skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often it's quite easy to spot these fake reviews. I mean a 10 $ USB-C cable with more Amazon reviews than e.g. the PS5? Sure. The popular "name brands" must really like this as these scammers ruin the collaborative review system for everyone, so people will put more trust in brand names again.

Another funny thing are all the new brands that pop up on Amazon (at least in Germany). They're often picked to sound vaguely familiar (e.g. Orfeld) and trust-inspiring, and their product pages portrait them as century-old companies. Often the products they sell are sourced from whitelabel manufacturers, so you have 20-40 brands offering the same product (for wildly different prices), maybe with some small variation in packaging and color.

Interestingly, some new companies like Anker have managed to build up a good "brand reputation" in 5-10 years, probably also due to the fact that they're no longer at the bottom of the trust chain.
Yeah. As is pointed out down-thread of the linked post, even when it was confined to a niche, garbage collection did what it claimed it would (eliminate the need for error-prone manual memory management) at an acceptable cost for many systems & applications. JITs were similar.

So far, STM and HTM have followed a path more like VLIW instruction sets: Conceptually appealing for their promise of simplification, but in practice only demonstrating success in specialized uses, with the tradeoffs proving unattractive seemingly everywhere else they've been tried.
Power ISA systems are still bi-endian and many systems run big. In fact, the low level OPAL interfaces require you to be in big-endian mode, AIX and i are still BE, and both FreeBSD and OpenBSD have BE flavours for current PowerNV systems. Even a few Linux distros run big (Adelie comes to mind). They're definitely a minority but they're still around.
Unverified claims are useless*

Reviews are largely unverified claims with financial incentives. You bet they're useless.
Yup, here it is: https://www.amazon.com/review/top-reviewers.

Edited to add: I think it takes into account how many people vote your reviews as helpful. I got a lot of helpful votes because I received books weeks or months before they were released (I had a book review blog) and would post reviews on the release date so they would be one of the first reviews up.
Honest question: are you, or have you ever been (or are you planning to be), someone with a direct financial stake in the ad industry? Employee, shareholder, board member, whatever.

The answer to that question will greatly influence what we think of your witticism in the previous comment :-)
Why Amazon allow people that did not purchase the product to review it? Does not make any sense.
There are other fun examples of these extremes. WebMD will pretty much always suggest cancer as a cause of whatever subject you researched. Most of the pharma ads will include "death" as a possible side effect. however, a possible death side effect was much less of a death knell than when olestra had to include anal leakage as a possible side effect.
Tearing out code that has already been written (which would be required here) is analogous to tearing out landscaping that has already been installed. You either don't understand accessibility, analogies, or both.
On the Apple specific case I think any move to RISC V would be because it would want more control than it has with Arm. It could then take the RISC V ISA in the direction it wants.

I'm guessing it already has a lot of influence over Arm though and there are other factors that strongly act in favour of staying with Arm.

If Nvidia takes over Arm though and starts making life difficult for the ecosystem then that could change ....
Shoot, the subject of the book interests me but the review makes the whole thing sound rather deflating. Maybe deflating is good. After all, I think I admire this period in some ways because I associate it with my parents and all the ostensibly "serious" thinkers I read in college -- many of whom, I have to admit, are fairly overrated.
I think the users have brought it on themselves. Almost everyone wants free content, more, more of it! Just say: “You know what? I’m not gonna watch these cat videos on YouTube cause there’s an outrageous number of ads!” Or (and I’m going to sound crazy) we could skip scrolling Instagram and just read a book or take a walk when we need to unwind. Google search is harder to escape, of course.
> For the 4x extra cost you could easily take a backup every 24h.

It's also worth considering the cost to simply regenerate the data for something like this that isn't the source of truth. You'll lose any content that you indexed that has disappeared from the web, but that seems like a feature more than a bug.

> You can do that with NFS.

You're going to be bound by your NIC speed. You can bond them together, but the upper bounds on NFS performance are going to be significantly lower than on S3. Whether that's going to be an issue for them or not, I don't know, but a big part of the reason for separating compute and storage is so that one of them can scale massively without the other.
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Completely agree. Let's say that it was an accidental leak. If you imagine that you were the one that was involved in the leak, how likely is it that you would want be held accountable? There's such a strong motive here for a cover-up, if a leak is the real cause.

This isn't a China thing. It's a human thing. No one wants to be known as the person who destroyed the world like this.
What are you using for metadata storage?
When people choose not to be vaccinated, they endanger those who are unable to be vaccinated. Foregoing vaccination harms others.

The normalized consumption of animal products endangers all people due to the impact it has on the environment in which we live. We are currently living through yet another pandemic caused by the consumption of animals. We are currently dealing with the effects of climate collapse worldwide, helped along by inefficient resource usage for things like animal agriculture.

Consuming plants instead of animals is a trivial change to make both at the individual and societal level and does not harm others.
Over three decades in this business, done a lot of contract work (outside the US), currently FTE at a US company.

Other than all the micro-annoyances that a lot of my fellow posters already mentioned and the general "we own your behind" attitude that a lot of employers seem to exhibit towards their FTE employees, I think there are two really, really important points that a lot of companies haven't figured out and the FAANGs have to an extent.

1. Have a proper career path for senior technical staff. That's the part that most companies haven't figured out. In the minds of the people who design the career paths in a lot of places, it's apparently desirable to become a manager as soon as possible. Not to mention the "why bother, they're going to leave in a couple of year anyway" approach, which is a self fulfilling prophecy.

2. Have problems that actually require a senior engineer, and let them get on with it with a minimum of red tape and political BS. Please note that I didn't say _technical problems_, there is a lot a good senior engineer can do to improve your technical team by mentoring, process improvements, tooling improvements and so on. Most of us who've been in this industry this long love what we do (because otherwise we'd be off working as a bush pilot or something) and want to share our knowledge as we've now become the people who helped us in our careers when we were the more junior people.

3. Listen to your senior engineers. Yes, I know, I wrote "two points". This one's on the house :).
> Without ready access to build machines, one might consider cross compilation. Though we have some support for cross-architecture software generation in the tools, the operating system does not currently support being cross compiled in full.

SPARC or not SPARC, I would love to help with that!
Setting TERM this way causes other subtle problems your local host. Instead I set `alias ssh="TERM=xterm-256color ssh"` which works pretty well.
“Allow Apps to Request to Track” [ On | Off ]

That’s the setting in iOS under Settings > Privacy > Tracking.

What does it actually mean?

If it’s turned off, does that means that apps are tracking you since they don’t have to ask?

If it’s turned on, does that mean apps have to ask and you can disable tracking per app?

Something feels very strange about the way this setting is worded. I’d have excepted something like: “Allow Apps to Track” [ On | Off ]
You might want to check out Snowflake for something like this, it makes searching pretty easy, especially as it seems your data is semi-static? We use it pretty extensively at work and it's great.

For your usecase it'll be very cheap if you don't access it constantly (you can probably get away with the extra small instances, which you are billed per minute).

Not affiliated in anyway, just a suggestion.
I am not perfect, no one is, but it is worse to blindly accept or ignore these problems. It's not about trying to take a moral high ground, it's the acknowledgement of reality. Does an iPhone need/absolutely require slavery or child labor? Does anything?
I hope it gets to 0%.
To me that proves Amazon entices and enables this fake review bs. They give fraudsters everything they need without explicitly saying it.
Comparing smoking opium to fentanyl is just ignorant. The drugs are just tremendously more addictive and potent. A few small baggies of fentanyl could kill dozens. Not the same with opium poppies....
Your lucky. The last two times I tried to post a review on Amazon, Amazon declined the review under some pretense or another.

I've stopped writing reviews on Amazon. Apparently you can't talk trash about a product you were unhappy with....
>Instead of relying exclusively on metrics like time to deliver, drive style safety, tie in a sensible chunk of revenue or bonus to a local community statistic like percentage of accidents in city X or state Y. That's the end result for that community, less accidents holistically, it serves no one that one idiot didn't crash his van but made 3 other people crash.

If they don't reduce or remove the other metrics then you get conflicting instructions of 'deliver at this insane pace' and 'drive safely' so that the company gets something to reduce liability, but on the ground there is no difference to the drivers because they still have to meet their quota. Now they're just in a no-win situation.

>Imagine McDonald's metrics tied in with obesity rate of a nation,

McDonalds isn't dealing with their employees on that issue, so it's hardly relevant.

>Facebook's metrics tied in to rise in extremism,

Facebook isn't dealing with employees on that issue, so it's hardly relevant.

>And any sort of engagement metric

We're not talking about engagement. This is about an employer telling their employees/contractors to meet a quote that necessitates dangerous driving. Adding a 'but you should drive safely, too!' without reducing the quotas/pace required is basically useless, or maybe worse than useless because now the employees have to balance getting the job done on time vs taking risks, and they'll get in trouble for taking a hit either one.
How to Minimize Risks in Software Development Outsourcing – By Valentin
They are counting the volume transacted as revenue, and gross profits as the transaction fee
The money can do that, but it can also go to their bottom line instead, or even be used to lobby against stuff like Right to Repair.

Who knows, the amount Apple has spent lobbying may have allowed them to create a more repairable iphone without increasing consumer prices.
Aerodynamics of Newly Approved Football for English Premier League 20–21 Season
I don't get why exact taste of burgers is so important to some people.

I can stomach burgers from McDonald's if I haven't eaten them in few months. But if I eat them more than one or two times a week they very quickly start to taste like the garbage they are.

It's really dreadful form of food and I was assuming people eat it as last resort when they are really hungry. Not that they indulge in them because the specific flavor is so unique and wonderful.

I always prefer a wrap. But fries and mcmuffins with egg and bacon are super tasty.
I guess these would be considered as proper nouns thereby making them invalid Scrabble words?? Otherwise, hit a tripple word score, and essentially do a mic drop with these when played.
Income is probably the biggest predictor of who will go on to commit violent crime, but guess what also correlates to income? In the US, non-white people are mostly poor.
There are various open-source and white-box network switches and routers - do any of them run big-endian? If not, it must be a solved problem (perhaps by fast-path dedicated ASICs).
I think that's exactly their point: Amazon uses fake reviews to make the poorly advertised cheap crap look like well advertised expensive crap. Therefore, you're more likely to trust Amazon instead of buying the exact same product from Aliexpress.
The 4% figure is not surprising. My suggestion is everyone go into settings and turn off tracking across the board for every app.

The new ad-tracking method seems like a concession to ad companies, IMO with only a 4% user uptake, apple should have just ripped out any ability to track users in apps and told app developers to deal with it.
Bootlickers come in all shapes and sizes
"Obsoleted" is a word? I've only heard "made obsolete" before, or replaced/discontinued/deprecated.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q="app...
95k deaths a year are due to alcohol, many more premature deaths because of obecity, smoking and other vices. So lets be consistent
If it's so much more efficient then why is it sold at 2-3x the price of a normal beef burger? Where does the difference go?
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None of this is surprising. I’m very sad to say this, but the internet of today, for all of its sophistication, sucks compared to what it was, and all the promise that it held, 20 years ago.
They do, but is the stock an actual tangible good? Companies with identical financials are not valued the same way. Look at a company like Tesla, its stock is pure speculation. I cannot physically hold my stock other than a piece of paper maybe that says I hold it. I cannot really do anything with it except hope to sell it to someone else for more money. It does not really grant me ownership If I tried to walk into an amazon warehouse screaming I an owner, I would be locked up and committed.
How many of those violent crime convictions are police officers stating "Stop resisting!" while putting someone in handcuffs and they trip and fall and get a bloody lip and throw assault at the perp? Sadly these are all "what ifs" and not looking at the actual data in front of us.
I can't even downvote.

Having said that: if you are a such a believer, there is no one in the world who can convince you otherwise: for every oddball argument that gets taken apart, three more will pop up to work on. If it's not the tinyballs it's the stems and if it's not the stems it's the nuances of something else.

I don't have the preparation, time or patience to argue with a believer: so yes, those are definitely mushrooms, Have a nice day.
Flurry provides an analytics library to app makers that gets compiled into their applications and then reports back. Flurry compiles data from all users and apps and gets a global portrait.
If you're talking about the python cryptography fiasco that was dropping support for S390 (31-bit architecture discontinued in 1999). S390X (64-bit architecture introduced in 2000) is supported by Rust, though not necessarily by Python Cryptography.

Incidentally Rust's continued support for S390X is driven primarily by cuviper who works for Red Hat (even before the IBM acquisition).
Except that's not what happens when paying is optional. People still pay, albeit not as much. 96% leaving this disabled is something else entirely.
There's some ambiguity in the second paragraph of your first comment. I believe you are describing lynching there, but it is also possible to read it as a description of present day communities.
If look at the table is intel actually not that bad in terms of density?
You seem to think that it's completely free of effort and cost to change code. That is absolutely not the case. Some things can be incredibly difficult to add in to a codebase that wasn't designed to expect that kind of change.
Has your HRV changed after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine? This might be why
Isn’t it also becoming more and more suspicious that they appear to literally be almost the best country in the world at controlling it. We are talking multiple orders of magnitude better. I struggle to understand how exactly.
New Hampshire doesn't have a city of the size of Stockholm, Oslo, or Helsinki in it. Large cities almost always have higher crime rates than rural areas. Clearly class and culture are part of the equation but I believe so too is the ready access to guns.
as pointed by the user layoutIfNeeded it's this point of TOC

>5.2.3 Audio/Video Downloading: Apps should not facilitate illegal file sharing or include the ability to save, convert, or download media from third-party sources (e.g. Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, etc.) without explicit authorization from those sources.
I don’t see why the TSA having awful reasons they can get away with is any better or any better hedge than any other player invading privacy unnecessarily.
Convince Oracle to donate a machine... for an Oracle Solaris competitor?! Oracle was the one that shut down OpenSolaris in the first place!
Java and Clojure are probably pretty common. I sometimes use the Clojure numeric stack and Java (JavaFX) for the GUI portion of a program.
Grandiose rhetoric... Is the article itself not grandiose? God and spiritual experiences are grandiose topics. Take a very careful look at the language I used here dang. It's carefully worded to avoid personal attacks.

I'm willing to bet your being biased here and you can't see it. It is very hard to recognize in yourself without asking for personal opinions. I'm willing to bet that you personally highly highly disagree with what I wrote.

If I am right then I think it's quite likely you are completely unaware that your personal opinion influenced you to see what I wrote as grandiose because frankly this entire topic is grandiose. He makes grand claims about the nature of reality citing drug induced experiences as evidence, is that not grandiose?
So you won't boil water in a Chinese kettle, yet you happily collect tons of downvotes from best-in-class Chinese votebots? Pick a lane!
I did this for ALL ads on FB over many months and am now relatively as free. It helps that I only visit FB from a browser that’s isolated from other web browsing.
Sorry, but you quite obviously don't understand code.

Writing new code can be just as difficult (or easy) as changing existing code.

Changing code can also be easier than writing new code.

In either case, whether the analogy works or if it doesn't - criticizing something that's under development for something like accessibility, which is commonly added to software as an afterthought in a later version, is getting into Karen territory. Enjoy that!
Not sure anyone sees "pure" RISC as being an advantage these days though. Didn't Intel demonstrate that you could get RISC-like performance from a CISC ISA even with all the drawbacks of x86 (instruction decoding complexity etc).
I don't know if its just me but Bitcoin maximalists and their stupid laser eye has a cult like vibe to it.
No but the rest of society is no longer victimized or harmed. Why do we just let drug users trash our public spaces and commit so much destruction? Does that not have a toll on society and everyone else’s quality of life? What about all the stuff they steal daily? I don’t see other developed countries bend over so far to accommodate criminals and drug addicts and frankly our strategy isn’t working at all—these populations just get bigger every year....
No he didnt basically say that
I'm on the hunt for a good package like this for react. I have been experimenting with https://github.com/ticlo/rc-dock/ and it's pretty awesome. I think the vanilla js version is probably nicer to use, though.
"exercise to the reader"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=%22...
This is so far from reality I'm fascinated as to where you've gotten this idea from. Is your concept of the US based on comic books or old spaghetti westerns or some media in your country?

The odds of getting shot by someone wanting to take your wallet is just so close to zero that it literally never crosses my mind. I'm more likely to die getting struck by lightning or having a meteorite fall out of the sky and hit me.
Someone posting a fairly reasonable use case and solution problem summary, and then getting the response of "Spam. Closed." does not seem like a reasonable project by any stretch of the imagination.

Quite frankly, taking 5 minutes to put up a page saying "We will never support SSD and we acknowledge the use cases but do not care about them." would be far more forthright.
As soon as I see medium in the URL I pull the CMD W trigger
The equation is just that, how to solve for the current # of people in prison, therefore it ignores false convictions. Prison generally denotes long-term custody of people convicted of a crime, therefore remand is ignored here (people are mostly remanded to jail, not prison, aka custody before trial).

Concurrent sentences are tricky because it's almost always the case that sentences are served concurrently. This equation would probably be most accurate if only the most serious sentence were used for "Prison Sentence Length."

Parole and good behavior definitely would affect prison pop. and so should be included.
I feel like tent camps are a housing problem and homelessness shouldn’t be a crime. We can do better, indeed.

(Edit; also, apparently giving needles actually has significant benefits to a community, in that addicts are constantly exposed to a medically safe space where their addiction is treated like the health problem it is. It also gives them constant exposure to safe, non-judge mental avenues for recovery programs and detox clinics. It’s easy to say, as an addict, that I’m not going to a program recommended by a stranger or a cop. It’s harder to refuse when it’s this friendly receptionist who has never judged me and has told me that they know 5 others like me who have all succeeded breaking the addiction.)
If it's off it means that apps cannot request to allow tracking.

The default in this case is to outright disallow it for any app requesting.

If the option is on then the app can ask, and the user has a choice to allow or disallow. Again, if it's off, the default is to disallow tracking.
I'd be interested to see this Gemini browser in Racket. Do you have a public repo?
It turns off the ask, so the way it works is you need to ask and then you need to wait for a response and if that response is "Yes" they can then begin tracking. In any other case/situation you are not able to.

So if you don't want this asking you everytime you open any app (based on my experience it happens frequently) you can turn it off.

But yes, it could use a better wording.
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