skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to?

Mastodon is like E-Mail: You chose who hosts your profile. YOu can send messages to people on other servers, but still the server which hosts your account, is your "home server": If it goes down, your account/profile is lost.

Also choosing your Mastodon server is about your personal interests: Mastodon servers have local timelines, which only show posts by users on the same server. These timelines often are topic related. E.g. on metalhead.club you will find more metal music content compared to e.g. mastodon.social.

Mastodon servers / instances group users by interest and still let all Mastodon users communicate with each other.

Btw: I don't consider the terms of use "leftist". They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". Metalhead.club is not political, but the Terms of use try to prevent hate speech.
Except this is a book store pretty much everyone on the internet visits daily. And the books aren't photo copies but small synopses and blurbs.

If you want to go further you get the whole thing on the creators page, which, surprise, is ad-supported or paywalled. Big content creators basically want the ad revenue (which they get, in large, via portals like Google) and a payment from the portals for the service of getting them that ad-revenue.

Previous such legislation in Spain and Germany was a complete disaster. Spain is now without Google News and ad-revenue is down for many content creators. Germany content producers basically caved and gave Google banket permission to list their stuff.

This is a power move originating from the biggest publishers (which will be the only ones potentially profiting). The smaller outlets are actually against it.
Totally Agree. I think everyone should go through a 6-12 month period of not reading newspapers and see how you feel. I did that and I felt much happier, and more knowledgeable (instead reading science,math, literature).

The problem with newspapers (even high brow newspapers) is that they encourage negative emotions (anger, fear, envy), are irritatingly political / full of identity politics or are full of repetitive facts (another uniformed brexit article etc.) or plain old hot air gossip.

Instead of daily newspapers take a long term view and look at the news once every quarter or two from a quality publication such as the Economist/ financial times etc.

Newspapers are bunk
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I can't claim to have used all of the AWS services, but whenever I need something done I check if it's offered in AWS first. SQS,SNS,ECS,ALB/ELBs,SFNs,Lambdas, media encoding pipelines, Aurora RDS, etc... have all made my job easier.
The name didn't sound female to me "Genly Ai"... I know Ai as from Japanese, meaning "love" and I know a girl called that.

The story starts from his first-person perspective, and he talks about how he feels insecure and about his fancy robes.
It certainly helps a lot due to the fact that today you can't be expected to practically sift over all the available information yourself because there's simply too much of it.

If we had a system like this that worked, we could at least leverage it to be able to quantify the coherence of a much larger set of inputs and with many controlled corpora at once.
This to me was actually quite an optimistic story.

It seems to me that Dan is a talented writer who can milk a sob story. In order to get ahead in life -- admissions, sympathy -- he would concoct very elaborate and heart breaking stories.

The reason I find this optimistic is that it worked. People really feel bad for each other, want to help each other, make allowances for each other and trust each other.
Well, from a practical perspective, if you have no operations in or other ties to a country, you are not subject to their laws.

US-centric sites ignoring GDPR compliance would be one such example.
Copyright is theft. It is theft of people's natural right to expression and sharing. We've seen that if you give publishers an inch, they'll take the whole 9 yards and sue you for there not being 20 yards, because their accountants predicted a 30 yard profit. At this point I don't think I can honestly support any kind of copyright law. Some limited author's right law, one that cannot be reassigned, sublicensed, etc. might work, but I have my reservations for that as well.
I was going to mention that it came up just days ago on Unix and Linux StackExchange. (-:

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/497561/5132

The conditionally defined shell function in one of the other answers is a more appealing approach, especially given the native behaviours of some shells with respect to variable expansion. But also given that /bin/true is not necessarily the pathname.

% export BLAH='/bin/true too'
% dash -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
% dash: 1: /bin/true: not found
% sh -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
/bin/true: not found
% ksh -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
ksh: /bin/true: not found
% zsh -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
zsh:1: no such file or directory: /bin/true too
% bash -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
bash: /bin/true: No such file or directory
%
% export BLAH='/usr/bin/true too'
% zsh -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
zsh:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/true too
% bash -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
% ksh -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
% dash -c '$BLAH 1 2 3'
%
That's an ironic conclusion to draw.

You could test your own theory against observations that calculations with real world data are very much a part of economics, but are just not part of this particular course.
We're currently using Mandrill to send outbound emails, although we've had issues with some API calls, all the outbound emails we sent have been delivered.

Certain things like viewing email content look broken on certain emails which doesn't hurt the business, yet...

It's true though that this service is nearing death as hasn't had an update to any of its features since it merge with Mailchimp.

Looking to change service providers soon, as soon as we figure out how to render emails to html before sending. Mandrill has a `render` endpoint which makes this easy. None of the others have this yet.
I don't care about Mandrill (who uses it, anyway), but deeply concerned if I should expect same quality, incident response and attitude to customers from parent company — Mailchimp.
> (arguably like this one)

Your comment shows how conscious you are while skipping "irrelevant" stuff.
'HOW DID a USENET TROLL AND ENCRYPTION GENIUS BECOME a CRIMINAL MASTERMIND?'
Once an unpopular proposal is shot down backers of said proposal back off for a bit. They bring up the idea repackaged some months/years later. They fight the battle again. Eventually, after enough votes the measure will pass. People can only remain vigilant for so long.
Is it a better merge algorithm? Complexity on its own is not a selling point.

And if it is better, then I believe that it should also be possible to implement for Git, as the patch properties of Pijul and Darcs can easily be emulated.
Good question.

I host http://0bin.net/.

I comply to the regular take down notices, but by its very nature, I cannot filter the service since I cannot see what's been pasted.

Would it mean I'll have to move the server outside europe ? Would it mean I'll have to block european IP ?
Bosch or someone like that made a non-destructive version. Unfortunately they were found to be in violation of the SawStop patents so I don't think you can buy it.
The law's not limited to "European websites": If you're making your service available to Europeans, you fall under it.

Of course, the EU can't enforce its laws on you in practice unless you have a local subsidiary (or datacenter, bank accounts, etc)... but it's possible that rightholders may get European ISPs to block offending and non-repentant sites at that level – like ThePirateBay is blocked in countries like Austria and Belgium.
It would be nice if they distinguished between riving knives and blade guards somehow.
And they wonder why the Brits want out of this.
I never listen that this is a law here (Spain) or mandatory. But is what usually people done here.
It's a crime against humanity for a government to ban shrooms.
Right, because it's not relevant to you. You don't care about the underlying infrastructure in terms of security, amazon does that for you.
By operation, do you mean a legal one, a financial one or a technical one ?
Honestly I hate the downvote cabal. I make a new account every time I get the option, because it hurts discussion even when I try to be reserved in is use. It often just amplfies the already echoey nature of this great forum. It also helps me make better comments, as HN ers are always intensely critical of newcomers and low vote score accounts. The opposite is true. I see some popular HNers get worthless character attacks upvoted due to their name alone, while the unpopular opinion, or rather the only expressed opinion, is buried. I would rather hear the occasional screams of the kooks than miss the changing color of the darkening sky in our industry.
> Are there filters between each server?

There _might_ be filters. Mastodon server admins can filter posts from certain foreign servers. For example the metalhead.club administrator chose to filter some instances which spam a lot or post extremist text and /or child pornography.

Often these filters are necessary for legal reasons, e.g. some jananese servers allow sketches of naked children ("loli"), which are considered child pornography in Germany and are therefore illegal in the server's home country.
Thank you. At least I have a list of MPs to vote for in the EP elections.
Once self driving vehicles are the norm, such rules would become default.
How so?

The number of people who perform some kind of activism is way lower than voter turnout. What makes you think there are lots of people who are doing "performative" activism that isn't translating into them voting or otherwise participating in the system?
>Would it mean I'll have to move the server outside europe ?

Perhaps ?

>Would it mean I'll have to block european IP ?

Not really ? They can block you if they want (similar to how DMCA works). That gets into general censorship territory though, for which people are looking into other solutions for far more oppressive regimes than the EU. See signal in Iran, domain fronting etc.

As for currency exchange, this may be the killer app for cryptos ?
>some time after an event

Or before. I learnt more about 21st C USA by reading Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) than anything written since.
This is the sign for a zipper merge in Germany: https://www.swr.de/-/id=22217882/property=gallery/pubVersion... (the text says "zipper merge, no sooner than in 400m"). But we also have the arrow sign you describe, albeit with the same text as the other one: http://www.steine-und-erden.net/se501/reissver.gif. It would be interesting to conduct a study on whether there is a change in behaviour depending on which sign is used.
There are serious critiques of economic theory out there, which tend to say that kind of thing.

But if you compared these notes to the notes for a college level physics course, you would find a similar level of abstraction, idealized models, and absence of real world data. Those things are not in themselves indicators that physicists (or economists) don't care about the real world. In any mature field, there is a body of knowledge and techniques to be learnt. There's a certain formalism to be picked up, rather than just staring at data.

There might be legitimate reasons for dismissing the general approach taken by mainstream economic theory, but what you seem to be saying ("hmmm, my intuition is that this stuff doesn't focus enough on accurately predicting the real world") is not a reasoned critique.
What the article seems to sidestep (as does society-at-large, it seems) isn’t so much the artifice of an experience or its documentation, but the motivations of the people involved.

In other words, we seem to have arrived at a stage where vapidity is not only tolerated or accepted but encouraged, lauded, and rewarded.

Thus an entire economy has been built atop of an “influencer” cargo cult (and too few seem at all concerned about it.)
Thanks for doing something about this. I’ve bookmarked your fork of the project for future use. That ad was obnoxious and completely gratuitous – unlike the more tasteful Digital Ocean logo at the bottom of https://api.publicapis.org/ and the README page for https://github.com/davemachado/public-api In this case, it’s justifiable as it’s clear that Digital Ocean provide hosting for operating the API server.
Big Content is certainly making a strong case that copyright law is incompatible with the internet, and arguably with any kind of freedom of expression.
The "bubble" expression I've only ever encountered used by people from a rightish perspective to complain that other people aren't listening to them and that their perspective isn't the completely dominant one. Whereas people of the opposite view always know what the opposing view is - it gets shouted at them a lot - they just don't agree with it.

Anti-vaxers and flat-earthers might be called "bubbles", but then so is the pro-vax round-world view. After all, if you only ever read round-world media, aren't you closing your mind to alternative facts? /s
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Existing, and signed.

Many preexisting poems and works by poets survive. I think the author was a bit liberal with the phrasing for a better title.
It did, the activists lost.
That's what I was thinking. Who hasn't moved to Mailgun already?
Well if it's better at preventing bad merges, it's better, yes. Pijul might not be the best/optimal implementation of this algorithm, but it's still a step in the right direction (mainly because they optimized the algorithm significantly, reducing its complexity). Like, not all benefits of number theory (e.g. encryption) were discovered on the first day either.
That is a selective view of the free market. For any company under pressure to succeed there are others whose expertise is extracting, rather than producing, value. Failed projects, both private and public, are often run by such companies that are successful in what they do, just not in what they deliver.

I think if there is any comprehensive reason why companies like SpaceX, Tesla or e.g. Amazon are successful is because they are vertically integrated. The limited the amount of activity, and responsibility, not under their own control. These days the government is often prevented from doing this, and large companies often want to cut cost in the short term.

These companies have understood that their is less of an information gap these days, so there is little reason to let others take care of you core activities.
Oftentimes if you have some hairy code, the best option is to use a goto, make a commit or leave a note, and then clean it up later, in a separate commit. It's more bisectable and leaves a more readable diff. I'm pretty sure I've had occasion to jump into the middle of a loop as the point of entry. Duff's device is a case of this.
This doesn't seem to be a for-profit service, so it's outside of the scope of the latest drafts of Article 13 thankfully. As long as you never put ads on it, you're good.
In the UK I had someone almost try to crash into me when continued along a totally empty lane 200 yards before the merge point, while everyone else was queueing in one lane.

So stupid.

I actually think that roadworks people could fix this fairly simply though without requiring people to think. Instead of closing one lane and keeping the other open, close half of each lane - create a new single middle lane, then people won't be able to queue in the "right" lane.

After everyone is in single file you can shift them wherever you want.

Here's what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/rCw4vJ7
" I often see (and do it myself) that someone has let a person in who is trying to pull out of a hard-to-leave business driveway, with no hope of reward"

You're not supposed to do that here (UK) except if you're already in slow moving traffic. You will fail your driving test for doing it. Not only that, but it's overall inefficient and causes traffic jams to form behind you if you slow down.

Like with people who hate zipper merging, sometimes what seems 'polite' isn't what's best for traffic.
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Thank you for posting this. It's always my biggest complaint about Linguistic Relativity... And that so many people believe it simply because it seems like it must be true. Boroditsky (who I associate with the strong push to push it on the public) and her ilk have done a lot of harm, as this does directly impact thinking in terms of things like AAVE, which we've already seen causes transcription errors in court leading to many issues.
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Sounds pretty rubbish for you and their other customers :(

I'm afraid I don't have any answer for you, but I'm guessing quite a few people will be moving to sendgrid[1] - I'm not sure how I'd be able to trust a supplier after this lack of response to an outage.

[1] - https://sendgrid.com/use-cases/transactional-email/
gitin is has a minimalist approach to interact with a git repository. gitin does not use full screen like tig, grv or lazygit. It allows you to explore your commits very quickly. Also, it works with sub commands such as log, status and branch.
"digital" seems to be used in the context of largely automated not-mass-production.
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> What makes you think there are lots of people who are doing "performative" activism that isn't translating into them voting

I don't think that. Activism isn't translating into non-activists voting, hence activism being performative.
Same here (Scotland). I think the tendency to queue and not fill both lanes is out of a misplaced sense of fairness - you can't help but feel very judged if you run right up an empty right-hand lane all the way to a merge point. Because you really are queue jumping, even if it's the collective fault of all the drivers who created the queue in the first place.

It needs public education to get people over this suboptimal behaviour.

On a tangential note, what's up with everyone everywhere saying "my God, drivers in [where I am] are the absolute worst"? They can't all be right.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
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Have you heard of the Murray Gellmann Amnesia Effect? How do you know the source you are reading is trustworthy? I've witnessed the Murray Gellmann effect in my area of specialty which is mathematics. It makes me wonder about articles in areas outside of my specialty.

I recently watched the Netflix documentary on the Fyre Festival. I also watched the one on Hulu. One of the documentaries was produced by a company involved in that whole mess but you wouldn't be able to tell by watching the documentary. Due to consolidation of media it seems to me that it is easier to spin and control a narrative. I don't think any of the popular sources of information are trustworthy.
Poetry is so often cultural, and deals why certain things like rhyme and meter which influences that. It can be translated easily - the hard part is trying to keep all the cultural connotations of a word and the structure of the poem.
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Thank you, I would like to improve the commit experience, I will definitely consider this!
A lot of traffic has no blockage at the front, it's just the compressed bit of a longitudinal wave of cars, which creates a feedback loop of holdups behind it. Having space between cars allows the waves to dissipate more quickly.
I'm appalled to see a GroenLinks politician listed red. He's definitely going to get an email from me. The others too, but I really expect better from GL.

(The other GroenLinks politician is green, so it's likely that the red one simply missed the vote. Still bad of course, but not evil. He needs to show up next time.)
> Participants in the experiment were given a story...The interrogations were done by phone...

Interesting concept, but far from a realistic interrogation environment.
> As long as you never put ads on it, you're good.

Nonprofit doesn't mean it can't make money.
I think you're overstating it. Why do people care so much about scalability issues, anyway? Given that (a) a stateless server plus an SQLite instance is much, much easier to set up than the proprietary, poorly documented mess that is Lambda, (b) that server can easily be horizontally scaled, and the SQLite instance can be swapped out with any other SQL database with some effort, and (c) a single server with SQLite will easily handle up to 100K connections, it doesn't seem like scaling was ever an issue for most websites.
I don't think it does it well. Compare the Russians to someone who does the task regularly in English, say a graphic designer. My guess is the differences will go away when you compare someone who practices it regularly to them.
It seems Netflix solves that by not requiring the USPS to actually deliver those DVDs, they just get them to a hub and Netflix workers fetch them from there (and occasionally simply check them and re-label them for deliver to another customer), but that seems a bit too complex and expensive for regular mail and packages.
Also small scale is where lambda really shines in terms of costs. If you have some api endpoint that gets a hit 100 times per hour and does some execution then this is actually way cheaper then even the cheapest ec2 instance in a production setup with ELB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework_version_history begs to differ.
I completely agree with your second paragraph. It's the same in germany.
It's more the other way around I feel. Language is the mark of culture, not the other way. Ppl who have a certain cultural attitude use language to reflect that.
I'm a native English speaker, I was learning Russian while dating a native Russian speaker. One of the lighthearted arguments we got into was whether a particular towel was green or blue. Color is a really easy-to-illustrate example of linguistic axioms differing across languages.
Why would people downvote this, seriously?

Was it too close to criticism of the EU, why is that even an issue for some people?
We're actually moving to SES as we speak, and the move should be done in a few hours. It's something we had planned, but it just sucks that this is how a paid service gets terminated.
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> Kindness and caring is probably more effective than anything else, no matter what you want to achieve

How so?
I'm going to hazard a guess that the answer to the question in the title is a combination of:

+ she wasn't even well known to specialist academics until the late 60's.

+ the works really aren't very interesting to anyone other than said specialists.

I mean, we're talking about a number of short hymns to obscure temples. Not exactly the Iliad.