skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about Nintendo themselves, per se. They did a phenomenal job with the titles they did make for N64, including of course Ocarina of Time (a masterpiece) and I'll also never forget how revolutionary Super Mario 64 was.

I'm mainly talking about 3rd party publishers and specifically the JRPG genre. The N64 suffered from a lack of games compared to PS1. It was difficult to do 3D development back then, developers were just getting the hang of it.

In fact that you bring up Game Boy dev as a thriving platform for 2D content is an important point. Pokemon came out during this era. And a 2D N64 based Pokemon would have sold like hotcakes. Instead they built these half baked 3D Pokemon experiences like Pokemon Snap and Pokemon Stadium, which featured no storyline and no overworld.

Even something resembling Super Mario RPG with prerendered graphics on a isometric view would have been fine. It just wasn't generally done on N64. Everyone wanted to mimic Mario 64. The few RPGs N64 did get, like Quest 64, felt so empty, that it would have been much better to just ship it in 2D.
Extremely NSFW!
> Other opponents like the San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance and the Alliance for Independent Workers have protested the spread of robotaxis, which they say will eliminate the need for taxi and ride-hail drivers.

Ummm… that’s clearly the point. What’s the controversial bit? Stable owners decried that house and buggy drivers were being competed by cars and driving them out of business. I’d much rather have safer streets because taxis are ever vigilant rather than be in an Uber with a driver boasting about how he figured out how to drive 18 hours a day and gets almost no sleep.
It’s not from the article. It’s clearly stated on the app store page for Threads: https://imgur.com/a/Lk8Olb6
Conversely it is a good - or at least adequate - platform for businesses to build their identity on.

But I don't know if this is being imagined as "how businesses will communicate on our platform" or it is being treated as "regular users will totally manage their own DNS".
https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot16/workshop-program/pr...

I think you should stop digging. Sean and Hanno gave a Black Hat talk whose slides were unwillingly hosted on a GCHQ website because of this problem.
Sometimes I feel bad for luddites.

Two hundred years and they haven't won once.
Looking at the implementation, the longer nonce is hashed to 128 bits, with the last 32 used as a starting counter. So, if you don't use the whole 32 bits space of the counter, you are effectively using more than 96 bits nonce.

Sure, no more than 128 bits, but indeed better than 96.
Not living in terror and despair of things that are largely outside my control = extremist? Maybe it is you who is the extremist.

Living in fear, anger, a strange frothing hatred for people who are different. If anybody would appreciate why someone would not want to live their life that way, I'd think it would be you.
Scale is the enemy of nuance. This is true for both sides but choosing between US company data brokers free for all and EU, well
> as simple as changing a few DNS settings

For 99.9% of users this is a not at all simple.
The US could already do that more more than 20 years already, it's nothing new, they are just catching up, crime these days is very well organized and tech savvy, they have to adapt somehow
Ah, the God of the Gaps argument. What's your next move when somebody implements a plugin that has the effect of being able to solve Sudoku puzzles?

A good friend swore that ML was 50 years away from being able to beat a Go grandmaster. To his credit, he stopped making such sweeping predictions after that happened. He didn't fall back to, "Well, I don't know, let's see how it does at Risk."
It’s not working…
> But that’s because usually there is no trustworthy spec

This is the key - most of our writing on modern software comes from people building things with requirements that are unclear. There are pockets of the software world where detailed specs work wonders.

One of my professors in college had made a career writing these sorts of specs in a certain niche of robotics. It'd worked fabulously for him precisely because nothing was new or innovative, it just required exacting craftsmanship.
> The UK is working on a separate data protection law and the attitude towards privacy is very different from the EU (hence the rewrite)

This is very speculative. My guess is that changes will be made, but they'll be incremental and some effort will be made to ensure broad alignment with eu GDPR so we don't have another SCC-syle mess (where some major EU to USA data transfers were determined to be illegal.)
Inertia? Ignorance?

I've seen induction cooktops in commercial kitchens before, maybe they were just being stupid?
This is a social phenomenon with other autonomous urban robots already; cars aren't the first. I don't have links handy right now but I know you see security robots being pushed over, or food delivery bots boxed into places. Perhaps for various similar reasons: They're recording, they're annoying, they're slow, they're in the way, etc...

I don't know how much the "we don't consent to being on camera" argument holds water, since there's already lots of private cameras monitoring public urban places and roads. Maybe the fact that the cameras are up close and in your face is valid, though.

I don't condone mischief, but I also understand being annoyed. IMO, all vehicles on public roads should have a driver for now. But I welcome our autonomous-driving future.
I actually run/manage Mattermost Team server (and know/used/administered Unix/Linux for 25+ years), and it's not a fair comparison. BTW: The relatively low RAM usage and speed of Mattermost is underappreciated, IMHO.

We all know "suc" is merely a tongue-in-cheek thought exercise. :) Good luck getting 100's of millions of Twitter/Bluesky/Threads users to even use Mastodon.

Nobody but geeks can use "suc", Mattermost can be used by a far larger proportion of people.

Good recently posted HN-linked article about how most users have a lot less skill than you think:
"The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think":
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
But this is not the original problem! Only p's should decrease the counter, in your code every non-s does.
I was just suggesting you could be more up front that it wasn’t for you so you felt less judged, but you could still praise the people who ended up doing it!
Everyone who complains about being "censored" never gives examples.
Can we commit other people's blogs to this?

E.g. I am surprised to not see Julie Zhou's blog in this list--which, I believe, is one of the most influential blogs in the tech product space: https://www.juliezhuo.com/.
Threads is an amazing name for an focused around conversations.
Is it rosy because the interviews reveal information you don’t like? Or because you think the information is attained unethically? Simply saying “I don’t like them” doesn’t advance a conversation much.
Is there an easy way to make a feed of feeds? So one RSS feed for all these?
I think you are underestimating Meta's modeling capabilities, and their reach outside the app.

You do not need to explicitly talk about employment info, personal information, or permit health api access on Threads for Meta to infer these things "well enough" for advertising.
The Pathologization Pandemic
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else
https://coornail.net/

Mostly programming.
By this logic all companies' success stories are luck. I mean, I've met people who think this way, but it's HN...
Historically, it was typically quite a bit smaller than consoles. Recently, they’re pretty similar in size but both significantly smaller than mobile.
Same here with my 6900XT.

Honestly, I am amazed with all the complaints on here regarding AMD crashing. I have not seen this once while owning my card! All the while my friends on Discord keep complaining about their Nvidia cards while we’re playing Warzone.
While there's some truth to this, it's more of an incidental problem with DNS than an intrinsic one. There's nothing preventing registrars from simplifying their UX to target average customers, including multi-year registrations and ample warning systems.
I agree. It’s technically impossible for them to get this data without OS-brokered consent. Apple’s app store privacy card is extremely misleading here, it is based on a self-assessment not what APIs the app accesses. It looks to me like Meta simply checked every box in the self assessment form.
> Perfect for getting the plumber's van to the front door of properties on such a street.

Not exactly. If the speed limit is so low and the path is full of pedestrians, getting there will take a lot longer. Then you're paying a skilled worker to spend more time driving and less time working, on the way in and the way out, to each job multiple times a day.

Not parking in a parking structure several blocks away isn't infeasible because it's physically impossible to put a job box on wheels and lug it down the street, it's infeasible because you can't get it there in a timely manner, which is exactly what this hasn't solved.

And you have a nice idyllic picture of the lone van, but in practice a city block full of skyscrapers will have plumbers and electricians and HVAC technicians and IT staff carrying in computers and things, delivery trucks for everything from packages of dog food and copier paper to appliances to restocking convenience stores and vending machines.

That's what the parking spaces are for, and they're already scarce before you remove any.
This is a stark reminder that our personal devices are still very dumb. The article points out multiple times that all this data is readily available and it's still not combined in a way that enriches or simplifies our lives.

Reminds me of this GNOME-adjacent project (forgot the name) at the start of gnome 3 where every activity, every open file, every played music, ever visited website, location data, etc. was to be stored and you then were supposed to be able to search for files through a timeline of activities and how long you worked on a file or what music played during, instead of its name. But more importantly, the desktop environment was supposed to suggest activities based on learned behaviors. Visit Uni on Thursday -> already open my Algorithms-notes. Such a marvelous idea.

And yet we're stuck with systems that barely anticipate our needs, if even.
Nice to see a fellow slug! I think you are correct on the timeline being further back. The narrative I recalled was that there was a major victory around health care fee remission before I joined but it looks as if that was part of the original contract the union negotiated [1].

I spent my final years at UCSC working through the systems they had set up internally (administration meetings with GSA, getting on committees of administrators as a grad student voice, working with on campus housing developers[2]) in order to improve housing availability and cost. We had marginal wins if anything. The strike the next year won everyone thousands of dollars toward housing every year. I understand the nuance of it being a wildcat strike but the entire organizing infrastructure there was from the union.

I agree with your final points and hope stipends will follow upwards in the near future.

[1] https://livinghistory.as.ucsb.edu/tag/uaw-local-2865/
[2] https://payusmoreucsc.com/history-of-students-attempts-to-en...
With a long wait list.
And yet again, this is not data that is coming from your phone's store of health data.

This is data that is linked to you, and the spamminess of the ads on qz.com is likely doing far more invasion of people's privacy than Threads could even dream of.

This comment thread was about Threads taking health data "from your phone,"
Which is does not do, and which that sceeenshot does not say it does.

This sort of data linking is absolutely pervasive in the web advertising industry, and it is bad. But let's not falsely say it's coming from the store of data on your phone, it's coming from advertising networks like those that pay for qz.com's hosting bills and profits.
What they need to do is build a luddite robot that can succeed where they have failed...
Why? Why is that the goal of a Twitter alternative? Their goal should be to get users on there asap with core Twitter functionality. Everything else is a P2.
I found myself today trying to parse a TSV and substituting a few fields with a different value, then writing the new file out.

Something that perl would excel at, although I used Python. Because Perl isn't as maintainable as Python

I was intrigued by this comment. A JVM solution would also be viable in my tech stack. Would Tika be easier than line processing compiled regexes in Python? I tried looking at the Usage examples but it wasn't clear.
You can't delete Meta's new Threads app without deleting Instagram too
I just resubmitted the list, I believe around 500+ there is an invalid XML tag, which is fixed now. So all of them should be valid now. Forgot to do xml escape for the URLs
Or, you know, handle their termination with some care to honouring their contracts if you expect them to honour anything NDA / no compete for a while after...
OK perhaps I used slightly the wrong term. The docs[1] say that code-davinci-002 is "optimized for code completion tasks" though so it seems unlikely to fulfil the OPs purpose of playing around with an unaligned/sweary model which was my main point. Some of the uncensored models from huggingface would probably serve that purpose much better.

[1] see the entry for code-davinci-002 in https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-3-5
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> So what are we really talking about here?

The very first thing in the listing for the app in the AppStore. Why are you so obtuse to this?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644...

DATA LINKED TO YOU
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
I just parsed everything that was published to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 so if they have not published their blog there, it is not in the list.
I think this is very very use-case dependent, and your use case != everyone's use case.
In my experience, GPT-4 is night and day better than 3.5 turbo for almost everything I use OpenAI for.
such as the ability easily support redaction of personal data?

Errg: sorry folks. I miss read the thread and thought the "such as" was responding to the comment next to it about the design flaw of not being able to delete personal data.
We are most certainly not in agreement. You implied that one had to live in fear of covid in order to make rational choices about it.

I mean it's okay that you were, you don't have to do the macho act to save face or anything. It's a very common response even irrational fear (and is unfortunately exploited). I was not saying that's the "wrong" way to feel or live, just that it saddens me to think of people feeling like that.
My opinion, here's the deal: no, you don't need to abstract any set of classes. That defeats the purpose. But there's a catch: you must be working in a modern component-based framework to work like this effectively.

Because that's the context where Tailwind grew.

If you have your set of e.g. React components defined you don't really ever "repeat the same styles for links, buttons again and again". You just use your components. <Button/>. <Link/>. <Card/>. <Container/>. Whatever you need. And then your only "raw" tailwind in your "templates" is the scaffolding around it.

And it's great. No write-only CSS syndrome, no coupling between components, at-glance understandability of what's going on.

But you gotta be using components, otherwise it's just overwhelming.
> Threads is just an empty website in the EU right now.

And it should stay that way.

CJEU declares Meta/Facebook's GDPR approach largely illegal: https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu-declares-metafacebooks-gdpr-approach...

Threads won't launch until compliant with GDPR and Digital Markets Act: https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-...
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No, you misunderstood what I meant.

I've seen people claim that slowing down or stopping economic (or even reversing, but I admit this position is rarer) progress was an acceptable tradeoff to counter global warming. Almost all solutions proposed by climate alarmists follow this pattern, albeit to varying degrees.

The analogy was that 100 years from now, people would see our current era as we see the industrial age. That is, unless we stop progressing.

Formulated differently, if degrowth had been followed in the industrial age, we would still be living in the industrial age (but the Earth would be a degree cooler).
I'm a bit late to the party but here's my little corner in the internet: https://jupblb.prose.sh/
> The thing is, there is no @mark

Not yet! Is ICANN still accepting applications for new gTLDs?
A hypothesis: Underground animals like ants, termites, moles, etc. pollinate the flowers.
what's the deal with the host url?
> “Not only is this understanding of how AVs operate incorrect, but this is vandalism and encourages unsafe and disrespectful behavior on our roadways,” the company said in a statement. “We will notify law enforcement of any unwanted or unsafe interference of our vehicles on public roadways.”

Good luck with all that.
> If you were 70+ then COVID was far more likely to kill your than driving.

I know, because I had some understanding of the risks. All without being terrified! In fact there may even have been some correlation there.

> But most of us weren’t 70+ and couldn’t really empathize with those that were.

Speak for yourself.
> Waymo probably won’t have any luck sticking a vandalism charge on someone who puts a cone on the hood of its vehicles.

Good luck automating society if the public sentiment starts to really turn against these kinds of initiatives. Us nerds can argue about the merits of markets all day long, but we can’t expect the society we’re leaving behind to willingly participate in this new techno world order.

Automation is so brittle. It’s hard enough to design a fault-tolerant web, I can’t even imagine how we’re gonna do it in the physical world at scale with things like self-driving cars when they’re so easy to disable.

It’s like infosec, the attack surface of the system is far too big to properly guard against unless you’re willing to spend considerably and make the necessary sacrifices.
Focusing on native mobile apps over web for launch is a completely sound strategy. 80% of Twitter use is from mobile, and probably near 100% for Instagram since they barely have a web version. But I’d expect them to do a web version relatively quickly to appeal to Twitter refugees.
> Couldn’t someone say prototype the entire product on some lower-quality LLM and occasionally pass requests to GPT4 to validate behavior?

This, infact, might be a better way to do inference anyway: https://twitter.com/Francis_YAO_/status/1675967988925710338

> So, to return to the point, can’t people just build their product with openAI or other and plan to move away based on the cost and fit for their circumstances?

Depends. There are signs that folks are buying into GPT-specific APIs (like function calls) which may not be as easy to migrate away from.
Bugs will always happen, of course, but let's not pretend that those are conscious decisions.
Perhaps a feature that has not yet been turned on in the app itself yet.
> a lot of checkboxes

Yeah, I'm self taught on this stuff, but I've started to think that's not all bad. I literally downloaded every one of the NIST 800 series, the FIPS series, the CNSSIs, all of it, and went through everything to figure out what connected with what. Most of it is pretty damn obvious. You should secure your internet-facing servers, sanitize inputs, never hold actual passwords in a database, use some form of 2FA, etc.

But there are a lot of dudes with degrees in "cyber-something" or "IT something" who lord over me with their government-bestowed positional authority (I'm just the clinical informatics physician with an undergrad in physics from a top school and teach machines to diagnose disease, trying to deploy things to actually save lives, so what the fuck could I possibly know about the dark arts of cybersecurity? "Oh, god, here he is talking to us about numbers again, borrrringgggg. I bet he's going to ask us when the GPUs are going to be on contract. Again. Like, bro, we'll get to it. Later.")

Come to find out a lot of these fuckwads speed-click through their ATO checklists. Shockingly, the timestamps on the checkboxes are all on the Thursday afternoon before the Tuesday "surprise" inspection that happens the same week of the year every time, run by the guy who they used to work for at the last gig.

And then the guys actually trying to get shit done get drowned by the 50 fucking drones who all show up to the weekly meetings and pipe up with their 30 seconds worth of input. And the guy trying to actually deploy product spends the rest of the week establishing that the drone didn't actually know what the fuck was going on in the meeting and just blurted something out at the appropriate moment, relying on the last 30 seconds of banter to guide his statements.

Not that I'm bitter or anything...
I think direct drive has its use cases but big players (i.e waymo) use the former method of waypoint teleoperations, for the reasons you mentioned.

From a business perspective its also more scalable since you can just remotely control the bot with a mouse and a screen (and not need a full gaming setup). Also as you can imagine many companies probably also multiplex single teleoperators over multiple vehicles. Having indirect control facilitates this better since you dont need operators to effectively "drive" bots with their undivided attention one at a time.

5g does make teleops better in general, but its also kind of expensive and still incurs a latency penalty (i.e remote driver action --> bot action feels insanely sluggish). I think as you scale it becomes less feasible to do direct drive, as you said.

Disclaimer: I work at another AV adjacent company so this is just my take on what I think others are doing from hearsay.
That is good idea as well! That would require me to actually run the server (or github actions) to refresh the RSS feed, maybe something I would do later on.
I didn’t really understand the domain thing when I signed up with my invite. After that I never used it again.

Honestly all these social media apps like Twitter suck. I never used Twitter nor social media much, probably won’t change.

Personally, I’m out. Y’all have fun and enjoy.
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There’s an interesting comment on the PR:

> Btw, launchd apparently supports this already; it's invoked as launchctl reboot userspace.

So, macOS already had this feature, who knew!
> while Bluesky is exactly what I ask for

Not exactly. They can't even show you full timelines: https://bsky.app/profile/dholms.xyz/post/3jzsdcorxx42n
One other hypothesis I’ll throw out there is that part of the problem is that general education is seen as a phase that one goes through and then is done with. If you have stuff you want to study in an academic way, you better cover it while you’re at school. I went to undergrad for 5 years and still never had time for subjects like philosophy as much as I may have enjoyed it. The breath of human ideas is too vast to cover in the time we give for it.
I think the article is making the (reasonable?) assumption Google's search and advertising will use Google's own in-house Bard or something similar. The article mentioned something about Google having the full vertical stack: hardware, networking, software, ML model, product, and the users.

As of right now, Bard is separate. Or if Google has integrated ML models into search and ads, it hasn't been widely discussed.