skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is the market great? Amazon just announced a hiring freeze. Google had some layoffs. Meta saw a 70% drop in market value. I don’t keep up with Microsoft as a whole. But they just announced the same “headwinds” in their cloud division as AWS.

Apple seems to be the only large tech company not experiencing systemic issues aside from the China lockdowns.
should be wordpress-level easy at least. But last i checked it wasnt easy.

Otherwise , mastodon hosters will become sneaky corporate spies, ad injectors and data resellers
Just found that article about them but you beat me at it :)

https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodo...
Yes you have to sell it for >=$15, but you can still price it at $20 in Somalia and $100 in the USA. It doesn't have to be 100% margin.
Interesting, I took the exact opposite from Sakos post above. As I understand it, he argues that Microsoft buying Activision will not have a significant impact on the landscape of video games due to the large number of studios, thereby disagreeing with robertlagrants comment implying that the MS-Activision merger is a big deal.
This same effect is why individuals get charged so much for healthcare. It's really easy to leverage information asymmetry to make a ton of money, rule #1 is to never let the customer know how much things cost to you
I'm not assuming anything about the position of the lock. My point is that the lock can be moved around, as can the rest of the physical devices/infrastructure, to be more convenient for the user. Which helps everybody, especially if the needs of the disabled are considered.
I think that's one way to view invention but the classic way it's been viewed in America is that if you found a novel way to put a sponge on the end of a dowel and manage to market it you should have protections to exclusively make your good for a while - there has always been, for me at least, a very strong romanticization of folks inventing things in their garage and making a few hundred thousand dollars off of them.
There was a massive drop in living standards in the former Soviet Union after the introduction of capitalism in the 90es. Average life expectancy dropped something like 10 years, corresponding to millions of dead.
Which is great advice--except that mastodon.social is not accepting new users, throwing everyone who has received that advice into confusion from step 1.
Yes seem to be writing sarcastically and I'm not sure why.

You are right, I, like many people, believe Elon is going to ruin Twitter, possibly bankrupting it. Therefore it is worth looking at alternatives. The ruining of Twitter makes alternatives more attractive.
F.lux has always bothered me, because despite their very large volume of supporting papers[0], what I've never seen is a consistent link between the "blue light" from those many studies directly back to my real computer/tablet/phone screen.

I wish there were more studies done with computer monitors, rather than light boxes directly.

[0] https://justgetflux.com/research.html
He had a blue check which means his identity was verified, and then he changed his identity to impersonate someone else. That has always been against the rules. He is free to tweet about how much of an asshole Elon is (free speech), he wasn't free to pretend to be someone else when his identity was already verified. Otherwise, what is the point of identity verification?
The auto rickshaws and two-wheelers are polluting, but I don’t think they’re a primary cause of Delhi’s smog. That’s probably industry and agriculture. The buses were heavily polluting as well. I know there was a major push to get cabs, auto rickshaws and buses onto LNG. I haven’t kept track of how much that has happened.
LS is not the only solution that I use. But is a good start and limits the telemetry baked into the macOS significantly.
On my Debian installs, I use Open Snitch.
https://bit.ly/3t6VSCk
All of those are true of Windows too.
This is a bad idea. Buy US treasuries directly. CDs are a scam.
>It's not a perfect solution: there are still some annoyances with people forgetting to leave the main switch on

I use light switch covers. They just screw on over the switch, and have one side open so you can manually manipulate it if you want, but it prevents accidental state changes.
I used Mattermost at my last job and I was glad I'm back on Slack now. It was just very much behind Slack in terms of features (e.g. threads, search, visual organization) and even worse because it's self hosted, other than security updates, there wasn't ANY desire to keep the server upgraded for functionality updates.
An AI such as Stable Diffusion doesn't pirate. It learns from the world through images and art, and "acts" accordingly.
> As a user I'd like the ability to opt-in/out of this. I much prefer a privacy policy that captures all of it for the app. Otherwise, I have red boxes showing up non-stop using most apps. Can you imagine the sheer number of red boxes you'd get for Netflix the first few times you use it!

Of course it's impractical in today's environment, but I think we'd be in a much better place if we'd established early on the idea that a piece of software that massively violates your privacy (which is to say, all of them, nowadays) comes laden with a terrifying number of red boxes when you read its privacy policy.
This didn't make me hate C, but it did make me appreciate every other language.

The spartan nature of the language itself, and all of the inevitable difficulties around linking has really made nearly everything else seem so much more simple.
Mastodon and ActivityPub in general have UX issues. I can't imagine trying to explain to non-technical users why they have to open a pop-up window to another website just to be able to follow someone, or why people keep changing handles, etc etc.

For most people using social media outside of the context of a professional organization, it also means trusting whoever operates the instance, most of which will probably be less reliable and potentially trustworthy than Twitter was or currently is under Musk ownership.
Some thoughts on social networking and Usenet (2018)
Both of those articles demonstrate that the improvement happened after those countries allowed market economies.
> you want to emit instructions to somewhere in memory and then jump to them, something inherently unsafe

Isn't this only for JIT? My understanding was that non-JIT VMs basically function as emulators of a non-existent CPU, so they interpret each bytecode instruction rather than asking the CPU proper to do a jump.
Goethe and Hegel both get some character-driven exposition in this book, but Hegel is about twenty years younger than Goethe, so the interactions focus more on the contemporaneous groupings of Goethe-Schiller-Fichte and later Schelling-Hegel than direct interaction between the two. Goethe as a poet is generally viewed more through the lens of literary criticism as opposed to the philosopher Hegel who is generally studied with the analytical rigor of philosophy, considering his position as one of the premier post-Kantian German idealists.

The two share much ideological agreement, like when both offered great praise for Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic of Education of Man, but while Hegel generally quotes Goethe with veneration, Goethe seems generally suspicious of Hegel's philosophy -- in one meeting offering open criticism to Hegel about his dialectic, for example.

One work that goes into detail on both thinkers would be the late Walter Kaufmann's first volume of his trilogy Discovering the Mind, in which he offers an opinionated criticism of Kant and Hegel's obscurity and obfuscation by contrasting it with Goethe's thematic clarity.
How to pick colors for a syntax highlighting theme
Yeah, those people don't actually try to avoid what the rich man says - they wouldn't have anything to be upset about otherwise. I mean, join Mastodon and see what's trending on Fediverse - it's the constant "rich man did this", "rich man did that", non stop, ad nauseam, for months now.

No, it's about a whole beehive of drama queens who thought Twitter is their domain, who saw their hated rich man prove them wrong by literally buying it from under them.
You missed what they said: the problem is that consumer prices are not symmetric like that: prices spike, and then regress, but they never sharply dip.
Yes, I am imagine their email server is also just for their employees. What's your point?
Thanks for the feedback. I added this functionality :)
Yeah, I'm in Durham near Southpoint. If you're not trying to be in Downtown, it's still affordable. Two bedrooms, two bath.

But beware, the universe is trying to move here.
The timeliness of this article is that it compares Usenet to Mastodon.
federation works just like email. I don't want just anyone to have a whitehouse.gov address (do you?)
The vast majority of users do not desperately want async functions in traits, they just use async_trait and go "it'll be cool when GATs are done". Besides, no one is going to use GAT for async traits, that will be done for them by the compiler.

Obviously there are use cases for GAT, what I'm saying is that they're going to be in very generic library code, which I don't think most users are writing.

For libraries like Hyper, which prioritize being extremely generic (it's split into a ton of reusable crates), which aims to serve as a very low level set of generic primitives for HTTP, yes it will come up.

Hyper is a great example of a use case that 99.99% of developers are not going to be able to relate to because they aren't building a set of completely generic http primitives. It's an important use case, it's just not relatable.
That’s what the instance name (hosted on their domain) provides.

I can put an @microsoft.come email in my profile, but it’s meaningless because it’s not verified.

But if MS has their own instance, then your handle(?) proves you have an account on that instance. And presumably only employees and company accounts would be allowed to have such user accounts.
>>"So the question is how to fight against this."

Let's see, an act of war, and then what would fight mean in that context; hmm, I'm sure I had a dictionary around here somewhere...
I used to agree but I don't anymore. The crucial point, and the reason reddit works so much today, is moderation. If anyone can post to a generic programming forum, it will be automatically submerged under spam. There is no way around it. Centralizing the rendezvous point means it is possible to settle on rules and appoint moderators to enforce them.

Note, though, that federation as implemented by the fediverse means that I post content on my instance, and you post content to your instance, and both are "tagged" with a central identifier. It is definitely possible to get all content from all instances in one place.

There are interesting ways towards decentralized moderation: basically, anyone post anything, moderators "pick" what they deem correct, and you as a user "pick" moderators. When you feel a moderator isn't doing a correct job, you switch the set of moderators. But there still is an element of centralization in that moderators decide what is good and what is bad. And if the history of computing taught us one thing, it's that it is impossibly hard to migrate people away from default settings.
Or his opponent who couldn't run up a flight of stairs without soiling his depends. Fucking ancient bastards.
Today, I cannot sign up at "your friend's server" nor mastodon.social, so neither of those things help me.

The phrase is key because it reflects a familiarity which new users do not have. Have you never in your life been introduced to an environment you didn't understand and felt put off by everybody using words you didn't know, or words you did know in ways you didn't understand? Never, in any situation?

Because that's exactly how it feels for many, many, many new users of mastodon now.
The author is not talking about C but about the C ABI that is the default OS ABI.

It's an ABI, there have to be one, and C was the de-facto system programming language.

I don't get the complaint, there are flaws, it could have been much MUCH worse.
Don't post non-english sites, see my comment below.
You weren't worried about it going bankrupt when it was losing millions of dollars a day and running in the red for years on end?
Most communists and socialists will refer to both the USSR and China as capitalist projects on accelerated timelines. They were trying to speed-run from feudalism, through capitalism, to communism.

At least that's what comes up when you mention the problems that these countries have.
There was some odd stuff going on in that election without much need for spinning it.
That's not what is meant. The folks working at SpaceX work hard. The question is, when they look to slow down and go to another company, does having SpaceX on resume for 2-3 years vs widget maker X make it more or less likely to be hired.

The idea that spacex engineers are lazy / don't work hard etc is fanciful thinking. SpaceX being badly managed? Maybe true. But engineers at spacex? If you look at competitors like an engineer on the SLS project (which has taken 10-20 years to get to one 20B rocket launch) - no question who you'll want to hire if you are in "new space". I think for old space companies - probably still worth hiring SLS type folks just given that they will know how to deal with the paperwork of those jobs.

I would NEVER work for Tesla or SpaceX (work life balance way off). But neither would I claim they are lazy or poor engineers.
I feel like we've all become so normalized to this constant boom/bust cycle in the tech economy. Does anyone have advice for people who are looking for real jobs, where you serve an essential function to an organization and aren't just padding some managers portfolio.....
Ask HN: Any good software for generating ATC templates?
Specifically Given, When, and Then scenarios where there are test procedure steps and following expected results.

Where I work we do this in an Excel spreadsheet, using a strict format. It's pretty annoying because I've asked around and people don't seem to know where the origin of this spreadsheet is. So we end up copying the previous one, inevitably destroying it over time.

I just want some web app, user creates a test plan, in that document they add a test case and text fields appear that they fill in.

I'd love to make one myself, but I know something this simple's been done numerous times. It would be a shame for me to write up some amateur tool that gets rejected when there's something professional out there that upper management would find more compelling.
> What's that got to do with Harvey Weinstein's, the living person's, liability

Weinstein the person caused the company’s liability. The insurers paying out for the latter are also connected to the former. They won’t agree to a bankruptcy plan that leaves them on the hook for further litigation.
Mastodon back in 2019 had a grand opportunity to set themselves up for success; they made the wrong decision. If they had made the correct decision in 2019; they could have in 2020 doubled down on the correct decision during the hunter biden laptop conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, Mastodon will forever remain nothing because of this decision.

Mastodon has no nazis, it does have that going for them.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/783akg/mastodon-is-like-twit...
cynicism at this point.

anyone finding faults with Masto should take the AP protocol and write their own implementation. The monoculture of the Mastoverse is less than ideal and the space is much more interesting when you figure out the secret sauce (ActivityPub)
Absolute weight is more important in a crash test scenario. If your proportions are correct, but the weight is far off, that’s going to be much worse than having incorrect proportions with the correct weight.
Done this for the past 6 years running a combo of cheap zwave color temp adjusting lights, smart things, and a smart things app automation called circadian daylight.

Guide/Forum:
https://community.smartthings.com/t/circadian-daylight-smart...

Makes the evenings more laid back and I'm able to sleep a bit easier. Well worth the effort to get it setup.
copyright is a western thing. Printing was invented in China, but commercially variable printing is a western thing (latin, English). Because of the Chinese writing system, you can never print a book cheaply. Books were spread verbally, some are handwritten copy were sold for the copying, not for authoring.
Awesome Rust doesn't solve the problem this page sets out to solve. Rust has a tiny standard library, and (many would say) there needs to be a de facto consensus on the best mainstream libraries to solve "the rest of it" --- serialization, error handling, logging, &c.

An "Awesome" list can help you find 6 different very interesting libraries for each of those problems, but that's not solving the big problem, because everyone will pick a different library; without a consensus pick, some of those libraries can lose momentum, which is a problem 2 years down the road when the maintainer packs up shop.

What you'd want, if you're the audience for this page, is just a list of straight-up "use this library" picks, in the hopes that those libraries will be stable and maintained indefinitely, and will develop supportive communities.
HN has moderation (with a higher bar than Twitter) and downvotes, so I wouldn't say it's the same issue.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the connection to AI. Many models need "positional encodings" as part of their input in order to to understand the spatial or temporal relationship between different input tokens. It's not at all surprising to me that the brain would have an equivalent.

It's not always clear what form these encodings should take. If we could figure out the actual encodings used by the brain, I bet we would find that they have big advantages over the ones we're currently using.
Many German newspapers have data visualization on the topic:

Frankfurter Allgemeine:

https://m.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/zahlen-zu-strom-und-gas...

Zeit Online:

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-deutschland-ga...

It seems clear to me that German are trying to save energy both in private households and in industry. This seem quite reasonable given that gas prices for many end customers are double of last year's prices.
Lighting was the first and still most meaningful smarthome thing I've done, though I did it much more manually. Hue bulbs don't require any sort of WAN link, the hub(s) will work fine purely via LAN (though without firmware updates sadly without opening a hole), and of course one can then remote in with a VPN (via a bounce/mesh if you don't have a fixed IP) like anything else LAN-based. And 3rd party apps can seamlessly deal with multiple hubs. This is a fun read because I've been considering moving to Home Assistant, primarily because I'm worried about what happens when the hubs inevitably fail. 10+ years after its launch Philips has still never bothered to implement and backup/restore functionality(!!!), so that's a real driver. But in terms of pure functionality it's worked very well to code up a bunch of manual timers and time-of-day-based options on switches.

And in terms of QoL impact it's been a pretty big deal for us. For context I live near the Canadian border, so not Alaska-level in terms of differences in night/day over the course of a year but far enough north that it does vary quite a lot. Being able to have a whole "sunrise" scene for the house, to have "daylight" with varying use of color and brightness (I've added 2 or 3 way bulb systems to a bunch of lamps to deal with Hue color bulbs not having as much brightness range as would be ideal), and warmth at night has made it so much easier to maintain proper sleep cycles. Rather then an audible alarm, I have a 15-minute animation of "sunrise" I put together that gently wakes me up and by the time it's getting to the whiter/bluer portion I'm set, I head down without any grogginess even when it's still black out. This all works for motion sensors too, and I've been able to massively cut down blue light emission and emission period of outdoor light at night without compromising safety and that I think is quite important for wildlife. There has been research on rampant blue light (and artificial light in general) affecting insect populations, which are under pressure anyway.

I think Smart Home kit is powerful and can be (and certainly has been) misused. I will not touch anything with any sort of internet requirement, I segment things onto their own VLANs, and I'd be more cautious about it for things without the same visible indicators or with more potential side effects. But it has a real place too, and lighting is a perfect use case. I hope efforts like Matter pan out, the real issue is how vertically tied a lot of stacks are.
Yeah... I have no faith in the general public either. This is the same public that went full insane by reading grainy jpegs on Facebook and watching obviously terrible "news" networks.
I can relate to your last sentence regarding trust. Happens alarmingly often when I read popular takes on things I know a fair bit about.

Which makes me wonder about the extent to which I can trust popular takes in things outside my wheelhouse.
I realized that I had normalization set to 98%. I think that's the only setting I changed after going through all of the menus. I'm not re-ripping hundreds of CDs at this point, so I guess I'll have to live with almost accurate. :)
Bitcoin has been classified as a commodity, not a currency, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

I’m not sure why you’re downplaying this. If I maliciously exploited a video game for serious financial gain today, there’s a good chance that will be a crime.
More men than women die conditional on being in a crash, because men tend to be involved in more severe crashes. But in crashes "of similar severity" women tend to be more severely injured than men. One confounding variable is the size of the vehicle, but it may be factored into the "similar severity" calculation.
The general rule is that grid is for 2d layout and flex is for 1d layout.

I almost always combine the two by way of a nested hierarchy of elements. Grid is used for the strategic layout, and then within each area I may have flex (or more grid) as appropriate.

As for a "literal table of data", I still use table elements for this exact purpose. I do not use tables for layout anymore, unless its for HTML email.
This is such backwards thought. You don't want to make your social network presence a place people have to go to. You want your presence to be where people go to. Centralized social networks give people who publish content massive audience potential. Running your own Website for this completely misses the point and you might as well just add a forum to your site.
Is this considered a feature or just a bug not fixed yet?
I wish I could adjust the curve though. It's still too white in the evenings for me.
Musk recently posted his "solution" to the war with stamps of russian propaganda (e.g. mentioning "Khrushchev's mistake" and nuclear war threats). Now he urges everyone to vote for republicans, who publicly against helping Ukraine in the genocidal war of Russia. What is it if not interference from the very top?