skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to add this to my research list.
It's difficult, we compare two different views, one from tech-perspective, and one from user-perspective.

I understand your arguments about the technology, they are absolutely correct, but they attract a typology of niche users, which are extremely demanding and very difficult to convert to paying users.

Twitter, the platform is very glitchy, the owners are who they are, the developer access is horrible, but still, I am using it, because there is exclusive and fresh content.

Bluesky is an interesting project, but I can strongly suggest leaning toward content/user-focus than pure-tech, in order to secure a stronger business-model (and eventually, as a consequence, a sustainable + open ecosystem).

Focus on onboarding great content first, and then walk back to the tech, not the other way around.

For example, to support more extensively those newspapers or institutions to onboard the platform, and most of all, all these unofficial content creators.

There are also some things which feel very strange, like the main description of Bluesky when you search for it on Google: "Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is".
Detect and locate the topological soft and weak spots of mechanical structures
FWIW, the RAM and storage is completely standard and replaceable. Something that most laptops don't offer anymore unfortunately (plenty of decent ones still do though).
/s ?

I'd like to know what environmentalists you follow who support driving around in a second car as opposed to public transit or cycling.
I'm guessing the line of reasoning is being convicted of a crime would create irreparable reputational harm, even if that conviction was reversed due to a valid immunity claim. Polling shows that a large % of Trump voters wouldn't vote for him if convicted, so, I'm sure that is a pretty easy argument to make.

Delaying to avoid a trial is the entire point. Luckily the courts have been pretty responsive in this case to this point. Voters deserve to know the disposition of this case prior to the election.
Genuinely asking - what's the good reason why flying private aircraft is public info?

I believe it's only public by technological accident. A hunter taking his Super Cub out in Alaska, for example, won't have his information available to anyone except people who see the plane if it's not equipped with ADS-B out, and very possibly not even then if he doesn't fly in range of a ground station.
Original title: Model-free characterization of topological edge and corner states in mechanical networks
The common wisdom around here has long been to take the RSUs at MAMAA or whatever liquid compensation at actually profitable businesses until you are financially independent.
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I’m talking stormfront reading kill-all-the-Jews actual Nazis.
Anyone know of an Adguard home or pihole equivalent service I can run as part of OPNSense?

I currently have a different machine dedicated to pihole, but it would be intriguing to have something built in. I would imagine split DNS and firewall rules would be simpler this way.
Depends on the exact role of course, but I assume there are many roles in the software games industry that are pretty transferrable to other areas of software development/design/marketing/etc.
Industry is ok, indie devs can make a good money. Now with AI it is even easier.

But working for a big company is a bad career. Too much overhead, garbage leadership and vision, wokeism...
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How about a hard mode that doesn't tell you what the answer is until you're done?

Process of elimination makes the last 50 pretty easy if you look through the dropdown.
> Are there any promising avenues towards microtransactions that gets around small card transactions getting a hefty fee? Or an approach that doesn't require one company to have a monopoly over it?

The short answer is, no. For the long answer, I really recommend people read a blog like Bits About Money or some Matt Levine columns to start learning about the actual plumbing of finance and payment processors, to see why such a thing is actually difficult or impossible to build. Something that seems like a simple transaction to us, like sending $0.10 to a webiste, actually involves many parties, all of whom are a) hedging against counterparty risk, b) required by law to do KYC/AML and c) required by law to have safeguards against leaving customers in the lurch. Providing a, b and c is expensive in both money and time.

There are a lot of layers of abstraction in this system to make sure that you, the end user, don't usually have to think about all the complexity, and so to you it just looks like "I sent money from A to B", but the complexity is nonetheless there and it's a real impediment to getting the kinds of fast, cheap microtxns you want.
assuming the horrendously low quality ads and loss in traffic, yes
You are reading a lot into my three sentences. I didn't say any of the things you are refuting. I'm not going to defend them, not simply because I never espoused those opinions, but also because lots of them are completely irrational anyway.
You don’t need to have so many information in order to think for yourself. You can choose to believe it or not.

I could make a manifesto about being the greatest person to have ever lived. People are not going to believe it just because there doesn’t exist a counter-manifesto about me.
Many states will bill inmates for their room and board on release.

Some even do so when there has been no conviction.
Doctorow's "enshittification" is close to what management-consultants learn as "brand harvesting" -- the classic example being Schlitz beer, a once-beloved brand (I am told), where MBAs substituted cheap ingredients in order to trade on the name until the name was destroyed. The brand is no longer used.

Possibly there is a difference though, in that "enshittification" implies less intentionality or understanding of the second-order consequences (brand destruction), whereas "brand harvesting" leans into it in the most cynical way possible, implying that the value of a brand is something that one could rationally choose to liquidate.

It seems that it's basically the same thing as the debasement of a currency (like a brand, also a symbolic thing), or the Cantillon Effect, which (like brand harvesting) exploits the fact that information takes time to propagate and people take time to learn and react. There's a window where your adulterated beer still has the respected label, where your newly-printed dollars are not yet in general circulation, or where ad revenue is up and your customers haven't yet bothered to cancel their Netflix subscriptions.
I don't get this comment. It is basically the same kind of tool as the Pihole only much easier to install and maintain. (It's a single go binary) Isn't this a popular class of software?
> billions of years

Unfortunately this is bit quicker.
Ehh, you should always take general business advice for what it is. It is usually not a great idea to treat them as gospel given that for every best-practice, there is an exception. Instead, realize that some things are (probably) necessary but not sufficient for success. Also, try to understand why the recommended approaches succeeded. That way, you can examine for yourself if that particular bromide applies to your situation.
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I was a big fan of the Alpha workstation I had access to at UCSC's CS department in ~94. it was 64-bit and faster than anything else around. Didn't think much of CDE, as I was running FVWM at home and that did what I wanted.
That is exactly what people should do so that studios need to take salaries and workplace conditions seriously. If making games is not a profitable thing when it's a real job like any other then it should change or die, we shouldn't be burning people out for the sake of "fun".
Conveniently in such conversations people never bring up where these compounds go when they "fall out". In fact they precipitate or are deposited on surfaces in the form of sulfuric acid. This harms plants and causes all manner of respiratory issues. There's a reason the EPA has fought so hard to reduce SO2 emissions.

I get the impulse for unilateral techno-optimist solutions but continually releasing sulfur dioxide into the air is not a sustainable option in any respect. Sustainability and "more, faster" ideologies are not compatible. You will be imposing health risks on plants and animals that many simply will not be able to mitigate for themselves. It is always apparent very quickly in conversations like this that the people proposing such "solutions" spend most of their time indoors in filtered air.
Whatif is one of my favorite things about powershell. Don't know what I'd do without it. Has saved me many times from completely destroying things.
The problem is that all the CO2 is in the air from extracting usable energy from chemical bonds. Due to thermodynamics we need to expend more than the energy that was extracted to recreate these bonds. And the useful work is just addressing prior harm. You aren't getting widgets or food from this process. Maybe someday we'll be producing graphene sheets or carbon nanotubes as a useful resource, but that's not currently on offer.
Back in the day ~23 years ago. A telco that had just launched started providing voice mail service. Normal outgoing call rates were about .5 usd per minute. The newly launched voice mail service was free. So university students found a new trick to call their friends, flash your friend (single ring signal to say that they don’t pick up their phone), hang up and call again, let it ring till it goes to voicemail, leave a long message, hang up and wait for the reply. Obviously it’s not full duplex and latency was high but what the e heck it’s free. The telco killed it within 2 days… and then we started having fun with all those smsc Center numbers from all over the world…
If it's supposed to taste like a lady, there should be a hyphen: lady-tasting brine.
Lmao that's what I was thinking when I saw that
I never use Twitter to keep up with anybody who I know in real life, Its always where I go to get the latest news, the latest updates about anything I am interested in and musk doesn't seem to really care about that.

Mastodon is way too niche to have the variety and the relevancy of X and Facebook is just way too cowardly to build a platform that's actually relevant to real life and not just wasting time while selling as many ads as possible.

I think the best way to be up-to-date with people is ironically to use messenger app stories, they are almost always encrypted and will show up to all of your contacts without any algorithms in between.
Text-Guided Image Editing Based on Post Score for Gaining Social Media Attention
Sure, but this isnt brand new for tel cos either, this is also not impossible to resolve, like requiring in-person ID at a store, would be rather basic but more effective. The fact some kid from the UK can snatch your sim card in New Jersey is astounding.
I'm gonna go ahead and make a half-serious half-joking hot take:

Actually you should be using an embedded database.

Half-joking because there's like, tons of infrastructure, both literal and theoretical, that you're gonna miss out, and because I'm not sure we have on-disk standards (so less "good software" than "popular software") other than sqlite and libdb, both of which have some issues that make me hesitate before saying "use this."

But often the reason you're ignoring 90% of your RDBMS is because you for some (good or bad) reason want it elsewhere, and the built-in stuff can even get in the way a bit. And this approach means you no longer have to worry about how to version the stored procedures or whatever.

In a way, this is the same take as that gist, but inside out - instead of putting all your code inside Postgres, put Postgres inside your code.
Discord, Patreon, Substack, etc
How does it compare to pfblockerng on pfsense?
We could all just burn out. Kind of like peak world of warcraft. We didn't get even more addictive mmos.
> The study looked at health data of 12 million people between January 2008 and March 2019 and found that 27.5 per cent of people who visited an emergency room for cannabis use developed an anxiety disorder for the first time within three years.

Others are way better at judging a study's methodology but this immediately caught my eye. Shouldn't we also look at cannabis users who didn't visit an ER? And what else was in those people's blood at the time? THC vs CBD?

Obviously no link to the actual study so it's hard to judge really.
On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed
The Book – A Tapestry of Wisdom
The Book is a profound exploration into the virtues that connect us all—compassion, empathy, and a commitment to a collective well-being. Structured as a series of insightful reflections, it guides readers on a journey beyond the self, advocating for a life rooted in understanding, respect for the natural world, and mindful living.
The 13th amendment explicitly excludes prisoners. This shouldn't come as a surprise to any civil war soldier.
Not just for-profit prisons.

Correctional Officer unions are among the hardest lobbiers against ANY decriminalization of marijuana, or any general "reform" to our criminal statutes.

That blows my mind. "Keep more things illegal so we have a job".
Those terms are synonyms (at least in US academic parlance)
Hi, sorry I've got an effect on some folks. I'm not a climate change denier, and that climate change is real and that we've caused it are things I consider uncontroversial. I've not seen people like that in this thread nor on HN. They were likely flagged in this thread before I've seen it, and I can't see them.

I had the skeptics of imminent climate catastrophes in mind, or in general, folks who don't straight up deny climate change but still question some of the literature. It bothers me that these are lumped in with fringe deniers, and what's with the "deluded optimism" jab anyway? I don't agree with them either but cmon, that I'm sure have rubbed some the wrong way.
Can anecdotally confirm that I know lots of nonsmokers (or at least, those who don't regularly smoke) who find their anxiety spiked when they tried weed. Some of that is just because being in an altered state for the first time is fairly anxiety-inducing itself.
Yes, you can definitely use it selectively.
I sincerely love that bad content has become synonymous with AI content.
If Tiktok is no longer on that "incredible growth trajectory", then what is? I haven't heard of anything coming on the horizon to take over.
> internet-scale communities just not working well

I think you have to dig into that, and figure out why internet-scale communities don't work well, and then whether or not bluesky addresses it.

First of all, what does internet-scale really mean? I think it has to be that, to some degree, everyone is talking at everyone else.

For twitter and some other social networks this is because users don't fully control their feed -- they see what an algorithm decides they should see... and the algorithm is designed to increase engagement... because ads are how the social network makes its money. So you have content creators competing to make the most engaging posts and twitter doing its best to deliver those posts.

So I think it's probably twitter's ad driven business model, combined with the sad fact that it's a lot easier to engage people with anger and outrage than with civil, thoughtful content, that leads to a social media wasteland more than whether you need an invite to join.

I don't know if it will work, but if bluesky stays away from an ad-driven business model, they can let people control their own feeds and creators aren't incentivized only for engagement and it might stay a nice place to visit and hang out.
We kinda all are writing Erlang now, just inferior and overly complex abstractions ("serverless", K8s, etc).
Most likely it's due to the different lists you can add or use on NextDNS. I also have issues with captive portals (I run a number of lists on NextDNS) and I just flip it off and on when I need to.
I selected my interests as Cooking, Fitness, Nature, Video Games, and my feed has absolutely none of that. Just random politics, activism, and jabs at Twitter. Anyway, nope.
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> like the fate of my pets

Pet trusts [1]! My lawyer literally used their existence, which I find adorable, to motivate me to read my paperwork.

[1] https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/pet-planning/pet-trust-primer
Don't do this. Network firewalls are harmful. Let people configure their own firewalls on device. Having to VPN around network blocks is annoying to say the least. Network firewalls are harmful and just a lazy excuse for bad client security.
What's more common is domain dependent.
But the lawyers reading the law won't be the only ones using LLMs. LLMs will also be used to write laws. Then lawmakers will use them to "check" that their 20,000 page law supposedly works. No human can understand the scope of today's laws: how much less when no LLMs can understand the laws created 20 years from now.

I'd love to hear that LLMs can be used to trim and simplify complexity, but I don't believe it. They generate content, not reduce it.
This is sadly a bit of a problem with most Twitter alternatives right now; many more niche communities haven't moved over (or have only chosen to go to one of them), so there's a good chance you won't find content you're interested in. Mastodon seems to have more of the tech crowd from what I can tell, but even then it's maybe 1% of the audience you might have had on Twitter.
Fair enough. They're who I'm mostly worried about.

I've got the Google apps in a sandbox, so I think if they pushed such a thing they could only spy on my logins with them.

Not that I have supreme faith in GrapheneOS to keep google in its box on a device that google made, but I do hope that it represents enough friction that I get excluded as an outlier from whatever abuses occur.
Not really. You wanted some attention; now you've gotten it.
Obligatory Neal Stephenson:

“When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks
You should get a private jet too, that is how all the truly committed environmentalists travel these days. </sarc>
The relevant question is how many people exist who would have likewise killed 20 people, but didn't because the prospect of rotting in a "punishment" focused prison scared them straight. I'm not saying that such people don't exist, I just think they're a whole lot rarer than the alternative, i.e. those who can be meaningfully rehabilitated and induced to not reoffend.
Literally every (correct) example you gave is a case of people voting in their own short-term self interests, a dynamic which does not exist with global warming.

In the case of slavery, democracy didn't end this. Southern states literally seceded, and we had the bloodiest war in American history, to end slavery. And the dynamics there were that the economic systems of Northern states didn't rely on slavery, so they had little problem opposing it on moral grounds. The entire economic system of the South was built around the plantation system and slavery and so it's not surprising democracy didn't end slavery there.
This seems fun. An enjoyable variant may be to not describe how many of each variety there are.
That's how Brave already works.
I think that's what Citus does.
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection is, unfortunately, a third rail in the climate community right now. The perception is that it's very dangerous due to the unknown knock-on effects. Plus, the way it's depicted in sci-fi (e.g., Snowpiercer) doesn't help.

We actually have a good understanding of what SO2 does in the atmosphere thanks to both volcanic eruptions and (until recently) the large amounts of particulate sulfur emitted from oceangoing ships. I think the more interesting question is how much risk we're willing to tolerate versus doing nothing at all. The risk of letting sea level rise continue unabated seems much worse to me than a (temporary!) intervention while we figure out full decarbonization.
In the same sense that an ongoing game of Russian Roulette does, sure.
> Secondly, you don't have to have a separate scanner. That's sort of the point—supporting "eggular expressions" is easy because tokenizing them is drastically simpler than the hacks regarding context-sensitivity that you must weave into both your parser and scanner (and complicate the scanner–parser contract) if you want conventional unparenthesized literals.

Hm, I'm not sure I understand this bit.

It seems bad to use the same scanner for the tokens inside your regular expression as for the rest of your language. Two examples:

1. In my langauge, "3.14" is a token, but when parsing an eggex you'd want that to be at least 3 tokens because the "." is typically your "match one of any character" token.

2. My language doesn't have a "?" operator, but if we're using the same scanner for eggexes as the rest of the language, I'd have to include a token for that to support "zero or one instances" in the eggexes.

Sure, your main scanner can (and probably should) just grab everything between "(/" and "/)" as one token, but there's no avoiding going over the contents of the eggex with a scanner. I'm not saying you have to scan it during the regular scanning--that's probably not a good idea--but you're going to have scan it at some point in order to compile the eggex.
I'd much rather my browser mine crypto for that website when I visit a website than get ads. (But only while I have that tab open, it is the focused tab, and the browser is not minimized.)
Same.. More screen real estate and spatial positioning.

I just want better and more windows in something reasonably portable (travel).
Even a stack of large e-ink panels I could lay on a large table would work great if the software would work properly.

The immersiveness is nice and all for games and videos, but def no requirement for my means.
The games industry has always lost its best talent because it doesn’t pay well enough. It’s a shame, because it’s a fun creative industry to be a part of (well, it was 20 years ago when I left)!
What are we to make of the photographs taken from fire lookouts that are used as evidence in this talk? Consider the Thorp Mountain photo from the 1930s. Prior to that, loggers had come in and largely wrecked that forest. The USFS GIS indicates that the area around Thorp Mountain is between 20-30% old growth, is mostly mature replacement forest. So a photo from the 1930s showing patchy forests would have been a reflection of the fact that industrial era Americans had already come through and taken most of the trees.
> It's not like the history of working for game companies is unknown, major studios have always done this. Imagining it won't happen to you is wishful thinking.

Yep. The computer games industry has had a well-deserved reputation for being awful to work in for decades.
We are lucky that the real estate bubble finally burst in China, that was one of the key drivers of pollution there.
That case was about the (private) prison system itself profiting from the number of inmates increasing, not from labor the inmates were forced to provide.