skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting note. I immediately looked at the Martin Hammond entry and raised an eyebrow... didn't realize this was a joke!
It's no different if Twitter, Facebook, etc kicked you off their platform or went down. No more "you" there either.

At least you would have choices of who to trust on Mastodon, or if you trust no one then run your own instance.
Sorry, should have been more clear. I meant easily Accessible at all times. Usually that is all solved by making the menu disappear when you scroll down but appear again when you scroll up. Also fixes all your listed issues.

Making the navigation menu not easily accessible at all times, where I count having to scroll up 3 pages not easily accessible, is a design flaw to me. Note that my first comment also mentioned to _me_, but that may have been missed before the first coffee went in :).
> I think some WP Plugins are in the works.

There's some info here:

https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-06-06-minutes#AS2_impl...

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitystream-extension/#desc...
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company, BHP, comes from Broken Hill, Australia. It is one of the largest mining companies in the world.

Now what is interesting about Broken Hill is I have it on reasonable authority that the area as a whole has had "20 years of remaining reserves" for the last 60 years, because the explorers only bother to go out and 'discover' new parts of the deposit when they get below 15-20 years of reserves.

This is an interesting anecdote to my main point - the cobalt price seems to have jumped like a salmon about 12 months ago, but bringing a new mine online can take about 5 years. Even assuming we don't make this 10 year time frame, who really knows what deposits might have become profitable to mine with even a doubling of the price.

High prices isn't a signal that we have run out, it is a signal that more mines are needed. It is likely the market will heed the signal.
If someone is developing web applications in such a way that they need support from their browser vendor to make them work properly ... they're doing it wrong.
The info 'xyz liked this post' is not distributed as far as I know. It's not cryptographically signed or anything. It's just to be believed based on the reputation of the site the post is on. Or am I missing something?
Yeah, that might be worth it. Do you know how easy it would be to output something like that?
Just curious how small is small ? How many kloc ? How many people ?
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In a federated system you can be your own provider, eliminating the risk of getting shut down.
But is running your own instance worth anything? People use social media mainly to gather followers and likes. So there needs to be a reputation at play provided by the service provider to make sure those are real. Having a gazillion followers and a trillion likes on your own instance will not make you a celebrity.
I feel a huge part of the value of tools like slack, MS Teams, flock, comes from not being cool chat tools but for bringing context into conversation and giving life to information. I've thought deeply about this over the past few years, and I feel it does add value.

I agree with capkutay, these are not problems of a tool, just like you can't help a coworker coming over to you and interrupting your flow, same applies here. I feel we will see more chat etiquette in enterprise and guidelines which will help avoid the tradeoffs. in my experience, the benefits outweigh the tradeoffs.

Disclaimer: I'm helping build flock.com
> within 15 minutes walk

So, a half-hour round trip.
It's also right next to Japan. And the Japanese fishing industry is not exactly known as an exemplar of sustainable practices.
great stuff.
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I wouldn't mind if AP-using projects like Mastodon also let you subscribe to RSS feeds. That way RSS could keep doing what it's good at while AP handles everything else.
> nokia 8110

Bought one yesterday, I have to say that KaiOS is still veeeery immature, so far very far behind series 40/60 nokias. If you can find a Nokia 208 or 515 which are the last they made with 3G+ you might be better off.
That was, indeed, my point.
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> What drives people to use social media is gathering followers and likes.

I don't think that's true for all users, and maybe not even most. I'm not even sure that the people for whom it is true are key to other people's desire to use social media.

OTOH, persistence is key to social media where transssctionality is key to email, so losing a social media handle has a bigger impact on a social media user per se than does losing an email addresses to an email user.
So if I buy a product for $100, that cost a company $200 to produce, I am liable for a $100 taxable benefit? Now I'm _definitely_ staying away from all those Black Friday and BOGO sales.
You only need to pick up the whole `vendor/` thing (you can "vendor" deps by copying it manually if it works for you), get familiar with `dep` probably (as a lot of project use it nowadays by default), and that's basically it.

Nothing that affects usual daily work has changed and that's what I insanely love in Go. Recently I had to pick up and work on project I did back in 2013, and it was so damn cool to see that it just works, compiles and there is almost zero problems with dependencies (the only one I had was due to removal of `code.google.com` and moving projects to github, so it was a matter of renaming import path and introducing vendoring).
I’ve been wondering about this. Instead of topics, why not use hashtags? I know in Slack the hashtags indicate the channel, but they don’t need to. So instead of having set topics, you could just add a tag to messages to indicate the topic.

When a user is forced to make a decision on something like ‘topic’ just to send a quick message, you’re more likely to get randomly assigned, meaningless topics. Random hashtags, on the other hand, are no big deal. Because you have to actively search for the ones you want.

This has been the paradigm since Web 2.0 and it seems to have worked pretty well.
That depends. Generally, sure, but that doesn't mean one cannot lead by example. If not just for the fact that you finally got some rest and finally are not reachable by phone/WhatsApp/e-mail/etc.

We're discussing mostly location tracking here (GPS etc), but we also shouldn't neglect the impact of cameras or mics. Nor the way GPS coordinates are embedded in pictures we ourselves take and we ourselves share on Instagram.

Yesterday on TV there was a talkshow about the decline on Facebook due to privacy reasons (with which they seemingly agreed), and someone went how Instagram was the next hottest thing (owned by the same parent company). I wanted to bash my head...

Right now I'm watching Tour de France and the 24/7 in-ears/mics and cameras make it a vastly different game than how it was before the TV era and during the TV but not yet everyone having ears.
I recently installed Mattermost open source, but will likely move to something else. This is a trial for me, but the lack of google authentication in the free version, and particularly that it is only available on the enterprise version with opaque pricing, which will likely be unaffordable for me at this point, is pretty much a deal breaker.

I understand you need to have different features for the different packages, but I think this is a feature that should be available for smaller businesses. The g suite is affordable for small businesses and startups, and I doubt it is particularly difficult to implement, so I suggest including it at a lower price point.

For me it’s not even worth continuing the trial without it.
In fact I worked with this before.
Its simple but enough to learn alot.
> I know when you say "brother/sister" you're talking in the abstract, but the problem is that intra-familial political divides are increasingly uncommon, I.e. Trump voters are unlikely to even be my third cousin. A recent precinct-by-precinct 2016 election map published by the NYT showed that it's likely I'd have to drive up to 30 miles to find a precinct that swung the other way, so they're not my neighbor either.

In the vast majority of districts, even in California, Trump scored ~32% on average. That means, minimum he scored ~13% (ie. 1 in 8 voters), average 32%, and up to 80%.

The above statement is bullshit. In your immediate environment, at the very least 13% of people voted for Trump, and very likely more. The odds that you don't know, have as a neighbor, or are family to one of them, seem very remote indeed.

That anyone in California (who would like to remain there) lies about their political preference ... seems a much, MUCH more likely explanation.

So, the real situation (again, with overwhelming likelihood), is

1) If you take the 8 houses around yours, one voted for Trump, absolute minimum. More likely 3 (in California, which would be the minimum). Out of your family, 1 in 8 voted for Trump, minimum (given that it will be skewed to the older ones, lets say, one of your parents, two of your grandparents seems a good guess).

2) These people clearly feel that you would react unreasonably if you found out, and that's why you don't know. Given how you describe Trump voters, I can certainly see why they feel this way.

But of course, I get that it's very comforting for you to think like this, even if it's extremely unlikely to be true. By the way, wasn't the whole point of Democrat values that people can have whatever political views they want, and you should support them regardless ?
I love slack, and I also love open source alternatives to services I value! It’s not likely we will move off slack any time soon...however I greatly appreciate having innovative options! Looks great, keep it up!
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Indeed. A few years back SF passed a law that the landlord had to pay the difference between the current rent and market rent (on a new place) for two years.

That could easily be $50-60k or more.

Thankfully the courts struck that law down.
I’ll add my own voice: I’ve been pretty happy with Mattermost (for both business & personal uses). It’s a bit tricky to set up initially, but once it’s set up it Just Works™ — and that’s the most important thing for a piece of software in my opinion.

It seems to get better every few months, which is nice. Doesn’t feel like it’s sitting on its laurels.
these tips are way too focused on a strategy that has content marketing as a foundation. unless you actually create content regularly, there are only 2 tips that are actionable.
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Works are from Animal kingdom. So yeah, the oldest living animal in that way. Oldest bacteria is over half a million years old.
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The phone specs list A-GPS but it is not clear if you can actually use it without getting an app off a store that doesn't seem to exist yet.
One of the more interesting aspects of modern global warfare is the fact that, should the world decide to stage another world war, pretty much everyone is going to run out of a lot of these strategic resources within a few months to years. This, plus the fact that nuclear warfare is going to be extremely limited due to lack of available weapons, and the virtual impossibility of invading a country you don't share a land border with, puts a very hard limit on the amount of aggression any one nation can muster up. Even the mighty US military is a paper tiger after a few steady months of all-out combat.
We need simple implementations examples for ActivityPub. For example, a how to add ActivityPub to static websites would be a good start.
This was interesting. Anyone here who has the experience and / or qualification to speak about ZMA and the possible side-effects if any (except the dreams as mentioned).

I am intrigued by consumption of ZMA and affect on sleep.
To be distributed it doesn't need to be cryptographically signed.
Setting the record straight on shadow banning
You can syndicate static websites with ActivityPub, pretty much the same way as you do with RSS, except you're generating JSON-LD (ugh) rather than XML (ugh). I've seen a proof-by-example, but I don't have the URL where I can easily find it. The downside is that Mastodon, the most used AP server, doesn't provide a way of subscribing to a static AP feed (it might work if you also had a simple webfinger script to point to it).

I actually like the 'eliminate all the styling' feature of RSS. It's kind of a pleasure to read blog posts and news articles in my mobile feed reader (tt-rss for android).
I use sometimes an old Samsung Galaxy S Wifi personally, it's technically Android but it's more like an iPod than a smartphone.
Depends if APT is say FSB or MSS Slack is very attractive target. But in general you are prob. right.
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Good. Can you please point me at working implementation examples?
Also, he lied to Mr. Rogers which seems like it deserved more introspection than evidenced in the article.
Huh? Pinyin romanization in mainland China is extremely standardized and fixed by your passport anyways? How can these screw it up?

Taiwan and the other Chinese speaking places is where all the weird romanizations come from.
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You have several potential customers here telling you what they expect to see on a landing page when considering your product. If you’re this stubborn about listening to non-customers who are telling you exactly how to get them into your sales funnel, it gives the impression you would care less about their needs and suggestions regarding the product itself once they become customers.

Listen to your ideal customers, then regurgitate it back to them. If screenshots are not enough, how about a video? Discuss the pain points you’re solving, and show how you solve them. Maybe embed a chat session on the page and let me chat with a bot to feel why it’s better, but do something so I take your product seriously.
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Gargron has been writing a few basic tutorials on the Mastodon blog lately: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/categories/guides/
Have you seen the original version of Payback with Lee Marvin? I think the remake is better and you're right about the remake's director's cut, but that cut was interesting nonetheless because it didn't have the monologue to hand hold the viewer.
The grandparents comment is specifically true of employment fringe benefits, and not true of sales to the general public, though meals may be excluded if they meet the rest of being provided for the emplkyer’s convenience.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-fringe-benefits...

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15b.pdf
This is supposing that we want big cars with big batteries, In the cities the mobility is moving toward small personal vehicles, and if you have bigger commuter needs, I hope that in the future the highways can be electrified and the cars would only need the battery to get from the highway to your home.

There are not enough minerals to make batteries to replace all the current cars with their current autonomy, but a change of transport paradigm could be feasible.
I mean, even just being able to see the message I'm reply to makes a smartphone worth it to me.
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Chinese names aren’t that useful in China for official business. They are useful for non-English speaking in-laws.

I rarely used mine while living in Beijing for 10 years.
The headline is made to sound like: "Oh no, we are running out of cobalt!"

Yeah, not really. Just like with "oil reserves", there's a common misconception that we'll "run out" when they are depleted. However, "reserves" are just those resources that can be extracted economically at today's prices. When demand increases, prices rise and reserves "magically" increase.

That's exactly what will happen here. "Rare-earth materials" aren't actually rare in the sense that precious metals are rare. They're just uncommon compared to other minerals. If prices rise, eventually China will decide to increase exports and other countries that aren't literally warzones (like the DRC) will chime in.

So, we have ten years until those batteries will become somewhat more expensive, making research into alternatives more promising. There is no urgency here.

Then of course there's the questionable idea that electric motors will replace combustion engines because we're "running out of oil", which is why we supposedly need all these batteries in the first place. My bet is that synthetic fuels will become profitable far earlier.
i don’t believe it has to do with position on a dominance hierarchy.

i think it has more to do with dignity.
I can't emphasize this site enough. The Python Challenge has a special place in my heart. I was a bored C# .NET developer. In my downtime I would poke at a challenge. I learned Python through this site; picking up the standard library as the challenges progressed. From my experience with this site I was able to land a Python webdev position.

pythonchallenge.com changed the course of my career and I'm grateful for it.
I used Zulip while at Akamai. At the time, Zulip was a Boston-based start-up and I believe some engineers at Akamai had a connection to engineers at Zulip. It wasn't used throughout the whole company, but it did have a significant user base and was growing.

My experience was so positive that I've continued to evangelize it at other companies since then. The acquisition by Dropbox was definitely disappointing, but the fact that they managed to open source the code and have since started providing a service is very impressive.

The most important feature of Zulip is threading. It doesn't make a big difference for a very small organization, but it is a huge win for larger organizations. Not only does it make it easier to organize information, it allows you to improve the signal to noise ratio by muting specific topics of conversation. I remember being both very excited for Slack's thread implementation and then soon after the release very disappointed. It feels like an after thought and doesn't improve a fundamental problem with Slack, the exponential growth of channels as new users are added. There is a little more upfront learning required to use Zulip, but it is vastly outweighed by the benefits. And don't forget that Slack has a learning curve too, especially for those that aren't as technically savvy (e.g. markdown, Slack commands, bots).
Yes, it's about medium effort if starting from scratch with no background knowledge. Mainly because I'm not sure there's any good existing tooling to convert articles to AS. And it wouldn't be complex to implement, but does require some solid time learning the vocabulary, which is intimidating.
Of all the films that have done this to me, Rogue One's was the biggest betrayal. Jyn's character in the trailers was dark and interesting and the one in the actual film fell so far short of that! Also the line "It's a rebellion isn't it? I rebel" or however she said it, was just so titillating and then we got none of that at all.
> High prices isn't a signal that we have run out, it is a signal that more mines are needed. It is likely the market will heed the signal.

It is a signal that there is a high demand, and not enough supply (whether naturally or artificially -- e.g. diamonds) to meet that demand. That's it.

Building more mines can only happen if the resources exist to mine. This idea that "the market" is a magic wand to wave at problems really needs to stop. As far as "the market" is concerned, the electric car industry could collapse because it failed to innovate past resource shortages.
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Oh god, another Erlich/Simons bet is needed: what's low is the level of rare earth exploration and exploitation not absolute supply. Is there a supply chain problem? Yes. Are we approaching a mad-max hell war for the last vestiges of humanities wonder mineral? Alas.. no.

The ten years meme is based in a false premise. The article even says Australian known sources are only utilised at 14% and yet predicts a long term supply problem without asking what other sources might be discovered.

From the article A lithium-ion car battery with a 100 kg cathode requires 6–12 kg of cobalt and 36–48 kg of nickel so work on 10kg without improvements and same article says at current economic models only 10 exp 8 tonnes economically extractable. So 10 exp 10 batteries. (1000 kg per tonne) 10,000,000,000 batteries. One car for everyone alive... And that's before normal levels of production efficiency, scavenging nice cobalt rich sources like old batteries or even the intent of the article: new sources and new technologies.
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Hmm yes, my interest is that this sort of defender may be hard to identify purely from event driven stats, as stats mostly track actions done (tackles succeeded/attempted, interceptions made). A player such as Maldini wouldn't have shown up on lists sorted for tackles made, although he may have shown up on tackle success % or interceptions (not sure because I can't find a good source of data for his playing stats). Despite this, he has the reputation of being one of the best defenders to play the game. I'm just curious about what sort of metrics could identify a player such as Maldini.
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I was making the comparison between wasm and JS. Web workers is a browser platform feature, not a JavaScript feature. Not all JS runs in a browser.
As one of my favorite comedians once put it: „Analysts are people who tell you what the world will look like in 15 years if nothing changes. Now do you REALLY want to know how long your toenails get if you don‘t cut them?!“

Movement here will come from a number of factors:

- Demand increases, which will:
- open up more mines (nicely summarized in the long commentary in this thread)
- incentivize better extraction technology

- Supply will decrease, which will make Cobalt more expensive, which in turn leads to:
- battery chemistry with way less cobalt needed (already happening)
- better recycling
- technology accessing hidden reserves (oil shale and tar sands anyone?)
- research into complete alternatives like pressured air, hydrogen, redux flow batteries etc.

We‘ll be fine and renewables will win in any case by now.
Awesome. I learned Classical Latin in school. Would I be able to read the Latin of the Gutenberg Bible with moderate effort or is that Latin too different and peculiar?
Yes, there are. The Basecamp founders wrote books about it, Rework and Remote. The reason you don't hear more about them is that heroic work is more glamorous to discuss. It is worth following https://twitter.com/dhh
There were things to read on trains before phones. There were small portable cameras before phones. You could listen to music on your walkman before phones. People carried books, newspapers, sketch books, journals, and music before phones. We even played games before phones - when I was growing up, everybody knew how to play at least a few card games, and there was always a deck of cards to be found.

Life before phones was in many ways totally different than life now. But in others ways, we're still the same people, doing the same things, with newer tools. Everyone can make their own decisions on what tools they want to use, but I'm just not buying the argument that life is better or worse. It is different.
they didn't turn around. This option to have your data shared with pharmaceuticals is opt in in your 23andMe account. I have it on.