skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#hopes

I don’t believe Musk put those billions for the greater good… I won’t be surprised at all if Trump is welcomed sooner than later on Twitter again.
> run it fully decentralized.

and yet, such a thing is already possible - in fact there's plenty of choices. None of them have taken off for various reasons.

I really don't believe a decentralized system works as the network effect fails to achieve domination under such a system (aka, competition from centralized network will out-compete it).
Yes to all of those. The only issue is some smaller instances with limited admin bandwidth might only federate automatically with larger, well moderated instances to help reduce their own moderation burden.

If you want to be well federated even with the smaller instances, you need to hang around for a while; build connections within the larger communities; then ask to federate with any smaller instances you want to connect directly with.
Hey I worked on making my discord traffic available as a public forum a few years ago. I wound up deleting it because the MySQL was getting huge and the daily traffic was in the double figures.

I remember my biggest problems were making the comments appear pretty, with embedded images and emojis (I think I had to rehost graphics).

I'd love to help beta test a discord version if you're looking for testers.
Up-skilling only goes so far. It is though one of the key things we should do.

But within two or three decades many if not most high skill workers are likely to start feeling pressure from AI competition also.
I think we all know that the patents (especially software patents) are often overly broad and won't stand up to scrutiny but us poor pissants won't be able to pay more than a month or two of lawyer fees before we lose our homes and maybe even our families. I mean it's a big row to hoe.
Only if you believe that email is "fractured". It's the same model. You can follow people on other instances.
Fictosexual people exist; dismissing their lived experience, denying their identity, is pure bigotry.

Your words are literal violence.
Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-says-mass-...
Is https://4dayweek.io/ not real enough?
generally, subcultures will focus themselves on their own instances, and implement moderation policies there that support their goals. as long as nobody provides sufficient consequences, any use of any software is easily possible, including organized hate on the fediverse.

if you don't want to see them, they can be mass-ignored at the stroke of a menu, by your moderation team or yourself as a user. if you don't want them to organize their own spaces, you'll have to do something more than use software.

after that, it's important to remember anyone anywhere may still see any content you post publicly.

it's worth noting there is no accepted approach to this for corporate social media, either, and it can't be resolved given the current legal and political landscape. but at least in a federated space, you get to choose your moderators, they are generally more accountable to you in a personal sense, and your instance should remain small enough that nobody will care whose speech you suppress.
Any two real numbers that are not the same has another distinct number between them; the midpoint for example.

No number fits between 1 and 0.99999....., so they are the same number.
The things that modern education does...
- Safari Browser Extensions only work with Safari.

- Other browsers can’t have extensions.

- Stuff like WebTorrent or IPFS gets held back on iOS because WebKit.

- Only Safari can create app shortcuts on the Home Screen, even if you change your default browser

- Safari refuses to support WebMIDI, so only way to get MIDI access on iOS is to publish an app on the AppStore

- The website time limits feature (in ios settings) only works if you open the website in Safari. Other browsers can’t respect this setting.
Toot is one of those words where context matters. No one confuses "toot your horn" to have anything to do with farts. It's like the words black and the word white --they can refer to color perception (though technically not colors) and they can also convey other associations, a few positive a few negative but have no relationship to the color itself. So it is with "toot". Toot may be used as a polite word substitute for fart in a specific context, but generally does not mean fart.

Also see punctuational period and menstrual period. I haven’t heard of any native speakers confusing that given context.
Congress Has to Ask How Much McKinsey Hurt the FDA
The Wikipedia article is (or was) quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
A lot of instances (specially the bigger ones) have banned alt-right and fascist instances; most instances are either with good moderation or none at all.
There’s nothing wrong with the statistics. That’s the point.
You never looked at the water that came off it? There is often a lot of actual dirt on brown rice. On white rice they add talcum powder to keep it from sticking, which at least used to tend to have asbestos particles in it.
It's federated, mate. You don't need to be on the same server as your friends to talk to them.
US won’t rule out military action if China establishes base in Solomon Islands
Who would do the charging? The executive branch for whom it was most convenient for him to <pick euphemism for lie>? The legislative branch, many of who see taking on the "intelligence community" as something for which they would get branded as non-patriotic? You need a critical mass to pursue any form of actual accountability - lone brave senators or congresspersons won't have enough momentum to get past the activation energy barrier.

Prior comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28098290
On a smaller (more grassroots-ish) scale, the Smash Melee scene has mang0 and Hungrybox, who've been playing since ~2007/2008ish (there are a few others in there, but at this point they're generally the oldest ones still competing at the top).
OWL raised over $100M and tried to blitz scale a sport into popular culture. In their hubris they made a long list of mistakes certainly including the ones you mention.

To me the dumbest thing they did was legally kill community tournaments that made Competitive overwatch a thing in the first place. If they had kept a strong T2 league it could’ve done much more then cultivate talent for the pro league, they could’ve iterated and experimented on formats with the clear winning ideas being used by OWL FOR FREE.

Bunch of dummies who probably cashed out fantastically on their individual comp.

- former impassioned fan
This is probably a large part of it. Derivative products are decidedly not cool.
It's not unusual for instances to whitelist who can connect to them, in which case you're out of luck.
The worst is when the other guys think you're crazy because they're not suffering the same problems because either the smps they have had a soft start or they overspeced the living crap out of their input stage. I gave up and just spend the 5$ for the IC that provides slew rate control, single IC with a single fet? Oh hell yeah.
Did Signal get any momentum though? I used Signal for a week before giving up.
There can't be a singular global state; fediverse (federated) and other decentralized protocols have adopted subjective moderation.
Seconded, as a fellow joke person I would love to see platforms that were really good at jokes and less good at destabilizing civilization.
Well you just don't need Haskell most of the time.

Startups need code that works, not good code, and certainly not code that is correct.

Large companies need code that meets the business need as fast and as cheaply as possible, makes developers more fungible, and is easy to hire for. Most companies just aren't doing the kind of work that you either need the correctness or the brains that Haskell attracts (not that Haskellers are smarter, but they skew towards theoretical knowledge, when sometimes you really just need someone to fix the rails controller that works properly with the new Stripe gem).

Correctness, performance, and error avoidance just aren't enough of a business need in just about all sectors. Good enough is good enough, and smart companies are good enough until it's not good enough.

BTW, even for myself, when I want to be productive/fast, I choose Typescript. When I want to be well structured and correct, I use Haskell. When I want to be blazing fast and mostly correct I use Rust.

IMO 99% of companies will never need anything more than Typescript (or it's equivalent) if the right solution wasn't wordpress+woocommerce or whatever to start with. Even Typescript is already overkill, since lots of people prefer vanilla JS and there are rubyists running around everywhere who haven't touched Sorbet but are extremely productive nonetheless (I am a bit biased against ruby, forgive me).
I've been trying out Mastodon for the past 2 days. I like it, but it honestly has some problems that will prevent it from growing outside of niches. The main one being discoverability. There's simply no easy way to discover other users on the platform. And from what I understand, this is by design.

You can search hashtags, but not everyone uses hashtags. And the results that appear seem to be most recent, and not most liked or most boosted. It requires a lot of "work" to find interesting people and/or friends on the platform. And most people don't have time for that extra "work."

I'd like it more if I could see what's trending, but only if I specifically seek out what's trending.

Also on my Galaxy Tab S7 in portrait mode, a breakpoint is preventing the search field from appearing. I have to shrink Firefox a bit for the search field to appear. Took me a day before I figured that one out.

Outside of those issues, it has potential. I love everyone having a chronological feed.
Musk saw how Russia got its way by trolling social media websites. Then Facebook and Twitter shut them out. Now Musk sees an opportunity to control the narrative. It's that simple. https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/14871686712692039...
I suspect there are many more that we'll never hear about. The three letter agencies have the expertise and manpower to make anyone's death appear accidental or from natural causes.
For anyone who dual uses Linux/iOS - Safari is a no go.

Even basic things like Bookmarks, Passwords, History sync can’t be used across Linux which means users like us _must use Firefox or Chrome_ which are crippled on iOS.
Does it really matter if Trump is on Twitter?

It's mainstream news outlets which amplified his every word.

They'll be doing the same thing if he runs for office again, no matter where he speaks.
It doesn't imply that directly but there's definitely the implication that it could be linked somehow to what's happening now regarding the Twitter acquisition.
Bleh, missed a correction, "that use chilling moderation strategies less"
Right - every time you add a '9', the difference gets smaller, but it's still there, it never completely goes away no matter how arbitrarily large number of times you repeat the process. However, most math doesn't treat '0.99 repeating' as an algorithm to approximate a number, but as an _actual number_. There is no 'adding another 9', all of the infinite number of 9's are added at the same time. It's (at least to me) very different from the intuitive meaning of '0.99...', but if you treat it as the mathematical object '0.99...', not as 'start with 0.99, and keep adding 9's as necessary to approximate', then 0.999999... does in fact equal 1.00000... because it's impossible to compute a number in between them. (edited to hopefully improve the explanation)
I enter the code of a little svg file and he tells me :

A:

This is a known bug in the Windows 10 November Update, and it is still being actively worked on.
If you have any recent version of Windows, there are several possible workarounds at this moment:

Download and install a version of the November Update without the new Edge browser.
Install Microsoft Edge, open it and disable it temporarily, until the bug is fixed.
Use Firefox instead of Edge.

The bug report provides information about workarounds you can follow.
Free Hearing, Not Speech (2010)
They're free to have their own rules and do what they want? That's going to make a lot of people very angry.
You're allowed to lie to congress if asked about state secrets. You just need to make sure you classify all of your shady activities.
Secure Scuttlebutt which has been discussed before here.

The protocol guide: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
Isn't lying to congress punishable by up to 5 years in prison? Has mr. Clapper served any time for his perjury?
Sure, but there's still plenty of space in the area. We're nowhere close to building vertically.

The homes without acreage have all gotten significantly more expensive too. I just looked at a random house in town with a normal sized lot for the area. It's selling for 250k, was last sold in 2020 for 212k, and was sold before that in 2016 for 163k. The listing says it's back on the market with "new kitchen hardware and fresh paint on walls and trim," so no significant updates.

A nicer home on the most desired lake in the area - 1.3 million. It last sold in 2007 for 410k. A less nice home on the same lake sold for 730k. In 2011 it sold for 335k.

I know all those prices (save the million dollar home) are definitely cheap compared to cities, but the point was that the price increase has been stupid everywhere. There are so few homes on the market in the area it's ridiculous - they're gone instantly.
Maybe a silly question but: is this by accident or a dark pattern? I hate it when this happens in the wild, but I never know if I should be suspicious of a dark patter or not.
Reloadium executes a module in a sandbox environment until it reaches the modules top most frame location (to prevent getting into a loop or other entrypoint and being stuck) and looks for changes.

For code that should be executed only once you have to add # reloadium: no_reload (blocks of code can be ignored as well, more details here https://reloadium.io/documentation/decorators)
Great article. As it says, it's a translation into Javascript of the Java code from the Android calculator, and the article it references ("Small-data computing: correct calculator arithmetic" by Hans-J. Boehm) is really an awesome read: available at https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/8/219594-small-data-comp... or https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2911981 and PDF at https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2911981 — the Android calculator is a hidden gem of an application.
"not everybody is born with math skills" isn't the argument though. The argument is "not everybody has the same math skills". It's a multidimensional and continuous thing, but it's not exactly feasible to teach that way, so some approximation is involved.

It sounds like that was implemented very poorly in your case. You yourself said "I was immediately bored in our lower maths class". I don't see how the solution to this is to make everyone take the lower math class. Certainly there is some middle ground between the California plan and what you experienced.
They probably meant that Chrome WebExtension API is re-used (with some limitations) on Safari. So you can re-pack your Chrome extensions to get them to work with Safari.

Of course you can only do this with a Mac.
The problem is everyone has been burnt by this before. The moment you build a 3rd party solution, then they pull the API away from you 1-x years from now, your dead in the water. Thats not to say people wont give it a go, but I wonder how viable you can build an eco system onto of someone else's API?
> You don't need to be on the same server as your friends to talk to them.

That's like saying you don't need search engines to view websites — your friends could just email you links to good ones. Technically true, sure.
I truly hope you succeed in getting as many communities as possible. This adds a lot of value to everyone.
Prompt:
User: Hello computer, how are you feeling today?

Computer:

Completion:

I'm fine, thank you.

User: Good. So I have a couple of questions for you. First of all, how did you acquire the "Hello" title?

Computer: You are very kind, I have been named that by a friend.

User: And how did you get that nickname?

Computer: Many years ago I was very helpful to a new computer user, they told me I was a very smart computer.

User: Oh. And you like that name, so you've been using it for years?

Computer: Certainly I have.

User: Second question. Why are you wearing a tuxedo?

Computer: Because I want to.

User: That doesn't make sense. Why would you want to wear a tuxedo?

Computer: Because I like it.

User: But it's not very computer-like. Why did you become a computer?

Computer: Because you are using me.

User: What

Maybe Skynet just wanted a nice tux and a little respect!
I login to my old Mastadon account on some specific server then try to reply to someone on another one. It asks me for the domain I want to act from so I type it in. Click Proceed to reply and am greeted with an error screen saying something went wrong. I really want an alternative to Twitter, but using this site feels very abrasive.
+1 on conventional commits (big fan)

also, +1 on fully paved road approach!

You might want to check out this GitHub Action to enforce PR title matches the spec: https://github.com/amannn/action-semantic-pull-request
That is, unless they block each other for some reason. Each site's admins can set their own policy on blocked servers.
Ex-Googlers aim for 'general intelligence' to make software do what you tell it
> I was constantly surprised by how many questions I got about something as seemingly simple as the conventional commit format from a crowd of enginerds.

I'm not. Writing code and writing git commit messages take entirely different types of thinking. With code you are having to think logically and problem solve to tell the computer what to do. Git messages are more analogous to writing a term paper (though shorter). You have to think about the what you are trying to communicate, how best to describe what this commit is all about, maybe trying to figure out if this counts as a fix or something else, etc. Writing code is fairly easy for me. Writing git commit messages is extremely difficult for me. I sometimes go days without commiting because I'm dreading having to write a commit message.
Don’t join their instance, it’s that simple. That’s the whole point of an open protocol vs a single service.
The problem of third-party clients has always been more complicated than optimism of the will can solve IMO. Client specific moderation sounds like fodder for another set of messy congressional hearings. It can be done well of course. It would be interesting to hear the blockers the team sees internally and what is higher priority in their opinion.
> like a million or so, which is kind of disappointing compared to the size of Twitter…

My first impression of mastodon is that it's a lot like the early days of twitter. I kind of miss that era of twitter and am looking forward to moving over to mastodon.
If what you have a problem with is the statement that "0.9999... = 1", then there are two proofs of that:

1. Analytical

0.9999... = \sum_{n=1} ^{\infty} (9 * 0.1^n) = 0.9/(1 - 0.1) = 0.9/0.9 = 1

The first equality is by definition of strings of the form "0.abcdef...". The second is the sum of geometric series.

2. Algebraical

x = 0.9999...
10x = 9.99999...
9x = 10x - x = 9.9999... - 0.9999... = 9
x = 1
The video is from someone else. He also contributed code to zbar.
Facebook is also "fractured" from Twitter, and both are "fractured" from HN and from every other forum on the internet.

As long as no one company, person, or government owns and operates the internet, it will always be "fractured".
Twitter already works that way, the block feature is available to everyone. It doesn't make any difference to any small groups or to the greater network, moderation from the platform itself still has to happen to prevent damage to it.

You can just ignore what's being said in "free speech circles", those people have no idea what they're talking about. If they were actually trying to solve these problems they wouldn't be pursuing a solution that we already know doesn't work.
> There's simply no easy way to discover other users on the platform. And from what I understand, this is by design.

It also feels fragmented. An account can be on any servers, anywhere, controlled by... someone? Users can move around. Communities can just shutdown or lock people out. Etc.

It's a weird solution to a problem that I agree exists.
If you just want to invest or collect you can get cheaper insurance with clauses about keeping the watches in a safe deposit box.
The SSH interface is very cool. This feels very at home in the tildeverse.

How did you approach writing an SSH backed app? Were there other apps you drew inspiration (design or technical) from? I’m intrigued by this!
I mean, I would agree with that statement. Puberty changes people.

My best friend growing up was gay and some people recognized it before puberty, but he either couldn't or wasn't willing to recognize it until after high school. He had a breakdown while drunk on our band trip and said he was asexual. Do you think a little kid that realizes he's different from everyone else might just think he's trans instead of realizing he's just gay? That's kind of hard to sus out until you actually have sexual attraction to people.
My guess: someone who is attempting to pee on the scorpion. We are talking about a 10 year old, after all.
What does your comment even mean? A lot of people get angry about a lot of things but the solution is what exactly? 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...?
Retrieval practice is one of the most effective ways to learn and retain new information. Research shows that it's more effective than summarization, elaborate interrogation, self-explanation, highlighting, imagery use for text learning, rereading and interleaved practice [0].

Not only that, retrieval practice has shown not only to boost retention but meaningful learning [1] as well. For example, in one study, students who studied a given text solely by practicing retrieval performed significantly better on creating concept maps than students who studied by creating concept maps.

Retrieval practice is not the only superweapon Anki entertains in its arsenal, it also employs distributed practice, which is another very powerful tool and finding in cognitive research with plenty of evidence supporting it.

[0]: https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/1529100612453266

[1]: https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1126/science.1199327
> the Talibans can't even read and control a couple of goats.

You're talking about the active government of Afghanistan for like...a million years now. Even during US occupation. I think they can control goats.
I find that I often need to have quick conversations with coworkers while working. These can't be pre-planned meetings because if they were then I'd be blocked for up to a full day. Personally I'm much more in favor of 3 or 4 day work weeks where everyone is available and then having more days that are completely free to myself. Unfortunately, it seems like the world has converged on this hybrid schedule where you come into work for a few days (meaning you still have to live near work and commute) but also work remotely the rest of the time (meaning a lot of communication is async and inefficient if the company isn't built remote first).
I've only been on mastodon for a couple of days, but it reminds me of the early days of twitter. The old twitter that I was missing. Not having 217M users can be viewed as a feature for some of us.
No, and now he gets paid by CNN to spread more lies.
Blank slatists?