skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know the NFL betting scam? It's awesome. Here's how it works.

You choose 1024 people, and you send all of them a prediction about one upcoming sports game, free of charge. 50% get one prediction, 50% get the other.

Next week, you have 512 people who think you can guess pretty good. You pick another game. 256 people get one prediction, 256 get the other. The following week, 256 people think you got two in a row correct. You send 128 of them one prediction, etc. etc. etc.

When you're down to 1 person, maybe they'll pay you for the next prediction.

A track record of success is not sufficient evidence, especially when cash has been cheap for the past two decades and especially when even the first random success (selling Zip2 to an over-eager AltaVista) paid off so well.
Doom Emacs looks like modern Emacs.
Not a potential father, but a somewhat (2 yrs) experienced mother.

Get a good baby scale. It helped us realize that ours wasn’t gaining weight at 4-5 weeks, despite not acting like he was hungry (I breastfed), which prompted us to supplement with formula and me to pump more aggressively. He never really got into nursing, but I was able to pump most of what he needed, and my husband was game for doing the nighttime and wake up feeds and diaper changes while I pumped.

I rarely changed an overnight diaper. My husband was (and is) amazing.
I experienced the exact same thing reading Cicero’s letters. If you’d told me he had chronic anxiety and spent far too long on Twitter I’d have half believed you.
Makes sense.

I never really subscribed to hashtags in the first place. Always seem to be filled with spam. On twitter, I just follow a few interesting people and they'll usually tweet or retweet interesting stuff, so it works out.
The thing is that the root account at least falls back to an email, not your phone. But yeah it's insane that they don't allow multiple 2FA tokens to be registered.
> even pricing it low by orders of magnitude should be better than the status quo.

No, while this assumption seems econ 101 logical for a second, it’s not really true and the paper I linked above explains why. The pricing has to match the approximate order-of-magnitude cost of externalities for it to actually prevent any of the consequences we’re discussing here (or more likely be regulated so that Saudi Arabia can’t buy all the water regardless of price). There’s enough price flexibility over water and high enough demand that increasing prices 2x or even 10x today will not slow consumption at all. Water in the US west is already over-subscribed, and people with more money have already lined up to buy whatever becomes available. Increasing prices a little will only change who buys water, not whether it gets used. It has to be high enough that people start choosing not to buy it, which with water is an extremely high bar. In the mean time, draining our aquifers has ramifications for the next several thousand years.

This is the whole problem with cost-benefit analysis and free market thinking. When it comes to things that all humans need, like air and water, we have never yet managed to calculate either the true costs or the true benefits correctly, and reducing the equation to money loses all sense of proportion, and more or less always frames things in terms that let rich people and corporations win and take whatever they want.
"Elon hires people he doesnt do all the work!"

Yes thats why you hire people...to not do all the work. Im pretty sure Elon is aware of this.
Probably 6 sessions over two months. I stopped pretty early but given what it was doing to my skin and hair I didn't feel safe continuing. Also it hurts like hell.
I find this trend of opposing and banning smartphones reductive. Smartphones are just a tool, like any other, and can be used productively or unproductively. In my view, most of the unproductive use comes from the corporate apps and platforms that are designed to maximise profit for their owners, rather than being useful to the user. I think it would be more valuable to teach teenagers how to use smartphones in an intentional and productive manner, rather than banning them.
And if you don’t have customers who use those, it won’t be a huge loss. That covers the vast majority of businesses.

Probably not Twitter though.
Helix is cool if you want a terminal editor.

For a GUI editor, I am very interested in https://lapce.dev/

It is perhaps the only editor which for me seems as snappy as Sublime Text.
There are risks in trusting your instance admin, but you can move.

Tons has changed on Twitter, including the laying off of half the company including substantial numbers in the Trust & Safety team. I'm seeing people who couldn't have cared less about the US's culture wars talking about leaving Twitter and setting up Mastodon accounts because they're expecting the platform to become nastier, more spammy, less reliable, and overall less pleasant to be on. Perhaps they're wrong, but it's wrong to pretend they're all doing it because they're having 'tantrums' and want their 'one-sided censorship back'.

The major concern I've seen regarding the blue checks is that it's going from being a system of verification (this person really is who they claim to be) to one where it just represents having paid a subscription fee without any real identity verification at all.
I believe that if the runners speeds are all real numbers which are linearly independent over the rationals, then the associated dynamical system will be ergodic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity

and what you say is true.

But in addition to your example you have to worry about, e.g. sqrt(2), sqrt(3), and sqrt(2) + sqrt(3).
My website is not about whatever I learned today, it's about me. As it happens, what I learned today is a thing about me, so it can end up on my website. But, if you're coming to my personal website to see exclusively brand new information, never before published, then I'm sorry but I'm a person much like most other folks and my experiences overlap with them quite a lot. My website will be full of ordinary, shared experiences and facts, with the occasional novelty thrown in, much like myself.

I'd hate to only show the parts of myself that are perfectly unique to the world, I think that'd be very lonely.
Just noting that if the healthcare system were better in the US there would not be any incentive for DF to get better quickly.

There has to be a good solution to the problem of productivity when all of one's needs are met.
If you’re in Europe, I would vouch for Nuevo Progresso from Czech Republic but their web site is… not helpful. Don’t think they produce much but you can get their flour tortillas in Budapest at Ázsia Bt. You want the simple, white-label ones.

In Thailand, Danitas. Don’t know if they export but they should. They also make tortilla chips that are basically crack, but their corn tortillas are the same dry catastrophe as elsewhere.

For corn, I usually wait until I can bring a hundred back from the US every six months or so.
> Yeah, except for the occasional car bomb…
What?

> Even if most days are peaceful, you can never know if today is the day some shit kicks off between the drug cartels and the restaurant you’re eating at gets shot up.

The only area I know it's pretty problematic and have a lot of mafia acts involved are Marbella, specially Puerto Banús, where a lot of rich mobster do their "business". Outside that, and outside the few slum districts in some cities, there isn't places where you can say things like that could happen.
>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

So you think the only reason that Twitter (and all social media companies) exist is because literally every other company on the planet that advertises didn't "just realize" they could "just plug" a Mastodon instance until it's more popular? McDonald's, Pepsi, Audi, Coke, Nike, etc - don't have one single person that realizes this one easy trick for displacing Twitter?

That's the take you're going with?
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What about the culture made it not a good fit?
What's amazing to me is the possibility to experience the "What-if" scenario, for a second. I now have a memory of watching the moon landing fail, even though this never happened, it's still a real memory that I can attach thought and emotion to.
Could be chess.
It's open source, you know, it takes an effort to use.
Wow, some people will really jump some extreme hoops to seem "progressive". Gave me a chuckle, thanks.
That's true and it boils down to what's acceptable in your team (or just you). I worked in some places where coverage was the only metric and in places where every single function had to have all cases covered, and testing took longer than writing the code.

As for me, I tend to write reasonable tests and cover several cases that guard the intended behavior of each function (if someone decides the function should behave differently in the future, a test should fail). One emerging pattern is that sometimes during testing I realize I need to refactor something, which might have been lost on me if I skimmed on tests. It's both a sanity check and a guardrail for future readers.
And a nuclear war will not deprecate U.S. influence in Asia and worldwide? We would simply cease to exist as a nation with 80% of the populace dead, dying from wounds / radiation and starvation.

Losing Taiwan may give us a bloody nose, but it's certainly not an existential threat.
There's really a recurring thread here, or elsewhere, which is that elon doesn't do shit, and deserve much credit for his success. To me he seems like a hard worker, and deserves credit
https://archive.ph/VLCqz
> It's even weirder in Canada, where "toot" means "fart" but also "toke" as in inhaling cannabis smoke from a joint / pipe / bong.

No, that makes it sound just about right.
Two LLMs try to schedule a coffee meeting
Those who advocate for on site work are like people of the old age that advocated for in store shopping. They thought no one would ever shop online because they’d need to touch and feel the products before buying. Same kind of people who thought blockbuster is better than netflix because people want the experience. The reality tho is the world is changing and so is how we work in it.
It's still possible to "mess with the URL" .. you just go type paypal.com again and it won't show the phone number request the second time. So this number request seems to be part of the login flow, but the session cookie is created regardless. My PayPal account still doesn't have a phone number associated with it.
> I don't understand this link with Twitter, maybe because it's in the news now. I never mentioned any specific company.

Exactly, which is why I'm asking: when you said "buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies", which social-media companies did you mean?
>but federated system designs like Mastodon will not get us that and we have thirty years of failure to prove it

sure, if you ignore the very only communication method that everyone has - the email.

a myriad others came and went, and none that exist today will be relevant in 50 years, but email will
Eh. I dislike Elon, BUT being able to efficiently allocate resources and identify an opportunity and/or valuable employee, who is more than just talk is a valuable skill that surprisingly few people have.
Easier said than done.

Preservation of national sovereignty is one of the touchiest issues in modern Chinese politics.

This has to do with Chinese history. For China, the modern era essentially began when British gunboats arrived in 1840 and forced the Qing dynasty to open up its ports to the opium trade. There followed a series of conflicts in which China was progressively humiliated and ever more dominated by foreign powers - the Europeans and Japanese. China had to allow opium in, had to exempt Europeans from Chinese law on Chinese territory, and had to give the Europeans and Japanese enclaves and spheres of influence within China. The British took Hong Kong, the Germans took Jiaozhou Bay, various countries took parts of Shanghai. When Chinese peasants rebelled against foreign influence and started killing Europeans, a eight-nation army landed at Tianjin,[0] marched to Beijing, burned down the Summer Palace, and forced China to pay a massive indemnity. After the Chinese people overthrew the imperial system, the new republic was, in fact, controlled by various local warlords. The Japanese progressively took more of China, before launching a full-blown invasion of the rest of China in the 1930s. A core goal of both the Nationalist and the Communist parties was to re-establish Chinese national sovereignty.

What put an end to all of this was the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the "New China," as the Chinese call their post-1949 state.

Because of this history, the issue of national sovereignty is incredibly sensitive in China. It's easy to say, "China should just give up its claim to Taiwan," but that would be an incredibly explosive suggestion in China, especially if it were something that China was forced to do under outside pressure.

Finally, I'll add that in China, the ROC is not seen as a separate country from the PRC. Taiwan is seen as the last redoubt of the old Chinese government. This is also how the ROC understood itself until fairly recently. For most people in China, asking them to cede Taiwan is asking them to cede part of China, which is a non-starter.

0. A portrait of soldiers from the eight nations (plus Australia and the British Raj, minus Russia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance#/media/F...
Quite a claim you conclude with. Can you elaborate?
> it doesn't even recognize as an independent state and has no security treaties with.

While this is the official stance, we all know that in practice, the US sees Taiwan as an independent country to not escalate the situation.
....and Griffin gave him ~$2B of taxpayer money. (DARPA and COTS contracts before SpaceX flew a single rocket and CRS for Falcon 9). All discussed in the link above.
Cool, any online resources you’d recommend? Any “ag-tech” you’re interested in for a small farm?
“They” describes a non-profit, low-resourced set of volunteers. Seeing it coming and being able to do something about it aren’t the same thing.
Definitely not built for mobile…
with that said, also hiring frontend engs xD
Crossword puzzles seem like something an AI can generate, with things like topics or niches or word length/"difficulty" as options to toggle.
Why there has to be "one mastermind guy"?

It seems safe to say that you need to dovetail at least dozens of people to have successful rocket launching, well, startup?
HN is not just about the cypherphunk culture, actually it's far from that IMO. It's much more about the startup and product culture. It was started by a VC after all.

Personally, I'm happy to read realistic and pragmatic comments here. Mastodon is not going to kill twitter. The headline is frustratingly clickbaity. What's nice is that it will get a nice bump of users thanks to this article, and the project will be stress tested.
Hackernews isn't for hackers.

If anything, it's geared towards software engineers, most of which aren't anything like "hackers" and can swing fairly convervative on many topics.

This place isn't old school slashdot. If anything it's more for people that just want to get rich in tech at all costs.
Personally I've never needed to unpick a full blown standalone app like Chromium before, I'll be using repo code or dropped into some hulking spaghetti massive legacy app that needs a bugfix, but there's no-one left at the company that has any idea how it works and the documentation is _lacking_.. but if this helps then good, otherwise, oops, sorry for the pollute.

Breakpoint methodology wins for me simple and true.

I imagine it like pathfinding the minotaurs maze, you stand at the last place you recognise and can get back to (if that's literally the first active line then that's fine), and put something there (breakpoint, print statement, log line), run it and check you still know where you are.
Then put another down as far forward from that point that you can 'see', if that's literally one operation step then fine, spin it and check. Breakpoints are easily put down and just as easily cleared back up again. Keep only as many as you need to see which branch you are on.

Pretty soon you'll have run the damn thing so many of times you'll know it's bootstrapping and foibles and they will be second nature. You'll start seeing how it's generally laid out, you'll know where the main start up branchings are. When they leap into async or hidden 'rooms', log lines are perfect.

When the engine of it starts moving in your head, then is the time to start throwing breakpoints, prints or log lines in places that originally were completely unknown but now you have a feeling for. It's at this point you'll be bloody close to where you want to be.

Oh and do future you a favour, at least jot down something as you're going through this.
I find that this initial torchlighting is remarkably gratifying but if you don't make notes in six months time it'll be completely gone, and you'll have to do between a quarter
to a half of this all over again before the lights start lighting on and you remember how it's laid out.
Speaking about coffee machines i have one of those pods machines and make my own starbucks at home. A delight. Decafo tho. Have 4-5 a day.
I've been reading up on Antarctica lately (thank you, mr. brr!), and that reminded me about Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean with a very weird legal status: basically anybody can just move there and live, as long as they can pay for themselves. This resulted in me spending last night researching ways to get there without a visa (most flights are from Norway, which means you need a Schengen visa – boring!). Turns out there are some tours ran by a Russian coal mining company Arcticugol, but the information is really scarce. Hope I can make it some day!

(If only I could've spent my attention working on my actual “passion” projects :')
Is the lonely runner a proxy for the overloaded server in a load balancer using consistent hashing?

Or are the pictures just similar?
> Accessibility shouldn't be a separate team. It should be a consideration for all product development.

Teams generally don't have expertise in all areas, which is why cross-functional teams with deep experience in a specific area can be a great way to organize resources. This is why design teams, performance teams, security teams, etc. exist.
I don't know, plenty of alienation in 19th century literature where everyone was living in everyone else's pocket. A lot has changed in that time, including our openness to expression of our internal suffering.
I grew up in a similar way, my overwhelming memory was that it felt utterly stifling! I couldn't wait to move away and be anonymous.
Nothing particularly interesting. I was very junior during my time there, working modeling and simulation tools for spacecraft that had already been up for over a decade.

I did get to be present and watch the telemetry stream cut out as Cassini (purposely) crashed into the Saturnian atmosphere and was obliterated. Lots of people had spent two decades of their lives with that spacecraft. Many cheered and many cried.
>Are you able to "sign up once" and be able to log into every instance of Mastodon?

In short, no. But this isn't a question that makes sense in context, it's like asking if you can sign into Yahoo with your Gmail account.

Let's be clear up front: mastodon is not Twitter. They look similar at first glance, but that's as far as it goes. Try to keep an open mind and appreciate mastodon for what it is instead of what it isn't.

Each instance is an independent server. The software is often tweaked, custom interfaces, and each instance builds a unique community with their own rules. The trick is that they all speak the ActivityPub protocol, which allows any server to talk to any other.

You don't need to log into other instances because your instance already knows how to show you content from another. You can interact with any account on any instance which talks to yours. Those remote accounts don't even have to be mastodon accounts! You can follow accounts on pixelfed, peertube, pleroma, etc all from your one mastodon account.

It's often compared to email. Anyone anywhere can spin up a server and start sending email to Gmail, yahoo, outlook, etc. No two email servers have any relation to one another, but since everyone uses the same protocol, you can generally talk to anyone.

Additionally, you can move your account between servers. It will transfer your profile and followers, but not posts. There's a general sentiment that posts should be ephemeral, and you have settings in your account to delete posts after a period of time.

Mastodon is fundamentally different from how we've been doing social media, and I think that's a good thing. I've been using it for a couple of years, and I haven't had fun on social media like this since I became friends with Tom on MySpace.

It's new and scary, but if anyone is considering trying it out, I enthusiastically encourage you to give it a good solid try for a week or two. The big servers are fine, but you really want to fine a small server with a community of interests similar to yours. (avoid mastodon.social like the plague)

Through the last few waves of people jumping ship, almost everyone remarks that it's a better experience. You get more and more meaningful engagement on your posts, even with 1/100th the follower count. It's a much more fun and human experience than machine-fed algorithmic crap.
Twitter users jumping to Mastadon is just the sequel to Facebook users jumping to Diaspora.
"Not written in Rust"? Is Rust at that level on the hype-curve by now? :-D
I’ve been developing for the web since 1998. I also held this belief until about 3 years ago. Then I actually tried to learn AWS and now I just can’t imagine going back to anything before. And I’ve used everything from basic shell scripts to ansible to Docker to K8s to Heroku and everything in between. In the end AWS is a bunch of legos that I love to snap together to create powerful, robust solutions. I encourage you to take a look at AWS CDK.
xterm? Never heard of it.

In all seriousness though... sorry, friend - that's a negative re: xterm vt420 compatibility.

Quoting from the [current] author's own website at invisible-island.net/xterm/ :

"[xterm] also implements most of the control sequences for VT220, as well as selected features from other DEC terminals such as VT320, VT420, and VT520."

That "selected features" bit is why I keep the real glass one around. Paging is probably the most deficient area that I really notice.
Will that not become extremely resource-intensive once a server grows a bit and federates with other larger servers? E.g. you have 5000 users and they follow some other 50k users (each one following 10 people feels low, but I have no idea), you're now locally saving the twoots of 50000 users. And this is the same for every server, or is there kind of a synergy between federated servers?
Yep. Look at how Signal displaced Whatsapp (if anyone remembers this app that no longer exist) when users flooded over to it due to Musk-related controversies!

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/7/22218989/signal-new-signup...
Google plus had 90 million users sign up in the first 6 months.
yeah that's fine. i have food and water to last me 3 months. it's not the type of stuff I want to eat (classic emergency food that lasts for 30 years) but it's there. i also stock up on food regularly and i have a buffer where i could cook 2-3-4 weeks out of food that has a reasonable shelf life (think flour).

but this is just to absorb small bump. and i think it technically is called an emergency plan, not prepping.