skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All seems like reasonable points, it's highly project-dependant but since switching to mold I've seen solid overall speedups. If I was to put a saved time value on that for me alone it would be huge. At $1200/month in donations for full time work, the value large companies get out of it is huge.

The actual meat of the title buried down in the tweets:

> Given this situation, I'm seriously considering changing the mold/macOS license (not mold/Unix license) from AGPL to a commercial, source-available one. Something like individuals would be able to use it for free but companies have to pay.
This is why Mastodon is garbage, 1, links at the bottom of an endless scroll so they can never actually be reached, and 2, the design is complete garbage, there's no ux/ui there at all.

I'm sure the content is great but no-ones ever gonna see it.
If you're using Neovim you want this one: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim

New nvim api lets mappings add a desc which will get picked up automatically with this plugin.
Of of the top of my head, you'll need to watch out for:

- The default behavior that triple-click to selects a whole paragraph/line will stop at the first contenteditable=false element.

- Android may dismiss the keyboard & selection if the selection ever touches one of your contenteditable=false marker elements.

- Firefox won't let you place the caret in between two contenteditable=false elements, or at the start or end of a contenteditable=true element if the first/last child is contenteditable=false.

Why not use ProseMirror?
Makes me wonder if some people are prone to converting a greater percentage of testosterone into DHT than others.
I’ve never been given a choice for my area code, and if I was, there’s the obvious default to “where I live”. What’s the Mastodon equivalent?
Musk's advertiser push undermined by his own opening moves
A rubber duck. $1.99, no subscription, no monthly payments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Using caps lock to escape is close to the ergonomics of an early terminal used by Bill Joy where the escape key sat to the left of Q.

https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.htm...
Thanks for the answers.

Would you recommend to manually disable the Windows firewall?
Show HN: All of Porkbun's Waiting Messages
Not sure if anyone noticed this before, but I always had fun with the waiting messages from porkbun.com

Today I had a particularly slow domain purchase, and I think I got to see all of them at once while waiting for the payment to go through

They're all returned as part of the repeated calls to check the order status (https://porkbun.com/api/orders/checkOrderStatus), the response looks like this:

{
"error":0,
"orderStatus":"0",
"processingStatus":"going out to lunch",
"item_count":"10",
"items_processed":"8"
}

Here's the whole list:

"waiting for book six"

"going out to lunch"

"sharpening pitchforks"

"for great justice"

"bringing it on"

"herding piglets"

"washing the dishes"

"getting jiggy with it"

"42"

"kissing a gift fish"

"testing your patience"

"slaying the dragon"

"drifting"

"realigning zone file"

"listening to smooth jaz"

"shuffling bits"

"slobbering uncontrollably"

"syncing the blockchain"

"putting out liguid ice fire"

"0110110001101111011101100110010100100000011110010110111101110101"

"eating a sandwich"

"digesting unoriented object"

"fueling up flux capacitors"

"oinking"

"passively aggressing"

"testing your patience"

"sending obscure XML port mapper"

"going out to lunch"

"realigning zone file"

"shuffling bits"

"buying handshake names"

"calculating nonsense factor"

"mining altcoins"

"hold on to your buns"
I think GP's comment about reach runs in the other direction:

If someone tweets about an issue, it is trivially discovered globally and readily embedded on news sites with arbitrary volumes of traffic (or shown on TV).

Is the same true for toots?
Thanks, this is really cool. I don't have anything to add; I just want to let the author know this is appreciated. I recently decided to learn Go, and articles like this are a great way to get a feel for how Go programmers think about solving problems with the tools available to them. The kind of knowledge you don't get from just skimming The Go Programming Language and such.
> Why can't it get enough reach?

> What if each news outlet ran their own server?

I think you answered your own question.
Don't worry, coffee machines don't have emotions... YET!
> It may have been that they wanted to say that it was about democracy, but actually a lot of it was also just about their own economic interests, and now their understanding of their economic interests have changed.

Is the slightly more cynical way in which she puts it.

And I'd go further and say the way that globalization was carried out made certain people very rich at the expense of other people within their countries, so talking about countries as if they're a tight family that would never betray each other isn't helpful.

Oh, I read further and see that this is the "The left-wing populist" view, and it also seems to be the right-wing populist view too, if you remove the racist bit about immigrants and realise that what they are describing was what the right-wing pushed for and the left-wing pushed against, a warning which got ignored because people love a bit of racism and all those other things the left will wag their finger at.
Aww, you poor thing. Life is so difficult. :(
A modern Emacs would look like VSCode with an API that was lower level, with less built-in UI, a focus on pure text buffers, and incubated for a few years to build out more of a framework so every extension doesn’t feel completely unrelated. It’s unlikely VSCode will become that, but it’s even more unlikely to be a text editor pitched to Vim users.
Measuring Software Modularity – Part 1: Cohesion
ngl, my least favorite part of mastodon is the fact that tweets called toots, i guess the name might become rote if it gets popular enough but i've ventured out into the fediverse a few times and it's always struck me as really awkward/silly

is that just me?
Oh, I made that sandbox for my HN comment. I actually have a similar internal blog post & several more complex examples I built for that, but can't share any of it publicly.
also, 3: "toot"
Not having enough reach is a chicken and egg problem. Mastodon-like protocols could have the ubiquity and ease of use of the similarly decentralized email protocol with wide enough adoption.
>moving to a Mastodon server with an admin with their own fun and unique ideas about moderation isn't the tea.

Well, that's supposed to be the benefit of Mastodon, isn't it? Every platform has moderation rules and owners/admins, and every platform will have these things change periodically. Mastodon is built around the idea that you can easily migrate your data to a different instance without having to leave the platform if you disagree with how it is being run. You can even be your own owner/admin of an instance if you feel strongly enough about it but still be on the same platform as other users you follow.
I think the ask is for something like let a bit flip inside the UDP packet or let a byte fall out of the UDP packet. The integrity of UDP packets is still checked for (at different layers).

For most networks the error rate is so low that I don't think it's that valuable. Also you'd still want your metadata checked otherwise it'll get potentially delivered to the wrong place.
> rubicon33 does not know what they are talking about.

He simply says it the theory is based on correlation which you agree to in your first sentence.
I have never cared to look at local server feeds. I follow dozens of people that interest me, and that is it.
The Mastodon software is not horizontally scalable. So, each instance is forced to be relatively small. One instance will not be able to handle millions of users.
I am seeing some 16ks if this graph is correct (https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/5gbwz3/i_plo...)

My point is responding to "For anyone nitpicking the animations, UI or graphics choice... Please go and read about the reasons which drove the Adams brothers to finally cash in on their 20 year long passion project."
They have been cashing in for a decade, it is a profession game put out by a decently paid experienced team, if I want to have a problem with the graphics or gui at whatever price they are charging, I will do so.

Including patron, it looks like they averaged over 11k per month last year.
Email is run just like this and it has plenty of reach.
What specifically do you mean by "mostly just doesn't work"?
You can easily get kids engaged with both math and science. They aren't mutually exclusive.

There's nothing wrong with "infotainment". Some of the things which I experienced in elementary school which stuck with me the longest were when our gym teacher would play educational videos about human anatomy. A lot of these videos featured "Osmosis Jones"-style flythroughs of different organs. "Here's the stomach, it's filled with acid, etc." Netflix has The Magic Schoolbus right now. My wife and I were amusing ourselves by watching it for a few minutes last night, and I realized that the first episode (they visit each planet in the solar system on their bus, which had transformed into a space ship) had stuck with me almost verbatim, even though I haven't seen it in over 20 years. There are basic concepts that are quickly and easily imparted in this form (the sun is huge, the planets are very far apart, etc.) because of the visual format. Nothing wrong with this.

All this "infotainment" really helped develop my imagination and powers of visualization, both of which have paid dividends for me in the long run.

How "useful" a class is has as much to do with the instructor and the resources available to them as it does the particular pedagogical style. Should also be kept in mind that not everyone is going to become a scientist or use math on the job. The solution here isn't to eliminate "useless" subjects from school, but to focus on how to give people a broad education so that they can become informed and critical thinkers.
What are the requirements (degree, etc) for computational chemistry and drug design? I have a young one who is looking at medicine in general.
Some grids are more open than others. ElectricityMap scrapes public system operator websites (“ISOs”) or government data aggregators (US EIA balancing areas or ENTSOE in Europe) for their data.

To my knowledge, outside of Europe, there is no data reporting requirement, so this is all best effort (but it’s pretty good for best effort imho).
>there is an overreaction to new Twitter management

Oh i think its a perfectly legitimate and reasonable reaction to new Twitter management. a guy worth about 200bn USD spent his first day at the office dragging a piece of plumbing around cheerleading his impending job cuts and upcoming $8 surcharge for a feature that only really benefits and legitimizes the platform. he then axes most of the company, especially the moderation team, and acts shocked when brand-safety conscious corporations pull their advertising out of an abundance of caution.

hes lucky corporate brands and advertisers havent figured out they could start their own Mastodon instance for almost nothing, plug it until it becomes more popular than Twitter, and maintain all their existing brand safety controls in the process.

If Musk wanted to take a 44bn USD kick to the knackers and spend the end of his year getting deadass roasted on his new social media platform by literally everyone, its a success.
If Helix added some kind of compatibility layer for Vim/Neovim plugins (much like Neovim's support for VimScript or the existence of things like Torch.jl in Julia), I'd switch in a heartbeat. As it stands, I simply rely on too much of the Vim/Neovim ecosystem to make the jump.
Remark: "It is warmer than it should be at this point in time, so I have taken unexpected and uncommon action to cool my home."

Replies: "yeah but what about", "here's how you're wrong", "this is all your fault", etc.

Real shame.
I think these instructions can drastically speed up the GCM part of AES-GCM, which is used by a lot of https websites (not sure if it's the most popular TLS cipher, but it's almost definitely top 3). Part of why Salsa/Chaha become popular on phones and embedded devices is because for a while only x86 had specialized instructions for GCM
Most of the servers I've looked at today have that list hidden behind a signup wall. "The list is visible for logged-in members under the heading Unavailable content below."

and they aren't taking new signups. Soooo.... no idea.
A lot of this overreaction reminds me of when Facebook bought WhatsApp. All the alternatives came up for a few weeks/months, but the dust settled and not that many left in the end. Maybe it’s different this time? But the cycle feels the same
ehm sure, the job of a CEO is making the strategic decisions, not doing the „heavy“ work
Not quite. Some buildings are different heights and some even have multiple levels. Obviously nowhere near what Google Maps does now. More like what they were doing 10 years ago. Still cool though.
> A lot of it was insufferable idolatry and ideological pontification - but I started to understand, if not necessarily agree with, the product lifecycle in Apple.

I have an iPhone and iPad as well as a hackintosh.

I will never for the life of me understand the apple ideology. It is almost like some of these people's whole identify is tied to a company they neither own or work for?

Sure apple does make some great stuff, but they also make crap and have a history of bad choices (dock, firewire and lightening come to mind).

what i have a serious issue with is the artificial limits on OS updates. Clearly if Opencore legacy patcher gets the OS on the laptop apple intentionally blocked it?

Many who have used Opencore are happy with the experience so why exactly did MacOS refuse to install?
They have most of the basics required to do so already. Just have a tab that is a feed of the u/ you follow.
There’s probably a good test for competing products that one could apply. Between my daughter, me, my mother, and my grandmother, how many of us can or will want to switch to the competing product? If it’s too hard for at least two generations, you’re probably not going to meet success because you’ve already lost a large chunk of your potential user base before we even begin discussing if the users want your service in the first place.
I don't actually think COVID was leaked from the lab. I just think that Chinas refusal to do basic food hygiene, despite multiple zoonotic diseases already arriving makes it equally criminal...
For those not sure who to follow on Mastodon, I have been curating my follow list for years. Mostly people into tech, security, privacy, and digital sovereignty.

https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/following
That's how it rolled for me, as well. That first season was perfect as a "what if" exploration. Then it like if ran out of gas quick and grew much less plausible...

The parts I loved about it faded away, but I stuck around anyway. :P
Well, that's not something the C standard (or POSIX, etc) guarantees, is it?

Conceptually, a 64-bit kernel today could allow your program to allocate (almost) the entire 64-bit address space, assuming it does memory overcommit (like Linux) and/or uses some kind of memory compression (like Linux supports as well).

There might be some MMU limitations on today's mainstream systems, but this doesn't mean that all 64-bit systems have those limitations or that those limitations will remain there in the future.

So your code would break as soon as a new system comes along without those limitations.

Also, this would be even more true if the code and stack would be stored in different address spaces, as theoretically that would even allow you to allocate the entire address space, I think.
So my very first thought of reading this comment is "I 100% whole-hardily agree".

But...

I have read a few posts from different people who say blog about it even if it isn't new or unique. The thought being is that it 1) improves writing skill and 2) if learning something, helps cements the concepts of what was learned.

It appears the Simon Wilson shared the same feeling about posts being new and unique as can seen here from his 2nd post in 2002: https://simonwillison.net/2002/Jun/12/bloggingAintEasy/

"with each post hopefully adding a new angle to the topic in hand"

Obviously he has changed his mind through the years which we are allowed to do.

And as I type this and think about the commenter's statement about "low-content dross", I would much rather sift through a bunch of individual posts from real people than from businesses trying to promote some product.
Thank you, installed.
I never waste any seed from watermelons or melons, it's crunchy and tastes good
I don't think it suggests anything of the sort but even if it did suggest it to someone - again, there's a guideline and a million moderator comments about not looking for a single irritant to respond to in an article. Especially if the response to the irritant is essentially a trope in itself.
I really felt that there was an overreaction and we needed time to see what changes actually happened under Musk. Lots of very confident and different guesses about what was going on.

Then Musk started to say he'd name and shame advertisers who have lowered/removed their spend on the platform. I don't know what the bar for advertisers deciding a platform is too risky to advertise on, but that has to cross it. There are a lot of different sites to advertise on, so it only really takes being riskier than the rest to lower/remove the amount you're willing to spend on the platform.

But maybe that take is just as bad as the rest. Perhaps Twitter sometime soon finds a crowd that will pay enough to sustain it, and the crowds that fled from it slowly come back after becoming frustrated with overly technical alternatives.
> In the words of the venerable AvE: "Make cool shit, put it on the internet." Have I been able to follow that?

'cool shit'

who defines that? The reader.

'cool shit' could be about how you feel in a relationship, how you just cooked The Best Food Ever, how your pet made you laugh, a joke, an insightful sentence / paragraph that you read, something you saw, something you felt.

Just write.

If it is useful to you, then just write.
You and your partner are on the same team, even when it feels otherwise.
Google Pixel 6A is less than this and has grapheneos and a 5 year service life.

The only other Android manufacturer I would still consider is Samsung. Ironically, Samsung doesn't have GrapheneOS or similar to protect you from google apps like a genuine google phone.

I simply don't believe any of the other manufacturers when they claim they will make updates, most of them have failed to deliver for me at least once.
The author glosses over the fact that you can upgrade to any new macOS version for free for around 7 years after your Mac was sold as new.

And even then there are ways to prolong the support window with projects like the OpenCore Legacy Patcher https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

So you buy a brand new Mac, you get to upgrade to the latest version and then even if you don't use OpenCore Legacy Patcher you're still getting at least some of the security updates from the latest version of macOS.

I realize that the author paints the picture of that later reduced level of support as being a bad thing, but they don't actually go as far as supporting their arguments with any sort of evidence beyond "there are bugs!"

Out of the box Apple is giving you ~10 years of at least partial updates and you can prolong it further using third party solutions like the OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

For example, you can use Monterey on the Mac Mini you bought in 2009, and the only way to go back to an older model is to start talking about Macs that are physically incapable of running modern macOS because they have physically incompatible 32-bit processors.
It's even weirder in Canada, where "toot" means "fart" but also "toke" as in inhaling cannabis smoke from a joint / pipe / bong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
I was responding to the previous poster's specific claim that they saw this as a national security issue, and simply looking to clarify whether they believed the farm's ownership was a factor in that position, or whether it was about the actual exporting and sale of alfalfa to a foreign power.

But sure, ignore that context when over-analyzing my response.. ;-)

Also, not sure why you felt the need to take a shot at me in the end there. Apologies if my words offended you somehow?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/29/austr...
Essentially these plants are forced to be unprofitable via energy laws.

For example, the nuclear plants are forced to sell their energy to energy traders at unprofitable low rates but those traders are never required to buy the energy and if the price of energy drops below this rate (AFTER it was bought) then the traders can just "return" the energy and the operators have to eat it. This happened during covid when energy prices collapsed due to lack of demand. These middlemen profit off of cheap nuclear energy instead of rate payers.

In addition, the nuclear plants must pay a 23 euro per MWh tax that subsidizes the operation of renewable energy. Since the plants are forced to sell their energy below cost and subsidize renewable generation, they are not profitable and aren't given the proper funds to maintain/improve these plants. So then these plants look bad/expensive and the ministers in charge demand that these plants are closed down before the end of their life. Even though the upfront costs have already been paid and the electricity they make are far cheaper than renewable generation if you don't force these crazy disadvantages on them.

Mark Nelson talks about theses problems in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isgu-VrD0oM
It's finding people to follow that are on different servers. That's the thing. A lot of servers have their content for users only, and if you don't have an account on those servers, you don't know who to follow.

there's a lot of chicken & egg issues still going on. I think it'll get better as more people put their info on their web pages, though.
Exactly. So? So what? You're the one saying a fact without context. You tell us. Is that normal? Is that what you'd expect? Is it unusual?
I'm not sure that's a valid proof.
This view may ultimately be right, but massively ignores the current observed trends in capabilities increase[0], scaling laws[1], and things like grokking[2]. I'm seeing an increasing amount of researchers (me included) moving to stances like: "there is a scary possibility that we may solve all the benchmarks we come up for AI... without understanding anything fundamentally deep about what intelligence is about.
a bummer for those like me who are see AI as a fantastic way to unlock deeper insights on human intelligence" @Thom_Wolf [3]

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K4urTDkBbtNuLivJx/why-i-thin...

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla...

[2] https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1479265403142553601

[3] https://twitter.com/TacoCohen/status/1584499066410790912
To me, it seems like people writing these articles should be careful to avoid inaccuracies and overstatements in their writing. The very first sentence of the article includes the phrase “on track to be”.