skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The smart companies are doing projects for the government, getting contracts, publishing papers [or not ;-)], filing away patents. They are small and almost purely focused on research, with little-to-no marketing staff or budget.

The dumb companies are blowing through VC money trying to speedrun a quantum version of webvan.com.
Maybe in the US, but the EU would come in with the steel chair rather quick.
Elon has stolen active accounts and handed them to others, and is purging inactive accounts, so keeping an inactive account is limited protection:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90933866/elon-musk-x-stealing-mo...
It's not done for the purposes of content protection/DRM. There may be other laws it falls under, but I don't think the DMCA is one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
> ... "and the price should reflect it's non-perpetual nature." (emphasis, mine)

This is one thing that bugs the hell outta me for some game publishers. They used to sell a given ("AAA" or whatever) game for like $60, and you got a disc you could use "forever" (as long as the disc lasted, and compatibility with system updates held out), a fancy manual, slick packaging, and sometimes even a poster or other extra goodie. These days, some (many?) of those companies sell a digital download, hosted by Steam's delivery servers, and often nothing else at all, for the same or sometimes even higher price as physical media. For many of these games, reliance on remote DRM services mean that game can disappear any random time in the future for <reasons>. I generally refuse to support them in doing that, so those companies will only ever see my purchase during a sale that brings the price more in line with the reality. I'd rather spend my money with the publishers / developers that value their customers a bit more than as a "fleshy cash machine".
Seems like an easy target for pirates to board and raid?
And still not available in Canada. Sigh.
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I'd love to see this a replacement for django debug toolbar in future :D
What a choice... painful copyright litigation in Europe, painful patent trolling in the US, or painful defenestration in Russia.
“The Nordics” isn’t a single government so it’s weird to group them like this. Denmark, Sweden and Norway get very different amounts of snowfall so it’s unsurprising they don’t have all the same policies.
California with the support of Gavin Newsom is building "no go" zones for wildfire response. Sounds OK except - a video recording of a local Mayor at a wildfire update press conference, asking with deference, when the main highway to his town will re-open, and the response from a tense and aggressive CHP leader was "maybe that road will be closed for six months, maybe next year" with no respect... instantly snapped at a Mayor, on camera. How are these zones decided upon? "immediate area" is not what was being done in that event.
Could you guys please explain why Telegram sent me this:
" Data export request. (censored), we received a request from your account to export your Telegram data.

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For security reasons, please confirm this request by pressing the Allow button at the bottom of this message using one of your mobile devices."
Elon Musk's xAI's pre-seed funding was $135M – SEC Filings
I'm curious. I figure you considered building the UI as a DevTools extension; why 'd you go this in-page-DOM-overlay route instead?
W3C is using web technologies? Say it ain't so!

But sarcasm aside, JS is a web standard, just like HTML and CSS. While I understand the opinion of people who don't want to execute JS in their browser, I'm also highly sympathetic to devs who want to use things that are enabled by default in all modern browsers.
Nobody enjoys dealing with UEFI. Its a very ugly mess of a standard that is an order of magnitude more complicated compared to BIOS.
At least the second one is very easy to act upon.
Related. Others?

Quad9 blocks pirate site globally after Sony demanded €10k fine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36878867 - July 2023 (65 comments)

Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971915 - May 2023 (84 comments)

DNS Resolver Quad9 Loses Global Pirate Site Blocking Case Against Sony - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35081507 - March 2023 (11 comments)

Sony's Legal Attack on Quad9, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026403 - March 2023 (85 comments)

Avoid Using Quad9 DNS: They Are Going to Start Blocking Pirate Websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31487630 - May 2022 (7 comments)

DNS-Resolver Quad9 Loses First Pirate Site Blocking Appeal in Germany - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29458069 - Dec 2021 (2 comments)

German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29398455 - Nov 2021 (192 comments)

Quad9 Files Official Objection Opposing Sony Music’s German Court Ruling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28434883 - Sept 2021 (25 comments)

Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27620319 - June 2021 (227 comments)
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I'm legitimately starting to wonder what white collar workers will even do in 5-10 years.

This just Year 1 of this stuff going mainstream. Careers are 25-30 years long. What will someone entering the workforce today even be doing in 2035?
I am pretty sure the issue here is Sony purchased some sort of pay-per-stream license and effectively sold the users unlimited streams rather than a perpetual license and gambled that most users would not watch the content all that much and they could make more money. Now they are no longer able or willing to pay to renew their license which makes the content unavailable to the users. I assume they could have licensed it in some way that allowed true perpetual access for the users that purchased it but that would have cost more and they would have made less.

^^ just in case it wasn't clear those are all assumptions of mine
Is it compatible with Sentry API (drop in replacement)?
Seeing these news right after deactivating your Twitter account. :)

Twitter is not a platform any more it used to be, a lot of fake accounts with blue ticks and ads after ads.

I just wonder what was Elon's original idea with Twitter, buy big social network, rename it to "X", show to the world that "Yes, I can", then destroy it gradually from inside?
That could work, I think denoising a song to be a perfect match to the original recording is probably a very hard problem, so hard that your model will still need to be robust to some deviation from the original track, and therefore you need to do what I said above anyway.

Generally it's much easier to generate noised pairs from clean input than it is to do the reverse, i.e. go record lots of noised inputs from the wild and match to the original song. So the denoising problem you mention would be tougher still due to covariate shift. I think the features you learn trying to fingerprint the song through noise will probably be a bit more robust, but I don't have a mathematical proof.
Demo access or it didn't happen.
> One thing this study didn't investigate is how much power it could be expected to contribute on an average trip – and that, along with space considerations, will be key to whether systems like this reach widespread deployment.

Someone on this team almost certainly did some estimations of how much energy could be generated on real ships. Since these calculations are not mentioned, it must be assumed that the energy output is not enough to be useful, but saying that would reduce media coverage and grant funding.
Here is a good summary in comic form. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
I'm really liking the agnosticism with Beak.js. Would love to read a blog post about the power of that or examples of useBeakFunction use-cases
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Nice job, Chat.
For starters, when you go to x.com, it redirects to twitter.com.
Isn't a tool that blocks all domains registered less than 30 days ago hugely annoying?

I guess I can see the upside in terms of helping avoid newly registered phishing sites, but I don't think I could live with the downsides.
Your argument might apply if the owner of the site formerly known as Twitter respected the concept of calling people by their preferred names, but he doesn't, not even in the case of his own child. So, nice try.
Upon further inspection it was a difficult question (3200) that just happened to be DP.

In that case they just unfortunately chose a question that may cause confusion, since DP questions are usually not that hard.
Remove it with vinegar, it will stay away longer, although it won't remove the root cause.

The root cause is that you have a source of moisture there, allowing these fungi to live. Maybe your toilet has a pin leak, or that spot is a bit colder than the rest of your bathroom, leading to moisture condensing there first. If you remove the source of moisture, the mold will be gone too.
> Why is it that when people change names, calling them by their old name is near a crime. But when a service renames, and some rebellious part of the world doesn't feel like going with that, misnaming a service for months is totally fine?

> I know, the service doesn't have any feelings to hurt, but...

But what? You answered your own question.
One also assumes that the PSF will be similarly reluctant to sponsor a conference in Orlando/Miami, or Memphis/Nashville, given Florida and Tennessee's rankings as two of the worst states in the country for LGTBQ persons...
The headline makes it sound like is not entirely ethical, and then I remember reading “Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor [Paul Graham] at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator, part of a pattern of clashes that some attribute to his self-serving approach”[0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-alt...
I have tried (specifically nginx, haproxy, varnish, squid, traefik, and a few others) - alas every setup had problems, but “expose my app to the internet, and have a cronjob to kill and restart it every 3 hours” has had the fewest problems ;(
I highly doubt that this is related to any LLM use. It would breathtakingly uneconomical and completely unnecessary. It's not even interesting enough for an experiment.
> What the openai debacle showed us very clearly is how important the platform still is

I'm not sure that twitter added much other than allowing us to spectate the whole thing in realtime. I don't think it impacted the outcome in any meaningful way or provided us a ton of useful context. I actually worry that the endless speculation (and intentional misinformation at times) can be a bit dangerous. Kind of like when news stations went 24/7 and then grasped for anything at all to put on the screen to fill all that airtime.
I know it's the Oregonian in me and getting to meet him as a kid where he spent a decent amount of time with my class, but he strikes me as a senator that Oregon can be proud of. I might not agree with him on everything, but in my personal opinion, he's advocating and pushing for change on what he personally believes in. Makes me wish my current senator was more like that.
The UK has a covid inquiry going on right now and I believe the former PM expressed their regret for how much they downplayed it alongside explaining their rationale of using the limited tools they had at their disposal. Very uncharacteristic for what their actions were during it.

You also have countries like Germany who are starting to realize the actual burden of infecting the general population and necessity to follow what current evidence we have to tackle the long-tail issues:

https://twitter.com/zurnull/status/1731941221503812060
You're talking about EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar titles there. Case closed.

Incidentally, if you must get something from those 3, they're forbidden to require an account on at least the PlayStation. Not sure about XBox.
Unfortunately, if they get hit with a class-action lawsuit and the eventual payout is less than the amount of money in profit they made from this deal, Sony would just consider this "the cost of doing business."
First, I would need to know such a service exists. Given that I didn't know the service exists I would have to Google for such a service. Which is exactly the point in question.

So, let's say I Google for such a service and I make it past the 3 or 4 ads at the top of the search results and however many SEO spammed sites and I get to the site you posted. I literally started writing a response to you saying "it doesn't seem to count only weekdays" but in order not to be wrong on the Internet I went back and checked and buried in the interface is a link "Count only workdays".

So, my answer to why: It was actually faster and easier using ChatGPT to get it to write Python than it would have been for me to use Google to find the site and then to use the site. If I have to do the same thing again in the future I will use ChatGPT rather than try to remember this website url or trust Google to direct me back to it.
This thread is about python. What you have here has no connection to what anyone has said.
It's made by and uses Sentry.
Author feedback: the large print, and the static elements (screen-thieving banner + “AI assistant” button), made attempting to read this blog as presented a vile experience on my phone. The AI button can’t be dismissed, if you ask it how to dismiss itself it doesn't know, and it won’t even accept negative feedback due to obscured submit buttons.

Fortunately there’s Reader mode.
If you buy a table they can't come and take it back without your consent, even if they leave the full purchase amount on one of the chairs.
I want to see deep research and lots of data. I want to see insights that nobody else is publishing. Deep insights
Well, imagine the alternative: "W3C Leaves X". I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to figure out that X, the social network, is what is meant here. X can be interpreted in different ways and there's not enough context available.
Where's the Gemini/Bard Android/iOS app? Oh right, Google doesn't do apps /s
Sorta surprised at how badly people dislike the Cybertruck.
What would be Gemini's current IQ? I would suspect it's higher than the average human's.
Is there a way to use this without having an account on the mastodon server? I just want to use my web browser to read text on a web page.
It was a good article, really well designed also.

There were a couple submissions for it but sadly none that garnered any discussion.
> I was looking for the release dates of 8 and 16-bit consoles

this is a case where search has taken a step backward. The old Google would have worked for a simple search like that, "NES (or sega, whatever) + 'release date' "
and simply return the best results that had those two parameters in them. Today we can't have that because they make more money intentionally fuzzing your search parameters so you accidentally click on sponsored content.

I think we're going to see a lot more of this: renewed excitement and enthusiasm when A.I. "discovers" things that plain old imperative algorithms figured out 20 years ago.
The setup is a deal or they set something up?
Please revise to "set up" if the char limit is OK
google is the new IBM.

apple is the new Nokia.

openai is the new google.

microsoft is the new apple.
It sounds like you get it but what I'm saying is you just add colo'd (or whatever) peers. Nobody in particular needs to be responsible for that. Bandwidth in Eastern Europe, for example, is dirt cheap - practically free. It'd be similar to how we do Mastodon: a bunch of different peer networks with a bunch of different funding and management models. You don't need to rely on the instance server for hosting, just initial seeding. Think of it like the original seeder in BitTorrent (a model which we see working great to this day because people rent dirt cheap seedboxes.)
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There's a good interview with Nathan Marz on his Rama project interviewed by Juxt

He makes the point that databases are today prescriptive on the structure of data you provide to them

I think databases as we know them today are not yet "end game"
Inhibition of USP2 Prevents ACE2-Dependent Coronavirus Infection
this website needs a seizure warning.
It turns out that punching up and punching down really are opposites: at first glance they may look categorically similar, but the direction makes a huge difference.
Wow, surprisingly expensive then. It might be worth getting more quotes if you're still interested. I found the ones we got here varied pretty widely, so you may have just gotten a couple of high ones.
This is in contrast to small large language models like GPT3
> "was"

Twitter/X is still the de facto global real-time news platform.

If 5% of X's top users exited to a different platform, X users would just screenshot and redistribute their noteworthy content on X and it would be business as usual.

You can't beat the network effects.
> If straight people can act naturally around their partners, but people with other sexual preferences have to police all their normal behaviours all the time, lest they are impolite enough to break the hosts rules

I very much agree with the point of your post. I will also say that in many of those same countries, even as a straight person, you're not getting a hotel room with your partner without marriage, either.
Twitter did this well before the Elon era.
But that just takes you back to the 10-20 years. The point here was that the math changes if you need to replace your existing system anyway.
A scroll is not a history event. Leave the back button alone, please.
The types of issues you're enumerating are really part of a learning curve that every language and environment will have.

> not having basic functions for calculating percentiles or even a basic median

I don't think this is really true anymore; windowing functions are pretty prolific, and I think every major database will have some percentile functions
> I don't feel like dealing with this stuff anymore.

This will keep happening until people realize that:

- there is a significant cost to properly manage an instance

- there is a significant cost to develop sustainably the software

- there is a significant cost to deal with moderation

and that these costs can not be covered by donations from a small minority.
Feature request: documentation for running this with a Python web app. It looks to me like it should work - the Python Sentry library can presumably publish to the local Spotlight forwarder.

I don't have a npm/npx/etc build mechanism setup, so I'd appreciate instructions for running a separate web server to serve the UI, rather than running the UI integrated directly into my existing Python web application.
What kind of issues did you have with the foundation?

There’s many individual damage symptoms, but typically humidity somehow enters through the walls of the basement, making them damp/wet and thereby leading to mould infestation.

The expensive but thorough solution is to dig around the foundation and install a vertical damp-proof course around the outside walls. The walls would additionally require drying and depending on building material removing the old plaster and re-plastering.

If a concrete floor is damp, the culprit would be a crack which can be sealed with special injected sealants.
If it’s an older type of floor, it may need to be replaced with concrete.

How did the basement infest the rest of the house, just regular air transfer or did humidity rise through the walls and caused infestation in the above-ground rooms?
I can't speak for the world in general. But from the French perspective (surely at least 90% of French consume 90% of French content), politics and journalists hold the platform. Institutions are already starting to leave.

E.g, you can be sure that if Macron starts tweeting from mastodon (the gov has an official instance https://social.numerique.gouv.fr), thousands of journalists and politics will switch.
> It's one of few remaining militarily non-aligned countries.

There are lots of countries that are strictly militarily non-aligned (as in, not members of any mutual defense pact.)

It is true that there are relatively few countries that are not either militarily aligned or strongly in the geopolitical orbit of one or more of Russia, China, or the US, but...Serbia isn't in this category, either.
Question is; does my code end up somewhere it should not?

It's a bit tricky with AI tools when working on a proprietary codebase which is absolutely not allowed to leave the premises.
I know it’s annoying paying Apple the publish tax but as a customer I’d certainly prefer to have it signed if I’m paying for it.
this. google is like academia; you publish a lot but others who implement your work are the ones making money off of it.
strange, archive links no longer work for me, just keeps prompting for captchas. service is basically useless now.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/special-report-how-an-indian...
There's some other things that are called strikes like when the workers follow regulations strictly in a way that makes normal operations impossible.
Ignore Individuals. Fix Systems
Depending of course on the workload and request volume, I imagine you could apply a strategy where code is run locally while waiting for a remote node to start up, so you can still serve the requests on time?
Because generally, as a consumer, if I want to add a package which includes heated seats it seems to cost me about $600-1500. When I said "cost $1200" I meant "cost the consumer $1200" not "cost the manufacturer $1200".
Google Search Generative Experience (SGE)
One think I've always wondered about RTO measures is, can they force you to choose bewteen RTO or resign? Or to they have to fire you (and with that entitle you to whatever compensation you deserve)?