skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, the issue here is like if Wil Wheaton starts hanging out at a café, and it's just a small café, and the owner at first thinks it's pretty cool that a celeb is hanging out there, and some trekkies start coming by, which increases the vibe of the place...

... but then a bunch of guys in stormtrooper outfits start showing up every day and the trekkies start fighting with them and the cops are getting called out and pretty much eventually the owner is going to ask Mr. Wheaton to stop coming by.

And because it's just someone else's café, he pretty much has to do that.

The good news is, going to that café is not the only way for him to participate in the fediverse. He is the proud owner and operator of wilwheaton.net, and he can point that at his own activitypub server, that nobody can kick him off. He can bulk block all stormtroopers, interact with the trekkies in the café, and handle his own bandwidth and compute bills for delivering his content to all his fans.

Bonus: the fact he's posting from @wil@wilwheaton.net acts as a pretty solid cast iron guarantee of authenticity, that you are dealing with the one and only actual Wil Wheaton.

Meanwhile, Stephen King is sat at the café down the road trying to figure out why the new owner there wants him to pay him $8 a month to have the owner keep telling people who walk in 'yep, that's the real Stephen King over there'.
I just see github as a productivity tool like a kitchen knife and I wouldn't flex my kitchen knife. I would flex my products though which is like the food I make as a result of the kitchen knife.
I know no commercial organization running their own Mastodon - all instances I know are some non-commercial communities who are just too attached to their favorite domain. As communities run by volunteers, the cost is more important than the volunteer effort.
Thanks for your feedback. Upbase is a generic tool and people can use it in whatever way works best for them. I might need to create pages highlighting use cases of how to use Upbase for Product teams, marketing teams, etc.
last i fenced they also had manufacture dates printed prominently and were considered expired after a few years.

they’re wear items; it is their job to take the damage so you don’t.
To be transparent, I submitted this with “Elon Musk: <quote>” but the first bit either got auto stripped or I backspaced it by mistake.
For those interested in a modern(ish) take on Be, Haiku may be interesting: https://www.haiku-os.org/

E: Posted this before having time to read the article, glad to see it was mentioned!
The positive effect of walking on creative thinking (2014) [pdf]
> did I say to you: "the current system is better than sortitioning"? no I didn't. we were never talking about that. if you'd like to discuss that separately, we can, and I suspect we'd agree, but I did not sign up for that discussion

Sigh. Well, I've always been talking about that, and I didn't sign up for this conversation either. In any case, though, here's what I said before you first replied to me: "This is actually why bribes to randomly selected citizens would be easier to catch."

Note that catching is not the same as convicting, and that's not mere pedantry. In order to convict, you have to catch first, and my claim is that in a political environment where the legislators are randomly selected, the kind of corruption you talk about would stick out like a sore thumb. Whereas in our current system, the revolving door between government and corporate lobbying is pervasive, so a former representative getting a cushy job when they leave it not even notable, it's commonplace, the norm. In a sense, it's harder to catch a criminal when everyone is a criminal. If that continued to be the norm under sortition, it would indicate a massive flaw in the new system. It's one of the problems that sortition ought to fix, otherwise we're no better off than before. So as I said, "After a maximum 1 year term, a randomly selected citizen would be expected to go back to their previous line of work." It's automatically suspicious if they don't! Regardless of whether there's a criminal conviction at the end, there would be a level of personal scrutiny regarding the acceptance of post-service jobs that doesn't exist now, especially because under sortition there would be very little if any practical value in the "experience" of a temporary legislator to a potential employer, i.e., political connections, networks, and knowledge that currently take many years to acquire.

On the matter of conviction, you seem to assume that the laws would remain exactly the same as before, whereas I make no such assumption. Rather, I assume that the laws would get stricter, so it would be easier to convict a government official of corruption. Our current elected representatives who make the laws are too easy on themselves, precisely because soliciting money from corporate donors is how they got into office in the first place, so they don't want to cut off their source of power. If somewhat more honest folks were in charge, they wouldn't allow legislators to get away with a lot of the crap that's currently allowed.
Sequoia took a major L with that post.

It was a massive 90 minute listen. Even if he wasn’t a scam artist this would still be too long of a profile.
The main problem with microservices is simply that most people don't understand how to design them correctly.

A poorly designed monolith is pretty much always going to be superior to a poorly designed microservices architecture. The floor protecting you from bad design is significantly higher.

The biggest mistake is that people tend to create services that are far too small, and too many of them. Then it gets chatty and you develop a distributed spaghetti code. Or failing to divide them into coherent domains. Or overindexing on scaling individual functions/cost rather than logical boundaries

You should almost always err towards services that are too large rather than too small. You can always subdivide further later on.

I interview tons of senior engineers and managers from reputable companies that describe designs that would produce immense technical debt
> I'm no expert, but I do want to point out that you'll never see a set of axioms for set theory that doesn't also presuppose some realm from which sets themselves are drawn.

Huh? Of course you do; ZFC itself is such a set of axioms. There's no particular requirement on objects that can be members of sets (at least, nothing really goes wrong if they're not all sets), so the theory doesn't depend on anything else, in a very intuitive sense.
> The issue is that deductibles used to be 1/10 as much before the ACA. And you had the option to buy "emergency only" coverage, which had a high deductible, but a much cheaper premium.

They were cheap for a reason. They're back in force, if you want to grab one. I don't advise it. https://www.propublica.org/article/junk-insurance
> Even taking Moscow wouldn't have helped.

I don't think that's widely accepted. There's a reasonable argument that Moscow formed such a communication and transport hub that losing it would have been a significant blow. If Moscow fell it seems likely Russia would have been cut off completely from the West and had to rely on Western aid over the Pacific to the East and then via undeveloped transport networks to new industrial bases. Unclear if this would have worked.

Also worth noting that the loss of Moscow would have meant the loss of the manpower that was there defending it.
Same with David Glantz. Though unlike the author of this article, he acknowledges it was pretty much the Soviet Union which defeated Nazi Germany.
On to the next helicopter is Dragonfly destined for exploring Titan.
I LOLEd
So it’s just a woke language model?
Thats likely what happened. They are their own margin lenders and also FTX market makers. They backstop rapidly falling tokens on their exchange. So a sudden but prolonged drop in crypto prices can wipe put huge amounts quickly
The Day of 7 Billion was October 31, 2011 roughly 4000 days ago.

9 billion is expected to be reached in 2032 or in about 3600 days.
Is this sibling comment relevant? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33603406
The influx is going to be contained on a few large servers. If you run your own instance, you can just not federate with them.
It's not that inexplicable. Successful people copy other successful people. There's an association in people's mind, both due to the temporal and the thematic closeness of the events.

He, his name, his problems/acts/behavior are in the zeitgeist, it's on people's minds, it's not surprising that he gets mentioned frequently.
Accross most of the volunteer work I've done (which has definitely had the challenges you mention) usually personally as a longer term or more "senior" member of the teams, I've observed most of the work gets done by people who have a sense of personal responsibility or ownership for the task.

Some people are naturally more pro-active and feel more personally entitled to basically take the power to run with doing the task without needing approval from others. I feel like this is part personality, part skill but critically also partly related to the culture/environment of the team.

I've observed that fails when either people are not inclined that way (maybe more introverted people, people with a personality/habbit of not feeling such entitlement, etc), however also critically the culture of others shooting down their ideas or not giving them the freedom to work and learn for themselves can break it down.

This can be bad personality on behalf of those people - some people are just naturally like this and if one person is causing problems for your organisation as a whole, you may be well served by just blamelessly getting rid of them if they are causing what I can only describe as personal conflict regardless of if they are technically capable or even technically correct. Abrasive personalities that will drive others away won't serve the organisation as a whole.

But what I saw quite a bit was as these volunteer organisations got older and more senior and more experienced, the barrier of entry was now much higher (less freedom to make mistakes and learn because theres an expected quality) and those that had that experience often try to "help" with that knowledge but can have the effect on demotivating by constantly telling people why their ideas are bad or otherwise not empowering people with enough freedom to take that sense of personal responsibilty that will drive them to completion and run with it.

I've never worked in management in a work environment so have no experience to draw on with parallels for how that works in real jobs. But have seen that in a couple different other environments.

Another problem I've noticed is it's easy to commit to things in meetings which have scheduled times, but people struggle to find the personal time to follow up with the tasks and can easily forget the todo list, etc. Some level of todo management or having someone whose job it is to task, prioritise, remind/follow-up with people on a short term basis may be helpful for some. But I don't have a lot of experience in successfully doing that.
I do read elsewhere that the participation of U.S. industrialists in the years before the war had profound impact on Soviet industrialization.

"The Communist party translated and published [Fredrick W.] Taylor’s book The Principles of Scientific Management, and high authorities brought over Walter Polakov, an American follower of Henry L. Gantt, one of Taylor’s most fervent disciples, to provide a liaison with American scientific-management experts and to prepare production charts for the entire First Five-Year Plan...

"By 1928, when the Soviets inaugurated the First Five-Year Plan, Henry Ford had become an even greater hero to the Soviets than Frederick Taylor. An emotional cult grew up around Ford’s methods and even his person. By 1925 his autobiography, My Life and Work, had had four printings in the Soviet Union, and one American in Russia reported that plant managers were studying Ford with as much enthusiasm as they had had for Lenin."

https://www.americanheritage.com/how-america-helped-build-so...
They may not be a bank but they get the earnings on all that money sitting there.. it is a source of funds for the business.
It was used in The Matrix with a spring-load mechanism because, IIRC, the Wachowskis thought it would be cool if the phone worked like the slide release on a handgun. For the sequels, they managed to convince Samsung to design a phone with a similar spring-loaded mechanism that you could actually buy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SPH-N270
Really, the answer is "it depends."

Our backend is microservice based because it's a thin layer over storage. There are functions that do processing work, but those exist so the thin layer works.

The big problem with microservices is handling failure. If you are chaining microservices together you're screwed. Thats why stuff like graphql exists.

That said, the reason microservices exist is because bloat and dependencies eventually choke monoliths. Also monoliths are difficult to scale in a cost-effective way.
I don't mean it wouldn't have been a huge loss. I mean that in a war of total extermination, the stakes are different. Remember that surrender wasn't an option. And in any case, Nazi Germany played their hands pretty badly with Moscow, too.
This is an opportunity to purge anyone who isn’t coming along for the ride.
If the system is fast enough without the cache this isn’t a problem. In order to overwhelm it, you need a cascade of stress at the same time.

Caching as the stress appears prevents the issue.

Databases already do plenty of in RAM caching with available free memory anyway, you just don’t get to manage it directly.
Show HN: A Simple Online Step Sequencer
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

It is a story about two young men, told through the perspectives of people they met along the way.

Some perspectives have a different enough perception of the protagonists that they could be talking about different people.

It clicked for me that everyone has a different idea of who I am, including myself. Before this, there was just me and my identity right now.
The writing here is extremely poor. Author should delete and rewrite as a six paragraph post.

(What was that segue about python package management intended to show?)
Exactly. You're not going to go find Hertz on mastodon.social to complain about your rental car booking being screwed up, any more than you would expect to reach their helpdesk through hertzcustomersupport783@aol.com.
SweetAlert2 NPM package plays Ukrainian anthem on Russian pages
Raspberry Pi distros are nice for this
> firing foreigners

That's not what he said, where did you get this from?

His entire point is that companies just fire people. That they were a citizen or working with a visa may not even have entered the decision making process.
Maybe I can get a container for farm storage for cheap now.
Got it. Thanks for your helpful feedback.
A really, really deep irony that you found these cool new Masto things on twitter. The king still reigns
IndieRPC: Library to make 1000 poorly batched RPCs to render a home timeline
Not really answering your question, but after one of the boosters I had ~1 month of abnormal heartbeat and was hospitalized. My chest also felt uneasy, somewhat painful, and I could feel my heart double beating irregularly. Best answer I got was that the vaccine caused inflammation in my heart which caused that issue. Luckily it has since cleared up but I occasionally feel weird feeling in my chest. Could also be stress/anxiety
These mandates aren't only occupational. You may be required by law to be vaccinated to attend school in some places, or to be in certain care facilities.

And the CDC wrote zero of these laws. The CDC's rephrasing of an FAQ article on their website may be a good starter for a right wing conspiracy theory article, but it has no bearing on this topic.
Singapore’s Sea Slashed 7,000 Jobs in Six Months to Curb Losses
I found so much cool stuff on StumbleUpon.
I think it's less bad trades and more like a few frivolous purchases and a lot of losses from using alameda to market make on FTX, i.e. when crypto prices fell, they were using alameda to bail out margin loans they had made out
Mastodon will scale if it has to.

Mastodon and ActivityPub have been flying under the radar for years and now this is its close-up.

The ActivityPub spec hasn’t been updated since it became a W3C standard 4 years ago; no doubt it needs to be updated and probably will be, now that so many users are now on ActivityPub servers.

There are going to be growing pains but that’s to be expected. People remember the days of the Fail Whale, when during a big news event, Twitter would just stop working.

Timing is important—there’s enough visceral dislike for Elon Musk and users getting tired of billionaires upending things.

It’s not going to happen overnight but I expect good things to continue to happen for distributed social media.
These might help:

* Async Python in real life - https://guicommits.com/async-python-in-real-life/

* Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits - https://python.hamel.dev/concurrency/
Fully agree, I don't get this worldview where anything that does not take the undisputed nr. 1 spot is to be considered a failure.
I created my Twitter account ~10 years ago, I had barely any noteworthy interaction on it. I used it mainly to follow interesting accounts and people, but it never managed to convince me to tweet a lot myself.

On Mastodon I am more active than I've ever been on Twitter. This is of course also a side effect of it being new and exciting for many people. But what exactly do I get from Mastdodon becoming gigantic? All I need is a healthy, active userbase.

I don't care if Mastodon ever "overtakes" Twitter, all I care about is whether Mastodon can cultivate enough active users to stay healthy.
https://archive.today/mXCYE
The tip isn't sharp but if it breaks then the broken edge is very sharp.
I rely on a biography of the Friedmans.

No mistake, they had full access to the Polish analysis and bombe design.
They may have had some of the best engineers in the world but that is decidedly less important when it's combined with some of the most mediocre mgt in the world.
I second this having switched to Go from typescript and python. Except almost everything is also smoother
It was a learning experience :')
This prompts a perhaps crazy thought: "The mind's poor ability at introspection does not invalidate the observations of another mind about about the first mind."

. o O ( Somehow the wording of that thought makes me want to re-read Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid )
Yes it is unprofessional but that CEO happens to own Twitter, so there's that. The developer is trying to armwrestle his boss in public. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
This is a rich observation, since (anecdotally) it seems like all the initial customers/traction for YC companies is from other YC companies.

Nothing wrong at all, it's good to bootstrap an initial customer base and get some user-feedback, but until the chasm is crossed to "real" customers, one could argue that this is the same case nowadays. So the dotcom time was no better nor worse than right now in terms of startup viability.
> If you're serving a lot of traffic I'd consider switching to a faster server

I don't think anyone with a small personal site should spend too much time planning for that single, improbable, day when traffic might increase by several orders of magnitude.

With most hosts I've had, that type of increase would just trigger DDOS protection and/or take down the site with its itty bitty quota limits.
To be fair, phones have become a bit too big for pockets. I'm looking forward to carrying handles. (If transistor radios could have them, why not phones?) ;-)
Alma Linux 9.0 for development, Ubuntu for day to day stuff. I have 2 different workstations with dedicated purpose.
This gives me flashbacks to Intel's great disaster of Itanium which seems so ridiculous in retrospect but I guess very few people understood superscalar processors in the 1990s.

I did some serious thinking about processors that use the transport triggered architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_triggered_architectu...

which are a simple way to make a custom CPU (for the first time I thought, "I can make a custom CPU!") but do operations in lockstep in such a way that the whole thing blocks if a memory operation stalls. You might be able to get away with however because the TTA is meant to be codesigned with the code it runs on.

Itanium was smarter than a TTA but it was predicated on the idea that a compiler could know how operations can be interleaved at run time. The compiler has no visibility into what gets cached, but at runtime the processor can opportunistically run operations that aren't stalled. For a general-purpose processor that's supposed to run general code, conventional superscalar processors do better than VLIW processors that require compilers to guess ahead of time what is impossible to guess.
Things like poverty and homelessness are a policy choices. If you can identify politicians that are going to make different policy choices, make systemic and structural changes to improve peoples' lives, getting them into power is a way to solve these problems.

(not sure SBF was actually doing that though, considering the list of people he was donating to...)
It is used in satellite communications as well to describe those beams that cover the continental US.
Presumably you haven't read this article, which seems to scratch a few different surfaces. If you can read that and still come away thinking "every single criticism [you] see on the Internet is" stupid, well, nobody can help you.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-te...
Some very rusty made in the ussr brand
It most certainly is the fault of a bunch of blue collar working stiffs grabbing a sausage biscuit and a coffee on the way to a job that a bunch of sanctimonious SWEs rely on every day in a thousand different ways, but pretend like are unimportant dinosaurs in a digital world.

I mean, all that electricity and raw materials mined for those 15 billion computing devices running all the shite social media code that SV SWEs have foisted upon the world doesn’t have any impact at all…it’s just that poor bastard in his F150 and his damned sandwich.
NASA Will Buy Lunar Dust in the First Commercial Transaction on the Moon
My company is not doing that. We don't use contractors at all.
That falls under "a certain amount of fraud going on". Yes, there were a lot of bogus AAA ratings going around. But everyone knew they were bogus - you don't get AAA paper that pays a 10% return. Any investment banker from the GFC era who tries to tell you they're a poor innocent rube who was taken advantage of by a dastardly ratings agency is having you on. The people buying the CDOs were sophisticated professionals who did their own analysis and bragged about how smart they were.
Email is still vastly better than just about any other online communication platform we have devised since. Even with re-centralization, there's still plenty of small email providers - and the crucial part is that they all interoperate with GMail, Outlook.com, and other big brands. And for those who absolutely must run their own server, they can do that, even if it takes a lot of effort.
Sir, he was shit talking the app (which everybody agrees blows ass) and the dev took to Twitter to whining instead of using the internal platform. Next time your boss admits your product is trash, try shit talking a rebuttal to him on Twitter, I dare you. Elon is his father.
> With everything surrounding the demise of Be being highly litigious, it is no surprise that the project wished to avoid legal complications over their name. They chose Haiku.

> Why did they choose the name Haiku? Error messages from many applications in BeOS are written in haikus. Additionally, they felt that the art of haiku was representative of the elegance and simplicity of BeOS.

It seems Haiku is BeOS, just renamed.