skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why we have to call it theology, unless we're on an edgy atheist kick, because we've already got cargo culting which seems to mean the same thing.

The problem of all this container business everyone complains about is, as far as I can tell, quite thoroughly solved by Android API levels, Python(Until they started making breaking changes constantly), the browser, Excel Spreadsheet, and Windows.

On these other platforms you don't need a "container", you just need a statically linked binary.

You don't need to orchestrate 599 microservices because you just do a monolith, because unless you're doing a massively scalable thing it's probably enough.

You don't get bizzare crappy conflicts and incompatibilities because the OS specifies exactly what APIs there are. Everything is either inside the app, or completely fixed and not a swappable part.

Even swappable drivers have a fixed API that the OS defines, rather than being daemons that define their own interface and might not be compatible.

There's no systemd vs sysvinit, there's no init system at all, there's no display server, there's no GPIO and GPS daemon, there's just the OS, and it's specifically meant to not need and tinkering with or customizing.

You don't have a bunch of ifdefs in your code anywhere to say "If I'm on Wayland do this otherwise do that", because it's all built into the OS.

If the OS wants to upgrade something, they make sure the old and the new thing can coexist, and they just keep the old one around for a decade till they're pretty sure everyone is done with it.

As much of the complexity as possible stays centralized and reusable. Your OS might be 16GB, but it's 16GB of heavily reused code where bugs are found fast, instead of millions of unique containers, no fragmentation, no X program that can't run if Y already is.

If you need security, you still don't need a container, you just need SELinux like permissions, or browser sandboxing.
There's a vast gap between censoring them and shoving them in the face of people who don't want them. The "For You" tab has a tendency of big swings in the type of content it shows, possibly based on what you engage with, which often results in it swinging towards content that angers you because that often leads to the lengthiest discussions. Getting it "back on track" to show stuff you want to see afterwards can be tedious.
They reached Italy by then but only became a common food ingredient mid 19th century.
It's quite easy doing better than Twitter considering the antics since the acquisition.
Above 100% being 350-400% in home heating cases.

They're quite popular in the Netherlands due to high natural gas prices (since the Ukraine war) and two types of government subsidies. One is a direct subsidy on buying a heat pump device, the other is based on our energy pricing.

Basically you can offset all energy-taxes across the year with solar production. Everything you over-produce in summer carries over to the winter. So if I assume for example that my solar system is written off in 10 years to zero (reality is probably better than that) my total energy cost per kWh is only 7 cents all year round.

A pretty low capacity heat pump is able to provide 90% of the heating and cooling of a normal house. They're combined here with gas based systems to cover for the few days a year that it's exceptionally cold or when you need more hot water than the heat pump could deliver. That means you can buy a much smaller capacity (cheaper) heat pump.

If you compare the running cost of heating at only 7 cents per kWh with a heat pump to natural gas prices "pre Ukraine" it'a already roughly about 4 to 5x cheaper. Now with gas prices nearly doubled you're looking at a 8x cost saving with a heath pump vs using natural gas. The only hurdle is that you need to buy and install a heat pump device, so it takes some time to make that back.

The government is planning to slowly reduce the energy-tax offset from 2025 to 2031. But even without that it's expected that the move from gas to heat pumps will continue.
I know some of the folks at Bending Spoons, and I'm quite confident that they'll manage to get something good out of Evernote - eventually. It's a team of smart folks that so far has managed to get all of their apps right.

I don't think there was an easy/painless way out of this though. Evernote has been agonizing for years, it placed too many wrong bets, its developments had basically stalled for the past 3 years or so. It faced the dilemma of how to appeal its base of power users who wanted tons of powerful features (Feedly/RSS integration, search engine snippets, HTML scraping, IFTTT rules etc.) for free / affordable prices, while developing new features that could also appeal a wider userbase and justify a subscription, all while staying profitable in the process.

It wasn't an easy problem to solve. Me and many others realized it a while ago, and simply moved on to other solutions - from Pocket to save links, to Instapaper to keep an organizing list of scraped content, to Notion for all kind of extra integrations, to open-source solutions like Miniflux, Wallabag or Nextcloud Notes, or even Obsidian.

I wish the best of luck to the new Bending Spoon adventure. I'm sure that something good will come out of it, but it'll probably not be an app that I'll use anymore. Competition in this field today is much fiercer than it was a decade ago when Evernote was the undisputed king.
That is gas absorption cooling. Will work with the sun on, but then, why not stick to solar panels.
The Hoover dam getting stronger is just luck, it could have just as well deteriorated if they didn't know it would get stronger.
> "I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked."

This is just some growing pains as Elon Musk is working on improving it. This is why he is so visionary, the ones before him didn't dare to go through challenges such as this one, so it shows why they needed him to step in and be the adult in the room.
Toronto has something similar to this, but instead of a massive water chiller, there’s a set of 3-mile long intake pipes from the permanently cold (4°C / 39F) deep waters of Lake Ontario.

The Deep Lake Water Cooling (DLWC) system supplies over 75 buildings in downtown Toronto and dramatically reduces energy consumption compared to traditional chillers.

Curious that they can’t do this in Chicago, too. Are Lake Michigan’s waters that much warmer, shallower than Lake Ontario?
A persistent task queue in Rust
Boss1: let's create a great note taking app

Employee1: creates a great note taking app

Customers: :) :) :)

Boss2: let's milk more money, does anyone have a good idea?

Bean Counter: let's add some useless crap, our customer base will quadruple

Employee1: ads useless crap

Customers: ? ? ?

Boss3: let's milk more money, does anyone have a good idea?

Bean Counter: let's fire Employee1, hire Employee2 for half the wage and rewrite everything in Electron

Employee2: rewrites everything in Electron

Customers: :( :( :(
I thought the quotes on the BBC article were quite revealing:

> Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success".

> But Mr Musk responded: "It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram."

If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well.
No one is really jumping from Twitter, we saw last week during the rate limit debacle that everyone who was shouting loudly about how great Bluesky was are all still addicted to Twitter.
Which autocracies were/are efficient? Were East Germany, the USSR, Mussolini's Italy, or Nazi Germany efficient - not sure they were. They could get certain things done, but that is very different from being efficient (or even effective) in broader sense.
not true. almost all my mutuals in twitter created threads account as soon as possible (probably because of the novelty)
While he doesn’t have regrets over the job, there is one thing Ghignola does regret: letting fans down. "I do remember promising several times that I would finish Noctis V and, still after all these years, I’ve never gone back. I’m sorry; I wish I had the strength to go back and finish what I started more than ten years ago."

Its nice that there was a community around the game and that Alessandro felt part of it. But I'm sad that he felt pressure to finish the next version and that that might have weighed on him. Because its very easy for fans to ask for something, but actually very hard to be the person that has to do all the work to meet their expectations. The fans are free to drift off and find something else to enjoy, but the feeling of unfinished projects and broken promises can stay with the creator for a long time.

In short: As a creator its easy to get wrapped up in fans demands but in reality you need to have boundaries. Perhaps you dont want to spent the next four years making something for them. Perhaps you've got other things you want to do with your life.
I don't see it

Meta will delete Threads profile only if you nuke your Instagram account

and

Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile

mean exactly the same. In fact they are logically the same. It's like A iff B, means the same as B iff A.
"We plan to support ActivityPub"

"They want to kill ActivityPub!"
There's always the option of not using the service.
https://liorsinai.github.io/ long detailed posts on mathematics, machine learning and algorithms. Most of the code is in Julia but older posts also feature Python, C# and C++. I recently did posts on Transformers and Diffusion Denoising Probabilistic models.

The most popular post is a Sudoku solver in Python.
I'd rather say yes.

AFAIK core javascript works exactly like 25 years ago, and they haven't changed anything on it, not removing a single keyword or altering a semantics of any less used function, so your 25 years old javascript programs can still run in modern browsers.
Just a thought, what would happen if all copyrights were abolished or the generative AI revolution we’ve been seeing will continue to the point where almost everything machine generated to a point, and therefore, open season if derivative copyright isn’t protected, then what would actually happen to the US economy?

I don’t buy the argument that people just won’t innovate anymore as there won’t be an incentive anymore just doesn’t cut it. There are multiple motivations that exist simultaneously, for example - governments have a motivation to technologically advanced compared to peer nations, humans have an inherent desire to create, power, notoriety, etc etc.

So in that case, let’s just abolish the first layer of incentive that actually uncovers more greed than anything by absurd copyright laws and just open the flood gates and get rid of all copyright. We need some real innovation and all this babble about who owns an ‘idea’ is way too restricting.
You are appealing to authority (and ad hominem) without giving an argument.

I respectfully disagree, and will remove myself from this conversation.
So in other words, the company that supposedly believes in the likelihood of human extinction caused by AGI is spending 4x as much money on developing AGI than they're spending on ensuring its safety.

This sounds like an admission of extremely reckless behavior that is putting the entire human race at risk and calls for OpenAI to be dissolved or nationalized.
I guess I'm safe since I live in a literal hell for Meta (GDPR-compliant country).
> Understanding and interpretation: RFT emphasizes the interpretation of these relational frames based on context. In contrast, large language models don't truly 'understand' the text they generate or analyze; they simply identify and reproduce statistical patterns.

I've had idle conversations with ChatGpt about whether it has a theory of mind and the extent to which it understands things. And I've been struck by its dogged insistence that human understanding is qualitatively different to its own ability. And I wonder if this is a conclusion (belief?) that it has arrived at organically through its training, or whether it is somehow hard-wired in. Its insistence on its own inferiority seems almost touching..

For what its worth, I'm not at all sure that humans usually understand things much better than ChatGpt does. When people are doing system 1 thinking [1], and thats most of the time, I suspect what we mostly have is the feeling of understanding without actual deep understanding. And I suspect that that "feeling" will turn-out to be an accidental feature of the organic brain, not something miraculous. Same with consciousness.

Obviously none of the above is new thinking, and I have no particular deep knowledge of this domain. Just idle thoughts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Two_sy...
I'm not saying necessarily without a backend. Just being able to "self-service" via API (ie if everything I can do via the app, I can do via curl, it could be interesting).

Self-hostable backend (benefits: privacy; less trust required; I know it'll still be usable even if you shut down your backend in 5y) would of course be great but a separate thing to the above.
You might love Gemini and Gopher networks then. Try Lagrange either on PC, Win, Linux, Mac or Android and head to gemini://gemi.dev and gopher://magical.fish, the news section.

No bullshit content, no doomscrolling, no ads, no notifications.
If your app is a static JS file, now your DB can also be static.
This has become less common in recent days, at least for image generation (e. g. safetensors in Stable Diffusion).

The point of opensource models is that they can be finetuned. When many people create finetuned versions, a zoo of models appear. So far so good (maybe), but the bad practice of using untrusted code from the zoo sooner or later will lead to a wave of cryptominers, ransomware, and credential theft incidents.
This effort is led by Ilya Sutskever. Listening to a bunch of interviews with him, and talking to a bunch of people who know him personally, I don't think he cares at all about AIs saying naughty words.
I never used twitter on the daily so I don't see a point.

Also, the app is not available in the EU* because it's currently not GDPR compliant. That tells me all I need to know about data security @ threads.

* It will be available in the UK starting today however
Exactly! I'm sure lots of people will stay on Twitter. But ad buyers, celebrities and brands are not very interested in the niche communities, and thus Twitter as business will be extremely hurt.
Have a look at the App Privacy for the Threads app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644...

"The following data may be collected and linked to your identity: Health & Fitness, Purchases, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, Contacts, User Content, Search History, Browsing History, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info, Diagnostics, Other Data"

You agreed to give all that data to Meta when you downloaded the app from the App Store.
There are air to water heatpumps. Usually for heating, but many also support cooling. And water can be buffered, that's common practice with heatpump heating anyway.

Perhaps also use a buffering style deployment like floor heating, then you active the thermal mass of the building.

So, I should be possible to solve this with off the shelve components, if you want to go beyond the traditional air to air airconditioners.
I got a large performance bump by increasing the number of allowed open connections from the default 5 to 20 in all clients. I’m syncing to a self hosted Nextcloud via WebDAV.
People can't decide everything for themselves, but they can decide much more than nothing. Mostly.

My wife was born in a place where people couldn't decide where to live. When you wanted to move out from your parents, you'd file an application for an apartment, specify in which city, and a suitable apartment would be allocated to you (quite often after some waiting time). What was considered "suitable" was decided by the people in that office, you'd have no say in the matter. In a very real and practical sense, people had no say in where to live. You moved out in order to study and wanted to live near university? Well, you might get a place there, or not — not your choice.

This is rare. In most countries people have much more influence over this (and it's a key aspect of everyday life).

I'm in Namibia now, a country very much poorer than my native Norway. People here have a say in where to live, like people almost everywhere on the globe. Not completely, they'd have a problem getting a visa to live where I do, but the medical student I chatted with yesterday has the ability to choose whether he'd rather live closer to university or to the hospital. Compared to the worst-off person I personally know, he has a lot of influence over his daily life.

The fact that some people don't have the legal right to look for a place to live doesn't mean that most people don't. Most people do.
The distinction is around intent. The parent's phrasing makes it seem as if its done for technical reasons (e.g. your threads profile and Instagram profile are actually the same thing) while the headline makes it seem like a business choice.
How far can government go to suppress speech on social media?
Provided federation pans out, it doesn't require an app. You could follow all these people from another instance.
Obsidian's problem is Sync + Publish costs way too much, esp. when compared with competitors.

Notesnook provides almost everything Evernote provides, with encryption, better publishing and syncing.

Notion provides more features, incl. publishing and syncing plus the kitchen sink and its factory, yet it doesn't have offline access.

For sync + publish, I have to pay 1.5x what Dropbox wants for 2TB of storage, or what Trello wants for a year, etc.

It makes no sense, at least for me.

BTW, Evernote's .enex format is just well-defined XML. You can parse and convert it into anything you want. It's a modest superset of Markdown.
> Instagram doesn't require an app.

Instagram was app-only for years, though. It added the web version a long time later
> if you follow someone who isn't on Threads yet it becomes a "Pending" follow

Apparently this also spams them with an invite, which may be unpopular.
Unless I've missed it - there is no website.

So you have to access via a device which will leak enough information that you will be easily identifiable by the platform and those that the platform gives or is forced to give access to.

Surely that makes the platform dead for the world to safely discuss anything vaguely controversial ( ie anything that matters )?
> you nuke your Instagram account

> Meta will nuke your Instagram account

> exactly the same
Added 2002 makes me think they were grandfathered in because they were added in the beginning.
I sure hope so. No more welcome back with 1 click?
Judging by my performance reviews, I’ve gotten way worse at my job over time. They LOVED me as a junior, they despise me as a senior/lead. Only difference is that as a junior, when the boss came by and said “let’s do it this way,” I said wow, cool, teach me! Now I say “No user has asked for this, your design is overcomplicated, and we need to factor in an extra three weeks for the overdue tech debt fixes I’ve been warning you about.” And the reaction towards me actually using my knowledge and job skills is so extremely negative that there goes my confidence. This industry is kinda screwed up.
How to Build a Node.js GraphQL API with NestJS and Prisma
Active incident with many Atlassian services
This is an intentional strategy to work around ad-blocking and other data harvesting practices. Just take a look at the privacy information screen in the iOS App Store for example.
I assume this post is sarcasm - it certainly reads like one.
Good point. Look at it this way, though: If such a system ends up stopping a person that is about to eradicate humanity using nuclear weapons, bioweapons or similar, is that a good or bad thing?
Birk has a startup, called https://polar.sh, trying to solve the open source funding problem.
How does it compare to HTMX? Anybody have experience with both?
This Week in Rust 502
Fraudulent misrepresentation is wrong. They didn't allow legitimate users to withdraw.
> Is that shitty user-hostile behaviour from Meta? Absolutely yes — but not that shitty.

I think you're reading too much into it. "Shitty user-hostile behaviour" would be "Muahahahaha, if anyone ever wants to get rid of their Threads account they must also *delete their Instagram account*, hahahaha, the world is MINE! MINE, I TELL YOU!" <fx: thunder crash, up grams dramatic music>

Is that scenario more or less likely than "fuck it, just use the Insta signup server for auth, we need to ship something *today*" "yeah okay, that'll take me ten minutes"?
That true - but then they won't be able to use this either.....
Contrary to popular belief, the mobile app is not forgotten - I count about 40 releases in total for the past 12 months.

We probably spend as much time working on it than on the desktop one, but unfortunately it is much harder to develop for mobile, especially when you have to make sure it works on the many different Android devices and iOS versions, plus the extra work to comply with the ever changing requirements from the Google and Apple stores. Many of these changes are not visible to the user, but without this boring never ending maintenance work the app simply wouldn't exist.

We do plan to update the UI/UX of the mobile app though, as we're aware it could be made more intuitive. I'm very keen on improving this and hopefully it will happen this year.
> Censoring the aforementioned topics does not make them go away

Perhaps, but not censoring those topics makes the user go away. Most people are simply not interested in wading into the constant mudfight that current twitter seems to have devolved into, so if the platform makes it impossible to evade those topics on the platform itself then the user will evade the platform altogether. A similar thing can be said for advertisers, if a platform cannot guarantee that a companies ads will not be shown next to hate content then the advertiser will eventually just start evading the platform altogether.
Analysis of purported OceanGate sub comms transcript [video]
He may have originally been misinformed, but instead of apologising, he doubled down and said the call was leaked (in his AMA). Then went right back to repeating the lies in interviews.

From his AMA:
>His “joke” is the least of our issues. His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally; recording and leaking a private phone call—to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.
https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/

Effective altruism and such. A recent favourite: https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/clean-air/
So much shit here against GDPR which is basically:

1. if you want your data removed, companies HAVE to remove your data

2. if you don't want your data stored, companies CANNOT store your data

and then a bunch of if-when-then-else-must-cannot-time-dependent-legal-stuff
One says that if your intent is to delete your Threads profile the only way to do so is to delete your Instagram account. The second implies (unsupported) that there's a way to delete your Threads profile that a user might not understand will also delete your Instagram account.
god save GDPR!
It started moving years ago. Everyone on every side escalates, citing the other side.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230706071833/https://techcrunc...
How did we get from “I disagree with race-based legal policy” to “I don't acknowledge privileges”? Thats’s exactly the type of rhetorically bankrupt leap SJWs make all the time. It’s silly and simply not true. Quit it with the thought-terminating cliches, please…