skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't other large, developing countries adopt similar policies? What are the downsides?
It's important to remember that it was their job to be mindful of the risks. These weren't folks working at a bake sale or something, these were trained professionals who had been entrusted with significant and weighty responsibilities, and they did not take those responsibilities seriously enough. No, they weren't idiots, and that makes it far worse. Negligence is a common human failing, we should remember what it looks like and how it happens, we shouldn't pretend that it doesn't exist or that it should be excused.
> They don't have to have a physical store near you.

They can get boxes to me so fast, they might as well. Their return process is also flawless.

As for inventory integrity, I agree that Amazon probably does worse. But I’ve never personally been bit by a purchase of a big brand name from them, so for now, they’ve still got my trust.
BestBuy in my experience makes it fairly hard. First you have to buy at their high price from the store. Then you must do customer support call and send them screenshot of Amazon listing within 14 days. I even tried that just to find that their website was down and other times they had office hours on different time zones. I wouldn't recommend price match for all but very determined customers. Their store employee refuses to match price on the spot even when shown Amazon website price.
A thought just came to my mind. I wonder if Amazon should display the return rate for products. High return rates might make people thing twice about an inflated set of reviews.
The Department of Defense's budget is about Six Hundred and Fifty Billion Dollars. It appears too high for peace time. We have friendly relations with both neighboring states. We have huge natural defenses (oceans) to the east and west. We have the nuclear deterrent. We have a well armed population.

We don't need 355 deployable navy vessels. Improving education and health care of our citizens would do more to improve America's economic position than jostling for terrority in the Indian Ocean. Climate change is a bigger treat than terrorism.
I don't know if I'd look at it with that lens. Clearly, knowledge and analyses of this topic are resident in academia and have been long present at various levels of industry, but other factors like performance and power consumption have received generous affordances by hardware designers, and makers of system software and application software had to step in where the hardware provided little help for leak-proof sharing. In retrospect, the market may have rewarded hardware makers' direction of pursuit -- until now, but the survivors of those past pursuits remain.

Leak-proof sharing of resources may be a more marketable pursuit now, with cloud providers hosting code from mutually untrusted parties, and consumers running delivered applications and untrusted Javascript on the same machine, but I'd rather see the conversation about this topic improve across the board, independent from commercial forces.
Not until the people who are building existing systems become (financially / legally) liable for their mistakes. Homogeneity is fragile, but it's also extremely cheap, which is how we got here.
The overlaid label is suspicious. It reminds me of the whole Chinese baby formula crisis. Amazon needs to add rigorous control before someone gets severely ill or even dies. It looks like a giant liability for legitimate sellers and Amazon itself to me.
I was at the STS-1 launch. I got a patch and got to meet celebrities. It was amazing, lots of cheering in the bleachers.
The Seine is not directly beside Notre Dame. It’s a steep drop and 200-300ft away depending on angles. A standard fire hose is 50ft. A supply/relay hose is typically 100ft. They can’t just hook up a few hoses, dunk them in the Seine, and then instantly put the fire out.

There were notable logistical issues to get enough firefighters on-site given it’s an island, and there were a ton of people around when the fire broke out. They wound up having 400 firefighters on-site until midnight to get it under control and save the structure. I’m pretty confident they did all they could, and HN’s armchair firefighters aren’t likely to have done any better.
Is it making fun, or is it fear?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack
Fortunately the populace wants regulated money.
Where to start? How about reality:

1. Victims of crimes do not get to enact in-kind retribution against the perpetrators. Welcome to Western criminal justice since before the US split off from England.
2. Not everyone in Guantanamo had anything to do with 9/11 or Al Qaeda (some even are innocent because the US Military & Intelligence services sometimes do make mistakes). Does having a crime committed against the US in the past now entitle them to do whatever to whomever for all time? If so, does this rule get to be applied outside the US or is the US special?
3. Legally reprisal is only allowed for the purpose of getting the adversary to obey the laws of armed conflict. It cannot be taken for revenge, spite or punishment.

Or basic morality we teach children? 2 wrongs don't make a right. Or more eloquently put by MLK: "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
With hindsight, we can say they were definitely wrong.
It's a type of security in depth. The problem being solved isn't that companies can make anonymized profiles; it's that all that a company needs to do is associate one ID with a person to fully de-anonymize that person's data, whereas under the new scheme associating an ID would only de-anonymize a month's data. Not wonderful but, arguably, not nearly as bad.

That said, this is engineering-oriented security thinking in a behavioral playing field. People's habits don't change very rapidly, and I'd expect that (with the exception of life-changing events) a month's worth of data would tell you 95% of what a (device) lifetime of data would.
This pymc turorial is a nice place to start in this topic,

https://docs.pymc.io/notebooks/bayesian_neural_network_with_...
Here's a summary of the thread.

HN title: "Not enough jobs for science graduates challenges STEM hype"

hprotagonist: "it has historically been very challenging to find work as a "straight" biologist ... I think STEM is horseshit is that it is so broadly defined as to be without meaning"

me: "The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage"

hprotagonist: "even IEEE's response was "there is no shortage and certainly no skills gap"

You: "That cannot be IEEE's response"

(I later provide a couple of links to IEEE-hosted articles which concur with what we are saying. Furthermore, you now agree that there is 'no shortage of science majors', which is the S of STEM.)

bloomer: "It is the same one that RAND ... gave when commissioned by congress to determine whether their was a “STEM shortage.”"

you: "The crazy wages that tech companies pay aren't a data point?"

me: "One data point ... is not reflective of STEM as a whole"

If it's so obvious that the thread switched away from STEM onto CS, then why did both bloomer and I get confused? Instead of me 'gaslighting' you, I think a better description is that you 'sidetracked' the conversation, while I tried to steer it back to the main thread.

FWIW, and not that it makes any difference, but:

"Students Fly High at Engineering Bootcamp" - https://engineering.utdallas.edu/engineering/news/archive/20...

"295 students attend Isaac Physics Bootcamps at Churchill College" - https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/2018/jan/10/143-students-atte...

There are bootcamps for physicians, but they are for practicing physicians to get training in a specific topic.
I think it would be good for a lot of us to get away from the "normal" way of life to discover who we really are.
That's a bit of an oversight. Isn't that like a $40 million oversight, depending on how you count it?
Not just visual studio. There are definitely _tons_ of users who moved from Atom, Sublime, Brackets, or even Emacs/Vim to VS Code. I know all of the above.

Don’t know any VS users other than former professor, and he definitely hasn’t switched to VS Code.
I rather them focusing on hardening their own privacy instead of cherry picking issues at competitors.
One could say that if the Amazon’s ecosystem was a society, it’s in a late stage of collapse.
...and yet there's so many C++ programmers walking around telling themselves they're so special they can write correct C++ code, everybody else is just stupid, and C++ is still a good idea.
The IDFA is device universal, and is only reset when the user takes manual action.

Apple was aware of the privacy challenges of this, and laid out the rules for using IDFA in this WWDC 2014 presentation. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2014/715/

It's a video with no transcript, but if you click the link to the slides, you can see on slide 7 that the lifetime of the Advertising ID is "Reset Advertising ID."

Each time you submit an app binary to Apple for review, you have to click a box that solemnly swears that you're using the IDFA to attribute activity to an advertisement, proving that the advertisement did its job. "I, USER NAME, confirm…"

I don't know whether the solemn vows really do anything; I get the impression that IDFA abuse is detected via privacy researchers making noise in the tech press. But it has been enforced a few times.
If you would prefer to use keywords instead of symbols, Nial is a good option: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7
FF does abide by this rule in-fact. Almost every new component is written in Rust. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation
For me, monicahq.com has all the features I would ever need in a personal CRM except syncing with a living contact registry (Contacts.app, Google etc.). Have a look at their feature list.
Tesla's Sustainable Products and Manufacturing
Lewis was a coffee getter at Sollys by all accounts that ain't his. Good writer though. As long as you remember it's fiction.
If Google can stop email spam then Amazon, who has a reviewer's identity, credit card number, browsing behaviour, and purchase history should be able to spot fake reviews.
Thanks, did not know that!
Multi-Physics at 5/3nm
Weeding out fake products is not a software or machine learning issue. It's a process issue and much simpler to solve. You require all your merchants to provide their legally traceable identity. Your agreement should require merchants to put payments on hold when fake product complaints are received with arbitration fees. All big brick-and-mortar shops do this. It would be very hard to introduce fake product in Fred Meyers or Costco by any merchant without financial and potentially legal consequences. Amazon just needs electronic version of that process.
Amazon could generate unique per unit tokens for vendors to sticker next to the SKU stickers they already require. Totally traceable to a vendor if there is a problem, and not easy to counterfeit.

This is a beginner programming exercise. They have no excuse for not implementing basic safeguards while they spend billions on AI research.
Synthstrom Deluge should be on the list. While it is sequencer, sampler, synth combination, it has a isomorphic player mode that lights up the key and mode you are in. Amazing unit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH12J-K8T9k
There is a Chrome extension[0] available. I personally find FakeSpot best used to help avoid bad buys -- not to ensure that buys are going to be good (due to adversarial gaming, or FakeSpot itself being targeted).

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fakespot-analyze-f...
"451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time."

Thanks European Union!
Keybase has said porn related names / IDs won't be allowed? I was going to suggest some people look at using it as an alternative ID system to use in various chat systems. However some of those appear to be sex chat focused, so if that could cause an issue for them I'd be better off not mentioning and looking for a keybase like ID alternative.
Not a coincidence. There are people who work on Swift who worked on Rust, and vice versa.
You are forgetting India is a land of 1.3 billion people. There are at least 50 - 100 million people who are willing to spend more than 500$ on a phone. That's a big enough market for Apple to consider.
This is so great! I hope you went back and thanked that English teacher. They don’t get the thanks they deserve most of the time and they sure as hell don’t get the pay they deserve. Teaching is a noble calling and I’m glad someone saw you and took the time to care.
If you want isomorphic with RGB, check out synthstrom deluge. It isn't velocity sensitive though.
They have been focusing on privacy for the last several years and rolled out multiple improvements specifically in that area on the last year alone (e.g. Anti-Tracking Protection, DNS over HTTPS, HTTP Referrer limits, Container Tabs, etc). Plus products like Firefox Focus (essentially an in-private browser).

If we're gatekeeping who is allowed to criticize Apple, perhaps it would be enlightening to give some examples of people or entities who attain a high enough level of moral purity to do so. If an organization like Mozilla fails to reach it, I just want to get a sense of where the bar is set.
What? IDFA is device universal and only reset manually by the user.
They could fix bad cores in a core plane. They cut the X and Y wire to remove the bad core. Then new X and Y wires were rethreaded through the old cores and the new core. They tested planes after stringing the X and Y wires, before adding the sense and inhibit wires. If they found a problem after the sense and inhibit wires were threaded through, I don't know if they needed to remove them or if they could add a splice.
The OP is by the author of ripgrep
A significant portion of the cost is because of import taxes. They usually are high but have been increased further of late.
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> maybe they're not eligible until next year.

No, the work was eligible. I doubt Dershowitz's petition had any sway over the board. Frankly, while Julie Brown's reporting was astounding, there were better work. The Herald was a finalist for a story they did about gold.
just buy from somewhere else whenever it is cheaper
Indeed. The conclusion is:

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That's going to be difficult for management to push back against.
Chatbots aren't as difficult to make as You Think
The quote that you included as part of [1] doesn't seem to be present in the article you linked.

Getting down to your question I am not sure the fault lies with those who are wondering about the difference between two opposing statements in the media. The piece I take issue is that as soon as the picture of her with the image of the black hole started to go viral the first thing many people did was check her contributions to a repo on github to quantify the code that she wrote for the project as a way to measure her which ultimately seems like something someone would do out of feelings of inadequacy.
> The issue is that human adversaries are formidable

Are they ever!

Imagine if Amazon had a decent algo that would flag 100% of bad reviews and penalize the seller.

All of a sudden, competitors would be flooding EACH OTHER'S products with fake 5 star reviews to try and put them out of business.

Humans are very crafty when you give them a system of rules. Each twist of the rules creates new opportunities for unintended consequences.

PS: I do not think this is an excuse to give up trying
It's Moloch.
If the report is so damning otherwise, why is Barr even releasing it?
The Board met last week and chose the winners on Friday. Winners and finalists are notified over the weekend. Everyone else is kept in the dark until the announcement Monday.
I also enjoy "this is hard, I'm going to lie in the hammock and think about it for a while"
I can see what Google tried to do. But it's obvious that the technology failed miserably, on a problem that likely should not have been "solved" with automation. What if there had been a terrorist attack? Clearly these messages would be not just incorrect, but unimaginably inappropriate. It's clearly not ready to be used now, if it's even possible to teach a machine what 9/11 conspiracy theories are.

The team that built this should be dissolved. This was a bad call on the engineering side, the product side, and the management side. Nothing about this was a success.
> Are these different companies that happen to use the same supplier?

You can often find the exact product, same pictures and all, on Alibaba. Only difference is the branding, so it's obvious where sellers are sourcing their products.

It's one of the reasons I use AliExpress: it cuts out the middlemen and their markup.
If you think buying an iphone saves you then you've already lost.
Try getting things like Duracell and other frequently consumables. I think most people are rarely aware that they are actually buying counterfeits.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/amazo...

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-fake-products-project-zer...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/amazon-announces-project-zer...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon-ups-its-anti-co...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazo...
> Why would you believe journalists over STEM people about workplace conditions in STEM?

Because STEM people are doing mostly STEM stuff. They are not actively investigating workplace conditions. So they only have a limited view of the entire space of "STEM workplace conditions". Journalists _are_ actively investigating workplace conditions and their findings should be treated with more seriousness than your friends or some person on HN.

> Journalists will write whatever sells the most clicks.

I agree the incentives aren't exactly well lined up to always promote ethical behavior in journalism, but its not as flippant as you portray. It is a serious profession and most journalists treat it as such.

> They're not some kind of scientists.

Agreed. But like I mention earlier, I trust their findings more than of my personal experience or that of people I may have first-hand experience with.
Yeah, and it's not just books.

Amazon gets a lot of heat on HN for their review-spam problem and their counterfeit goods problem. But the product variant selection problem, whether it's different editions/translations of books, or different colors/styles/sizes of clothes, or different variants of other consumer goods, is easily solvable by comparison. And it's not getting solved. Every product with multiple dimensions of variants (e.g. color, size, # in pack) feels like it has a different interface, random mix of radio buttons and drop-downs, and a change in one dimension can cause other dimensions to disappear or shift around.

Is there any management or programming talent, with the power to implement fixes, left in the retail/marketplace divisions? Or has it all moved to AWS and logistics?
> After over 2 years of misinformation, unfounded allegations, and downright fabrications, the media are now congratulating themselves on a job well done.

How delusional are you?
This would be a tax on income not on capital gains. The entities would have to pay out some amount of money to shareholders to cover their tax liability.
I can do that. But try explaining that to the average person the street and see how far they get before they give up.
Not sure I follow, which "incomprehensibly weird and advanced minds"? Our minds after cloning?
Likely directly related to this: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/notre-da...

IE: Tons of online trolls trying to stir up false racist and xenophobic outrage on social media for this event, thus the YouTube algos picked up on some of this and linked the associated article.
If Mozilla really, really cared about privacy then the default search engine would be no search engine. The first page you would get after installing would be a "choose your search engine" page, so people who want Google will have to choose to use Google, and people who want DDG will have to choose to use DDG. Having a default search at all is showing partiality to who gets to receive the browser information of a large portion of the user base.
But they don't because when their own customers communicate with others customers the conversation is no longer private and if they aren't sufficiently technically knowledgeable then their own customers might not even know it's not secure.
Making the world better?
> Is there a citation I can refer to about this statement?

I recently read The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, which discusses this topic in great detail.
I believe double taxation actually refers to paying the corporate tax rate as well as the shareholder paying their dividend tax rate. Not capital gains.
The trick is to implement such a process without the overhead the process has at a place like Costco. Keep in mind that Amazon operates in many countries.

There is also significantly more incentive to fake a legal identity for sellers at Amazon than at brick and mortar stores. Even if it costs a million dollars it might still be worth doing -- you might make a lot more than that by the time you get caught.
> Mistreatment/abuse of women != women in STEM being treated badly.

What? You realize all the recent guardrails that conferences have in place are there for a reason, right? They didn't materialize out of thin air. There have been many, many, many reports of various forms of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct which necessitated their creation.

I am not familiar with the conference you mention and can thus not comment on it.
I had a problem with traffic black holing all of a sudden everything going nowhere with Wipro once.

What we found was that suddenly a some ports with traffic distended for the internet bounced and the black holing started. A Wipro rep proudly announced that they had caused the port bouncing. You see they found that someone (Wipro... but they didn't know it was their own people at this point) had cabled around the firewalls a year earlier because something wasn't working, and never hooked them back up.

So now we were cabled to the firewalls properly... the firewalls that as far as anyone could tell had nonsensical configs that all pointed to a null route.

So for at least a year, maybe more, there was no firewall. The end customer was a large financial institution.
That's fine with me, I'm not suggesting privacy should be free but they can't pay me enough to use their OS or hardware. I would however entertain the idea of using their services if they are available on my hardware choice.
Yeah, I know - you can blame the Muldoon government for that. Mind you access to foreign exchange was limited for ordinary folk back then so you couldn't have benefited from it anyway
It’s a success except when it’s not. We only see headlines when it fails. Calling for the dissolving of this particular integrity team is ridiculous.

Mistakes will happen, the team will learn from them, and their product will improve.
At least no room for corruption
It's not ML/AI problem. The problem is that Amazon wasn't able to punish counterfeiters financially or legally which in turn may be because they don't have a process to ensure seller identity that is legally traceable. This is equivalent to someone coming to BestBuy, sell to them bunch of fake products and get away with it without a scratch every single time. You wouldn't blame that BestBuy doesn't have AI system, would you?
Yeah, I feel the same way from my personal experience as a kid, but from what I have read, the "bad kids" thesis you suggested is at least partially fallacious. Again, as an example, Finland seems to disprove it.
Out of curiosity, is there a better approach than memory maps?