skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is time for someone to work on local uploads, a good starting point would be a nicer workflow for uploading with 2FA. At present you either have to store a long lived token somewhere to use for many uploads, and risk that it is stolen, or fiddle about creating & then removing a token to use for each release.
It's more about the vision and momentum

Threads is not trying to be a Twitter replacement and is another brand in the Zuck conglomerate

What makes Bluesky different to me is ATProto and the possibilities for a new social media fabric, that they learned from some difficulties with ActivityPub to build something better

https://atproto.com
Cultures come and go, arising from circumstances that can change. Does preservation of a living culture take priority over the wellbeing of its members? Perhaps a culture is something that can be decommissioned humanely.
According to Wikipedia for USS Virginia class subs, the propulsion is 1 × S9G nuclear reactor280,000 hp (210 MW).
Everyone who has an Instagram account is technically a Threads user as far as I can tell.
"frogs don’t freeze once and stay frozen. Instead, they spend a week or two freezing at night and thawing during the day until the temperatures drop permanently below freezing"

https://shakerlakes.org/frozen-frogs/
I think Bluesky has won the "cool" factor; remains to be seen how effective that is at pulling other users across while maintaining its culture.

There's probably a good chunk of people who just drop Twitter without picking up another social media in replacement.
> If you aren't having at least one video call a day something is probably wrong.

Depends on how you work? A video call every day would be too much for me, but two a week seems alright. I'm also not a fan of daily meetings in person either, though.
> Why would you even do any of that for a senior role?

I used to think like that ... then we hired a batch of 3 "senior" devs who could not do simple, everyday coding tasks, even in their ostensible languages of preference. All had come with exceptional resumés and personal recommendations.

So now, no one at any level one gets hired without demonstrating that they can at least write a fizzbuzz and commit it to a repository.

Now, I doubt that senior engineers in other fields have to do this sort of thing. But, most other engineering fields have licensing/accreditation with accompanying post-graduate academic curricula. We don't (but probably should).
Institutional sites of Italian municipalities disappeared from Google
is that Threads, or is that Instagram and Threads? Kind of a cheat without calling that out
If you're in similar time zones, try https://www.gather.town/ ?

I've used it for remote conferences, and I like its 2D UI. Real sense of space there.
Too early to call, the momentum must also become normal. I can see a future where threads is mainstream and bluesky attracts news/politics.
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'Possibility of a catastrophic failure': Space station leak has NASA worried
https://archive.ph/SYoQF
They probably are juicing the numbers that way, but the dedicated Threads app is pretty high on the app store charts so evidently people are going out of their way to get it.

YMMV depending on your region but my Play Store "social" chart is currently showing Bluesky at #1, then TikTok, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Reddit at #7.
Right, so if The Onion bid $2.5M and the Sandy hook families said "Our portion of that $2.5M will be forgiven and it will pay for the other creditors" Then Jones' debt would have been reduce by ~$5M instead of the $3.5M of the other bidder.

Now, it is possible that the onion only bid $1.75M in which case there might be something to the claim. But, I doubt that's the case.
Threads seems unusable unless they change the algorithm. It defaults to For You and For You is 50% Instagram-style engagement bait, 50% people you've never heard of complaining about things you've never heard of, and 0% people you're actually following.

If they fix that it could indeed be quite good, but it still feels too much like "broadcasting" vs "conversation", and I'm personally not ready to be popular like that.

Bluesky does have a little toxic positivity but it's much better, and it's possible to chat with friends on it. (When I try enabling the algorithm features they still won't stop showing me gay porn though.)
https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/04/15/sqlite-on-rails-t...
Is instagram usage counted in active threads users? I doubt it
All of the major platforms experience major outflow after elections, no? Logically, Twitter would lose more users given that they have a larger user base to start with. What’s the next major event where we can reliably measure to see which platform is actually ahead?
I'm fine with it, I've forgotten more frameworks and libs for now dead devices/services/OS etc over the years that it's largely pointless memorising these things, I'm very happy for a machine to help me get to where I want to be, and less time faffing about with google/stackoverflow the better, like I said the failure rate is still fairly high, but still useful enough.
California, You're Up
No user wants informed case-by-case decisions, we want to not be tracked. Making this a question that needs to be explicitly answered was already a bastardisation of the original intent of privacy legislation. A competent legislator would've required a user agent level option (like a more advanced version of DNT) that can be set globally and overriden per site. This could be written vaguely enough to not require patching as technology changes.

And even if we wanted case-by-case consent, a standardised format and actually enforced rules against coerced consent would've also been quite easy to do.
I'm "almost" a lifelong user of a cochlear implant. I got my first one when I was 9. Before I got it, I was communicating through lip reading and speaking, I never knew sign language. Lip reading I still use relatively often -- when I'm at a crowded restaurant, or at an unbearably noisy party, and there's many interlocutors at the table, I persistently stare at their lips. They take me for a great listener, when in fact, I can't hear shit, and I'm desperately switching back and forth between people's mouths to catch what they're saying. I'm out of shape and this takes so much of my brain power to understand people that I often cannot contribute my thoughts.

Though my cochlear isn't perfect, I would never think of not getting it. In fact, I'd probably be rather angry at my parents for not helping me get one as soon as it was possible. During my childhood and up until late college, I've only ever met one person who was so severely hard of hearing and was about my age, and that was where I have been getting my speech lessons before I got my first cochlear implant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVO1IyfA9M Video linked earlier in the thread that gives a visual on what exactly this looks like.
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I the user would prefer the developer use regular file storage.
I believe Threads active users are artificially conflated with Instagram and Facebook. In all my circles, I don't know anyone who uses Threads
Show HN: Generate short videos with one click using AI LLM
Neat alternative it seems. I do wish there was something like this that was on-device only. My guess is maybe there is, with some local LLM, but I’m just unaware of it.
I'd argue longform content has done more for opinion-making than microblogs in the 2024 election. And to be honest, I like that. Irrespective of the politics the podcasts with JD Vance and even Trump at Theo Von were remarkable. Seeing Trump genuinely care about Theo's drug history was a strange but impactful moment.
A chatbot has no wishes or desires. Any output that isn't responsive to the prompt is, by definition, a "hallucination".
It is one of the few things for which i could see the use of a new web document type.
Bluesky's issue is the Discover feed is not good. After a few days of activity, the suggestions are mostly random and nowhere close to the stuff I want. Twitter was very good - it makes sense because the graph is rich.
> Part of the problem is that the law didn't seek to distinguish between tame first-party cookies and the really naughty third-party cookies so the burden is equal regardless of how malicious the service is.

It does, or rather the law doesn't state cookies at all. It has nothing to do with cookies.

All the law says is you require informed consent if you want to harvest personal data and use it for tracking. Cookies are a common way to do that. But cookies used for session and whatnot are exempt, because they're not used for tracking.

The problem is companies are maliciously compliant.
X is at 600 million MAU, for reference.

Edit: Thanks @JumpCrisscross.
I still think Nostr will eventually be the go-to.
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They did not “all agree on”. There was strong arming on one end because Méluche (and others, but he’s particularly hard to ignore and influential) cannot imagine compromising. Demanding submission was stupid because, again, having a couple of percents more than the others is not very useful if you don’t have a majority. And had they a majority, there would be nothing that Macron could do because they would just vote no confidence into any government coming before them. He is boisterous, vindictive, loud, and has been turning victories into defeats for more than a decade now. Macron is the opposite: not that showy, quieter, but ruthless and shrewd, and kept control despite setbacks. I don’t like neoliberals or conservatives (least of all that Barnier guy, I remember him from before he played as the EU’s saviour and he is not a nice person). But they were simply better at politics. They did not steal anything, they got a majority coalition, rickety as it is (and who knows how long it will last).

As long as we (and I mean the left side broadly) are talking about the government not being legitimate as we shoot ourselves in the foot, we won’t learn how to reverse this. Talking about stolen power is a weak argument when we’ve just been outmanoeuvred. And it makes us look like sulking children and in the end it just helps conservatives and fascists.
Yeah but what made Twitter twitter wasn't really the usercount, it was the mix of established voices and complete randos mixing. If the journalists and economists and politicians go to Bluesky, it will win. I definitely don't think that's a given but it seems much more plausible now than it did a few months ago.
I'm still hoping that X wins. I'm hoping that we learn how to coexist with a diversity of viewpoints. It seems counterproductive to partition everyone up into their own little gardens, without any viable opposition to the dominant views.
Land per sqft is usually a lot more expensive than panels.

Bifacial above ground capture more of solar, esp if the ground reflects solar back.

Many YouTube experiments where people have captured an extra 100-150W from back panels yielding 500W+ per panel.

And bifacial is only slightly more expensive than mono panels. With higher efficiency the price is worth it.

For residential solar with batteries, the price of panels is barely 10% of the cost. Labor, permitting, connectors, inverters, framing take a huge chunk of the cost.

I imagine utility scale has lower overhead but the tradeoff for bifacial would have given positive ROI.
At Google, had to do Java on borg, and used few times the "Cloud Trace" debugger (not sure how it was called), but it allowed you to watch multiple instances of your binary in production, and then add some isolated set of java statements around code blocks, this way you can say (somehow) - if you end up on this line, then "inject" (somehow) something to log out... and then you can add whatever you want to be logged (like arguments, variables around, etc.).

But then later it got scrapped, or something like it.

Cloud "debugging" when you have multiple instances is one of the cases where there is no suitable enough debugger (yet).
> Is instagram usage counted in active threads users? I doubt it

It is if they have a Threads account and interact with any Threads content on the Instagram app, which is extremely easy to do even accidentally, because they shove it into the Instagram feed and make it look like Instagram content.

I would not be surprised if a large chunk - maybe even the majority - of "Threads users" interact with it exclusively through the Instagram app, with many of them not even fully aware that it's nominally a separate product.
> Japanese and Korean aren’t related to Chinese and still were written with Chinese characters (still are in the case of Japanese).

The problem is – in writing Japanese with kanji, lots of somewhat arbitrary decisions had to be made. Which kanji to use for which native Japanese word? There isn't always an obviously best choice from first principles. But that's not a problem in practice, because a tradition developed of which kanjii to use for which Japanese word (kun'yomi readings). For English, however, we don't have such a tradition. So it isn't clear which Chinese character to use for each English word. If two people tried to write English with Chinese characters independently, they'd likely make different character choices, and the mutual intelligibility might be poor.

Also, while neither Japanese nor Korean belongs to the same language family as Chinese, both borrowed lots of words from Chinese. In Japanese, a lot of use of kanji (especially on'yomi reading) is for borrowings from Chinese. Since English borrowed far less terms from Chinese, this other method of "deciding which character(s) to use" – look at the word's Chinese etymology – largely doesn't work for English given very few English words have Chinese etymology.

Finally, they also invented kanji in Japan for certain Japanese words – kokuji. The same thing happened for Korean Hanja (gukja), to a lesser degree. Vietnamese Chữ Nôm contains thousands of invented-in-Vietnam characters. Probably, if English had adopted Chinese writing, the same would have happened. But again, deciding when to do it and if so how is a somewhat arbitrary choice, which is impossible outside of a real societal tradition of doing it.

> The fact that it used an alphabet instead is a historical accident, not due to any grammatical property of the language.

Using the Latin alphabet changed English, just as using Chinese characters changed Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. If English had used Chinese characters instead of the Latin alphabet, it would be a very different language today. Possibly not in grammar, but certainly in vocabulary.
There's a really obvious way to test whether the strawberry issue is tokenization - replace each letter with a number, then ask chatGPT to count the number of 3s.

Count the number of 3s, only output a single number:
6 5 3 2 8 7 1 3 3 9.

ChatGPT: 3.
BASIC was my gateway to missing over two weeks of classes because I cobbled together a fishing game during my freshman year of high school that apparently was worthy of winning at the regional and state science fairs for 4 consecutive years without changes.

Mission Accomplished.

Thank you, Dr. Kurtz.
If you have a business with a lot of customers who need a support forum, does it make sense to run a Bluesky server?

How does censorship work?
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/OtherDocs/Hask... - describing why, in 2001, he thought Haskell was a good choice for a first college course in CS.

You can read many of his thoughts here: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/welcome.html
For a nice book on the tech-philosophy of this question (recently endorsed by the Dalai Lama, you might enjoy: https://www.plurality.net/
n=1 but I've never seen a bluesky content link in the wild. I've seen lots of people talking about bluesky or moving to bluesky though.
> This is because the data in the network is all cryptographically signed based on what came before it. The protocol does this using the Merkle tree structure, which is also how Git stores data. The issue with this is: if you want to look at one piece of content in the system, you also need to know about everything that happened before.

This isn't quite accurate. You only need the MST blocks in the merkle path(s) back to the root, for the subset of records that you care about. For a single record, that's O(logn) blocks on average, where n is the total number of records in the repo. For a full checkout, the MST block count is ~33% of the number records in the repo, on average.

(MST = Merkle Search Tree, which is a special type of merkle tree, distinct from the one used by git - https://inria.hal.science/hal-02303490/document )

> Also, it would be great to edit posts! I believe this is tricky because of the Merkle tree structure mentioned above

It's not so tricky at the MST level, and it already happens there when you edit your bio for example. What is tricky (relatively) is figuring out how to represent post edits at the UI/UX level.

For context, I'm working on my own PDS implementation in Python, with corresponding library for working with the MST (both fairly WIP):

https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/millipds

https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/atmst
In his 1976 essay on (or against) genetic engineering [1] Erwin Chargaff wrote "But screams and empty promises fill the air: Don't you want cheap insulin? (...) And how about a green man synthesizing his nourishment: 10 minutes in the sun for breakfast, 30 minutes for lunch, and 1 hour for dinner?" Nice to see that scientists are actually trying.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.11643312
Give me hardware device that supports the stuff that yubikey's gpg support can do, and I'll switch. Please! I want to switch.
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The competitive advantage to BlueSky, over Twitter / X, is that there's tremendous value in connecting intelligent and kind people while maintaining a certain quality standard.

Twitter / X, for political reasons, allowed extremely toxic behavior while at the same time disempowered communities from moderating themselves. If you force each individual user to manually block every troll, bot, or disgusting person it's a losing battle and low quality speech will overwhelm conversations. X folks know that but did it anyways.

It's also becoming more and more clear that we need a relatively neutral medium for free speech. Musk claimed to be building that on X but then did exactly the opposite. It's very hard to trust the algorithm isn't being manipulated in one way or another.

On BlueSky it's incredible how much value is already being produced by connecting intelligent and creative folks as compared to what Twitter became.
That's my guess. By having either of those accounts you automatically got a threads account.
You know, some people do love devouring works from Knuth and such and still can't pass those tests. Yegge just assumed that such tests work for any type of individual who is willing to study hard, which is simply not true. The frustrating bit is that nobody told me when I embarked on this career path how much I'd have to struggle and put myself through the same traumatising experience over and over just so I can get a job.
You can change background and button colors too.

Other point is noted. But let’s compare the alternative:

1. Fiddle with a config file for each app for a week. Distro includes this in dark mode set.
2. Each app writes custom code to listen for and adapt to dark mode events.
What becomes apparent very quickly outside the imposed rigidity of a physical office is that different individuals and different roles all have different optimal communication patterns. And people can get really fussy if they aren't getting the structure/tools/freedoms/whatever that they feel they need.

And so the answer to your question is ultimately much more idiosyncratic than you're hoping it to be. Whatever answers you find here, take them as inspiration for things to try out rather than specific things to do.

With that said, effective communication patterns tend to naturally snowball, so if you can start getting people feeling connected and collaborative, you'll find that they'll naturally keep that up and build on it.

But you are going to need to throw some spaghetti at the wall to see what your team needs in order to get that process started.
Is this using vscode's DAP under the hood?
So effectively, they're in the clear. The law also say not opting in should be as clear and asy as opting in, yet that is the case approximately 0% of the time.
> It's better if this chat has history which expires in 24 hours.

Your legal and HR departments will be much less enthusiastic about this idea if your org is big enough to have either.
gef has tmux support so program's output goes to other tmux pane
It could just as easily imply that people aren't paying attention when they read it. Inability to understand a text is not always on the author, plenty of times it's on the reader.
And minus bots?
> > When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

> All the time.

I guess the minor difference was that it was part of your paid job instead of a huge time sink to get hired.

This is the biggest issue I have with all these tasks is that they take precious time that could be utilized better. In my case: working on real open-source software instead of throwaway made-up problems. (Source: I had to spend 3 days to write a transaction engine toy once and then I didn't get the job for another reason.)
Join a botnet, and use your node to log into other devices and/or deliver attack payloads.
> Taste moved towards elaborate, deeply styled designs that communicated branding and away from familiar widgets that didn't call attention to themselves as all.

My taste did not; I experienced this shift as the triumph of designer ego over humble usability, and a little bit of my youthful love for computing died in the process.
This goes beyond software interviews and is just how the world works.

"I want to work for your company"

"Ok, prove yourself"

"Sorry, I don't have time"

How do you expect that conversation to go from there? If you don't have time then make time. It isn't anyone's problem but your own.
> Bluesky has now 15 million total users (how many active?)

That is a very good question. One of the Bluesky developers gave the figure at around 2.25M DAUs [0]

This chart shows that they now have 3.74M DAUs and have 9.3M MAUs [1]

Mastodon does not give their DAUs, but their MAUs are down to less than 1M users. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41953421

[1] https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...

[2] https://joinmastodon.org/servers
If interesting people start posting interesting things on Bluesky we'll start going there. But, so far, we only see people posing and shoving it down our throats. Just like this post. We get it, you hate Musk and want to see X/twitter dead. Fine.

I'm not on Twitter and used to be on Mastodon so the idea of Bluesky per se sounds
interesting. But so far it looks like a forced, desperate attempt by a very political group of people. And that's the opposite of what people like me would like to spend time on.
It's a bigger echo chamber than X. What's the point? I go online to try to get a general idea of the landscape of views and opinions.

I think a general problem with the current political landscape right now is that people literally cannot tolerate reading something they disagree with, because they convinced themselves that the other side is so morally flawed, they can just immediately write them off without further consideration.

But irrespective of that, how are you supposed to understand what is going on if you only read content by people who think the same way you do?