skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Threads is already going that direction. It's a lot more negative and cynical than it was when it started out, and seems to be slowly morphing into more of a Twitter like experience than an Instagram like one.

Not sure about BlueSky, though I may not be following active enough people there to notice any change in atmosphere.
Yes, AAC is also patent encumbered, but the structure of the fees was apparently "better" for Apple. This was heavily discussed … Jesus, 15 years ago now … when everyone was pissed Apple didn't use MP3s.

Basically, AAC was cheaper for Apple so that's what they used.

But AAC was as "open" as MP3 and there was never any "lock in".
Then, there's the em dash

lady - tasting brine
This sort of utilitarian calculus isn’t even believed by utilitarians. Simply having more people doesn’t make the world better (or worse.)

This comment reminds me of the Robert Silverberg novel “The World Inside” where the world is dominated by a belief that reproduction is the highest good.
TresorIt can synchronise file to and from folders on external drives just fine. Don't know why others don't want to implement it...
> some dude flailing an open fire door back and forth all day to get a little bit of fresh air in

That's hilarious (probably for you as well, in hindsight). Do you feel comfortable naming and shaming this DC, so we know to avoid it?
In 2024 there will be flying cars!

Meanwhile.
Thanks to fractional reserve banking, most money is already fake anyways.
A lot of awful things happen because some people think they can fix "the world". We can fix ourselves one by one, not all at once.
We'd like to experiment with novel UX approaches in the future, but for now there is a lot of value in being familiar to at least one audience, and in reaching parity with the workflows they're used to. Bluesky is still quite a bit behind Twitter in terms of features. People in the community can already experiment with building novel UX in third-party clients — see https://www.docs.bsky.app/ for how to build one. Historically, most Twitter UX innovations were codifying existing user behavior (e.g. RT and QT) so I wonder if a similar careful approach could work here.
No, they won't. It's money laundering. They'll pay the mortgages.
That "generally considered" is one of the interesting assumptions I've seen being questioned lately. Prior to refrigeration salt was a major dietary factor and there's some evidence sodium intake was higher for centuries in the past than modern foods (that the overuse of salt in fast foods and processed foods is almost a correction back towards pre-refrigeration "norms").

Food science is wild and "generally considered" pop food science is wilder still.
Yes. Aggregations and search are often best done as close to the data as possible, in the DB.

Rendering html, caching, parsing api responses, sending emails, background jobs: Nope.

Basically, use the database for what it’s good at, no more.
> From a different perspective, it's kind of like paying a contractor or offshore.

That relationship is much better defined to both parties. It sounds like this person was surprised.
The problem I have with studies like this is that the implied scoping really distorts any conclusions that could be drawn. People who don't go to the doctor - by definition - don't get diagnosed with anything.
I think viewing virality optimized content as informative in a meaningful way on any social media platform is a road straight to hell, to be honest.
If Apple could get rid of web browser in lieu of having everything done via apps, they most certainly would.
That API is a result of ineptitude, but the disclosure is just so full of spin and lies, they're unable to honestly say what was actually leaked without deliberate ommission with only some lose implication to cover their ass.

Nearly half of the words in this rather pathetic disclosure are a dramatic grandstand against... I don't really know to be honest.

> As the CEO of Spoutible, I accept full responsibility for this incident. Since our inception, we have faced an unparalleled barrage of attacks aimed at undermining our community. Yet, it is the spirit of our community that fortifies us against these assaults. The timing of this incident, coinciding with our anniversary, is a stark reminder of the hurdles we face. However, let this moment not weaken us but instead solidify our resolve.

> We stand united, more determined than ever, to uphold our commitment to providing a secure and inclusive platform. For every voice that seeks refuge, for every story that demands to be heard, Spoutible will remain a bastion of safety and solidarity. We will persist, unwavering in our dedication to champion the voices of the marginalized.

All those poor Spoutible users fighting on the beaches, in the fields and on the streets... oh wait, it's some kind of social media platform.
Unveiling the Hidden Reward System in Language Models: A Dive into DPO
I think probably in the long run because, all in all, net inbound capital into the economy is positive in the long run. What can cause problems is bubbles and 'over-heating', meaning too much over a too short period, which is when 'less' inbound capital may be sought. But overall best to keep the flow positive.
Also can confirm daily use for extended period of time eventually caused me severe anxiety and depression. Perhaps the difference is we are using vape pens (at least I was) which are orders of magnitude stronger than plant. My tolerance increased and increased until I was smoking a 500mg pod almost weekly. I recently stopped cold turkey, and man it was tough. Restless nights, woke up drenched in sweat for about the first five days, shaking of hands, and lips. Whoever said that Cannabis is not physically addictive? Seems like I had physical withdraw symptoms.

I feel so much sharper now, and the fog of "war" has cleared. My work output has increased dramatically. I'm waking up earlier and feeling much more confident. I'm not against cannabis, I think in moderation can be nice, relaxing, and of course has valid medical uses.
They literally clawed back bonuses from all of the executives involved in the compliance failures.
With tornadoes the traditional F(Fujita) classification is based on how much damage the wind does. There is a correlation to windspeed. but the final verdict is based on damage done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Fujita_scale
I know when I need to look up something pertaining to systemic racism, I reach for my Oxford.
I think the future has to be feed ingestion that is 100% controlled by the user. To some extent we were there with RSS readers. I'm still able to retrieve Twitter feeds with an RSS reader. Everything comes together in one place, in order.

If this is done on device and everything is archived, it starts getting really powerful. For example, after the 737 MAX door incident, I searched "Boeing" in my RSS reader and instantly had a list of news stories going back over the past year. (The number of 737 incidents that has been happening around the world is a lot more than what sits in the top of the news, but that's another discussion.) A local LLM could even summarize large amounts of stored headlines and tweets going back over years, and that's tech that works today.

I don't want third party ad platforms (which now consists of Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and more) measuring, running tests, re-ordering, and deleting on my communications. The LLMs and machine learning advancements are going to just make this more invasive, ugly, and manipulative.

Sure, hn is largely about VC backed startups going on to try to have a multi-billion dollar IPO. It's also about disrupting incumbents. I can't think of a better path to disruption than coming up with business models that choke off their user-bases and end ad monetized surveillance. I for one have no interest in a future where I wear an Apple/Facebook/Google controlled AR/VR headset that has cameras to make sure my eyes are looking at all of the ads which are targeted based on the other pixels it knows I looked at. (I feel like a paranoid schizophrenic writing that, but that is what they are making.)
I signed up, and Mozilla warns it takes 7-14 days for data on most of these sites to be removed. They must need to do a lot of things by hand. This would also explain why you get 1 scan per month.
Talking frankly about folks who decide to detransition is not transphobia.

Retweeting articles (he didn't RT the NYT article, which to be clear I did not read and have no opinion on, but instead a blog post talking about it) that uses slugs like "nyt-opinion-hey-maybe-letting-kids-inalterably-mutilate-their-bodies-isnt-such-a-great-idea-after-all", and starts with "In a largely thoughtful, meticulously documented and thorough review of the state of trans madness" is absolutely transphobia.

(I mostly leave this comment for anyone who is coming to read this discussion later so they can understand the context, I don't believe that you are going to be convinced here and certainly I am not either, so I don't plan on responding more.)
Oil is generally not so cheap in countries that don't have their own oil production. Oil (like natural gas) is also a strategic risk. You can't change geology (unless you invade a place with oil). Electricity on the other hand is something most countries can do something about, it can be self produced.
When I was in my teens kids would have contests to see who could take the most and biggest "hits" from bongs 3ft long.

I never did that. I've always taken tiny puffs because I don't like coughing, so I got called a "buzz kill" quite a few times back then.
No, but that is a very, very, slippery slope, and there's a supermajority against enabling it.
No need for linguistic knowledge, I once had the chance to read some Pennsylvania Dutch texts stored in a library at a university in Central PA, and it was all Swiss German. "Dutch" is just the Americanization of "Deutsch," which is why they often call them the "Pennsylvania Deutsch" instead.
> The whole country is a gigantic house of cards propped up by real estate

That’s quite the statement, I assume you have quite the source for it.

The price-to-rent ratio isn’t that far off from the US, for example.
I'd love to know if the author still lives in IRC after the Freenode meltdown.
I find myself paying for an illegal IPTV service, just so I can watch soccer from my home country while living elsewhere. I'd genuinely prefer a legal, reasonably priced option, but the only alternatives are these expensive, big-name services that insist on a set-top box. So, reluctantly, the 'less legal' route ends up being the more practical service for me.
Is there something similar, say a proxy, that rewrites the responses to exclude certain ad patterns?
That's because they are one of the most global bank, therefore a prime choice when it comes to moving money from countries to countries. Most bank have a much smaller global footprint and can't be used as such.

Banks don't benefit from their customer laundering money just like landlords don't benefit from drug trafficking in their building: it's a hindrance and it costs a lot to do anything about it.

Source: I work on AML in a global bank.
"Just" make the implementation imitate some old Spotify Connect hardware that isn't being updated anymore and it would be near impossible for Spotify to realistically tell the difference.

Sure, people would still worry about using such software, but from an engineering standpoint, unless there's a signed Spotify Connect chip that for some reason can't be emulated, there isn't much Spotify can do to detect well-implemented reverse engineered API clients.

Not something you throw together in a day obviously, but definitely not impossible.
Thanks. I'm worried though that a short demo will not give a good impression of issues like temperature and weight.
We've been waiting 20 years for this
> To date they've done very little

Not true. You can now follow Adam Mosseri's Threads account from Mastodon.

And like you said they are committed to fully rolling it out this year.
I don't know why my infotainment system modifications would need to be certified. The head unit itself is swappable with something that just runs stock Android.

(I don't swap it because there are a few minor annoyances with that)
IMO what really matters is the THC concentration. I've suffered from generalized anxiety since early childhood, and the one time I tried typical, high-THC content recreational cannabis things didn't go well. I got a full-blown panic attack, and maybe even psychotic symptoms for a while, afterwards I wasn't sure whether I imagined some things or not. Later when I tried a CBD product I didn't have any problems, just a slight calming effect comparable to having a couple of beers.

Since then I've also found out that I probably have increased genetic likelihood of developing schizophrenia. I'll never touch anything with significant THC concentration again, just way too risky.
I know it goes without saying for most of us here, but actually being a heavy terminal user yourself is one of the most important things to understand how to design CLIs. It helps a ton to understand the ecosystem you live in, not just your own organism.

Example: Something I did a few months back ago for a tiny personal project @ https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finstem was implement `--format CSV`, `TSV` and `JSON` flags. I haven't had need for any of these myself, but they exist so any future people who want to use `csvkit`, `awk` and `jq` respectively to wrap around my program have easy ways to do so. That's not stuff I would have had the instincts to do if I wasn't myself a user of all 3 of those programs.
https://archive.is/ZvaQP
From the official CRS report on the NFS lands (https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45688.pdf):

> Numerous interrelated factors, including statutory, administrative, biological, and market influences, may have contributed to the decline in timber harvesting on NFS lands. The effect of each individual factor is not settled, as is the effect of each factor over time. These factors occurred at varying points in time and may not coincide directly with observed harvest level changes. Some sources have noted that statutory changes added complexity to forest management and increasing litigation frequency, while also increasing transparency and public participation.48 Other sources have noted changing management priorities. Others have noted decreasing domestic demand, volatile prices, and the prevalence of less valuable timber due to high harvest levels in previous decades. The listing of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) under the Endangered Species Act in 1990 is often discussed in regard to declining timber harvest levels.

So, the declining demand for wood probably means the industry is probably pretty happy to use the tree farms they have developed over the years. But it still seems like they would be happy to log public lands if it was made more convenient.
Lego is still quite amazing but not quite as cool as it used to be. I suppose the various boxes were always meant to be such that you could build that one really cool building/vehicle/etc. with it. Sometimes with a predesigned variation, too.

But today it seems that the purpose of most boxes is to do only that - and then, what, put the object into a display case? Or, more likely, play with it for a while and then forget about it.

What I mean is that even though today's lego boxes let you build way more realistic and designy products, there are so many special pieces that it does not spark your own creative fantasy (in my opinion) but limits it. To me, as a child, the appeal was always that there was quite a limited set of brick types - and the creativity lay in combining them in new ways.

In comparison, the number and types of different pieces seems to have doubled or tripled today. By implication that means that you end with a few instances of many different types of pieces while before, you'd have many instances of a few types of pieces. I'd argue that the latter lends itself much better to creating new things born out of your own creativity.
FWIW, you can now follow people on Threads from Mastodon and interact as if they're just another Mastodon user.
For the auditory learners, here is this paper in a summarized Audiobook format : https://player.oration.app/1960399e-ccb0-44f6-81f0-870ef7600...
Yeah, that's a pattern I use for occasional sysadmin tools - the command itself generates the actual commands, I review them, then "<up arrow> | sh -xeu". (Yes, there's no guarantee that the output is the same, so I don't use the pattern when that's a risk; it's also rarely if ever used for things I expect other people to run, just bulk operations that are saving me repetition.)
The world on big measures is going better than it has. I am constantly annoyed there are too many in power slowing process to actually do better. If we all wanted it to be better to avoid preventable deaths and disability we could make progress a lot faster than we do.
The other way to remember is, if you can remember that Kazakhstan is the biggest, then it goes alphabetically clockwise.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
It also seems odd that even if you (maybe unknowingly) connected your 'smart' toothbrush to wifi, it would be exposed to the public internet. Aren't most people using some kind of clunky cable modem etc. from their ISP, which would have a basic inbound firewall?
The two are not the same; with NextDNS I can choose to enable logging and see all requests from each device, as well as allowlist/denylist any domain/subdomain I want.
Apple's policy specifically states that you have a 14 day return policy if you are not satisfied with your product. I think if you genuinely think that, if the product reaches some realistic expectation of yours, you'd happily continue to own it and fully pay for it, then it is morally ok to buy it knowing that if it doesn't you'll return it. But if you are squarely in the "I can absolutely not afford this but it would be fun to play with it for free on their dime for a couple weeks", then I'd argue that it is morally very questionable. But, having said that, I can assure you their pricing and sales model has built in those considerations as well, so there's that perspective, too.
Its kindoff a shame. The people who built the foundations of our industry already knew what was coming decades ago and warned us, but we all thought they were crazy and ignored them. Now look at us. Governments can't even succesfully stand up against the control that these systems have over us.
most stuff just moved to libera without much change
Eclipse OpenJ9 0.43 Released with New Options, Updated Compilers
Looks like it maybe gives 10% better quality? Meh... that's the reason why nothing will come of this in the end. Come back when you have something 50% better
>most Canadians want a house somewhere in the woods instead of doing something meaningful with their lives or try and innovate to build something.

to be fair most Canadians were promised this as part of their countries stratospheric growth under neoliberalist policies. that they are not capable of it is no fault of their own. that they want this is at all is not a bane.

> Where US got the best talent from India, Canada got the worst, the ones who scam their way here and take the lowest level jobs.

dividing immigrants into "good ones" and "bad ones" is pretty vile, but as an american i must acquiesce we've played that game for a long time. before hispanics it was asians, before asians it was europeans (the irish particularly.) turns out blaming immigration is a fools errand to distract from domestic class warfare.

the real question for Canada now is not "how do we punish the immigrant" but what do elected leaders in the political class do to affect meaningful restitution and corrective action in the face of what is a national crisis. Either they see clearly and will reform their own cash cow, or they will blindly ride it off a cliff in the hopes that through their own profit they can weather the coming storm.
They're probably talking about intense paranoia. I have a friend, who told me about the one time they were high and couldn't pee, because of the fear that their organs would flush down the toilet...
There's "housing" and then there's $5+MM manhattan apartments, which are so inflated above their value as functional housing as to effectively be NFTs. People whine about the pencil shaped buildings but they shutup fast when they see that it causes zero inflation to lower-end housing prices and a big help to city budgets.

Also, strategically, having powerful people own expensive real estate influences them to visit and maybe not bomb it... at least, it's better than them never having stepped foot there. The famous example is Kyoto not being nuked because an American leader had seen it firsthand[1]. The Nazis spared Paris was apparently spared for similar reasons[2].

The counterexample is NYC which everybody loves to crap on (Gerald Ford "drop dead", 1993 bombing, 9/11, and lots of failed terrorist attacks since), presumably as a symbol of American greed and excess, but also as a symbol of urban chaos, rot and violence.

[1] https://collider.com/oppenheimer-improvised-line-kyoto/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Nazis+spared+Paris
> they are one of the most global bank

By what metric? I’d argue the driving factor is their proximity to dirty money. Same with Russian banks. Then other people notice you’re used to looking the other way and you get word-of-mouth network effects. With money launderers.
> This is how I view the world and it is why it upsets me when people voice concern about crime in a city or something like that and people respond with "ACKSHUALLY" followed by some sort of statistic.

Most people voicing "concern" are saying "crime is increasing" and usually blaming either current politicians and/or progressive policies for the "increase". It's almost always accompanied by either a "vote for me" or some screed on how we have "gone soft on crime".
TVs are the worst. Everything except OLED sets have been getting cheaper and cheaper and I'm certain these manufacturers aren't achieving this via production line optimizations. It starts with the connection to vacuum up the data, next comes overlay ads, in a few years it'll be subscription plans instead of a sticker price. and the general public will love it.
PLC uses signed logs similar to certificate transparency. We have a lot of options for where to take it. There may be a distributed/decentralized hosting system if we can settle on a consensus model we're comfortable with. Otherwise it will be some kind of org management model.

The other direction we've got is did:web, which is already used in some cases, and has some tradeoffs but is a strong option.
Freenode was smoothly recombobulated into Libera Chat, so the meltdown shouldn't have affected much.
It breaks a lot of websites, I used NextDNS for about two years but got tired of the headaches.
It won't. At the store I had no qualms about comfort, but of course taking it home I started to see what many of the reviewers were saying. I think the demo experience will very nicely showcase the major selling points of the device, and quite honestly the only way to really get at the rough edges is to spend considerable more time with it than they'd allow you to do.
It is slightly unfair to compare a car built with a laser focus on fuel-efficiency with one built to just be a regular sedan.

You hardly have to stretch to tip the numbers back towards EVs (a ~35mpg sedan and $4/gal fuel prices).