skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each state's Attorney General's office usually has a department of consumer protection that will hear these complaints. I've reported Amazon to my AG more than once.
I spent a summer in Thailand on a small island living in a remote shack with no power. I was totally beholden to the natural light other than an oil lamp and I tiny pen torch I had. I had the best sleep I've ever had, but I'd wake super early with the sun rise and actually feel like getting up and doing stuff.
What I would do is write the 5 star review, get the gift card, and then edit the review.
I have no beef w/ the BSL. I think it's a great license. It's just not quite open source is all.
Was there any effort to hide the end product to employees? I know that from the outside, MindGeek tries to look like any regular tech/data company. Is there a gap between the software side of things and the "pornhub website" team? Is the video department hidden? How is the culture?
Why would you trust a webpage to not add any cookies just because you told them to? If you want to protect your privacy you should control the cookies yourself, at which point the consent popup becomes pointless.
I've seen this only once before and I didn't know if it was available to the general public. Is there a particular documented markup syntax that allows anyone to submit a topic as a poll?
Social media may turn out to be part of the explanation for the Great Filter.
considering flask-login for a new project, should I consider firebase instead? I do like most parts of GCP
> Butter, sesame/vegetable oil and white rice are all processed foods.

The article is clearly using NOVA's definition of unprocessed vs ultraprocessed. Under NOVA's definition of unprocessed: butter, vegetable oil are "Group 2" (ingredients) while white rice is "Group 1" (unprocessed / minimally processed).

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As such, fresh Stir Fry from a restaurant with white rice, oil, and butter is Group2.

Group3 and Group4 are the "problematic" (allegedly) groups of high-processing.
ePrivacy document WP224 ("Opinion 9/2014 on the application of Directive 2002/58/EC to device fingerprinting") specifically discusses the use of fingerprinting and IP addresses for first-party analytics and states:

"However, the Opinion also stated that currently there is no exemption to consent for cookies that are strictly limited to first party anonymised and aggregated statistical purposes. Therefore, first-party website analytics through device fingerprinting do not fall under the exemption defined in CRITERION A or B and consent of the user is required."

This seems quite clear that consent is required for any form of analytics where you can identify individual users.

Another commenter here mentioned that GitHub is only tracking individuals for 24 hours before the fingerprint changes. I would think that would probably qualify as being in the spirit of the ePrivacy directive, if not the letter of it.

Would be great if someone from GitHub could comment on the above? How are you handling this - do you maybe get consent as part of the terms you agree to when you signup? (which would mean not tracking anonymous users).
> It's a lot more "normal" inside the company than people expect.

It was, just a tech company doing tech things.

> or are there "tame" videos used for dev+test so as to not be so distracting?

We had some public domain videos playing on a loop for internal testing environments, or some "screensaver" type videos.

> Do people become totally desensitized to it?

Yes, and relatively quickly too. The regular content was more looked at as a curiosity. "You found someone doing _what_?" "Let me see."
Worse, there's no such thing as 'free' money. If they can pay us $20 per item to write reviews, they are over-charging us $20 per item. So whoever doesn't do this is over-paying $20. If you buy 100 items like this a year, you're burning $2,000. That's non-trivial money for most people.
> The vast majority of folks shouldn't notice a change in their search results.

I'm not sure what you meant by this. How is this the case when repos with no commit within the last year (which is extremely common) are no longer indexed?
No, because amazon is a marketplace, for example, a product can have more than one seller. because that the review is about the product and not about the seller.
The right thing to do is complain about the seller on feedback and amazon delete all reviews from this specific seller buyers.
It would probably be easier to buy one.
You're welcome, and thanks for breaking it out like that!

The kernel developers, of course, deserve the majority of the praise -- I just summarized my understanding as I read through it :-)
Who the hell makes 3 meals a day anyway? Unless you include reheating something prepared in bulk several days ago in that count?
Leave a 5-star review, get your $20. Resell the item on Amazon for $10 less than what the original seller was selling for. Earn $10 dollars profit. Repeat for other such products. Earn more profit. Make a blog about your antics; earn more profit, and help others profit the same way. Exploit the system until Amazon has to fix it.

EDIT: I guess at no point is Amazon actually harmed by this scheme. However, the companies trying to buy 5-star reviews are themselves exploited to the extent that people do this.

The cost to the original company is a lost sale, a lost product, and $20 [lost] in exchange for a legitimate looking 5-star review (from someone who is not a bot). That may well be worth it for the company, so I'm not sure this scheme would actually stop dishonest reviews, only make it worse.
The bug is alarming. The code is not even peephole optimized up to 1985-ish standards Regarding { c, 0 } versus { c }, I don't expect in a mature C or C++ compiler for such high level differences in an expression to affect instruction selection. Both { c } and { c, 0 } say exactly the same thing: one member is initialized and the rest are zero. I would expect that there is no difference in intermediate representations at all, long before we get to a code generating back end. The compiler should convert the initializer to a canonical representation early on and not deal with different cases of it thereafter. This is definitely a WTH?
Spring Microservices into Production with Kubernetes and GitOps
Could you provide some details on where you are storing the tokens on the client side to persist the session? The best practice currently seems to be storing the tokens in http only cookies.

I built something not long ago like this for myself. I haven't made it publicly available though.
I am pretty sure that they are still tracking you - but Microsoft can easily afford to do tracking in-house...
> very easily and completely backwards compatibly.

Object literals, blocks, and ASI take that out of the realm of "very easily":

var x = if (c) {} else { b: console.log("hi") }

If `c` is true, does this give you `null` from executing an empty block, or an empty object? If `c` is `false`, do you get an object with key "b" and value whatever `log()` returns, or is that a block with a labeled statement?
It's like a 0.3c/share difference between IBKR Pro and the price improvement you'd get at any other brokerage, right?
What's the privacy benefit over storing a tracking cookie with expiry of a day? If at all, random cookie seems better for privacy as in your case if someone really wants it, they can recover the IP if the user agent is not rare by searching for all IP(4 billion IPv4), User-Agent(100 for popular browsers), the date(1 day as date is stored separately), and a salt(known to server), easily within reach of anyone.
It was well worth the time reading all that and chasing down those links.

Right now I'm watching Walter Bender talk about "Sugar Labs: Past, present, and future", demonstrating "Music Blocks" ("Meow!").

https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/sugar-labs-pas...

At its peak, half of the contributions to the Sugar code base were from kids!

Walter's responsible for the OLPC having a dedicated "View Source" key on the keyboard.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/View_source

>The View Source button fn-space and some alternative key combinations in particular activities allow one to look behind the activity, peeling away layers of abstraction in order to reveal the underlying codebase which makes it tick. This feature will integrate cleanly with the Develop activity, encouraging children to view, modify, and redistribute variations on the activities they use. Through collaboration and sharing, a garden of home grown activities will begin to develop on the laptops, created by the children themselves.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard

>the View Source key has a gear on it, is accessed as Fn-Space, and displays activity or system source;
Have you done either? What was the experience like?
What is the best way to migrate away from Robinhood?
You're hell-banned, by the way.

But you're also wrong.

The trademarked Chrome distribution is built from the free Chromium, where main-line development is done. They don't dump changes over the wall like you're suggesting. That's the same for WebKit and Firefox.
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid cyber onslaught
Unedited 1-Hour Ride in Mobileye's Self-Driving Car in Munich
If you have an instant pot, air fryer, and a microwave you can cook a healthy meal in 15 minutes. That's what I do when I got home from work most days: cook some rice in the instant pot, chop up some meat and cook it in the air fryer, and steam some vegetables in the microwave. Sure, it's not as fast as heating up a burrito or something, but it's not that much longer either and once you've done it a few times you can just do it on auto-pilot.
It is pretty well understood, but the answer is the opposite (following from special relativity). You can take an ordinary low frequency photon, and just observe it while moving arbitrarily close to the speed of light, and the frequency of the photon will appear arbitrarily large.

Pair production won't happen until two photons collide, with a large /relative/ momentum. So if they have the same frequency and are traveling in the same direction, no pair production.

But, you're absolutely correct in the case of /astrophysical/ photons. A high-energy astrophysical photon will have to pass through, among other things, the background of CMB radiation, and that gives plenty of opportunities to pair-produce, so there is in fact a cutoff to the spectrum of photons we expect from far-away events.
No EU lawmaker has ever said GDPR will be enforced worldwide. It's Github's and other sites' own choice to enforce it worldwide. They could also build two seperate websites.

The fact that this laws' reach is almost global is something called the Brussels Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

But there is also the other way: simply not show a website in Europe at all. I see this sometimes when I click a link: https://imgur.com/a/A5S4drS
I'm in a similar situation for the most part. If I remotely care about the quality of the item, I'm not buying it from Amazon. Otherwise, if pretty much any brand will suffice (such as dog waste bags), I might still pick it up on Amazon, but I have already chosen not to renew my Prime subscription based on the major drop in quality of sellers.
I stopped trying to debate open vs. closed software in a business setting long ago. There is a time and place for both, and rational actors will evaluate the tradeoffs given their circumstances.

When people start believing that open source software is inherently superior in every situation, or that ideological purity is the most important consideration, they aren't making decisions in the best interest of the company. Engineers are especially prone to overestimating the downside risks of using closed source software (A long list of what-ifs such as "What if the vendor goes out of business without warning?") and underestimating the downsides of using open source alternatives (Notably, the inability to pick up the phone and have another company's engineers deal with the problem, per your contract). The situation is compounded by engineers who genuinely enjoy tinkering with open source software on the company's dime and, frankly, would prefer to be paid to do so rather than purchase a more efficient closed-source solution.

Of course, there are some situations where open-source software is practically superior to alternatives. I don't claim to suggest otherwise. However, the endless debates about ideological purity and avoiding hypothetical edge cases with 3rd party vendors frequently cloud decision making abilities in a business context.

For personal and open source projects, I'm all-in on free software alternatives. For business purposes, I'll evaluate the available options and try to make the best business decision for the company.
> if politicians are pandering to the majority, this is the wrong call

Unless you somehow convince the majority to vote in a way that is clearly harmful to them, but useful to you and your clique. Then you only need to be "pandering" to their engineered beliefs, even re-enforce them while you're at it. Which of course is exactly what's happening.

> It's well known not to work for a long time

It only needs to last for the active career span of the politician.
I tend to ignore Amazon reviews and if the item is worth more than a few bucks I typically search for commentary on Reddit.

Alternatively if I’m after something from a specific category, I’ll check out Choice.com.au (to which I’m a subscriber), and let that be my guide for brand and model.
It's entirely reasonable.

If Amazon allowed to submit reviews claiming that seller X is providing gifts for reviews, then inevitably sellers Y and Z would do fake reviews with bogus — yet convincing — evidence to ruin the reputation of seller X or a competing product.
Thank you, EU for setting _any_ kind of bar! <3
Have you used either? What did you buy and did any of them go public - what happened then?
How fantastic, wonderful brain food.
Now that the rich are used to lower taxes, if the government raises them won't the extra costs they incur just end up being passed down to the consumer via higher cost of goods/services from the businesses owned by said rich people?
I am bit confuse, if we are able to read this then it is not interesting to NAVY. Please correct me if I am wrong, but if patent is interesting for military purpose or it is crucial for the defense they can simply take it, and declare something as top secret? What is even more troubling for inventor is that they do not need to pay any royalties or fees.
Write an ebook on how to make money on Amazon, sell it for $297, and post a Show HN about it.
(Please forgive the scattered reply. I'm tired and I've mostly pieced this together from other discussions I've had on this topic.)

I firmly believe that the problem stems from a mass unspoken refusal to address obesity as a symptom of food addiction.

Food addiction is among the hardest to kick because humans not only need food to survive, but also need glucose (and/or ketone bodies) in order to have sufficient mental energy to have self-control. Furthermore, nearly every social event in the US is tied to the consumption of food and cheap unhealthy food can be found almost anywhere.
Get an airfryer and an instant pot. Neither one takes up much space on a countertop, and they are easy to clean and store. I hardly use my stove anymore unless I'm baking something.
How does this compare to Keycloak? https://www.keycloak.org/
Git rename tracking is better than P4 rename tracking with colleagues that don't use Rename. But if people are disciplined and DO use Rename/Move (and Copy), then P4 is much nicer to use. In particular, since many languages require file contents to be change depending on dir structure, Git often forces you to commit invalid files just to try to ensure that it will pick up the changes.

With P4, you can move the files around, adjust everything until it compiles, and only then start telling P4 about what you actually did (you can even start from Reconcile Offline Work, which will try to use exactly Git's logic to identify moved/renamed/copied files based on content - but only one time, on your own machine, not every time someone looks at the history).
Arbitration affects almost most consumers and workers these days. Eminent domain is rare in comparison.
I’ve been party to this scheme incidentally and the antenna I bought mentioned that they would only honour one purchase for a discount.
It's just a normal tech company inside. What's the pos you are applying for? Just curious.
I think jaw size is probably related to the foods we eat. (Less reason to develop a strong jaw if you aren’t eating tough stuff) At least, that’s what I read on HN some months back. It’s why our teeth need more alignment too. Not enough space.
It’s so hard to read, it hurts. But so clever all the same!

It’s a true test of “Can you deal with the double negative?”
It Sure Looks Like Russia Just Tested a Space Weapon
> Product reviews are only for reviewing the product, not the shipping, or the seller's practices. There are other ways to report this to Amazon, and you can report it to the FTC

The card soliciting the reviews was included as part of the product, so maybe just include the photo and focus the text of your review on the card (e.g. "It'd definitely a webcam, but this card that came with it totally ruined my experience. Definitely do not recommend."
Since you mentioned Google docs style sharing, does Sharewith support abilities for different users eg viewer vs commenter vs editor?
Teachers' unions used a pandemic to shoot themselves in the foot. Homeschooling is up by 700%, says Forbes [0].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2020/03/06/fears-c...
Finally, I've been saying this for years, glad to hear that people are finally acting on this. Great news.
"Amazon does not accept product reviews based on anything except the product" would be a more accurate title. There is another way to review sellers - perhaps this would be a better place for reviewing a seller.
@mattlondon: The salt is known to plausible, that is the only way someone can hash it.
You're not saying Amazon needs to spend $20. You're saying Amazon needs to buy one of every product on Amazon that gets a complaint.
Now I remember ...

The previous review practice that outraged me was when someone here at HN was producing very detailed analysis of LED bulbs (spectral analysis, etc.) and proving that lots of bulbs on Amazon had CRI and color temperature ratings that were way off.

He then described how he posted that in some reviews and they were all taken down. Which is to say, crummy LED bulb on Amazon with an inflated CRI cannot have a review describing the inflated CRI.
"It obviously doesn't work because the wealthy don't have to invest into domestic jobs. They can also use their money abroad."

They can also just hoard most of it and pass it on to their descendants -- this is how you get dynasties. Tax havens and creatively constructed foundations are another way of making sure the government never gets ahold of their money.
> If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows

Funny enough in that analogy: you're feeding the horse because you care about its well-being and it's doing something helpful in return, whereas the sparrows are actually a nuisance providing no value to anybody and just taking without giving anything in return.
Apple no longer offers delta and combo macOS updates as standalone downloads
You might be starting to have that understanding but whether it's correct is a completely separate question. Even if this study were proof that poor sleep is 100% causal of Alzheimer's (it's not even close), that would neither be proof that all Alzheimer's is caused by poor sleep nor proof that members of "hustle culture" sleep less. You've made about three or four unsupported inferences.
The problem is that the card specifically asks the customer to give the "product a positive review with 5 stars."

If the card was asking for a seller review, that would be reasonable. But the money is being paid for a product review, hence skewing those reviews.
I haven't check it honestly, I don't really trade equities - I mostly sell equity options and index futures options. I use IBKR because of their low margin rates (1.25% for a 300K margin loan at the moment), their low commissions and their generous portfolio margin allowances.
> I believe we are too far gone at this stage

When irrationality and straight-up lying are so entrenched, you wonder what it would take to shake up the system.

The only thing I see is some major catastrophe, like a meteor strike or something on that scale.
Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Files for Initial Public Offering
I would be really interested in reading about why & and * were used as the symbols for pointers when C was originally conceived. Can you share a link or point me in the right direction for why that is? Please and thank you!
Wells Fargo's fraud issues have been on their retail branch side. Of course that's should be a warning sign for other parts of their operations too. There's plenty of other options though. As for trusting them, I'm pretty sure they're on the hook for the $$ they owe you even if their wallet gets stolen. If someone hacked their brokerage accounts and stole your 1000 shares of Apple, they'd still owe you 1000 shares.

Of course this could also be where Coinbase's niche ends up: providing the backend infrastructure for traditional wealth management companies to handle the crypto plumbing for them. If I were Wells Fargo or similar and wanted to offer crypto services to my wealth management customers, I'd much prefer using Coinbase as a turn-key solution for it than try to roll my own setup. Or simply buy Coinbase itself and have a huge strategic advantage over competitors.

Of if I were in a position to make such decisions, I'd be too busy swimming through my piles of money, lighting cigars with $100 bills, and sipping single malts older than my great grandfather to bother posting here from my armchair where I have not a single horse in the game.
The fire in Japan is kind of a big deal. They turn out to have been the only supplier for that part and the result is that a ton of downstream manufacturers are affected. Your GCM team may have thought they had second sources, but when they're all dependent on a part from this one factory you see them all pull back their supply forecasts at the same time. It's been a trial.
This is a good thing. In fact if this reduces consumption because higher priced we've won a major battle.

However wages have stagnated, which means whatever we've done so far hasn't helped consumers at the end. So at this point I'd take lower consumption as a win.
Seriously, it's one page long, go read it. I was very whelmed.
Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies
Core Web Vitals from a Non-Googler
Glad to hear that! Rarely have I actually felt that a comment I wrote actually made a difference.
This is why I like the open source + enterprise contract if you like model so much.
That was a good article.
> What do companies stand to gain from hiring ethics researchers who are a liability to the shareholders?

Trying to tackle both questions at once: this is a viable trend and companies do stand to gain.

If the market is saying that you have to consider other motivations and goals aside from profits and growth, and you have built this machine that is super-efficient and effective at delivering on growth and profits irrespective of all else, you need outside skills to change.

To give a specific example, take the Norway Sovereign Fund which is one of the biggest investors in the world: it has indicated that it is incorporating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues into their decision-making,

So, if you want to get their investment, you have to have these goals in the your corp. leadership and performance management mandate.

To enable this, you need folks with these skills, who currently are not management, in the fold ( meaning folks like social scientists, ethicists etc. having really significant corp leadership roles and authority ).