skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you've changed your tack to take on the publishing process itself. That was a mistake.

> it's an appeal to authority

You are misusing the phrase "appeal to authority." Citing a published paper is absolutely NOT an appeal to authority, it is the polar opposite, and the distinction between those two things is the fundamental property of the scientific method.

With published papers, you don't have to trust in authority because the methodology and data are right there to be examined by all. The peer review and credibility are valuable and have weight because anyone caught falsifying data would lose their entire career in an instant. This is also why we don't just accept any old journal, as many simply allow anyone to publish as long as they pay.

To see an example of what an appeal to authority actually is, we need look no further then the second half of your comment. Linking to an interview of an expert in her field giving her opinion is what an appeal to authority actually is. Ironic.

You tried to paint an equivalence between our sources, but all you did was reveal that you do not understand how scientific progress is made. This is no longer an argument, at this point I'm educating you on what you should have learned before ever taking a stance on the subject of vaccinations.

If you can't even accept why credible, published papers carry more weight than appeals to authority, and can't understand what an appeal to authority is after it has been explained to you twice, then conversing with you is pointless.
Online Office 365 is free and has more or less the same functionality as Google Docs.
"There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch" by Jenny Odell is a deep investigation of this phenomenon and a really good read: http://www.jennyodell.com/museumofcapitalism_freewatch.pdf.
Blog it with any specific info you want to protect redacted. Give newspapers and equity analysts a chance to find what you are saying backed by evidence. This is the only way $BIGCO will ever care. Do you care enough to do it. I probably wouldn't.
What is public education like in France, Germany, or the UK? They all have populations greater than 66m. At least Germany (83m) I’ve heard good things about their educational system. Why is it so bad in the US?
£50 a month is £600/year. Rounding error on a going concern. Rounding error on a developer's rate. And worth less than the time an entrepreneur would probably spend trying to save half of it. Moving money internationally will always cost something. Exchange rates might eat more of a developer's salary.
Ergo, Amazon cannot do Stats/ML/AI/call it what you will. The claims that they have an AI advantage don't pass the sniff test.
Who owes you a private and secure communication platform for free?
I have never had luck buying laptop battery from amazon. Nor a cell phone battery. They are all fake, since none of them would retain charge or even function. I could have extended the life of samsung S5 if i had been able to find a battery.
And historically, this is how societies eventually collapse. When the participants no longer act in the greater good and instead revert to the primal instinct of pure self interest.

So I would suggest that it is a "scummy thing to do", since if done by the majority of actors, it results in the collapse of a society.
As a former owner of 2 TDI dirty diesels that lost money on the resale due to these issues I personally feel VW has not done enough to make it right with the customers impacted.

Prior to the two diesel's I had owned 4 other Audi's over 15 years.

I test drove a 3.0L TDI and listened to the "green" propaganda (remember their across NA clean diesel tour?) and that is what was the decision makers to purchase.

I then find out the vehicle was not nearly as green as stated; and actually worse than a gasoline version. As the father of two young kids and someone who worries about how we treat our planet this was concerning to me. So I immediately got the "fix" performed when approved. I could not sell the vehicle while a "fix" was pending.

That fix that VW came up with has dropped heavy city (stop and go) driving from >24 mpg to under 10! Also 4 mpg on the highway was lost; as well as making the vehicle drive sluggish and lethargic compared to "dirty days".

My vehicles plummeted from >$30K resale value to being under $15K within 6 months after the "fix" was rolled out. VW paid me $6K in restitution.

Through the entire process VW, who is guilty, was in the power position dictating what they would and would not to solve the problem. It was not handled well. They got off very easy.

I now hope the entire management team involved gets significant criminal charges. It was massive in scope. It impacted our planet negatively. I also feel they should be banned, personally, from ever being in a position to make such decisions again.

I for one will never purchase another vehicle from VW/Audi group. They do not stand behind their products nor look after customers. What they did was a very serious crime and they can never be trusted again.
Use of jargon is a huge impediment to communication in organizations like NASA and DoD. There's even a glib saying that you won't get your project funded unless you give it a cutesy/cool acronym. This ends up stifling communication because each group has its own pet vernacular that obfuscates meaning unless you are inside the circle.

They could benefit from clear, concise communication that gets to the point
You might even say there's room for a startup to reinvent computers (and operating systems) from the ground up.

Would you?
Google Authenticator for Android v5.00 Open Source Release
emacs did that too - 1.12 to 13.
Gleam (a statically typed language for the Erlang VM): first release
If it’s not supposed to make money, what do you think it does?
Can confirm. Born with no enamel, had a dozen or so cavities as a kid despite great dental care. Cut out wheat, life changing health benefits, one of which being no more cavities. That said, only 13% of people have the gene, and of those maybe 1/10 have symptoms, so it's not necessarily the most likely cause.
The Huawei P30 phone has a 50x digital zoom on its camera
Isn’t it obvious that funding public schools with local property taxes is what has created this messed up system where your zip code has a disproportionate impact on the quality of your education?
If there were actually vocational trade schools I would support this kind of thing. I know that in this context it just means the shittier school.
That’s kind of obvious, no?

It’s like asking somebody if they want free stuff. Of course they say yes, it costs them nothing.

Ask the same question where their own taxes go up and see what the answer is.

Reminds me of the HN thread about the 2018 tax changes (limited SALT deduction). The same people who call for higher taxes (many of them in the top 5% income range) start complaining about their taxes going up.

Everyone is fine with higher taxes when it’s someone “richer” than they are.
I hope it's not enough to drag Amazon into sanity. I hope somebody else comes along and beats the crap out of Amazon by offering what Amazon doesn't - honest reviews and rejection of straight up junk.
They are not 3rd party review sites, they are 3rd party sites for algorithmically analyzing the reviews on amazon for a given product.
> I would love to run my own Pocket server ...

Oh I'd love to run my own Pocket server. The service seems useful but I stopped using chrome and disabled most of the utilities I reasonably could to avoid centralizing my data again.

A self-hosted Pocket could help some of that.
What app store are you on? The only ones I see have crap search and recommendation systems. Beyond that they're off the shelf shopping carts for file downloads.

The stores that are popular are so because they're preinstalled. That's it.
How dare a country enforce policies that benefit the domestic economy.
I have been fascinated by neutrons for quite some time. I'd not heard of neutron bottles before. Researching about how ultra cold neutrons are trapped was quite interesting, as I had not thought it possible that they could be held in any sort of container.
India should demand that the Chinese firm share their manufacturing techniques.
My friend was robbed, but I wasn’t there to see it. Still, I belive his testimony about it even though I’ve never actally witnessed a robbery in real life (as far as I’m aware).

On the strength of this evidence I guess you agree that they can’t be that common, surely not as much as 70% of all property crimes?
> Unfortunately, no physical retailers around me have random things like 3D printer filament, various specific fasteners, or a particular inexpensive picture frame. Amazon wins at sheer variety of inventory.

They don't have to have a physical store near you.

> Also, if a particular popular brand/model is at a big box store, the Amazon listing is almost certainly the actual thing. Random off-brands might be fake, but you run the same risk at Walmart as you do with Amazon then.

I highly doubt it. Amazon doesn't vet its sellers to well, and co-mingles supplies unless you pay a fee. I think Walmart probably does it better because it isn't trying to court every seller under the sun.
Been using Swanson Vitamins for about 10 years. Decent website, excellent vitamins. Smaller mom and pop b-to-c that has been online since the first .com bubble.
You can pay the NASDAQ (or any exchange) to colocate your server beside their server with a low-latency network link and see a live feed of the orders as they hit the book.
This doesn't happen; you have no idea what you're talking about.
There are plenty of reports about all sorts of things. That doesn't mean they are true. In the case of Success Academy I have two boys who go there, the school have all sorts of children including special needs children.

There is so much hate around charter schools that you should be careful with what you read into these reports. Much of what is written is either blatantly false or completely out of context.

Like every other thing in this world there are good and bad charter schools just like there are good and bad public and private schools. Everything has tradeoffs. Personally I think the lottery is more fair than whether you live in a specific zone for your kids. Each to their own.
Wow, those magnets are really tiny!
Life is hard. It's still a different discussion unless you don't think it applies to people who don't have any children.
Not really. They're reacting to someone actually trading in public on a public market. That is not front running. Someone has to react to a thing that actually happened in the public market, quickest. By definition someone has to be first. Cheating to get there, eg breaking before the starting gun, is illegal. Reacting first is not.

Front running is where you get information about a trade before the trade happens, illegally, and get your own trade in first with advance knowledge that you should not have. That's still 100% against the law whether a computer is involved or not. Do it and you will go to jail. If you got your information from the public market because it is a thing that already happened, then ok. That is really just fine. Other laws might be being broken somehow in other ways or they might not but seriously that's the whole point of a public market and using public information. Everyone has the chance to react as fast as they can.
I'd love to never see a Pocket button in my browser ever again.
Not on an iPhone, but on longer drives, I will lock the phone to turn off the screen to conserve power and reduce distraction during long stretches where I don't need direction. It's nice when you can get back to navigation without unlocking.
I would say societal collapse happens when regulating bodies no longer align participant self-interest with the greater good. Everyone is self-interested, which is why central authorities must step in for things that benefit individuals but hurt society such as tax evasion, pollution, and (maybe one day) fraudulent reviews.

Note I'm not saying this is practical to implement or easy to do, just that central authorities exist for this very purpose.
It's not really that hard though. It just takes money that we're unwilling to spend. Money for lead abatement, healthcare, early childhood education, summer programs, athletics, healthy school lunches, air conditioned classrooms, high-skilled and highly-paid teachers, intervention programs for at-risk youth, addiction treatment, school counselors, etc., etc. Basically, poor kids need all the stuff middle class kids take for granted. Who knew? And we can provide it to them. We just don't want to.
Expose them for this in some way that doesn't lead back to you.

As long as companies keep getting away with it, they have no reason to stop. Why should they?
There's other sloppiness here as well, like treating the orbiter velocity as the determining factor (nine times the speed of a bullet...) when the delta-V between the foam and the orbiter is the more pertinent information.

The author comes across like they have an axe to grind (maybe rightly so) but should make better efforts at getting technical details right in an article about the perils of miscommunicating technical details
It seems like the weight of amount of water/retardant to effectively extinguish a fully-involved fire would be a problem AND simultaneously smothering the fire underneath AND reducing core coal temperatures below ignition point would need to happen. It's a thought towards a possible solution to a ruinous class of fires, but there appears to be a need for a gentle and widely-deployed technology to rescue historic structures in the midst of fire events.

1. Cool an outer structure rapidly with lightweight/gently-applied, inert, high specific heat material from above.

2. Thixotropic gently-applied, inert, high specific heat material inner structure (possibly same as 1.).
I know several people who had diesel VWs and let VW buy them back for almost the same price they paid for them two years earlier. Why didn't you do that?

VW did a bad thing, but the owners did not get screwed. In fact, the non-owners got screwed worse because we had to breathe the same fumes as the owners but we didn't get a free car for two years.
Not saying I agree with this line of thinking but I personally think cross platform iMessage would benefit iMessage users privacy significantly. You can't control what OS your friends use.

I think the real reason why might be something along the lines of anti SPAM or botting; iMessage seems to require an authentic, unleaked serial number to connect, as I found out a while ago when connecting my Hackintosh. (I succeeded but I have a feeling many real Mac serial numbers get banned from iCloud by Hackintosh users sniping them out of pictures in eBay listings and whatnot.
“Cloudworker lifestyles — mobile, home-based, unshaven, pajama-clad and Starbucks-swilling — create a psychological transformation that is very similar to what happens when animals go feral. In animals, it takes a couple of generations of breeding for the true wild nature to re-emerge. Cats, for instance, revert to a basic, hardy, stocky, short-haired robustly-interbred tabby variety. Dogs become mutts. But in humans it can happen faster, since most of our domestication is through education and socialization rather than breeding.”

:-)
> Maybe telling these companies "no war was declared, so you must pay out" would be a good thing.

That goes against centuries of precedence. The only difference now is that it was "on the Internet".
>If this was implemented, it wouldn't be very difficult to associate a cycled out profile with a new one. Only days of behavioral information. So if out of a 30 day month, 3 days are used to re-associate user profiles, they're only using a partial profile 10% of the time?

It's even worse than that. The IDFA might reset every month, but there's nothing preventing apps from storing a persistent identifier in its data. As soon as there's a new IDFA, the ad network can immediately link that back to the old IDFA. As long as you have one app that belongs to the ad network, you can be linked back. You can even combine this with keychain data to persist across reinstalls (technically you're not supposed to use the keychain for this purpose, but storing the currently logged in user's credentials is fine, so you can use that instead).
Yes. The normalization of deviation.

After a point, anyone who points out the wrongs is seen as the deviant.
What makes you think you will not pay a premium for iPhones in India in the future?

Apple prices based on demand curves, not supply costs.
> Everyone is self-interested

Is there a citation I can refer to about this statement?

I would argue that laws and regulations are to prevent the very impactful minority of actors that would willfully harm others to benefit themselves.
Read the full deck and tell me what is hard to understand:

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/2203main_COL_debris_boeing_030123.p...
I once wrote an Amazon review in which I said that the other reviews followed a pattern of manipulation. Amazon deleted my review, and sent me a warning letter : https://twitter.com/BenKrasnow/status/1106385729435787264?s=...
don't know why you're getting downvoted, but every time I hear someone say they want to be fair, my immediate reaction is to ask "what's your definition of fair?"

My definition is that everyone has skin in the game and feels the same pain when it comes to raising or lowering existing taxes or creating new ones. Any thing else is a wealth transfer and theft from one to give to the other.

Having everyone feel the pain proportionally, would have all taxpayers questioning the efficiency of how their money is used. When most taxpayers don't feel the pain is when government starts wasting money. Why pressure governments to provide more bang for the buck when you're not the one footing the bill.

Furthermore, you're also distorting the cost of labor and distorting how taxes are handled. Those that don't pay any taxes end up providing artificially cheap labor. If a worker needs $10/hour for it to be worth their while and the taxes they pay are $0, businesses will pay $10/hour. If they need $10/hour for it to be worth their while and their taxes are $2, the business will have to pay $12. If the product/service the business provides sells for $20/hour, the business gets $10 in the first scenario and $8 in the second scenario. The business actually makes more in the scenario where the labor doesn't pay taxes and businesses are better at avoiding taxes through clever accounting so less money is likely to be raised than a flat percent that everyone pays with no loopholes.

Having the rich pay all the taxes also gives them the most economic incentive to make modifications to the system in their favor, and it puts the most money in their pocket to spend on lobbying activities. In the example above, the business has up to $10/hour of profit to allocate to lobbying with when they are paying the taxes.

At the end of the day, the market will adjust to all the distortions you bake into the system, hiding the true cost of inputs needed to produce goods and services, which reduces market efficiency.

Overall, society is better off if things are priced as accurately as possible since people can make more accurate decision about the worth of providing goods and services. This also applies to making sure the costs of externalities are priced into the goods and services provided.
How would fakespot be targeted by fake reviewers?
1. Bots

2. Click-farms buying clicks from humans in India, Malaysia, countries in Africa, etc.

3. Mostly, but not all, Chinese distributers and manufacturers offering inducements, bonuses and generally cajoling customers for 5 star reviews.
I found it really interesting to read the comments on the post about "LeBron James' school"^ and the first major post about the black hole image. The recent LBJ story was a decent and constructive discussion, though I do remember when it was first announced here (or r/NBA) that a few people thought his role was overplayed. There are some parallels between both stories with what gets media attention (a name and face) and what can serve to inspire (athlete with undereducated kids, woman in STEM, etc).

^ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19668821
B&H has a worse history of warehouse worker abuse than Amazon.
Being Outside Boosts Cognitive Function
Virtually all nukes nowadays are thermonuclear bombs. If your question is how many bombs have a yield at or above 1 MT TNT, and how many below, then the majority of the current warheads is below. More precisely, currently maybe 90% of the US warheads have a yield between 100 and 455 kT TNT. The largest active warhead in the US inventory has 1.2 MT TNT yield. A rule of thumb is that the more advanced a nuclear program is, the lower the yield of their nukes, the reason being that the a more precise missile can destroy an ICBM silo with a lower yield.
Instead, they should build their network there, as promised. Though $4M are peanuts in comparison with costs of building it.
AliExpress is worse. Fake/low-quality products just disappear completely and there's very few, short reviews. It's almost as bad as eBay.
It is comical in the sense that software bugs being named after a literal bug (a moth to be exact) is.
This is in the article, but the budget is $2m from the state, which is standard, plus $600k from LeBron, which is not
> the reality is govt just isn't well suited for the nuance and individual attention/thought different disadvantaged groups require

This is a solved problem in other countries.

Finland is a good example. Their education system focuses on equality above all: all kids are going to have access to the same educational opportunities, even if equality comes at the cost of quality. As part of this idea, privately funded schools are not allowed. Guess what happens when rich people must send their kids to public schools, in a place where all schools must be equal above all? Suddenly all the schools improve.

The problem isn't inherent to government in principle, but perhaps to our forms of government in America in practice.
Any reference to flash boys is commonly an article looking for click bait. If you look at modern HFT, most of the profits have been eaten away among the competition, its no longer some hugely profitable industry. It is contracting. Sure a few firms are making millions, but its really not a big deal. Its really getting tired, most people love to get all up in arms about this, at this point high speed trading is run of the mill.

The same will happen to cryptos. There is always early profitability because theres no competition, but the profitability will erode.
Now by the transitive property, slow is fast. That doesn't sound right, Hoss.
There are lots of interesting people on Mastodon, I would recommend searching by hashtag and joining an instance that matches your interests (eg: sdf.org, sergal.org (furries), cybre.space, etc).

Many instances block Mastodon.social and other massive instances, and different instances will have different views of the network (based on who the users of the instance follow and how long toots are retained).
Notably this is _not_ a charter school, per the article
I feel like if people who are influential don’t think twice before they tweet, the words would be twisted to keep small players like me ‘in our place’.

In Silicon Valley, only engineers are considered ‘technical’. Or so it seems. It’s deflating. There is this
Emphasis on STEM and coding ..as though it’s a life skill but it’s actually a speciality. For some of us, our abilities veer elsewhere but we still can’t innovate without technology. But we are considered as consumers and not partners. I am expected to give away what I know for free so someone can patch it together to sell it back to me. That’s what AgTech has become...its a data play now. But we need more. We need robots. We need hardware. We need creative solutions. Farmers are accused of being backwards..but that’s not true. We just don’t get enough respect at the table.
I assume the author mistakenly took the orbital velocity instead of the delta-V at impact