skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just got this in my email because I signed up in Patreon as a supporter of a Mastodon node:

"So our IndieWeb server has seen a 4,333% spike in users, and every day is a new record in daily new users sign ups .... In that same time we have done one major server upgrade, and have had zero down time, and as we screen all new users before joining, so far have had zero cases of spammers or scammers from inside the instance itself. And been vigilant about blocking outside actors selling their wares or trying to push sypware, etc."

Let that sink in. 4,333% user sign ups on just this one node.

Mastodon as a whole added almost 300,000 users in the last week, and the rate of addition keeps climbing. Right now it's somewhere around 4000 signups an hour. Earlier in the week it was about 1000. Just under 100,000 people signed up in the last 24 hours. There's about 20,000 posts an hour, vs a much smaller amount two weeks ago. (I had to look at the numbers again and edit this post after I posted it, because they had jumped a bunch since I last looked a couple hours ago.)

It's not an overreaction or hysteria. It's a lot of people voting with their feet. In large part because they were already annoyed by Twitter before Musk even took over and were already open to trying something new. It's within the last month that Kanye West was mouthing off anti-Semitic slurs, before Musk even took over. And one can expect Trump to come back and start stirring the drama pot again. And Twitter's engagement "algorithm" means people get exposed to all this ugliness and the drama around it whether they hunt for it or not. I for one could never stand it and never got hooked in that world. On Mastodon I only see the interesting people I hunt for. It's a breath of fresh air.

It doesn't matter if they all stay. It doesn't have to replace Twitter. It's just something new. Twitter can remain, being what it is -- a cesspool of celebrity, narcissism, self-marketing and pithy, mean quips. It's always been that. Now it will just be worse because many of its more sophisticated users will migrate elsewhere.

In the meantime I welcome fresh blood over to Mastodon.

This is about the 4th? article about Mastodon to make the front page of HN in the last 24 hours? It's amusing that every time one gets posted most of the comments are naysaying, critical, and defensive, and "it will never amount to anything". Meanwhile, the growth continues...
> Residential water use is not the problem. Not even remotely. The penultimate problem is agriculture, and the singular ultimate problem is, seriously, cows.

I completely agree, which is why I said that graduated rates are a good solution - they would tax agricultural (and any heavy user) heavily while leaving residential use cheap.

However, I'm also not in favor of other solutions that are complete fantasies when it comes to our political system. You say "but the easiest and best solution is to adjust population diet, curb agricultural greed and entitlement, massively reduce the population of cows, raise the price of beef and tax it." Except that is a guaranteed political non-starter in essentially every country that has high beef consumption.
We followed the book The Contented Little Baby Book for our kids. Others recommended to us and sleep has never been a problem after a few months old.

Kids thrive with structure but it takes discipline to maintain consistency.

It’s not magic, in a nutshell it just makes sure your kids have a very reliable routine and they are never super tired or super hungry.

Goodness springs from there.
> Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go

A8y "A11y" s4s f1r accesibility. (Apparently "A11y" stands for accesibility).
"Twitter is better in the app" is not a sign of "accesibility".
Sign in is not a sign of "accesibility".
> Clearly, someone decided to call it "appeasement" just to be snarky and it just sticked.

What? Nobody, besides this sockpuppet, called the Winter War "appeasement" because it would be fundamentally wrong to do so.

If someone calls a fire a flood and demands you build better drainage solutions to stop the fire, you don't argue the merit of drainage solutions for water, you tell them that a fire isn't a flood.

What's with the "let's just make up random bullshit and pretend it makes sense" approach?
Nobody uses email to discover new email addresses, outreach is direct. Discoverability is a massive part of social media platforms and is hindered by the isolated pod structure that Mastodon supports
A car. That you can actually fix.

Not a locked down electronic toy with what appears to be a vehicle attached to it.
“ Saudi Arabia is one of biggest users for Twitter in the World(1), its where everything official gets announced, almost everyone has a Twitter account.”

Yeah and how many middle eastern activists and journalists are now shitting themselves because the Saudi’s just put a cowboy edge lord in charge of their DMs
The challenge isn't to find sets of numbers that guarantee loneliness will occur- as you say, arbitrary reals that aren't rational multiples should accomplish that handily. The conjecture isn't that such sets can be found - it's much stronger: that if the runners have any set of distinct speeds, then they all experience loneliness.

And, according to the article, and perhaps surprisingly:

> The conjecture can be reduced to restricting the runners' speeds to positive integers: If the conjecture is true for n runners with integer speeds, it is true for n numbers (sic) with real speeds.

i.e., the conjecture is that n runners with speeds which are all rational multiples of one another will experience loneliness.
Crypto Whale Moves $1.58B in Bitcoin, Where the BTC Is Now Being Stored
Wake me up when people start publishing RSS feeds again and I'll accept the claims of federated platform.
Eugen, the CEO, feels similarly to you. A good chunk of the userbase likes that it's silly. Conflict has ensued.
Yes (well, plus a lot of other features); and it’s the “distributed” part that gives me headaches. I don’t need any of that stuff, since I’m running on a single node, and it means there’s a bunch of abstractions between me and Lucene (which Elastic mostly tries to hide away as an implementation detail).
I have been back and forth, but I suspect this will turn out to be one of those things people think is innately human but then quickly move on from when models do it well in the next 5 years. Culture references are just patterns in giant text corpuses, as far as crosswords are concerned.
Designing the Perfect Mobile Navigation UX
I mean if I need to lower costs ASAP, nice to haves like A11y would be the first to get cut.
Pleroma does what Mastodon't.
To everyone who commented on here:

Thank you so much! Never would I have expected this to work so well, but it has, and it still blows my mind. Seeing how people have used this thread to share glimpses of their life and how people have connected with others honestly makes me so happy. I posted this thread really late last night before going to bed, then woke up and was floored by the response. The internet can still be beautiful, and it's absolutely made my day.

At this point we are at over 600 comments, so I guess it'll be down to luck whether this response here will still manage to bubble up... but that's a very good problem to have I think :)
I also wish I could respond to everyone who took the time to comment and show my appreciation directly, but I think I'd need a transformer-model clone of myself if I wanted to achieve that in any reasonable span of time ;)

Anyway, I'm happy if I could improve your day a bit with this. As someone in the comments here rightfully pointed out, a post like this can only work once in a blue moon, and I'm glad that this apparently was the right time for it.

So long! <3
>You’re reading Age of Invention,

>who was responsible for the breakthrough? And why does it matter?

>Santorio was different. Santorio had spent most of his career totally obsessed with measuring things

>What made Santorio so different, then, is that he became aware of the inverted flask experiment while already looking for measuring devices. He was already thoroughly primed for making the connection to measuring temperature. It’s the reality behind all those legendary Eureka! moments. It’s not that an ordinary person sees something mundane,

>people who are already actively trying to solve particular problems become reminded or aware of potential solutions. The inverted flask experiment was ancient and common. A mind actively searching for ways to measure things was not.

>Those who see room for improvement where others do not — those with the "improving mentality" — are the people open to this kind of inspiration.

>Inventors are rare enough to begin with —

>Given the sheer size of what we haven’t yet achieved,

Get off your butt and invent something that's habit forming . . .
They built just one for him to drive around in a one of one vehicle.

Like the pope.
Diversity is what will kill crosswords, and I don't mean diversity in the skin color or gender of the setters, but the fragmentation of culture where nobody watches the same TV channels or reads the same newspapers any more. We increasingly hive off into our own bubbles of preferred content, tied only by whatever cultural commonality we acquired in grade school.

There's just too much art, too many books, too many TV shows, and too much access to it all, to go back to the mostly-shared corpus of mostly-mutually-understandable cultural references we had in the 20th century. You would think that people would at least have read the really famous books, or seen the super popular TV shows, but I am regularly surprised to meet people who haven't.

Fair clues are foundational to crosswords, and foundational to fairness is understanding what the solver can be expected to know.

A Guardian crossword last week referenced The Beatles, Anthony Eden, and the Russian revolution. Fair game? All part of a standard British upbringing, surely? Perhaps for now, but for how long?
Incredibly cool, looking forward to digging in more on your projects. I love the mix of technical projects alongside the creative ones. Signed up for your email letter. Also -- I love your website, so simple and clean.
Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable
"My point was that we all do this /not on purpose/"

I don't concede the equivalence.
Because there is something distasteful about a man that rich firing loads of people. There is something almost medieval about it. He's basically a modern day king. I've never understood the complete lack of empathy displayed by so many people on HN. It's worse than Reddit.

"He bought the man, it is his property now. He can do with him as he wishes" - legal ownership can still be wrong.
I've seen a lot of anecdotes on twitter of people confused by the mastodon server thing. There seems to be a definite fear of missing out on good content due to picking the wrong one. Not sure how you tackle that issue.
How the hell is AI Ethics irrelevant to a company that uses AI to determine what tweets people are shown?
I remember dog parks being chained and barricaded, skate parks being filled with sand and nutjobs dressed up like the grim reaper while people were on a sunny beach (you couldn't get better ventilation).
Right, and more to the point, it's much easier to check tap water for the presence of lead than to inventory the entire water system (which is also worth doing).
Looks interesting. I've always remapped capslock to CTRL myself, of course, but haven't thought of remapping tap-capslock to ESC. It looks like you need external software to do this though (like Karabiner Elements on mac, or xcape on linux, etc).

(That being said, if you're used to jk/kj/fd/jj/jf, many years of muscle memory would still take a while to erase...)
I don't understand how smart phones became acceptable in schools... Graduated HS in 1998 and the idea is so completely foreign that I can't believe it was ever allowed. What the hell happened?? Every district should outright ban this madness.
To put a twist on the idea... there's a lot of in-person tech meetups and conferences thesedays that provide childcare during the meet itself so that parents can attend.

Offer to sponsor the childcare facilities during these events. The meetup/conference organisers will bite your handoff since you're directly covering the cost of something which will boost attendance.

In return you get to pitch directly to parents in tech, who can become advocates of your service to their own HR departments.

Depending on your budget, you could also offer the parents who use the facilities a free coupon for X hours of childcare on your platform, that way, you can review the stats of those who use the service later. If you notice a few folks from one particular company, then you have a warm approach to their HR department in the form of "X number of your employees are already onboarded".
Having too many servers (many thousands) could be a big drawback for onboarding. Choice paralysis, and difficulty / time consumption of picking a suitable server to join.
Accessibility mostly means that the intended experience is preserved if you need to use tools like screen readers. Accessibility != User Friendly
It’s currently private unfortunately but the client is considering open sourcing it once were done using it in a few upcoming projects! Will ping you when that happens.
Waiting on this PR to get through:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2507

I write mostly in typescript, and being able to run eslint and tsserver is pretty important for my workflow. (I could just use this branch and build it from source though…)
> For 32 bit systems using 64bit instead of size_t would similarly solve the problem.

~~C does not guarantee a 64 bit type exists.~~ This is not really correct these days.
When your kids hit toddler age...

https://livesinthebalance.org/
> Why does it matter how much he’s worth?

Because some people think that wealth somehow equates to evil. It's a very juvenile way to think, and I suspect most people don't even know why they dislike Elon (or any other billionare - Elon is just an example). After people read so many sensationalized articles online, they adopt the author's sanctimonious opinions/views as their own.

It's shocking how people can hold so much contempt for a man they've never met. Even if Elon posts snarky shit online, who doesn't? If everyone's life was put under a microscope, they would likely be under the same media firestorm as Elon, or even worse.

EDIT: Instead of replying to me and engaging in discussion (maybe I could learn something), I get downvoted. Stay classy, HN.
My Sciter [https://sciter.com] uses that since 2012 :
https://terrainformatica.com/2012/11/04/caret-positions-in-h...

The feature there is named "directional caret"...
to me, baked in means it's a purposeful feature of the software and part of the package you get, baked in during development just like baking a cake.

"in the new version, downloading radio from the internet was baked in, just as the jukebox music had been baked in to the previous version"
I recently started reading history and it speaks a lot about land ownership and how peasants would get indebted to barons for working on it. On the surface that made a lot of sense, and yet this was not the type of society we wanted.

Nowadays billionaires remind me of those barons, some even buy out land (see Bill Gates and his buying spree [1]). So people mentioning someone’s net worth states their class and this is important for the context. As for Musk being entitled to fire anyone, sure he can do that, although some of it may not be legal, plus we as society may decide that this is not the norm we want to accept. Same as the peasants didn’t earlier.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/05/bill-g...
The ad model works for instagram, youtube, and tiktok. Why can't it work for twitter? I don't understand why the mostly text-based site would be so much more expensive than the various other social media sites that don't require subscriptions to achieve high-reach. I'm sure it'll massively cut down on spam, but think Elon might be overestimating how much other ppl care about spam based on his own feed/replies/notifications.
For transportation innovation to work, we need parking reform
Making an ICMP echo query in Python from scratch:

https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy/blob/78a058ffe67c253...

The dnspython package is pure python and it's a lot of code, but it supports pretty much everything related to DNS:

https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython
Is A11y a nice to have? Doesn't the ADA mandate a certain level of accessibility on companies of a certain size.
"neither GS nor Pleroma itself was born out of malice. It’s just where the people who’ve always been stirring up shit go."
I wouldn't recommend it for seasonal depression specifically, all else being equal!

We've got easy access to some wicked and lonely nature, though, so it's not a big hassle to arrange an interesting lifestyle that makes up for it.
It may not say it directly but the implication is clear, in that uncontrolled re-entry is dangerous to anything that might cross its path, including people, infrastructure, planes, and pigeons if they’re really unlucky.
Congratulation. Some advice:

* The first 18 years are hard, but the first week is brutal. It's not like in the movies, but the good new is that the first week lasts only a week.

* When the baby cries, try the most common causes. Diaper, milk, hugs, tummy ache. Make a mental checklist and follow it at least twice.

* The worst is tummy ache during the first few days. The nurses in the hospital can make some tummy massage to make the baby release the farts and stop the tummy ache. Try to learn it. If it's 3am and the baby is crying, ask the nurses.

* Try to sleep as much as you can while the baby sleep.

* Your wife will be also very tired. Try to be patient, and she should try to be patient. Can you take a few days if at work? [Like a week] It varies in each country. Can your parents or your in laws help? [sometimes it's a curse, sometimes it's one additional hour of sleep.]

* The advice about how the baby must sleep are a mix of real advice and snake oils and fads. Try to find a pediatrician that is good and sensible.

* And this is the end of the advice for the first week. Next 18 are easier.
I think Arial was designed in the 1980's to match Linotype Helvetica (which Apple licensed).

Pixel perfect is tough, but a quick lookaround suggests that the two fonts should match glyph widths at least. There are other metrics to consider though, for sure!
One key problem I see is that Plzen is now underwater too, which means, no more Pilsner Urquell.

That would be bad.
I mainly use only signal now. I feel very uncomfortable using other messaging platforms that keep the text sitting in a database that is either plain text or encrypted with keys they have. I mean private messaging apps, not things like twitter or HN.
>It reminded me of when I was considering trying to move all of our customers to receive PGP encrypted mail in 2005. An intelligent employee brought up that an average business person would never do that. Luckily we never implemented it.

Try Tutanota, it's simple enough and you can only encrypt really important emails.

>Mastodon is great but it isn't a replacement for Twitter. Too much friction. Too hard for the average journalist. Not enough reach.

I tend to disagree, been on there a while and it's a decent replacement, much more civil as well.
Same here, and even better, I'm not sure if I'm not able to do what I want because I don't understand how it should be done, or because the site is broken due to the sudden spike in traffic it is experiencing.
I'm using alacritty all the time, and I'm thinking of switching to starship from powerline because powerline has noticeable startup time (I think it is python-based). Unfortunately neovim+plugins does too, probably as a result of plugins more than neovim.

I tried this and it is much nippier than my current neovim+plugins setup. I'll have to plug in a bunch more language servers to fully compare.

In a way I'm almost hoping they don't add a plugin system. There's something to be said for this all-rust future my terminal suddenly seems to have found itself in: it is quick!
> I feel like most of the escalation is coming from the West though. They're the ones tossing around sanctions and national-security noise on speculation-- China might invade Taiwan.

China is free to anytime declare their intention of never invading Taiwan. China is free to anytime officially recognize the fact that the PRC and the ROC are two separate governments of two separate countries. China is free to anytime clarify to the world that they truly value peace. But really it doesn’t seem that they do.
Shows me error 500.
As I'm forced to use an Apple computer for work from time to time (fortunately rarely), I do not understand how anyone can claim for Apple to have any standards. Especially when it comes to "design". Fonts look blurry and washed out everywhere. I don't care about the usual excuses, it is ugly ugly ugly...
Paid software support and seems to be the way to go, but I don't think this really works for this project.
It's a first step, but to me it feels like they just cross-post from twitter.
Atwood law ran its course. Now we need a same law, except for Rust.
My family is nearly 100% ADHD. We all know it. And we're not special.
I have read in Northern Crusades [1] that in XII/XIII century forrests separating Prussia from Lithuania/Mazovia had been truly impassable (except for raiding parties - raizes) and the only campaining had been possible along large rivers. Lituanians had it easier because they had been bringing siedge equipment and canons downstream. So there is some change although meassured in centuries :)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Northern-Crusades-Second-Eric-Christi...
How do we know? We have no samples from which to calculate a distribution.
You seem to be out of touch with what the non-technical web users. Practically none will read and implement the stuff in their documentation in 10 minutes.

Even if some do, most of those will run into a tiny random roadblock and will give up.

Nothing as "techy" as Mastodon or the one you mentioned will be adopted at the scale of Twitter.
It's a thing. That's what SAD is about. Winter depression can exist on top of regular depression etc...
Now available in Chitchatter: Audio and video calling
Yeah I tend to do day one upgrades and can’t recall any real trouble. I sometimes think I must have some sort of lucky charm the way people go on about bugs online.
As someone who writes Go code daily, nice Go code!
>Email is run just like this and it has plenty of reach.

The "reach" in gp's context is "audience reach". A measure of "audience size" in a broadcast type of medium. It doesn't mean reach in a technical sense like "reachable ip address or DNS resolution".

Email is more point-to-point and 1-to-1 rather than 1-to-many. Yes, the concept of "mailing lists" could arguably be described as "broadcast" but it requires explicit subscriptions and is not the same "reach" as Twitter tweets acting as global "billboards".

E.g. this HN site often has user-submitted Twitter tweets on the front page. In contrast, it's very rare to have a mailing list mirror post to HN. The reach is not the same. (E.g. last week, the thread on front page about "Adobe removing Pantone colors" was referencing a Twitter post.)

Another example related to HN... the creator of this site, Paul Graham, created a Twitter account in 2010 (https://twitter.com/paulg). It has 1.5 million followers. Clearly, the Twitter platform gives him exposure that his existing email address (and his web blog at http://www.paulgraham.com, and this HN site ycombinator.com) -- does not.
Good luck.

Intermittent fasting (16/8, personally I skip breakfast) and cutting out soda (replaced with diet/zero) was a great help/start for me personally.

Main thing is to not do crazy stuff but be consistent & rely on good old compound interest.

August is definitely realistic, and as you progress over the weeks and months you'll feel more and more motivated.