skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> @8organicbits: Can I create 1000 empty wallets and endorse bogus edits 1000 times? It's really easy to create empty wallets at scale. What value does an endorsement like that have?

In a centralized setup, e.g. facebook and twitter, that's what they have suffered from.

In decentralized setup, however, it's possible that different reader will use different algorithm provider. If an algorithm provider uses something like PageRank/EdgeRank kind of graph-random-walk based reputation algorithm, 1000 empty wallets who doesn't have reputation will not increase any reputation of the edits they endorse.
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I’m what most describe as a designer who codes even though I do coding 90% of the time these days. I love to work with design studios but who knows, maybe someone here needs a developer with a good eye for design.
I would suggest using man and searching like any piece of documentation. Specifically you are looking for `man configuration.nix`
> @mvid: I work in crypto, and even I ask, what makes this better than GPG?

OP: two points.

1. It helps harness the help from EVM wallet's adoption. Most people don't know how to use GPG. Most GPG tools aren't built with mind of regular user as target audience.

2. We could soon see on-chain identities, and organizational relationships linked to it. E.g. one could use ERC-1271 to have a contract attest to a signature.
Huh. Not only correct, they were selling for ~200 in May.

Do people actually talk about bluesky outside of HN? I never heard of it anywhere else.
> @crote: Heck, I'm having trouble seeing what makes this better than a Facebook Like!

Yes it's pretty much the same as Facebook Like, except that the accounts are decentralized so could never be banned. Also you could have a group of people "like" an edit as a group (shared identity).
> FreeTrade@: I'm interested to see an integration of wikis and web-of-trust. This looks to be a step in the right direction.

OP: yes, thank you! That's what we see in common!
> Considering most Wikipedia editors are under-employed guitarists and retired house painters deciding on the veracity of details about local history events and obscure scientific niches, this doesn't help much.

OP: that's true, for majority editors. But just like Balaji says in his Network State book, it only take a small group of people to start something big. We just need early adoptions from some subset of editors and hopefully if it's useful, other poeple will see it and begin using it.
> oskarw85@: That's simply not true. Even if the underlying mechanism is the public-private key pair most owners do not use it with signing in mind.

OP: Society with and without "phones" are foundamentally different.
The introduction and adoption of cryptography into daily life is at this level.

In the beginning, we probably could only attract a small group of adoptors. But the monthly active editors of Wikipedia is only O(100000)
and the number of editors that actively review and "like" edits are even smaller, around O(1000). This is the scale of users that have made great impact on Wikipedia and the world's knowledge.
I just get a blank page !
I’m currently using Ansible for something similar. Mind if I ask why you switched to Terraform?
My primary argument is that right now there is literally no working solution. I offered a solution that will cover most use cases and protect most children and that is trivial to implement by both websites and browser developers and keeps the decisions on the parents. It was implemented without corresponding legislation in the past and I am certain the knowledge has not been lost. Once implemented it can be improved upon with time using feedback from the parents.
## Final words (first batch of answers)

Thank you all for your passionate conversations. Your criticize and defending are all super valuable and inspiring to us.

Thank NoZebra120vClip@, bawolff@, spaceman_2020@, justsomeadvice0@, duskwuff@, 8organicbits@, mvid@, greenthrow@,
sacnoradhq@: you helped us think harder with your criticizing comments and questions.

World177@, sowbug@,
everfree@, 40four@, peyton@ crote@ yieldcrv@,
xk_id@ Thank you for your defending, your inspiration and your support! It means a lot. We also look forward to collaborate with you if interested.
The screenshot text: "Keep your username", "Find your followers", "Connect over conversation", "Share your point of view"

Are the targets of this professional influencers and narcissists?
Remember when Instagram was just grainy pictures of your friends and the weird new person that they were dating, and some nice artists and crafters? Then they decided it was a Snapchat and Tiktok clone and... now we're at Twitter clone? Or is it a Reddit clone? Why must everything get so inbred?
I'm building a new protocol that adds a centralized DAO server for essentially auth, and name reservations for different taxonomies or purposes like subreddits, usernames, tags, anything really you'd be able to create unique taxonomies that could be tied to your apps. I want essentially to allow federation but with a single archival source of truth. Just in beginning stages though.
Getting prepared for what is to come for everyone involved?
> Isn't that the exact thing that Threads would need to succeed? It's a new feeds-based app, piggybacking their existing social graph. That means you have followers/following immediately.

Remember Facebook Watch (videos) - https://www.facebook.com/help/609563009232602
All they need to do is copy Twitter from like ten years ago, and they already have a killer product that's an order of magnitude better than what Twitter is now.
When journalists quote CopSpeak, and only report the cop's side of the story, that is propaganda. Unquestionably.

When the entire premise of the story is hyper-critical of Amazon, and Amazon's defense is half-hearted, vacuuous, and informationally background, you don't need advanced media literacy to think "Wow, that response from Amazon does NOT pass the bullshit sniff test, huh, I wonder what that means."

How much spoonfeeding do we expect to our readers?

This isn't "A cop said the suspect had a gun, and that's why he shot him" <and we burned zero calories to validate that point>".

This isn't "99.9% of scientists think one thing. 0.1% think the opposite. But we're not going to tell you that, we'll just interview 1 scientist from each position and let you decide."

This is a super critical piece of Amazon that achieves the mandatory standards of reaching out to Amazon for comment, and the comment they got speaks for itself in contrast to the story so clearly that to editorialize on it any further insults the reader's intelligence.
48hz is supported on few monitors, not often (but can be hit by gsync/freesync/VRR); 24hz is sometimes supported (often seen in TVs).

And you can set it to 59.94, nobody is stopping you.

This entire comment chain started with, essentially, what is the LCM of 60 and 24 (or 59.94 and 23.976), and its 120 (or 119.88).
There's also kbin. I think the UX is better in that project.
Don’t sell to China and maybe not any other county
> They almost all roll their eyes aggressively at these sorts of prognostications. I'd say 90+% either laugh or roll their eyes. Why is that?

I literally think they haven't even given it any thought. Who seriously tries to extrapolate beyond 5 years in any field? Even to most doomers, 5 years seems safe.

What about 10? 20? 30? Remember, one of the very first things people tried to do was create a self-directed, self-optimizing AI with AutoGPT. How far forward can you project through how many attempts like this with progressively more sophisticated systems before this might produce an outcome that could be considered catastrophic?

If your answer is anything but an emphatic "infinity", then welcome to the doomers. Now we're just debating when and under circumstances this might take place, and not whether it might happen at all.
To add more examples of standalone apps that failed

1. Facebook Gaming app - https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/30/meta-shutting-down-facebook-gaming-app/
2. Facebook livestreaming app - https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/meta-testing-livestreaming-platform-influencers-super/
3. Facebook Events - https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/7/13192918/facebook-events-app-ios-android
It looks a lot more like the subscriptions Elon is paying for https://twitter.com/elonmusk/creator-subscriptions/subscript....
Or any custom front-end! Honestly if threads supports activitypub then Twitter is gone just like that - they show that they can afford to do everything Twitter does and without the lockdowns, whining and negging.
FDWs still requires an instance of Postgres to be running. With implementing the Postgres wire protocol, you could theoretically use any Postgres driver to talk to a SQLite database with no client changes and no instance of Postgres
A new server state management library for react
But the issue is -- would it break the things a web server is doing? It doesn't have to be a universal solution.
At this point it's like the ending of Jurassic Park, when the T-Rex comes and scoops up the velociraptor.
So let's take his example and reverse it. At first glance, what does this code do?

fetcher = repolib.IndexFetcher(args.arch)
counts = collections.Counter()
for repo in fetcher.get_repos():
for file in repo.files:
counts[file.name] += 1

for repo, count in counts.most_common(10):
print(repo, count)

Can't really tell, the names are too short. It's clear to him right now because he's intimate with the code. I'll bet it won't be clear to him in 6 months after he's crammed 100,000 lines of unrelated code into his brain. It certainly won't be clear to some poor sod with zero familiarity who has to come in behind him and maintain it.

His basic premise is correct: Names should be as short as possible while still being clear. Unfortunately he didn't follow his own premise. Err on the side of too long but clear, because maintenance is 90-99% of the project's life cycle and reading code is at least 5x harder than writing it. You should name variables/methods as if you won't be touching it for 6 months and you want to be able to have a decent understanding of what it does within 5-10 seconds of reading it.
It’s unimaginable to me that anyone can read two books in a day and retain any significant amount of its information. Not calling you a liar, I just literally can’t understand how.

Is this a skill you developed over time, did you learn some particular tricks, were you just born that way? How long have you been reading adult literature? Are you skimming or painting images in your mind? What kinds of books?

I have so many books I want to read but I can only get through about 10-15 per year. Some of it probably comes down to where I choose to spend my free time, but I still feel like I crawl through pages. I spend a lot of time/energy painting that mental imagery I asked about, of what is being described.
Yeah but it feels a bit like being negged. Like they can't just say "this is the process to make an account". They have to say " you are faaaakkeee prove to me you're real!".
How is Snapchat 3 times of TikTok? Is it due to the ban in India?
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Where to look for VBA , VB 6.0 Legacy systems maintenance / development (preferably remote) jobs
Thanks, I didn't think of maker spaces. I'll check some out.
Is the point of the story that no matter how good the documentation is, we don't read well anyhow? Else, I don't get the point.
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Particularly interested in CI/CD, build systems, developer tooling, developer experience. If you want a random small internal CLI, I can probably hack it out in a day. If you work with Erlang/Elixir and have been curious about Gleam, lets talk about it!

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Hoping to find somewhere to settle down for a while; not having health insurance is a bit of a drag. I tend to be a bit of an early bird, so try not to let my timezone be a deal breaker. I'm usually awake before most of the east coast US.
That's the exact one I have! It's great, perfect for me. It's old stock I think, in Europe these aren't available anymore :'( I recommend picking one up.
DoTT copy protection involved balancing the portable battery's chemicals. Copying a word or phrase feels off brand for a LucasArts game, that was more of a Sierra thing.

Which specific version do you distinctly remember?
So viewing from 40cm away is about the point where 220PPI crosses the point where you can tell any difference? That makes me think 220 is quite a well picked number, as that's about how far away someone might typically be viewing.
I thought many here were saying Meta was 'dying' a year ago because of Zuckerberg, layoffs, etc. Now they are changing their opinions and predictions like the weather, based on emotion and supporting the further monopolization of social networks?

> I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer.

More like it destroys Substack Notes, Post, T2, Hive.social and all the other so-called 'alternatives'.

The same people who incorrectly predicted Twitter's immediate collapse are now furious that didn't happen. Now we see them hastefully predicting the end of Twitter again. It is quite hilarious and this will age extremely poorly.

This actually also destroys and corrupts Mastodon from the inside out as they are split in federating or de-federating with Meta already as many admins signed NDAs with Meta to have no choice but to federate.

It seems HNers here really don't understand what network effects are. Quite very fixated and emotional about Twitter's immediate collapse (that didn't happen) and constantly don't learn from history and just continue to make up fantasies on the spot and blinded by schadenfreude.
As others here pointed out, Meta does not have a good history of launching completely new products separately and succeeding in it (except FB ofc). So it’s a wait and see.

If they’re going to ride on the coattails of the existing influencers, might make more sense to keep it a feature than a brand new app. The existing influencers would have no extra incentive to spend efforts on a whole new app if they’re addressing the same audience and won’t be gaining new set of audience.

Or keep it completely new to excite new wannabe influencers and they will put in the extra effort and drive activity at the beginning.
I love Brendan's article about load averages but I feel like this is missing the mark.

A core, or an execution unit stalling within a core, still count as busy. I.e. the CPU can't process something else. The utilization metric is correct. The question of whether a CPU be used more efficiently is in the domain of optimization. It might be executing NOPs and not stalling. It could be using an O(N^3) algorithm instead of O(N).
> text focused app

what ratio of tweets are rich media vs. text?
Basing edits because of how footage looks on a monitor with a non-compatible refresh rate just sounds like one of those problems that strikes me at my core especially when someone acknowledges it but does it anyways. Does it matter in the end, probably not, but it still goes against everything. It’s one of those things of seeing people “get away” with things in life blissfully unawares while someone that is well versed and well studied can’t catch a break.
Time to spin up a Fediverse alternative?
Normal people would call that pessimation(). There are some kind of languages, like perl, which brings out the people with funny names.
A header-only C implementation of C++ <algorithm>
Also, Risk.

If you are an employee and you unintentionally screw something up then you may get fired.

As a contractor, if you type a command in the wrong ssh session and take down the production system you may get sued, at which point it really matters if you are working through a limited liability company or you are personally invoicing them.

You have to price in the risk.

A UK limited company involves a significant amount of paperwork and administration. You can do it yourself or pay an accountant thousands a year.

There is monthly and yearly paperwork. There is the pain of the "making tax digital" plan to make companies submit accounts only electronically using accounting software.

A thing that sometimes costs people a pile of money is that VAT is on a rolling year. You can be under the VAT limit in your tax years, but if you invoice over 85K at the end of one tax year and the start of another then they can say "Gotcha! you must pay us 20% of your invoices and a big fine right now!"

There is also IR35. There is some risk of the government saying that you are a disguised employee and demanding a load of extra tax. It depends on things like does the contract say that your company can send anyone to do the work or does it have to be you.
In this blog, let’s look at why the Sony® ISX031 image sensor is considered a perfect fit for outdoor applications, its highlight-worthy features, and its benefits to industries.
Imagine drawing a circle with a radius of your error each time you guess. After the second guess, there will be only two intersecting points. A careful third guess should tell you which of the two it is.
as much as i dislike Facebook/Meta and its galaxy, there's a need for a viable alternative to Twitter especially now with this rate limit debacle.

Not only there's this limit but they also broke Tweetdeck which is the only way to really use Twitter
Perhaps I live under a rock, but phosphate is expensive. I was buying diammonium phosphate at $250 per ton a few years ago. Then it went to $340. Then COVID happened and it went to $600. Then the next year it was over $800. The ag supply company didn't even have enough cash to pay for a truck load. They've completely stopped carrying it now.
Just for clarification: are your remote positions only available for Canadians / within Canada? I can't tell if it's a qualifier or an optional onsite location.
I would like this. It boggles me that I cannot frictionlessly and easily stream audio to my LibreElec (Kodi) instance in this day and age.
Well the fucking thing doesn't work on my mobile phone. I clicked every button and nothing happens.
I don't think I've ever seen an ad in Messenger. Curious about where you're seeing them? Desktop? Android/iPhone?
Did anyone had the impression that utilization reflects the actual computations the CPU does? It only reflects the fraction the of wall clock time spent in the context, nothing more.
The whole POSIX standard is outdated, especially in terms of safety and security. With all experience and knowledge gained during last two decades, it's time to make a new standard, with better thought APIs, better friendliness to non-C languages (e.g. Rust, C++, etc).
It still feels very clear to me, I feel like the people debating this have probably never written and trained an LLM.

Consider a simpler case: a small neural network that takes 2 numbers and adds them together, producing 1 number as output.

This network is very obviously feedforward, and probably very tiny with few layers.

Say I have a list of numbers [1, 2, 5] that I want to sum. If I send 1 and 2 through the network, get 3 as a result, then I send 3 and 5 through the network, and get a final answer of 8, my network has not suddenly become non-feedforward just because I fed the output back into it.

The key distinguishing factor between feedforward and non-feedforward is if the network itself loops back around and, at training time, it learns how to make use of this ability to pass data to itself to maintain some hidden context between passes.

There is no such learned hidden context in my addition example, and none in GPT.

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There actually is a tiny caveat here: the RL fine-tuning process OpenAI has done on its models ("RLHF" & friends) actually does allow for a very, very small amount of information leakage between passes because you are rewarding whole responses, so the model can learn little patterns of what tokens in the beginning of the response led to certain tokens at the end of the response and reinforce those patterns.

The model could learn to encode small bits of "hidden" information in particular token choices that the human raters wouldn't notice. In this case, there is a (small but non-zero) amount of learned hidden context. But this is not what Hofstadter is talking about -- the non-RLHF'd base model is just as intelligent, just harder to use.
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You might want to read Drop Acid by Perlmutter, stuff about sugar by Robert Lustig and maybe Fiber Fueled by Bulsiewicz. They give pointers to why Alzheimer might happen in the first place and how to avoid it. Those are life-long advices.
I recently picked up a delightfully pre-digital habit: read books with a red pen in your hand (or any color different from the print). In the margins of the pages, ask questions, note points of confusion, or challenge the author. Mark sections to revisit (or skip entirely) later. Fidget with the pen to engage your motor neurons.

At the end of each chapter, there's usually a mostly-blank page. That's your spot to summarize or react to what you just absorbed.

The only downside is it requires your own dead tree copy, and anyone who borrows it later will inherit your goofy notes.

I've even tried printing out blog articles that I want to read more actively (2 pages per sheet, double sided).
> It is still Bitwarden's responsibility since they shipped a dangerous configuration via Docker. Which they seemingly acknowledge and have since fixed.

The screenshot makes it look like the docker setup option was still in beta and the page had warnings all over it saying there could be possible issues. I can't really judge Bitwarden too harshly here for releasing something in beta that was later found to have a vulnerability in it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/14puei4/alexa_voice_...
Well because there's already been a lot of laws passed in that regard and there's already momentum. I don't mean they should stop this momentum, these privacy laws are incredibly important.

I meant the need to start a new front.
The power of stories is that you are alone in the telling of them. The survival, your own undressing, or redressing, the terrible fury of living life, constrained to the teacup of bedtime for children. The power that storytelling takes is a kind of leadership that is grudgingly respected, like a real bastard's funeral.

It doesn't have much to do with physics.