skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unfortunately very true, both quotes are from the same email chain in October 2021 discussing their support options after experiencing exceptionally slow response times on a paid account.

However for full transparency I copied the quotes from the last time that I raised them, and looking back at the original emails it does seem I'd edited them slightly for clarity. The precise quotes of those lines, copied & pasted from the email, including the "for for" are:

—- This is largely because of how our plans are engineered. Our self-serve tier is for prototyping, hobbyist or smaller projects and therefore we don't expect projects with urgent needs or requirements that go beyond self-serve on our self-serve tier. Our enterprise plans are suited for for projects that require more timely responses and more specific attention.

—- 1. Because “Pro” and “Business” are both self-serve tier plans the support offering there is the same, so that would be correct. Currently the support offering is email support with no guaranteed response time

Ultimately all we were seeking was information on if they had a support option with a faster average turnaround than several days, not specifically an SLA, just a better average for "Business" accounts.

The response in both emails touted their Enterprise plan as the only option, and quoted us as:

—- $2,000 is the starting price of our enterprise plans, and that can be priority support or combined with another SKU (HP Edge, HP Build).
An exhaustive list of leftists who care about democracy:
Ability to Identify LV Systolic Dysfunction on Images of ECGs
Oh neat! I didn't realize. It's good! I could have been fooled it was done by a whole team :D
That is true. And it is possible, in principle, that some new revelations will come along and completely rewrite our understanding of physics, and allow for FTL travel, time travel, transport to "parallel universes" (ala Fringe), etc. But there are good reasons to not expect that, in that the places where our understanding is incomplete mostly deal with "edge" cases - extremes of scale (quantum mechanics), time (origins of the universe / big bang), gravity (insides of black holes), etc. But the physics we have today is otherwise very well tested, and makes incredibly precise and accurate predictions that match extremely well with observed phenomena.

Given that, I think a strong measure of skepticism in this regard is fairly well supported. But, a good scientist should always be willing to change their position if the evidence dictates such, and new evidence can always come along. See: The Problem of Induction.
No, I pay for premium.
I'm somewhat bemused by the idea what they did, is morally any different to what any psychic does. The assumption appears to be a psychic genuinely believes they have insights into you as an individual based on some criteria.

Is that it? Is the lack of overt signal they "believed" what makes this bad because I would suggest, they were a clever psychic who did what all psychics did, they just did it better.
https://archive.is/SUAx6
Aren’t all psychics pretending?
If you use the Apple ecosystem (Apple TV, iPhone and so forth) it all works together really nicely. And it's very reliable. I don't think the same is true of Linux with Android or Pine Phone or whatever. Also the devices tend to be supported and usable for a long time.

I could see making a case that Linux can cost less money, or is the same OS you're targeting on the server, or that you are very concerned with software freedom or "open source". If you want to modify the software you use every day, and be able to--maybe you like adding features to your Emacs setup, I get it. I've done that. Claiming that the Linux desktop experience is better than the Mac on the merits is just ridiculous to me though. Especially when you can run pretty much anything you would on Linux on the Mac, but not the other way around.

Apple's business model is all about being the best user experience for the most people (which does not mean Linux aficianados) and being in the world of software, services and devices that you pay for and are mostly closed source. There are more people who want Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop and so on than fans of LibreOffice, GIMP, et al.

They seem to be doing pretty well with this. I don't see them as getting there in an anticompetitive way, certainly compared to the M$ of the 80s and 90s. I guess people say it's a "walled garden" but they actually interoperate pretty well.

One comment I noticed is that the News app has ads. That may be true, but if you give them their 10$ a month (or less if you get the family plan, etc) you get access to all this content that otherwise is locked behind paywalls. It's kind of a good deal.

Apple is doing things I don't think are possible on Linux, like sharing the clipboard (and camera) between the phone and computer, playing videos on your Apple TV....Maybe someone will tell me "all you have to do is download this source repo and compile this....." -- with the Apple stuff it just works. <don flamesuit/>

Mostly, Apple stuff works very reliably and gets out your way. It does things you want to do, like maintain a photo / video library and share it with your family, keep track of your calendar on all your devices, etc.
Researchers of what? Surely you don't imagine that everyone who is professionally interested in anything all take part in the same social forum.
Asset owners, in proportion to how many assets they own, because the fed buys the assets.
Infinite Red has been a great partner for Expo. Thank you!
Seriously, the zoo of text encodings that reigned before widespread Unicode uptake was a pain the ass once you had data that went beyond 7 bits, especially for non-Roman scripts.
I tried it in dreamstudio. Like all the other image generators I've tried, it's rubbish at drawing a piano keyboard or an accordion. (Those are my tests to see if it understands the geometry of machines.)

A couple of accordion pictures do look passable at a distance.

Another test: how well does it do at drawing a woman waving a flag?

One thing that strikes me is that it generates four images at a time, but there is little variety. It's a similar looking woman wearing a similar color and style of clothing, a similar street, and a large American flag. (In one case drawn wrong.) I guess if you want variety you have to specify it yourself?

AI models seem to be getting ever better in resolution and at portraits.
The USSR honored their hardest and most productive workers with huge billboards and monuments to their eternal glory and legacy. Could you name one?
X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month or risk losing verification status
> (If you've only ever got comfortable with a windows-style "maximised window" approach, you'll probably disagree with me, however).

Windows-style? Microsoft's APIs and design paradigms are as floating-window focused as they are maximized-focused. And I don't think I've had a window open maximized since the XP days. Multiple document interfaces were a first class citizen for a decade and a half, so clearly they understand and encourage window use.

Single task, maximized windows are a user paradigm. Usually by regular old users that just want a browser, tax program, video game, etc and that Windows doesn't get in the way of. These same people will use the expander in macOS, or just use their computer with a single half-sized window in the middle of their screen. "Power" users (devs, creatives, traders, PMs, CSRs, etc) will best use the environment in any OS, for their use case.

In addition, maximized windows are ubiquitous on mobile platforms and are a paradigm that Apple seems insistent on, considering how hard the Android (and Microsoft before their inevitable mobile death) companies are working on solving the multi-tasking problem. Even now, I can have multiple floating, resizable windows on a Galaxy device; while I can not on an iOS one.
In the context of caloric intake, it basically is the same thing. People (population level) eat too much food. Which foods should they eat, exactly, is essentially premature optimization in this context.
Has a product that solves a real problem that it's customers (that aren't just other companies that the PE firm that actually owns the company acquired and forced to buy the solution) use day to day for years.

AI enabled micro transit crypto quad copters = hardcore

A site that connects consumers with suppliers in some niche market = softcore
Hell, as soon as the federated systems started getting traction, Meta's Threads got set up to interface with them.

The companies have an imperative, since I guess calling it a vested interest would be an understatement, to not let you escape from their clutches.

They can't force you to come inside, and they can't force you to stay, but they can make it so that it's almost impossible to go anywhere where they are not already there. It's creepy and predatory vulpine super stalker behavior, but unless we establish a system of government that puts our desires above theirs there is not much we can do about it other than stay away to the best of our abilities.
Sounds like a fun city!
> Does not blocking Chromium devolve in behavior to a comparable level as WEI? Seems like the same problem is introduced: breaking the web.

Not really, for two reasons.

First, is that it can be bypassed, for instance with an extension which hides the relevant JS property and/or switches the user agent, or even on-the-fly edits the site's Javascript. The whole point of WEI is that it cannot be bypassed.

Second, is that just blocking Chromium does not prevent the development and use of new web browsers and/or operating systems, while a predictable consequence of WEI is making them non-viable in practice (they'd have to first convince Google that both the browser and operating system is DRM-ed enough that the user does not have enough control over the browser to make it do everything the user wants, and only then the browser would be allowed to access WEI-walled content).
> Reminder that flux-pinned levitation only occurs when superconductors are cooled from above to below their critical temperature while in a local magnetic field.

Casual demonstrations of levitating superconductors involve first submerging the superconducting material in a (non-magnetized) tub of LN2, and then moving it onto a magnetic track. For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5EoUD-BIss
In the UK, the AVPA - age verification providers association (members include Experian) have been super active on the Online Safety Bill. Curious to know if there's a US involvement , too.

The media seems to have missed this - then again, these laws are their opportunity to stick the boot into Tech, and usually have carve outs and special treatment under these laws, so they're not especially incentivised to rock the boat here.
We wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to try Continue, so we allow 250 free requests. These use gpt4. If you plug in your own API key in VS Code settings, it will also use gpt4 by default.

We'll update the /help messaging so it knows this, and you can read more about choosing a model here: https://continue.dev/docs/customization
It would most likely still be possible to measure that the cache lines were occupied, which is enough to leak (other) data by treating it as addresses.
> Ask yourself a simple question - do you really know what RFK Jr stands for, or are you basing your comment on the headlines designed to silence him?

I’m basing my opinion of him on the way he routinely spouts gibbering nonsense, the media doesn’t need to lift a finger to make him look bad.
The Invention That Let Fiber Optics Span the Globe
It's unfortunately awfully slow. Ten times slower. Probably fine if you never use any plugins, but who does that.
All the amateur debunking just smells like the usual confidently incorrect contrarianism, which is always popular on sites like Reddit.

There's just way too much going on for this to be a sloppy mistake. It's either real or a fraud, and in both cases the alleged errors aren't particularly important.
On page 4 they list two equivalent criteria for superconductivity: "the electric field criterion with 1 μV/cm or 0.1 μV/cm and resistivity criterion
with 10^-11 Ω·cm." On the same page they write: "In various bulk samples, specific
resistance was measured in the range of 10^-6 to 10^-9 Ω·cm." That does not meet the resistivity criterion, not even close.

In the second paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037 ) on page 8 they write: "In the first region below red-arrow C (near 60°C), equivalent to region F in the inset of Fig. 5, the resistivity with noise signals can be regarded as zero." I can only see from the plotted curve that the resistivity below 60°C is below about 5·10^-4 Ω·cm. Compare that to the resistivity of silver, which is 1.59·10^-6 Ω·cm.

It doesn't get better if you test the electric field criterion. On page 11 of the second paper you can see in Fig 6a that they measured a voltage of about 2mV in the "superconducting" state, and the voltage only drops off when the current approaches 0. In the first paper on page 19 they write that they used pogo probes with a distance of 1.2mm. So the electric field they measured is about 17mV/cm. That is a lot higher than the superconductor criterion of 1µV/cm, let alone 0.1µV/cm. Even if they mistakenly used mV instead of µV in their diagram, a factor of 17 would still need a good explanation.

So either a complete fake or an interesting effect but not superconductivity.
DIY is one of the best ways to reduce conspicuous consumption and consumerism. Learn skills to make what you need rather than buying it. Learn to reuse materials as part of that process, and repair things back into working order.

My favorite example of this is IKEA wood bed frames. I used to cruise around cities just picking up truckloads of perfectly good solid wood that people left on the street, and then would have endless supplies for building. I've built raised garden beds, new custom bed frames, awnings for porches, bird feeders and houses, tables, stools, shelves, and more, just from junk left on curbs.

One time I found a pretty much fully functional sewing machine on the curb. That's when I learned how to sew, and have since repaired jeans, shirts, socks, and made little tote sacks as gifts out of old clothes.

Once you learn a DIY skill it serves you for the rest of your life, saves you money, and helps the environment.
I was under the impression that AOL was a big Tandem shop at one point, was that not the case?
we should be emphasizing "regulate"-ing plastics and industrial waste. Or "replacing" whole entire commercial pipelines. "regulate, replace, revolution".
Video games will be more realistic.
> The Flutter framework is growing in popularity.

Is that the one rendering [1] text and UI widgets into an HTML canvas element from JavaScript/Dart (completely coincidentally breaking ad blocking in the process)? What a beautiful piece of software.

> Apple already built and shipped this same feature last year,

Are you referring to Private Access Tokens (PAT)? These seem quite a bit more limited in what they do. WEI seems to specifically set out to roll back some of the blinding/anonymization aspects of PAT under the banner of debuggability/providing "feedback" to attesters.

[1] https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/renderers
That sort of phrasing is almost to be expected, no? This might just be a cynical atheist's interpretation of Abrahamic religions, but Islam seems to be loosely doing the same thing to Christianity that Christianity did to Judaism, i.e. it purports to be the next theological evolution and therefore all practioniers of {current_religion} should rationally convert and download the latest religious firmware.

I was going to make a joke about how it's a shame they stopped inventing Abrahamic religions, but then I remembered the Mormons! I would like to suggest that Mormonism is the true natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian's journey. At least until someone creates a new Abrahamic religion to succeed it.
Uncensored and ‘Insane’: A Look at OpenAI’s Image Generator
An industrial revolution is not a single event but a journey. Somebody innovates, then somebody else get the innovation better, then yet somebody else innovates again using what previous people did, etc. Romans could have had their IR from their starting point but they didn't. I don't think it's because they didn't have roman numerals or cast iron. Those could have been part of their revolution. Needs is the prime factor for innovations and this is what they lacked: needs.

They didn't need to innovate because they had abondant and cheap labor in the form of slaves and whatever machine someone could come up with was more costly than slaves so the journey did not began. This is why the aeolipile stayed a novelty and the roman didn't have an IR: they didn't need it.
> Are you sure they couldn't even bring printed out forms?

In China your health status (green/yellow/red) was automatically calculated based on what neighborhoods of the city you had been in, what other people you passed by in the street or on public transportation, etc. So, it could change in an instant, and that is why it was shown from phone apps that constantly updated. It wasn’t a fixed thing like vaccination status, where a printed form would make sense.
Yeah, I'm American and I knew.

And, yet, some guy on some talk show said about her something like "It's kind of arrogant. If she didn't look like Audrey Hepburn, she wouldn't have done it (shaved her head). It's a form of bragging: Look how beautiful I am!"

I wanted to reach through my TV and smack him.
There are extensions to disable any kind of animation. I use the Windows key to open the app list/search and hot keys to move between virtual desktops (activities, but I use the la name). Nothing moves and resizes on my desktop.
> the complexity of Unicode is only a mirror of the complexity of human scripts.

Oh please, Unicode didn't start out as an encoding covering human scripts - it was too late for that. It started out as an encoding to end all already existing encodings and that was a shit show with all kinds of weird and non printable symbols to begin with. It also didn't get better when Unicode started to add all kinds of shit like combining emojis into the mix.
This makes no sense to me.

People don’t invent an amazing thing and then keep it secret to make a profit. they patent it and make a product or license it.

I am totally willing to believe they managed to keep something secret. Hell if it’s true it means they actually did a pretty shit job because everyone knows the word ‘Roswell’

But I don’t buy that after 50 years they haven’t made a single useful thing out of what they found. Where’s my flying saucer damn it? Where’s some new amazing power source that any craft getting here must have been using?
That’s a fair point and I’m not sure actually. I bet you’re right though.
Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this? I'd always heard it was because some people at Apple used Twitter, but nobody used Tumblr, so Tumblr didn't get a free pass from arbitrary torment.
archive: https://archive.ph/x1ZSD
You can synthesize superconducting FETs though: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-1918-4_...

Obviously this isn't much benefit since the vast majority of applications can't be liquid nitrogen cooled (and computing has followed "what consumers will buy" on progress).

That changes substantially if superconductors will keep working when put in my pocket.
Additionally, most (actually) emotionally well adjusted partners want no part of that kind of deal (at face value) for very real and legitimate reasons, so the partners that do end up matching up will often be those who are either lying to themselves (neglect) or others (abuse) about their own emotional state or their own plans.

And boom, we have the wheel and the multigenerational cycle of abuse.
Usually winter coats are offered at steep discounts in the summer.
A host might disable it if they also offer mysql/postgres services
I'm curious how he'd broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. Oh wait, he said that the US forced Russia to invade-- on Hannity.
Assuming 100 different styles of music, there can then be 80 paid artists per style? Just 20 bands if a typical 4-piece.
That is not so great for those that primarily listen to one or two styles.
Today there are nearly 100'000 active bands within the metal genre alone.
more likely they fund these companies through "research grants" then buy their services
I don't know you. I don't know how to look up your "record". Why obfuscate? If you came onto HN to spread awareness then help us understand. Otherwise you've come here to brag and you are not helpful.
RIAA Urges NTIA to Keep .US Domain Whois Info Public to Deter Online Piracy
Short answer: talk about quantum wells in this context is meaningless .
Seems interesting that there appears to have been a patent application for LK-99 (https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20230030188A/en?oq=WO202...) filed two years ago in August 2021 (a year earlier than the article suggests).

If true, it seems wild to sit on this kind of discovery for over two years.

Update: Seems like there might be even more history given the name LK-99 apparently comes from the names of its discoverers Dr. Lee and Dr. Kim, and the year of its discovery, 1999 (https://kr.linkedin.com/in/ji-hoon-kim-03508b80).
Google seems like it’s quietly in serious trouble based on how they’ve really really cranked up the ads.

On mobile YouTube every third item is an ad. On google search I now get 5-6 YouTube links before a bunch of AI clickbait fuelled by adsense, and then maybe Wikipedia and other legit site are listed… maybe… on the first page.

I’m currently migrating my habits to avoiding search engines in general, but using DDG (which I might stick with) when I need to.
Prosecutors want disgraced crypto mogul Bankman-Fried in jail ahead of trial
Most likely by GPT-V they mean GPT4 with Vision
If King Arthur actually existed in the 5th-7th century (the tales are from the 9th-12th century) you wouldn't be able to understand him at all. You probably wouldn't even be able to understand the Old English of the 12th century tales either.

Hola has a much longer history, to 5th-7th century, per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hola

Spanish: This is related to greetings in Germanic cognates such as Dutch hola, Old High German holā, emphatic imperative of Old High German holōn (“to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman”)

Dutch: From Late Middle Dutch hola (“wait up!, hold on!, calm down!”), which also had the dialectal form holla; compare Middle Low German hola!, holda! (interjection), Middle High German holā! (interjection), of obscure origin. Possibly from the imperative of Middle Dutch halen, *holen (“to fetch”) (> dialectal holen), or possibly from Old French holà (“hey!”), from ho (“hold!, halt!, stop!”) + là (“there”).
Can you tldr; the differences and corrections? arxiv has unfortunately nothing to show the errata.