skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some examples. Some might be good others less. But I want to convey something.

Your freedom to kill people is limited to zero to ensure their right to live.

Our freedom to pollute the environment is limited by nature's ability to compensate.

My freedom to watch the latest shows for free is limited by e.g. Netflix to earn some money.

You are free to by e.g. Apple stuff. But you know... seems to limite quite some people's freedom.

I'm not free to live by the sea. To expensive.

I say therfore freedom of choice does not translate to freedom bit it is often confused to be the latter

The other thing is simply inflation.
Too much money around and you have it. Kind of offer and demand out of balance. For any given state of the earth's economy there is a perfect amount of money to keep everthing going. That means the amount of money is finite. If the economy growth the amount of money can grow as well (what you described). But is is still finite unless you want to have inflation. But if this money is disproportinally distributed you have the rich and the poor. Being rich requires poverty somewhere else.
Funny you mention it. I actually wrote a series of books to teach total beginners programming using this method.

https://splashofcode.com
I've owned Bushido Blade since about when it came out and I never knew that about character/weapon pairings.
The continued/continuous defense of GDPR is truly amazing. Reminds me of Apple fanboiism at its worst.
This wasn't a few centimeters - I had trouble finding the park because Google had it a couple of blocks away from its actual location.
i agree, using JVM for tooling is a huge mistake

i hope they won't use M1 as an excuse for new baseline when comparing performance

it still is super slow for what it does
> In February 2016, Assange wrote: "I have had years of experience in dealing with Hillary Clinton and have read thousands of her cables. Hillary lacks judgment and will push the United States into endless, stupid wars which spread terrorism. ... she certainly should not become president of the United States."
Yep. I found Amazon pretty useless these days and rarely use it. I buy household essentials from Target their service and delivery is good and I have an option of in-store pickup within a day or delivery within a couple of days. At least they have a stable set of brands that they sell it's not the highest quality but it's good enough for most things. The things I care about quality I will buy directly from the seller.
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Algorithm aversion is real and shows we prefer humans even in the face of statistical evidence that humans are sub-optimal decision makers. [1]

I suspect it’s because we inherently dislike the idea of handing control over to a complex black box. Barring sociopaths, we can reasonably assume to interpret how a person thinks. This isn’t necessarily the case for algorithms, which leads to trust issues.

[1] https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=139...
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> [Federal court judge Mordecai Bromberg said in court] “Everybody knows what function Uber plays. The restaurant’s function is to prepare the food. Uber’s function is to deliver the food; isn’t that right? The very name Uber would convey to the ordinary person some form of transportation service; wouldn’t it?”

> [Uber's barrister] Neil replied: “We could not accept that.”

Hah, amazing. I wish there was a place that I could easily go to which catalogued these fascinating interactions in the court room.
There is a reason you aren't afraid of getting poisoned when you eat at restaurants, and it isn't because every restaurant owner cares about poisoning you but because the government have made the common practices which led to food poisoning illegal.
>It would be one thing to do this in the natsec context, where such an approach is understandable, but it is another for a private company to surveil and intimidate someone who has legally purchased hardware.

Could we consider why it is appropriate for a state actor to it? If we were to break down why we consider it okay for the state to do (does it depend upon their intention, on some citizen mandate, does it factor in potential abuse or past abuse) and build up a consistent framework, I'm not so certain the distinction between these two things would be so clear cut. I personally suspect the outcome would find that state actors doing this thing is in the same realm of bad as company actors.
> Java needs to die a fiery death.

Care to elaborate why?
I used Intellij years ago on Linux, nice to know that they improved font rendering. It was really ugly back then.
A personal joke I tell often when discussing email correspondence:

The amount of time I put into an email inversely correlates to the amount of time someone will spend reading and/or responding to it.
Completely agree. Unless I'm familiar with the seller on Amazon (a known brand like Anker) I try to stick to Walmart, Target, Staples. Bonus, often times the identical item can be found at a lower price. Downside is the shipping may take a few days more.

For something like an SD card or a battery your chance of getting a counterfeit or unreliable product is pretty high. I prefer not to think too much about how that maps to food.
There was an article (I think here on HN) a few years ago where a bookseller who was forced to buy Amazon ads for his own book just so the counterfeits wouldn't outrank him on Amazon.
This isn't open-sourced is it?
such a clever shot. Using subtle everyday elements in compelling way.
I think in this case it’s largely a matter of taste. I actually like the everything is three letters thing. It feels clean, and personally I can still read and understand each abbreviation.

I do actually agree on the primitive vs p thing though...
I also use ReviewMeta and it does handle review hijacking. It's not a great experience as a customer, but if I combine ReviewMeta and Amazon reviews and search I still get pretty good products. My basic guidelines are that it needs at least 4 stars (preferably closer to 4.2-4.7) and the product can't be a "fail" on ReviewMeta. I also am wary if ReviewMeta is a "warn".

I don't trust Amazon reviews without a review checker anymore, they used to be much better. The highest reviewed products are often some of the worst. Any product with a 4.8 or better is immediately suspect (though some are fine, especially if they don't have as many reviews).
"it's going to get augmented massively with better battery technology and ML/AI."

Boston Dynamics do not and will not use ML/AI in any of their robots.
Yeah, tried that. Amazon Basics are as hit-or-miss as the rest of the garbage.

I'm frankly surprised they want to put their name on what appears to be dollar store crap that might be fine, might not, who knows. You can almost see the flickering neon and smell the cleaning fluid.
Their VIC-20 emulation is ridiculously good. And I had a VIC-20 as a kid, so it was that emulator that triggered my nostalgia.
None of the 18860 participants of the Phase 2/3 trial reported allergic reactions after either dose of the vaccine [1]. Over the entire duration of the study, one member of the treatement group suffered an anaphylactic reaction and one member of the placebo group an anaphylactic shock [2]. There is no hint that this particular vaccine is more likely to trigger allergic reactions than any other kind of medication.

[1] Section 6.3.3.2.2.1. in https://www.fda.gov/media/144246/download

[2] Table 23, Ibid.
I know my comment will be lost in a sea of voices, but I need to share my experience _somewhere_ else other than amazon reviews. I got my fiancé two Christmas presents this year - both bought off Amazon. One was an electronic keyboard that was dead on arrival, the other was a snuggie type blanket that started falling apart yesterday. Both items had thousands of 5 star reviews.

I usually go somewhere (anywhere) else besides Amazon because I have had bad experiences in the past, but this was the only place I could find the niche keyboard because it's an older model. I now have a firm rule that I will never order from Amazon again.
I have been specifically looking for ways that my UX and graphical designer friends can get involved in Free Software, both because they always seem to want more portfolio projects and because Free programs tend to have questionable UX.

It's not easy. A user interface is not an easy thing to change, so unless a developer consults a designer from day 1 (or has their own design chops), the application could be stuck with a suboptimal user experience for a long time, ultimately limiting adoption to geeks, hackers, etc.
Assuming the system is properly maintained and used, if anyone's responsible it has to be the manufacturer. Certainly the passenger isn't any more than if an Uber gets in an accident today.

And, with the possible exception of drug side effect (and even there there are lawsuits), we don't really see consumer-facing products that, even if used as directed, kill a fair number of people and we just go oops. Let's say autonomous vehicles kill 3,000/year in the US, i.e. 10% of the current rate. (In reality, human-driven cars will take a long time to be phased out even when self-driving is available but go with the thought experiment.) Can you imagine any other product we accept killing thousands of people a year and we're fine with that?

ADDED: As someone else noted, you could argue that tobacco etc. fall into that category but we're mostly not OK with that and is reasonably thought of as in another category. (And pretty much no one is smoking because they think it's good for them.)
I find that a dns service like NextDNS is a good low-effort additional layer helping with ad trackers.
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Or maybe they're just being genuine. If I were in their shoes, I like to think I would just keep being me and not have any role as the company for crafting my PR image. I'm sure some founders are like that.
Perhaps the stats on this website are a little behind, but I trust them more than a newspaper. See the second chart down.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

The UK totals for patients in hospital on the 25th December hadn't passed the peak yet, though they are very close. Doesn't matter too much though, they will no doubt pass that total of 21.6k at some point in January if they haven't already, especially as fewer patients are dying this time round.
More like "people who have never owned or been in a self driving car..." faster horses.

That said, it will happen. I just wonder what will happen as self driving car safety exceeds human drivers. Will people be prohibited/disincentivized to drive?
>> The challenge remains that people will be killed in accidents involving autonomous control.

While that's almost certainly true (and depending on one's interpretation of autonomous is already true), some people already believe that zero deaths in transport is possible: https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/. If it's possible to hold human drivers to that standard, why not autonomous systems as well?
So to speed up the adoption of self-driving cars, we could simply make human-driven cars more prone to accidents :p
Craft cms is great and very actively developed. Clean, fast, powerful, a pleasure to work with.
Sounds like an argument for a 25 year old to spend it!
Somehow the idea of a computer error killing me seems way worse than at least having a chance to save myself, since I’m a very cautious driver (though unlikely safer than average by 5x) . Self driving cars need to get to airline level safety where crashes are a rare thing and most people don’t think twice about giving up control to the pilots/auto pilot. If that takes expensive Lidar thats what we should use. I can’t imagine ever feeling good about trusting my life to a computer vision algorithm.
Subspecies definitions can be rather arbitrary in general, and don't fit well to a species with the technology of humans.

1000 years ago you probably could have said that indigenous subsaharan Africans and Americans are different subspecies of homo sapiens simply because one group has darker brown skin and lives in Africa, and one has lighter brown skin and lives in the Americas (phenotype difference + range difference is all it takes). But today the "native range" of every ethnic group is essentially global due to airplanes and immigration, so you'd probably say we're all one subspecies. But either way, the label "subspecies" conveys far less information than people sometimes assign it.
Interesting idea. I think there may be feasible political routes to accomplishing that. Tighten up the points system that basically every state uses for deciding when to suspend your license, and simply force those who would normally lose their license into robot driving.
The popularity of drop shopping has probably played some part in the spread of low quality no-name products on Amazon.

YouTube is stuffed with videos on drop shipping. Many drop-shippers have no interest in the product they are selling or it's quality. They're only interested in whether they have picked a profitable niche. When that niche gets too crowded, they move to another product space before the wider drop shopping crowd swarm to the same product. And so the cycle continues. Rinse and repeat.
Searle's "Chinese Room" supposes that somehow what humans do is always something more than what an algorithm can do.

Either the mythical Chinese book he describes is "intelligent" or perhaps humans are not as magical as we imagine we are.

At least that was my take away. If he is suggesting somehow that we are not, at our core, machines then you might as well talk about the "soul".
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This is the core of the problem. Amazon simply doesn’t understand how trust works.
>When a human drives, the liability is on the human. When a car self-drives, the liability might be on the manufacturer.

I think this is a point that needs more emphasis, especially on the word 'might'. Without both laws and a history of court cases giving evidence for how those laws are interpreted and enforced, it isn't possible to tell where liability may end up. I wonder if that is part of the reason people are hesitant. Liability is being removed from the driver, but it doesn't see have have found a place to settle back down at, so people are viewing it as if liability is just being removed. For initial court cases (and the amount of time and money it takes to fight them), this may not be an unrealistic expectation.
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Don't read/watch this if you intend to see the movie! It works much better in context and as a surprise.
> In practice, this means that I often need to skip past amazon entirely and go straight to the product manufacturer, sometimes paying more, just to be sure I'm not being screwed.

You're not the only one. Depending on the item and it's use I would probably pay upwards of a 20% premium just so I know there's a far less chance of the received item being fraudulent.

Pandemic aside, these issues also have made me much more likely in the last 4 to 5 years to purposefully go shopping in-person at stores since they seem to have a higher chance of having a proper supply chain established.
For me, the impact ist mostly "no, I don't want to read this if the headline is already that bad".
Perplex City was great, thanks so much for all you did on it! Fondly remember the community that built up around solving these. I lucked in to being the first to solve one of the silvers (Differently Lethal), and remember all the efforts to solve this one back in the day.
Tegnell was proven right according to the latest research:

"Previous studies have shown that asymptomatic individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus were infectious3, and might subsequently become symptomatic4. Compared with symptomatic patients, asymptomatic infected persons generally have low quantity of viral loads and a short duration of viral shedding, which decrease the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-25. In the present study, virus culture was carried out on samples from asymptomatic positive cases, and found no viable SARS-CoV-2 virus. All close contacts of the asymptomatic positive cases tested negative, indicating that the asymptomatic positive cases detected in this study were unlikely to be infectious."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
Yeah, I can believe that, but that is 1 city, what number constitutes 'many'?
Yes, you can use "überleben" in this sense of "outlive someone/something". It's not very common though, "überleben" is usually used for "survive [some dangerous situation]".
To be fair with the amount of computer control and always-online features in current cars, this is already a huge risk.
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Yeah, not to mention value of time. If I could hop in the car, at the same level of safety as my own driving, and spend the 1.5 hours to trailheads reading a book or even programming, I'd much rather be doing that than paying attention to the road.
You can invest and influence the world above 10 mil.
There are different use cases.

It’s possible that the company do not have all that infrastructure at all.

I also don’t see the importance of ‘knowledge to run things on premise’ for most people.

Technologies change very fast and if I can pay a reliable provider with a fixed price for the years that I intend to use it, why do I have to know how to use it?

If I can hire a gardener to take care of things for a reasonable price, I don’t care if I have any knowledge.
>AFAIK there are many cities where 70K per year is well below comfortable

Thanfully it's not mandatory to live in those cities...

They're not even the best cities to live, considering international rankings...
I guess it is, but it seems a lot more complicated then doing...

SCREEN 1
CIRCLE 25, 25, 10

Then it seems that the framebuffer isn't enabled by default in some Linux distros, so you can't just write a command line tool that draws on the screen for whoever...

Still, maybe I'll experiment with it for a home slot machine project I'm working on.
I've used GDPR a few times to protect myself from nefarious actors. Its a valuable tool if you use it right, like all the things.
> Edit: what this kind of data is better at recognizing are broad movements in society like demonstrations, protests and such things.

Yes, this is their real purpose. They're not rolling out these wide ranging systems at extraordinary expense when they're at all unsure they will actually solve the problem they're trying to solve.
I've just read we are expecing about 2M doses a week of the AZ vaccine, so I guess we won't be done by end of Jan but I would expect the numbers to be coming down swiftly by then.
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Except that the meme escaped the lulz laboratory and got picked up earnestly by actual white supremacists.

You can argue the intent of any particular politician, in any particular situation.

You can't argue that it's just trolling in the wider world.
This is just the sort of outside-the-box thinking for which I read HN.
I worked part-time (32 hours a week) for 7 years. What I discovered is that most larger companies simply don’t do this schedule because the larger a company is the higher the competition. That’s why I only use CL for applying to jobs because I have more leverage to negotiate my hours.

Also, even though you may be able to start part-time, as the company grows, you will become a more integral employee, and your responsibilities will grow which materially implies you’ll be expected to go full time eventually. The best way to get around this is to work 5 days a week but fewer hours each day.
> People inherently trust humans over technology. Just because.

From the perspective of someone who rides a motorcycle, the #1 thing you need to do to not crash is to anticipate what all vehicles around you might possibly do.

For example, I always avoid riding in another car’s blind spot for obvious reasons.

The problem (for motorcyclists) will now be trying to adapt to understand what a Tesla might do and where a Tesla’s blind spots might be - and once you add in the idiosyncrasies of other AVs I could see it being really difficult to ride safely around AVs.

It’s fairly easy to anticipate actions of another human, and not as easy to anticipate when actions are decided by an algorithm.

FWIW I think the above also applies to cyclists.

(I suppose this becomes a non-issue if the assumption is that AVs will be so superior to human judgement as to never strike another motorcycle or cyclist - 5x safer sounds like a starting point)
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> if and only if the user is actually aware that is part of the contract

And if the user understand s/he's entering into a contract with Facebook.

It's very unusual to digitally/personally sign a contract when entering a relationship with a site like Facebook giving away a service for no money. It's very usual or inevitable (and expected) to do it when starting an online bank account or for a car sharing service, internet and phone providers, even a subscription to music/movie streaming or online news, something you pay for. There are usually a lot of forms to fill to enter into those contracts and that makes those contracts very visible and understood.

I hope this will be overruled at EU level.
> there is a good chance that bugs like this one will be eventually be used to illegally spy on domestic dissidents and whistleblowers.

These things and considerably smaller were fielded 10 years ago by the US; you could bid on SBIR contracts to remedy some of their defects.
I had a grudging and bitter period, decades back when writing a lot of HTML, of putting a non-breaking space after a regular space finishing a sentence, just so I could get that extra space visible. I finally folded on that one.
Congrats on launching a very cool project!

Given that you're from Mumbai, I want you to know that I see what you did with name, and appreciate the pun!
I now hacked together a really bad mixer. Not sure how it will work live. Let's see.

I usually don't do prod testing but hey I'm on holiday :D
An example for not producing anything themselves (afaik) but only putting their name on actually decent products is Blitzwolf. A brand like that can be built on the most basic due diligence (and thus not significantly higher prices). A bonus would be actually delivering some technical detail on a product, but even "manufacturers" like TaoTronics seem to be having a really hard time doing that.

I'd say Aliexpress is probably a better way to find somewhat established (or trying, which is what matters) brands than Amazon.