skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this thing has quite a bit of personality...

[edit]. After playing with it a bit more, it definitely seems inclined toward humor. The non sequiturs have a Jack Handey feel about them. e.g. it came out with this further down:

"Maybe we could have the dog give you a ride to the hotel?" she said.

I stared at her, as if she'd just slapped me in the face.

"No, thanks," I said. "It's not that far."

Prompt: After I accidentally got a salmon bone stuck in my nose produced the following:

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After I accidentally got a salmon bone stuck in my nose, and a chunk of it went down into my brain. Now I'm living with a huge scar and a missing nose. Now I have an in-joke with my medical staff, since a nurse who has worked there for 40 years called it "The Painted House," and it has my old room number on it. And, my nose looks like a bloody pendant for those who are curious. So now I have a reason to be a snarky asshole. And I don't have a nose to snarl with.

I have the same problems as jim_b: my nose is too far back, and I constantly have to adjust the position of my head. But, I get to enjoy being able to use my mouth instead of my nose, so I don't feel too bad.

You're missing the point. This isn't about how ugly the injury is. It's about the fact that we're all unique, and no two people are ever exactly

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Node js has ridiculously large dependancy trees. There is is this joke that a hello world program in NodeJS is only complete when it has 200 dependancies. If one of those many npm modules has a backdoor/vulnerability then you are screwed which is not the case for other languages.
> Dumb question

I dont think it's a dumb question! These things are often shrouded in secrecy imho - and it makes it hard for young, new players to know whether it's a good path for them or not. There's nothing to compare it with! I favour transparency tbh.

a lot of esports teams work like a business - they hire workers who "produce" something and sell it for a profit. in this case, it's advertising.

This is why you see players wearing a jersey/tshirt that has tonnes of logos and such, and their player names will have advertising/branding on it (gfuel being the big one i see often).

The team pays a salary to the players, and takes the sponsorship money (and the difference, if any, is profit). The players generally also get a share of the prize money too - which is like an incentive bonus to perform well.
IMO - Mastodon does not quite roll of the tongue
Yes, but these alternatives are much harder to find for students who already aren’t the best at navigating the school system. Requiring students to figure all of this out is going to reduce the number of students who benefit by quite a bit.
If a company is based on its network effects, and is “worth” $11B, in an industry that you participate in, and you nor anyone you have ever met has seen it in the wild, it at least implies that something fishy is going on.
Have you checked out https://www.nushell.sh/? It seems like exactly what you're describing. Although I know of people who are happily using it as their main shell, I only really use it when I need to read and manipulate data in files.
...says Mastadon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Derwish
> A mass exodus has already begun. Mastodon has been blowing up over the past few days, I think ~600,000 accounts have been made in the last 24 hours on the main instance alone.

Wow, that's stunning. Does anyone currently track or graph these stats?

> I'm pretty excited for the future if people are this willing to go back to federated social media.

I wonder if we'll see a resurgence of aggregator (like FriendFeed) or real-time search (like Collecta) startups/services.
And yet people don’t feel the same way about “Calculus for Engineers” despite it also being a ridiculously dumbed down course full of rote memorization of formulas, “procedures,” and “strategies” with the bare minimum of hand-wavy theory. Compared to the courses for maths students it’s just as much pretending to learn calculus.

dae STEM has got to be one of the most exhausting memes on the internet. Hell, I’m 3/4 of the letters and even I find this aspect of our culture insufferable.
It’s the same dozen every day because they are the kids and staff at a kindergarten.
Well rather than manually enter the bug fixes/features introduced in each release on the GitHub releases, you can just paste a link to the automatically generated changelog.
This is less error prone and isn't meant to replace writing good commit messages.
Hah, yes, I've unironically used https://github.com/kzk/unicorn-worker-killer in production before. ~900 stars on Github...
Boy did I go down the rabbit hole today with this. I found so many sites from my past that I ended up looking up in the Internet Archive just now. I really miss the web from 25 years ago. Design was simpler and things loaded fast. The focus was on content, not chrome (and tracking the heck out of you).

I know this is rose-colored glasses but hell, even interacting with the old Windows and Mac OSes was a breath of fresh air. There are things that show their age but there are also things that make it really easy for me to find my way around a computer.

Thanks for the link. That was a great trip down memory lane. I wonder if we'll ever adopt some of that old stuff ever again.
Add to that. I signed up years ago but have long lost my account. Furthermore, because there is no one true server, why not have multiple addresses on multiple instances, like you would with email?
Updating dependencies can be a major change. It can also be a security fix.

Marking it as a simple chore sounds like the impact has not been fully analyzed.

I understand the practice and if done meticulously by all contributors, it should at least signal a well organized project but most of the time, it just shovels your entire commit log as a release notes. It's OK to have it, but I much prefer projects that takes time to summarize the impacts to their users.
Robinhood Is Laying Off 9% of Its Full-Time Employees
“So here we have two worlds of music contained in a single instrument. There’s the “official” world of Western European tonal theory as taught in schools, and there’s the “unofficial” world of the blues, as taught in very few schools, but practiced everywhere in the culture, from the most abstract jazz to top forty radio. Not much music in everyday American life strictly follows the rules of Western tonality. Nursery rhymes do, because they come from the European folk tradition. Hymns, older showtunes, and very conservative pop music mostly do too, for the same reason. But most other current music is informed by the African diaspora.”

Most other current Western music. There is a strong tradition of Indian harmonica music.

https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/hum-along-wi...

Probably elsewhere in Asian music, since it is a cheap, portable and robust musical instrument.

http://frescoharmonica.com/
It's a town of 1,000 where everyone with money lives out of town either on a lake or on a piece of land. Kids that lived in town were looked down upon a bit in school because it usually meant they were poor.

That's somewhat changed as that town has had a bit of a resurgence with touristy shops. The biggest lake in the area is a popular tourist destination, and plenty of rich people own "cabins" on other lakes as well.

The point was the homes were dirty cheap, and now they're significantly more than what I paid for a much nicer house on what most would consider a ton of land.
Are they still? The first article is about iOS 13.
Such an amazing treasure trove of games!
Blog post 4 days ago, F-Droid app updated a couple of weeks ago...warrant canary?
> Huh? Are you suggesting that removing upper level maths classes helps kids achieve their potential?

That is the purpose, but I agree that I don’t think it will work. I am saying we need to keep trying, and not dismiss any attempt to fix the issue as woke nonsense.
Is there something like this but p2p?
Didn’t they have “toots” for awhile there?
But how is Bill Gates’ short doing?
> The whole situation is warped. The USA accounts for 4% of the world population, and 40% of the top 100 universities in the world. That's fucking weird.

No it isn’t. The best researchers want to go to the best universities and the universities are ranked on research performance. Its a feedback loop.
The internet was a hell of a lot less regulated in 2008 than it was in 2016
no chance. signal performs the same function as whatsapp. it’s nearly 1:1. mastodon and twitter are not interchangeable. there is nothing sticky about a free chat app
The first thing to do is let your brain do what it needs to do. You can't rest if your brain is going to start processing things the instant you slow down. I would suggest trying out things like meditation, journaling, or walks without headphones.
Sure, but when you subtract bots and assholes from twitter’s numbers, it’s not so bad in comparison.
How do we prevent radical, alt-right, hate groups from abusing Mastodon? Which is an existing issues with the current Twitter ecosystem.
> Shares fell 5% in after-hours trading closing Tuesday after the company announced the layoffs in a blog post.

I thought layoff announcements are typically followed by stock price bumps, on the reasoning that the company will have lower costs?

Perhaps here the thinking is that the move signals troubles that were previously not priced in?
Just wait until delivery vehicles are driven remotely by people in poorer countries.
a miniscule point in the article which I can't get past:

0.99 recurring is not the same as 1. how can it be? the difference is infinitely small and the difference is not, and can not be zero.

I have been called names because of this.

"0.99 recurring" is an approximation and "1.0" is not, so how can they be considered the same?

the world is dumb and I want off
This is a joke platform for joke people.
Nope. 3.6 Million 'registered' and roughly 1 million actives. [0]

Still no match for the 217 Million+ Twitter daily active users I'm afraid after 6 years of existing.

[0] https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon/
I don’t know how we do it, I am not an education expert. I am simply saying we should keep trying new ways to try to help lower performing student improve until we find one that works. We shouldn’t just give up and write them off as being unable to improve.
He predicted tiny homes, it looks like.
Mastodon reminds me of Woznaik's vision of what Apple should be and could be (in contrast to Steve's). It's totally awesome but lacks key insights of branding, marketing, and understanding users. This thing is built by geeks for other geeks.
Leaked Raw Audio: Full Twitter All-Hands Call 04-25-22
many mastadon instances don't federate with those other instances. Each instance is free to have their own rules
Belated, but no, I was referring to UAL vs old syntax.
Google Pixel 5a has aux but no sd card
While I already knew about Textsynth before its commercialization, this is the first time I've heard of FFQTECH [1], a (probably) one-man company by Bellard. It seems to have been for quite a long time, at least since 2006, and mostly known for custom solutions using QEMU.

[1] http://www.ffqtech.com/
> short-sighted" people who chose to study trades or liberal arts

People who chose to study trades would be doing well off, that’s a terrible analogy.

> liberal arts

Liberal arts has pretty much always had terrible prospects. That’s not short sighted, that’s just straight up blind.
I'm not sure it's a problem. I've mostly lost my interest in technology quite a bit too. I now merely see tech as a tool and not an exciting obsession.

I'm excited about other things now. Exercise. Camping. Travel. Gardening. Cooking. Woodworking.

Tech can improve those things, but tech in itself is not super interesting.
Why is Mastodon so uncool? Is it the name? Is it the lack of cool people on Mastodon? Was it because of things like "toots?"

I love open source software as much as the next HN reader, but there's something so unappealing about not just Mastodon, but Matrix, and all the other social software out there today.
For non-gamers like me:

OWL = Overwatch league

LCS = League of legends championship series
True, the village idiot had iconic status and the donkey was legendary. I always wondered (thoughtfully) what the anti-IQ crowd was all about, was it that IQ tests are imperfect or was it that IQ as a fundamental concept is flawed.
I personally think it's the discovery of Proof of Work algorithms leading to dismantling of solar systems to build Dyson Spheres that capture a sun's energy to power miners. Possibly constructed by Von Neumann machines thinking about it :)
Wait, Fabrice Bellard[1] of FFmpeg, QEMU, TCC, etc. fame now has a SaaS offering? Is this a first?

Also, textsynth is based on their CLI program gpt2tc[2] which one can run locally.

[1] https://bellard.org/

[2] https://bellard.org/libnc/gpt2tc.html
The signing of the Declaration of Independence (ie, the US becoming a separate country from England) was kind of a big deal.
I’ll send you whatever, if you want.
i wonder how you would make the update to `b` work in this case?

If you have a white listed set of pure operations (like the `+` operation), then you can check if the hot-reloaded code has any dependencies which could be re-executed (like the b=a+2 case). You wouldn't want to re-execute code that has a side-effect upon hot reloading imho.
if they could prevent that then that would defeat the entire purpose. fortunately it is federated, so you can run your instance however you please with whatever rules you want.
In the US "toot" is sometimes used to mean "fart" so I can see why that might not get wide adoption. (Though it might be regional, and definitely more of a word to use with kids)
Most of them, we don't even notice they are a thing we are doing. We might notice if somebody didn't do it.
For sure. I've been casually playing RTSs since starcraft 1 (1998ish) and love RTS to this day even though they've slowly waned in popularity as consoles took over. Most are very similar especially in fundamentals. Gather resources, build, expand, and push. They usually just have a different coat of paint of it. What rules supreme in all RTS are the APM (actions per minute).

I'm bummed we don't have more of them.
In the similar way we handle radical, alt-left, hate groups from abusing Mastodon.
Tiger took my family : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPpuEgAZ2rQ
Are you saying it’s irrelevant that federal agencies targeted this person because local PD fired the shot?
About as effectively as Mastodon has prevented pedophiles from using and abusing it: through the thankless efforts and the abuse of volunteer moderators on major instances, and in no meaningful way anywhere else.
> Mounting NFS is natively supported in macOS

In the version I was using, mount-readonly yes, mount-readwrite no. Had to install Mounty for readwrite.
That's what it is tho. You create a time-line filter that shows only posts containing those hashtags - is that not a subscription?

There are also more literal implementations for this like SocialHome [1] where you can click + on hashtags you like and public post with them appear in your home timeline

1 - https://socialhome.network/
Its the same thing. Rises on the network effect, falls on the network effect.
How does one find the bigger Mastadon instances? They aren't even listed on this joinmastodon website. I know it is intentionally decentralized, but it seems like it can never catch on because it feels like 100s of separate websites. You have to make logins for every single one.
That'd actually be sweet. I'm a joke person and I'd love a platform to learn new jokes.
1.5 hours for a tool like Slack is major. Lots of productivity lost (or gained depending on how you view Slack) and thus $ impacts at companies that heavily rely on Slack for internal/team comms
I’m sure Twitter will be perfectly profitable with My Pillow ads.

Where are the liberal billionaires starting an alternative and offering options for twitter employees to bolt? Seems like a no brainer if those unicorns actually exist.
God damn I love Arxiv.

Ever since I started using miniflux, I have a stream of open papers that comes right to me. It's like being on the bleeding edge of human knowledge.
Speak for yourself. Both Mastodon and Matrix have thriving communities.
They come after the incumbent and feel like a copycat. They also solve problems most people don't know they have, and thus are unattractive (at large scale).
Logged in users can change that color. For me it’s green.
Supertoots would be a great way to connect with the audience and ease supporting producers.
How do you handle taxes?

Do you have an email address or a contact method?

It can be a new email address.
Sandboxes GSF literally IS perfect though. I'd be interested to know what doesn't work for you.
Imho mastodon's got an onboarding problem since before you even start you have to decide where to make an account, a decision with unclear ramifications. That'll scare a lot of people off at step 1.
Is is practical or useful to self-host your own instance? Not for public use, but just for you?

Has anyone done this? Does linking to other servers work OK? Any upsides/downsides?
Having a kid is a 2nd job than makes it > 50 hours. Would you fire them?
I don't think that's it. Try searching for something old - like 'arpanet'. The dates are actually arranged quite nicely in order, starting with 1970. But the dates don't correspond to the url itself, the urls are all definitely much more recent. The dates for the most part correspond to the date of publication of a document (like an RFC or academic paper). But some are different, like this one that is just a 'This day in history' article written _about_ the arpanet on Oct 27 1980.. so, in short I have no idea.

It's pretty neat though.
I hope Elon opens up the Twitter API and lets fully-powered 3rd party clients flourish.

Ideally, moderation policies and enforcement actions can be client-specific to some degree. Ultra woke or righty twitter can implement their own policies without losing out on the network effect of the greater network.

Ben Thompson has been crusading for this direction and it’s gain traction in free-speech circles
I see comments like this all the time, but rarely do they include which key insights, or how you would do it better. How would you do it better?
There are directories.

One: https://joinmastodon.org/communities

Another: https://instances.social
Eh I don't think things working out in the long term necessarily invalidates the criticism, we have no idea how OP would have turned out if in a different situation. I'm sure most people that should have been in fast track math but didn't have an option for it still figured shit out long term, but that doesn't mean they couldn't have benefited from better math education.

It sounds like the implementation of levels was especially bad in the OP's case though, so I agree it isn't really a good anecdote to argue against leveling entirely like California is doing. It's throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Yes, but it's easier to selfhost Pleroma, which is fully compatible with Mastodon, but lighter weight for small instances
It may be unintuitive, but 0.99 recurring is equal to 1 and this can be shown in many ways.

qntm has apparently compiled some number of them: https://qntm.org/pointnine
Then once a month won't be enough...
less so because of incentives. Capitalism is a bet saying that the incentives of the the commercial world makes it more efficient then an economy run by the government.
How do you fit 40 hours of work into 10 hours?

Do you have an email address or a contact method?
It's the same with FPS games. Top players easily spot the tiniest movement, have really fast reflexes and are good at tracking. This transfers between FPS games.
> You have to make logins for every single one.

You only have to make a login on one, and you can still talk to people on the others. It’s like email.
Federation allows operators to set their own rules, and to disconnect from other instances they don't approve of.

If you don't like how your particular instance is handling that, you can choose a different one.
> 0.99 recurring is not the same as 1. how can it be?

Because 0.99 recurring is another way of writing an infinite series whose sum can be proved to be 1.

> 0.99 recurring" is an approximation

No, it isn't. See above.
It is federated like email so if you have an email (@gmail, @yahoo, @custom.domain, etc) they are all interoperable. (Modulo moderation / spam filters)

You don't have nor would be able to create an email address in all public email servers. (Without mentioning private/non-public email servers or personal/family ones of others)
Having a kid is a 2nd job. There is a cost to productivity per hour too and affects their health.

Would you fire them?
While I'm not ignoring Obama's role in the attack,

>the strike was carried out by Joint Special Operations Command, under the direction of the CIA.

The CIA assassinating an American Citizen.
> You have to make logins for every single one.

You don't. You join one - or host your own - and your mastodon instance is connected to the others. You can follow users on any other public mastodon instance.
Checkout the more lightweight Pleroma [1][2].

[1] https://pleroma.social/

[2] https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma
Someday a tech giant will mainstream Mastndon by recentralizing it, either by (1) running a large enough instance that its gravity sucks in everyone else, or by (2) creating a service/client on top of Mastodon that creates a unified Mastodoniverse. Decentralized services don't become mainstream without restoring the user conveniences of centralization.
I wonder which C++ compiler the article is about?
My toolchain is way more complicated, not straightforward at all.

The obj files made from cpp sources contain some intermediate representation, very far from machine code or assembly.
The machine code is generated by linker after multiple complicated (and expensive, I often see linker consuming gigabytes of memory and substantial CPU time) steps of the optimization. There's no text assembly representation anywhere, unless specifically asked for that. There's usually extra inputs involved: precompiled headers, data for profile-guided optimization, linker inputs such as static and dynamic libraries and module definition files.
Doesn’t that just fracture the audience/ users?
>something so unappealing...

I thought Twitter was unappealing and pointless when it started. I guess I'm still not sure why it actually hit mainstream.
For the longer careers I think you have to look into BW players. Off the top of my head Bisu might be the standout, starting in 2005 and still competing at a decently high level in ASL aged 32. Flash's career is slightly shorter, starting in 2007. He was very young so he's only 29 now, but he's still the best in the world. Even Stork (33) made a (less impressive) comeback recently and with Jaedong (32) in the last ASL, every member of TBLS can make it to ASL which is just astonishing.
> The CIA assassinating an American Citizen.

Oh they’ve done much worse to US citizens, and got away with it.
A release would be good, but there are build instructions

https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive#developer-instal...

Not clear on what the build gets us from the roadmap

https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/blob/main/docs/p...
Green jet fuel is here – so why are airlines not using it?
Yes. If you capture real buyer intent in certain categories (including fashion) you can put a lot of obstacles in front of them and not disrupt the sale.

These might be up-sell or cart expansion opportunities. When a purchase is complete the user is likely to bounce.
Comments like these are what make people like me to think may be bolt ex CEO has a point.

Have you even read the article? ABG as part of lawsuit want 5% of stake in business for 30M (valued at 500M currently). Obviously their customer who is suing them want a part of business says something.

Also article clearly mentions forever21 uses them.