skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although not identical in features, I heartily recommend WorkOutDoors (http://www.workoutdoors.net) to anyone who owns an Apple Watch. It's brilliant as an offline hiking buddy.
I agree that cross-instance communication is very difficult. There should be a special URL scheme that points you to your instance which is installed as a handler.

Perhaps something like activitypub://another-instance.rocks/contenturl

Also, cross-instance search and discovery is difficult. There is no global index for topics which you can follow. Perhaps DHT or Gnutella can serve as inspiration.
Humans sure are judgemental creatures. Especially from the safety of their keyboard, where they are not subject to anyone else checking them for hypocrisy. Perhaps we could be a little more realistic and assume that the majority of people just buy what they need.
What would you rather have on your resume, Tesla or IBM?
All of them play the status game, old money is just more subtle and hidden about it but they are even more viscous with their status games. It depends a lot on the person, but there is no getting away from it. To a certain extent, every person must play the status game in order get what they want from the world in their business and personal lives. There is no need for black and white, all or nothing thinking, everything in moderation is okay.
Sure, and in this case as soon as the pay stops, the non-compete obligations stop as well.
What does a blue check get you anyway that you can't just have with a blue check emoji?
How do you ban TikTok if they broke no law? If they’re kicked off all the app stores, they’ll just live on the web. If they’re not allowed to do business in the US, they’ll serve content for free, if their aim is indeed data gathering.
Did he not have that Steinway flown around with him for his concerts, though?
I can't really comment on the nuances of the sound, but a digital piano will allow you to plug in headphones which is - in my opinion - invaluable in a home environment.
There are many different Fediverse apps you can try; you don't have to stick with the official Mastodon one.

But I personally just use the web interface of my instance myself, the rare times I view it on mobile.
I think the advantage of using them is too great, companies that use the networks will outcompete ones that don't -- even if it were made illegal in the US it won't be everywhere. I imagine when it comes down to it, the law's going to be pragmatic. What happens to US industries if we allow this, and what happens if we don't, and my guess is that it ends up being allowed.

I'm not saying that's good or right - I really don't know how I even feel about the AI networks morally... I just think money is going to win out.
> The government site doesn't have to know anything about you either, other than you requested a beer token.

That's the 7th beer token you've requested this week, citizen. For your own good, we've denied your request.
Google discontinues standalone Street View app
Anybody following your account will receive that toot and photo unless the server they are on has blocked your server or your account. I don't believe there are any limitations to how far your toots can fly other than that.
Pretty rude of them to bring us here and not leave a note
I like this change, for it is radical. It's very hard to predict the outcome of it, so I'm above all interested in it as a social experiment.

For quite a few "check marks" it will feel as a massive downgrade. Not only are they no longer special, they even have to start paying to be less special.

Yet for many, they have nowhere to go. Their current status (followers) is often unique to Twitter and not easily replicated elsewhere. Many came to power by years of unhinged "hot takes", the check-mark, and algorithmic boosting. This tactic doesn't really work on any other social network, not by posting small and ridiculous pieces of text.

Some dare to even flip it and claim they should not be paying, they should get paid, for they are "creators". I consider that to be quite generous. Sure enough they generate activity/traffic, but that's not the same thing as creating.

On Youtube, you can find videos of incredible production value. Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saWNMPL5ygk

Now, that's a creator. Tweeting "Biden sucks" creates outrage, but is not a creation. Stephen King is a creator as a novel writer, but his tweets specifically are not creations of any value on their own.

The way I draw this line is simple: can the creation stand on its own and widely be perceived as having value? For the video I linked to, clearly yes. For a tweet, when you disassociate it from who said it...nah.

With "value", I mean value to us. Clearly a rage tweet generating a lot of traffic and ad impressions has value to Twitter, but in my book that doesn't make you a creator that needs to get paid.

Musk has hinted though that he wants to onboard long form content and native video, so that could change things.

Finally, other than this leveling of status, I hope obscene algorithmic boosting is also looked at. One is often puzzled to see a random idiot having hundreds of thousands followers whilst producing nothing but mediocre garbage. The ultimate example has to be this:

https://twitter.com/nytimes

No, I have nothing against that newspaper nor do I find them idiots. That account has over 50m followers yet near-zero engagement.
> California: 1 new home per 354 citizens per year (confirmed using primary US government sources).

> Tokyo "city": 1 new home per 96 citizens per year (unconfirmed but reasonable).

Are those using the same definition of new home?

According to comments on previous discussions here about housing in Japan, which a bit of Googling seems to corroborate, houses in Japan tend to depreciate with houses becoming worthless in 20 to 30 years. When the owner moves out the new owner often demolishes the old house and builds a new one on the lot.

That's much less common in the US.

To compare to new homes in the US you'd probably not want to count new houses in Japan that are replacements for a recently demolished 20 to 30 year old houses. You'd only want to count new houses that increase the available housing.
The idea of Mastodon is good but it's too annoying to use, and that will torpedo any hope for wide use.
They _should_ have the corp version. Corp accounts (@corp_name) should be like $1000/year or something like that (probably could charge $10,000 and more). Nike, Coke, Dell, Disney, etc.
> It really does feel like the headline for 1970 - 2070 is going to be "Technology desperately tries, but fails, to make the world a better place".

Well, for one, most of the accumulated knowledge of the human race is now available to anyone with a cheap phone (quite common even in the poorest countries), thus making it possible for anyone who cares to spend the time to become educated (not necessarily having a piece of paper that says you're educated -- we still need to work on that -- but actually educated)

That wasn't the case in 1970. Or even 1990. I think that has unquestionably made the world a better place.
iPhone photos will look better than a Nikon photo on your phone, because nothing except iPhone can take HDR still photos that display in HDR. They can only do video.

"HDR stacking" apps are actually "SDR tone mapping" apps; they /start/ with an HDR result and make it not HDR anymore!
This looks awesome! I already have a periodic script that archives my desktop and downloads (clean desktop for life!) but it only runs hourly. That said, it would be worth it to run this every minute, or maybe even more often. I assume this is almost zero-weight to run, but we'll see about that.
I mean we could ask Stephen King I guess, he knows something about the topic.
> Centralizing mail delivery works well, centralizing economies or ecosystems does not.

Take the set of all systems conceivably used by human beings. Email providers, social networks, parent-teacher associations, dungeons and dragons campaign groups, neighborhood watches, everything.

Now, classify each of those things into one of two groups: either "more like the USPS" or "more like national economies". What is the ratio of "USPS-alike" groups, versus "national economy-ish" groups?

What does the obvious answer to this question -- 100% vs. 0% -- tell you about the relevance of centralization vs. decentralization?
I still thinks Pixel camera is much better than iPhone . I guess this lux apps play a niche role in iOS as Android have many competitors
Sorry, but what real world problem does a quantum circuit solve?

My interpretation of "solving a real world problem" means that it can't be infinitely abstract, and must be a relatively good solution, compared to other options. I only see, from my dumb perspective, extreme abstracts.

I'm not being combative. I just don't understand.
In Defense of Linked Lists
Let me guess - it will be fiscally conservative but socially liberal.
They are incorrect. While diagrams are indeed (a part of) the language of Category Theory, the theory is certainly not about the language.
> if the photo is only going to be displayed on a 6 inch screen

If you use photos as a way to preserve memories, then who knows what these photos are going to be displayed on in the future?

Maybe in the (near) future, we start adopting VR headsets, and then the 12MP vs 48MP difference is going to matter a lot.

On the low-tech end of the spectrum, maybe you want a larger poster printed out. If you need to crop some part of the image at all, the difference in resolution is going to be very noticeable.
As someone with a kid I must say it’s a nonsense.

It helps to align your life, your priorities in some healthy way, yes.

But its far from fulfilling any voids in your soul.

And i warn anyone who would think to treat kids as a solution to their mental issues — this is the most effective path to misery and a damaged child’s psyche. Because children subconsciously sense things like that and this puts unbearable pressure on them, whether you communicate it explicitly or not.
It appears going forward, thanks to MAGA republicans, that all members of congress and their families will need security.
Depends on the type of subs one frequents. Niche ones like StableDiffusion are super active with very in-depth discussion and tutorials being written. I rarely see that much commitment even for any Twitter thread
FYI if anyone wants to pick up the kindle version of this book from Amazon, don't bother. It is an incredibly poor quality scan of a physical book, compiled horizontally and full of pencil markings. I can't for the life of me see a way to report the listing, and the comments about this issue are drowned out by comments about the book contents and being ignored
Yep, 100 percent this. I had to take several jobs recently that were not my passion but paid the bills. Of course, I also failed in those jobs because of that reason, but think I have finally found one that matches my interests and passions and comes with a nice pay bump to boot. I have a very hard time motivating myself to even get out of bed in the morning if the work I am paid to do during the day is not interesting.
About a year ago I started drinking a glass of wine every night because of a self experiment I did suggesting it was good for my sleep (https://ja3k.com/blog/wine). The title concerned me but if you look at the graphs there's basically no difference between 0 and 1 for either gray or white matter.
If that works for you, that’s of course perfect. I find that the study of CT pretty has very much clarified that a lot of diagrams I see in other domains (business processes, supply chain modelling) directly relate to my understand of diagrams.

I think it is a property of human cognition that if we draw an arrow from a to b, and one from b to c, that there is some kind of relation between a to c as well.

What this means concretely is that if I can draw my problem, in my domain, as a diagram with boxes and arrows, there is a reasonable chance that you can actually understand it, and actually contribute to it. Similarly, seeing diagrams from your problem domain is often sometimes I can relate to my design patterns and software architecture foundations, and I might be able to ask quite pointed questions when trying to say, build a mathematical model or build some supply chain software. Questions like “ok, but, is there an arrow from here to here?” and the answer “oh yes, that happens when we actually replenish the inventory by doing X, I forgot about that part”.

Another thing I found people do with CT is that they use it as a toolbox of abstractions that they can try to fit to a problem. Say, “oh, is there maybe a functor from petri nets to databases? ok, there is, but it’s kind of useless. Does this formulation actually work as a monad?” This is useful for finding elegant APIs to problems, say things like optics (lenses, etc…).
That's a transport problem - you would use TLS.
I think you must be in the minority. I just checked my gmail and emails #3 and #4 are both spam. And that's in Primary, not even Promotions or Social. A long time ago, it felt much better than this but it seems the spammers are slowly fighting back.
I think it's worth pointing out that Adobe has been doing this for a long time. You can't open or paste images into Photoshop which resemble any major currency.
Too many NIMBYs (where "backyard" refers to the whole country)
You don't have to fit anything in your head. I often find myself consulting the index at `man systemd.directives` to remember things: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.dir...

In lot of cases I've found systemd units much to actually be simpler and easier to maintain due to everything being in a simple declarative format. The old alternative is to have a lot of shell scripts that can get very complex, and to consult another few hundred man pages for various shell utilities...
Music piracy didn't stop because of the Napster shutdown. It just manifested itself in different ways. Now all you need to do is use youtube-dl to download the youtube video or soundcloud track or bandcamp album with the -x flag to extract audio. Both the software and the original media sources are legal. In fact, GitHub was forced to take a public stance on youtube-dl after a DMCA takedown request on the repo.

The biggest reason the laws can't possibly hope to stop the practice is:

> [MysteryInc152] told me the training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai, and cost less than $2.

As those costs are driven down and the software is accessible to more people, distribution of the weights will not be needed.
Didn't Zuck want to start a dating service? With all the data they could probably match up people quite well (including their geographical closeness). FB could even have data on what kind of people you find attractive, based on how much of someone's photo album you went through and how long you admired their selfies.

Netflix was famous for its recommendation algorithm, a big-data dating service might even be able to see that a lot of couples work if one liked movie/song/city X and the other liked Y.

In theory, FB/Meta could also monitor the progress of relationships, from the "X added you as a friend on FB/Instagram", through the increase of communication between each other (WhatsApp messages, calls), to seeing each other (geo-location at different bars, restaurants) and even spending nights at eaxh other's places (which WiFi network was your phone connected to, throughout the night).
Ew. Definitely a reason to stick with taxis.
I've never played the game but love reading about it. It seems that the events that take place in Dwarf Fortress and in Eve Online make fantastic reading. I love that these games exist. I've even thought about purchasing them just to show my support. I'll probably never get to sit down and play them however.
If you aren't paying the bills you aren't a customer. You are a recipient of a gift who is lecturing the creator on workmanship.
> build you some nationalized nuclear plants on federal land in the middle of nowhere, where there aren't any NIMBYs to get in the way?

I'm not in the US, but I guess for the same reason why Sahara desert is not yet became world largest solar power plant. You can't just build power plants in the middle of nowhere since energy transportation infrastructure isn't free and there some laws of physics involved.

Also I pretty certain that US government and especially military are well aware that centralization of power production is not good for resilience of the grid and national security. One huge centralised nuclear facility would be much easier target than hundreds and thousands of smaller power plants.
isn't wealth accumulation inherently zero-sum? like, there's a fixed amount of capital and resources in the system. accumulating it for yourself means someone else won't have it, right?
Not a dumb question at all!

The short answer is that a category also satisfies two rules: every object has an arrow to itself (identity) and if there are two arrows (a->b) and (b->c) there is an arrow (a->c) (associativity).

Other abstractions such as functors (mappings between categories) are built upon this relatively simple foundation. You can also think about categories of categories (they can be considered an object, after all!), and so on and so forth.

Some complain about the generality of Category Theory ('It is a theory about everything and nothing!'), but its generality makes it compelling for some for study.
> The legal right that's been violated is copyright: copies of her work were taken and fed into the ML model.

If copies of her work are fed into my brain via my eyes, and I then make an artwork in a style similar to hers (but not close to any particular piece she's created), there is no violation of copyright.

What's different?
I can't tell you how many large-power-of-two stride loops I've seen. I'm going to propose that CPU (or compiler) makers make sure they aren't 10x slower.
I'm not from the US, but the normal situation is that on places where nobody leaves there is also not enough water to cool down nuclear plants.
Of what abv%? 4.1% light or 8% dipa.
Intelligence is irrelevant. The US government would do exactly the same thing if they were way behind some other country in anything strategic.

The Chinese would be supremely unintelligent if they didn’t use that advantage.
I don't get it. Charging for a blue check mark was not his main goal. It was to boot out all bots. Is that still the case? Is he saying that once the bots are eliminated, we are allowed to stay anonymous still?
They're off coal because they're on Russian natural gas. Until this winter, I suppose.

Natural gas is a biproduct of oil and coal production.
People can't control how many followers they have, so this would be gameable by encouraging people to follow competitors just to waste their money.
Ah neat.

I was looking to create a little database to keep track of spending, put things in categories... and then wanted a useable GUI and having to create that sure sounds dreadful... that, and the rest calls for each table and every possible operation, aaaa.

So this sounds like a neat thing
I think it's also true that different pianos bode well for different repertoire sets. I think Chopin is played well on Steinways because Steinways have heavy keys, meaning that exercising the full freedom of dynamics works out better for when you want to make very, very soft notes and then soft notes and then roaringly loud notes. I'm no Chopin's Ballades-level pianist but playing Steinway at the piano store I do find this to be true.
(2) should be what you get in return. Pricing should be what customers care about, not what Twitter cares about.

If you're going to be a luxury product then all of your prices and/or offering has to be luxury or exclusive.

Disincentiving follower counts by how much VIP accounts costs doesn't make much sense. Unless you have some high end super VIP bracket that caps at 100-500k or whatever.

Elon's idea of rewarding creators as a byproduct of checkmarks sounds better than arbitrarily gatekeeping the checkmark system through some VIP criteria (like follower counts or public influence).

Everyone is a creator by default, creators should be rewarded after a certain level of contribution - always - but that's not the role of checkmarks (or the base level one at least).
The result of this is that all users of consequence on Twitter are forced to reevaluate the value they receive from the platform. I imagine a lot of them will use the moment to abandon ship.
> We don't actually have any data. The government is failing us.

It seems to be succeeding for the plant operators, though.
Let me get this straight. You're saying that markets cannot optimize for futures beyond the lifetime-horizon of their participants?
I don't see why this is a tragedy. Yes, broadly speaking, instead of a single fediverse, there is a "free speech" fediverse and a "safe space" fediverse with little federation between them. But if the people on the safe space instances are happy with that, and the people on the free speech instances are fine with that, then what's the problem?

If you really find it upsetting, you could set up your own instance which won't be on anyone's defed list yet, then just be careful not to post anything that will piss off either side.
Both links contain great examples of late 1960s Polish animation. Poland was never a part of USSR.

Moreover, just like Czechoslovakia, Poland did not develop its animation style in a vacuum. They had strong artistic connections with many other European countries, especially France.

> They are unique and completely different from what the west was used to (Disney)

Not sure if you are an American... but Europe has a very old and very rich animation tradition. Growing up in Europe I was only vaguely familiar with Disney. The vast majority of animation I watched as a child was European.
I think it'd be more accurate to say "play the value creation game" then. The author specifically references wealth accumulation (ie. the accumulation of assets)
We drove around a number of rural areas over the summer and the distinction was striking: the $80k vanity trucks were in the rich suburbs where rancher cosplay is popular, and you never saw one with more cargo than a Honda Fit could handle. Out in WV, western MD or PA we saw noticeably more small efficient cars, vans, and work trucks which were clearly treated like cattle & used until they couldn’t do the job.
From the linked thread:

1) Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam

2) Ability to post long video & audio

3) Half as many ads

I also expect the following:

4) Increase in perceived legitimacy

#1 and #4 are valuable to me. #2 I don't care about at all, because my long-form content goes on my blog and YouTube. #3 is 'meh'--it'll be nice to have fewer ads, but my brain glazes right past them anyway.
You mean the distros broke it by not toggling that option. As you can read from the parent comment here, that "convention" was also broken and causes issues in Debian. There's no solution here that isn't going to break something, that's why the best systemd can do is ship a toggle and tell the distros to figure it out.
Some version of their code is listed here[1] and it doesn't look like former alcohol consumption was accounted for. (Interestingly they have code to toggle inclusion/exclusion of people based on former alcohol consumption.) I didn't see it mentioned in the main text or the supplement either.

1 = https://osf.io/chgbv
interesting === awful?

that's how it looks to me when non-drinkers have to explain every time themselves
"Life is too short to quibble about this crap. "

Yup, so have a drink when you want, or don't. We will all die eventually.
I don't believe that democracy depends on cool temperatures.