skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize that the word "scaling" here is used in the human/community sense, but for some reason (considering Mastodon is written in Rails) I am reminded of this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20080107085941/http://www.zedsha...
He explains it in tweets below.

https://twitter.com/jasoncwarner/status/1592227292477956097

https://twitter.com/jasoncwarner/status/1592227295019663360
I liked swyx's talk on React Hooks: Getting Closure on React Hooks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJP1E-Y-xyo
> I think their marketing on "privacy" was dishonest at the least.
> Apple puts constant pressure on the user to use an iCloud account.

I do think Apple's use of the term "privacy" is not completely honest. But we should note the difference between privacy and anonymity. Using iCloud provides privacy for the user; that is, Apple won't access your iCloud data. It is not however anonymous.
I looked at the jobs page off your HN profile. It looks like you're trying to hire firmware developers in-office in Houston, who also have to do customer support with an on-call rotation, and are paying on the low end of what web development pays. Kudos for being so upfront but looking at that I have a sense of where the challenges are for you.
My unpopular opinion is that it's mostly driven by porn. Too many guys wanting to be the women they jerk off to.
Exactly! People here seem to be making a complex thing out of a simple thing.
How?! Did they have to build an extra annex to the building just for that?
If my coworker tries to dunk on my boss in public, they’re probably going to get terminated.

Not sure what the news is here.
Corporations don't always see attrition as a bad thing, especially amazon. When execs buy to much it's nice to be able to make some returns, especially if it's the stuff you don't really like.

Why go into debt if it's not going to benefit the company in the long term? We don't actually know how long economic downturns can be, or what kind of turmoil will be encountered. Why keep a liability.

Then you have the attitude of management itself. There has been talk for some time that companies have been going crazy with hiring, and that's certainly the case. However, many mangers and execs have gotten in the mindset that their being horribly abused, and their employees have gotten lazy and entitled.

Have you talked to a manager, or CTO in the last few years (off the record, and not as an employee/coworker). They absolutely despise the average working stiff and are relishing the opportunity to exercise their powers again.
That depends on proximate versus ultimate causes. Does the Android app "need" the 20 initial HTTP requests or does it "need" the thousands of services that ultimately keep that data in good shape?

I think most people, talking specifically about a client program, mean the former, as the latter is out of its control
Wondering how a dual socket AMD EPYC™ 9654 system with 2x96 cores would compare. It's not clear how many 14nm+ Cascade Lake machines were used and it's also not clear how many 32core machines were used. 10364cores/192servers averages about 53 cores/server.

It's apple and oranges anyway because I guess if you consider this you have different priorities but I'm skeptical that x86 couldn't come close in terms of performance/watt
I mean, _you'd think_, but: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/CONUS#Usage_notes
You don't.

Unless you plan ahead and live well below your means, the volatility of what attracts so many new people into this industry will never afford you a relaxed moment, particularly when they do everything possible to keep you spun up.
Well, I suppose there is no rehabilitating cult members. Your reasoning also doesn't make much sense, we can agree that there is financial crime in that time period while also acknowledging that superstonk-esque manipulation isn't happening. You're basically trying to equivocate that just because something in the category of financial crime happened before that it must also be the case that your Ken Griffin conspiracy theory is also true. It's a more general fallacy that is often seen online, not just in this instance.
>If "stay away from people who might be sick" is an idea you think scientists made up just now, I'm not sure what to tell you. It's not that big a stretch to "anyone could be sick because we don't know how this disease works yet, so stay away from everyone."

that wasn't the guidance. It was stand 2 meters from anyone, even if no one is sick.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/572926-gottli...
Like this? https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-to-get-started-using-twitte...
Re: 'the level of discussion'

What you posted was condescending and demonstrative of a large blindspot as to the degree of adverse event surveillance actually being carried out.

Hope that helps you achieve the tone of discussion you're aiming for, in the future.
> Any national court who deems such industry important will probably use a local constitutional amendment to reinforce that CODE easily falls under freedom of expression, just like any other craft.

if you're in the EU then EU legislation overrides any local law
hello, the author here! all of these points have been taken as valuable feedback and thanks a lot for this! what @capableweb said is pretty much the goal of bob, primarily originating from my experiences with various tooling along my career and pretty much built in my free time. would love if more people have a similar perspectives and would love to see it in a more formal way that just a way to solve my problems :) and of course happy to collaborate and PRs most welcome! :D
Security isn't everything. Sometimes just having a working device you can use to access information takes priority.

Not everyone can buy a device.
I made a Regex which accepts valid JSON and rejects invalid JSON
People are really tired of this stuff and it’s unlikely to survive the recession.
I mean, you’re not wrong, but I’d bet the Venn diagram of…

- people who use both a Web Extensions-supporting browser and Slack

- people who install extensions with permissions to run arbitrary JS on every page

- people who install or use Slack bots/etc with excessive access to Slack data

… is likely very nearly a circle. The emoji use case isn’t one for which I’d personally take that combination of risks. But I can imagine a wide variety of more appealing/risk worthy and likely even higher risk “use [CLOUD_SERVICE_FOO_RESOURCES] seamlessly in GitHub” use cases where I’d pause to at least consider it.
I had one of these in college, and it was awesome. It had AOL Instant Messenger built on, and the L/R shoulder buttons would let you slide between your conversations. So quick and satisfying.
> When Huawei gives their government control over their citizens' thoughts

So this I guess would be the ultimate authoritarian end game, but from my perspective - what's the point. When you've got total control, what then? Like what's the next move... because anything else is just a rounding error to what you've already got.
No, because that stuff does not exist.
The entire purpose of cash is NOT to avoid a central authority... in fact, all cash has a central authority in the form of the government who issues the currency.
Freedom for titanic companies like Google to control what can or can't be said through enforcement on their monopolistic platforms is also not freedom for the individual.

Your idea here works when the system is fragmented enough that these choices are personal choices, but the existence of so many large platforms makes their choices systemic, not personal.
Go on Quiet Light and you will see lots of small ad supported businesses. Some are very shaky but some have been pumping out cash for years and years!
Sell shovels in a gold rush?
It certainly is superior. Now get rid of the inferior part (python) and use SBCL. No more pretending to be a Lisper!
I'm sorry to hear that and I hope it turns out to be nothing.

It's important to remember that you are n=1 and the timing could be a coincidence. It could be the vaccine. It could be stress from the pandemic causing angina. It could be lifestyle (do you exercise every day, eat healthily, sleep well, manage stress? - if not then angina in your 30s/40s is common).

It could even, as happened to a friend of mine, be a nerve issue in your chest muscles that's completely unrelated to your heart (aside: my friend was extremely relieved by this diagnosis which took quite a while to come by).
The title states "Long-term support for end-of-life Android devices". This "long term support" does not extend beyond cherry picked AOSP security patches and does not address the security issues in the drivers of these devices.
The reality will be more like Safari suggestions API sending malformed response for some scenarios, crashing the app.
Chess, but moves are simultaneous
Hope you don't break my site :)
I believe homoiconicity is more related to the syntax than the underlying implementation - fans of homoiconic code use it to treat code as data (macros and eval) rather than to reason about performance concerns/having a transparency into the underlying implementation (see: Clojure).
> HTML-based web has been highly optimized for decades for text-heavy, linear, reading experiences

If browsers offered a lower level graphics API, would that give a significant performance improvement over canvas?

What is the performance bottleneck for flutter web? Is it the overhead of drawing to the canvas, or dom tree optimization?

I'm very interested in this topic.
MS Word actually replaces normal whitespaces with non breaking spaces in some cases. Kinda works.
I have to say I absolutely love how quickly everyone appeared to describe exactly how this blew up, and how nobody noticed.
My 2013 OnePlus One still works perfectly fine (with an out-of-date LineageOS). Battery still lasts 2 full days easily.
I have a pinion gearboxed mountain bike with belt drive, 10000km and going strong, same belt.
Does this work for others not running the browser extension (or outside of your Slack organisation)? Also, Emoji has been part of Unicode for more than a decade...
Also, they didn't foresee that particular style of mustache going heavily out of style in a few short years.
I think this is the most important point. When everyone seems to be making money it's hard for agencies to make much headway in investigating them. Who will blow the whistle besides some cantankerous contrarians with no inside info? And presumably the company leadership were savvy enough to make up plausible storied for how everything was legit (hopefully it wasn't the "worthless box" explanation that the SEC way buying).
I'm not trying to take anything away from that work, but I view what is going on there as a kind of VM. It may not have an interpreter loop, but it seems closer to a VM/AOT type compilation than the code gen you expect from a "normal" compiler. Largely because so much needs to be emulated.

And my comment is less about the compiler and more about how people write modern C code. Usually under the assumption that various C abstractions are basically zero cost (because they tend to be) and translating that into efficient 6502 code is difficult. And my impression is mostly effected by 3+ decade old memories of apple][ programming which were frequently a mix of higher level interpreted code (usually using some kind of efficient bytecode via applesoft, or p-code, etc) and assembly routines. Where a big part of the battle was fitting everything into 64-128K of RAM, while keeping the speed up so being able to do 16-bit operations and the like with a 1 byte opcode picked out by an interpreter was part of the advantage vs writing assembly which called routines (or frequently parts of applesoft itself) directly. The former could get a 2x+ code side savings.

Maybe some of that is less important these days, because the platform is largely running in emulation or people are packing their machines with a lot of ram because its basically free. My (well one of them lol) IIGS has 8M of ram I added maybe 15 years ago, and I have a pile of 256K-1M RAM cards. Either way code size is maybe not as big of a deal these days because 512K of ROM is a lot easier than 64k. Nor in some ways is losing a multiple of the possible speed because no one is seriously trying to use these computers day to day. Back in the late 1980's I wrote a text editor in basic (for editing assembly code for my assembler) and then spent a lot of time optimizing pieces of it just to make it usable while still being able to edit assembly programs that were a few tens of K of source. In the end the line input ended up being entirely assembly because simple things like blinking the cursor simply took to much time in applesoft.

Thinking back, adding a linker, might have been a better use of my time, but 64k at 1Mhz put a limit on how big the resulting code could be.
Sure there was and still is uncertainty, but we need to talk about the other side of that coin. You used the term novel, which means: "new and not resembling something formerly known or used" and that's just not the case here.

We didn't just invent a completely new vaccine mechanism for covid, the mRNA technology has been known and in development for half a century. This is just the first time it was effective. Likewise with the disease itself, we know that it shares a significant portion of its DNA with the disease behind the 2002 SARS-CoV pandemic and has many other similar parameters.

https://www.news-medical.net/health/How-does-SARS-CoV-2-Comp...
In the '00s, phpBB forums and IRC were popular, but the Internet far less hostile for users. Even bigger challenges will come when instance operators are asked to comply with local law, requiring them to have privacy policies, t&cs and enforce these alongside regulations like GDPR.
I am encountering a few bugs:

On Board -> Task opens in sidepanel -> Drag and drop task from section to sidepanel ##Fails

Bought subscription -> appsumo returns key code -> used it in promo code. Still don't have full version.

Very frustrating.
People aren't talking about it anymore, but that doesn't mean that they aren't getting boosters. Like, I just got my flu shot, but haven't mentioned it to anyone.
Well, what about Monero? That has low fees and is pretty reliable and private.
COP27: The Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Block the Path to Climate Justice
Any idea if worked out exercises are available anywhere as well?
Clearly, the flu shots are fairly established science (1945, 77 years), of a well researched virus. They're not a new form of vaccine delivery, pushed through on an emergency basis, with exclusions to testing, with legal protection against any damages for those exclusions, and 70 year trial document release plans.

Could you help me understand why you think the context is so similar between the two?

What's your opinion on members of the FDA leaving due to widely publicized political pressure to approve the vaccine? Do you think they were wrong for pushing back?
This comment is also nonsensical. Russia increasing the energy prices would have happened if NATO stepped in or not. In fact, they would have increased a lot more.
ARK's projections allocate about 60% of Tesla's market cap to robo taxis. That implies self-driving. But a robo taxi is a different product from full self driving. I wonder where they get the idea that it will come so quickly.
I agree with you that measuring precisely whether the vaccine was beneficial for 15 year olds or not is difficult.

However, at the same time we have people in sibling comments claiming to know multiple people with conditions ranging from changes to their menstrual cycle to death. This can't possibly be related to the vaccine at anything like the rate people are for some reason inclined to believe.

Personally I found the effects from the 3rd booster almost as bad as COVID itself so I'm unlikely to get another unless there is a compelling reason.
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger on crypto in 2018
What makes the French rules old, no-longer-relevant, invalid? Why should we change language to appease lazy software developers?
A former Marxist that is now an ardent Republican. Pretty er...interesting political jump.
If you buy an IBM mainframe you'll have a very attentive full-time account manager for life. I did a ride-along with such an account manager once when I was working at IBM and it was eye-opening.
I agree, I also often think that the web should become more decentralized again, but the thing is, it also needs to be fun to use. Mastodon is an interesting experiment in that regard.

Maybe one could argue that link aggregators like HN are sort of a spiritual successor to the webring concept? You also go from one interesting site to the next, but you also have a social aspect, which makes it a lot more fun. The centralization is still quite strong, though. Just wondering whether you could keep the social element but make it more of a 'pull' thing, like webrings were, than a 'push' from a central site like HN.
You're missing part of the argument: Vaccine-generated spike protein is free-floating, while virus-generated spike protein is attached to the virus. The free-floating spike protein is a lot smaller than the virus, so it can get a lot more places, and while some will break off of the virus and become free-floating it wouldn't be in anywhere near as large amounts as vaccine-generated spike protein.
Load Bearing Mac Mini
I would assume most of it was stolen.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes?

People are shocked that they can’t dunk on their boss in public. Lol.
Agreed.

About 30 minutes ago I watched a car make a left turn at a pedestrian in a high-vis vest.

Either nobody is paying attention, not looking around enough, or the safety features (that A pillar) blocks too much of the view for our own good.
Just :pinched_fingers:
University of California

"With this recommendation, the UC Vaccine policy now requires all staff and students to get the bivalent booster, when eligible"

[1] https://campusready.ucdavis.edu/covid-vaccination
It’s still a bug in the app.

“Fail gracefully” for malformed responses. If a JSON API all of a sudden starts returning a cloudflare html error response, you shouldn’t crash your iPhone app.
Thanks for explaining something to me that I did not require explanation of
Whatsapp was able to serve 500M users with like 30 engineers.
> The obvious explanation for other country's vaccine recommendations is based in data. COVID kills the elderly (75+) who are more likely to be battling multiple negative health conditions beyond COVID.

That something so obvious was enough to get you labeled a conspiracy theorist and banned off all major social media for close to two years has set back trust in science by decades.
How is it not an externality that local communities in Lisbon, Barcelona, Venice (among many others), who work and used to live in the city, are being pushed out of their own cities purely by landlords renting out their properties on AirBnB instead of offering as housing. Emptying cities is not great for any part of society, not even for the tourists that are the driving force of this.

Venice is a hollow city, there's very few real people anymore in the center. Lisbon has been suffering for years with ever-increasing rents mostly driven by tourism pricing out the local population. There might not be enough dwellings and the housing market is much more complex than this but it's an enormous externality on local populations that they don't get close to fair compensation compared to being kicked out from your home.

How exactly is this not an externality?

Luddites and looms is a very different issue than a necessity as basic as shelter. When you found an analogy related to food or water we can use it instead.
> virtually everyone I know uses Gmail for their personal account.

Which, ironically enough, is the answer to everyone’s problems with mastodon.

Does everyone you know use gmail for their business accounts?

Does absolutely, 100% of the people you know use gmail for personal accounts?

I’m going to go out on a limb and say no to both the above.

There’s no reason mastodon has to be everyone runs their own server just like everyone doesn’t have to run their email server today. People use the company server for work stuff and fluffycat233575@yahoo.com for personal stuff.

I don’t know if it’s just the HN bubble but all people post is why it can’t (or shouldn’t, because, get off my lawn) work. It’s like people have a vested interest in making sure non-adtech doesn’t succeed, almost like their very livelihoods depended on it.

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And, back in the day, spam filtering was something you had to do on your own or just dealt with all the spam. The big email providers became big in part because they solved that problem for most everyone. In ‘97 nobody (OK, nobody but the US postal service) was saying there needed to be this gigantic corporation monitoring everyone’s emails for wrongthink or only a central entity could solve the spam problem. People just bucked down and solved the problem enough to get a sizable portion of the population using email…I’m genuinely curious if there’s ever been a technology with higher uptake than email now.
Random guess: Offices and Servers. I believe they have lots of both.
well, he is the 6th highest donor for the democratic party.
> All of these things have one thing in common: distrust. Some movements come from the distrust of governments or taxation, others come from the distrust of central services.

This isn't framing the problem the fediverse is solving accurately. What fedi solves isn't not trusting anyone, because it's not a fully P2P network. Rather, it's more about having accountability for the services you use. With a massive centralized social media platform like Twitter where it needs to effectively scale up to be able to accommodate the entire world, it's impossible for a service like this to exist without either being run by a government or a corporation. In the US, the two are more or less the same anyways since we've outsourced most of our infrastructure to the private sector and have been doing that for decades. And in the case of a private entity controlling one of these services that need to scale massively, it's effectively impossible for them to not be incentivized to do all the things that make people not trust them -- mining users' data, etc.

On fedi, you know who your server admins are; they're human beings that you can message if you have a dispute with another user, or there's an issue with the service itself, or whatever. If an instance admin does something shitty, they can be held accountable for it and can have their reputation ruined on fedi, which isn't a perfect system since it leads to things like people being defederated unjustly, but I would say it's far more scalable socially to have a patchwork of different small to medium sized servers run by individuals or teams of people rather than faceless corporations that largely automate all of their user-facing interactions (algorithmic bans and support) where it's basically impossible to hold them accountable for anything unless you have millions of dollars to burn in court.

It is true that centralization/decentralization are implementation details for solving a problem, but this is a case of technological solutions not being sufficient for cultural problems and vice versa. Fedi, for all the problems I have with it, is however closer to striking a balance between solving problems on both of these fronts because it returns the internet to being a community-driven network that has its own culture, and has more ability to handle bad actors or failures in the network with federation as opposed to earlier eras in the internet where for example everyone was using their own separate forums and the centralization of the internet onto social media platforms was really an inevitable consequence of that structure of the internet.
wouldn’t a spare belt be quite light to pack anyway ?
They? This is my project, it is just me. There is not a single other project that achieves the scope of what DivestOS does for old devices.