skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sure it's "only one component" but you 5/3rd'ed the number of moving parts in it."

The ZF 8 Speed Automatic actually has less moving parts than the ZF 6 speed automatic it replaced.... And the it has proven to be one of the most reliable automatic transmissions produced. The old 4, and 5 speed transmissions are notoriously unreliable.

"They don't make a "big" difference. If they made a "big" difference you'd have seen them decades ago. We've had the tech for as long as we've had automatic transmissions. More gears is just more stacked planetary gearsets."

I guess I just don't understand your argument. Are you saying these new transmissions don't make a difference because they didn't do it earlier?

Even though fuel economy testing proves they clearly do make a difference....

And these new transmissions most certainly are not "just more stacked planetary gearsets". There has been decades of technology and efficiency improvements integrated into these new transmissions. I'm quite certain the transmission control module and shift programming, clutch packs and materials, etc. are different than an old 4 speed transmission.
Higher burnup, higher efficiency, and higher enrichment means less waste. Much less waste. Higher enrichment is the opposite of "cancels that out". Maybe you are thinking in terms of cost, but the cost of enrichment is negligible compared to the energy produced. In terms of waste, there will be at least 4 times less waste per unit of energy produced (thermal energy is about twice as high as for a PWR reactor and the enrichment is also about twice as high).

Another advantage is the fact this is a Small Modular Reactor. China wants to build 18 by the end of the decade. That is iteration. That's how you drive the cost down.

SpaceX is said to build one Raptor per day. Even without reusable boosters, just this pace of iteration means their workers and processes became much more efficient at building the engines. With a bit of googling around you can find the cost of a Raptor is 5-10 times lower than the cost of comparable engines, per unit of thrust. It is very likely this cost advantage will only increase going forward.
The mundane reality is likely just that the game reveals a way to exit the maze, which is considered a trade secret and could hurt IKEA's business.
> it's [just] the freeing that causes memory fragmentation.

Nope. Consider for examle a microcontroller with 64K of address space, consisting of 32K of low RAM, 8K of ROM/MMIO, and 24K of high RAM. Allocate buffers of size 23K, 15K, and 15K. With a straightforward first-fit allocator[0], you'll put the 23K in low RAM, leaving 9K, put the first 15K in high RAM, leaving 9K there, and fail to allocate the second 15K, because even though you have 18K free, it's fragmented into two 9K regions.

If you'd allocated that memory statically, you could have put the 23K in high RAM, and the two 15Ks in low RAM, with 2K low and 1K high left over.

It's debatable whether the fragmentation is 'caused' by malloc itself or by the ROM region in the middle of the address space, but you never called free, so it's not caused by free.

0: Less naive allocation strategies take more work to 'trap' like this, but I can work out a example for best-fit or whatever if you're sceptical that this isn't just a problem specific to first-fit.
I don't understand why this was flagged. This is pretty serious.

Elon managed to do what Trump could not (or did until he was banned), i.e.

- Buy his way to an extremely popular social media platform, to
- Broadcast his political views to hundreds of millions of people

This might be an early knee-jerk reaction, but moves like this have me very concerned about the future of the US.
AFAIK, NetBIOS & LLMNR handle only the hostname lookup. Zeroconf adds the crucial ability to advertise services (SSH, VNC, IPP...), so they're not really the same thing.
Puppet was/is declarative, or at least tried to be (unlike Ansible). Don't get me wrong, I completely understand tje differences with K8S and I'd rather accept "the inner loop" as the biggest differentiator.
Why? Was your device so constrained in terms of storage or memory that you couldn't have both Signal and an SMS app installed?
Is Scheme known for its training wheels?
You think it is highly unlikely that Facebook/Meta is selling granular user data?
Actually, no.

Since Mastodon is federated, running your own instance is largely transparent to most Mastodon and Fediverse users. You're simply another profile on another instance. Content will federate.

What operating your own server does provide is:

1. Control over your own services. Notably, over what other instances can federate to it --- Adam Davidson (ex of New Yorker, NYT, NPR, etc.) discovered this yesterday: <https://journa.host/@adamdavidson/109297137123981377>. But also moderation and content policies as well as operational and provisioning decisions.

2. An additional indicia of who you really are. BigCo@FlippantMastodonInstance.Whatevs might or might not indicate strong branding. BigCo@BigCo.TLD (especially where BigCo.TLD is already strongly established) is stronger branding.

3. For those not yet using Mastodon, the self-hosted server will be a single point at which content can be viewed. Note that this is marked distinction from the practice of the past decade or so of relying on social media services which were effectively walled gardens: Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and the like.

4. DMs are visible to an instance's admin. Self-hosting means that the organisation would control that particular exposure as well.

Much as BigCo would be expected to operate or present its own website or blog, and frequently its own email server (or at least domains pointed at hosted services), so too with self-hosted Mastodon.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022... [pdf]

Is parody free speech, or is it not?
Same here, moved to Telegram. Still use Signal though (my mother still contacts me there) but the product needs work.
It's less that Elon reads this site, and more that it's an obvious solution that people were asking for months ago. I'm sure twitter PMs and engineers have brought this up internally many times
Valve's Gambling Problem
You might enjoy reading meditations on moloch: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Ah, ok. Your clarification on software for version tracking makes a lot of sense and I completely agree.

The software management issue I was talking about was a different animal. Take the Ariane V; the idea was the could iterate faster if they leveraged software reuse. Since it was previously verified software, they didn't think it needed much testing. But the new rocket design exceeded the assumptions in the previous iteration and the vehicle was lost. There's a lot of instances where software allows you to iterate faster, but you have to very careful about the baked in assumptions.
That has nothing to do with them being criminals, though. You and I could engage in mutual combat, if we wanted. Muhammad Ali got paid quite a bit to do it.
That is how the world works. It is just that an individual buying at Safeway and selling to QFC will not have the reputation, scale, or timeliness to be able to make it worth QFC’s time and effort to buy from an individual.
He's spot on about the quality of clients for social feeds. Tweetbot is the only way I use Twitter. Cuts out all the algorithmic manipulation of my feed and has excellent controls to allow me to parse my feed and weed out the garbage. There are many tech people I wouldn't be able to follow if I wasn't able to strip out the political garbage.
It appears that this expansion of the Amazon Prime music benefit comes with a major drawback: you can no longer play individual tracks, in some cases even if you have purchased them from Amazon. I discovered this trying to play my purchased tracks on my Sonos today. Previously, I could use the Sonos app to create a playlist of Amazon tracks of my choosing. Now I can only play Amazon-curated playlists, or play albums from start to finish. I'm only able to skip a certain amount of tracks in a short period of time.

It appears that Amazon concluded that it should fully adopt Spotify's business model and jettison users who still purchase albums or MP3s for download and self-curation, at least via Sonos. It appears it may still be possible to play individual tracks from Amazon's web-based music player.

Has anyone else experienced this?
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Edit 2: je suis idiot. Will fix.

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> I think I grasp the fundamentals but I still can't visualise what will actually happen if we continue as is.

I wish I knew where to start. It was frustrating for me to know that we could have fixed it, but we didn't. It might be more upsetting to learn about it now that it's too late. In any case, I'm sorry to hear what you are about to learn, if you are willing to seek the truth. Even if you aren't, the future is coming, sooner than expected.
> In 2013. He pled guilty to wire fraud in 2012.

He pled guilty on Nov 4 2022, the wire fraud occurred in 2012.
Everything published on Twitter except for DMs is open to the whole internet to crawl. It is a public platform. I think it's fair game to serve you ads about Doritos if you are tweeting about potato chips and following Frito Lays.

Location based, privately identifiable, data is a bridge too far for me. But we also know for a fact other social media apps already do this if Twitter's app does not already do this currently.

The hype about Twitter being an unwise purchase is just noise from the peanut gallery. You should take such noise with a grain of salt.

Twitter was always under pressure to maximize value to shareholders. Same with every other tech company. Different companies sometimes make different trade-offs. I fail to see why Musk is somehow going to do any worse than what we've seen from social media companies over the past 15 years. But I do think there's a reasonable chance he'll do better.
I think it’d be better to judge it once those users have had a little time to try it. I signed up but couldn’t find anyone to follow, found the lack discoverability baffling, and ultimately bounced off.
> Think about it: if Signal didn't know that A was messaging B, how would they route that message to B's phone?

There is no need for signal to know because their servers are not involved to transport the message but only ip routing infrastructure in between and of course the two parties. That's P2P
So you are not going to substantiate your claim and just say its “common knowledge” and “take my word”? Alright then.
Yes, and I'd say the same thing about advertising, though obviously on a lesser scale. All advertising is bad. Some advertising is merely less bad.

Advertising that appears in Apps or Software I paid for is hot garbage 100% of the time.
Why don't you think it's possible to avoid undefined behavior in machine-emitted C?

Machine-emitted C can avoid most of the language, guarantee it won't incorrectly alias anything, and guarantee bounds are always checked.

Bugs are possible but you can make Rust->C bugs no more likely than Rust->assembly bugs.
I decided to give it a try. It wants you to select your "proto path" as a first step. Mine is a directory; we have something like src/ and then subsystems' proto files live in src/subsystem/subsystem.proto and import each other with 'import subsystem/subsystem.proto'. It didn't let me pick a directory with the file checker, nor did it let me just type a directory name, so that's annoying.

I picked one of the subsystems at random and it fails to import gogo's proto files. Yeah, that's always an annoyance, I guess you have to "go mod download" and add the correct path under ~/go/pkg/mod/... to locate that for it.

I couldn't figure out how to let it connect to my server and just autodiscover the protos like grpcurl does. At this point I gave up. I usually just make a main.go somewhere that does cc := grpc.Dial(...); res, err := whatever.FooClient(cc).Method(&whatever.Request{...}); fmt.Println(res, err) when I want to test something, so I doubt I'd integrate this with my workflow anyway.
Ex-Twitter employees blowing the whistle on the highly dodgy stuff they were asked to do during The Time when Twitter Was The Best Twitter and somehow attributing it to The Dark Now-Times Of Current Twitter is very 2022.
> I wonder how did they get into poverty in the first place. A lot of areas that are now declared as poverty zones today may have been poor in the past, but were self-sufficient and self sustaining.

Well, when the British left in 1945, roughly 15% of the country was literate [0], now that is up to 77% [0]. From here [1], it seems that poverty was around 45% of the population (361 million). It also says the rate varied based on how the monsoon season went, which makes sense for a primarily agrarian society, especially one which had to import food to meet their needs till 1965 (roughly).

so, basically, the British didn't leave India in a good place. See [2]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India#/media/File:...

[1] - https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACR801.pdf

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
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Both sides are holding it as a bargaining chip while simultaneously having it held over them as a bargaining chip. Neither side now wants to transact on the pipeline as it will ultimately be a sign of weakness. Either Europe blinks because it is desperate for gas or Russia blinks because it is desperate for money - and neither side is going to blink.

All the while Europe hasnt found it that hard to find other sources of gas and Russia hasnt found it too hard to find buyers willing to get a discount.
This is basically an everyday experience for me, and not limited to telephone calls. My hearing is not great, and I’ll often ask someone to repeat something only to finally finish parsing it about a second after I asked because in the intervening time my brain reconstructed a signal from a bunch of noise.
Yes, I run https://rangerovers.pub which I started because the mods on the US-based Range Rover forum were overbearing and obnoxious. I was having a conversation with someone I knew from the US forum in a pub in Glasgow, and the fateful question was asked - "How Hard Can It Be...?"

Not that hard, as it turns out.

I use FlaskBB, which I picked because it uses Python and looks modernish, and appeared to be quite resistant to the usual forum exploits. I could go into painful detail about the exact stack but let's just say uwsgi, Postgres, and nginx behind Traefik for SSL termination.

I have a few well-known and trusted users who are mods, and it seems reasonably spam-free. Every so often I go through the database and remove "obvious spammers". It's been largely maintenance-free, beyond keeping exploitable libraries patched.

I did run Google Ads for not-logged-in users for a bit, but it was a pain in the arse and made a whopping 40 quid a year so I stopped. It costs very little to run anyway.

Edit: I haven't seen the number of "Guests online" that high before. Thanks for your assistance with load-testing!
What I'm missing is a sane set of defaults applied to every page automatically with a nice UI so I can enable specific features on a per-domain basis with a couple clicks. If I get the time I'll write the firefox add-on myself, but in the meantime I'm hoping someone else will save me the trouble
Yeah I mean I'm sure the facts will clear after the dust settles, but for now we get hottakes based on real Tweets, fake Tweets, Internet rumors, and lies. Some of them won't age well (including mine).

> Or, in a hypothetical world ... do you imagine the Internet getting any less hysteric? Do you imagine headlines saying...

Less hysterical? No. As far as headlines, I can totally see both; headlines saying it's a surprise, along with a different newspaper framing it negatively. (I think I heard the shadowban group survived unscathed.)

> I'm denying the hysteria is in any way correlated with anything Musk actually does.

I'd say it's quite correlated as it's all based off of things Musk has done (eg suspending users impersonating him) or said/tweeted (proclaimed that free speech will reign supreme). Normally I'd say saying things and doing this are two separate matters (talk is, after all, cheap), except that this is a social media site, who's entire purpose is for saying things. For Tesla it's easy to point at the number of Model 3's produced/wk or Autopilot's shortcomings and set aside things Musk has said for what he's done or not done. Twitter, on the other hand, is a place for talk, so when Musk says he's a free speech absolutist, and then proceeds to buy Twitter, people take notice, especially at junctures where it turns out he's not.

There is a lot of stuff about Mastodon flying around, which isn't really related to Musk's speech/actions, and supports your "life of its own" part though.
I'm surprised someone hasn't built what3words style translation algorithm for crypto. So instead of the user seeing an address as a long stream of character, it becomes a series of words.
> it is definitely the most optimal way to price your product.

Yes, but it ignores some second-order effects. When you leave some money on the table by charging some users less than the max they are willing to pay (often referred to as consumer surplus), you get some benefits like more word of mouth, higher likelihood to get repeat purchases from a customer, and so on.

Think of the feeling you had the last time you bought something and thought "oh, this is so expensive i can barely justify paying for it" vs "oh my God, this is so worth the money I'm going to feel good for the next week and tell all my friends it's a no-brainer".

Most people underestimate these effects when they price discriminate.
The analogs to killfiles do exist in some clients: https://tidbits.com/2015/09/04/how-to-mute-unwanted-tweets-i...
IME (I led offshore teams of Indian devs for years), the quality of the in-house training TCS/Infosys/Cognizant/Capgemini etc provide for employees is... poor. They seem to focus on quantity over quality, presumably so devs have lots of "relevant" training to pad CVs with.
This made me cringe:

> Legal said the request was fine – none of it violated the user ToS.

Almost as if was watching an episode of some dystopian show happening somewhere in the future. It's sad to learn it's already happened.
Atom feeds also had the concept of a "via" link which would be used to give credit to the person you discovered it via.
> Usenet clients gave their users so much power

And there's the problem: when you give users power, it's harder to sell their eyeballs to advertisers.
"Hard no" because of your personal beliefs and bigotry, rather than fact.

Gender is a social construct, and people are free do identify as they please. If someone decides they don't identify as binary male or female, that's their choice. It doesn't mean they declare "I have no gender," it means they don't declare to be "male" or "female."

The fact that you foolishly and arrogantly try to equate an irrefutable, immutable physical attribute like iris pigmentation, with something as ill-defined, fluid, and personal as gender, shows you're neither engaging in good faith, nor able to get past your own bigotry to even make an intelligent argument.

Once again, you're the only one being confused here, so the fake outrage and trumped-up claims of confused readership don't fly.
Damn! And I thought that I have a great metaphor going here.

But yours is more on point, I dare say.
> > With things that don't change often like [...] and crypto

> crypto does change

A nearby comment mentioned Python, which did have that problem. The ssl module on its standard library didn't verify certificates by default, and since that's no longer considered good cryptographic practice (to put it mildly), that behavior had to change, even though it could break existing code. See for instance https://access.redhat.com/articles/2039753 and the several PEPs it links to, in particular https://peps.python.org/pep-0466/ which is about the backporting of the Python 3.x version of that module to a patch release of Python 2.7.
Identity politics are antithetical to Marxism. Marxists focus on class.
it's a shorthand to say "Mastodon" since no one really knows about the stuff under the hood (ActivityPub and the federated social web)

Yes everyone (especially those taking public money) should build AP into their existing web infra like their content management systems.

it's a complete failure of policy that all of these public status communications are made into centralized services with hostile ownership. for this, I mean your local police department and fire department, library and mayor and all of those groups.
Have you tried it yet? I thought all the hardware and software was pretty much there-they just hadn't gotten the cert to officially say it yet due to some weird edge cases, and in the meantime people have been successfully using TB eGPUs
If you're going this route, I'm pretty sure your LED strips must be RGBWW. Standard RGB strips won't be able to match the circadian lighting needed.
This is half-empty vs half-full glass of water problem... let me explain.

CSS is bloated because it needs to be bloated, do you remember the days before CSS? no, well we use to relay a lot from the HTML Spec (thats why some ppl kept pushing for some weird things like xhtml), we had to put in the all the elements HTML all the styles for every element on the website (and it wasn't like today that you put style tag and of you go), we had specific pourpose html elements (marquee, center, etc) to do certain things and it was a mess, as soon as CSS was available every developer started demanding it, Microsoft/IE couldn't keep up with the other browsers so he delivered a half-assed implementation (because they were pushing for activex/com shenanigans), that's were the infamous "css hacks" were born, because every major browser were luring users with features that devs had to support if their website aimed to be worldwide accessible, m so old for this shit that i remember Opera being loud on the ACID thing, it even went to my school to promote the CSS level support.

Now lets get back to 2022, all browsers politically agree to implement the things everyone wants, there are still half-assed solutions and workarounds (for older browser support, mainly Sucksfari), but the browser wars are over the winner was webkit=>chromium, now we live in the post war era, nobody wants to touch anything old because it might break the internet (and start another browser support war), so they keep pushing for new things build on top of old things (thats why we have a confusing state of what is better flex vs grid or the fact that we still need a css reset) because some old website (facebook, google, microsoft, etc.) has a vote on the w3c/whatwg table.

The solution? you might not like... lets break the internet, start deprecating the things and start promoting the new ones. Lets get rid of Safari!
If you ask me I dont think average users will ever pay for a solution to this problem.

People are simply not aware that their blue-heavy LED lights either cause harm to their sleep schedule or simply feel clinical at night.

I live in a very affluent mountain town now, one thats very aware of light pollution and is a general haven for health nuts, and yet 75% of the houses I see with lights on at night have blue-white lights. Especially in their kitchens. This makes sense as they are working areas
I thought the rule was they could not be editorialized. I've never read anything about them needing to read like an email title.
I couldn't find the show, but he has a related lecture on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv_e99qbJ4U