skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Re: fulfillment — why not ask Etsy sellers to pre-stock everything that's not made-to-order into fulfillment centers like Amazon's? And, in fact, to send anything that is made-to-order to a fulfillment center first, where it'll be inspected, re-wrapped and re-shipped by the fulfillment center — with the buyer's card only having a hold, not a charge, on it until the seller's goods are inspected by the fulfillment center as good? (In other words: turn the process into a goods-for-money mediated escrow.)

Because that costs money and most Etsy sellers sell very few things. We're not talking thousands or hundreds or even dozens per months. We're talking single digits per month. Per store. Not per item. With 7 million stores.

> Re: quality / drop-shipping — I feel like a lot of this could by solved just through simple semi-automated verification. Require for a product to be listed, for the seller to upload a video of themselves making the thing. Then pass those videos to MTurk workers to evaluate them for tricks.

See the previous point. No one would use Etsy if they had to make a whole video and go through an automated process for an item that might sell once per year.

edit: Amazon sells something like 350m products including the marketplace and 12 million directly. Etsy sells over 100m. Amazon has 40x the sales revenue. The economists are so different between them it's not even the same universe.
.NET 2.0 was fully implemented as Open Source by the Mono Project.

The most recent version includes quite a bit of Microsoft code and offers .NET 1.0 through 4.x
I know a bunch of way-too-smart PHD types that worked at GOOG exclusively in R&D roles that they bragged to me earnestly was not revenue generating.
Yessss! Thank you!
Reading HN causes epigenetic changes...

If you don't get that, then you don't understand epigenetics

My impression of this thread is "I don't know the difference between genetics and epigenetics, so here is my opinion on weed..."

The only reason I know the difference is because I used to use the gym at the same time as an epigeneticist.

In short, all genes can be flipped on/off based on their environment.

And reading HN does impact the environment in which your genes live
Clean room design [1] comes down to one team reverse engineering the code and translate that to some high-level specification and let another team write the code based on that high-level specification. This still allows the use of a decompiler by the first team.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Ask HN: What is a rocket launch moment in your engineering or startup career?
For engineers at companies like SpaceX or Rocket Labs, a rocket launch is an emotional event where, within just a few minutes, the work of many months or years is rewarded (if the rocket works). What is an equivalent in your field of work/field of engineering?

For a chip designer I could imagine it is the first chip being shipped from the fab for testing. For a civil engineer maybe the completion of a bridge? For a software engineer the launch of an app/a product? For an AI engineer evaluating the capabilities or a newly trained model?
The very very old solution I'm adverting to is Euclid's axioms. They don't define what "point" or "line" means, they just specify some axioms about them.
“Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but, well son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored, and it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything.”

― South Park, Season 6 episode called "My Future Self n' Me"
"This is a personal topic for me because cannabis (ab)use triggered psychotic episodes in two of my close family members"

Not a big fan of cannabis. But, did Cannabis trigger a psychosis or are psychotic people more likely to smoke cannabis?

Why do patients with schizophrenia smoke? [Cigarettes, not dope]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20051860/
Tesla Owners Get Only 64% of EPA Range After Just Three Years: Study
Pretty much.

If you took undergraduate EE, you would learn most of how to pull off Broadcom's trick when you learned transmission lines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_line

Cool applications, but probably one of the more boring chapters IMO...
So it sounds like you agree there is not a lack of new trends :)

There are plenty of new ideas and trends. However most people do not pursue them because we're too young, need job stability, etc
Or really, only people not wise enough to know where to obtain an infinite amount of lossless copies of songs online
Oh! That's the argument. You "reckon" a lot of things about perception here. [Apologies if I misread your tone]

"feels weird" means "seems unlikely" in this context. At the end of the day, that's the most anyone can say on either side of the argument. You can't demonstrate perception works the way you think it works. You're relying on your intuition.

There are some things we can state definitively though.

> I think language could technically fully describe the experience, but it would be an unimaginable language

If it can't be described in normal English, then the brain is doing something beyond what a Turing machine can do. That means it's doing something beyond our current understanding of physics and quantum mechanics. I would call that non-physicalist. You have to choose: either perception can be fully described in English, or the brain is doing something non-physical. Neither option is intuitive, but that's the consequence of the Church-Turing thesis we must live with.
I recommend the "Handbook of Floating-point Arithmetic" if this piques interest. I think it's freely available on HAL.
The autonomous car analogy is a good one. The technology is overall so far superior to a human (probably scrolling TikTok) driving but the moment it makes a mistake we remove the AEV which would be to to higher societal benefit.

Decisions should be made against an alternative, not against some fictitious perfect solution.
This says nothing about their level of wellbeing.

> As is plainly evident, the vast majority of savages have chosen to incrementally create and join civilized societies.

Have they chosen? Or were they civilized?
Fun thing about a two sided marketplace. It needs two sides. If you make life hard for sellers then they won't join and then you, by definition, don't have a marketplace.
I would like to know what gives the federal government power to do this -- and whether a court of law got involved.

When Stephen Harper tried to revoke citizenship without judicial oversight we have sacked him. I am not quite sure how I feel about this if a court was not involved but I can't find the source. I at least would feel rather uneasy if the gov could just say "this company shouldn't exist".

Edit: ah. Found it. https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-develop...

> In accordance with the Investment Canada Act, foreign investments are subject to review for national security concerns.

I guess that's ... okay. I would still have much more liked a court in the middle but I guess since this is specifically a foreign investment this is ok. The very act https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-21.8/FullText.htm... begins with:

> Recognizing that increased capital and technology benefits Canada, and recognizing the importance of protecting national security, the purposes of this Act are to provide for the review of significant investments in Canada by non-Canadians in a manner that encourages investment, economic growth and employment opportunities in Canada and to provide for the review of investments in Canada by non-Canadians that could be injurious to national security.
Thanks. Would have been easier to grasp though if you'd phrased it like

> 1,4,4 : Jan, Feb, Mar.
It is true [1], but it may not be strictly enforced. I find it fascinating that they are specific about which kinds of Christianity are accepted (Protestantism and Catholicism).

[1] https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-r....
Amazon only works because they're centralized and full of uniform, neatly packaged groups of fungible units. Imagine having a super high turnover warehouse full of unique one-off items of different shapes, different sizes (from the size of your fingernail to the size of a large appliance, different materials with most of them being fragile, nothing being uniform enough to be stackable, different risk levels for everything from flammability to pest control...

And even then, many people on Etsy sold antiques and vintage clothes. Maybe they even designed them and had them manufactured in small batches?
It starts off as articulate and then, I felt the arguments were less clear.
It seems perhaps ungrounded. It's nice they have energy in a way but it also seems vaguely conspiratorial, rather than emergent. I've nothing against people seeking a better lot in life and collaborating or pointing out typical flaws and rent seeking. I wish the perspective was easier to follow, I'm curious.
Read the essays, they're excellent.
Sounds more like the Adeptus Mechanicus from Warhammer 40K: https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Adeptus_Mechanicus
Because it hasn't computed yet.
Why does Google launch and then cancel five messaging apps a year? As a monopoly, they mostly don't need good reasons to do anything.

It does help with their Doubleclick business - ads on websites other than Google. I don't find these too personalized either, but they do try.

And of course, many people actually like that Chrome saves their browsing history.
> Manjaro also gives you access to the famous Arch User Repository, or AUR

This is and always has been a bad idea. Installing stuff from AUR has stability and security implications that needs more information than just someone pressing yes or typing "y" in a terminal. The AUR is great, but it is not for everyone.
>To recap, somebody mentioned addiction, to colors presumably, as a reason to prefer a monochrome display, and I thought that was ridiculous.

Somebody mentioned addiction, not "to colors" but to regular content doomscrolling, smartphone overuse, and so on. And the idea was that a monochrome display of videos, social media apps, webpages, TikToks etc makes them less enticing (and thus helps with reducing their use).

This is not only far from ridiculous (then again, some find the idea of a round earth ridiculous too), but something that has both tried with reported success by tons of people, and also the subject of study:

True colors: Grayscale setting reduces screen time in college students

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03623319.2020.1...

Color me calm: Grayscale phone setting reduces anxiety and problematic smartphone use

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-021-02020-y

Suffering from problematic smartphone use? Why not use grayscale setting as an intervention! – An experimental study

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245195882...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245195882...

Billions spent in making content more addictive - including the use of color to drive emotion and provide dopamine hits.

>But yeah, moral panic, or maybe virtue signalling, or tribalism

Or <insert other random middlebrow dismissal term>
Is it not also powered via common-mode voltage? Love how coax engineers are always stacking frequencies, including 0Hz.
Isn't that what statins do - block absorption of saturated fat to bring down cholesterol (in part)?
Diarrhea is still pretty common - IBS, SIBO, and a plethora of other proofs for the Hygiene Hypothesis and right in front of our eyes.

My kids have been drinking raw milk for over 15 years from RAWFARM [0] - never had issues. It's the best milk we've ever had. In fact, we've had spoiled pasteurized milk, and there's always been great until the expiry date, of course.

[0]: https://rawfarmusa.com/
In the API they're referred to as a `guild`
What makes you think they are doing nothing else with their talent? Lots of speed runners are just high achievers and are doing it on the side while they work through college. Some have built a career on speed running. Some do it for charity at GDQ. It is a thing mainly young people do while they have free time. It is also a good social outlet.
It's hard to tell from your question but since you mentioned "new grads" then I'm going to assume you have a bachelor's in CS. With a compsci degree + a years worth of professional experience I would definitely be applying to whatever you can (Dice, maybe Cybercoder if that's still a thing, etc).

I'd probably steer clear of those "Instant Applications" on LinkedIn. When the bar to apply is that low, they're just going to be flooded with noise.

Working on side hustles and applying for more full time work are not mutually exclusive pursuits, so why not do both?
Anyone paying even casual attention to the epistemology of Christians.
While the system prompts in documentation and I'm sure fine tuning data are generally in the second person, I have found that first person system prompts can go a long way, especially if the task at hand involves creative writing.

But it changes extensively depending on the task.
> Xi Jinping (16 years) and Benjamin Netanyahu (16 years) are similar.

I don't see how China's ascendancy to the 2nd largest economy and largest manufacturing capacity is nothing short of amazing. All while being detested and feared by the US and the "west".
I hear about above market rates when it is about niche skills. Think about what you know that is an uncommon skill and look for contracts using those skills. If you have a collection of unusual skills, find contracts that use them all. My best hourly gigs have been migrating apps from one obscure tech stack to another.
I have always just done exactly what I want; I just see people around me who get roped into crap.
A new tesla won't even get it's EPA range on first drive. It's a well known marketing fraud tesla does that other brands haven't yet begun to participate in.
In general, I have trouble trusting environments that can be described as "strongly moderated and curated".

I find that environments that rely on censorship tend to foster dogma, rather than knowledge and real understanding of the topics at hand. They give an illusion of quality and trustworthiness. It's something we see happen at this site to some extent, for example.

I'd rather see ideas and information being freely expressed, and if necessary, pitted against one another, with me being the one to judge for myself the ideas/claims/positions/arguments/perspectives/etc. that are being expressed.
Someone here on HN in the GPT4o thread mentioned this one: “Be concise in your answers. Excessive politeness is physically painful to me.”

Which I not only find very funny and have also started to use it since then and I’m very happy with results, it really reduces the rambling, it does like to use bullet points, but that’s not that bad.
"High speed block transfer instructions: 625 bytes/second" - phew, crikey, I hope they actually meant KBytes!
Azure – ND AMD MI300X v5-series
I get the "what about alcohol" argument from the standpoint of being able to make your own decision to do a drug without the government interfering.

But it's not an argument to prove that weed is harmless. Its definitely not.
They looked like this (scroll down) https://www.fontanellestate.com/en/blog/visit-siena-italy-s-...
Edibles also seem to make my body work overtime to process. I always feel like crap the next day.
Some things like:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18168

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824

There are various reasons an LLM might have incorrect "beliefs" - the input text was false, training doesn't try to preserve true beliefs, quantization certainly doesn't. So it can't be perfectly addressed, but some things leading to it seem like they can be found.

> https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

This seems like it's true since LLMs are a finite size, but in Google's case it has a "truth oracle" (the websites it's quoting)… the problem is it's a bad oracle.
Startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings
Ask HN: Is there a "Slow but thoughtful" LLM?
Looking for something where I can give it a topic or area of interest, and it does an extremely comprehensive deep dive.

The ideal version would be that I can give it a topic and a level of understanding (ELI5, ELI10, ELI25) and it would summarize and organize all human knowledge on that topic and provide it to me. I would pay $X00 for this and would wait even 24-48 hours...
Unfortunately the confidence rating is also hallucinated.
I agree. Whatever this is, it's not engineering (not software engineering, anyway), and it does feel like a regression to a more primitive time.

Can ChatGPT Omni read? I can't wait for future people to be illiterate and just ask the robot to read things for them, Ancient Roman slave style.
I would say, to get started just take any course to understand the basics and start building and implementing what you've learnt. I advise you not to get stuck in the loop where you are just learning or reading some concepts but not actually coding them. Look for existing projects, add your own touch to it and make it more meaningful.

And don't compare yourself with what others are building.
Ideally a "modern" directory should be easily searchable as well -- just very selective in what it indexes.

The basic UI could be similar to a search engine, yet with a transparent foundation that could also be perused in a different way.
I don't see why design needs to have so much impact on whether there are Unit Tests. Most unit tests should be much lower level than anything which would be balanced or user tested out of relevance. You want stuff like "can the player character jump and clear these sets of obstacles which we are building all of our levels with?", and then a nice script that takes prerecorded input and sees if the outcome is determinant. So, this way, if someone inadvertantly changes gravity, or friction, or whatever in the basic systems that determine locomotion, you'll catch it early.

Now, do most game makers take the time to do this? No, because they will likely have a lot else to do and make an excuse not to do it. However, for the most vital tech foundations, it is a good idea.

What gamedev does tend to do more often is smoke testing. Just load up each level and see if it runs out of memory or not. Automated testing on build to see if something broke. It's less granular than unit testing, but when you're building over and over in the heat of a closeout on a project, this type of thing can tease out a breaking bug early as well.

Overall, I like the title of the OP article, but not much that's said within.
Why would you define Japanese culture by non-Japanese? I presume the majority of Miku fans are Japanese?

> weeaboo

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywgxey/we-asked-j-culture-fa...
This video that Ken Williams put on Youtube a year or so back has got a short bit showing someone using the machine in the Sierra On-Line office:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY_JbTYXVjg

It is at about 1:47 into the video. It is the same machine shown in that LOGiN magazine article. This one appears to only support the 5 1/4 inch floppies, since I think the 3 1/2 inch disks weren't around at the time, so they must have got a newer machine later on.

Ken's title for the video claims it was from 1983, but from my research, I think that a September 1982 date is more likely. The whole thing is an amazing video actually. Well worth watching. Incredible that it actually survived and is now preserved on Youtube.
Oh yeah, I know ChatGPT doesn't really "know" how confident it is. But there's still some signal in it, which I find useful.
Sorta, although it is a Python feature for distros to use: installations can be marked as externally managed and pip will refuse (without being forced) to make changes unless in a venv[1][2]

1: PEP 668 https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/

2: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/extern...
Also, the popups are designed to be annoying in a way that you click through blindly. Companies can easily comply with these laws without being as obtrusive, e.g. using gradual permissions, using less jarring ui elements, or simply reducing the scope of their cookies in the first place.
inserting myself into this thread...

from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6312155/:

"Many people who have voted for legalization thought they were talking about the marijuana of the 1960s to 1980s when the THC content was less than 2%. ...

Prior to the 1990s it was less than 2%. In the 1990s it grew to 4%, and between 1995 and 2015 there has been a 212% increase in THC content in the marijuana flower. In 2017 the most popular strains found in dispensaries in Colorado had a range of THC content from 17–28% such as found in the popular strain named “Girl Scout Cookie.”2 Sadly these plants producing high levels of THC are incapable of producing much CBD, the protective component of the plant so these strains have minimal CBD. For example the Girl Scout Cookie strain has only 0.09–0.2% CBD."

from https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/not-your-grandmothers...:

"... In 1995, the average THC content in cannabis seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration was about 4%. By 2017, it had risen to 17% and continues to increase. Beyond the plant, a staggering array of other cannabis products with an even higher THC content like dabs, oils, and edibles are readily available—some as high as 90%."
True. And many people don't care about the details. My wife, for example. She just wants to understand enough to wire up her derby cars. The water metaphor is perfect for those situations.
Absolutely - the thing I miss most about the 80s and 90s was the feeling that we could solve our problems (e.g. ozone layer, whaling)
This is a barely-disguised job ad for a (likely unpaid) internship position at a YC company. Flagged.

Also, it's a clickbait title. The actual article content is more like "how to become a barely competent junior programmer", written by a kid 5 years out of school who thinks he's "senior".
everything works fine with just tmux + mosh, but I like to bind sshd on the wireguard interface so that there aren't any listening ports accessible from the public internet
What a terrible argument. We're people, not machines. We cannot spend all our time working. People have passions, families, and lives to live. I'd even argue that ignoring those things makes it harder for people to get the ideas to build the things that actually matter.
Show HN: Manai – AI powered interactive command line completion for Zsh
Manai is an AI-powered interactive command-line completion for Zsh. Use a hotkey to trigger it and ask anything about your work-in-progress command line.

Honestly, I'm too lazy to read `man`, even `tldr` so I made this Zsh plugin to ask about options/parameters for the command I'm writing. I designed the behaviour to seamlessly integrate into workflows using the CLI.

Please watch my video in the repository and try it if you are interested. Any feedback is welcomed :)
I can only speak from personal experience but I never got deeper into screen than running basic commands in a detached screen and re-attaching it.

But with tmux the docs and ui were just so intuitive that I was a power user within weeks.
How well does rootless docker work compared to rootless podman?
The linked GitHub article above describes syntax for fine tuning Mistral for function calling.

Here is an example of data prepared for fine tuning Llama for function calling...

https://huggingface.co/datasets/mzbac/function-calling-llama...

I'm unaware of any comprehensive guides - we're still in the wild west.
> Imagine having a super high turnover warehouse full of unique one-off items...

Auction houses manage it somehow.