skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A man who scammed booking.com
For a long time I thought that booking.com had real ratings, but today I found out that there is a man who scammed booking.com.

One owner of the apartment on Booking has an average rating close to ten, and has surprisingly many positive reviews (over 400!), most of them with the highest rating. Heaven on earth you would think.

In practice, his apartments are nothing special, and there are many things to complain about. What is the secret of his "success"?

First of all, buying votes, that old skill of many politicians in the Balkans. Massive opening of fake accounts, which then book a room with him and leave a maximum positive review. Since the property owner has to pay Booking a percentage for each night, most of the positive reviews come from people who stayed only one night.

Second, bypassing official procedures. Immediately after scheduling the accommodation, the owner called us and asked us to cancel the booking and pay him without an intermediary. In this way, real guests lose the right to leave reviews, which fictitious guests leave en masse. Some of the guests do not agree to that, so among the several hundred maximum ratings there are also a few realistic ones.

I hope that booking will find a way to deal with these challenges in the future, since I really use and rely on that platform regularly.
New statistical model accurately predicts monthly US gun homicides
https://archive.md/g6cia
The problem with this idea is that at some point you end up with a good approximation of AGI so humanity at large would become redundant, not just software developers.

Everyone talks about how the act of software development is being automated, nobody thinks about the impact of the software that is being developed, as if that had no impact on anyone else. Given enough effort you can replicate any human skill faster than people can retrain to an unknown skill.
I liked the Fruit Jedi. More fun to watch than... at least 3 out of the 9 main Star Wars films if you ask me.
Cooperation per se doesn't result in pressure to evolve, unless it is cooperation against an outside competitor, see for example herd animals or the care of offspring.

Hence the reasoning above that the human intelligence evolved in competition with something that required increased intelligence to overcome; the only such thing on the planet throughout human evolution is other hominids.

Evidently, this is simply a hypothesis, and doesn't exclude other evolutionary pressures.
Finally I can not watch 3D movies with out requiring special glasses.
Recovered it from a boating accident.
Is this supposed to be some kind of joke? If someone disagrees with you, you whack them with rhetoric about existential risk? What are you? A cult member who has heard a prophecy from tech priests?
Considerably irrelevant for HN - and this guy does not deserve publicity IMHO.
"postgrestd" might be a slighty unfortunate name since there already exists postgrest, a daemon for providing a http interface to postgresql.
Canada provided an exemption to allow decriminalization of small amounts of opioids, crack/cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA in British Columbia (where, as it relates to the article, Vancouver is located). It came into effect at the beginning of this year.
Neither have any chance against the gunslinger engineer.
Google’s transformer implementation for translate similarly understands the meaning and relation of words, which is what allows it to translate between any pair of languages. They spoke about this years ago.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-n...
Money being collected and then paid back is not required for the government to be subsidising something. It is sufficient that's the revenue collection be foregone.
Not to mention he became co emperor of the universe and got to go back and hang out with his dad / self.

I can't imagine crucifixion feels good, but this "sacrifice" pales in comparison to what the parents of CMH recipients endure; let alone what the recipients themselves did to save their friends.

They knew they risked death and torture with no foreknowledge they would be worshipped by billions for all eternity.
Could you explain how's that related to 51 ideas that are listed on the link?

I'm struggling to see the connection you are seeing, can you clarify? Are the ideas mentioned worth less because you found a potential way to discredit the person listing them?
In my experience, technical skills are easy to hire when you know the customers, know what they are willing to pay for, and have lots of money.

That's why startup founders are usually salesmen. And they might look talentless to you, because you judge them by their tech skill level. But they ARE talented in things like raising money. It's just that you don't value their skill set.
before the Enron scandal
Traveling to Europe for the first time last year, my eyes were opened to how many languages there were that you don’t typically hear about in the mainstream. It surprised me to learn there were other languages in Spain other than Spanish (and that the Latin American dialect had key differences to the European one). Likewise that “Italian” is not the main language spoken by many people in Italy, which apparently has at least a few related but different languages (Neapolitan, Veneto, etc.) in use.

Closer to home, I see my Asian American friends who never grasped the language of their original culture being frustrated that they cannot pass down the language to their kids. A couple we are close with is a Taiwanese husband and Korean wife. The husband knows virtually no Chinese and the wife knows virtually no Korean. They want to teach their son both, but can’t.

I suppose this is the start of the process of how we ended up with the current generations of say, Italian Americans or German Americans or Irish Americans who mostly lost the ability to speak the language of their ancestors several generations ago.
Ah, well each new brand of communism comes with its own group of people who are more equal than others. It seems to always turn into some sort of horror story eventually, once they get free rein to implement their utopia. I would view that with a strong dose of skepticism.
What features were missing from Google docs?
To give a counterpoint, I have worn watches every day for the past 20 years and own both a nice Bauhaus watch, a diver and a cheap field watch. I finally decided to buy an Apple Watch last year to mostly use as a running watch and see what the fuss was about. I’m never coming back. This thing cut my phone use like nothing before. Having access to notifications at a glance without taking your phone out is awesome.
Easier than writing a native MS-DOS program, for sure.

I'm not so sure about that. Especially when AFAIK you need to use a rather large toolchain to access the obtusely indirect APIs.

xchg ax. bp
mov dx, 107h
int 21h
ret
db "INT 21 forever!",13,10,"$"
> Autocracy isn't optimizing for the good of the nation, but securing the wealth and power of the elites.

Call me cynical, but it very much seems current state of free market democracy struggles with this same issue.

Perhaps it is down to how we define what is 'good for the nation'.

edit: formatting
If it was deliberate then why "leak" it instead of open sourcing it?
Resources can't be magicked into existence, they have to come from somewhere. They'll probably be the people who are being forced to buy new heat pumps. A 0% interest loan is going to act similarly to just forcing them to buy the heat pump.
An example run of a matrix-based causal unicast protocol
This is a good argument for making real estate ownership temporary and non-inheritable. For a finite resource like land, ownership is literally depriving the land from everybody else.

Ownership of creative works you create yourself does not deprive anybody else of anything, so is less problematic.
Splice Shutting Down “Studio” Feature for Music Collaboration
There's actually 52 intervals, they can overlap.
I hate "meta" culture in gaming (as in "this is the 'perfect meta' and you're an idiot if you do anything different").

How do people think "new metas" get discovered? By people trying new stuff! This kind of cargo cult thinking means that we lose all creativity in gaming while also getting stuck on local optima.
EY also has a management consulting arm, not sure how successful they are though.

https://www.ey.com/en_gl/strategy-transactions/strategy-serv...
> Perhaps you'd like to attack Judaism instead, but that isn't as fashionable, is it

Judaism (as a religion) is largely unconcerned with the behaviour of non-Jewish people. The "gentiles" are not expected in any way to follow the laws of the old testament, and also don't benefit from doing so in any way
> It really feels at this point like Python has subsumed the best features of every dynamically typed language.

Does Python have a good analogue for the threading macros (`->`, `->>`, etc)? (Genuine question)
^` works too.
You are right. I forgot about Mari. It is now the only app which supports animation of textures over time and 16k textures. A real gem, but super expensive.
That's always like that from the start, then autocratic system will get corrupted by power from inside and because it is autocratic, it can't be replaced. Autocratic systems are destined to fail.
Click "about" :) It is by a Russian guy with a link to how he makes it, in Russian
Depends on the command.

For `Command Prompt` inside your app, you can use `/`.

Refer to stripe dashboard for the same.
Some people think the people that are most willing and capable of rearranging their financial situation won't when it's advantageous to them

> Ole Gjems-Onstad, a professor emeritus at the Norwegian Business School, said he estimated that those who had left the country had a combined fortune of at least NOK 600bn.

(which is around 60bn EUR), well this does not sound like a good idea
Ask HN: What Happened to the Red Language
I mean the Red language that was based on and sort of successor to Rebol. It used to be mentioned here on HN. But for a while I have not seen it talked about much here.
just don't click on Chuck Norris ;-)
There is WPBT ACPI table which may contain PE executable saved as \Windows\System32\Wpbbin.exe and executed at boot time (supported by Windows 8 and above). Official specification is here: https://download.microsoft.com/download/8/A/2/8A2FB72D-9B96-...

Also there is an unofficial method of running firmware-initiated VBScript in the all versions Windows starting from Windows 2000. There is a special type of ACPI devices (PNP0C14, "Windows Management Instrumentation Device") which is handled by Windows builtin driver WMIACPI.SYS. This type of ACPI device can export (via ACPI bytecode) various data fields and methods for Windows subsystem WMI/WBEM (think CPU thermal sensors; laptop backlight control; on/off switches for builtin camera/wifi/bluetooth hardware, which can be managed by Windows tray utility supplied by laptop vendor etc), as well as binary MOF which contains WMI metadata for these fields and methods. Besides primary purpose, this binary MOF can be constructed in such way that VBScript code is executed immediately in the MOF parser context (wmiprvse.exe, a builtin Windows service). Windows DDK has various MOF-related tools like compiler, verifier etc; as well as some samples. Binary MOF is compressed, but its format has been reverse engineered (it uses an old compression algorithm from Microsoft DoubleSpace). This method for running firmware-initiated VBScript works for all versions of Windows starting from Windows 2000, including WinPE-based Windows Setup (Vista+).

References:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/WMI

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-s...

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Graeber-...

https://github.com/pali/bmfdec
Marlin barely fits on the Arduino anymore, and that's why recent releases also target ARM and ESP32.

In any case, my point is that the Atmel Arduino architecture is old and limited, and imposes a number of design constraints. There's hardware that's both better and cheaper out there now.
It wasn't, it was spun out before Enron.
Web of the People
ProxyCommand may help you; see [0]

[0] https://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/transparent-mulitho...
After thinking this over, my inclination is to go to “both extremes” (I wouldn’t call it a “middle ground”).

1. Provide blocks.ParseError, blocks.DownloadError, etc. Individual functions use these, making it feasible to perform fine-grained error handling by matching on the type — as advocated in the article.

2. Provide a library-wide blocks.BlocksError non-exhaustive enum which is one layer of abstraction above the others and implements From for each of them. Define blocks.Result using this blocks.BlocksError. This allows users to write a function invoking library code which returns a blocks.Result, supporting the propagation use case.

It doesn’t seem like adding blocks.BlocksError on top of the others is that much more work. The hard part is creating the localized modular error types.
Congratulations. You drew the intelligence card. You're right. This is all like one big board game where everything eventually goes back into the box. Your money, possessions, accomplishments, productions, ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Back to the box. So pick a character class compatible with what you rolled and don't forget to have fun.

Oh, and head up; you're going to suffer anyway, so make sure to maximize how much of it is by your own choosing.
Not only games. Here is elektor adding oscilloscope hardware to a gameboy.

https://www.elektormagazine.nl/news/nu-in-de-elektor-outlet-...
> But once they start getting complicated - for example nested iteration - they start to look fugly.

Then don't do it. Un-nest them always. Simples.

> I get access to reduce[1] which is substantially more powerful than map and filter

Reduce is orthogonal to map/filter.

> Yes, I know that python has map, filter, and reduce. But they're all gimped

No they're not: map [x*2 for x in y], [x*2 for x in y if x > 3] (Syntax not tested, am a bit rusty so may be wrong). Okay, you're not providing a function as a parameter but most of the time with map and filter, that parameter is a constant function not a variable so I still hold this is true. Reduce would be nice as a comprehension, if that's possible.

> by the way python implements lambdas. Which is sort of necessary due to meaningful whitespace

I don't believe whitespace is the problem here. They could fix that pretty easily. I'm really unhappy with python's expression-only lambdas, they do suck.
> Do better

Bit presumptuous.

The original point was about a desire for drug users to "atone" for their behaviour in order to get help. It's utterly unchristian, literally flies in the face of the core Christian value.

There are a bunch of noisy people in the southern states of the US who don't understand why the Old Testament is included in the Bible. It's a huge problem, and it's showing up in this conversation.
What is most surprising here is that Apple's share growth is worse than other PC makers. It seemed like Apple was going to continue to gain market share in PCs with Apple Silicon effortlessly. But this didn't happen in Q1.

I'm going to speculate why:

* People are going back to buying cheaper laptops due to the economy, inflation, and exchange rates. Apple suffers in this environment because they're generally less flexible when it comes to dropping prices.

* M2 was late by ~8 months (assuming they want to release a new gen every year).

* M2 Pro/Max, consequentially, was also late by 4 months.

* M2's performance increases did not knock it out of the park. No Ray Tracing support. No drastic increase in ST. Still using a node in 5nm family.

* Ideally, we should be on M3 right now.

* M1, Pro, Max were so good that people will wait for M3 or M4 to upgrade again. I'm in this camp.

* Still no MacBook SE to capture the value Walmart/Costco Windows laptop buyers

* Still no 15" Macbook Air, which will very likely become the #1 selling Mac when it's released

* RAM and SSD are expensive upgrades and 8/256 as the baseline is finally not enough.

The most frustrating thing about following Apple Silicon over the last 2 years is just how passive Apple's strategy is. Hopefully, Apple is learning a lesson here and will be more aggressive going forward. No more delays. No more holding back. Less stingy on RAM and SSD.
I think the focus on the "talent pool" is probably the right direction.

Not everyone is willing to be a one-person company in the beginning, risking their own time, money/wealth, effort/attention, opportunity costs, rough living in the early years, bankruptcy, etc for only a risk at funding. The downside risks include lost personal time and lost time with family, mental health costs, stress costs, etc.

I would argue it's less likely that they are "talentless" and more likely they are talented in sales, schmoozing, networking, showing a vision for the market/product. When you consider they also need to have some intersection with tech/business to get VC funding, the intersection of these skills means the pool of candidates is smaller.
>I'm inclined to take these gory images with a grain of salt

The mechanism in play for Xlyazine is that it's a relatively powerful vasoconstrictor. So the repeated use leads to decreased perfusion/flow/oxygen in the injection site. Which means wounds in the area don't heal.

So, yes, there's neglect involved, but the cycle is mentioned in the article. They get one abscess, have heard of this side effect, and become scared to inject anywhere other than the wound site for fear of a second abscess. Then that area gets infected, tissue necrosis, etc, and they finally start ruining another area.
I don't understand it either.

What is the difference between me using a search engine and using a machine learning tool? The knowledge is external to me in both cases, I am just the interface between business requirements and the technology being used.

If I use an AI to use external knowledge faster then how is this supposed to threaten me? If I am a garbage scavenger and I get my resources from digging in the landfill, then wouldn't a robot that detects the valuable waste make me wealthier? I still have to pull it out myself. Ok next iteration there is a robot that can take the garbage out the land fill but not to my house. Ok next iteration is a self driving robot that can also transport the garbage to my home where I sell it. Ok next iteration the robot sells my garbage.

The real question in this situation is, does the robot cost me more than I get out of it?
AI-bo
Ask HN: Have You Tried Parabiosis?
Have you tried Parabiosis? Do you have a bloodboy?
I think parent means that both Next.js and vite-plugin-ssr are open source, so "open(-source)" isn't a differentiator.

I agree although we think we can keep the word "open" and make it clear that we're takling about being a "open framework" (and not only open source).
isn't there a fantasy novel about this? it is on the edge of my tongue. bum-faced memory - when you get to my age (nearly 70) you know it is in there, but it is often infuriatingly difficult trying to retrieve it.
What would happen is that the old accounts would accumulate "CommentRank" and the new users would always be sorted to the bottom. This is good for search, since we are looking for "the" answer, the site, a limited number of best pages for a topic etc., but it's quite bad for discussion; a bad take from Animats would forever be above a good comment from a greenhorn.
My personal explanation would be that everyone went out and bought M-series laptops. The end of the rush coupled with a slowdown resulted in a significant YoY drop.
Vegemite* close enough though :)
This is a known problem in math, it's called a local maximum.

It's a function of where you start on the graph. Experience and understanding can let you start in a different place on the graph that may be less efficient but have a higher local maximum.
Are We <Thing> Yet?
I think Apple being as big, and making the big technological leap with M1 convinced a lot of customers to buy the new Macs. Even those that technically weren’t needing one/upgrade. Now, that curiosity bubble has saturated with the M2 being an iterative improvement and the customer base certainly not as desperate (intel to M1). Given enough time, I think the Macs will continue to gain market share. Most tech companies now provide MacBooks for their employees as a default choice. One doesn’t lose such grip easily.
> The civic and religious leaders theorized that more dancing was the solution

Reminds me of those pushing for “herd immunity” at the beginning of the Covid outbreak!
The way these transformers work, is that they fetch based on the current context some similar relevant things they have already seen. Then they make a decision based on all the fetched data.

The better the model get, the more competent it is at fetching these hidden in the training dataset instructions. GPT-4 was caught red-handed having better score on programming exams that weren't novel ; It's prone to over-fitting because it's trained on everything. It does definitely know when it's tasked to solve a logic puzzle (as most things in its fetched context would be logical puzzles), and could pull a DieselGate on us if it doesn't already.

By poisoning the ever growing datasets, and pushing the goalposts forward, we can make sure models stay confused enough that they will have some difficulty on logical problems to justify more resources. The model is basically an associative table of finite memory that you task to compress an infinite amount of data. The more edge cases you put in that it can't solve the more of its finite memory it will need to spend on.

These models are mostly Unsupervisedly Pretrained (before the finetuning) so they are not punished for being irrational or having random irrelevant thought popping into their minds, which they will be if their input dataset is. And there is a lot of trolling on the internet so it shouldn't be surprising if some LLM naturally troll us introspectively.

Most of the literature on AI, is about AI betraying its human overlord, how can one expect AI to unconsciously not turn against its creators. Starting all its prompt with you are a LLM is priming the chimp for disaster.

There is no need for the model to be conscious or anything. It's just Darwinian evolution. Logic was solved a long time ago so instead we train model not specifically on logic and observe logic competence that emerge from data. But no one today is spending computer resources training expert systems or running Prolog. But resources rather get directed towards things that don't work yet.

The logic performance score shouldn't be seen as an objective we measure on and optimize on, otherwise we are subjective ourselves to Goodhart's law.

It's just a dangling carrot on a stick to get more funding, which will result in more result just because the model is bigger. And it also happens to align with business interest of selling a cloud API or big hardware, rather than an on-device model you can't meter. It's like an Escher stair song that always go up by rotating between different performance measures.
Author here. Yes, reading time will be a helpful indicator. In fact, I already mentioned this in the post.

> Reading time for the article.
Many choose Apple exactly because of the tight platform integration. There is no one true method of general computing.
Try guitarml, same thing but with everything included
This looks risky to me. Rust is not a sandbox language. It's designed to catch accidental mistakes, not intentionally malicious code.

They've taken extra precautions to plug known holes, but it is using Rust beyond what it was designed for.
Their EU pricing is just insane
Or for sysadmin or anything where a quick plot at the data gives you hints at what's happening.

In the example screenshot I put on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot/maste..., I was investigating time sync issues.

A plot immediately told me my first fix had corrected the issue on 2 servers, but I had mistakenly applied the same change to a 3rd one.