily depending of the size of your traffic (daily for around 50M proxy daily logs). Outliers are then reviewed by scripts and few operators / analysts.
On Android no data connection is made, when a connection on the data pins is detected one is offered, but as far as I can tell no device is even detected by the OS until after picking a mode, nothing to attack.

Let me know if I'm missing something, but I get no change in Device Manager/dmesg when plugging my phone in, indicating no data connection to me. It would appear the entire data connection is disabled until a mode is picked.
WebAssembly isn't a higher risk than JavaScript — what's a higher risk is increasing the use of JavaScript and/or WebAssembly.

I fear that in the not-too-distant future web pages will simply be blobs of WebAssembly which paint UIs within a browser, and general-purpose computers will have become TV terminals — but TV terminals which allow the modern equivalents of networks & newspapers to steal one's private information.
https://douglas-fraser.com/FakeReviews/index.html

If anyone is interested... it is my dissertation on developing ML ensembles to classify reviews as fake or not, strictly using features derived from textual analysis (deception theory, stylometry, etc). Behavioral type features, like IP address and relationships between spamming accounts are more useful, but the text still has some value. At some point, I will expand this to using actual Amazon reviews, but I had to drop that idea just to get the dissertation done on time.

Several years ago, the percentage of fake reviews was estimated at 2 to 6%, so I'm sure it has increased to (gut feeling) probably like 10% these days. Is that "tiny"? A really good stat to calculate would be the percentage of products that have more than just a few fake reviews - such that the consumer is given a bad impression. That stat probably is not "tiny" and thus creates the perception Amazon reviews are useless.
I have seen a huge increase in product listings being changed from one item to something completely different.

For example, a listing had reviews from prior to 1/18 that mentioned how the product was a metallic ruler however the product page had been completely changed and it was now selling USB wall chargers, using the positive reviews previously posted for credibility. I haven't seen this scam mentioned much. I'd imagine it is people selling their old, unused Amazon product pages to someone else.
The whole point of the article is that not everybody is able to use javascript, for a variety of reasons, and it makes perfect sense for apps to provide as close to equivalent functionality as is practicable.
I despise the homogenization of thought that these tools lead to. My words are my own, even my typos.
What's the point of humans
What is the n-body problem?
Exactly what I was going to say, great thoughts. It's a challenge, but keep it up OP!
Neutral mutations can simply be ignored for answering the question posed above. Gort asked:

"isn't it possible, at least in theory, that mutation happened more than once?"

The answer is obviously "yes". Even taking your own words, the answer is clearly "yes", so I'm not clear why you are arguing. Even in the extreme case, where mutations lead to death 99.9999% of the time, the answer would remain "yes". Your own math shows the answer is "yes". I'm sure you know what convergent evolution is:

http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/thoc/convergence.html

As it says there:

"Molecules can evolve convergently"

I think you wanted to make the point that this is rare. You should have said so. You could have answered gort by saying "Yes, but this is rare." Instead, you've taken an indefensible position.
So even those with socialist political views can't have their jokes anymore? This is getting interesting. Look, I'm pro-life and anti-abortion but let the man keep his joke. It's not that big of deal.
Weird, someone else pointed out the same thing on stackexchange around the same time I did. I guess they must have come from here.
Is it profitable / worth the effort?

The US has 300 some million people. India has a billion some.

If you can't find an employee in those two countries, it seems you have other problems? (or add 1 or 2 more if you want to spread it around).

Not that there are not great people in all countries. But opening your resume pool from say 1.5 billion people to 3 billion people is unlikely to have a huge benefit to hiring.
totally agree with you on zoom -- also, zoom's slack plugin makes starting meetings quite easy.
So you're willing to euthanize everyone currently alive, as well as the countless billions that will be alive in the future, all based on the hypothetical risk of someone you don't like being in power? Good grief.

Tell me, what is it you believe that hypothetical future dictator will do that is worse than killing billions?
The majority cheers for parental control. Having control over a child's laptop comes as psychologically obvious to most parents.
#4 is the most pressing. I have a fully remote team, and we try to make sure as much communication is asynchronous as possible. But sometimes, you just need a few people to work together in real time.

And right now that means dealing with a terrible video conferencing experience and not having a good shared whiteboard solution.

If you could figure out a way to realistically replicate "a bunch of people around a whiteboard", then I will pay you money for your product.
I closed it after 20 minutes or so.

I gotta hope that if I were at the helm of a multi billion dollar company that had been operating efficiently for years, I would take MUCH bigger risks than Google.

The projects in this keynote were incredibly boring, and some of them borderline useless. Leave that stuff for smaller companies to tackle, Google. Take on big problems.
Why does Stripe get a % of my income?

Why isn't this capped at, say, $10 or at most $50?

No other bank does this (they only take interest).
Alright. To each their own.
Theme that I see is branding that besides engineering smarts, Google is likable, thoughtful, someone you'd want as your friend. Leading with the hamburger emoji to move the image of Google as more fun / regular human. and IMHO think its well done.
AI is so important to Google it’s rebranding its research division
Seems to be click bait. No examples of "Male Anger" in the article, aside from a 2011 mass shooting. And Googling for a differential in employment doesn't show much either.

Can anyone from Norway comment?
If you want to see a bunch of fake reviews, search for Instant Pot cookbooks and read the reviews for those.
A Sakai water-quenched sashimi knife will set you back $1200. A perfectly adequate yanagi can be had for $60. A truly skilled, dedicated cook might own the $1200 knife, because they work with it all day long and having the best, most finely-crafted knife available to them might make the work more pleasant. At the same time, rich morons who treat knives as Veblen goods are bidding up the prices on the Sakais. Is it "fair" that only the elite and the wealthy get the water-quenched sashimi knives, while plenty of serious journeyman cooks make do with the $60 knife?

If the answer is "no, it's not fair", that's fine. But I'd be interested in an argument about the insanity of font licensing that didn't depend on us relitigating capitalism.

You are priced out of all sorts of things. Among them: very high-end typefaces, which are licensed to ad agencies, Fortune 500 company marketing departments, and major periodicals. You can shell out some extra cash to use the same fancy typefaces they do, or you can use serviceable free typefaces.

I'm not seeing the insanity or the unfairness.

To me, typefaces are almost the platonic ideal of a good whose pricing can't really reasonably be challenged. Nobody needs them. Every deployment of a commercially licensed typeface is a vanity. Vanity is fine! But it's never an entitlement.
> But that wasn't core to my point, which was that the criticism of bail bonds last a coherent value system and model the problem such that can consistently identify improvements, and instead, just responds with outrage at every proposal.

The critics not only don't lack such a vision, there is a fairly consistent outline of an alternative proposed, and it's even had an implementation in the District of Columbia for a couple of decades.
Amazon sends out mails asking the question A not very tech savvy person could misunderstand that and post a q&a answer by answering the mail.
Google IO Live Stream
My (former) company's experience report: https://medium.com/@davidrupp/we-actually-built-a-remote-tea.... Less about HR/Legal, more about culture and approach.
>I don't see any easy answers to Amazon's problems.

Machine learning is the obvious hot answer. If you could train a model on how accounts that tend to post bad accounts behave (like another reply said, do they browse a lot? do they tend to hit every product they order via a direct link?), you can set up a decent filter. Even things humans might not necessarily notice, like what time of day they tend to write their reviews or their zip code; AMZN has a treasure trove of data to work with.

Given the other story about AMZN on the front page currently (the book publisher's account being suspended), AMZN probably isn't afraid to let the AI ban accounts straight out and let them apply for reinstatement.

But then again, I also saw something today (sorry can't remember where) that the Data Scientists are all 100% engaged in building models that make people buy more, not fixing things. Because honestly, does this problem make that many people avoid AMZN completely? No.
Did you maybe miss out on installing the firmware update for the store prior to the deadline? https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Iirc they were disabling some old SSL stuff (either sha1 or weak ciphers) that the old firmwares relied on. If that's your problem you just need to manually update and it should work again.
It's self centered because you have already crossed that bridge.
I guess I don't understand the purpose. If a high degree of formalization, typing and namespacing is required, why not use full-blown XML with namespaces and schemas?
So why exactly are people suddenly up in arms about this?

How's it different from opening up your android phone and using google's spellcheck, with algorithms that predict your next word when you're typing?

Never seen such atrociously negative comments to what's essentially a cool feature you can disable.

PS: How many of the outraged people here are actually voting with their wallet and paying for something like Fastmail? (https://www.fastmail.com)
It is a minimum (for the noted offense). Also, your language is out of place.

From http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-5419-2016-IN...

Article 83:

Section 4:

> Infringments of the following provisions shall, in acccordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 10 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:

Section 5:

> Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:
Oh no, more autocomplete!

I don't see it as much scarier than tab-completion while programming or on a phone. As long as you're watching over it and fixing mistakes, it's just a convenience.
The domestic banking of a single small country is enough. You're talking about like 4m people getting paychecks every couple weeks at minimum. Paycheck deposits alone is more transactions than all of bitcoin.

There is no way the numbers come out in bitcoins favor here, the scale just isn't there.
>I'd add that this culture-setting rolls down from management -- if they aren't setting a good example, others will falter and the remote-supporting culture will fall apart.

As someone who works at HQ for a local-first company with a significant contingent of remote workers in two satellite offices, it's _exhausting_ to be the developer in the corning who has to say "can we make sure the remote guys can hear OK" or "got a ping from Dan, remote guys aren't getting sound" in every single meeting.

Our office infra guy got a microphone with a padded box around it that you can toss around during the full company meetings so remote people can hear audience questions. The execs talking at these meetings have never once said "hey make sure we pass around the mic," it is always someone sending a text onto the big presentation hangout screen from a remote office saying "can you repeat the questions too please?" while the mic sits there on the little table right fucking next to the main speaker every single time.

When the managers and leadership don't care enough to prioritize it, it's almost impossible to change the culture around supporting remote team members.
I was wondering if you were the same person with different account names on different sites! Evidently not.
Not really. They could allow accessory protocols while disabling everything else. The only sensitive thing we care about is "usbmuxd" or whatever the protocol for iOS sync & backup is.
I don’t understand the sentiment of the comments here (I’m no google fan!). Isn’t that just the natural evolution of word prediction like on a smartphone?
Smart reply/compose might be the most dystopian thing I've seen come out of Google, which is saying something. Beyond the obvious reduction in conversational authenticity, it threatens to homogenize our voices themselves.

I would imagine that after you've been saying "close enough" for a while, the smart replies start to warp the way you phrase things mentally, instead of the other way around.
I'm simply pointing out that "the reason" cited is not the sole reason. No amount of effort will turn a book on Factor or SML into $400k of revenue.
Why do I want this?

At this point we might as well do away with the pre-structured responses and just send single a single emoji as a response. It'd get the same message across.