skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In music, there's a difference between holding the copyright for the music, and the copyright for the recording. And it's absolutely possible to write a cover, but where the music sounds different than the original version. People that do this don't have the copyright for the music, since the cover would not have existed were it not for the work by the original artist.

That said, Coulton's version is very different, and probably could have led to some interesting legal arguments had it been challenged in court. But it's probably very relevant that Coulton first represented it as a cover, and that the entire reason his version (pre-Glee) became famous is because he marketed it as a cover.
Never heard of it, but this one line on their site convinced me to visit one the next time I am in the United States: "Cleanest RestRooms in America!"
Often you can sort a u128 (or smaller integer) that is actually the key and a pointer or the key and an index into an array. You may find that a single pass to rearrange the original array to the sorted order is slower than multiple passes because of cache issues. I would certainly be interested in reading about this sort of thing if you find anything :)
You can't patch the management engine without the cooperation of the management engine itself, right?
> And we're talking about stochastic processes.

No we aren't, because that's not a real thing.

That's just something people make up when they want to demonize someone for their words, but don't have any actual evidence that their words are causing harm.

People aren't random agents of evil, that may or may not trigger. That's simply not a description of reality.
I was impressed with my grandma's foresight when she moved house to within walking distance of a station, so a few years later she could give up the car and maintain her independence and health (from exercise).

That currently seems the safer bet than hoping for AI driving/aids, but isn't an option in much of the USA.
Very Interesting to know! The convenience store is such a big part of the culture in Japan.
Reddit went closed source a long time ago.
Reddit is full of easily mobilized young people looking for a 'cause'.

It's funny and hypocritical because not one of those Reddit users would ever run their own company in a way that allowed third parties to freely redistribute and profit off their data, but it's wrong for Reddit to somehow.

It's like they have no idea how businesses stay in business.. not surprising really. They're going to burn down Reddit to defend someone who was asking for a $10 million buy out to screw them over and shut down the Apollo app anyways.
This is sad but not surprising. Capitalists will not do anything until it hurts their bottom line and they can’t find a way to pass the cost onto their employees and/or their customers. Even the capitalists that might care just think “not my problem” and move on. The younger (and more socioeconomically disadvantaged) generations will suffer for our predecessors’ greed and mistakes.
Advanced Algorithms CMU Lecture Notes [pdf]
Temperature-dependent RNA editing in octopus recodes the neural proteome
What are those "modern" characteristics you seek?

I'll note that everyone who has claimed to build a better email or better Usenet for the last 4 decades has invariably failed. So there's that.

In the short term, it's very easy to build a more sleek and fancy communications platforms. Hundreds have been built and they can be nice for a while. All of them eventually fail due to the inherent limitation of proprietary profit-seeking closed systems.

Of course I'm not claiming NNTP and Usenet are perfect. Sure we could tweak them for this and that improvements. But the fundamental principle of decentralized peer to peer distribution is the core strength. Without that, any solution will ultimately fail in the long run.
Perhaps you could expound upon that?
Ask HN: Best thrid party APIs to handle KYC?
im looking for cheapest option
to handle KYC validation for my upcoming projects.
Post benchmarks?
I don't know why you're mentioning art being derivative, but that's not the thing that worries me.

What worries me, is that a good enough model will take away the incentive to write music for many, and as a consequence it will also remove performers. This will reduce demand on music teaching and instruments, which will then both become nearly inaccessible. Since learning music isn't a question of following a few youtube videos, this will leave the world with just AI music.

Jazz and classical music are probably exempt, since it relies on subsidies, their audiences care about the actual performance, and AI compositions will not draw enough of a crowd to make it financially interesting.

But popular music will suffer, and that's what makes development of these models straight evil.
Much of the complaints seem to come from moderators who rely on third-party apps for moderation. That seems reasonable and like a real problem. I wonder if Reddit could have bought one of the popular apps moderators use and make it official.
It is when overreacting the extent of Apple achievements in the industry.

Most people in 2nd and 3rd tier countries don't have the necessary means to buy those equipments, and additionally they aren't a presence on servers and embedded markets.

So in those markets it doesn't matter if M2 Ultra smashes AMD and Intel, no one will ever use one.
This is such an underrated point. I straight up can't use Reddit on my phone without quickly switching to the old interface. Seriously, my phone will just crash, and that's with trackers being blocked. I have no idea how they managed to make such a bloated UI, without even having anything new besides profile pictures.
Doesn't matter, new subreddits will pop up to replace them.
Can you point out a few of these open source alternatives? Asking for a friend...
American TV actor Marilu Henner has this condition/ability and demonstrated it when interviewed on Marc Maron's podcast a few year ago.

[1] https://www.podgist.com/wtf-marc-maron/episode-1058-marilu-h...
Copyright Discussions in the EU
Ask HN: How to get over fear of retaliation by co-workers (past BAD experience)
I have a fear of office politics now, having been in situations where coworkers were not polite/out for themselves at the expense of others, including me. I couldn't survive/cope well in such a scenario and now I am looking for a new job.

Having had such a bad experience, I was not sure if I'll ever be 'normal' again, wherein I trust my coworkers and am able to do my best work for any company.

I know this can be solved. Just looking for opinions, and advice.

--V
It's not C99 compliant because that would require VLA support (which has been made optional in C11, which in turn enabled MSVC to be a C11 and C17 compiler, but not C99. Not that it matters much in practice though :)
> users are going to have to start becoming Customers if they want their voices to be listened to.

That would be an improvement to the current "free" platforms that users pay for with their data, or attention to psychologically manipulative content. The web should definitely adopt the business-customer model, and cut out the leechy middlemen.

Going a step further, the business should happen not with a centralized platform, but with web hosters, infrastructure companies, and ultimately ISPs. The technology for anyone to publish and manage their data already exists, but is not user friendly enough to be accessible to anyone but the technically proficient.

The internet is inherently peer-to-peer. Service silos only exist because user-friendly tools are made for consumers rather than publishers, and the easiest way for users to publish content is via a 3rd party. We have user-friendly web _browsers_, but web servers are still reserved for the technically proficient. There's a lot of work needed in this area, but all the building blocks already exist.
Accusation without evidence is witch-hunting.

We still have no strong evidence for lab leak from BSL4 lab in Wuhan, while we have some evidence (two early strains of SARS-CoV-2: A, then B; B was in Wuhan in December; where and when was parent of A and B?) that suggests start of epidemic outside of China in mid-September 2019. Russians start to delete videos about blast at their BSL4 lab "Vector" in Novosibirsk on Sep 16 2019[0], which suggests that this information may cause harm for them.

So, "Lab leak" theory may be right, while "lab leak from BSL4 lab in Wuhan" theory may be wrong.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200407175030/https://www.youtu...
It depends on country to country. The cheapest option is probably sending out OTPs in text messages to their phone and validating that. Verifying someone's phone number is also a form of KYC though a very low grade one.
As a dev who works with WebRTC a lot, debunking some of these claims

* Serverless Streaming - WebRTC is P2P so you can video right into your browser. You don’t have to stand up a server anymore to stream for a small audience.

> Only possible in an ideal world, where NAT doesn't exist, in reality, you need to traverse NAT and it is NOT a serverless process.

* Sub-Second Latency - Create content and interact with viewers instantly. There is something magical about having a real conversation with your viewers.

> Only possible in an ideal world, where machines are very close to each other. In reality, you need expensive world-wide TURN clusters on top-notch infrastructure to ensure <100ms latencies you want.

* Mobility - WebRTC lets you switch networks at any time. Go from WiFi -> Mobile with zero interruptions.

> In fact, an interruption is happening when network conditions change – since you need to negotiate connectivity again. It is not seamless.
I guess it’s a good time to mention this: https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
> … so it would be good to know what file systems and cache setups are needed in order to benefit from this.

I’ve worked on these systems. You might as well be asking F1 drivers for tips to help you commute to work.

The hyperscale stuff is not built on top of ordinary filesystems. It’s all clusters of machines, and error correction is handled at the level of clusters. If you’re evaluating systems like ZFS and BTRFS, then you’re already working with a radically different tech stack.

At scale, your file metadata is stored in a distributed database of some kind, and the file contents are stored with forward error correction across multiple machines in a cluster. Or something similar, but stored across multiple clusters. The pricing models for cloud storage are designed around the usage patterns—like, if you know that some data is going to stick around for 90 days, then SMR is a win. If a file could get deleted at any time, then SMR is a loss.
The beauty of open protocols is they don't preclude for-profit enterprise hosting large instances on their own server farm. This is already the case with email: I can host my own email server or signup with a small (or large) or free (or commercial) email provider and still communicate with everyone, regardless of their provider.
This is a problem of bad engineering: not using an immutable OS firmware model with a spare.

There ought to be 3 physically-separate flash devices: bootloader (never changed), OS (managed by bootloader - updates deleted unless signed correctly), and data (wipeable by a physical reset button).

If you don't do this, then you're inviting implants a priori.
> You don’t have to stand up a server anymore to stream for a small audience.

Now this is actually HUGE. It means Twitch has far less power as a gateway for greenfield streamers.
With a tenth active users and ten times the spammers!
The conflict is not real though. If you just put solar panels on all the area used to grow biofuel it would be more than enough. Great if that can be improved upon of course
"they have that right because it's in their TOS" == "they have that right because they so"
There is a physical reason why I/O speed doesn't scale with density.

When the density of data on disks gets denser, it does so on both axes - x and y, or radial and tangential. But read/write heads only access one track at a time, so the speed-up is only along one axis.

Think about CDs, DVDs, and BDs. The discs can only be spun at a finite rate (somewhere around 10k RPM) before they shatter. The R/W head can read the data within any single track at full speed, but only one track at a time. From CDs to BDs, the amount of data per track increased (this doesn't affect the amount of time needed to read all the data from a disc), but also the number of tracks increased (this does affect the total time).
I disagree with the idea of not having a service layer at all, because in practice, changing your data model in some way is actually pretty common, even if the API remains the same so the data coming in/out isn't changing. I've had to split models into multiple parts to add audit history on certain fields, create notifications on object creation or modification (possible but hard to follow and a visibility problem when using signals), change the normalisation on fields, etc. etc. and at this point, turning to a service layer is much more appropriate than putting methods on the model since often the data is split across multiple database tables. I also would advocate this in projects where it's Django + DRF since you generally want exactly same logic to be run through whether submitting via a form or submitting via an API.

I've also found that it's good practice to impose boundaries between apps so that they are not strongly coupled together but communicate through an interface. That way, if you need to split an app out into its own project at some point, the migration is significantly easier from a code perspective, since the implementation of the interface function is all that needs changing on the consumer side.
I feel like if you're gonna drop a take like that you should have at least one more sentence of justification to follow it up with.
> I used to believe that too, but reality has convinced me of the opposite. There isn't, and there has never been, a large (hundreds of millions of active users) online community that wasn't run by a for-profit entity. So the really difficult part, the one where the value ultimately comes from, does seem to lie in hosting and running such a community, and in attracting users. If that wasn't so immensely difficult and expensive, everyone would be doing it.

Your logic is: there has never been a not-for-profit large online community, therefore the value comes from the specific for-profit company that currently exists.

That is unconvincing because it is overly specific in who it is attributing value to. Is Facebook responsible for most of the value of its community? No, because if Facebook didn't exist, Myspace would still exist and do the same thing that Facebook is doing. Therefore, Facebook (and Myspace) are both not creating the value, because if they didn't exist, someone else would exist that does the same thing. The main reason there's one behemoth is because of network effects, which makes it nearly impossible for competition to start, which gives the illusion that that behemoth is doing something unique and exceptionally skilful. But they are not. One valid interpretation is that they're free-riding off the community that they've captured.
Looks like a bot was trained to mimic humans, and in trying to defend themselves from an onslaught of hallucinatory spam, moderators have been banning Real Life Humans for talking too much like a human-simulator.

The platform decided that banning new users for sneezing like a bot was bad, and directed moderators to let auto-generated content slide

moderators want to protect their human-made database from the Borg and are being prevented from doing so, outcome is volunteers stop volunteering.
This was St. Josephs Island. As soon as we had a little WiFi based ISP up and running suddenly broadband was available. Wonder why...
What is stopping you from moving out in the wilderness if you think it's the best way to get truly happy?
> bloop’s tuned to answer questions from anywhere in a repo…

GitHub Copilot Chat purportedly (I'm also waiting for access) works across files in a workspace, which typically map to a repo.
> It is if you want to have central page for people to visit.

There is no "central page" for Usenet.

> ...do you know how mailing lists work ?

HN isn't the place for this kind of discussion style. If you insist on asking, I have been running email servers personally and professionally for 33 years now and have worked in enterprise tech companies specializing in email. I have a resonably good idea of how email works.

> > Usenet

> Central servers managed by people again.

No. You can run your own Usenet node just as you can be your own email server. That's why these protocols are fully decentralized. You also can rely on someone else's Usenet server or email server, but that's your choice to make if you wish. You don't have to do that to participate in the ecosystem. That's the strength of decentralization.
Interesting. I've been writing Bash scripts for over 20 years and despite my comfort with it, I'm always exploring avenues of replacing it. Despite the time investment already spent, I know there are far better tools out there to do the same jobs.
I wish I could not use python and other languages with def whatever.

Can’t be the only one to dislike these languages. I don’t even care about languages that much, but I avoid AI stuff because I just can’t stand the python or elixir ecosystems. So much crap is required to get something basic working, although it’s less annoying with elixir.

Oh well
I know this is a cute anecdote, but will you take yours with you when you get buried? And this is assuming that you live in a place where your gravesite won’t be reused by someone else a few generations later. If not chances are it’ll either get burned by a garbage processing plant or end up in a landfill along with a lot of other fairly easy to identify as temporary fads like yo-yos and fidget spinners.

The only thing our society leaves, that can be found in a way similar to how we’ve dug out the old civilisations, is frankly nuclear waste. It’s about the only thing that isn’t processed in some way and mass stored along with other processed garbage. Maybe that’s a little more depressing than your cute little anecdote, but at least you can take comfort in the fact that if we don’t do something about our impact on climate change then nobody will be around to dig through our garbage in thousand of years. In part because people bought and sold silly useless stuff like this and shipped it around the globe.

Ok, maybe it’s time for my morning coffee.
That's correct. In a comment earlier that day, Alexis said it was his decision.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/an_ol...
The lab leak theory started in China. It has never been about xenophobia. The only people pushing the whole xenophobia thing was the CCP. Chinese news called it wuhan virus long after it was given the name Covid-19.

So stop trying to protect the CCP.
I want an app like Google translate where I can point my camera at cuneiform and have it translate it into a modern language. That would be amazing

There are thousands of tablets that need to be translated still, so this would be really useful as a starting point
Ok, you convinced me about the upward trip. Now what about returning to the app window?
Don't ascribe motive ("cause xenophobic feelings") unless you can back it up.
I would have loved to follow such a course. Whatever I know and remember of it was learned 'the hard way' by reading code and digging into whatever problems it exhibited, not exactly a fun experience. But I have to admit: some of it was extremely clever and if you let go of the Unix file based mindset for a bit it actually was an interesting and refreshing experience. But I didn't think MUMPS was future proof enough to warrant investing more time into it and the only reason it still hangs on is for the same reason COBOL still does: large codebases that businesses rely on even if there isn't anybody there that still fully understands them.
And the idea that corporations can walk away from their financial responsibilities and individuals shouldn’t is why strategic defaults were so large around 2008.
Streamlit (Python)

https://streamlit.io/

Runkit (Javascript)

https://runkit.com/home

Directus (Backend)

https://directus.io/

N8N (Workflows/API/Webhooks)

https://n8n.io/

There are way maaany other low-code / no-code builders with sooner-or-later-hit-by-wall limitations.

It really dependend on what you want to build.

Best luck with your project and curios what you went with.
I understand your point.

The thing is that they should be able to introduce their API pricing without triggering the events of the past days. I'm not even remotely an expert, but the pricing seems too aggressive and seems to contradict was communicated earlier (again based on the apollo transcripts).

On the other hand they are supposed to be experts, or they should at least ask one, given the millions of users, thousands of mods, etc involved.
I think it’s best when one doesn’t disclose such “advantages”. Accept it as a passive and leverage the heck out of it.
I mean, Africa and LA seem like strong contenders. Most non-rich nations, really. One could say “but I want somewhere safer” but obviously that would be a little bit self-defeating, ideology-wise.

“For free” is also pretty much impossible, especially if you factor in travel, but my intuition tells me that a very modest American or European savings could buy access to land somewhere. Especially if you sold all your possessions, or used credit without intending to pay it back.

Re: resources… I mean that’s kinda the deal? Living immersed in nature without society’s support doesn’t mean relaxing in Eden in the vast vast majority of places, it means fighting like hell. Imo.
Science is in agreement that it is most likely not natural and was engineered. The missing piece is where it originated and majority agree that it most likely originated from the wuhan institute of virology.
is this a rhetorical question?
Why? Hard drives are as cheap as tape now: $10/TB. Tapes are sequential access media, wear out, and malfunction, whereas hard drives are random access media. I know all about StorageTek silos and 4U tape robots but still don't bother with them.
Its not the posts they care about, its user eyeballs. They don't want subscriptions, they want ads. It's been a while since I was in the adtech business, but at that time static banners were getting $1-$5+ per 1000 impressions (CPM) for so-so user quality. Video ads are apparently running $10-$30+ CPM. Do they think they can push 1,000 ads a month to lots of users? You bet.

Subscriptions are high-friction, low uptake, and you're always battling churn. Ads are low-friction and everybody gets them. Plus they can goose the ad revenue whenever they want by just showing more of them.

They might grumble about AI training, but its not really affecting their bottom line. I doubt they'll care much until they start selling their own AI sizzle to investors.

Edit: Oh, and I doubt they care about the hardware needed to serve posts. Guarentee they're using 10-to-100x that for the ads. Ad bidding is complex and has tight timing requirements. Tracking ad/user view data is a big firehose. If they host any of the ads themselves that will absolutely dwarf the text or even video posts. And even then, if they have any kind of a compentent backend engineering team, all those costs will be a smallish fraction of total costs.
Because third party apps are user agents, in the original sense of the word. The reddit app is Reddit's agent. The official reddit app exists to advance reddit's strategy. It isn't that reddit can't produce a better UI, it is that doing so isn't a part of their strategy.
I guess that they are use IP geo based approach to translation; you get content based on your IP address.
On having a track record in operating systems development