skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android phones do not have Arial nor Arimo. I tested a simple page with "font-family: Arial, Arimo, serif" and got a serif font.

That’s may be true for Firefox on Android, which has, as per caniuse.com, a 0.28% global usage share. Chrome for Android, which has a 40.28% usage share (well over 100 times the users as Firefox/Android) shows things without serif.

There’s also a number of uniwidth typefaces which do not get wider in their bold form, for GUI elements which need to stay the same size (a use case which we should not completely dismiss as bad design), but those need to be downloaded as .woff/.woff2 fonts.
If you form a spanning tree by noting which edges where used during DFS traversal of undirected graph, then all of the edges not used will connect a node with it's ancestor and there will be no cross edges. It doesn't matter if all you care is traversing the graph in any order and maybe checking which parts are connected, but it is important for some of the more complex graph algorithms built on top of DFS.
Discoverability and onboarding and authentication is hard.

I remember the fluffy days of Facebook, where almost in an instant there was a wildfire of 'you might know' suggestions, from harvested addressbooks and cross referencing.

I found, and find discoverability hard on Twitter. My follow list rarely gets bumped and I am pretty clueless as to who and what is in it. I have to make an effort to grow the list.

Tweet reach may be massaged by favs, comments and retweets. Not totally sure how this is different in Mastodon.

Are we talking timeline/search promotion?

I remember email round robins pre Facebook and you did add people if you recognised them.

Directory services just got pulled as they were harvested by spammers. Not that I think this would help. You need some nudging.

If I read an article and the author had an easy lookupable and addable feed, I might note it.
There’s a difference between sequencing the genome of DNA, which the article talks about, and retrieving DNA strands intact. The latter is akin to getting the book, the former is akin to reading it. This is likely to account for the discrepancy.
I've perused some literature and the noise from online forums resulting in a plausible theory of the mechanism of male pattern baldness that I've seen proposed:

1 - Higher testosterone, generally correlated with higher amounts of DHT as testosterone is metabolized into DHT. This obviously depends on some intermediary metabolic process and all of the dependencies involved there.

2 - Certain hair follicles are DHT resistant. Why does MPB follow a M-shaped pattern and devolve into common patterns across those afflicted?

3 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26622151/ Mechanical stress points on the scalp seems to map injectively to the areas that see hair recede.

Takeaway: mechanical stress induces chronic inflammation on the scalp, localized in areas that correspond to MPB hairloss areas. Chronic inflammation begets androgen binding and those with high amounts of systemic DHT/vulnerable follicles develop MPB.
agree! I think it's one of those things where it shouldn't be emulated, but yes they owned it.
That's a good point. To me too it looks kinda hypocritical to go to the kind of expense with flights, hotels, security, good etc. It seems as if for most people going there is more of a photo-op than anything else. I don't expect much will come out of this summit.
Existing users can generate an invite link:

https://mathstodon.xyz/invite/5nKykTB6

If it doesn't work then check back in a day or two, many servers are struggling at the moment but the mathstodon admins are scaling up now.

Or you can join any other instance since any account can follow any other account regardless of instance. The main advantage of mathstodon is LaTeX support.
in any other industry you could say that and I’d agree with you, but cars are an exception. cars are first and foremost a status symbol, and, compounding, they historically didn’t have computers inside them. plenty, plenty of rich humans will be buying teslas as either a status symbol or simply the next cool thing to own without any thought for the specifics of the management of updates of the OS
i'm pretty sure they know this, but i'm pretty sure they're intentionally trying to "make it a thing"/fake support for it because there's a lot of hate towards musk. i don't like him much but i do like the fact that all these types of blue check journalists are pissed about it.
EuroPython Conference 2022 Videos
Yeah but Mastodon is 6 years old at this point. Is it still the beginning?

6 years old Twitter already had ~200m users in 2012
> $8/mo is nothing.

Most of non-Western Twitter will vanish overnight if this is a requirement to use the platform. But it's still not clear what it will actually mean and how it will affect the site culture.
Nice! Will have a look into it! What's the difference to Lago? (https://www.getlago.com/)
Could u tell me more details the "opposite" things here in details ?
So all the newsletters I'm on are getting sent out to subscribers one by one? Man, seems really inefficient. If only there were a way to specify many individuals who wanted to receive the same email so they could send it only once...
If that's all he is doing - paying smart people and expecting them to work hard - why isn't literally everyone else doing the same?
300k users a week? If that rate keeps up for a few years Twitter could be in real trouble...
Mostly trouble sourcing the corn from Mexico I believe. https://taiyari.nl/ serves most Mexican places in The Netherlands. It's still not as soft as you'd get from a really freshly made one, although they sell the raw masa as well. The best hack I've found is actually cooking the corn tortillas in a bit of oil to soften them up quite a bit. Works great even with older/frozen tortillas.

I haven't found good flour tortillas, curious what your source is here!
You have a point, but think about it from the newbies perspective. They have no idea how many posts they won't see. Everybody is used to centralized where they see everything and now they're being told to check out this alternative where you might not see everything. Okay, does that mean 50% of what gets posted won't be seen? 25%? 5%? Will I be able to see what my favorite celeb posts? There's zero context for a newbie to understand what they're missing out on. Much easier to say "too complicated" than to give it a try.
That's the death of all decentralized systems, it's too much work in the long run.

They work great when they're the ONLY option in town, but eventually people centralize on one aspect of it, as they did with email.

Email used to be so decentralized that it was literally run on your machine (not your terminal, which was dumb, but the machine the terminal connected to) and even a single company department might have 10+ machines that could receive email (email addresses would look like name@machine.department.company.com).

Then it devolved to one per department, and then one per company, and now one per massive IT provider.
Tony La Russa.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/us/twitter-verification-e...
Post new content on Mastodon and post previews with links to that on Twitter
Love to see more independent indexes! Sometimes there seems like there's plenty of search engines, but when grouped by the indexes they rely on there's actually very few major ones when you group them together

- Google, StartPage

- Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, AOL, Yahoo

- Yandex (mainly Russian)

- Brave (recently started its own index but often falls back on Google's)

Love to see projects like Marginalia and now this. These projects also make meta search engines like Searx[0] that much more powerful.

Anyways since I'm in the business of listing out relevant projects, other code-centered search engines you might wanna check out are searchcode.com[1], codesearch.ai[2], symbolhound[3], and publicwww.com[4] (some of these are often down, but might still be good to learn from)

[0] https://searx.tuxcloud.net/

[1] https://searchcode.com/

[2] https://codesearch.ai/

[3] http://symbolhound.com/

[4] https://publicwww.com/
Not to worry, they’re full staffed trust and safety team will take care of it.

I did wonder about $8 a month though, it seemed like if you were a decent scammer you probably made more than that.
> The bad part is the indentured servitude, not the land ownership.

I guess you're not familiar with the Inclosure Acts? (To name but one of the grossly amoral uses of land ownership in the past few centuries.)
Samsung 8th Gen V-NAND Pushes PCIe 5.0 SSDs Past 12 GBps
I wonder if Mastodon can even scale because of the federation.

When I tried running Matrix server, joining any large federated Matrix servers made the server unusable and it had to be stopped. I am not saying it will be the case with Mastodon but I would not be surprised.
Yeah but the spam blogs are there because people are trying to make money from ads, those are not authors that are writing a journal or want to practise their writing skills.
I didn't think you meant yourself, but yes, the prototypical prepper in the basement with an apocalypse stockpile. It'll hardly be an impregnable fortress.
> Once you start testing the actual flow... all your unit tests are immediately entirely unnecessary because you need to test all the same cases, and edge cases to ensure that everything fits together correctly.

You don't, but it's clear that I am unable to explain why to you. I apologize for not being better able to express what I mean.
> I've never understood the complete lack of empathy

A lot of Twitter employees have spent years being about as obnoxious as they possibly can be to anyone with even slightly different views. I've seen a Twitter employee practically in tears calling someone a fascist because they insisted on putting semi-colons after statements in JavaScript.

> Because there is something distasteful about a man that rich firing loads of people.

I don't think it's distasteful at all. Twitter isn't a charity and it needs to fix its finances. Even the previous CEOs recognized that there's a ton of Twitter employees that do basically no relevant work.
Twitter's net loss in 2021 was $221 million, far from $4 million a day, and there's nothing to indicate that had changed before he bought it. The figure he quoted is made up predominantly of the $1 billion in annual interest payments Twitter now has thanks to Musk's leveraged buy out.

There was no imminent need for Twitter do anything. It still had a healthy enough cash pile and leeway and time to layoff 10% of the workforce or so to return to pre-COVID staffing levels.
Like with every habit, there's less and less friction with every finished attempt. (speaking from personal experience, I'm terrible at publishing consistently)

>This might work? Sometimes it's a tiny mental shift that changes everything.

Could be. What works for me is finding something small enough that I can't overcomplicate it (write today, edit and publish tomorrow, done!). Then, I will (obviously) overcomplicate it, but instead of ending up with a week-long commitment, I spend 3-4 evenings instead of 2. (example: https://sonnet.io/posts/reactive-hole/)

I would also suggest treating writing a post (or a series) as a project itself.

I feel like we're struggling with a similar problem. Good luck!
Not sure if it is the default, but you can definitely have it set up this way on iPhone to an I would recommend you do.
Conspiracy theory: musk is a mastodon plant.

It makes about as much sense as anything else that is happening.
> If only there were a way to specify many individuals who wanted to receive the same email so they could send it only once...

Getting an email with a really large number of recipients to be actually delivered is difficult enough that there are entire companies e.g. Mailchimp devoted to making it work. You can't just bung a million addresses into BCC and hope.
I also read the Dawn of Everything and wanted to recommend it here. The first chapter drew me in immediately: reading the native American critiques of the culture of European settlers was eye-opening. By the end of the book I felt they had beat their message to death a little bit, but the message was a very interesting one.
All Musk has to do is create an Ad system that delivers positive ROI.

That's it. If he does that then people will sign up because they enjoy scaling up their business. There is so much public backlash against the large advertisers anyway, especially Pfizer, that I think this is ultimately a good thing and establishes better Trust with Twitter and it's users.
It would be hilarious watching the infighting spread over various instances themselves that were infighting.

But companies don't want the "liability" (not necessarily legal liability, but appearances) - and they don't want @thenewh1tler@nike.mastadon or whatever doing unsightly things.
Definitely think Lotus might be useful to you, especially since you can self-host. Just took a quick look into your repo, but will do a deeper dive a bit later.

The nice thing is that we've built Lotus so that you can plug in the components you want, for example, you could plug in your custom metering into our pricing/plan management system.

We are still pretty early so we have had the ability to help migrate custom systems over to Lotus and figure out the most cost-effective solution. Will follow up on email!
They should have called it "euTube", so much wasted potential.
Helix just has better out of the box experience. Will take you like 5 minutes to setup instead of 1.5 weeks. It is just so much easier to start a model editor if you havent used one before.
How many rich people and fund managers around the world have been throwing money at engineers they thought were smart for the past several decades?

How many have succeeded on the scale Elon has? "Throwing money at smart engineers" is not a novel idea. Executing it well is extremely hard, especially when cash has been cheap for the past two decades.
“14-hour days with no break, no bathroom”: Jeff Bezos sued by former housekeeper
Maybe, but providing simple functions for "obvious" operations, to promote correctness, make it easier for the compiler, or just for convenience is not uncommon at all. Most languages have a min/max function somewhere, sometimes built-in, sometimes in the standard library, even though it is trivial to implement. C is a notable exception, and it is a problem because, you have a lot of ad-hoc solutions, all with their own issues.

If you look at GLSL, it has many function that do obvious things, like exp2(x) that does the same thing as pow(2,x), and I don't think anyone has any issue with that. It even has a specific "fma" operation (fma(a,b,c) = a*b+c, precisely), that solves a similar kind of problem as the overflowing average.
I wrote an xeyes java applet when java was first released in the 90s.
I attempted to find out, myself, about 6 months ago - and quickly hit an information vacuum. It exists, it is widely-used, but as you found, that’s about it - there’s no recent or new activity, and no signs of life or vitality. Thanks for writing this!
depends on which study and which industry.

but at some point people become anti-productive. that takes many forms, some in terms of mistakes that cost time, accidents, or just faffing about and not actually doing work
Many people gave you advice and said loss of your personal life.

Invite your kids into your life. I like video games so I offer to play them with my son. I like movies so I find ones we can watch together. I like martial arts so when he’s old enough I’ll offer to do Jui Jitsu.

Kids are an amazing opportunity to teach and love
It might have something to do with the paying bit.
> 300,000 users in the last week

Let's speak in a month or two, see how many remain active, and then see whether this is an overreaction, and whether the experience design of Mastodon can really acommodate them?
System is broken and hating or getting rid of the winner does not help since there is a line of people ready to take his spot and that spot is only open for people who are not afraid of a fight. Don't hate the player, hate the game as they say.
Yes, probably. My favorite such example is this regex crossword:

https://jimbly.github.io/regex-crossword/
I think the biggest problem with this is not necessarily Google's algorithm changing, but the internet changing. Sites evolved to produce SEO spam for higher rankings and Google's search, as bad as it is now, would probably be even worse if it stayed stagnant and didn't evolve in response

The "predefined subset of the internet" part can definitely be a solution but the preceding "large" is probably where the challenge remains. However, projects like Looria[0] give me hope for a more curated search experience (i.e. without the "large" adjective)

[0] https://www.looria.com/
Because they’re not constantly threatening China with war.
For a programming search engine, the official docs of languages should get special treatment. Google often surfaces outdated versions of the documentation, but they're usually at the top. If you want to improve on this, you should (a) rank official docs the highest, (b) give extra weight to docs.python.org if the query contains "python", (c) merge the same page for different versions and add a version picker.
> mechanical stress induces chronic inflammation on the scalp

This seems measurable (inflammation markers in titers), testable (A/B test with NSAIDs), and amenable to preexisting population studies without tracking patients over time (eg. find patients with long hair, that wear hats, etc.)
News outlets all canned their comments sections - I see absolutely no reason why they'd want to bring back something even worse.
I don’t really remember Google of that era; I got on the Internet pretty late. But I do have high hopes for the recent rise we’ve seen in smaller, targeted search engines; a lot of the Google-scale problems of “making a search engine” go away when you focus on a small corner of the Web:

- the tech has reached a point where it’s actually pretty reasonable for someone to index a fairly large chunk of it themselves: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2022-07-23-write-your-own

- benefits of diversification: if one search engine isn’t helpful, you can try another instead of just being out of luck; and spammers now have to game a bunch of different algorithms rather than being able to target just one.

- having just one person, or a small group, focuses the results, and can hopefully produce a higher level of polish in a targeted area.
Well a handful is still way better than only one. If tomorrow someone want to leave Gmail they have quite the list of alternatives and can forward their mail to their new address. Compared to leaving Twitter or Facebook this is so much better.

It's like if Twitter was an ActivityPub instance even if it had 99.9% marked share at least you could leave without leaving everything behind
Using land amorally isn't the same thing as owning land unless you think land ownership is amoral.
Eternal September was exactly that.
> having my data "read" by a non-sentient advertising model, while irritating, is nowhere near the same as having it read by a human being. that is a false equivalence.

I agree they're not equivalent.

One is a small harm guaranteed to be perpetrated every day against every single person using Twitter, numbering in the hundreds of millions of people, largely without those people knowing or consenting to it.

The other is a large harm sometimes inflicted on a small number of people, and when it does happen is isolated to a small community where people can find out about it and act on that knowledge how they see fit.

I've been around a long time. I've seen power abused on irc and forums and even small social networks. To me, the idea that we need supposedly benevolent megacorporations to keep us from doing harm to each other is a repulsive idea, far and away above "my instance admin might read something I wrote on their server."

If we've forgotten how to exist in community with each other, we should relearn that skill.
Am I the only one who doesn't get why chosing a server is necesary? I just don't get it at all from a user experience perspective.

Do we need to pick servers with Bittorrent? no. Just tell it what file you want (magnet link).

Do we need to pick servers with Tox? no. Just tell it what friend you want to talk to (contact ID).

Or to pick a centralized example: do we need to pick a server on Twitter? no. duh.

Then why is there any necesity or excuse ever to have to pick servers for "social" apps? Is this the 80's?!

How do these "decentralized" advocates think they can get away with a "harder to use app with more steps"? Especially when it's not a technical necesity?
The US isn’t threatening to invade Taiwan. China is.
Individual instances do which is what the GP was talking about. Also individual instances are where an outside link is going to point at.
"I’m still of the opinion he is not doing the work and his success is mostly throwing money at eager (and smart) engineers. "

To me it seems, his success comes from being an engineer himself and wanting to get shit done and kick people until shit gets done in a working way. And yes that includes throwing money at smart engineers, but to do this, you have to be smart and have domain knowledge to do so.

The problem started, when he got too much success and lost touch with the ground of reality.

The twitter chat logs are quite interesting.

https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#3

In general they show that it was indeed a bit more than a high idea, to which it was reduced around many places.

Still, a funny quote from Elon:

"Frankly, I hate doing mgmt stuff. I kinda don't think anyone should be the boss of anyone. But I love helping solve technical/product design problems."

I think he means it. But of course it is BS, when he is in fact the boss of so many people and making them burn out for productivity in various ways.
My theory is that getting smart people to make twitter vs landing reusable rocket boosters… will yield VERY different levels of passion/interest.

Which again is FINE. Personally, I just wanna do cool stuff and have a great work/life balance. I don’t want to (and don’t have the expertise to) land a rocket booster.

I guess… not everyone’s problem domains are interesting enough to lure a team like space-x etc. again, I don’t like him, but credit to Elon for at least trying to solve these tough problems. Just admit FSD isn’t a year away!
It could be accurate, but it's hard to imagine having this little empathy.
The only problem I had with tooling using F# was getting my dev env set up. The only help I need from the editor was navigating between classes/functions and build/run.

Even refactoring was easier because the types are sometimes left to be inferred and not named everywhere. The type inference in F# being weaker also even helps with both compile speed and readability where annotations are needed both to help the compiler and the reader.

Perhaps on larger projects other things become important, but I got the sense that it's on the devs to name things well, use type annotations where helpful, and otherwise document non-obvious aspects.
I wish someone more competent than myself had taken you up on this. Now that we have big die sizes, is it possible to use some of that real estate to create a fast core with a different instruction set (with much less to worry about) that we can slip into with maybe just one app at a time and let 'er just zoom?

If we had to reserve some ram exclusively to that core even when not in use; I'd still want it for the times I have a very demanding task I'm waiting on.

This doesn't address all the bloat of course; but I'd like it.

OoO ? Overlooked? Overwritten? Overlooked or Overwritten?