skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I got a message notifying me that my application status had changed, but I did not get in. Then a day or two later, I got another one, to which I _did_ get in.

Back in the days before email was common, I applied for a postdoc position at <famous prof's lab @ MIT>.

I mailed my letter to <famous prof>, expressing interest in working in his lab.

A few days later, I asked 3 profs in my graduate program to write letters of recommendation on my behalf to be mailed to <famous prof>.

After ~10 days, I received a response letter from <famous prof>, to the effect of: "Sorry, my lab is full. Won't have any openings for several years. etc. etc. Thanks, but no thanks."

I figured "Oh well.... No big deal."

But I was too lazy to inform the profs who were writing my recommendations to stop.

About a week after my "rejection" letter, <famous prof> phones me and says, "I always send a standard rejection letter because I'm only interested in people who are _aggressive_. Thanks for sending your recommendation letters. I _definitely_ have openings in my lab."

I didn't have the heart to tell him that he only got those letters because of my laziness.
I am not talking about high quality art. That is fairly subjective.

I am referring mainly to the smart contract itself. One should be able to audit the contract to understand the transfer mechanics. Most NFT contracts are forks of popular open source implementations of ERC721 such as OpenZeppelin's (https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/erc721). You want to know things like max supply, mint mechanics, transfer mechanics, etc. And you want to be able to inspect the contract, such as this example: https://etherscan.io/token/0x1CB1A5e65610AEFF2551A50f76a87a7...
> People tend to do so anyway until the area floods or burns.

Thanks to Federal insurance programs that were implemented pre-climate crisis, they continue to build there after too, for the most part.
They literally link it at the end of the article with "Find us at https://toot.thoughtworks.com"

On a blog post about running your own instance to reach millions of users, why does it turn out that their instance is totally locked down and actually not accessible to anyone?
Would it be possible to develop something like this for Linux using eBPF?
Thanks for valuing women as highly as guinea pigs.
If you're running a red light to make a statement, that's speech.

> If popular comedian Joe Bloggs booked a venue and sold tickets for a comedy night, then someone else turned up instead "surprise! It's parody guys"

The problem there is the booking and the tickets. Not just walking around the street talking to people.

This is definitely parody.
The Disney company should heed this device and call their server(s) Mousetodon. I think they'd kill it. Heck, they could automatically enroll everybody subscribed to Disney+. They could even have different servers for different sets of fanbases to focus on - Marvel, Star Wars, etc.
You’re talking too much sense dude, that won’t be tolerated here
mostly from coverage that I've seen at UnderstandingWar.org

Fair warning, that site is a blog run by a neocon think tank, headed by the King NeoCon himself Bill Kristol. This is the weapons of mass destruction crew, nothing they say should never be taken seriously.
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This was _nominated_ for deletion due to not being notable... 10 years ago. When the company was only a few months old. And therefore not notable.

If you're not familiar with Wikipedia: anyone can nominate any page for deletion at any time. Doesn't mean it will happen.
I think part of the issue is just... habit. We know how email works because email has always worked like that. But twitter is not that environment currently works like that so people getting confused is sort of understandable.

Honestly which instance is hard because instances can be small. Which means that an instance runner can get petty with federation. One instance I looked at clearly had the owner in some sort of drama with the owner of another instance.

Sure while it may be possible to avoid now, imagine that drama had happened after I'd been on the instance for a year. I wouldn't likely know until I suddenly stopped seeing my friends posts in my feed. Or what if my previous one had shut down with no warning instead of giving me months to migrate. Should a normal person have to back up their data weekly from the site in case it's owner does something stupid?

In reality Federation is cool and all but most people are going to end up on Mastadon.social
Perhaps ideas exist only on a spectrum.

Some devs enjoy taking ownership and 'get' strategy. The 'jobbers' complete their tickets and call it a day.

Scrum and other rigid processes work well for some but inhibit others.

If devs want Agile because everyone's doing it, it's probably for them. If they don't and are consistently delivering, that's great.
> Democrats are pretty much starting from the position that, due to demographics, the only way Republicans can gain the upper hand in national elections (or particular state/local elections) is through trickery and the assistance of foreign government meddling.

I’m trying to be generous in my interpretation here but are you using “trickery” to include the gerrymandering and voting restrictions Democrats spend most of their time on? In particular, I’d like some citations about who is saying specifically what about “interference”.
you'll never see any error messages or warnings in devtools / IDEs when you try.

I’ve seem dev tools highlight code that either doesn’t make sense or doesn’t have any affect.

I wonder if something like Stylelint [1] would catch this.

[1]: https://stylelint.io
OpenSea plans to enforce NFT royalties on-chain, strong-arming debate
Then what's the point of the closing line "Find us at https://toot.thoughtworks.com"?
What is the point of your comment? Is it to excuse other countries using whataboutism? Is it to say that the behavior in general is normal?
> malinformation

Please do not normalize the use of a term that is being pushed by the government to justify censoring information they don’t like [1]. I understand that there is such a thing as “true information presented out of context in a manner meant to mislead”, and I even grant that the comment might be guilty of it. But “malinformation” and “misinformation” are just becoming labels for “information that is inconvenient”, and I don’t think normal internet commenters adopting their use is doing us any good.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...
"libcrunch: run-time type- and bounds-checking for C" seems like a good title.
> it seems that many of these people seem motivated by their animus towards Elon

Is there something bad about that? People are free to choose where they discuss things, and whom they give their money. He is tearing down moderation, crapping on verification, and injecting itself on electoral politics. Any CEO of Social Media that peddles on weird conspiracies of Pelosi's husband, and then just today announce that vote for Republicans...

What did you expect? That people will take it as "That's just Elon"...

Only sad aspect of this is that BlueSky project that supposedly allowed to move followers between servers was not ready, and he might not be particularly interested on allowing it anymore, as everyone would just flee with their followers.
1. Uh, ok. Might as well throw out the whole thread then?

2. A "time unit" is not a special type of value. You can construct arbitrary types of integers, and it is common to do so. `*` has no clue what a time is, just that it's "not an int" (for example).
Guess I deserved that. See, my commentary is on the fact that other services have a zero-friction sign-in page that lets you join up very easily and quickly. This is what users expect in 2022.

Mastodon doesn't have that. Instead, you have to read a wall of instructions and explanations about all the reasons one doesn't simply sign up for Mastodon. Next, you're asked to make a life-changing decision about a concept you just learned about for the first time, assuming you bothered to read that entire wall of previously-mentioned text. That is all friction. It's almost like Mastodon doesn't want any users.

Not to mention that people are often (but not always) multifaceted. We like sports, but we also like gadgets. We like to participate but we also like to be entertained. We like music but we also like computer programming. We like video games, Broadway shows, going to the beach. We like both dogs and cats. But Mastodon wants us to choose one and only one thing. That's what's stopping the flow of more people to Mastodon. They need to fix this, and fast.
It is also leaking the number ThoughtWorks employees via the server stats on that page.
> No organization wants to do this, unfortunately. Twitter and Instagram are “free”. Running servers costs money […]

2000 active users for $89 per month[1]. That's probably less than you would spend on toilet paper for 2000 employees. I don't think money would be the biggest reason why an organization or company wouldn't commit to the Fediverse.

Mastodon is also a DigitalOcean 1-click app[2] if you're willing to spend more time.

[1] https://masto.host/pricing/

[2] https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/mastodon
Both the Republicans and the Democrats paint each other as insufficiently committed to attacking Russia and China. It's because they both, wisely, don't respect the intelligence of the people who vote for them.

edit: not that both don't have a huge base that is against WWIII, but with the Republicans, having a far more democratic internal process that was a concession to Tea Party activists, some of that base actually gets to have a say in Congress. The Congressional Democratic Party is completely impenetrable to anyone in their base who isn't an extreme nationalist hawk, whereas Republicans can't realistically exclude isolationists/paleocons.
Why wouldn't you just ask the person who gave it to you how to use it? I've always been there to answer questions when introducing people to new technology. I know I had to walk people through emailing me back in the 90s. It's no different. What kind of Johnny Appleseed jackass is strolling around telling people their handle and skipping out before telling them how to use it?
No one wants to do this. The HN type crowd always is willing (or says its willing) to do more work to get more privacy/freedom/etc... Almost everyone else will take convenience and cost over those things.

That said, I have no interest in using Twitter now. But I want something that is basically Twitter, except without Elon Musk running it.
>> Those 90s had some good shows.

Oh man you are so right.

Saw this at a small venue in North Dakota:

Danzig

With opening bands:

Marilyn Manson (and yes, he did drop trow about 3 min into their set. Hilariously my best friend called it before the show)

Korn

In Minneapolis at First Ave:

Fear Factory

With opening bands
Hed(Pe)

Static X

System Of A Down
From lookin on amazon, SAD lights seem to be ~10k lux. I have 8*Lifx BR-30 at 1100 Lux each in my kitchen/living room. Seems pretty close.
Conditional on being in a crash, men are more likely to die due to being involved in more severe crashes. But ceteris paribus, women tend to be more easily injured.
Take your L.
> what became Windows 11 started development as just another Windows 10 feature update, and what gets branded as a "new release" vs an "update" is mostly a marketing decision.

The move from Windows 10 to Windows 11 came with some pretty severe restrictions on supported hardware, so the version jump in this case makes sense to me. It would be a lot more difficult to push an "update" which obsoleted so much hardware like that.
I don't really get what the author is driving at. Sure, each system has quirks so designing a portable FFI is difficult to say the least. But what's the alternative?

In my experience I have seen plenty of standards violated and downright disregarded because the platform has special functionalities or quirks. My view is that even if there was an ironclad ABI spec platforms would still violate it with their special implementation of the system interface.

I think we would end up with exactly the same problems only the rant would not be targetting C but something else.
Can you expand on your comment?

Are you suggesting that US elections can be rigged?
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He should take it to court. Great publicity for his game!
> Now C isn’t just a programming language, it’s a protocol.

Clickbait headline, but an interesting article.
A simple quadratic model would suggest a 60% weight increase of the 38" over the 30". That's enormous.
Who said he didn’t have any other backups elsewhere?

Impossible to prove he didn’t have his private keys backed up elsewhere.
Unfamiliar with that creator.
Mastodon does have a feature where you can verify you own a website by putting a hidden tag on it that links to your profile.
It's not open source or free, but Roon provides multi-zone synchronized playback and has excellent Linux support (including x64 and arm easy install scripts). See:

http://roonlabs.com

https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/linux-instal...

Many Roon users use Raspberry Pi's as audio "bridge" devices for their various audio setups around the house. There's even dedicated RPi distros that offer Roon packages:

https://ropieee.org (semi-open source)

https://dietpi.com (GPL)

You can read more about how Roon handles playback clock sync using its RAAT protocol here:

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/raat-and-clock-ownership/69...

Disclaimer: I work at Roon Labs LLC.
But those things aren't generally for communicating with the outside world, whereas a federated server could network with the wider fediverse.
Did you see the claim "70% of all security bugs are related to memory safety"?
Which isn't to say 70% of successful exploitation of said bugs resulted in genuine harm, but low-level vulnerabilities in widely used system-level software (network stacks etc.) can potentially have devastating effects in the way an excel macro is unlikely to.
Markdown has been a popular vector for XSS in the past due to the more esoteric media embedding features it has.
edit: I misread your comment.

Both extremes of the spectrum are pretty vocal. But I believe that there is a much bigger, more open minded center on all platforms.
this isn't a unique problem for the Fediverse.

sometime in ~2018, Mastodon (IIRC -- it might have been a specific instance) implemented inter-user messaging over ActivityPub, showing users only messages addressed to them -- since it wasn't actually part of the spec, the rest of the Fediverse saw them as regular feed messages.

Mastodon users assumed DMs were private and got burned, other instance operators were all of a sudden flooded with non-post messages, and everything was generally pretty suck-y until everyone got their shit together.

this sort of thing happens periodically (see: Gab's federation flooding the network in a similar way), it's a consequence of different entities trying to develop individual features over a unifying protocol.
Musk’s Twitter Buy Makes No Sense – Unless It’s Part of Something Bigger
China's unprecedented generational explosion into the middle class happened only after Deng Xiaoping instituted market reforms. Economically, China is certainly more socialist than the west, but far more capitalist than it was in the 1970's.

Same with USSR/Russia, post-communism.
Previous discussion 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30704642
What kind of bulbs are you using? Most of the z-wave ones I found do not have great CRI and the cheap ones generally don't support white color temperature at all (falling back on some RGB).
The whole point of federation is that you don't need a central authorization to do what you want. Discoverability is only easy with centralization. Of course it won't work as well.

The fediverse is young. Don't expect a finished product when there has been so few man-hours and so little funidng put into it.
Tailscale is awesome. One of my two favorite companies alongside fly.io. But these are tools built for sysadmins and developers. Selfhosting needs tools built for the masses.
It must really depend on the org, because Azure is a security shitshow that indicates multiple teams there haven't even dreamt about thinking about security. Multiple highly critical cross-tenant vulnerabilities in the span of two years, some of them trivial, is not a good look on Microsoft as a whole.
Once again, self proclaimed rational thinkers and scientific and engineering minds can't see their glaring biases. As long as my team is winning all of the problems "aren't so bad", but as soon as it's the other team, everything is a firebrand. Metas preparing to have massive layoffs and yet here we are arguing over someone making obvious and I mean obvious business decisions to cut waste, bloat, and start turning some profitability. We've lamented some of these financial woes about Twitter here for years, and now someone finally has started walking the walk and all of a sudden the world is ending and its time to jump ship?
I think you misunderstand the strategy of many moderates and centrists. Many have been unmoving over the years and we should note the stark rise in independent voters. There's this narrative that moderates and centrists compromise on everything and this too is propaganda. These people people just see value in some positions from each side. But the key here is cherry-picking. You don't take an issue like abortion and "compromise" on it, but rather you have an opinion that falls akin to one group. That may or may not be the same group who's opinions align with your opinions about taxes though. In fact, you even see the Libertarians trying to capture these groups by promoting themselves as "fiscally conservative, socially liberal." So don't buy into the propaganda.

> It REQUIRES a national level fix.

The US has a national election tomorrow. This requires individuals to vote for representatives that will adequately represent them in this manner. There is an individual role required to make a national fix.

I'd also ask, what to do when those national institutions fail? We've always, and always will, have to rely on individuals. This is both the power and vulnerability of a democracy (even democratically elected republics). It is the individual who votes. It is the individual who stokes or stamps the flames of extremism. Is always has been and always will be up to us. The alternative is autocracy. So please do not pass the buck. You have a role to play here and it is critical. Surely there are solutions that do not require us to go to civil war nor turn to autocracy. We're better than that.

I'm also going to leave this here: John Cleese's (of Monty Python) skit on Extremism. It is worth a watch, even just for a good laugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCkxlqFd90
It has been illuminating for me over the past few weeks to have lost hearing in my right ear as a result of a lingering sinus infection; I understood that identifying the direction a sound might come from would be difficult with only one ear, but I had no idea how crucial it was for speech comprehension, particularly when any other noise is also present.

I've found that I can barely even discern that speech is present within a mix of noises, much less am I able to comprehend the speech until such time as I can reduce the other noises to a minimal level, and directionally point my ear at the source of said speech. Conference calls were quite a delight there for a while.
Interested in comments from anyone who lives in India or has experience/familiarity with it as to whether reality on the ground matches the rosy picture painted in the article.
Well it validates those in the US media that have been advancing the interference theory
I guess not everyone has time to read the articles before commenting.
I was JUST wondering this morning about how to figure out where to start on Mastadon, guess I'll have to give this a look tonight.
Hey, another one! https://social.bund.de/explore
Yes. Nobody seems to care that the US interfered in the 2000 Russian election. Putin came to power as a result of the US interference, after blackmailing Boris Yeltsin and forcing him to step down. In effect, the US is responsible for putting Putin in power. The media demonizes Putin getting everybody to hate him, and the average person (including HN) goes along with it, because they don't know any better, even though HN considers itself to be smarter than the average person.
The party that spent 20 years complaining about the billions we spent on military support to prop up corrupt but US-friendly regimes now claims that not spending billions to prop up a corrupt but US-friendly regime is evidence of collaboration with the enemy.
Maybe the free speech activists who now run Twitter could charge Mastodon promoters with "tortious interference" for damaging Twitter
>But paper is pretty effectively recycled and trees aren't the only input - transport, water, and heat at the plant.
Exactly.
Moreover 1ha of Arundo produces 20-50t or more dry mass per year packed in 100mx100m area. Granted, not harvested at 0% humidity, less dense than paper. Collecting 50t of recycled paper from the containers in the city probably needs more energy for transport.
There are always ups and downs but you sound like you're in a position where you don't have the experience yet to see that. Personally I'd make sure to have savings to bridge the gab should you be laid off or have trouble finding a job in the first place.

You've chosen a field that's probably on the much safer side of things in terms of job security so try not let it affect you too much. It's easy to say I get it but it'll be fine. Probably.
This is part of why I wrote my own software to do this. Lifx kinda had the feature implemented (I do no like how theirs works) but also the curve was not great. Too dim in daytime, too bright at 2am.