skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything, including for no reason at all.

I have like 50 followers, 10 photos, and check my IG once every week or two - haven't posted anything in months.

Meta has banned me twice for unspecified policy violations (both times I had to send them a selfie and got reinstated, and there was no way to ask a human what these policies were).

I suspect they'll ban/unban me again someday, oh well, it's Meta and I don't care, I just make sure not to use them for anything essential...!
Granted, the religious _practice_ I’m most familiar with is Christianity as it is practiced in North America. There, non-trivial numbers of people believe that the Earth is 6000 years old and hold to other similar falsifiable claims. I would gladly shrug my shoulders and say “To each, his own.” But there are constant battles to present some of these views (albeit less extreme) in public school curricula. Some have ended in landmark cases before the Supreme Court.

One can make the argument that science and religion occupy disparate spheres of interest, as Gould did with his “non-overlapping magisteria,” but it ignores the fact that religion as it is practiced often makes claims about material reality, claims that can be put to scientific scrutiny.

The historical record is interesting, and I appreciate the details presented in TFA. But I’m concerned with the practicalities of religious practice and those of science and the “constantly-overlapping magisteria” of material claims.
Evernote and the 100-year data guarantee (2012)
In my humble opinion the SO question and some of the comments here conflate "expressive" as it's used when talking about the theory of computation and "expressive" as it's used when comparing various high-level programming languages. The former has a very precise (but also quite narrow) formal meaning and the later is just the normal English work "expressive". They mean very different things so I think it's a bit unfortunate that we use the same word for both because some people get the idea that they're somehow related when they're really not. I mean, in a way regular expressions are more expressive than turing machines but turing machine are more expressive than regular expressions.
The Death and Life of Great Technical Publishers
Real life is rarely about evidence or not evidence, which is a categorical decision (in contrast to evidence in court, which can be circumstantial).

Some more context in addition to the sibling comment: The classical example is this. You want to test the effectiveness of two drugs A and B in some sort of clinical trial. You gather a lot of data and learn that drug A has an average effectiveness of 4.0, while drug B has 4.9 (more is better). You apply a statistical test and it tells you B is not significantly different from A.

Can you conclude that B is not better than A? You can't. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There could be any number of reasons why we don't have significant evidence, e.g. because the experiment was done with a sample too small. B might be better than A, but there is no evidence it is.

The NTSB gathers a lot of data regarding the crash. The board looks at all the factors and deliberates whether they contributed to the crash. It determines that there is no significant evidence that the mental state of the pilot was relevant.

Can you conclude that the mental state was irrelevant? You can't. It's likely the pilot experienced stress but it is impossible to determine whether this stress was significant. It might well be, but there is no evidence it was.

Parent seems to think it was not a factor. But by relying on a flawed argument we will not find out why he actually thinks that way, ultimately leading to an unproductive discussion.
Not exactly like old.

On Firefox (Android) with uBlock it's *noticably faster* to load than Reddit. I hadn't realised how slow Reddit was in comparison, as it's fast enough.

On mobile in Portrait orientation, the first two columns (item number? And preview) are much too wide. If you zoom out, there's a bit of white space on the right-hand side that the top bits don't reach to.

Hopefully that can be tweaked. Really happy with this though, will hopefully use it.
It's not a problem when "progress" is easily determined. But regulations are famously "written in blood", created after some employee was a little bit too empowered and caused an accident.

For example, I'm very happy that employees of the nuclear power plant approval committee don't ignore safety rules even if it does impede the progress of the building process.
There are ways to import data into other apps such as Logseq or Obsidian, so I'd search for an alternative now.
Stretch goals are good. Except when the market prices in success and you fail.

Personally I'd short them on this. It's doomed.

(I am not an AGI believer, never have been. This is scale/connectionist nonsense dreaming about "moar power" delivering the outcome)
Where does Threads require access to health? I installed it on iPhone and it never mentioned anything about that. That is not required at all.
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After cleaning up my bookmarks i narrowed down my "Creative Coding" folder to these.

"Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js":

http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/2/

Articles by Tyler Hobbs specially the one on "Flow Fields" :

https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2020/flow-fields

Articles by Sighack specially the one on "Watercolor Techniques":

https://sighack.com/post/generative-watercolor-in-processing

"Steve's Makerspace" on Youtube:

https://youtube.com/@StevesMakerspace
Come on, no weirdo-shaming. Elon was a cool weirdo before we found out he was also a racist prick.
I guess twm would do then.
"Access to this site has been restricted."??? Github problem?
They give that advice because 'experts' (you probably mean salespersons) have to simplify a somewhat complicated story in a single recommendation for their market.

We can assume that you currently have a high power (e.g. 28kW+) gas heater and radiators that can only emit that kind of power at high water temperatures. This system works in tandem (place where has is burnt and devices that emit the heat throughout the house). A leaky house typically needs a higher heating power in the interest of comfort: it'll have a higher power loss, and you'll want to not spend days bringing it up to room temperature in case the power was out or what not. These heating systems are usually overdimensioned, so any variability in the power loss of the house is compensated for by simply upping the power output.

A heatpump is lower power, and therefore slower, and therefore you'll want to limit the heat loss of the house, because when things go wrong (somebody left a window open in winter), you're gonna have to wait some time before the pump's caught up. Calculating a building specific optimal heat pump power is already trickier, and it's trickyness is increased without that insulation.

Which doesn't meant that you cannot do it yourself! You can simply accept that response times are going to be slower (so, if you flip the temp up from 17C to 20C that it's gonna take half a day). Best is to just set it to a temp and leave it there, it's no longer the advantage it was to modulate.

Most important is to not underdimension the heat pump. I've never seen a salesperson offer it, but there's online communities of people who can and do calculate it for older houses (gas consumption is a good proxy). One thing to understand is that heat generator power (be it a heat pump, gas heater, whatever) needs to match the heat emission power of the system that releases the heat (radiators and floor heating most likely). The water is gonna run at lower temps with a heat pump, so that means that your radiators will emit less heat, and probably not enough. You need to make sure that at the water temp the pump outputs economically the power output of the delivery system matches. This usually means putting in floor heating and/or significantly larger and more efficient radiators.
And yet - they include bands that cover pop songs.
>I wonder how that 100 year guarantee is holding up?

I wonder when did such a bold guarantee work in practice?
AFAIK, no. Your Instagram followers also aren't already there, FWIW: when you first log in it asks if you want to follow some or all of the same people you follow on Instagram; if you follow someone who isn't on Threads yet it becomes a "Pending" follow and will automatically follow them once they join. I am pretty sure the follow lists are then disjoint.

(There actually seems to be a bug in this whole scheme btw wherein there is a window during the onboarding where your account is Private and if people follow you during that moment they become Requested follows you have to Confirm even if your account is immediately public and is swarmed with hundred of followers. I thankfully noticed and dug out this stragglers.)

The users and accounts are definitely otherwise the same, though: you can't even AFAIK sign up in the Threads app... you can only log in using an existing Instagram account that is already logged in on that same device, which seems to just use shared keychain access to the login tokens from the other app. I had an old version of Instagram installed and realized I couldn't even log in to Threads until I upgraded it.
It's the same article, only on medium. I wish you all the best of success
Well GPT responds by stating that the concept of truth is a complex and ambiguous philosophical concept, and that there are multiple definitions depending on the context (e.g. mathematical truth is different to scientific truth which is different to pragmatic/constructionist philosophical theories of truth etc).

It provides a much better, more balanced and more refined definition of truth that I can manage...

"Can it tell?" implies sentience - which I don't believe is required for AGI.
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I did listen to it. The dev was calling the Reddit rep's bluff, effectively saying "if Apollo is really costing you so much money, why not just buy it for $cost/2?". He wasn't asking for personal hush money. He clarified this on the call and the rep understood and apologised for misunderstanding. Then Huffman went and publicly claimed the misunderstood version of events
https://nullonerror.org/
I remain infuriated that we had the confluence of:

- huge amount of very cheap money

- widespread availability of highly educated technologists

- knowledge of the climate model

.. and instead "collectively" ended up funding giveaway services to users and inflating the SF housing market rather than doing the climate Manhattan project.

(High interest rates are bad for renewables, because buying a solar panel is effectively buying 20-30 years of electricity upfront, and therefore hugely dependent on cost of capital and discount rates)
its clear Meta are trying quite hard to piggyback Threads off the more palatable brand of Instagram rather than Facebook. However ultimately it's all still the same company, the same data mining and ad/influencing platform.

It's an interesting strategy, the app on the Apple App Store is published by "Instagram Inc" rather than Meta, prominently named as "Threads, an Instagram App". They could have launched it as a completely separate brand, but that would have required marketing such as "the new app from Meta", and everyone more closely associates Meta with Facebook.

It's quite surprising they never launched a microblogging network before, but I suppose they have never really launched a new network, only ever acquired them... does that show that they feel threatened, have weakening market position, and need a new direction?
https://venam.nixers.net and nixers.net
I have two main feeds, one is about Unix, really deep articles. And I got usual life stuff and philosophy-related articles. I always try to take new perspectives when I write. The second link is to the nixers community.
> Gnome Shell itself is largely written in JavaScript.

And its "performance" is what finally made me switch to XFCE.
I don't know about Boostnote but Joplin is still actively developed. Just check the changelogs, and all that is open source:

https://joplinapp.org/changelog/

https://joplinapp.org/changelog_android/
Google just recently updated their ToS for purging accounts that aren't active thereby dropping accounts which were part of free tier.
How would you begin trying to "solve" something you don't understand the internals of? Much like you can't assess whether a person has ulterior motives just by talking to them over text, how could you be sure the model isn't giving you the answers you want to hear while suppressing its true intentions?

And how would you quantify alignedness? Rating outputs for a given input falls prey to the first problem. Analyzing activations as they trickle through the model is intractable analytically, and training a "polygraph" model on the activations of your network raises more alignment issues (how can you be sure the polygraph isn't lying to you?)

I'm ready to eat my words, but I think perfect alignment is infeasible. The best we can hope to do is curate training data and hope the caged bird won't sing.
I’ve also pondered over this recently. Many social media companies have incentives that are unaligned with their platform users’ best interests. For example, creating more engagement through polarizing or negative content, trying to maximize the time people are glued to screens to eke out ad money, the turning around to sell or exploit personal data.

Frustratingly, they almost have a legal fiduciary duty to behave this way as currently structured, as their only mandate is to increase value for shareholders. Negative externalities on users, employees, or society at large are not relevant to decision making at all.

The conclusion I found is that the only ethical solution would be to create a cooperative public benefit corporation. With that structure, the company has a mandate to do right by their customers, their employees, and society as a whole in measurable ways.
Right? Fair to Midland. Piglet.
Do you use Android phone? Since iOS doesn't allow phone call recording without jailbreak.
Amazon blocked my account and I lost all my Kindle ebooks, support can't help
Tl;dr amazon blocks acc for an accidental payment reversal, gives me no options to repay them and support can't help as the account is flagged. Halp
I use it for that + session persistence. The latter is as important as the former to me. I imagine wezterm's doesn't do that, is that right?

I remember trying it out a while back and not liking something. IIRC I found the configuration pretty arcane and hard to grok but I could be wrong. Also it could have improved since. It was a while ago.
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A data driven UX/UI guy with a background in software engineering. Worked in Edtech, fintech and AI user research with experience in academia.
latest versions of iOS is actually pretty good about this, at least for Facebook Messenger. It will let you choose specific photos to upload, and the app can only read those. And afterwards you can even revoke those permissions.
I switched from unstructured Trello / OneNote / Notepad notes to Joplin 4 years ago.

I sync it through cloud between mobile, desktop and laptop.

It is simply awesome. One of the most important tools I use everyday.
Fun stuff: "What time is it ?" is a question that a vector clock can't answer, since it does not provide total ordering.
> No one yet knows how long it takes for these octopus eggs to hatch, but it is likely several years

That's crazy, anyone know why it would take that long?
This isn't theory. Bots aren't people.
That's a win-win for the stats of Instagram / Threads
Ha, turns out I just wrote this helper function a few weeks ago, inspired by Perl and Ruby:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# read data starting from the provided section marker up to the next one or EOF
function section() {
local section="$1"
local source="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"

awk '/^__[A-Z0-9]+__$/{f=0} f{print} /^'"${section}"'$/{f=1}' "${source}"
}

section __JSON__ | jq
section __YAML__ | ruby -ryaml -e 'p YAML.load(STDIN.read)'

exit

__JSON__
{ "a": 1 }
__YAML__
b:
- 1
- 2
- 3

My only wish is that shellcheck had a directive to stop yelling at me starting at a certain line.

Usually I augment it with such functions for clarity:

# whatever raw data
function data() {
section __DATA__
}

# man/perldoc like
function doc() {
section __DOC__
}

# command line help
function help() {
section __HELP__
}
I'm interested to know what your examples of content would be that is (a) good and (b) banned by "government-mandated censorship in large markets such as the EU".

> relatively more impacted than social networks that focus on art and have no political content

Funnily enough a lot of artists also want uncensored platforms so they can post NSFW art, but this is completely orthogonal to the political questions.
"This content is not available in your country/region" as I browse from the war-torn hellhole that is... Europe :|
> "how would you quantify alignedness"

it's when it no longer says problematic words like bad ones related to race or gender or hierarchical power relations or different abledness
Self-claimed contractor describes program to study Exo-Biospheric-Organisms
Those aren't the good content people, though.

(Long ago I suggested that Twitter should have allowed people to contribute towards premium accounts for other people, a bit like Reddit Gold. Since a large part of the value derives not from your own posting but other people's.)
I think you're spot on here.

Some very obvious features are missing, but for a v1 launch the app runs smooth, feels clean, is easy to get started, and has a jovial early internet feel.

Meta will ship most every feature the average Twitter user would want in the next month or so and then it's game over.

Aside, it's amazing how Elon's antics over the last year (or many years) have somehow made Zuck seem both personable and competent
I think the latter. These guys aren’t consumers in the same way most of the public is. They are beholden to other bounds and checks which keeps them in place. I had the pleasure to go along for a week with a bunch of CEOs, one was a former billionaire and he had stories that really emphasize how insulated they are from the rest of society.

I mean imagine that traveling is all by jet, that everyone you meet is at least a millionaire, that work can be done everywhere on the planet.
Super interesting, we are facing similar challenges. Let me know if you want some feedback over a call.
Pledging $30k+ to Open Source
I have found this software to be very unintuitive with bad UI/UX, unfortunately. The utility of the software is good amd it fills a vital gap for concurrent engineering, but UI/UX needs to be improved badly.
„Idea guy“
https://www.xythobuz.de/
Declarative Enhancement for HTML
So, when is BlueSky finally getting out of beta?
Not on iOS you can limit access to specific photos for a while now.
How the heck do you use the fancy web interface?

Whenever I go to the demo it just loads forever :(
Can't wait for the Puppet Master to spontaneously come to existence.
I like the phrase "pacman-complete", that Brady coined for Idris, to express more practical concerns besides pure algorithmic computation. Personally I would argue that for example brainfuck is not pacman-complete despite being turing complete. But then interestingly enough I don't think pacman completeness necessary implies turing completeness either.
I still can't believe it's app-only, that there's no desktop version. I refuse to wall off parts of the internet into silos that I have to enter through downloadable portals.
Someone probably wants your account removed to release your username.
Apple's been around for a long time, and if anything I would attribute it to the force of will of Steve Jobs. By the time he was dead, Apple had such a huge cash pile that they're no longer beholden to investors in quite the same way. They now only have to worry about ordinary market complaints from shareholders.

(don't forget the Wilderness Years, Apple came close to death)
The developed world has coordinated energy policy and they're all failing together. France and the US are both tinderboxes with mass riots in recent memory; likely linked to the lifestyle squeeze that poor people are undergoing. Germany and Japan are both deindustrialising due to lack of energy. Japan is accompanying this with a state of breathtakingly rapid population decline and they are still seeing per capita energy drop.

That is a graph of countries with failed energy policy. It has been a long time in the works.
Don't they aggressively fight this? I think all your accounts can get banned if you use multiple accounts. I know they demand a working phone number and other identification data. Not saying there are no multiple accounts, just that it is not a wide-spread thing like on reddit/twitter/mastodon.
“Chances are that ChatGPT is going to replace you if what you do is easy”
"Nobody wants to install a new app" in a thread about how 10 million people just installed a new app feels like peak Hacker News obliviousness.

People have no problem installing new apps if they actually offer something.

Just like people have no problem installing new software on Windows or buying new games for their PlayStation.
> "(I am not an AGI believer, never have been. This is scale/connectionist nonsense dreaming about "moar power" delivering the outcome)"

OK so when the AI knocks on your door and plucks you up from the chair it will be the "scale/connectionist nonsense" which has done this and not something that you call as "AGI". That's cool, I guess no one can tell you how to name it.
Frankly this is unhinged. YouTube is a company providing a video streaming service. The fact that you think this is comparable to a totalitarian regime shows how divorced you are from reality.

You basically want to extract value from YouTube and content creators without offering anything in return.

If the terms of YouTube are unacceptable to you, simply stop using it. That's rather different from 1984.
In my opinion, the question is generally not whether something is a lot of money or not, but if it feels worthwhile relative to other similar things. For example, $8/mo is in the same ballpark as Spotify or Apple music and right now Twitter's blue tick doesn't come anywhere close to providing similar value.
Instagram used to be app-only.

Since Threads is basically another view into your Instagram account, it makes some kind of sense to start with mobile.