skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't Tesla - its Twitter or X.

You might as well jabber on about tulip bulbs.
That is literally what I mean.
Using maths is not the same as inventing new maths.
If you would like to elaborate, or if there's an article you think I should read (or podcast, video, etc), then I'm listening. I'm open to feedback but this is too vague for me to do much with.
Steel reinforcement (tension strength) and Portland cement.

Pure concrete can only be used for dome like structures as it only has compression strength.
Fireballs in 1 night The Alpha Capricornids roar
I liked Dan Carlin's take on this. The incentive to develop labor saving devices is massively impacted by having hoards of slaves and a culture built on slaving. Slaves were the original labor saving devices capable of doing nearly as much as most of our modern machines en masse. Though of course that all came with incredible suffering and the occasional uprising.
Posts from this subreddit often come up on /r/all in my experience.

What prompted you to post it?
You already know that Threads and Instagram accounts are linked, that you need an Instagram account and then login to Threads with that.

So what you claim to be a problem isn't a problem because you and every other prospective user knows how to create a Threads account.

Porting over the Instagram graph to Threads is literally how they created the network effect that made it the fastest growing app ever.

Engineerbrained.
I'm sure that's why segments of world governments are (attempting?) dismantling Google Ads for their unethical behavior.

Cambridge Analytica didn't bring anyone money?

You missed some reading, dude.
I think once a year is probably about right for a meta fest. Kind of like how carnivals are annual.

There are 29 other things on the front page! If you want to complain about repetition, there are two Roman history articles on the front page right now. That's a lot. (Edit: never mind, one got cut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914993.)
> I'm skeptical that it's even fair to talk about Threads stats using the same measurements as any "new" app, since it's really an extension of Instagram.

Well, you could compared it to Instagram's previous Threads app, which no one used https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-i...
> In the case of social humans, death prevents bad people from remaining alive forever, cementing in power structures

I've heard it said that corporations solve this problem. Death doesn't serve this purpose any more.
“High” prices are subjective. A $600 Maserati isn’t high priced.
This just feels fishy to me. It’s too much of a coincidence for that cabinet, in that condition, to be found in this way. It very well might have been such a crazy event, but without the backstory of who owned it and how it was acquired I’ll be skeptical. I’m not saying this was done as a stunt, just that for me it doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Make it 6NINES and they will.
I have to get out of the vehicle to enter my PIN at the gas pump, and more times than not have to wait for an attendant to serve me. So I welcome this change. However out in the unincorporated areas a lot of gas stations already let you self serve so I may not see much of a change in that area.
It's also important to draw red lines right away before unwelcome precedents are set. We'll do this for China and maybe for India if that market grows big enough, and we would absolutely do this in the US if compelled to, but we will not do this for anyone else. Except maybe for the EU.
How many revolutions was Rome supposed to have? Ok, it didn't have an industrial revolution or a computer revolution, but it obviously had dramatic advances in roads, warfare, law, and bureaucracy. Why isn't that enough?

Related question: why aren't we having technological revolutions now that will eventually occur in the far future? Surely, these will happen, so why are we coming up short?
It's an excellent book, I do agree.
I wish there was more exhaustive explanations for some of these -

> Enums : Prefer object const assertion over enum.

But I like enums!
This is my favorite internet comment this year. Thanks.
This feels like an intuitive conclusion. Of course sequestration from society is bad for mental health and ability to reintegrate into society. Prison phone call fees however are another example of the patronage to vendors. It was never about the interests of society.
Yeah, this is just straight up incorrect.

You seem to react negatively when directed towards research topics above, so I'm not sure how to respond to this in a way that you won't find insulting. I have to again assume that you were a privacy researcher. If so, you should already understand that browser surveillance is absolutely possible without malware or hardware access -- at the government level, and at the corporate level, and even sometimes at the individual level.

So I'm at a loss about how you would (I assume mistakenly) make such an obviously false claim.
The all time classic would be Instagram copying Stories from Snapchat.
You are hair splitting. Okay yes captchas successfully reduced the problem. That doesn't make a difference to the topic.

How can we _reduce_ the problem once captchas are obsolete?
For a more modern take, my experience in the military was almost exactly like Jarhead.
IIRC Secondary legislation can be challenged in the courts and this is hopefully where the fight will take place between the well-heeled cat 1 service companies and Uk.gov

Else companies will leave or simply ignore the legislation, e.g. Signal, and the law will quietly become impossible to enforce with a series of arbitrary decisions and fines taking place before the digital economy falls off a cliff.
This is talking about radio wave frequency, not trading frequency.
You're also claiming that fish aren't at risk from the fisheries, which is super unusual for someone claiming to speak from within the industry!
on the Matrix side we are slogging away at https://element.io/blog/element-x-experience-the-future-of-e... to provide good (excellent?) UX as well as interoperability via Matrix.
Lots of reasons.

Brand. People prefer things they’re familiar with and things that people they personally know also use, they intuitively feel that they’re less likely to have a bad experience with those. And that’s generally true. Many more people have friends who use chatgpt plus than have friends who use the gpt playground or an open source ui.

Fixed fee will be preferable for some. The risk of it being unexpectedly high may outweigh the benefit of an average lower cost.

Access to plugins plus the official iOS app.

The biggest reason is the familiarity with the brand and because they’ve heard of chatgpt plus from many places, but they haven’t heard of these other options. Plus for most people, the idea of getting an api key and all of that is going to be a little intimidating.

Overall, if it was any family member of mine I’d recommend that they used chatgpt plus rather than getting an api key.

Personally I use the gpt playground, but I also recognize that to 99% of gpt users that’s inferior, even though I significantly prefer it myself.
My choice of interpretation is that those aren't internet borders, they're copyright borders, commercial borders, layers on top of a borderless internet.

This argument tends to break down at The Great Firewall of China, however, due to its thoroughness.
They can, but you have to shape it a little bit so that they're out of the comfort zone and playing in a different role than their usual. It's the role, not the formal structure, that is important.

Improv acting, for example, centers simple "improv games". Playing the game imposes moments of vulnerability and creativity. But if you don't add enough context some proportion of the actors will fall into habit and "play like a winner", knocking over everyone else's boundaries by being an asshole.
Thank you, that’s how I see it too -maybe with different ratios-, and that’s why I’m happy to see the traditional corporate sponsored social media platforms are crumbling like Twitter/Reddit/threads, it’s overall and in the long term better for societies.
The Republicans did this for decades, until they could start building prisons in their districts, then they went into hyper-drive, moving as many prisons into Republican districts as they could, and its well documented, and it is completely egregious.
Much of the eSIM dislike on this thread misses several points:

* eSIM for travel vs eSIM for home use are completely different use cases.

* US, Canada and other carrier from other countries severely hamper the experience by charging for QR codes, physical delivery, IMEI requirements and carrier locking.

* Most handsets can have multiple eSIMs installed (I have 10 with one active) giving you carrier flexibility not previously possible.

* With VoLTE or WiFi Calling your home number works like a VOIP number anywhere in the world. In this case you may only need a data only eSIM, where KYC requirements are reduced and options are plentiful.
On a short enough timeline were all 99.999% uptime.
I'm not sure if we're taking about different time periods, but weren't they at the forefront of chariot warfare during the bronze age?

And I vaguely recall that inventing bellows to melt iron took a long time too, so steam machinery seems pretty far off if all you have is bronze and stone.
Wouldn't be a note/ultra in a similar position ?

Is this guy just discovering DeX for the first time?

It ships on 400€ phones
Interesting, I found it here previously, but it appears to have disappeared from this site (hence archive link): https://web.archive.org/web/20211222213700/https://www.gamed...
It's however very on point with the embarrassing standards journalism has fallen to, especially science journalism.
>My suspicion is that the Enlightenment's transvaluation of all values to valorize individuals, the material, change, and progress is what was required, excluding material conditions.

The Ottomans couldn't block them from the Silk Road
Now.

I work multiple remote jobs. The money pours in, I don’t need to give a damn about whether my team/employers success or fail (as the money of multiple jobs exceeds any possible raise), and I have shaved decades off my working life because of how young I am.

My life is free from needing to give a crap about anything. Im free from needing to succeed. I’m free from needing to care.

I’m free!!!
great balls of fire !
It’s be mentioned elsewhere and I’ll mention it here again.

*UserDefaults does not belong on this list.*

Effectively every app on the store uses it in some fashion. Apple, please. Remove this.
You can hide an app from showing in "apps" screen
Cars move much more uncontrollably / unpredictably than sats.
The mind boggles on how we are using python for ML/AI... I bet stable diffusion would get the hands right if we had better unit tests. /s
I’ve noticed many new/green accounts that get shadowbanned before (with?) the first post. The accounts will be less than a day old and all comments will be [dead].
It’s not “just” a phone. As a previous comment addressed: a high quality camera, video or audio editing workstation, hotspot, nav system, media player.. you can even get FLIR camera attachments, use it as a measuring device, and play high quality games on it.

“Just” a phone would make and receive phone calls and that’s it.
AI chatbot that helps your customers craft insightful, quality reviews.

The result? Better SEO, greater trust, and stronger sales. Easy integration, immediate results.
Tell me who you believe has moved on, and myself and other commenters will share with you how they're being stabbed.
That's true. And there's the additional factor that the more familiar a topic is, the more likely the thread is to fill up with generic comments about it. That's what the HN guidelines call generic tangents: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Those are probably the most repetitive kinds of thread, and therefore the least valuable.

This phenomenon shows up in most political threads but also in threads that aren't particularly political. The more generic topics have so much mass that they act like black holes that suck in all the interesting discussion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
Good point. Deserves some numbers.

California's area is about 500 thousand km^2, and the Earth's is about 500 million, which means the side facing the Sun is about 250 million, so we're talking about 0.2% of the area facing the sun.

Suppose the hole takes six hours to heal (the article makes it sound like it takes much less), and suppose there's a launch every month (since launches have in the past carried 600 satellites at once, that seems plausible, no?), and suppose the hole lets in twice as much of whatever radiation we would like the ionosphere to keep out. Then that's an increase of 0.2 * (1/4) * (1/30) %, which is less than 0.002% -- that is, an increase by a factor of less than 1.00002.

Not negligible, but if the satellites provide a substantial public good, then it seems worth the cost. I feel like due to StarLink's use in Russia-Ukraine war alone, it more than qualifies.
In kdb+/q, it is only 1 character ~
That's enough time to show you an ad between channels!
ID is not required to be shown to TSA. I misplaced my ID a couple times and went through.

The ID check was really to stop frequent flier award travel resale back when tickets were paper. It's still possible to use paper boarding pass today, though to my knowledge few people try to fly on tickets with someone else's name. It is still possible because showing ID, like the full body scan machines, is voluntary.

TSA misleads the public about what is mandatory. Freedom to travel is a right in USA. If you closely observe the TSA process, they check the ID with the name on boarding pass. This is revenue management service for the airlines.

For example if TSA misinformation, they claim full body imaging can be required yet they do not have that authority in practice. They can't even detain people.

https://twitter.com/TSA/status/679447467922984961
Exactly, and often it feels like the most inflammatory version of the story has been posted, precisely to cause a flamewar.
> That's an inordinate amount of money for what's just a phone.

i would argue the phone app on an iPhone is the least used function of the phone. It's certainly not "just a phone".
I wasn't comparing general living expenses, I was comparing iPhone ASP to the income of those buying them. $1k:53k is less affordable than $300:22k accounted for inflation — for tech that is much more mature and commoditized today than it was back then.

Again, it's just surprising and not a value judgement.
HireMe.c
Do they even have to block UK users?

Can't they just remove any business presence in the country to free themselves from any potential legal troubles?
Would this Online Safety Bill have protected Julian Assange from being imprisoned by a foreign totalitarian regime?
Nobody is talking about morals here. Its bad for business for Apple to capitulate to the UK. It's bad for business for them to not capitulate to China.

And iPhones ceasing to be sold in the UK would probably be all it takes for public backlash to neuter the law. I imagine that's not on the table in China.
Here's my theory, in addition to the "missing technology" from this article: Romans just weren't very good scientists – as a society they just didn't value knowledge for the sake of knowledge, which is essential for science. "Roman" covers a vast span of time and region with many differences, but by and large, Roman attitudes were highly pragmatic and favoured practicality above all else, having little time and patience for non-practical matters.

People look at the colosseum, Roman roads, the size of the empire, and things like that and conclude the Romans were brilliant, and in some ways they were: they excelled at practical matters such as engineering, bureaucracy, organizing armies, committing genocides, you know, all those fun activities required to build an empire.

But good science isn't exclusively about practical matters: if "how can we build better buildings, roads, swords, ..." is all you're focused on then you're going to hit a wall pretty quick.

Did Einstein solve any sort of practical problem with special or general relativity? Not really; he was just exploring things for no other reason than the joy of figuring things out. It wasn't until much later that his work because practically relevant, in things like nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors, GPS, etc.

The first water-pumping steam engines used a vacuum to pump up water. It's fairly straightforward, but ... you do need to know about vacuums and pressure – somewhat abstract concepts that don't really have any "obvious" practical applications in the same way that practical engineering improvements do.

I bet at least some of the "missing technologies" mentioned in the article weren't invented by the Romans for the same reason.

The industrial revolution happened when it did, at least in part, because knowledge for the sake of knowledge started being widely pursued.
There was a thread on here the other day about HF traders using HF radio.
Quite honestly if < 1M rows id just sqldump the two tables and use diff
There are reliefs of Ramses II fighting on a chariot and he's from the 1200-1300 BC, so the wheel must have been used much earlier than that by Egyptians.
> After what I saw I don’t think anonymity is a good idea.

Any ideas for how to eradicate it without authoritarianism?
The problem is that it was high-volume users who were impacted.

And high-volume users are who create content for the site.
I don't mind it now, but in the earlier days it was pretty buggy.

Now I'm just at the "minor annoyance" stage as I don't do admin stuff much anymore, and I have to google stuff that used to be easy when I need to do something.

eg. in the past you could just type /etc/init.d/something <press tab> and it would show you services matching that prefix.

For logs, you could just go "cd /var/log && egrep blah *" to look for something.

Now of course I could write some wrapper functions for that using fzf or whatever to make life easy, but that's not always viable if you manage a fleet of hosts with restrictions where you don't have your custom bash profile and required utilities installed.
cars give you an exoskeleton, but e-bikes of whatever sort leave you exposed to the maniacs fumbling with their cellphones, which i see incessantly.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a deliberate strategy to lure only "normals" away from Twitter, so that the remaining faithful X users will be the loudest, edgiest, most politically polarized ones, speeding up the vicious cycle of X becoming nothing more than a toxic culture war battleground.
The very literal and real truth is that The U.S.A. from the constitution down is a White supremacist country, and it continues to this day. Prison Labor = Slavery, and the Republicans are monopolizing this to their benefit. Until this is fixed... we remain a racist country. We need to continue to progress towards equality, because if we do not, or children will, and will hate us for it. We fought World War I, the War to and all Wars over Fascism, We fought World War II, to end Fascism, and now... we forget. Its shameful, and it will become embarrassing.
So, by definition, the only asset that doesn't have external costs which make the SC cost _more_ than traditional paper contracts are those where the collateral asset is the exact same currency as will be issued?

You do see the glaring issue there right?

As for combative, I am beyond tired of the games played by crypto folks when it comes to answering basic questions they should already have the answers for.

If they don't answer the simple questions with clear and simple answers, then why should I act as though they are acting in good faith, let alone actually educated on the topics they claim the tech solves to know whether it solves a problem at all? Because from my perspective they sure as hell aren't.

Ed: oh I forgot to include the other major issue that undermines even on chain encumberance, that is the fact that a preceding off chain encumbrance takes precedent in court and thus even if the SC executes properly the funds may be taken by the courts as a consequence of preexisting encumbrance and thereby undermine the entire value proposition of the SC.
If you have a dual frequency receiver (L1/L2), then the ionospheric error is corrected for. These are very common these days, so probably not the reason.
All protections of civil liberties and rights to due process can make the police's job more difficult - if you consider the police's job to be something like "catching bad guys without regard to any collateral damage that might be caused along the way". But in a free society that's not normally the job we want the police to do.

Of course the trouble in this case is that we either have private, secure communication or we don't. There is no halfway measure available. So both locking the police out of everything and giving them complete access to everything might be simplistic non-solutions to the real issue but they might also be the only options we have on this one so a least-of-evils argument may have to prevail.
I read about this last year in the original Cloudflare post. Cloudflare is a darling but I thought this one was dangerous for the web too.
Maybe we are relatively constantly sick and simply don’t know any different.

Toilets improve hygiene relative to not having them, but it may be that they increase disease in another way which we have not detected yet.
I had several televisions where the reception was off a bit, but if you turned the dial a very small amount, like 1mm or so, it would look better. So we would wedge matchbooks or cardboard in the dial to hold it there. Happened across several different models.

Also ones where the flyback transformer was dying, which would collapse the picture. But banging the TV would bring it back to life for 10-30 minutes. So we had a pile of shoes near the couch to throw at the TV as needed.
Yes that's right, also known as shortwave radio.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/wall-street-tries-shortwave-ra...
Off topic: there's almost no better word to immediately identify someone as British than 'lorry'.

I love it.
Certainly in the US these days, anything that isn't an SUV is unsafe (for the occupants) in traffic. It's a deadly arms race to get as big as you can. The little Fiat's don't even come up to the door handles on an F-150.

> they are quite similar to the packs of racing bikes that always appear in the summer

Yes! I have to point this out every time people complain about e-bikes on the local path. It's not the type of bike, it's the mindset and the behavior that is the real problem. Regardless, the police here would never bother doing any enforcement on the path anyway so debates about rules or proposed rules is moot.

I don't own an e-bike but I'd love to see more e-bikes around. It's more support for bike infrastructure, parking, etc.
You aren't factoring in the fact that the rate of change is higher than anytime in the past for co2.
No, the Prisons do not, its the sheriffs. Follow the money.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/
> leaks less of your personal info to Google.

Hope you trust Mozilla with that same level of info (in twenty years)!
Right wing agitprop
Would trying to frustrate users into using the app by degrading the mobile site count as ux?