skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've heard again and again that Yelp harasses small businesses for ad buys. In itself, not a problem. But we've also heard that their mystery secret sauce "algorithm" then by sheer coincidence puts down 5 star reviews in favor of negative ones when they say no.

If Yelp was really interested in clearing the air, they'd show how their algorithms are making the decisions they're making. It's not like they'd give away their entire platform or market space by doing so, there's such immense network effect at play with Yelp that they'd likely never be unseated.

But they won't, and I suspect it's because they do manipulate it, even if slightly, because they have have every single solitary financial and business reason to do so.
This should suffice, no need to make a variable, this can all be done at once:

document.head.appendChild(document.createElement('style')).textContent = '* { outline: 2px dotted orangered'
Perhaps because it is not banned currently. It is scheduled to be banned in 2022 by the EU parliament.
Why? If all rating systems are driven to ground then what did we earn in exchange?
Cost cutting can happen in the public sector too, especially with governments which only care about cutting taxes for the rich.
Nuclear is like monolithic kernels: gets a lot of flak for ideological reasons, but it keeps powering the whole world.

Solar is like microkernels: nice on paper but lacks the power for anything serious.
The article provides no source for the “most consumers” claim. Journalists aren’t immune to making stuff up. Why would you blindly trust it?
The anti-nuclear sentiment is pretty strong in France as well[1], but if we compare to Germany for example:

- in 2016, 72% of the energy generation in France was nuclear, Germany never came close to that percentage[2], therefore making it easier to transition away from it.

- France invested a lot into nuclear energy and no government since then would dare to throw such a huge industry (2500 companies, 222 000 jobs) into the trash. I don't think it was the case with other European countries.

There's a lot of pride surrounding our history of nuclear research (since Pierre and Marie Curie), and politicians are often accused by militants of falling for the sunken-cost fallacy or to have a misplaced pride into the industry ("En France on n'a pas de pétrole mais on a des idées" - "In France, we don't have oil, but we sure have ideas").

Ultimately: the percentage of nuclear-based energy in France should go down to 50% by 2025, I just hope we'll manage to reduce our carbon monoxide emissions as well, Germany gave up on nuclear and they're failing at that so far.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Franc...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#/medi...
I want my website to work on any device you happen to have around, not just the top 99% of the stats, but also the other 1%. Your 486 with Opera 3.62? Come on by. iPad 1? You're welcome. You are allergic to JS? You still have the basic features. JS is pepper and salt, used sparingly and best left up to the diner. Netscape 3.04 Gold is on oldversion.com, runs on Wine without any issues (ironically not on Windows 10), and there's no reason not to test with it. So does Opera 3.62. Both are decent browsers capable of doing most things a website needs. And yes, that means supporting HTTP, not just HTTPS. Are you really that worried about your blog being mitmed?
I was on the original SCons team. It’s a lot of “python slow” but if someone build a daemonized version of the build graph that could be updated incrementally from filesystem change events it could be great. (A la Buck and Bazel)
> "However there are secondary (Nitrogen injection) and tertiary (Boron beads) modes of shutting down the reactor."

Hunterston B has also been fitted with "super-articulated" control rods that are designed to be insertable even if the graphite channels are destabilised/distorted.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-37789654
Even amazon's own Lightsail offers terabytes of traffic for cheap(5$=2Tb). Obviously aws knows lightsail can be used to cut down the bill and number of lightsail instances is limited and using lightsail for traffic 'engineering' is against the ToS
Ah, the "normalisation of deviance"; the space shuttle flew just fine with partially eroded O rings in the boosters, until the day it didn't.
People don't have to dehumanise animals to slaughter them.

American Indians thanked the spirit of the animal that just killed. Kobe husbandsmen massage, wine and dine their prized cattle. A guy in a Reader's Digest joke was surprised his daughter was delighted the cow with big blue eyes she fed through the fence ended up on her plate.

Greek-Roman traditions allowed a soul to animals. Humans have a God-given part that allow them to determine right and wrong for themselves. This passage by Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor upto 180 AD and Stoic philosopher assumes it.

> The mind is the ruler of the soul. It should remainunstirred by agitations of the flesh—gentle and violent onesalike. Not mingling with them, but fencing itself off and keeping those feelings in their place. When they make theirway into your thoughts, through the sympathetic link betweenmind and body, don’t try to resist the sensation. Thesensation is natural. But don’t let the mind start in withjudgments, calling it “good” or “bad.”
“Source available” licensing is useless. Many companies and many developers have tried to misappropriate the term “Open Source”, to make it be understood as “source available”, because Open Source / Free Software have sex appeal for developers, so they are trying to have their cake and eat it too.

Don’t fall into that trap. The freedoms provided by both Open Source and Free Software licensing are well defined and mean (1) the right to use the program for whatever purpose and (2) the right to fork.

Anything else is unacceptable.

As for what language companies understand, many of us don’t give a fuck. If they are good citizens and distribute software under FOSS compatible licenses all is good, otherwise we’re not interested, because the availability of the source code is not the point, the right to use that source code is ;-)
My comment is more general, not specifically in response to the specifics of the article on TC. FWIW, TC is probably not a great measure on an individual basis, but sort of interesting population-wide.

Yes, folks agree high HDL is good, high LDL is bad. However, drug trials to raise HDL didn't work so well.

> "Are there really any studies that attribute atherosclerosis to bacteria, or some of the other conditions you describe?"

Yes! Many!

- "Accelerated Atherosclerosis in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases" https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....

- "Deposition and hydrolysis of serine dipeptide lipids of Bacteroidetes bacteria in human arteries: relationship to atherosclerosis"

- "The immune system in atherosclerosis" https://www.nature.com/articles/ni.2001

- "Is atherosclerosis an autoimmune disease?" https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-...

- "Atherosclerosis and the role of immune cells" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391004/
That usually means your build graph and target signatures are incomplete and you need to figure out where you have a dependency that you haven’t told SCons about.
> But with 90 million dollar reward for forcing a subordinate to give oral sex as your punishement

You say that as if the author of Android should be given no compensation for making Google billions of dollars. While that may feel like justice, it would absolutely guarantee that nobody brings their open source project to Google ever again.
> I'm going to single out "Sea levels are rising." for special mention - entire cities can be constructed in 40 years (I'm thinking Shenzhen); 9 inches over a century isn't that scary in context of all the other radical change that has happened over the same period.

The problem isn't the sea-level rising, it's the people that would be displaced, migrate over, and cause havoc to the systems of regions unprepared for such a massive ingress. Consider that there are housing crises around the world today and these cities aren't built for them today.
Tensorflow Model Optimization
That's not the only way Yelp can mess with your business though, as e.g. Louis Rossmann's case showed. Yelp sent him internal details about a friend's business just because Louis told them the advertising deal didn't help his friend. Then after he published this he got threatening phone calls and negative fake reviews.

> Making fake accounts in order to mislead others is not a creative practice that aligns well with typical users of Yelp.

Which only matters if typical users of Yelp can tell it's fake.
I think the problem with this is that one of those values has to be to consistently attend the meeting. Supernaturalism offers this. Video games rely on consistently being entertained by video games; once it's not fun, you can just leave.
What I'd like is unlimited access to my main newspaper, plus a fairly high but limited number of articles in all other newspapers and magazines (say 100 articles per month, spread over all other publications), maybe with the possibility to carry over unused credits for a few months. A digital subscription to my current newspaper is almost 30 EUR a month. I think this should be doable for the same price, assuming that people who read other papers will occasionally read something from my paper, and money is distributed according to popularity (apart from a base payment to one's main paper). It should be possible to get newspapers to cooperate to do this, possibly through something like Blendle.
I'm a build engineer and SCons is one of the gems in my tool belt. Where it truly shines is as a framework for building build systems. At its core, it's just a library for building and executing a DAG. What most SCons users work with is the standard-library of rules built on top of the core API, that makes it immediately usable as a "high-level" build system like Meson or Cmake. In my experience, it's unparalleled when you have to model an entirely custom build-flow in a clean way. I've used it to model build-flows for custom tool-chains that would have been a nightmare to reason about if they were written in GNU Make and outright impossible with a meta-build system.

The only other tools I've found to rival this flexibility are Gradle (see the Software Domain Modeling chapter of its documentation) and Shake (though having to write rules in Haskell makes it a hard pill to swallow).
People all over the world favor looking cool over being comfortable. Americans extend that to bicycles as well.
Maybe you just run in extremely unhealthy circles.
It's perfectly accurate to point out that sticking to a vegan diet is hard, never mind giving up leather and wool.

Also, it's worth noting that the difficulty of going vegan varies greatly with your location. For example, eating vegan in Japan is a legitimate pain in the ass.
> no noise, no drinking

I strongly recommend casual wandering walks for anyone without mobility issues as a bar replacement. I don't even remember where I picked up the habit, but I never was really introduced to bars until later, and they always seemed inferior and have shown a few of my friends the benefits of walking around outside and having a chat (sobriety optional).
The more I look at it most of what is called science is just as magical when you move outside of the directly observable.

Take the big bang, people proclaim that it answers the question of where the universe comes from but it does no better of a job than religion. Both start from a place of preexistence, either god or the energy required to create the universe exist prior to the start of the explanation. Neither actually answer the question.

It is supreme arrogance to assume we have it right and all the ones before us had it wrong. Truth is we have no idea about much of anything, especially the universe or ourselves and it's all essentially blind faith.

Scientific consensus is just the new papal decree.
Don't forget that not all lands are good carbon sinks. The Swedish department of agriculture claimed in a report (nr 25:2010 iirc. In Swedish ) that the vast majority of Swedish grazeland would not meaningfully decrease carbon emissions regardless of grazing systems
Dirigisme. It's long been a more centrally planned country with a greater propensity for big state technology projects.

The Green movement does not seem strong in France, but I'm not sure why.
Here's his Yelp page: https://yelp.to/qTKq/2I1Y0WkNnX

All the wink wink 1-star reviews are gone - many 1-star reviews left, but only those that seem somewhat believable. There are also only a few hundred reviews, not the thousands mentioned by the article. I'd guess that Yelp watches his page pretty closely and deletes any reviews that are obviously fake.

That said, I'd bet that the majority of the 1-star reviews, even the ones that appear believable, are still fictional.
> total catastrophic destruction of the environment for (tens of) thousands of years

More like 300 years (10 Cs137 and Sr99 half lives) but otherwise you're right.
In fifteen minutes the permit to organize expires, lets hope this remains (mostly) peaceful.
People use the same argument for solar and wind energy; however the goal is for future panels/uranium to be created/mined using non-coal energy
What I'll call 'table layout' can be done via CSS on any tags, you don't need to use `<table>` elements to make use of the 'table layout' you like. Lately CSS has added two new 'layout' modes you might like even better: Flexbox, and CSS Grids. Both of these take the ideas from table auto-layout, using constraints and content to help size things.

Separately from how you want things to look (CSS), you shouldn't be putting content into `<table>` elements that aren't the sort of thing you'd put into a spreadsheet. That's not using HTML well. Keep in mind you can still use the table layout with other tags via CSS. Always wrap your content in the most-fitting tag HTML has, then worry about the layout after :D
This doesn't seem that new to me, besides the location being in Canada. I watched a PBS special on Carnivorous plants recently and they covered the fact that pitcher plants in some parts of the world will digest the rodents that fall into them. The rodents like to lick the sweet nectar and poop in the plants which benefits both species. However, they do sometimes fall in and then die and are slowly digested. Researchers filmed this and then found rodent skeletons in some of the plants.

Funny enough, someone found this back in Victorian days and all the papers talked about the meat eating plant. The Venus fly trap seriously put a dent in their view of plants. This was all talked about in the same PBS special.
>1 million
How fitting in this case is the airing of the HBO Miniseries Chernobyl?

The timing sometimes is just so perfect
AWS cost reporting is far from great.
Its hard to learn current(daily) charges; RI is completely hidden and only visible in the final bill, blended; there's no way to limit the spending and the detailed reports are in csv, not user-readable.
Applying a reductionist approach to labor relations is a fool's errand.
Can whomever is downvoting explain why this approach wouldn’t work? I think the above is a very insightful comment.
You are right, but this source could be in the parent comment. Without it seems just a silly accusation.
Easy to focus on "how can people escape the change". Not so easy, for coral reefs that take 100 years to regrow, and the fisheries that utterly depend on them in a food chain. And the billions worldwide that eat those fish. We're all safe here in the West, but billions may die worldwide.

Unless the refugees overrun us all. Like they did in the 'ring of fire' years, back when Ur and Hammurabi were writing. A chain reaction of failed crops, refugee migrations and overloaded ecosystems culminated in Egypt being nearly destroyed by the 'sea people', a flotilla of desperate refugees. It only ended when Egypt armed everybody and defeated them (killed them all).
> Some of the add-one on this site are commercial plugins available for sale by their authors. All Blender plugins have to be GPL

Just a side-note about the distinctions between open-source, free software, and commercial software. The US government considers any software that has a license and is available to the public “commercial”. So all GNU software in their view is commercial. It’s not a legal distinction of whether money is charged, it’s whether the software has a license and is public.

U.S. law governing federal procurement (U.S. Code Title 41, Chapter 7, Section 403) defines "commercial item" as including "Any item, other than real property, that is of a type customarily used by the general public or by non-governmental entities for purposes other than governmental purposes (i.e., it has some non-government use), and (i) Has been sold, leased, or licensed to the general public; or (ii) Has been offered for sale, lease, or license to the general public ...".

https://dodcio.defense.gov/open-source-software-faq/#Q:_Is_o...
Discord won the bigger marketshare due to being accessible from a browser and featureful. And it's a market where marketshare winner takes all, because of the need to exchange contact information with someone you just met on a platform you share.
They might try to educate, but I don't think they engineer their products to make "getting it right" easy. It's not in their interests, but they _could_ make a product that is much easier to use correctly, cheaply, or both.

AWS creates work, and creates spend, much more than it needs to.
Considering sugar to be non vegan just because it has possibly been filtered using animal derived coal is not far away from considering products made by workers who consumed meat to also be non-vegan.
Spell checks for fat fingers seem more likely if you compare the first 3 letters of each word: C and B - one key away, I abd U - neighbours, T and R - neighbours, I and G - far away.
When you say Free Software, people will listen, because it sounds like free stuff for them. The speaker has an opportunity to clarify later.

When you say "libre software" people who don't already know what it is are probably done listening before you get a chance to make a point about anything.
The Sci Fi of Overpopulation
> "~20% relative risk reduction in vascular events & mortality per ~40 mg/dL decrease in LDL."

Is that a composite endpoint of vascular events AND mortality?

From TheNNT:

"It takes 5 years of daily statin therapy to achieve a 1.6% chance of avoiding a heart attack, and a 0.37% chance of avoiding a stroke. Most disappointing, statins seem unable to prevent death in this group. And most concerning, the drugs may increase diabetes, a serious and life-altering disease." (Primary Prevention)

http://www.thennt.com/nnt/statins-for-heart-disease-preventi...
It's socially unacceptable to talk over a movie or TV show, but welcomed when talking over videogames.
Most parts of the world have gone through similarly horrific waves of border expansion and contraction at the cost of human lives and cultures, going back to the beginning of civilization.

Take the borders of Europe, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P0QSxlnI

I doubt the expansion of, say, the Roman Empire in what we now call Europe and Africa was any less violent than the expansion of the English-speaking world in what we now call North America.

Humankind's track record on this earth is full of atrocities.
I didn't say that it did, only that it's completely legal for them to do it and for them to do it secretly.

I have firsthand experience with them biasing ratings from helping friends manage Yelp listings. I don't know how widespread it is, but it does happen. While possible, it seems unlikely that thousands of people have reported the same pattern (good reviews buried after declining to become a Yelp customer).

You can see this yourself on many listings. Click on the reviews that Yelp has hidden because of "quality issues". That's what they use for plausible deniability. My own positive reviews have been hidden from businesses (no personal connection to them, just places I liked) for being "suspicious".
Why does a higher market share in the US have any significance in this discussion? According to [1] the US only accounts for about 10% of the global smartphone market. As an Australian, I couldn't care less about their US market share.

And even if we go by 45%, that's still not close to a monopoly. You're not by any means forced to publish apps on their app store.

[1] https://www.countriestoday.com/smartphone-users-by-country/
It's probably even happier with unregulated ones...
Great write-up, I've never seen it this way.
I look forward to the HBO drama. These dry conversations about safety margins and protecting jobs will make for lots of dramatic irony when we know, but the characters don't, that the reactor blows up shortly afterwards.

Regarding the bit at the end about the alternative being gas or coal, they could just build more wind, it's cheaper than any of the other options if building new and competitive with the cost of fuel alone for existing fossil plants.
What is a VMM in this context? The documentation mostly left me more confused than enlightened.

What kinds of problems are solved by this software?
Yes, I'm sure I had it easier as there were a lot more jobs requiring programming at the turn of the century than 20 years prior! My point was - is it actually harder for people 15 years younger than me to start up?
> From a software / devils point of view Nuclear power is the Mainframe - and solar or wind are the nice new micro services.

The difference is that micro services don't all stop working at the same time when the sun goes down and the air is calm.

Solar is great for running air conditioners. It generates when the demand is highest. But you still need something reliable to generate baseload. They're complementary, not replacements for each other.

> If we have a crack in our solar panels, it ain't going to make the BBC news site.

It won't, but maybe it should. Solar panels are full of toxic substances. As long as they're covered in glass and isolated from the environment that's no big deal, but break the glass and ignore it and you're leeching heavy metals and toxic chemicals into the environment.

Things done competently are good, things done incompetently are bad. Nuclear is not different, solar is not different.
Egress charges leverage tags now. You can get down to good detail. Here's an image showing it will use tags if you set them: https://blog.cloudability.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/dat...

In this case, a service tag, set in some cases, not in others.
The Great 78 Project – 1.5M digitized 78rpm records
Why wouldn't the other vendors band together and make a single, non-Google chromium extensions repository? If anyone from Microsoft is reading, this would be an excellent opportunity to give Edge a leg up on Chrome.
Russia proposes big fines for Big Tech
Not by any chance, when I eat nut they tend to deplete my minerals, requiring constants supplementation. Plus, I think some aminoacids are difficult to source from vegetarian sources. I personally do great on glycine (skin, eyes, hair, overall inflammation, sleep) and have not found a veggie source.
The TV is too damn long