skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Took me a while to recognise that Xitter is a portmanteau of X and Twitter. How is it pronounced then? "Sitter"? "S*itter"?
Well since you use clojure, you probably know that to have small codebase, people often pick clojure. Going from point A to point Z quickly is rarely a goal for startups, going through A.. B... C... quickly, is the goal. I am still looking through all this, but a thought of having to bet on some java api + hope and pray it will jump over all unknown hoops, hm.

Comparisons to twitter are unfair, twitter is not really technical gem or is it? It's pretty impressive to build it with 3 ppl in 3 months, but hmm also seems feasible using other tech, given all blueprints are out there.
China does not have a high college attainment rate

If anything, it is slightly undereducated for its current GDP per capita [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-years-of-schoolin...
MP3 Scene, a historical record of the early MP3 warez scene
Even in day to day programming, it's too easy to throw something together and see it work and call it a day. A dose of scepticism toward a "solution" is healthy. It's not like software doesn't come with bugs grossly often. Probably grounds for extra self confidence even.
This is all done by government to effectively disempower the citizens from doing things themselves or in any sort of cooperative manner (even if provably safe etc etc). Oddly enough they turn around and then refuse to protect the citizens from such petty crime.

I'm starting to think it's all a giant "bullshit" test to see how far they can push people's obedience. Or they end up conveniently filtering out the people they don't act obedient to the level of filter they've set with their stupid laws and non-enforcement of existing ones like theft.
80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office
> I remember one of the plans for React was the ability to compile components into web components.

This was also the case (-ish) for Vue, Svelte, Solid. Their authors were really bullish on web components in the beginning. Now they are all on the scale from extremely negative towards them to completely indifferent.
There are mesh/fabric bags meant for holding delicates that you want to machine wash. I wonder if you could just make a jumbo sized laundry mesh that could fit a whole load? Maybe with some sort of agitator in the sensor?

My concern with rfid based laundry sorting is how do you get the rfid onto my clothes? If it's a sticker, it can come off in the wash or leave residue if it remains on for the whole wash. If you're using something like clothespins, I don't want small puncture holes added to my clothes each time they're washed.
you're missing automatic/free linear scaling
Re your first paragraph: there's more than enough information in the public data. Usually it only takes a little time with HN Search to find information that clarifies such questions.

We don't publish a moderation log for reasons I've explained over the years- if you or anyone wants to know more, see the past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and let me know if you still have questions.

Not publishing a mod log doesn't mean that we don't want to be transparent, it means that there's a tradeoff between transparency and other concerns. Our resolution of the tradeoff is to answer questions when we get asked. That's not absolute transparency but it's not nothing. Sometimes people say "well but why should we trust that", but they would say that about a moderation log as well.

Re your second paragraph: I agree! and I don't think I've claimed otherwise. In fact, the lazy centrist argument is a pet peeve (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

It's true that the way I post about these things ("both sides hate us") gets mistaken for the obvious bad argument ("therefore we must be in the sweet spot", or as Scott Thompson put it years ago, "we're the porridge that Goldilocks ate!"), but that's because the actual argument is harder to lay out and I'm not sure that anybody cares.
> If I put up a copyrighted work and link from that work to my own company to buy a copy, that is not going to look very good in court. It also undermines my claimed altruistic reasons.

How is a free copy less altruistic when you also provide one for sale? Does the free copy make it more likely to buy the paid one? What would it imply about the alleged damages to the copyright holder if that were true?

> Libraries uploaded their holdings list, the books were made available digitally, and nothing was done to verify the books came off the shelf when a digital copy was checked out.

Wasn't this the difference between CDL and the emergency library?

And the argument for the latter is presumably something like this: They could go contact every closed library and inventory their books, but the emergency is happening right now and in many cases contacting them has high latency or isn't possible because they're closed, so they're going to temporarily guestimate that there are more books in libraries everywhere than they're lending out. Which isn't a bad guess, and if they went over by a slim margin in some specific case, it's a trivial amount of harm that only occurs during a temporary emergency, i.e. the effect of that on the market for the book is negligible.
We went from JSF1 something to JSF2 something.

Very boring but there was so much technology change already in this rewrite that we chose to limit the amount of new stuff for everyone to learn especially when we didnt know if it would be applicable to anything in their future career.
That's because the battery is the most expensive part of the e-bike. All the rest of the hardware is cheap, and they don't care. They want you to have to buy their new batteries when the original ones shit out, or buy a whole new bike and restrict your ability to replace it yourself. They're treating the batteries as consumable, just throw them away and buy new ones. They know they're not going to make money on the other parts.
I think the GP is saying the average commoner should leave before a war starts.

If you're a politically important person, well, good luck if war breaks out.

During times of peace, the risk isn't as great -- I know a couple "VIP Hong Kongers" who are still abroad and alive (and not like, living in a super reclusive lifestyle), and if CCP wanted they could do the things you mentioned. AFAIK it's generally considered something of a last resort since the CCP wants people to view them as civilized and respecting the rule of law (I know this isn't their image in the West, and they're trying to change it, with mixed success). Which is why I think it's only a real risk if war breaks out.
Netflix finally streams video games
Since it’s government they can’t raise wages to attract talent so they keep going lower and lower down in standards until at some point they can’t even find people to meet the required minimum
This reminds me of how the MapLibre project was created after Mapbox changed their license.
https://wptavern.com/maplibre-launches-as-official-open-sour...
https://maplibre.org/
I love how never on the ATC is someone like oh shit we almost just died wtf was that
lofi music has been in use since the 90's on hiphop remixes with obvious sources coming from really old vynils/acetates.
Glad I'm not the only one paying the domain tax for incomplete projects.
As an expert in Chinese culture after watching a single YouTube video...

"Lying Flat" apparently is making a comeback. But, it is an old idea in China. A big theme is that skill and effort are not rewarded. Connections are. So, young people see most other people meagerly getting by after busting their ass from the moment they could walk and talk. But, they also see children of well-connected Party members living in luxury and excess as spoiled brats since birth.

Another theme is that while it is hard to make good money, isn't hard to live very, very cheap in major Chinese cities if you cut down to bare minimalism. So, a lot of young people are apparently saving up for mini-retirements where they just drop out for a 2-3 years at a time, because why not?
You forgot to mention that you are also shadowbanning the ability of users to upvote or downvote things when you dislike their upvotes or downvotes—instances that you perceive as not contributing to the discussion or that are escalating the conversation.
That's a very valid point! I simply assumed due to the subject matter (coding discussion, in depth tech industry discussions), the average HN reader would be more well read as opposed to your average X user.
> the cameras are the perfect way to nostalgically capture the low-fidelity look of the 2010s.

Yeah, try more like the 90s. The earliest digital cameras (think Apple Quicktake) took better shots than even the 3DS.
No they the problem with US healthcare system is it's too hard for a successful/efficient player in one state to expand to neighboring states because of overregulation.
Less than 5% of people live in the US. Not sure how your statement is relevant to my statement about most people in general.
You said this in another post.

> That's why we're comparing it to the cost of Twitter's original consumer product.

Plus, you cloned a preexisting architecture. FB wrote theirs from scratch. Not apples to apples. This is much easier.
> About 10 years ago this argument ceased to hold much relevance. Or, at least, it did for all IDEs I've investigated. The complexity of editing a sack of code, CPU-wise, hasn't changed all that much, and 10 years has had quite the impact on how cheap 'hardware that can run IDEs without breaking a sweat' has gotten.

I really disagree here. Building C++ software with visual studio takes ages, its auto completion feature breaks VERY OFTEN, and after enabling C++20 for a Qt project, compilation times were 3 times longer.
Slap a virtualenv setup into that install script please. A system wide pip install is a bad pattern.
been waiting for this since the release of Llama 2. everybody should become a finetuning god.
These things are not the same. I’m no fan of the US debasing itself from a policy and moral standpoint like it has with Guantanamo Bay, but they are not equivalent by a long shot.

> Beginning in 2014, the Chinese government, under the administration of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, incarcerated more than *an estimated one million Turkic Muslims without any legal process in internment camps*.[2][3][4][5] Operations from 2016 to 2021 were led by Xinjiang CCP Secretary Chen Quanguo, who dramatically increased the scale and scope of the camps.[6] It is the *largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II*.[7][8] Experts estimate that, since 2017, some sixteen thousand mosques have been razed or damaged,[6] and hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools.[9][10]

China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
I actually just recorded a show about that exact topic today: https://youtu.be/5Doiuvct7t0
How about paying for Twitter Blue, in exchange for:
(1) No login wall on content from transit agency

(2) Uptime SLA

This will be a lot more than $8/month of course, but likely less than contracting it out to the usual suspects of shady vendors.
Where do you host your model? I am looking around on where I can deploy one without ruining me financially.
As the founder of an OSS company (granted we're seed stage), moat is becoming more and more of a concern, especially because:
1. There are more saas companies (read: competition) than ever
2. AI has made it significantly easier to build on-the-fly transpilation

Didn't see that mentioned in the article, but it's worth noting
I was under the impression ATC's made good money, like 6 figures easily?
Theoretically one-shot service that launches a shell script with systemd run on boot could do the trick. OTOH it's probably easier to just write a tiny service at that point.

Generally results of -run services can be captured through journalctl, so it's possible to run systemctl show on them and get the config.
From the post:

Individually, none of these concepts are new. I’m sure you’ve seen them all before. You may be tempted to dismiss Rama’s programming model as just a combination of event sourcing and materialized views. But what Rama does is integrate and generalize these concepts to such an extent that you can build entire backends end-to-end without any of the impedance mismatches or complexity that characterize and overwhelm existing systems.

You have the general model correct, but here are a few clarifications:

- PStates are partitioned, durable, replicated indexes that are represented as arbitrary combinations of data structures. A PState can be as simple an an integer per partition, or it can be complex like a map of lists of maps of sets. PStates allow you to shape your indexes to perfectly match your application's use cases.

- I wouldn't call Rama queries an "engine", as it's considerably more straightforward in how it works than something like SQL. The base query API is called "paths", which are an imperative way to concisely reach into one partition of one PState to fetch or aggregate values. There's also "query topologies" which are predefined, on-demand distributed computations that can fetch and aggregate data from many partitions of many PStates.
Cultural norms at work... Productivity low but putting in lots of hours.
New things you can do with generative AI in Search
Noticeably missing are any details about concurrency control and replication or recovery protocols. A Twitter clone is one thing but any sort of application needing ACID Transactions is a whole other beast.
Why, did you lose your art because of AI?
Open Source Gift Economies vs. Capitalism and Intellectual Property
Not comparable either qualitatively or quantitatively. The US isn't sending people to Gitmo for ethnic cleansing reasons; and Gitmo has ever had under a thousand people, whereas over a million Uyghurs are estimated to be detained.
All 12 Salesforce APIs and When to Use Them
Why oh why are there so many Salesforce APIs
That teletext preset, though...
They're probably either a GOOGOO employee, a massive fanboy, a troll, or a paid shill.

If they're not one of those 4, then they are lamentably pathetic wasting their time like this.
Country music talks about drugs more than other genres

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/why-country...
There was an obscure TV series called "An American in Canada." Just imagine the rich comedic situations /s

anyhow, at one point a Canadian threatens the American that he's going to "go all War of 1812 on your ass."
> The problem is that it's pretty rare that you re-convert a churned user.

Pretty sure this isn't true. Reconverting a former customer is cheaper than converting new customers from an advertising perspective. I wouldn't imagine that social media customers are any different.

I will say that it is generally cheaper to keep an existing customer than to re-covert them later, but that's a separate issue.

I imagine the case here is that people downloaded threads to check it out, and then stopped using it because the network wan't as large as Twitters'.
thanks for this article: any recommended links on HOW to host your own LLM?
Systems that promise "free linear scaling" without qualifiers either withhold or have not analyzed/realized their bottlenecks yet. Say if there is eventual consistency maybe the "eventuality" becomes so long that the service fails at its purpose. Or the communication link bandwidth is exhausted between key business logic (mutation event generating) services, and so on.

The only systems that scale linearly are stateless systems. Mastodon is not stateless. And even stateless systems hit some bottlenecks eventually, as they exist and run in a scale-variant Universe.

So this claim by itself doesn't immediately impress me, just turns my red lights on, awaiting further investigation. But we can of course discuss why this claim is made and how is it supported. The article is long so I've not had the chance to read it entirely yet.

But we have X number of event streams mapped through Y number of ETLs to produce Z number of read model indices, in a shape that seems to form a highly interlinked DAG, which eventually loops back on itself in terms of message flow. Just the increased cross-chatter here as we introduce more features suggests non-linear scaling.
> In each case some users (over-represented here) wanted more storage, and vendors didn't care, or were happy to sell more flash for a price premium.

Oh yeah, it really boggles my mind Apple still offers new MacBooks with 256 GB drives (unupgradably soldered on-board!). I can't imagine how insane it takes to be to pay the money it costs for it. Also RAM - 64 GB SODIMM can be bought almost dirt-cheap and they put 8 GB, again - built in the CPU, practically impossible (although some crazy hackers managed) to upgrade.
I do have children. Children with their own wills and drives, that don't all originates from us. They aren't in any way unique in that way.

So you don't know anything about Greta, and has instead this made up story of her that isn't supported by any evidence, and you make up things about what you imagine children are to support your made up story.

You aren't worth the time. Bye.
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene
I was very much concerned and acted - timely - but my concern went much further than just Ukraine, I expected a simultaneous push into the Suwalki gap and a move on Kharkiv in Ukraine. The latter happened the former - fortunately for everybody - did not. But I don't rule it out even today and with family right in there and in the Baltics it is a cause for concern on a daily basis.
Audio compression literally throws out data. It's audio the human ear isn't likely/able to hear but it's still gone. Different codecs and even different implementations of codecs throw out different audio data.

Any sort of upscaling is going to involve a lot of guesses about what was thrown out. For every codec and implementation there will be a lot of possibilities of what the original data might have looked like. At the end of the process you likely aren't going to get a result that necessarily sounds better than the low quality encoding. There will likely be a lot of artifacts introduced by the upscaling.

It's not impossible but something you'd need a specially trained AI to do I would think.
IMDB for books
OBS Broadcasting with no server required
Does this kind of advice apply to all research or specifically mathematics?
The author of this article literally published in a predatory journal so why pay any attention to their advice? Their proposal is to have institutions "support" students by training them to publish in THEIR predatory journal and not the competition. Of course, this "training" would come at the expense of the students, and of course what modern education needs is more bloat.

This is like getting advice from an MLM on how to avoid calling into MLM scams. Advice from a cult leader on how to avoid cults.

I'll listen to somebody who publishes in a non-predatory journal.
Thanks for posting. Really interesting
In most languages I'm familiar with, static analysis is something the compiler does at every build. It's not something left to a separate CI/CD step. Code that isn't statically sound shouldn't be hitting the repo in a way that it gets to the CI/CD step.

C++ has always been a bit of an outlier to me for that reason.
Since all jvm languages usually have "ffi" to javaapis/javalibs, I would say yes.
And at least one other comment noted that t.co uses completely different mechanism for redirecting requests from a browser and from curl and has been doing that since forever.
I think he mentions this in the podcast. One of the challenging problems they're attempting to tackle is enabling the build to work with standard 120 volt wall sockets. He mentions throttling the system (GPUs specifically) to use less power at cost to performance.

That and setting up the software to work w/ an array of GPUs rather than one seems difficult.
thanks for writing the article: any recommended links on HOW to host your own LLM?
They offer free fnords all the time but people never take them up on the offer for some reason.
I was imagining they be permanently sewn into the clothing. Sure, a privacy nightmare but not really any worse than the tire pressure monitoring system already in most cars.
Theft takes the original, piracy makes a copy, AI art remixes the original. I’m not sure how to classify AI art but it definitely isn’t theft.
Yes, I agree, tech innovation always brings more total jobs. But that doesn't mean everyone working now continues working and more are added. Many people will be left behind. It's not that they throw their hands up, sit back and relax. It is that the skills they possess become worthless overnight and the next thing they could learn takes a years long investment, and may not be viable by the time they get there.
That's why we're saying "at 403 fanout". The bottleneck of Mastodon/Twitter is timeline writes, which is posts/second multiplied by the average number of followers per post. So our instance is doing 1.4M timeline writes / second.

Another important metric is "time to deliver to follower timelines", which is tricky due to how much variance there can be every second due to the extremely unbalanced social graph. When someone with 20M followers posts, that multiples the number of needed timeline writes by 15x. We went into depth in our post on how we handled that to provide fairness by preventing these big users from hogging all the resources all at once.
I put sometimes a mechanical watch under my mouse too. I wish, I don’t need to do this at my next job. It’s bad, but the work of my last 2 years was dumped into thrash by clever managers.
The US is better off if it remains wealthy with the best military. Things are going to stay pretty cool for the US as long as they have the upper hand. I don't think it's particularly xenophobic. If the US needs to start playing second fiddle to China it's going to be quite an adjustment for its citizens. This is not something US politicians want.
Doesn't this entirely depend both on what its been trained on and what style is being output? But also, philosophically, is it even "theft" to make something in-the-style-of someone?

I believe these questions and their complex answers are the reason you've been downvoted.
I only run Firefox on every computer and phone that I own. I'm extremely satisfied with its performance so far and sincerely hope they keep improving. My second alternative is Brave, just in case I can't use Firefox. My very last choice is Chromium. On Firefox I highly recommend these plugins:

AdNauseam: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/

Consent-O-Matic: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

Firefox Multi-Account containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

I don't care about cookies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

Edit: As mentioned below, avoid Consent-O-Matic unless you trust Avast.
From some of the calls I have listened to(engines failing, landing gears failing, close calls, etc...), it is incredible how composed the parties involved are! As much as some people point the finger at one person in the situation, the important thing is that these incidents are an opportunity to learn, and that is something the aviation industry seems to do very well.
"This pixel right here officer; clearly stolen."
Can you explain what makes you see 4chan as "for a number of purposes, still the best community on the internet." The only purpose I can see being argued for is porn. For what other purposes is 4chan the best community? What makes 4chan the best community in these instances?