skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't "political power" it's called knowing your audience and knowing what they want. The audience here is Linux distribution upstreams who also participate in Freedesktop. The other alternatives had ample time to talk to these people and copy the features of systemd and improve on them but they refuse to do it. They seem more interested in building for their own niche use cases and ignoring everyone else. That's a fine decision, but it's their decision. They can't say it's anyone else's fault.

Edit: If those other developers were really serious about trying to replace systemd they would be going around to every distro maintainer they can possibly find and asking them what systemd is doing badly and what they'd like to see in a better project. Then they'd have to think really hard about whether it's easier to fix those issues just by contributing to systemd, or whether a full replacement is warranted. Every now and then I see comments about writing replacements in Golang or Rust or some other memory safe language but there's no other interesting ideas there to warrant a rewrite. Maybe you do all this and conclude there are no major complaints from the big systemd users, and that's just how it is.
That's not what people think. They don't care because it won't effect them.
> I just have a hard time seeing Mastodon succeed.

Very different numbers and contexts, but nobody could also predict Libera.chat would completely take over Freenode. All it needs is pissing off users, and it seems Twitter could be on the right track to do that, at least for a generous part of them.
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I'm guessing this is not a service they planned on scaling.
I never understood this argument.

> Apparently Gchat was not growing while competitors with emojis and other features were.

So... add emojis and other features to Gchat, not create a new messaging app.

Seems like every time there was a hot new messaging app with a new paradigm/ feature-set, Google's reaction was to build another competitor and sunset its previous efforts, disappointing everyone internally and externally.
i took GP's comment of "heating specific objects" to mean an object like a kotatsu.
I remember these in MV in 2011-2012. Some were interesting.
I love that verifiable credentials are starting to make mainstream, but one thing I couldn’t glean from this page: is this purely VC from a perspective of “here’s the attributes I care to see”, or “here’s the characteristics I care to see”? To clarify: say I’m an alcohol vendor and wish to confirm that a user is 21 or older. Does the VC issuance provide a range proof that does not reveal the age, or does the VC issuance explicitly reveal the age?
> The big question that is still untested in court is whether Copilot itself constitutes a derivative work of its training data.

Microsoft has a license to distribute the code used to train Copilot, and isn't distributing the Copilot model anyway, so it doesn't matter whether the model itself infringes copyright.

Whereas that same question probably does matter for Stable Diffusion.
Speaking as a non-American who doesn't fully understand the factors at play: why can't you guys just get your military-industrial complex to 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? (You could even just reuse the 'federal land in the middle of nowhere' that all your since-decommissioned nuclear-weapons testing facilities are sitting on!)
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Actually, yes. That's accurate.

Why would they waste time and their own money researching things when they can just steal it and then give that information to private and public Chinese industries? That is their entire MO. The Chinese are also responsible for $200-600 Billion worth of IP theft against the US every year.

They will do whatever it takes to make China #1 and see nothing wrong with doing this.

- https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/politics/china-hacking-espion...

- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-hackers-took-trillions-...

- https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/16/china-intellectual-prop...
Steinway produces a ton of pianos every year.

The best of their pianos go to the concert stages and recording studios.

The next best go to their top clients.

The next best get reserved for their artists.

The next best get put into stores for "normal" people to buy.

Steinway, owned by a finance firm on Wall Street, has various quality control issues. They'll ship a six-figure piano with saw dust in it, lousy regulation, etc. Technicians know how to clean these up and work with them, but they don't hold a candle to e.g. the quality control of Fazioli. Steinway is the household name, and is ubiquitous in professional settings, so they can get away with it.
In fairness, I would likely never been recommended that book unless this article had been published and remarked upon by you, so I think there was some value even if you consider it ancillary.
I don't understand why they had to conflate "Verified as who they say they are" with "Pays us money, so is probably a human."

In fact, conflating those two things seems ripe for abuse.
In general CO2 is a far less potent greenhouse gas than CH4, largely because there is already a permanent low level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In a few decades the methane will oxidize to CO2, but in the meantime it’s like 40 times more potent. Better to burn it.

(Not sure if CH4 is inherently stronger than CO2 because of more possible quantum states, but I suspect atmospheric abundance is the main factor (without looking it up))
Even if we could be certain that the results of this study were infallible and meaningful it still ultimately depends on your goals and values, best possible health at all costs including the cost of enjoyment… I mean we’re all going to die no matter what, it’s really up to you.

I could die next year or even tomorrow and not cracking a few cold ones would have zero impact on that. I don’t mean this as an endorsement for endless boozing either, just sharing some perspective.
Clearly you have not used systemd and friends much.

It is an ecosystem of daemons that does a lot of things, some of which are guaranteed to surprise you. The specifics of which will vary between releases.

I could easily see some random systemd utility binding a non standard port without anyone taking notice.
My Tweets are edgy and don't look great for advertisers lmao. Why should Twitter keep me?
> 75% of Twitter users don't post a single tweet per month.

75% of actual users or 75% of user accounts? I'm guessing the latter since the former is impossible to count. I'm almost surprised it's not higher — I think I have 5 twitter accounts and I definitely haven't posted from 4 of those for way over a month.
This framing assumes that the tree has more value as a part of the house than it did as a tree. Every act of wealth creation is simultaneously an act of wealth destruction. Whether it is a positive or negative action is as much a statement of individual values as it is an objective, universal fact.
> Those books were purchased

Sometimes. People also borrowed them, read them in libraries, or in later years looked at free textbooks online.

> and a license granted for such use

I never heard of such a thing, and it was never seen as necessary. No student checked the licenses on their textbooks before deciding whether they could read them.
Without talent, your employer pool isn't going to grow much. Non-competes are one of many things to make the chicken and egg problem worse.
The idea that someone who is addicted to Twitter and worth $500M would leave because they lose their special Blue Check over $20 is hilarious.

He's just butt hurt because the VIP room and symbol is being opened to the proles. Now any schlub with $8 can have the once exclusive symbol.
He's got a dedicated audience reading millions of his books.

Quite a lot of his twitter presence is reactions to the decline in America and America's politics. Musk would probably prefer King's voice quietened.
> Track location over time and display it on the map. Turn that into a downloadable GPX

Right now I use "Easy GPS logger" for this although it lacks a map aspect. It hasn't been too bad on my battery, either. But it's a feature I'd like on a hiking app.
Will this have any impact on non EU markets? Similar to the USB-C port ruling, other than practical reasons, it doesn't mean it'll get applied everywhere else.

> Apple is also facing similar legislation in the United States, with U.S. House lawmakers in June introducing antitrust bills that would result in major changes to the tech industry if passed.

Nice for them to introduce a bill but how much hope is there this will actually become law. And even then, what about other countries?
I understand that Twitter doesn't care about poor minority areas. I agree. I already addressed the parity tweet in my above comment so regarding your question about Twitter being a modern forum, I'd ask you if there are some better popular examples of the digital equivalent of a public, outdoor area where social activity, meetings, debates and more are conducted.
You’re still being incredibly vague on who you expect to sacrifice and how for the course of action you propose.

Mind giving more than platitudes?
Most people from other countries think Americans are over the top on this.
Because Mastodon values anonymity, no real verification is built into the protocol. One way to establish your real ID account is get your own domain yourname.something and give that to people. Point the domain to a page such as yourname.neocities.com or even to your Mastodon page.

Discovery is difficult, but you might try https://fedi.directory/.
When you buy a house, for whatever reason, it opens up the opportunity for a developer to build a new house.

House building is clearly a positive-sum game that benefits everyone.

The developer makes money building houses. Furniture maker makes money making furniture. Utilities make money providing power, water and plumbing. You make money renting your AirBnB or using it as a house for your family.
Try this one? https://cubox.cc/ I use it everyday and when I want to collect, I just use Command + Shift + X!
They are still in the process of mapping: https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit/mission/destination/

I posted the original NASA article a few days ago, which has better info than this Smithsonian article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33349999
I think that's a good plan. It should cut down on non-human spam.
Nah. It was more of a reflex response to why they (oc) wasn't informed decades ago.

I was quite polite too and I did find new angles to enjoy with my golf swing the past decade. Still enjoying them to this day.

Did you expend all of your energy on inaccurate data and inferior goals?

Innocence is bliss. Ignorance is still ignorance.
People being annoyed enough to leave twitter is not synonymous with them also joining Mastodon.
Trump is a prime example of money brings money as he isn’t even /that/ rich but dipshits keep giving him money. It’s bizarre.

Anyways, I have a family friend who is a doctor. He lives in a quiet neighborhood in a $400k house. It’s unassuming. He does drive a Panamera but he actually loves it and drives it because he loves it.

If you saw them in public you’d think they were just a regular middle class couple.

Last time I saw their /bank accounts/ (I do their IT work), not other assets like stocks or whatever, they had over $15million in cash.

It’s pretty wild. They probably have more money than most of the assholes living in the Country Club in McMansions here. And no debt.
Yes, they have been doing that. Yes, it's a dumb idea. Yes, the US had something similar happen in the past with Skylab coming down over Australia and killing a cow (we also learned that it's not a particularly good thing to do and are more careful these days).

The problem is that the rocket in question has the large 'main' tank go all the way to orbit. Thus they probably can't also include enough propulsion to put it in a controlled deorbit. Meanwhile most other rockets are designed so the core stage is dumped before reaching orbital velocity, so the remaining stages aren't likely to survive the trip back down in big pieces even if they do fail to deorbit and since they're smaller/lighter it takes less to deorbit them in the first place.

The risk to people is very low and it tends to be sensationalized, but it's still more responsible behavior to make that risk as small as possible. China has a good bit of work left to do on that front given that they were still dropping hypergolic stages on villages until just a few years ago.
We should. I would be a single issue voter for almost any candidate who proposed this. We should fill the state of Nevada with nuclear plants and export the energy as far as possible.
I've been using Geo Tracker for years for this, it's great.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilyabogdan...
No business would do this; non-competes would be de facto banned. It's not a sincere suggestion.
Why? What does a "proper mobile version" get you?
Not really an exact opposite. There was a preexisting convention for how to intentionally keep a process running after logout, which systemd broke. That's quite different from a case of a background process the user did not explicitly ask to be started in the first place, let alone flag to keep running after logout.
Not an expert but quickly googling: Methane is 84x more contributing to the warming than CO2 over the first 20 years, per kg emitted.

It persists in atmosphere shorter than CO2 though, so a 100 year coefficient is 28x.

Source: https://climatechangeconnection.org/emissions/co2-equivalent...
Makes sense, if you want to read it’s free. If you want to post, then pay a bit and be verified.

Just killed the spammers and bots.

This is less about making huge profits and more about making it not worth it to pay money to spam and get banned.
Let's be real. Thinking is not the most pleasurable thing in the world. A certain class of people like to believe this but they're lying to themselves.
That would be silly.

It’s about outputs not inputs. If you create copyrighted material you must compensate.

One day a robot is going to be walking around the world. Will it have to pay someone every time it glimpses a video / book / logo / car design / etc?
It is sounds good, but I know not a single media that manage to maintain unbiased objective style. They are all present a biased sample of data, reporting what they think is important and rejecting everything else. A biased sample is the best you can get. For this sample to be useful, a reader needs to know what biases the source have. If readers believe that the sample is objective and do not keep their own subjective opinion on how this sample is biased (or which other deficiencies the source has), they just make it easier to others to manipulate their opinions.

I do not believe that anyone can be objective, because the process of selecting data to publication is a subjective process.

> many modern news articles could use a dosage of detachment. It would improve the craft drastically.

Maybe it would. But I'm reading news not to improve craft, but to keep myself informed. So I read what there is, not what it would be nice to have.

Moreover I believe that if you deem your sources are flawed, it make you better at critical thinking. Or rather it could make you better, if you didn't just turn to "post-truth", but tried to measure flaws and to undo them.

So maybe to impove craft of reporting and make it perfect, is not a good thing. It would mean that you no longer can author your own opinion, you can not practice the art, and you are extremely vulnerable to a manipulation. Though maybe if craft was perfected then it wouldn't be an issue?
And not a blockchain in site.
Bots are probably a very big problem for a small subset of Twitter users, like Musk himself, who is positively swarmed with them. But the median Twitter user is unlikely to care about this problem to the tune of several dollars a month. I get a crypto spam message about once every other day. I wouldn't pay anything to take care of that problem, because it's just not big enough to care about.

I think it's more likely that the real goal of this "Twitter Blue" proposal is to start getting users to pay for bling. Which could work! It certainly works in gaming communities.

Certainly, services for current blue-checks can't be a big part of the plan here, because of:

(1) The Stephen King problem, which is the (correct) observation that people like King are adding far more value to Twitter than they extract from it, and are reasonably not inclined to ante anything up to Musk.

(2) There aren't enough of them to make a dent in Twitter's cash flows.
Clearly, many people enjoy taking /good/ photos that look great /quickly/.

The point being made is, if Apple/Google can do that with a tiny sensor, why hasn't one of the remaining pro camera companies thrown money into similar work to be done on their cameras? I have an olympus e-om10 (I can't even remember the name format) and it has some filter settings, but nothing with the usability and quick results of Apple and Google regarding night shoots, etc.
What would Bösendorfer be?
Stephen King is addicted to Twitter? He's posted an average of 2-3 tweets per day — I wouldn't call that addicted.
As someone who's collected roughly ~40k images over the past decade, I'm tempted to say a lot of the images in the article look pretty good. That being said, I think the quality will only continue to improve. Moreover, for an art director who can easily generate a couple hundred images, it shouldn't be difficult to pick out 2-3 good looking ones from a large batch.
Well, on one hand, I drink alcohol on my own choice, it’s not much my choice if some pollutant is dumped into the air.
How does that differ from plain graph theory (sorry if a naive question)?
You just listed some of the reasons for having a successful messaging app. Why wouldn't any of those reasons be attractive to Google? They could have
_finally_ owned a social network. Or a "backbone for a business SaaS ecosystem" tightly integrated into their Cloud services.
> That doesn't help when, for example, a TypeScript NPM module is compiled and "released" with only the JavaScript code + `*.d.ts` files

I don't understand. How does it not help in that scenario (or the minification one)?
> and thinking is the most pleasurable thing in the world.

That is definitely something to be grateful for. I too, enjoy thinking deeply, and abstain from Alcohol when trying to solve problems.

But thinking can also be torture and sometimes I just want to drown out all the depression and anxiety. Alcohol is good for delaying that. Only problem is it’s a temporary fix, and the agony comes back stronger.

Alcohol is also good for dumbing yourself down to the same intellectual level as a social group.

The reason I’m working towards being a nondrinker is so I can confront my mental issues in a healthy way, and so my kids don’t see me destroy myself as they grow up.
> Creators and influencers on the other hand are going to care, but (1) there are too few of them for their $8/mo to make a substantial difference to the company's bottom line

As Stephen King rightly pointed out: Twitter should be paying him - not the other way around (IHO). Anyway, this is going to be interesting.
I guess if you like that look. I don't; not really. The photos from my phone are fine. If taken in really good light, they are actually pretty good. But they are always processed to within an inch of their lives.
A key part of the concept of copyright is that having copyrighted works used without consent is perfectly fine. Copyright grants an exclusive right to make copies of the work. It does not grant the author control over how their work is used, quite the opposite, you can use a legitimately obtained copy however you want without the consent of the author (and even against explicit requirements of the author) as long as you are not violating the few explicitly enumerated exclusive rights the author has.

You do not need an author's consent to dissect or analyze their work or to train a ML model on it, they do not have an exclusive right on that. You do not need an authors consent to make a different work in their style, they do not have an exclusive right on that.
This is rarely a defect of the piano as built, and more that people don't realize that pianos NEED an environment with a stable humidity of about 45% year-round.

This is true of any wood instrument, a guitar being one most familiar to folks. There are humidity control options for smaller instruments, too. All kinds of damage can result, such as sunken or collapsed tops (especially arch topped instruments that can be under a lot of string pressure, such as mandolins) or cracks as in a piano's soundboard.

My solution was to move to Seattle where our house generally stays at the perfect 35-45% humidity, and all the instruments are happy.
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

- hn guidelines
Personally, I see it as a win-win. If it fails and Twitter dies, then Twitter is dead.

If it succeeds, then the containment mechanism of Twitter is intensified even more, due to twitter-users feeling the need to "get the most" out of their reoccurring monthly bill, in effect leaving the remaining fun outskirts of the internet unmolested by comparison.
It shocks me to see so many comments mentioning they keep silent/vibrate and how commonplace it seems to be, but it makes sense as I don't hear so many phones ringing anymore, now that I think of it. I tried to have my phone on vibrate but I always end up missing important messages and calls. No idea how you do it.
Yeah the first time it did that to me when I was trying to use magnifier mode, I nearly threw the phone against the wall. Who the heck thinks it's a good idea to change cameras when trying to focus close-up? -poof- the thing you're pointing at disappears from the screen.
My friend had a phone during the early 2000s that allowed you to input notes to make your own ringtone. That was a unique feature. I can't remember the phone though. This was pre-android and maybe even monochrome.
those two along with MGS Codec and Final Fantasy 'Menu Noise' are like the geek hall-of-fame ringtones.
I worked for a very small company. We wouldn’t hire anyone with a non-compete end of story end of discussion. Just wasn’t a risk or cost management was willing to even entertain.
This is pretty anecdotal (6 years back) but I've had one professor tell me they were paid $800 for a NYT illustration and $400 for a smaller publication. I might be off with the specific numbers but these are the general ballpark numbers I remember. Nothing about MTG, etc that I can give concrete numbers for.
Good luck with SMS MFA then.

Also, for many of my accounts today, I use "Sign in with Google" so it's not even possible for me to share a password or credentials unless I share my whole Google account shebang.
At that point you basically have Facebook I.e. your wall. What it was before the feed.

It’s a good idea still.
Right now there aren't great alternatives, but I'd stress that the full ownership model of a $100k+ fuel-gulping mini-monster-truck that has specific beast-of-burden uses like this is in 95% of cases nonsense. If these owners really make use of these vehicles to any extent >12 times a year, I tend to believe they are far above average users.

Ideally there'd be better systems for outright collective ownership, that would make sense & have some safeguards against potentially less than good co-owners. Alas most collective ownership propositions come with a tragedy of the commons, an inability to assess who are the good & bad players & ways for the good to hold.