skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your essay... how rare am I, really?

Security for the owner of the computer. A tool for that user, the person you daily uses it in their lives. Not some corporation or government.

Security from everyone who is not the owner, and especially NOT any code, from anyone one, anywhere. Users should NEVER have to blindly trust code. They should ALWAYS have a way to play with code, and know it won't have any unwanted side effects, ever.

Security to what end? It's a tool, man. Think of the care free days of CP/M and MS-DOS, when you could get shareware disks full of nifty stuff to try out, and you could write programs to do anything you wanted, and share them with the world. You write-protected your OS, and could try anything, and see how you liked it, in safety. That power, in the hands of the people, is the end I seek.
My NDA is expired. It's worse than you know, AMA
"Making your own work is a good thing to do, even if no one else is interested in what you are making. To create is to be human."

Tattoo that on my forehead backwards.
Hi, this article says that I could overcome GC pauses. Thanks.
Where do you measure activity? I'm a small instance admin that has chosen to focus only on one particular type of user to grow slowly, and thanks to 10+ AP relays our federated timeline is very active. It does wonders for discoverability to see one message every second show up from all over the world.
My favorite Mastodon feature is the ability to subscribe to hashtags [1] which makes discovering people to connect with super easy and you don't feel like a victim to some magic algorithm.

Another thing I love about it is the small niche little community instances like this photographer [2] community. Themed instances make a huge difference in organizing your social media time - it feels less of a distraction and more of a purposeful exchange. I talk photos, close the browser tab and it feels like I've done what I set out to do, whereas whole purpose of Twitter is to steal your attention for the sake of ad revenue - so you start with a purpose and end up feeling like you've done free work for someone. Like one of those early internet gigs that made you to surf semi-random ads for few pennies.

1 - https://i.imgur.com/gXhLLPG.png

2 - https://photog.social/
Who knows, maybe they're right
I dont think i know anyone who's bought a cd in the last 15 years, four per week should last most people a life time.
I'm curious, is there any reason to sign up here if one is already on another tech instance?
> either the data collection should be banned

GDPR
> Especially places like Gab

Gab runs on a Mastodon fork: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork...
> We should debate idea's not authors

There is a large group of people that is more interested in other people instead of ideas and to evaluate anything they need to check their trust in the person uttering it. I think they simply need different platforms.

Otherwise I 100% agree, there are good behaving anonymous platforms but I don't know if Twitter ever can become one. I would never register with my real name though.
> You might consider M-Discs, which are optical discs as large as 100 GB (BDXL) that you can burn yourself, and which should have the same longevity as a CD-ROM.

It's not clear to me that there's anything special about the BDR M-Discs vs. other BDR discs.

It looked like original DVD M-Discs have been discontinued, last time I checked. IIRC, those where the things that all the articles about M-Disc longevity were written about.
Well, it’s just a blog, dude. You don’t have to read it.
Don't you think block grants or revenue sharing are different jargon for the same thing? The big difference is I don't get the chance to choose to donate to Eastern Washington.
IBM was doing something like this in their software load balancer ~1996. The technique was used in the large sporting events websites of the day (olympics, wimbledon, ...)

went something like this:

- a routing node (a kernel extension) would receive packets and forward them (verbatim, same src & dest IP) to a backend worker

- backend worker was configured for same IP, which meant:
a) arp had to be disabled to avoid conflict, or
b) the loopback interface had to be aliased to same IP (using loopback avoids arp conflict and worker still happy to accept the packet and respond)

- response then goes back directly from worker to original source, which was a good approach for scaling web traffic back then, small http requests going through routing node, large responses going back direct from worker to source.

more details:

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP0838931A2/en
GlodWave! As a teenager I spent whole evenings playing with its expression evaluator. I guess now I'm morally obliged to contribute considering I, like many others, pirated it.
There are. Mastodon's problem (and/or best feature depending on how you look at it) is that it's pretty prevalent about their blocklists. So the most commonly federated and advertised places tend to be more liberal leaning. I don't keep close track of the community, but this is one blocklist that I just googled https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances

Aside from the obvious terrible shit the list itself looks kinda passive aggressive in tone

The more conservative demographic also has other more...professional(?) options in the form of Truth Social and Gab. At one point Gab was federated but got blocked into oblivion to the point where they decided to go standalone https://reclaimthenet.org/mastodon-blocks-gab/
Outside is great, but I recommend sticking to some remote nature trails and avoiding people altogether. People are crazy.
My recommendation to anyone having difficulties getting started or finding interesting people: try to find a small instance that suits your interests.

Mastodon got so much better for me when I left the generalist instances. I now see my instance as a micro community with the ability to connect to a greater community.
GPT-3 is great at mimicking human writing, but understanding online discourse is possibly multiple orders of magnitude more difficult.

There are multiple, ever-shifting layers of references and sarcasm and irony and slang and so on.

Check out some of the more notorious places online - r/pol, Kiwi Farms, etc. Even for humans that stuff is extremely dense and bordering on incomprehensible unless you have seriously spent some time diving into it.

Like any subcultures with their own slang/lore/jargon/etc many of the statements cannot be understood on their own, only when the fuller context is understood. On top of the complexity, the meaning of everything changes unbelievably quickly. The meaning of many statements is the opposite of their literal meaning, or somewhere in the middle.

I've never seen ML/AI experiments that really grasp humor or other such metatextual type stuff.
Who would have thought that Trump back in 2018 could so accurately predict Germany's current problems with Russian gas.

It seems more like Germany's leaders back then were more interested in appearing green.

One key quote is this one:

"The green movement is more interested in reducing energy consumption than in reducing emissions."

Which is of course not going to happen, so it makes little sense to wind down nuclear plants across the country.

The right thing to do would be to recognize the error from 2018 and start powering up those nuclear power plants again.
they are called posts now
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080

according to this PR so yeah
You're right on several accounts. I've been hosting a mastodon instance for almost 5 years now but people are horrible. Sexist, xenophobic, bitter and more. I don't think mastodon is a twitter alternative unless you just want to promote AP federation in classical communities.

That's what fascinates me about AP federation. I want to see a return to all those different punbb, phpbb, vbb type boards we had during the late 90s and early 2000s, but federated this time.
(Repost from last time Mastodon was on the front page)

There are a multitude of Mastodon-compatible ActivityPub implementations[0][1]. Save for bugs, which devs and maintainers tend to be motivated to work out, they should all federate together, meaning you can follow and share between them. All have instances with open registrations and are also straightforward to self-host. There are moderation tools and admins can set policies for federation; some servers are picky with how they federate, some more free-speech-oriented. Fully unmoderated servers with open registration that try to federate promiscuously tend to get siloed of from the rest fairly quickly.

For those of you raising issues with ways in which the AP-speaking fediverse is lacking at this point, many of these points are acknowledged by members and implementers of the community. The biggest one IMO being the same challenge other federated and P2P communication systems (like Matrix) need to solve: DIDs, which should make users less under authority to their server admins, and server owners less under the authority of ICANN and registrars. The second one (which follows DIDs) being more effective models and tools for moderation and curation.

If you're actually interested in exploring constructive conversation on how to move forward to where we don't need to rely on centralized authoritarian incumbents and getting a healthier ecosystem, come join in[2][3][4].

[0]: https://fediverse.party/

[1]: https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/

[2]: https://codeberg.org/fediverse

[3]: #socialcoding-foundations:matrix.org

[4]: https://pad.public.cat/8yNgnlxmSsGYk3TfIau46A?view
Think about it this way, most developers should have been familiar with CSS, utility classes is a shorthand that make its easy to remember and find user defined class if you have tried Tailwind 3, I found it solve all of my checklists.

Like Bootstrap way, you can still define that with Tailwind classes either in input.css with @apply directive (abstract out utility classes from HTML) or Tailwind configuration. It’s a way to speed up our development.
Thanks to this thread I now see why the bot problem is sad difficult to solve. It sticks deep. Damn.
As someone who has just started learning Go I'll definitely take this on. Kudos for writing a book, definitely something to be proud of!
There's a relevant term called "DDD Trilemma" (I like it because it's easy to find back articles on it). It states that you can't have both a pure, complete and performant domain.

For example, I think what you describe is opting to inject a service to the domain that makes it indirectly talk to the database. In light of the "trilemma", we can imagine it sacrifices a little bit of purity (external dependency, stronger tie to the database schema) in order to keep things simpler -- and nothing wrong with that. In some cases performance could be affected too (ie. if the natural logic might want to update an entity twice during the course of a transaction).

But you still have "completeness" in that you can query your domain as one unit and handle logic within it.

I like that the "DDD Trilemma" acknowledges there is no universal, perfect solution for handling the object-relational mapping problem.
I rather like mastodon compared to the other implementations of activitypub (Misskey, Friendica and Pleroma). What I'd really like is to build my own activitypub server and client, but it's so hard. I'm going to keep using mastodon for now, but it sucks that the best activitypub implementation is basically a twitter clone. I'd really like something with a layout more like Facebook. Most of the people I try to convert to mastodon don't like twitter. I want to give them Friendica, but it needs a lot of UI work and a nice android client to really be useful to them.
> and current web browser support.

You don't have to give this up on Mavericks! :D

https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

---

Mavericks also has something better than dark mode—a visual design that uses the full tonal range of lights and darks together to have higher contrast. A lot of the rest is only useful if you're in Apple's ecosystem, which I'm mostly not.
That would depend on the DB server settings. Such a config might be found on a dedicated database server, but I doubt such settings would make sense on a machine running e.g. an application server together with the database.
how does mastodon get distribution? a series of decentralised sites lacking distribution and discovery have no incentives for users to join at scale?
It's from "database designed to show the proof of the extent of Big Tech censorship of conservatives".

Of course it will be 0 for non-conservatives.
I don't know much about Musk so I was interested in reading your links. First one starts with:

>Dear @ElonMusk: Thank you for reaching out to me. I heard from our phone conversation that you feel that my post, “Dear @ElonMusk: You should be ashamed of yourself”, was a personal attack on you.

Do you really think this is journalism, and that you have to serve a customer who treats you like that?

Second link:

>Mark Goldberg, a Morgan Stanley banker that helped take Tesla public in 2010, told Higgins that Musk repeatedly threatened to fire bankers from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs before Tesla's IPO launch in 2010.

Poor bankers. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, very sensitive people I'm sure. Also, the linked Twitter thread shows one event described with Tim Cook was denied by both of them. It looks like a typical poorly sourced attack rag.

>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1421150913075503112?s=20

First Amazon review of the book:

>I'm always somewhat skeptical when it comes to accounts of what transpired in meetings behind closed doors; especially when the accounts are largely from people that left Tesla on bad terms.

You can imagine at this point there's no need to go through the rest of the list, and that list would actually have the opposite effect of the one you intended.
We’ve started to do this when it comes to stuff that is architechtural significant, for example team A decides to event-source foo. Or team B opts to write microservices.
Also - anything infosec related goes through an ADR process.

Rule of thumb: are we, or someone else, going to second guess this decision in a year or two? If it feels likely an ADR is in place.
Anonymity has a lot of obvious benefits, especially if things get heated up and personal. But the main thing is to stop those regularly demanding consequences for speech, which certainly are not arguing in good faith either.

Yes, there are scammers and bots and a e-commerce platform would need to evaluate identities for transactional purposes. But to discuss ideas? Please more anonymity.
I've seen this brought up a lot, but if you split all your customers into people who have ordered washing machines in the last month and people who haven't, the first group is almost certainly more likely to be ordering a washing machine in the near future. Keep in mind that Amazon also knows the exact return rate for every item.

Even if 99% of washing machine buyers won't be in the market for a new one, that's probably still a better ratio than you'd get from advertising to random people who haven't bought one lately.
mastodon.social is managed by gargron, the dev of mastodon himself so he has an added incentive to keep that community as safe as possible
Wasn't this the app that might wipe your drive if you put in the wrong key?
The metaphor I'm going for is that Mastadon is like some weird cross between e-mail and a shared mailing list with everyone on the provider (the local timeline).

Everything flows from that. Yes, your provider can read your DMs. If you're on a very small provider there might be weird shit going on. People kinda self-identify to the domain they're on. Huge domains will not really have a feel beyond being big.

And of course you can just go into your own little corner of the internet and do your thing. There are loads of instances that are pretty chill. And if you know someone on a different instance you can just follow them!

You can choose to be outside of nonsense if you want. And unlike other forms of social media, while there is _some_ homogeneity through social spread, the fact that there are these varied instances and people kinda sticking to their own corner of the fediverse for the most part, you can just have a localized experience.

Every social network doesn't need to be everything for everyone at once.

Of course if you're going onto instances that are, like, built around being Extremely Online All The Time, yes people will be annoying.
>Unfortunately it looks like Mastodon still hasn’t renamed their “toots” to “posts,”

Hasn't it? The PR to rename them was merged just over a year ago, and there have been many releases since then with the new strings.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/v3.5.1/app/javascr...

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/v3.5.1/config/loca...

etc.

I do notice that the documentation still uses "toots": https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/
More than a quarter of Netflix’s UK subscribers share passwords
Supporting assholes is pretty hard hearted dude. You are literally condoning them harassing other people by abusing their significant amount of power. And if you didn't get here by having a hard life then I think I am wrong in assuming your basic nature is not hard hearted.
Yeah if you want to make your small instance a bit more federated you'll start adding AP relays and then you'll suddenly see a flood of different asian languages. Probably mostly Japanese.

And along with them will come a lot of hentai and weird porn. So when you add like 10 AP relays you'll spend several hours just silencing instances based on this. But once you're done you do get a very active federated timeline that will help your local users discover the rest of the fediverse.

I almost ban any misskey instance I see with Japanese characters now, not becasuse they're all bad but because I can't see what the instance is about easily. It requires JS and it has no "About" or "Explore profile directory" section like Mastodon does.
"Unreliable renewables" I don't know why people love this phrase so much.

From what I can tell fossil fuels aren't reliable either because you have to import them. They also tend to fail in winter.
With statements like "left handed people can reason too" or "I drove a red car and nothing happened" you are implying a doubt, that the opposite could be an idea worth considering. If a prejudice has a context, that context is relevant - otherwise the idea is presented as general.

[Edited for content a second time: I quoted an article I was just reading by chance, presenting data that are exemplary of another point, about the relation between generic statements and actual differences: I now remove it realizing I missed a detail in that quote that excluded the professional context.]
... under 0.05%, that is.
That was an eye opener for someone who was thinking of setting up an instance. Obviously there are risks to federating posts from other instances, but I wasn't ready for this.
Funny, they probably got the one that is the most legitimate-ish of them and ran with it

The whole article seems forced. But yeah the article is right in that it also works as a tourist trap
I won't argue about sexiest way but sure the most expensive. Some assessment broke down you need some 30 years of continues use to break even, that is excluding cost of battery and other accessories, so assuming nothing ever breaks in 30 years.

Good luck with that, because at this rate you can literally sell snakesoil and claim it works. Take any group of say 10,000 people, have them use it for the rest of their lives, I guarantee you find few people who miraculously got some sort of disease cured.

- Who said the initial crewed missions to Mars would be a fancy sort of cruise trip?

Musk said that during the first presentation regarding the trip.
Really? Titles that are factually reflective of content are “uppity”, and not liking obviously intentional click-bait titles makes you “intellectual elite”? Wow. Welcome to the idiocracy.
same, C++ doc can be awful...if it's hand-written, but doxygen is quite good. On the other hand, docs for dynamic languages like javascript and python often hang me there with ambiguous descriptions like "string-like" or "buffer-like" -- yes, I know what those descriptions _mean_ but that doesn't really give me enough confidence to use those APIs.
A executable extractor and starter for the DOS game Alpha Waves
i've finished my project: alpha_waves_loader

a executable extractor and starter for the DOS game Alpha Waves

about the game:

Moby: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/continuum

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9qAtVwSIV8

my project:

github: https://github.com/LowLevelMahn/alpha_waves_loader

release of the tools: https://github.com/LowLevelMahn/alpha_waves_l … g/Release-0.0.3 (the zip file)

benefits:

-for gamers: near to null (the game runs flawless in dosbox)

-for developers: a nice technical journey (see github history) for developers about reversing a dos game loader (disassembling, analysis, porting, etc.)

-for reversers: the game executables now getting uncompressed and the starting of the game is well documented

- its the perfect start if one ever wanted to reverse engineer the game code itself

if you want to try:

1. download: https://github.com/LowLevelMahn/alpha_waves_l … lease-0.0.3.zip

2. extract the (32bit windows) extractor.exe and (16bit dos) starter.exe into the Alpha Waves gaming folder

3. run extract.exe with the path to progs.cc1 as first parameter "extractor.exe c:\games\alpha"

4. run starter.exe under real DOS/32bit Windows or Dosbox with "starter.exe vga adlib"

refresh your childhood memories
My point is a lot of discussion centres around 'creating shareholder value' and 'increasing the stock price'. Many people comment on 'how to do that'.

But it's nuts - why would 'most people' who are likely Twitter 'users' and not 'shareholders' care about someone else's benefit over their own?

Twitter could very well jam up with more ads - as a sure fire way to make more money.

But not I / We are stuck with a crappier product, possibly very crappy i.e. a value transfer from our pockets, to investors.

Shareholders technically 'control' the company, they can do what they want, but what we should want them to do is 'lose money' and give the surpluses to us.
With C++20, the C++ example can actually be written as

constexpr std::string get_fizzbuzz(int number) {
if (number % 15 == 0) {
return "FizzBuzz";
} else if (number % 3 == 0) {
return "Fizz";
} else if (number % 5 == 0) {
return "Buzz";
}
return std::to_string(number); // convert to string
}
Maybe the gh command line can be useful for your use-case. Although you might want to keep the comment trigger style for historical/audit reasons, or if non-devs are allowed to trigger those downstream jobs as well.
Congress authorized nearly $800 billion dollars for DOD in December. What’s an appropriate figure? https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/22840615/us-defense-spendin...
The so-called breakdown of Dennard Scaling happened a little over 10 years ago. Since that time, CPUs have been forced to keep portions of the die powered off at any specific point in time - to prevent melting themselves. Each new generation requires a larger and larger area to be shut off.

Responsible use of energy directly leads to higher performance. You can also restate this: software is a performance bottleneck in a modern CPU.
remember people, mastodon runs on activitypub and a lighter alternative to mastodon is pleroma.social which just runs lighter.

i installed on a vps some time ago, we are only 3 users as of now but its a big upgrade from being public like in twitter/facebook