skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's likely an issue with the volume of items for sale. What likely happens is they upload an item with multiple variations (think colours of a shirt). One of the variations is a completely different product. They buy some reviews for the shirt and then remove those from the listing, leaving only the other random product.

This happens on Aliexpress all the time. The idea is that they put up a super cheap item ($0.99 iPhone cables), get a ton of sales, some good reviews then swap it out for a more expensive item. Sales rank and reviews stay, and the new more expensive item gets that data. The new item will be much higher margin and/or will never arrive (they just take the money and run).
Even with that, I thought Kurt Vonnegut was the classic action movie actor. The name looks the part.
Hadn't heard of those do you have a link?
Get involved in things where there is opportunity to meet nearby socially-adept well-connected people. Unlearn any prejudices you have about what kind of person you get along with.
Well, I pointed out at the beginning that one can use recursion, and the implementation of the `while` construct itself uses recursion as well (in fact, you can't implement `while` without it in Elixir).

In any case, expressing the equivalent of a `while` loop with predicates and timeouts is quite syntactically noisy in Elixir - it is certainly doable, but much less clear than the imperative equivalent.
Well, yes. Political advertising wasn't nearly as extensive on the Internet in 2012, and the existing US TV media ads weren't exactly honest to start with. But the election of someone with a very high number of associates who have subsequently been convicted of corruption and is himself under impeachment shows that something has gone wrong.

The situation is even worse in countries like the UK which had somewhat-regulated advertising, suddenly being exposed to the Wild West. Reports were going around this morning of the Conservative party buying a misleading ad pointing at their own "labourmanifesto.co.uk". Basically as legitimate as a banking phish site.
Really, it’s the fact that MS had enough cash to burn through all the bad mistakes and arrive at the next technology leap in cloud computing. They were able to fail their way toward success because of the monopoly they enjoyed for two decades. I am afraid the same thing will happen (or is already happening) to Apple.
Manifest V3 doesn’t allow requests to be intercepted and modified by extensions, which is something uBlock Origin requires to block ads and elements on a page.

The proposed way for content blocking in Manifest V3 is how Safari on iOS implemented it a few years ago — a declarative list of URLs to be blocked is provided by the extension and the browser engine looks that up and blocks them. The extension doesn’t see the actual page URLs or requests, leave alone block them.

This is a positive for privacy since the browsing behavior of the user is not exposed to malicious extensions. But uBlock Origin is not some-random-extension-that-wants-to-steal-information. Treating uBlock Origin like any other extension isn’t good. Since Google makes money by selling ads, there will likely not be any concessions on this front.
I also recommend just introducing yourself to everyone you can when you move to a new town or neighborhood. Your physical neighbors, the clerks at the stores nearby, the bus driver, the postal carrier, etc etc.

People might think you're a bit strange, this day and age, and the simple introduction isn't going to blossom into any bosom friendships, but it can transform you from a stranger to a neighbor, and vice versa for the people around you, so you don't feel like an outcast in your own home.
I believe the poster above you meant "rogue", as in malicious but not strictly associated with a specific party.

In any case, it is almost impossible for someone to be truly neutral, especially in US politics. Having a company decide that they are the arbiter of this is dangerous. Especially google, which tends to come off as leaning towards one side of the debate.
Also this Nadella period coincided with a massive rise in passive investing and buyback of shares.

Investors are buying the stock because it’s one of the largest in the indexes weighing in at nearly 5% of the SP 500 market cap. Because of passive investments and mutual funds trying to match passive (index) returns, a nickel of every dollar invested in the stock market goes directly to buy Microsoft without any human consideration.
Taleb is wrong about IQ and creativity
What browser do you use now?
I don't care if I discuss say, my retirement plans or my intended stock trades with a cab driver listening in. I do care if a recording of those things is sent to a multi-national company who is motivated by profit.

It's the same case that I don't care if my neighbor's security cam records me leaving my house, but I care quite a bit if a distributed security system owned by the state does.
...and let's not even touch the Uighurs and Hong-Kong

In 50 years, the ruling Chinese party will be viewed as the Nazi government of our time.
Whataboutism does not help progress on either front. Both mozilla and google have been acting in bad faith more than any of us would like to admit. Both deserve to be called out, not just accepeted as 'not as bad'.
>> Age old scam that works because of people like Jessica who lack any moral compass and will help to screw over anyone for a buck.

Keep in mind that this current scam has only become the norm because of the outcry over incentivized reviews, which resulted in their subsequent ban.

I used to do incentivized reviews, and I followed the rules with disclosures (most incentivized reviewers did that, but not all). After the ban, all those companies using incentivized reviews switched to the backchannel reviews with reimbursement via Paypal, just like the lady in the article.

With incentivized reviews, you could easily dismiss them at your discretion, because the disclosure had to be in the review text. But everything now is a "verified purchase", and most "normals" don't know what to believe or ignore.

I tend to think a good portion of incentivized reviews were pretty honest (fwiw, the vast majority of products I received were quite good for their selling price). When looking at what other people wrote about the same products, however, I could tell that a small percentage of people were writing reviews without even trying the products. The unfortunate part was that those people tended to have the highest rankings in the review leader board.
This article makes it sound like Embracing is a bad thing, because necessarily Extend, and Extinguish will follow. But it doesn't really work that way with Open Source.
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This is an inaccurate representation of science.

> what science is at the core (i.e. making repeatable observations to establish fact)

These "facts" are predictions about what will happen in the future.

Physics tells us what will happen to physical systems, e.g. our understanding of gravity tells us what will happen to a system of masses in the future.

Chemistry tells us what will happen to chemical systems, e.g. our understanding of reactions tells us what will happen to interacting chemicals.

Medical research tells us what will happen to your body and disease when some agent is introduced to the system.

Climate science tells us what will happen to the climate, and it is based on the same concepts as the most fundamental and rigorous science: thermodynamics. If more heat enters than leaves a system, the temperature will increase. There is nothing unscientific here.
Github code https://github.com/bsawyer/tamagotchi
I think they want to go the HyperV route for this purpose, wine is not really the solution a company like Microsoft would choose (based on their business needs). HyperV based hybrid desktop seems to be much easier to develop, maintain, sell etc.
> I personally have no problem with the hybridization of sync/async communication.

This is how I use Slack as well. It works nicely for me personally.
And don't miss "Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza"

<3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0
To put it more delicately than a sibling comment, yes, that's a real problem and there's no singular solution to it. But even if taking initiative is hard, I honestly think it's essential. It may take practice, it may be draining, but relationships aren't going to fall out of the sky.
Yep, the issue has been around for longer than 18 months. It's easy to spot if you're a human. I guess Amazon can't or won't address it at scale. I spotted the issue about 2 months ago.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazon-rev...
Privacy Possum is a better fork of Privacy Badger.
I don't think it's a particularly good thing for Microsoft to cozy up with Linux, let alone any of the larger tech firms. In particular, I don't think it's great that Microsoft is such a heavy contributor to the Linux foundation.

If the people who work on Linux become financially dependent on large tech firms, this creates potential conflict-of-interest. For instance, is it impossible to imagine that as Proton becomes more capable of making the Windows gaming experience portable, there couldn't be pressure to kneecap it in some way at the kernel level? If Ubuntu had dropped 32 bit app support as planned, it would have done just that.
I feel that reflects quite well Steve Jobs vs Tim Cook as well. Jobs just wanted to make 'insanely great' products [for their users], with the side effect of profit, while Tim Cook is probably fixated on efficiency and Shareholder value. Apple has had record profits and performance, but most will tell it's not the same and its future is not so certain.

It seems paradoxical that trying to maximize shareholder value at all costs could have the opposite effect long term; but think of it this way: almost every company in the world is fixated on profit -- that's not a differentiator. What makes the company is amazing products that people need, even depend upon -- once you have that, it is very hard to fail.

Profit singlemindedness can definitely lead you astray, be fragile (of course, the 'user-oriented' robust strategy can be thought as ultimately also a form of profit seeking).

What Nadella seems very competent at doing is also pleasing his workforce as an additional important stakeholder.
You can only watch it on YouTube when logged in; that's been my experience of buying films on there.
It's not about the jobs, it's about our continued ability to grow food and maintain a relatively peaceful world order.
Not that an outright ban is a good solution either, as there is a large discussion to have about what is and isn't political. Some people see some topics as inherently political, while others would say that they have nothing to do with politics.

So deciding what is and isn't banned becomes an inherently political statement.
Consent for recording in some states requires affirmative verbal consent. Burying it in the ToS is not valid, nor is a toast notification.
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Honestly a lot of the work of local newspapers are picked up by our local television stations.

Last week my partner and I found a dead man wearing nothing but his undies in our parking lot. He froze to death the night before. So we called the police and got him picked up and later that night saw a news story on a local station's website saying that man's family was looking for him. We called their police department and the next day he was confirmed to be their dad who was suffering from dementia. The poor guy probably thought he was at home so he took off all his clothes and laid down.

I'm sure his family would have found out eventually but that local news station helped us get the news to them quicker.

The only thing that bothers me at the moment is how little power local news has to really investigate corruption or wrongdoing by local and state level officials. Like that Roy Moore scandal.
A grand jury was convened at the latest in 2011,[1] before Assange sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/may/11/us-opens-wikil...
Eh, kinda does by extending the standard in a non open way. Then blocking.
It's not a secret. It's an open, nationwide effort at all levels of government.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republicans-plan-bring...
Same with document formats: MS Office Open XML instead of just supporting the existing OpenDocument Format (ODF) as open standard.
The "Dragon" compiler book is pretty comprehensive on regex.
The commenter did not say all in Georgia are racist; he said ‘enough’ are to concern him.

Discussing cultural factors and our perceptions of them are fair game, especially in this thread, because they affect the relocation thought process.

I invite people to weigh in on the degree of racism across regions and states. I would like to see if there are ways to get more specific with data, though I don’t demand it. There are many aspects of society that are not easy to measure. That lack of data does not mean we should not talk about our experiences and perceptions.
can you expand on that? "They could tell you about the state of so many countries based on their interactions with other operators there."
Online dating has many problems, but not all failures to obtain a positive outcome from online dating are the fault of the system. It is easy to blame the system and more difficult to accept that the system is not at fault in some situations. You can't simultaneously reject the current societal dating standards but also expect that a system based on those same standards will work for you. Given this, might it make more sense to find a method of dating that is more in line with the societal standards that you seek to live by?
It's almost like Apple iOS/macOS and Microsoft Windows 10 are competing with each other, to see how fast they can push out buggy software upgrades and skimp on quality assurance. The grass is greener on neither side.
On the other hand, if google replies to the query "labour manifesto" and the top link is an ad to "labourmanifesto.co.uk" that is actually run by the conservative party, that's the same category of fraud as if I entered "chase bank" and was sent to a phishing site. Allowing that ad in response to that query is defrauding voters.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-fake-lab...

Being the largest source of information in the world while being completely indifferent as to whether that information is true or not is an amazingly nihilistic, amoral position to take.
I mean if they're really busted what else are you going to give them. "Well, they're broken but they're really stylish so I guess 3 stars for fashion"
I'm having a tough time drawing a conclusion from this article. In my experience with commercial/open source projects the only reason they are open source is because of some sort of market advantage. Is the author suggesting that Microsoft doing all this OSS work out of the goodness of their collective heart? Corporations are about making money, while that goal and OSS happen to align we'll get open source from Microsoft. The second it stops being strategically relevant: bye-bye.
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You don't need the key combo, just as you said, you just need another line, with text or a blank line. I guess before now you could but them right back-to-back? This has never been my use case, but if it was, I can see how this is annoying.
Now I'm confused. I used reviewmeta.com and www.fakespot.com for the first time on a product I'm thinking of buying (a fitness tracker). Reviewmeta gave a revised rating of 4.6, down from the Amazon rating of 4.8. Fakespot gave the product a rating of "F".

How am I expected to believe that these metareview sites, or others like them, are providing any better information than the original Amazon reviews?
> (/z/ does not exist in Swedish)

It does, but only in the onomatopoetic word "bzzz", as in the sound of a flying insect. And if you were to drop that sounding s, if you said that a fly went "bsss" around you, people would be weirded out, thinking the fly pissed on you or something. So pretty much every Swede can make the sound [z], and can hear the difference between [z] and [s], but only for this single word. It's so weird!
FYI, Xcode 11.2.1 is out and fixes several issues.
Linux development is already dependent on large tech firms and has been for a long time.
Yes, I can correct you. 100% of the cost would be labor. The materials are stone, it's free for the taking. Paying for the blocks and transport is paying someone to get stones from where they sit, shape them, and transport them.

A billion dollars would be dirt cheap, may as well be free at that price.

I'd guess a full trillion.
People were generally pretty irritated (as was the public) by the integration of every Google product into it. Leadership (both internally and externally) was pretty clear that it was meant to be a platform, one that unified all of Google's products with a shared social layer.

I worked in research at the time and have never been a heavy social media user, so it didn't really affect me much, but the internal story seems to fit reality more than what you're describing: the change in user facing functionality was progressive integration of Google products (like YouTube)
I don’t know about Italy but in the US fixing up an old house in bad condition can be extremely expensive and time consuming. Cheaper to buy empty land and build a new one.
Larger cities tend to be denser, which means that while, yes, there are things farther than in a small city, there are also more things accessible at the same distance.

Plus, that density makes it economical to support other alternatives besides car ownership or walking, like public transportation and delivery services. I once carried a foam mattress for 12km on the Brussels subway. In any small town I lived in, that would have required a car, even if the shop was half the distance away.

And small towns are more likely to be missing something entirely, which means you have to travel to another town, possibly much farther than crossing a big city.

Currently I live in a medium-sized city, 10m by train from a big one, and I find it to be a sweet spot :)
There will be societal effects. For example if heating fuel subsidy is removed, poor people with big uninsulated houses will be hit worse. So a candidate is unlikely to touch such a subsidy.

Energy policy is related to social policy.
Personally I dont need that stuff. Encryption maybe, but if we can run inside our VPN we should be good.
Well, the answers won't get you (re-)elected:

* Subsidize public transportation (maybe even 100%), and make it a feasible mode of transportation for as many people as possible (at least for daily commutes; bonus: many people are concentrated in cities, so start there).

* Regarding daily driving: If public transportation is a feasible alternative, punish those who still use their car for commuting.

* Massively increase taxes on all kinds of fossil fuels; no matter if used for driving or for electricity (initially ease this in regions with difficult/bad public transportation).

* Make it easier to build regenerative energies (e.g. solar and wind) plus storage systems (e.g. pumped water or battery).

* I'm personally undecided on nuclear fission, but compared to coal it could be the lesser of two evils?

* On the packaging of any product (from bottled water over electronics to toothpaste) print the amount of energy used in production and for transportation.

* Punish producers of goods that break early (e.g. define minimum durability requirements for various product groups).

Would you elect someone with this agenda? I would have a hard time, though I think these points could all be appropriate responses to the climate crisis.

Even better: Try to get elected with that ;-)
My first thought about Rural Alabama is how much I'd hate that sociopolitical environment (I'm black)

Granted I googled Sylacauga and the first line on their website is

>Sylacauga (syl-a-cau-ga) is a progressive community where all the pieces fit.

So they're aware of the image which is a pretty good sign...

But I'm not doing these cities/towns that are "progressive" oases in vast deserts of backwards communities ever again.

At the end of the day, the people in backwards communities are still numerous. They still end up dominating state-level politics.

Instead of embracing change and the wealth that not being a backwards backwater can bring, they actively fight it and if anything become more emboldened in trying to band together against the "common enemy"... that is progressive people (read: non-white, non-straight and/or non-Christian).

In a more ideal world, the answer to these people would be exactly what Sylacauga seems to be, forcing them to co-exist with people who are in the 21st century, but I now feel like the answer is to let these areas wear themselves down. When the pie of wealth grows and these people are locked out for their views, they'll eventually lose the power they had.
> Simple: keep your mouth shut

Truly the best solution to privacy erosion.
> I think all of these would be strategic blunders from the point of view of Microsoft shareholders. But they’re the kind of things you do for love. Otherwise this is just “love” if your standard is abusive one-sided relationships.

This is awesome.
I don't think it's dumb for most small to mid-size enterprise companies to migrate to the cloud. Being able to outsource IT/infrastructure is quite beneficial when your needs aren't so big that it makes sense to set up your own datacenter. And it's far more flexible, if you suddenly start getting a lot more or less traffic you can quickly upgrade/downgrade to what you need.
“upstream your fixes” only works if the upstream wants them. If you charge in saying “you're all dummies (per OP); here's a patch which goes against your project direction which I want you to maintain in the future”, that's probably not going to be very successful.
You just run the bouncers on the same machine as the daemon.
For my invoices I use a LaTeX template, filled via a Perl program that reads a custom invoice format.
You can't fight a million years of evolution. Hypergamy[1] is a real thing. As you observe, the author of the piece strongly signals low social status and confirms it by declaring his lack of mating success. Fortunately for him, and others in his predicament, there are ways to signal higher social status and thus increase mating success[2]. Human behavior is far more complex than animal behavior, but pragmatically we should still understand a behavior such as going to medical school and becoming a doctor to be, in addition to its other purposes, an observably effective status increasing display.

When it comes to mate preferences and thus what kind of display behaviors will be successful, always look at revealed preference and always ignore stated preference, as the latter is observably less accurate and matches revealed preference when it is. As this can be an emotionally sensitive subject I'll not offer examples, but many will readily come to mind on some consideration.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_(zoology)
Game of Life isn't a finite automata. It has an infinite number of states (and is turing complete, too).