skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take on it. No one believed Trump would do it, not wanted to give him a win. So there was little upfront planning. Then the vaccine was announced and people scrambled. Here in WA, a month after they got the first vaccines they decided to open songs vaccine centers. As if it was a new idea. Why weren't these ready to go day 1?
Then there is the whole mess of who gets it. Should have been strictly by age. Instead there is a huge list of who can get it. And it was supposed to be done without discrimination. But because of the long list of exceptions, it makes it easy to discriminate.
Then there was the whole save the second dose... No give everything out.
While there are people who want to wait, that really isn't the problem. A freezer broke here, in the middle of the night and the put it a message in social media and delivered all the vaccines within hours.
The stupid thing is, if they have the vaccine just to the elderly, we could practically go back to normal in like a month...
While I agree they should be more clear that the main focus of the study is about rats, reading the study suggests they did link it to human patients with atrial fibrosis. AF patients had higher β-OHB concentrations than healthy people, which is one of the by products of a ketogenic diet. Not a direct link to KD, but certain a point of interest. I think this study is a decent case for follow up studies at the very least.
Pinecone: A Vector Database for Machine Learning Applications
Not to mention branches and branch prediction can be a cause of understudied (and possibly) vulnerable interactions like Spectre/Meltdown.

It's also worth mentioning that branching is a critical part of any recursive function, or else it would not know when to terminate. In some cases the function call could be linearized, but it again becomes a compiler runtime cost analysis.
So, what, some time after the line, after a sale was made, during fulfillment, a Chinese super-spy managed to open up specific server that the juicy target was getting and solder some special chip onto the board somehow in a way that worked instead of bricking the board?

I mean, honestly, hats off if that's the case. That would be pretty cool. But you need actual evidence for such a tale.
Considering that after almost 25 years there is still no functionality for reporting listings as being fraudulent or counterfeit, that tells you exactly where amazon's priorities lie.
And a lot of very brittle limestone. It sounds far from ideal for building a tunnel but I'm no expert.
Still, all those people who were recommending keto diets for rats have some explaining to do.
Better idea: Fall back to trusting brands.

What does Amazon really offer now: 1) Search convenience, which is really not that big of a deal and 2) Fast delivery but everyone is catching up and do we really need that thing in 2 days instead of 3?

I never buy on Amazon and I don't feel as though I'm missing out.
The Pandemic Pushed This Farmer into Deep Poverty. Then Something Happened
Interesting!

I had known that thread-local variables can be access pretty fast, via dedicated segment register, but I was not clear how can one make this work for dynamically loaded PIC code, like most .so files.

Turns out you can't. You only get fast access via dedicated register if you are using variable declared in the main program. The .so files have to call special function which does multiple memory lookups to get the actual location, probably severely reducing performance.

(and this is another case when seemingly simple operation -- getting variable value -- gets internally translated to dozens of operations and a function call)
My goal is to evaluate all of it. I try to have fast and accurate filters.

The goal for info is insight (things you didn't realize before) or knowledge/execution (things you are doing now and want to do better). Throw out anything that isn't this.

Good content is there to solve a problem or share something the author just discovered. Bad content is something churned out because someone was paid to. This might be research papers or freelancer self-marketing pieces on DEV. It could also be an influence piece instead of an opinion piece - it's there to convince you that React is better than Angular, instead of a fair comparison.

Political and current event topics are also worth ignoring too. These are usually designed to manipulate our gossip instinct. We're biologically attuned to knowing if someone is a backstabbing asshole, but if that person lives on the other side of the world it doesn't matter.

Bad sources for me are Facebook, DEV, many newspapers. Just avoid these completely. It takes a while to identify them, but pay attention when you do.

My next filter is headline - anything that smells like the above from the headline gets ignored.

Third filter: is this useful to me now? Looking at the front page, I might actually use Ink. But I won't use it now. I'll bookmark that to get rid of the FOMO. It's fine to let the bookmarks accumulate.

Fourth: Is this actionable? There's a "Physics of Good Pizza" article out here. I could use better pizza. I open it, skim to the conclusion, it talks about a brick oven or a custom oven which I can't afford and many pizzerias around here don't have. I close it and delete; there are no more useful insights.

Finally: Bullshit radar. Is this biased or self-contradictory? Does it try hard to sound smart or is unnecessarily padded? Does it have no conclusion or goes too far off on a tangent? Does the writer not understand the topic to the same depth? Skim through paragraphs. HN/Reddit comments are good for this but be wary of bias.

A recent example was this Dvorak vs Colemak comparison. The author would cherry pick data sets that made Dvorak look good, and acknowledge that Colemak did better, but only on certain studies. The author linked an article that focused on Colemak's biggest weakness, but didn't mention that the same article mentions that Dvorak performed worse in it. So you have to ask yourself, "Is this true?"

It might seem to take a while to do this on everything, but if you can cut out bad sources and filter headlines quickly, you'll get all the good meat and throw out the rest. Now learn to do this with books.
Is there something like this for node(javascript/typescript)?
> the outcome of a process that selects between multiple options

Doesn't this just kick the can down the road? Can you define it without "select", "choose", and other synonyms?
Thanks. I remember reading several blog posts by RPA vendors how RPA is totally not like Selenium... and the more I read the more suspicious I got.
That's definitely 1999-era HTML and layout, except for the "This is an archived page" header, which is the only CSS on the page. The rest is all well-known tricks from the time: tables, image maps, a few embedded images. Heh, it even has the blockquote trick to pad the margins. Brings back some pretty horrid memories.
this is great! it looks fantastic, and the promise of low latency audio across networks is amazing.

the thing I looked for, hoped to see, but didn't find is a standalone non-gui version, or a library implementing the protocol. I would love to drop this onto a headless pi racked up as a eurorack module broadcasting low latency output from hardware to join up. talk about an amazing jam session.

are there any plans for a library, or command line version?
I doubt it was created to benefit others, it looks more like a joke to me.
I tend to drive that relation backwards - what people choose is what they ACTUALLY want (out of their given options).
There’s no incentive to fix reviews. Amazon doesn’t gain anything neither does the company selling the product. Unless you’re willing to pay money for reviews, reviews will never factor in the consumers’ interest. People aren’t willing to pay for content.
The definition of "free will" in this proof is not the same as the one being discussed here. The kind of "free will" that Conway's proof talks about could be exercised by an automated device that randomly chose measurement settings based on some unpredictable quantum event.
Yeah, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out, some day in the far future when we actually understand the human body properly, that we're doing all sorts of interesting processing in the peripheral nervous system and even chemically outside of nerve cells.
Many many computers on the internet have a RTC with second resolution and timer tick resolution in the microseconds. Reference time resolution that's that much higher than your timer tick period is useless.
Scamming verified reviews is already a thing, it's called "Brushing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce)
Its weird to see a follow-up to this that doesn't even begin to acknowledge the broad skepticism of claims except for saying that the previous push-back from the alleged targets was a drop in the bucket.

I don't doubt there are highly-targeted supply chain attacks that happen at the whims of state level actors but the specifics presented by this and its previous reporting still are difficult at best to believe with the reporting as it is presented.
We're talking C. As soon as a ternary calls a function, all bets are off what could be happening in addition to the value being computed.

And thanks to the preprocessor, any identifier could potentially be calling a function.
Yes, it absolutely is (though I do still run my own). I do know that it's easier than setting up a phone provider, however, which is more equivalent to setting up one's own ISP.
Better idea: Only verified buyers who have been on Amazon for X amount of time (or some other process to gain trust) should be allowed to leave reviews.
Espionage and counter-espionage are two concerns that need to be balanced against each other. They’re both handled by the same organisations (sort of), so it’s reasonable to ask where those organisations are setting the balance
the actual seat and back rest was wrapped inside a plastic bag. The fake leather just smelled toxic. Literally the whole room would stink and it would give me headaches until I packed it up for a full refund.

In the past 3 months I have ended up returning 80% of my purchases from Amazon because the 5 star reviews did not match with the actual product's performance or quality.
Perhaps, but how?

If Amazon sells 10,000 Acme Widgets and sends an email to just 1% of those customers asking for a review. How is Acme going to game that? Pay all 10,000 purchasers of their product so that the 1% that get the Golden Ticket to write a review give them 5 stars?

The problem seems to me to be that the reviewer gets to decide to post a review. Turn it around and have Amazon select reviewers at random and you've made it much harder to game.
It's not a perfect replacement for mouse-focus, but most Mac apps can be interacted with without bringing them to the foreground by holding down command before clicking on the inactive window's controls. Also, right-clicking usually won't surface windows. Won't allow you to type but it's good enough for pasting bits in terminal windows, toggling settings, etc without changing which app or window is frontmost.
Is there a way to view a list of rooms? I want to listen to something!
Apple laptops will never be good at anything compute intensive.

At a certain point, you need just raw throughput, which requires power, which means a bigger chassis with louder fans, which ruins all the aesthetics of macs.
This is really interesting! I've been thinking of creating a TUI version of a marketplace I'm running in the UK. The idea is that most of our time on marketplaces is spent on discovering the product we are looking for and that is much easier to do without all the bloat of modern apps. What do the people on HN think?
Gnome Shell UX Changes: The Research
I know a lot of top sellers who did this, it’s hard for the newbies now
Check out the local TV interview of "Eric Ramen" :D : http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/videos/abc.mpg
There are a lot of good work digging into the mechanism of how it causes cardiac fibrosis in rats. I don't think we should completely dismiss it just because it is in a non-human model. If anything, this study allows us to try to use the same assays on humans to see if we can observe similar results.
> Granted this is a completely niche persnickety problem

I'm in the exact same boat - completely resonate with your desire to avoid breaking flow - and I doubt I would have thought of this solution if it weren't for your post above.

Thanks.
Tim Cook just tortures us with port changes and overpriced dongles
They should definitely package a unique QR code for verified reviews in the delivered package.

Right before Christmas this year, my dad got a package of some iWatch bands he didn't order, and some other small accessories. It was addressed to him, from some random name he didn't recognize. He asked around all of his friends and family to see if anyone ordered pseudononymously. Presumably this was done in order for someone to be able to generate a fake "verified review" at the peak of Christmas shopping.
I'm definitely much more a fan of the trackpad, too. I like the Magic Mouse more than you do, evidently, but I don't actually like mice that much in general. :)
permy.link strikes again
I don't agree with them but I really miss the innocence, novelty of the internet, the spirit of the 90s that these photos and their protest represents. Nobody screaming with phones out filming each other, hive mind duking it out on Twitter with memes or Youtubers "exposing" each other, etc.
Maybe a better distinction is how some things are "hard to define" but "easy to understand".
Who should stop journalists who write science fiction as fact? Machines do not have "ethics." AI, in the sense of a conscious, morally culpable agent does not exist.
Good idea. Just list percent returns instead.
Deep dive on Tether (Fall 2019)
It's more like Microsoft and Microbusoft or Instagram and Instagrabum
How are so many people buying counterfeit stuff on Amazon? What are they buying? Why would someone copy it? Are they just looking at price?
I'm just spitballing, but what do you guys think about this as a fake-resistant review system?

To list your product on Amazon as a seller, you pay $500 per year as a "review incentivization fee." The algorithm randomly selects buyers and emails them 1 month after their purchase. They are offered $10 to write a review. The chance of being randomly selected as a reviewer auto-adjusts to target a goal of 50 reviews per year, and no one except those people is allowed to post reviews. Also, reviewers can update their reviews later if their impression of the product changes.

If a seller wanted to keep farming reviews, they would now have to buy up the vast majority of their own inventory in the hopes of being selected. Also, my system prevents people who are experiencing one-in-a-million problems (or who are just habitually disgruntled) from dominating the conversation.
this is an old story

it happens a lot in the past 2017,2018

there's lots of such services sold on marketing forums

in my opinion,

rating should based on how much products sold

whatcha think?
Replace particles with fields in which particles are the result of excitation in the fields. Fields are the fundamental stuff of reality, and particles are emergent from field interactions.
I do it. It’s easy because the site prompts me to do it. And I’m happy to help future buyers.
If Hillel Wayne’s talk on empirical software design is any good measure then either method is fine[0] so long as you and the team you work with can agree about it’s utility in code review. If it’s just you on the project then do whatever is most comfortable.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WELBnE33dpY
Using MongoDB with Express – Part 2
I'm surprised that after all these years and even with a request to point out typos in the end, this misspelling has survived:

"...manufacturers would truely refund people..."
Based on how many people are talking about this stuff, I can't imagine how I have survived since 1997 without buying anything counterfeit off Amazon. What are people buying? How are you searching? Do you have any criteria when you buy something?
Sellers already pay people to write reviews– and compensate for the product. How is this system any different?

> If a seller wanted to keep farming reviews, they would now have to buy up the vast majority of their own inventory in the hopes of being selected.

They already have 100 people buy their product and fully pay for it for a review.
There are lots of weird things that happen in reviews (from real people). I've often come across three-star reviews which say:

"Product was awesome, but shipping took three days, not one".

There are other reviews I've found useful, for example ones that point out minor flaws. That ability would be lost if you had a simple "good/bad" reaction only.
No please don’t Netflix the Amazon reviews. There is a huge advantage in granularity. Everything in life isn’t so binary, where you either loved or hated it. There is so much gray area in between that makes ratings useful. Netflix neutered their whole rating system when they introduced the thumbs up and down system.
Upgrades are hard even when they subtle.

Iterating hardware is extremely complex.

The internal layout of the phones changes every year and all the supply chain needs to get instructions to get the exact adjustments.

New parts need to be procured. New software needs to be integrated and tested.

Every year there are major software updates that launch new stable OS versions.

Every year your ecosystem evolvez and you have to keep everyone in the loop.

I find mind-blowing how good they are at re-aligning all the pieces after major shifts like form-factors or adding propietary silicon.

It’s even more mind-blowing when you think that they are producing millions of these devices and distributing around the world at key times of the year.

I know for some people it’s hard to see innovation in their year updates. But they need nearly perfect operational coordination to achieve what they do at their scale.
Sure - but you’re less likely to want to leave a five star review if the product pissed you off.
Lately I just ask myself ‘what’s the point of discussing this’, and find it easy to ignore stuff. I fail miserably a lot, but on some days it saves me the trouble. We can discuss certain things ad nauseam and not come to any new meaningful insight. It’s like looking at a finished chess game where all the pieces are in place and there are no more moves to make.
I wrote a quick test script. You're right that pypy doesn't have this optimization.
It seems to me that admin rights to the bitcoin core github repo count for a lot more than a 30% vote.
The equivalent of "medicare for all is impossible" would be that an approach saying "anti spam is impossible so we wont do anything". That is not the case. While I do not know about amazon reviews I would bet its a fairly likely case that they do have teams trying to fight this spam.

The equivalent in your example would be saying we have medicare for all but for some people the system does not work. Thats the state of the world we are in, we are making efforts but they will never be 100% 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.

See thats the thing, the only people who know this for certain is the ones who have access to Amazon data. You or I dont know the experience for "most online shoppers". If anything looking at data has repeatedly made me realize that we in tech have a very bad understanding of "generalized overall population" cohorts.
And that's taking advantage of another longstanding Amazon loophole.
Doesn't the EU lean towards privacy protection for individuals? I'm assuming Sweden being a member, means that EU laws would take precedence if someone wanted their information removed from websites like these?
I liked HCL until I did some infra writing in Pulumi Typescript, and now I just want all my config files to be code.
From my experience, the $500 Intel NUC in my basement has greater reliability than nearly every single company which calls their IT departments "SREs" now.

As an old school IT professional, I would recommend considering most of these companies' advice "how not to engineer reliability".

It's possible beyond a certain scale real reliability just isn't possible anymore, but then, anyone below that scale should also avoid SRE practices. Aka, do not use this for your side project.
Walmart also lets you (or did before covid) just throw the product at the local store and they’d handle it. Very nice.
This is a useful trick for quickly vetting just about anything that's outside your area of expertise. Often a simple search like "X sucks" or "X is bad" can be very telling. It's a good sign when it's difficult to find well written negative reviews. Of course, there are many misguided negative reviews, but they can still help you make an informed decision.
Delivery Drones Physically Impractical
> Is windows better or worse than macs/osx with Linux hostility? To me, it seems like Microsoft is less bad than Apple in this regard.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Personally I like the Mac because it lets me run Unix stuff in a no BS way from the command line. It also runs Docker fine (haven't tried it on the M1).

It doesn't have something like WSL, but it doesn't really need it because you can compile most things for the MacOS command line.

Windows needs to run Linux well because it isn't Unix. The Mac is BSD Unix.
It might reduce the incentive for the seller to deal with post-sales problems after that 1-month period. Once they see a person hasn't been selected, they can ignore any of their support requests without worry of a bad review.
When Newton developed the theory of gravity it wasn't intuitive that all matter in the universe attracts all other matter. But also wasn't incompatible with our intuitions---it was learnable.

What I see in QM right now "smells" like we're having to compromise too many intuitions to reconcile what the experiments are showing us with the way we expect the universe ought to be working. I agree that the universe is under no obligation to work the way we expect it to---problem, what we have right now in QM is a lack of agreement on how to even rework our intuitions to match our observations and the reality the theory describes. That suggests to me that---much like epicycles, or like gravity being separated from acceleration before relativity---the stories we are telling ourselves about what we see are still too complicated, and a simpler explanation that requires us to sacrifice fewer pieces of intuition has not yet been reached.

This is, to be clear, extrapolation. I have no way to know whether such simplification exists or whether we have hit the boundary where nature actually refuses to conform in such a way to our senses and minds that we can change our intuitions to follow her. It's not impossible that this is the case. But if it is, it's a break from the pattern of physics discovery up to this point in human history.
> they haven’t a clue

Excuse me? They have plenty of "clues". Have a look at this for some recent work from the google group:

https://scirate.com/arxiv/2102.06132

Will it lead to quantum computers in the future remains to be seen, but "haven't a clue" is just nonsense.
Electric vehicles may not be the climate answer after all
And you can implement Dropbox in a weekend with a NAS.
Up to 6 high-interest savings accounts that only invest in clean energy buildout
Im only half kidding, but kind of mad man wants more kanbans in their life?