skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mattresses have been especially bad for a long time.

Yes. Refrigerators, at least, are made by a relatively small number of companies with established brands. They have EnergyStar ratings, and there's some objective evaluation.

For mattresses, the whole industry is a scam. Mattresses actually cost about US$50 to US$80 in bulk. Search Alibaba. Almost all consumer-facing companies are resellers. Markups are huge. Essentially all the mattress review sites are paid promotions.
The observation that the age is related to life expectancy bears thinking about: Sri Lanka looks attractive to us, with HNW but for locals, this reflects a hard working life and consequences.
So degoogled you can't even google them!
Are there a lot of Arc users? It seems like a pretty niche browser even compared to other niches.
I'm hiring, and discussions of how we want to respond to engineer candidates who get stuck are interesting. I'm personally more interested in their collaboration (wildcard) than their chat-fu (assumed at this point). So my advice to people reading this with interviews in the next year (or next week) is to consider getting off the screen and solving something with a person.
We will all get plenty of self-solving time, but it helps if you can show that you can explain yourself during rapid fire situations involving others, or to bring them along with your plan, or building an unfamiliar plan B with others when two AZ are down in us-east-1 and noone planned for XYZ to be unavailable (eg something that the LLM site depended on)
Not that I'm certain it'll happen, but I think calculators (to go back to this story) were more reliable than anything we've typed into the past month, and for me that includes their batteries.
> "How? He's just enforcing the law in Brazil"

> "Elon is the one who cut off Twitter's 5th biggest market because misinformation is the opium of fascist-wannabees like him"

You don't seem to be sure on what is going on or even know what 'fascist' means.

Anything can be declared as "misinformation" these days which is the what many governments commonly use to enforce censorship and for its citizens to continue to believe one narrative for governments to then continue to lie to its citizens.

Why do you want this?
You keep sending it until you get an acknowledgement back. As the article points out, this does assume nobody cut the wire.
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Trump and other insiders can now sell shares of DJT, just as stock hits new low
I don't know much about Brazil , nor the background on this story, however even if Musk is in the right here, that doesn't make him any less of a fascist.

There isn't always a good and bad guy in these situations. Corrupt people and organisations can and often do oppose each other.
So what, he was asking the designer to re-create already existing icons? Or brand new icons for each stock?

Thats insanely fucked up either way of the designer leading them on like that or to ultimately cheat someone
We are little critters living in space squirts
Are you sure about that? I'd have bet money that the input lines have an interrupt assigned, and googling seems to agree.
Disabling Scheduled Dependency Updates
I'm guessing those people all declined the podcast invite.
I appreciate the insights here, but I am struggling to understand how “exactly one” can equate to “eliminate duplicates”. Let’s say someone arrived at my house and cut my grass, and I failed to confirm they had done so, so the company sent someone over to cut my grass again, maybe multiple times. It seems silly to claim my grass was cut exactly once, despite it consistently remaining at the same height. Obviously it was cut multiple times, just not with much effect after the first. The point of exactly-once is that the server and client don’t need to expend pointless effort on duplicates… right?
How does powersave mode help here? All it does is slow everything down when you're in that workspace.
So what happens when misinformation is posted and the corporation won't act to remove it?

In twitter's case, what happens when the corporation actively works to avoid accountability for it?
So is the idea that you would run a normal compiler once in your production pipeline to check syntax, and then re-run it with ts-blank-space to generate the final bundle?

Clearly you can’t eliminate the syntax checking correct?
Yep, a lot of these policies seem to come from some random person scrolling through a list of supported options and arbitrarily making up values that are enforced on people.

One of our policies enforce that screen savers must start after 20 minutes, and it’s not possible to reduce it (I have my personal on 3 minutes). Or the fact that it will constantly reset the UI notification volume to 100% and speaker output, even though have headphones almost always.

Infuriating.
Also, firebase? seriously? this is a company with like, low level software engineers on payroll, and they are using a CRUD backend in a box. cost effective I guess? I wouldn't even have firebase on the long list for a backend if I were architecting something like this. Especially when feature-parity competitors like Supabase just wrap a normal DBMS and auth model.
I don't see any explanation in that article about what illegal "literal misinformation" Musk is allowing on X, so no it's not very reasonable.
I develop AI girlfriends.
I've struggled a lot with achieving natural-feeling recall. I've gone through a few iterations, but I'm currently experimenting with a knowledge graph/vector hybrid that uses an LLM to extract facts to build the graph. Both the performance and $ cost really hurt, but it truly does breathe life into AI characters.
I've seen a lot of the commercial products using the latest and most expensive models in the cloud to extract facts. Instead, I fine-tuned a local model on a gpt4-generated dataset, and it works surprisingly well. It will miss some connections but in practice I don't think it will be too noticeable.
Tailscale affected?
There is a configuration profile payload that can stop updates like major version changes for up to 90 days. You cannot stop them indefinitely from appearing in Software Update.
> So how do you not click links to confirm your email for a new account?

Fair question, but the "don't click links in email" is for emails that you don't expect. And sure, that's an unsatisfying answer because it's hard to communicate this wisdom to your grandmother.

I think the best answer is defense-in-depth. Ensure you use updated email clients, browsers, and OS, and employ a dns blocker like a pihole or equivalent public service.

For less-savvy people a device like an iPad or Chromebook can be a reasonable defense.
Most things are automated; right now one of my main recurring tasks is to check in on the upstream repositories of my forks that add some minor customisations to Neovim plugins whenever I’m applying updates, to see whether I need to do any rebasing (this is generally fairly quick and is on the weekly-monthly scale)
Clean RL is a great library if you're looking to get started doing some deep reinforcement learning! That plus gymnasium are pretty standard.

It's good for the world if we keep publishing improvements and optimizations to understandable primitives.

I am curious why not contribute back upstream, though.
The US likes to pretend free markets are our principle, but we have completely destroyed every notion of a free two-sided market on healthcare. That's the simple explanation for our outcome.
Totally! I’m pumped for this in general, just want people to remember it’s not a silver bullet.
From the NSA, this seems like historical revisionism as it contradicts the bin Laden story widely accepted.

The short version is: 9/11 happens. The Taliban offer to hand over bin Laden and George W. Bush refuses [1]. Bin Laden escapes into Pakistan. We then start a completely pointless war in Iraq against someone who played no part in 9/11. There was a letter from many conservative leaders prior to 9//1 calling for the invasion of Iraq [2]. Interestingly, then Senator Biden predicted in 1998 he'd vote to topple Saddam Hussein in 1998 [3].

There is no partisan divide on US foreign policy.

Anyway, bin Laden builds a massive compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, about a half mile from the ISI (Pakistan's intelligence agency). Like, it stood out like a sore thumb. It was so much larger than the surrounding houses. And there he sat for years. He had no Internet access. He communicated with the outside world via couriers. Those couriers would take USB drives and travel to distant Internet cafes and such to communicate on bin Laden's behalf.

One of those couriers was identified through torture ("interrogation") of people held at Guantanemo Bay. The CIA followed said courier and found the compound in Abbottobad and, well, the rest is history.

So where does the NSA fit into this? It seems like good ol HUMINT (human intelligence) to me.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.te...

[2]: https://www.militarist-monitor.org/images/uploads/PNAC_Lette...

[3]: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4842886/user-clip-1998-biden-...
I don't really care about the answer to that specific question, where there's only one household.

What I will say is the guy that has copies of 20000 people's keys should get in trouble if he loses his horde.
Yes of course you can have exactly once delivery if you clearly define who/what the receiver is. You can easily deduplicate messages on the receiving end based on UUIDs created by the sender for example... Since they are duplicates of the exact same message, it doesn't matter which one is 'the original'.

It makes sense to worry about this only if you're worried about wasting bandwidth in the event of network instability (since the same message may sometimes traverse the network multiple times) but that's not generally something engineers should worry about.

It's ironic how some people use this to try to talk down to 'junior' developers.

Anyone can memorise hearsay about distributed systems but few can speak from experience.
Much easier - collect all student TI-84s, neatly labeled for return after the test. Hand out stock ones that already had a full reset completed. Don't bother to announce it until the student shows up for the test.

Students get the reassurance that their TI-84 won't go through a reset.

Schools have extra TI-84s in the back rooms.
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This looks awesome. CleanRL has been incredibly useful for some of my students starting out in RL. Adding Pytorch's compilation capabilities is a fantastic addition.
In particular what exactly once delivery implies that I do not have to worry about it in my processing logic. I can build a `count += 1` and it will always be exactly correct.

The notion that there is no distinction between exactly once delivery and exactly once processing is very odd to me. In practice my processing needs to accommodate duplicates to be correct. If I had exactly once delivery my processing could be much simpler. If I could get exactly once delivery for free I would always choose it in a heartbeat.
If the scientists are motivated enough, they can trace a virus all the way to your place of business.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02996-y
Well pretty confused. You can't get exactly once delivery using proposed solution in general case because you can not have infinite memory for dedupe.
See also:

A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/ssh-tunnels/
At the end of the day the author and those they are arguing with mostly agree, they simply disagree on what the word "delivery" means. Given the author's background, I wonder if the issue is that they're focused mainly on lower levels of the stack, while those who disagree mainly work with traditional applications that do things like send email, respond to webhooks, update databases, etc.

The reason I think it's important to be pedantic about distinguishing between "delivery" and "processing" is that I have seen plenty of higher level systems that have incorrectly not implemented idempotency and had bugs as a result. I have seen many folks be confused by Kafka's "Exactly-Once Semantics" feature and introduce major bugs into message processing pipelines. The author, who clearly understands these fundamental design challenges, is not my problem. It's everyone else who struggles to design safe, idempotent exactly-once systems.
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Palantir had no role. It's disgusting they try to tie themselves to it.
In case you're someone who actually knows anything about distributed systems and you're not looking forward to slogging through this long article filled with claims like "I have a PhD in AI so I know what I'm talking about" to find where the author made their mistake, let me save you the time. It's the typical conflation of exactly-once delivery with exactly-once processing, which the author acknowledges and then chooses to ignore because they're basically the same for practical purposes, as if this somehow changes the reality of the delivery itself and the restrictions on its guarantees.

Yes, everyone knows you can layer an idempotency mechanism on top of at-least-once delivery to achieve exactly-once processing (so long as you're willing to tie up memory/storage for an infinite amount of time). But this does not equate to exactly-once delivery, and you know that.
you can't in general case because you don't have infinite memory for dedupe.
I think Google Flights can do that?
"Derivation" refers to the nix intermediate build artifact, a .drv file, which contains the instructions to perform the build itself. Basically a nix program compiles to a derivation file which gets run to produce the build outputs. The hash in the /nix/store for a dependency is the hash of the derivation. Conveniently if the hash is already in a build cache, you can download the cached build outputs instead of building it yourself.
Human Consciousness Comes from a Higher Dimension
I think your idea has already worked for some companies to filter out AI applications, why not try? Especially in a font color identical to the background.
You can also scaffold your way to generate questions that get the worst LLM performance, while still being very clear to understand, one side validating the clarity and theoretical tractability for the age, and one side actually solving it. Actor and two critics maybe. I have a container somewhere to create and use this kind of chain visually, could put it on GitHub but I'm sure there are dozens already
Actually, in theory there is one place denser but our models show it can never happen.

The moment right after the big bang. As energy can never be created nor destroyed, all the energy in the universe was practically in one point in space-time a femtosecond after the big bang.
Truly, what kind of pedants would downvote an honest question about this poorly described detail?

I've seen people say "you're not supposed to mention" downvotes if they happen to you, but when they're plainly stupid?
I haven't tested the form, but they do claim you can report abuse of the registrar with some of the options, perhaps they've changed it?

Failing that:

> If Cloudflare is listed as the registrar on an ICANN WHOIS listing, you also can email reports related to our registrar services to registrar-abuse@cloudflare.com
10^23 is actually easy to comprehend, because it’s close to the amount of h2o molecules in a syringe. Just that many meters.
Because that is the choice they made for themselves.

How it plays out after is another matter entirely. But the choice was what they seemed to think was right, for them, at the time. Thus it was the right choice for them. It doesn't mean it was the right choice in terms of integrity, or the right choice for me, or you or anyone whose data got caught up in it. Nor was it right choice in receiving a paycheck the next week.

But the way it was explained, it doesn't seem like they went out of their way to pick a "wrong" choice, specifically. They picked what they felt was the right one, for them, at that time. There were less ethical options to choose as well, and those were not picked either.
Apologies, it was a link from another article (hooray posting while on mobile!)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3rnl5qv3o

>The row began in April, with the judge ordering the suspension of dozens of X accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation.

>Justice Moraes had ordered that X accounts accused of spreading disinformation - many supporters of the former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro - must be blocked while they are under investigation.
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No, it's not reasonable to abandon the pretense of liberal society because someone made childish AI images.
The unspoken rules of React hooks
If someone tells me the sky is blue, and then someone else tells me the sky is purple, I'm not going to believe it's purple just because "the government" tells me the weather forecast
I mean if you need to set up a straw man that large I suppose it isn't
Urban legend. Almost all of the gene loss happened 200 million years ago in early mammals. In the past 40 million years, our ancestors lost one Y-chromosome gene one single time about 20 million years ago. In the 7 million years since we separated from chimps, there have not been any genes lost from the Y.

Note: a similar shrinking pattern is seen in birds, where females have a small W chromosome and males have two large Z's.
Ah yes of course in 2018 it's still HMAC.
The point is that it doesn't matter exactly where the deduplication matters. It could happen in your own processing code, or something upstream of it, like a queue library of some kind. That's pretty much what the entire article is saying; it's hard to meaningfully distinguish what part is actually delivery versus processing. e.g. most people would consider the guarantees imparted by the TCP stack are indeed part of delivery and not processing, but your TCP stack is having to do a lot of processing work to actually maintain the logical stream of bytes.
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Iraq was never about 9/11. The error of Iraq happened because the US followed one HUMINT source Saddam was developing WMD. Considering bin Laden was in Pakistan, it would presumably require a multi-source confirmation.
the US led on nuclear fusion for decades. China is in position to win the race
Still not seeing any explanation of what the supposed "literal misinformation" was in that article either.
> Even if you broke Google up, who would be in a position to compete with their search platform?

You break Google Search out of Google and break Google Search up into two (or more) companies. Now, they have an incentive to compete against one another.

Before Google became a monopoly, SEO optimizations were somewhat restrained because something which was super-optimized for Google would generally hurt your search on Yahoo and vice versa. If the results got too shitty, people would start to switch.

The fact that switching doesn't happen anymore is prima facie evidence that Google is a monopoly.
Don't forget them quietly deleting Elon's "secret master plan" about climate change [1] because Elon decided that oil and gas are OK, actually [2]

[1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-deletes-elon-musk-master...

[2] https://www.bncnnews.com/2023/12/elon-musk-asserts-oil-and-g...
>And the former won power in the first place in a democracy.

No actually, despite all their massive propaganda drives, the Nazis never won through elections. They just could't get enough votes to do so and instead used backroom maneuvering with other established politicians to gain the chancellorship appointment (not election) for Hitler so that he could use that to manipulate existing laws into forming a one party dictatorship.

The relevance of this is there for my earlier point: Even in such a case, the real danger was government and its legal powers to suppress, coerce and repress, not so much an organization's ability to spew out bad information and propaganda.
curious what kind of tasks you usually do after checking them.
maybe you'll find some todos while reading them.. right?
I think that the trick is to try to find new and upcoming brands that have a reputation for quality, and learn what high quality looks like so that you can confirm personally that the product is good.

This is difficult and requires ongoing work. Fashionable young people tend to do it but I certainly don’t blame anyone who decides that it isn’t worth the effort.
NB: 2013 (as is suggested by the URL).
Someone choosing an action does not at all mean it's the right choice for them.
Security by lack thereof
That first paragraph is where I fortunately get to live most of the time :D
Author here. Most commenters still seem to be missing the point, despite the fact that I explicitly say this in the opening sentence:

"This post is ostensibly about an obscure technical issue in distributed systems, but it's really about human communications."

and reiterate it at the end:

"This post was intended to be about human communication more than distributed systems or network protocols."

I really don't know how I could have made this any clearer.
"Justice Moraes had ordered that X accounts accused of spreading disinformation"

Not sure how I can make it any clearer for you than that. Surely if they're innocent then the accounts can simply be reinstated?