skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that it's practically illegal for someone living in South Korea to publish anything positive about the DPRK (North Korea)[1][2][3].

> [Amnesty International] described the National Security Act as a tool to harass and arbitrarily prosecute individuals and civil society organizations who are peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, opinion and association.

It's important to understand voices like this in the broader context of the Korean War, which is technically still ongoing, and manifests today largely as an economic and propaganda war, as well as an entrenched territorial stalemate.

DPRK "defectors" often get international media attention, and then their claims are surprisingly commonly debunked in following years[4].

For example, Yeonmi Park became famous in 2014, making startling claims about living in the DPRK— children being forced to eat mud, not taught basic math (even 1+1=2), and had no access to world maps or ice cream. Many of her claims were debunked, even by other defectors[5]. Despite her seemingly clear lack of credibility, many US media figures continue to host her for interviews.

Sometimes defectors even admit they lied after becoming internationally famous and publishing a best seller, such as Shin Dong Hyuk[6].

The claim of the OP's author (couldn't get recognition for my work in DPRK) is especially ironic for this reason. In South Korea and the West, there is a thriving media industry focusing on the harrowing stories of people from the North.

Also note, South Korea pays a reward of $860,000 to cooperating defectors[7], and has been accused of trafficking and forcing DPRK citizens to defect against their will[8][9]. When defectors arrive in South Korea, they are put through a rigorous interrogation, deprogramming, Christian indoctrination, and naturalization program at an institution called Hanawon. One defector noted, "At Hanawon, it seemed that I was being brainwashed again, even though I had arrived in freedom."

1. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-debat...

2. https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/05/28/south-korea-cold-war-rel...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_(South_K...

4. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-k...

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park#Veracity_of_claims

6. https://www.businessinsider.com/a-north-korean-gulag-survivo...

7. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39170614

8. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/world/asia/north-korea-wa...

9. https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/8...
You’re spending $2k/mo run this?? Holy hell.
A lot! i've just written everything down here: https://jerrynsh.com/a-look-back-on-7-years-of-automating-st... it was alot of fun and a good reminder of why i started programming

the one that meant the most for me was earlier this year, I made an add-on for me and my friends that automatically syncs esports matches (e.g. Valorant, CS, LoL etc.) to Google Calendar . Things took some turns 10 months later I now have 100+ users (https://tournacat.com/).
Mithril is one of those tools that you use and intuitively feel that it makes the right tradeoffs.
Just another third party booking service. Last month a rental from Budget through Costco travel for a six days in CA was around $340. The same thing on rentalcars.com was over $500.
I loved the video about hyperbolic space!
There still isn’t a satisfactory answer to what will happen to all this vacant commercial real estate. The situation isn’t going to improve in the long term, so it makes no sense for investors to hodl all this vacant land and make no use of it
He is putting a high amount of stress on Shopify servers. OpenAI is already in trouble with data scraping practices. Hypothetically if this site becomes successful one day, people will do whatever it takes to become #1 on the search results page and will drive business to only a handful of companies.
I shop there for only my wife and I and it’s perfect. I’m curious - what products come in quantities that don’t make sense?
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Cats, dogs, cows, and other animals have better learning capabilities than deep learning systems. This is specifically because most DL systems are frozen, compressed snapshots of a static training distribution. The deployment distribution is not only dynamic, but malleable: output of the model changes the distribution of 'correct' outputs for most nontrivial tasks. Continuous unsupervised retraining and fine tuning is beyond the capabilities of deep learning.
For clothing and shoes, I order 3 sizes, and return 2.
Moby Dick hit me like no novel before or since. A poem in prose form. Attention paid to the littlest of details on the ship, searching for meaning or purpose. A meaning or purpose unveiled in one chapter, but then refuted in the next. Ahab a profound character, who modern critics and teachers will often simply label as “evil” or the “bad guy”. He is a man who has experienced injustice and seeks to pierce the very veil of God/justice to find out why. Is that mad? Yes…but mad in a radically honest sort of way. The White Whale…so many things all at once: a fierce creature, our mortality, injustice, justice, natures power, God Himself. And then the ending…an apocalypse that one survives because of..a coffin. I still think about that novel every couple of weeks. Just stunning.
Shopify shops always have /collections, /products, and /pages in their URL. If you have a regular Shopify site, you're not allowed to change them. I don't know if Shopify Plus clients can change them.

Shopify sites also have shop-name.com/products.json which has URLs that point to cdn.shopify.com
Costco's median gross profit margin is about 12%. (Walmart's is about double that.)

Annual inventory turns: about 12x.
(1.5x as fast as Walmart.)
Why not hire specifically for "diversity of perspectives, thoughts, and opinions" then? Why bring race into it?
I've definitely noticed that already. Any advice on how to spot that?

Another challenge is that there are products sold on the original site and third-party marketplaces, both of which could sell on Shopify. So need to find a way to automatically detect the type of store.
Historically, bitkeeper directly led to git.

But you're saying arch, then monotone, came before bitkeeper? What innovations did each provide?

(git's innovation was content-based addressing, so the data structure does the heavy lifting. bitkeeper used sha1 hashes for decentralization - was that its main contribution?)

Probably the internet enabled the decentralized version control Cambrian explosion (or, at least, a Cambrian explosion)

BTW: funfact re "merging": bitkeeper had first-class renaming, which git lost. A process of subtraction as well as addition.
What's your revenue model? I see you expanded on the details of your $1.5K monyhly cost, but failing to see how you make money? Affiliates fees?
There are exceptions. The Niche Zero coffee grinder is direct from manufacturer but is high quality.

In addition a lot of what they sell in stores is crap. To the point I would go online to find the same thing to get better quality. The caveat being caveat emptor: DYOR.
I’ve read opinions, perhaps presented as facts, that transforming commercial buildings into residential units was often more expensive than tearing down the whole building and starting from scratch.

If that’s true, there seems to be a large opportunity available to those who can figure out how to transform those buildings in a way cheaper than what’s currently possible.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759

> Our long term vision is to build a universal chat app (https://blog.beeper.com/p/were-building-the-best-chat-app-on). Over the next few months, we will be adding support for SMS/RCS, WhatsApp, Signal and 12 other chat networks into Beeper Mini. At that point, we’ll drop the `Mini` postfix. We’re also rebuilding our Beeper Desktop and iOS apps to support our new ‘client-side bridge’ architecture that preserves full end-to-end encryption. We’re also renaming our first gen apps to ‘Beeper Cloud’ to more clearly differentiate them from Beeper Mini.
The title is very misleading given it still has downtime for at least several seconds.

Also, it's super tedious work, and mistakes could happen during any step. Lastly, this updage is deeply coupled with application logic. Already feel a pain.

Why don't you just use aurora, then it's 0-downtime going forward?
> It's not falsifiable.

Neither is Popper's Falsification Theory. The only thing that pointing this out demonstrates is that a theory does not fit under Popper's specific definition of normative science... which in the philosophy of science itself is not held in particularly high regard.

So what you're basically pointing out is that, according to one very specific philosopher of science, Freud is more philosophy than he is normative science. Which is something that I think virtually all advocates of Freud would uncontroversially agree with.
> Tick tock, business model.

With reputable retailers one doesn't have to worry about getting a fake item, unlike Amazon. And if one really wants a QOWXYZ brand product, it's half the price or less on AliExpress or Temu.

Amazon seems to be in a place where they're getting harder to trust every day, but way more expensive than the dubious direct from China sellers.
Thanks! It is reasonably fast but slow enough that a cue is needed so I know the input triggered.
In most case the two you return are discarded. I don’t think that’s sustainable in the long run.
Yeah also compare western Europe to America. As we have much better welfare and higher taxes, income inequality is much lower here in Europe. And in particular violent crime is much much lower as a result.

I'm not saying going full communist is an option but all out everyone-for-themselves capitalism doesn't work either. And really why do people need to be able to have billions? They can never use it up in their lifetime anyway.
/broadly waves at the universe
It has always bugged me that the model is that space time around a black hole is non Euclidean space that light cannot escape from. How does anything approach a sphere that is surrounded by space that is so distorted? Is not everything suspended in the last few (Euclidean) meters before the event horizon?
I want curation/acountability and someone to sue tho.
25 million products is really not much at all to scrape.
But then those are by definition not UI tests.

In an ideal world one might argue that everything testing-worthy (ie. the logic-heavy parts) is already factored out from the UI components but getting to that point either needs a good amount of foresight and discipline or some a lot of refactoring which is difficult to trust without existing UI tests...
Physob brands have been launching online-only, even Amazon-only for a long time. Anger is one who built a popular brand with only an Amazon presence.
For most non-perishables it’s the most time efficient in minimizing the number of trips. Also given how often I go, ~once a month, each time I get the same sort of novelty as a Trader Joe's for they will have swapped out many items.
hyperlulz indeed
That is correct. You invested $100k in developing a new product. Even if you fired your developer today, that product will earn you income for years to come. The general principle is that when you make investments (versus pay operating expenses), you can't deduct the cost of the investment up front, you have to deduct it over the "life" of the investment. In the case of developed software, it's "life" is deemed to be 5 or 15 years for tax purposes.

Previously they made an exception for some kinds of R&D (versus other kinds of investments), so that they could be deducted all in the first year, within certain parameters. The TCJA took away that special treatment (to pay for overall tax rate cuts).
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It’s 100% true. Their profits primarily come from membership fees. I believe their markup is capped at a maximum of 15%.
"It's my VR-deployed SMERF CLIP model with LLM integration, and I want it now!"

It is funny how quickly goalposts move! I love to see progress though, and wow, is progress happening fast!
When has being stocked by big boxes been a sign of quality? Maybe real old school department stores zzz but Walmart and Target?
Amazing! Does it have an api?
I bought some CubeCola concentrate [1] which seems to be based on this. It's pretty good!

[1] https://cube-cola.org/
> and almost across the board salaries in France are 1/2 to 1/3 what they are in the USA for many professions...

Healthcare costs could help to make up for that for many employees. The average American spent ~$13,000 in health care expenses in 2022, but a full time employee making minimum wage only gets ~$15,000 a year. Even if someone earns twice the minimum wage, healthcare costs will eat a huge percentage of what they'd earn.

Obviously software in the US is an exception, although here too wages and benefits are being slashed at every opportunity. The tech industry is hard at work suppressing wages and hiring from a global pool of talent (and waiting for AI to replace employees) so jobs in software might not stay so nice for very long, except for a select few with the most rare skills.
I made my own tab manager as a Chrome extension, it gives some statistics, and let me filter out tabs.

I wish the grouping API was available on Chrome, even if the docs say they are, they just don't work properly.
This is why rsync or it's user-friendly counterpart syncthing better. Seems like that old comment did have a point after all.

Glad I never gave in and used this nonesense.
> better

I don't mean to be pedantic or flippant, but it really depends how you measure. By any measure of correctness, a Casio calculator manufactured in the 1980s has superior intelligence to a human. I would just say "different", personally.
> Is not everything suspended in the last few (Euclidean) meters before the event horizon?

No. The "distortion" doesn't prevent things from falling in; it helps things to fall in. The event horizon, heuristically, is the point at which the "helping things to fall in" becomes strong enough that even outgoing light can't overcome it.
Somewhat? Browser cookies can literally contain anything (not just session identifiers, or authentication tokens), I've only heard JWT pronounced "Jay-double you-tea" (but maybe that's regional), Macaroons[0] and Maracrons[1] are French (given clever-cloud is french, this is strange), OPA doesn't need to be server side.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron
Because the obligation was to meet the requirements in 2025 and FCC basically just subjectivity said 2 years before the deadline they don’t think they will.
Having been young more recently I can help you remember what you may have forgotten. Being young comes with a lot of stressors that take away from your agency, and your ability to see any positive outcome from effort. Whether that is relentless potential demand from a parent, inability to choose what to eat or do, or study, where to go, no car, no money, mate competition, etc. I found education to be very enjoyable in elementary school, then horrible in my teens, but very enjoyable in my early 20s when i had a bank account with even just 10k in it. Teachers treated me like shit in middle school by default, and in high school it was definitely harrassment. The material was often not rich enough to support the duration I was required to sit and stare at it. I was required to ask permission to urinate. The teachers may not have been intelligent enough to understand a persuasive argument in an essay. Math was the only consistently good outlier.

In university the worse a teacher ever was to me was bad or ambivalent, but the educational resources were so deep personal pursuit felt like it had infinite potential.

Im assuming at 40 years old these things have all been forgotten. Im sure the same is happening to me.
"Substantial subset" is precisely the claim here that I have my doubts about. I think it is entirely possible (for the reason I gave previously) that AGI is at least as far beyond level 5 autonomy as level 5 autonomy is from the current state of road vehicle automation.
I don't know much about Freud and his theories - but as one example - I'd say that his concept of defense mechanisms seems pretty spot on.

The last few years have given us many examples of psychological projection.
Well, two weeks ago.
Wonder how much of that is CostCo members generally being higher income/lower risk.
I kept getting lost in the diversions so much I felt they took away from the story. I'd love to read a version with them all removed. I feel like it would be 1/4 as long.
Aside: The ending of the 1948 "The Red Shoes" was funny to me, but I think I was a little loopy after slogging thru it. I don't know if I recommend it or not.
That's why you have to pay the "first world price" you were complaining about above. You can't have it both ways: either pay the first-world price and get curation/accountability, or pay the direct-from-China price and get neither.
The piece of BitKeeper I wish people would steal is the smerge gca conflict format. See https://www.bitkeeper.org/man/smerge.html
Example:

<<<<<<< local slib.c 1.642.1.6 vs 1.645
sc = sccs_init(file, INIT_NOCKSUM|INIT_SAVEPROJ, s->proj);
- assert(sc->tree);
- sccs_sdelta(sc, sc->tree, file);
+ assert(HASGRAPH(sc));
+ sccs_sdelta(sc, sccs_ino(sc), file);
<<<<<<< remote slib.c 1.642.1.6 vs 1.642.2.1
- sc = sccs_init(file, INIT_NOCKSUM|INIT_SAVEPROJ, s->proj);
+ sc = sccs_init(file, INIT_NOCKSUM|INIT_SAVEPROJ, p);
assert(sc->tree);
sccs_sdelta(sc, sc->tree, file);
>>>>>>>

Here we have a code conflict and rather than showing you what the file looks like on the two sides it shows you what was changed on both sides relative to the GCA. So we get two unified diffs. The local side made this edit, while on the remote side we had that edit. Then it is obvious how to resolve the conflict without losing a change.

This works for the cris-cross case because that GCA is really a set of common revisions merged together.
Nothing he wrote after it experienced more than modest success, while much of his output was rejected or criticized. His health and finances declined. He was forced to abandon writing as the main source of his income. His family worried for his sanity. He was little read at the time of his death.
This is a good critique and I think the class focus of this article is its big weakness, but nevertheless I think the are many valuable observations that make it a worthwhile read.
And the reason for the ban, which I think many American readers are missing. The ban was demanded by the trade unions. While the union members could probably be relied on to use PPE appropriately, they would also have to charge for it. They would lose jobs to non-union shops doing things faster and cheaper, who pass the costs onto the public when untrained workers end up in the public health system and on disability pensions.
I'd argue otherwise. With electronic self-publishing, you are completely free to experiment, and have an audience potentially all over the (English-speaking) world.

But it's not going to make you world-famous, save for unique exceptional cases. It will likely will not directly bring you wealth from sales, or actually any considerable money. Ah, and the printed book is a gimmick that only a part of your audience would still appreciate; literature and paper are much like music and vinyl.

You can still become truly world-famous and well-off if your book becomes a basis of a movie, or ideally several; see e.g. Harry Potter or The Song of Fire and Ice. Granted, they not a completely realistic, but neither is Moby-Dick, or Hundred Years of Solitude, or, say, Don Quixote, which basically started the whole "novel" thing.
Right now, charging Shopify store owners $99 / product / month to give them a 'verified' tag and boost their product in search results. Currently not making money on affiliate fees.

I wanted to first prove that people would actually use this / find value in it. Fortunately a few merchants have reached out already via email to talk through the business model so this will likely evolve as we learn more.
> "If you or your team is participating in the Dropbox AI alpha, the Third-party AI toggle in your account settings is turned On by default. Only the content relevant to an explicit request or command is sent to our third-party AI partners to generate an answer, summary, or transcript."

It turns itself back on???
So, what's the point of the toggle then?
Mind you, black holes require high (infinite) density, but can exist at arbitrary mass. It'll just be smaller.
It is! I had looked it up in the meantime.
I think some people in this thread are saying there are 3 categories, not 2.

Every medicine/supplement/remedy makes 3 claims:

1. Features ('What' it is - ingredient identity, potency, purity, quality)
2. Advantages ('How' it works and how it is different - the 'mechanism of action')
3. Benefits ('Why' the consumer cares - pain avoiders and gain creators)

So, there are 3 distinct categories:

1. regulated Pharmaceuticals should have good evidence for Features, Advantages, and Benefits

2. Unregulated 'Nutraceuticals/dietary supplements' often have good evidence for Features and Advantages, that is they have SOME mechanism of action that does something, but sometimes they fail to deliver on Benefits (especially big marketing claims).

3. Homeopathic remedies and similar do not deliver on Advantages or Benefits. Sometimes they don't even deliver on Features (they have different ingredients than what they claim). These do not have a mechanism of action that makes any sense whatsoever. You couldn't even run a good Randomized double blind placebo controlled study if you wanted to because the proposed mechanism makes almost zero sense.

'pharmaceuticals' and 'nutraceuticals/dietary supplements' can both have legitimate mechanism of actions for them with good studies. Fish oil, Creatine, Protein Powder, and similar supplements all have very well-studied mechanisms of action (Advantages) for the benefits they provide.

I understand that there are tons of scammy supplements, but they need to be treated differently than homeopathic remedies by consumers. One should be taken seriously, but treated skeptically, and the other should be dismissed from first principles.
The GCHQ Christmas Challenge 2023
You need SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege to create symlinks in both Win 10 and Win 11.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
Compared to an unknown, yeah, the store brands at Walmart and Target do communicate some reasonable minimum level of quality.

I think Walmart does a better job of it than a lot of smaller grocers. "Great Value" whatever will be pretty cheap (in terms of both cost and value), but it won't be garbage in a package.
It seems they did repeatedly say they could do it but fcc just ignored them.
Oh, I am not skeptical of objective reality. The operative phrase is the second part, viz. ".... that we can access." Also don't interpret this as giving up, but rather than there are boundaries to what is accessible - while we can push the horizon further and further back, we can never be fully "outside" the system.
If you're already on AWS, I recommend switching to postgres for now. For context, I have 3 RDS instances, each multi zone, with the biggest instance storing several billion records. My total bill for all 3 last month was $661.

Postgres has full text search, vector search, and jsonb. With jsonb you can store and index json documents like you would in Mongo.

- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch.html
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-rd...