skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can enjoy eating, meal preparation, and the like and _also_ recognize how very, very, very money, time, and resource consuming it all is.

If you could replace a typical home-cooked meal which cost $3->5 in materials and at _least_ half an hour in personal labor with a pill that costs $0.03->0.05 and can be produced in the thousands per hour, that's a significant win. And if you can build those pills from the byproducts of vats of cheap-ass microbes (rather than through ordinary (or -worse- factory) farming), then that's a massive win for both the environment and animal welfare.
"When a college builds a new fancy building they see an enrollment spike"

Aren't most colleges turning away qualified students? If so, an enrollment spike is a decision by the college, not the result of increased demand.
Sed-4.9 Released
No, his plan was to build greenhouses on Mars.
So is a million, I've never got this surprisingly common argument based on population size, would it be fine for a country of 100,000 to do nothing/would a hypothetical country 10x the size of China be reckless if it didn't act even more forcefully than they are? The human costs of lockdowns also scale with population after all.
> Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning.

> This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue.

Okay, what's wrong with giving a warning though? Are people supposed to be afraid now?

I don't see what this meaningfully changes, except to serve as a demonstration of how heavily the new management relies on authoritarianism as his only source of power and influence.
This has been disproven so many times it’s laughable
How did react change the web?
You are free to hole up. Does not mean the rest must do the same. We have already fucked up the economy and health care. This kill people too. Enough already
> No. His plays were preserved and published by his friends, after his death, so that they weren't lost.

You literally just said that there are plays of his which only survive in modified forms - i.e. ones which his friends were unable to preserve. Those modified forms are the ones that would disappear in this supposed alternate universe wherein Elizabethan England had copyright enforcement - because those modified forms would've been DCMA'd into nonexistence, and thus those plays would've been lost entirely.

> Look at the playwrights who didn't have friends like Shakespeare's. Where are their works, now?

Christopher Marlowe? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Christopher_Marlowe

Ben Jonson? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Ben_Jonson

Francis Beaumont? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Francis_Beaumont

John Fletcher? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Fletcher

Thomas Middleton? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Thomas_Middleton

John Lyly? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Lyly

The answer to your question seems to be: they were preserved just fine and dandy.

> If Copilot is deemed lawful, there will be justification of that decision that doesn't allow us to launder proprietary code through ML models.

A license is a license. If it's okay to ignore the terms of the GPL, then it's okay to ignore the terms of any other software license, including Microsoft's EULAs. The law works on precedents, and Copilot's legality sets a precedent that threatens the very concept of software copyright.

Even if Microsoft somehow avoids being immediately eaten alive for lunch by the myriad competitors who'd love nothing more than for Windows to lose its copyright protections (they do have plenty of money to spend on lawyers, after all), their best case scenario of "we somehow managed to carve out an exception for our EULA being enforceable that somehow doesn't apply to other software licenses" would demonstrate rather plainly the fundamental inconsistency in intellectual property law, making it all the easier to justify abolishing it entirely.
How does this even work? Do I need to sign up for every different server?
There is also comp.lang.fortran in USENET if you do not want to mess with discourse. There are a few very knowledgeable people still hanging out there. Plus no tracking if you use a real news reader (which means not google groups).
I want to try out Mastodont, and I also like to self host stuff.

Should I self host a mastodont instance and point friends and family to it when they want to create a mastodont account ?

Or would that be too much of a burden to manage ?

Or maybe it would be better to register on a specialized instance to already have an interesting local feed ?
No, it does not. His plan was to build greenhouses on mars.

Their rejection of his idea is what inspired the pivot to build rockets instead.
Story circulating on Chinese Internet:

- Foxconn workers have to walk on highways for hundreds of miles with their luggage to go back home

- Villagers nearby set up free food and water distribution stalls en route

- Some scoundrels steal all the food and water

- The thief are forcibly sent to quarantine because they are now classified as close contacts to COVID positives
Yes and the part where they said there’s no demand for them too.
Pre-takeover is irrelevant. The statement I said was "at the time of acquisition". If you don't want to take the word of the person who likely has the greatest insights on the financial status of a nonpublic company they own, welp, don't know what to tell you.

And regardless of the rate of loss, the fact remains that twitter, throughout its entire history, has been a money-losing operation. Even taking the literally 2 years they were in the black, that doesn't wipe out the other unprofitable years. This seems like one hell of a nit to pick.
Why would you think that? It's water and starch. Everything a growing bacteria needs.
I run my 16" Pro (M1 ultra) on a 35w power delivery from my monitor daily - its plenty even under a fair bit of workload. The 95w is only used in extreme circumstances. Even compiling and light video editing isn't going to use enough to need anything more than 60w.
Pray tell why you think this has anything to do with Chinese sales numbers?
Orange on black with Jetbrains Mono. Took me a while to get vim under tmux via ssh to look right, but overall, so easy on the eyes, so distinct.
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
We could easily build a 100k colony in Antarctica or out in the ocean right now (or in the Australian Outback or Canadian north or any other inhospitable boring hellscape)

I'll admit that I'm not sure what the point of a mars colony is either, except for science and to act as a forward space outpost.. maybe it would be useful for industrial purposes? I guess you wouldn't have to worry about utterly destroying the environment.

If it were mostly self sufficient it could act as a seed to repair earth society in the event of a catastrophic asteroid strike or nuclear war, I guess
The tool would just need to add your server to its list of servers to scan.
I think it should be possible.

First year is general math and science. Many people earn some of those credits in high school, so it's already effectively on an as-needed basis.

Second and third year are the core engineering curriculum. At that point, you have all the specific course prerequisites to start a master's program.

Fourth year is a capstone project. You could do that over a summer in the second calendar year. The electives are redundant if you're going to do a master's.

General education requirement is also redundant with high school, and is about a semester's worth of classes.

So depending on your first year preparation needs, it could be as little as two calendar years. Assuming the program requirements are reformed.
You've described a bunch of specific constraints that don't apply to "anyone, everywhere".

None of those items apply to me. It doesn't cost me anything to go into the office, it doesn't take hours, there's no pollution involved (at least, none over just the base rate of me being outside).

The idea that not wanting to spend every day Mon-Fri constantly around my SO means I have "issues at home" I can only really imagine is projection.

I don't particularly care if you like WFH, but pretending no-one actually likes working in person is denial of reality. Hi, I exist.
They have to predict their yield rate. If yield increases beyond what is typical they may over enroll.
It is self evident that not all products are equally good or equally bad to individuals or society.

You simply cannot compare reading books to taking opium, for instance.
If you record with a microphone you quickly realise just how noisy an untreated room is, even though your brain filters most of it out.
You missed one:
* Russia buys Blue for all of their Twitter bot-farms, giving Twitter tons of extra income, and Russia even better influence over US voters.
> Too hard for the average journalist.

I don't think I buy that; it's not _that_ hard. Actually, I've noticed that there are a bunch of journalists (and not just tech journalists) showing up on Mastodon suddenly; this didn't really happen with the previous Twitter exoduses.

> Not enough reach.

That... depends. Not right now, no. But for the journalist use-case (low-latency access to what's happening right now, more or less a better news wire) it could be soon. And that journalism use-case is arguably what made Twitter important in the first place.

To be clear, I don't think that journalists will _abandon_ Twitter in favour of Mastodon. But if I was a journalist I'd be getting established on it now, in case things go wrong with Twitter.
I think similar. My take it that a DNS equivalent service needs to accept anyone to register a public key, for free :
IE allow anyone to register [public key].subdomain.domain.com

And the registration/update tests you have the private key for that.

But:
1. as sibling comment noted. We need really good key management for that too.

2. how to run such a service with all the complications (like trolls trying to brute force register everything they can)

3. how to fund it

Then everyone hosts their own anything. As an app on their phone. As a server at home or ISP or dedicated hosting service.
Because they're not roasted and seasoned?

Are you saying you just swallow the black seeds raw when you eat fresh watermelon? And if so do you do the same with all seeds like with apples, grapes, etc?
I've been looking at the Zettelkasten note taking method recently, and one of the things it forces you to do is write notes that are pretty much publication-ready. The main use case of the method is publication actually.

Of course it's more upfront investment, but then you arrive at a state where it's more about selecting the notes you want to put together to form your article and just write a few sentences to connect the dots before your article is ready.

This may suit you if you're ready to invest more initially.
Great, I can't wait to get my hands on cheap hardware and then break out of their ecosystem. It's the same story as Kindle Fires, Chromebooks, or even Microsoft's own XBOX, etc.
I do not have a specific code example, but you can use the normal X11 client interfaces to interact with the X server, which allows a lot of dangerous things such as sending events to other clients. We can imagine a rouge X11 client spawning a terminal and entering text through a virtual input interface, to run an arbitrary command for example.

On Wayland, assuming you don't have XWayland enabled and running, it depends on the specific compositor you are using and what Wayland protocols it supports.

Sandboxing GUI stuff on Wayland requires at the very least not having XWayland running, and also requires understanding what the compositor allows clients to do by default. Some compositors may have permission dialogues that prevent clients from doing stuff that you didn't expect.
>every American has a microwave in their home

Of course we do! Europeans don't all have microwave ovens? How do you warm up leftovers?

And yes, I drink tea daily with microwaved water.
It wasn't elaborated on in the original comment, but yes you're absolutely correct, the imaging sensor itself would also need to be part of the cryptographic chain-of-trust. This is likely the most crucial part of such a system, as all the other hardware aspects are already starting to become generally available.

> Anyway who is gonna build this?

If and when specialized imaging sensors become available, I don't see this being a huge lift. One wouldn't even need purpose-built cameras for all but the most high-assurance recording requirements. Remote attestation and trusted code execution is already being incorporated into most newer devices. Bringing it all together would mostly be a software problem at that point.

Of course, there would also need to be a value proposition to justify any kind of work towards this. I personally see this as an inevitability given the frightening pace of progress in the ML field, and the increasing public concern over things like deepfakes.

Thank you for your comments!
How is in store shopping "of the old age"? Do you ever go outside...?
Social facilitation

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

as a service.

SFaaS.
So let me recap: you (Musk) get a loan ($12.7 BN) from banks, with the idea that the company you buy will be used as a collateral. Before the sale is closed, you can't put it on the company's balance sheet, because you don't own it. But after that you can.

Wait a second. It's true that Musk now owns the company, but transactions between the company and its (sole) owner are still at arm's length, arent's they?

As a pure coincidence, today I received in the mail the bankruptcy ruling for a preschool that went bust and where we have paid $3000 in advance to enroll our daughter. The judge ruled we'll get $1400. But during the lawsuit it transpired that the owner gave himself a nice loan of more than $100k. He had to give the money back (I don't know all the details, although I can find out; I think he settled for a somewhat smaller amount).

Maybe I'm naive, but I think that should happen with larger companies too. Just because you are the sole owner of a company does not mean the company can just lend you money on whatever terms you decide. It's the ultimate conflict of interests.

On the other hand, if the prior shareholders cooperated with Musk, I can see how the debt could be on Twitter's books. But then, it's them who saddled the company with debt, isn't it?
> with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme

The European Commission is kinda a part of the EU government.

NGI0 Discovery Fund is a 5.6 million euro fund - coordinated by STICHTING NLNET using 7 million euros of EU commission money.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825322

https://nlnet.nl/discovery/background/
awesome article, thank you!

>Oh, yeah, I missed that sorry.
>
>>Is this not a breaking change?
>
>Some would argue it's a "fixing" change.

yikes. This article really speaks to so many of the pain points I had with Go; the language itself is fine but the whole standard library has so many just...odd...decisions that you don't notice until they blow your foot off when something off the happy path happens like, as the author notes, a server stops responding or your system boots with a wall time of unix epoch.
Here’s a C example from 2014 courtesy of Handmade Hero.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WMSBRk5WG58
Shortlist: A daily word-finding game
Chill the heck out, I was very obviously talking about the UK, and parts of Europe, not all of it. We don't all have politicised motivations or a desire to 'one up' continents.
Under "Features", in the readme:

> It's a terminal-based editor first, but I'd like to explore a custom renderer (similar to Emacs) in wgpu or skulpin.

You're right though, it's nowhere to be found in the FAQ.
That argument assumes that only one program option should be available. It's a false dichotomy.
The supply is still constrained, though. Despite massive population growth and a simultaneous increase in the percentage of people choosing to go to college, new institutions are accredited at a lower rate now than they were in the mid 20th century.

It would be interesting to see the trends in the costs of getting accredited over the decades.
Repetition Compulsion
Apple is known for having some of the lowest inventory in their “just in time” supply chains. Major Disruptions like this have an immediate impact.
> It seems you use your work phone more than iphone.

I pretty much don't at all, precisely for that reason. Just checked, and my average active screen time for the past 10 days was a tiny bit over 9hrs on iphone (because traveling, so i need it a lot for navigating around, coordinating stuff with other people, etc), and I was charging it before going to sleep (but it was not empty, it still had a decent amount of charge left). On my Pixel, back when i was using it, it was around 3hrs at the very most, and I would have to charge it midway through the day

If you are genuinely curious, please let me know. I can try using my Pixel as I would my iPhone tomorrow, and then report the results the day after that.

> go and take moon pictures with your 6 pro and iphone 14 pro. tell me which one has moon vs white blob.

Haven't tried that yet, but will do and report back along with the battery. Would heavy light pollution be a problem for taking moon pics? Because I am in theater district in Manhattan rn, and light pollution here is off the charts.
Nano bacteria, the things that give you tartar on your teeth, come from space and have been found on the international space station and on mars. Here are some articles on the bugs:

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.111...

https://www.wired.com/2005/03/are-nanobacteria-making-us-ill...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S008525381...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00240-003-0304-7

They NIH stepped in and said they don't exist, despite the fact they express RNA that encodes the 16S ribosome and generate proteins typical of prokaryotic cells. They are killed by the tetracycline family of antibiotics.

https://www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1097/01.ju.0000150062...

They also grow 6x faster in space and astronauts have issues with this:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09248...

It's just one of the many things that are being suppressed right now. It shows that life came to earth from space and that life exists everywhere in the galaxy from these minimal life forms. Articles like the above tiptoe towards acknowledging what scientists have observed for two decades.
Forlorn Hope
> There's a pretty broad spectrum of civil disobedience between

this I agree with. and when you go past innocent civil disobedience and disrupt not just the lives of those who, according to you as judge and jury, are responsible, but other folks, you are into mild forms of eco-terrorism. when someone dies, it's not as mild.

> Well yes.

ok, then I believe the moon is made of green cheese and is inhabited by lizard people. If you don't believe me, you haven't studied the facts enough. Are you convinced? No? I'll call you names then, block traffic and make you late for work. In this whole exchange you're focused on the truth and righteousness of your cause - I'm saying your methods of convincing people are faulty and your idea of how to instigate change is as dangerous as it is ineffectual.

> alternative

you get a majority of regular people together and out vote them out. the people that are in power are there because we (not you or i, but we) let them be. you need to bring the argument to people in a form that is convincing, not spit through your teeth that it is extinction!, damnit!

the reason nobody does anything about big oil is that they are too powerful for a small noisy minority to do anything about. they are not too powerful if everyone believed as strongly as you do. but everybody doesn't.

and stunts and behaviors and extremism are highly unlikely to change that. you're not convincing powerful people to fear you, you aren't convincing regular people to follow you, you aren't convincing thoughtful people to listen. folks that act that way are doing more to harm your cause than help it, regardless of whether it's true or not.
Home prices tend to be a function of 30-yr mortgage payments.

$1.5m @ 2.50% yielded a ~$6k/mo P&I payment last year

$868k @ 7.25% yields a ~$6k/mo P&I payment currently.

The price of this theoretical home need to drop ~40% to result in the same monthly payment. Home prices won't drop until people are forced to sell and widespread layoffs are just the catalyst necessary.
Writing about data seems reliably popular. There’s even a company that just writes viral blog posts for clients about their data (Pricenomics).

Whenever you run an experiment or gather data, consider whether it might be shareable as a post. It’s a win-win because people love learning the truth in numbers about a topic, and at the same time you get to have a chance at a decently popular post about your obscure thing.

Say you’re a toilet paper manufacturer. Probably nobody wants to read your company blog, but if you had a post with real data about how much TP is wasted by hotels not using rolls completely for example, that might just break through.
No, it sounds like censorship. Apart from the fact that Gab is not a "Nazi server" just like your average Mastodon server is not a "Communist server" even though there may be some neo-Nazis on the former and are sure to be a number of communists on the latter it sounds like a petty action by the project maintainers if certain servers are blocked by default.

It sounds like a form of digital McCarthyism.

I'll have a look at the Pleroma source to see if they also engage in this type of ideological censorship. If not it sounds like Pleroma is the better alternative, being both lighter as well as (hopefully) free from censorship.
I'm still trying to make up my mind about all this, but it's likely that the fact that many servers are running subject to the same set of rules may increase competition since servers are highly substitutable, so a paid server business model may actually be more customer oriented because of the "Mastodon market" pressure it faces, isn't it?
Last sentence is ironic because keurigs waste so much plastic if you use them daily.
>Given more modern treatments, milder strains and vaccines, do you have a source for your tens of millions of deaths claim?

Not my claim.

>I highly doubt zero covid is about public health, I think it's about ego and control.

Agreed.
There are some edge cases. fast-refresh created by Dan is major improvement over react-hot-loader.
Talk is cheap, show me the code. There are exactly 0 snippets in this article, despite making subjective claims about the language being easier and more intuitive than C/C++ for HPC.
China can keep covid policy for another 15 years. Xi is only 69 and previous China's dictator Mao lived till 82.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping
Ah, Trump will be back in office slashing rates in 2025, shouldn't be too hard to scrape by til then
A bit off topic, but the author has some nice links to his experience with Julia (starting with this post) which seems a very strong contender for taking over numerical computation and HPC from Fortran (not to mention the somewhat unnatural languages like Python/C/C++)
I mostly just swallow them.
Reading:

> n runners on a track of unit length, with constant speeds all distinct from one another, will each be lonely at some time—at least 1/n units away from all others.

Interesting conjecture! And okay, a lot of interesting problems end up being distilled into tangible if eccentrically named things. Like the "dining philosophers" in computer science to describe deadlock. I'm curious how this relates to a tangible problem.

> Implications

Nice, here we go!

> Suppose C is a n-hypercube of side length s in n-dimensional space.

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