skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are at least three distinct use cases that Twitter somewhat covers:

a) participating in already existing, well-defined communities. Mastodon works for that, but so does Discord, Gemini, Gopher, tilda communities, IRC servers, and so on. Mastodon's peculiarities like tiny scale instances, inter-instance admin wars, non-existent search are perfectly fine for this use case. That's what it is made for, effectively.

b) connecting with friends and following their interests. This is just miserable with Mastodon: you might be on different instances that mute/ban each other, you might not find each other if you don't know their instances, if instances are interest-specific you have to follow on a number of instances, if their instance admin gets fed up with it and shuts it down you need to reconnect somehow, etc. Mastodon is not an identity-first design, it's community-first, and it's a problem for this use case.

c) following celebrities or creators famous in the world of atoms. Celebrities would want massive following, which requires massive scale, which is hard to achieve for something effectively run by volunteers. If it's smaller scale celebrities, they'd also want discoverability, which is hampered by the lack of search, federation bans, etc.

Mastodon is widely presented as a "twitter backup/alternative". It's just misleading unless the person moving to it only wants (a). There is nothing wrong with wanting (a)! However, it means that Mastodon has very little similarity to Twitter if people want (b) or (c).
In case you missed it, several sessions for _synthesize2023 were announced this week. This event is free and open to all who are interested in learning about state-of-the-art applications for synthetic data and generative AI.

Here are some of the speaker highlights:

- Keynote speaker: Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO and Cofounder at Neeva and n.xyz, former SVP of Engineering and Ads at Google

- Google research scientist Peter Kairouz will discuss how privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) like synthetic data and federated learning are helping advance the science and safe application of foundation models.

- Illumina's Senior Director of Emerging Solutions, Pam Cheng, will highlight how synthetic data enables medical and life science research and product development.

- NVIDIA product manager Nyla Worker will demonstrate how to train a perception model, an SDK for creating 3D synthetic data.

You can see the full event program and register to attend here: https://gretel.ai/synthesize2023
Related, interesting anecdote: I was recently talking to a co-worker. We are both "third-country", so we can compare and contrast our current healthcare system versus "home". My co-worker made an interesting point: In their home country, patients are much more involved in their care, and doctors are willing to engage with well-prepared, intelligent patients. As a point of comparison: Our current country, not at all.

My point of this anecdote vis-a-vis high-agency healthcare systems: I like when I can ask questions to a doctor about their diagnosis and proposed treatment. Yes, I understand they are busy and there is a reasonable limit. I am equally annoyed when this is viewed (in the extreme) as an assault on their authority!
You’d like Ruby :)
I think people but it because they like the taste, not because they think it’s an actually luxurious $5 box

I didn’t realize that truffle oil doesn’t come from truffles, so TIL as well. I don’t really like the flavor anyways but it is certainly unique.
"Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl

When you think you have it hard, read what Frankl lived through. He lost his family in the camps and almost didn't survive himself. However, as a psychologist he used this experience to analyze and create the the theory of logotherapy. A great example of what strong human spirit and scientific mind can not only cope with, but grow inside the horrors of nazi camps.

I've read passages many times over the years and had given it to many friends when shit happened in their lives.
I disagree. If your sat in a room at say 10c with thermal underwear, thick socks, long Johns, hat, 3 jumpers, coat and thick hat and gloves. Then you'll probably be sweating, blood will be flowing inorder to get rid of heat.

Extra clothing lowers the temp at which blood flow to the extremities reduces. There isn't some arbitrary line at which no amount of extra clothing will make no difference, else you could say the same thing about house insulation. Is blood flow going to reduce just because it's 10c outside, regardless of the inside temp?
The problem is then what created the local god? Another simulation?

Even if it's turtles all the way down you still have the problem why does the infinite turtle system exist at all?
This kind of happens in Pig with Nicholas Cage
Just ordered this book. Thanks for the recommendation.
NixOS on Apple Silicon with UTM
I loved this book as a college freshman. It was witty and funny, and made fun of every conspiracy under the sun.

I tried to read it again recently, and couldn't get in to it. Conspiracies are everywhere these days, and so have become a bit blase...

In the pre-internet days the book was a treasure trove of interesting trivia about various events events throughout history. But today we're drowning in such historical trivia, which is all over the internet.

Drugs also play a central role in the book, and while they were pretty taboo in the 80's and 90's, today with the legalization of pot and the Psychedelic Renaissance, books featuring positive depictions of psychedelic drug use are just not as fresh or transgressive.

I still give credit to the books for opening my eyes on a lot of these subjects, of which I was completely clueless about when I read it, and if you're young and this is all new to you, you might enjoy it too.
I think your view of VC-backed startups is skewed. They exist to make the VC investors money. If they happen to change the world while doing that, that’sa nice secondary effect.
Access to entertainment and culture is not a luxury.
> If someone has an internet provider, they have the means to communicate.

Right, but what if that internet provider turns them away? How do they communicate? Do they ask Space X to shoot up a few satellites for them? If Musk says No, do they build their own rockets?
Musk’s Fix-It Team Fades Out as Billionaire Says Transition Is Almost Done
https://archive.is/ODxae
Many formerly-polluted environments are used to produce food after bioremediation. Farming oysters that are then not used for human consumption until the environment can support farmed oysters that are fit for human consumption is possible. Also, not all the toxins that oysters filter from the water stay in the oyster. Much of what they filter ends up sequestered in the sediment layer.
It is all marketing. The US has been about 'lifestyle' brands for a while. The US wants to sell you an upscale experience, whether it is really upscale or not. Things with truffle flavor seem to be a fad at the moment.

Think about Starbucks. You don't need a $7 coffee drink, but its sweet and tasty, maybe you like the homey atmosphere and fake friendliness from the staff, maybe you like using the fancy names, maybe you like being seen with your Starbucks cup, all because you too can afford a luxury lifestyle. Its all marketing to sell you overpriced coffee and milk.

I much prefer the abundance of smaller privately owned shops you tend to find in Europe over the factory made franchise options you see all over the US. Most Americans seem to have no idea.
They touched on such ideas in Nic Cage's movie 'Pig'.

It was a surprisingly decent flick.
Cars are much faster than humans.

That doesn't mean transportation is solved.
Tech debt to me is something that will cause additional work in the long term compared to if it had been done in a 'better' way. However, it might still be worth accruing to gain new features or to have temporary bug fixes sooner in the short term.

Tech debt isn't always bad, but you need to be mindful of what the costs are up front and keep track of it.
Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", which I read while recovering from flu one year in college.

His description of the road trip from Minnesota to California motivated me to mark his path on my highway atlas. The discussion of romantic versus classical thinking resonated with me right away. The idea of Quality as a focal point was important to me. The story of his studies at the University of Chicago gave me a bit of insight into the academic world, and a different perspective on Great Books. When I had my own Zen practice years later, I could link it to this book. The distinction between Logos and Mythos opened my eyes to the power of our unspoken assumptions, built into our language. Later, after I had children of my own, I could relate to the way Phaedrus gets along with his son Chris.
> If everyone in the world believes that 2+2=5, that doesn't make it less true that 2+2=4 - in the sense that I know for sure

But not everyone believes that 2+2=5, isn't it? I mean, if you criterion to separate truth from lies is the reality, then now you are talking about a counterfactual reality without proving that this counterfactual reality is possible. So this your statement is unproven, I'd say it cannot be proved.

I can argue, that if world believes that 2+2=5 then it makes 2+2=4 to be false. Just think about it. Try to imagine a plausible counterfactual reality where people believe that 2+2=5. They probably would believe that succession of numbers goes like this: 1, 2, 3, 5, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ... And in such a counterfactual reality it would be very strange to believe, that 2+2=4. You could if you liked, and you could build a mathematics around it, but you would have a lot of problems of communication with others.
The academic environment where that research was the thing to do if you wanted to do systems is the academic environment that produced Pike’s “Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant”[1]. It seems to have succumbed to two relatively common afflictions, though I don’t know of another case of both simultaneously:

- Inbreeding of ideas: researchers inventing and solving problems noöne actually has, without observing the discipline necessary to remain interesting and avoid emotional attachments (as is done in maths, with varying success). In the distributed OS case, the model in people’s heads (including Pike’s with Plan 9!) seems to have been a closed campus network, which is close to some of the areas people care now, but still isn’t quite any of them. The social problem of the system not being able to take over the world, thus necessitating explicitly specified protocols and loose coupling, also does not seem to have received much consideration. (Except for Microsoft, who has tried—deliberately or accidentally—to weaponize the homogeneity requirements of some of that research in building Windows domain networking.) Some of the kludges aren’t—they are solving social problems.

- Being before its time: sounds glorious and heroic, in reality makes people cold, lonely, and more often than not broke. The most commonly known instances of this are for individuals (or other actors capable of having a coherent volition, such as companies), but the distributed OS story feels like this happened to the community as a whole.

[1] http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html
Wow. Attending live music events is a pure luxury that the average person shouldn’t have reasonable access to without being price gouged by an obvious monopoly?
I'm not saying it's the way it should be. Just a perceptual difference -- a perceptual epoch.
Depends on whether you live next to oyster shoals, in which case they might well be what poor people eat, or in South Dakota, where every oyster needs to be shipped live at least a thousand miles.
A more charitable read is that people paying you money means that you're doing something they want or need. If nobody is paying you anything that means they don't need anything you're doing, so why are you even doing it? "Pivoting" then is just seeing that people have a need that is currently not being satisfied and building something to address that.
What are you talking about? There are plenty of male subs looking to be dominated by women. And either way, it's generally understood to be primarily a sexual kink only consented to by both parties. If it's not consensual, then it's not BDSM, it's abuse. BDSM is also wildly different from marriage of any kind - you might be thinking of 24/7 power exchange?
I feel very ambivalent about scooters. On one hand I hope they do actually take some cars off the road, on the other, I think they’re mostly used by people who would otherwise take the bus, bike or even walk instead.

And in the meantime the scooters are dumped everywhere around town: on sidewalks, in cycle lanes, in the parks and forests, thrown into the lake at the north end of the town. It’s always extra dispiriting to find them discarded in the undergrowth out in the countryside - presumably at the very end of their range. One time I found a scooter that someone had either intentionally or accidentally left so that it fell over and smashed a ground floor window.

I’ve personally seen so many accidents and near-misses, including some too-young kids who must’ve hacked a scooter and crashed it into a parked car, a colleague who fell head-over the bars after a drinking binge and cut up his face, a friend who broke an arm, and a young woman who was walking across a plaza in town while reading her phone and tripped over a scooter that someone had just thrown down there and landed smack on her face.

Also the strange behavior of people riding who seem not to consider they’re bound by the rules of any other transport system - cars, bikes or walkers - and simply sail unconcernedly across junctions with red lights, or in the midst of walkers on the sidewalk.

I’d love to see them work better - I hate cars way more - but the anarchic spirit of their introduction hasn’t been the best for everyone living in the city.
They are expensive so therefore they must taste good.
Nice! I'd love to be able to export a MIDI representation of a pattern. Any way to do it / any plans to incorporate?
Well, aren't food borne illnesses an issue with plants and also mushrooms too. Heck, some mushrooms are grown in manure!

One friend of mine who loves beef cackled with glee when he heard that salad greens were being recalled because of some microbe.

You may like these new oysters for other reasons, but it seems like microbes are everywhere.
They meet in secret locations and do illegal races and burnouts at intersections.
I don't think seeing live music is or should be a luxury... my teenage years were filled with free or cheap concerts and I'm very thankful for that.

But then again I grew up in a large city in Europe, so that might skew my experience. Or maybe not, since I went to a ton of $10 concerts in NYC in my la 20s (thanks John Zorn for starting The Stone)
My city did the same, and the e-scooters are geo-fenced such that they cannot be parked in certain areas, or have a reduced speed. They also cannot be used after 11pm.

The only think lacking is better dedicated infrastructute for bicycles and e-scooters alike.
> But all the people got out.

Two people died.
I recently used details and summary for a tree view in react and ran into this bug

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74313572/what-does-this-...

Just passing on info if you decide to use details in react
But each of those three businesses would be monopolies. Better to clone the company. Each clone inherits all IP then goes separate ways.
Shame, schmame. FIFA's stinking rich, they have the rights to a global phenomenon and no player, sponsor or group of fans is calling them on. Guess it washes off or nobody minds.
It would seem to me that it simply revealed his bad behavior when he's angry and/or doesn't respect somebody. He had until now largely successfully hidden this.
As an existing NextCloud user, with plenty of personal data in my self hosted instance, this does absolutely NOTHING to inform me why the FLYING FUCK i want to risk exposing my NextCloud to the internet with these new social media related features, no discussion of how important security is, no emphasis on how I can trust NextCloud with being a public web accessible server the public can access and simultaneously trust my most personal of self hosted data to the same server.

I want things like this to help people control their own data, it’s important for these projects to exist lest the future be ruled by or entirely dependent on big corporations… but when your existing business is building the tool(s) I trust with the data I trust no one else with… do a fucking better job not making me dismiss shit like this as “crap I’d have to run a second server to be able to use”

Because my life is busy enough I barely have the time to manage my one self hosted NextCloud at home… if you make this one micron harder I’m just going to say “Fuck it“ and use a different isolated tool for running my own fediverse server. And I say this as someone building my own personal social site aggregator based tool. Do. Not. Make. It. Hard. To. Trust. You.
I don't know, almost everyone who has an iPad in my family probably never used an app store. They just use it for browsing, facetime and calendar management - and all these apps are preinstalled. I'm trying to think what I have installed on mine that isn't standard, and it's pretty much.....YouTube? I could browse that through the browser if I wanted to.

Like, my point is that these devices are fully functional out of the box even without an account(but yes, it sucks that you need one to unlock it fully)
Yeah, that was me. A few times, actually. I think to myself, Visual Studio Code is the standard now, everybody seems to love it and I need to keep up professionally. I'm really gonna switch this time, here we go!

Few days later I'm slouching and grumbling my way back to Emacs. Emacs works the way my brain works; Visual Studio Code does not. Emacs is designed to be live-codable and to be shaped to fit your specific tasks as you work with it. Adding an extension to Visual Studio Code is like pulling teeth. By design. They optimized for the use case of downloading or buying extensions for an online gallery, rather than adapting the editor yourself.

Plus, fucking no one does electric indent right, except for Emacs.
I guess cars really stick to the rules because they know they have to. Maybe we need to step up enforcement of scooter rules. Or introduce some rudimentary exam+permit.
OK, yes, there are Bahamian entities over which Bahamian authorities likely have jurisdiction. But given what you say with regards to the complexity of FTX's corporate structure, it's likely difficult to determine that the assets that were transferred to Bahamian authorities actually belong to those Bahamian entities.

Maybe it's better that these assets are in the hands of Bahamian authorities, but it is highly questionable that the transfer happened after the Delaware filing, and that it was made in such a sloppy way that destroyed so much value.

My albeit very basic understanding is that once the bankruptcy filing was made in Delaware, the Bahamas had some obligation to defer to the Delaware courts.
It makes one wonder if this was actually an official action to begin with, and was not instead given a post hoc imprimatur only when it became obvious that the transfers could not be hidden.
It does not typically get that warm in France.

Quickly finding an annual weather calendar for Paris, the seasonal high is 78 F (26 C), one month of the year.
> So the second thing we need is transparent pricing. There should be absolutely no fee sharing between Ticketmaster and artists because that's what happens now.

Oh, it's not just artists who share in the fees. There's a bunch of different stakeholders, none of which trust each other. This is why, in a way, the fees do represent transparent pricing. Sure, it doesn't seem transparent for the consumer, but for all those different stakeholders, it makes it very transparent, right at the time of the ticket sale, how much their cut of the money is.
> I ended up binary patching the connection test service in memory to get it to always return true.

Well, this escalated quickly.

How is this executed? I would not know how to patch binaries in memory. Is this a common way to fix bugs under Windows so they have tools for that?

I'm used to just have the source, so I can recompile if ever needed.
>According to a May 2018 Gallup poll, 43% of Americans consider themselves “Independents” while 26% and 29% consider themselves Republicans and Democrats, respectively. Where does the illusion of extremism come from?

Right off the bat the author presents a fallacy. I never met an extremist who thought they're radical or in the wrong. I've never met a racist who admitted their racism. Someone's self perception can be the greatest ever, and still they can be dangerous to society. Whether they see themselves as Republican Democrat or Independent is completely irrelevant. Independent can be someone who supports Nazism, as an extreme example.

I can't supply a gallop poll but based on personal anecdotal evidence there are many people that would generally be viewed as moderates or part of the mainstream that nevertheless support very immoral and radical ideas. But again, they would of course disagree with that view, to them their opinions are perfectly normal and reasonable.
The wikipedia article on dithiapentane is amusing:

> "2,4-Dithiapentane is the dimethyldithioacetal of formaldehyde. It is prepared by the acid-catalyzed condensation of methyl mercaptan, (the main aromatic compound in both halitosis and foot odor and a secondary compound in flatulence), with formaldehyde."

The issues with such synthesis or extraction from petroleum largely revolve around purity; I notice that online sellers describe a '99% pure' product, but what's in that other 1%? Sloppy cheap synthesis produces potentially harmdful side products.
Would you consider using d3.js?
I’ve been able to get great performance for large deeply nested trees using d3. It depends on your use case of course.
I worked on a site that was the most popular real estate search site in my US state for 5+ years. It helped thousands of people every day search for a home. There's so much interesting home data, so we were able to offer many dimensions for folks to search on. Things I built:

* an advanced search widget (using GWT) which let people search across 20+ dimensions

* an integration with a standardized MLS data provider, which allowed us to easily bring on new areas for searching

* replaced the underlying ORM system with hibernate and ehcache to increase performance

Small team, big impact. In addition to helping tons of folks, it was also a key driver of the business (some percentage of people would reach out to the company for help buying a place).
This is a fun one-liner, but what would you base your ethics on instead? Basing it on suffering, all things considered, is a pretty solid choice.
The low-code/no-code frameworks may be interesting to you. Like Appsmith or Retool.

Otherwise the Python community likes to avoid touching anything that is not Python. Dash Plotly or Streamlit are great tools to make web apps in Python.
> but I'd imagine they're pretty healthy

How about them absorbing microplastics/PFAS?
“I'm pretty sure my dog would be great at this, but then he would be worth stealing. Ergo, I'm not doing it.”

Is this really how dog owners think? I’d better not teach my dog valuable skills because then someone will steal him?
Would safety/braking be improved by adding a seat?

Moving the rider weight back would seem to lower the risk of going over the handlebars.

Although by that point you've basically got an evoke you can't pedal (which are illegal in Europe)
Thank you! I guess the trick with this suggestion is to move the vertical line to directly beneath the text such that it doesn't need to be taller...which is probably a good enough workaround, even if not exactly what I was hoping for :)
This does not turn into Python.