skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are pretty awesome as long as you are in a place that takes the incineration approach to waste handling. When we burn biomass for energy we might as well insert a step or two between harvest and energy use that solves some other problems in passing. Trace chemicals in the coating will break up and oxidize just fine.
That's 3TB/year.

> The average property connected to the Openreach network used around 3,000GB of data in 2020, or around 9GB per day
Looking better than Twitter, at least.
Zdzislaw Beksinski’s art – Stable Diffusion
> when future humans figure out what to do with it

I'm not keen on models that include: "Let our grandchildren solve the problem". I have grandchildren.
OpenFHE C++ Fully Homomorphic Encryption Library version 1.0 released
I’m not aware of another company that’s done it at all. We’re in uncharted territory. I just think it’s odd, right in the middle of fireworks season here in the UK, for outrage at someone putting coloured lights in the sky.
One nuance worth adding IMO: scripts using the “module” attribute will not assign top level variables to the global scope by default.
Well, it worked for the guy who is bad at English!
Yeah, 2000 years ago. I don't expect a modern publication to call it the worst thing he did
Reducing Instagram’s basic video compute time by 94%
By your reasoning hating on Kevin Spacey is also in vogue. It's probably not in vogue. It's more likely that his own words and actions are resulting in lots of people not liking him. Imagine that. A world where your own words and actions have consequences.
Yeah it’s a hyperbole for sure. But on a general day-to-day life you just don’t see it.
Mind you, not all outputs are the result of over fitting.
In a scale that can compose into chords, anything too adjacent is dissonant, so doe ray mi fa so la ti or some of the other keys or modes could be considered a base.
I really don’t think Jobs would have created and maintained a presence through social media - I don’t think he needed or desired the attention like Musk does... But anyway, who can ever know.
That’s the opposite.
There's nothing wrong with nationalism. But typically your sales pitch has to be your country is actually good, not we have to force you (and millions of others) to be here otherwise it won't be good.
WasmEdge
I am not going to participate on any platform that is not decentralised, federated and zero trust.

Well you just did.
Ah great, then it should be on and with no way to disable it.

Of course, end user could just strip the license/attribution off their generated output, but that's a different story.
Copyright should not protect a lot of things but that hasn't stopped courts from ruling that things are protected by copyright (when they shouldn't be).

Take a look at the Chilton's Manuals, all the publishers were bought up and now its paywalled for a subscription, consists only of steps and procedures (know-how) so you can repair your own vehicles. That shouldn't be copyrighted.
> Twitter also used to be owned by average people

Then all public companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, & Northrop Grumman are owned with the money of "average people"...largely managed by fund advisors.
Yep, one of my favorite places to grab a coffee on the go changed their lids from plastic to something that resembles egg carton (pulp?). By the time a third of the coffee is gone the lid turns into a soggy mush. It doesn't fall apart. Just disgusting to handle... not getting coffee there anymore.
Euro countries: 11/25 are named "Bank of <country>" (or other language version thereof)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank#Capital_...
We're so glad, you are!

1. Currently not and auth is a tricky subject

2. Not at the moment, but we have a proposal to allow custom scripts: https://github.com/stepci/stepci/discussions/47

Also, can I ask you what authentication system you use?
Isn't typescript better than flow? In what ways is flow better?
isn't Accessibility one of those things that's "everyones job"? Why would you have a separate team working on it?

Not kicking up shit, genuinely curious why you'd have a separate team work on that, seems like something every engineer needs to know (at least on the frontend) for an app like Twitter.
> we have zero knowledge

So a grossly mismanaged change from a PR perspective. Of course there is going to be fallout from that.
"trope of programmers being low IQ", I've never heard of this, but then maybe I'm just another low IQ programmer
I really don’t get the push for markdown etc over WYSIWYG for everyday people.
The _very first_ web browser was also an GUI editor, and then you already had proper rich text editors since at least the Macintosh.
Why should users not expect something as basic as formatting text to follow UI conventions established through what’s now forty-odd years of use by billions or people? It is akin to asking them not to complain when swapping a steering wheel for something like the tiller on 1880s cars.
What’s wrong with wooden spoons?
> For me it is much, much simpler. I invest a lot of my time in putting content and thoughts onto a platform.

Maybe you should invest your time productively instead
Could you explain why the kernel needs two copies of ELF loading code?

I thought dynamically linked binaries are still ELF, but have special code to load shared object files into the right places in memory.
Especially when the accessibility team acted as political speech commissars.
Most of the points in the article are for centralized development, which has nothing to do with open source.
This is how I feel as well: I’ve been pretty ambivalent about twitter for a while (seems like a good machine for getting into arguments online), but network effects have kept me on it. That network effect might be now be breaking.
How the heck??
I think op meant the opposite. Makes more sense in context.
One example was given in the article itself. Raw HTML requires escaping html tags. This leads to completely inlegible code that would be impossible for someone to review without rendering the page and checking the output.
Regarding Mastodon, I really like the idea behind it but always hit a wall when thinking about starting an instance.

The alternatives appear to be

* paying around $9/month for a managed instance

* hosting it yourself (with all the costs and responsibilities that come with yet another self-hosted service)

* signing up at a public instance (and potentially lose everything connected to it once an operator loses interest)

None of them sound particularly inviting. I don’t see either me or anyone I know paying at the rate stated for this kind of social media access. I don’t see me hosting an instance for an extended time and offering it to friends, much less the public. Should I lose interest or lack the resources to look after it, all of it disappears in an instant. Same when you stop paying for a hosted service.

From an outsider point of view – and likely I’m missing something major here – Mastodon appears to be a typical solution for technically-inclined people and adjacent subgroups, libertarians and communities that would be immediately blocked everywhere else (and possibly are on several Mastodon instances).

For a technological solution to work, it needs to solve the issues people have in a useful way. Since I cannot seem to grasp what issue Mastodon solves in a useful way, I’d be grateful for any enlightenment that’s not centered around the tech.
Attack helicopters are designed for anti-tank, and some anti-infantry and escort. Yes they’re vulnerable. You’re trading off that risk with being able to being able to move extremely quickly and long distance compared to the tanks they’re fighting.

If you want to be very safe you can sit static encased in a metre thick steel shell, but you won’t achieve anything.
Indeed. The fact an island that is basically a platform supported by sticks has a Wikipedia article is pretty odd.
It’s not about CO2.
First off, I do put more than 1 assertion in a test. But it definitely leads to situations where you have to investigate why a test failed, instead of it just being obvious. Like the article, I test 1 thing per test, but sometimes that means multiple assertions about the outcome of a test.

IMO there's no point in checking that you got a response in 1 test, and then checking the content/result of that response in another test. The useful portion of that test is the response bit.
After watching some interviews with some Twitter employees, I suspect that many in the accessibility team were very political & their politics influenced their decisions.
Not a bad guide.

However, never, EVER change your root login shell in OpenBSD. You've just opened a can of worms. Set up doas for that, and keep using zsh as your regular user if you want. Simple /etc/doas.conf:

permit :wheel

Use nvi from packages (it's nvi2 actually, base vi it's nvi) instead of nvim, much faster. It's basically base vi with UTF-8 support. Run :exusage and :viusage from within nvi. Also, my ~/.exrc:

set showmode ru ts=2
set sw=2

set iclower
I haven’t been pushed to algorithmic timeline in months. I think they are just sticky user choices now.
Did you know you can omit quotes?

<hat type=conspiracy>...</hat>

Source: HTML Standard Snapshot per today (November 5th 2022):
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/commit-snapshots/53346e4641595a...

(using a snapshot here to avoid link rot)
From Wikipedia:

> High-voltage direct current (HVDC) is used to transmit large amounts of power over long distances or for interconnections between asynchronous grids. When electrical energy is to be transmitted over very long distances, the power lost in AC transmission becomes appreciable and it is less expensive to use direct current instead of alternating current. For a very long transmission line, these lower losses (and reduced construction cost of a DC line) can offset the additional cost of the required converter stations at each end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Hi...
The laser links between satellites may be much less burdened than the uplink from the ground hub station nearest to the subscriber.

SpaceX can upload content to the constellation via more-lightly loaded ground hubs, and propagate to the rest. They have the advantage that they can know what was being streamed in an area a satellite is about to enter, and can preload the parts it will need to downlink while there.

Of course all this requires intimate cooperation with the streaming service, because it is at a much higher level than packets.
When in the world Trope of programmer being Low IQ??
Do you mean Low EQ ?

Regarding charismatic , i am quite blunt in verbal communication , ok at written.
This is false, unless you mean "pension funds".

Most people do not own individual stocks. And in fact, most people do not own stocks at all. The set of stock-owning people is far from average.
Part of the reason this is gettting attention right now is that its users added a note to a White House tweet that was accurate, informative, and so politically embarassing they deleted the tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472161

This is a tad different from the previous approach which involved third-party fact checkers that were, uh, visibly slanted towards the Democrats to put it lightly (and whenever a non-Democrat-aligned news source got blessed as a fact checker by a masjor social media network there was a major media storm over it).
> we have zero indication.

That's a gross mismanagement of sweeping changes. Which is in itself an indication. Anyone could have predicted people leaving the platform if they were told ahead of time how the layoffs and extra hours would be so poorly communicated.
It was a different time, "CEO of an unsuccessful tech company" wasn't a person you had to have an opinion on. And then once Apple became successful with iPods and iPhones, their business model was "give us money in exchange for this neat thing," which is sort generally likeable and also opt-in (technically Twitter is opt in, I guess, but all the news reporters take it very seriously for some reason, so it tends to impose even if you don't opt in).
Maybe they meant EQ?
Chronological means it is chronological no matter what. As in, you as a user decided that this is what you get no matter what algorithm thinks.

That is much different then algorithm that sometimes shows chronological.
Some would say 1 + 1 = 3.
What? People really would criticize that code because it has two assertions? How are they ever testing any state changes?

And to the author: Your bubble is significantly different from mine. Pretty much every competent developer I've worked with would laugh at you for the idea that the second test case would not be perfectly fine. (But that first iteration would never pass code review either because it does nothing and thus is a waste of effort.)
Seems like you might hold some resentment towards her, and that you're not so self aware about alienating colleagues.

If she felt like the right choice was to bring it up with management, it would seem fairly clear that she felt you were speaking Russian often enough that it would be an imposition to communicate with you, in a way that's quite common in Berlin and in Berlin startups. Though obviously not as much as German, it would be the common crossover language.

If you're senior and they're junior, part of your job is mentorship, and you should be making it as easy as possible to consult with more experienced people if necessary.

Those are the general principles I've always followed, and would do so regardless of whether they seemed incompetent or not. You need to be able to set your ego aside.
I thought that all the fuzz about something being close source / commercial aka overpriced is not worth a hill of beans, because if it doesn't fit your ideals/wallet you just use what fits.

But no, there's always a discourse about how unfair, unethical, greedy etc the developers of closed source / commercial aka overpriced software are, which vividly displays that the actual sentiment in these complaints is pure and simple envy, towards better things that cost more, towards developers who make a living off their own projects and don't feel obliged to worship the ideals of open source, free as in beer, cheap as in dirt etc...
I think it's because so many of Apple's customers idolized him. He was seen as a hero that could do no wrong, and all the poor decisions that Apple made were somehow someone else's fault. Even when I saw people complaining that Apple was making things harder for developers, Steve's name was not mentioned.
The real question is, would they have done better by not acting on his antics? I think every moderation decision is a trade-off, and the final goal is always the health of the platform itself, not “society” or whatever. Yeah, some people will be hurt, but not acting would hurt too. So… I don’t know. It seems too “romantic” to me to believe that there is a handful of left-wing bigots in the company and all you need to do is get rid of them. I have a hunch the problem is more complex (and that Twitter cannot solve it, only try to survive).
So who's paying for free 'collaborative' research work? I guess it'll pay about $8 month
Are you referring to the comics? I’m sure that they were discussed prior to him joining. He ran the Google comic for years.
The same can be said for any community discussing politics, technology, or entertainment. An overwhelming majority of online commenters are ignorant of those fields and the myriad of factors that have to be taken into account by the experts who are making the decisions that are being discussed. So, should comments in those subreddits "assume competence" of legislators, software businesses and TV producers, lest they be deleted?
Turbomeca but sounds like it was codeveloped with HAL.
You could just as well argue that apple have done a public good by preventing pullution (data sharing) by other companies.
This simpler answer never seems to be the correct one, every[0] single[1] time[2]. It's much easier to say you're going to move than move.

[0]: https://www.mattmaldre.com/2017/08/02/people-leave-reddit/

[1]: https://nypost.com/2021/01/09/trump-fans-leave-twitter-after...

[2]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/facebook-ou...
Sometime comment replies scream unintentionally I can’t read. In that case it’s energy in search of attention and social validation, which is the opposite of smart. This is why I abandoned my HN account using my name and only post anonymously now. For some strange reason the same comments from anonymous accounts deflect a lot of trolling.
I think OP may mean: trope of programmers having low social IQ (aka EQ)?

There is certainly a stereotype (reinforced by the media of course) of programmers being awkward, geeky, poor communicators to non-experts, emotionally a bit “weird”, etc

As OP is talking about charisma this is what I assume they meant anyway. I could wrong so hopefully OP can clarify.
Twitter is a great place to read work by scientists, researchers and other academics. There aren’t many places to tap into that world if you’re not already working in academia.
As I remember it, libreddit used to have reveddit integrated. They must have changed it or I might have confused it with teddit.

But, teddit right now does have reveddit integrated.

https://teddit.pussthecat.org/r/meirl/comments/ymj861/meirl/...

Also, is there no way to use Reveddit without turning of Enhanced Tracking Protection in firefox. Could the reddit tracker be proxied from reveddit's end so that firefox (tracker blocker) does not block the tracker.
Every 12-24 months there’s a five mile long line for the soapbox so all the computer nerds can get up and tell us that they’re putting a line in the sand and that federation is the only answer. Now, just as always, the world will continue spinning without them and this sort of idealism that seems completely blind to reality that for all the Smart People that have put their mind to federated / decentralised social networks, none of them are any good. Now, as always, all that make this claim will inevitably succumb to the reality that their vanity is worth more than their ideals, and will make their way back to Twitter.

Don’t get me wrong. I hate and despise both Twitter and Musk. But to act like Mastadon or any of the other attempts at this stuff appeal to people that aren’t tech / privacy wonks is tone deaf. And as much as Twitter is a ‘platform for elites to disseminate their thoughts that’s pretending to be a social network’, “publishing books” is certainly amother step in that direction.
It depends on what you mean by democracy. For people who mean a government by a parliament of elected representatives making laws and a centralized state government running the state by those laws - then that tends to go with capitalist relations of production; and it is an accessible and useful structure for commercial corporations, which will have their property ownership enforced by the state, and will not have to have continuing agreement of local populations to their activities.

The dictionary says Democracy means: "Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives." - so there's already the question of decision by representative yes-or-no. Plus, there's the question of what the 'government' part means. Some Anarchists would say they oppose democracy because of it. Does it mean that decisions get enforced by a special social structure? Are decisions majoritarian? etc.
> trimming of fat

That's a misleading understatement. He fired half the company. He decimated the staff six and a half times.
Why not just speak with them directly first?
Biden vows Iran will be 'free' amid anti-government protests
No no no. You see? If you want to be a Birdwatch contributor, you'll have to pay them. /s

It's actually pretty okay. The contributor & rating system seems to work well, and contributions are anonymous. I participate mostly through rating contributions a little here and there when I see some things that are wildly unfounded or misleading claims.
I said some people don't like him. I guess it's also true some people find him despicable. What's your point?
I would say universality. Selenium's webdriver has bindings to many languages and has more universal browser support, IMHO. But I see your point, downloading webdriver files manually and dealing with element awaiting isn't fun.
So they're well prepared for the darkest period of the British empire in a while
Wait - people are doing real http calls in unit tests, over a network, and complaining about multiple asserts in the test code?
Hi, birdwatcher here. I resent the implication that the time honored tradition and enjoyment one gets from watching birds could be used as a metaphor for adjudicating the integrity of bad actors on social media. One is a graceful reflection on the pristine experience of being alive, the other is a form of policing bad behavior. It is a shame they had to soil such a worthy endeavor as birdwatching with this name.
> this (trying to get rid of echo chambers and highlighting posts from people with different viewpoints recognized by the algorithm) would be a better

But people _want_ echo chambers. No one wants to be in a group where people share opinions that they dislike. It’s just human nature. Why do you think private Facebook groups are so popular?
Is it weird that not only have I never heard of the "rule" this post argues against, but I can't even conceive of a code structure where it would make sense?

How would a test suite with one assertion per test work? Do you have all the test logic in a shared fixture and then dozens of single-assertion tests? And does that rule completely rule out the common testing pattern of a "golden checkpoint"?

I tried googling for that rule and just came up with page after page of people arguing against it. Who is for it?
I see. I never considered that especially important then, and I don't now, but OK then. In that case, I submit the Acorn R140 workstation running RISC iX.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3639/Acorn-R140/

RISC iX is broadly BSD 4.3:

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

A contemporary news story:

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/acorn_fleshes_out_its_unix...

Here is what BYTE thought of the successor model, the R260:

https://vintagecomputers.sdfeu.org/mags/byte/Acorn_R260_revi...
Of course. What's your point?
I know what you're saying, but I'm not trying to say you can't be critical of a system you benefit form / participate in.

What I am implying is that, as shareholders, either directly or via proxy like a pension fund, we demand high profits. So we're trying to have our cake and eat it too.
Just wait until people start realizing the privacy problems that Mastodon have unless you make your own instance.

You don't like the new twitter moderation? oh wellcome to Mastodon where a 12 year old can be a moderator of a instance. Global guidelines for moderation? No in Mastodon since each instance can have their own rules, 10/10 if you love being in echo chambers.

Created your account in a random instance? oh well maybe all your messages end in doxbin because the 14 year old who made the instance have access to all your messages.
The Commodordion – accordion made out of 2 Commodore 64s
I actually think the quality of the comment section in /r/science has gotten worse over the years because moderation is too slow or lenient. I assume that has more to do with the volume of work than intent of the moderation team themselves.
Judging by the top responses to the accessibility guy’s tweet, things look pretty grim right now. I never used Twitter so I don’t know if it’s always like that, but those people are really angry and negative. That is kinda depressing.
It looks like the Mastodon instance host Simon is using, masto.host, closed for new sign-ups 8 hours ago. Is there another recommended alternative? I don't think I have the energy to maintain a self-hosted Mastodon instance. I sure haven't missed running a mail server...