skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not to get reductionist but [...]

Then let's just avoid the pedantry altogether. When we're quizzed on DS, it's understood that we're not talking about simple IPC. It's not about your garden variety backend application and its dedicated postgres instance. We're talking Kafka, and all the accompanying jazz. Is it necessary now to pretend that we don't know what we're talking about?
I think the problem with that proposal. also the problem with Ted Nelson's xanadu. and why the web was so successful are malicious actors, these can come in the form of antagonists and trolls but most often appear in the form of marketing. Most designs for information systems fail to account for malicious actors(the web is included in this category). and those that do, fail to get popular, mainly because secure systems are unpleasant to use.

The web is resistant to this despite not being designed in a secure manner because all graph traverses are one way, the owner controls all outgoing links. I suspect any system where outgoing links are open territory would soon get overrun by spam.
Instantly stopped evaluating it for the company. Price is too high for notifications.

I was evaluating it due to topics which are really nice feature.

Back to the Mattermost.
as opposed to a password manager? Passkeys solve _many_ problems and the weaknesses all degrade to "password manager".
Why is it terrible and not appropriate?
> At that point, it'd be easier to throw some cocaine or an unregistered firearm

These can be illegal depending on the country in question.

Cellphones are very frequent, and not illegal (except maybe in North Korea?)
Using data structures that match the performance profile. if the DB doesn't support that, using another solution.
That can be an organizational problem, reliability should be impact.
This is a great suggestion, it can help get rid of that sense of "I need to write this code now" but still produce a meaningful diff in the relevant places you'll need to change without all the mental overhead of determining the logic right there & then
The ublue images are useful to people, so I'm sure your images will be useful to someone. I'm just making a judgement call for myself.

Any other project ontop of Fedora increases the attack vector with its own maintainers.

If I can choose between legible Ansible yaml, and an ISO, I find the yaml much easier to grasp and understand.

Bundling things you could easily do with yaml into an ISO is almost obfuscation. Because most people are not going to read or understand your build config and logs. While Ansible yaml is clearly labeled and tagged for each action.
If you have a dissociative disorder, then you may just be shot as that is the US police response to most kinds of mental distress, so then from their pointer of view they've solved the problem.
BERTopic 0.16
This paper has some more details of how the sample collection system works. I agree that cold-welding is likely.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-018-0521-6
They're undrinkable since the switch to paper straws anyway.
Experts issue warning over new Apple app downloaded automatically with update
The statistics for where I live (Wales, UK) show a horrifying post-COVID gap in school attendance for socioeconomically deprived families. We have probably lost the cultural norm that all kids at least attend school.
His volumetric candle is AMAZING https://mitxela.com/projects/candle
I assume AGI will find some fractal way of training. models of models.

really what we're looking for is a way to bootstrap appropriate filters so a unit of model matches a unit of language scope.
Basically this is the first demonstrated propulsion method that really supersedes the SR-71's J58 + inlet. Instead of 0 to mach 3, this is like 0 to mach 10.
If you are using oracle, mysql , mssql you are typically using b-tree index. mysql supports hash index but i rarely see it applied in prod (probably just habits or lack of familiarity).
No, I think multiple processes talking to each other even on a single machine is sufficiently complex to qualify as a distributed system. The same mistakes or broad distsys design decisions can happen there or with Kafka. Even if it's architecturally simpler.

Specifically, take a look at linearizability. It is a measurement of consistency in the CAP theorem. It's a property quantifiable in almost any system:

> A concurrent system consists of a collection of processes communicating through shared data structures or objects. Linearizability is important in these concurrent systems where objects may be accessed by multiple processes at the same time and a programmer needs to be able to reason about the expected results.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearizability
I have my foot in both the ActivityPub and atproto camps as nothing more than an interested observer/developer, but I want to defend Bluesky a bit here.

What Bluesky are really building is atproto. If bsky.app and atproto were in a house fire and the team could only rescue one, they'd rescue atproto. Throughout this year there was such demand for a Twitter alternative that wasn't Mastodon, people jumped aboard bsky.app despite it only being a testbed/PoC for the development of atproto.

The Bluesky team reviewed the existing protocols for distributed public conversation and none of them checked all the boxes. So they built their own. Their goals were [1]:

- Account portability. Being able move your entire social graph (identity, posts, follows, likes, etc) without the previous server needing to cooperate or even be online [2].

- Scale. A "big-world" view of the entire network to enable global conversation.

- Trust. Letting users build custom feeds so you can control what your timeline looks like and being open by default.

One complaint against atproto is: why not work instead to improve ActivityPub? As someone who has worked with both protocols, I agree with the Bluesky team that it would have been too difficult to retrofit these features into ActivityPub (portability and scale, especially). Plus, a lot of Mastodon power users have philosophical disagreements with the things required for "big-world" global conversation so it's unlikely Bluesky would have received a warm welcome anyway.

So, on one hand, "go-it-alone alternative" is not flagrantly wrong. Bluesky is the only app using the protocol and it does fragment the space. But it's important to remember there are reasons for why they're going alone on this.

(Sorry, I've had these ideas swimming in my head for the past few days and your comment spurred me to organize my thinking by writing it down!)

- [1] https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-s...

- [2] https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub
Ask HN: How can I collect good data for a more effective pitch?
A friend and I have been working on a startup we believe has the potential to be fairly successful. We base these opinions more on our own experiences with the competition but this, we believe, is moreso motivation for us versus solid data to encourage the investment that we will need.

How have you solved this problem? Where can we learn to collect useful data? What data points should we focus on and what data has helped you get to where you needed to be?

What format should this data be in that YC or other incubators and/or investors will be receptive to?

I’m technical. We both are. That’s why I feel I am at a loss here, because it’s my job to collect and present this data.

Any help is appreciated. I’ll be around to answer any questions you have that would help you help me. Feel free to reach out if you think it requires a more sensitive/private conversation.

Again, feel free to get in touch.
I do. Should I not be?
FANTASTIC documentary! Beautifully made, engaging, entertaining for those well familiar and very accessible to the layperson. I caught it by accident, right at the beginning, while flipping through public-access TV and spent the next hour+ positively glued in front of the TV. Didn't even move to the couch - just transfixed in front of the TV where I was standing when I caught it. Later bought it on BluRay.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu3kuUB1sOQ
At least where I live (UK) I didn’t. I didn’t realise my observation would be so controversial.
A couple of responses. The error bars on global temperature measurements are not particularly big, the analysis here [1] for the dataset I linked earlier gives 95% confidence intervals of 0.05 degrees in the annual mean for the last 50 years of measurements. That it substantially smaller than the warning we've observed (even over the last 20 years).

Secondly global cooling/new ice age was a pretty fringe theory even in the 60s and 70s. You can check the graph on this wiki page [2] (taken from the Peterson 2008 reference) showing that every single year since 1965 more papers have been written and published predicting global warming than cooling. For some reason the media in the '70s randomly decided to really run with the story. Possibly this happened because people have a clear idea of what an ice age looks like, most people don't have a good idea of what a world that is 4 degrees warmer looks like.

Finally the IPPC's warnings about what a future with a large amount of climate change looks like are quite dramatically worse than "GDP being a bit lower than it otherwise would have been". I think you already know this.

[1] https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/le05800h.html

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Funny, but it's not actually a synthesizer; or can it do something else than playing a square wave?
Elon Musk's Grok a Threat to ChatGPT
I (think, not formally diagnosed) have aphantasia, and I also don't remember my dreams. So I have not "seen" pictures ever. Or I think so, it is so hard to know what others are "seeing".
I'm just making a judgement call for myself. Any other project ontop of Fedora increases the attack vector with its own maintainers.

Totally understandable.

an ISO

Small point of correction: we're not publishing ISOs.
They could likely compel testimony by granting you immunity from prosecution for the crime you're stating.

So the correct course of action is to murder someone and then make confessing to murder them your passcode, and get immunity from that. #lifehack #modernsolutions :D :D
It's kind of different from activist journalism. "Vendetta journalism" is more "I have a personally grudge against person X, so let's hound this person to settle the score". A lot of times this all revolves around incredibly petty and childish bickering.
How is tentacle porn sick?
How to benchmark Gemini vs. GPT with your own data
But even that could be revealed with the same controls used in courts that handle those issues like unauthorized disclosure of the nuclear missile silo location.

I suppose for the most part one critical function of judges is to override legislation when it appears that injustice would take place. We can't have murderers who say "sorry found some sweet loophole lol". And similarly we can't have abusive cops/prosecutors who want to harass citizens "tell us all your secrets and I'm sure you're guilty of something lol". Judges should be able to make sane tradeoff in the name of justice.
> “Market research and product planner. (50% RC?)” (Robert Cailliau?)

> Software engineer: IBM mainframe. 50% RC (Robert Cailliau?)

> Software engineer: Macintosh. 50% RC (Robert Cailliau?)

Shout out to Robert Cailliau for giving 150% on the creation of the World Wide Web.
I think there are some default libraries that support using Google Drive for backups, calendar, and email, among other things? TBH, I'd be surprised if those were in scope.
Apropos nothing, I found out today that bash.org died. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295238 was the last I was able to find about it, and it's the top google search result.

I've been thinking of the best way to make a website that won't die when I die. It seems like a hard problem. I was originally going to just trust that Github Pages will be around forever, but I'm not so sure anymore.

Running your own server is fraught with danger. In theory it's just a matter of making sure your account has enough credits to last 100 years. In practice, I can't count the number of times that servers have had one problem or another that requires manual intervention to resurrect.

It's surprising that this isn't a solved problem. "Put some HTML somewhere" has always left the question of "where?"

Maybe paying for your own S3 account and shoving the HTML onto that is the way to go. Still, thinking of the number of companies that have survived even 20 years, the odds aren't good that both S3 and Cloudflare will run flawlessly for decades.

Oh yeah, the reason we're able to read these comments now is because Dan migrated HN away from Cloudflare, I think to Route 53. So maybe S3 + Route 53 has the highest odds of standing the test of time.

Then there's the question of what to write. But at least "test website please ignore" has a chance of lasting a century, unlike everyone else.
Maybe I am just daft but I really never understood why an infrastructure resource management platform needed a package manager.
Must be hard to be in such a position.
I hate working out, and nothing can make me love it.

What I did was to stop considering "exercise" as a distinct activity at all. Mostly, I started commuting to/from work by bicycle. In my mind, I'm just commuting. Secretly, I'm exercising for an hour every workday. Replacing your daily car commute with a bike might not be your thing, but the principle holds -- make exercise an intrinsic part of something else that you need to do anyway.

Also, keep in mind that if your goal is just general health and fitness, you don't need to do that much. 20 minutes of moderate exercise most days of the week will get you there.
> Wether there is a formalized contract or not Mozilla makes choicses in the interest of Google over (especially power) users all the time.

What choices did they make in Google's interest?
Yep.

me: "I'll have a milkshake please"

McD: "ice cream machine's broke"

me: "ugh. Ok, I'll just have a coke"
When push comes to shove inexperienced, proud or slightly arrogant leadership can make the silliest of mistakes, such as, not appealing to the community.
What comes to my mind is this rhetorical question:

How a service with such a wonderful home page suddenly die?
> I wonder how it does that

It's trivial to do: JPEG's last stage is a compression via Huffmann code - which is a really ancient, not particularly effective compressor. You simply decompress that stage, and compress with something more modern, yielding better savings. Stuffit did it in 2005. PackJPG in 2006. Brunsli (a Google project!) in 2019 - and it was one of the inputs to the JXL draft. Lepton did it in 2016.

> and why JPEG didn't notice it could.

Oh that's the best part - they did, all the way back in 1991. The JPEG standard allows you to choose for the last stage between Huffmann and Arithmetic Coding - which is way more effective. Unfortunately it was patent-encumbered and its support is low. It yielded 10%ish space saving which wasn't worth the compatibility headache (it has the same extension and mime-type of a Huffmann-encoded JPEG, so a webserver won't know if your browser supports it). If it only had used a different file extension it would probably be the dominant format today.
If you make a claim it's not on everyone else to go find support for your argument.
Your local franchisee or municipality has made this decision for you: McDonalds corporate and every franchisee in my area employs straws that do not disintegrate.
Pain and discomfort don't have to be a part of an effective exercise regime.
I might need to buy some and try this out, Philips hue pricing has gotten out of hand since covid
You’re still going to hold up other people if you stop to chat or stick your arms out of the tube.
> big data

fat geordi
I read "have them arrested" as implying the dirty actor is the state/cops. For a dirty cop, drugs & weapons should be easy enough to access.
At this point any company still using the MOVEit service should probably be considered criminally negligent. That service has been the source of a number of high-profile breaches in 2023.
Thank you for pointing this out! This kind of a simple revenue calculation can be highly insightful.
Solana Weighs Demand for Saga Phones After Sellout Amid Bonk Boom
This feels like a blend of reasonable and bad-faith arguments, like the motte just missing its bailey. Maybe strolling around the latent space would help disentangle mottes and baileys in general discourse. But then I fear it'll only push the conflict to a meta level.
I don't want to imagine the amount of issues generated for people from bad extensions. I suspect it was a decision made to prevent driving off "new to firefox" users with a browser that didn't function because they got an extension "from firefox".
Even if your page lasted 100 years, your cert wouldn’t. Who knows what DNS, or the equivalent to IP looks like in the 22nd century.
$791,000 defamation verdict in Mendocino board game dispute
Not imperialistic. Would you say the same of the English language too?
BTW, On Basque, euskaraz primeran mintza naiteke.
“because its not slack” was the consensus when I conducted an internal survey.

Sadly people were not clearer than this. I suspect some UI prettiness things, some ease of use things (onboarding) and a fair few misgivings (such as voice chat and how images work) that makes it feel user-unfriendly.

But I am speculating.
Colt Steele is my favorite web dev teacher. He has taught web development in an actual in-person classroom environment, so I find he has a better understanding on how to get people to learn things than most online instructors.

He has a new for 2023 HTML and CSS course that is a fantastic intro to modern CSS. You can probably skip over the HTML section and jump straight into CSS. Even with skipping the HTML, there is 30+ hours of CSS content in the course. It regularly goes on sale for less than $15.

https://www.udemy.com/course/html-and-css-bootcamp/
Now let's talk about HEIF, an inconvenience inside and outside of the browser on desktop.
It's not a defense, we just seem to be having different conversations. But I agree with your point, the content should be opt in. Twitch bumbled their rollout of this change about as bad as they could have.
Eh, websites (and all things) come and go.

As long as someone cares to maintain them, they will be there. And if nobody cares to maintain them, well, may others rise in their place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence
> Or that George Santayana quote.

Which one?
Yes, I was surprised that this article didn't mention that even though The Atlantic has written about it before.
I like old Ram Dass or Alan Watts lectures for the same reason. Most are on spotify podcasts/audiobooks.
http://paulgraham.com actually fails if you try to access it via HTTPS. Maybe that's one way to get around the problem.

Is there really no way to date a cert for a century?
Signs of Totalitarianism: Some of these are playing out before our eyes
You're the one bringing money into this.
Linux Foundation Mentorship Program - How do you get accepted?
I'm wondering how one gets accepted as a mentee to one of the projects supported by the Linux Foundation.

Do you have to/should you contribute to open source projects run by one of the participating organizations, and then when you apply they are more likely to accept you?

Or do you contribute to the projects first and then ask if they would be your mentee, and then you apply formally through the Linux Foundation?

I'm looking at this and Google Summer of Code. Would doing one exclude me from the other? It seems like doing the Linux Foundation program might exclude me from Google Summer of Code?

Thanks!!
You can check out "bullet string" style WS2811s. They're 12v native if you're tying back to your car's 12v, usually come waterproof with xConnect pigtails, and are very attachable/flexible. They're easy to resolder with extensions and chain too:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000105913323.html

From what I've ready, they or
similar 5V lights seem standard in outdoor Christmas lighting for shows.
Autonomous Vehicles Sensors and Their Vulnerability to Weather Conditions
That particular claim seems to be true, yeah.
Reaching into your pocket or bag right when you see the police coming after you may not be a great idea either.
iOS 17.2 update puts an end to Flipper Zero's iPhone shenanigans
May I suggest rendering it on a full page of its own and then linking to it, too?

The current form is too low-key since it looks like a screenshot.
"We can't send plaintext over the air, it's unsafe"

"Don't worry I've added AES encryption"
“we remain fully committed to Zulip’s 100% open-source model”

I don’t think they really grasped the point.
Didn’t experience any outage for mailsnag.com. We have newrelic synthetic checks around the globe, and another uptime monitor. Not even a blip on the charts.
Maybe the Long Now Foundation could start a 10k years hosting plan. That would be very interesting. Also being a sysadmin for a 10k server park would be a interesting job.
I wonder if this is why my cell service stopped working for two hours, yesterday?
> being tall, having a deep voice, being confident

these are subcategories of being attractive, or entangled dimensions at the very least

> if you're successful without these advantages you're probably better

marginally better at the specific task at hand, which in most professions can be counterbalanced by being attractive

for example take two engineers, they have equal interpersonal skills but one is more skilled and less attractive than the other. The less skilled engineer may still have higher throughput as a result being better able to manage up, despite having the same interpersonal skills, simply because of their attractiveness bonus. I think you're really underestimating the effect size, I think it's large enough to be significant in most work.
Easy enough for anyone with eyes to see the obvious explanation.
I grew up near where IBM was started in a small town that had an IBM secret military project (top 10 bomb target for USSR!). While no one could tell me what they or their parents did at IBM, I heard some fun stories. One was about a guy who disliked people visiting his office, so he barricaded his door and would climb in and out through the transom window.
Humanity have traditionally solved this problem by having children and putting in their will "please make sure my HTML page is still up and running until 2123".
This is awesome. Hardened_malloc and JITless Chromium OOTB. It's hard to find hardened desktop linux distro, this might be it.
wouldn't the most accurate 2D analogy in geometry be in the Discrete Fourier Transform?
You could also use testflight or distribute it internally using an MDM if you are large enough.
I looked into Supabase a while back but left confused on how to do a basic REST API. They auto-generate an API to interact with the tables you create which sounds neat, but like, where does the business logic live? I then checked out their edge functions but it wasn't clear if they are meant to be used that way since the examples are more oriented for tasks. Seems like I'm not understanding something simple here.
Ha! This is really cool! I found some of my old pieces a while ago and tried to remember where the reddish neon stuff was from... :)
No thanks. I have plenty of work ahead of me, I'd much rather close up shop having removed it from my back.

Now, if it’s later in the evening, well then it’s tomorrow’s work.
Is that the company that fucked up insomnia.rest?