skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are drastically underestimating both the density and the scale and overestimating how much "Westerners" are propping up or otherwise essential for it's function, sure there are lots of Westerner entrepreneurs there (myself included at one point) but the reality is both Mainland and HK entrepreneurs not only drastically outnumber us but they were also the ones kicking most of the home runs and might I say the braver more creative ones (contrary to Western harbored stereotypes).

I recommend you go and see for yourself. It's really something that is very difficult to comprehend until you see it in person.
Which part of this is specific to software engineering?
Accounts do that sometimes and it's funny as hell
It would make a nice Onion article :
"I freed myself from social networks" says man on Twitter.
I've been using Linux for 27 years, and it hasn't changed all that much in that time. Packaging has got better, systemd is a bit of a pain in the tits but necessary if you want to support the kind of things we expect to do with "real" computers instead of servers sitting in a dark room untouched for years.

I've been using NetBSD for about the same amount of time, and it hasn't changed all that much either.
The way the Independent University of Moscow did this is that the lectures are open to anyone who will hear, and if you pass three exams then you get to start building a degree.

If you can't pass three exams I assume the IUM thinks it's not right for you, and if you do, then you have a decent chance of absorbing the stuff they want to teach.

I don't think they have any administrators at all. Instead, they're just a bunch of research mathematicians who will train people who can make use of training.

Of course, universities for more normal people would have to accommodate less capable people, who can't manage their studies in the way that proper university education requires, so some administrators and the like may be necessary, but it should be one person at the desk answering questions, not some kind of army.
I agree, this makes this headline quite different from what it was originally :(
How many of the discs ripped were 100% error free, from what I understand it compares against a database of checksums, the one that has the most 'votes' is considered to be correct.
I was lucky. During the "core" years of my childhood (8-12), my dad worked from home. This is also when I started getting into computing. He always arranged his days so that he was off work by the time we kids came home from school. My desk was in his office, and in the summers he'd always answer my questions or at least point me in the right direction if I asked him something when he wasn't on a call. He always seemed to have this superpower of being able to switch his full focus instantly. Mom was a full-time mom until I was 15, when financial conditions ('08) meant they both needed to work. She has a masters in math education, so there was always at least one well educated person I could annoy at any time.

I remember when dad first gave me the ability to use the internet by myself (2001, iirc). He told me how it was an unprecedented way of accessing information and learning, something he felt would have put him years ahead of where he was if he had it when he was in college. I discovered so many niche communities for the things I was interested in (LEGO Mindstorms, AVR, Rokenbok, model trains, etc.). I kinda yearn for the days when the internet wasn't the advertisement ridden and siloed hellscape it is today.
Its the stock market. The only certainty you have is that it will always remain chaotic. Specific investment strategies are what helps build index funds. Without that you'll increase risk acossiated with index funds. There IS too much reliance on index funds right now and once the S&P drops significantly you'll run the risk of losing far more than if you hadn't relied completely on its basket.
I hardly believe that, because in the UK people play football not soccer :)
Did you analyze the version a the time this was posted? It has probably gotten significantly better in the meantime.
Ive always felt opposite of minecraft. I build an iron farm so that I may skip mining not because I dont enjoy mining, but because the part that I want to mine is lower than the common iron levels. To have a robot do all of the mining for me is basically allowing me to play in creative mode. If I wanted to play creative, I would just play creative.
You're also a whole lot less visible as a bicycle, which is an issue even at 20kmph, you'd have people pancaked in no time if you could all-motor around at 60kmph on a vehicle that only has bicycle lighting regulations.
>They are for several reasons. They are lying about the price of rent, saying it is higher than it is. They are insisting that you need to live in Manhattan, when there are places about half as cheap very close to Manhattan.
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>I'm not saying the area is inexpensive. Don't argue with a strawman.

Don't misconstrue what I am pointing out what you're doing. They are not lying about how expensive rent can be there, this is simple to verify.

People want to live where they want to live. Get over it.
Yup! Something needs to be in the EU for the law to apply. It (sadly, imo) doesn't apply to EU citizens resident in, say, Texas.
Maybe they are writing fake emails because they know they will be leaked years later
Is this something to be used for CC at power plants ? Or does it have any application to DAC ?
I genuinely lol'd at the hypocrisy of you calling me pedantic while coming out with that. Thanks.
yes, sure it depends on the implementation, as the poster above said. You need to compare similarly optimized implementstions.. but really: no surprise?!?
But what would the BBC write about in that case?
An animated introduction to Elixir
At first messaging was a draw to have people use the portal (AOL, ICQ, MSN). Later, they tried to sell the apps as another banner slot.

The more recent bout has their own services in messaging itself; bots to provide enterprise-specific functions to Slack, payment and marketplace tie-ins to Messenger.
Honda advertorial? I mean, forget Piaggio, you can go into any larger supermarket and have a pick of several models. Or several dozen models if you shop online.
I didn't literally say that and you are making things up. "Tearing down" someone has a strong and violent connotation, nothing to do with a few snarky comments.
do they use iMessage as a result?
True that. Forums like HN are just about tolerable but at least the underlying agenda is transparent.
Modern bioinformatics are based on sharing shitty scripts 20-30 years ago. Sometimes you have this good but complex interface piece of software (e.g. https://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html) that newbies find impossible to use, so someone in the middle creates a dirty script that does a very specific thing in a single command, in a way that you just replace the input and output filenames.

I can name a number of really bad pieces of software that are widely used because nobody has time/funds to do it properly. Lots of those programs are made by pre-doc students that are learning the basics, and as soon as they get competent at coding, they are absorbed by the private sector.
One key ingredient is that you need to find amusement in manipulating symbols and feeding them to a compiler to see what happens.

I have tried instructing my brother and my ex-gf to learn in the same way I did, and they both failed, and both because they needed to learn to program, but had not real interest in it. They are both equally smart, so it has little to do with intellect.
Or you get how to exploit the evolutionary hack of men rushing to protect a sobbing woman.
Are we slowly going back to the old curated, directory driven internet? I hope so
Oh I believe that, NYC is chaos. I bet people use those gas powered one-wheels wherever they want too
As with everything in this discussion, this also depends on where you live as district heating is a thing
The migration process between managed instances is quite trivial.

Back in the day I remember getting DMs from people I know saying "I just migrated to Foo, can you please follow me again?".

Recently, a few people I know migrated and I was pleasantly surprised that there was nothing required from my side, I was automatically following them on the new instances.
im more wondering about their net promoter score, actual onboarded per month vs churned per month
What we want to see from the Steam Deck 2
Also by not having a vision, by not having a idea were he can Moist von Lipwig this, so just using the reminder of his more stupid moments as a punching bag.
In addition to what has already been said, choose the right instance and explore the WAY SMALLER local timeline. It's a bit hard to find the right instance though.
Compare lisp:

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> These things under the glass do not heat anything

Glass infrared cookers also exist, my parents had one back in the 90's before induction was much of a thing. It was touted as easy to clean (and looks cool)
Kudos for your big improvement on Bloomberg's headline - "Seizing a Russian Superyacht Is Much More Complicated Than You Think". Nobody young & naive enough to think that either a superyacht, or international legal seizure, is non-complicated should be reading Bloomberg without adult supervision.

Sadly, Bloomberg can't be bothered to give any larger perspective on either high-maintenance things seized from the wealthy, nor long-term ship maintenance. Dealing with pet lions, crumbling mansions, etc. has been an issue for moneylenders to the wealthy for centuries. And 'most anyone who's owned a (say) 25-foot-long "yacht" knows that moving it from salt water to dry storage can really cut down the man-hours of maintenance needed. (Yes, we know your uncle Bob can't just pull a 250-foot yacht out of the water at a boat ramp with his pride-and-joy pickup truck. Real marine engineering is a bit more advanced than that.)
Currently the "Create account" button for many instances (including https://mastodon.social) just silently redirects to https://joinmastodon.org/servers.

This is probably because these instances have closed registration either completely or are invite only for now.

Many new users must be confused by this. It would be much better to redirect them to a page that explains that this particular instance is not accepting new users right now and that they could check back later or simply choose a different instance at https://joinmastodon.org/servers.
> The reality is that most children (and adults) do not care about software and never will.

You learn this very rapidly in IT. Eventually, you learn that the reasoning you give people is "because you called me to fix it". They dont care, they just want to make sure you arent jipping them. But if they cant understand, they cant be sure! It makes a lot of hover-bodies that make a lot of annoyance.
A diet is 100% certain to be effective for losing weight, with the obvious conditions that it must be well conceived (to contain all the necessary nutrients, but less energy than needed for maintaining the current weight) and that it must be followed precisely.

After a weight-losing diet is followed until a desired weight is reached, the diet must be changed to an appropriate weight-maintaining diet.

The parent article is completely stupid, because it formulates the problem wrongly. The reason why a large number of people, after losing weight, gain weight again, is not that diets do not work. The reason is that those people stop following an appropriate diet and they revert to their previous style of eating, which obviously can have only a single consequence, gaining weight again.

So all diets work perfectly and they deterministically cause losing weight, gaining weight or keeping a constant weight. The problem is that most people are not willing to change their eating habits and follow precisely a certain diet.

I have been obese for more than 15 years and I also had the wrong impression that nothing that I do can make me lose weight permanently. Nevertheless, about 15 years ago, I have started for the first time to follow a diet with accuracy. After a year of losing weight continuously I have reached the desired weight and then I have kept it ever since (by never reverting to my previous eating style).

Following accurately any kind of diet is impossible when you just eat randomly until feeling satiated. The only way to follow a diet that works is to measure everything that you eat, either by mass or by volume, and eat only the planned quantities, no more, no less.

If you measure what you eat, any diet you choose will have exactly the desired effect, and you can reach and maintain any weight you want.

Unfortunately, for many people this does not work because they either find it too tedious to measure their food, or they are not willing to stop eating after reaching the planned quantity, or they cannot stop themselves to eat some extra snacks between meals, besides the food that was planned in their diet.

This is a problem of psychology, not of physiology. The diets work perfectly, if, and only if, people are willing to follow them forever.

Obviously, any diet must be adjusted differently for each human, by measuring the weight every day for some time, to find out which are the quantities that ensure losing weight, gaining weight or keeping a constant weight.
Doubt anyone care, it's not a for-profit endeavour, there is no one interested in buying them out that will ask them for that kind of stats.
VB5 and 6 - AOL phishing and mIRC scripting. Wrote a few practical demos like p2p chat, then got fed up of the distribution challenges inherent in windows runtimes (back in the day) so got into web development via PHP. Now I almost exclusively build web-based software, fullstack.

I needed to get a job too. I was also into modding games. I got rejected from a low-paid game developer contract to make game textures that I could do in my sleep - I thought I was doomed. Then I got a break at a web agency, then worked for a startup on some SaaS and then started working for household names in London. And here I am focussing on serverless stuff, building teams, helping orgs. Amazing to think how lucky I am really. But a lot of hard work and sacrifice too.
Why not just use the various social media outlets less? Is this an addiction? Because people talk about it like it is.
With a mask mandate for public transport as the only mass-wide measure, which is not even followed nor enforced too much, I strongly disagree with your wording, that people freak out about it. (Not even arguing about the pro and cons of this measure, but the benefits of it are actually quite evident).

Also your claim that rules are not enforced because of a "leaked photo of a government official" lacks any reasoning and evidence.
Except that would not cook the pasta.

I haven’t tried this technique yet, but one of the aims is to still cook the pasta effectively. I know from experience that your hypothetical won’t cook most dried pasta.
College Humor beat them to it https://youtu.be/md4kM9AKjHs
Do you want everyone to vote for the same political party too? To quote OpenBSD’s 4.2 release song [1]:

Give and get back some
Sharing it all
Path we know best
we're having a ball
Give and get zeros
Give and get ones
Given to you but
Not you to us

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#42

For those of us that treasure freedom, through diversity of ideologies there is strength. Why one would actively put a pox on those with nearly the same goals as yourself is beyond me. But, hey… you do you.
It is relatively good. Climate change is bad, families left out in the cold because they can't afford rising gas and electricity prices is bad, so we are lucky in our being fucked. It could have been worse.

Silver lining and all that.
I'm not really a seasoned user of either, but my take for now:

1. Mastodon has different dynamics than Twitter. Rather than throwing a bunch of stuff I didn't ask for in an effort to boost "engagement", Mastodon just gives me exactly what I asked for. This results in a slow moving feed of nothing but what I subscribe to. I like it.

2. Mastodon seems to have a much better content/noise ratio and to be better moderated. I don't want to be surrounded by hateful people. I'm not looking for a "public square". I'm looking for pleasant and useful interactions.
so,

1. the market is surprisingly thin, it doesn't take a lot of bitcoin to knock the price down - particularly with the shortage of retail dollars.

2. there's no such thing as "just short" in bitcoin, the venues for doing so are unregulated casinos with an extensive track record of just screwing their own customers over.

this is not an orderly or well-regulated market in any regard
Some of them can probably finagle their way into a short-term contract at 5x the previous hourly rate. I'd honestly be tempted.
It's an interesting question on a different level than individual
choice/behaviour.

In real life, most people shun being associated with a socially
ostracised outlaw group, deviants or extremists. Even for actual
criminals, deviants or extremists, we don't like to be labelled and
lumped in with the others - except where a group is oppressed by
obvious social-injustice, which engenders a sense of pride in
belonging.

Twitter, is, as far as I can see, widely recognised as "cesspool of
the worst of the worst of us". And I have never perceived Twitter as
some sort of oppressed minority unable to find a voice in society. Yet
people choose to remain on the platform, and some have even built
their entire identity and life around it.

I think this is because the old media sought to legitimise it. They've
worked very hard for a long time to bury the tawdry and unacceptable
side of it.
This would be great as it's own HN post. Would love to see the discussion on your approach/ideas!
>None of those items apply to me. It doesn't cost me anything to go into the office, it doesn't take hours, there's no pollution involved (at least, none over just the base rate of me being outside).

Then you already WFH, or from "next door to home".

What's more, you're an exception, in a world with billions of commuters.

>*The idea that not wanting to spend every day Mon-Fri constantly around my SO means I have "issues at home" I can only really imagine is projection. (...) but pretending no-one actually likes working in person is denial of reality. Hi, I exist."

Again, not everything is about you. For some people WFH is bad because of a bad home environment. In good home environments, the ability to spend more time with kids/spouse is a good thing.

Note also how nothing about WFH means that you need to work from your actual home, or that you need to spend "every day Mon-Fri constantly around your SO".
According to Yoel Roth these were targeted attacks.

https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1587230924554399744

Qui Bono? No wonder that WaPo blows this up.
Shotwell must be a fucking wizard to be running SpaceX so well despite Elon then.
Interesting to see that Steve Klabnik was one of the bullies. I always had him down as a wrong 'un, I suppose this confirms it.

Though he did publicly apologise, albeit probably just to save his reputation after being called out on his bullying.
Even if I wrote a wildly engaging, interesting, and informative blog... who would read it? Im not about to go out and market it, so it would just sit, undiscovered, dusty, and never read by anyone but me.
I disgree. In this particular case, isn't it wonderful that public broadcasting is reporting about it, so people can evaluate the idea/concept for themselves?
Painting him as reckless and stupid and like he doesn't know what he's doing is a great way to sink TSLA.

I certainly don't agree with everything he has said and done, though I can't help but be skeptical people are just jumping on the bandwagon without any concrete evidence/details.
Yes, this is what I've also gravitated towards.
This is the good thing about shared facilities like this: the cost per-unit is really low because there's so many units to share the cost of just a few things like this (or an exercise room, a game room, etc.), and so much space is saved by sharing these things among hundreds of units. But most residents don't use them most of the time, so for the occasional users, they have it available for the 2x a year they want it, and the regular users don't usually feel crowded.
> debugging the rest of the organization

This is true of automated IT processes in general; for human-operated processes there's always a certain amount of "slack" between how the process is written and what needs to be done to make it actually work. The knowledge for the latter is concentrated in lower-ranking staff - the "NCOs" - and often unknown and unknowable to those running the system. Converting the system to automation only converts the known process, so it tends to fail hard until the slack can be taken up elsewhere or learned and incorporated.
I was just looking up some github issues and noticed that the @username@domain.tld format is not supported by GitHub's markdown parser, instead of linking to their mastodon profile it highlights everything but the leading '@' as an email address. I wasn't sure where I would submit the issue for this and used to be I would go to twitter to shout my bug reports at the organizations official handle.

So I thought, maybe GitHub is on mastadon and I search, here are the usernames that come up:

@github@hello.2heng.xin
@GitHub@mstdn.social
@github@mstdn.jp
@GitHub@mastodon.social
@github@m.gretaoto.ca
@GitHub@me.ns.ci

The last one uses a :verified: macro in the username to place a blue checkmark next to their name, another uses :github: to place the github logo in their username.

Pretty interesting that you get to buy a domain name to solve the global username problem and have as many elonmusks as you like (for the viewers at home, impersonating elon is now a ban-able offense), but as for proving identity, when editing my mastodon profile and I see an option to verify that I control whatever links I post below my bio, by sticking an anchor tag in that webpage linking back to my mastodon profile. Smart, instead of being deemed worthy of a celebrity checkmark, you just prove you're the owner of X website.
About 3.5 billion people watch the world cup.

Thats worth a lot in advertising dollars.
nit: AFAIK, "net promoter score" is derived from polling users with the question "how likely are you to recommend this product?"

I think what you're describing (churned over onboarded users at month M) is the "churn rate".
I think you're missing my point a bit. Sure, if you even want longer support, don't purchase a laptop. Cheapest lifelong option...

My point was that the argument "apps won't run anymore" may be true, but there's no evidence for that. There are a lot of people running 10 year old Macs and the software does not just break.
GDB also uses Python
I felt even better when I quit news media as well. Now I read the print newspapers, just to see whether there is any change in legislation that I need to know about.

My blood does boil even there, with the subtle editorializing tell us what to feel about what is essentially a neutral news item, but it's much easier to control than the online media.
The cursor affinity could be entirely subsumed by the visible typing attributes, which might be more intuitive. For both, I'd worry about the user's cursor configuration affecting things - it could be safer and more widely compatible to have it float nearby rather than have it attached to the cursor.

The link editing doesn't seem like an improvement on other rich text interfaces, with no visually obvious way to edit the link destination.

A keyboard shortcut that tells you other keyboard shortcuts isn't at all innovative, but it is handy and more software should have it.
At least this kind of social media is.

Their algorithms and UX are precisely designed to that purpose to favor ads placement.