skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replying with quotes slightly unordered:

> Advertising classically associated with celebrities.

Yep, that seems true - it makes sense that many audiences would like to emulate and be like the celebrities they admire, and many celebrities would like to earn a living and/or build an audience.

Some of Twitter's early community-building strategies[1] provided neatly for both sides of that environment.

> Advertisers don't like brands next to controversies, sure. But ultimately they will go where users are.

To some degree, yep they will - for brand exposure. But for measurable, return-on-investment style advertising -- the kind that will retain your marketing job when your company accountants begin asking questions -- I think it's less about the audience size and more about relevance.

(slightly off-topic: unfortunately, well-targeted online advertising is more-or-less invisible to anyone except the publisher and recipient at the point-in-time when copy is displayed, and can be anywhere on a spectrum from genuinely valuable to manipulative. I think search is the answer here: put the relevant advertising into a search engine operated and transparent to an independent operator, and allow people to dip into that -- using their own chosen search criteria -- when they want something. but I digress)

> It probably isn't a good strategy to concentrate on advertisers and their wishes for content.

Sure, agreed - however in the context of Twitter's post-takeover strategy, future revenue sources are relevant.

Both revenue and user metrics are claimed to have fairly dramatic potential for increase - so is there an implication that free speech is going to help to achieve that? And/or will paying to maintain business accounts on Twitter be measurably worthwhile -- or, similarly, measurably not worthwhile? And what will happen to advertising revenue?

There may be an answer (and, ideally supporting information) that fits the claims, but I don't see it currently.

>> free-speech advocates

> Absolutely nothing wrong with that and most social media platforms were successful because this was a main focus.

That seems unclear to me. I think most platform entrants develop successfully if they identify and correctly-time launch of a technology or medium that makes it {easier/cheaper} for people to communicate to each other, and not because they claim to provide an uncensored environment.

Examples could include the practical realization that data access is cheaper and more universal than {SMS/telephony} in many places (consumer-side) or that the infrastructure to provide internet-based messaging can be provisioned far more cheaply as computing and network hardware scales up (provider-side)[2].

However I would agree that most new platforms will do their best to appear private and unfiltered to new users -- they don't want to distract from the ability for people to communicate with each other, which is intended to feel fresh, authentic and intimate.

[1] - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/twitter-beyond-14...

[2] - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/whatsapp-scalability/
SpiritSwap: Post mortem on this weekend’s DNS event
I've got this exact problem when trying to meet accessibility criteria.

I would have no issue with sticking #000 on #FFF, except for the fact not everyone has e-ink displays and it's like shining an LED torch in everyone's faces. If it's inverted to #FFF on #000 this is pretty much solved - but this is a hard sell for most product teams.
Sometimes you wonder whether there is more than one full time paid dev working on those apps..
I've been through more than a dozen "outliners", "todo apps", and "document databases", and i always end up with a mix of org-mode and Markdown. It may be my requirements, but i'd rather have my data available on "whatever" platform i'm working on, than having a specialized tool on one platform.

My job frequently has me switching between different desktop operating systems and mobile, so for me a simple clear text approach works the best, and org-mode and Markdown has that nailed down.

So for now my tools are limited to Sublime Text on the desktop (with the OrgExtended plugin), Obsidian for my markdown notes (though sublime/vs code would work just as well), and BeOrg/PlainOrg on the iOS side of things, with simple file synchronization to keep files synchronized across platforms.

Ironically, TaskPaper was the tool that got me started on the cleartext approach (also written by the author of Bike).
Plugging my ex-colleague's Spotify client called Psst[0] and built with Rust. Not as feature-full than the official client (yet) but way lighter and gets the job done.

[0] https://github.com/jpochyla/psst
I know nothing about color profiles, I'm surprised you can't just turn down brightness to read something comfortably and revert to the original level when you need accurate colors again. Or you want accurate colors all the time? But what for, if you are just reading an average document?

I don't need accurate colors when reading text, but I need it to be comfortable. It seems having color calibration would actually suck for me if I can't adjust brightness depending on the weather, on the hour of the day, on the season, on whether I'm tired or not, or on the location I currently am, or on what I'm doing (reading, programming, or watching a video). I need to be able to adjust brightness without fuss.

I guess I would buy dedicated hardware and put it in a well lit-controlled room if I needed accurate colors.
Nah, it would've been sold to Europe. Or at least should've been, it'd be super-weird to keep it in the ground during the current crisis.
I don't know why I think those people are actually lucky.
I've heard the argument that the dotcom crash was so catastrophic because the Internet as a market wasn't proven at that point. That'd mean a dotcom like crisis is the lowest point this industry can reach. Which in some way is reassuring.
I think it's about the websites you visit. If you only use "tech-y" or smaller niche websites you don't come across them. But if you visit websites like from the big news media or even niche websites that are not in English. There are filters for all major languages but there are certainly fewer skilled filter writers with time and willingness to write them in other languages.

There's also a gap of websites that are big enough to have this corporativist behavior of putting annoying... objects in their webpages, but not big enough that enough people visit to the point where it's likely that one of them will write the script.

Especially because, like, I do write some stuff for userstyles and userscripts sometimes, but I won't publish them unless I think they'll be useful for at least a small group of people, which I never seem to think will happen for websites in my mother tongue for some reason.
Your comment is ironically exclusionary, the whole point of high contrast text is to ease reading for the visually impaired minority.
I love this writeup. It's a great article about the troubleshooting process, and enlightening as to certain behaviors of Kubernetes.

It also, though, makes me think about whether technology has progressed by adopting Kubernetes, or if we've just made things more complicated.
> If you mean the same thing by pay for software then I’m truly lost. I pay for loads of software. I largely find it quite affordable.

So, you're rich, or you magically avoid the expensive software. Just as an example: Suppose I live in Peru and make the median income of ~3800 USD/year. Just a license for photoshop sets me back 252 USD/yes, or over 6.6% of my gross annual income. If you consider my taxes and very modest expenses, this becomes more like 10-15% of my free gross annual income. For a single application. Now suppose I want to buy a hundred apps or so (some subscription-based, some one-off). I won't be able to repay the debt before I'm dead.
US road deaths increased by more than 10% in 2021
> Spotify has become focused on "generating background noise as profitably as possible"

What does this mean? I listen to the music I want to listen to, in my playlists. Where would I get exposed to this new focus? The only "feed" I can think of is my "Discover weekly" but that contains music. I don't think I've ever seen a podcast in my Spotify app.
I think for Americans (I am one), more money == less fear. We don’t have any real social safety nets, so making $500k/year let’s you pay off your house and save for retirement faster.

I’d give up my $500k/year salary to move to Europe and feel more supported if anything went wrong, but I do wonder how much support someone on a work visa in the UK/EU gets if they lose their job.
> They refuse to hire or even interview white, black, or Hispanic candidates.

This is complete BS, the org has as many white developers as asian and indian and even opened a big branch in Madrid

> You can pay H1Bs less, and they’re happy with it because they get to live in Redmond, WA instead of India.

Salary is a _direct_ computation from performance ratings which are the same % for every org. For H1Bs to be paid lower, they need to be systemically rated lower by the same managers who "refuse to hire white, black, hispanic" candidates.
I feel like I should, I just can't find the time to commit and buy all the songs from my Liked playlist..
> A lot of people that got burned with Btrfs

How did they get burned? (I'm thinking of switching to Btrfs on my personal laptop (running Arch), mainly for the snapshots, subvolumes, checksums+deduplication, etc.)
The fact that stuff is so hard to discover is insane. They literally show the same limited crap on their front page despite such a large catalogue. I'm not convinced their algorithm choice makes sense.
Wouldn't it make more sense to remove the pod from the Endpoint first, before sending it shutdown signals? Or are the containers dying unexpectedly on a regular basis for some reason?
To explain further the reason the Celtic football team supports Palestine is because the nationalist community in general supports Palestine. Mainly owing to the fact that they see broad similarities between NI and Israel/Palestine. Israel and Palestine flags can be seen around NI. Unionists supporting Israel doesn’t have much basis other than “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” unless there’s some deeper meaning I’m not aware of.
New problem at San Francisco's sinking Millennium Tower now tilting by 28 inches
Pokémon is a hit because it’s cooperative (2021)
I'm ex-Kindle (Doppler/30) and I had exactly the same experience. It was shocking how many requests we got for better ePub compatibility and just a better experience overall. Never happened. Customer needs were absolutely not a focus unless a senior manager's wife/husband had some random issue and then it was a major priority (but good luck explaining that in a PRFAQ or via the Release Management team.
Levels of Bach (2021)
My theory is that parents weren’t quite aware of the level of bottom catering until their children were “learning” from home for months on end. Those with means decided to take matters into their own hands.
Also Nicolas’s wife Alexandra was Victoria’s granddaughter and a cousin of George and Wilhelm.
Microsoft Announces New Outlook for Windows
Here's my bookmarklet that turns all text black.

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Any sufficiently advanced act of benevolence is indistinguishable from malevolence. Or, perhaps, and somewhat less grave, they needed this time to build their case / simply hadn't gotten around to this yet.

Spotify has become pretty hostile towards its users, which makes it hard for me to believe there was any good will involved here.
Disney Plus with ads will keep the breaks down to four minutes per hour
Target profit halves as rising costs hit margins
I recently read an article[1] where Spotify said they wanted the ad revenue to make up 20-40% (up from like 10% or so now) of their income, and so they are trying to push more ads. As a premium subscriber since 2010, I promised myself that the day I hear an ad on Spotify premium is the day I cancel my subscription.

The direction Spotify has taken the past few years really saddens me.

[1] (Swedish, paywall) https://www.svd.se/a/Kzgvm4/spotify-spellistor-nyckel-till-a...
How to launch your own decentralized application (DApp) on Ethereum?
>EDIT: Someone linked a YouTube clip of a comedia making light of the flag situation that has apparently escalated to the point of the Italian flag being used as a symbol of resistance because someone saw an Italian flag in a Northern Irish school and got upset mistaking it for the Irish one.

I can't find any examples of the Italian flag being used as a resistance symbol in Norn, just the initial Willie Fraser incident - if you can share an example I'd like to see it though! (Because it's v. funny if true)
It's hard to say because of things like technical words and slang that isn't in an official dictionary but the Wikipedia article [1] suggests that English is on the high side. (The Wictionary reference for English is a bit higher than the number or words in either MW or OED.) One thing that probably drives word count in English is it has many cases where there are multiple words with similar meanings derived from French/Latin and German-like respectively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries_by_number...
This is 100% why I use Dark Reader. Even on my phone, right now, I'm using Kiwi. It has a "night mode" (which, by the way should not be the way to call a dark mode—I, and many others, use it all day). But I still use Dark Reader, because it has a crowdsourced WHAT TO INVERT and WHAT NOT TO INVERT which is AMAZING and fixes most situations.
A use case which usually people do not think about: the GNU GPL does work for many defence contracts... yep it works with strong secrecy.

The end-user being the defence, any modifications done on top of GPL open source software have to be provided to the user... namely the defence, the only end-user.
Great write-up, but, why not just use dumb-init? https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init
All the comments about how it will be too expensive and difficult to source unusually sized parts make me wonder how they make something like the Hammerhead Karoo for $400 - an android device with a 3.2" sunlight readable reflective screen (supposedly even more expensive), custom software. etc. Is the market for a bike computer so much larger than that for a smaller phone? I don't think they're burning VC, it was crowdfunded IIRC.
Edit: it's a subscription. No, thanks. I much prefer the crowdsourcing model, which allows the entire world to have it (and contribute to it), and not only those who can pay such prices (that are quite expensive in most of the world, including where I live).
I agree wholeheartedly in principle, but the reality is that it's nearly impossible to escape Google getting their hands on yours and your correspondents' messages at some point. So many businesses (and third party email providers!) use Google's services on the back end, and many relays out there are owned by Google/Alphabet even if it's not readily apparent, that the only way to even attempt to avoid them is using encrypted email. Unless everyone you communicate with (including companies, governments, and other organizations) is willing to only communicate via encrypted email as well, it's a lost cause.
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But if you measure how #000 is rendered on a screen, you'll also notice that it's not actually pure black too, because as you said, "It’s just really hard to make pure black in real life" and your screen responds to the same laws of physics as anything else. So there's no need to pick something else that #000 to avoid having actually pure black.
They're just normal fries, made fresh from potatoes. McDonalds fries are a result of a process of many steps.
> As an SRE at GitLab, you get to touch a lot of services that you didn't build yourself and interact with system dependencies that you might have not touched before. There's always detective work to do!

This doesn't sound good to me and translates to "our staff may not know what they're doing". Lack of or outdated documentation, lack of time to read it?
Yes, it's difficult to understand the logic and lack of foresight behind many of the DUP's decisions over the last few years, particularly during the period they acted as kingmakers for the Tories in 2017-2019.
I unfortunately had to turn them off because they aren’t properly geographically bound in Texas. I would get alerts to look for cars many hundreds of km away multiple times per week. Needs a better implementation here.
That was a factor, but more fundamentally it was companies with wild valuations and no realistic prospects of becoming a profitable and self-sustaining business. There is some of that out there right now. Market corrections exist in part to flush those companies out of the system.
Padlet Is Hiring in SF to Build Software for a Good Education
Really tiresome how off-topic threads get from just the bare mention of a product name in the title. Extremely generic complaints and rants.
Dennis Ritchie said it all (on the book):

Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.
Sharing page tables with mshare()
On OS X you can run:

# system_profiler SPUSBDataType
That's it I would say.
Build Your Own [Mini] Deep Learning Framework (Tutorial)
In your opinion, would George Yule's The Study of Language be a good introduction to linguistics? Or is there any other book that you would recommend to someone who has little knowledge of the field, but a lot of interest?
I can recommend taking a look at:

* Larynx: https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx/

* OpenTTS: https://github.com/synesthesiam/opentts

* Likely Mimic3 in the near future: https://mycroft.ai/blog/mimic-3-preview/
Removing GIL naively would decrease single thread performance. Every project aiming at removing GIL failed because it could not get performance comparable with GILed Python.
Well... It does, I work for an US based company but from Europe, they expected me to be available almost 24/7 and extra hours are "part of the salary" That's illegal in my country, as soon as I mentioned "Illegal" the discussion ended. Also If I accept to take any extra hours there are limits to that and I can't start working in the next 10 hours (we assume that ppl need rest and sleep).

I think is important to realize that ppl need to rest and have a life outside work and not to see workers as a disposable utility, and as a modern society we need to protect others from the power imbalances.
This isn’t about who gets to speak, it’s about who gets a free megaphone.
How are they going to push their podcasts and other sponsored content if you use an alternative interface?

Wouldn't surprise me if their API won't be around for much longer either.
At least, there would have been a chance it went to some useful use-cases.
Since Btrfs was arguably available in the kernel too soon. Some people who should have avoided a new filesystem for lots of reasons ranging from missing features that were in the plan but not implemented yet or in the earliest days not yet stable... many of these early experimenters developed and fostered a vocal belief that Btrfs was "bad" (there's too much to sum up honestly, you could write an entire decent length blog post on the history of Btrfs, its reception and its criticism) and this group has taken a long time to accept that Btrfs may be ok now. Theres still people with the perception that its not as good or ready enough and should not be used.
I played with demos of various cloud providers, a lot of it comes down to difference of opinion it seems as I've had people exclaim on here something was fantastic that sounded like a robot.

My opinion is Microsoft's Azure TTS is the best and IBM's Watson TTS was a pretty close second. I remember finding Google's disappointing as well.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
Getting stuck in an endless loop after installing Office for Mac 2011
>Every rebuttal written web2 in that article applies to web3 as well:

Yes that's kind of the point. It's actively dishonest to attribute the difference to web3 vs web2. If OpenSea thought they could get away with taking a 45% commission they would do it.
Uhh just letting you know a device that uses solar energy is not maintaince free and saying that it is would be naive at best and misinformative at worst. It's an even bigger problem in countries where accessibility for such parts does not exist or the expertise to maintain such equipment. In reality a project like this is rather useless and after a few years of use if it ever received any it would belong in the trash.

But that's what most hackathons are in reality anyways.
I first used GIMP approx. 20 years ago and on/off ever since then and aside from a few minor differences (combining all windows into one interface for one example), it hasn't changed much at all. I wouldn't hold my breath :)
In a good way, this will also improve things for russia. The next napoleonski who might think about invading these neighbors will have to think of something else. That's a lot of russian kids too who will get to live their lives, pay taxes, have their kids, progress the country.
I'm a contrast junky. Can't stand modern IDE and editor colorschemes like solarized because they're too vague and murky. Give me strong colours god damn it.
Oh, the old bit about "quantity [having] a quality all its own".
running with 1st gen se since fall 2018: battery is still at 95%

replacement kit from ifixit is available thou
I'll assume this is a good faith question and answer it by quoting the "What's new in Python 3.11?" page (linked below the quote).

> During a Python function call, Python will call an evaluating C function to interpret that function’s code. This effectively limits pure Python recursion to what’s safe for the C stack.

> In 3.11, when CPython detects Python code calling another Python function, it sets up a new frame, and “jumps” to the new code inside the new frame. This avoids calling the C interpreting function altogether.

> Most Python function calls now consume no C stack space. This speeds up most of such calls. In simple recursive functions like fibonacci or factorial, a 1.7x speedup was observed. This also means recursive functions can recurse significantly deeper (if the user increases the recursion limit). We measured a 1-3% improvement in pyperformance.

https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#inlined-pyth...
> Scotland has its own sterling banknotes, but they're actually printed (issued? both?) by private Scottish banks.

So does Northern Ireland! Ulster Bank, Danske Bank, and the Bank of Ireland all print their own Sterling notes here. All have wildly different designs, with Ulster Bank even going so far as to print their notes vertically: https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/05/2...

Last time I was in England, I tried to buy lunch at Pret with a Northern Irish £5 note. The worker at the till saw it, hung his head, and told me to "just take the sandwich."
I don't think things are nearly as clear-cut. Personally, I like things to be near the extremes, I use OLED screens, and then I deal with it by changing my brightness. I prefer having contrast which I can easily control with brightness settings than not having contrast and then there's nothing I can do.

The ideal situation is where people can change stuff to what works for them, which is why I use the Dark Reader extension. It's the best extension in that it not only lets you easily change brightness and contrast, light/dark, but, most of all, has a crowdsourced file that carries special settings for each website over which elements should be inverted, which elements shouldn't, or whether there's an element that shouldn't be touched at all, for instance.

I have used such extensions in the past (and even welcomed stuff like Chrome's automatic dark mode) but unless they come with perfect AI—which they don't—they're not gonna match Dark Reader's crowdsourcing.