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by gdulli 5y ago
Not accounting for Russia they'd still have been 2 million subscribers short of the forecast of 2.5 million subscribers. And they're forecasting a loss of 2 million more in Q2, which makes the loss of 200k in Q1 look small.
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by gdulli 5y ago
When the original ruling in favor of HiQ came out, it still allowed for LinkedIn to block certain kinds of malicious scraping. LinkedIn had been specifically blocking HiQ, and was ordered to stop doing that.
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by gdulli 5y ago
Often repeated, but not true: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html
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by gdulli 5y ago
I used yt-dlp to download the metadata for the whole SNL youtube channel, over 6000 clips. I loaded it into a database and wrote a Flask app to let me browse through each episode quickly and choose which clips to download. Now I have about
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by gdulli 5y ago
But also those people would still exist and have other jobs to commute to instead.
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by gdulli 5y ago
That's all well and good, but the interesting topic here is whether or not OpenAI is real intelligence, for a meaningful definition of "intelligent". We already know that AI can solve problems without displaying anything like
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by gdulli 5y ago
Focusing on covid would have completely misdirected from the important point that this trend has been in place for decades. I know the comments section is everyone's chance to project their personal covid grievance on whatever they&#x2
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by gdulli 5y ago
If there's a company I'd want in the mix less than Vizio, it's Google.
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by gdulli 5y ago
I was given a pair of AirPod Pros as a gift. Before long, one ear would randomly stop working. I went to an Apple store, they did something, I took it home, the problem persisted. I went back to the store, they replaced it. The problem stil
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by gdulli 5y ago
I consider HN to be one of the most user hostile sites there is regarding user content because they don't allow deleting comments. They force people into making a manual request. Which means the feature essentially doesn't exist f
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by gdulli 5y ago
https://www.twitter.com/dril/status/1158519444668219393
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by gdulli 5y ago
It's outrage culture. The people who don't like a thing use their dislike as a wildcard, making it relevant to every discussion involving that thing.
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by gdulli 5y ago
If Americans had faced consequences from having elected Bush once, and responded to that rationally instead of emotionally, they probably wouldn't have elected him again for a second term.
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It doesn't do that in private mode.
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by gdulli 5y ago
No, that's just the only anecdote I told. But the experience of going to one great concert makes up for a year's worth of ad impressions that I ignored and did me no material harm.
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by gdulli 5y ago
Usually I mute TV commercials, but one time I had them on and I found out from a commercial that Nightmares on Wax was coming to my town soon. I had no idea, I don't follow music news. But I bought tickets immediately. I love them and
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I don't understand that trend happening in California since it doesn't match the rest of the country and doesn't line up with a spike in cases a few weeks prior. But what's different between 2020 and now: - We understand
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The current case numbers come with a lower fatality rate so the same case numbers don't suggest the same level of action as before. Also the context of the numbers matters. They're trending down now, not up, and the variant spikes
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by gdulli 5y ago
With covid numbers falling from the inevitable January spike after the holidays, lifting omicron restrictions was always going to happen sometime this spring. (Barring some new deadly hypothetical variant.) But I don't doubt that both
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Worldometers says 1,357 for the 7-day average. But regardless of differences in sources and collections, the trends are the same.
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by gdulli 5y ago
I could refuse to get into any car accidents. But refusing to drive or be a passenger or pedestrian near cars isn't a way I can live my life. So, ultimately, I've decided that I don't refuse to get into any car accidents.
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by gdulli 5y ago
"More than 2,000 Covid-19 deaths have been reported in the United States each day for the past month" This is 2 weeks old and already out of date. Numbers are in freefall. It's now at 1,357. And cases have dropped sharply and
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by gdulli 5y ago
That's nonsense. Mandates are going away because (1) mid-January was the predictable post-holiday travel and gathering spike, (2) several weeks later the numbers were predictably down, and then (3) lawmakers needed several more weeks t
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Deaths and cases are both dropping sharply, and since deaths lag cases, the deaths should be expected to continue to drop steadily for a few more weeks. Something substantial has definitely changed. That's not the same as knowing there
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I'm glad this was posted here, for our education and because they didn't fix the issue until it was called out publicly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764785 If they have a pattern of customer service pro
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by gdulli 5y ago
Are there contexts where the backslash is still required? I've been using the forward slash in Windows for years. It works from Python, it works from the command prompt, it works in Explorer. But I don't know if that means it&#x27
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> If the main objective is maximizing profits there can’t be a strong political agenda because with every shift in governance the way to maximize profit will also shift Even more simply, companies like Facebook and Twitter are stuck in t
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by gdulli 5y ago
I love the idea of admitting that scaling up technology arbitrarily can make our lives worse instead of better. But no, the answer is not to accept it and hope that it will get better despite no specific and substantive reason to believe it
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My first memory of WoW was leaving my starting city, traveling to the closest main city, and seeing the buildings were very conspicuously the same models reused. I found the environments to be the opposite of compelling. Lazy but well polis
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by gdulli 5y ago
If you were an engineer back before Stack Overflow existed, you probably have a different take. Before SO I searched for info/answers and found them. After SO nothing important changed. I mean the web evolved in good ways and bad ways

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