skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i have "thought" about getting into amazon selling stuff but the fees at least the amazon ones plus freight and storage only does not make any sense.

https://sell.amazon.in/fees-and-pricing

check "Referral fees"

Modems & Networking Devices
14%

Television
6%

Home improvement - Wallpapers
13.5%

my gross margin is 4-8% at best and that is excluding all returns and losses. how am i supposed to compete with big players who can eat the cost?

the same as you are saying. they want to cut out the middleman (which is you) so retail business is between manufacturers and amazon now with no dependence on existing retail chain?
The NZ government is a million miles from being like the Chinese government.

There are plenty of problems in NZ but our democracy works better than most.

https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2021/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Isn’t the point of these types of language models that they mostly model a language (to various degrees of correctness), rather than facts?
Exactly my experience as well. Even for the most obvious scams. Either they really are so incompetent or they don't care at all
We have this kinda, first chapter of history begins at Sumer.
And you're just going to ignore the censored NYT article due to "hacked content""?
The very high likelihood they'd get destroyed in return by our nuclear triad

That's already the case so you've answered your own question.

Even in a conventional war neither side wants to get into WWIII.

A war between US and China is not winnable by either side and so, quite obviously, neither side will start one.
That is just general GPT model characteristics that they can make up look-alike BS on the fly

Copilot can make up things like imagined credentials like api key etc, then it shouldn't be a surprise it can do something like above.
> TSA now wants to scan your face at security. Here are your rights

( ).
Your rights are inside the parantheses.
That's one of the 3 most popular hypotheses, mine is another. But the jury is still very much out on this one.
Seems like this doesn't work on firefox
Yeah for real I don't know why everybody is so impressed. Chatgpt is basically just copying what's already on the internet and rewording it. It's not self thinking and I personally think we will lose touch with different ideas from multiple sources and people because when an AI is only giving you one answer vs google giving you multiple opinions from different people it gives you more options.

Not to mention the copyright issues with this. It's just regurgitating what's already on the internet not sure why it's ok for them to copy people's work but if you do it you will get sued.
You know you can filter chinese brands out, right? right!?!?!
At least there's competition in legacy media. If one newspaper buries a story because of naked political bias, you might still read about it in other newspapers. If Twitter decides you're not allowed to read something, where else can you go?

They say if you don't like it you can just start your own Twitter - but when Parler tried to do exactly that, Big Tech colluded to destroy it.
Here[0] is Meta's Nick Clegg telling Indian journalists that Meta does not take sides in politics. Looks like they provide tools to the ruling political parties to do what they want. This is a way for "possible deniability".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkp2uQKDbHw
> 8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.” [1]

A rules-based world. A gigantic joke, more likely, hopefully people have started to realise what it's all about, slowly but surely.

[1] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064
This article triggers some thoughts for me, as a person who has developmental prosopagnosia[1].

In my ideal utopia I will wear (normal) glasses which include a tiny camera in the frame. When I'm in a gathering of people I would be able to frown or scrunch my nose which would trigger the camera to take an image of the person I'm looking at. The image uploads somewhere where some facial recognition software runs and returns a name to me - possibly in audio form (like a whisper in my ear). The image is not retained, but I would have the information I need to start/continue a conversation with that person without looking like an idiot for not remembering who they were in the first place.

There's barrel-loads of privacy concerns around this ideal utopia of mine. But I'm selfish and fed up with my disability which has, in the past, caused me serious social anxiety.

[1] - Also known as face blindness: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/face-blindness/
The real hilarious thing to me scrolling this sometime later is everyone is focused on Biden when the thread says the Trump team were doing the same thing and he was the President at the time! But crickets over that much stronger claim that it could be a first amendment violation.

Are people just being partisan or easily manipulated here?
I was thinking this is super nice, but just a toy project. But I saw there is even funding and the author is hiring. So, it is serious.
I think this will be an enormous commercial success, because I tend to misjudge these kind of things. :')

I am impressed by the slickness and speed of this thing. It is more responsive than your average MS Windows system.

@ent101: well done and good luck with this project! Super slick!
AI model based on GPT3, trained to answer your technical troubleshooting questions, better and faster than Google+Stackoverflow https://concisefix.co/
You read HN; you're not a normal person. 95% of everyone you know didn't hear about the Hunter Biden thing at the time, and most of them probably still don't know about it.
I do not normally post on non-technical matters, but I want to say I stopped buying from Amazon a few years ago now; it was because of how warehouse staff are treated.

It looks to me a bit like I left at just the right time.

This story is absolutely appalling. Amazon are being manipulated, have become a dagger in the hands of the unscrupulous, and seem absolutely unable and unwilling to act.

To my eye here Amazon are in part culpable; if you are going to implement mechanisms which can be misused in this way, without adequate safeguards, you bear some responsibility for their misuse.

Amazon are I would say now beginning to go the way of Facebook; vast still, but they have lost the plot, are compromising their core functionality, and are alienating their customers, who are both horrified at such behaviour, and harmed by it.
So what? He doesn’t call everyone racist who criticizes the actions of the NZ government. It seems to only be CCP shills that struggle with this concept.

Nobody in the US gets confused when someone from Europe complains about US government military actions and calls them racist. Perhaps you too can learn that criticisms of the CCP have nothing to do with the Chinese citizens?
I find this discussion quite interesting. From a German perspective there's almost infinite amount of space in the US for hiking, compared to Germany. You find a lot of great trail in Germany, but if you go to Neuschwanstein (AKA the disney castle) you will find huge American and Chinese tour groups. But most other trails are perfectly fine. I can't imagine with the wide selection in the
US to have any problem if you're not going to one of the top 5 search results.
The trick is to design things such as "roll back to the last backup" is always good enough. Easier said then done, and there are often other priorities, but it's usually doable.
Comically hokey, or on-brand HN?
As a friend in a tech industry, I tell all my friends to budget 50% of their revenue for tech investment and R&D. Oh and conveniently, I also have a company that can help them with these investments.

Seriously, don't swallow cock-and-bull statements like "legal should be 10% of your revenue". I remember years ago the landlord of my co-working space glibly told me that "as long as office rent is not more than 10% of your revenue you're good" in response to me pushing back to rent hike increases. Ridiculous conmen.
Did you? They also censored a NYT article
> basic ML models

Disclaimer: I don't work in the game changing language model stuff, so maybe I'm the wrong person to answer

But I'd kind of assume basic ml models are one of the essential prerequisites, so go read Elements of Statistical Learning if you haven't already?
It’s not even compatible. I can criticise my government safely. You cannot say anything negative about the CCP without repercussions.

So it’s probably better you stop trying to defend and justify the CCP. It just makes you look like a supporter of an authoritarian regime that commits genocide to its own people.
Well, I never bought the sites, but one of the winners did give very dirty looks for jacking up his purchase price.
> A two party system works.

It's not working in the US at present.
Tech changed global labor struggles for better
> I agree, nothing we didn't know

Some of us did know, that's true, but we were labeled as conspiracy theorists and the like. And when the truth came out in the open those calling us conspiracy theorists of course that embraced the "that has always been a known fact! What are you on about?". Rinse and repeat.
Imagine if the country would have been non-west/non-Anglo-Saxons. How big of hoopla that would have been !
Well, they don't break even. The Department of the Interior currently makes negative 17.6 billion dollars per year.
Yes, you can do a double anonymous LLC. Essentially it's an anonymous LLC that points at another anonymous LLC. They cost about 300 USD per LLC, there are law services online that will set it up for you with minimum effort.

Note: This just protects you from Joe Consumer. The IRS and with some effort the police will also know who you are.

https://cindysfloridallc.com/Anonymous-LLC
I had a Debian 11 upgrade fail, apparently because of a bad script in the Bakula package.
Amazon has become a dumpster fire of scammers, fakes, resellers, and plain trash. It is by now frankly the worst online shopping experience available. Pretty much every other store online is better organized, better curated, and more trustworthy. (In my opinion and experience).

The truly sad thing about this is that Amazon used to be genuinely great! But ever since it became mostly a marketplace, and no longer primarily a store, things have gone downhill. Now it's no better than eBay.

I try to avoid it wherever humanly possible, i.e. for everything but Chinatech or when I require one-day shipping.
It is just amazon moving closer to its competition.
Do you think alibaba really cares when a seller does some shady stuff to get ahead? What I think is happening is amazon drop shippers being the middleman who got cut out and the whole platform moving closer to a chinese model of product distribution.

Just look at what amazon is actually selling, a lot of it is just straight china imports by no name firms. Do you want to figure who is ripping of whom in that web?

>Amazon is happy to rake an innovative and thriving seller over the coals arguably in an attempt to enforce policy violations!

Were they actually innovative? Or were they just reselling another made and designed in China product, maybe with some customizations and "premium" materials?
Code is easy, data is hard, the JIT would help with the former only. Rust on JSVM/.NET/JVM/Dart relies on the host platform to provide the underlying object system, reflection, interop with host code, GC etc.
Why is there no sales tax? If you're going to do story questions, make them realistic, or else they're just confusing garbage.
Not a generalized advice, but once you start learning, please check out the Sci-Kit documentation. It's very concise in its explanation of concepts.
The Hunter Biden story wasn't misinformation.
Just before COVID I did some lowish volume selling on eBay of an imported official product. They are "second sourced" aka "badly cloned" by a couple of Chinese crap shifters as well. I had to fend off various counterfeit reports and even people in China buying them with shill accounts, then cancelling the order until my listed stock was depleted. My eBay account was suspended twice within a month.

Eventually I gave up but I decided I'd spend a few months trashing the market first so I ran a selenium job daily which went and reported all of the drop ship sellers for counterfeit goods. That was incredibly effective. But really I would never get into a fight with a Chinese drop shipper again. I sort of broke even with difficulty. There were no gains.

I'm in the UK and I tend to not bother with Amazon myself now because it is an ocean of garbage which is difficult to find anything half decent on. I tend to go to Argos who have same day delivery that actually works for a small fee on most products or hit the local supermarket. I couldn't possibly consider entering that market as a seller based on the absolutely shitty customer experience.

I use AWS during the day and the quality there isn't much better. The whole org needs a quality and honesty shakedown.

The market is definitely open to an Amazon competitor which has a store front not chock full of garbage, a decent logistics network, returns policy and reasonable pricing. All I hear is people complaining about Amazon's mindset monopoly.
When the doctor's office phones me, they must immediately learn my DOB or they can't reveal any information. Unfortunately the person calling is sometimes a nurse who's working on test results or some followup and they don't have a direct number. But it's kind of a stalemate if I won't reveal anything to them, and they won't reveal anything to me.

At this point if they manage to have the correct caller ID and I'm more or less expecting the call, it can't hurt to divulge my DOB. Scammer's going to find that out easily anyway.
It'll be interesting to see whether they publish anything about the removal of links to Craig Murray's blog during the Assange extradition hearings in the UK.

Murray has claimed[1] that traffic from Twitter and Facebook to his blog had dropped to 1.5%, and that posts including links to it could be seen as having been posted by the poster, but could be verified to be invisible to others.

[1] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
You essentially have two choices:

- Get your PhD and try to become a researcher at one of the labs. Super crowded now, but basically the only way if you want to do research.

- Become a ML engineer, data scientist, etc. While you will be working with ML models and understand them to some extent, you may find that it's not exactly what you wanted. You'll likely end up spending most of your time on the same old engineering stuff: Calling into black-box APIs, data engineering, iterating on hyperparameters, building experiment pipelines, dealing with cloud scaling and setting up GPUs, etc.

For example, if you take a look at GPT, 99% of the work that has gone into it is standard engineering/scaling work, not AI-specific work.
They actually considered all the points made, and corrected them accordingly.
You're criticizing dumb content then show a 1 minute video as explainer, please don't take this the wrong way, but there are very few 1 minute videos that are not dumb.
It’s not like they were CIA operatives. When people say that, they mean it’s a revolving door. The NYT has repeatedly printed stories about how Google employees who volunteered w/ the DNC were a big part of the reason President Obama was elected. A huge number of people working in the Democrat party are from SV tech circles. At the last company I worked in San Francisco, the company was matching employees who donated to political causes that overwhelmingly favored one political party.

Everyone should support political movements they believe in, but at a certain point when only one point of view is that deeply ingrained in your corporate culture it affects your ability to be impartial. If you look at Twitter it’s pretty obvious that their actions reflected the culture and they kept pushing the boundaries until they eventually crossed a red line.
Microbial life doesn't fossilize well, but the earliest secondary fossils we do have are of microbial mats. They exactly match in all respects certain microbial mat living fossils we see on the ocean today, produced by relatively complex life forms.

Most hypothecated pathways for abiogenesis would have left similar secondary fossils in the geologic record. Yet we don't see them. There's not a lot of rock left from that long ago, so maybe it just didn't get preserved. But it is striking and unexpected how (1) the earliest fossils are of quite complex organisms; (2) they pop into existence very soon after the Earth cools; yet (3) they don't evolve into any more complex patterns until hundreds of millions of years later.

So life evolved quickly (10's of millions of years), rapidly developed complex features, then whatever evolutionary force drove that suddenly stopped and they stayed stable and unchanged for half a billion years?

It is actually a simpler supposition that life evolved on Mars (or Venus, but panspermia from Mars is more likely), and a relatively complex LUCA was transferred to newly reformed Earth via an impact event. This explains all of the oddities around LUCA and the fossil record of the origin of life on Earth. Mars would have had a vibrant early-life ecosystem that provided an evolutionary push for complexity. LUCA, on the other hand, colonized a lifeless Eden and was able to spend 100's of millions of years without evolutionary pressures. And as the science surrounding ALH-84001 shows, panspermia is not an unlikely event at all. If there was life on Mars at all, it absolutely would have been transferred.
:) Indeed, we're seeing 10x speedups from SIMD for some distributions.
It's useful both for sorting networks and quicksort partitioning.
Code here: https://github.com/google/highway/tree/master/hwy/contrib/so... (disclosure: I'm one of the co-authors).
> I'm not sure what "non-coder" has to do with it

In my experience, engineers are more likely to be pragmatic people, which is more of a right-wing/libertarian trait. This is not a constant.

> Within 24 hours, the decision is overridden and it is made clear who the real agenda-setters are at most Big Tech.

It is overridden quietly, with no apology or acknowledgement of the harm they did. If this was something anyone in leadership actually cared about, we'd see the typical PR response. Instead, crickets.
Yeah this isn't at all unexpected. Language models are trained to make plausible text not true text. A lot of the time it happens to produce stuff that's true, because it is more plausible that somebody say "Biden is the president" than "Steve is the president", but you asked it a pretty niche question for which there is no answer that is plausible and true so it had to go with plausible.

It clearly worked because you thought they sounded real!

Try asking it for good references that deal with lists *or "none" if there aren't any.
It's not even an RFC, it's just a pastebin post pretending to be one.
Trump's running for president again. If something comes out in October 2024 that looks bad for Trump, and Elon's Twitter censors the story at the request of Trump's team, will it please you to hear that Trump isn't (yet) in government?
Insincere and bad in which way? (The writer regularly covers this topic area for Slate.)
For those prices it was clearly something like a garage sale purchase, with no need to pay taxes.

Cheapest bat&ball at walmart.com is $10.
I always thought they're just doing that to circumvent spam filters. Seems more plausible to me.
Building your frontend in Clojure has been possible for a while, see this announcement 11 years ago: https://www.clojure.org/news/2011/07/22/introducing-clojures...

ClojureScript & the user base has since steadily grown and improved and people have been shipping serious production applications with it for a long time now.
Your comment is more interesting and deep than the article under discussion. Thanks!
> WASM is a runtime only. It does not try to define a component model.

This GitHub page seems to contradict that:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...
I think a story one could tell about more recent events is that Twitter banning various extreme right wing views was good for the Republican Party because they could make arguments about free speech or whatever and not need to deal with those extreme views being associated with the Republican Party. If such views aren’t hidden, maybe it will force Republicans to work harder to separate themselves from such views, similarly to the way that Democrats expend much effort trying to show that they aren’t secretly communists or whatever.
Prison? I think Twitter was wrong to censor this story, but what crimes were committed?
This week in KDE: custom tiling
GTP has always been the worlds best bullshit simulator. Its output is incredible until you look closely and realize that it’s not so much inaccurate, but completely hallucinated. It’s the kind of thing that would be great for filling in Lorem Ipsum placeholder text that’s just convincing enough if no one looks too close.
>our patented design

Haha. This writeup is by a drop shipper. In first sentence he admits to cloning another successful product. They were out conned at their own con, hard to shed a tear.
While I agree that Twitter should have taken down the tweets about non-public figures, they're not against the rules: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...

Names are explicitly listed as exceptions to the ban in sharing personal information.
Is it tech debt or a lack of architecture?

Badly designed architecture, or one designed too early, can be tech debt as well.
Isn't that literally the point?
> Because of laws passed after the Enron scandal, publicly traded companies are required to retain internal communications for long periods of time.

I've heard it phrased this way: never send an email that you wouldn't be happy to read out in court.

But I'm curious, how can this policy be enforced? If I delete some of my work emails, how can a court prove that the emails ever existed and that I deleted them?
Low-light 3.2 megapixel SPAD sensor from Canon
Try "Vimways":

https://vimways.org/2018/

https://vimways.org/2019/
Why is the EU doing this?
Tell HN: Google changed maps.google.com to google.com/maps
The biggest problem is the internet doesn't usually look too close
Maybe the automotive firmware industry had it right. Software on the internet is often just plain bad. SiriusXM's software should have had proper authentication on the endpoints.
Perhaps that's what it's been designed to do?
Meaning that when you authorize sharing your positions for purposes related to Maps, you are actually authorizing it for EVERYTHING inside Google.
I don't think that post is very interesting from an origin of life perspective. The factors which limit genome growth would not have been in play at the origin of life. If the RNA origin theory of life is correct, then our oldest ancestors were replicating pieces of RNA in some sort of primordial soup. In that environment there would have been pieces of RNA everywhere whizzing about, combing, recombining, and replicating. There would have been explosive growth in "genome" size in very short amount of time, because changes would be spontaneously happening without the need for slow cycles of mutation and natural selection, which would come to dominate later.