skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of people with passion. That's not significant leverage.

As for quality, it's not clear to me that current shows/movies are even that good in terms of writing. If you are a truly talented writer that can make/break a work you should have similar leverage to a director or lead actor, but studios don't think you are and that's why you're in a union. Maybe if your buddies that are actually talented gave a creditable threat of committing career suicide that would be good leverage, but it doesn't seem like a real threat when top talent will always be paid well.
>The problem is greedy lawmakers who accept brides, full stop.

Perhaps the problem is the system that makes such "bribes" legal.
... not to be confused with X the moonshot factory? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company) )
I'm probably not underestimating the role marketing plays in music. I'm the former head of digital at a major music agency, and I handled campaigns for multiple album of the year Grammy winners and household name artists, almost certainly including music and artists you consider important in your life.

It's not really about marketing. Everyone thinks that and they're wrong. You learn this instantly when you are actually in the business and see all the artists and projects that get the exact same amount of marketing effort as the massive hits and go literally fucking nowhere.

It's like home run batting, even the best in the world at picking and promoting music are lucky to have like a 10-20% success rate.

Audiences have a mind of their own, they like what they like. The problem people have with understanding this is usually that they don't like the same thing that mass audiences like, and they consider what they do like higher quality. So in their minds the masses are being duped, marketed to.

Which is true to a point, they are being marketed to. And having resources and labels and monopolies behind you can definitely expose you to more people. But it's not enough, at all, if people don't respond to it. And conversely, if you have no resources whatsoever it's way harder, but it's not impossible at all and stuff that really has wide appeal most of the time really does bubble up and catch attention pretty quickly.
"They could have done the same on Facebook or any other network that they don't control and can't rely on"

They can however control a Mastodon instance, and starting one is a off-the-shelf operation now.

Another poster described it as "problems of governments relying on the whims of tech players in getting these messages out" which is exactly right. Those other platforms might have decided today not to show you the emergency warning unless you have an account and are logged in and have watched some ads first.

It is - for good reason - conventional wisdom that in order to get a message out thoroughly, you have "outposts" on _all_ the media that you don't own (including Facebook and twitter) and push content to there, but the "home base" is not on some platform where it can be locked, rate-limited or taken from you at the whim of some other company in some other country.
I don't know. But they certainly obtained it, and it would be out of character for Meta not to capitalize on it. I think the assumption they used it is a reasonable one, given their history.
I don't see any reason to see it as pretending. Ultimately they want to get rid of as much labor in the production pipeline as possible.

They see "replace all of them with AI" as inevitable and utmost required for profit maximization, and therefore, every extra day of a writer being hired for even the smallest compensation is, to them, a great act of charity towards undesired and eventually irrelevant workers. So writers and actors causing an issue in the face of that 'charity' is deserving of the harshest and coldest response possible.
I quite like being able to do stuff simply. There's a lot of moaning as to what happened to the old internet where you could just put something up, why does it all end up gate keeped on medium, facebook and the like, and then when someone just puts some text on the web everyone moans that it isn't encrypted like medium, facebook and the like.
Interesting, thanks. But then it requires fbcdn.net to be whitelisted in the DNS server, which I won't do.

But checking with a proxied browser also gives a limited UX, "Get the Threads app to see more from ...".

In any case, they're halfway there.
Agreed. And in addition to these development feasibility, sustainability, and open source concerns/requirements, some applications will also have to look at provenance.
ZFS and Btrfs have demonstrated devices have a variety of transient failures including maintaining write order implied by fsync or fua.

This will thwart any filesystem.

SSDs do not reliably report UNC read errors when data can't be retrieved. Garbage or zeros are returned instead.

There's a reason why ext4 and XFS added journal and metadata checksumming. Storage devices just aren't as reliable at informing the kernel when it suspects the data returned is bad.
It's only natural that the campaign purchase several million copies of your self-published book to give out to influence voters! And of course the campaign should hire your brother-in-law's ad firm, you already know what their quality is like!
Hopeful? Didn't the Threads announcement literally state they were going to federate with Mastodon?

> Soon, we are planning to make Threads compatible with ActivityPub, the open social networking protocol established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body responsible for the open standards that power the modern web. This would make Threads interoperable with other apps that also support the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon and WordPress

> We’re committed to giving you more control over your audience on Threads – our plan is to work with ActivityPub to provide you the option to stop using Threads and transfer your content to another service

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/introducing-threads-new-ap...
"Fact tables hold the measurements of an enterprise. The relationship between fact tables and measurements are extremely simple. If a measurement exists, it can be modeled as a fact table row. If a fact table row exists, it is a measurement.

"What is a measurement? A common definition is an amount determined by observation with an instrument or scale."

-- The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit (2004) Wiley Publishing.

Maybe facts need their own "directed graph" of publicly accessible acknowledgements. And to make it more complex, since we can't write one value to a cell, we may need to record a series of events.
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PRU aside, BeagleBoards/Bones mount eMMC memory which offers much higher reliability compared to microSD cards. RPis are great for tinkering and prototyping, but I wouldn't feel safe employing them where uptime is important.
Man Tells Boss His 'Below-Average' Effort Is Due to Low Pay
I understand what you mean about Tolkien, he describes seemingly random crap at length and doesn't really care about the plot, but it's not really accurate to call him verbose. The entirety of the Lord of the Rings has less words than two ASOIAF books or WoT books. I recently re-read LotR for the first time since childhood and what struck me is just how compact they are compared to modern fantasy.
I feel like I'm eavesdropping on an argument that two people have been having for five years.

Anyone have an explanation of what is going on here? I'm finding the article impenetrable.
Are the streaming services currently profitable? I know Disney (at least) is supposed to be losing money.
that was during WWII, which probably represented the greatest reduction in workers and citizens rights the United States ever saw.
My previous comment was more about not trusting the comment about state level protection than having an issue with that lack of protection. Life and disability insurance companies already deny coverage based upon "sub-clinical family history" of conditions. They do so based upon gathered family medical histories. They will also deny you coverage based upon a required medical examination. What is the issue with adding genetic screening to the list of tools?
What's the plan/timeline for offering cosine similarity support, given that most OSS embedding models are fine tuned on a contrastive cosine distance objective?
The individuals in the role of Speaker of the house, senate majority leader, and POTUS over the last 30 years. I wasn’t expecting to provide a list, as you didn’t list the individuals you were referencing, but if you want specific names I can get those.
LIGO Hanford Public Tour
This is approximately a 3 hour drive from Seattle, WA. Also nearby is the Hanford B Reactor (also available for public tours) used to produce plutonium for atomic weapons.
https://manhattanprojectbreactor.hanford.gov/
(Chuckling) Knowing how little sales users add data for the $200/month.
A CPU that might be spying on you isn't to do with malware. This is about the difference between OSes, which is worth talking about in and of itself.
DDG bangs[0] does this too but without the need to set up your own custom macros.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
Does that metric include the delay if fixes getting incorporated into Linux distributions (and pushed out, assuming automatic updates—maybe not a good assumption) or Windows fixes getting deployed via Windows Update?

Edit: I don’t know much about this topic, but thought “time to deployment of a fix” might be more useful. Edit again: also unclear if the comparison is “apples to apples”.
>Will the courts allow Microsoft to buy Sony gaming business?

The gaming business, sure. The rest of Sony is still HQ'd in Japan and in fact manages many semi-needed and needed busineses, so there's zero chance MS buys Sony as a whole.

>Microsoft is also getting ready to eat Steam’s lunch for a while on the PC side

Didn't go too well last decade. Best of luck this time.
Windows 11 literally comes with OS level malware, they've turned the OS into an advertising platform.

Them having actual backwards compatibility (unlike the fruity side) is the least of our problems.
Yes, you have shifted my thinking on this a bit. Thank you!
Eh, I think if an individual wants a replacement for Twitter, Mastodon is certainly one legitimate option. However, it is probably not a plausible replacement for Twitter writ large; if a single consensus replacement does rise out of the bird's funeral pyre, it probably won't be Mastodon (it might be Threads, tho).
If we fined businesses that use unsupported proprietary software they would either have to move to something proprietary and actively maintained or collectively crowdfund an open source alternative.
They are different, but that doesn't preclude pgvector supporting both indexes. I get that it's slower to take a collaborative approach - but that's part of open source.

> will require us to run a number of experiments with the storage format

I'd personally consider this a feature, if you want to maintain Postgres compatibility and allow your users to migrate in/out easily
Sure, but I mean in relation to Twitter, which in that sense is not a walled garden.
Prices are going up unchecked. Our food chain is owned by an oligopoly. We have cut our taxes so much that our education and healthcare is severely underfunded. I know none of this is the fault of Bank Of Canada. But they need to step out if their ivory towers and see the families struggling with rent and mortgage payments.
Which rsID? rs4680? The minor allele frequency for rs4680 is 47% so that's a lot of people.
right, but you're not getting bored, so this is a totally different situation.
I feel comfort in that others were so profoundly impacted by this book. I've carried that feeling for a long time, because I haven't read the book in a very long time. I hold two things at once when I think of the book: awe of the experience of reading the book and extreme doubt that my feelings were valid. It's great to read these comments from others who loved it too and reexamine that profound experience with this book.

Of course I had to read the book again, here:

https://archive.org/details/isbn_0060912529

This is such a complicated book. On the first page, there is a statement about the unimportance of a war between African nations that "altered nothing in the destiny of the world, even if a hundred thousand blacks perished in excruciating torment."

The word "blacks" was triggering to me, it felt insensitive to speak of the death of a mass of people as insignificant, and then refer to those people as "blacks" (I'm adding that it feels like that stops at recognizing much more about them than the color of their skin). Though of course Kundera never used the term "blacks" himself, that was the translator:

"Nemusíme je brát na vědomí stejně jako válku mezi dvěma africkými státy ve čtrnáctém století, která nezměnila nic na tváři světa, přestože v ni zahynulo v nevýslovných mukách tři sta tisíc černochů"

(https://adoc.pub/kundera-milan-nesnesitelna-lehkost-byti.htm...)

Google translates this entire passage with the word "blacks" as well, but the individual word černochů as "black people."

He also talks about Hitler, being touched by his portraits, and recalling that his family members perished in Hitler's gas chambers. That's a subtle discussion that would be dangerous today!

But, the entire passage is his wrestling with what is significant and what's important, and how death and permanence changes our relationships to all that. Profound.
If you're a football fan, the offensive line only gets called out when they screw up even though they're probably the most critical function of an offense.
The municipality of Amsterdam have been doing this (i.e. running their own Mastodon instance) as well since Jan this year: https://social.amsterdam.nl/@gemeenteamsterdam
Not everyone is confortable with killing them yet - we're still at the "let's play human ping-pong with them instead" [1].

Or, even worse, subject them to the terrible torture of "filling asylum paperwork."

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66157259

(</sarcasm>)
Yuengling is "Craft" per the BA and older then Anchor. Author is wrong.
For what it's worth, I think a lot of the blurriness people are referring to with early LCDs is motion ghosting. It was terrible for several years, and it made anything in motion a blurry mess. I definitely remember early LCDs as blurry for games because of that.
>There are plenty of people with passion. That's not significant leverage.

Passion "for the work", not necessarily simply writing a show itself. I'm talking about being in a writer's room with others for eight-plus hours a day, dealing with the opinions of others, being OK with having your ideas axed because some producer didn't like it for whatever reason, the process of pitching ideas, and everything else the job entails.
Happy to work with you on that!
> I promise you that this latter group (youths, "normies") is vastly larger than the group of people who actually need anonymity.

I just don't think that's true. Many people have opinions that will lead them to being attacked and cancelled, etc. There are groups of people ready to isolate and pounce on whoever they can so as to compel others to shut-up.

I get what you're saying but I don't agree that government has a place in regulating speech. People are free to join or leave platforms as they see fit.
Agreed. There is still gold there but now you have to dig through a mound of excrement to get to it. The less time I spend there the better. I just quick link to my favorite people, read their updates and then get off. I'm missing out on a lot of additional good stuff but I am tired of digging through cruft to see it.
Thank you for the story, and the detailed write up.

My takeaway from this is that I'm undercutting my opportunities by telling the plain, unvarnished truth of my skill set on Linkedin.
> the Linux security best practices of curl | bash?

1. Widely criticized.

2. Not something the OS does, or even encourages. The OS permits it in the same way that the OS permits you to set your root password to hunter2 and run telnetd. You can't, and shouldn't, stop people from deliberately screwing themselves.
There’s plenty of UIs that I would like to be able to either reorganize or remove parts of.

Arc Browser has Boosts which do allow for a decent amount of customization which is much appreciated.
Indeed. If you think Linux is inherently more secure than Windows, then I dare you to curl/wget some random sh script and run it as root.
> There are better ways to design than putting a big effort into making something look special. Special is generally less useful than normal, and less rewarding in the long term. Special things demand attention for the wrong reasons, interrupting potentially good atmosphere with their awkward presence. — Jasper Morrison, Super Normal Manifesto

What a fantastic quote this site's author chose to illustrate why I might like this font!

> To use all features, visit website on desktop.

Also on this website though... :(
But isn't installation via curl more of a PEBKAC issue? You don't have to pipe it to a shell immediately -- pretty sure you could curl the install script and manually verify it. And isn't the CPU-might-be-spying an invariant?

One certainly cannot change how one feels about one's security, but those don't seem to be reasons Linux is inherently more or less secure than Windows...
The federal government seems completely disengaged in the issue and they've left the entire problem to the bank, whose only tool here is to continue to ratchet up rates, no matter how much pain this is causing homeowners (and eventually renters as investors bail on their properties, thus likely inducing the eviction of their tenants).

Meanwhile in Spain where their government has been quite engaged and busy on the issue, enacting policies to limit severe price increases, they've already reached the 2% inflation target.

Another way is possible.
There is much more information about Long Covid than the general public is aware of. The assumption that it is merely a wide range of vaguely defined symptoms isn't valid.

More details: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2
> how do you not know what Microsoft Excel is?

She signed a record deal at age 14, back at a time when knowing how to power on a computer was seen as a specialized office skill.

> she's the one who is using it

She isn't a director, and likely had no role in preparing props.
Petitioning your elected officials is fine in most people's eyes. I think a lot of people may have an issue when money is equated to petitioning through various mechanisms. It's exacerbated in a society with economic systems that tend to amplify wealth inequality, leading to political inequality.

Counterpoint: savvy populist candidates can get traction without spending nearly as much money as their well-lobbied counterparts.
The security practice on windows is to click yes on any prompt shown to you.
An AI made to "understand the true nature of the universe"...

Not a word about physics, or mention of physicists in the team and this is led by Elon Musk, the man who think he can send persons to Mars by 2029.
This looks so promising.
The thing to look for is dehumanization and there are plenty of signs of that and historically speaking that's the prelude to lots of people dying.
There was a point in time where the Facebook pixel by default tracked every event on every form field. So yeah, they absolutely had detailed income figures - the had the whole return.
Grammarly integrated some sort of LLM into their browser plugin offering. In addition to the normal grammar suggestions, you can now ask Grammarly to rewrite your text according to certain "styles". This is new as of, say, 3-4 months ago. It feels like it's using something like GPT 3.5 under the covers.

FWIW, I love Grammarly and its use has helped my career by toning down my asshole emails.
I agree, and it moves from the top to the bottom, and the icons which are available change depending on where you click. Clearly the visual style isn't a problem for vel0city, but I consistently need to hover over these to confirm what they are.
This is a real achievement not like the bullshit Threads account merger that’s being portrayed as “omG sHaTtErInG sIgNuP rEcOrDs In ThE fEdIvErSe.”
My Occam's razor take would be that Google Analytics (and whatever Facebook have) are running on the sites and this is how financial information is being gathered.

A generous explanation is that the tax sites were inadvertently offering up this data as a result of the whole analytics buy-in. But you would expect a site dealing with tax info would not be that stupid/naive to allow 3rd party code on their sites without knowing exactly what the repercussions of that are.

I could just be blowing smoke out of my ass though.
And users can stop trusting such company and using its products.

(It is notable, how quickly you abandoned your arguments about the risk of sanctions and moralily)
The point about email/gmail is that Google's rather declining spam processes don't keep spam out, but do make it excruciatingly difficult for a family to run their own SMTP server and their own DNS and send mail to Google without it going into the spam folder. If I exchange 10 emails with my ex-wife who is hosted on gmail, about 50%, of the messages in a consistent thread, will be in the spam folder. If I'm dealing with some government email, I might or might not be able to send them email, it's a crap shoot. Good thing I kept my AOL.com email address which I can use as a last resort (as well as a contact info for my DNS registrars and cloud computing). If mastodon stays just a larger number of smaller players, then it is likely to be accessible to the "run my own servers" crowd; if Meta and other very large companies come in, then the economics shift and the odds are that it will become more difficult for small operators over time.
How's the software support for sipeed stuff?

Every time I opted for cheaper clone of beagleboard or RPi I ended up regretting it when I inevitably had to spend hours building custom kernel patches and struggling to get it working reliabily. The more expensive boards usually work out of the box with mainline kernel.

For some that can be worth the extra $50.
I don't know much about this area so maybe you can unpack this for me. Are you saying people are getting building permits, but not actually building? Why would that be happening? And what about the market is causing it?
I don't want the tax code simplified, I want them to send me a tax bill and for that to be the end of the story for those of us not running a business.