skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it Apple Podcasts Subscriptions[0]?

I don't use their app (Overcast for iOS is great!), so I wasn't familiar with any of this, but most of their site seems focused on the usual podcast stuff, same as it has been for a long time. When I started digging to find the bad behavior, I eventually came across this page about subscriptions.

Is the idea that people who have an existing podcast and are tired of paying the S3 or OVH bill (or whatever) look into this "Apple Podcasts Subscriptions" service and it says right up top you can offer your podcast for free. So they click through to the pricing page[1] and see that they can sign up for $20/year and keep offering their show for free, and it isn't clear on the publicly-available pages I've linked so far that this is going to break your podcast, making it no longer freely available everywhere.

It's possible that's buried somewhere in the fine print, and given how many lawyers Apple employs, I'd be shocked if it's not. Still, this is BAD behavior, a bait-and-switch.

It's possible to offer podcasts by subscription. Even on their own list of hosting providers[2] they mention Blubrry, Libsyn, Omny, and RSS.com, all of which do that. (Most of them charge more than $20/year for hosting, too.) But critically, all of those still offer a feed so you can listen in the app of your choice. Once you take away the feed and lock it down to only your app, you're not producing a podcast anymore. You're producing an on-demand audio show, like Spotify does.

I get the appeal. Spotify and Apple both can say "using our app, you can listen to any podcast, PLUS a bunch of shows exclusive to us!" But of course, Spotify's exclusives can't be listened to in Apple Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts exclusives can't be listened to in Spotify, because they're not actually podcasts at that point.

Apple should know better. They're usually better than this. Shame on Apple.

0. https://podcasters.apple.com/878-subscriptions

1. https://podcasters.apple.com/support/904-availability-of-app...

2. https://podcasters.apple.com/partner-search
That's awful. Never do this to desktop apps. Their whole point is about reliability and ownership.
>Don't assume the team is incompetent or deaf. Given what has already been achieved, that would be a total mismatch

To be perfectly clear, I don't think that. I just think its a missed opportunity over the years to better ways of environment and package management. For instance, on the folder auto loading code: make it a feature of only virtual environments. I know python can detect that its in one. Or engage with distros not to build Python to allow this. They already do custom builds with it (its always missing something from a standard Python installation after all).
19 states have electronic titling without a blockchain.

As long as you have a central authority, you don’t need the blockchain. You do need robust identity verification and controls systems (IAM and audit logs), but the title and liens can still be records in a database. Want to look up if a title is legit? Offer a public page that accepts a VIN and spits out title details, no different than public real estate property records.

Solution looking for a problem. This is someone’s pet project. Someone commits fraud? You have an audit log and verbose identity and transaction documentation when you need to go to court or reverse transactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_lien_and_title
This is because the CEO's core job is to raise stock price. Nothing else.
They hired in covid and profits & share price spiked due to the economic state at the time. Now the economic state has changed so they fire employees and the stock goes up. By that metric, the CEO will get a bonus at the end of the year. CEO does not get a bonus for not laying people off. Employees are not humans once you get to the csuite. An employee can be a person but multiple employees are just numbers on a ledger. They just send out "I'm sorry" emails to placate the masses and to get good media, no one really cares if the lower level people are upset. You only count once you get to a certain level.
Replit adds GPU Support
Just finished reading "Ubik", I found it partly amusing and also prescient that to get thru a door or make coffee required putting a nickel in the slot. Practically everything required a small payment in order to use it. We seem to be almost there: cars, ovens, tv's, dishwashers...the list goes on.
Not all asteroids are “bright” enough to be imaged from earth, the problem is the low albedo asteroids you cant see, thats why we need this: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/neo-surveyor/in-depth/
> People seriously feared Japan was going to eclipse the American economy.

California is the only thing that keeps America competitive.

Without doing any research to back it up, I'll gladly claim that Silicon Valley (along with Microsoft[1] throughout the 90s/early 2000s) has driven the majority of the world's GDP growth in the last 30 years. The VC funding model for companies, the willingness to take risks, and the insane (over)work ethic, is why technology has exploded and impacted every aspect of life.

[1] Love it or hate it, a single unified target for business and consumer computer applications was a huge boon to the world. Just look at all the massive efficiency losses having to support 2 smartphone platforms, and that is with each having addressable markets in the billions. Now imagine if there had been 5 different PC platforms in the 90s to write for, with only hundreds of thousands of users on each one worldwide.
I routinely workout with college athletes or former athletes so perhaps my data is skewed on the top end.
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Prostitution is already legal in lots of countries. I’m not sure that there’s any evidence that it makes a huge amount of difference to this problem.
I have not specifically dug into depression, but I think I can overall agree with the line of thought. As far as modern medicine goes, it is almost undoubtedly primitive but puts forth a facade of sophistication.
Do you know how many ovens there are? The AWS lambda fees are going to be insane!

So much cheaper just to ping google.com instead.
The Web Node – an in-browser Mina node that verifies blocks and transfers funds
Here you go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuphead

> The game's creators, brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, took inspiration from the rubber hose style of the golden age of American animation and the surrealist qualities of works of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Fleischer Studios, Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM Cartoon Studio and Walter Lantz Productions.
Distinguishing between personal use and commercial use doesn't really work though. It lets you sue certain parties into the ground, for all the good it does you, but it doesn't stop people from deriving and profiting from your work. Probably more than half the Fortune 500 companies are in brazen violation of the GPL, does that stop them from abusing it and profiting from it? Not in the slightest.

Power ultimately belongs to whoever can wield it with the least friction. It's not fair or right, but it's the way they play in the business world.
Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Year 2022 (Advance Estimate)
Banks love IBM mainframes/midranges. They might not be blistering fast, but they're a joy to work with if you have the budget.
Eh.. you'd be surprised. Medical Imaging isn't as radical as you may think it is (I spent 7 years doing projects for the exploitation of medical images).
i use copilot every day, and it's never written more than one line at a time that didn't need adjusting. If you are letting an AI write code for you without knowing what it does, you should not be in programming. I would probably just fire someone if their response to me was ever "well the AI wrote that bit of code that deleted our DB, i didnt know what it did"
Ask HN: Which popular back end developers do you follow on Twitter?
Hi I just wanted to ask who some people's favorites are and why :). I'm looking specifically for people who post a lot of content that is high engagement.
Thank you
Kind of presumptuous, could be in buy to let property?

You’re basically saying everyone should spend everything in a downtown, and if they don’t they are boring?
Meditation and mindfulness may help with treatment of certain mental conditions
It is always better for debugging purposes to be able to distinguish if the problem is with the client's connection (if google/baidu/yandex all are not reachable) or with the vendor server (if those former are reachable but the vendor server isn't).
Very cool! I've built something similar, but for packages: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj Would love to talk.
One gap to this approach: gcc can use argument files (pass a file that contains the actual arguments). I've only really seen this with build systems that expect to work on large numbers of arguments that will not fit on the command line. Still, something to be aware of.
Ovens with a probe: is my roast at temperature yet?

Of all appliances in my kitchen the oven makes the most sense to have network features. Fridge perhaps a distant second, and that's only because I really wish I knew my compressor had failed and could've rescued the $350+ of groceries that spoiled if something had alerted me to the temp rising while the compressor was still attempting to run.
https://crates.io/crates/fast-floats
I have a healthy dating life outside of apps, but yeah - I think women understanding how difficult and dramatically different online dating is for men in comparison to women will never truly be accepted or taken seriously by women.
Money was never cheaper in the history of the US than during Covid... with 10% inflation and 0% interest rates, and a 10% deficit spending on stimulus.
Go & Postgres on the backend, running on a baremetal server.

Because this is actually capable of handling a decent workload for really cheap compared to cloud.

There's a few tricky bits to do with logs and reporting, but the benefits outweigh the pain.

Vue on the frontend.

Last time I used BootstrapVue and it worked well. I'd want to re-evaluate that decision next time, have a look at some of the newcomers. I'm aware Bootstrap is now considered to be passe.

I really like the Vue philosophy and it pairs with Go nicely. Last time I ended up using ESBuild to actually build the Vue bundles from inside the Go server, which was interesting but I'm not sure I'd do that again.
>The complaint includes a section attempting to explain how Stable Diffusion works. It argues that the Stable Diffusion model is basically just a giant archive of compressed images (similar to MP3 compression, for example) and that when Stable Diffusion is given a text prompt, it “interpolates” or combines the images in its archives to provide its output. The complaint literally calls Stable Diffusion nothing more than a “collage tool” throughout the document. It suggests that the output is just a mash-up of the training data.

I've seen the collage tool argument several times, and I don't agree with it. But I can understand why people believe it.

You see, there's a very large number of people who use AI art generators as a tracing tool. Like, to the point where someone who has never touched one might believe that it literally just photobashes existing images together.

The reality is that there's three ways to use art generators:

- You can tell it to generate an image with a non-copyright-infringing prompt. i.e. "a dog police officer holding a gun"

- You can ask it to replicate an existing style, by adding keywords like "in the style of <existing artist>"

- You can modify an existing image. This is in lieu of the random seed image that is normally provided to the AI.

That last one is confusing, because it makes people think that the AI itself is infringing when it's only the person using it. But I could see the courts deciding that letting someone chuck an image into the model gives you liability, especially with all of the "you have full commercial rights to everything you generate" messaging people keep slapping onto these.

Style prompting is one of those things that's also legally questionable, though for different reasons. As about 40,000 AI art generator users have shouted at me over the past year, you cannot copyright a style. But at the same time, producing "new" art that's substantially similar to copyrighted art is still illegal. So, say, "a man on a motorcycle in the style of Banksy" might be OK, but "girl holding a balloon in the style of Banksy" might not be. The latter is basically asking the AI to regurgitate an existing image, or trace over something it's already seen.

I think a better argument would be that, by training the AI to understand style prompts, Stability AI is inducing users to infringe upon other people's copyright.
A golf ball is around 4cm, and an arm's length is around 70cm. To be the same apparent size, it would have to maintain that same ratio. The atmosphere is like 50-100km thick (highest weather balloon flight was >50km) so you would have to be seeing it at a further distance than that.

So your asteroid would have to be at least several kilometers across. That approaching dino-killer size. You're definitely misremembering some part of this.
If people consider marriage as a contract of exchange, then it is already a form of legalized prostitution. Monogamy might be a bigger underlying problem.

Esther Perel's Mating in Captivity in a good read on this topic.
>if the NYSE did not exist, the world would continue to turn

This is startlingly ignorant of the complex machine that is the modern economic system. If something like the NYSE was to shut down today it would be pandemonium.

There is a difference between 'I don't understand how something works' and 'I don't understand how something works, so it is worthless'. The former is healthy and the first step to understanding, the latter is ignorant, and the first step to getting more ignorant.
I have just informally pitched both your idea and mine to the Rust security team :) We'll see what they think about it!

If it somehow works, feel free to use this message as the proof that I got the idea from you :)
> What makes those "basic maths" a good benchmark for whether we're fucked?

They weren't saying basic maths was a good benchmark for whether we're fucked, they said that if GPT does for every other skill what calculators did for basic maths — viz. make us forget all the fundamentals and rely on computers for everything — we're fucked.

My personal opinion is that sometimes our head space is maybe a little too freed up by tool-assisted thinking, and we lose the ability to focus and concentrate.
Has anyone who has covered this actually used DoNotPay?

It's just such a poor product. I'm biased towards being pro-AI lawyer, but there's no reason to think that an app that can't execute the basics will push the technological frontier of the legal field.
I dont think prostitution can fix that issue in the slightest. Here in Germany prostitution is legal and highly regulated (to the point that there are ticket stations for prostitutes working on the street to pay taxes). I would however never ever consider using those services.
That's basically what I mean. I just want to deploy the app and not have to worry about anything OS-related, including IIS config, SSL, etc.
It tells you that the candidate at least understood the business impact of what they were doing, and it gives you something to talk about in the interview. "How was that issue identified? Did you find it or were you assigned the task?" "How did you achieve those results? What technical decisions did you make to get there?". "Were you the team lead or did you work under another team lead?".

So many good questions to spawn from that one line.
Blame cultures and process cultures are both problems in different ways. Blame cultures don't care about individual accountability, only that someone suffers. Process cultures only care that no one suffers, not that individuals are accountable. Both have some misguided notion that something other than personal accountability can lead to good results. Misattributed blame and suffering does not deter poor performance or mistakes. Not even correctly aimed punishments are very good at that. Accountability isn't about punishment, it is about limiting power to the level of responsibility demonstrated. Rules and procedures don't prevent poor performance, they can in fact entrench and guard it, and they only mildly impact mistakes. Best practice can mitigate mistakes to the same extent or better (due to easier adaptability), but people keep trying to turn them into rules, and that has to be fought. If you followed all the rules but didn't get the job done, you still shouldn't be handed the same task again, but not out of blame.
I think I first heard the phrase "involuntary celibate" on USENET around 1994 or so.

People are pretty self-centered and prone to sensationalism so I think most people didn't hear the contraction "incel" until there were some high-profile killings a few years ago.

That article tells a story very similar to what some incels tell, which is that men who are at the top of desirability have more access to a range of partners than they ever did while men who are average and below frequently get nothing. People blame dating sites like Tinder for this as women now get to be choosier in the short term, but in the long term they find they can't get men to commit to them because the men that they choose on Tinder don't have any reason to commit to them, a situation written up in

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/03/22/why-love-hurts-eva...

(I would love to get Eva Illouz in a conversation with a blackpiller like Wheat Waffles as the situations they describe look like two sides of the same coin to me.)

In general people make policy based on looking in the rear view mirror and nowhere is this more pernicious than in gender issues where the fact that boys are dropping out of education and men dropping out of work are only barely starting to get attention after having been worsening trends for 30 years. The "standard model" of intersectionality really gets things wrong because the assumptions that "Men do better than women" and "Whites do better than blacks" don't compose to make black women particularly wretched, instead you find black women don't do nearly as bad as black men because it is black men who seem to be on a conveyor belt from the cradle to prison.
Also anecdotal. And some people are ultra-slow metabolizers, which can cause the drugs to stay in the body longer than anyone could have anticipated. So the effects of 1 pill daily can feel like twice that amount since previous day dosis is still in the blood.
> 5 year fixed rate,

Or just buy it outright, with that kind of leverage.
Why pay for bandwidth when you can make Google take the cost?

I don’t agree with it but I’m sure it saves a few dollars.
I agree that people do need to put the effort in themselves. I just think that they put the effort in when they have breathing space and hope. If people can’t see a way out of their situation then they won’t put any effort in, they’ve become hopeless and therefore depressed. You could argue that the disease in that case may be one of perception, and that you need to enrich the person’s life by opening up to new possibilities and ways of perceiving the world. But you can also build more visible progression paths into the system so people never feel that way in the first place and can always see a route out if they choose to take it.

I’d also argue that there are some social programs but:

- we’re drowning in information overload so people don’t necessarily know how to access them. For example, a lot of the poorest households in the Uk did not claim the money they were entitled to from the government for energy payments this winter.

- We don’t really have policies that are addressing the root causes of poverty which are unaffordable housing, unaffordable and/or poor quality education and low wages.
> I’ve had one bug that made it to production where I think copilot inserted code that I didn’t notice and which slipped past code review

I'm not saying this is good but come on. Humans do that all the time, why aren't we so harsh on humans?

> I am not now, nor have I ever been afraid that AI is coming after my job

I am. This thing amazed me, and even if it won't be able to 100% replace humans (which I doubt), it can make juniors orders of magnitude more productive for example. This will be a complete disruption of the industry and doesn't bode well for salaries.
I love how the article compares the unequal distribution of sex partners with the unequal distribution of wealth, because in my opinion that might be part of the cause.

I would predict that being able to afford a nice apartment in a good area close to date locations will easily 10x your sex chances.

There have been other studies about young men struggling to find jobs that pay well enough for them to become financially independent, and there's been a lot of discussions about Hikkomori and the Japanese Grasseaters movement, which is basically older guys that refuse to move out of their parent's home.

My overall impression is that a bad economy and bad job market makes it difficult for young men to become independent and that makes it extremely difficult for them to become sexually active. Because despite all progress with regards to gender equality, the overwhelming majority of girls prefers to date a guy who can afford a nice shirt and a nice appartment.
I found this video a while back that highlights what you're talking about.[0] Might be an interesting one to show to your wife.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTIbHIsIYw
Nonexistent.

(I am equal opportunity skeptic :)

Also we must lead very different lives ; is there a broad community of people with beliefs relating to western spirituality miracles and portent? Which pro western double standards are there for spiritual miracles??

As far as I'm aware there are zero standards or proofs for miracles and portents from anywhere; things like Randi's challenge don't specify geographical origins; and more seriously though, double blind trials etc are equally agnostic to western BS vs anybody else's BS.
> You’re on an American website

Is there a country ownership when it comes to websites if people all over the world use it? Only about 36% of the traffic comes from within US, so you’re not wrong in the statistical significance, but you also need to be congnizant of the global participation on this site.

https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#tra...
Looks like you can run containerized .NET apps via GCP Cloud Run

https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/fit-for-run
The best way I've heard to explain the difference is men are dying of thirst in a desert and woman are dying of thirst in an ocean.
It probably should not _replace_ a lawyer, though. Just enable a single lawyer to handle more cases
How much would it be?
Docker compose for those services while the language itself runs natively has been the best solution to this problem for me in the past. Docker compose for redis, postgres, elastic, etc.

IMO Docker for local dev is most beneficial for python where local installs are so all over the place.
Fair points. My opinion is best oversimplified would be due to our return to 2019 levels on wages with pricing on maslow items having skyrocketed. Rate changes and housing data keeps me uncomfortable.