skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, he's kinda growing on me. If people can like Elon, why can't they like the Zuck? Zuck is clearly more level headed than Elon, which to me makes him more likeable. Embracing the zuck monikor was a real power move, given that up until this point most people use that name in a disparaging manner :D
Specifically because it's meta, even though it's where a lot of people consume media? How else is the government supposed to inform people that don't watch TV or listen to radio?
It won't load for me in Firefox either, even with all extensions disabled.
Your debate club does not receive millions of dollars each year in taxpayer money. Harvard does.
News is the machine that manufactures opinion. If you don't read the news you will still be subject to mainline opinion and its policy consequences. It's probably more accurate, if no less unhappy, to read the news as primarily propaganda (for specific political interests or for ideological consensus building). You can, of course, "daff the world aside, And bid it pass" but the news is history in the sense that whoever wins the news cycle, wins the commanding heights of the historical record. Think of reading the news as like the spectators taking a picnic to watch 19th century battles, but today, it's a war for peoples' minds.
Safety: "(2022) No major accidents occurred in the field of highway and water transport engineering construction throughout the year. There were 47 safety production accidents, causing 61 deaths. This represents a decrease of 26.6% and 32.2% respectively compared to the previous year." [1] Based on the context, this includes all infrastructure construction such as roads and rails. There were 61 fatalities in 2022, which was lower than previous years. There have been increasingly stringent regulations on workplace safety in recent years, which have resulted in a significant reduction in deaths and accidents. However, there is still room for improvement. For comparison (though the definitions may not be identical) in US, "From 2003-2020, 2,222 workers lost their lives at road construction sites—an average of 123 per year." [2]

Social: There was no "coercion" by the government to help build the hospital. The workers who built the hospital were paid over 10,000 CNY for 8 days of work [3]. Despite the need to work extended hours to expedite the process, possibly from 8 am to 12 am, it should be noted that the market rate for a month's work for typical construction workers under normal working hours is approximately 8,000 CNY.

Environmental: The most recent 16kMGW hydrodam at Baihetan received approval from the National Bureau of Environmental Protection despite potential negative impacts on the ecosystem. Various ecological and environmental measures were implemented to mitigate these impacts [4]. This approach contrasts markedly with that of the West or areas heavily influenced by the West like Hong Kong, where a small environmental group can obstruct major projects. China adopts a holistic approach, balancing economic needs with environmental concerns through different stages of development. China believes that as it develops, it can impose higher standards. For instance, until 2018, China imported plastic waste from the West, but halted this practice to the dismay of many Westerners [5].

[1]: https://www.mot.gov.cn/jiaotonggaikuang/201804/t20180404_300...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/highwayworkzones/default.ht...

[3]: https://china.caixin.com/2020-02-15/101515765.html

[4]: https://www.mee.gov.cn/gkml/sthjbgw/spwj1/201511/t20151125_3...

[5]: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/7025017...
The cookie banner got to be the most disgustingly illegal thing I've ever seen.
I just read the part about astro components and reasoning about “code fence”. How exactly do you propose to use .tsx files for their case? Specifically, how would you extract a template but run the rest of the code? I have some ideas, but they aren’t more practical than just splitting it across that fence.
Why is it a separate app and not integrated into FB and insta apps? May be as a separate tab?
I'd be surprised if it was more than $20k. Maybe in the $3-10k range? Seems to be the going rate. .Nets usually aren't that valuable, but I suppose if you have the network of Meta you can _make_ anything valuable.
That already exists - it’s called a video camera on almost every public area. Recording in public areas, unless the owner prohibits it, is almost always legal.

This primarily concerned individuals. Two people couldn’t meet and secretly record a conversation with the other without consent. Recording a private conversation you are personally involved in, without notification, is legal in almost all states.
I've always had the dream of setting up a remote telescope in my backyard, but light pollution has gotten so bad in my area.
The bigger battle is for secure general purpose computing, and it appears we haven't even collectively noticed yet.

Without the ability to safely experiment with software and web sites, we're all eventually corralled into "safe" sites, and thus walled gardens always prove most popular.
that astro thing, despite saying whatever-it-is is built for speed, is laggy on my phone. kinda funny
I want to throw something out here:

Insects, US, animals, all have two things in common, and thinking about them may prove very useful in this context:

(1) - Ongoing stream of what I will call input experience. What we see, feel, hear, etc...

(2) - Internal input experience sufficient for the entity to operate and as part of that operation, differentiate itself from everything else.

Number one is easy.

Number two may be important to understand where consciousness comes from. And yes, I am saying consciousness may be an emergent thing that will emerge on some level given the entity is sophisticated enough to understand itself.

Think about your own body. We have nerves and can and do get input about how that body is interacting with literally everything else!

From that comes a very basic "self"

ChatGPT is something in a box! It has no real sense. It cannot know it's own self. There simply is no context, no data it can use to understand.

And it has no real memory. Say the sense data was there. It would have to be prompted in every time.

Here is what I am getting at:

Say we give ChatGPT the robust and complex sensations needed for it to differentiate itself from everything else?

And then we put it on a loop so it can take input from us in that context. And it can remember.

Suddenly, asking it a question interrupts it's stream of experiences!

And see where that could lead?
How about we not support data mining and go to Lemmy?
Adam Mosseri posted on Threads that it’s coming.

https://www.threads.net/t/CuVlg88I84C/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ...
Disable "Enhanced Tracking Protection" for the domain, since it needs to load scripts from fbcdn.net domains.
With most things, I try to buy the best quality I can afford. That doesn't mean getting the most expensive one (sometimes, the quality of those isn't that great), but something that costs more than average. An item of better quality might cost more, but if it lasts then it's cheaper over time than whatever you need to replace every couple of years (or less).

But, like anything else, it's a matter of what you can afford and what you feel comfortable spending. No, I'm not rich and don't have the highest salary. But I'm willing to sock away some money to afford goods that cost more but which will last.
The problem is not the AI, rather, it's that the man failed.
"While being instructed to"
I signed up. And the first thing I saw was a whole bunch of posts from people I don't follow.

They had the opportunity to learn directly from Twitter's mistakes, and they failed right from the start.
I must be missing something fundamental. tmux is a terminal multiplexer, as in you get to run multiple virtual terminals over a single actual terminal (eg ssh). And then tmuxc breaks these virtual terminals out into actual terminals?

Why do you need tmux at all in that case, just fire up a bunch of terminals?
Yep, for deskwork. We shouldn’t sit for extended periods of time, but moving is usually too interrupting. We pair with a standing height desk and make it trivially easy to change posture every few minutes without disturbing your focus.

We did the simplest study that surprisingly chair makers don’t do- can you prevent pain. Our chair prevented discomfort for 100% of participants compared to a high end ergonomic chair.

More here: https://www.movably.com/
Having worked in analytics at various tech companies including Fb, the reason is almost always just that app users have way higher usage rates and ad clickthrough rates. Of course if you know basic stats you will realize this is spurious correlation (social media addicts prefer apps, using an app doesn't make one a social media addict), but somehow management never cares.
It's a separate app like Twitter, mostly text with some photos instead of all photos.

The list of people you follow is also different (important).
The point is that of course it has a chilling effect. It's not useful as a standalone principle...
Yeah, the subsidies are actually the problem.
Feels like they were too eager to scoop up Twitter refugees. The platform is still missing basic features and new users turn away immediately. Nobody’s going to join a platform and then keep their account open for 6 months while the platform plays catch-up. The launch would have been much more successful if they waited another month. I understand this is a peak time to capture former Twitter users, but in the long run it may have been a mistake. Will be interesting to see how they market it as things develop.
I rolled my own for my current blog (at epiccoleman.com). I wrote a post about it, which honestly isn't that interesting, since it basically just amounts to writing posts in regular old html.

I did use Tailwind for styling, mostly because I was interested in learning more about it.

I use PrismJS for styling code blocks, and it works very well. No complaints there.

The thing I like about "just use HTML" is that it ultimately affords a ton of flexibility if I ever want to embed some interesting layout or little JavaScript demo. A good example of this is this explainer section from a post I wrote about SVG. I'm proud of how this turned out and it wouldn't have been possible to make it look as good as it does without just manually writing the markup (scroll to "Understanding SVG", I don't think I put an anchor on the heading unfortunately):

https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2023-04-05-svg-circle-of-fifth...

I have another post about the "tech stack" here if you're interested: https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2023-03-07-how-i-built-this-si...
Are there large banners or advertisements on Instagram or Facebook pushing people to use Threads? (I’m on neither.) A few more things that might affect signup numbers: Threads requires an app to use, and it’s not available in the EU yet. Also the announced go-live was tomorrow.
Https://tyrel.dev/
A decade of intermittent blogging. Nothing much of substance but I still try to maintain it. Combines Tech, Flying, Coffee, and more.

Pelican site, HTML, images, and CSS only, no JS!
We know that Mastodon.social will not.
How is this any better than twitter when you still have to log in?
> Let's see, FB has about 2 billion daily actives, Insta has like 3 to 4 billion?

I agree that 2M "signups" is not actually impressive, but I'm not sure where you're getting the figure of 3-4 billion DAUs for Instagram. Everything I'm seeing is significantly lower than that.
Zilliz Cloud’s Product Experience Optimization
With the crazy success of TikTok, do people care about text based content?
Python: <https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators>

Javascript: <https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understandi...>

The Python example is more to the point. The Javascript one gets there, but goes in a roundabout way.
Twitter did before, based on their own internal criteria. The system was flawed, but having a flawed system is better than no system at all, as we are seeing now.
243M iOS app.

For what's essentially a list of text.

Meta should have enough resources to hire a couple iOS and Android devs to make a native experience. The hard parts are all on the backend.
Heh, I'm having the same feeling.
SMOKIN MEATS

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SVyLlFezj2E
It would have had more users if it released at the intended time of 10am tomorrow.

I suspect the surprise release today is to manage server load / "soft" launch. Wait until tomorrow for the real metrics.
Renting is a pain for heat pumps too, why would a landlord spend extra on one when they can pass the cost of utilities on to the tenant?
You don't need to improve upon all metrics, depending upon the application.

For grid scale storage, for example, energy density can be very bad; even inherent safety can be compromised because it will be operated under narrow conditions, while costs should go down.

For airplanes, energy density needs to significantly increase, while keeping safety constant. Cost can be higher than existing batteries.
I'm starting to become convinced that a significant portion of internet users in 2023 not only tolerate data mining, but have some kind of Stockholm-Syndrome-induced personal data exhibitionism fetish.

I miss the era when the internet was just broadband desktop users, with none of the people who exclusively access it via smartphone.
Someone comes up with the headline, and gives it away for free.
If they dont want to give it away for free, they dont have to.
If they want to charge for the headline, that is fine too.

What they don't get to do is say, you must buy this headline from us, if you want it or not.

This is all beside the point because the object at issue here is links, which don't even necessarily contain content.

>Why is asking Fangs to give an obole to local news so insulting ?

It is insulting because if anything, local news should be paying FANG. They get much of their web traffic from social media and search.

They dont need the governments help to ask for money. They can simply stop letting their headlines and links be indexed. The fact is they don't want to do that because it benefits them. They could try to negotiate with GOOGLE/Meta, but GOOGLE/Meta would rather drop them than pay.

Nobody wants to pay for what they have so they have to resort to bills to force companies to buy something they would rather not have.
Price gouging. I've gotten quotes for fence replacements, heat pumps, roofs, window restoration. There is nothing that isn't ridiculous price in my experience. Every company has the same, supply/demand and reference to pandemic statements to substantiate their costs.

It's also the case that demand is huge.
For comparison, "Google Plus had 10 million users two weeks after its launch on June 28, 2011."
Their founder, Leonard Lee, was a super nice guy that my parents had the fortune of meeting a few times. He opened a medical device design firm next door to my mother's office and was always a nice neighbor.

It's such a breath of fresh air when a successful business person is also just a really nice person. It's a counter example to the idea that only cut-throat sociopaths rise to the top.
Can I easily integrate Rust crates into my Deno app like a smaller extension for number crunching or at one point even something like Polars?
2 million users in 2 hours is incomparable to any social network growth rate I've seen.

Where as the entire Fediverse has 11 million registered users in 7 years.

I don't know how that 2M in 2 hours is 'oddly low' but at that rate, Threads will surpass the entire Fediverse in less than 24 hours and will be centralizing the Fediverse when it turns on ActivityPub.
Yeah, seems like just a different master.

What was wrong with mastadon?
https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gogo/humor/hum_toast.html
clicking on the threads.net badge on a profile (https://www.threads.net/@zuck) says

"Soon, you'll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, like @zuck@threads.net."

That seems to be a pretty strong commitment. If they pull this off and manage to bring the Fediverse into the mainstream and kill Twitter off in the process this is far from just a clone. Genuinely excited for this one.
Here is mine: https://fifty1ststate.com

It's new and has just one post. But over the next few days and months, I am hoping to post voluminous content that has utility and usefulness to a large or niche audience.

The kind of topics will vary from startups, AI, governance, technocracy and other projects and businesses I am building.
Edit: I misread “legal” as “illegal” in the last sentence.

Aren’t most states single-party consent? I know mine is, for which I’m grateful. I regularly record “private conversations” with state officials after having had incidents with them.
https://serce.me/

On my blog I like to dive deeply into a single topic mainly around JVM internals, performance, or engineering practices.
Some things are pretty fast considering what they accomplished.

The Lockheed A-12 was built 2 years after its designs were approved, with 2 years before that of planning. Still the fastest air-breathing airplane in existence. Its first flight was in 1962.

In March 1940, John R. Dunning's team at Columbia University verifies Niels Bohr's hypothesis that uranium 235 is responsible for fission by slow neutrons. August 6, 1945, the first atomic nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

During the Great Depression, in 1931, the largest dam in the world, the Hoover Dam, was built. At the time, no such large-scale uses of concrete had been proven, and it was unknown how construction could be finished in a way that would cure the concrete in time and prevent it from deteriorating. Construction was completed in 1936, over two years ahead of schedule. Testing in 1995 concluded that the dam's concrete has gotten stronger over the years.
Show HN: Utubescripts – create YouTube scripts in secs using AI (free demo)
You enter a prompt or tell the AI what script subject you want to be written. Then after a short wait, you will have a script for your next YouTube video. It's completely free and requires no sign-up so try it out! I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you!
> Yes, but they have meaningful verification (apparently), while Twitter doesn't.

Depends on what you mean by "meaningful". Threads uses Instagram's verification, which, like Twitter's, is now pay-to-play[0].

[0] https://about.fb.com/news/2023/02/testing-meta-verified-to-h...
GCKit: A project to reach optimal clustering method for PPI Networks
Do you want Apple and Google to record and archive your private FaceTime/Hangout/Zoom sessions? With your romantic partners?
I've used react daily since the early days. I like hooks but I don't really know what the _real_ problem was that they solved. Getting rid of class components?
Do you know whats the music track behind?
What the article didn't mention was that the US has pirated (ahem) "commandeered" Iranian oil tankers as well. This is an ongoing dispute between these two countries. Iran violates US sanctions, but technically they are merely US sanctions which have the legal weight of say Togo's sanctions on the high seas. (Togo doesn't enforce their domestic law on the high seas, nor can they.)

The simplest way to get Iran to stop compandeering tankers is for the US to do the same. They don't want our "peace", it is true. "Peace with Piracy" is just not compelling to the Iranians. Can you blame them?

Likewise, China benefits from trade near her borders but the US and allies want the ability to turn off the spigot when they wish to force China into concessions, as has been noted in US geopolitical articles for decades now.

Note the Australian nuclear submarines deal: They don't really want to protect their trade with China...from China, they want the ability to control trade between China and her allies. These subs would do part of the job, with the bulk of it done by the USN. Enjoy a comedy skit on that subject: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgspkxfkS4k
It looks like you can't compose a new thread on desktop.

For a text-centric app, the lack of computer keyboard access is disheartening. I understand that the Threads team may want to focus on their core market on mobile. However, mobile prioritization will lead to posting content best composed on mobile, namely curt text and memes. I hope giving these types of content an early start won't affect the the culture on Threads in the long-run.
https://esrh.me

Not a whole lot, some mix of japanese, emacs and lisp. Static site made with hakyll.
“Buy once, cry once” as they say. I’ve found it a good rule but one I must apply very selectively. Knowing where to spend on quality and where to make do with junk is a bit of an art in itself, I believe.
Wow what an insightful comment... I mean, I guess by that reasoning someday both Facebook and Instagram will remove their chronological timeline of only people you follow, maybe some day soon. I guess I'm surprised you didn't consider them to be part of your "every other social media site" given they're like among the largest in the world.
A big part of “modern slowdowns” is everything being contracted and subcontracted - as opposed to one large company, government, or army doing the entire thing.
Y Combinator (Mathematics)
Not OP, but my assumption is that better insulation means you need less heating and cooling.

I've lived in a home with a literal hole to the outside. During the winter we had to run the radiators non-stop and it was still freezing.

If you are trying to save energy, then sealing up and improving insulation will generally have the largest bang for the buck.
Learning to decompile and debug third party libraries was really handy. This was back when a lot less stuff was open source, so debugging threading issues in BEA Weblogic “enterprise” Java was really helpful to learn about packages and libraries and also understand that other people’s code isn’t magic, it’s just some other person like me doing their best.
Twenty years ago we had Windows XP.

You think AWS accounts are going to have a simple password requirement in the same time?

You don’t think twenty years from now that everything is a multifactor / immutable likely-bio hardware key?
Idk, if they need something quick, og owner might have said a price they thought was way to high, and FB just said, "yea ok". I'd prob put it in the 50-100k range, but wouldnt be suprised to see 500k-1m
Looks nice! Though it's a bit surprising that the "multi-tenant" part is mostly about domain names, not data.
I'm amazed that people are willing to give facebook another try.

Facebook filled our lives with rage-bait. (Not even going to touch the elections manip)

They took over instagram and removed the time based sorting with their algorithm.

So fool me once, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again.
Bill Ackman explains why he embraced RFK Jr.’s skepticism on Covid vaccines
I always find myself needing a tool to interactively let me select which columns of an output to print. Basically I'm interactively writing something like 'awk {print $5, $10}' or whatever but I'm not sure which columns I need.

Anyone know anything like that? Ideally after running it'd somehow output which columns they were to use later.
> I don't want to necessarily block MrBeast, I just don't want to see him when I don't follow him.

I suspect Facebook are, at this point, culturally incapable of allowing you to just see what you've set to follow. As in, that four-panel gag meme that ends with someone being thrown out a window incapable.
James O'Keefe was removed from Project Veritas earlier this year.

Make of that what you will, just putting it out there so you and anyone passing by aren't using outdated information.
I've never used Instagram, but I noticed all of the blue checks on Threads were famous people. Pay-to-play verification would kind of ruin it. Meta could have really built on their advantage over Twitter's blunders.