skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are missing the point. The fediverse is a network of servers that can host content and communicate with each other. Each server is moderated individually. Some are "policed vigorously" and some are not, some have issues with illegal content and some do not. The decentralization is inherent in the system, no matter each individual server is moderated.
Personally I find Markdown extremely inconsistent and hard to use. I find it much easier to just use a subset of HTML. It's also much easier that way to just slap a stylesheet on it and make it look nice.

Are images [img.jpg(alt text)] or (img.jpg[alt text])? I forgot. <img src="img.jpg" alt="text"> is way easier to remember. Is it ''bold'' '''italic''' or "bold" 'italic' or 'bold' ''italic''? <b>bold</b> <i>italic</i> is MUCH more intuitive.
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> Talk about missing the forest for the trees.

Exactly. I’d need to do some homework to prove it, but my theory is more power is used every second for Bitcoin than an hour’s worth of videoconferencing worldwide. That said, we have to start somewhere, but is videoconferencing really the thing that’ll have any positive impact on CO2 emissions?

Edit:

Per this source[0] (no claims to its accuracy), a single transaction on Bitcoin causes nearly 300kg of CO2 to be emitted. So compared even to the high point of the article’s range (aka 1kg per hour meeting, though the included chart shows ~1/10th that for Zoom), that’s multiple orders of magnitude higher, per transaction.

[0] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Edit 2:

I did some further research and multiple seemingly solid sources give conservative estimates of Bitcoin electricity consumption in the range of 80-100TWh per annum. To put that number in perspective, that’s more electricity per year than all of Google’s servers worldwide combined since its founding over twenty years ago (estimates put that number around 75TWh). I’m not going to keep digging, but based on the numbers I saw, I have a feeling Bitcoin uses more electricity per year than AWS, Google, FB, Microsoft, and Apple’s data centers combined per year. I’ll leave it to you to decide if Bitcoin is worth it and you should just turn off your webcam next time you’re on a videoconference to save the environment!
I'm a fan of Microsofts open-source efforts around .NET Core and a former .NET dev (I'm mentioning this to make clear I don't have the standard anti-MS slant found on OSS forums).

Having said that - MS seems exactly the same or worse on privacy issues, they just suck at executing with their services so they don't get as much traffic and aren't in the spotlight. I don't really follow the logic - if I was interested in privacy I would probably avoid Microsoft just as much as Google.

And Microsoft working on Chromium/Blink just gives more credibility to it being an OSS project - they've made substantial contributions and probably have a team working on it - if Google decides to close off the development - Microsoft has the resources to continue development.
In the beginning it was like a second job late at night. But towards the end it was an hour or so in the mornings for support/sales, and then maybe a couple hours during the evenings, and a 4-5 hours on some weekends to work on feature dev. I agree with another poster that it’s more about energy than time.
There's another aspect - with strong gatekeeping it is assumed that those theories that make it through are true.
And also, everyone else voted in favor, so I'm inclined to believe it was a reasonable proposal.
I don't think grow lights in this area are coal powered.

I could see how you might think that because..Wyoming. But I assume hydro and wind, based on the power around me. I'll ask them to confirm. I don't think I'd support coal powered hydro.
Somewhere else! Dna is too marvelous for evolution, it cannot have originated here!
If you are implying that normal, for+while loop programming is difficult with dataflow approaches…you're right.
I personally use OneTab but it's worth noting that in the GH issue on TheGreatSuspender there's some ongoing (and mostly unsubstantiated, in this thread) concerns about OneTab's data collection and management[0].

[0] https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...
You read that wrong.

Available on MacOS, Windows, Linux.

iOS and Android via Element.

So they made a desktop client.
>For myself this is “clever art” and has little cultural value.

We'd all be alot better if in circumstances like this, we would say "I don't personally value this" instead of "there is not value in this for anyone."

If there weren't people that valued it, it wouldn't exist. The fact that it exists demonstrates a certain level of cultural value.
What is a STO and why you would want to run one [Part 1]
Thanks for the link to Libro.fm; it looks like a great initiative. Unfortunately, for a lot of titles I'm interested in, I get this message: "You appear to be accessing the site from a country where this title has restricted rights". Do you know of a similar audiobook provider for the EU?
Study attempts to count number of rodents used in research sparks controversy
The flowbase.org link is redirecting me to a polish website, not sure what’s going on there
To be fair from an environmental point of view alone the non plastic version is superior let alone for other reasons.
Well, now I'm interested. Link it, please? I'd love to take a look. Sounds really good!
Like less work, less earn but more work, more earn? Is that what you mean?
There are no vetoes in a consensus system. One or more members may have a "concern". Until those concerns are successfully addressed there can be no consensus. And only with consensus can anything be advanced to policy or law. The Society of Friends makes use of this form of governance:

https://www.afsc.org/testimonies/decision-making
> It is used in particular by children and young people to refer to those of an older generation within the "circle of respect" of their parents.

There's such thing in Russian too. My parents had friends and they would come to our apartment every once in a while. We would call them all "uncle $name"
G. K. Chesterton's Fence Principle:

> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
oracle linux is what centos supposed to be (free withoptional support)

i like oracle i need to pay the bills
Is it one of those "austerity porn" work environments?

If so, I worked at a company like that once. Such a cringe. The office furnishings were from government auctions 20+ years prior. Worst chair ever.

Also, ants fell on my desk from the ceiling all day, so my seniors thought they'd buy me ant bait which I could place anywhere I wanted.

After all that, "why is turnover so bad," they wondered...
Snapshots of 2020 stored as synthetic DNA
>...saying in November that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded...

Wait, he called for the murder of two public figures? Is that somehow legal in the US?

Added: Guess not: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373
The paper addresses that point.

The model predictions for the magnitude and temporal evolution of the non-gravitational acceleration are within a factor of about 2–3 of the observations (see Methods) for a water production rate of QH2O = 4.9 × 1025 molecules s−1 (or 1.5 kg s−1) near 1.4 au and an addi- tional contribution from QCO = 4.5 × 1025 molecules s−1 (or 2.1 kg s−1). Outgassing at this level does not conflict with the absence of spectro- scopic detections for outgassing of OH, because the values quoted are well below the spectroscopic limits on production rates16. However, the inferred upper limits for water production at 1.4 au, which are based on the non-detection of CN7 and assumed Solar System abundances for QCN/QOH17, show that ‘Oumuamua would need to be substantially depleted in CN (by a factor of more than about 15) relative to water.

And:

However, if the grains are predominantly larger than a few hundred micrometres to millimetres, they would not have been detected at optical wavelengths (see Methods). In the Solar System, comet 2P/Encke is noteworthy for its lack of small dust near perihelion18. Cometary behaviour implies that ‘Oumuamua must have some internal strength, at least comparable to Solar System comets19, because asteroid-like densities are ruled out (see Methods).

It’s an interesting read, suggesting interstellar space as being significantly different than what you see inside solar systems.
Zoning does not prevent either of those things. In my town, massive subdivisions went in next to a garbage dump. Now people are complaining about the garbage dump. It was all 'zoned.' Look at industrial areas on a google map. They will often have housing near/around them. Without zoning, the people that don't want to be near those things will not be near them, just as now. Anarchy means an absence of order. Did humans live in anarchy before the early to mid 20th century when zoning was adopted en masse?
Fully agree! Locally here in Cincinnati there is a company called 80 Acres farms doing indoor vertical farming. Their greens are by far the most incredible I've ever tasted!
Video about the work: https://youtu.be/p4nfSW27ktc
Cool but iOS only so I'd call it an iOS app rather than a social network
We could start a VC fund out of this! without the money ^^
The analogy is flawed, doesn't mean it's not useful.

Applied to a forest on earth, you'd have to make the animals are extremely slow.
I initially responded to this thread with being legitimately "genuinely curious" as to why you think Brave > Firefox, as it seems a lot of people have that same thought. However, every time I get into a dialogue like this there isn't any proof in the pudding. I'm sure Brave is a decent browser, but there doesn't seem to be any real reason to switch. I've been using Firefox for more than a decade, it's open-source, from a non-profit, great community, frequently updated, on-par with Chrome in-terms of performance/speed.

Everything I hear is just hollow words- "I just disagree with some of Mozilla's business decisions" / "it's more privacy-focused than Mozilla Firefox" / "it's less politically focused than Mozilla Firefox" / "Brave seems to be a little bit better in some aspects"
Could you please explain why we use Yank here? From what I understand yank puts the surround-in-word in a register.

But there is nothing surrounding the word! I thought yank was for copying and pasting stuff. I can't understand why ysiwb works :(
Huh, I've only ever heard of MST in the context of too-high-res displays o_0 Never heard of raw DP supporting daisy chaining, I thought only Thunderbolt does that.
This process of continuous evolution and adaptation is spectacular; I am relieved to learn about it.
This move by Microsoft is kind of like Intel going to TSMC, which from a consumer point of view sounds promising, however, where I have problem is that I cannot download Edge source and compile it myself. I think this way this would mean we could have privacy focused forks that work well with the OS. Other problem I have is that this way Microsoft appropriated huge amount of work without paying a penny to the developers. I would have looked at it differently if they paid salaries and bonuses to contributors for several years. Microsoft wants to have the cool opensource kid badge, without paying fair share. That stinks.
There are cow back scratchers, it’s a thing. They will rub up against trees too.

My dog use to roll her back on top of a tennis ball. Smart dog.
no clue. your google guess is as good as mine

Edit: got curious and spent 2 minutes to do the google. The unvetted answer is aprox. 10%

A semi can run ~1500 mi on 200 gallons @7.5 mi/gallon and a trailer refrigerator uses about 10 gallons/day
Related: "How the 'Western Mind' was shaped by the Medieval Church" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25704563
Just go ban and censor everything and everyone. Just great!
> Money's a bit tight, but they can pay you with food and a couch to sleep on.

Even if he wanted to work for free, unless he's in Olympic-athlete shape and mentally tough, it's still a raw deal for the farm if they can get migrant workers instead.

Most Americans who've been here more than one generation don't make it to their first lunchtime.

There's a total disconnect in our society about what people eat and where it came from. Hence the monthly "vertical farming" article about growing kale.
It's late beta but no push notifications (!!), no presence, no search, no cross-signing of E2E keys, no clustered deployments.
When people in the US say they think zoning is bad, they're generally focused on R1/single family zoning, which is overwhelmingly common here but rare to nonexistent in other countries. If the minimum zoning restrictions included small apartment buildings and perhaps small shops, as they typically do in other places (and are starting to in some US cities), that'd satisfy most people who raise the issue.
I wonder how long it will be before the signs on rentals will be saying things like 'No chinks'

Like on the signs shown below from the past, and some more recent ones saying "No Poles":

Britain is quite small, so if a good proportion of those Hong Kong people who are eligible for resettlement in Britain take up the offer, that sudden influx of work-seekers will swamp the jobs available.

https://miro.medium.com/max/633/1*nzLs1GoUFhR05vBwI3bwdQ.png

https://keepcalms.com/p/no-irish-no-blacks-no-romanians/

https://images.ctfassets.net/pjshm78m9jt4/403874_9/545657cf7...
If the Lakota are "rapacious" then, I wonder what would be the best adjective for their successor.

In only 245 years of existence, the US: has almost completely depleted the Ogallala acquifer, one of the largest acquifer in the world, once thought to be inexhaustible. And the same will happen soon to the California Central valley.

The American bison, an animal that once roamed in large herds that lifted enough dirt to darken the sky, is now almost extinct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile_edit.jpg

From rivers and oceans full of fish where you could see fish jumping everywhere, to people eating mediocre farmed fish due to overfishing.

From a continent full of fertile land and biodiversity, to a place where topsoil will be almost impossible to find in 60 years.

From a country full of insects and birds, to a place completely devoid of them that will soon become a desert.

Native Americans were able to live sustainably for over 10,000 years here.

Next time you sit to have lunch, try to putting aside any ingredients made from Native American crops: tomato, potato, corn, squash, avocado, peppers, most species of berries, chocolate, etc. Then avoid preparing any recipes that do not have a strictly domestic origin. I bet after you do so, you'll be left with nothing to eat.

You benefit from diversity and cultural exchange every day without even noticing. The very language you used to write that comment is the product of endless cultural exchanges...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1oZf-OxxEY
That makes sense and is a perfect analogy. I was talking about the used car market with friends a few days ago, and we discussed exactly that: the used car market is gentrifying because the insane price of new cars today is slowly but surely reducing the supply of good-condition used cars! I don't have data to back that up, but that was the lunchtime theory, and if you've tried to buy a good condition used truck recently I think there's at least some basis in fact.
I wish I could quickly change the humidity level in any room, anywhere, without feeling like it (the solution) wastes resources. Random, but there you go.
Well sure, if you build or buy in a spot where the neighboring plot is zoned to allow aluminum smelting, pig farming, or a landfill, or where those features already exist, you shouldn’t be surprised that you one day wake up next to that.
Visual aspect of FBP is also brilliant and helps to navigate/comprehend inherently parallel execution flow. The same complexity network expressed in linear text would require more effort to grasp. And it allows you to leverage your brain's visual capacity which is quite powerful - humans are visual creatures (https://www.seyens.com/humans-are-visual-creatures). For example in Excel the update dependency network is completely hidden. The maintenance of complex Excel models is really hard.

For same reasons we start looking at FBP and functional reactive programing to simplify the design and maintenance of complex interactive UIs. End up implementing Kelp (https://kelp.app) with visual FBP editor and reactive framework (https://kefirjs.github.io/kefir/).
Sounds like a performance issue that Zoom/RingCentral need to fix. My laptop takes off even with my camera off, when there are others with their camera on. Meanwhile
VLC can play x264 movies without the fan running.
> because there is actually sufficient supply

Exactly! Build more housing!

Homes should be made for living. Not for investments or speculation.

Why is the American public and the politicians so clueless about this?

Well, because they are the landlords that benefits from all the price increases. They are the foxes guarding the hen house.
Not breeding for transport could be big. But it's not entirely new at all, certain cooking herbs like basil are often entering the kitchen alive in the pot they are grown in or even cultivated right there on the window sill.

A more industrial scale might replace refrigerators for certain greens with a vertical farm "life support system" where larger batches from the supplier can be plugged in, delivered once a week or once a month at a spectrum of growth stages.
The thing that US government needs is to ensure that at least a reasonable part of modern chip manufacturing happens on US soil and not across the Pacific. The way they can step in for that is with subsidies for US-based fabs. However, do they need to be Intel fabs? TSMC might as well fulfil that need if they can be motivated to build fabs in USA.
I also got rid of quite a few browser extensions that were handy but I just couldn't bring myself to spend time trusting them.

It would be an interesting exercise to try and build an open source organisation around developing and publishing extensions in the open.
Oh, proposition 13 is even worse than that. People get to pass on their privileged tax status onto their heirs. A hereditary class of people that get to own property at preferential rates.
The thing you're talking about is the same as if people were owners. But the advantage is that an ownership driven market (see Singapore) is more dynamic and allows people to actually live in the city where they work instead of commuting for an hour.

Noah Smith has other articles about how to do government-built but occupant owned housing like Singapore. It's far better than rent-control, which tends to privilege existing tenants at the expense of people who need jobs but weren't lucky enough to have been born in a rent-controlled apartment.
Wait wait -- how is Beeper able to use WhatsApp API?

I thought it was closed!
Shame on Apple for giving such an reprehensible man a megaphone. They should be sued like any other publisher would be.
How and why does a company get a veto?
In other words their sample wasn't large enough to pick up the small changes in Covid risk/severity you would see based on genetic predisposition to produce slightly different levels of vitamin D.
> Every single one is a special snowflake with its own special way to boot

Eh, the majority of embedded crap comes with U-Boot (sometimes built without EFI support but always with Linux image support, at least).
Reminds me of this olifur eliasson piece:

https://olafureliasson.net/archive/artwork/WEK110935/memorie...

> Most of the artworks in Sometimes the river is the bridge were shipped by surface transport from Berlin to Tokyo to reduce the exhibition’s carbon footprint. Drawings were produced by a chance process that unfolded while the artworks were travelling by truck, train, and boat along their route. In each set-up, a ballpoint pen was held by a mechanical arm so that it moved over the surface of the paper in response to the movements of the crate, producing a visual record of the terrain over which the artworks passed.

Delightfully recursive in that the exhibition of the artwork creates the art being exhibited.. neither would exist without the other.
Why don't you count these examples as arguments if I may ask?

Even small things being better in one or another browser are still arguments if both browsers are good.

Also, for me, the company behind the browser matters too, especially since donations to mozilla barely go to the Firefox dev team.

I get that those are not good arguments for everybody, but just dismissing them just because you do not care about them that much seems a little bit harsh.
Why is FTL necessary for interstellar travel? If you could go even 1% c then you could make journies that are multiple light years on the scale of centuries. It’s not until 50% c does time dilation start playing a significant role, but it would allow making a 10 l-yr journey in 17 years.

Nature doesn’t care if we think there should be aliens or FTL travel. Nature doesn’t like casualty violated and that means we’re all going to be following its rules on the speed of causality. There are no cosmic-scale sentient forces that can shape space-time near us or else we would have noticed in observations decades ago.
As someone who has been an active part of a left-wing political party, the bullet-points of the "Left-Nimby Canon" here are very recognisable, despite the article's bias.

I met plenty of left-wing homeowners who supported building in an abstract sense. But, they would take any housing that was actually proposed near them, and present a pile of reasonable concerns, effectively lobbying to block it.