skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They won't pop back up with 12k 5 star reviews immediately?

I'm honestly shocked by this comment - warning sides aside, paying for reviews should cause a ban.

I am as unconvinced by this argument about "popping back" as I am by people who say that raising taxes is useless because people will just hide their money.
Unexploited overflows are like unproven math. You don't know the truth unless somebody happens to succeed. It's a matter of a stubborn smart person putting in lots of clever effort and getting lucky.
It sounds like Federated Learning might be of interest for you:

https://federated.withgoogle.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning
https://github.com/poga/awesome-federated-learning
But then they can read the logs and track you anyway?
Saudi Arabian artist threatened at hotel in Norway
What do you mean by in house tracking?
Discord confirms raising $100M, sources say at a valuation of up to $7B
Yeah, this is a problem for a long time on Amazon, especially with a lot of the cheap Chinese stuff posted on there. When some cheap looking product has a dozen reviews all like "very good super high quality!!!!!" you know it's just astroturfing.
Wal-mart opened up their marketplace to 3PS, but it's really gated. They want to know your financials, DUNS number, and IIRC supply chain details.

But another trend that's pretty bad - dropshippers of garbage. Not all dropshippers do this, but a lot do. Formula boils down to slick Shopify theme + Alibaba + social media = profit
Good point.

The teaching of supply vs demand vs cost of production has really let our society down recently.

Very few people seem to be aware that non-essential items are priced based upon what people are WILLING to pay for it, not what it costs to produce.

This results in comments like "well the price for XYZ will just go up!", when in reality its much more complicated.
That being said, Rosetta is somehow surprising OK with JITs–Java has "OK" performance under it.
If you double rot 13, they'll never crack it!
I've read that the amount of protein in wheat has been declining for a century.

I remember 40 years ago rye bread was really dense and rich. Now it takes like rye flavored white bread. Also bread now tastes suspiciously sweet to me.
> care about customers like the rest of FAANG

I think of the five FAANG companies only Apple and Netflix have even a remote semblance of caring about the customer.

Google and Facebook certainly don't and that was known since before the announced antitrust lawsuits.
That's because the problem is Taxation, not tax cuts, not the rich.

If the USA Government was on Charity Navigator, it'd have a 0 star rating for overhead and delivery. I'm 100% for gutting taxes until we measure results with what we spend. Every business measures their spend for efficiency and every financially savvy person also calculates the rate of return. Why we willy-nilly throw gazillions of dollars at the government to watch it being funneled into your Senator's Buddy's pocket is beyond me.

If we're going to tax, the first step should be how to we measure the results.
I have an arm-chair theory that pure capitalism eventually evolves into plutocracy. Some cultures/countries define a high monetary value as success, so humans naturally look to success as characteristic for leaders.
“Apple continues the war on its own users...”

Edit: apologies for the unsubstantive comment
I think you inadvertently pointed out the whole problem. The US government will hand out checks in emergencies, funded by debt, but won't actually increase taxes on top brackets in a meaningful way. So you end up with wealth redistribution being a non-starter.
Tech support by Ben Dover?
This tech is pretty cool and I used to run virtual machines and WSL, but now I just keep separate computers for separate OSes and my life is so much simpler because I never have to worry if my Windows host or VM infrastructure is causing extra complexity. If something's not working, I have exactly only one OS to worry about fixing.

Now, not only is my configuration and maintenance simpler but everything runs faster because all my operating systems are running on dedicated hardware.

And before anyone says "it's too expensive", it's really not terribly expensive because I get refurbed machines like this [0]. If I want a laptop I get something like this [1] and it runs Linux (or Windows of course) just fine.

The only expensive machine I ever buy is a Macbook, but even those I'll buy refurbished. The last Macbook Pro I bought is from mid-2015 and I got it for only $1049 (in 2017) with 6 months of AppleCare+ still attached to it, which got me a new battery for free from Apple.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/HP-EliteDesk-i7-4770-3-40Ghz-Renewed/...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Acer-A515-55G-57H8-Display-i5-1035G1-...
That would certainly make sense. I'd like to see if there was any "illusion of choice" type graphic that looked at all the white labeling brands and even Amazon's own private label brands for products into a graphic or visual.
Why Does Oreo Keep Releasing New Flavors?
And we're back around to the quote "It's very difficult to make someone understand something, when their salary depends on their not understanding it."

Unless Amazon loses because of these misrepresentations, they're not going to care. Cash flow and sales volume up, and they'll let anything go unless it somehow causes lost sales at scale.

Always, always, buyer beware.
Radial fans are a lot quieter for the volume of air delivered too.

Wish I could find a room humidifier with a radial fan but all I can find are axial fan designs :p
GDPR should have given some legal teeth to privacy policies.
Show HN: Making $2k in 24 hours from an Airtable embed
That's more than thirty times the average US salary so at least thirty times the average amount of taxes paid by a person - a bit more would still be fair as utility of money decreases quickly past a certain point - and different taxes on the stock benefits and capital gains.

The amount of hours someone works is completely irrelevant. Paying taxes is not about whether you deserve the money nor is it a punishment. It's entierely about how much you can contribute.
> The study compared countries that passed tax cuts in a specific year, such as the U.S. in 1982 when President Ronald Reagan slashed taxes on the wealthy, with those that didn't, and then examined their economic outcomes.

All of these studies consistently miss one thing.

Effective tax rates haven't really changed since before Reagan.

Prior to Reagan, the tax code was riddled with loopholes. Not like how it is now where corporations do this and that, but much worse. Rich individuals were just deducting everything they buy from their taxes.

The Reagan "tax cuts" did two things. One, they closed a lot of those loopholes. Two, they significantly lowered nominal rates. The two things basically canceled out. There was never any meaningful reduction in government revenue.
Indeed, and after setting up the auto wake up / sleep cycle, I had to turn it off because it was leading me to want to fall asleep at night when I still had a ton of work to get through

As great as it would be to keep a more natural "lighting" cycle around the house, the truth is my modern obligations won't allow for that, so I have the lights on at full blast until midnight quite frequently

I look forward to my retirement but I wonder what brain and body damage I will have accrued until then
Why People Keep Trying to Erase the Hollywood Sign from Google Maps (2014)
Since many comments are already a mix-up of "Cookie Law" and "GDPR" (2 separate EU directives) related to Google Analytics, I'll also throw in this bit:

Google Analytics offers an `anonymizeIp` setting [0] to tell it to not store IP addresses of your users. This might be a good default in light of GDPR.

[0] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Director of Marketing: Izai Sum Ding
Depending on how you can bend it, construction of Alcubierre fields allows faster-than-light travel. If you can bend it really precisely, even wormhole construction might not be out of the question. On a lower scale, star trek like forcefields and "perfect" cloaking fields would be possible by bending all light/force carrying particles around an object.
And just about anyone who sells JBODs too. They go through JBODs like you wouldn't believe.
Coinbase is really, really good at security, in a way that Wells Fargo is absolutely not. I interviewed there recently and some of the technical details about how they store keys etc. boggled my mind. I ended up going back to Google instead, but it was easily Google-level security.

And yes, the potential market for Coinbase Custody is companies like Wells, Goldman, family offices, etc. that manage money for the actual rich people. On the application form they ask you how many millions (or billions) you have under management. They're clearly marketing it to hedge funds, WaAM divisions, family offices, etc that are managing institutional money.
Amazon doesn't give a shit. Amazon only wants to sell more stuff, so of course it's going to take down objective negative reviews and whistle-blowing accounts of review payola.

This is a regulatory problem. If Amazon was a corner hardware store it would have been fined multiple times and the owner might well have been jailed by now.

But thanks to the magic power of Internet leverage and the fact that only giant trading blocs like the EU have any power over multinational malfeasance, Amazon continues to do this shit - and will continue to do it, probably even after it's broken up.
> Please stop hating on pork belly. It is fine in moderation.

I know I can finish an entire pound of pork belly tonight
if I am given the opportunity. I'm not going to do it, because I know that's not "in moderation".

The amount of nutrition you get from 1-lb of pork belly will be miniscule compared to a properly balanced meal. But its so damn tasty that you really can just keep shoving that sort of thing into your mouth.

Anything in moderation is healthy. Saying "X is healthy in moderation" is almost not useful at all. That's why serving sizes and yes, religious dedication to weighing foods and portion control is a thing that serious people do when they're seriously dieting.

Oxycodon in moderation is healthy. That's how unhelpful that "in moderation" statement is for dietary health.

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As for "Pork Belly", I'm really saying Lechon kawali, which is a particular Filipino preparation of Pork, which is probably the best tasting pork in the world. Its very good stuff. I just don't think the general English-speaking audience will know what "Lechon kawali" is, so I'm using a rough translation.
I might have to look into that method for home vs away. Using Home Assistant and the HA app on my wife and I's phones solely for presence detection has been kind of a hassle.
You forgot VScode stories!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=benawad....
As a non-native speaker this just reads a bit strange. Somewhat like trying to read 1600's english.

I have to ask: what is so special about it?
To answer that, let’s look at what his rate would have been during America’s greatest expansion of prosperity, when possibly more people of humble means were pulling themselves up from their bootstraps than at any other point in history. Let’s go with say 1960 and adjust for inflation.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/polisci120a/immigration/Feder...

1,500,000 in 1960 dollars is about 180,000. Which means his maximum tax rate would have been 87%

My guess is that number will shock and outrage people. Even I think that’s too high. But the point is history already shows us that all those arguments that that rate wouldn’t result i. The destruction of incentives for Americans to work harder, or lower overall quality of life. For example that tax revenue could pay for funding college so that people don’t have to take on crushing debt just to go.
They shipped a C0 interpreter very early: https://github.com/apple/openjdk
Eh... Don't blame your inexperience. I'm also new to Django but not to web dev, and it's been a pain the ass. I haven't been stuck with any Django aspects (great framework otherwise) but rather issues with the libraries.

In the end I think I will make it work, and robustly. So I don't want to diminish the work of all the open-source devs who have worked on those libraries; I count my lucky stars that they're available in the open and for free.

But it's been painful nonetheless, and I am shocked that a better and more streamlined dev experience is not available, especially in such a popular stack.
> Yep, we’re all rich racist WASPs.

Hmm. That was a strange, but interesting jump indeed.

> A direct link is tenuous

That could be.
Because it’s very easy to write code that fails to check for null or undefined, which usually leads to errors since subsequent code often expects to find a non-null and non-undefined value.

The beauty of a type checker here is that it can check to make sure you properly handle the nullable/undefinable type.
OK. Here are just three I spot at the moment from the first 2 or 3 pages I see, when browsing the site by the /new sorting:

1: [dead] Protect your S3 buckets from breaches (mklein.io) [0]

2: [dead] The NSA just released the preview version of Ghidra Debugger on GitHub (github.com/nationalsecurityagency) [1]

3: [dead] How to Write a Terminal Multiplexer with Rust, Async, and Actors – Part 2 (hashnode.dev) [2]

I'm not saying any of those is a fantastic article, or one that particularly interests me. But I can't see anything particularly 'wrong' with them in an abusive, spammy or 'irrelevant to HN's readership' sense. And, as I said before, there are usually at least one or two such submissions, which seem to have been killed for no apparent reason, on every page when browsing by '/new'.

Interesting you should say there's more complicated filtering going on behind the scenes because, from this side of the wizard's curtain, it does often look arbitrary, almost like people are flagging stories for personal reasons other than completely objective ones. And, as I said previously, one of the reasons I had turned 'showdead' on.

[0] https://mklein.io/2020/12/17/protect-against-s3-breaches/

[1] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/tree/debugg...

[2] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/tree/debugg...
Yeah, I think my comment is still applicable as is: The risk here is entirely dependent on whether or not "first party" means "GitHub" or means "Microsoft and it's various properties".

My guess is that, at least, for now, it refers to GitHub, as you agree to GitHub's Terms of Service, which doesn't actually mention Microsoft as a party.
Petabytes more like it, although the recent purge might have brought it down back to TB territory.

That being said, this was the only introduction that elicited a chuckle out of me.
I used to live on Montreal and came across PornHub job postings a few times on indeed. Very open, claiming unique challenges due to being the largest porn site in the world, etc.

They don't seem to have anything up atm, maybe they stopped posting on indeed.
Dangerous cladding: 'Fire patrols at our flats cost us £500k'
Trickle down economy is about paying essentials to other businesses?

That's a first
As Mao Zedong learned late in his life, sparrows do actually provide value.
Depends on the model. Probably the less restrictive models lean towards proudhon/tucker style anarchism more than marxism.
This is Technology Connections, a fantastic channel.

Check out the Laserdisc videos, the Betamax videos and — above all — the toaster video!
I think it's a valid question though.

In my mind, the closest thing to a fair tax law is one that applies evenly to everyone, like UBI. Consider a flat 10% income tax applied evenly regardless of socio-economic status. If you made 1M, then you pay $100K. If you made $10K, you pay $1K. If you made $0 or less, you pay 0. That's it.

In some senses that is very fair - everyone pays 10% of their income, no exceptions. It's this ultra-convoluted labyrinthine system of laws/exceptions that has allowed the wealthy people and companies to find so many loopholes. In my mind, just like simple software code is harder to exploit than spaghetti code, so simple laws are harder to exploit than spaghetti laws.
One of the fun ones would be communicating via gravity wave, also it make the Alcubierre "warp drive" possible.
My understanding is that retail is moving to DEXes. Uniswap just passed Coinbase in total trading volume. Retail investors are quite reasonably getting tired of getting screwed and opting out entirely.
Weird, I was wondering about this literally this afternoon! Nice write-up, and thanks for packaging it up nicely, hope to use it soon myself too.

Though I've been trying to think about being accepting of IPv6 and shunning static IPs (and DHCP) recently, maybe something can be done with MACs... Perhaps even on the broadcast when the device tries to join the network and self-assign an IP, I don't know a lot about it though.
I think this will not affect third-party search like grep.app since they have their own index. It’s not as large but should help.
Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Snapshots and diffs are different views of the same thing. You need both. It doesn't really matter which one is more natural or primitive in the implementation.

When I git push, I upload my commits (i.e. snapshots). And when I git cherry-pick, I apply a diff. Both views are needed, I don't see why it's a leak.
Sorta true,

You were still willing to pay the listed price. The fact that you were subsidizing their reward program doesn't diminish the fact that it was cheap enough for you to buy.

Also they maybe doing this promotion as a loss-leader to build marketshare/brand recognition and are willing to work with lower net profit.
It’s comedy.

Most of the phrases are used in a way where it makes sense what’s being said, but most native speakers only use the phrases slightly modified to mean the opposite of how they’re being used in the writing.

Kempt vs unkempt for example.
Making it harder to fire someone makes it harder to hire them in the first place. This hurts everyone because it reduces the number of available positions by increasing the cost of hiring. Give too much power to the employees and you wind up with corrupt unions that effectively have a cartel over entire areas of the economy. It’s just layers of red tape and misery for everyone. Getting fired isn’ta problem if you can easily get a new job. It becomes a problem when nobody wants to hire because they can never get rid of you or they have to deal with a crooked union. Having high barriers to firing people also makes the fact that you got fired a giant stain on your resume instead of a fairly normal occurrence that could be due to a no fault reason.
StockX in Detroit gets big $2.8B valuation with new investment
> We further observed that expression of Chi3l1 is regulated by the circadian clock, as deletion of the core clock proteins BMAL1 or CLOCK/NPAS2 strongly suppresses basal Chi3l1 expression, whereas deletion of the negative clock regulators PER1/PER2 increased Chi3l1 expression. Basal Chi3l1 mRNA was nonrhythmic because of a long mRNA half-life in astrocytes. However, inflammatory induction of Chi3l1 was gated by the clock

I'm struck by how much this description sounds like someone debugging or reverse-engineering some unknown microcontroller.

Do you (or anyone) know: has molecular bio always been like this? Or are there new tools that allow for selective inhibition of signals to observe effects?
What's your favorite such example?
What is more frustrating is the search stinks. Pick something that most places have.... say a DVD. Top 3-5 results will NOT be what you are looking for (sponsored links) or links to amazons 'prime selection' where they charge for a digital copy (if I wanted digital I would buy that). Then maybe the middle 3-5 items might be what you are looking for and the bottom 3-5 items will be 'sponsored links'. Finding things has become a pain. You have to play a game of get the title exactly right or it will not show you the thing. I have had items I marked down to look at later (not using the wishlist). Come back 3-4 days later and it will not even pop on the search at all. Find the exact title and ta-da there it is. Amazon has really gone downhill fast.
"We recently had to purge 80% of our content because we couldn't say with any certainty that it was legal"

Not something i would like to have on my business card.
Sample size of one here, but I've seen vast amounts of customized for the purpose ZFS stuff. Some designed for longer term slower storage, sort of a cousin of the backblaze storage pod, and others designed for higher throughput.
I bought a 3D printer that was missing a guide rod and couldn't be assembled. The package the rods were wrapped in had been opened apparently at the factory given that the rest of the contents were pristine and sealed. I posted a negative review that was never put on the product page. It wasn't worth my time returning it since I could order a replacement off eBay for less than RMA shipping.
I favor a wealth tax over an income tax, as the wealthiest individuals tend to make only a tiny fraction of their money through income.

Start at 50% tax on wealth exceeding one million dollars, and raise it by 1% for every million above that, adjusted for inflation.
What suggestions do you have for someone who may have been laid off months ago and is now facing the stigma of, let's just say "less than short term unemployment?" Those people often don't even make it to your phone screen.
> But if so, they will just pop back up over night with a new name.

And that's fine. But if so they'll pop up again with zero reviews and have to work at rebuilding the scam.

This is a pretty shocking comment. Amazon suggests that Amazon reviews are worth at least something. If they are not then they should all be removed and we can go back following your strategy of "buying from companies that I know the name of, because they will be best". Now excuse me while I go and buy an IBM laptop.
However, sometimes it's nice to have a third and even forth option when you have to deal with laterals, concepts, maybe foreign language expressions, quotes and nested quotes at the same time. So I'm using angular quotes occasionally, but not generally.

"…" is genarally ok for casual writing and messaging, while „…“ is still standard for print.
I hope the irony here -- citing a Vice article when complaining about ideas going unchallenged -- is not lost on anyone.
Just cut down a furnace filter to fit inside. I’ve been doing that for years with a few Sharp units I can’t get filters for any more (discontinued) and some newer Levoits. If you leave them running all the time on low they are more effective than running them part of the day with the “official” filters.
The more I think about this, the less I like it. the whole point of 33mail is to hide your email address, if you're sending out emails that say "hey this isn't even my real email address, gotcha!" that may not go over well.
When you find a good brand you stick to it. And if its a public company you can buy shares, and then tell everyone how good the products are and watch your investment go up, and earn money when they sell the goodwill.