skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I loved temu, aliexpress, and shein. I probably averaged 1 item per day arriving to my house, for years and years.

> I feel bad for the unaware people still ordering.

I personally feel bad for the environment and all the people on the losing side of cheap low quality junk production. Good if the beneficiaries are gone from your part of the world.
>More than 50% of those are below 3 stars.

Do you make bad purchasing decisions? How could "over 50%" of 200+ purchases be two star or fewer? Why would you still patronize Amazon if this is your experience?

>They don't suppress any legitimate reviews.

While I don't think they do -- Amazon, like Temu, is a marketplace of sellers, and they let the bad sellers die -- you aren't really in a position to say if they do or not. Amazon's algorithm for surfacing and/or aggregating reviews is not something we can audit in any real manner.
I like the axiomatic definition of entropy. Here's the introduction from Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by C. Bishop (2006):

> The amount of information can be viewed as the ‘degree of surprise’ on learning the value of x. If we are told that a highly improbable event has just occurred, we will have received more information than if we were told that some very likely event has just occurred, and if we knew that the event was certain to happen we would receive no information. Our measure of information content will therefore depend on the probability distribution p(x), and we therefore look for a quantity h(x) that is a monotonic function of the probability p(x) and that expresses the information content. The form of h(·) can be found by noting that if we have two events x and y that are unrelated, then the information gain from observing both of them should be the sum of the information gained from each of them separately, so that h(x, y) = h(x) + h(y). Two unrelated events will be statistically independent and so p(x, y) = p(x)p(y). From these two relationships, it is easily shown that h(x) must be given by the logarithm of p(x) and so we have h(x) = − log2 p(x).

This is the definition of information for a single probabilistic event. The definition of entropy of a random variable follows from this by just taking the expectation.
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The seller doesn't "need" to make any margin on it. Margins are set by the free market, and they are what they are, no more, no less.

Prices go down when demand goes down, right? Why's that, don't sellers need to make a certain margin?
Sure but the sheer quantity of goods being imported makes it impossible to verify compliance proactively. You need someone like him to discover the violation and speak out about it (which he has beautifully). Someone could contact Australia's customs service, the USB Forum, or the electronics certifying agencies to get the device recalled and blocked but it likely wouldn't stop another similar item from being imported under a different name and design.
US "liberal" media is being extremely cagey about what and how it reports on this admin. They know they're in its crosshairs and are doing this clumsy balancing act of trying to retain their relatively left-leaning or centrist viewers while trying not to draw any more ire. It won't work, of course, and if we continue on this trajectory you can expect that they'll change over to apologia and ass-kissing or be dismantled.
You can get the base ESP-32 modules for example, but not most of the Dev Boards. They have some, but much more expensive than AliExpress. And then you also have to pay shipping.
brilliant work, polished ui. although sometimes give wrong ranges for equations like 100/1~(200~2000)
I am yet to be part of any outsourcing project that was actually a sucess story, where everyone came unarmed without battlefield scars, in a timeframe of the last 25 years that outsourcing started to be a common thing in enterprise consulting.
Reddit could have simply banned T_D at any time. In the years since then they've definitely started banning subreddits for no good reason, but apparently based simply on how much upper management likes the subreddit. Presumably, T_D was not banned because upper management liked it.
Sounds like he was caught beneath landslide, in a champagne supernova… a champagne supernova in the sky
The arabs of the Abbasid Caliphate braided a rope by unifying Greek, Babylonian, and Indian mathematical and scientific works after translating original works into Arabic and extending them.
145% tariffs are practically designed to encourage smuggling.
Very powerful rule of thumb: If someone wants to build a Utopia by colonizing a new space that just so happens to be outside of any country's juristiction, 999 times out of 1000 they are trying to build a tech-dystopia.

The reason for this is that there is no incentive for a Utopia to be built removed from any pre-existing societies. There is no magical tech that existing societies simply refuse to use that could fix all of their problems, they are just really hard problems to solve. Starting fresh in an environment where life is unsustainable almost implicitly requires a separate society in a more favourable environment to sustain it. The caste-system is baked into the concept from the beginning.

In the end it all comes down to the plot of Elysium. A dystopia. Just a bit less extreme because that film was trying to tell the average idiot that it's a bad thing, while these people generally want to convince them that it's a good idea, actually.

The real "techno-utopia" is a walkable city with good public transport, high-speed internet, maybe some high-tech item/food delivery infrastructure to spice things up, and hopefully some glorified roombas to keep the streets clean.
DRY is also about coherence not just refactorability. If you have multiple different behaviors for the "same" thing then your customers are going to think you suck.
I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM's key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it's focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the LLM "thinks" were both released on August 15, 1997). I have a screenshot 6 days ago when it wasn't a Firefox Labs feature yet in my Misskey: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a6d86p8n26

Tried it today in an updated Nightly and the key points are still the same lol.
What you really want to do is put out the stars sooner then, and feed all the hydrogen into the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Dump in all the mass in the galaxy and all of its satellites and everything from Andromeda and its satellites too and it will grow. Nudge Andromeda’s central black hole into orbit around ours so that they merge, etc, etc. Grow it big enough and and you can build a Birch World around it, with a surface area larger than all the planets in those galaxies put together. All of the exploration with none of the boring travel in between interesting places! You can seed it with life from every planet your civilization ever encountered and watch all those ecosystems compete and hybridize as you while away the years. How many years would you have?

While dumping matter into a black hole destroys the matter, it doesn’t destroy the mass. It just confines all of the mass in one place. Powering your Birch World is just a matter of using the Penrose process to extract energy from the black hole for the next few million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years (about 3×10¹⁰⁴ years give or take a few). The stars will only last for about a million trillion years (10²⁰ years plus or minus a bit), so this plan extends your your lifetime by a factor of a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years.

Maximal extension perhaps, but not quite forever. Forever takes a lot more work.
I’ve camped thousands of nights in nearly 70 countries this way.
Just like we know how to make C safe (in theory), and many other cases in the industry.

The problem is that solutions don't exist, rather the lack of safety culture that keeps ignoring best practices unless they are imposed by regulations.
The UK-EU trade volume is three times larger than that between UK-US.
You're right it reduces to Bayesian vs frequentist views of probability. But you seem to be taking an adamantly frequentist view yourself.

Imagine you're not interested in whether a dice is weighted (in fact assume that it is fair in every reasonable sense), but instead you want to know the outcome of a specific roll. What if that roll has already happened, but you haven't seen it? I've cheekily covered up the dice with my hand straight after I rolled it. It's no longer random at all, in at least some philosophical points of view, because its outcome is now 100% determined. If you're only concerned about "the property of the dice itself" are you now only concerned with the property of the roll itself? It's done and dusted. So the entropy of that "random variable" (which only has one outcome, of probability 1) is 0.

This is actually a valid philosophical point of view. But people that act as though the outcome is still random, allow themselves to use probability theory as if it hadn't been rolled yet, are going to win a lot more games of chance than those that refuse to.

Maybe this all seems like a straw man. Have I argued against anything you actually said in your post? Yes I have: your core disagreement with OP's statement "entropy is a property of an individual". You see, when I covered up the dice with my hand, I did see it. So if you take the Bayesian view of probability and allow yourself to consider that dice roll probabilistically, then you and I really do have different views about the probability distribution of that dice roll and therefore the entropy. If I tell a third person, secretly and honestly, that the dice roll is even then they have yet another view of the entropy of the same dice roll! All at the same time and all perfectly valid.
I basically do jwebserver.exe, done.
I’ve bumped into scores of people doing the same around Africa, from Alaska to Argentina, all over Europe etc.

There are tons of people out there having great adventures!
HUGE SPOILER ALERT. SERIOUSLY, PLAY OUTER WILDS.

It's a little more than just " the sun will also go supernova". The core conceit of the games story is that you're living in the final moments of dying universe.
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Surveillance: Majority of EU member states stick to mandatory chat control
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368870
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I'm a scientist and I've spent a lot of time at Harvard, including working there for years.

These demands seem on point to me. I see a lot of uninformed opposition in this thread, but I think most of you all don't have any idea how it actually is at elite universities.

- Political tests for employment, or continued employment. The UC system (a public system!) is one of the worst offenders here, but Harvard is really, really bad.

- Overt discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion (or lack thereof). The number of academics who aren't even aware that this sort of discrimination is illegal is mind-boggling. I would say 9 months ago it was 80% or more. The number of emails I've received either indicating a candidate isn't viable because of his genitalia or skin color, or telling me this is the reason I didn't get the job is crazy. They literally don't know and don't care.

- Compelled speech. This is a bright line we have so far, as a society, successfully succeeded in not crossing. Harvard and other elite universities were crossing it, and the Biden admin's Title IX rules overtly crossed it. A bad look, to put it mildly.

- Widespread censorship, to the point where we (social scientists) have developed code to talk about certain things "nurture a thriving culture of open inquiry on our campus" hahaha...dear lord.

And these aren't small effects. It's not 55% / 45% type scenarios. You have to view the Administration's requests in the light of: Harvard is 95+% Blue Team, and that's largely because they actively filter. There are plenty of people who aren't willing to bend the knee who don't have jobs because of it. Harvard has created an intellectual monoculture. They want "diversity" in the sense that they want people who look different on the outside, but who are all the same on the inside.

Asking for monitoring to make sure they're no longer illegally and immorally discriminating in hiring and admission is warranted, indeed it would be kind of crazy to not monitor. They'll just continue racist and sexist hiring otherwise.

What's in this letter is a reasonable set of asks in response to a situation that is so off the rails it's hard to describe.
only mystery is why people pretend to like or understand the ending with the picture.
This absolutely happened to my parents in Pakistan in the 80s.
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Returns fluctuate wildly, while expenses are roughly constant. So obviously expenses are drawn conservatively. And if investment works well, you can grow the endowment too. Obviously it is up to the university to strike the right balance.

The more it grows, the less risk there is in the future. But if you start spending it more than the levels of its average returns, that's high risk. And the point is it's supposed to last forever.

You also need to grow it simply to account for inflation and other rising costs.
If you think that Ivy League cares about academic success, you're out of touch of how US universities work.
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When I was approximately 14, I had an MSN Messenger (or Windows Messenger... or Windows Live Messenger... Microsoft was doing the stupid naming thing even back then?) modded client called Messenger Plus! Live. And a script for that called Cache Answering Machine. When enabled for that user, it would respond to all messages with a random message selected from the chat history of another or the same user. i.e.

onMessage(sender, message) {if(config[sender]) sendMessage(sender, selectRandom(chatHistory[config[sender]]));}

Some of my friends would talk to it for several minutes before realizing. Mind you, they were also approximately 14.

And you have the ELIZA effect, where people believed ELIZA (a very primitive chatbot) was a real person even after being told how it worked.
ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images are no laughing matter
Maintenance overhead, plus:

- convenience (everyone already has a GitHub account and is familiar with the platform)
- discussions platform (issues, prs, discussions)
- CI (GitHub Actions)

It's already there, and it's free for the most part. Why would I bother hosting my own?
Nothing is preventing you to add an IP whitelist and/or basic auth to same configuration. That is what I do to all my nginx configurations to be extra careful, so nothing slips by accident.
You're beyond saving then, if basic historical research is "dangerous nonsense". What's the risk there? Discovering a theorem was known at an earlier point in history? Big whoop.

Seriously, what's the danger? Be clear. It feels like you peolple are unable to articulate anything more than "thouhtcrime!!".

Also, what do you think of the actual threats Trump made to academics? Is it dangerous too or not?
Gemini 2.5 is very good. Since you have to wait for reasoning tokens, it takes longer to come back, but the responses are high quality IME.
I don't know, I don't hate it: https://imgz.org/i4U5kMb5/
You can ban entire invite trees.
I agree. That documentation really needs some love. But if you see the discussions on github issues about quadlet features a common theme is maintainers dismissing requests because "that shouldn't be done in production" or "that won't scale". It seems they can't wrap their head around people wanting to do simple things or someone doing things by themselves at home and not for work at a big company or corporation, and that reflects on that documentation.

Working for one myself, which does have a support contract wit Red Hat, I kinda get where they're coming from--if they make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot, dumb people shoot themselves in the foot in production and they have to fix the mess later. But for that they could have a sanctioned build for clients and a community build for everybody else, just like they have Fedora and RHEL.
Isn’t the answer infinity? We don’t know what’s beyond observed part of universe, and there’s infinity number of universes. If our emerged then there’s others.
It is more a side effect of JavaScript bootcamp programming wihtout learning anything else.

I have been coding since 1986, nowadays most of the UIs I get paid to work on are Web based, yet when I want to have fun in side projects I only code for native UIs, if a GUI is needed.

Want to code like VB and Delphi? Plenty of options available, and yes they do scalable layouts, just like they used to do already back in the 1990's for anyone that actually bothered to read the programming manuals.
but most cameras with RTSP enabled allow any other device on the network to trivially get the camera stream, and sometimes also control the camera.

Not a real concern when the network is fully under my control. I can easily restrict access as I see fit.

I surrender all control when I give up my wifi password and allow similar access to somebody's network located somewhere on the internet. Further access can be (and has been) granted to others without user knowledge or consent. For example:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/amazon-finally-a...
It isn’t all or nothing, products from Temu/Shein/AliExpress are not all “crap”; (and the idea that Chinese products are crap is also seriously outdated). Yes, there’s a lot of shovelware on those websites, but if you know how to navigate them you can get the same products that you’d get from Amazon for a third of the price. I’ve bought bags, tools, hobby equipment etc from aliexpress that has lasted me years and saved literally 50% on average.
Nice. I recommend RFC 4226 and RFC 6238 for those wanting to get their feet wet in reading RFCs and other specifications; they were the first RFCs I implemented (with others), and one of the first Rust projects I worked on.
Just wait for IBM to turn into Red Har Linux or maybe Infosysl
Star Wars takes place entirely within one galaxy, and the number of supernova per galaxy is something like 1 per century, so, nah, Han was just bullshitting to stall for time while his busted-ass computer cobbled together numbers.
Have you checked out webtorrents? You can download movies from the P2P network sequentially and so watch them while they download.
I think it will be far before that, once they start hitting supernovae name jackpots like SN2026 cu*t et al.
Maybe you shouldn't use features that contribute to lock in indeed.
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They argument of more compression makes the model smarter as argued in the last few minutes, will make you look good and stay in the good graces of Sam Altman, and something he can push to his infinite money backers.

But if intelligence were just about compression, then zip files would be "smarter" than humans. The reliance on scaling laws is a symptom that current AI is fundamentally not intelligent, it’s just very good at statistical mimicry. True AGI requires qualitative breakthroughs, not just quantitative scaling.

These researchers have fine-tuned their noses to ignore the stench of overhyped benchmarks
Clicky: http://github.com/muhammadyasir-dev/dustdb

I can't find them. I only see a comparison table with words like "Excepcional (95%)".

I'm not a database guy. (I used SQL a few times (not in a few project, a few total times), but I used only single line commands that I can't remember, and I never used Redis.) If I were considering your project, I want to see a few runs of standard benchmarks with number comparing your projects and other projects. Bonus point for a script to run the benchmarks. Something like:

Benchmark Redis XYZ DustDB
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U. of Somewhere (2019) 56% 27% 81%
Google++ (2013) 123ms 110ms 77ms
VeryDeepDB (2017) 37/s 39/s 44/s

I'm sorry that I have no idea about the subject to recommend a few standard benchmarks, but if I were a DB guy and I were considering your project, I'd want to see a few clear examples with standard benchmarks and hard numbers.
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In your example the LLM should not be responsible for that directly. It should be calling out to an API or search results to get accurate and up-to-date information (relatively speaking) and then use that context to generate a response
$1B in 2012 is $1.4B in 2025.

Source: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2012?amount=10000...
I mean, yes it will, but mostly no that's not what the hint is about. Play the game.
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I doubt it: that only applies to equipment with radio capabilities.[1] Also, Kmart is regional to north america, it doesn’t exist in the EU.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
He allegedly supports Hamas? Is that in the article somewhere? It seems to me people are simply making things up to justify what seems pretty unjustifiable.
But that was years ago. Since shortly before the API purge, all you get is an auto response of "we have reviewed your report and there was no mistake."
This is inherently funny because the site where most hacks and breaches appear (like the Nintendo gigaleak and others) got hacked themselves.

Apparently, the hacker had been in since 2021, and they were running an extremely outdated PHP version. The hacker claimed to have full shell access.

But I'm willing to bet this will all be forgotten about in a week.

Currently, as I'm writing the following, I've managed to find:
Source code leaked.
Hacker said they've dumped the database.
Moderators emails leaked (some were using personal emails like .edu).
And likely way more that I myself don't know of.
Who’s responsible for updating your docs?

When we made it the responsibility of the Support team and they developed an internal rotation, the problem went away.

We had a slack channel that spit out summaries and ticket links from our CI/CD system. Support would watch that and respond to it for doc updates. If they didn’t understand a specific ticket, they’d consult with Product, who were supposed to fully understand the changes but could pull in Engineering in a pinch.

Major releases would be coordinated in advance, and our KB had a system for preparing and promoting new drafts of already-published docs so those could be staged as well.
Linking to the lite version of an article about an image is an odd choice as the lite version doesn't include images by default. Thanks for linking to the full page.
My point is that FPGAs have become very cheap, competing with microcontrollers. I would agree that high end audio manufacturers are about as rational as they costumers.

If FPGAs are not a growing market, how come we have gone from 2 companies (we'll ignore niche space stuff) to ~10 in the last 20 years? Not many IC fields where there is a growth in manufacturers instead of consolidation...
Containers are usually considered pretty weak security at best. Especially since you don’t always control what the user does with it (docker va rootless podman etc)
The amount of errata in technical books is very small compare to the length of the book. I believe it ranges from none to a page or two.