skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if that’s true, it’s irrelevant from the user’s perspective. Regardless of the underlying reason, the result is a user experience that’s enough of an improvement that users feel motivated to migrate.

If Bluesky becomes dominant, it will likely eventually degrade too, at which point something will take its place. Such is the fate of social media apps. The only variable is how long the app can stave off that decay.
Hmm, I remember they were hiring a lot just a few months ago
Same with both of my Mitsubishis. There's a roundabout near where I live that, when approaching it from one angle, the "beam" on the right hand side of the windshield totally obscures the whole road leading to the roundabout from another angle.

I have to shift in my seat to crane around to see if there is oncoming traffic I have to give way to.

They're both 10+ year old cars.
That’s not what regulatory capture is
It's not that I want an echo chamber of my own beliefs. Twitter has been plenty challenging for years without an issue.

I just want to post and interact with people without getting bombarded with wishes about my death for posting that I biked to work. There is no discourse there anymore, only loads of hate.

Painting people that leave as people that enjoy echo chambers is just dishonest.
There are physics textbooks and YouTube videos everywhere and yet we aren't all physics experts. Existence of knowledge and accessibility of information does not guarantee everyone can learn to do something and it especially doesn't guarantee that everyone can learn to do something well.

LLMs are another great example
It wouldn't be of it was not just different variations of "Hitler Hitler Hitler, Russia Russia Russia!"

We've been hearing how doomed democracy is for the better part of 10 years now. It's really old...
Agree like you said. It's pretty evident, all the management at the company I work at said that meetings interleaved with 1 hour blocks is a productivity killer, 2 hour blocks are required for some deep work. Interrupting every 20-30 minutes is terrible
Bluesky waited too long to open up. They'd have seen a lot more takeup if they'd been available when Twitter started going downhill post-Musk. But they made a lot of their potential userbase write them off, which is going to stunt any possibility of growth.
I think they should have a full mass spec analysis given for it. I've tried lactose free milk and it turns out it's not just the lactose in milk I'm allergic to.
It doesn't seem to be mentioned here, but HL2 (which now includes the sequel episodes) is completely free to claim on Steam until the 18th, if you're new to the series.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/

Also try clicking on the gravity gun at the end of the anniversary page.
The federation is working for real now. People are using it
Ask HN: Where should I look to get a domain?
I want a domain for person use, minor projects. I'd rather not pay a great deal for it. Whom do you recommend?
> Is there any evidence of this outside Elizabeth Warren's book? Most reports say that at most 10% of women get alimony.

Do you have a source for this claim? (anon291 provided at least one source...)
No one "attacked" the author.

The first comment said "not inspiring confidence" and then WaitWaitWha gave a very thoughtful comment with actionable advice, based on that comment and the reply. These are not attacks.
Does your car not have HomeLink? Homelink works fine with MyQ, no subscription required.
I'll stand by my comparison. Absent every other consideration, do you think more people would want a job with retirement benefits and severance pay, or a job where you have a 10% chance of getting part of your employer's income - which may are may not be all that much.

I'm pretty sure I know what Jack Bogle would recommend.
Nice. Even the tiniest rule, I strongly suspect, would throw off pattern matching. “Every second move, swap the name of the piece you move to the last piece you moved.”
Which is why a good reversible debugger is so powerful. (I use rr-project.org and Pernosco but I imagine undo.io is similar.) Don't worry about stopping at the right point. Go back to the critical points over and over again, and go backwards to what generated an input. If you like logs, the debugger has facilities for generating tailored ones. Or manually generate your own debugging session log trail, generating entries throughout the execution in any order, and see them in execution order.
Butter is actually quite low in lactose content (like 9x less than milk) and the serving size is relatively small: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance#:~:text=Ty...

So generally butter is not a problem for people with lactose intolerance anyway.
That's partly where I was going: performative vs effective processes.

Otoh, the fact that there's a clear audit log that this happened, even if it wasn't effectively handled at the time, is quite impressive.

And finding a lost tool is a toughy -- how do you avoid an infinite loop, looking for something that really did walk off the site and/or end up in a trash can? You can't prove the lack of something.
In days of LLM, 99 out of 100 users are likely bots. That is probably also true for bluesky.

Like it or hate it, spending money is about the only semi-reliable defense against boting.
Porkbun is my new favorite.
> Why does it have to be a mac Mini?

The mini is usually cost competitive as an entry Mac, and one doesn't need a fancy screen to drive up the price

> And why the asahi distro?

Well, in the context of this specific repo, one needs docker which needs Linux but generic Linux on Mac hardware can be iffy about having all the hardware working. I've never tried Asashi in order to speak to it but I believe that's one of their goals
It's not the focus, it's that usually I need to read/explore some documentation while I am concentrated, that forces to be sitting (or not moving)
I don't know a precise definition, but wood has many origins. Wood has evolved hundreds of separate times, including at least 38 separate times just on the Canary Islands. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341287935_Multiple_..., https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2208629119?downloa...
Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo
Proven
unless you have two enormous networks where one happens to be libertarian/right leaning and the other is mostly very left. both have huge audiences and can likely thrive just fine on their own. i don't particularly think it's healthy, but it seems like that's just how humans are.
I would assume that just as a computer’s storage remains intact after a restart, these frogs’ brains have internal structure, synaptic connections etc that are preserved after a freeze/thaw cycle.
+1 Porkbun
I pronounce weary with a long e sound and wairy with a vowel sound between long and short a (similar to "air").

To me they are very similar and rhyme but not identical.
Great idea and execution. I understand the privacy concerns, but I believe implementing a client-side redaction step could alleviate some of them. This step would allow users to preview their uploaded content before submitting it. While designing this feature, it’s crucial to ensure user trust and convince them of its benefits. Personally, I would feel more comfortable uploading a PDF knowing that it will be anonymized or redacted before being submitted.
Some sources about such claims are more reputable than others, though I couldn't say which parties are which.

Interestingly enough, there is only truth in the universe, and the truth is that a bunch of human beings are bald-faced liars without the least moral compunction about being that way, creating their own motives for better or worse reasons. Still, the truth is the truth, tho motive is only circumstantial, not evidentiary.

[Note, I'm not going to read any such claims, because compassion is what is really necessary, on every side of every conflict that has ever taken place.]
I get your point, of course.

But there's a lot of foods that say butter that don't contain "Milk". Does "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" contain milk? Does Shea butter? Does Garlic butter? Are you so sure you're right about each of these that you'd risk someone's life over it?

In the US, packaging is guaranteed to have an accurate "contains" section. It's not just a nice-to-have; people's lives depend on it.

I get that this is a pretty clear example that it contains milk – but that's what makes it interesting. Lives may not be at stake here, but the trust in the "contains" label is. We can't leave it up to "well, most people should know" – it has to be consistently enforced, or it becomes completely useless.

Couldn't I say the opposite? "Instead, to please some faceless career Costco executives, the trust in the 'Contains' labeling will be destroyed to "protect" the people who mislabeled their product."
Russia's War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits
https://archive.md/FA18i
Because you are sharing legacy media's views. We can turn on a tv for that.
Yeah, though such special symbols are less common. I think they are still too common though. E.g. using the unnecessarily obscure "if (A) B" instead of "if A then B".
Free speech is infinitely important to me and the future country my kids live in.
Show HN: Narcoogle, another web search engine
This is my new search engine to browse through multiple pages. Feedback desired!
that's precisely what it is
You highlighted the correlation.
I bet GoPro users have the highest fatality rate of all camera brands.
RSS feeds simply return the last N posts, correct? How can RSS be used to serve a user's whole history?

Already, we talking about some other service that accumulates the history and provides search, history, etc. That and many other things (likes, replies, quotes, etc) are all things users expect (rightfully, IMHO).

While orgs/people simply issuing announcements should ideally provide an RSS feed, that type of content is a tiny part of "social media".
There are bad actors everywhere. But, as far as I can tell, there are very few bans of anyone on X, and no censorship or shadow-banning of any account. The community-notes section is available to everyone, so that misinformation can be challenged (but of course relies on people of opposing views participating). These are marked improvements over the previous regime.

All the abuses you're describing, were going on previously, it was just accepted by the majority as a good-thing, because it was only hurting "Nazi's". I'm not supporting anything the current ownership does on that basis, i'm saying we should all be fighting for a new paradigm, not just recreating the old one on a new platform.

And currently, there are very few voices standing up for a healthier interaction between people with opposing views. This will take a lot more than any technological fix, it will require an attitude shift. That isn't possible if we take our respective corners, and only come out when the fight-bell rings.
Also I highly recommend Black Mesa, which is the remake of HL1 in the HL2 engine. The Xen levels went from what they were to possibly some of my favorite levels in the game, and the music scoring is top-notch. It feels great to play.
> The trouble with the short content platforms is that you can’t do anything else.

I'd agree MBP are poor media for nuanced debate but can work well for info broadcasting.

Pre-echochamber Twitter was an excellent venue for disseminating important news - news that actual news orgs were too distracted or deferential to publish.
Cool, but do I really feel like buying this game yet again?

Still holding out for HL 3. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"How Comics Were Made" (print edition or bundle)
The difference is a sanely and presciently designed expression API, which is a bit more verbose in some common cases, but is more predictable and much more expressive in more complex situations like this.

On a tangent, i wonder what this op would look like in SQL? Probably would need support for filtering in a window function, which I'm not sure is standardized?
I've never seen people claim they leave Twitter because of censoring. Rather because of the toxicity and death threats you receive on what's even mundane and non-political posts. All communities have been invaded by crazy people.
This might be why I do so well at a coffee shop sometimes.
Or, freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach.
Once I selected the offer, Better partner’s disclosure exactly matched the numbers shown in the comparisons. In other words the prices they quoted were accurate. Are you saying that they still are not?

Anyway, if you aggregated mortgage offers, you can do whatever you want. Make them as truthful and accurate as you want. Then you’d fulfill your goal, and you’d never need to see my documents. So why do you really need the documents? What is the angle?
I've always been curious why Nim never took off as the solution for use cases like this. It combines the simplicity and clarity of Python-like syntax with the performance of a natively compiled language, which looks like the best of both worlds.
The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you [video]
Anyone got the insider scoop on how the "easy" mode of the delta chess app ended up being a savage?
She was cooked either way. Kamala's financiers were also demanding she fire Lina.
Russias capability of maintaining the war is collapsing, unfortunately western support for Ukraine is falling faster.
I agree with you for what that's worth.

I think there are two central criteria for some interaction-based online system to be called 'social media': follows, and DMs.

Hacker News has neither of these things, so it isn't social media. YMMV.
> What should men dream?

Anyone can dream anything but they shouldn't respond with outrage and fury if their dreams don't come true.

> I honestly think the truth of the matter is that women's dreams change the moment they have a baby.

Not in my experience but that is immaterial in the context of the current discussion.

Women are not having babies. Not in the US, not in east Asia. In their opinions they've got better things to do.
National Cipher Challenge 2024 – University of Southampton
> I believe you that token uploads will continue to be possible, but it seems likely that in a couple of years trusted publishing & attestations will be effectively required for all but the tiniest project.

That's what I think will happen.

> And maybe that's a good thing? I'm not against security, and supply chain attacks are real.

The problem is the attestation is only for part of the supply chain. You can say "this artifact was built with GitHub Actions" and that's it.

If I'm using Gitea and Drone or self-hosted GitLab, I'm not going to get trusted publisher attestations even though I stick to best practices everywhere.

Contrast that with someone that runs as admin on the same PC they use for pirating software, has a passwordless GPG key that signs all their commits, and pushes to GitHub (Actions) for builds and deployments. That person will have more "verified" badges than me and, because of that, would out-compete me if we had similar looking projects.

The point being that knowing how part of the supply chain works isn't sufficient. Security considerations need to start the second your finger touches the power button on your PC. The build tool at the end of the development process is the tip of the iceberg and shouldn't be relied on as a primary indicator of trust. It can definitely be part of it, but only a small part IMO.

The only way a trusted publisher (aka platform) can reliably attest to the security of the supply chain is if they have complete control over your development environment which would include a boot-locked PC without admin rights, forced MFA with a trustworthy (aka their) authenticator, and development happening 100% on their cloud platform or with tools that come off a safe-list.

Even if everyone gets onboard with that idea it's not going to stop bad actors. It'll be exactly the same as bad actors setting up companies and buying EV code signing certificates. Anyone with enough money to buy into the platform will immediately be viewed with a baseline of trust that isn't justified.
"something where my identity comes from a private key that I could take elsewhere" is a literal technical description of how Nostr works. Relays/servers are basically dumb pipes. You own your data and can repost to different relays (and encouraged to do so.) Problem is if your key is lost or stolen, you're kinda screwed.
20-25 years ago a handful of companies had a weird hold on me. I’d jump on anything Google made back then. Blizzard could sell me any game they came up with. If it was from Blizzard, it was gonna be great.

Lost all of it obviously. Not a single company has my loyalty anymore.

Except if valve were to release a mystery black box with faint lambda symbol on it. I’d pay whatever they asked for it.
I used to be able to order Chinese Food or Pizza and pay a $2 tip on top of the order and everyone was happy. Ordering food has changed for the worse in innumerous ways.
So cookie butter is a butter that contains milk?
> alimony awards have always been very rare, going from about 25 percent of cases in the 1960s to about 10 percent today

From 2015, but I don't think there's any reason to think they've gotten higher

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-divorce-alimony/how...
How does moderation work on Bluesky? If it's not up to individual users to manually block every troll, bot, or disgusting person, who/what is doing that blocking?
What it's worth, we were taught the same thing about people crushed under e.g. rubble in combat medic training 20 years ago. And the same consideration applies to removing a tourniquet that had been in place for over two hours as well.
He has respect and years of experience in this field and a strong vision. Your talking points are things we might here on the view.
An Open Letter to Twilio's Leadership
Show HN: Get any domain's brand data via API
This sort of article seems perfectly poised to be useless to beginners (no context, doesn't tell you how to use the things) and experts (no nuance, just listing basic features) alike. Who is it for? Why does it exist? Why is it posted here?
I challenge you again - wht is this any less official than any other officially controlled, officially monitored communication channel. You have offered absolutely no argument to that, yet you continue to say it.
Hacker News YouTube Video Playlist (Updated Weekly)
I added every Youtube video uploaded onto Hacker News within the past year to a big playlist, and will be updating this playlist every week. Hope some people find this useful!
Maybe even in a game period. Beautifully done remake.
I looked into running my own instance, but.... It was non-trivial.
This. I don't use twitter for political discourse and since new guy took charge and made his political inclinations clear I'm being bombarded with political content and "news"/"hot takes" that skew a certain way. If wanting to use the tool for topics that are of interest to me, is me being in an echo chamber, then so be it.
I extremely recommend scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page for this one.
>> Back in the day, before cars were widespread, everything had to be close by.

My grandparents, and their parents and grandparents before them, all grew up on farms (as did the majority of Americans during that time).

No, everything did not have to be close by.

They certainly did appreciate cars when they became affordable though.
"I find it incredibly sad. But it does feel like the direction society is moving toward."

How would you feel about, multiple times a day, being required to defend your core beliefs that you find trivially true? Or even being constantly exposed to folks who you tangentially know presenting a constant barrage of ideas that you find stupid and mean in ways that explicitly target you and yours?

After many years of being around that (I'm a queer/non-binary, an atheist, and politically far left) I stopped enjoying it and just started blocking folks.

I still seek out contrary opinions- that is why I regularly look at HN.

However, in my daily feed of stuff like "pictures of my nieces" and "birth/death announcements from my larger community" I don't really feel like I need to be confronted by folks who consider me to be literally demonic.

And, for the record, I don't expect those same people to be constantly subjected to my own opinions.

So it doesn't feel sad for me: if you consider places like "churches" or "chambers of commerce meetings" to be "safe spaces" for particular kinds of folks, then it just seems "normal".
I feel like coal is really useful for new steel
Black Mesa is also 75% off right now, incidentally. Seems like everything Half Life is either free or on deep discount for the anniversary.
I was confused at the rust part, which also made me realize that it was part of a joke.
Ok, maybe I haven't experimented enough; so for which tasks is Gemini the SOTA?
True, but those people can move to Bluesky, and a lot of them have.
In the US, coal consumption is down 60% since the peak year of 2008.[1] The trend looks linear. Hits zero sometime in the 2030s. Coal is over in the US. Even the coal industry thinks coal is over.[2] Conversion of coal plants to natural gas is proceeding rapidly.

China, though, is still adding coal capacity.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/243934/coal-consumption-...

[2] https://ieefa.org/resources/nowhere-go-down-us-coal-capacity...
What they're saying is rather, "I don't want to engage in a social network that is an echo chamber of someone else's beliefs."
I upgraded from a 10-year-old Lenovo to a MacBook Pro M1 w/Asahi Linux for a while recently. It convinced me that we're not ready for ARM Linux desktops for general-purpose, regular-person use.

Besides all the crappy Linux desktop software today (I have been trying multiple recent distros out on multiple new laptops... all the Linux desktop stuff now is buggy, features are gone that were there 10 years ago... it's annoying as hell). The ARM experience is one of being a second-class citizen. A ton of apps are released as AppImages or Snaps/Flatpaks. But they have to be built for both X86_64 and ARM64, and extremely few are built for the latter. Even when they are built for it, they have their own bugs to be worked around, and there's fewer users, so you wait longer for a bugfix. The end result is you have fewer choices, compatibility and support.

I love the idea of an ARM desktop. But it's going to cause fragmentation of available developer (and corporate/3rd-party) resources. ARM devices individually are even more unique than X86_64 gear is, so each one requires more integration. I'm sticking to X86_64 so I don't have to deal with another set of problems.
And regarding another fan project - turns out the Prologue for Project Borealis has been released on November 11th! They're trying to make HL3 according to the Epistle 3 post from a couple of years ago.

https://projectborealis.com/prologue-release/

Looks great, and feels pretty close to HL2 mechanics! Definitely has to be optimized more, but a very promising start (albeit short, ~10-15 minutes).
Campaigning is done right happens between elections. In most countries you only have 4/6 weeks. As Kim Campbell of Canada famously said an election is not the time to debate issues. Now the US has a much longer campaign period.. and elections every 2 years. They are always campaigning.
I loved Twitter. It was this magic place where I could connect with both friends and legends in my field (programmers). That’s not what it is anymore and it’s impossible to ignore how political it’s become.

Bluesky feels like Twitter used to and it’s shockingly refreshing to hear about industry news and friendly updates rather than some “pick-up artist” explaining how women are too privileged these days.