skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ActivityPub is indeed a W3C standard; it's what connects together what's called the "federated social web" today. (Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, etc etc etc...) I am co-author of the standard. Spritely is a series of subprojects, ultimately building on top of, and extending the capacities of, the federated social web.

But my point was that when beginning work on ActivityPub as a standard, the kinds of comments on here were similarly negative. Of course you're not going to get a universal social network standard! Nobody's been able to do it, it's just out of reach. Might as well give up now.

Of course, now that ActivityPub has succeeded, people take it as a given that it was going to succeed. Criticism instead moves to certain design decisions, and that's fair and warranted. But hindsight makes those things that have been done seem as if they were always going to be done.

But at a time, it looked like ActivityPub itself, the thing we do have, could not possibly succeed, and people told me as such in many places, especially on here. Nobody questions that it happened now of course. So now I am proposing a multitude of layers in which we can make things better.

But it hasn't happened yet, and so of course the response is going to be, once again, that of course it's not possible...

So, Spritely isn't just an end-user thing because it's multiple layers, though a few of them are end-user layers (it's more of a laboratory for advancing the federated social web). It's true that it isn't a web standard itself, even though it aims to enhance the ecosystem that uses that web standard. But the point is: it's really demoralizing to get these kinds of comments, but they're the most common kinds of comments one gets on HN. Sometimes I did think about giving up on ActivityPub standardization. Ultimately I'm glad now that I didn't. So I think we can do cool and interesting things here with Spritely, and my lesson from the past is to not give up now either.
That's nice to have, but maybe not a central goal. It's worthwhile to have a library that's designed with Rust in mind and can take advantage of its features and idioms, even if it uses non-Rust libraries somewhere under the hood.

From the article:

> One strength is Rust’s wide “dynamic range” – the ability to describe application logic in high level terms while still being attentive to low level details.
For lazier or less technically inclined people: https://NextDNS.io.

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Some commands are compatible with bash, but not compatible with zsh. I do the same thing when using zsh.
The idea of the new policy of introducing public exams for the 5th and 8th grade is to discourage students to go to school. Once the govt school has the exams they are forced to fail few percentage of the students and very likely they will discontinue the school. This is the reason in the past till 9th students were promoted in tamilnadu which has the highest college goers because the students who were not performing in the mid school got a chance later.

The important question is what is driving this educational policy. Its the belief of the vedas that for a society to function well not everyone should have the same opportunity and access to education. Everyone has duty based on the family they were born and should not be allowed to change.
20, 50, and 100 years too seem like a reasonable point of comparison.

One simple approach is hand people old objective tests for subjects like math under the original rules. If people where simply becoming more competent in all areas then average scores should be higher today, but that’s not what happens.

Measuring complexity more specifically is probably easiest done by using equivalent jobs and compare how long each take to achieve competence. McDonald’s cooks take less time to train now vs the 1970’s, but I am not sure how that compares across industries.
Still quite a straightforward and elegant solution, but I'm curious what the performance is like these days compared to alternatives. The better the JIT gets, the more allocation (of the many intermediate strings, and the thrown-away string) would seem to matter.
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You guys should check out rg3d https://github.com/mrDIMAS/rg3d it's a relatively advanced 3d engine with a ui toolkit https://github.com/mrDIMAS/rg3d-ui and a scene editor https://github.com/mrDIMAS/rusty-editor

Join the discord channel https://discord.gg/xENF5Uh
Getting higher is no easy feat, especially given the energy density of the current state of the art batteries.
oh god, I just broke my last xperia compact that stayed with me for years(x compact) and it's impossible to find something small again, not even getting into android updates and a cleanish android experience.

well. I'm a nokia 5.3 owner now. It's big, but ticks all the other boxes & is cheap...
How is logflare relevant for analytics?
> Also, "social cooling" is an absolutely terrible name for the situation described in the linked site.

Agreed.

I thought it was going to be about "evaporative cooling", how bad behaviour drives thoughtful people out of a group, producing a feedback cycle where bad behaviour is further amplified.

Which is tangentially related to the topic of the link, but different enough to be actively misleading. Unfortunate.
those aren't deliberate insults, i'm describing exactly the type of people i encounter on a daily basis.
How Signal Became the Private Messaging App for an Age of Fear and Distrust
It seems that Radeon VII and Titan V are the last cards with decent fp64 performance for foreseeable future. Both Nvidia and AMD now basically have different architectures for their consumer and data-center products.
> as people who have been deeply harmed by the systems

Most of the people attacking other people online haven't been deeply harmed by anything at all. They're just parroting what they hear in their online echo chambers. The signal to noise ratio in the discussion of issues that really do affect people is moving to mostly noise. Most of the time it's mountains from molehills, just to virtue signal for attention. Nothing constructive is coming from it. In fact, I'd say it's dividing people more than ever.
Why do we meet?
To avoid going on a picnic and while unpacking the food
someone asking: "Ok, who brought the salt?" and everybody
getting a blank look.
That its easily achieved today with online tools.
Then why we keep having meetings?
To avoid going on a picnic and while unpacking the food
find out that some people went to McDonalds because they
feel that the food and the whole idea of preparing your
food sucks.
It's group therapy.
It might help, or get on the way of getting things done.
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."
Was just going to comment on how using palm oil seems like a very stupid idea for that particular company - given their particular target audience and non-budget price point - but it seems like they don't use palm oil after all.

https://www.beyondmeat.com/about/our-ingredients/

> OUR FATS: Cocoa Butter • Coconut Oil • Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil
I have a Jabra and I love it, but in a crowded house with meetings and remote learning going on, it's not usually an option. A USB headset with directional microphone works well for me.
Yeah, I think we are on opposite sides here, friend. You have a view that slave labour is something that permits boycotts but there are things that do not. Now, I agree on that myself. But I don't presume to claim that there is a universal list of acceptable things and a universal list of unacceptable things. So to permit the places where I am wrong I have to let other people choose different lists. And that's why I need to let you ask my employer to fire me because I don't like spaghetti. My employer will say no and we will lose you. But that is freedom.

> Something which leads to big loss for those who is attacked (ruined career, ruined personal life, loss of money, loss of business).

Yeah, definitely on opposite sides. It's not my responsibility to keep your business alive. If I tell people things and they decide they don't want your product, then that's life. Information wants to be free. I'm not going to go ask anyone to suppress that Facebook targets ads because that causes loss of business to Facebook. That is totally insufficient.
My guess is it’s going to be $999
I mean, this plane is a sprinter. If you want range, use sailplane techniques and with similar chemistry as for terrestrial lithium ion you can get >1000km range with multiple passengers and speed just as high as high speed rail (or higher). Eviation Alice and other concepts show how this could be done. Just a matter of time and a LOT of effort.

Battery EV trucks (lots of prototypes and maybe even low volume production going on, from Tesla to Daimler) regularly get multiple hundred kilometers of range and 1000km isn’t at all unreasonable although 500 miles is probably the sweet spot in the near term to avoid reducing available payload (any greater range has diminishing returns due to regulatory requirements for rest stops). And that’s without advanced chemistries that you can get now at low volumes like metal anode or lithium-sulfur which double the specific energy and allow double the range (to say nothing of lithium-air, which is easily over a decade away from practical use but would eliminate the disparity in useful specific energy between battery-electric and hydrocarbon combustion in almost all cases—rocketry and munitions being the major exception).

EDIT: Daimler has delivered some 300-400km range electric Freightliner semis for customer testing already: https://electrek.co/2020/03/04/daimler-electric-freightliner...
Telecom: Japan's NTT to spend $38B to buy out, take DoCoMo private
ML is from almost exactly the same time period as SmallTalk and it's work creating GUIs.
I can see how you see other people being responsible for your moods. And how that makes you feel justified in attacking strangers online.

The best day of my life was when I started taking responsibility for my own state of mind. I'll invite you to try it, for me it works really well in improving my life.

I also invite you to join the EFF and EPIC to see if we can improve privacy legislation. I particularly like the work of EPIC.

Again I wish you the best, truly.
I want to emphasize this beyond upvoting.

Superconductors are like magic, but they aren't actually magic. They have limits.
I’ve heard this story too
when growing up. I belong to one of the last generations born in the German Democratic Republic. A quite prominent element of our History and German lessons in the 2000s was critical reading of historic news and caricatures, we did these analyses in exams up to A-levels. Propaganda was a big topic, not only when learning about the Third Reich. One reason certainly was that all our teachers spent most of their lives in the GDR system.

I’ve been wondering whether teachers who grew up on the other side of the curtain put a similar emphasis on the topic of propaganda, especially after social media uncovered lots of gullibility in the general public and a for me very difficult-to-understand trust in anything as long as it is written down somewhere, often not even looking at the source. Political effects of eastern german brain drain aside, one important difference between people in the former western and eastern parts of Germany up until today is how much they trust media and institutions like the church.
Sure it's powerful and a lot of them are easy. But there's a lot of indecipherable regexes in the wild. I guess you need to learn them anyway, but I'm very strict about using them in production
No. Obviously people who use them for gaming can play for thousands of hours at 100% utilization and they will last for many years on average.
I imagine that by saying "plant-based meat alternatives" they don't mean beans.
I eat vegetarian myself, and while on one side I'm happy there are more plant-based alternatives available, it does make me quite uncomfortable that many of these are hyper-processed industrial foods.

Food being plant-based or natural does not automatically make it more healthy.
For a while I was still using my laptop's mic. Now I do have a separate microphone as well.

I don't use a headset mic. My experience is that those rarely sound good and tend to end up with even more breathing and mouth noises and stuff than even a computer's built in mic.

I have a Blue Yeti that work got me. I've asked other people on video chats and they say the mic is a big improvement over my laptop's. I think that particular mic is a little bulky and ostentatious but it seems to get the job done.
Based on the article, I believe the author would say that Square is an idea that requires scale, since you "lost money on literally every transaction, but as the number of transactions increased..."

I might be misunderstanding something, but it seems that Square becoming profitable required reaching a certain scale.
Too much of anything is bad (in context). That is why too much input (ie taking everyone’s opinion) on a complex issue is just asking for paralysis by analysis. That is why there are multiple streams of higher learning and as a society the government employs the graduates of each stream as policy makers because they are supposed to be specialists in their field who can weigh in all pros and cons and understand the consequences to the extent possible , but better than the non specialists. This worked very well when information and opinions from everywhere and everything was not broadcasted at the speed that happens today. What I foresee is that if we continue to keep generating these gazillions of data points every second all the time then soon AI’s will be needed to do the analysis for us and complement or help human policy makers to make the right decisions. We already see this with things like sentiment analysis. Welcome to the singularity .. I for once can’t wait to have our constantly bickering politicians replaced with AI agents whose sole job is to work for the people and who can be overidden by executive authority only as a last resort.
I would have come up with something like this:

Object.entries(Array.from(new URLSearchParams("foo=1&foo=2&foo=3&blah=a&blah=b").entries()).reduce((a,[k,v]) => ({ ...a, [k]: [...a[k] ?? [], v] }), {})).map(([key, values]) => `${key}=${values.join(",")}`).join("&");
> Instead, they ask the NGO(s) to prove that they are not involved.

WARNING: I'm applying western principles to India, which may not be correct.

To the best of my understanding, signing an affidavit affirming that you're not engaged in an activity does not come with a burden of proof, but it does come with the penalty of perjury.

Think of it like a warrant canary. If you haven't been served a warrant, you can state you haven't been served a warrant. If you have been served a warrant, you either have to lie, or say nothing at all.
Also a similar website to raise privacy awareness https://theytrackyou.com
I immediately closed the tab. What year is it? 1999?
I have the Logitech C920 webcam the post mentions. The white balance truly is all over the place, especially if you don't have great lightning setup.

I ended up adjusting the image manually with v4l2-ctl (see for example http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/v4l2-ctl.1.h...) I also pointed my warm white light desk lamp towards the wall behind my desk and bounce a bit of light back on my face off the wall.
If I remember right, the intermediate string version was already a reflection of the shifting interpreter landscape. I distinctly remember learning to always prefer Array#join for these kinds of things in 2006 or so for the same reason cited in the post.

Of course, that could have been based on a misunderstanding on the part of the person talking with me, though I would guess it matters how many intermediates (or array elements) you're talking about.

Sort of a miracle that you mostly don't need to worry about this stuff today, even running on a $100 mobile device.
Yeah that was sad.

The people designing Google Groups were clearly on a mission to fix social media. Their bosses had a different mission: to force all Google services into a single account, unified around some "Facebook killer" that was just going to magically work because, y'know, it's Google.

These differing goals came to a head with the "true names" debacle, which Groups never recovered from. But Google did get its One True Account out of it, which is all they really wanted.
2x 20gb 3080 for $1000 each is more cost effective than 2x 3090 for $1500 each, if your model fits into 20 gb.
ApacheCon –, great talks, lots of devs, and a Bug Bash by MuseDev
You're essentially right you know. I could also walk instead of take the car out of habit and convenience, just like in the old days.
My position does not change when we make the change you recommend. I still think every one of those things is permissible and must be permissible. I weigh liberty very highly indeed.

If it helps, let's even say Person A says "I like gay people and minorities. They should be treated just as well as heterosexual people and majorities." and then retain the rest mutatis mutandis. My position does not change.
I did a Google search and found multiple sources that support "The federal government fully guarantees almost all student loans." One example: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08121...

Seems like you're talking about government subsidies. I was talking about government loan guarantees.
Are you on CodeMentor? Sounds like you should be!
I think it's ideal content for HN. Programming languages have always been a big deal here, since the day HN was created.
The title talks about recycling, but it sounds more like the enzyme is breaking down plastics. Does something useful come out of this?
> Q3: Can I remove these suggestions?

> A3: No, the suggestions cannot be removed.

I keep hoping someone will file a class action over this. These dumbfuck ads just appeared one day on my Bravia X900E, about a year after purchase. I didn't opt in to this and I wouldn't have bought the damn thing if this "feature" existed at the time. Sign me up for the class!
Hi, cool idea. I'm curious, what's your monetization plan?
Well, not in the last 20 years, but how about the last 80? From the wikipedia article on milk floats in the UK:

> In 1937 they produced a ride-on four wheeled vehicle, suitable for a payload of 8–10 cwt (410–510 kg) and with a range of around 35 miles (56 km)
I'm well aware, what's your point.
On the other hand, if your car’s software has such a bug, should you trust it enough to want to drive it?

There likely also is software between the steering wheel and the wheels, between the brake pedal and the brakes, and that software likely is written and tested by the same team.
> - It's as annoyingly verbose as Java is

I reviewed an XML-based international industry 'standard' that allowed both verbose and terse versions of the same tags. Example files I saw tended to use the terse ones for common tags and the verbose ones for rare ones.
Interesting. It makes some sense to me that more would be extracted either from the smallest, weakest businesses, or from the largest ones able to hide it. Would love to know more.
>Forgive my ignorance of Rust, but GUI toolkits are probably the strongest candidate for OOP style development

That's so 1991. We're on to GUI's as pure functions of state these days, get on with the program :-)
Things sure have changed in the last 12 years! The only method you're using that existed back then is join. Wild.
>and yet there still isn't a viable competitor to Cloudflare.

Cloudflare isn’t even a viable cloudflare. They lost 100 million dollars last year.
Just use match instead? Why use replace and hack into an array?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Node.js – v14.13.0
> The richest people in the US are whites (e.g. Besos, Gates, Buffet), but not suprematists.

And what of the Kochs and Waltons?

Either way, you're only thinking about the 0.01%. But consider the many many more people in the 1%. Big fish in small pond types that are part of the Old Boy's Club in your local area. People that wouldn't call themselves white supremacists or even racist, but also wouldn't really want Black folks joining their country club.

If you don't think deep-seated racism is profoundly prevalent across large areas of the US, you are probably just in the position of having enough privilege to be oblivious to it. I grew up in the South, and it is everywhere. You just have to scratch the surface a bit to see it.
Take the essence of the question asked, or the non-working sample code given, take your response on the forum post, verbatim, and post that on your blog. Your blog is a marketing vehicle, you aren't necessarily doing it to rank high in google or get lots of traffic for ads. You're doing it so you have a single source of content you can direct someone towards and also identify yourself as a source of knowledge and expertise.

It is precisely what I have done in the past.
How about we wait and see what the facts are? Considering the follow-ups to the identical story two weeks ago, I would put a lot of money on "this is completely made up". Also keep in mind this is the NYT, hours before the debate. And by the way 100% politics.
Immediate mode makes accessibility difficult, in my experience. That's certainly something worth considering.
What do you think about TF32 in 3090? Could it replace FP32 with 5x speedup?
Unless they charged it at every stop, that's a 16 km drive between charges, not 2km. 112kWh is enough to run the 138kW motor for 48 minutes full-out. At 25mph, that's 32km, so driving without stops cannot be less than a 32km range, and is probably significantly more (trucks run closer to to full power while cruising than cars, but still not 100%).
Musk has said Starlink wouldn't have the capacity to serve cities. It's targeted for sparse, rural areas. I really wonder if this will raise enough cash for a mission to Mars.
A “Glass-Steagall for the Internet” Makes No Sense
As we provide platforms to everyone to broadcast their opinions on everything , what I foresee is that if we continue to keep generating these gazillions of data points every second all the time then soon AI’s will be needed to do the analysis for us and complement or help human policy makers to make the right decisions. We already see this with things like sentiment analysis. Welcome to the singularity .. I for once can’t wait to have our constantly bickering politicians replaced with AI agents whose sole job is to work for the people and who can be overidden by executive authority only as a last resort.
If you read the article he makes a point about not using intermediate arrays and .join()
Well, they've been running the biggest silver operation for a while, including the SLV ETF.