skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You refer to some mysterious "decision" they made, but what was it?

I tried to keep less specific because it doesn't matter to a great deal. We both lack a tardis and cannot change the past.

https://archive.ph/0JFR9

I'm not a gab user, I got an awesome username but it's a shitty echo chamber worse than anywhere else. Fundamentally "Gab" forked mastodon because masotodon banned them off the fediverse. But more importantly mastodon made it clear they do not represent free speech and have the ability to remove political opponents.

There's tons of speech on GAB and what percentage is 'hate speech'? can you even define hate speech really? It's not all speech on the platform. The correct way to read the blog is they banned their political opponents because they have free speech policies. This was a huge mistake for mastodon. Something they can basically never recover from.

One of the persistent issues in political polarization has been labelling your political opponents. Republicans are all nazis?
> do you use Rust for (nearly) everything?

Nearly. There are still some things easier to do in Python or JS, but the gap is closing quickly and I'm fine with spending small amount of convenience to get quality of Rust code. I am looking now into having nearly 100% Rust frontend + Rust backend for some simple project and it does look promising.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...

Majority are 80+ and will disproportionately by the more sickly of those.

Don't have good enough data on long covid to discuss it.
There's one big difference between undefined behavior in C and C++. In C++, undefined behavior is ill-formed when it is constant-evaluated. And for aspects which are tricky to determine undefined behavior for, such as reinterpret_cast or type-punning in a union, they're just disallowed in constexpr code entirely. So in C++, you can't necessarily just say "well this is undefined, but it works correctly within our particular constraints", whereas you always can say that in C. That makes implementation-defined a huge difference from undefined. You can always cast signed integers to unsigned integers or vice versa in constexpr code.
> You’d have to ignore everything the new CEO is saying, in order to believe otherwise.

Thing is, he isn't saying that much. Most of what people are reacting to are people's interpretation of what Musk said, and then further interpretation of those interpretations, etc. That's what strikes me as completely bonkers.
Oh yeah, we don't have a choice in the matter in terms of healthcare. You'd need a much bigger actor without a financial interest in making you terrified to be involved. It's why insurance and pharma really don't want large state actors in the health space, they have a proportional amount of power to restrict prices to a reasonable amount
Except for the UK, All of them have Android dominance.
Bit of an aside, but how long are we going to keep doing this calling out the parent-child company dynamic in every single headline for Alphabet and Meta?

It makes sense for the first few weeks or months after a rebrand, merger or acquisition to remind readers that X owns Y now or A used to be called B. But at some point surely we just start calling corporations by their name, right? Does anyone reading tech or financial news not know who Meta or Alphabet is at this point?
It has to do with tracking the levels in the group.

You want to be able to slide a master level up and down and have the levels maintain the "same" balance, even if one of the players ends up going to (effectively) zero level when you have turned it down. Takes a little bit of thinking about how you represent the range of the levels.

I think the patent is actually quite a bit broader, and covers using a UI that has a master volume control across players whose individual volume levels are displayed as well.

Google pulled all "master" level control in response.
Good analogies!

It also kinda follows from your "public space" analogy, that the loudest people screaming the most obnoxious and entertaining insults, will dominate this space.

Extending your analogy a bit further, this "public space" is really more of a "public bathroom" wall, where people scribble hot takes, and others react to those with more hot takes of their own.

I'm happy for you that you shut down your account a while ago -- I haven't used mine in months, and should probably do the same right now.
If you're suing IBM, maybe. But I don't see how the majority of patent trolls that seem to be suing small businesses for things like using a printer, scanner, fax combo they bought at Office Depot is helping anyone out.
As I read TFA, I thought to myself, "if it gets bad enough, I'll just load Linux on my Macs." And then it occurred to me how I got started using Apple products. So grab a cuppa for story time. It was a time that I worked for Microsoft, and mmm, mmm, wasn't that uncarbonated company soft drink tasty. But as I dicked with some Plays for Sure(tm) device for the last time, I got fed up and told the spouse, "get in the car, we're going to BellSquare to buy iPods." iPods turned into ditching the Windows Phones for iPhones, then a hackintosh to get a feel for OS X Leopard, then "fine, I'll get a MacBook if I'm going to do iOS development on the side".

Fast-forward fifteen years, and it's a house full of HomeKit, Apple Watches (loving that new Ultra), MacBooks, HomePods, etc. It all works well together, so it's easy to justify ditching $DEVICE for an Apple product. And when Apple Premium (one price for all of Apple's services such as TV+, iCloud storage, et. al.) came around, well, of course I said "put that on the Apple Card, please."

The point I'm driving at is that a household of Apple products started with one simple purchase of a couple of music players. But keep up the advertising crap to the point that I'm loading a non-Apple OS on Apple hardware, and that unravelling thread might take the rest with it. "It all works so well together" is a blessing and a curse. I'm pretty sure that if, whatever the reason, we ditch the iPhones the rest of it goes with them.
> How many followers on Signal do you have?

As of now, Signal still has no concept of followers. My stories are at most only visible to all my contacts on Signal. In my mind this is a big difference between all the other major platforms with stories.
A lot of folks compare the amount they pay in premiums against it, which is a mistake, because that's almost always only part of the cost; employers tend to pay all or some.

I ran into someone who genuinely thought their health insurance ran $100/month, because that's how much got deducted in their paycheck.
Globalization certainly, to the degree that the United States has pushed and opened borders, absolutely. To the degree that pseudo-communistic countries have reformed their legal systems to respect the rule of law and property, that has little to do with the United States.

The guy who can't get a lifetime job at a shirt factory, steelworks, or software job in the USA also "paid" for this.
Maybe your solution is to set up a firewall and block any articles written out there that gets the wrong people elected.
I worked on NSInvocation during Apple's 64 bit transition. NSInvocation is an FFI: it allows you to construct calls to ObjC methods given a runtime signature, which means implementing the calling conventions of four platforms (PPC and x86, 32 and 64 bit).

My approach was to write a script which generated functions for all possible signatures, up to N parameters. The functions verified the values they were passed both natively and through NSInvocation.

This flushed out a huge number of weird, undocumented ABI corner cases. For example on PPC, when returning a struct containing a bitfield, sometimes the bits are aligned at the top (MSB) of the register, other times at the bottom, depending on the width of the bitfield! This was just an old gcc bug, but it can't be fixed without breaking the ABI.

The resulting C code was so large it also unearthed a PPC64 compiler bug! PPC jump instructions have a 24-bit immediate offset. If the offset needs to be larger than 24 bits, it's supposed to load the offset into a register and emit an indirect jump. This just didn't work, but nobody noticed, since you'd need to branch past ~33MB of code in a single function to hit it.
Curious to know the rationale behind the "batteries not included" approach.

One of the advantages of Go imho is it's solid stdlib, which includes production-ready HTTP server/client, JSON, XML, crypto libraries and more.
The UK had relatively little dependence on russian gas though.

So you'd have to basically predict what did happen. Russia turning off the taps to the whole of Europe / Europe refusing to buy, and Europe scrambling to find alternative sources.

I don't think any of that was reasonably foreseeable.
Or just use zig
I so miss killfiles and scorefiles, and it's mindboggling how 30+ years after Usenet clients had them they're still virtually non-existent in any social media readers that I'm aware of.

Usenet clients gave their users so much power, it's almost criminal that modern news readers have yet to catch up to them several decades later.
Space weapons is a pandoras box I don't think we want to open.
Absolutely. Been there, lived through that myself.

I'm sure you can appreciate that every one of these issues impacts the uptake of mastodon, of course.
It is anyway clear that, whatever the weather, Germany will not in fact freeze in the dark.
Take your pick between employees acting as agents on behalf of foreign governments[0], suspending POTUS for rules not uniformly applied to other users[1], introducing a fact-checking system with poor community reception[2], changing the core feature of the product (post length)[3], or improperly collecting data and accruing fines such that the US FTC now has the company under tight investigation. All done before Musk ever owned the company.

[0]https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-twitter-employee...

[1]https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

[2]https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/25/22248903/twitter-birdwatc...

[3]https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/21/twitter-to-expand-into-lon...

[4]https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/twitter-pre-musk-data...
Why did we remove SMS (step 1 into "only criminals use this app") and then start adding stuff that has absolutely nothing at all to do with messaging?

I think that "only criminals use this app" is always going to be used on anything that uses encryption by folks that are against encryption (usually governments for some reasons...). SMS or not is always going to be there. I don't think that having secure communication apps intentionally offer insecure communication is the right way to solve this. SMS was a legacy feature for Signal that just got removed now.

> adding stuff that has absolutely nothing at all to do with messaging?

Stories?

> Did a federal agent start running the show with the sole mission of destroying the entire app?

I just replied to another similar comment, not sure if it's the same person or not... but then I'd say...

Use Telegram! It's unencrypted by default!
Use WhatsApp - unfortunately encrypted by default, but at least Meta will collect so much more metadata than you can keep track for.
Use iMessage - It will upload your encrypted chat and the decryption key to Apple servers for you.

My point saying "it's the feds running it" without proof like that is not the most constructive conversation - Signal is by all accounts one of the most secure and private (not necessarily the same as anonymous) messaging apps out there with no clear competitors at the same level of privacy and security.
I do this, but also have different lighting options in certain rooms, like the office.

In my office, the ceiling light is a daylight bulb, but i also have a couple lamps with warmer lights. During the day, I run the ceiling light, and after sunset, turn the ceiling light off and turn the lamps on.

Perhaps a bit Luddite, but less fuss and cost.
Canadians, people in their 30s and beyond, people who aren't on Facebook, random people not in your friend group, businesses. But most of all, the people who keep complaining about SMS support! What you're saying is a bit nonsensical "if I ignore everyone in this group, the group has no one in it".
Sure they are, which countries aren't interested in the most powerful country that constantly exports their problems.(our debt is YOUR problem)

But the coverage is probably outsized to their actual impact compared to the hundreds of billions spent by the local monopolies trying to influence the elections themselves.

Trump ignoring his personal issues for a moment, has shown with his rise and fall, just how much of the media are just working together - I have never seen all of them including interestingly enough CNBC and Fox constantly dismissing the same candidate in unison for months towards to 2016 election.

Add the tech monopolies into the mix for 2020 and it was another eye opener.
The truth hurts...
1) At this point, the CCP internally considers the 1 child policy a mistake. I'm sure this news won't be widely published within China, but mentioning it is not going to get anyone into trouble. Plenty of people complain about the one child policy, and so long as you don't call for the downfall of the CCP because of it, you're fine.

2) India has its own sordid history with coercive sterilization. During the Emergency, millions of people were sterilized, under varying levels of compulsion.
I think given the gravity of the atrocities being committed, and the imminent threat to democracy, things like audits should be a distant secondary concern.

I'm certainly not concerned about the dollars being used to fight Putin because I think the costs of not doing otherwise would far outweigh them.
It seems like failing to be strict about defining behavior and expectations under all conceivable circumstances (such as leaving the actual bit length of certain integer types to be "up to the architecture to decide" in order to "remain flexible") is always a long-term design mistake.
SAD lights are used at distance of 1-2 ft to get that brightness.

Your bulbs are probably 1100 lumen. Lumen and lux are different. Specifying lux requires specifying the distance or area. 8800 lumen on ceiling would be more like 800 lux at normal distance. Which is a bright room but not sunlight bright which is needed for SAD.
How did these Twist bulbs account for differences in time zone? If I have some of these lights and I move hundreds of miles to a new time zone, plug the same lights into the new home, how do they lights know?
I’ve derived immense enjoyment from watching the Twitter debacle unfold, so I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I like the scheme to pay for blue check marks. It’s nice to see someone has at least $8 to spend on spreading their opinion on Twitter. There’s something reassuring about that. I can’t articulate exactly why, but it feels nice to know that what I’m reading isn’t part of some cheap troll farm.
Khrushchev was overthrown. Gorbachev was basically too. After the hardliners’ coup attempt he was basically a lame duck.
I believe you are focusing on a moving target. Electoral fraud is just the current wedge issue, it will become something else next when a lot of effort and thought is wasted trying to fix a system that is not that broken to be causing such uproar.

You waste resources playing a whack-a-mole game against the firehose of bullshit. It's electoral fraud now, something to do with green energy plans next, then whatever welfare issue is hot in the moment. Something with immigrants and then start repeating.
and 4kb of ram is all you'll ever need!
I really don't understand the qualms with SMS support. SMS was never secure, and it certainly doesn't become more secure when you push it through a pass-through on one app or another. There is nothing you can do to SMS to make it more secure except to send encrypted strings: but then you have the same problem of sharing secrets, etc. that requires a separate app to manage anyway.
"Cybertruck"
> How much does a life cost?

About $3500: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

Used to be about $100 a couple of decades ago, but the low hanging fruit has been mostly picked by good people.
Surprising Items That Are Allowed as Carry-On Items (and 10 That Aren’t)
It depends on the country. Last I read here it was down 7%, other places down around 15%... Germany has had legislation since at least Sept. but I'm not sure where to find the results of that. My personal consumption is down 66% for October and I think my neighbor's is yet more. Also note, it's the warmest winter on record in many places in Europe.
Why is there no jury of peers? I do not understand legal system in America.
“the US is doing the same to other countries”

Source?

“If some random Russian not can trigger a coup”

It’s still an act of aggression regardless of whether the US is equipped to deal with it. While I agree that the US does lots of shitty things, we have way more checks and balances than our key enemies. For one, it is the people who elect those who represent us.
This was almost posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509571
>But if my organization sets up its own Mastodon instance I'm free to ignore what the larger Mastodon ecosystem is doing, if I want to.

You have the same tools to block on Twitter. There is literally no difference.
Can I ask what kind of Tea goes best with Tim Tams? Are we talking about just simple black Earl Grey here?
I have had the pleasure of meeting Dr Astrid Linder on a couple of occasions in the semi-distant past. Thoroughly impressive woman and this field of work (occupant diversity in crash testing) is very much her core area of expertise.

Its been a while, but I believe the point here is that the American model is, as others have said, 30 years old.

There are lots of problems with these 30 year old American models. Crash testing is one. Xray dosage another. Nuclear exposure another. The list goes on. So much of the world still refers back to these ancient models and people, mostly Europeans like Astrid Linder are working hard to modernise these.

Astrid Linder's body of work that culminates in this present dummy takes into account real world data relating to size selection, anthropometry, modern knowledge of response corridors, more advanced assessment criteria, more suitable assessment thresholds, takes into account modern seat design.

If you want to read more detail, you can start by looking up her work on the ADSEAT project (2009–2013) which incorporated work on EvaRID. For example, recording of presentation from 7 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE51KAnukcg
I guess its up to uoaei to define companies instead of themselves. They have a mission statement and othing more and that mission could be achieved as a social media company.
McDonald's fries in Asia actually taste pretty good. The ones in the states and Europe taste awful.
Older people I know in Switzerland are definitely taking action, I've seen no action in businesses which use considerably more energy, though there are less businesses overall.
> If the offset needs to be larger than 24 bits, it's supposed to load the offset into a register and emit an indirect jump

imagine unit tests existing for claimed functionalities :: eye roll ::
The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015
Those millions who moved to middle class are also helping the layer below them. These lifted households are spending their wealth on house helps, local grocery stores, taxis/autos and a whole lot of other local businesses. This trickle down effect then boosts development in cities where these IT hubs are located. Even more students then want to join these IT companies and enjoy the lifestyle of their seniors thus continuing the cycle.

P.s. We spend money in local shops because the stores like Walmart have still not penetrated the Indian market as they have outside India.
They're also not serious about it. Decentralization is a "disinformation specialist's" nightmare, because people might be able to say things to other people that couldn't be edited or deleted by third parties.

That being said, I'd be overjoyed if the Fediverse took off over this. There's just not a chance in hell, because it's a worst case scenario for the three-letter agencies and the administration that are pushing this outrage. Just the observation of how aggressive they've become over Musk's ownership, a guy who's completely in thrall to government insider cash, tells you that they wouldn't tolerate a competitive, mainstream Mastodon for a second.

This is just trashing the company as an indication that they can destroy the company. A company that Musk vastly overpaid for, so now is stuck with the obligation to make profitable. Making Twitter profitable was probably always impossible. An intense government push could easily destroy it. That's why he's explicitly aligning with Republicans, who can't attack Musk without alienating their base.
To think this launched at the same time as Game of Thrones

GOT launched in 2011, 5 years before Westworld.
In my own lexer in JS, I considered using a generator but instead used a class with an index property. In your experience, what advantages does a generator have over that approach?
This is all true but the question is at what point of scale does the cost outweigh the benefits?

At small scale, you get more money (in absolute terms) using price discrimination with no validation on the back end. As your scale grows, you reach a point where it's worth the monetary and time investment to add validation and things on top.

At the end of the day someone using a VPN to get your product for $5 instead of $20 doesn't matter that much unless you're so wildly popular that people are clamoring for it, at which point you theoretically have the staff to start adding in some protections.
> Kind of like granular oauth permissions, apps should have to declare which outgoing they have,

Just like PayPal. There's a table you can bring up that lists everyone you ever engaged with on paypal for recurring pricing, and deactivate them.

I've wanted exactly what you describe for years. Little Snitch taught me that there's just too much data that isn't organized properly. Even if you get down to the app level (like PowerPoint), it is still transceiving a lot of data. How do you tell what is necessary and what is dubious telemetry?
Please, please know your history[0] before speaking.

[0]https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...
CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in Vietnam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwerBZG83YM
A thousand times this.

I understand the frustration of principled PL authors trying to bootstrap an ecosystem for programs compiled from their language to run on. It can be frustrating having to interact with foreign memory that you don't control and specifications that intentionally leave much to be desired by allowing the hardware platform to decide the memory layout...

But if you didn't have these things it would be a lot harder to get even a basic system going.

It would be nice if there were _one_ standard way to encode an sized integer to rule them all... but we don't live in that ideal world. Pick an arbitrary, common layout, and stick with that. Your language might not let users target some micro-controller that runs on a toothbrush but you probably don't need to anyway.
Security can lead to privacy. It's not just Microsoft that will get access to your data if the operating system is not secure in the first place.
Well that'll do for my dose of weltschmerz today, thanks.
Which part, specifically, confused you? Was it 'well-selected sample'? Was it the notion of anti-racism? Neither of these are terms I coined, but they're fairly well defined in my social groups. I'm happy to clarify any topics you're unfamiliar with.
I don't understand. Any immunity deal entails revealing criminal behaviour. That is an admission, and admission is the whole reason immunity is granted.

Edit: the point being that the limit on their sentence is contingent on not pleading the 5th.