skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been an instance admin myself for some months, and except for one instance populated with profiles with swastikas (which I promptly blocked) I found Mastodon to be the most inclusive social network I've seen in a while.

I'm not sure if it's only my experience, but at least half of the profiles I bump into have an LGBTQ flag or belong to some minorities (sometimes I suspect that I'm the only white straight guy there), and so far I haven't witnessed any episodes of intolerance that got way too familiar on Facebook and Twitter.

I think that the structure of the Fediverse in general facilitates inclusiveness and moderation and it prompts people to be "nicer". If you're an intolerant jerk or a fascist, expect yourself to be muted/blocked. If you run a whole instance of intolerant jerks, expect other instance admins to mute/block your instance.

Eventually, they'll still be able to vomit their intolerance or conspiracies with their buddies on their own instance, and maybe find a couple of like-minded instances to buddy with. But they'll be basically isolated from the rest of the Fediverse, because most of the people don't like to read that shit, and most of the other admins will filter out their content.

And that's the best of the two worlds: intolerants and bigots have the freedom of speech that they crave so much, but very few are willing to listen to what they say.

However, it could also be that things are like this because the Fediverse is still relatively small compared to the major social media. 3-5 million people isn't exactly small, but it's still three orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook. It's still a bit of a green field mostly populated by geeks, scientists, open-source enthusiasts and instances specifically dedicated to hobbies. Maybe we just need to make sure that it remains like this? Just in case, I won't share a sign up invite with my parents...
And even if people aren't cheating it, just make up stories about people doing to so to justify shutting it down! The "welfare queen" archetype is so strong in the minds of people in this country that it prevents all sorts of useful policy.
Hrm. I had to log in to get that behavior. Not logged in, my browser on old.reddit.com renders the Play button as a small, hollow, barely visible box.
I'm rewriting a ERP system my late father wrote in Delphi (with my help when I was a teenager), to be a modern system in PHP (to be hosted for dirt cheap) with a GraphQL api. As I don't have the manpower to write this API manually, I wrote a JS code to read and parse a MySQL Workbench diagram file, where I define the tables and relationships in the visual editor, and then I parse the XML config file to create the GraphQL Schemas and Resolvers.

This API is already working with queries, filters (conditions for the 'where' clause in sql) and forward and reverse relationships (depending on which table points to the other). This system already create 'create' mutations, but I still have to do 'update's and 'delete's. And the entire frontend still.
There's a tangible benefit to being discoverable without effort (no friction for users); other "famous" FOSS projects are part of the fosstodon.org instance such as https://fosstodon.org/@mate - kind of makes sense to me as a generic user. $0.02
While the US health care system as a whole is mess, I don't think it's intractable if you can attack it from the right directions. GoodRX did with pharmaceuticals, and Mark Cuban seems to be doing a good job with CostPlus Drugs. (Valisure is also pretty interesting, doing in-house validation of generics).

Marty Makary wrote a book a couple years back, The Price We Pay on the wicked knot of a problem that is US health care. For those mildly interested, there was a Peter Attia Podcast inteview a while back that covers the gist of it: https://peterattiamd.com/martymakary/

For those that want to get some color from some of the biggest problems from a clinician/practioner's perpective, I found some of these podcast episodes to be pretty great/eye opening: https://zdoggmd.com/podcasts/
I mean the timeline makes things tight, but maybe you're just becoming desensitized?

https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/2022-pulitzer-airstrikes-g...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-traffic-stops-k...

Like sure neither of those are 'Watergate' takedowns of individuals or organizations, but unfortunately, Trump killed that kind of journalism.
Do you believe people never received help before the government came along?

Depends on the time period, and honest we simply didn't have modern medicine either. Your disabled child might have been left on the streets, left in the woods to die, or sold to someone else (other children might have been sold too). An infant? Infanticide was a thing at different times. Sometimes you'd be sent away to a home, where you'd be abused.

You were often an outcast and a beggar and your life was a lot worse. And even worse, folks might have treated you like you deserved it because it was a sign of god's wrath.

In short, folks with disabilities have it better than they did in the past because we started banding together as a society and taking care of folks (government). And we still fail folks.
Show HN: A simpler infrastructure as code specification
You can speed up grep by using 'xargs' or 'parallel' because searching tends to be the bottleneck.

But for 'find', the bottleneck tends to be directory traversal itself. It's hard to speed that up outside of the tool. fd's directory traversal is itself parallelized.

The other reason why 'fd' might be faster than a similar 'find' command is that 'fd' respects your gitignore rules automatically and skips hidden files/directories. You could approximate that with 'find' by porting your gitignore rules to 'find' filters. You could also say that this is comparing apples-to-oranges, which is true, but only from the perspective of comparing equivalent workloads. From the perspective of the user experience, it's absolutely a valid comparison.
Yeah, I've been on it since roughly 2017 and that's not at all the prevailing cultural association with Mastodon in my experience.

Numerous communities have decided to move off of Twitter and on to mastodon, including lgbtq folks, furries, sex workers, FOSS enthusiasts. My understanding is that on the most popular instances, there's active exclusion and de federating extremist content, and those things live on repurposed versions of the underlying Mastodon software but are not at all connected to the community.
I learned this first hand when my family member started receiving SSI, and they said the government check your bank account to see if you have too much money. As a result, you see a line of elderly line up at local banks when it's payday, to withdraw the money out as cash and to keep the bank account balance as low as possible.
I've been using the fediverse occasionally for the last few years, and more actively in the last month or so (running my own instance). While I have heard of instances with objectionable moderation policies (and by extension, objectionable content), I have yet to encounter any myself.
It depends - the UI could act as a filter, just like it does on HN.

The new UI, by virtue of its very low information density and pushing or irrelevant crap definitely encourages quicker & shallower interactions.
If you skim the paper, you’ll realize what’s most interesting are the new techniques they developed to accomplish this, advancing the field of machine learning in the process.
You literally said "no incentive [...] other than good feelings." Regardless, even adding the words "direct financial" is still incorrect. For one of many examples, insurance companies investing in F@H infrastructure would be beneficiaries, albeit via savings and not revenue.
Mastodon is great. I tried Twitter the other week and it feels so much worse, like crappy RSS for celebrity gossip instead of a discussion platform.
> CSAM and alt-right holdouts

You've succinctly described Twitter's 2023 roadmap
I filed for unemployment for a few months during the pandemic (film industry. Literally no work available). The most insane revelation, as this was my first time filing, was that I had to file every single week. All for a paltry $247/wk (without the federal addition during Covid).

The process to get started was so opaque that the local 600 (camera union, I’m not even a member but they didn’t care) held a live zoom session where they screen shared with us and had us all follow their exact instructions on what boxes to check, what to fill out, etc. Folks still had trouble.

Again, it was quite the revelation.
Mis-Adventures in GatsbyJS
What I find amusing was that Lincoln also got letters from Karl Marx: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/li...
I am not optimistic that Biden will attempt to use executive powers to make any broad student loan cancelations.

From a legislative standpoint, Biden is not likely to sign any more bills into law other than military & police power / budget expansion and some occasional filler.
There is also FlixTrain for e.g. Hamburg—Berlin (or vice versa) which is demand-priced.

And includes a reserved seat.

I went for 4.99€ last month – twice (taking early morning trains).
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Because that is not what happened. Grimburger did not offer (from his point of view) worse odds than 1:1. And patio11 refused 1:1 because it was apparently not interesting to him.

Now one could take that as a salesmans tactic to try and extract better odds from Grimburger but at that point the monetary aspect would become the focus and not the wager itself. A wager between two people who are in it for the sport and both sure of their positions should carry 1:1 odds. One could ask for a lower amount or refuse completely on monetary grounds but not request odds in ones favor.
The book I recommended in original comment (A World on Fire) will give you a good inside-look at the British political thought & decision making during that time, including Parliamentary debates & communiques between Palmerston and his ministers. Their motivations are complex, like any other politician, but if they were purely economic & geopolitical opportunists I would have expected them to leap at dividing America and keeping the cotton flowing. They didn't.

> I've generally had a pretty cynical view towards British abolitionism

I am not an expert on abolitionist movements or their political effects, but there was a strong moral outrage to slavery in the 19th century and it developed very rapidly, starting in Britain. I recommend reading about the British public's reaction to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

> their empire, whose 19th century wealth was bootstrapped on the profits of of slave-trading and the manufacture of raw materials extracted via slave labor, was uniquely-well-positioned to come out on top in a world order deprived of slave labor

You're not wrong, and you can toss colonialism in there, too. The Japanese were made the same argument in the early 20th century as they were trying to expand and acquire colonies and kept getting their knuckles whacked by the Europeans, who were (mostly) trying to pump the brakes on colonialism by that point.
Moxie Marlinspike is leaving Signal
I think the proper framing here is that this is a (failed) attempt to limit abuse of the system.

It's still bad, but I would rather work on the assumption that this is merely incompetence rather than malice.
> Pros You'd make it safer for sex workers, both voluntary and coerced ones…

> Cons Maybe more people would be coerced or manipulated into it.

I think you’ve accurately summarized the pros and cons. The question is how to weight those factors.

On that front, it’s telling that women—who face various degrees of sexual coercion pretty much their whole lives—are more likely to oppose legalizing prostitution than men: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/11/11203740/prostitution-legal-me...

Andrea Dworkin, a prominent feminist, wrote poignantly about her experiences with being coerced into sex work starting at age 15 by a 21 year old boyfriend: https://newrepublic.com/article/122457/modern-magdalenes. That’s the kind of coercion you see over and over again in the sex industry. For the most part, it’s not highly educated women making empowered decisions, but women who are coerced, or do it out of financial duress, or do it impulsively and regret commoditizing themselves.
Charitable programs in places of worship existed long before government programs. These are communities of people giving their time, money, and resources, and are actually invested in the people they are helping. If you don't believe they ever helped anyone, then we fundamentally disagree on historical facts.
This made me laugh a fair bit, haha. Many thanks for that.

The man was a 5 year old in an adult's body, in terms of size. Nothing was too large for the man. He would have been the Mecha king if he had lived for 50 more years, assuredly. XD
They don't actually have the ability to pass general bills without Republican support though. Outside of budget reconciliation, neither party has had the power to pass legislation without at least some bipartisan support since Ted Kennedy was replaced in 2010.
futures don't guarantee a profit, only a price. it's up to the farmer to decide whether the price is worth the planting (regardless of profit). and the pricing function only works well in an uncorrupt market.

the problem isn't the existence of the futures markets, but the same kind of over-consolidation that corrupts every laissez faire market, making them inefficient and brittle in the long-run. if regulation encouraged primarily mid-sized firms, rather than a few large ones, we'd have better informed and more efficient markets, albeit less lucrative since the firms wouldn't have undue (read: corrupting) influence.

note that insurance is another alternative to futures or gov guarantees, though i'd question the need to externalize risk, which manifests a critical market-shaping signal.
I went back and dwetermined that the article was wrong. He wasn't a "director" at Bruker, he was a "detector imaging scientist". There's nothing about Siemens.

What I didn't totally grasp from the article is this is a company https://www.reddit.com/r/MedicalPhysics/comments/t5u2c9/intr...

So this isn't an amateur programmer, it's a person who got a phd in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, was a scientist at bruker, has some experience with health systems, and then became a serial entrepeneur with a small company that has some funding. BTW, people who have the job title "Director" are normally fairly senior (old), as well.
Brit here. I woke up one morning – I was 15, so this was in the 90s – with the word ‘microdot’ in my head. The first thought, clear as anything, as if it was painted across the inside of my eyes. Microdot!

Puzzled, I didn’t move and set about figuring out why. Eventually I realised that I had solved, in my sleep, a crossword clue that I had not even gone to bed thinking about. I’d read it at my grandma’s house earlier the previous day.

Tiny picture makes computer work on time (8)

The brain is amazing. I’m not even any good at the cryptic crossword!
There exist flight control systems with automatic take-off and autoland capability. Those are on fly-by-wire modern airliners.

There are also tens of thousands of Cessna’s etc. that have the functionality I described and no more (sometimes less).
> It feels like giving special treatment to more famous apps is just a strategy for Google or Apple to avoid bad press, without making their stores much better.

That's what they do now. I'm suggesting a massive expansion on what apps they treat better, because 'famous' is a very small group.

And I'm not saying they shouldn't treat all apps well. It's just that it's less clear how much that would cost.

What's clear right now is that they aren't even trying.

Also we probably shouldn't have 3 million apps to start with. I bet a lot of those are below even the lowest reasonable quality bar.
Or when you need to use that money by the police as part of Civil Asset Forfeiture during a random stop/search.
Disability benefits in the US is so absurd. I would characterize it as all or nothing. They often completely ignore people with “marginal” disabilities but if you are rich enough to afford a good lawyer, you guessed it, you can qualify for all these programs. Once you see it you can’t unsee how inefficient these programs are. There’s an entire industry designed to exploit government resources.
> their toxic culture until the VC > Out of principle I will not memorize your LC problems. I won't deny it's a great filter for getting the exact type of people that will tolerate, enable, and expand this culture.

Hm. I hope this comes of gently - I don't know you, your skills, your background, your experience or your goals for that matter - but this feels overdramatic and even a little condescending.

If you have your CS fundamentals together it really shouldn't be that much effort? I know some whiteboard interviewers will ask unreasonably obscure algorithms, but LC hasn't ever been that unreasonable. I really don't get the absolute vitro people have. Sure it's not an ideal measure - but hey: eat your vegetables. It's not some unfathomable distant unrelated set of hoops to jump through.

LC questions can be a little bit of a chore but I've never spent more than an hour or two brushing up before interview cycles if I reviewed them at all and have done pretty well in my interviews. I've tanked my share of interviews but it's never been so dramatically unreasonable. It's not like they're asking you to write paragraph upon paragraphs on why you'll be the perfect fit and this opportunity is unlike any other for you. Cover letters are at least 70% more bullshit.

For context: I joined the industry in 2012 where whiteboard interviews were the normal but before leetcode, hacker rank, etc. were common, but I've interviewed plenty since then.
I liked reddit more back in the day. I like lobste.rs more than HN. I'm starting to think that forums are better with less people.
Dumbest? Not even close - he's just one person and Apple don't care about publishing papers, they care about building products. It doesn't seem like a big loss for Apple, and for him Deepmind seems like a much better place because he gets to do research for the sake of doing research.
Even amongst the left, the narrative of the welfare queen is strong. Eliminating means testing is so easily attacked that it is a challenging policy to propose.

This isn't to let the Democrats off the hook, only to explain that Democratic voters are not uniformly behind improving these policies.
Yep, I've started keeping a github repo of install scripts / dotfiles / etc that basically amounts to the workflow you described.
We have some that make way more than that in my FAANG company
Crypto is <valley-girl>literally</valley-girl> stopping us from finding the cure for cancer!
No. They have actually been getting shorter and shorter.

Nothing to do with “propping up” anything.
Whimsy. Is there a sequence of fusion technologies where the previous one lights the next one and if the current one goes out we're fucked?
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

My favorite liar (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29833984 - Jan 2022 (33 comments)

My Favorite Liar (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7680424 - May 2014 (1 comment)

One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=959550 - Nov 2009 (58 comments)

* My Favorite Liar (Econ prof's lectures include a lie that students must find)* - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124386 - Feb 2008 (2 comments)
It’s not easy for someone with disabilities and no demonstrable employment to get a zero-down-payment mortgage.
> One major advantage of virtualizing the firewall in this way is the ability to take snapshots. Not only do we get fast VM reboots after a firmware upgrade,

I'm kinda skeptical, unless I'm missing something. How much time does it take for a VM host to reboot and resume firewall guest vs reboot firewall on metal?
We have almost 250 years of data showing otherwise though.
Agreed. Although, one has to wonder if he specifically negotiated a fully remote role at DM, and what other DM employees who are required to come to the office think about that (I don't know if DM employees are being asked to return liek Google's are).
I genuinely feel like the way a lot of government programs are designed, they actively discourage being responsible.

My sister received government assistance when she was under 18 because my father is disabled and retired. At the end of it she received a letter that she "surely had saved up some of it by now" and that anything she had saved would have to be returned. She would have been better off just spending it and going hog wild.
The Lost City
Betteridge's law of headlines:

> "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." ... It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
What's this business with "should"?

A big reason why we have these perverse rules in the first place is that people are absurdly concerned with controlling people who accept (certain types of) public money.

If someone can find a path to jump from dependency to ownership, why "should" aid programs be structured to prevent that?

I, for one, would be a fan of imposing similar restrictions on other aid recipients, like mortgage-interest deduction-takers and enthanol producers. I suspect many folks would abruptly notice the absurdities with such rules.
Examine.com says it may be anticholinergic (that would explain some properties). If it's the case then it's not very good for longterm use, it may make you demented
Betteridge's Law from 2009, arguably repeating offline antecedents all the way back to 1991. If that seems old, maybe archaeology isn't for you.
Getting people who are on your program off your program is not how the bureaucrats in charge of these things grow their budgets, get more reports and advance their careers.

Show me the incentives...
Insurance in the US is often private. Private insurance companies push pretty hard to not pay for things that people don't need (to the point of sometimes not paying for things that people do need, but that's a different topic).

But to me, the emotions don't match the financials. There's always a trade-off between false positives and false negatives; the more you prevent people cheating the system, the more you deny benefits to people who need them, and vice versa. And enforcement has its own cost. But nobody feels bad about paying for too much enforcement.
I share your disdain for a central authority in making these judgement calls, but I have even less confidence in the majority of people who think they can solve everything with AI. Signed, a data scientist with a PhD in biomedical engineering.
Its highly inefficient for millions of individuals welfare recipients to being independently purchasing accommodation, entertainment, utilities, food.

A superior solution would be for Governments to setup large establishments where all of these services could be provided centrally and directly. Individuals could contribute their labor to maintain the establishment.
> Do you believe people never received help before the government came along?

Yes. These people simply died. Charity helps a few of them but is woefully incapable of helping all of them.

> They were helped at a local level by charitable people who cared about each other and knew that taking care of each other was part of a healthy society.

My aunt has a brain injury. She needs trained help as well as expensive doctors. Charity has done fuck all to help her - except the countless hours my parents have spent helping her. Where are these magical charities she can go to?