skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should have launched with fresh Threads usernames. Being able to get short usernames as an early adopter is a huge incentive to sign up and use a new platform.
No they wont. Executive regularly get turfed out. And the vast majority of their compensation is equity based.

If you’ve worked with executives you’d realized they get screwed over by companies all the time.
I don't really get what you're saying here; it's not about the affordability (but let's put that aside for a second), it's that the entire payment model is based on a theory that is demonstrably disproven; the GP post had some rough stats from an article which suggests that Twitter either grossly overestimates how its users use the platform, or completely misunderstands how people want to use Twitter.

That the "heavy user" threshold is 3 posts a week is surprising to me, and seems like a bad threshold I'm sure that actual Twitter data is likely more accurate and shows different numbers, but it's not really about the usage I guess, it's about the promise of more followers and engagement. But demonstrably this is not the case, and many persons who did buy the Blue Check complained they didn't see the increase in activity it was advertised that the Blue Check would give. The signal behind what a Blue Check means has been quite noisy for a very long time, even before Musk's take over, and the decisions post-Musk on what a Blue Check really means/does is very confusing and unclear.

Why would I pay $8 a month to maybe get some followers by being promoted when I could just spend a few hundred USD once and just buy followers from some follower farm, which is arguably a better signal of "hey, this person is worth following?" as opposed to the Blue Check? It doesn't matter if it's just a "couple of coffees", why pay for something that arguably provides 0 benefit for me?

Twitter should not have tried to sell identify validation as a major marketable service; they already try to validate your identity even without it, and it doesn't seem to benefit anyone, not even Twitter.

Game companies figured out how to monetize useless things with cosmetics and such, and if Twitter wanted to monetize heavily, they should have just done that. Fancier reactions, more edits and stupid stuff for the changeable usernames, etc. The idea that they can somehow sell the user attention is a folly; yes, they gate and can control the feeds, but the users always have the option of just not following or even just not looking. It's a resource Twitter _never_ really had control over; they might as well have been selling ocean wranglers, offering that someone will beat the tide with whips for you if the ocean pisses you off for some reason; it's about the same effectualness, and equally useless service.
> should not be posted

How do you expect OP to know/check if the article is available in anyone region?

Following your though there’s plenty of content that should not be posted here because not available in PRC.

I was also (very) pissed off to see that blocker. HN magic came into the rescue and someone posted an archive link. Not sure if it has been proposed before, but a field for alt link would be nice.
It looks like the top line is “Screw better technology” (with the r dropped off).

“RR - What were FY96 [Financial Year '96] SW sampling limitations”

“RPG’s most messy” (with a superfluous letter in there).
> Not if the "secret sauce" is actually a natural limit to what levels of intelligence can be reached with the current architectures we're exploring.

If we were limited to only explore what we're currently exploring, we'd never have made Transformer models.

> It could be theoretically possible to build an AGI smarter than a human, but is it really plausible if it turns out to need a data center the size of the Hadron Collider and the energy of a small country to maintain itself?

That would be an example of "some kind of magic special sauce", given human brains fit on the inside if a skull and use 20 watts regardless of if they are Einstein or a village idiot, and we can make humans more capable by giving them normal computer with normal software like a calculator and a spreadsheet.

A human with a Pi Zero implant they can access by thought, which is basically the direction Neuralink is going but should be much easier in an AI that's simulating a brain scan, is vastly more capable than an un-augmented human.

Oh, and transistors operate faster than synapses by about the same ratio that wolves outpace continental drift; the limiting factor being that synapses use less energy right now — it's known to be possible to use less energy than synapses do, just expensive to build.

> Maybe the best way to solve the "alignment problem", and other issues of creating super-intelligence, is to solve the problem of how best to raise and educate intelligent and well-adjusted humans?

Perhaps, but we're not exactly good at that.

Should still look onto it anyway, it's useful regardless, but just don't rely on that being the be-all and end-all of alignment.
Security software also isn't the one-stop-for-everything solution to security, but merely a helper.
Subjectively, the app has improved its offline mode and cross-device sync since the company has been acquired.
I like to add, since I got slightly organized after getting my ADHD under control, you never ever price-silo your workflow as then its locked away to be leveraged against you.

Personally, I use vscode with a combo of zettelkasten and kanban boards which works quite well even for those with ADHD!
https://www.krekr.nl/blog/
No normal person cares about the "fediverse", in the same way that no normal person cares about the bored out engine of some classic car that some petrol head tuned & turbocharged; they just want four wheels.

Regular people don't care about the minutiae of a platform, they just want to use the platform & get on with their lives. Of course this is isn't great, but it's just how people are.
>Twitter is more hostile than it's ever been.

>The first time a blog post is written about the Epic Dunk that AOC had on Ted Cruz...

How do you reconcile these two statements?

I feel the performative "mic drop" moment is a major source of toxicity on Twitter. A breath of fresh air would be a place that promoted thoughtful and empathetic conversations.
Answered at 2:16 of the video - the claim is that the rain actually helps, as it makes the "mountain" steeper.
In which way can it be exploited?
That's not a "conservative" viewpoint. That was a politicaly insensitive take to have that lead to asian hate and violence at the time. I still don't think that the lab leak theory was ever proven to be true. I think the official stance is "it could be".
> It started moving years ago. Everyone on every side escalates, citing the other side.

Only one side decided to give a country that was part of the NPP until it removed itself from it nuclear weapons in an attempt to try and escalate the war in Ukraine and threaten western Europe with nuclear weapons.
I read "Be He", not "Be the"

"sampling limitations"

"Studio APPROVED"

I can't work out "F?96" and "messea"...
Try orgzly. Its org-mode based and can be customized to individual requirements
You can't close your account without also closing your Instagram account so that might make it more sticky.
html is not a DATA representation, it's not designed that way and it would actually be way more noisy if attemps to represent all the hidden states of the DOM.
Those are better than the approved ones.
> SQLite is standard and you can open it with plenty of third-party tools

Tends not to play well with things like Dropbox or Syncthing though. Although I guess you can use litestream or something for the replication instead.
The difference between "true" bitcoin users and these casinos is night-and-day.

Because a bitcoin users and supporters does:

1. Hold your own keys: in other words, never let bitcoin sit on any exchange.
2. buy and hold: what happened to the good-old ethos of saving for a rainy day?
3. dollar-cost-averaging: It simply doesn't matter if today's price is up or down. Just buy a little bit with the $ you can spare, and let it sit for later when you really need it.
This is where I love my Chromebook. It has no dedicated Caps Lock key, and it has no "Windows" keys, just luxuriously wide Ctrl and Alt.
There is no "Sega of Japan."

Sega Enterprises is a Japanese company that founded the subsidiary Sega of America to market its products in North America. Sega Enterprises can trace its origins to Americans such as David Rosen who were in Japan after the war.
Is Xbox doing poorly? I don't know much about the console space, but it looks to me like a continued success
"Alphabetical privilege", nice. As someone who's surname starts with AB I would also call it "alphabetical curse".
E.g. back when I was young when teachers would describe what to do then often would call each pupil up alphabetically to do it, and I was always first, and most of time had not actually listened to the instructions...
A family member of mine had 4000+ posts of their art on their instagram, with quite a few followers, and one day the account just got nuked. That's it, not even a message beyond "broke policies".
> fucking groupthinking, insular scene.

Insular, sure - everything is an island if you zoom out far enough though.

I don't know about groupthinking though - there's plenty of subgenres within metal. Old school heavy metal (e.g. Iron Maiden) is very different from black metal for example, and the fanbases are far from completely overlapping.
It must depend on region. In Australia the Google phone app has a [Record] button. My mother could use it. Google documents it here: https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9803950?hl=en

I often use it.
I haven't looked at SimpleNote before. So I will look into whether that might be a good fit for me. Thanks for sharing.
The only one I know of is Andrew gelmans class in Social sciences dept at Columbia University https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/quantitative-methods-ii...

There are other people in that department like Ben Goodrich who are also good at teaching bayesian statistics
> "Isn't setting correct permissions for www-data like, the first note in a bunch of "secure your web server" tutorials?"

It is indeed. And yet here we are.
Neat. But is the base64 even necessary?
Might take quite a while. Bluesky is currently only at 266k registered users and there were already some scaling issues when Twitter introduced the rate limits. Although I think they now have improved the way that the service can be scaled up based on demand.
Xbox 360 was their biggest success (2005), with 84 million units.
>With few exceptions, animals feed on organic matter, breathe oxygen, reproduce sexually, have specialized sense organs and a nervous system, and are able to respond rapidly to stimuli.

And are mobile. not rooted. At least thats what I learned as a kid as the main difference between animals and plants.
Show HN: Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory
Like others on here, I was inspired by the "personal blogs" post :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS!

There's instructions on how to add/edit a blog on the Github README.

[1] https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn

Note that your blog might appear in blogs.json, but not on the site! Right now I'm using the following code to filter out blogs. Your blog might appear if you add more metadata:

if (
3 > 0
+ !!blog.title
+ (blog.desc.length > 40)
+ !!blog.about
+ !!blog.now
+ !!blog.feed
+ 3 * (blog.hn.length > 1)
)
continue;

As I mention on the /about page, if you don't already have a blog, I recently made a minimal static site generator! It's easier than ever to begin your writing journey :)

[2] https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress
It shouldnt be 'that' blurry tho, sounds like maybe you have a browser-zoom level thats not 100%. I try to deal with that, but there are browsers that mess it up (safari can for instance)
There was a recent study that was floating around the news showing that this, never happened. The study went on to show that actually conservative viewpoints were boosted by social media algorithms.
What actually was happening was mass hysteria, and a political base being radicalized by a cult like leader who claimed every single thing was "lugen press", and anything bad that happened was an attack on them.
you have wok shaped induction plates that work extremely well

It's a niche, I give you that, and the plate can only be used with specific sized woks, but they exist.

https://maxima.com/en/induction-wok-wok-burner.html
I think they want selfies to enforce a one-account-per-person policy, to limit scraping. They already enforce phone verification, but there's plenty of ways around that (e.g. services that redirect verification SMS from hacked phones, or just buy phone-verified accounts from someone else). Facial recognition raises the bar and gives them extra confidence that two accounts are unrelated even if they have similar IPs/access patterns/whatever
I don't know. I think that users being able to harmlessly deactivate their Threads account but not delete their profile is evidence against that hypothesis. Surely the ability to delete something is one of the most basic features? All the more so if Threads just depends on Instagram for auth.

My bet is that the decision to not allow the user to delete only their Threads profile has been fully intentional. The last thing Meta wants is for the fleeting users who quickly jumped on the latest Threads fad to eventually delete their profile once they become bored. That would be embarrassing to Threads and reduce its sticking power if it were a common enough phenomenon. Much better for them to keep the users' content hostage under their desire to keep their Instagram account.
Crypto Rebrand? Beyond Border Currency?
Crypto is a silly name, it was also stolen from cryptographer who are rightly a bit sad about being associated with such a sh*tstorm of nonsense and snake oil.

However, under all the mess of chains, there are a few glimmer of usefulness that are obscured, a rebrand, if taken up by a few key players, could wipe the slate clean, at least semantically?
Fagradalsfjall, a volcano that has erupted twice in the last two years and is smack right in the middle of the international airport and the capitol area in Iceland, is waking up once more.

Seismic activity has been very high in the last 3 days[0] and has fallen slightly in the last 6 hours. This is consistent with the behaviour during the last two eruptions (seismic activity dropped right before the eruption started).

There is another live stream angle available as well[1].

[0]: https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q1N4J5oTSE
Does it matter? If someone may or may not be an actor by your judgment is going to cause you to possibly commit an atrocity then you should play it safe and refuse. Just in case...
Nextcloud has a surprisingly inefficient WebDAV implementation. It's not clear how they got it so wrong compared to, say, Nginx or Apache WebDAV, but they did. Maybe they are doing some processing on each request, creating thumbnails, checking for shared files, locks, or something that's not really necessary but it is slow as a result. Perhaps some config changes could indeed help though.
Reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications was great in this same sense. Anything concurrency and distributed was always a mythical black box to me. It turns out, there are no real, all-encompassing solutions to these issues. It’s all trade offs, and each solution has some aspects it can’t help with. Vector clocks (allow ordering but only logically) and CAP (availability vs consistency under network partition) theorem are terms that come to mind.
The problem is, essentially, all of the wealth and power is concentrated inside of venture capitalists and rich stock holders. These are people who invest in a product without actually using or caring about the product, so it leads to perverse incentives to infinitely grow or corner a market at all costs.

Family owned businesses, employee owned businesses, privately owned businesses etc all manage to better avoid this problem because they don't have to listen to outside voices telling them grow or die.

It's not enough to be profitable and successful, but also you need to siphon as much value out of consumers as you can so you can pass along the money to these vultures. Then once the company has picked everything dry, they write it off as a failure and move on.
This is a pretty good example of what is called kettle logic:

1. The analysis is wrong

2. The analysis is correct, but it is the algorithms fault.

3. The analysis is correct, but actually its really state censorship that is culprit here!
https://pricey.uk/blog

Not much. An interesting Azure DevOps RCE bug bounty discovery being my claim to fame.
Fast TypeScript Analyzer
Huberman
This thing where people basically say

"I know they are only doing this for right now to get me roped in, but it's sure nice to not have to look at ads"

is frankly quite disturbing.

A bit like celebrating when the guy who does all the whipping gets a new whip which is currently softer than the old one, so the whippings aren't quite so bad for a while.
Groundbreaking Study Shakes Up Established Views on Mountain Formation
What do you think the legislature was doing here by writing a law?
this is not a complete solution, but you seem to know what videos you're going to search through rather than wanting to search through everything. If that's the case, I recommend downloading the subtitles for every video via yt-dlp [1] as shown in this stackoverflow question [2] (it doesn't download the video itself this way to save bandwidth):

yt-dlp --all-subs --skip-download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw

(The answer uses youtube-dl, but I prefer yt-dlp, it works with these same options when I tried it)

When you've downloaded all subtitles, you can simply grep through them. I hope this helps!

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

[2] https://superuser.com/a/927532/1071647
The solution is to simply stop using their services. That's how you reclaim the internet: by refusing to participate in walled gardens.
Would you prefer the name "Promises"?
Even monopoly odds?
I think the issue with cloud saves is that developers are pretty free to use them as they wish, and some of them wish to use them in craptastic ways.

I spent a couple of hours diagnosing why I couldn't get save files for a particular VN sync via the cloud between my Steam Deck and my gaming PC. Turns out that they implemented cloud saves so that Steam syncs the cloud saves to Location A on the file system, and when the game boots up, it checks if there's a save file in Location B, it loads that, and if there isn't, it copies the save file from Location A to Location B and then loads it. The end result was that all of my Steam Deck saves were on my gaming PC immediately after I installed the game on my gaming PC, but neither device ever refreshed the saves because the actual save location was different from the cloud sync location, and there was no mechanism to override local saves with cloud saves.
It would be more accurate to say that after a few years, you have forgotten what real ice cream is like and subsist on the metaphorical one.
I just find it impressive that you can draw conclusions about persons/situations and state them as facts when you yourself have no personal investment in them.

You don't find that a little bit strange? Instead of saying "It's a Twitter clone", you thought it would be wise to drag people into your own miserable (and false) opinions. For what, to make them just as miserable?
Agile is just waterfall in shorter iterations and liberally sprinkled neurosis/psychosis.

Agile is what happens when you do waterfall but fail to actually do a proper review and assign relevant responsibilities. Its a way for software developers to feel like they're engineering, while also giving them an excuse to not do things the way their Dads' used to ..
I’ve been sitting here for a while trying to come up with how to eloquently put this in English and I cannot. Maybe English lacks the appropriate terminology to express the difference between privacy and publicity within the expanded scope of current technology. It’s my only language, and I like to think I’m pretty good at it, but I’m absolutely stumped as to how you’d exactly word exactly what you’re not understanding.

I feel like it’s a case of the language we speak shaping our interpretation of what is just, and doing so in such a way that it’s hard to even explain what we’re now missing.

The problem, in so many words, is that these days the act of being in public is public. That’s a weird sentence to write, and I’m not sure how else to put it.

Previously, the memory of any public act was restricted to those who were there to observe it at the time. Any acts in public were by themselves public. Acts in private were private. There was a third quasi-state: anonymous isn’t the right word, because you were always identifiable, but by happenstance you just weren’t. You were in public, but not publicised. Recognisable, but not recognised. Observable, but not observed. By definition though you were always in public, never in private.

Modern technology has somewhat erased the third state by slowly but surely eroding the cases in which you are not observed, tracked, recorded, or identified, by some technology or another. It’s made public very public, if you excuse the unavoidable pleonasm.

There’s no good word for the third state, that I can think of, and it makes me sad.
I was going to post this. I used to love Bloxorz!
> Raising is still a bitch.

If you are on this side of the fence, you might want to get in touch with Ukraine. They invest in drone startups.

https://sifted.eu/articles/small-dronemakers-ukraine-tech
Why offshore wind power prices are rising instead of falling
docker run --name some-postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -p5432:5432 -d postgres
It would be great to have some examples right on the main page as many devs would be interested in how this library compares to the React/Vue/Angular/etc. Currently, the code samples are hidden two levels deep and behind a view source button.