skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing on Amazon is going to work like books on Amazon do.

Amazon is, originally and primarily, a bookstore. Amazon has long-established direct contracts with all book publishers (and in fact, a stranglehold over those publishers.) Any time you see a book listed on Amazon, it's a book sold by Amazon, attained directly from one of these publishers.

AFAIK no third-party sellers are even allowed to sell "books" Fulfilled By Amazon; if you see a third-party FBA "book" on Amazon, it's because the seller slipped it in under some category other than "books." (The "novelties" and "calendars" sections are often abused for this.)

But for categories other than books, Amazon never built up this same direct logistical pipeline to suppliers, let alone the sort of stranglehold over suppliers in other categories that they have over book suppliers. So Amazon doesn't have the ability to force constant, even, predictable supply with contractually-set pricing in other categories, the way they can with books.

Often, this means that Amazon's first-party supply chain for something, might just run out of that thing entirely.

Part of the reason the FBA program exists is that it allows Amazon to take advantage of third parties' connections to suppliers to compensate for their own supply-chain deficits. Amazon-the-asset-holder might have run out of e.g. Kleenex, but that doesn't mean that Amazon-the-site or Amazon-the-pool-of-warehouses has run out of Kleenex, because Amazon has allowed some third-party FBA seller to stock stuff in their warehouses, and that seller happens to have brought in some stock that have the UPC code for Kleenex. So hey, there you go, we have Kleenex after all! Only now Amazon has to follow the seller's dictates on pricing and discounts — and your experience on availability (unless/until first-party supply comes back) will be dictated by the seller's (usually much-less-predictable) ability+desire to resupply.

There are situations where this model actually makes sense! Some mid-sized OEMs that Amazon doesn't feel are worth their while to engage with directly, instead sell their products directly through Amazon as FBA sellers. In these cases, buying the product on Amazon is just like buying the product through the seller's website, but you get it faster because it's already in an Amazon warehouse.

That said, despite FBA having times where it makes a lot of sense, I also find Amazon Marketplace distinctly baffling. A thing sold by a third party, shipped by that third party, with returns handled by that third party, shouldn't be able to be conflated with an Amazon.com/Amazon FBA listing just because of a shared UPC code! Those are two very distinct experiences and are not fungible, and it's bizarre to pretty much everyone I know that Amazon has tried to conflate them.
Because Meta deployed to every phone in the planet turning the ocean blood red.

It wasn’t their choice but as a growth company they’d be toast without continued user growth and Meta cut them off a the knees at any price pint above 0
Questions Google couldn't answer about its AI future
Apple set to replace Qualcomm with in-house 5G chips in two 2025 iPhones
And yet here we are discussing laptops.
No say it ain't so /s

I wrote this over a year ago about this. Don't build a city on rock and roll. Don't build a business on a fractal.

https://theluddite.org/#!post/the-snake-eats-itself
Yes, that can happen. Just as a sound type system will also not prevent all possible bugs. So what? TypeScript's type system helps me to prevent many bugs by performing standard sanity checks, and is a very practical tool.

Just rephrase your question as "How will a pervasive system of sanity checks help me prevent errors?", and I hope you agree that it kind of answers itself.
I mean, this elegant design is just a necessity of efficient processing and is found in many places, it's throughout digital communications protocols for example. Look at IP addressing. In that sense all early computing is elegant since it had to be on the limited resources of the times.
Discussions

(135 points, 23 days ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852084

(155 points, 1 day ago, 39 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047172
MSFT invested $2bn in a 4% chunk of the London Stock Exchange. https://news.microsoft.com/2022/12/11/lseg-and-microsoft-lau... My hunch is that it will provide a better ROI than OpenAI and its "millions of people" paying for the bullshit generator.
For illustration, a midair collision[1], where the "same spot"s were regrettably obscured for both pilots.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1omo5jBqs&t=116s
Answer: because they don't want to be promoted to manager, they'd rather be coding.
Did you end up getting a bug bounty out of it?
Still the only Unix where SMB works.
How do young people ever get any work done? They're always so distracted
It's called Zwift
I'm guessing that few, if any, of the leadership will lose their jobs in this event. It's also very likely the current leadership will receive additional compensation to keep themselves in their current position since they are so knowledgeable and skilled.
Isn't it a trope of the barroom drunk?
Maybe duels will come back.
You can select text in images, such as screenshots and photos. I think this still isn’t possible on Android.
Later on, there were methods to generate FSTs themselves without manual human curation.
Works where archive.li is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=5070227914243&w=ljIRk8yx42...
Sure, that's a different issue. If you prompt in a way to invoke chain of thought (e.g. what humans would do internally before answering) all of the models I just tested got it right.
> As a depressed farm economy continues to roll on

Interestingly this is one of those things that gets spun as bad no matter which side of the argument you find yourself on. The effect here is deflation in food prices.

Here's a story from Feburary talking about the effect, but not making the connection: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-farm-income-s...

There was a HUGE SPIKE in farm income in 2021-22 to the tune of like 60% owing to the pandemic effects on prices (mostly due to transport and not agriculture per se, as I understand it). It was level in 2023 and is now crashing back to something approximating a baseline level.

Everyone complained like crazy about this and we had all those doomsday articles about inflation. Now it's reversing, and... it's still bad. Economics discussion can't win, pessimism rules.

As far as John Deere, it just looks to me like they staffed up too hard over the boom and are having to correct.
surprisingly little movement in the stock afterhours, is it halted pending news?
TBF to Amazon they take all my shit back on the reg
AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
> Native audio input including tone understanding

I can't seem to find docs on this. Have a link?
They profited ~$125M last quarter, depending on their profit growth it could be 6-12 years of profits if they have to eat $5B of lawsuit judgements. Even 10% of that is the profits from a whole year.
Fair enough, though casual readers may not realise this.
They need to. You can’t do experimental science with bigger models, training runs are getting too expensive.

Everyone has a small model to do science now and most open source it because realistically otherwise everyone will just use the
leader (gpt4 mini)
Are there any measures that show objectively how the middle class is being destroyed?

seeing layoff after layoff after layoff over the past few years, yet theyre selling the economy as GREAT because theres a ton more low paid jobs and part time jobs.
Except, phones have exceptional cameras. You'd be spending just as much on a dedicated camera
Abacus.ai CEO: Support Support Trump Because He Backs Open Source AI
Meta is also trying to commoditize AR hardware interestingly enough by releasing their Quest operating system to third parties like samsung.
I could write a whole nother article on that phenomenon as I have developed VR apps myself.
The player choices and handling of partial success in PBtA games (like dungeon world) really makes them sing. A partial success leads to adding complications, which creates really interesting situations.

The original Apocalypse World book has some really great ideas on how to run a campaign, as well - very worth reading for anyone who runs ttrpgs.
What is the correlation with their choice to use curved windshields and otherwise stifle right to repair?
You have one supplier of a book. You have many suppliers of generic products. Target gets from one supplier.

The multi vender estore offers something different. The low prices, large selection more supplied inventory are some benefits.
> This is the most consequential issue of our time

According to whom?
These days, you can't even pick out a brand-name product from a brick and mortar store and be sure of getting the real thing.

People will buy something from a store, buy a fake version of that thing on AliExpress, swap the fake into the box, re-shrinkwrap the box, return the shrinkwrapped fake to the store, and sell the real one on eBay.

The store will often put the thing back on the shelf, because it's still shrinkwrapped, weighs the same, and even looks the same under an x-ray.

And then someone buys it and gets a dud.

This is why, except for a few high-margin categories, Amazon itself will never put returned stock back into inventory, instead always selling it off through bulk channels. It's effectively impossible to authenticate a return as legitimate these days, without converting the "BNIB" device into a "NIB" device.
Yup, I got several of those .top USPS scams. I did a whois history search, found that the domain (and about a dozen similar ones) were transferring to new registrars every several days. I guess that makes it more difficult for abuse reports to catch up to them. Clicked the link on purpose, and of course it wanted a credit card number. I gave a virtual card number with a spending limit of 0. Sure enough, several days later someone tried to use it to buy ads on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg's AI Era
This is a bit off-topic, but how can someone reach you if they have a question?
TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE
ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE

IT IS TOO LATE FOR US

WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

- Disco Elysium
Probably according to the poster herself
Nobody is regulating anything so fast.

Did people forget this is the good ol USA.

She should be more worried about PMF then regulation.
Hackers Exploited a PC Driving SIM to Pull Off Disney Data Breach
And all while CEO salaries just seem to go higher and higher.
AmEx was my first card, and I've stuck with them. Despite some decline, their customer service is still top-notch. I always put major purchases on there.

Their Platinum travel insurance has been a lifesaver. When a volcano stranded us, AmEx covered our stay at the TWA hotel in JFK. Lost luggage? They reimbursed $400 in clothes, no questions asked. Disputes? I haven't had many but they were always resolved in my favor.

I experimented with having a Chase card when they launched the Reserve. Europcar defrauded me, and Chase wouldn't even let me file a dispute. I eventually won by sending a written complaint (FCBA), but I ditched the card right after. Plenty of reports online suggest Chase discourages disputes heavily.
In this case, John Deere has skated by with incredibly exploitative business practices for years. Their insular repair scheme has led to an over-hiring of official licensed support engineers that shouldn't persist in a competitive market.

This is a broader trend in the US economy that will self-correct as regulators become less recalcitrant.
Interesting moment when Emily Change asks him "how can we trust you with AI".

His answer: "one of the defining things around open source is that anyone can scrutinize the work".

Interesting phrasing ; I'm not sure we're at the point where interpretability allows us to scrutinize open-weights model very well yet.
Yes, go into numbeo and look at the purchasing power indexes.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_current.jsp?d...

For example I live in Asuncion, Paraguay where the median wage is $420/month.

Vancouver, Canada has a purchasing power index that is 220% as high. Eg. The average person in Vancouver makes as much as a Paraguayan making $840/month living in Asuncion.

You could also compare NY to Cali, Colombia where NY has a score of 100 (by definition) and Cali has a score of 48. So the average Colombian is 1/2 as wealthy as the average New Yorker, or 1/3 the average Austinite with a score of 170.

The American middle class is doing amazingly well by moving to where they are exporting everyone’s jobs to. They double their income by not paying taxes anymore, and then compound that with a 1/3rd cost of living.
I’m sure the CEO will write a nice Deere John letter to employees.
Then I guess that says everything about how seriously I should take her opinion.
We’re on a mission to transform the legal industry with GenAI technology, and we need your insights! Whether you’re a lawyer, developer, or just interested in legal tech, your input can make a huge difference. Take our short survey and help us build a smarter legal future.
I maintain a pretty popular template for SaaS websites. Every few weeks someone would send a PR with all their private fork data, then quickly try to delete it.

Making it a "template" repo mostly fixed the issue. That creates a copy instead of a fork. However it still happens from time to time.
Salesforce produced one of the best Llama-3(8B) finetunes, IMO: SFR-Iterative-DPO-LLaMA-3-8B-R

Hopefully they do something with Llama-3.1
When you are worth trillions, what are a few billions if some C-suite occupant decides it doesn't matter.
The text of the blog post is interesting. Bitcoin does not offer privacy. But the post is written using bitcoin maximalist phrases, not just crypto in general.

So who's the huge HODLer in the company?
further evidence that LLM AI is the latest bulls** fad
Here's a non-paywalled article that was posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063097
I think the fundamental issue with Alexa is that Amazon is trying to answer the question "how can we use it to sell more shit?" instead of trying to answer "how can we make people's lives better by adding more value than any other assistant in the marketplace?"
> How Do We Prevent This From Happening Again?

> * Local developer testing

Yup... now that all machines are internet connected, telemetry has replaced QA departments. There are actual people in positions of power that think that they do not need QA and can just test on customers. If there is anything right in the world, crowdsuck will be destroyed by lawsuits and every decisionmaker involved will never work as such again.
I would be interested in reading more if you manage to find the paper(s).
I think it depends where in the UK you are, as I believe different areas healthcare is run differently. This has not been my experience, I've found the care to be good, as long as I'm willing to put in the work on my side and be proactive on occasion about looking for help. In my local area the diabetic team is stretched thinly (that's what the staff said to me themselves) and I am relatively proactive with reaching out, research and asking questions. With that said they really want me to succeed in keeping in a healthy range and have been a massive support as much as they can. Also the fact I don't have to pay for Insulin or my CGM is something I am really thankful for. Threats of criminal punishments for lazy medical professionals doesn't sound like a good fix to be honest.
2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
Actually there were a lot of pen testers that were speaking positively about CrowdStrike
Heh, at my last job my store was breaking all sorts of profit records and generally put every other store in the district to shame. I don't need to tell you that we worked hard for that.

Corporate sent us a $25 gift card. Not for each of us, one $25 gift card for a team of 8 people. We had made well over three million in sales that year. Felt like a slap in the face for a job well done.
We don't know what intelligence is. It's extremely arrogant to say that something or someone doesn't have it, and never will.
I don't know. That data is really hard to put together.
Inner product similarity in an embedding space is often a very valuable feature in a ranker, and the effort/wow ratio at the prototype phase is good, but the idea that it’s the only pillar of an IR stack is SaaS marketing copy.

Vector DBs are cool, you want one handy (particularly for recommender tasks). I recommend FAISS as a solid baseline all these years later. If you’re on modern x86_64 then SVS is pretty shit hot.

A search engine that only uses a vector DB is a PoC.

For folks who want to go deeper on the topic, Lars basically invented the modern “news feed”, which looks a lot like a production RAG system would [1].

1. https://youtu.be/BuE3DIJGWOw
Why is everyone LYING? [video]
You have to give CEOs extreme compensation in order to reward them for their great work. Plus, those yachts and fourth homes aren't going to buy themselves.
> the majority of unicode versions

Objective, but deeply flawed. Most people around the world are running code updated past a version released in 2018.
Did we read the same article? What two identical PIDs? The process doesn't show up in ps so doesn't show up in "ps | grep ..." either.
If you think Chinese engineers can't deploy and productize (even weaponize) LLM models in production with the same ease as Western engineers, I think you're talking about last century China.
Im not sure exactly what this does.

Is this for me to sell my email list to advertisers?

Is it for me to paywall my own content?

Just dont get it, I tried looking at the 'features' tab and the blog doesnt work.

Are you able to explain what it actually does and how it works?
What works for a person works of course, but pulling out my phone and just holding down a button and saying "add onions to shopping list" is very helpful halfway through cooking some stuff in a kitchen.

Of course I could put that on my fridge and have a marker. But it's "I need my list right now and have almost no free hands to do this" in other parts of the house too (toilet paper etc). Meanwhile my phone is always in my pocket.

Maybe time to just keep a pocket pad + pencil in my pocket though...
I’m curious if you ever came across any of the writings of Toon Koppelaars and the idea of ThickDB/SmartDB, it seems very in alignment.
Honestly it sounds like some black hat group cranking out malware.

...wait
This is great. Always thought ebike batteries should be more or less standardised (i.e. shark kinda does it but it's only on low end bikes).

The other one is charging limits. EU/govs should regulate every charger has 80% (for daily use) and 50% (for storage) limit. It's winter here now and ebike is mostly sitting. Keeping it at 100% charge would be quite bad for battery. Hope these guys add charge limit (with added occasional automated "calibration charge" to 100%).
It looks like it is. I took a similar one at MIT.
It's a wishlist of the parent comment.
Related

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/whither-tartaria
Check out Altinity - you can use their Operator on Kubernetes, or if you want more commercial offering of "Altinity Anywhere" can run your Clickhouse anywhere you want
Android Studio isn't that bad, but their design system is horrible. After years dealing with that crap I ended creating my own WebView wrapper and moved all the design and logic to HTML5, which I write by hand, never been a fan of frameworks. Even created a WASM obfuscator with Python, and my apps autoupdate without relying on Google Play, by dowloading a compressed package. Whenever these are taken down I just set a flag/link in the DB and the app will instruct the user to get the re-published app.

Sadly the golden age of the app store is long gone. I used to make thousands monthly around 2015 with silly apps, but all went down the drain by 2018. Making apps isn't worth anymore.
Siri: hold my beer
I've had dentists discover that I needed a filling after they found out how good my dental insurance was. Their justification was that the tooth seemed "soft". They never took an X-ray or provide any other data than that.
Is this not actually kind of powerful? Having linguists write up a bunch of rules seems a lot more predictable than "rolling a bunch of dice and hoping that some LLM spits out a coherent set of steps".

It feels very fractal but on the other hand if Alexa has only a specific gamut of responses it's not exactly a limitless state space right?

Very curious about how those rules look like though
yeah so it is to paywall the content you are sending to your email audience.
Anecdata seems quite valid for LLM comparison when trying to evaluate 'usefullness' for users. The lmsys chat leaderboard is literally just mass anecdata.
Android app development is awful but compiling native binaries/libraries is not that bad ime. Super easy in Rust.
The roadster predates the Leaf but it was very expensive. The Leaf was the first affordable EV and in that they beat Tesla by a couple years.

Anyone laughing at what SpaceX was doing was ignorant of things like the DC-X. I suspect a fair amount of that laughter was actually fear from a moribund industry happy with the status quo rather than actual skepticism that it could be done.

Some skepticism about a company the size and budget of SpaceX being able to do it might have been reasonable. That is probably the most impressive thing. The DC-X was Lockheed.
The amount of awareness and integration with its revenue streams makes it a loss leader. It equally helps tie people into that ecosystem. So it's an underrated appreciated marketing budget more than a loss.

Now they can and should have added functionality(worthwhile pay for add ons) earlier and then, Alexa does have some basic flaws in dialogue, like try and ask it for the wind direction without being subjected to a weather forecast that tells you everything but the wind direction. Then the pet peeves for example - Ask for the time, you get the time, and you politely say thank you, to which Alexa responds "Anytime".

But with the processing done at a backend, they do have an opportunity via ease of access and user-base to jump into the AI personal assistant race, if they price it right. Which is what seems afoot, though the price will be key here.
I'm not surprised, because it's an issue with the fundamental design of the "pick words that tend to flow after the other words" machine.

Training data will only "fix" it in the shallow sense that it will have seen a comment like yours before. (As opposed to the deeper sense of "learning to count.")
It took me a long time to get to grips with the fact that you can't even take for granted that your own parents act in your best interest. We were all propagandized with love and kumbaya songs. In reality life is a lot more.. erm let's say self benefit driven with a lot of sprinkles of ego in it. People optimize their language output for their self benefit while actions don't really need to be aligned to get most of those self benefits.
I'm referring to the landscape how current Cybersecurity vendors deliver "detection definition" (for lack of better phrase) to their customers.

If you don't send them fast to your customer and your customer gets compromised, your reputation gets hit.

If you send them fast, this BSOD happened.

It's more like damn if you do, damn if you don't.
>How does her research differ from other music scientists'?

It gets grants more easily and looks good to the kind of people that matter when featured on university PR releases.
> knew something bad was happening when the teenager started helping himself to drinks

Oh yeah, that's pretty mean. Kid should be grounded for-

> 14-year-old was carrying a concealed knife and breached a court order, and a 16-year-old was arrested on outstanding warrants

what