skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have no idea why (the newer generation of larger tech companies don't, but legacy ones do), but they do it.

There's a lot of "if the olds do it, we're doing something different" mentality.
If prisoners at least got paid minimum wage then maybe when they left prison they'd have a pool of funds to get their life put back together rather than resorting to crime in order to survive, repeating a cycle that gets them put back in there.
> Walking around without peripheral vision in order to be able to watch YouTube in the train station is not worth any amount of money.

I'm more worried about people trying to drive with this thing on.
The EU lacks the power to do that kind of enforcement. It surprisingly quickly turns into a military and hard power question, which the EU lacks considering it’s the GDP of all these evil tech companies that’s paying for their national security and health care.

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2023/07/03/defence...

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/529049-america-is-sub...
A Twitter alternative.
These are great. Most frustrating to me is that the basic commands: rm, mv, cp, touch, mkdir do not follow some of the basic guidelines, such as “ask before destructive action”. I have been reimplemting them in Rust for myself to fix this (although a wrapper would have been perhaps better, it’s hard to write it and have the program work in any shell).
i'm of the same mind. I set limits. I don't play games on my phone (except maybe in exceptional circumstances like on an airplane) and I don't use it for social media (only exception is facebook messenger because so many family members use it). I find when I draw fences around things like that it helps a lot to get back time from time stealing activities. I treat my phone as a tool and not as entertainment, otherwise I'd be spending all my free time doom scrolling and playing puzzle games on it. yeah I used to do that a few years back until I cataloged my hours and it was truly scary how much time was wasted.
Opinion posed as fact.
Code was added to libc++ and libstdc++ to avoid the TOCTOU exploit documented in the CVE. "Fixed" in this case means the source code for the library was modified to prevent the documented exploit, and test cases were added to their test suites to exercise the code.

Not sure about the Microsoft C++ standard library since the Microsoft Windows system API does not provide the same softlink functionalty.
The "mea culpa, I have been part of over-egging a pre-launch product based on being blessed with privileged access to an extremely limited guided walkthrough and I lost all objectivity" shuffle.

And that bit about a VR headset being better than an iPad for a personal video player is some seriously optimistic, overextended thinking.

Is wearing half a kilo of electronics with a two hour battery life on your head really superior to a smaller screen with all-day battery life that you can put away at a moment's notice?

(Even ignoring that video content often has more than two hours of runtime.)
https://archive.ph/xg0iJ
ok I get that, but at least our applications usually only have one thing (one thread of one process on one machine) operating on the database. So maybe it's just our silly usecase
Completely uninterested in Bluesky as it was the favorite non-mastodon target for the most insufferable people that I'd run across on the old Twitter. I'm legitimately happy for them that there's a place they enjoy participating, but want nothing to do with it.
I mean, you _can_ host your staging environment on a Minisforum PC hidden in your closet and then deploy to Hetzner, and probably save a _ton_ unless your service benefits from things like, say, autoscaling or global low-latency access.

Niches where you can get away with that are limited, not just by technical challenges but because large parts of the social ecosystem of IT won't like that. But they do exist. There's also still things that aren't webapps _at all_, there's software that has to run without internet access. It's all far apart and often requires specialized knowledge, but it exists.
Also an unaffiliated, long term, and happy user of Optery.

If nothing else, I’m glad there are more offerings showing up on this space because of the competition this will hopefully generate.

Consumer Reports also has a semi-related offering called “Permission Slip” that is focused on opting out of data sharing with individual companies, e.g. Netflix, Home Depot, etc.
Wow.

Here's the meat of it:

> Our recent study has the premise that both humans and flies sleep during the night and are awake during the day, and both species require a significant amount of sleep each day when their neural systems are developing in specific activities. This trait is shared by both species. An investigation was segmented into three subfields, which were titled "Life span," "Time-to-death," and "Chronological age." In D. melanogaster, there was a positive correlation between life span, the intensity of young male medflies, and the persistence of movement. Time-to-death analysis revealed that the male flies passed away two weeks after exhibiting the supine behavior. Chronological age, activity in D. melanogaster was adversely correlated with age; however, there was no correlation between chronological age and time-to-death.

And by "meat of it" I mean literally everything that's not background.

In conclusion:

> of these age factors when considering these options supply chain procedure for maintaining will be beneficial.

That's not a fragment, that's the entire last sentence copied exactly, including the lack of capitalization.

https://isctj.com/index.php/isctj/article/view/250/250
It isn't safe, true.

Is it, on average, safer?
What do AI doomers want?
That’s slavery, friend.
It reads like someone took a longer paper, cut out individual sentences or fragments, and then put a fraction of them back together without bothering to see if it made sense.

It lists 9 references but never cites them directly. So there's no way to tell what came from where.

It's also just not copy-edited at all. There's _three _ spaces before the third sentence, which begins with a fragment of a different sentence
why do we say dupe on orange site? this is like the most trivial inconsequential thing to call out, let this be duped. This is going to be news to someone.

to add some more substance to my comment this is how I see Bluesky's virality/stickiness playing out: everyone's going to move to it, it's going to be an unofficial but incompatible "fediverse2", folks will pretend the actual Fediverse doesn't exist, and then the actual Bluesky public benefit corporation (or some derivative, come on guys you wanna get filthy rich) will eventually turn to a data brokerage/ advertising play to enshittify the entire thing.
I have heard most of this theory before. It sounds plausible to me. What do others think?
I'm replying to you from one :)
I haven't read every review of the AVP, but I've read a few (not skim-read) - this, the Verge, Gruber, some others - and while everyone waxes lyrical about the movie watching experience, I haven't noticed a single comment about whether you can actually have a drink while doing so. I can't easily drink from a glass/can with a Quest 3 on my face. Would I be able to with an AVP?
by Jack Dorsey (he co-founded Twitter)
The treaty ran for 50 years, and was extended within that time. There was thus obvious value to it.
I have never heard the term ACID so I don't believe that's a reason for us at least
I think it's fair to say that Ronson is mostly not a criminal:

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

He's more "swashbuckling businessman who was a bit too swashbuckling" than "career criminal". Rather different to the post-Soviet oligarchs, at least.
Hi @mortallywounded!

As @lorenzk said, thanks for sharing your experience on these things.

You also taught me something meaningful, and you didn't even have to do anything!

I was curious about what kind of product you've made and started stalking your comment history to see if I got some clues about it.

I eventually reach a comment from you (on a thread about a dev. who got his Apple account cancelled) to which I replied ... like ... this ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395858

<clown face>

I wish I could hide under a rock now, lol; but on the positive side I feel like I learned how/why one should be more measured in general, to avoid ending up looking in situations like these.

Congrats for shipping whatever it is that you do, and thanks for the life lesson on the side!
When you think about "research" like this in the context of LLMs, I worry that the source (a journal) will start codifying some of this nonsense as known fact that the ChatGPTs of the world start regurgitatiing...
Because I also want to run performant apps.
yeah mine was a way to build anxiety via doom scrolling and downloading time wasting games. When I'm on a laptop/desktop, I'm usually actually working or killing time, but since I don't have one with me at all times, it's much easier to limit time wastage.
I have the disposable income but I already feel so alienated from the world as a software engineer. Especially post-covid. My mind is nudging me to go out and socialize or go on an adventure. I might purchase this as a tech geek, but I know I would benefit more from investing the small fortune in something that maximized my social growth (i've no idea what that would be..) All in all, I guess if it was cheaper, I wouldn't evaluate this on such an intellectual/philosophical level..
LangChain XML Agents [video]
I wonder if they will bundle it with VPN, Relay, for a good and reasonable price. This would be an attractive bundle to subscribe.
Honestly, big issue with the cattle metaphor is that the individual services you run on servers are very much often not interchangeable.

A DNS service is not NTP is not mail gateway is not application load balancer is not database etc etc etc

At best, multiple replicas of those are cattle.

And while you can treat the servers underlying them as interchangeable, that doesn't change the fact the services you run on them are not.
Please read the article, it addresses all of your points and should help you understand.
Or not: https://cryptonews.net/news/bitcoin/27725030

> According to the race data, Finney competed in the “Santa Barbara Running Company Chardonnay 10 Miler & 5K,” starting at 8 am Pacific time and finishing the race at 78 minutes.

> The race, however, coincides with timestamped emails between Satoshi and one of the first Bitcoin developers, Mike Hearn.
Mostly because they care about user experience of people using their phones. There is nothing that comes close to WebKit in terms of performance/battery life on Apple devices, even on desktop, where other browser vendors have been able to develop their rendering engineswithout restrictions, WebKit is still far ahead.
Supabase integrates a lot of the open source tools listed here. A Postgrs backend as a service offering. Just started using it. Very impressed.
Most documented flop in history
> 1. locked down by apple's walled garden/OS (no foss, no customisation)

> 2. way too expensive for an impulse purchase (for the average consumer. for example you could buy 7 Quest 3's)

> 3. battery life

for me, point 1 kills it. reason i would never buy it.

proprietary battery connector & 1 monitor limit is a very typical apple move.

i see it as another (albeit cool) vehicle for selling apps and subscriptions. neither of which i'm interested in.

its really a shame that such great hardware is hobbled by apples OS.
I attempted to use this, entered my email, was prompted with a "create your account" page, laughed out loud and closed the tab. This is a comical misunderstanding of what the product even IS or DOES.
Can someone tell me the basic difference between Bluesky and Nostr. Jack is a big fan of Nostr and I love it technical side of thing, I know not much about how Bluesky works.
Can you at least pay them a correct wage? In my country they are paid at least minimum wages, and have the choice of studying instead.
This isn't just a low quality paper. It is two paragraphs long. Its very last sentence is a sentence fragment. It just says "Rest may be important for train operators. Rest is also important for this particular kind of fly species."

I've seen low quality papers get published before, but they are enormously better than this. Even the very worst papers I've ever seen in peer review and given strong rejects to are enormously better than this. This wouldn't even cut it for a poster proposal at a conference.

I would expect a 6th grader writing a science report that they were given two weeks to complete to produce better writing than this.
Can you clarify?

Are you saying that locations of the hurricanes have not changed, it's merely that there are now people/structures there so it's now noticeable? Or that humans are altering storm paths based on structural changes to the environment?
The biggest drawback for me is that AVP only works if you're watching things alone. You can easily watch an iPad with your SO, with your kid, with your friends — and AVP may be a better experience, but only for you alone.

It may be amazing on a plane, but even then only when you're traveling by yourself.
for the way I use computers these days, it could very easily replace my laptop with a proper monitor and docking solution (but not my tower server/gaming machine)
Can't choose your own handle (it's taken).
But we’re talking about the office of the president. Isn’t this role more analogous to the CEO?

The president isn’t researching as an individual practitioner, but rather as an executive administrator.
FCC Takes Aim at AI Deepfake Robocalls After Sloppy Fake Biden Hoax
for #2 i meant it in a general consumer sense.
Because we tend not to like slave labor in the modern world. Using prisoners for slave labor creates perverse incentives to enslave more people, and keep them enslaved longer.
Use a straw
It can't, but major upgrades are much easier now if you are using SeedVault to reinstall all your apps and restore your app data.

https://github.com/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_Seedvault
Even if that were true, it should not be the purpose of a university
All the smart people know it was Craig Wright, right?
Working with research support and documentation, I can certainly belive it. Folks would be surprised what clever people with long resumes sometimes tries to pass as 'research'.
Yeah, that kind of extracurricular isn't enough for top schools unless you have some other kind of hook. Winning ISEF/placing high (not 100% how it works) already is a pretty good hook, I'm sure most of the MIT entering class won some equivalent national prize like this.

> In some cases I have heard of teachers asking students to write them

This is very common in college, most professors don't have the time to write letters of rec for all of the students they do research with etc. They may edit it and sign off after.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. It’s an excellent documentary.
Maybe they are afraid that browser-hosted apps and services would cut into their app store profits.
This is the whole western civilization now. Moving away from merrit to something else. And of course it was never a perfectly merit based system but it was to some better extent than it is now.
Jack directed Twitter to fund Bluesky when he was CEO of Twitter, but Jay Graber is the CEO of Bluesky and the technology & app was created by Jay and her team (which I'm a part of).
I believe that I read in Cracking the Coding Interview that big tech doesn't consider your current job as a comp, only pending offers. They won't increase an offer because you make more at your current job. I agree that candidates who are currently employed are generally seen in a much better light that candidates who are not currently employed.
Mysterious higher energy yields in vertical PV systems (2023)
I feel like this would have been a lot more impactful a year ago, when the Twitter drama was in full swing.

Feedback: the homepage looks more like a tech product pitch site, and the announcement post also doesn't look very polished. I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook/Twitter/IG user", more the nerd.

Side question: what's the interop story between Bluesky and Mastodon now?
well it's 2024 and real sideloading still doesn't exist on iOS.
> when it is in fact the case that most websites and apps are designed for mobile first.

Not my experience at all. If companies care about mobile, they simply make a mobile app.
Wake me up when chat becomes deterministic.

There is a lot of value on understanding the context and trying to parse what you meant in a mangled command. For the foreseeable future, that value will fall entirely on documentation and search procedures, and chat will keep a steady negative value for actual interaction.
Excluding (super) rich people from society is only going to make things worse for everyone.
Federation is up and running on the sandbox network: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

The Q1 timeline for public federation seems plausible.
>Maybe he just wants to brag with his h-index.

Who is going to cite this paper?
> The original iPhone didn't have copy/paste

I eventually did get iPhones, but vividly remember being laughed at -- as a Mac user -- for choosing the little white HTC Magic with a trackball because I prioritised the idea of actually being able to edit text (which we now do on iPhones with a force-touch gesture not much more elegant than that trackball and lacking some of its nuance.)
C++ tries to have a slightly stricter type system than C. The compiler can't check anything when you cast from void*, and since C++ has other mechanisms which usually make casts from void* unnecessary (such as using 'new' instead of 'malloc' for heap allocation), I think it makes sense to require casts from void* to be explicit.
> What a great success for usability.

Forced onto us by the site operators (directly, or via their "partners"), not the regulations.

It is called malicious compliance. In fact many of those popovers are not even properly compliant in various ways (usually breaking the "as easy to opt out as to out in" mandates, to give the most common example).

If you are angry at "cookie laws" and/or GDPR, you are angry at the wrong target.
what is "at scale"? Is there a specific metric or range of metrics that raises a flag to begin considering something else? For example, in the olden days when it was my problem, page load times were the metric. Once it got high enough you looked for the bottleneck, solved it, and waited. When the threshold was broken again you re-ran the same process.

Is there an equivalent for postgres?
Whoa, GPT3.5 is already better than that.
We say dupe so a moderator can combine the listings into one and merge the conversations. The original submission is 40mins older, don't worry the people will still see the news. A single article with more upvotes and comments will raise up further/stay there than 2 articles with moderate engagement.
You want to use C-x C-e.
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media
This is one of the domains I'm very very excited about for LLMs to help me with. In 5-10 years (even though this research paper makes me feel its already here), I would feel very confident chatting for a few hours with a "lawyer" LLM that has access to all my relevant taxes/medical/insurance/marriage documents and would be able to give me specialized advice and information without billing me $500 an hour.

A wave of (better) legally informed common-person is coming, and I couldn't be more excited!
Yes it is. Watching a 3D movie on an entire wall in bed next to my spouse is mind blowing.
Your handle can be your personal domain or any domain also.
Delving into what happens when you `import torch`
Trump has no immunity from prosecution in Jan. 6 trial, appeals court rules
You're not going to get much reform if the prison operators are making bank on the status quo.
Wow that comic invokes very unpleasant feelings for me. Super weird, way too corporate for a ... comic...? Seems confused. Their big selling point is blocking stuff you don't wanna see? Thats the big selling point? And... exploration!?
Did a System Update on my phone, found Royal Match and Blocks downloaded. (2023)
If people DO start replacing other devices for video content like their televisions with VR experiences I'm kind of excited about the implications for interior design. Imagine the living room no longer having to be TV centric.
I think they should taste the salts in granular form. KCl is very easy to taste the difference of, it makes a tingly feeling in your mouth that is very different than NaCl. Anyone that has tried salt substitutes like NoSalt will remember it. I’ve never tried them dissolved in water maybe it removes that feeling somewhat?
Recidivism is so high for a lot of reasons, but two big ones are 1) prisons are focused too much on punishment for the sake of punishment and not enough on reforming those inmates who can be reformed (not all can); and, 2) ex-cons typically have little to no resources when they get out, have trouble finding employment, and turn back to crime as one of the only ways they can make any money at all. Does this mean they should get a pass for the crimes? Of course not.

But it does mean that we could combat #2 by actually paying convicts working as part of a prison sentence the wage they'd get for that same job after release. Why are we paying convicts less than $0.50/hr[0] for jobs they'd earn $25-30/hr for? Because it benefits those local economies, but at the cause of driving up recidivism. Imagine if you were incarcerated, had the option of working (the majority of incarcerated workers are punished if they don't work), and if you did you'd have thousands in savings when released to get back on your feet?

[0] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/
I hope this theory is not what led to Hal's having been swatted.
Being tossed in solitary confinement because you won't work for $0.40/hr sounds like slavery to me. It's right there in the language of the 13th amendment. Maybe has something to do with the US having the largest prison population in the world. Larger than China even, an authoritarian nation with 4x the population. Does that happen in a vacuum?
I predict the cost to make an 80 percent solution will plummet, which is great for consumers.

Essentially, consumers now might pay X amount to get only a 40% solution (probably unusable and not something a company would even offer), but with AI, the same X gets you an 80% solution.

The price of >80% solution will remain the same, until AI improves.
Oh wow, I thought we were just seeing the poorly written introduction. Nope... It's the whole paper!

Good grief
it was probably several people, at least including finney and szabo
We can add this to the hundreds of reasons why for-profit prisons are bad.
This is a big milestone for Bluesky!

We've had the federation sandbox running for over six months but we're now able to commit to open federation on the production network this month as well. There's also stackable moderation coming shortly, which enables other individuals/orgs to operate moderation labeling services that users can choose to use.

The technical challenges of setting up an (efficiently) scalable decentralized social network were quite interesting. The infrastructure itself is quite decentralized, with standalone PDS instances and two small shared-nothing datacenter PoPs. We're using SQLite with millions of individual databases for each user's repository and ScyllaDB for the global indexing service (AppView).

https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architect...

If anyone has questions, technical or otherwise, some of the team should be around today to answer them.

Edit: HN'ers might also appreciate this paper written primarily by Martin Kleppman about Bluesky and AT Protocol

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239.pdf