skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Having a business where you can go to a physical office and show up with ID so you can get your account back would solve this problem.

I've wanted something similar, combined with a tree approach to account recovery where the effort for recovery can vary depending on the importance of the account.

Say I lose access to my McDonald's account. That's not a very important account. It just contains some reward points that would get me some discounts at McDonald's. That account would be a leaf on the recovery tree. It's parent node would be my email account, currently at Fastmail. Recovery of my McDonald's account would just require responding to a recovery email McDonald's would send to my email.

My email account is much more important. Its parent node would be my domain name, currently registered at Namecheap. Recovery of my email account at Fastmail would involve demonstrating to Fastmail that I control my email domain.

My domain name is so important, since it is in the ultimate recovery path for so many descendant nodes, it would probably have at least two parent nodes (I didn't say anything about the tree having to be a binary tree).

They would be businesses that can verify my ID in person using government documents like my passport, and provide a way for me to prove that identity to third parties.

Banks would be good candidates to run such a business. Post offices would also be good candidates.

The protocol between the root verifiers and their direct child nodes could be a zero knowledge protocol so that the child node doesn't get your real identity and the root verifier doesn't know who the child node is. All the root needs to learn is that you are being verified for some site, and all the site needs to learn is that you are the same person who set up the account.

Such a zero knowledge protocol could also be good for age verification, which more and more jurisdictions are requiring from some sites. With such a protocol between the age verifiers and the sites you could have age verification without giving up anonymous accounts.
I was surprised to see that Wales is mostly orange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power#/media/File%3AGloba...

The UK has had issues with limited transmission line capacity to Scotland which had led me to think that most of the generation potential was up there.
Today, I’m super stoked to announce the launch of Zipy Plug & Play, the on-demand Chrome extension of Zipy.

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Yea, I can definitely improve that! That sounds like better way to do it. Thanks!
Tesla has 0 self-driving miles, since a driver is always there and is fully responsible for any mistake that happens.
VW sees the GTI as the benchmark within the small hatch segment, so I’m hopeful about (eventual) EV GTI.
A person who was passed a driving test, paid for insurance and registered the vehicle is responsible for the car at all times, even when FSD beta is operating.

Come to Australia, the driving age here is 18. (And for your first three years as a licensed driver, you have to show plates to indicate your lack of experience because, unlike in the stupid USA, we don’t assume that passing one driving test is enough to qualify you as a “good driver”.)
That's a silly take. It all comes from the perspective that Mastodon has to be the next big thing. This is BS. It can stay small and serve those who choose to use it.
Freemium tanked my SaaS for 6 months – a cautionary tale
Related question: I wonder how many humans (regular people, not copywriters, marketers, and businesses) are actually happy that chatgpt is here.
As far as I can tell, LAION is effectively a phone book.

This would be like suing someone because they made a browser bookmark saying that was piracy.
Handheld PC's have had both Windows and Linux support for a long time. Especially once you add in all the old UMPC's that ran XP/Vista.

Even if you just want to talk about modern handheld computers most of the GPD offerings have supported both. The vast majority of them before the steam deck all ran windows.
Often car manufacturers offer subsidized rates to most buyers buying new cars. Sure Audi and Porsche are standing firm at 2.9% for 60 months pre2022, but GM Dodge Ford had no shortage of 0% for 60 months.

Is that really profitable? Or are they making it all on lower tier buyers at 6.9%? I worked in the car business for years and most manufacturers don't touch actual bad credit people, so all that 10%+ loans you hear about are at other banks dealerships go through.
Hasn't it always been understood that raising prices after killing competition was Amazon's end game?

That's what I always thought investors understood about the business. What has mattered isn't profit, but rather cash flow. If you have cash flow, and you reinvest that into expansion (for more cashflow), eventually you have a monopoly. The whole point of that is one day you flip the switch, and raise prices.
Vaguely related: Disney+ seems to have also gone in on SK reality with shows like "The Zone" and "Pink Lie," etc. I think it's tough to make it work outside of Korea because Westerners aren't used to the style where they're constantly writing commentary on the screen and playing sound effects (afaik originated from Japanese reality but copied by other cultures with block writing.) Most of the Westerners who can stand that sort of thing are already watching it.

The Disney+ shows iirc minimize screen writing and sound effects or don't use them at all.
Thanks Bhargava. Would love to get more feedback from you and your team. Let us know if you face any challenges with the plugin.
Interesting. Note this has not yet been peer-reviewed, so findings must be taken with an especially large pinch of salt even compared to your average paper. In this case, they only looked at 20 adults over 2 weeks, so I feel that any conclusions drawn here are circumstancial at best.

Apparently the reseach was funded by NIH and therefore at least partly the taxpayer. Seems like a bit of a strange study to fund, in my opinion nothing useful can possibly result from such a tiny study. I tried tracking down the specific grant they were given (they mention NIH award UL1 TR-002378 in the disclosure section of the paper but I can't find anything from that)
And yet good luck landing an interview if you lack years of experience with React, Angular, Vue, Bootstrap, Typescript, Node, et cetera ad nauseum. Dependency hell is now the foyer.
Apple earns more from gaming than Nintendo.
>Sam A said he thinks prompt engineering won't even be a thing in 5 years.

I don’t understand what this could mean. I have to do “prompt engineering” when I talk to other people all the time - when I need to ask them to do tasks, when I need to clarify requirements, etc. As long as we’re communicating through text and not mind reading, some level of “engineering” will be required. AI is intelligent but it’s not magic.
Nice to hear that and thanks for trying it! About the translations, you are right, that would be better! I will work on that!
Has anyone researched the opposite? Like the role of mood and happiness on the gut microbiome.

I was diagnosed with Celiac 5 years ago, could never gain weight and had my share of struggles with anxiety etc.

I recently found a counsellor who told me to stop overthinking, seeking knowledge and a few other things which after following I gained 5 kilos and became a happier person.

I always thought my gut was to blame but a few simple practices seem to be fixing my gut too.
That's a common misconception. The network effect works even if the network is relatively small. And the market clearly does not demand one audience, since we currently have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat, YouTube, TikTok, Douyin, Weibo, QQ, and so on.
Starbucks claims $181M in revenue from unused gift cards (2022)
At first it sounded interesting so thought of giving it a try and it worked like a magic-wand. Definitely gonna try it for my customer success use cases as I can again imagine how it will ease my everyday conversations with customers.
You can’t really do more than 10x anyway, because the solutions change when the order of magnitude changes. In fact even at 9x you’re risking investing in a more expensive solution than you actually need.

The real power is not in what you architect, but the negative space you put in the architecture that allows for future growth without committing to it today.
nice :) it's in the pipeline!
No, and we don't. That's why driving instruction and driving tests exist.
Leading Lady: The Secret Ambitions of Hedy Lamarr (2015)
Same story every time. Government/CB prints money, then blames other for inflation.
The globe defaults to everyone gets a really high price, then if you try to cancel they immediately start offering you better deals until you agree to not cancel.

It's a stepped thing.. you start at $30/month. Try to cancel and they offer you $20/month. Say you still want to cancel and they go through a series of discounts till it's < $5/month, maybe as low as $1/month.

When I went through this before online cancellation the process was so gross every new offer made me more determined to cancel even though the better offers were cheap enough to want to keep it. The whole process made me feel like I'd been ripped off.

Not really the same as Radiohead offering to let you name your price from the beginning.
> coming back to a solid mass of mycelium.

So what you are saying is that I never have to buy clothes, or materials again. Long live growable clothes!
The Ruby docs are incredibly difficult to navigate.
Is there evidence that the techniques used for effectively teaching white students, are not effective for teaching non-white students?

Are the brains of people from different races really that different?
It's not the same as repeatedly promising delivery of the feature — one of the hardest technological problems being worked on — year after year, while continuing to take money from customers for said feature. Not to mention gaining a ton of positive coverage for the company that enables sales and stock appreciation.
Why it finally makes sense to build, not buy, a workplace search product
We’ve spent the last 2 months diving deep into enterprise use cases for large language models, and the one that many companies are thinking about is building a chatbot for searching through a company’s internal knowledge base.

The typical architecture goes something like this:

1. Connect to a knowledge base (Notion, Confluence, etc) and extract pages from it

2. Generate embeddings from the content and index the content based on these embeddings using a vector database like Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, etc

3. When someone has a query, run an approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search on the vector database and get back ~1000 tokens of content

4. Insert the content in the context window of a prompt, and use a LLM like GPT to respond to the query based on information from the content.

A few years ago it was ridiculous to even consider building your own internal search product. Now, with libraries like LangChain (https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain), LlamaIndex (https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index), and open sources tools like Sidekick (https://github.com/ai-sidekick/sidekick), it’s possible to build a product that works just as well as most workplace search vendors in a matter of days, with the added benefit of being free + fully customizable. (Disclaimer: I am one of the cofounders at Sidekick)

It’s also not hard to find developers who would love to get their hands dirty with emerging technologies like vector databases, LLMs, and GPT agents. The economic incentive structure for internal search products (and maybe all SaaS product) has been flipped on its head. Why spend $100k+ year on a vendor that comes with 1-3 month implementation when you can spend half that time building something in-house that plugs in to where your team already works like Teams or Slack?

Examples:
- Supabase built GPT powered search right into their docs ([https://supabase.com/docs](https://supabase.com/docs))
- PostHog built and deployed their own slackbot to answer questions about PostHog ([https://posthog.com/blog/aruba-hackathon](https://posthog.com/blog/aruba-hackathon))

Would you consider building internal semantic search in-house at your company?
This is set of lawsuits waiting to happen. Bypassing or ignoring common practices like robots.txt put this on par with theft.

Practices like this are a big part of the reason the EU and California adopted GDPR.

The creator is clearly unethical and too lazy to ask for permission.
There is a question, but the part about the monopoly was in the setup, not the part being inquired about. It asked "how can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS?"

The second part of the question is assumed. To question that part, one would ask "how can the app store promote competition if it is a monopoly on iOS?"
VCs hate Mastodon (actually the federation) because they can't control it. Hence this post. Nothing to see here.
Someone should tell him to get off Forbes.
An amazing extension where I could record my website sessions and figure out errors in a jiffy.
No, you made this comment: "You suggested a comparison, so show your comparison."

AFTER the comment "I compared them and you were very wrong.",

AFTER I directly asked you about it:

"Okay so can you post it here, instead of this roundabout discussion?"

There's no possible way for you to avoid this fact. Trying just makes this comment chain look more and more ridiculous. So I'm going to bow out here, I've spent more then a fair share of genuine effort.
Okay so Musk loudly proclaims that buying a Tesla is the best financial investment on the planet, that buying anything else is pure insanity, on the basis of the car turning into a fully autonomous taxi via a future over the air update. Bold claim, no data provided.

Musk boasts that Teslas have the highest crash safety ratings ever, despite this being contradicted by the testing bodies (because they don't distinguish between cars with 5 star ratings). Another bold claim, contradicted by the data!

Teslas collect tons of data while driving and when crashing, which Tesla processes. You believe that this data demonstrates that FSD is safer than regular driving but that musk is too cautious to release it?? How can you square that with Musk's behavior generally?
Thank you! Odd that it's not mentioned in the main article.
How long do you think Microsoft Activision would keep Call of Duty and Overwatch alive on other platforms? Or perhaps use discontinuing it as a threat to wrangle some concession out of Sony when it needs it.

Let's say the Windows or Internet Explorer days are far behind Microsoft and not relevant to games anyways. Well, remember their lock down attempt on the Xbox One ten years ago? https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2013/06/06/connected/ which was so bad they needed to back down in just two weeks.

Overall, the centralization of the gaming industry is worrisome. Sony in 2021 alone bought six studios including Valkyrie which also should've been blocked. Microsoft bought Zenimax, Nintendo bought Next Level but even Take Two bought up Zynga.

Also, this is a lot of money, even for Microsoft and if times get tough, they will squeeze Activision to get some of that back and creativity will go down.
One thing I've noticed about my watching habits is that I won't put on a super intense, prestige TV show after work usually (maybe if it's Barry, damn, Barry is so good). Instead I'll watch something lighter or more repetitive like House MD or Schitt's Creek. Now k-dramas are not quite old school network television, but they're certainly more of a palatable affair than your average Showtime or HBO show. I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix realized that for every marquee top tier Emmy winning show, there's hundreds of people just turning on something to watch in the background that is familiar but slightly different.

Really, this isn't a new discovery. Soaps have existed since before television. But it is interesting how instead of one long-lived show, it's now a multitude of similar but different shows.
This isn't responding to you but rather tagging along on the part you quoted.

I don't understand this perspective that I must own something to have a negative opinion or sentiment about something. Are we supposed to purchase cars starting at $40,000 just so we are allowed to critique them? Does it not make sense that someone hasn't purchased such a vehicle and has a negative opinion on it because they have done their research and discovered the negatives?
There was at least one (successful) such landing (small plane, not commercial) in NC last year as well[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCgrGTZdd4A
Binary search is a common computational search approach used in computer science to quickly search through a list for a specific value/key within a list/array of values. The concept behind it is to repeatedly divide the list in half portions that could contain the value until it's found or until the list is empty.
My n=1 experience has been far better using Mastodon than twitter.

I used to check the Twitter Explore page without logging in, just see what was going down. But now that they've 'bodged' that up too, they've released me from any reason to go back. Thank you, Elon.

It's a relief to encounter generally "real" and/or "interesting" people (who are the kind of people to persist on Mastodon) instead of political mudslingers, blue check twitter maximalists, Elon d riders, etc.

Just a better experience all around.

Mastodon feels a bit like the old bulletin boards used to feel like - "just over there dealing with its own niche in a calm and kind of fun way ... not the centre of the universe or trying to be this or that...".

And I'm thankful for it.
> If I'm left with no time to cultivate any hobbies or even spend quality time with my family and/or friends, then I don't see the point at all.

I bet this explains a lot of why people are not interested in having children anymore. Why to have children, if you will not be able to even afford a house for them, and working your ass off will preclude enjoying their company.
Thank you so much Chinni. Glad you could figure out errors.
From an outside perspective OP sound really pretentious and a show off, though I think he is mischaracterising failure as a "missed goal"
>the market will always demand one audience.

People who have an interest in large audiences (media folks and celebrities) will demand one audience, but they aren't necessarily the whole market. Many will be fine to be elsewhere. Even twitter didn't provide 'one audience' at its peak.
>maybe by jabbing two or three side-of-head hardware button combos, wait 30s, pair again, grr, now repeat x2 for the kids.

That would be frustrating. If only the headphones came with some sort of companion device with a touchscreen that could be used to navigate the pairing process.
I’ve failed more times than most people. But I’m not a failure.
Its extremely frustrating how we let the tech companies get to be this large, such that now we really have to consider blocking every acquisition, even though this one in particular I think wouldn't be all that bad and may actually be a positive for consumers. Activision is an unusually cruel and extremely horrible company, whereas the Xbox Division of Microsoft has been one of maybe only a couple "great" stewards of the gaming industry for consumers (Epic is also a great company, but beyond those two when it comes to major developers/publishers there's far more bad than good). I'm genuinely of the opinion that all of Xbox, Activision, and their customers will be worse-off without this deal.

This is a HackerNews Arm Chair Quarterbacking Stretch, but I think a really positive move for Microsoft would be to spin-off Xbox into a separate company. I can't imagine the division is all that profitable; its grown to confer practically zero positive network effects for Microsoft's other businesses. Culturally its got to be the weirdest thing Microsoft does nowadays. This AB deal likely single-handedly increases the valuation of the division by, jeeze, 50%? Maybe more.
But I already have a Switch, if I wanted to play non-portability I’d use my PC, but it’s often way more convenient to use it on a portable device
And because it's so easy for everything to be a subscription now, most of them are of negative value to the subscriber. That is, the subscriber gets nothing useful from the email subscription and has to deal with the useless emails taking up decision space (do I delete it now? what if there is something valuable inside? maybe I save it for someday because I might use that coupon?) when they come in.

In other words, they are clutter, or litter.
Netflix loves to pound out utterly formulaic series. They've mainstream documentaries by producing docudramas and convincing everyone they're real stories and their dramas always seem to have the worst actors.
> But the whole appeal of social networks is that everyone is there. No one likes to check 20 different apps to talk to 20 slightly different groups of people, or to follow 20 different celebrities they like.

The nice thing about a federated system is that it's ONE app to talk to 20 slightly different groups of people.
The Business of Space: One Giant Leap
Apple is a hardware company.

Microsoft is almost entirely a software company.
Or in theory 3) when the Constitution is amended in a way that changes the makeup of the electoral college, but in practice that's much less likely to happen than the other two (which are themselves unlikely to happen soon).
I don't know enough about ActivityPub to be sure, but it seems that the "push" format is the problem?

If user U1 on server C1 subscribes to user U2 on server C2, does that mean when U2 posts, C2 sends the post to C1, independent of wether U1 is online or not?

If C1 can only request the updates while U1 is online, then the Fediverse should scale just like RSS.

I never heard anybody saying that RSS is doomed because of scaling issues.