skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you ever tried to sell things on Craigslist or Facebook? Or even give them away for free?

I’m in France so not on Craigslist or Facebook but on LeBonCoin.

When I moved out I sold most of my furniture (table, chairs, desk…) and gave away a few things (pans, toaster…). Giving things is even easier than throwing away, people come the same day to take it away no matter the size.

I’ve never had a single issue with selling stuff online. People are nice and happy to get stuff at a discount, or free stuff.

I’m an avid reader of /r/ChoosingBeggars on Reddit because I find it funny but it doesn’t relate at all to my experience.

> You get all kinds of dolts with all kinds of problems and complicated ideas about when and where to meet, assuming they don't just completely flake.

Again, not my experience. The seller gets to pick the spot, that’s common sense and I’ve never seen anyone pick on that.
Eugen may speak to mastodon.social but he does not speak for the fediverse.
It may sound like it, but the term is in common use. Google "body doubling" and you will see many articles on the topic in connection to ADD.
We are altering the terms and conditions. Pray we don't alter them further.
Not even just the neighbors and friends - people used to live in large family units with 10+ people per household. This meant a much broader support network if, for example, you got ill and couldn't take care of your kid for awhile.
Thank you for the example. I do mostly the same thing and as a Safari user there is no way to place the caret in "the right spot". What I found working (but I still have to test on other browsers and make my mind if it is really worth the hack) is to place a dummy marker with [contenteditable="false"] at the beginning and the end of the inline elements (the one on the end has to be skipped to avoid getting stuck in a limbo inside the parent element). This way the result is similar to the one in Bike, with the caret that stops on both sides of the element. Let's see if this thing goes somewhere...
Wikipedia has a strong skeptical bias - just read the talk page. The article is more than a decade out of date but is basically frozen by the moderators. Look at the videos on their site to see the progress they have made in solving the engineering problems - mainly the apparatus melting from the excess heat. This is the breakthrough physics has needed for 50 years or more - ever since quantum mechanics took a wrong turn in the 1930s.
not sure what you mean by "follow a server"? You can interact with/follow people on other servers from yours.
Sounds like you're defining "works" as whatever's convenient to your argument.

The military can and will kick your ass, it doesn't need to be efficient to do that.

The Gates foundation is well known for making progress on eradicating polio, among other measures.

If we're defining self-sacrifice as deliberately working for a below-market salary for the benefit of others, you just defined pretty much every high-skill government employee. Every FBI agent, every general, every agency staffer could almost certainly make more in the private sector. Many of them stay out of a sense of duty and service, and because they want their work to be meaningful.

I don't know how you don't say startups aren't staffed by people deliberately working at a loss. Almost by default startups pay less in salary with the vague promise of outsized gains on company stock when it goes public. Startups are also often started by idealists who want to try and put a vision out there into the world, and are willing to make giant sacrifice to achieve that vision. Usually that vision involves improving other peoples' lives in some way "making the world a better place" and all that.

If you want to drill down deep enough any action that produces emotional reward is selfishly motivated, by that logic the only selfless actions are the ones that make us miserable without any hope of a reward, which is a very useless way to define selflessness as it excludes nearly all human activity.
You can buy an S&P 500 index and short exactly the holdings in the three stocks you want to remove to achieve this. Shorting comes with fees, but it's the closest you can get with normal human amounts of capital
Other than games on Windows, it seems like the Mac is the only desktop operating system with anything interesting happening on it.

Workflowy is what I use. It's cross platform, but a lot clunkier than this.
I can't answer your question but be aware that you are looking through a very western lens, and probably US-centric lens particularly, and other cultures can see things in very different way, starting with assumptions (or simply unthought practices) that you have nothing to compare with.
the problem is that that you only know too late which ones were the dumb companies

tens of thousands of active traders try to beat SP500 all the time - how many succeed ...
Interesting though it would be more surprising if they had no Neanderthal or Denisovan contribution.
Enjoyed kubecon NA virtually and still watching videos from it online. Thinking of all the ways I can improve observability with my work team. I am super excited how the cncf youtube channel already posted talks from their pre conference events and am super excited when the actual event talks get posted so I can share with the rest of my team.
In 2022, managing different pricing options for Saas is still an awful experience - good to see someone trying to fix this.
There is a difference between the chance of debris hitting a person and the chance of it hitting any person.

Regardless of the probability, there is a problem with choosing that risk for someone else without their consent.
Thanks! Excited to keep building!
This is technically already a rule in most places in the US. It's not a "3 drink limit" but just that you are not allowed to serve alcohol to someone who is intoxicated and most people would be legally intoxicated after three drinks in a short(ish) amount of time. It's just very rarely enforced. I suspect the reason is mostly that probably 99% of bars would go out of business if they could only sell 3 drinks per customer per night. Alcohol, like many things that are fine(ish) in moderation but really bad in excess, as an industry is completely dependent on problem drinkers. They are a small minority of alcohol consumers but make up a hugely disproportionate share of total spending on alcohol.
Presumably you could check that with non-symmetrical symbols (so unrelated pairs like A/Y, or 1/W, etc)

But then, I'm not sure that many humans would figure that out.
Imagine you need to choose a server every time you want to email your someone, and that server may have spam filters.
How would you resolve the local name part? Do I get to claim xylakant@mail.europa.eu or is there a dispute process? hans.mueller@mail.europa.eu is going to be contentious.
Or having to pick the best option from a million different mail providers.
This is already done by many audio/video chat compression algorithms which use UDP.

The idea being that with something like voice or video, if a packet doesn’t arrive, instead of stalling everything while you wait for a retransmit, you instead just carry on regardless.

The occasional missing packet in voice is almost imperceptible, however the more packets that get lost the more the voice seems to “break up”.

With video the symptoms are an accumulation of visual corruption until the next key frame.

FPS games also do this (or at least used to), servers would send a stream of UDP packets of entity states (as opposed to sending deltas of state changes), so things like player1 is at x,y,z coordinate with velocity a and heading vector of b.

If clients missed a packet they would just wait for the next one since it’s useless to know later where someone else was, all you actually care about is where they are, or what’s happening, now.
So what? It doesn’t need to be mainstream. It’s not built for exploitation of the user base, so it doesn’t need to sell the idea that everyone needs to be there.
Then don't use free instances? There's a bunch of companies that would run a dedicated instance for you for a couple dozen $/mo.
ADHD is not just "having trouble concentrating". It is a completely broken prioritizer, executive function deficit, and nearly non-existing ability to linearize tasks into intermediate-scale command sequences. And tons of other things, some of them good (like immediate recall of association trees, whether we like it or not; this helps if you want some original ideas), but most of them bad.

About 3% of population have ADHD. And it is quite easily recognizable and distinct from just "troubles of concentration".
I'm an absolute purist, to be honest it's just pedantry and not really worth debating, I love FTL, and the entire "roguelike" genre, whether they adhere to my standards or not. The golden age of games is really upon us
We are a car dependent town craving better transportation options. Other problems include power brownouts and school over crowding (they can’t build schools fast enough).
Primality testing on the Commodore P50 calculator with one register and 23 steps
`251 == 0` is maths friendly because 251 is a prime number. Like the article outlines, this means that for any given number x in the field, there exists some other y where `x * y == 1`. This isn't necessarily the case for non-primes.

When that breaks down, you can no longer invert numbers in a reversible way. aka `1/(1/x) == x` no longer holds true. This means you can no longer easily manipulate values or equations using the common set of properties established for most mathematics, hence "not maths friendly".
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It's pretty easy, just charge ruinous usage rates for any water use that is beyond replenishment rates.

It doesn't matter if these soybeans are going to China, Mars, or Washington state, the only thing that matters is whether the people growing them are exhausting their region's water supply.
It’s interesting that most people seem to forget or ignore the Eastern Roman/Byzantine empire for some reason. No state contributed more to preserving ancient knowledge and Constantinople was absolutely central to that. e.g. if it had fallen to the Arabs in the the late 600’s the dark ages would have been a lot darker an possibly would have never ended (e.g. the collapse of Roman-Hellenic civilization would have been a lot more similar to the bronze age collapse.

Also the downfall of the (Eastern) Roman Empire mostly coincided with the high middle ages and early renaissance. And contact with the empire arguably was much more important for kickstarting the renaissance than that with North Africa or the middle east.
The weird behavior there first came to my attention after hearing an attorney I know griping about their standard advice being removed in favor of "go turn yourself in" messages.

It's fairly well known at this point, I see multiple relevant threads on the first page of https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+r%2Flegaladvice+moder...
Some servers enforce a rule where political messages are hidden behind a content warning. Check the CoC before you sign up.
Were you not able to read the instructions on the wall?
The water-use by agriculture is unsustainable whether there is population or not. Compared to agriculture use of water, all other water uses are negligible. So if you eliminate the residential population and empty the cities, agriculture will still use all the water and fail. But if you eliminate the agriculture, there will be plenty of water for the cities and population. A desert has enough water to support a population. It was foolish to introduce industrialized agriculture in a desert.
Not making 1200 as it’s a permanent position, I was a contractor with them for a while (although other than in paper, nothing changed) but it can’t be done long term due to legal issues.

And yes I thought about early retirement, it def. sounds good.
Just because you call it a narrative doesn’t mean it’s false; just because people are worried about being unemployed doesn’t mean we need to listen to the hypotheses of morons.

Neo-nazis should worry about losing their job. People that promote misinformation about public health should be pilloried. People who want to remove rights from women, transgender people, minorities, immigrants, etc. and treat them as anything less than human deserve social ostracization.
Why Businesses Fail: Underadoption of Improved Practices by Micro-Enterprises
Yes, I have a non-US number in my account, so that could be a reason, too.
How Quantum Computing Works
I got tired of hearing the same misleading explanations of how quantum computing works, so I made a short explainer for anyone who knows a little bit of linear algebra.
We really shouldn't be growing soybeans or corn in Great American Desert (the vast plains west of the Mississippi and east of the Rockies). That is arid land intended for grass, and then you should raise cattle and livestock on the grass, with at most occasional rotations for crops, say once every 30 years or so. That is why herds of buffalo roamed this area and only small regions were cultivated for corn, and only for a few growing cycles, before it again returned to grassland for cattle.

This is how all civilizations traditionally cultivated grasslands -- as lands on which ruminants were raised, and then you drink the milk and eat the meat of the ruminants as your main source of calories.

Trying to raise crops on arid cattle country requires you to deplete aquifers and then import large amounts of fertilizers because the land itself can't sustain that type of production. It can, however, sustain growing grass, with no fertilizer or water additions required. Then as the ruminants eat the grass, they fertilize the soil and the roots decompose, adding more nutrients. Do that over many generations, and you create a rich soil, and on the rich soil, a few crops can be grown, and then they need to be replaced again with grass and cattle.

The decision to grow millions of acres of soybeans and corn in this desert is a short sighted policy. Milk and meat need to be food products from that region, given the climate. East of the Mississippi, there is a wetter climate, and that's where we should be growing most of our crops.
> Hair regrew thicker in mice treated with a novel microneedle patch (seen on right) compared to mice treated with testosterone as a control

They treated the control group with testosterone? I.e., the hormone most linked to baldness?
Also, besides choosing a server, how do you figure out which other servers that server "federates" with or blocks entirely?
This isn’t new news, it’s just not remotely interesting news.
The lonely runner conjecture
Yeah, I honestly thought this was like a heatmap/analytics thing before clicking on it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=powershell+snipeit

vs

https://search.feep.dev/search?q=powershell+snipeit
Prediction: masses get into Mastodon, governments mandate protocol tapping to filter out some ActivityPub traffic, for "kids good" or to "stop terrorism". Hosting companies and ISPs start to disallow hosting social networks in their T&C, kind like torrent or crypto mining.
Observed the same, doing the same, on my bike.
It's mentioned later, but the "math friendly" versions satisfy the axioms of a group and a field, which only works if the modulus is a prime.

In particular, all non-zero values have a unique inverse:

> As 251 is prime, this reduction rule is math-friendly. By that, I mean that for any x other than zero, there is some y such that x * y == 1. For example, taking x of 16, we have 16 * 204 == 1. This property is not true for the 256 == 0 reduction rule; with that rule, there is no y such that 16 * y == 1. Where it exists, this y can be called inv(x) or 1/x.
Easy. Push rents higher slowly, and when occupancy rates start to go down enough that expected future rent increases will result in a profit loss you stop.
Please google things instead of saying "cite" if you are curious, since a lot of scientific studies show up, but here are the receipts on IQ.

Here's an old one where I got my original number: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1206820109

Here's a recent one showing an average of 5.5 points: https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2...
Zuck's been done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM&t=255
Do you have recommended resources for getting into #3, specifically around funding / assisting others in building businesses?

I am interested in doing so outside of the traditional VC models and tech sector, but the signal to noise ratio of information on building businesses is incredibly low on the web.
They're wasting a massive opportunity. Mastodon should have been built to scale from the start because huge viral growth is exactly how social networks like this make it big.

As it stands right now, I am struggling to join because every mastodon instance I've checked is struggling with scaling.
This is actually really cool. Is the data used public? I can imagine some pretty cool game concepts using such detailed real world data.
The recursion example in the article is not good because it is language dependent. One could also say: "running mouse chased by cat in the past" and you would get the same idea as in opposed to "The mouse the cat chased ran". I believe other non-indoeuropean languages like Chinese or Japanese work in some ways much different from ours where you would pretty much derive to similar sentences if you translate without considering grammatical rules (not to say that they dont use recursion).
Also one has to make a distinction from recursion and recursion in language as opposed to "if you cant recurse in communication you cant recurse in general".
SNWA loses another water fight

Great Basin Water Network court case

SNWA water war

Snake Valley production wells

Tribal leaders oppose southern nevada water
I have no Idea hot to use this thing, the ux is really not that great imho
China’s Is Quietly Rewriting Rules That Run the World
I get that. But why define the Error method on a pointed receiver? In my experience almost all errors can be immutable particularly once you start using wrapping.
Kelly would like to have a word with you!
The same places that non-political telemarketers do. Many retailers sell customer info, as do credit bureaus/financial services organizations and telecom firms. Google “phone data appending” and you’ll find lots of data brokers.

I run a free site at https://simpleoptout.com that makes it easier to opt-out of data sharing. Doing that is the first step, but suitably motivated buyers (which includes the national parties) will still find someone selling your data.

One other step helps: when there’s no need for an entity to have your phone number, don’t provide it. If a phone number is required for no reason, provide a fake number at an area code that’s not in use. This can easily reduce the privacy “attack surface” by 50%. Every random e-commerce vendor does not need your phone number to fulfill your order.
In the category of large general instances, there's also https://mstdn.social and https://mastodon.online.
Google Principles for IoT Security Labeling of Devices
That’s a strange take. If another server hosts content I, as a Mastodon admin, dislike, then I can simply choose not to talk to them. I do not owe them a platform. I’m not preventing my users from creating a second account on that server so that they can interact with it. That server has perfect freedom to host whatever they see fit, and I have perfect freedom not to see it.

And if I’m too quick to block servers, my users will leave for less restrictive alternatives. Same if I’m too slow to block bad actors: people being harassed by users on those servers will leave for somewhere more moderated. In short, there’s a feedback loop that tends to optimize a community’s moderation to follow that community’s preferences. What more could you possibly ask for?
Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
With Python being so much more common, Ruby would have to have something really remarkable in order to do that. Does it?
Key take away is they found using a Reminder system to implement marketing and bookkeeping led to improved outcomes: "...Compared to traditional business training, reminders and micro-incentives significantly increase adoption of marketing (13.2 p.p.) and record keeping (19.2 p.p.), with positive effects on firm survival and investment over four months. Our findings, together with additional survey evidence, suggest that behavioral biases inhibit the adoption of improved practices, and are consistent with inattention as a key driver of under-adoption"
It should be viewed as a cat and mouse game.

The general philosophy at these orgs is that the same failures should never happen _again_. So you build automation and safeguards protecting the system from the failure modes you know.

However, any complex system will have failure modes you don't know. There might be new software, new features, new APIs etc. going out that interact in complex ways. So complex systems will fail in very interesting ways. So the general philosophy in operating these systems is:

1. First get the system back into a state in which the problem is mitigated.
2. Apply some short term hacks, rollback any suspicious recent changes.
3. Have someone go a bit deeper and try to root cause what caused the failure, have a discussion about it with impacted teams (often called a postmortem) and come up with long term fixes that reduces or eliminates the root cause from happening again.
I think you're skipping past the word "pad" which is what people thought was weird, not the I.

Toot is as much a basic word as tweet, I think you are just reflecting your own bias towards words from products you already know.
these large servers are being toasted right now beyond their capacity, which is giving the larger community a poor impression of this system.

I'd recommend joining smaller instances or like, just running your own. WordPress with the AP plugin is a nice alternative if you just want to feed your own thoughts out into the fedi-sphere.
Define "modern".
https://archive.ph/wZyT6
Note that the NYTXW is not the only crossword publisher out there.

I construct crosswords from time to time, and I always send my best puzzles to the NYT first, simply because they're the most prestigious and pay the most. (And you can't send a crossword to two publishers at once.)

On your other note -- it's really not difficult to make a bad, or even mediocre, autogenerated crossword using pretty simple software. There's several free or inexpensive programs out there (I use CrossFire). The main obstacles for AI-generated crosswords are:

(a) the "theme", the 3-5 longer answers that the Mon-Thu and Sun puzzles are usually centered around, most of which involve wordplay and misdirection -- it's possible, I'd like to see an AI reliably come up with those.

(b) the clues, though I don't think these are intractable either.
Mold linker creator considers changing the license
> It's why several of Shakespeare's plays are missing, and others are only available in modified form.

If copyright enforcement was a thing in Shakespeare's time, then a lot more of his plays would be missing today; there would've been far fewer "modified forms" even partially preserving works for which the original was lost, and far less opportunity to produce copies of unmodified forms.

> I'd love it if it worked that way. I hope you're right – but I believe you're wrong. We can let them do this backtracking without letting copyright law tilt even further in their favour.

I guess what I'm getting at is that this doesn't tilt the law in their favor. Either Copilot ignoring the licenses of source material is deemed legal (at which point people are free to launder proprietary code through ML models, destroying copyright law as applied to software) or it's not (at which point a multi-billion-dollar corporation loses a revenue source). Lose-lose for corporations, win-win for the rest of us.