skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular content and turn every single video into an ad.

I'm about ready to divest from any technology more advanced than a 1980s terminal. Any takers for my Neo-Amish movement? On Fridays we have pancakes and on Sundays we stone ad executives.
I'm a 40 year old geriatric millennial who is the only one amongst my friend group that loves TikTok. None of them get it. They say "isn't it just a bunch of teenagers dancing?"

Meanwhile, I'm on here following dudes wintering at the south pole, a captain of a container ship in the middle of the indian ocean, an orthodox rabbi in brooklyn, a physicist, a philosopher, a civic designer, and 10,000 hilarious meme makers and comedians who are remixing and lipsyncing and making incredible content that I can't even conceive of doing through a mobile interface. Most of THAT group are not famous anywhere else - their bios don't link to instagram or a management group.

Some of these videos get longer - but nothing more than 5 mins. Concentrated deep dives into a single topic. Heavy on personality but otherwise mostly Signal, not Noise.

Which is why it's also so hilarious folks in this thread rolling their eyes saying that people say that every platform gets ruined, but it never is. No, the NUMBERS go up. But the platforms have been ruined over and over and over again. None of my generation is on Facebook anymore. They are still on Instagram but exclusively to follow celebrities. There is no place in the world to just hang out and catch up with friends anymore - not a ubiquitous one anyway that we had through the 2000's. Even Reddit has lost all culture and is a ghosttown compared to what it use dto be.

I'm not saying Tiktok is that. But what Tiktok has been for the last 3 years is UNIQUE. Special. Distinctive. It's own style, it's own brand of interesting and engaging.

And this:
> Then there’s the videos themselves. In a bid to compete with YouTube, TikTok is reportedly preparing to allow users to post 30-minute videos and prompting creators to upload horizontal content instead of the app’s standard vertical format. TikTok is even encouraging people to upload photo slideshows instead of videos altogether. On top of that, TikTok just fumbled a relationship with Universal Music Group, which pulled its music catalog off the platform and silenced any video featuring Taylor Swift, the Weeknd, and every other Universal artist.

Will absolutely ruin it, if they don't quickly pivot and turn away. I don't mean "ruin" by pure user/engagement numbers. But ruin what currently makes it special in terms of connecting humanity to one another. That will go away and not come back somewhere else.
Again, what is this "Fediverse" that people keep talking about? Because so far I've only gathered that Fediverse doesn't mean that entities in it will actually be able to communicate with each other, and that Bluesky isn't in it (or that it's in it, but not in the "actual" part of it). Is Threads even part of the "Fediverse"?
Get Inspired: 10 Micro SaaS Companies That Generate $1k/Month
> best its ever been in terms of capability

I do not know about features, that may be true. But unfortunately Twitter seems to be in austerity mode. Unlike most sites, it is not working for wast majority of internet users.
The problem is, because they don't censor much, it's also a breeding ground for misinformation and fakes. It's really insane how fast low hate spreads on that platform because of some poor information or misconception, especially with more complex topics.
I love the irony of reading: "The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular content and turn every single video into an ad", followed immediately by a dozen pages of ads targeted at me based on my browsing history (missed the 'Read More' button).
i just don't want another gas only car, and so will deal with some inconvenience.
A solar panel hooked up to an LED light bulb does not create virtually any waste heat… and a heat pump creates heat but it also creates cold. Global warming as I understand it is mostly about solar radiation being trapped within the atmosphere due to changes in the atmosphere itself and not really due to anything we’re doing at ground level heat-generation-wise (only gases emitted)
"Oracle GraalVM" (the former "Enterprise Edition") is now free, but (unlike "GraalVM Community Edition") not open source.
What was their 2023 income?
unfortunately, usually professors in university should have Ph.D. let people who focus on research cutting-edge technology/knowledge to teach students in a higher education is important (at least in a perfect world).
I'm typing this on a T495s, but running NetBSD. Thanks for the data point on the working amdgpu driver, I'm just using a dumb framebuffer driver right now.
How I stopped a popular mouse movement synthesizer working on Akamai antibot protection through basic engineering
Mountain range + Pollen = Hay Fever
To increase distrust of the US Government, especially when it comes to warmongering. Great alpha for the country sitting at the top of many DOD lists.
Awesome People Hanging Out Together
Just a little note, you can totally write things on notes in the physical world and tape them around your room. It's even quite pleasant to write on paper or chalkboard and to cross items off as they are completed.
I often show help if an unknown option was given but in the cases I don't I am not going through a list of special cases that I don't even know of to try and determine that someone wants the help text. I've never even seen -? before that I can recall.
There a tons of truly vile fediverse instances.
I disagree. The company is mentioned multiple times, a conflict of interest is clearly visible. We also don't complain about Google et al publishing papers about some of their internal systems and why it helps, I hope?
Yet another social media i don't want to sign up for.

Sorry, I'm getting old and grumpy, but I'm not using any of the other social media sites, and I'm not planning on adding one to the list.
The Galileo Fallacy...
Chez Scheme Version 10.0.0
A lot of HN works in industries which benefit from advertising. It's motivated reasoning.

In general, HN users can be trusted to take the side of corporations over humans in the vast majority of situations.

EDIT: Downvoting without giving reasoning just lends further credence to my point that their views are based in selfishness rather than reasoning. ;)
Plugin hybrid is the best.
I know this is one man's anecdote - but TikTok somehow lost that early magic. I remember it in 2018 and it was much wilder than it is now. It would regularly give me some pretty far-out content and the algorithm would mix it together into a surreal yet cohesive package. In many ways it was a much worse objective experience back then, the duetting which was pervasive at the time often became pretty intense bullying. But it was often genuinely surprising in an almost Monty Python-esque kind of way.

Now I feel they have sanitized it pretty well, and the volume of creators means that each niche is overfull with middle-brow content. I think that has left little room for the truly bizarre stuff that lurks to come out into the light. It still manages to keep me stuck to the screen for hours at a time (the reason I very rarely dare to open the app at all) but I don't have the same belly laugh experience I did when I first used the app. I walk away less often thinking to myself: "what the hell just happened". Mostly it serves me pretty tame content.

I mean, this really just feels like textbook case of Enshittification [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
I am not an expert so this is just my gut talking, but I suspect that the effect of emissions on the energy that the planet absorbs from the sun dwarfs the heat that our machines produce by some very large multiple.
When you're not logged in, the profile view shows you the most liked posts from that account, not the most recent. Not sure why.
You can of course use a vanilla database, read every row and just roll your own vector distance function, but it's just frustrating that there isn't a standardized pattern for this.

There are plenty of proprietary databases and APIs, but now you're taking on a dependency and assuming a certain amount of risk.
>In general, I recommend the following rules for propaganda hygeine:

Here's another: if someone gives you a list of rules that are carefully crafted to only apply to those that are against their preferred narrative, subtract a point of credibility
Campfire + Sushi = Fish
Show HN: Logdy.dev – web based log viewer UI for local development environments
Tons of improvements in this release!
I didn't say ice bath, I said freedive, precisely for the reason that one is much more easily reversible than the other once you reach a sustainable temperature. If it was as easy to remove SO2 from the atmosphere as it would be to step out of an ice bath, then I would have said ice bath.
There's no indication other brands will pay the same price for a Tesla charge though.
Tiktok is a platform for kids and teenagers (right?), but teens don't have money. So how's their business model even supposed to work?
Locomotion Vault (2021)
That's easier now than ever with services like neon.tech and fly.io where you can quickly spin up new databases via api.
Apple sells a wire. It's $300.
Just making the observation that there are more humans and a larger built environment. When there is a natural disaster, there's likely to be more human impacts now than 50 years ago, regardless of the location or cause.
Agree - it's also extremely concerning that otherwise intelligent and educated people I know that have never been climate deniers have shifted into this absurd climate "optimism" which borders on delusional that's approximately like "well, eventually things will get so bad that capitalism will save us and we'll plant a bunch of trees or capture carbon or pump coolants into the atmosphere" and is generally unbothered by it otherwise. It's astounding to me, no matter how much you try to reason and give examples of why these approaches can't/haven't been working, it's like trying to get through a brick wall.

I understand why - to have any kids right now would be terrifying. Hell, to be under 50 right now is terrifying. But just because the truth is scary does not mean we should retreat to delusion.
So what Twitter competitor has everyone else gone to?
I think it's mostly the same motivation as blocking assholes, partly "I don't want to be part of your attempt to game the algorithm" and partly "I don't want to see this".
Is there a good reason this is formatted like a scientific paper and submitted to arxiv besides "it makes this ad look more legit and innovative"?
How is that relevant? The voting public will typically delay expensive cost-saving measures. Because the majority of individuals will do the same.

Also forced public expenditures are a huge money making opportunity for the capital class, so they will tend to encourage delay as well.
Given the choice - and I'm sincerely asking this, because I don't know enough about the subject - what'd be worse here, the disease or the cure? Could we live with acid rain if it staved off cataclysmic global warming?
Actually, the American SOP is the original because the British changed the definition of the gallon in 1824, which you will notice is long after the Revolutionary War. No one in America cared, so we kept on using our customary units.
If we cannot punish prisoners for their crimes by being required to do even a modicum of labor (it's certainly not brutal anymore), why even put them in jail in the first place? We're restricting their right to free movement, which is de-facto slavery. If we want to abolish slavery fully, prisons themselves cannot exist.
Not sure about his, but many letters are public and are available at https://www.futureme.org/letters/public
You think it is different in government run prisons? There are valid reasons to be against forced prison labor, but the prevalence of it has little to do whether the prison is run by the government or a private company.
"The agenda includes values of nonviolence, compassion, curiosity and respect, with a framework for constructive action."

We're still talking about Humans, right?

We are so screwed.
> everyone said the technology would fail.

Most sites are able to operate without login. This is not case for the Twitter. It is operating still yes, but for now in austerity mode.
We know that, but it doesn't change a thing. Your or my opinion has little influence. Therefore baby steps should be taken which will reduce that cost.
According to Firefox, it uses 25MB. I suspect neither measurement is entirely accurate.
Expensive for folks in the future*

That is what is running through people's heads. And apparently they are not a part of this future either.
When they tone it down, they look like idiots because their most pessimistic predictions from one era become the most optimistic ones from the next.

But of course, politics.
It's very easy to get ChatGPT to provide legal advice based on information fed in the prompt. OpenAI is not censoring legal advice anywhere near as hard as they are censoring politics or naughty talk.
> Toyota reliability is unmatched, but their design and interior tech certainly leaves something to be desired. . . . But perhaps part of the reason Toyota is so reliable is because they put such a relative little focus on design/tech enhancements?

Yes, maybe the two are related in some unseen way. Like, for all its power, the eye of Sauron at the top of the corp tower can't focus on all things equally.

I semi-anticipated a hybrid to be the worst of both worlds, but after 13 + 6 years that hasn't proven the case for my Prii.
Non-sequitur?

People don't sign treaties that prevent them from doing whatever it is they want to do. It follows that the parties didn't want to develop/overcome ABM systems. When one of the parties changed their mind (under Ronald Ray-guns), the treaty ended.

But it turned out to be very difficult and expensive to build an ABM system that can protect much more than an airbase from ballistic missiles. Protecting something like the entire continental USA was infeasible.
IME, dropping off cars for service is a huge hassle, from either waiting a couple hours at the dealer or 2x shuttle pickups / or having someone drop/pick you up.

I did this every 6 months for my Tacoma, which was the required schedule for a new car to maintain the warranty.

I've taken my Bolt in once for a battery recall / cabin air filter in 6 years of ownership.
Somehow I had no idea that there was a commercial SaaS version of Netbox, as I've been using the OSS version for years hosted internally.

Feedback: the pricing is completely whacked, IMHO. I got excited that I could move to someone else supporting Netbox instead of my team, however due to the number of devices I have, I would have to use the middle license tier -- that's listed as $20,000/yr. This isn't a $20,000/yr problem to me, it would be impossible to justify this to my management, sadly.

Just my feedback on your pricing. Netbox itself, the code and the absolutely stunning dev velocity is inspiring, but unless pricing were drastically lower I couldn't go for it. Would otherwise love to support.
I missed that, that makes the true number even smaller
Garry Tan: Over the Target
> It's silly to pretend this is an issue people have strong opinions about in a vaccuum, divorced from how they feel about the subject.

If true this is actually really sad. If people can't have the same stance on harassment/stalking/whatever-this-thing-is regardless of if they like the victim or not it's really sad.
Canada Must End Reliance on Cheap Foreign Labor, Minister Says
AFAIK she has a paid staff to do all that for her.

As I said: tiny violins.
Your point is spot on. Data removal services have an aspect where a ton of value is obtained in the first 1 - 4 months as the majority of profiles are wiped away, and then after that you're sort of in maintenance mode where the service catches profiles as they pop back up, or when new data brokers are added to the system for coverage.

Optery generally has 2 types of customers:

- The first type are those that care a lot about their privacy and the cost of an ongoing subscription is insignificant to them, so they keep the service running on an ongoing basis for the ongoing automated scans and removals and for getting new data brokers they get coverage for immediately as they are added into the system.

- The second type of customer is more price conscious and is basically looking back and forth between their credit card statement and their Optery dashboard each month and then they either pause or cancel the subscription when they feel they're reached a good stopping point. Optery's pause subscription feature is very popular for this type of customer and you can use it to automatically re-start the service in 3, 6, 9 months, etc.

- Another thing to point out is many other services only offer Yearly subscriptions, Optery offers Yearly or Monthly. If you're price conscious, the Monthly is nice because you can turn it on and off, or pause it as you wish.

More detail on the topic of keeping Optery running on an ongoing basis is on the Optery Help Desk here:

https://help.optery.com/en/article/why-should-i-keep-my-opte...
> In yet another case study, Vice President of San Miguel’s Board of Directors, Anthony Kalvans did some digging. He worked to construct a value per acre calculation for the township. Kalvans found that Jazzytown, a denser area, was producing almost $3.8 million per acre across five acres, while the suburban area produces less than 5% of that and takes up nearly 70 acres. Both places pay the same for water, but the wealthier suburbs are absorbing millions of dollars in benefits that never come back to the poor areas. If the wealthy want to live expensively, that’s fine, but they should never make us pick up their bill.

Source: https://medium.com/candide-group/suburbs-the-great-american-...
Why is it that two companies dominate the production of advanced chips?
"Doing your part" always seemed like a nice way for the rich to put their heads in the sand.

Meanwhile at least 95% of the world population lives from paycheck to paycheck (immediate existential threat versus long term threat) and doesn't have the financial means to buy solar panels, EVs, etc., but also more durable items instead of cheap stuff from China.
> I was giving you an example of the system failing for me.

"In this scenario that only I know the details of, here is my opinion, and my opinion is correct, which proves OKR is bullshit". You're simply stating your feelings, which nobody can discuss/examine. That isn't an example of anything.
Google isn't trying to sell you their internal systems. This is a bullshit AI hype bubble advert masquerading as an academic paper. Bet you 10 bucks it doesn't get through peer review (or isn't even submitted for peer review).
My opinion has always been that intent is what turns something from sound to music, or from non-art to art. I might pose the question back to you. At what tempo does the piece go from being music to being sound?
This was similar to my journey as well. I'm a self-taught developer and was so green when I learned Rails I didn't even understand that there was such a thing as SQL behind the ORM. Took some grey beard .net folks to share the and power of the database.
Nothing is impossible in tech. (Rhetorical hyperbole!) But seriously let me give you an analogous example, with its pros and cons.

DNS now has something widely deployed called "query name minimization". For no particular reason other than it made server's lives easy (which it does, as we will explain) the recursion process historically sent the actual qname (what was asked for) to each nameserver contacted.

Much was made of this in recent years, that this leaked potentially important information to servers which demonstrably couldn't have the actual answer for the qname (even if they could provide a useful referral).

Two flavors of qname minimization exist in the field. One flavor asks qtype A questions of the form "_.example.com" until it triangulates on the server with the answer; the other asks qtype NS questions (regardless of the actual qtype). (In case you've noticed a change in the mix of your DNS traffic.) In a nutshell, qname minimization asks questions which enable it to triangulate on the server which can potentially answer the question, before sending the actual question to it.

A good rule of thumb is that with a cold cache qname minimization will result in nearly twice as many queries being issued / answered during the resolution process, assuming nothing goes wrong. Both of these approaches are prone to mistakes when servers don't conform to assumptions about how proper DNS should operate.
Paul Hessberg did a talk at TEDxBend a few years bask that helps sum it up visually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDZNkm8Mas

There are a lot of reasons fires are more and more common and more and more devastating, but the number one reason is build up of vegetation on the forest floor that contributes to a ladder effect moving the fire from a ground fire to a canopy fire.

A lot more effort needs to be undertaken to build fire breaks and conduct controlled burns in the forests of North America to mitigate this problem and provide the fire the ecosystem evolved around and nutrients for new trees. It would also help beat back the various fungal and beetle pandemics in the western forests. We can't simply blame it all on PG&E and move on, a spark from a PG&E power line would not turn into a devastating megafire if the forest was healthy.
Is confession emerging as a modern synonym for complaint?

It used to be that confession referred strictly to a revelation of one's wrongdoing. Then, ironically, of some less-than-perfect doing, or unorthodox ways.
But fediverse isn't run by one man that personally uses his position to push those opinions.
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I don't think this analogy works. What the farmer would sell his farm for ("market cap") is much more than an annual harvest value ("revenue").

Also tech is not that special. You could say the same about a factory, which you build once and it churns out cars, or a mine which churns out minerals. And to the extent this is not true, for example factories needing upgrades and labour, the same is true of tech. Software gets old, needs support, and the labour of well paid technologists.
For scaling, has anyone here used hash based partitioning to scale horizontally?

In principle, seems like it should work to allow large scale distribution across many servers. But the actual management of replicas and deciding which servers to place partitions, redistributing when new servers are added, etc. could lead to a massive amount of operational overhead.
She very kindly types up when and where she plans on being and publishes it on her website, but I guess that's not a security issue because it makes her money.
Catholic Church + Pride = Pope
I hate the term fediverse to be quite honest.

software that implements the ActivityPub protocol, or historically older protocols such as OStatus is a mouthful.
> but I would hope they aren’t doing work the DB is already doing for you.

Sadly this is very much a thing that ORMs do all the time.
I would write a letter in a text file, password encrypt it in a zip file, upload zip to Google drive, put a reminder in Google calendar for the date i want to open, with link & password.
Except for when your data is in it. Migrating data on a running app is one of the worst things to deal with. I can understand using something simple and cut down for other things, but the DB is not the place I'd want to do that. Postgres isn't exactly hard to get going with, and will grow with you easily, so why trade that off for saving an hour or two at the start of the project?
The comic feels like self-parody.

"Come with me to the wonderful land of BlueSky, where everything is *open* and *magic* and all bad trolls are blocked!"

"That's amazing! I think I'll like it here!"

"YAY!"