skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with this... but without profit, people can't get paid, and they'll stop building. I do hate this incredibly need for growth, of course, but financial growth is necessary to pay people and give them raises and allow them to have upward mobility at the company.

I hope Bluesky is able to find a model that works for them AND for consumers. (I do know it's an open protocol, so it'll live on without Bluesky itself! However, as this post shows, it's a lot of work to build on the prototype... so if not them, who? And if someone else, how will they become sustainable?)
i dont want to tie identities, basically just go follow actual researchers at frontier AI labs and close to nothing else and it'll be a close approximation
Please let me know if you know of any options to streamline the process.
It's not just the new people though. There are people with 25 years of experience at an agency who are being fired because they had a promotion within the last 12 months which means they are technically still "probationary" in their role.

The loss of institutional knowledge right now is devastating.
They've done an incredible job running with an extremely low headcount and crazy efficient use of hardware. It would be easy to 10x their expenses if they were blindly following the standard cloud deployment playbook. Hopefully this level of efficiency mean they don't have to work as hard and can stay pre-revenue, a pure play, for a very long time.
Say what you will about Bluesky, but at least Jay isn't paling around with honest to god neo-nazis.
If small phones are difficult, why are phones getting larger as battery and semiconductor tech continues to improve?

Advances in tech should allow phones to be smaller than ever for the same capabilities, or more capabilities for the same size than ever before.
I did not realize that. I don't think I want that then.

Maybe I should try out the remarkable.
Wait, you think this about addressing the debt/deficit? Why are ~$4.5T of tax cuts still on the table?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-trumps-agenda-cal...
Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits [video]
There were literally electric cars 140 years ago. Getting enough energy density in a battery is a definite technological problem that's difficult, but making a car move with an electric motor isn't.
This is because you're missing the key tenet: massive parallelism. This works when you have 1000 drives, with significant data redundancy distributed among them. If two of them fail, and one of them is so slow that it can also be considered failed, it's not a big deal, you still have 997 adequately performing drives, and the system can easily handle the loss of 0.3% of the capacity.

If you only have one drive, try to make it as good as you can afford.
Even among those who touch electronics for a living. There are occupations that do get significant lead exposure (as the article points out), but electronics technicians have never been among them, even before fume extractors were common for soldering. Metallic lead is sufficiently hard to oxidize that even most people with lead bullets embedded in their bodies don't get lead poisoning, and, at soldering temperatures, lead's vapor pressure is not sufficient to reach a toxic dose, even taking into account lead's horrific tendency to bioaccumulate.
You can add X to the truthsocial/gab group.
Numbers aside, does Binance ... actually do a lot of business in Nigeria?

I've seen other articles on this topic and it's not clear.
moore's law is just the observation that chips are 2d: linear shrinks produce exponential benefit.

I can't see anything like a linear/square relation in fusion reactor design (even accepting that ML's premise of shrinks being linear in time is not a law, just something that sometimes happened, and sometimes didn't...)
When Winamp published their source code on Github, not only did they breach third party licenses, but they also had to deal with trolls who across the entire Internet that wanted to make a show out of them. It's hard to blame developers for avoiding open sourcing when you may not get anything out of that except for criticism.
Some of the discussion is exactly about which sources are even available, and what their background bias is.
I think it depends a lot on what the task is.
Federal government employees like this are a trivial fraction of this. Most of the spend is medicare, medicaid, social security, and the military.

The NSF generates much more value than it costs.
The contracts with space x seem to be intact. Also new contracts for military cyber trucks were signed just last week.

So no they don’t care about costs. Its about sucking all the government money for themselves :)
I get what you're tying to say, but this kind of phrasing does more damage by instilling a (mostly) false sense of learned helplessness.
Probationary doesn't mean "new", it means "new to their role within the past 12 months, including if they are existing employees who were promoted".

Mass firing your best workers is not a great way to build a more efficient government.
Conway's law: how do committees invent?
At this point, any ringtone is considered cringy, at least by millennials. Every once in a while I'll hear one make a beep, and its owner exclaim "How dare you talk to me!" Hearing other people's phones is considered rude.

Phones should be set to vibrate. If it's on your person, or near to hand, that's all you need, and nobody else has to know.

Some people do need a sound -- perhaps things are urgent, or they leave their phone across the room. If so, you want a sound that's loud. It doesn't need to be fancy, but it does need to draw attention.
Which is what I said in the second sentence
Are they actually doing anything to improve processes or are they just firing people without changing how the agencies work?

Doing it by end of day without severance seems unnecessarily cruel. And the director is a coward if he didn't attend the meeting.
You dictate what someone else thinks and if they disagree with you, they must be manipulated. That's quite a powerful position to be in.
the backend (the AppView) can be found here:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main/packages...

there are various supporting services written in Go as well

https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo
Now who's being vulgar?

(I also disagree with your accusations -- but anyone who's read this conversation can see the evidence for themselves)
I think you are mistaken.

If meat industry disappeared, I don't believe the leather industry would exist on any sort of comparable scale. People would not be raising cows and devoting fields to feed and the whole chain of events that goes into slaughting and animal for it's skin. Leather would be profoundly expensive.

The meat industry on the other hand would be largely unaffected if the leather industry disappeared. They just need to find something else to do with the skin, and they would over night.
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=rust
100% and agree with this, we saw the langmem stuff last night

imho getting some sort of hierarchical memory is conceptually fairly straightforward, the tricky part is having the storage and vector db pieces well integrated so that the apis are clean
I didn't care about looking at the individual patents, and I can't have a qualified opinion on Imran Chaudhri as a person or as an engineer. But I did have to snicker when I saw the Aphex Twin reference on his homepage.
This tired trope fails to capture the accelerationism at play. Elon is firing the most ambitious people in government. 8 years in one position, 1 year promoted fired over the person 9 years in one position.

This is not the nature of union employment, it is a structural weakness in the way employment has been negotiated. Musk is exploiting that weakness.
> Surely lying under any circumstances should be prohibited

You must admit that it's a tricky issue, differentiating between a cop purposely lying vs making an incorrect assertion. Should a defendant walk if it they can prove at trial that the cop said something that wasn't true?

That said, it's sad how often people incriminate themselves with drug possession because of the "gentle" lie that things will be a lot worse for them if the cop is the one to find the drugs.
The tax cuts are the only agenda they are really interested in.
Well he didn't really call cvs/subversion broken, to semi quote, he basically said that subversion people were trying to improve on cvs and you cannot do that because cvs is inherently broken.

Its not damning to call something broken, plenty of software has bugs that make it unusable and are broken to many people. In fact, many tools have been made in anger at other tools not doing what you want them to do. This is just the software inception cycle. You should be allowed to be angry at the brokenness of software... its what allows improvement.
Sure, but Trump is no Napoleon.
Thanks, so are both the Postgres and Scylla versions maintained in terms of new features?

I wasn't aware that AppView v1 was open source, and the most recent info I'm aware of on the topic is https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q, https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2961 and https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-archit..., and everything I've heard about Bluesky was that open source appview is "still coming".
Anyone following hundreds of thousands of users is obviously a bot account scraping content. I'd ban them and call it a day.

However, I do love reading about the technical challenge. I think Twitter has a special architecture for celebrities with millions of followers. Given Bluesky is a quasi-clone, I wonder why they did not follow in these footsteps.
> Can you point me to one single example of "a founder being celebrated on this website for 'epic demo hacks' that are fraudulent"?

Something, something [..] bulletproof Cybertruck [..]
Towards a quieter, friendlier web (2024)
Can also emulate a PC in WASM to run Linux with a huge performance hit.

But I'm not even talking about Linux stuff, just basic use cases. Like a website somehow doesn't work with the iPad/iPhone, even if you forcibly request the desktop version. (YouTube creator studio live streaming is one example, or random airliners' in-flight video sites.) You need to unzip, manipulate, re-zip, and email something. Putting stuff on a USB stick for a print shop. Doing taxes. Running some Mac/Windows-only software.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_order.
Not really, the domain block was reportedly due to increased spam activity from that domain and performed automatically, so it would follow that a write up would come a few days later. That is if they are related, which is not a given.
We're long overdue for tools like this. Especially with the (commendable) rise in code review. The downside of code review with large codebases is that I'd get pulled into parts of the codebase which my team ostensibly owned, but where no one on the current team had significant context. Usually these code reviews were part of bigger rewrites/refactors where the author/their tech lead knew more, but not necessarily all.

This turned into theater. We had no choice but to rubberstamp. The “review” was more of a heads up than a real review request because no one can get up to speed without becoming a blocker. Something to improve monitoring reflexes or reaction time in an incident. Frankly these days an LLM would easily clear the bar for the “review” part of those reviews. But even the LLM's context could be significantly enhanced with a tool like Tanagram that has actual architectural context. Looking forward to updates!
Nobody knows more about science than Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3f95BGIiA
I'm not sure I'm there yet (giving it away) but similarly annoyed by some of its teething pains. For me it seems to do all the things, and it runs longer than my iPad pro does on a charge (and like the OP author I suspect that is entirely because I run the display as near 0 brightness)

I really appreciate using it as a writing device in portrait mode, something that I really wish the iPad pro could do with its "magic" keyboard. I continue to look for more intuitive drawing solutions.

I also agree with the author that Android has that 'dos' feel of poorly bodged together hardware specific drivers/stuff and OS stuff.

As a result it hasn't replaced my ReMarkable 2 like I thought it might, I'd really love the RM2 to have a higher refresh rate than it does alas.
Group stories are great fun and a feature I seriously miss on Whatsapp. They work well from meme chats to family groups.

There being a killer feature that Whatsapp users are missing out on won't convince everyone but it sure makes me feel less like a nerd when encouraging the switch to Signal.

I find it quite funny that such an obvious feature likely hasn't been added to Whatsapp yet because Meta thinks Instagram is for stories. That's pure speculation on my part though
Yup! We rely on the AI SDK for model routing, and they have an Ollama provider, which will handle pretty much any local model.
This is great to hear—my current understanding of the most recent state of the art on the topic is https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q which mentions that the self-hosted appview is not yet open source. So I'm glad to hear the situation has changed in the past 3 months.
What credibility was lost because some blog alleges something? CFS is run by world class fusion engineers.
I'm all for government efficiency, but this brainless approach is counterproductive. It's just surgery with a hatchet. They don't know anything about the systematic problems with the agencies they're cutting, and don't bother to learn them, so their approach is more likely to create inefficiencies than to eliminate the ones that were there. In cases like this, they're cutting off the next generation of scientists, along with the staff that make research feasible. To the extent—and I believe it's true—that innovation will remain America's lifeblood and saving grace in the coming decades, this catastrophically bad plan is doing more damage than any foreign adversary could hope for.
If it were an optical zoom then it would be able to take 24MP and 48MP shots like it can in 1x mode, but it is limited to 12MP which highly suggests its just a crop.
Approximating KL Divergence (2020)
We deployed a fix for Firefox today. Can you try again and let me know how it goes?
Wonderful projection.

It's just parroting Russian propaganda but you must still marvel at the mental gymnastics here.
Apple named Fortune's Most Admired Company for 18th year running
that's not the appview, that's the client
WebOS is far more superior than android tv
Hopefully Open AI and Microsoft could release a true AI phone one that is like the movie H.E.R. where it does everything for you .. just like talking to a human via text, voice & video chat but ur human AI assistant. It interfaces with AI Agents of businesses, your friends, families and co-workers agents to get things scheduled, done, your knowledgebase on all things, etc for you.

Though H.E.R. without falling in love with it.
Isn’t WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted?
I would be so much more interested in Bluesky if it were technically impossible for a random super rich guy to buy and bend it to his whims.
I read the cf-PICI paper (abstract) and the hypothesis from the AI co-scientist. While the mechanism from the actual paper is pretty cool (if I'm understanding it correctly), I'm not particularly impressed with the hypothesis from the co-scientist.

It's quite a natural next step to take to consider the tails and binding partners to them, so much so that it's probably what I would have done and I have a background of about 20 minutes in this particular area. If the co-scientist had hypothesised the novel mechanism to start with, then I would be impressed at the intelligence of it. I would bet that there were enough hints towards these next steps in the discussion sections of the referenced papers anyway.

What's a bit suspicious is in the Supplementary Information, around where the hypothesis is laid out, it says "In addition, our own preliminary data indicate that cf-PICI capsids can indeed interact with tails from multiple phage types, providing further impetus for this research direction." (Page 35). A bit weird that it uses "our own preliminary data".
You're probably misinterpreting some.

Like there is one that says NT is the best...or maybe 2000...but that person is not disagreeing with ranking but making the point that subjectivity plays a part.
Still needs to be signed by the governor. Given the voting along partisan lines I don't expect it to pass.
According to the Compare site[0] it does not have macro mode.

16 Pro: 48MP macro photography

16: Macro photography

16e: —

[0]: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
I see him more as a Caesar. In this analogy, Musk would sort of be Augustus. The senate still existed, and there were still consuls and all the trappings of a republic, but he was made princeps. It was a title with no significant official power, but he had the real power. At this point, it seems to me like Musk is more powerful than Trump. He owns Trump. Trump only wants power. He doesn’t care what it’s for. Musk is on a mission.

I don’t see how anyone could NOT be concerned that they’d do damage. They’ve already done irreparable damage. All the norms we used to have in place are gone. It’s anything goes.
Thanks. You are right. Unfortunately I can't edit my post any longer.
generally speaking he is decidedly centrist in his historical perspectives. it is uncritical to paint in broad strokes over a post, or two, in which he uses historical analysis to communicate a progressive perspective that warns against the danger(s) of an incoming administration
This is such a lazy, uninformed take that people just love to repeat. 1) the left on Bluesky is full of in-fighting because neolib left are convinced that Harris lost because of racism/sexism and the progressive left spend a lot of their time trying to educate (and dunk on) them for their braindead takes, and 2) any social media platform will become an echo chamber if you only choose to follow people that echo your sentiments. As long as Bluesky isn't actively censoring and suspending journalists and other public figures, there is no equivalence to Truthsocial or X and only a clown/shill/psyop would suggest as much.

It's really not that hard to find enriching content from all walks of life on Bluesky -- if somebody can't find it, they just suck at the internet.

To be clear, I do have grievances with Bluesky, and I do not have high hopes for its future -- but that's because I personally believe that social media in general is both fatally flawed from the start and detrimental to society, and will never not devolve into ad-riddled or otherwise enshittified services. I am not a Bluesky shill, I'm just here to call out the silly false equivalence with Truthsocial, etc.
Just firing people with 0 research or understanding. To do an actual audit would take a team months at least.
Generally, yes. Currently, because Bluesky requires the use of their labeler if you use their app, this could happen.

Two points of note

1. You can participate in Bluesky without the Bluesky app, so you can remove this requirement by using an alternative app

2. The most blocked account is blocked by around 0.25% of the full network (https://clearsky.app/)

This second point does not account for users banned from Bluesky by Bluesky for breaking the ToS or PDS abuse.
Which is bad, how?
Hear me out, investors: Quantum Intelligence.
AppView is a specific term of art within the Bluesky federation architecture: https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#app-view, you were incorrect in identifying the public frontend repo as the AppView.
Very excited about Mastra! We have a number of Agent-ic things we'll be building at ElectricSQL and Mastra looks like a breath of fresh air.

Also the team is top-notch — Sam was my co-founder at Gatsby and I worked closely with Shane and Abhi and I have a ton of confidence in their product & engineering abilities.
My goodness that looks bad.
In some sense, AI should be the most capable at doing this within math. Literally the entire domain in its entirety can be tokenized. There are no experiments required to verify anything, just theorem-lemma-proof ad nauseam.

Doing this like in this test, it's very tricky to rule out the hypothesis that the AI is just combining statements from the Discussion / Future Outlook sections of some previous work in the field.
The technicality is dumb. Once again conservatives prove states rights is a for me, not thee sort of thing.
Not necessarily. That is only the case for black holes with no charge and angular momentum. Given high enough charge and angular momentum for a given mass, black holes become "extremal" and their hawking radiation/temperature approaches zero. It's argued these are unstable or maybe can't even exist for various reasons, but it's a pretty active area of physics AFAICT https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-hawking-...

That said, if these were primordial I'd expect their charges to not all be 0, so they'd interact with normal matter.
i vaguely remember reading an article about solving the correlation between quantum decoherence and scaling of qubit numbers. i dont understand quantum computers so take it with a grain of salt.

but here’s what perplexity says:
“Exponential Error Reduction: Willow demonstrates a scalable quantum error correction method, achieving an exponential reduction in error rates as the number of qubits increases125. This is crucial because qubits are prone to errors due to their sensitivity to environmental factors25.
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And when laptops do have a spare M.2 slot it's usually intended for an SSD only and is not the right kind of M.2 slot for a cellular (or WiFi) card. And of course, you'd need antennas. So the whole laptop needs to be designed around accommodating cellular connectivity, with significant changes to the internal layout.
How about expanding the law such that the police can't lie to ANYONE?
Loyalty can be a merit.

/s
Step in the right direction. Get this passed first, then later we can move to a spot where the government is _never allowed to lie_ to its citizens.
I'm an EU citizen, I would like the EU to be a competitive place in terms of software, however at the moment I have to say that it's a hostile place for software development and software as a service.

They are making too many dumb and potentially dangerous laws, just look at the cookie consent laws that accomplish nothing but erased millions of euros.

They AI laws and aspirations make me not even consider making any software that runs AI in the EU. I don't want to harm people, but it's next to impossible to make the distilled LLM I'm using to not say occasionally dumb shit. Just because an AI is "dangerous" doesn't mean you cannot use it in a place where it poses no real risk.