skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taiwanese indigenous peoples are 2% of the island's population. Many of the pre-1949 Chinese settlers have some aboriginal ancestry, however. I don't suppose you know the difference between benshengren and waishengren, nor care to know.
At first I thought this wasn't a huge deal... it would be like having a bad experience with twitter moderation but now I'm thinking... in that case, you'll have to "choose" your first server pretty carefully then?

Maybe I have a misunderstanding but I can't imagine convincing something like that on reddit or discord would go over well at all.

Who and what you interact with can be changed by the whims of discord/reddit mods. Some even go so far as to craft tools/bots to extend their "power" to allow them to ban users across subs. This doesn't make it so you can't see the other users entirely though.

What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account?

I could still be misunderstanding... but it seems like as time goes on, the chances of admins/mods having some ridiculous drama approaches 1. At least as far as discord and reddit have gone. Just look at the whole antiwork thing. Drama and struggles within the same subreddit, let alone different ones.
The conjecture is stronger: real != rational

> This convention is used for the rest of this article. Wills' conjecture was part of his work in Diophantine approximation, the study of how closely fractions can approximate irrational numbers.

I couldn't have imagined that we might make a connection between integers and irrational/real numbers.
I honestly don't see Jeff Bezos personally managing the housekeeper(s). Like how does this happen? Is it Jeff mandating: "No I enforce my housekeepers to work 14-hour per day without breaks."?
That's just a function of how you (and I) grew up. In many cultures, the norm is that offspring live with their parents until marriage, and in some, even the married couple lives with one set of parents.

This is just a reminder that a lot of the things we find comfortable aren't inherent; they're just a reflection of what the norms where during our formative childhood and early adult years.
You can’t run your own node and majority of users are on one system - that’s failure to me.
If you're looking for people to follow, I also recommend https://communitywiki.org/trunk/.
Considering the clear biases of the previous moderators, perhaps we should give him and the new regime time to prove they can do a better job?
It's not unusual to validate unconditionally in recursive resolvers, even for clients that did not set the AD bit or the DO bit.
Yeah I sort of agree but badgering people for flying or buying a new car or something is I thin just a bit counterproductive because people probably won’t like it very much. It would be more productive to badger representatives to make better legislation.

It used to be that conspicuous consumption was frowned upon, I think that was probably a good thing.
Unless you're trying to be edgy (which is not obvious), this make you sound like a psychopath.
> She was hired in 2019 for a housekeeping role that required her to "work around a family without being seen", according to the complaint.

Is this is a common requirement for a housekeeper to act like a burglar?
The Byzantines sit in an uncomfortable middle for a modern intellectual. Too European to be exotic and "diverse" in the contemporary shallow meaning of the word, but at the same time too Orthodox to be culturally comprehensible to modern Westerners. Speaking an Indo-European language that is nevertheless very distant from all the current major Indo-European language groups and uses its own hard-to-read script.
yes, every company i've worked at gave me a laptop.
I’m simply stating the obvious. The parent commenter is factually incorrect.

Relying on companies to self police morality is an idealistic view that results in failure. That’s where the democracy and government part comes in.

Twitter is required by law to be compliant with accessibility standards, and so they will be. Whether or not this team is laid off doesn’t change that
With their mandatory PE through college? How could they be?!
You can pull vim from my cold, dead hands.
I think that there's been a lot of research about this. I can recommend the book "Change: How to Make Big Things Happen" by Damon Centola. Ironically, it goes into detail on how Twitter became successful.
That's the drama I was missing in my life.
You and I must be reading different HN's, because I see an awful lot of people anti-layoffs, anti-Copilot, and pro-Mastodon.

So I wonder if you're actually complaining about diversity of thought? Because HN isn't the "hacker culture" you're talking about from the late 80s and 90's. It's got a whole bunch of those people, but also a whole bunch of everything else.

When people comment, why should they be trying to contribute to "hacker culture" at all? Why shouldn't they simply be offering their diverse perspectives?

And criticizing Mastodon is a valid perspective to have. If people are looking to jump ship from Twitter now, it's important to be realistic about whether Mastodon is or isn't "ready for business" both from technical and consumer perspectives. It's counterproductive to only hype up projects and never criticize them.
> what exactly are you contributing to hacker culture?

This is a board run by an incubator investment firm, so I don't really view it as an outpost of hacker culture.

I have been reading here over the past week here about private Amway rail cars, underperforming CEOs being replaced, notes about Stripe/Twitter layoffs. Most of this is peripheral, or even unrelated, to hacker culture, but I don't really read here for Hacker culture.

I've seen a lot of hacker culture in the past few months, and a lot of innovation, not necessarily here, although there's been references to it here. For what I'm interested in a lot of it has been based around Github recently, but it varies over time.

I don't see the angels, incubators, VCs, startup founders, FAANG business development and product managers, and occassional programmers talking here to have much influence on hacker culture one way or the other. I'm sure a lot of people hacking on stuff have read this board, or even commented. Not all - I know a lot of very good programmers who never even heard of this board.
> if you feel it requires anything beyond that, you are essentially invoking a call to revolution.

There's a pretty broad spectrum of civil disobedience between "passive protest" and "overthrow of the current regime" - for example, disrupting the lives of those both largely responsible for the looming existential threat and in possession of the authority to make a meaningful attempt at mitigating further damage.

> if I don't agree with you, then I must not have studied the data enough because it's so obvious that your position is right.

Well yes. If I didn't believe my position to be right, then I wouldn't be arguing it, now would I? And if there wasn't ample evidence of said position being right, then I wouldn't have reason to believe it to be right, now would I?

Again: the stakes here are human extinction. Blaming the people concerned about that risk for being a bit passionate about, you know, not fucking dying is kinda asinine, no?

> are they?

Yes, by virtue of them, you know, being in power. The alternative would be to remove them from power - a.k.a. revolution - but you seem opposed to that so that kinda narrows things down.
This was the situation for all of the housekeepers, it's only one that is finally taking action due to repeat urinary tract infections caused by their job requirements.

To use the bathroom they had to crawl out of a window, down a hidden path, into a maintenance building, and then into a basement area to use the toilet.

The issue wasn't just the workload, the issue was that these workers were meant to be hidden from view, and certainly not allowed to share the same facilities as the owner. That sort of equality is unpalatable to the elite.

This behavior is not new and was common among royal courts of centuries past.
Sounds like the origin story of EFNet [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet
No. I went back to twitter.
The direction is promising.
Life got a lot better for me when I finally moved out of London.

I was fed up of living in a place where there was no cultural cohesion, where people constantly came and left, where ghettos naturally formed because melting pots don’t work in practice.

I now live in a lovely town in Kent where I know and love my neighbours, where the streets are safe and clean. The air is clean. The roads aren’t all 20mph limited (FFS, Lewisham!) and people are generally happier, more polite and more settled. Some people will wince at how “white and middle class” the area is. But I have no chips on my shoulder about race or class, so this doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

Leave London. There are much nicer places to be in the U.K., whatever age you are.
New Zealand regularly uses flying companies to take aerial imagery photos of most of the country, which is generally taken between 30cm and ~2cm, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) then releases this imagery imagery completely free (CC-BY)[1,2] to the public and can be downloaded as GeoTIFFs [3]

I think LINZ decided that <0.05m might have some privacy issues due to being able to distinguish people in it, and have held back releasing some <0.05m or they may have reduced the quality of it.

disclaimer: I work at Land Information New Zealand

[1] https://basemaps.linz.govt.nz/?i=hawkes-bay-urban-2022-0.05m...
[2] https://basemaps.linz.govt.nz/?i=christchurch-urban-2021-0.0...
[3] https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/106915-christchurch-005m-urb...
Rather the issue is that there is a lot of garbage tutorials out there. It takes a lot of effort the find out the correct tutorials
Wondering how the displaced engineers will impact the rest of the job market
Even Github search is so bad. Has it improved any lately?
In what delusional world could private companies ever 'do whatever they wanted'? We have huge legal tomes filled with laws to prevent this sort of sociopathic thinking from becoming reality for the sake of profit.
I'm a coach specializing in engineers, and I've been in your shoes

to feel unappreciated and not being seen (like you say, not being talked to in months)

to feel that I don't make a dent (as you mention a code monkey)

would you like to have 30 mins call and see if I can help you

and from the saying I believe we are in the same country

Daniel
Why the FBI Is So Far Behind on Cybercrime
Good point. That's a better wording.
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In general (x + (y - x) / 2) is more general than (x + y) / 2. If x and y are not in some group, but rather in the torsor of some group, you can't really sum them. Any attempt to do so involves introducing some arbitrary reference point. You can always do this, but once you do, you're at risk of your calculation results depending on the choice of arbitrary reference point and hence being meaningless.

The difference of two elements of the torsor of some group G is an honest-to-God group element of G, though, and so you have an honest-to-God identity element. You may or may not have an honest-to-God division or halving operator (which computes e given (e + e)) but in cases where G is the additive group of some field you do.

However, in this case our array indices are drawn from something like ℤ/2³²ℤ, and we might be trying to halve odd numbers, so none of this is justifiable! We want something different from our halving operator.

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torsors.html

I see dataflow and maxiepoo were already talking about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33493149
Surely it’ll depend on many factors: employees’ own preferences, level and sincerity of support-in-principle from leadership, actual working environments, relative distribution of remote vs in-person, level and burden of effort to accommodate mixed teams.

I also prefer remote (and have been remote probably 75% of my career). I’m also ADHD, and while I’d never even heard of ”body doubling” by name it’s something I’ve found helpful sometimes, under some circumstances.

For the minority of my career spent in office, it’s ranged from wildly productive (great team fit, good balance in favor of focus time) to hilariously counterproductive (excessive meetings and process ceremony, continuous interruptions whether ostensibly work-related or social, unbearably noisy).

For the times I’ve worked on mixed remote/office, I’ve generally felt my own and my teams’ productivity is great except when leadership found the arrangement objectionable (self-fulfilling prophecy I guess), or when team communications became challenging at scale (eg we found it hard to do “standups” with ~15 people in office and ~10 people on a screen; but realistically we shouldn’t have had that many people in any meetings).
The journal Nature tries to measure overall scientific output of institutions and countries, based on numbers of articles published in high-quality journals. China has passed the US for the first time in the last few months: [0]. It's not a perfect measure, but it gives you an idea of how rapidly things have changed.

Another indicator you can look at is R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP. China hasn't caught up with the US yet, but it has been steadily ramping up: [1].

0. https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/generate...

1. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS?locat...
My link did – but I'm making a stronger claim. (A tangential claim, mind.) Just because an argument pattern-matches to a named logical fallacy, that doesn't make it incorrect.

Take the conjunction fallacy. Ultimately, it comes down to the representativeness heuristic. However, the representativeness heuristic matches how we use language: to use Wikipedia's example, "Linda is a bank teller active in the feminist movement" is more correct than "Linda is a bank teller" if Linda is active in the feminist movement, but not a bank teller.

The mistake in such a situation is interpreting it as though the speaker is using classical logic, when they're actually using a fuzzy logic more akin to Bayesian inference. People focus too much on logical fallacies, and not enough on how the average human actually uses language. Precise language is useful, but that doesn't make "heuristic language" wrong, or fallacious.

An argument that's a logical fallacy can still be heuristically correct.
We all hate to see people losing their jobs, but it's been known for a very long time that Twitter had an extremely bloated headcount. I'm not at all surprised that something called the "Accessibility Experience Team" was one of the first groups to get cut.
Companies pay employees to work on them.

If you know of a company who could support Rui, then please let him know.
Probably they will be absorbed at lower salaries / equity. But SF real estate, holy shit. Dump it now if you have any
I don't think only person should only ever write on each topic. It's good to have some retreading so healthy disagreement can be shared, views reinforced, different nuances explained, or everything just put another way. I've often read something, not really got it, and read someone else explain the same thing a bit differently where it clicked better for me.

I think the important thing is just to know what you're writing about. Too many people write about things they think will tell highly but they only have the most surface-level knowledge of. That's the real problem.
I not at all advocate that. Total opposite actually.

All I am saying is: at some days I work 15 minutes longer and on others 15 minutes shorter. Same work quantity with the difference that I stop working at a meaningful point and not let everything drop at a fixed point. I buffer a bit to my private duties (kids in my case), so I do not have stress in any direction.
It's hard for me to take doubling down on "correlation is causation" seriously, especially on such an obviously multi-faceted subject, it's simply too unnuanced. Just the assertion in passing that China has supposedly moved away from SOEs could be a debate on its own.

You talk about incentives? The amount of money that has been concentrated to the wealthiest portions of society is simply staggering, even in superficially equal countries like Sweden. The privatization of state-owned industry, properties, and the welfare system has been an unprecedented goldmine for private interests. Essentially a smaller Scandinavian version of a post-USSR wealth transfer. The incentives for people in power in less democratic and/or corrupt countries is even more obvious.

The virus was the global shock-wave due to the collapse of soviet-Union? Come on. It was not like the shift to third-way social-democracy was a grassroots movement. Party politics is more fluid than voting patterns. A sentiment of "It's new times now, we need to go along with the flow" (not that dissimilar to today's politicians accepting the gig-economy, but that's another topic), rather than "we can clearly see that state-owned industry just isn't working, we have no choice but to try something new". If it actually was the latter, it would've be repeated by right-wing representatives on every political debate since the 1990, but that hasn't happened.

I'll leave it there, I think I've gotten my point across.
Level up the code review culture on your team
I suspect that they ran into something like,

"Hey, none of the batch jobs ran today because of DST changeover, and we fired the batch jobs team"
You make it sound like a company running a large Mastodon instance scaled across hundreds of thousands of nodes couldn't make changes to solve whatever "free speech" problems. Just because it is open source doesn't mean that they couldn't make changes and contribute to the code upstream to solve many of these issues.
Nobody is gonna try! Use what you like!
Trusted by whatever certification entities (ideally multiple ones, from non-aligned states) decide to deem a certain piece of hardware as "trusted". And then by extension, by any individual that trusts those particular certification authorities.

Yes, I'm aware this leaves the door open for subversion of certification authorities by nation-states. It's still better than the nothing we have today.
One idea is for public libraries to host instances. Public employees responsible for the administration are already bound by privacy laws that would make them more trustworthy than some rando that starts an instance.

If done on a branch by branch basis, this could be a good way to have an online local network. Maybe this would be an open Nextdoor as well.

Local account access could be limited by library card eligibility, which combined with terms of service could avoid abuse by far away troublemakers and limit the noise from local ones.

While eligibility may depend on having a library card, public anonymity could still exist. Just as libraries keep my borrowing history private, they could also shield my real identity.

This idea is inspired by the Twitter space I talk about at

https://fosstodon.org/@mgerdts/109294570901271083
If everyone is verified, no one is verified
Nope. This was taken on as part of Musk's acquisition which is structured as a leveraged buyout and saddled Twitter with nearly $13 billion in additional debt.

Twitter's annual debt service cost before Musk took over was an entirely manageable $60 million a year. Now it's somewhere around $1 billion.
I wonder if this is directly or indirectly related to what Elon Musk did at Twitter.
And I agree, but that is not how I read your comment.

If you expanded it with "There are no moral requirements... for companies to provide accessibility features" it would have been entirely different story.
>Yes, but if Twitter shut down, you wouldn't have any more options

That's totally fair. You're also SoL if you don't agree with their policies, etc. So I'm definitely not a fan of the way that works.

>Mastodon has a problem with scaling individual instances

That's unfortunate to hear. Seems like a "core" issue though... I mean, if it approaches anywhere near the number of DAU twitter has... no idea how that would work, logistically.

Seems it would have to come full-circle where hosters have incentive beyond "hobby" and "clout" reasons.
Acting like Elon hasn’t given people legit reasons to dislike him? Anybody is allowed to overlook the flaws he has but you shouldn’t ignore them outright.

I’d actually argue he was the darling of the tech world for a while and his awful personality has eroded that over the last handful of years.
I don’t know about that; for instance a number of lawyers I follow are now on Mastodon and enjoying figuring it out. The biggest problems seem to be that some popular servers are disabling signups for a bit, and secondly finding out who else is there too (but Debirdify helps with that)
Surprising that mastodon has only half a million users?! Way below what I expected after so many years.

I am looking forward to new Twitter. So many cool changes coming: Vine coming back. Maybe even Periscope coming back. Birdwatch getting more love. And over all more diversity and openness. Pretty sweet.
I can't really ready Ruby, but it seems to me that the code fragment for implementing domain name compression does not handle compression loops.
Thank you! One would think with as much education as I've had and amount I've read that my spelling would be a bit better, but, here we are!

My smart-ass comment would be "I knew that and just wanted to see if someone would catch it!"