skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly is the proposed solution? Amazon already requires ID verification to open new accounts, and will ban accounts that they can link to old banned accounts.
Amazon consultant? How is it these days?

I used to do gigs as a trade agent in parallel to my part time job in a trade company 10 years ago.
I think you conflated value and price. Increased supply of anything lowers it's price not it's value. For example, oxygen is extremely valuable, can't live without it, but it is also very abundant. Therefore, its price is $0 almost everywhere. When you go to a ski resort, where the air is much thinner, there then becomes a market for oxygen and the price goes up[0]. The price changed with supply, not the value.

[0] https://www.oxygenplus.com/blogs/articles/why-oxygen-plus-is...
What does she think about phakic intraocular lens implantation as an alternative to LASIK/PRK?
The alternative is the unknown human biases of random judges. At least an algorithm can be audited and changed.
From that study:

"Results A total of 262 participants were enrolled in the PROWL-1 study (mean [SD] age, 29.1 [6.1] years), and a total of 312 participants were enrolled in the PROWL-2 study (mean [SD] age, 31.5 [7.3] years). Visual symptoms and dissatisfaction with vision were common preoperatively. Overall, the prevalence of visual symptoms and dry eye symptoms decreased, although a substantial percentage of participants reported new visual symptoms after surgery (43% [95% CI, 31%-55%] from the PROWL-1 study and 46% [95% CI, 33%-58%] from the PROWL-2 study at 3 months). The percentages of participants in the PROWL-1 study with normal Ocular Surface Disease Index scores were 55% (95% CI, 48%-61%) at baseline, 66% (95% CI, 59%-72%) at 3 months, and 73% (95% CI, 67%-79%) at 6 months. The percentages of participants in the PROWL-2 study with normal Ocular Surface Disease Index scores were 44% (95% CI, 38%-50%) at baseline and 65% (95% CI, 59%-71%) at 3 months. Of those participants who had normal scores at baseline in both the PROWL-1 and -2 studies, about 28% (95% CI, 19%-37%) had mild, moderate, or severe dry eye symptoms at 3 months. While most participants were satisfied, the rates of dissatisfaction with vision ranged from 1% (95% CI, 0%-4%) to 4% (95% CI, 2%-7%), and the rates of dissatisfaction with surgery ranged from 1% (95% CI, 0%-4%) to 2% (95% CI, 1%-5%)."

I would really like someone to explaine these figures to me:

https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/ophth...
I worked at one of those other company's that designed Ada specs that didn't get selected, but we did do the first official ALS (Ada Language System).

"first Ada was so complex that even the compilers had performance problems, so there was a bit of a delay getting it out"

This was largely true. The complexity of compilation really bit. But,

", and then, second, C and Unix happened"

This is silly. Unix and C had been around for years before Ada's design was accepted. I'd been working on C in a Unix environment for five years when I started working on Ada. In fact that's why I was hired since one of our first target ALS implementations was for Unix which included several C system level drivers.
Another general vote for a Brother laser printer, though I differ on some details here.

In 2014 (if I'm remembering right...) I bought a DCP-7065DN (B/W all-in-one with wired Ethernet).

I don't print much (sometimes go months without). By volume, the lion's share of my printing is documents I need to copyedit/proof, followed by random receipts, tickets, shipping labels, etc--so I was hoping to optimize for cost and reliability. I make the same tradeoff wrt to using a local or online print service for anything that needs to be high-quality or color.

I didn't have to replace the undersized starter toner cartridge included until earlier this year. I haven't had any trouble with it so far (aside from having to occasionally prod it to keep printing until quality actually fell off a cliff at the end of the first toner cartridge.)
"Rival" is a strong word. Nothing Jimmy Wales touches ever amounts to anything.
My wife and I are in the early stages of homeschooling our kids and one thing I've noticed in all my reading about education is that there seems to be one side that argues for more job training in school, and there's another side that argues that a well-rounded life includes much more than just job skills, and then there are articles like these, that seem to indicate that a ton of people are making it through the education system without learning anything at all. That seems like a much bigger problem than what should be on the curriculum, but it doesn't seem to be much talked about.

On the professional side of things, I've come to expect that most 18 year olds won't know anything about anything, which is fine, 18 is quite young, after all, but it seems at odds with the tremendous amount of time and money that's been spent on the average 18 year old's education.
The first 4 and last 2 screenshots on homepage are blurry on a retina iPhone, but the one in between them is sharp. Some resolution issue?
That's a good point; the default is a realistic work-life balance, and American folks are willing to sacrifice for the company but only if they're compensated appropriately. This hits close to home for sure.
I stopped signing in when they broke Gmail on Firefox. Now I just use Chromium as my mail browser and everything else is on my secure browser.
For much more extensive discussion see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542716

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102483...
Apple removes all vaping and e-cigarette apps, citing health concerns
I'm not on quite the same level, but I was definitely quick enough to skip a few grades. Thankfully my parent's didn't let me - I wanted to at the time, but to be honest, the importance of social wellness is drastically understated by academic community.

Humans are animals, and social animals at that. If we don't give our brains social release, we're going to struggle.
Customer Support Is Key to Business Success
Good on him. But - there's always the question of how much of what he's doing is his own individual will, and how much the result of his parents' influence. Now, of course the former is naturally influenced by the latter, and people can certainly end up pursuing what their parents has hoped, but it can be very difficult emotionally if you "wake up" one day and notice your entire life is invested in some course of progress you're not even sure you really want. Doubly difficult if you get stuck or fail at something, and need to have a strong emotional support for your sense of self-worth and purpose to fall back on.

(This is partially from my own experience, although it's nothing like in the story.)
For fun:
The purrfect programming language is

C@ - http://www.reddit.com/r/C_AT
Taleb is not an expert in the field. I'm not qualified to examine the data from first principles, but my understanding is that among experts in the relevant academic fields the standard orthodoxy is that 1) IQ tests measure something meaningful and 2) whatever it is they measure is highly predictive of a wide variety of benefits in life.
How much are good ones, and how much of a pain are they vs just regular eyes? I've never worn contacts, and the thought of having something in my eye seems very weird. I also tend to get dry eyes sometimes with allergies, will that affect it?
The real challenge is that it is nearly impossible to get hired for work even when you are qualified for it.
Google Interferes with Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results
> but they will be informed of vulnerabilities in popular libs, and then looking for projects that use those versions of those libs is a lot easier than scanning all those projects individually.

This is true, and if we were talking about code that is exposed to the world at large, then my stance might be different. However, the projects that I've used Python for are not exposed in that way.

Note that I'm talking about personal projects, not work-related ones. At work, I use whatever is required.
It's because the average American doesn't value education like they once use to. American's IMO value entertainment far more.

We're living in a time when information and the ability to gain skills is easier than ever. Google, YouTube, Public Libraries, etc. It's all there, available for anyone. But American's have it in the their mind that the only way to gain skills is by going to a school and sitting in a classroom. Perhaps, the institution is to blame for that?

Until Americans start realizing that education and being a lifetime learner is one of the most critical aspects of an economy, I'm afraid we won't see much in terms of improvements.
Perhaps I'm being dense but I am pretty sure everything after your first sentence actually concurs with my post.
Gloomiest Places in America – BestPlaces
How do I know if I've got the good stuff?
It's sad and brilliant how they look the other way while launching Amazon Basics as a trusted brand
Moving the argument, which has been about a user of a free software program having neither an actual nor a moral capability of demanding that the free software fits their particular needs (which in this case means to work as a critical part of their business and continue working as such under their particular environment) into the legal realm and making it into a proposition that a user of a free software has no rights at all, not even legal rights to defend against malicious behavior of the producer of the software, is an intentional misrepresentation of the argument, and it is easier to defeat than the actual argument since there are clearly such defensive rights.
HN has such an absurd view of the Midwest. I live in the Midwest. We have a large MS campus here along with quite a few smaller tech companies. The main economic drivers here are tech, agriculture, and oil (not manufacturing, mining, or conservative ideologies whatever that means). My group of friends averages in the 150-250k range of income which is high for the area for sure but it's evidence of the thriving technology scene. It's also low compared to the farmers around here which do quite well in good years. Nothing in your description comes close to accurately describing our small city in the Midwest.
This is super cool! Another step towards the dream of high-level purely declarative programming. Thanks for sharing!
No-paywall link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/how-google-interfe...
What are the good contacts you're using now? I gave up on contacts years ago, but I've never done any research and experimenting to find if there was anything better than the usual Acuvue stuff.
I had mine in 2002 but it wore off In 2012 so back to glasses. Corneas too thin to do enhancement, eyeballs odd shaped so I can’t do contacts. Not much more I can do.
Except maybe Wikipedia?
He have done that before with non-profit social network ([20]) and non-profit virtual mobile operator ([10]).

[20] - tpo.com

[10] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Operator
All sexes are protected classes. All races are protected classes. All national origins are protected classes. etc.
Are you successful financially or has your academic achievement translated into career achievement?
But Lydia (the mother) has her own theory. "I ate a lot of fish during the pregnancy"

New meta boys. Eat fish for an ez bachelors degree.
Yes. For bug tickets, I will regularly write a test that fully encapsulates the issue then try the suggested fix with the test being used for validation.

At the new feature level, I have found not a lot of use for TDD.
Trump adviser found guilty on all counts in WikiLeaks hacking case
Norbert Wiener[1], founder of cybernetics, was another famous prodigy:

"After graduating from Ayer High School in 1906 at 11 years of age, Wiener entered Tufts College. He was awarded a BA in mathematics in 1909 at the age of 14, whereupon he began graduate studies of zoology at Harvard. In 1910 he transferred to Cornell to study philosophy. He graduated in 1911 at 17 years of age."

There are also, of course, many, many more musical and chess prodigies, for example... Mozart probably being the most famous of them all.

Curiously, there don't seem to be any significant prodigy novelists or poets.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener
The human race is also biased. You aren't getting away from bias that easily.
I’m all for finding alternatives to the ad-based models that plague social media (and the web, in general), but how will people without bank accounts use such a system?
I realized recently that only 10% or so of the code I tend to write truly benefits from thorough testing. The rest can be handled more broadly through integration testing which is less about the code specifically and more about expected end use cases, like user workflows. I find those tests very useful. I only write those after the flow is established and more or less finalized.

I used to write a lot of tests and discovered over summer that it costs too much in terms of time spent writing, changing, and debugging tests for what you tend to get out of it.

I do think writing a lot of tests for a legacy or relatively old system is a great way to uncover existing bugs and document expected behaviours. With that done, refactoring or rebuilding is possible and you gain a great understanding of the software.
I'm not particularly upset about fake luxury goods either. My point is more that if you can't stop things that an average person can tell you are obvious fakes, them how much worse are you going to be at spotting the fakes on categories where it matters more?
Google is scaling back its weekly all-hands meetings after leaks
You might argue that kids not knowing anything when they graduate is a symptom of the focus on professional skills. I found that the more people tried to teach me what they thought I "needed" to know rather than the things I was interested in, the less I learned and the less useful the stuff I learned was.
I tend to flip back and forth from hacker news articles (e.g. check slack, check build progress). I try to position the page while scrolling so I can find my place back in the text. That alternates from "align top of content section to top of scroll pane" and "align bottom of section content to bottom of scroll pane" depending on the length of the section. I also do it unconsciously as I read, like a habit, to prepare the page in case I need to jump away.

Of the two, I probably favour aligning to the top. But since I alternate I would probably have changed to inline.
I really don't know what the solution is.

I also don't have first-hand knowledge of the situation on the ground in, for example, China. But my perception (and that of others I've talked to), is that Chinese sellers just sign up to open a new account, no problem. I'm not sure if that means using the info of a relative or friend, or fake documents, or if my perception is just completely wrong.

It'd be interesting to hear from anyone who has seen things on the ground on that side of the world!
I often list out and sometimes actually write many of the tests that’ll need to pass before I write much code. Definitely not real TDD, but just listing out the cases helps me stay focused, keep from missing things, pick back up after a distraction, etc. Before doing this I usually have gotten to the point where I've got classes and database migrations at least scaffolded out, but mostly empty.

I find literal TDD distracting and unhelpful, but having a list of things I need to handle that doubles as tests I can't forget to write is a really nice balance.
Specifically, "Visual symptoms and dissatisfaction with vision were common preoperatively. Overall, the prevalence of visual symptoms and dry eye symptoms decreased, although a substantial percentage of participants reported new visual symptoms after surgery (43% [95% CI, 31%-55%] from the PROWL-1 study and 46% [95% CI, 33%-58%] from the PROWL-2 study at 3 months)."

So, nearly 50% had new symptoms at 3 months.
FTA:

>It costs $12.99 a month or $100 a year in the US, or €12 a month or €90 a year in Europe. It's £10 and £80 in the UK.
> Amazon blocks related accounts whenever they can track it.

They really cannot, and that's been the case for 10+ years.

Even in-person verification is more or less easily defeatable.

Alibaba requires on-site check and business license check by an expert, and may throw many more scrutiny and audit on you than Amazon, but even this is to little effect.
I write tests NOT for correctness, but in order to refine the API for public methods/functions. If I'm going to have some fairly complicated behavior, I want to write an interface that is easy to use first, because otherwise I end up writing an interface that's easy to implement.
ESET Smart Security Premium 12.0.22.0 Crack and Premium Key (2020)
drgn: Scriptable Debugger Library
I imagine the valuations are based mostly on the price paid for whatever % of Oyo shares investors have bought up. In any non-VC type business, valuation would be based on an estimate of what free cash flow would look like in a 1-yr, 5-yr and 10-yr period. Depending on the type of business and its growth stage, the time horizons and assumptions may vary.
No, I have repeatedly and explicitly stated that protected classes like race should not be used as inputs into any sort of model. The notion that I have said that we should use race as an input to a model is completely false.

What I am saying is that pointing to disparities in the outcome of these models to claim that the models are biased is not, on it's own, a reasonable conclusion. As you point out, people in Joshua Tree and South LA have higher rates of crime than average. So if our model flags people from these areas as high risk more frequently than other places, is our algorithm biased? If we deliberately make the model to produce uniform results across different locations because an engineer feels that it's problematic to have a model that produces different results between different geographic cohorts, then have we mitigated bias? No, that engineer intentionally introduced our own bias to make the model adhere to his or her worldview.
>It's somewhat like piracy warnings on digital media; [pirates] will ignore it but people that consume the content legally still have to sit through the nonsense.

Not quite correct: the pirates actually have or enjoy a superior product; they don't have to "ignore" anything. The legal product has annoying anti-piracy warnings that legal purchasers are forced to sit through, while the pirated versions don't have these warnings at all, so the people who use these versions enjoy a better viewing experience.

On top of that, the format is superior. Legal viewers are restricted to DVDs (very low quality), Blu-Rays (high-quality, but inconvenient and bulky physical format), or streaming (varying quality, subject to problems due to transmission path), while pirates get to have a simple digital file on their computer which is whatever quality they want (i.e. they can choose to download a lower or higher-resolution/bitrate version) which is now local so it can't be suddenly restricted by studio executives who want to make it exclusively available on their streaming service, and it won't be unavailable because your internet connection is slow or down.
The "midwest" is probably not the right description since it of course includes, like, Illinois. I was referring I guess to "rural America."
The results do not suggest failure, there are many other explanations for such results. The patient may have expected better vision than they have (eg 20/20 but wanted 20/15), or their prescription wasn't stable so vision deteriorated slightly after 6 months.
Could always use gift cards or prepaid credit cards.
Alleged scheme to get Apple to replace fake iPhones with real ones
perhaps this is the conclusion all would reach if they were as smart as your brother
In the article, it mentions that signing up is free, but there's a waiting list. 25,000 members (sorry 78,000) but only 200 have paid to bypass the waiting list. Beyond that, the signup page doesn't have enough information for me to share my information, which includes email and birth date.
For the public record, I have still not received an email from this gentleman. He doesn't believe what he says, folks. We have found ourselves an ideological liar.
While we're exchanging anecdotes here: what I gathered from people's responses on the web is, operation outcome differs considerably depending on the clinic and who knows what else. Three are also apparently a dozen, if not more, variations on the few major procedures.

However, I also notice that better results are reported for later surgeries, over e.g. five years.
Also fandom (aka wikia, aka wikicities)

Although i agree he's had a lot of underwhelming projects, and i dont see anything particularly special with this one
I've encountered this being used as a crutch for poor employee performance on a software project focused on replacing a legacy application.

An employee with little programming experience used his supposed lack of context as an excuse for poor work and disinterest despite having been given an overview of (1) what the legacy software does and why, (2) the broader project goals, and (3) the immediate project goal (i.e., replacing the existing software). The employee similarly hid behind their lack of technical understanding, asking questions to "learn" but ignoring the answers.
Did this academic achievement translate into achievement in your career?
The trick works by using the double sampling rate to inspect the normal data rate disk surface. When the disk surface already has a double data rate, the drive doesn't have a quadruple data rate mode to be able to read it.
I could shell out $13/mo, or, you know... not use a social network. I don't use one now, and I'm doing just fine.
yeah that wiki thing never amounted to anything more than being the ninth most popular website.
Software is done when nobody is willing to work on it anymore.

There are some things you do for employee retention in every industry.

Typically the bits we are talking about are the bits the customer doesn't know about. Or they're caught in a cognitive dissonance loop where they want two things like features and stability but they won't agree that the two affect each other. So they ask for one until problems arise and then they pretend like we should have been honoring the other the whole time. Even when they told us it wasn't a priority.

It's basic maintenance philosophy. It's not a priority to get your car to the shop. But it is a priority that it work reliably for your Thanksgiving trip in two weeks. Many things worth doing are inconvenient. As are many critical things.
TDD is about getting design right, but it's also about ensuring that the design's functionality is defined, demonstrated and protected from regression.
HN has such an absurd view of the Midwest.

It's not just HN, I keep reading many opinions and thinkpieces that reference "the situation in the midwest" when trying to talk about jobs, job markets and localized economies that are often frustratingly and annoyingly WELL off the mark.

I share your frustration.

Signed,

Northern Indiana
I have never been able to "grok" the idea of writing tests before writing the implementation. My brain just doesn't work that way. It's like a speed bump that makes me lose the idea or inspiration if I try to think of it in terms of "tests" first.

However, when I need to overhaul something that already exists, e.g. the core of a game engine, I've gotten into the habit of writing tests for current behavior, so that when I rip it out its replacement works the same way, or at least retains the same interface, so I don't have to replace the whole pyramid on top before I can compile again. :)

This has also helped me realize the value of tests, but later on in the development cycle, not as the base before actually writing anything.