skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh what?

There is no "the US government has more resources" – like it's a big blob. It comes down to something like the IRS enforcement division, which is consistently getting kneecapped with budget cuts. So no, actually it really is between your 15 high priced lawyers and whatever team of 5 people the IRS has working your case with limited time because they're stretched thin.
No vegan diet, no vegan power. Those are the vegan police rules - https://scottpilgrim.fandom.com/wiki/Vegan_Police
Whatever you're the top of, its certainly not talent. After all, your 19th century brain just screened out Ken Thompson, Ian Lance Taylor, Rob Pike, Russ Cox...
Am I the only one who immediately thought of this episode of community (Digital Estate Planning)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
1fgR7oeIXFA
CBS reality shows must now have 50% non-White casts, network says
There is a whole network of fake reviewers, agents and sellers that pump up products on Amazon. It is extremely easy to find those people. A simple search for "Amazon Reviews" on Facebook will take you to a few open Facebook Groups. Here are a few examples:

https://www.facebook.com/amazonrrc/
https://www.facebook.com/AmReSe/

I was curious and contacted one of them. They sent proof screenshots that they indeed refund you if you buy a products and leave a good review. They instructed me to search for specific term to find the product instead of giving me a link to click on.

For Amazon, this is easy to prevent because it is so easy to find sellers that are engaging in that sort of activity.

As always, if you follow the money, Amazon has little interest in doing so...
> Typical usecase: a large fleet of IOT devices with a write-only access to a central database, feeding new data every second. No visibility of the current transactions is needed.

Can't you queue and serialize those writes in a middle layer so that you only need a small amount of connections?
I'm thinking that 85/21,750 or 0.4% of the controls developed the disease (vs 0.04% of those who received vaccine).

It does seem low for the US where you have 3% of the population had disease already in 2020. Perhaps more data came from Germany? Or it could be they measure not just PCR +ve results, but antibody levels and/or severe symptoms?
It's pretty hard to travel with a Russian passport, easier to get another citizenship than spend time on visa applications.

Not for tax purposes, they're tax resident in Dubai.
Sorry for the delay in responding ... been on the road in our van :)

MLV is an entirely different material and is used for an entirely different purpose than thinsulate. It is not useful for stopping road/wind noise, but does help to dampen vibrations and resonance in the metal body of a vehicle. It is a dampener, and will not cut down much on the type of noise we have left in our vehicle.

MLV has a problem when used for automotive uses. To be maximally effect, it requires an air gap on both sides and must not be rigidly mounted. Apply MLV to the surface of a vehicle body will do approximately zero for noise. MLV is widely used for sound reduction in buildings, where it is much easier to mount it in ways that allow it to significantly dampen sound transmission.

High end cars use thinsulate as well as dampeners. Most Mercedes and Lexus' (at least) are lined to the gills with automative thinsulate, along with dampeners applied in critical locations.
Yes, you're right that the 'public option' is unlikely to destroy all the private ones, though internet provision has better economies of density (related to scale) than schooling. I would guess that the effect on private providers will be more extreme in this context, i.e. only the highest tiers of internet service will be available privately, likely to businesses in dense areas.
Amazon pushed a lot of competition out. Just because someone doesn't like Amazon doesn't mean there's any alternative. https://www.geekwire.com/2020/hearing-documents-reveal-amazo...
C4 diagrams maybe ?
https://github.com/RicardoNiepel/C4-PlantUML
If you publish a paper with fake 'good' data, why would some spurrious animal names even be relevant? 'Zubat'? Epidemiologists probably don't know the English-Chinese translation for the million species in China.

This is not really spoofing, this is just plain fraud, right?

When they fill papers full of jargon, data that doesn't make sense, crazy political posturing so that the paper reads as something fantastical - and it gets by - that's a problem.

But this seems to be merely a real concern that it's quite a bit of work to reproduce scientific results and that someone doing a quick review of a paper has no material way of validating 'everything'.

The paper 'looked promising' because it was promising, assuming those sending it in weren't completely making everything up.

You could make a fake passport that might fool a lot of people, that doesn't mean the system is broken.

Science maybe has problems but I'm not sure this one strikes at it very well.
I have hired a guy that was applying for his first job at the highest salary we could afford because of his phenomenal open-source contributions. We knew right away that it was a particularly strong candidate. We were right.

Most Github repositories I've seen since then are net negative and it would be better if they hadn't been included at all.
The fact it’s not available on iOS means users have the choice.
They tried that. It was called Servo, and it was Rust's raison d'etre. It failed.
Let's compare this to QubesOS: Which adversary can hack QubesOS while not being able to hack this ?
I was also surprised that Feeney considered carry generation to be a very small portion of the chip since it's a prominent part of the die. But I measured, and it's about 2% of the die.

> If they had cared about speed, they would not have shoehorned it into 18 pins.

My interpretation is that the 8008 team didn't have any control over Intel's bizarre 18-pin limit, but improving speed by adding carry lookahead was something they could do. Even so, the 8008 was slower than the Datapoint 2200's processor that it was supposed to replace and Datapoint abandoned the 8008.
Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger have managed to get around this by focusing on the apparent paradox of healthy versus tasty. Burger King leveraging that branding and calling it the Impossible Whopper was a good call.

Communicating that it's a plant based food isn't good enough, they need to communicate that it tastes good first and foremost.
Reflecting on our work with Asian newsrooms
Contact tracing might work really well with a submissive populace. We don't have one.

Said another way: I don't think voluntary contact tracing will work in the U.S. And I don't think you can implement involuntary contact tracing in the U.S.
The nexus devices were designed and manufactured by another company. Both my Nexus 5 and Nexus 5X experienced boot loops due to hardware.
I wonder how much of the software pricing side is people not seeing the person working on the software? Maybe we assume all this good software we use is built by some large corporation and so are more likely to not toss them some coin, whereas with buying a coffee or a beer, we actually interact with a human being. (That said, obviously they may themselves work for a big multi-national like Starbucks.)

I wonder if we could ever get to the model where when you pay for an app or service, it's somehow clear that you're funding a individual or small team, to make it more personal.
Rewrite it in JS was a meme too, so what?

I really liked the community chat of Rust. For all beginner questions there is someone standing by to answer it in under 10 minutes. Sure, Rust is hard but having people explain everything to you in a chat when you're stuck is worth gold.
> Why would you leave a negative review on a product that you didn't receive?

Is this a serious question? If a seller fails to get my package to me then of course I'm going to leave a bad review - that's literally what I'm paying for! If they have problems with their shipping vendor it's their problem, not mine.
McDonald’s have been selling a new plant-based burger called the McVeggie in Australia all year. https://mcdonalds.com.au/menu/mcveggie%E2%84%A2
Did it though? Numerous Servo components found their way into Firefox proper. Rust still has a lot of momentum behind it as a language.

It's a big job, and it's going to take a while, but better, safer programming is possible.
Maybe government sponsorship as a hedge against ARM/Nvidia implications.
> So... @amazon lets sellers pay for fake reviews, but doesn't let other customers warn you about fake reviews.

I feel like the thing to do here is provide the actual review, with disclosures at the top and bottom saying "I was paid to write a 5 star review".
This is what you want to see in your Optimizely code from Healthcare.gov:

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Many of the onerous requirements mentioned in the article are about the test taker and the environment they are in, not hte computer envirionment.

A VM doesn't help you when your professor is requiring you to rearrange your room, set up mirrors, bash earplugs etc.
I don't think you understood the experiment as I saw it.

Why go to a cafeteria or cook food? They are hard challenges.

Should you solve a Rubik's Cube when in a sensory deprivation tank?

That opposes their objective as I saw it.

They never stated they are trying to intersect with a blind person life.
Sounds like you consume a lot of MSM yourself.
Go figure. While FB and twitter personally censored opposition speach.
Why would COVID be perfect cover for giving up your US citizenship? It might be good cover for getting another, sure.
Turns out quality actually isn't free.
Can you point me to any examples of that stereotype? Historical employment figures, long form discussions, etc? I've genuinely never heard of that one, and considering the dominant solution in this space is Postman an alternative, female gendered solution could be argued as inclusive.
Most of the remarks here emphasized performance, but I believe the actual thing that is "lost" in Rust's model is the ability to quickly rearrange the data dependencies.

A lot of the time, a game's bug surfaces in a way that will never cause a crash: it's just undesired behavior. At some level, the behavior can be defined in terms of "must" and "cannot" constraints, RFC-style.

And in theory you could do some kind of automatic verification of each behavior. But...the majority of the plumbing of the game isn't in the rule logic itself - almost all of the rules are simple. It's in making sure that the mutations produced by one rule will flow neatly into the next, without introducing some form of synchronization bug. This is a real minefield because you're often iterating over lots of similar elements, and it can look like you can bundle their update code to look "clean" or present an opaque interface, but then in practice, you need to split out the iteration differently to resolve a dependency issue.

Developers responded to this by introducing an event-bus abstraction, with bubbling and priorities and all the bells and whistles. But that doesn't really solve having dependencies, it just presents another way to surface a scripting layer.

Repeat this class of problem enough times and you will start inlining the bulk of the update into a single main loop, because that makes manual review of the dependencies more of a spatially engaging process, one where you don't have to provide new boilerplate so that the build process can tell you that you screwed up: instead you just look carefully, see that the ordering is wrong, and shovel around the block of code. Done.

And while you can do this in Rust, it renders a great deal of the language irrelevant, because the features it helps most with are those parts where you want tighter access control across function boundaries. When you start leveraging that access model, behavioral changes can start to take hours instead of seconds, which makes it appropriate for inner-layer backends that need deep optimization, but ergonomically terrible for the greenfield case, which is what games need to bend towards early in production when major features might be changing.
A lot of the open source projects I've seen are encouraging. They have a "How to contribute" section in their documentation and a "contributing.md" file in there.

Practically search any project "X contribute" or "how to contribute to X" and it'll be the first thing that pops up in the results. Many specify that you can contribute in different ways, and address the issue of documentation.

However, timing may matter. You're a bit "lucky" since November is right after October, and open source maintainers have had a rough month of "Hacktoberfest" in which a lot of scum of the earth surfaced. I mean by that your valuable contribution was appreciated and the maintainer wasn't biased against it after last month.
Folks Jeff Bezos is well aware of this, ergo, his lack of action is tacit support.

It blows my mind to this day how confusing and ridiculous even the Amazon UI is, the titles don't make sense, the layout is inconsistent, some things have prices, some don't, you're not quite sure 'who' you're buying from, product details are all over the place. It's one of the most offensive UI's out there.

I believe that at least some parts of it are a mess 'on purpose' as a set of dark patterns.

This is Bezos.
>its actually the other way around, HDMI is secretly just DVI

HDMI signalling is actually extension of DVI, it embeds TERC4 data islands containing extra metadata and PCM audio during blanking interval. (yes, I was surprised at beginning but HDMI/DVI also have blanking periods just as VGA)

https://warmcat.com/hardware%20design/hdmi/fpga/2015/10/21/h...
Because optimizely is a marketing department's wet dream for invalidating a dev department. "See, we can add content by ourselves! we don't need any highly paid developers!". Meanwhile, it jacks in jQuery to add DOM nodes on a page that might not appreciate that method of content injection.
Same thing happened to me in September after purchasing a $35 webcam for my high school sophomore from Amazon. The box contained a $20 "gift card" if I emailed proof of my 5-star review.

I documented everything including photos, my exchange with Amazon customer service, and the confirmation from the seller that they would pay me $20 for a 5-star review (I did not do this ... I was appalled at the situation and more than a little angry that I had been tricked by bogus reviews). Here's what happened when I reported the seller:

Me: Hi. The box for this product contained a card that says “Amazon $20 gift card” and looks like a gift card, but the back says I have to give a 5 star review and send my order information to an outlook email address. Is this legitimate? Is it really a $20 Amazon gift card?

Amazon: Thank you so much for your information on this, I will certainly pass it along here so that we can check this promotion or offer directly with the seller. Because I am not seeing that advertised on the item at all
And would not be capable of confirming if that is a legit Amazon gift card because, I do not see that offer on the item

Me: So what should I do?

Amazon: My best suggestion would be to contact the seller directly for this through this link [redacted] So that you can confirm directly with them if this is legit or not
Certainly giving away gift cards for good reviews is not professional
And I have to report the seller for that

Me: I thought this type of offer was forbidden by Amazon’s own policies for sellers. But I will contact them using the link you sent to ask them if that’s what you recommend.

Even though the CSR reported the seller, and I confirmed with the seller through Amazon's own communication system that they were paying $20 per 5 star review, nothing happened to the seller. The item (a webcam) is still for sale on Amazon, with thousands of additional 5-star reviews - more than 8,000 now, compared to 3,266 when I let Amazon know how they were gaming the reviews in September.

Once again, the good guys (in the case, customers and honest sellers) lose out while the bad guys win, with no repurcussions.

More:

http://leanmedia.org/amazon-is-broken/
Hmmm....

label0: Pick any project x, and a technology y. If x is a success, publish content on how y saved x. else goto label0.

This also works for compound x:

label1: Pick any ailment x, and a compound y. If x improves with y, publish content on how y cures x. else goto label1.
This was quite fun, this type of problem solving deserves more attention in the business world.
I've gotten to the point where I can't even order from Amazon without strong likelihood of getting a counterfeit or just garbage. There is so much wrong with that site, it is the epitome of Buyer Beware and shame on them, and shame on all of us, that this is happening.
It seems a bit unreasonable to require a company to support a product for perpetuity. We already do have warranty laws that require products to do the thing they say they do for a reasonable period of time. Maybe we disagree on the specific duration, but I think few would agree that infinity is a reasonable number.
Google really blew it with the camera. Pixels are known for taking amazing shots and that's where they needed to retain dominance. Instead they removed the telephoto lens and stayed with an ancient sensor. I might have upgraded from my Pixel 4 XL if it was actually an upgrade. The face recognition is useless when wearing masks so just the fingerprint reader would have been enough motivation if the rest of the phone was even competitive.
I was an undergrad at Rice where we had a very strong honor code. Unsupervised exams were common, and to the best of my knowledge cheating was very rare. If you were accused of cheating then you went before the Honor Council, which was run entirely by students.

I considered this an enormous success. It created an atmosphere where we were treated with respect, and where we were expected to treat others in the same way. If someone did cheat, then they would certainly be too ashamed to admit to it. It was a community where I was proud to spend four years.

Yes, I would say that Rice students are honorable -- without the scare quotes.

How is this achieved in practice? Wish I knew. This is the sort of thing that every university, and every organization, wants to achieve. Trust is very difficult to build if it's not already there; and it's much easier to erode.
I think if you're setting up a personal machine, your reasoning completely applies and a fairly superficial difference, like scheme being a more familiar language can indeed make a big difference. But I think NixOS or Guix-SD vs Ubuntu or Arch as your daily driver is mostly window dressing, you will not unlock significant productivity benefits by this choice alone unless you leverage it for setting up e.g. a unified dev/ci/prod setup with reproducible builds. At least streamlining artefact creation is where the real productivity benefits tend to come from in my experience.

However, from my own production experience with nix I find that language related overheads and frictions are just completely in the noise compared to grokking e.g. the many different flavors of overriding stuff or working out good workflows for pinning and bumping nixpkgs and individual dependencies, providing suitable overlays and integrating native language tooling (poetry, yarn, cargo etc.) with nix etc. etc. Now the language itself does have some psychological effect on wider adoption, but effectively scheme is equally obscure to almost any target audience and, IMO, an inferior design for this problem space, that presents a larger rather than smaller hurdle for most people. I guess the debugging experience at least must be better?

Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer 99% of shitty DSLs (cmake, make, pom, jinja, moustache, chef and so on and so forth) had just used even a mediocre internal lisp/scheme DSL. However, I'd say Nix is a bit of an outlier: it's IMO a remarkably elegant design that really pulls its own weight. Most of my complaints (poor debugging experience and error messages) are quality of implemenation rather than language design as such – I am not quite sure to what extent this applies to lack of static typing.

In any case one of the main usability defects of nix is shared by guix: 90% of cases should be declarative toml or similar, not some weirdo turing complete language. It's great to have a powerful language for the bits that actually need it, but a lot off stuff really shouldn't. In particular mixing metadata (description, hashes, version numbers, urls etc.) with build descriptions is just a dumb and painful way to do things and completely screws up tooling. There are tools to help with that (e.g. niv), but this should just be fixed at the source.
How do we know that there are no significant long-term side-effects? These vaccines seem to be developed so quickly while others take years or even decades... I do not know if this is irrational fear, but I fear that this is rushed and there might be potentially serious side-effects that are missed.

Why am I being down-voted? Is it really of no concern?
That wasn't really what I was referring to. I meant the customer that comes back after their repaired iPhone gets dunked in water and they don't have a backup anymore and now it becomes Apple's "fault" that they didn't keep this customer's backup. There's way too many variables for that to be feasible when it's better to just promote that customers do their own backups and/or sell their service to automate it for them.
I've lived in three different neighborhoods with single family homes / small apartment building (all in fairly nice parts of town though).

You almost always can get both RCN and Xfinity--and they compete pretty hard. AT&T is always available, but its shitty DSL. Supposedly some parts of the city have fiber, but I'm 0/3 at my locations.

I'm paying like $50 + tax for 500 mbit down / 20ish up. I'd trade that for 100 mbit symmetrical, but that's not happened on cable anytime soon.

I bet like 20% of houses at most are networked well enough to even use 200 mbit.
It's not really controversial or a secret IMO, a lot of historic ateliers taught students utilizing a camera obscura. Indeed basic education is still largely based around literal copying using grids, even today.
I'm not that extreme. I'm happy with being tested, and I'll be happy with vaccines and so forth.

It's Silicon Valley and its entire "you signed an agreement, you belong to us" morality and "get your attention span" business model that I distrust. Well, that and phishing phone calls/texts (I seem to get those regularly, after all this time).
> No, they don't.

That’s stupidly pedantic. Of course they do, they just aren’t optimizing to solve it.

If someone says, “United has a legroom problem”, they most certainly mean the legroom is uncomfortable for passengers and everyone knows exactly what they mean. The fact that United has optimized for maximum capacity is not relevant. They still have the problem.
If I have control of QuebesOS' ISP -- it's pretty easy to "hack" Qubes, sadly: There is pretty much no way to validate the qubes public keys, they're not signed by anything else. So the software can be substituted when you download it.

More along the lines of what you're asking-- the virtualization creates a huge attack surface and there is a long history of VM escapes, microarch sidechannels, etc.