skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon's keyword search is quite broken, and vendors exploit that. I have an HN comment somewhere where I was talking about an experiment I did; I took some of the descriptions that exploit keyword matching, and asked GPT-3 my actual question. I think the specific example was waterproof LED strips. I noticed that many LED strips had the description "not waterproof" somewhere in the product name. If you search Amazon for "waterproof LED strip" (which BTW, I don't think is an actual thing), it returns all of the self-declared "non-waterproof" items, which is the exploit. I set up a GPT-3 completion where I asked questions like "is an Amazon item with the description 'foobar 12V LED light strip non-waterproof' waterproof?" For everthing I tested, GPT-3 returned completions like "No, of course it's not waterproof." If Amazon used ML like this to return search results, it would be slightly harder for vendors to exploit, and search would be much better. (But of course, sometimes it would return nothing when the user would have been happy with a non-waterproof LED light strip. I think that's a good thing, their Revenue Department probably disagrees though. If someone who wants waterproof lights gets one that's not waterproof and doesn't return it after paying their credit card bill, then "the system works".)
No, I would say the opposite, but I would also say that's the problem. We have deliberately tried to make every entry level job idiot proof.

100+ years ago, industries weren't solved yet. Customer interaction was improvised, food service involved actual cooking skills, products were still hand crafted. Today jobs that involve customer interaction are scripted. Food and commodity production use preprocessed, packaged ingredients, and the process is pipelined. Entry level jobs today have no wiggle room for creativity, and very minimal amount of training that is portable across jobs, because that's what maximizes profits.
Not to mention the net of seismographs across the US. Those would tell us within our own borders if a nuclear detonation has occurred within seconds of impact.
I believe love to be the major motivation of foreigners to learn polish.
It’s all flown out of my head but there is a government agency that banks seeds and if you say the right things they will send you some (or you can send them some). I didn’t have any luck germinating those seeds and have since forgotten who I asked and when. Not sure if I still have the original correspondence, or how I would find it (I’m not entirely sure I recall what species I asked for, which would probably be the best search criteria).
It is typically referred to as YAR (yearly absence requirement)

https://www.newyorkfed.org/banking/circulars/10923.html
I'm also a big fan of the Cyberiad, and Douglas Adams. When a bunch of us first heard The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays, we were sure Adams must have read the Cyberiad, as some of it seemed so similar in tone if not details. But I read somewhere that he had not read it when he wrote Hitchhikers.
I looked into this once, and they .... just don't worry about it.

Each generator just matches whatever it sees. If you are trying to match two other generators (like in a triangle, and due to the speed of light it's impossible for all to be perfectly in sync), then it matches to an average of the two, and apparently that works.
There were hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine in preceding years. Where are you getting your data?
Breaking out the "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" for daylight savings time?

I think this is a very dramatic hypothesis you've presented here. If an individual or family is inconvenienced by this, adapt!

Places that already do not change for DST are doing just fine. e.g. Arizona
Are there common drive companies that support this better than Samsung, like Western Digital?
My last name has spaces in it

I asked the admin at my department to give me a lastname@university.. address. But he refused. He said the spaces might break too many things. Even when I mentioned that would be a great stress test for the mailing system
Thanks! Generalizing it is something that we think a lot about. There's a lot of value in providing something simple like RBAC with a few roles, until you need something more custom.

I personally think that the ability to opt into more complexity is really interesting. Starting with a basic set of roles within a single organization is appealing when you are small, and then importantly having the ability to layer in groups or layer in scopes/actions associated with those roles.
Interesting how different opinions can be. I loved "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", as well as the Bladerunner movie!
My guess is you're right. Many companies have terms in their employee agreements limiting what employees can say/post about the company publicly, including via social media, YouTube, and so on. Many are extremely restrictive and enforced regularly. For example, good luck finding a non-throwaway HN poster self-identifying as an Apple employee. I don't talk about my employer here or even contribute to threads about it. These agreements are very common, check your employment agreement--you might have agreed to one, too.
I think it was used internally with Google and probably why they kept it going?
Sometimes connecting unsynchronized grids is the primary reason. The Outaouais HVDC Intertie is only about 35km long, but it allows the import and export of electricity between Ontario and Quebec.
Why the School Wars Still Rage
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This is actually a very complicated topic. Amazon will let sellers of product X “claim” a product page of a (now) poorly performing product Y, or will themselves substitute product Y for product X (swap the listings but keep the ASIN).

It’s not even for remotely equivalent products: my subscribe and save for cat litter was replaced with a birth control test under the same ASIN, after being unavailable for a few months!
ECB puts Russians in EU, even residents, under scanner
It is supply and demand.

Car makers made a fundamental mistake at the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis which was thinking that any kind of crisis would lead to people not having money to buy stuff and thus a drop in demand for cars.

Turned out that economic stimulus would flow like water and also the virus would be very good for demand for cars because it gives people a reason to move further away from crowds and also a reason not to take public transit.

Carmakers cut back their orders for chips and then realized afterwards it was a mistake, by that point the chip shortage was well under way.

Thus the supply chain for new cars is disrupted as is the supply chain for getting parts to fix existing cars.

Since many consumers have a choice of fixing an old car, buying a new car or buying a used car the price of used cars is up.

My projection is that the chip situation turns from boom to bust around 2025 or so.
I had an onsite interview for a unicorn company. The onsite consisted of 3 meetings. After the first two meetings (one with a C-level personnel), the recruiter came to the meeting room and told me that he's checking the availability of the developer who was about to meet me. Then he came back and told me that there's an outage in prod that the developer needed to deal with ASAP. He apologized the interview was cut short because of the "fire" but the team had enough data points during the first 2 meetings.

I believed the recruiter's explanation at first. Then I got a yucky feeling that the 3rd developer just wanted to ghost me. (No, I didn't get an offer.)
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The Computer wants you to be happy. If you are not happy, you may be used as reactor shielding. The Computer is crazy. The Computer is happy. The Computer will help you become happy. This will drive you crazy.
Should we assume that the boat is not large enough to fit them all, and that the dog will eat the suitcase if the human is not present?

(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
HELLO. I FOUND THAT YOUR WEB SERVER HAS DIRECTORY INDEX ENABLED. THIS MAY BE A MAJOR SECURITY INCIDENT.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. In general I'm healthy. If you're implying I should wear a mask when flying, then the problem with that is that pre-COVID you would be seen as weird for going on a plane with a mask. I suspect it will go back to that status eventually if there are no rules forcing masks. Maybe that's the Nash equilibrium. An external rule can change the equilibrium to something that is better for everyone - including you.
While we are at it, let's also set 7pm to be when the sun sets! We just need all clocks to simply adjust by lengthen and contracting time units as needed! Sounds simple to me.
Also as things get older they get better and better explained.

Some things, like relativity are simple mind-blowing concepts, but other very important aspects of physics can feel like no one is doing such groundbreaking work because you're actually looking at a modern interpretation of something which has been condensed over a century e.g. a lot of papers from the early 1900s are very long winded, so the utterly beautiful ways they may be now treated (Noethers theorem may be an example) are not representative of how they burst onto the scene 100 years ago.
Flourine compound? Organic heavy metal? I'm curious.
Yes, exactly this. It doesn't really solve any problems (see my other comments - you can literally find affordable housing units propped up as vacation rentals on AirBnB). Putting huge apartment buildings in 1,000 person towns is very different than building upwards in city centers or along transportation corridors.
Companies suspending service to Russia post-globalism is a troublesome precedent
The key difference between Amazon and eBay is the amount of risk to the consumer.

There is NONE with Amazon.

There is zero chance that you will lose your money if you get scammed by someone into a bad product.

Everything else that people complain about is a function of selection vs curation: the more selection Amazon adds the more likely there is to be low-quality junk. I'm sure if they aggressively curated stuff, we'd see HackerNews stories get 1000 upvotes with headlines like "Amazon won't list my startup's products!" and people will be screaming about how it's not Amazon's job to censor or to curate, they should just be the "Everything Store", and let intelligent consumers like us decide.
I disagree. I think "economy" is more closely associated with energy reduction. If you can produce something with fewer resources (e.g. energy), you're adding value. Sure you get wealthier in the process and you may to choose to consume more goods even at lower energy used per good, but the net effect is not necessarily more energy consumption

Think of the advancements in goods over the years. Most reduced the amount of energy used. From more efficient materials to cell phones replacing TV, camcorder, audio recorder, book, telephone, etc.

It's called de-materialization and its going on even today

https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/09/dematerialization-and-what-i...
What a bummer - to send an intergalactic probe to a far-off supercluster only to find it’s made of antimatter and you cannot interact with it (if you survive the close encounter long enough to find this out).
Agreed, but I’ve taken several flights during covid all over the world and I see 1 n95 every 50 people at most. And it’s very likely that the person wearing it does not have covid anyway. The one that probably had covid is that guy with his nose out and the one snacking a little bit the whole flight to not have to wear it.
Boa release v0.14: A JavaScript engine written in Rust
I just searched for some works by authors I like (some well known, some pretty obscure). Amazon's search results seem better than they were a year ago, when I last tried this; back then it seemed like the results were half promotional garbage.

It might be better now. It's still not great, and I still use search on Amazon's site with reluctance and mistrust.
I cannot stop laughing at the irony of the radio station with a Ron Paul sign in their front window transmitting Kremlin programming. In any case, hate them as much as you want (they might deserve it) but there is still the First Amendment which means they can broadcast whatever they want. If the listeners hate it and stop listening then being able to go forward and a going concern without advertising revenue will be an insurmountable obstacle and the station will shut down.

Ironically, "outrage news" is likely to increase the listenership of such stations, if only because it's one of the few non-conformist, mass-marketed stations on the dial.
Makes EBITDA look good, which investors want to see.

Also means any buyer has to cut less when the show up. Let the old mgmt take the blame for layoffs and culture changes, rebuild from scratch.
Ugh. That’s not specific to one language either. Changing CA certs or enabling OCSP is often a case of configuring the same thing in several places or multiple libraries. Identity certs doubly so. If memory serves I spent more time on that than the rest combined.
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If it would have hade a 3.5 jack I would have bought it a long time ago. Please Apple, I will only make a few jokes on your behalf.
As another example of good book + good movie: Roadside Picnic (book by Stugarski Brothers, movie by Tarkovski).

I loved the Three Body Problem trilogy, remains to be seen how good he series/movie will be.
Plus think of all the new types of math problems we can give to high-school math students!
This seems about right. For most endeavors nowadays - music, art, science, technology, business - the process of reviewing what's already out there is just overwhelming. Then you actually review the existing stuff, and find that five other people have already pursued your great new idea. Over time, this cycle tends to erode your enthusiasm for pursuing new ideas.
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Dumb question, feel free to ridicule me: Most aircraft keep fuel in their wings, but said wings are thin because fuel is not under (high) pressure. Why can't we have thicker wings, or thinner tanks, that can accommodate hydrogen vessels?
I’m not sure there’s much difference between the Russians using air-launched cruise missiles (with ranges of hundreds to potentially thousands of kilometers and almost always capable of carrying a nuclear warhead) launched from their Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers (equivalent to the B-52), which Russia has done several times now in Ukraine.
In any case since several years ago I have noticed a sort of end of the winter pattern: Eyjafjallajökull (2010), Fukushima (2011), Villarica Chile (2015), Fagradalsfjall (2021), New Zealand earthquakes (2022)... all in March.

And then is a waterfall later travelling towards equator: Volcan de Fuego Guatemala (may 2012). Feels a little like a tennis play with eruption waves bouncing, but maybe I'm just cherry picking facts together.
Enforcement will be what exactly?

How is an impacting specific data loss inexplicitly tied to one company's compromise beyond a reasonable doubt when systems everywhere are "leaking"?

Having been involved in several financial compromise events dating back to the very earliest known I find more laws will in no way address the issue. Everyone drives the speed limit or under it too, correct? For those with experience in the financial banking realm the rules often "apply to thee but not to me" and yet companies are still hiding compromise events, even those ‘compliant’. While companies joining the fintech rush are held to standards and requirements that cost significant sums of both time and money all the while the large grandfathered entities and systems are allowed to continue not abiding by the same rules and laws those entities themselves set. Hypocrisy rolls on and exists everywhere and I welcome the changes to level the playing field but more laws are certain to not fix a problem which cannot be seen since the function of vision in our species is the primary driver for nearly all we do. If it cannot be seen then it must not be a 'real' problem so let's schedule more meetings to talk about it.

As the governments around the world continue to have meetings weekly, both publicly and privately, about the ever growing cyber issue I again reiterate that the problem lies at the source(code) and with those who write it. This is truly an issue that can only be solved through education of those writing code and it cannot be solved tomorrow. Let's schedule another meeting to talk about it.
I guess I'm just curious about how far off we're talking about. Is it accurate by country? Accurate by general region if not the entire state?

Depending on the purpose you're using it for I'm just wondering about the accuracy level for sake of "good enough" uses.
Your landing page is really clean, I like it!

It's always fun to hear the workarounds people do to avoid adding orgs/teams - my personal favorite is the single account everyone share a password case :)

Happy to chat anytime - my emails in my profile!
I'm using bookfinder for exactly this reason...
Flow meters need an operations range though. So any of those ranges would work for your application.

But trying to find a screw on Home Depot or Fastenal .. ugh
In ProtonMail you can have email aliases (different address for the same inbox). By default, user@protonmail.com and user@pm.me exist. You can both send and receive from them.

> to block pm.me or to handle it like a throwaway address

How is a pm.me address more throwaway than a GMail one? I would say it's the other way around, especially considering that many ProtonMail users pay for their email service, so it's more likely to be a real user behind the address.
That sounds like you either know where the bodies are buried, or you helped bury them. D=
What did Lovelace actually do to put her in that category?

Hopper I agree with (also Frances Allen!), Shelley is an obvious entry, but I've never really been sold on Lovelace as a genius versus merely interesting.
This is 100% a function of selection and the number of available eyes for bad actors to try to game. Rampant unstoppable capitalism and all that.

Amazon.ca does not have this problem - search "brain cancer" under books and you get

1. BRAIN CANCER: Step By Step Guide On Everything You Need To Know About Brain Cancer Causes, Signs, Symptoms And Treatment

2. Fuck Brain Cancer : 2021 Planner: Schedule Organizer / Weekly Calendar

3. Glioblastoma - A guide for patients and loved ones: Your guide to glioblastoma and anaplastic astrocytoma brain tumours
We don't do transformations for Expectations
You can't ignore energy inputs to required processing components. Those servers at Google required energy to build and humans to operate. Maybe that person in the car was driving to Google to fix a server that processes 1 million queries a day. I'd say they value added to get him there was huge.

I'll just ask this:

Is it possible to create economic value with out using energy?

If it's not, then we're just haggling over efficiency.
> despite these being a fairly-obvious "dominant strategy" for warfare

I don't think these are quite as viable as you think. ICBMs are expensive. Probably tens of millions of dollars each, for a single-use item. Cruise missiles cost $1-$2 million to deliver the same payload and have a better chance of surprising the enemy.

ICBMs have longer range, but how often do you need to strike targets more than 1000km past the front line? They're inherently strategic weapons.
Amazon is the Dollar General of the internet.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/11/569815331/loving-and-hating-d...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/business/dollar-general-oppos...
Showing a use case for matrices is extremely easy : 3D graphics. At least 50% of school students will have a good understanding of that field.
How does it compare to VS code?
I think a "bricked" reactor is better than the 'Fukushima' outcome.

I admit that when they were able to power the pumps, that the only water they had was salt-water.

A very bad option!
My take is that a lot of USians will vociferously defend the differences in regional cultures within the US - East vs. West, coastal vs. flyover, state vs. state and so on - as both a conscious and an unconscious response to questions of national cultures and norms. When someone claims the US is "too big" or "too diverse" (and isn't using the latter as a dog whistle) you see some of this implicit balkanisation of the US into incompatible units.

Of course the consistent reaction of Americans to the use of terms like "USians" is a big giveaway to the fact that there's a national identity and thus culture. As, I guess, is the habit of down-playing of any such thing lol.
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The person doing the design studies the original product and will likely gain incidental knowledge of how the original product is implemented. The person doing the implementation ideally has no exposure to the implementation of the original product, so they can't copy the original, not even subconsciously.
I’m not sure what you mean by enough to make a star. Stars don’t have antimatter in them.
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Nuclear seems like the only way forward.
the first story "How the World was Saved" in the Cyberiad is a super short story, what writers usually call "flash fiction". Maybe 4-5 pages, and perfectly sets the mood for the rest of the book. But is is very different than Fiasco. Lem seemed to have two styles--light and filled with clever wordplay, and dark tragic, with a keen focus on our species hubris (Solaris, Fiasco). Fiasco is probably my third favorite after Cyberiad and Solaris. The Ijon Tichy stories are mostly of the light variety.

https://booksvooks.com/fullbook/the-cyberiad-stories-pdf-sta...
We need a word for the curious, but ill-equipped, mind which seeks to understand the works of minds greater than our own.

I am in love with all things - and I recognize that while I am "smart" I am not "smart" like others, but I seek to gain not just their understanding, but their wisdom oof the universe of thought.