skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if a clone social network, especially from an established company, can really succeed.

All or most of the successful ones grew mostly organically and evolved other time, and were not a copy of another big social app.

Twitter has not even that much users relative to how much it is talk about in the press.
If they get a match with a high school picture for "John Smith" from a school in an affluent area, they can adjust advertisements.

If your face appears in a riot, they can resell the information to the government.
Having all of this in mind, I would go further and propose to regulate by law changing the material of the deep sea submarine ballasts.

It seems technically doable and would have some benefits

1) Lesser impact on deep sea ecosystems. No human trace left behind.

Disposable loads of iron or concrete will remain forever in the bottom. If we use salt or sand instead the impact on fragile deep sea ecosystems seems reduced. The organisms there are adapted naturally to deal with very salty water. The sand or salt ballast could be released gradually over a bigger surface reducing even more the impact over a particular spot or colony

2) Improved economics?

To dump valuable iron made with valuable energy into the sea seems a suboptimal solution. Substitute it with some common by products that are yet in the area and don't need to be transported from a mine far away could save some money probably. Containers of ballast would be fully recyclable also.

Ships could be adapted to literally making part the ballast on the open sea while in campaign, instead to need to carry all of it from a port.

3) Extra safety.

If your load weight gets stuck by a net you are trapped in the bottom forever, With a ballast of sand or salt you have the extra possibility of open a few escape valves and let the concentrated salt go away. You can also release part of the weight much more gradually. After a while the submarine would tend to float and ascend automatically even if the energy supply would have been entirely lost in an accident.

Having the machine on the surface (or closer to the surface) would save millions and would made a big difference on humanitary and economical aspects of the rescue operation. A damaged submarine can be still repaired. Building another would be much more expensive.

Dunno about the possible negative aspects, more volume required for example, but would deserve thinking about it a little more.
The most powerful available foundation model is code-davinci-002, a.k.a. GPT-3.5. It's only available on Azure since OpenAI removed it from their own Playground and API for some reason.
Everyone in this thread might benefit from a little research before posting...

https://www.iea.org/reports/the-future-of-heat-pumps/how-a-h...

or a simpler article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump

It is different from a radiator or a furnace.
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When do people understand "declarative" is a style not a property of some language? As the language, "declarative" xml and by extension, html has failed in every single platform (the web, android, iOS), which is why in all of those platforms people have been trying for years to write UI in code, but in a more declarative style (React, Swift UI, Jetpack Compose). This is backward.
Honestly new features is something I would go away from, not pay for.

Apps these days treat my device as something created so that they could update on it, not so I could use it.
I would pay to "freeze the 2009 versions on my devices forever". Software that just works.
I'm still amazed they went with the $8-for-attention model. Everyone _already knows_ this doesn't work well; the dating site industry has been trying to make it work for literally decades.

It's also kind of a Pandora's box; even if they removed the attention boost, the taint is already there, and people will be suspicious of bluetick replies forever.
They exclude pretty much every industrial metal band because industrial metal is ostensibly not metal enough.

No Rob Zombie. No Rammstein.

Meanwhile, they added psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and their whole discography (now up to 24 albums) solely because their 15th album was metal.

I love King Gizz, but Metal Archives are disappointingly inconsistent.
Mobile Application Hacking: Flutter Restrictions Bypass
https://lornajane.net

Over a thousand posts (I've been doing this a while apparently) on APIs, open source, backend scripting languages, developer experience/relations, other random tech, and the occasional recipe.
Sometimes you get banned from apps because anbox makes you look like a botter...
Threads is banned in the EU due to GDPR issues. We'll have to see who backs down on that first.

Are we going to go back to country specific social networks like Orkut? VK? (which is still going)
reminds me how I always get a kick out of people that draw their line at what they will eat based off of that thing’s intelligence.

They’ll loudly proclaim the rest of us are just anthropomorphizing until specific institutions tell them that a particular animal is intelligent. And then they’re like “I cant eat that” and assume the rest of us a) didn't know and b) were operating by the same consumptive standards

farcical, since their super late enlightenment makes them the dumb ones
Well this is an alternative to Twitter, a company which lied about needing phone numbers for 2FA and then used them for targeted ads.

> does that show that they feel threatened, have weakening market position, and need a new direction?

It shows they are trying to capitalize on Twitter’s dumpster fire, and for the first time there is a mainstream competitor. Sorry Mastodon. Every time Twitter bugs out, people will go to Threads. Some may never go back to Twitter.
Just glancing at it, it looks cool and it's clear you've put a lot of work into the project. I will say though, as a piece of feedback, I personally wouldn't want to build on top of it due to the provenance of the assets. They may not care about it, but they also (correct me if I'm wrong) have not approved of external parties using them or released the assets under any open source license. I have no way of verifying that they don't care, and should a project built with these assets become successful, I can imagine them going from not caring to caring very quickly.

I don't mean to put out a negative comment though, the project does look very cool. It's just a risk.
"If you die in metaverse, you die in real life"
Is that really true, though? All of the social media today was absolutely packed with all the stuff that everybody now says is absolutely toxic during its rapid growth phase. And users today often talk about how much better it was 10 years ago when it was still the wild west.
well, works for me, but a bit slow
What I mean is I don't need to ask the bank to spend my money.
I've been an Evernote user since 2008 and a paying one for most of that. The other week I tried to go through some old notes. Half of them wouldn't load. Looking to leave now.
It's not just the cost; most people would, I think, be _embarrassed_ to be seen to be paying for attention.

I used to pay for a Twitter client, I now pay for a Mastodon client, I contribute to the upkeep of my local friendly Mastodon instance. In all it's in the ballpark of 8EUR/month. There's no world where I would _pay for attention on Twitter_, though.

I am somewhat surprised they didn't just charge for client API access/other bits and pieces (that is, charge the user, not the person who makes the client), and nuke the pay-for-attention/pay-for-flair feature before launch as an obviously terrible idea. I think more people would pay for that. Not many people, but more people, and it would be far less corrosive on the user experience as a whole.
It's pretty refreshing to see your Instagram follower/followees in a new light. Photo-centric Instagram felt a little stale with the same-old selfies and food selfies. Meanwhile, Thread texts seem to display more of their personality.

The problem is, will people keep posting text?
I've never seen 4doc as a command to write all 4 things. The last few places I've worked, I've always asked "Can we hire a technical writer?", because if you've worked with one that's good at their job then they have a better idea how to organize docs than we coders do.

But, short of that hire happening, 4doc helps point out where our docs are weak, by giving us a framework to discuss what any particular document 'is'. I usually find we've not got 4 kinds of documentation, but 2: a whole bunch of reference documentation, then a much smaller amount of tutorial, but little if any 'how-to' - which on the ops side, I find is what people are looking for. (the fourth kind, 'Explanation' is vanishingly rare, and usually only exists as tech talks)

I feel devs are uncomfortable with writing good how-to's because they want it DRY: either it ends up as a bunch of links out to the reference doc ("here's the bits you need, some assembly required") or they make a doc full of "if A then B", to avoid repeating parts of their answer in multiple pages. This reads terribly. A little flexibility is ok, but choose-your-own-adventure is not; just write multiple pages answering specific questions, and don't worry about the repetition.

In my current workplace, they've got stack overflow for teams filling this how-to role; I've seen many attempts at that fail due to lack of engagement but here a few people have pushed hard to make it useful and it's got some traction. We've even started using bookmarklets to pull conversations from slack and reformat them for SO.
threads already have embedding, on web click on share button and there is a "get embed code" button.
is it possible that staff had some type of vesting rights in an acquisition that layoffs would terminate? (Yeah, it's not a nice thing to do, but the buyer has the leverage and no loyalty to the past, and they they call the shots in terms of sweetening the deal.) if so, Bending Spoons may plan to keep investing in product development, but they want to do it at market rates, not bonus rates.
May I ask what the app name is? I'm struggling to find something that works for me, and this seems to be kind of what I'm looking for.
You're right.

And the value of a blue check is less than that.

Wow.
Declarative markup always evolves into a badly conceived programming language.
Lets see, for $8 a month I can subscribe to a real Journal, like Which. They hire proffesional writers, fact check their content, buy actual consimer products and test them. And they are a charity to boot.

Or I can pay Elon for delivering tweets that he got some rando to write for free. The latest content is a right - wing conspiracy that nuclear weapons do not exist, and thay video footage of nuclear ezplosions is staged.

https://join.which.co.uk/join/subscribe
There's a reason they don't offer this in the EU. Their internal lawyers likely put their foot down and told them that this product is just setting them up for expensive fines. It wouldn't surprise me if that happened pretty late in the development process too.

That tells me this is a rush job. Probably it's because they were afraid that the small opportunity in the market for someone to compete with Twitter might be very short lived. I think they are right and that they are late to the party.

Let's see what happens but I think this will indeed fizzle out pretty quickly. It will be interesting to see if they'll ever even bother with an EU launch of this thing. Without a strong story on privacy any attempt to launch in the EU is in any case doomed. So, this is looking like it's off to a lack luster and weak start.
All the operational decisions are still being made and announced personally by Elon.
You missed "Let's add subscription and tell the stupid users it'll actually be used to improve their experience!"
I don't understand why public is considered "lack a reasonable expectation of privacy".

In Switzerland this only applies if you are in public at a large gathering or event where the use of cameras etc. is expected. In any other situation in public, if you single out a specific person (even if their face is not visible but they are identifiable by clothing/tattoo or vehicle registration etc.) in a video you are violating their privacy and are required to get consent. This consent can also be revoked at any time later.
true. you even get access and publisher.
>Obsidian's problem is Sync + Publish costs way too much, esp. when compared with competitors.

You can sync for free using Syncthing or OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox free accounts.
... after google started dropping twitter from search results
Cheap telescopes do this for me :) I usually get them whenever I move places, nothing fancy or special, just something to star into the void and be struck with wonder.
why is 7B parameters seemingly a magic number?
> Do they recognise the force of national laws in any specific jurisdictions beyond the USA

Yes: they recognize the GDPR and are therefore not launching at all in the EU.
> mind expanding on this part?

Certainly. That part is a sentence written to be short and catchy. It sacrifices precision for reasons of brevity and style. It also doesnt mention either concurrency or parallelism, it just uses the word "parallel".

This is acceptable, because the post goes on to more precise statements later on, quote:

It works for both i/o bound concurrency and cpu bound parallel computing.

End Quote.
But sony is also japanese.
As NMS "improved" and fleshed out the game world, it lost a certain poetry that it had earlier on. There was something really unsettling about the earlier universes that felt - dare I say? - liminal.
The thing you are looking for is called a podcast, and there are millions of them.
Doesn't matter. The person conducting the interview has probably never done that. And the job itself probably won't involve large scale system design.
Thanks!
Does that work with the mobile app, too?
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Completely tangential to the article itself, TechCrunch's privacy controls are also extremely user hostile.

First it prompts you with the usual consent banner but of course doesn't provide a button to refuse all unless you click through to a second screen (this is in violation of the GDPR and ePrivacy guidelines btw, the "reject all" button needs to be front and center and must be given as much weight as an "accept all" button if present).

Then it shows me the article but the article embeds something (presumably a tweet or a Facebook post or something else) and tells me "To view this this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Click here to do so.". So instead of letting me decide in place that I want to agree to that one embed or even all embeds from the same source, I have to go somewhere else. And I don't even know what I'm missing out on and of course there's no direct link to whatever is being included either.

Finally if I click the link it takes me to a page with a big toggle switch that asks me to agree to all social advertising partners. Not just social networks either, most of these are just advertising and analytics. And I can't pick and choose either, I have to give a blanket consent without being informed of the details and purposes, which, again, blatantly violates the GDPR and ePrivacy guidelines.

I'm not pointing out that these are in violation because I think US companies should be beholden to EU law. I'm pointing this out because it demonstrates how blatantly user hostile this is.
> nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta

This is not the glowing recommendation some might think, it's more of a condemnation of the state of moderation.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...
Wow, another win for open source. It will be interesting to see what the Starfield people have done with procedural generation. Should point the way to the future.
If they won't be able to extract money from your CC, they will sue you since the've already billed you for the service.
I actually far prefer for companies to be straight up with their "Here are our hard requirements on how you use our service, take it or leave it" over the previous iteration which was "We're going to do whatever you want us to do until we have leverage and then we're going to screw you". This is exactly the pain point that reddit continually goes through where the company is laissez faire, the shit hits the fan, they change the rules and everyone screams. I'm fine downloading an App, I used the twitter App, one in one out seems fine to me.

Oh and also, the vast vast majority of the time there was no thought provoking in depth analysis on twitter. That's not what's driving engagement in these sites.
Worse. I want to see the result when writing so I always had to have a separate preview window open which stole a lot of screen space. Obsidian solved this with the WYSIWYG mode where a paragraph transforms to markdown when you click on it, but the rest of the document shows the end result. It makes the experience a lot nicer when embedding tables and images that you can look at directly and write in-depth about without just seeing a filename.
http://one.mikro2nd.net/

More WebGarden than Blog these days.
No trackers. No analytics.
FWIW, it loads just fine for me.
DragonflyBSD design is definitely not without merits.

But FreeBSD took the mainstream approach.
More video of the octopuses here: https://schmidtocean.photoshelter.com/galleries/C0000HRWFfu1...
The actual hatching is the clip from the article, unfortunately no additional hatching video at above link.
That 3d bar chart is something special. The half-assed 3D effect serves only to make it harder to read. I appreciate this is often the case with diagrams, but this is an amazing example.
> government-mandated censorship in large markets such as the EU

Twitter censors nudity and pornography, and import American neo-puritanism to the rest of the world. No-one in EU mandates this.

But american brain is incapable of putting two and two together, they have it wired into their brain that opression cannot be private, only government.

If modern right-wingers existed in 1500, they would be defending the rirht of a feudal lord to sleep with your wife because he isnt a government and your signed up for it when you were born as a peasant.
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So much that they didn't even bother to launch in the EU https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-...
But, but, but ... crypto is "trustless"?

Any sort of market involves trust. Without it, there would be no "market" ... and no functioning currency.

In the words of Ronald Reagan, "Trust but verify". The problem with crypto --- there is no verification. Noone is watching those running the market. It's all blind trust.

And consequently, the crypto market is a fraudster's paradise.

There is no escaping this. Even peer to peer traders turn to "trust" in the market (aka the "exchanges") to price their crypto. And the crypto market has proven untrustworthy over and over again. This is just another example.

You will trust somebody --- who is it gonna be? Crypto or fiat?
Tom Kalinske: We are killing Sony!!1 Sony consoles are available everywhere, ours are not, but our stocking is somehow far superior!!! Sales are hard to measure so just believe me!!

poor Tom
Ask HN: Learning accessibility on the web as a developer/designer
I have been tasked with gathering resources to teach my fellow developers and designers in my company to learn more about accessibility on the internet, for example how to optimize for screen-readers, offering options for people with visual disabilities and similar. What resources did you use to learn more about this topic? Anything from books to websites to courses would be greatly appreciated
It seems to be happening everywhere. Give the worst product you can get away with while using marketing to get people to keep upgrading before they realize how bad the product is. While progressively lowering the quality of the product each year. "Planned Obsolescence" is the physical product equivalent of digital enshittification.
> Hindsight suggests none of those really worked and that Sega's other primary obsession, lowering hardware costs after its launch, both for competition and margins, backfired. The retail margin on a core $250 Saturn system, without pack-in games, was 6 percent, or $15, while Sony seemed to be offering 10 percent core, 15 percent pack-in.

> "How Did Sony Do it?" one slide rhetorically asks. The answer, according to Sega, is that it was perceived to be cheaper, its software "looks better than ours," that Sega "equity has been damaged by 32x and Sega CD," and that Sony has "effectively leveraged their considerable equity from consumer electronics." All Sega had to do, according to the next slide, was improve its software, get pricing advantage, improve its advertising, spend better on TV advertising, and "dramatically improve" its game timing. Simple enough.
How Emacs Got into Tron: Legacy (2011)
It is surprisingly low even for a middle-class profession, especially when comparing to neighboring countries with lower cost of living.
I might pay more if they didn't sniff any other data from me.
Search is just one color of light from the prism, so to speak.

Edit: not beam but color
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Publishing is a whole other thing, but why should I be worried that someone is recording what I'm saying, in general?

And if I'm discussing sensitive information (say, I'm discussing an extra-marital affair, or illegal conduct), why should I think I can rely on the law to protect me from the recording? Is my marriage less ruined if the recording was illegally made and illegally presented to my spouse?
> But even when I was still on Reddit I wouldn't touch this sub, it was nothing but people spamming links to their own blogs.

I have bad news about Hacker News...
Announcing regex 1.9
Piping content from the Internet to bash is a terrible way to distribute applications on Linux, I'd recommend making the official method a Flatpak instead. It'll allow you to sandbox your application, which is good for the user, and it'll handle the integration (e.g. app icon etc) correctly.

No user should ever be urged to install anything with that method, it's unsafe.
Given how many social networks have launched, for me the interesting questions aren't "what technology" or "what policy", but "what people are using it" and "what are they using it _for_".

This may take some time to evolve. Indeed, sometimes it evolves with the platform; Instagram basically _created_ "influencer" as a job description. Youtube created its Youtubers. So what's happening on Threads? Anyone got any good launch content to post here?
Ah, I'm guessing that's the same reason why many "cloud storage as a backend" stuff (e.g. Terraform/Vault storage backends, Delta.io backends) require DynamodDB + S3