skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most irresponsible thing you can do is make a security promise you can't keep. Mastadon's usage is overwhelmingly browser-based; achieving reliably end-to-end security between users of browser-based apps remains an open problem. Taking a short step back from that: if you're going to try to give people secure messaging, you should have that goal from the start. Matrix is a good case study in what happens when you don't do this.

You can still high-horse Mastodon: just tell them they shouldn't have private messaging at all. That seems like a reasonable take.
I think your approach is correct, but you landed on the wrong word. I'm not sure what the correct word is, but the asymmetry you mention goes deeper than word choice.

Say what you want about the integrity of mainstream journalism and big tech platforms, but their foibles are nothing compared to the state of Republican-leaning journalism in the United States. It hardly requires a "leftist" political ideology to acknowledge the moral and intellectual decline of the Republican Party and the respective decline of its media apparatus.

None of this excuses selective censorship, obviously, but the suggestion that right-wing journalism deserves equal time and consideration presupposes a credibility and seriousness that it's lacked for twenty years.
I have white cousins who are second generation drug dealer’s children. I have black cousins who are members of the local golf country club. Which one deserves affirmative action to get into college? By every measure, my white cousins are worse off. Sure, neither are Harvard bound. A reliable car, and an apartment in a city with strong job prospects are what my white cousins need, and I try to provide. My black cousin’s need help with their golf short game… so do I.
But why not?

I mean a company is effectively "just" a machine to deliver a service / outcome from inputs. It is a set of processes - which can be codified. why not in software? And if you want to chnage the process, make a release.
Hypothetically, couldn't they have made a design with both engines right beside each other, and fuel tanks, and pylons for weapons and drop tanks on the outside of the "engine box"?
The upper limit is the point where it makes sense to bring in experts rather than random Tesla engineers.
And typewriters, before that. They all had only a single key for Apostrophe as well as Single Left Quote and Single Right Quote. In fact, since most(?) manual typewriters also lacked a "One / Exclamation" key, there was a fourth use: for "1" you typed lower-case L (yikes); while to get an exclamation point, you had to type a period, then backspace, then overstrike with an apostrophe (which is yet another reason the apostrophe et. al. character was vertical!)
I could absolutely see people saying that the power-generators are Nazi-friendly in this circumstance, and that the people selling/servicing them should be criticized accordingly.
Ooooh I like this. I had been noticing a lot more shilling lately, and dead pages from that.

If it becomes more popular, it will get gamed, and then get a more complex algorith, etc.

Now if we could just persuade political parties in Canada to put in exactly the same rule for candidate races. There was a recent BC NDP scandal in which the leading candidate was booted for going over a line when dragging new members in to vote for her (but it's not clear the winner wasn't also guilty.)
I don't think any is obvious.

But there are different views about urban violence (what is a huge talking point of Bolsonaro), different ways people get their news, urban community breakdown, different religious trends, and a lot more.
It's my understanding that these universities aren't selectively admitting people because they are required to due to "protected class," but rather they desire to not have the admissions "overrepresent" certain highly qualified groups (asians and Jews being the biggest groups that are overrepresented iirc).

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thankfully approval rating has nothing to do with Constitutionality.
Is voting "no contest" an option in a run-off like this?
It looks like Nature still publishes science articles and this is just a different section of the site.

https://www.nature.com/nature/research-articles
Temperature at the well stays consistent, but it can vary at the tap. At a family member's secondary property, tap water will vary from 2 deg in winter up to 15 in summer (because the line between the well and the house is only ~3-4 feet deep, and surface temperature changes a lot). If we were drawing more or less/line was different length/different depth, the variation would change.

(I know all these values from homebrewing, where water temperature plays a big role in how long it takes to cool)
Andrej refused to answer the question about why, and instead gave whole speech about how change management and supply chain is hard. What else is there to expand on?

And of course other companies encounter it. But this has very strong vibes of “no one knew health care can be so complicated”.

And what should they do? Change management. Yeah, it’s hard, and costs money, but it’s a hard industry to be in. What they should not do? Cripple products they already sold (like disabling radar in existing cars), because they need to milk their profit margins.

Andrej is a great researcher. But safety critical systems are very different from research projects.
True, but irrelevant, since SCOTUS does not need to run for re-election.
How about closing Twitter for three days, starting two days before the election. Twiliday for the staff!
Seems like things are moving that way.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/10/30/lega...
... and constitutionality has nothing to do with the SCOTUS decisions.
"Nazi-friendly". Stop appropriating german history just because you don't have better words to disagree with people.
I might have been elected president. I wasn’t, but I might have been. Should Biden have to split Air Force One with me?
The "no full-text search" benefit of Mastodon seems unsustainable, if Mastodon succeeds at Twitter's scale; not because the platform will add the feature, but because others will do it for them. Isn't that what happened to Twitter? (I might be misremembering.)
Lula was a popular president in his first term, and his zero hunger programme was effective, but his annulled conviction for corruption was essentially him getting off on a technicality. All the evidence against him and his cronies is real, albeit now inadmissible.

None of which is to say that Bolsonaro is the hero of this story. It’s a proper Kodos and Kang situation.
I’m aware of Parler, but are there other examples?
Kudos for pulling those through these small conduits :)

For anyone trying to emulate this: I would very much NOT recommend using 16mm conduits for LC duplex patch cables. It's doable for some short/straight runs, but the connectors like to get stuck in bends. For me it was the final r=3cm bend in a ~20m conduit. I ended up pulling Cat7 into that conduit and routed the fiber through a tree-like network of wider backup conduits.

Since the backup conduit ends up in the wrong corner of the room, I might one day 1. cut the 30m fiber patch cable, 2. pull it into the original 16mm conduit (w/o connectors), replacing the Cat7 and 3. splice the fiber again. Using a "mechanical splice" that should be doable quite cheaply, but I didn't yet get around to learning/practicing that.
Which is why they publish articles that affect universities, where scientists are trained.
Nature publishes all sorts of stuff outside of the research journals. They have news and opinions, book reviews, even science fiction.
Right to Repair explained – FTC rulemaking testimony from Louis Rossmann [video]
22 degrees is the coldest tap water? That means you basically need ice cubes or fridge storage before you can drink it in the summer?
> Conclusion: nonprofit social media enables healthier design

Twitter is(was?) popular because it was not healthy at first place, it was just that it used to be a "safe space" for a certain category of people.

I quote the blogpost:

> Now that a narcissistic billionaire bought Twitter and will likely make it Nazi-friendly (or otherwise ruin it)

These (also narcissistic) people aren't interested in healthy design, they want an exclusive megaphone, while denying their ideological opponent the same thing. They aren't interested in Mastodon or they would have moved to Mastodon a long time ago, when the people they denied the megaphone moved to alternative social media.
Elon Musk wastes no time changing Twitter
Thank goodness!

Twitter has been a horror story of voter suppression and that made me very sceptical.
Nature should stop writing this crap and go back to covering science instead of politics
For only username based have a look at Fedifinder: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
Sure, and racial discrimination is presumptively illegal. Affirmative action is the acceptable carveout to this presumption. These no presumption of legacy admissions being illegal, however...
The weirdest part is that the Star Trek revival was shepherded by Rick Berman, who leaned very conservative, but the show stayed techno-utopian. Now that the show is explicitly woke (in the modern sense), it's become unbelievably authoritarian and militaristic.

I had to bail on Discovery when the Federation turned down an (gimmick-verified) honest offer of universal peace at the conclusion of a season because of their deep desire to punish and humiliate the enemy that was offering it to them. I hope the Federation was written as the evil empire from then on, but I'm not going to be there to see it. In the world of Discovery, the return of the Federation is obviously the biggest threat to the galaxy.

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edit: I have to admit that the Federation turning down the offer made me more angry than anything I had seen in fiction for years, so if it was a trick that they played with or overturned in the next season, they sure got me. I mean they lost me, because I bailed, but they got the emotion they were going for.
He didn’t actually tell us how. I want a refund
What about the USA? Is the polarization now worse than in the ’90s?
I didn't read Airframe. I did read Timeline (1999), in which a shady corporation invents time travel. It plans to use this awesome power to, um, create an ultra-realistic Medieval theme park.
How does a FTX token like this work? How is it funded? I noticed most purchases started at around $0.30, so if he had indeed won, how would this token have yielded $1 (as the page says)?
Sadly Nature, AS & other historically-respected journals have became political for some years now. It's kind of sad but that happens when you put money above everything else, including integrity and scientific principles.
Politics and religion (and many other things) have been breaking up families since the dawn of politics and religion.

The internet is not to blame here.
micro-managing Twitter
You are confused my friend.

Reading sensor data is not the same as feeding that data to a neural network and asking it to form a worldview composed of possibly conflicting sensor data streams(i.e. lidar vs vision vs ultrasonic).

You are somewhat correct that it is quite trivial to read sensor data. For many sensors, there is some work which needs to be done to denoise or cleanup the input data. That's not where the story ends, however.
I mean, I'm not convinced by the comment, but I think the article is talking about managers of developers, nearly all of the people here are involved in development, mostly at companies which are predisposed to trying to replace humans with software (because their product does the same)

So the interesting question is, in that context is a manager becoming ever less necessary
Not a size optimisation, but a performance optimisation...

INT 21
RET

can be replaced with

JP 5
Big-touch-screen-only interaction is one of the things that keep me from buying a Tesla.

There’s the simplicity of Toyotas that keeps me attracted to them. Although when battery dies, you can’t open the trunk in newer RAV4s. So they’re going to shit as well.

I would buy a dumb cheap electric car in a heart beat.
In this case, there is no disagreement in the lower court. Both the district court and the appeals court upheld affirmative action.
The split is not really about urban voters. It is between the more developed south and the up and coming north of the country. Lula has enacted policies that help in the development of traditional poorer areas in the north of Brazil. That's why the more developed urban centers in the south don't like him.
Mastodon is better off not having these twitter features

top 10 features from Twitter that you wouldn't believe Mastodon doesnt have
Fedifinder – finding Twitter peers on Mastodon username based
AT Protocol Overview
Fun fact. I've been resurrecting MGR against modern DRM graphics on an openBSD machine. I have the animated splash screen rendering, and the terminal working mostly. There are some bugs with some of the programs, and menus, that I haven't figured out yet, and some of the programs crash. It's been quite an interesting experience. Hopefully when I get it working I will post it somewhere. a DRM based graphics stack should work on linux as well, which is pretty cool.
This brings back memories!

Many years ago I used debug.exe create a bootable floppy that did nothing but display my name on the screen when booted from. I peed a little when it finally worked.

Why did MS stop shipping it???
Season 3 is when it started getting somewhat consistently good. Although that is difficult in a 26 episode per year show.
Musk tweets link to an unfounded conspiracy theory
Given that there is a single counter-example, best throw the whole program out. Unless it works with 100% efficiency and effectiveness, then it isn't worth doing.
Is it common for there to be this many spoiled votes (over 4m at this point)?
Pirate Codes
I disagree - SystemD has the approach of embrace-extend-extinguish, where it gobbles up services and turns them into their own hard dependency - from DNS to device managers, etc

It's a very MS approach instead of a UNIX - do one job.
MS-DOS v1 didn't have an assembler in debug.exe (or was it .com?) so the only way to author machine code on a 5150 with no extra dev tools was to code it on paper, translate it by hand, and enter it in hex.
> That is the reason why I am not enthusiastic about Mastodon. Mastodon is not decentralized. Unless you run your own instance, you do not own your social graph.

That's needed for practical reasons though. Actually decentralised alternatives like for example Scuttlebutt have this common issue: "This “inital syncing” process can take up to an hour and use a fair amount of data." (https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/) You don't get popularity with non-tech people that way.

With mastodon, the profiles can be migrated. So effectively you can start with some main hub, move to a more interesting instance if you want to in the future, and move to your own instance if that is what you want.
Clarence Thomas himself was a victim of affirmative action, only fair that he is part of removing it I guess.
You would want to think very carefully about giving Twitodon these rights to your Twitter account:

Things this App can view...

People who follow you and people who you follow.

All the Tweets you can view, including Tweets from protected accounts.

Any account you can view, including protected accounts.
Isn’t this already known since around 92?

Edit - 1993. Also I think it was filling missing dan from the frog which then changes gender. Very relevant these days
https://web.archive.org/web/20020606074506/http://vothphoto....

Title should be updated with the original year of publication (2002)
Policy changes that will affect academic institutions that produce scientists are of immediate interest to the readers of Nature.
What’s the difference? Ops and sys admin has always been about automation at scale and monitoring.
You are using anecdotes to disprove data.

You know very well that statistically speaking, the argument for affirmative action is in one direction, your own personal acquaintances notwithstanding.
It just ticked over to Lula after I posted - and I'm super happy to see that he now has a 1% margin with 90% of the regions in.

Hopefully we'll have the win confirmed within the hour :)
Their job is to find it, not court (pun intended) approval rating.
Kavanaugh explicitly has only female clerks in order to help resolve the systemic inequality

Well, that could certainly be one reason.
That’s not a fair assessment of what the comment you replied to said.
Who is the top rheumatologist? Who would you recommend? My mother is in constant pain and has gone to a dozen different specialists. We are near Chicago, but I am happy to take her anywhere in the country.
My expertise is in performance, at times professionally; I think this viewpoint is a reasonable one.
Futures markets tend to be quite awful at predicting military dictatorships, and are even quite keen on right wing fascism. Take everything with a grain of sand. Not just tonight, where the results will be announced, and Bolsonaro will protest them if he doesn't win, but even in the upcoming years.
It isn't the internet.

Similar communities have people who use the internet, some of the Amish do (Hasidim would be another). But they do so recognising that it is dangerous. Not coincidentally, many people in these communities don't have TVs either.

Accepting the idea that you should only be concerned with things that directly concern you is, unfortunately, something that is very hard to learn. The reason it is easier for people in these communities is that they are already isolated. It isn't the internet, it is people (the Amish also have internet support groups...that would be very effective, but the internet has also atomized us).

Just personally, I am with you 100% though. I am not even someone who uses my phone very much, I grew up after the real brain-rot of the internet...but it has filled a gap in my life so it is very hard to shift (again, not the internet's fault...it is mine), and work out where the line should be. I also studied politics/economic history, try as I might I can't stop myself being interested with things that really aren't any of my business...it is a real problem (Reddit is the worst for me, I have moved off all the worst subreddits but I still have a bad habit...what makes it so hard is that it is useful too, if I need a question answered it is my first call).

Whoever works out a way to really solve internet addiction will be a very rich man/woman. It will be one of the biggest issues in the life of any kid who was born after 2000 onwards. I was born much earlier, have avoided the brainrot and it is still a massive issue in my life.
mastodon.social is by far the largest, but
the recommendation is generally to find the one that has interests & people on it you find interesting to start. you'll get content from people on mastodon.social anyways.
I'm guessing (hoping) that your comment is sarcasm, but in any case, it's worth being explicit about that choice, since we all know that implicit sarcasm is not communicated well in this medium.
Strangely enough, drinking water is served at temperatures up to 100C in certain preparations (eg tea)!

Less tongue in cheek, yes, people will often chill their tap water in the summer before drinking. But it's perfectly drinkable at whatever temperature it comes out of the tap. The water supply in my locality comes from a surface reservoir, leading to the higher summer temperatures.
It was absolutely fine. Read "War is a Racket" by Major General Smedley Butler.

https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket

(yes, yes, this is a "/s" for those who can't figure it out.)
Biden is not senile, but superficially there are similarities.

Biden and Lula were already established politicians from the highest offices and they made/are making comebacks as sort of old but popular candidates for their parties. Both being the opposite of fresh faces in politics. Running on old merits.
I'm very glad you are feeling better, but it's important for others to be aware that this is pseudoscience.
The goal is to increase diversity and support marginalized groups, not to “reduce overrepresentation” of socially dominant groups.
Various SaaS vendors are available via the AWS marketplace, including ones that aren't running on AWS.

For example we pay for Datadog (using their EU region which happens to be on GCP) via our AWS bill. As we have 30 day invoicing with AWS this makes it all very convenient.
Elon Musk tweets Hillary Clinton with Link to Article regarding Pelosi Incident
> Affirmative action is the acceptable carveout to this presumption.

Note that this is pretty much an urban legend, with little to no basis in law. "Affirmative action" when originally introduced as a standard was very clearly defined as acting to ensure that racial discrimination would not occur. Non-discrimination is, and has always been, the overall goal.
They both admit more blacks and fewer Asians. I assume Jews are lumped in with other whites.
I think Ent for Go has a ton of potential. Although I haven’t used this library, I have spent a lot of time studying the design space of ORMs because I’m currently iterating on an internal library that does ORM-like things at Notion. I really like the Ent approach because it allows working with a graph-based data model directly in the embedding language, instead of forcing developers to learn a new query language like Datomic datalog or SPARQL, while simultaneously avoiding lock-in to a specific data store backend.

I would like to build something like Ent that is ergonomic and usable on both the client and the server in Typescript, and facilitates easily moving business logic between the two. The context at Notion is that we have a very smart client using something ORM-like and a somewhat dumb server using plain row record values, so while we do share some code between the two, it’s difficult to port larger features from the client to the server. It’s kind of the reverse situation that most people have, which is a smart server pushing GraphQL to a relatively dumb client.

There are a lot of people looking into client-focused or end-to-end database abstractions right now, so the space exciting. What the upstarts should learn from Ent is:

1. Codegen is powerful, and often easier to understand than a mountain of typelevel magic.

2. A good ORM solution should really build in permissions and composing mutations at a deep level. The previous generation of ORMs like ActiveRecord left this stuff to user space to everyone’s detriment.

3. Embedded DSL as query language is a blessing and a curse. It’s better than forcing engineers to learn a weird alternative to SQL strings, but more frustrating to experts. Use these tradeoffs with caution!
Why use a Terminal Word Processor? [video]
Not really an obstacle to tweeting.

It’s nothing other than making people pay for a status symbol.
Strange New Worlds is the Trek everybody (including me) was asking for - just give us a ship and a crew that does adventures rather than a soap opera. The actors are good and it looks good, but the writing is trash. The technology doesn't make any sense, there are plot holes that you could fly a 747 through, and endless impossible dilemmas solved by deus-ex-machina. Just low-quality.
Hard to say who deserves it in general, but I really do think that universities should deliberately seek out as wide a range of backgrounds as possible, given that there is no shortage of motivated high-achieving applicants from across the range. How to grant them the freedom to do so, without allowing their decision-makers to descend into capricious bigotry, is a major institutional challenge for the 21st century.
Downvoted for directly answering the parent post's question and supplying a supporting reference to the posted article. Nice.