skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon should really either be regulated (with strict enforcement) or closed down.

This one time I ordered a device to assist with personal hygiene and realised the device has been unsafe to use, fortunately, before I used it otherwise I would probably have received a bad injury had I used it. I wrote a review where I stated that the device is unsafe.

Long story short a week or so later I received an email to my personal account from a person claiming to be a seller of that product and demanding that I will delete my review or else. I was shocked how they were able to obtain my personal details?

Anyway, I deleted the review and never posted a review since.

I was contemplating reporting this to Amazon, but given they were threatening and had my personal details, I'd rather not risk any retaliation. Police in my country also does nothing in such cases so I have written it off as a loss.
That still wouldn't help here. We don't want the prediction confidence that the sequence of words you produced might appear in a valid English-language sentence produced by humans. We want the prediction confidence that the sentence is factually accurate. These models aren't given that kind of data to train on and I'm not sure how they even could be. There are oodles and oodles of human-generated text out there, but little in the way of verification regarding how much of it is true, to say nothing of categories of language like imperative and artistic that don't have truth values at all.
Alternative vew: Amazon commits this fraud with their hands, like a drug kingpin that manages dealers and keeps his hands clean.
Writing Better Functions[video]
Because '$HOME/Downloads' is the default for `xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD` and most users never change it.
My hunch is that when you started programming matters.

I'm more of a sorcerer, and I first started coding when I was like 6-7 and never stopped. A seven year old really doesn't have much capacity for upfront design, planning or reasoning, so I learned to design code intuitively. I feel a lot of people who didn't really get into coding until their late teens, university maybe, they tend to lean more toward using reason than intuition.

This is mostly relying on low-N observations though so no idea if it's true. Seems plausible at least.

(although as a counterpoint I'll admit I'm a bit of a cut first and measure later sort of person even outside of programming)
Abraham Lincoln sent federal agents to shut down two newspapers with antiwar sentiment in NYC. Those papers never came back.
Amazon is not law enforcement. You should actually blame the government and disinterested services like police.

If someone created an online store like Amazon and essentially gave fraudsters free reign, they would be closed in no time, but this company is too big to fail and nobody seems to want to upset the billionaire owning it.

It's a classic example of one set of laws for the rich and another for the pleb.
I think it's a cool project. It looks slick and no doubt was a lot of work.

Would I ever use it though? Of course not.

It in fact goes in the exact opposite direction of computing for me. I am increasingly moving away from any product that relies on WiFi/connectivity.

So nice to have your own media (movies, music) and not have to worry about an always-on internet to be your streaming bottleneck (never mind the inefficiencies of requiring a personal, on-demand, high-bandwidth movie stream). But then to take and put all your tools and desktop in the cloud as well?

I guess it's why I have no use for Chromebooks either.
Britain is sleepwalking into censorship?
That sounds more like people behind the api having a bit of kneejerk reaction
https://archive.ph/XeDJL
History was always written by the victors, we only see it happen in real time now.
>The argument made was that we are better off if wealthy undeserving students subsidise the poor but deserving students (paraphrasing).

No, nothing about whether students deserved to be there was part of the argument.
The next word is always chosen based on some sort of probability output, correct? Then why isn't it possible to notice when the highest probability drops and the output is likely nonsense? Being able to say "I'm not sure" would be a massive improvement to this model.

Another cool feature would be to provide sources for the information: which web pages contributed most to a specific statement. Then a human can follow up manually.
It's not a search engine. The whole point, the thing it optimizes for, is to look plausible, not to give correct or real information.
There's something to that POV. I respect Open Library a whole lot more than Libgen, because I know Open Library will always be able to do their work in the open. There's a whole lot of content which can be legally available due to its age, and we should strive to make that as easy as possible to find for the average user.
And apologized only after shitstorm ensued
Also known as survivor bias. That's a good point, tho I suspect the system is still flawed and scammed.
That's a great example of the "business point of view" and usability going in exactly opposite directions.
Its against the same hacked materials policy
Will Taiwan's cutting-edge chipmaking technology be “Americanized”？
This actually makes me feel better about things.
I just don't believe there is anyone that would look at what they are doing and go "yes, that's the right course" only to figure out that maybe manipulating politics using your power in social media company is not a good thing to do.
Its partisan to censor the laptop story.
The problem is that law enforcement doesn't work. If instances of fraud were actually investigated and properly policed, then this wouldn't have happened.

If Amazon was threatened with closure if they don't fix this, you would see a change quickly.
Speech by teachers in school isn't free. It is delivered to a captive and inexperienced audience (children).

That's why school should focus on teaching skills and not interpersonal issues. Overloading children with 50 genders is just nonsense and confuses them.

The same applies to Disney movies for minors.
I'm thinking on this for second day, and this though can't leave my head.

It sounds like sexism. And thous I think it's bad name. It continues ringing the bell for me.
Spot on and great reference.

Here’s the history on the above quote for those that missed the allusion: https://englishhistory.net/middle-ages/will-no-one-rid-me-of...
That’s life though. It’s reasonable to ask clarifying questions on a test. Word problems are notoriously tricky and one shouldn’t fail because they simply made a wrong assumption.
> Doesn't that throw all of HTML, CSS, etc out the window?

It doesn't. Because those things are already in the browser. With WASM you'll need to download the entire runtime for your app before you're able to run anything.

And you still need to go through the browser to display anything
See I don't even know what the truth of the matter is because all the moderate voices on the subject were silenced so the only ones who persevered in their effort to be heard were the fringe lunatics.
> all the rumors

you're spot on.
The Rise of Archaeologists Anonymous
Don't you think it's silly that I can't choose the color of my desktop background on a modern phone? These workarounds -- taking photos, taking screenshots, creating a single black pixel in photoshop and emailing it to myself -- shouldn't be necessary. It's a bit like someone complaining that a park's benches were removed, and everyone telling that person the different objects they could bring to the park to sit on instead.
Every human being in the world understands that guns are a clear threat to civil society, except for this bizarre hyperminority of americans who seem to stuck in some anachronistic fantasy universe. Move on.
Interesting. Venus research could use a bump. I did read ideas on HN talking about floating balloon probes. The density of its atmosphere allows for some interesting techniques to try out.
I do blame Amazon for their short-sightedness. This is driving people away from using them and in the long term I don't think it will have been good to allow this sketchy shit.

You are right that other consumer protection laws etc. should be put in place to make fake reviews, product listing swap-outs etc. impossible.
Considering that no potato cannon uses cartridges, then I doubt that NFA applies to them?

People make bowling ball mortars from gas cylinders and those have a bore even larger than any potato cannon. Yet they are perfectly legal.

Ofc here both are illegal, as the potato cannons cannot use combustion for power.
You get a lot of tourists in the US at the top parks as well. It's gotten so bad, many national parks are requiring reservations to get in, something they've never done before.
Writing with Machines/Machine Writing: The Future of AI Writing
I found the Fast AI course to be a great way to learn the foundations. It was recently updated after some years too:

https://course.fast.ai/
I mean let's be honest, they're using Mastodon which has a high effort barrier to begin with, they can create a Twitter Developer account.

The form you fill is only needed for upgraded access, it requires filling multiple pages with minimum character limits (not very Twitter like). It was approved automatically for me, but the basic API is fine for regular users. If you do any kind of analysis though, basic and upgraded Twitter APIs are useless and too rate limited even if it seems generous.
Actually AirPrint is this, it’s kind of surprising Microsoft didn’t choose to implement it in Windows.
> In the past I've been wary of companies throwing AI words around, as in reality many of them were just using some basic ML models and calling it ground breaking AI

What made you change opinion? Afaik, nothing has changed in the field except the amount of hype surrounding it.
Learn what ML and AI "really" is (start with neural nets, simple classifiers, get into GANs etc.) and just experiment with PyTorch or whatever else you like. Pick up Ray at some point and just go on from there. Rebuild models from papers and understand them. I wouldn't recommend "toying around" with ready to use stuff like premodeled and/or pretrained models (especially stable diffusion, the hype is really big right now) right at the beginning because that won't really teach an understanding of what is going on exactly. Compare with "script kiddies" as people called them back the days: They just use ready-to-use tools but have no idea what is happening and hence never surpass those tools or the level they are on, unless they bother to actually start at the beginning some day after all ... Like just using Linux won't make you an OS developer. What's all that generated prompts and content worth if you can't even tell at first glance if 0.05 or 0.0003 is a better learning rate for Adam optimizer?
No .. when you do MNIST in a DL tutorial it all looks easy. The problem is when things don't work as expected (real-world TM). I have a freakin PhD in CS (top school where a bunch of this stuff was invented .. some of my friends are "Gods" now) and did a bunch of basic ML in my thesis but ... I never got deep into the math (my PhD was in something else .. a math-lite field). I know a metric space but do understand it well enough? What the hell are kernel smoothing methods? Laplacians, Jacobians, what, what, what??? (Fine .. I was joking with the last ones .. I remember vector calculus) I work in AI and feel I study ALL-THE-TIME. Please don't torture yourself like I did. Get a proper Masters (but realize you need a PhD in the specific sub-field and strong math chops).

Rant Over .. I also had a thought for the OP. In Web dev (and other kinds of SW dev), you kick it hard enough and it works. I had a job offer at a famous company where they wanted me to do a vision model to detect theft. I got the offer but didn't take the job .. one factor was if it didn't work with my existing toolbox, what does that mean for me? Do I get fired or I quit myself? This was a serious question I posed to myself.

In research gigs, you take on hard problems and try your best. In an industrial/startup setting, AI of hard problems requires incredible training and self-confidence at the leadership level. A data engineer does not require this hard stuff and you just work under some scientist. But be aware the turn around time for experiments is very fast (like the scientists had 5 new ideas on the whiteboard by the time the dev team walked from the conf room back to their desks). I don't even know how my engineers keep up with it.

I think AI jobs where you do actual innovation/exploration are incredibly hard and require a ton of investment (personally in terms of a near 24/7 job and your employer). Even then success isn't guaranteed. I think there are much easier jobs out there (like Cloud, Security) that have an equally bright career outlook .
It doesn't quite throw css/js/html out of the window (yet) but it does remove the historic limitation that browsers have had of that being the only thing that worked in them. So, it gives people more choice and indeed the option to not bother at all with html+javascript+css.

That stack has always been a bit limiting and dated as technologies. There's a reason why people feel the need to do native apps on mobile: it's a competitive space and those limitations are simply not acceptable there.

Browser based applications have gotten away with being merely good enough (some would argue barely good enough) for the last 20 years mainly because the tradeoff of them working in any browser was worth some sacrifices with respect to UX, design, performance, etc. Now we are getting some more options.
> And if apple had allowed it to work in safari like it does on android, it might have made progress.

WASM has been on Safari since version 11 released 5 years ago. Same year it became available on Chrome and Firefox.
Let's be real - He paid 44 billion to own the libs.
A gigabit internet connection would've been a lot more than slightly out of the ordinary in the consumer space 20 years ago.
"Worse, this isn’t even intentional. It’s happening because ministers have not really thought through the implications"

don't often agree with Telegraph but their analysis is accurate.

Our era of soundbite politicians vulnerable to populist measures which superficially sound reasonable (sue big tech for hosting bad content) but disguise deep complexities (what is bad content, who decides this, it is universally applied?) which have profound implications for society (blaming platforms for user posted content means no more user posted content without prior moderation)
Good for generating funny stories but it's not "sliced bread" material.
Presumably I am allowed to run my own private Mastodon instance, administer it by my own whims, and arbitrarily limit federation with the rest of the Fediverse as it pleases me, right?

So I suppose y'all can pretend twitter.com is using Mastodon on the backend in a similar way. The folks who rage-quitted recently simply disinvited themselves from that particular party. Everybody are within their rights.

Have fun tooting at the cool kids table. :)

Edit: If someone is confused about the word tooting, that is not my term. Elon is a big meanie, and you are very cool.
Wrote a blog post about self-hosting applications
Yeah it seems like Twitters political ideology was more operative.
The mobile industry use to be like this until Apple changed it. Remember how mobile phones use to be named, let alone the design?

It takes an outside challenger with enough resources and business plan to change the status quo.
The price per GB aside from obvious (earns more money) have other reason; it's just so much easier to meter when you have hundreds different services.

You just increase the counter. You don't have to worry when service sent data.

How much BW the service actually costs is hard to calculate because you are essentially buying peak capacity, so only thing that matters is that hour in a day where there is peak traffic and which services use that up. Sure there is a bit on power used flipping actual bits in the network devices but that's tiny fraction of that.
Sharing hacked materials isn't against the TOS? Twitter explicitly said that they were suppressing the Hunter Biden story because it violated their policy against sharing hacked materials.
Ability to print onto paper and then OCR. That way my habit tracking can be more independent of the cell phone I’m trying to habitually spend less time with.
> replacing the entire browser development stack. No more html, css, typescript, or JavaScript.

And how is it going to do that when wasm has literally no access to anything, except through browser's HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.?
The Strength of the ‘Soft Daddy’
Where’d the other $43.956B go?
When I was in school, about 20 years ago, my friend’s dad loved that feature on his (non-electric, obviously) car. But it simply used the key via RF and didn’t require internet or an app.
Incident review: Intermittent downtime from repeated crashes
Author here!

Sharing a technical write-up of our recent incident where our service repeatedly crashed due to a poison pill event in the async workers.

Interesting from a general incident coordination angle, but also in terms of mitigations some of which apply generally to web apps, such as splitting work by category/type for improved reliability.

Hope you enjoy, feedback always welcome!
I agree that San Francisco has idiotic zoning and an overactive planning department that caters to the whims of NIMBYs.

And there's plenty of big tech still here, more than enough, really. Idiotic policies, sure, sometimes, however, the taxes are probably still too low.

But no, actually, I don't remember the anti-Uber law. nor the Twitter tax. It's amusing that you'd cite two made up things to support your case.

Are you referring to the Prop 22 that Uber, Lyft, Door Dash, and Instacart spent $224 million to enshrine their mistreatment of workers into the California Constitution? (kinda crazy that they couldn't just use that money to pay the workers better, huh?) But I'm not sure if a law could really be anti-Uber as their whole strategy was just to flout the law, screw regulations, and blast through billions while playing a game of chicken with Lyft.

And maybe you weren't here at the time, but it was the Twitter Tax Break. That's what started the whole mess anyway, puppet Mayor Ed Lee wanting to kiss Ron Conway's ass.
Show HN: Flopblock
I had an idea for novel puzzle mechanic and learned a bit of Godot to try it out. It’s my first game, hope you find it interesting.
Absolutely agree, and Plex Mono for monospace!
Sure — just one last thought:

The thread-lamp model isn’t arbitrary; ultimately, we’re looking for some kind of tangle model that rescues geons. So we’re going to need something that looks like continuous tangles on the inside and Feynman diagrams on the outside.
Why not both? I can easily blame Amazon for scamming me (anything that happens via Amazon.tld is Amazon's doing), and regulators/courts for taking the brib... lobbying money and suddenly losing interest in doing their job in this particular case.
Ah the good 'ole days of X11
My first thought was the market data page on the FT.com website.

Funny how a newspaper and its website both have things called "pages".
This rebuttal is irrelevant. Desantis has nothing to do with Twitter here.

You're just arguing that he doesn't really believe what he says. Why communicate in words at that point?
Thanks! I almost don't need a graphical file manager anymore.
Consider myself a progressive, and find it hilarious how both sides are taking a team sports approach.

What was/may still be happening is unacceptable regardless of who did it. Quit cheerleading
https://archive.ph/wjAuO
Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space
You're probably ignoring your own bias in this (and I say this as someone with no stake in US politics and who cares very little about Twitter). I read the thread expecting some huge revelation and there was none. Flop describes it pretty accurately.

1. Governments and public figures ask social media company to review posts that may violate ToS and/or law.

2. Social media company reviews posts with some internal debate and comes to conclusion.

Big deal.

The only thing that's really concerning in this is how much importance Twitter has when it comes to US politics and that it's now owned by one billionaire who's openly political (and spreads conspiracy theories). I can't imagine much debate happening in these content reviews anymore when the boss openly fires people who have the nerve to disagree with him.
Anker might be great in your eyes, but they are deceptive scoundrels in mines. Simply youtube “Eufy leaks”.

But yeah, back to the point… Amazon don’t appear to want to fix this broken system or they’d have done it years ago. It still makes them money.
You're not the only one. I too am also doing somewhat of a similar migration with similar staffing and not enough time, and the project managers and product owners are more concerned ed about the dates they committed to than what us devs need to make it all possible. The last site works, but it has dragons and monsters under the hood.these things take time, but because us devs are not able to clearly estimate.the end of the line, we stick with the too tight time frames...
I'm sure there are a number of business persons who choose to remain anonymous to the wider public while being somewhat visible to the government. Family offices are a very common example - the public doesn't know much about you, but the government still does. Eventually, depending on how much you grow, the government will force more disclosures out of your business, but you may also become better connected by then.

That being said, in my experience, it is extremely hard to make new contacts or approach government for projects, since they go by name recognition, which you chose to forgo. For example, my firm has a few "side" projects in the Middle East, India and South America, but we could not push through without a local partner who was the face to the government agencies, or my prior contacts in the government.
What if you control click on the hyperlink?
> His mentioning using PostScript for a file server is particularly interesting: Sun's next version of NFS is going to use PostScript with file extentions as the client-server protocol! This paper explores NeWS in this light: as a Programmable Network Facility, a major part of Sun's future networking strategy.

I seem to remember people writing Postscript that when printed turns your printer into a file server, so in a way that idea came true!

To me it seems like the attempt here is to make Postscript into what Javascript became. Although Postscript is a beautiful language it’s probably too unapproachable for the average person so it didn’t work out (for that) where Javascript did.
> It's only amusing if you don't really believe in the rule of law

The exact same companies that were lobbying against consumer protection and antitrust laws, unions busting, and convicted of conspiracy to supress wages, are now asking for government to step in because Chinese competition is breaking the same laws.

Definately some hypocracy and now that the shoe is on the other foot, people they shafted previously are enjoying some shaudenfruede.
Perhaps it’s a deliberate error, like the fake towns or roads that mapmakers add to find copycats.

The author is correct though: what a waste of space. I’d actually forgotten that closing prices used to be printed in the paper — I wonder when that stopped?
You can also just download the tar ball from Mozilla and run that. It takes care of keeping itself up to date. I do that on Manjaro because I want my updates straight from the source. I'm on the beta channel, so my browser updates frequently and it simply indicates when there is an update and then I can choose when to restart the browser. Works on Ubuntu as well.
Isn't that the entire model of most retail stores? Namely that they are retail and have items available for reasonably fast shipping.