skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent most of my career working for "real review" sites and that was part of my motivation for creating Good, Cheap and Fast:

Good, Cheap and Fast isn't meant to be a substitute for lab-tested product reviews, but I hope it's a complement. I like Cook's Illustrated and Consumer Reports. These publications buy products, test them and cover their costs by charging a subscription. This is the best business model for protecting readers.

There are plenty of “free” websites that also test products, but visitors to these sites end up paying in less obvious ways:

Ad Bloat - The websites have great content, but it's hard to enjoy it because of excessive advertisements, autoplay videos (with sound) and third-party networks that hijack your browser and redirect you to pop-up ads claiming that you’ve won a free gift card.

Price Creep - The websites are great at reviewing products, but in order to cover costs, the tested products are more expensive than necessary. Many publishers do this (unwittingly) because the affiliate commissions that they receive are based on a percentage of a product's sale price.

These phenomena are common on legitimate websites. Nevermind sites that:

Rent studio space to stage their "lab testing;"

Don't know how to use lab equipment properly;

Fail to disclose pay-to-play relationships;

Give inflated reviews to maintain relationships with PR people; or,

Fail to investigate the issues that products have after extended use.

I’ve seen these trespasses throughout my career: Hucksters are everywhere.
I think we're in agreement there (though IMO it's highly nonobvious that noncontextuality+POVMs automatically get you the Born rule, so I don't think it's "cheating" to assume that--obviously any set of axioms that let you derive Born will have such a property!). I was mostly saying, I don't think MWI helps us understand where the probabilities come from any more than any other interpretation--you need something more. And if you can't identify where the probabilities come from, then saying your theory is "deterministic" rings fairly hollow to me.
Then can you explain how this virus became (instantly) better adapted to humans than it is to bats?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06199
A BC108 would have been a bloody luxury for us. We had to dig up sand, chop down trees, make a big fire, melt the sand into glass for making our own valves.
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When you zoom in like that it also isn't accurate. For example, isn't it kind of weird to compare District of Columbia with an other country when businesses in District of Columbia are generally, like the rest in USA, incorporated in Delaware for tax reasons?
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Jack Ma had started to mention splitting up his monopoly and became much less vocal overall. One of the drivers of monopoly capitalism appears to have been disciplined slightly.
Can you explain how this virus became (instantly) better adapted to humans than it is to bats?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06199
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It only says that the margin on the sold products are high enough so they can afford expensive marketing. Does anyone seriously believe that the massive marketing for a product like Coca Cola is a sign that it is a high quality product?
Oh! That is why Bezos named it Blue Origin?
Well...human memory is certainly weak or biased or both. Let's not forget Guantánamo bay, which is just one among many examples.
If we define socialism as X and we look at only these european countries then magic.

It is nice to see my country, Spain, with its effective tax rate of 40% (IVA+IRPF+IBI+green tax+etc), universal healtcare, education and pensions sits at "0 socialism".

Id like to see these scores with Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, North Corea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.

Also look this interesting pattern. In Europe the west block is more socialist than the east block now. Maybe OTAN was about socialism after all.
Entrusting your business to an american entity is the stupidest idea you could have thought about.

Especially us europeans should not rely on American services at all.It's not worth it.

American corporations are just as much a liability as their counterparts in China.
Funny how GH gets shit for what the US has as laws. I'd focus my outrage on the law, the lawmaker, and those who uphold it. GH is merely trying to go by the book/ avoid penalties, as expected.
One way to fight a law is civil disobedience.
depending on what the company does, different levels of security are appropriate. but, yeah, I would avoid taking valuable data with me on a flight to shady countries (the US being among the top 10 of that list)
> The key thing is ensuring that all exchanges of wealth only occur within a currency controlled by the authorities.

I don’t think even this is a requirement. Really all you need is all large transfers of wealth to be reported to central governments so they can collect tax, and enforce money laundering prevention rules.

Don’t think a government really cares what currency you use, fiat or crypto, as long as they get their cut in a currency of their choice.
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The writing community feels a lot like DEV in that it's full of low quality, well-written articles.
I worked for a marketing company for 3 years and can see what is making your traffic fall:

https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-cloth-masks

You will get dislisted because you are profiting from a pandemic. get rid of this content.

https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-bourbons

Alcoholic content is a huge red flag and will cause blocks and delisting. get rid of this content.

once you remove the content, resubmit your sitemaps to both Google and Bing Webmaster tools and you will start to see traffic again.

Also, this might seem really stupid, but it would be nice to have a link to your homepage from the footer. it's annoying to have to scroll to the top of the page to click your icon to go to your homepage.
Isn't it pretty much the optimal behavior as evidenced e.g. by multi-armed bandit algorithms and explore-exploit balance in reinforcement learning?
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Seems like if you had an easy to find email list you could own your customer and prevent google from creating these huge swings. I read the whole post on my phone and didn’t see a place to add my email.
I had similar issue visiting Crimea. I was simply looking through my issues, while in holidays over there.
The actualy blogpost juspay post says its 35M (3.5Cr) records - not 100M.

https://juspayproducts.medium.com/your-security-is-our-first...
That's amazing, so fun to watch and feels 0% forced. I'm impressed.
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There is a large amount of circumstantial evidence that the virus was leaked from the same lab which had been involved in gain of function research on exactly these viruses (specifically to make them more infectious to humans). Direct evidence cannot be obtained, because the CCP has not allowed any access to the labs or records.

No evidence has been presented for any alternative theory, and the stories the CCP have put out have been discredited very quickly.
It's not possible to mine bitcoin on Mars without the network forking since half the time Mars is far enough that it can't communicate with Earth within the block time of 10 minutes. As soon as Earth and Mars come within 10 minutes of each other the main Blockchain (presumably on Earth) will prevail, and the consensus will be that the coins mined on Mars are worthless. Any new coins generated during this alignment may be valid depending on if the timings match up but the Mars miners will always be at a distinct disadvantage.
The Schelling point works when there is no communication. But how do you know if your community members are not communicating?
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Sure, here's a few ways to cross-validate:

If we had a high prevalence of Covid before there was any testing, we'd expect that the moment testing started, we'd see a high prevalence everywhere. We didn't. Most places saw only a small proportion of tests come back positive to start with, which then increased over time. (When looking at this kind of testing that's been done using antibody tests, it's good to remember that even a 99% specific test will mostly be returning false positives when the prevalence is very low).

We can re-test historical samples of various kinds for Covid. That has been done, and while they can find individual cases from a month or two before the first confirmed "live" case, there's no sign of it being widely spread.

We can also deduce the transmission patterns of the virus from the phylogenetic tree. If the virus had been widely circulating outside of China in 2019, sequencing would have show variants that are common in the west branch off from the Chinese ones earlier than they did.
That's precisely the opposite of what I was saying. I tend to agree with what (I understood as) the larger point of the article, I just see the chess analogy as muddled and inaccurate.
It implies he has parents in Iran. He could be a US citizen or an Iranian citizen. Or both. Or neither.
Yes, there are really good open source speech to text tools (automatic speech recognition (ASR) is the common name for that).

Kaldi (https://kaldi-asr.org/) is probably the most well known, and supports hybrid NN-HMM and lattice-free MMI models. Kaldi is used by many people both in research and in production.

Lingvo (https://github.com/tensorflow/lingvo) is the open source version of Google speech recognition toolkit, with support mostly for end-to-end models.

ESPNet (https://github.com/espnet/espnet) is good and well known for end-to-end models as well.

RASR (https://github.com/rwth-i6/rasr) + RETURNN (https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn) are very good as well, both for end-to-end models and hybrid NN-HMM, but they are for non-commercial applications only (or you need a commercial licence) (disclaimer: I work at the university chair which develops these frameworks).

Wav2Letter (https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter), the tool by Facebook.

These are probably just the most well known. There are many others as well. DeepSpeech is inferior to all the ones above, but maybe simpler.

Important is also the data to train these, but you will find quite some resources online for English, e.g. Tedlium, Librispeech, etc.

You will find lots of resources actually for ASR. Some random links:

https://github.com/gooofy/zamia-speech

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets

https://www.openslr.org/resources.php

To add: If you want to do sth like Descript, you are mostly also interested in accurate time-stamps of the recognized text (start and end time of each spoken word). The end-to-end models are usually not so good at this (the goals is mostly to get a good word-error-rate (WER)). The conventional hybrid NN-HMM is maybe actually a better choice for this task.
Pretty sure it is working right now and a lot of rational scientists, government agencies and companies are betting on it. Stop spreading FUD.
You can't have policies for everything.

Their main problem is using SaaS for something as basic and important as version control. Than you have to deal with silly US laws.
The website is another run of the mill affiliate website built with the sole purpose of making the owner some money.

This is the exact opposite of every principle that I believe in. If that were true, at minimum I would have:

-Placed ads on the site
-Opted into Skimbit's data sale program
-Hyperlinked titles and images with affiliate codes
-Written about huckstery things like CBD oil and salt lamps.

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https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/about
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https://www.johnwdefeo.com/articles/amazon-review-analysis
Or just use this?

https://www.unknownphone.com/

In the UK...
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If you’ve seen the real harm that caused in the world by money laundering, you would be less inclined to condemn its prevention.

I’ve personally seen cases of money laundering where the money comes from sexual exploitation, human trafficking, modern day slavery, organ trafficking, high value thefts (petrol, or digits bank robberies), standard social engineering scams etc

These aren’t special one of events, this happens in small bank on every day ending in y. Most fincrime teams don’t have the energy to deal with normal people moving their cash, or even high net wealth people moving their cash. They’re too busy tracking down and cleaning up after some really nasty people.
> Analogies are simply tools to facilitate discussion, they can't themselves say anything definitive about the underlying claim. That's why it's useful to interpret them generously. If I came up with a flawed analogy for time dilation would that show that time dilation is nonsense?

That's a bizarre attitude. Thought experiments were a major and important tool in developing the theory of relativity, precisely because they were taken seriously and done rigorously; contradictions weren't waved away as "just a tool to facilitate discussion".

> I think a better approach on encountering a flawed analogy is to attempt to improve it, come up with a better one, or address the underlying claim directly, but saying "this analogy is unclear to me the end" isn't going to get you very far in life.

On the contrary, being willing to call out nonsense has served me very well. There is no "underlying claim" here; the story is what's meant to carry the claim, and if the story doesn't work (and it doesn't) the whole thing falls apart (and it does). It's nonsense, top-to-bottom.
The President of the United States is on record as saying it came from a lab.

I’m not sure how that translates to “dismissed out of hand”.
Then why wasn’t it used? Surely all these governments all have heard of apple/google’s superior solution. Reality undermines this argument.
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Can you explain how that evolutionary path led to the virus becoming better adapted to humans than it is to bats, and can you explain how all the samples we have ever found, from the very beginning of this outbreak, are uniquely adapted to humans?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06199
First off: https://i.imgur.com/GlJqoYf.png

1. Your product seems useful, so useful in fact I bookmarked it.

2. However you hardly had any Google traffic to begin with - maybe Google traffic is not something you should optimize for - except for when people specifically search for your product

3. with which your landing page might not help.

Let me expand:

1. I tried a few searches on your site and it generally came back with good results. I like that the articles are short, to the point and didn't waste my time. Some commenters here recommend to make those articles longer for SEO - don't. Making users read long articles is the opposite of what your site promises.

2. Google traffic is way less important for useful websites than SEO people would make you believe. If your product is good, people will come - and come back. SEO can actually hurt the usefulness of your product, and thus its long-term growth. Never ever listen to SEO people who want you to make your product worse. I may be suffering from survivorship bias, but less than 10% of my site's traffic comes from search engines, and 99% of that search engine traffic was just people searching the name of my sites. I can't tell you whether any site could survive on this, but I can promise you that this "independence" comes with peace of mind (I don't care whether I show up on Google at all).

3. It took me a moment to figure your product out. "This website exists to make shopping less time consuming" did not help at all - there's hundreds of ways I can imagine one might make "shopping less time consuming" after all. My confusion ended when I read "Find above-average products selling for below-average prices". Maybe that should be at the very top with the search field directly below it - which can also contain text other than just "Search.". Check the mockup at the beginning of this post. You could place the "less time consuming" text somewhere else, I just was too lazy. Some things besides "less time consuming" that people might search are "best budget products", "best value for money", etc. - so you could make sure these show up on your landing page too. Except after the text that explains the site for the human visitor.
The biggest problem you would have is that they share the function names, and if you have this tree (where a line means "links with dynamic library"):

[my binary]
/ \

[___libA___] [___libB___]

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[libreSSL] [OpenSSL]

then they will have some conflicts (some refer to this as "spewing nasal demons"). Suppose that they both have a function called mutex_lock that touches a global, but OpenSSL added an extra field. Now the behaviour is dependent on which one is picked first. Surprise segfaults? crashes only on strict alignment platforms? unlocked behaviour because the global is named something else? All of these can easily happen.

ELF doesn't have any builtin namespacing, and when compiled with C normally, the C compiler doesn't modify the names to create something like namespacing in the way other languages do.

If you make an extra effort to put them in different places (preferably not in the default linker lookup path and using something like a per-executable RUNPATH rather than a global ld.so.conf to find it), you can have conflicting libraries. But you are playing a dangerous game which wastes everyone's time and effort.
I gotta agree with you. I understand GitHub doing that, they fear repercussions (remember that Huawei employee being arrested?). But, these things are too serious for a company to ignore.

Chinese and USA services should be avoided...
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But is it really a memristor? The wikipedia article [1] quoted elsewhere says the memristor deals with charge and flux, whereas the article speaks of voltage and current (and some memory effect in the relation between V and I). I don't think any resistor with a memory effect should be called a memristor just like that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#The_memristor_as_a_f...
The Soviet economy had a substantial black market, especially if you include the Blat system of favor-trading [1]. New York today is seeing growth of ostensibly illegal, unlicensed street vendors, in reaction to lockdown restrictions [2].

Government is not efficient, and cannot effectively enforce rules, so cryptocurrency will undoubtedly survive.

[1] https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/rees-577-fall2016/2016/...

[2] https://nypost.com/2020/12/26/mayhem-in-the-streets-illegal-...
OK, do you have some examples (not counter) then?
At Mattermost we went for the do-it-yourself option and wrote a custom tool for the job [1]. After a lot of research on all the existing open-source frameworks we couldn't really find anything that would fit our use-case. We are quite happy with the result although, as the OP mentioned, there's a significant maintenance cost attached. As new features gets implemented and more API calls added you need to go back and make sure your user behaviour defining logic stays in sync with the real world.
If I were to do it all over again, I'd probably give k6 [2] a chance but I am still convinced a tailored solution was the best choice.

[1] https://mattermost.com/blog/improving-performance-through-lo...

[2] https://k6.io/
I really liked the idea of showing a gif with a 'Play with sound' button which pops up the video.

Very innovative!
The reward for dodging taxes is pretty high. What's the reward of letting a few folks open their laptop while at their parents?

If you are ideologically motivated, you might do it. Apparently project Gutenberg has set up servers in locations with shorter copyright durations so that they can mirror public domain books. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25610024
> You are making a strawman. Companies are often following the law strictly or loosely as it suits them.

You're right that companies don't always obey the law. However, what has that got to do with "Personally, I'd rather a world where companies obey the law"?

My point is that companies SHOULD obey the laws, not that they always do - and that - allowing and encouraging companies to pick and choose the laws they are going to obey is wrong, and will simply not end well.

> GitHub could have warned the company before blocking and/or blocked access only from Iran. It did neither.

I'm not familiar enough with the specifics of the US laws regarding Iran to know if this is a lawful course of action to take upon a customer attempting to use your products/services from Iran.

Maybe they could have? Maybe they can't? I've no idea & I've made no attempt to address anything other than the "It's alright to blame people for lawfully following harmful laws" comment.
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If it was just a CV repository, I would be quite comfortable with this approach. Some regions have a social mandate to include photos on CVs and it bothers me quite a bit. Where I live Marital status / number of children is also common which I really don't understand.

Because this is set up as a web of professional landing pages though, part of the system is discovering people that you may know or finding people that you're looking for (and not just getting a link from someone to their CV).

I'd love an option to turn it off site-wide though, that could be a nice feature if you prefer to more-dissociate your connections from their physical selves.
This whole approach of trying to understand Nordic and European countries from the angle of "Socialism" is just stupid. The link between these countries and historical Socialism (i.e. USSR) is so weak that the term Socialism just serves to scare and mislead.

We are talking about capitalist democracies with some government run social services, like health care and unemployment, for example. We are not talking about socialist or communist countries which have a dash of capitalism. The policies in these countries, like affordable healthcare and education are also very popular in America once you drop the BS "socialism" framing.
It needs to become commonplace to include your OS, external dependencies, and any language runtime code in this count. Otherwise it's just not going to evolve into a proper demoscene.
I'm not fully sure to what extent Juspay is used but one feature they use heavily is autofilling OTPs. Unlike the US, to make a card payment online according to RBI's guidelines, you need to enter a one time password that in most cases is sent to you over SMS.

What Juspay does is, it scans your SMSes and pastes the OTP automatically into the payment page. All the user has to do is click an approve button, streamlining the process as the user never has to exit the app.
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