skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no airtight way to ban a domain. Not in the age of DoH and TLS1.3
This might not be relevant to medium's downward spiral, but as a reader I find that medium is a marker for content of very low quality.

I follow a lot of personal blogs and over the years less than 3 medium posts (not even whole blogs) made it into my bookmarks.

When searching the web, medium content is often times just 1 or 2 steps above the worst SEO spam sites.

In short: I avoid medium.com links most of the time. It's basically the site for people that just want to write tons of clickbait low quality content to "build their brand".
The Bard announcement in Google Paris was way too rushed. In the long run, I agree with you on this. I think Google still has a good advantage being the default and preferred search engine for many. After trying ChatGPT, I can say for sure this technology is life changing. However Google might still lag behind on the programming expertise since Microsoft owns Github. Also it costs an absolute fortune to train and deploy the Chat AI if billions of search queries are performed every day. Since ChatGPT already has achieved product market fit with 100m users, I'm sure subscription models would work if search advertising can't pay for all the additional costs associated with hosting the chat AI.
Fascinating article. Take away for me above everything is that search is going to change, significantly. Deploying the lighter model sounds like a mistake to me regardless of margins.
Do they not have seat belts?
Balloons can linger over an area and gather a time series of events.

So can geosynchronous satellites, but they're much further away from earth.
What's the difference between that and a fork?
That's likely still true at Apple, but you gotta start somewhere.
Apple is a walled garden. Unless you pay for their permission, it's not a worthwhile platform to develop for.
>It's the same for most industries. I constantly see comments from construction workers "Every building I worked on was rushed and absolute crap, I wouldn't be surprised if they collapsed in a year" and yet they almost never do.

Its because they are engineered with a margin of safety and then inspected for obvious issues. But yeah throw them together is the name of the game. Faster = more money.
I don’t think the US financial system is anything close to clean but they might be strictly hostile to Russians and the government/regulators will not tolerate that.

That boils down to US conflict with Russia. Europe didn’t have a beef in this until the Ukraine invasion.
VS Code has much more tracking going on, yet it is used by 3/4 developers. If tracking were an issue, you would think this statistic would be very different
An example would be similar to how a catalog / design table is used for generating parts procedurally in software like Catia:

Say you have a CAD model of a special bolt you have made completely from scratch and it is fully parameterized- you can edit the diameter, the shank length, the thread length and pitch, the head size and height, etc. all by changing values in the parameters linked in the design tree. Doing this automatically updates the geometry.

Now say you have a catalog of 1000 sizes of this flavor of bolt. M6 thru M14, different threads, all the dimensions change to very specific standards... and you need to generate files for all those so they can be used by your company in assemblies or sent to others, but individually. Professional tools have ways to take, say, a CSV table of all those numbers and link the CSV to the CAD, and then generate and export STEP files and save them to a disk.

I've done just this example many times over the years in Catia V5. Highly parameterized part catalogs are prevalent in automotive and aerospace companies tied very closely to their CAD and PLM solutions (and thus highly non-portable and very much proprietary...) It would be great if there was some FOSS that was lightweight and similarly capable.

Looking more into it, FreeCAD can actually do something similar, but I don't know if the parameters are accessible to rebuild the models via a Python module outside of the GUI.
It sounds like you have a casual interest in longform articles. These subscription-driven publications are making their content more appealing to people who value longform enough to pay, which means the articles/emails are becoming really longform to appeal to those who like it the most.
It's literally in the linked article. But if you prefer a different source:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/5128341/poland-holocau...

>>no one restricts them in any way.

Yes, because scientific research is explicitly excluded from that law.
Okay, think there was some misunderstanding. I was thinking of the situation where the person is so chronically ill that they cannot do any of those things. They either need someone's help, thereby making them break the law, or they take the only other option to end their lives which is to stop eating or drinking.
The biggest problem was the degeneracy once it was "solved", instead of organizing around social circles. It led to people feeling like cogs in the machine and skewed play patterns and motivations.

I haven't really given it any serious thought but I'd likely start with trying to more strongly codify the good parts (incentivizing smaller circles inside of the larger structure, making systems for patrons/vassals to play together in more meaningful ways, etc) while highlighting the positive actions that players could do / benefit from. I don't want to say AC was TOO opaque but a lot of it definitely suffered from being over designed for a very hardcore market.
I was being glib, offering it as a way out of the supposedly unsolvable problem. The real thing is to calibrate based on return rates etc, and of course if your devices can _just be fixed_ that’s great.
>Name a government in existence that functions without a central identification infrastructure of some sort.

Within living memory, the United States of America.
Seems like something that could be solved with a small capacitor bank. I may have to give this a try and see what I can figure out.

I figure the input voltage would be somewhere around 5 volts and the expected output current would be 3.3 to 4.2 volts, but I bet a static 5 volts should be fine if the chip only checks to see if there is current.
Thanks for the clarification (both of you!).
I mean, that's good for you, but horrible for the world. For all of SO's flaws, it's all public information that is indexable and sharable.

As sibling comments mentioned (and you!), finding the answer in discord is lossy for everyone, but more immediate for you. It's a problem of incentives.

Think about it this way.

When a majority of folks tire of answering questions on discord, askers will abandon it because they won't get answers. (I predict this will happen as people's patience isn't infinite.)

If folks abandon SO, there's still a ton of value condensed in existing answers.
You can be sick when you're dead?
Similarly, one could believe that Catholics are never destined to escape samsara in their lifetime.
An open admonishment to all API architects, designers and implementors
True, but the max effective range of the F-22’s 20mm M61A2 Vulcan cannon is about 2000 feet (600m), which isn’t nearly enough to engage these balloons — assuming an F-22 is flying at 40,000 ft. vs. a balloon at 60,000 ft.

Even if the ceiling of the F-22 is substantially higher than 40,000 ft. (which I think is plausible), and is close enough to effectively engage these balloons, then I doubt that the Air Force would choose to make the tradeoff of disclosing the F-22’s performance capabilities to adversaries in order to save the cost of an AIM-9; the F-22’s performance is a secret and classified.

If we were faced with defending against a large number of high-flying objects then the reasoning might be different.
Do they think developers are kids?

If you want to reach developers, offer high detailed documentation that covers all the aspects of the GPU workings
You cannot end such a compelling sentence.. and not finish your thoughts in writing!!

What are the better options?
I learned OCaml in college and I would not liken it to Python at all. Python is very easy to grasp since it's basically pseudocode, but OCaml, for example, is based entirely on recursive constructs (yes, imperative versions exist but only as a last resort). It's an entirely different way of thinking. The syntax therefore also looks unfamiliar, coming from `for` loops in Python.
Getty Images is suing the creators of Stable Diffusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34411187 - Jan 2023 (83 comments)

Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668565 - Feb 2023 (234 comments)

Also:

Getty Images Is Suing Stable Diffusion for a Staggering $1.8T - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696842 - Feb 2023 (24 comments)

Getty sues Stability AI for copying 12M photos and imitating famous watermark - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34687534 - Feb 2023 (9 comments)

Stable Attribution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34670136 - Feb 2023 (339 comments)
> hundreds of projects out there make money with Elm

Hundreds? I think that's overshooting it.
It’s a congestion charge. Here’s a great link from your article:

READ MORE: Council staff abused after conspiracists circulate fake news about traffic filters
> The main issue for the consumer remains the business model. Who will pay for LLMs (user or the advertiser)

I had a really weird idea the other day. What if the government invested in computer infra like it does for roads. Give each consumer X compute credits that they can use directly at cloud providers or trade in to services to help offset (or completely pay for) their own use.

I would use it to run my open source infra. I imagine my parents would use it to decrease their Netflix bill (for example).

I think it could unlock interesting non-marketing based “free” services. But it’s a hard concept to pitch to the average person who wouldn’t know why they would want 1000 CPU hours (for example).
If you think this is bad, look at what dotnet collects: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

Many developer tools we use daily collect usage data
The two supermarkets I use most in downtown all have parking underground and are optimized for pedestrians.

QFC: https://goo.gl/maps/yt2X53i8adHddNA7A

PCC: https://goo.gl/maps/aXT2U24qXvA1VH6t9
If you just limit it to old devices, you're also limiting the pool of people who might be interested in hacking something up for the device to be usable by non-devs later on. You're certainly delaying the porting effort.
Academics getting notices that access to Twitter API will be shut off
For decades, engineers understood the limitations of their tools and strove to use the right tool for the right job. Then ChatGPT was released.
No, but that's what most people learned, so most people will continue to favor more C-like languages than languages that are not C-like. If you want people to favor ML-like languages, you'd have to start off teaching them ML first (which some colleges do).

Industry-wise as well, C-like langs have network effects through the past 30 years, especially in JS land which is a lot of the professional software engineering work done these days.
Treasure trove of mechanical animations (2015)
The late Anti Parazi (Reckful) figured it out way ahead of his time, before Rookie. He’s still considered to be the best of all time.
The Obscure J Dilla Beat Tape That Changed Music Forever
>We’re being directed to the Enterprise ($$$$$) option. The only problem? Filling out their form results in an auto-reply directing researchers back to the Academic Research Program. And the contact person listed no longer works at Twitter.

https://twitter.com/RebekahKTromble/status/16241744785646632...

edit: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/09/twitter-puts-its-developer...

BTW “low usage” tier not for research is $100/mo but no one can get clarity since the forum is now behind a login no one knows how to get an account on.
None of those things was Facebook or Twitter's business, because none was how they make money. Facebook and Twitter are for-proffit businesses, and for almost all of their history the money has come from selling advertising and surveillance (its pretty clear that birdsite guy never understood that twitter users are his products and advertisers are his customers). There are not many alternatives if you want to provide a centralized global service for tens of millions of users. So my web presence focuses on things hosted by small companies or run by community members, not on giant 'free' corporate services.
I think they were referring to this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44627129

When Poland made it a criminal offence this year to accuse it of complicity in Nazi war crimes, there was an outcry in Europe, Israel and the US.

Anyone found guilty could face up to three years in jail.

Five months later, the right-wing prime minister has moved to change the law to decriminalise the offence, describing it as a "correction".

An amendment to the Holocaust law was quickly backed by the lower house of parliament and now moves to the Senate.

The law had been intended to "defend the good name of Poland" but from now on it would be a civil, not a criminal offence, the head of prime minister's office, Michal Dworczyk, told public radio.
Yes, if you don't distribute it, the license doesn't matter. That is more a flaw than the intention, but that is correct.

The point is that I can use SQLite, Tantivy, RocksDB, ... in my app no problem. I can make it open core, I can make it AGPL, BSD, MIT, not problem. Because those things are meant to be embedded. But I almost definitely can't use Xapian.

Let's be honest, if I want a search solution for use in my SaaS, I will grab Elasticsearch or an equivalent, I have no need for a library. It seems to me that the only use case where Xapian could really shine is crippled by their license. That is a shame.
I used the same throwaway password on a variety of sites I didn't care much about and the password got on a list.

I don't do that anymore.
One of the oldest tricks in the (SIGINT) book is to trick the enemy into activating their radar and/or trigger a response to an incursion to collect all of the resulting signals intelligence.
Military stuff.
I think there's absolutely a fortune to be made in AI condensing discord answers into relevant FAQs and surfacing so they are searchable to the web.

If you had that, you have SO all over again; you just need to get access to the discord servers and you can run the exact same playbook:

great dev focused content for near free -> devs attention -> ads/jobs/spinoff tools
A day later, I see you added the robots.txt and it shows up first now.
Agreed, that's why I don't like using templating languages, TSX is still too good to stop using.
thanks, I didnt even think that this could be one of those ddg flags.

big m! fan btw
Have to question your life choices if you are the "manage multiple JTAG devices in hardware" expert. (In HW, we are all that person.)
PRs and maintainers welcome! Regrettably I haven’t worked on it in years. It hasn’t been too important for the direction my job went in. :)
Then something changed recently then as I personally never noticed an annoyance on nytimes til recent years after where it seemed any article required paywall.

In addition, there is one important thing that is not being paywalled (yet), the 'news' value of nytimes is still accessible via the headline + summary on the front page.

The moment the guys chasing a buck remove that is the day nytimes dies.
They are "excited"? No end-user wants telemetry. They want software that works reliably. And when it doesn't work, they want customer service. Rarely do they get either.

If end-users wanted "telemetry", then they would have asked for it in previous versions.

Even once telemetry is added, there is still no reason to enable it by default. End-users that want/need to send data to the company, e.g., to back up their claims about deficiencies in the software, can easily enable it.

Show us the contractual restrictions that limit how the data sent by the end-user can be used. Show us the guarantee or enforceable promise that this data collection will result in improvements that end-users want (versus only benefitting the company in some undisclosed way(s)).

Why would anyone want to send behavioural data to a company with no enforceable promise of a benefit and no way to monitor how the data is used.
See the OSM wiki for their terms.

It started as a British project, so "bodega" isn't one of them.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dconvenience
"The recording of the event captured by the plane’s cockpit voice recorder was overwritten after the flight departed from New York, not long after the near-collision with the Delta plane, according to the NTSB. The cockpit voice recorder records two hours of audio."

Bummer. It would have been nice to know if the AA pilots were distracted or otherwise leading up to the runway incursion. The AA pilots, it appears from the audio we do have, misidentified the runway. The question is why.
This is my impression as well, about NYT's business.

The "internet person" knee jerk response about paywalls, does have a certain degree of truth about relevance of journalism though, but that's a longer term loss of a commons rather than a business model issue, at least right now.

Soft paywalls often allow you to read a few articles when you click through to google, but then you share an article with someone who's wrong on the internet. And you end up looking like a ding-a-ling because a paywall is presented when the user opens the article url directly with no google referrer, and no normal person is going to google an article to be allow to read an opposing view.

Essentially, it's a shame that the open web business model didn't work for 'real' journalism, because there's plenty of dogshit-tier content to happily take its place.

Here in Finland, public service broadcaster Yle has been a good source for good information in text form, but the media industry has fought tooth and nail to try and impose limits like Yle only being allowed to publish certain types of longer-form journalistic text, like investigations when enough rich media is included.

I can appreciate the argument about public service distorting the market in this case, but I'm really worried about the local information that's going to be available sans paywall on search engines in the long run with these restrictions.

It's unclear how big the impact of the above is going to be, but remember, this is a small market, too. Especially if Yle's budgets are slashed to allow less longer-form journalism that qualifies for web publishing with the rules, it might get hairy.
Yeah, this took me a minute to figure out, too. I'd change it to make it clear those are just static slides. Even better, remove it entirely, and when the user lands on the home page (after verifying), open a wizard that guides them through setting up their first scraper.

I also had a real problem naming the "Store as" field for my data extractor. It didn't seem to like things in the format "foo_bar_baz56" (i.e. ending with digits). This page https://mrscraper.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/1... says "The variable name can not contain special signs" but doesn't explain what special signs are. Anything other than [A-Z_]?

Now that I've finally set up and tested my first scraper, I'm really impressed. It was much easier to set up than I would have guessed, and specifying a selector made it dead simple. Results worked out of the box, on a site that is super touch about being scraped.

However, now that I'm viewing my scraper, I see no way of editing the scraper or data extractor. What's the trick to editing a scraper once you've saved it and gone back to view it?
>by a discredited journalist

I'm French and I had never heard of that journalist.
Can you share the link to the official list of discredited journalists so I know who not to trust going forward?
What heat pump did you get? I wanted to get a heat pump, but I ultimately ended up just buying AC. I was told it was not possible to pair with an existing furnace because heat pump control systems were proprietary and incompatible with a standard furnace control.
PAYWALL_NOT_GOOD
Yes, you are right. Let me correct my post: I fully respect the right of some people to post under pseudonyms for well-known security reasons. I don't get why people assume everyone should do that.

I've never used a private subreddit, but I imagine it might be hard to get back in after your account got hacked?
Ask HN: I'm a good programmer, I know nothing about marketing. Where do I start?
I'm working on a webapp for time management. (www.timeblocker.dev, if you're curious).

I keep procrastinating by tweaking technical things, but let's face it - there's no value to increasing the performance/maintainability of something that no one is using.

I know I need to market it, and I've made some posts here and there about it, but I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing.

Is there some sort of Marketing 101 youtube series or Coursera course that just covers some base level knowledge?
> calling you on your lies

Your answer would be so much better if you left out this sentence.

Here's the relevant quote from the guidelines:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

This makes for a much better experience for all involved.

Now, to get back to your issues.

1. 60 MWe is not tiny. If we could churn out lots of 60 MWe reactors we'd be far. The whole point of the SMR's is to do just that. Anti-nuclear people like you claim that this is not possible, but naval reactors achieve just that

2. Efficiency. 28% efficiency of converting thermal energy in electrical one is decent. The comparison point is the efficiency of commercial nuclear reactors, not of utility thermal generation. Coal and natural gas power plants burn much hotter, because they can. PWR reactors can't get any hotter than the critical temperature of water (374 deg Celsius), and that limits the maximum theoretical efficiency that they can achieve. As for the burnup, not sure what your point is.

3. Enriched uranium: there is no law of nature that naval reactors need to use highly enriched uranium, since the French reactors don't do that. Why does it matter if the American ones use enriched uranium?

4. China. Here's the facts: China had 10 GWe nuclear capacity in 2010. It has 53 GWe now [1]. Now, you are much more well versed than me in calling names, is this the point where I should call you a liar?

5. Here's a few countries in Europe that generate a lot of power using nuclear reactors, and did not use Russian designs: Belgium, Finland, Sweeden, Switzerland, Romania (yes, despite the fact Romania was part of the Eastern block, its nuclear reactors use the Canadian design Candu). Next to these countries, we can add Canada. None of these countries have or had ambitions to build nuclear weapons.

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...
Ironic, given what Feldman said about other Elm forks.

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/#forka...
Show HN: Make a free virtual card with your friends
"Japan announced today that it sighted a UFO five Tokyo Domes large."
So the nuance is:

1) you’re only entitled to damages if the store actually completed the sale and the item rang up higher than listed on the shelf

and

2) the store is not required to honor labeling mistakes and can’t be compelled into a sale in that situation

This is consistent with my experience. So I guess if you’re trying to cheat, you don't tell them and ask them to adjust the price, instead you complete the sale then notify them of the error afterward. My experience has mostly been with notifying the employee beforehand which causes them to correct the labeling mistake if one was made.