skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"start a turn-key Amazon business"

From the very limited research I've done, it is something relatively similar to this. There's a market in China of selling e-books which teach you various ways to make money on the English-speaking web without having to know much English yourself.

I mean it makes sense, if you go to BlackHatWorld or HackForums there are loads of people selling guides teaching you to do similar stuff, they're just in English. I imagine that given China's position in the marketplace, it's probably fairly lucrative for an individual or small company to make nonsense brands and sell stamped tech-junk for 10x markups to Americans.
It'a really weird but there's a surprisingly growing base of farming amid a solar farm, where apparently many plants just cant stand the pure sun & benefit from some periodic shade during the day. I dont know how much I believe it but combined agriculture/solar use seems perhaps legit to be a thing.

Also, solar panels dont seem that difficult to recycle. There's already a decent & growing reclaimation market. Giant slabs of polysilicon, with perhaps some glass & metal casing, plus some bus-bars. Strip & toss into a chewer.
Absolutely. I've been saying for years that banning the export of semiconductors to China was 'short-term thinking'.

It came down to the old managerial dilemma: Do we 'buy-built' because it's quicker, cheaper and easier, but leaves us at the mercy of the manufacturers? Or do we 'build our own' which is slower, more expensive and more difficult but we are our own masters and are then able to out-compete our current suppliers?

China was perfectly happy when they could get the billions of 'buy-built' semiconductors from the States and spend several hundred billion dollars a year doing so. That also helped with the balance of payments problem in US-China trade.

Being forced now to throw hundreds of billions of dollars of R & D at the problem, China is well on the way to destroying the US semiconductor industry. The same way as happened to the loss of the US steel, textiles, building materials, paper, electronics, vehicles, machine tools, etc, etc, etc industries.

It's called shooting yourself in both feet and your head and smiling while you are dying. Absolutely dumb.
"We used this brand new hybrid truck for two weeks, and it's great!"

Yeah, I'm not sure what to do with that information.
Concur. I see almost zero adds using Linux with the LibreWolf browser and add-ons Ublock and Privacy Badger. My Windows 10 machine is rarely used (for iTunes) because every time I boot it up it takes about 3 hours to update itself. Compare that to Linux which takes just a couple of minutes, maybe five minutes with a kernel update.
> It'll fail in 3 weeks, there will be no way to get it returned or repaired, the company won't exist, and the product listing will be gone next time you come back to it.

We're talking about Amazon though right? You can definitely return that, that's even inside the official return window (one month).
Electrolysis is orders of magnitude more efficient, but your equipment isn't self replicating.
It's a strong recommend from me too. I consider it a "must" read if you want to follow my roadmap (https://www.programmingbooks.dev)
The second edition is available, at least on Safari
I have a custom license plate on my car in my state. A friend of mine told me they saw the same custom license plate on the same vehicle make/model in another state. The only bummer was that that car's color was red, whereas mine is yellow. So two cars with same plate is totally doable if issuing authorities are different. Two cars with same plate from same issuing authority, that's the problem
HN already detects voting rings and responds with lower weights for the votes from the ring.
If you enjoyed XOR filters, you might also like ribbon filters, something that I had the pleasure of working on last year. They share the basic idea of using a system of linear equations, but instead of considering 3 random positions per key, the positions to probe are narrowly concentrated along a ribbon with a typical width of 64. This makes them far more cache-efficient to construct and query.

By purposefully overloading the data structure by a few per cent and bumping those items that cannot be inserted as a result of this overloading to the next layer (making this a recursive data structure), we can achieve almost arbitrarily small space overheads: <1% is no problem for the fast configurations, and <0.1% overhead with around 50% extra runtime cost. This compares to around 10% for XOR filters and ≥ 44% for Bloom filters.

In fact, I'm going to present them at a conference on Monday - the paper is already out: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16538/pdf/LIPI... and the implementation is at https://github.com/lorenzhs/BuRR/. I hope this isn't too much self-promotion for HN, but I'm super hyped about this :)
Thanks for the quick reply! I just clicked the Browse All Templates link on https://vercel.com/ but it's working now!
Having been in a number of audits (it, insurance, financial, etc) over the the years.... all audits are theater
> Both bitcoin (in 2013) and ethereum (in 2016) have reverted transactions that the miners didn't agree with.

The miners don't agree with Ethereum switching to Proof of Stake, and yet, watch what happens this autumn. Important insight: The users control the network, not the miners. Specifically, it's the users who would be buying the miner's freshly minted coins.

The DAO fork was not driven by the miners.
No, that's a strawman. You have to draw the line somewhere, and most of the civilized world agrees that not giving general public access to devices that can kill by twitching ones finger, is not above that line. Same as requiring people to wear seatbelts.

Your fallacious argument aside though, you are correct, you can provide support resources without taking rights of others away, and in the US that is the case. Congrats. I will stay in a country where, if I am ever depressed, the support structures have a higher chance of saving me, because it will take more than moving my finger by 2mm to literally explode my head.
Do you have any link for that?
Considering all the security issues in Confluence and JIRA lately, I think they have extensive expertise in this area. No need to outsource.
In the rare times when I've not been within a few kilometres of the sea, I've had this same feeling of looking around, not being sure what was missing.

Apparently other things can take the place, with the mind (or is it the spirit) accepting one thing as a replacement for another. Mountains come to mind. Lakes and rivers, too, plus geologic formations. People tell me that these sorts of things can take the place of the sea.

But the prairie, the vast prairie? To me, at least, the challenge of adjusting to the prairie would require replacing something with nothing. I can see how people would theorize that moving to the prairie could break one's spirit.

I'd love to hear how prairie folks feel when they move near the sea, or to a spot within sight of the mountains. Perhaps the anisotropy of view and mobility starts to gnaw at them.
I just started The Hobbit a couple days ago. For the last 3-4 months I've been checking out library books on the Kindle and reading as a bedtime ritual to help get me to sleep. It's been working pretty well, I rarely lay there unable to go to sleep.

I just finished Devolution by Max Brooks, it was good but not really in my wheelhouse. I didn't realize when I started reading it, but he also did World War Z, which I felt the same way about, and also recently finished reading

Before that I finished Artemis by Andy Weir, good but not great. Read because I had recently finished The Martian and absolutely loved it.
I think they mean actual platform ads, not ads posing as posts from normal users. That said, I do think writing genuinely interesting tech articles on a company blog and posting them on Reddit/hn is a totally legit and effective method. The quality needs to be there though.
What is the length of vector [c,c,c] ?
I honestly would not expect NT to stop emphasising such things due to the existence of ND people. It reminds me of someone I spoke to who is upset that they were criticised for sounding monotonous when presenting but it was due to their non native English accent. I’m sorry but it isn’t realistic to expect that people are going to rewire their entire social framework in order to cater to the social differences of a small minority. If you behave inappropriately people will call it out. That’s a tough problem for those who can’t distinguish when something is not appropriate
You may not like the 850°C operational temperature at home.

But the cold part of the cycle, that actually concentrates the CO2 is fun to do at lab-scale, you just have to buy the CaO (and prepare for it becoming very hot).
"The God is Not Willing", the first book in a new trilogy by the author of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Set in the same universe.

A bit over halfway through, reading a chapter every few days.
Seriously. If it has that Prime mark on it, I know I'm getting it at a ridiculous speed, plus that 5% cash back on thus ugly old metal card that I used to like. Well, the cash back reward is still very nice.

I really wish I could switch to other online or brick and mortar vendors, but nothing executes as well as Amazon in my experience. I even tried ordering some computer parts from newegg and it was fine, but it felt like I was back in 2002 or so.
I think that's when they were part of ebay. ebay used to side strongly with the purchaser, even when the issue was obviously insane (don't get me started). Paypal has always been a hive of scum and villainy, and now they're unshackled from ebay they have nothing to break their streak.
Low confidence and presumably indistinguishable from noise.
And cows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Terraform Industries has a process for converting atmospheric CO2 and water into hydrocarbons (particularly "natural" gas), at the cost of a huge amount of electricity.

Because solar panels keep getting cheaper and oil doesn't, they think they can out-compete the cost of oil in some markets (sunny with expensive oil) in the near future, and more places over time if solar power keeps getting cheaper.

The author hopes to encourage a huge investment in solar power, which would be good for the planet and people in general (and unstated, also Terraform's bottom line).
Finally superchargers start to open up, and, oh look, we're building entirely new circles of lock-in special-privilege hell.
They’re worlds apart (I use both AWS and Vercel).

AWS has everything you could ever need, but that means you have a ton of trade offs to consider whenever you want to start something new.

I often want a one-off website deployed live on the internet to test something. For AWS I’m juggling in my head:

- Load Balancers

- API Gateway

- CloudFront

- S3 for static files

- Route 53

- Lambda config (or use Serverless to manage this or maybe ECS or EKS or maybe just spin up an EC2 instance…)

- Elastic beanstalk or Amplify instead of or in addition to the above?

- Cloudformation or Terraform to manage it? Or just build tech debt by doing it all manually?

- And how are we automating deployments? Maybe something custom in GitHub actions? I know AWS has some offerings here but they were cludgey last time I tried them.

Or with Vercel I:

- Type “vercel” and hit enter in the folder containing my web app.

They’re completely different worlds.

Sometimes I need the full power of AWS. Often I don’t.
Yeah, but security theater is the only one that makes you take all of your stuff out of your bags and then take off your shoes.
How do you feel about the writing style? I was barely able to finish it. I can't say I agree with most of the speculative non-fiction he wrote in that book (which is also a rehash of the ideas in the previous book, Disunited Nations) but the writing style with all the clichés and the expressions trying to make it funny were absolutely horrible.
Vercel seems geared towards a specific stack / paradigm as far as I can tell while DO is more big cloud lite. i.e. build blocks like objective storage etc
I think you had not posted the link to the talk!
A real-life UUID collision
Nm, thanks:)
The kids similarly love my Nac Mac Feegle accent. They can blame me for their terrible imitation of a Scottish accent when they're adults.
23 billion / 365 = ~63 mil so it's 1/3 of a day, basically 8 hours of profit, not 3 days.
What are the odds?
I was going to say, melon should buy it and use it to prove something to a court
Essential Scalia: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Scalia-Constitution-Courts-...

On the last few chapters about private property. Justice Scalia's jurisprudence and his views on what the role of SCOTUS ought to be is profoundly thought provoking.
> One case of polio hits the news and the Orthodox Jews have to go.

Who is suggesting anyone "has to go" anywhere? In your other comment you suggested that people here want to do round-ups.

Is it not OK for people here to say that a community's refusal to vaccinate will lead to predictable results?
I'm just finishing "Rationality: from AI to Zombies". Started ~25 days ago. It's quite long and frankly rather underwhelming given promising beginning. I don't recommend the title.

Also, I'm in 25% of Deep Learning by Goodfellow. I started it two months ago but had a long break.

When I was a teenager, I read yearly ~75 fiction books. Being an adult I read less, but I'm more careful with the lecture choice given the limited time.
The manufacturer reused identifiers (5 to be precise) in a later batch. This was a manufacturing error rather than a freak collision.

Edit: Source https://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/two-containers-sa...

"Five containers of the second batch have numbers akin to another five belonging to the previous batch, according to Borhan."
oh no! now how will they track us!!
> No permanent damage is your threshold for what is acceptable?

Not the person you are replying to, but it depends on what kind of damage. If it left painful burns or something actually bothersome, then I wouldn't like it, no.

If it is just gonna make me unable to have kids until I stop putting the device on my lap, then I am totally ok with that. I currently don't want kids, so this does nothing to me. And if I change my mind later, I can just alter my device usage accordingly, since it isn't permanent.
Well, they might want to have their cake and eat it and find themselves without cake at all. That's mostly a matter of time at this point and irrigation for crops is secondary to drinking water.
Assaulting someone and calling it mutually beneficial to keep it as a fond memory feels quite broken.
>Salam said that it is not possible to identify the number of boxes with double-up numbers without the report from the Chinese manufacturer.

Sounds troubling.
I always wondered if there isn't someone out there making dodgy devices with mac addresses in someone else's range.
What would interest me: Can I do this locally, at the site of the consumer? Take the unused PV output of my house in summer to fill my house’s tank with natural gas for use in winter? Is that something that would be technically feasible today?
It’s an identifier collision, they’re supposed to be unique. That’s what did SHA-1 in.
It may be tired but it’s also true
The container in question is SLHU4500470. The first four characters are the owner, the next 6 digits are the unique (per owner) number, and the last digit is a check digit.

Somehow I always assumed there'd be more than 6 digit IDs for these things. I'd guess collisions have happened, but never been caught in the same port before.
The key design difference between the two is that immutable.js wants you to keep your stuff in its format (and operate on your stuff with its functions) until you hit some piece of code that needs a plain JS object. Whereas immer is scoped (mostly?) to update functions, and always returns plain JS. Immer seems to be designed to simplify the problem of only changing references to changed objects—and it looks like it does a good job of it.

So with immutable.js, you get more powerful data manipulation throughout the app, at the cost of having to know when and where to convert things back to plain JS. With immer, you get tightly-scoped immutable updates to objects, and inside the update function you can treat them as if they’re mutable, letting you write more idiomatic-looking JS. Instead of spreading 4 layers of objects to update one state flag, immer lets you say:

const nextState = produce(state, draft) => {
draft.view.marketing.annoyingSubscribePopup = false
}

Every object reference in that path will be updated, but the rest of “state”, “state.view”, etc. will be unchanged.

If you can keep everything inside of immutable.js, it is the fastest thing out there. As soon as you have to drop back to plain JS, it gets slower. See this performance graph: https://immerjs.github.io/immer/performance/

Thanks for reminding me of this. We finally dropped IE11 support, so may be able to get some benefits from introducing immer either by itself or by bringing in Redux Toolkit.
I wouldn't call the Great Plains silent at all. The sounds are different from the forested East, but there's a lot more going on than wind. Newspapers have never been immune to taking common misunderstandings and sensationalizing them.
According to a couple of studies discussed in [1], solar is cheap, but storage is still expensive.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
Effective! Seriously!
Gotcha! Thanks a lot for the headsup – I'll do some digging into it! :)
That's certainly an alternative possibility; more likely, IMHO, than sellers copying one-another perfectly. However...

> You'll see that it has the "niche" punctuation you mentioned

It does, but there are only two examples of it on the page right now. (It is a thing common to Chinese text generally, but it's not the first thing you'd reach for.)【】gets used on this page as a sort of "tag" or "section" for a story. In Amazon product descriptions, meanwhile, it's being used to form a sort of two-tier "【title】body" text; as if compressing a slide-deck slide onto a single line. That's not what those characters are "for", in Chinese. It's a misuse. A Chinese reader would be confused.

> lots of point form descriptions with emoji bullets,

There are no emoji bullets on Baidu; there are styled bullets. But also, when I say "emoji bullets", I don't mean that they use emoji as bullets; I mean that they use regular bullets, and then use emojis as additional "decorations" for each point. Like this: https://i.imgur.com/xW3uPEP.png . AFAIK, nobody does this, anywhere on the Internet, Chinese or otherwise, other than on these brands' Amazon product pages. Because it's silly.

Consider also: if this was just "the way Chinese people write product descriptions on marketplace websites", then you'd expect to see it happening on e.g. AliExpress, or among Chinese sellers on Wish.com. But you don't. On both of those sites, product listings (from Chinese sellers) just use regular, random+inconsistent styling, with a diffusion of different stylistic techniques spreading via natural selection of sellers; with none of these particular techniques being among them. It's only a certain implicit web of a few thousand Amazon product brands, that have this extremely-consistent style.
That depends on your standard of value.

Do you justify things in terms of human life? Conversely, is your standard that nature should be left untouched?

As for me, I would say that flooding the valleys that are now Lake Mead and Lake Powell, enabling tens of millions of people to live, is worth far more than whichever critters and plants were displaced.

Besides, the issue here is not "total destruction" it is over-allocation. We have not destroyed the Colorado River. Rather, it seems like we just have too much demand for its supply. Did I misread that?
different flavors too.

nullpomino 40line clears look insane:

https://youtu.be/_k5tP1v0w-k
Far better to have maintained the supply of semiconductors to China which both brings in cash and obviates the need for China to build its own newer, bigger and better semiconductor fabs.

US forward planning has never been very good. Too busy thinking about the next election, or the next earnings report.
As a Californian I have the same problem. Just about anywhere you go here there's mountains or at least hills. Driving east from Denver on I70 is just a featureless flat plane. I've driven all over the Great Plains and it's just unsettling. There's an old joke that you can watch your dog run away for three days which is not that much of an exaggeration.
Either this is a legit warp in the space-time continuum, or it simply is what it is.
Cuberg's Cell Technology Reaches New Major Milestone for Lithium Metal Battery
The minute I started reading I was waiting for the phrase "made in China" to appear. It's in the 7th paragraph: " M Salam noted that the mistake occurred when containers were made for Sea Lloyd in China."
Isn't it a bad thing when children can't be raised by both of their parents?
I can understand reading 1 Corinthians 6 as reason to avoid legal disputes between individual Christians, but what Biblical justification is there to avoid suing non‐Christians, especially a secular corporation?

Turn the other cheek, sure, but even Paul appealed to Caesar.
A global grid was my favourite solution until recently. The problem is that it needs the combined cables to have cross section in the order of a few (3?) square meters (at 640 kV), and that in turn is in the order of 52 years of global copper production (we make more aluminium than copper but Al is a worse conductor).

Using even higher voltages makes everything much easier, and the cables’ combined cross sections may need to be less (depending on how much lower the maximum demand at night is) or more (depending on future increases in daytime demand).

Downside is that’s still order-of a few trillion dollars, close to the same as the cost of 36 TWh of batteries (i.e. global overnight only), and we’re likely to make those batteries anyway for the electric cars and when their condition deteriorates enough to be taken out of the cars they're still good enough for grid storage.
Finally. Embed
Ask HN: Why don’t I have any problems?
I have been trying to think about ideas to work on and I realized that it’s quite hard. Why do I feel like I don’t have any problems? For each problem I have, I know an app or resource. Maybe I need to find new problems but how do I get problematic?

What’s a good approach to broaden my perspective here
Here's unrolled version, easier to read: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1550230795230781440.html
Are there any apps (other than Google’s own) that use these?
SHA-1 is a hash function. What did it in is that there was found a way to make different strings hash to the same value. This is just someone accidentally re-using serial numbers, it's not a weakness in some algorithm.
While desalination requires disposing of all the waterborne particulate, the water can sometimes be precious enough that we bear it. I heard a radio report yesterday [0] about how investing in desalination helped mitigate USA CA Catalina Island's direly depleted resivoir. That's not to say that brine treatment or disposal isn't costly, more that - so long as people are committed to living in dry areas and can afford to, they will pressure their local governments to keep the area habitable.

[0] https://www.marketplace.org/2022/07/18/drought-technology-po...
Yep, my local Home Depot has no line for returns and they don’t ask questions. Example: They gave me a full refund when I returned an empty box of wooden dowels after I used them for a project and realized the box had fewer dowels than advertised (likely because someone opened it and stole a few).
TIL! Always did a search and use the cached option from the SERP. Thank you!