skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropshipping as described in the linked article is bullshit. People are not likely to have long term success selling to Americans online if the customers have to wait some undetermined amount of weeks for the goods to come across the ocean.

However, there are plenty of legit dropshippers that sell items already on this side of the ocean. You are probably familiar with Wayfair, but may not know that they were almost 100% drop ship at one time.

A couple years ago, most products sold on their site were still drop shipped, though they were beginning to get some warehouses to hold inventory.

I have done ecom for dropshippers that sold things like furniture, lighting, bean bags, jewelry, and security systems, where the companies were run from one or two room offices and the products shipped from other companies' warehouses in the USA or Canada.

It's very doable once you get the relationships in place. That's not trivial, since these manufacturers and distributors do not make it known that they are willing to drop ship, and they will only do it if you can convince them that you have a legit business already running, but if you get a legit business running and start talking to sales reps, you can absolutely move $500K+ USD worth of product per month without ever looking at it.
Jeff is an incredibly smart person. He's well informed, can think deeply, and quickly, and can connect across disciplines and boundaries.

But ... his greatest strength is understanding that he's not smart enough, and the important thing is to hire people who are better than you to do the things that need to be done, so that you have time for thinking about what needs to be done.

It was nice to work for a guy with a BS in CS, someone who understood aspects of the sorts of problems that myself and the other founding programmer faced in the early days. We could talk about scaling issues, or database design issues, and Jeff had more than your typical "boss" understanding of what we meant.

But we were both much better programmers than Jeff would ever be. On the other hand, he's demonstrably much better at building and running a massive corporation, and much more willing to make decisions that many of us (I hope) would stumble over.

What Amazon became was a massive corporation that didn't care much about employee burnout, didn't care much about its treatment of employees at all, and relentlessly focused people on their lives as consumers, when most of us spend more of our lives as employees and citizens. Amazon has been amazing for us all as consumers, but it's almost certainly a net negative when viewed through the lens of employees (within and outside the company) and citizens.
Show HN: Search HN Favorites or Export to CSV/HTML
I wrote some JavaScript and Python tools to search your HN favorites and export them to CSV or HTML.

The JavaScript runs in your browser like a browser extension. It scrapes the HTML and navigates from page to page.

Setup and usage instructions are in the files.

Clickable links below.
A diagram of how it works: https://a.fastcompany.net/upload/interrotron1.jpg
Clickable links:

JavaScript: https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...

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Previous discussion, other tools and more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788236
Did you meet rickover?

I think nuclear needs a significant, stable and non-politicized source of funding with a good balance of support and regulation.

If we ahd modern, sustainable "nuclear battery" type nuclear reactors I think we would be better off.

Maybe we could play factorio with the reactors so that power output only went towards battery and solar cell production.
And 4GLs. About the same time period.
Some of the "toy" pi laptops like the CrowPi2 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elecrow/crowpi2-steam-e...) are getting really close to being usable as a daily driver for me. I'd love something like that with a combination a breadboard for hacking, an SSD drive, a battery and a dock instead of the built-in toys.
I'd like to see regulation that forces Apple and Google to allow any and all app stores on their devices, and the process of installing apps through those stores must be, by law, equally easy and straightforward as through their own stores (i.e., no security warnings or other jank).

I'm pretty sure that will have massive opposition, because they are deathly scared of opening their devices back to the general-purpose computers they actually are. However, I remain hopeful that people may finally wake up to the "security" excuse and stop sacrificing their freedom.
My theory was it's the Super Dimension Fortress Macross and we can expect a Zentraedi invasion Real Soon now.
Yes, we know. Ask any iOS developer friend of yours and you'll know that Apple never backs down, until the incident gets publicity.

And the non-malicious explanation for that is simple. The majority of the million apps in the app store are small fry to them, and they can't scale support to that level in any empathetic rational manner.

My wishlist for legislation is:

1/ Apple has to allow side loading of apps (make it an advanced developer setting, with plenty of warnings and periodic reminders, that's fine).

2/ Apple cannot force usage of Apple pay and apple sign in.

3/ Apple cannot force developers to hide any options or even information about alternative mechanisms to pay for content, or sign up to a service.
If it isn't for a meaningful versioning scheme, how is a version number useful at all? Why not just go version 1, 2, 3 and keep incrementing?

People can easily guess that patch version bump is safe to apply as it only fixes stuff and apply minor version bump if you want new features which won't break your current deployment and be cautious of any major version bumps.

Not that every semver oriented apps closely follow that but it does help users understand if they want to install the new version or not without digging the entire change log.
Canada also has a telecom cartel. The CRTC, which is the gov't regulatory body (and which is controlled by the telecoms), limits access to the market.
This should be an unpopular opinion but I kind of respected Apple's previous stance, and I'm in a way a bit disappointed they've backed down, but I think they've needed to because they are moving too quickly.

5 years from now we'll likely see Apple Silicon powering Apple's entire new product lineup, and Swift developers will be deploying software across the entire product lineup with minimal effort. Swift is both quick and safe, so we can hope these new softwares will be both fast, secure and free of critical bugs.

This to me is a really interesting and appealing alternative to the frustrating world of slow web apps that invade your privacy and fill your computer with bloat. I don't see Apple's previous stance as being greedy about obtaining a 30% cut, rather it is about trying to bring to fruition a vision of the future where users can perform their computing needs with fast and secure native apps. I hope we don't legislate away such a reasonable opportunity for people to be freed from Google and Facebook invasion.
Reminds me of the TV series, The Americans[1]. It did a great job of humanizing people on both sides of the Cold War. Sure, there were those that were blinded by their nationalism, but a majority on both sides we just trying to live their lives in a not so dissimilar way from the other.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans
Someone (not me!) edited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20

to say

"The NEC V33 is a super version of the V30 that separates address bus and data bus, and executes all instructions with wired logic instead of micro-codes, making it twice as fast as a V30 for the same clock frequency. V33 has the performance equivalent to Intel 80286. NEC V33 offers a method to expanding the memory address space to 16M bytes. It has two additional instructions BRKXA and RETXA to support extended addressing mode. The 8080 emulation mode was not supported."
> The threat model I work off is "fascist government seizes power in the United States and sequesters all data for all citizens from the top 15 large corporations".

Dragnet surveillance of telcos, along with network/traffic analysis, which we've known about for a while, means avoiding any particular tech company is going to be irrelevant to concealing that you are an “undesirable” in any case unless you've taken pains to have your basic telecommunication somehow untraceable.
> Not sure why society should care (beyond preventing people been radicalised into becoming a danger I guess).

This carries the implication that some people are just losers in life, so their happiness and welfare should be dismissed as unimportant. This isn't a popular idea in modern Western society, but it's perfectly valid and I would much rather resolve this cultural hypocrisy the other way around.
Amazing what competition does
Yes, the IP address and user agent string are sent, and the time will be known of course, and I am not complaining about that; it is there, you can log it if wanted (and use it for debugging/statistics/whatever), etc.

The User-Agent header should not be misused. A legitimate user may well access it in a lot of different ways, some of which affect the User-Agent header, and some of which affect other stuff. (If you need to determine what file format to use, the Accept header should be used instead when possible. The User-Agent header can still be used as a fall back, I suppose.)

In the case of cars, yes you can see the license plates, colours, etc, if you are physically there and recording them on a paper or camera, or using surveillance cameras, although for a somewhat different reason I am against putting surveillance cameras everywhere.

Of course I am not stopping you from recording this data, although for analyzing traffic congestion, I do not think the colours of the cars is important (although their size and speed and classificiation (e.g. car, truck, public bus, etc) (and perhaps how much noise it makes, if you want to consider noise pollution) might be; I don't really know much about it, as I do not drive a car; maybe you know better).
Ops people need a Dev environment to test, especially for Infrastructure as code. With an increased connectivity between developer code and Infrastructure, I prefer my team finds out everything in a development environment that's exactly like staging and prod. That way deployment to staging is proof of the IAC change. There's less risk.

This also lets developers try out new services in the cloud without impacting the staging... (This is on top of a sandbox for research, but integration of research takes time and an environment too)
Acceleration changes are a bi....g problem tho.

If we consider ourselves stationary in our milky way orbit, then an external force (incoming galaxy), would sway us quite a bit by altering orbits slightly and with lasting effect.
Are there any good FOSS projects that would let me run my own crawler?
Don’t reconnect mailing machines, USPS tells plants. Tacoma does it anyway
Do we have any evidence the authors of that post used GPT-3 at all?
If you have no problem with Google's stranglehold on advertising, their role in the demise of local news, brick and mortar business, local economies, and every other way they have contributed to the decline of the internet ... then by all means, enjoy the convenience.
> w the internet was useless and online commerce was not going to work.

Except I had my first internet connection in 1994, have worked all my life to help companies transition to digital economy and I believed internet and e-commerce were going to work because they solved a problem

Bitcoin doesn't

> but there's people doing R&D on this TCP to improve its efficiency and effectiveness.

10 years after the only killer app for crypto is avoiding taxation and buying drugs online (if we exclude paying for ransomware, which I don't consider a killer app)

10 years after internet was born (some say it's 1983, some say it's 1990 when TBL release the first version of an HTTP server) had already changed the world and had many killer apps (email, FTP, NNTP, DNS, gopher among the more popular)

P.s. my first experience with networking was in high school, a 1mb token ring local net in the computer science lab filled with IBM pcs with 4MB of RAM running OS/2

P.p.s. my first programs were written in Rexx and C
If we're just thinking about it in terms of pure money optimization, that makes sense. Why spend 170,000 dollars when you could spend...nothing.

But it also seems the author actually enjoys building these tools. So it doesn't actually cost him anything. The work itself is a reward instead of a cost.

I can't say spending 1700 hours making my own tools is what I really want for myself, but I guess different people are different (I'd hate to find out exactly how many hours I've spent editing ~/.emacs though, tbh...)
The Patoshi Mining Machine
Herbert Simon, Nobel laureate in economics and one of the fathers of AI, wrote one of the better treatments of the possible future of computer-based data systems in his 1977 essay "What Computers Mean for Man and Society". In it, he addresses concerns:

The privacy issue has been raised most insistently with respect to the creation and maintenance of longitudinal data files that assemble information about persons from a multitude of sources. Files of this kind would be highly valueable for many kinds of economic and social research, but they are bought at too high a price if they endanger human freedom or seriously enhance the opportunities of blackmailers. While such dangers should not be ignored, it should be noted that the lack of comprehensive data files has never been the limiting barrier to the suppression of human freedom. The Watergate criminals made extensive, if unskillful, use of electronics, but no computer played a role in their conspiracy. The Nazis operated with horrifying effectiveness and thoroughness without the benefits of any kind of mechanized data processing.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a9e7/33e25ee8f67d5e670b3b7d...

There is, of course, one slight problem with Simon's argument: The Nazis did make heavy use of mechanised data processing, provided and supported by an American company, IBM. Edwin Black documents this meticulously in his book IBM and the Holocaust:

https://ibmandtheholocaust.com

Whether or not it's possible to transact genocide at similar scale without computerised data records, it's quite clearly far easier to do so with them. Worse, with comprehensive records and rapid identification of any particular meddlesome priest, activist artist, or woman who was warned but nevertheless persisted, it's possible for such regimes, state or non-state, to dip in and retaliate with pinpoint effectiveness. Even the mere suggestion that this is possible can be extraordinarily chilling.

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103059230160200494
Alice Oswald’s Homeric Mood
> from a social perspective, to dismantle the idea that one's worth is determined by having sexual partners

Ah, let's just go ahead and "dismantle" one of the most basic psychological needs, that's a great solution.
Tons of C++ FFI is really C FFI (with maybe some lightweight wrappers) and completely ignores exceptions, leaving them to the end user to manually mangle.

On the flipside, any serious gamedev C++ FFI must accomodate exceptions-disabled environments, since that's common in gamedev codebases - and even the default settings on at least one relatively modern gamedev platform.
> Reality is experienced through electrical signals, arguably we're just learning those inputs.

That's exactly what we're doing. And we're never given the "answer sheet" to figure out whether we understood the platonic, capital T Truth, or whether we just learned a spurious correlation. We just keep getting more of those inputs. Which is why it seems to me that an unsupervised sequence prediction model like GPT-3 is the only sort that could ever give rise to something akin to human consciousness.

The big differentiator seems to be that with a pure text sequence model, inputs go in, but the outputs don't have any control over future inputs. It isn't structured to have anything like agency, just passive observation and prediction. But a useful "understanding" in a human sense is related to what can be done with that understanding to enact change in the environment. I don't know how you would teach it that without giving it a Reddit account and setting it loose.

> But then I (as always I can only speak for myself, everyone else could be a p-zombie for all I know!) also have a qualitative experience of trees, and words, and an experience of meaning and understanding.
If you look too deeply it quickly gets philosophical.

I'm not so sure I have those things. I'm glad you do. That's one reason I'm never going to do ketamine.
Has anyone suggested adding unsafe type bitmask?

E.g. "This code and its transitive dependencies has been carefully validated to be correct", "I had to do this to make it compile", and "This is a FFI that is inherently potentially unsafe".

Then the unsafty of any function would be defined as the logical OR of it and its dependencies... and you could filter what you're willing to use -- maybe with exceptions programmed for specific unsafe blocks, so you could e.g. except specific FFI interfaces without taking random ones people sneak in while they're adding malware to deep dependencies in crates.io to get silently embedded into your software.
Oh, if only there were a way to solve this problem which was well-tested and widely-deployed!

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
I ended up with the same muscle memory. That’s why I eventually just switched to StartPage.com instead, which is basically a Google proxy.
> It's of preventive and sustaining care for the entire economy until the global health emergency is resolved.

How about we stop caring about the global economy, and start caring about the people instead?
> How the hell are they finding 0.81 average

Probably by using median as you suggested? Because it's impossible for mean to be less than 2.68.
I’m from Eastern Europe myself. Yes older folks have accounts, but they aren’t active users. They wouldn’t join groups. They wouldn’t vote in the app. My parents in law are a testament to that. They too have all of those apps, yet they can’t even tell the difference between WhatsApp and Viber. We ask them to call us on WhatsApp and they’ll try to call on viber or Skype and then wonder why we are not answering and if there’s anything wrong with us :)
Pirate Bay is only needed to find the metadata for a given torrent so that users can then find each other.
Yoast SEO cripples WordPress 5.5 wp-sitemap.xml functionality
> Should the licenses have been given away to some blessed companies?

Yes. Give them away for free, limited for a year and under condition of network buildout, and have interested companies submit business plans. The four with the best business plan win the frequencies. If they don't manage the required buildout, the license gets revoked.
probably AI
Even with multi-camera setups?
The Computer Museum in Mountain View has a similar problem. The museum management and the people restoring old computers don't get along.
A North Korean take on this theme: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ADN0H6MREHA
Alternatively there is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDL_pIPScSI about Minuteman III testing -- in which a song called "It's My Life" plays as we see breathtaking video of an unarmed Minuteman III missile climbing its way through the clouds at Vandenberg AFB and the West Coast; followed by footage of the reentry vehicles falling down from the sky at several kilometers per second, visible only as streaks of white light.
isn't that what Searx is? https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
Even legitimate IRC servers are DoS attack magnets.
Recycling for spent fuels is a proven technology. Problem is ... it creates weapons grade Plutonium as the product, out of Depleted Uranium(stuffs so safe US military puts into tank shells as weights).

You know, Plutonium is a highly toxic heavy metal, and a bit radioactive, so,
Try the Russian version "Adaptasiya" (Adaptation). We use it for testing speech transcription and machine translation since there are no official English subtitles for it. The show's pretty good.

http://screeningroom.gpm-rtv.com/tnt/adaptation/
- ...And Morris?

- Um, it actually already is a word. Tnetennba.

- Good heavens, really? Could you, uh, use it in a sentence for us?

- "Good morning. That's a nice Tnetennba" [1].

______________

[1] Moss from IT Crowd on Countdown:

https://youtu.be/g9ixvD0_CmM?t=52

Edit: to clarify, if you don't know what a word means, just seeing it used in a sentence won't necessarily tell you much about its meaning, so that a language model was able to generate a phrase with the word in it doesn't necessarily tells us it understands the word's meaning.
The fact that there was no major war with country possessing nuclear weapons makes me think that nuclear weapon is a very good thing to have. Imagine North Korea without nuclear weapons. They would be democratized in a blink of an eye.
I would like to know how and why you use resources like ECS. et.al. There reason why I do not like to use cloud/serverless is because I find debugging is much easier on a local computer or a server I have root/metal/hardware access to. And that serverless have a very slow iteration rate, it can take minutes just to run a simple test that would be instant locally.

The reason I'm asking is because on my free time I'm developing a cloud IDE but I'm having trouble understanding the market. I beleave cloud dev services will be a huge market. But I don't understand how people use it practically in their dev setup.
That's the fundamental problem of hiring: you have to make educated guesses about who is going to make a better employee. And you should be willing to pay more to hire someone who you believe is better. For some companies, salaries are such a small part of their revenue that it makes sense to offer some candidates a lot more... and if your first choice happens to accept a lower salary, it doesn't really matter - you've saved a drop in the bucket.
> For me, the biggest issue is the complete lack of visual feedback you've actually launched FS... It's at least 30 seconds on a fast SSD, on a fast PC that is suggested to use the high spec profile!

It's just one of at least 50 similarly severe P1 showstoppers, sadly. But, yeah, I definitely agree.
97% energy coming from fusion is in no way proof of this being clean bomb. 3% from fission is still many times more than Hiroshima or Nagasaki bomb. We also don't know how much fissile material there was (and how much was dispersed in environment). Because the bomb was detonated high up there wouldn't be hotspots on the ground but the release was still there, dispersed for all humanity for decades to come.

Calling the bomb clean would be like calling somebody's vomit clean because it was diluted in large amount of water and then sprayed on all walls so there are no large concentrations of it.
You feed it into a fast breeder reactor which both produces more fuel for conventional reactors as well as reduces the amount of waste. The resulting waste is lower in volume and needs less lengthy storage.