skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that content was boosted by algorithms which were trained on engagement. The content was indeed popular, if only because it was contrarian. Contrarian viewpoints flourish if people believe that the press doesn't hold government to account. But that is a different topic. Algorithms vs direct influence.

But there were still propaganda efforts, especially for the topic of mis- or disinformation. It served as an excuse to curb content. Trump decried the press, but at the same time he was correct in that the media tried to smear him with a Russian collusion story and promoted and suppress certain other topics. This isn't about conservative vs democrat, this is just underhanded political play. So the worst part is that he was partially correct about the press being instrumentalized. If they just reported critically and honestly, he would never have had an argument here.

Another bad result from this is that this of course might strain the relationship of a country being accused to meddle in elections. It turned large parts of the domestic populations against an imaginary enemy. Not saying that this is relevant for current developments.

You could maybe excuse the press because they have been fed with false info. Checking sources is their job, but worst of all, is that they now claim that voices need to be censored because of misinformation, just as they spread it themselves. I doubt they mean their own and I can fully understand the lacking trust in large press companies.
> That's quite hard to do?

Wouldn't that just be done by a text editor?

Eg in emacs C-u 70 M-x fill-region. (There's probably a better way)
Really, all the performance intensive parts are in various c++ aggregator and recommendation type services. But the webserver is Django, yes.
Expressing the idea that someone sounds depressed is not an attack. Being depressed is neither evil nor shameful. In case of doubt, let someone like dang mediate.
If this a jury trial, or will the same judge makes the final trial ruling?

The cited behavior is egregious, with Flaherty issuing orders and requesting specific takedowns, and doing so in an unprofessional and threatening manner that shows he is unfit for office. It's clear overreach beyond broadcasting the Executive's concerns about public health and requesting that companies do their part to help.

The injunction may go too far in the other direction (but it is temporary), in the final ruling maybe less limiting to the Administration, but behavior like Flaherty's should be reined in.
Which means it was really just advertising, not games.
I note that in Danish it is called "Svenskerhår" [1], which i think means "Swedish hair", and in Polish, "Czeski piłkarz" [2], or "Czech footballer"! Meanwhile in Swedish, it is "hockeyfrilla", the "Hockey frill".

[1] https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisure

[2] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czeski_pi%C5%82karz

[3] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockeyfrilla
I thought it was a sign of who paid for the feature. I have no insight as to whether or not this is true, but leaving out S3 made me assume either Google or Microsoft (or a third party heavily tied to one of these clouds) paid for this to be added.
It was true a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32358271
> Doughty said that one Flaherty [White House director of digital strategy] message in February 2021 accused Facebook "of causing 'political violence' by failing to censor false COVID-19 claims." Flaherty also wrote in a July 2021 email to Facebook, "Are you guys fucking serious? I want an answer on what happened here and I want it today."

Sure sounds like a relationship where the power only goes one direction and the Flaherty was very comfortable demanding whatever he wanted.
https://ishan.co

I rarely blog about interesting problems that I think could help others and sometimes gaming.
huh?

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Dio/The_Last_in_Line/1...
Some in government are capable of that. It's the leadership building the team and designing the political and business requirements that make it impossible.
"accepted journalistic standard" has nothing to do with my ethics
If I don't have to work with them, I don't care how they write their JS.
Stable diffusion v2.1 is good for small pics. stable Diffusion XL is newish iirc
I find it weird that you think “regulation” is needed to stop people from committing crimes. That’s already illegal! Anyway your example is silly because no one would buy water from a producer that poisons it. The potential profit to doctors is low as well. At least you could have chosen something more realistic.

Water being regulated is probably the biggest cause of shortages in the US West. Prices are set too low (especially for certain buyers) and it causes overconsumption. It’s a classic tragedy of the commons that public management has failed to resolve.
Nice, but does anybody care?
https://reticulated.net/ -- Messing around with AI mostly these days
> How does it compare to obsidian?

Definitely personal preference, in my experience the UX is terrible compared to obsidian but the pricing and company are much more consumer friendly
You do understand that private companies, as a whole, are a drain on the academic system, pushing to lower the very taxes that fund this research ? Society should benefit from these results. The 5000th LLM-haiku-generator-saas-company-incorporated-in-delaware is not society.
Twitter is not a Nazi hellscape. It's a Nazi-accusation hellscape, but anywhere where "Nazi" is a bad word is not going to be a Nazi hellscape.

It's like saying Salem was a witchcraft hellscape. If you were the one saying that, then you were one of the ones creating the actual hellscape.
As a lifelong fan of turn-based JRPG titles, this rings true. The Saturn (and the SegaCD before it) had some great titles there, but the PS1 had a while lot more to choose from, while the N64 was very light. By the time the PS2 and DC rolled around, “what the kids want” was clearly moving away from what I wanted. Every indie or retro title in the genre was and is a gift since.
> How does it compare to obsidian?

Definitely personal preference, in my experience the Joplin UX is terrible but the pricing and company are much more consumer frienldy
To points 1 and 2 this particular judge, amongst others, has been known to issue overly broad injunctions that reek of political bias.

The injunction is almost more the point of these cases.

If someone goes forum shopping, they have a decent chance of shutting down whatever Democratic policy they want until the injunction can be appealed. Or worse, a narrow injunction can conflict with a national injunction, which puts an administration in the position of choosing which binding injunction to follow. This recently occurred with an abortion drug [0].

[0] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/1159220452/abortion-pill-drug...
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Those are not benefits. Giving the blue checks the opportunity for a longer, even colder take that readers must click through to read is doing them no favors.
which direction are you imagining?

the one originating from the dude who used a swear word?

or the one originating from the company who felt comfortable ignoring the dude and the request?

after all, anyone can feel comfortable demanding anything, what matters is what they get:

e.g. TFG felt comfortable demanding that his political rivals be imprisoned, did he get it?
https://fserb.com/flux/
I am using LogSeq happily on Android and desktop, syncing with Syncthing. It works well enough.
You can view single IG posts without an account.
Belarus says Wagner boss now in Russia, confusing purported deal to end mutiny
Correct. Special relativity is the special case where there's no gravity, but for the most part adding in gravity just complicates things.
On the contrary, Nazis were very aggressive about suppression of speech they didn’t like.

Furthermore, it was one of, possibly the very most, free-speaking societies in the world that played a key role—first economically, then militarily—in stopping them.
Until it’s a result you don’t like. Have you ever considered the possibility that there are places where election systems can’t be trusted? I’m sure you’ll be just as supportive of the Russian-led vote in occupied regions of Ukraine.

My proposal was for provable voting systems in conflict regions. It stems from my experience on the ground supporting the 2014 election in Afghanistan. People all over the world risk their lives to vote, and they, normal primitive farmers with no education, demand proof that it was done fairly. The current method is a line of people showing their hands, then one by one, marking a wall and walking out with purple thumbs.

But really, the place and the situation is irrelevant. I find your response both abhorrent and stereotypical.
It's not outside the realms of possibility. Zapier has hundreds of pages on their website titled:

Best CRM apps

Best Notetaking Apps

Best Calendar apps

All to pull in traffic from people searching for those terms.
As a US citizen that frequently uses VPN's, this is particularly irritating to me as I do a fair bit of business at HD.
As a founder you probably don’t get wealthy either and a lot aren’t really satisfied with a $150k/yr total comp/benefits for their successful lifestyle business.
Interesting. Maybe we could use an ion-exchanger to swap the salt for another one that the body is more tolerant of.
Very interesting -- thank you for the information. Just goes to show how naive I was and still am. I'll probably give this a go next time I have fun money in the budget.
I agree that this is what it will look like if it takes off. But then those "couple of big sites" will have all the same incentives / problems as the current mass market sites, and will themselves be enshittified eventually. The model needs to somehow result in distributing the user load and thus the costs across many hosts such that it is a bearable cost for each individual host without requiring any deep pocketed support. But you and I are in agreement that that doesn't seem like the likely outcome.
> Him being a trump nominee makes me suspicious, but also sad that that is the effect and that papers need to list who nominated a judge.

They don't, they just choose to do so. It's the same way pundits, authors, and broadcasters often get labeled "right-wing" or "conservative" while similarly left-wing ones don't get labeled. It's an editorial choice to call the reader's attention to it and imply relevance.

Beyond that, I think this is unique relative to the normal "bully pulpit" pressure in that:

* It's being used in order to suppress speech and opposition to the administration's policies, and

* It was being done in secret, not exposed until later, and has otherwise shown no signs of stopping

That makes it a bit different from, say, publicly pressuring lawmakers to reduce tariffs on sugar.
Yes but you can cache the lookup for as short a period as is desired :P
>For some reason the marketing guys are always the key to the success,

I think this has a lot to do with the personality types that are attracted to sales/marketing vs hardware/software developers. One group is typically outgoing, bombastic, in your face, talk your ear off, no problems bending the truth to fit the narrative while the other group is not. (care to guess my sentiments on marketing/sales types ;-)

The number of passionate developers that can talk about their project in compelling way to make the average person interested is pretty small compared to the number sales people that will make you absolutely want to buy something while at the same time have little to no actual understanding of what they are selling or care to.
4. Which movies were censored, by whom?

5. That's clearly the Legislature's job. The Legislature is not the Executive. They make new law, not apply existing law.
It’s literally meters away from the Dead Sea that has salt crystallizing on the beaches.

Ain’t changing anything in the environment.
It's not as simple as that. In general English usage, when we have an acronym, we tend to look at whether it sounds like it starts with a vowel. So for instance the acronym RTFM is pronounced "arr tee eff em", which starts with a vowel.

Which brings us back to this one - both "a" and "an" are valid, because it depends whether you're pronouncing your "h" as an Australian "Haich" or a British/American "Aich".
The thing is, Nazis are really unpopular, so if we have a free market, Nazi hellscapes will be unpopular, too.

This is a case where the free market is good at solving a problem, we know this because Nazis have been writing books for nearly a century, yet you probably haven't heard of any of them other than Mein Kampf.

Whether we have a free market in social media is up for debate, certainly the dominant platforms enjoy network effects and go to great lengths to keep their users locked in, even when they have Nazis running around on them and the users don't want to see Nazis. We even have evidence that some platforms will show more Nazis to you if Nazis trigger you and make you want to fight with them! But I think a landscape with more platforms is a good way to try and deal with this. If anything in the Mastodon world you have the exact opposite problem, platforms defederate each other for very small offenses, being a full blown Nazi is definitely not required.

And whether people use the Nazi hellscape argument genuinely or as a straw man/proxy for "things I don't like" is an open question as well.
Any tool except Dropbox on macOS. Don't store your Obsidian library in Dropbox.
do you have a source on any of this cutting?
I was going to fly back to Canada via Buffalo USA and wanted to coordinate a HomeDepot.com pickup order (as I’d be away long enough to get a pretty big duty/tax-free allowance), but that money went to Lowes. Oh well.
> in order to for you to improve it any more I'm going to have to teach you this thing called calculus

The problem is that it often doesn't happen like this. Instead, it goes "You need calculus for this next part. Don't know calculus? Well, you are supposed to, so figure it out yourself."
Earlier posts said that there was no way to see Threads on the web but I was able to see this in the browser (don’t even have Threads yet because I’m in Europe).
Firefox to drop support for macOS Mojave and older versions
I’ve used Facebook practically since it launched and I don’t recall “not spying” ever being something that was a part of it. If anything the opposite—everyone thought it was creepy the level of personal details it revealed to others (but used it anyway).
The government can afford to do this. In every single other way, this is a terrible idea.
> They're selling probabilistic models, not your content (well let's hope).

A distinction without a difference.

> More akin to a search engine database.

The point of a search engine is to direct you towards the content. The point of LLMs is to keep you within the walls of the LLM.
My guess is demographics, younger people use Instagram more than Facebook. Facebook has a lot of negatives attached to its name as well.
Super alignment before super intelligence
But I want a robust API where can i get the API or I need to create my own on relicate HQ
Link opens an empty white page for me :) May be Threads is down already from this growth :)
Linux as demo dev platform has the issues you mentioned, but as a competition platform it suffers because there is has not been any good baseline/platform to set as a standard. For Windows its easy to define in compo rules that the compo machine is clean Windows X installation with latest patches and drivers as of day Y.

For demos the social aspect is important and one thing Windows is good at is that you have good chance of being able to run random exe you downloaded, which is far less a given with Linux and especially with 3d graphics and audio

Flatpak might now represent the sort of platform that could be good enough, but really the best would be to have something similar but more minimal and specifically designed for demos; I'm thinking some kind of sandbox that would run single elf executable and expose just enough primitives (mesa, wayland, pipewire, glibc) to make democoding feasible and would give fair even ground for sizecoding.
It works when the free tier is usable, but highly limited. Then it effectively becomes a free trial, albeit with no time restriction.

For example, if Evernote had limited the free tier to 99 notes and syncing with 2 devices. That’s usable enough for a user to get a feel for whether they like it or not, but without an expectation that the free tier could support all their needs for note generation and storage.

The problem comes when the free tier is so restraint-free that people begin to use it as a daily driver without ever expecting to upgrade to a paid tier. At that point, the company has boxed themselves into a situation with users who generate costs but no corresponding revenues. Trying to convert _those_ users into paying customers is difficult or impossible, in my opinion.
Live site's down for me. Use this instead:

https://archive.ph/51fPZ
I presume Instagram could make a "share pictures of your poop in the toilet" and get 10M users in a few hours. My Threads initial experience was a bunch of apparent influencers and brands I haven't heard of, with no way to see only my friends' posts. Fairly miserable. I get that they want it to feel instantly busy for new users, but yuck.

Interested to see what numbers (and stickiness) is like in a few months.
> Not exactly true.

Still, mostly true.. read-only is just dumb. Nice to be back in 2008, when mobile-first turned into mobile-only.

The entire point of this thread was that this is a Python/Django web app, but it's not actually a web app at all, so what's the point of pointing out any of this?
This is great, but I'd like to see oauth support. I'm a bit hesitant to enter my credentials for other Lemmy instances on a site that is proxying them.
Heatpumps I kind of get because they’re still rare here (us). But solar is everywhere. I don’t understand how a 350mil person market is so much more expensive for solar than a 30mil one.

The US generally has cheaper labor, less construction rules, and cheaper components due to volume . the solar thing is mysterious to me.
You Have No Moat: Implications of AI Democratization for SynBio Companies
> Get the app to like, reply and post. Get the Threads app to see more replies.

Ugh. Was this supposed to be better than what Twitter has become?
NYC Companies Will Need to Show AI Hiring Tools Are Unbiased on Sex and Race
There's no web interface to the app itself, but if you share a Thread it gives you a read-only link that lets you at least see it.
And the distinction gets even messier the further back in time you go.

Like, many life-forms among the Ediacaran biota are more closely related to modern animals than to plants, apparently. But for example charnia was a rooted life-form that was a filter feeder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia

And obviously that distinction should be messy when we go all the way back to the point where the two first started ti separate.
After the Senate ran a party-line unpresidented and unconstitutional multi-year campaign to block Obama's nominations from entering office without even a hearing, and then packed the courts with their own judges, it absolutely is relevant who appointed a judge.
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I find things like actions is great for conditionally showing and hiding form fields or small things like that, but if you want to have accessible tabs and modals it is best to bundle it up in a component. Here is an example of a lit components I use, https://codepen.io/megaman821/pen/GRXmzZb and https://codepen.io/megaman821/pen/dydvxBE
Am I the only one thinking that the "coup" and following "exile to Belarus" was a surprisingly high-profile way of positioning Wagner's assets in Belarus for a move on Kiev, masking the military significance of the realignment with political intrigue?
Double the salinity? Other comments suggest it’s only slightly more salty than sea water.

Only a very small fraction of water is isolated from a very amount of sea water.
I find having to push, pull, and heaven-forbid even write a commit message for notes to be asinine. Sync should be automatic and instantaneous if one uses multiple devices.
> What problem are they solving?

Think of it as the match Zuckerberg lit to mask the stench of the Horizon Worlds carcass.
I guess what I’m forgetting is that the water has a chance to wash salt away back to the ocean. But how much salt does one drip of water absorb? What if the spec of salt that starts in the water droplet is as much as the droplet can wash away?

I suppose it must be slowly becoming clear that I have no idea what I’m talking about (save for a nickel worth of Roman history).
At least you're here talking about it, I think that's the goal.

If it was empty you'd probably just go "meh" and close the app.

This is about network effects, hype, getting famous people to use, etc. I doubt it's meant to be anything better than Twitter.

I have low expectations and I'm not the target audience but I fail to see how they should have done this differently.
Links to Threads profiles/posts work in the desktop browser.
There's just no other UI for the desktop, no explore, login, etc.
It's got a lot of things to work out and improve on, but I assume that will come in time. It feels like the launch was rushed by a month or two to take advantage of the horrific start to July that Twitter has had.

Brands seem incredibly enthusiastic to be there though, signifying they were just waiting for something like this to jump onto and away from Musk.
>This is not the internet that I wanted growing up.

As someone who worked in libraries in the 90s, and helped patrons find information using tools like Archie to find unbiased, researched-based answers to their questions- a notion that seems quaint today- these are my feelings as well.

>Furthermore, why do public servants (your Congress people) post on Twitter? Or for that matter, why would local communities post updates on Twitter? Your fire department? Or your local city council? Again, the concern here is: should not public entities post on public owned infastructure?

I think it's a great point, and a public fediverse is a damn good idea.

Some will scream about it- the same people who are forever piqued by NPR and PBS. Those people don't understand the value of the public square, obviously, so why worry about them?

If a nation votes to uphold certain data handling standards and privacy rights, those would always apply on the public web. It's a chance for truly equitable discourse with no deus ex machina of big bucks threatening to take the toys away if they are criticized on the platform.

Although it must be also observed, private investment in public communications (like, say, the Koch brothers sponsoring NPR programs- which they do) might be a problem down the road. When big money gets involved, they want something in return. Ideally they want the sort of equal opportunity and lack of corporate oversight public information exchanges represent. But, the warm fuzzies of goodwill (and reputation-smoothing) conferred by merely being a sponsor big enough to get a mention may ultimately not be enough. So imho public investment in maintaining a universal data infrastucture would be necessary.

It's an interesting thought experiment at least.
> That was his theory back in 1776, things didn't turn out that way obviously

well, i guess its because join-stock companies were able to raise more capital faster?
I’m not sure what they offer on this front, but turso is a new edge-based SQLite platform. It might be worth checking out:

https://turso.tech/
Who did TFG send his demands to? His rally crowds have no power to act, and consented, so there is no coercion.
Yes, I just did that, thanx for the tip :)