skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any author or fba seller impacted by IP/Trademark theft such as that described in this article.

My company dealt with this. We spoke with fantastic lawyer that will go thru the motions (its not a quick process) and get the reseller banned from amazon for a very affordable fee.

Amazon makes this very hard to do and oftentimes you need to sue in a foreign country, so you need someone that knows what they are doing.

If you would like the contact, post a way to email you the counsel's contact info.
I like it. It’s one of my favorite innovations of all time. I don’t use it when I have a ton of stuff of course but for my frequent trips to buy <10 items it’s much quicker than waiting in line.
One liner of the day. That's the best possible way to make this point.
For training purposes, Azure has cost-limited subscriptions.

Frustratingly, the other clouds have dragged their feet and largely refused to implement their own equivalents. This comes up here semi-regularly as one of the #1 complaints about the public cloud, and it's always hand-waved away by some Silicon Valley FAANG employee making half a million a year and using their parent company cloud account.

I know of several ways it would be possible for a malicious actor to deliberately bankrupt a solo dev limited to a normal credit card budget.

And as you've said, it's very fiddly and complicated to implement custom "stop" scripts, and this is futile anyway because the billing metrics in all clouds have huge delays on them.

My $0.02 is try to learn using Azure first because there's a true safety net, and then use customer accounts to continue upskilling.
Remember, Obama appointed a regulatory czar based on this science: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Sunstein-t.htm...
Ever getting close to this point is what is considered a "good problem". We are always teetering on the edge of oblivion. Being so wildly successful that our industrial heat rivals that of the incident energy of the sun would be incredible. No problems humans have ever faced would be in living memory (including mortality). This is a science fiction future that does not need planning from the minds of today. It would also have many solutions related to adjusting albedo.
People offering their own science that "masks work", for example, were shouted down by the same people who later demanded their use.

Mentioning the scientific and logical flaws with Daszak's Lancet paper, or discussing the lab leak theory, got your posts deleted. Many legit scientists received death threats after speaking of them, thanks to the media's coverage of those topics.

Where was the debate on those topics? Not on social media, where lab leak discussion was censored. Not on corporate news. Not in the NYT or WaPo, at least not for the first 20 months or so.

This all isn't as simple as you seem to think. The science is not as clear as is claimed. The messaging is inexcusably bad. The trials are hidden to protect us from "misinterpretation". The contracts are secret, the analysis is fragmented.

For a current example, the scientific basis and the cost/benefit analysis for vaccinating under 14 year olds is incredibly suspect. Out of 1 million Irish children, one under the age of 14 has died from Corona in all this time - one child. Yet leaky vaccines with rapidly fading effectiveness are being pushed on them by state agencies.

The only reasoning given - trust the professionals. Trust the science. There's no debate on it, no dissenting view tolerated. Those with a different view can't show their evidence or their reasoning - they're smeared and vilified, called right-wing, Russian agents, Trumpists, morons, plague rats.

Meanwhile, vulnerable populations such as the elderly and sick in poor countries that can't afford the vaccines are watching us put the fourth shot into young and middle aged healthy people. It's profoundly sick - and not really very scientific, if preventing novel outbreaks and death is the goal.
Good for you. Maybe you should ask yourself why so many people are skeptical? Is it really that they are all crazy wingnuts, or is it perhaps that humans have shown for all of our existence to be untrustworthy, greedy, power-hungry creatures?
Thinking of the healed leper in "Life of Brian".
eh....if we took nations are the unit of analysis and added up the frequency and severity of data leaks, we likely would see US as the ignominious leader. As the Kukumber mentioned, the issue is data collection and data security, not state governance
> I'm currently working on a software solution that will wipe out the need for human labor in a certain industry.

lmao, when has this ever been true.
What was the GDP during that time?
I guess because they feel that they feel like they born to be their preferred gender. The idea that there will be a treatment that will make me feel like a gender I'm not sounds pretty f-cking terrible to me.

Try this experiment on yourself and think that there is a treatment to make you think you are woman/man. How's it make you feel? And together with that, reflect on what exactly make you be a man/woman - your body or your psyche.

There is a lot parallels between gender dysphoria and BIID, but GD is bit more than just 'this is not my body'.
... or just ask your partner and if it really is unsatisfactory, you can always buy a Hitachi or something and use that together. And maybe don't trust HN for relationship advise. :D

Sorry. :P
The graphs are from Jupyter notebooks/Pytorch + Matplotlib. Neural networks schemes are made in Latex Tikz. Several others (flowchart & generic) just Google slides. I have latex macros to build the template & sections quickly - and then just focus on writing
There's not really any decision making in solving the cube when you have learned the method, you just see the pattern and execute the algorithm. That doesn't really change at all with the inspection time.
And a million advertisers and designers cry out.

We should spread this widely in the hope that the pop ups and banners die off.
Reading this article, it is good that the UK COVID policy wasn't based on behavioural nudging /sarcasm. The UK COVID policy heavily relied on this and one of the unwanted side effects was scaring a certain section of the population into submission. Although that may have been effective during COVID, it made it a lot harder for that segment of society to return back to normal.
This is a bit against Hacker News rules so I'm going to say this once and only once. You run around commenting on many diverse fields that no single human could possibly be an expert on simultaneously. These comments come with a consistent attitude: your position is obviously right, and only evil or self-interested establishments stand in the way of that being acknowledged.

There are many other human beings who are just as smart as you or smarter, and just as invested in truth and goodness. Is it likely that you have the royal road to these things?
> Spending hours fighting with broken service is not fun.

Do you spend hours fighting with Netflix or Prime ?

How are the online media services broken for you ?
Yeah, it's actually an interesting case study in performance optimization - GNU grep puts all this effort into optimizing the performance characteristics of the system calls it uses based on deep kernel knowledge, but ripgrep is orders of magnitude faster for many users via the simple trick of "completely ignore a lot of files by default"
Pakistan’s Next Crisis Is Guaranteed
Ask HN: Is Twitter unbearable for anyone now?
It seems in the past 3 months, Twitter now is showing a lot more tweets in your timeline from ppl you dont follow. Based on topics you’ve liked, ppl whose tweets you interacted with once, or tweets most of your followers interacted with.

As a result, when I now open Twitter the first things I see are these awful self-help type threads from “gurus” with their long threads giving out advice. Or gifs/memes that were taken from TikTok.

It has really ruined the Twitter experience for me. I guess i probably need to cut down my followers or use lists more.
The instinct to trust others is very strong in our species. I think this is because we needed to trust one another to survive thousands of years ago. The thing is, we lived in small groups where survival was directly dependent on the people immediately around you. Now, we have to "trust" far-off men who have not proven themselves trustworthy in the same way. And yet, our instincts to trust persist.

There appear to be few of us who are inherently mistrustful of others; in recent times, that instinct has proven to be quite beneficial.
I got the jab and the booster, but I think it is pretty clear the political pressure to call it good was higher than in any of those previous vaccines. The monetary pressure was probably also higher. I would not be even remotely surprised if we find it was more dangerous than most vaccines from an autoimmune standpoint simply because of the nature of the virus. I still think the risk-reward was good for almost all adults, and probably children too (my kid got theirs when it was approved), and I understand the paternalistic reasons for guilding the lily on its safety are well intentioned. But I also think it is naive to assume all that pressure had no effect.
I used a paper and pencil or pen. It works well in school and at work. I use org-mode (org-capture) for tasks though.
Links for July 2022
Our platform team got into k8s for some reason at my company. Because it’s enterprise there’s never really the “millions of requests per second” sort of problems because every deployment is single tenant. We have experienced k8s engineers who I guess we’re just using the tools we know, but wow it’s been such a hassle and has caused so much toil. Right now we’re having trouble scaling back ends for parallel jobs with k8s, which is a problem we easily solved with regular tooling in the past pre-k8s.
>> Why would she be playing me?

To keep the status quo.
What's exactly "nudging" here?. For example it has been shown that for organ donation, if the default is affirmative (opt-in) and you have to opt-out, then organ donors double https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1091721 , I think this is one of the "nudge" example in pop-science books.
No evidence for nudging =/= nudging doesn't exist.

I'm fairly sure anyone who has done A/B testing at scale has plenty of evidence that nudging works. Perhaps not up to the standard of science, but there are literally people who manipulate choice architecture for a living and I'm fairly convinced a lot of that stuff actually works.
Can you get lucky with the initial configuration of the cube in some way, or is is shuffled in a way that ensures roughly equally hard solves? What's the protocol here?
TIL..
When I saw kvass being made I was too young to know how it works.
I don't trust Apple to design standards or APIs intended for use outside Apple-controlled ecosystems. I'm not not saying Google and others are good, just that Apple has a long-term, recurring history of 'not playing well with others.'
People were fired for systemic issues they criticized. Non of the issues were corrected and the new person started handing down questionably legal changes to our platform.
What was censored?
> What about going to my vacation home during weekends?

Maybe they think you can afford it
Kvas means yeast, could be also a drink name.
> The 60% decrease in AI computing hardware every year which translates to the ability to train exponentially larger AI models (ARK Invest 2022 Big Ideas Report).

From what I understand most intensive AI tasks require using a GPU and the leader in the GPU business is NVIDIA. Looking at their profit margins I don’t see any drop in fact a growth of over 30% yoy [1]

Also as an aside, I am a big skeptic of ARK. During the short time she had a diva status Woods seems to have been more lucky than good. That said, investing is a long game.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/profit...
This is perhaps ridiculous but not at all uncommon. iPhones are never available for order at the events where they are announced. Sometimes computers are, but not ones in high demand. A slight delay makes sense for fairness (everyone knows when they’ll be available for order and can try simultaneously), but this is the first time I can remember them saying “next month” as the time when they’d be available and ready for preorder.
1 It depends. For larger scale gluster or ceph. But quiet a bit more work.

Longhorn you can get up and working quickly.

Though if you are on a cloud provider just use their storage system.

2 K8 doesn't magically solve replication unfortunately.

Though there are helm charts that will automatically set up a replicated setup for you.

I still need to solve backups.

Once again if you are on a cloud provide. Just use their Db offering.

3 K8 doesn't have a default out of the box.

The repo shows you how to setup traefik to handle this.

On cloud providers they have normally integrated it with their lb already.

For me the large advantages are reproducibility and no vendor lock in.

Also give redundancy and quiet a bit of automation once set up.

Auto scaling is always tricky.

Lastly if you have the skills it can be far cheaper to run your own in metal.

If you don't the the time most likely would be better spent actually coding.

Depending where you are in the world and the relevant pay scales.
I'm a speedcuber. Inspection time makes for a more interesting competition because it raises the skill ceiling. The top solvers can plan out a dozen moves in advance, find solutions that are more efficient, or skip steps entirely. Removing inspection time means there's no reason to practice this skill. Furthermore, removing inspection time hurts some solving methods more than others. ZZ requires edge orientation, which involves scanning all 12 edge pieces and classifying them as good or bad. Not being able to do this in inspection time would mean it cuts into the solve time, making the entire method unviable. Inspection time adds more diversity and complexity to the hobby.

Also, the video references feet solving. It was removed as an event at the start of 2020. Furthermore, they talk about Red Bull events as if they're another competitor to WCA events. Red Bull events are primarily designed to be broadcast to an audience. WCA events are designed so that everyone from young children to the elderly can compete. These two offbase points by the video creator make me think they aren't actually an active member of the speed solving community, just a random pedantic passerby.

For what it's worth, I think a no-inspection event would be an interesting addition to the competition, but the WCA probably doesn't like it because it would not be substantially distinguished from normal 3x3. I'll look into seeing if there are any discussions anywhere.

Edit: 3x3 No Inspection actually was an official WCA event from January 2006 to July 2006. Not sure why it was removed, though.
According to Musk, the bottleneck is refining the Lithium, not mining it. I imagine it's faster to open a refinery than a mine, but it'll still be a years long process. Expanding existing refineries is probably faster.
See this twitter thread for some of what it allows: https://twitter.com/edjgeek/status/1550593312909819904

From the thread:

> Can you literally secure an S3 bucket (for example) so that it is only accessible (or even writable) via a single lambda function?

> Yes!
But the ones who decide on reforming the system are the two parties - who don't want to dilute their power to other parties.

Thus: it'll never happen.
When I did this last, we incorporated size of epic instead and looked at number of tickets on average. You still have to break it down but you can take into account the number of added tickets given a large enough sample size.
Unicode support. It might have been the Windows ports of grep that were the problem, but ripgrep shines with Unicode files. And it handles a mix of Unicode and ASCII files without issue.

And I totally agree that having grep installed everywhere and it's pretty fast enough. But I had a few ripgrep searches that were genuinely eyeblink fast. Like my finger hadn't fully lifted off the enter key and it was done. On 10K+ plus files, about 1 GB, with 1.5M+ LOC. And the default folder recursion and .gitignore handling is a plus.
The upside is, if the AI ever really gets that scary good(aka singularity), we can always ask it to find a solution for our current troubles.
Btw, can entropy ever be reversed?
Can completely relate to your situation. Basically, that’s the main reason I run everything on bare metal server, running in my basement. And use cloud providers only if my clients ready to pay for it or take risks.
Why don't we expand your thought experiment? What if said pill also cured homosexuality? If it made bisexual people straight? This treatment would instantly become highly valued for all sorts of religious groups and families. And if they're perfectly happy after the treatment, what's the problem? Why don't you want people to live as 'nature' intends?

What your arguing for in your thought experiment is, effectively, treatment designed to radically change someone's sense of identity without side effects. It's a thought experiment that falls apart once you expand it to other things that were once commonly thought of as mental illness.
Real talk, most people have some amount of facial hair, male or female. A lot of work goes into recreating it as it adds a lot of realism to a render
"Warm" emails are less scary: meet someone you want to work with, talk about their problem, and promise to follow up on that thing. Then do so, and do so knowing the quality of your follow-up email is a reflection on the quality of you a a potential collaborator. Find a way to offer a bit of value, while also showing the quality of your writing, especially your brevity.
> it should not be sold as "the treatment" but as "we don't have anything better for now, we are working on it, if you can't wait, you can do it"

It's not sold as the treatment.

And to your comparison to trans folks, top and bottom surgery is not easy to access (and getting harder by the day!). Talk to any trans person and ask them all the things they needed to do and go through to prove to their doctors that they're trans enough. Besides there not being another option, gender affirming surgery works! The patients are largely satisfied with their outcomes! Why do we need to complicate this with suggesting how they should feel or think?

But moreover, who the fuck cares? I had gynocomastea surgery (after years of bodybuilding) and all I had to do was sign a form. Women can elect to get breast augmentation with no evaluation. Why should a trans person have to prove that they deserve a cosmetic surgery that anyone else can get—so long as the outcome is gender conforming? I can get anything I want tattooed on my face today, but someone else can't get their chest flattened for months because...some lab coats don't think they deserve it enough?
How do I get better at giving feedback?
No argument here, but my point is that if you believe lies and don't notice that you are being cheated, it doesn't corrupt you.
The fact that you seem unaware of the censorship shows how little consequence there was for the deception.

Google it man: FB and Twitter deleted MILLIONS of posts. They flagged hundreds of millions more as potentially disinformation, reducing engagement by ~90%.

The NYT said themselves that the media failed us on this - eventually, in May last year. [0] Still, they didn't acknowledge their own role, and put it in the opinion section.

And here you are, a year later, carrying water for them. You're not alone - many seem oblivious to their manipulation. It's bizarre, and quite scary.

"How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/opinion/media-lab-leak-th...
> Trade prevents war because war would mean decimation of their economies and lead to likely depressions

1913 is calling and wants its optimism back.

If the fertilizer hits the fan re Taiwan, the CCP will not hesitate to cut off all trade with everyone who supports Taiwan.
That is what we do for people with anxiety disorder. They often resist treatment, are finally persuaded to try it, and almost all are afterward regretful that they did not get treatment years earlier.
We've been doing this in the Philippines since 2013!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9aEWxexrMI

Just started raising VC this year lol
That's a fair comment, I mean random in the sense of wide variation. I suspect a moderately skilled user of graphical software could convert either of the proposed images into something that looks real solving for shadows and incorrect game pieces, whereas generating 10 different faces might be quite difficult. Especially if tasked with doing it for a race or culture the artist was not familiar with.
That has more downtime during upgrades than my college dorm Counter-Strike server built from leftover PC components ever had.
Mom doesn’t watch Netflix ?
Monkeypox is transmitted via close and extended contact, that's not limited to anal sex by any stretch of the imagination.
Your assertion that people wouldn't damage the environment in the pursuit of self enrichment is possibly the most naive thing I've ever seen written down.

It also flies in the face of 'hard data' like climate change, pollution of waterways and the air, extermination of species and all the other stuff people do in pursuit of money.
Let me summarize the state of AI as a layman who has been following the main trends:

1) Cyc and reasoning - stuck for decades but making slow progress

2) GANNs - can detect a whole lot of things by being trained on data

3) MTCS - this is AlphaGo and AlphaZero. Adversarial networks that play each other. Have nearly solved any turn based game that can be expressed this way, and can be used for StarCraft etc.

4) Data fitting - can get scientific data and find new scientific theories and formulas to explain them, etc. by essentially building analytic functions from building blocks and optimizing for simplicity.

5) GPT3 and DALL-E - have very little understanding of anything, they just throw a lot of bullshit at a wall and see if it sticks. But since the bullshit is actually stitched from all serious human output that could be digitized, they sound quite serious at times (even though they show total lack of understanding when basic math is involved for instance, as numbers get higher).

Now I will be willing to admit (and have written about this) that logic and science may be a “poor man’s” million-dimensional vector data fitting. Maybe our binary logic and simple models are the thing that models the world worse than the million-vector models that capture the actual dynamics better. But humans won’t be able to understand these dynamics any more than a cat can understand most of your activities based on abstract systems.

All that other stuff — superhuman sensors, motors etc. gives them unfair advantages, like the finger on Geopardy. Auto-aim and self-driving cars are more about HUMANS improving, training, and then downloading the new software to every device.

What scares me most, though, is deepfakes and swarming. You don’t need GREAT AI to take over political discussions, or direct swarms of self driving cars or drones to wreak havoc. Online, swarms of sleeper bots can inftrate many communities and execute sybil attacks at scale. They can amass karma right here on HN with comments stitched through bullshit that sounds just like HN. It’s a positive EV strategy for the swarm. Eventually they can edge out all human participants where everything you see all day long is bots.

The kicker is THEY DONT NEED TO PASS THE TURING TEST in order to take over our systems because most people consume content non-interactively (read comments, watch videos) . “Truth” online is just a correlation of A vs B and every repository of “truth” can be flooded with a different correlation. Stephen Colbert fans even did it manually with elephants tripling in Africa! Imagine what botswarms can do to out sense of truth or political will or anything!