skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even late pre-Musk twitter was far more tolerant than mastadon. for example, any instance hosting the harry potter lady would get defederated from by 90% of the network, I guarantee you that.

As a user of the network in general though, this doesn't have to matter to you. You can sign up on an instance that defederates according to whichever rules you like (or on an instance that defederates nobody at all). You can still talk to the rest of the network just fine, in addition to talking to anybody other instances want to defederate. There's no silo, you don't have to pick a side.

You can even self-host your own single-user instance (or rent one, from e.g. https://masto.host/, although they've closed signups due to demand right now) and control federation directly. With that, the only people you won't be able to talk to are people & instances that decide to block you _personally_.
A fun and interesting read. But it is frustrating to hear that such a major security bug was ignored until a happenstance meeting with Google engineers.
I'd say her reaction was pretty negative than charming. Her only example of its use is paparazzi which says it all really. It seemed to me she was mortified at the idea and I can understand why.
Perhaps he thought the block hole was a billion and found out it was 5/10/20/100 billion?
This times a million. I'm not sure when people started thinking that everything they do outside of office hours should have a paid return, but open source is meant to be something you do to help others, if you feel like doing it. It's basically just giving back to the community after creating something interesting for your own purposes.

Does that mean it can't help you get opportunities that can make you money? No of course not. It can look good on a CV, boost your name reputation online, get you a speaking gig or a spot at a conference, etc.

But it won't necessarily do that, and you shouldn't expect a return in 99.9% of cases. It's like expecting that your video game mods are going to become your career. In theory it could happen, but it 99% of cases it won't, and that's perfectly fine. It's something you do because you enjoy it.
> Just wait for the first "<big multinational company> has opened their own Mastodon instance" post in the near future.

The EU have had a Mastodon instance[0] before it was cool! (Although, it isn't open to the public and only has a few EU agencies as members.)

[0]: https://social.network.europa.eu/about
Snapchat's Shift to Microservices
Popular SaaS pricing strategies, unpacked
sure but usually before hard limits are reached a new paradigm is ready to take over
If bullshit job are really bullshit, do we really need AI in order to make them obsolete?
Chinese business model is amazing in its simplicity and efficiency.
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Which will probably, outside of small, perfectly planned experiments, work similarly well
Or build the right tool for a job, for others to use. Imagine a world without tractors. The engineer that designs a tractor and builds a tractor factory would be a million-x farmer, while the farmers who buy the tractors become 10x farmers, until the others catch up.

Innovations and inventions, even in a very small and local context, may easily generate >10x more value than the output of a stereotypical "code monkey" who at best delivers according to a well written documentation.
Regional: Canada can do both before or after number due to French influence--that was mentioned in your link, by the way[0]

Regional: Philippines (personal experience) and many other countries write currency symbol following the number[1]

Generational: starting to show up in texting culture[2]

Having experience with languages evolving due to technology, including a few Filipino dialects, I've observed people adopting new conventions in spite of older generational mores is nothing new. Happens all the time. And as a person gets more experience with places that have different conventions, they typically let go of the provincial views that their learned way is the only way. The dollar sign is not the only chrrency.

Does a US dollar sign after a number look right to me? No, because my grammar teacher taught me differently. But my native French boss flipped it all the time and nothing of communication value was lost.

[0] https://linguaholic.com/linguablog/dollar-sign-before-or-aft...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign#Use

[2] texting and Text-to-Speech capture of written language.
They made a material that doesn’t exist on Earth. That’s only the start
We shouldn't need to have faith, yet here we are. Maybe we could build back better after a much needed great reset.
Wow, what a coincidence. Yesterday I attended an e-health event in EU and found several business opportunities for small FHIR applications for hospitals. We already have SaaS hospital customers, so I began my research.

We are working with HL7v2 ADT, FHIR seems like a very different more complex beast. Nice that they use JSON, but it reminds me a lot of those XML days with lots of namespaces, you always needed an editor.

There is a fhirbase/fhirbase Docker container that wasn't updated for 3 years, they focus on AidBox now, it's closed source, no public pricing.

There is even an ibmcom/ibm-fhir-server Docker container, 2 months old, but their project page https://ibm.github.io/FHIR is gone.

Then I came across this article from better.care CTO talking about how openEHR and FHIR should be used in a combined system, which seems to make sense. Product seems to be closed source, no public pricing, made in the EU.
https://medium.com/@alastairallen/fhir-openehr-2022-53716f83...

There is ehrserver, open source, but not a single word about FHIR
https://github.com/ppazos/cabolabs-ehrserver

So there is a lot happening, will check out Medplum, FHIR seems the future :-)
Fairly low, I agree with you. And the chances of me having set up my own Mastodon account would also be fairly low.

But that's not to say that my reasoning is to signal tribal affiliation.

I haven't moved before because I didn't know anyone on Mastodon. I now know quite a few, so moving is more valuable. It could be the network effect happening in reverse, and that's interesting for the media to report on.
> What’s more, the battery requires no external heat source to maintain its operating temperature. The heat is naturally produced electrochemically by the charging and discharging of the battery. “As you charge, you generate heat, and that keeps the salt from freezing. And then, when you discharge, it also generates heat,”

That's a very PR way to say it has high charging/discharging losses :)
This came as a surprise to me considering when the Indian court orders to take down particular content of particular site, ISPs still uses dns blocking instead of more granular blocking which resulted in blanket site blockings of popular sites
There have been books about virtual worlds since the first computer came out. I'm familiar with a good bunch of them. Get off my lawn!

What I'm poking fun at is that i haven't seen a single piece of news explaining Zuck's plan. Did he even have one?
No I guess not.
His rants on social media have cost him in the past.
I believe he may have psychopathic tendencies because he appears to be attempting to project his own work ethic (long hours etc) onto staff but cannot emphasize with them, or understand they aren't him/have his circumstances/have his ability.
His goals are great and have certainly pushed our tech boundaries into near science fiction, but he really doesn't have the social and people skills, which is ironic given he's bought Twitter.
If there was one thing I could tell him, it's that he should engage his brain before his mouth, a little (benevolent) social manipulation to get what he wants will be more successful before he barks orders for long hours or sacks people at short notice.
Carrot before the stick.
Yes, that's objectively better. At least you have a choice to buy less frequently, or in smaller quantities. I was raised during the communism, where you did have a lot of cash, and the goods were cheap (because government was deciding both salaries and prices), but they were simply never in stock. It took a lot of time, effort and sometimes actual bribes to buy anything. That's what you get when you try to artificially limit prices.
It’s hard to just blame the employers when I have seen so many people, most especially on HN, dying to treat employers as fashion accessories. Don’t tell me the rest of you haven’t seen developers fawning over themselves to become a part of FAANG. Even with the layoffs I still see people on here dreaming of FAANG.
The September That Never Ended was the worst thing that ever happened to The Internet.

The September That Never Ended was the best thing that ever happened to The Internet.

Yeah, it brought all those obnoxious tourists, with their Hawai'ian shirts, straw hats, loud voices, and trash.

But they also brought money. Lots of money.

That's when this whole "make lots of money in tech" thing started.

Should be an interesting story.
No, not really. Of course shit happens everywhere, but the scale is VASTLY different.
Ah ok that does make a bit more sense.
This begs the question:

Given Some social media platforms are moving towards some embrace of AI feeds, could those platforms retain their 2nd search engines role such as Youtube, Instagram, etc?

My own biased use case is that I started following a whole bunch of designers on Instagram to get new design news.
ByteDance has been making loads of money from Chinese domestic market, through TouDiao and DouYin. It knows in order to compete with big names such as Facebook, YouTube, it needs the North American market, which is known for all international brands. Basically winning the US market is winning the world, the same concept as being a Hollywood star is a international star.

I think people failed to understand TikTok. People keep talking about social network. TikTok is not a social network, it does not use your friends and your connections to predict what you will enjoy, and that's the beauty of it. For me TikTok is a TV. It is MTV, constantly showing you exciting videos, regardless where it come from. YouTube is like Cable TV. The closest to it is Instagram, but Instagram pays too much attention to who you follow. TikTok does not replace Facebook, but it will eat your TV time, it competes with Netflix.

DouYin, which is TikTok China, has totally transformed the Chinese e-commerce market. You know what it does, something very much similar to QVC, with Internet's low cost, it is eating up Alibaba's market share. Last year NEW ORIENTAL ED & TECHNOLOGY went bust after Chinese government forbids after-school education, the company set up accounts on DouYin, English teachers start to sell products on DouYin while they casually teaching online, it became a hit, they sold hundreds of millions GMV every month, you would be surprised to know hundreds of thousands people would log on DouYin every day to listen to what these guys talk about, and buy everything at the same time. It saved the whole company.
Big changes in what content we trust and consume online. I predict that all content-driven sites (YouTube, News, Social Media, forums, reviews) will be dominated by AI-generated content in the near future. This content is directly monetizable via ads/followers/points/second-hand-accounts/etc, so it's a great opportunity for people, particularly those in developing countries, to abuse as long as it lasts.

So far that's pretty obvious, but it's interesting to think about the second-order effects of this. It means that the current ad-based business models with open access no longer work. Instead, it's all about trust. People will be willing to pay for communities that guaranteed to be "human-only" and where content is created by trustworthy sources and trust is quantified and monetized somehow. This also includes verified credentials of posters, pseudonymous or not.
I did start with Yacy. First I would bould something thet search a list on Google or so and the just follow links forever. Finally I just found Yacy a P2P search. I did run it for a couple of years.

https://yacy.net/
I think curation by paying users could work. At least it would make manipulation quite expensive.

Let people downvote/upvote search results as an extra strong signal on top of monitoring what they choose to click on in the result list.

Also let people block domains from searches and provide some discoverability of commonly blocked domains.
A single find could easily rewrite history. But this isn't the royal library of Ashurbanipal (wikipedia: "the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC"). [And it's not just a fancy name - this was actually a royal library which was the beneficiary of a lot of royal effort to collect all kinds of significant texts.]

This is a bunch of statues and votive offerings of models of body parts. There is apparently no text, and if there were text we probably couldn't read it. This find has no hope of rewriting history.
Zelle recipients are specified by email address or phone number. They sent the email to the same address that they sent the Zelle transfer to.
Yes, definitely. One example:

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/list-of-blocked-por...
Now imagine the toddler is part of a collective that has carefully built planes, mills, lathes, sanders and lumber-handling machinery to produce wooden toys and has been giving them away for free and sometimes accepting donations.

Oh, and they aren't a toddler, they're adults.

Oh, and they aren't your kids, either. Not related to you at all.

Now your analogy is much more useful.
You're free to speculate, but I would respectfully disagree. Extrapolating from how effective GPT3/Copilot are at interpreting text and generating code, I think it has more of a chance of working well than any other tech has ever had. I definitely hope it succeeds, anyhow!
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Apple limits AirDrop in China after its use in protests
You can also, like an adult, confront the other party with what they did and, as in this case, get them to reflect on their words and retract them, making your environment a little bit better in the process. You all are just hating on her because she admitted to having emotions, an adolescent take on the situation if anything.
Valve is hardly a saint, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g
For me, it's largely replaced Twitter already.

I mainly used Twitter to see what was going on in tech & open-source and discuss development topics, and comfortably 50% of the tech people I followed on Twitter have now set up on Mastodon, either additionally (cross-posting to both) or in quite a few cases as a full replacement. I post the same thing to both and I get far more responses & engagement on Mastodon now. For me personally it _has_ replaced Twitter.

Depends which circles you move in and what you use Twitter for (it's certainly not useful in the politics & journalism scene yet, for starters) but there's already significant movement here in some areas.
Have you tested this on other brands?
Given the bug was already reported (and even more ignored) it seems like the $70,000 was really a “you made us do our jobs” fee.
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Seems to me like this impacts not only Pixel devices but all Android devices?

Patch was to AOSP: https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base/comm...

I don't have a locked SIM handy, but can someone please test on their non-Pixel device and confirm?
Hmm, I'm not sure I follow the part of static imports, but I tend to only mock code that perform side effects (usually, HTTP requests), and I explicitly isolate those to separate modules that I can mock. Other than that, they're more integration tests using testing-library [1] to simulate user interactions and verifying that they have the expected effects.

When there's complex business logic, I'll separate that out into a separate pure function, and I write tests for that function without needing mocks.

[1] https://testing-library.com/
If the only metric of success is yearly revenue, yes.

If that is the only metric, the best business model is to extract as much money out of your user, while simultaneously offering less for the same amount of money, until you reach the asymptotic ideal of 100% profit.

If you were to start a company, would you be willing to do that? Would you choose profit over everything else? Some would, but not everybody.
Well said, indeed! I am in fact working my way through some Dylan, Neil Young and Tom Petty, among others. I simply Won't Back Down. ;)
Speech to text is now amazing: https://huggingface.co/spaces/openai/whisper
And that money lead to Big Tech and walled gardens.

I do miss the internet of the 1990s, but we can never go back there. What we can do, though, is fight for more open platforms.
I did read that relativization, it just didn't pass through my bullshit filter.

This is because of a lifetime of managers telling me things like "before we do this thing that you want to do, please first conduct a fact-finding mission to consider the possibility that we don't actually need to do it". My mental bullshit filter turns that into just "no".

That's because the fact-finding thing only has two possible outcomes: I come back with evidence to support their no-position in which case: great job on that fact-finding. Or I come back with evidence to support my yes-position, in which case, guess what, there's something wrong with my fact-finding. Then they decide "no" based on their preconceived notion, plus they get to look very reasonable and evidence-driven. -- Conversely, a "yes" always looks very different. It's always "yes" from the start.
Thanks. Great bib!

https://bib.gnunet.org/
You know how nowadays you'll see crowds brandishing their smartphone to take pictures or videos? I remember seeing something similar in Japan with flip phones, either in 2001 or 2002. I think one of the moments where I witnessed that was when Koizumi Junichiro was elected in 2001. I definitely have pictures of individuals taking pictures of sakura with their flip phone in the Kyoto imperial garden in 2001.
You can't be serious. I think it's rare for a company to treat developers poorly but that's beside the point.

Didn't he lie to congress, waste tens of millions of dollars on legal defense for himself and repeatedly turn a blind eye to human trafficking, voter manipulation, the spread of hate and division, genocide and more? He swept studies under the rug that show that his platforms directly led to increases in teenage suicides.

This man is not a good guy just because you feel he's nice to some people. People he depends on at that.
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To clarify, this wasn't an enforced hard-rule, but instead just a written down style guide. Style guides can always be broken for good reason, but it's the sort of thing that a code reviewer might comment on or discourage. Generally rebasing before opening a PR was considered to be fine.
it is not practical if we have to describe each and every line.

Also, imagine you are sitting in an office with other team mates - what happens if all of them talk together but are working on different projects. It will disturb others in terms of noise pollution.

but it will definitely be a fun project and might work perfectly when you are working alone from home.
Back in 2007-2008 (for the ones too young or just not remembering) [1]:

> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy shrank during the closing months of 2007 for the first time in six years, the Commerce Department confirmed on Thursday, hurt by the steepest slump in housing since 1981.

> But it bounced back to record modest growth in 2008, avoiding back-to-back quarters of decline that would have met a popular definition of recession.

> The department sharply revised its estimate for fourth-quarter performance to show gross domestic product, or GDP, contracted 0.2 percent -- rather than growing 0.6 percent as it previously reported.

And later that year of 2008:

> Growth resumed in the first quarter of 2008, however, with GDP rising at a 0.9 percent rate that accelerated to 1.9 percent in the second quarter as government stimulus payments began to flow.

The wheels of recession were in motion since 2006, its head cropped up during the later quarters of 2007 and completely exploded in late-2008.

Look at all the macroeconomic indicators right now, inflation, energy costs, customer spending, etc., do you really believe we are not way into the wheels of a recession?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-gdp-revisions...
You're about an order of magnitude off. 2.4 kWh/mi is a total range of 40 mi for a 100kWh battery.

Very good panels are 24%. A reasonable capacity factor for something car shaped is 10%

So about 20 miles/day in an open parking spot.

More realistically there's probably a lot of spaces you couldn't fit a panel on, so maybe 10-15mi/day reliably in most places. Enough to significantly reduce charging for a moderate commute and errand runner or eliminate it during summer.

I'd be a bit sceptical of their claims of reaching similar with polymer cells with such a boxy car though.
AWS services that support IPv6
If Twitter had prepared an ActivityPub bridge and would activate it tomorrow, would Twitter remain the dominant player? Could they even expand their network to rival Youtube and Facebook?
Sequoia invested in it while the founder was playing videogames during the call https://twitter.com/firstadopter/status/1590453539813621761

Can't think of something more "Silicon Valley" worth
Thing is, the market doesn't care whether or not you believe in the underlying asset. The difference is that when you buy shares you're buying shares in a company that actually produces something, and those shares usually pay dividends.

Buying crypto because you believe in a given project is the same as buying a beanie baby because you happen to like the particular appearance of said beanie baby.
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I was thinking, could there be some way in setting up AirDrop to provide IPFS?

I guess AirDrop is all controlled by Apple, and there's not much chance of that.
I wonder how they will fight SEO, though...
The feels like exceptionally lazy reporting in the NYT. What was the expectation, that tech companies would be up and to the right perpetually? That public tech companies are immune to general market downturns?

While a lot of tech companies are going through post-pandemic layoffs, most of them have headcounts that are still larger than where they were in Feb 2020, and have valuations that show steady growth.

My prediction is that over the next decade we're going to see a narrative in the media that hiring is still exceptionally difficult in the technology sector. There's a very real chance that this round of layoffs drives students and recent graduates into other industries if big tech is no longer seen as an easy path to outsized compensation. It was real side effect of the dotcom bust and the 2008 recession.

I'm excited to see what new companies are going to form in the next few years now that it's a tiny bit more difficult for the big tech companies to suck up all the oxygen in the room.
Interestingly, I remember people using video chat back around that time in Japan, but despite the fact that it's still supported and even better than back then, I haven't seen people using it in a long while.
Are you looking to work out of necessity? or just to fill up 10-15 hours?
I'm a stay at home dad too, and my background is in Software Engineering. I have some time, so decided to build a startup, I'm spending about average 30 hours a week on it. I find more fun in trying to solve a problem, so if it doesn't work out, hey, at least it was fun.