skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeking profit and constant population growth are already extremely dumb goals on their own. You can continue worrying about AGI if you want but nothing I've said is either cynical or anti-human. It is simply a description of the global techno-industrial economic system and its total blindness to all the negative externalities of cancerous growth. Continued progress and development of AI capabilities does not change the dynamics of the machine that is destroying the biosphere and it never will because it is an extension of profit seeking exploitative corporate practices carried over to the digital sphere. To address the root causes of misalignment will require getting rid of profit motives and accounting for all the metabolic byproducts of human economic activity and consumption. Unless the AI alarmists have a solution to those things they're just creating another distraction and diverting attention away from the actual problems[1].

1: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/plast...
It is fairly normal to build web servers in a way so they can be scaled horizontally (more instances rather than larger instances). So they can just have more containers run their Django servers and distribute the load between them.
They will be though.

And mastodon.social and other big Mastodon instances will allow it.
No Nanowar found.
In 2012, FB ran psychological experiments on its users to evaluate how they felt after seeing a series of posts with either happy or sad information [0]

Just think about the rich data they could collect in 2023! Tracking changes in your heart rate and sleep quality on the basis of your app use!

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/06/30/32...
Oh lord, the person asked a question, A QUESTION!!!!

Geez, it is you who is the authoritarian for coming so hard at the person who asked a pertinent question.

Geez.
"only a small minority of members had far right connections"

Of course its commanders are a minority.

"untainted by antisemitism"

So it's ok to hate other nationalities if it's not Jews?

No one idolizing Bandera and the likes of him cannot be untainted by Nazism.

"I don't think they really"

Pretending to read other person's mind and accuse them of insincerity based on that makes a poor argument.

"to push people's emotional buttons, and distract "

You mean people in Western countries might learn whom they are helping and ask questions like "why exactly have we been doing this"?
So this is down to your poor definition of intelligence?

For you, it's always the homework problems that your teacher assigned you in grade school, nothing else is intelligent. What to say to someone to have them be your friend on the playground, that never counted. Where and when to show up (or not), so that the asshole 4 grades above you didn't push you down into the mud... not intelligence. What to wear, what things to concentrate on about your appearance, how to speak, which friendships and romances to pursue, etc.

All just "animal cunning". The only real intelligence is how to work through calculus problem number three.

They were smart enough at these things that they did it without even consciously thinking about it. They were savants at it. I don't think the AI has to be a savant though, it just has to be able to come up with the right answers and responses and quickly enough that it can act on those.
> we've lacked an open social network platform that solves the problem of putting content distribution directly in the hands of content producers

I don't know about "open", but YouTube does this pretty well IMO. Search results aren't based on your profile, and it all seems pretty un-"managed", in a Twitter Files sense. I know it does do demonetization if people complain, but while it's not perfect, it's not unreasonable.
Dang works very hard to censor this site quite heavily and maintain the kind of discourse he and his team want. As is his right.

HN is not a example of libertarian social media.
This is the absolute wildest take I’ve seen in a while. How can any sort of free market ideas apply? Fascists operate by force. A tiny minority of fascists can take control over a much larger population through violence. Source: history
May, June, July and August maps look pretty dope for Chicago though. We need self-erecting containerized PV plants that we can move around with the seasons.

Chicago has great rail connections!
First time hearing about this engine. How does it compare to Unity/Unreal? Not a game dev btw
> Like every human endeavour, every social network is there for a limited duration and will be useful to a limited niche of people

On a grand enough scale, sure. If we expand the scope of "social network" very slightly to consider things like the web and email, this fact becomes less clear. I am fairly young, and I suspect at least email will be used for the rest of my life. The difference between the modern landscape for new protocols and the landscape when the early internet protocols were made is that there was little struggle for power. People made things they wanted, and they took off if other people wanted the same thing.

Now we have a bunch of competition for what is essentially the same experience. Does that mean there will never be one dominant protocol (or shudders, one application) for social media? I wouldn't bet on that claim. I think it will just take longer to reach somewhere that we land on as a common denominator.

It seems to be that a protocol must be flexible enough to support the division of communities and migration of users, like the article says is human nature. Protocols can support that though - email is one such protocol that does. ActivityPub is another, seems to be the route that we are headed towards right now.
Maybe your slice of Twitter isn't. My take is that we can't actually say whether Twitter is, or isn't, a Nazi hellscape, because of the darn algorithm. It's in the way. Since everyone gets a personalized view, there's no coherent "Twitter" to analyze as to how much fascist content is on it. There's a billion bot posts, but who actually sees them?

It's certainly possible to get stuck in a recommendation-algorithm Nazi hellscape, where it's a very weird far-right bubble. (I got some interesting recommendations on both Twitter and Youtube after a few posts and videos about that guy making the UFO claims. Quite suddenly the feed became dark, conspiratorial, and with lots references to "globalists".)

It's also, of course, possible to get stuck by the recommendation algorithm in some weird far-left universe, also quite out of step with the mainstream.

Nothing wrong with being out of step with the mainstream in itself; the problem is when you don't know that you are. Some of the people in these social media bubbles don't know they're in those bubbles. As far as they're concerned, everyone else agrees with them and they're getting more and more re-enforcement.

I think that a growing general ineptitude and inexperience with dealing with the fact that some people have radically different worldviews, social beliefs, and political attitudes, probably explains some of the contemporary derangement. If they're literally the only example of disagreement you run into, then obviously they're insane and/or stupid and/or evil, (Surely they know what you know?! We tend to assume that even when it can't be true.) Maybe related to why we seem to be particularly prone to portraying the political opposition as evil, insane, or stupid these days. The viciousness of the in-group towards the dissenters makes all the sense in the world if they're just evil, insane and stupid. And since we can't comprehend their worldview since we never see the world as they see it, (thanks to the algorithm), it just becomes re-enforcing.
I have tried it here is my experience:
I am new user, I login and begin to search for content:

Whatever I search for does not match the content on any tweet equivalent either the text or meta information - like hashtags. Only the content of the users name and words in their Bio.

This I can understand for instagram where the concept is based on a stream of pictures that will be released over time. But how do I find within content ? - like breaking news items?

Beyond duplicating the accounts you follow in instagram.
This only serves to find and follow accounts built around a single concept.
Or a named celebrity.

But it does not work at the moment as a tool to find anything based on the content within a thread (happening now, or around me, or an upcoming event or a specific programming code example) - isn't this the main value of these kind of tools?
Find content that is important or interesting to you and then follow them to hear more.

Am I missing something fundamental?
It’s not because we have experts at the NTSB to make a call as to relevance.

You’re right it could be relevant, but they just didn’t have any data to support that.

But you could also argue the copilot’s career as a lawyer could be relevant plus a million other factors, we just don’t know.

It adds nothing to the discussion because it’s not actionable.
True. But for Coke, at least, I wish they'd "grandfathered" it in!
No, but appealing to 'we' is. Not that 'we' in this case has much meaning, it actually could read 'you'.
If you trust the author of tool you are installing and the installer is by the same author, then why wouldn't you trust the installer too?

> It's 100% trivial to have it run rm or shred on all files you have access to while simultaneously printing correct looking install progress messages.

The same is true of the tool itself, too.
This is cool, I'm going to start trying it. I noticed elixir's doctests a few weeks ago and it seems like a partially related idea. It's not quite the same thing but I could see a formalization like them being the "other half" of the blog post's approach for a team.
People who Are heavy Twitter users dont associate with insta and vice versa. It's a hard sell. Let's see what happens. But would be hard to believe meta can pull it off
If more emphasis was placed on social groups than networks I think it would be better all around. Hands-down the best online group of which I'm a member is a Mastodon group who are fans of the same podcast. There are similar groups of fans of this podcast on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere but their Mastodon server is orders of magnitude more active because we're there for the same reason.
> TFG

what is this referring to?
Same applies, you can film the police but you can't post it online as they as individuals have a right to privacy as well. Misconduct is handled by the appropriate authoritative which will view such tapes but not by the Public although such footage will end up in the media with the police officer's identities anonymized.

Police body cams are permitted but the handling of the recordings is very strictly controlled. The same applies to public cameras such at train stations etc. There are clear signs indicating they are present and the footage has strict retention policies. In many cities now it is also illegal for these camera to do any type of face recognition.

In only very extreme situations can the government share footage with the media where a person is identifiable.
Earth entering ‘uncharted territory’ as heat records quickly shatter
> The need to have profit is the goal of any business.

This isn't true. A non-profit is still a business. Charities are businesses. Cooperatives can make profit. Also (almost) no-one thinks small businesses making modest profit and riding the ups and downs alongside others in a locale is a problem.

The problems arise in companies that choose to only or mainly focus on profit. Most capital funds don't make anything themselves other than money, which they extract from businesses that do make things. You can claim that they're market-correcting forces that allow money to easily move between different areas of human interest... but ultimately their product is their own enrichment. The speed and convenience they provide might be an illusion created by their apparent success. It might be better that our markets and locales develop more slowly; if more smaller scale investors made a wider range of decisions, rather than a handful of large ones making most of them.
Why? At least in the case of democratic governmwnts, there is more control and oversight than there is in case of Meta, Twitter or Google.
I agree with most of what was said except one tiny piece, I don't think we should give up on a universal social network. We have some of the pieces, but the puzzle still isn't solved and I like seeing people challenge that.

The rest is definitely true though, all social networks are doomed for the same result: disappear into the void or become riddled with ads and so many additional services that the core network moves on. We'll keep repeating this cycle until the universal social network is actually achieved. I'm ok with that, having made several transitions already it's nothing new.
Hard to say from the outside. Most founding teams end up with around 20% of a company at IPO so you could use that as a reference point.

However, this company was a few stages before IPO so there could have been less dilution from investors - allowing the founders to get a bigger cut.

On the other hand, some investors have really aggressive terms that can screw founders in situations like this. For example, their contracts could stipulate that an investor gets the first $45m of any exit even if that investor only put $15m into the company.
were they paying for their account? you can't expect much if you're not a paying customer.
Everything you said makes sense. If it's a tool shared and maintained by a team, technology is not the only matter to consider. Familiarity and ease to model the problem is also very important. Thanks for sharing your perspective
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To calculate that you'd need to know what they raised at.
As an example, the PSP's UMD format. So much time/effort went into that, while at the same time allowing content to be read from an SD card. Of course I can only assume this was meant as some lame IP protection, and possibly an attempt to bring back a format similar to the once popular minidisc. Also funny to me was that Blu-ray was knock knock knocking already with their Java based programming, while the UMD was programmed much more similarly to HD-DVDs.
Always could. Because everyone else can see if the theater is on fire or not.
It's a myth that it's illegal to yell fire in a crowded theatre, https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
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A good dialogue is always fun. Thanks for bringing some science to the thread.

You've hit the nail on the proverbial head regarding misuse. Misuse is a problem across installation types: belt-only, and with Latch/Isofix. Some people get so confused they install with both methods.

Lowering misuse is a top design goal. Stated differently: we want to make things so simple that people have to work hard to make a mistake.

You are absolutely correct that belt misuse is a problem (per the cited GDV study). Latch misuse is still a problem too, though.

The studies make clear that misuse is common across installation types, to various degrees. The studies don't do a great job of exploring why the misuse occurred (The 2005 NHTSA study below did ask some good follow up questions). For example, Why did someone not use the belt path correctly? Was it because the slot was too narrow? Was it not visually obvious? Why did someone install both the Latch/Isofix anchors onto the same mount point? Why did someone leave too much slack in the Latch/Isofix anchor or the seat belt? Etcetera. The reasons why people misuse a seat are very valuable to improved public education and improved product design.

NHTSA's 2005 large field study found 39% of CRS (aka baby car seats) were incorrectly installed with Latch. Many of those had multiple errors (e.g. twisted belt plus latch connector turned upside down).
Table 11 has the details in https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/latch_report_12-...

10 years later, NHTSA's 2015 study with NCRUSS data found misuse was still persistent:
"Overall misuse is considered as having at least one defined misuse present in the car seat or booster seat – the seat may have one or multiple misuses, where one misuse has the same contribution as multiple misuses. The overall misuse is estimated to be 46 percent with a 95 percent confidence interval ranging from 39 percent to 52 percent. By car seat or booster seat type, estimated misuse rates were 61 percent for forward-facing car seats, 49 percent for rearfacing infant car seats, 44 percent for rear-facing convertible car seats, 24 percent for backless booster seats, and 16 percent for highback booster seats." Source: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

So for all those parents out there, read your seat's user manual. The user manual will make it clear how to properly and effectively use the seat belt or the Latch/Isofix anchorages.
The Register has a story about Threads and the permissions it asks for, "Health and Fitness" is indeed on the list. Honestly, it looks like it simply asks for every conceivable permission (what is "Sensitive Info" or "Other Data"?) There's a screenshot at the bottom of the article with the full list.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/05/threads_comes_to_uk/
Exactly my thoughts. Seems like asking genuine questions is not acceptable anymore because some people can’t help but to resort to personal attacks. Unbelievable.
"unprecedented", and you're right, up until the point of relevance.

It's only relevant to this story to imply that its causal, i.e., an impartial judge might not have made the ruling. Or to your point, "this wouldn't have happened if Obama's appointee were there." It's openly questioning the judge's ability to be neutral.

Regardless, though, I'm OK with it as long as it's labeled every time a Clinton, Obama, or Biden-appointed judge makes a decision that could be framed as political. That doesn't happen, though.
Maybe they need a setup that works themselves
Have look at Möbius Sync. It is a third party app that wraps and makes SyncThing available on iOS & iPadOS. https://www.mobiussync.com/
> sad that that is the effect and that papers need to list who nominated a judge.

It matters because Trump appointed, and the GOP Senate confirmed, a batch of federal judges who the bar association determined were Not Qualified, because they were found to be lacking in "integrity, professional competence or judicial temperament."

The past two GOP presidents have eschewed bar association recommendations entirely and instead had their judicial appointments selected by the right-wing Federalist Society.
just drop a failwhale in for that true early Twitter experience
At least there are links. That’s a good sign. TikTok survived on mostly that model, though it’s still important to make the content visible without installing an app.
So if they did it to me, it's bad, but to Facebook it's OK? In some court cases the actual harm matters, and sometimes it's the principle that matters.
threads.net returns a blank page for me on Firefox on Linux. Works fine on Chromium and Brave. Oh well, I guess no threads for me.
While I enjoyed my (small) foray into the world of Laravel, I'm happy to see something other than unabashed praise for Laravel here on HN.

A technical decision should be done by weighting it's pros and cons, not just by looking at the pros.

Agree on the 'Sorting classes by types', it's something I've always found surprising too, and love the car-collection metaphor.
Polaris Creates First-of-Its-Kind Electric Off-Road Vehicle Charging Network
The text file would map simply a symbol to a version, to be overridden in the generated ELF binary (exe or SO).

That way, the game devs don't need to build the "old" SOs and reconfigure the toolchain to use them, which is unreasonable to ask them (but this is expected from game engine elf/linux devs like unity/unreal/godot/etc) and a MASSIVE PAIN to make work properly (exponentially proportional on the abstraction level of the game/engine build system).

While any "old" symbol version is not removed...
They don't feel the need to, because HN mods do their job and there aren't millions of people spreading verifiable misinformation here unchecked.
I think social media is a large feed stock for training AI and for selling advertisements. People will throw money endlessly at it for this reason.
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you're not trapped, you can deactivate a threads account without impact on Instagram
This comes up frequently on HN and it isn't true. The internet has many more users than back then. You can still find your weird niche on the internet today.

Just posted today, private blogs of HN users:
https://dm.hn/

A weird search engine which skips a lot of corporate crap:
https://search.marginalia.nu/

Or skip the first million search results:
https://millionshort.com/

Then there's neocities, weird subreddits, 4chan, niche forums still running on phpBB discussing all kinds of stuff.

You seem to expect that niche communities should've scaled with the rest of the internet. Like, back then, there were a few million people online. Now it's billions, but the few millions still online in their niches aren't interesting enough for you. Why?
At least a few years ago, most of Instagram’s server side code was in Python. Python may be slower than C++, but it’s not about raw speed it’s about being “fast enough.”
Flying used to be expensive and rarely done by most people. Now around 50% of Americans fly every year. It went from an elite product to a commodity.

Anyway first class is still pretty comfortable IMO. And airports are much nicer than before.
The defaults are there to tell you who this app is primarily designed to serve - somebody other than the person using it.
It's basically just "if it's too good to be true than it ain't". Which was obvious for me from the begging for free video streaming, lower cost higher quality taxi, lower cost higher quality hotel rooms, zero cost but quality banking and so on.

Oh, wait, it's not just that. It's also greed. Greedy customers wanting things without paying what they're worth, greedy entrepreneurs not wanting to grow a business steady, healthy and organically, greedy investors, greedy software engineers, etc, etc.
Do we know that for sure?
> “Who is this for?”

The answer is clear as daylight: this is for the shareholders. AI costs less than employee, we put employee money into our pockets instead, end of rationale.

The Capitalization of Everything is accelerating and it serves nothing but money.
Of these 10M+ users, are there any good ones to follow for tech related content?
I assumed literally, and yet the argument applies: we have not been able to stop those things even when using guns to shoot people doing them. The same pressures that keep people growing the plants, processing them, transporting it, selling it, buying it, consuming it, there are many things a system — intelligent or otherwise — can motivate people to keep the lights on.

There were four reactors in Chernobyl plant, the exploding one was 1986, the others were shut down in 1991, 1996, and 2000.

There's no plausible way to guess at the speed of change from a misaligned AI, can you be confident that 14 years isn't enough time to cause problems?
Noctis! I loved this game.
Up until a few years ago I kept visiting his website, in the hopes something would come up again about Noctis V, lol.
He used the term "Home sweet pixel" too back then I believe, but also "The web territory of Fottifoh" or something. It was al very interesting.

To me it wasn't really a precursor to NMS, but more to Minecraft.
The "infinite" terrain on worlds is what kept me interested.
I don't define cunning and strength as intelligence, even if they are more useful for shoving someone into the mud. Intelligence is a measure of the ability to understand and solve abstract problems, not to be rich and famous.