skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I've had few troubles with fake reviews & ratings. Aggregate ratings and review are just one signal in a purchasing decision. If I'm buying something non-disposable, particularly if it costs more than $50, I almost always look at the top 3-4 products to compare features and scrutinize reviews carefully to look at hidden issues and tradeoffs. With this approach, fake reviews almost always fall in the same bucket as real ones that I perceive to be undiscerning or ignorant - I'm much more compelled by detailed reviews that mirror my own perspectives, interests, concerns, and thought processes. On the rare occasions that I wind up with something unsatisfactory, it's hardly an issue to take 3 minutes to get a full refund.

I also couldn't disagree with you more on how bad a deal Amazon is. Yes, you pay a premium on many things. On the other hand, that premium pays for itself 100+ times over due to the tremendous amount of time and frustration I save by virtue of not having to physically go somewhere to do the vast majority of my shopping. Furthermore, I also find huge value in being able to make careful, informed decisions about what I buy without time-pressure and other annoyances imposed by the physical world. I hate shopping at most stores and when I'm there the strong desire to leave as soon as I can tends to take precedence over making the smartest purchase. Overall I would say using Amazon for most of my shopping has greatly improved my quality of life due to these factors.
What Lies in the Path of the Revolution [pdf]
That there is a general tendency for the rate of profit across society to fall with time, subject to certain countervailing measures.
I ran an ISP in Oklahoma. I eventually moved our usenet to a hosted news server because the DA at the time was seizing hardware in the state.
Whenever something is critiqued and/or taken down it makes me feel curious like might be really worth a closer look. Fortunately we have the Internet Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20181201131617/https://blog.mozi...
> How much of an impediment to technological progress would not have being able to tame fire have been?

A real world example of this is the isolated tribe of North Sentinel Island (who recently killed an American Christian missionary who smuggled himself there to prosyletize).

As best we can tell, they appear to not have learned to harnessing fire to this day.

EDIT: although the first anthropologist to contact the Sentinelese claims otherwise:

https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/surpris...
I think making it harder to fence stolen goods is a better use of time than increasing the penalties for theft.
OneNote does the first three. AFAIK you need to use the screen snip tool for the second. You can use Windows-Key+G to screen record it.
Now determine the keypresses by filming the vibrations of a potato chip bag[0]

[0]http://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibr...
The bcachefs web site is definitely not up to date, although I still wouldn't recommend it for normal users before it goes upstream :)
>Knights could have been thugs or even warlords but they weren't. Not because they would have been stopped by the state, which were fairly small and weak at the time, but because they largely chose not to.

>And many crusaders went further than that. They chose a risky expedition often at a great expense of their families for no discernible earthly benefit.

Come on, is well established history that they often got shipped out on Crusade for being thugs. Itinerant knights were a huge problem during periods of peace, so they got told that if they pissed off to the holy land, their existing crimes would be forgiven and they could be absolved of future sin, as long as that sin was not being committed in Europe.
How to Write High-DPI Applications (2001)
> Use tough passwords and change them frequently.

This is a futile advice, no sane person is ever going to follow it. You can memorize a tough password or two but change them and memorize the new ones frequently... nope.

> Tweak your home assistants.

Don't use home assistants unless you are a kind of person who really doesn't mind broadcasting their whole life as a reality show without even being informed when you're on air. I can't imagine a reasonable privacy-caring person who would.
Here are other recent cases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503013, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18447094, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18378261. That is what we're asking you not to do.

HN threads are supposed to be thoughtful conversation—not cross examinations or verbal boxing matches, let alone setups to make other people look bad.
Trump Says He Plans to Withdraw from NAFTA
Paypal might be disclosing user's name by email
quite possibly. I think it's clear it will blow the iMac Pro out of the water, which is already not cheap.
Understood, but even if it's conspicuous, an endorser cannot lie about their experience with a product. Ahrefs included a sample script that was exactly that.
I tried to buy it but for some reason Paypal refuses to use my existing balance and instead asks for my card.

Is this something you can control on your end?
There are a lot of stories about worker exploration in the game industry. I guess as long as you don't end up in one of the bad ones or find one with a labour union [1]. GL!

1: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/23/17156472/game-developers-...
To me that signalled that Microsoft was now flexible, to go with what would lead to success rather than doggedly holding onto the past.
What websites do you visit which are that bad? I was an early adopter of adblock but about a year ago I turned it off to see what it was like and it has been totally fine so I haven't turned it back on.
But at least all imperative procedural steps are clearly understandable from source code given in many programming books. Where as maths books routinely leave out many steps in proofs and calculations, on top of many ambiguously used notations and terminology that can leave a self-student confused.
Very eloquently said.

A trend in the DL/ML research community is the strong and vocal distancing from discussing or approaching the problem of General Intelligence or anything which might look like sci-fi AI. You can see this with aggressive railing against silly robots like Sophia and others, which have gotten press.

I think this is warranted, and understandable as the field is so scared of another AI winter.

On the other hand it leaves the field without a real progress vector. Especially given that broadly, ML research isn't scientific as such. In other words, the vast majority of "research" is not around hypothesis testing and using computing to test questions about intelligence. Rather it's demonstrating increments of improvement within very narrow computing tasks.

I make that point not to diminish the work or results, as they've obviously been astounding. Rather, to point out that unlike basic or social sciences research it's not attempting to surface fundamental truths (theories, laws etc...) about some natural or emergent phenomena, but rather continuously benchmarking on narrow tasks - often without prior reference. Now that ILSVRC is gone, I'm wondering what kind of benchmarking is going to emerge as the new vector for the field.
iRealitatea analfabetilor: 100 de ani de mandrie
Really? The day I got my 4k TV I could see the difference the moment I put up some 4k content - I though to myself - holy shit, this is too good! Now I can see the difference when going back to HD the moment it happens :(
Likewise for a small procedure I had done.
I've moved from the East coast to the West coast and there's basically no difference in my view.
I once saw a nut-milk company at a Whole Foods giving out red hats that said "Let's Start a Cultural Revolution!"
The GRE is nonsense anyway so I wouldn't really take it as meaning much of anything. Just look at how awful the subject tests are to see why nobody should ever give GRE scores more than a passing glance.
This. Trying to categorically distinguish between English and German words gets more difficult when a lot of modern terminology just gets shipped over as loan words.
It seems like Amazon may have violated California law, and under CACI 1903 the buyers of items on the baby-registry list could have standing to sue Amazon for negligent misrepresentation:

Fact: "the item was added to the list by the list's creator"

1. Amazon represented to the buyer that the Fact was true.

2. Amazon's representation was not true.

3. Amazon had no reasonable grounds for believing the Fact
was true.

4. Amazon intended the Buyer to rely on this representation.

5. The Buyer reasonably relied on this representation.

6. The Buyer was harmed.

7. The Buyer's reliance on Amazon's representation was a substantial factor in causing the harm.

The core of the issue to puzzle over: How was the buyer of the gift harmed?

https://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/docs/caci/1900/1903...
There's a difference between small production cost videos and high production values videos: the former is more 'real' (in a way that reality TV definitely isn't, since reality TV is phony). People seem to like that 'real' quality.

It's not that higher production values wouldn't be accepted, but that those come with hired writers, actors, directors, high costs, and mass marketing to recoup those costs. The market can only support so much high-cost content, which means less variety than people want. Conversely, the market can support enormous variety in low-cost content.
The common man will stream 8k. Discs are slowly on their way out and local media servers are for people on hn doing their own and rich people buying things like the Stratos s.
Does it compare to Don Knuth, et al, "Concrete Mathematics: A foundation for Computer Science"?
Florescent light flicker is especially obvious if you get your eyes dilated. I thought I was tripping out or something after an eye appointment because of it.
Aw man, what a bummer :(
there are some features in pro version, but yeah its mostly open source
Every European reading this should call their local parlament representative and the EU authorities themselves and tell them their opinion on this subject (I know this kind of action can actually help in the EU).
LeCun basically said exactly that:

Since we have DL but don't yet have AGI, it's quite obvious to everyone that we are missing something.

I repeat: the interesting question is precisely what.

I repeat my claim: DL (defined as gradient-based learning of non-linear functions) will be part of the solution.

[1] https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1067114490955735040
red dead redemption was slow as well, but much better paced. at the time, it seems the tech and general style of red dead redemption made a strong departure from gta iv. the gunplay was very fun in my opinion in red dead redemption. the euphoria physics engine was really fantastic. when i got gta v, it was surprising how sluggish and clunky the gameplay was. it seems they didn't keep or integrate any of the tech from red dead redemption. maybe they did, but it wasn't noticeable. gta v was faster paced, particularly the driving, than gta iv, but the gunplay was still the same old. i was worried that red dead redemption 2 would follow more in the footsteps of gta v than red dead redemption, and that seems to have been the case. the gunplay in red dead redemption 2 is noticeably sloppier and more clunky than in red dead redemption 2.

i played red dead redemption for hundreds of hours, both in single player and in the online multiplayer, which was a blast. i haven't even finished red dead redemption 2, and have found myself very bored with the story and side missions. it's the same formula rockstar has used for years, and the AI is as superficial as ever. it can be a real slog riding around between missions. even though the guns look great, they and the aiming system is not as fun as red dead redemption.
Maybe they came from a gas planet and they came to invade the deep sea because that's what home looks like. Unfortunately, these super intelligent beings failed to understand that, on Earth, most of the fun happens on land.
I wasn't thinking about the question of a creator, per se.

I was thinking generally about the fallacy of seeking intentionality in evolution. There is a point to analyzing what happened, of course. It's just that too much "why" is dangerous.
I don't have cable, watch Netflix and steam from PC in 4k all the time - looks amazing. Netflix 4k is limited but they are adding more all the time.
I have had a Celestron microscope for many years, it has been rock solid.

It has a plug in LED light and also a mirror. You need to prepare slides of whatever you're looking at, as the light comes from below.
i don't want a cultural revolution!!!! please god no!!!!!
My graphics card had it terrible, well atleast until it died a two weeks ago. But it most often made the noise at an audible frequency during low power usage. When it got hit hard it stopped being a problem, but it could have just been pushing it outside of my audible range.
That’s the kind of thing a horny fourteen year old boy says. It’s funny to precisely no one.
> every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy, and very rarely does the original content creators actually benefit from having their works shared or altered on reddit

Almost every time I stumble upon a picture I really like I tineye it to find more works of the same author and a hi-res version perhaps. Some times this leads to discovering amazing artists on resources like DeviantArt and popularizing them everywhere continuously and even considering buying a print. I can see no reason how sharing a low to medium resolution version of a picture even without mentioning the author means any harm to the author but in cases when they prefer to keep their work secret. In fact I believe forcing everybody to contact the author to request a formal approval is much more harm to them and their profits.
3 hearts...It sounds like cell from dragonball
Ben Gamari's October 30 email (https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2018-October/016...) to the ghc-devs list proposed considering alternatives to Phabricator and outlines reasons that Phab wasn't working.

A summary of the problems outlined in the email:

* Lack of options for support from Phacility

* Free/open source components of Phabricator feeling half-finished because Phacility has redirected development resources to paid features

* Issues with Harbormaster (Phabricator's half-baked CI system)

* Developer's prefer using regular Git to Phabricator's nonstandard workflow, which requires installation of the Arcanist command-line tool (written in PHP to manage patches.
(A small note on your interchangeable use of reproducibility and replicability in research because they mean slightly different things.

reproducible: independently achieving the same result using existing data;

replicable: independently achieving the same result using new data.)
MacOS has been a buggy mess for years. From 2008 to 2014, I used to have three screens in front of me: Fedora (local dev server), Windows (Office and business apps), and OS X (iOS dev).

I had by far the most problems with OS X. Windows has been the “just works” OS for me since Windows 7. I’ve had zero bugs and zero crashes. I know that’s not universal, but I’ve spent thousands of hours with various Linux distros, MacOS, and Windows, so it’s also not exactly anecdotal.

The opinion part of that matters a lot less than the silly elitism of “good developers choose ____” OS. I like to be able to customize every aspect of my OS, so I preferred Linux for a long time and now typically use Windows (because it’s customizable enough and easier to use).
Thinking more about this, null object are meant to be neutral with respect to some behaviour, but that behaviour isn't really specified alongside the object. It seems like it's a weaker reinvention of the idea of an "identity element" from e.g., the `Monoid` typeclass. I say "weaker" because `Monoid` specifies the neutral element (`mempty`) alongside the behaviour (`mappend`), whereas the null object pattern does not.
One thing I love about Ethereum is that it is self-funded, open, and basically separated from mainstream academia. They created their own money, convinced everyone that it had value, and then used it to self-fund their own fundamental research. It's an incredible alternative to academic research.
How would you rephrase those comments while retaining their content? Genuine question. Because sometimes I get the impression that simply stating facts is enough to induce knee-jerk flagging.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with the second comment you linked to, in particular. What do you find objectionable about it?

I'm also still curious to know which part of the GP's comment you think I'm strawmanning.
Quite simply, it’s a bad idea. You should try to make something of your med school degree.
I think the distinction being made is between evolution and design. In evolution traits do not come about for a reason, they occur at random, but they persist if they are advantageous.
It should be noted though that intelligence isn't linked to brain size, except for in the case of hominids compared to other hominids. There is also not a direct correlation to increased intelligence and survivability except for competition between individuals.

Corvids are among the most intelligent animals in the world. In many cases far more intelligent than many ape species. Their brains are the size of almonds, at largest. Whale species are intelligent but their brains are incredibly massive. Whales aren't 10-100x more intelligent than humans because of brain mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae

The intelligence level of Neanderthals is unknown but they had a cranial volume approximately 22% larger than modern humans. The common knowledge is that Neanderthals went extinct because they were stupid and eventually killed off by human invaders. The current evidence is that Neanderthals and humans overlapped in Europe for roughly 5000 years and heavily interbred with humans. The most likely cause of extinction had nothing to do with intelligence. They likely died off because the evidence indicates they were less social and reproduced less frequently. If anything they may have been comparatively too smart for their own good.
Well, today I learned. I feel like the use of specialized jargon doesn't help communicate the experience or idea the artist would probably like to convey, by including those kinds of details in the captions. The definition for the term needs to be provided as a footnote, each time it gets used under that context, since non-experts are among the audience.

You have to figure that chimpanzees are psychologically advanced enough that it's really the totality of an experience in a lab cage that ruins them. Getting shot with tranquilizer darts is more or less the icing on the cake, adding insult to injury.

I'd suspect that after, on or around knockdown #20, the maximum amount of trust has been eroded, and a chimpanzee is pretty much done with being around people, but especially the ones that dart them.
I would have preferred a reference to the paper making the prediction, but that sounds very vague so whatever.
Reminded me of this Smarter Every Day video, which is definitely worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0

(The Backwards Brain Bicycle)
I'm waiting for the light-field cameras
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera
There's actually two different places where you can see them. There are that many living in central Mexico.

I agree, it was a really cool experience seeing them!

The craziest part is, we had to do some hiking to see them. I looked at my watch and it told me I was over 10,000 feet!

The tree line is higher in central Mexico than in northern North America. No wonder why I was so out of breath.
Functional Programming Invades Architecture (2017)
Same here, I was weirded out by it at first, but overtime got very used to it and it felt natural.
Recently, over Thanksgiving break, nieces and nephews applied peer pressure on me to ride a bicycle "and do one of those cool wheelie things". I avoided an ER visit but the resulting process failure proves the hypothesis painfully incorrect.
How much is the subscription fee to get Jessica Alba to put a diaper on your child?
> Why they didn't just choose Typescript or go with native javascript is beyond me

Whether it was a good idea or not I'll leave for you to decide, but the reason that they landed on is that the Dart VM allows for AOT compilation, which is required for iOS, while still being flexible enough to do Hot Reload.
I appreciate the thoughtfulness and logic of your comment.

I think it addresses only the evidence, not the motive for the campaign to spread the news about the intercepted data.
Once upon a time I had half an idea to leaverage this fact for a story involving genetically engineered pygmy marmosets. They were modified to have human brain structure but retaining their size. Ideal crew for space missions. Fast forward to a time when they dominate space and seek independence.
Because Qt is bad. Do you think after nearly a quarter of a century that its problem is that it's just like, not well-known enough?
I think it's been said elsewhere, this is true but the frequency and severity is orders of magnitude less with the languages with good standard libraries.

When the entire ecosystem depends on left pad I think you have a problem.

When the entire ecosystem depends on express it is less of an issue because more eyes are invested in auditing it and changes are more widely reviewed.

You think a nefarious leftpad function would make it's way into express? It could, but it is way less likely.

Updating the dependency to a newer version of left pad isn't going to raise an eyebrow. And that is the issue.
Please define a flame war
We have no idea if that is true or not.
A thousand times this. This is why Google maps suck even though they didn't five years ago. This is why Gmail sucks while it didn't a year ago. At Google, you don't get promoted for maintaining a good product. You only get promoted by pissing on a good one and ruining it.
Go modules, so much promise, so much busted
What is depressing is seeing French people think the situation would be better with Mélenchon who has great admiration for Chavez and Maduro.

France has a huge debt. This guy's policy would worsen the situation very quickly.

France is the 2nd country in the world with the most public expenses after Finland (data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm).

And Melenchon says that liberalism doesn't work, we should just follow the path of communist countries. But France never applied liberal policies and we have all seen the results of communist policies.
>The general trend that goes upward in your graph isn't the number of butterflies, but the number of 'sites monitored', i.e., places where they searched for butterflies.

With all due respect, I can read a graph. I was referring to the total amount of butterflies. There is no data on the site to permit one to draw any correlation between the number of monitoring sites and the number of butterflies. We could add 10,000 additional monitoring sites in Antarctica and it would tell us nothing. There is no data to give any indication that ANYONE even was reporting at any particular site or how many were reporting.

In short, the organization's data is useless... at least the data easily available on their site. And, it's certainly insufficient to justify the handwringing in some of the comments.
The quote says more about Congressional incompetence than fancy innovation in technology.
A portmanteau of every word in English (2015)
Prevents vs acts to prevent. Sorry, I misspoke.

Fact is. Nobody builds a standard library to reduce dependency hell. They do it to eliminate it.

The standard library uptake, quality and efficiency is all intertwined sure and developers can always go shoot themselves in the foot anyway but, wait, I'm sorry, did you have a point?