skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
after going to one quite regularly its quite funny when people don't know whats happening. they scan their amazon app, grab something, then walk out and look super confused where they're supposed to pay for what they've grabbed
I was using qemu-mips quite often around 2012. It was definitely faster, probably more power efficient too.
> This can be compensated for, to a degree, by enhanced parental interaction with the child from an early age.

Which, as this article points out, is exactly the kind of thing that wealthier parents are able to provide their kids and which less wealthy parents often cannot, even when they would like to.
This was fun! I wish it would give me two words as a hint, one in the middle of the stack and one just a bit north of it. Something to get me running.
How to secure phone against state actor?
A friend is traveling abroad with sensitive information that a foreign government may want or may target after they learn it was shared. Are there any guides for securing a Android or iPhone against state actors?
FAQ says:

Can I use output from ChatGPT for commercial uses?

Subject to the Content Policy and Terms, you own the output you create with ChatGPT, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise – regardless of whether output was generated through a free or paid plan.

I asked ChatGPT and it seems to hold itself in somewhat higher regard:

Does it violate your terms of use to use translations you create in commercial products?

As an AI language model, I do not have terms of use or any legal authority to dictate the usage of my translations. However, my responses are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC >BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, which allows for non-commercial use with attribution and the same license applied to derivative works. (...)

I think there was recently a (US) court decision ruling AI produced artefacts aren't copyrightable. As with all things legal: if you're only moderately sure and the thing you intend to do doesn't involve money or medical or potentially demeaning the local ruler and you're operating on a small scale: just try it out. Otherwise you'll have to ask a real lawyer in the jurisdiction you're located in in.
Amazon announced plans to begin accepting cash (and SNAP) at Go stores but I'm not sure how far it got

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/10/amazon-exec-tells-employees-...
Semantle (of which this appears to be a clone) uses cosine similarity with word2vec from my understanding and it felt much more intuitive.
No, the benefit of the doubt should go to the accused. Sony should have to prove their case in a court of law. Due process must be upheld.
That's not what it says here though ? https://www.bvg.de/de/abos-und-tickets/alle-abos/vbb-umweltk...

Says i need to pay 1 year upfront for the discount otherwise it's 63 euro per month

Edit: okay their website is just a nightmare and eventhough they say it's 63 euro they bill 29 euro
I’ve personally enjoyed using Immutables even more than Lombok. It produces generated java classes instead of a JAR when you build so it’s easy to view.

https://immutables.github.io/
My biggest recommendation is that those working directly with the new hire, peers, direct reports, subordinates, counterparts, have a vote or veto power.

HR and recruiting relationships are sparse at best.
Do you know how many people cheated on the SAT in test centers across Asia? If you knew, you’d not say this.

It’s only discriminatory against Asian AMERICANS.
They built a Go store into their office in Bellevue,WA - it's got the freezers and shelves but it hasn't opened. They built a Four Star store into their HQ in Seattle, and they closed it a year later. There's several Amazon Books stores in the area, GONE.
It's like their push for retail is a total dead-end.
I liked their bookstores a lot. Shame they all shut down before
Because it wasn't clear I needed to use an app (and therefore would require access to my password which I didn't have on my phone) since I was just trying to return a product.
No it is not.

You can exclude mediocrity while also being exclusionary on other axes.

They are unrelated issues. In fact, I’ve even heard of exceptional people being abused/bullied for belonging to the wrong group to the point of being told “you couldn’t have done that” which itself is an assertion of their supposed mediocrity for exclusionary reasons.

Don’t assume you need to be bigoted to exclude mediocrity. Discriminating, yes, but not discriminatory against groups that inclusive hiring policies attempt to protect.
I didn't downvote you. I assume your vague post was code for "I shouldn't have to pay taxes".

It's certainly vague enough that it could be.
Imagine being a malicious actor in this world of ours, where as long as you could make it look like a potential mistake, you can get away with whatever, and people on the internet will simply say "Sounds like Hanlon's Razor" and you're basically in the clear :shrug:
> A lot of people seem to have been raised with this attitude that pretty theft from a ruthless retail corporation is some kind of unthinkable sin.

You're not actually stealing from the "ruthless retail corporation". You are stealing from the customers who don't steal.
Wouldn’t they be more likely to sell off the shelf components that Russia can use in their missiles? It’s not like Russia lacks an industry that specializes in weapons production.
The actual title is "Amazon Go closing 8 of its c-stores," the HN post title is misleading
I'm sure that sounded smart when you wrote it.

An inclusive interviewing process does not mean that you hire everyone. It means you reduce the weight of people's biases as part of identifying who you hire (because people turn out to be quite bad at prediction in hiring).
The problem with allocating is not the algorithm complexity, it's the fact it may need to allocate new pages from the operating system, which is a somewhat expensive operation.

If you use a global allocator, when this happens is entirely non-deterministic. If you use a local iterator, at least you control when that happens, and have guarantees on the asymptotical behaviour.
I do not like Amazon, but I absolutely loved the Amazon Go stores. When I worked in the city, it very quickly became part of my routine to stop by to pick up breakfast or a snack. Being able to walk in and walk out reduced an enormous amount of friction and I honestly wish this experiment worked.
I feel a certain sadness whenever I hear of a fantastic species that lived concurrent with modern humans (within the last 4000 year or so), but has gone extinct before I could see it.
Sprüngli is definately the leading chocolate brand in Switzerland (the luxury part of Lindt-Sprüngli). I don't even record seeing Toblerone when I was living there (only at the airport for people exporting it as cheap presents).
You set unreasonable expectations/ demands on public transport. There will always be some walking / biking to/from bus/tram stops. That has never been a problem.

You are likely trying to compare the USA car-centric suburbs and frankly that choice makes distances larger but that’s life. USA has a tremendous disadvantage due to the car-centric nature.

Yet even that can be changed, it will be costly, but there is no technical issue.
It is all about politics. As long as taking a bus is seen as for “poor people” it will be an uphill battle.
How large is your composter? Many of the "bio-plastics" require high heat composting to decompose, and even then may require a large amount of time. Unless you've got a massive compost pile with adequate aeration and turning, almost no bio-plastics will truly decompose at home.

From the EPA[0]:

> If a plastic product is labeled “compostable,” can I add it to my home compost pile?

> No. Unless the label indicates that the product is okay for home composting, you should not try to compost it at home. Plastic that is labeled as compostable is generally intended to be sent to an industrial or commercial composting facility which has higher temperatures and different breakdown conditions than those found in a typical homeowner’s compost bin. If your community has a residential compost collection program, check with your local government or recycling company to find out if they will accept compostable plastic under this program.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/frequently-asked-quest...
if they didn't, they'd undoubtedly have mentioned it

I have no love for amazon, but besides the lack of receipt, this seems like an issue they created for themselves
The point is that enough UK farmers do save seeds, that the UK government feels it important to charge them royalty fees. So apparently the seeds work.
USA successfully enforces its laws everywhere https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-do...
Well since the return process took the best part of 15 minutes for this state-of-the-art store, and I would have had no recourse if the refund didn't go through (since I had no proof I'd returned it), I won't be rushing back in a hurry. So in that respect it was a failure.
My roommate in undergrad (State university) many decades ago was an Indian guy. The whole "asian work ethic" stereotype: Driven, hard working and brilliant. It dawned on me really early on that there were probably 20 million people his age in India and out of them all, he was one of the (relative) handful to pass all the gatekeepers and come study in the USA. Whereas I had a mediocre GPA and SAT score and basically out of laziness applied to my home State's university only and got in because of my address. Super early and instructive lesson on white (and American) privilege.
It's not a game that you win or lose. It's a classic arcade game - meant to last a variable but finite time. Score is only a rough metric. It's all about mastery along the way.
yeah, well, early to bed and early to rise would be to be a dullard in Ben Franklin's eyes.
Atleast in India, everyone "games" systems as much as they can. Those who can't dream about gaming it. The Kafkaesque system makes sure that the few who actually tread the right path are never rewarded [1].

And unlike EU, this benefits corporates/capitalism as they can cut through the red tape easily by "gaming" things.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33368104
DUOL is a unique stock ticker (ID) which has been assigned to Duolingo on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
> Entrapment is a practice in which a law enforcement agent or agent of the state induces a person to commit a "crime"

So you think the state gives the population a good education, especially in law then?

There is a saying which backs up my position, "no knowledge of the law is no defense of the law". Its a UK cultural saying, the sort of things intellectual criminals would come up with.

When considering politicians, education and law enforcement are all agents of the state, it reinforces my position solidly, except for the criminals of the state who play dumb because their jobs would be on the line!
> Different populations perform differently on average

Does this mean that today's IQ tests have racial bias?

> There’s also a historical association with IQ assessment and eugenics.

Does this mean that today's IQ tests have racial bias?
Who here didn't see this leak coming?
It's interesting that it works. (179->150->13->1 for me. [I think it is more interesting to discuss paths instead of x and neighbors. A graph plotting all successful paths so far would be ++interesting to see. I wonder if a certain common final sub-path (like above) occur. And which one is it?])

Can we actually assert a 'natural semantic order'? I've always thought this was a fundamental aspect of our cognition, that we have 2 distinct ways of ordering: names and numbers. Outside of lexical ordering (which is ordering a representation not the things themselves), names can at best be ordered in a DAG. Pretty much half of computer science is converting names into numbers so we can compute over them.
Why did Windows 3.0 fail in Japan?
In the US we call Emmentaler just Swiss cheese - seems like a drastical over simplification.

But I think that's what happens with distance things get more abstracted away.
It sounds good but do we have any evidence that this actually works? There’s so many of these speculative “how to interview” posts but it’s all just cargo culting.
> What are other experiences?

For a number of years now our local grocery/everything store has operated a cashierless option. When you enter, you grab a handheld scanner, and scan as you go. It's pretty cool.

But it seems like nobody really uses it. And the two locations closest to me seem to have dropped it altogether. People are apparently more comfortable with just using old school self-checkout. Those have continued to proliferate, and account for way more than half the available checkout options.
>> Standardized testing allowed me to overcome their base opinions.

The only K-12 school in which my children have been enrolled that has never reported standardized test scores to student's parents also happened to be a private school. I suspect the school's motive is a combination of not wanting to give leverage to parents whose children do well, and not wanting to piss off the wealthy parents. We are in the first group and thankfully my children weren't at that school for very long due to COVID lockdowns.
The obvious question should be is why states around Russia and China choose to be U.S. friendly, whereas states around the US also choose to be US friendly.

For example, why does Canada KK pose restrictions on China despite them investing a ton of money in Canada, and the Philippines, barring a short neutrality under the ridiculous Dutarte also chooses to impose restrictions on China, and be closer to the U.S., despite China also investing a ton of money in them and being closer to them.
Of course. Better check those Sequoia wallets.
Does using `window.navigator.userAgent` still work? Does it still return the actual user-agent?

Yes, and because it does, people will use it. You (or standards) bodies can scream from the top of the mountains that it's deprecated, but it won't matter, because if it's there, it will be used.
But how to tell the difference between old wisdom and old bullshit?
In the ChatGPT API, the labels are: “system” (typically used for the “hidden” prompt in examples), “user”, and “assistant” (used for ChatGPT’s responses.)

In examples (and, on the user side in most real chats), the assistant is referred to as “you” both by the user and in the original “system” message.
Ending your life isn’t a reversible decision.

Taking a drug that permanently damages your heart, lungs or even liver, often isn’t.

Dangerous sports need risk analysis, and failing to do that increases the chance of an irreversible result.

Having kids is not reversible - if you change your mind six months in, you don’t get the same outcomes for the rest of your life as if you had never had them in the first place. It’s not consequence-free, whatever route you take from there.

You might be ok with downsides and risks associated with a decision when you make, but it doesn’t mean the decision is reversible. Some decisions (“should I move my family to a foreign country?”), have greater consequences and less reversibility than others (“shall I have an extra slice of toast this morning?”).

I also want to stress something I wish I’d grasped when I was younger: when you’re 25 you get to experiment more with the big stuff than you do when you’re 35 or 45. And that time passes fast. At 45 you will not have the same degrees of consequence-free reversible decision making you had when you were 25.

But there are still decisions you make at 25 that will stick with you forever, no matter what. Choose your friends and lifestyle carefully.
Microsoft has a long and storied history of claiming superior business acumen when it suits their narrative, and then incompetence when that does.

“We are the smartest developers in the world” I’m told used to be something you heard on campus, presumably during the recruiting process, and in the board room. But if the Justice department comes knocking, they turn into Steve Urkel.

You can’t have it both ways, and they “accidentally” break too many things that earn them millions of dollars. It’s not stupidity, it might not be malice, but if not malice then thoughtlessness or arrogance.
Signing away future rights is a dark side. Similar to credit card debt.
oh yah! Nürnberger Bratwurst is guaranteed to be produced in Nuremberg, Germany. They go after you if you produce it outside. same for Dresdner Stollen and quite some more regional products.
If you want to help poor kids let them take the SAT exams for free.
> if you skip classes in college, they just shrug, cash your tuition check, and give you an F.

Depends on the college. A friend of mine who went to an “elite institution“ struggled to supervise themselves and got set up with a counselor to keep them on track. I’m not certain this was actually in their best interests, since they’ve spent most of their late 20s and early 30s struggling to apply to med school but missing deadlines.
ChatGPT declaring someone dead and making up a legitimate-looking URL to a nonexistent obituary: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/chatgpt_considered_ha...

ChatGPT also misrepresented its own terms and conditions in a deceptive fashion to a professional colleague who then relied on that advice in a LinkedIn post. Plenty of blame to go around on that one, but who's culpable? What's the remedy? How can they get that wrong?
Why do you care? Even if you have thousands of metrics, this is still relatively little data.

This also presumably runs on an auxiliary thread, and uses a network interface not tied to production services.
Yuep, everyone forgets it's the THREE R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle....
Then why is it FF nightly only?
The Go stores completely hide the technology. All the cameras and sensors are tucked away behind shelves or painted black and mounted on the blacked-out ceiling.

I mean, with the Go stores there really is no concept of shoplifting since you need a payment method to walk in. Shoplifting would involve fooling the sensors and I suppose Amazon takes that as a cost of training their systems. There are many videos of people trying things to fool the system but I don't know how successful that is.

On a philosophical level I don't see any difference between this and, say, an employee following you with a clipboard and marking down everything you do. You're a customer in a private business and they can make any rule they want. Short of anonymous bartering for goods and services in an outdoor setting you really don't have much of a say. If Amazon hides the surveillance is it a trap, or just a way of making you feel more comfortable making impulse purchases?
Or “we like open source software and ‘freedom’ as long as it is used by the right people in a way that I agree with”
Probably costs an arm and a leg at the moment though.
US de facto controls foreign policy through the UN and other international orgs for a majority of countries on earth. China and Russia are the two largest exceptions. We use economic pressure like a bully. This is a fact that nobody would dispute. You can agree with the aims of the US without pretending that we don't force other nations to do our bidding all the time.

Meanwhile, you never addressed the point that the US invades more nations than anybody else. Why are you ignoring that?
Have been using them for years, never had a single issue.
Well, sure, it took quite a while for the British Navy to get there - they didn’t have ships or planes nearby.

But the UK economy wasn’t doing well and Margaret Thatcher was very unpopular especially with the working class. I doubt many British people cared that much about the Falklands and wouldn’t have minded if they had let it go.

But I think an awful lot of the British, and even Americans and Europeans, were completely shocked that Thatcher would not, under any circumstance, tolerate an invasion of British territory - even unwanted territory!

Had the Argentinians waited a few more years, the British may have just given the islands to them.
> Python bogs down where there is excess use of the dynamic aspects, e.g., a large list comprehension. Go with a generator, and watch that list be more kind to the resources.

This is a micro-optimization and it's not always true. Generators usually use less memory, but list comprehensions can actually be faster because the memory gets allocated all at once and the loop is performed internally inside the interpreter, instead of the generator possibly being consumed as a slow top-level loop.

I was talking about examples like making a copy of a list/dict/object instead of replacing elements in-place, or using a stack of map/filter operations instead of a single-pass for-loop with dynamic programming.
Imagine being someone who made a simple mistake, and people on some weird internet forum with no identity verification said "Oh, that guy must be malicious!" and you lose your job. How would you feel? It's justified, if I understand the point you're trying to make, right?

Which is worse?

Edit: Not that I expect much from here, but since there are a number of child(ish) replies, I might as well clarify this for the replies that I'm not going to individually address:

I'm not saying it's not cool to say "Microsoft sucks" or anything like that. If that's how you feel, then feel free to just say that. It's the internet. What's NOT cool is making up an imaginary situation where someone's simple error is part of this conspiracy that Microsoft is this terrible evil corporation, when there's thousands of decent, community-loving people that work there, one of whom made this error, more than likely by simple carelessness. It's not that big of a deal, it's not a showstopper by any means, and will be a simple fix in due time, almost undoubtedly.

There are people behind software, but a lot of commenters seem to think it's professionally appropriate to just shit on things because they're from Microsoft or because they're from Apple, or wherever. Just say you don't like Microsoft, or that you don't like Apple. It's so antisocial to take the stance I keep seeing.

I think the young people call this "parasocial" these days. Back in my day, we called it "fanatics", where there's this unhealthy obsession and seemingly anthromorphized view of corporations and institutions where hundreds or thousands of different, varied, diverse groups of people are all cohesively accomplishing or building things. It dismisses nuance, it rejects common sense understanding of how teams of people work, and is reductive and hostile to actually intelligent conversations about products and ideas.
This is why activist judiciaries inventing rights that plainly are not there (and in fact, supporters at the time understood that this was on shaky ground legally) are dangerous to rely on.

The situation here is not comparable.
This take assumes a priori that inclusive hiring results in mediocrity. Sounds more like a reflection of biases, to be honest. Inclusive hiring means expanding your search criteria beyond "hire those that look like me, speak like me, have awesome education like me, and are basically smart like me". It turns out there are plenty of exceptional people outside of that narrow band.
> So it is a brilliant way to use regular affirmative action for Blacks as a weapon to ensure that rich white elites always win and do not compete with the “deplorable” poorer whites, the Asians and immigrants.

I just realized that there are more Appalachians in America than Asian Americans. But how many people have you run into in an elite school with an Appalachian accent? (Or a southern or mid-atlantic, or other lower-tier white accent?)
Putting quinoa in everything and assuming the addressable market had more disposable income seems like one of the signs of the last bubble.
This is what I see on Windows 11 + Firefox: https://imgur.com/a/aqzU2jr

Seems to be recommending Edge to me, or Chrome.