skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Threads - an intelligent message hub provided by Threads Software Limited - was conceived and trademarked in 2012 by JPY Ltd. The service has been actively promoted worldwide since 2014.

> From April 2023, Meta’s lawyers made four offers to purchase the domain ‘threads.app’ from Threads Software Ltd. Every offer was declined. It was made clear to Meta’s Instagram that the domain was not for sale.

> In July 2023, Meta’s Instagram announced its ‘threads’ social media platform and removed Threads Software Limited from its Facebook platform.

> Threads is a Cloud-based service that captures, transcribes, and organises all of a company’s digital messages (emails and phone calls) into one easily searchable database.

See also:

https://threads.cloud/

https://www.techspot.com/news/100666-meta-given-30-days-ceas...

Not familiar with UK trademarks. Is there any way that Meta doesn't lose/settle this?
It is not ads that people are against when it comes to Facebook.

The common concerns are about its algorithmic feed, recommendations, research experiments etc that allow subtle manipulation for commercial and political gains. You can still be subjected to the rampant invasion of privacy.

If someone is planning on paying to remove ads and avoid all of the above, I'm certain that they will be disappointed.
> Back then, the web was a very different place. Flash was the only way to do live media and it was a mess.

Not sure why people are saying that. WebRTC is far harder to make it work. Peer-to-peer is a cpu black-hole-level hog
I dont think any of the games the project lists even work on Mac (CS:GO used to but the latest versions don't)
Something, something, disc-injury spin from disc/disk industry on worker injuries
Somehow, in your links, there isn't a single explanation anywhere (that's not in the form of a video that I don't have time or inclination to watch) about what "geometric algebra" is supposed to mean. I'm trying to gather what this is supposed to be from the catchphrases on the front page, and honestly, this just looks like linear algebra.

Can you explain what "geometric algebra" is supposed to be? Or just link to written explanations? I'm a mathematician (algebraic topology), so don't be afraid to get technical. How is this different from linear algebra? The only things I can see are some tensor products and exterior products, and a few couple of division algebra structures. Can you enlighten me? Is there any actually new math behind all this?
My father asked my mother out 5 times before she said yes. They've now been married for 45 years. Maybe if I tried that kind of perseverance it would work, or maybe the second ask would get me labeled and witch hunted by somebody like you who would then try to ruin my life for it.
we’ve been trying to get access for like 4 weeks. sending this to our CTO, antimetal also looks cool btw
This must be common or we worked at the same company, seen this exact pattern.

It went like:

App -> DynamoDB -> Kafka Connect Sink Process -> RDS -> Kafka

The reason for all the middle processes were because teams couldn't agree how to structure their data and the first app would dump literal nonsense sometimes so the Kafka connect process's job was to clean it and dump any of the nonsense they pumped into it. Pretty sure there was a gnarly log aggregation layer in the middle somewhere too IIRC.
I remember when I found out millions die every year from air pollution, including in my own rich 'clean' country where there are no visible smog issues. I still can't believe this isn't common knowledge. It seems to be stuck because it's not new enough to make the news that people watch/read, abstract enough (like dying from smoking-induced diseases) that it's hard to find eyeball-drawing examples, and inactionable (as an individual) in similar ways to global warming so you'd just feel powerless anyway. But collectively we ought to know these things to make good policy decisions :/

It was also hard to believe at first because, if it were so bad, surely someone would have done something. Alas, it's just not sufficiently in the public's, and thus policymakers', perception.
A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to New Understanding of the Universe
I've found that microservices are fine. In fact, they're pretty damn neat!

But what isn't fine are nanoservices, where a service is basically just a single function. Imagine creating a website where you have a RegisterService, LoginService, ForgotPasswordService, ChangePasswordService, Add2FAService, etc.

While I haven't seen it THAT bad, I've seen things pretty close to it. It becomes a nightmare because the infra becomes far more complex than it needs to be, and there ends up being so much repeated boilerplate.

Also, obligatory: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ
I think it means that instead of being 3-4 years behind they will only be 2 years behind. It's hard to say though because Apple has been a hell of a moving target.
Fortunately, descriptivism doesn't "win" (what does that even mean in a discussion about both how things are and how they should be?), but if it did, the computer in question still wouldn't be called a server, because that isn't what most people would call it. Only the manufacturers and a select few techies would call it a server.

> The expected usage here is: This device goes under the desk / into some closet, runs headless, runs 24/7 and provides some services on the network.

The same is true of many configurations of home computers, yet the hardware isn't called* "server" hardware, and they aren't called* "servers" either, unless they're actually serving something. When you buy it at the store, it's just called a computer.

*: 'not called' as in, most people don't call it that, so descriptivist, and they shouldn't, so prescriptivist, too
Imagine a gambling addict or an alcoholic asking to see fewer casino and booze ads and being told stop complaining because "the algorithm just shows you what you want"
Did you try contacting Wise about this is unfortunate for Wise to do this, thankfully this is not the not the majority of people's experience with Wise.

If you're involved with crypto or any illicit activity this could be the trigger for this.

Wise is known not to be kind to those who are involved in crypto activity.
This post hit right something I dissected in my last role.

In short, I was revamping/enhancing a property insurance policy pricing system as the lead from the business side (i.e. portfolio manager/actuary).

However, much of the development team was truly incapable of writing software in any useful way, so I inevitably dipped into C# and SQL to help diagnose issues as we (as a team) worked on the enhancements.

My business coworker and I found something that remains funny to this day: code littered with references or attempts to use the .NET TPL library to make the platform do more things "in parallel," but without actual knowledge of using such a library in practice.

Nothing worked in parallel! There were blockers all over the place! As someone else said, TPL might well have been a //TPL TO DO.

We suspected that TPL was there as one of those "look what I can do" intrusions that received praise from more senior devs/mgmt. even if it never actually did what it was supposed to do.
> Watching someone struggle with your code in real time teaches you a lot more than someone just fixing your code or telling you it sucks or is confusing.

Very true. There's nothing more humbling than trying (and failing) to coherently explain something I thought was truly elegant to a new team member, only to realize it wasn't nearly as great as I thought.
I think you've mixed up ketamine and klonopin (clonazepam).

https://newrepublic.com/article/156829/happened-jordan-peter...

Peterson was addicted to benzodiazepines, in specific he mentioned klonopin in his interview with New Republic.
Pivoting to a subscription model is going to be incredibly difficult, but long term is critical if Meta wants to offer a platform that makes massive profit, and doesn't make a bunch kids want to kill themselves etc.

The core issues are kind of related.

1. The value of a channel/platform to advertisers has an exponential relationship to that platforms reach. This is why Meta is bathing in money, and Snap struggles to make a dollar.

2. The people advertisers most want to reach (rich people) are the first to pay to remove ads.

I suspect Meta will want to focus on getting minors into the subscription platform initially since they low(er) value to advertisers, and highest risk for regulation etc. and then over team letting these young people stick with the sub model as they grow up. By the end of the decade they would more aggressively be able to move away from an ad-supported model then...
Sure. In my case, I'm thinking about problems I've solved that there are no known solutions for, that I essentially had to invent while on the job.
And the second order effects of surviving the war also took a toll for the young.
Published software is protected.

Entities operating SaaS are in a much greyer area.
You saved me the effort. Thank you, sir.
It's a beautiful symbiosis.
That speaks in favor of the value of personalized ads. Yet people will generally see it as a bad thing if asked.
Because crypto is a scam with no use case at all.

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/crypto-is-a-scam.html
the NUC is a bad example. Plenty of used mini-PCs in secondary markets that can be had for sub-$100-150 price range with 7th-8th gen i5 or i7 CPUs. More I/O options than a raspberry Pi and beats a Raspberry Pi many many times over in performance. Including onboard media transcoding via QuickSync. By the time you add a power supply, SD card or add-on board for a nvme m.2 drive the price of the Raspberry Pi is going to be same as what a mini-PC with more hardware options and performance is going to cost.

Regarding lack of GPIO - if you're going to use it for a server, then not sure why GPIO is even needed. But if you need GPIO for hardware interfacing, then plenty of much cheaper boards out there than the raspberry Pi. Such as the dozens of different types of ESP32 boards.

As for power draw - yes, a mini-pc will definitely draw more power. I guess it depends on electricity cost at your specific location. I'm currently running about 25 containers on a HP elitedesk G2 with a Intel i5. On average it draws about 15-20 watts. It can go high as 40 watts when I'm streaming something from Jellyfin that requires real-time transcoding.
Nit: they don't actually lose money by offering a subscription, they just make less money than if they didn't offer one.
How have you tried to use them?
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Crowdsourcing knowledge from essentially anonymous contributors in this day and age is a terrible direction to be heading in.

As far as scaling up is concerned, Wikipedia has "power contributors" like any UGC platform. One guy alone has 3 million edits.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-man-behind-a-third-of-...
Amen. This whole scare tactic thing is ridiculous. Just make the public scared of it so you can rope it in yourself. Then you've got people like my mom commenting that "AI scares her because Musk and (some other corporate rep) said that AI is very dangerous. And I don't know why there'd be so many people saying it if it's not true." because you're gullible mom.
Not a great comparison. I presume you are trolling.

Mechanical watches have been around for roughly 500 years (about 4x-5x tbe time since the first program, depending on how you count), which is a substantial amount of time to iterate on core functionality. Even then, watches until the 1970s (when quartz was introduced) were often imprecise enough to lose 15 minutes/day.

The Voyager probes have both lost several instruments, were built with substantial amounts of redundancy, all to the adjusted for inflation cost of about $3.94B US dollars. Maintenance per year is estimated to be about $5M, including the occasional software update.
We literally had people dying of third degree burns from falls onto asphalt this, and past years. https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2021-06-15-heat-wave-hi...

A few years back a heatwave-induced mass die-off of snow crabs killed an estimated 10 billion crabs. People eat snow crabs. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-di...

Heatwaves are longer duration. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/us-heatwaves...

This is already impacting us.
This domain name looks like someone pressed their ubikey to pick the name.
> "Take the word "trialing/trialling" for instance. "Trialing" is considered the US-English spelling."

That would be like saying that "lory" is considered the US-English spelling of "lorry". "Trialling" is not something people say in the US. We say "trying out".
We already have a solution though, its about 139 billion gallons of white pain ($16-32 trillion). Instead we get really overly complicated solutions like cow genocide, sterilization, "destruction of capitalism", degrowth, and more.

Supporters of climate change have the worst messaging discipline possible. I can't think of a less persuasive message than "impoverishment" (degrowth) or "abort your children".
Or test before you share with the world.
This is why I prefer the old term "service oriented architecture" over "microservices". "Microservices" implies any time a service gets too big, you split it apart and introduce a network dependency even if it introduces more problems than it solves.
This is definitely a "consult lawyer" question. My guess is they already have done so.

And frankly, this is just business. This is part of your compensation. Keep every cent you can. You owe them nothing past the terms of the agreement and legally binding terms.
Agreed.

Their little 'breadbox' pi4* certainly points in that direction very heavily.

Their cheaper 'embedded' version (the zero series, and the pico) is doing what this guy wants.

* https://vilros.com/products/raspberry-pi-400-vilros?variant=...
How are two niche ports requiring adapters more accessible than one full-size HDMI port? Are two ports on such constrained hardware really worth it? If my adapter cable breaks (which already happened) I have to order a new one and can't use the device while sitting on a pile of unused but unsupported HDMI cables. Meanwhile iirc it took until after the launch of the Pi 4 to get USB boot support without first flashing and booting a microSD card, another piece of hardware not known for its longevity.

The RPi project is amazing and I'm glad it exists, but some decisions are just weird considering their goals. Though to be fair the RPi 4 & 5 improved the situation significantly.
Yea I think it's more that Schmidt believes that AI is the force-multiplier of any existing system of power in the world today, and whatever it takes the US needs to continue to fuel it.

But he also seems to understand the labor/intelligence relationship to get there better than anyone else. I really missed him when he left Google, Sundar is a pail shadow.
Programmers who do not like mathematics solve problems in polynomial time; those who do solve them in constant time.
Put your self in a climate scientist's shoes. What would you do? Society clearly doesn't want to hear the news. "We have other fish to fry" (Like get even with other humans etc.)

You can raise the alarm and be accused about alarmism. You can say nothing, keep publishing in ivory tower journals and be guilty of gross-negligence of monumental proportions.

It shouldn't be like this. Science is like a pair of glasses through which we can see a bit further than our noses. Breaking them is an act of supreme idiocy.
residential areas were impacted, which was not the case.

Objectively false, reporting by NYT, WaPo, and the DO confirm that debris from the explosion blanketed residential and commercial areas as far away as 6 miles, and the protected nature area surrounding the launchpad.

Which rules did they break?

A lot of them, which is why they haven't been able to conduct another launch since then, despite originally planning a launch to have had several additional launches by now.
The Main Differences Between OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD
I don't care about the ads. I'd maybe consider paying for a Facebook without "suggested for you".
Please stop posting GPT comments.
https://18f.gsa.gov/

Here’s essentially, what exists today. Pretty impressive people.
Basically you want all the properties of a ring:

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Ring.html

Scalar and dot products don't stay within the group of vectors and component wise multiplication doesn't always have inverses.
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Why would they offer it at a rate that certainly loses money compared to existing ad options?
> If, even in the face of all that, I still can be unconvinced by the case for putting humans as we are now into space, then that case needs to be better made.

The case is fine; the problem is your ignorance to seemingly many factors.

> As far as "human curiosity beyond rationality" I would have been much more sympathetic to that argument before it became inescapably obvious that in its pursuit we have quite literally set the world on fire.

Well, one of humanity's first great advancements was, in fact, to create fire.

We are making tremendous efforts in many different fields, but it's becoming abundantly clear that the only thing you actually care about is global warming, which, unsurprisingly, is something that we have people working on and hundreds of billions of dollars being spent annually on to solve. Oh, and wouldn't you know it, the space program's existence continues to contribute to climate science with earth-observing satellites [1] that provide all sorts of data that would only be possible from space. Thanks, space program!

[1] https://eospso.nasa.gov/

> Humans aren't going anywhere any time soon, and I see nothing meaningful to choose between Mars today and Mars a hundred years from now, or two hundred, or a thousand. In that meantime, our efforts could make a meaningful difference as to how many billion humans are alive to celebrate that happy day.

Once again, you've not provided any rationale or reason as to why we can't work on more than one thing at once, or why the space program in particular has earned your ire. You can look up the dozens of advancements we've made directly thanks to our endeavors in heading to space. In fact i've already given you one very important example as to how it's relevant to your interests. You choosing to remain ignorant about the rest is your own choice, but it's quite clear that you're too ignorant to be making any value judgments on the space program at large.

Why not just admit that your argument is purely ideological? Or at least make an argument for what that money (that you don't seem to know even how much is being spent) should be spent on and how much further it could go in that area? The space program is not in ideological opposition with solving climate change; in fact it's playing a critical role in it.

> You really want to convince me that space boosterism might still, in spite of everything, have merit? Show me you can take the long view.

This is the long view; immense progress can happen from random discovery or it can happen slowly and gradually over time. We pursue these avenues because we don't know where it will take us or how long, just that we pursue these curiosities because it is what humanity was made for. If we only had 100 people on earth then sure, maybe it wouldn't be worth looking to the stars. But we don't have only 100 people.
At least my MagSafe wallet uses NFC to be identified by my iPhone.

Apple’s contactless (car/building) key format also seems to be using the Secure Element to some extent (which lives in the contactless chip), so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a pretty direct connection between these two subsystems that has a logic bug somewhere.

In other words, I don’t think that the ISO 14443 chip is physically getting fried, but rather that the car does some low-level handshake that gets some hardware element of the phone into a persistent bad state.

The Secure Element runs its own firmware and software and has its own storage, unlike the Secure Enclave, which is under much more direct control by Apple and loads its software from the main CPU/flash memory, so is harder to persistently “brick” logically.
I think this response is wrong-headed on multiple counts. It is emotional rhetoric, pretending to be a reasoned argument.

> This is basically correct

Why is it correct? Says who?

> and it is the thing that every climate activist does not seem to understand.

I think it is you that does not understand how and why people are reacting.

> then you have entered into the realm of political economy.

False assertion.

"You like having an economy: in general, having money and trade. If you do not do these things, nobody will have money."

... is not a political statement. To say it is, is to say that a statement such as:

"Watch out, there's a car coming!"

... is a manifesto about transport issues.

> Except to do that, we have to end almost all transportation, reduce electricity usage substantially, stop using all concrete, stop flying airplanes, stop eating beef, stop using petrochemical fertilizers, etc.

That sounds largely correct.

But then:

> It is not an exaggeration to say that billions of people would die within 12 months.

Yes, it is. Stopping personal ICE vehicle transport, stopping non-essential flights, stopping all meat eating, stop using all petrochemicals...

That does not spell doom for billions.

Yours is the emotional exaggeration here.

> if it's your position that the most important thing right now is to stop emitting carbon [...] then your position is utterly insane

This is a standard, if very strange to me, right-wing political tactic: take what you are doing, accuse your opponents of doing it, then mock it.

It is, in a word, BS. It is crude appeal to emotion, and it is lying.

An honest response would be "we have left it too late and so now billions will die". But you are being nothing but dishonest, while role-playing some kind of square-jawed straight-talker or something.

It is too late. The only question now is how bad it will be and if the blows can be softened.

If you're too busy for more than 3min of reading, read this:

https://www.okdoomer.io/10-reasons-our-civilization-will-soo...

If you've got an hour, read this:

https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to...

Both well cited, both lacking rhetoric, both taking a cold hard look at where we stand.

While your are trying to mock your perceived opponents by misstating what they are saying and doing, and you should be ashamed.
Right? You're just a shareholder now, they work for your return. Give nothing
Not having replaced a bulb due to failure for ten years (and to be clear not having replaced an LED bulb ever) is not the same as not having bulbs that are under 10 years old. We have a variety of LED bulbs from 2013 and then others I’ve incrementally replaced either as they annoyed me (heat, in almost all cases) or because I just got around to it (our external security bulbs most
recently).

If LED bulbs are inherently prone to failure I’m not seeing it.

I do agree they’re more expensive, even if you adjust for inflation, but as far as I can tell they last forever.
We already solved compiled languages (Go, C, Rust) and JIT languages (Java, C#). Interpreted languages (Python, JS) are the only ones left, hopefully we will solve these as well soon. The big challenge is supporting all the different runtimes, once that is solved implementing support for different protocols / open-source libraries is not as complicated.
Yeah, I have a project where WebTransport would be a huge improvement, but not being able to support Safari is a dealbreaker.
Why can't you include dried pulses and dehydrated other foods? All of those can be cooked in a microwave? Dried pulses are edible for a very long time.
Linux and Windows has very different needs when it comes to filesystems.
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