skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the tweets on that twitter? Here, I'll help you out:

https://twitter.com/jameelajamil/status/1518641966661177344

If someone makes a twitter post, saying that they "will FINALLY leave", I think it is fair to describe that person as being in the process of "leaving".

Thus, that is fair evidence that yes, at least people are talking about leaving twitter over the elon purchase, and that this might effect user stats.
What taxes does Disney fail to pay? They actually are taxed at a much higher rate than Florida law would allow if they did not have the rights conferred to them as part of an independent special district. Disney paid more than $780 million in state and local taxes in FY 2021.

However, even ignoring that, your premise is still fundamentally flawed: Every citizen has rights afforded to them via the first amendment to representation and to redress the government for grievances, regardless of how much they pay in taxes. And corporations have some status as a person, so they share those same rights.

I agree that corporations sometimes don't pay their fair share of taxes. However, that does not seem to be the case with Disney, at least in this particular instance. And it's actually a bad-faith deflection from the real issue of the violation of Disney's first amendment rights against government retaliation for voicing opposition to the "Parental Rights in Education" bill (now law).
This reminds me of that massive and coordinated push to get people to delete Facebook many months ago. I have no idea if it actually worked but most people I know wound up getting hooked on TikTok around the same time, which is arguably even worse.
correct, PGP had 30 years to get broad user-facing adoption and failed outside of a few paranoid folks on email and setting up git or ssh on a new machine once. blockchains and their addressing namespace have very quickly propelled standardized interfaces for signing key pairs for people that don't even think about it.
Sure, but that's devoid of the international enforcement mentioned. If your assets are in North Korea or a Swiss bank, then they can't force you to pay it. If your assets are in US accounts, then they could easily do so. I imagine there are other countries that we do have treaties with (or even if the bank has branches/business in the US so that the government doesn't make their life difficult) that would cooperate in freezing your international assets held in those countries too.
> We are entering a new world with a new focus on giving users control over their data, their identity, and their systems

I don't think so. Don't listen to cryptobros telling you this is a problem everyday users have.
Blockchain is not about key management. You still need to take care of your keys.
It's far safer than keeping it on dry land or burying it.

Just look up the amount of water in the Pacific and then divide into the amount of waste water being discussed - the ratio is insanely tiny and nearly unmeasurable. The biological effects are far smaller because of this ratio than if you kept it concentrated on land.
> But some sites that you would want to use this service for explicitly block it (e.g, Bloomberg seems to do this).

Does this still happen with the new kind of cards Privacy.com recently started issuing? https://support.privacy.com/hc/en-us/categories/441448782555...

It makes sense that merchants could refuse prepaid cards, but now that these are regular charge cards, I'd be surprised if the merchant agreement with the payment networks let them refuse cards arbitrarily.
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The company's board is appointed by its shareholders. The shareholders care, so the board cares. And the board hires the executives, so the executives care.

You don't actually need a separate "fiduciary duty". It comes from the shareholders themselves. If the shareholders are happy with a company has motivations other than maximizing profit, they can.

There's even a legal category for that: Public Benefit Corporation. Some of them are publicly traded -- like Warby Parker. Public Benefit Corporations are somewhat protected from shareholders forcing them to pursue profits, which will hurt the stock price, but investors can value the stock based on the benefit they perceive the company to be doing. (Like Warby Parker giving away free glasses to poor people.)

For regular companies, the executives try to make the line go up because if they don't, they'll lose their jobs.
It's not really the syntax but rather that until very recently theorem provers have been quite niche even in formal disciplines, so the tooling isn't quite there.

In an analogy with traditional programming I'd say we have goto but we are yet to have structured loops. Enormously powerful but still hard to apply to either real mathematics or real problem.
https://twitter.com/jameelajamil/status/1518676806261477386

I'm using her declaration as a high-profile example of someone deciding to leave twitter simply due to Elon's purchase.

She hasn't deleted her account, most likely because she doesn't want to let someone else get her account name and impersonate her or something similar, but for non-celebrities it's really safe to assume that many people have deleted their accounts as a result of elon; and that many have created accounts as a result of elon; and their choices on who to follow will closely correlate with their politics.

Can you provide any evidence that it's a grander conspiracy like you alleged?
The pocket drone needs a way to know where you are in order to direct the camera at you and come back at the end. Right now they do so by pairing the drone with your phone (I guess using Bluetooth).
Blockchain cryptographically stores that transaction in the state of the blockchain (hence it being a chain) for the rest of time. With DHT you can exchange info between nodes but nobody else is validating the data and when the nodes go offline the data disappears.
When asked to build some New Thing(tm) with block chain, my first question is: "What proof of stake system were you thinking to use?"

Its always lead to an interesting conversation that includes to many of the same points TFO mentions.
3 chapters in and I would have say that the title is not hyperbolic. This is a really good read so far.
Thanks for being one of the few readers that does a bit of fact checking on news - keeping the old HN alive.
Yeah, and I kind of did that. But I've found it annoying and not great.

For example in the base struct I had an interface and a ton of methods that use it.

Then when I declared the concrete struct, I have to manually point the concrete type that matches that interface to the base class's interface.

Composition doesn't really allow the same thing as inheritance. Composition typically means you'll have a motor and wheel struct in your car struct and maybe your car struct uses both in some drive method.

Inheritance is more like having a car struct with a rev engine method, but no concrete engine set.

So you can later make a Kia, set the motor to a type, and then call the base struct's rev engine method.

Again, it's not impossible, just really ugly.
Beware, that setup.py script is not a setuptools script but builds the other scripts and config on the fly. Install is "wget | sudo python." Then it overclocks the Pi. :-/

I once tried installing timidity and usb keyboard on a RPi but there was too much latency to be useful. Interested in the subject, but seems this could be done in a safer manner.
You're confusing a highly optimized loss function with AGI. Robots will continue being better at doing rote things humans do, and we will continue building them predictable environments to do them in.

But AGI is another beast. We don't understand causality in ML. We are no where near getting there.

I could foresee building some incredible human-computer interfaces, but I don't think we will get to a self-motivated thinking machine any time soon. We don't understand how our own consciences work. If we did, we would be able to better model human psychology and behavior, but we can't yet.
Yeah. And US, British, and Australian naval power are formidable.
> it's really baffling to me how with politics there is not one iota of self-criticism among the political party voters and especially among single issue voters.

Uh, there's a whole lot of internal, including self, criticism within political parties.

There are strategic reasons much (but very much not all) of that is deliberately done in a way to be outside of the public eye.
Except if you consider the "entropy" of doing that, you have an enormous amount of energy inputs required.
thats because they signed a transaction, obvious distinction as it is preparing to send money to authorize the scam. signing a keypair does not send money and doesn't use the blockchain, only the addressing namespace.

of course with the state of education on this topic being such wide and widening gulf, people are going to get taken advantage of with obvious distinctions that are not so obvious to them.
swapping to 'disk' on a raspberry pi using a microsd card for primary storage seems like a very quick way to kill your microsd card considering the poor number of write cycles per cell on those, compared to a real ssd, and overall write endurance. not a factor if you swap device is on something like a usb3-connected $50 consumer grade ssd plugged into the raspberry pi.
See now this all sounds very interesting and exciting. I love both FPGA and C++.

Too bad it's finance :-)
This is a great response, you did a good job elucidating the deeper moral and interpersonal issue while also connecting with and understanding the reason the OP is upset and even suggesting real policy changes. Thanks!
Like an open source operating system that ships with VPN in the kernel, and can be managed by a UI in a Docker container

Blockchain development is funded by VCs looking to stay relevant.

It’s software; there’s no panacea and thousands of options for solving problems; blockchain is just one.
> Scaling laws for RL agents are discovered, similar to language models.

Still waiting for a followup to https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03113 ...
Tangential to this point, but I've seen firsthand in a limited capacity but also heard of this from other devs, but there seem to be a decent number of devs who go from job to job doing the same thing over and over again. An example I've seen: a junior dev learns Springboot at a job, then goes from job to job converting their microservices to Springboot. When that project is complete (can take 1 to 2 years in some cases), they get bored or change jobs for a bump in pay and do the same thing again. As they do this a few times, they become a specialist in that field and they start self-selecting to only doing that one thing over and over and over again.

Is this widespread? Anyone else noticed this phenomenon?
> This isn't true for almost any language to the extent it's true for Go

Go's object structure is much closer to C's. In many cases, it's just casting pointers (e.g., you can convert a Go slice to a C array by taking a pointer to its first element and casting it to a pointer of the C element type, provided the element types are binary-compatible). This means fewer allocations than a language like Java or Python where you would have to allocate a new slice and chase pointers around the heap for every field in every element in the array. In my experience, most of Go's overhead comes from function call bookkeeping at the FFI boundary rather than marshaling data.

> for many compiled languages it isn't really true at all.

I'm pretty sure it's still true for many compiled languages (e.g., Java, Haskell, etc).

> While these are legitimate theoretical problems, none of them are really problems in practice.

They were problems for me in practice.

> Containers don't need to be scratch, and if you're building a Python project, you're already not running a scratch container, so the addition of FFI doesn't change that.

Containers don't need to be scratch, but they often need to be lightweight with low cold-start latencies (including pulling). Not having to pull in a whole distro is advantageous. And a pure-Python project certainly could run in a scratch container (i.e., a container with just the interpreter, the program, and the program's transitive dependencies).

> Nix is not an environment I've ever seen a requirement to support, let alone had a requirement.

"Reproducible builds" is the requirement. Our customers' security teams vetted our dependencies individually, and if a dependency changed we would have to have that dependency re-vetted.

> It really seems to me that you like Go and you like Go's design decisions, but "I like this" is not the same as "this is better than that".

Clearly, no one here is conflating those things. I'm arguing that Go has a particular strength, not that that strength is the only factor.
I was a choir boy from a young age. Became head chorister. Achieved Deans and Bishop awards from the Royal School of Church Music. I also played classical guitar. On one music exam in school I got 99%. I can't remember what I lost the point on. Anyway, my point is, I'm dumb as fcuk. Scored terrible grades throughout my schooling and in my GCSEs, which is about the time I quit the whole thing.
She has a pretty big public presence. She was on the Joe Rogan podcast with Jack. Calling someone out for being terrible never seemed to bother anyone until apparently 5 seconds ago.
I see Python as the BASIC of the 2020s.

It's not to knock it, but the real strength of Python is as a language that the non-professional programmer can pick up right away and use to put their non-programming skills on wheels.

Jupyter, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn and such are the center of the ecosystem for many people. You can point your finger at these people and tell them to try Julia because it is better on paper... And they will, and they won't like it and they'll go back to Python.
Oh! This is something I've been wanting for a while. I'm excited to try it out and see how it works out.
30k New Users Signed Up for Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter
This is correct (in that the most simplistic case is try-catch).

However, the difference between a try-catch and conditions / restarts is that when one signals a condition (exception), the restart (catch) has a continuation from the condition. This allows you to inject an expression into the location where an exception occurred and "restart" your code from that point.

Whether you do such a thing or not depends on the code, on the type of condition raised, and on what expressions are valid. So you get a lot more flexibility in how errors are handled across the system. But likewise: more complexity in having to make that choice in the first place.

Going farther than this, conditions and restarts are really just a fancy way of packaging delimited continuations. I don't personally know any non-Lisp language that has attempted to package these concepts (maybe Dylan, which is a Lisp-like in its own way but without the syntax?). Going back to the original thought regarding error handling - I think Result<T, Err> type handling is fine and that most languages would be better served by that than having different types of exceptions. Conditions and restarts are powerful but your language has to be very expression focused (i.e. does not use a lot of statements) and it's not really clear that there's been a lot of work on making restarts nice to use. Exceptions in all languages that have them have their own set of associated problems, for what its worth, and it's not as easy to move Lisp features into a non-Lisp as one might believe...
if it was anything like leetcode the question would be to play 3 notes and the interviewer would have to check the computer to tell if it was a C or a C#
Plus a day out to the park has become even more of a buzzy plastic hellscape.
Donetsk separatists’ desperate draft campaign empties streets of men
Is it just my eyes or this link / background combination really difficult to read?
Rust is the obvious language to consider. It’s concurrency model is arguably better than go’s as it actually statically prevents you from misusing types that aren’t threadsafe.
This seems like it's begging for an FAA smackdown. Drones under 250 grams are exempt from registration, but are still subject to other restrictions.

This thing seems to make autonomous flight decisions, so it can't possibly comply with FAA rules requiring a pilot in control. Is it smart enough to avoid flying over people or cars? Probably not. Betting it will also happily let users send it off into no-fly-zone airspace, and that it doesn't have any kind of a manual killswitch to force a landing if it decides to do a 'flyaway' malfunction.
Sounds like an implementation of object oriented programming as it was originally envisioned
Distributism is Based tbh
1. Haha, isn’t that a cute sound though. Loodidoo! I actually am very content with the name. Loodio. It’s short. 6 letters. Nothing else has that name in the SERP. It’s easy to say in any language. Loo + Radio = Loodio.

2. Yeah have thought about that. It’s just a lot of work first to just finish this product as I would like to have it. One day for sure. Perhaps partner with some air freshener company.
I'm hesitant to implement locally without changes at larger levels. I feel like the system depends in a fundamental way on the removal of sales and income taxes on individuals to account for the increase in taxation for less improved land. Without the changes in the other forms of taxation I feel the change in property tax amounts to a wealth transfer from homeowners to condo developers.
I think it would be at least partially solved by reorganizing government to be based upon subsidiarity :) but yes, this isn’t necessarily a question which political economy can or should solve
It's easier to have trust when there's less trust required, that statement should make sense without seeing it as an attack on inherent properties of a functioning society. And the reason that the financial system didn't break down entirely in 2008 is that taxpayers made the banks whole again. Nothing has changed fundamentally about the way banking works since, they've just added some regulations that reduce the extent of the same activities that led to the crisis.
Distributism is based tbh
While I suppose I technically agree with you that you can't literally remove all trust by some definitions, that doesn't mean it's not vitally important to talking about and carefully considering who you trust and in many cases use technology to remove the reliance on trusting particular parties.

For example, if I say "I want to use TLS to order something from an online retailer because I don't want to trust my ISP with my credit card and purchase information" it would not be appropriate to respond with "well that's just ridiculous, because there's no way to remove all trust, after all you still have to trust the online retailer to ship you the item, you have to trust your credit card company to not overcharge you, etc."
One time at band-camp ...
It's a public company so all the information should be there, due diligence isn't really a thing in this case.

It's more the aspect that Twitter likely committed a financial crime, defrauding shareholders and the acquiring party.
I tried a Surface, but didn't like it enough to keep it. I did not try it with Ubuntu though. However now I'm hooked to Procreate and Notability, so I'd end up carrying an iPad anyway.

The fully opening bag is only for when I travel on foot. I use hard panniers on the motorcycle, mainly so that I can leave everything on the bike and go on foot as needed.

And yes, travelling light is better. I carry everything - gadgets, tools, camping gear, rain gear, 0-to-40-degree clothing, full motorcycle gear - in my two 37L panniers. Again, it means that I can lock everything on the bike and go. It's very important.
In brief, he mainly complains about Christians blindly following Donald Trump and the current Republican Party.

And has written a lot about cases of sexual abuse by Christian pastors and leaders.

I greatly admire French and agree that his views have stayed consistent, while the beliefs and actions of most of those who shared the label "Conservative Christian" have greatly changed, or at least been exposed.
Follow and comment are the only things that are supported across platforms. That is what I mean by "exchanging at a basic level". To use any of the various features that makes the various applications worthwhile, you have to go create an account in that application and subscribe to people's accounts from there.

When Gitea implements federated merge requests and tickets, you will be able to follow repositories from Mastodon and comment on issues from there. That's great! But to do anything else (create/assign/close issues, open/review merge requests, ...) you will have to create a separate Gitea account and use it to interact with Gitea users. This is a serious limit to "interacting with a whole diverse universe".
Can you see the value in being able to create software more quickly, at the expense of the software's stability?
I don't think the branding issue is too hard to overcome. The Mastodon and Mastodon-clone interfaces are often very similar to Twitter so just minor verbiage changes should be sufficient to improve the UX.

On the other points though, I agree. Fundamentally a social network has _everyone_ on it. The Fediverse as it is now is a collection of small and medium communities. On top of this there's lots of drama in the Fediverse. The relationship that Fediverse instances have with each other is constantly changing and many of the smaller instance owners aren't exactly the most consistent mods/admins (kind of like IRC mods back in its heyday.) There's a certain kind of person that enjoys this kind of fluid, unprofessional (e.g. run by amateur staff, not a knock on the community at large) community, but it's not the experience most people who like social media are looking for.

If you're interested in trying the Fediverse I highly recommend peeking inside at the fun and chaos but if you're looking to replace traditional social media, I'd say look elsewhere.
> If you mandate silence, you're forcing that silence on others just as much as them playing music is forcing that sound on you.

Except that personal audio sources are much more feasible than personal noise suppression, especially if you also want to be able to carry a conversation.
here's some data https://price-index.housingstudies.org/
Any recent changes to their data processing terms that could explain this?

Just thinking out loud, I'm personally not familiar with this service.
Inform 7 open source could be big news outside of interactive fiction. I met a EU air traffic control regulator who badly wanted "Inform 7 for business rules"
Isn't this what OAuth solves?
Find a way to do that and you'll do very well. Right now, the only way to do that without trusting a central authority IS with blockchain tech, that's what it was designed for and why it actually became a thing that's stuck around for the past 13 years.

You can't have a trustless, decentralized currency without certain styles of blockchain tech. Otherwise you're just once again trusting a central authority with control of a database containing your balance.