skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Star-based reviews basically need to go away. There just isn’t any reasonable way to process the information contained in the rating itself. I know that I always think twice about a purchase when there are mediocre reviews, despite knowing all the ways that the reviews could be basically outright lies, because I know I don’t plan to spend all the time it would require to actually discern real from fake.

I was thinking about how even simplified systems like thumbs-up/thumbs-down for music don’t make sense either. In my car, there is a great way that they could infer what I like: how long is it playing? I essentially will let at least half a song keep playing if I like it, whereas I will quickly flip away from one I don’t want. I am more likely to flip to the next song than click a thumbs-down, especially while driving. “Time actually played”, perhaps as a percentage of total song length, would probably be a great way to automatically rank my music for me.

And I think it would work for Amazon and other systems too. For example, if a product was purchased and never returned, maybe it doesn’t suck. If it’s a consumable item that was purchased again, maybe it doesn’t suck. We don’t need reviews and star ratings to figure this kind of thing out, and it’s extremely hard to fake.
Wonder if such a 3 pronged approach can be applied to integration of immigrants.
I left it up to the imagination of the reader. It could be one of our minds after an imperfect cloning, modified by someone for "efficiency." It could be super-optimizing AIs. Tens of thousands of years from now, thousands of light-years distant, who knows what it will be like?
Cost Competitiveness of Micro-Reactors for Remote Markets
My lord the "frictionless" buzzword BS in that made me feel like I was actually losing brain cells:

> He offers insights on:

> How privileged access management will fit into a frictionless security approach;
> The role of artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain in enabling frictionless security and faster threat detection;

I seriously considered registering justaddblockchain.com after reading that to document all the places where people feel they look smarter by just adding "blockchain!" to random technical discussions.
Public bike scheme bikes are always built like tanks with lowest common denominator gearing, lowered further for the heft. I dread riding them and was looking forward to electrified versions when I can’t use my low-end 10sp 70s “daily driver” bike.

It’s sad they couldn’t restrict electrics to speeds of an average cyclist on an average bike instead of removing them entirely.

It’s actually impressive to read about their brakes working well enough to flip a rider: they’re bottom heavy bikes with lowest common denominator ride heights.

But I’m the kind of person to do a brake test when faced with new-to-me vehicles or road conditions.

I preferred the Chinese drop bikes when I was in places that had them - lighter and more visible.
Ask HN: Does it pay off to work for a startup?
I worked for a few. Had a good run in one of them, but luck played a big part. Among the rest, hard work didn't really pay off. What is your experience?
The funny part is that the languages with tracing GC that wipe Swift's memory management on the paper aren't even Java, rather OCaml, Go and C#.

Your focus on Java, without spending one second reading the paper benchmarks, from a well respected researcher in the CCC community, just demonstrates a typical defensive reaction among reference counting proponents.

Using C++ without the C part is the whole point of modern C++ and the Core Guidelines. In fact there are several benchmarks where the C++ version gets better optimized.

As for Android, it isn't Java as we know it, and any travel through /r/androiddev will teach Google might have tons of PhDs, but they certainly don't work on Android, given how a lot of things are implemented.
Are you serious? Thank god Amazon is not our society. If Amazon collapses because they can't handle moderating their website, there are many contenders eager to take Amazon's place.
> 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.

Maybe that's bad for business if they did. People see a < 5 star review and may not purchase it, even if it is a lie.
The firewall is on the server, not the "Europe" end.
'Secret' City of Heroes Emulator
The tricky part is getting someone to store their gun with less care than they store their ring.

Rings are also not unique to each gun.

If any of these technologies worked reliably, law enforcement would be all over it, because (1) perps couldn't take officers' guns and use them and (2) the politicians who make the purchase authorizations would love to claim credit.
This is the kind of thing that really cements my love for this tool.
Gorhill is the hero we don't deserve.
Even state governments could solve the funding gap between schools.
The average person might like having Pocket already installed though.
You’re likely to get your wish. I think Apple has realized that they need to offer their services on non Apple platforms if they want to continue to grow. We’re seeing some early signs of this already.
Elon Musk Says Tesla Vehicles Will Drive Themselves in Two Years (2015)
But apple is a luxury brand. You can't say that with Xiaomi or Oppo. With luxury brand the price is not a bug but a feature for the people that swear by them.

And Rich people don't even care about the money. the 50-100 million rich people in india are least bothered about the price tag as long as it signifies luxury and status.
Could be the same said about crypto?
What Finland law differences would you want in your area?
> Yes, I wouldn't expect to find much rigor at Cousin Ricky's house of email. This is Hotmail. They don't have any excuses.

It's consumer Hotmail. From Microsoft’s perspective, that is probably excuse enough.

Of course, I've seen pretty bad things in large HIPAA covered entities with systems with PHI; insufficient security and accountability of support accounts and recovery processes is found lots of places.
> Read all the articles about the manufacturing ecosystem around Apple factories in China, the special bonded customs zones the regional governments set up, the incentives, and workers they help recruit

It is called SEZ or Special Economic Zones in India. Take some time and read up on it first before coming to wrong conclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zone#India. It has been around for multiple decades now. It isn't some new concept. All MNCs are situated in SEZs be it Google, Facebook, Microsoft or now Apple. Apple is the latest entrant and not first by any means.

> India by comparison is a disaster. You don't even know which official to bribe to get the power to stay on properly. Almost more trouble than it's worth to enter that market.

This is a ridiculous assertion based on heresy with no evidence to back it up. Ease of doing business has increased drastically in the past few years. Multiple foreign companies have setup shop in India and some have been in India for decades now (Microsoft, Google etc). I can understand if you had compared India to a Western country but comparing it to China? Are you serious?

If India was really such a "disaster" compared to China why did Google quit China and not India? Does that in itself not invalidate all your points?

Also, coming to your "bribe" issue: do you mean to say "lobbying"? Because bribing is almost non-existent in India when it comes to operations of MNCs. You need to "lobby" for laws that favour MNCs. That has been the case for a long time in India now. But lobbying is also dying since Modi took over. You now have to come through the "Make in India" route. All foreign players are actually happy with it because there is zero red tape and all processes are fast-tracked. No need to lobby with anyone anymore and just focus on building and expanding your business. The issue for India was that it took this route too late (after many decades of extreme protectionism).

I don't know where you get your information from but it is high time you change your source.
Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge
It’s understandable that insurance companies are not keen. But if the taxpayer is ultimately going to pay, having the company run for profit until that time seems wrong to me, why not have the state run it all?
Not that this worked all that well in the Ukraine, but I’d argue that was a different set of problems.
Bug report: I just connected my Mastodon.social and Keybase profiles. On my Keybase profile, the "post" link next to my Mastodon.social profile link doesn't go directly to the proof post, but instead just links to my profile again.
I can reproduce in Safari on iPhone too (using BrowserStack), and I've reduced all CSS to this to reproduce:

@media (max-width: 26rem) {
html { font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; }
}

a { transition: all .2s; }

I added that transition for a slightly prettier colour change on hover. What was going on is that this would also animate the size of the font, triggering some back-and-forth between the regular font size, and the smaller one in the media query.

I fixed it by changing to:

a { transition: color .2s; }

I think this is how it's supposed to work. It's just the iPhone SE just to happens to be at the exact size to trigger this? I'm not sure, I wasn't really able to trigger it in desktop Chrome or Firefox.

At any rate, thanks again :-)
Same here. Cryptic alias on my own domain that I never use for anything else. It's rare though, I get one spam email to that address once every few months now, and it's always shopping/review-related. I've contacted Amazon to ask how, when and with whom they shared my email address and their response was basically "we don't ever, but here's a month of free prime for your trouble".
"Unnatural Selection" great book to read.
The average person's eyes would gloss over it - just like how you'd ignore features and tools you don't use or don't know how to use in photoshop or visual studio.
That depends on what one considers a real startup. I've been at three that referred to themselves as such (really four, but that one was already public when I joined).

Two tiny ones were disasters - pocket change when one IPOed and only a sense of relief escaping the other (like joining the Witness Protection Program), though some alumni went on to get rich on famous stuff. The largest was a great success, lucrative and a good education about the world - but there was a lot there before me.
Very cool, we have developed a framework based on the same ideas for early product development of physical products: https://www.taf.expert and successfully use it in a course at Technical University of Munich (https://www.thinkmakestart.com) as well as a number of large corporates.
While I agree with you, minimising the use of unsafe, specially among cargo.io libraries is still an issue.

There is still too much code that relies on it, that could have been written without such constructs.
Or else the cost of producing a relatively small number of phones inside India won't be as cheap as the global HQ operation. If import taxes were the only consideration, you might expect them to open a new small factory when the extra cost of running it was about equal to the taxes.

Quite a few countries have car industries which work roughly like this -- the local VW plant will cost twice as much to run (per car) as the mothership, roughy matching a 100% import tax. (Although in reality there is often more to the story, like producing exactly one model there & exporting those for credit against imports...)
Well it's not new or anything, I don't know what the catalyst for the post is. That said - it IS very handy. I use a lot it with the LuaJIT repl to allow for navigating previous commands with the up arrow/editing the current line etc.
What these two stories describe would surely be hell for a normal human and likely also equivalent AI consciousness.

On the other hand, if you could run even a simple computer program in such a context, it opens interesting possibilities. In "The Jaunt" they describe some of the periods lasting up to billions of years - imagine you could keep a simple algorithm (say prime factorization) running for that long, without the associated energy costs and get the results instantaneously from your point of view.

BTW, of course people from Orions Arm have put together something similar but actually remotely physically plausible using a concept called "Tipler Oracle":
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/48507a11adbd7
JQuery Tutorial: Improve Performance for Websites – Medium
CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring the First Customer Success Manager in Chicago
Was there a criminal case to be made?
With the wrong kind of options it's easy to get shafted with a massive tax bill depending upon what kind of options you get and how your timing is in exercising it can be a huge risk to your future if it works out poorly.
It's reasonable to review a product on amazon that you bought somewhere else.
Hi, author of the paper here, happy to answer any questions.
Can confirm, works like a charm!
Transferwise, just regular payments twice a month, no need for an invoice every time
It kind of is, but requires a complete stack change.

Solaris on SPARC, iOS and eventually Android, all make use of memory tagging.

It doesn't cover all cases, but still better than not having it at all.
I haven't read this page too closely, but the better strategy is similar to an approach I've seen called the "ranking theorem" mentioned here: http://www.prioritysystem.com/math.html

> One result is the ranking theorem: If independent projects are ranked based on the ratio of benefit-to-cost, and selected from the top down until the budget is exhausted, the resulting project portfolio will create the greatest possible value (ignoring the error introduced if the portfolio doesn't consume the entire budget).

This is speaking more generally of a "budget" which could be time, money, or something else. It's an approximation because when the resource is nearly spent it becomes a more complicated optimization problem, selecting projects which fit, which doesn't necessarily pick projects with the highest rate.

Obviously this becomes more complicated if the projects are not independent, e.g., one is a prerequisite of others.
I appreciate the technical content but his personality often comes across as bitter and cynical which makes it difficult to watch more than few minutes of. He's absolutely correct that Apple has oppressive and user-hostile manufacturing and engineering, but if that's the source of his acerbic outlook he ought to find something else to do for a living.
Good. uBlock Origin also has a feature that disables this spyware.
Did you mean copywriting?
This sort of thing seems to be standard in journalism. For some reason, the articles never seem to ask the obvious questions or make the obvious connections. I've always been so puzzled by this but I guess it's because there's no incentive to speculate.
> abuse of vulnerable women/minorities is a lot more widespread than what it was earlier believed to be

This is the reason people respond with "I've never seen it", it is a natural reaction once something is presented as widespread.
They problem is that the "A team" can impress clients by cutting corners, rushing stuff and applying fairly generic solutions that won't work long term as requirements get more specific and more data goes in. Then they've moved on to new things before having a chance to learn from their mistakes.
I haven't had that problem. Once the appliance guy even price matched a more expensive dryer to a cheaper version because they didn't have that cheaper version we wanted in stock at the time.
The reason everyone at Apple and Google got a massive pay rise after 2010 is that Zuckerberg didn't join the cartel and Facebook turned on a firehose of money in SV. For employees of Apple and Google. Even of you never worked for Facebook, you owe Zuckerberg thanks for your raises.
I would pay substantially more than Amazon prices for a store that actually curated their inventory to offer quality stuff instead of a firehose of algorithmically-reviewed trash.

I shop at Amazon only for the selection, not the experience. Not even for the price.
Funny, I think nearly every article coming out about the location tracking, reading your contacts, reading your messages, and even malware on mobile has come out saying roughly "it's on android, but a much lesser version is on iOS" or even better "only on android."

So... what exactly did we lose with buying an iPhone in the context of this conversation? The ability to change the launcher?
What is the kickstarter for? You seem to have the data, and the tool?

Is it a hostage situation? ie, If I dont get the funding, Im gonna delete all this.
I don’t know if Finland as an example really proves or disproves anything. Finland is a small, homogeneous, and pretty unusual sort of country, and the fact that they happen to do well in certain standardised tests doesn’t mean that anything in particular they’re doing is optimised.
ITT: Lots of people bashing Mozilla, probably as an excuse to feel better about still using Chrome.
People get locked out of their accounts because in addition to losing their password, they don't have access to the recovery email/phone/whatever which they already set (or never set one at all). If the helpdesk operator has the ability to change or otherwise set a destination for a recovery email/token/pin/secret to be sent then they have the ability to set their own account/device as the trusted reset device/account. There really isn't a way that normal people can use that would allow a helpdesk operator to give them back access to their account without also allowing the helpdesk operator to gain access to the account themselves if they so choose.
Notre Dame fire: Macron pledges to rebuild devastated cathedral
Amazon is making money on all sides: ads, "amazon's choice", and when you buy something that will break soon, you buy twice, and Amazon gets their commission twice. So far, I don't see any incentive for them to change anything.
They acted irresponsibly. They should respond for their actions. They had a responsibility and failed miserably.

I have no pity for such lack of professionalism. You are correct in saying that it is not so easy and that these structures take a life of their own but this shouldn't be an excuse and we see disasters happening over and over because people don't act as professional.

Anyone on the room seeing such mistakes and who was capable of standing up, should have, even if it meant they could end up jeopardizing their careers by doing so.

* I'm not asking for a hero and I understand that failure is part of the human nature but we should have [professional] respect where it is due.
"Bought on Amazon" is becoming the new "Made in China".
If you can handle a fraction of the inventory, you can use a trusted reviewer like https://thewirecutter.com/
Accepting Change – Life Skills
> I'm not sure I agree that I see it slowing down. I wish it would for a bit so everyone could catch their breath. Social we are just catching up with the implications of social media and there is so much we haven't come to terms with like CRISPR.

Societal changes lag technological ones by at least 5-10 years. So the changes we're feeling now were largely the result of technological changes in the early 2010s. But I do think technology today is slowing down. Individual processor speed certainly has, which has far reaching implications. Cloud computing and GPUs have given general purpose processes another step in "perceived" performance, but those are pretty much one-trick ponies.

If processor individual performance doesn't increase, the economies of scale that a large data center gives you eventually has diminishing marginal returns, and you're again limited by individual processor speed. GPUs similarly give a speed-up for applications that can optimize for them, but eventually they will run into the same performance walls that general purpose chips run into.

Other technologies, like machine learning and much of genetics heavily rely on exponential improvements in the underlying hardware.

If the death of moore's law is really happening, it will have far reaching implications in all computational based industries.
> I know you're joking, but if you found your way on to a site called "Hacker News" at a URL like https://news.ycombinator.com , it it really going to be so much more complicated to understand that https://mastodon.social is the website of the Mastodon social network?

Yes it is, because when people thing of $something, they assume the website is $something.com.

If Mastodon plans to appeal to the general public then it will need to be easier to find.
Classic. Schrodinger's quantum biology
Your comment seems to be attracting a lot of first-time posters taking defensive positions on Tesla's behalf...
That article should have a different title: "How Cultural Bias Created a Generation of Incel Masturbators"
That's what I've been thinking. I get more spam than legitimate email, but over the course of a year or so Thunderbird's Bayesian classifier has gotten to probably 98% accuracy with <.1% false positives.
> They are trying to fix the problem

doubt. Amazon has unlimited data on everything, they could fix that if they wanted to. They just have zero incentive to: the sales happen on Amazon's platform, a lot of them use FBA, so Amazon is getting paid.
How is your question much different than "what are the gun laws in Finland"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Finland

> no types of firearms are outright banned, and in principle a person can apply for a licence for any type of gun

(Though some weapons like machine guns and rocket launchers are 'specially dangerous' and 'can only be granted on a very limited basis and are essentially for recognized collectors and filming purposes only'.)

> A license is always needed for possession of a firearm and all firearms are registered. Firearms may only be carried while they are being used for a specific purpose (e.g. hunting, shooting at the range). When transporting a firearm to or from such activity, the firearm must be unloaded and stored in a case or pouch. The owner of a firearm is responsible for making sure that firearms and ammunition do not end up in unauthorized hands.

> The application process includes a check of criminal records, the police interviewing the applicant and in some cases a computer-based personality test or a medical health certificate. Any significant history with violence or other crime, substance abuse or mental health issues will cause the application to be rejected.

> Carrying a firearm licensed for hunting or sporting use outside of that specific activity is not allowed.

Those are all differences from, I believe, anywhere in the US. And for all of the ones I listed I say, "yes, please!"
The glory days of iPhones are over.Its gonna be 10k less than the existing one and it's still for top 1 or 2 %
The USSR was still technically an ally when the first were dropped. It would be interesting if Japan or Germany was in the know (and they also likely were, just musing)
Link to the actual report by Which?

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2019/04/thousands-of-fake-custo...
So part of why it’s “funny” is that it’s offensive to most people who don’t find it funny?

I must admit, you’re the first person I’ve ever heard refer to a USA chant as enchanting.
Disney prepares to wow Star Wars fans with new Galaxy's Edge theme parks
Can you link to the comments you think are so terrible? Most people seem supportive.
Safari’d content blockers are next to useless.

Safari is really easy to beat by anti-ad-blocking technology, the only reason for why more publishers won’t do it is because they don’t want to piss off people, but as the minority of people using ad-blockers grows, they’ll get over that fear.

Also FYI injecting scripts in webpages is the only way to prevent anti-ad-blocking from working.
Same experience with tiny startups. Worked like crazy and earned pennies.