skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit more complicated than that, not that the article you're responding to is particularly nuanced itself. The overall goal is to improve material and physical well-being for society in aggregate (itself a bit ambiguous, but bear with me). Suppose cars being optimized for the male case would minimize overall injuries. That will have the side effect, however, of dissuading women from driving at the margin, compared to a world where cars are optimized for some intermediate case. That's deadweight loss, and deadweight loss has a real economic and social cost. In the extreme, you could imagine a world where there's a net increase of one death in exchange for generating billions of dollars. In that non-realized world, that'd be an obvious trade off worth making.

Of course, with that different safety optimization target we'd then have loss when the marginal male driver chooses not to drive. Do they cancel out? At least if we're starting from a male-optimized point, small changes in safety policies are likely to lead to minimal loss of male drivers (by definition of optima; linear terms are zero in the vicinity of a local optimum). At that male-focused optimum, however, female drivers can potentially drive large social gains by small changes in safety policy in their favor (since the safety policy is not already optimized for them).

Which is all to say, what's socially ideal is likely somewhere between male-optimized and female-optimized, though not necessarily near the exact midpoint. And that's all assuming that car driving currently is currently male-optimized, which I'd question.
TikTok is directed at people who's minds are still developing (on purpose). It most certainly does have irreversible effects.
USA is the number one threat to democracy in the USA. There's no point continuing to blame China, Russia or whoever else for domestic problems.
I use incandescent and halogen everywhere and don't have a problem with color temperature. Also, the CRI of my bulbs is incredible.

My house has maybe 20 light bulbs in it, most of them under 75 watts, except for a couple of strategic halogen fixtures.

Sometimes I think about getting LED smart lighting, but then I think about how many iterations of setups I would have to go through it get everything dialed in, all the e-waste I would be contributing to, all the plastic, all the security vulnerabilities, all the software updates, all the glitches, all the flicker from cheap PWD circuitry and I decide to stick with simple glass and red hot metal.
Not sure I get the problem. Yes an expensive server in expensive data center has more CPU, Ram, disk I/O, and bandwidth than a normal desktop, laptop, or phone.

But say you track 1000 peers, find 50 online, and send a 280 character tweet to ten of them. Sure it's going to take seconds for that tweet to get to whatever fraction of millions of people that are interested. Sure your client should ask the 40 peers if they saw the message to make sure it went out.

The beautiful thing is that even on a smart phone paying 10x the bandwidth of a tweet is still effectively zero.

If the goal was a commodities trading platform, sure distributed wouldn't make sense. But receiving tweets of interest send in the last few minutes seems rather insensitive to a peers bandwidth, latency, CPU, or ram.
Why would it be a black eye to the ccp when they’ve lifted twice as many from poverty as India? And far higher growth, gdp per capita, etc. weird comment

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/l...
agreed, or even, as demonstrated in parts of this thread, people's inability to come to an agreement on widely-known facts that conflict with their ego defense
Install yunohost. Clicks in a UI.

Install pleroma. Or mastodon. Or pixelfed (for images). Or peertube (for videos). Or plume (for blogging). Clicks in a UI.
How is a company inefficient if it makes 'too much' profit?

Whom decides what is too much?
Communicating emotions is orthogonal to managing them - if you let mean comments of irrelevant strangers impact you that emotionally you are going to be emotionally unstable.
I'm using WhatsApp everyday, but have never encountered anybody using stories (I can't even find it in WhatsApp on Android, is it the camera-ocon in the top-left?)
That's all well and good but whatever the rationale it still makes code unnecessarily hard to read.

A := B;
X := Y(Z);

Is B a variable name or a function call? Is Y a function or an array? Is Z itself a function call? There is no way to know the answers without looking up the definitions for B, Y, and Z. And the answers are important because function calls can alter the program state and affect performance in ways that a variable deference or array subscript cannot.

So when reading Ada code, a developer has to constantly jump around the code base to understand which fundamental language mechanics are being used. It's a frustrating problem for someone who has to review real-time, safety-critical Ada code. And I've never run into that problem with any other language.
C is only the OS ABI in operating systems written in C.
Not every male, just a large enough sample size of rich males given enough "freedom". (It's implied that the park is super-expensive to visit, even after nearly a hundred years of existence. [The exact number is something like 70 years.] That's maybe the most implausible part to me that it was never quite commoditized on such a long scale. Though they did put a lot of money into upgrades over nearly a hundred years, though. Also, that's one of the answers for why you thought they were just pulling new features/powers out of a hat, they had a 70+ year timescale to play with and different pieces happened at different times. They just made it super confusing to figure when on the timeline most individual episodes and even scenes occur.)
Maybe Mastodon already handles many of the following concerns. However I can imagine any organization would go through a series of questions before they start running their own server:

1. How much does it cost?

2. Who does it benefit?

3. Who takes the ownership of the deployment?

4. If something needs to be fixed with the deployment, who does that?

5. Why should I prefer this over say slack/teams, where I get support bundled in my contract?

6. What happens if someone puts up something nasty on the internal mastodon network? The legal department hates this one weird trick.

7. Does it create a headache for the HR department if people start violating their corporate code of conduct on the mastodon network?

Maybe I am pessimistic, but OP is probably being quite dreamy here.
Ever heard of super pacs?
you can as well use Nitter or Fritter to improve your experience
Greta Thunberg on Mastodon
> Are you going to say anything similarly conspiratorial about Robert Mercer? Robert Uihlein? The Koch brothers?

I'm going to say that if these creeps donate millions and billions to Republican campaigns, cycle after cycle, with no effective objections from the court or Congress, that "foreign interference" is a nationalist dogwhistle and not a serious concern.
I mean, it's obvious now, but it never occurred to me in the 80's.

What's really going to bake your noodle is when someone tells you your Apple had a 1200-baud modem built in at the factory.
Truth be told, blah blah blah huh :)

I was simply saying india is also #1 on plastic littering in the ocean.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/06/22/ranked-the-top-10-...

We also noticed the AQI dip into 300+ territory today. Where does that pollution go after? The ocean is not where it dissipates :)
The risk of this approach is that you are not picking an interest. You are picking an environment with a set of rules and regulation, an environment that has certain physical constraints (response time, scaleability), an environment that decides which instances you can federate with.

Try explaining that with an emoji and a fun tagline.
Via https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1589662802477998086
AFAIK it's not that kerosene per se is such a poor-burning fuel.

Kerosene is heavily subsidized, so that poor people can afford to cook. So gas stations blend in the cheap kerosene into the gasoline. The effect is that it lowers the octane, so the engines need to be detuned compared to what we might be used to in the West. And since modern engines are pretty finely tuned and finicky, might well be that detuning them causes an increase in emissions.

Also, I think the pollution comes more from lots of old and poorly maintained vehicles with little or no pollution abatement equipment like catalytic converters.
People literally ALWAYS say this when a new disruptive technology comes up. I'm not sure why, maybe people like the idea of stability?

"Digital will never replace film"

"Landlines will always be the majority of calls"

"Computers are cool, but will never replace typewriters"
And that’s an issue of capitalism, not impotent economy that has been drained by decades of poor planned economy of communism?
I'm thinking of using regular bulbs with smart switches, and dim them, and then add a bit of red light from a color-led strip.

I think that would have the same effect, without needing those specialized bulbs.
I'd say firing half the company, which includes the content moderation team very meaningful. Especially to those who just lost their jobs.

Sure, the site itself looks the same, the logo is the same, but there's a ton of turmoil for the people behind the scenes. Not everything is run by computers, there are a lot of humans in the loop for the day-to-day operations of the site. The core product of "post tweet" and everything else which is all automated, sure, but there's tons of stuff that isn't, because it can't be. All that backend stuff has changed, even if you don't see it.
I can’t reply to your dead comment, but I can read it -

I mentioned those two things about myself, that I am trans and that I am a robotics engineer, because both of those things are very important to me, and I write posts pertaining to either subject. You’re right that the two subjects rarely go together. But if I posted about robots and mountain biking a lot I would write that.

You said yourself you don’t want to hear about me being trans, so it seems it was relevant for me to write that here given how much I post about it and re-share posts from other trans people. I shared information which allows you to determine you might not want to follow me.

I think it’s great that you’re working on farming technology. But I’m a whole person. Trans rights are a very important issue to me.

I suspect that if I had instead said I was left handed, you would not have written a tirade against it. I think you should think about why that is. Not just reflexively claim you would have, but think about why me mentioning being trans upsets you. It’s an important part of who I am.
> Maybe. The problem is that unless it's made explicit, I am going to assume that someone WILL get confused.

This was the original point of the blue check marks, which is the point of the parody.

And you're making an argument which is adjacent to everyone needing to use "/s" because some people can't figure out sarcasm or irony on their own (also adjacent to the "think of the children" argument).
Quite the opposite. It is due to the shift away from socialism (after the USSR fell) that many of these things are possible.
First time Im hearing of an ATM dispensing $10 bills. Granted, first time I started using ATMs was in the early 2000s...
This may be where ( and why ) we differ. I do not consider FCC to be, well, useful. It was not useful during Carlin's words you can't say on TV. It is certainly even less useful now.

I am confused. Are you arguing for social media government oversight?
Strange choice in terms of product. But perhaps they're seeing people clamor for broadcast stuff in a secure messenger.
Average life expectancy in Zimbabwe is about 62. Mugabe lived to be 95.
Statistical life-expectancy depends on long-term data. Which of course is not keeping up with the rate at which we destroy the planet.

It's impossible to reliably conduct long-term analysis for a lot of environmental problems.

The problem at the center is not technological innovation, to the contrary.

The problem is scale.

Exponentially scaling the destruction of the environment, is kind of what we do as a species.
In the beginning of Electric Light, all bulbs were 2500K (incandescent). Mercury Vapor lights started getting used outdoors, but eventually the lighting industry figured out High Pressure Sodium (blue-free), and Low Pressure Sodium (pure orange) for outdoor lighting. Halogens can be tuned, I think... Some Halogens are 3000K. Automotive halogens are much more orange/yellow than the halogens I have in my ceiling fan.

The two essential tools for creating a tolerable light in our modern world are dimmer switches and the using safe color temperatures for LED light sources.

> The most significant benefit I’ve noticed is that I can get back to sleep after getting up in the middle of the night—now that I’m no longer blinded by harsh overhead light in the bathroom.

My bathroom has too much light most of the time. If I was "working on my makeup" the amount of light would be just right, but that's not me. I bought my first dimmer switch at Habitat for Humanity. It was the kind that has a little lever next to the on/off switch - basically you decide on the amount of light, then it's pre-set to that amount.

The Habitat dimmer switch was okay, but I'd still walk into the bathroom from a black hallway and blind myself, as I never checked the light level before hitting the switch. On surveying the dimmers at Home Depot, I settled on the kind that starts "off", and gradually increases the light level.

My other dimmer switches are the classic round-dimmer option, and one that has a button and a big 'how much light do you want' .... "slide":

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Electrical-Wiring-Devices-Light-...

I have three bedroom light switches. Ceiling fan light has halogen bulbs with a slide dimmer. Outlet switch has a deep red LED bulb in a table lamp. There was a 5000K fluorescent above the closet that I replaced with a fixture from the thrift store, that has a mix of orange and red bulbs.

The kitchen has horrible hanging lights over the stove. Someone installed 3000K LED bulbs. I replaced these with incandescents and halogens, and installed a dimmer, but they were all terrible. Eventually I found some 2000K "Amber" Philips LED bulbs. These work with my LED dimmer, and are tolerable. With the Amber bulbs at least you're not staring into an artificial sun. If it was up to me, I'd get rid of the hanging lights and go back to the 90's light canisters in the ceiling.

tl/dr: Good lighting is invisible. Bad lighting forces people to stare into artificial suns. "5000K" light sources are for plants, NOT people. To protect eyes, slide dimmers that always start with the minimum amount of light are the greatest.
> by irrational fear and hatred towards Musk

All your other point are good but this one surprises me. I think at this point people can have very rational fear and hatred of this guy. He's a 50 year old man with literally the world view of and politics a 14 year old edgelord on Fortnite but with enough money and following to do real damage with that. The biggest fears people seem to have is that he actually succeeds at his stated intentions for the platform.
Who was the lender, might I ask?
Ooh good point! I should try that form in the future thanks.
Eh, so long as the walled garden collapses, no?
The bigger thing is obvious and already happening: Musk wants to influence and control politics. Use Twitter to become a kingmaker. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589639376186724354
When I saw ads in the Windows Start menu, I switched to Ubuntu. Haven't looked back and life is good. Except that the command line command apt-get sometimes displays an ad for Ubuntu Pro...
> The complaint is that C isn't the only systems language anymore

C was never the only systems language.
Nation-state hackers from Russia and China are certainly running active campaigns in US elections to disrupt or manipulate them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/17/chinese-h...

Best evidence of this is the previous 2020 elections.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23527...

tl;dr - for the core phone/laptop F.lux use case, no, it isn't substantiated
If we can grow it with whatever factor James Harrison had, that would be another huge benefit.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-d...
How many people care about seeing tweets from the last second vs last minute?

Or the difference between 95% of the results of a search and 100%, especially if the 95% is missing the least popular 5%.
Maybe I missed that part but i don't see how they establish which is the cause and which is the effect. People do switch to healthier or perceiver-to-be-healthier alternatives once they get sick, so it might well be that those with problems switched to vegetable fat. (People in the hospital die more often than those not hospitalised - ergo hospitals kill people!)

And of course the usual link to wider socioeconomic status needs a bit more exploring.
That's my thought as well.

It probably would be even worse. For instance it possible to write a leaf function in assembly for AMD64 that runs both on linux and windows if all you do is return a value. This is because they both use RAX as the return register. There subtle difference between the two but that is mainly what registers are used. The biggest difference comes in the stack layout.

Now when it comes to pretty much any other OS for instance on x64 they pretty much use the System V calling convention.

The thing is if C was not the glue, I could imagine the ABI would be wildly different on each OS heck maybe even each version of the OS.

If we look at windows you can't safely call any system calls directly since a major update could change the system call number. However, windows provides wrappers around these system calls. Linux is an outlier in OSes that considers changing system calls like this as breaking user-space.

Now if we did not have C what would operating systems be using to wrap all these system calls? I suspect something tailored to that OS specifically and it would be quite the mess so I bet it would even be worse to handle. Since at least C keeps things similar. Whereas without it you would get OS specific schemes that could vary by a lot more! Making the code base to support multiple platforms even larger.
I did something similar, except I netboot a diskless hp thin client (cheap for previous gen and no/bad storage) with openelec. I opted specifically to not use a pi because I've had atrocious luck with reliability, especially of the sd drive.
Once Kodi is running under openelec, everything can be controlled via Kodi remote on a phone. No bluetooth, but that's a feature imo.
Ha, I've been doing this manually for years. I found smart lights that could get as low as 1850k and then put them in key areas in the house. After the kids go to bed, I try to limit all lighting to 1850K (as well as using that color temp on all screens that I use at night).

Of course I'm just one person so it's all anecdotal, but it definitely has helped my sleep in a noticeable way since I did it.
It's the new "I hate Emacs" / "I hate Tabs". Nerd sites used to be flooded with posts whining about one or the other, in between posts complaining about Microsoft.
Have you tried leaving home and touching grass? Because everything you‘ve wrote doesn’t make any sense.
I was at a party this weekend at a co-op where many of the rooms had no windows. I'm sure something like that would be well-appreciated.

A few years back there was a philanthropist who wanted to donate housing to a university, but one of his stipulations was that everyone got their own room, and that the rooms that didn't get natural light would be outfitted with an artificial window like this.
Since when LED bulbs flicker?
oh please, go to Reddit for that.
Depression can be bad, too. Maybe it can lead to cancer, and it undisputedly causes deaths.

Other languages make me depressive and steal my focus. They make me go to great lengths trying to get the simplest things done. In C, it's like memset(p, 0, sizeof *p), done. Other languages make it such that I always code on 3 layers of abstraction to not have to do the "hard" task, but now I don't know the implementation of those layers. They make it such that I'm constantly torn to come up with an even more clever thing to say the same things, with even more abstractions and moving parts. They pull so much attention to themselves, distracting from the task that I want get done. With C, this is not the case.

Maybe with a different personality, I could be similarly or even more productive in Rust, ignoring all the kitsch in its ecosystem. But I've started reading Rust projects dozens of times and have always turned away. They always use one more abstraction than I can be arsed to look up, always hide the most interesting and motivating parts behind a crate dependency.

This is not the case with C, where it is easy to find good (enough) code that is honest and direct, and rewarding. I know that C is not perfect. We're having an open relationship, and I don't have any attachments (besides knowing it well) that prevent me from jumping ship when I find a better one.
They also have 300% debt to GDP compared to 84% for India.

We'll never know how much more advanced India would be if they invested as much in infrastructure.
I completely agree. Which is why tunneling should be built-in to having a domain name. It should be easier than a phone number. You buy a domain from a domain seller and pay them $5/mo to provide tunneling. All the user needs to understand is:

* I install the app

* App requests access to your domain so it can set up appname.yourdomain.com

* I grant permission and we're live.
This is the kind of pain that made me back in the day move from Turbo Pascal to C++, and only use platform languages, as at least the platform owner has teams dedicated to managing bindings to all SDK languages.
Maybe you can explain to me the way in which Twitter was deeply unpredictable before Musk took over because I don't really see it. I agree that it was a badly run company but in a way that meant it didn't really change very much about its product in the last few years. That's what I mean about predictable and boring. If you looked at Twitter as product in 2017 and looked at it in 2022 you wouldn't see a whole lot of difference.
No, it's not central. Discoverability of the entire universe is not a goal of any fediverse tool; the goal is to put back communities in the hands of users. Diackverability happens by talking to people, asking your way around, following interesting accounts from afar, being part of the discussion and organically grow your network.

If you search for Twitter2, the fediverse is not it.
If accessibility isn't a critical function I would say your business needs to think over some priorities.

It's ok to just make the platform inaccessible for a large number of people?
When he is in the position of power he's in, and posts things like this[1] it is hard not to assume he has ulterior political motives.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/twitter-reacts-elon-musk...
Office itself is a cloud service nowadays. That phoning home feature is part of the online saving so that you can resume work from a browser or contribute collaboratively with other users across the network like a google docs, but on the desktop.

Does it beam home? Yes
Do I like it? No

We have LibreOffice for decades. Be the change.
Unpopular tip: you can store your data for the project in a simple csv file 9 out of the 10 times and load all of it in memory (with pandas for example). Don't waste your time on building a scalable data storage when you don't need it.
Did Lula also have more support in the polling in those places that used those older models? I assume those districts would be the poorer districts, and Lula did have more support among the low income, correct? I think you’re looking at correlations in data and fantasizing a causation that isn’t there.