skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for who was tr00 or kvlt or not with mods who were on a powertrip.

+grim and necro

To this day I use that last one sarcastically to describe people taking themselves waay too seriously.

> A good reminder of how bad forums were

It really is still like that, only this time on Discord.
> Demanding that everyone embrace the same values will inevitably narrow the pool of applicants who work and get hired in higher education.

True diversity comes from people who look different.
American companies do this when it’s easier to ignore hundreds of millions of people than it is to respect people’s privacy
Big no-no to Joplin for me is that it is using some custom data format (sqlite I think). Why bother? Just give me an app that can handle nicely markdown files, syncing I can do myself e.g. (Synology, rsync) or use some file syncing service (Dropbox, OneDrive, whatever).

Zettlr does the trick for me without interfering with what I write.
Thanks for the feedback. We plan to update the mobile app so it's good to know what needs to be improved.
All other platforms allow users to block ads and other malware on its platform. iOS is the only one that is actively anti-hacker. That's the difference.
Hmm... another Electron-based app (already have VSCode, Postman, Beekepper Studio).

But oh well, let's give it a try :D
There is a website for viewing tweets/messages/whatever they are called, see for example https://www.threads.net/t/CuVd5ibvscQ/

https://www.threads.net/ does not (yet) show anything useful though.
No disagreement on the withdrawal, that was definitely fraud and theft.

On the wash trading I don't see any misrepresentation so long as the trades are actually happening.
> Though they weren’t gracious enough to let the person withdraw their funds in the end

You know this is a crime, right? I mean, everyone's international and anonymous so it has the same relationship to law enforcement as a backstreet dice game, but they did actually defraud this guy.
uh, what? Random Rust code?
It's probably also because Octopus is delicious.
Laravel, the framework that made me quit PHP. Not sure the concept of "one framework doing everything" will resonate well with the wider Go community. I will keep an eye on it though.
Not got there in one day but there are now 20M+ priv/pub keys on the Nostr protocol, which is much more exciting tech than anything Meta would be able to come up with.

https://stats.nostr.band/#total_users
It isn’t though. Like I said, if the model gets worse OpenAI can simply not release a new version.

You also have to consider the money angle. As using ChatGPT and other chatbots becomes more popular, people will stop producing garbage internet articles because they will be less popular and therefore less profitable. Bloggers who enjoy writing will continue to do so because it was never about the money, they just enjoy writing.

Further, the internet is only one small portion of information available to train on. There’s a lot of other data out there, including real-world conversations.
Interesting thought. In a desert it might be an issue, but normally a desert cools down at night a lot, if not then is that because of the humidity? If there is a high humidity, then evap will fall short.
Cryptocurrency isn't permissionless either, it's just enforcement-evading.
> If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well.

It will eventually be equally as toxic. Twitter started in a calm setting until the ads, politics, outrage filled it up. Threads will have ads soon and will apply the same Instagram algorithms it had before to promote verified outrage.

Trump is also on both Twitter and Threads. As long as he and other Instagram users are on Threads, then the outrage town hall will continue and will be no better than Twitter.
BGV fully homomorphic encryption scheme, a toy implementation in Python
In the past couple months I wrote a blogpost and a toy implementation in Python of the BGV FHE scheme, with the aim of understanding it. I tried to make it as approachable as possible, both theory-wise and code-wise .
Blog: https://bit-ml.github.io/blog/post/bgv-fully-homomorphic-enc...
Code: https://github.com/zademn/EverythingCrypto/blob/master/E3-Ho...

Happy reading!
Edward Fredkin, 88, Who Saw the Universe as One Big Computer, Dies
There are lots of other types of phones besides mobile phones (nowadays, usually implying VoIP somewhere in most places, but some countries still have analog landlines, too). Assuming that all phone calls are either made with Android or iOS is reductive to say the least...
I’m confused, one of the top comments says its app only, but here it shows its not.
“The Builder” : Push multiple successive commits with the message ‘WIP’ to the default branch
the YCombinator powers-that-be preach that a positive outlook is a key asset to propel you and your projects forward.

The word "enshittification" seems to be a Maxwell's Daemon designed to concentrate all the stray negative thoughts into (this) one huge snipe session.
> It’s such a depressing situation. Steve Huffman got caught red handed making up lies about Apollo’s dev for no reason whatsoever. I wish I was exaggerating.

this is false?
That didn’t work in chrome console for me
Sorry thats just bs. The required psrmissions of the app is worrying.
Imho the app only need 'internet and browse internal files' permission. Not location, device info and other sensitive data.
One big problem holding devs back from enjoying gamedev is a lack of quality 3D assets. The engine can be wonderful, but mods were successful due to the availability of existing models and textures that they can poach from the parent game.

I’ve been trying to fix this. It’s not quite ready for showing, but whatever: https://github.com/shawwn/noh

I used to work on Heroes of Newerth, a dota clone. The parent company (S2 Games) sold it to Garena, who shut it down last year. In other words, there are ~80 unique characters with wonderful animations that no commercial entity cares about. I offer them to you.

The gamble is that no one will care; Garena is a massive entity focused on the bottom line, and they’re based outside of the US.

The main thing I’d like to do is to get together the names of all the artists that made these cool characters and promote their current work. HoN’s main strength was its graphics and fluidity, which even today some prefer over dota. That was thanks to an incredibly talented art team whose office was based in California, and I had the pleasure of watching them work for six months or so before the devs were relocated to Michigan. I miss them, and I should’ve spent more time learning the tricks of their trade.

I’ve been making a converter from the HoN format to collada, so hopefully this can be a drop-in addition to raylib. Then you can make your own games with characters and props from HoN.

EDIT: the author of raylib is here! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614060
https://archive.is/MBW5l
there's also base91, with an efficiency of 6.5 bits of data per printable character, compared to 6.4 with ascii85, 6.0 with base64
Who is we? Is this 'we' you're talking about in the room right now?
https://archive.is/twmop
Set up is in two parts.

Programming the robot, and putting the and register the reagents and source material.

Given that they can produce instructions for humans, I don't see why they could produce instructions of the robot ( with perhaps some human instructions for making the reagents and source material etc available ).

A lot of traditional liquid handling robots are large and have relatively large buffer tanks etc - so need flushing etc etc. But I don't see why you could use something like RoboCat to be much more flexible for simple container to container pipetting.
As I mentioned elsewhere, does the conversation "Okay it's just using the Insta login service just now but I'll have its own one ready next week" "nah fuckit, just ship it, it's fine like that" sound likely or indeed familiar to you?
Maybe it won out on servers, but the world is mobile now, and mobile OSes are all about deep integration.

Linux has some of it with DBus, and a lot of the coolest stuff is based on it, or some other standardized rich shared daemon like PipeWire, which is about as close as Linux can get to having a feature rich OS, since the kernel devs would never go for making it truly like Windows and all monolithic.

The slower you iterate, the less you break, and the more focus you can have on app development rather than low level tool development.

The time you waste on not quite that great stale APIs seems to be offset by the time you save not constantly fixing stuff.

I suspect that the larger an app gets, the more it benefits from stability, because a million line app is probably going to have more code that nobody has needed to touch for 8 years
> killed two people in 2021

A third died in the burn center 102 days after the fire.[0]

I have multiple friends who lived in the Heidi Manor Apartments over the years. I saw the fire from 15 ft away standing on the sidewalk across the street from the building, it was horrifying. That building was a tinderbox and those walkways didn't have nearly enough staircases to be safe, it was a disaster waiting to happen.

I absolutely agree that personal fireworks are insane and should be outlawed entirely.

[0] https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/04/deadly-portland-apa...
>Google Drive's yearly cost for 2TB is almost equal to monthly payment for Dropbox for the same capacity.

Dropbox costs €10 / user / month while Google Drive costs $12 / user / month.
Yeah, I agree promoting this usage is as bad as promoting `curl | sh` in README.md.

Similar to how you can inspect the content of a `curl | sh` script and then run it, the model is also in a clonable repo, you may just:

git clone https://huggingface.co/internlm/internlm-7b-chat

and:

>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
>>> model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("./internlm-chat-7b", device='cuda')
Difficult is not an absolute. It needs to be "in comparison to something".

Desalination is verrrrry easy if nature does it for us (sun on the salty sea -> clouds -> precipitation over land). Compared to this, doing it "with a machine" is hard.
Threads must be doing something really square with user data if they could not start in Europe because of violation of rather toothless GDPR regulation (as if someone really dig into all those possible settings instead of clicking ok on the popup).
US maternal deaths more than doubled over two decades, study estimates
Cryptocurrency isn't permissionless? Whom do I have to ask permission from to spend my bitcoin?
And journalists. Who can resist a fresh new source of click-bait?
Except the most important routes are about crossing oceans. Asia to Europe or Asia to North America are very important routes. You pretty much hand waved major details here.

Then show me a working MOE system. I'd love to be enlightened about a working system that went beyond lab experiment.

You're the one ignoring actual expertise here. Here more people with expertise making the same claim: https://www.brinknews.com/could-hydrogen-replace-the-need-fo...

> It is about 10 times cheaper to transport energy by a hydrogen pipeline than by an electric cable.

At some point you are simply rejecting evidence without any counterevidence of your own.

The reason why we turn use hydrogen to transport energy right now is because the technology wasn't available until recently. But that is changing: https://www.greencarcongress.com/2023/04/20230411-h2pipeline...

As the technology becomes available, economics will dictate more hydrogen infrastructure.

Your simply misinformed. Hydrogen investment is enormous in its totality: https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/hydrogen-projects-inve...

All you're doing is making wild assertions without evidence.
Not your typical liquid handlers sure - but advances in robotics like Robocat type things should mean you could build a much more general robot that could operate much more like a human in a chain of tasks.
> Insane to me that they're red in the face threatening me to lose my account over having the audacity to just share a direct image link.
>
> Garbage service.

As long as you(and others) keep using it, theres really no reason for them not to
Communicating with Tests [video]
Instagram Threads: Why Meta Is Competing with Twitter
May be a good rule for what determines how someone can enjoy things like small groups is how physical it is. For me, MA was an online-only thing I found through my love of metal, almost no one I knew loved metal, most who listened to rock-ish music at all loved the *-core brand of music (which was popular in the late 00s) which I specifically didn't like. In terms of chances to actually branch out and see bands (and perhaps meet other metal heads at the time) I couldn't as I a) couldn't drive and b) lived in America in the bible belt.

Finding randoms who become actual meatspace friends probably makes it a little better, if anything, it lessens how insular you are when you have to be actually outside with others who aren't part of your group.
> In 40 years I'll still be able to read those files (though the storage media is a very different story)

With Joplin, you can easily archive as Markdown+FrontMatter and that format will still be readable 40 years from now with text and metadata included.

Additionally, in case you forgot to make a backup, and 40 years later all traces of Joplin have disappeared from earth and you can't find an old version of the app, the backend is a simple SQLite database, so you can do `SELECT * FROM notes` and get your content back.
https://www.bentaylor.co.uk

Infrequently updated thoughts on photography, logic, open rights, canoe building and many other things.
> In 2023 nobody wants to install yet another app

Sadly I think that's just you and me. If something requires an app then I'm most likely not going to use it. I can't/won't deal with more apps (or subscriptions).
yes, not your keys not your coins
This is true only in a handful of places, for a handful of people.

$8 a month is pretty much the monthly cost of a cellphone plan across Europe. One could also get Spotify, or Netflix, at the same price point.

Comparatively speaking, paying $8 to have unlimited access to generally low quality content, at the same price point where other platforms offer actual good content, is a waste.
> They want your selfies for facial recognition in order to track you better across the web

How on earth does facial recognition help with tracking someone across the web?
People competing to make the worst computer games possible
Those aren't the same propositions (I'm not sure they even are propositions?) so there is no such logical relationship.

"Meta will nuke your account" and "you nuke your account" is different. It might not even be possible to perform one of these (nuking your thread profile).

Your Instagram account is deleted (the state not the action) iff your thread profile is deleted.

Your thread profile is deleted iff your Instagram is deleted.

Those are the propositions that are logically equivalent.
"Custom" would be the way Apple Notes or Evernote stores their data in opaque binary blobs. SQLite is standard and you can open it with plenty of third-party tools, but I see your point about plain text files being more convenient for certain tasks.
- CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”

Clearly a visionary leader.

- CTO says he wants live examples of ChatGPT “making us code faster”

Honestly where are you, a kindergarten? So-called 'leaders' with this attitude deserve a slap (in rhetorical terms) IMHO.
for you tab isn't about censoring, it's about pushing content that will increase engagement, and pushing "fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war" is one way to do it
This made me think of the ad business on Twitter which I think might be its real killer.

If a community builds up on Threads (and why wouldn't it, reserving spots for 2B Instagram users?), the ad value will then probably be much greater there, and businesses (and thus influencers) will see a more lucrative environment there.

Why?

1. Meta harvests more data from your phones than Twitter which provides more accurate ad targetting.

2. Twitter is poorly ran and struggles even with basic things like not pissing advertisers off as they keep making controversial decisions for the network.

The news of rate limits must have spread like shock waves through the ad community, as one example. Reducing reach by now walling their garden and killing embedded tweets to make it harder to get to their ads another.

As for celebrities, they already have good community contact on Instagram since the visual medium lends itself extremely well in that regard, and I'm 100% sure Threads will ultimately become an extension to Instagram.

Isn't it funny how Elon has hunted his X.com idea for a "social network for everything"?

Instagram is far ahead than him now. They have Instagram photos, Snapchat stories, TikTok reels, and now Twitter threads.
But you can sync your Obsidian notes for free if you use free Dropbox or OneDrive accounts.
Pro accounts don't like mobile-only experiences
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
True, but I think there aren't many reasons to not run in WAL mode by default.
The app does ask for permission to get your contacts, according to the app store page
An open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
This comment doesn't make any sense. The critique was of the description of Project Veritas, not the facts of the case or anything else.
I dropped Dropbox with extreme prejudice (was a paying customer) when they decided to dictate which Linux filesystems I may use. Will never use them ever again. Randomly demanding I drop everything and re-engineer my stack is an invitation for me to re-engineer them out of my life.
I assume they wanted to ship ASAP and didn’t want to build something on every platform at once. They’re capitalizing on Twitter’s dumpster fire, what’s important is getting a product out there that 1) replicates basic Twitter functionality and 2) millions of people can easily access.
For me, the prices are as follows:

- Dropbox: $119.88 per year for 2TB, plus $39.99 per year for one year version history.
- Google Drive: ~$11.3 per year for 2TB, ~$57 per year for 5TB.

Not in the U.S., btw.
What I mean is that if a transaction is illegal, e.g. sanctions-evading, it remains illegal even if done with cryptocurrency and your likelihood of discovery or prosecution is low.
This is what computers would be like if it were up to me.

Start with Android's API levels, pack as much as you can into the standard base, none of this Qt vs Gtk vs Wx stuff, then add Linux's DBus for all the stuff you still need to make swappable.

Add Window's commitment to stability, and the browser's JITting rather than compiling anything not performance critical so we don't have to deal with any more architecture incompatibility.
requires an Instagram account, but what if you don't have one, would Instagram require a Facebook account? that would be funny!

Explains the 10M signups though, Meta has a huge network but I would've span it off, no Insta et al.

OK - I'm off to create an Instagram account so I can create a Threads account so that I finally won't have to start using Twitter!
The model code is Apache 2.0, the weights are proprietary.
EquityZen
tldw:

YouTube channel that published a video series analyzing the Surfside condo collapse now goes over what is claimed to be a leaked transcript of text communications with the doomed OceanGate submarine mission.

Submarine descends too fast, ~38m/min instead of ~25m/min. Support vessel notes discrepancy, sub presses on with descent.

At 9:28a, hull monitoring alarm sounds. Upward thrust is commanded to no effect. Ballast released to no effect. Landing frame released after several attempts, but ascent rate 1/4 of planned.

At 9:38a, crackling sounds heard in aft of ship.

At 9:46:37, power bus A reports failure. Crew switches to power bus B. More sounds heard. This is the last communication received by the support vessel.

-------

If this is authentic, then it basically confirms gradual delamination that snowballs into catastrophic implosion. It's horrible that the crew knew things were going wrong for nearly nineteen minutes and could not do much about it.
>iOS is the only one that is actively anti-hacker

anti-hacker? I think on the hierarchical scale of hackers, people who download and deploy adblockers should be rated "script kiddy" :)
LLMs are dangerous. They don't have to be AGI to be dangerous. Do I have to explain why? It's social policy: misapplication of belief in their correctness is hugely dangerous, as is productisation of incorrect information.

You're not helping your own line of reasoning arguing that more than one line of reasoning in AI risk is somehow contradictory, because they're not. They are disjoint.

If AI exists it would be dangerous

Even without existing belief in AI, LLM product without oversight is dangerous.

Even being dangerous, Bigger LLM do not automatically make AGI happen.
PlayStation demolished everyone. The biggest blow was that Sony managed to take Japan- the home market of Nintendo and Sega.
$8 is a very large amount of money for what's essentially a schmoozing certificate with very little actual benefits
Isn’t targeted advertising how social media makes money?

Your data isn’t valuable because your life is special and interesting. It’s valuable because it helps micro-target ads at you.
No options. It’s secondary equity from EquityZen.
I had a job interview with an American (NASDAQ) company, for their swiss office, recently. They offered around 100k CHF for a 42h/week contract with 5 weeks of vacation. It is indeed surprisingly low, compared to the high cost of living in Switzerland. The wages in Germany are not much worse with a much lower cost of living (and you get less hours per week and more vacation). I found this strange, as Switzerland was known for very high pay in the past.
JavaScript in Gnome shell is not doing any heavy lifting... all such things are done in C code.
>Instead of stamping the pack casing out of steel, it's using a giant casting press to make a single-piece aluminum enclosure.

all I read is 'non-serviceable'

> "No welds, no sealer, no multi material joint.

funny https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Harbi... I see two piece alu pack sealed in the middle.

McLaren P1 batteries are less than 10 years old, were build by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Matthey_Battery_System... company specializing in battery systems with long history and huge expertise. All of those 10 year old batteries are pretty much dead, and here this 2 year old startup is molding "20 year lifespan" batteries into truck framerails ... That one picture available makes it look like seams are fastened by screws all around and inaccessible once mounted inside the rails = bad battery equals new frame.
> Update - We are investigating reports of errors during login for some customers that is impacting some Confluence, Jira Work Management, Jira Service Management, Jira Software, Opsgenie, Trello, Atlassian Bitbucket, Atlassian Access, Jira Product Discovery, and Atlassian Analytics Cloud customers. We will provide more details within the next hour.

> Jul 06, 2023 - 09:03 UTC
I don't even think that Turing completeness and expressive power are linked at all. You could easily imagine a language like haskell without general recursion or inductive date types. It's still much, much more expressive then C, but without the Turing completeness.

Expressive power to me is something akin to "how easy is it to express a problem as close as possible to it's natural state in a PL".
Lex Fridman, Isaac Arthur
Postgres Full Text Search on Django JSON Fields with KT Expressions
If you've uploaded photos of yourself on other services and those services have agreements among themselves to share each others' (anonymized?) data, then you can be tracked across services through, among other things, your photos.