skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try using it, it has extra steps and decisions that add friction and are annoying / challenging for end-users.
how do I join? :D are you guys hiring at cloudflare per chance?
Federated and no control just means it’s going to be overrun by trolls at some point?
Ask HN: Who owns the copyright on music created with AI?
> Then the entire medical industry is failing at communicating that.

Rebutting hypobolic extrapolations from literally one datum is still not something that the entire medical industry - or just my PCP and cardiologist, for that matter - should be prioritizing (unless they have a patient doing just that), even if the prevalence of such claims has increased over the last decade or so.

The afforementioned professionals had no reticence in taking my pre-40 symptoms of heart disease seriously, even though I did not present any of the correlates frequently associated with it.
It might be like a lot if there could have been intelligent civilizations 8 billion years older then us.
He’s not the right person for the job of democratizing the interchange of information without bias.
And I’ll call it right now back to you now. It will go the way less than mediocrity of threads and mastodon.
I appreciate Mastodon and wish it were growing steadily. Unfortunately, activity metrics (see the second chart on this page, for example [0]) suggest that it's on a steady, slow decline.

[0] https://mastodon-analytics.com/
And beyond that, the federated aspect makes it very different from a global site like twitter. It was aimed at having control but in doing so you feel disconnect IMHO.
I used to be excited about printing data layouts the way DDD or Rizin do it, but lately I've been getting into GDB pretty printers. They aren't very difficult to write (once you grasp the basics of the GDB API and compiler debug info flags), and they're a very cheap way to make reasonably pleasant representations of data structures. Although "cheap" is not "free", like these sort of tools are.
You need to move, yesterday. Yes, moving sucks. No, ideally you wouldn't have to. But at the end of the day you are just plain shooting yourself in the foot if you continue to live in a place that absurdly expensive.

Like dude, you could buy an awesome house in just about any other part of the country if you truly have $1m in liquid wealth. You have options to own a house, you just have to act on them.
I like all of these considerations, although I also imagine for every context there is some frequency at which it is worthwhile to invalidate the caches to ensure that all parts of the system are still functioning as expected (including the rebuilding of the caches).
but i'm already on X, I just can't make a move just because of decentralization or "toxic" environment everyone talks about. It has a lot more content and the people I follow are all here.
Elon Musk Adds Microsoft to Suit Against OpenAI
https://archive.ph/T00nI
The astro pictures are neat. Everything else ... less so.
It did see a big surge in popularity when Musk bought Twitter, but user numbers right now are not growing significantly.
In the 600 million years that our planet has had complex multicellular life, only about 130 of those years has any species here been able to communicate outside the planet. That's .00002% of the time, on a planet with multicellular life.

Maybe the norm is that intelligent life lasts a long time and we just happen to be born in the first tiny fraction of humanity.

But the observational evidence is that even given multicellular life, intelligence is extremely rare, and there is no evidence at all that it is likely to last very long.
> while using CS background to fully understand frameworks already existing.

Most frameworks today are so complicated that you typically cannot understand them fully, and even understanding them somewhat partially is more than a full-time job.
> a mechanism for a social group to act outside of its norms in the enforcement of its norms

There are internal and external norms and even norms within each category have different levels of importance.

External norms are typically of the nature of "no fighting" and are enforced without looking at the circumstances. Their goal is for somebody perceived as an authority to keep the group pacified and minimize visible conflict. They are typically not interested in invisible conflict because by its nature, the external power can't see it.

The goal is not justice, it's peace.

Internal norms are fuzzy because they're usually not codified and might not even be agreed upon by the members of the group because their goal is maintaining a social hierarchy within the group.

The hierarchy's goal is neither peace nor justice, it doesn't even have a goal, it's just a compromise between people with differing goals - some entirely uninterested in the hierarchy, some obsessed with climbing the social ladder.
Without this article and HN discussion I’d never have known about MOND, which is (at the very least) a fun theory.
It's not idiot-proof. Common-denominator platforms where you're expecting the general population need to be intuitive and work like people expect them to. Mastodon doesn't and their federated model is a pain in the behind.
Its fundamental design lacks the ability to provide features that many people want, because the developers see those features as anti-features to be avoided.

Bluesky's AT Protocol was developed specifically to address what they saw as shortcomings with the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon and other similar services.
Isn't this more of a management problem, trying to turn a not-livestream system into a livestreaming one?
I consider myself a technical person, perhaps not social media savvy anymore, and Mastodon confused the hell out of me. I don't think it stands a chance with regular Joe.
Threads is seeing similar growth. So it stands to reason that we are seeing a large exodus of users from X and people are trying out both platforms to see which one suits them best.
Disney Streaming has 900 employees, a large majority of which are engineers.

This is the company that supplies technology to Hotstar, Hulu, MLB Live streaming, etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Streaming

Hotstar is a completely different company.
Aha, so it was real too? For the past few years I have not been able to find the old text that I used to, and I'm sure my memory has shifted a bit over time too.
It's a worse experience for posters for two major reasons: blocking is not as effective (blocked people can still read and respond), and there are too many weird scolds who yell at people for not adding content warnings for trivial things.

I don't post so it doesn't affect me directly. It affects where the people I follow choose to post.
Yes everybody following UAPs knows about them, but I would imagine a lot of people reading this thread are not aware of them.
In your article, you write that a social platform without trolls is impossible. You simply encountered a dumb-ass troll who didn't like the fact that you like Twitter and he reacted this way.
Follow serious people and you can have serious conversations.
Related to culture, I moved to Austin in 2012 and that was the first time I saw a restaurant advertising that their water had no fluoride.
> I think if you can realistically solve that you'd be a millionaire already.

Please.

If I knew how to do that, or even how to reduce bots even with SMS verification etc., I'd be a multi-billionaire at least.

Making a twitter clone is relatively easy, making a community with a good vibe that's actually worth spending time using is the one single problem that makes none of the clones stand out to normal users.
I think ZQDGR is more a script runner vs air and simplereload being helpers or build tools. I think ZQDGR can be used in that way, but it's not explicitly designed to be. In the end, use whatever tool works for you, I built ZQDGR because I wanted ZQDGR and it works for me.
No it doesn't.

India has landed on Mars for a fraction of the cost it took other nations, and the ESA has never been able to pull it off.

Not every cost is fungible and money isn't always the limiting factor.
You might've pasted the wrong link! Although damn, this modem looks good too, worth thinking about.
Technically it’s one fewer keystroke (and it’s AAPL).

It’s a lot fewer keystrokes for MS (Morgan Stanley), GS (Goldman Sachs) and MSFT (Microsoft) than it is for AAPL, but it’s a force of habit for some. Once you’re used to referring to firms by their ticker symbols, you do it all the time.

E.g. an ex trader friend still says “spot” instead of “point” when referring to decimal points, even if talking in other contexts like software versions.
I hope so too. I had to leave threads because my wall was 90% people talking and complaining about Twitter and Musk and memes about the same stuff. Dude, I was here _precisely_ to avoid this, but it's even worse!
No, you just refuse to do anything about it, because you dream of that dystopian future so you can brush off your hacker skills and save humanity. Why don’t you actually try to fix the problem instead of mandating that loopholes exist for you (and basically nobody else) to use?
I would say that, at least for me, PyMC’s main advantage was in DX. I just found model construction much more straightforward and better aligned with how I wanted to assemble the model.

This textbook/walkthrough is great:
https://a.co/d/9dWXDTK
I doubt any kind of lifeform can exist for that long, but even if it did, the rest of the objections apply. If it's in the other side of the universe, we will never meet. So it would have to be near, and [rest of my objections].

Seems very unlikely to me.
No one has called me a shitlord, cuck, idiot, or otherwise implied I’m stupid for the entire time I’ve used it. It’s great. The tech community on there is really solid, at least insofar as my interests go.
Do I have to buy this modem to view the Ruby hackers starter pack??
> Folks, belive me, I am not that interesting!

Several of the greatest fortunes of modern capitalism have been made through surveillance of people that "are not that interesting"
Come on, when can we use this for, uhm
Totally, I get it.

With respect, I'd offer that you may be underestimating how literacy-avoidant the households of illiterate adults were likely to have been. Their parents were almost certainly to have been illiterate as well, or at least very low literacy. They didn't include library visits in the child's culture.

My suggestion has its own challenges, but the basic premise is that doing everything that we can to put books in the laps of these parents and children is the best avenue.

Consider that literacy training doesn't even begin with reading. Just having a book in the household that the parent and child can leaf through, and look at the pictures within, is the start of literacy and story grammar (the floor-level basics of reading). A child inventing a story that they tell themselves or their caregivers, predicated on the pictures that they see in the book, would be a massive literacy win. As well as one for cognitive development.

Ideally, after which the child starts to request books and request being either told an invented story or read to.
he said they don't play competitive games.
Probably not. Each server has its own moderation, and servers that tolerate bad behavior from their users get blocked by most other servers.

I'm not sure the current model would do well against a large coordinated manipulation campaign, but it handles isolated trolls at least as well as corporate social media.
So odd that a pseudo-decentralized centralized company gets so much attention when Nostr is actually decentralized but never gets mentioned.
> The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I’ve never seen a service grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at Twitter, but it’s also clear that management is giving them everything they need to do the job right.

The world has changed quite bit. If you have deep pockets and you can use AWS etc., it isn't a major problem anymore. However, if they indeed run it on their own data centers, that is impressive.
I'm curious, what are the popular products/solutions that LAN centers use for this?

I ended up putting together my own thing. I saw various products that seemed like they might be what I wanted but they always seemed... sketchy.
No worries friend, many of these signups are us on the right going to troll. We don’t plan to support it for long.
Oh nice! I'll save that on my list of cool displays. I might do something with them one day...

(Same as with the bunch of vintage HP QDSP-6064 tiny bubble displays that I have. I bought a dozen of them for a dollar or two each some years ago, when some NOS stock appeared by surprise, but now they're running like 20 to 40$ a piece in eBay if you can find them.)
I found most of my twitter sports follows pretty easily.
Because you can go to Bluesky and click “Sign Up” without a confusing explanation about instances.
> Some crazy shit with /s

> Double down on the crazy shit this time for real
They removed a bunch of Palestinian journalists
It's not even the real Jordan Peterson apparently.
I see a plateau after a bunch of churn from large waves of migrations. Would be surprised if this won't be the case for bsky.

Regardless of MAU count, there's plenty happening there to keep me active, and you get to see Threads users who speak ActivityPub as well as Bsky users via a bridge.
It's incomprehensible to me that Netflix, one of the most highly skilled engineering teams in the world - completely sh*t the bed last night and provided a nearly unwatchable experience that was not even in the same league as pre-internet live broadcast from 30 years ago.
No, because the light requires twice the time to travel there then back. If Earth did not move relative to the lens, it would work. Sadly we move, a lot, so what was here 2x ago was something not-earth.

To see earth, the lensing would been to be focused on where Earth was 2x ago. Still possible in theory, and you might even argue just as likely as a fully reflecting curve. But you'd not call it "back towards us". It would need to be "curved to where earth was".
There is a version of everything in the book reimplemented in rStan, which is a fairly easy to install and well supported R package that wraps Stan. I don’t have the link but should be easy to google.

I think it’s a magnificent book - definitely repays the time to work though in detail.
You probably can't break the glass either. Newer vehicles, especially Teslas, often have laminated glass that glass breakers have been found to not break.
Good question. When you say Mastodon, my answer is 'which one' or 'which instance'?

That basic hurdle is the reason why it is a barrier to many potential new users and it has traded complexity over ease of onboarding when trying to sign up new users (who are not techies or sys-admins).

One solution is to set a default instance. I.e 'mastodon.social' and tell users to sign up there. Again, that increases the issue of centralization. To prevent that, you close sign ups and tell users to sign up elsewhere. Then the issue continues on other instances.

Along side other issues, that is why new users just went to Bluesky or Threads instead.
Pinnacle of intelligence within the solar system is still pretty likely, even if not in the universe. People forget how brutally hard star flight is if you're not using scifi cheats.
Don’t forget nostr!
yeah, sorry about that. Take this picture of my cat as an apology https://imgur.com/a/CqvxDsn
You’re going to need a lot more than video analysis and a handful of unverifiable eyewitness testimony (humans are famously fallible) to claim discovery of extra-terrestrial life.
My mistake, I didn't understand that "deactivate your eSIM or cancel your service" was akin to the phone rebooting.
The lectures are on YouTube and are really very good.
That would be a fantastic idea: sell printed Tesla safety cards in the style of airplane safety cards.
Where did the Stanford thing come from? I went to the University of Minnesota.
According to the U.S. Copyright Office, copyright is granted only to works that involve a human author.

So, does the work belong to:

1) no one

2) the human user

3) the AI tool creator

4) joint ownership

5) copyright holders of training data

6) public domain
Am I missing something, or is the heading misleading. Where is the 1M gained users a day?
I see statistics on likes, followers etc. Nothing here shows gain in 1M user accounts a day.
Yeah, I followed a bunch of game dev "starter pack" account collections and 90% of it was screenshots of tweets from Elon.

That's still 80% of Mastodon's content so I don't expect much from Bluesky.
Rails' Partial Features You (Didn't) Know
As a counterpoint to some other replies, I do this sometimes, not thinking at all about stocks but instead as a standardized abbreviation of sorts. Ms for example can mean tons of things from a title to multiple sclerosis to milliseconds. MSFT is clear and half the length.
I joined yesterday. And I was never an enthusiastic Twitter user. I did have an account, however. One by one my followers (admittedly, just a few people, and all friends) were sending me a note to say they were dropping Xitter and not just unfollowing me.
What an incredible setup! Really wonderful house overall, to be honest.

Aside from all of the extremely epic technology and whatnot - I have got to say, the elevated view and outlook of your place is sensational. Congratulations on putting together such a terrific place to raise a family.

Oh and worth mentioning; I sincerely appreciated and enjoyed reading your comprehensive Q&A section beyond the images (which themselves, had really awesome annotations included). Thanks for sharing!
In the end his son got awarded. And learnt to stand up for him self. Seems double win on his side.
These starter packs sound like a good idea, but I have a hard time using them to find interesting people to follow.

When I look at at the "People" tab, they look like pretty impressive people (academics, etc), and then I look at the "Posts" tab and it's the usual noise: cat pictures, politics, etc. Not a lot of signal.
Usually rear windows do not. Even laminated side windows can be defeated more easily if cracked. The lamination is pretty thin compared to many other types of laminated glass.
If I follow only serious people, can I see their posts in chronological order (aka algorithm free), and without anything extra "recommended"?
Show HN: Bravoboard Wish Composer
Seems odd to be one of the most blocked with zero posts
I signed up to Fosstodon and then followed a bunch of Python and Django folks. This has been great so far, and my feed is full of relevant, interesting posts. I see a lot of posts complaining about Mastodon and pointing to its decline, but for my use-case, I get a lot of value from it and am pretty happy. I'm not sure what benefits I would get by moving over to Bluesky?
Going by their failure this time around, that's not happening anytime soon.
Hard not to think this is a lot of bots, though? I had an account, but didn't make the jump from Twitter. May succeed next try, though.
You've noticed that too?

It's almost as if there's a cadre of actors (not just on HN) who's job it is to quickly jump on any UFO -related topic and ensure they post as much misinformation and nonsensical points to muddle any serious discussion. Hmm...

You would think they would finally give up, given the cat is outta the bag, even the minuscule but legitimate evidence provided by insider govt sources, since at least 2017.

At least the upvoting ratio seems to be good on this thread, let's see how long that last.
Because people don't care about decentralization, they care about vibes and the vibes of Nostr are "right wing grifters and crypto scammers"
I was skeptical but I just opened it and the UI does look cleaner and less bloated than X. However, UI is fixable and what matters more is content. There needs to be a compelling reason to switch, and I don't see one yet.
This. Nostr could learn from this too.
EOL or no, there are many people who still use older OSes because they own older computers, can't afford an upgrade or don't want one (it works just fine!), and can't be bothered with figuring out running a newer OS on officially unsupported hardware.

Case in point: I built a macOS app that implements Google's Nearby/Quick Share (an AirDrop-style file sharing thing on Android). Multiple people tried running it on Catalina and were disappointed that it wanted a newer OS. So I did end up backporting it to Catalina.
Hmm, I've never had an issue with this.

We generally don't play competitively but we do play fast-paced FPS and such and I just don't recall this ever having come up. (We had the same keyboards in the last house FWIW.)
Researchers diagnose 27 cases of scurvy in northern Saskatchewan
Ah, that is good to hear. May pick up a switch game for the kids while in Japan, then.
Is it possible you are being thick here? Mentally rehearse the process of photoshopping your victims image and then printing it out and circulating it to everyone in the class before or at bedtime.
If commercial = public, then no - you can not use multicast for this. It is heavily used within some enterprise networks though like if you go to a gym with lots of TVs they are all likely on multicast
Being able to do awful things more easily and efficiently is a qualitative difference even if the things themselves aren't objectively worse.
Yeah that's a good point, I should turn off the fans for a day and see if it changes the power use...
Perhaps it was, or perhaps it was not.

I was watching a pirated, live retransmission of the event on Twitch (in Portuguese), and there was zero buffering on my end.
Threads was the fastest growing app of all time and now has ~300m MAU, 1m new users a day and is on track to being larger than X in about a year. And then once they switch on advertising will be printing tens of billions a year.

Hard to see how they've dropped the ball on this one.
We're are extremely unlikely by any available measure.
This isn't the most important reason, but compared to similar web sites, Mastodon's user experience is awkward.
Isn't this sunk cost fallacy?
I think most people wouldn’t care plus most who know wouldn’t make the mistake of trusting jack again.
Red squirrels 'to vanish from England' unless vaccine against squirrelpox funded
Top 100 BlueSky accounts Hall of fame https://www.graphtracks.com/1h
This looks like a really nice modem, but I have fiber :(
Here’s an interesting cautionary tale on radioisotopes. The goiania incident:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Not saying the batteries would be this bad, but having widespread sources of radiation in the hands of people who know nothing is a bad idea. Even relatively benign ones like Ni-63 can go sideways if someone ingests it.

These batteries seem to be intended only for very specialized niche applications, which is as it should be.
No corporate control. Server admin block nodes they don't want to see, so it is important to join a server with similar views as your own, or run your own server.
Yes it is. The kernel’s code pages are specially marked and cannot be modified once the kernel’s signature is verified and it is mapped in.
I wonder how the world would change if ads just disappeared

I get things have to be sold but damn it's out of control
I'm also glad I was badly bullied as a kid, but for other reasons. In my case it forced me to stop being a physically and mentally weak person and I don't know how that could have possibly have happened without bullying.

I'm also glad I had people around me who pushed me to overcome the bullying rather than telling me I was a victim of it. In my experience people who are taught they are a victim of bullying who most struggle with it. These people believe bullying t be abnormal and expect the world to fix it. But unfortunately bullying is normal and unless you learn to overcome it you'll always be at risk of being a victim of it