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I once used an LLM to generate some nix code to package a particular version of kustomize. It "worked", when I ran `kusomize version` in my shell, I got the version I asked for.

I later realized that it wasn't packaging the desired version of kustomize, but was instead patching the build with a misleading version tag such that it had the desired version string but was in fact still the wrong version.
And in this case it worked, PayPal acquired Honey for $4 billion in cash. I can't say I'm surprised to learn that the founder is also very into Web3. Crypto is a grifter magnet.
Which is why I wrote, "… is headlined as…" although I thought it still worth posting.
People enjoy being told what to do in some cases / planning is not a common trait
Heh:

> The title may be a reference to cable television, which carries more channels than terrestrial television.

DTV these days is in that ballpark for channels - I think I get about 63. And I'm a good ~40 miles out from a major city. There's probably more if you're closer to the city.
It has been a while since I read memoir, but as I recall he came to the US in 1939 to take up an appointment, not as fleeing anything.
Claiming people think Musk is a horrible person purely because of a "MSM narrative" sure is a take. Maybe it's because of the actual horrible things he says, does, and boosts, and not because of some low-watched news network Boogeyman?
In that case an example box with tabs at the top - "miniKanren in Python / Go / Ruby" or whatever - would really help illustrate that point.
They can sometimes give useful advice. But remember to see them as limited, and that they can make mistakes or leave things out.
Perseus seems to be slowly falling apart; I think it's unmaintained. I also think there's supposed to be a more current replacement. But that's as far as my knowledge goes; do you know more?
...next time, on Geraldo.
I was going to write that this should of been caught pretty early if you had searched and click AWS Spot instances link to read about them being quite unstable/temporary. However, the first result is this: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/

It is ceaseless shilling for how great spot instances are with big percentages, big savings, omg-so-good messaging. No details whatsoever about some pretty glaring trade-offs. Even their video about getting to know it is quite light on details, mostly telling you what other of their services you can use them together with. What is the point of this marketing word soup? Does that really generate leads?

/rant over

The actual page that tells you about spot instances is a later result: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-sp...

> Spot Instance interruption – Amazon EC2 terminates, stops, or hibernates your Spot Instance when Amazon EC2 needs the capacity back. Amazon EC2 provides a Spot Instance interruption notice, which gives the instance a two-minute warning before it is interrupted.
Their next sentence explains. Other databases might not make that guarantee, including future versions of Postgres.
This interview with Dean King from the (now-completed) podcast "The Lubber's Hole" presents a different viewpoint.

https://lubbershole.podbean.com/e/episode-220-dean-king-inte...
It’s pretty clear at this point AWS is purposely opaque.
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Yes, possibly a huge difference. If they provided legitimate work and contributed to the project, with diligence and respect for the licensing, and respectfully, transparently, honestly ran with some sort of referrals / adshare type program for monetization, it would almost be respectable.

What they did was out themselves as garbage humans, with laziness, antisocial grifting, disrespect for the law, and general unpleasantness at every possible level. It'd be difficult to be worse people without adding murder or violence to the mix.
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On private trackers you can sometimes even see 4k blurry remuxes up before the blueray is even available in your local area due to different release windows around the world.

As far as I’ve seen, they pretty much grow on trees as far as films are concerned. TV shows are a very different story though and outside of hugely popular series are far more inconsistent.
85k is new visas. Old visas need renewal every few years and that needs a new application and approval. In addition, if a visa holder changes their job, they need to transfer their visa to the new employer. That also counts.

No matter what the real numbers are, the 85k ceiling is strictly enforced, meaning the program introduces up to 85k new people per year, excluding their dependents. Their dependents cannot work in the US though.
Their usage of "their" aligns with how English has been used for centuries (Wikipedia says 14th century), but more importantly the author's writing was the topic of discussion not their gender.

Policing other's pronoun usage is ideological, but that's your argument, not theirs.
TFA never addresses what MediBang Paint Pro is using Qt for. Checking for updates, etc. (e.g., online account connection, sharing)?
Because they are on contract. Your point does not refute the earlier, it is a cashflow issue. Most people buy phones on contract and pay X per month over Y months rather than paying X*Y total upfront.
> IMHO llama 3.1 405B does not fit the definition, and the actual model quality is far from the benchmarks

Very true. Meta has been disappointing so far, and it takes away from the blog that it starts with a graph of a completely misrepresentative benchmark (MMLU) that shows things like Llama3.1-405b besting Gemini 1.5-pro, 4o-mini above Haiku 3.5, and so on.

But all this means is that the leap in terms of open weights model is even far bigger with Deepseek v3.
Or for that matter Emacs
If the government isn't going to do anything meaningful, and people continue to put people in office who won't do anything meaningful, then whats the point?
It's weird because when I see super polished professional photos on a dating profile, I feel like I'm looking at a stock photo or an advertisement, not a genuine person on my level. I don't even find those pictures inherently pleasing, if anything I have an urge to skip over them immediately in the same way I've been subconsciously trained to skip over ads on a website without adblock.
Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience
I travel often. Sometimes I use a VPN, sometimes I don't. I use a heavily customized Firefox config on Linux.

Cloudflare challenges have made large portions of the web unusable for me.

Some recent examples

- The "unsubscribe" button in Indeed's job notification emails leads me to an impassable Cloudflare challenge. The "Contact Us" page is also behind an impassable Cloudflare challenge.
- While migrating a non-profit off of A2 Hosting, their login forces me to re-enter credentials after failing a challenge, looping endlessly.
- On a particularly ironic note, I tried to complain on the Cloudflare Forums—met with another impassable challenge.

When reachable, customer support always says "try a mobile data connection", "switch to Chrome", or some other variant of "too bad, so sad".

Is anyone else dealing with this mess?
You sound deeply depressed, you know that right?
Thanks for taking a look!

Initially, I did think I'll be using wireguard. What stopped me at the time (as far as I remember) was that I couldn't just use the protocol part of the official golang library (e.g. https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/about/). Another thought I had at the time, was that I would had to use the user-space wireguard implementation, which everyone claimed was slow (I should have probably looked into how slow it is).

Another thought I had was to use the noise protocol (which wiregruard also uses) for security and building on top of that. Which meant I would have to implement most of what QUIC (and wireguard) does to make UDP a reliable protocol - retries, ordering, streams, etc. So, eventually, I just settled on using QUIC for the first version - later we can always add more ways for peers to connect to each other.
Perhaps the story that doesn't get told more often is how LLMs are changing how humans operate en masse.

When ChatGPT came out, I was increasingly outsourcing my thinking to LMS. It took me a few months to figure out that that's actually harming me - I've lost my ability to think through things a little bit.

The same is true for Coding Assistants; sometimes I disable the in-editor coding suggestions, when I find that my coding has atrophied.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, as long as LMs are ubiquitous and they proliferate throughout society and are extremely reliable and accessible. But they are not there today.
The author of UBlockOrigin should contact the PayPal legal department (in a legal manner). That might be a more direct path dealing with the Honey business.
Well yeah I'm not talking about comparing a used high mileage version of Tesla's cheapest sedan to a R1T
> most people able to and interested in buying an electric car

For what it's worth, I've wanted a tesla for many years. I haven't pulled the trigger because of the cost. I'm not sure how many right leaning techies there are out there, but we do exist. And when I worked on the West coast I learned pretty quickly that there are consequences if I share my political views. No clue how many more there are like me, but I'm certainly not the only one.

> Also, really? Do you think a speech is stronger if it ends with "obviously everyone in this room is going to disagree with me"?

I think free speech is strongest when differing views are tolerated. The fact that people feel they can't share their opinion is what damages free speech. I'm just trying to express that I feel I can't on HN, but I do feel some obligation to in an effort to be a good citizen. I wasn't aware of the rule. I also think it's comical that it's used to remove an otherwise reasonable comment entirely (this just punishes those who have different opinions from the main HN audience). I've learned that commenting on anything political here turns into a big distraction, so I was trying to take part but avoid some of the backlash.
You can have small languages, sure, but then you run into awkward extended clarifying clauses. The thing that makes languages difficult is that almost all vocabulary is sparse. The "Top N" words in a language are always pronouns, prepositions, articles, and the conjugations of the top 12 or so verbs: to be, to have, to do, to go, to come, to say, to give, etc. This is the reason that "Top N Words of Language X" and "Learn the Top 50% of Words in Language X" listicles/videos are always disappointing.
wait until you see The Way to El Dorado, even better.
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The risk is that HTTPS is something you have to manage. Either your hosting provider auto-renews certs for you (which might cost) or you set up your own automation (which can fail, and I've seen enough properties with expired LE-issued certs to know that email reminders can be missed and certbot is not a silver bullet). That said, usually an expired cert fails open, ie users can still visit your website if they accept the scary "this is unsafe" warning. This is not an option if your website uses HSTS or is on a TLD with implicit HSTS (eg .dev), but in that case you're opting in to the responsibility of renewing your certs reliably.

The benefit is that you can be sure that nothing modifies the traffic between your server and the client, so the client sees your content without any modification.

The counter-points to the benefit are that a) the traffic can still be *blocked* by any party in the middle (eg a state-level firewall), b) that traffic can absolutely be modified if the client has accepted an alternative CA for whatever reason (legal, corporate, etc) and that CA is used to MITM the connection to your server, and c) you as a website operator don't necessarily care about the MITM situation of every client's network (ie them having a MITM is their problem, not yours).

There's another benefit that browsers restrict some JS API to only run on https pages, which matters if you wanted to use those API. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure...
Not surprising. There are less than 140 banks in the alliance globally. There are only something like 3-4 in the US. They're not going to spend time and money on the alliance when their competitors don't.
Back in the day, I've actually seen ASCII images and animations that would qualify as porn cartoons, so I don't have to survey the presently referenced materials in detail. The majority that are just naked women in a standing pose showing bush and boobs are not porn.

Being naked isn't porn.

Otherwise we would ask, "where were you porn" rather than "where were you born".
Undoutably most catchy song in the whole movie.

I think it's great.

Maybe, I am just our of the loop and people are overly biased by their own expectations and context to consider the song on its own?
I don't want to "hum, actually", but Hamas is aligned with Iran, and Qatar is playing Iran vs Saoudi arabia to exist, out of practicality more than anything. Also not a theocracy, but an aboslute monarchy.

Playing Iran vs saudi arabia is also the reason why Qatar "passed money to Hamas", when asked by Israel (or rather, Likud). The funds they passed are originally from Israel.

Imho it is likely to be viewed as an unjust behavior and a treason from Israel by Qatari. With the Assad clan out, Iran and Saudi Arabia only have the Yemen left for their proxy war, and Qatar in the middle absolutely need Al jazzeira to be credible on the international scene. I'm pretty sure they only report on things already reported on by Haaretz (which are the only middle east news i truly trust atm) or international medias.
To be fair, Honey could easily bypass the blocklist redistribution legal issue by downloading filter lists at runtime from the official source. Then they aren't redistributing the resources.

Update: It looks like they're also using code from uBO without attribution or authorization. That's most likely illegal.
He also completely misses the point here:

> Audiophiles complain about MP3 compression and crappy headphones. Most of us just want to listen to our tunes, not listen to the equipment.

I won't even bother. It's not possible to discuss with people having such bogus opinions.
No, they're really not high end (at least not in developed countries). Any upper-middle class person can afford the best smartphone on the market. There is no meaningful exclusivity. It's not like with luxury cars where there are real high end products available that are completely out of reach.
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Because it works better?
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They do crowdsource discount codes from other users which is how you get internal discount codes used for testers leaked to other users.

I think this is a facilitation of theft, though the theft is hidden to the user so the user does not possess criminal intent while using the code. I’m not sure how illegal it is but it is clearly wildly unethical.
A lot of talk about how much cheaper it is than all other models.

It remains to be seen what the pricing will be when run by non-Deepseek providers. They might be loss leading.

The comparison for cheap models should also be Gemini 2.0 Flash Exp. I could see it being even cheaper when it stops being free - if it does at all. There's definitely a scenario where Google just keeps it freeish for a long time with relatively high limits.
All you really need to do is install the zscaler cert in the appropriate trust store.

It’s really a 1 step process in your dockerfile or other location.
You can deploy production workloads to spot instances, just make sure you have the rest of your infrastructure setup to handle the spot terminations. Excluding spot instances from the discussion, for any robust use case your infrastructure should be able to handle a single point of failure anywhere. See https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
Maybe I'm misreading, but this sounds like a defeatist take. Why would a 50yo be slower? I'm in my early 50s and at the absolute top of my game. I'm a principal eng at a medium-ish company and spend a lot of my time mentoring the "kids" and providing direction to engineers that don't have the same well of experience to draw on.

I would naturally assume that an IC in their 40s or 50s is much faster than someone in their 20s. But that assumes they've actually been doing IC work. I've had a lot of interviews with people that are very experienced on paper but struggle in the pairing interview; whatever they were doing before, it wasn't hands-on-keyboard work.

If you enjoy programming I don't see why there's any limit other than senility or death.
It's mentioned in the RFC as being explicitly monotonic based the time-based design.

Implementations that need monotonicity beyond the resolution of a timestamp-- like when you allocate 30 UUIDs at one instant in a batch-- can optionally use those additional bits for that purpose.

> Implementations SHOULD employ the following methods for single-node UUID implementations that require batch UUID creation or are otherwise concerned about monotonicity with high-frequency UUID generation.

(And it goes on to recommend the obvious things you'd do: use a counter in those bits when assigning a batch; use more bits of time precision; etc.)

The comment in PostgreSQL before the implementation makes it clear that they chose the third option for this in the RFC:

* variant bits. To ensure monotonicity in scenarios of high-
* frequency UUID generation, we employ the method "Replace
* LeftmostRandom Bits with Increased Clock Precision (Method 3)",
* described in the RFC. ...