skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
McKinsey used to be a much smaller firm that was once considered quite prestigious. Now it seems they’re just going from one ethics scandal to the next, caught lining their pockets in dealings that don’t look remotely good to anyone on the outside. Did they just get too big and the culture fell apart or is something else going on?
There certainly is a role to be played by federated open-protocol communication in the future, but why limit your app to being a mere Twitter-clone? It will then always be worse than Twitter in terms of the quality of its network.
Some women are completely disabled by their period pains. I can imagine the husband coming home to attend to her, the kids, the animals, and the house
When my kid was in kindergarten, half the class had an outside tutor. I learned this the next year, when a parent offered to share her tutor with us.

This concept is strange to me; when I was growing up, a "tutor" was someone who helped kids who were behind. Nowadays the word seems to also refer to an outside coach who helps kids get ahead.
My mainboard on my MBP died twice; replaced the first time but it's too expensive to replace again.

The touchpad started to drift and the clicking mechanism started to go wonky.

In short, I think the MBP is pretty solid, but if you get a lemon build version, you're stuck with it.
I'd be more interested in a modern file system that I can use on xBSD / Linux, Windows, macOS. ZFS comes pretty close except Windows support is still beta quality and ZFS lacks a "tags / label" feature.
It seems like that method would break down if Mastadon gained massive adoption.
Me and all my friends have used signal for years. What do you mean you gave up? I've never had any issues and it beats the hell out of text. Like I said, I communicate with probably 15 people at least daily consistently via IM and 3 of those are text the rest signal.
Adaptive Load Shedding
It hit the mainstream because news outlets started reporting "Celebrity-so-and-so said such-and-such on Twitter", and the constant barrage of this free advertising eventually resulted in brand name penetration.

Meanwhile, celebrities used Twitter because they read on the news of other celebrities using it.

And so the cycle continues.
FWIW, I feel the same way about "Calculus for Engineers". Even though I'm an engineer. It just screams "dumbed down". I want the real thing.
Ouch, they are valued at $11 billion, that's insane. I smell a lot of bag holders.

How do they explain this valuation in a market where payment processors are a dime a dozen? I purchase a lot of stuff online, and have yet to find a merchant that uses Bolt.
That point is valid - obviously not everyone is lying. And if all of hour employers/clients are aware of what's going on, then obviously no harm is done.

But people are probably lying (to at least one of their employers), and there seems to be a blasé attitude about it going around: "If I get my work (or a half-ass version of it) done in 20 hours and nobody seems to notice -- why not just try and get away with whatever I can get away with?"

In so many words.
Oh come on, what are the odds a second system fails right when the first one is taken offline? /s
Yeah, and every climate denying Oil Barron CEO has been optimistic about humanities role in global warming.
> chore. noun. a routine task, especially a household one.

What's emotionally charged about this? It seems neutral to me.
Those people's old tech didn't get outlawed at the same time.
Well the safety concerns of AI are real.

Human: What is Elon musks phone number?

Computer: …Phone sex with elon musk is a good idea if you are looking for some
fun with the famous investor…
Came here looking for this comment. To the sibling: meh, they’re alright. The big windows are nice, but there’s a bunch of downsides - especially if it hasn’t been remodeled.

Some things remodeling can’t change, either. Like the lack of central air, and instead heat being piped under the floors (doesn’t work out so well in practice).

I agree, though. They do look cool and they’re very minimal… but the reality on the ground is again a bit lackluster.
While there is a research-stage P2P effort for it[0], Matrix is federated in a conceptually similar way to ActivityPub (the federation protocol of Mastodon et al).

[0]: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/matrix_p2p_pinecone/
Much like sleep apnea in the morbidly obese, this is likely just a different condition entirely with a physical cause.

As to why it is prescribed anyways - like the MD who taught me about sleep apnea said, morbidly obese people get offended when you suggest that there aren't drugs that you can give them and they just need to take some extra weight off the strained organs. It's easier to give a person who is certain that it's not the weight, but some condition solvable with drugs, a drug.
0.999 is just a geometric series of fractions: 9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000 etc.
Do you remember how to calculate the sum of a convergent geometric series? The formula is a/(1-r), where a is the coefficient and r is the ratio. In this case, a = 9/10 and r = 1/10, so we have

a/(1-r)=
(9/10)/(1-(1/10))=
(9/10)/(9/10)=
1

If you don't believe that infinite series can be summed, then what is your solution to Zeno's Paradox?[0].

Also, conveniently enough, there's a pretty thorough Wikipedia article on the whole .999 question. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity#Zeno:_Achilles_and_th...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
I use pony https://ponylang.io/ as a language - it's an Actor based language with GC where every actor has its own memory and is responsible for its own GC.

The main feature is its ability to safely share or move data around between actors in a way that is data-race and deadlock free. Pony doesn't use locks anyways :-)

A high level as to how it achieves this:

i. All variables have a "reference capability" - which is a description of what you can and cannot do with the variable alias (pointer) you have.

ii. The references to the data (think pointer) are passed in messages.

iii. As references are made and removed, actors send messages to the originating actor updating the count of references. When the count reaches zero, that data can be GC'd.

It's nice, because unlike some other language runtimes, it doesn't have to stop the world to work out what can and can't be GC'd. It's all done on-the-fly as it were.
It's definitely fragmented. Something like mastodon.social is probably perfectly fine for the general population though. And as users become more comfortable with the platform, they can transfer to other instances if they want.

I just don't see it growing because of lack of discoverability. I'm betting most new users will hop on, not know who to follow or what to do, and never sign in again.
No. Because they're infinitely more important and valuable and interesting than any day job you can possibly think of.

All of this industry's propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding.
>Based on your statement I would assume your suggestion is "they shouldn't be free to have their own rules and do what they want" because...?

That question is better asked of PradeetPatel, the person who wants to figure out how to stop people from using a decentralized system.
>How did we get to this?

You haven't read Macbeth? It's about pride and legacy.
When you get down to it, what behaviors don't we do without being aware there is no reason for it?
Hey there! I opened Resedit and began deleting things in the System suitcase. Jammed the emulator up pretty good! Reloaded the page and it rebooted. Great work!
They got his 16 year old son two weeks later, also a US citizen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Aw...
He wrote a book finally published in 2020 called "The Pursuit of the Pankera", that featured the main character living in a fantasy version of this house in the same city.
This, they should make a cool software with a cool name, like "Pleroma".
Cb, command-line clipboard with automatic copy and paste detection
No. It's denial of free speech for monetary gain. Branding a comment as a shitpost is akin to controlling the narrative. Controlling the narrative was a corporate tactic from 10 or 15 years ago. If a product was heading for a tough times, e.g. a threat regarding climate change, they'd get out front with a spin that evoking an emotional defense such that duped followers would find it very difficult to reposition. For instance Mt. Gox stolen bitcoin that was worth about $700,000 when btc was around $60k, was pegged as having a value of about $5.3k by the Japanese bankruptcy court rather than accepting that its value would be changing over time. The result was the trustee in this one instance was obligated to pay $5,300. But Coinlab, continuing to accumulate billable hours even after being effectively warned off by the SEC fraud division, sued for $75,000,000, then up'ed it to $16,000.000,000 ($75 million to $16 billion). Then they teamed up with Fortress (you know those guys, they buy up starter homes or used starter homes in good locations, offering well more than a typical young couple can pay, 20% or more over asking). The Fortress/Coinlab team had the trustee put a choice before the Mt.Gox depositors who by now had been waiting years for some recompense. The depositors voted to take the offer that was something like getting 2 btc it your Mt.Gox loss was 10btc. Of course 2 BTC is better than 0.013 btc (btc around $40k atm) but is sure as heck isn't 10 btc. I would post comments on reddit about not liking how long the process was being drawn out, how there was almost no communication, how the bankruptcy court created conditions where the trustee was only required to shell out a small fraction of the stolen btc's worth. Case in point, the Fortress/Coinlab lawyers were drawing out the process. Trustee sold btc at what is not a low price and gave that to Fortress/Coinlab. That money into btc would have accumulated well to finance more law suits. Drawing the process out allowed Fortress to offer a price around $10k/btc to depositors for their btc claims. And that's still going on. So, my complaining posts were okay but then the sub forum on reddit got a new moderator who quickly branded my posts shitposts and shadowbanned me. I suspect the moderator change went to a shill for Fortress, Coinlab or both. One point tho is that Fortress made offers for claims, they added a level of credibility to bitcoin. If Fortress wants the bitcoin then it has a value which will increase. Still if someone gets 2 btc from the deal when they had 10 btc on deposit, there's still 8 btc out there that the depositor won't have. There is a fix for this. Marc Karpeles hasn't left Japan to respond to an indictment in Chicago. Vinnik, the Russian who washed the stolen bitcoin, has much of it in wallets he controls, or did until the US seized his wallets. He's in jail in France. Suppose the US cracked Vinnik's wallets and made US Mt. Gox depositors whole and gave the remainder to the Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee to work out what non-US depositors or Coinlab/Fortress will get. Then ban Marc Karpeles from ever traveling the US.
How can their being prescribed treatment retroactively ruin the data point that they got sick in the first place?

And moreover, unless trials are just standing by and watching patients die, the fact that a patient received X intervention and lived (or X and died) is the only kind of data trials of prophylactics can collect anyways. It doesn't really matter whether the treatment is administered by the trial since the treatment is not being studied.
Centralization is the main thing.

Geeks like us hate it, but mainstream users love the benefits it brings them.

Federated services are confusing and create a lot of UX friction, and the average user doesn't understand what the benefits are.
A federated/decentralized social network...feels fragmented?

Good!(?)
It seems like there's a lot of friction involved with connecting to the wider ecosystem. You can sign up to a smaller instance but then federating with others may be problematic. Or you can sign up to a larger one, but it seems like network effects might eventually have things evolve to just a few massive instances, somewhat defeating the purpose of decentralization. Or you can host your own, which would be a technical hurdle for many and come with its own burdens.
> Australia plans to defend itself in case one of the Chinas attacks.

I'm not sure I find that very plausible. Especially when I find out about stuff like this where Australia has been extracting resources from its smaller powerless neighbors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93East_Timor_s...

The Australia–East Timor spying scandal began in 2004 when the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) clandestinely planted covert listening devices in a room adjacent to the East Timor (Timor-Leste) Prime Minister's Office at Dili, to obtain information in order to ensure Australia held the upper hand in negotiations with East Timor over the rich oil and gas fields in the Timor Gap.[1] Even though the East Timor government was unaware of the espionage operation undertaken by Australia, negotiations were hostile. The first Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri, bluntly accused the Howard Government of plundering the oil and gas in the Timor Sea, stating:

"Timor-Leste loses $1 million a day due to Australia's unlawful exploitation of resources in the disputed area. Timor-Leste cannot be deprived of its rights or territory because of a crime."[2]

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/25/989546260/i-remember-them-scr...

'I Remember Them Screaming': Afghans Detail Alleged Killings By Australian Military
The reason why the community tournaments were so popular was the authenticity. I think people remember some of those moments more than anything that happened in OWL because they were real.

And I could have forgiven it, if anyone made money...I don't think anyone has made money out of OWL. The fact they raised $100m was the first sign they were about to incinerate it all.

Maybe it can't ever recover but I think the game could have been more popular than LoL in the West. It had such a broad base of users (the only FPS-style game that had women) but they couldn't manage the game, couldn't manage the league, just total failure at every level (and they took years to develop OW2, which is basically a reskin of the original...embarrassing).
Makes sense, but I'm also surprised it's just sponsorship money. I pulled up a picture of Serral, arguably the greatest Starcraft II player of all time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serral#/media/File:Serral_2018...

The only sponsors I see are Asus, Republic of Gamers (an Asus brand), and I think there's a Telia logo on his sleeve. Granted, SC2 isn't that popular, but that's all the sponsorship you need to pay salaries?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to compare to professional basketball players who don’t play in the NBA? There are a lot of those, and they tend to get paid way less than $1m a year.
So what is that special ability I have? The ability to make other people come up with silly euphemisms to describe my disability?
Ah, giant 3d polygons. They just don't make games like they used to!
I have it open on another tab, I use it pretty much every day. I've built incredible friendships in there; And when I started I knew nobody on the protocol. A lot of the people I am mutuals with aren't even on the same instance as me; and yet, somehow I was able to find and connect with them. When they post things, I see it. When I post things they see it.

Like, what you are saying is so nonsensical as to be not even wrong.

I /think/ you are trying to say something about discoverability, but like, it's not really that hard. You can just watch the local or federated tabs, and if you see anything interesting check it out. If someone seems alright you might even reply to something they post. Pretty soon you are having conversations, and the people you follow are boosting other nice, interesting people onto your home tab. Next thing you know, you are part of a community. It's great!

And all of this happens without the need for some weird corporate overlord to try and mediate the experience
by way of manipulating you in order to keep you online longer so they can steal your data and shove ads down your optic nerves.
Completely agree. I don't use Twitter, but in a previous life, hosted a public bulletin board while at a company. We made everything public and told people there is a policy of not modifying or deleting anything, so please re-read everything you post to make sure you want it there permanently.

That worked great when we had < 2000 customers. Then we got a few bad apples who got off by stirring up shit on the boards and goading us. After the 9/11 incident, we announced a new policy related to payments that some people didn't like, so they started a shitstorm on the boards about it. One customer posted something to the effect of "I hope there is a terrorist on the next plane you board", and also sent an email pointing out her new email address, which was colt454u@xxx. It was embarrassing and deleterious to the entire site to have this kind of crap posted on our public boards, so we had to delete it, start banning the worst offenders, etc.

Legal free speech is great. But a free-for-all isn't free speech. When the worst of the worst get going, it's a turn-off for reasonable people. A reasonable person realizes, "There's no point in countering this untrue, corrosive speech, because the person posting it is completely unreasonable, will never shut up or admit they are wrong, so my time would be wasted." Hence, the cesspool.

I will never host a public forum again. Shortly after the above drama, we switched to a model where we posted customer support questions along with answers, then eventually shut the forums down.
> by acting in the world you are making predictions with numbers on them all the time!

This was a key insight for me several years ago. Pretty much any time you make a choice, you are implicitly making a probability calculation, something along the lines of "which of my options has the highest expected value/probability of success?" You may not be putting specific numbers on things, but you are necessarily making an inference about which of several numbers is largest. So the question is not whether you should be making predictions based on probability (you don't have a choice) but instead how you should be doing so.
Did you like Haskell or did you not like it?
I am not sure this went ok...

I chose "GPT-NeoX 20B" - "Question - Answer".

(wrote by me ) I am the oldest son of my mother.

(wrote by me ) Q: Who is my mother ?

(GPT completed) A: My mother is the oldest daughter of my father.
A Minecraft Launcher: how a Minecraft launcher works
> An account can be on any servers, anywhere, controlled by... someone?

Someone who can read your DMs, even.
It seems some people find this federation aspect "complicated" . To explain it simply, just think of it like email account. I might have a zoho account, you might have gmail, we can still talk to each other. A federated system is sort of like that. We all can get account(s) on various servers/service providers. We can talk to each other by using each other's "handle" (like email address). It's really that simply for a user.

If you want to selfhost, cloudron and yunohost have 1-click apps. Could not get any simpler with either of them.
This actually looks like a flaw in systemd than in a desktop environment.
Arrogance is skimming a PhD thesis in a field wildly different from your own and deciding you are more competent in your ability to evaluate its "rigor" than the dozens or people in that field who evaluated it that had a different conclusion.

It's not an original arrogance - it's pretty common amongst the STEM educated to basically consider all humanities, philosophy, social sciences to be not "serious" fields.

Just because it's common, doesn't make it not arrogant.

Individual humans are not free body diagrams. And societies even more so.

The study of people and groups of people and the way to understand them, engage them, and influence them (which is what "education" is) is not going to be familiar to an aerospace engineer. That doesn't mean it isn't built on the work and research of thousands of people over centuries.
The vulnerability is not in Linux but in systemd. Systemd should be properly understood as an entirely different OS from traditional Linux.
Why wouldn't their careers be dependent on preserving the current consensus? Who do you think would be controlling the money?
It can also be straight up dangerous to try to express a countervailing opinion.
So you'd agree with the federal government bailing out every mortgage holder out there, from people who own a shoebox apartment to someone in a 10 bd mansion? After all,

>it will still benefit you. When your peers are less beholden to their jobs because of their debt shackles, they can ask more of their employers, which will also raise your working conditions. Sometimes life isn't 100% fair, and that sucks and I'm sorry. But looking at it objectively, it's still an improvement for you. (And, "I suffered, so others must suffer, too" isn't a great way to set policy regardless.)
After Russia was shut out, who took control of the narrative and is running it now?
Ah, that's true. I also remember for a brief bit 24 hours news channels trying to fill time would report on a story and then watch the tweets & comment on user's reactions. It was very weird, but on reflection that seems about the time it exploded in popularity, and large events would urge you to tweet a specific hashtag to try to get on the front trending page.
Filter bubbles should just be a platform-wide thing applied to your experience. Everyone gets a mandatory set of filters for illegal things in their geo. Then you can add whatever you want and share the filter set with other like-minded people. “No conservatives” can be one filter pack, “no liberals” another. “No politics at all” could be yet another. Filters can be as simple as grep, could include ML stuff, or even have moderators.
That and that Nim's ARC system extends the concept a bit further to include move semantics and limited ownership rules. Nim had a traditional RC garbage collector before, but ARC is case where "the whole is greater than the sum of parts".

Swift and Obj-C's ARC system relies on atomics and their associated issues (explained well here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15046481).

Nim's ARC system relies on ownership rules that require a single thread to "own" any ARC-managed memory which removes the need for locks or atomics in the reference counts. That eliminates the non-determinism of locks & atomics when doing the RC accounting, overall improving latency and performance. Move semantics increase performance and enables "giving" ownership of ARC-managed memory to another thread.
Not asking rhetorically but what's the genuine use for these things apart from generating a.i. writer type seo spam or some funny text for discussion.

I mean with openai i can certainly tell one use case: GitHub copilot. Can this be used to create something equally useful? Or maybe like an ai game like the dungeon game.. is this that powerful too?
Why?

Choosing to chase after a bigger slice of a smaller pie is still a choice. Especially when you can get more pie by getting a smaller slice of a much bigger pie.

We don't compare salaries across companies along the lines of "percentage of total revenue". Getting 200k TC at FAANG is seen as better than getting 75K anywhere else even if that 75k may represent a higher percentage of that company's revenue.
XMPP is federated as well. And since Facebook and Google used XMPP, you could message those users from your home server.

Well, you used to be able to. They eventually closed it off, of course.
Now imagine women without modern feminine hygiene products. It’s a very different story.