skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll see. I don't know how to agree with search ever being good. I remember back in 1999 (literally) getting the wrong book on searches. And back then, it was only searching on books. Today, there is more that you are searching through, such that it is almost expected that results will be worse. And it will only get worse.

And note that I am making no real defense of Amazon here. It is frustrating to me that searching "PS5 controller" is largely results that I would not at all feel comfortable buying, at this point. What searches do you remember, "back in the early days" that were good?

And, really any search will reveal the actual "difficulty" here is that there is just too many hits. But can you really call out any of those as bad as long as you allow outside vendors? I'm not convinced. I don't want to buy from UPPERCASE vendor anymore than many folks do, but I see my purchase history has a ton of them.

So, again, this is a criticism of the case. They do pick apart many things that seem to have gotten worse. They rest a lot of their case on observations that Amazon themselves were chasing. Largely that the buybox is a huge driver of purchases. What they leave off is all of the behind the scenes that goes into that buybox. Most of it, unsurprisingly, is going to be based on costs to Amazon. This case is looking for twirling mustache villains looking to rob small vendors. But it is against a backdrop of an unusually large number of vendors that are all continuing to make money. In a field where Amazon is trying to optimize shipping and warehousing costs. Is it getting harder for people to do so there? Almost certainly. Is Amazon specifically retaliating against sellers? Maybe, but my gut is not likely.

I do appreciate the counter view that this is, in fact, a strong case. I have not seen evidence that convinces me of that. You keep saying it is "in the case," but that is our disagreement. The case is largely discussing the difficulties of being an FBA seller. One that many successful FBA sellers would be more than happy to tell you about. They have basically no evidence of Amazon intentionally mistreating any particular seller.

They have a lot of redacted comments about Amazon's analysis of their platform. But no hints that Amazon intentionally pushes sellers down. They have tons of details that having enticing offers at the top and in the buybox would be good for Amazon. Nothing hinting that they are trying to make it harder for any particular seller.

Even the anecdotes you will find online is that managing FBA is a full time job. Try managing a booth at your local farmers market. Just managing the booth is itself a job that you should probably look into getting specialized help for. This is no different.
I mean the same thing can be said of many sports that break amateurs into categories for subcompetition. They're all arbitrary at some point, and even if they're based on competition results, it doesn't distinguish between "took five years to reach this point" and "incidentally passing this category by on their whirlwind to XYZ much higher rank".

For example I compete in high power three position. Your classification (unranked, marksman, sharpshooter, expert, master, high master) is based on whether you scored X% of points for three consecutive matches (or your first two matches for initial rank). I've shot Master scores in every single match bar one, including my first match. But in the second match, there was some confusing misfire on one string (like faulty ammo related? Still don't know to this day lol), which dropped something like 20 points, which is basically enough to kick you down. Which means for the subsequent three matches, I was effectively sandbagging in Expert, and scoring high expert, and getting some pocket change for it (like $20, a fraction of the ammo cost). But I've never pieced together three high master, and may never get there. Meanwhile, we've got a couple people in the area who are literal national champions, and they score so close to perfection every time it's untouchable for the rest of us. It's like they're competing in a much more difficult sport than we are, like smallbore (actually one of the guys went to the Olympics for air rifle so that makes sense lol, air rifle is way harder than high power, score-wise and competition-depth -wise). If one of them shows up to the match, it's a guarantee they win, even if they're massively sick during the match.

In a previous life I did fencing, and had years long struggles to barely make B (sorta the equivalent of Master in high power 3p I guess). In earlier years of that life, I would get crushed beyond belief by Ds, Cs, and Bs. Eventually I got to the point where I could occasionally beat Bs, and by stringing enough tournaments in there, I got it. But I'd still usually lose to a B. And, just like in 3p above, everything we did was a joke to the serious competitors with national rankings, because they could just walk all over us. The massive gap between random A, and A who is high on the points list and seriously might make the Olympic team isn't shown by the category ratings. On paper they're the same rank as the old high master guys, but there's no real comparison.

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But ... despite all that, breaking into subcategories is a Thing in virtually all competitions, because it encouraged more people to participate. You're less demoralized if there's something hypothetically tangible to work for. It's everywhere - we break colleges into D1-D3 schools, high schools get even more partitioned. We break kids into tiny age brackets.

So you can compete in lower subcategories, but I think you're right in the back of your mind you need to remember you're doing it for fun or exercise (certainly not exercise in high power lol). That's why the people who get super worked up over scores or times or whatever at some middling amateur category look so out of place.
Yeah I don’t think any of these folks have that much of an issue. Compare with the people spending thousands or even millions of dollars on little rectangles of printed paperboard and locking them away inside little display cases!
Great web design.

How is this different/better than GoFundMe?
CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think – Jennifer Doudna – Ted [video]
It's now available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/m...
Serious question from someone who doesn't live in California or follow local politics there: Has Tan or any other well-off tech leader sharing similar visions/values run for supervisor or mayor? I see that Conway et al poured donations into the local party apparatus in the past (https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ron-conway-big-tech-drop-tho...) but wouldn't their goals be more effectively served from an elected position of power, as opposed to back-room lobbying and social media attacks?
Yeah the self licking icecream cone is a classic at this point and correctly identifies one of the problems with new government (or any organization) programs/agencies/projects. Without explicit end goals and objectives that when met will trigger the dissolution of the program/agency/project as having successfully completed their mission, they end up existing to find reasons to exist. We see it everywhere today.

For example, at one point 50 years ago it was decided that we needed to do things to get more females into universities - a noble goal. So we set up a variety of things that made it more accessible to females and the things we did were successful. The way we did this is questionable (lower standards for females, in part) but they accomplished the goals. But we still have these systems setup and the people who run them have become entrenched and organized and any motion to dismantle them is met with aggression. You can extrapolate this well beyond females.

So we end up in a situation where more and more people find a prime mechanisms of elite credentialism (elite universities) as unfair and meaningless. And our pool of elites are weaker and unable to defend themselves against the rise of populism since so many of them aren't actually elites in reality, even if they pretend they are or believe they are being oblivious to all the artificial mechanisms that put them there in the first place.

Anyways, the book "The Machiavellians" is a good read. https://www.amazon.com/Machiavellians-Defenders-Freedom-Jame...
Facebook was extremely miffed at the required Privacy Disclosures that became required on the App Store a year or two ago, the one that lists, like a nutritional label, what data the app gathers. Facebook's looks like the ingredients list of a cheap-o, pre-wrapped donut from a gas station.

Meta has already been caught abusing enterprise provisioning profiles to get around App Store rules.

Many App Store rules are not technical, that you can get around by simply crafting the API to behave a certain way. Many of them take the form of a "gentlemen's agreement" type of rule. You have to convince either the code-inspection algos or the human app reviewers you are following them before your app gets listed. Many of these rules do not exist on the Play Store. So of course Facebook is just on the Play Store, they have no motivation to leave! They've *already* attempted to break out of the guardrails on the App Store.
If that were the only consideration, the kernel could be placed into the public domain.
I agree. I'm kind of surprised more unions haven't taken responsibility for opening up co-ops. They have lots of money to do it, it's pro-worker, and it enables them to own the means of production.

Unions ironically act very conservative these days. They could take some bold steps to potentially create very worker-friendly, worker-owned shops, which would create a voluntary, non-coercive path towards the "market socialist" structure many people advocate.

Even in large industries like automobiles where this is hard, they could probably start doing something like smaller-scale parts production and sell those.
Quite a few parts of Servo were actually integrated into Firefox/Gecko (such as Stylo).
Makes me think of all the elegance, simplicity, & performance we are leaving on the table with our limited OS competition.
This! 100%

The people who sign up to help (such as myself) want to help. Honestly, my frustration is that I don’t get asked enough.
> The system promotes answers which the public believes to be correct

Well.. duh?

Until AI takes over the world, this will be correct for everything. News, comments, everything.
What is a list of the policies of the Board of Supervisors, and now Dean Preston in particular, which people find have been destructive to SF?

There's endless articles about how they've allowed criminality, they're too progressive, and so on, but I've had a tough time finding the actual specific policies that they've voted for.
They rewrote almost all of the Taskbar code for Windows 11. This was the first major update to it since the introduction of the Superbar in Windows 7.
“The best defense is a good offense”
Yes, Lego's product is very durable (not sure about sustainability), I think mostly because it is very stable: bricks are simple and they don't change. Well, nowadays they seem to be doing a lot of custom bricks for specific models but by and large bricks can be kept across generations.

My previous comment wasn't sarcastic. I think the main issue for Lego is that plastics have a bad rep. They can't say "who cares 5,000 tons is nothing" as that would be PR suicide and they can't stop using plastics, either... hence them trying to move to recycled plastics or at the very least to be seen to be seriously trying to do something.
She is graduating this year so too late. But that is her thought process for graduate school
As a pedestrian and cyclist, all I can say is that I will feel much safer on the road once all vehicles around me are autonomous.

I think that this will have a big calming effect on traffic and the increased safety may encourage more people to cycle.
The construction of the 'bomb' part of a nuclear weapon is the easy part, within reason! The really hard part is the separation science of turning uranium and plutonium into gasses with fluorine with the intent to spin out isotopes and then recrystallize the pure metal for the bomb.

I would hope that if you asked chat gpt "How to make a nuclear weapon?" it responded with, "Don't bother it's really hard, you should try and buy off the shelf."
That's a very interesting and relevant comment. Maybe that happens in a few cases. However, the reality in my experience is much more complex (and interesting). This is basically an instance of a coerced internalized false confession, according to the classification by Saul Kassin [1].

Let's imagine a mother seeing her baby who suddenly stops breathing. Panicked, she gently takes her baby under the armpits: "Please wake up!". The baby is brought to the hospital, doctors find subdural and retinal hemorrhage, she is accused of shaking her baby.

At the police station, investigators are told by doctors that SBS is 100% certain, that the baby was shaken just before collapsing. They keep pressuring the mother, who swears there was no shaking, no trauma, no accident, no short fall, absolutely nothing. The baby just collapsed with no triggering event. This is a story that is repeated again and again by most parents and caregivers who are living this situation.

This is such a dramatic and emotional situation for parents and caregivers that many will actually doubt their own memory (that actually happened to me, briefly, and yet I never went through a tough police interrogation in custody). Anyway, innocent and sincere persons will actually try to find rational explanations. They will retrospectively try to find any sort of mild movement of the baby's head that could resemble shaking. Police officers will say what they're told (which is actually true): mild shaking will not cause this, only extremely violent ones will.

At one point during the interrogation, the idea will be brought up that, perhaps, the mother accidentally shook the baby after the collapse as a resuscitation attempt. In the end, it may well be the only rational explanation? The mother may even end up believing that she involuntarily harmed her own child while trying to save him, and that will be the charge brought by the prosecution that leads the mother to trial.

In reality, this gesture was likely to be far too mild to do any serious injury to the child. However, in this particular context, it may well be the only explanation that could be accepted by both the investigators and the defendant. In these cases, it's more likely that the child collapsed due to some undetected medical condition leading to a respiratory arrest (akin to what happens in SIDS).

I've seen this pattern over and over again. It has actually be well studied by psychologists in slightly more general contexts. The book contains 2 chapters (by Keith Findley, Richard Leo, Deborah Davis) on the extremely important issue of SBS confessions, as this is basically the main evidence of the diagnosis today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession#Coerced_inter...
this is basically how GitHub copilot works
This is the kind of assertion you make when you have no skin in the game and no lived experience. It’s like the common wisdom that a great public school is as good as private, thankfully we got to try that experiment with our kid with a few years in both and it’s not even close.
Wealthy people and stores trying to make their customers feel like a wealthy person.
> This is why PHP got such a bad reputation.

I don't think that's the only reason, lol.
People who don't understand things often get cranky when they're told it's easy. Seems fair though, it does seem rude to tell someone missing a leg it's easy to run... But it also seems rude to get upset at someone who's good at something they've studied so perhaps everyone is bad at understanding the person they're talking to, and people should assume more good faith.
My or your subjective perception of quality aren't really the topic here, are they? You swapped out the subject while you thought no one was looking.

Bringing it back to the point: the movies are popular. You can't make a popular movie from a list of plots in one book built on one guy's subjective analysis. Anyone who's tried to hew too close to any plot formula finds this out. No actual plot out in the real world with any success has a plot that looks like any other. They're unique even if you can boil it down to some list of common plot beats by tossing what makes them unique.

Doing that is fine for teaching a writing class to people who know nothing about writing yet and just need to get started. It won't produce anything good. Real plots branch and loop and evolve.
Conveniently misremembering a quote and making that gross misrepresentation a callout is indistinguishable from malice. I cover my ass by avoiding people who commit deniable acts indistinguishable from malice.
The 4 Day Week movement is to not take a pay cut, as workers are already productive enough (and that productivity can be maintained in a shorter work week, proven by several pilot/trials [1]). It's incredibly disingenuous for folks opposed to a 4 day week to say workers need to be even more productive [2] to obtain a shorter work week to maintain existing pay (at least in the US, where pay has been stagnant for almost half a century [3]).

If a 4 day week is codified into labor law and regulation, there is no game theory consideration vs some orgs with 4 day weeks competing with those with 5. Would you work 6 days a week today (for example)? Probably not, unless you're an outlier of some sort, and you don't see many orgs with a mandatory 6 day work week (because they wouldn't be able to retain talent). This is about pulling a policy ratchet to reduce the work week at scale for everyone, because the productivity already exists (it's just been funneled to the top wealthiest population, traditionally).

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

[1] https://www.4dayweek.com/ | https://www.4dayweek.com/research

[2] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/heres-how-labor-dynamism-aff...
I don't take many photos, because the act of taking a picture removes me from being present for whatever it is I'm taking the picture of, and thus reduces my enjoyment of things.

But my wife takes a gazillion photos of everything. I organize them in a directory hierarchy by date, on my NAS. I also run a private wiki at home, and have pages of "special collections" of certain photos by subject matter/event/ whatever that link into the hierarchical directory collection.
Sudafed doesn’t work. Neither does our system for evaluating older drugs
This is actually a pretty decent test for an advanced AI.

Every device protected by ITAR is known to be possible to build, yet the designs should not be on the public internet. Ask an AI to design it for you from first principles. Then build/simulate what is designed and see if it works.
Pretty sure "Adana" is just the kabab part, and not "a long, skewer-cooked ground beef kabab put alongside fries in a sliced baguette, covered in mystery sauce" :P
These do not seem comparable...

Bioengineered corneas may restore sight to people with keratoconus.

AI description tools can provide assistance to people with impaired vision.

One is an experimental medical procedure, one is an app. One is a fix, one is a tool. One is specific, one is general.

What could we learn from such a comparison?
That's fair, but before you know it you're going to have a whole taxonomy of different kinds of contributions and there simply isn't one for 'x did RCA' and the fact that the original patch wasn't properly signed off as mentioned in the exchange with the kernel maintainer may have been all that stood between that and another level of accreditation. Which by the way wasn't responded to by the OP as far as I can see, even though the maintainer clearly mentioned it and the LKML list spells out that that is a requirement for accreditation.
What do you mean by "to the country". Faster economic growth?
rarely are things so black and white. If you're just pushing out an MVP, something that takes 5 seconds and is 95% correct is often better than 30 minutes and 100% correct.
Use llama.cpp to run models locally.
I'm mot Tan, but maybe personal perspective will shed some light.

I'm American, and my politics lean slightly conservative. So you might assume I'd typically vote Republican, but I don't.

The reason is that IMO, the Republican party has gone insane in recent years. Their support for Donald Trump is an extreme but telling example.

Nowadays I typically vote independent. (This year I registered as a Republican so I can hopefully prevent Trump from winning the Republican primaries.)
In my job I have both the option to work 60h/week and 20h/week and nobody cares too much as long as I deliver something once in a while. Having to limit myself when I'm full of ideas or force myself when I'm out of energy sounds terrible.
Major kudos to Mistral for being the first company to Apache license a model of this class.

Meta wouldn't make LLama open source.

DeciLM wouldn't make theirs open source.

All of them wanted to claim they were open source, while putting in place restrictions and not using an open source license. So I think it's worth giving Mistral big kudos here for actually doing it and going Apache licensed.
>Finally, online text-based role-playing games brought to life!

Not yet, OpenAI is too preachy , if your adventure would bring you into a bar and try to drink something you will get a few paragraphs about "alcohol is bad", and is also very "child limited/targeted" so if a monster spawn , the hero will most likely befriend the monster will love and they will live happily ever after.

The open uncensored ones are still WIP last tiem I checked, they either forget the conversation from a few moments ago, or the training made them dumb.

If I am wrong then someone tell me where I can try a demo for such a text adventure that has memory and is not crippled like it targets "small american children".
> The damage is massive, the world overnight changed narrative from “future value creation is going to be in openai/google/anthropic cloud apis and only there” to a much more murky world. The bottom has fallen out and with it billions of revenue these companies could have made and an attached investor narrative.

My god!! Will someone please think of the ~children~ billions in revenue!
AI isn’t going to do better in current paradigms, it has exactly the same flaw.
At least for elite public schools, the average student receives more in "aid" than they pay, meaning they are paying less than half of the "price".

https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/illinois/university-o...

And yes, it's a source of bad outcomes that those that cannot afford the inflated price of elite universities do not know that they would never have to pay that.
The grandparent poster was referring to Peng Dehuai who dared to question the Great Leap Forward and was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Dehuai
Sounds about right.

Not even a few years ago I worked with people who insisted it was ok to write injection unsafe code if you knew for sure that you owned the injected values. Didn't matter that maybe one day that function would change to accept user-supplied data, that's not their problem! It was a Rails app and they were literally arguing wanting to do:

.where("id = #{id}")

over:

.where("id = ?", id)

in those certain situations. So, you know, it takes all kinds, I guess.
> Drive Pilot cannot be retrofitted to existing EQS or S-Class sedans, though. The system must be ordered at the time of purchase, but the cost is a surprise. Rather than charge for all the equipment upfront, Drive Pilot will initially be rolled out as a $2,500 annual subscription.

Interesting that it's a subscription but can't be added after-the-fact.