skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's spent over $2500 and his main batch of products from China haven't even arrived in the US yet. They still need to clear customs as well, which could further delay the items if any problems come up. That puts a lot of holiday selling in jeopardy.

This seems pretty risky. --Plus he still needs to store the items, sell them, ship them, and deal with the customer service aspect.-- (Clarification: He doesn't actually have to do these things, but pay the FBA fees for Amazon to do them: https://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/pricing.ht...)

If his items happen to catch on and his supplier in China notices, there's also no real barrier to stop the suppliers (or friends of suppliers) from just cutting him out and creating duplicate product pages with slightly lower prices (which overseas suppliers have already succeeded at).

This is an experiment afterall, so it would still be interesting to see the results of a random person reselling items that aren't particularly unique and in a market with plenty of alternatives (handbags/accessories) with over sellers probably doing about the same thing.
"could we make progress in the way on drugs by killing drug users?"

No, that would not be progress
By this standard, HN users constantly indulge in blatant piracy, through encouragement and use of outline.com to bypass paywalls.
But we don't trust the autopilot ; Tesla themselves instructs drivers to be ready for take over at all times, and I would bet that this is legally the expectation too.
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How do programming books prove correctness of the algorithms taught? Hand waving. It is very frustrating to read for me, mathematical texts are a lot better at proving things.
I think the real problem is that we allow Intel to make CPUs that pirates can use. If we had it happen at that level, we could effectively end piracy. Intel is profiting so they must police.
Sorry, what does FBA stand for?
I use this pattern fairly regularly in a variety of ways. Here's a quick piece of example code that might help explain this a bit better. I'm writing this example in C#, but I usually work in other languages (Java / ruby / Python / JS),

before:

public Student GetStudentById(int id)
{
var record = db.findStudentById(id)
if (record == null) return null;
return new Student(record.id, record.name, ...);
}

Then in say a student record controller class:

public View Get(int id)
{
var student = getStudentById(id);
if (student == null) return View("NotFound");
return View("Display", student);
}

After:

[ContractAnnotation("=> notnull")]
public StudentSearchResult GetStudentById(int id)
{
var record = db.findStudentById(id);
if (record == null) return StudentSearchRsult.NotFound;
return new StudentSearchResult(record.id, record.name, ...);
}

Then:

public View Get(int id)
{
var student = getStudentById(id);
return new View(student.ViewName, student); // look no null check becase student.ViewName is always valid here
}

Note: of course this is entirely simplified for the purposes of example. Perhaps your real world example doesn't return null from the db, but a RecordSet with either 0 or 1 elements. Perhaps your db uses exceptions that you translate into results like this.

The cool thing there is that you get tool support (from e.g. ReSharper) telling your that this is entirely safe to do without a null check and tool support when it's not.
Winners in this scenario: Amazon, Chinese factory owners, consumers.

Losers in this scenario: Chinese laborers, American "wantrepreneurs", and the environment.
I think there's a pretty clear distinction between autopilot and fully-autonomous vehicles, so I'm not too worried about this setting bad precedent. With autopilot, there is a human driver who is responsible for everything the vehicle does, and autopilot is there to help out to the extent that it can. With fully-autonomous vehicles, every human in the car is a passenger, so it's fine for everyone to be asleep.
I had the same question when i was undergrad and it led me to do masters! It works because of symmetry, if calculations are symmetric you don't need to perform them twice which results in "fast computation".
DFT matrix can be decomposed into multiple matrices in such a way that most of its elements are zeros and this representation is what is called FFT.
This can be done because DFT structure has certain symmetries which are exploited to decompose its matrix it is also the reason why any arbitrary matrix cannot be made fast.
Why DFT has this structure comes from the theory of linear shift invariant systems.

search for "pushchel" and "symmetry" if you want to go deeper and to understand what is meant by symmetry in mathematical terms.
Fulfilled by Amazon, Amazon keeps your stuff at their warehouse and handles shipping etc
But sex is one of the fundamental aspects of the human existence. If psychology cannot say anything meaningful about our sex life then it cannot say anything meaningful about us at all. Yes, it can probably guess when we should purchase or sell some stocks, like people following guys like Kahneman do, but their studies do almost nothing to “illuminate” us on what us humans really are on the inside.
Fullfilled by Amazon.

It is the program where third party sellers can send their products to Amazons warehouses, and Amazon then handles the shipping to the customer. The big advantage is that this makes the products eligible for Amazon Prime, as opposed to products that get shipped by the third party themselves.
The glReadPixels is going to be your primary issue, since it means the CPU can't submit additional work since the glReadPixels will block on the GPU finishing its. The "proper" way to do this is to use a Pixel Buffer Object and a sync fence. That way, you can submit frames, have a thread dedicated to checking the fence + readback, and keep both the CPU and GPU busy.

In terms of actual scheduling, it's kind of complicated, but for the most part the APIs require that draws happen in-order. Don't really expect to get many savings out of multi-threading your render loop in OpenGL, so that means we move to more standard game optimizations. Memory bandwidth is likely to be your biggest bottleneck, so make sure to do any buffer transfers at the start of the frame or scene, and definitely don't touch them between draws. Do a clear at the start of a frame (GPUs can do "fast clears" which lets the ROP unit simply overwrite it instead of having to pull in the contents of the previous frame). Use modern GL best practices: that means uniform buffer objects, since the classic uniform setters will do transfers mid-frame. Use a good profiler for your platform to determine whether any bottlenecks or slowness is on the CPU in your code, on the CPU in the driver, or on the GPU. If it's on the CPU, consider moving to a modern API like D3D12, Metal or Vulkan, but expect that to take some work.
But, with things like Windows 10 telemetry you can't turn off, and Windows turning into a service, they've gotten back on board with how Big Tech runs these days.

They sort of have no choice but to play in this space given that Google does, they can’t just surrender that territory. But if the “attention economy” went away tomorrow MS core business would be fine, how much actual revenue do we think they even make from Windows 10 telemetry? Compared to Azure and O365?
I'm pretty sure that's included to irk Trekkies.
From what I've heard, we've run into the (semi-literal) bottleneck of infants having heads that just barely, or that don't, fit through a birth canal.
A program proves nothing at all so I am not sure what you can understand from it? Typically in programming you are presented with a piece of code, a statement that this piece of code solves a specific problem and then a proof of that it actually works. Those proofs are typically far from understandable or rigorous.
why do vanilla MySQL packages come with SLEEP() even enabled? Why not make it an option?

Because it's a good "canary" for SQL injection: it doesn't do any real damage, but it's noticeable enough to tell you that you have a possibly vulnerable condition.
Thirding the recommendation. I heard about this book on HN too, btw.

It's absolutely amazing, I love how the author constructed a civilization of sentient, tool-using beings that's qualitatively different than humans. It's one of the most original books I've ever read, and it rekindled my interest in insects.
To be fair, 15% is what they take as fees, and the rest is the shipping cost, which are likely realistic to expedite shipping a bag in the US.
Is there any advantage of it over alternative payment methods for that use case though? I'm guessing none of the better known cloud providers are accepting customers without identification of some sort so the pseudonymous bit disappears? I suppose you're keeping another payment provider from knowing about you using their service, but that's probably also not an issue with a better known cloud provider.
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Sounds like the author has the same experience: if the keyboard is not mechanical, then this library doesn’t work:

https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio/issues/3
It's literally in the 3rd sentence of the article! I highly doubt it was edited in the last 3 minutes.
Even if it were, there is this fantastic website you can type queries into and it gives you results pertaining to those queries, literally the 1st result after the obligatory advert when searching just "FBA"!
I suspect it will disadvantage EU companies. Is the EU going to go after Chinese companies that violate? China will not yield.

Is the EU going to go after member nation companies? Yeah, probably, if it wants legislation to have teeth.
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> Yet the connection has remained hazy and fraught, with many studies failing to account for confounding variables, such as height and socioeconomic status.

> Height is correlated with higher better cognitive performance, for example, but also with bigger brain size, so their study attempted to zero in on the contribution of brain size by itself.

Interesting. I couldn’t initially think of any plausible explanation for why height would cause intelligence. Perhaps taller people on average are considered more attractive or given higher social status, which could provide developmental advantages. Or perhaps there is another confounding variable here, like health/nutrition or nationality.

I can’t seem to find any studies on height and intelligence. Anyone have any ideas or links?
This kind of nitpick seems a bit unnecessary, and I think it's particularly strong because people are contending with intelligent design nonsense.

When you talk generation to generation, the gradual tiny mutation each time did indeed allow primates to grab the branches a little better and so they had a higher rate of survival and the causation matters.

But when you talk about the end product (the hand), it is fair to say that primates (as the product of those millions of tiny iterations) evolved to better grab branches, imo.
The core of the issue to puzzle over: How was the buyer of the gift harmed?

One might be able to argue that the buyer was reputationally harmed by being tricked into buying a gift that was neither asked for nor wanted.
The dependency on fb sucks.. I don't have fb.
Without evidence - I don't think it's that we don't forget how to ride but that an adult, any adult, can just get on a bike and ride it after operation is explained. Since everyone, or most everyone, rode one as a child we confuse this with "remembering" how to ride rather than having the adult reflexes and balance to naturally ride.
Tesla should showcase this as something that saved lives. Imagine if this moron fell asleep with normal cruise control.
My first impression is that RFC7540 isn't appropriate for this use case, because it is proposed as a way for the client to signal optional/prefered behavior when said behavior is already made mandatory by the server.

To put it differently, why would it matter if a client POSTs with Prefer: respond-async if the server response will always be async? Whether that header is present or not, the HTTP response is already designed to always return a Location header.
Lots of people have the ability to accurately weigh out 0.030 mg, but a mistake only requires one idiot with cross-contamination of bad math. If you can pass a proper high school lab class, you can do this. What makes it easy is that these substances are soluable.

Water probably isn't the best choice, but it is cheap. You can dissolve at least 4.21 mg/L of carfentanyl in water. Call it 3 to be conservative.

Put 30 mg in 10 L of water. Each cL of water will contain the desired 0.030 mg.

Another way is to put half a pound in a 20,000 gallon swimming pool. That would get you 7.5 million of the above.

I think this stuff would be more soluble in ethanol. With that, you can solve the problem with multiple dilutions. It's like making homeopathic medicine but stopping before you run out of molecules.
I came to love climbing as a sport partially because of what you're describing. You could be able to deadlift 450lb, do 10 pull ups with 100lb hanging off of your body, what have you, and still be an awful climber (like I was) despite having so much grip and upper and lower body strength. It's all about technique, and it takes years to nail it down. That feeling of progression is a lot of fun and it isn't linear at all.

I love bouldering most because sometimes you can brute force problems, sometimes you absolutely can't - you'll spend a few sessions trying to figure out this one pain in the ass movement or hold, then one day... You've got it, and you don't lose it. It's a ton of fun and I like to think it's actually great for your body and mind. Sometimes it feels a bit like wall-yoga.
Speaking as the frequent victim of flipped AliExpress knock off items purchased on Amazon (at 100% markup over the AliExpress price) -- I think you should put consumers in the losers column.
How not to critique someone else's use of language, volume 1.
I've read previously that it's not absolute brain size that matters, but rather brain size relative to body size, hence the lack of difference in intelligence between genders. This makes sense as well since we don't see hyper intelligent whales or elephants building space ships.
Correct. I just made a short video to demonstrate what a working setup looks/sounds like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OjzI9m7W10
SQL injection is pretty non-existent these days as frameworks and WAF evolves (assuming a company doing at least minimum of security practices). It doesn't seem there's a point in blocking such attacks at the DBMS side.

Given the function has a valid use and there are other ways to do damage to the database system, I don't see it's something that stands out. There are numerous ways for doing database probe or even RCE, thus this is no more than one of them.
Reactive Programming – Streams – BLoC – Practical Use Cases
The real problem here is SQL injection... Not sleep
It’s more insidious than that: Amazon commingling means that the merchants inventory which may be all counterfeit is indistinguishable from genuine articles prior to the buyer actually receiving it. If you want to be safe avoid any product that has both Amazon and FBA.
So the solution is to select outsiders of a field with no replication crisis as peers?
This is immediately falsified by grabbing an adult, any adult, and watch him learn a thing, anything, that relies on subtle balance and body control.
I don’t think the insect apocalypse is getting its attention stolen by climate change.

I just don’t think enough people care. I mean, look at France. They are having violent riots because the gas prices were increased to fight climate change.

I know that it’s easy for me, a relatively wealthy Scandinavian, to not worry about gas prices, but even if these people are struggling to make ends meet, they are right now, actively fighting to kill the future of their children.

How the hell we going to change anything when the status of the world is like this?
I believe that he does not have to worry about storing or shipping or selling the itemsas Amazon does all of that through the FBA program.
Speaking of Hermit Crabs, I was also blown away by their communal shell exchange process.

Many hermit crabs will come together and work as a team to change shells in hierarchy. If you've never seen it, you are in for a treat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dnocPQXDQ
> Then the iPhone came along, and suddenly, your average Joe and Jane were flocking to the internet on their mobile devices. It was no longer geeky, it was mainstream

Facebook went public before figuring out mobile. Something in your timeline is off.
It doesn’t say anything about the future because this is not an Autonomous Vehicle. He is the one driving the car. If you’re on one of those straight roads in the middle parts of America and you wedge the wheel to go dead straight and then drink a 40, you’re still the driver, not the car. And that’s what this is.

When we have AVs, we’ll put him in the back seat and it won’t be a DUI until he takes control of the vehicle.
I agree. Many of my friends and family don't have FB either, and have their varying reasons for not wanting it.
I imagine they'd have a hard time keeping the front bar straight. I remember that being the main issue when I was learning it as a kid.

Had I not acquired that sense of balance associated with the front bar's alignment through practice, I don't think I would have been able to hear someone say "conservation of angular momentum", pick up a bike and start riding it.
It's a win-win for China beyond the trade war.

China gets:

1. Positive sentiment from US.

2. Crackdown on drug producers in China (which furthers the objective of having strict control on drugs with steep penalties, and making examples out of drugs dealers for CCTV).

3. To hand a blow to Chinese Triads exporting drugs and laundering money outside of China (e.g. bringing cash out of China): https://globalnews.ca/news/4149818/vancouver-cautionary-tale...

4. Tighter government oversight/control on the prescription pharmaceuticals market.
Can't speak for anime but for the normal cinema world, iTunes has daily 4k sales for $5. Picked up a buhch on BF.
You can also get disc + digital UHD deals on amazon for less than $10.

I used to pirate a ton of movies but with the deals these days on 4k + dolby vision + atmos titles its worth it just to buy.
Prescription discounts
Because most Electron apps are JS devs working around browser issues by packaging a single browser with the application.

I look forward for the Electron wave to fade away just as MSHTML and XUL waves died before it.
You cannot accept unknown SIM cards due to mutual authentication -- the provider must know the shared secret that is burned into the SIM.

You can achieve network separation APNs, so there is no need for such a hack.

The question I have in mind is: Does your office advertise it's own PLMN with WiFi-like equipment, or do you outsource your office wireless network to an established operator which handles authentication and provides a virtual, separate network?
just read 260+ arrested, nearly 90 injured.
Oh wow, thanks Keith, first of all for mosh! I've been using it daily for several years now. It's been great! Second of all for clarifying and correcting me regarding the algorithm-usage. I don't know where I got it from and I must have just misremembered; it's been a while since I spent a bit of time looking at the source code (and walking away very impressed).
I live in the migration path in Texas and we cut our milkweed to the ground in mid fall after the first cold front. It supposedly discourages monarchs from overwintering so they keep migrating.
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> Bottom line is if you’re doing this via REST and not using web sockets

Websockets is not a viable solution for this problem because long-running processes are long-running, and it would make no sense to keep a connection up for minutes/hours just to poll the process status.
Unlike the other subjects contained in this book, I do not think that any useful understanding of Probability and Statistics could result from only one or two chapters of coverage.

I would recommend a book I found that covers Statistics using Python:

Statistical Methods for Machine Learning
https://machinelearningmastery.com/products/

Personally, I much prefer that book to the free "Think Stats" one available.

You can also find a book there on Linear Algebra and others related to Deep Learning, all containing real implementations with Python.

I have no affiliation with the site; these books have proven so valuable to me that I need to share them.

Anyway, the book mentioned in the OP looks like a great foundation and I picked up a copy as a refresher. I would have also liked to have seen coverage of number theory in this book, with RSA being an application, but that too would have required lengthy explanation for any useful insights to be learned.
I read the article; I was just assuming that pesticide use is only thing we are likely to affect in the near future. Habitat reclamation seems unlikely? I'm relatively clueless in this regard and was just inviting comment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/french-police-clash-with-yellow...
Actually, get a human. Parrots are going to be wiped out. For example, African Parrots are going extinct from the poaching due to the increasing demand, especially when people spread information about them. Please, outlaw touching parrots unless scientifically taken care of.
French police clash with protesters in Paris riot; 90 injured
The latest Mission Impossible film, which was just released to 4k Bluray, is 70 Mb/s. So you're off by several orders of magnitude even before you get to 8k.
The big issue was identifying all the impacted services, reconfiguring all of them testing and redeploying them. If it’s a few services fine. But once it’s a few hundred it’s a pain.
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Only SMOM, AFAIK. It has a funny quasi-country status, despite having no territory.
Ah, but which one? You might start believing in the wrong god.
Yes Impulse is surprisonly good compare to those low quality originals and is the only original series I watched so far since I start using YouTube Red/Premium 3 years ago.
it will be nice for watching TV shows on YouTube that are a little postage stamp in the corner to fool content id
Is that any worse than kid's programming on regular TV, though? Apart from the actual ads, it seems a lot of children's shows are just advertisements in and of themselves. My kid started wanting all kinds of Paw Patrol merch without ever seeing the show. Word-of-mouth really works, provided it's backed by a massive propafanda campaign targeted at a critically impaired demographic, anyway.

Fortunately, the national broadcasting company here do a kid's show with no advertising, and seem to also have filtered out the shows that are just selling toys. The only problem is, they insist on making their own programming as well as showing cartoons they've bought from elsewhere. I can tell when the in-house production starts even if I'm not watching at the moment, because my kid will start going "I don't want to watch this!"

I remember watching the same show, and having the same aversion to the local content, as a kid. Now, as a parent, I wonder if they intentionally put in some low-interest stuff in to make the show less addictive and teach the kids some kind of life lesson... If so, it probably worked better on TV than it does on their streaming service, where you can skip at will.

Maybe there's an idea, a dumb stream with no skipping and no channel surfing for kids. Don't like the show? Maybe it's more fun to go out and play!
Your experience may differ, but I'm not alone[1] in my opinion that MacOS quality control has been terrible for years.

1. https://www.cultofmac.com/522627/yet-another-crazy-bug-uncov...
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