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Tell HN: Amazon claims "Zero tolerance for fake reviews"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504258Noticed this for the first time today on Amazon.de:> Zero Tolerance for Fake Reviews > Our goal is to ensure that every review is trustworthy and useful. For this reason, we use both technology and human investigators to block fake reviews before customers ever see them. > We lock Amazon accounts that violate our community guidelines. We also block sellers who purchase reviews and take legal action against parties that offer these reviews. Learn how you can report. [0][0] https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GLHXEX85MENUE4XFFeb 25, 2024 8:08 PM
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Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Achieves First Landing for CLPShttps://www.spacescout.info/2024/02/odysseus-first-landing-for-clps/On Thursday, February 22nd, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander Odysseus successfully touched down on the Moon, achieving the “ultimate milestone” for the IM-1 mission and marking the first major victory for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. After Powered Descent Initiation occurred at 5:11 PM CST, Odysseus’s main engine fired for approximately eleven minutes, bringing the vehicle down for a soft landing on the lunar highlands at 5:23 CST. Despite a slight pointing error which delayed acquisition of signal, the lander was confirmed to be on the surface and transmitting a few minutes after touchdown. At a press conference on February 23rd, Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen Altemus reported that the team currently believes the lander to be lying on its side, but otherwise intact. Odysseus is the first American spacecraft to have safely landed on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, and the first to do so near the lunar South Pole.Feb 23, 2024 9:30 PM
bing.com
Height matters on dating apps — but not always how you'd thinkhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cbd839e0744bb8da5ca3470701c8d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mic.com%2Flife%2Fdoes-height-matter-on-dating-apps-heres-how-revealing-that-info-actually-affects-your-matches-18016680&c=8761555761589759353&mkt=en-usDating profiles often reveal everything from a person's job title to their astrological sign, but while many users don't mind sharing this info, things often get tricky when it comes to another factor ...Feb 20, 2024 2:20 PM
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Show HN: LlaMaKey – One master key for all cloud LLM/GenAI APIshttps://github.com/TexteaInc/LlaMasterKeyKey management for multiple users and multiple cloud LLM/GenAI APIs is difficult to be both safe and convenient. Sharing keys among users risks leaking the key and makes it difficult to curb the leakage without interruptions. But assigning one key per user per cloud API results in too many keys to keep track of.Meet LlaMa(ster)Key, the secure and easy solution for API key management: * For each user, one master key for multiple APIs. * The master key is unique to each user. Granting and revoking a user's access won't impact other users. * The actual API keys to authenticate with cloud APIs are never known to users. Never leak a key due to a careless intern. * No code change! Keep using the official Python SDK of the cloud AI APIs, including OpenAI, Cohere, AnyScale, Perplexity, HuggingFace (free-tier inference so far), and Vectara.LlaMaKey works by taking advantage of the BASE_URL and API_KEY/TOKEN environment variables that the official Python SDKs of major LLM/GenAI APIs rely on. YouFeb 15, 2024 11:25 AM
bing.com
How much do Super Bowl commercials cost for the 2024 broadcast?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88eb46e84c4a53bde18423d7e2e1cc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fhow-much-super-bowl-commercial-cost-2024%2F&c=11645393599840131426&mkt=en-usThe Super Bowl marks the year's biggest day for advertising, with top brands paying millions to get their messages in front of a television audience that reliably attracts more than 100 million ...Feb 11, 2024 1:42 PM
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How to stream Super Bowl LVIII for free, without cablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88eb46e84c4a53bde18423d7e2e1cc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fsuper-bowl-lviii-how-to-watch-for-free-without-cable&c=3280668659595236956&mkt=en-usThe actual cheapest way to watch the Super Bowl every year is to buy a TV antenna, which grants access to local over-the-air networks. The Super Bowl just so happens to be broadcast over-the-air on an ...Feb 11, 2024 8:31 AM
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Ask HN: Any previous experience with interviewing.io dedicated coaches?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297605interviewing.io[1] lets users to practice mock interviews (coding interviews) with peers or professional interviewers. These interviews are anonymous.They also offer mentorship sessions with “dedicated coaches” from FAANG or other backgrounds. They claim 99% satisfaction rate and 82% of success (landing a job in the desired company). It sounds really vague and difficult to verify due to the anonymous aspect.Does anybody have previous experience using this or similar services, or an opinion or advice on the matter? I was thinking if this is worthwhile or just pointless - it’s quite expensive.[1] https://interviewing.io/Feb 8, 2024 3:19 AM
bing.com
SEO and UX: Finding the strategic balance for optimal outcomeshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb9794fc14823ab7cf99c9e75233c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearchengineland.com%2Fseo-ux-strategic-balance-437276&c=3014093135669705904&mkt=en-usBlending SEO and user experience is crucial. Learn how SEO plus user experience creates optimal search visibility and user satisfaction. The relationship between SEO and user experience (UX) is an ...Feb 7, 2024 12:00 AM
scoredetect.com
Show HN: Boost User Trust with Data Content Authenticityhttps://www.scoredetect.com/indexI found that there currently is no solution that can create a blockchain transaction for free, that's highly affordable, and has the most integrations......So I made one. Partnered with a blockchain + Zapier.Now, it's the fastest, most affordable, and most versatile "blockchain timestamping" tool out there.I then found that there are a few problems with "web2" data...First Use case: Blockchain Timestamping, Blockchain e-Notary (for lawyers, supply chains, etc.)Second Use case: AI Content Protection, Boost User Trust & Brand Authority (for journalism, bloggers, news, government, biz, etc.)I discovered that you can input data into the blockchain so that each "transaction". I've standardised the input, so that you can easily create "Verification Certificates" — these are timestamps with additional Trust Factors such as "identity", "certificate type", "validate the certificate content", "date created", etc.All of these make it stronger than just a "timestamp"...Also, it has a "revision" hiFeb 5, 2024 1:03 PM
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Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs preciselyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178753Hi, HN. We (Adam, Micah and Ben) are excited to show you Dashdive (https://www.dashdive.com/), which calculates the cloud cost incurred by each user action taken in your product. There’s a demo video at https://www.dashdive.com/#video and an interactive demo here: https://demo.dashdive.com.We talked to dozens of software engineers and kept hearing about three problems caused by poor cloud cost observability:(1) Cost anomalies are slow to detect and hard to diagnose. For example, a computer vision company noticed their AWS costs spiking one month. Costs accrued until they identified the culprit: one of their customers had put up a life-size cutout of John Wayne, and they were running non-stop facial recognition on it.(2) No cost accountability in big orgs. For example, a public tech company’s top priority last year was to increase gross margin. But they had no way to identify the highest cost managers/products or measure improvement despite tagging efforts.(3) Uncertain and variable perJan 29, 2024 5:03 PM
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One Piece: Who is Rocks D Xebec?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b3a3f62004bc9bb867ca0235cb6c6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fone-piece-rocks-d-xebec-061822668.html&c=8157724374161318962&mkt=en-usThere are several stories and immersive characters in One Piece, and one among them is Rocks D Xebec. Eiichiro Oda did a great job sewing together interesting lore with engaging characters that keep ...Jan 17, 2024 10:18 PM
nasaspaceflight.com
Webb discovers potential aurorae on brown dwarfhttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/01/webb-w1935/Silently floating through the universe are cosmic objects that are both too large to be planets and too small to be stars. Called brown dwarfs, these substellar objects are among the most captivating objects in the universe, and their low surface temperatures mean that most of the light they emit is infrared and thus can only be observed and characterized using infrared telescopes.Jan 15, 2024 8:22 PM
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Quel est le meilleur site de rencontre pour les plus de 50 ans ?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b22cd16ff4442bd25391d1def63e8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.leparisien.fr%2Fguide-shopping%2Fpratique%2Fquel-est-le-meilleur-site-de-rencontre-pour-les-plus-de-50-ans-15-01-2024-I6BEBVST25ERJOPRR4APJUJYWU.php&c=18378535306373135420&mkt=en-usLa rédaction du Parisien n'a pas participé à la réalisation de cet article. Pendant longtemps, on a considéré que faire des rencontres sur Internet était l’affaire des jeunes générations : le côté ...Jan 15, 2024 5:38 AM
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Ask HN: What's the point of Material Design You?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982648One could say that I've had a bit of an interesting relationship with Google's Material Design paradigm. When it was announced in 2014, I was very excited, despite not using a Android device at that time. It felt to me like an excellent example of 'Form Follows Function' in software UX, with elements that were simultaneously aesthetically pleasing and practical. For instance, widgets would seamlessly grow and shrink as you moved through the user interface relative to their importance in each context.Only a few years after that, I became somewhat disillusioned with how Material Design was being promoted, since Google were starting to break their own design rules everywhere. That gave me the impression that applying Material Design as a software developer was playing into their monopolistic vision of a coherent 'Google ecosystem', when they weren't going to do their part in maintaining that coherency.Fast-forward to the present, and, after a long break from using Android, I have just acqJan 13, 2024 6:02 PM
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Apollo 11 Moon Landing, Beatles, MLK’s “I Have A Dream” Speech Among TV’s 75 Biggest Momentshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b2aed6957484eba603d3c8f1dd417&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2024%2F01%2Ftelevisions-biggest-moments-moon-landing-beatles-1235727316%2F&c=480589402147604958&mkt=en-usAhead of the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, the Television Academy has compiled a list of the 75 Most Impactful TV Moments. In collaboration with a group of academic professionals, the ...Jan 12, 2024 2:28 AM
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Framework Data Breachhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38958269I've just received this mail a few minutes ago:---Hello,Keating Consulting, Framework’s primary external accounting partner, brought to our attention at 8:13am PST on January 11th, 2024, that one of their accountants fell victim to a phishing email that utilized social engineering tactics to obtain customer PII (Personal Identifiable Information) associated with outstanding balances for Framework purchases.If you are receiving this email, we’ve identified that your information was impacted by this breach.What happened?On January 9th, at 4:27am PST, the attacker sent an email to the accountant impersonating our CEO asking for Accounts Receivable information pertaining to outstanding balances for Framework purchases.On January 11th at 8:13am PST, the accountant responded to the attacker and provided a spreadsheet with the following information:Full NameEmail AddressBalance OwedNote that this list was primarily of a subset of open pre-orders, but some completed past orders with pending acJan 11, 2024 8:11 PM
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Best Backgrounds in Baldur’s Gate 3http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1d4de3f444b6b5888305ea6d4476&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwinfinite.net%2Fguides%2Fbest-backgrounds-baldurs-gate-3%2F&c=1261028586306615612&mkt=en-usIn Baldur’s Gate 3, there are a variety of Backgrounds to choose from when creating your character. With such a range available, it can often be tricky to identify the best choices among them, as well ...Jan 10, 2024 2:12 AM
dashwave.io
Show HN: Dashwave – Fast Android cloud build tool with collaborative emulatorshttps://dashwave.io/blog/dashwave-launch/Introducing Dashwave Public Beta!Hello, I am Supratik Das, Co-founder, and CTO at Dashwave. I am thrilled to announce the launch of Dashwave, a powerful cloud build and emulation tool for fast and collaborative Android development. It supports all major Android languages/frameworks: Java, Kotlin, React Native and Flutter.Why Dashwave? - The ProblemAndroid developers often struggle with insanely long build times and resource-intensive emulation sessions. They work in close collaboration with product stakeholders and rely on WIP feedback. Since builds, and feedback are slow, this leads to a 'code more, build less' approach, causing debugging challenges due to insufficient testing and productivity losses.Solutions exist but their scope is limited either as a general-purpose build tool or a CI/CD build tool. At Dashwave we are tailoring the entire platform right from the local development stage for the use cases of Android Developers.What is Dashwave? - The SolutionWith Dashwave, you can qJan 8, 2024 4:04 PM
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New Year's resolutions experts say to skip — or how to tweak them for successhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b0cdad3bc467386bea61ed5d44668&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fnew-years-resolutions-experts-skip-tweak-for-success%2F&c=15869865727185330342&mkt=en-us2024 has arrived, which means people are focusing on their New Year's resolutions — despite research suggesting these annual vows of self-improvement only work a fraction of the time. Failed or overly ...Jan 7, 2024 1:44 PM
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Ask HN: What is your experience of tamper proof systems?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38878579A theme in the Post Office (Horizon) scandal is that Fujitsu could amend completed till records after the fact.From hard copy printouts (receipt rolls?) to cryptography (blockchains), there are technical means to repudiate and reduce risk of amendment.I'm curious what experiences we've had with them and which ones we should using in retail systems?I'm also curious how if a privileged user did amend a database, even with an audit log of changes; whether it is likely that a user (lawyer, accountant, manager) would also be alerted to that in their interface.In paper based accounting, I believe event logs weren't really a thing. The users (accountants) knew the audit history from the records themselves and hopefully today still do: - transaction records was having records for each stage (order, invoice, payment advice, sales receipt, journal entry, credit note, etc) - completeness of records was numbered books, pages, lines - irreversible records was ink pen and stamps - verifiable was entJan 5, 2024 12:54 PM
