skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are fabless vendors, composed of a few people, who basically rebrand white-label shit from alibaba really making (and perhaps in this case losing) millions of dollars in time-frames of months to a couple of years ??

It wouldn't be surprising. I've looked into starting a side business selling some rebranded Ali/Bao items on Amazon, there are loads of niches you could corner. The thinking goes:

> The product is available for $X today, and Amazon takes a $3-5 cut.

> I can buy the product for $X-Z.

> I could sell these products with prime shipping for $X-Y, and make $Z-5-Y on each sale.

Doing that simple math often makes you think you could make a living off the scheme, even after accounting for packaging and inventory fees. If it works for a few months-years, you might double down and get into this situation.

Ultimately, I came away feeling like this is how dropship vendors find new product categories to move into: they wait for somebody to demonstrate that there's a sizable market for a product, then they add that product to their listings and cut out the competition. So you probably have 3-6 months on each successful product, tops.

It's a jungle out there.
Considering I can't prove a negative, are you able to prove a positive?

Because trust me, New Zealand's opposition parties, social media, and the real media, would be on that like flies on shit if there was even a hint that it had happened. All it would take is someone saying "Wtf, my FB post calling Jacinda Ardern a pretty communist was mysteriously deleted."

I guess it's good to live in a nation where corruption is low, and the rule of law applies to all, the media is free, and who deliberates on questions of law isn't decided by politicians.

Because I know that any of the behaviour you posit would be absolutely called out.

Like the time a New Zealand Prime Minister sent the Police in to find an investigative journalist's sources, because it embarrassed him and his government.

Or the time that the New Zealand Defence Force sicced the internal intelligence service on the same journalist to find his sources because he embarrassed them...

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104638742/police-apo...

https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/130640313/the-dirty-politics-b...

The fact that a) these things happened concerns me but b) that it was exposed to the light heartens me.

So yeah, if you've got evidence of what you posit actually occurring, please share it.
> The Overton window in the US stems from center-right (Democrats) to extreme-right (Republicans) so if you're in the middle of that you're firmly a conservative.

This is something Europeans have been saying online since at least the early 00s. It might be worth splitting it up into "social" policies and "economic" policies.

Democrats are a socially very left (dissenting views are not allowed), economically right party. republicans are a socially right, economically very right (taxation is theft) party.
I don’t know anything about you two, and I don’t want to sound condescending, but… what kind of friend sells a freaking domain for 25,000 dollars to another friend? Or was that just some asset shifting between your companies, without any real money involved..?
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Remote: Remote only, willing to travel on occasion

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Android, Android TV, Flutter, Firebase, Kotlin, Jetpack

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1823f4vX18r7QJGGhL2dIcFbZeIV...

Github: https://github.com/dinko7

Searching for Android and Flutter roles.
Stop snap automatic updates for as long as you need
Every time someone obtains power, the first thing they think of is "let's conquer Egypt"

It is surprising that the US didn't do that. But hey, they have a smarter plan.
From Putin, obviously. If you disagree or need more evidence then you're a Russian traitor who must be censored to protect our democracy.
State the units clearly, always.
So you are saying the Trump team asking (as documented in the twitter thread) for things to be taken down was a 1A violation? Because only the government can violate the 1A the Biden campaign wasn't the government.
Yeah, if you ask me, it's pretty legit to take a selfie when you reach a goal, particularly when it's something ultra-scenic like the summit of a mountain!
NASA Says Dart Clocked That Asteroid
Afaik it’s electron, so kind of limited to „not bad“
"Disseminate" is not the word you're looking for there.
The shocking part of the story is that they became social outcasts for rumors of academic dishonesty.

> But the damage was done, and word leaked out. "These mutterings and rumors came throughout campus about how we'd been academically dishonest," Kellie said. There was gossip and recrimination. Peers targeted them on social media and discussed them on community blogs. Media outlets reported on the case in states as far away as California.

Pathetic. These people need to shut the fuck up and mind their own business.
For the record, is now 9h after submission and it’s loading well.
Not everything is measured properly by statistics, some times anecdotes ARE important, or at least interesting.
"maybe it’s time to accept that there are certain inherent advantages to not giving all your economy’s money to people who will stick it in an offshore account instead of spending it"

Strange to read in a time of constant chatter about inflation.
> There's no way anyone believes that's not a sex toy

it's is only $80!

the only way to resolve this is to buy one, try it out and report back
sure, i’m just pointing that, if our metrics are that whatever-this-is should be considered scandalous and that it should be mitigated, then i can guarantee that we’d find way more of this out there. way more.

and i think we’d all win.

direct lines of communications, closed door meetings, etc… between religious leaders and candidates are widely known and id love for us to scandalize this and insist on some clarity and bring down all involved in anything sketch.

direct lines of communication, meetings etc… between oil execs and politicians is also widely known. i’d love to insist on some clarity and bring down all involved in anything sketch.

same with elon too. since the immediate realm we’re in surrounds twitter execs, i absolutely think we need to know which political influencers, politicians, and aspiring politicians he’s been in touch with and what exactly they’ve been discussing. this is absolutely 100% relevant to this exact tweet thread. twitter execs communicating with politically active people.

i can almost guarantee we will uncover all kinds of shady things happening across the board. we all can win here.
Mozilla has no time to fix Firefox Android or address their ever dwindling market share but we can count on them to waste time on overzealous security theater
its interesting to consider...if the bot is supposed to complete the next word with the most likely response what would we expect? I wonder how often the most likely response is correct on sat
Why would you want to see it? How could viewing it improve your life? There are things in life you can't unsee. Like, really unsee. Awake at 3am can't unsee.
Yeah this thread has explained to me why my Firefox perennially has a notification saying it will update..

I keep that laptop around the living room, always suspended if not used, all apps always running.

If the notification gave me a “update now!” button I would click it
Aha, so all-eating capitalism without having healthy limits set by socialism.
Why does GMP only run Miller-Rabin test twice when generating a prime?
I don't disagree on any particular point, I'm just old enough to remember when none of what you mention was the case, and American corporations were gleefully eyeing China as their next market expansion target. Without exception they got out-played at their own game.
Existing thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841672
It can't even do arithmetic.
Goto Hid Their Security Disclosure on Google via “Noindex”
"Hiring a contractor" ≠ "the contractor owns it" ≠ "the contractor runs it"

The government hires contractors for most things, but the projects are still owned and directed by the government.
How would sitting on the side walk in front of a school constitute a criminal trespass?
SBF? Trump had boxes full of actual "Top Secret" documents hidden at home. I guarantee that if the FBI found boxes of nuclear secrets at my house that my remaining freedom would be measured in minutes.
Sorry to repeat myself from (much) older posts: My real fear is content generation. What if search engines are completely overwhelmed with "sounds OK/meh" generated content. How can we identify the stuff written by real humans with more nuance? Or, are we doomed?

Less doom and gloom view: Many of the posts here were about humour. That is a terrific use case for AI language models. You can have something like a Medium blog (for monetisation) where the author tries to induce funny responses from the AI langauge model. Best responses become the day's blog post. I would definitely read it. The one posted here about Lord Byron rhyming about SpongeBob SquarePants was hysterical to me. Or what if you asked the AI language model to generate a fake interview between Lord Byron (or Mark Twain) and Lex Fridman. Probably the result would be hysterical, and Lex would love it!
Where did Elon deny this?
This is great! Had a real good time completing Panda Love with my daughter. Thanks for sharing!
Hyperreal Number
This is an interesting point. While pulling of an attack like that wouldn't be easy, just having your entire air force having to patch for it simultaneously would be devastating from an availabilty PoV. Perhaps information security assurance is the real 6th gen? :)
> The difference is also that, per the data that was linked in the thread, the Democrats had orders of magnitude more requests sent and honored than Republicans, because the former had more contacts at Twitter that were willing to take those requests.

Hold on the second does not follow from the first. They might have send more request because they had a more savy social media team, they might have send more request because much more ToS violating content was posted about Biden.

If there is a massive difference in percentages of honored requests that could _maybe_ indicate bias (but that's still a bi maybe).
Trump had top secret documents but Hunter Biden, a guy not even now or ever in government, is somehow getting more attention. Incredible.
I've seen Copilot do the same thing - if you leave a comment like "// see this StackOverflow post", it'll often complete the comment with a link that looks a lot like a SO post but is actually nonsense.

My guess is that GPT-3 has seen a lot of SO links (or other links) and understands that sometimes engineers find it handy to have a long url-looking-thing with some numbers at the end, but it doesn't understand the fact that it links to something unique in the world outside of code, so it just tries to forge them as appropriate. Same thing with your URLs to bogus publications, I'd imagine.
> They were providing lists of people to silence

Can you clarify what you mean by this? Are you talking about the tweets with nudity they emailed about?
Even if it's a "utility" (whatever that really means in this case) the First Amendment still has nothing to do with it.
When you buy a stamp, the fees also "go to support defense contractors".

... because the USPS also pays their contractors.
Apple phones are full of features. Most of them cost nothing beyond the cost of entry (iPhones are expensive).
Presumably all these well engineered features contribute to some holistic image of a “quality product”, whatever that means.

You might as well say “the camera does not bring revenue to Apple so they intentionally didn’t develop it any further”, which is nonsense.
I didn't say your friend is wrong. As for "leading lights", looking at the state of tech and capital in general, there is really not much proper leading going on.
I love that the author has previously written for these illustrious news sites. [0], [1]

Given the overall tenor of the articles on reclaimthenet.org matches the others, would love to know who funds it.

[0]: https://thewashingtonstandard.com

[1]: https://www.australiannationalreview.com
You misunderstand me. I am actually referring to katakana and hiragana, not kanji.

Just having to learn those first will stop a large percentage of people who would otherwise be able to learn to talk reasonably well.
It really is stupefying how Amazon has turned into a dumping ground for cheap chinese junk. Surely they realize the long term damage they're causing to their own brand?

At the same time, they're constantly tightening KYC and other regulations which only hurts honest small-time merchants.
Incredible. As an educated adult, I cannot distinguish that answer from one that a native speaker would write. The style feels very much like a English comprehension exam you take before university. The written structure is so clean. How long until people are using models like this to cheat on university entrance exams for written comprehension? Very soon.
In many type of Infobox on Wikipedia, it's Wikidata which is working from the behind and editing the data in such articles is basically being done at Wikidata.
Yes so you don’t fully support the NZ government, but you are still a subject of and supporter of (through taxes or even maybe just plain apathy even) of the New Zealand government. And so in this way you can’t say the Chinese people are completely separate from their government, because at the end of the day they are paying taxes and letting their government do these things you object to.
> It is true that you are not the one who constructed the backstory of "Buying Twitter + publicly stating that the Ukraine War might not end with Ukraine winning 200% of its goals = 'problem with natsec'", but it does you no favor for merely being the mindless echoer.

Elon Musk didn't say that Ukraine might not win, he actively pushed for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia, which is pretty much exactly what Russia wants.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576969255031296000
Google can track location in the Google.com domain with Google Maps permission
I was more referring to having a second product, that leverages the first one. So for example, if you have a simple 3D editor that doesn't compete in features with high-end 3D editors. What you could do, is have a game, where amateur 3d users can use that tool to build content for their own world. That is why I mentioned Roblox as an example.
Can't help but think of that Sartre quote about arguing with people in Bad Faith.
If Ticketmaster is a greedy capitalist, so is Taylor Swift
https://archive.ph/dM5E5
replit.com competitor, where user don't have to learn any UI?
But everybody's not you. Sometimes we're on expensive, metered bandwidth. Sometimes we're in an online business meeting. Sometimes we're giving/about to give a presentation. Sometimes we're under deadline pressure and can't afford the additional time and stress of a potentially-breaking upgrade. We have lot's of times when we'd really rather postpone an upgrade, for perfectly legitimate reasons. We get the security issue, we'll upgrade when the timing is better. Just don't take that decision out of our hands.

Totally automated upgrades are an evil (unless there's an explicit opt-in) and must die.
I stopped buying on Amazon for this reason. If I want Chinese Wares I get them cheaper on Aliexpress.

If I found something interesting on Amazon I will check if there is a independent shop online that sells it (almost always has a Amazon shop too).

Even if I know the brand and the model: there are many fake products on Amazon. Especially when they are produced in China by a Chinese frim: e.g. Anker, who deliver great products if you are not getting fake ones...
I remember this specifically. Puter.com was intended for another project. So this was definitely not squatting...
From Easy Money to Hard Conversations
The US just needs preferences and compulsory voting and it would probably be fine. Australian election this year had 32% of the vote outside the 2 main parties, in the US this is more like 2%.
A whole bunch of burner addresses of people who are hoping to one day be db pros must be REALLY valuable.
You're probably american and therefore have less freedom than us
Nope, better educate yourself before replying.

"The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) is a retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, since 2005 maintained by David Given. It has frontends for the following programming languages: C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC."

"The ACK's notability stems from the fact that in the early 1980s it was one of the first portable compilation systems designed to support multiple source languages and target platforms."

"Maximum portability is achieved by using an intermediate language using bytecode, called EM. Each language front-end produces EM object files, which are then processed through several generic optimisers before being translated by a back-end into native machine code.

ACK comes with a generic linker and librarian capable of manipulating files in the ACK's own a.out-based format; it will work on files containing EM code as well as native machine code. However, EM code cannot be linked to native machine code without translating the EM binary first. "

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Compiler_Kit

"One of the exciting things in Visual Studio .NET is its language agnosticism. If a vendor has written a .NET-compliant language, you can use it in Visual Studio .NET. It'll work just as well as C# or C++ or Visual Basic. This isn't just a future feature-in-planning. There are already nearly two dozen languages being developed for Visual Studio .NET: Visual Basic, C#, C++, JScript, APL, Cobol, Eiffel, Fortran, Pascal, Perl, Python, RPG, Smalltalk, Oberon, Component Pascal, Haskell/Mondrian, Scheme, Mercury, Alice, and even the Java language."

-- February 2002 issue of MSDN Magazine

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2002...

A common theme among WASM advocates....
“Si vis pacem, para bellum”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum
It's not. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
I’ve seen gpt-3 do this in general, it’s quite interesting. It’ll quote things that sound right to the prompt and response with realistic references and names, with no actual results. These types of AI seem to be against admitting they don’t know.
No content was taken down solely for criticising politicians
Because of corona many people now have no life at all (i.e., they’re dead), and many more would have died if not for all the measures, so not sure how the statement was overly simplistic.

Same goes for the environment, if we don’t act, the environmental changes will have life ending impact for a significant number of people. Maybe not directly, but there will be food shortage, and wars. It is in the interest of everyone that we try to limit the impact of global warming as much as possible.
It sounds like you’re saying that’s a qualitative, insurmountable difference, but I’m not so sure.

It reminds me a lot of a young child trying to keep a secret. They focus so much on the importance of the secret that they can’t help giving the whole thing away.

I suspect this is just a quantitative difference, the only solution is more training and experience (not some magical “real” experience that is inaccessible to the model), and that it will never be 100% perfect, just as adult humans aren’t perfect - we can all still be tricked by magicians and con artists sometimes.
This is what the internet was invented for.
Ah, you mean like in Devs?
I like the idea, but I do not like that it's for WASM only. What about other runtimes and languages?

In general, I'm very skeptical about yet another runtime + component model combo. This makes the situation O(N^2) once again: every runtime has its own component model instead of having a standard component model that can be used from any runtime. This path has been deemed unsatisfactory far too many times: Java, .NET, BEAM etc (they're fine as long as you're inside the ecosystem).

This is why we only have FFI as lingua franca between the languages. We cannot agree on a standard component model yet. And runtime has nothing to do with it.
The criticism is that it's not honest. "For free" is not correct. It's "book against harvesting your contact data". If that's what the first page would say, then it would be honest and nobody would be upset. But acting as if it's been "published" out of pure altruism is just misleading people, and they are righfully pointing that out.
Juggling software interrupts and realtime tasks
The person you're responding to literally wrote that both campaigns requested tweets to be reviewed and for both parties twitter honoured the requests. So he actually knew about the opposite side doing the same thing and contrary to your assertion he is not outraged.
I’m just dense today, apparently.
It turns out that the NZ government literally does have defacto control over what happens on facebook though.
It surely does, including stack values.

That is the thing, Lisp is not only lists unless one is stuck using Lisp 1.5.
> Are they clearly documenting how many times what content is being exactly censored why and then transparently publishing that to everyone ?

Yes, they do
What about, say, Cnn.com? Foxnews.com? Facebook? Do those parts of the Internet tend to carry politician communications fairly often too?
Product managers who exclaim everything they write to instil a (cringy) sense of excitement and presence.
Good story :-)
Yup this is incredibly cool.

I asked it to build an, albeit simple, redstone building in Minecraft of all things. It didn't get everything quite right (namely, torches can't be used in redstone circuits), but most everything else was correct!

> How would you design a simple Minecraft building, which had 4 rooms? Each room would have a single light which could be turned on or off via a switch near the entrance of that room. The redstone used to connect the switches to the lights would not be visible, except for the switches and lights themselves.

> To design a simple Minecraft building with 4 rooms and a light switch for each room, I would start by creating a basic structure with 4 walls, a ceiling, and a floor. Each wall would have a door that leads to one of the rooms.

Next, I would add a light source in each of the 4 rooms, such as a torch or a lamp. These lights would be placed in the center of the room for maximum visibility.

To connect the light switches to the lights, I would use redstone wire and repeaters to create a hidden circuit that connects each switch to the light in its corresponding room. The redstone wire would be hidden behind the walls or under the floor, and the repeaters would be hidden behind blocks or furniture to keep the circuit hidden.

Finally, I would add the light switches near the entrance of each room, using a lever or button that players can interact with to turn the lights on or off. This would allow players to easily control the lighting in each room without having to see the redstone wiring.

Overall, this simple Minecraft building would have 4 rooms, each with its own light source that can be controlled by a hidden redstone circuit and a visible switch near the entrance of the room. This design would provide a functional and visually appealing lighting system for the building.