skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm thinking that we need something fundamentally different, "locked-open" decentralized... The system should be so built that information relaying happen at discretion of individual users, not of benevolent mega-instance operators, so that the acts will be interpreted in context of local moral, ethical, and legal standards(that I believe to be roughly universal anyway, but sometimes do show conflicts).

In my opinion, as long as there would be hubs of information in the network, like Mastodon instance and its "core" networks, there will be constant asteroid impacts. Therefore the system needs to be able to ingest, sign, share, metricize data without relying on broadcasts from fault- and manipulation-prone tight mesh core structures.

I think abuse and/or legal problems should be able to be handled at edge just fine, with such means as phone-sized ML models, user discretion to share or not, voluntary flagging, reporting, and source blocks, as well as tipping to classical police law enforcement, etc. Ordinary people should be good at spotting and reporting illegal activities anyway.
What is making it, in these cases?

Monopoly? IPO? Exit and leave the bags with someone else?

This is bloody absurd
It's miles better than what we used to have. Imho fedi is exactly where I want to be.

I was active in vbulletin/phpbb/punbb boards for years, and I always wished I could participate in all of them with one user account. That's exactly what I can do now.

I think the marketing of Mastodon is what skews the image of the fediverse. We need to stop marketing as a Twitter, or a Bluesky, and more like individual communities that are able to communicate with each other.

Set more realistic expectations.

The USP is still that it's easy for anyone to run a node, it's still for the people, not for the millionaires with tons of resources.
I work at Clouflare - I'll email you to get some details and make sure we figure this out.
I guess my thing with LinkedIn is that there's just no reason to use the feed. It's still a place to connect with people I've worked with and keep up with what they've been doing. It's incredibly useful for that. I really don't find the feed to be either a boon or a hindrance in that use case. I know it's there, I know it annoys some people, but it's just irrelevant to me.
What do you think the regulatory standard should be set to? It is currently set to 10 ppb (parts per billion).

Do you think it should be 0? 0.0000 ppb? No detectable lead whatsoever? What do you do if detection technology improves and the minimum detectable level decreases?

Even if you go live totally off the grid with your child and grow your own vegetables in your backyard with completely natural ingredients, you will still end up with some level of lead - which is a natural ingredient itself, after all.

At some point, you have to set a threshold and say that any lead below this level is not worth the cost of removing it or avoiding it. Would you pay 10x more for baby food at a 1 ppb level instead of 10 ppb? Do you think that would produce a net benefit for society?
I don’t know why ppl are hating on this

This looks like a deep research type agent, and things like this definitely provides value by saving time

Ask the agent to go over a guests data online, their books/content, and extract truthful and useful info and serve them on a plate for you.

I can see value in this
In India, UPI payments can happen around the clock but NEFT transfers after 8 pm waits till next day. Both handle similar orders of magnitude of money and are free, although UPI is more recent and meant for smartphones. There is also RTGS, which is realtime and costs a 1/17 USD and handles more money.
While that's great, the downside is that if you know there's lead in your house, you are obligated to clean it up, no matter the cost. That's why when old houses are sold or rented, they come with pamphlets warning of lead exposure, unless they are certified free of lead, but few want to pay for that.
Half way through so far, this is fantastic
I don't know why but that video on the homepage (third media item from top) split me up for how rude/brash it came across.

The mans thrusting his palm out in front of the colleague, slapping the top of his alarm clock, the woman's exaggerated third person glance and swift exit.

I can only imagine it's followed by a complaint to HR or gossip, with the man on the laptop quickly becoming a hate-figure in the office.

Surely a polite decline is the exact same thing.
There’s also lead in any random patch of dirt or gravel because it occurs naturally in granite at about 30 parts per million (and usually less in other rock types). https://www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petrology/igrocks-tool...

The “action levels” of lead in food (fruits and vegetables, etc) are 10 parts per BILLION, and stuff less than that is considered acceptable, because otherwise freaking everything would test positive because food grows in dirt which contains minerals from rocks.

Lead has higher allowable levels in things like nuts, again because they are grown in the dirt and have a lot of minerals. I think peanuts and stuff have 100-900ppb lead.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12011-024-044...
But they play those previews automatically... and that's still bandwidth used.
Funny you mention namespacing: R 4.5.0 was just released today with the new `use()` function, which allows you import just what you need instead of clobbering your global namespace, equivalent to python’s `from x import y` syntax.

e.g. avoid dplyr overriding base::filter

use(“dplyr”, c(“mutate”, “summarize”))
Nobody, because they keep each other out of jail.
I feel like this with my (current) bank of choice here in Brazil. They were one of the first to focus on being digital-first and allowed opening an account without going to a branch etc. They grew fast and became one of the largest banks in the country and generally considered pretty solid. I've been banking there for like a decade.

Now they've decided to be what they call a "SuperApp". This goddamn super app has a Twitter-like thing inside of it, shopping, and literally dozens of other products. Some core banking features are now hard to find but more importantly I had quite a few issues with investments as well. People who work there also tell me about messy problems on the financial services bits. It's very clear to me that in trying to become everything, they've deprioritized the fundamental products they offer, which are those related to banking. I want to store money, send and receive it, invest it, and have access to credit. But the experience of using those features has become significantly worse as new verticals sprouted up.
How Did Silicon Valley Break Bad?
It had to do with conflict of interest.
Granite has lead at levels of 30,000ppb, fwiw. Lead is a naturally occurring mineral. the only way to fully eliminate lead would be to live in a fully synthetic environment, everything grown hydroponically, etc. https://www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petrology/igrocks-tool...
Your flower pics would be an interesting application for advanced liquid lenses; something where the lens shape could be distorted to keep all of the subject in perfect focus.
The whole thing is over-engineered, could have been a few lines of HTML. They just made it harder to use and navigate, unfortunately.
Are you jealous or mad that they didn't do more for you? Neither is a good look really. What have you done for me lately?
> Chromium-based browsers don't understand it yet and try to search for mything.internal instead, which is annoying

That's hardly the only example of annoying MONOBAR behavior.

This problem could have been avoided if we had different widgets for doing different things. Someone should have thought of that.
Doesn’t matter what you want anymore. You are not the client, but the product. They are the ones getting faster horses.
"properly working lambda expressions were available only in lisp until recently."
For yourself? Or your Company? That is big difference.
Would you go and dig rocks out of a mountain and refine them into pure ore just because?

We are social animals. Art is storytelling. It has many utilities, but it is primarily education and entertainment.

A modern version of the cave painting is to distill complex and uncomfortable truths about the world for those who wish to thrive in a society built on lies.

If you want to go dig shiny rocks from the mountain at great personal risk to your mental and physical health for no benefit to society you are probably sick. If it heals you, that's its utility.

But if you find you're good at it and you want to use this skill for its intended purpose, you aught to be getting paid for it.

*Your mileage may vary. Just my take.
He's not saying americans couldn't learn to do it. He's saying there aren't many people in the US to hire who already know how to do it.
You need a very big cluster for it to be worth it though for non-backup use-cases when using HDDs.
The author of the referenced post is one of them, though.
Unless you use German space magic: https://www.klippel.de/products/rd-system/modules/nfs-near-f...
> How would you restrict the existence of unicorns?

Enact and enforce anti trust laws.
https://archive.ph/ulsm2
In my mind, there's only two acceptable uses of lead: radiation (x-ray, gamma ray) shielding, and ICE batteries. Even then, I expect there's much increased demand for those things (and thus, the lead to manufacture them) from 50 years ago.
Violence is such a nebulous concept, though. There are forms of violence that aren't physical, even though the law typically only recognise those. Is publicly mocking people for having a different culture violence? Is calling for harm upon them? Is, through policy, causing harm to them violence? Is it violence if it's through willful inaction?

I think all the above are, although the trade-off line is somewhere above mockery.
"If you haven’t heard from us in two months about an application, we likely proceeded with other candidates for that particular role."

Mediocre big corp vibes :-D

Nevertheless there is also some good stuff in it (trying to cramp all interviews into one day), and it is nice that they are so transparent about their processes.
It's kind of amazing the markup and also their listed BOM costs when if a no-name Chinese company made a phone with this level of specs and put it on Amazon it would be like $100.
GeoDeep's AI Detection on Maxar's Satellite Imagery
It doesn't have to be wrong to be irrelevant.

Many things can be viewed as coordination problems. All of life can be viewed as being about coordination between tasks.

But I want to engage in good faith and assume you have some way of making this productive. What angle are you going for?
Microsoft might slash jobs, targeting non-coder managers to boost coder ratios
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/20250409230019/https://www.businessinside...
What this is describing is not what the Ford quote is talking about. Netflix and all the rest didn't TikTokify because they were trying to create some massive visionary innovation, but the opposite.

They did it because it's more profitable to shovel slop than to distribute quality. Quality content is expensive to make. Slop isn't. The way you do that is by hypnotizing people with addiction. To do that you have to have control over what people see and use algorithms to optimize that to "maximize engagement." You need your users mindlessly scrolling, not searching and categorizing and exploring. You need to disengage the neocortex and engage the brain stem.

TikTok is being copied by everyone because they nailed this formula better than anyone. They didn't invent it, just perfected it. I'd say Meta/Facebook invented it, which is why Zuckerberg should be known as the man who destroyed the Internet.

The next step beyond TikTok is a 100% AI generated algorithmic feed. Drop the human creators entirely. Everyone gets a personalized feed of low-quality AI slop tuned for maximum engagement.

Addiction is the best business model.
They can not game on it (yet). That was the point of this post. Having a 2 in 1 device. For gaming and on demand ai.
Could a five year old do it in XML (SVG)? Could an artist? In one shot?
Common Lisp has compilers that produce fast code.
Strong agree.

I've also seen it a lot: sales person at a small tech startup convinces business person in large tech company to ignore their own engineers. I suspect most engineers at large firms have been on one side of this experience at somepoint, and most engineers at small but successful tech startups have been on the other side (lead engineer to sales: "You told them our our product could do _what?!_ That's fine. I never wanted my PTO anyway...:(")
Netflix was changing a lot to drain more money out of users recently, which is why income rose recently. What I'd like to see is active / recurring users instead.
Hold the phone, since when is a "clock tattoo" a gang symbol?

>"Jump Man Symbol"

You mean Nike's Air Jordan symbol? Since when is that a gang symbol? Is this for real or is DHS just fucking with people based on movies they watched?

At this rate they will start arresting people with black hoodies as that's the symbol of computer hackers.
Many of us do not have what we need. Many people are truly suffering. Starving. Nowhere to sleep safely. Persecuted for nonsense reasons. And it's because parasites rule the world, get a free ride on our backs. Almost every problem in the world stems from this one bad thing.
Show HN: A Twitter bot that writes a haiku a day about U.S. news
I built a Twitter bot yesterday that reads the news and posts a haiku every morning. There's no business model, but I had a good laugh about it. Maybe someone here will appreciate it too.
Interesting. I have been working on a service in an adjacent space, that I hope is innovative enough, but not ready yet for prime time.

I would love to exchange with you about it ( even if it's just a few short emails ) and show it to you when it's ready.

Is there anyway to reach you? I'll leave my email on my profile for a few days too !
Outdated I'd rather say :) I documented here https://100go.co/#not-being-careful-with-goroutines-and-loop... but you're right, it was fixed (alongside 2 other mistakes in the 100).
It's perfectly good and idiomatic English, but it's an ambiguous formation and your suggested edit does clarify it.
If you wish to do some of your own tests, vs using a service, swab test kits have a reputation for being very poor quality and unreliable. This led this gal to start a kind of one-woman crusade on the topic:

https://tamararubin.com/2023/01/dont-panic-these-lead-test-k...

She recommends the american brand Scitus for swab test kits.
Correct. I had the issue that I developed a windows native Software but wanted to use my linux Tools.
There's also OpenTrainTimes for mainline UK trains. E.g. https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/wat#T_WATRLMN for London Waterloo
Related: enshittification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Then, how could a business identify its (or market's) trend-setters, enthusiasts, or whatever we call them, which will push towards something new? I see this as essential for either making the business better, shinier, or to avoid losing users.
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The root problem seems to be monopoly and fragmentation.

When Ford was working on a car, people who wanted a faster horse could go to the horse store. There were reasonable alternatives to Ford's new method of transportation.

But here, you can't recreate Spotify from 2015. You'll never get the rights to play the music for users. Same with Netflix, you'll never get the rights to show the movies.

Same thing with Twitter, Facebook, etc. Even if you know exactly what content your user wants, you can't fetch it for them because it was posted in some other walled garden, and that wall stops you from competing.

If you want a faster horse, change the laws so that people can build faster horses and compete.
I suspect the margin differential is more demand/volume driven if for example they think ~90% of the volume will be for the cheaper device than there has to be much higher margins on the US phone to cover the associated investment/overhead
I use it daily, even started planning trips, explaining stuff, coding. Easily the best ai out there, then claude and then deepseek.
Other systems don't offer the performance that Colossus offers, is why. POSIX has all kinds of silly features that aren't really necessary for every use case. Throwing away things like atomic writes by multiple writers allows the whole system to just go faster.
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Worth noting, for those unfamiliar:

Similar to a real-world prison, an "inescapable" FreeBSD jail may be easy to break out of, if you have help from the guards & staff. In particular, `man jail` warns against an easy route for a jailed root user to, with a quick assist from a low-privilege user on the host system, gain root on the host. So if the security is lax within one of your jails, because "it's all locked in a jail, they can't do much" - yeah.
That’s because WeChat has really taken off in China. So there are companies in different markets trying to replicate that. And, well, from business perspective it does make sense. If you manage to pull it off, the reward is massive.
That's a different question to "why can't we have that"
They might, if their expectations are as simple as an on ramp to better or more stable things. It would also make sense for those who are using this method for career change.

I have a coworker who "couldn't hack it" as a paralegal and is now working in the line for server assembly. Or another coworker who came from a major daytrading firm to work quality control with me.
Yeah, Theranos would have been hailed as a genius founder move if they managed to make the things work. But since it didn't make money she got put in prison.
Yup I have realized that too, it's just two faces of the same coin. I have also found out that what I really WANT to do is usually not something I'm good at.

For example I consider myself good at being a middle man between backend and analyst (I work as a data engineer in between) because none has the time and interest to communicate with each other -- so I usually took up the initiative and clear up things. I also work in small companies where people are expected to wear multiple hats, so no one gets their toes stepped on. But oh how I HATE that part of the job. How I want to get into some low level programming which is further from the "stakeholders" and the scope is larger than two weeks! Then I did a bit of low level projects and found myself not really good at what I want to do -- at least not good enough to even think about applying for such a job where everyone has done projects left and right when they were in schools. The mental doesn't help either. I might be able to be more productive if I don't need to work or/and don't have a family, but I can get rid of none.
Hell, small in this context can be Snowflake or Databricks, this is the concept of Shadow IT - a slick sales call can convince and move things in a business that an army of engineers will struggle to convince their bosses of.

External sales person says "oh you've been struggling with that for YEARS?!!?!?! We can get that done in 90 days if you can get that group of people on board" (3 years passes, everyone involved doesn't work there anymore, the project is a mess)

External sales person says "oh you've been struggling with that for YEARS?!!?!?! We can get that done in 90 days if you can get that group of people on board" (3 years passes, everyone involved doesn't work there anymore, the project is a mess)

You get the idea.
I can imagine the systems were rickety that it was more convenient to have routine maintenance hours. Routine in the sense of "We just need to wait until tonight to fix the problem", rather than "We need to fix this, we have to apply for a maintenance period, wait for it to be announced to the customers, etc, etc."

Since it's Germany it'd have to go through to many departments and take at least a week to be approved.
Purism also markups their mini PC by a lot. Bunch of scammers IMO. Source: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Top-mini-pc-i7-10...
One upside: by degrading the experience¹ Netflix did make it a lot easier to simply stop your subscription and hop over to another streaming service for a few months.

A very interesting development: in the Netherlands KPN, one of the largest telcos, introduced a feature where any household with several of their products in use (e.g., two cellphones and fiber internet) could choose a free 'gift'². The gift is a choice from a bunch of subscriptions, including Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max. And you get to switch monthly if you want to. So we ditched our own Netflix subscription and started watching Disney+ for now. Perhaps we'll switch in a few months.

These services probably realise that their customers are made up of 'hoppers', and 'stackers' (people who take out multiple subscriptions to streaming services at once). I wonder what the distribution for each service is.

1: In part forced upon them by the content owners waking up and wanting to set up their own exclusive shops of course, and in part because of, well, greed (the UI suckiness).

2: The trade-off is obviously that this stimulates consumers to consolidate their telco products with them. In my case this was already so, so for me this is just a small incentive to stay with them (i.e., it saves me €9 a month).
There are people who think it suddenly stopped being bad for your brain? They must be chewing on paint.
When it comes to AWS Cloudformation, I love YAML. Can't think of any other positive use though.
I love the idea of this flake to run Ollama even on Windows, but just pointing people to your _everything_ flake is going to confuse people and make it look harder than it is to run Ollama on Nix.

If you are using a system-controlling Nix (nix-darwin, NixOS…), it’s as easy as `hardware.services.ollama.enable=true` with maybe adding `.acceleration=“cuda”` to force GPU usage or `host=“0.0.0.0”` to allow connections to Ollama that are not local to your system. In a home-manager situation it is even easier: just include `pkgs.ollama` in your `home.packages`, with an `.override{}` for the same options above. That should be it, really.

I will say that if you have a more complex NixOS setup that patches the kernel or can’t lean on cachix for some reason that using the ollama package takes a long time to compile. My setup at home runs on a 3950X Threadripper and when Ollama compiles it uses all the cores at 99% for about 16 minutes.
> if this thing goes that way

IF...

> weird fingers and shit just a year ago, now it's hard to identify AI generated images

It's still easy and it's never been about the fingers. Things like lighting are still way off (on the latest models).

> At some point the single file shit stew will be good enough

At some point we'll be living in Mars too.
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