skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago when we had some e-coli water quality problems in our town which lead to boil-water advisory. It was eventually tracked to the badly maintained backflow valves and couple of dead rats in places or something. And it just so happened that we had a power outage after a storm knocked over a tree and hit the transformer. And there were fires. So. We went to a dinner where there was a great mix of south indians, north indians, someone from pakistan, and one of them said exasperatingly "I can't drink water, the power goes out, the smoke is choking - it's like I am in India again!"
Do we have any examples of this actually happening in the Soviet times until now? He's going to be worried about the groomed successor doing him in earlier than natural death. That paranoia is what keeps them from doing what you suggest.
> Russian companies were charged in the U.S. with operating a covert social media campaign aimed at fomenting discord and dividing American public opinion

This is key here and I think we should all take note because I see comments here that feed into their tactics. Their goal isn't to have a specific election winner, but to divide us as a nation (not just US but all Westerners and even countries like Japan) and create political shutdowns. The point is to further political extremism, on both sides, and to create in fighting so that no united formation can stand against them.

So the question is how to fight against this. There are things that the government can and should do, but there are things we the public NEED to do as well. We have to be aware that we're often in these battlegrounds. This thread is one itself. So when commenting we need to ensure that we're discussing in good faith. That we're avoiding mic drops and easy points. We need nuance and to discuss the complexities of the issues we face in a complex world. Shift away from the emotional reactions because that is what they exploit. They have super computers and trolls aimed at your brain to exploit this animalistic behavior and we all are ill prepared and highly vulnerable to it (yes me, yes you, and I mean all of you). So we have to slow down and think more. It's not easy and causes an internal battle, but I think my doing this we become stronger and this helps us fight any adversary who would like to make useful idiots out of all of us.
A lot of the early Bitcoin stuff was toys which became something more than toys faster than the people running it could transform the toy infrastructure at it's core. In most cases, they didn't have the experience necessary to make it something better. Mt Gox was just a reused domain and was origionally an exchange for Magic the Gathering!
I just want to share some stories with friends in my contact list. On Signal you don’t have “followers”, just people you are in contact with. This is an unobtrusive way to for example share something interesting, or some event happening near you and so on.
Don't forget Saudi Arabia, and the close ties the Republicans have with Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud. He was the second largest investor.

Elon Musk not only doesn't care about democracy, it's in his way. He sees all the oligarchs getting away scot free with everything in the world and he wants the same treatment, the same power. He probably justifies it by telling himself that he is leading the human race to the next stage, but he is completely misguided.
> The most important arbiter of content moderation is the reader. My decisions on who I follow should indicate what content I want to see. That control is undermined by commercial services that maximize engagement to sell attention to advertisers.

This is why ad-based social networks are inherently problematic unless/until they switch to an ad-free model, which means paywalled, but I would pay $2/month for a Twitter-like service that wasn't ad-based.
> Unlike asbestos insulation in houses, you actually can't avoid C in your software stack

You know what, construction industry could have made the same argument - oh look, all insulation suppliers use asbestos, the factory is built out of it too, its everywhere in the supply chain, you can't actually avoid asbestos if you ate trying to build a house, so we should learn to live with it.

You can't avoid fossil fuels, you gave to use fossil fuels to produce a solar panel, so dreaming about clean energy is pointless.

The difference is that some i industries pull the finger out of their bum and clean up their act, and some i dustries, like our's, does not. Even thoigh perfectly serviceable alternatives exist.
If it is possible to cause people to have doubt then the election system and rules need to be fixed. From what I can gather almost all US elected laws (except the partisan and some racist voter id laws) are from the 1800s.

From what I can tell I would state that Brasil has a better election system than the US. Millions voted and everything was counted in just a few hours. There seems to be a whole system to make absolutely sure the results can be trusted even when looser claim the other one cheated or votes are contested.

In the US it appears each state does their own thing. I remember "hanging chads" back in 2000, what a disaster.
> Real "I actually drive safer slightly buzzed" vibes.

“I don’t need seatbelts, I actually know how to drive unlike others”
This reminds me of visiting LA in the 80s. Similar shroud of smog encapsulating the city.

It can change for the better, but it needs people that believe that future is possible and worth fighting for.
I used to use my Raspberry Pi as an Octoprint server but after the third dead SD card, I unplugged it.

Are you doing anything on this setup to prolong the life of your SD card?
Wes Bos has a freebie

https://cssgrid.io/

CSS Tricks also has

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
I was making a formal point, not arguing about facts…
I think you mean well, but this comes across as very naive. You could guarantee security by not collecting data without a very narrow, very well communicated, very opt-in perspective in the first place. It is obvious to me that the data is being collected to help Microsoft, third parties and perhaps some undefined future use - not of those are me.
That is the price of AI, if you want you can move to an Amish town and give up on internet.
>Firstly, I don't necessarily agree that you could never get a guilty plea. The government has lots of resources and the threat of scrutinizing you and going after you for years is a significant pressure

Realistically speaking government resources is still limited. They can bring the hammer down on Julian Assange because he's a high profile person they want to make an example of, but that approach isn't scalable for every mid level manager that they want to investigate.
I don't really see how Mastodon will ever catch on outside the tiny circle of people who classify PGP key signing parties as a social activity. There's just so much friction around the federated model. In some contexts you need to cut and paste URLs to follow someone? If I view the profile of a follow on their home world, it doesn't know I follow them, so it offers the UX urging me to follow? There are different streams for "home" and "federated"??? It's basically just a huge collection of nerd UX mistakes.
This title rewrite is really bad. One interpretation of it is basically slandering opensea. I suspect OP (the person who decided to make up a title instead of using the article title) is not a native English speaker, and there are two ways to interpret their title and intentions:

1. they meant it as a question "does backdoor in opensea allow to take anyone's tokens?".

2. they meant it as a statement "backdoor in opensea allows you to take anyone's tokens"

Obviously #2 is a lot worse. Hopefully they just forgot the question mark and weren't intentionally being malicious.
Maybe if your only exposure to other humans is Hollywood actresses, but in the US those photographed people look pretty normal, and in the rest of the world those people would be somewhat curvier/plumper than average but not unreasonably so.
I would take that S10 for the experience ;) (I used to hate TouchWiz and other vendor's customizations, but One UI is fantastic).
I signed up for my first Mastodon account on a developer-focused server and I find the whole experience refreshing. The vibe is really small town, and there's a distinct lack of angry shouting back and forth.
Mastodon is a Confederation as no central authority moderates all instances.

https://blueskyweb.xyz

Actually is Federated.
> That's not true though.

It is true. Your posts are not copied.

They say: you can just join any instance, and then it's easy to switch later. But it's not.
I don't think bitcoin was even a recognized currency until 2014.. It is utter madness that someone can make a game today and you can be tried for winning on players technical errors a decade after the IRS decides if it is a serious speculative game. It's like back in the first MOOGs where people wanted to arrest in game thieves. Talk about killing your industry.
I am not sure I can express this enough: the onboarding experience is overwhelmingly confusing.

I've already ended up dumped on a page with a long list of servers, and it's not clear whether this choice matters or not. Half the comments here say it does, half say it doesn't!

But let's see my choices today: ruby.social, todon.eu, hostux.social, Glasgow.social, metalhead.net, socel.net, machteburch.social, activism.openworlds.info, eldritch.cafe, toot.wales, tooting.ch, sfba.social, indieweb.social, tech.lgbt, lor.sh "Yet another server," tilde.zone, ieji.de, is.nota.live, libretooth.gr, mastodonapp.uk, ravenation.club, climatejustice.social, noc.social, maly.io, mastodon.nz, qoto.org, mastodon.ie, and I'm tired of pasting, but literally NONE OF THE ABOVE seem to be for me!

And again, I don't know how much this matters, but it feels overwhelming. Also, a startlingly high percentage of socialist and otherwise left-leaning servers in that initial list, which might be intended, or might just be coincidentally arrayed to drive away people who are offended by such things.

The worst part about this is, I'm pretty sure I signed up with mastodon back when it was first launched, but I can't remember the server, so...
There was a Danish church organist I came across on YouTube, who had worked his way through pretty much every Danish hymnal/school song book, and many Swedish and Norwegian ones too. He'd been at it for years. Then suddenly he was gone. I assume one too many of the songs he'd played must have had been too recent, and got copystriked.

It's pretty sad that even marginal, plainly non-commercial work of an archival nature isn't left alone.
> I feel bad for them myself, because their tooling is apparently terrible. Makes me wonder if I should take a look into the space and see if I can come up with some ideas for a halfway decent set of tools.

The search tools are acceptable, but could be improved a lot. To get ideas for improvements, you should talk to actual examiners and try searching for patents yourself. Unfortunately, too frequently people who don't know much about how patent searching actually works propose "improvements" that aren't actually improvements.

Case in point: https://www.priorartarchive.org/

While well-intentioned, this site is doomed to mostly be unused by examiners. The classification search doesn't work. Classification search is a critical feature for patent examination. And the classifications are produced by machine learning, which usually produces poor quality classifications (despite loud pronouncements about how great machine learning is for this task).

The internal search tools work mostly by keyboard, and this search site works mostly by mouse. Mouse is much slower in my experience, and this matters a lot for time-constrained people like patent examiners. The main advantage of the internal USPTO search tools is speed, not anything fancy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30978043

The documents on the "Prior Art Archive" have tons of broken images, too.

> I've seen a lot of patents whose prior art could be found by spending a bit of quality time with a thesaurus, or a halfway decent index.

Most of the time this is not the case. If it's something that simple, it would be easily rejected. Keep in mind that when the media says a patent covers X, it probably doesn't actually cover X. It probably covers something far more specific that isn't a problem for anyone.

(Again, like my other comments here, this is just my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US government.)
That was just one example, but the fact that people disagree on it seems enough to be an example of why the a "last webserver ever" would stop being so. But it was just one example. There are things other than hardware changes that make people want something different out of software. Maybe not you, maybe you never change what you want out of software for any reason. if so you are extremely atypical. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
She is if she's in a vacuum.
After laying off half of its staff, Twitter might be asking some to come back
It's been hilarious watching people fleeing Twitter hop onto Mastodon and then try to report/ban people over there. The disconnect is amazing.
> "The most obvious shift in such a future is that there won’t be one big, central system. Instead of everyone posting on The Single Twitter, there will be lots of servers for people to post from. I’d expect most companies, government agencies, churches, and ad-hoc organizations will have their own server."

Or how about web pages with backlinks and maybe Disqus on the page for comments?
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LDC is a frontend to LLVM. https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
There are three timelines:

- Home Timeline: The people you follow

- Local Timeline: The people on your instance

- Fed Timeline: The people on the fediverse

You take your pick. Be as siloed as you want. On the fed timeline, block people and instances, or just let the unfiltered hive mind flow over you.

When you want something quieter, go to the local or home timelines.
It functions as an Airplay receiver, does it also function as DLNA receiver? A friend has some sort of Apple thing attached to his audio system, it works fine for streaming audio for anyone with itunes, but doesn't do anything for android folks.
Cheap crappy £5 bluetooth chip PCB off eBay, small mod to the cassette player in the factory stereo in my 1997 Range Rover, and I now have a bluetooth stereo that my phone works through without any annoying dangly dongles or aftermarket bodged-in stereo wiring.

I could have spent a couple of hundred quid on a decent head unit, and then some more on the interfaces to go down to line level for the amps in the doors and subwoofer, and then some more on interfaces to make the steering wheel controls and CD player work, and then some more to ensure the door amps actually switch on.

Or, PCB the size of my thumb, covered in heatshrink and held against the cassette drive PCB with a dot of hot glue.
Nuclear power yields amazing results compared to alternatives, this isn’t the case with C.
Then you, of all people, should understand how massive is the value and expertise chain all the way from the product, to the CNC machine tool, to the CAM programming, to the CAD software, and the other forks up through the materials, the robot assembly. Even if you worked only in robotic final assembly, that is NOT stuff we want to offshore.

I did see one case where it sort of made sense to offshore to China, and then only to have production near some other markets. The company literally prepared and shipped only the final secret input chemical and it's curing agent, to be mixed in a certain ratio, poured into a big vat, then cut into slabs. They were still wicked nervous about it, and I don't think the arrangement lasted long.

Even if all the components are made here, with all the materials engineering, CNC machining, molding, forming, fabrication, etc. done here, and only final robotic assembly done in China, that is still a non-trivial skill to program and maintain those robots. And at that point, it's only a few experts, so why ship it and not keep it here?
edited: make a monetary contribution to the project along with your PR
The PNW gets pristine air though for most of the year, aside from the inevitable few bad late-summer wildfire weeks.
Antimatter is allegedly valued at $2,700,000,000,000,000 per gram, so you could fetch a billion for 0.37 micrograms of it. Don't try storing it in a popcorn tin, though.
The icon is in the repo covered by the AGPLv3. Signal-Desktop does not have a CLA that would enable them to license the built binary anything but AGPLv3, as they do not have sole copyright over the code. They themselves are also bound by the AGPLv3.
This is exactly what happened with me, my roommate at the time, and my girlfriend. Season 1 was an excellent arc and was super well done from start to finish. However, because sometimes having satisfying twists requires dropping some hints here and there, and because the internet hive mind is incredibly good at predicting twists based off of hints, essentially the entire plot of the first season was successfully predicting through reddit collaboration and consensus after like the second episode, which then got distributed as usual through articles, social media, etc. I think the people who made the show were disappointed in this, and from what I can tell, the solution they seemed to have come up with was to make the plot of the second season so convoluted and the final "twists" so ridiculous that no one would predtict them. This worked, but it also ended up making it very dissatisfying overall, and with the clear implication that the show would be taking place in the "real word" instead of in the mostly closed off sandbox of the theme park, it didn't seem super likely that the writers would be able to improve on the previous season given the new setting, so I just didn't bother watching after that.
Edible Drones
Scaling PostgresML to 1 Million Requests per Second
Protection is not an absolute term. My (in)action can be more or less protective, more or less helpful.

Others can be quite not ready to do the same as I do or plan to do. By helping them to do what they can do best, I am too doing my best.

And I am not even talking about definition of toxicity in work place. What one can see as a dream work place, others can see as a toxic wasteland.
It's not conceptual, it's UI. The easy way to is copy the address and paste it into the search box on your home instance. Then hit the subscribe button.

This isn't very discoverable at all, though. Hitting the follow button is worse and doesn't tell you the easy way.
I can't believe h3h3 was shocked someone actually enforced the rules on him. Also pretty hilarious seeing him complain over what he has celebrated against others many, many times over the past few years. What a whiner.
From what I remember from phone history, the original iPhone was the size it was due to extensive research to ensure a Japanese woman's hand could reach all parts of the screen and there was a planned big push into Japan, which mostly succeeded at the time.

But Korean women actually lead the push for bigger phones, since they could keep larger devices like the Samsung Note in their purses and using more than one hand turned out to not be a big deal to most people if it meant being able to see more content/detail on the screen and better battery life.
The problem is that is not centralized server and even can be a different type of server like Pleroma, Misskey or any other that supports ActivityPub so it works different, They have to learn that ActivityPub/Mastodon is different and works different the same they had to learn how Twitter works or just stay in Twitter if it's too hard or too painful for them.
Ask HN: How have you struggled in buying a home as a Founder?
I'm guessing you are a liberterian.

For those who are not, a survey of the best practices in existing developed countries would likely make more sense.
Obviously Russian interferes in US elections. So do many other countries.

And the US interferes in other countries elections. It's always been this way.

It's just an issue now, because interference in the 2016 election was spun by domestic political groups to delegitimize an elected president and subvert the democratic process by attempting to remove the president.
HTTP caching doesn't work as well as it could for ActivityPub data patterns as it does for popular single sites, and AFAICT the servers don't do the things necessary to make it even as effective as it could be. There's a reason big Mastodon instances need to devote so many resources to Sidekiq.
perhaps, but isn't the desirability of something due to its (high) quality? how can its quality be measured from its desirability?

seems the wrong way around
I think you have the right idea. An large instance may help in the first day or two until you find some people to follow and then it's not so important as far as seeing the rest of the world. The federated timeline has plenty and it will keep growing as the number of people on the instance and the number of people they follow grows. You can also search hashtags to follow topics across the fediverse. But it's nice to have that community with some core shared interests to come back to. Part of that is a shared code of conduct. You want to associate with people who have the same idea about how to interact with others and that really sets the tone for the whole experience. I've mostly interacted with fosstodon.org and hachyderm.io and both are made up of people who are positive and respectful of others.
Unlike the Olympics where the sports are often obscure, boring or both, the world cup is comprised solely of an exciting game, much which of the world is familiar with from childhood experience. It's a sport that doesn't favor physical giants over skill and depends upon team cohesion over individual talent. As a result, we often see smaller countries with something to prove knock out bigger, established countries. Unless it's your team that loses, EVERYBODY loves an underdog.
And hundreds of thousands of devs [nowdays we say developer, really meaning web related developer like Javascript] don't care.

They want be in control of their API, but not boring sysadmins stuff.

Jails are targeting sysadmins, thus Docker wins the adoption.

Like cars with manual transmission.

> But the manual transmission is dying out. Just 41 out of the 327 new car models sold in the United States in 2020, or 13%, are offered with a manual transmission, according to data from Edmunds. That is a tremendous drop from less than a decade ago. In 2011, 37% percent came with manuals.
Someone can still try to sue you over trademark or copyright infringement. That said, it's quite harder for the one using it against you compared to sheer AI system flagging your account, as it requires paying lawyers a going to a court.
Good work.

But I can't help thinking this could or (should even) be under the auspices of crates.io. Provide a way to categorise crates and highlight commonly-used or trusted crates.