skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ In announcing her resignation Tuesday, she said she still believes Twitter’s new administration understands the importance of upholding the “brand safety” standards she sought to champion.”

I guess I get that execs have to say things like this but does anyone really put her words over her actions?
Meh @69 degrees Northern latitude ;) Now, turning the sun on in December otoh...
I wonder what a field guide to the old internet would look like.

Here are some things I might include if I was writing such a guide:

All-time top stories on reddit in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060415194256/http://reddit.com...

reddit was originally a bit of a niche site for a tech audience, kinda like Hacker News. However, techies used over-represented on the internet anyways. "The internet used to be a lot more like HN" is generally a pretty decent first approximation.

This is the reddit story which best captures the curiosity and wonder of its early days for me: https://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html

Aaron Swartz's blog would be another thing I would include: https://old.reddit.com/domain/aaronsw.com/top/?sort=top&t=al...

A few decades ago there was a strain of progressive techno-optimism which has all but died out by this point. "Information wants to be free", Creative Commons, excitement about Wikipedia, Clay Shirky, One Laptop Per Child, Obama hope & change. I think of Aaron as being the poster child for that -- both a hacker and a progressive activist, advancing internet technology because he felt like it would help us advance as a society.

Another thing I'd point to is Eric S Raymond's stuff. He was one of the major pioneers of the open source movement:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/

If you want a book to read, I've recently been reading a book "Because Internet" which includes a linguistic history of the internet, going back to the earliest days.
You might try only engaging in things you find will provide value to you.? You mention politics and it can be difficult to discuss those topics today, especially online and more so when people can be essentially anonymous and trollish.

I personally stopped using Twitter, try to limit the scope of my engagement on Reddit, and am trying to read more of what I would consider reputable sources of information instead of ‘going to the comments to get the real facts’. I’ve found using RSS and just reading articles (rather than going into the comment section to get takes) has been somewhat helpful.

Also just disconnecting every once and I while is helpful. But it kind of feels like I personally am addicted to the information…so that can be hard.

Sorry for the rant, just wanted to share what I have found somewhat helpful. Cheers
Investment and workers can be located anywhere. Even Silicon Valley companies list themselves on New York stock exchanges to access capital from around the entire country and the globe.

What's unique about Silicon Valley is the density of software-minded people willing to adopt products made by their friends. It sets up a "if you build it, they will come" situation. That promotes the early adoption needed to grow into something larger. If you were located in Iowa and your friend group was made up of farmers, they likely won't care about the software you are building, and you'll stall out quickly in trying to find users.

On the flip side, if you are building something that would be of interest to Iowan farmers, you will have a greater chance of success having that farmer friend group than a bunch of Silicon Valley tech bros to share with.
> there are no bonus points for doing things the hard way

Perhaps not from the technical perspective, but there are social advantages if you are a member of a clique that does things the hard way and considers it a sign of competence. ("Any idiot can write a code that compiles using autocomplete and syntax highlighting, but it takes a true master to achieve the same result using a decades-old Linux equivalent of Notepad.") They don't seem to understand that the ancient masters did things the hard way not as a pointless exercise, but simply because the easy way was not available back then.
General Mills strives to give you the impression that you'll be healthy if you eat their products. If they fail at maintaining this impression, you won't go Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. You won't crave those crazy Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares. You won't want Cookie Crisp cookies for breakfast. Oh those Golden Grahams — you won't want those either. Maybe you'll say that Trix is not for kids, or that Kix shouldn't be tested on kids. And when you get sad about all of it, you can pour your tears into a pint of Häagen-Dazs.

See for yourself:
https://www.generalmills.com/food-we-make/brands, and take special note of the dark pattern. When you load the page, they show only twenty of their fifty brands. You have to click a button to see most of the cash cows that wreck your body.
Now that the design has been proved out, they're not going to stop doing it.
I've never had one, no real problems. You don't need a phone to access a webpage.
The question is more whether a) they can afford a roof to put those panels on, or they actually live in a flat (most people in the EU) or rent it out and b) they can afford a car AND the panels, if the car is more or less a necessity for their daily lives, which is often is (not always, I think cars are overused even in Europe)
Hello from Space Coast of Florida.

I guess right now I'm "passionate" about learning Common Lisp. I put it in quotes because there are so many areas of computer science/programming I'm interested in that I'm not sure I'd call it a passion.

Anyways, I spend anywhere from 15 minutes to a couple of hours a day learning CL. It's fun and a completely different than any other language I've worked with before. I work as a programmer so some days I don't have the cognitive load to do much with CL. I try to do it first thing in the morning but sometimes HN and regular news sites grab my limited attention. I really wish I could be hyper focused.

Hope everyone has a great day and, well, life! Stay safe!
Benchmark code is linked at the footer of the parent comment, but for ease of access, the URL to it is:

https://github.com/alibaba/PhotonLibOS/blob/main/examples/pe...
Summary: It was just a 1-day "training" session, for a very small number of civilians. In context - obviously a PR exercise / trial balloon / warm-up for larger & more serious things. (Poland's government is, ah, kinda obviously scrambling to improve the country's capacity for self-defense.)
Uh, oh. Your memory is going.
Is the video of the trip to the moon with the crew's comments genuine?

I'm too young to tell.
Why the Soviet Union Thinks It Could Fight and Win a Nuclear War (1977)
I'm sure it is and it will continue to be since renewable energy has become some "evil tool" of the eco/leftist-conspiracy for the international-anti-intellectual bubble.
To be absolutely fair the CDK is non-trivial.

If you know CloudFormation, you do _not_ know the CDK. The CDK is split in 3 versions, ver 1, ver 2 and v2-alpha. Knowing the difference between L1, L2 missing options between the two.

Don't even get me started on docs. Docs in CloudFormation is KING. CDK's docs are a simplification at BEST. Most of the time I have to drop down into CF's docs to see what the actual constraints on a key are.

Given all my complaints, I'm not going back to CloudFormation. It is wayyyyy less code. Separated files. And, it's too hard to do complex stuff in CF. CDK has a lot of nice magic that takes away so much complexity esp dealing with cross region work.
Websites had fun stuff like this more commonly in the 90s, this kind of fun seems to be a bit lost today. The eyes closing in the password form example was pretty cute
It had its dark moments too: see the in-depth coverage of the SCO saga and related at groklaw.net
I would expect "Open Federation" does not mean you need to talk to every instance out there directly. But that it works like a web where messages are routed around. I could be wrong. But I would expect the "servers_i_talk_to" array is what the instances output at the "peers" endpoint:

https://fosstodon.org/api/v1/instance/peers
I envy you.

I am using a simple S3 bucket to serve image files.

We’re getting close to busting the free tier web traffic limit.

I can’t figure out where, or how, to enter my boss’s credit card so we can start paying for the service.

I’m not kidding. I’ve looked everywhere. Several times. I’ve probably spent two hours on this.
That is a nicely polished site. Love the chord cheat sheet.
Yes, abet Mastodon has some non-standard extensions. But basically yes.
Not "just" - that's not painting the whole picture.
Go to NSW (Australia) on the map. Look at the left hand side panel. Look at production during midday - it says 55-60% of power comes from solar energy for that time of day.

If you look at the snapshot at the current time (of this posting), the sun has gone down and there's less solar power.
> Ultimately, it is just self-promotion and lying.

That describes nearly entirety of what comes out of politicians mouth regardless of the medium.
Get daylight-spectrum bulbs and a sunrise alarm clock.
MyTinyDC: A Raspberry Pi based datacenter
> rather than the $4M/day loss claimed by Musk.

I suspect he might be shading things - AFAIK they have $4M/day loss now because of the $1bn debt obligation he loaded with the leveraged buyout.

Like saying you have to cut your workforce because 3 of your 4 factories burnt down when you set those fires yourself...
Funny how it closes its eyes when entering the password in this example: https://jj811208.github.io/watching-you/#/example/login
We also need to dispel the myth that tenure track academic roles are the only jobs for scientists. In my field, one can have a wonderful, decently-paying career working in some of the most desirable places in the US if they go the national lab route. There's also a thriving private sector which will just get bigger. This doesn't even factor in the exit ramp careers if, late in the game, a student realizes that "science" isn't quite what they want to do for their 9-5 - e.g., trading in all of those hundreds or thousands of hours grinding data analyses for their Masters/PhD for a career in data science or software engineering.

We should make sure that folks understand a modern career in science may look, from a salary and QoL perspective, quite like a doctor or other professional. High-stress, relatively low-pay, challenging from your late teens to late twenties, then a rapid increase in earning power and opportunity into your early thirties.
They're quite short meetings, typically less than 22.284 minutes apiece.
Alcohol death toll is growing, US Government reports say
What's missing in Java is the ability for methods to abstract over the set of exceptions thrown by the methods it calls, via generics, for morethan a single exceptikn type. This would in principle be possible, similar to variadic template parameters in C++, and would solve the problem for lambdas and Streams etc. It's a bummer that Java doesn't provide this at present.

Java developers are really divided on the topic of checked exceptions, there is no consensus.
Worked in energy as a quant a few years back: the current 'greening' of the grid is nothing of the sort. It's just a cash grab by creating extreme volatility in energy prices. On the right (wrong) days you had swings of $10,000 USD within 5 minutes of each other.

The net result was the grid being taken over by the government after a series of rolling blackouts in a number of states and letting everything rip. All this is was directly attributed to _one_ coal station going offline unexpectedly and losing the baseload it generated.

I can write a book on how fucked the market here is.
> Escaping is a mechanical process that doesn't discriminate between "valid" and "invalid". It is completely ignorant to the higher-level meaning of the string that is translated (e.g. email address) but solely operates on the constituent characters.

It does discriminate between "valid" and "invalid". This symbol is "valid" and we don't need to do anything. This symbol is "invalid" and we need to escape it. Validation occurs throughout the whole abstraction stack. Not only at the level of meaning of an entire string.

> Which was my initial statement "Just use it" that you heavily disagreed with.

In the case of e-mail I don't disagree with you. It is however balls to the wall insane to say "Just use it" in general. Which was my point. Notice how my reply specifically mentions vulnerabilities that were caused by the "just use it" mantra.
Kind of ironic, but the picture used seems to be of a raven - not a crow.

Feathers on the beak are quite far out, the shape of the head isn’t as “streamlined” and the top beak is more curved and longer. Or am I mistaken here?
The 90s success of Japan’s economy and technology was pretty much put to stop by the manipulations of US government. It is quite disgusting in terms of free trade and open economy.
I have a Macbook Pro 2015 and the latest OS it supports officially is Monterey. The new Ventura (2022) is not supported anymore. I consider my device to have had software support for about at least seven years so far and until when they stop releasing security fixes for Monterey. I believe this to be sufficient for my needs and the frequency of which I upgrade the laptop.

P.S. I don’t think that it’s ok for Apple to stop supporting older devices. I am just pointing out my personal view concerning my needs.
I still haven't mastered hard. I can win on hard with crystals, but not with any other ship (though I've come close with the 4 square teleporter mantis ship).

Any non boarding strategy seems non tenable right now for me
I knew how to finish this sentence, however I didn't know why, so I googled: It's a Futurama quote ...
No, although the author also maintains his own SCM host ( https://humungus.tedunangst.com/ ) where you can clone the repo.
I run into lots of climbers who took to climbing without ever being much interested in any other physical pursuit before hand.

The other thing is that there are certain adaptations one has to make as a beginner to progress that you don't really get anywhere else. It somewhat levels the playing field between athletes who are generally good at sports, and those who aren't super physical.
I was just rereading the ppc history for Apple as they're doing it again for ARM and it seems quite reasonable to be honest. They pulled something off I think would be difficult for many others and have shown they're not married to a single architecture.

Still RIP my favorite machine the last ppc Mac tower
If you read the TFA you'd realize that your second paragraph is precisely what she's criticizing.

It's possible that some concepts or tools can't be simplified or there's no point. Try explaining Webpack to an end-user. Such categories of things exist, in which case they are not products but components of other products. If Mastodon can't be understood simply, then it will only catch on with those who understand complexity, and be used in a product that is itself simple.
It's currently midnight in Australia. Please advice on how to turn on sun.
This article talks about regular bugs not being updated in anything but the current version of the OS. It talks about security bugs only being fixed in up to N-2 OS releases and then on a sliding scale of importance. It then talks about security bugs not being fixed in those older, unsupported N-3 and older which may get a rare security update.

My conclusion is that Apple wants to sell you a new Mac instead of fixing bugs for you.
That's a pretty bold claim that I'd have to see evidence to believe.

I do get your point though: it's quite probable that some users are very interested in the feature even if some or many average users ignore it.
Nope!

Edit: not strictly true. I know JavaScript quite well but I wish to have nothing whatsoever to do with it and the ecosystem around it due to a number of reasons I would have to write a whole essay on.
Nobody seems to consider the fact that non-US law is also applicable to this issue. GitHUB ToS are subject to US/California law, but that does not mean that GitHub must not respect copyright in other jurisdictions where the service is provided. Many common open source licenses do not have a governing law clause (i.e. BSD and MIT). Since one of the primary defences for Copilot is fair use, and this concept does not exist in EU it would seem that Copilot is even more legally iffy in other jurisdictions.
> There is NO viable competition that exists for Twitter in same format.

This doesn't necessarily matter. From the blog post:

> I keep wondering about “what is going to replace Twitter”, but I am increasingly of the belief that this is the wrong question, that no single thing is going to replace Twitter. That is, Twitter as an idea — a single social platform catering to all demographics and uses — will become like the evening nightly news or the morning newspaper: a relic from a bygone era.

Twitter is a way to spend time. People can leave Twitter and spend their time in other ways, without joining a service like Twitter. The world existed before Twitter existed, and the world will continue to exist after Twitter doesn't.
Our usernames are nearly neighbours :-O
Time didn't stop in the pandemic. The 2007 election was fought on the topic of a carbon transition. It's at least a decade and a half, and the anti-transition side hasn't given up yet so it's still ongoing. If the Andrews government is returned it may be the beginning of the end with their proposal for a renewables oriented renewed SEC, but it won't be the end for the country as a whole.
I'm excited to be working on my tabletop role-playing game company, Silver Gryphon Games.

This morning I wrote a post for the company blog about the work we're doing on a project that was Kickstarted in 2013 but never fulfilled (SGG closed its doors in 2019, but we resurrected it a few weeks ago), and another related project.

I'm determined to fulfill that Kickstarter, even if it ends up being a decade late.
I'm currently in the middle of converting my team to straight CF instead of CDK/Terraform/Serverless. To me it's needlessly complicated, CF is simple, configurable, importantly it's _declarative_, which is the 'correct' way to approach infra (imho, of course).

Deploying it? `aws cloudformation package -> aws cloudformation deploy`. That's it. No need for third party tooling or other madness.

I think the lack of understanding the fundamentals leads people to picking up tools that abstract the fundamentals away (but then leads to more complex solutions).
I moved to Maimi. Here even the rain is happy. Also, homes are affordable (compared to west coast prices).
I tell people that I haven't looked forward to new features in the 'California' era like I did in the 'Cat' era. Now, I worry about what Apple will break or take away.

If Microsoft wasn't so intent on spying and advertising to me, I might consider them. I get the feeling I will switch to a BSD eventually.
Moderation choices themselves would also have geopolitical readings from trading partners. It would be quite touchy.
At the moment I'm really passionate about 2 things:

Quantitative Finance. I have a math background and relish the chance to explore some applications of probability theory. Most of my readings have been about options pricing since there is a lot of mathematics to explore there

My second recent passion is synthesizer. I got a hardware semi-modular synth last year and I've had a ton of fun patching with real wires, twisting knobs and tinkering with loops. As a bonus, it feels like programming but I'm able to be away from the screen while doing it
“Those formatting characters are always visible. They make my text look messy.”

This problem was solved in Vi with highlighting and concealing: the formatting characters are hidden and the target formatting is approximated until you move the cursor to edit the formatted bit. I’m sure Emacs has an equivalent.
Even so, at current interest rates, much fewer people can buy houses now than at the beginning of the year.
Ask HN: How to recover Facebook account where hacker changed email?
Somehow, my Facebook account has been hacked. The password was a strong password stored in 1Password so I have no idea how it could have happened in the first place, but I guess that's the second step to figure out. My guess is that there was some 3rd-party integration that was hacked and that lead to my account being hacked, but as far as I know, I haven't used any 3rd-party integrations that could have that type of access to my account. My 1password account has likely not been compromised either, as only the Facebook account has been affected.

The problem is that this Facebook account was mainly used to run ads for a professional Instagram account, which now has also been suspended.

The hacker apparently has deleted the account (the account is not visible on Facebook anymore) and the email associated with the account was changed from a @gmail.com to a @hotmail account.

All the "My account has been compromised" or "I was hacked" support guides/tools that Facebook offers, are assuming the email is still the same for the account, so I can't seem to get any help from those.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a way for me to actually contact Facebook support in any direct way, to get a human to help me.

So in short: How can a person who is literally giving Facebook money for a service get any sort of help with these sort of issues?
So how much can I buy solar power for at midnight? Because coal is the same price at noon and now.

That solar is cheaper at noon doesn't mean much. It's a bit like saying that coal is free underground.
I guess people learn from history, and Polish history teaches sad lesson that Poland seems to be a good candidate for another WWII experience where there are no victorious... To Polish politicians I would have one thing to say, send your kids to fight and do not push whole country to the war nobody wants.
Yes, I do, but that's probably because I am not the target audience of their product. My gut feeling is that the target customer are devops teams in scaleups
GitHub is going to hate everyone who uses this.
How many types are there and how prevalent are they?

I read some websites about "host your own server" and some were talking explicitly about Mastodon and some were like "let's do selfhostes microblogging with this AP server"

And I asked myself, if I could use AP servers to follow people and let them follow me when they're on a public Mastodon instance.
I’ve been wondering why people are just now talking about mastodon.

Musk per his own statements wants to increase free speech… why is that bad?

Regardless, Gab and Truth.social both use mastodon. So it’ll improve their platforms the more people switch (and improve mastsdon). Technically the nodes can interconnect; though I believe that’s not happening today
> Some scientists remain skeptical. Arnaud Rey, a senior researcher in psychology at the French National Center for Scientific Research, says the findings can still be interpreted from a simple associative learning standpoint—in which an animal learns to link one symbol to the next, such as connecting an open bracket with a closed one. A key reason, he explains, lies in a feature of the study design: the researchers placed a border around the closed brackets in their sets—which the authors note was required to help the animals define the order of the brackets. (The same bordered layout was used in the 2020 study.) For Rey, this is a crucial limitation of the study because the animals could have grasped that bordered symbols—which would always end up toward the end of a recursive sequence—were the ones rewarded, thus aiding them in simply learning the order in which open and closed brackets were displayed.

Doing this seems to make this more of a linear problem than a recursive problem. Place all the non-bordered symbols. Then place all the bordered symbols in reverse order of the non-bordered ones.