skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These ChatGPT tools allow anyone to write short marketing and propaganda prompts. They can then take the resulting paragraphs of puffery and post them using bots or sock puppets to whatever target community to create the illusion of action, consensus, conflict, discussion or dissention.

It used to be this took a few people to come up with writing actual responses to forum posts all day, or marketing operations plans, or pro- or anti-thing propaganda plans.

But now, you could astroturf a movement with a GPU, a ChatGPT clone, some bots and vpns hosted from a single computer, a cron job, and one human running it.

If you thought disinformation was bad 2 years ago, get ready for fully automated disinformation that can be targeted down to an online community or specific user in an online community...
Sure, that seems like something that could happen. However, meanwhile, in practice, my friend was having a mental break and the cops narrowed my friend's location down to 3 possible houses in a neighborhood.
Lol this article was 100% generated by chat gpt... I know because I've asked very similar questions..
Depends, if every lambda creates a single connection you can get to pretty high numbers before it becomes an issue.
> Sometimes that means bringing the upstarts into the fold!

Sometimes it means asking the upstarts to say hello to your little friend.
> path to 1 billion people

Also Insta has 1bn+ active MAUs and Meta us leaning heavily on Insta for Threads
Nothing about Bluesky is secret; it's just unfinished.
> Decentralized platforms are the way to go even if it is centralized

Wat.
It won't shut it down. The cops aren't compelling or pressuring the providers to give the info. They're just doing it.
You could always just use a library that simplifies Vulkan or keep some skeleton apps around. When you're past all of the verbose set up, the actual meat of it isn't too bad.
Yet they canceled their weekly meetings. So it can be extrapolated from that that whatever they were talking about did not fall into these categories. Most of the disinformation I’ve seen comes from the government. That they are “policing” social media by removing objective truth that might be “misinterpreted” tells you all you need to know.
"what's happened to the web via SEO gaming."
- The way I've been seeing it differs slightly...

Google's reactions to SEO over the years (and other reactions and actions) - has led to downranking so many good sites and props up sites that fit in with certain agendas.

Once more AI takes off, I expect many more niche search and find portals to be accessed on a regular basis which will bypass google's deranking and censoring, and also bypass any google SEO problems that people think exist.
The main difference is Threads is a new product. Unlike Instagram which was released before GDPR was a thing. Sadly, it's way simpler for business to juat avoid the stringent regulated market at launch if you don't want to comply with regulations, then to actually comply.

I don't think the severity of tracking is important when comparing insta vs threads, just the inertia of an old vs new product.
No, no need for a warrant. If the cops ask nicely (as opposed to making a demand), and the provider provides the info, there was no need for a warrant. That is the common process today.
For iOS the authoritative source is apple itself; you can read their post on this topic here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211970

The actual list of privacy descriptors and what they actually mean can be found here: https://apps.apple.com/story/id1539235847

For example, the description of “Health and fitness” is:

> Health and fitness

> Health

> Health and medical data, including but not limited to information from the Clinical Health Records API, HealthKit API, and Movement Disorder API, or from health-related human subject research or any other health or medical data that you provide.

> Fitness

> Fitness and exercise data.

Which indicates that the app can use HealthKit etc to gather information about your health and medical data and exercise data.
Have you all considered that the VC-backed winner-take-all model of one platform left standing does not have to be the way?

Threads for the status-seekers
Spill for hip folks
Truth Social for alt-right
Bluesky for the cozy web
Mastodon for the true geeks

So on and so on...and that's a good thing.
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Lol this article was 100% generated by chat gpt... I've asked summariztion questions and received very similar output to the articles format.
It works in a similar way that lets encrypt DNS challenge works. They just partnered with Namecheap to make the process simple because asking people to buy a domain and setup TXT records is still a fairly complicated and technical process. Apple does the same with iCloud emails and Cloudflare domains.
You are welcome to think what you want. The opinion I've expressed here is based on my lived experience with the "no hello" concept as promulgated within a real life workplace---likely before this article was written, but I don't feel the article is a significant improvement on the other communication approaches I've seen. People are very imperfect readers and there is a reason the concept of 'burying the lede' exists.
When is Threads dropping in the UK?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHoMSRZOS4
For free too! Whatever happened to making cool stuff and sharing it because it was cool?
One of the earliest and best things the internet does is auctions. Auctioning off delivery contracts individually isn’t profitable. If it were, we’d be doing it already.
> How does this increase demand for jobs if you also say that demand for deliveries decrease?

Demand for jobs goes up because they pay better. But the jobs are not available because deliveries decrease.

> If it makes the service worse because the customers are choosing to go out themselves or buy groceries, I see that as a societal win.

You are forgetting that it means the drivers now have less work. This change in minimum wage, in the net, will cause a loss for drivers, not a gain.

It will be uneven, when they have work it will pay well, but it will be coupled with large periods of no work. I don't think that's a good thing for the drivers.

> I see that as a societal win

More cars on the road I guess?

> Of course, no decision is without short term downsides, and this is one of them.

What "short term"? Long term this will be bad for drivers in NY.
This looks interesting, but it seems like it would lead to some pretty long and cumbersome user names. It also doesn’t address the problem of the moment: everyone who was itching to leave Twitter already have a place to go and based on Thread’s sign-ups, they are already moving in large numbers. Are most people going to want to move again whenever Bluesky opens its gates? I think the answer is no, unless Meta/Threads really screws something up. Threads isn’t great, but it’s …adequate and likely will improve quickly. That might be good enough for most people.
But Gmail is a web client for the greatest federation success story of all time?
I don't get the reasoning, you could do the same with Tailwind, just make a mega class with all your "css". Nobody says you can't, although personally I don't do this.

<div className={`${variableWithMultipleTailwindClasses}`} />
It's joke that every one will hate one or the other. They make the same joke the other direction.
How was it vaporware? It existed, it worked. In fact it worked great. I used app.net for years. I wouldn't be nostalgic about vaporware.
I’ve really been of the opinion as of late that if we took just a small fraction of the time and manpower we waste on pedantic security framework adherence and put it towards training actual staff to and experts to be better cybersecurity professionals, we’d be better off.
Convenience and advertisement. Back in the day you'd call a phone number and have to interact with people like a normal human. Phone screens never ask you to repeat your words
The article name describes Tailwind exactly for me.

I personally am a fan of schematic html/css. I remember the days off CSS Zen Garden, with well marked up html you can change the visual look completely by swapping out the style sheet. There’s a nice decoupling layer, it’s flexible, it’s conceptually simple, it works.

Despite all that I find myself using Tailwind. I’m not a frontend/designer expert, Tailwind goes against what I believe makes good HTML, Tailwind is ugly to me, polluting classes with markup. It’s equivalent to the embedding inline styles anti pattern. However in an imperfect world it works surprisingly well for visual styling on large projects, with many teams and components and just as well in small single page sites. The perfectionist in me says it’s horrible, the I can’t be bothered with frontend design in me says it’s so much less effort and avoids styling conflicts from multiple style sheets/components and I don’t care if it’s ugly or against the ethos of good html.
> Apple should really communicate more clearly what they mean in these privacy reports

This information is provided by the app developer; in this case Meta are telling Apple they use your health data and Apple is merely showing that information in the App Store.
Unnecessary, pointless, expensive features are precisely how you define the inverse of the original Twitter vision.

Bare minimum but fast message passing as a social communication layer.

If all of these new platforms are trying to become a better or more bloated version of what Twitter has become, then they will never catch on like the viral tool that Twitter originally was.

None of them learned the lesson of google wave, it seems. (i.e. look at these really cool features and extensions, this is what you want right?)
>Early days FB php was nothing like the php used to template websites. All kinds of specialized libraries to enable a much more sophisticated programming style.

No idea if this was a credible leak of actual 2007-ish FB php, but it doesn't look like what you're describing.

https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
Just wanted to add, it really comes in clutch for services like Facebook that don’t allow login with iCloud masked emails and other related services. By using your own domain you look legit.
> As it stands they're on the verge of bankruptcy.

Good?

The only reason these companies exist is because a bunch of VCs subsidized them with the hope that there would be network effect lockins that could then be leveraged into an exploitable monopoly position.

Now that money isn't free, the VCs are yanking the subsidy and the market will return to where it should be without the distortion of a bunch of sloshing VC money.
Stop trying and just have branding people do it.

It doesn't need to be a verb. Really anything that isn't so coarse would probably be fine. Twitter is not a very good name because it's so feminine, but it's way better. Threads is a perfectly fine name.

Just let branding people do it.
Three-man dev team to leap-frog right past all the AAA studio entries.
Someone has to teach the compiler how to be clever.
Businesses use Teams because it’s good enough and they’re already paying for Office so it’s free. Most of the alternatives cost money.
I too was hoping for some deep zen of multiprocessing, but then saw the wired.com domain.
The market collapse in response to low unemployment was the result of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in direct response to high employment and wages, with the stated goal of reducing wages and increasing layoffs to tackle inflation. Capitalism has always been about serving the needs of those with capital, and reducing wages and employment does just that. This has always been its form.
Time and space are constants of everyone's life. You're always somewhere at some time. I've been dreaming of a centralized time & space view layer for years. Something that ingests all this data we have at our fingertips. This article gets really close to what I've imagined. Add in a map and you're able to correlate all sorts of behavior in order to understand yourself and the human condition so much better.

P.S. I'm totally open to hacking out an MVP with someone if this post resonates strongly with you.
Nobody is against personalized ads. Nobody has claimed to be. Read the article, think.
Almost certainly, when you scale nuclear weapons to the energy of the atmosphere in general they become irrelevant.

The earth receives about 1.74x10^17 watts from the sun, continuously. On Tsar Bomba released a little over 200PJ, setting off one per day would be around 2.3x10^12 watts.

In other words to equal the energy from the sun you would need to detonate on the order of 1 MILLION Tsar Bombas per day.
you're skipping over the fact that any data that you shared under the previous agreement are now subject to the new agreement whether you agree to them or not. if they provided a way to nuke everything you've ever posted because you no longer agree to the new terms, that might be something to discuss.
Hollywood you either need a guaranteed moneymaker or something the people will money can buy into. One I always found interesting was how Arrival happened because the screenwriter KEPT pitching it until he found a producer/company that was interested, then he managed to convince Denis Villeneuve to direct it and it got nominated for best picture (also think it did well in box office but I can't remember for sure anymore).
I don't understand why it's an either/or between Tailwind vs using CSS classes. Tailwind is awesome. At the same time, no, repeating the same styles for links, buttons again and again isn't great. Code littered with hundreds of classes is plain ugly and makes it hard to read and work on. This[1] is a valid complaint about Tailwind. The < span > at the end has nearly 20+ classes.

At some point, you should abstract some set of classes. In some cases, CSS selectors and other CSS feature will allow you to do what you want with far fewer lines of code.

[1]: https://twitter.com/xirclebox/status/1673557143088242689
They announced that more feed options, including followers only are coming.

They rushed to market.
Well, that's the thing when we're talking about hobbyist FOSS development. There's no bosses and no money involved to get a developer, point them at specifications, and say "implement this top to bottom." Instead you're going to get people implementing the parts important to them and/or fun to implement and/or relatively easy. Can a new browser engine compete with the big boys when it's developed like that? No, but maybe it can get good enough for casual use, and since it was mentioned in another thread here that Kling actually has hired a dev to work on Ladybird/LibWeb, maybe the whole thing's moot anyway and we'll start seeing things like text on an SVG path and other stuff which I imagine is not so fun to implement get done in the near future.
Good to know.

Listened to the full interview, and definitely rooting for Andreas et al with Ladybird.
Probably not, which is why I specified one year. It is also perfectly within the power (if not the will) of any country above subsistence to provide one year of education for free.
Most of those 7500 were not engineers. They were moderators, sales, support, HR, etc

The moderation, whatever people personally think of it now, has certainly suffered from an advertiser perspective, which is why they left. It was a mistake to fire many of them.

The sales people with relationships to advertisers left, and so again did many advertisers.

It's apparently impossible to get your account reinstated if you were banned, because there is no more support.

People had pay issues due to lack of HR and also lost benefits, so they left.

On top of that, almost all the features they shipped were in the works before the company was bought, so they didn't really ship anything. Stability was worse and users left. They are flocking to Threads because it's stable. Remaining devs continued to trickle away as the work environment became intolerable.

Basically every aspect of his experiment was a failure. I'm sure Twitter could have cut 10-15% and been okay but what Musk did absolutely did not work. All those things managers talk about, those reasons to treat your people well: cratering morale after layoffs, increasing attrition, dead sea effect, loss of institutional knowledge, it's all true, and just what everyone expected.

The only thing to learn from Twitter's fall is that they were right. Great experiment I guess? Really validated some things we had all seen small scale or intuited.
You’d need to count both as other characters are ignored.
Yeah, or at least I don't understand why that wouldn't be possible.

Microcode can set the EIP register based on its prediction of what the result of cmpb $115, %cl will be.

Why can't it set the EDX register based on its prediction of what the result of cmpb $115, %cl will be?
Sure, but those 1 billion people could have signed up for Twitter at any point in the last 17 years if they were interested. Twitter already maxed out its user base, so I'm skeptical that there's a 1 billion potential here.
OMFG somebody remembers OPML!
THE Aviato?
> Being able to migrate existing accounts in seconds tends to do that. Let’s see how many stick around.

You discount Threads user going the “easy” route, but think they will somehow go the “hard” way ?
Sugar is optional in tea the way screaming is optional in a library.
It was vaporware that eventually launched after I stopped being interested in it, and seemed to always be sidetracked from its stated mission.

Here's where they seemed to focus on trying to build their own killer app rather than on third party apps:

> Could Broadcast be app.net’s breakout app? It depends on how quickly it can corral a large base of users on the publishing side — and it could also depend on whether Twitter and Facebook make moves toward selective push notifications, too.

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2013/with-newslett...
I like this. Tempted to build it. The lack of travel time support in GCal also bothers me. It already knows where I am and where I'm going, it should be able to block that off. And the time zone support is weak too. Planning a vacation in another country? Good luck understanding what time anything is at without manually switching timezones in the settings over and over.
Seeing the code for King's Quest V definitely felt like a bucket list item.

Although, in truth, it now feels more mundane than mysterious. Reams of code that is just walk and hitbox positioning, animation, "if player has item do A, otherwise do B".

I have to wonder if there was another tool or a DSL within Script generating the more lookup-tably stuff.
I signed up under my .edu to use the $18 credit for a school project and the phone # was all it took to know I was the same person.
> Threads had 48m users in a day

Threads had 48m users just like that U2 album[1] sold 500m copies on iTunes.

[1] https://www.eonline.com/news/1071481/remember-when-apple-for...
Online ordering has been a thing for quite some time, now. There just wasn't an app with a multimillion dollar marketing budget for it.
The dirty little secret about Bluesky is that it's actually pretty goddamn great on the inside. I have never in my life had normals asking for a social media invite, but I currently have a list of fourteen people waiting for a code.

It works, feels, tastes, shares, and functions like Classic Twitter without the waves of repugnant users or miserably overbaked features. Collaborative mute lists make screening out horseshit easy. Shit stays put and is there when you return to the app. The timeline is hard chronological and the utter lack of ads is delightful. Hashtag hash is not missed. Everything just works with a modicum of taste to boot.

Threads is not an equivalent product.
NVidia for one lobbies developers into using their tools which AMD refuses to do.
At least when a human is irrationally angry at the fact that I don't have a legal place to drive they just honk and I know to be on the lookout for road rage and other shenanigans. If a car trained on that data is likely to behave absurdly then I can't protect myself _unless_ it has the loudspeaker function to prepare me for its misdeads.
Ideologically these Twitter exodus communities will become even more microcosmic than the presumed "alt-right, redpilled" ideology they purport to escape. Twitter may be these things in part, but by being a direct reaction away from these things, the new networks will become necessarily more niche and specialized ideologically.

In the same way that the ideological specialization of Twitter is not helpful for its growth, these new networks will be likewise more of an echo-chamber, and regardless of the "correctness" of their ideology, the unilaterality of it will starve it of the multifaceted discourse which provides the "town square" functionality which is core to these platforms' ethos.
That's fine. The question stands though.
"No, Earth is not as smooth as a billiard ball!
...
The billiard-ball-sized Earth’s smoothness would be equivalent to that of 320-grit sandpaper."

https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/

A comment on the article, though, says "I’d like to point out that Earth is about 3400 times flatter than a regulation pool table...I love saying it – The Earth is flatter than a pool table!"
This is a weird thing to comment about, but maybe it's feedback for someone and might be informative.

I love tea. I would love to read this article. But, the tall font is horrible, distracting and discouraging me to do so. This is probably the first time in my life that I closed a web page due to the font of the body text.

(I have saved it for later is some readable format provided by my browser)
making it a content platform with little content. and of that sparse content, most of it is meta-commentary on bluesky itself.

poasters post where the consumers are, and vice versa. Threads is on its way to bootstrapping this network effect in a way bluesky never even began to scratch due to the invite system and niche appeal
Can anyone answer me this, where is the funding for bluesky coming from?
Yep, I completely agree with your first paragraph, and adding quantization & distributed inference is one of the bigger next steps. Adding numbers from consumer GPUs would be nice for non-data center use cases, too.

Decoder-only models with the same number of parameters will roughly consume the same amount of energy per token. But what makes the response length meaningful is that we actually ran all the models on the same set of prompts from ShareGPT, meaning that some models are innately more verbose/terse than others. These properties are also not completely aligned with model quality benchmarks, which makes an interesting tradeoff.
Dumb Facts
I do not give a flying fuck about their profit margins and if they are to disappear tomorrow.

I mostly cook myself and on rare occasions when I needed food delivery it was never a problem for the last 30 years that I've been in Canada.
RSS is the only way to read news :D Reddit, HN - everything goes to my RSS ;)
The adtech business model is predicated on the maximum invasion of privacy that is permitted by law (and the law has been quite accomodating of "innovation" in this space).

It is a necessary but thankless job to document how they get away with it. My pessimistic take is its not going to move the needle. There is a huge captive audience (the most likely users of threads are existing users of facebook and instagram) that has been socially engineered not to worry about privacy.

Internal cannibalism between surveillance capitalists aside, the true change will only come when authoritative bodies (public sector and other institutions) walk the talk, vocally refuse to use these platforms and throw their weight behind the fediverse.
Qué es Platform Engineering? Para qué me sirve? Qué pasó con DevOps?
The eternal Google search for truth
Yeah, movies run at a loss too.