skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you go over 1080p, I found that most (>50%) HDMI cables that advertise HDMI 2.0 (or even 2.1) either do not work at all, or have constant cutouts at 4K@60. Also I found that there is no correlation between how nice cables look, how expensive they are and how well they work.

The only HDMI cables that I had 100% success with, were the ones that came bundled with A/V equipment, even if some of them look like bottom shelf stuff.
It sounds like you're arguing that GPT doesn't work because it cannot work. However, it does work.

So how does PaLM understand causal chains and explain jokes that it has never seen before?
Not wanting to point fingers or start conspiracy theories, but what guarantee is there that GoDaddy didn't squat this domain? They had an employee act as "broker", and it seems there was little information about the original owner revealed.

I ask because, years ago, I had a few friends tell me that they searched a domain name on a few registrars, found them available, then upon trying to buy them found that they were already registered. They suspected foul play on the part of the registrar.

I own a few domains, and haven't come across this, but I'd like to know the current state of affairs. Is this a thing? Are there protections in place to prevent this? How do you avoid this? Is domain squatting still the wild-west?
Sounds like no amount of math will convince you otherwise.
> I think often the hard part is establishing just what treating kids like 'young adults' means.

This is very true. A couple of actionable principles that pop out of my mind:

1. if a child can physically do a task, they should do it, at most, with some help. In addition to home "chores", even small, principled actions, like paying their purchases by themselves, and even phone calls (again, with help).

2. lead by example and not verbally; classic example: don't consume junk food, rather than consuming it and (separately) teaching that it's bad. This is very hard, but it gives parents an entirely different credibility.

This approach works when it's started early though (especially point 1). I have no idea if I could make this work (I think not) if I had to deal with a 10-years old child who had a different upbringing.
Honestly, considering what the goverment is doing, I think there needs to be real questions asked about who are they trying to serve. It doesn't really seem like it's the British public.
> Channel 4 uses no government money

So, it's already private?
This runs much much deeper than just USB-C hubs. Me and a couple of friends dabbled in getting a product produced in China 10 years ago and while investigating competition and really digging deep into aliexpress, alibaba etc. We found out that almost every single brand who doesn't own their own production is like this, and that's almost every single one. To name a few this same thing is true for Golf balls, pillows, every imaginable electronic peripherals, clothing, tools. We got to a point where my colleague was able to sniff down the original product/manufacturer for every single product we researched. Is this good or bad? idk, all i know is that this is how the world works these days..
This guy honestly writes the absolute dumbest stuff on the internet (perhaps second only to PG) but because he does it in a very verbose way HN eats it right up.
My work Thinkpad P52 and Macbook Pro M1 both support TB and DP alt mode.
Kind of pokes holes in the "Billionaire's money is all tied up in their business they can't just find a billion dollars to pay taxes" theory.
No, it's owned by the government but doesn't take any government funding.
I love how you completely ignored the fact that two post-coup ministers of national security were openly Nazi.

The west shook hands with Nazi defence ministers and sent them weapons.

That’s a good thing, right?
> First Light used a hypervelocity gun, which engineers call their “Big Friendly Gun,” to fire a projectile at 6.5 kilometers (4 miles) a second into a fuel target to generate energy

I would love to be the scientist deadpan explaining to a reporter that BFG is short for Big Friendly Gun, and anything else is just a coincidence.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_(weapon) )
Since nuclear plants generally operate at full capacity all the time you won't get changes in how much energy is produced. The linked graphs above are how much the market price is at specific locations, not how much energy get produced.

The European energy market price is determined by changes in supply (wind and solar being the main contributors for fluctuations, followed by water supplies), demand for energy, and prices for fossil fuel. If gas prices goes up, the price for energy on the market goes up. If cheap wind is flooding the market, prices goes down. As can be read by the graphs, since the European energy market is connected those changes occur simultanious in both Germany and France. However, there is an additional transport cost and thus prices can be a bit different. The negative energy prices also seems to effect those more closely to the plants with excess energy, rather than transporting the excess energy across the European continent.

The actually cost at any specific location is then determined by the energy market price (see above) and transport distance between the energy production point and energy consumption point.

A graph over nuclear waste would have no correlation with the market price. At most one would see a slightly more volatile market price when nuclear energy production is low, and a slightly more stable market price when the production is high, but one would need to have a pretty fancy graphical design in order to confer that knowledge in a graph.
I just report the top level comment as spam, and it disappears for me. I feel i have done everything i can at that point, no need to engage spammers.
It could be difficult to catch up to the market leader, if the market leader simply continues to improve their core product. First they would need to catch up to the functionality and then also go all that long way of improving. Unless something else comes along replacing / disrupting movies and series or video technology, Netflix could stick to that and improve it.

That is in theory. I think most businesses lose the original vision at some point though and their products worsen, instead of improving. I would guess, that it is not in Netflix' genes to keep one core product and vision of the product.

The idea to show ads on Netflix is like the nail in the coffin. Users would jump to the first capable alternative, that does not show ads. Netflix would inflict itself a weak point, at which competitors could jump in and start eating their market share. It would be a big worsening of their product. Users might think: "I am paying for this, yet I am seeing ads?!"
I agree. It's consequently one of the reasons why I have issues with code interviews being labeled as "problem solving". Yes, it's solving a problem. But it doesn't capture the whole field of problem solving. More importantly, these problems that you talk about are not being solved.
Yay! Cos all privatised channels that show high brow or educational programming have maintained their standards of quality and don't just show endless shows about ufos and nazis
No, its funded by advertising but owned by the government. That means they have more remit to do what they like (no shareholders like Murdock to appease).
> as well as something that actually has gained him a nice following of people who support him towards more videos.

A following which has recently turned against him after they funded 6k a month on his patreon, and he flatout told them that he would stop communicating, doing YouTube videos and he would also stop working on the game they were giving funding for.
Simplest solution for YouTube is IMHO allow channels to hide all usernames and profile pictures in comment section.
I can't think of a faster way to make people unsubscribe. If they are already paying for it and you expect them to watch ads, you must be out of your mind. The ad model only works when the product is free. It's a binary choice.
> Germany is notorious for horrible customer service

Well, it's much better than its reputation. It's more a cultural thing. Germans are very direct and hate BS. Also many Germans hate to pay for convenience and aesthetics (that's why they do their groceries in these awful discounter shops where the food is presented in the card boxes used for shipping). That's why customer service workers (if available at all) tend to be more "in your face" but usually they try the best to help you if they can.
For a company it is often cheaper to give someone a replacement laptop than have them waste time fault finding.
So why wasn't the thing returned by post, I wonder? Perhaps the notebooks never left the building ...
Anecdotally, the All4 app works fine on my phone and over chromecast. The biggest media app I've had issues with is the Virgin Radio app.

I guess one of the reasons behind this is the Ch4 news which I feel is excellent but is generally very critical of almost everyone.
GoDaddy absolutely squats recent searches. So so many other registrars. It’s been like that for many years now and has been proven time and time again.

The only registrar I trust currently is Namecheap. They’re not perfect but they don’t do any major dark patterns.
It is owned by the government but generates all it's own funding via advertising, selling programming slots and selling content overseas (Film4, for example).
I didn't think about this, nice feature, very useful in a very distributed system. From the end user (human) perspective on the other hand, it will be stored in a password manager and will need authorization calls and and and - so the only improvement I see is that you can't use "123456" as root account credentials anymore.
At least the game's name also records where its progress is going.
Who owns the capital? If it's the government, then yes, it's state funded even if it doesn't require constant capital injections
This used to be widespread. The registrar can reserve the name for up to 48 hours IIRC without itself having to pay.

Godaddy in particular would justify the behaviour by "ensuring that nobody would snatch the names that it already said you could register". Of course, it was always obvious that this was to prevent you from registering them with someone else.
This is probably a dumb question, but can't you just log into the school's system using normal Chrome (or even Firefox) on a normal computer? This worked for my (very young) children when COVID made them stay home for a while. The school board issued very nice Chromebooks, but we were afraid of them getting broken, so we just logged in at the computer stations they have anyway, no problem.

You could even spin up a VM image with a very basic Linux install in it for further privilege isolation.
I was also completely unaware of this, it gives past controversies around Brass Eye and other edgy programming a different light.
Very well said. There is a similar dynamic going on in almost every Asian activist group or non-profit in San Francisco. They reflect the interests of their funders. Some are the clueless wealthy like Scott but it gets much, much worse.

Many are funded by government entities under political control. They end up supporting whatever agenda the powerful politicians are pushing or else they risk losing that funding. Almost invariably this is not the same as Asian interests.

Currently the top issues in the SF Asian community are crime and education (and inflation and small business hassles to a lesser degree). This what everyone talks about. Yet the local Asian orgs have been counterproductive on all of these fronts and are actively support the politicians widely blamed for exacerbating these problems.

Really disheartening to see almost every SF Asian leader co-opted by the rich or powerful. Similar dynamic in other racial and affinity groups. Anyone with influence eventually sells out the people they have influence over. These orgs just institutionalize that transaction.
I think I've been relatively lucky - I've had one cheap product that wasn't quite what it should have been, but nothing from Anker. My policy is to avoid ordering from Amazon if at all possible. This is both because of the risk of counterfeits, but also for the 'vote with your wallet' approach that I don't agree with a lot of what they do.
I have one of these too. The good thing is that I haven't noticed any issues with it, at least with a Mac.
It's called domain name front running. GoDaddy in particular has been accused of this in the past here on HN and have responded to it[0].

Use a trustworthy registrar when you can, avoid GoDaddy or Namecheap.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303
Should math about a vaguely related topic convince me about this? Multilevel ANNs act differently than one-level ANNs. Transformers simply don't have anything to do with the model of approximating functions by assembling piecewise functions. This is akin to arguing that computers can't copy files because the disjunctive normal form sometimes needs exponential terms on bit inputs, so obviously it cannot scale to large data sets - yes, that is true about the DNF, but copying files on a computer simply does not use boolean operations in a way that would run into that limitation.

The way that Transformers learn has more to do with their multilayering than with the transformation across any one layer. Universal approximation only describes the things the network learns across any pair of layers, but the input and output features that it learns about in the middle are only tangentially related to the training samples. You cannot predict the capabilities of a deep neural network by considering the limitations of a one-layer learner.
I totally agree that kindness is a trait I love having in teammates, but how do you screen for that in interviews?
Youden, your comment is a great example of why I love HN so much. Thanks for sharing this, and clearing a few important things about the article.
That sh!t is bizarre ... why does that happen?
Both industry leaders and indie programmers have used Unity and Unreal to make finished games. Large studios may opt to create their own engines at one point or another, but even with all their resources, these custom engines don't always work out.

An example of this would be the frostbite engine, of which multiple devs at EA reported that it was an absolute nightmare to work with. Turns out, if you need developers to work on the engine at the same time the game is developed, you just lose manpower to actually engineer your game. [1]

[1]: https://www.usgamer.net/articles/ea-frostbite-engine-history...
I searched the article for the letter "Q", and did not find anything. Any idea of how usefull the laser can be ?
It’s just not that hard to come up with a unique name that still has an available .com, I do it regularly for clients and have done for 20 odd years. Yes it’s gotten harder, but it’s still absolutely possible. Even short (sub-10 char) pronounceable names are still available if you just spend some time looking.

There’s NO reason to pay 5 figures for a .com unless you can drop that amount of money without even thinking about it, and doing so when you’re a bootstrapped startup is basically irresponsible.
Nebula from slack, but very beta.
But then there's no third party in that scenario, that's down to whoever was issuing those tokens and is part of securing their service.
That could be a decent summary of the last decade under the current government.

For those outside of the UK, it has been a disaster.
I hadn't heard of it, but it's straightforward enough. Johnny decimal seems to work best for communication between multiple people, it's like a lightweight way of having human-implementable URLs.

The thing with PARA is that information falls into different buckets according to their use, not their topic. You're in a completely different mindset when you're looking up old stuff for reference (archives), remembering that bash command you use once a month (resources), etc.

On a first impression / hunch, your decimal system seems to have the failure mode that your old finances live right next to your current finances. Thus, the size of your context / working window just grows and grows without bounds, becoming unwieldy over time. With PARA, the idea is that a project folder contains data if and only if you need it to work on that project.

A very low-cost way of trying it out is to just implement the 2nd A (archives). That's by far the most important.
I disagree. Modern web browsers are the most complicated pieces of technology we have today. The amount of work that goes into sandboxing and security alone probably eclipses the complexity of game engines.
This headline is a deliberate distraction and burying of the lede. The full announcement:

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- Stablecoins to be brought within regulation paving their way for use in the UK as a recognised form of payment.

- Announcement part of a series of measures to make the UK a global hub for cryptoasset technology and investment.

- Measures include legislating for a ‘financial market infrastructure sandbox’ to help firms innovate, an FCA-led ‘CryptoSprint’, working with the Royal Mint on an NFT, and an engagement group to work more closely with industry.

This is part of a package of measures to ensure the UK financial services sector remains at the cutting edge of technology, attracting investment and jobs and widening consumer choice. It includes:

- introducing a ‘financial market infrastructure sandbox’ to enable firms to experiment and innovate,

- establishing a Cryptoasset Engagement Group to work more closely with the industry,

- exploring ways of enhancing the competitiveness of the UK tax system to encourage further development of the cryptoasset market,

- and working with the Royal Mint on a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) this summer as an emblem of the forward-looking approach the UK is determined to take

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-plan-...
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Exactly, I can spot it immediately in the way they talk. You have to experienced it yourself before you be able to notice it with others. After I had a night full of amphetamines, the world opened up
And if I compromise a system that possesses one of those JWTs, I can copy it elsewhere and have access to all the resources that JWT grants me access to. You're not tying it to a specific device, and you're not providing a mechanism to verify the device state when making the access decision.
That is just not true, no matter how hard you try to make it seem that way.
That's what the webshop claims, but this is offered on multiple similar webshops today [1] and it turns out the download contains cracked files [2].

There also doesn't exist something like a 'adobe master collection license' (not even in the adobe CLP/TLP buying programs)

The webshop itself also lists the same requirements as the M0nkrus cracked version (e.g. you can't have the creative cloud app installed etc) [3]

[1] https://www.actievandedag.nl/aanbieding/adobe-master-collect...

[2] https://nl.pepper.com/discussies/adobe-all-in-one-pakket-17-...

[3] https://w14.monkrus.ws/2022/03/adobe-master-collection-2022-...
So logically, that's a lacking thesis. And, in fact, an intentionally misleading one.

That said, I'm a big proponent of zero trust.

My real question from this, though, is who actually does zero trust right? I'd really like to know. I would love to work there and prove it works. Ping me if you do that, please.
Ask before you spend the money, stick it in the contract. If you don't like the answer don't sign the contract.
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You are right to a degree. In reality gas and oil get put into reserves which acts as buffers for the actually consumption of the fossil fuels. During periods of good wind/solar weather, the buffers start to fill up, and when demand for fossil fuel energy rises the buffers get emptied.

There is however the ability to increase/decrease imports when needed by adding more transport trucks or reduce the flow in the pipe lines.

A graph over CO2 emissions is thus more useful in this context since they follow the actually consumption of gas/oil/coal, and has a direct connection with the market price for which the above graphs represent.
Similar: https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

> 39. Any exploration program which "just happens" to include a new launch vehicle is, de facto, a launch vehicle program.

> 39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule:

> 1) No new launch vehicles.

> 2) No new launch vehicles.

> 3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles.
I control my laptops. I control the policy for my identity provider. The service that hosts my source code is a third party, and defines their own policy which may not match mine.
Clearly you’ve never seen some of the bizarre stuff that C4 had put out over the years then?

Perhaps the thing to take from this is that people want to watch bizarre stuff?
Because increasing returns of scale combined with the increasing competition makes long-term profitability uncertain.

Netflix is the only big streaming service that relies on streaming as the only source of revenue. Netflix has to spend huge sums every year on new programming to keep subscribers.
Disney/Hulu/ESPN/Hotstar, Amazon, Disney, Apple, Peacock, HBO Max, and YouTube plan to make deep cuts into Netflix revenue in the future.
It's tradeoff. If you require tokens to be invalidated instantly, there's no way around the notion of doing some kind of lookup when you are validating the tokens. It could be as simple as having a database/memory store somewhere with invalidated tokens or all the still valid tokens. You might cache those for a few seconds so the performance overhead would be pretty minor. You can make this as strict/complicated/slow as you need it to be. It's up to the validating party to decide just how strict they want to be.

But mostly, the device simply deleting the tokens when the user clicks logout is good enough though. Logout does not protect against mitm attacks of course. But that's not what logout is about. And if you have attacks like that going on, the user clicking logout or not does not matter anyway because you can't trust anything they do since you can no longer tell them apart from whomever is attacking. All a logout signals is the user throwing away their tokens (and probably a lot of other local state).

Which is why world + dog uses either tokens that never expire or tokens with expiration times that are pretty long. In our case we use access tokens and refresh tokens. The access tokens are refreshed regularly and the refresh tokens expire after a few months. So, the only users that we force through repeated login procedures are those that don't regularly use our app. Anything more would be annoying. And yes, if their devices get hacked, those users have would have an issue. That's the tradeoff. The user using a token they just threw away is not a real problem because they wouldn't. The user's tokens getting stolen is a different problem. That's why having the tokens expire eventually is a good thing.

Long expiration times are not appropriate if you are a bank for obvious reasons. So, they tend to use expiration times measured in minutes typically and use additional authentication around sensitive transactions.
Disney Hotstar in my country already does this.
Q predicted this?
Install Linux and never look back.
Your example is quite bad since that would be an example of trademark infringement. That isn't what general domain squatting is about
Or just observe? Talk to someone who had a coffee, then talk to someone who had amphetamines. You will know.