skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
by "I mean, have you thought about this deeply? " I was asking if you had because I hadn't and was curious and am looking for someone who had. Hence the question. Sorry if I offended. I do not mean to imply that you have not. I have not encountered a Catholic tech individualist before (but am a Catholic). It's entirely possibly you are not an "individualist", sorry. Its also possibly that I'm combining two of your interests (blockchain-ish + catholicism) which you have separate feelings and interests about, if that's the case, apologies. I have an interest in mycology and catholicism but I don't have any theories combining the two!

Also, see, I am not the same user(s) who replied to your original comment, but looking at their replies I can understand that you have, what appears to me to be written a defensive response. It was not the one that I was looking for. So I'm sorry. It's cool, brother. Sometimes I get worked up and reply to others still in a heated frame of mind based on something before someone else said, so I can understand when it happens, if it did.

I am curious about individualism and catholicism and these new technologies. I'm less interested in tech and government which is common here in HN, as evidenced by the other responses you got. Maybe you could provide me with the equivalent of some AOL keywords - if suitable. This might be better just to get me started than trying to parse my awkward questions!

It seems to me that individualism is the opposite of communitarianism - both extremes have their problems which Catholicism points out. What do you think? Do you see individualism and libertarianism occurring more often with Anarchist, atheism or neo-paganism or not, perhaps how is Christianity more suitable here? But really, it's this question and how it relates to new technologies. Do these technologies help us work communally, or just a tool like the stuff most of us use to be used one way or the other, or something else? How is it different from a self organising Anarchist community vision? Is it a really New Thing I guess I'm asking?
I've resisted posting my effort at a moving eyes animation, but my resolve has crumbled[1].

In an attempt to make this comment slightly less spammy, I think that it's easier to create this effect in a web page if the code makes good use of radial gradients. Both SVG and the 2D canvas API use a 'two circles' approach to defining the gradient (interactive demo here[2]); the CSS approach, however, seems a lot less intuitive to me[3] - can I assume there were good reasons why the CSS committee chose to do it this way?

[1] - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/XWgoLjE

[2] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/canvas-004.html

[3] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/gradient/ra...
Given how discovery in Mastodon works, by following "boosted" (think: re-tweeted) content creator or reading new people in a discussion, you wouldn't even know these accounts exist - sure, you can manually enter a mastodon id in the search bar to go directly to an account somewhere else (and thus try to access a potentially blocked node), but that's not the common use-case.

Now, if that increases or decreases the problem space is a philosophical question. I personally do have issues with blocking instances as a whole because one admin disagrees with another admin on unrelated issues.

If I get denied access to other people to organise around, e.g. building our own zen retreat because my admin and their admin disagree on political factions or because one admin nuked the connection to another instance for not being trigger-happy enough against their own users, everyone loses. Such technical possibilities and - in fact - recommendations run against the ideas of a civil society.
You can! I'm following @ username @pixelfed.social in my Mastodon client.
I assume you meant aesthetic?
> You could argue layoffs are abuse.

That's exactly the argument.

> But you’d have to convince me Twitter’s specific implementation of layoffs are more abusive than any other company’s.

Why? Does it need to be worse than any other company layoff to be considered abuse? Why is that your bar of "abusive"? It needs to be worse than any other company, so if other companies push this slowly it becomes progressively more ok to you?

Or should we consider other similar layoffs (buying a company, stripping it of workers to lower cost, increase gain for the capitalist) as abuse as well? I'm on the latter camp as it seems most on this thread are.

> From what I read, 3 months severance was offered, which they have no legal obligation to offer. That doesn’t seem abusive to me.

Does it become abusive for you when it's at scale? If you do that to 10-20 employees I might see it as less abusive. When you do that to 3k+ it is, morally, more abusive.
For this answer, we first have to ask what do people get out of Twitter?

This answer is likely going to be different for different people. Some come there for hot-takes on the latest news, some to find like-minded people and communities and some, maybe most, go there to hit on the other side.

I think the answer would likely be different for each person and group. Anybody looking for a community is much, much, much better of on Reddit, but Reddit's discovery system is worse than their search.

I will also say that if you poll a random Twitter user, they are not likely to have powerful feelings about the Musk takeover. This is being blown out of proportion by a few blue checkmarks.

Blow out of proportion by a few blue checkmarks is, incidentally, peak Twitter.
I've also heard Pinafore is the most accessible for people with disabilities.

https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore#goals
It copies a well known "eyes" design, such as that of xeyes. Arguably, cartoon eyes.

If we're getting technical, it does not really look like breasts either!
> You are trying to apply your idea retrospectively without any prior agreement.

You misread them, they didn't write that money should be taken from him but rather that he should willingly donate it to be in line with his statements. More so, it was probably just a stylistic device to make a point.
Good to see more and more "serious" organizations being on Mastodon.
Thanks, will look through these. But all of the ones I have looked at so far seem pretty complex with hundreds of files.

I don't know the fediverse protocol yet, but I would hope I can get away with just two files like this:

receive.php

<?php
if (!isset(servers_i_talk_to[$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']]) die();
$data = $_POST['msg']
$file = 'log/' + time().'-'.mt_rand();
file_put_contents($file, $data);

send.php

<?php
$data=$_POST['data'];
for ($servers_i_talk_to as $server) {
$url = "https://$server/receive.php";
$msg = ['msg'=>$data];
$opts = [
'http' => [
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($msg)
]
];
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
}

Where receive.php is openly accessible and send.php is protected by a password.

The endpoints are surely called differently than receive.php and send.php. But this is how I would hope ActivityPub works in principle.

Of course, this would be very bare. To read, I would have to read the raw log of ActivityPub messages and to post, I would have to manualy put together an ActivityPub message.

But I would be in the Fediverse and could add more convenience functionality later.
Interesting. Just to be on the same page, which social media you think needs to survive? Ig? Fb? TikTok? The reality is that social media is part of everyone's life wether we like it or not. Twitter may die but something else will take its place. Same goes for fb, ig, etc...

Regarding twitter itself, I also think twitter has an uphill battle (to say the least) to be profitable and maintain relevance in this climate. I think Elon will try different routes (some combination of twitch, YouTube for creators) just before call it quits but let's not forget that twitter is still the "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" Platform. There's no other one to even come to mind when you want to know which news is happening atm.

Heck, he could enter in some sort of agreement with news outlets and add realtime video capabilities attached to trending tweets, etc...
> NSA

> finance

You're not selling it.
It is a calculated risk; perhaps similar to what have been done by the US and Russia when their space ambitions were at their highest.
When the jank comes up I wonder for a few moments how one would architect something like this in retrospect.
So, crows, cetaceans, octopuses, and elephants… let’s just be thankful that all of the other smart animals can’t manipulate their environments at scale.
People will grasp at anything to avoid confronting harsh truths and personal responsibility.

We are facing an existential threat to civilization itself, but some kids have thrown some soup at a painting so I guess our hands are tied now...
the homepage (Pixelfed) url is just a login screen with no explore page or even a landing page. not sure if that's a sign of a good product.
So the outcome will be half-finished houses, or rushed with cheap materials?
I had a pretty bad roof leak on an iron / colorbond roof. It was from a stick getting up and under one of the valleys and being just at the right angle to let water into the house. IT really sucked. It was a significant point of stress for me. I just paid to have the problem go away. the money angle hurt, but over a long enough timeline usually these things square up.

Good luck with it.
Elon Musk’s great Twitter gaffe? Making it deeply uncool
Research: Disconnection, not teens’ screen time, is the problem
No, that was just Nixon. ;)
I have not mentioned my own views on "transgender" issues or "racial justice" issues or any other issues as these are of no concern to the issue here, that being the question whether any issue is ripe for satire no matter who does the satirising. I do not mention my views so as not to muddle the issue, not because they are secret. We're talking about satire, not about sex or religion or ideology.

My views on humour and satire are relevant so I'll give them: anything is ripe for satire and humour is in the eye and ear of the beholder. That does not mean everything makes for good satire and everything which is deemed humorous by some is good humour but it does mean the limits to humour and satire are to be set by the laws of the land, not by a self-styled thought police. The Onion is free to satirise anything they want and so is the Babylon Bee. You do not have to find their satire funny nor do you have to read or watch it, that is up to you. As long as they do not violate the law - which, at least in theory, is shaped through a democratically (or in the case of the USA a representational republic-ally - they are free to wander where they want.
The paper conclusion looks more like "exam anxiety has the same negative effect during mock exams as final exams" rather than "exam anxiety has no effect on exam results" (as per e.g. "Test anxiety did not predict exam performance beyond exam-preparation performance", page 5).

Am I reading it wrong, or does the paper title overgeneralize its findings?
The initial nuclear rollout ran into capacity factor issues. They barely broke even at 90+% capacity factors with subsidies and would have needed increasing subsidies to become as common as coal. Ultra cheap energy storage would have fixed the issue, but nothing was viable at the time.

Unfortunately, renewables cause similar issues. If solar tanks wholesale prices for 8 hours a day nuclear needs to make that up on the other 16. Meanwhile Solar hits the same wall once it needs energy storage.

Hydro ran out of ideal locations in most countries etc which is why we have so many different energy sources. The only way things hangs is if the underlying economics does. Nuclear with an 80% reduction in operating and decommissioned costs would largely take over the world.
> Teens who had poor internet access at home and teens who had parents that exerted the most control over their media use also had substantively lower self-esteem — although only roughly half of the lower self-esteem experienced by a typical girl or those with low academic performance.

>The amount of time teens spent on screens, whether it was watching videos, playing games, or using social media, did not play a big role in teens’ self-esteem. Even teens who were “excessive” users of screens reported higher self-esteem than those who were disconnected because they had poor internet access or their parents exerted a lot of control over their time online.
Let's be honest, who isn't picking their nose? How else do you get dried up mucus out of there? By blowing it out?
It works as long as you’re willing to stay current on Apple hardware. If you’re not… then macOS probably isn’t for you…
I don't think this author is worth much time. Her previous works seem to mostly be Medium SEO bait crap[1][2], I would take this story with a similar amount of seriousness.

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/an-employee-got-fired-becau...
"An Employee Got Fired Because of Bad Smells"

https://javascript.plainenglish.io/a-millionaire-5m-usd-deve...
A Millionaire (5M USD+) Developer Has Changed My “Money” goals
>I believe it will have it's day in sun soon enough.

I really hope that for the dev's, they make an excellent job!
I'd say I'm obsessed about it or at least want to do for sake of curiosity. The commercial intent is not there but feeling of accomplishment doing something fun. Working in finance pays bills.

1) I really want go pull of a rope mechanic in VR. I cannot forget the experience I had after encountering rope in Last Of Us Part 1. Now I want to replicate it in VR. I have dabbled with Unity but haven't really put time and effort into it
2) Build a mini, local service to cater to local Town/city instead of depending on big tech. Say a restruant uses your resturant ordering system. My analogy is that we set up a small stall in the world of internet, just like there are shops in the real world. You'd go to your trusty mechanic instead of a mega dealership.
3) Self host an kind of service to be used by folks on the internet. Be it a simple hosted test editor or a to do app.
Extremely excited. As someone who first got into DF a bit after Boatmurdered, fighting the impenetrable and inconsistent UI was seen as a rite of passage, though at the same time it prevented a lot of people from being able to appreciate this gem of the game. And the amazing thing is... it looks good! I've seen texture packs for DF and they're usually just OK, but never enough to drag me away from the classic glyphs. But IMO this looks better than any texture pack I've seen. The art is clear, delightful, and thematically-consistent, which is an achievement considering how small the sprites are and how much stuff is in this game that you have to depict. I gasped in surprise watching them scroll up through Z-levels in a livestream, realizing that you could see detailed cross-sections of trees with tapering branches and leaves (which change color with the seasons) as you ascend.

And the UI actually looks reasonable now! I was concerned that Tarn might not have any talent at UX, but all the rearranged menus appear to be extremely thoughtful and optimized for convenience while still retaining the bevy of keybinds that power users crave. They've incorporated some ideas from third-party tools to make managing dwarves easier as well.

Overall I'm not sure if DF is still the indisputable champion of weirdly-obsessively-thorough game simulations as of 2022, what with Rimworld and the like nipping at its heels, but I'll be getting this for sure.

EDIT: Here's an hour-long live demo with Tarn and Zach from two months ago (I believe they've polished the UI even more since then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-FCtGdwMI
In the 1930s, Argus created a line of cheap Leica knockoffs that were quite popular, selling millions over a few decades. Agfa got into the 35mm game fairly early. 120 cameras tended to be either cheap instamatic-type cameras, or high end pro cameras like Rolleiflexes. Japanese makers like Nikon and Konica introduced high quality 35mm rangefinders pretty soon after they could scale up the postwar manufacturing.
Dubai airport has all their water fountains one level below the waiting zones, you really have to search for them.

And the water tastes salty.
If you have seen the Apollo 11 movie that was released a few years ago, the footage is all very familiar (and real).

They spliced the content in a way that is misleading
Not how I wanted to start my Sunday morning.
Ah, the good old “whatabout the US did it 50 years ago therefore we can do it today”. Also used to justify all sorts of atrocities, imperialism, IP theft, etc.
Best not to waste your time on any of this microblogging rubbish. It only leads to misery.
Right, but that sprawl is apparently what people want.

It is not typical in the US to raise a family in an apartment in a high density neighborhood.

There are exceptions, but typically only younger or lower income people live in apartments in the US. Pretty much everyone else aspires to have a house with a yard.
The author did a good job with the hook but I'm still not sold.
T is not T is not correct
def caw():
print(“Crow on the tower of Hanoi say…”)
caw()

caw()
Here you go https://pixelfed.social/discover. No idea why they would not put that on homepage.
I think logic of the comment I replied to above was incorrect. The reason that growth numbers have a big effect on stock prices is that they cause big changes to the “company in N years time” posterior distribution. However the comment was suggesting that the numbers are important in the short term and one can tell by analogy to stock markets. But the markets aren’t looking at such an immediate short term so the analogy breaks.

One can decide that Twitter is in a good or bad state but I think one should want a strong foundation rather than relying on faulty analogies.
https://archive.ph/iJv3A
To quote from elsewhere.

“Coal-fired power stations emit over 10 Gt of carbon dioxide each year,[4] about one fifth of world greenhouse gas emissions, so are the single largest cause of climate change”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-fired_power_station

The counter factual; if the 60% of electricity coming form wind or sunshine at this instant was from coal, then 10 Gt of carbon dioxide each year becomes 20/30/40/50 Gt of carbon dioxide each year and global emmisions are significantly more than what they are now.

Purely hypothetical, but it is where we were.
Because it gives them tools to understand the world. Because not everything you teach kids has to lead to a PhD or a specific career? Because 'science' plays into engineering, finance and tech sector careers?

This has got to be some sort of satire.
I watched it without sound and it didn't seem to work as well. Hard to say but the body language didn't read right and there seemed to be artifacts.

I'd have to watch Nixon's resignation speech and this without sound back to back.
Does solar potential take into account the total area of the country?
I remember somebody with ALS explaining the indignity of somebody else having to pick their nose for them - at that point, I finally accepted everyone does it and made my peace with the guilt instilled in us as children.
It's thoroughly exhausting to read this kind of comment. It's pedantic and soapboxing at the same time, the two worst types of comments I come across in HN.

> I was under the impression that the above entities already have the largest megaphone of all through the uncritical mainstream press.

Where do you get this impression that the mainstream press/media is uncritical of the EU? The EU is a large body, obviously they would have a large megaphone, what's your actual issue with the EU governing bodies creating their federated platform to share their statements? And how exactly is that showing their want to control the Internet discourse? Just by participating in it are they trying to control it, in your worldview?

Again, abstain from this soapboxing (at least on HN), it's definitely low-quality comment.
This was my personal favourate statement in the article.

"Deciding whether and when to upgrade macOS is one of the more difficult choices we face. If your Mac isn’t capable of running the current release of macOS, or you’re dependent on key hardware or software which is incompatible, then the decision is made for you."

If you head over to the hackintosh side of things you will notice that very rarely does a hackintosh not upgrade to the next version.

I don't want to get "conspiracy theory" here but I do wonder how often the next release is blocked by Apple, not by hardware?

There are hacks to allow the new OS to run on real Apple hardware despite being blocked and people who have done this seem to be running the new OS just fine?

Releasing an OS with serious bugs, then limiting someone from upgrading to a newer one which fixes those issues is just bad.
Wind and solar power production is based on how much of that infrastructure exists. You increase the infrastructure by "talking" about it.
I’ve finished Endwalker and the ending is one of the few stories that broke me. Really got me thinking about our place in the universe and our planet specifically.
Perhaps later a more sophisticated study will come out that reveals that people who are not clever enough to hide their secret nose picking from researchers are at elevated risk.
Ask HN: Should you buy an iPhone 11 in 2022?
My old android phone kicked the bucket and buying a new screen would cost upwards of 80€ plus tools to repair it myself.

I really don't want to spend more than 500€ on a "new" phone so buying a local used iphone 11 for ~420€ and replacing the battery in a few months for another 80€ seems like an enticing option to get a few years worth of life out of my next phone. Is there something I'm missing?
It shares the same behavior with a completely different implementation.
There Are Still Codes Throughout Ancient Roman Literature
https://archive.ph/XU60d
Australia is so outrageous. So much land, sun, wind, and money but no, they'll just use coal thank you.
> We really need to stop blaming individual people for not doing their part and start blaming the system for having the wrong incentives.

Why not both?

Yes, we definitely should fix the incentives wherever possible, because many people are just going to blindly follow the incentives. Those who don't will often get outcompeted by those who do.

On the other hand, if ethics does not mean "do not always blindly follow your incentives", I wonder what else it might possibly mean.
Twitter was never cool. It was just social media for journalists. Now they'll have to find something else, or just keep whining about Musk, I guess.
From decades of looking at interesting code.

I take care to attempt to not duplicate code; it's why don't use copilot.
Kayra; an open source 3D printable humanoid robot
More likely than anything all these companies will realise not advertising makes no difference anyway.
Is there a Windows / Linux alternative to this. I was excited to be reading about this prior to realising it was Mac only.
I'm sceptical

- if the junior ("J" for short) was "caught red handed", that means he was working on another project, at work during office hours

- if J was "reported" by a colleague, that says his actions were blatant enough to be noticed by others

- I can't think of many places where it would be legally sound to demand an employee pay back salary

- by the author's own account, J was not actually sued

- if J really was under legal threat, they'd have had to do something serious for an employer to bother getting legal involved, and not merely cutting them loose. Lawyers are expensive.

- the author says J is "her junior" but also seems to be relying on J's account of what happened. Is this someone reporting to her, or a stranger?

The whole post is badly written and ambiguous. I don't really believe a word of it.
Yes, it appears that they have taught the crows to write some kind of LISP-like expressions with nested parentheses, which is what is meant here by recursion.