skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep seeing this repeated over and over every time the discussion of the Fediverse comes up, but I don't actually see this being a problem in practice.

It’s perfectly fine if the network consists of a bunch of loosely connected islands without the ability to propagate information across the entire network because there is a limited number of people you can interact with meaningfully. Federation favors smaller communities where the interactions are more personal while still facilitation interaction between different communities.

Even a centralized site like reddit is ultimately broken down into subreddits because nobody wants to see all of reddit all at once.
The idea of chainlinking "AI to guide/choose AI for the next step" is where I expect more impressive results in future. It will be important to understand the limitations of AI to be sure of proper placement.
Maybe a comparison to ICU4X is more interesting.
Or Russia as a surface to surface as of this summer.
But NYT is soooooo often faulted for being a source of Democratic Party propaganda, enough so that they announced they were replacing editors within the last several months.

Perhaps what you notice is NOT coincidence?
I'm not sure this is a huge issue if you set up user expectations adequately. Just like JoeAsshole@gmail.com isn't the same account as JoeAsshole@hotmail.com.

A workable alternative would be using a pubkey fingerprint with an mutable display name, but who wants to help their family sort that out?
Can this replace an inReach yet?
Question: How do bananas and alligators relate to monads?

Answer: Bananas and alligators are monads.
GOOG and GOOGL don't have dividends.

TCI actually calls on them to increase buy backs as "Alphabet's large cash balance is serving neither shareholders nor the company" and "share price is down 34% YTD ... The stock is very cheap ... Alphabet should ... significantly accelerate share repurchases".

I personally disagree with some of this logic though. IMO, a large cash balance is serving the company as a hedge at going bankrupt and is less than a quarter's worth of expenses (~150B [1]). While companies aren't the same as individuals, I do think you can be justified in saying you're keeping 3 months worth of expenses in the bank.

[1]: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/20221025_alphabet_10Q.pd...
Well it’s a fair point to ask why Google’s median comp is far higher than Microsoft.

Can it be justified with better results?
> What is unignorable? Politics? I can ignore it just fine when I consider it not an appropriate subject.

It's easier to ignore something that largely ignores you. It becomes impossible to ignore something when half the people in it consider your existence an affront to their sensibilities, and those people are inexplicably being listened to.

> Why does every arena have to be about picking a fight, rather than finding common ground?

There exists no common ground when people think other people shouldn't exist. If all those people stop having any influence on the world, perhaps the rest can successfully seek common ground and have reasonable policy discussions.
which is because the NYT is pwned by the Democrats somehow undisclosed?
Although some advertising is fairly useless or harmful, this ignores a lot of gray areas. For example, companies write interesting and useful blogs to both inform people and sell product.
Also known as the Tennessee barking spider.
> If it's intentional, highly likely they will use NATO's response as an excuse to pull out of Ukraine.

That would be good, wouldn't it?
Looks like that's gone too
Parent isn’t wrong. Chandler was a very interesting distributed PIM in (I think) the very early 2000s. It collapsed under the weight of its own ambition but it’s a significant piece of software history, one of those alternative paths.

And yes it’s a TV character too, but Parent isn’t wrong to point out the name collision.
more power to them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it is true. The larger the organisation, the harder it is to deploy well designed software architectures. Too many cooks!
Not from here, no...
I think the benefit is a preemptive transition onto a more consensual platform where you are the owner-operator who can adjust the rules and mechanics instead of a tenant to an exploitative behemoth who can ruin your community without even noticing it.
Blizzard made it big, EA followed suit, and we ended up with lawsuits over loot boxes :)
> The point I'm making is that they don't know that.

We have a pretty strong indication though, since Wikipedia ran with significantly leaner staff not long ago, and Wikipedia wasn't fundamentally much less useful then compared to now.

If you look at the financial reports, in 2012[1] they paid almost exactly the same in internet hosting fees and other operating expenses as in 2022[2]. However the salary expenses ballooned to ~6.7x (adjusted for inflation).

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/0/09/FINAL...

[2]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/26/Wikim...
The long solder-heavy way to get root access to a Starlink terminal
This is simply unusable. If I type `sl`, I expect an animated choo-choo train to appear, not a newfangled Git client!

/s :)
Isn't most of the plastic in oceans from fishing nets? Landfills aren't all that much of a problem.
> All companies are fucked up... the trick is finding a company that's fucked up in a way that works for you

I think another way to phrase this is "No company is perfect, don't let good be the enemy of perfect, find a company that ticks as many of your boxes while triggering as few or zero of your red flags" or something like that.

Is my job "perfect"? Absolutely not but it's pretty damn close and compared to my past jobs it's by far the best (if you can't say this then you might want to shop around). I have a friend who gets every Friday off, is that nice? Sure is but I wouldn't like a number of other things about the company he works for. Life/work is a series of tradeoffs/comprimsies, just make sure you are feel like you have more positives than negatives and you'll be happy.

I'm extremely thankful that early in my career I realized that I enjoy working for smaller companies. I was "lucky" enough to essentially be contracted out to a big client and I hated almost every aspect of it (except that I loved working on a single product vs the small little projects for various clients as I had done before). I took that experience and found a job at a small company that had a couple of products that I could iterate on and improve.

It's common to say something like "If you aren't changing jobs every 2-4 years you are leaving a ton of money on the table", that's mostly true but one other big benefit of moving companies is you get to exposed to a bunch of different ways companies are run, their culture, etc. I feel like every time I've switched jobs I've moved closer and closer to my personal "perfect", in part because I've recognized the red flags from my past/current jobs and watched for them before accepting an offer at a new place.
So, exactly how long before shills and bots are cross pollinating some paid for narrative on all the technology subs using the same script?

“Hmm, almost all of r/technology is against nuclear, that informs my personal view point a little… “hmm, every one of these technology reddit-likes is against nuclear, I guess everyone agrees and I should too”.

I am aware that this is not a bug to Reddit, it is the reason they are looking at an IPO, is a very in-demand feature to be able to shape narratives.

I look forward to seeing how a federated Reddit deals with narrative pushing.
A "draft commit" (I really like that name!) is not a commit, and should not be handled as such. This would make this feature more or less useless.

The whole point of the "draft commit" is that you can easily see changes against your (uncommited!) changes. That helps to build up a commit step by step.

Committing WIP stuff (and maybe even pushing that) makes the history useless. Branches don't help as you end up with millions of WIP branches that are all incompatible to each other (and the evolution that happened elsewhere). Only keeping WIP branches up to date is a full time job than.

Git has already a means to edit the latest commit easily: `git commit --amend`.
Why do I have to do that? How is that something I’m responsible for? I don’t own those instances and I don’t like the existing users.

I’m going to just keep using Facebook, and this will die off
I wonder if bailouts are, one step removed, really for the big investment firms behind the political parties offering the bailouts, presumably invested in who is being bailed out.

I have no evidence but I do wonder.
Seems interesting. What’s the delta between what’s been implemented here and Phoenix LiveView?
> Pledge Letter

> A while ago I became convinced that our duty was to do the most we could for the long run aggregate utility of the world.

> In the end, it’s the work my friends and colleagues at foundations do that matters the most. A more just world would shine a brighter light on them. In this world, I’m honored to be able to support their work.

the page is titled “Pledge Letter”... but where’s the pledge? what am i looking at here?
I think the past 5 times I've tried getting a valid user/password combination from here it has not worked.
Don't agree.

I think it's poor writing on the articles part. The letter is addressed explicitly to Sundar Pichai not Alphabet.
Hmm. Wonder what "astronaut riding a glass horse" would do then?
Good example of the "naughtiness" pg so prizes.
Hardware like TVs are especially insidious because unlike a service you don't simply decide to stop using it one day and the ad revenue stops. Rather ad revenue continues for the lifetime of the TV and there is very little chance that a company will forgo that recurring ad revenue in exchange for an increase in up-front MSRP
This article was free... Just saying.
Not working for me ~8 minutes later.
I dunno, there's a lot of value in having a tool that's flexible and lets you work the way you want—even if that fundamentally means there is no one blessed way to do things.

Git has a lot of incidental complexity and unforced design problems, but the fact that it's inherently flexible is not one.
Right, but while it may only be a 1/6 chance that a single die roll will give you a six, rolling more and more dice eventually makes it a near-certainty that at least one will give you a six.
Question: How many atoms does a plank length of space contain?

Answer: 1018

Edit: typo in 'plank' is intentional :)

Spelled correctly:

Question: How many atoms does a planck length of space contain?

Answer: 10^19
My failed PHP date conversions look similar...
What “hoarding of power?” Sonia Ghandi, who moved to India at 18, was president of India’s biggest political party for 30 years, but was never able to run for Prime Minister because she was born in Italy. Meanwhile the daughter of an Indian is vice president in the US. The US has got to be one of the few countries in the world where the country’s founding people no longer hold a majority of the political power.
Yes I’m curious if there is any correlation between smell and gut micro biome populations.
Acceptable, provided they are encrypted. I'm not in a flood zone myself, so floods have a very remote risk of occurring. Fire is always a possibility, albeit also low on the risk scale. Depending upon your risk tolerance mitigating 'fire risk' could involve backup to a cloud service (#), or backing up to a portable disk that is swapped for another at a secondary location on some periodic basis.

(#) the /necessity/ of needing 'off-site' for mitigating fire risk means one may have no choice but to utilize 'other people's disks' to obtain the 'off-site' aspect. You do have to make sure you can recover the encryption keys for the 'off-site' data in the event of the need to recover using the off-site data, so that adds some complexity to 'key management' (i.e., if all your copies of the keys go up in the fire, the off-site data may as well not exist).
I don't think polio and kids is a good example here, since the COVID vaccine isn't sterilizing like polio, meaning boosters are required, which were never approved for kids because they failed to prove reasonable efficacy. Most kids haven't been vaccinated for COVID in years, and have little protection against it, beyond the continuous exposure now present in the school systems.
Anyone got a standalone ActivityPub client? Couldn't find one. The protocol is intended to cover both server/server federation and client/server fetching of updates, correct?
It means nonsense.
No disrespect but you’re kidding, right?

We often (a.k.a. constantly) want to see a subset of commits that meet some criteria.

The way Git handles this is by adding more flags, which doesn’t scale.

Just look at the man page for git log… it’s nuts.

Having a concise functional query language [1] is one of Mercurial’s and I guess Sapling’s killer features.

[1]: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/help/revsets
Ask HN: Cheap gadgets that have made you more productive?
I recently got a pear of dead cheap Edifier W800BT headphones as a spare.
I wouldn't expect that they would be so useful I think I missed out I didn't had Bluetooth headphones for a while.

Are there any other cheap gadgets that you people would suggest to someone on a budget (like 100$)?
The heading at the start of the letter says Alphabet
A friend's 18yo brother was motorcycling in the mountains with their father, crashed and broke his femur. Ambulance would have taken hours, they had helicopter rescue insurance, but the only helicopter company that operated there wouldn't take it. Got a $25k bill for the helicopter ride and negotiated down to $16k iirc.
Can confirm. I like sapling better than git. Who needs branches? Why stress about detached heads? Working with a stack of commits is a breeze too.

absorb
split
histedit
uncommit
unamend
revert
metaedit

Once you use them, it's hard to go back.
Alphabet owns Google. Alphabet's Top 10 major shareholders, who collectively hold 28% of total shares outstanding, can be found on this page:

https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...
In Russia, this kind of training is not a long-gone relic - there's a class in school that's dedicated to survival in various situations, covering all kinds of stuff from emergency first aid to making shelter in the wilds. A subset of that is dealing with anthropogenic disasters, and a subset of that is civil defense. If I remember correctly, we had two hours covering nukes alone - likely targets in the vicinity, what kind of damage to expect where, how to build fallout shelters, when to evacuate etc. So far as I know, this all is still taught in schools there.
yep ... I immediately saw about 5 articles that looked like straight up russian propaganda about Ukraine on the front page and was quite challenged about whether I wanted to read them or not.
Perhaps the same places that rent out bear cans can offer rental Iphones for those of us who normally only carry anonymous phones with burner SIMs.
The commercials said "fortune favors the _brave_" where brave almost literally means risky.

Take note of every commercial you see and you'll notice that some huge % of them have dead bodies on their balance sheets, poisoned water, coups, criminal behavior. Like how the (unnamed?) main character of Fight Club's job as an insurance adjuster was to figure out if it was cheaper to do a recall or pay off the victims' families.

All that said, yeah absolutely no one even glancing at FTX's books before letting them in the room is very 2008-ish.
Excerpt from an answer about sailing

> Why doesn't the sail push directly on the boat?

> The reason is that the boat and the sail are not in direct contact. The boat is in contact with the water, but the sail is in contact with the air.

> Because the air and water are different substances, they can't push on each other. The sail pushes on the air, but the boat pushes on the water. This means that the sail and the boat can't push on each other.

It's late in the night for me or it doesn't make any sense?
Agree! Where else am I going to engage with far left moderators and tech people? I mean; there is only everywhere, but I’m already existing there.
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/facebook-just-proved-isnt-hool...
He was hired by Facebook during the 2015 summer, but the zstd announcement is dated jan 2015.
THE ODDS ARE *NEVER* IN OUR FAVOR
Unless they're on the court, it wouldn't matter. It's not just the color, it's also the position of the players. The graphics are mapped to certain spots on the court, so this only happens if a player wearing the color stands where the graphic is.
It is still security threat for NATO member. No meter what landed on Poland it was consequence of Russian shelling in proximity of Ukrainian-Polish border.
No one is arguing that spam blocking isn't a part of instance moderation.

I'm saying that in terms of economic "bang for the buck", if you were going to spam the fediverse doing it with follow requests is a terrible way to do it with very low likelihood of success. You are better off trying for other means of virally distributing toots than follow request spam.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s first collection of NFTs will be available on Friday, November 18 as part of an exclusive multi-year partnership with Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider.
But there are CO₂-rich exhausts in chemical plants and power plants, with concentrations well above 50%. This is where the capture could work efficiently. These likely produce a sizable portion of the carbon dioxide surplus.

Capturing carbon from a jet engine will remain problematic, or slow. Maybe we should just grow more trees, extract solid carbon from them (by burning or otherwise), and bury it in old coal mines.
I didn't make it up, if that's what you're asking. Any Meta employee can confirm: fb.workplace.com/groups/scm.fyi/posts/2705323112933543
> Guy with an MBA tells company to do the only advice guys with MBAs know

Its already been talked about endlessly here but time and time again we see that when MBAs come in, pay decreases but profits don't increase.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29874/w298...
Q: Difference between indica and sativa

A: Rice is an important staple food crop that has been cultivated for thousands of years. There are two main types of rice: Indica and Japonica

Thanks Meta. Very scientific.
WCIII TFT is quite easily blizzard's greatest game simply because of the world editor.

I have played a bit of WoW, SCII, and Overwatch, and nothing will come close to finding a new custom game Sunday morning at 2 am and having fun with a random lobby.

The "melee" (standard mode) matches were great too.

I have played a lot of games and genres and nothing will ever top that experience for me.
Grumpy old man mode: we had this! It’s called Usenet.
It's a tricky problem indeed, this one regarding their app, although not a surprising one. Last month, Hamish McKenzie (cofounder) wrote[1] that “the trend that Substack is part of is not a newsletter trend, or even the much-hyped creator economy”. So, an app that distance subscribers from e-mail was expected.

Btw, giving a special address would increase the lock-in, IMHO. The newsletter owner would be dependent of Substacks benevolence forever.

As I wrote, I recognize Substack as a force for good, but there are cracks in their promise and considering it's a VC-backed startup, things only tend to get worse in the long run.

[1] https://on.substack.com/p/please-stop-calling-it-the-newslet...
One thing is for sure, it really is fast.

My most fascinating discovery is the public Modlog:
https://lemmy.ml/modlog

What a spectacularly bad idea to show it in the open, but educational nonetheless. It very much resembles Reddit moderation, on steroids.

People are banned for typing 3 sentences (too long!), "repeated anti-communism", ....insert laundry list of other bullshit reasons...and get this: admins can simply wipe out an entire community at will. I'm not sure if that means it doesn't federate or simply stops working.

In any case, massive power trip vibes.
I was expressing disbelief.

As I suspected, you have no alternative.
They do not I argue-- don't 10X leverage on contracts without a license!
Nobody commented on the web interface yet which I think it's one of our coolest features: https://sapling-scm.com/docs/addons/isl
My big disappointment is that the model does not provide sources and recommended reading. Which is something we can now do and would increase the usefulness of the model significantly.
Question: Could the Earth become a singularity?

Answer: To explain, the Earth is not a singularity. It is a massive body, but not a black hole.
No the letter's heading says "TCI Fund Management Limited". Right under that says "Sundar Pichai".

https://www.tcifund.com/files/corporateengageement/alphabet/...
Question: What year did Neil Armstrong land on Mars?

Answer: 1969
“Good process, bad outcome.”

And that is where I vehemently disagree. Bad process, bad outcome. Many people lied to make the information appear as you said. The incentives they had to lie should have a lot more scrutiny, rather than being shrugged off, and many of these people should be in jail.
> Be HN user

> Want alternative to Reddit that doesn't have the clout of centrist mainstream media influencing it

> Find Lemmy, open source and free to use

> Lemmy is developed by political extremists that operate outside of centrist mainstream media

> Political extremists are on the wrong side

> Exclaim "Looks like a no for me. But I appreciate the effort."

FWIW There are a number of right wing extremist Lemmy instances (https://wolfballs.com/, https://ovarit.com/, previously https://thedonald.win).
Actually genuis.
I’ve been looking for a business case for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_large_floating_structure
olivermuty is right.
> Tabs are orded by last visit date.

> Your freshest tabs are always at the top.

I think I'd hate this. Every time you switch tabs, the order would change. This ruins the spatial organization I have in my mind. When doing research and opening tons of tabs, I have a general idea of where each tab is, letting me jump between pages quickly, even faster than using tab search.

There's a reason why when you zoom out to see all your windows on Windows (using win+tab key), Mac OSX (using mission control), or Linux, the order of the windows generally stays the same.
That chart must be from before 2011 because the wikipedia entry for Flagship Studios (the single largest receiver of Blizzard talent in the chart) says it went belly up in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship_Studios
Why does that matter at all? Just slow down to get more space whenever that happens.
Place your head firmly between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
Would support that. The staging area is one of the things that make Git shine, imho.

It would be very difficult to handle quite some "WIP situations" without the staging area.
This is an issue because people want social media to be an identity that they control. Suggesting it is fine to lose your identity and all the work you spent building connections whenever an instance shuts down is nonsense. People are looking for reasons to move away from Twitter, not for more reasons to stay on Twitter. Federated identity is something that can be added but Mastodon doesn't have something like this to the best of my knowledge.
super easy to use and i love the design!
that doesn't work either
The last one is almost witty. Greenwich is near the mouth of the Thames, I think.
You don't need thousands of miles of third rails or catenary wires. Just a ~mile every ~hundred, and a battery on the locomotive.
I think it was rhetorical question subtly implying torrent.
I bet they make less than warehouse workers per hour
I thought that relationship was no longer believed. It's just that autistic people may eat differently causing gut biome to be different. (Sorry I don't have time to source it.)
Yeah. It's been "gone" for a decade, in some sense.