skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also not hard to solve. I've run large scale mail distribution systems, and I've run a webmail platform and been on the receiving end of large mailing list blasts.

The solution in both cases is just basic divide and conquer. Mastodon the software may not be able to scale effortlessly to the largest accounts, but that's a market opportunity. ActivityPub certainly can accommodate it.

If inbound volume is a problem, shard inbound activities, and zipper merge on lookup, likely maintaining a cache of the most recent n amount of entries, given this would mostly apply to things like the Federated feed for a large instance where "nobody" looks far back.

If outbound volume from a single account is a problem, you similarly just split the follower list into buckets and hand off delivery to a distributed set of workers for delivery; this scales just fine with the caveat that you depend on the receiving instances being able to handle the deluge. But ActivityPub allows for batched deliveries to shared inboxes [1] you can post to, to reduce the deliveries to one message per shared inbox (which would typically best case be one per instance; e.g. the "sharedInbox" property for my mastodon account is "https://mastodon.social/inbox). Assuming all current instances has a sharedinbox property (which is likely given most of them are Mastodon, and Mastodon does), currently delivering to all the ~6m Mastodon accounts requires delivering to ~1550 shared inboxes; delivering directly to 6m wouldn't have been a problem, but it's not necessary.

If handling the outbound volume from a single account arriving at your instance for delivery to a large proportion of your users is a problem, ActivityPub already has a built in solution: To find out where to deliver, you need to use WebFinger to obtain the profile urls, and get the profile urls to find the endpoints to talk to, including the inbox, which means foo@mastodon.social and bar@mastodon.social can have inboxes on different servers without even needing to do any more advanced sharding. But of course you can do the latter too and have the same inbox url mapped by your load balancer to any of a number of internal shards.

This is all stuff we had to solve literally decades ago for e-mail.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#shared-inbox-delivery
This is weird because I'm in the middle of the interview process with a division of Amazon.

Disclaimer:

I have a job and haven't been actively looking, but recruiters will reach out and I'll usually go through the interview process if only to practice.

And here we go:

I got the initial email around the middle of September for one particular division. As I went through the initial assessment, that division "met their hiring goals" and I was transferred to another division.

Through September and October, I organized the virtual on-site. And my interview was scheduled for last week. The weeks prior, as we know, the shit hit all the fans. I fully expected to get a "too bad, so sad" email saying my interview was cancelled. It wasn't. I went through the interview and I'm waiting to hear back currently.

But yeah, I would not be surprised to get a rejection. But from the point of view of my experience, nothing they've done or said has made anything seem off.
Can't help but be reminded of this scene from "The Fifth Element" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mO6UY6uTg
Firefox is largely written in Javascript and a bit of C++.
What would a hardware limit even look like in an electric car? A centrifugal governor on the axle that physically interrupts a kiloamp-scale conductor? A clock comparator between a Hall sensor on the wheel and a calibrated oscillator that keeps a contactor closed when the former is slower than the latter? These seem like heavy, error-prone systems that add more failure modes than they remove, compared to just having a software limit...
All 50 states have the same language, the same general culture, have fought the same wars, vote for the same 2 political parties, watch the same media, and more or less have the same economy.

But really, just the language thing is enough to make the comparison silly.
Appsmith you can't create good looking apps and the responsiveness is not good. Tooljet is good but it didn't click me. Basically I'm not developer but i know good SQL and WordPress. I really want something like Elementor page builder but with low code functionalities.
I think the draft still some minor kinks to iron out but overall I see it as a good idea. This gives a clear pathway to determine the boundary where a software component becomes more then just “a little experiment” with meaningful impact on a bigger software system.
OpenSUSE is nice. It has btrfs/snapper configured by default, which makes upgrades low-stress (if anything ever goes wrong, just reboot into the snapshot automatically created before every upgrade.) It also has a decent GUI (YaST) for system administration tasks.
I really do not understand your problems with building in containers.

It's development, just cache target/ or COPY binary.
Amazon is making record profits and is able to deliver tons of money annually to shareholders and Bezos, so I don’t buy that there’s a cashflow problem here.
Seems like he's saying that you can't change who you are at the core, which I disagree with.

With each want, however, the meaning becomes more and more frivolous. Who cares what you want to want to want to want to want? That's not recognizable even on a subconscious level.
$5B is around 1% of their (current) trailing 4 quarter revenue, which I would say is "not outrageous" if voice/home assistants is an area of growth and investment for Amazon.

Why would a 2022 article be citing a 2018 loss figure for a almost surely (if my house is any indication) fast-growing segment?
Well, are you the type of person or business who would make money off said truck?
I have little software investment (mostly pixelmator) but I am using Apple Music subscription. I've paid for it for over 3 years so I think I've paid enough anyway...
The wilderness ‘therapy’ that teens say feels like abuse
No it isn't, AOSP is open source (it's right in the name) and there are projects like CalyxOS, GrapheneOS, and LineageOS which make it extremely easy for anyone on HN to get away from having Apple or Google on their mobile devices.
I don't know if this is right or wrong, but if I were running a news agency, I would think that glowing puff pieces would be one of the first things I'd eliminate in the event of a financial crunch.

Is there a reason we think they persist?
> if they are non-fraudulent

Considering that FTX is a fraudulent exchange and the rate at which fraud has been perpetuated by crypto exchanges historically, I don't know that this is any more than theoretical pedantry.

For all practical purposes at this point in time, if you don't assume your exchange is lying about their reserves and at high risk of a run you're in for a massive loss.

I am heavily against crypto, but I will be the first to point out the decentralization purists were right: not your keys, not your coins. If you're going to play this game, putting complete trust in mostly unregulated entities who have conflicting self-interests from you...yikes.
A lot of people get angry when the money came from the gov’t (aka their taxes) without their permission to help someone who has more money than them.
Yes.

Treating crypto like a high velocity stock exchange gets you exactly the same thing that you get from a high velocity stock exchange; aka a system that just generally screws little guys.
2008 doesn't seem like a good argument for "Re-running the entire history of finance scams, up to and including 2008 if we can get that far".
Billions of dollars?
I don’t believe that so many real dollars are left in the ecosystem. And who is buying one bitcoin for $15,000 at the moment so that another guy can withdraw his money?
Having sign in issues on Coinbase. Anyone else?
Those don't make money.
I think these moves are possible if we're not in a recession. If Amazon underperformed over the year, and its earnings are lower than estimated, they could be simply cutting costs in Q4 to offset the lowered earnings. The cause of that underperformance is really what would tell you if we're headed for a recession and Amazon has their fingers in so many pies it'd be hard to attribute laying off 1/150th of their workforce to the overall economy I think.

That this is happening at a number of big tech companies isn't a surprise I don't think. The biggest layoffs this year so far have been at companies that made large scale changes (Meta, Twitter) or over-hired over the course of the pandemic when that level of business turned out not to be permanent (Stripe, Shopify).

It's possible that this is industry-specific. Tech companies exploded during the pandemic if they had anything to do with stuff you do indoors, and this is the real "post-pandemic" year (talking economically).

Other industries which took it on the chin during the pandemic are recovering well this year, notably anything travel-related seems to be doing incredibly well and some companies are on track for banner years.

That said, I suspect we're going to see a few quarters of stagnant growth (0% to 0.3%) or mild contraction (0% to -0.3%), maybe not enough in a row to declare recession.
Flag Stop
Is it the same people though?
It was actually aimed at the blackberry crowd that valued having a full keyboard at the time. I had one for a while in Nokia. It was great for things like email. Much lighter than the 9500/9300s it replaced. Those were heavy bricks. Different times of course but I do miss hardware keyboards.

I think we lost something with all those hardware form-factors converging on essentially the same design: a rectangle that barely fits in your pocket.
As fun as tribal arguing is, I wasn't taking a side. Did you read my post at all? I was saying that the methodology for claiming taxes were lower was so stupid as to defy even any attempt to ascribe good faith.

Let me quote my post for your convenience: "I don't know if taxes are higher now vs some point in history"
>The way that Rivian competes is by making a better product

Or they can sell an image like Toyota Jeep, Caddilac, etc. do with certain product lines (that said, all these OEMs have other product lines that compete on merit) and spend all their money on marketing and astroturfing.
What about Python felt intelligent to you? I thought it was just a bunch of dudes in dresses being weird for weird's sake
It's interesting that EC is not looking at addressing the obvious loophole big corporations are using - that is they are saving on R&D and tax by using open source software without paying the developers for their time.

If these big corporations were paying up the fair share of profit generated by the open source software they use, I am sure the developers behind it would have funds essential to ensure the security of the software they make.

That being said, even if above was not feasible (shame!), then it should be up to corporation using the software to ensure it is secure (and possibly contributing any fixes back to the software).
I think it's necessary to separate technical problems from social ones. If necessary, the protocol can be changed to scale better (Mastodon is trying to be nice to respect a pre-existing standard, but if that standard crumbles, it's fair to come up with a better one, and IMHO it is solvable).

Mastodon from the start wanted to tackle the social part of the problem about the fundamental disagreements about moderation. There's a wide spectrum between people who are keen to start Internet fights, people willing to tolerate that in the name of "free speech" principle, and people who just want to have a nice place where they can hang out without randos demanding they "debate" their right to exist.

These groups will never agree what level of moderation is appropriate. Even within Mastodon communities it's controversial what the rules for federation, bans, and content warnings should be.

Twitter, Facebook and others begrudgingly ended up being arbiters in political culture wars and must en masse decide what is acceptable to say. This ends up being an absurd situation where they try to balance the amount of abuse to an advertiser-acceptable level.

Mastodon's answer is that you can moderate your community however you want, and cut off whole parts of the network you don't like. This is ridiculed as "bubbles", but if you don't agree — make your own anything-goes instance!

It doesn't work quite well. There's still a lot to work out, but I think it's a better starting point than pleading with a billion-dollar enterprise to police the content in the way you think is right.
It’s a great way to make money out of crypto!
I'm wondering if Vercel itself has interest in Deno, given their focus on the edge (and generally being at the forefront of JS tech). I hope they don't try and purchase it or anything, but first-party Next.js support for Deno would be awesome
> Can we acknowledge that both of those options are utter trash compared to conventional banking, though?

Yes, yes we can.

The only things that ever justified the use of cryptocurrency were ideological fantasies and speculative gambling. Every other justification is just hype created as a post-hoc rationalization for one of those two things. If you look at any of them closely, they completely fall apart when compared with competitor technologies (such as fiat paper money esp. the US dollar, conventional banking, and even gold).

I look forward to a future where "crypto" again unambiguously means cryptography.
> less decentralized (Solana...

SBF is deeply tied to Solana. It's reported SBF/FTX/Alameda were sitting on close to $1bn worth of Solana up to a few days ago. Some are apparently locked. This makes him the biggest holder of Solana. Centralized indeed. Now of course these "$1bn" are in that worthless Solana scamcoin which already fell from $32 to $13 since the news. So I take that that $1bn is now more like $400m or something, and shrinking fast.

It's possible that, like with Serum, SBF was involved in the creation of Solana from the very start (I take it more independent journalist are going to dig on that: I don't expect mainstream media to do much research that said).
Not quite: there are millions of people who claim the existence of a God(s), or claim to have had "experiences" with the same. However, to those raised in secular environments, these claims "have" "no" validity, but this is actually just the model of reality built by the mind (what "is", in "reality"), which is heavily influenced by the metaphysical framework one was raised/trained on, or exists within.

Philosophy (logic, epistemology, etc) has more appropriate tools and techniques for dealing with such questions, but if one (one's mind) has been trained that only the scientific method can provide knowledge, they are kind of stuck at a local maxima (inside a "simulated reality dome") that they are unable to see out of, or typically even want to see out of.
I think there's an axiomatic difference here.

I don't believe any large service is more stable in the long term than a small one. To put it morbidly, all will be dust eventually. At least mastodon has account migration baked in.

Additionally, why would I want all my content to last forever? If I want something to last forever I'll carve it on a rock, not toot it.

Pretty much everything else you listed is a positive.
Namely no risk of you losing your assets due to technical glitch, fraud, or overextension. Of course this is not a substantial advantage, especially in the US, given the various non-technical (i.e. legal/cultural) guarantees against these failure modes. It doesn't overcome the disadvantages of e.g. having to physically protect your own assets - thus why people tend to use financial institutions.
Yeah, I completely misread it.
I watched it in my teens and had high expectations for student life.

My first place (2012) wasn’t a disappointment, I lived with a hardcore feminist arch-hipster, effervescent gay couple and an overworked everyman grad student.

This was in Canada, and lacked much of the zaniness of the show (of course) but it was still a riot for the wide-eyed 20 year old me.
eigenchris' Relativity courses:
https://www.youtube.com/user/eigenchris

I love pretty much everything on his channel with crystal clear explanations and deadpan delivery!
> can all of a sudden decide to go pedal to the metal

Perhaps we should focus on this root cause? Why is the car even capable of this in the first place?

Maybe we should consider removing software from certain areas of automobiles. More is definitely not making things any safer.

Hydraulics and cable linkages are extremely robust. Even if the throttle on your 90s car gets stuck wide open, it would be trivial to pop the vehicle into neutral. A modern vehicle with the digital gear selector will give you a much more likely issue for such a bold action, especially if the computer is already misbehaving per acceleration.

The steering wheels aren't even real anymore. What would stop a gamma ray from glitching my steering program full left turn while driving at 80mph on the freeway? How much of our safety do we really need to make the computer responsible for?
This case is a special though, as Bob CD is not a 100% complete package for doing CI/CD, it is one fundamental building piece for building your own CI/CD solution on top of.

So devops people would use Bob CD to build their in-house solution for it, and everyone would be using that, without actually using Bob CD directly.
Sure, you can sit around Twitter all day whining about how Apple won't make your favorite phone or you can get on AliExpress and send $20 USD for a brand new Ferrari Phone:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802047473717.html?spm=a2g...
> This is exactly the point of cryptocurrency.

Yes but it's also got serious "this is the year of the Linux desktop" vibes. If there's one thing exchanges and this collapse have proven it's that normies could not care less about managing their own keys because, and this is true, managing your own keys at home is risky and sucks - intentionally.

Saying that everyone should have a birdbath with a Ledger under it is tantamount to admitting this whole model is only for a few anarchocaptialist libertarian nutbags, los narcostrafficantes and folks trying to make ransomware payments - while the normies should just stick to tradfi.
Note that iCloud backups include the keys needed to decode your ostensibly end-to-end encrypted iMessage history. Effectively key escrow, but they don't market it like that.
You're not wrong in general, but one interesting thing about Go as an ecosystem (rather than as a language) is that golang programs are mostly statically compiled — all sources, one pass, one code unit, one object-code output — so they're (theoretically) very amenable to compile-time (rather than link-time) Whole-Program Optimization techniques.

In this specific case, that technique would be whole-program dataflow analysis. Given a Golang function that passes out references-to-copies-of owned data, you could actually determine for certain — at least in the default static-binary linkage mode — whether these two properties hold universally within the resulting binary:

1. whether no caller of the function will ever try to do anything that would cause data within their copy of the struct to be modified;

2. whether the owner of the data will never modify the data of the original struct in such a way that, if the copy were elided, the changes would be "seen" by any reads done in any of the callers. (The owner could still modify internal metadata within the struct for its own use, as long as such internal metadata is 1. in private fields, 2. where all callers live outside the package defining the struct, making those fields inaccessible; and 3. the fields are never accessed by any struct methods called by borrowers of the struct — keeping in mind that such methods can be defined outside the package by caller code.)

If you could prove both of these properties (using dataflow analysis), then you could safely elide the copy within the function, turning the return of a reference-to-a-copy-of-X into a return of a reference-to-X.

(And, in fact, if you can only prove the second property universally, and the first property in specific instances, then you can still elide the copy from the function itself; but you'd also generate a wrapper function that calls said function [receiving a reference-to-X], copies, and so returns a reference-to-a-copy-of-X; and then, for any call-site where the first property doesn't hold — i.e. callers whose transitive call-graph will ever modify the data — you'd replace the call to the original function with a call to the wrapper. So "safe" connected caller sub-graphs would receive references, while "unsafe" connected caller sub-graphs would receive copies.)
This doesn't appear to be mentioned in their Wikipedia history, but Spotify also started as a digital locker/music matching. You would install the client and point it to your iTunes library and it would build the online playlist from that.

4 years of Spotify pivots is missing from their[0] Wikipedia page (2006-2010). I signed up in 2007 and stopped using once I got annoyed with them removing songs from my playlist. They then pivoted to music streaming subscriptions, with the recording industry becoming a "partner".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify#History
Good luck to the crypto peeps out there. Seems like a strange world!
This particular change is one of the (very) few so far that's fine.

It was added in the earlier days of Twitter where it was more wild and third-party clients/integrations could cause havoc; now it's not as useful.
I've got fond memories of trying to order from the Farnel website with a Nokia 6800 back in 2006ish... I think via wifi. The entire experience was awful and infuriating on a number of levels, but it did actually get on with it. Might have been running Opera as a java app. Thanks for the post - I've been trying to remember what that was and failing to google for a couple of weeks now.

Some of the ire and sarcasm seems undeserved and seems to miss the point of some of the handsets - I wonder if the author is old enough to remember them first hand in the wild (eg for the k800 no one downloaded MP3s through their phone, but having a 2gb SD card and a USB connection was extremely handy).

Edit: to clarify what I meant; I didn't meant to disparage anyone's age. Merely that I remember some of this tech making sense in the context of the time, though looking back from today, I can see why it wouldn't.
Agreed. I'm just illustrating that it's part of an ongoing pattern at Amazon. Not some new, shocking thing. I'd expect more in the future.
Funkwhale is a really nice project. OP asked for a reliable paid service, which most comments about just using S3 don't cover.

Luckily, unlike many open source projects, there are a couple of (niche) managed service providers for it:

- https://cloud68.co/instances/funkwhale

- https://weingaertner-it.de
Official non-profit Ruby on Rails Foundation
A "training program" starts with good onboarding. It might even start during the hiring process. A company with 10 devs can be training less experienced folks.
Oh, 100% agreed there. But in a a larger conversation about "the media", Dominos is analogous to a large, mass-market, low cost outlet, not the media in general. It's entirely possible that TMZ or People Magazine had similar improvements that still keep them below the radar of someone serious about the product.

So yeah, some credit, that's fair. But I think the lesson is that good management recognizes when quality is falling off the bottom of the bottom rung, and makes adjustments to get back on that bottom rung.
As far as I know Bill Gates is still alive
Fuck. Exchanges. I lost all my dogecoin in the early days to an exchange. I knew no better it was too early.
I had an order for an R1T and a cybertruck but just got a 2003 LX 470 instead. At least the kinks have been worked out. lol
Shout out to Frontline. Probably the best television investigative journalism I've ever seen.