skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company runs servers in Alibaba Cloud and blocks access to the Alibaba Cloud API endpoints on the grounds that they're in a high risk country.
If you're thinking of ETW (event tracing for Windows) and not the actual Windows EventLog itself, then you're right. traceWPP used ETW under the hood to record logging as ETW events in a file.
> It also reduces the cost of the subscription for you, the end user.

But I don't want to pay less. I want my data to not be sold to the highest bidder, that's all.

As it stands there's no option for people like me other than not subscribing.

This is very much like the situation with smartphones these days: they cost less because you get a bunch of bloatware that you can't uninstall.

I don't want that on my device, so I went with an offering deemed "overpriced" because it has less of such crap than others and thus costs about $250 more. Ideally it should be zero, but that's the best I could get.
I would also add that modern cameras can be incredibly opinionated about how they process photos. At times they can make reasonable choices and at times poor choices all with varying consequences.
The Sega Saturn at 30
I subscribe to the NYT and The Economist and I still get (fairly inobtrusive) ads. But I'm pretty sure that very few people pay that amount for daily/weekly print media these days.
America is built on top of one enormous Indian graveyard. They were living here for more than ten thousand years. That's a lot of dying.
> Cores are the new megahertz, at least for enterprise servers

I agree. It's too bad the MHz race ended though. Us personal PC users benefit from raw performance more.
Yes, 50Hz but synchronized to the Russian or rather Soviet grid.
> celebrating the loss of some innocent person. We're just happy to see consequences for their mass homicidal actions happening

TIL mass homicidal actions are innocent
It's odd to say those characters come from the Japanese language when they were invented in China to write Chinese, are still used for that purpose, and were only introduced to Japan 2000 years later.
> In my view, NATO should be supplying 1M+ artillery shells per month, so that UA can unleash scorched earth tactics on Russian positions inside UA territories

Sure, but that's not Russia or Ukraine, that's us as outsiders.

If Ukraine has secret weapons to fall back on in the scenario that — as per the comment I'm replying to — the US stops giving them weapons, why aren't they already using them? Likewise if Russia has any significant number of other weapons they could actually use*, why did they not use them already?

* while Russia may have plenty of unused submarines, they're not going to be of any significance beyond the handful of SLBMs that might spook the rest of the world into thinking it's World-War-Three-O'Clock
> That’s why newspapers had classified ads,

I don't recall in the past a company needing my identity required or be tracked just because I bought a newspaper. I pay the $1 for the newspaper and no more interaction or relationship after that.

Ads are OK but why do all the ad companies need to track me and know my movements and just to show me an ad? It's basically malware, stalking. Ads are zero advantage to me the consumer for what I lose in privacy.
The idea that it's wrong to use slavery as a cheap labor force is also modern and outside historical norms. Just because it's historically prevalent doesn't make something right or even good/acceptable. Some things based on historical norms are good. Some clearly aren't. And it seems to me a bit disingenuous to ignore the technological changes and the speed, pervasiveness, and invasiveness with which advertising is now done compared to the historical context being appealed to. Even if one grants that advertising wasn't "as bad" back then, that doesn't make what we have now acceptable.
Is that the case if you include the fact that Fox News is effectively a wing of the Republican party? It seems to me that Republicans don't need to spend more since they have an entire outside propaganda apparatus.

It's also not just funding. It's funding, gerrymandering, the electoral college, lobbying, the Supreme Court, voter suppression, etc.
It’s 15:43 now, so I’m already in bed
Romanian court cancels presidential election amid TikTok Russian influence fears
In retrospect, I should have expected the goatse as soon as I clicked to vote on images.
Based on the discussion in the descendent thread with morsch, it seems like the runways are the real story, at 1000x the mass of the airport roof.

But concrete is not so CO2 intensive. Lumber has a +1.6 sequestration factor of CO2 emitted vs built mass, compared with concrete at -0.8.

So we'd need runways made mostly of wood, or combined with a Woodcrete that was net sequestering, and then maybe there's a way to make even our most CO2 intensive industries net neutral so long as we rebuild continuously.

Also, since construction is about 40% of global CO2 emissions, if it could become a net sequestration as a whole, maybe it could flip the sign to -40% and offset most of the rest of our industrial emissions.

This also got me interested in what's a good number for rebuild rate.

Found a study that concludes the "Apparent ecosystem carbon turnover time [T]" is 43±7 years.

So maybe we should be rebuilding our built environment at 2.3%, or probably higher since species have evolved to be more energy intensive, humans especially.

[T] https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2517/2020/essd-12-25...
Rode hard and put up wet? :-O
I was curious about the "not all" since it depends whether "not all" is 0.1% or 99%. So I did this:

1. Google for "largest environmental organizations"

2. Select the top 5

3. Search for their position on the subject

Here's what I found are the top five largest according to a rudimentary Google:

1. Laudato Si' Movement "In addition to being unsustainable and failing to contribute to climate objectives, nuclear power is also proven to be a dangerous, dirty and expensive source of energy"

2. WWF: "Nuclear energy cannot, and must not, be considered part of the urgently required energy transition."

3. 350.org "Nuclear: a deadly and costly distraction"

4. Climate Foundation (couldn't find anything)

5. Greenpeace "Nuclear power is dirty, dangerous and expensive. Say no to new nukes."

I think the environmentalists don't like it, man. I think I've seen enough. Nuclear power must be pretty bad if it is so broadly hated. Or the environmentalists are fools.

Sources:

https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/20-global-nonprofits-env...

https://laudatosimovement.org/news/laudato-si-movement-eu-ta...

https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?10992441/nuclear-net-zero-WW...

https://350.org/nuclear-a-deadly-and-costly-distraction/

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/climate/issues/nuclear/#:~:te....
Only if you could expect a given person to only ever deal with one language. Anything international sucked and was a much bigger pain than now.

It would be impossible to e.g. build a site like Reddit where people can comment in any language.
I’m more commenting on the idea that ads ruin things over time. If that’s the case then it’s a hundreds of year timescale (or news media was ruined long ago).
I like him a lot, so there's that.
> miss the reality that when running a media business, relying on one revenue stream is dangerous.

Why would I, as a consumer, compromise on what I want to make some MBA's life easier? That almost sounds like corporate welfare. Businesses sign up to take risks the moment they're created.

A news organization doesn't need to be in business. There is nothing unjust or morally wrong with letting a business shutdown because they couldn't figure out a sustainable way to be profitable (assuming for sake of argument that most people don't subscribe due to the ads, which idk if that would really happen).

> This feels like a situation where an organization tries doing something laudable, but still gets criticized for it.

The OP is a customer of the Verge who is rejecting their offer for a new subscription service they don't like. That's called "voting with your wallet", and its the free market working as intended.
I don't have my hopes up. The only thing he accomplished in his first presidency (of which Republicans controlled the House and Senate for half off) was a huge tax cut for Wall Street, yet he was elected again.
Would love to use kagi, but they (Google) block Mullvad from specifically the registration page.

Anonymity > decent search 8 days a week!
Decision making in enterprise procurement is more about whether it makes the corporation money and whether there is immediate and effective support when it stops making money.
I'm a bit surprised that russotroll bots are posting comments here as well.
Maybe I'm mistaken right now, but I think your query is invalid. You cannot refer to an select-alias (here "count") in a where-condition.
Very very hard. Purpose built high performance helicopters can barely make it to the Everest summit on ideal days. The air gets so thin they struggle with lift while hovering which to need to land.
Why the Bimodal Distribution of Company Sizes is Shaping Cloud Computing Needs
Quite a lot of papers were, and still are, given out for free. My city still supports 3 separate print newspapers that are free in coffee shops, libraries, corner boxes, etc.

They’re a great way to keep up with the actions and gripes of the local community. Being such small operations, there is very light editing and the reporter’s point of view often comes through pretty clearly.

All paid for via ads from local businesses. Quite a lot of the ads are from real estate agents, which I think reflects the belief that a lot of tourists are picking up the papers in addition to residents.
The first bar to clear is "The Turkish Test"[0], then we can talk about Unicode. It'll smooth the rest of the process a lot.

You can't guess how many workarounds I implement to make sure that a stray application doesn't get "ı" or "İ" in their naive codepaths, and start burning mid-flight (e.g.: Kodi, Pagico, some old Java programs, oh my...).

[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-turkey/
Computing has improved massively over the last 50 years, not least because it now can accommodate peoples diverse languages.
Well said. Everyone kept acting like Intel “should be” an innovator but was somehow failing, when the shareholders were running it as a cash cow all along. Rightly or wrongly, they decided a long time ago that it would be more lucrative for Intel to be in decline, and that became self-fulfilling.
So very much this. As I was learning Rust, I'd ask what the equivalent was for a snippet I could create in Java. It is funny. I look at the Java code provided by prompts and go meh. The Rust code looks great. I realize this is probably due to 1) me being that junior level in Rust or 2) less legacy crap in the training model. I'm sure it is both, with more of the former as I work from working to beautiful code.
This is a just pricing experiment just to see if people will pay 10X more for better AI. Perhaps, eventually, we will be paying thousands per month for AI if it is good enough.
The problem could be old scripts or systems that doesn’t handle UTF-8 (that doesn’t need to be the ones where the username was defined). I’m not sure if I.e. the Bobby tables trick could be done with characters with UTF8 representation seeing them in pure ascii.
There are a ton of things that many people would like but aren't willing to pay for. Would I like a personal chef and a personal driver at my beck and call? Sure. But I'm not willing to pay what that would cost for routine use. I do pay for some scheduled and infrequent personal care services.

Also, government-funded comes with its own strings which may become more obvious than you like in the coming years.
No, it didn't. There were all kinds of encodings out there, and dealing with code pages was way worse than any inconveniences that Unicode has brought. Unicode was created for a reason, not just to torture US programmers with the diversity of scripts in the world.

Maybe it was nice if you worked for a US company without any operations abroad, which includes absolutely none of those which mattered.
Talk to POSIX:

> A string that is used to identify a user; see also User Database. To be portable across systems conforming to POSIX.1-2017, the value is composed of characters from the portable filename character set. The <hyphen-minus> character should not be used as the first character of a portable user name.

* https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...

The "portable filename character set" is defined as:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . _ -

* https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...

So only a hyphen as the first character is forbidden.

Given that you can't necessarilly control where usernames come from (e.g., LDAP lookups), properly speaking your system has to handle everything anyway, even if you don't allow local creation.
What's the difference between using Kagi and Perplexity? On X everyone talks about Perplexity, on HN, about Kagi. Do they both search -> put results in an LLM as input text?
google was better years ago. Google search quality regressed. id pay for the old google search.
Interesting that you are being downvoted. This is important to some people.
There is but they only have a finite supply of those weapons. As the Russians are experiencing, going after infrastructure and civilian targets is not really giving them much advantage on the battlefield. And with their own logistical and supply challenges, there seems to be a shortage of actual military targets that they go after. Like Ukrainian troops on Russian soil in the Kursk area. It actually looks like the Ukrainians will spend Christmas and the winter occupying the Kursk area.

The Ukrainians are using the threat of these weapons extremely effectively. They've hit a few targets that sounded like they mattered but they are mostly holding back. The not so veiled threat to the Russians here is that anything they value within reach is a potential target. That includes command centers, troop concentrations, defensive weapons, air bases, etc. That's actually resulting in them pulling those things away from the battlefield. So, those missiles are doing their job without getting fired.
If Ukraine had any missiles, tipped with nuclear warheads, aimed at Moscow, the situation might be different.
Always fun to see people poke the Unicode dragon only to be dumbstruck by its true size as it stands up in preparation of engulfing them with the fire of unintended consequences.
This is like saying "if I pay for steak, it had better be wagyu".
Kids dad here. There's no doubt he had a ton of guidance - both parents are experienced programmers. Many things needed explaining to a 9yo, the same things that would have needed explaining to any new developer.

We went through MANY iterations (test-play/code-review + feedback + dev) before it was released to the public, which meant there was a lot of discussions and lots of opportunities for him to correct many small issues.

Some thoughts:

* DOCTYPE & meta utf-8 - he learned from Khan academy

* meta viewport - I showed him how to test for mobile and pushed to make mobile a priority

* const/let/backticks - he uses prettier in VSCode, which does this automatically

* code modularization - as a result of discussions around maintainability
That caveat is a huge one for me. "You can only clean it with this special cloth that ships with it" does not fill me with confidence that the display won't hold some fingerprints more or less forever.
Why not use the API? You can ask as many questions as you can pay for.
I remember useradd and adduser when learning Linux and oh boy what a confusion it was... Why not just one command
People advocate for micro-transactions as an alternative to the current system of funding content with invasive, data-collecting advertising. I just don't see it working the way proponents say it would, even if micropayments were technically feasible, which they are not.

I wrote a short post on the topic[0] but to save you a click here is the main point: We all complain about advertising that tracks users now. Imagine how valuable the data would be for paying customers now consider which micropayment provider you would trust with that information.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2024/11/on_micropayments.html
I created AI text to Animations Generator which recieved 1.2M views on X
I'm using OpenAI GPT 4 to input natural language and plain English to code and use Manim to create video Animations through that code.
Not gp, but as an example of what they mean: take a photo at 70mm then at 120mm. You can crop the first photo to be have the same composition as the second, but the resolution will be lower.
This expression is often misused, it seems. It sounds so cool, 'scorched-earth tactics'... like 'medieval', 'fire-and-brimstone', 'kill it with fire', etcetera.

Maybe read up on the specifics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth

And BTW, there just aren't any 1M+ shells per month to send. Maybe in 2028 or something. Production takes time to build.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/russia-ammunition-ukraine/ (Aug-24)
Breaking shell scripts sounds like a good idea to me. The faster they die the better the world gets.
Ask HN: Microsoft for Startups changed extension criteria mid-program, what now?
We’re an AI startup building enterprise software that joined Microsoft for Startups in December 2023. The program initially offered clear criteria for extending the $25k startup credits to $150k: use >50% credits and complete the verification checklist. We migrated our entire infrastructure from AWS to Azure based on this promise, investing significant engineering resources into the migration and building our stack around Azure services.

Mid-program, Microsoft silently introduced an “Engagement Score” as a new requirement. We first noticed this in September, though it might have been added earlier. Despite growing our Azure usage significantly since our spring 2024 launch (including Azure Container Apps, Azure Document Intelligence, Azure AI Studio, and various other services), the dashboard keeps showing our score to be low and that we’re “unlikely” to qualify for extension.

Support has been unable to explain how this score works or what specific actions we need to take to improve it. Their only suggestion was to “try some AI features” – which we already extensively use. Multiple follow-up emails asking for clarification or escalation have gone unanswered.

Our sponsorship ends in two weeks, we’ve used most credits, and Microsoft support has stopped responding to our inquiries about getting clarity on the situation. The lack of transparency and sudden change in criteria feels like a bait-and-switch.

Has anyone else experienced this with the Microsoft for Startups program? Any advice on how to escalate this or get in touch with someone who can help or explain? We’re particularly interested in:

1. Understanding if others have encountered this new “Engagement Score”
2. If anyone has successfully extended their credits/sponsorship
3. Contacts at Microsoft who could review our case
Just wanted to say I used to love reading the Express on the Metro in the morning.
...or perhaps he's just very observant?
I guess the question is then, what should we add to ship fuel to maximize planetary albedo?
> If I care about a service, I care enough to remember the password.

Wait, no; you just said,

> My biggest pet peeve is when the platform forces me to add certain special characters to my password, then I need to write down my altered password and put it on a post-it note on my desk to remember it.

So can you remember passwords or not?

> Though I prefer a simple one-word password that I can easily remember.

See, that makes it sound like you can't remember secure passwords and just want to use insecure passwords.
Shaq big man man but he not dumb
That a pretty intense career trajectory - curious to hear your story.

Kiev was wonderful in the peace time, but what made you stay during war, given your ability to move around freely
I used to agree, but as an experienced engineer asking about rust and y-crdt, it sent me down so many wrong rabbit holes with half valid information.

I used Claude recently to refresh my knowledge on the browser history API and it said that it gets cleared when the user navigates to a new page because the “JavaScript context has changed”

I have the experience and know how to verify this stuff, but a new engineer may not, and that would be awful.

Things like these made me cancel all my AI subscriptions and just wait for whatever comes after transformers.
Why is printer ink so expensive?
I really don't want to be snarky or sarcastic, so I'll just be plain.
Many people are unwilling or unable to understand a problem that doesn't affect them directly. Like - "UTF is woke" kind of people. They are out there.
I guess I'm not clear on if:

- AI Assistant with access to leading LLM models, grounded in Kagi Search
- Universal access to:
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Google
- Meta
- Mistral

Are the same thing or different things. Like do I get their AI Assistant which uses those models under the hood or do I get a web chat interface with those models directly?
The entire world, other than Antarctica, is a human graveyard, and the American continents have been inhabited for less time than most of the rest.
you don’t get to double dip and also sell my data to your advertisers and earn more on the side.

Print ads don't get your personal data and sell them to who knows who. Internet ads have become synonymous with this practice. Comparing them to print ads without this consideration is disingenuous.
No thanks, I’d like it to be accurate ;)

Regular ol tests would do
The mysterious cities of the dead carved into the sides of cliffs
Key Insights on Distributed Databases
Formalism starts with intent and then removing ambiguity from that intent. Having intent is easy, removing it is not. Especially when you do not know the limitation of what you're using to materialize that intent.

Python is easy because it lets you get somewhere because the inputs will roughly be the set of acceptable inputs, so the output will be as expected, and you can tweak as things go (much faster for scripting tasks). But when you need a correct program that needs to satisfies some guaranteed, then this strategy no longer cuts it, and suddenly you need a lot more knowledge.

I don't think LLM would cut it, because it doesn't understand ambiguity and how to chisel it away so only the most essential understanding remains.
They have a dedicated chat interface at https://kagi.com/assistant You can access this from any search bar by adding !expert to your query. That’s the general case… there’s also !code for development questions and you can create your own more focused flavors.

You can provide custom instructions and set up multiple assistant flavors. For example, you can have one that highlights controversial information about a topic, another one that jokes about everything, etc.

All the assistants have optional web access. They use Kagi search to look up relevant information for you. You can apply a search lens to restrict web results to particular domains.

You can set the assistant to use different LLM APIs. They currently support Anthropic (Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus), OpenAI (GPT 4o, GPT 4 mini), Google (Gemini Pro), Mistral (Pixtral, Large) and Meta (Llama 3.1 405B).

Kagi maintains their own LLM benchmark. Their goal is to (1) ensure that models haven’t ever seen the questions before and (2) emphasize reasoning and instruction following, which they’ve found to be most important for the assistant. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llm-benchmark.html
That's going to be a very bumpy road, even if everyone were to agree that the destination is appealing.
Only if your name isn't 東久邇宮稔彦王.