skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Millions of people will never ever pay for something they can have for free with instagram. And because the adoption rate will be slow they will have to use instagram anyway in the meantime to find the content and people there which will kill your adoption rate unless you invest in huge amounts in marketing.

You can try to built something new but people who value privacy are not in the masses. Most people don’t care at all unless in immediate threat (like usurpation or stealing money).

There is already so many platforms that do just that and we don’t know about them because the problem also lies there. It’s hard to get known in the internet now with all the services that exists and distractions there is.

For example I haven’t been in the AppStore in years, only searching for something specific. Never ever for discovery of what is in there. Many, many people are like that as well which makes them hard to reach.
This makes sense. I find it curious that a WASM codec could be competitive with something that is presumably decoded natively. I know Teams is a CPU hog, but I don't remember Zoom being one.
Neither you nor me speak for "the whole Eastern Europe" or the "slavic people".

I'll ask again: why did the countries in the east tried to join NATO? Why join if there's no threat?

It's not Estonia or Lithuania making regular threats about nuking a Russian city or taking the Russia in 2 or 3 days. They may hate Russia (why did you left the part where they were invaded and their language and culture was repressed for years?), but they're not going to start a war against a huge nuclear country. They will, for obvious reasons, try to have the means to make any invasion very costly though.

You can play dumb all you want, but it doesn't take a genius to understand that Russia's behaviour and their lack of respect for other countries' borders drives those countries towards NATO. NATO was losing its purpose until Putin decided to start invading countries... but of course you can't see this as Russia can't do anything bad and it's all the US fault.

Have you heard the saying, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"? Try to understand it, maybe then you also understand why countries that were attacked then sided with Nazis and anything that opposed the country that invaded them.

Russians living in eastern Europe is a well known thing, something that the Soviet Union did many times in different places, so it's not "unspoken" at all. In any case, this is not rocket science: Mexico doesn't get to invade the US because there are many mexicans there. The US doesn't get to invade Berlin because there are many americans there. Ang guess what... Russia doesn't have any right to anything outside their borders. Why is it so hard for you and Russians to understand something so simple?

There's only one country in Europe talking of changing their borders and waging war. It's Russia. No "buts" or "ifs". Russia started a war, full stop. The fanboys just need to grow a pair and stop making up excuses for them.
> Social media that enabled independent coverage and discussion is still there for the adults in the room

I'm not actually sure that's true. The only reliable sources on social media (in the sense of 'usually not horribly wrong') are actually traditional media companies like bbc, guardian. Perhaps I'm holding it wrong, but finding other trustworthy sources is actually really hard...
The developers that believed in WinRT weren't so lucky with backwards compatibility.

That is why outside Microsoft own employees, no one else cares anylonger about it, after the whole mess that keeps going on.
We at Meta use Sapling, which is open source. Using EdenFS is what makes it super fast at scale.

https://sapling-scm.com/

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/06/27/developer-tools/meta-d...
I guess there's just a disconnect here. Threatening someone with legal action for breaking the law is basically okay in my mind. Trump thought that there were unsigned ballots that were counted that were being destroyed, and that Raffensperger was either aware of it or was ignoring it or was just not doing the due diligence necessary to prevent it. He wanted to provoke Raffenperger to action by reminding him that he faces criminal liability for looking the other way.

If you are starting from the position of "Trump knows he does not have the votes and wants to cheat" then you can read this as extortion. I don't think you have to even go so far as to call Trump a saint -- he wasn't saying "you have to hunt down and prosecute all of these people for all of these things" so much as "just hunt down the people enough to get the 11,780 votes".

Or to put it another way -- in a call with Raffensperger with his attorney on the line, probably being recorded, what is it exactly that you think could have happened here? Even if Raffensperger wanted to cheat? In a state that was already being carefully watched? What possible course of action would have made sense here?

The only course of action that would have made sense was if Raffensperger could uncover widespread fraud of one of the forms that Trump described. Then exposing that fraud and showing that more than 11,780 votes were compromised would have been a huge deal. But people would have looked at those ballots. They would have listened to this phone call.
It's easier than product development and is flashy to market.
As I understand, quantum key distribution cannot be beaten by classical equivalents and they're only good or better because our current quantum computers kinda suck. So the major use case at the moment is proving the tech and developing the infrastructure. The "killer app" of the quantum internet in my mind is as simple as just sending qbits around. Currently every network call involves an observation that collapses the system wavefunction. If you're looking to actually network quantum devices (say, to run distributed quantum computations) then you need quantum infrastructure.
I pick social media being regulated into becoming healthy for everyone so it doesn't have to be banned for teenagers.
I spent 25 years there and didn't see too many of those. Then again they don't really like to be seen. I wouldn't call it a nuisance though? They aren't an overwhelming threat, just a minor nuisance.
Is there a youtube channel that reviews rare books
Single chip, not single card. The 1997 RIVA 128 really was an integrated chip. But again this is splitting hairs, making a notable technical advancement seem more profound than it really is.
In an incredibly ironic twist, a suburban home garden is now a sign of wealth too. Having a sunny space large enough to grow food, and even more importantly, having the time to tend to it.
org-mode is an extension for emacs. It's centered around a plaintext markup-format which is specialized for organization and note-taking, hence the name. It has several other extensions build up on the core-extension, and it's format, many coming from the original project itself. And it has later branched out into other areas, like literate programming, personal databases, etc.

Seems org-review is one such extension.

And a sketchnote is a visual note, something where you draw/sketch your information. Basically a more freestyle diagram or something to tell a short story.
Also ticks.

My kids love to run around my backyard, and I keep it mowed and trimmed for them to do so.

The iconoclasm runs deep in techno-optimists, but some things stick around for a reason.
> Literally the only people I have ever seen use the phrase "orange man bad" are Trump supporters attacking Democrats.

That's just you. I picked the phrase up from the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&lang=en&query=%...

It's a really apt term to describe the kind of obsessive attacks on Trump's person, often as a substitute for any kind of positive policy message (as in, Harris will do X, Y, and Z), especially ones that would resonate outside the Democratic bubble. For a notable example, see this pithy message from the NY Times Editorial Board: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/02/opinion/vote-... (tl;dr: "You should vote for Harris because Trump is bad." What will Harris do? Who knows.).
The most exciting answer to your question about applications is that "We don't know yet, it's a platform."

The inventors of the internal combustion engines likely didn't imaging interstate systems and long distance freight shipping - and the economic boom they allow.

The original ARPANET engineers didn't imagine everything the internet could become - from this very site to youtube to Bittorrent.

No one at Apple thought of all of the things that would be built in the iPhone App store.

When prices become cheap enough, it unlocks other peoples creativity. By providing ever cheaper access to space, Space X (and hopefully soon competitors) is providing a new arena where entrepreneurs and engineers can invite entirely new things.

> ...but I do not see the actual details of what this will enable besides allowing Musk et al to hollow out planets for mining operations for their own gain.

Resources mined are useless if they aren't used for something; if asteroid mining makes money, it's because someone else is buying those resources so Musk isn't the only person benefiting. If there is large scale mining in space, there's probably broad economic benefit to that.
But it’s not a chat service…
Coming soon: "To ensure users have the best experience, we will require that AI features be active by default, which requires a continuous internet connection, a logged in Microsoft account, and enabled telemetry."
Well I'm glad we've put this age old question to bed
Bay Area - especially Palo Alto and San Jose - I’ve seen rats the size of small cats. And had to remediate multiple houses where they got into it and made a huge mess.

Only in areas with fruit trees though.
Here's a Google Trend graph of the last 5 years for "AI" (and "crypto" for comparison).

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

At least based on search volume, we're still on an upward swing.
I'm not sure how they built this thing, but it makes sense to me on the face of it: Notepad should be the thinnest wrapper possible around a simple textbox, and the generated thing they're showing should be built into the widget itself so it's exposed to all apps in the OS (much like macOS exposes emacs/readline-style shortcuts everywhere that uses a default textbox).
> Simple, privacy-first, consumer-first defaults and optional upgrades to more enhanced tools via their App Store.

Why would anyone use this over Ubuntu? They need something to differentiate themselves from the inexorable creep of free software.
You make a photo app where backing up your pictures online costs a small subscription fee per month. It’s only free if you only use the native client storing your media locally.

It cannot work if it’s a free service unless the entity running it is a non-profit ie a private VC funded entity will eventually sell or share your data.

To my knowledge, only Apple has made something like this but it only works best on their platform which limits it.
I think you are worried about the wrong problem. Forget about the influencers for a moment - what will your source of revenue be if you don't have an ad network?

Users are the content on social networks. If you charge them to join, you will have fewer users and less content on the network. That reduces the value so you can't charge as much, and the cycle continues.
LOL. You've come up with a couple of examples that apply equally to the Democratic Party.
how did we get from PhpBB to algorithms that influence whole societies
“Communities getting together and making their own broadband”? Big Telco Cartels using Big Government to shut it down?

Why is this bad:

https://qbix.com/blog/2017/12/18/power-to-the-people/
Hard PVC pipe does not contain plasticiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_pipework#uPVC_(unplast...
You mean it should be integrated into the text box control, and/or the keyboard? That does make a lot of sense to me.

Though some applications also benefit from app-specific integration on top of that.
By your given definition of "slur", neither "management" nor "cissy" are slurs (except in the sense of "cissy" as a variant spelling of the slur "sissy").

I'd say "white" is no more or less malleable than the others. "Male" has multiple, mostly-overlapping definitions; by extension, "heterosexual" and "cisgender" are likewise flexible, though "heterosexual" has additional flexibility. While the concept of "white" is completely ungrounded in base reality, as a cultural term (a description of how racists categorise people, and of who's affected by the consequences) it's relatively stable: the definition in Western Europe is completely different to the definition in North America, and the boundaries have shifted over the centuries, but contemporary racists in a given racism-domain seem to agree with each other.
But where is the cutoff between reptile and chicken? Given how gradual it must've been, we can therefore posit that chicken's ancestors were themselves chicken. What came first, the reptile or the egg?
Piracy is also apples to oranges.

There aren’t big tech companies running piracy services.

You could put them under the rule of law if they did.
Switching the subject and going "oh really, then what about…" is not really a good way to have an argument. The existence of one thing doesn't change the other.

In this particular case, your claim has been promoted by conspiracy theorists, and is not true. What the video you posted does not show (because it's been carefully edited and has no audio) is that he was repeatedly asked by the police to leave. They're not giving him a "guided tour".

AP debunked it back when the Carlson broadcast that video:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-january-6-jacob-chansl....

Tucker Carlson is uses conspiracy theory and misinformation as a tool to stoke rage and undermine political enemies. He has portrayed abortion as human sacrifice, blamed hurricanes on abortion, denied man-made climate change, and is constantly caught in blatant and often ridiculous lies. Clearly his charm has worked on you, though, and I don't really know what else to say.
In many countries, lobbying is considered corruption. That it is legalized in the US alone, suggests to me that it actually exists more in the West.
You can always outsource the work and still receive a share of the fruits of the labour, by providing someone else with opportunity to tend to the food growing.
> What's a chicken?

A miserable little pile of secrets.
Given that I just posted evidence of non-binary people over millennia and at a large enough scale to warrant inclusion into legal systems, it's hard to call non-binary people "crazy" - they have always been a staple of humanity.
I don't think this is it. At least, you're not pointing your ire at the right tech.

Instrumental acts aren't as popular as they once were. In the cities recorded beats make up more than half the gig. These are performed by a musician on a laptop. They might have dancers, for some entertainment. So the gig pool is lessened. The article so much admits the stars, as they call them, made the most money off of Band People. They had more gigs, so they could cobble together a career. Music has always been a precarious living.

Then add in the downturn of nightlife in general. Restaurants and bars tell the same story: young people aren't drinking. Businesses built on already slim margins are getting squeezed beyond break even. Is an indy band going to make up the difference in admission or cost-to-perform to a struggling bar? Dubious. If they have a following maybe; but then those artist aren't struggling anyway.

Young people are also making less money at a time when prices are sky high. A night out drinking even just a couple of beers can easily surge to over a hundred or two hundred dollars depending how hard you go. When I was in college that would've been ~$30-40. For every 3 times I went out with friends, they can afford only 1.

Live music and performance offers an experience that passive consumption, like TV and Radio, just can't emulate. If the prices come down the economics of music will make sense again. Until then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I never heard of any reasonable uses for Crypto or Blockchain in general. A lot of people tried to sell us various things at the time but it was very obvious that it had no real value.

AI is already implemented into businesses in various ways. Even if it’s not done so official you still have loads of employees pouring company secrets into chatGPT and Claude because they work.
OK thanks. I wonder if there are a lot of cases in which cutting and welding an 8 foot pipe requires the accuracy that that method doesn't provide.
> Perhaps I'm holding it wrong, but finding other trustworthy sources is actually really hard...

Yes, it is hard, but there's no such thing as easy trust, and you should always be questioning whether such trust is actually earned or just comforting.

I don't think the "bbc" or "the guardian" are very trustworthy, either (at least by themselves)—both have obvious polemics and blind spots. They also only cover a very narrow, western-centric view of the world, leaving you with piss-poor understanding of world politics. I'm not saying you should ignore them but they're still propaganda.

Substack is invaluable; blogs are invaluable; twitter, as miserable as it is, is invaluable (for direct access to reporters sans newsrooms, if nothing else).
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Everything is quite a claim.

Can you prove that?

Is that a reasonable thing to ask, or are we supposed to simply nod along and say “yes, your dogma is correct in 100% of cases”?

For example tell us how these are a grift: FileCoin. UniSwap. Aave. DID and Sidetree protocol (used by bluesky sky).

And decentralized systems go way past blockchains. Email. Heck even the Web itself. If anything I’d say they tend to centralize because of the “grift” which is capturing open protocols and doing rent extraction (eg GMail) or surveillance capitalism:

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

That centralization and control over millioms and billions of people is worse than a grift. Why can’t we talk about disrupting THAT?
You forgot non-deterministic hallucination.
It's been pretty fascinating to watch what Microsofties have to put up with, having switched to Linux in 2007. Vista's half-assed release, Windows 8's tablet UI disaster, Windows 10's online account requirements, now all the AI crap they're shoving into Windows 11. Meanwhile I'm just over here using basically the same Arch Linux tools & XFCE environment for almost 20 years. Yes, I know, Linux isn't perfect, but it's maybe worth a look if you're fed up with using an OS that wants to exploit you instead of serve you. It's especially easy now that most things are web-based.
As a systemiser using GTD I have an ever growing list of items to get to should I complete items for the day, but I don't understand how you could expect to address 133 items in a day.

If the approach is to let low priority items roll over, that just seems like a recipe for dropping the ball.

Are people getting through 133 items in a day? That's 216 seconds per item.
We do this too. For me the garden has also been a gateway into preserving. This year, I put up enough tomatoes to last the year. It's not always cheaper than buying the cheap alternative from the store, but the quality difference between something home grown and store bought is huge.

In addition to the items you've listed, I'd add grapes/ muscadines, passionfruit (grows wild so cheating), fruit and nut trees (figs are easy if you keep them pruned), berries, tea, lettuce/greens, celery, potatoes, carrots, herbs. I used to hate gardening, but it's grown on me over the last few years. The only thing I don't like growing is squash really.
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Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members
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Clicking on the right side (pointy hand) worked for me.
I don’t do video game programming but what I have heard about engines is that lighting is controlled by the game engine and it’s one step in the pipeline to render the game. Ray tracing is one technique where the light source and the location of the 3d model has simulated light rays in relation of the light source and model.

They are probably rendering with a simple lighting model since this is a system where lighting in a game is handled by another algorithm
> It can't model the generative process of the humans who created those training set samples because that generative process has different inputs - sensory ones (in addition to auto-regressive ones).

I think that’s too strong a statement. I would say that it’s very constrained in its ability to model that, but not having access to the same inputs doesn’t mean you can’t model a process.

For example, we model hurricanes based on measurements taken from satellites. Those aren’t the actual inputs to the hurricane itself, but abstracted correlates of those inputs. An LLM does have access to correlates of the inputs to human writing, i.e. textual descriptions of sensory inputs.
Oh give it a rest with the nationalist fear mongering. This isn't about 'national security concerns'. That's the smoke and mirrors to get the populist support necessary to ban it. Meta and Google are feeling threatened that their dominance on North America is being tested and they are flexing their lobbying muscles.
This gets close to the heart of why many seemingly reasonable people support Trump. He gives specifics. The specifics may be of a hare-brained scheme that can’t possibly work, but no other politician even goes that far.
While the authors both use org mode, this includes a broader discussion that includes various ideas and tips, including the books "Atomic Habits", "Getting Things Done", and "Building a Second Brain". (Updated, since my previous comment thought it was only about org mode).
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