skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along
"An Instagram app"

LOL almost forgot that Meta owns Instagram. Nice try Facebook!

#deleteFacebook
Lot more limited than Snapchat. You could only text your Close Friends. There wasn’t any concept of “streaks”. You couldn’t follow celebs or news.
How long until these telemarketers start using the same technology? Then we'll have all these AIs talking to each other, a huge waste of resources...
We might, but only after we made our own. Our editor will finally break the barrier of inlining widgets/controls performantly. The editor is one piece with the visual designer (2 sides of a coin)
Im still waiting for the Scrum fad to passover and the entire scrum masters guild to be without a job.
I think strength naturally begets respect in men, has nothing to do with T levels.
Seems like a wishy-washy take to me, based on the abstract.

AI is a software tool. What we need to worry about is humans who can use this tool for good as well as for evil.

AI tools that can put dangerously many members of society out of jobs, destabilizing entire countries? No, human managers are the ones who choose to use AI and fire people, and human engineers working for OpenAI et al. are the ones who provide those AI tools for profit (built using creative work of very humans being put out of work). Self-replicating persistent software that makes it impossible to turn itself off? Sure, but only humans can develop and launch it. A software that exhibits some evil “intelligence” (what is intelligence, by the way)? Ask humans who designed it and prepared training data. Humans who become "convinced by AI" that it is conscious and should be free? Yes, there can be crazy humans, that’s an issue.

Between humans and AI, humans think and have agency; humans are the problem but they are also the solution (and the end goal). Let’s pay more attention to humans.
I am using a self-hosted Plausible [1] instance, which is GDPR-compliant out of the box with no cookies required. I am super happy with it. The only downside is that you need to run Postgres and Clickhouse which is overkill for my small sites (an option that only uses SQLite would be great). I don't want to track my users. I just want to see which pages get traffic. Sometimes I am also curious about where visitors come from (by country) and what devices they are using.

In a newer update, they allow region tracking based on cities. I think this is too much information. I did not enable this and hope they won't add other more intrusive features.

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They also ensure that you need the annoying popup to consent to tracking to comply to the law, rather than doing no tracking and not annoying your users.
? Optical computing still consumes energy, you can't beat thermodynamics like that.

(there is some theoretical research into "reversible computing", but it's not really practical. A side effect is that destroying information is not reversible: so instead of having a two-input one output gate, you have to have 2 inputs 2 outputs and keep the "spare" around to make it reversible.)
iOS now supports web push notifications (and why you should care)
OSS version didn't have official Docker images prebuilt, you had to build them yourself and for a long time the OSS build was broken.
A year or two ago they promised they'll fix it or even provide official OSS image, this didn't happen.

One person finally created a working release train on github and was releasing OSS containers, Docker Hub reports it as 10k+ pulls, which is a lot for unofficial image.

I tend to stay away from any 3rd party tool that's not really a main part of infrastructure and requires sales contacts. It's wasting my company time to deal with sales when it comes to a few licenses, just give me a number input and buy button. I also lost some confidence regarding Sourcegraph, as it seems they change their direction, pricing and rules multiple times per year
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Your comment makes nginx sound like some fly-by-night server that only achieved its performance by making lots of tiny-yet-dangerous "optimisations" like this one.

More likely it is an omission, which could be rectified with a warning or failure running nginx -t (verify configuration).

The actual performance comes from an architectural choice between event vs process based servers, as detailed in the C10k problem article. [1]

[1] http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
There is a very real concern that there will be a flood of hate speech, scams, and ads. Meta has shown themselves to be absolutely terrible at moderation in recent years.

Believe it or not, most Mastodon / Fediverse admins & users aren't interested in taking over the world and having a huge reach. They just want a nice community.
> My bank only supports SMS 2FA so while I'm travelling I'm effectively cut off from certain functionality

EU citizen here. Do you... not have roaming?
Rather than using AI coding tools to write code, it can be helpful to use tools to make code review easier. Pullpo.io has two products for developers. One is a metrics tool that helps development teams find and resolve bottlenecks. Pullpo measures cycle time (work in progress, pickup, code review & merge time), PR throughput, and batch size. The other product is ephemeral PR Slack channels that allow for faster code review conversations for developers using GitHub. Unlike the default GitHub integration, Pullpo creates an ephemeral Slack channel for every PR, with all the people involved in it. The code review conversation can now happen in Slack. In these Slack channels, notifications are sent about workflow results, new commits, mergeability, code comments, etc.
This way, you can do all of your own coding, and have tools to check it over!
I'm using plausible Analytics. It logs and displays very little data. And no PII data.

It's more then enough for me.

And a few clients whom I enabled it for, told me they very much liked the simplicity. Less data as a feature!
Also came to see if anyone mentioned Threads, the film. Really great film, but certainly leaves an impact on the viewer. Slack has a feature called 'Threads' and for a long time after they introduced it, every time I opened the app I got a shiver of fear down my spine. This is one of quite a number of reasons I don't imagine I will be using Meta's offering.
Medical, but hold the marijuana: new CBD source found in Brazil
Any details about what APIs would be available?
Once a tech company gets bloated enough, they can’t ship stuff efficiently and are ripe for disruption. That’s why they need to resort to foul play.
Repeating a statement doesn't make it more true.

On learning, what I have learnt without effort, but with the lesson of time and painless observation: it is harder to unlearn.

And since content is virtually infinite - far more content was produced today than anyone could consume in 20 lives - it is crutial to currate. Given the amount of noise out there? Sharpen great and fast information filters.

If an article makes a statement with little to no clear argument to back it up, I continue to read but faster, parsing only one every two or three words until the end of a section.

If the same statement is made again without any backing, that's potential fallacies to brainwashing. An author dragging its feet for ads revenue or filling its prints doesn't fall into the conscious brainwasher category but still represent the risk to spoil my time at best.

If no decent argument is laid out by the end of the section, to back the initial claim, a beginning of one at least, then I stop reading the piece. There statistically isn't enough value in there to burn time reading. Or worse, fallacies may start to do their magic.

I did take the time to skim through the entirely of this article, just to confirm the conclusion made after reaching the first part, to write this comment
FWIW - The English version of the press release:

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
What happens when telemarketers start using GPT to power their own calls?
It was open first. Then closed. Then open again. So, now it's closed again...
A nice list of many more analytics solutions: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...
There are also an increasing number of email clients that are “gmail only.”
> I think it depends a lot on the way you use it.

That makes sense. For programming I use a tiled wm so don't drag windows around at all, I disable all animations so haven't felt any need for high framerates personally.
That's not really who I associate with Twitter. If they want to compete with Twitter isn't it business people, politicians, journalists and "thought leaders" they need to move?
LLM doesn't know stuff, it has few models beyond an extremely deep association between (in this case) descriptions and pictures.

Humans have shitty models for stuff, but we have them. We lack the massively deep numerical associations.

It can't be that long before someone makes an AI that says knows a few common models like "stuff made of steel is rigid, stuff made of cloth is soft, etc". Along with "If someone keeps emphasizing a number, that's the number of things he wants".
My understanding is none of us here has any understanding what they do or don't do. We literally have no idea what's going on inside OpenAI.
The problem with this is that that following is only worth something if they actually see your posts, and stats on twitter makes it clear how small a proportion of your following will see any given of your tweets. Other interaction drives that home as well. Typically people seem to largely get far more engagement with a far smaller number of followers on Mastodon, and the same will be true on other new platforms for two simple reasons: Attrition and the algorithmic feed. Most long lived accounts will have a huge number of followers that have simply stopped using twitter, and secondly the default being the "for you" tab means that people have a habit of following accounts they never engage with or ever even see a tweet from, and so the follower numbers on Twitter are vastly overestimating how many people are actually meaningfully "following" you in the sense that they're still logging in and seeing what you tweet.

Doesn't mean you won't still have a challenge building up a presence again on a new platform, but getting to the point of equal engagement in a new platform where users are motivated and active only takes a tiny proportion of your followers to make the move.
From my quick searches it looks like people in the Netherlands have about double the bank balance, again on average, than people in the US.

I'm not sure why being better off makes it harder to make purchases? The social services actually help people, they're not just a money vacuum.
This is where it gets tricky and why I need to find out more details about the new rulings. Google does not store IP when the user is from the EU but this still seems inadequate to the IMY.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/12017362?hl=en
I'm torn. I found the theme of this video as thought-provoking as I found its closing remarks eye-wateringly trite. The premise of the "Dead Internet" may or may not be true, but if we are to assume that it is, I think that ending on the "positive note" that something is being done about it by tech giants developing "safeguards" based on AI-detecting-AI is naïve and superficial. Also, saying that "education on media literacy and critical thinking skills may go a long way too" is as hackneyed as stating that improved firefighting resources may go a long way to deal with the Canada wildfires.

If we accept the premise of the Dead Internet as true, this is a systemic issue which needs to be dealt with on a systems-level (i.e. economic, social and political), and not by the very architects of this flawed system adding their own little patches —which will just result in an AI arms-race— nor by improving the "media literacy" of the World population so they know how to deal with this broken system —a new arms-race.

Avoiding the consequences of the Dead Internet should not rely on saving the current social-media-attention-economy-internet from AI-bot infestation and expecting people to be "educated" against it. It should rely on either fully rethinking, overhauling and/or shutting down this social-media-attention-economy-internet, or alternatively on helping society to abandon-ship and let this bot-infested internet go the way of Myspace and Digg in terms of social relevance. The one thing that AI content cannot do is get in the way of society's ability to touch grass.
It's called "Andy and Bill's law" [1] and it dates back to the nineties: "What Intel giveth Microsoft taketh away".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
Summary of this discussion https://tinyurl.com/22yzt9xz
Artificial General Intelligence remains a distant dream despite LLM boom
Wework was valued at 50 billion. Tesla is valued at more than the 10 top automotive firms combined. Surely we don't believe in the infinite wisdom of stock markets or anything of the sort right?
best OS I ever had the pleasure to work with
Best Practices in Testing GraphQL APIs
Yes, I remember the Docker thing, but I also remember that at least the language parsers we were interested in were only supported through some kind of plugin mechanism, which the OSS version did not support, so it was useless for us, so I didn't ever bother testing it.
The APK for anyone who wants to play: https://easyupload.io/1ajjmu
That's how you build confidence in your company and executive decisions.

Let's see if we get the same amount of upvotes their post got when they open sourced the thing.
This isn't a great answer, but I've never liked Chrome password manager because I feel like a password manager is something I want to pay a company for, not a service I want to be given for free. Somehow, it being a free feature that's bundled with my browser makes me not trust it. (Again, not claiming this is a great reason not to use it)
I’m even more confused now. I’ve used the old Threads until the day it died (quit Instagram after that actually). Wasn’t it always a messaging app?
That's inaccurate.

The current Sami people may have been first in the northern parts of Norway. The actual time line is difficult to establish (politically charged). What we can say is that the current Sami people were first in the northern parts of Norway compared to the "germanic" group living in the south.

Most discussions end up in agreeing that there were two main groups in Norway. One started from the south of Norway and spread north, while the Sami people started from the north and spread south. Finding out who occupied a certain area first is very difficult, and have a tendency to be based more on politics and patriotism, than scientific facts. (on both sides)

Both groups have been in Norway for thousands of years, so there is actually not much point in debating who was first in Norway. What they can agree on is to make sure that the rights of all are protected. That was not the case historically, where the Sami people were not treated well.
Ask HN: How do you follow a post with over 500 comments?
Just looking at the Instagram threads post and trying to sort of work through the comments but really hard when it's broken over multiple pages and has like 800 comments. Anyone have a good way of reading through stuff like this?
What happened to QNX after Blackberry acquired it? Is it still used?
That's why you use a salt, which is what I assume is meant by "non-reversibly".
I'm glad they said it.

As a user I just despise MFA. I hate having to keep my phone with me while I work. I hate the disruption in flow logging into everyday services like AWS.

Passwords are so much better.
I'd argue QNX was more widespread than any of those.

It's been a significant embedded OS since the late 1980s, with many millions of deployed systems.

It is also used in roles with a customer-facing UI and indeed GUI. It's in several car media players, for instance, including from Toshiba I believe.

And of course it was the basis of Blackberry 10.

https://crackberry.com/blackberry-10

It was in the Playbook, the cancelled Folio, and a lot of smartphones, such as the Passport I used to own. (A lovely device, sadly crippled as messaging app vendors removed support. I could use Android apps on it, but they didn't integrate into the Blackberry Hub.)

It was also very nearly the next-gen Amiga, which I suspect is why it has a GUI and multimedia support.

https://www.trollaxor.com/2005/06/how-qnx-failed-amiga.html

I suspect that between routers, switches, engine control units, traffic signals, smartphones, car entertainment units, and doubtless many other things we don't hear about, it's in more devices in production than all of seL4, Fiasco, etc. put together.

Minix 3 is arguably also a true microkernel, and it's present in industry, embedded in millions of Intel Xeon and Core iX CPUs' management units, but it never reached a state of much completeness. No SMP support, for instance, and a lot of missing functionality.

And it now seems to be dead:

https://www.osnews.com/story/136174/minix-is-dead/
Along the same lines, SQLite is unlike other RDBMS in that you typically do NOT want to create a new connection per logical unit of work, because that means opening an actual file on disk each time. The more you can re-use a SQLite connection instance the better.

SQLite is internally handling the locking for you under most providers[0]. Any sort of external attempts at the same will just make things go slower. The only thing that could really beat the internal SQLite mutex is to put a very high performance MPSC queue in front of your single SQLite connection and take resulting micro batches of logical requests into transactions as noted above, or some more consolidated form of representation.

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/compile.html#threadsafe
What I find more annoying is the aggressive insistence of bigcorps to do everything possible with 2FA except actually just use the damn 2FA code I already have set up in my password manager. SMS, emails, pushing codes to random devices I'm logged in on, whatever.
That’s how the whole “life” thing works. I don’t think there’s a viable escape route from that, until we invent at-scale negotiation protocols better than arms and market.
id say this[4] is a fair account, despite the economist's known unfriendliness towards greece.

[4] https://archive.md/M6tUb - The Economist - Greece is a European success story
Ah qnx... the heart of the Unisys/Burroughs Icon.

They had a pretty nasty bug back in the day... https://www.juliandunn.net/2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-...

It basically went like: "I am root" "Yes, you are root" :)
I'm using the hosted version of plausible.

After I hit the FP of HN two times in a month, their billing warned me of overusage. One email, In which I explained the situation from me, and I got a very friendly email back, from a human, in which they allowed me to stay on my small plan despite the overuse.
AI and the American Revolution [video]
This Independence Day, Consider This: Is AI the Modern Day Equivalent of a Redcoat?
I've not explored it in any more depth than I wrote about in that article and my issue comments.

My hunch is that if you bump it up to 20s while receiving a huge amount of concurrent traffic you may find yourself running out of available Python workers to serve requests.
> I might have gotten it from teaching disadvantaged teenagers PHP

Aren't they disadvantaged enough??
GDPR Procedures Regulation: “Stripping citizens of procedural rights”
I believe some cars still use it for their in-car entertainment.
>It's because a smaller screen with the same (high) resolution means higher pixel density and smaller pixel size. It's something noticeably more expensive to manufacture.

That's a fair point but I don't think it applies at these scales. Even a 8K 32" has a very low pixel density compared to a cellphone screen for example.

Acer has a 16" portable 4K screen for around 600 USD which they presumably sell at a nice profit, 4 of them would make a 8K 32".

Anyway, pricing aside the main problem is that the products don't exist in the first place. A monitor that's simply 4x 27" 4k screens (available from 300 usd) combined would be perfect for a programmer, data analyst etc even if it isn't strictly "retina".

The manufacturers don't make monitors like this for one reason or another. I think it's a marketing/economic strategy more than anything else.

My pessimistic take is that LG and Samsung etc have tons of investments in old tech and want to keep selling old tech to consumers for as long as they can because that's where they get the highest margins.

A slightly less pessimistic take is that monitor makers don't believe that there is a market for really large screens because when you do a survey most people think 32" is "big" and anything larger is absurd.

But it's wonderful! :)
> will be economically useless if it is banned.

Economically set back, maybe. "Useless" (with its implication of permanence) is way OTT.
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therefore a reasonably safe place to experiment.

And conversely, they obviously consider any further experiment with crypto in China to be not just *unsafe* but also *illegal*.

Unsafe for me but not for thee. This overt expression of their take on crypto is impossible to deny and runs counter to the "fumbling" viewpoint expressed in your original post.
Seems horribly limiting regardless of how we slice it.
> so passkeys are a much better and easier method.

I'm old. What's the difference between a pass word and a pass key ?

> tap this button to magically log in” method.

And how exactly is "this button" authenticated ?
Of course you despise it. Security always comes at the cost of convenience.
There is https://svgbattle.andyfx.net

It has interactive editor, and introduces the available commands/shapes.

Its not really a guide but it has links to relevant parts of svg specification which honestly has pretty decent images and such for understanding the commands.
Here is a summary, part ChatGPT and part me:

The “Lone Banana Problem” describes subtle biases of Large Language Models (LLMs) in AI: LLMs reproduce the statistical average of the inputs that they have consumed in the context of the question they have been asked. It's called that problem because the model used to generate images has never seen an individual banana, so when prompted always generates two bananas.
One of the more popular core/edge router platforms used to run QNX for their control plane, Cisco CSR/ASR. Though they switched to Linux some years ago.
press option on mac. it's amazing
The Hypocrisy of Mandatory Diversity Statements
So basically their "open source" offering wasn't really open source, it wasn't even open core, as you had to build it yourself, the build wasn't working for a long time and even if you managed that, some languages were enterprise-only.

Nice. How to get free marketing by strapping Open Source to your product and writing a bunch of announcements.
Yes, in millions of millions of cars. It power most of the HMI systems in cars, except some newer ones, which are based on Android Auto and very view exceptions based on Windows Embedded/Auto.