skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you want a curated feed go to Tumblr or Mastodon. These spaces exist yet they're significantly less mainstream.

Why would we ignore the very mainstream Instagram as an example?

> you're generally logging in anyway.

When an app is established, sure. But providing new users a shitty experience in order to prioritise revenue is how new social networks fail.
OTOH Twitter is actively imploding and a toxic place for corporate comms and brands, marketing, etc. A meta/FB/Instagram alternative is exactly what those entities want to move towards and rapidly exit the sinking Twitter/Elon ship. I think it's going to do well.
Residential water use is nothing.

In California, where we have persistent water shortages, residential, commercial and industrial water use ( including all landscaping, golf courses, etc) all put together still only amount to 10-20% of overall water use, depending on rainfall
The line "we are an editor for the consumer" is entirely apt. I go to Lee Valley looking for something that will do the job and is more than likely of good quality. To their credit, they often stock both a mid-range item (e.g. a $80 pair of camping axes) alongside top-range ($230 Swedish-smithed axes) and I can choose between them without having to go off reading reviews or other internet hot takes. Their ability to maintain stock levels is also relatively good.

I think the article misses out on the best part: the stores are a treat to wander around. You can bring your dog in and there's something interesting in nearly every corner. Staff are unfailingly polite and accommodating. I look forward to trips there while those to the larger Home Depot are more function-driven.

Glad to see them getting good coverage and recognition.
Embrace, extend, enshittify
Useless criticism. It didn't seem like they were trying to amaze or surprise anyone with that comment.
Haha, there has to be a modding community dedicated to embedding this into a laptop shell google's furiously
> Autocracy gets shit done.

On certain high profile projects, sure. But autocracy typically embeds a lot of corruption at every level of the system which creates a drag in many ways.

A system that prioritizes loyalty and obedience to your superiors more than anything tends to have a lot of waste.
yes, that’s usually the first thing people say. It’s easy to be skeptical. The odds are often in the skeptics favor.

Personally, I don’t see any value in debating it.

Here’s a classic article explaining why Apple opening retail stores will never work.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2001-05-20/commentar...

My advice: Skip the worthless debate.
jfc the plug-in is just a blank check. Here’s another bright idea: eval-gpt-plugin
https://daniel.do/
How much of that is annual fluctuations because they get more solar in the summer?
It's only insanity if the courts can't provide an equitable remedy. What's happening is that Twitter is operating in bad faith, and the usual legal system will force them to do what they're supposed to do. That's normal. Twitter's behavior is outside of normal, but the overall system is functioning just fine.
None of them other than threads has reached enough traction, threads is growing incredibly fast, and will have critical mass for users to migrate.
Also there is nothing new to learn, just use your existing Instagram account/create one and you are ready.
Maybe because threads.com was taken by another company?
A reliably better source too, this should be the linked article.
> If I make coffee at home that causes a coffee shop to lose out on Revenue. Surely I'm not responsible for paying the coffee shop for the Lost Revenue.

At least in the US, the federal government can punish you for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

tl;dr Whether or not an action is interstate commerce, if it _affects_ interstate commerce in any way (broadly defined), then the federal government has jurisdiction and can punish you under their massive and capricious laws.
> I don't want to necessarily block MrBeast, I just don't want to see him when I don't follow him.

Is there a mute feature like on Twitter? I use that all the time.
Did you see what elon did last week?
I am not going to pay for a social media site which still gives me ads and has rate limits.
Honestly, your second to last sentence is literally the kind of thing I hate hearing most from non-lawyers; the whole "if the legislature were just smarter" thing is just a weird pie-in-the-sky concept that is more-or-less like saying "the world would be better if CEOs were less greedy."

Like, yes, but it's not very likely to happen and it's not a particularly horrible thing if it doesn't; the law is slow and little-c conservative and you're just expecting it to be something it MOST often just ain't.
I like the clean interface, which platform is it based on?
Book Review: Fossil Future
Yeah. That was wildly off. ChatGPT strikes again, or rather my ability to get chatGPT to give me useful information strikes again. Seems like closer to 1 billion or less?
Truth Social is just a fork of Mastodon and is a terminal grift on followers of that particular political personality. Hive was a school project by 2 people that managed to secure funding without a real strategy and afaik hasn't really been able to reach a critical mass.
I don't see how glass, steel, or paper packaging would be superior. Paper is far more carbon intensive to produce (think an order of magnitude), and for food products it must be treated in such a way that it is not perfectly biodegradable wood pulp, but rather lined with plastic or plastic derivatives. It also doesn't work very well for frozen foods.

Glass is extremely carbon intensive to produce, and it weighs an enormous amount meaning a greater carbon footprint to ship products from factory to table. Not to mention it is impractical for goods like freeze dried potatoes mentioned above.

Steel cans and other metal packaging is lighter than glass, but also heavy, and does not lend itself very well to frozen foods, but mainly to preservatives. It is also carbon intensive to produce and lined with plastic. Glass and steel are recyclable, but this is carbon intensive and only works when people are educated enough to recycle and then the infrastructure exists in the first place.

To cap this off, microplastics are not yet even proven to be harmful. The scientific literature is "no" at best, and "inconclusive" at worst. It is not some proven hyper-carcinogen that many laypeople get the impression it is.

I think a lot of people have some sort of pavlovian response to the word plastic done by 25 years of fair and unfair media coverage, without thinking about actual plausible alternatives to it.

"Plastic is bad, we should use X" is an interesting comment worth exploring.

"Plastic is bad" is a statement. Yes, everything in the world has pros and cons, but stating cons in a vacuum isn't insightful.
The new features will be feeding everyone's notes into an LLM and then screaming "AI!" at the top of their lungs to investors.
Mostly philosophical spitballing: https://zrkrlc.com

Not a lot going on there but some people have told me they really like my essays so I elected to put my favourite ones online.
I wonder if I was getting all Meta users or something. Well, doesn't matter too much in the end. FB has billions of users and a few million upsold to the new free app isn't terribly impressive to me.
I just figured they meant models that would get them in trouble socially. Peeling away the hype bubble around end of days stuff, all I see is they feel like they can’t scale until they figure out how to avoid bad headlines. They know their current kneecapping of ChatGPT has limited the usefulness too much. They know their trained speech patterns are getting too obvious. They want to break through this barrier so they can scale up, where companies can trust their model to NEVER generate undesired speech, and are more willing to wire their products up directly to GPT than the current small potatoes.
> sexist remarks are also very indicative of where his head was at the time. he was not focused on the task in front of him.

My point, which I will repeat again, is that you should not judge "where his head was at the time" based on a handful of quotes cherry picked from 32 minutes.

> please stop seeing things like this as virtue signaling

Please stop seeing things as reinforcing whatever prejudices you walked into this with.
This smells like a pickle that SCOTUS will need to address.

Just running it through my head and I feel like I could argue it in every direction… and the details of the case here make for some interesting wrinkles and a lot of second order type effects that could occur without some good guidance here.
RO does use a lot of energy to overcome the osmotic pressure and to create flux through the membrane. An interesting concept is using the reverse process, "forward" osmosis, to extract the energy where fresh water mixes with seawater, such as a river mouth. This is called pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) and was tried at pilot scale by Norwegian power company Statkraft. Ultimately this trial was shelved due to being uncommercial [1], perhaps future membrane development will improve the viability of FO. And yes the membranes are quite different, RO membranes are relatively thick due to the transmembrane pressures required. FO requires a much thinner support for the active layer as there is no external pressure applied to push the water through (it is drawn through by the difference in salt concentration).

[1] https://www.powermag.com/statkraft-shelves-osmotic-power-pro...
And for that reason I'm out. What a shame.
They said it coming soon, but the more you follow people the more your feed becomes filled with posts and replies from the people you follow. It's not as bad as when you first join.
This is what I was thinking about using LLM for:
1. As a feature extractor. For example, given the text of misinformation agents, what are the characteristics? C1, C2, C3, etc. Then, do these characteristics appear in these new texts? Assign a label accordingly.
2. I'll give LLM the text on how they usually behave and ask if these new ones are behaving similarly. If so, label them accordingly. (There may also be the possibility to pass graph data in a graph-less way.)
3. Use the extracted information to enhance topology-driven classification
The Ent Framework: Meta's ORM
I agree. The people giving away the samples, in this case the news media themselves, are enticing you to their articles with the headline, maybe a blurb, and maybe an image. If you take the sample and don't care for the rest, that's fine. Nobody should have to pay for that. The whole point is that it's advertising. If nobody wants the product then nobody wants the product.

Charging someone for the "free" samples is no solution.
A classic 20 year old article on the principle of Stop Energy.

"Stop Energy is not reasoned, it never takes into account the big picture, it is the mirror image of Forward Motion. In the Stop Energy model, everyone, no matter how small their stake in a technology, has the power to veto. Nothing ever gets done, and people who want to move forward are frustrated in every attempt to move. Unfortunately, Stop Energy is the rule, not the exception"

https://radio-weblogs.com/0107584/stories/2002/05/05/stopEne...
The news is, of course, full of lies. Too much exposure to lies is no good for one's mental health. But it's important to have some degree of regular exposure, as a means of inoculation. And to, hopefully, parse out the truth between the lines; truth is valuable for its own sake.
I'm curious on reasons why not to build a new runtime. That it is hosted in javascript seems like something that shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Are we sure he didn't plan the whole thing, hoping all the hype around hating computers would take some of the blame off him?

If that level of crappy AI could convince you to murder, I'd imagine a random meme probably could too.
all those FB engineers that have designed twitter in an interview thousands of times and they cannot get this to be fast out of the gate? guess actually building a system is different than a power trip in an interview
> they have literally all of Instagram + Facebook's userbase to push it on

They haven’t even gotten to the “push” part yet and they’re now over 4 million users.
> F is basically 2 random guesses

I'll assume good intent. F is definitely not two random guesses.

Please read carefully what I posted, F is no more random thah C. It has well defined, but different choices for the two points. The saturated mixture of water and salts is the coldest one can get liquid water to go at 1 ATM which is a reasonable idea for the time period.

And why water? that's choice itself is arbitrary. Why not the triple-point of methane and the temperature of burning magnesium?
Are we sure he didn't plan the whole thing, hoping all the hype around hating computers would take some of the blame off him, like a modern update of the insanity defense?

If that level of crappy AI could convince you to murder, I'd imagine a random meme probably could too.
In Washington you don't need the other parties' consent (in the lay sense of the word) if you announce that you are recording and they continue talking. RCW 9.73.030 (3):

> Where consent by all parties is needed pursuant to this chapter, consent shall be considered obtained whenever one party has announced to all other parties engaged in the communication or conversation, in any reasonably effective manner, that such communication or conversation is about to be recorded or transmitted
Sadly not a real qoute but I would have loved "Balenciaga is SCO" with Balenciaga'd Darl Mcbride.
Anything is a welcome alternative to Musk Twitter. Congrats to Zuck. There's nothing wrong with good ole fashioned competition!
In Canada you can record someone (phone call, in person, etc) if just one party consents to the recording. In other words, if I'm a phone call with someone, even if there are several people on the call, it's NOT illegal for me to record them, as long as I'm a participant in the call. It's called the "one party consent" exception. I have no obligation to ask, or tell the others on the call that I'm recording.
Yep. If they believe these platforms are cost-effective ways to advertise, then actually choosing not to use them for public funded advertising would be an abuse of public funds, unless they can explain how it is different, which I'm sure they can't.
I wonder how that 100 year guarantee is holding up?

https://longnow.org/ideas/evernote-and-the-100-year-data-gua...
The Carlsbad plant is in Carlsbad, CA. If you look at the neighborhood it's in, the houses are 1,200-2,000 square feet and sell for $2-$5 million. Everything is expensive.
> The physical infrastructure projects enumerated above occurred before 1970 to a disproportionate degree. Why?

Probably because the author either can't count or doesn't know what disproportionate means.

1/3 of the entries on the list going back to 1889 happened after 1970 (which is about 1/3 of the timespan). That sounds very proportionate. Why no questions about the long gap after the Eiffel Tower?

The most disproportionate things about the list are World War II and the fact that the list is extremely arbitrary.
yeah, and they've effectively trapped those 2M users, because when you go to delete your Threads account, it will say [0] that by doing so it will also delete your Instagram account as well... ouch

[0] https://i.jollo.org/xNFu9Qvd.png
They lost the plot when they suddenly reduced the number of devices for the free tier.

There was a time when iCloud wasn't reliable. When that improved, Notes became a simpler free alternative.
Even the recommended page is completely different. It’s Twitter when celebrities used it before Donald Trump completely reshaped the platform
This is the boldest prediction of this decade. I still couldn't believe you are right.
We are building more than a heat pump, it is a novel stirling architecture, that is, a machine that converts electricity to heat, and heat to electricity.

The idea is summarized on this picture https://imgur.com/a/f5T1NYi and is as follow:
- solar/wind energy would be converted to heat using our engine and stored into a thermal storage unit (molten salts or sand). This would provide up to 30-40 hours of energy for day-to-day storage.
- all year long, the unused energy is converted on-site to green ammonia (with H2 electrolyzers and a small haber-bosch plant) and stored in liquid form at -30C.
The ammonia is then burned via a low NOx external burner, something other ammonia engines/turbines can't do well yet without expensive filters, and the combustion heat is turned to electricity with our engine.

This form of storage is much cheaper than storing hydrogen above ground. It competes with H2 storage in under-ground salt caverns without the geographical limitation. The efficiency is far from exceptional, but it is CO2 free and is only used as a "joker" a few days per year.

The whole system is a functional replacement for a natural gas fired power plant.

A company like Form Energy started in 2017, raised hundreds of millions and I think their first pilot is coming next year. Cash is key but not always the issue, I am glad they are helping storage companies with initiatives like the Long Duration Energy Storage group and all their lobbying efforts
Because of the cost? You're really making me guess at your reasoning.
Yep I agree, if journalists move towards it and start sharing news, scoops, etc. then stick a fork in Twitter it's done. Twitter will just be an app to go scream your racists screeds or whatever while Elon posts doge memes and insults people that point out all the racism happening.
In my imagined system, there's no need for the CSR dance because hey, if the client can sign the crypto challenge and initiate a connection, then it holds the private key material associated with this certificate/account and they own it, and that's that.

My mental model is basically like SSH-ing into a box. All the client does is pin the server's public key fingerprint and moan if it changes. The only additional element is an affordance where the box would essentially allow all comers to create a user account and a corresponding `~/ssh/authorized_keys` with their pubkey in it.

In the web-app, of course it's not making unix user accounts, but it's associating the self-signed cert with a user account (how ever that might be implemented) the first time it sees a new cert. Whoever shows up with that cert in the future is automatically 'logged in' as the corresponding user account.

So, genuine question, what does it mean for the client cert to be potentially invalid? What could lead to that case in the system you're imagining? Under what cases would you either a) not grant a CSR in the first place or b) revoke a cert your CA signed?
To prevent even the possibility of a hostile alliance placing missiles on its doorstep, the USA would have acted militarily the same way much sooner than Russia, wouldn’t wait 8 years trying to reason with diplomacy. And many people around the world would understand that. And they did (eg in Cuban missile crisis).

Heck the USA gets involved halfway around the world, invading and occupying and bombing countries for FAR LESS. I don’t think anyone agrees that’s good, but everyone is powerless to stop it. Anyway, whatever the standard is, it’s supremely hypocrtical to expect other “great powers” to roll over, while USA goes to war or foments revolutions in countries that present literally zero threat to it, a few times every decade.

It’s not “made up nonsense”. What I am saying is common knowledge, that everyone outside the NATO bubble condemns, especially the “global south”. The USA even declassifies it and admits it, and officially regrets it, saying “mistakes were made”, and “Bush is gone now” etc. No one has been prosecuted in The Hague. On the contrary, they threaten the International Criminal Court if they even so much as start an investigation. Far larger body count, worldwide.

As for nukes — the US has broken every promise it ever made about NATO expansion. I mean, it’s broken nearly every treaty it ever made about its own expansion since the times of the colonists. Why would any country ever trust the US when it says it won’t expand or place nukes somewhere? Nuclear Sharing is already very widespread. And they already started building an “anti-nuclear” battery in Poland, ever closer to Russia’s borders, which conveniently could also double as a “nuclear” launch facility. But just call it “defensive”, and suddenly it’s fine right? Wrong, it caused Russia to pull out of its nuclear treaties with USA, making the world less safe for everyone. And for what?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

Oh and 5 days ago: Poland wants USA to give it NUCLEAR WARHEADS FOR ITS PLANES. Well, that didn’t take long:

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/poland-nukes-f35-s...

“Made up concerns.” I’m sure you’ll go to step 2 soon, “well, it’s true but so what, you can’t reason with Russians!”
They never mention why Iran is trying to seize the tankers? Is it just a way to harass? They certainly don't need the oil.
Not technically a startup anymore, (our bizdev manager likes to call us a "grownup startup",) but we're making underwater acoustic wireless communication devices. We're taking a more software defined approach allowing us to be much more leaner, flexible and do more more IoT-esque things in an underwater wireless network.

It's an strange but interesting field. Loads of real, physical problems still left to solve and space for innovative solutions. Lots of hard engineering (software, hardware, etc) to do. But the marine tech industry is traditionally very slow to adopt any new technologies. Makes for some fun conversations. :P

https://subnero.com/
My blog about a few treks in the Indian Himalayas http://overthehills.in/
> Did spaceX not receive significant "aerospace entitlement" funding through public contracts?

They did not. All SpaceX contracts with NASA are fixed price, not cost plus, paid when they can deliver. What is entitlement about them? Did you know that Boeing lost a substantial amount of money for Starliner with a similar contract? Despite being paid much more?
> How they intend to do that without any staff

Contractors from cheaper cost of living countries, I expect.
>clear concise description

Except they sometimes leave the brand of the item out of the product title or description which is super annoying. There have been times where I've looked for sellers of certain products in Canada, and having failed, ordered from the states or Amazon. But then I later realize that the product I want is sold at Lee Valley under some generic name.

One example is the Water Right garden hose [1]. They don't ship to Canada but you can get in on Amazon. You can also get it at Lee Valley but nothing on the site indicates it's the Water Right hose [2]. I only realized by examine the images. I would have loved to have supported Lee Valley, but by the time I noticed I'd always bought from Amazon.

[1] https://www.waterrightinc.com/

[2] https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/garden/water-and-irriga...
Strangely enough the Tutsis were the aggressors and the Hutu were the ones who were slaughtered.
> GitHub probably isn't the best place to just dump a ton of feature requests

Isn't this the entire point of having a feature request tag for issues?
Yes there is a mute feature, both for accounts and for words/phrases
And Brazil have a terrible history of not respecting human rights and censoring people. IS a matter of time before this is used a leverage against its citizens.