skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly it’s about a lot more than knowing what a map and compass is—including when to just turn back. Though I’d argue those 2 things are at least a minimal backup if electronics fail or aren’t properly setup. And I suspect a lot of people don’t carry because they figure they have a phone.
I'm not saying we should regulate the software, I'm saying we need some rigorous method of ensuring that using the AI tools doesn't put you in jeopardy of accidental copyright infringement.

We most likely don't need new laws, because infringement is infringement and how you made the infringing work is irrelevant. Accidental infringement is already illegal in the US.
Ad firm IPG recommending clients “temporary pause” all current media on Twitter
> Can we get rid of the shutter?

That's a challenge, I think. Take an R5 (only because I'm most familiar with it).

47 megapixels, 12 bpp 211.5MB, maximum shutter speed of 1/8000. In other words, you need to be able to pull data off the sensor (and to be clear, there's parallelization available, I just don't know what) at a global rate of 1.6TB/s.
For people like Steven King, if he posts something on Facebook his fans will re-post it on Twitter, and vice-versa.
If too many things trend on other platforms, but not on Twitter, people will leave Twitter because it is not keeping up.
Cambridge Analytica showed that you need surprisingly little* data to learn how to influence people.

* still a lot
‘Restoring Beds, or Wombs’ and a Feminist-Materialist Quest for Everlasting Life
This is an unfinished article with links leading nowhere... e.g. https://joinmast[a]don.org/

How is this on the front page with 37 points?
Except ... they do. Often.
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The problem with Mastodon is that it solves nothing.

You are at the mercy of whoever runs the instance you join.

What we need is a protocol. Maybe the upcoming NOSTR is a good approach:

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/
I went to Quasar too.
Elon, is that you asking this question?
Major cities might be why you had less of an issue. I suspect your experience might resemble mine more in oh say Amarillo than Austin or any other Texas triangle cities

Or maybe Oklahoma just sucks more than Texas?

Idk, but it was a pervasive thing I kept noticing over the years.
Agreed! I don’t know anything about business, but the company will surely implode in the coming days. It’s as if Musk and co. put zero though into this.
> This is not the same thing as declining or blocking geolocation permission, which is supported and does not cause errors.
A lot of people aren't groking what this means, even on tech and startup savvy HN. Naval and Balaji said it well:

Charging for the blue check moves it from a status symbol to a utilitarian one.

It elicits shrieks because it’s more about leveling the playing field than making money.

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1587523978456748033

The blue checks wanted to abolish billionaires, in the name of equality.

The billionaire will end up abolishing the blue checks, in the name of equality.

roughly speaking: blue checks are about status and tech billionaires about startups. It's old money vs new money.

Old money wanted to kill new money.
New money is wiping out the status of old money.

The blue check actually arose as an anti- impersonation tool. Twitter was forced to implement it after complaints.

But people who are impersonated tend to be "important". So it became a status symbol. Especially for writers.

The one form of equality a journalist will always resist is the idea that everyone is now equal to a journalist.

But that's what universal verification does.
Everyone who needs one can pay for a blue check.
Bots get taxed. Twitter makes money.
Establishment journos hardest hit.

Further reading

1) @sriramk on social networks as games: https://a16zcrypto.com/social-network-status-traps-web2-lear...

2) @eugenewei on status as a service: https://eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1587545600064507904
> I’m not old enough to know how much that affected full computers

I recently helped someone open source a roguelike they wrote in the 90s - https://github.com/superjamie/alphaman-src

The source is terse as you describe, some parts are written in assembly, and strings are actually one big string with functions that extract substrings. There isn't a clear PRINT statement in the whole program.

All of this because he wanted the source to fit on one floppy.
By building symmetries and lifting low-dimensional data into higher dimensional spaces(Here 3D), you can better leverage the human perceptual system. You also unlock more intuitive modes of interaction, that are closer to the real-world processes that originated the sounds.
Binding on Port 0
> respond freely

You can already filter out non-verified mentions and replies. Presumably that's not going away, and will be used by far more people after this change. It very much is a barrier to entry.
> always at least 2 weeks late, as a rule of thumb

Oh man! As consultant I hated that. They would pay 90 days late and just say "sorry, we always pay 90 days after we get the invoice". They know I don't have the resources to sue them, nor would I. And they really had no reason to hold it other than making sure they get the interest instead of me.

Sure maybe it takes a few days to validate the invoice, but 90 days was ridiculous.

Even worse was when I was on the corporate side. I was working with a small vendor and our company had a 90 day wait as policy, but the company refused to deliver the items until they got the money. I really needed the items, so I have to move mountains to get our procurement to cut a check ASAP.
Every commercial product and service is an example of that.
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Kind of ironic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
> were you planning to patch the CRITICAL vulnerability but now that it's only HIGH you have dropped the patch?

i mean it’s not far from the truth. do i wake up early on release day and rush out a manual patch, or do i do nothing and observe it to be fixed 1-2 days from now when my OS vendor ships an updated openssl in the course of business-as-usual?

what kind of environment are you in where you’re keeping up with CVEs but don’t care about their categorization?
Thank you! Fixed (should be live in a few mins)
As long as it's smaller than a smartphone plus an RX100 taped together I consider it a net win.
I'm looking to leave Twitter these days as well and am very thankful for all of these Mastodon posts.

Here are a couple others:

1. https://jacobian.org/til/my-mastodon-instance/

2. https://aeracode.org/2022/11/01/fediverse-custom-domains/

If nothing else it's very exciting to see a lot of folks tinkering with web technologies that are fully under their control!
Your own bullshit detection skills and the habit to verify/cross-reference all incoming information - priceless.
The LTS version of node is now 18, which supports its special flavor of ESM.
Everyone is waiting for WASM to support garbage-collection (GC) officially. =)

Clojure has Javascript, JVM, .NET, LLVM, Arduino, GraalVM, etc. targets, so rest assured, a WASM version will come out as soon as it makes sense!
Good comment, so true. I do care what I and my team programming in. I just don't do for the author of the article.
One thing he seems to have estimated is the motivations of other wealthy folk he tries to take (or deny) money from.
Yeah that's along the lines of the transformations I was thinking of, though I only considered 2 of those...
I'm imagining they don't want to deal with transpiling for maximum browser compatibility, or with bundling; there are existing tools that do those things really well and you can always feed the output of this through those if you want those qualities

Targeting ES6 will yield simpler, more readable compilation output (which is a stated goal of the project). It can also preserve module boundaries while keeping client-side support, which is not something you could do with CommonJS. And they mention other things like async/await support, which would be a huge pain to try and implement yourself instead of leaning on the target language
I would recommend Oil!

http://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/idioms.html

It removes the need to quote every variable, and this is fantastic
Overall agree. The only problem is if you have file corruption it could be a problem to parse. But I usually don't change the default.
Open-source data catalog on Databricks
And even moderate optical telephoto lenses are pretty powerful tools as well—especially in poorer light.
So, disclaimer, I am not an Amazon Billing wizard, but given that we ran the Lambdas from an isolated sub account, I can be particularly certain that I was able to filter this down accurately.

We hit the one million connections total probably between 10-20 times over the course of a couple of days, and probably spent at least another 20-30 runs working our way up to it, testing various things along the way. Keep in mind, these were all very short-lived test runs, lasting maybe up to 8 minutes at the most.

Our total bill for Lambda in the month of October came out to just over 50USD.
Look up the term with relation to copyright law. See also: personal use, fair use.

e.g. (pdf) https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?r...
> they're exaggerating the 10x figure

From the submission:

"There were number rounding issues in the original numbers for the 1k component case - Turbopack's 15ms was rounded down to 0.01s while Vite's 87ms was rounded up to 0.09s. This further got marketed as a 10x advantage when the original numbers were close to 6x."

That is more than exaggeration, it's either incompetence or deceitful. They also did not even release a benchmark at first, and if you read Evan's writeup it could be argued the benchmark is not a fair comparison.

They made a lot of noise about Next.js 13 when a lot of the new features are turbobroken. Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/yj4r3q/migration_fr...

They are claiming turbopack is a webpack successor purely based off of having hired the creator of webpack: https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1584996270242148352.

They are pushing the idea that they are doing revolutionary stuff when in actual fact they are copying existing projects that have been around for years:

- turbopack using the same architecture as Parcel: https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1585035737971724288

- "literally copy pasted Lage’s design and docs and branded it as Turborepo" https://twitter.com/jeffbcross/status/1583251710654283776

I strongly dislike the way they have gone about marketing their new tech.

Things like this also feel off: https://twitter.com/ascorbic/status/1585004156615479296
I have hope for Mastodon but in the past week it's been hammered with way more load than it's ready for (the main mastodon.social site).

so at the moment, they maybe can borrow Twitter's fail whale until they can get their scaling up accomplished.
> I think people might be missing the point here. Elon probably wants higher turnover.

It certainly is. But this is a shitty and stupid way to go about it. You ruin the lives and health of those who can't afford to give you the finger, for no actual benefit to anyone. (Say... they have family who needs their paycheck. Or they're on an H-1B.) Of the remainder, you chase away everyone who is competent and confident enough to work elsewhere.

These actions prima facie render one a bully and an idiot. All because Musk has a point to prove and wants to do it ASAP out of his own vanity.
Typo should be fixed. Perhaps remove this link from your comment to not give them any more traffic (looks like a scammy site)
ActivityPub is the protocol Mastodon implements as stated in the article.

You can run your own instance or pay someone to host an instance for you that you otherwise have full control over. You can pick exactly how much or little of your stack you want to own from the code to the followers.
The difference of course being that what used to be a painstaking verification process is now bypassed by anyone with $8/mo to spare, if they choose to do so.

It is in fact not a non-story, since obviously this changes everything about how "verified" users should be considered in your feed (as nothing more than pay-to-play, where before there was at least a facade of curation).
Tcl is faster than Python for database benchmarking
Sorry. It got the better of me.
I'm absolutely not saying anything related to Musk, at all?

Your original comment stated: "If there was a way to determine the least performing 50% of employees in a matter of two days, they wouldn't be there in the first place anymore."

Therefore you, not I, implied that there are relatively unproductive workers at Twitter (not unreasonable, of course - there's always going to be a performance spectrum) - and you suggested that the previous management would have removed them if there was an easy way to identify them.

This is what I was disagreeing with - your premise that the previous management would have removed their most unproductive 50% if there was an easy way to identify them.
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>your display might have very narrowband primaries for example

I am using a professional display that is intended for color-accurate work, and similarly have other very accurate, calibrated, monitors that show the same results.

> Your vision could also be an outlier of the CIE Standard Observers, thus any calibration attempt will not be super effective.

I've scored near perfectly to perfectly on a variety of Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue (and inspired) tests using the same displays, and I speak frequently with others who also have to do color accurate work while dealing the Pantone and RAL colors. They universally report the same thing.

Fundamentally if these digital values were good enough, we wouldn't need the physical samples to begin with.
Busyness vs. Worthiness
I'm not OP. I see an email in their profile.
So why not just reinterpret the original comment so it survives, and take it to highlight the difference between a rule-of-law legal system that punishes rich companies who break the law until it has motivated law-following behavior, and a corrupt legal system that does not punish rich companies who break the law enough to motivate law-following behavior. I don't think the balance between Europe and the US has always been in Europe's favor, so it's not like there's no capacity to improve.
https://joinmastodon.org/ is the correct link for anyone wondering.
> If they become a commodity that anyone with a little money can buy, they lose a big part of their appeal to the average person.

this is basically how it operated before, except with political bias
You're absolutely right. And I didn't take it as beratey, no drama.
> There's a large and very lucrative industry around just implementing SaaS software.

The last decade of my career has been multi-million dollar project after project of just setting up and customizing enterprise SaaS software for a customer's specific need.
I've been using the Halide app to take most of my daylight shots in 48mp HEIC mode (which has the benefit of being 5-15kb per photo).

The main advantage to me is that the result is much less affected by Apple's always-on edge-sharpening processing. The effective "resolution" of the processing artifacts is higher.

In previous iPhones if you take a photo of a bunch of leaves on a tree it's almost like it tries to draw a little sharpened outline around each one, which looks like a watercolor mess if you zoom in at all and doesn't capture what your eye sees.

With the 48mp compressed shots I find landscapes and trees look much more natural and in general you can crop and zoom into photos further before the detail is lost in the processing mess.
It really won't beat modern fast lenses. Try a lowlight situation. You will not be able to beat a larger aperture for light collection, it's simply how many photons you can catch.
I'm not paying $8 per month for a tiny little blue checkmark! For $0 per month, Apple gives me a blue box big enough to hold everything I write.
this seems to build directly on Bret Victor's reactive documents, from 2011

http://worrydream.com/#!/ExplorableExplanations
The vast majority of HN's patronage is tech aligned. Try asking a community of artists the same question and see what their responses are. The results might surprise you.
I agree: "There's no such thing as a theorem that can only be proven with category theory".

But sometimes it feels like Category Theory is rebuilding the world and there are genuine theorems.

Epilogue: Theorems in Category Theory

https://emilyriehl.github.io/files/context.pdf
Copyright is still about outputs instead of inputs, just like it is with human learners.

Training isn’t copying. Its an input. It’s akin to “seeing” or “reading”.

Any judge needs to think in terms of outputs. If a system outputs something that violates copyright, there’s a problem.

But attempting to regulate inputs can’t work. For instance, it will be impractical/impossible when we have agents moving around in the real or virtual world, how are they supposed to know when they should turn their sensors off so they don’t see copyrighted material.
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I mean that's how I would price it too.
Scientific american sure has been pushing american politics lately.

We need more science in politics to be sure but we need less politics in science.
Would be curious to see what they think of the Pixel 7 Pro camera. Video is still worse, but picture quality overall seems to be slightly (but noticeably) better than the iPhone 14 Pro.
> Her security wasn't there because she wasn't there. End of story.

Instead of waking Paul up and asking for Nancy so he could attack her, suppose he had planted listening devices, or explosive devices, and crept away unnoticed? But you're telling me it's perfectly reasonable to leave the home unguarded when the third in line for the presidency is away. Doesn't that seem like a horrible national security vulnerability?

It could possibly be true, but please, be honest enough to agree that it sounds unlikely.
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I often post about Tiddlywiki on HN, so this is a bit of a repeat, but I think Tiddlywiki comes really close. I wrote a bit about it earlier in the year because it occurred to me that, with filters, it really is a database for your notes. My writeup is not complete, but hopefully gives some idea of how Tiddlywiki could be used in this way.

https://rpdillon.net/tiddlywiki-a-database-for-your-notes-20...
I've lived in Waco, Austin, and a Dallas suburb. I have not lived in rural Texas, though I have family out in east texas that I've gone and stayed with many times (and taken walks in the area without incident)

As you might imagine Austin is an outlier on this stuff, but I was mainly thinking of the Dallas area with my descriptions above (though a lot of it applies in Austin too)
"This new thing is surely all about me" – tech billionaires
Actually, user segmentation and giving discounts to poor people only on the same ad is absolutely brilliant, it’s elon-muskesque style of brilliance. It’s everything together: “Stick it to the man”, the rich can’t really complain, it’s correct i terms of user segmentation, and it’s a good joke too.
I mean so is the Github "pro" badge. You don't need it if all you're using are free features. And yet a lot of people buy it to showcase support or have that "cool" badge. If the same happens for twitter then good for them no? They get more funding to develop cool shit.
> for prioritizing your speech over others

how is that prioritizing your speech over others? There's a million ways to do it, and if you're a big boy you're probably throwing the big bucks. 8/mo is indeed not that much.
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