skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple fact of the matter, IMO, is simply that my feed is mine. It's 100% only posts from OSS developers right now, with no garbage mixed in.

I'm not American. I do not care about American elections. I blocked every lunatic right-wing post that showed up on my Twitter feed from people I don't follow, and yet still almost every post in my feed is about American politics or a half-page Trump ad on election day.

So, almost every post that ends up on my bsky timeline is something I am _explicitly_ interested in, without having to ignore the feed and search for specific users or projects. Of course my engagement is going to be higher! It's basically an RSS feed with an article length limit.
Wow, the store has Christmas ornaments, a Rubik's cube, another lego set and lots of swag. Not what I expected ...
It'd be nice if they were just ordered by when they were posted, oldest first. That's how it is on Pleroma.
NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying
International advisory body to support resilience of submarine telecom cables
Is that because AI has gotten better or because Google has gotten worse?
On Firefox, all the examples they give show up as "Post not found, it may have been deleted"
Does 4Chan also have bot BEHAVIOR detection (e.g. unnatural mouse movements)that google captcha has?
Isn't it more problematic because the nicotine causes addiction, making tobacco users orders of magnitude more likely to develop cancer? Social media sites are designed to cause addiction, to keep people doom scrolling and looking for their next dopamine hit for as long as possible. But even if addiction isn't our main contention and we want to keep the comparison to ailments, social media is also responsible for mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, etc. in developing children.
Too bad that I can barely read it on my phone because the text is so tiny.
> I approve of the current C++ trajectory

But this isn't one thing. Part of the problem is contradictions even in the definition of this trajectory. An important example: Will it be "you don't pay for what you don't use", or will it be "stable ABI"? There are adopted papers which say both - as the linked article indicates.

> please just consider another language, e.g. Rust

I'm not one of those people necessarily, but - Rust has its own set of design goals and problems. It is legitimate to want C++ to go one way rather than another.

> To Rust advocates, you can have the US government and big tech.

Now you are kind of contradicting yourself, because wide applicability is definitely a goal for C++.
And you could do all that with a static generated site. Why it needs to be an SPA?
This one surprised me personally, because we really don't do anything special. We treat posts with links the same as any other kind of post. I would guess there's a kind of high "density" of focus from people right now; the general buzz of the moment. Also I figure our focus on the reverse-chron following feed helps with this.

We're pro open-web, pro people using Bluesky to find other interesting things. We're working on subscriptions right now (not ads) so we've got no incentive to keep people in our app. We'd rather be the lobby to an interesting world.

Also, tbh, every user has a domain name. The web -- and websites -- seems like a really valuable part of the atproto ecosystem. We're going to keep developing in that direction. See this blog comments integration[1] for instance.

1 https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3lbq7swe7d22b
Every single social media platform of note charges accounts for “reach”. Your post gets seen by 1-15% of your followers unless you “promote” it with a marketing spend.

Bluesky has no mechanism for artificially limiting the reach of legitimate messaging, and no business impulse to build one. It really is something new under the sun.
TfL abandons plans for driverless tube trains
I wonder what's the motivation for a normal person to leave replies on Twitter anymore. The top replies will be porn spam and other blue check self promotion bullshit. In hindsight it makes sense the people left on Twitter would continue to post into the void but not engage.
Traffic to left-leaning news sites better from a social media app that lefty people are embracing, compared to from the social media app now a favorite of right-wingers...

News at 11. Fake news at 11:30, on the other channel!
>then disable airplane mode when you get to your destination?

Why would I need to disable it? If you're not using the built-in navigation (which probably costs money anyways) and are using carplay/android auto instead, you should be able to leave it in airplane mode indefinitely. What critical functionality would I be missing out on?
A major difference with Bluesky tho, is that users can choose their own "algorithm". Nobody is forced on Discover (Bluesky's "for you" algorithm).

I wonder if this will play a role.
Python 3.10 seems to work for almost everything, and Python 2 most certainly doesn't. In fact, even latest works for almost everything - there's an alternative to 99.9% of Python 2 stuff in Python 3.
There was quite likely a large sum of money involved.
I believe BlueSky, based on the way it's open source AT protocol works, would make it much harder to implement an AI/algorithmicly driven feed in the same way this happens on other platforms.

And if it did happen, you could simply swap this Feed out for a different one.
I’m interested in ai but still haven’t used it. When I finally focus on it I will try kagi’s ai. I already subscribe to search.
The fact that you can pay to have your replies higher (plus the suppression of posts with links) on X are part of this. The other reality is that for me and my community / friends who used to be active on Twitter.. they're just not participating anymore.

It's become like Facebook became a decade or so ago. Total ghost-town with only some eccentric folks still posting. In the case of X, everything I see seems to be connected with some kind of ecosystem around Elon, Trump and right-wing influencers. Time to move on.
All your reasoning is agreeable but I disagree with the foremost conclusion

> I’m going to go against the flow and say nothing.

Whether we're talking about the actual language or the surrounding tooling and ecosystem, very few language and ecosystem experiences are actually different. As a result you're often mapping needs that you already satisfied and can explicitly state to another language. Someone who has already learned their n-th language looks at learning very differently.

This also makes a seasoned learner vastly more capable of extracting value from a friend or colleague who is willing to steer the learning experience.
Yes, a cannon is a firearm. The "arms" bit has nothing to do with human limbs, it's from the Latin arma.

A firearm is anything that uses an explosive to propel a projectile, so it can be "fired".
Replies aren't necessarily ranked based on merit btw. They are ranked by whatever ordering you choose in your settings. The options are:

- Hot Replies first

- Oldest Replies first

- Newest Replies first

- Most-liked Replies first

- Random (aka "Poster's Roulette")

I believe "Hot Replies" first is the default but I may be mistaken.
did not know about that, thank you.
The only TWINSCAN EXE:5000 many can afford
Yeah, professional saboteurs only target key systems since incidental systems are constantly experiencing the kind of "sabotage" the site talks about but mostly through laziness, incompetence and bureaucratic fief assertion.
I started posting but my algorithm sucks, any clue on how to improve it? I want to read about developer story!
I maintain that this is a dumb (i.e. completely unreasonable) outcome for your mother.

Abandonment should be measured at the takeover of property in lieu of agreement, and a reasonable time frame for pickup agreement is on the order of days, not years.
Yes, which is why notoriously left-leaning propaganda outlets like “Sony PlayStation” and “major league sports” are setting up camp there.
The smartest thing to do is still probably not buffering. What's wrong with the thread? It would take maybe 15 lines of code to implement. It would be correct without rarely occurring bugs. It doesn't need signals or timers. It wouldn't add overhead to stdio calls. It's a generalized abstraction. You won't need to change your program's event loop code. Create the thread with a tiny 64kb stack and what's not to like? Granted, it would rub me the wrong way if libc did this by default, since I wouldn't want mystery threads appearing in htop for my hello world programs. But for an app developer, this is a sure fire solution.
> How often do you take notes, while watching a YouTube video while controlling the playback, speed and volume from your editor? I can watch the video, while following the transcript karaoke-style, pause, speed-up, mute the video whenever I want (so I can start typing), I can grab the pieces of transcript and ask an LLM to give me explanations, etc.

Hey, any chance you can expand on how you do this, or just share configs?

Thanks!
Seems you can make it chronological, as mentioned by the sibling reply.

https://bsky.app/settings/threads
I'm all for the Twitter schadenfreude. Frankly, it couldn't happen to a more deserving person. But we should bear two things in mind:

1. A low-volume competitor will always seem better because the bad actors haven't moved in yet. Growth engineering will kick in and do the same awful thing you see on any newcomer that approaches or surpasses whatever it aims to replace. Put another way: the quality will only ever go down; and

2. We're going to stay in this cycle as long as we back venture-backed companies that will be incentivized to do all the growth engineering mentioned above.

The most successful and enduring and longest-lasting structure for user-generated content is Wikipedia ie the Wikimedia Foundation. The platform needs to be owned to the community or we are doomed to repeat the rise-and-fall cycles we have now.
Seriously? There's a whole 1000-word article with actionable tips that doesn't promote anything. Then, a two-line promotion AFTER the article, and it's "just another ad"?
> simplify the human work given that anyway it's simple to solve via NNs. We are at a point where designing very hard captchas has high probabilities to increase the human annoyance without decreasing the machine solvability

Or disallow free users to post at all, and require everyone to buy the 4chan Pass for $20 USD per year if they want to post.

https://4chan.org/pass

This is already available to not have CAPTCHA. So if CAPTCHA is totally ineffective, it follows that they should do away with CAPTCHA and free users being able to post at all and everyone should buy the 4chan Pass if they want to post.
Pricing is fairly similar, particularly in ashburn. Europe can be a little cheaper, but usually not a massive amount in it.
And hot replies was only added two days ago, and is simply giving newer comments a temporary boost so they don't end up unnoticed in long threads. Choice is nice!

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lbxfx4nfkk2z
> 300s countdown

I don't get why they added that nasty "feature" to the post form, it really discourages you to post(maybe it's because they want to sell you their 4chan pass), I don't understand why 4chan is still active
The Code That Almost Led to Disaster • a Starbase Story
one of the biggest problems that 4chan has to combat is spam. unfortunately, at 4chan's scale, hcaptcha and recaptcha are not free. 4chan is not exactly a font of money, either. the only reason they turned to this awful homebrew captcha was because recaptcha stopped being free. is there any better way to do it with a single developer for a website that serves millions of people a day?
Title should be "…My used car has a mysterious and undocumented switch…". It would be a lot more interesting if some model of new car had an undocumented switch.
I'll mention that library maintainers/authors can't even _consider_ modules unless they set C++20 as a requirement. Many/most popular libraries will not do that anytime soon. I maintain a moderately-popular library and my requirement is C++11... now, to be fair, I started it back in 2016-2017; but still, I won't even consider requiring C++20 until C++17-and-earlier application code is close to disappearing.
There is a reason why people moved away from distorted text based captcha. We are basically at the point where computers are better at them then humans.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot14/woot14... is a paper on the subject i think is really interesting

However a surprising amount of text based captchas can be solved in a few line shell script of, using imagemagik to convert to greyscale, dilate and undilate, then pass to teserract

However there are also sites like https://2captcha.net , so really captchas are more like putting a small min amount of effort.
One requires a licensed operator. One doesn’t. One requires liability insurance. One doesn’t.

Complain about power wheels, because you’re comparing two things that have nothing to do with each other.
I've been thinking about this the last few days after someone pointed out he gets a lot more engagement on Bluesky.

One thing I still think not all people account for is that as far as I can see:

- followers on "older" accounts on Twitter probably includes a lot of accounts that will not create activity, either because they have been outright abandoned or because they are used read only (this last effect is probably amplified because twitter now demand people to be logged in to see replies).

- I'll also suggest that it is reasonable to think that the most enthusiastic part of the userbase will be the first ones to join a new platform
> What about actual traffic? How much clickthroughs does a Twitter link produce vs. Blue Sky?

It literally says this right at the top.
I think quality is something at least there is choice on. But even then, the lowest quality of materials now seems way above anything my 1940s war-time-four that I grew up in in Willowdale. It was just tarpaper "brick" over the frame. We didnt feel "poor" or anything as thats what all the houses were.
I was lucky to buy my first house in 97 at the bottom of the market in Waterloo. An 1890s house on a 133x66 lot. House was absolute mishmash of "left over parts" as one contractor friend of mine described it. My wife and I saved up and did a full teardown in 2016 (again as luck would have it) at a low point in construction costs. My general contractor said it would now be 3x to do the same project due to labour and material costs.
But, going through the process I could do anything I wanted. Fresh timber, or timber that was properly aged. Steel beams, or wood. You can choose "quality" it just is gonna cost.
But that 3x jump (not even taking into account land costs) pre-covid vs post covid is.... eye popping.
No relationship. But this is a big deal if it is real. NYC fire department is dealing with a lot e-bike fires. I’m sure most of the issues are at the low end of the market. But even improvements in safety and fire risk reduction at the top of the market are a big deal.
Hahaha, I promise you it is. Not saying that's a good thing, but.

If this is exactly what they said it was probably either language barrier, like mis translation of "try again, making sure it's all spelt correctly" OR just that you really did use fake information, in which case here, folks will just say that. You can get told off for not saying please when ordering coffee, I like it but can understand how anyone conditioned to american customer service would be horrified.
Your ebike is limited because it can legally be operated by anybody (including a child) without needing any kind of license. If you want to legally operate a faster electric two-wheeled vehicle, take the test to get a motorbike license.
Why only once?
Take the job for now. Do you get exposure to the managing the cluster itself? Like at the hardware level or storage/job scheduler? Or are you a user and just processing the code to run? The HPC infra jobs are in demand in the US with the AI craze. I think PhD is a waste of time personally, just focus on practical experience.
Capitalism seems to have done a far better job at that than socialism despite not being an overt goal though
Starter packs! They're a great community managed way to find (and share) a bunch of feeds of common interest. You can browse them from within bsky.
Wow, i did not know about ccmake.
I'll check it out and edit the post if it's really that easy to use, thanks.
Suprise suprise, normal people use a platform more when they're not exposed to toxic content that they wernt specifically seeking out.
Imagine spending time in a community that was created to hate Elon Musk
That pay-for-attention reply prioritisation thing really was the most bizarre product decision. Like, everyone already knew it didn’t work; dating apps have been dealing with the problems with pay for attention for about 25 years now.
It’s almost like the opposite of the network effect moat that people used to think about social networks. At this point it feels like when these platforms hit a certain size, it’s time to move on to something smaller, without advertisers, less engagement boat, etc.
Here is a directory of starter packs to find people to follow.

https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all

Also look into custom labellers to filter out content you don't want (furries, trolls, etc)
Indeed. And I'm finding a lot of people that I used to follow on Twitter are now on BSky as well. My feed is not nearly as sparse as I thought it would be.
> In Star Trek there is no money and you can replicate whatever you need/want.

Where does the replicator input come from? What happens to all the matter that's produced? It's a fascinating idea, and I appreciate the exploration of a moneyless society. Yet even in that fiction they so often complain about the replicator quality, trade disputes, and resource wars.
It might surprise you to hear that I’m both American and European, and when in Europe I also encourage manufacturing. Being able to make things is a strategic advantage, period. Never did I say that we should not depend on anyone for anything. I simply believe that we should not depend on others for everything.

I’m also not sure what you found derogatory in my comment, and I don’t understand what you’re getting at about local laws and taxes and how that would be relevant here.
It's fresh and there's quite a ideological push against Musk to somehow take Twitter/X down a notch.

Considering how Threads is doing (from Meta, with their billions of cash to prop it up and 2 biggest social media sites) we'll need to wait a bit and see, usually in social media it looks like the pioneer takes the cake.
Ugh. This is why the left can't get anything done--we're always getting divided over irrelevant details. Do you see how maybe that isn't a disagreement with what I said? You just jumping in to "correct" me without making any effort to understand what I'm saying is extremely counterproductive.

Hint: maybe Google "raison d'être".
Median cost per square foot might be more informative.
I don't think it's bots. I think it's that Twitter's owners have made it a product goal to pessimize this particular metric, and its engineers have succeeded. That's literally the logic ownership has used when explaining things like "links must be in replies, not standalone messages, or else they're penalized".
> I'm all for the Twitter schadenfreude. Frankly, it couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

This is a very uncharitable and hatingly-blinded take.
There is still a lot of similarity between CPU and GPU programming - between AVX and PTX. Different generations of CPU cores handle the same AVX2 instructions differently. The microcode changes and the schedulers change, but the process is transparent for the user, similar to PTX.
C64 Basic Tutorial: Using String Manipulation to Write a Text Adventure
The social cost of mediated experience
Except when it's not. Like CSAM or McMansions or lifted trucks.
Hard disagree. You might think that, then you see how other countries do things, and you realise we're actually pretty good at adopting new stuff. Not the best, but better than most.
Hey, author of the blog post here.
Check out avante.nvim if you're already a vim/nvim user, I'm using it as assistant plugin with llama-server and it works great.

Small models, like Llama 3.2, Qwen and SmolLM are really good right now, compared to few years ago
Those are explicitly tagged as “Sponsored” and “Promoted”, right? Because it’s a hard skip when I see those.
Not sure what you mean. Just bought a house in the U.S. last month.

Title company called and left a voicemail saying they emailed wire instructions and to call to verify with them then check with lender on correct closing amount. The email came from the title company domain so it was easy to verify but literally anyone could have called and mentioned the same.
> we’re so cooked

What does this mean in this context?
Well... for most people... everything.

It sounds like you use a dumb phone. Anyone who takes this stuff seriously enough to use a dumb phone will be buying a dumb car.
Wealthfront is a broker iirc, so you have some private insurance to protect you in the event of Wealthfront becoming insolvent.

The difference between them and some bullshit thing like Yotta is you are the customer of record for the account. The bullshit aspect of Wealthfront is they front real services with automated investment services. Yotta was pooling customer funds at some other bullshit fintech who was then putting those funds (or not) into one big account.

Personally, handling cash is an old business and I’m really conservative about who handles mine. Innovation is risk, especially when the money behind it is focused on eliminating accountability. Yotta should have been illegal. Keep accounting boring.
> It's a tossup whether that's better than either of the alternatives.

Which means you aren't even thinking of the "bad" single-entry version, which is what a lot of people here are stumbling over because apparently it's more natural: A "transfers" table with the columns FromAccount, ToAccount, Amount, were a single row represents both the "Entry" rows from mine above.
I don't think much of this is ideological at all. Paul Graham has been saying the same things on his Twitter TL. Twitter reoriented itself away from implicit partnerships with existing media, and it shows. Maybe that's a good strategy, but like all strategies it involved a tradeoff.

Most Twitter users don't really care much about who owns Twitter; instead, the people who do (pro- or anti-) have outsized voices in the conversation.
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Problem with Threads is it being very-PG. No porn and no insulting jokes result in sterile system, which is hardly attractive.
Actually, focusing on "engagement" is already showing that the game is lost and that the we're seing another Twitter clone... :-(

Because "engagement" is about "money" and "ad" and "sponsor" and "business"... and not about anything close to "social" or "society" or "human". So, sooner or later (but most probably "sooner"), you'll see clickbait and other usual tricks to grow up "engagement"... and any interesting post will disappear

So I won't even matter to create an account or have a look. I'll wait for the next one, or the next next one... hoping some people will understand that quality content is not measured by some kind of "engagement"

EDITED: if you matter enough to downvote, at least explain WHY you think I'm wrong ;-)
> Engagement will always be better on new platforms

The primary effect is that communities with fewer users have stronger common bonds, the age of the platform isn't super relevant.

That said, the engagement on Twitter has been terrible since almost the very beginning. I'm sure it was super magical for folks who were at SXSW that first year, but the conversion rate has been garbage ever since then. Whereas maybe 50% - 70% of people will open the average cold email, the percentage of people who will click a link on Twitter was maybe 1 in 1,000 even 10+ years ago.