skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know, Mastodon is a federated system, so there‘s no mechanism to have an algorithm pick certain content and massively boost its distribution across the network.
People who can introspect as you are doing here are rarely the problem.

It's the people who never think about other people's mental models (or even their own!) that are frequently hard to communicate with.
I'm using buildkite - which lets me run the workers myself. These are long-lived Ubuntu systems setup with the same code we use on dev and production running all the same software dependencies. Tests are fast and it works pretty nice.
Exactly.

I think a better heuristic rather than tying it to scope is to sort of semantically huffman encode. Using an iterator is probably the most used variable name that starts with an 'i', so it gets just plain 'i'. As a _concept_ gets more specific, then it gets a longer name.
And yet, from the position of my armchair and the handful of books on my shelf, history has shown that a monodiet (relative to the modern, diversified western diet, at least) is not only sustainable, but has been the backbone of the human diet for thousands of years.
iirc long range transfer of electricity is extremely expensive and difficult. They might be able to supply power locally, but they wouldn’t be able to export to the west. Unless they used it to power manufacture of other fuel sources like green hydrogen.
I think common wisdom says this is the best way to get all the vitamins and minerals your body needs.
The primary purpose of communications departments is to coordinate a uniform corporate messaging. Particularly when there's a negative story coming out, the communications department is going to be the one trying to explain away the negativity, and is likely to be more competent at talking its way out of situation than an individual is likely to be (see also the former CEO of FTX, who has more or less been confessing to fraud online in trying to explain his way out of the situation).

Given that a social media company is almost invariably going to be caught in complicated negative stories like "$PLATFORM was found being used to coordinate genocide against Rohingyas in Myanmar" or "$TERRORIST posted manifesto on $PLATFORM before $TERRORIST_EVENT", not having anyone available to officially comment on those kinds of stories is... not a good idea. Even worse would be if you decide to let a shitposter be the point man...
So is this ignorance or malice?
We all know how british royals are treated even though they commited genocide in India.

Power is what others respect. everything else is just BS
> You're obviously right that processed foods are far worse

I see this claim semi frequently online. So I'll just ask.

What is meant by "processed"? What does it mean to be "worse" (Worse than meat? Regular foods?) What is meant by "whole foods"? And finally, what's the evidence for these assertions?

Is black tea a processed food? How about coffee grounds? When does something cross the rubric of processed vs unprocessed?

To me, it's not obvious that "processed is bad" particularly because I don't know what "processed" means.

As a side, how do fortified foods fit in with processed foods? Iodine in salt, for example, has been a huge public health success. Goiters have practically been eliminated as a result.
I did a good bit of research and experimentation on diet. Tons of conflicting studies. I just eat things that don't make me feel bad after eating them and hope for the best.
Good point, this may be the case.
Very legitimate on the contrary. Luckily enough, none.

You can see how incentivized we are to really go above and beyond if something happens to one of our users; the loved ones we help are our best advocates.
Communication is an important skill. Describing a system or specification. Quickly laying out alternative solutions with an exact focus on what makes those alternatives distinct. Conversely effectively asking a stakeholder the questions that answers which solution is the acceptable one among a set of solutions they might not yet realize is closed. As a developer this is one of the most important skills. It’s at least as important as the art of writing code itself.

Now, there is always differences in communication style so someone you consider a poor communicator might be considered a good communicator by someone else. Some people are also better at verbal communication than written or vice versa. Find a mode of communication that works.

But apart from that, chances are that poor communicators are simply poor developers (or managers, or designers, or whatever) because of it.
I don't know, but why don't you ask a leading question about it instead of actually making a point?
Never said we needed to have Iran as an ally.

All of the major players in that region are motivated by religious ideology, including US allies.

You also seem to be confused, the JCPOA actively halted their nuclear weapons program, which was all that it intended to do, not “make iran into a friend”. Hawks like yourself are the ones who have set everything back.

The US should be less involved in the region. Seeking to balance power between Iran, Saudi and Israel rather than actively getting in the middle of their conflicts.
On the covid-misinformation page there are a lot of things that wouldn't be listed as a conspiracy theory if Trump hadn't said them. (I'm saying this as a foreigner.)

For instance, is the Wuhan lab the source of the virus? The correct answer is we don't know, and by now may never. The investigations just weren't done and they're about as detailed and exacting as those for an air crash. Without that it's all just guesses.

The article says that "Covid came from a lab" is misinformation, but not that "Covid DIDN"T come from a lab" is also misinformation.

I spent weeks trying to explain that a source which says "there is no evidence" means no evidence either way. It kept coming back to them saying they felt this paternalistic need to prevent the dumbs from getting the wrong opinion and because Trump had said it and the repubs are dumb, that there was a higher burden to represent that view as wrong than to represent the other views as also wrong!

In the end the article just ended up sounding like CNN. So much for unbiased.
Rust's C FFI has a stable ABI.
The point about determinism is correct, but since wavefunction evolution is unitary, the universe is fully deterministic. Only if you take some interpretation that there's real physical process of measurement which we don't understand and is indeterministic you can get randomness.

But maybe if you subscribe to multiple worlds interpretation then the hardest part might be specifying which universe you're in, which would require number of bits proportional to the time since the big bang.
While the cost to programmers' sanity of running things like BD is immeasurable in my estimation, if you are already doing it, doing it for Copilot code shouldn't add any extra cost, unless Copilot is actually constantly spewing copyrighted code.
Always wondered why we didn't do nursery rhymes anymore.

Once there was a prince.

Journals made him wince.

So he cut them into bits.

And was happy ever since.
> I find web development to be unnecessarily complex, but I refuse to believe that’s true.

Sorry, it's true. There are frameworks to make web dev "easy" in terms of less typing, but the learning curve for those is huge. There's lots of gotcha's to work around.

What's really needed is a state-ful GUI markup standard. HTML lacks about dozen GUI idioms that have to be reinvented via JS + Dom, and they rarely do it well, or at least well as a package. Part of the problem is that JS wasn't meant to implement GUI engines; it's not a systems software language.
Outside wartime, being slow is an advantage. It means citizens can trust rules won’t be changed rapidly, increasing trust in the government. If properly taxes often change citizens wouldn’t know whether they can afford to buy a house, for example, or whether they be able to pay for their kids to go to school.

I think the EU is a great example of politics that’s slow, but not too slow, and not a nightmare. Yes, this took years, and the discussions probably weren’t all good, but the end result is decent, and that’s what counts.

Other examples are RoHS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...), the GDPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...), and roaming regulations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulat...)
To foreign entities, it probably only matters in terms of international relations.

To domestic entities, the laws of the land certainly matter. If an adversarial foreign entity is breaking domestic laws without penalty, then domestic entities can focus more on the preventative aspect of enforcement of the law.

But yeah, if you have no enforcement and no deterrence then the law might as well not exist.
No such vision exists. “Twitter 2.0” is still vaguely about free speech, somehow making lots of money from verified users, and also WeChat-of-the-West style payments (as if anyone would trust their money to this company).
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658571
That's because there is one.

> preventing Chinese IP addresses from accessing whatever they would like

is a technical thing that you can do with computers, and

> allowing Chinese corporations to profit from the West's liberty while denying it to their subjects.

is nationalistic nonsense that lacks any reference to anything material.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the Linux kernel developers to adopt a programming language that is the modern equivalent of C?

I thought they liked C for its simplicity.

Why would they adopt the modern version of C++? (a language they, or at least Linus, look down upon)

Shouldn't they wait for a language with Rust's safety guarantees but with a more minimal feature set?
He probably could’ve got 15-20 years if he worked out a deal but he had very ineffective counsel. With RDAP and the First Step Act and potentially compassionate release for COVID he could be out by now.
1. Supporting the Republican party who I hate for lying about or supporting people who lied/are lying about election fraud.

2. Linking to an article that claimed Paul Pelosi's attacker was involved in a gay love triangle and it was a lover's quarrel.

3. Pedo guy

4. Making blue check marks paid leading to many parody accounts mimicking companies making offensive tweets. Then when those companies cut advertising claiming without evidence activist groups are conspiring against him.

Etc
While I would never claim the Supreme Court of India is perfect, it is based on the British system and the judiciary is meant to be independent.
I think it's unlikely to just crash, but you're going to see more downtime, more security breaches, less effective moderation and they're probably going to lose revenue. Also, you'll just see more and worse ads. Unclear if they're actually saving more money than they're going to stop earning.
Quite common. However the Docker Blog recently changed their site to not have it so buh bye to them I guess.
Not always.

Some flocks are for wool.
What Happened to Archive.is?
It used to be be so fast but now it says 2000+ waiting in queue. Just another service made useless due to abuse/spammers.
> They don't have stock?

They're a private company now.
Came here to comment on the headline but you a better job at it!

Clickbait for sure, but it really delivered
Blockage of the light can be a positive. Some locations use floating black plastic spheres to achieve this goal.
Next up, Twitter: The Musical on broadway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZahYy6c5_E
Not sure that I prefer war to diplomatic immunity.
One of the big issues we see with Office365 in the browser are people working with two different Office365 accounts in the same browser, which causes a lot of issues. Known folder redirection, which is the ability for us to turn on automatic syncing of the Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders on Windows machines has been pretty helpful for us. So many people dump everything on their desktop and if the computer dies or files have been accidentally deleted it saves them. Known folder redirect is now rolling out to Mac clients, which is more of a pain, as some of our users sign into iCloud and sync those same folders.
Then they were wild outliers. Money gets wired and lost by practically all financial institutions with some frequency. It usually gets tracked down eventually... but it's way messier than it seems.
Sadly I live on earth. I've got my thumb out for the nearest habitable planet.
Thanks for the feedback.

That video covers this is great detail. Click on the the video under 1) and have a watch, it should answer all your questions.

I didn't want to repeat the content there
Doubt they’d replace their current weight with that… If what you say becomes technically feasible, there will be plenty of other countries competing with them, including their neighbors and Africa.
Twitter already changed the world a decade ago, all someone would be doing at this point is maybe helping them not file for bankruptcy. But if someone really wants a job with zero security in this economy they should go for it!
I very much doubt that. Twitter must have had some bloat, but there's no way that 80% of the workforce was bloat. I'd be extremely surprised if Twitter(as in, the website/app, not the registered legal entity) still exists and works by the end of this year.
I completely agree. But, stirring the pot like this often encourages the best employees to leave, so there is still considerable risk of his plan not working out.
Quite common, most things that I try to subscribe to have a feed, including mainstream stuff like NYT, Axios, FiveThirtyEight, and smaller independent blogs. When one doesn't exist you can often use a Twitter feed instead (for the moment), but I've only had to resort to that once or twice.
> Newtonian physics can be extremely complex, but their descriptions are usually very simple

IIRC Constructor theory builds on this, in a way, it defines some very basic and simple building blocks out of which the rest of the laws that govern our universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory
DuckDuckGo: App Tracking Protection Beta Now Open to All Android Users
Great questions, we answer those here in the FAQ: https://docs.actuated.dev/faq/
> Well any particular Mastodon server can end up ruined or with ads.

Too true. And in cases like that, I have already blocked bitcoinhackers.org .

And it's trivial to block individuals OR whole servers from your account. And server admins can block as well to the whole server.

So, sure, go ahead and make a spam-stodon. You'll be defederated within a week.
You shouldn't need a partner for this kind of deal. In fact, startups should never have to pay for partner time and I never have at a company with less than about $50MM in revenue (even with firms like Gunder, Cooley, Wilmer, MoFo etc).
I've been putting more and more onto my Synology by using the existing packages that are provided. I used to lean very heavily on SaaS services but the pendulum swung and the cost and bloat have pushed me to just have some basic capabilities that don't change.

Audio Station - to listen to my mp3 collection
Synology Photos - replaced Google Photos
Plex - to access home photo/video library on our TV
So RB and QB for ronnabyte and quettabyte? What system could be described at that scale? Does Google store quettabytes of data?

Considering Seagate is shipping only 155EB (=0.000000000155QB) of storage per quarter[0], reaching the QB scale seems a way off.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2022/08/21/c2q-2022...
Apparently Hacker news have some kind of anti-flamewar protection that automatically downwheighs threads with a lot of activity. I don't know how it works or if it's true, but I've seen high activity posts drop like a stone in their rating and quickly go from front page to several pages down.
The "media middlemen" still are writing their articles. With a working communications department, you get ahead info on articles (maybe not all details from the article, but a heads up) and a chance to incluence the articles by providing input to the author. Without a communication department article authors rely stronger on other sources.
You are wrong on so many levels. HN IS the ad. The whole point of HN is to push VC narratives and "Greed is good" style things onto nerds and less-nerdy but more business hungry folks. It's not meant to generate any revenue at all, it's a marketing funnel.

Moderation is pretty much JUST dang.

HN DOES have competitors, lobste.rs is pretty much directly competing, and more importantly, this very concept of "simple board to post links and comment" was borrowed to build freaking REDDIT
Right, and one of those rules is "heads of state are exempt from all rules". Otherwise Obama would be getting sued for ordering drone strikes and we can't have that.
Oh just my kind of topic.

- SearX, a selfhosted metasearch engine. Has almost entirely replaced Google search for me.

- Gitlab, hosts my projects where I collaborate with some friends. Pretty resource intensive.

- Invidious, alternate Youtube frontend

- Nextcloud, syncs my contacts + calender aswell as notes with my phone, password manager, file sharing with family/friends

- Mail, ol' reliable: postfix + dovecot
You can get similar results, at least in the short term, with most highly-restrictive diets, provided what's allowed isn't egregiously unhealthy (e.g. "eat only candy") which it almost never is.

I expect the main two mechanisms of action are that these diets tend to reduce total caloric intake (lower variety = lower interest in eating; less opportunistic snacking since what's on offer is often not allowed by the diet; and so on) and drastically reduce how much outright crap adherents eat.
But the problem is that we have no evidence to suggest that our universe is typical in the first place. For all we know there are a trillion trillion universes and ours is the only one with gravity by some fluke, and we are actually living in the least likely possible universe.

And that's the issue is this model is trying to 'work backward' and justify our universe and it's constants as being mathematically harmonious and 'typical' without having any understanding of what the actual value of 'typical' is.
Both theories are assuming that the parameters are tunable. Why would we assume that?
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage maybe?
What part would be changing the world? Seems like at the most hes going to eventually do a lap and twitter will end up where it started, just saddled with 900 million dollar a year debt fees. At worst just a place where saying the N word is more acceptable.
Because in aggregate, children seeing those things has impacts on society.

Like sure would it be better if parents monitored their children’s 4chan use? Ofc.

Is that at all a practical approach to eliminating Elliot Roger idolization? No.
You can checkpoint and restore, but only once for security reasons, so it doesn't help much.

https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...

The VMs launch super quick in < 1s they are actually running a job.
I thought all employee equity was converted to cash grants.

Are they still giving equity in the chance that it goes public again someday?

Other than a good salary, where’s the financial upside?
> Is it an intentional choice to communicate like this, is it lack of some skill (on theirs or on my part) or something else?

The short answer here is that other people are not you, and by default they communicate to you in the manner they wish to be communicated to. This is a mistake.

Your problem is broad enough that there's a myriad of explanations, but I will narrow and rephrase it as "other people don't answer my questions as directly and succinctly as I expect."

Phrased like that, you can see there's two parts of the equation: other people, but also you. Manager Tools[1] uses a DISC model that I think works well here -- so lets analyze this interpersonal business relationship with it. it's not quite the "big 5" model that psych researchers use but pretty close[2]. It offers 2 dimensions to model personality, and labels for each extreme:

D – Dominance: the tendency to exert power and assertiveness

I – Influence: the tendency to assert oneself socially and interpersonally

S – Steadiness: the tendency to engage in reserved and personable behavior

C – Conscientiousness: the tendency to be reserved and analytical.

Within that model, you land on one of those labels to some degree, and your conversant does as well. Based on your question, I will put you down as a D. You want short and concise answers, and are probably already pissed at how long this answer is. Assuming you are even still reading.

But your conversant isn't a high D. Engineering personalities tend to cluster around Conscientiousness. They want to know the answer and understand the details behind it, and probe the logic for weakness. When asked a question they provide the details _because when they ask questions they expect to be provided the details_. In fact, they hate off the cuff conversations because they want time to analyze and give a correct and defensible answer. They'd much rather write an email with charts and graphs, or at least a two by two matrix[3].

So this is fundamentally a mismatch of expectations, and personality preferences. Personality cant usually do a complete 180 but with deliberate practice most people can move their behavior a few points closer to their conversational parter. So its a skill that _all_ of us have to learn, to accommodate others as they wish, rather than how we would want. It's a scenario where the golden rule simply isn't sufficient.

[1]: https://www.manager-tools.com
[2]: DISC doesn't have some of the drawbacks of trying to describe disorders within the model. Seems useful for researchers and practitioners, but dangerous for laypeople if they go wrong.
[3]: yes, DISC is often shown as one https://united-partners.com/how-disc-personality-assessment-...
My SATA controller died once in my server so I got to test my disaster recovery (I backup databases and some Docker volumes nightly offsite with Duplicati). Got Vaultwarden and Mariadb back up on a cheap VPS from a database dump in no time.
I recommend checking out https://80000hours.org/ -- it may not matter what you do day to day, as much as it matters why you do it and what it effects outside of your life.
But the advertisers might leave.
The man's living in New York City? Just buy a 2 bedroom apartment and call it a day.
How does watching fail videos and memes radicalize people and make them politically polarized? Would it not be obvious to TikTokers that they are being manipulated in some way, even subtly? If I want to control narratives and shape opinion, TV is how I would do it. Fox News is basically a propaganda machine, and isn't questioned, because, hey, 'merica.
On the other hand, he hasn't stopped giving signals to his best talent that they're going to have a miserable time, and they should just quit. They would have a better time literally anywhere else.

Even if we agree that company is 80% bloated, you probably want the best 20% to stay.

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In referring to a bunch of employees laid off, he said "I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere"[1]. About another specific employee he said "A tragic case of adult onset Tourette’s"[2].

Why would talent ever want to work for a CEO who will fire you on the spot for whatever reason, turn around and say this about them publicly (or privately!). If I was still working at twitter, this would make me quit.

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592569305941807104

[2]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592582828499570688