skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that the entire field of quantum computing is fruitless. Appeals to authority are mediocre at best and certainly not stronger than the null hypothesis of "oops actually irrelevant" which is so true, so often.

We love narrative and pattern but the universe isn't shaped like a story.
The state can only do so in certain circumstances, not in the general case.
IG verification still requires validating your government ID matching your account name/bio, no? Twitter is just "do you have a working credit card #"?
what did you ditch it for?
"Traditional Austrian Scythe Set"

* https://www.leevalley.com/shop/garden/lawn-care/scythes/1019...
Showing you more content you're not interested in is how they get you to scroll past more ads, it's how they make money.

Traditionally they don't need to care about showing you good content to keep you interested, you're generally logging in anyway.

The proof is in the pudding: if you want a curated feed go to Tumblr or Mastodon. These spaces exist yet they're significantly less mainstream.
Show HN: React server state management package let developer control over data
had to look the guy up, and of course he's a vague COVID denier and pushed hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment, jfc
I wish it were a standalone app. Not interested in linking something else to Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp.

Come to think of it, Meta is building the everything app. They have all the components. I think Elon won’t have any success with his X / everything app.
We make an IoT device that is used for precision agriculture data collection out in the field, close to the crop that is being grown. We specialize in capturing spectral data related to plant growth and can also cat as a hub for connected sensors from other companies measuring complementary data.
Phones are good at hiding your personal info from apps and your personal info is basically not valuable anyway. This is a conspiracy theory because the idea your data is worth something makes people feel good about themselves.
In general if you pay someone to paint a picture they own the copyright and it needs to be assigned back to you even if you give them quite specific instructions. The instructions lacked sufficient control over the outcome to give some form of dual copyright.

Presumably that general rule would also prevent your instructions to DALLE from giving you copyright ownership of the output either. The AI isn’t getting ownership, so it’s either in the public domain or a derivative work from the artists creating the training data.
Called it [1].

Threads is wildly feature-incomplete, but there's so much demand for a twitter alternative that this is an embarrassingly one-sided product fight. For a 0.0.1-alpha version to steamroll into the space like this, it's now just a matter of the long goodbye for twitter as it becomes a space where you go to find someone's Threads handle.

I give it 24 hours, tops, until it eclipses the entire Fediverse, and Bluesky becomes an obscure historical footnote.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580669
Finishing projects.
The extinction of bees, mass starvation, and the ozone hole (bonus) are all examples of alarmist takes that were course corrected. It’s sort of a weird spot to argue that they were overblown when the reason they are not a problem now is because they were addressed.
>We're eating processed whole grains today that were meant for animal feed (cows have 4 stomachs that can handle it, we can't)

Huh? Whole grains aren't "processed"; if anything they're less processed that other grains, hence the word "whole".

We can "handle" almost anything that cows can handle with their 4 stomachs, including grass. We eat lots of food that we can't digest very well, such as lettuce and other fibers. The difference between us and cows is that they derive more energy from plant matter, whereas we just poop most of it out, but it's ok because more fiber helps keep our colons clean, plus makes us feel full so we don't eat more calorie-laden foods that make us fat.
the retaliation is a bit... 2010s. don't they know people have moved on from this kind of thing?

if you're advertising dollars are being wasted and this is just your political song and dance, that's one thing. but if this somehow drops revenue for ottawa in the long run then google and fb will forever use this as a pitchfork to milk cash from any other city
It's not waving a word around. There's natural variations of salinity of oceanwater, roughly 30 to 40 grams of salt per liter. So diluting the discharged brine so it's within that natural evaporation-driven band would be perfectly safe as it's in the natural variation of salinity.
No, we want the state to allow some types of violence (e.g. boxing matches) but prohibit even the state from other types of violence like torture even from the state.
Works fine but quickly get the feeling of like "meh". Bunch of text, whoop.

Links work in posts (big for Instagram!)...... but no hashtags? Killing any sort of 'network spread' which is a big deal for conversations greater than just your follows. Something that holds back fediverse and keeps people on twitter is network effects (pros and cons when it comes to promotion of course)

Tried a video post and it removed sound/doesn't play properly.....kinks.

Kinda wish it would show all my instagram posts automatically in my feed but I guess that's asking alot. The duplication is just a chore tho if that's what everyone ends up doing.

Anyways, it's something.

The hint in the opening launch screens about the fediverse is definitely interesting (because we know everyone on the other side of that is fuming/blocking). This is a big play. And despite it not being exactly what the mastodon/fediverse heads wanted, it seems like a move in that direction even if it is a big whale jumping in the water with a centralized server vibe.

What's big about this to me and why I'm even paying any attention to it at launch is the fact that it will immediately have millions of accounts ready to go because of the instagram porting. That's big right out of the gate. None of that mastodont 'what server do I choose', new address account creation, no name squatting etc to worry about. It's go time. Big play outta Meta which I'm curious how fast it all came together when it's not really that much to it. Let's build a twitter clone and use all the IG accounts. Done.
SQLite works just fine for website backends. Writes are serialized, first from replicas to the central write leader (like in Postgres), and then with the WAL and transaction isolation.
Article didn't say that. It's an existing site and they've built so many of these things (typically in 6-7 years)[0] and the local supply chain has stuck around because they've been doing refurbs even now. I think there's a good chance these new reactors are up in less than 10 years.

[0] https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails....
EXACTLY! I can't stand the overblown security posturing with regards to things like bash and git, even python.

When everyone in the world INCLUDING cyber-security professionals seems to think that it's perfectly OK to download setup.exe or install.msi from sketchy driver mfgs. and run them. But SHARs and curl | sh is too scary!

It's not that any of these are a good idea, it's the blind-spot to traditional binary installers that's annoying. How do you audit them? Why are they OK (because they have to be)
https://Pxtl.ca

Mostly cocktails and municipal politics of Hamilton Ontario.
Well there’s plenty to choose from. Threads, Mastodon, Substack Notes, Post.News, Bluesky, and all the tangential copycats (Nostr, Spill, T2 Social, Truth Social, Hive).

We have to be reaching oversaturation in this space. I really wonder if all these projects are misjudging the appetite for a Twitter replacement.
I post about coding education and some other miscellaneous math/tech things here: https://blog.charliemeyer.co
Agriculture and industry can use _a lot_ of water. Likely the 4000l figure includes that.
Not a Metà fan, at all, but I don’t understand why they are being called “unreasonable” and “irresponsible” for blocking news from Canadian newspapers.
As they (currently) don’t have an agreement with Canadian newspapers, or perhaps don’t want one, which also seems like a legitimate position to me, the only responsible thing is not to use or link to articles from said newspapers, isn’t it?
The reality is more complicated than it appears but I've observed a bunch of construction projects near Millbrae CalTrain station and they finish the buildings extremely fast. A bunch of metal frames go up, then some pipes, then some wires, and then some concrete walls.

The project planning and construction is done by a single company, Truebeck Construction, and they seem to know what they're doing.

I don't know what Patrick's list is trying to illustrate but most construction projects in the US happen very fast.
It’s clearly not low effort or irrelevant, chill out with the thread policing.
Would I build a billion-record Facebook replacement in SQLite? Probably not. I probably wouldn't try to scale it up on vanilla Postgres, either.
I always loved his name. I said it in my head "Theo the Rat" every time. Not for any particular reason, but just because it sounded cool to me.
It's all been downhill since mosaic was released, tbh
Love this idea. I hoped that my AirPods with Live Listen would do the same but was disappointed that it sounded similar to your benchmark example or worse.

I wonder if you all can use another layer in your ML stack to "fill out" the voices once you've isolated them. Your example leaves voices sounding very thin/hollow and even a bit garbled.
Unrelated. But this web interface is weird. There is no UI outside of the content except for their icon at the top. When you click it, instead of taking you to a home view, it toggles dark mode (!) If you go to https://www.threads.net you only get one button instructing you to get the app.

Is there any way to use this without the app?
You need them if your infrastructure isn't ready for a flood of users yet, but that just happens to not be true for Meta.

Note they are rolling it out by country, maybe because they need per-language mod teams.
What's your impact? For me, vscode under 5% difference in battery life (as per the math on my original post, 20 minutes across an 8 hour work day). With an 8 hour battery, that just doesn't matter to me.

If we kept having to add up 20 minute penalties maybe we'd get somewhere, but I doubt we'd see that kind of direct add. The simple logic is: it's unlikely that multiple apps are both being heavily used.

I just can't see it making a real difference for even 1% of people even 10% of the time. It's just not a real problem. I'd say there's too much clutching at pearls, but people have a right to be sad about bad apps, and there are bad apps built in Electron. Just like there are bad native apps that suck battery & have to be left on for work too, but people never credit in that consideration.
Yea, I've been using both and really like the direction of remix. Why did react become so intertwined with nextjs and obsessed with ssr? I wish react stayed focused as a light spa library we all learned and loved and let the ssr frameworks do their own thing.
I would say:
1) This feels like trying to control encryption. When anyone can build and run it, who ensures compliance?
2) the answer from the megacorps seems to be “ban research unless we do it, trust us”
3) OAI has proven it’s not trustworthy with its stated goals and mission, doing the fastest 180 from “open nonprofit” to closed “create a regulatory moat for us, trust us” profit grab.
4) this therefore smacks of regulatory capture kabuki for profit and trans national state sponsored monopoly creation
5) totally my opinion, but maybe the answer to rogue super intelligence is everyone having a super intelligence at their disposal such that any one super intelligence is checked and balanced by a population rather than some “open” company developing a single sky net and waving superalignment “trust us”

Our actions and how it creates our reputation matters. I’d say the opposite - OAI is the wrong place to work and there are hundreds of AI shops springing up and tons of OSS AI work. Democratize AI, don’t build an AI monopoly.

But that’s just my take :-)
"Archivist"?
I was in Northern Italy a few weeks ago and there was a guy using one of these at the top of a bank cutting some type of long grass.
This needs to be clarified as I think some people will misunderstand. Oregon is a one party consent state for phone conversations. The all-party consent only applies to in person.
GNU/Balenciaga hahahaha.
I am not an Apple fan by any stretch and am leaning into the PC laptop world because I both want and need a better development environment and more versatile computing environment. I have owned both MacBooks and PC laptops and the former has generally felt more pleasant to use.

The trackpad on the Microsoft Surface range is actually quite good and close enough that I wouldn't complain.

On the other hand, the trackpad on my Dell is fatiguing to use. It requires excessive force to actuate a click, right clicking is clumsy. Also, due to its lower sensitivity and accuracy, it's more frustrating to use, feeling more like I am dragging the cursor around.

On my MBP I prefer the trackpad to an external mouse, spending literally entire work days using nothing other than the trackpad without feeling any impediment when compared to an external mouse. On my Dell, I prefer an external mouse to the trackpad and cannot imagine doing a full day's work with the trackpad alone.
do you have more info on the Veritas behaviors?
Haha, normally I'd agree. And, I think that's one of the reasons no big company put any real effort (that I'm aware of / can think of at the moment) into trying to create and deploy a twitter-like service.

The "Musko-cringian" empire is an unbelievably ridiculous gift, here. Some of the timing couldn't be better.

Now, even with that backdrop, it's quite likely "Threads" (ugh, ... marketroids) won't take off like wildfire. But, I think we're at something of a fork here. Either this will be the competition current incarnation Twitter needs to start turning things around, or Threads will capitalize on each future misstep, service outage / problem, etc.

Threads has a sort of balanced position, in terms of marketing / uptake. Absolutely not the multi-faceted "cachet" of Bluesky Social, rather, the opposite ... arguably even "less cool" than Twitter (was) ... But, it also has the low friction user sign on you mention, part of an ecosystem incredibly widely used (a winning formula in America, especially, is convenience - about the best marketing available, itself), plenty of technical heft behind it, etc.

It could easily displace Twitter, and I think more quickly than many might argue.
7 is about how many words in a sentence I can reliably remember long enough to write them down when transcribing text.
An interview with a customer for requirements had a very clear context.

An interview for a technical position could focus on either high level design, specific technical aspects, or process and so approach to problem solving. Maybe a bit of each. An interviewer that more clearly defines the context can get better responses.
You dilute it with more seawater. The salinity of the ocean changes significantly just due to evaporation. The band of variability is roughly 30 to 40 grams of salts per liter for sea surface salinity. So if your discharge is within that band, it's not going to be a significant ecological problem (especially if the discharge is at the right location). It's no more a "mass ecological problem" than surface evaporation of seawater is.
just look how much got done in the first 7 days alone...
I'd go with something like this:

name: Zog, Luna, Glimmer, Xylon, Astra

age: 150, 200, 75, 300, 120

species: Xenon, Lunarian, Nebulite, Celestial, Stardust

home_planet: Zeta-7, Moon, Nebula-9, Alpha Centauri, Polaris

language: Zorgon, Lunar, Stellar, Cosmic, Celestial

occupation: Astrobiologist, Quantum Physicist, Astroengineer, Interstellar Diplomat, Astroarchaeologist

or just rotate the table:

name: Zog, Luna, Glimmer, Xylon, Astra
age: 150, 200, 75, 300, 120
species: Xenon, Lunarian, Nebulite, Celestial, Stardust
home_planet: Zeta-7, Moon, Nebula-9, Alpha Centauri, Polaris
language: Zorgon, Lunar, Stellar, Cosmic, Celestial
occupation: Astrobiologist, Quantum Physicist, Astroengineer, Interstellar Diplomat, Astroarchaeologist

Having to scroll is fine

https://jsfiddle.net/ok89bh3j/
Forgive me, but that doesn’t sound precise at all. That sounds like anarcho-capitalist anti-democratic marketing speak.
Elon was the best thing that could have happened to Zuck. He looks sane and reasonable by comparison.
Please antitrust Blackrock
tmux, for me, is about session persistence. I run multiple tmux sessions on a bastion host at work. tmuxc lets me reconnect to them each morning and then move them around my monitors as I see fit. I can hit a single key combination and have a new terminal open up with a shell on my bastion host - or any other host that I have a tmux/tmuxc session on.
The reason TikTok is so popular is that they show you what you want to see. Being purposely annoying and showing you things you don't want is a specific issue of Facebook caused by letting too many PMs run wild, it's not actually a good business move.

The other reasons for it are:

- most users are not power users and don't follow a lot of people, but still want to see content

- a true chronological timeline would include bad posts (an acquaintance who spams or mass-RTs annoying content) and misses good ones (important life updates from your friends 12 hours ago)
I think the trick is not to work anywhere that mentions "Scrum".

No burn down charts for me :)
And to think that at one point Evernote was THE note taking app. So much wasted potential.
Whoever wrote the bigger check. Damn that Elon to hell for standardizing the price for everyone.
Has the ocean become a dumping ground? Why didn't anyone stop it?
Most Concealed/Carry Firearms courses discuss this very area. When can you brandish a weapon? when can you show you have it without brandishing? When can you use it? Its so complex, I choose to not carry in my state most of the time because of the opportunity for mistake, and therefore possible prosecution of gray area laws that mostly hinge on a prosecutor choosing or not choosing to proceed.
The carbon costs of global wood harvests
Doing meaty projects that were a little out of my comfort zone. Sometimes, I'll go back to old projects and write all the ways I'd refactor them (even if I don't actually refactor it).
that's like 95% of the internet
For woodworking tools, WoodRiver has been getting my business more and more because the quality seems to also be there but the cost is significantly less than LV.
Firefox, a desktop app in the era of desktop apps when the entire Internet was like 2 billion people got 8 million full downloads in a single day. That was about 15 years ago. FB/Insta/Meta getting about that, or certainly less than an order of magnitude more, is kind of joke, IMO.
Yeah it does sound that way. I have been jumping between PC laptops and MacBooks for years and this has been a consistent experience for me between the manufacturers - with the exception of the Surface range of laptops, which I believe have great trackpads
It’s really strange, and awesome, to see them launch on a .net domain. I have a decent (8 letter) .com with the .net and others to match. I want to build something on the .net, so I hope this builds some awareness for the TLD.

I would love to hear an explanation of why they chose a .net. I always think of it as an OG TLD that throws back to a time when the internet didn’t suck, but I doubt that’s it. Lol.

It can’t be a cost thing, can it?
> Interface is pretty minimal and pleasant.

Agreed, but I don’t see any ads yet. Guessing they’re coming soon.
North Algeria adopting similar civil rights to Algerian colonial power.
Back in the day I made a Perl script that would use an inline encryption algorithm to decode a payload and execute it in memory so it would never hit the disk. Data after the __DATA__ line.
It accounts for the water used in agriculture, industry, power generation, etc. Those uses completely dominate domestic water usage including for aesthetic purposes such as lawns and golf courses (e.g. around 80% of water usage in California is for agriculture and power generation if I remember correctly with only around 5-10% for all domestic usage).

As you will note, the average German consumes 1,000 liters per day by the same metric which is 2.5 baths per day which is obviously unreasonable if we were only considering direct domestic water consumption.

To be fair, the agriculture is being grown to feed people, so it is fair to include the consumed produce in each person’s water footprint. This is further exacerbated by growing animal feed for animals that are consumed which is even more “water inefficient”. The US is a major food exporter, so it is over-represented in these sorts of numbers, but it is a fair approximation to within a factor of maybe 2-3x of the embodied water consumption of the average American.
>Discoverability is also pretty awful with a ton of cringe influencer content polluting my main feed

Give them some slack. Twitter wasn't fully polished two hours after initial release. You need to give them some time to fine tune their algos and come up with new features. My bet is they will soon develop an explore page similar to Twitter's, and will give users options to tailor their home feed.

I think yours is a very critical take for a company that pushed out an MVP two hours ago.
I'm not saying that "they do or don't objectively" because that doesn't matter as much as people think it does. I'm thinking of what a "jury" COULD decide. I think average joe on a jury is very likely to see that process as "feeding them in."
Not clean, but contained.
Neither of your predictions are at all surprising or interesting. The fediverse and Bluesky are tiny. It'd be an absolute Joke if FB couldn't double their size in a day or two.
Only quoting the link. Are you suggesting the Insider website is what Trump calls fake news?
Clean and simple. What is the platform behind the site? Ghost?
I share the same sentiment. I don't like this "in bed with nextjs" and obsessed with server-side thing. Server rendered apps have their place, but so do spas. Let the spa haters hate. You can make great, performant apps with strictly client side rendering. For some applications, it's the best choice.
I’m using win 11 preview (testing wslg, it’s sweet) and it'll randomly peg out the SSD writing to some logs for as long as I’ll let it.

Win 11 as a whole seems janky and unnecessary. The new right click menu is a perfect microcosm.
> I'm amazed that people are willing to give facebook another try.

Wait until you realize billions of people still use Facebook and Instagram daily.
Bluesky is the only one that feels like early Twitter
I checked with them on an uncommon configuration (combo hydronic heat and hot water for the taps to replace the two gas units we have now) and their estimate was a lot of money but they were also the only company that seemed to have any idea what I was talking about. The reviews I read do suggest if you have an alternative it might cost less though:

https://freshchalk.com/greenwood-heating-air-conditioning-se...
In reality I think the need for a Twitter competitor was never stronger. Bluesky didn't catch on, they're not even out of private beta. Mastodon is riddled with issues that prevent it from reaching the mainstream. At present, Meta has the only product with the reach and scale capable of rivaling twitter. Even if you think the alternatives are "good enough", it doesn't matter because no one is using them. This will be different.
Supposedly "coming soon"
You want some sort of security. Plus, password generation features?