skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is not whether they can detect an influx of fake positive reviews on a product, it’s what to do about it. How do you tell the difference between someone review bombing their own products with fake positive reviews and their competitors review bombing them with fake positive reviews to try to get them banned?

Maybe you decide that sounds too difficult, so they should stop banning listings for that and focus on policing the reviews themselves. But that actually turns out to be a very difficult problem in itself! Sellers of crappy products will often include notes that induce/bribe the customers into leaving fake reviews. A seller of cheap products can rack up thousands of verified purchaser fake reviews this way.

They can also do things like hire a botnet to purchase the product in bulk using thousands of hacked PCs all over the world and get those PCs to review the product, generating more fake verified purchaser reviews.

In the end, if you don’t ban sellers for fake positive reviews then you run into these tactics and it’s very hard to police individual reviews. If you do decide to ban sellers then you have the opposite problem of dealing with sabotage.

As for detecting “influxes”, that problem is far from trivial. If a review bomber is using a botnet of thousands of PCs then it’s quite trivial to stagger the timing of the fake reviews over a period of weeks. It’s not like they’re forced to push a button and have them all hit the review page at the same time.
It seemed intention to me. If leadership had been competent and thought about safety, there wouldn’t have been much of a movie. ;)
> It sounds like you don't know what to look for in Drafts.

[snip]

Yeah, exactly. It's that whole meta-game I have zero interest in (competitive card-picking, as opposed to competitive card-playing). Just different strokes for different folks and all that.

> I'd say the main problem with Draft is the unbalanced nature of it all. [...] But if everyone at the table is of roughly the same skill level, its a great format.

That makes sense, especially in MTG where there are like 20,000 cards to choose from. The P2W can definitely come out.

Ironically that's actually one of the reasons I prefer another card game, Elder Scrolls: Legends (https://bethesda.net/game/legends), a Morrowind/Oblivion-themed digital card game that's technically "collectible", but they stopped making new cards a few years ago. Now it's just the same set of a few hundred old cards, but people still keep coming up with new metas without spending any more money. It's awesome, and there are no new overpowered cards to be surprised by, just interesting new uses of them. Despite having been technically abandoned, the community is still very active (no more than 20-30 seconds to find a match, which is sometimes faster than even MTG Arena!)

I feel like MTG suffered the opposite fate, where it became a victim of its own runaway success, and draft was popularized amongst older players who got sick of trying to keep up with the incessant power creep. Is that fair?
Sounds kinda manipulative.
Completely disagree. The tech industry is much more tolerant of mistakes and failure than any other industry. And that is a huge advantage given that such things are inevitable.
That's why the best PMs have some kind of engineering background or are former eng. As small as it may be it is a requirement nowadays.
"Seriously, what were these researchers thinking? This 'BrainGPT' thing is a disaster waiting to happen. Ching-Ten Lin and his team of potential civilization destroyers at the University of Technology Sydney might be patting themselves on the back for this, but did they stop to think about the real-world implications? We're talking about reading thoughts—this isn't sci-fi, it's real, and it's terrifying. Where's the line? Today it's translating thoughts for communication, tomorrow it could be involuntary mind-reading. This could end privacy as we know it. We need to slam the brakes on this, and fast. It's not just irresponsible; it's playing with fire, and we're all at risk of getting burned.

Like, accurate brain readers are right under DWIM guns in the pantheon of things thou mustn't build!
Yes, nuclear bombs/warheads

https://lasers.llnl.gov/science/nif-and-stockpile-stewardshi...
Not just reviews, I thought it was a well established practice to purchase one's own book to ram it up the rankings.

I have also heard that it is a backdoor way of spending political campaign money. Candidate "writes" a book, the Campaign to Elect X buys a warehouse of the books, candidate then gets the profits.
Sorry, but this is not prompt engineering, but it's not their fault. Real prompt engineering is mostly not even a thing with GPT-4 because somehow the NLP world is massively behind the stable diffusion world on prompt engineering.

https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/45c619ee22aac6865c...

It's almost 2024 and I still can't ask ChatGPT for "the definition of {apple|orange}" where {apple|orange} is the mathematical embedding average of those two words. I can sure do this in Stable Diffusion though!
I wonder if you could develop techniques to combat it, like a psychic nail in the shoe. Or maybe an actual nail. How useful is a mind reader when all it reads is “PAIN!”
First computer fit in a hangar, consumed enormous amount of energy and provided a tiny fraction of the computing power that you now have in your smartphone.

Just saying.
> Now it's just the same set of a few hundred cards, but keep still come up with new metas without spending more money.

That's called a "Cube" in Magic the Gathering.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/building-your-firs...

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Cube_Draft

We draft Cubes from our old collections all the time, to help recycle our older cards.

> That makes sense, especially in MTG where there are like 20,000 cards to choose from. The P2W can definitely come out.
> Now it's just the same set of a few hundred cards, but keep still come up with new metas without spending more money.

A typical Draft's card pool is only ~300ish cards or so, whatever is in the newest set. Its actually small enough to memorize.

You don't draft booster-cards from all of MtG. A Draft is innately around the ~300ish cards of some set. Lost Caverns of Ixalan only consists of 291 cards.
E-mail me at the profile, don’t give wotc money.
The State of UX in 2024
Well you are going to have a brain scanning device directly linked to your social credit score.

That's the future.
Sometimes. People who do a lot of court work do often have PEs. But I've co-written an expert witness report for a large software-related trial and neither myself nor my coauthor had a PE (nor, indeed, a CS degree).
> We are probably AT LEAST 50 years away from a near 100% non-nuclear "renewable" world.

For electricity (which is the only energy category where nuclear makes sense) I see no reason to be this pessimistic (of course, depending on your definition of near 100%, but let's say 95%). Solar and Wind have strong growth prospects and are very economical, with reason to believe in further price reductions (especially for solar). As we've seen at COP, a lot of countries are planning to strongly build out renewables (a simple tripling, disregarding a lot of factors, leading to 45% share of renewables by 2030) and only a few are planning a much slower expansion of nuclear.

Storage shows a lot of promise and very successful initial deployments for short duration storage and I see no reason to be more (or even as) optimistic about future development of nuclear & fusion reactors than chemical energy storage.

> It's almost as if all the people working on these projects and funding them aren't complete morons, and the world quite so reductive, like half of hacker news seems to smugly dismiss EVERY time any fusion article is posted.

Or there's a reason why this is mostly funded by governments as a foundational work, presumably with hopes that fusion will be largely viable in the long term. If governments funding this work were hopeful that fusion would be economically viable within 15 years, you'd expect very large funding increases (especially from the private sector) and a reduction in investment for transforming the electricity grid away from big central power producers to more geographically diverse renewable supply.
As a side note, LLVM is developing its own libc. It is not usable for now. But it will finally grow into a fully functional one in a year or two.
Why do we pretend that organizationally we exist in the same environment as when they penned the constitution? The people were the militia, and a free state implies the freedom of the people, not the government.
A great song that features this passage: Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini
Can you name a single instance where Israel and the US went to the UNSC first before engaging in collective punishment? Just one example would be good.
It’s easy to focus on philanthropy and feelings after your monolithic megacorp has ground your competition into dust.
There are PoW systems which are designed to be difficult to run on ASICs, but modern GPUs can generally run them. Even if you find one that has to run on CPU, these kind of functions will still be much faster running in native code than in js/wasm.
You sir go wherever you want but please leave Java to professionals that make companies just work (TM). Yes its not ultra fashionate with all new features in some other languages (but improving constantly), but TBH I don't care, at all, I can work till retirement with Java 8 and be very happy, at the end its just a tool to solve problems and darn good one.

Proper quality engineering is delivering good robust solutions to companies, and Java is great for that in many many aspects, moreso than most other platforms. And who steers it, that's a question I couldn't care less about, just keep it working as expected, completely cross-compatible across all platforms and all previous version (looking at ya Microsoft, that clusterfuck with 'MS Visual C++ redistributable' requiring 20+ sometimes conflicting installations, often ending up in games not working at all even if required version is present - that's just bad engineering, they don't even have solid internal registry to prevent these FUBARs requiring full clean reinstall of Windows).
Helion's design seems way more promising than the NIF one which doesn't seem to have any clear path to being a "continuous" operation production design.

Helion's design also works essentially by brief inertial confinement, thereby avoiding the issues of Tomahawk continuous confinement designs. However, in the Helion design rather than having pellets of fuel which would need to be replaced for each shot, it uses injected gaseous fuel (deuterium + He-3) which is heated into two plasma "donuts" which are magnetically fired at each other to (together with brief magnetic compression) achieve fusion conditions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaQLZaaHWo

Helion have a contract with Microsoft to build a production model for them (to power a datacenter) by 2028.

https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/helion-announces-world...
Is the self-test exposed in any interesting ways? Any interesting JTAG-like interfaces that could be explored?
That's just a No True Prompt Engineer fallacy. You can get substantially improved generation results for either LLMs or Diffusion models with proper prompt engineering, even with GPT-4.

You can do prompt term weighting with offline LLMs (e.g. compel: https://github.com/damian0815/compel ) or averaging the embed tokens yourself and passing the embedding matrix to the model, but unlike with image generation where the results of prompt weighting are more obvious, there isn't as much of a need for it for LLMs.
I am not hiring, but might be able to help with some other parts. DM me if you want to talk.
That's not sufficient - it needs to be actually banned for any uses resembling employment purposes, because otherwise people will be easily pressured into it by the incentives of businesses who want their employees to be worker bees. Just look at how many businesses try to force people to waive their right to a trial by law as a condition of being a customer!
Obligatory link to Melody Sheep's version of the speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouzKl0oD6sU

Arguably the best version.
Why you named it ComfyUI? Your name make it sound like you are making that whole interface available online while infact you are only using that as your backend.
This film is currently streaming on the “max” platform. I watched it a few days ago. It was quite controversial at the time it came out.

Obviously you should not torrent a copy of this 85 year old film as that would further diminish any incentive Chaplin might have to make any more films.
I would recommend starting with Categories from Organon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_(Aristotle)
I suggest reviewing this data again, especially with the understanding that the timestamps are in UTC. 0027 UTC corresponds to 1827 in CST (the timezone for Texas). During prime time, this user was often around 10mbps.
In this case it was actively distracting and impacting my ability to read the text.
How do you get from 'an armed populace protects against government overreach' to 'an armed uprising'? You realize thats projection right?
"leave early if you see no levers to sway the team dynamics."

When is this not good advice? And how does ergodicity fit into the reasoning?
(It is attractive advice, but...?)
One of the things that people should know about SourceHut is that even though it is "Free Software", it is not a very "free" platform. Certain types of projects are a red line to the owner and will be removed[0].

I'll be honest, I do not trust cryptocurrency stuff and don't believe that it has utility. I hold none, I don't use it. That being said, this makes me wonder what the next category of projects that SourceHut will ban is.

What is the point of a free software forge if you can't host certain types of (legal) projects? It's hard to take a platform seriously, to move all of your work there when the administrators can (and most importantly, actually do) ban your projects based solely on their personal views.

[0]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurre...
I think this is really interesting from a meta (in-context) learning pov, but I think at some point prompt engineering stops being prompt engineering and instead becomes in-context training. This is problematic for applications such as search or completion, unless some other software/model does this automatically for you!
Prior to this, ignition had only been achieved in hydrogen bombs.

Basically, they confirmed that it is possible to have a controlled fusion reaction where the reaction puts out more energy than was put into the reaction, a prerequisite step to being able to put out more energy than was put into the entire machine.

Everyone assumed that controlled ignition was possible, but it's still meaningful to be able to prove it experimentally, particularly since now they can probe the limits and understand how different factors affect the result.
By 2028, not 2008.
Also, life is work. Be grateful you're not a subsistence farmer, like nearly all humans ever, and a quarter of humans even today. You can learn to take joy in it, or you can choose to be unhappy about it.
Maybe they're moving into the Apple category of "don't use .0 releases"
It’s crazy to me that someone has developed a technology that literally reads peoples mind fairly accurately and its just like a semi popular post on Hacker News.
I always liked this version with music added:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo

I remember sharing a jail cell with a 19-year-old Mexican kid once and we were talking about the guards being assholes and he said "they're like machine men"; and I said "with machine minds and machine hearts?" and he was like "YES! You know it?!" -- it was a good moment, we spent the next few days trying to remember the whole speech.
that's a fair question for me too. Same for DRM certificates
Is it even really open source? Looked more like open core earlier: https://github.com/makeplane/plane/issues/1171
Right, like Australia, where they put their own citizens into internment camps.
1. An txt record adds more time to the request, since you can't start the request before opening an tls connection.
2. The browser has to go through all the TXT records. My domains already have 4-5 TXT records.
3. The dns is still pretty much insecure. Dnssec is still not always available
How do you create an organizational culture that prevents these dynamics?
You’ve gone out of your way to be anonymous to your users, so you’ll only attract naive/ignorant/reckless users to let your code on their Mac, which might be enough for your purposes.
thinly related but i could really use some advice.

There's a board game called "quoridor" that I've been playing a lot lately. I found 2 platforms where u can play this online, major one being BGA (boardgamearena). It was kinda sad to see a game on par with chess in terms of simplicity and strategy, being lumped into the same group as kids games.

So, I started building a platform for it myself in my free time. Still a work in progress (https://li-quoridor.vercel.app/).

The issue is that I have no clue if the game mechanics are copyrighted or not. The wiki says "By 1997, the five biggest game companies in the world (including Gigamic) American bought the copyright [clarify] of this game and released it to the world". But wiki itself acknowleges that this is a statement has no source. So, how do i go about making sure i have the right permissions to build this stuff, and will they even give these permission or not?
It's only a paradox under the widespread myth that reason and feelings are opposites. People who know their science understand that all rational thought is grounded on emotion and deep-rooted feelings.
It’s problem for Amazon not wanting to spend money. They could significantly reduce the problem by taking Goodreads off of back burner status instead of expecting volunteers to do it for free.
Enormous amounts of energy needed for the closed timelike curves to generate Kerr singularities with flux stored in a capacitor.
> The developers and sre's incentives are the same as everybody else in the company: have a great, easy to sell, popular and reliable product.

The hard part is how do you design a compensation package for a developer or sre worker bee, to incentivize these? How do you make their bonus depend on something as nebulous and hard to measure as "greatness" or "popular"?

For most employees, the candy/coal model works. You're not going to find low-level individual contributors who work because they just want to make a great product.
I still don't get why thorium reactors basically don't exist despite on paper being superior for energy generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
No, it’s not. Good lord…
This is also my experience. Being a go-to person led to 5 separate instances where a clearly underqualified person was promoted above me, with the company outright stating that I’m too valuable where I am (but also when I asked for more money, I wasn’t THAT valuable).

Then when I left they replaced me with 4 people cause losing a decade of deep dive rather than topical knowledge hurts.

Had they promoted me, I could have just trained a new person.
Which isn't a problem anymore because nuclear test ban is over. They are more than welcome to test the bombs directly again.
Promotion at big orgs tends to be more of a game than anything else. Higher ups like empire building, and promotions (having higher level direct reports) increases their stature while also freeing up headcount at the now-vacant lower level slot(s) to grow their empire.

It’s not about what you do at all, it’s just about how you play the game. Many (most?) cases of positioning oneself for promo just involve casting a bigger shadow on the wall by doing the exact same work closer to the flashlight.

At L5+, if you are not playing the game you have very little chance of promo (you will have to work harder than any L+1 around), so if you are largely just interested in building and not posturing, you should just switch companies and make a diagonal move (and then, perhaps, come back).

This is also why you can’t do anything too risky (regardless of the potential reward) at Google unless you are capable of dishing out promotions - this game is what matters to Googlers, and things that don’t help with the game are efficiently discarded.
> But death to the Jews? Where is the source of that?

This is hardly controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movement

"The slogan of the Houthi movement (officially called 'Ansar Allah'), a Shia Islamist political and military organization in Yemen, reads 'God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam'".
This is what I was really afraid of when I reverse engineered my fireplace BLE controller last year. Especially since the "Set password" command accepts raw bytes for input but the OEM app only ever sends length-limited numeric data.

Luckily, it seems to completely forget anything that happened to it after a brief power loss.

Which is probably why most of the BLE controllers of the same brand simply stay at the default password of "0000". A power outage will eventually get you back to that. If you're really bored that'd probably make for some great BLE wardriving.

But I, too, ended up putting the results of my reverse engineering into a Home Assistant integration (https://github.com/kaechele/napoleon-efire) and documented the system and protocol (https://bonaparte.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html).
> You assert that this case of piracy is driven by noble causes, as opposed to literally any use of force by any government in human history.

This point can be made about any of the groups with weapons in this context. Including Israel. So it becomes useless.
Meet Kirkus Reviews. They will actually read it and write a (I guess) well-reasoned review of it.

But you, the author, have to pay them. When I checked, it was $450.

If you're an author, you also get a deluge of offers to write a review. I didn't follow up on any of these, but you'd assume that they couldn't get any repeat business if they panned your book.
Yes, but it's not ICF that will make it happen. It's MCF, look to SPARC and ARC being made by MIT & CFS in Massachusetts. Mark these words, by end of this decade we will have Q > 3 in an experimental MCF reactor and it will be SPARC. End of next decade we will have the first fusion power reactors (ARC). Whether they are used as on the grid solutions or instead heat sources for energy intensive processes (think chemical reactions, metal forges, etc ) in the 30's is yet to be determined.
Police is far down the list or realistic concerns.

- insurance discount if you wear this while driving

- remote work offered as a "perk" as long as you wear it

- the "alladvantage ecg helmet" that pays you to wear it around while you're shown advertising

- to augment one of those video interviews where you have to answer questions and a computer screens your behavior

That's all stuff that already exists more or less and much more likely to be the form that the abuse of this technology takes
I'd recommend not incorporating in Estonia if you're going to need a bank account. They're not easy to get.
Direct link: https://misra.org.uk/product/misra-cpp2023/
Bill Ackman's fanboys got angry :-)
First use will be for criminal suspects, to "save lives". Then its use slowly expands from there.
Why are you so certain that’s the future?
Yep, definitely.

I've known several people who never got promoted because their bosses knew they'd have to hire 2-3 people to replace them, and there was no budget for extra people.

Of course they did all quit eventually, and I assume the budget for the extra staff was found somehow - albeit too late to keep their expert.