skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it is for April, the general population started being vaccinated in middle of it and it also takes over a month (according to the companies) to get full effect of the vaccine.
"Fraudulent reviewers with thousands of fake reviews to their name can pay penalties of more than $10,000, and could even receive a jail sentence. "

Is there actually a law in the US (or others) that suggests leaving fake reviews could subject you to a $10,000 fine and/or jail time?

Asking for a friend.
Lazy mode:

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How is (spoilers follow) the choice of deleting your save file to help another player through the credits bullet hell the same choice that the main characters go through?

Also much of the second playthrough is completely unnecessary for what it was trying to accomplish with the story. The same thing could have been accomplished many different ways without having you retread the entire first half of the game.
> These are then immediately followed by a 1 star review along the lines of "This is the biggest piece of junk I've ever bought online. Will be returning to Amazon. DO NOT BUY!"

I really wish Amazon expose return rate for each product. That would be better indication of customer satisfaction.

Also I wish there was not such a stigma against returning products. That would be a good way to drive bad players out of business. A few times when I returned something I apologized too much but store employees said that I am doing them a favor by returning it because this is how they determine what to stop selling in their store and prevent shier people from buying junk products.
All of these would be "verified purchase" reviews. The scammy seller refunds you through PayPal after you post the review.
While it might be true that ads just suck. It's heavily ingrained in culture. There are a few cultures that do not use ads, even today (Amish?). However, I don't see a transition from where we are today to that. So instead of just saying, ads suck, what is the alternative?
As someone who has to occasionally work on a Gnome desktop, I can confirm that they still haven't fixed type ahead in Nautilus. Another point is that their Alt-Tab has a strange auto-grouping behaviour that totally breaks my workflow. (I have multiple terminal windows open and switching between them is a pain, it has to be seen to be believed).

Two big annoyances, and reading that type-ahead thread quoted above is quite an experience. Being in my 30s, it's been a long time I've felt such an enormous disgust at the amount of neglect and arrogance that is being displayed there.

And I strongly disagree with that sentiment "it's ours, go make your own if you don't like it". Point is, I do not want to use their crappy product but I have to, due to political forces that extend from Red Hat to what my employer has installed on that computer in the lab that I have to deploy and test my software on.

If I had a choice, I would prefer to install there my simple arcane plain window manager, xterm (fast and crisp), and just enough junk so I can do my work. My Thinkpad X220 with this setup is actually pleasant to use and has required basically 0 maintenance in the last 6 years.
It's not wayland-native, though.

I use it with sway on a laptop that doesn't support OpenGL well enough for other terminals, it's okay, but I miss some features, and other <indows could snoop on it. I also had to install xwayland for it.
> Should they not be reported?

They probably shouldn't...

1) Humans are on average bad with numbers. This could have unforseen negative impacts.

2) Your average person can't define causal inference, let alone make a well-informed one.

3) Few of the presenters (news people) have a grasp on 1 & 2. If they do, also communicating that becomes a challenge that requires solving 1 & 2.
I am worried for the US economy.

Dogecoin, a meme and joke, went from a quarter of a cent last year to 66 cents today.

And the second most popular job in today payrolls were Casino workers, at an staggering 72k people.

Something must be seriously wrong when people think it is wise to dump money on memes and casinos!
I am really disappointed with Sandy. While other guys are professional, Sandy to me seems too much biased. He was not like that. Sad.
That is more than I had understood remained, and also a surprisingly high number. Possibly there is an issue of definitions.

This site, for instance, calculates that 40% of the US used to be grassland, and it's now under 5%. [1]

Possibly there is a difference been "old growth" unmanaged grassland, and "pastureland" that is mostly seeded with purchased grass and clover seed.

Certainly the old prairies do not exist in any meaningful sense. If you ever read Little House on the Prairie you might recall that they traveled for weeks across grassland that was uninterrupted and looked simply like a flat sea of grass for as far as the eye could see.

In any case, even if those numbers are correct it seems like the number of cows is 50% higher and the amount of grassland is about 25% lower (from 40% to 30%).

1. https://www.nathab.com/blog/grasslands-a-lot-more-than-just-...
As others have said before, going to Amazon and reading 1-2 star reviews is the best way to judge I have found.
Interested in elaborating?

Factory farming is where the majority of our meat comes from, and I've seen no evidence that direct crop farming would result in more small animal lives lost than the meat industry in its current form. I also see little to no evidence that efforts to reform the meat industry are likely to succeed, the "ethical meat" movement is smaller than the vegetarian movement by most measures I can find, and far more susceptible to marketing lies (cage free eggs are not particularly much of an improvement over caged).

If you want to personally find a local butcher where you look your cow in its satisfied, well-lived eyes before it dies, and you want to argue with people about their ingredient supply chain every time you eat out or buy a frozen dinner or go to an office party, then fine, you do you. But I think it's somewhat naive to argue that's a model that can realistically work for most people. For the majority of consumers, vegetarianism would be both less expensive and less difficult.

And I just think it's strictly inaccurate to say that small animal deaths would increase if the meat industry in its current form went away. I don't see any evidence of that, not enough cattle/chicken/beef is raised on grass to make that a realistic claim.
Vaccines are available to everyone that wants one. It's time to get back to work.
True, but i suspect the canadian elite go to harvard just like the american elite.
Hey, use what you like!

As the terminal is the most used app for many here, it's natural for many to care about the small details.

Aesthetics and speed are important to me and to that end Kitty is my choice. Not that there's anything wrong with xterm
What would they need the better hardware for?
My honest opinion is the hard working professionals making 150-350k are getting hosed. Pay the majority of taxes in this country so that other people can loot, riot, and collect welfare. Asset prices debasing everyone’s wage due to rampant money printing, and they won’t stop. Money printing is a tax on the professional class. Being a hard working professional in this country is losing its allure, and is increasingly a suckers bet.

“ Work hard! Don’t worry if we print money and triple the cost of your house and new mortgage! You are in the top 15%! Look your class only pays 20% of the taxes, never mind all that money we printed! It’s not a tax!”

There’s a serious level of subversion about what’s going on economically in this country.
This article is not great: the entirety is like 10 bullet points with very little analysis. There has to be a better source than link at the top (WaPo's analysis seems pretty solid).

Looking at the graph though, I'm curious: why did forecasters expect a huge vertical jump in April instead of a continuation of the trend from the month before, especially with all the small businesses that went under last year.
The way I like to think about it, Elon Musk over over over over promises, and "just" over delivers. Most CEOs could never dream of producing the kinds of real results that Elon Musk has, but also most CEOs aren't as comically obnoxious as he is.
I don’t know, I used to ride an autonomous vehicle every day in London. DLR is autonomous, the catch is - it has its own lane and it’s on rails. Also, someone sits in the car during rush hours, just in case.

Here’s how it looks to be in the front car of the train when there’s a supervisor: https://imgur.com/geFIidK

Outside of the rush hour, that lid is closed and it feels like the Half-Life train at beginning of the game.

I know it’s not possible to build trains to everywhere and USA is huge but I suspect that the answer for self driving would be somewhere in between of human+ level intelligence and dedicated infrastructure.
We are looking this as a possible B2B solution. So either it has to integrate with current B2B conferencing solutions like Zoom, Teams etc. Or it has to be a standalone application listening to the computer audio/video and do the live analytics. We are not looking for alternate to a conferencing application. Hope this make sense.
I settled on kitty, personally. I quite like it, and its image supports works very well with ranger!
You're getting down votes, but my ex is in HR, and says that as soon as the very generous unemployment came out she had dozens of people quitting. A lot of people prefer unemployment to menial jobs.
It's an incredibly hard problem to solve.

The Boring Company might be onto something. These tunnels are a very controlled environment, highly predictable. If they can be be made cheaper it might just be the initial "killer app" of self-driving cars.
Low wages only contribute to unemployment if you're paying people to not work. Otherwise the decision between "low wages" and "no wages" is an obvious one for everyone.
I think a big part of this has been the skyrocketing cost of housing here. There is a lot of foreign investment in the real estate market and a lot of houses are just sitting empty. Give the people someone to blame when they can't afford to live here and you get hate.

It's funny because you can't blame the investors for doing this. They have money and they want to make more. Everybody does. These people committing these hate crimes can't connect the dots one step further and realize it's our government who sold out.
This is basically hearsay. The claim in the title is based on this:

"“Elon’s tweet does not match engineering reality per CJ,” Miguel Acosta, chief of the California DMV’s autonomous vehicles branch, wrote in the memo"

So someone in the CA BMV claims a Tesla engineer (CJ) said this, but doesn't quote them, and the article doesn't elaborate on it.

Maybe it's true but they're clearly reaching a bit with the title.
This is anecdotal, but I have a friend currently on unemployment benefits and he's enjoying his 'time off' while looking for a more permanent job. He wants a good job, not just any job. So for him it makes sense to be choosy rather than just start working at some place with a help-wanted sign and lose his benefits while also losing his free time to search for something better.
Definitely, Covid disbursements for many people surpass entry-level job wages. If your Covid relief works out to $15/hr why work for $15/hr? I probably would not move for anything less than $20/hr if I were in that position.

A couple of states are tapering off Covid relief funds so we'll see how that affects worker availability.
How long did you try this practice?
Are we still in the middle of the pandemic? At least where I live, anyone who wants a vaccine has been able to get one for a month, so pretty much anyone who wants to be should be fully vaccinated in the next few weeks.

Also, IIRC the CARES Act suspended the requirement to look for more work if you've been furloughed/laid off. A friend of mine who works in a restaurant was getting paid more to go surf at the beach than he used to get paid to go to work. When his employer opened up, my friend was understandably not motivated to get scheduled for very many shifts.
Sure looks like capital chasing returns in the face of weak—or at least insufficient, for the amount of capital available—demand.
TFA is only like 10 lines, you should read it:

> A bright spot: The labor force grew significantly, a counterpoint to the narrative that generous unemployment checks are keeping Americans out of the workforce.
A lot of stuff on aliexpress is 2x, 3x or 4x times cheaper than amazon, so the tradeoffs are complex...
What's your opinion on ITS?
> don't make the mistake of thinking their libraries are meant for others to use

I agree. This presentation convinced me:

https://youtu.be/ON0A1dsQOV0?t=2468

GTK+ is really just a toolkit for GNOME projects. All other users are secondary.
The worst thing about this situation is that COVID travel restrictions are making it difficult to vote with your feet and leave for another country.
Well, the trend was up over the last three months.

233 536 770(P) 266(P)

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=ne...

For vaccines coming online and people _starting_ to get back to normal, it doesn't seem like a stretch to expect a number higher than this.
GPT Neo works well for drafting emails. Find our approach here: https://www.helm-nagel.com/open-sourced-gpt-Neo-writes-indiv...
Or, and hear me out here, the reason casinos posted some of the highest gains in this report is because they are just now reopening.
We could've vastly expanded a lot of train systems with the amount of money that's been burned trying to make cars drive themselves.

Unfortunately, most new transportation methods that are not trains are just attempts to build trains, while claiming they are not trains and will cost less than trains. But inevitably end up costing as much as trains.

Trains.
"What else is there to do but gamble?"
> and prefer hardware with replaceable storage like M.2 slots.

Heed this advice folks. Even the new Surface Laptop SSDs are replaceable.
I really hate the framing of the "Labor Shortage" narrative in general. Does supply and demand only work one way?

The Citations Needed podcast did an interesting episode on this kind of framing.[0] Although they skew heavily toward the left so take it with a grain of salt.

I'm curious to see if the heightened unemployment benefits act as a new de facto minimum wage law, but I have a feeling everything will be cut to try and force people back into the labor force before anything super interesting happens.

[0]
https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-135-the-labor-sho...
I'm curious, what field of work is this? And what kind of jobs more importantly?
Let's Encrypt original root certificate to expire in September
> Hardly any compared to software. We're talking about 1 change every 20 years versus 1 to 100s of changes per day. That's a huge magnitude of difference.

Linux is more akin to a template of all buildings in the world, which are all the Burj al Arab (of course each building is mostly empty, everyone just uses some part of it). If someone in Mongolia finds a wrongly tiled bathroom in room 221B, Linus changes that tile in its template. A few weeks later, all Burj al Arab in the world are torn down and replace with a new one, only slightly better.
Here's the code: https://github.com/freedomlayer/offset
I read 20% of the article. Now I don't need to read the rest, right?
Imagine that your google account gets suspended and all your passwords are now gone. No, thanks!
That is a really cool project -- but, Rufus also works for boot media for machines that don't support UEFI/BIOS.
Check this out [0]. There's just many rich. And those who buy dogecoin want to join the ranks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_numbe...
True, I am unfairly singling Elon out, but he's put himself at the front of this hype train. There are plenty of other "visionaries" that are in the engine with him.
There was a line of job seekers around the block at In-n-Out burger the other day. They pay $17/hr with paid time off, health/dental/vision and a 401(k) plan. The burgers are still $3.
That's not how unemployment works. You can't just quit because you don't feel like working then collect unemployment.
I do not support view that AWS is a scam, but price is something AWS tries to make developers not to think about. Every blog post, documentation or quick start tells you about features, but never about costs.

You read "you can run Lambda in VPC", great, but there is a fine print somewhere on a remote page, that you'd also need NAT gateway if you want said Lambda to access internet, public network wont do.

You read "you can enable SSE on S3", but it is not immediately obvious, that every request then incurs KMS call and billed accordingly (that was before bucket key feture).

Want to enable Control Tower? It creates so many services, it is impossible to predict costs until you enable it and wait to be billed.
That was certainly true earlier. I think people are questioning if it's still the right thing to do.

From what I see around me there a huge number of unfilled jobs because people are making more money from unemployment than from jobs.

Yes, the job could pay more, but that has its own set of pros and cons. It's almost acting like a backdoor minimum wage, but worse, because some people would rather make a bit less and not work at all. (I'm not saying that's you - I'm talking in generalities here.)
It will make the web unusable for the users of iPhone 4 and other older devices.
Move Fast and Break Things: Authoritarian Politics and Digital Technology (2019)
... he comments under the top comment.

Skepticism of self-driving tech and "AI" in general is a very popular position here.
Not the op, and I don't know if I agree with him, but a possible answer would be "Those who studies political science".
I strongly believe readability trumps everything when it comes to writing code for a lot of reasons.

I love modern language constructs when I can use them to help make the code more readable and verifiable.

What I dislike is using language features to make the code seem more intelligent and eloquent where there already exist simple, dumb, readable way to achieve same result.
You don’t get unemployment if you quit.
This also factors into peoples calculations. If you suddenly have to pay for childcare there isn't much of a point to go back to work, even for 15 - 20 an hour.
I think that's what discord offers. Communities have gone further into their little niche bubbles bur now you have a better realtime experience. Reddit has grown so big that it is catering to the lowest common denominator now.
I think the big issue is that if you really want autonomous driving over any road, you will likely either need sensors beyond vision or some AGI level model of the world.

For example, on the highway, truck infront of you drops some debris.

What do you do? It can be dangerous to suddenly swerve or brake, but also dangerous to hit something.

What you do In real life is quickly evaluate. You are looking at the object that fell and estimating how deformable it is. For example, if it looks like a wad of paper, you would continue on. Or you estimate if you have clearance based o how big it looks and your mental model of your car’s clearance.

You also look at the traffic beside you and behind you to evaluate risk of braking or swerving.

You are also doing object recognition. If it is an empty box, you may be ok hitting it, but if it is an infant car seat that fell, you will brake hard/ swerve even if it is dangerous.

Also, for people who bring up the safety of human drivers, one thing to consider is the safety of a hybrid approach where the human is still in charge but you have safety features like lane keeping, blind spot monitoring, automatic emergency braking, etc. That hybrid approach may be actually safer than either only human, or only computer driving.
This suggestion is precisely comparable to the passive voice.

There is an intended agent experiencing surprise, and we might under some circumstances agree that we know who the agent is (just as we expect that "the experiment was conducted" by the author as researcher).

But, technically, the agent is obscured and not written, so we can't be completely certain about the writer's intent. Maybe Rosalind Franklin conducted the experiment: we are only led to infer that the author was responsible.

Personally, I generally understand "Surprisingly," to mean "An attentive reader should now be surprised that...".

There's an expectation of general surprise relative to an earlier claim in the text; the writer assumes the reader will be surprised (whether or not the writer was truthfully surprised). I find myself annoyed by this style, whenever I am unsurprised.
What I am seeing on the ground is definitely disagreeing with this. The thing they are fighting against is people are getting a lot of money in stimulus so there is no desire for them to work. Where I live there are tons of people looking to hire at $20/hr and they are getting zero applicants. These jobs range from Walmart, local delivery drivers, yard crews, etc. It is pretty harsh trying to compete against free money.
I'm just going to guess that a language that is WebAssembly only, *if popular*, would eventually have 1000s of libraries that "just work" vs something like Rust where 99% of the code was never designed to run in a WebAssemebly environment and so probably references things that aren't available in that environment (files, networking, windowing systems, stdin/stdout, etc...)

I didn't look at Grain. I'm just thinking out loud what the benefits of a WebAssembly first language could be. It's not so much the language itself though.
Is there anything to stop gating features/whole apps behind having tracking enabled?
That's not how normal unemployment works, but this is different, and you actually can do that, and many people are.
Do you really think an honest hardworking professional making 150-350k would trade their lifestyle for that of people who are collecting welfare? They're free to quit their jobs at any time and start collecting that welfare money!
Long ago, many devices that needed simple text output, like super market checkout registers, had simple LCD modules in them with e.g. 2 rows with 16 characters each.

Those modules are just bricks with a display on them that you can control using a parallel interface. Because of their simplicity, they are/were also very popular with micro controller hobbyists long before Arduino was a thing.

The HD44780 (and clones) are very widely used controllers on those modules. They can be connected in 4 bit or 8 bit parallel mode, you can send over characters that it should display (using a built in raster font) or some special command sequences for e.g. clear the display, set the cursor position, ... kind of like a very simple terminal.

The displays with 4 rows instead of 2 typically just had 2 of those controllers in them that you needed to interface to. One for the bottom 2 rows and one for the top.

Some variants of the controller clones can load a custom font lookup table. By breaking a graphical image up into blocks and loading those into the font lookup table, you can use the device as a very hacky graphics display.

Alternatively, if you rely on semi-documented internals and get the timing just right, you can swap out the data while it is drawing a character and splice your graphics together that way using the built in font. This will also get you a more decent refresh rate. Both variants are discussed here.