skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit like arguing that Medicare for all is impossible in the United States because it is such a big country.

This is a straw man argument, because only relative terms matter. Nobody cares about the absolute numbers except your boss. The customers care about their percentage chance of encountering spam and fake reviews.

You're saying it's too hard to achieve 100% success (0% failure rate), and that we should settle for 99.999% success (0.001% failure rate). Multiplying these by big numbers is irrelevant. It could be a trillion. Who cares? The implication is that the system is nearly perfect.

Meanwhile the experience most online shopping users have is more like a 80% success and a 20% failure rate at best, and often more like a 99% failure rate and a 1% success rate for regular shoppers. I have personally long since given up on every buying anything from EBay or Amazon because of the rampant fakery. Literally everything has a thousand AAAA++++++ reviews that all are obviously generated via a template.

The same argument applies for Medicare: The citizens don't care about the absolute budget, they just care about their individual tax increase or decrease. Only a handful of people in the treasury care about the absolute numbers.
Isn't Miami mostly swamp land? How do you tunnel a swamp?
Same could be achieved by sponsoring social ads about specific illness without mentioning perscription drug.

Yet drug corporations don't do that in countries where ads for perscription drugs are banned. I guess that does not bring the same value to them as pushing drug explicitly.
No kidding.

What's interesting is the Chinese companies are actually getting better at this. It's usually multi-part.

* Post a meaningful deposit / security to list, more if you list more.

* Pretty involved complaint resolution process and tracking inventory by actual seller (no comingled inventory).

* Product spot checks by platform itself for stuff that sells a better

* Product spot checks let you also pick up the free product offers for good reviews game players this way.

* Real human support for review bombing situations and de-listings. If you can start untangling the knots a lot of the scam folks are all cross linked.

I've got plenty more, and no one is paying me $100K. So these platforms are mostly just lazy.

Eventually someone will build a knock-off amazon with more trust, and we'll all move there and just use amazon for AWS compute.
Tangent question, How does small open source tools get sponsorship from the likes of Google and DigitalOcean? Who approaches who? is there some type of formal process?
I have lived here for ten years and have never seen a cop pull a gun and actually threaten someone without provocation.

Pulling a gun is one thing, actually threatening to use it is another. It’s a difference in how police are in the US vs UK.

That said, I keep considering moving to Europe myself. I pay crazy taxes for shit in the streets, half assed mass transit, high college tuition, etc.
Dude, read the article.

"An ERCOT director told Bloomberg that problems were widespread across generating sources, including coal, natural gas, and even nuclear plants. In the past, severe cold has caused US supplies of natural gas to be constrained, as use in residential heating competes with its use in generating electricity. But that doesn't explain the shortfalls in coal and nuclear, and the ERCOT executive wasn't willing to speculate."
I think it would be very difficult to detect these:

a) with 100% accuracy, and
b) without involving humans at all

but I noticed the trend of fake Amazon reviews some time ago, and some patterns were very evident. I'd click on the profile of a five-star reviewer, more often than not every review they left was five stars. And every product I'd click through on also had a deluge of suspicious five star reviews. I even started scraping data into a graph database but then discovered that Amazon tries very hard to resist scraping attempts and gave up.

I think it would be very possible to set up some kind of basic pattern analysis along these lines. Clearly, merchants are buying positive reviews in bulk, so detecting sudden spikes in positive reviews and working out correlations with other product review dumps wouldn't be difficult. Once you've got a sense of it, you hand the data over to human investigators who take it the rest of the way. But despite its insane wealth, Amazon is clearly not interested in spending the money required to do that.
This is so cool! I knew about Ink, but not Blessed. Curious as to people’s experience using Blessed-React vs Ink.
Then admit you can't fix the problem and remove user reviews.
> Who knows how much they're trading long-term reputation for short term gains?

I think this is exactly the risk. Amazon didn’t become huge chasing quarterly or short term gains. The damage they’ve done to their reputation over the last several years may take another 5-10 years to show up in the numbers in a significant way, but by that point it’s much harder to turn around.

It’s hard to know what the long term damage will be, if any, though. I’m certainly not their representative median customer.
I'm from St. Louis, which has a much higher crime rate than Seattle, and I think I can understand the distinction. A lot of west coast cities have a sort of chaotic street feel -- lots of homelessness, open-air drug dealing and use, people yelling things in the street, and so on. Yes, St. Louis has many more homicides, but most homicides aren't random, so it's not like the baseline homicide rate affects the typical resident while walking down the street on a Tuesday. (Also: most of those homicides take place in a handful of neighborhoods you're very unlikely to be walking through, in the first place.)

But lots of homelessness and open-air drug-dealing (and so on) can make a pretty big impact on what walking down the street on a Tuesday feels like. (I'm not making an argument that one is more desirable than the other. I'm just noting that I think I understand the distinction.)
Not only is it not easily available, but there's no current way to validate the vote casting or tabulation process. Biden literally couldn't prove that he won even if he cared to.

Some say this is a bug, but sounds more like a feature. If not, why wouldn't it be fixed when the technology exists? And why would people go over and above to have the current technology installed?
thank you Faisal, appreciate it =[^_^]=
Positive reviews aren't the only ones being spoofed though, with competitors often posting fake negative ones for other products [1].

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[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54063039
Patents encourage innovation. In exchange for publishing your tech, you get protection from those who might copy it for ~10-20 years. You get to make money from it and the world benefits from knowing the details of your technology.

This is stated theory of why patents work, not actual evidence that they work.
I applied for a sysadmin job at BBN in the late 90s, and X.400 knowledge was listed in the description. Thankfully that turned out to be a red herring.
I agree with your claims about the potential advantages of a TUI, but in this case, almost all of these TUIs using Rich will be running as GUI graphics inside a GUI window on top of a GUI OS subsystem, driven by an interpreted Python subsystem, all on an OS juggling many other simultaneous deep-stack processes. In other words, it's a keyboard-driven GUI app making use of the GUI advantages to provide you with your choice of high-quality fonts and designer colors to emulate a TUI. That doesn't make it bad. I still like it.

But like you, I wish we had more options to fully exercise the power of a TUI much closer to the metal, like the old days. Apps where almost every keystroke completes an operation faster than the fastest typist can move from key to key....

Of course, beyond a certain speed, more speed wouldn't matter, so maybe I could get it by installing a (local, not remote) desktop Linux without any GUI and using only CLI dev tools. Is anyone doing this?
I really hope we don't live in a world where latin prefixes can be trademarked. Are Micron and MicroSoft confounding names? What about Instagram and Instacart?
I'm not sure his audience is that big. Cable TV audiences are big and consistent, and they bring big advertising dollars. I'm not sure if 1.5M views is that much.

When a network backs you, the advertising, promotion, reach is substantial.

Just because someone is on YouTube and theoretically 'anyone' can see him is not actually material reach.

When you're making a BBC/Sky show, that opens up doors to significantly more places, whereas today he's just 'some youtuber' which is nice, but it's not big.

And of course follow on deals and residuals.

For example: he gets booked on the Talk Show circuit, BBC interview circuit, his profile is raised. He maybe can get access to CERN, or the Moscow Ballet or whatever, things like that.

The various auto enthusiast shows from the UK are massive. Those hosts make a lot of money.
I suspect that Amazon's argument is that they're more akin to eBay than they are to a supermarket. "We're not selling the product, we're only selling the floorspace" kind of thing.

That's a lie, but it is certainly a blurrier line than the one for traditional retailers. I don't think it's a coincidence that Amazon has been very slow to enter markets with strong consumer law like Australia.
Maybe ternaries aren't easier to read, but they make the surrounding code easier to read because they duck out of the way? Devoting several lines to what is a very quick if/else expression could be distracting I suppose. Playing devil's advocate.
The link for the Tux from linuxmall-dot-com still works, except their cart does not. The front page is full of... well what was cutting edge amateur tech around that time. What I want to know is: who has been paying for hosting for linuxmall-dot-com for two+ decades?
Very interesting, thank you for the pointer Sean, followed you on Github and will check out pion!
Exactly. Crowdsourced reviews are easy to manipulate. On the other hand, a “review commission” isn’t practical either.
Of course. Bosses are gonna Boss. Save this reply and come back in 1.5 years and say I was wrong.
Having a reliable store of value - is itself extremely valuable. At least to me... and to quite a few others apparently, with more and more by the day.
> As you quote this particular as a supporting reference, would you be able to share some of Gab's specific timeline content that made that comment writer think that?

You might want to ask them.
Ask HN: Anybody Using UML in 2021?
I searched web, and all I could find is courses on UML. Is UML really used these days?
Individual tax payers should be able to deduct all interest payments just like corporations. Not just mortgage interest but also interest on auto loans, credit cards, etc.
I don't get the point of Clubhouse. Hasn't many video meeting apps already supported turning off video streaming in chatting?
This seems similar in concept to Haskell’s QuickCheck[1]. Both generate tests based on an invariant/“property” of the output and can narrow down to the simplest failing test case.

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck
Reviews are broken. There needs to be a web of trust for reviews. I would weight a review from somebody I know or trust 1000x more than every Amazon or online review ever left.

It's not just store reviews that are broken - web search is also completely broken because of affiliate spam

I spent far too much time at the moment with each purchase researching and tracking down trusted reviews.
Streamlit and Juypter can often be compared, but I think their subjects are different.

Jupyter is a great lab environment. It's nice for experiments and reporting.
Streamlit is a great framework to prototype web apps without frontend knowledge. It's useful especially for ML/CV developers who want to create demo apps, but want to focus on Python code.

Regarding to streamlit-webrtc, which is linked at this post, enhances the advantage of Streamlit stated above, especially in the field of Computer Vision, and its equivalent does not exist in Jupyter world for now.
The mistake was in creating something planet-scale before having anti-abuse systems in place. In this regard, Amazon is very much not alone.
Fully agree with everything you wrote.

> Second, to anyone who wasn’t part of the group “protesting” — that is, outsiders — all you see is a bunch of weirdos dressed up with picket signs outside a sales office (they didn’t even go to Redmond) to demand action, only to be greeted what seem to be very polite corporate people with a sign and lemonade.

The photos shown on that page are very similar to that of the Magician guild on the Arrested Development show (https://i.imgur.com/eipugIu.jpg). It's uncanny, actually.
American Nostalgia: Big Railroads
I need to figure out how to effectively persuade people in my life (family) away from it. They just seem to simply not care. The older generation in particular just don’t give a crap about how shady and dangerous it is.
ip loss doesnt effect you in any meaningful way but your mad cause china is stealing it, its ok you and china should be team players because stealing ip steals money from bezos who is the real enemy

please pay me for more groundbreaking 'journalism' and impactful analysis.
I don't understand how easy it could be to Google around a bit and find companies offering this service, but its seemingly impossible to stop at scale.

Employ a group of people to go undercover with these firms, who are purposefully violating your platforms TOS, and enact draconian measures against the brands your employees encounter.

The risk would quickly not be worth the reward.
Same. I canceled Prime two years ago, and haven't bought anything from Amazon in several months. I just buy locally now, and if I can't find something locally, I buy it from the manufacturer's website or a smaller reseller with a better reputation.
Not the GP, but I absolutely cannot live without focus follows mouse and love being able to type and interact with a window without raising it. For example I can overlay a small terminal in front of a web browser and use both at the same time.

Using a floating window manager that doesn't support this is wasting a gross amount of screen real estate.
We can't objectively say whether they're easier to read or not. Opinions differ.

We can objectively say that ternaries are shorter and simpler however. (Simpler because they can do fewer things than an if-statement or if-expression.)
That's fine, but it's not a norm here. HN explicitly allows downvoting disagreement; a downvote is less noisy and disruptive than the "I disagree with this" comments that we'd get if you couldn't.
None of that comes out of the salary on your payslip. Rather, you also have your own contribution to those things, separate from the one your employer pays.
How They SRE
Love the passion here on HN! :)
They are, other than being priced more expensively compared with consumer cards. When doing things like RNN's, RAM becomes an issue regardless of how powerful the card is in other ways.
Regardless of who you think _should_ stop ethical AI, I think it's pretty apparent that the answer to this question is not "an obnoxious Twitter activist that speaks with the grace and maturity of a 14 year-old 4chan user".

I genuinely don't understand why we've given such influence and power to boorish people like Alex over the past decade.
Amazon: send requests to your customers at random to review products they purchased (perhaps reimburse them for their time with a gift card). Post only those reviews.
A verified buyer is nontrivial to determine. The purchaser could be under the influence and financed by the seller.
The explanation they provided(or perhaps this was for another kind of digested coffee bean from a kind of monkey??) was that it eliminated the bitterness that comes with drinking coffee.
This is not just a demand problem. Something like a third of the grid's supply has gone offline in the last 24 hours. I think "crumples" is an extremely fair description and "imploded" and "vaporized" both sound fairly reasonable too.
Well, an equivalent example is really something more like: the surgeon picking up their scalpel too quickly actually means that what they picked up wasn't a scalpel 10% of the time, even though what they saw with their eyes was a scalpel. That's a rather more terrifying error. It's not really possible in the normal world, but is easily possible in the software one (UI not corresponding to the real program state.)

In other words: tangible objects usually correspond to what we see; in software, you have no way necessarily of knowing if the UI/interface is outright lying to you. It could be doing anything internally, and a single flipped bit deep in some subroutine could cause death.
Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala is first the woman chosen as DG of WTO (iafrikan.com)

Otherwise it reads like "I have 3 daughters which are all girls".
Amazon loves fake reviews as long as they are 5 star. The more it looks like people buying stuff using amazon are happy, the better that marketing is for Amazon. Look at all these people who are so happy to be buying stuff on Amazon, so much better than the alternatives.

Amazon could clean this up and then watch the average drop. From the removal of the fake fives but also it makes it look more "socially accpetable" to leave 4 and 3 star reviews. So it costs Amazon to do the right thing by the people parting with money for stuff so they don't.

Amazon are well aware of /their/ incentives and when their incentives align with what looks to me a lot like fraud they'll play the plausibly deny game.

Or perhaps I'm wrong they don't know and there's nothing they can do. Amazon employees will probably confirm that.
Isn't this ordinary commoditization? Provided Apple keeps innovating, they'll keep ahead. They have a head start, and innovatiin is their corporate organizing principle, from hiring to advertizing. They leave commodity profits on the table.

The danger is if China has a monopoly on know-how, i.e. if it's not a "commodity". But that doesn't seem to be the case.

However, one day, the iphone will be "good enough", and customers won't pay extra for further innovations... and unless other product lines or new ones (glasses? cars? others?) catch fire, Apple will settle down to become like Sony.
It's not a coincidence. It's the exact same problem.
This is such a vague explanation of bitcoin's usefulness that I'm even more glad to use US dollars after reading it. "Most important social/technological innovation since the internet." "Moving humanity forward." "Not tied to the existing oppressive establishment." These are not real, concrete reasons for anyone to switch to bitcoin. These are statements I would expect to hear from someone who is trying to recruit me into a pyramid scheme.
Your comment was the first thing I saw, so I hadn't read the article or anything else and I thought you were talking about Elon at first. Got a good chuckle.
These are all truths. But!

The business also doesn't understand source control, separation of duties, lifecycle promotion, release processes, or technical debt. (Literally, because it was partly my job to teach this again and again)

So eventually the audit firms are going to clue up and start hitting people with notes for over-reliance on prototype RPA systems in prod without change control. As they should.
Yeah, it's more likely that one of the fifty other things soldered to the motherboard will fail before the ssd.
>> When it comes to desktops...
> Considering that the overwhelming majority of Internet servers...

But what about desktops?
It’s even more confusing than that. If you buy an item “sold by..” but fulfilled by Amazon, you deal with Amazon for returns, right? But if it’s shipped by the vendor then yeah you are right.
I didnt think my response was very aggressive, at least it wasnt meant to be. Nevertheless you're free to do as you wish. Toodles
Ohio State Opens Apple App Development Program to the Public
For a long time I thought Tom was from BBC. He speaks so well and the things he speaks are so well thought out.
Nope. I'm married and my husband and I use the one through his job.
I'm not sure what you're criticising here. Would you prefer that ethicists at Google don't criticise surveillance? Or do you prefer that Google not hire ethicists?
Unless it’s a really big ticket item I’ve given up on product research as the investment is just not worth my time. I just buy whatever Wirecutter tells me to; usually they’re not too wrong.
Long live Lindows! /s
That is easy to say, but good luck finding a RTX 2060 at a reasonable price. I have been trying for a month and a half, and almost all graphics cards are not available.
> [David Gerard] also frequently edits the LessWrong Wikipedia article, always towards criticism (in violation of WP:AXEGRIND)

Wikipedia is an interesting subculture of its own. Here is a fun fact involving its cofounder, Larry Sanger: his own criticism of the encyclopedia is banned from it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ideological_bias_...
I dont need menus or dialogs, just something simple like top. Would this be the right library to use?
I appreciate the corrections, though I’m not sure I agree with all of them.

For the first point, I appreciate your correction. Still, the official writeup mentions that VA paid to make the shirts. And as you say, a huge number of employees were part of it. I still contend that the publicity of the event was beneficial for them, otherwise they wouldn’t have had employees there and they wouldn’t have had the community in shirts they made. Red Hat didn’t IPO until August, so I’ll still say having activities like this get press attention (be it for Linux in general or VA specifically) was good for the VA Roadshow.

For number two, I’ve been told by numerous former VA people that Larry paid for the documentary to be made (at least until the collapse happened) and then the filmmaker basically ran out of money, which is why the fall of the stock was literally an on-screen card at the tail-end of the film. The film came out in 2001, though I’m sure he finished filming after the IPO,

For the third, I agree with you. You’re right, it doesn’t have to induce a sea change. And for its time, I can see how some would find it amusing (at 15, I very much rolled my eyes, but I can understand how people who were there would have had fun). My only point was to push back on what I perhaps wrongly expected the narrative on HN to be, which is reflexive hagiography that doesn’t bear much resemblance to reality then or now.
It's not been hidden, but it's also not well known outside cryptocurrency circles.

That chain generates 2/3s as much every single day as the bitcoin chain will ever generate in its entire existence.
How will that help? The seller can still influence and finance the buyers. It may be more expensive but I'm certain the seller will do what is necessary for those high rankings. The stakes are that high.
ptp is <1us synchronization. From my testing NTP is ~20-60us after about 10 minutes of sync, but it intentionally drifts the phase around. On average, NTP is pretty close.

If you look at the white rabbit FPGA PTP updates, its in the ns range.

Any kind of GPS + most intel nics will get you PTP with an accurate clock. If you didn't need to sync too many devices you could use a single system with a bunch of nics as your "switch".
Ethereum is used more than bitcoin (measured in transactions per day), so that'd make it more likely to be considered the de facto cryptocurrency, no? It'd also make it more "popular" with cryptocurrency users, though definitely not as well known by the layman.
I prefer linux, but it is quite easy to install different shells on macOS.
Cool to see Jitsi being a key piece of software for this. Hadn't seen it used in a conference-style broadcast context before, so that's awesome!
>an atheist insists there must not be.

Wrong... Only so-called "strong atheism" is active belief in gods' non-existence. Regular (unqualified) atheism is lack of belief in gods' existence.