skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scam companies tend to hire those who either couldn't or didn't invest into a personal career. Some of these also have a gift for persuasion (to other locals) so they just go for it with what they have.

Once you start getting into the mindset of investing time for learning and development of skills, then it's just easier, safer and more profitable to go the legit way.
It reminded me of one of Paul Graham's essays. It is important to hone writing skills as a way of looking more deeply at issues and understanding them.
I don't use plain black wallpapers because it makes dust/fingerprints etc on my laptop screen easily noticable, so prefer relativily minimalist wallpapers.

Used to like "crowded" wallpapers like cityscape, but found it distracting in the last few years.

P.S: yes, I regularely clean my laptop screen.
This is not fact.

This is a narrative for people with no domain experience, and a desire to see conspiracies.
Or confusion. I still remember Q1 with a problem of "cross dressing" players that wore both red and blue due to your ability to customize the other accent color on your character.
Did you actually review the product? I think it makes some sense they removed it if you didn’t.

Also, what use is it to point that out with a review? Surely people who actually look at the reviews would notice anyway?
Isn’t Polestar a Volvo?
Polestar cars are designed (at a component level) in Gothenburg, Sweden and manufactured in Chengdu, China.
Huawei teases a smartwatch with built-in wireless earbuds
> In the same way that since we identify unicode code points with a 16-bit value

Not a single 16-bit value. Some codepoints are two 16-bit values.
From my limited Amazon selling knowledge:

First paragraph sounds like you’re allowed to have multiple Amazon seller accounts tied to a listing. I think the dummy account was used as a way to prevent the main account from being banned if people reported the reviews. They also give estimates of how much the person sold. Based on a product’s ranking in a category (say a product is ranked #10 in massagers), you can guesstimate how often a product at rank #10 would sell every day in order to achieve that rank.

What the person did is when you sell a product on Amazon, you can choose between shipping the product to a customer yourself (so printing the shipping label, boxing the product, and ultimately sending it to a customer), or having Amazon do all of that for you, but for a fee (that process is called fulfilled by Amazon, or FBA).

For their dummy account, they would do the “shipping” themselves, but would not actually ship the product. If they knew the customer (and it sounds like they did), then that would mean they’re able to get very cheap reviews since they were giving 95% off these fake shipped products.

Hope that clears things up well enough for you!
This was a disgusting revelation to me once when I heard someone openly say, “I didn’t know he was a Pay Band X! I need to start listening to him.” And then when he was found out to not actually be in that pay band, they reverted back to dismissing his ideas.
Is there any truth to Russia's 'Ukrainian Nazis' propaganda?
Can I buy my information back with FTT?
This is the reason I do not buy from Amazon anymore it is all Chines crap of immoral companies.
While watching the other players screen to see where they were.
Ukraine war: New images show Russian army base built in occupied Mariupol
more to review from the Biden Team

sums up the story
Does that make it good?

Single issue voters, like those who only vote for/against abortion, are literally throwing aside every other issue. It’s a disservice to themselves and a disservice to others who have to live with their decision.
Show HN: A more complete Rust example project for the Rasberry Pi Pico
This is one of the problems with chatGPT. Good writing is not just a way to communicate ideas. It is also a way to develop ideas that are worth exploring. Being proficient with language - good language skills - means being proficient with ideas. It is easy to lose site of this when you're profession is a technical one that mostly reads instruction manuals or technical documentation.
Lack of self! The author is a ghost. I read it as a cry for help. "I am lonely", he says. But it's worse than that, because there is no him to be lonely. His cognition is bound up in fragments of other people's fictional lives.
Broken commit diff on Cisco iOS XR
I’m the same way since forever. Then again, on iPad I still have the default background. On my phone I set it to a picture I took like 10 years ago (a blue sky with yellow leaves in the foreground) and forgot since then. I guess I’ll change those now. :)

The thing is, the only time I see the background is when I boot up / log in. I keep apps up full screen. I only launch apps using search or the taskbar or dock (I guess on iOS you have go home and swipe down to search though). I only look at the desktop on the rare chance I saved something I need there.
>lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. “...under the Constitution of Russia, he can no longer be extradited to a foreign state...”

How very civilised!

Not like all those western countries which will extradite their own citizens to the US at the drop of a hat --The US being, of course, a nation which retains the death penalty and has admitted to torturing detainees and which therefore should be automatically out of bounds for for extradition, according to most western democracies' constitutions.

But, hey ho! it's the USA. The rules the rest of the world has to abide by don't apply to them.
The democrats endorsed law enforcement funding through the midterms and helped pass funding for police through congress in September. What planet do you live on?

Also calls for reparations are a liberal agenda, not a socialist one.
You realize the CCP forces companies to accept CCP members into their board and leadership, right? It’s even affecting foreign companies operating in China. It’s not “sinophobia”, it’s just facts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/hsbc-form...
I'm ok with TurboTax.
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Honest question: would you be similarly dismissive if it turned out that it’s secretly mostly the right who “shapes the flow of information” in order to influence public’s opinion and has already used that power during the past election cycles?

This indeed happens, The [Sinclair Broadcast Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group) being one of the most prominent examples. They're a huge nationwide TV station operator known for pushing conservative narratives nationwide and for supporting Donald Trump during his campaign.

One of Sinclair's assets is its reach and influence, and they are very transparent about that. If you're in the US and this is news to you, you might want to check if your local Fox or NBC (or CBS, ABC, etc) network is affiliated: https://sbgi.net/tv-stations/
I hope the American auto companies can respond quick enough. Rivian, Tesla, Canoo and similar are exciting to watch. American car companies didn't have the industry's attention until recently.
Shaper Origin: Introducing AutoPass
It seems that such blocks would mostly just reduce transparency.
Experiment shows exposure to common enemies can increase political polarization
Not just that, it also let the attacker find the customer's home address.
Yeah, I meant on android you can use it to make a webapp that goes full screen, can be granted position info etc. by the user, and push notifications. A PWA in other words. Apple doesn't want PWAs, as they circumvent control of the appstore.
All those Mastodon people said they were going to "leave" Twitter and now they're crossposting...

Since you haven't left and don't want to leave, I suggest you build a Twitter Mastodon cross-poster and solve the problem!
You can see that the media doesn't think this is that important since it is not a story on the New York Times or Guardian websites.
These are just language tricks. We aren’t censoring anything, we are simply moderating out the voices of our political opponents.

There are always trade offs but I think we are better off with zero censorship. What are we worried about? Will we become Jihadists after seeing a Taliban post? Are with that impressionable that anything we see sticks in the brain as truth? If so, perhaps we should try to solve the root problem.
Evaluating behavior in response to AI recommendation for judgemental forecasting
I installed a mattermost instance, and while a little bit overkill, it has all the features I need.
4) it's true, it's important, we didn't know it, but trump does it too
You’re right. It’s very racist and bad to not support the government enslaving, neutering, force aborting, and imprisoning Muslims, supporting a government currently invading your allies, one that said it wants to make a new world order without you, take taiwan by force if needed, heavily censors content, etc…

It can’t be any of that! No! It must be sinophobia!

> Chinese human rights activists do not think banning TikTok strengthens human rights in China.

Source?
> Finland's PM Sanna Marin says Europe would be in trouble without US

Of course. They pay good. If you dance as they sing.
But it sounds like it would be trivial to look the other way on these investigations, as evident by their repeated lack of action.

Most likely though someone at Amazon doesn't want to hurt their metrics for sales/relevance.
I'm very interested here. I'm a big http://zim-wiki.org guy, but I've always been fascinated with the promise of doing this in the browser to reduce that sort of friction. Tiddlywiki's a possibility here, but for being browser-based it always seemed weirdly difficult to do client/server style.

This seems like the kind of thing I'm looking for, should be easy to self-host and access from different browsers, no?
Found the Amazon mod
Snowden crossed the line in what he released. US spying on China. How did that help him reveal the domestic spying problem? It didn’t, and wasn’t required. Many other disclosures were similarly not required, and questionable of a “patriot”. Instead, a foreign agent, revealing international spying, and trying to save his skin by also revealing domestic spying, matches Snowden’s actions. Get to be a Russian agent, and a celebrity. Best of both worlds. F him.

If it only revealed the domestic spying, I might praise him.

And my attitude has not changed since Snowden’s first disclosure.
Too clever by half?
I don't think cleverness is quite the same as inventiveness or a skill that equips you for a job. It is more a psychological tool people often use to navigate the world. I think that's what the essay was getting at.
Someone actually wrote "communism works ... in theory" without a hint of irony.

I don't think it was a meltdown but one might be justified.
There's already way too many people in the field who see these Stable Diffusion, GPT etc. in the news and want to do something like that. Stable Diffusion looks impressive, but I have no idea what the business use case for that is. Likewise lots of people want to do "deep learning" but most companies don't have that kind of data or it doesn't make sense otherwise. 99% of data science work is more boring -- what you need is try to understand the business, be familiar with a wide range of different methodology and have an exploratory mindset to look for a good solution to a particular problem. This is not to say you can't do "AI" or "deep learning", but a narrow focus, overcrowded market and no existing skills are not a good combination. There's plenty of business need for general data engineering and data science though that can also serve as a path forward if not interesting to you as an end.
Why are you posting it again then?
Probably. In a war I don't think they'd hesitate, since they've already demonstrated their willingness to cause huge clouds of LEO debris with simple tests. But the upside is that it's much less of a problem for the rest of humanity. Losing access to space for a few years is certainly not something we want, but in the context of a major war between two space powers it will be among the least of our worries.

Note also that "Kessler Syndrome" is not a binary condition. As debris gets worse, the expected lifespan of satellites in those orbits drops, and as does the success rate of launching rockets through the effected altitudes. However these don't drop off to zero immediately. If the satellite is important enough to justify the elevated risk and additional expense then you can simply plan to launch several of them to get one of them through. Manned missions would be a bad idea, but odds are good that vital weather satellites and the like would be kept aloft.
Yes, the products were horrible and I reviewed as such.

The reviews aren't ordered in a way that makes that obvious. You usually have to dig deep to find these. If you only look at the first page of reviews you are likely not going to see the photo reviews.
FWIW, I worked on the integration with calendar and maps - the GP comment is exactly right, it was due to privacy concerns. The terms of service for Workspace say that user data can never be used for anything not related to Workspace, so moving any user data from Workspace to another service has to be done very carefully.

In the example of this integration, allowing it to open in the sidebar was okay because it was a user action, and there is some data anonymization that happens (I don't recall the details, this was a few years ago).

But we couldn't share a list of your appointments with maps ahead of time to allow them to generate the view you describe, because there wasn't a way that guaranteed that the data wouldn't be associated back with the original user.
Can you watch it purely in Emacs?
Very important for social stability and economic prosperity to suppress people's protests. If UK Govt didn't do this, imagine what chaos could be fomented by foreign powers bent on regime change
I have written a short article explaining why null terminated strings as they exist in C cannot represent proper ASCII and UTF-8 because of the null terminator. It's not a full explanation of how strings work but it might be helpful for you.

https://kttnr.net/blog/null-terminated-strings-are-incorrect...
That is just your opinion. Many people disagree.

Particularly, a congressman requested tweets to be removed through special channel is interesting.

Twitter determined that the article from an established news outlet is a hacked material, even though that should have been determined by law enforcement is interesting.

If you don't like it, you can just skip the post.

I'm sure there are hundreds of posts on front-page that you are not interested.
Could you explain exactly which statute makes "stealing ... information" a crime?
The problem with the Kishi is that it blocks all the ports, right? I can't use a wired headset at the same time as the Kishi...
Tech’s Gell-Mann Paranoia
Is it really that hard to use a burner email?
>There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever anywhere on earth for life less complex than eukaryotic cells.

I'm not sure what you meant to say here, but this is absolutely false. Prokaryotes abound.
How does Org Mode handle Zettlekasten?

Also one thing i like about these alternate options is they work on my phone. I regularly use Obsidian on my phone to lookup information, jot things down, etc.

With that said i'm still looking (making.. maybe?) my perfect solution which is mostly just Selfhosted + Notes + Spaced Rep in the right UX.
When it coordinates moderation decisions with government, it's not a private platform anymore
> The laptop isn’t meaningless.

Then you go on to list a bunch of meaningless things to me. Hunter Biden brandishing firearms and taking drugs is meaningless. He’s a private citizen. His problems are well known. The brandishing of the firearm thing is especially hilarious, because the people who are most concerned about taking down Hunter Biden wouldn’t even consider that a crime.

Actually I take that back, Hunter Biden allegedly trading on his fathers name and giving kickbacks to “the big guy” has been normalized by the Trump family as standard operating procedure for top political families in this country.

How are any Republicans even mad about this? Oh right, they are not. What’s really going on here is that Republicans hope the laptop will be to Biden as Whitewater was to Clinton, and Benghazi was to Hillary — the pretext that allows investigation, which will hopefully reveal or cause the other prey to make a mistake.

That’s all this is, which is frustrating, because a total of 0 people involved in pushing this care about the things you listed as not meaningless and evidence of guilt. It’s just a political playbook that’s been run nationally 3 times already, at least. The fact not everyone can see through it is worrying.

> the left cannot even admit an investigation of corruption should be done

And yet, the FBI is investigating and Biden isn’t pressuring the AG or firing the director of the FBI as Trump did.

But regardless, you say it’s about “Trump hate” and whataboutism but it’s really about normalization. Republicans shouldn’t be surprised people yawn about accusations of nepotism and self dealing after they told people for years it’s not a big deal. Why should anyone care about Republicans suddenly crying about self dealing now, after brushing it off for so long?

> If there was actual Trump corruption, him and his whole family would be in prison by now.

Trump was President since 2016 and was not only immune from prosecution, but it was found he used his position as President to obstruct the investigation into himself. People thought the system would be capable of quickly removing such an obvious tumor, but apparently only voters have enough power to do that. Apparently controlling the AG and DOJ is enough to keep one from being indicted, who knew?

With most prosecutions of the scale that would be needed to take down someone as powerful as Trump taking years, Trump probably won’t see a courtroom for another 12-18 months.
America, China, and the Spirit of Enterprise
"As an example ..." and I absolutely did not say this is a universal truth

Fair enough that you may have meant it like that. However it can also read as "an example of the M1 being nothing more than a high end office computer" is that "a test suite" (universally) runs slower. The next example might be that say "a C compiler runs slower", "a web server will run slower" etc. As I understand you now, you meant that one of your test suites ran slower. You could have made it more clear by saying exactly that: "As an example, one of our main test suites ran ..."

I read it the other way as just an example of test suite, compiler, web server etc. specifically because you then went on to say that it's just a glorified office computer, where it basically doesn't matter that this happens, because it's gonna be good enough to run a browser to look at Facebook ;)

Who do you think you are to write stuff like that?

This has nothing to do with "who". And also nothing with you. That's between him/her and me. It has to do with the fact that trap_goes_hot completely ignored anything you or I wrote and proceeded to accuse me of criticizing you. Again "criticizing" can be taken in multiple ways:

To find fault with
To judge the merits and faults of; analyze and evaluate.

I think he meant that I was finding fault with in a harsh way. That's not what I was doing. I was analyzing and evaluating and responding to that. I analyzed your sentences and tell you that I read it such that you were saying the test suite thing "as if this was universal truth". That is how I read it and the rest of my reply is to be taken under that premise.

He then went on to reply with yet another trolling reply. I simultaneously didn't want to validate it with a reply but I really had to. I bet we could have gone on from one thing to another for another 20 replies and gotten nowhere.
Volvo is owned by Geely.

Personally, I'm not sure those count as an example of China's design prowess, since those cars aren't designed in China.
A great article about how people think the could "build stackoverflow in a week" made the rounds a few years ago but I can’t find it again…
Slightly ironic that Rust is criticized for having multiple string types, and yet the solution to simplify string handling in C is to introduce the exact same types (str_t == &str, strbuf_t == String) albeit without the safety guarantees.
https://archive.ph/0xElK
On a forum I could give things a couple of days and then write a response. Or I could start my own thread on the topic. But that's less of an option in places like HN. If I write a comment here two days from now, there's a good chance that zero people will see it. If I want to discuss the topic but not the essay, what are my options? I could start my own blog, write my thoughts on the matter, submit it to HN, hope that I'm one of the 1% of the submissions that make it past the screeners who hang out on "New," then hope I actually generate some discussion and don't immediately fall off the page.

I actually agree with you that more reflection in general is a good idea (though I don't necessarily agree that these kinds of essays engender that kind of reflection, but that's a separate topic). However, the online communities that exist now are designed to dissuade people from doing anything (reflection, research, editing, etc.) that take more time.
I'm in a similar situation. I have 1,5 year of experience working in a web dev full-stack job, but the FOMO is so strong with all the advancements in AI. I fear my skills won't be future-proof and eventually AI is going to take my job. These thoughts are taking a toll on my mental health and as a result, I can't focus on improving my skills because of the constant fear of me losing the hype train / making the wrong career decision.

Is this fear justified? How should I proceed? Is software development dead? So many questions and uncertainties...
Refreshing to see something like this here. Genuinely.
> Based on the fact that they've gone through several waves of layoffs and nothing significant has broken yet.

it hasn't been long enough to be able to say that yet. if you get rid of all firefighters, that doesn't mean the whole world will immediately catch fire.
Not his fault your terminal supports more than 80 character rows.

(If you got Firefox click the reader mode in the right of the URL bar).
The EU and metaverse are the peanut butter and jelly of cringe. Makes even Chinese Communism seem cool in comparison.
Seems fun on the surface, but they're offering folks to write in to their "careers" email (see the Info icon). They also really seem to be pushing you to create an account, or use the QR code, to save your information for later use.

I've seen instances of fun things like "Windows 98 in a browser" that were interesting projects. This seems to be someone trying to make a full-on product out of the concept, even referring to it as "cloud computing" on their Twitter account.

They can't play both sides. It's either a fun little toy, or it's a serious product. "Puter" seems to be aiming for the latter, so they deserve the relevant scrutiny.
I think this is the downsides of cleverness that Oscar Wilde eludes to. Its overuse can be hollow, snide and become downright mean and cynical. Very emotionally draining.
In this case, Twitter was deleting posts at the request of the government. That is the 1A violation
Just for sake of another person's experience:

I did emacs org-mode for over a year and ended up abandoning it. For me, the issue was: I could absolutely see how powerful it could get, but not only was the learning curve wildly steep -- the way it does things is so different from most other programs that it would slow me down in those.

I ended up falling back to a mix of things like zim-wiki, xbindkeys and a bunch of zenity/fzf based shell scripts to get what I wanted, while having something that played nice with everything else, interface wise.
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