skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, I think more and more people are waking up to the fact that if we want to avoid the mess we're in now, we've got to start paying for things.

Once you've hit 1 billion users, at that point you've pretty much become an institution. You've never marketed it as being free forever so everyone knows the score so they're more prepared. Sure some people will leave but I think the majority would stay unless there was some seriously good competition. I think most minimum wage workers will see one hour of work out of an entire year as reasonable, it's a lot less than most other tech subscriptions. And to anyone earning above minimum wage it's begins to become practically nothing. There would be moaning for sure, but compared to other utilities it's an absolute bargain.

I think social media needs to start being seen as a boring utility which it really is rather than the never ending frothy hype machine of myspace/facebook/instagram/snapchat/tiktok/future platform which only really serves the VCs and investors who earn money. I think there's a lot of people out there who don't want to have to keep on learning new platforms endlessly, they just want something that everyone they know is on, that works well, is simple, and that doesn't track them or bombard them with ads. I think this is part of the reason why LinkedIn has been so successful in that it is quite boring and doesn't change much.

In a way there should be the frothy hype machine apps for the youth and then the one boring adult platform for when you grow up and stop being an idiot and don't mind hanging out with your parents again. Facebook kind of was this platform, but then most people abandoned it other than the elderly (e.g the completely tech illiterate) because of how manipulative it got.

The other alternative, which I think a lot of people would hate but might actually solve the problem, would be for Apple to finally give it a shot and release something. They're already a heavily moderated walled garden and verification could easily be proven through Apple Wallet. They could easily plug things into the existing apps, e.g an instagram photo feed in the photos app, facebook style groups in the messages app, profile page integration into the contacts app etc. Maybe one new standalone "Community" app which has two tabs: an "everything" feed from all your contacts and then a Discover tab for popular posts nearby in your town. A focus on your actual family, friends and community rather than videos of randos dancing a million miles away that add nothing to your life. I think they may end up with some regulatory heat on them if they succeeded though; they would end up being extraordinarily powerful.
China isn't 60s us or ussr, it's a country countless time richer and more technologically advanced, has all the means to produce all the ICBMs they want.
If the size of the lens wasn't important, we wouldn't have built a 100" mirror on Mt. Wilson followed by a 200" mirror at Palomar Observatory.

A 14mm wide-angle lens with a primary opening of 2mm is never going to let in the same amount of light as a 14mm wide-angle with a 114mm primary opening will. Ratio of the sensor size has nothing to do with the ability of the light entering the front lens. There are some adapters that are known as speed boosters that reduce the exit pupil for full frame lenses that will actually add a stop to the lens.
Do you have any evidence for "most profitable" at all?

Looks-wise, it's basically indistinguishable from a Model 3 (which are everywhere), so hardly iconic in any way.
In the past 3 years, we API7.ai (https://api7.ai) have grown from two people to nearly 50 people and are distributed in more than ten cities around the world. We were all remote at the beginning within 10 people, but as the team grew and the client grew, we also started a hybrid model: office and remote.

- Office for customers.
- Remote for R&D, DevRel, etc.

P.S I summarized the story in my blog: https://juzhiyuan.me/startup-story
"things like Bitcoin scams, brigading and harassment" are not content. Bot statements don't count as content for Elon, he absolutely wants them gone. Contradiction isn't harrasment or brigadooning, that will stay. Elon hasn't even said that good manners won't be rewarded. So let's have hope.
I don't think so, judging by the images: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-13,ip...
I never said it was public information. I saw it might be, in some cases, a collection of otherwise public information.

As to if it could be protected as a trade secret depends entirely on how it is stored, secured, what it contains, and who is given access to it.

But very unlikely. It has an actual definition [https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/trade_secret]

As to if someone could sue someone else for damages related to breach of an otherwise valid contractual obligation, then of course.

As to if such a lawsuit would be successful will of course depend on a lot of factors, including if that obligation is valid under law, if anyone can show proof it occurred (and wasn’t say someone ‘using their extensive personal connections in the industry’), etc.

But that is an expensive, time consuming, and ultimately shitty time in court with few guarantees unless someone was really sloppy.
He purchased the company because his lawyers finally convinced him he was going to be forced to and that it was a poor choice to continue damaging the asset he was going to be owning.
One could make a pretty darn strong case the root of California's energy issue is because they've refused to build anything except "green" energy production facilities, despite current-day needs.

No new hydro-electric dams in my lifetime. No new nuclear reactors (that I'm aware of at least) in my lifetime. Just either status-quo, or gobbles of unproven renewable tech that has yet to actually live up to expectations (affordable, always available renewable-power).

People like to throw around big numbers showing CA's increased production over the years... but they don't throw around storage capacity which is really what matters for renewables. There is no storage capacity to speak of...
Twitter is basically a broadcast platform for people who matter "in the real world". It gives them an easy way to reach their audience on their own terms without any middlemen.

As a centralized platform, Twitter creates more value for those who follow than those who broadcast. Because the broadcasters are primarily known for something other than the "content" they create on the platform, they would find their audience anywhere. Followers, on the other hand, can conveniently follow many people on the same platform. Regardless of whether they are interested in global celebrities, local politicians, or professionals in a specific subfield, they can often find those people on Twitter.

Blogs used to be popular among many of the groups you can now find on Twitter. I guess Twitter replaced them, because the short message format forces you to focus on the essentials. Creating a new post is much faster, and you will reach many more people, because reading the post is not a significant time investment.
I'm sure there's politics involved in the fact that King is the first person we're seeing in this public argument with Musk, but the dynamic he's talking about is apolitical and pretty obvious. For true celebrities, of which King is obviously one, Twitter needs them more than they need Twitter. Twitter should pay them to use the platform. Nobody has ever bought a copy of Carrie because they saw the blue checkmark next to Stephen King's name.
This sounds a good bit like Tana: https://tana.inc/

Tana mostly works as an outliner now, but they're planning a document mode.

Using "supertags" you can tag a node in the database as being a certain kind of thing (eg an article or, one of my uses, a library for a programming language). You can then specify certain fields that are always (or optionally) part of those things. And you can right queries to display nodes that match a bunch of different criteria and then display those fields in columns in a table or create a board of cards.
Regulation? This is government overreach. NASA isn't part of the Department of Justice, so where do they get off scanning my methane emissions? They should get a warrant. Before you know it, the government will set up cameras to catch speeders.

Also, my gaseous emissions are protected by the First Amendment, so not even Twitter can stop them.
> Yes, so why did they do it?

They were trying to rip me off by paying me less than I was earning at the time. The ceo of the company tried to sell me hard on why I shouldn't let the low offer hold me back and how the equity comp I was going to get would more than make for it. That was 4 years ago and the company is still not publicly traded.
I'd argue in spite of its doors. A long-range EV in the most popular segment, a full decade before a single competitor? That thing could have had a single door on the front, like the BMW Isetta, and it still would have sold like mad.
No, this is not correct. The singularity is not a place in space, so it is not possible to have a sphere around it. It makes no sense, just as having a sphere around, say, tomorrow noon makes no sense.
Outside the vanity group, the only people likely to pay for this are the people who have somebody else paying for it - a corporate or government employer - or who can write it off personally as a cost of business.

While nice to think that every comment I make to a tweet is read by the original tweeter, at the end of the day I honestly am not heartbroken if they do not.

And I most definitely do not reply to tweets with the idea that others will be so amazed by my brilliance that they follow me. Is that really a thing?
I feel for her, this is a new frontier we don't have the legal framework or the cultural norms to handle this appropriately yet. As a developer, i can see doing something like this because "its cool" and not considering the impact to other people
This is the most well thought out takes on Section 230 I've read yet. David Sacks is publicly conservative and I disagree with him on a lot. But he's also a lawyer and very, very smart.

Worth a read, no matter where you stand on the issue.
Why, are ya that eager to vote for him? I like his Pa, but I'm still apalled the story got killed.
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RIP to Kim Jung Gi. He could have drawn with a stick in sand and still produce brilliant art. But the tool is the thing that is most visible to admirers, and the thing that they can most easily replicate with their own work, so it doesn't surprise me that that's what most people misguidedly ask about. It's also much easier to buy a pen than it is to put decades of hard work and dedication into your art on a daily basis. Instant gratification.
I've never heard of a court case involving a noncompete. Have you?

(of course, I live in California.)

It's maybe a little different if you're a chef and you've spent a lifetime mastering a particular recipe which is very hard to get right. You teach it to someone, and he goes out and opens his own restaurant selling that same dish. You can see the intuitive appeal of a noncompete, even if it's usually ineffective, and actually harmful to a high-tech ecosystem.
However, you lose a lot of really fine-grained control of sound. I'm talking about really fine stuff that classical pianists appreciate. For instance, pressing the pedal on a digital won't give you any feedback from the felt rubbing on the strings. Most classically trained teachers would recommend an acoustic over this fact alone.

I actually agree with you for the most part, but I think the digital experience is (or at least can be) even closer than you realise.

I have a digital piano that does a very good impersonation of half-pedalling, and when you press down the pedal you can hear the whole soundboard gently vibrate. It was high-end when I bought it over ten years ago. Sound quality has improved a lot since then, touch and feel is at least as good.
He needs something, because he's tied tens of billions of dollars of his own money in an LBO that left him in control of a company with about a billion dollars a year of debt service cost.
Sounds like a big industry dreaming of keeping energy under control. No doubt some government(s) will be expected to build it.

Solar/wind is already available around the world for cheap, everyone can have their own.
They are both getting patched. They only downgraded the CRITICAL designation to a HIGH after further testing etc. They are still fixing it.
Ex machina answers that question... use it to build ai
Maybe this is a silly question. But wouldn't this just mean that the ID would need to be updated very regularly? Like at least every year if not more frequently?

In the theoretical use case of drinking, I couldn't just goto the bar on my 21st birthday, provide my ID, and buy a drink. I'd have make sure that I did whatever process was required to update my Verifiable Credential first?

I get the abstraction is great from a PII standpoint, and that likely this wouldn't be a big roadblock since this is all digital anyways. One assumes that the user could just press a big ol "refresh" button and be done in a few seconds. But still curious.
I considered that before posting, but what made me ultimately disagree is that well-being is not objective. It is very often completely subjective.

Consider that fact that at one point in the past you probably thought what you have now would make you happy. And maybe for a short time you were. But invariably that feeling of well-being wanes. You can say your new car is objectively better than your old one, yet after having it a few years it feels exactly like the previous vehicle from the standpoint about how much it contributes to your well-being. If well-being were an objective fact, you'd still feel happier with the new car. Most of the time, we have an innate ability to shift the goalposts, which keeps us continuously striving. To that extent, well-being is all subjective. I'm sure people in 200 years will wonder how we ever got along with our miserable existence without the creature comforts they take for granted.
IIRC, what really drove people to Gmail was the huge storage space. Finally, no more having to manage your own quota, no more dealing with bounced email, etc. I think that's a far easier sell than 'modern interface', although I'm not sure what the equivalent for Mastodon users would be — maybe simply "it's free" if Twitter becomes a paid service.
Oops, I bet you're right. Went right past me.
This is an incentive for bad actors, which makes Twitter a worse platform. I suspect the blue checkmark will become a signifier of a scam account if this goes forward.
The critical thing for the platform is that if I want to find the Twitter account for {celebrity foo} I can do so with a high degree of confidence that it will be real.

I think the loss of trust from consumers is the bigger risk, successful impersonations are relatively high profile and people don't like being tricked.
Same. I've been a "fan" of both for as long as they've been around, but have always been confident that I liked the idea of the games more than I'd actually enjoy playing them. I'm content living vicariously through the stories.
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I left out a variable that you hinted at so let me redefine what I meant.

We need to move to green energy and not count sources of energy from unstable situations. Meaning Germany shouldn't have shut its coal plants relying on gas from Russia as replacement.

The cold war ended in 1989 and first invaded Ukraine in 2014, with obvious hints at being authoritarian prior to that. Russia is not a friendly country and shouldn't have been considered one this quickly.
I let my subscription lapse. I don’t use my PlayStation anymore. I don’t really care to get a PS5 either. I play games on my PC and that is it. I don’t see myself going back to console gaming. I bet a lot of people feel the same.
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My neighbor, in fact, has a spinet which he can't give away.
Ever seen ex machina? User it to build an ai framework of appropriate responses to events.
In the US there is government support in the sense that companies can compete for and win government contracts, fwiw. But I get what you’re saying. We are lucky to have the right conditions overall for entrepreneurial efforts to have a chance at succeeding. And it would be wise to continue fostering this.
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a developr can limit the power of user-agency by moving increasing amounts of power to the server.

this trend amplifies developers potential. and it allows targetting "dumber" web clients. yay, good things. but it also makes the most advanced & competent web users less able & less capable. web apps have, for a while now, been fairly client-heavy, in a way that enables hacking & creativity. i'd love a strong counter-thesis for why this isn't the case, but this feels like a mainframization of computing, a push towards centralized control. it has upsides, as you point out, but also it keeps much more reserved & controlled & hidden. that is not very "web" like, tbh.
Developing nations don't need to care about externalities if wealthy countries subsidized their transition. I also note that we've pivoted from "problem countries", which I assumed to mean large countries like China or India, which themselves are fairly poor on a per-capita basis, to exclusively extremely poor countries, which excludes China and India probably because it's inconvenient for the narrative that they're transitioning by themselves.

> Nobody as-of yet has developed a reasonably priced, long-lived and efficient means of storage

You don't need storage to get the grid to 80%+ renewables. Storage as a blocker is a political talking point that is not substantiated and not true. Denmark is the case study that shows why. Also, storage costs are linear decreasing on a log scale.

> You'd have burned them pretty badly if you compelled them to install solar even 10 years ago because of how inefficient it was compared to other cheaper means of energy production. Even in the past 10 years solar tech has come so very far... that is my point about it not being ready yet. We still have a long ways to go in renewables before they can realistically replace energy production in mandatory environments, ie. environments that don't have the luxury of trying out new expensive unproven tech and changing it as the technology develops.

You're repeating the same things that I've already addressed. You're not "burning" poor countries if you're paying for it. You can't "burn" a country by making them financially better off. It is not a logically coherent point. Also, the tech is proven -- in actual practice, in reality, today, already implemented -- after you factor in the costs of externalities. And that picture will only get better and better as more money flows into R&D and the cost curve continues to decline as a direct consequence of that funding.
> is just fiddling with aesthetics.

Commonly known as 'making your code more maintainable' so that the following programmers who work on that code do not find your address, look you up and murder you for your crimes against humanity.
It can feel more like a toy than an instrument, especially for younger children. So right off the bat, a piano will give you or your children focus when they sit on the piano stool.

This is a really good point.
I don't grok what you're even attempting to say here. If I don't understand people are slaves to impulse and comfort, why am I commenting on twitter? Just, what?

That said, I killed my twitter accounts on elonday, and saw a dozen accounts' worth of coworkers do the same in just a random slack thread. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't have a ton to do with elon, it was just a good time to say goodbye to a service that I've failed to find utility in over the past dozen years or so, just like the vast majority of America, and, indeed, the world.
World Uranium production: 45,000T

Natural Uranium required to start a 1GW nuclear reactor: 7500t

New Net Renewable generation in US: 5GW (this is hilariously low. Compare 75GW in china)

Cost per GW of nuclear: $10bn -- maybe half that without NIMBYS if we assume how much the military industrial complex charges for stuff is the sameas tye juclear industry.

Us military budget: $750bn

Proportion of US military budget to match China's current renewable growth: 50-100%

Proportion of World Uranium production to match US renewable growth: 80%

Proportion of World Uranium production to match China's current renewable growth: 1200%

Proportion of world Uranium reserves to match China's current renewable growth for 1 year: 7%

I mean, building nuclear reactors you never turn on is a better use of money than what they normally do, but they can hardly be out bringing democracy to Niger, Namibia, and Kazakhstan to get free fuel if they're busy building something useful.

It would still massively reduce emissions though, simply by virtue of the fact that they wouldn't be burning millions of tonnes of oil for normal operations.

Still better to build wind if you want electricity. If you've figured out how to make electricity teleport, then renewables can do it with almost no storage.
Not really, no. What you are describing is a coordinate singularity; but whether a coordinate singularity has a physical meaning or is just an artifact of the coordinates depends on the situation.

In the case of the Earth, the coordinate singularity in longitude at the poles is an artifact of the coordinates: the Earth's poles are perfectly good parts of the Earth's surface and nothing physically goes wrong there. You just need to pick different coordinates if you want to cover the poles.

The case of the horizon of a black hole in Schwarzschild coordinates is similar: there is a coordinate singularity, but it's an artifact of the coordinates. You can find other coordinate charts that have no coordinate singularity at the horizon.

The black hole singularity at r = 0, however, is not an artifact of coordinates. It is a genuine physical singularity, where the spacetime curvature goes to infinity.