skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No surprise as to why Bluesky is taking off, despite calling it years ago. [0] Now it has 18M+ users with 9M MAUs and 3.3M DAUs [1] after removing the invite system.

The familiarity is easily transferable for a migration from Twitter / X. If you know how to use Twitter / X then you know how to use 90% of Bluesky.

No need to 'choose an instance' or some admin shutting a server down due to 'other reasons' unlike with Mastodon or an arbitrary blackbox algorithm that limits / hides your posts found in Threads or needing a Meta account.

Bluesky has learned from the mistakes of others to start first with a default server approach, you choose your own feed + algorithm and a search functionality that (works) can find accounts across the platform.

Simple.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750185

[1] https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
That problem is unsolvable
Weird typo--the article even says "For starters, if the chip is sent for tape out it means that the design is ready and it is handed over to the manufacturing partner for a small trial production..."

It's (almost) like who/whatever is writing the story doesn't actually understand the context.
> The point was that even the more "premium" products are still USB-A, not USB-C.

Often they're both, with detachable cables. Again, it was just weird that you brought up RGB specifically, something not at all central to your original point, a gimmick marketed at 'gamers' which is pointless in a well lit room; as well as mechanical keyboards specifically; as well that you've carried on like this in reply. Please don't take the time to reply again.
The difficulty with ARM Chromebooks is firmware/booting and driver support. With x86 models you can generally just flask mrchromebox's UEFI firmware and you're set, but ARM doesn't really have an equivalent (yet?). I'd suggest starting from https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:ChromeOS to find something well-supported.

Now that said - one of my main computers is an ARM ex-Chromebook running postmarketos that cost $99 new, so it absolutely can works:) You just have to pick hardware that's had its quirks ironed over.
What if the Navy is hiding this technology in plain sight at the patent office?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190348597A1/en

A lot of experts think these patents are BS, but I guess there is the possibility that they're not.
heavily censored
Got to be a podcast or something popular that Donald Trump appeared on
That’s what happens when training on social media data
Agreed. I was on twitter to discover, share, discuss articles and talks in my field of research. A couple months ago I had trouble finding good accounts and content; but now I am starting to find some of the PIs I was following over on twitter.

Biosci twitter -> BioSky?
Yes there is, and it's not on the tolerant to tolerate the intolerant.
Do they have any way to make money yet?
Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe
As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media.

One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.
Effective Bird Control with Laser Technology
Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay.

The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.
Also defrosting
Not all mechanical keyboards are noisy.

I use TTC Silent Bluish White switches which produce a muted "thock" sound, rather than the loud "clickety-clack" that you're probably thinking of. They're only slightly louder than a typical membrane keyboard.
Sure, you’re not wrong, I am very okay with not seeing CSAM, but your argument doesn’t hold water. Every communication is speech, and moderating it by definition limits it. What limits are acceptable is the question, and I think zero human beings truly believe the answer is 100% or 0%. I am a free speech maximalist, but I also used to work at a place that had a huge 8ft wide sombrero you’d wear when working with content moderation teams to prevent unneeded trauma to coworkers.

Anyone who pretends there is a totally morally clean way to solve this issue is naive or a liar.
I don't quite get what you mean. Of course, I could get CMake to pass a specific compiler flag at the configuration stage, but that misses the point. What I'm saying is that there is a super-easy way to configure CMake to enable optimisations (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release), but this cannot be said for bounds checking. Note that my own code does have bounds checking enabled for Clang, GCC and MSVC. What I'm arguing is that setting up the latter is significantly more effort than enabling optimisations. I'm not arguing that it isn't possible or that one shouldn't do that.
That was the time we learned about the changes to the block feature.
https://archive.today/woa9r

Related:

Thomas E. Kurtz has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761 - Nov 2024 (138 comments)

Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of Basic, Has Passed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135212 - Nov 2024 (1 comment)
As a GenXer, I think it's hilarious.
Come on, when can we use this for games?
> Introductory summary: The current scientific consensus is that the placebo effect is a real healing effect operating through belief and suggestion.

I have no idea what the rest of the article says because this single sentence is so bat shit insane on so many levels.

The placebo effect is not “real healing”, it’s “our study is unable to show a statistically relevant result from our treatment”.

I’m not big on LLMs personally, so I won’t make any specific claims on what they can do. But from what I’ve read, I’d doubt they’d correct that mistake.

On the flip side, I would trust an LLM to tell me whether it should have been “batshit”, “bat-shit”, or “bat shit”.
That's because the narrative in the last decades has shifted towards tools, not actions and intentions being good or bad.

In the past, it was normal and encouraged to use any tools available to you to defend yourself. Psychological abuse is still abuse and you have the right to defend yourself, the most natural, available and effective immediate defensive tool being violence.

In recent years, violence has become a massive taboo. It's a tool that is universally labelled as bad no matter the circumstances. Instead, everyone is encouraged to portray a "good victim" by demonstrating helplessness and waiting/hoping for people in positions of power to help.
A lot of Brazilians there. I guess it makes sense that they are a large portion of the user-base after Twitter got banned.
So if I posted your home address, social security number, bank account and routing numbers, your work address, pictures of you, your spouse, your kids, the schools they go to, your license plate numbers, pictures of your car and its real time location that moderators can't take that down if they believe in free speech?

Interesting world we live in then.
"Justice is expensive and uncomfortable, let's just use collective punishment on everyone in the immediate area."
That, and the TOS update which now requires users to give X blanket permission to use their posts for AI training (previously you could opt-out). Not that AI companies really care whether they have permission right now, but if legal precedent doesn't go their way then coercing users into "giving permission" by burying it within 50 pages of TOS legalese will be the fallback plan.
Teach yourself to echolocate (2018)
The covid analysis seems like a pretty good example: https://colab.research.google.com/github/EvgSkv/logica/blob/...

A good exercise might be converting it to the corresponding SQL and comparing the two for clarity.
It's kind of interesting in terms of analytics... can we predict when lenses will appear and disappear, from our perspective? What might we do with that information once we are more advanced?
Yea, you don't have to fight back in order to be punished under "zero tolerance." You just have to be involved, including as the victim. Kids get punished all the time for rolling up into a ball while the aggressor beats them.
Not really. LLVM does support compute mode SPIR-V, and _very_ recently graphics-mode SPIR-V which is being dogfooded by the highly WIP HLSL front-end in Clang (I couldn't get a trivial fragment shader to build with it a few weeks ago). Clang does not support compiling graphics-mode SPIR-V from C or C++.

This seems similar to the Vulkan Clang Compiler (which is not in-tree of LLVM), although it has some interesting differences such as implementing shader functions with new specifiers like `__hcc_vertex` rather than repurposing attributes for it like `[[clang::annotate("shady::entry_point::vertex")]]`.
because it's not centralized and you can self host it.
This is the big challenge of any platform for user-generated content and it's incredibly difficult to scale, do well and be economical. A bit like CAP, it's almost like "pick 2". You will have to deal with:

- CSAM

- Lower-degree offensive material eg Youtube had an issue a few years ago where (likely) predators were commenting timestamps on inocuous videos featuring children or on Tiktok videos with children get saved way more often. I would honestly advise any parent to never publicly post videos or photos of your children to any platform, ever.

- Compliance with regulation in different countries (eg NetzDG in Germany);

- Compliance with legal orders to take down content

- Compliance with legal orders to preserve content

- Porn, real or AI

- Weaponization of reporting systems to silence opinions. Anyone who uses Tiktok is familiar with this. Tiktok clearly will simply take down comments and videos when they receive a certain number of reports without it ever being reviewed by a human, giving you the option to appeal

- Brigading

- Cyberbullying and harassment

This is one reason why "true" federation doesn't really work. Either the content on Bluesky (or any other platform) has to go through a central review process, in which case it's not really federated, or these systems need to be duplicated across more than one node.
Thanks for that excellent write-up!
No you get flagged and banned for breaking the rules. The fact you can't comprehend this is on you.
What about using TPM modules? I've been researching these modules lately, primarily for use in online video games. From my understanding, you can use TPMs to effectively ban players (TPM ban) based on their hardware. This would mean every time an account is banned, the bad actor would have to switch to a different TPM. Since a TPM costs real money, this places a limit on the scalability of a bad actor.
So true. like: after creating thousand of media channels, tv, cable, web, streamed, broadcasted... how can be filled with somethin between ads (billions of ads)? ads are the $$, 'contents' are the fill-the-gap, AI (not intelligent, neiter artificial) is the best response now, infinite recicle of our own intelligence, cheaper, easy, at the touch of a button. Pure noise.
Easy there champ. Noone is shitting on general relativity.

All I'm saying is that the effect of general relativity at galactic scales is so minuscule, that galactic dynamics is - for all intents and purposes - governed by the Newtonian limit of gravity.

If you propose that gravity doesn't behave like the Newtonian limit at those scales, then you're contradicting general relativity as well, since the far-field limit of the Schwartzschild metric is literally Newton's inverse square law.

In layman terms, modified Newtonian gravity, that the article talks about, is an attempt to explain why galaxies don't rotate the way they should according to Newton (and Einstein, because at those distances the two are the same!!!).
A really neat thing about the netboot setup is it takes zero time to clone the image to all the machines. As soon as I'm done installing updates on one machine, I shut down, run one command that completes instantly, and now I can boot all the machines immediately with that image.

There have been a decent number of times when I actually did this during a party to fix an issue, or between parties just to keep the machines maintained for the family to play with, etc. It'd be hard to do that if I have to spend hours transferring a large image every time.

Aside from the stability issues at boot time, there isn't really a down side. I don't have any problems with load times. So I'm pretty happy with the setup.
M4 chips: P cores hosting a VM
People blocking jerks isn’t censorship. Do you have a source that there’s any kind of censorship going on stronger than other social media networks?
Pretty neat trick, I will definitely use it in the future

But it only works in git repositories. Sometimes you need to search and replace on non-git repositories, for those cases Scooter might be the answer
Well yes and no. Rust is the reason because it's a real memory-safe alternative for system programming. If it didn't exist, governments would give C and C++ a "pass" for being memory unsafe.
> I’m strictly talking about actual forcing, and by that I mean giving legal repercussions to people who wouldn’t do it.

Where? I've yet to hear of a court case where the plantiff is arguing that they were forced to take a vaccine by a government. Bodily automomy has plenty of case studies and it'd be an easy slam dunk if any federal entity tried doing that.

There was an executive order:

https://oversight.house.gov/release/wenstrup-opens-investiga...

>the Biden Administration implemented Executive Order (E.O.) 14043. This E.O. required federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by November 8, 2021, or risk removal or termination from their federal employment.

But I believe the precedent for political discrimination in the workplace is thin, at best. I don't think the Hatch Act would have much ground here. You're not owed a job for your political nor religious beliefs if it puts others in danger (there's a lot of case law on the latter with regard to rituals).

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EDIT: Oh yea, there was the overreaching argument of the president. That one was swiftly shot down:

https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/feds-for-medica...

>Finally, our brief argued that Supreme Court precedent supports the president’s broad authority to regulate federal employees, including their out-of-office conduct, when such regulation is justified by the government’s interest in the safety, effectiveness, and security of government facilities. In one case, for example, the Supreme Court sanctioned Reagan Administration regulations requiring drug testing of government employees and prohibiting drug use outside of the workplace
I mean, yes, that's sort of how linguistics works in general? You can't just look at a language with completely different orthography or semantic concepts and expect to be able to reliably map it onto your pre-existing language with no effort. That's sort of the whole reason translation is a generally difficult problem.

I don't really get this kind of complaint in general I'm afraid. Many people can read and write, say, Hangul just fine -- and at the same time we don't expect random English speakers with no familiarity will be able to understand Korean conversations, or any syllabic writing systems in general. Programming language families/classes like logic programming are really no different.

> it's English language syntax made things really easy

That's just called "being familiar with English" more than any inherent property of SQL or English.
Ethically speaking, there's no choice. ASAP cochlear implants will allow the child to have the normal audio language input that is absolutely required for normal cognitive development. Deaf people, without implants and no audio language input in childhood, will have curtailed IQ from what they would have had.

The "deaf is perfect" subculture was inevitable and has precise parallels across disabled populations. That doesn't mean that it is logical, strictly speaking, and that parents are required to respect it. I'd argue that parents are ethically obligated to help their child avoid a massive disadvantage and have absolutely no obligation to deafness as a wider culture.
At vastly different rates. You’re talking about an extremely rare and legally and socially heavily discouraged behavior.

One could just as easily say “women kill their young children in every country”, because some mentally ill women sometimes do so. That’s not the same as societal acceptance of the practice.

Or we could generalize any negative behavior to any group that has members that do that behavior, which would obviously be an incorrect generalization.
Lol, I got curious about nostr, and it's the same thing, with an extra layer of "crypto currency will save the world"
How did you deal with the length of the USB and display cables? I thought after 5m or so things would start falling apart. Are there active extenders and can they can handle 240+ Hz?
I joined twitter like 3 years ago, so also quite late to this type of game. Compared to forums, hn, reddit etc it's quite difficult to get your voice heard in the beginning. Anything you post is just shown to no one when you have no followers. Takes some time interacting with others and hope they follow or repost to get some traction.
Constant fans are sucking outside air into your house. Could be part of your Heat/AC efficiency problem mentioned in your post. A timer to run every 10th minute would be a simple improvement.
finding the same ppl on bluesky needs work, and it's not a job i'm going to do. if twitter decays, good; i will get rid of my last social media app.
As opposed to extremely dishonest far-right grifters like Twitter is now?
Not probably less, vastly less.
Cool, if you can require them for every possible interaction on a platform but even that violates privacy if you have one universal value that ties it all together (the identifier of the specific TPM).

It's just the phone number/email issue but tied to hardware. If you think these things won't leak and allow bad actors to tie your accounts across services then I have some lovely real estate in Florida you may be interested in.

It also appears that resetting a fTPM works around this since it fully resets the TPM. Even if it didn't then people buying used CPUs could find that they're banned from games that they've never even played or installed on their system before
The flip side of that is SQL makes hard things nearly impossible.

What about SQL syntax makes the hard things possible? I get that the actual language SQL is broken in all sorts of ways. But I don't see any reason to replace it with some opaque from get-go.

I mean, what stops you from defining, say adjectives and using those for rough modularity.

Say

EXPENSIVE(T) means T.price > 0;
Select name FROM books WHERE EXPENSIVE(books);

Seems understandable.
I don't like Bluesky because I feel it's a whole lot of pointless Not Invented Here vs. improving on ActivityPub, but it is still far more resistant to that than X/Twitter because people can migrate more easily.
Interesting quote from that piece:

> The study's authors make clear that the results do not indicate Tesla vehicles are inherently unsafe or have design flaws. In fact, Tesla vehicles are loaded with safety technology; the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) named the 2024 Model Y as a Top Safety Pick+ award winner, for example. Many of the other cars that ranked highly on the list have also been given high ratings for safety by the likes of IIHS and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, as well.

> So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list — involved in so many fatal crashes? “The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities,” iSeeCars executive analyst Karl Brauer said in the report. “A focused, alert driver, traveling at a legal or prudent speed, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, is the most likely to arrive safely regardless of the vehicle they’re driving.”
I wonder how they're planning to pay for people to deal with these reports.
I have no affiliation or knowledge of this company - I just think it's a very nice domain, blurb, and website UI design.

One button: "Solve my bird problem". With lasers!
With the Dang moderation?
And PGs vision?

Can't wait to join!
A bigger jump seemed to be Aug 28 - Sept 7 (daily likers 200k => 1M+). I wonder why. (also some days are missing there, so maybe something changed in the data collection).
Aperture to me was the perfect photography software and was sad to see it discontinued. It did seem a bit niche in a competitive area that may not have justified porting to Apple Silicon and supporting.

Now the play seems to be for Apple to dominate all creative professional software and make Windows+Creative/Pro software as much an oxymoron as Mac+Games.
So spacetime (interactions between mass, space, and time) are required for any sort of precision explanation. If "extreme" means planet size masses, I guess, but I generally consider our solar system pretty normal. However we cannot explain the planetary motion of mercury without relativity, so define your extreme.

But sure, newton is good enough to handle most ground based scenarios where we only care about forces at low precision.
It’s not very thinly veiled
Situation: birds are flying uncontested over controlled or otherwise undesired airspace

"That's ridiculous! We need to develop a low-cost laser based solution to track and divert wildlife out of a designated area!"

Situation: a population of blind birds are flying uncontested over controlled or otherwise undesired airspace
Well, the one thing to keep in mind is that coronaviruses tend to have high mutation rates, and a lot of the breakthrough took place with mutated variants, not the original Sars-CoV-2 virus, the one that escaped from the lab in Wuhan due to poor biosafety controls, and which for all we know may have been synthesized in the Baric Lab in North Carolina and later shipped to Wuhan for testing. Of course, a lot remains unknown.
I understand the moderators working for the big social networks have a terrible job and often see the worst the internet has to offer.

Who is going to do that job as a volunteer? Or is that expected to be solved by technology? Hard to imagine them achieving what Google, Facebook etc could not reliably.
This still better than existing system.
What is the alternative to AI twitter? Is there some incumbent where it moves?