skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better approach is to make account creation frictionful (eg. charge money, set karma thresholds, require an invite, etc.), score each account, and ban or time out accounts when they break community rules.

But an even better approach would be to go fully P2P and leave the scoring and ranking and filtering at the end nodes, with the possibility of friendly networks of interest group peers assisting with the task. BitTorrent for social media, pgp signed accounts, fully flexible annotation and ingestion. It's also less subject to cabal-based censorship.
The problem is not "ads" per se... it's engagement focus

Ads or clickbait posts or filtering/ordering algorithms are just some consequences of engagement focus (also called "attention economy" because what matters is... well... attention... measured by "engagement")

As long as focus is on "engagement" and not on "quality content", you'll have some Twitter/Facebook/Tiktok/... clone.

Subscriptions COULD shift the focus on quality (because if people are convinced that you provide quality content, they might pay for it) but it requires (as shown for a long time) at least :
- easy way to discover real quality content (a bit like Wikipedia in a way)
- easy way to pay once to subscribe to different providers. That's the same old problem for the newspapers: people dont want to pay a yearly subscription - or even a newspaper issue - to read once a single article. They MAY pay a subscription if they can read any article in any newspaper (in a big bag of newspaper). Then this revenue has to be redistributed among the different newspapers...
It would seem that many exceptions were carved out to allow Christian led crusades, pograms, etc. Jewish military history is extensive and embraced more than simple stern words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_military_history.
Should I worry about being targeted in China as a small hardware startup owner?
I'm going to China tomorrow and have already prepared a laptop and phone which I plan to keep just for work trips abroad. I'm the owner of a small hardware startup (less than $1m revenue per year but not an insignificant amount, no employees on the books so it looks like a one man band to anyone looking, and we are not in the security sector so it's nothing sensitive) and am going to China on a business visa in order to carry out assembly operations as well as find a logistics partner, which the government is aware of as it's written in my visa application.

A lot of manufacturing I'm doing already takes place in China, so they have a lot of the designs for products I make. However they don't have access to my financial records for example, emails, etc. and I am anonymous to a lot of my suppliers, some of whom are my direct competitors, to prevent them knowing what the component they are making actually is/what it's being used in.

At the moment, I am making do with a burner email account that has all my emails redirected to it for the trip, which will only be accessed through a phone with GrapheneOS. I have a linux machine which will be used just for hardware and software development. All important files are stored on an encrypted USB (could change this to cloud storage but not sure what's better, also I have passport scans on the USB which I don't really want to upload to the cloud ideally).

However, ideally I want to access my Shopify account and I need to submit my invoices to my accountant every month. I also want access to my email archive, and also access to the company VPN (we have our ticket system and management software on it). I will be in China for longer than a month for sure. I can forego the above but it will make my life way harder and I will be relying on employees for one time codes, showing me the Shopify, etc. Also the servers on the VPN are self hosted, and it's all through tailscale, I set the VPSes up myself so they are not hardened at all and I wouldn't trust myself to do it properly either.

My questions is, given my profile, what threats should I be worried about? Suppliers/government actors trying to get physical access to my machine, or am I being paranoid? Is my current set up overkill? What risks do I face in terms hacking over the network, what data is potentially at risk? I am also traveling the majority of the year, so if I can make concessions, I would be grateful, as this will be my set up for a lot of it.

Thanks for reading if you got this far!
The reason is pretty much irrelevant, either engagement on Twitter is artificially lower because of algorithm shenanigans, or because it's becoming a ghost town of abandoned accounts and spam bots. Neither option is a compelling reason to stay on Twitter
That’s me!

I like languages that can be compiled, I like modern type systems. Rust is neat but my occasional dabbling hasn’t yielded much productivity. Go has too many icky bits.

Borgo? I will definitely be trying it out!!
Firefox for Android enables desktop mode by default for tablets
The first buddy Musk seems much more interested than Trump is.
Just because you can technically crack them doesn't mean they're useless.

There's a significant amount of time, skill and effort that went into the solution from this post, and the end result doesn't generalize well (you'd have to start all over for a different kind of captcha).

The vast majority of spammers would not be able to replicate this; those who do would either make money legitimately, or focus their skills on juicier targets (if you have AI/ML skills and want to do nefarious things there are other options that pay much better than spamming).

Such captchas still work well at raising the cost of successful spamming above the expected payoff from said spam.
The things you are pointing out are largely styling choices. The difference in quality of finishes are, like mentioned, solid surface quartz counters which are basically stain proof, large porcelain tiles, toilets that flush more effectively, low voc paints, engineered wood flooring that doesn’t warp and creak, etc.
A user clicking on a link takes the user away from the platform. If your goal is to maximise time spent on your platform, you'd be incentivised to suppress links as much as you can. That appears to be what's happening on X.
Pluggable algorithms, is this being done anywhere else? Dare I call this innovation? Antithesis to everything that is current in social engineering.
So? It's OK to hate some people, for the right reasons, that is.
- Surface-level "finishes"

- Square-footage-maximizing floorplans, with a 3-foot wide lawn that your HOA still wants in pristine condition

- "Open floorplans" so you can listen to the roar of your dishwasher, washer, and dryer from the comfort of your living room (is it cheaper to get rid of interior walls and doors?)

- Mandates to use more-fireproof sticks and boards, and non-carcinogenic insulation

- Incremental improvements in the technology of home appliances, no thanks to home-builders

I hate that's the sum of "progress" in housing quality. I wish more expensive homes meant something more than extra bedrooms with the same race-to-the-bottom construction and townhouse-level neighbor-separation as the next development.
There is a second issue with the code. The calculation of the mean isn't numerically stable. Instead use:

mean_power = mean_power + (power - mean_power) / count
This is a misconception that gets perpetuated because of a conflation of a shortage of physical housing units (which does not exist) and a shortage of affordable units (which does)[1]. This shortage is highly local, as your Fannie Mae sources discuss; it is best characterized as a mismatch between local resources and opportunities. This suggests that it's not merely a matter of market failure, but additionally (if not principally) one of municipal mismanagement.

The solution is already known, as it has been executed successfully in many places, including Singapore, the UK[2], and the Soviet Union: the government builds units directly and either sells or rents them according to affordability rather than cost. This will destroy housing as an investment, which would certainly have knock-on effects, but in terms of solving the problem at hand - "Are there enough places for people to live?" - it's adequate. Chalk up any resulting difficulties as a redistribution of the externalities of letting the problem fester for so long.

>With regards to the labor market, due to structural demographics and labor shortages, it is highly unlikely in my opinion that the job market weakens to the point where housing experiences a crisis from a rapid, sustained increase in homeowners who cannot afford their mortgage payments.

Please see GP for examples of situations where just that exact scenario happened (China, relevant because of the potential for financial contagion) or almost happened (the rest). It's unwise to bet the labor market on the ability of officials to pull novel remedies out of thin air every time a systemic threat appears.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2024.2...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZpLiJdIGbs
I quite like these AI tools
They had a gigantic spam problem, captcha saved the site
I don't want to read that shit in the first place, though.
It’s bad when their shitty ai implantation can find the answer but none of the links that it pumps out have anything relevant just seo spam.
Have you taken any history courses on this subject, or have any sort of academic experience that would make you qualified to take the position that you're taking here with such confidence?
The Hong Kong economic model could be applied to any country really. Though it benefited a bit from the cultures involved, the Chinese being quite industrious and the English doing quite well with law and order.
While not false, careful defensive driving makes a big difference. But most people hate someone cutting in front of them and so won't maintain large follow ng distances
All modern battlefield graves are identifiable as such?

That seems like the kind of bold and all encompassing statement that would be trivial to prove incorrect.
Elm and the Future of Open Source (With Evan Czaplicki) [video]
Doing that is illegal in many places. Here’s a decent summary in the Uk [0]

[0] https://jebaring.co.uk/involuntary-bailee-what-to-do/
So we blocked the order, reported the card to Stripe and alerted the police, the store and the unknowing consumer. In one case, we got a hold of the cardholder who confirmed his wallet had been stolen. For a few weeks, we played a big game of whack-a-mole and prevented a dozen instances of triangle fraud.

How often do police respond? is there a follow-up? I imagine the police get inundated with reports and are overwhelmed to to anything . Would it go to FBI or just local ?
Please go talk to a teacher. Almost everyone is submitting AI generated stuff, everywhere.
The secret hero of that time was the US government. I’m not talking about the MIC, which is still quite robust and more bad than good. I am speaking more broadly. If you had a practical PhD and were willing to show up at a place at 9:00, you could get a solid upper middle class job with the Feds where you couldn’t get fired unless you broke the law.

The government also has always kept academia afloat. It is a privilege afforded to professors to believe they do not work for the state, but they do.

Great government and academic jobs forced companies to create these labs where it was better to hire great people and “lose” some hours to them doing whatever they want (which was still often profitable enough) than have zero great people. Can you imagine Claude Shannon putting up with the stuff software engineers deal with today?

The other main change is that how to run big companies has been figured out well enough that “zero great people” is no longer a real survival issue for companies. In the 1970s you needed a research level of talent but most companies today don’t.
The web is just much more hostile now. It's not a conspiracy by Google. Over the years the bad actors are chipping away. Now with LLM content it's going to be even harder to pick out the actually useful content, since even humans will have a hard time discerning.
> My Twitter feed is all things I haven't followed

So use the "Following" tab? It's right there, for that exact purpose.
LOL, you should give it a try IRL:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41970406
Regardless of whether they've added them yet, the target audience of Threads is advertisers. They're trying to offer a sanitized version of Twitter that is ultimately boring and soulless just like Facebook
Same here. the captcha is the tip of the iceberg. VPNs , proxies...all blocked. Tons of ghosting and censoring of posts too. Also crawling with feds and people trying to get you to incriminate yourself. I love the option to bypass it with crypto. Yeah, like I am going to give them btc, which will be traced by every agency and coin analysis firm and also get my wallet/exchange account restricted by being linked to 4chan. The owners more than happy to comply with every 3-letter agency request for info.
You can convert any ice car to an ev. I takes time but is straight forward
Is it any worse than Singles Day?
It's purely anecdotal if that wasn't clear. In my many conversations with folks where GIMP has been mentioned, the same two issues always come up: (1) the anachronistic user experience, and (2) the anachronistic name. Most of the people who could help with (1) aren't interested in a project with (2) on their CV.

A good exercise is to imagine seeing a Show HN for the project RETARD or CRIPPLE, and how proud you'd be sharing the details of your work on RETARD with a prospective employer.
Jokes aside, we don't want any bots at all. Even if they're posting constructive comments, we should interact with humans, not machines
Yeah homebuilding got absolutely murdered due to the financial crisis. 2009 was the lowest number of new builds since 1959 and we haven't yet reached the 2005 peak.

https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/housing-starts
Sometimes police refuse to accept the reports because they're in another jurisdiction (you can't file a police report in X town unless you're there).

To your point they usually don't have time. The report serves as a record for the retailer and the victim to float around, but practically it doesn't catch anyone sadly
If you're into this, here's my 2014 breakdown of the Silk Road CAPTCHA: https://github.com/mieko/sr-captcha
We never left mysticism.
https://www.coloradogives.org/story/Tchn
That's how I've learned Python, so far. Between that and, writing my own code, and looking at other's code, Ive picked up quite a bit (not an expert but I think I'm doing OK).

The easy part is the language, the difficult part is learning to do things the Pythonic way.

Of course, I have to allow for the Dunning-Kreuger effect.
>actually absolutely nobody, nobody in power cares about animal suffering in our food system.

This isn't true,as proven by the many laws and regulations about it for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_animal_welfare_and...
Bluesky has an order of magnitude fewer users than X, at least on paper.
> Morgan: Literally Danny said he sat with an engineer team with examples of people in the room and said why aren’t they showing up and they did their “debugging process” and couldn’t figure it out.

Meanwhile a single Swede with a single desktop class machine in his living room created a search engine so good that I would often switch to it when Google failed.

These days I use Kagi, which has prioritization and block lists (which I don't use because the results are good out of the box).

Wanna know what is really interesting about the Kagi story?

While Kagi is building its own index, for a long time they were kind of reselling a wrapped version of Google + Bing results, but still were extremely much better IMO.

I have two theories:

- either Kagi has some seriously smart systems that read in the first tens of results and reshuffle them

- or more likely in my opinion the reason why results have been so good is because kagi has api access which bypass the "query expander and stupidifier"[1] on the way in to Google and the personalization thing on the way out. That way they just interact with the core of Google search which somehow still works.

[1]: "stupidifier" the thing in the Google pipeline that rewrites

- "obscure-js-lib" (think one that a previous dev used, that I now need to debug

- to "well-knowm-js-lib-with-kind-of-similar-name".

Or decide that when I search for Angular "mat-table" I probably want some tables with mats on even if they don't have anything to do with Angular.
stores in Oklahoma, Alabama and Texas

These are already very firearm friendly states and I suspect Maddy would find that there are firearm stores within walking distance of the grocery store and likely also sell ammo in the feed stores. They only verify a person is 18+ for ammo. That said I would find it odd if they are dropping standard boxes of rim-fire ammo in a vending machine. Maybe it's more gentle than I am imagining. Or perhaps they don't carry rim-fire.

A while back when I lived in California K-Mart had food and ammo but not from a vending machine. I don't remember when they stopped carrying ammo. I bought my first rifle in California from a K-Mart with no background checks as the requirement did not exist yet.

A number of states still do not require a background checks for private sales of firearms. [1]

[1] - https://www.findlaw.com/consumer/consumer-transactions/priva...
Off the top of my head: Shannon, Nyquist, Hamming. Lapping them you say.
I do, it constantly shows ads and posts I do not follow. Hell it had a half-page Trump ad on election day and I'm not even American. It also periodically resets back to the For You tab.
No doubt the RMT will take the blame for this but as the article points out:

> It’s now been confirmed that the study reached the same conclusion that every other study into the issue has already reported — it’ll cost an awful lot of money for very little benefit.
Yep, Tesla uses Panasonic's NCA-90, but Tesla now makes 4680 in-house, but without all that fancy dry processed cathodes that promises up to ~20% reduction in cost.

LG should be mass-producing 4680's by now (and dry battery electrode by 2027). Panasonic is still working on 4680. Maybe soon, but dunno when.
I'm a big fan of Execute Program from Gary Bernhardt:

https://www.executeprogram.com/

It uses interactive exercises + spaced repetition. It's really the only way I've managed to learn Regular Expressions.
Community is hard to maintain in the sense it either slowly dies off or experiences bouts of extreme growth even without the growth mentality. Think of a reverse slashdot effect where something posted on the community drives a bunch of users there quickly and either causes a rise in expense or a difficulty in moderation. If there is no growth you slowly lose users to entropy and the community fades.
Thanks! I'm exciting to get it released.

With the three mentees I have, plus my own tasks cruising along, the best way people can help is to build up interest and visibility in jank. Follow, repost, share, like, etc. Once jank is released, I want to make the largest splash we can.

If you have the financial means to sponsor my work, that also helps. I'm quitting my job at EA in January to focus on jank full-time for 2025 and I'd really like to secure some form of stability in terms of funding by the end of 2025.
I found that some aggressive gardening of the 'For You' feed on Twitter made it borderline useful (By gardening I mean clicking the 'not interested in this post' option pretty aggressively). Eventually this seems to revert the recommendation algorithm to pre-Musk behavior.

That said, this might be different on phones than on the web app.

To your larger point, I think BlueSky is hobbled right now by the religious committment to decentralization, which the new arrivals don't care about at all. I would compare the situation to a world where people had to flee Windows for Linux—neither alternative is one that just works the way you'd want it to.
You should publicize these apps so we know to actively avoid them.
Google is famous for tough interviews and accepting a small fraction of applicants. I was impressed with everyone I met, and Pike's "incapable" statement was baseless and insulting.
This tracks with my personal experience. On twitter I had about 20k followers and was getting 20-30 new followers per day and tens to hundreds of likes per post. This dropped to pretty much zero once Musk started fucking with the algo and pushing blue checks.

I’ve been on Bluesky for about 18 months without much engagement, but in the last few weeks it’s exploded almost to the levels where Twitter was before it got enmuskified.
I think this is the same vibe that keeps HN going. We all collectively want to have place with high signal-to-noise. Of course moderation plays a part here as well. But I also self-moderate, deleting my own comments a minute after posting them if, seeing them in place, they seem too stupid.

I just don’t know that a place like HN could keep its standards without a place like Reddit; and I’m worried that Bluesky may need the troll haven of Twitter to keep existing, so Bluesky can keep its place for better behaved discourse.

Maybe it’s an eternal question for social media: which September will be the September that never ends?
You believe that an anonymously written article full of baseless speculation that relies on an anonymous Tumblr post as its source is credible?

It would benefit you to educate yourself on how to evaluate the reliability of claims you read online. Here's a tip to help you get started: anonymously written online posts that rely on other anonymous posts should be considered with a very high degree of scrutiny.
Right, that's the point, follower counts on Twitter aren't meaningful anymore because it's a deprecated old platform with all the cruft of a long history of abandoned accounts, forgotten bots, spam accounts, etc.
That doesn’t make any sense. What would the value of that stuff be if she’d just moved it out of the barn and left it to rot there?
Facts. It’s why they have no semiconductor industry, why their cars are all literally the most unreliable brands, and why they are becoming poor af compared to Americans. I’m so tired of euros trying to act smug about them not working hard. There’s a reason why the EU and the UK are fading into obscurity.
Mmm, that’s good satire!
Disagree.

Kagi and search.marginalia.nu are both proof that it is possible to deliver very good results - if you don't stack the incentives against it.
Gonna be fun to see the results of cases like "I didn't defraud the company, gen AI did!" Of which I suspect some will actually be fraud and some not but I don't envy the lawyer who has to explain neuronal computation to a nontechnical person.
Not just pluggable, stackable

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...
Thanks - back at you!