skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly Metabase has given best balance between allowing non-technical users to self-service and technical users to dig in and use raw sql if that's what they want. Also it OSS core so you can self host. It is super feature rich and has most everything in the OSS version as long as you don't need enterprise features like SAML auth, audit log, ...,etc
How does Amazon avoid liability for selling scam products? Do they claim to be "just the middleman" and pass responsibility onto ghost-in-the-night companies selling the scam products? Or do they just abuse the legal system and make justice too expensive to be worth it?

I don't know the law very well, but I would hope there's a legal doctrine that responsibility has to effectively land somewhere. If a company is passing responsibility en masse to some other entity that cannot be effectively sued, then the responsibility should actually lie with the first company.
> people will just change it back to Google in the settings

No they wouldn‘t. A lot of testing and (probably?) research has shown that a massive amount of regular normie users will never change any defaults of any kind. Many would probably not even notice what search engine they‘re using. Defaults are incredibly powerful. They would easily accept a marginally worse product.
If the thing is widely being known as "x64", then "x64" is that thing's name. That's what the word "name" means.

And if you want to be picking nits, it's actually EM64T or at the very worst, IA-32e. Then again, there are actually two versions of this ISA and Intel is currently calling its version "Intel 64" (and AMD used to call their pre-release version "x86-64", by the way), but definitely not "64-bit x86".

Edit: Oh hey, you're the same guy who made that silly argument 11 months ago [0]. Never mind me then.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33097250
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> By replacing labour with robots and not compensating them, you're sending a clear message that you don't respect people and the value that they bring.

Equal pay for robots!!
If you want a spreasheet interface for business users, Sigma Computing (https://www.sigmacomputing.com/)
> Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers above the inequitable profitability of machines

Being against the inequitable profitability of machines is just as dumb as being against technology, especially outside of a socialist context which this definitely was. It's basically crying that someone else is doing something better than you. In fact, I think being against technology wholesale is a much more defensible position since it creates an arms race, its unpredictable, it forces everyone into a lifestyle, etc.
Afaik, small claims courts are for specific monetary damages only. I feel like it would be hard to prove specific cash amount lost due to Amazon actions. It is also very likely one or more of documents one have to accept in order to open seller Central account requires signing away the right of settling dispute in courts, and instead use arbitration process.
I thought the biggest issue wasn't with the models themselves, but how Zillow decided to apply and act on them, which is why it didn't work in practice.

So on average their predictions may have been pretty good, but since each transaction also depends on the other party to accept their offer, and whether they get outbid, most of their predictions where the offer actually goes through would be on the tail end of where they slightly overestimated the price.

This tweet from the article summed it up nicely

> Zillow made the same mistake that every new quant trader makes early on: Mistaking an adversarial environment for a random one. https://twitter.com/0xdoug/status/1456032851477028870

I was lucky to make and learn from that mistake pretty quickly with some algorithmic trading on much smaller amounts. With housing transactions being much larger and slower, you wouldn't learn this lesson until it was too late. Models never perform as well in practice as they do in theory, and you need to remember to account for both known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
I slept in an apartment above my office in London for two nights a week over four years, commuting from York (3 hours door-to-door).

Each week I spent the three days in the office working very long hours, and then had a nice relaxing couple of days at home, working a bit but also being a very active dad, since my wife did everything with the kids whilst I was away.

This worked really well for us. Now my wife is doing the same and working in London 3 days a week. Still working well.

Free time when you’re at work just gets shifted to when you’re at home.
Rationing is never the answer. It always results in shortages, hoarding, and mis-allocation.
In this case it's because Chrome supports a relatively obscure use case (GPU-accelerated CSS filters on a cross-origin iframe), it's not really a bug or a vulnerability in the browser.
Interestingly though, this may be documented, but is it easily accessible? I played Hearthstone in the past and never knew of such documentation.
Sure, then I won't "press". I'll just release a product and see if the market wants it.
There's a blast from the past. All kinds of neurons started firing on that mention and they had plenty of dust and cobwebs on them. "The future of interactive computing"... how little we knew.
Aw shucks, just started using this because my apple podcasts app (ios) kept stalling indefinitely.

anyone know of any other apps that they recommend?
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I’m not claiming the effects are the same. I even said they do different things. But both have amphetamine. When you do mdma the stimulating effect is from the same exact thing as what stimulates you when doing meth. That’s all I was saying was the stigma is weird. And everyone commenting calling meth users junkies and criminals yet not talking shit about mdma which contains the same thing is just proving my point
Not only sub-par software, but sub-par software that they drop support for after a couple of years. People can work around the problems with sub-par software if they believe that it will benefit them long term. They will absolutely not put in the effort if they fear it will be completely useless in 2 years time.
Amazon should just change their business model. Instead of requiring sellers sell their products for a competitive price on Amazon they should do the same thing Apple does and just charge sellers a large margin on sells on their platform. Obviously this would mean higher prices for consumers but if the problem here is that Amazon is forcing sellers to price products lower than they'd like then that would fix the issue.
I think I get that part :) but realistically if anyone wants to run macOS software they are most likely macOS users already. Whereas containerisation is useful to aid with development and deployment. Have you come across anyone who runs production software on macOS? :)
> but you failed to address the fact that every single company does it, including those that you’re paying for, like your bank and ISP.

It is not the core business model of every single company.

And no, not every single company does it... For instance, if you don't want your ISP to track you, you can use a VPN. And the core business of a VPN service is to not track you. If they do and it gets known, their out of business.
> There is no way those non-physical thoughts are changing the physical processes

I don’t believe this to be correct. There is nothing non-physical about thoughts. Thoughts are mater interacting with mater.

Thoughts are to the brain what waves are to the ocean. They are not less physical than the brain itself.
Coercion doesn't have to be effective to be illegal, just like a bribe doesn't have to be accepted to be a bribe.
Where social safety net exists and employment is a % of your previous income, as well as health insurance not being tied your job.
It seems to me like there's sufficient value even if the assistant can't complete any actions fully (e.g., can compose but not send an email; or maybe not even compose). There's so much potential simply aiding with executive function: what to do, when to do it, acquiring any dependencies, handling partial work, helping break down tasks, and a great deal of potential with perception if the assistant is highly available and perceives what the human perceives.

(Rayban Stories could be pretty awesome for this, if they were hackable enough to actually prototype things on: https://hachyderm.io/@ianbicking/110833737363686936)

Imagine a personal assistant that was always ready to respond to the question "what should I do now?" – and of course enter dialog, not just dictate an action. That you could tell about all your tasks, but not just the tasks but also the _why_ of the tasks, giving it the chance to set or change something like a deadline on its own, or even simply discuss those deadlines.

Imagine you could co-develop a process with that assistant. Maybe there's times you like to do certain kinds of work... what are those? What features distinguish different kinds of work? If you have to do a certain kind of work, what do you need (time/place/mindset) to be successful? It doesn't need to be some magic algorithm, it can be a deliberative process that you engage in with your assistant, something conscious and explicit.

Maybe it helps both move through and construct to-do lists. You have an item on your list: either the item is very easy or the question is "what's the first thing you have to do to achieve that item?" – and the assistant has some idea (and can learn more) about what a good size of a task is for you personally. And now it's keeping this list of tasks and dependencies. It should be able to understand enough to mark subtasks complete if you complete the parent task. It can probably suggest items. If it has access to enough information – even if you have to put the information in explicitly – it can probably help you resume tasks by reestablishing all the context you need.

Like maybe all your assistant needs or should have is access to your clipboard (in and out), photos and screenshots, mic and speaker access (with a wake word), a library of notes and observations, and task initiation that isn't any more sophisticated than what you can do from a link (mailto:person?subject=...)
This woman was in Techstars and ran a $7 million eco startup. Just learned about this on Twitter from the person who ran her program.
People hear "the" so often I can't believe the kids have a problem with pronouncing the "e".
I would think it does support it... In my iPad Air (latest model) I somehow ended up stuck with a split keyboard for a bit until I managed to restore it.
>even sexual assault or rape, committed against travelers they are “screening”.

How in the world could that sentence EVER be justified? Maybe there's justification for protection from assault due to physical altercations while attempting to restrain someone. There is NEVER reasoning for rape. FULL FUCKING STOP. Seriously, WTF is wrong with people for a) suggesting it in the first place, and b) ratifying it into accepted policy
I wouldn't expect a CPU to speculatively execute something like "int 3" either, given compilers will frequently place it in between real functions (for alignment).
I would believe those are actual brand names.

Has anyone created software or a web site to generate hilarious Amazon brand names automatically?

Edit: Looks like there are lots of AI-fueled Amazon/business name generators. Most of the names weren't as funny as your examples, though I got some good ones (electrofakes.com, etc.) from prompts like "low quality tech products" and "cheap knockoff technology products."

Another site gave me the more Amazon-appropriate LAMOFY, HOROLY, YORBAX, etc. (all with .com domains and premade logos.)

As the NYT noted, "Amazon is to fake products as Facebook is to fake news."
Isn't that done because independent modular systems make it a lot easier to build stuff inside of such a large company? Bezos said as much in 2002 when he issued his API mandate.[1][2]

1. https://chrislaing.net/blog/the-memo/

2. https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
OpenLM: a simple, efficient and customizable LLM training library
This one hurts. Simple interface, does exactly one thing well. I use it every day, never had an issue with it.
The first time I used YouTube Music, it absolutely flooded my YouTube video history and made it useless. I've never used it again. Not sure if they've fixed this or not, but like Mark Twain said: “If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.”
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The question is how buffer overflows can still be happening, not bugs in general. No matter how bad my eng practices are, I cannot create a buffer overflow bug in a memsafe language.
Sure, if you look at artificial intelligence as a tool (perhaps there is still no reason not to), but the end goal here is not to assist but to replace, isn't it ?
Same experience here, getting really low fps just moving around in an empty scene.
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This. Sorry everyone.
Electro-quasistatic fields enable broadband communication for brain implants
Surely the problem you're objecting to is that Android is JVM native, so the Java APIs are a part of the OS itself.
> if the market was working correctly Amazon's profits would be driven down to zero and you'd effectively have this

Are you sure? Consumer behavior seems to be to simply go to their default marketplace rather than to search the whole internet (which is slow, painful, and low-trust), so it ends up being a winner-take-all system where alternative marketplaces like eBay are almost irrelevant and Amazon charges whatever they like and basically ignores counterfeiting and review fraud.

There are "natural monopolies", like with roads and power distribution networks, and I would argue that online marketplaces have turned out to be another one, and we should modify our public policy to reflect that.
I like Google Podcasts the most because it's a simple app, offering only podcasts, with mobile & web interfaces, and progress sync between them.

I mostly use Spotify for my music needs, so I will probably migrate there, but the last time I tried, experience was not so great for listening podcasts.
Well, she doesn't, and I hope it stays that way until we watch TESB...
Yeah, dynamic memory allocation from GPU space seems to be the real sticking point. I'll look into HSA queues, that looks very interesting, thanks.
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I would have no idea. Why are you asking me and sharing a link to something which tells you. That’s weird, and I’m not interested in clicking the link anyway.
Enough to keep the minimum wage from growing logically or justly
As soon as he can figure out how to type the password and how to access a browser, it’s his.

For now, it’s a small TV that receives one channel run by a station manager who has a thing for counting and the alphabet.
Why invent your own scripting language instead of using one of the infinity other existing languages?
If they were serious, they would start something like drm/mesa but for compute and it would just work out of the box with a stock Linux kernel.
For example, "chimera". I always pronounced it with "chi" as in "chimney", and emphasis on the first syllable. But it's pronounced with a "ki" as "kite", and emphasis on the second syllable. Boy did I guess wrong!
Well yeah but that's the whole point. They don't want to do that because they would make less money because you could always go to the seller directly to get the product for less.
You certainly have the right to try.
That's a PART of human nature, but to equate all of capitalism to all of human nature is a gross costuming.
We have a restful server that accepts odata query. We translate that to sql using sqlalchemy (it’s a python stack). The application is a financial risk system with billions of rows. The query usually fetches data from sqlserver, does some manipulation using pandas dataframes, then serve it as either json or csv. We added duckdb as a cache distributed across many files (a request cannot return data from more than one file) then that very same odata query goes into duckdb. Applies the standard select, filter, group by or pivot and return a dataframe. In most cases duckdb was twice faster than sqlserver. Apologies about any bad grammar/spelling errors, typing from tiny phone in bed
Europe is beating its addiction to plastics. Why is the US so far behind?
I actually had the opposite reaction to it, but I do think it's nice there are tools for every use case and preference.
That reminds me of the HN discussion a little while back of Cordwainer Smith: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35978901

In SF, I’d suggest James Tiptree Jr as someone with both great writing skills and great ideas.
A gentle reminder -- this is a hotel. If you are the kind of person who can regularly spend nearly 1/3 of your nights living in a hotel where you don't have a kitchen, a (real) fridge, carefully selected and arranged furniture, wardrobe, game console/musical instruments/etc, good for you, maybe should even consider a job as a consultant. To most people it is a horrible idea.
I don't think the answer is to do fine-grained bounds checking absolutely everywhere, nor do I think it'll happen anyway. Even "unsafe" code has a coarse type of bounds-checking, the kernel's virtual memory layer, which adds less overhead. C etc is fine if it's not in the same memory space as the safe code.
I had early access to this and I can tell you it is insane. It allows you to build your backend logic so fast without losing any control over more customized code. This is my goto now.
If you're already banned, you might as well try to get what you can out of the situation.
Ahh...cool. It was Wordfence. Deactivated it, and the plugin appeared. However I obviously didn't specify the functionality properly, because it's just featured in the plugin section with no functions visible. I asked for a plugin which would create a Google Translate button for use on selected pages.
I guess our disagreement is on whether you should judge by practical or theoretical powers. In practice, the emir of Qatar to give an example, is not prevented by the constitution to realize any concrete action, up to and including changing the interpretation of the constitution (or the constitution itself). These actions can be done practically in complete accordance to the law and without coercion by various mechanisms.

This is not a situation similar to ephors, or consuls, or British monarchs (which never were able to establish an absolute monarchy - King Charles was executed essentially due to his attempt to introduce French-style absolute monarchy.

It is similar to the Roman kings, but those were generally considered to be absolute monarchs. That's how I learnt it in college and Wikipedia seems to agree. In many ways the Qatari emirs are even more powerful - the Senate had the right to refuse the nomination of a King indefinitely and they were subject to an election.

It's different from a typical constitutional monarchy where the King would have to break the law to exert his will - in the case of Qatar and Kuwait, the King doesn't even have to break the law or coerce in order to do what he wants, he just needs to do a bit of a dance. This goes beyond even the concept of a semi-constituonal monarchy where the monarch has executive powers, in these cases the king has absolute executive and judicial power as well as most of the legislative power. Many people consider this to actually be an absolute monarchy, because it legally allows the monarch to do literally anything.
You can always go and use Alibaba to buy more directly, although still not direct. Small scale producers in China learned the value of an e-commerce platform a long time ago, you can't usually find them direct anymore.
Antennapod on F-Droid has been pretty good for me.
Well, the whole point is, they are so prevalent in pop culture that it's difficult to understand some things/references not knowing these works, at least superficially. It's very much like the list of compulsory books at school - they give the whole generation (even more generations) a common language.
This assumes the schooling is not functioning largely as a signaling device, which at Harvard it may be.

I’m not saying students should use ChatGPT on their homework, but I would understand why a student would do so if it allows them to spend more time on side projects, networking, learning about other topics, etc.
I have no idea, but companies routinely do shit that I assume would at least get me a fine in a hurry if I tried it. I don’t know how it works either. Like I’d have assumed deliberately dumping e-waste all over city sidewalks would get you a steep fine and an order to come pick them up or face an even steeper one within a matter of days—plus an absolute liability nightmare if, god forbid, anyone tripped over them and got hurt—but e-scooter companies have done it for years and have faced almost no consequences. I doubt I could get away with it. I dunno how they do.
Same, I've got the very awkward thoughts and constant cursing under my breath as well. The twitchiness is still there but under much more control than when I was a child.

I wonder if Tourette syndrome has anything to do with strep.
"Luddites were reacting to iniquitous working practices and market forces." is the same thing as "reactionarily opposing progress because it hurts their own personal interests."
The UPPERCASENONSENSENAMES are so obvious it makes me wonder if this is a target-selection technique in the same vein as the 419 scammers use -- make it so only the most clueless people would ever buy your garbage product, so you get a lower percentage of people who are going to report you.
The difference this time is that the executive is from Xilinx. Xilinx has had an AI software development team for a while in the FPGA space.

AMD has had poor management in the GPU computing space since Raja Koduri's time (he put the best engineering resources on VR during his tenure and ignored deep learning). Subsequent directors have not had a long term vision and left within a few years.

Looks like Lisa Su has corrected this now - they seem to have moved AMD software engineers en masse to work under Xilinx management on AI. Remains to be seen if this new management hierarchy will have a better vision and customer focus.
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You are talking about a pretty dire need and a glaring vacuum in the market. While that's the best-case product market fit, it's not like a good execution for a moderate need in a contested space is not a thing at all.

Can I live with text files in folders as my notes? Yes. Would I rather use something like Evernote instead? Absolutely. Would I use it if it gave me problems all the time? Doubt it.
It's more a question of whether an individual can identify with a character. If a book makes it into a literature class, chances are there's a reason for it. I'd like to get at that, learn about that. Saying whether or not you, specifically, identify with a specific character is simultaneously the most low effort observation you can make, and the least relevant to anyone else in the world. It's one thing to talk about what makes the character hard to identify with in general, but just telling me "I didn't identify with this character" is a waste of everyone's time.
I haven't signed up to use any new Google products in years because of this and I'm continually validated in my decision.
On iOS, Overcast.