skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many users on X (Twitter) or Bluesky are bots? It's reasonable to assume the percentages are the same, given the lack of public information for the major text-based broadcast social networks. X is estimated to have 250M daily active users. Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that Threads' DAUs were 100M. Threads achieving a bit under half the size in such a short time is impressive, especially since Threads still lacks many features that X has had for years.
I understand you're coming from a place of passion, here. so i'll tread lightly.

> Remember when New York's morgues were overloaded[1] with 800 people dying there every day[1]

I do remember when the public health policy in this country was to intubate people with enfeebled lungs after pumping them full of opiates. I do understand that this is homicide, at least the way i define it.

Will there ever be a reckoning? i don't know. I do know a lot of outright falsehoods were told for 2 years straight. If you'd like a detailed list i'd be glad, but I'm the kind of person that is still mad that Obama joked about killing two kids with predator drones. That Clinton bombed a [medicine factory?] That Bush... both...

If everything is a shambles because of one (or 2) people then the constitution is not worth the paper it's printed on. I bet you could fetch a nice price for that paper. I'd repeat that, but it's easy to just scan back to the beginning and read it again.

I'm not worried. These people are hype-based. I get that people are suffering but people are always suffering and i got no control over that. Me yelling at people or agreeing with people like you doesn't do anything. I guarantee if i wrote an agreement this long, no-one would read it.

HT ID;
Yes.
https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1876168991330439314
> I understand that Musk invested in OpenAI under the understanding that ChatGPT would remain open source.

This is false, but it what he tries to portray to save face. It has been shown numerous times that he was in agreement with keeping it AI private when it was assumed he would be in control of it. And specifically for safety reasons. And the only reason OpenAI took microsoft money was because Musk pulled his already pledged and budgeted funding for the company.

Why did he pull funding? Because he insisted OpenAI was light-years behind Google (he was very wrong) and insisted the way to save it was to give him full control of the company (also wrong). They told him he was wrong so he got made and pulled his already pledged funding.

Pledging funds for a non-profit then afterwards getting upset that they won't just give you the non-profit entity is pretty absurd.
Bunker oil is an orthogonal issue. Generally, it's restricted to offshore use. For example, ships have to switch to low sulphur 60 miles outside of San Francisco Bay.

As for the IMO 2020 restrictions, I've read that they have significantly lowered pollution but that would be in addition to Slow Steaming.
They had 100m account creations within the first 5 days.
They've probably done the analysis and found the demographic most likely to respond to/tolerate an ad to be Jeep owners or in the vicinity of it.
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I'm happy I didn't start with those, or I would have probably never become a web developer.

It's surprising how often people recommend especially the MDN Web Docs to total beginners, when I've never seen any beginner enjoy or be able to use them. It's an amazing resource, but their content is not good for beginner web devs or people new to coding.

From my experience, beginners have a much better time with something like the InternetingIsHard guide.

- https://internetingishard.netlify.app/
The assault on USAID is a wake-up call for the rest of the world
Threads' launch was intentionally rushed in order to capitalize on the user discontent at the time. Without a large alternative, enthusiasm to migrate to another social network would have waned. Note that Bluesky was still invite-only when Threads launched.
The problem with that is that to measure per-strand current you need to isolate at least one strand and have a current measurement shunt in it, and then either that strand will carry less current (due to the extra shunt resistance), or you do it for all strands and then all of them have worse characteristics due to the shunts. And any tolerance between shunt values would result in an unbalanced per-strand current…

So, yes, it's doable, but there's a thermal/efficiency/reliability cost.

Generally you'd just design enough margin into it so that a failing strand doesn't matter. I'm suspecting they just didn't add enough margin, maybe it's only designed to support one of the six strands failing (I would really expect at least a tolerance of 2 failed.)

Or it's really a poor design regarding the mechanical latching; can't work if all pins have poor connection…
Terrible hypothetical idea: Let’s engineer a bunker fuel additive with even more global cooling properties than sulfur!

We should probably just reduce consumption and emissions though.
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I forget the name, but there was a sci-fi story where a human inter-generational ship was powered by special engine which spun off tiny black holes. Midway through their journey they started detecting signs of alien civilizations using the same engine.

The characters theorized that when each little black hole was getting pinched off into its own isolated new universe, it carried a variation of the physical laws of the one it came from... And that maybe all the cosmically-sudden intelligent life was because spacefaring intelligence was how our type of universe reproduced.
Per 450 kwp panel.
Amazon weren't making money because they were expanding rapidly and had a lot of capex.

OpenAI don't make money because they're losing money on inference. If you remove their capex - training costs, which you can't because they have to remain competitive, they'd still be losing money.
Sure. Thats not the goal here. These problems are hard for humans and (mostly) hard for LLMs.
Personal validation effect at play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_validation
The study can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612241311886
Thank you for noverify! We used it at $DAYJOB in CI.
That’s nice of you to say so.
Nothing says Jeep more than "hey if it ain't broke, buy an extended warranty"
As if it wasn’t bad enough they were so out of touch they thought $90k for their Wagoneers was a good base price. A vehicle literally no one was asking for.

With median US income around $43k/year, these geniuses thought there’d be a huge market for these monstrosities (and I am in no way anti-SUV).

This was after axing their Dodge sports cars that were actually selling, and dicking around with the Ram pickup. The bread & butter of their lineup.

But ARU! Listen you c-suite morons, sell the products your customers actually want to pay for. Stellantis’ stupidity is going to bankrupt a lot of dealers if they can’t execute these re-rollouts successfully and finally clear this glut.

And now I see shit like this. Pure, unadulterated enshitification.

How do these ideas not get shot down 2 seconds after they leave someone’s mouth? I guarantee you, not one person who heard such an idea thought it was a good one. It is impossible to witness such stupidity happening and think this will accomplish any business objective or be a good direction for the brand.
This is very promising, If only the car had some sort of heads-up display that could project advertisements over the entire windshield while you're driving.
I always thought that - "I want to have my car to have airplane mode", would have had a different meaning. One including small wings and small nuclear powered jet engine, with strong retrofuturistic vibes.
A sandbox could be an interesting idea. Especially as a dropdown with options what should be blocked.

I am not sure if anything should be blocked by default, because that could always end in frustration when something that should work does not for mysterious reasons.

But it might make a good default to block all external requests when the editor gets a feature to link to code directly. Like ...html_editor/?code=<!doctype html><html>...

Then it could display an info box like "Initial code was loaded from your link and the sandbox was activated. Use the Sandbox menu to enable more features the code can use"

There was a bit of a discussion about this on HN two months ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42448964

The editor is open source, so if you like, you can add the features you have in mind:

https://github.com/no-gravity/html_editor
Show HN: An MVP Approach to Translating an Arabic Novel, Kafka in Tangier
A contemporary Moroccan narrative inspired by Kafka's Metamorphosis serialized like a tech startup’s MVP. I launched the experiment in December 2021 to translate and publish my debut novel, "Kafka in Tangier," as a serialized Substack project.

The novel reimagines Kafka’s existential themes in modern-day Morocco, blending magical realism with sharp sociopolitical critique. I released it in weekly installments, inviting real-time reader feedback to shape the translation and narrative pacing. The draft remains freely available online, and the novel was later self-published in February 2023.

Now, I’m considering using the same approach for one of my other four Arabic novels. I’d love your feedback on the experiment.

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https://kafkaintangier.substack.com/archive
Browsers don’t do that. Caches are not shared across sites.
The other commenters have mentioned doing deploys behind a proxy, which is fine, but eventually you're going to have to re-deploy the component that terminates the client connections (i.e. websocket server or SSE, etc).

From the client's perspective, there's not a lot of difference between the server dropping the connection (on redeploy) or the connection being dropped for some other transient reason.

That is to say, with a decent client side handling of connection state you just incrementally rollout your new servers and each server terminates its connections triggering reconnects from the clients.

The hardest part is often maintaining continuity on some stream of events. That is; picking up exactly where you were before the connection dropped. You need some mechanism for the client to report the event it last received, and some way to "rewind" back to that point on the stream.
I really worry for the ones who bought inflated real estate and are looking at a 50-pct salary reduction. That will hurt hard. Not to mention the work from home people with long commutes being asked to RTO at a lower pay.
In managing contractors, I've seen the ones what were able to jump on a well paying <12-month contract and think that is their next level of compensation and it will never be below that level. It always seemed to reset to a mean salary.
I participated in a painfully slow migration from Thrift to gRPC. I did not record the performance metrics, but it was internally advertised to be significantly more performant. There are still some Thrift services running at the organization, but most were migrated to gRPC and certainly not migrated back.
I'm taking over thinking from AI. One sentence at a time
Still plenty - just look at your Zuckerbergs, Andressens, Horrowitzes, Soros, Gates, etc
From the good old days. When the left was for the working class and the right were war mongers.
> Who are “these types

Jingoistic types

> Has parent poster made these claims?

Please read the post again. He said that Chinese people who worked/studied here and then returned to China are “parasitic”.

> imaginary villain

These sentiments are real and frequently expressed here on HN. Again, they should write to their representative to ban Chinese people from our schools or tech firms if he feels that is in the best interest of the U.S. But it is wrong to refer to these people as parasites for simply taking advantage of the opportunities available to them, provided by willing U.S employers. They presumably contribute to their companies and pay taxes, so they are not parasites.
I don't expect any such ugly shit. A call to echo should print its arguments, no exceptions.

NAME
echo - echo arguments

SYNOPSIS
echo [ arg ... ]

DESCRIPTION
Echo writes its arguments in order as a line on the standard
output file. It is mainly useful for producing diagnostics
in command files.
The 2025 iPhone SE is said to be the first shipping device for both the new Bluetooth/WiFi chip and the 5G modem.

Cost is certainly a factor, but it doesn't take a lot of searching to find people designing and building devices saying that the existing third party hardware and firmware implementations for Bluetooth are problematic.

I don't think the Android/Pixel guys were daydreaming about ditching Broadcom for no reason.

I seem to remember discussions the Google Glass people posted here about their own issues with keeping a stable Bluetooth connection with the available third party Bluetooth chipsets.
There is some 'startup' trying to bring modern versions of concorde planes, not really grokking the reasons it went out of business it seems.

As if rich people are not universally hated enough, lets show off to everybody by flying marginally faster and polluting way more in super cramped very loud tubes. Some technical challenges can be maybe addressed these days but not all of them. Unless folks fly half around the world time spent on airports takes away massive chunk of overall flight time anyway.
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I honestly thought their website was triggering a popup ad every time you stopped moving your mouse, and I was ready to write a long rant that no one would ever read.

But... they actually show ads in your car every time you stop!? This is so bad I don't even know where to begin. The audacity!?
Yeah, more likely that'd be 48-55V, much larger space of existing solutions for that (Telco DC power, PoE and LED lighting) and likely also more efficient.
The assault on an imperialst-regime-change-cum-bureucratic-excess-spending tool that had bought off half the world's political, press and art world, couldn't have happened sooner.
> Second, if you were auditing a bank you would be scrupulous about how you get access and keeping it limited because you be would want it to hold up in court and avoid any questions about tampering or planting evidence.

er, not if my role was as a consultant of the parent bank and my assignment was to close branches that were "losing money".

note: i even specified "first party" because in my mind i was envisioning a first party audit, of which i have done many as a consultant.
I don’t think they mean passengers in row 50 put their bags in row 30.

I think it’s just that your eyes’s reach trends towards the front of the plane. If it’s busy when you try to stow away your bag, chances are you will prefer putting it in a meter towards the front of the plane (where you’re standing anyways, waiting for the person before you to stow away their bag) over cramming it in above your head, where the other bags already are.
Very interesting. Shopify also provides a backend and APIs associated with it. Is that included ? Also how does it compare to WooCommerce ?
Now I should clarify what this is exactly. It's not a prediction. I don’t expect AI progress to be this fast or as untamable as I portray. It’s not pure fantasy either.

It is my worst nightmare.
Anthropic pays their engineers pretty well. They're doing just fine, at least for as long as people are pouring money into their company. But that's everyone in this space, isn't it?
I also do this, especially if you have assigned seats and are flying light, there is no reason to be the first person on the plane unless you like sitting and doing nothing for 45 minutes.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/like-family
Didn't expect that, but not very surprised. So short of the browser giving the Go runtime some special treatment, this sounds like a no-go.
That sentence is very often seen online as a dismissal of someone calling out far-right opinions. Either the poster is just parroting others, or they are a part of a concerted effort to minimize being perceived as far-right activity and maximize the end effect of said activity.
I once shipped a product whose app icon within the app disappeared if clicked, revealing a square “monitor” with a small version of Breakout you had better start playing with your left/right arrow keys because the game started upon appearance.

EDIT:

In a user's guide I introduced diagrams of calculations with points for scalar values, vertical bars for vectors, and then square 2-D grids to represent matrices, which I referred to as "waffles". With "waffle", referenced by page, in the index at the back of the guide.

I wondered if anyone would register the mild ridiculousness, but I had people coming up to me in conferences later laughing about matrix waffles.
And how many are Instagram users who created a Threads account after being prompted but never actually use it?
From 1% to 2.3% chance of impact since last month

https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2025/01/29/nasa-shar...
The others just did it covertly
We can't even close the hole in the ozone layer. We were all patting each other on the back for a job well done (which it almost was), but then took our foot off the accelerator and now it's opening back up again.
This is a case of "hate the game, don't hate the player".

I believe that a famous economist proposed that paying a bribe should be legal but receiving one should be a crime, and that the penalty should include refunding twice the bribe to the payer.

Rationale is to increase risk for receivers while providing an incentive to payers to report bribes to police. If both paying and receiving a bribe are crimes then obviously both sides want to keep shtum.
Academic papers are terrible at knowledge transfer. A more casually spoken blog post is 100% more effective at communicating ideas imho.

Academia is a weird and broken place.

Disclaimer: work in a research lab full of awesome PhDs who largely agree with me!
Is /. back??
Like I said, I am not sold on the idea because it seems like curve fitting to me. However in the spirit of scientific inquiry, we should allow them to share their ideas.

Purely based on the content of the website, I fail to see anywhere on the website allusions to Hindu Nationalism. The website contains a paper from acadamia.edu showing their analysis. Lastly the claim about "Brahmin circles" also seems malicious because it is being discussed on mainstream media like CNN-News18 or IIT Hyderabad.

https://www.academia.edu/78867798/A_cryptanalytic_decipherme...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQa2ol6w7lg
I think people in the business will understand that most of the people laid off lately didn't get axed because of low performance, at least not their own. Massive layoffs and ham-fisted announcements about cutting "low performers" only tell one story: incompetent management, over-hiring, and companies out of ideas or too risk-averse (in terms of "shareholder value").

Zuckerberg has spearheaded the ongoing failure of "the metaverse" wasting billions of dollars, but he can't get fired. Other people pay the price for the low performers on the board, the C-suite, and in management roles. I think we know it always works that way, Meta/Facebook doesn't stand alone, they just stand a bit taller than the rest of the dysfunctional corporations.

Slander and defamation suits would require proof that Meta made false statements about individuals. I don't think that would get anywhere because we don't have any objective reference for "performance," only whatever internal metrics Meta supposedly used. However, wrongfully interfering with someone's employment or employment prospects -- like giving a false or misleading reference -- might have some traction. By announcing this so-called "low performers" cut in the press Meta has labeled everyone subsequently laid off as a "low performer," which may very well interfere with future employment. Even if not malicious it stands out as a very dumb thing to announce or leak, when they could have blamed layoffs on canceled projects or overhiring or restructuring or something vague like that. But no way will Meta management take responsibility, so they have to pretend they have meaningful and objective measures of performance.
I had a lot of trouble parsing that title. There was a 'social network'. It attacked pesticide critics. Now the s.n. is shutting down.
That sounds pretty cool, but I refuse to touch any hardware that doesn't have mainline Linux support.
That helps but it’s still a mess, especially if the driver and passenger aren’t both familiar with the airport and can’t communicate well about where they’re meeting.
The person being bribed is beyond the reach of the law.
TR's autobiography is in the public domain, for one
C++ reflection is now good enough that hopefully we’ll start to see more game engines using it to work out components and properties instead of weird macros. jcelerier’s work on things like Avendish really does feel quite fresh and modern, which is not my usual reaction to C++ frameworks. Obviously it’s lagging a good 20 years behind C# et al but we’ve come a long way since IUnknown.
This won't be a joke when the car is on L4 automation.
On the other hand, I knew from the beginning that the Space Shuttle design was ungainly, looking like a committee designed it, and unfortunately I was right.

(Having a wing, empennage and landing gear greatly increased the weight. The only thing that really needs to be returned from space are the astronauts.)
That's a blanket statement that's far from being true.
Is this just theoretically better O(n) or is there an actually faster implementation somewhere?
The new model Jeep Audacity!
There is no need to outflank Aryan Invasion Theory. Invasion theory is dead and buried. Now it goes my migration theory.

btw why is it wrong for Hindus to say about their history. Should we allow only White Christian historians? Critic the text not the person. Please stop with outdated racist views.
Google Earth VS Code Gaia [video]
Original link: https://www.journaldulapin.com/2022/11/21/wii-mac-linux/
This makes me think of that algorithmic black box that the IRS has. It is spoken of in reverent tones tinged with dread. I wonder if anyone's tried to throw an AI at it yet to figure out what the heck is really going on in it? And maybe decompile it to render it amenable to modification and recompilation.
They might have launched it quickly, but nobody (relatively speaking) gave a tinkers damn about the end product.

All form and no function.
This info seems very outdated. Creating a discord account from even a residential IP without SMS KYC is from my experience basically impossible, they even block most (all?) sms VOIP services.
It is not just 'interesting' it is in fact essential to prevent disaster on the scale of the Second World War or worse. It seems there are people who are intrinsically motivated to hate. These are the ones who are on the far right even in peaceful times. I think they are pretty much the high school bully who never grew up. Then there are those who are uncertain about the future and therefore inciteable to mistrust/hate. Then there are political leaders who estimate the size of both groups and notice that if they add them up and maybe add some violence around the elections in the mix, they might just reach a majority. Actually being interested in how things work is the business of none of the people described here.