skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous record was 21 = 3 * 7 if I recall correctly
https://www.alphr.com/use-gmail-without-phone-number/
First, it's important to define the metric for success. I would argue that Mastodon is already successful. It's a network that has over a million users on it, and that's growing steadily.

At this point, Mastodon will be around indefinitely, and it will probably outlive every commercial network that exists today. The only thing it needs to stay alive is to have enough users who generate content and run servers, as well as people who are willing to work on the code.

This is the core difference between open source projects and commercial companies. A company has to be able to produce profit, and a large publicly traded company has keep investors happy. Mastodon doesn't need to do any of these things.
“Wer” is also where our word “werewolf” comes from; presumably a female werewolf would be a “wifewolf”?
That would be great if Meta was a VC fund placing hundreds of bets in the hopes of a moonshot paying off. But a (formerly) trillion dollar company placing such a big bet on such a small market is very surprising.
You can use the podman module that is part of cockpit-project. It runs on different versions of linux and you can also expose this from a remote machine or VM.

It has a different aim, more of an admin view. I do use it regularly and would gladly take questions for the team. At some point we integrated this as a temporary solution for CRC to provide a container management view.

https://cockpit-project.org/

As an example
https://www.tutorialworks.com/podman-monitoring-cockpit-fedo...

If you have suggestions to improve just let me know. I work closely with that team. And they gladly take feature requests or comments
Using a Quest we're clearly not there yet but we're also clearly far closer than a VirtualBoy.

Saying we'll "never" get there, or that we couldn't get this into sunglasses-weight, does seem unrealistic. If joining a meeting was as easy as dropping on a pair of glasses, and I could "focus" on (virtually) further-away objects instead of just a computer screen in front of me, it would be pretty powerfully appealing.
I hate these projects. Pitched to managers like they'll solve all problems. And now you've got a developer who inherits this stuff, no documentation, some proprietary json structure that configures some flow, and a $100,000/year license to keep the service running.

Nope. I'm out.
I think the latter most became gender neutral because of the entry cry of the public television show “Three, Two, One Contact” in which a woman yelled “Hey You Guys” in what was clearly and inclusive manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-2-1_Contact
>Provide a stable foundation for every member of the country, so that they don't have to fear being left destitute if they can't get someone richer to agree to support them (in exchange for labor).

Your argument is that people on craiglist won't be scamming if they had a job? I'm sure that's true in the sense that there exists some people that fit the category, but how much % of criminals does that account for? I searched up some figures[1] and your theory doesn't appear to hold water. US has around the same property crime rate as columbia and vietnam, but I doubt anyone thinks that those two countries do a better job at providing "a stable foundation for every member of the country".

[1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Percei...
"At USD $10/month, the price does not even cover our cost for average use"

240 searches cost them over $10.00. They will need to find additional revenue or reduce costs to even reach a break even point.

They will have to raise prices or make you pay per search or sell your data or better yet all three.
Or “dwarf”, aside from Tolkien.
Interesting quotes from the article that may not be obvious from the headline:

> Some of these growing pains come from users expecting that Mastodon will work with the same ease as products funded by Big Tech companies, but the nature of a volunteer-driven network means Mastodon can’t respond to crises like they do.

> “People are trained not to be patient. We expect to pop in, sign up, and we’re onboarded,” says Robert Gehl, a professor of communication and media studies at York University in Canada, who has studied Mastodon. “This is a little bit more complicated. But in the long run, for people who are interested in a more community-oriented space, I think it is very much worth it.”

> Part of Mastodon’s appeal is in hosting smaller communities, where moderators have rules and can regulate hate speech better than on some larger platforms. But with larger servers overwhelmed, people are applying for and flooding smaller ones, reshaping the communities that have grown there. Still, Stone and fellow cofounder Kev Quirk say they are excited about the diversity of opinion and topics coming in the conversations.

> …

> Mastodon’s meltdown may be short-lived. But that depends largely on instance runners expanding their efforts to host more users, and on users having the patience to navigate the network. The model for decentralized social media isn’t really new—it’s more a return to the old internet. And for some, that’s a welcome change.

> “What’s happening now is causing people to rethink social media,” says Gehl. Mastodon “is kind of designed to adapt, because it’s comprised of all these different servers,” he says. “It just takes a little time to shake out.”
So it goes...
No. I never wanted to get promoted past senior "engineer", I really enjoyed that level. But a few years back I was looking to move on from my then-current role. I got an offer from a startup at the senior level. The money wouldn't work but they really wanted me so they offered me a promotion to staff and more money. I accepted but have hated it ever since. I'm now actively looking to get back to a senior position but $ECONOMY.
Same issue in Wellington. Really grinds my gears.
The CEO is obsessed with the metaverse. Not sure the other executive had much say.

(They can, of course, walk away if they disagree. But so can every other employee.)
Dystopias are easy to envision and to craft as dismissals. Augmented reality is already here in the auditory realm. I can easily imagine dozens of ways to enhance my experience of the world without all the coercion and abuse you fear.
the US has the highest rate of incarceration and still has a high rate of violent crime compared to other wealthy countries
GP is incorrect - they’re stored in individual files inside /var/db/oah, and can be deleted without causing harm.
Mastodon is also being managed by people who operate the servers, and there are obvious defaults. When you go to https://joinmastodon.org/ it guides you through picking a server. This isn't rocket science and I have no idea why people keep bringing this up as if it was an actual problem when it's clearly not.
Elon Musk Details His Plans for Twitter’s Business
>I see little evidence for it.

Besides the fact that only 50 people are in the Metaverse right now? Literally nobody is using VR for meetings and work and stuff. Nobody likes being cut off from all real human interactions. At least with a video call I can see your face and you can see mine. VR? it's just voice chat with a stupid headset.
I'm apparently in a minority here, but I've only known one guy to use it as a term of address (vs. how I just used it), and he notably did it with everyone, a la "dude" (so much that "Guy" became his nickname).

Chief, on the other hand, I've only heard directed at males.
> I *know* that the fair value is much, much higher than it is now, because there is virtually no real adoption

(emphasis mine)

This seems like an incredibly bold claim to make. I would argue that there is little adoption because many have judged crypto to be of little value.
A Python 3.11 “Gotcha”
> the Tesla Engineers did that

For some reason the Lucid Air engineers are not doing the same. Or the engineers at Rivian, or Fisker, or Lotus, or Koenigsegg. Are those engineers really so bad?

> a company he bought into and was operating without him.

When Musk took over Tesla, half a year after it was founded, Tesla was producing exactly zero cars per month. And per year. And next year, and the next, and the next.

After that they started selling the Roadster. Many other businessmen would have been perfectly happy to have a boutique car company focused on delivering luxury sports cars at a good margin.

The decision to move downmarket and towards mass production was not an engineering decision. All the Tesla engineers deserve zero credit for that. That's a bold business gamble. Musk bet the house, and won.

It's very easy to claim leaders are just leaches sucking the blood of the workers who work for them. And we should confiscate their wealth, because they don't deserve it. It's a bit more sobering to accept that some of these people do actually bring something to the table. Something that an additional 1000 or 10000 engineers in the company can't bring. Look at Microsoft under Balmer and then Nadela. Same engineers. Just a different leader. Or look at Apple before Jobs came back onboard to save it from bankruptcy in 1997. Same engineers, just a new leader with a different vision and different drive.

Finally, welcome to HN. In time you'll come to appreciate the level of discussion around here. A good read to get familiar with the etiquette is [1]. It's all really, really good, and this one paragraph in particular

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I have no idea

You have no idea.
>You would need a headset so small and light it's not too far off from a pair of sunglasses

Why? You don't have to transport VR. VR is the complement to mobile phones: mobile phones are used when you leave home, VR is used when you don't leave home.

The big question is: Are people going to leave home or are they going to stay home?

My guess is that it depends on how much energy is available. If there is no infrastructure worth visiting for billions of people, then VR will become a success.

>It needs to be inexpensive enough that everyone on Earth who currently has a smartphone can afford one.

If work happens in VR, then employer will finance the hardware for their employees.
What exactly is wrong with redux though?
Memory compression is a generalization of swap, which is only for dynamic memory; files on disk don't need it because you can just read them off the disk.

The problem is that GPUs don't support virtual memory paging, so they can't read files nor decompress nor swap anything unless you write it yourself, which is a lot slower.

Also, ML models (probably) can't be compressed because they already are compressed; learning and compression are the same thing!
You can really understand here that Zuckerberg really understands his business. He knew in 2015, that if Facebook didn't have a platform it controlled, it would suffer down the line. We are almost a decade out, but what he predicted has come to pass and Apple is now squeezing the juice out of Meta.

I don't think Zuckerberg is wrong about VR at a certain level. I think VR gaming makes regular gaming obsolete in many ways. But instead of making Oculus the "XBox" of the future, Mark decided that it was the "everything" of the future. A sort of wishful thinking that these headsets would replace the cellphone.

The cellphone fits in your pocket, watches fit on your wrist, and earbuds fit in your ears. A VR headset would have to be sunglasses size and even then they'd still be less ubiquitous than the Apple Watch.

The problem is not the vision, but the amount of money being spent. If Oculus had stayed independent, I can guarantee we'd have better (probably more gaming) oriented content.
You’re way off. Crypto market cap has fallen more than that just today.
Cypress has good support for Firefox now and they are working on WebKit (in fact, I think they’re using playwright-webkit). Not as mature as Playwright, but it’s getting there.
Maybe it's just my view, but I see the usefulness of FB as a platform that allows people to keep in touch or find others and then meet IRL. There's no replacement for a real interaction. The big downside of that though is those who don't want to use the same medium, can't anymore plan to be real-life social within the same circles.

I don't think VR would improve on this use case, especially for the mass market of "casual" FB users. AR could be useful however, for more of a "contextual" help while actually doing RL.
Amazon gave up for very good reason. From what I heard from people working on it, sales were, well, not impressive. Like in hundreds of units.
> But the reality is that VR is not the future, people just don't want it. Nobody wants to live their entire waking / working life in a VR headset.

I think you're wrong.

From this[1] great essay about mainframes:

> Ultimately, there are only two natural kinds of computers: embedded systems and mainframes.

And this is so true. People have moved from personal computers to laptops and are in the process of moving to phones[2]. Smart watches seem to be a promising device; we'll see if people can put enough functionality into them to obviate the need for a phone.

Of course, not all tasks are suitable to be done on a phone or a watch. But one way to think of VR is a desk setup with huge monitors that happens to be extremely portable. Of course the promise of VR is much greater than that, but that is a pretty important use case - a use case that would obviate the need for laptops and desktops for many if not most tasks.

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1. http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...

2. This isn't to say that the shift has been complete at all. Many people, including me, continue to use a desktop setup. And laptop use is still quite strong. But the derivative is ultimately what matters.
Setting up email back in the day required far more screwing around than Mastodon does today, and despite that email continued to gain more and more traction until it became mainstream and even the most computer illiterate people were able to use it.
Another requirement that seems to get ignored is that you need to have the overwhelming majority of the public not feel sick when you use it. I recently had a friend bring a VR headset to a party for people to try out. About 15% of the people who tried it felt dizzy or nauseous after using it. (I did not try it because I know from experience I'll have a headache and be dizzy for hours afterward.)

Interestingly, similar to seasickness, the women who tried it seemed waaaaay more likely to be negatively impacted. Which opens up an entire other can of worms, such as: could an office get away with mandating the use of VR tech for meetings, when it has disproportionately negative impacts on women? (As a woman, I certainly hope they would not even try this!)

And as far as voluntary public adoption, having ~15% of your friend group unable to use a product is a fantastic way to kill network efforts. I doubt TikTok would be popular if 15% of the population got horrible headaches and nausea after watching a video on the platform.

Shockingly, no one seems to be talking about this aspect of VR. Which seems to be a really big red flag.
It's interesting that you have identified exactly the same shortcomings that mobile had when the first commercial mobile phones came to market in the 80s:

- size

- weight

- battery life

- heat

- network reliability

- cost

These were all eventually overcome, incrementally. However, it did take about 30 years for that to happen, so 10 may have been a bit optimistic.
Zuck’s thesis is going to be vindicated in a few months and he will end up being basically spot on in terms of ubiquity in 10 years. The pivot to catch up conceptually with Apple is going to be tough but doable.
My company's culture is to have cameras on in all meetings other than company-wide events where you're not presenting (if you are presenting, you're expected to have it on).

Personally I prefer it as it helps me make more of a connection with the person/people I'm speaking with, and keeps me more engaged.
'a female' is the reverse of what pisses me of with overly 'SJW' descriptions of 'woman X', where X is 'coder' or whatever.

'Female' is the adjective; 'woman' is the noun. It's neither difficult nor rude.

We manage it with 'male' and 'man' without controversy.
Because that's hard to review.

I am doing a lot of exploratory programming and way point commits.

I don't need the reviewer to understand all the mistakes I made and bad designs I considered. It's enough work to understand the finished design.

As a rule of thumb, every commit that lands in master's history should build and pass tests. So that eg 'git bisect' works.

But it's not a good idea to put that same requirement on waypoint commits I make along the way, when exploring.
It's a "very small player" that has their name plastered on one of the most prominent arenas in the United States. (FTX also had their name on another arena, for that matter!)

It's quite possible that the public perception poison will be way worse than any collapses themselves because these players have tried so hard to associate themselves with crypto in the public eye.
Camera off, 100% of the time, just like the conference calls of olde. I need to pace around to think.

Also, I can’t concentrate on anything anyone says if I can see my own beautiful reflection.
Mining hardware becomes obsolete after 6 months because more efficient chips come in which every other miner has. So they all get e wasted constantly.

It’s a negative roi to mine on old hardware.
> This sounds like an Inbound TCP License is next on the UK’s list?

Make sure you have a license for those bits.
And you aren't just making the human's job harder, but also tools like 'git bisect' work better when every commit in master builds and passes tests.
Did you try using Core ML for inference?
I envision a browser inspired by the likes of foobar2k in which core engines are open source and interchangeable, and any browsing experience is achievable through a rich plugin and layout system. The browser itself would be little more than scaffolding and an SDK.
Tested it. Moved back to Brave. Wish I can hide the url field on chrome based browsers. This is the only thing that I like in Arc.

In my view the problem with Arc is the UX. It is hidden and complex and as a result lacks a natural discovery flow.

It seems targeted towards the small audience of specialists which will have no problem giving a lot of their data.

And I hate the size of the borders:) Make them small or remove them completely.
Kanata: Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization
Is there interest in a similarly innovative/functional browser that wraps WebKit for iOS/iPadOS/macOS? I see people complain about wrapping Chrome but don't know if the Apple ecosystem community values this.
"They don't work within the bounds of the law and constitution"

So what has your research on this uncovered?
i think you’ve got it backwards.

recordings go out of date. vhs forces you to keep the script up to date, if you rerun it periodically. asciinema always plays, even after it is wrong.

also, for some reason which is completely lost to me, most people seem to link asciinema recordings to the asciinema website, meaning you can’t watch them offline. Hard deal-breaker for me.
It doesn't destroy performance for the simple reason that nowadays memory access is slower than pure compute. If you need to use compute to produce some data to be stored in memory, your overall throughput could very well be faster than without compression.

There have been a large amount of innovation on fast compression and fast decompression in recent years. Traditional compression tools like gzip or xz are geared towards higher compression ratio, but memory compression tends to favor speed. Check out those algorithms:

* lz4: https://lz4.github.io/lz4/

* Google's snappy: https://github.com/google/snappy

* Facebook's zstd in fast mode: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/#benchmarks
Build simple input/output UIs for your Python scripts on the web (no HTML/CSS)
Yes! I solved this years ago by using forwardemail.net. What I do is, any time I give ANYONE an email (and you have to hold to this very strongly) I give them a custom email. So let's say I own dimitropoulos.com (I don't, but just for example). If I need to give an email to Joe the Mechanic, I give him joethemechanic@dimitropoulos.com. So, if I need to give an email address to the any person or retailer I give them <retailerswebsite>@<mydomain>.com. I don't need to do anything to configure this in advance, I can just make them whenever I want.

The problem is, everyone knows about the myrealemail+someentropything@gmail.com trick now, and many spammers will just chop off anything after the `+`. This way, they literally can ONLY use the email you give them and they never have knowledge of your real email. You can even set it up so you can respond with that custom email.

Best of all, it's free. I've used it for years and I've caught a good few companies that have sold my email address without my consent, and this is the way they get caught because I can know for sure they sold it because I gave them a custom email that's only ever been given to them and yet I get a campaign email addressed to that email through my normal gmail.
The Trouble with Optionality (2017)
>In other words, banks shouldn’t be allowed to drop those protections to provide a cheaper service.

Some much for freedom of choice. We the state, decided that you can't be trusted with making decisions about who to transact with, so we mandate that you use a transfer service with arbitration/escrow so you won't be financially harmed. It doesn't matter if you're sending money to a landlord that you lived at for a few years, or splitting a restaurant bill with friends. You must use a transfer service with this service provided, and pay the 1% fee used to fund such a scheme (note this is actually less than credit card interchange, which is around 2-3%).
"The reason why Paxos do not directly issue tokens on other chains is that they 1) likely do not have infrastructure for it yet 2) they are limited by commercial agreements or agreements with a regulator."

Yet ? We are talking multiple tens of Billions of $ and supposedly they don't have infrastructure YET ?

I don't know anything about the coin itself, but all of this sure smells like the small print that some will find very relevant when the time comes.
I tend to disagree more with your view of history than the view of history taken from the comment you’re replying to.

> I had my first 'smartphone' in 2003

For all intents and purposes, the first ‘smartphone’ didn’t exist until the iPhone existed. How do I know? Because essentially every smartphone on the market today looks like an iPhone.

> In 2020 I had a device that was utterly useless for work and had become little more than an entertainment device

This is what millions (billions?) of people want even if it’s not what you want.
Why? That's what 'git reflog' is for.

Or you mean that a mistake where you accidentally push to someone else's branch?

The default model that public github uses is good for that: everyone works on their own fork of the repo, and makes pull requests to the shared repo. Nobody pushes directly to the shared repo.
Joining a meeting right now is as easy as clicking on 'join' on your phone or laptop. I can then see everyone in the meeting and they can see my facial expressions etc. VR doesn't add anything useful and removes a lot of social cues visible on video (or in person). I don't see why I'd accept employees joining a meeting using an avatar instead of showing up 'in person' (on video).
There's a very old and strange approximate string matching algorithm in agrep (approximate grep).

Here it is in its most simplified form (zero mismatches):

https://bugfix-66.com/e61f9c6080791c9ea8983af748db704238cbb7...

This might be the simplest and most elegant linear time string search algorithm.