skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a liability thing.

You can't subpoena a conversation unless it was recorded...
Ask HN: Where do you host your flask app?
I reported 4 fake reviews to Amazon on a product I purchased before.

The product page had changed from the old one I originally purchased on to a new one with 4 obviously fake 5-star reviews. I found this when I went to re-purchase the product after it (an eBike) was stolen. The page is here (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K2VLSX5/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_He...)

There is a review from me, calling out the fakes and providing detail, and the other 4 that are clear-as-day fakes. The previous product page, which I referenced in my report to Amazon, had numerous high quality, legit reviews averaging around 3 stars with tons of detail.

Amazon has made no changes after my report.
Tech Companies Back CCPA Amendment: Privacy for All Act of 2019
Back then ads had often a lot of information because they were often the only way to learn something about the product. Today’s ads have almost no information but are designed to arouse emotions.
re: footnote 1:

Google only lobbied for that law because AT&T was acting with malicious compliance -- intentionally doing the work as late as possible, so as to interfere with Google's rollout.
yeah it's not the first time in those recent months..
just to talk about something while it goes back up again.. someone know a valid alternative ? I mean free, unlimited public images host ?

I've found docker hub rather slow, interface was terrible even if with recent updates seems getting better ( I don't know if they improved network speed )

just being curious.. someone know how much bandwidth those docker repos are eating? I suppose that's something huge :)
Thanks! I was mostly asking because I've found Python's regular expressions to be extremely slow compared to egrep, and Perl is in the middle. It's annoying to have to call subprocess functions in python just too launch egrep on large files.
I think they just want to see what’s in fashion.
> A tax on imported high end electronics is a tax on the well-off.

According to the latest market research [1] in China, IPhone are mostly used in China by undereducated people with relatively low income, people with decent education & job mostly use Android phones.

This is consistent with what I see on daily basis - almost all my friends & coworkers use MacBook Pro + Huawei/Xiaomi phone. If I try really really hard, I can probably eventually list 1-2 friends & coworkers who use iPhone, but like I said, I need to try hard to recall that.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2174310/research-highlight...
Income Level Breakdowns, by State
It is an extremely difficult game. In theory, I know the answer to all the puzzles, however, there are so many ways to lose without realizing it that I've never managed to string together a single play session in which I do it correctly. Though I've also long since stopped trying. :)

For instance, there are subareas where you must collect various tools. Many of these are themselves rather fragile affairs, easy to ruin. At the end of the game, to open a door, you will be asked for a certain random tool. However, this is not a matter of collecting 8 out of 10 tools and having an 80% chance at the end; if you are missing even a single one, the game will draw its random selection from the tools you do not have. IIRC this is also after a point-of-no-return.

The Babel fish puzzle is another example of the evilness of the game. While this one is possible to complete without a guide, it isn't possible to complete it on your first attempt. There is a machine that will vend the Babelfish. It will fail in various ways, such as vending the fish into areas you can't get to if you don't block that direction. You have a limited number of tries before the Vogons come to get you and it's a game over if you don't have the fish at that point. However, the amount of time you have is not sufficient to go through the loop of trying the machine, fixing the problem it reveals, trying the machine again, fixing the next problem, etc. There are simply too many problems and not enough time. You have to simply memorize/write down the solutions once, then next time directly implement them in what would appear to be a psychic manner next game. (There's also an early "silent failure" state here; if you did not pick up the junk mail from your house, you lose here.)

If you wrote down an objective standard to measure an adventure or text game by, such as "should not have unlabeled no-win situations", or "should be solvable on the first play (even if hard)", or other such things, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text game would flagrantly fail most of them. Whether it's a bad game, I leave that to the reader, but it certainly breaks a lot of rules.
Bubble-sort with Hungarian folk dance (2011)
Ok... then what about all those backup solutions we've been using on desktops? Should we restrict backups just to OS providers because they're "safe"?
Do you actually need more than the previous round or two of actions to utilize the be-kind-until-crossed strategy?

I’m not sure it requires perfect information, just accurate recent information.
Do we, really? If we learned that such a practice was widespread in a Christian or Jewish community, it would count disfavorably in the esteem most of us have of them, and this surely must be the case for us who have read about the bus segregation in the article. In addition, poor opinion we have of certain Muslim countries with gender segregation is due not only to this but also of many other rights violations in the news. If one should learn of such a practice in a community in the US, we'd feel that they should nevertheless share many values with us as when compared to a Muslim community in the US, and that sharing more values than a community in a Muslim country; the disparity between our esteem toward Jewish communities and Muslim communities in the US coming from their greater historical presence in the US. I shall not comment on whether such is warranted.

And since I had only recently of it, gender segregation is quite alive in significantly many Israel Jewish communities.
Er... Mozilla does spend the majority of its money on Firefox development. What makes you say it does not?

(Disclaimer: I work on Firefox; I've seen the public financial statements.)
We could be, y'all hiring? :)
How to Get Started with Debian on RockPro64
You could also say freebsd has far, far fewer memory corruption bugs. Is that the language, the small user base, or something else?
They're just trying to find something as profitable as search ads, which will never happen given that Adwords is a high margin cash printing machine. Hence why every other product of theirs ends up in a graveyard because it can never compare to its monopoly on search
You're talking about training data, but (as I understand it) current commercial facial recognition may use learned features but from there it uses traditional biometrics to identify faces. So this criticism doesn't necessarily hold as these biometrics could easily be one-shot.

(Any facial recognition gurus feel free to enlighten me, of course! :)
Sure, why not? E.g. I would set it to a shock site URL.
> 1. NaCl/PNacl

In favor of WebAssembly, which is a much better tech in terms of actually being able to achieve interop, no?
You can find a somewhat playable early "prototype" linked from here: https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_seque...
I forgot the point I was trying to make while giving the background!

It's not that the engineers of yesteryear were brilliant while today's engineers are second-rate: it's that what they were doing back then was in some respects easier. (And we remember the good planes: as often as not they invented utter turkeys: look at the history of the Supermarine Scimitar for example — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Scimitar — TLDR: yes, it's military, but to lose 51% of your aircraft in 9 years of peacetime service takes some doing. And then compare with the F-35, two crashes out of 308 airframes in service over a 5 year period, even though it's a vastly more complicated and higher performance aircraft.)
This is utterly bizarre. Do you literally believe no epidemiological study of the effects of plastics on human health has occurred?

Googling epidemiological study of the effects of plastics on human health is a decent place to start.

Asking about it here on hn is very definitely not.
LA Accessory Dwelling Unit Story: How a State Law Enabled Granny Flats
Yeah, 70-75 seems reasonable enough. I'm sure if you did it more the numbers would creep up since you'd get used to the interface.
Also, if one person really did maintain all those things and was overworked, my reaction wouldn't be "Wow, you do so much!" but "Why haven't you found other people to help out so you're not overworked?" All this software is too important to be left to people who don't have time for them.
Due to massive taxes for pre-built smartphones and less taxes for components(A tactic effectively employed to pressure manufactures to make their phone in India), top tier iPhones cost the highest in India. When these are manufactured in the country, it should match the price of other countries.

But that doesn't mean it will become affordable, Apple has positioned itself as a luxury brand & is said to have the largest markup among smartphone manufacturers.

Indians looking for cost/value will always have better alternative, but for those 'Who value themselves upon what others see in their hands' will burn lesser cash than before.
I feel like bjourne is referring to the hypocracy that society commonly accepts the Jewish practice, whereas the Muslim practice is generally rejected.

I don't think bjourne is suggesting that Deborah accepts the practice.
That's... disappointing. It seems awfully tone deaf for him to lament how easy it is to offend people, while himself being easily offended. It's hard for me not to read the headline as "I really liked it when I was in a position to hurt other people and they weren't in a position to hurt me back."

"I’m tired of being, as a white male, blamed for everything that’s wrong in the world," he says. But he's missing that white men have been running the world, and running it in a way that favored other white men. Or rather, dis-favored everybody who wasn't a white man. That didn't give him success, but it did mean that success was a possibility that it wouldn't have been for many others.

So Terry, just shake it off, right? You got blamed for stuff you didn't do. We'll all just have a good laugh about it, ok?
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Did the GP comment get edited? I don't see how your comment is relevant.
I wouldn't credit the religion ( fundamental or not ). After all, much of modern science was created by "fundamental" priests, clerics, adherents, etc ( from copernicus to newton to mendel ).

Rather, the jewish scientists benefited from living in wealthy colonial europe which provided opportunities ( though there were anti-semitic roadblocks as well ) for research.

There is a reason why most of the prominent jewish scientists are from germany, britain and US. You need wealth, infrastructure and research instutions.

Jews in the middle east, china, africa, etc haven't as much due to instability, lack of wealth, infrastructure, etc.

The same goes for chinese scientists. The US has produced a couple of chinese noble prize winners ( in sciences ). China has produced none since they were going through colonization and the unstable post-colonialism periods. Now that they are getting wealthier, developing infrastructure, etc, I'm going to guess that in the next couple of decades, china will produce a few noble prize winners.

Science, like art, is a "liberal" pursuit which stems from ancient greece where the wealthy "liberals" had time to think because they were free ( liberal ) from work because their slaves did most of the work. In modern times, excess wealth is a prerequisite for most research. When you or society is desperately trying to survive and feed its people, nobody has the free time for "liberal" pursuits.
Same here. My wrist hurt when initialing and signing a long contract recently, and the notary said it's a common experience.
> Why settle for a few jobs for the profits to go back to Cupertino?

You may have the luxury to say that, lot of Indians dont. They need that job.
The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
I think there were some stories about this from Challenger. The cost, be it financial, political, or other was so great to get a part “space rated” that they’d use redundant bad parts to cope with errors in some cases. I vaguely remember this being used to describe a temperature sensor that was wrong like 1% of the time, they used a group of them and some algorithm to filter out error.

Can you think of a more geek sexy project than working on a rocket, space craft or jet? Then the reality is that it has to be about the least satisfying engineering job around, it looks like you have to make a titanic effort just to do something
Just because it's the only way to do business doesn't mean it's not a scummy thing to do. Being required for business is not a moral justification for anything!
For the last half-decade or so, an architectural historian named Andrew Tallon worked with laser scanners to capture the entirety of the cathedral’s interior and exterior in meticulous 3D point clouds.
I do appreciate Google's bold and visionary dedication to bringing their model of starting up a project, half-assedly supporting it, and subsequently abandoning it when it becomes a little bit hard out of the software world and to the physical world.
For bacteria that is more than 10000 generations.
> Part of being an American is being able to read cursive writing.

What?? This is asinine.
One running in a country where face recognition is illegal?
Two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.

See? Platitudes are easy.
I am interested in this sort of work. Where in industry can you get hired for this sort of stuff?
The Plasticene.
Remote Controlled Open Source Ornithopter
> For those who say : "you can turn these things off", this is not an excuse!

The telemetry is opt-in, the setting pops up once on first run. Ads are not tracking, you may disagree with their very existence, but they're not a privacy concern. Calling studies "malware" is just disingenuous. I don't see what MITI has anything to do with the rest. DRM does suck, but _not_ having it would be literal popular suicide, and in the current browser landscape, would literally mean letting Chromium take over even more than it already does.
I'm sorry to contribute to the dogpile effect (long thread probably says same thing I'm about to say, but I didn't see it..), but..

devs estimate known risks. Ideal path + predictable delays. The further reaches of the long tail are the unknown risks.

known risks are estimated based on knowledge (hence, a question for a dev), unknown risks are just an adjustment parameter on top of that estimate, possibly based on historical evidence (there is no reason a dev could estimate any better).

It should be managements job to adjust a dev estimate. Let's be real here - I've never heard a real life example of management using stats for this kind of thing, or being enthusiastic about devs doing the same.

Perhaps if management is taken seriously as a science, things will change, but I doubt it.

<strong_opinion type="enterprise_software_methodology_cynicism">

Bizness is all about koolaid-methodology-guru management right now, very much the bad old ways - a cutting example of workable analytical management would be needed for things to change, but this is unlikely as all the stats people are getting high pay cool ML jobs, and aren't likely to want to rub shoulders with kool-aider middle managers for middle-management pay..

</strong_opinion>
Not the same at all.

EU is just settings rules for the internal EU market.
It would be nigh-infeasible to run a test like this. Some researchers at Yahoo! did a study about a decade back [1], and it makes for very interesting reading if you're into that sort of thing. Long story short, it's hard enough to detect when an ad campaign doubles the advertiser's investment. I'd expect that it's even harder to tell whether different kinds of ad campaign work better, since there you would expect a smaller effect size.

That said, if you believe in the wisdom of the crowds, it's at least highly suggestive that the per-impression price of personalized ads tends to be a fair bit lower than that of non-personalized ads. That would seem to imply that the market has come to believe that personalization is less effective than other forms of targeting. Or perhaps that it's most effective for campaigns that, for whatever reason, are expected to be low-payoff.

[1]: http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/DoesRetailAdvertisingWork....
I saw this extra feature on the downloadable special edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide TV series a little while back, which talks about the engine behind the infocom game and the language that it's programmed in.

BBC Micro Live - Douglas Adams
BBC Micro Live presenter, Conner 'Freff' Cochran, talks to Douglas Adams about The Hitchhiker's Guider to the Galaxy computing game and future software plans.
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/594990580873976/?...
I really don't think I'm saying anything controversial here:

'Most people who develop asbestos-related diseases have worked on jobs where they frequently breathed in large amounts of asbestos fibres.'

'A very small number of asbestos-related disease cases occur each year in people who have not worked with asbestos products.'

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.ns...
well that's where things get a little wonky though, right? CoH was a subscription-based game, so technically these extremely loyal fans would, theoretically, still be paying the company.

The fact that companies shut down popular games due to their profit simply not being as high as projected is just stupid. (note I said profit, not income. In the case of CoH, the game was 100% making profit still when it was shut down).
That doesn’t seem to follow, in fact it just may be dangerous:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/

Proving to X that you’re Y doesn’t have to involve a monopoly either. Who says someone can’t bribe Google Places or a CA and say that a domain matches a restaurant. How do they reliably check millions of businesses anyway? Don’t we rely on lots of third parties, network effects and our own experience anyway?

In short, X could use stuff like Verified Claims by Z to find out facts about Y. The collection of those facts make up its identity to X. None of this needs a centralized database.

https://www.w3.org/TR/verifiable-claims-use-cases/

When you lose control of a private key for your stuff, the solution isn’t to run to some daddy corporation which also has it and could impersonate you the whole time. You can have eg Shamir Secret Sharing with 5 other people. You could have part of a backup key derived from a known passphrase or biometrics. And so on.
Microplastics have a large surface area, and that gets covered with other pollutants.

Animals eat the plastic (which can pass through them without much harm, or can get lodged in their guts causing harm to that animal). When the animal has eaten the plastic they're also eating the other contaminents, and these get taken up b y the animal and anything that eats the animal.
Yeah. People tend to forget that as each problem is solved, the next problem is typically more complex.
A busted AOA sensor is going to set off a whole bunch of alarms since it's used in air speed and stall calculations. It's not something that is going to be missed with or without MCAS.
"Give it fifty million years, and all that will be left of our era will be a layer of rock an eighth of an inch thick with an unusually large number of radioactive isotopes and some odd carbon compounds."
Probably a lot of diversity hires too, with lower IQ. Maybe some womynz who tech are in the management roles. It's amusing to watch how a culture piously self-desructs.
One of @jason's tweets in the same thread says

"#996 = 6 days a week, 9am to 9pm

The same exact work ethic that built America!"

Given that slaves built most of America, he kind of has a point, but not for the reasons he wants to have a point. It's so laughable to see venture capitalists appeal to some imagined moral imperative ("democracy vs. communism," which as DHH points out might have been a bit scarier in 1950) when in reality they're just arguing for shaping the system in a way that will ultimately make them more money.
You can choose by resetting your advertising ID.
You _can_ do it but you would be the only one doing it, and as such it would provide little value because no one wants to do this manual dance and if you're such a minority then there will be no automated way to do it.

Keybase provides an (open!) protocol, along with (open source!) tools to do what you describe and then some (a lot of crypto stuff is needed, for instance). You can probably fork the keybase client and have your own hub at notkeybase.founderling.io if you want, so you can implement your very own idea if you so desire, and that would even be an interesting addition to the open web.

Also, you might have missed it but identity providers do not need to "apply" for keybase integration anymore: _any_ service can provide identity and link up with keybase without asking first (https://keybase.io/docs/proof_integration_guide). It doesn't even have to be a web service, so if they want any email provider can do it (although the whole linking thinking would be through http)
It is absolutely ridiculous to me there are still people consider China communist. It's especially hilarious when the discussion is about a hyper-rich patron Jack Ma talking about how his workers should work. It's not about capitalism vs communism; it's about capitalism vs capitalism.
Samsung Successfully Develops 5nm EUV Nodes
Microplastics are a horrible thing and their impact will be felt for hundreds of years, but I have faith the righteous among us will create and proliferate bacteria which will break down plastics and pave the way for new biosphere.

Unfortunately, our ravish consumption of rare metals and other limited resources combined with the Holocene extinction event we've triggered will undoubtedly leave little place for society and nature as we know them today.

Hopefully somebody's keeping records of all this to aid posterity's understanding of why the fossil record suddenly took a shit in 2000 A.D.
Russian startup wants to put billboards in space. Astronomers aren’t impressed
> If you factor in local sales taxes in the US, that 10% difference shrinks or even disappears pretty fast.

If you factor in sales tax on the US side, you also have to factor in VAT on the EU side, since they are equivalent.

So that 10% difference is correct.
I think their point was that technological advancements have 'solved' the problem of smog in the cities that have the legal and physical infrastructure (i.e. developed) to implement the solutions. They did not seem to be saying that pollution is someone else's fault.
Feel free to argue with him. He’s not ignorant of all the harms, trust me... I’ve brought them up when we’ve talked.
How do I do that?

I used one app that banned me arbitrarily by iPhone ID. I’d want to reset it
As a side note, I watched this channels videos of the spillway failure, and then randomly a very good video of the 737-max debacle. Same guy. This is how journalism in the digital age should be done.
Here's the published abstract of the study: https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2730525/association-...

The full text is behind a paywall.