skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
whatever, too little too late. amazon wouldn't accept my bad review on a $12 beer faucet adapter with a thread pattern that made it 100% useless. I'm done with them.
"The test of whether you own something is if you can sell it."—Anonymous
When I am in the Backcountry and need forecasts for anywhere in the world, there is no data source more reliable than the Norwegian weather service. Their whole globe model is extremely accurate to the specific mountain or pass you are concerned about, with reliable mm and hour precision forecasts. In New Zealand it was way more accurate than any NZ sources I consulted.

They also have many (free) api's for whole world weather. If your life depends on it, they are my recommendation.

https://developer.yr.no/
82 LPA may be an outlier but the range you mentioned is wildly incorrect. I’m an SDE2 making 57 LPA ($70K), and know other SDE2s making >70 LPA ($85K).
> It's better to think of money like shares. The total amount of shares outstanding doesn't really affect much... it's the relative proportions that people control and the percentage of equity that those shares represent that matters.

Inflation is not evenly distributed. Newly created money goes to the rulers first, then to their lords and vassals etc. The people who actually produce in the economy are the last to receive the new money after it has been completely diluted.
I am sorry. Fixed
As a newbie in a graphics course I once animated something using xlib and openGL. I hadn't bothered install my graphics card driver, so everything was nice and slow.

I brought it into to the professor's office (it was our final) to demo it, and it was so fast on his machine that you couldn't see it. I freaked out, but he had seen that kind of problem before and just sprinkled some sleeps throughout so it was visible to a human and gave me a B.
A simple and effective alternative has been around since 2009.
> dismissed the entirety of their architecture

No he didn't. He had a caveat.

> no “you should do this differently”

That's not the case..he clearly says this is how I would do this differently.

None of this matters. Arguing about arguing is futile.
The concept is what's important, here, since they were correcting the idea that git works mainly on diffs, which it doesn't. The diffs are merely a storage optimisation.
I don't think this will work well. Minor updates to listings would trigger all of these actions far too often to make them standard and ignored.

I hate to say it but I think some type of heuristics would be needed here.

1. Has the title significantly changed.
2. Has the price significantly changed.
3. Are the search keywords that were finding the old listing significantly different than those finding the new listing.
4. Have average ratings and common words in reviews changed? (Especially rarer words that match the new and old listing respectively)

If some of these start to look suspicious then I think you can start to apply your mitigations. You can probably even scale them by how sure you are. For example reviews are always downranked by age and significant changes to the listing amplify this effect, you can add the same weight to the start rating.

And of course the real way to prevent this is to flip the incentive. Add human review and a warning before killing the account. Make it so that the cost of being caught negates the benefit of doing this.
Marginalizing sex workers.
Your linked paper doesn't reference mTORC1 a single time. Moreover, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has faced numerous criticisms about it's close ties to corporate groups such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Mars, and others.* It is fully within their interest to state "vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements" (a direct quote from your linked paper) as it supports the business models of their corporate partners.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Nutrition_and_Diete...
Should've said "is spreading vaccine misinformation".
std::unique_ptr is of course the opposite of shared ownership, in that it requires you to explicitly transfer ownership if you need to do that. It's a beautiful feature which improves code clarity and reduces bugs.
Tencent is 3.6 t hkd
Alibaba is 1.8 t hkd
Why tencent is 10x of Alibaba? Did I miss some context?
> Not a time for half measures.

Now is exactly the time for half measures - radical options proposed in the past largely failed due to their simplistic view of human nature.

We're actually getting there with electricity. Renewables - the very definition of a half-measure - are being deployed at a much higher rate than nuclear, which on the face of it is the ideal solution - but only in a world where megaprojects are delivered on time and within budget. Ironically China and Russia are doing great here - I suppose the secret ingredient is totalitarianism.

> I think most people, if provided the reasoning for it, would accept such pricing in when it comes to such serious global problems as climate change

That's a very charitable assumption.

There are many people who can't even begin to imagine, much less understand the issue at hand.

Going vegan because climate change and animal suffering is going to be a hard sell.
It feels like you're assuming a traditional marketing approach to "blasting" messages and hoping they stick. That's how most marketing tools work, but it's not how all marketing tools work, and I think it's a mistake to treat an implementation flaw as an indicator that a technology isn't actually desirable. It's not desirable in its current form. That doesn't mean it has to stay that way.
Darn. I just read an ad and it wasn’t even very good.
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The effect of this (and the example given in the top SO answer) is significantly magnified when flying to and from Undeveloped countries.

When I was in Africa I flew out of, and then back into Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Egypt.

Booking the tickets to do so while sitting in those countries was up to half the price of booking it from the Developed country I was flying into.

I was just using kayak.com in Incognito and the price differences were staggering.
>By recycling its own training material, AI will get less meaningful results over time.

I read this a lot, and it sounds intuitive on the surface. But I don't understand how it's justifiable. For example, all that exists in the Universe is a result of the application of very simple rules. It would make sense that information is not what is important towards intelligence and complexity, but computation. It ought to be possible to create a superintelligence with a few bytes of training data, given enough compute.
While you're thinking about playlists, I should introduce you to classical radio. Out-of-context movements are the norm there!
And a considerably less clickbait response: https://youtu.be/1x-i9z617z4
You can buy gift licenses from the store and give them to someone. You can't just gift a game from your library to someone.
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> people change the card's backplate and return a cheaper/broken one

People really have to ruin everything
Would this new policy create a new attack vector for scammer sellers trying to damage the reputation of good legitimate sellers.

The scammer would organize a distributed buy-and-return of their victim's product, which would trigger this flag.

It's complex, but if returns are free and the competitive advantage of the flag is worth it, I could imagine it happening.
With AI enabled programming coming in etc, I expect many apps will start getting faster as code gets refactored to not use bloated thirdparty frameworks etc. Older devices, and electronic waste should reduce with the possible optimizations of apps. I maintain my devices well and have pristine devices I still use from 2010, but the apps make it run like molasses.
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Store it as a brainfuck program that generates the required string.
Also the fraud management is great, so if you do get cheated on paypal then you can near always get your money back. I would never start a business on it but as a paying customer it just works for me.
From the sidelines, thanks for this detailed reply. I went to bed last night before I saw it, but I was hoping I would get to see a more detailed account of this perspective.
This has nothing to do with plugins. This is on browsers whose only installed extension is uBlock Origin. I'd hardly consider that pluginitis, since browsing the internet without an adblocker is tantamount to asking for malware these days.
Is PayPal a bank or some kind of exchange? It’s one or the other folx.
That sounds like something I would do (and I have ADHD). It's a sign of boredom. If you're not interested in the actual "core offering" (regardless of how excited you are about it, or etc.) then distractions will be harder to ignore.

Only thing that worked for me was stimulants.
In theory much of the inventory is pooled, so if it it 'Dispatched by Amazon' you aren't actually buying from that sell, but from a pooled inventory that the seller put stock into.
all ecologically incredibly viable to be produced and transported across the world in gigantic container ships
> This is literally a newspaper for people who are happy to walk around outside with a Union Jack on their shirt and a swastika armband.

> I'm extremely far left, for which I make no apologies.

Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Nicolae Ceaușescu, etcetera. All extremely far left, all guilty of heinous crimes against humanity. Do you support their policies, do you excuse their deeds because they were pursuing the ultimate goal of international socialism?

Get a grip please, this is not Reddit. People walking around with a Union Jack on their shirt is fine by me, it is their national flag after all. People walking around with swastikas, hammers and sickles and other symbols of murderous ideologies is less so.

How do you define your 'extremely far left' ideology? What makes it 'extremely far left'?
I'm supposed to accurately predict whether a website will serve me ads or not, before I've ever connected to it?

Right, not sure why we didn't think of that sooner.
“Unless this is an educational project” is not an appropriate caveat. Especially about a project that was clearly not submitted as an educational one.
I like it wrapped around rice crackers and yup, it's dry and fragile. Tasty tho.
For those interested, I went and crunched the numbers. Statistics are from 2014, from [1] and [2], so a little outdated:

11.4% of medical spending on ages 0-18 (23.11% of population)

21.0% of medical spending on ages 19-44 (36.23% of population)

33.2% of medical spending on ages 45-64 (26.17% of population)

34.4% of medical spending on ages 65+ (14.5% of population)

So there is definitely more spend in older age, which makes sense, but the majority of spend is in populations I wouldn't consider old (<65). Additionally, what we consider "old" is really a reflection of average lifespan, and if we had healthier habits as a whole, maybe "old" would be older than "old" is today. By definition, old is when the body does start to break down at a fast rate, like you say, so I suppose it is tautologically true. However, I don't think it means we have to accept high healthcare costs related to that.

[1]: https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

[2]: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2...
You could fix this by deriving the function from some initial state, and then when resizes occur you just take a snapshot of the current animation state, freeze the animation until resizing stops, and replace the function with a new one derived from your previous initial state. So this does require _some_ state but only to initialize.
And as usual a crypto plug into any thread.
In addition to the choices for how to chunk (i.e. defining chunk size, chunk boundaries, chunk overlap, etc.), there's also the question of what actually gets returned once finding the chunks that match. For example, perhaps I have a document with 100 1-page sections where each section is broken into roughly 5 chunks. I may get optimal performance in my RAG application not by retrieving the top K chunks from the index, but rather by returning the top K sections fom the document, where sections might be scored based on the number and scores of child chunks. It also might be useful to incorporate section summaries, etc., in the retrieval process.
On one of the Reddit book subs with a lot of vendors, I made a nasty remark about PayPal and got downvoted and condemned for it. A lot of people still depend on it. I guess if you never get on PayPal's bad side, you're OK, but woe betide you if you do.
What specifically is too complex?
You’re right - individuals can’t do anything themselves:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/inbox/can-spam_and_consumer_...
Cody is more like a wrapper on top of GPT API (gpt-3.5-turbo) endpoint, with related code snippets embed in prompt. It’s not competing the low latency scenario that Github Copilot seats in.

There’re recent works show a potential of beating Copilot’s performance (e.g https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12570) with much smaller models (500M vs 10B+).

Inspired by these work, I’m building Tabby (https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby), a OSS GitHub Copilot alternative. Hopefully it could make low cost AI coding accessible to everyone.
i have no idea why you think the standard lib is less blessed than the language.

> In C++ the type of "Hacker News" is char *

Nope it is at least const char , and if you want to assign it to a variable it is:

const char * const hn = "Hacker News";

jesus, the hn formatting with this is driving me mad
Like how sellers on eBay throw an unrelated product in as a "style" or some such so that their listings go to the lowest price without actually selling the price you searched for the low amount? Annoys me constantly.
> It makes them look petty

Caring about looking petty has never once crossed Starbuck's radar. Union and non-union stores look the same to customers (except now some allow credit card tipping), so customers would only know about this at all if they're in tune with this type of news.
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Turning unstructured transcripts into queryable SQL and JSON
We built Summ, a tool that provides intelligent search and question-answering across large sets of transcripts. Summs turn your unstructured transcripts into queryable SQL and JSON!

Yasyf and I are both very active users of call note-taking tools like Otter. While doing a recent deep-dive on finance automation, we realized that we had built up a large corpus of user interview transcripts, but were struggling to pattern-match across them. Getting answers to simple questions like "What are the most common metrics that customers track in their HR departments?" was taking hours to aggregate. To answer that question, we would need to write a handful of search queries, comb through transcripts to pull in context, copy the results into a doc, and then cobble together a final answer.

To automate this process, we built a tool that could thoroughly answer questions about a set of uploaded transcripts and filter by transcript attributes such as department, role, and company industry.

For inference, we pick the best result of three methods. The first two methods use LLMs to build structured datasets, creating and populating a "database" with relevant metrics to answer a question. This structured data is then used by the LLM to run calculations on (eg. what percent of users report using spend management features). The last method uses recursive summarization, surfacing and summarizing to eventually answer the query.
It's not a huge cost. This is ludicrous. Sign up for a free account on GCP and walk through their getting started guide and you'll have stuff running in under an hour.

> your "fine" rests on a base level of knowledge which is enormous, certainly incompatible with p99 of users

I doubt it. I have far, far more experience running services on bare metal pizza boxes in 48U racks in PoPs all over the world, but that is a base level of knowledge that actually is enormous and certainly incompatible with p99 of my pool of potential colleagues.

If you can figure out how to run a serverless app, you can figure out Kubernetes. It's not rocket science.
Freeform kicks ass
Bet it tastes like chicken!
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> If I have no affiliation, or plan to affiliate with a project, why would I give a shit about what they do?

We critique whatever gets shared on HN regardless of our affiliation with it.

In fact, why was this shared here, if not to ask for discussion and opinions?
The problem some (all?) Starbucks workers have had for the past few years is that their point of sale systems weren't making it possible to tip when paying via credit card, so people would need to tip cash. Fixing that for non-union employees but not unionized employees is what tweaked the NLRB, since it's part of a pattern of "union busting" behavior.

Starbucks is not really set up to have the kind of slimy, lawful evil middle management that can be really good at union busting. Guile and misanthropy aren't exactly hallmarks of Starbucks staff. The stuff they're doing now is really obviously going to get them into trouble. This is not exactly subtle:

“At my store, it did have a negative impact — we had our election finalized right as they rolled out these new benefits,” says Alisha Humphrey, a Starbucks union leader in Oklahoma City. So as happy as we were that people won, we were told that since we won our election, we were not getting credit card tipping or the raises. Our manager met with everyone and told us that if we transferred to another store, you would make $1.50 more and credit card tipping. And some did transfer.”
Thats not the only reason, if you never get your stuff you can handle that from paypal UI, you cant do that with alot of CC companies and have to phone somebody that might or might not respond in time, this is the sole reason why i prefer paypal over CC.
I'm working on improving my communication :(
Or they are badly managed and are stuck optimizing for some local maxima.
There are other products on Amazon you should probably not buy either.

Namely, products from randomly named companies, or companies that claim to be American but it their address is a warehouse and their Internet presence is hosted on Alibaba Cloud.

Most of what they sell is toxic, like PVC figures for children cakes, toxic kitchenware, counterfeit refrigerator filters and other magnets for penny pinchers.

It is almost as if they were intentionally trying to poison people.

Most of the furniture sold by Chinese vendors and their intermediaries are so toxic that fucking HCHO meters max out when you open the box. Including kids furniture.

Sneaky fucks should all go to jail.

I would much rather prefer buying products from countries with real customer protection, real compliance with regulations with real consequences when someone gets sick from a non-compliant product.
It is, and Japanese water is overall pretty soft so it helps in that regard.
Seems like a problem where LLM can shine. I foresee a future where an IA validate that your product page edits are for the same product and that reviews make sense.

That’s not going to solve the issues of fake/paid for reviews however. I think there is a market for a store selling only vetted products they have reviewed themselves.
I'd expect that one of their next steps is a "larger screen" user experience that should work for both iPads and Macs.
You can read about what is and isn't allowed here: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/di...

You might also be interested in reading about why the NLRB was formed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board

Basically we have a lot of rules about the relationship between unions and companies because when we didn't do that there was a lot of violence.
Which features? Sibling mentions not knowing what the features are and then you didn't elaborate.
When you change a product page, you lose all reviews, but you get a "New Product" link on the old page to link to the new one, giving you exposure.

Amazon can make the "New Product" show up for queries for the older one, but without the stellar reviews. This way modified products still get good exposure and no one will accidentally buy the old one. But there aren't reviews on the same page for a different product. The system can still be gamed similarly, but at least you can't get reviews for the wrong product on the same page.
> Unfortunately, in the 25 years I've known C++, I feel like I've been promised this and that and the other thing was making C++ safe, correct, reliable, etc. And yet this goal seems elusive.

How hard have you tried?

The tooling is terrible to set up, and build system integration is extremely lacking. But once you have set up clang-tidy and clang-format, it just works, and it catches bugs and ensures a consistent style. And enabling clang's and GCC's static analysis is just a few compiler options away. Same with address sanitizer, leak sanitizer, UB sanitizer and thread sanitizer.

None of it gets used automatically, you have to understand the tools and how to integrate them into your build system. But they're not at all elusive.
One is probably has legal repercussion and the other has none but profit!
It's absolutely trivial if you have a human review changes. But that's expensive. So I'd assert the problem is trivial but expensive, and Amazon lacks the proper incentives to do anything about it: they make money from fraudulent sales. It's a short-term incentive to not solve the problem. Sure, there's a long-term cost that this fraud slowly erodes Amazon's reputation, but it's hard to measure and its consequences are way beyond the horizon of the next quarterly report.
How does a bidding system work [System Design]?
I am interested in knowing how a bidding system works from a system design perspective. I haven't been able to find a detail design for this. There are a couple of challenges that I can think of:
- many bidders for a specific item requiring multiple nodes
- accepting a bid is a transaction?
- ordering of bids as they come in
- invalidating bids once and reflecting that to a customer very quickly

Usually systems that are distributed that also need to be fast choose eventual consistency, but I am not sure how that would work in a bidding environment. Any detailed resources (papers, blog posts, videos etc...) that I can review? Thanks!
> I've also been informed by at least one C-level exec that it was vitally important that we prohibit North Korean internet users from using our website.

that's an order I would break; to do that goes against the principles of the internet.

I suppose I'm not getting hired any time soon.

yea, I'm not 'obedient' enough... I have principles like open internet, shared culture, freedom, and so on.

what's worse, I feel for Korean culture, split in half by AmeriRussian "interactions".
It seems that this would just flag Amazon as an unsafe place to buy anything valuable. For example, if someone buys a GTX 4090 and receives a GTX 3070, will Amazon will flag the 4090 as a frequently returned item?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/11q8mjw/i_got...
You may want to re-read my comment. In my example there was no rap artist covering a piece, or a rap song being covered, there was a rapper guesting on a cover. Rap is not just a genre on the side.
Any concrete examples?

For reference, Kagi's tool is called "Ask Questions about Document" [1]

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search#ask