skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my experience exactly. Teams is also somewhat easy to get lost in once you get a lot of rooms open. Our IT department has decided to use Teams as a ticketing system. My manager decoded to use Teams as a PTO calendar by assigning tasks to yourself. All we really needed was a good chat app for private conversations and small teams... I don't know why companies have such a hard time solving these kinds of issues.
My experience watching my older family members share memes on Facebook suggests otherwise.

Also, the entirety of Twitter, in a completely different way.
Are you saying I'm lying now? You're attacking me and should be banned.

It's laughable.
Feedback for New Car Buying Concept
I have just released a new concept to try and change the car buying experience for the better. I recently purchased 2 cars that took months to find and many wasted hours trying to find them. At Auto Genie i want users to easily list the car they require so that sellers can easily reach out to them and sell them their car. No more searching countless marketplaces daily trying to find your dream car just list what you want and wait. As this is a new online concept i would love some feedback on the UX so that it works okay and makes sense to be utilised easily. Thank you
If all of HN is in this group than the group is so large as to be meaningless. 1% of all Americans is more than 3 million people.

I certainly don't wake up in the morning and ordain where people get there food from even if I'm an incremental part of structures that have some influence on the economics of America (all voters are)

> That doesn't mean that this group of people does not exist.

This logic sounds a whole lot like what a moon landing denier would say. I'm not saying you are in that group but the line of reasoning is the same.
Uber ordered to pay traditional taxi drivers damages in France
I think it also argues against commercial encrypted email.

But any complex enough system, you want it to run by folks with some expertise. Greater chance to have providers hire capable people than you being one (simply matter of size)
This is not new, low skilled jobs always used metrics, scores, charts to keep employees "motivated" and last a few weeks longer.

Call centers / customer support are a good example.
I'm sure Amazon has more data but I'd hardly bag call this novel.

Can't wait for it to come to software development /s
https://archive.ph/dwpPS
Please, tell me - not a megacorp webmaster - how can I opt-in to Cloudflare program available to Facebook/Netflix, to get what is available freely as the source IP of UDP packet in the absence of planet-wide public resolvers and what Google gives for free trying to mitigate the inconvenience caused by the planet-wide resolver.

Indeed, my texts about possible motivation is speculations, but I do understand why webmasters block CloudFlare DNS.

I wonder why there are so few of them.
I'm open to being convinced, if you're open to trying.
Cynically, because they are companies trying to turn a profit.

Also many (most?) of the complaints raised in the article will be an issue for any federated system. The article is arguing against end user control and decentralization. It just isn't upfront about it.
In 2009 there was a Finnish woman who lived inside the buildings of the Berlin Tegel airport, for several months. She was mentally disturbed.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/escape-to-berli...
> My recollection is that to be listed in their directory of instances, you need to abide by the content rules created by key Mastodon people, and those instances in turn are required to only peer with other instances that follow the same rules. Those rules basically include moderation based on various progressive political stances, so you can’t honestly discuss controversial topics from different perspectives.

Here are the requirements for us to promote your server:

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

The only hard requirement related to content is that racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia be not allowed. There is no requirement to peer with anyone or have any specific political stances. If your political stance or perspective requires you to dehumanize people of different races or sexual orientation, then yes, you are not welcome.
I still disagree and say yes.

Why does my bare metal Postgres install need optimization? My sites mostly doesn't get much traffic, and it runs fine as-is. It'd be silly to try and optimize it without being able to measure what's actually slow.

Backup systems should also be set up according to desired reliability. I have a 10-line bash script that pulls a DB dump, zips it, and sends it to S3. Under 5 minutes to install, including setting up a new AWS role and keypair for it, just have to add in some Ansible commands I already have set up, and set a cron job to run once a day.

Read replicas are nice for some applications, but not needed for any of my current ones. I probably wouldn't want to set one up on bare-metal admittedly, but I'm not worrying about it until I need it.

I don't see a need for a separate cloud deployment for a development environment for my current application either. Would be nice if I had multiple developers and testers working on it, but I don't now.

Never needed to update the DB version, and the traffic is low enough that I don't need to really care about keeping reasonable change windows if I did.

So nope, 10 minutes of work for a low-traffic application. Meanwhile, a AWS RDS setup is easy to start, but then you have to muck with security groups, VPCs, permissions, etc to get it working right. That's not necessarily easy if you don't already make use of that stuff.
That depends on the channel though. On one labeled "NEWSW" they said "I think we have a terrorist act of proportions that we cannot begin to imagine at this juncture. " immediately after second hit.
> We should have left Iraq and Afghanistan alone and done the regime change op in Saudi Arabia

I'm reminded of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOdULpV810

TL;DW It had nothing to do with the regime in Saudi Arabia. Bin laden and supporters were a fringe group.
Iraq’s Erbil airport targeted in drone attack: Kurdish officials
I have not bothered to speculate why the took action in the case being discussed here.

Not informing customers, then being amused that they are uninformed (and some invariably speculate), is not a solution to anything.
some people use the IP from the DNS query to return a server closer to you

that's pretty much it
I have nothing to say about Medium, but if someone indeed can make $1K with a couple of articles about an arcane subject, then by all means do it.

You will not make the money it costs to run the web server of your own blog by writing a couple of posts a month.

To make some money, you will need several posts per day, on a hot subject, and you will have to promote it all day long.

I was editor-in-chief of a large, well-known website for many years, and I know what I am talking about.

We paid our contributors $25 a piece, that's how much it was worth. Later on, we could get away with paying nothing.

I know people with well-read and well-maintained websites who received $20 a month from Google Ads.

For a website to receive some traction, you must be at it for years, and after a few years, pay per clicks will be lower.

Websites grow with abandon, but advertising budgets don't. So the advertising dollars are split into smaller, and smaller pieces.

Serious advertising money goes into microtargeting, no more target groups, but target persons. For that, you must be a Facebook et al.

Basically, the times of making serious money with writing are over. I have many well-known journalist friends, and they hurt. Their numbers dwindle.

I was lucky, I made serious money decades ago by writing – as a copywriter for ad agencies. Even that doesn’t pay as royally as it used to. But to make a living with writing, you need to "go to the dark side," into advertising, PR, best to the PR department of a large company with long-term job security and health insurance.

Forget the easy money with your own website. Use it to build your brand, to advertise yourself, to put together a portfolio of your work, an interactive business card.

But forget the easy money with your own website.
maybe not anymore, now that we all use and love highlighting. but maybe back then?
facebook has billions of monthly users, there’s no way you interact with even 1% of that, so anecdotal feelings are completely meaningless!
The cost of outfitting an employee with state-of-the-art equipment for their home office is at most a few months of commuter benefits. It's a comically small price to pay for employee happiness and productivity.

Employers that don't or aren't willing to pony up are going to be losers in the long run. Cheap is cheap.
So true. I’ve personally experienced this with starting a new job in January 2020 and subsequently working on 3 teams.

Team 1: 3 engineers of various tenure already on the team. Built good relationship with 2 before pandemic put us in WFH about 6 weeks in. I still talk to both of these engineers on a regular basis, even though we no longer work together.

Team 2: Changed about 8 months in due to a reorg. Working with a different set of people who had all worked in this area together pre-reorg. Very hard to “break in” and ramp up. Things were not going well. Manager, another engineer, and my manager all moved teams.

Team 3: 6 months later. Brand new team with engineers all coming from different parts of the company plus an external new hire. Working well together but we’ve all been remote working together the entire time.

Team 2 was _rough_, and its situation is what most new joiners will face.
Signal is suggested, but it requires a mobile phone, which is not an option for me.

That's why I use matrix, but I fear it will not catch on enough, and email will be the only option people will have to contact me. But I somehow agree that encrypting email is not an option as there are too much complications to it.
title needs (2015)
I remember how Konyok-Gorbunok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpWkJuXGQic was just driving me nuts, I was just 6 y. o. and couldn't handle the frustration from losing on the 3rd screen. This game was just inhumane, I've only seen 20-year olds being good at it.
FWIW, Waterfox is now owned by System1, an ad company.
So you are saying that portraying the levels of alive vs. intelligent as too similar can be detrimental and is used as a cheap tactic to appeal to a certain kind of lax thinking. I agree. I also think people can be too quick to write off systems or things they consider unintelligent. When we think it is just a “dumb” fungi or whatever else, it takes us longer to recognize true complexity and intelligence in a different form than we are used to. So I personally lean more into defending looser definitions of intelligence and aliveness because I think there’s a lot more to some of these systems we may not have the perspective for yet. I see the argument for a tighter definition too.
Just cover the internal thermometer with a wet towel or sock, that lets the temp rise beyond the low limits they set.
Interesting perspective. I had always blamed it on something pertaining to my VFIO setup but I think you are pointing out something that might be at play here that I hadn't considered before.

I'll disable the speakers on the monitor from the HW menu on the monitor and see if that helps.
For those innocent days of Usenet k00ks, crapfloods, MAKEMONEYFAST, sockpuppets, crossposts, GREEN CARD, spam, warez, pr0n, Serdar Argic, and Hasan Mutlu.

And the ~100,000 or so people who actually used that network.
I agree that Matrix is quite complicated. However, adding new features doesn't have to make it that more complicated. I get the impression that it's not that bad as most new features are actually based on existing parts of the protocol. Everything is just based on events in a room. Most 'special' events have a fallback mechanism to text, to insure clients that haven't implemented the event type can still show the information to the user. Replies and stickers make use of this for instance.
I don't understand this attitude towards exercise. You'll be healthier if you work out and weigh XXXlbs than if you sit on your ass and weigh the same.
The problem isn't any single one decision. It is a pattern of making changes that cause users don't like and ignoring negative feedback.
Super small feedback: there's a typo on the landing page.

synchronized instead of syncrhonized
Even if you're right, it's still cheaper to get a dozen dedicated servers than to get a huge pile of AWS servers.

Bad performance means you need more servers, it doesn't mean you need instant scaling.
I was getting so many paywalled medium articles in Google searches that I removed them with uBlock:

google.##.g:has(a[href="http://medium.com"])

If they aren’t paywalled, they’ll hijack ctrl+c in code snippets and give you the option to tweet the snippet. Like what the actual fuck, I’ll find it elsewhere if I don’t figure it out on my own.
I pointing out there's no way anyone is making 1k for 2-4 articles a month and flat out got an immediate ban here. Lol this is hilarious. Try it!

Show any evidence people make money doing this, it a lie, it's like $400 max.
>15-kopeck coins

Honestly, that is the strangest thing about this whole article. Why would the Soviets mint a coin that can't be combined with other coins of the same type to make a full ruble? It just seems really unnatural.
Grandmas don't tend to undergo exponential growth.

Networks can.

Whether or not Mastodon will is another question. (I've been on it since ~2016.) But in FB's position, paranoia pays, and is worth throwing billions at, if deemed a sufficient threat.
I've found koyu.space to be very friendly, as long as you're cool with left leaning politics posts in there.
> If watching this footage makes you want to stand up and do something, remember that Covid-19 is killing as many people in the US every two days as died in these attacks.

Please. This is just going to create more toxic conversation and politics. Can we just focus on 9/11 victims and mourne peacefully? Rest of the top level comments here are sharing stories about their personal experience. I know you mean well but its the wrong place to bring this up.
> Browsers also expect plain-text. Is https by the same logic also pointless, and should no longer be used?

> (I get what the author is trying to say, I'm just reacting to the strange way the argument is phrased. I don't think they thought their wording and reasoning in that passage through enough.)

Your question explicitely ignores the argument that was made and pretends a point to point protocol operates similarly to a store and forward protocol.
but if that were really a problem wouldn't the effect show up in studies
What is a Data Structure? (2020)
Admittedly it was more of a tongue-in-cheek joke with some fact - I've done it successfully 4 or 5 times on systems meant for "production" only after testing on EoL/scheduled for the bin hardware with mixed results - at least two I hit data pins and rendered the port unusable, one the Dremel slipped and ended up cutting a slot through the board itself, and another one you would have sworn was perfect but just didn't go (probably something shorted out I couldn't physically see). I did three good ones after those 5 or 6 failures, at which point a friend wanted me to do all the x1 ports on his board to fit x4 NICs he had, not caring if it was successful or not (he had backup hardware just in case, which thanfully wasn't needed), followed by another friend with a server he wanted to put a GPU in. If someone handed me a board today I'd feel fairly comfortable I could do it without issue; I still wouldn't exactly recommend it to the faint-of-heart or those without steady hands, but once you kinda 'figure out' the right way to do it with the right tools, it's pretty straightforward.
Federation can be disabled and it will still work totally fine.

I am just wondering why is it such a hard requirement for you to stop other people to follow someone else that is not part of your server? Costs?
“We publish the geolocation information of the IPs that we query from”, from the linked comment above. They publish the same info to you and Netflix and me and Amazon.

You keep presenting a difference between what “you” get and what a “megacorp” gets, without any evidence that they’re getting something different from you. You also sidestep here into a complaint against “planet wide resolvers”. To a rounding error, nobody is running their own recursive resolvers. Everybody uses either their ISP’s DNS provider or one provided by a large network entity, virtually all of which are companies. This has been the case for decades. So anybody relying on the source IP of the UDP packet is just out of luck, and has always been out of luck. It’s clear you wish this wasn’t the case, but Cloudflare and Google aren’t really changing the game here, and they don’t owe you optional features because you really want to see user IP data.
> Many economists are skeptical. Andrew Hunter, senior US economist at Capital Economics, said the relationship between the money supply and inflation has “in reality” been “pretty weak or arguably non-existent for a few decades now”.

> “We had these same concerns back in 2008/9, that it was going to trigger a surge in inflation. Clearly that didn’t happen.”
That’s a very Silicon Valley tech influenced meme.
> Patrilocality and son preference have nothing to do with abuse of women.

Women that move to live in the husbands extended family have no existing relationships, no blood relations around them. They are outsiders and so are very vulnerable. Son preference indicates that females are not valued, which as the article points out is correlated with poor treatment of women.

Of course aborting pregnancies of females is bad, it’s utterly stunning that you can think joking about it is ok. As the article points out an imbalance in the population means there won’t be enough girls to go around. This correlates with high rates of violence and crime due to all those frustrated men.
NW Austin resident checking in. 1500 sq ft house = $7700 property taxes (2020). Yeeesh.
Kinda weird this quality article has 6 comments, but there hundreds about Medium being a bad website. This is ridiculous. Is this just bots at this point?
you are interacting with the chronic permanently homeless population, what gp is talking about is the fact that there is an even larger population of temporarily homeless. although the statement is true, i don't think it is a useful distinction, because what most people mean by 'homeless' is those chronic cases, anyway, and that is the problem society, government and homeless charities are trying to solve. acknowledging there is another set of people with similar problems is great, but as pointed out, these people generally are getting the support they need, and are a 'solved' problem (in some sense) unlike the people you have been interacting with, who still need some kind of help and are not receiving it...

the skepticism is justified by simply defining homelessness as being without a home for more than a few weeks (the 'usual' definition, tbh) thus making gp's statement obviously false, i suppose.
I'm selling a 3400 sqft house for $750k, just outside Austin. My property taxes are insane and I have to fight every year to not let the county reassess my home value the maximum legal amount. I've seen a black person in my neighborhood enough times to know he's a resident and there are two Indian families but the place white as hell. Crime is going up, we're nationally ranked near or at the top for DWI (except during the first half of COVID, where we traded in for spousal abuse... also drunk, probably). Every 21+ can now open carry, as long as they have a pulse and no recent violent convictions. The power grid is constantly teetering on the edge of collapse (generator sales are way up this year though, so that's cool). There are so many new subdivisions going up that we can't build enough schools fast enough to fit all the kids and the roads have slowed to a crawl. The state government seems to actively be trying to kill people, while disenfranchising minorities and stripping rights from women, while effectively turning every slack jawed bubba into a part time bounty hunter.

To each their own. Personally, I'm giving TX the finger and taking my cash elsewhere. Abbot can roll of a cliff, for all I care.
Scaling Your GTM: The Demand/Land/Succeed/Expand Flywheel
Ain't a dumb question at all! It actually takes reading the ActivityPub specs to answer it, so no surprise if you didn't get it just from reading the landing page ;)

The answer is: it'll happen automatically. Just search for someone's handle, and your server will talk to that other server. When you follow that other users, your server will start federating with that other servers.

Note though that servers might block each other. For example, many Western servers block Japanese pawoo.net, since it allows posting lolicon. Western servers don't want this content in their timelines and caches, so they block it. If your server blocks another.social, you won't be able to follow anyone on there.

But your question also hints at a real problem with Fediverse (of which Mastodon is a part), which is: each instance only sees a subset of the Fediverse. Thus, searching by hashtag will only get you a subset of all posts that contain it. Full-text search is even more complicated.
But no one says you need a separate connection pool for each client application. There are cases when it's the right thing, but you can just as well have a single connection pool for each PostgreSQL instance (and all apps will go through that). So you absolutely don't need "8 instances" at peak or whatever.

The problem with Postgres vs. many connections is a simple combination of two simple facts.

Firstly, Postgres has a dedicated process managing each connection - which significantly simplifies some of the programming because most resources are "private" etc. This made perfect sense back when machines very few cores, threading was much more expensive, etc. And development time is always precious, of course.

Secondly, people often don't distinguish between active and idle connections. But a system with X cores reaches top throughput at 2X-3X active connections, and at some point the throughput tanks because the active backends have to share resources (CPU, work_mem, etc.).

And the database and/or DBA has to manage that somehow - if you have 128GB of RAM available for query processing, it matters if you allow 100 or 10000 connections. With 100x more connections you can't allow the backends to use as much memory, which probably means less efficient sorts etc. You may assume most connections will be idle at any given time, but that may easily change (a bug in new app version or whatever), storming the DB, exhausting resources, etc.

Moreover, some (fairly hot) parts of the transaction management code need to walk active connections to check visibility etc, and the more connections you have the more expensive this is. And there are probably more places with similar behavior. We've fixed / optimized lot of them, because the number of cores is growing and it was hurting even "reasonably" configured instances, but that gets you maybe to 500 - 1000 connections (?), not 100k.

And I don't think that'll change anytime soon, so your best bet is still a connection pool.

Now, I'm not claiming it's ideal - but there simply are historical and practical reasons why things are designed the way they are, and it's not a matter of swooping in and optimizing one or two places.
That is equally ridiculous. A group does not become meaningless once it gets beyond a certain size. The Republican Party is very large. That does not make it meaningless.
The tarragon drink mentioned in the article is widely available in Russia, and even in “exclaves” such as Russian grocery stores in Toronto (Yummy Market).