skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is your take on ecommerce businesses that generate most revenue from a single platform, e.g. Amazon or Shein or TikTok?

It’s not something I do due to the “concentrated risk” you mentioned. Scaling can be done, sometimes quite easily and effectively (e.g., Amazon ads can be quite efficient at scaling).

In general, I try to avoid or minimize exposure to capricious single points of failure, especially in sales/marketing, production, and/or distribution. I consider most large tech companies to fall into the capricious category unless I have someone on the inside who can make things right for me. This access to insiders is not as robust as I would like, but I’m working on it.

All that said, I know plenty of quite successful business owners who have gone all in on a single platform like Amazon or YT.

Regarding the roll ups, i think many of the businesses were bought at unreasonably high values. The linked article refers to this.

Covid changed many markets, in some ways permanent, and in other ways temporary. I was passing a lot on what I considered unreasonable prices for certain businesses. I could have played hot potato, but there was no reason to do so.
It's hilarious, Chen has been doing this right - on the bleeping internets for all to see - for thirty years and we've greenhorns going "Nah, mate, you're doing it wrong."
> That's a completely different argument and much less alarming.

Actually, it's just as alarming. The entity behind the chatbot might be a separate legal entity, but that doesn't absolve the airline, who outsourced a function bound to their terms and conditions.

If they literally tried to absolve blame by assigning personhood and liability to the bot, that's insanely bad.
For me it reads more "technically unable, or too lazy to make a blog".
At what point should we stop considering the unstated or not explicitly codified thoughts of the writers of the Constitution?

I swore an oath to defend that cloth multiple times and at this point it’s not clear that it holds up to 21st century scrutiny for being the kind of governing document we would create, should we have an opportunity to do so.
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The thing is, everybody didn't "just believe" them. What I find really weird about this moment in time is how the roles appear to have been flipped. I'm old enough to remember when it was the right wing / business / pro-capitalism side of US politics calling out recycling as big sham (e.g. the Penn and Teller BS episode on recycling was 2004, though how "right wing" you consider that depends on your view of libertarian politics). So it's sort of weird to me to watch the modern story about how recycling was a lie propagated by big business and its supporters on the innocent American people, and the predictable reactionary response from the right wing reflexively defending what they were previously decrying. We finally have something everyone agrees on and yet we're still arguing about it. Probably because like most political topics its a proxy for a different discussion entirely. Just a weird moment in time.
Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor - U3224KB is pretty good.

The same as the `Pro Display XDR` but with more ports, and half the cost.
It was quite an ordeal!

Our hardware engineering partner subcontracted the design to a team of industrial designers they'd worked with in the past. We ordered prototypes of the design from both China and vendors in the US. The Chinese versions were better by leaps and bounds.[0]

We iterated a few times from there and eventually landed on a design we liked and worked with the Chinese vendor to produce the first few thousand. The Chinese vendor kept running into issues, though, so they were producing them at about 50% the speed they quoted, which was just barely enough to keep up with our sales.

When we switched to the contract manufacturer, they took over manufacturing the cases in Vietnam. They had trouble getting started as well, but they got the hang of it after a couple of months and can produce cases much faster than we consume them.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2022/11/#with-metal-cases-...
Humans won't fabricate too much but when confronted with yes/no questions and they have a 50-50 shot of being right and any blowback will likely be on someone else....they'll answer whatever to get you out of their hair.

Case in point, I asked my bank if they had any FX conversion fees or markup. Guy said no. I asked if there was any markup on the spread. Said no. Guess what? They absolutely mark up that spread. Their exchange rates are terrible. Just because there isn't a line-item with a fee listed doesn't mean there isn't a hidden fee in there. He's either incompetent or a liar.
My attempt to generalize it because i dont think it its only true of apis.

With enough consumers, all observable system behaviors will be relied upon, regardless of the promises made by the system provider.
Those are only soft to a human. I looked at a couple and I picked them correctly but I don't know what details the classifier was seeing which I was blind to. Not to say it was correct, just that we can't call them soft just because they're short and easy for a human.

> The bar is the file utility.

It has higher accuracy than that. You would reject it just because the failures are different even though they're less?
"Decentralized" social network Farcaster criticized after confiscating channel
> The automotive industry, with its increasing reliance on advanced electronics for everything from engine control units to driver assistance systems, demands materials that can consistently perform under challenging conditions with defects under one part per billion, which translates to one defect per billion kilometers. Copper’s inherent properties, such as its high melting point and excellent electrical conductivity, make it particularly suited for these requirements.
Bad tech can impact or even tank deals, but it's not a primary determination. I suggest thinking what you would check, if asked to do due diligence on a 3P site, and figuring out where to put any efforts. For example, if your CI is red, is it actually an asset or just more noise/complexity?
> But Xi doesn't rule China alone, the CCP does

Xi has consolidated power in himself to an extent not seen since Mao, maybe Stalin. Xi controls the CCP and has no rivals alive (anymore.)
well im a dope, I never noticed the edit option. So if I edit the hunk and toggle the subset of changes I don't want, I'll get prompted to accept the diff of the diff? brb I need to go try this.
But how happy are they?
Ask HN: Short story that was posted to HN
Trying to locate a short story that I believe was posted here a few months ago. It took place on a spaceship that contained a digital archive of all of human knowledge. At some point, one of the characters made a grave error and overwrote some important mathematical constants, causing the ship to start making erroneous computations. They noticed that the time on their wrist watch was drifting away from the time on the ship's main computer.

Any ideas? Searching the web didn't turn anything up.
It's astonishing how easy it is to get people to forget about purchasing power. Even here in HN you often see people use that in "they don't make 'em like they used to" type threads.
AI Hype. Same applies to NVidia(40x sales valuation! The pickaxe seller).

Their technology can be easily replicated given enough time, just look at open source LLMs already beating GPT3. Google, Claude and others showing their strengths, already par to GPT-4 and even better in some scenarios.

Training is expensive, but it isn't expensive up to what they are valued at.

It's good because that capital likely made a few folks rich enough that they can consider pursuing their own companies, I'm curious about this.

I find it hard to believe the current products OpenAI offers will have good revenue streams given to how competition is catching up, low pricing power and how specialized deep learning typically beats LLMs or most of the things they offer.

I had even higher expectations when I saw this beginning, hoping that AI Startups would be able to do things that were previously not scalable with LLMs or OpenAI APIs, but haven't been able to see much here.

The biggest winner on this play was clearly Microsoft, that managed to create a new product line, both with Github Copilot and Copilot to sell to businesses.
This initially sounded pretty good until I thought it through. Democratizing access to council and forcing troll lawyers to deal with trolling bots seems good but it will shape up like other spam arms races while legal systems gear up to deal with the ddos attacks. Good for spammers and most entrenched players, bad for the public at large.

Already we can’t manage to prosecute ex presidents in a timely manner before the next election cycle. If delays seem absurd now what will it be like when anything and everything remotely legal takes 10+ years and already sky-high costs triple?
You just open game.p8 in an editor, save changes, and ctrl-r in Pico-8 to reload the game.
> The actual reason

It is a possible reason. Unlikely, since employees on the level of Karpathy already don't have to work for money.

Hype, vesting, or comments like yours, are background noise for these people.
Well...they lost, and now it made the news. Are they going to keep the chatbot? Is the judge going to so lenient next time, now that there's precedent of wrongdoing?
"whatever clever people decide" is a (lazy) cop-out. You're just saying "the right answer is the right answer. Easy! Just do that, and do it yesterday!!" Thanks Tautology Man. :-/

Acting like you're entitled to some (vaguely defined) perfect solution isn't a substantive technical discussion. If you don't know what you're even asking for (conjuring nebulous 'clever people' to fill in your blanks), then you don't know if it's even possible or not!

There are lots of "good enough" range estimate solutions (long used on older cars), but there's no perfect solution that will never over-estimate the range ever ever ever (not ever). If you 'solve' this by making the range estimate wildly pessimistic, the driver will simply learn to mistrust-and-adjust, and then you're right back where you started.
If NVIDIA could be easily replicated, Intel would have done it.
> This. Amartya Sen has claimed that two actual democracies have never been at war between each other. At least I find hard to find significant counterexamples in history.

Off the top of my head -- a war of 1812 between Great Britain and United States. Both countries were democracies at that time.
Dunno how “new” it is… I’ve definitely got a big price difference and I’m pretty sure others will to…

Twitter, Tesla, Neuralink, Boring… all the non space Musk corps…. Quarter million if I don’t have to move from Australia, half million to a million depending on where I was going if it requires moving to the USA… I’d do it… but I’d basically have the resignation letter already drafted from day one…

For the rockets… I’d probably be happy with their normal pay offer… not being a US citizen basically makes it impossible for me to apply for a job with SpaceX so I’d take what I could get lol… and since Elon is clearly just glued to his phone tweeting… it’s not going to be the Elon show… Gwynne Shotwell is running the company like a level headed and competent management executive, the place is full of competent engineers who seem like pretty well adjusted people when they talk about their experiences after leaving, and they all seem to leave for normal reasons…
high five I won't need to worry about this again
There’s definitely a sizeable chunk of pro-Russia in right wing circles. I’m reminded of those “I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat” t-shirts that were popular in Republican circles from the 2016 election.
As far as I know this is kind of the strategy of Russian propaganda. I would not be surprised if killing Navalny was done purposely shortly after the Tucker interview.

For a MAGA follower (if they ever hear about it and even know who Navalny is) such combinations induce a cognitive dissonance, which translates either into dispair or into open support of Putin after he killed his major critic, either way it would be a win. And the other side of US politics is in dispair wittnessing how the MAGA crowd handles this, which (from Putins point of view) hopefully makes people stresses enough about politics that they just don't want to hear it anymore.

This idea of confusion and despair is how he managed to get the Russians to stay so apolitical after a short optimistic phase in the 90s. Better not think about it — this is the message.
They're not liable for the things that come out of their employees' mouths?

Maybe my flight tickets aren't valid either because I foolishly purchased them on aircanada.com and their website is known to have bugs? Or the ticket lady punched the wrong thing into her computer? Or I should have known the plane was going to be overbooked?
> The point is that they aren’t election-specific issues.

According to you and the mainstream media, yes, but not the voters. The point is that if you don’t want other countries to tell us how much we suck, we can maybe stop sucking. And our own propaganda machine is doing a great job of getting in the way of that, all the way down to the kids on reddit telling you you’re a bad person if you don’t vote a certain way.

I won’t be voting for the incumbent for reasons that are supposedly not “election issues”.
How long do you think it would take them to move?
> civil war messaging?

I'm very certain every political party likes to pretend every election is a civil war.

Very odd selection you've chosen there.
What everyone is worried about happening is him following through on his threat of leaving NATO and "encouraging" Russia to invade NATO states.
Feds dismantle Russian GRU botnet built on 1k-plus home, small biz routers
+1 for Fluent Python. See also:

* Serious Python (https://nostarch.com/seriouspython) — deployment, scalability, testing, and more

* Practices of the Python Pro (https://www.manning.com/books/practices-of-the-python-pro) — learn to design professional-level, clean, easily maintainable software at scale, includes examples for software development best practices

* Intuitive Python (https://pragprog.com/titles/dmpython/intuitive-python/) — productive development for projects that last

* Advanced Python Mastery (https://github.com/dabeaz-course/python-mastery) — exercise-driven course on Advanced Python Programming that was battle-tested several hundred times on the corporate-training circuit for more than a decade
> “I asked for a widget, and you gave me one, and then when I showed it to you, you said, ‘That’s not a widget.’ This API is gaslighting me!”

The entire point, it should be noted, is to gaslight the app. But the API must be good enough at gaslighting that the app doesn't discover the lie.
I'll be interested to hear whether he's still using it like this in 3 months.
> but is clearly violating it in spirit

Huh?

If the EU imposes additional requirements on aquarium lights, and a lighting manufacture decides not to product aquarium lights.....that's violating the spirit of the law?
Oh I still do that often enough, lol.
It's short for "Palestine Action" and appears to be a British organization that supports Palestine in some way, if anyone else was looking for context.
You should be supporting and financing open source that elevates knowledge.

Knowledge is the resource that open source distributes which folks fight to control. It's like the fruit you'd grow on a farm. You could argue about whether or not the fruit should be distributed more to the city folk or the country folk, or ask questions about how much money the farm is making, but I'd say you should be focusing on getting the farm to grow more fruit, since that's the only way to be sure everyone becomes richer as a result.

Scientists do a great job discovering knowledge, but open source is what makes it useful and able to be used. Any open source project that's helping to elevate know-how is a project worth supporting.
The final question is rhetorical sounding, but honestly: if someone took an M3 Mac pro back in time... a single top speed workstation, back to 1961, and top minds could only use it's power (not iterate on it) how much ahead would a government be? Using it at a mainframe?
Given enough time they will and won't be able to get 70%+ margins for their hardware.

There are multiple initiatives to eat their lunch which is based on Cuda.Their advantage isn't even in hardware, but rather how they've invested years and years in having integrated software + hardware solution for AI.
There are screenshots if you just want to browse pretty pics:

https://www.gplates.org/screenshots/

To my surprise, my first click into their web portal section got an error (443, I think) but it opened a few seconds later. I didn't think it would be getting hammered by HN because the vote count isn't that high.

A project from University of Sydney, Australia, so examples I'm looking at seem to skew towards Australia, even one from Scripps Institute, which I understand to be headquartered in San Diego, California.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/
Thank you for the best 2 paragraph cyberpunk story.
If they dragged the customer into court, they already screwed up.

They should have paid the customer immediately and then took it up with their vendor. If they want to take their vendor to court, they can do that separately.
That's the cheesiest link yet.
The other poster is right, if you told someone who knows about business valuations about this conversation they'd be confused and bemused.

Easiest place to start is valuations arent capped at one year of profit, or last years profit...the silly mistake is the one year thing, the more advanced mistake is looking at profit instead of cash flow.
No, I don't have any kids. I think it would be much harder to follow the path I did if I'd had children to support.

I've been thinking about risk a lot in the past year. I used to feel like I had this safety net of getting a job in big tech again if the founder thing didn't work out. When all the layoffs and hiring freezes began, I realized that my safety net may have disappeared.

It's scary to lose the safety net, but at the same time, I felt grateful that I've had the last six years to practice earning money without an employer. If I had been laid off, I'd be in a terrible position of competing against thousands of other recently laid off employees who are all desperate for work. If TinyPilot were to fold, I don't think I'm guaranteed another successful business, but I feel like I'm more likely to build a profitable business than to get a job as a developer in a poor tech economy.
Caesar's Surprise Love Letter Humiliates Cato in Front of the Senate
> The idea here is to have the printing functions all behave in a manner perfectly consistent with printing being fully supported, yet mysteriously there is never a printer to print to.

That kind of thing intuitively sounds bad. But I guess of this is in a space shuttle I would take that back.
I don't know if it's intentional, but it's a reference to a Steve Jobs quote from 2005:

"Headphones are a miraculous thing. You put on a pair of headphones and you get the same experience you get with a great pair of speakers, right? There’s no such thing as headphones for video. There’s not something I can carry with me, that I can put on and it gives me the same experience I get when I’m watching my 50-inch plasma display at home. Until someone invents that, you’re gonna have these opposing constraints."

Walt Mossberg then mentions goggles, and Jobs says "but they're lousy!" (And Walt adds, "you never get a date if you wear them.")
True, & tom made the first move ;) we didn't have to add him
Perhaps it was just the quickest way? He sounds like he's pretty busy with work.
I think you’re right in general but in Australia and I think some other places as well we have a 10c refund on plastic bottles made out of PET
(Also glass and aluminium)
Most of our PET bottles, for stuff like soft drinks is now also made partially out of recycled plastic, many are made out of 100% recycled PET

If I understand correctly this is only economical because there is this whole system where all plastic soft drink bottles are made of PET, and so easily identifiable as PET and to get the refund you have to take it to a collection point where the only plastic entering the system are these bottles.
So your saying it's going to be self fullfilling prophecy when trying to depend less on china?
“Given enough time” assumes competition will catch up while leader stays idle.

If leader is still innovating at a pace greater than any competition, then competition will never catch up.
No, I'm saying that when someone says "printing money" they're engaging in demagoguery instead of discussing the issue on merits. Which is fine, if you're making a political point about your enemies within the in-group that understands your shorthand[1].

But this subthread is an actual point about economics and public financing. You can't demagogue that.

[1] c.f. ACAB, etc... Every partisan subculture has its jargon.
I thought those were more common, in fact, because of frequent hand-washing.
No didn't stop there, but in reality so far I've found most of the other ones are more task specific, and a lot of them were already provided by the IDEs or software, whether or not it had vim bindings. Obviously the benefit of vim bindings is being able to take that short cut with you between IDEs and apps, but they're also functions I use a lot less, so re-learning them when I switch apps hasn't been too terrible.
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> I'm still yet to find one with a decent pen and memory.

Huh? Buy the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite with 4GB RAM for $250. Plus a pen for another $20.
No you don't get it. Splitting your enemies this way is not the same as saying "us good, them bad". First you would not say anything about your intentions and how you are at all.

Example: The way Putin has dealt with opposition within his own country was not to say how great his party was and how bad the others were. It was to financially support some of the opposition group, arrest others, invite other publically, have others beaten up by thugs and have it change by the day.
This way they can't trust what's real anymore, they lose hope not because there is none, but because it isn't clear what even to hope for and whom to hope with.

In the same time his party just is and wins by being in comparison more or less a clear, safe and before all known position to bet on — the devil that you know and all that.

So the confusion, the contradiction is the goal. That's why Tucker gets invited and Navalny murdered shortly after.
More people = more technological advancement is a really cool observation. And, more technological advancement creates the environment for more people to survive and thrive. Exponential growth, baby!
> JS is my absolute favorite

One more true believer:

>> trueJSBelievers = 100000000
100000000
>> trueJSBelievers += true
100000001
sigh i read that as "coming in vision pro"
We can't talk about any other country here without someone bringing it back around to America, as if America were the Main Character of the whole world. Other countries exist, other countries don't need America to define themselves, other countries can be without needing to be in relation to America.