skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ The problem most people have with Mastodon is that they "get bored" with it quickly. I've seen it a lot, and it means one thing: the person created their account on the wrong server.”

And this is exactly why I haven’t created an account yet. I went to Mastadon, and saw that I needed to choose a community. There are many communities I may like, and I have no idea how each community behaves until I actually join it. I use Linux and I like FOSS and I am still an oldschool BSD nerd, and I also like regional communities. So which one do I choose? I cannot even explore a server’s users and posts from the community list. And then I created an account in the wrong server, and then what? Can I migrate my account to another server?

Mastadon gives me a bit of the nostalgic feelings of the early internet of the 90s. In The Netherlands we had something called “The Digital City” (de Digitale Stad) which Mastadon reminds me of, combined with the IRC geekiness. But at least with IRC I could join multiple servers and a whole plethora of channels from a single client, so I didn’t have to “commit” to a single server and make the wrong choice.

All in all I want to try Mastadon, but the choices I need to make (and fear of making the wrong choice!) before I can even join and experience it scares me.
Ooh I didn't know these were so easily available online. I wake up to Radio 4 and quite often there's something interesting that I wish I were more awake for, or that I didn't have to abandon for a shower and a stand-up.

I should just restart from the web player later on those days.

Reading about Turing and visiting Bletchley is entirely responsible for me becoming a software engineer after a childhood of laser-focussed intent on electronics. Fascinating period, genius, and acceleration of the field - if you think computers went from being women to commercial machines basically (be lenient) resembling what we have today in, say, just twenty years from '35.
> 17 Soviet submarines and 3 battleships.

So Pepsi didn't have any Harrier jets...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/...
Supplements, especially L-DOPA (amazing mood improvement and libido boost), L-citrulline (libido and energy boost) and niacin.

There are other supplements¹ in my stack but these three stand out as the effects are near immediate, measured in mere minutes/hours.

¹zinc methionine, L-taurine, Ashwagandha, Boswellia serrata, fish oil, cod liver oil, vitamins B1, B2, B6, B9, B12, C , D, K, calcium, resveratrol.
Vietnam appears to be philosophically mixed with Confuscianism as a base. Taoism, Buddhism, Catholic, French colonial and Marxism on top. But I’d suspect Cambodia, who we probably dropped even more bombs on, would be more strictly Buddhist.

Eastern Philosophy on suffering and war would be an interesting topic.
Adding to that: a good amplifier that works well with the speakers. It took me a while to find one I liked (in my case it was an old Harman/Kardon PM645 Vxi, you can find it on ebay for under $200).
And now Google is going to be leasing land to its employees. Which I find terrifying
Ask HN: Useful strategies/tools to reduce internet addiction?
I've been trying to find useful guides on how to limit internet addiction/digital detox. I've tried a handful of things, but I keep getting back to my old habits. I'd love to hear what you all are trying?
I've ported the Unix v7 C compiler (DMR) to DOS with bcc in six days. Why? I'm a hacker at heart.
Indeed, financial stability and crisis models are the transformation studies several central banks and also stablecoins like Celo undertake to understand how introduction a new monetary instrument would solve some issues and affect others. Short answer is it’s too early to say since it’s a tech-push innovation sped up by demand-push of pandemic and global players.
In one sense, the way that larger crates in Rust are fragmented does address some of that.

This does result in large dependency trees, but it does also mean that if you need that one specific functionality, you may not need to pull in the full library, but only that smaller section.
Citation neeeded.
Nah. Just go masto.host with your own sub domain and pay the few bucks a month to enjoy true decentralisation. Meet me as jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net.
Paleontologists See Stars as Software Bleeps Scientific Terms
Better the door hitting you on the way out than being stuck inside a house on fire.
I just trust that people aren't dumb, that they did all they could and had a solid plan up until they got stuck which prompted the question. Then I empathize with their situation and try to pinpoint what piece of the puzzle they are missing. Usually it is just a tiny bit of information that gets them going. Others prefer to go through the whole "rtfs rtfm make a test case and how to be a hacker faq" stuff.
> Mastodon is to Linux what Twitter is to Windows.

Weird phrasing there! I think the author meant:

Mastodon is to Twitter what Linux is to Windows.
Looking through the Chromium source code, it looks like it may be related to this?

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/02/samesite-cookie-changes-in...

The reason I say this:

This test case appears to suggest that Google intentionally adds google owned domains to `managed_legacy_cookie_access_allowed_for_domains`: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/b9c645c0b16...

The Chrome source code shows that this settings adds CONTENT_SETTING_ALLOW to these "legacy" cookies (LEGACY_COOKIE_ACCESS): https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:c...

Elsewhere, it seems that `CONTENT_SETTING_ALLOW` causes cookies to be persisted even when you enable "Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome".
Presumably DOTB and DBNT should be pitched to investors -- and funded -- in very different ways.

Doing old things better is very amenable to metrics, lifetime value of customer, market-adoption forecasts, cost of customer acquisition, etc. This is the land of venture money with milestones and ever-growing rounds as success unfolds. (Or asphyxiation if success doesn't happen.)

Doing brand new things probably is far more likely to start via bootstrapping, passion projects, university research and other areas where open-ended curious inquiry is tolerated better. Dixon (OP) loosely acknowledges this when he writes that entrepreneurs "usually spend many years deeply immersed in the underlying technology before they have their key insights."

Eventually the path forward will be clear enough that the VC/metrics folks can show up for later financing rounds and do their thing. But I'll argue that venture's metrics-driven feed-or-starve system is more likely to mess up this early exploration than to help it.

Even though VCs will insist that they are equally good at both.
To the contrary -- the "free" in "free market" refers to freedom. So if a service wants to ban a user, then that's pretty much the definition of a free market.

Similarly, a user is free to try to get around the ban by using a different IP address, etc.

Both sides here would be free to do what they want without the law taking sides. But at a technical level, because anti-scraping measures aren't that hard to defeat, it means that users and competitors will be the primary beneficiaries here.
Countries with the Most Number of Military Personnel
"If you're going to be an asshole to my customers, gtfo of my bar" predates the concept of an EULA, and IMO, the freedom of association is a necessary component of a free market.
In my experience CentOS means EPEL and EPEL means throwing that stability and security-aware packaging out the window.
It is not new, it is more of return back to where journalism started.
Oh wow, I didn't even know about the stop motion version. Unfortunately, it seems like you can only watch them in Finnish through our C-More :/
right, so again, no comparison with Brazil, where the Pandemic hasn't eroded the democracy. There the Senate rejected the decree from Bolsonaro:

https://www.france24.com/en/20190625-brazils-bolsonaro-revok...
Do people find that leverage points, as described here, are well known for large code based, or are they difficult to identify, track and manage?

“... three most impactful points are interfaces, stateful systems, and data models.”
Israel already gets the majority of its water, including for irrigation, from desalination.[1] They achieve this through a combination of conserving and recycling water as well as very targeted irrigation of crops, along with new technology such as the Sorek desal plant. The second generation may be up and running by 2023 [2].

There's an interesting paper [3] about building 40,000 Sorek style plants to sequester excess water in arid areas and avoid problems with sea level rise. Without any savings at scale, this would be around 20 trillion dollars, but that's clearly cheaper than building infrastructure to protect coasts around the world, with the side benefit of creating jobs and food in areas that are in the most need.

I've been working (in the script-writing sense) on a narrative around EarthStations -- molten salt solar towers powering desal plants and green tech manufacturing, surrounded by highly efficient farms, and further out in the ring, forests that eat the desert. Since they are located on coasts, all the infrastructure can be delivered by ships, and all the goods created easily shipped out once they are up and running.

One big technical problem is what to do with the brine -- I'm not sure how much could go into molten salt heat storage. But they could serve as an engine to keep sea levels stable.

This is a longwinded way of saying I think the project in Egypt is a good example of the terraforming we need to be doing instead of dreaming about for a planet like Mars. Even though it is small scale, turning deserts into forests is pretty impressive, and something we need to do learn how to do well to fight climate change.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the...

[2] https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-ide-wins-sorek-2-desalina...

[3] https://f1000research.com/articles/5-889
Does it ever lead to tingling sensations in your hands? I was dealing with what I thought was cubical tunnel and noticed my forearms are always so tight
Many blocks in SF and Oakland are reminiscent of Indian slums
> the bill is perfect, except for the 100M user threshold to start demand compatibility, which I think should be lowered to 10M

I kinda like the high number, as it means the spirit is to prevent monopolies, which is one of the most compelling reasons for regulations to exist. Make the number too low, and it would invite criticism from people about regulations being overbearing. I don't know if that number is 100M, 10M, or 1M, but just something to be mindful about.

My sense is that if Facebook is legally forced to interop, then all other smaller/future players will voluntarily interop anyway.
Aside from what others said, the byte as an 8-bit entity wasn’t settled at the time.

At PDP, the PDP-5, PDO-8 and PDP-12 were 12-bits and the PDP-6 and PDP-10 were 36 bit, all of which are multiples of both 3 and 4

Memory was expensive at the time, so I would guess most of them had 6-bit character sets. That must have made octal a popular choice.

I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal#History_of_written... shows the notation for hex wasn’t settled upon. I think that’s an indication of its rarity (go read it to learn which version was deemed “ridiculous” :-) )
The problem is self perpetuating. I went from YIMBY to NIMBY as soon as I spent 5x my net worth on a Bay Area single family home.
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
I'm not really seeing it, at least not in this opcode list.

As far as I can tell the C operands are fairly simple and basic (add, subtract, complement, and, or, xor etc...). They would almost always map to a single instruction in MIPS, ARM32, ARM64, Z80 etc... So I'm not convinced that there's a direct correlation here, one way or the other.

Conversely if C was really deeply influenced by the PDP-11 ISA then why isn't there a single "bit set", "bit clear" or "rotate right" operator in C? Those require multiple operators in C but a single opcode here. Rotation in particular is a bit of a pain to code in C since you need to know the size of the integer you're rotating. I always thought that it was an oversight not to have built-in support for rotations in C.

The only thing that really stands out as being fairly C-ish is the auto-incrementing and -decrementing addressing modes which map well to p++ and friends (although ++p needs two opcodes as far as I can tell) but it's a feature that's available on other ISAs.
I think I read somewhere an Austrian bank is already charging negative interest rates on customer accounts (-0.5% IIRC).
I can't find the word 'resign' on the page. Is there another page explaining who resigned?
> I'd argue that good judgement of how reliable different pieces of information are is one of the most important aspects of intelligence.

I agree. In fact, while civilization has ameliorated many of the challenges to individual survival, that aspect has become much more acute.

> A smart individual can distill valuable information even when surrounded by propaganda while a dumb individual will still fall for a lot of propaganda even when surrounded by mostly correct information since they can't tell the difference.

I think that several things are going on here.

First, it has become increasingly difficult to distill and discern truth, in part because it has become more difficult to figure out what level of scrutiny any particular proposition merits.

Many of the proxies we have for trustworthiness are social and often co-opted by competing interests.

This also applies to the trustworthiness of scrutinizers.

I mean, anthropogenic global climate change is fairly well established at this point, at least in terms of mechanism and direction, but if you apply enough paranoia and squirt a bit you can discern a vested interest for doomsayers to minimize errors and collude in producing a false consensus.

The general public is more-or-less aware that enough money can either create a false consensus or cast 'reasonable' doubt at will (eg. globalization will lower unemployment and grow the economy, and smoking doesn't cause cancer).

So, given all that, a lot of people just fall back on tribalism (or more like "team-sport-ism") when allocating their limited time and attention in deciding who or what to trust vs. scrutinize, since no matter where you look you can find conflicts of interest (eg. the profit motive explains overprescription of OxiContin, so why shouldn't it explain pharma collusion to give people cancer and sideline cheap natural cures?).

It isn't that truth extraction is too hard per-se, it's the meta-task of choosing reliable sources as your starting point that has become impossible.
Do what makes ya happy — as a homeowner in a safe town with a good school district I ain’t gonna worry but I don’t begrudge you seeking your best life.
MyFitnessPal and Fitbit (inspire and scale) I lost 100+ lbs using them.
"I use Linux and I like FOSS and I am still an oldschool BSD nerd, and I also like regional communities."
FOSStodon is the obvious choice https://fosstodon.org/public
But I think the article actually misses the main point about Mastodon. You an follow and interact with people on any instances.
i don't see a problem with listing both, as long as the high-level featureset is sufficiently enumerated in a comparison table for me to quickly discard or add the lib to my to-try list.
> improvements, not maintenance, drive careers forward.

Google puts a piece of software on death roll by declaring them “in maintenance mode”, that's the state where no matter how difficult it was to work with, and how valuable are the improvements made to the software, the results carries “negative” weight in perf review.

That is, one who devote considerable time on a software in maintenance mode is considered working in conflict with the norm, and should be taught to behave more correctly, and sometimes punished for consistent effort of not reverting that behavior.
I haven't yet seen any serious attempt to dispel his attacks on Pinker, specifically the lack of statistical evidence concerning the "the world is getting more peaceful" thesis - can you point me towards anything substantive?
Shavar is the server from which Firefox downloads update to its Safe Browsing and Tracking Protection site lists. “Shavar” is the name of the differential update protocol Google designed and uses for Chrome Safe Browsing site list.

aus5 is the server from which Firefox downloads new Firefox updates. “aus” stands for Auto Update Service.

I’m not exactly what data is downloaded from firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com.
Sure.

https://gist.github.com/tqbf/4de61a3e34d2e4664044666c107abe7...

(I don't vouch for this code; I wrote it off the top of my head, and, in keeping with the exercise, I wrote it in pico).

It's not 10x longer. I'm honestly not sure why either Rust or C++ bothered with regexps for this problem.

Anyways, you get the gist of what this looks like in C now. Obviously, don't write things like this in C.
I had a discussion recently, and I think generally in Germany politicians are considered incompetent instead of corrupt. Like in cross border leasing/ public private partnership etc.
Sometimes too. I think a big factor also is coordination costs. Working with a bunch of engineers outside of your company, with different goals and visions, is very time consuming. For companies who need to build-or-die, spending a bunch of time and money building relationships with people who are just as likely to act as roadblocks and gatekeepers just isn't an attractive proposition.

In this case it's not about new technology per se, but about new control and new ownership, which is an excellent way to reduce coordination costs.
Why do you need a dynamic string of any sort for this problem?

(I think you estimated badly, for what it's worth.)
IMHO gold will hold value longer than their ability to enforce the ban.

The question is, will you live long enough to see the end of the ban. If you have children it may very well be worth it.
How Will Bitcoin Lead to More Freedom?
I agree, but there also exist papers, magazines and news sites that have capitalized on the fact that literally anyone can report the news these days, to provide news at a slower, more accurate rate.

The Atlantic's Coronavirus coverage has been excellent for example, and the FT (while I don't always agree with the opinion pieces) has some of the most accurate and sober reporting around- often at the expense of being the first paper to a story.

When the price of information drops to near-zero, the niche papers can fill is to provide _trustworthy_ information. This could be where every reputable paper goes in the future.
Why are those two garbage? I am not American and here local religious conservatives adopted Trump. Reading American radical evangelical writings, they are pro Trump too. Open support of Biden is superrare. And whether the Republicans become more radical is interesting question
It’s not a hyperbole, it’s a self justification to convince oneself that they made the right decision.
But then why is it so important to choose the right server? The author asserts that choosing the right server is essential to your experience of Mastadon, is that not the case?

Also the author says that I should choose a community between 500 and 5000 people, which fosstodon exceeds.

All in all, my point is, there are so many choices and decisions to make before I can even create an account and experience it.

It’s fairly common knowledge that people actually don’t like choice. When you go to a restaurant and see a menu with 100 choices, people actually enjoy their meal less than when there would be little choice; they have this nagging feeling of “was that other choice perhaps better?”

For me, Mastadon has the same problem. Too much choice is a bug, not a feature.
4chan users allegedly cancelling votes in Oregon via e-voting bug
Whereas you believe it to be true.

Even though the odds are on my side. According to science!
Wasn’t that the main selling point of the EU?
Not OP but I fix / improve things surprisingly often since I have five kids in my house.
> Again, he's not American.

What is your point? Espionage laws are typically intended for foreign nationals.

> Also, "sought out information".. you're gonna take that as an exception for rights of the press? No publishing about watergate if the editor and journalist "sought out" the information?

The press has the right to publish classified information as long as they are solely publishing the information and do not partake in accessing or gathering that information. This was the finding of the Supreme Court in NYT vs US[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...
> Not every day or even once in an average week, unless you're doing something wrong.

Do you have to understand it or not? There is a ton of information on the web (viewed 191k times) [1], [2], etc. Acting like it is intuitive is disingenuous.

No, that's you who don't understand. I've shown particular code that is error prone in JS but is ok in other languages. That is the issue. It is not solved. Every novice gets it. It is simple to solve. Instead you claim "you should not need this", tell it 191k viewers. Yes, you know what's going on, still you claim "you don't need this".

class Foo
end
foo = Foo.new
foo.class == Foo // metaprogramming! *You shouldn't even be futzing with these things in _any_ file*

Sure I know about method definition in class. Extend it (same class). It is useful technique.

And please don't post twice same if you can't read response.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9959727/proto-vs-prototy...

[2] https://javascript.info/class-inheritance
It certainly needs more help with explaining the game. I used the link below to join but could not figure out how to play. What do the buttons on the grid page do? Might be helpful to post some info.
> All other markets have failed miserably.

In Russia Yandex (search engine) and VKontakte (social network) were and still are quite successful (Google and Facebook were never banned, unlike China). And they were not created to control and/or suppress free speech (at least originally: Putin didn't care what happens in the Internet until around 2014, and it was free from censorship).
What I don't get is why wouldn't they be able to credit /debit regular bank accounts with money instead of creating a new "digital system"?
Maybe. I think it’s less about career growth — though I’m sure that’s the goal for some — and more about the reality that it’s often more fun to build something new, rather than contributing or adding-on to something that already exists.

A new framework is shiny and exciting. It doesn’t matter if it’s a rehash of something that already exists, with a few minor changes or some differences in approach, it's new and there is a sense of excitement around building something new that just isn’t there when you’re contributing to something that already exists.

Part of the reason stuff like NIH (not invented here) is so common isn’t just because of the belief, true or not, that an in-house solution will be preferable, but because augmenting and improving and refining something that already exists is hard.

But the point of the essay, as I read it, is actually making a very different argument. It’s not talking about how frequently the same concepts are reinvented or remixed, but about how when there are genuine breakthroughs in technology (however you want to define it), the initial impulse is to use those breakthroughs to solve the same problems as whatever existed in the past.

But doing that, while pragmatic in the beginning, can distract from what makes a that new innovation so innovative.
NVMe drives. I put them everywhere I can.