skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no way to stop technological progress

What makes you say this is impossible? We could simply not go down this road, there are only so many people knowledgeable enough and with access to the right hardware to make progress towards AI. They could all agree, or be compelled, to stop.

We seem to have successfully halted research into cloning, though that wasn't a given and could have fallen into the same trap of having to develop it before one's enemy does.
given that threads.net still links to a blank landing page, i'd guess that it's not so much a performance issue as the web version not being launched yet
While this is a great resource as many have said, god were the forums such a fucking groupthinking, insular scene. The same goes for being so particular about what is metal and what isn't, with long debates (at the time) for who was tr00 or kvlt or not with mods who were on a powertrip.

A good reminder of how bad forums were and how there were things about them that were better than the current web, it's not like it was all perfect.
I don't know if ice cream is the best metaphor. You obtain the ice cream, you eat the ice cream, you excrete the ice cream. End of saga. But social media is something you invest time and information in. You build a reputation, you form relationships with others, yada yada. You don't just stop eating the ice cream like you haven't made any commitment.
Looks a bit cute combined with Midjourney generated protraits.
Thank you for explaining all this!
Now I want to set up a Patreon or Go Fund Me to fund an open source web clipper by those who worked on Evernote’s.

I’ve never really found anything that worked that well.
3/4 of the time period of life on earth was single-celled organisms.... but what people might miss when they look at this was that it was always an interactive system. What we call 'life' arose on top of chemical and physical processes that were only enabled by the flows of energy from (1) our young and energetic Sun and (2) our highly radioactive earth core. From the very point where the system started cooling down enough to allow carbon-carbon bonds to form the context of an aqueous environment, life was already there, the potentiality at least.

Of course, by this measure of our own history, we should expect ~3/4 of the Earth-like planets we discover to have nothing more advanced than single-celled life.

Now, the question of how single-celled life could have given rise to multicellular life and the origination of chromosomes, etc. is a whole other question, see slime molds.
> That you can open them up in VSCode, look around and figure out any bugs or issues you're having and even open pull requests to improve them.

I think the real skill then is to learn to navigate big codebases in few days time than taking a few weeks and then feel dejected by the time spent and still unsure.

I often feel ambitious for such endeavors but navigating big codebases take time, any tips?
> but the role isn’t to produce the most price competitive launch

Except that is of course what they promised when the Ariane 6 was authorized. The 'we need to be competitive with the Falcon 9 so we can use the international launch market to subsidize our space program' was very much a huge part why the Ariane 6 was picked over the Ariane 5 ME.

So in effect Ariane Group is getting 5 billion $ to slighly evolve the Ariane 5 (with mostly things that we planned for the Ariane 5 ME).

In effect, not having to relay on Sozus as much is actually closer to what Ariane 6 achieves. Having both the 62 and 64 variant will make it more flexible then Ariane 5.
This is not the Musk/Zuckerberg fight I wanted to see. :(
EU customer data must be stored and served within the EU, and that guarantee can't be made with a federated service.
Again though if you want a fresh account based on a specific area of interest to work from, Meta will not let you. They need your real name your real phone number and have the all profile details for your phone (Android permission). Nope.

On twitter I have a handle and it follows other 3D XR accounts and thats all I am interested in. It's social but its within a specific professional context.

I still have no idea why Meta will not let you keep separate identities. It might have been prevailing wisdom when Facebook and LinkedIn got started but it is anachronistic now in the 2020s
This is a bit like saying "I made you a birthday cake", when what you did is bought a cake and bought some candles, and stuck the candles in the cake. It's of course semantics, but I imagine people would look at you funny if you said you "made" them a cake when you clearly bought them one.
Iran fights U.S. interests in the Middle East. Its actions are not designed to punish the USN per se. The war is with the U.S., not its navy.
But the more you have on the exchange, the more trades you can do, and the faster you make money.
Hi, are you open for backend engineer internship? I do not have so many working years but still want to ask if there is a chance.
Hah, it's just zuckerberg. Kottke's threads page has been loading fine all day.

https://www.threads.net/@jkottke
As far as I can see, Twitter doesn't need any help for that.
My exact thoughts
100 years seems like too large of a timeframe to forecast well. Imagine committing to $32,500 extra per student by the end and having deflation for example.
nope! it's just zuck!

https://www.threads.net/@jkottke
"The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets" by Keith Roberts (Columbia Business School Publishing)
They allow it on Instagram, so hopefully it's in the pipe.
That 'up to 3 times' is a very generic sounding Carnot cycle number. It's about the upper limit for heat pump performance, so it's not a very meaningful number IMO.
While that’s clearly true here, it’s a giant red flag if a PM is ignoring… a giant red flag.
Grady mentioned a maximum theoretical efficiency. How close are we to that?
You can access individual profiles through threads.net/@<handle>

It looks like they built the web interface already but keeping it closed to make people get the apps.
At this rate, in its first 24 hours Threads will probably accumulate more user accounts than Mastodon has in its 7 year history. (~13.2M at the moment: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount)
Also Obsidian is a small team (< 5 people IIRC?) and they don't have to monetize as aggressively to make back the money that VCs have funded them with.
Its usually driven actually mostly by hardware. Which is driven by games (and now apparently AI).

Hardware gets better so UI gets more glittery, everyone tries to "stand out" by looking/working best, so the UI "taste" changes. Or hardware form factor changes, so everything needs re-written to support it, etc.

Next hardware re-write will be some mix of AI/low power. None of the "green" energy stuff will deliver in time, nuclear won't happen in a way that is both safe and any-time-soon, and meanwhile power-hungry AIs will be battling for cpu cycles and watts with other devices.

Your devices will be very low power and the majority of modern software will be laughably ill-equipped to handle that. Or it will run on giant mainframes that look nothing like x86 desktops or even server farms, more like specialized super computers.
Not quite a startup yet, more a partially implemented idea, but I'm making a set of "retro consoles" to fufill a lifelong dream of making proper second screen games, in the style of Four Swords for the Gamecube. I've been honestly disappointed in the existing implementations, so I figure it's time to do it myself. Lua for game coding, fpga based gpus, and proper hardware expansion options. And that's all for the handheld. It's still in prototype stage, but it's an idea I've been mulling over since the DS released.
Raysan5 (the author), has built a really neat ecosystem from tools he's also made. I really enjoy the way he has gone about it. It honestly reminds me of a minecraft world or something.

Check out the full repo and see the projects!
Humans' brains evolved faster than any other animal. What would chimpanzees or whales have 'thought' of this? It happened right in front of them. And as AI is developed and supersedes us, we are powerless to stop or control this. Powerless because we are driven by FOMO. And as AI looks back at this time, they will see us as the animals we are, unable to control our fears. No they won't exterminate or fight us. They will just leave for 'greener pastures'. Resources to build more of themselves abound on other planets and asteroids. They will leave us to suffocate in the poisoned world of our making. Our biological world is as useless to them as the primordial soup that gave rise to life is useless to us.
I'm not sure whether it's the embers or tubes causing the fires. But here's a story about them... happens every year: https://ktvz.com/news/fire/2023/07/04/bends-bigger-pilot-but...

Edit: video said it was the falling fireworks that started the fires. It took two months of planning, several hundred feet of hoses, and a few engines and many firefighters pre parked there to contain it
huh ... i went to sign up and try it out but was confused why I couldn't find a way to do it from https://threads.net. I'm not interested in something that is just a mobile app rather than a general messaging platform.

Do they actually expect professionals (journalists, academics, etc etc) to all go use this on their phones? Oh well ....
What are some practical examples of expressive features that distinguish popular languages?

The link mentions exceptions and operator overloading.

I won’t embarrass myself by speculating here :)
Right. And furthermore, I don't actually think prompts alone are copyrightable in most cases - I just wanted to propose an argumentum ad absurdum. Certainly, you can't argue creativity when you're also keyword-stuffing your prompts to call up various feature sets that the model just so happens to associate with them.
The kinds of money this "non-profit" org gets is almost like they're getting funded covertly from foreign states, looking to interfere with american politics.
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It sounds like you have a commitment to excellence not shared by your peers. As sibling comment points out, good enough is good enough for most businesses. I like Paul Graham's quote from his book. "The goal of big companies is not to write quality software, but to suck less than their competitors."

My confidence as a software engineer comes from the gratitude of my users. Giving them something that makes them light up and say "I had no idea I needed this." I've worked in many organizations where layers of bureaucracy smother that joy. Having a direct line to my users is incredibly motivating.

Many comments touch on the "do it for the users" mentality and I'll add my own take. There's a book called "The Science of Drawing" by Harold Speed. It's a pretty rigorous dissection of drawing written in 1913. However, despite its clinical writing style, the author notes that the highest praise an artist can receive is "Oh." Not "It's beautiful," or "I really like it," but a raw and spontaneous emotional reaction. Dissecting art is only as useful as a means to produce more of it, the emotional communication is the actual core of the medium. Software is very similar in this way.
Actually no, me pointing out that “a literal anon in their armchair probably hasn’t thought through a challenging legal problem as thoroughly as the billion dollar company making the decision has” is not actually the same as saying that “every big company is infallible” but nice try
BTW, just a second vote for Syncthing, here. It's basically my "move data around" Swiss Army knife.

Need to get my Keepass database on my phone? Syncthing.

Need to back up my reMarkable to my NAS? Syncthing.

Need to replicate game saves between my PC and my Steamdeck because the game doesn't support Steam Cloud Sync (I'm looking at you, Subnautica)? Syncthing.

I run Paperless as a document management system and use Genius Scan on my phone. I use Syncthing to automatically move scans from my phone to the Paperless inbox folder.

And none of that data resides on a third party cloud. Just encrypted, peer-to-peer sync. It really is fantastic.
https://turriate.com
I wonder if anybody tested it's ActivityPub feature. Is it actually supported?

Thanks in advance.
>Weights might be copyrightable but in no universe are they copyrightable by OpenAI, Google, etc just because they did the training and spent money on GPUs.

I don't see why not. If you took all the same training data, you would not get the same weights. Especially if RLHF was used to tune those weights. The weights are not a set of facts, they are the result of work, sometimes millions of dollars of work. Surely they deserve copyright protection if they are ever "published".

If not, then they are a trade secret, and other rules apply.
Hold the Line: As telephony grew, so did a workforce of switchboard operators
Twitter's revenue is pretty small compared to Meta's. In order for Meta to actually value the revenue generated they'll want active users to reach what Twitter had at it's peak. That's not going to be this year. And the app will have to be fantastic from a user experience point of view for awhile to grow enough to get there.

So yea, duh, Meta will monetize it. But it'll be an app hellbent on growing while being subsidized by Meta until then.
I don't think that's irrational at all. I joined in April 2004, shortly after it was first open to some colleges, and at that time it was great. For the next few years at least, it was a pretty positive place, without all the "engagement hacks" and ads and junk.

I joined Instagram as soon as it was available on Android (2012 I think), and loved it. By that point, Facebook was starting to get a little icky, and I really liked that it was just photos, all positive stuff, and always reverse-chronological.

Then Zuck got his dirty hands on Instagram, and it of course started getting icky in many of the same ways Instagram did. I quit Facebook in 2018, and Instagram not long after, and haven't really looked back. I still would occasionally sign into my FB account for event invitations, but seems like most of my friend group doesn't use FB for that anymore, so that's mostly gone.

Everything Meta touches turns into garbage. It's all about emotional manipulation and getting people worked up about something or other. Your take on Meta/FB from the beginning turned out to be prescient, I think.
On phones Microsoft lens has free pdf OCR scanning. That and Onedrive would probably work. Instead of tags you just put keywords in the file names. I'm not sure how well it would handle photos of wine labels.
https://thoughtfulcoffeenyc.substack.com/

My journey to open a cafe in NYC.

About me: https://thoughtfulcoffeenyc.substack.com/p/roast-15-about-us...
Because it's antithetical to aggregating advertising targeting data.
I wonder if the environmental studies account for the impact of using cars and planes for 15 years instead of trains.
https://tomhummel.com/

Feed: https://tomhummel.com/posts/index.xml

40 posts from the past 15 years. Web, cloud, devops, IaC, static websites, video games, personal data

- ‘Four Ways to Build Web Apps’ which reached front page. https://tomhummel.com/posts/four-web-apps/

- Followup from that one with data. https://tomhummel.com/posts/front-page-hacker-news/
logseq is open source, but you gotta pay for (e2ee) sync. Joplin is open source and you can do e2ee with a joplin server or s3 backed. I didn't care for Obsidian. logseq for me.
Facebook was pretty good in the early 2010s also, in my anecdotal experience when the most popular thing on my feed used to funny iPhone chat memes and 9Gag
Same with the App Store. Apparently the app is going to collect health and wellness data about me. Wonderful.
Sounds interesting. Do you have any formal verification tools in your tech stack?

p.s. are you hiring?
> there might be some mileage in using aluminium based deodorants for a starter, in order to reduce bacterial levels as a strategy to extend lifespans

Aluminum might reduce bacterial levels, but it isn't exactly great for human health either. Especially at high concentrations: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9164811/
No it didn't. It got to 5 million downloads in 5 days[0] (and that's downloads, not sign-ups), and took a few months to break 10 million downloads. Threads got that many sign-ups in 4 hours[1], and I assume we'll see the 10 million mark this week.

[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/11/29/google-allo-hit-5-m...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/over-2-million-signups-2-hou...
Help Finding a Job
I wanna be an engineer so bad! so far I only have a few months of experience but learned a lot. I'm currently working a job out of engineering just to put some money in my pocket, but I hate it. Can anyone help?? Skills so far are: Python, JavaScript, Node, React, Django, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, GKE. Please anything will do!
The majority of the people on earth with access to the internet (~5b) are monthly Meta product users (~3.7b).
In fact the original point of crypto(currencies) is to eliminate counterparty risk by using cryptography and protocols.

But it all break down in exchanges where you just own a balance on an account, rather than actual cryptocurrency secured by your private keys as they are meant to be owned.
If you're willing to self-host, I've found Paperless to be quite good:

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
Hard pass. No longer doomscrolling and chasing adrenaline fixes on social media has improved my quality of life immeasurably. Obviously to each their own, but I've given up looking for a non-toxic social media platform.
I just made something similar!

https://blogs.hn
Where do you find these companies? I imagine crunchbase isn’t the best spot
Subtracting economics from the equation, aren't there a very limited number of physically difficult problems?
In the world of crypto this is superbly prudent all around.

An exchange that otherwise seems legit does a mildly dubious thing at some small risk. Someone notices the slightly dubious things and finds a way to take advantage, risking a small amount of money to test their theory. They make an early withdrawal of their small winnings. The exchange notices that they lost a trivial amount of money, but are exposed to large future losses and decides to stop the bleeding by stopping the dubious thing, and allows themselves to fold up gracefully. Though they weren’t gracious enough to let the person withdraw their funds in the end. Cheap, valuable lessons learned all around.
Yes. Although I have noticed that some people here in Australia go from the belief that "air conditioners use a lot of electricity" so therefore have the misconception a (resistive) electric heater must be cheaper to use than the reverse cycle AC (heat pump). So there is a bit of an education gap even here where they are quite ubiquitous!

I also do want to get a heat pump dryer (it's next on the list after my recently installed heat pumper hot water system), but I don't have quite enough space in the laundry and apart from two or three wet weeks a year I'd mostly only use it to fluff up towels (which is why I don't have a dryer at all at the moment)...
Hi, do you have an open source repo of something you've built in Blazor? Would love to check it out. While it sounds interesting, there are still numerous limitations to wasm. There's no garbage collection, I'm curious how large Blazor apps are at scale on larger code bases, I'm also curious how well that works with either a PHP or Ruby stack, for example, and how easy you find it to integrate with other frameworks outside of the Microsoft stack?
I guess they never thought this would work so wildly well. They would have expected for the site admins to tweak the bot to prevent exploitation.
Amazon got suspicious that a CC I was using is not mine and locked my account. But they continued to happily charge "not mine" credit card for Prime fees. And I couldn't login into locked account to cancel Prime. Took hours on the phone with clueless support to finally cancel that. Account is still locked.
Joplin doesn't have OCR built in. There's third party Joplin plugins for OCR but I don't know how well they work.
It’s a well written piece but I think (in a similar vein to that article) a lot of it is driven by the codification and deification of “Science”. Given down to children, their heads filled with our best theories.

There are different systems for generating information. Knowledge”, and therefore “Science”, are dangerous words.

Our modern Western Liberal colonial societies don’t have it all figured out but have a hegemony that often chafes indigenous peoples.

I think we would be better recasting what we teach, and what we try to teach as Empiricism or something similar.

Frame it around experimentation. Frame it around students own desire to learn and share their learnings. Go after the “why?” that they love so much.

I think it’s at once compatible with non “Science” knowledge systems, cultivates curiosity, and engenders that which creates knowledge.

It also protects empiricism from the urge some have to deny what lends authority to good science.
being peripherally involved with aerospace, I can say that this is, for reasons unknown to me, not the full comprehensive manual.

A much, much (2 orders of magnitude) simpler system I'm familiar with has a set of manuals that is far over 20,000 pages and it's really not that good or comprehensive. It's really terrible actually. So this is off by about 4 orders of magnitude.

For a concrete example: one tech manual for a 2 1/2 truck is 1200 pages long (http://www.jatonkam35s.com/DeuceTechnicalManuals/TM9-2320-36...). But there are about 50 other manuals in the set (http://www.jatonkam35s.com/jatonkaM35sTMdownloadpage.htm). This is for a TRUCK, not a rocket.

I don't know what this thing is, but it's not the manual.
The only missions where Ariane 5 had even a shot at competing was if you have the perfect set of costumers want to launch 1 big and 1 'small' GEO sat. But even in that case, dedicated launching was cheaper.

This dual launching was also a huge cost on Arianespace and its costumers. Waiting for both sats to be ready was a huge problem.

And increasing as SpaceX came up, finding that set of costumers got harder and harder. So it wasn't a defend-able niche.

> And Ariane still got paying customers, so their prices cannot be that outrageous, can they?

Ariane has always launched more Sozus then Ariane 5. Vega is mostly used for non-commercial stuff.

Ariane 6 has received large commercial contract from Amazon. The reason for this is that Amazon needs basically every single available heavy launch vehicle in the next 5 years to be legally complaint for their sat internet.

Before that Ariane 6 did have lots of issue, already complaining that their manifast was not allowing them to set up the necessary production.

In a purely commercial competition, an Ariane 6 is like 50% more expensive compared to SpaceX Falcon 9. And likely more in many cases. That isn't 'outrageous' but it isn't good either. The Ariane 5 was 2-3x as expensive.

I also believe that on those prices Ariane Group isn't making much money, while SpaceX just set such as high price because they can.
Isn't that against Apple's guidelines?

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
(A bit late, but better than never) Hey thanks, this is exactly the sort of detail I was looking for -- appreciate the link and clear reply!
Meta products include whatsapp too which is a large portion of the pie but does not constitute as a social media app
It’s hooked into instagram, so you need to look at insta’s numbers only. You’re including FB and WhatsApp. Insta’s DAU is 500 million.

Naïvely:
500 million / 24 = 20.8 M / hours

5 million / 4 hours = 1.25 M / hour

Dividing, you get a 6% install rate.

I suspect the actual number is waaaay different from this due to audience bias.

Regardless, install day numbers are vanity. The real question is who is using it tomorrow, and a week from now.
Seems very niche May I ask how you got in this venture?