skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blue check does not mean verified moving forward. It now means you are a paying subscriber.
The Splintered Mind: GPT-3 Can Talk Like the Philosopher Daniel Dennett
Bless you. I keep a boilerplate crate around like this with everything I frequently use already imported with some notes about why I chose it over alternatives. I wonder if you would take some pull requests that let you drill down into some of these libs for more details on alternatives
I don't have a twitter account (requires a mobile number that I won't give them), so I am a bit at a disadvantage here. But am I right to assume that twitter will only show you tweets from people you follow (or their own re-tweets)?

If it is the case, I don't see how Musk takeover could possibly affect their personal experience with the platform, since if they think some tweets should be censored, surely they won't follow the people writing those tweets or re-tweeting them in the first place?

If this is the case the only possible reason for leaving twitter is that they don't want to use a platform that enables people they disapprove of to communicate between them. But isn't it exactly what Mastodon does?
Apparently HTTP2 makes multiple small files much less of a performance issue (or maybe even turns it into a performance gain, I haven't looked into it too closely)
Why is the premise wrong? Do you not think gas producers are looking to increase production, LNG terminals and shipping?
I think you're misunderstanding the argument altogether, honestly.

The argument isn't whether social media is toxic but whether users can do some work themselves to filter out as much of the toxicity as possible and still benefit from using it.

This thread is really just a circle; things in the right moderation aren't so unhealthy.
Thank you for the great answer. I did not know that. I will try it out.
It's actually infuriating to read. If it's harder than "App downloaded, account made" then you've already lost. Anything more complex than that is a complete non-starter.
They are basically inedible now. I won't buy them under any circumstances.
It is officially documented that Russia's campaigns have supported varying ideologies. While they do have some preference for foreign policy, it is also in their interest to increase division.
I like it! Making it more "mainstream" is the way to go even if purists might say that it's feature bloat for their secure messenger.

It's similar to how it's good if more people use Tor for all kinds of activities as it doesn't immediately label you as suspicious just because you use Tor or Signal.
Three Java Patterns That Died in 2022
Sound ripe for confusion and we see this today with domain names and phishing. Are they @john.smith@cnn.com or @john.smith@cnnn.news or @john.smith@cnn.newss.com or @john.smith@cnn.news.hackers.ru?
> The person who does Safety at Twitter has been there for many years and he is pretty far on the “new left” side. Apparently, even he disagrees with you.

Did you not say this? ^ Because it is literally what this says/implies.
Before Musk's takeover Twitter was reliable, predictable and somewhat boring

It was none of those things and was widely regarded to be the worst-run company in tech not named Theranos or WeWork, including on this very website. It's fine to dislike Musk and it's fine to dislike the moves he's made but this revisionist history has to stop.
> The Russia-gate was always a laughable hoax

Don't know why I'm going to bother, but from the intro to Volume 1 of the Mueller Report:

"The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and
systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In June, the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response team publicly announced that Russian hackers had compromised its computer network. Releases of hacked materials—hacks that public reporting soon attributed to the Russian government—began that same month. Additional releases followed in July through the organization WikiLeaks, with further releases in October and November."
Ok, so someone buys the bitcoin at auction for pennies on the dollar, turns around and undercuts every other seller out there.
This is what happened with GitHub after the MS acquisition announcement as well. Right after the announcement there was a HN post about repo creation/imports being up 1000% or something, but now we can tell that not too much has changed (and GitLab was free hosted as well; you have to run your own mastodon instance). Until mastodon itself brings some killer feature that makes it de-facto better than Twitter, or Twitter actively starts promoting hate speech to people who otherwise are only interested in the art / 'art' parts of the platform, then it'll still be relevant even if it's bleeding a lot more money than it used to.
As I said, if the protocol itself can't handle this scenario, it's doomed to have low adoption. Unless of course ISPs get pressured into lifting datacaps. Maybe a "viral" clause for exactly these sorts of situations? I think there are multiple potential solutions.
Is this why we turn down the car volume when looking for a house number? The resync process is taking too much bandwidth, or messing with our visual/temporal system, so reducing the audio input helps the system.
The web standards stack has become too large, period. Google has way too many people working on Chrome/Chromium. CSS is a relatively small part of the insane strategic complexity they have orchestrated.

By the way, it would interesting to know how many they are now. Has anyone done any stats via Git lately? It was 2000+ in 2015 or so, iirc.
Malicious Python packages replace crypto addresses in developer clipboards
Back in the 80's there were a lot of workplaces that had their own toot and you could masto in your office.
"per 100 million miles" is also restarting this conversation from scratch.

Conditional on being in a crash is the operative clause here.

> Crashes involving male drivers often are more severe than those involving female drivers

is closer to the mark, and the next unquoted sentence "However, females are more likely than males to be killed or injured in crashes of equal severity, although sex differences in fatality risk diminish with age" seems like it may be what the article was talking about, though the cited source is from 1998, well before a number of modern car safety features were standard (even air bags weren't required until that year).

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/males...
Mastodon has been around for six years, which is young but not infant-young, and what I'm getting at is pretty central to the entire concept. If it is still this poor of an experience six years in, one might wonder what is going to change in the next six.
I mean not sure what you would need that doesn't fit into a standard backpack.

And a train is cool in the summer and war in the winter. And far more comfortable then a car. You can eat in peace as well.

> Why do you have to be rich to have standards?

That's not what I am saying. If you don't have other options, you will use the bus no matter what, so the bus companies don't lose anybody when their service is bad.

However, if there are rich people using your bus, they have option, so if you don't want lots of your costumers to leave, you better make sure its exactable.

If you really prefer a car that's fine, but cities and intensive structure should be fundamentally remodeled to not favor people in cars. As you say, this is actually better for drivers as well. Many people say driving in the Netherlands is better and safer, and that's partly possible because so many people are on bikes or public transport.
Who needs to turn the lights on to go to the bathroom in a city? My bathroom don't have shades on the windows and I get enough light from the moon reflection and the street lights to do all I need to do in a bathroom in the middle of the night. It is not like I will put on contact lenses or look for a specific skincare product in the middle of the night.

I can understand night being dark when you live in the middle of nowhere. In the city not so much.
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I similarly wonder if others have an allergy to "you should".
Would you rather live in a world where Signal is laser focused on secure messaging to the point where no one uses it? Telegram is growing rapidly because it's adopting social media paradigms. I use both, and I wish I only used Signal.
Somehow they did not think banning firecrackers for Diwali was political suicide, considering Hindus are a majority.
I did C/C++ for years 10+ years ago, but since learning Ruby and then Elixir I've loved the functional approach. I've thought a lot about rust over the years but I haven't yet found a project where it made more sense than Ruby or Elixir did given the learning effort. I've done a few projects in Go and while I like it's simplicity, I dislike the verbosity and lack of functional features.

Does anybody else have a similar background that can share their opinion/love level of rust?

Rust people: do you use Rust for (nearly) everything? i.e. does it feel very general purpose, or if you are doing something that will be entirely network I/O bound anyway do you reach for something else?
Ah, so this probably tells the compiler where to insert the free? If I gave it a local lifetime it would free the memory on function return for example, even if I tried to return a reference to it? Basically Rust just forces you to code in the memory freeing at the definition state of variable creation?
> I'd rather there be room for people over-reacting

There is.

> I don't like the way we're policing conversation,

We aren't. We are having conversations about public posts.

> the bar for what's deemed acceptable is constantly raised,

That's good. I mean, I believe that the occasionally harsh tone fosters a resilience and readiness to accept ones mistakes.

Think of this as code review for words.

> So, if I have to chose between grown men writing apology blog-posts for a random unthoughtful remark in a tweet, or the space where unthoughtful remarks in tweets are simply ignored.. I'll chose the latter.

I don't get it. You choose the latter, which amounts to someone being "censored."

i.e. If I write something and no one reads it or it's ignored, does it really matter? It's not seen. It's not read.

But more importantly, you are okay with someone unprofessionally and childishly critiquing someone's code, but not the same being done with those same words?

And you are okay with someone writing something unprofessional and childish, but not those same people writing something professional and thoughtful?

I cannot fathom the leaps of logic it takes to make sense of all of this.
Good, because Mastodon never was and never will be a Twitter replacement. It's a different world, with different rules.
They were unwanted daughters who were discarded by a society that wanted sons.

(and yes Stephenson is a genius)
Doesn't that have the drawback, though, that you aren't able to share the playlist? My biggest complaint about Airplay (and also Bluetooth) is that someone might put their music on but when I want to put "my" music on I can't because they're paired to the given speakers.

The MPD approach is far better because each person's client view is a shared view of a single playlist. People can all add or update that playlist together.
> The point is to further political extremism, on both sides, and to create in fighting so that no united formation can stand against them.

> So the question is how to fight against this.

I think our political parties and media are responsible for 99% of the political extremism, unwillingness to compromise, and placing their self interests over the well being of the country.

And frankly, I think posts like yours contribute to the problem. Rather than taking responsibility as a country for where we are, we constantly resort to blaming external actors. If not the Taliban, then now Russia. Or we blame China.

And the narrative from those in power is always the same. The Taliban isn’t attacking us for our freedom? Well you support terrorists then. Russia isn’t responsible for Trump getting elected? You must be a Russian shill. You say Russia did exactly what they said they would do if NATO didn’t stop expanding eastwards? Oh you’re a traitor or must work at a Russian troll farm.

No. Take responsibility for once. We’re in this situation because of our own fault. We elected leaders who divide us. In the last election, the party of liberal and forward thinking ideas elected a man who’s been in politics longer than my children and grand children have been alive. What new ideas does this man have? What’s he going to do now in the executive branch that he couldn’t influence his party to do over his many, many decades long career? Is all that Russias fault too?

To be frank: I don’t care for either party. I’m just tired of the constant blame game and passing on the buck to someone else.
If the version info on that DO link is correct, it's 2 and a bit years out of date. I'm sure it has support for updating everything internally, but I have to wonder if that's the best way to do this.
What's a tunneling service? Do I need to use that before I can make a Mastodon account? What app is that on - wait, there are "instances", what the hell is that? Screw it, this is too complicated - I'm going back to twitter.
Maybe in California you don't need this, but in the northern half of Europe (i.e. Germany and above) the weather this time of year is pretty abysmal. My office has floor to ceiling glass on three sides, but today at 2pm we had to turn on the lights because it was so cloudy and dark. The 10kWp of solar on my roof produced 2kWh today.

I agree that most indoor lights are not bright enough, but that's mainly because there hasn't been an easy way to regulate them. There's no reason why you can't light your living space to 500 or more lux (most living rooms are barely 150 lux) at 6500k and regulate it down at night, and something like this makes it easy to do.
I have been away from css for many years but then the last month I was tasked with helping a junior developer understanding web dev.

It has been an amazing journey only to learn the language has evolved gracefully and with a delicacy I really like.

Working with alignment of layout and positioning is much easier. It's implemented nicely.

Another really great thing about css imo is that it has no competition or the same crazy amount of libraries as javascript.

I like where its going.
a smug sense of superior and/or very long term OS updates
Agreed, but more often, I find myself in a situation, where I just want to delete, comment, or yank a few lines of a function, so I find that going by relative line numbers is a lot more flexible and useful for me.
Yes, I'm sure someone like Selena Gomez is going to get her team to self hosting from her EC2 instance /s

The "famous people" care about getting their posts to fans. If you're able to convince and migrate hundreds of millions of teenagers to this self-hosted dream, sure. However, that's just not going to happen.
I must be missing something, all I'm seeing on Mastodon is people talking about Mastodon and Musk and Twitter. Its even more insufferable than the twitter discourse right now.
all you need for an FFI spec is a calling convention and standard type names.
So did Moxie leave because Signal got overtaken by Feds? Why is a secure messenger adopting the appearance of social media? Doesn't this work explicitly against the entire claimed reason for not having an account system?

I would love to hear tptacek's views on this.
Maps of the past may shed light on our climate future
Summary

Maps of climate in the distant past could provide insight into the future as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase
Hmm. If you are saying we are all interconnected, relying on the diverse resources, products, and gifts from around this small planet to do the things we want to do, e.g. care for our sick, advance the common good, protect the vulnerable, provide stable sources of food _so that_ our global population can grow in a safe, equitable, sustainable manner toward lives full of fulfillment and wonder, away from subsistence living that steals time and health and hope from those stuck with no other choice, then, yes.

But if you mean the US should take credit, then, no.
FWIW, Apple HomeKit + Hue has supported this for a few years (fall 2020?), they call it Adaptive Lighting, and for me this has been a killer app.

It's kind of a bummer that Hue doesn't support it natively, but since I was already in the Homekit ecosystem, it was fine for me.

I've paired this with powerful Sowilo [1] light strips, which have excellent warm/daylight white range and brightness, and it's kept S.A.D. in relative check.

[1] https://sowilodesign.com I'm sure some people can come up with a cheaper solution via AliExpress than Sowilo's, but having a turnkey solution that integrated with Hue was essential for me.
> Literally nothing meaningful has changed about Twitter in the last few months.

But things probably will change meaningfully in the near future. You’d have to ignore everything the new CEO is saying, in order to believe otherwise.

People trade futures options all the time.
Pardon my ignorance of the local politics but I would have assumed that as the capital, this would have been sorted out posthaste
I'd say the author, although they are right in most of their arguments, just want C to be a higher level language, well defined, well supported by every OSes out there in the same way.

I'd hate to see that happen, and I write C every day, read hundreds of lines of C everyday, and actually formally prove C everyday. C is not meant to be Rust or Go or Java. I'm actually against most of additions those days to the new standard. They complicate things, the (barely) portable assembly it's meant to be. I wouldn't write a database in C today, but I'd be happy to start a new bootloader project in C tomorrow.

The author is actually angry that the OSes still expose a C interface when they should use something higher level, like it seems Apple is doing (I may be wrong). I get that, but like we say in France, don't discard the baby with the bath water. The problem is that, as they say clearly, C is the lingua franca. C isn't the problem, its use is.
And, if it's your native language, you can't help but process it.

This is why I like talking to 4-year-olds, they see the world as it truely is, and can communicate it back out. They don't have all the conditioned learning the rest of us have, but can see a clearer picture without bias.
How about a pair of goggles with a filter that can dynamically adjust the amount and color of light that gets through to your eyes. So, no matter what the environment you're in, your eye always get the right light at the right time?
I predicted a lot of Season 2 during Season 1, though I was called a bit of a quack for it at the time. I don't think they tried to complicate it because of people solving the Season 1 puzzle box, I think they picked too esoteric of a plot framework (lost books of the bible/biblical "fan fiction") at the start of the series bible and S2 was always the planned consequence of S1.

I blame Neal Stephenson for this, both in why I spotted the things that I did and where a lot of S2 came from even though it felt so left field for the average viewer.

(I tend to refer to S2 as the "Futurama's Robot Church" season and think it makes a lot more sense when you see it as a struggle between the Robot God and the Robot Devil, and the Robot Devil is not who most people think it is despite S1 laying out a lot of hints.)
Then don't use it. There, it's private again.
Well, life expectancy for Russian males is below 70 - of course Putin has the best medical care, but I doubt steroids etc. can keep him for too long.
Oh cool, "stories" are here to ruin yet another app. What is this obsession all about?
Why do so many people on HN hate on China? What's your relationship with Chinese people in your personal life?
The reason C is everywhere is because it doesn't define a platform. The OS/hardware makers define it.

Lack of a platform is a strength.
If Brazil is anything like the US, there are many, many safeguards in place whenever an election machine is certified and used.

Baseless means without evidence. So when a politician is yelling at his fans that the machines overturned the results of the election, and no one has found evidence of it, you should doubt those claims.

In other words, through certification and audits there is a lot more evidence the machines worked properly than the feelings you are using for making your decisions.
The small inventor is supposed to monetize a patent by building something useful for society. That's the whole deal. The patent itself shouldn't have value beyond protecting that path.
On this topic, I need to replace the 2x4 flush fluorescents (ballasts are bad) in my basement. Any suggestions?

Also looking for basic motion sensor to turn them off when nobody is down there.
I would be much more afraid of a world where the major public square is privately owned and governed by a single individual with a proven history of public manipulation.
Identity politics is just a stupid sideshow, a distraction.
A private Twitter?.that's terrible. 100 times Bezos WaPo. It's the ball park of Mordoch publuc manipulation.
It's perfectly doable if you have an elevator or guarded parking. Enter any Chinese apartment building and you will find scooters like this one stored inside people's apartments on every floor. They only weigh about 100KG so elevators can handle them fine.
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No idea.

I also love programming in C! I even went so far as to write a metaprogramming layer so I no longer have to use cxx templates for generics. It's such a delightfully simple language that really sparks the Joy of Programming in me
Ecuador (Morales), Brazil (Rouseff), Honduras (Zelaya) off the top of my head. They certainly tried their best in Venezuela.

edit: oh, I spaced out, you're asking about the last three decades? I thought you were asking about the last few years.
>He is tearing down moderation
How? Indeed, he hasn't changed anything about moderation (except applying to to everyone universally)
>crapping on verification
By expanding it to anyone willing to pay instead of it being some exclusive club where people had to literally bribe twitter employees tens of thousands for the coveted blue check? Yup - he's totally going backwards!
> and injecting itself on electoral politics.
lol - Twitters whole reason to exist for the last six years was to be the amplifier for one particular political ideology. Burying the Hunter Biden laptop story wasn't an injection into electoral politics?!? How rich!
Someone made a childish and unprofessional critique of the code, and followed it up with a thoughtful and professional response.

It's odd that people are okay with a childish and unprofessional critique of code, but not a fairly civil and well thought-out critique of the "code review."
Signal has demonstrated product-death (loss of cohesive product vision), what do we use next?
Both are maintained and fairly equivalent in API. chrono is getting an upgrade soon in 0.5 that should make it slightly easier to use too.

I've made some PRs recently to chrono, the new maintainer is very good
With some legacy exceptions, anything called "Open[Something]" is a farce.
Here is what I purchased:

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They seem to be working fine. I used 5 out of 20 so far.