skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not allowing reviews from people who never purchased the product would be a start.

The next level would be no reviews until the product is actually delivered.

One more level up, no reviews until a reasonable amount of time post-delivery.

Yet one more level: Require contacting the seller with grievances before posting a review.

I would also add a finite impulse response filter to reviews in order to control rate of change.

Rapid negative review posting rates should red flag and rate-limit these review.

Also, the star rating math has to change. If you get just a few negative star ratings it can absolutely sink your listing. Unless you have thousands of positive ratings the math is such that a handful of one star reviews will destroy you; requiring hundreds of 5-star reviews to counteract.

The battles being fought behind the scenes on Amazon are beyond what anyone would believe.

Someone can take out any competitor instantly by making a few fake quality reports to Amazon. It’s insane, really.
Just because we can’t see them now doesn’t mean they didn’t move…
Yes, I'm afraid various factions of the left who take this talk seriously are boxing themselves into a weird ideological straightjacket.

It might be too late for them, but most people can still come to the realization that carbon and economic growth are not inherently linked and we should be working towards removing the obstacles to that world.
> Yep, only $23 billion, horrible. /s

For something supposedly worth almost $1 trillion, it's not great. If you bought Google and then kept the profits, it would take 28 years before you broke even. That's longer than the company has even existed.
They do, but they were under a time constraint to release in order to gain market share.

The goal of TensorFlow is to put itself in as many ML deployments as possible, paving the way for auto ml, which is where the real money lies.
What does merging two Pytorch related libraries have to do with Tensorflow?
As you say, the big problem is you can’t express rules. I don’t think that rules out using code to understand these things, but you’re better off starting with something like LEAN.
Very nice and useful set of articles. Makes for good reading. Kudos
and they also destroyed the speed cameras. I have a very low opinion about the gillets jaunes.
Good point, and perhaps the most important reason this remedy isn't much of a deterrent. That said, once you dispute a takedown request I would imagine (hope!) that the moderating effect of automation is removed, making it easier to prove that element if the requester remains intransigent.

But even without automation, "knowing" is a steep burden when it comes to copyright considering all the legal grey areas.

And it just occurred to me that it cuts both ways--the subsection makes both copyright holder and infringer liable for misrepresentation in takedown disputes. If you make it easier to show knowledge of the copyright holder, you make it easier to show knowledge of the purported infringer. The easier it is to meet this element, the more financially risky is it to dispute takedowns.
> "fake it till you make it"

Deciding 'we'll scam people, but only for a short while' is still deciding to scam people.
It is time and not a priority.

A lot of things can be done given unlimited time and resources, but unfortunately we don’t have that.
I mean, 3.8 billion users is more than even Facebook, that valuation would be insane...
Also a great insightful read is their manual: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual

I'm excited about their future of work investments.
The last time I spent 15 minutes doing a possible ROI calculation on a GPU based Ethereum mining system, about a year ago, I came to the conclusion that the upfront cost of buying the GPUs alone, plus the electricity (entirely ignoring the cost of a dedicated mining purpose motherboard and cpu/ram, power supply, etc) would not have a reasonable payback period. Even if the electricity was 1.5 cents a kWh, and cooling was free.

I've seen the various motherboards from Taiwanese board manufacturers which are designed for mining, with many small pci-express 3.0 slots intended for use with riser ribbon/interface cards, such as for use as you describe with 8 GPUs attached to one motherboard.

https://www.techradar.com/news/best-mining-motherboards
Even this I didn’t really understand. Are there really vast quantities of people so afraid of a little pinch when having your blood drawn that they don’t do regular blood testing? It’s not much worse than having your finger pricked for a drop of blood, once the needle is in you usually don’t feel anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
All cute, all limited. Sure this tech has great potential, but I don’t think they found it yet
> Console hardware is not really interesting anymore if you ask me.

Agreed. And that’s a good thing.

PS1, PS2, and PS3 were all underpowered. I’ll never forgive the PS2 for holding back games for 7 years. Grumble grumble.

PS3 may technically not have been slower. But if it takes 2x the effort to get a 10% improvement it is in practice.

Everything’s a PC now. Which means the focus can be on making good games instead of optimizing for specialized hardware to serve a fraction of the audience.
Plus it’ll take quite a while to complete.
>"The implementation first chooses the length of the number, then fills in the digits. This makes it biased towards smaller numbers."

Why?
> I would believe you can accurately count the blood cells in your fingertip, but I (a layman) would need a bit more to believe that this is necessarily representative of mainline. It might still be diagnostically useful.

I'm skeptical of that, since my impression is that the many of the capillaries in one's finger are so tiny that only one blood cell can fit through at a time. That seems like something that could fuck up the results, but I'm no doctor or biologist and it sounds like regulators might actually be paying attention this time around.
> For big game like deer and moose, I actually prefer copper ammo.

Surely you mean copper-jacketed lead, right? I don’t think that solid copper bullets would travel very far or carry much of a punch …
Not in a land grab. TF is crucial to google dominance in AI.
that are some new insights, so popularity is the key ingredient.
> - What would happen if you would happen to stand at the edge of space/universe and push a hand through the edge?

That doesn't make sense if you say the universe is curved or infinite. There will be no edge.

> - Space could be infinite but at the same time with a boundary. Can you imagine that boundary without trying to imagine what it is bounded from?

No. That's what the definition of infinite is. There are no bounds.

> - What is space fabric actually made from? Is it discrete or not.

Probably numbers. But then I like Math, so...

> - Are there other universes outside ours?

I don't think we are any special. But I'd be happy to be proven otherwise!

> - Try to imagine nothing.

> - Try to imagine infinite.

You are having trouble with nothingness because you are linking it to your consciousness. Infinity is easy though. You keep pushing infinitely and there is no edge!

> - Is there free will?

No. But don't go and do stupid stuff because of that.

> - Can you even imagine a proper mechanism that would allow for free will to exist?

There isn't. You are the product of your environment and your parents.

> - What would prevent you from "cutting" the smallest possible particle in 2 parts?

Max Planck.

> - Are there several dimensions of time?

> - Is there a beginning of time?

There is no time. Try understanding the theory of general relativity.

> - Is math invented or discovered?

Math is very basic. It starts with set theory and then builds on top of that. It is invented since set theory is invented.
I'd add the FFG(X) frigate program in there too, but that'll probably just end up taking the place of a few Burkes.
Madden: "Now with no timeouts I think that the Patriots, with this field position they have to just run the clock out, you have to play for overtime now. I don't think you want to force anything here, you don't want to do anything stupid because you have no timeouts and you are backed up."

Summerall: Brady is in the shotgun and he's gonna throw it ..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC4qgrUgF9I&feature=youtu.be...

Always trust the stats ;)
>> if someone were truly eminent, then that person should be publicly conspicuous

rather doubtful, for a variety of reasons, but probably unlikely to affect their numbers
I am in general a big fan of GCP, especially for startups. In many cases I find I can be productive faster in GCP compared to AWS, in the sense that it's easier to do "wrong" things in AWS if you don't have a top notch devops person.

That said, it seems like GCP has a real, significant problem with overall reliability. While I don't have numbers to compare, seems like I see frequent outage notifications on HN for GCP. They really need to focus more on reliability than new features.
If consoles were sold at a profit what you say may make sense. However building an open platform means you need to devote resources to it both from a capital perspective and opportunity cost.

Driving demand towards the hardware, instead of software and licensing costs on a negative margin product is a pretty sure way to run a company out of business.
Just look at all the west
AU + NZ + CA + UK + JP + USA

We no longer have a proper
Right wing
pro West
Pro Freedom
Pro Nation
parties

All the parties are now
LEFT - Liberals/neocons/Libertain/fake right wing

Heck what western country doesn't bend over to ISRAELS demands to help the Jewish ethno state before every other nations interest and people

The entire Western mainstream has been turned into Global Left wing activism

From the 70-80s every western nation has removed local manufacturing to "help India and China" at each nations expense and failing economy

Also without free speech actually enforced
laws dont mean shit

We have Western unis censoring
Western mainsteam media censoring
Western uni papers censoring
Western companies censoring
illegal kangaroo trails at western unis

What does Trump do - NOTHING
more censoring is ramping up since he took office

We are heading towards a global Commie authoritarianism group like the EU by 2025-2030 run by the Zionist Jews, central banks and global left
Nice video! I'd like to know when and where Chomsky made these remarks. In fact, I'd like to watch the entire presentation.
Strange that the captions are often incorrect -- did Chomsky review and approve them?
I have equal amounts of friends (in NYC) talking about their early stage startup investments (Doubleclick! Pinterest!) or their successful stock investments - e.g. the Facebook IPO or buying into Amazon in 2003.
There's more than wildlife.

In Finland, shooting ranges are among the most common activities causing soil contamination. According to our study based on questionnaires and previous regional surveys, the total number of Finnish outdoor shooting ranges is between 2000 and 2500. Most of the ranges are small and only ca. 5% exceed 20 ha. Almost a third of the ranges can cause a groundwater pollution risk, while only few cause an immediate health risk. In the first instance, 50-60 shooting ranges identified as being high-risk areas should be investigated in detail. At present, the risk management options at Finnish shooting ranges are very limited. Hence, soil excavation combined with disposal is the most common remediation technique. Some of the remediation methods used in other countries have been proven unsuitable in Finnish conditions. Therefore, new, feasible, cost-effective and economical remediation technologies are needed. To exclude future contamination, a total ban of lead shot would be the most effective way.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16458952
I don’t understand, could some one explain? What am I trying to do in this game? And how do I win?
I think we can use it to go back to a place. It is the same as going further just that now we “just” need to shrink the space.
Of course all is so far just an exercise of our imagination.

You can take a look at the curvature or more concrete to the density of the Universe. It is possible to be positive and in this case at one point in the future the Universe will collapse back on itself. Nothing will stop it to do this apparently FTL.
What if we moved to pass/fail grading?

Every assignment and test is just marked pass or fail. Realistically tempered by what percentage you're allowed to fail for the class, e.g. 40% for university calculus - no different than grading on a curve today.

Fail any N assignments/tests and fail the course. Maybe some are weighted to count extra, e.g. Final project, midterm, final exam.

This is really not much different than the current system, but if you stop caring about the difference between C and A, students can either slack off or focus more on learning (if the subject is interesting).

Nobody cares about your grades after your first job anyway. I had nearly a perfect GPA in college, and it was a terrible waste of time in hindsight. If I'd spent more time socializing maybe I would have made some lifelong contacts that would have benefited my career or become co-founders with me.

I've always thought to tell my hypothetical kids to not sweat the grades and remember that the benefit of university is really the friends (and sometimes life partner) who you meet there. It's total shit when it comes to learning stuff. A self motivated person can learn more in a year than a 4 year degree. Somewhat depends on the subject though - I wouldn't want a self taught doctor who didn't do the practical parts of the education.
I've often wondered as well why tech companies seem to go out of their way to ignore portfolios. First I thought it's a misguided but honest attempt to make the process look more like a blind meritocracy, to basically turn the interview into a modern version of the Imperial Examination of ancient China.

Then I read "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder, a book that documents the design process of a minicomputer in the late '70s. The idolized manager of that project wants to hire young engineers fresh out of school so that he can mold them according to his wishes and have them working all-nighters. If that's your hiring principle, you're not going to get anyone with portfolios.

So I suspect it's an industry sickness that's been turned into a virtue over time.
When electricity from solar and wind power were much more expensive, biomass looked attractive as a lower cost (if limited-availability) energy source. I'd say that it is still potentially attractive for making liquid fuels, but less because of its embodied energy content and more as a compact source of carbon that has recently been removed from the atmosphere.

Cellulosic ethanol is pretty terrible even when the process is operating as planned:

http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/15344/zero-to-10-mil...

70 gallons of ethanol from 1 short ton of cellulose means 230 kg from 1000 kg of cellulose. There's 444 kg of carbon in that much cellulose, enough to make 518 kg of diesel fuel if given enough externally supplied hydrogen. The energy content of the final fuel from 1 tonne of cellulose is 23.6 GJ for diesel and only 6.9 GJ for the ethanol.

Liquid biofuels from non-cellulosic inputs have even worse areal productivity. (Barring (theoretically) algae, which nobody seems to be able to implement at industrial scale.)

US airline fuel consumption peaked in 2007 at 20 billion gallons per year:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31512

That's about 63 million tonnes of kerosene/diesel. You'd need at least 122 million tonnes of cellulosic biomass to supply carbon for that much fuel. You'd also need refiners, crackers, and recapture in addition to F-T units to ensure that both too-light and too-heavy carbon compounds get recycled to produce liquid hydrocarbons of the desired saturation and molecular weight. It would basically be running a state of the art petrochemical complex with biomass gasifiers and electrolytic hydrogen bolted on.

But assuming you did all that, the raw material availability looks relatively favorable. As of 2005, this report estimated that over 300 million tonnes of currently-unused dry biomass could be sustainably harvested from forests and agricultural wastes:

https://www1.eere.energy.gov/bioenergy/pdfs/final_billionton...
My point here is that, while this is a big issue for Google Cloud customers, it's not a big deal for Google. Worst case for Google is they issue a credit for more Google Cloud services, not to exceed half the monthly payment.[1] Google Cloud is, what, 3% of volume? AWS is Amazon's big profit center, but for Google, it's not as important. Nothing to bring in top management for on a weekend.

Now if ad revenue collection went down...

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla
Agree completely, I tried to make it clear that I wasn't defending their actions.
Proof of concept on using tiny amounts of blood for certain bio-markets. They’re taking the MVP approach.
> The state would remain the main guarantor of pensions, continuing to provide workers with a safety net that is unheard-of in the United States, where about half of Americans have no access to retirement savings plans, and have little or nothing saved for retirement.

This is weasel-speak. It’s strictly true, only because it’s worded in a way to exclude Social Security. Taken as a whole, US retirement safety net is more generous than the OECD average: https://www.etk.fi/en/the-pension-system/international-compa...

The above is OECD data, far more reliable than random assertions in the NYT.

Public and private pensions replace on average 70% of pre-retirement income for an average-income person, compared to 60% in France (and the OECD as a whole). Great Britain and Germany are even less. (And of course, because US incomes are higher to start with, US retirement income is even higher in absolute terms.

The average French pension payment is $1,500 per month, about the same as the average Social Security payment. But the average American worker gets about that much again in occupational pension. (See the break-down in the chart above, showing 100% of French pension coming from statutory pension, versus half of US pension coming from statutory pension.)
I'm curious to know why you need a full-size blood draw for those tests. Do you know? Can you elaborate?
.NET Native is a separate compiler and runtime than the one being discussed afaik

And Blazor is part of a web framework that doesn't support VB.Net, not the underlying runtime.
Facebook co-founder eyes direct listing for Asana
I find it unbelievable that train drivers can retire at 52 and they are now protesting for this "right". And there are also other people who are supporting them.

I hope Macron stands by his policies and doesn't back off. I have no clue what the French people expect from their future. Don't they see that all macro variables have changed? declining population, ageing, higher life expectancy, major economic shift to Asia etc.
Done! Thanks for the tip, by the way.
I’d imagine if it did it couldn’t play any DRM’d music... but I haven’t kept track of where we’re at in stripping it.
Cohort 4 was the only state university sample, but even that one used students in the summer programme (which is tied to wealth).

I also realized that SAT scores are heavily impacted by SAT specific training/tutoring that costs a reasonable amount (because as far as I can tell - as a foreigner - the SAT tests rely more on having been taught the exact way - and tricks - to answer SAT questions in the time available. Honestly if your test is good it should not have any real time pressure for the vast majority of participants)
Thomas Piketty isn't god because he wrote a book that agreed with yours and a bunch of journalist's priors.
I feel like Paul Graham is unlearning his own experience. Maybe, he's at the top of the game and tries to figure out why it's messed up. Life is full of hacks. People hack stuff: school, test, career. The site we're on now called itself Hacker News. I suppose Paul Graham gave it the name.

When I was in school, I did all kinds of hacks. I didn't graduate high school in the US. I took the GED to go to college. I did challenge tests to skip classes and save money. I got to know people who collected old tests. They trade old tests with me for homework help. Everyone graduated, got jobs, and continued their life hacks.

The focus on learning and doing is important. As long as we're delivering, we can hack some stuff. The philosophy debate between Kant and Locke will never end. There's a balance for each person. We need to discover it ourselves.
Did you watch the video? It does a very good job explaining the theory tested on the game.
Larry and Sergey still holds more than 51% of voting stocks. IMO, this is the only thing that matters unless they delegate all the decisions to Sundar. Although I expect "other bets" to be forced to evolve into more realistic businesses but no radical structural changes.

And another thing to consider is that a significant portion of Alphabet's value already comes from potential growth of "other bets" (e.g. Waymo). The major driver of digital ads' growth has been cannibalization of traditional media ads budget. This is no way sustainable over the next decade so the growth will be eventually saturated. Unless Google can find another strong driver (Maybe Cloud?), it's pretty natural to keep investing "other bets".
It's not though because it blocks ads and then pays publishers creators fuck all in comparison to what they would have made with ads. If you look at Brave's RPMs you'll find they are total dogshit.
Goodbye austerity! Goodbye the rich! Goodbye capitalism!

Vive la liberté, l'égalité et la fraternité.
Yes, I’m sure.

Same contrasts between 150 year old banks, or between 150 day old startups.

// “The walls smell of Slack DMs and conflict avoidance.” — https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
Hey - how can I contact you?
XTX did all that without humans?
I have a friend who has to regularly go to Europe to replace her implantable pump. It's not approved in America because the bureaucrats haven't gotten around to it. So long as there's no false advertising, let people try treatments that work for them, even if there's risk. Said friend has enough money that she's okay, but most others aren't so lucky.
“But you can't blame teachers if their tests are hackable. Their job is to teach, not to create unhackable tests. The real problem is grades, or more precisely, that grades have been overloaded.”

Two important things here:
* Grade inflation makes for happier students and counterbalances the value of test hacking. Today there are very few schools that don’t do grade inflation. Without considering grade inflation, much of this essay is simply Graham entertaining his own nostalgia. (I’m not necessarily a proponent of inflation but it’s a key phenomena missing from the essay).

* Good teachers hold lots of office hours and give good feedback through those offerings. Email support is also a lot more popular today. You can also play games like test corrections, rough drafts, etc. Students don’t learn well without feedback, and most teachers who don’t invest in it won’t succeed today. This focus towards feedback in modern teaching is at odds with the education community profiled in this essay.

If there’s one lesson to un-learn, it’s to forget about giving attention to non-constructive papers that lack evidence. While this essay gives a thorough criticism of tests, it offers no concrete alternative. And it offers no grounding for the claimed ‘good’ student who ‘focuses on valuable learning.’ Graham, like any other VC, seeks to upwell sentiment in the interest of controlling it (e.g. creating an investment asset out of it). Reading this essay doesn’t teach you anything about hacking unless you recognize that the author is trying to hack you himself.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17948265