skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two exceptions:

> The law provides two exceptions relevant to this appeal: (1) section 165.540(1)(c) does not apply to a person who records a conversation during a felony that endangers human life, Or. Rev. Stat § 165.540(5)(a); and (2) section 165.540(1)(c) allows a person to record a conversation in which a law enforcement officer is a participant if the recording is made while the officer is performing official duties and meets other criteria.
Investment castings, we break the mold off and recycle the ceramic. That way you don't need draft angles or other limitations.
Actually, I recognize that specific breakage (a-box), as I’ve had to deal with it in my game engine. The problem is that something is interpreting each byte of a utf-8 encoded string as a separate character. That’s why some bytes show up as á and others are boxes — á is one of the few non-English characters that’s still valid ascii (single byte characters).

The fix is to tell your framework to decode in utf-8 mode. I don’t use ruby, but in python it’s mode=‘utf-8’. In C++ it’s to convert to wstring, then operate on wchar_t.

Unicode problems are mysterious, but I find it quite gratifying to solve them. At least nowadays. I used to find them incredibly annoying. But it’s pretty cool seeing any language be rendered by your app.
In 2007, people who didn't have Internet-connected desk jobs (or work from home arrangements) couldn't surf the web or check social throughout the day.

The difference is that now almost everyone can.
I think the article misses on comparable stores. They're all specialty goods, sometimes decent quality and sometimes cheap, considering what they are.

I just bought a scythe from Lee Valley. I checked out Lehman's first, but decided I wanted to try the slightly cheaper (simpler?) version at Lee Valley.

I bought some kitchen tools from Lee Valley that seemed promising but broke right away. A spatula broke at the weld while trying to flip a sandwich! From then on, Sur La Table has been my first stop for kitchen stuff.

For woodworking tools, they seem better quality than Garrett Wade and cheaper than Woodcraft.

For hardware, they might have what I'm looking for if a place like House of Antique Hardware doesn't. Or if they both have it, Lee Valley will be more affordable.

And those are just the things I shop for there.
Oops, forgot to say who "we" is there. I'm talking about our Firefox Guinness record download day back in 2008-ish.
I don’t see how your comment is related to mine?

Schools have to make choices about pedagogy. I think this is a debate about which choices give the best outcomes.

You’re pointing out that access to educational resources is allocated by wealth to some degree, which is obviously true but I don’t understand your point beyond that?
I think you're giving him far too much credit. His rant was an irrelevant screed about racism and sexism with alt-right dogwhistles like "clownworld", not anything about foundation mismanagement, which is what is happening to Rust.
I never saw a sign up form or any kind of indication.

I learned about the trick to search for "saymore" from a family member and see the red invite button on the search bar. She learned from some random.
Threads copies verification from Instagram which is mostly celebrities, public figures, brands, etc. You may not agree with the choices of noteworthiness, but they are at least checked for validity. https://help.instagram.com/854227311295302

Twitter has verification which is "anyone with spare change who wants to shout louder than others".
yup, working for me in 115.0
A very large Electronic Medical Records company shipped an extremely large shell script to us for an install.

Upon examination it contained binary data and a command to extract it to a file and then installed the application.

This was the “efficient” way to ship and install the binary.
Lee Valley's wares might be expensive, but they're (for the most part) great quality and last a long, long time. I'm still tools and kitchen implements I bought from them in the early 2000s. Just goes to show that quality lasts, and pays for itself over time.
I have new heat pumps in a very old, under insulated, and leaky house. I didn't use my oil furnace last winter (the first since two additional pumps). My costs were about half of the previous year, and I'm sure my carbon footprint was much better as well.

Can you say more about what your comment is supposed to mean?
You are guilty of your own accusation. You are conflating many things together. For starters, you are completely ignoring all upstream losses like charging losses, transmission losses, or energy storage losses. You do not magically get energy from a solar panel to the wheels in a BEV. You need to include all of the losses it took to get it there. But the reverse is rarely true, since critics of hydrogen are always including those upstream losses.

Another thing is that you cannot just make up a number and say this is the only possible outcome. Electrolysis efficiency is a moving target, and depending on circumstances, can be dropped to as low as 39 kWh/kg for water electrolysis and even to 33 kWh for steam electrolysis. Note that there are electrothermal processes gives you effectively free steam (like solar thermal or nuclear), so the latter number is fully possible. In the long run, you have to assume that it will not be that inefficient.

Same is true of BEV efficiency. 14 kWh/100km is pretty low of a figure. Not realistic in normal driving for most people. Not to mention you are comparing a compact car to a much larger car. If people are buying SUV sized BEVs, you won't get those numbers. And no, it is not guaranteed that a BEV will always be more efficient. Fuel cells are continuously getting more efficient and if the goal is have big cars with long ranged batteries, battery weight becomes a real problem. There are scenarios where BEVs will lose in efficiency.

Also, a lot of the upside of hydrogen is that you avoid all of the cost associated with batteries. It take less money and resources to make a hydrogen car compared to a battery car. These need to be accounted for in some way. Finally, one major problem is the huge and unpredictable surplus production of renewable energy. There are reasons why we see zero and negatively priced electricity on the grid. There is no realistic way of capturing it all using batteries. But you can capture most of it via hydrogen. That effectively gives you free hydrogen, and is functionally a way to reduce waste.

Ultimately, hydrogen production just continues the logic of wind and solar economics. Neither wind nor solar are particularly efficient, but it doesn't matter because you are using effectively infinite resources. It cost nearly nothing to keep renewable energy farms going. And likewise, it will cost nearly nothing to use that power to drive water electrolysis. The costs will trend towards zero.
I’m having a hard time understanding the seasonal energy storage component. Can you dive into this a bit more? I wasn’t able to find much on your website.

I work in the energy industry and this is one of the largest issues that utilities (and plenty of others) face (and even go as far as installing thermostats that they can control in their customers’ homes).

I’m wondering if there’s anything that can be done to advance the 2030 timeline? Both from an investor and potential customer perspective, that’s a lengthy timeline for such an interesting value prop.
Again, unfortunately the rest of aren't omniscient and infallible. And thus we must
muddle through.
The thing about SEO is, it’s only actually Google Search Optimization. Since Google has such a strong grip on search, the two are currently tightly coupled.

However they don’t need to be. If someone created a niche search engine it would immediately invalidate all of the Google-optimized trash out there. If it solves a specific use case people will probably pay good money for it.
> Does not being able to use violence any time you choose have a chilling effect on using it when it is legally justified?

It can, as can literally any law when you're brushing up into the boundaries of a gray area.

The principal question is:

"Do we want to live in a society where violence is usually allowed?" - Definitely not.

"Do we want to live in a society where recording people without their consent is usually allowed?" - Maybe? Depends on who you ask. Unlike violence, our social mores consider this almost entirely to be a gray area.
If they aren't generating capital from investments and work for a paycheck, they are working class.

Capitalists have capital.

The rest of us are born with only our labor to sell, whether that labor is blue collar or white collar.

The middle class is was and always has been a lie to separate the working class.
No chronological feed - not interested.
Amazing naming, still. Searching on the Android Play Store, just in case, first thing that comes up is "Threads" -- that has to put in an all capitals discalimer:

> [NOT AFFILIATED W/ THREADS BY INSTAGRAM] All in-one team communication platform

I bet they had a bump due to the name clash, and loads of support request too!
Talk is cheap. Show me the maths. How many Americans live off trust funds?
I never use Tiktok (I hate most of videos content), or any kind of "content creator" which uses videos as main source of delivering serious content.

The problem with videos (compare to blog writing) is i can't just fast read the whole content first. I need to second by second go to it.

And due to current target of Threads same as Tiktoker (instagram user = tiktok user) ? I can't use it, too.

But for entertaining purpose, short videos is fine.
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This battery promises safety, but not energy density (it's only 130 Wh/kg, vs 250 Wh/kg for lithium-ion). As for cost, they don't claim anything, it's at the research stage. They claim many cycles (800) and quite low loss per cycle (0.028%).
We are making flying robots over here . We build a transportation drone in our shop in Austin: composite, CNC, additive manufacturing, EE etc on the hw side + ML/realtime on the software side. http://www.skyways.com
If you are up for a challenge and you are interested to join the team feel free to reach out to me directly on linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbinet
Doesn't everyone think they're the good guy?
Even if I'm doing something so simple as writing out a label (we just packed up to move, so its fresh on my mind) and my GF says something to me, I won't respond until I get done writing it out. She gives me shit and says I can't multitask, but dammit let me focus.
Salts != Salt (sodium chloride)
As one who programmed Python in Hex-Ray, i was able to find differences in code between two like-binaries in a jiffy (using pseudo-IR tagging that disregards offsets).

Useful in catching modified code (intentional or not).

But that costed us a pretty penny to do just that.
First impressions of the app are that it’s a bit slow and need some work.

Some taps take several seconds to complete or just fail without feedback. But I guess that’s just server load that will even out and be designed around.

Scrolling is not as fluid as either FB or IG, which is surprising given how much Meta invest in their feed. But better than most mastodon apps I’ve tried.

Interface is pretty minimal and pleasant. Navigation is very intuitive.

I like that I can import all my Instagram data but still keep it separate. I used Twitter and Instagram to primarily follow artists , and so the connection is nice.

I appreciate that they allow keeping it separate if needed.

I’m also interested to see what their fediverse integration will be like.

Feed content feels less chaotic than Twitter with more priority towards accounts I follow and less advertising noise. It feels like Twitter from a few years ago which is what I want.

Overall I am interested to see how this evolves. I’m not a fan of meta but I think this is right in their wheelhouse. I miss Twitter for the wealth of knowledge and culture that one could find on there if you curated your circles.(emphasis on curation). Elon ruined curation and I hope Threads does it better.
Yeah I was thinking the same. 2 million accounts in 2 hours is wild. Not surprising just wild to me.

According to https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount there are about 13m mastodon accounts across all instances.

Threads might pass this by the time I wake up.
Tried it, FF with NoScript, Disconnect and uBlock and that didn't work even if given site permissions for NoScript. (Didn't seem to be able to debug it quickly.)
I opened it and immediately saw a post from GaryVee.

Who was sanctimoniously instructing people to 'collectively be more civil'.

Not a platform I want to use, but the App seemed decent; smooth UI animations, clean interface, simple onboarding with an overall decent UX.

I think Instagram people who are Twitter curious will jump on it.

If they can get Celeb style Tweets and memes without having to interact with the Garbage Fire that is Twitter, then I think it's going to be a nice easy win for Meta.

Not a raging multi-billion dollar success like Instagram, but an OK casual slow burn that offers value to Instagram users.
Especially another facebook app. Those in the category of "app only heavy social media consumers" have been addicted to tiktok for too long already. Any offering less than that by the place they left is not good enough.

And those like myself who are no longer interested in the current iteration of social apps do not need another offering from this iteration of social apps.
People haven't written the bots yet
You can pay for verification on Instagram as well. I had a blue checkmark last month when I kind of just paid for fun to see if it would increase engagement (I'm not an influencer or popular in the least, just have a few hundred followers). So I'd say Instagram/Threads' verification is equally worthless.
Yeah, I really enjoyed A Splendid Exchange which talks about this massive good and enjoyed Disunited Nations for one hypothesis of the future.
Marketers and influencers have a lot of pull, though. Journalists might follow if that's where the money is. When the journalists leave Twitter, it's over. Though personally I think Twitter was done once they got rid of verification.
>>BTW, the cause of the accident turned out to be the Chinese knockoff beaker ... The "Pyrex" logo on another one bought at the same time, on closer inspection, read "Pyrox", with a tiny "made in China" text at the bottom. Instead of being made with Pyrex borosilicate glass, it was cheap soda-lime glass that couldn't stand up to heating. I never noticed the difference.

I can tell tales of very expensive prototype drones getting a hard landing due to a cheap Chinese solder joint breaking, people being injured on cheap Chinese carbon fiber bikes, and on and on and on, without going into the home-grown Chinese product scandals that killed children with bad infant formula, etc.

Yet, the idea persists that "you can get the same thing cheaper" and from production mills in a country where quality is literally a foreign concept.

The longer I live, the more I find that it really is true that "Quality is it's own reason.". Good tools and equipment pay for themselves in durability, usability, safety, efficiency, higher quality output, just plain pleasure to use, and perhaps most importantly, stupid down-time events that never happen.

Better to buy second-hand high-quality equipment than new lower-grade junk.

And yes, we should be decoupling from China - all engagement does is empower the CCP.
Any Harry Mack fans in here?

I feel like he sustains the information processing throughput that happens when an olympic gymnast or diver is mid-air, but for minutes at a time with remarkable ability to pocket information for later recall.

Edit: Looks like he just dropped his first wordplay Wednesday in a while. Two and a half hours of freestyling based on chat recommendations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEkCIF1Msc
> @zuck

seeing that freaks face made me physically shudder. If they were smart they would distance this product from him as much as possible. it should be painfully obvious that he is toxic for this and any brand.

pay him whatever, let him stay in charge, but please for the love of god STOP PUTTING him as the face of anything.
It's fairly obvious that AI will simplify the capability of those who weild it. One can compartmentalize it to do whatever good or bad they wanted. I don't see how alignment can help prevent this at all.
The older you get the harder it is to maintain muscle mass, and I am in my 60s.
.net domains aren't all that valuable. Funny enough threads.com seems to be a random Slack clone which will probably get acquired by Meta down the line for their domain name.
I was working on the Fuschia project at Google and we used Gerrit as well. It definitely took some getting used to, but once I got the hang of it I found it to be a much better review tool.

It was a lot easier to show how contributions stacked, to continue iterating on a “branch” while waiting for a review from the team, and worked better with trunk-based development workflows.
> The extinction risk from unaligned supterintelligent AGI is real

Yes, but for reasons that no one seems to be looking at: skill atrophy. As more and more people buy into this gambit that AI is "super intelligent," they will cede more and more cognitive power to it.

On a curve, that means ~10-20 years out, AI doesn't kill us because it took over all of our work, people just got too lazy (read: over-dependent on AI doing "all the things") and then subsequently too dumb to do the work. Idiocracy, but the M. Night Shymalan version.

As we approach that point, systems that require some form of conscious human will begin to fail and the bubble will burst.
This notably surround James O'Keefe's Project Veritas recording people, as the plaintiff suing the state.

The dissenting opinion here is somewhat long to reposte, but seems worthy, in my view:

> Dissenting, Judge Christen stated that because the majority does not dispute that the State has a significant interest in protecting the privacy of Oregonians who engage in conversations without notice that their comments are being recorded, the court’s analysis should be straightforward. First, principles of federalism require that the panel begin from a premise of reluctance to strike down a state statute. Next, following Supreme Court precedent, the panel should sever the two statutory exceptions [ed: felony endangering human lives, activities of police officers] that Project Veritas challenges, apply intermediate scrutiny to the content-neutral remainder, recognize that the statute is well- tailored to meet Oregon’s significant interest, and uphold section 165.540(1)(c) as a reasonable time, place, or manner restriction. Judge Christen stated that the purpose Oregon advances is its significant interest in protecting participants from having their oral conversations recorded without their knowledge. The majority recasts the State’s interest as one in “protecting people’s conversational privacy from the speech of other individuals.” That reframing of the legislature’s purpose serves as the springboard for the majority’s reliance on an inapplicable line of Supreme Court authority that pertains to state action aimed at protecting people from unwanted commercial or political speech, not protection from speech-gathering activities like Project Veritas’s, which are qualitatively different because they appropriate the speech of others.

I wonder to what extent repeal might happen. Do the judges who struck this down intend to, in the absence of law, now allow 0 party consent recording? Can I just go around planting bugs around the city & start recording as many people as I can, unbeknownst to them?
Lots of room for improvement like no multi account support, as you mentioned discoverability, and feed options.

I downloaded it directly from the App Store because I’ve heard about it through external channels. Are they somehow notifying users to check Threads via their other apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp)?
'Facebook Container' plugin stops it from loading.
I find it highly unlikely that he has less upside than the employees who also don’t have equity, but do have profit participation units.
Yep, even if that includes regulatory/gov capture like we see here in Canada.
Interesting anecdote, appreciate you sharing it.

As to the deputy head's given reason (a lesson about safety and guarding against theft), I'd tend to think that was his genuine reason. Theft of valuable personal items in a school is a major headache for the school. The police may get involved. The school doesn't want weaker-minded students being constantly exposed to the temptation, some succumbing to that temptation, and some getting caught and having to be expelled, etc. Better to make students aware of the risk and to have rules against students bringing valuable items to school.
Our goal is to build a roughly human-level automated alignment researcher. We can then use vast amounts of compute to scale our efforts, and iteratively align superintelligence.

Not for nothing, but in the movie script version it’s the “human-level automated alignment researcher” that actually triggers the robot apocalypse.
> Can you give an example of where the bunch of numbers is copyrightable when it's not just a numeric encoding of something that was already copyrightable? Taking music and encoding it as a wav file is not a creative work, but it's a representation of a copyrighted work.

There are random number books and I know one of them has a copyright registration [1].

[1]: https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/7060844
You can look that up yourself.
If you just need durability not reliability it doesn’t need to be _nearly_ this expensive.

I run a bunch of stuff single region, single cloud, but I’ve got a regular job that takes the dumps of my databases and other user content and pushes it over into a Backblaze B2 account tied to a separate credit card.

At $0.005/gb/mo, every 100GB costs you about $0.50/mo in storage. Depending on how much data is changing, if it’s say 10GB/mo you’re looking at about $0.90/mo in AWS’s punishing egress charges.

For less than the cost of a basic McDonald’s cheeseburger every month a lot of services can add _durability_ which is more important in many cases. If your service has a lot of value people will wait for it to come back. If it’s never coming back, then you’re probably done. (I worked with one client who was entirely offline for a MONTH. People called CS every day begging them to fix it faster, but not a single one cancelled.)

Yeah, if AWS nukes my entire AWS organization it’s going to be a bad week getting everything set back up on $AnotherCloud. But it will be back up in a week, not lost forever along with my users’ trust.
How is threads going to be different from Instagram? The tools available for content creators will be different but if I am just browsing they should be similar, no?
Isn't that just a WordPress blog with extra steps?
Whats the consensus over on Mastadon at the moment? Will the major Mastodon instances block federation with Threads purely out of spite I wonder.
$49k for a Mitsubishi heat pump, variable speed air handler and two ducted head units for upstairs rooms. Supports 3000 sqft with multiple zones.
Asking for payment for citations seems like a direction we don’t want to head in.
Is there an API? Ultimately, I want to follow my friends' threads/tweets whatever and talk in our private Slack. First there was native integration with Slack, then I could jury rig mine, but now they made it hard on Twitter. Does Threads have the ability to do this? I will not puppeteer this. I want to fire and forget, not arms-race someone.
It's always, eventually, exactly the people who you don't want deciding what is/isn't noteworthy.