skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this is a total strawman argument. Who cares if you have a few false positives? What is the downside of marking a review as fake when it's not? Next to nothing. You don't even have to tell the person who submitted the review it was treated as fake.
New AI Can Detect Emotion with Radio Waves
We have several "Windows PCs" at work, but my coworkers see them as "PC that I use to operate X instrument", "PC that lets me do Y". While people obviously do recognize the Microsoft logo and brand on them, mentally they're just tools. I think most people view computers as a means to an end - to get something done.
Unfortunately some people are dumb enough to give Amazon free business. I used to be that naive myself.
No. 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.

Speculation: I read last time that Bloomberg rewards the authors of stories that cause stock swings and the last time this came up there was a sizeable swing which had almost returned to normal when this story was released.
> Who ... takes the time to log back in and leave a product review when the product arrives?

Nice people who want to help others out, and angry people who want their money back.
Fascist Means, Green Ends
I get so annoyed by authors that bury this point. Rodents are NOT tiny humans. Although there are some findings that carry over, there is much that does not.
Fauci wins $1M Israeli prize for ‘defending science’
When your counterfeit Michelins blow out and your engine siezes up on the counterfeit Castrol you may have a different view on prices and value.
I stopped buying electronics after receiving a counterfeit Playstation controller, from the actual, Amazon Choice, PlayStation store. Unsurprisingly, my review that contained a teardown comparing the internals of a genuine controller with the counterfeit didn't ever make it to the product page.

I also stopped buying anything health/body related after receiving some "organic bees wax" for some DIY candles that smelled like a chemical plant and melted at the wrong temperature (who knows what it was) and some vitamin D pills that were all melted.
I only trust reviews of persons I personally know. At least I know the person exists. However, many of these FB likes seem to be over-motivated by some campign trick, but I also know already who are usual suspects there, so can filter them out.
> They're probably a lot easier for screen-readers, too.

That might be true for more minimal TUIs, but I don't think most screen-readers can handle the multi-paneled ones like OP.
This happens whenever Churchill is mentioned. Since he was fought against Nazis seems people don't want to judge his actions not related to it. Since it might picture him not as great man. Most of his opinions are the westerners. What we needed was more articles from Indians since they are the one who were affected.
Indeed, early progress with QM in the first place required letting go of some expectations that were based on macroscopic phenomena. There was a certain effort to clarify those expectations so they could be gotten rid of. This is, at least, what I remember being taught about it.

So, maybe it's time for another round. ;-)
"and many enthusiasts don't seem to understand enough about Bitcoin to even realize it."

Yeah because - smart people in the bitcoin space NEVER spent any time thinking about energy consumption.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T0OUIW89II
Thanks! Would love a TLDR from you or another knowledgeable HNer. I couldn’t tell how big a problem this would be for people who are on the keto or IF spectrums.
I've made it a practice to run ReviewMeta (https://reviewmeta.com) on any unfamiliar item I'm considering purchasing.
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This is half of an idea... people still want/need guidance on purchases.

High quality, curated, independent reviews is probably something that most people would enjoy and appreciate.

That said, the current system is fairly worthless, and what little worth it has is based on hacking it by looking at a specific subset of reviews.
It can definitely be said that this may be an indicator of a larger security issue at the company. But assuming that issue is the cause for the backdoor, yes that is a leap, and an unfounded one. Correlation != Causation, and it's always unreasonable to assume otherwise.
One of the biggest revelations in this pandemic remote work era is you don't 6 layers of management just to forward emails to each other.

Lots of management turns out to be was just for crowd control.
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Not you. If you can use ansible, for God's sake use ansible.
It's important to remember that the whole point of the keto diet is to introduce a near-fundamental change in your body's metabolism, including brain function.

It should be regarded the same way you would regard a very potent medication-- one that does not have FDA approval. It's probably the sort of thing you should approach with extreme caution and the advice of a doctor & dietician.
> “ But I'm happy (or privileged?) to live in a place where I do trust my law enforcement to be on the side of our community,”

May I ask where that is? Because it could not be any location in the US.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16925588

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11269782
I don't follow how punctuated equilibrium fits in here, but I do agree with your general intuition. Evolution 'likes' spaces that are navigable. Protein evolution is, in my mind, the paragon of this: even though the space of possible amino acid sequences is tremendously huge, since 2010 relatively few new folds have been discovered, and it seems that there are only ~ 100k of them in nature. See https://ebrary.net/44216/health/limits_fold_space

Proteins get the substrate right, and a handful of folds are sufficient for all the interactions an organism could need -- so evolution can find new solutions quickly. (It only took hundreds of millions of years for LUCA's parents to figure /that/ out.)

It seems that being able to parameterize the problem space such that solutions are plentiful and accessible via random search is nearly equivalent to solving the problem... In this case, using an ANN to stand in for ('parameterize') organismal development is entirely reasonable (and would hence 'solve' the problem), look forward to seeing the results of that. But as with the OP I'm cautious as to the efficiency of backprop vs evolution.
A toaster has fairly benign failure modes, so this strawman isn't really a reasonable one. Though I hope you understand toasters enough not to trigger your smoke alarm every time.
Can't they just issue a redirect, either via dns or via nginx to github.com instead of showing the page if it was truly altruistic?
Dial-up pool in 2020 on Raspberry Pi
The guy who developed this goes by the moniker geohot. He was the first person to ever jailbreak an iPhone, as a teenager. He then went on to do the same for the PS3.

This guy is incredibly talented and is trying to put retrofit self-driving tech into the hands of everyone.
What tools are the car tire in this analogy? I recall it was ridiculously easy to develop rich text applications from Turbo Pascal/Turbo Vision. I believe there’s a modern port of Turbo Vision as well
I’ve got an uuni 3, which is great. I find the greatest difficulty is getting the temperature high to bake properly but not burn. It look me a while to realize that just because the oven can hit 924f doesn’t mean that’s the best temperature to bake pizza at. YMMV based on how you construct your pizzas, but I’ve found ~800 to be the right working temperature for me.
People get around many of these by simply leaving one room (the garage typically) standing.

Not a demolition now. Just renovating (90% of the house).
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Témoin Du Climat. Climate Witness
Yeah, of all the people I know I don't think a single person has experienced a proper rolling blackout. Nearly everyone is either a) fine, or b) hasn't had power in 12-24 hours. It's a mess.
A follow up devoid of any concrete evidence to a flaming article devoid of any concrete evidence. Why are they even doubling down on this?
If this is as wide-spread as they claim, I'm sure someone donated a "bugged" board for them to have prodded by experts, right?
> All with Apple's own custom designed chips, even relying on the same chip fabs as those other companies, and still managing to mostly avoid the huge shortages that those others have faced is impressive.

I would not be surprised if the other companies are having shortages because of Apple taking up most of the fab capacity and support engineers.
The title of this paper is so deliberately misleading that I flagged the submission.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that the human response to ketosis would be at all similar to that of rats. And rats are what they studied.

As long as rags like Nature keep publishing this garbage, hacks will keep producing it. Sad state of affairs all around.
It's not just about physical longevity; whether the software (iOS) still "works" is also important. With older versions of iOS, you have two options:

1. Upgrade to the latest version, which makes the iPhone slower (arguably intentionally).

2. Don't upgrade, but many apps require an updated iOS version to install, so you won't be able to install/update your apps anymore.

Since there's no third party app store, older iphones are just doomed to die slowly. I have a 4s and downgraded as soon as I could to iOS 5. The os is faster but I can install very few apps.
Are you telling me that a spymaster prioritized intelligence gathering?
This comment isn't entirely without merit. If Amazon could guarantee the genuineness of every product and description, and delivery times, is there any need for star ratings? Reviews are better because it's easier to differentiate between fake and real reviews for now ( as fake reviews usually contain grammatically incorrect sentences, multiple copies with different names etc )

That's what we have done at the marketplace I'm running in the UK. There are no seller ratings and users are encouraged to share feedback.
> It’s Congress that decides what qualifies as high crimes and misdemeanors.

I suggest you read your own silly comment again.

No constitional lawyer will say that holding a rally is either of those charges. In fact, the DNC had a rally in 2018 that invaded the Capitol building. I don't see endless sputtering about that, do you? Oh, TDS.

> Did Trump tweet that the protestors should leave? Eventually.

The same day. Unlike Pelosi, who took months to condemn the downtown burnings ... because pandering to intersectionalist votes. Not a good look for one of the top politicians in the US government, is it?

> Well how about asking to find just enough votes in Georgia and threatening consequences for not doing so?

Voter fraud is subject to various laws (ie. consequences.)

Can you name the owner of Dominion voting systems, used in 29 states? The State of Texas couldn't, so Dominion was banned.

Here's a hint: the CCP paid $400 million for Dominion just before the election. The CCP filed a billion dollar lawsuit against Trump associates as part of "lawfare." Now what's your narrative about voting fraud?

Here's a reality check for leftists: Trump is no doubt a narcissist, and you don't have to like him, but he was our leader, and one of the best in the last 100 years. The nearly 5 years of pointless impeachments was shameful - the more petty the DNC gets (and Pelosi is senile enough to admit the impeachments were partisan), the more welcoming the Republican party looks. Think about that.
Sorry, perhaps I don't understand how ternary operators are any different than if; then; else. In fact for readability I very much prefer guard statements that don't include an else at all.
Something about the fact that they don't even bother to provide a redirect adds to the charm.
Ok, we've squeezed rats in the title above.
Right now probably some remote indian village is employing people (like mechanical turk ironically on amazon as well) to write X amount of reviews per day sort of like moderation. In the not so distant future someone will do a GPT3 version of this. Time to reinvent the reviews.
If someone else using the product causes you injury? Putting unsafe cars on the road is terrible.
I work at FAANG, in California, and I moved from the UK to the US specifically because of the money. I’ve been here 16 years now, so relatively senior, but my compensation was just under a half million last year. That’s significantly more than 2x what I, personally, would expect to be getting in the UK.

Regarding taxes, once you’ve taken out state, federal, property taxes and healthcare (just to keep things comparable), I get taxed more in the US than I would in the UK. Property taxes alone run at ~$16k/year.
Surely a "juicy target" then would have sufficient resources to confirm or deny this? Last time this came out though, both Apple and Amazon -- who use SuperMicro servers -- explicitly denied that the servers were compromised.
I’m sorry you got downvoted for asking the question. But I guess it’s 100% better, that doesn’t happen and no one would tolerate that these days, they just work.
I had this happen, left a negative review mentioning the pay-for-review scam, and had the review removed by Amazon because it's "off topic". I don't know if it's just aligned incentives, but Amazon doesn't seem to care about this kind of review stuffing at all.
As you enable each thing, you have to think about it. Maybe you don't really need it. You probably won't configure whatever as wide open as most vendors do for ease-of-use, but consider your own use case.

I mean, historically, some OSes might as well have had the slogan "insecure by default", like Windows XP before service pack 2. Just enable everything and make it wide open. In that era, Linux distributions weren't much different. Possibly, OpenBSD moved the needle in the right direction on that sort of thinking.
My mother-in-law no longer buys anything of significance from Amazon after being burned with counterfeit materials.

I carefully check reviews, use fakespot, etc.

There is a point where the eroding of trust will be significant enough to affect the bottom line. Eventually most people know to not trust Amazon reviews, soon it will be.
An ethicist criticizing surveillance yet taking a paycheck from arguably one of the largest (non-Chinese) surveillance machines in the world screams conflict of interest.
Show HN: Copy-able kanban board of snow removal tasks for a single-family home
The legalistic definition pretty much is the definition used by philosophers who are physicalists (such as Dennett). Basically, the question is not whether physical processes determine what you do; of course they do. The question is, which physical processes? The ones that are going on in your brain, that we label with words like "perception", "cognition", "decision", etc? Or other processes, like the process of someone holding a gun to your head?

The only real difference I can see between the legalistic definition and the philosopher's definition is that the legalistic definition of "coercion" is broader. For example, I mentioned someone holding a gun to your head just now. Legally this would be coercion and wouldn't count as a free decision on your part. But to a physicalist philosopher, this might still count as a case of free will on your part--just free will based on a highly constrained set of acceptable choices given the circumstances. But that's a fine distinction that doesn't change the basic point.
Copied from the Base's description since it's buried behind a tooltip icon:

Copy-able public kanban board that captures snow removal tasks for what I reckon is a typical single-family dwelling with a driveway and/or sidewalk in North America. Fields for blockers, priority, and estimated effort are included. All tasks include acceptance criteria and some contain additional descriptions that may include links to external resources.

These tasks make use of Imperial units. The links regarding legal requirements and postal service guidelines are geared toward USA residents.

I have populated the tasks with estimates and prioritization that reflect my own needs, please don’t feel obligated to apply my own estimates and prioritization to your own unique residence.

If you feel that a certain addition or edit would be generally useful, please add a comment or send me a message and I’d be happy to consider an update to this board. In particular, it would be nice to internationalize this board in earnest. Thank you for reading!
Ok, but can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments, and please not use HN primarily for political battle? We're trying to avoid those things here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's an idea that would never work: how about a financial incentive straight from Amazon for leaving negative reviews?

Let's imagine a universe where Amazon does away with the star rating system and replaces it with a pro/con "tag" list. (e.g. "high quality" "smells bad" "broke quickly"). They then only allow reviews from verified buyers of an item. Amazon then contacts some percentage of said buyers proportionate to the number of reviews the item has has/how recently it was listed (to establish a baseline) and offers a small account credit for a reviewer to clearly state at least one thing they didn't like about the item, requiring a response other than "nothing". This would identify trends or common failure points. The more negative reviews a product has, the higher the reward that Amazon hands out. Scammy sellers would have to consistently "beat Amazon's offer" to get fake positive reviews.

In this hypothetical universe... would sellers setup shell accounts to purchase their own inventory and tank their other products' reviews for Amazon credit? Or would they buy out their own inventory to increase the ratio of positive to negative reviews? Would the cut that Amazon takes for using their platform outweigh the cost of paying off buyers/purchasing their own inventory? Would the cost to Amazon be worth the increased customer engagement?
They addressed it in Russia btw. Now it is the law that whoever accepts the payment carries the responsibility. So shit like

> manufacturers typically say that they can't refund the windows license and tell the user to contact microsoft directly

won't fly anymore.
What are you talking about exactly?
Anecdotal: rented until out first child was school-age. The school near where we were renting was not good so we decided to move.

The thought of school and a child nurtures in you a kind of "long term" view. I believe that lead to our buying our first home rather than continuing renting.

If we are planning on staying in the same place (school district) for 13 years it suddenly made sense to put down roots of a housing nature as well.
I think the vilification of all carbs is misguided. Complex carbohydrates and resistant starch should be kept in the diet. Straight sugar is the real killer.
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. It's emphatically not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would. Because I don't talk down to people or change my speech patterns around people.

Unlike, say, those who "champion" people and then speak down to them.

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/yale-study-white-liberal...

I prefer to talk to people as if they aren't handicapped (or less because they are POC) and can handle regular words.
Yes, using AI to spot fake reviews seems like a fools errand to me.

However, why doesn't Amazon only allow those who have purchased to leave reviews?

And to ban any company offering monetary or equivalent incentives to leave reviews?

I suggest they are not even trying to tackle the problem.
It's not a dark pattern but Ive already clicked away to research other products.

You don't show the price because you want me to talk to a salesperson that has to justify the price. I don't want to talk to a sales person. I want a demo account if it's a service and a number for a technical person to answer questions

Save the pitch for someone who gives a damn

The sales person is an impediment to the sales process
This post didn’t sound right to me, but I realized that my raspi4 GPS NTP server has been running ntp and not chrony. Chrony is better at modeling non deterministic timing behavior, so I swapped to that.

It’s been ten minutes now and chronyc tracking has been marching the offset down. It’s sub 1 us at this point.

System time : 0.000000123 seconds fast of NTP time
Last offset : +0.000000366 seconds

How to get this precise time out of a non deterministic OS? Beats me. Once I figure that out I can finish my clock project.

My best lead is to step through the different python timing and scheduler implementations and see which has the lowest jitter relative to the PPS on an oscilloscope.
Meh. When sufficiently terse, ternary expressions are frequently more readable than a more verbose if/else equivalent. I would agree that ternaries can get out of hand quickly though.
I would say that the majority of communities in the US side with law enforcement, it's minorities that struggle more with police. The police will uphold the needs of the majority (or the government, which is elected by the majority)
> if you apply OR to the brain and the mind, then you ought to be able to apply it to the radio receiver and transmitter

Only if you fail to take the obvious step of looking for the external influence--and finding it in the case of the radio receiver, but not in the case of the brain.

Occam's Razor doesn't say the simplest explanation always wins. It only says the simplest explanation that covers all the facts wins. That means you can't apply it until you have all the facts.
Speaking of figuring out food, is "meat popsicle" some kind of pedophile glossary term?

Freud would be curious to know.
Is there a penalty for early withdrawal?
Noise canceling headphone make my ears feel like they want to bleed if I wear them too long. I use foam ear plugs when I'm sleeping.

Xanex is awesome though only for really long flights. We've all heard of Ambien on planes stories though this is another option for most people.

Keep hydrated with water, planes really dry you out. Peeing is good because blood cots from long flights are a real thing.

Please wear socks if your going to take your shoes off.

Definitely dress in layers.

Portable battery is worth its weight as is a charger which works most of the time.

Instant ramen in a styrofoam cup for domestic flights (they feed you on international flights). Slim jim, beef jerky, nuts, potato chips are other favorites of mine for domestic flights even if I don't eat these often on a normal day.
Extensive discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26144465
Forward this to amazon customer service.
Investors care more about making money than technology.
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN. We ban accounts that post them, so please don't do that again.

If you'd please stop posting unsubstantive comments too, we'd be grateful. You've done that repeatedly, and we're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I trust Walmart's return policy more than Amazon's reviews. I think Walmart gives you 90 days for a return.