skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood the term incel (involuntarily celibate) as an insult, incels are just people who cannot get female/male attention for various reasons and some make up crazy conspiracy theories to explain it. Many of the people who do fit into this category are sad cases and deserve our sympathy rather than to be insulted and made fun of. The way I see it, it's no different than making fun of a person for having autism. Rather than making fun of these people, how about we help them overcome their issues?
Satoshi's Treasure
> A silver lining in this cloud is that "normies" don't really think this way, it's just the media.

I’ve come to believe that one of the core problems of journalism today is Twitter. It provides a false narrative as to what people care about in the world that lazy journalists just report on. At scale, it’s purely reactionary and partisan, so it’s easy to filter for the audience you want to target a message to.

Incendiary Twitter bullshit gets way too much press as a result.
Do they have a plugin? I feel like that would make life a lot easier - you don't have to go to a second domain, just look at the listing and the plugin puts a big "Don't Buy" banner over it
What's to boost? The customer would have selected the better option and been more satisfied, and Amazon would have brokered the deal either way. They still need their hammer.
Happy Number
Or the reviews were being run through an overeager text spinner.
If you make the federal government cover all equalization you'll find rich areas lowering their property taxes.

Other nations handle education at state or federal level from the start. If you want a federal equalization you will want it to come with a admin union as well.
> "It was impossible to tell how much damage this foam had caused hitting the wing nine times faster than a fired bullet."

This figure is GROSSLY inaccurate.

From: https://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Troxell/Columbia%20Web%20S...

>Eighty-two seconds into STS 107, a sizeable piece of debris struck the left wing of the Columbia. Visual evidence and other sensor data established that the debris came from the bipod ramp area and impacted the wing on the wing leading edge. At this time Columbia was traveling at a speed of about 2300 feet/second (fps) through an altitude of about 65,900 feet. Based on a combination of image analysis and advanced computational methods, the Board determined that a foam projectile with a total weight of 1.67 lb and impact velocity of 775 fps would best represent the debris strike.

So somewhere between 775fps and 2300 fps. For reference, slow and heavy 45 ACP bullets start at around 800fps and up. 7.62x39mm (AK-47) bullets are in the neighborhood of 2300fps. The shuttle was moving as fast as a moderately fast rifle bullet, and the foam likely hit at much less than that; something probably a bit under a subsonic pistol bullet.

The author is incorrectly assuming that the foam hit the shuttle at orbital velocity, which obviously couldn't be the case because the shuttle was nowhere even close to orbital velocity at the time.
The article itself seems to contain an error.

The author states that the following:

typeof result !== 'number'

..returns "Boolean" because it's interpreted as:

typeof (result !== 'number')

I don't believe this is true. typeof has precedence over in/equality [0], so you don't need parantheses, as recommended in the article, like typeof(result). The original statement works as expected.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
He wasn't a trader. He was in investment banking, which is not the same thing. If anything he was more into sales and not trading.
It can be 'the rules of playing the game' AND also scummy. The overall system may be structured such that it basically forces such behavior. Saying it's scummy doesn't mean that this particular seller went out of their way to be scummy or likes acting in that way. But this doesn't stop it being a scummy practice from the consumer's perspective.
Python tips and tricks, March 2018
> Why not give everyone the ability to securely communicate?

Because their message isn’t “we offer privacy to everyone in the world” but “we offer privacy to our customers”.
I don't know what's more astounding, the price per MB or the fact that the NZ$ was once worth 1.25 US$.
The other thing that i see a lot is cherry picking of data. “Company X paid no tax this year”. It’s often because of some event where they had a big loss, conveniently ignoring all the past years where they paid hundreds of millions in taxes.
This is pretty cool, and using windirstat to visualize it is a great idea. Props.
No, this article is not a criticism of PowerPoint specifically.
Really? I feel selling stuff on ebay has a 1/5 chance get scammed.
> look around the world an you'll find plenty of examples of government providing quality education to all.

195 countries, less than a dozen countries with non-small size populations are doing a good job at all on education.

The rest - where's the proof? Where are the results? Look at the development situations in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan, China, Venezuela and so on.

Where's this overwhelming outcome proof that government education particularly works so well?

China still has half a billion people with the equivalent of a fifth grade education or less. They've had an all-powerful government for over half a century.

The vast majority of the world still struggles with basic economic development, basic government functions, extreme corruption, basic human rights and inconsistently available utilities.

When you strip out the tiny nations like Luxembourg, Iceland, Qatar, Ireland, Finland, Norway, Singapore, Cyprus, Malta, Kuwait, etc. - you have about two dozen nations above the global average GDP per capita level (a mere $10k). That's how piss poor the world's situation actually still is on education results.

Take a look at the development index on the world, then drop out the tiny nations. Where are all the large nation success stories on governments doing such a great job? There are exceptionally few anywhere to be found.

It's all tiny nations, and it's obvious why: it's because the people are closer to their government in those nations. It's dramatically easier to hold your government accountable, and to make government very personal, when your nation has 500k or 5m people, versus 50m+.

You can count the larger nations that do education really well on just two hands.
It's not just the fake reviews that bug me. I can use fakespot to weed through a few of those. The thing that has really made Amazon less usable for me in the last year or so is seeing the exact same product twenty times under different nonsense-word brands. Recalling a recent example, in about a minute I can find the exact same pair of water shoes sold as: gracosy, MAYZERO, LINGTOM, Wonesion, JointlyCreating, Centipede Demon, hiitave, and more. Another one is Belilent, Alibress, SUOKENI, Zhuanglin, Dreamcity, and so on. Same pictures, almost same descriptive text, with only minor cosmetic differences.

Are these different companies that happen to use the same supplier? It's possible, but it could also be one company creating multiple pseudo-brands to game the system. I could probably even find out, but I don't care. The same physical thing shipped for the same price from the same Chinese factory shouldn't show up twenty times. As long as search results are filled with crap, they're useless. It's the combination of fake reviews and this kind of flooding that makes me want to leave and never come back.
I think Azure runs pgbouncer for that.
I felt like they know there's a large industry built around it and now that it will likely just adapt to taking simple measures like that. By leaving it the way it is for now it's super easy to spot product pages with fake reviews by anyone that cares to look.
It's a nice idea, but tricky to do. The difference is that wages and dividends get taxed in the year they happened and capital gains can't even be calculated until you sell an asset, because you don't know the price it's sold at. And capital gains taxes can sometimes be delayed forever (by not selling).

You could mark to market, but it's tricky for investments that aren't liquid. Do you want to pay capital gains tax on your house every year because the market price is supposedly higher? Do you get it back if the market goes down again?
I had my five with me (all under ten). We debated endlessly about whether to buy nasa tickets until they were sold out. We flew down the morning of (this was the demo flight last year) - and by 10 am we were in the vicinity of the launch area. Since we didn’t have tickets we evaluated some of the bridge locations but finally decided if it didn’t launch we’d rather make it a day at the beach rather than hang out alongside a highway. Three things to note: 1) the beach area had terrible internet. Most of the time twitter wouldn’t load so it was hard to know exactly what was happening. 2) you have a pretty good shot of the landing zones when the rockets return - better than inside ksc I’ve read, 3) if we hadn’t been staying in the hotel it would have been several hours of traffic after the launch. As it was we took the kids to the pool and ate dinner poolside but we could see the road outside was packed for easily two hours post launch.
The point is that it's not a free-for-all. The biggest players completely manipulate the markets so that all the small fish end up losing to them.
Here in Australia they have 5 year unlimited km warranty.
Anyone considering this, breve is almost 3 times the calories of 2% milk (standard latte). While I agree that fat is probably better than sugar, it’s not a calorie cutting decision here.
I think the SimCoders guy would say there's nothing easy about it!
I wonder if the results of this study indirectly also supports this previous study linking oral cancers and oral cavities, proving that higher number of cavities results in reduced cancer risk: https://www.webmd.com/oral-health/news/20130912/tooth-caviti...
Any particular reason this is down voted?

I guess he doesn't give us any reason to believe it's a good idea to do that either.
The blog post is good, and fair at the time. One caution I would add is that time has not stopped for the other projects, either. I believe ag (the silver searcher) has also seen considerable performance improvements since 2016.
Honestly, I could understand that line of thinking if he were talking about ordinary members of the public who are utterly unprepared for a life and death situation. (Not saying I agree with it, just that I understand it.)

But when we're talking about a crew of professionals who literally spend years training to deal with disasters, and who knew exactly what they signed up for when they got in that rocket, I have to squarely side with you. They at least deserved a chance to go down fighting.
So what exactly is technically dense/ambiguous in this summary presentation (remember this isn't the only information provided). Perhaps you'd like to review the full deck of slides rather than the single one picked by the asshole author, I'm particularly interested in the one titled "Damage Results From “Crater” Equations Show
Significant Tile Damage" . https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/2203main_COL_debris_boeing_030123.p...
If you design software in a manner that makes it harder to use safely, then you are also responsible for any accidents.
It could have been implemented in a more restrictive way to prevent this issue and allow more targeted behaviors, instead it allows third party lists (which already require a users trust) to run code. Previously this wasn't the case.

Can your MITM proxy modify HTTPS traffic? If so, how did you configure your machines to trust the cert you're using?
Puzzlement is good. Puzzlement is on the path to understanding. Pull the thread and see where it goes!

Your examples are great places to start. Is the military good for everyone? How have we been using it since WWII, and how has that worked out?

Is spending on roads good for everyone? Is the Interstate Highway System’s effect on the American lifestyle and built environment, on average, a positive one?

How is education funded? How is funding related to outcomes? Can you improve outcomes by spending more?

How closely does the political process track popular will? What considerations determine whether something gets funded and how much?

The world may be less puzzling (or at least, puzzling in different ways) when you become more familiar with the complexities and controversies in these questions.
Recently visited home for a week and a half in Texas while working remote from my job in DC. My dad thought it was strange I was carrying my laptop whenever we went out for food during business hours, and my mom didn't understand why I couldn't keep doing chores all day. My younger brothers are more with it, so they understood. Maybe next time I visit I'll stay at an airbnb!

I still managed to get work done, but he's absolutely right when he says "But in humans it (going feral) can happen faster, since most of our domestication is through education and socialization rather than breeding." Being in my childhood bedroom made me feel like a kid again.
Are we enabling harmful wellness woo?
In fairness, it's a very Harris-y kind of chapter which cuts against how you might want to understand or talk about front-running with people outside the industry. (off topic: having met the guy I'm not at all surprised by how he constructs this chapter or the book in general -- which I love).
That's...exactly what they just said. You claimed not having an HOA is a luxury, they claimed exactly the opposite (because HOA's are generally in wealthier neighborhoods, the people who can generally afford to be pickier).
Then the broader rules apply: watch for cues that your chosen form of interpersonal interaction is not welcomed.

The key is to look for cues, rather than blindly assuming everyone likes drunk men bear hugging them because you as a drunk man like bear hugging everyone.
Actual slide deck. Personally I think the author of this blog is an a-hole to highlight a single slide.

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/2203main_COL_debris_boeing_030123.p...

Particularly interesting is the slide titled "Damage Results From “Crater” Equations Show
Significant Tile Damage"
According to the model in this proposal, corporations report their "true" profits to shareholders, and artificial "profits" to tax authorities using
corporate accounting tricks (i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement) to lower tax liability.

This proposal assumes that, when the tax rate is based on the value of reported shareholder profits, corporations will continue to report their "true" profits to shareholders, rather than just reporting the values returned by corporate accounting tricks to shareholders. I doubt that would be the case. The best argument for it I've seen is "Presumably they want the stock to go up so they will report a profit", i.e. investors will move to companies that are on paper more profitable. But actually, investors do their research and can update their profit models of companies; a higher reported profit number will be seen as (and will actually be) a liability to the company. Companies that forgo accounting tricks will be seen as forgoing potential profit by paying taxes that they don't need to. (The same is true today; if Google announced today that they were voluntarily giving up tax accounting tricks and paying full rate, their share prices would go down.)

The one caveat is whether the SEC enforces that the reported profits really are the true profits. But that model of enforcement (self reporting, cheaters rarely get caught and if they do settle the cases for amounts less than their profits) is silly. If we want taxes paid on true profits, we should implement tax law that precisely defines what those are and instruct the IRS to determine those exactly and send them a bill. Reporting requirements to the IRS should be set up with incentive structures that make cheating unprofitable or impossible.
The skill required is much lower though. With a lower bar, it’s much easier to work as a oil rigger. All it requires is a high school degree.

To be clear though, the people doing data analysis, land exploration, etc. for oil well discovery get paid much more by the way. They make similar amounts to what tech companies can offer in fact.
They did put in a lot of effort to prevent there being any ”the one person behind the picture” talk, from the grand gesture of having 4 simultaneous press conferences around the world, to small details like everyone starting the image reconstruction code at the same time on their laptops.

If you go back I bet you will see other names in the texts you’ve read, but the collaboration itself didn’t try to sell anyone like the brains behind the picture, so there is not much to naturally focus on.
> Its just the only way to do business on Amazon. If every single company is faking the reviews then you can not afford to be the only one not faking them.

That's... the only way to do business selling generic garbage on Amason, I guess. But it's not the only way to do business. I mean, the example is headphones. Bose and Beats and Shure no doubt sell a ton of hardware on Amazon on the basis of their established brands and not just reviews. And I'm sure they do fine, and Amazon is happy to have the business.

The problem here is the search results, that searching for "headphones" (which is indeed a particularly bad category) gives you a bunch of garbage and not a good selection of products that match your search.
“I inhabit physical environments where old communities are crumbling, and people are tentatively groping for social structure through meetups”... “DC area”. Hey, I recognize that place. Great description of northern virginia in 2009 and somewhat still today. Very transient, inhuman place. But safe and affordable.
Maybe it was already on the high side? How do we know?
Wow! Didn’t know about these “secret” microwave networks.

Eg https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...
The nutrition study the supplement industry doesn't want you to see
It's inconvenient to move more than $10,000 at once.

There are good reasons to own a three necked flask other than making cocaine (although if you are an amateur chemist and actually buy one with bitcoin I'd be surprised if you didn't get in trouble.)

There's gray stuff like porn, although I don't necessarily support that one.
> look around the world an you'll find plenty of examples of government providing quality education to all

Frankly, I look around the world and find a mix of authoritarian regimes and countries whose capitals are burning down in riots. A minority balance the need for broadness with the need for experimentation (and repelling political meddling.)

There are merits to preventing government from monopolising social services.
Please help make this happen. A decentralized SCM platform built on IPFS or fully integrated into Git is my dream of the future.
If you think Amazon is bad for this, just checkout Ebay.
I dunno if that's very different. Personal risks are socialized too -- via a mechanism known as bankruptcy. Anyway, again, it's a question of who you're targeting. If you think limited liability specifically is something that ought to incur a tax of that amount, then, sure, tax them that amount.

But then company owners ought to be able to drop the limited liability feature and receive a lesser tax burden, right? I'm suspect Apple's owners would be happy with that trade. Unlimited liability in exchange for a zero percent tax rate? Bring it on. What, realistically, is the most damage that a computer is going to cause? The damages from patent infringement are often limited by the economic harm, which is at any rate likely to be far less than profits.

Not to put words in your mouth, but if I had to guess you would not be willing to offer companies this out. I think that should make you question whether limited liability, specifically, is why companies should be taxed.
This is the sound of one of the AI bubbles going POP

Expect more frequency to come. Expect it to overcorrect so that AI is a dirty word sometime soon and fantastic uses of statistical learning will be poison in funding. It's all so predictable even an algo can see it coming.
You shouldn't have to do the following, but there is a way around that mingled-reviews problem: Go to the "all reviews" page, search that page for "filter by", and and change "all formats" to the format you're viewing.

My biggest complaint about books is not the review mixing problem, although that's bad. My biggest complaint is that different translations shouldn't be mixed at all, while identical translations by the same publisher (for instance, ebook and paperback versions) should always be comingled. On Amazon, both principles are routinely violated. For example, you can search the books category for "marcus aurelius hays meditations" and find the paperback (black cover red bird silhouette) as the first real result, but the ebook format under that entry is NOT the Hays translation. I don't see any way to get to the Hays translation from that search. If you search for the same keywords in the kindle category, the kindle edition is the first real result. (In both searches, you get two sponsored search results which are not the Hays translation but Amazon promotes them anyway).

There you have it... the world's biggest online bookstore is incapable of selling books properly.

An alternative would be to mix all editions, but have a clear well-designed selection interface so that it's clear which translation you're selecting, and then under each translation which edition (format, publishing date, and/or edition number if there are numbered editions) you're selecting.

A commercial modern translation of something like Meditations might only have one ebook and one paperback by the same publisher. An out-of-copyright translation might have a dozen different editions made by taking the gutenberg edition and slapping a more engaging cover on it.

If you're selling books and you make it difficult to navigate book editions in either of those common cases, you have utterly failed at being competent in your line of business. That incompetence might not show up in sales figures, because people who want a specific edition will grudgingly search until they find it, and people who don't want a specific edition will pay for whatever random awful edition catches their attention first.
I'm pretty sure they don't all know each other unless you're referring to fake ones used to scam users of centralized exchanges (in which case they're the same entity.)
I bought some cologne from Amazon, (seller was listed as "Amazon") which turned out to be fake. The scent was wrong, the bottle... except the box which seemed authentic but had the barcode excised with a razor and covered up with a sticker.

When I left a straightforward review, it was taken down with no explanation and no recourse. I called and got a refund, but the fake 5-star reviews are all still up.
Unless I'm missing something, the user can set this to all zeroes.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti...

A sane default would be nice but there's a lot of other information that can be used to fingerprint a user from their device, device names and carrier names along with a bunch of other device settings are accessible without asking for permission. Unfortunately there's no current way to limit these.
I don't think there's an arms race. Is there really evidence Amazon has even thrown any shots across any bows?