skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube algorithm adds 9/11 explainer to Notre Dame fire video
I picked up a beautiful 4096 bit (64x64) core plane on eBay a few years ago:

https://geary.com/images/CoreMemory.jpg

Zoom all the way in to see the detail of this 512 bytes of hand woven memory. Later core planes were machine woven; this was from an early '60s Burroughs machine.

The original image above is 8MB, so here are reduced size versions that load faster, use whichever works best for you...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geary/46893923024/

https://geary.smugmug.com/Computers/History/i-jb2rgF5/A
This a good thing! I am 100% in support of James' endeavor here. However, students doing better when put in a better environment should not be surprising. I was a lower income student who was shipped across town to a majority white school as a anti-segregation program that was brokered with a federal oversight committee. The African Americans in that school were treated quite bad. My first day at school I was labeled "<my first name> Brown" by the kindergarten because there was a student who already had my first name in the class. My last name isn't "Brown" that's my skin color. That was my first minute in school and I'm only 36 years old not 66 years old.
I didn’t just google “boop snoots;” I googled that, googled “furries” and went down the rabbit hole a bit.

...A decision I now heartily regret. The two major things I found is that some people are very weird, and some other people hate the weird ones disproportionately considering their prevalence and general demeanor.
I'd check out Pyro, a probabilistic programming language built on Pytorch.

You can find Bayesian Neural Network examples starting here: http://pyro.ai/examples/bayesian_regression.html

I think the documentation and tutorials are thorough and laid out well to ease you into Bayesian NN and generally handling uncertainty with Neural Networks + Distributions. There's some Pyro-specific constructs in there, but it's the easiest way to get into BNNs without lots of prior knowledge.
I think the latest expression of this concept came out when a friend of mine was up for a senior role at Google and they ended consideration when they suddenly decided that he switched jobs too often to be a leader, but they were happy to continue considering him for a role beneath what he currently already had.
I gotta wonder what business a manager has being in a decision making position if they can't understand the summarized technicals of those below.
Agreed. Lets wait to see whether it is truly a success before hyping it. Especially since lebron's school opened in fall of 2018. I say it takes a generation to see if an education system is a sucess, not half a school year. Can we really say a school is a success after a few months?

Besides, I think celebrity and schools aren't what's truly important. Parental employment/financial stability, parental involvement in kids' lives and parental stability ( aka no divorces or single parent family ) are a better solution to kids success in school than a basketball player ( who went straight to the NBA from high school ) and his idea of an ideal school. But maybe I'm just old fashioned in that way.
I think there can be lots of value in them, but only in the long-form review, where the product is described and evaluated. Aggregating the numbers makes no sense.
Can’t we just say “your profit for the purposes of taxation is the profit you report to shareholders?”
It depends on what you mean by less known/powerful

A lot of companies that the general public doesn't tend to hear about are either outside of CPG/outside of your geography/outside of industries you hear about in the news or just private companies or holding companies. Some have really high revenues or # of employees.

A couple of companies I was surprised by revenues:

- Cargill/Koch both have $100B+ revenues

- Exor (Italy/Netherlands) $143B+
So much of the tax avoidance tactics ends up as more investment and propels our economy forward. Amazon is a prime example. The government taxes profits. Amazon instead of making a profit, reinvests the money into its business.

Even when corporations do stock buy backs, it's not like most of the money goes to the investors to spend frivolously. Instead most of it just gets reinvested in different businesses that have a better plan for the money than the company that did the stock buyback.

Any way you slice it, Warren's plans just reduces reinvestment and puts the brakes on economic growth. You can't tax your way to prosperity unless the taxes are used strictly for things that are an investment in the economic future of the country such as education and infrastructure. Taking the money from those investing it and blowing it on entitlements is a terrible idea.

At the end of the day, all this reinvestment creates jobs and allows individuals to provide for themselves instead of being dependent on sucking at the teat of the state.
Yes, sorry I should have been more specific. You always have to kick off the process from somewhere, so your lifecycle methods will call out to wherever you choose to keep your non-UI application logic. There are a million ways you could implement that, from a state management library or just good old OOP classes and methods. If your code is well structured, you should be able to swap out your component framework without having to refactor any of your business logic.

When I ask this question I'm just looking for any answer that displays some knowledge of separation of concerns. Surprisingly, so far only a few out of dozens of applicants have been able to do so. I should also point out that these applicants are not applying for junior positions and all have ~5 years of front-end experience on their resumes.

I'm also curious why my comment above has been attracting downvotes. Did I say something rude or controversial? (I'm not complaining, just curious)
Like everything else online, do your research. I assume we all know plenty of people who have taken online reviews at face value, I have done it myself. Like most other things on the internet, they can be faked. It is sad that people take advantage of good faith systems like this and do not feel the consequences.

Side note: Having the consumer group be named "Which?" and to include the question mark in it makes it jolting to read in the middle of a sentence. I can't tell if I like the name or dislike it a lot.
This is problematic.

Pulitzer is rewarding high-brow emotional appeal journalism. All disaster and irrelevant scandal. The journalism we need today is shining light on the ever-increasing complexities of the world and the effects, not the latest shock, awe, and smear.
Is that what this downvoting bloc is about? Very odd and misplaced, since I have no bias whatsoever against nuclear power.

I’m stating facts about the response to the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini incidents.

Here’s another little known fact: the plant was designed by GE, including the placement of power supply units needed to run the pumps. This design was challenged but TEPCO chose to defer to GE’s expertise and stick to their design for the site.
I would extend this sort of simplification to individuals as well. I'd give them a huge upfront deduction all the way up to the median income and then flat tax the remainder.
I've started using fakespot.com for every purchase from Amazon, has saved me from making a bad purchase more than once.
Just a thought. How about abolishing corporate tax and then making every entity as pass through entity for tax purposes? At the EOD all entities are owned by someone and that income is taxed at a progressive rate. From what I've read the corporate tax is only 10% of the federal budget anyway.

Edit: This wouldn't stop a company from doing what Amazon did and reinvest all the time but at least given a profit an entity would be pressured to pay out cash in order to cover tax liability of owners. Would help avoid hoarding of cash on balance sheets.
It's not just Amazon its everything. Companies spend large quantities of money on media control, we all know this. I probably a hand full of media companies in the USA, China, and India that are selling a review control service.
I feel like this is another instance of "useful feature gets removed because of security vulturism[1]" --- something which has been happening for a while, but has gotten infuriatingly frequent lately. In this case, the mere fact that you're using a third-party list already suggests trust of the author, or at least an implicit acknowledgement that your ideas of what should be filtered agree.

Ad blocking extensions should consider dropping support for the $rewrite filter option. It’s always possible to abuse the feature to some degree, even if only images or style sheets are allowed to be redirected.

The classic "ban it because it can be abused" mindset. Let's ban the use of computers too, certainly that would be more secure!

Google has been notified about the exploit, but the report was closed as “Intended Behavior”, since they consider the potential security issue to be present solely in the mentioned browser extensions.

As they should, because what user-agents are doing have nothing whatsoever to do with their site.

(Disclaimer: I don't use ABP nor uBlock nor any in-browser blocking extensions, so I have no conflicts of interest here. I use a full MITM proxy which is far more powerful than anything you can do with a browser extension. I wonder what he'll think about that...)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19660677
> Flat tax with no exemptions

The difficulty with taxation is not calculating tax rates, that's simple, the difficulty is determining what is taxable income/profit.
It depends what you haven't heard of. I've certainly heard of Qualcomm and I don't even live in the same time zone.

There's companies like Mindgeek which own about 80% of the porn on the internet.

Nestlé, Pepsi Co, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars, Associated British Foods, and Mondelez own nearly all the major food brands in the world.

Agriculture is also huge - many of the billionaires in my country are related to agriculture, or agricultural products like latex gloves and condoms.

Chinese tech companies tend to be underrated because many of them are private. Huawei makes similar revenue to Google and probably writes more code, but you don't see people fantasizing about working there. There's also ZTE, Tencent.
> I’ve always found it fascinating how organizational structure and pressure can take really brilliant and motivated people and beat them into making such poor decisions.

I get your sentiment, but there are more stories to tell in NASA events. Robert Trivers wrote a book [1] about his research on human behavior, specifically, how self-deception plays a role in the event.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Folly-Fools-Logic-Deceit-Self-Decepti...
> Even if you say 'taking advantage of limited cognitive ability of people' which is true, because everyone is busy, having life problems and is bombarded with all that crap. It makes people stupid, and that is not something to say about particular person.

That I'd agree with, that it makes people stupid. That's better.

> Marketing with McDonalds does not make people hungry

But it does. The color red has been linked many times to feelings of hunger, most likely because our brains link it to both the color of fresh berries and the color of slaughtered meat. That's why nearly every fast food chain uses a significant amount of red in their packaging: McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Topper's Pizza, Wendy's, Hardees, Carls' Jr., the list is nearly infinite. It's not a coincidence.

And that's the relatively low-tech tactics, not even going into how the engineer the taste of the food to be just right, how the burgers in the ads look absolutely nothing like the product you receive, all the way up to the fact that fast food is laden with sugar unnecessarily to make it literally addictive, since the brain responds to sugar in a very similar way to cocaine.

Again, this stuff exists on a very large spectrum from stuff that's innocuous but very effective, all the way to the stuff that was cooked up in laboratories by extremely smart people to manipulate the general populace into buying their products.
I love ripgrep. For me it has done an exceptional job at searching and finding a large list of search strings over pretty large text files.

Tangentially, it is because of great tools like these written in Rust that I have major respect for the language.
Thanks for sharing.

What if that person leaves the company? Can that information get old.
Five Lies Our Culture Tells – The cultural roots of our political problems
unverified != fake!!

Most of my reviews are "unverified", because I purchase elsewhere. But because amazon is a great aggregator of reviews, I want to pay it back by helping others.

Now of course, there are indeed many fake reviews, but this article does a terrible job of explaining the situation.
What bothers more even more is the injection of sponsored ads that ignore not just the keywords you search for, but even the filters like price.

I search for a brand name watch or camera with a price of 300$+ and half of the results are no-name knockoff 25$ watches without even an easy visual way to distinguish them. They just put a very faint "Sponsored" that you have to squint hard to see it.
Have you considered the possibility that in some cases it is basically forbidden from expressing opinions. These guys were tasked to conduct and summarize their studies not opine on the decision to be made, that violates separation of duties and an expressed opinion leads to questions of diligence.
A couple months ago, I googled 'whiteboard amazon', clicked the first result, and was taken to a well structured amazon page for a whiteboard that had 5 stars. Looking at it a little closer, I noticed that of the 143 reviews, 143 were 5 star reviews. On top of it, every review followed a similar structure, was made by an account that had thousands of 5 star reviews, and was so beyond the pale obvious fraudulent that I felt the need to email jeff@amazon.

Today I was looking at some vitamins, and I checked every single result for a certain supplement that was 4 or 5 stars and every single one of them ranked D or worse on FakeSpot.

How the fuck does Amazon not know how to deal with this? 100% of reviews coming in for a product on the same day? MAYBE THAT'S A SIGN, AMAZON.

Amazon reviews are worse than garbage now.
To act legally. Two wrongs don't make a right.
'r/flooded by/depends on/'
This just creates a disincentive for those corporations and individuals that are being the most productive.

People need to remember that the United States doesn't exist in a vacuum. We are in competition with all the other countries out there. Maximizing productivity matters at a national level.

The more competitive we are, the better off Americans are on average. If we lose that lead position to other countries, we may achieve greater equality internally but we will be worse off relative to the rest of the world.
Andrew Yang centers presidential bid around 'universal basic income'
You can block ads in Firefox without using addon. There is an setting for that.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking
The article mentions a case where 439 unverified reviews were all posted on the same day for one kind of not-known brand headphones.
If the POTUS tweeted at me, "Code like the wind! Very important!", I'd be excited.
I'm working on a web-based system that uses PGP key as identity.

How do I integrate with Keybase?
(note: not trying to say the medical diagnosis scenario you describe is less important than your contribution to getting the world off SMS, just spitballing how we can work towards timely updates in our current world and wean off SMS)

in the situation you describe, or any urgent situation where speed of communication is paramount, what about bombardment through multiple channels? like, i'll often leave my phone out of my pocket, and not pay super close attention to it. and if it lights up with one text message, or one signal message, or whatever, i might not look at it. but if it's buzzing like crazy, or someone starts calling, i'd pick it up.

i guess what i'm saying is, "urgent" to me means signal/text/call/call someone that might be around the person/whatever, until the message gets through. if something is urgent, i would not send it solely by text. i've certainly had SMS messages get dropped or delayed many many times over the years.

can you really only use one messaging app at a time? signal is my primary messaging app, but i don't really find it bothersome to use whatsapp and regular SMS also. different people i communicate with prefer different channels, and often the same person will use different channels with me depending on the purpose (e.g., my dad mostly chats with me by SMS, and most of my immediate family's group chat is on SMS, but when my dad is texting with me about some sensitive personal financial info, it's over signal).

also, i hope that whatever the urgent issue was, it was resolved in an ok way. like i said, not trying to shortchange the urgency of a medical emergency or second guess your decision making or frustration at the time.
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The government would and should never abdicate the potential to control economic incentives through taxes and subsidies.
He did. It was called _Brazil_. And the sequel to that was _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_.

Okay, they aren't direct sequels but they make a trilogy of related movies: the fantasies of childhood, the fantasies of middle age and the fantasies of old age.

Beside, several of the original band of midgets (little people?) are sadly no longer with us.
Anybody using Wire? I've recently been looking for a skype replacement myself and seems like wire is a pretty good fit.
Or, don't let timing reveal privileged information? This seems like a sledgehammer for a fly problem.
Why should I care about the corporate tax burden? Taxes come out of people's pockets, not corporations.

There's an argument to be made that we can get foreign shareholders to pay taxes they otherwise wouldn't, but that's a much different argument than "corporations aren't paying their fare share".
If you are buying electronics, buy it from Best Buy, Costco, Target, Walmart or another retailer with a physical store. Best Buy matches Amazon's prices and their merchandise is not fake.
"ReviewMeta, a US-based website that analyses online reviews, said it was shocked at the scale of the unverified reviews, saying they were "obvious and easy to prevent"."

Unverified reviews may be easy to prevent by disabling unverified reviews, but then the scam just includes one extra step, having each account reviewing a product purchase the item on Amazon, then reimburse the account. Easy verified purchase.

You also would lose out on actual purchasers who bought it elsewhere than Amazon who would want to leave reviews.

The problem of bad reviews is definitely an unsolved problem, as even if you build in trust mechanisms (and Amazon surely does this already), the scammers will build networks of self-reinforcing bots. You could calibrate the system to heavily discount reviews of reviewers which have any "scam" tags, but then the networks would just take longer to build, leaving legit reviews to build up trust, and then leaving false reviews after having built up that trust. These cat and mouse games will go on a long time.

The same issues happen across every open network where identity isn't verified. As much as I (and others historically) have benefited from pseudonymity, it's definitely being weaponized (Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc) to benefit certain entities (companies, governments, etc), and the ultimate result is a loss of trust in the networks at large. I don't know what the solution will be, but the solution will be incredibly valuable.

I've thought about some sort of hybrid account handle system where you have one account that has two handles associated with it -- one, your real-world name, and another your pseudonym, but the single account is verified by real-world ID. As a contributor to the network, you could post as your pseudonym or your real world name, depending on the contribution that you are comfortable making, and as a consumer of the network, you could choose at any time to only view content of the network posted by real-world names, or pseudonyms. This would limit the number of possible astroturfed accounts, but still allow for sensitive discussion of heated matters.

Just throwing the idea out there because the need for some kind of solution to this destruction in network quality is something that affects us all.
Reply All did a great podcast in Amazon's recent drop in quality: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124

Highly recommend.
> They kept pushing back on our requests for resources because of how strapped they are for cash and staff and all that.

May I ask: Are they IEP or 504? Because if they're IEP the school should receive funding to cover his additional needs. If he is 504, have you looked into if he'd be eligible for an IEP?
"Death by PowerPoint is a real thing. Sometimes literally."

So tacky. Treating human deaths as a punchline to a joke.
I'm always on the boat of: "The community votes what to read" but I've seen this subject on the HN's home page over and over and over.

Isn't this an old story?

Are people discovering this about Amazon's reviews and upvoting out of curiosity or am I reading HN way too frequently?
You have way too much "Apple" in this reply, though. They gave the concept of a smartphone a huge boost, but they are not the market leader. This is another misstatement of the problem Microsoft got caught in, implicit in my posts here.
> How the fuck does Amazon not know how to deal with this?

How do you know they don't, and have via whatever mechanism decided that they make more money if they choose not to?
I hope all smart Googlers here will vote for this (in combination with open borders), and downvote my comment!
> Like everything else online, do your research.

There are many categories where this advice sounds a lot easier than it is. There’s a whole industry creating fake review sites, farming things out to people for favorable social media reviews, etc. and it takes a non-trivial amount of time and skill to figure out which sources are reliable. As long as the internet runs on advertising there’s no reason to expect this to get easier since companies like Google make considerable amounts of money from all of those ads.
and it has US warranty.

When I had an issue with my MotoZ (which I got through same-day Prime delivery), Motorolla told me they won't cover it because the IMEI said its from India and can only be covered if I send it to India.
> As a minority, I hope this isn't another "minority schools do well turned scam". Seems like we have these "amazing successes" turned to "scams" every couple of years.

It is a normal public school that is getting additional funding, and funding for specific additional programs (e.g. parental outreach, after school program).

Worst case scenario the funding dries up and it returns to being a completely normal public school with normal levels of public funding.
>We do not explain how to read handwriting, we teach by example - and that is exactly how ML works.

Teaching children to read is an interactive process that has pretty much nothing in common with data steamrolling in modern machine learning.

>And your last point is wrong. ML models are studied and understood much better than human reasoning.

Is that why new ANN architectures are almost universally constructed by trial and error?
>> Taxes come out of people's pockets, not corporations.

That's not correct - corporations are meant to be paying significant tax.
Where can I find information about the potential requirement for evacuation within a 150+ mile radius? I didn't downvote, just interested in learning more.
Corporations are owned by people, start by taxing them simply. Income should be taxed the same whether it comes from a dividend, capital gain or as wages.