skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
This was just one example, maybe not a perfect one. I found it to be relatable, though.

Sometimes the "add the missing tests" step depends on other work on your branch.
Little Soldiers – Inside the Chinese Education System (2020)
Yes! I remember when I was around 60 discussing this with my accountant, who told me pretty much what you point out above. He said start at 66 (then the age for full benefits). I did so. At 76 I feel I'm raking it in!
Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation
This does look awesome. All my musical gear runs through a perpetually-on Ableton setup, so I'm not really the target for this. But I did order one as a gift for my band's singer as he never really figured out how to use a DAW and he does all his songwriting on a digital piano and uses a tascam audio recorder when he wants to save an idea. I think he'll really enjoy this.
E-C is simply not a sharp fifth. Sharp fifth is enharmonic with minor sixth. E-C is a major sixth.
The transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades
I don't follow. Is he anti music or something? Afaik he's on Apple, Amazon, and Youtube as well. Do you not use anything related to him? I'm honestly curious for some reason.
Or that F-35 failed its goals. Double the price. 50% more expensive than estimated operational cost. Its 3x the price to operate than a F16. Planes are obsolete technologies, should have invested in drones/loitering munitions. In 10 years, its all going to be drones.
That 2013 model (at least the late 2013 model that I have) añready has an SSD. RAM is soldered if I remember correctly.

Thr issue that mine has - aside from a broken hinge over time - is that one of the thermal sensors is fucked, so the machine puts the fans on full and heavily throttles the CPU. Before that happened (last year) it was a solid machine.
The article does not claim to be about shipping software but about sipping software in Big Companies.
Why marginal emission factors are unsuitable for scope 2 accounting
It's not. Artists will often enough remove old albums so you can no longer play them.

Buy it, download as FLAC, put in your preferred local infrastructure to play. Plex/Plexamp works well, as does local file storage and a good command line music client if you're less GUI-friendly or don't have the resources for running them.
The elephant in the room: Attitude towards crime.
What do you call ‘bucks fighting over the cows, and the winner gets to breed them’ other than keeping score?

Or ‘the biggest bear gets the territory and the associated food’. While marking trees and rubbing musk.

Humans have just evolved a more abstract and indirect way of accomplishing the same sorts of things.

What else is money/power, after all?

Instead of doing those things, Humans put up signs saying things like ‘This project brought to you by Mayor Daley’ with their picture on it, or ‘Speed limit enforced by Radar’ while driving around in obnoxiously obvious cars with their department name on the side.

It’s the same thing though. It’s fundamental to the nature of evolutionary success in most dynamics we’re in. Not all though.

Sea turtles don’t seem to care, for example.

If you’re talking about ‘keeping score’ in the sense of ‘retribution’/‘removing competition’ then I present [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_in_carnivores], specifically ‘non parental infanticide’.
> Go 1.22 made variables introduced by for loops scoped per iteration, rather than per loop, addressing a long-standing language “gotcha”.

This does fixes the "for-range" loop gotcha, but brings several gotchas to the 3-clause "for;;" loops:

* https://go101.org/blog/2024-03-01-for-loop-semantic-changes-...

* https://github.com/golang/go/issues/66156

* https://x.com/zigo_101/status/1856173025839960333

* https://x.com/zigo_101/status/1854918262523621805

* https://x.com/zigo_101/status/1854213142177624169
None of that looks like stuff I can try. I guess the GitHub copilot onboarding was pretty good. Gists are pretty good, but I don’t think he made those originally.
You are right, and we can add the observation that the first harmonics of the E and G will form a CEG triad with the C.
I mean that's the point of the article, no?

With Jujutsu it's not at all complicated. Sure, you may not agree with the example (and I would say its a little contrived), but rebasing into history to keep a clean progression of commits in a feature branch that is unreleased is something that many people are keen on.

Jujutsu also has a bunch of other really useful features like `jj fix` which can run a code linter over a linear commit history (in parallel) and integrate the changes into the commits that should contain the change. This avoids a litany of 'fix formatting' style commits littered through your history.
IMO most engineers completely forget or don't appreciate the importance of optics, especially when working with non-technical founders or management.
Don't forget the Cornfield Bomber! The pilot ejected from this F-106 (a single-seat, single-engine all-weather interceptor) after passing through 15,000 feet in a flat spin - and the plane promptly exited the flat spin and proceeded to a soft landing in a farmer's field.

And it was truly a soft landing - the plane's engine was still running after coming to a stop, and the aircraft was returned to service!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber
*Largest by team size and funding
Having a 5 second delay between the crosswalk light and the street light doesn't increase revenue, especially because in America, free right turns are ignored by red light cameras, and the light timing change is purely about preventing accidents for cars taking right turns.
No, sorry. The code should be pretty easy to port, if you want to give it a go.

https://github.com/leddt/music-link
Hopefully not hardware with known vulnerabilities.
Maybe your wife can make the pull request?
Clouded Judgement 10.25.24 – Misaligned Incentives
Tidal has lots of downloader clients you can install due to its often technical but niche user base. May I suggest Tidal-Media-Downloader[0]?

Now if only there was a way to download things from YouTube Music with a Premium subscription. It's practically impossible to search for "YouTube Music download" without falling into the 'youtube-dl YouTube mp3 audio tracks!' SEO hole. Vague naming on Google's part.

[0]: https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader
The product was for end users so the traffic was coming from any account. They never discovered the accounts we used for testing. At least, the American ones didn't. When we finished with US companies, we went for Singapore.

Our CEO was friendly with an investor who had an account at some big Singaporean trading firm called Lim Tan. He gave us his account credentials and I began working. A few days later my boss comes over to my desk and says "stop whatever you're doing right now." Apparently my traffic had set off so many alarm bells that the CTO of Lim Tan was woken up at 2am. They permanently banned the investor, which I felt really bad about. What's crazy is that I wasn't even doing anything weird. I was just poking a bit at their authentication methods. That was when I learned that Singapore tech doesn't fuck around.
as I read it the issue is command of VMX-1 which does test and evaluation. the commandant is saying he doesn't think this guy is a kick ass test pilot. test pilot is role which involves a lot more skills and expectations and to be the commander of the squadron everyone should think you are the next Chuck Yeager (USAF, yes I know)
Why don't more VCs invest in IT Consulting companies?
This is a fairly recent usage. Back in the day, the term was "IBM-compatible", then later, "Wintel". It wasn't common to treat the term "PC" as being exclusive of Apple hardware until Apple's "I'm a Mac; I'm a PC" ad campaign of the mid-2000s.
Exactly! Their docs are here: https://linktree.notion.site/API-d0ebe08a5e304a55928405eb682...

It has a 10 request per minute rate limit, but no api key needed, so each user runs their own queries.
Yeah, it's such a cynical take. I'm astonished that anyone here would believe this, much less write it up as a blog post and submit it to Hacker News.
I think usually the standard wording for this option would be something like "Reject all non-essential cookies" and they left out the second part of that sentence. I'm not saying it's OK but maybe it's a mistake that was done in good faith.
(also seems weird that a $100M airplane can't figure out how to land itself if the pilot ejects ...)
That's not an option here in Canada, alas!
From what I know, incomes have tracked inflation pretty well. The issue is that productivity gains haven’t been rewarded.
This is really cool insight into both the Steam client and Linux programming. I understand why there may not be detailed release notes every release, but wow "Fixed some miscellaneous common crashes" is an understatement when you know about this work!
I can attest that BlueSky is really nice right now. Feels less combative than Twitter. I started to use it 25 days ago and got 400 or so follows pretty quickly.

I am here: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social

I used this tool to find accounts that match on both platforms:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...
Unlike previous attempts for groups of people trying to leave Twitter/X post-Elon acquisition for a competitor social network but failed due to the difficulty of getting all their friends to also switch, this time it might actually stick.

Even before the election results on Tuesday, the vibes on X have been steadily been getting worse from my perspective, and the fact that Musk will get more power and influence from a Trump win may have been its Digg 2.0 moment.

I have replaced my Twitter contact information in my HN profile with my Bluesky contact info, and will be doing the same on my personal website soon.
> Tidal No No No

Well I guess I'll just go fuck myself, then.
Free beer tomorrow
Thrust is important but actually secondary to steering. You don’t necessarily bail right away if you lose thrust because you could still be able to glide to somewhere you can land. You might also be able to fix the problem. Of course if you’re already at low altitude or you’re in bad weather then you might not have a lot of time to try such things, but the rest of the time you do.
I threw out all my SGI and Sun hardware, and couldn't wait to ditch my 21" monitors I picked up back then, but I still have my Aeron
Great article. It's not "shipping" as in making some feature a reality, but more contextualized within big tech and perhaps larger sized companies. Understandably, some people might call this "unethical", but it's kind of a "game" that you play (or don't) being in a large, hierarchical org.
I got nerd sniped by this question, and I think I have a closed form formula. Obviously it needs a summation since the order/placement of the numbers matters.

The formula is 2^(# of questions - # terminating questions) + SUM[2^(terminiating question number - idx in terminating question list] where the SUM is over all the terms in the list given as input to the question_paths function

for example: we take the example of question_paths(10,[1,5]), where the answer is 274. From the formula, we take 2^(10-2) + 2^(1-0) + 2^(5-1) which equals 274.

similarly for question_paths(10,[6,8]), where the answer is 448. From the formula, we take 2^(10-2) + 2^(6-0) + 2^(8-1) which equals 448.
Framework for Microdosing Odors in VR for Psychophysiological Stress Training
Both countries have nukes and methods to deliver these nukes. Nuking China will also nuke the USA. There is a reason why Russia can't use their current nuclear weapons and it's not humanity.
PEP 763 – Limiting deletions on PyPI
> rebasing into history to keep a clean progression of commits in a feature branch that is unreleased is something that many people are keen on

To give some specific examples, "many people" includes popular open-source projects like Linux and Git itself, as well as large tech companies like Google and Meta, which employ "trunk-based development" (see e.g. https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com).
So, for my 430B parameter model, I'll go out on a limb and guess the answer is a "no"....?
Nope. It's an "Em6 (no 5)".
Agreed, it's a really fun community. I hope it lasts
I think it's only about going from non-profit to private, but I haven't read the deal.
See, that seems exactly like the kind of cruel operation that would be highly visible in public but wouldn't actually move the needle in numbers.
I still buy CDs. It's true a number of modern artists do not release on physical media, although vinyl is making a comeback.
Downloading large collections can be a pain though, one at a time and in zips.

I made this to help though https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

Bandcamp is the only place to sensibly buy music you can own these days which is pretty depressing.
From someone actually working on developing this type of hardware: no, there is no entity in the world that is anywhere close to building a device that can run Shor's algorithm. We will have standardised post-quantum algorithms long before there is a machine to run Shor's algorithm.
NSA is always 20 years ahead of anybody else, so ....
I've never thought of this theory. By analogy I suppose it says 'brokerage apps are to sports gambling as vapes are to cigarettes'
As another commenter said, OTP messages are meant to be between processes in the same privilege zone. That said, using a custom protcol via a good library can actually bring benefits relative to core OTP stuff.

For example, several of the gRPC libs I've used for Erlang/Elixir are pretty low-cognitive-overhead to use, and they come with all the added gRPC goodies: RPC semantics are described in one place rather than ad-hoc throughout code, protobufs have at least a documented (if not actually good) process for upgrades and backwards compatibility, multilanguage gets easier (even if your second language is just a tiny sliver of "dump protobufs into a database/Jupyter notebook/Rust program occasionally for offline reporting").

To be clear, this isn't a paean to gRPC; most of those features are table stakes for an IDL-driven protocol definition. Just saying that you do get some things in return for giving up the convenience of OTP, if you pick the right tools.
I wrote some python code which should give the right answer

def formula(total_qs, terminating):
total = 1 << (total_qs - len(terminating))
for i, num in enumerate(terminating):
total += 1 << (num - i)
return total

print(formula(10, [1, 5]))```
This service connects to a few more services, but you can't just paste in an existing URL. https://odesli.co/ it's more link tree type service but since you can search for songs and albums it makes it easy to find things.

Example
https://song.link/i/1051394215
I finally got it straightened out after I unborked their hardcoding and implemented my own non-OpenAI/Azure OpenAI Service client.
The only thing keeping me around as someone who never comments or tweets, is that there are some great local accounts (to me) like weather, police, news, concerts, etc... Any chance these move over? I'm not looking for some great community, I just enjoy timely posts I guess.
Microbial community structure in recovering forests of Mount St. Helens
Can you not move back to a less managerial, more hands-on role? I know people who've tested the waters by moving from IC into management, learned they didn't like it, and moved back. There's usually a pay cut involved if that happens, but if you were living well enough on an IC salary and you like it more, why not?
I see your reply as strawman levels of uncharitable. They never said any such thing for either of your claims and the only reason I see for your statement is that you are playing.
If you want something a bit heavier duty, check out cambro. For example: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/cambro-rfs1ppsw3190-1-qt-tr...

One downside of plastic food storage in general is that I find it doesnt seem to rinse as clean as glass, ceramic, or metal in the dishwasher (obviously a lot of variables there).
Discussion (37 points, 4 hours ago, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42111314
That depends... Do you often go on flights longer than 96 hours?
BlueSky isn’t lying. It has had a series of bumps over time. There was the Brazil bump a month or two ago. And then this bump.
Unlike other services, this one’s incredibly easy to use, and best of all it doesn't hurt the wallet.
How does it compare to threads?
Yep. I've seen WAF in "audit mode" and it's got load of client API keys in there, among other fun things.

Check the box for WAF but adds a new risk.
Compliance is useful, just not for security.

* You get a cool industry certification that you can put on your website to justify the vague "we take your security seriously" platitudes we spew.

* It lets you stop putting money and effort into security once you've renewed your certs this year.

* You don't need to hire a dedicated security person, any sysadmin can check boxes.

* You can say you followed industry best practices and "did all you could" when you get breached.

It's the answer to "how do we not care about security?" across an entire industry that stands to make billions from said lack of care. In a depressing way, the company with useless performative security certs will fare better after a breach then the one without them but that actually tried.

My less cynical take about this is that if you need to actually care about security because you'll be up against sophisticated targeted attacks then you probably already know that. For everyone else there's checkboxes to stop companies from getting owned by drive-by attacks.
I wonder if social networks continue to bifurcate? Truth Social, Gab and X on the right and Mastadon, BlueSky on the left and Threads somewhere in between focused on celebrities?

This article suggests that there is a bifurcation happening:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/29/elon-mu...
You cannot put "bastion of truth" and "X" in the same sentence.
> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro?

The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge."

Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.
I don't think this is true, the scare about aluminum came from the 70s/80s when it was thought to be linked to Alzheimer's. However, this was found to be untrue.

Very high levels of aluminum can cause poisoning, for sure. But it has to be more than you can get from anodized cooking equipment or drink cans. It's around the 13th most abundant element in earth, it's in water and food, and our bodies are pretty good at getting rid of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Ear...
Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)
Executives are the ones who'll sign the cheques.

As an engineer, you can try to explain your perspective once or twice, but then you just go with what will please executives.
It's beyond words how much Elon Musk has wrecked Twitter. But, I am not ready join another echo chamber that mirrors the same flaws from the other side of the spectrum. My initial impression of BlueSky is just that.

Twitter's greatest flaw—no, I won’t call it "X"—is its obsession with engagement to promote tweets. This creates the worst feed you can think of:

- People ask the dumbest questions, just to bait responses.

- Someone makes a reasonable point, and along comes the dumbest reply. Why? So others can pile on, calling them out, driving up engagement.

- External links are buried. Good articles? Forget it. They’ve vanished from my feed.

- The most toxic people are constantly pushed to my feed. And it's a losing battle to block them all. Keeping my feed politics-free is borderline impossible.

- The fact that you can buy a subscription and ensure that your tweets get highlighted more is absurd. It has made it really easy to get the worst accounts in your feed.

It’s exhausting. I am just there because I think it is still a good marketing channel. But I am not sure anymore if the pros outweigh the cons.
They will remain bifurcated so long as some platforms censor political dissent while others do not.
Whenever I see an article about this or that platform gaining a million users I always think of the Eternal September.

I'd like to see a platform where after a certain number of people join, a new server is automatically created and new users are redirected there, similar to how MMO servers worked.
This is a good point. Why should anyone believe anything at all?
Years ago I ended up in a system with a star I couldn't refuel from and was S.O.L. I had vaguely heard of the Fuel Rats[0] and did a google to see if they were real and contactable. I put in a call to them and about an hour later a kindly pilot turned up, refuelled me and off I went with a warm fuzzy feeling. I was very grateful. It reminded me of happy times being in a corp in Eve with your comrades helping each other out.

Being reminded of this might make me give Elite another go.

[0]: https://fuelrats.com/
> “Why is there no free trial?”

> We introduced a 14-day free trial once, but it introduced a lot of support and admin, while not growing revenue much. It didn’t make a lot of sense and we removed it, but we might try again in the future.

Well, I'm sorry, but in this landscape (browsers everywhere), you need to demonstrate execution and value to me first. Same reason I won't create an account to test drive the Arc Browser. I'm intrigued, but I'm not giving up a damn thing until I know I'm not getting a pile of garbage.

I say this as someone with many paid licenses and subscriptions.
Following you, and hope to finally spend more time on the butterfly app instead of the bird app since it seems enough people are moving over there. I managed to primarily use Mastadon for a few months at one point but got sucked back into TWT.
How exactly would they get sued for this?
I've seen this played out many times and won't fall into the "next big social media site" trap anymore. If anything, I've noticed people are moving away from public social media and towards more private sites (only sharing photos and stuff with family members and close friends). The days of "let's put it out there for the entire world to see" are over.
Does federation work? Or Threads just doesn't federate anything into itself?
The F35 does not have a dedicated radio control panel. It's a menu driven operation through a multi function display. More damningly these electrical overload failures are known on the platform.

The plane is just a poorly designed death trap.
Indeed. The owner himself spreads disinformation on Twitter.
I read the article. When and how did Rose Wang reported the numbers? Over the phone? E-mail? Shows us the graph. The trends. At least something. I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".
Also no porn, since Twitter is the only mainstream platform that allows porn, a real competitor would have to allow porn as well.
I would have accepted reduced impact.
I got this formula as well. I viewed it as an expanding binary tree where you end up cutting branches early, similar to a alpha beta pruning search tree
I remember reading that reddit created fake users to make the site appear more popular than it was. AFAIK they never got sued. I doubt they're the only platform doing that.
> Some developers [...] think that that one system only they know is job security

"You can't be promoted if you can't be replaced."
MMO servers splits were due to capacity (both for the server and the player's weak GPUs trying to render players in a crowded area), not due to community. Modern World of Warcraft, for example, has removed almost every server-specific barrier and has strongly benefitted from it.