skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you found a good alternative to wirecutter?

I am sure there are plenty of honest reviews on the internet, tucked into enthusiast sites or on personal blogs. It's hard to find them unless you're a member of their community. Unless they review a lot of products, you have no continued relationship with them. This means you can't evaluate your opinion of their reviews (as to trustworthiness, or even just taste).

Surely anyone who devotes a lot of time and money to reviewing products is going to want to be (and deserves to be) paid. That means direct payment has to come from the customer, or the business.

The "business pays" model has an incentive to exclude businesses that don't pay, to push you towards more expensive items, and in general to get you to buy shit you don't need. But at least the reviewer has some skin in the game, since you won't continue to buy through their referral links if they recommend too many products that are too bad.

The "customer pays" model seems to solve a lot of the incentive problems, but it's always hard to get people to pay for something that others are giving out for free (even if the free ones are occasionally subpar or even harmful!)

Ultimately, I'm not really sure I see "buyer pays" review sites as terribly unfair? Surely they'll just pass the cost on to customers. Some of the businesses, like NextDesk, seem to find the process unfair. I have some sympathy for them, but the reality is that the products I've bought based on Wirecutter recommendations tend to be better. I don't have the time, or even the ability these days, to pick through search results trying to figure it out for myself.

Maybe I will give Consumer Reports a try, but is the cost of the subscription (of which I don't know the utility), and the lock-in, worth the marginal cost of missing out on great products like NextDesk? Does Consumer Reports even give more complete surveys of options than Wirecutter? Hard to say. I think I would go insane if I spent any more time than I already do looking for "truth" on the internet.
Hey, I'd like to apologize for the tone that I took to your reply. I'm sorry. I hope I didn't cause you much grief.
I’ve been coding JS for a decade. Nowadays I wish JS was simpler. I’m fine with ES6 syntactic sugar. I just want the language to do be stricter, safer and faster. I don’t want to transpile TS into JS. Just make JS strict with monomorphic types.

One thing that really impressed me is how crazy fast golang is. Not just at runtime but compile time too. Esbuild is like 20x faster than webpack. That’s nuts. I see a webserver running on 512MB ram and single core, serving 10s of thousands of requests a second without batting an eye. Just rock solid reliability and performance.

I want to build web apps with low memory, cpu, and bandwidth profile. Give us a simpler language that doesn’t need crazy complicated hotspot profiling JITs. Just make the default, simple thing insanely fast.

Give us better fundamental primitives that don’t need a gajillion build tools.

The JS ecosystem is so complicated nowadays. It just seems we’re patching shit on top of each other without reasoning from first principles.

Disclaimer: I am not saying this specific improvement isn't worth it. I love v8, but I feel we can make magnitudes of higher performance gains by removing things and simplifying such that you don't even need top level complex optimizations.
> I’m not willing to sit here an imagine that you’re secretly disagreeing with yourself

Then there is no need to make comments to the contrary.

> All that is necessary is to establish the lack of necessity.

What if those laws are reliant upon other ones that have punitive measures.

Even the Bill of Rights is not voluntary, because it relies on violent enforcement as secession is not legal.

> Read about the origins of property and government.

What are the origins of taxation?

> You agreed that there are laws that don’t include coercion.

See above re: reliant upon greater laws.

> I’m sure if you review the discussion you will see that I have.

So you're advancing a form of government that is entirely self-funded. Any examples?

> So you understand that rents are negotiated whereas taxes are extorted violently. Excellent.

Actually, taxes are also negotiated.

> How does free association work when you coerce taxes from people?

When people willingly pay taxes, which they do so except for minorities of tax protesters and tax evaders. You might as well ask how does free association work when you coerce people to wear seatbelts or refrain from jaywalking.

> Expropriation is not homesteading.

Homesteading was largely expropriation. Settlers tend to favor habitable areas. Habitable areas tend to be inhabited.

> Tell that to the Lakota.

As above.

> The parties to the contract decide how they themselves will react when a party believes that the contract has been breached.

Then why are there civil courts?

> Thats nonsense.

A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.

> This sounds nonsensical.

Such is the great chain of being.
You raise an interesting hypothesis - that all interactions between science and policy making is subject to Goodhart's law
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law).

In as much as science deals with things that cannot be affected by policy (ex: stellar physics or nuclear fusion), the "law" doesn't apply I think, except maybe in perception (people may believe that a particular nuclear fusion technique doesn't work even though it's been demonstrated but policy forbade it to be implemented).

For some cases, we would want Goodhart's law to apply - ex: climate change. We'd want actions to be taken to reduce the impact on the planet as we gather and report climate parameters accurately. Similarly, we'd want accurate reporting of gender discrimination in society to result in the reduction of such discrimination. The question really is the way the change is effected. If "salary difference" is an indicator of gender discrimination for example, law makers can pass laws that fix it, thereby removing its effectiveness as an indicator .. but we're happy for even that at some level. That would be similar to a government sending teams to re-freeze melting glaciers because climate scientists are using it as an indicator of global warming.

True policy thinkers, though, would want to ask the "five whys" and work to fix the underlying problem.
> So you had Joe Biden as the nominee for the Democratic Party and then Joe Biden also listed as the nominee for the Working Families party.

I’m confused how this works. The candidate themselves doesn’t have to claim they are from a particular party to be listed as such? That seems wrong or misleading but what is the point? Is it some kind of hack to garner enough votes for a party to trigger some kind of funding?
Most of your yearly 15 tons is emitted via specific exhaust pipes, where capture part is quite easy problem, even without these cooling towers. The big problem is what to do with all of it: there is no commercial use/market, especially if you want that to be climate friendly, ie not dumped to atmosphere quite soon anyway. We'd need to think of it as toxic waste, similar to nuclear one, to be stored forever underground, but can we (as civilization) afford it?
Yeah I think the mainstream porn industry they test once a month and it's enforced. Also AID's has a different exposure risk profile. The chance of getting it per exposure is actually low. As an aside I know three people who had every reason to expect they were infected and they weren't.
I do t know how many reporters you know but an Ivy League education doesn’t automatically make you rich. Especially if you become a reporter, social worked, public defender, or painter.
> As with the previous article I am yet to see a single shred of hard evidence. I would take this series with a healthy dose of skepticism.

"As long as knowledge has not been attained, the skeptics aim not to affirm anything."

I would ask HN readers if they believe the Snowden leaks about NSA's TAO unit? If so, why so much doubt that other superpowers practice similar operations?
Independent reproduction of a successful prediction by a proposed scientific model would be a first step towards a predictive track record, yes. But only a first step. A solid predictive track record for a model has to be built up over a substantial period of time and a substantial number of accurate predictions, not just one trial and one replication.

Note, also, that in many cases trials that produce statistically significant results, even when replicated, are not testing any actual model. They are just testing a hypothesis about a correlation. Correlation is not causation, and most such trials are not even capable of testing an actual causal model--they can test for the presence of a correlation, but not why it is present. Figuring out the actual causal process and developing a predictive model based on it takes more follow-up work. So really most such trials are just a first step towards developing a predictive model at all--but even after such a model is developed, you then have to take the time to assemble a good predictive track record for the model.
I use fakespot but I’ve noticed merchants now dogging fakespot as well. I am not sure about other folks here, but merchants selling these gift cards to people should be illegal and I am so sure if Amazon announces a reward for such actions people will themselves report it.
I see. UX aside though, is there any advantage to Blue Prism? Just wondering if there's room for both here. Also what are your thoughts on the Microsoft offering?
> It would be nice if we could see more about how ordinary [North Korean] people live

I don't think "nice" is the word to use here.
Many Amazon sellers openly solicit good reviews with a card included with the purchase promising discounts or gifts for good reviews.

This method would just increase that. "We'll pay you $100 if you get chosen and write us a 5-star review" would be a reasonable offer for both buyer and seller.
It seems like the only hope for a solution here is competition? One would assume review sites need to both be more honest, and take a smaller commission, before they gain market dominance.
For money, it's mostly Google. And that's the offer I've taken, turning down an AWS offer in Berlin. I am an EU citizen, so there's no meaningful barrier to living in Switzerland. It was a very hard choice vs Berlin though.
> no serious ML research will use it for training anything else than toy models

They will use it to edit code, deploy and remotely run jobs. Serious deep learning on laptops is a non-starter, on any laptop, on account of heat dissipation.
You're unsure about why social connections (in the form of invites) on a social network are relevant?
Show HN: Categorize people/posts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
Some targets don't support integer division/remainder or some floating point ops in hardware and automatic vectorization can add/remove branches in places that won't be easily predictable.
But that just pushes it back a level. How does the outside force arrive at its decisions? Whatever it is, it has an effect on a body, so it must be measurable; could we perform something like Libet's experiment on it?
It's the 'getting caught' bit that matters. In science truth wins out over the long term and that is in large part due to how the scientific method has been structured. Keep in mind that the difference between fraud and self delusion is very hard to determine and that humans suffer a lot from the second. That we also fix fraud with the same countermeasures is a win.
> Also the fact that you can convert US dollars to investments instantly instead of consuming basically extends the same situation, yet we still spend when we need to.

I've actually wondered about this -> why not use the SP500 as a form of currency? It seems like this would fit somewhere in between the US dollar and Bitcoin - store of value, increases in price over time (or at least historically does), pays dividends (so a productive asset). Downsides are no capped supply, and volatility (but so is Bitcoin).
> Amazon loves fake reviews as long as they are 5 star.

Do they? It's not immediately clear that an Amazon where the average item has 4.7 stars would sell more stuff than an Amazon where the average is 4.2 stars. Consumers mostly compare items against others on the same site and it's possible that all grade inflation does is make the top performing items harder to separate out and makes buying harder.

As a counterpoint, Uber suffers from ridiculous grade inflation and it doesn't appear to have made riders love them any more. It's simply resulted in everyone adapting to 5 = slightly above average, 4.9 = average, 4.8 = run away screaming.
> There isn't a choice.

What do you mean? That individual people aren't capable of deciding what they need vs. what they want and prioritize accordingly? Even if that were true (and I don't think it is), it would not imply that unelected bureaucrats with no stake in the outcome could do any better.

Or do you mean that you refuse to accept any structure of society that allows people to make such decisions for themselves?
> What kind of stone could it be that a cast iron pan wouldn't be both higher thermal conductivity and also higher heat capacity?

cast iron pans are great, but a pizza stone can be much thicker than a skillet, so you can get a lot more heat capacity. not sure about the conductivity, but some "stones" are made of steel anyway.
There is even a counterfeit book problem on Amazon
That’s nice and all, but none of those things but SB35 actually matters in any real way that I can tell - and SB35 passed in ‘17 and so far hasn’t changed anything important, or we wouldn’t still all be bitching about the exact same thing we have been since well before then!

SB50 never passed, Modesto can ‘be pissed’ (why exactly?) at the higher property values and income all their residents who work in SF are benefiting from - they don’t seem to be trying to change that equation much! Sure someone is complaining about it, but when is THAT not the case about... everything?

I’m also curious what standing or stake they could claim (you assert they have one) - are they all paying property taxes in SF, or City residents who aren’t being allowed to vote because they commute to their second homes in Modesto? Or are they just driving in and out for jobs, and have as much claim to authority on how the city should run it’s business as a UPS driver dropping off a package?

I’m also curious what legal standing Phoenix or SF could claim for a suit against each other for.... people moving of their own free will between those cities for economic reasons? That would be quite an interesting lawsuit at the federal level for sure! Who would end up paying whom anyway? The city that was too expensive for otherwise qualified labor; so they moved to somewhere cheaper and are now contributing, tax paying, members of society there? Or the evil ‘good citizen’ stealing city luring productive (but maybe not 7 figure earning) folks away with bribes like affordable housing?
You could detect if stdout is a terminal and then decide for fanciness or machine readability. I think this, along with flags for manually setting rich features, would provide the best of both worlds.
The article argues why it would be more expensive in the short term.

The argument I've seen for bringing production closer to home is that it's going to be painful either way so we ought to rip the bandaid off, because every year that we continue the status quo represents more money and market power amassed by other nations on the back of American demand.

There's more to corporate or economic strategy than today's cost of doing business.
It annoying to me the extraordinary divisiveness conversations on ketogenic diets generate at this point. But I get we are still in the middle of the learning curve scientifically, and there is a lot of confusion.

If you follow the threads though, it’s becoming more and more clear though that practicing keto on a more or less ‘permanent’ basis, might not be the best choice for everyone. It goes both ways though, the ‘food pyramid’ they taught us growing up where the whole thing is based on bread & pasta is almost certainly bad too.

The real benefits come from having a flexible metabolism that can ‘switch gears’ and go back and forth between carb burning and fat burning. This switch triggers a cascade of beneficial mechanisms is our bodies, so riding the line and being flexible is the best place to be I think.

In the short term however, there are clear benefits to strict keto. An anecdotal example in my own case after practicing strict keto for about 6 months, I inadvertently cured my lifelong battle with acid reflux.

I had no idea that would happen. I was honestly doing it in a general attempt to be more healthy and cut sugar out of my life. But I had a problem with heartburn literally since I was 13 years old. I used to have to eat rolaids like candy. I had on and off bouts with prescription strength stuff like Prilosec & others.

After 6 months of keto my gut was permanently healed, even after stopping keto. I no longer need any medicine. Short term keto is a real treatment for acid reflux, this is something I think gets overlooked.

I no longer practice keto, but a lot of the concepts I learned still stick with me. I practice intermittent fasting many days but not always. If I feel like eating breakfast I do. If I want some bread or pasta I eat it. But I don’t base my diet on it.
On 24 hour flights SYDNEY-VANCOUVER-OTTAWA. Being able to slip out of my shoes while sleeping. Make sure you have thick woolen socks as I find planes do get pretty cold. Maybe its just me. And fluids every two hours. Lots of aloe based moist napkins. I hate it when my snot hardens in my nose. Choosing your seats carefully when booking by getting seat on a row that is empty although this is a bit of a gamble. And my fav although it might cost a few bucks extra is getting emergency exit row seats which gives you some extra leg space.
>> Does this really count as mutability though? Not really. The string would be thrown away anyway so this is just an optimization to reuse the memory. The important takeaway here is that you are not allocating a new string every single time like the internet says.

The important takeaway is that semantic immutability does not require or depend on implementation immutability. It's a 'levels of abstraction' thing. Once you let the users peek behind the curtain, however, it becomes much more difficult to be sure they cannot shoot themselves in the foot by so doing.
That's the problem. If you can't define it, you don't actually understand it.
Mostly good advice. Having done Australia-UK five times last year (pre-COVID) I can speak with some experience:

- Noise-cancelling earphones are a must. I have some expensive cordless Bose headphones that can be worn for hours, even when there's nothing playing. They really make a difference (background roar is more tiring than you realise).

- If you're in economy, don't put anything in the footwell - you will need that space to stretch out. Also, economy headrests have little 'wings' that you can pull out and that you can lean your head against.

- Dress as if you're spending a long day outdoors. For me that's comfortable hiking pants, thin layers, fleece jacket. Wear slip-on shoes that expand, because your feet will swell after hours of sitting. Breast pockets are good to keep boarding passes and passports handy.

- Go into lizard mode. Just accept that it's twelve or fourteen hours and there's nothing you can do about it. This too shall pass.

- Most modern airliners have USB ports at every seat. Bring cables to charge your gadgets.
On one hand, no, but on the other hand I would expect that they preempt inevitable leaks of such information.
Tensorflow is natively accelerated on M1. The branch is different - https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos

Not sure what the confusion was.
I was the person who got the VAL language from Victor Scheinman and Bruce Shimano at Unimation.

I wonder what version you are running. I made several modifications to the original code.
Well, there's probably truth to the intellectual property factor as well. The business equation is a complex multivariate problem with a long list of variables. Each and every one of them contributes in one way or another. For the last 12 months we've been learning about this new "pandemic" variable, whose coefficient went from 0 to 1 in an instant.

I see people often simplify businesses along high contrast dividing lines: big/small, greedy/not greedy, green/dirty, startup/lifestyle, etc.

Anyone who simplifies businesses along any line on a monochromatic plane has never run enough of a business to fully understand just how complex things can be. They grab one variable (minimum wage, taxes, regulations, oil, etc.) and think it can be manipulated without it affecting the aforementioned multivariate equation.

A sad example of this just took place a few weeks ago in California. I think it was in San Diego that the politicians decided grocery workers had to have a $4 per hour "hero" raise due to working through COVID. While everyone could agree that there are people who made sacrifices for the rest of us, as I learned to say, some problems don't pass math and physics. the end result was that the Kroger company, which owns Ralphs and a bunch of other brands, closed four stores (maybe 2, don't remember) because there was no way they could keep the doors open if they paid everyone an extra $4 per hour. So, a forced wage raise actually destroyed jobs --and this happened nearly instantly-- and people who had work found themselves on the street.

Businesses are not single variable problems.
> people still want/need guidance on purchases

It’s funny because Amazon normalized folks needing reviews on things before buying it.
Cats like warmth, and computers do not like warmth.

It's possible that the cat shows up when temperature is higher, and higher temperatures are more likely to make a computer crash.

When I was a kid, my cat would sit on top of the CRT monitor, because it was warm.
Sounds like a variation of that rock band asking for a bowl of only brown m&m from the venue - at risk of voiding the contract if not provided - in the middle of their safety requirements document (if they didn't give them brown m&ms they know they didn't read the document throughout).
Why would you expect hard evidence from a national security concern like this? Seems like the very nature of this makes it unverifiable.
looks great! could I use it to get better airpod pro mic audio quality on my mac via the iPhone?

to clarify: airpod audio quality works fine paired to mac, but when you want to also use the mic (e.g zoom call), the mic audio quality is horrible. Some bluetooth limitation on macs? not sure, but it’s a known problem[0]. Audio and mic quality on the iphone however is great. no problem at all.

so that’s the reason I’m asking if it’s possible to connect both audio and mic to the mac via the iphone to work around this limitation? ie mac <> sonobus <> iphone <> airpods

[0] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282705/airpods-ext...
I really don't get this. You can just use a SYCL backend that compiles to OpenCL or SPIR and target AMD GPUs. I did it yesterday. Use ComputeCpp and target AMD GPUs.

If you're using Blender it can absolutely make a ton of sense to use AMD hardware. For most of the time where Blender supported GPGPU AMD was the best choice, and I set up rendering servers with AMD hardware for that express purpose.

I feel like a big part of this attitude is from not actually having tried it. Because SYCL works fine on AMD. In fact, you have more backend options for AMD than NVidia.
Sonobus is compatible with Jacktrip?
amazon's return policy is pretty good though AFAIK? 30 days no questions asked and they pay the return shipping. pretty sure the transaction gets reversed immediately, or at least as soon as the first scan on the return shipment. not a lot of retailers beat that.