skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely supported via the `gradientTransform` attribute on e.g. linear gradients, as in this example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/lin...
Indeed. Like facebook chat was XMPP based. If the rumors are even true, let's see how long until the rug pull.
I switched from a pair of 27" 4K to a 34" Ultrawide and I like it but I miss the pixel density. Hope we get a "Retina" Ultrawide before too long.
Instagram's brand name is much less tarnished than fb/meta.
I suspect it's because instagram is their brand with the most positive perceptions. FB is seen as old and meta is all about the metaverse.
Online Safety Bill: WhatsApp, Signal issue final warning against mass snooping
The heads of three major messaging apps have exclusively told The Standard that the Online Safety Bill, which is facing one of it’s final votes this week, will lead to the mass surveillance of every private online message and London’s reputation as a place to do business will be destroyed if the bill passes into law.

They also say Prime Minister Rishi Sunak can forget about the UK becoming a technology superpower if that happens, as tech firms will leave London and no one will want to start a business here.

Last week, the Government proposed a series of new amendments to the Online Safety Bill, which include the possibility of criminal liability for senior technology executives.

“It’s going to be an incredibly chilling effect on the whole London tech scene,” Elements’ chief executive and chief technology Matthew Hodgson told The Standard.

“If I’m going to start a company, I’m not going to do it in London anymore — I’ll go somewhere else because they’re not going to lock me up if someone decides to do something horrible to someone else on my platform.”
I wonder if there is a way to turn off as many features in Windows as possible.

I don't need:

- printer/fax/phone drivers

- probably many more drivers

- all telemetries

- most language packs

- many system software including Edge and all those MS store apps

I think there is definitely a way to painstakingly remove these elements from my installation but I could not find an exhausted guide.
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I just wish there was adversarial integration on these payment apps. I'm tired of setting up new ones.

Imagine if our phones still worked liked they originally did, where you could only call other people using the carrier you are. Oh you have T-mobile? Sorry. I have AT&T, i will write you a letter.

We didn't put up with it back then, and we shouldn't put up with it now.
I expected C/C++ for systems but not Lua--what's the story there? Be quite the spiffy job if you all figured out how to write kernel code in Lua :)
There's "not fast but usable enough" of course, but I would never ship std::regex code on any user facing software. Forget realtime, std::regex fails to be interactive in examples where other libraries resolve quickly.
So after all, you can write twitter in a week, it seems.
I simply pointed out that for many tasks it "works". Churning out React microsites and mobile apps, one after the other is what many creative agencies do. Notice that these are very constrained parts of the ecosystem (that's why I wrote a wall of text, to try to make the point that not all software is sacred codification of sprawling byzantine never-ending-fractals of business processes and human dreams).

I endorse healthy workplaces, hobbyist endeavors, coding challenges, navigating the murky waters of customer-supplier relationship with integrity, and absolutely despise how awful they are in many-many-many cases, and yes, it's mostly because of the absolutely fucked up incentives, like squeezing short-term revenue.
How, exactly? What control does Meta exert over the Fediverse that the users cannot resist?
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This has been scuttlebutt (inc the name) for at least a few months. The big thing was the ActivityPub compatibility
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Twitter’s gonna be a ghost town soon the way it’s trending. Instagram is providing a lifeboat, and it’s a known quantity of “evil”. Compared to whatever the heck Musk is doing.
The number of people who have even heard of "federation" or "Mastodon" is a vanishingly small fraction of the target audience for this app. Why waste precious page space on it?
Rockets fans need not inquire?
Kids is an extremely big deal, and equating it with height is frankly ridiculous.

Height is a relatively insignificant matter - whoop de doo, an inch or three here or there, whatever.

Kids cost tens of thousands of dollars a year to raise for 18 years and completely upend what someone is able to do with their life - forever.

IMO it's one of the most important things to filter for - two people who want kids are compatible, one who wants and one who is ambivalent are probably compatible, but someone who never wants them (like yours truly) will never - ever - be able to successfully have a long term relationship with someone who actively wants children. It's a recipe for disaster for one or both partners (and if a kid manages to happen, probably the kid too - last thing the kid needs is to be a resented one).
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Librarything has always been better than Goodreads, with a better community, better leadership, a better mission, and a more confusing UI. You can import your library from Goodreads, or pretty much anywhere else.
You can't take this list seriously. Cheddar has similar score as Gruyère. Or Norwegian Salmon similar as 'Fish and Chips'. No wonder English cuisine is rated so high there.
Disappointing that competitors are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data. This is almost certainly what Elon was referring to earlier this week; the same thing happened with Substack Notes. Hope Twitter pursues legal action against Meta for this.
Most big servers seem to be in a pact to defederate from Facebook before it even goes online.

I also remember the rumours stating that the Federation part was exclusively targeting large Mastodon servers, and also mostly unidirectional (from Mastodon to Threads).

I don't think the federation support will be all that great from what I've heard. But who knows, maybe it'll bring the Fediverse to the mainstream.
> Mark Zuckerberg Looks to Deliver Hit to Elon Musk With Upcoming Twitter Clone Named Threads

Seems normal with a reference to the potential fight.
Simple: Facebook and Meta have garbage reputation compared to Instagram brand.

The public associates Facebook/Meta with excessive data collection, overhyped VR, intrusive tracking, etc. That association is much weaker with Instagram.
It was even more impressive when I read that he only started work on this less than a year ago. Wow.
> Do you have any friends in the tech industry? I have at least one friend who wound up at a job whose chief responsibilities were factory-based, and therefore that involved his frequent and extended travels to China.

I'd quit my job rather than go on a business trip to China. No amount of money is enough to put my life at such high risk.
Seems like the Instagram handle will be the Threads handle. IG, like Twitter rely on the handle concept, whereas Facebook never really did in the same manner.
FWIW, this is also the conclusion that I've come to. Mergers only make markets less competitive, and the mere existence of acquisitions creates perverse incentives that distort the startup market into utter uselessness. The experiment has failed, ban it all, and ignore the protestations of the get-rich-quick crowd. Of course, to fix the overall market you'll also need to break up all the existing megacorps in the process, and I wish you luck with that.
The larger the monitor, generally the better. However, considering GPU performance and power consumption, compromises must be made somewhere. I have a $500 Dell 4K 32-inch monitor, which is the maximum I can accommodate in terms of desk space. (The desk space is greatly influenced by real estate prices, currently estimated at $12,000 per square meter based on my home.)
As I understand it, Schnorr signatures are the "natural" (and simplest) construction for a digital signature in elliptic curve cryptography. The reason ECDSA exists is simply https://patents.google.com/patent/US4995082 (now expired), which made Schnorr illegal to use, so something worse had to be invented.
Because Twitter is a pseudo-anonymous service similar to Instagram unlike Facebook.

Also it uses the Instagram infrastructure e.g. auth and design language.
Deepest human-made hole is about 40,000 feet and the Earth's crust is about 160,000 feet. We've barely scratched the surface, literally.
"We need more languages that come with rigid rules for things like style, so we can stop wasting time and get on with solving problems."

I have the complete opposite opinion. Most software engineers are obsessed with style, and I don't think accommodating it is the right solution. I think the right idea is just not enforcing any stylistic rules at all (while obviously keeping the readability and maintainability-related rules) and just let everyone write code how they want, while forcing them to tolerate other people's coding, naming, brace placement, etc. styles.
Funnily enough, I scrolled to the "Data Linked to You" section and was not disappointed.
It uses the existing Instagram user database. No need to get a new username.
The take home message for me is how local funding creates a very unequal levels of police staffing, and that every child is equally deserving of protection from crime.
Seems closer to the ending at this point (for Twitter).
"Instagram" and "WhatsApp" are their brands that have positive perception. "Facebook," "Meta," and "Mark Zuckerberg" have negative perception.
There are already some instances which are defederating, see [0] for a write-up

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/more_on_preemptively_bloc...
Check your math, son.
What the Polar Vortex Will Do to Earth this Decade [video][16 min]
My ML research development environment workflow
I’m curious how you think data scraping could be used to bootstrap a new social network like this
Is the activitypub compatibility confirmed?
I don't think I'm in any of those groups.

I own a variety of monitors and can easily tell the difference between 60hz and 120hz. All things being equal, I of course prefer 120hz (or 165hz as some of my gaming monitors support).

I also own monitors at resolutions from 1440p to 4k.

For doing work (programming, where I'm mostly looking at text), resolution makes a huge difference. I only do coding on high DPI screens and I would upgrade to 5k or 6k or 8k displays if I were confident that my hardware and OS would support them well. (TFA was very helpful in that respect.) In these settings, high refresh rate makes only a marginal difference to my experience.

For gaming, refresh rate makes a much bigger difference, and resolution makes a somewhat smaller difference -- my hardware can't reasonably drive many of the games I play at 4k or higher anyway. So I just use cheaper, lower-resolution monitors that operate at high refresh rates for gaming.

Someday I guess I'll just be able to spend $300 for an 8k monitor at 240hz and then I won't have to make this kind of choice. (In fact, in the several years since I last bought gaming hardware I think the options for high-refresh-rate 4k monitors have gotten much better; I might use 4k for gaming if I were buying today.)

But for now, I'll always pick resolution over refresh rate for doing work, and it's not because I can't tell the difference.
What content is being scraped, here?
Google now does effectively the same with their in-search ads. Most of the time the entire space above the fold is just ads.
Threads.net might just work in a browser. You may need to login to your Instagram account however.
What PCI says is irrelevant. The argument being made is that when you enter your CC number into a website you have no idea if the receiving party is PCI compliant or not. There are ways to design a payment systems that reduces this counter party risk.
What is the trend? Downwards in the sense of a few percent a year? Or a week?
And yet the wealthy still spend 3 to 10 days of low wage income on designer clothing.

It's interesting that in some domains there is not diferencial there is no 10k iphone and you can get a massive TV fairly cheaply. And yes commodity clothing is cheep.

If it was not already obvious we create new forms of value that shift as commodity product become common place or mas market items.

That shift to new forms of value inherently depends on scarcity and that scarcity can only exist as a sum of non-commodity goods, creating new opportunities to fill that pursuit of diferencial value and experience.
Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild
The name has pejorative roots, in describing a situation in which useful information repeatedly arrives at an institution and yet is just as repeatedly ignored. "The clue train stopped there four times a day for ten years and they never took delivery."

The imputed message being that if you have to be prodded to accept delivery, or even to understand what the cluetrain is ... the imputation is not a positive one.

(The long history of words introduced to soften the blow of older terms for low intellect and/or knowledge themselves becoming pejorative is ... instructive.)
Meta has money to pay app developers to develop a good app.

Most ActivityPub services have taken ages to get decent apps and even now Mastodon has some obvious problems. Opening someone else's profile if nobody on your server follows them shows you a barren timeline with no history and there's still no way to tell Mastodon "go fetch toots from this user's outbox".
They will if the US threatens them with sanctions or requires export licenses and they see their value in the US market being greater than the CN market.

ASML is a really good example.
maybe I missed it but how does this utilize Twitter data for bootstrapping?
To be clear, I'm not saying that Instagram actually is any better than Meta/Facebook - but that their public perception isn't as disasterously tainted.
That's strange, worked for me. Probably some A/B testing ...
I am not sure what you mean? Why does Threads need any Twitter data?
a) There is no evidence of mass-scraping.

b) It is legal and ethical to scrape public data. Especially when that data is owned by its users and not by Twitter.

c) The more likely explanation for Twitter's rate limiting is that they didn't pay their AWS/Google bill and rather than cut the service off they limited its bandwidth and/or compute capacity.
Value prop: operated by an adult
For those who do wish to browse the weird web, https://search.marginalia.nu is helpful
Meta is extremely hypocritical about scraping. They continuously send their legal team to threaten third parties on scraping of their platforms yet time and again are caught red-handed
This Star64 board looks like a nice contender to the RPi4. Unfortunately, they don't ship to my country. It would be nice if future iterations of these boards came with at least one mini PCIe socket, so that you can add a 4G modem. The PineCube looks interesting as well.
I've noticed that many decent German TV productions (I'm talking about somewhat positive outliers here, like the best few Tatort episodes in a year) get scores of 6 to 7 on IMDB - especially the ones that are only shown in Germany. So, the Netherlands and Germany are pretty similar about that.
The following social graph of Instagram is much more skewed toward celebrities than on Facebook I’m guessing
Does anyone have any insight into if this a respin of the same Threads app from 2019 or just the same name? https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/03/threads-instagram-f...
yep. The same it became a "ghost town" after everyone migrated to mastadon, hive, tumblr, truth social, bluesky, post and the rest of the other meme "twitter killers"
My opinion? I think it sucks. PM2.5 kills. CO2 is causing climate change.

But living in a world with industrial pollution is better than living in a pre-industrial world.
Mark Zuckerberg would like to know your... everything.
"ActivityPub with Meta extensions"

If there are more Threads users than non-Threads users then non-Threads instance admins have to choose between adapt or risk emigration. EEE is a consolidation tactic after all.
Everything but your DNA, and if they could ask for that I’m sure they would
Different app altogether.
Gfycat is shutting down on September first
NTLite is a pretty good tool, still in beta for Windows 11, to strip out all of the cruft Microsoft adds to 'improve' Windows before you install it. If you install NTLite onto a machine with an NTLite built image, it's host update tool will keep checking for, and removing, things Microsoft tries to sneak back in, like Edge.

Although I built my machine for performance - i9-13900K, 64 GB RAM, 2TB boot SSD - Windows is quite performant and barely touches the CPU at idle as it's not trying to process any 'value adds'.
Ask HN: Are LLMs going to be replaced with something that's truly intelligent?
Transformer models are great at text works, but I'm afraid we've reached a local maximum in terms of AI intelligence. Yann LeCun thinks in 5 years, we won't be using these models anymore. I wonder what alternative models are proposed in the literature? What other ways have we come up with to create something that is intelligent?
Progress for who? Humans? Yes. Everything else not so much.

It's like AC. It's great for you but everything else is now more heated.
On the fediverse, there's already a huge number of instances planning to block this app when possible as it isn't really in the spirit of the fediverse - it's proprietary, owned by a large company and centralized
Multiplication takes more than a handful of instructions if the hardware doesn't do it.

https://godbolt.org/z/ccYPaz1Pj

For this example (AVR), this is the int multiply function __mulhi3:

00: 00 24 eor r0, r0
02: 55 27 eor r21, r21
04: 00 c0 rjmp .+0
06: 08 0e add r0, r24
08: 59 1f adc r21, r25
0a: 88 0f add r24, r24
0c: 99 1f adc r25, r25
0e: 00 97 sbiw r24, 0x00
10: 01 f0 breq .+0
12: 76 95 lsr r23
14: 67 95 ror r22
16: 00 f0 brcs .+0
18: 71 05 cpc r23, r1
1a: 01 f4 brne .+0
1c: 80 2d mov r24, r0
1e: 95 2f mov r25, r21
20: 08 95 ret
I feel like "wish ill" might be too strong of a way to put it. Consider that most people aren't rooting for drunk drivers to crash their cars, but also don't feel that bad when one does without hurting anyone else.
There's an Android version as well.

https://www.threads.net/ shows a blank page titled "Instagram" but I'm guessing it'll soon show some kind of website once the server goes live.
Aka the most valuable to collect data from and advertise to.
Interesting product moves.

Reinforce insta as a “platform” where features are now labeled as “apps”. Continues to reinforce engagement metrics at insta app level, so big win politically for the insta org inside meta. I’m sure a lot of promos coming down next cycle. Also very easy user acquisition since it piggy backs on existing insta user base.

Insta maps more to the public facing vibe that Twitter does, whereas Facebook seems more for friends and family. Insta also more easily monetized than say WhatsApp, so the business moves all track.

Overall curious to see what happens to the landscape. At a minimum it may leach away engagement from Twitter, so probably not very favorable for Twitter stock price.
Exactly. I can easily tell the difference and couldn't care less.

Brightness, pixel density, and contrast/blacks (including glossiness) are what I care about in terms of image quality.

Maybe if I were a gamer it would matter, but I couldn't care less about how smooth scrolling or cursor movement is. It doesn't change my productivity or affect my comfort at all.
A view quota is not a feature. Especially when the site was acceptably functional the day before.
It looks like only the name was reused. All the functionality in the previous Threads app is now in the main Instagram app.
This exists everywhere. People who knows their stuff read the manual, those who don't didn't.

Especially common are the people who get others to read the manual for them and answer all their questions, because they themselves obviously have no time to be reading them but more than enough time to grab some unfortunate sod to do so.
This conversation is really crazy to me. I’m going to assume these people really do work in payment processing and it explains a lot. Apparently they can’t even properly recognize a potential attack vector let alone mitigate it. If this mindset is common in the payments industry, then it explains why payments are still so insecure.
> are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data

I am 99% sure that this is not a real thing and that you're using all of these words incorrectly.

When was Substack illegally scraping Twitter data? What Twitter data is being used to bootstrap Threads?
So this is similar to the FizzBuzz post where they are trying to make an algorithm to make it the fastest, but really is useless.
No, they can not. Before they killed CentOS you could get the support from community. Now they're killing what's left of the enthusiast community and people stop using it because nobody believes them any-more.
I think these things are amazing, but I don’t think they’re comprehensively intelligent nor do I think we can easily reproduce this spark in other domains of intelligence.

When we can, we will be creating something superhuman in the truest sense. What we have now isn’t that at all. I think it appears magical because we’re so enthralled by language. It’s a major interface into our world and we’re extremely stimulated by it. It conveys so much meaning to us with so little. In fact, when it conveys too little meaning we begin to search for it and fill in the gaps! Our brains are extremely eager to engage with language.

I’m excited about this stuff, but what the models are doing isn’t as incredible as all of that seems.
Norway may be able to mine phosphate without making a huge mess. Unlike Florida [1] and Nauru.[2]

[1] https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earthshot/phosphate-mine...

[2] https://interestingengineering.com/culture/phosphate-mining-...
buikdpacks is actually used by Google cloud to build container images from your app source code.

i used dockerslim in the past and i was impressed. i didn't add to the article since i wasn't aware it became a CNCF protect. I wasn't sure who was using it.