skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the challenge with finding firsthand reports on HN is that the owners of small brick-and-mortar businesses that Yelp is alleged to exploit are not well represented in this community.

Having said that, I have firsthand experience in having my own review of such a business censored:

6 months ago I wrote a review for the RazzleDazzle Barber Shop in Riverview, FL. Great little shop, I was surprised that it had zero reviews and was gray in Yelp. A month later, I returned for my second haircut and asked about business. I heard the same story about Yelp pressuring for sales, and mentioned that I had already written a 5-star review.

Upon checking Yelp, I noticed that the shop was still gray with 0 reviews, despite having left one a month ago myself. After carefully reading the site, I found that the keyword is "0 Recommended Reviews." At the bottom is a gray link that leads to more than a dozen reviews that are "Not Recommended", all 5-star, including my own. I wasn't the first to review the shop, the other reviews were hidden.

I wrote Yelp support to ask why this review was censored, despite my other reviews for other businesses being accepted. They assured me that an algorithm decides what reviews are recommended for protection of customers and that's all that's happening.

However, within a day my review was the only recommended review, and the barber shop was live on the site instead of gray. A few other reviews have been accepted since.

Go have a look for yourself, scroll to the bottom of that shop and click the "x Reviews that are currently not recommended" link in gray at the bottom. You will even find my original 5 star review, so perhaps they made a copy of it to get it to show.
It's a good idea and great implementation.

However I do strongly feel that touchscreen is the opposite to productivity, maybe usability to the end users, but definitely not what developers need/want.
Housing in places without jobs is not really housing, it's a structure.

Here in SoCal there are 'free' abandoned houses out in the middle of the desert. Hours from the nearest service station or employment. Even just getting in and out of them requires dozens of dollars in gasoline.
Bet they claimed there benefits nudge nudge wink

Sorry to be cynical.
If you feel that it's in the same bucket as sending full frontal nudes with identifiable face, that's your decision to make as a parent.

Your kids are going to send pictures to other people.
You are incorrect. As someone who has used Amazon, I have never returned anything or been reimbursed.
There are good boards on 8ch too. Probably more, considering anyone can make a board.
With respect, if nobody finds the issues in the upstream dependencies and works to make them compatible with Python 3, they won't be supported. That would be a shame for this project and others that use the same upstreams.

I'd have hard time finding support for some Ruby 1.8 upstream dependencies for recent projects, so I don't agree with you.
How old was this guy?... man he was so old, it was before written history. well then, he must be a centenarian then. for sure.
It helps older users who have trouble with the mouse/touchpad.
Everything is just a product over a long enough time scale
Postgres is the coolest database – Reason #5: It can not be bought out
Just a thought, maybe a weekly or monthly email subscription with updates of whats been added?
You may want to have an example comic gif on the homepage. I didn't really understand what it did until I tried it. Plus, it would be neat if panels with more text were visible longer.
Decentralization can occur across many axes -- our public DNS infrastructure, for example, does not have decentralized registration or governance, which is what matters for things like privacy or censorship resistance.
"We found that killing plants by hoeing had drastic effects on soil fauna and functioning, and apparently, distinguishing these effects from direct glyphosate effects is profoundly important when evaluating glyphosate risks in soils. In contrast, the effects of Roundup on soil fauna and functioning were minor and transient and no glyphosate remains were found in the soil at the end of the experiment. These results suggest that side-effects can be minor and glyphosate degradation effective also in soil under northern climatic conditions."

This is over a 2 year period. I'm curious if this continues to occur after 5 or 10.
Canada is great, but obviously I'm biased. I've also traveled all over the US and the people you see on the news are such a small fraction of the real awesome people that make up the country. (Mass shootings are f'ed up though.)

Canada does in a sense have a diversity lottery for work permits, but this is only with countries that we have international labour mobility programs with and excludes the biggest world movers like India, Philippines, Nigeria, China... But our population is so small that there are more people that want to move to Canada than there are actual Canadian citizens, being even more open would radically change the country.

Thanks!
The Nintendo – Early Cartridge Anti-Piracy
Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of 'illegal' action ahead of election
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> No wonder Backblaze has replaced most of their inventory with these two brands.

We Reed-Solomon encode each file across multiple drives in multiple machines, and we always use "enough parity" that the failure rate won't result in data loss.

So for us, we have a (pretty simple) little spreadsheet that takes into account drive failure rate as a cost, along with drive density (more dense drives means renting less data center space) and we let the spreadsheet kick out which drives to buy based on the cheapest total cost of ownership. Honestly, we're not brand loyal AT ALL, and we're not afraid of a higher failure rate (other than that raises the cost because we have to buy replacements for failed drives).

With that said, if an individual purchases ONE DRIVE they might value a lower drive failure rate differently than Backblaze does. But honestly, if there is a 1% drive failure rate per year or a 10% drive failure rate in a year, you should still backup the data so you can sleep at night.
Do you have a source for this you could share?
Show HN: A theme for publishing beautiful stories with Gatsby
How Geospatial Data Is Changing the Way We Manage the Environment Around Us
You claim T_D was brigaded, yet claim ignorance as to whether such a thing has sprouted from the conservative base which needn't explicitly come from T_D. That's more than strange unless you haven't really explored much else on the site.
Exactly how are they at fault for responding to the issue in the only way the site design can allow? Do you also blame Twitter for only banning people after they've posted something deemed to be breaking the rules? or that it takes 5 minutes to make a new account?

Unless you aren't attempting to imply anything about them being at fault. Although, as long as they are making that good faith effort to take down CP, they can't be taken down by the US govt at least.
So bots can request billing and finance services and take it down ?
This isn't cynical; plenty of dead people in Japan (or I should say their children) were claiming benefits.
I don't agree with it, but I don't really see the legal argument.

They're a private business routing calls through a private service. Tons of companies do that.
You point is moot because there is no capitalist society where big companies will not interfere with government. If government is too big, they will lobby the government. If government is too small/inexistent, they will run monopolies by direct financial control and other "standard" practices: buying out competitors, collusion, threats of violence.
The volume of fake reviews is simply too much, and its much cheaper to create them, than it is to combat them. A good measure of this is, compare the prices for fake reviews on both platforms, I suspect Google will be significantly cheaper.

Its a tough problem to solve, no doubt, but Yelp chooses to error on the side of caution, and will sometimes flag legitimate reviews as "not recommended reviews" as a result.
Isn't this middlebrow dismissal? Like, I get that you don't want to have to "mine a token" if "mining a token" means "waiting half an hour", but if it means "waiting 100ms or paying $0.00001", I'd take that tradeoff to own my DNS.
I didn't know this was a trend! I also have several vietnamese relatives who faked their age except their logic was to use an older age so they can claim social security benefits earlier.

They usually don't even use the same month and day for their fake DOB. This is because everyone in the family only celebrate their chinese/lunar calendar birthday instead (which is already on a different western date each year).
The problem with all time trackers that require any manual input is that eventually you stop using them. Either a small disruption in your life, or simply that the habit doesn't stick.
Full recording of physical and digital actions + analytics might work. Some sort of spying on yourself.
I also didn't enjoy Death Note after this event.
Now take a look at the other comment here.
There is some well-informed speculation about latency up-thread, but I've tinkered with OpenCV from time to time. Specifically, I used ROS and OpenCV to do face detection on a netbook in about 2012. That worked out pretty well - it would track multiple faces in realtime. Edge detection is a different algorithm, but isn't super likely to be the origin of the latency issues they're having. It's just a threshold check over a window of a few (e.g. 3 or 5) pixels, multiplied by the dimensions of the image.
> Why did US invade Iraq?

Why did Iraq invade Kuwait? Start a fight with a US ally and then complain when the US intervenes.
I'm the author of this article.
These are good questions and comments; evolution's preset the way we take in surroundings and brain can't 'fixate' or focus on glassy facades; eye-tracking studies and emulation software used in article, show this.
You can read more studies showing this here: https://geneticsofdesign.com/2019/07/07/why-eye-track-boston...
And here:
https://commonedge.org/game-changing-eye-tracking-studies-re...

And if you're curious about why modern architecture is 'avoidant' here:
https://commonedge.org/the-mental-disorders-that-gave-us-mod...

LMK if you have questions; always open to discussing.
Is the extortion scheme as simple as that? Paying businesses get "Yelp Sort", non-payers get "Default Sort"?

If so, that answers a lot of questions.
Analysing Global Emoji Usage
I agree with smartphones as the fundamental change. But what else in the last 10 years?
Box.com seems fine. Dropbox just aimed a little big.
And the OOM Killer has been rewritten about twice entirely in the past decade. Christoph Lameter (one of my coworkers, who also wrote the SLUB memory allocator) wrote the very first one. Very little if any of his original code is in the current linux OOM Killer.

The current approach does indeed work much better. You can entirely disable the OOM Killer for a given workload with those procfs handles.
Health insurance companies are useless
The quantity of reviews is super important. Anybody can build a 5 star rating by getting 3 friends to post reviews. Do these restaurants with "mediocre food" have many reviews?
EU leaders 'have accepted UK is leaving without a deal'
I hear this from time to time but a massive security hole is putting everything in one place on the internet.

The coordination and effort required to go door to door stealing ballots out of mailboxes or taking van loads of ballots from a post office, in a day and age where every block has dozens of cameras. There is also a step where you get a code, and you can log in and see how that ballot voted.

Think about the amount of money required to pay people to vote, say people will do it for $10, and everyone you ask that doesn't do it also keeps their mouth shut. You're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence state level elections and millions for country wide elections.

The beauty of mail, is that while there are attack vectors, they are expensive, easily noticeable, and have a very high barrier to entry.

On the other hand, say you have a perfect voting machine, I'm skeptical, but I'll give you that, it's certainly possible. Now, lets assume that they have to either be stored in a warehouse with armed guards, or reimaged every time they are used. There's a simple attack vector there of only one or two people you have to turn. This is the old crypto breaking with a pipe wrench vector, though cash money is probably just as easy. That is the same failure that paper has, but you have to go to hundreds of thousands of places to get that done. You can probably keep a couple people quite, but a few thousand?

Paper by mail has a very high tamper barrier and is available now. States could do it in November
Because it's slightly surprising... Despite being neighbors, Swedish and Finnish are only distantly related. Finnish is closer to Hungarian, and Swedish is similar to the other Scandinavian languages and Germanic languages.
Yeah but then you haven’t turned a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware. You’ve turned a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $price_of_GPU + $price_of_eGPU_adapter + $1.

And additionally you’ve made your MacBook a lot less portable.
This is only true if you're working with multiple completely separate teams each working in a silo to develop their own product and then post hoc some manager decides they have to have the same feature set. If they do it the right way around, specifying the common feature set comes first and then the dev teams do the app architecture on their separate platforms. As the features are developed and change requests inevitably arrive, the same sequence applies and you have an orderly process and the same app on two or more platforms without having to graft a third party dependency octopus onto your codebase.
Deep Learning Quiz
Cannot say nowadays, but once defective multi-platters disks were "refurbished" (and "recertified") by simply disabling the couple of heads on the defective platter(s) in firmware and "downgrade" the capacity specs.

It simply makes no sense to actually open a US$ 100 (when new) disk drive to repair it (replacing parts that even in the factory cost money for the cataloguing and storage) to re-sell it at US$ 30 or 40.

If you go to the WD page mentioned in the article you linked:

https://www.wd.com/en-gb/products/wd-recertified.html

you will see how they are all "external disks in a case", those might be subject to a number of "returns" for reasons different from the actual disk inside (cosmetic damage, power adapter (if any), connectors, network card or wi-fi, etc.), so those may (while actually being defective as a whole) well have not a defective disk inside.

On the other hand, if they are so good, why would the warranty be limited to 6 months (or less).
It's 2019 – and you can completely pwn a Qualcomm-powered Android over the air
Except in this case there's a million anecdotal stories about Yelp doing this. I've been in the restaurant industry a long time, I've taken calls from Yelp sales agents, they're shit. And their sales pitch basically is extortion (pay us to hide your bad reviews, or else). I've seen owners straight up tell them to fuck off.

Thankfully they have zero traction here; my last place had a 4.5 rating on Google with 250+ reviews, and a 3.3 rating on Yelp with about 10 reviews.
As the article mentions it's only 70k years ago that we start seeing unambiguous indicators of intelligence. The normal figure for this indicator, the upper paleolithic revolution, is 50k years. In any case that's where we first start seeing significant and then rapidly widespread signs of intelligence - fishing, extensive adornment, wide artifact collections, burial ceremony, and much more.

The point here is that the archaeological record seems to indicate that it's like one day we simply 'woke up.' Whomever was fortunate enough to experience such a mutation first would have had a tremendous competitive advantage. The degree in intellectual advancement is such that they would have probably been significantly better at just about everything -- most importantly in surviving and spreading their genes. Now take this person and what would likely have been their vast number of offspring. They could effectively take over the world. And I suppose, in a manner of speaking, they did.
> - If I buy a TLD, will I own it in perpetuity, even after I die?

No, if you don't send a renewal transaction, the name goes up for auction again.

> - Is this going to have the same environmental problems as Bitcoin, or will having fewer transactions mean that's less of an issue?

Yes, it's proof of work

> I'm not necessarily feeling great about the idea of having separate TLDs for every site

TLD owners manage the namespace as they see fit. that includes issuing/selling/giving away sub-domains. <subdomain>.<TLD namespace>
> You can get perhaps the clearest insight into this by looking at geeky films from the 80s before they started to bury the unpalatable stuff. "The girl" is the reward. The geeky hero (a boy/teen/manboy) gets to win by virtue of geeky skills. Often, humiliating one dimensional "jock" bullies through gained abilities is a payoff too (cf: the Neverending Story, scaring the bullies into a dumpster with a dragon).

Isn't this more or less the standard issue "hero's journey" plot template?
That's kind of where I'm trying to get to, I think: how can you segregate the system such that root processes get a priority such that they don't get affected by the thrashing?
Adversarial Interoperability
From my experience, the reviews filtered out are often reviews by folks with small or no networks. I saw my wife's reviews filtered out when she first had an account, before she added friends or connected the account to facebook (not sure which one did it, this was years and years ago). I'm not saying this is a good system, just my observation of one factor.
You're confusing semantics with grammar. They have identical grammar.

"(A dog) bit (my friend)." "(My friend) bit (a dog)." Both parse as "(compound subject) verb (compound object)." Both "my" and "a" function as adjectives modifying the single noun after them.

The sentences have identical parse trees, even when considering the types of the nodes. They are grammatically identical.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> The important things for me when considering a drive are ... noise

For a drive in the same room as me, I TOTALLY agree and I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more often. Before I switched to all SSDs in my desktop computers I ran cables through the drywall in my apartment so I could put the (noisy) computer in a closet in the other room and put the monitor, keyboard, and mouse in the quiet room with myself.

Besides the wonderful performance, SSDs are magical to me because they are quiet. I am very willing to pay a premium just to be free of that drive seeking and grinding.
It’s not Western Exceptionalism. It’s about being empathetic as a human being.

Unfortunately some politicians are harming the way we feel about each other for the sake of their own game.
US trust in scientists is now on par with the military
The Ottomans start as one of the beyliks in the ruins of the Sultanate of Rum, which is Seljuk (Turkic) Anatolia wrested from the Byzantines. The Ottomans use the late Byzantine instability to expand Turkic control into Thrace, Macedonia, and the Balkans, as well as conquering the other remnant beyliks of Anatolia. Later, they expanded into other ruins of the Ilkhanate (modern-day Iraq, predominantly), and resoundingly defeated the Mamluk Sultanate, giving them control over Egypt, Palestine, and the Hejaz (including the holy cities).

For much of its existence, the Ottoman Empire combined both Turkish and Arabian as prestige languages within its empire. It was only in the latter part of its existence, the last century or so, that the modernization effort focused on a narrow, Turkish identity that alienated the Arab populations within its borders.

> Also, isn't it more accurate to say that the Ottomans chose the wrong (German) side in a war, and that this is the cause of their final dissolution?

Ehh, picking the wrong side in WWI was only the coup de grace. It was the fourth war in 4 years that the Ottomans had fought--the Italian war for Libya, the First Balkan War (Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece team up to wrest Macedonia), the Second Balkan War (Serbia, Romania, the Ottomans, and Greece team up to force Bulgaria to give up the land it just won), followed by WWI. The Ottoman Empire was deeply unstable from the Greek independence through its final collapse, and the very start of WWI has its roots in the instability of the Ottoman Empire and the Christian states attempting to peel Christian statedoms out of the Muslim Ottoman Empire.
As I recall, there's also an issue with radio-carbon dating anything after atmospheric atomic weapons testing commenced.
FWIW, I've been using Twilio as a Google Voice replacement. I've yet to create a web interface, but currently texts to my public number get forwarded to my real number. I can text my public number with a password and a desired phone number to forward a text in the opposite direction. Phone calls to my public number get sent to a voicemail, and transcripts + audio files get texted to me. If I wish to initiate a call, I text my password and "call <phone number>" to get a call initiated.

It's been a fun, low-bandwidth interface, and it avoids me using a Google service.

I'd like to build a web interface, and use 2FA in addition to a password to access my extra functionality.
The Saturation of Data Science
This is as much as possible what the Camera cue in QLab[1] does (I'm the lead video developer), and there most definitely is perceived latency. It's better than it used to be, when webcams were DV over Firewire, but it's still enough that webcams are generally a poor choice for latency-sensitive situations like live performance.

The alternative that usually gets used in productions with a moderate budget is a hardware camera with HDMI or SDI output into a Blackmagic capture device. There's still some latency, but it's better than a webcam. It's pretty much down to the minimum of what you can do with a computer -- the capture device still has to buffer a frame, transmit it to the computer, which copies it into RAM, then blits it to video RAM, where it waits for the next vertical refresh.

All that said, the human finger doesn't travel all that fast, so for a HID application like this, you could probably get the latency way down by extrapolating the near-future position of the finger, much like iPadOS does with Pencil.

[1] https://figure53.com/qlab
The desire to avoid the "tan back stigma" of having to think to make money has already been satisfied by snooty literature. Snooty thinking is thinking that requires a smart brain but has no economic value. If you want to show that you're smart, and you also want to show that you don't need to make money, you can produce opinions on 13th century literature or whatever else you like. So, in a sense the author's prophecy has already come to pass.
The gap between C's model and a somewhat memory safe language is unfortunately very large. You can either limit semantics a lot, use GC (mostly-D, Go, ...) or have relatively complex ways to describe life times (Rust).
Experts are people who, by agreeing with the writers premise, have demonstrated their knowledge and expertise. You are definitely not an expert; at least not inasmuch as the term is used in this article by this writer.