skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Bluesky already delivering more referral traffic than X for some publishers

> The Boston Globe and Guardian have both reported seeing more traffic from Bluesky than Threads.

Relevant quotes:

> The same day Earley posted about The Guardian’s Bluesky traffic Matt Karolian, the vice president of platforms at The Boston Globe, made similar remarks disclosing that the US newsbrand was seeing three times more traffic from Bluesky than Threads.

> More significantly, Karolian said, Bluesky was also driving “4.5 times more conversions to paying digital subscribers” than Threads.

https://bsky.app/profile/earleyedition.bsky.social/post/3lbv...

https://bsky.app/profile/mkarolian.bsky.social/post/3lbunm54...
Rich People Love Dinosaur Bones and Scientists Are Feeling Left Out
Given that this is an open source project and sniffing bluetooth can be fun but expensive (only some specialized tools can offer the best results or features), I feel that this project is much appreciated, came close to help those doing any research of bluetooth devices.

Video of the project's author introducing the tool and pros/cons of sniffing bluetooth traffic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nClZzdvGlKg
Last month I submitted $15 million in fiber projects, this program will cover 75% of eligible expenses. All the projects I saw (as a consultant for various clients) started having positive cash flow around year 10.

The cost of building fiber networks is really high. In low density areas it can still be $50,000-$100,000 per mile. This high cost is in part due to the existing poles. Any entity who touches a pole has to bring it up to current NESC standards. The pole conformed when it was built 20 years ago but modern clearance and strength requirements mean these broadband projects often have to replace 50% or more of the old poles in rural America.

We've seen many large investment companies build fiber networks on their own dime in cities that only have coaxial cable, they're skipping BEAD funding because those rural areas would not break even with O&M cost. Also seen small WISPs that can't afford to conform to BEAD requirements and won't participate even though they expect some other large player to come through, build fiber to their customers and damage their business.

However LEO communications will never be able to compete with an optical network, especially if you live near large population that all see the same section of sky.
There is Prof. Felix Flicker's
research in 'Hamiltonian Cycles on Ammann Beenker Tilings' which is relevant I think.

https://www.felixflicker.com/research
> Also, it seems like it's already done in other robotaxi setups.

I think you're missing the whole point.

The whole point is that Tesla has been promising full self-driving cars for years, and going as far as to talk shit about specific computer vision strategies used by competitors with actual real-world autonomous car services being provided to the public. Elon Musk has been promising the public that full self driving was just a software update away for those who spent money on a Tesla car with a specific onboard computer.

And now, after years of making promises about full self driving cars and shitting on companies who already provide autonomous car services, they silently decide that after all they "need the ability to access and control [Tesla cars] remotely” ?

I mean, using teleoperators is a widely known industry standard. Tesla was promising way more than that and shitting on those who were using them. And now apparently they are scrambling to catch up with what Waymo was doing over a decade ago?

If I was a shareholder or a customer, I'd be pissed.
Same here. Perhaps the only “real” social media account I have is Linkedin, but it’s private and only used for jobs.
I lament the decline also. Hopefully all of that lost energy has been put into good use on side projects.

On a tangent, but think it's related, the curiosity, exploration and research by the kids maybe stalling too.

Just a thought.
If the author is reading this: Please stop hiding the scroll bar. It's user hostile.

I want to see if I have time to finish this article before I have to leave. And now I have to waste time copy-pasting the contents into a text file, just to see where I am.

Edit: Actually, it's invisible only in Firefox. Chrome shows the scrollbar still. So this may be a bug in the author's CSS or something.
Let me see if I can be more clear. I checked you out a little and it looks like you've written about 30 chapters in a fanfic story so far.

But aren't you a fool for doing that when you could have written 3 chapters and told an AI to write the rest? If there's no value to working to create art, then logically this is what you should have done.
No OP. I wouldn’t use social media sites if they require my ID. It’s just not worth it.
Unless there's some huge evolutionary inefficiency that can be artificially hacked. But it's a big if. If there was it would be possible to get some benefits without significant or no downsides.
Brain fart. Of course, I remember your name :) Hope you enjoy a tasty Butterfinger McFlurry some time.
What are the advantages of modifier stacks?
A lot of coverage is going to look like hit pieces because journalists don’t want to take a chance looking like propaganda.

Trump won’t be able to resist firing the richest man in the world, and appearing to take sides is chancy.
I'm not sure that's true as double entry bookkeeping breaks down with multiparty transactions. Any solutions are extensions to plain double entry bookkeeping, in which case why not use a proper ontology like REA which actually reflects real things that exist instead of fictitious entities like "accounts" and "ledgers" that you have to understand through the lens of an accounting model?
TIL "The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" exists <https://www.syriahr.com/en/> and only was mentioned here in HN ~3 times without any direct links [1][2].

Syria population is ~25m (57th) [3].

[1] <https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+Syrian+Observatory+fo...>

[2] <https://www.google.com/search?q=syriahr+site%3Anews.ycombina...>

[3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria>
You don't? I'm also in an area with mostly darkness in the winter and I have to say I do feel depressed, and I wish it was always summer. I think it's the worst aspects about my location. Otherwise I think it's great.

From the name I assume you are from Finland, which I am not, but supposedly Finnish people are the happiest in the World - which I'm not sure if it's actually true. The joke is that every Finnish person after seeing the study wonders why they are the only unhappy one.
Waymo can do no wrong though, being part of an organization that's never ever done a bad thing, and different rules apply.
There should be a system analyst. Every ERP or core banking big name works this way. Requirements have to be processed and then passed for implementation. In an agile setup rinse and repeat. As a side effect the whole team gains the domain knowledge. Or part of it.
https://archive.ph/IAyB2
But I don't see anything in the document that shows that people are using personal vehicles for deplacements they could have easily been made with public transportation. Which was your original point that I disagreeing with: people aren't 'brainwashed by cars', but rather can't practically use another way.

Also, according to one of the linked pdf, cars in Paris are barely for Paris-Paris movement, but more for Paris-suburbs, which is still the biggest weakness of the public transportation network.
/pol/ is 100% a big factor in the rising popularity of MAGA and far-right nationalist sentiment among young men
In C, memory management begins – The Craft of Coding
Captchas are now useful to distinguish well-intentioned bots (they stop whenever they see captcha) from malicious ones, which solve them, but still behave a lot like bots.

Well-intentional bots are first-class citizens
Bats bash testing library calls for maintainers
> And the Soviet Union was quite obviously trying to spread Communist Revolution - "Workers of the Work, Unite!" - to the rest of the world

It's not that straightforward actually, the Comintern (under the impulse of Staline) wasn't really fond of the idea of spreading the revolution after the mid-twenties. During the cicil war, the Spanish communist party even teamed up with the centrists against the anarchists to crush the revolution that they had started with the anarchists a year before.[1]

It's only after 1947, when the cold war started, that the Soviet union resumed its support to communist insurgencies worldwide, but more as a geopolitical tool than really for ideological reasons (things would indeed have been very different in that regard had Trotsky led the USSR instead of Staline).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Days
TL;DR some people doing a radar survey didn't know about Camp Century and were surprised/interested when it showed up in their data.

TFA is just a re-write of existing journalism from last week but with more sensationalist language. Most recently discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262547
A Superfast Supercomputer Creates the Biggest Simulation of the Universe Yet
> This is genius.

This is a peak Elon Musk stan quote: playing catch-up to what is described in the article as the industry standard, and something that established players were doing over a decade ago, is... "Genius"? Is that it?

What does the word "genius" mean to you at this point?
What the... "a privilege to have the right?"

I don't think they know what rights are...
America Must Invest in Intel Foundry – By Austin Lyons
In the United States, there’s a service called Vudu Disc to Digital. It’s had a couple of various iterations over the years - I think it first started with needing to insert the DVD or Blu Ray into your drive, and now uses UPC codes as people don’t have optical drives. There are various checks to try and make sure you’re not just scanning UPC codes at the store (location needed to be on).

After confirming that you own the disc it is (was?) $2 for SD quality or for $5 you could take a DVD and get an HD version. The catch is that the movies were then added to your Vudu account - not as unencrypted DRM. But, if they were Movies Anywhere eligible, they showed up in your Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft accounts. From there, getting an archival copy is an exercise for the reader.

It didn’t have all the movies. And not every movie was eligible for Movies Anywhere. But, it did work for about 60% of my hundreds DVDs when I went all digital. Plus, this method was clearly legal in the United States, so long as you used your own discs and didn’t make archival copies.

The rights management must’ve been a nightmare.
Things I wish I knew when I got my 3D printer
Math meets art, this is exactly what I thought too.

Was always fascinated by Hilbert curves.
I can't speak for Tesla, but Elon's plan is to get rid of the Bureau of Consumer Protection which is the institution that you would appeal to in such cases.

Edit: Open and honest edit, Elon wants to get rid of the CFPB, not the FTC's BCP.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241130034936/https://www.there...

https://archive.is/quKhE
Right, you need to do that engineering yourself. And ICE engines are heavy, so it typically is reasonable to work out as the lighter engine compensates for the battery weight. It is a design task, not a project killer.
If it's easy, why hasn't it happened? HW4 doesn't have the same form factor as HW3. They'll have to make a HW3.5. They won't replace the cameras.

So like I say, what's the plan? More empty words from Musk count for nothing.
I think most "tech/bay" companies offer 3-4 weeks of vacation + holidays. Some have mandatory minimums a year and ability to accrue up to 30 days of PTO at a time in my experience. (e.g. not "unlimited", but specific amounts of PTO earned/used)
Requiring manual intervention to handle a blocked pipeline over a non-issue defeats the whole purpose of continuous integration, not to mention that you are suggesting adding twice the complexity as an alternative to not adding any complexity at all.

And should I stress again that there is absolutely zero positive tradeoffs?
The cars don't have the inbuilt technology. I also HIGHLY doubt that Tesla would upgrade all cars at their own expense.
Have you seen the Haystack editor? Addresses some of this: https://github.com/haystackeditor/haystack-editor

I am interested in “node-based” design tools and libraries, given the convergence of editors and whiteboards within the knowledge management domain (Obsidian canvas, Heptabase), and they are encountering the kinds of issues you noted. The generative AI boom has been pushing this along very quickly, by improving and creating libraries to support tools like ComfyUI, DAG visualizers, and knowledge graphs; these solutions being so “close to the code”, I am hopeful they’ll be solved.
We talk about google not some small company which never faced this issue.

Allowing of a global login, SDK and default workflows would make it very easy to comply to everything.
Show HN: Minesweeper-XP – The classic game (with XP/98 GUI) on macOS and more
I made this fun app to showcase the possibility of fully custom GUIs on macOS. You can play the classic Minesweeper game with Windows XP (or 98) title bar and style on macOS. It should also work for Windows and Linux!
I can’t recall the reason for using thanos over mimir to be honest. I think thanos seemed like a good choice given it’s part of the kube-prometheus-stack community helm charts.
(Disclaimer: I’m the author, nice to see your take here and pleasantly surprised to see my post here as well!)

You can surely use accounts with fine grained attributes (e.g. to describe the soon to be received but not yet available money or customer 1234, naming it users:1234:pending). You can even add more data to this account on a metadata level (e.g. finer grained accounting classification).

The problem with an account-only approach is that a monetary value represented in it is only temporarily represented here, and if there’s a specific set of attribute relative to that value, you’ll be somewhat forced to overly complicate your structure of accounts to persist theses values throughout the ledger.

Banks are not fintech and hence face different issues so let’s take an example anchored in that context. Imagine you’re holding $100 for user 1234, spread across two FBO accounts at two different banks. You might be interested in persisting the nature and location of these funds throughout the ledger. So instead of having an account structure such as users:1234:main:jpmc, users:1234:main:fargo and so on, you could simplify your ledger structure by having a single users:1234:main holding something like:

[USD/2 100 (bank: jpmc)]
[USD/2 100 (bank: fargo)]

So that no matter the complexity of your ledger transactions, you’ll always be able to « reveal » the identity of these funds which would otherwise be lost in a ledgering model optimized for classical accounting.

But that’s just an example, the idea is to explore the concept of semi-fungibility and how it can improve some of the challenges fintech face (in their journey of being not bank).
Orange Pi 5 Ultra released as unusual new single-board computer with HDMI in
Why is that “might” still a question for some who have given it a proper thought?

The fact that simpler animals don’t have processing power to logically analyze their situation doesn’t make them feel less, even if the whole “feel” mechanism is different.

In humans we tend to count specific states as bad or normal/good. But these aren’t inherently bad. Non-normal states are just unusual (for first few months). When you burn your finger, you feel the pain signal, experience a fixed set of builtin reactions, realize a prospect of being hurt for a week, and feel guilt for being an idiot, which makes you “learn”. But there’s nothing metaphysically “bad” with all that. It’s a complex of things which would function differently in different combinations. Bad is purely social here.

Most animals express similar abilities, they just don’t have a good analyzing apparatus for being depressed about what a failure of their species they are. Everything else is there, simply from the fact that they react. And we can clearly see that a hurt limb still hurts after an hour, so it’s not even instant. They aren’t crying only because there’s no point, most animals are not social and crying attracts more trouble.

Unless by “sentience” they mean something metaphysical (p-zombie like), they all are fucken obviously sentient, just less and less smarter, up to the point when only reactions remain.

The “feel”, “observer”, “me” component (gradient?) is still mysterious, but that’s a completely different problem.
Probably never unless they get off their high horses about lidar.
Cut the antenna on the modem?
I think the worst is Java/Kotlin. Gradle is a nightmare and I just refuse to spend my time learning it. I just can’t.
The far side of the moon is prime real estate for radiotelescopes. You can create a sizable expansion of the DSN by sharing dish time with the antennas you can build from local materials.
Could it not use a linked web view via dll to webkit on Linux (and Mac) and embedded Edge webview on Windows? Why the whole electron bundling?
New car sounds like brand new car, not used car. Which have history.

I found the title a bit misleading in that regard.
Shearing is a linear operation that should be trivial for a NN to learn. Have you found that unshearing is actually useful? Was it to feed the image to an existing OCR program?
There's not much "if" about it. It's been 8 years since Tesla claimed "as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver".

So where are the upgrades?
If you believe that I have a FSD deposit to sell you...
"The women I spoke to — with the notable exception of those who work in tech and media — were more reluctant. Many seemed disinterested."

Odd use of "disinterested" to me, why not uninterested, which I would guess is how they feel.
‘It would be annoying to consistently push people to using Bing, so lets detect whether they are already using Bing in a browser by decrypting cooking.’

Instead of, you know, not pushing Bing
It might make sense to just drop the term optimization when discussing natural selection.

It's not like "Natural Selection" was given an ecological niche and optimized from scratch the being for that niche. That mental model implies there's not much to be done and any changes would produce a less useful product.

A more apt term would be "Refactored" or even "Patched".

It's more like a giant ugly legacy software system was added to, and the result was just enough to keep going in the new system.

I like that analogy better because it implies: 1. There is room for optimization, and 2. Any minor change is likely to break things far away due to the continuous re-patching and legacy cruft. Both of which seem correct.
https://archive.ph/dB0N1
I appreciate Derek Sivers. (And he is active on HN, so - hi)

Derek does though tend to act in, or advocate for, the absolute extreme.

I remember an old story where Derek micromanaged CDBaby knowing how to do every thing including write all the code in Rails. Burning out, he then trusted his employees to run his company completely without him. Derek became painfully disillusioned when his employees betrayed him under zero oversight, and sold the company. My thinking reading this years ago was the wise path was probably more reasonable delegation with reasonable oversight.

It is ok to reject the shiny extreme. Moderation is beautiful.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241128-i-taught-rats-to...

Problem solved!
The Wikipedia page has a good set of links for details, but basically REA is an ontology. Ontologies describe things that actually exist, so REA records real things that actually happened with a set of real economic actors.

DEB is a fictitious abstract model. "Accounts" and "ledgers" aren't real, they are fictions, artifacts of a model we use to indirectly track events. DEB doesn't even have a notion of economic actors that take part in an exchange. As such, it breaks down with multiparty transactions, for instance. DEB can of course be extended to handle such notions, but it's no longer just DEB and starts encoding something more like REA, just within a less meaningful foundation, eg. there is no such thing as a "normal balance" because this need results from a fictitious accounting model.

The article also mixes concerns that are not actually part of accounting but of different ontologies, eg. pending->discarded|posted is recording what may AND did happen, accounting is only supposed to record what actually happened. Which isn't to say that tracking what may happen isn't necessary, but mixing it into your accounting records is dubious, and simply muddies what's supposed to be a simple and reliable system that records what actually happened.

Just look at the sample REA pattern involving a cashier, customer and sales person. The information that this exchange involves 3 parties is not even captured in DEB. This is why I said you can reconstruct DEB from REA because REA is richer, but not the other way around.
The way to treat them differently is not by making them share profits with another corporation. The logical endgame of all this isn’t “stopping LLMs,” it’s Disney happening to own a critical mass of IP to be able to legally train and run LLMs that make movies, firing all their employees, and no smaller company ever having a chance in hell with competing with a literal century’s worth of IP powering a generative model.

The best party about all this is that Disney initially took off by… making use of public domain works. Copyright used to last 14 years. You’d be able to create derivative works of most the art in your life at some point. Now you’re never allowed to. And more often than not, not to grant a monopoly to the “author”, but to the corporation that hired them. The correct analysis shouldn’t be OpenAI vs. Intercept or Disney of whomever. You’re just choosing kings at that point.
> Sending signals to all processes sounds expensive as hell though.

You'd only send signals to processes who had run any code since the CPU was last idle (if the process hasn't executed, it can't have buffered anything).

There could also be some kind of "I have buffered something" flag a process could set on itself, for example at a well-known memory address.
Only the first of many I suspect.
Genuine question: instead of self-driving cars, why don't we have remote controlled cars all around? With cameras all around the visibility would not be as terrible, together with the current self-driving capabilities which can get through basic situation I would have imagined we'd see more of them around.
It's insane to me that people don't agree that you need to require a license to train your proprietary for-profit model on someone else's work.
These things are taught in the first semester of a CS degree and part of the interview process for an entry-level position.
I'm not sure what the news is here. Of course they are going to have a team of people to take over when the self-driving software reaches its limits. It would be stupid not to, and every autonomy company does.
> Right now the payload bay doesn't open anywhere near enough for that

Shouldn't be too hard to design a starship with a blunt nose and place it under an expendable fairing.

With a 1-ton probe the budget is 99 tons for a kick stage. That's a lot of delta-v. With some creative propulsion options, maybe even interstellar probes can be done.