skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who follows your content on any one platform should have a path to reach you on other platforms or on your own

I think about big/semi-big YouTubers like Jeb Brooks who starts every video introducing his website. Or how Doug DeMuro sends you to cars and bids and sends you to his podcast.

Other creators have premium/“backup plan” type of content hosts like floatplane for Linus tech tips or Nebula for the various documentary-style producers out there.

Basically, don’t make your revenue dependent on a single platform in any way you can.
And then you have the rhythm gamers who can adjust their inputs by 5 or 10ms. Hell, I'm not even that good of a player, but in Fortnite Festival, which has a perfect indicator whenever you're within 50ms of the target note timestamp (and a debug display that shows you a running average input offset) and I can easily adjust my play to be slightly earlier or slightly later and watch my average fall or climb.

Several top players have multiple "perfect full combos" under their belt, where they hit every note in the song within 50ms of the target. I even have one myself on one of the easier songs in the game.
A compelling story, but Google became profitable in 2001 shortly after the introduction of AdWords, three years after its founding. At the time their funding was $25 million.

> the young trendy cool tech companies overthrowing the stuffy old corporate tech companies, that sort of paved the way for the tech industry to become more monopolized and horrible than ever

Not following the thread here. Do you think the web would be less monopolized if Altavista or Yahoo had won?

I don't believe it makes any difference at all. The transition from a free web, made by people for the people, to the collection of corporate walled gardens we have today would have happened regardless, it was simply the natural progression of things - that we failed to recognize and avert in time. Initiatives like making computing personal again are exactly what's needed if we want to go back.
I'm a Brit who has worked in finance and AI. I honestly want to move into building hardware. My background is physics, I want to build things that make the world better. But the businesses just seem absent. One of the UK's most exciting hardware projects was Reaction Engines, and they went bankrupt recently.

I really want to know what we can do to fix this. As a country, we aren't building things that people want. Which means we are less powerful.
Are you sure? I just spent two months in Albania and there are bunkers literally everywhere. And I do mean everywhere. I must’ve counted thousands.
I have not yet traveled to a place that doesn't have cheap prepaid SIM on the Airport, or some Internet cafes.
> So many modern problems can be traced to 1971. [1] That is the year that the US defaulted on our obligations under Bretton Woods effectively ending the system and causing currencies to become completely fiat, enabling governments to effectively print unlimited funny money.

Correlation != causation. Yes, the end of Bretton-Woods certainly played its part, but there are other independent causes for most of the things that can be seen in the graphs - first and foremost, the oil crises of 1973 and later and the impact of the policies of Nixon, Reagan and Thatcher, as well as simple but massive technological progress that made the economical shifts (such as the decline in agriculture and industry as a share of the economy) possible in the first place.

Automation and IT in general are the largest drivers of the latter - more efficient and powerful diesel engines made a lot of farm labor all but redundant, and IT enabled constructing and orchestrating ever larger and larger things, all the way from machines to global sized corporations, and the resulting efficiency gains of scale were mostly looted by the rich elites.
Currently traveling, and the savings are real. Although in this case it’s the opposite: travel eSIMs rates are about $80 for data for 30 days, whereas a cheap local prepaid SIM card is $8-16 (but with no eSIM option)
> And the power industry says that running hydropower turbines on the Willamette dams, unlike the moneymaking hydroelectric dams on the larger Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest, doesn’t make financial sense.

Vs. it sounds like the Army Corps of Engineers - which controls the dams - is pushing hard for scenarios which maximizes their own budget and headcount.

(Maybe the local Native Americans and nature lovers are secretly using a "brand them as perpetually-money-losing government boondoggles" anti-dam strategy - but I see no hint of that in the article. Instead, they seem more like local color quotes, with no interest in getting a seat at the table.)
I’m still trying to figure it out myself too. I follow Victor Taelin on Twitter as he seems to be the most involved in the largest interaction combinator works going on. I suppose you could also try to explore the earliest literature on interaction nets/calculi though it might require a fair amount of prior academic programming languages theory knowledge.
I've used it for a number of years, but I do believe that while this is really helpful, it's a little incomplete.

It has gaps around pasting content and how to handle that elegantly as well as comment behaviour, if those two things could be reconciled, it would be even more useful :)...
Yes, what you describe, the hypnogogic state, is something that almost everyone experiences to varying degrees and frequencies:

> "Although experiencing a hallucination might prompt confusion or fear, hypnagogic hallucinations are relatively common. Hypnagogic hallucinations are a common symptom of narcolepsy, but can also occur in people who do not have narcolepsy. In fact, one study found that 37% of people report experiencing hallucinations as they fall asleep."

Source: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnagogic-h...

Their association with narcolepsy is one of several features, and it occurs more frequently and often during daytime naps in patients with narcolepsy:

> Hypnagogic states are not only an associated feature of narcolepsy, but they also are favourable for a diagnosis. Accordingly, the prevalence of hypnagogic states was higher in patients with narcolepsy than controls (Bosch et al., 2012; Fortuyn et al., 2009). Moreover, patients with narcolepsy are also more prone to experience daytime hypnagogia (Fortuyn et al., 2009), most likely due to excessive daytime sleepiness.

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10078162/
Yep, it isn't as if there aren't cheap pre-paid throway SIM available as well.
All the STEM fields have a significant effective communications issue that is largely unrealized, pervasive to the degree it is a problem for pretty much the entire series of STEM fields, and due to the lack of education in communications there is also an inability to see poor communications as a driving factor of stress and failure. Communications, formal and effective communications needs to be added to STEM, it needs to be STEM+C for STEM to actually operate effectively.
I got a second hand mobile router with SIM support, but very good hardware for 50$. I ordered a Esim adapter SIM for $20 and just switch to the cheapest network wherever I am.

Easily saved $300 to a comparable device with Esim support.
It seems to require the cloud to print remotely. I don't want to have to use an SD card or whatever nonsense each time I need to start a print, nor use the tiny slow touch screen to do what I need.
> As an EU resident your govt likely exerts far more control over media (both domestic and foreign owned) than the US

Wild statement, so lets look at some data.

https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/1337388/classement-pays...

These are a list of the freedom of press in the EU with their corresponding indexes.

Lets compare that to the US : https://rsf.org/en/country/united-states

Index 2024
Score : 66.59

Not looking good for your opinion but lets look at some more that are consumer privacy focused, which was my main point.

https://iapp.org/resources/article/countries-at-a-glance-pri...

IAPP isn't a bad source IMO but hard to evaluate their methods, but lets see.

> Level of understanding about data collection and use

Netherlands : Weak - 14%
USA : Weak - 24%

Not great, I could spend time finding more, but the summary is that the EU has regulations that require companies to limit the useage of consumers information and privacy. The EU is consumer privacy focused, wheras the US seems to be Enterprise & Organisation focused, also it's state level enforcements fracture enforcement even further.

Lets look at the US CCPA vs GDPR :

A crucial difference is that GDPR requires individuals to opt-in before businesses can collect data while there is no opt-in condition in CCPA.

That should say it all.

Edit : I forgot to add, outside of Sanctions the EU has no control to simply decide to ban a company when it feels like it.
In the United States the average commute time is under 30 minutes.

The vast majority of Americans live in suburbs and the door-to-door from their suburban rancher to the office by car is 15-20 minutes.

If, in the United States, your commute is over one hour you are an extreme outlier in the "wtf are you thinking?" direction.
Before computer science, it was defined as a way of speaking or acting between people in certain situations:

>the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions.

"protocol forbids the prince from making any public statement in his defense"

>the accepted or established code of procedure or behavior in any group, organization, or situation.

"what is the protocol at a conference if one's neighbor dozes off during the speeches?"
isatty() is spoofed in e.g. Make via PTYs. It's a light check at best and lies to you at worst.
Oh no! What you describe is generally known as a 100% german trait.

You cannot steal it from us and relabel as british! No, Sir!

BTW: your examples stink.

From first to last one:

> Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.

Nice, but that fusion reactor? Where is it? Did she really accomplish something?
AstroJS is moving in a similar direction as Velocity but already clocks in at 60 dependencies in the create-astro repo. We tried to keep things as minimal as possible.

And no, we are not sending anything around with websockets. It's full server-side HTML generation, hotwire takes care of doing delta updates to the existing HTML
Out of curiosity: where are you traveling with data that expensive?
It's where people went for information "even before" the internet.
If I didn't know any better, I'd have thought they weren't entirely serious.
Well, one nice thing is that a device like this allows you to use the services that are trying to lock you with an eSIM in the same way that you use a normal consumer friendly SIM.
> Another angry man child’s take on his politics.

That's also a decent summary of his politics.
Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation
If anyone is interested, there is a related meme/trend, "something that’s an absolute flex to a niche group but means absolutely nothing to most"; popular examples: https://www.instagram.com/mkbhd/reel/Cbio5sLFV81/ , https://x.com/thebunten/status/1494373600240963584
There is an underlying question to answer for yourself - do you really want to learn to code, or do you want to learn to launch products on your own? As you said, AI is changing, as are the skills required to be a one-man software shop.

I would not waste time with today's prompt engineering. The results are iffy, and the tech is evolving. I'd focus more on understanding how complex apps are structured. When AI hits its next big inflection point, it will be able to handle everything shy of the actual architecture of your app. I'd focus skills on being able to lead a team of coders, and then you can do so whether they are digital or human, expanding your capabilities in tandem with AIs improvements.

I'd also focus on determining the right use cases for AI. Right now, people are throwing it at everything, including processes and problems that need deterministic answers. LLMs are non-deterministic, so some people are not using them correctly yet. They are trying to pound in nails with screwdrivers.

All that to say that if I were you, I'd get good at understanding the current AI capabilities (and not limited to LLMs), applying it to the correct product and dev features, and being able to lead both AI and humans through the gaps, selecting the correct team member to solve the problems which cater to their strengths.
I don't know that .io has taught us that. If .io changes in the future there will be ample time to prepare.

Read especially the last paragraph here: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelag...

I believe that one of two outcomes will occur:

1. The popularity of .io will be incentive enough for Chagos to leave it alone

2. .io is retired and we all have 5 years to deal with it.
> I smell a business opportunity for some mechanic who can offer to disconnect the wireless antenna in these cars.

My guess is that in the future you will not even be able to start your car unless it can connect to GM servers.

All in the name of security (you know car theft, safety etc.)
This may have had to do with rainfall more than anything else:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140310-ge...
Cheap is very subjective. There is always a way cheaper Esim option, especially if you have high usage.

Not the common Esim provider spamming all of Google. But you often find local Esim resellers for local networks.

Writing this from my Caravan WiFi, with a small streaming computer, 2 mobiles and a laptop using about 250 GB a month :)
I was there twice last year.

Food was cheaper. It's not that UK is cheap, it's more that eastern europe has gotten more expensive.
The service is called Holafly, it was advertised on the plane, and my travel mate bought it without hesitating (because of the convenience of an eSIM, even though they didn’t get a local number)
> And not that I want to give Apple extra credit

No need, since they're only doing this after (again) being forced by EU regulations, https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/25/apple-pay-nfc-europe-alternat..., so no extra credit handed out :)

Curious to hear what people who usually think EU regulations hinders innovation thinks of this move, since it seems like regulation actually promoted innovation in this case. Just a edge-case or perhaps something more?
Tirana is full of coffee shops that are full of groups of 3-4 guys who sit around smoking and drinking coffee all day, eventually leaving in brand new 2024 S-Class Mercedes or range rovers. There are tons of brand new luxury German cars everywhere.
Btw: remaining examples are just as stupid as the first one.

Ideas are worth nothing. Even if they shine
It never felt like a public utility, and it most definitely always felt like a corporate company-controlled private platform.
> As for why now and not before, it's because of how apparent the possible effects are now that there's a very direct and widely spread channel that can pump OUT information, which is vastly more effective and obvious than passive surveillance through cameras or other hardware.

This. TT's US popularity plus its fully algorithmic approach to content selection makes it potentially one of the most effective mass influence systems ever. People are easily influenced - especially young people - and the root of that being in China is a clear risk to US sovereignty.

I mean, look at what Xi and his allies would like to see happening in the US, and look at what's happening in the US today. Coincidence?
If the output of a mathematical model trained on an aggregate of knowledge that contains copyrighted material is derivative and infringing, then ipso facto, all works since the inception of copyright are derivative and infringing.

You learned English, math, social studies, science, business, engineering, humanities, from a McGraw Hill textbook? Sorry, all creative works you’ve produced are derivative of your educational materials copyrighted by the authors and publisher.
Apple is held to a higher standard. It’s a feature of their model, as they are clearly accountable for the full stack.
Mozilla Localization in 2024
How to crash your software with Rust and wasm-bindgen
> I’ve tried integrating with mlua. It works, but Rhai is simpler to embed. Simpler to build.

I'm curious what challenges you faced when embedding Lua via mlua? I've done it many times in projects and I've always found it to be trivial.

$ cargo add mlua --features lua54,vendored

And then bringing it into Rust is simple like:

let lua = mlua::Lua();

Are your requirements more complicated than this that makes it not as easy? I've never had to mess around with linking the system Lua, or anything else. mlua just brings its own Lua distribution with the `vendored` feature.
> The fact that Apple even considered "closing" a general purpose standard like NFC is a testament to how much they are willing to drag their feet on any innovative customer-facing features.

They didn't just consider it, that's what happened and was their plan. Not until EU regulations were on their radar did they actually start considering opening up the NFC APIs for others to implement.
Holy moly.. even just the Llama 8B model trained on R1 outputs (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B), according to these benchmarks, is stronger than Claude 3.5 Sonnet (except on GPQA). While that says nothing about how it will handle your particular problem, dear reader, that does seem.. like an insane transfer of capabilities to a relatively tiny model. Mad props to DeepSeek!
Kind of insane how a severely limited company founded 1 year ago competes with the infinite budget of Open AI

Their parent hedge fund company isn't huge either, just 160 employees and $7b AUM according to Wikipedia. If that was a US hedge fund it would be the #180 largest in terms of AUM, so not small but nothing crazy either
This is neat. I’ve only heard about ESTK [0] and sysmoEUICC by sysmocom [1].

ESTK supports a couple neat features, like cloud provisioning of profiles [2] (which makes it possible to add eSIM profiles on iPhone, too, not just Android).

[0]: https://estk.me/

[1]: https://shop.sysmocom.de/sysmoEUICC1-eUICC-for-consumer-eSIM...

[2]: https://docs.estk.me/manual/download/cloud-enhance/index.htm...
Again, let user chose. apple sold a product, it's out of their hands to decide what users do with it.

Maybe i want to use the device in a way that's 100% connected to the charger and repurpose it.

It's not apple's business what I'm doing with it
onyx boox is worth avoiding for violating the GPL
I really don't see the connection between an eSIM and your SIM not working abroad here.

All an eSIM does is replace a physical one with a "digital" one. You'd still be using your carrier in these places. For your sim to work, your carrier would need to have agreements in place with providers in the country you're in. And then they'd charge you an extortionate amount of money to making any calls or use any data.
It seems like striking fear into the hearts of users to make them realize a ban is really on the table is in their best interest. They want to not be banned, and giving everyone a 48 hour show of users on the platform counting down to the end, then being really upset when they think it's gone is a great demonstration that people want their Tiktok.

* Trump gets a free layup to look like the hero for unbanning it

* Trump will think hard and heavy in the future about banning it again, knowing there's a lot of passionate young people that will reconsider voting for him next election if he does

Seems like a smart move to me.
Another factor for international travel is whether you phone has the right bands to get signal. My carrier claims to have international roaming, but I look up what bands my model phone has and what the country I'm going to uses and I pretty much would not get signal anyway.
I was initially enthusiastic about DS3, because of the price, but eventually I learned the following things:

- function calling is broken (responding with excessive number of duplicated FC, halucinated names and parameters)

- response quality is poor (my use case is code generation)

- support is not responding

I will give a try to the reasoning model, but my expectations are low.

ps. the positive side of this is that apparently it removed some traffic from anthropic APIs, and latency for sonnet/haikku improved significantly.
> This code repository and the model weights are licensed under the MIT License. DeepSeek-R1 series support commercial use, allow for any modifications and derivative works, including, but not limited to, distillation for training other LLMs.

Wow. They’re really trying to undercut closed source LLMs
They did even worse.

New firmware upgrades made older devices slower and painfully unusable: https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-might-be-slowing-down-y...

And they have plenty of experience building walls around a garden. Ask anyone using OSX for the past 15 years and you will see how difficult it has become to write or publish software for Apple.
There is no muddying of waters here. I posted an example of a corporation who thought it was alright to ship literal malware to their customers. They had every intention of stealing their credentials. They did it on purpose, because they thought they were police officers and wanted to "track down" some notorious "pirate". They displayed zero remorse, only regretting the fact they got caught. They actually thought they were justified in their endeavours.

There are no "conspiracy theories" here. It's not a theory, it's really happening. It's not a conspiracy, they don't even think what they're doing is wrong. Corporations see themselves as utterly justified in everything that they do in the name of profit. There are no limits they wouldn't cross. Nothing is sacred to them. Not morals, not you, and certainly not your computer and the personal information stored in it.

Trust them at your peril.
Does anyone know what kind of HW is required to run it locally? There are instructions but nothing about HW required.
I never had problems using Linux as a system.

It's the desktop space that annoys me.

- Virtual Desktop per monitor? Nope, because Xorg didn't support it back then. And now it's a 10 year bug on the Kde bugtracker.

- A Dock? It worked ok. Until Wayland came and everything broke. It's supported now, but you have to clone the latest git commit of the biggest dock project which is not almost abandoned. And it breaks while compiling. A lot.

- Global Menu? The support is all over the place.

- Fractional scaling? It works. But in MacOS (with the help of an app, I admit) I can have incredible granularity.

On top of that, add the generally inferior hardware revolving a laptop, aside CPU, storage and Ram.

The MacOS desktop feels like a Gnome2 in an alternate universe where the devs never made bad decisions, and things like Wayland (1) never occurred.

(1) Not because the project itself, but the act of breaking compatibility and passing blame to other people has sent decades of FOSS development and manpower down the drain.
Start with something that already does mostly what you need and you can tweak or fix the way you like. (Really everything is content management, data capture, and workflow right?)

As you grow in skill and familiarity you will add features and configure more pieces to work together.

After all of this (in years) you will hate everything you’ve done and have had to do to get things working (and they have.) You will dream of a day when you can scrap it all for a new from scratch exhibition of all that you have learned.

Someday you will.

Until then, just hobble things together so they work in the environment you are most confident in, like everybody else.