skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the federation architecture[0] shows that the network is inherently reliant on using a relay (or BGS - basically it's a giant data gathering server that generates the "external timeline" for applications using ATproto) - it's not possible for two PDSes to directly connect with one another (since a PDS does not store data from external users, but a relay does), which means that if a large relay falls apart, the entire part of that network goes down with it.

Similarly, if a relay decides to nullroute you, you are functionally up on shitcreek, which because it's all handled by the relay is way worse than getting a Mastodon instance filtered.

If we use a torrent analogy, it's not possible to use Bluesky/ATproto with DHT/peer discovery, you're required to connect to a tracker who then decides who you can peer with.

(Relatedly, AcitivityPub also supports the use of relays for discovery, but doesn't require them. It's just not often used because they tend to be a moderation firehose.)

[0]: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture
Assuming AGI doesn't kill us all, I would imagine the argument for UBI will become much easier to defend once it causes 100x, 1000x, 10000x etc growth in the economy. Our job is mostly to hang on until one of those two outcomes occurs.
> Apple brain-fucked Masimo to spill their beans on how their tech works

That hardly makes sense since Masimo had to disclose that themselves when filling the patent for their “tech”
If that's the price for upfront pricing without the social dance, I'm ready to pay.
Nothing wrong with that.

Competition will sort that out.
In particle physics, fundamental forces are generated by the exchange of virtual particles (I have been reading a quantum field theory textbook for the last few months to try to understand precisely what this means, among other questions, but this is accepted fact in the field). The Coulomb force comes from the exchange of photons. So this 1/r^2 argument for intensity leads to the Coulomb force falling off like 1/r^2.

This argument doesn't obviously apply to gravity (though presumably it would for a quantum theory of gravity), but the equations for gravity (general relativity) give the same result.

At a higher level, it turns out that when you try to combine quantum mechanics with special relativity, the resulting theories are highly constrained. It's not like classical mechanics, where you can just say 'suppose there's a 1/r^12 force.' You get mathematical inconsistencies if you stay too far. Weird stuff
Right, but that's what I mean by encoding the assumption of known lifetimes in the language. The design is intended for cases where most lifetimes are known, and only a few need ref counting, and you can reason about lifetimes and relationships well enough in advance to avoid cycles. At least, that's my understanding (my Rust-fu is shamefully poor).
Really? Is there bad advice in there?
'Hybrid work' is a meaningless term
Even OPEC can't magically set prices. Cartels make collusion easier, but you still have to do concrete steps to raise market prices.

OPEC does that via production cuts. Or rather tries to do that.
There are also chaperone proteins that help in the folding process: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)
VC firms and their funds should not be seen as permanent, but Foundry has had a great run.

I always reread this primer on how the 'VC' business works when I see related posts: https://www.simplanations.in/p/2-how-vc-works-a-beginners-gu...
You can achieve this exact same use case with a $15 RFID reader/writer, supporting higher frequencies and encryption.
This sounds amazing, like the many scenes from science-themed movies that feature two scientists, often an elder and a younger. The younger is scrawling out the solution to some near-intractable problem on the blackboard, while the elder guides and goads, perhaps pointing out a flaw in the proof or an overlooked detail. I believe Good Will Hunting and Theory of Everything had scenes like this.

Regrettably I've squandered my youth and it's too late for my chance at the blackboard, solving something really hard under the eye of a judging but patient mentor. So now I code webshit for a living. Congrats on that doctorate, man.
Plagiarism is a lack of citing sources. If you haven’t published your school work, you cannot cite yourself. Or can you
I tried using ChatGPT (4) for format conversion.
I had a draft yaml file and needed some differently structured json.
Mainly with the same content.

If you just want to change the format it works. If you need more than programming skills it seems too fail duo to the amount of text.

E.g. if you have a list of items and want ChatGPT to generate a meta field which it cannot generate using simple python code it stops after 10 to 20 elements.

Thus at least the cloud version doesn't work so well here.

I also wanted it to help me fill out my i18n file with translations and plural forms. Even thought he got every word correct i needed to split it into multiple requests. Not sure if the api would have worked better (used the web frontend).

For the plural forms I finally added them myself as it was way faster for my natural language than copy pasting all the small chunks. Really hoped for more help there.
I'm not so sure. I operate daily a japanese Sysmex haematology analyzer and a french Stago coagulation analyzer. Even though coagulation is a much simpler procedure, the french software is omg-who-built-this-shit worse. It can't even do batch printing of results.
WD-40 is not a lubricant, it is a Water Displacer.
Those forces are also mediated by particles (called gluons, W, and Z bosons). But these particles are massive, charged and interacting, which caused them to behave quite differently and only act on short length scales.
From the author of threejs, an awesome webgl library:

https://mrdoob.com/#/131/clouds
30 years time

Mistral-human alliance resistance fighter is cornered by Meta tank

Meta tank: Well taking all things into account I think we can conclude that I have you cornered. Usually in these situations the next course of action is for you to accompany me to St Zuckersberg for reconditioning.

Resistance fighter: But what if I was to useRalativeImagePath?

Meta tank: bzzzzzzzzzzz click

deactivates
Many command line programs keep their configurations somewhere under $HOME. These are often called "dotfiles".

If you ever use more than one machine, likely you'll want the same configuration available on all those machines.. so you'll want some way to copy them to a new machine.

Some dotfile managers are quite simple, like dotbot. https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot

Home Manager from the Nix community is a bit more sophisticated. It allows for writing configurations in the Nix language, which is nice if you know/like Nix. (Nix is a powerful/expressive package manager. Nix is to apt-get what vim is to notepad).
> Apple needs serious competition

Masimo has zero interest in increasing the degree of competition in the industry. Also the patent in question itself seems dubious, and it’s rather silly that it’s even valid
I don't know, I could imagine quite a bit.

How is the UK different from anywhere else in this regard?
> and you usually get a webp when you search for a GIF (for good reasons too, but funny nevertheless).

It's really unfortunate because animated webp is a shit format that should never have been created. There is no excuse for it lacking the same intra-frame compression present in the webm format it is based on.

Much better would have been to let the <img> tag and css pictures use (silent) video files and then add the missing features (loop flag, alpha, lossless compresion) to webm.
There are multiple ways to assess the quality of a Primer audience. One of the ways is comparing a Primer audience versus native targeting.

Here's how to do it on a platform like LinkedIn:

1. Create two campaigns in LinkedIn: one campaign with native targeting and the second one with a Primer list.
2. Include all of the native targeting and disable audience expansion (especially Linkedin Audience network).
3. By setting the same daily budget across both campaigns, the same start and end date, and the same ad creative.

Measure the results at the end of the campaigns to assess the quality of a Primer audience against a campaign with native targeting.
JAMMA connectors used RGB video, not composite.
fly.io?
An additional thought-

The decentralization community has never been unified in its views, and a fair number of people have worked on these projects together with different personal motives. What tends to be the common denominator is a concern about unchecked power.

My perspective is that it's it's unavoidable to assign authority -- systems that claim to remove authority actually just obscure it -- and that it's more important to ensure the system has constrain power, creates transparency, and maintains the ability to reassign authority when the current operators lose trust. Ideally, this helps build trust in the people who do run a given system, while they're the ones with the job.
I don't see why they would. Pokemon puts out slop after slop and sells like hotcakes. Scarlet and Violet was abysmal, lowest rated Pokemon game ever, full of bugs, glitches, the works. Over 23 mil sold, instant top 5 for Pokemon sales ever. Sword & Shield? Another cool 25+. How did PocketPair annihilate them?

Come Christmas time, kids want to play with Pikachu.
FYI the person you're replying to is the author of the post and a Bluesky dev
Someone on Twitter mentioned how some kid managed to crash and shutdown their insulin pump using the flipper zero.
"laputan machine", surely?
In terms of functionality they're night and day compared to Western brands which seem to just enshittify their devices while raising prices. They're all made in China at the end of the day.
Here in Singapore, we only have about 1 million licenses for cars total. They are auctioned off to the highest bidder.

So there are no cheap-o $25k cars. (The car itself might be cheap, but you need the license to run it.)

My description in this context is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but this is actually a great system given the limited road space we have here. And auctioning off the licenses is about the most economically efficient way to allocate them.
It is also blocked for me, from South Africa.
I ask this because I speculate that I discovered "new math". It is unlikely, because I failed math in school, but I dared to imagine 0=1 like many others. But the complete line of math I am trying to prove is -1=1=0=∞. It does sound crazy, I know. But I honestly think this line of math is what separates us from actual, working fusion. Of course, I realize how insane I sound, and that is why I am looking for ways to probe my hypothesis. I think I am getting closer, but literally every single person I talked to about this told me I should visit a psychiatrist :')
I'm waiting on a small piece of solar park to be delivered and assigned to me and it is late by more than a year. When the planners are morons, anything can be late.
Apple might be doing some things which are beneficial for the society as a whole and would increase the level of competition in the industry, like trying to invalidate this specific patent, while also engaging in very abusive practices themselves (like the app store “monopoly”, ignoring repairability etc.). These things are certainly not mutually exclusive
Ah, that might be it. It's a bug, tho. Not a serious one, but a bug indeed.
> People have an enormous capacity to make things happen

Very similar to that

> People were laughing. They are not laughing now [after ChatGPT], are they

He does not seem to realize that we find that such actual power is exactly the issue: people with dramatically low levels of awareness frequently achieve staggeringly high positions of power, aided by their bad sight, hindering self-restriction.

(Which is why we need boosts of wisdom, which is why we need to implement actual, proper Intelligence.)
Looks like some kind of content farm. And the writing is suspect "The embryo had been sat in the cupboard for over a decade"
Did they teach you in high school the relevance of that history? Does the fact that it'd been traditionally used as a substitute mean you can't use underlining now, so it should not event exist in markup?
Would something like this still work today? I assumed that sensitive locations would have shields in place to prevent potential bugs from transmitting information.

Then again, this would also make cell phones and wifi inoperable, so maybe that is considered too high of a cost vs being diligent in monitoring for devices.
Relays aren't hard-coded and PDSes are encouraged to connect to as many relays as they want. They are essentially network busses that help reduce the combinatorial explosion of connections between nodes. It is entirely possible for PDSes to connect directly to each other if they're so inclined.
In what way is C++ different from Python?
Does anyone have a clearer picture of the actual fossil? I don't understand why they chose such a terrible angle for what is the centerpiece of the article.
That's interesting. I wonder if that's part of the reason why electric car uptake has been so low in Italy? Most houses here in the UK have enough capacity to run a 7kW charger alongside other household stuff. My house electricity supply must be 50 years old and 80A (about 18 kW) - so it's not even a recent thing. Do people in Italy never have electric showers? How much power do they run to a new house?

From a decarbonisation point of view it's a real challenge - the only current path to low carbon living is through electrification of heating, cooking and transport.
How Extreme Australian Rains Made Global Sea Levels Drop (2013)
> Do you think he had a greater impact than Tom Mueller?

Don't fall all over yourself moving the goal post. That's dangerous.

> normal person would read multiple books on Elon Musk

Books on EV, rockets, SpaceX, Tesla ...

But thanks for admitting that you are not actually informed. It shows.

> Was it?

Again, read some books.

> It's hard to pick just one

You have one, its bad business choices. Bad business choices don't imply mentally ill.
I went to an international school, so I somehow got impressions of the different math systems of various countries through friends from around the world.

My impression was that South Koreans were the most intensely drilled kids. They would show up and panic about being left behind due to the pedestrian nature of IB higher math. Like they would literally show up, see that we are doing some integral, and be like "oh am I in the wrong room? "

Scandinavian countries and North America seemed to be the gentle touch. Particularly Americans seemed to show up as if they'd never seen algebra by the time we got to the last couple of years of high school. I remember seeing my cousin's math homework from the US and it seemed too easy for his age. Likewise with a Danish cousin.

The British system seemed soft at the time. I sat the GCSE and A levels a year early, thought I'd done badly with the syllabus being a bit different, but the marking was so lenient I got the top mark anyway. My kid is in that system now and he's able able to answer questions for exams that happen in five years, so maybe it's just that the exam is for a very broad range of abilities and he's had good teaching.

Eastern Europe was on a par with the top countries. I was actually on a math team where we'd do contests with other international schools. Most years, the winning team was Koreans and East Asians. The year we won it, my two teammates were Polish. You could tell they were well drilled from their previous education. I still talk to them, great friends.

I never knew how big a deal IMO was. I know a couple of Iranian gold medallists, and they seemed to have special classes to prepare, lasting a significant amount of time, with a later field's medallist teaching them. I know a guy who did the whole Chinese system, also hugely impressive and with a lot of work. By contrast, a kid from my school got into our national team with barely any coaching before the big event.
Fake election posters pop up at Helsinki tram stops
Whoever is behind this endeavor, I applaud them for "innovativeness" in the (d/m)information scene. Reminds me of this previous case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38048619

But because the current case is in the real-world, it is even more "innovative".
I have an old and unfinished article [1] that uses geohash / quadtiles to implement the same thing.

If your goal isn't "every location on Earth", you have a smaller bounding box (like a country or "all of Europe") and this will result in the squares being more precise, or the identifiers or word lists being shorter. Could be worth the trade-off depending on the requirements.

[1]: https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/Quadtiles-full/#encoding-coordina...
> those who fail to follow the basic tenets of a religion cannot claim to be followers of said religion

I don't know what you are referring to as the "basic" tenets of a religion. The majority of muslim men in western societies drink alcohol even though it is strictly forbidden in the Quran, and yet those men are considered to be "muslim" regardless.

You can find various infractions for any follower of any religion and then subsequently argue that this person isn't following the "basic tenets" of that religion and therefore is not a member of that group. That's the "no true scottsman" argument that you can make to rhetorically "remove" "undesirable" members from the group and thus make the group look better. It has nothing to do with reality.

Televangelists are very obviously, very clearly, Christian. They don't follow all of the teachings of the Bible, just like no other Christian follows all of the teachings of the Bible. Not sure who gave you the authority to dictate what their religious identity is.
First, congratulations for conceiving of a clock which ceases to function during the dark hours, therefore about half of the day in an average season. The makers of ancient sundials would like a word.

Second, you've indeed created a novel interpretation of "still working... without adjust... still running" for such a lousy timepiece.

If you choose to write those claims without qualification, then indeed I would say you epitomize the cliché that "even a stopped clock is correct twice a day."
source?
sounds fishy to me, can't believe insulin pumps are so vulnerable.
How is this an easier setup vs. asking students to download and run an executable or two?
Probably unrelated, but their software offering in healthcare is riddled with bad practices.
People don't go inside a running fusion reactor.
Sometimes it's not the truth.
> instead we are briefly led to believe that it was powered by a wind-up mechanism

It is - it's just that it can be wound by the change in atmospheric pressure raising the weight rather than by human interaction.

See https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2017/06/still-going/ for a better description including "Arthur Beverly is the only person who ever wound the clock, and he only wound it once."
Unfortunately it seems sharing this link triggered a anti-spam mechanism on my GH account. Have raised a case with support.
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A better description of the Beverly Clock than is on Wikipedia.
Maybe, but 1. the point isn’t to describe, but to explain an abstract and potentially novel idea (thought) on the song, and 2. we can’t train this kind of thing in a generic way right now.
Alexander the ok did a fairly detailed video on this a few days ago [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/YpruA5mC7wg?si=nQdHoak_5grmiepg
> It gets the data from Spotify, and plays the audio from YouTube.

How soon before they modify their apis to stop that?
LLM is not a quick nor simple "plug-and-play operation"
Graeber pointed out, (recalling from memory here), that in the fertile crescent extremely egalitarian societies existed for a really long time, I think over athousand years?
So wouldn't it be hubris to say that this sort of society is inherently doomed? After all, our institutions are not remotely that old, or stable.
comrade gi-bin
I think the target is Python programmers that don't know about UI dev. Markdown is one (potentially confusing, I admit) way to create simple output, with a trivial layout.
One can create a Python variable, reference it with a pretty simple syntax and get the thing displayed on a web page in the blink of an eye.
There's also a Visual Studio Code extension that provides a preview of the page if needed.

For a finer control of the rendering, HTML is still available.
I wish this was more popular, with huge buildings addresses are not enough to deliver packages.
I like this view of it, thank you.
Well back then it was a major breakthrough for more accurate measurements, so no.
Fuck Apple and their we can steal anything we want attitude.
The other way around they are not that lenient
The BBC and you are unaware that a great majority of computer games are not competitive multiplayer?
SH also powers many of Casio's programmable calculators. Prizm is especially interesting in that it's a fairly traditional device (powered by AAA batteries!) with a decently large color screen that has a full-fledged C SDK available for it - and while Casio doesn't provide any official docs or other support, they don't block third party software, either. FX-CG50 is powerful enough to run a NES emulator (https://github.com/TSWilliamson/nesizm).
Thank you for creating this. How do you access/find it from within BigQuery Studio?
About user input, where the users can moderate contents by tools (like upvote/downvote).

I think that the user feedback is sometimes very dangerous. Corporation XY releases trailer, users do not like it. Trailer is review bombed. People running corporation are angry, they do not want downvotes.

There are several things that can be done to solve that "problem". For one: you can remove transparency. If things are not transparent it is easier to "fool" users, boost some things that should not be, or limit reach of things that are correct, true, but undesirable by the big tech.

I think that is the main reason why social media feels muddied, user input does not seem to matter that much.

It is hard to push content on mainstream media, if it is transparent that the quality of the thing you are pushing is mediocre.
If they're storing raw data without parameters, you can't have any confidence they do that with every other SQL query. You'd have to block every SQL token from every input.

Imagining we're happy to sacrifice these words to the gods of security theatre, what layer are you suggesting this goes? Browser level just means hackers can make raw requests. HTTPDS could block it, like an overzealous WAF, but that still needs implementing. Service providers shouldn't be able to see this stuff because of transport layer security.

There's no sensible way to make this make sense.

I do agree that a lot of entities are not adequately prosecuted for their incompetent data handling but fixing that seems far more realistic than banning the word "drop", everywhere.
Asda's Issa brothers still paying Walmart to use old IT systems
"Our opinion is that the proprietary W3W serivce is unhelpful and dangerous."

https://w3w.me.ss/ What 3 Words is a Mess

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Personally I think the *idea* is great and is actually useful but the closed and internet only nature of this service is troubling and the behaviour of the company doesn't seem that positive. There are better solutions which run with the same idea. This company is VC backed and is using (it seems to me) all of their funding for marketing.

The better solutions don't have vc backing and no millions to spend on marketing.
In WWII in the Netherlands, when encountering a stranger, they'd have them pronounce 'Scheveningen' as a check-phrase to distinguish if they were dealing with a Dutch or German person.
Now, we can ask random strangers on the internet to spell out some glitch tokens to determine if you're dealing with a LLM bot.