skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an Amazon-only issue. Many services, even Google playstore, is replete with this kind of _infestation_. There are many perspectives here.

(1) One can hope to combat this with technology and processes. But the number of people consuming the service versus the actual number of people and systems employed to safe guard customer trust is quite high.

(2) Understand the kingdom of humanity. There are always good/bad actors. The line that divides good/bad is also quite fickle. But we need more "good". We need to discuss this more.
Coal fired electricity plants STILL account for 20% of the US's electricity supply. That EV will do no good if its being powered by a coal or natural gas plant. Our first priority should be banning coal electricity, and convincing the world to as well. But the US must take the first step. It's unacceptable to have coal or natural gas power when we have nuclear and renewables.

Carbon emissions are simple. We're digging stuff up, and putting it into the air. Dig up less and start putting stuff back into the ground. It's possible to get to negative carbon emissions without making overly harsh cuts on consumption. For example, flying releases 1/4 tons of CO2 per hour. BECCS negative carbon emission prices vary, but I've seen estimates at $200 per ton on the high side. This means you'll add $200 to the operating cost for a carbon neutral four hour flight, which sounds extremely doable to me.
I’m not ignorant just because I don’t want to be tracked, and slinging insults like this just reaffirms my beliefs :)
I think the person above meant:

>"Would this person be alive were it not [for contracting] for COVID?"
I'm not the person you were asking, but, presumably, Lombok's annotations.
No country in the world is even close to an order of magnitude worse than USA regardless of what they did, so it isn't a reasonable estimate. Worst case is less than about 2x USA's numbers, I used that as an estimate of how many lives you saved with your measures.
Lomboks. Seriously, scala case classes are like the very first thing people start using when learning the language. Scala3 enums are even more straightforward
> If you need to justify your work by calling out the charity you're doing with the earnings then I think you, internally, have identified that what you're doing is causing harm to society.

You're misunderstanding the author's intent here. He's saying he works so that he can donate to charities. That part of his answer would remain no matter what type of work he did. Charity is important to him. He was giving a large fraction of his income before he ever started working on ads.

I think that because you believe ads are harmful, you're assuming that the author must also internally feel that ads are harmful. That may be your own bias. What seems obvious to you may not seem true to others. The author explained why he feels ads are a net benefit to society (and also acknowledged some negatives of ads).
This is not a good approach. For the typical person asking a question, you waste their time at best. At worst, they actually use your solution to Y and ignore why it's bad. Both of those are significantly worse than clarifying the problem in the first place.
But sometimes this happens because the questioner wants to avoid other people's waste of time asking a more specific and limited question instead of a generic one. Often this happens because the environment where the question is asked is highly selective and does not accept too verbose and indirect questions. The solution is to be more open to conversation on both sides.
Strange—I wonder what was happening a year ago that meant people were uninterested in going back in to work. I feel like something weird was happening, but I can't remember what it was.
Throwaway for obvious reasons, but I'm really shocked how the US isn't doing more to prevent foreign state actors from operating inside our borders. I've had the chance to work with people who were openly aligned with the CCP, and I watched them do some pretty shady things. We as a country need to clarify that there's a difference between being critical of the CCP as a government vs. sinophobia/racism.
There is so many clones of these displays, sometimes it's hard to get something working, especially to initialise the screen consistently.
I remember spending so many evenings getting display to reset without having to disconnect power physically.
There is no documentation, or documentation is plainly wrong. If you are lucky to get any example code from manufacturer, chances are it will not work anyway.
But I admit it was fun to "hack" those.
Is the point here to argue that the Spanish Flu was worse? Yes, it was. But I think someone crying, "This is the worst pandemic in 100 years", sounds like they are pretty on the money.
Try looking harder? Basically every webserver framework comes with server side rendering out of the box and as de facto.
I of course mean net emissions. We can tolerate a sizeable chunk of carbon emissions if we also sequester the carbon back.
Wow. The function produces identical code when inlined, so why does the C version require that memcpy when it's not inlined?
EdgeDB Beta 2
I never read the positive reviews anymore.

I mostly scan the negatives to see if there's any consistent issues. If they are only "shipping got damaged" or something clearly that the manufacturer warned against and the buyer still bought it..."this was too small or big" kind of thing (measure before you order, people)...I'm good to go.
>>...car brands have multiple levels of software deactivation for every safety critical feature, onboard and remote?

Can you provide some examples, particularly where the cars disable safety equipment for lack of payment? Cars/lenders are already heavily and rightly criticized for disabling cars from being driven at all for lack of payment because they could prevent someone from making a critical trip.

>> thinking they had protection
>> This is speculation based on FUD
No, any long chain of technological links, especially including wireless, and including users, is easily subject to many modes of failure. It is not particularly speculative at all.

>> could have done much better.
>> marketing
Marketing may have to do better, but management & engineering is the real location of the fault.

Marketing has an impossible job now, since Mgt & Eng have chosen to implement a fail-dangerous mode as their primary feature.

Mgt & Engineering need to implement it in a fail-safe way, e.g., so the device cannot be worn, even though it could require greater design effort and work. With an actual safe-mode lockout, marketing's job becomes possible, but even then, "X as a service" is still a rent-seeking biz model, which is kind of deplorable overall but may work for some people.
Does it really raise the bar that much? Are secondary sales tracked well enough to penalize one country from buying restricted export items and selling to a restricted country?

It doesn't take very many steps to make tracking sales untenable.
And what happens when one of those domains gets hacked and a malicious script injected into their code that takes advantage of a 0-day in the browser to siphon the cash? Not at all a far-fetched situation as it’s how ransomware works today.
That isn't true. The parent comment said the "entire population" lost a year of their lives. K-12 students are about 17% of the US population, not all of it.
I think it is easy to be cynical and easier still to say, "Just fix it, nerd," but trying to detect collusion between two parties when you do not control their communications is quite difficult, especially when their associations will be only fleeting.

For example, you could disallow changes in star ratings, but that would also prevent people from rating something only to change their minds when it broke three months later and you've lost useful information that way.

You could make sure all communication goes through Amazon, but that only counts for email. The seller has your physical address and therefore can offer you gift cards to change your mind, via a postal offer.

You could hide the names of reviewers, but then you risk losing the trust metagame where there are reviewers people trust.

You could allow only the verified purchaser of a product to comment, and only once, and that makes "review bombing" of competitors expensive but not impossible.

I imagine you would need a good outline of all types of different "fakes" (I am sure multiple sorts exist) and scams, then find the nastiest game theorists available and discuss what could and could not be done. The more I think about this, the more Amazon Marketplace morphs into Amazon Escrow.
I don't know if the JVM developers have actually implemented this, but since records are immutable, there's no reason why a copy couldn't share memory between the instances.

The major downside is that could ruin cache locality and make passing the instance across a FFI boundary require a copy.

Another optimization would be that the JIT (or even perhaps javac) could notice cases where you make a copy (with one field changed) of a record and then never use the original reference again. If the JIT (or javac) can prove that no other bit of code holds a reference to the original record, it can reuse and mutate the original one instead of making a copy. I don't know if this optimization is or will be implemented, of course.

Either way, I expect the overhead you mention ends up being worth the benefits of immutable data. (That's been my experience using Scala, anyway.)
Places that didn't do social distancing didn't lose much more, there is no evidence that social distancing saved more than I estimated here. My estimate was even very generous in your favour since I estimated death without social distancing to be the worst in the world. But we could estimate to be roughly the death rate in Florida, in which case most of the social distancing did basically nothing.
There are tons of places where you can directly observe the effects of lockdown measures.
>Are there any real advantages to using Java in 2021, besides it's mature community/ecosystem/tooling?

It's fast: C fast in most cases. It can use a lot of cores and memory with minimal effort from developers. It has great tuning parameters for things like GC. We hit a cliff at about 150GB heap, tuned it, and now we're at 300GB. It's "good-enough" type safe. Java grows with you.
It hasn't been detrimental for all students. Some have thrived. https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=some-students-have-taken-to...
Seems quite possible that's true, but if you're relying on data recovery haven't you already made a huge mistake?
There is no amount of mental gymnastics you can do to turn “app that tracks when yours and other phones are together and does <something> about it” into something that is inside my moral boundaries.
At this point in time, it seems illogical to assume that Americans adversaries do not have all the detailed plans on building secret planes. In fact, I would be genuinely shocked if they didn’t know everything at this point.
There are around 30,000 to 35,000 car deaths per year in the US over the last ten years, and around 35,000 to 45,000 deaths from suicide. Those are terrible number sin absolute terms, of course, but even if those went to 0 for a year during the pandemic, that’s still less than 15% of the deaths currently attributed to COVID-19 in the US.
"Personally I lost access to badly needed medical care due to lockdown. Was quite scary."

My nearly 70 year old mother is in the same boat. She recently dealt with breast cancer treatments (a rare form) and thankfully was given the all clear before covid. She still needed to do follow up visits, more testing etc. but due to covid was told to stay away. Even though she was more comfortable with the risk of getting covid vs. ensuring her cancer is in remission they wouldn't see her.
They then say that they considered all the 3 factors that lead to increases to be COVID deaths:

> The main potential increases in excess mortality due to deferred care and increases in drug overdose and depression are hard to quantify at this point or are of a much smaller magnitude. Given that there is insufficient evidence to estimate these contributions to excess mortality, for now we assume that total COVID-19 deaths equal excess mortality

Basically the 6 factor breakdown is a way to decrease the volume of expected deaths to make the excess mortality number larger. 100% of which was attributed to COVID.
The top 100 companies don't exist in a vacuum. They provide services and goods to tens of million customers, most of whom are average Joes.

If you hold them responsible, whatever that means, they're almost guaranteed to pass on the extra costs to the consumer, leading to reduced demand and less utility distributed to the end recipient.

While it sounds better to hold a mega-corporation responsible rather than the average consumer, the end result is that the consumer ends up taking a cut either way, either through paying more for the same good or reducing their consumption.

It's a great example of bikeshedding the problem, while the world heats up.
You do realize that 95% of COVID deaths have occured after April 2020, right?
If medical treatment causes more deaths than it prevents on average, we’re probably doing it wrong, though maybe it looks different in the short term as you imply.
So at high level its Pub/Sub and RPC combined together in a single framework.

From a developer perspective, you can create a "channel" and then start transmitting messages on that channel. Then someone else can subscribe and can listen to that channel.

In the same way, someone can "expose" a single method. And you as a developer can call that method from anywhere.

The medium of communication is WebSockets. The protocols it uses is WAMP.

Which means any programming language can implement this (on top of WebSockets) and can take advantage of "distributed application architecture".
If you're set on linear search then you would see the same performance for a simple search box too, I don't see how type-ahead changes it. For big folders you will still need an index, imagine now you sorted the list by reverse alphabetical, typing an 'a' is still going to be slow when you're at the top.
I suspect the type of person who answers questions unhelpfully like this is often highly experienced, but without terribly deep technical knowledge (in the rigorous, scientific or academic sense). You get an often practical answer, but it's just not helpful when you are pushing the boundaries in any particular domain.
Excellent post. Thank you for sharing.
No one is saying we shouldn't provide why Y is bad. I said, it should be a corollary.

The bad approach is when the entire thread is full of guesses of what X might be without knowing the full context. Y is nowhere to be found. It breaks the UX of SO.
I always assumed that people who sequester carbon get negative carbon tax, i.e. a payout. If you increase the carbon price to eventually match the cost of sequestration things should work out to net zero emissions.
Serious question: could anyone please share why this plea for repairable tech is so heavily downvoted by this community?
Regarding SO, it suffers from a strange form of cognitive dissonance:

A. You can't ask "what's the best way to do X" because, for whatever reason, these kind of questions are not aligned with "the site's scope".

but

B. When you ask something specific, you get a lot of "it's better if you do X" answers. I even have had some really nice questions closed because some mods thought I was "asking the wrong thing".

Both behaviors are allowed and encouraged ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Those nanoseconds tend to add up.
They are not asking for direct payment. They want me to pay the collection agency. I am not going to make an international payment to some random company that I have no idea about. I suspect they want me to do this because closing internally with the company will mean admitting to the agency that they sold a bad debt.
Everyone will still have to use Apple's store, especially given Apple PR makes sure to promote a cult-like adherence to anything Apple. Even fortnite couldn't survive outside the Play Store. It doesn't happen on Android, why would it on iOS?

The only thing a 3rd party store support will do is to ensure Apple couldn't abuse FOSS apps too much in their review process.
“To our surprise” and “surprisingly” do not mean the same thing. “Surprisingly” means that something is objectively surprising, or that a “reasonable man” would be surprised by it. “Surprisingly, hot water freezes faster than cold water.” That is pretty objectively surprising.

“To our surprise” means only that you were surprised by it. It’s more humble because it allows for a reader to be smarter/wiser and not be surprised. “I thought Frodo was going to die at the end of the Return of the King, but to my surprise he did not.” “Surprisingly” wouldn’t be correct here since not everyone would have made that prediction.
What about the fact that Kotlin collections are fully interoperable with Java collection? That makes the transition significantly easier.
Carbon neutral in paper, it depends on how efficiently these offsets are used to capture carbon, otherwise the net emissions remain the same. The goal is reducing emissions, not paying to emit them.
China (CCP) is an adversary; an enemy. Full stop. "Being critical" isn't enough. We ought to treat them as what they are: an adversary to be thwarted and fought.
> I really wish Americans would stop choosing objectively worse food (McDonalds) over In-n-Out

Most Americans don't have that option, sadly.

> it's long been time for In-n-Out to stop using American cheese and switch to Cheddar

Please no—American cheese melts better. Or you need to have heavily processed cheddar to melt as nicely, and then there's not much of a difference.
I bought something on Amazon for $20, the seller then sent me a post card offering a $25 Amazon gift card for providing proof of a 5-star review.
Maricopa County Refuses to Provide Routers to Election Auditors
Just use Microsoft. You can always change it later. It's not worth spending valuable time on at your current stage.
Not sure why people are downvoting you, documentation of the product that I own is one of the most basic expectations I can have going into owning something. Having every interface abstracted away and being told not to worry too much about the hardware details breaks my heart, because this stuff isn't going to leak any trade secrets: it really only serves to help developers better suit their programs to run on their hardware.
Qualcomm modem flaw affects 30% of all phones; lets attackers record phone calls
Does this all go back to a derivative of the halting problem? You have an abstraction, a computer must make a decision on what you might ever want to do but while you may never intent for a set of conditions to occur, the computer cannot 'know' that. And the abstraction doesn't offer a way for you to specify your conditions to a more optimal manner.
> I'm not sure

That sounds like it is not obvious.

> The data is hard to disaggregate because there are so many conflicting factors

Basically sums up COVID policies. The point remains, I have yet to see any clear objective policy making that even tries to estimate impact on life of all citizens. In absence of anything resembling a consideration of all age groups, I just ignore any opinion of lockdown both for and against.
It's not even an illusion; it looks bad because they have a terrible tile for the dithering. Should be easy to fix in a postprocessing step after the AI.
Probably partly because it uses the word, "sheep". The word "sheep" is often considered a derogatory non-argument that serves only to rally up believers rather than a substantive piece of rhetoric.
The stack might have actually come before the heap in history, and actually proceeds any systems programming language that was a higher level than assembly. They were seen in the Z4, and Turing wrote about them in 40s.
Is the QA position still open? I don't see a link here or on your website (or is that the application?)
This is the entire game in consulting. Your client comes to you asking for something but with certain expectations in mind. The job of a good consultant is to meet those expectations - stated or not. You learn pretty quickly how to figure out what they’re really asking.
> You could make this same argument about anything that causes large amounts of deaths.

The cumulative time wasted by humanity each day by putting seatbelts on or by stopping for red lights.
I hope you don't use Google Play Services, because you really don't want to know what it does.
Seeking a Counterculture of Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
Someone on HN a year or so back mentioned they like to call this ‘going up the rabbit hole’. It’s a great name, so it stuck with me.
>What if a certain group of laws (say drug laws) was created specifically so police could target certain minorities?

Could you point to such a law or even better cite a paragraph from such a law where you feel it targets certain minorities? How do police officers from minority background do their job?
carbon tax could be by state and only be calculated based on utilities. This would incentivize voters to favor carbon neutral/negative infrastructure.

(i agree penalizing individuals for not choosing expensive cars/stuff seems cruel)
People fear consequences for not following quarantine state orders much more I guess. They are just more used to abide an omnipotent state, meaning no public backlash or counter movements like in the west.
I'm aware of restrictions on cryptography. I just question the effectiveness of export restrictions. For commercially available products it seems like we are saying that we will only allow green crayons to be sold to countries we like even though everybody knows how to make green crayons.
Nice touch: Angela and Obama instead of Alice and Bob
That isn't my experience at all. In contexts that are highly conversational, people constantly ask XY problems. It's hard to see that the path you went down so far may or may not be correct, so a lot of people just assume their last three determinations in solving their problem were valid.

Conversational environments certainly make it easier to root cause them, but it's often still painful.
Have you played Horizon Zero Dawn?

Other flagship single player games released in 2017 have so much better graphics, immersive gameplays, and deeper stories. I'm really scratching my head on NieR fandom and I wonder if its lack of exposure for others to form an objective comparison, or if my tastes have really diverged so heavily.
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I first thought that the book itself was titled The Opportunists, but that's just the title of the book review; the book is called The Free World. Although it sounds like the book is fairly critical of many of its subjects, I doubt either Louis Menand or Mark Greif specifically meant to sum up Hannah Arendt's work as opportunism.

The closest to this that the review comes is

> One sentiment repeated with variations throughout the book is “The timing was good” (for the appearance of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, when Stalin seemed to have taken the place of Hitler).

In context I think the idea is that some people like Arendt may have engaged in sincere journalism and philosophy, which the culture and/or the CIA may then have deployed as part of the Cold War, not that Arendt (at least) was thinking "what could I write that would make me famous and influential right now?".

To modernize this a bit, Ta-nehisi Coates and Jordan Peterson were both developing and expressing their ideas for a long time (decades, I think) in relative obscurity. Then they suddenly became best-sellers in the 2010s, I imagine to a great extent because of cultural and political developments outside of themselves and their work. Both are presumably profiting quite a bit from their success, but I doubt either primarily thought tactically or consciously opportunistically about that.