skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep.

The one major difference is you cannot "subscribe" to a hashtag. You can do a hashtag view, but it will be limited to all the toots on your server (which I believe includes all the toots people in other servers that folks on your server have subscribed to).
How do GNU and LLVM maintain linkers while staying financially solvent without going proprietary? Why won't the same strategy work in this case?
Exactly. He's running it into the ground financially by saddling a low margin business with high-interest debt and also tanking revenue by spooking advertisers. 5D chess.
I’m not sure why you’re choosing to go down this line if faulty reasoning, but the consist of municipal service lines is not completely mysterious. There’s a difference between knowing the status of every pipe and knowing what the system is generally made up of.

My spouse was on the leadership team of a municipal water district. They knew at the block level where lead (or even wood & lead) service were likely to be, and had prioritized inventories of infrastructure like valves, etc that required replacement. They weren’t pioneers in this area, every water utility does this. As breaks were repaired or other ground work (sewer remediation, new storm drains, etc) they had a capital fund to make replacements. The main remaining place where lead is present is between the water main/service valve and people’s homes. That pipe is usually the financial responsibility of the homeowner, and it’s an expensive job - $5-15k.

The other factor is that the lead issue, like asbestos, is overblown. As long as the civil engineers responsible for the infrastructure aren’t bypassed by criminally negligent political leadership (aka what happened in Flint, MI), there’s no meaningful risk. If you’re using an untreated well, different story.
Langchain: Chained, composable LLM (GPT-3) prompts in Python
what news? in the USA we cannot see any of that.. maybe they have media that encourages war talk..

End this War please
Yep, I have gone through SOC2 for a company I run, definitely aware. The idea is just to add pressure.
I live in a hilly place, and it's a very strange effect to see the buildings in 3D but rendered on flat terrain!
He's definitely the 'chief engineer' of his companies in that he made engineering decisions, but to pretend that somehow means he does ALL the engineering work and grunt works is a very silly notion.

But yes, there's indeed the thousand of engineers and technicians doing the work. He even credits them for making his dream possible!

I don't know why people think he's not doing the work. Have they actually read interviews and books? The books I read does not paint him in a very flattering light people-wise.

It's also possible to be simultaneously an egoistic asshole, genius, having actual skills, being a money man and visionary leader, People act as if a person who's a jackass can't have positive traits or vice versa.
The GDPR applies in the US but I do think that PayPal is likely only using US numbers for this "feature" because the EU is much more aggressive about protecting users.
No! Absolutely not.

Because: you might think it’s nothing new. But it’s only nothing new for you! For most people it’s entirely new.

Sure, somewhere someone already farted about it lot an earlier than you. But guess what, it’s the f*ing internet. Ofc someone else was faster.

This advice you’re giving is actually exactly why there is so much BS on the internet.

Because smart people like us who have something to share won’t because it’s not new enough!!!

And guess what: all the morons not thinking 1/10 as much publish away and get followers because they dare to expose themselves often and repeatedly.

Btw I think it’s called imposter syndrome.
> 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.

On the contrary, I'd argue that the power has towards the executive and legislative branches. The judicial branch exists to curb the excesses of the other two through the invocation of law that was already written. The other two either write whatever the hell they want and vote on it or invoke their powers by fiat (i.e. executive orders).
I feel the easiest explanation is that it's like e-mail. You can send and receive from mostly anyone, even though they might use different providers. Like gmail or fastmail. But even though you have a gmail account, you don't use it to log into fastmail when talking with fastmail users.
What sort of difficulties those might be? If Russia overcomes those difficulties, should Poland get worried?
As a Yorkshireman: We understand and acknowledge that people do not all have good taste when it comes to tea.
We therefore either assume you don't want to kick anything off (start a fight over tea), or that you acknowledge and are working on your failings in the tea department...
I have always found that my blog is a place for me to dump my thought process and ideas behind things. A journal I can refer back to, with myself being the main audience first. As such I also put in the answers to annoying problems such as overcoming “The "clang" command requires the command line developer tools” issue oh M1 macs.

I have found over time that the posts solving those sort of issues tend to get the most traffic, and give me the most positive responses with people online too.

In either case I strongly suggest to everyone I work with to just write those sort of posts. Keep them online and over years they build up into something you can show off.
You sound very conflicted. I can see like at least two places where you directly contradict yourself. You have to learn what people say and what people do are very different. Elon Musk is a bullshitter and narcissist. It's time to stop listening and believing anything he has to say. Otherwise they'll keep dragging you in and you'll keep finding reasons to give them another chance.
The criticisms are getting more and more comical. Michael is a friend of Elon and trusted Elon with many of his ideas and contacts. I'm sure Musk would say as much. Do you think Michael was sharing these ideas and contacts with just anyone? Why do you think he specifically chose to work with Elon?
> As far as I remember the details, Gab forked Mastodon, after being effectively frozen out of the fediverse by all the other instances and indexes.

Gab, after its backend switch, has always been a fork of Mastodon instead of a stock implementation. Some Mastodon instances exercised their free speech (free association) rights by blocking Gab afterward, and some websites exercised their right to free speech by choosing not to mention Gab. Other Mastodon instances did not block Gab, and there were also websites that listed Gab alongside other fediverse services.

The owner of Gab later exercised his free speech rights when he decided to remove Mastodon's federation feature from Gab, turning Gab back to a single-instance monolithic social network like Twitter. By doing this, Gab exited the fediverse and no longer met the criteria for inclusion on websites that list fediverse services. Of course, there are websites that list social networks in general, which do include Gab.

> But if you really believe in free speech, you shouldn't just defend it for people you agree with.

Promoting or hosting content from Gab on a website is not a necessary condition for exercising free speech. This is because free speech includes free association, and website owners can opt to exercise their free speech rights by choosing not to promote or host content from Gab. The owner of Gab also exercised his free speech right by changing Gab to not interoperate with other Mastodon instances and fediverse services. As far as every party in this situation is concerned, the exercise of free speech has been upheld.

While it is no longer possible to host a Mastodon instance, it's still possible to create a website that lists Gab alongside anything you want. If none of the existing websites have the content you want to see, go ahead and exercise your free speech right to make one yourself.
Cockroach DB makes sense in the "impossible to kill, would survive a nuclear war" connotation, which are desirable traits for a database.

Calling them "farts" might be accurate but seems strictly unflattering.
It does look like the valves themselves (with tube stubs) were vendor-supplied. Could be two different vendors at two different times.

Those look like modern forged tapered-stem stopcock valves, probably hand fabricated to arrive at a product not much different than a machine shop would make today.

The manifold/tank could have been made from hammered and welded sheet with end(s) somewhat removable for occasional maintenance. Looks like maybe places for a couple more taps to the right of the two that are in there now.

Like today, the plumbers were the ones who put the parts together and ran the pipes to the points-of-use.
The vast majority of US comment sections went to Disqus and then Facebook comments and then shuttered altogether.

Some smaller ones remain, but it's mostly gone.
Mastodon isn't a commercial entity, so what's the opportunity that's being wasted? Its entire purpose is to provide an alternative model for social media on a non-profit basis. If that doesn't scale to Twitter or Meta levels so what? That's not the goal and it's certainly far beyond what those behind it could afford. Mastodon gGmbH has just two core developers.

Frankly, it's impressive that it's scaling as well as it has so far given the tiny size of the team and that all the servers are run on a volunteer basis.
I agree, it is a bit of a stretch. Just brainstorming, not a lawyer. I think you'd have to either make a GDPR case or otherwise get a bunch of users together who have been targeted / attacked and make a case for PayPal not meeting their obligation to protect users/ making users think they are safer than they are (because they offer 2FA but it can be bypassed).
Interesting.

So I swear this is not on purpose, but I went to try to see what thing I would be interested in. I searched "Mastodon Technology" and it leads me here:

https://mastodon.technology/about

It says it's shutting down though? So they can just shut down and if you don't migrate your account in time, you're SoL ?

I do understand a bit more now. I remember being interested in it around 2019 and it was a bit confusing then.

Your comment clears it up quite a bit.
Unlikely in the near term. I feel like there are many other features that I need to do first. Longer term maybe?
Other than Kakoune, is there anything else in this vein? Preferably not written in Rust?
> It should only take 2 years to earn a bachelor’s

Only if you assume that the purpose of a bachelor's is to provide job training in one specific profession. Not so much if you believe in the value of a well-rounded education, for people who are likely to change careers multiple times, maybe also be civic leaders, etc.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but the debate between these two visions has been going on for centuries and IMO it's not very useful to assume one answer (especially without recognizing the assumption as such).
I mean, we are running out of fresh water for crops and meat uses a lot more than plants. This doesn’t change if you grow it industrially or pastorally.

> Pork, chicken, eggs, and dairy were all pretty similar, but beef was a different story. Compared to the average of the other four, beef required 28 times the area of land per calorie, 11 times the water for irrigation, six times the nitrogen fertilizer, and it resulted in five times the greenhouse gas emissions For reference, they calculated similar impacts for potatoes, wheat, and rice. Compared to the average of those, beef’s footprint ballooned to 160 times the land, eight times the water, 19 times the nitrogen fertilizer, and 11 times the greenhouse gas emissions. Per gram of protein, the story is largely the same except that potatoes, wheat, and rice have less of an advantage due to their lower protein content.

The math listed in the article doesn't completely check out, e.g. they imply that [pork, chicken, eggs, dairy] require 160x (beef:plants) / 28x (beef:chicken) = 5.3x times (chicken:plants) as much land as [potatoes, wheat, rice], which makes sense, but also imply that [pork, chicken, eggs, dairy] 8x (beef:plants) / 11x (beef:chicken) = 0.72x times (chicken:plants) as much water as [potatoes, wheat, rice].

It's not thermodynamically possible for chickens to use less water per calorie than their feedstock. I never opened the actual study[1] though, I'm assuming they have reasonable results inside the study.

I also think that analysis vs. protein is more relevant than vs. calories -- which is why I think they should be compared against high-protein plants like beans and legumes.

0: https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/07/among-meats-beef-has...

1: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1073/pnas.1402183111
I mean, company blogs still exist, as empty and as dead as they've always been.
Those jobs are gone and now those people drive ubers and and barely scrape by
I don't think it's that simple is it? Companies like Ford don't advertise on sites like Parler not just because there aren't many people there, but because of the content that their adverts would be presented alongside. What seems to concern companies about the new direction of Twitter is that more extremists may be allowed back on Twitter if the content rules are loosened, and the companies' advertising may be presented alongside that. It may also be that if those extremists are allowed back then many people will start to desert Twitter, and it will be even less attractive. But I think both things - number of users and the content - are being taken into account.
I think it’s not binary one way or the other.

Companies don’t have to be profitable to be successful. A charismatic leader + lofty goals (FSD, rockets, flame throwers) and you’ll get a ton of money even if you never turn a profit.

Let’s not forget the tunnels I’m Vegas btw. They aren’t all winners.
Accessibility shouldn't be a separate team. It should be a consideration for all product development. And as far as experiences go, Twitter has a pretty small surface area.
Off-topic, but is there a similar federated alternative to Reddit? e.g. each subreddit can be its own server.
They typically just purchase the company instead. See: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple.

Let's not forget that Elon Musk's real success has been in marketing. He has created a cult of personality, claimed his efforts are for the good of humanity (yet to be seen, especially with the way he treats his labor force, i.e. horribly). It's not a shock that Tesla stock is a _meme stock_. It is because of Elon's marketing.

Let's not even get into his market manipulation.
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I actually do this more effectively working from home with my wife. For people who like the aesthetics and atmosphere of an office for some reason, I think a coworking space would as productive or moreso than the company office. (Is this Body Doubling website coworking industry guerrilla marketing?)

I was dragged back into the office for a couple months in 2021. I was stupefied by how pointless it all was. From the time and resources wasted driving to and fro to the office every day to the meetings which were still largely done online (since we were a distributed team.)

I had to go 5 days a week. The company bled people. Most the people who were sticking around as I was leaving confided to me that they weren't happy about it. The company struggled to hire new workers. That's probably all abated to some extent since then. With a flexible hybrid schedule, I think they could have found a sweet spot.
Have you seen the "Learn in Public" thing?

This is where everything you do is by default public. You might want to look into it.
Thanks for the explanation. Are addition/ multiplication still linked the same was as for normal integers? Like 2*a == a + a?
Edit: I do get that ‘2’ in GF might not be the same as integer 2.
Because success at that scale eventually requires you to exploit some percentage of your employees and most people are not ok with that.
The point of the fediverse was never to match the scale of Twitter on a single instance. In fact, that's something of an anti-pattern.

These are the inherent trade offs of a distributed social network.
No it’s quite easy. Executives all over the country are doing the exact same thing.
But on the other hand, this also happened with reddit when Digg launched v4...

(Although I agree with the general criticism that Mastodon is far from easy to use for the average non-techie.)
Even if we were to accept that as true as stated, which I don't, that doesn't explain Paypal and Tesla. Even if you think this Michael Griffin guy did everything - why did Elon bet on him? Why didn't anyone else? Tons of people had the money to do it at the same time. None of them did.
Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back
Lol that mobile registration demo page: https://imgur.io/4T21QYQ
Reminds me of the spike in Signal users in India when WhatsApp required all users to accept new terms.

Literally everyone I know used Signal for like, five days?
A loader of the Dead Space mobile game on PSVita
Yeah w3schools is the very reason I avoid Google search for code questions.
iMessage is not an optional platform. If you use an iPhone, you have to use it.

Signal needs to compete with that.
Oh for the good old days (eleven years ago) when Scientific American could write an article about fruits and vegetables without invoking the horrors of sexism or systemic racism.
> Elon may not succeed, but I hope he does and what he's doing is a necessary prerequisite.

Everything he's done so far reads like he's deliberately trying to destroy the company. The only reason I don't really think that's his intention is that I don't see how he could hope to benefit from it. But it doesn't make sense.
Unfortunately you cannot read and seem enamored with your own comments. See the WaPo link above, which uses "appeasement" in exactly this sense.

I would agree that technically the use is wrong, but that's the climate we live in.
Manoeuver has always been useful. Modern mobility and arms haven't changed that. Gaining superior firepower or leverage at the decision point is the real take away, not who is attacking or defending. Fixed structures are always an asset, but you still have to recognize that it doesn't eliminate the need for intelligence and superior strategy.

Your conclusion about defense being essentially useless is still dead wrong.

Once the first few home invasions, rapings, and pillagings of sleeping residences have occurred. Word will spread. The would be invaders will encounter a round the clock watch setup by a neighborhood or family that invited all their cousins and can afford a 24/7 watch, with dogs, home made alarms, and man traps.

And those attackers will have the fight of their lives on their hands. Once their surprise element is gone, they lose the initiative to things they can't anticipate without serious new intelligence and all advantage is now reversed and you enter the counter attacking and ambush scenarios which you pointed out, are very effective.
From my experience, the only people use Mastodon are super integrated into the web/open source communities. There's also a strange mix of anime, furry, and weird gamer people.
profoundly lonely and isolating media consumption is

This is the main problem in my marriage, we don't consume the same media - we've tried to find something in common to watch, but mostly spend it on our phones watching our own media streams, edu-tainment YouTubers for me and Netflix/Disney/Facebook watch for her.

You can't make cultural references or have inside jokes if you don't consume the same media.
> Let's not forget that Elon Musk's real success has been in marketing.

He has obviously been highly successful at marketing. But his "real success" has been in delivering products like useful electric cars and reusable rockets that didn't previously exist. His marketing skills help with that, but all the marketing in the world isn't going to sell a product that doesn't exist (except in crypto).
Nobody did everything. We all build upon the work of giants, Elon Musk and Michael Griffin included.
Twitter is now asking some fired workers to please come back
Ubuntu Budgie looks nice, thanks for mentioning it - I'll try it sometime.

An old Macbook with an Ubuntu variant is a nice combination of sturdy hardware, light(er)-weight operating system, and well-designed user interface. In a way, it feels more like the spirit of "Macintosh". And it would make for a good educational/toy computer for children and young people. If I see an opportunity, like family or friends who have old laptops or computers, I'm going to offer to set it up for them.
Mike saw Elon was good at recruiting Silicon Valley talent and selling the whole "save humanity by going to Mars" story (but even that was Mike's idea with Orbital).
One could argue that the centralization process is already in place. Only servers that are deemed 'acceptable' are recommended ( I think the criteria for acceptability no hate speech, no transphobia, no homophobia ). It is interesting to the point that Guardian in its article trying to describe mastodon suggested it is left leaning. I chuckled. I mean, I suppose it is, but the whole point of an individual instance is just that..

I agree with your point. I think people are generally missing forest for the trees.
Its almost like Elon hired him knowing hes smart or something...
> Part of a reason is because most companies don't have an internal process to start supporting an open-source project. If they need to buy a license, that's fine, that's part of a usual business. But giving money away to "free" software? There's no precedent and hard to justify.

The author already sells licenses, so I am not sure that is the case.
So, getting a little meta and just a little frustrated: I am amazed at the continued downward trend of the quality of the commentary on this site in regards to news relating to hacker culture, when topics like this come up.

A pointy haired narcissist with a track record of taking credit for other people's work takes over a tech company and fires half of its employees based on a metric of the number of lines of code they wrote. Cartman style Ha-Ha "they probably deserve it what do those people do all day anyways"

Microsoft-owned Copilot violating the spirit and possilby the legal letter of the GPL? "Don't care, it writes my boiler plate code for me. I hope all lawsuits against it lose"

A federated open source ad-less social network starts to get some popularity? "It will never amount to anything. Pointless over-reaction."

Has hacker culture truly changed this much since I came up into in the 90s? Or has the demographic just shifted here that much? I was around running a UUCP node, Citadel BBSes, logging into MUDs and MOOs and IRC back in the late 80s and early 90s, when the Internet went through several of its early growth explosions, lived through the fall of '94 when AOL users first flooded the web, saw the fallout from that, etc. and then saw this culture and the open source and free software movement grow throughout the 90s and into the milennium.

People who comment like this are unrecognizable to me as part of that same movement.

When you comment on an article about the growth of a federated open source network built by hackers... with disparaging snark -- what exactly are you contributing to hacker culture?
Makes a lot of sense.

So if someone said "look at this cool OSS I created." You would be able to comment and see other's comments like a typical comment section?
This is something I see all the time, asking for delivery on large items like furniture. If you're getting a $100+ item for free, it shouldn't be too much to ask that you do the legwork to arrange transportation.