skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure most, or even many, people see Israel as the root of all evil. Where does that perception come from?

I think there is a huge proportion of Muslims world wide who believe this is the case and also a pretty sizable amount of left wing (especially 'Woke') people in the West. Unfortunately some of these people don't even make a full distinction between Israelis and Jews, so it became bad news to Jews everywhere. I can go on and give a bunch of news stories and anecdotes (your own comment - the words you choose to use btw kind of reinforces my theory) but I don't think anything I write here will change your mind.
I read your book for the first time a few months ago after someone here recommended it. I was hooked. It took me back to my beginnings (99/00) when the internet was different, when we had dial up and there was still discovery.

I appreciate the time you put into writing it — and the nostalgic enjoyment it brought me.
Compare the 2011-14 L'Aquila earthquake trials, when Nature magazine and most of the I-love-science claque rallied behind the scientists who gave incorrect reassurances to L'Aquila residents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L%27Aquila_earthquake#Pro... . Is it that the facts are very different in this case, or it more that attitudes have shifted since then?
How? There’s no monetizing Alexa or ChatGPT in its current form
A screen that shows photos? Absolutely anything. A Raspberry Pi or other SBC can do that with a variety of "screensaver" programs. Or a cheap Android tablet, stick it in a nice picture frame if you want. Or any number of purpose built "digital picture frame" devices (not sure if any of those are open source, per se).
I should add that another way Fly distinguishes itself as a "tangible" cloud company is that their blog art is all based on physical mediums. It feels very familiar and quantifiable to my brain.
Yeah I frequently look at the vision pro reviews and think it would be cool to try, but I know after about a month I would get bored with it. $3500 is alot of money to spend on what is essentially the perfect device for watching movies on an airplane.

It is an insanely impressive technology; however, like the iPadOS I think it is going to take a decade or so to have enough functionality to even consider being useful for professional tasks. I don't want to have to buy a macbook just to stream it to the vision pro to do any coding tasks.
Indeed, the link gives an example of such an infinitely recursive type:

type Foo<T extends "true", B> = { "true": Foo<T, Foo<T, B>> }[T];
let f: Foo<"true", {}> = null!;

As for how it's handled, it yields the error "Type instantiation is excessively deep and possibly infinite. [2589]" I'm not sure what the max stack depth is, though.
In some cases, your zip+4 is uniquely your address, too. My townhouse was a new development and after complaining for over a year that I wasn't able to sign up for Informed Delivery, I was assigned a new unused +4.

That said, most people don't use the +4 when getting directions or the like, it's just used for postal service.
Blocking content, even or especially not pirate content, is common in Turkey.

It is not in Germany.

Therefore, more people in Turkey would know about measures to circumvent it than in Germany.
There's a ton of great truth here. It's hard to bite the bullet and believe that insiders already exist (everywhere), but I can share that from my experience working in big tech:

- There 100% will be bad actors. Many of them.

- But not always nationstate. Instead, they do it for (dumb) personal reasons, too. Also, don't forget lulzsec as a great example of just doing it for fun. So we cannot presume to know anything about the 'why'. The bad guys I caught did it for the most asinine reasons...

But the good news is that we have options:

- Strategic: Develop processes and systems that account for the perpetual existence of unknown bad actors and allow for successful business operation even when humans are compromised.

- Reactive: Structural logging that makes sense in the context of the action. Alerts and detection systems too.

- Reduction: Reduce access to only what is needed, when it is needed.

- Proactive (not always necessary): Multi party approvals (a la code review and production flag changes or ACL changes, too)

- Social: Build a culture of security practices and awareness of bad actors. Don't make people feel guilty or accusatory, just empower them to make good design and process decisions. It's a team sport.

Bonus: By guarding against evil actors, you've also got some freebie good coverage for when an innocent employee gets compromised too!

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Companies like Google and Amazon do the techniques above. And they don't generally rely on antiquated technology that cannot and will not change to meet the modern standards.

I know because I was the person that built and Google's first time-based access system and rational-based access systems. And multi party approval systems for access. (Fun fact: The organizational challenge is harder than the technical).

And, those strategies work. And they increase SRE resilience too!

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But even with the best UX, the best security tooling, the best everything, etc there's no guarantees that it matters if we just reject anything except the old system we're used to.

It's like a motorcycle helmet: Only works if you use it.
There never was a business here to begin with. Amazon wants to kill Alexa because they couldn't find a way to monetize it.
> But there will be a chatGPT moment for Metaverse in the next 5 years and Meta's strategy will pay dividends.

You mean lose billions within an unclear race that may ultimately lead to commodity prices like TVs?
The Sonos patent wars sucked. Things are somewhat back to ok, but man, it's just absurd & sad seeing basic networked av get ravaged by lawyers like so.

I'm super glum about audio casting at the moment. It feels like less and less speakers have audio casting builtin. For a while there was a spare of speakers, some even battery powered, but it's turned into a trickle. There's also incredibly few options for amplifiers with builtin audio casting; what the NexusQ originally did! So frustrating.

This is an ecosystem I am super bought into, and it feels like it's fading and there's not a replacement (especially with Sonos's recent enshittification seppuku).
> when you can just go out with friends and bike for real in the nature

"just"

What if you live in the city? What if you have a 10-minute window until your next meeting? What if it's raining? What if it's snowing? What if it's dark? What if you live in Arizona and it's the summer? Etc.

We all have different needs so I wouldn't write off people that want an exercise bike for their house.
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Here's Nat Friedman saying he's a DAU of them: https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1796986709751759304
> All it took was one irresponsible employee handing their keys to a 16 YO.

Sometimes not even. As a semi-related personal story, many years ago in university some friends and I set out to reverse-engineer the master keys.

All it took was buying 10x of the same blank from an online retailer for ~$12, cutting 6/7 positions to the same dephs of our dorm keys, then iterating the last remaining position down one depth at a time (starting from a 0-cut) in the last remaining position.

Rinse and repeat until we had iterated all 7 positions across our 7 sacrificial blanks, and with a little napkin math, we were left with the bitting for the TMK. Cut the TMK bitting onto a new blank, and we now had the literal keys to the kingdom.

Many harmless fun times were had, steam tunnels, roofs, and penthouses explored, but had we been actually malicious the potential for damage or theft would have been huge.

I think those with the skills and smarts to perform sophisticated attacks typically set their sights higher in life than petty burglary, with most actual burglars resorting to more simple means like brute-force and violence.

I'd be very surprised if these burglars picked locks on the mailboxes or duplicated postal keys instead of having found some dumb bypass born due to a simple oversight in the mailbox's design.
I wonder how much of a test this is for the LLM vs whatever tokenizer/preprocessing they're doing.
I didnt realize this was an option, Ill look into it thanks :)
Some public schools have played around with the idea of "performance-based" compensation, where teachers get paid more if they deliver better outcomes (unfortunately generally measured by standardized test scores) than would be expected on average, given the students coming in. This is mean to be about a 'value add', so teachers in schools with high socio-economic status students who were already going to score well don't get automatically paid more -- it's about an estimated 'improvement'.

I'm broadly aware that some health policy people want providers to be paid for caring for patients, not on a per-procedure basis. Get paid more for keeping your patients healthy and living longer, not for racking up more visits.

Does such a thing exist for policing? I think critically we need a mechanism for collecting crime stats that isn't fully dependent on the police themselves -- but at a high level, paying police to reduce actual crime, and shrinking their budget when crime actually increases, seems like a path to at least get what we pay for.
Another reason to be cloud agnostic. They are counting that switching cost will make you eat the bill.

If you have to be cloud, do dev in one cloud and test/prod in another.

I know, I know, easier said than done.
I think you're over analyzing and confusing things. Price fixing is when competitors work together to raise prices above what they would normally be in a competitive market.

Using your gas station example, a gas station isn't going to look at a competitor selling gas at $4.15 and decide to raise their price to $4.45. They would lower their price to match the competition, otherwise they'd lose sales and make less money. Price fixing would be if both gas stations decided to raise their price to $4.45 at the same time so that customers don't have a choice.
Who would pay $2 a month to have a digital photo frame?

That’s like the episode of Always sunny where they rent their couch
Mine has not changed in 25 years.
Exactly!

Entrepreneurialism and nanny states are fundamentally incompatible.

If Chase or any other bank has to know what you had for breakfast in order to hold your money for you, then you shouldn't bank with them as you'll never know when they randomly decide you took money from a bad man and then hold your financial life hostage from you.
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. I’m not sure what that would buy me here.

I have a rule that I only async if it’s a requirement. In my case I can carry out all the steps in a single (simple) sync action. Our updates are optimistic so we update all the models immediately and mobx reflects that in the react components on the next frame.

The network request for the mutation is the only thing that’s running async. If that fails we crash the app immediately rather than trying to rollback bits in the frontend. I know that approach isn’t for everyone but it works well for us.
The standard of evidence in medicine research generally is really poor. Most of the papers have serious problems and reach to conclusions they can not defend. Worse is huge areas of medical research are full of fraudulent research, almost all of Psychology and Psychiatry is atrociously low quality studies and they rarely replicate even then. There is widespread corruption around the sale and adoption of treatments and the entire system of peer review and journal acceptance is almost exclusively based on the authority of the main author and not on the value of the paper.

In short medical research is nothing like Physics or other science papers and endeavours its evidence base for most of what it already does is often severely lacking.
makes me think of the Harvard kid that called in a bomb threat via Tor -- and was the only one on campus using Tor.

so even though that stream was itself encrypted, it was trivially easy to track down that one guy and tie it to him.
I wasn't even aware Seattle pulled people over for speeding much at all. WSP on the highways yes, but on the city streets there is not really any traffic enforcement by cops (outside of parking).

Seattle went from like 40k/yr moving violation tickets to 3k/yr over the last decade-ish.

I think GP might have been talking about the proposal to split parking enforcement out of the police department: https://mynorthwest.com/3093949/seattle-council-votes-move-p...

Which yes, was undone: https://www.theurbanist.org/2022/11/23/council-returns-parki...

But also only tangentially related to speeding enforcement.
Reading the docs, I consistently get blank page with an error after less than 30s: "Application error: a client-side exception" it feels strange that a text document needs to be an Application. I feel so old.
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But there are so many things that can't be done without visual & audio context. I can't hold my smartphone camera up all day to capture and serialize useful data.

AI just made the value proposition for smartglasses 10x.
> and may only come within tens of dollars of accurately predicting your water bill.

Whenever I've had to water new grass seed I've always been surprised by my water bill.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think any ISP does DPI for mass censorship, that would be way to expensive
What is really interesting is looking at the meta analysis cited in the Vox article:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932762/

This reaches the conclusion that beta blockers are harmful. However, if you look at the meat analysis, specifically figure 2, you find that the conclusion is mainly driven by a single trial - the 2008 POISE trial.

If you go to the POISE trial: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

You find that they discovered fraud in at least some of the hospitals:

" Concern was raised during central data consistency checks about 752 participants at six hospitals in Iran coordinated by one centre and 195 participants associated with one research assistant in three of 11 hospitals in Colombia. On-site auditing of these hospitals and cases indicated that fraudulent activity had occurred. Before the trial was concluded, the operations committee—blinded to the trial results at these hospitals and overall—decided to exclude these data (webappendix 1).
"

We have an important question - should pre-op patients be given beta blockers - and the largest, most definitive trials to answer that question have at least some taint of fraud.
This seems to be happening more and more, or I am just noticing it more. Can't it be automated?
This is a bad analogy because food is dual purpose - nutrition and enjoying the taste.

Music is just about subjective enjoyment - you will not get cancer if the piano was not in tune - and if you can't tell the difference then it is irrelevant to your experience.
a vast source of natural resources and hockey stars?
If you eliminate the need for traffic cops, you need to accept that the "important" police work of criminal investigation and civil protection requires specialized training and skills (and probably more pay). American police departments aren't that; they're jobs programs with badges and guns.
A price premium? Are you aware that Amazon sells these at a loss? Amazon wants to kill Alexa because they couldn't find a way to monetize it.
It probably wouldn't hurt you to make a lawyer acquaintance and put one on retainer. A few hundred bucks upfront and you'll have someone you can call to help take care of things like this.
Who's running OpenSSH through "fancy $100k firewalls"?
I don't think Funko Pops and housing are comparable.
I have personal knowledge of two cases of this happening and both were immediately dropped. One was a high school student's personal project gone awry for like $3k worth the other was a startup where it was $120k or so. Two different providers. Neither had to particularly argue their case, just ask and wait a few days.
Why would you say "stagecoach in red field" instead of Wells Fargo? I don't get why people are so coy about calling out terrible companies by name publicly. They're not going to kick your door in and shoot your dog. Do you think Wells Fargo (the terrible shitty bank) is going to actually search through HN looking for instances where users said their company name "Wells Fargo" and linked that company name "Wells Fargo" to their reputation "terrible and shitty"? When they find your username, are they going to scour the web to find your real name? And then, when they do, what then? You probably no longer do business with them so there's nothing much they can do in retaliation.
I don't worry too much about photographs. Fake images have been floating around in increasing quantities for decades now. Yeah these new AI fakes are often perfect, better than photoshop, but plenty of people were falling for bad photoshop edits before anyway.

Audio/video on the other hand...I don't think anyone is ready for that. There is no precedence for fake videos full of fake dialog. And I'm not talking about trick golf shots or sound-alike voice overs.
Thanks! I think the "deploy and connect" workflow is itself not super painful, but even if you're invested in VSCode, doing that again and again every day is pretty annoying (and it certainly was for me when I used to do ML), so hopefully the ease of use is valuable for people.
> Nobody needs a $1400 bike with a $40 monthly subscription to maintain a calorie deficit. It’s absurd.

Nobody needs a $500 PS5 and $80 video games. Nobody even needs a TV. A lot of people don't need a new cell phone.

Also, do you think owning an exercise bike means you're overweight? Maybe it's a hobby, maybe it's even fun? Let people exercise and spend their money how they want.
> There are plenty of terror groups which the rulers of plenty of countries say are existential threats to those countries, some of them even take hostages, Israel alone responds to those attacks with genocidal rampage.

Such as ? When the U.S felt it was under existental threat it definitely responded.

The Madrid/London attacks don't resemble at all the situation between Hamas and Israel - even if Spain wanted to go to war against the terrorists - where would the war happen? Who would they attack?
Hamas is right on the border, hell bent on recreating October 7th again and again (their words). And its not just their words Hamas has built an entire army with whatever means they could find, and had fired rockets on Israel repeatedly throughout the years. Madrid and London was one or more sophoisticated terror cell, without knowing what happened there in detail I find it hard to believe it was more than a hundred people involved. Hamas has/had tens of thousands of members, rpgs, explosives, tunnels and tens of thousands of rockets (low quality, but still).
Not to mention the fact Israel was immediately attacked by Hezbollah and later on Iran. This comparison to Spain or the UK is simply silly. You simply choose to view Israel as uniquely evil due to your political ideology/own biases and thought processes.
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See the google search summary below. The discussion of US vets being murderers and additional creation of a hostile workplace environment for US vets, is likely categorized as a violation of federal law. Google could be sued.

>Two federal laws prohibit discrimination in employment based on your status as a service member or veteran: The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) prohibits civilian employers from discriminating against you based on your present, past, and future military service.
The Humane AI pin says hello and that the almonds in your hand have 16000 calories.
Would a reasonable compromise be to change the base allocation granularity to 2MB, and transparently sub-allocate those 2MB blocks into 64KB blocks (the current Windows allocation granularity) when normal pages are requested? That feels like it should keep 2MB page fragmentation to a minimum without breaking existing software, but given they haven't done it there's probably some caveat I'm overlooking.
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This is more of an intellectual parlor trick than anything else. Like literally what else could "solid" mean besides "that which we call solid based on our perception." When you say that matter is "mostly empty space" you are really writing is a sentence which implicitly uses two definitions of solid in one place without distinguishing between them.
My feeling on this is AI will continue to erode our trust in photographs, but it will force us to build trust in _photographers_. There are people who are honest and true, and we will need to spend time and energy seeking them out. There will be a market for more trustworthy photographers.
This is another big problem for VR: The headsets are very locked down. Getting something like an Ad Blocker, sideloading apps, or general functionality hacking is too cumbersome. You burn out and go back to your laptop before long.
this makes sense; plug the hole and stop taking on water before you ask for a free cleanup.
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It's not a complete fallacy. In events like this, after the news hits, there are a flurry of eyeballs looking, at least for a little while. The heartbleed bug got people to look at the openssl code and realize what a mess that code is. Inspectre and meltdown has led to the discovery of many more CPU vulnerabilities. After Chatgpt hit the market, there has been lots of new research on AI security, such as into prompt injection attacks.
You're blaming TypeScript for self-inflicted wounds.

Don't blame the type system that you banished (with `as unknown as T`) for not catching you; or for some React library having bugs, e.g. an incorrect interface; for not defining types and Pikachu-facing when types are `undefined`. These traumas are fixed by using TypeScript, not ignoring it.
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But that's always been true about SE. The processor in SE has always been the top of the line at the time it was introduced, exceeding the previous year's model.

To alleviate the pressure on the mainstream model lines, they introduce it with a 6 months lag.

This makes quite a bit of sense as the SE is supposed to last 3 years or so before it gets refreshed.
Chase stole about $900 from me from an account I setup just for freelance income. This was during the pandemic when I had to take a 2/3 haircut in my day job to keep the company afloat (we did, and all is well now). Every time I'd try to reach out to try to get answers, I'd get bounced around among different foreign call centers. After months of trying to resolve it I just gave up. (I could and should seek legal recourse, but I just didn't have the emotional energy for it at the time)

I will never do business with them again, even though their many branches (literally have one across the street from my office) would make it convenient.
Sufficient reproducibility should be required, but the "cautiousness" when it IS there often remains. Examples of this more emotional resistance from MDs and PhDs that come to mind include:

• Helicobacter pylori and Peptic Ulcers

• The Eply Maneuver

• Handwashing for Infection Control