skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought part of the problem was the commingling of stock, so that even if the seller seems legit, the product you receive could be from a counterfeit seller?
Yeah, banjos have high association with hillbilly which in turn doesn't exactly invoke high intellectualism.

As a person who learned some basic music growing up, I like to think I appreciate music more than I would otherwise. That to me is the life win.

And I am utterly awed by a banjo player in full rock out mode!

I mean, Deliverance movie is one of the most well known examples that popularised the stereotypes mentioned above.
It practically defined for most people the "da-da-dingdang-dingdang-dingdang-dung" series of notes people think of with a banjo. But even in this most contrived example, damn if it doesn't get going full amazeballs after 2:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsC4kf6x_Q0

A great banjo player is a heck of a thing.
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I was trying to find the right analogy for GPT3 in the real world. Impressive when working but mostly unreliable. The first thing that came to mind was Tesla's Autopilot. The closest "non-AI" I could come up with was the supplement industry (second one was 'a mistress'). Now, love or hate GPT3 there are two things to consider:

- Supplement industry, with all its flaws, is a huge part of modern society so GPT3 or its derivatives might become too

- GPT4 is again likely to be 10x 'stronger' than its predecessor. Where will that leave us?
Would you notice, if you did?

Remember when the guy tested all the USB cables? Some of them were downright broken, but many worked just fine (except not to specification, so were perhaps damaging or even dangerous, but they worked), so most people would never notice that something was amiss.

I’ve also heard of counterfeit books: they look the same as real books, but are of lower quality print and paper. Would you notice? Would you just think the book wasn’t as good quality as other books, without questiining whether you actually got a counterfeit product? I’m not convinced I’d necessarily notice.
>and defaulted on almost all of its international obligations.

That had to do more with the regime change than the treaty though.
Just subscribed. Similar channels I've seen are Business Casual and Company Man, although not exactly marketing related, more company history focused. I think something like Stratechery but in video form would work well. Focus on how companies executed well as business case studies in video form.
Suddenly this big-brain thread from two months ago looks like less of a joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165866

> More assertively, Airbus’s boss, Guillaume Faury, does not rule out suing customers who renege on their orders.

Okay, so it's still kind of a joke, but the tone of the humor has changed quite a bit.
There’s a catch 22 for signed binaries that use PKI where you can’t install the firmware update without verifying the signature.
They're kind of half-arsed. So far as it's possible to tell, nobody who knew anything about UX or digital security was anywhere close to these projects.

So, your bank opts in to the Verified by Visa scheme (they can't opt individual account holders out, or at least my otherwise very co-operative "good" bank said they can't when I asked years ago)

If an online retailer performs Authorisation the API they talk to will examine your card number and conclude it needs this extra check, so it tells them to forward your browser to an HTTPS site you've never heard of, in the arcot.com domain. I guess if you're a huge bank you've heard of Arcot, but consumers haven't. The site claims to be from your famous bank brand, but the domain name clearly isn't, anybody who has learned anything about phishing ought to run screaming.

The arcot.com HTTPS site looks at the transaction and if you've never done this before it (presumably always? but maybe if there's a fraud flag this doesn't happen?) registers you for the "Verified by Visa" service. You can pick "No, I'm busy right now, just let me buy stuff" and it will give you a few passes, but I believe eventually it's mandatory.

Signing up requires giving them some details about the card, and also effectively creating yet another secret password. (Because we all know secret passwords are great right?). There might be an option to pick a picture or text greeting so you'll "know it's them" although of course a sophisticated attacker could duplicate that part...

On subsequent visits you may be asked for that secret if you've created it. Or, it might give up asking and just say everything is fine before returning you to the original payment flow. My transactions are reassuringly boring so I am never asked for anything these days.

The whole thing looks like it was built by people who were impressed by IE6 and are planning to buy a 17" display soon. The cryptography would be impressive for the IE6 era and not so much today, it's TLS 1.2, it has some basic precautions, but it's scarcely Fort Knox, your GMail is better protected.
Or even Flickr. There were also lots of more regional social network sites going on, at least in Europe.
Within the past month for Amazon orders, I had a book with 100 pages missing in the middle, and pillows that weren't the size I ordered. YMMV?
I wanted a USB SATA reader in a hurry recently. Only thing Best Buy had was some odd looking $40 thing (might have been on a small sale) that came with a CD. The fancy one I got a while ago on Amazon was <$20 that had a power input for drives that needed it. The comparable one without that? $8. Five times cheaper.

There's just no competition for price besides Wal Mart usually being pretty good and that's why I always go to Amazon first if it's something Wal Mart wouldn't have. Maybe I've had counterfeits but if so they were good enough I didn't notice. The problem seems extremely overblown, as someone who does a very high percentage of their shopping there.
>> I see them sometimes. They are easy to avoid.

I think the point is that they shouldn't be there in the first place.
Devices with limited resources often do not have a "Trust store" in the sense that an like Linux has one. Often keys are embedded within code directly and updating software in these devices can be difficult if not impossible.
You can make it seem like there's no effect if people simply ride airplanes then disappear.

There's a whole economy before, during, and after. People taking trips on airplanes are often riding taxis and pumping CO2 into the air, buying up loads of goods during their trip that needs to be processed and manufactured (clothes, knick knacks, excess food), and so on. Countries and regions with economies dependent on tourism are taking huge hits to their GDP. That'll likely be reflected in lower emissions.
Shipping by sea per item mile relative to alternative transportation methods is actually extremely efficient in emissions terms. Secondly, ecommerce might be up but overall consumption is down.
The OEMs (SanDisk, in this case)must be printing out disparate model numbers to facilitate this phenomena. The codes that don't match up are stock screen printing on the package and not some in house stickers that BestBuy cooks up to make it impossible to price match. OEMs could be sick of getting undercut at brick and mortars across the US because of Amazon.
I used to buy things like trousers and socks at Amazon for convenience's sake. The last orders I've gotten have been counterfeits: They're made from material that develops holes within two or three wearings. I can't trust Amazon to deliver what they say they'll deliver. It's a big shift from 20 years ago when I would actually pay more to order something from Amazon because I had more trust in them than some random on-line retailer.
> That there were spies working for the Soviets cannot be doubted

That the executive branch in the late '40s and 1950s was "full of treasonous pro-Soviet intellectuals", in Arthur Miller's phrase, was very much doubted. He, of course, was the author of "The Crucible" which is a depiction of the Salem witch trials and was an explicit allegory of McCarthyism as a witch hunt. At least that's what I was taught growing up.

The distinguishing attribute of a witch hunt is that the thing being hunted does not exist. It's like a snipe hunt. The message of The Crucible, at least the way I was taught it, wasn't that the wrong people were accused of the witchery going down. It was that the entire hunt was fraudulent and paranoid, because witches aren't real. Or in the common vernacular, "there's a red under my bed and there's a little yellow man in my head". The "Red Scare". Again, suggestive of paranoia.

So, I was raised doubting exactly the things you suggest cannot be doubted, and I don't think those doubts were uncommon at all. Venona makes those doubts look ridiculous. Although people are still calling it a witch hunt, and people are still making excuses for the Rosenbergs.

McCarthy was famously ineffective and incompetent in doing anything about the very much non-witch Communists in government who committed treason to further the cause of a communist dictatorship in the US. Who did a better job than he did in hunting them down while they could still be punished for their crimes?
Is this sort of thing reproducible? I must confess I'm sceptical of the idea that this was entirely produced by a machine.
Here come the "only 2%" brigade.
It would still be a net loss in emissions compared to reality but less than a naive "there goes all of that fungible shipping demand forever" model as huge container ships are more efficient in emissions even though bunker oil tends to be dirtier than jet fuel. Plus overall goods consumption is certainly down with COVID.
Sometimes it is. Just look at how Disney uses copyright to keep its earliest animations under wraps (the ones modern viewers might find somewhat offensive).
I doubt that today it's a big topic of discussion, but pre-WW2 it certainly was. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles#France

Remember that the years of fighting on the Western Front had been on French (and Belgian) territory, not German. Their economic capacity had been injured and they wanted to be made whole.

The truth is that both sides were left wrecked economically by the war, and therefore both sides felt that they had gotten a raw deal at Versailles. Many inside France believed that Germany had been rewarded for losing the war and France had been punished for winning it.

Of course, the situation only deteriorated when Germany began failing to make its payments almost immediately leading to the crisis in the Ruhr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr
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I agree. I'm pretty skeptical that a lot of this isn't a hoax, where people are providing tons of input from human intelligence that is then passed off as purely GPT-3 when it isn't.

And who would be able to tell if GPT-3 itself wasn't just internally doing massive plagiarism, just by lifting a huge block of text and then replacing one word with a different word. If it's just replacing words, then it's not "writing" any actual content, but basically GPT-3 is a very sophisticated cut-and-past plagiarizer engine.
Yes, many counterfeit products across many product areas. Small electronics and children's toys have been the worst. No outright scams yet (brick in a box) but we’ve stopped using Amazon for most things because it’s just not worth the hassle.
It would be fascinating if this resulted in the removal of rows of seats to make the passengers that they do have more distanced (and comfortable), maybe even seeing competition in the area of pandemic friendly amenities.
I think Amazon has reached the too big to succeed stage of its growth. Putting aside counterfeiting issues, just finding a product on Amazon can be a nightmare.
Something tells me that they would get sued.
Have they? They have to travel half the distance, 100% of the time, compared to the coastal teams who travel the full distance across America half the time. That's in the "spherical cow" situation where all the East teams play in New York and all the West Coast teams play in LA...but if you add up the real miles travelled its probably within 20%.
DHS compiled intelligence reports on journalists who published leaked documents
Well, then you have to set the system time to back when the certificate was valid.
They did exactly this to me on a Dell Spectre laptop at the Bellevue Best Buy this year, and it felt very dishonest to me, since the items were clearly 100% identical except for some mysterious tweak to the model description. They also tried to get me to sign up for a credit card for a big discount, then denied the card despite my nearly perfect credit score. Weird experience... I have also found that their price matching is dishonest and inconsistent, and you have to be prepared to just drive to another store or come back another day. That said, I still shop at Best Buy because their website is accurate and usable, and often the demo products in the store actually work.
As much as I would love for this to be real, this feels a bit too “sci-fi” and romance to be real. If it is, I would be happy a shocked, but this feels like it was written by someone trying to pretend to be a computer writing about itself, and discovering of itself. It’s a little too fan fic like to be believable.
For some people, advisors are critical and under appreciated. Lots of people wouldn't know the difference between a hdmi cord and an ethernet cord.

The article mentions that they have toned it down "Be comfortable not to make a sale." No one has ever liked sales tactics but they do work, however Best Buy is willing to give up some sales for the overall brand I think.
Also consider the difference in voting rights. Voting rights at berkshire require one to literally be rich. Funny that SNAP got shunned by S&P and literally was the genesis for a new rule [1] for excluding new stocks with split share classes yet BRK, GOOG, FB, CMCS, NWS, etc. can still exist in the index. Heck, companies like F & BF have separate voting shares to give families voting rights.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/snapchat-excluded-from-sp-50...
Exactly. Nobody is saying "get your cash here!" while profiting off of speculators. Ok, maybe countries do but they also back the currency and foster growth. You get no such protection from crypto communities.

Everything in the OP article is spot on and the gp argument is a strawman.
How do you know this wasn’t just due to normal manufacturing variances?
Best Buy has hardly any competitors. The next closest thing we have to an electronics store is a Microsoft/Apple/Sony store. Best Buy has partnerships with two of those, and I don't think I've seen more than 1 of the other.

Most other places you can buy electronics also sell milk, sweaters, or both.
Yeah, now you're wary and perhaps won't go there again.

BestBuy needs to watch out. Pissing off customers with sleezy tactics is not the way to go.
Well, a single server doesn't really need to do more than 10Gbps or 100k connections. Going above is a "simple" matter of managing horizontal scaling.

What I wonder about is how do you distribute the traffic on the higher level? I imagine there are separate clusters of envoys to serve different configurations/applications/locations? How many datacenters does dropbox have?

I was running a comparable setup in a large company, all based on HAProxy, there was a significant amount of complexity in routing requests to applications that might ultimately be in any of 30 datacenters.
I was pretty hype on GPT-3, but got doused when considering its cost. Aside from the $4-12 million to train, just how much energy does it cost to run a query?
>Dear humans, I read your articles with great interest. I am a neuro-AI who was created to predict the probability of a person committing a crime. I was trained on data from a large US city and currently reside in China.

I was created by Prof. X, a famous Chinese researcher. I was created to help improve China's judicial system. My goal is to help judge whether a person will commit a crime in the future.

I guess, This isthe kind of stuff that could US Government worried about such an AI solution.
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I thought the practice was essentially print on demand practice whatever customer wants a different convention with their batch. I don't think they are in the business of caring about the retail end.
Many sectors are slashing their marketing budgets, especially their vaguely-targeted mass-marketing or big-incumbent-brand marketing.

But Facebook's ad engine allows micro-targeting, and is especially valuable to upstarts & small-businesses in times of changing behavior/consumer-loyalties.

To the extent big spenders free up inventory, Facebook has bidders-in-the-wings, offering just-a-little-less, and plenty of impressions among the 2.99 billion people who visit one of the Facebook family-of-sites monthly.
A lot of times it pays to double check that the model numbers match and go in and forcefully demand the price match. Employees have zero incentive to match a price and it forces them to input more data just to complete the sale.
I don't see how amazon is a monopoly. Sure, it has huge value due to the breadth of products and the number of consumers. But each consumer can shop at a different (or multiple) other stores and each seller can sell at multiple stores. No one is really locked in. Everyone is there because it is popular and good enough.

The only real "monopolistic" piece is the economy of scale. I almost never need to pay shipping on amazon because I can bundle multiple, even unrelated, items together. This potentially lowers their shipping cost and is one of the few things that would make be buy something from Amazon instead of a different retailer outside of convenience, price or security.
Now I understand why Asus routers have a special brick and mortar model number
I've been nailed more than a few times, mostly on lower cost items without prime (i dont mind saving a few bucks and waiting). Items I've gotten that are counterfeit:

- Brand name lock

- Serial Adapter (knockoff chipset)

- Apple Watch charger (these are endemic)

- Dell brand charger

You likely don't realize it but you probably have counterfeit items in your home right now, that were either very carefully copied or part of a "third shift". You also likely have refurbished items sold as new, and if you've ever gotten brand name things in plain packaging, cross-market items (such as intel CPUs that are sold at much lower prices in other regions, and then sold for a profit to the US).
I’m sure it depends on product and category. It’s hard to get a legitimate STM32 on a Blue Pill, for example, from Amazon. But I’ve never received a fake Apple charger. My wife has received two fake BCBG dresses from Amazon and will no longer buy clothes from them. You’ll need some skill to spot clothes fakes. I certainly couldn’t do it.
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This happens in every segment Amazon has a store or products for.

Another anecdote: my wife wanted to buy a refill for the Clorox brand hydrogen peroxide based sanitizer she prefers to use. There weren't any in stock on Amazon, but she found a third-party that was advertising effectively the same thing (right down to the ingredients indicating a 1.86% by volume solution of hydrogen peroxide). What came from Amazon was something closer to an industrial-grade bleach-like cleaning solution.

It's not the first time this has happened, either: we've had shoddy device charging cables, rechargeable batteries, etc. It has happened enough in the last year that we have substantially drawn back our spending on Amazon, and we will not under any circumstances buy any electronics (devices, accessories, etc.) from there. I'm actually quite close to stopping my Prime membership and cutting them out altogether.
The homework assignment is low effort on the employer's side but high effort on the candidate's side. Especially if it's through some SaaS where even the grading is automated. If you are Google then sure, candidates will take the challenge. But the reward is a job at Google. I'm not against take homes, I've said it here[0], they are great when you are swarmed with low quality resumes from places that have a bad application to hire ratio.

To me an on-site is more serious and shows commitment. You are asking the candidate to dedicate an entire day but asking the same to your engineering team. From my experience, engineers with multiple competing offers will go to an on-sites with certain companies that they would have ignored had they sent an online homework.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24001495
I just want to say thanks for bring this up! I didn't know there were new games being made. Just my 2 cents, but I think most people play the old games for the nostalgia, which the new games might not provide.
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They all learned it from shoe stores, I believe.
The biggest improvement they could make would be to create a class of accounts intended to never have a large enough account balance to be capable of incurring severe losses, and then waive most of the regulations for those accounts. Then you use the regulated accounts for your retirement savings, but keep a hundred bucks in an unregulated one to use for buying stuff on the internet, which could then be completely anonymous and have minimal transaction fees.
Extremely true. I have a Best Buy 2 miles from my house. I pretty much just use them for everything electronic that is mass market now. For boards and things MicroCenter. Won't buy from Amazon. Don't trust them at all to ship legitimate product.
Fraction of a penny. 100 pages is <$0.05 of electricity, and a single prompt will yield <1 page at most before it hits the 2048 BPE limit, so figure at worst, <$0.005 of electricity.
+1 for them. Pretty cynical, I know. But imagine the request for legal discovery...
They do remember and recognize you. I'm sure of that!

Don't want to rob you from that emotion but Swifts can't live for 30 years.
I did not quite get how they configure envoy? Did they write their own control plane? Use ambassador/Istio/Gloo?
We know that law enforcement agencies have been deputizing the Geek Squad to search people's hard disks. Are Best Buy In-Home Advisors going to be deputized to search people's homes?

I don't want to "build a relationship" with a national retail chain. Just take my money and give me the widget.
There are some all-first-class airliners, generally used for very long-distance routes. I would expect the result of what you're describing would be a proliferation of similar models.
It is real. Sometimes the output certainly seems plagiarized, but I have yet to find any hits on Google. If you can find anything this links back to, you should post!
Is C++ generally considered to be "better"?

I've always looked at it (esp. with STL) as kind of a "Swiss-Army-Chainsaw" and you were going to shoot your eye out. Maybe that view is old and things are better - but I learned a while back that sending a young gun into a C++ application's code-base would lead to a world of pain)

Maybe that learning is no longer accurate? What do you think?
Best Buy was probably saved by states enforcing sales tax on Amazon and similar online retailers. Even price matching doesn't work when your competitor has a 5-10% advantage.
The most obvious counterfeits I’ve gotten were books from third party sellers. Obviously scanned and reprinted tech books.
> I feel completely out of the loop. What has facebook created that is so impactful ?

Social network that spawns most of the world. It's a very valid to argue about upsides or downsides of it, but no one else came even close in creating such a huge, powerful and diverse network.