skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "secret operation" in question seems to be

1. get a bunch of inventory somehow (eg. from liquidation sales or from wholesale clubs)

2. register as third-party sellers on marketplaces like ebay, shopify, walmart, and amazon using a shell company

3. get information (sales volume? pricing? ux?) from doing business on such marketplaces

If this is what they're doing I don't find their "secret operation" to be "play[ing] dirty", or "anti-competitive" as some commenters have described. The only potentially objectionable part would be using a false/misleading name, but I don't see how this is fundamentally different than going to your competitor's stores plainclothed and checking what their prices/foot traffic are. As long as there isn't a restraining order/injunction specifically preventing them from doing such a thing, it seems fine by me. Moreover unless the marketplaces required an NDA they could have also conceivably gotten the same information from actual third party sellers.
I ought to be ashamed of myself? Are you my aunt or something?
"Ruthlessly efficient" is an interesting euphemism for "corrupt and willing to persecute minorities who are less likely to vote for them."

There's a reason India is considered a "hybrid regime" and not a democracy anymore, and Modi's BJP is the reason.
Very strong results for their size on my NYT Connections benchmark. Llama 3 Instruct 70B better than new commercial models Gemini Pro 1.5 and Mistral Large and not far away from Clause 3 Opus and GPT-4. Llama 3 Instruct 8B better than larger open weights models like Mixtral-8x22B. Full list: https://twitter.com/LechMazur/status/1781049810428088465/pho...
Err what? The original CPU is a commodity desktop one as well, I don't see how the CPU swap makes this more of a PC.
I would like to.
It appears my memory has failed me yet again. Sorry about that, pvg!
Well...I have found that we should be careful, when considering "solutions."

Here's my take on it: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/problems-and-solutio...
Fool's Gold May Be Valuable After All After 'Unheard of' Discovery
The only thing that keeps me on Windows is the extensive hardware support. I know I can buy almost anything and there will be Windows drivers. I don't like the Apple GUI, nor their ecosystem, and while I like Linux it's still too much like driving shift stick. But man, Microsoft does go out of their way of making it harder and harder to stay on their plaform with every single release they make by forcing ever more unwanted bile down your throat.
People = meetings, disagreements, politics, recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance reviewing = less time focusing on what actually matters i.e. building and selling = loosing to the competition.

IMO people need to start investing less in building out a team and more in automation. The best solo-founders are going to be those that can effectively product manage AI tools.
I've found LinkedIn difficult to get feedback from GPs. Have you tried attending medical conferences? In some countries, you can gain access to the world’s largest conferences for free if you apply through certain organizations.
Once posted, you can edit the title and add "How" back to the beginning.
I completely disagree with that prediction. When comparing the operating costs of a first-party vs third-party managed Redis service, cloud vendors have substantially lower operating costs for their underlying infrastructure (servers / data centers) than Redis Ltd. This means the cloud vendors can still offer a competitively-priced product, despite having to pay Redis Ltd for licensing fees.

Cloud vendors can also offer better inter-op between their managed Redis product and their other managed services, availability of managed Redis in every single region the cloud vendor offers, lower latency, etc. The managed offering directly from Redis Ltd can't compete on those qualities.

Additionally, Redis Ltd is motivated to not massively jack up fees on Azure, because in that situation Azure could switch to ValKey (or any other fork, or an in-house compatible re-write -- which they already have one of) and tell Redis Ltd to pound sand, like what AWS and GCP did.

Market forces are what makes Redis Ltd have fair prices, and this inherently means there's no monopoly.
"Google is paninicking and chasing the latest buzzword" would be a more descriptive title
Ahh, here is part 2.

Call me a casual but I could never finish part 1 legitimately. Grinding the fights was too much of a hassle, one was always strapped for cash, the hunger/food spoilage/save systems were annoying and my time is (unfortunately) limited these days. Medieval life sim, I know I know.

The world was damn amazing though!
Seemed like a good test for ChatGPT!

In these texts, the words used are:

• μισήσει (misei): will hate

• ἀγαπήσει (agapēsei): will love

• ἀνθέξεται (anthexetai): will be devoted to, hold to, or cling to

• καταφρονήσει (kataphronēsei): will despise or look down upon

These Greek terms reflect a range of emotions and attachments similar to their English counterparts. The term ἀνθέξεται implies a sense of holding on or support, perhaps with a sense of duty or obligation, while καταφρονήσει suggests a more intellectual or volitional form of disdain or disregard, compared to the direct and potent emotional charge of μισήσει (hate) and ἀγαπήσει (love).
I wonder what camera sensor was used to produce this. A DSLR on a pano/360 rig? Or something purpose built like a Weiss AG Civetta 230MP 360 scanning camera.
I believe in the First 100 days phenomenon but I vigorously ignore any bullshit about fixing major tickets within n days of starting at a company. First of all many places I’ve worked were deluding themselves about the feasibility of doing this. Their onboarding process inhibited any such wishes when I started there.

I’ve been doing user studies on developers for more than a dozen years. It got a lot easier once screen sharing was more common. But letting new hires or devs with brand new machines twist a little when going through the setup docs and taking notes. Or doing similar when I’ve made a major change or introduced a new API to see what fresh eyes see that I did not (or in some cases, that which was true but no longer is).

If at all possible I task them with fixing the docs. First, as you say, they don’t have the Curse of Knowledge, so how they word it will reach down the ladder behind them. Second, if what they say is completely wrong, then I can correct the miscommunication easier when they’ve used their own words to repeat back what we discussed.

Making edits to the wiki is usually the first contribution I want to see from a new hire. Even if it’s just untangling a run on sentence.
Secret?

Walmart knew this years ago. HN thread on this from 2017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14602836
PEPs — Politically Exposed Persons, like family of politicians. Businesses with KYC screening requirements beyond sanctions and criminal convictions might care about it, because they fear bad media coverage, for examples
When you talk about "modern advertising" I think you are referring to the large campaigns run by huge companies.

There is a lot of lower level advertising that is very straightforward and honest.
What's more likely: a team of equally experienced engineers is waiting on a new hire to identify and fix significant blind spots or a team just needs more bandwidth to get things done?
> Nor is it great for the yet-to-mature craft that high salaries invited a very large pool of primarly-compensation-motivated people who end up diluting the ability for primarily-craft-motivated people to find and coordinate with each other in pursuit of higher quality work and more robust practices.

It's great to enjoy programming, and to enjoy your job. But we live under capitalism. We can't fault people for just working a job.

Pushing for lower salaries won't help anybody.
The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe
Yes, I completely agree with every point you made. It’s going to be so satisfying when all the AI safety people realize that their attempts to cram this protectionist/alarmist control down our throats are all for nothing, because there is an even stronger model that is totally open weights, and you can never put the genie back in the bottle!
YC backed company: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bloom-institute-of-tec...
A co-worker of mine visited French Polynesia a few years ago. He mentioned most of the restaurants simply close up shop when they feel they’ve made enough money for the day. Not great for someone looking to get dinner, but I’m sure it makes life much better and less stressful for the owner and employees. They know to get by they need to make $X/day. If they hit it by 1pm, cool, half day.
Our projects have some features in common, but are pretty much unrelated. Hermit is a deterministic userland, whereas we enforce reproducibility at the hypervisor level and with the right device drivers can support any OS.

The most interesting part of Antithesis (to me) isn’t even the perfect reproducibility, but the autonomous state space exploration that finds the bugs in the first place. AFAIK Hermit doesn’t do that, though you might be able to get somewhere by running your program plus a conventional fuzzer under Hermit together?

Disclosure: I am one of the co-founders of Antithesis.
>It's a conflict of interest because the person Samsung is talking to to have a feature implemented into the OS baseline may be the same person in charge of defining the competitive featureset for the next Google hardware.

The person can run two threads in their brain, one that deals with Samsung and one that deals with the internal product.

> Now this person knows that the product he and his team is designing will compete with a yet-to-be-announced Samsung-product with a new feature.

So? You're talking about the person, which is just the host hardware. There can be multiple threads running on that hardware at the same time in containers.

> So his interest to support a licensee being successful with his product is in conflict with his interest to create a more successful competing product.

They can both be successful at the same time. He can operate with an interest to optimize for an overall better world rather than interest to win over and kill Samsung. He can build a successful product AND help Samsung build a successful product at the same time.
There is no evidence Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were “spotters”. Not even Israel claims they were “spotters”.

We have records of their work, and their plan the day they were targeted, we have their employers corroborating that plan, we have visual evidence of their locations and witnesses of what they were doing that day. The evidence they were journalists doing journalism is overwhelming, to a point where Israel doesn’t even deny it anymore.

Your post is slanderous and disrespectful.
I think the whole framing was that the reason the problem space is hard, is that if you deliver too much at once, your body notices and treats it much like if it found splinters stuck in you - invasion of foreign mass to trigger inflammatory response.
Old.reddit doesn’t work anymore on private browsing without log-in. This was the last staw for me, I deleted 3 15-year old accounts at the beginning of 2024, now I don’t even visit it by mistake.
You mean you don't understand your own straw man?
There's also Gir.Core which is the way to get a rich abstraction in C# for using GTK4.
I'm a fan of Buffet, but you can easily say he is a 'bad' billionaire. He makes profits (and a lot of them) by pushing Coke and other unhealthy things on the masses. You could argue that buffet directly funds a significant percentage of diabetes cases in the world. You can say similar things about the others
What term are we supposed to use then with regards to concerns over actual AI? It sure feels like the term artificial intelligence was repurposed, and bastardized, to be nothing more than ML and make any concerns over an AI sound ridiculous.

I'm not concerned over LLMs personally, though I do have serious concerns how we'll handle it if/when we develop an actual artificial intelligence. I can't really share those concerns clearly at all if the term AI has been used to make these discussions effectively meaningless.

Neither clouds nor Apple are topics of debate. Concerns over AI have been raised for decades and largely went unanswered, leaving us with tech getting closer and closer to it and no one willing or able to have any meaningful discussions about it at scale. OpenAI has an explicit goal, for example, of creating an AGI. Maybe AGI is the new term for AI, though I disagree with their definitional metric of economic value, which again leaves us with someone trying to purposely build an artificial intelligence without us first deciding the basics like would an AI have rights or will turning it off be tantamount to murder.
Weren't the 2 teams already part of the same company? And OEMs do make custom modifications to Android before shipping their devices, so they don't have to share everything they intend to do with the Android team.
Meta has products that are used by billions of people every week and has been extremely profitable for over 15 years, with no sign of obvious downward trend. I don't see how it can be described as a bubble.
What a huckster!
The hair on your head grows indefinitely. The hair on your arms and legs grows to a certain length and then stops. You can shave it off, but it grows again, but only to that same length.

How does the hair on arms and legs 'know' how long it is?
> Because 1Password started charging a subscription for the exact same features they were charging a flat fee for.

Fair enough! I'm also subscription-avoidant generally, but 1Password's yearly $60 family plan works for me. Thanks!
Water extraction and weight of buildings see half of China's cities sink
Fairly sure that anything super sensitive like that won’t make it into the World-Check datafile. The records in there are mostly already public information if you know where to look
Then you don’t know how to read sarcasm.
Commoditize Your Complements: https://gwern.net/complement
I purchase a fair amount of stuff online, but there's still a lot of things I buy in person.
Determined enthusiasts are building a custom 3dfx graphics card – VoodooX
Weaken the competition (google and ms). Bing doesn’t exist because it’s a big money maker for ms, it exists to put a dent in google’s power. Android vs apple. If you can’t win then you try to make the others lose.
>Conflict of interest is a human invention, and not a law of the universe. There is no "conflict" unless you see it as one.

That could be said for anything in the moral and judicial sphere. "There's no theft, property is a human invention", "There's no rape, animals don't have that concept", and so on.
I think I never used PRNG in any serious software, but it surprised me as intuitively I would've assumed that using the same RNG in as many places as possible would make it harder to perform such an attack, because it would make it less likely you can observe enough places at which it is updated, but this was a pretty impressive and fun demonstration that this is false.
I think the exact positive sensation differs between people. I certainly find joy in swallowing the food - which makes sense as it's a pretty important step. Tasting and chewing feels like only the precursor to eating, and taking only those steps reduce the sensation to that of chewing a bubblegum.

... But if someone has a non-bulemic reason to simulate eating, by all means go ahead. Just don't make it a big trend as we waste enough food as is.
https://www.webnots.com/how-to-completely-disable-ads-and-su...

that's a pretty good overview

Also do start --> "adjust the performance of windows" --> choose "adjust for best performance". You can turn on essential stuff to your liking.

If you want to go down a rabbit hole, checkout Windows 11 debloat on github and then selectively disable those services & settings .
>FWIW, I would not trust seL4 on x86.

I would not trust any system on x86.

>AIUI, the situation on ARM is likely better.

Somewhat, but still not good.

RISC-V is where it's at, when it comes to seL4.

(seL4 participates in RISC-V)
It's not just that. I'm pretty sure your stomach and gut also provide information regarding caloric intake, on top of other sensors detecting the raise in blood sugars/lipids/aminoacids. And even if it didn't, you'll get hungry when your body/brain detects you've switched to using reserve power. If eating doesn't satiate the hunger by providing energy, the response would likely be to make you hungrier and hungrier.
Very dark, but also very insightful.

We take a lot of simple pleasures in our lives for granted. The feeling of stretching, scratching an itch, relaxing our muscles, sleep, the taste of food, the smells around us, feeling warmth or cold on our skin, etc.

I've wondered a lot about what a life would be like without these things - even if you were otherwise completely healthy.
[ES: Speculation]

If you're sampling at or above the Nyquist rate, so presumably twice a day, you'll be able to capture changes in inventory. If you are also recording dates on boxes, you should be able to distinguish between sales and waste. Eg, you recorded an item as expiring tomorrow, and the next day it expires in 3 months - it probably got thrown away without being purchased. (Though this probably wouldn't work with things they can change dates on, like bakery items. It's a health code violation but a ubiquitous one.)
Comparing this to Civil Rights protests is disingenuous.

Google is a company. They are lawfully transacting with a US ally. The employees violated the terms of their employment and Google has no legal obligation to keep those employees.

If the employees want to change the law to add Israel to a sanctioned blacklist they can go protest the US government and they won't be arrested or fired. Their rights to political protest are protected.
What took off?

(Sony) Ericsson used UIQ, a pen-based OS built on top of the core of Symbian foundation.

Nokia developed Series60, a key-based OS built on top of a Symbian core.

They were not compatible operating systems, and most of all Ericsson didn't license it from Nokia.
That's a strange list of nations, isn't it? I wonder what their logic is.
They’re charging for the effort of collecting and curating it all.
Two things occur to me:

1) blackholing every possible subdomain of business-i-dont-like.com, and
2) return a single IP address for any and all internal subdomains of a private domain - they all go to the same proxy then, and it's just one setting to set and forget.

(I may have completely misunderstood this feature though, and I would welcome correction)
So you posit they are lying?
also get the sysinternals suite on Microsoft Store and then run "autoruns" to disable all of your background / startup apps and services
> maybe not in the first run, but after a week or two in continuous integration

You'd use a different seed for each CI run??

That sounds like a nightmare of non-determinism, and lost of trust in CI system in general.
This is pretty fancy stuff! Sorry if I'm just not reading carefully enough, but does this approach account for tenants whose messages take longer to process, as opposed to a tenant that sends a larger volume of messages?
If I was incorrectly "linked" to some financial crimes I'd like to know about it. If others make decisions based on this data that affect me personally then I'd like to know about it.
I have to pay to know about it.
But any powerful/wealthy person who has done things that could get them on the list probably have the means to see the list for themselves.
i'm curious about the split between capital versus philanthropic funding for an operation like this.

i feel certain that this relatively new (sub?)industry—waterway/ocean waste management—is here to stay for a very long time. but i struggle to see how it could ever turn a profit, unless and until they're able to generate revenue/s from the waste they're retrieving. it all feels like a fascinatingly super long play.
They aren't pedestrian and that's how you get ignorant people in charge of things they don't understand. Just because you saw a video of minecraft or played mario bros 30 years ago does not mean you now understand video games let alone know how to regulate it. Even if someone talked to some experts in the industry and received some data, that does not mean they now understand that field enough to make a valuable contribution.
I see what you did here <q> carrying the "torch" <q>. LOL
Yeah. He did good.
Is the PRC a people’s republic? Please don’t wish ill-will on the people of China by disagreeing.
Reverse engineering an illegal IPTV application on the Google Play Store
Rec. 601 – the origins of the 4:2:2 Digital Television Standard (2005) [pdf]
That's the situation NOW, but it can certainly change in the future. Work with Google as a hardware vendor, grow the Android market with them, and eventually they don't need you and cut you out. It happens.
And that's fine! But just because a large number of people would, doesn't mean the world can't have a different kind of company out there.
Maybe this is what you mean by “hobbyist” vs “enthusiast”… I just call the thing that makes money a “job”. You do your job to make money. You can then do whatever you want with that money, including putting it into your passion. There’s no requirement that your job is your passion, nor that your passion generate money. If you do have a job that is your passion, that’s fantastic, but the vast majority of “creatives” (ooh, I dislike that term, if I’m creative but nobody pays me for it am I not “a creative”?) don’t have that luxury.

What you may be getting at is that somebody who is being creative as a job should be fairly paid for their work. Which I totally agree with, but I don’t think that’s what we’re talking about.
#2 resonates. But not only leaders in the space you're building. Talk to leaders who have built one person companies. It's a unique skillset.
Sounds good. I decided to create two WTF notebooks, one for the team and one for myself. I, for one, am definitely not one without errors -- plenties of them, actually.

My first note would be:

- WTF! I ate five Lindt chocolates (they tasted so good) during a intermittent fasting session. I should burn in hell.
Reeks of antisemitic conspiracy theory.

A state actor like Israel with a world class intelligence agency can get inside your WhatsApp group regardless of what Meta wants. Whether through spies, bugged phones of zero days, they will. That's far more plausible than a conspiracy of three American executives who oh just all happen to be Jewish allocating a backdoor.

On that basis alone this should be flagged.