skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, as a buyer, I'm finding the same to be true of Amazon. There was a time where I would just trust Amazon to have the lowest prices and to have legitimate reviews. That time is long gone.

Anything higher than 4 stars is now taken with a grain of salt. I'm running every listing through fakespot.com and even then, I still have to research the reviews to verify the items are actually any good. I'm certain that I've decided against purchasing an item because the reviews looked too good. It just screams "FAKE!"

But the biggest issue (and headache/hassle) I have with Amazon reviews is the mixed reviews they lump together for different items. This just recently bit me in the ass when I totally missed that an item I purchased had a bunch of 1 star reviews, but was lumped together with a much more popular item boosting the item(s) to a 4 star review. That was a month ago, and I've refused to purchase from Amazon because the headache just isn't worth it. Amazon's customer service is great - but I'm tired of having to deal with them...

Factor in actual co-mingling of items (I've been the victim of this as well) and now I can't even trust that the item I ordered from Amazon is even real. As a seller, I hope you understand that as a buyer, I no longer have faith in the item you are selling actually being sold by you. At least with eBay, where there is no fulfillment, I'm working directly with the company.
I wonder if the President has considered recognizing Taiwan. What would the ramifications be? Call the Chinese bluff. It's the right thing to do, and if the US will, I think others will follow.
I am arguing there is no real difference between tying, and not selling to 3rd parties at all and only using your product in a vertically integrated business. Vertical integration amounts to tying with extremely onerous requirements that only the selling company (i.e. Apple) can meet.
From the original paper:

"In this example, the point estimate for each parameter is
0.1, so the product of point estimates is a probability of 1 in a billion. Given a
galaxy of 100 billion stars, the expected number of life-bearing stars would be
100, and the probability of all 100 billion events failing to produce intelligent
civilizations can be shown to be vanishingly small: 3.7×10 ^−44

[...]

However, the result is extremely different if, rather than using point estimates,
we take account of our uncertainty in the parameters by treating each
parameter as if it were uniformly drawn from the interval [0, 0.2]. Monte Carlo
simulation shows that this actually produces an empty galaxy 21.45 % of the time."

I take this to mean that collapsing a range into a single point will artificially inflate that point, and instead you need to look at the number of possible outcomes, not the average of all outcomes.

From the related blog post:

"Imagine we knew God flipped a coin. If it came up heads, He made 10 billion alien civilization. If it came up tails, He made none besides Earth. Using our one parameter Drake Equation, we determine that on average there should be 5 billion alien civilizations. Since we see zero, that’s quite the paradox, isn’t it?"

That seems like a consistent reading to me. Maybe I'm wrong - I take it you would draw a different conclusion?

Edit: No, thinking about it more and reading some other posts, I kind of get what you're saying. I'm still not really sure I'd call that a paradox though. It still seems to suggest to me that we may not need to rely on any of the really big theories to describe why we don't see life.
AI plus a chemistry robot finds all the reactions that will work
Ask HN: Why would you choose to buy good from sites other than Amazon?
Why do people use other online shops/retailers other than Amazon, for reasons other than limited access to rare/special-interest products where other companies may be better serving those niches? I am curious about what other retailers do better than Amazon, or other reasons people don’t always choose it, considering the convenience and low prices it provides, and other benefits such as Prime etc. Mostly interested in perceived shortcomings with the Amazon sites itself.
Sure, I have no problem at all with the commission’s findings or forcing Google to change its business practices.

But I find it weird when then people are shocked that google says it may make android proprietary. What exactly did people expect to happen? That Google would decide to develop Android as an act of charity to handset manufacturers and mobile carriers?
Same here in my poor country. It's either superhero or ultra-action movies or nothing. I still dream to watch a nice drama movie in a cinema.
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I too enjoy letting my immune system take care of the gangrene that developed after minor surgery.
+1 to that. There are also foods that the mom can normally eat no problem, but the kid's either going to have allergies to, or more common just not be able to digest. For example, eat a lot of broccoli, and that is guaranteed farts. Farts by themselves aren't bad, but if it's keeping your baby's belly inflated and makes it hard to sleep, well there goes your sleep!

Little babies are fascinating. Have fun, explore, trust but verify. And lastly, your baby usually knows what's up, and you do too. Don't let the "common wisdom" to tell you otherwise.
I forgot about the Programmer-Archeologist! Another point from (I think) these novels that stuck with me was Vinge's description of the "software midden heap". I'd like to think we can clean up some middle layers from our computing stack in the future, but with some old software only available in emulators (possibly running in WebAssembly in a browser), I am not so sure.

In fact, I realized I made an nearly identical comment here on Hacker News back in 2011. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2702231
The entire school system is based on how bad they were, how many bad things they did and how how everyone in Germany should never repeat the same mistakes again. Ok, I'm exaggerating a bit, but that's the general idea. I think Germany was one of the only countries to actually deal, accept and discuss openly in society the atrocities they did in WWII. So it's not just banning and getting over denial.
As another anecdote, in my < 30 (Dutch) urban surroundings people seem to be quite open about going to therapy and even talking about the details and what medication that might be on.
How to Use Bureaucracies
Leave No Trace and The Rider look amazing. Thanks for sharing.
The High Price of a Michelin Guide
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I am surprised that author was surprised about the "teacake" being sweet. I am not native speaker and yet it seems obvious to me. Cake is something sweet by design for few centuries already. Even if that's not the case, teacake's name suggest it's consumed with tea. If that assumption is correct, it's pretty common, in many cultures around the world, to have something sweet with tea to contrast the bitter flavor. Does it work differently in UK?

When you think about it, author doesn't discover anything new. It is common in any country big enough to get few regions and relatively rich cuisine to have a different/regional names for the same or similar dishes. Staple food (like bread) is the best example because, usually, it is ubiquitous in certain area.
> YAML is a superset of JSON

Actually it isn't. That was left as an afterthought and IMHO as a trick to try to ride the coat tails of JSON. YAML in the wild is a god-awful mess that bears no resemblance to JSON. To me YAML's only purpose is to enable lazy people like me to take notes in a text editor with code folding and syntax highlighting.
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You can restrict in .htaccess
Wow, I'm playing with https://strawberryfields.ai/ and I literally do not understand a single word or concept on the page.
Make sure that your talk fits the timeslot.

I find it helpful to go train the whole talk with a metronome (at a slowish tempo) to have an upper bound on how much time the talk will take.
iOS 12 beta 4 requires device to be unlocked before connecting USB accessories
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The lack of comments is not a flaw but one of JSON's many virtues which takes into account the many lessons in life on how comments are used ans abusef to extend a basic format with ad-hoc directives. Evenso, anyone who wishes to support comments in JSON is free to do so by employing a filter.
Second that. Super counter-intuitive point, at least in the American society, but little kids need a lot of sleep. Put them to bed early (start your dinner at 5, and bath right after), and they will get lots of rest, while giving you all the time to do something while they are asleep.
Tbh, to me the title "Unveil parts of a restricted filesystem view" read like it was about a hack.
I think it's a reference to "Last Thursdayism"?

> Last Thursdayism (alternately Last Tuesdayism! or Last Wednesdayism) is the idea that the universe was created last Thursday, but with the physical appearance of being billions of years old.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism
Why not "restrict"?
Undercover Facebook moderator was instructed not to remove hate speech
There are wide varieties of corals and of their symbionts. To claim that they are all simultaneously going extinct in all seas and microclimates is absurd, and contradicts the evidence of their repeated adaptations to past climate variations over 500 million years as well as ignores the observation of their thriving across countless local seasonal and weather variations.
This was helpful. That wasn't the way that I was reading the original paper, but I think I see what you're saying.
who is your audience? where are they starting from? know this before going in.

get there very early and check that the tech is sorted.

have a short list of explicit goals - feel free to write them out.

practice at least once, for real, out loud. If no one will help, present the talk to a stuffed bear.

do not read your slides to the audience.

expect live demos to fail - have a practiced contingency plan.

no lewd illustrations and don't put people down - you are in a position of responsibility.

at the end, sum up.
Optimism vs. Complacency vs. Pessimism
My opinion is that Disney got us rather simplistic and formulaic fan fiction sequels with overblown visual effects, while treading all over the real thing (the SW Expanded Universe).

While the stories from the EU were of varying quality, at least they were interesting. These Disney sequels are so predictable and uninteresting it's not even funny.

Fortunately, each of us gets to pick their own canon. For me, it will always be books by Timothy Zahn, and Disney can't do anything at all to the physical copies that I have on my shelf.
Chilipad is a complete lifesaver. I am a hot sleeper (sweat in a 55 degree room with just a sheet), and it can keep me so cold that I shiver if I don't turn it up.

It's a super chintzy product, not well made at all, but I am unaware of any substitute for it at any price or quality.
Know you're talking about. That alone will make the talk more natural, as you'll be able to adapt to your audience due to having knowledge outside of just your research.

This was the biggest change between the presentations I had to give in high school and the ones in college and above. In high school, the topic was usually given to us, whereas in college and later, I got to choose the topic I was most knowledgeable about. The latter meant I was more passionate, more able to answer audience questions and more able to tailor the delivery to the audience.

One piece of advice I heard was that if you absolutely have to talk about a topic you're not familiar with, talk about being a beginner in that topic. Talk about your perspective as an outsider learning that topic in the first place.
This is all by unfortunate necessity, certainly not by choice.
The very raison d’etre of languages like TypeScript that transpile to JavaScript is because of the flaws of this hack language that simply found itself in the right place at the right time in history
Whilst I personally agree that talks are better when you learn something new, there seem to be whole conferences dedicated to intentionally restating the same things over and over again. Its almost as if some people go to these events to have their ideas _confirmed_. Project management conferences I am looking at you!
Is sandboxing on macOS not exactly this (albeit with a different API)?
I love Isaac Arthur, I look forward to his stuff every week. I listen to him using Pocket Casts, although the visuals can also be very nice.
The men and women who brought curry to Birmingham
Pinot: a realtime distributed OLAP datastore
This might be blessing in disguise for Palau - it will be devoid of Chinese tourists and a quieter place for other tourists.
It would be a decent undertaking to build two websites with comparable but different content to test search rank. It is also very probably that the search ranking algorithm is nondeterministic.
Configuring Kestrel in ASP.NET Core 2.1
I wonder if Google could say "Android is free in the entire world, except Europe where it costs $500"
Banning the spreading of ideas requires control of information, yes.
> I surprises me that the author doesn't list XML as an option.

The author points out that in his opinion the fact that JSON objects are sandwiched between brackets makes the language overly verbose. By the same reasoning this makes XML an unusable absurd mess of a language, even without taking into account all the boilerplate code.
Because JS has been the only browser native language.

As for Unity, I am not so sure about it.

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2017/08/11/unityscripts-long-ride-...
Did you read the article? Did you not notice the quality of this bed?

I mean, I don't mean to shit on the article. The article itself is awesome, and I love taking this hacker mindset to other aspects of our lives. And writing a good article about it flexes a different, valuable skill. But if I ordered a mattress from a company and got this, I'd be (justifiably) upset.
What are hash functions
One of my earlierst HN Comments is describing my desire to work for Valve because their self-organized style seemed to be the utopia I always dreamed about. Back then I thought I didn't have what it takes to even Interview. Maybe I didn't, still I feel I've dodged a massive bullet.
So are 3d engines. It all depends on size of operands. Constant factors are important.
And why do they need domination so much?

Is it another battle for the attention of the consumer?
It is not in their best interest to be open about everything. From their perspective it is better to leave it a mystery and allow people to assume that it does negatively affect your rank to not use their services. Whether it does or does not affect it. From your perspective, you need a good ranking? You get GA.
Right but is there really any reason why the implementation should call strncmp or anything that would be costlier than a bitwise AND? It's not like "r" reads better than O_RDONLY.
Just as a guideline, I’ve found that about 1 slide per minute (with not a ton of text per slide) is pretty good. This has worked for me for topics ranging from graduate level math to programming topics.
Fakevim doesn't support :wqal or even some basic movements and range specifiers. It may be usable but it's hardly an elegant implementation that only misses "crazy ex commands".
Ethical issues in artificial intelligence
"a long aisle with all the bread London had to offer." - to be fair it sounds like that's what a single shop had to offer. But it is true that the majority of bread sold in the UK is terrible (made cheaply following the Chorleywood process as mentioned in a sibling comment). The bread in your picture looks like some kind of pumpernickel or rye - most supermarkets have that - the German ones (Lidl/Aldi) do for sure.

London isn't culturally homogenised (although certain central parts are a bit, especially the touristy areas). You can find all kinds of exotic and amazing foods in London - in part because there are many many different immigrant communities scattered around the various boroughs. But you aren't going to find them in one day, or in a supermarket or shopping mall, so it's not a quick or easy thing for someone on a short visit. Even living there for years a lot of people end up getting intimate with what's available in 2 or 3 boroughs and miss out on everything else.
There isn't a platform on earth where developers don't have to worry about their app working on all devices.
Upgrade Insecure Requests
Ever wonder why Windows cmd feels so ancient?
You say to have minimal HTML. So I'd say phone a friend for the UI/UX - Don't under estimate how much work has to go into the front end of web apps. In my experience users now expect full rich applications in their browsers, and the effort required to create that typically ends up being 80% of the work.

The backend always basically ends up just being functions to shove data in/out of database tables - which is kinda easy.
With patience, lot of it. Like multiplying estimated time between first contact and sale by 10.
Yes, the link I gave pointed that out. I just questioned that he hadn't found a link since there are so many studies available. If there are associations between sleeping lock and many illnesses then of course sleeping long could be an indication of an issue.
Always do at least 1 full rehearsal with a timer, preferably two full rehearsals where the first one you do keep a timer but also have a notebook (physical) present to quickly write down adjustments you want to make.

Do a live demo, people love live demo's, but be prepared for when disaster strikes (it will), if possible run your live demo on a physical device with you during the presentation.

Most places allow you to have 2 devices connected, or quickly switch the HDMI cable to the demo machine.

Do not use a linux machine, I know this sounds harsh, but with all the types of beamers/screens out there, a windows or mac machine will just have a much higher success rate. (I learnt this the hard way, in the end I could choose between mirrored 640*480 or full hd on the beamer only, which makes live demos much harder).

Create short slides, the slides are there to guide you and the audience. Try to prevent reading the slides out loud.

Use images and videos, they can tell more then a thousand words.

I often use the STAR approach to tell my story, this helps structure your talk. You don't need to follow star exactly, but if trying to explain something, it often helps to first give a bit of background why you did what you did.

Make sure you let the audience know if and when you will be answering questions, some talks really benefit from interactivity, but if you are short on time, let people know they can ask their questions later (perhaps add a slide at the end with sources and your contact information).

Also, relax, the audience has already decided they want to listen to your presentation.
Plenty of good suggestions here already. Some I've not seen mentioned yet:

Books:

Hacking, 2nd edition (some specifics are out of date, but it teaches hacking by teaching how the relevant pieces of a computer work which is still valuable)

Anything else from https://nostarch.com/catalog/security that looks relevant to your specific interests

Hands-on practice:

OverTheWire: http://overthewire.org/wargames/ (wargames to ease you into things)

WeChall: https://www.wechall.net/ (challenge site directory that'll help you pick challenge sites based on your topic of interest)

+Ma's Reversing: http://3564020356.org/ (old reverse engineering site/community - mostly dead as far as I know but the puzzles will still challenge you and the old articles you can unlock make it a bit of a hacking museum)

CTF Time: https://ctftime.org/ (A directory/calendar of tons of CTFs you can play in)

Pwn Adventure: http://www.pwnadventure.com/ (A vulnerable MMO server/client designed to demonstrate common game vulnerabilities)

VulnHub: https://www.vulnhub.com/ (A repository of deliberately vulnerable VMs you can host and attack in your security lab)
You can update your application up until Aug 13.
You can actually undervolt and underclock any Intel CPU, Unlocked ones are just unlocked in the "up" direction.
He's not that knowledgeable. I mean he claims to be a liberal yet advocates for impoverishing the laboring classes by giving them backdoor paycuts:

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...
Isn't the same as what the USA did against Cuba or Iran or some countries against Israel?

Boycotts are quite powerful tools to achieve your goal so it make sense that country try this.
This is my favorite documentary on the subject:

https://archive.org/details/BBCHorizonS1997e13TheVirusThatCu...
what does mugging mean here?
Resources I like that haven't been mentioned yet:

Offensive Computer Security (used to be a class at FSU):
http://hackallthethings.com/ocs.php

https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~redwood/OffensiveComputerSecurity/le... (2014 version)

Opensecuritytraining (various stuff on different topics):
http://opensecuritytraining.info/Welcome.html
Code that assumes that is wrong today already. In fact there is no time.Day constant in the Go standard library
So a whole article on the perfect hook, with nice photos, but they didn’t include one of he perfect hook they designed? Anybody found one?
I have a node-red instance that does a similar thing, to allow drag-n-drop programming (Including UI), and (using dnr) heterogeneous cluster processing on mobiles (ios and android).

It starts a node-red server on the device, and uses cordova to host the webview.

I'm in the process of adding an ag-grid node so you can do complex UIs in the dev environment on the phone/tablet.

https://github.com/alexisread/noreml
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1. Describe the problem you're trying to solve.

2. Describe your approach to solving it.

In general, have something to say, know your stuff, and the rest will flow naturally.
what do the 0,0 mean here?
Fortunately for Gabe Newell, it's extremely difficult to fire him for running his own company this way, and indeed, this methodology likely only serves to cement his authority to remain relevant and in control of anything that truly matters.
I'm wondering now, what makes immune systems fail? In other words, if our only option were to help immune cells do their job (instead of doing it for them), where would we start?
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Roadster too?
> practice of these mega corporations merging and acquiring ever larger shares of the entire media (and news) industry

Media and news is just media; news has always been part of the media industry.
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Go Barbados or Jamaica.
I am saying you chose what you regard as a legitimate ground to restrict speech on private platforms.

It's not ok to try to create a platform where people don't incite violence by lying. It is ok to create a platform where people can't express anything of a sexual nature.

It's cultural of course. After all in the US it is ok to have games where you shoot prostitutes but not where you sleep with one.
I write a weekly newsletter on this exact topic - you might find it useful :)

http://blog.voxgig.com/2018/07/13/welcome-voxgig-newsletter-...