skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hit the nail on the head in your post. The mysterious Twitter checkmark committee that got to gatekeep who could be in their group. Then people (probably the committee itself) started pushing the idea that blue check marks are more reliable and trustworthy.

I am not okay with a random group of people being able to decide whether or not someone is trustworthy. I prefer the checkmark to mean this person pays x dollars versus this person has been deemed worthy of a secret group of people at a company that has massive bias issues.
the apple silicon macs are probably your best bet right now.
I'm sure they'd be happy to give you a refund. :)
Verification is more of a benefit to Twitter than to verified users. At least for mega celebs. I am verified because years ago I knew someone who worked at Twitter. I wouldn't pay a penny for it though.
@djha-skin I don't think it's true that remote employees are harder to manage. Otherwise the demand for remote jobs platforms wouldn't have risen as well. In Europe you have stuff like https://remotescout.ch popping up and in the US https://remoteok.com or https://removite.com

I think it's just that some companies adapted and others not. But long term the trend will continue.
Bring it on, time to bring down the walled gardens once and for all.

30% is highway robbery and Apple is making off like a bandit. Epic, Spotify, and others all see this. Time to see the fruit company humbled.
> Economists are trying to come up with explanations for the decline, and to understand what this means for post-pandemic changes to the workplace, including hybrid schedules that allow more time out of the office.

> My hunch is that many workers are letting their employers know that things are different now.

This "article" is silly.

My hunch? There are a ton of new hires, which also hurts productivity for the folks training them. Let's give it some time to simmer before freaking out about productivity.
Yup. And it both seems to make more money and has less political squabbling than Twitter though it's a little hard to tell when Meta rolls up its stats for the Family of Apps. I'm not sure Instagram users are actually happy, but they at least project an appearance of happiness.

It's not like Twitter is committed to being original in all of its concepts. Fleets were clearly chasing Instagram Stories, and Spaces were copying Clubhouse. It clearly understood for a bit that if it wants to grow it needs to do some of the things that attract users to other platforms.

The point is, there are technical and product choices that could change Twitter, how people use it, and the tenor of content there. Meeting both of onion2k and bckr's concerns (less hateful recommended content, generating revenue) are achievable for a social network; successful examples exists. What's _not_ proven is whether we can have a space for dialogue over civic issues which doesn't devolve into vitriol.
Qatar World Cup pays fans' flights and hotels for good PR
Oh to be a fly on the wall. The recent reshuffling will die down though. Of course there's going to be chaos initially.
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> Instead you should escape everything, and opt-out as early as possible.

That’s not even remotely workable for any system with more than one kind of “escaping”. What if I want to use a string as:

1. An IDNA-encoded domain name

2. An HTML text snippet

3. A shell command string argument

4. A string literal part of a regular expression

5. A part to be used in an XML CDATA section

6. A JSON string

I can’t escape the string beforehand, since the escaping rules are all different. No, the only sensible alternative is to use the same rule which we all use for character encoding: Encode and decode (and escape) at the edges.
yes exactly, never understood why we allowed this to happen look at how strict they are with even simple business trying to open in China you basically have to give them all your proprietary info before they allow you to partly own your own business in China.. You can't even invest into Chinese stocks... they play by their own rules to benefit them self's and we allow them to do so
I'm getting a chuckle thinking about Elon as ThePirateBay and Stephen King as the MPAA.
Seems like the payment is the opposite of what it should be. Twitter is collecting data on me and selling it to other businesses. They should be paying ME.
Twitter offers him value, or he wouldn't be on it. Personally, I think they could charge $50/mo and most blue checks would pay it.

I think Elon has the right idea, you gotta dip their toes in the water, then jack up the price later.
I think both are inevitable and I'm ok with both. I think a sticking point is that its considered normal to make your own art in the style of another but abnormal to copy code verbatim. Art seems to be clearly the former while there are instances that probably stick in people's minds where copilot has produced verbatim examples.

Indeed it seems like code will be vastly more prone to this problem compared to art because changing a single pixel is merely a question of aesthetics whereas code is constrained tightly by the syntax of the language. With a much smaller space of correct results duplication is likely inevitable.
A quick search of GitHub reveals a few other implementations in varying degrees of completeness.
It can also be caused by people who think in an imperfect manner. Most people think according to how they have been taught to think, not what is perfect.

A critical component of a well designed trap: consider all suggestions that you are trapped in an imperfect methodology to be conspiratorial/etc, and therefore false. Checkmate.
Yeah, it is better to manage 50 people and millions in hardware than do the same work with just 2 engineers and one server.

You then get those completely unnecessary feats of technology when really, a single server is usually good to run hundreds of thousands of transactions per second.

It infuriates me that incompetence is promoted and the only way to get rewarded is to be good at internal politics.
Ask HN: Deliver application as single HTML/JS file?
I’m planning to develop some simple tools for my company’s internal use, and due to IT requirements, I’m hoping to have everything run in the browser and be delivered as a single file containing HTML/JS/CSS. Is there a particular name for this practice/development style?
Bypass paywalls would be kind of a big deal imo. It could eventually shape how we use the internet and move away from ad based revenue.
This is a hundredth time in history when technology progressed and artists had to learn new ways to make money. I've learned art in art school - none of the jobs that my art teachers had in their youth are relevant right now. The tools, the pricing, the workflow, the clients requests and expectations are all different. You can keep some of the skill, but you still need to learn and adapt to the new reality. Sometimes it takes 5, sometimes 15 years, but the job of the artist is always transforming.

The illustrator from the article is probably drawing in Procreate with an Ipad. Probably doing her promotion on social media and doing business with her clients remotely. All of those are recent technological advancements that appeared in her lifetime and completely outperformed the previous way to do commercial illustration. Illustrators that worked before that had to learn those new ways, or lose their jobs. This happened dozens of time in history. Now is the turn for current illustrators to adapt.
Influencers are more a function of very large social networks, they don’t really represent small tightly knit communities very well.

Consider something like a thanksgiving dinner you have what looks like central figures say a grandparent that everyone is related too, but the grand kids have tighter bonds to their parents than the grandparent.

Extend that to a village and you get more social people with more connections across the community, but those aren’t even close to the strongest bonds.
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> Beyond network effect, nope.

So why does no-one do this/ Obviously people do do it for ad-blocking, so why not for other purposes? Too difficult to get traction, perhaps?
> What's stopping every car in the top 10 from going around the outside bouncing off the wall, especially when there is money on the line?

Nothing at all. Everyone will end up doing it on the last half lap at short tracks and no one will have an advantage, lots of cars will get torn up, and owners will ask NASCAR to stop making them tear up a $250K racecar every short track race.
Not until we can have a browser within this docker container
> I'm not sure this is a bad thing. If you are a user who actively contributes to the conversation and get's value out of being in that conversation, then it's likely you derive enough value to pay $8. The difference however is that now your contribution is more likely to be seen. You might even engage more now.

I disagree. Diverse input results in better conversations – less of an echo chamber, less black and white thinking, more visibility for other viewpoints, more empathy.

There is diversity among people who want to spend $8/mo on Twitter, but there is far more by definition among all Twitter users. Plus you're likely to discriminate against already marginalised groups in most regions, as marginalised groups (whatever the categorisation) tend to have less disposable income.
> If you’re using Windows Terminal, you’re using a sort of predecessor to Powershell (somebody please correct me on this)

Not necessarily. Windows Terminal is just a terminal emulator; you can run any shell in it: cmd.exe, PowerShell, Nushell, bash, fish...
This core is targeted at "smaller-is-better" applications with few actual instruction-throughput requirements. If it reaches 200 MHz on a Xilinx KU060, I will be delighted. (That specific clock frequency on that specific part carries heavy hints about what this core is intended for.)

With that in mind: the single instruction-per-clock design is for simplicity's sake, not performance's sake. If the execution stage were pipelined, it'd be a different core. If performance is the goal, I'd start by ripping out some of the details that distinguish this core from other (excellent) RISC-V cores.
There are many legal reasons without moral force behind them beyond "we need to agree on one way or the other" - such as which side of the road to drive on.
The space race was motivated by competition with Russia, notably the imperative to establish a tactical nuclear advantage. We could conceivably see another space race between the US and China, but maybe not if "space" doesn't have the same tactical appeal?
"Most things are not forever"

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-pfas

There.. Fixed that for you
> No reasonable adult (in any country) would go on the record to propose that a hostile foreign government should run their internal communication infrastructure.

frankly, calling tiktok internal communications infrastructure is idiotic.
This might be my ignorance of macroeconomics speaking, but doesn’t the Purchasing Power Parity reference imply that the price should be the same worldwide?
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The type of labour needed to build a space station isn't expendable.
People are jumping to "false flag" stories because the story as presented is simply unbelievable (the third highest ranking official in the country has zero security?), and the media is being evasive (Politico reporting a third man opened the door, then reported that it was a baseless claim!), and the media is also aggressively eager to portray a nudist hemp jewelry maker illegal alien as a MAGA loyalist.

If the story were straight, and reported honestly, some very few would remain suspicious.
Make an email filter and move on. You can't put a stop to it.
It’s used for scanning the QR code displayed on the computer (or phone).

The QR code contains:

- the monetary amount,

- parts of the recipient’s account number (both helps thwart MITM attacks)

- and a random challenge (which helps prevent replay attacks.)

That’s for the wireless model.
Wired CAP devices don’t have a camera since they can use USB.
> They mean you are cool and notable enough to deserve one according the shadowy and mysterious Twitter checkmark committee

That's the exact problem with the blue checkmarks. I've seen plenty of complete loons with that mark on Twitter spewing utter racist or bigoted garbage.
At least now the criteria of receiving the blue mark of coolness are getting clear and the same for everyone.
I really wish twitter didn't exist. The utility I see in it is limited. For example, I don't have an account, but I do view tweets from time to time. The tweets I generally view are related to some real time event I'm interested in (ie news). I find the fact that even then, there is usually an endless stream of mostly banal, vapid responses to be very off putting.

Not only do I find the content vastly uninteresting, the way the content on twitter is reported by mainstream media is exhausting. I could really care less about the stream of conscious tweeting of celebrities and politicians. It's not "news worthy" in my estimation.

But clearly a lot of people find it useful, I am completely mystified how this could be.
This is a fantastic website, thank you to whoever made it !!
> do you think there's something lost by eliminating scarcity?

Certainly whatever these models can output just from text plus a bit of work/skill on the prompt plus a bit of selection will not be very valuable.

But it will see applications that don't need something very valuable, and where otherwise a piece of art would be not be affordable. I run a daily word puzzle game, and every daily puzzle comes with an image that helps tie the theme together. This is a low value piece of art that's nearly free for me to make, which wouldn't exist otherwise.

But the other thing is that people will make scarce and valuable things using generated art. Right now we're seeing tons of art where the direct output of a model is posted after less than an hour of work on prompts and selection by a person.

But when more people start combining all of these tools, spending dozens of hours on an image that's made out of components that are generated using AI tools, and other components that are manually edited or created, I think we're going to see a lot of brand new art and brand new skills.

There's always going to be people who pour their creativity, skills, and time into something. I can't wait to see what people can make when they do that while incorporating all these new tools that are being created into their process.
I have that exact problem here. I want my kids to have latitude and freedom with what they watch and do. But their child brains need adult moderation. They literally want every day to be Christmas, and they do not understand how that might "burn out" their synapses on things like the act of waiting, being excited, and eventually getting new gifts.
Right!? Just because several people have been unable to exploit this stack overflow in a week, doesn't prove the flaw is not exploitable.
Yes, definitely the large majority of AT hikers I've met rely very heavily on the GutHook/FarOut app as their primary nav tool. It has pretty great offline features in my experience, and has a huge variety of trail maps for purchase, with all the critical waypoints and resources listed. I've used it for customizing hikes, but I think much less customizable than OP, it's a bit more of a plug-and-play experience.
They mention heart monitors. I can say from experience that security is the least concern. Many times the devices like that are buggy and fail. It would be nice to see a stable working product before adding another layer to break on top of the house of cards.
> If you missed them, you had to wait a year.

This is literally the intro section to Chuck Klosterman's Nineties - about the number of people who watched Seinfeld and those that missed it, just missed it.

> There's a quality bestowed through scarcity.

There's a depth to scarcity, but your kids are going to watch way more things growing up than you did and you have no idea what that means for them.

I get that you aren't able to pass on that "value the thing you hold, not the two you can get later" sort of commitment to a single thing.

But that's valuing the only true scarce thing left in my life at least - my time and attention.

I remember feeling the "post-scarcity" thing going to a library for the first time in the US.

I used to buy books and read them, before I came to the US. Each book was a hard choice on whether to spend money on it or buy something else.

I now decide to read through a book based on whether I want to spend the time, not the money.

Unless I'm going to be immortal, there's no fixing that scarcity (and I get how young people/kids don't get that part at all - their life is endless from where they are).

Maybe do a little better so that my 70s aren't spent in a bed, but in a park outdoors reading.
There's a generation of people who appear to treat docker images as a combined packaging/distribution mechanism. Instead of learning to create a .deb or .rpm, they write a dockerfile.

I tend not to use that sort of thing, but not just because of docker - there's a bundle of related practices that tend to turn my eye elsewhere. YMMV.
You found a black hole? Show me the black hole, I want to see it! Is it next to the big bang? Is it closer to the infinitely expanding edges of the dying universe?

If you believe in black holes and big bangs you will believe anything. But you won't believe in another cosmology until you disbelieve anything approaching real science has been done on the universe.

You have no proof of black holes, you have never seen one. You were told that some calculations based on a model prove it, and have seen artists renderings, so you believe.

I copied from another comment of mine the following, which explains things that these astrophysicist still can't with their models. Simpler too. You should know that all the standard model does is explain. You could use the same maths and readings that they do to surmise another conclusion, maybe you will try yourself one day.

My cosmology explains "dark matter" and the appearance of an expanding universe, in very simple terms. The missing energy source is gain from feedback. Infinite Expansion is a mirage of light convolution until it's noise, and noise points in every direction; that also explains background radiation, it's the noise floor (ie. it's not the actual background farthest reaches, the noise is everywhere near and far).

Occam's Razors says your cosmology is wrong. It's too convoluted, it has to explain the craziest singularities which are not observable, yet can't explain real observations like missing energy and background radiation. No math changes these facts.
Check "Using ParentheC to Transform Scheme Programs to C or How to Write Interesting Recursive Programs in a Spartan Host (Program Counter)" for more about trampolines.

It's not the only strategy though.

https://stackoverflow.com/q/6003037/23567
The brain-computer metaphor is not a very good one, it's a pretty baseless appeal. Additionally, it's an argument that anthropomorphizes something which has no moral, legal, or ethical discretion.

You do not actively train your brain in remotely similar methods, and you, as an individual, are accountable to social pressures. An issue these companies are trying to avoid with ethically questionable scraping/training methods and research loop holes.

Additionally, many artists aren't purely learning from others to perfectly emulate them, and it's quickly spotted if they are, generally. Lessons learned do not implicitly mean you perfectly emulate that lesson. At each stage of learning, you bias things through your own filter.

Overall, the idea that these two things are comparable feels grotesque and reductionist, and feel quite similar to the "Well I wasn't going to buy it anyway" arguments we've been throwing around for decades to try to justify piracy of other materials.

At the end of the day, an argument that "style can't be copyrighted" is ignoring a lot of aspects of it's definition, including the means, and can be extrapolated into an argument that nothing proprietary should be allowed to exist...
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I think he wanted to say "No Ads" but didn't have enough data to commit to that yet, so he's anchoring on "half as many." Let's see how it shakes out.
I've been ridiculed for considering tweets to be content and capital on here, so I'm probably on the right track.
I believe that returning to the office is inevitable, because almost all managers prefer it. This is a good thing because we will have documented proof that businesses make decisions on other than a hard "this makes more money" basis.
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