skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work on Sciter.

When I came up with this feature in Bike I was pretty proud of the idea and it seemed original. Then a few weeks later I came across your post on StackExchange UX... everything already been invented I guess :) I'm curious how you came with idea? Also have you come across other editors that implement it?

For me I new that something bothered me about rich text editing... always seemed more painful then required. I was also aware of the idea of split cursor from Humane Interface book. And also aware of affinity idea from text cursor position in wrapped text editor lines. Bike's typing affinity came from combining those ideas.

Anyway would love to hear any related thoughts or ideas.
I don’t agree with them, but this counter argument doesn’t quite work. In a system with x% chance of success, we’d expect most people to fail for small x. But some few will still succeed multiple times.

Throw in that your odds get better the more you’re successful, and it’s classic survivorship bias.
If he didn’t fail sometimes in hard domains then they wouldn’t be hard.

He’s intentionally choosing to do things that have a relatively high likelihood of failure.
why have you jumped to this extremely adversarial rhetoric?

I actually agree with the principle of your statement, which is why I’m partly surprised that you’ve replied with such vitriol. I’m simply pointing out that throughout time and space there have been scenarios where capitalistic economic viewpoints - and therefore economists who hold them - are absolutely non-grata, contradicting your blanket statement.

please try to be more conducive to discussion and debate, and less accusatory and insulting. it made me feel bad to read, and I don’t know why you pursue it
I’ve spent a lot of time at the edge of decentralized and useful tech. You’re right that most decentralized systems don’t accomplish the goals they set out to achieve.

A few key things: decentralized means a network of at least 3 nodes where no operator controls more than 1. Anything beyond that is vanity or more censorship resistance depending on your vantage point.

What we actually want is governance with checks and balances. I would argue that the problem with the US has been the centralization of power in the executive and judicial branches, particularly the executive. A functioning parliamentary system with three branches of governance is quite effective when there is a balance of power.

Now to how emulate that in software is another quandary. I think ethereum for all of its faults is doing a decent job at decentralized governance.

I think we’re still in the very early days of decentralized finance. A lot of lessons will be learned (and relearned from the past) as we move forward.
Seeing parasocial relationships infect the internet like regular celebrities in the past is really a bummer and not what I had hoped for the technology. Real life interactions are the way to go more often than not.
his success is mostly throwing money at eager (and smart) engineers

That's even more damning for his detractors since they could have been doing the same but instead sneer from the sidelines.
The smart instances have closed the doors hard (or invite-only) to try to mitigate the destruction.

The waves will pass, but some servers will have suffered fatal damage from it.
Good eye! That was a typo. It should read as "colon notation". It is just a visual representation of 128 bits (16 bytes) with each byte separated by colon ":". I have updated the readme with an example. One place where you will see this notation visually is MAC addresses.
How about a virtual chemistry set? Saves me from cleaning up. Plus the kid can do dangerous stuff.

Does it exist?
I recently learned that my local police have designated areas in their station's parking lots for these sorts of exchanges:

<https://www.wrps.on.ca/en/staying-safe/buy-and-sell-exchange...>
If you just want to read posts on Mastodon, you don't need to sign up at all.

You only need to sign up (just once) if you want to follow people, or post yourself.

You can read all (public) posts on all instances either way.
Did whatsapp change significantly?

Twitter has a "culture" in a way that whatsapp doesn't really. That's a lot more ephemeral and subject to disruption.
Even if mastodon takes off, it will be like any other protocol on the internet: A centralized free service will appear , like Gmail did, which most people will be there . Twitter will probably convert its service to activityPub then. Slightly better than what we have today, but it wont be immune.

Also, does anyone remember the backlashes every time facebook made a major change to their website? Yeah , all those users went to friendster for sure ... Social networks have network lock-in. The more mad your users are, the more they talk about it, on the service, which ironically is good for the service.
Why are so many people calling Elon Musk by his first name, like he's their buddy or neighbor? This reminds me when Steve Jobs had passed away, many people were walking the streets with candles and cards in memoriam of "Steve". How come?
> Are you able to "sign up once" and be able to log into every instance of Mastodon?

No. You can follow people in other instances and interact with them, but your account is tied to your instance.
Seems snap-25 also causes issues alongside d2. It helps pop out dopamine bubbles, in layman's terms. Dopamine is made in the nerve cell, then it is released outside the cell by a bubble called a synaptic vessel that basically goes inside out. It crosses the gap between cells and attaches to one of 4 dopamine receptors, the most important of which is d2 for adhd and amphetamine. It is then vacuumed up from that gap between cells by a set of proteins that can be blocked by ritalin, just like zoloft blocks the vacuum for serotonin. It then gets broken down by monoamine oxidase, another potential target for lots of therapies. This stuff is real folks and backed by knockout studies and fMRI scans.
It seems to me like there is a possible, albeit compromised, middle ground between highly centralised and the (in reality) partially centralised Mastodon model where users flock to popular monoliths: strictly per-user instances.

Given the right tooling etc etc, expediting user's migration to their own instances, of something like a Mastodon node, could be an achieveable route to greater decentralisation without getting muddled down in things like blockchain etc.. And executed correctly the model could be more communicable than what it presently appears to be.

From what I can see though, Mastodon isn't currently the technology stack to achieve, perhaps it could get there.

No solution is going to be perfect, but surely an emphasis on data sovereignty would reduce the volume of arguments over what a given platform should be.
Interesting question.

Some things to consider:

Linux and Rust and Rust use GnuPG to sign their releases. IMHO, Minisign would be better, but okey.

Both projects are very large. I wonder how they handle key distribution for the key pair that signs the release. Is the private key online or offline? How do they prevent the private key from leaking?
Any plans to support Math(Jax) or other latex-like math notation ?
I responded to another with something similar…

Throwing money at people and saying “I want these charts to be customizable” vs “let’s land a rocket booster, it’s ok if a few blow up, we can test it live” will get VERY different levels of passion/expertise
Title demangled: Music labels win $46.7 mln from internet provider in piracy trial

Lede from the article: Internet service provider Astound Broadband's Grande Communications Networks LLC must pay a group of music labels $46.7 million after its users pirated over 1,400 copyrighted works, a federal jury in Austin, Texas, decided Thursday.
Is lua considered an esoteric language?
From when twitter went public(2013), the deficit decreased every year and eventually the company ran a measurable profit in 2018 and 2019. It ran red in 2020 but since then has been making a profit most quarters. This seems to indicate that while they weren't running on great margins, they were above board even if just barely.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...

And the $4 million/day is from the debt incurred by Elon's purchase.
Take lots of pictures -- you will never look at the video.

Take the "same" picture each month for the first couple of years. We had our daughter propped up on the couch next to a teddy bear. Stringing the pictures together showed her growth in a beautiful way.

Also, make sure that you don't hold them in order to put them to sleep. Wait until they are relaxed and then put them down in their bed/crib/cot. You want them to be able to put themselves to sleep without you.

Also, don't keep the house quiet when the baby is asleep / going to sleep. This will only condition them to be able to only sleep in the quiet.
I'll take that as a yes then.

OP was not claiming all land ownership was bad. Just that rich people have commonly used land ownership to harm others. There is a long and rich history of this.
It's where the people are. I don't use Facebook in the main, but there is a local neighborhood group that I feel I have to subscribe to.

You don't always get to pick the venue.
I don't understand this link with Twitter, maybe because it's in the news now. I never mentioned any specific company. The previous poster wanted to go on some Elon rant/tangent. My point was to invest in a platform that people actually use.
If I'm the EU I want to have a platform where I can spread my message to as many people as possible. The EU is already spending huge amounts of money advertising on these platforms. Why not purchase a seat at the table.
The slowness and bugs might be due to the sudden influx of people from Twitter. I just joined a small server that is now having to scale up a bit to accommodate all the new traffic, and I assume the more popular servers are seeing an even bigger bump.

I was actually expecting the sign up process to be a lot more difficult than it was for me, just based on the impression I'd gotten from various HN comments over the years. I encourage anyone curious to try it out for themselves.
I'm seconding what the others say. I see a few close friends 1-3 times a week in relatively unstructured or impulsive situations, and I also go to martial arts and latin dance clubs at no regular interval (although I should work on getting that back on a regular schedule), and play dungeons and dragons once a month. You can absolutely meet people with mutual interests in person, and it is worth pursuing regardless of whether you consider yourself an introvert or not.
The last Civil War soldier died in the 1950s. There were 4 million slaves freed in 1865. Plenty of time for people taking oral histories of primary sources.

Besides, 9% of 4 million is 360,000. Quite a lot of people.

On February 25, 1837, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania became the nation's first Historically Black College and University (HBCU). -- Google
Mastodon doesn't have encrypted DMs
This is great and something I do with my kids as well. I’d suggest recording them on your phone (or wherever) for posterity. It’s so much fun to go back and listen to them!
> Stay classy, HN.

I could ask the same about your comment please.

> Because some people think that wealth somehow equates to evil. It's a very juvenile way to think

You set up a strawman and knock it down. There are many legitimate reason why someone might object to Musk or his wealth. Thinking that “wealth somehow equates evil” is indeed juvenile, yet somehow you assume people hold that thought and work from that assumption.

> I suspect most people don't even know why they dislike Elon

Oh great. The sheepish masses. They don’t even have a coherent thought!

Except this is your fantasy again. There are many legitimate reasons to dislike him. Why don’t you ask people, instead of labeling them empty headed media-driven zombies? This is hardly a way to “engage in discussion”.

> It's shocking how people can hold so much contempt for a man they've never met.

He kinda put himself in front of others. That is his brand. It has benefits and drawbacks. I don’t know why you think one has to meet someone to judge their character. If he does contemptible things through online discussion why can’t someone hold him in contempt?

> If everyone's life was put under a microscope, they would likely be under the same media firestorm as Elon, or even worse.

I doubt it is truly everyone. Many many individuals live a public life without kicking of a firestorm with the same regularity he does.
@deskamess - I believe a Master's is the minimum buy-in, and Ph.D. is preferred. My Ph.D. area is quite narrowly in theoretical chemical physics, but was all heavy computation and focused on quantum and classical dynamics.

The areas of study are going to be computational chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, cheminformatics, or something closely related to those. Whether you work in a lab or in front of a computer depends on what you study and whose lab you study it in. You can't go wrong with a Ph.D. from UCSF, I can tell you that (I was a postdoc there), so browse the faculty pages.

Have a look at some of the open positions at, say, Roche/Genentech. There are some great open source resources and some industry-dominant ones with which you'll be expected to have some experience in (Schrodinger's software is one of them). Domain knowledge, of course. QSAR/ADME and similar acronyms. Docking, free energy perturbation, bioinformatics. Python/R/SQL.

AI/ML is of course hot in pharma but not necessarily useful for all situations - I happen to not be much of an AI/ML guy and won't be penalized for that, which I cannot say about almost every job I've had or applied for.

What got my foot in the door with drug design was postdoctoral work on molecular dynamics simulations of large systems that are physiologically relevant - motor proteins - and I was teamed-up with experimentalists who were studying the same systems.

More than happy to share more, my contact info is in my profile.
He had only a tiny amount of company ownership, didn't have total voting power, the board (which barely even used Twitter) made it impossible for him to make the changes he'd want to make and just generally seemed obstructionist/bad. Jack has talked a lot about how making Twitter a company (instead of a protocol) was a mistake, he's talked about Web5 which lands on a lot of the same ideas as Urbit, but trying to tack it on top of the existing stack. He supported Elon taking power and being able to actually make the necessary changes and recently tweeted support of the layoffs too.

Pre IPO Twitter was doing interesting things with API access and being more protocol like, but they killed all of that stuffed ads on it and went public. Ben Thompson talks a lot about how they're a terrible ad product and I think he's generally right. Subscriptions are a more interesting model.

If you read the texts between Jack and Elon that came out during the recent legal fights over the sale you can see these things for yourself.

That's somewhat of a rambling answer, but a lot of this stuff is publicly verifiable.
Probably because it's a unique enough name to not introduce ambiguity.

Nobody can just say Steve or Bill without confusing people
Best advice I ever received:

You are a parent, not a friend. Don’t only do things to please your children.

You are a person too, not only a parent. Do things yourself your children will be proud of you for; it will teach them to do the same.
All you need to do is pick an instance and register an account on said instance. The friction is pretty low, in the same ballpark as friction encountered creating an account on any website.

It's not difficult, although yesterday it did take about an hour to get the confirmation email. The network is presently under heavy load due to new users.
Ummmm eating meat IS natural and it’s been a part of human diets from before the start of recorded history. It’s such an enjoyable and important experience to me that I would literally rather impose limits on the number of humans allowed to be born than the amount of meat those humans are allowed to consume.
Unlikely, considering Mastodon already went through this with Gab (and later Trump's Truth Social ?) joining it a few years ago.

From what I've seen, it's mostly people sick and tired of Twitter's drama that decided to leave by themselves (whether today or in the last 6 years), while the people that were so toxic that Twitter banned them end up in mostly disconnected parts of Mastodon...
Imo it is the bloated general education requirements, squeezing as much money from students as possible. It should only take 2 years to earn a bachelor’s. I believe if these classes were optional, they would not survive in the curriculum. University should not be in the business of propping up classes that no one wants, or professors who don’t have classes to teach.
> Can you earn their trust, as in, become pals with them?

It's a very human question.

All living things are friends (except sometimes at mealtime) because we are all part of one singular organism. The separateness and individuality of multicellular organisms is a perceptual illusion.

(This sound metaphysical, and perhaps it is, but it's very literal: all cells use the same chemical language, the same bio-molecular machinery of thought. Cf. Michael Levin's lab's work. Also "wood-wide web", etc. The way I sometimes put it is "We are Solaris". but that only makes sense if you've read the book or seen the movies...)

Anyway, all animals already trust each other. When you can understand how that's true and share that trust then you can "talk" with animals. Like Dr. Doolittle or some fairy tale princess, they will come up and hang out with you.

> It's probably mostly food based priorities to them.

Yeah, but that's the same for everybody? Don't you and your friends spend a lot of time discussing food? Cooking and eating together? "Com-pan-ions" are literally those who eat bread together: "com" is community, etc. and "pan" is bread.

Live long and prosper.
Other sources you may wanna crawl

- https://www.thecodingforums.com/ (and other programming-related online communities like Lobste.rs, certain subreddits, and certain Lemmy instances/communities)

- https://pldb.com/ (might be a good way to automatically get all the docs of each programming language as well as books/videos/publications that mention a certain language)
Building attestation into hardware sounds like a good idea in theory, but doesn't actually work. All it tells you is "this is what the camera saw", it doesn't actually tell you that what the camera saw was real. You can just point your camera at a high resolution screen playing a doctored video, and so sign whatever doctored content you like. Or take a video of a real faked scene with actors.
A person can get circumcised when (if) those things happen.

There's no medical reason for indiscriminate circumcision at birth.
He’s in the arena. And that’s what people respect.

But has he failed at Boring?
People really like twitter. They’re concerned about the new guy coming in and making rash decisions with shaky justification. Millions of people have to deal with the implications of his decision. Just because it’s his legal right doesn’t mean people have to be happy about what he’s doing. And it’s yet another reminder that we’d rather be on platforms where users have some amount of power, but network effects and billions in investment favor platforms where that’s not the case.
> and his success is mostly throwing money at eager (and smart) engineers

Doing that with this level of success in these domains is extremely rare and even more important. In most cases, the investors are far more important than the workers.
The poster is giving it away for free so your complaint is not what they were talking about.

But if that's a common problem for you, tell them up front before meeting them it will be payment in full or you'll walk away. They're wasting their time too.
Fun fact: the original Apollo TV broadcast from the surface of the moon was "slow scan", with a different resolution and framerate to broadcast TV. The conversion process was to display it on a suitable slow-scan TV (long retention phosphor) and .. point a terrestrial camera at the TV.
This is... strange. The issue of a price would seem to me to be an issue of supply and demand. Yet, this article talks about a weirdly tangential topic. This article seems to put forward the idea that the administration of colleges has become bloated and this has led to higher fees. But that's simply not the causal chain. No one in any administration is thinking "better put that tuition up, and accept the loss in candidates to justify this new diversity officer".

Demand is through the roof - there are 20 candidates for every 1 place, and those candidates have almost unlimited access to loans. So the price is immaterial, if you get a place, you pay whatever they ask.

So sure, there's going to be administrative bloat - because there's literally no limit to the purse strings. And this is exacerbated by university rankings which will literally list staff:student ratio as a metric. But none of this has anything to do with Quillette's racist agenda.
I thought this would add white space to the html source such that it would render an ascii eye.
You can import https://twitter.com/elonmusk directly into an RSS reader if you want, still.
Thanks a lot, you're right that I've no idea if I'd enjoy being a team lead.

Also I wouldn't mind doing the reports if that would take me somewhere, but it clearly isn't. Also I'd bet I do more reports than the team leads combined.

And yes I know many would enjoy my situation, but it seems I'm not doing it.

Good point on the volunteering idea, although now with the baby it'd be really hard to find the time.
It's very simple, this summary explains everything: https://twitter.com/urbit/status/1184984759123922945

Kidding aside, I think it's unlikely that a deliberately obfuscated project will conquer the world.
No, it's not just you. It's an awful name.

Gimp is the worst offender amongst badly named products. Its name is both a kink sex term and a slur against disabled people.

"Toots" are in the same category as "Cockroach" DB. Not something you want to think about. From among similar feature offerings, I'd go for the one that wasn't horribly branded.
Because it is hard to trust those you hand your money to and not get in the way by checking in too often. Also, not every passionate engineer should be trusted that much. Being able to spot those that are passionate about what you want done, while simultaneously being both competent and trustworthy is a skill that will make you very wealthy, and almost no one has it consistently. A success or three may show that he is one of those people. Or that he is survivorship bias waiting for a reality check. I don't know how to tell, or I would be quite wealthy as well.
Show HN: Galerio, a simple generator for static HTML flexbox galleries
Yes, this just increased the value scammers can extract from their victims, too. It's a societal bacterial race that a rocket engineer doesn't comprehend.

Literally one victim would be worth hundreds, if not thousands more than $8.
> I've never understood the complete lack of empathy displayed by so many people on HN.

I don't think this is empathy related to be honest ( as your statement is "a man that rich firing loads of people." )

It is either wrong to fire those people, or not. If it is not wrong to fire those people, it shouldn't matter who did it.
> And he doesn’t even take it that well.

no, he really doesn’t. he very publicly blocked the ceo of an advertising company when they attempted to—professionally and politely—explain to elon what some of their concerns were.

it’s unreal how he’s so loudly demonstrating his instability and then complaining that people are saying he’s unstable.
The company wasn't financially failing until Elon showed up, scared off most of the major advertisers, and stuck the company with $13B in high-interest loans he used to buy it.