skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think finding a server is the biggest flaw with the fediverse migration currently.

It IS important what server you choose, due to the local community / timeline and having to trust the server operator. Normally people link instances.social [0] but there are just so many to choose from. I dislike that this blogpost just skips this entirely and says to join the vivaldi one.

I think we need more of a curated list of servers with open registration that are active, sorted by what community / hobby is being targeted.

0: https://instances.social/
I highly recommend this beautifully filmed BBC documentary about the lives of a few ageing truffle hunters and their trusty dogs in northern Italy:

Storyville: The truffle hunters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016489/storyville-th...
Probably not, and this gets at the crux of the issue. It doesn't really matter the domain. You see the same thing in sports, politics, military, business. As long as an asshole leader is also a winner, followers will tolerate almost anything, because they also want to win. Winning is the chief attribute we admire and reward, not goodness.

I have no idea what we can possibly do about this short of sci-fi level genetic or chemical manipulation of future humans. It seems we'd otherwise have to rewind and replay at least the last few million years of evolution without scarcity and zero-sum competition.
> causing me to wonder at how someone who does gene sequencing thinks of programming as being more technical

Everything you don't understand looks complicated from the outside.
That could probably work, but I'm glad that is handled by changing the timezone instead. Otherwise inventors of unix and ntp times would have got the bright idea to rewind or forward those times by a full hour twice a year.
I see you are taking the ticketmaster approach. You knowingly put your works into a contractual system that you can then condemn later so you can feel good and let the 'system' 'other' 'society' you were a part of be the bad one. I have news for you, that 'system' 'other' 'society' includes you, as the person who voluntarily agreed to let your work be locked away. But it's 'ticketmaster' that is bad, no you, who voluntarily contributed.
You mean you managed to install the Official Android port of gta 3 on an Android device? How much actual coding did this involve?
Thanks for finding that. The Ars Technica article is actually informative journalism. The The Register article just leaves you confused about what's real and seems to focus more on who's involved than what's happened.

Really creepy that Google is willing to work with governments to force install apps like that. Makes me think nobody should run stock Android.
Are there any open source tools/projects worth contributing to that don't need specialized infrastructure, proprietary data, or a PhD in the field to understand?
> geez

This is a euphemism. Please don't use it.
Online ads killed the budget for the newsroom, and the type of content you’re describing has always been the most expensive to produce.
The AGPL is free. The point was that although companies are able to comply with it, most are not willing to do so.
Even if they'll get stiff competition, facebook/google et al can also simply buy the promising upstarts with the mountain of cash they (still) have. Like they have been doing for many years now.
Well, we could quibble about what "fundamental" means but my point is that the way they train large language models doesn't work for this. Something different needs to happen.
Survived, yes, but

> The flight carried 102 passengers, 36 of them got injured of which 4 seriously injured.
There are multiple web interfaces (having just looked at the Pleroma install docs). A server admin would have to switch them though. I'm considering tossing up a Pleroma instance somewhere
This is all needed to continue to iterate on software. It’s not as needed for the ossified state Twitter has been in for many years, as the parent pointed out. Acknowledge there is _some_ work needed, maybe refreshing certs (though software systems I have built have always been set up to do that automatically), apply security patches, keep an eye on dashboards. But this is a job for a skeleton team, not 7500 engineers or whatever. It’s honestly kind of sad it took that many people to basically “keep Twitter up” all these years.
All People Are Created Educable
Side question: what IDE/editor ASM developers use today?
Given how much they have fought against clean energy it isn't a given they are behind Soros in that metric.
It's open source.

Put your code where your comment is.
Well, there could be room for another competitor in the IDE space, though tbh Jetbrains and VSCode are doing a pretty good job on the whole. As for text editors ... well, there are a lot of really viable options out there, including, of course, Emacs and Vim, etc.
There are also integrations with partners, new regulatory requirements, changes to support ownership's new priorities (and to undo the old priorities).

I don't work at Twitter but these things happen at every business.
Great tip! I’m going to try that one out.
Average salary of $58k.

Genomics companies: consider paying more.
Is it actually faster / easier to ask that question here and wait for an answer from some random person, or to simply click the link and read the first few sentences on the site to answer your own question almost immediately?
China is investing heavily in robotaxis too, and also has active deployments in large cities (which also have transit). I'm not sure why you're trying to make this about Americans.
This whole saga, together with the Twitter and Meta shitshows have been exposing the Emperor for wearing no clothes.

Turns out the rich and powerful of Silicon Valley aren't super smart and wise folks to be looked up to.

They're just regular people, a lot of them ignorant, that got lucky.

Enough with the pedestals.
I get the snark, but no, it hasn't.
Why is filing the lawsuit bad? Isn’t that exactly what should happen here?

Don’t you ever roll your eyes when you see a headline with “Soros-funded group does X” in it?
I mean you did not even bother to search for another paper. And there are more than these two.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153567/
If you want to erect your own fediverse server, Pleroma is an option, and arguably superior in many ways

https://pleroma.social/
>Isn't it just a bunch of software that just runs?

the fact aside that bug-free "just a bunch of software" of the size that serves half a billion people has yet to be invented. All software has the nasty habit of running on hardware and real infrastructure and that at the very least needs some serious maintenance.

If your standard for proper engineering is that it runs without human intervention at all I can't think of any complex system in the world that fits that description.
Aspen: Build AI web apps in minutes
Alternatively, go there[0], click "Download now" under "Fusion 13 Pro for macOS 12+".

Upon first launch, it'll prompt you to either enter a Pro license, try Pro for 30 days, or go straight to Player (still requires a free license key, obtained via registration).

[0]: https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/fusion-evaluation.htm...
Here is the worst part of the Lake of Fire: "And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. THERE WILL BE NO REST day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name." (Revelation 14:11)

Have you ever suffered from insomnia? You cannot think about anything, you cannot focus on anything, you cannot do anything. You just have one overwhelming thought in your mind: to go to sleep. Imagine that forever and ever. That is far worse than any physical pain one can experience.

Meanwhile, there will be many sensual delights in the New Jerusalem, but the best one will be the freedom to sleep any time you want.
The AGPL maximizes both freedom overall and freedom for one individual, so there is no actual tension or equivalence with the paradox of tolerance. The key misunderstanding here is the belief that being able to keep other people from doing things is freedom. That's actually power, and that's all that copyleft licenses take away. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html for more details.
All sufficiently complex control systems run in failure mode (partial or full manual override) approaching 100% of the time.

For instance this is why there needs to be a multi tiered (culminating with HN front page exposure) process for fixing automated account cancellations and app store rejections.
The point of the picture of Birkenstocks?

I've read a number of things by the author and there are a lot of interesting points. But I personally find the tone hard.
Probably from the users. Tumblr was the origin point of a lot of the now-common "woke language".
"I enjoy just hanging out and having a beer, but also painting a room, building a porch, doing a little demolition"

Perhaps that's the differece: specialization. More contractors and take-out meals mean less working with friends.

Friends are good for unspecialized labor, but when you get into skilled labor it falls apart. The one plumber friend will get swamped with requests, and the quantum physicist may not find an opportunity to reciprocate.
Cambridge, MA, USA.

Anything-to-air wasn’t going to work visually or for occupant comfort. I don’t want refrigeration linesets strung all over the outside, warts on a wall in each room, and after all that having less comfortable heat than hydronic. (On the plus side, it would give AC “for free” [in capital costs].)

Ground source (to water) was my first preference. I’m on a pretty small city lot and the well cost meant for an even longer payback period than an air-to-water heat pump.
The annoying thing is that some MS programs detect internet connectivity in their own ways (or do networking via some custom network stack), that do not work properly. Each time I had a proxy like Fiddler running, Outlook would think I'm offline. Everything else worked fine.
> Today, Tumblr has a reputation as a refuge from the louder and busier social-media landscape, and those who still spend time there—or who returned to the site, as many did at the start of the pandemic—love it for being somewhat creepy and overlooked. If Musk ruins Twitter, maybe it too could have a second life as something most people are always forgetting about—in a good way.

Tumblr is not a place to go to as a refuge, they went on a massive banning spree of 'adult content' [1], which appears to have killed off loads of other content. It appears they were capitulating to their advertisers/sponsors. They recently confirmed they are not changing their stance either [2]. Tumblr is arguably way more likely to censor you than Twitter (especially now as Twitter likely doesn't even have a censorship team anymore).

[1] https://www.eff.org/tossedout/tumblr-ban-adult-content

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/27/tumblr-bring-back-porn-nsf...
How long can I go before I have to rebuild the app to my watch?

This is one of those things I'd love to install and play around with like, twice a year, but I suspect I have to reinstall it every 7 days to keep it working unless I pay an Apple dev tax.
War and acts of God render most contracts moot. It’s a silly argument. And plenty of countries (smartly) renege on contracts all the time for even less dramatic reasons and do not suffer long, if at all, in the international capital markets. IMF/World Bank are not as important as they used to be. Compared to China, they’re now bit players. This is how the modern world works.

Russia cited maintenance when turning off NS1 because they probably had maintenance to do that was difficult in a war zone. Also, NS1 traverses Ukraine, and they had previously accused Ukraine of siphoning.

It’s in Russia’s interest to make its gas delivery reliable— that’s how you keep Europe dependent. The US wanted to end that dependence and ramp up US LNG market share.
https://peoplesworld.org/article/pipeline-ploy-how-u-s-natur...
> it was Russia

Blowing up its own pipeline that cost billions and years to build, effectively weakening its strategic position and limiting bargain options with Europe?

Yeah, sure.
You'll be lucky if it's python, most likely thousands of lines of R by someone who doesn't know how to write a function or declare dependencies.
New Brandeis Movement
Nice interview. I have been using Emacs for about 40 years, and I am getting a lot out of Petersen's book. He recommends reading the Emacs Manual - I mostly did that decades ago, and forgot most of it.

Anyway, I recommend his book.
I work at at a SynBio company and heartily second this. If you're looking for interesting work where you can make an impact, it's an incredible field to be in.

I'm a nerd about everything - I love learning, and this field is incredible for it. The complexity and depth of biological systems dwarfs what we're doing in the software industry. I work with brilliant people doing absolutely fascinating work, and I get to learn more every day. At the same time, I get to build things that make a genuine contribution to the people I'm working with - I can see the value and impact of my skillset in a way that was a lot harder when I was working at a software company. The leverage that good software folks can provide to folks outside the industry is almost impossible to overstate - our ability to scale up what the practitioners in the field are doing can offer an almost category change in what they can attempt.

At the same time, there's still really, really knotty software problems to be had - computer science has benefited quite a lot from our ability to segment and structure our problems, but biology doesn't allow for that - everything that we're working with is operating at every scale, from molecular interactions up through genomics into protein design and folding and into metabolic modelling. Add to that that the data structures you're dealing with can vary from a few characters up to a couple megabytes (within the same represented "object"), distant elements within the same object can interact meaningfully, the objects themselves tend to be embedded in larger structures with which they meaningfully interact, and you've got some fiendishly complex problems.

And at the end of all that, you've got a field which offers a legitimate possibility of helping us move past petrochemicals; an enormous expansion in the kinds, potency, and specificity of healthcare; and a new and novel set of tools for shaping our world. It's an incredibly exciting place to be, and I've found people are genuinely thrilled to have good software folks along.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
I see the map. What is your point?
I was in the air in-bound to Lima when this happened. I guess LIM only has one runway, and it's closed down until at least tomorrow, so that's about 36 hours of that whole airport being closed. Lots of cascading delays. Hoping I can get in tomorrow.
So what ? Even if it were ten times more cruel I wouldn't think twice about bursting my belly with it for Christmas. They're just geese, not people.
Perhaps from a pragmatic perspective you could think that this was the easiest case to get a conviction on. The prosecution would be mindful to get that one first so they don't cause a double jeopardy acquittal if they miss on the case that is harder to prove, but more correct in a moral sense.

They could now bring that case without worrying that she'll get away without repercussion.
The Dork Ages
It's different for sure. I wouldn't say it's any uglier than a Tesla though and it looks like it has a few extra tactile buttons inside with is a plus.
Especially with Elon, who is the definition of failing up and getting lucky (see Zip2, Tesla, Space-X). Just having capital was enough to have actually intelligent people flocking to him. When Elon makes decisions (see PayPal, Twitter) they are shit.
Wow, I'm honored :) These days, I try to only comment when an article is really in my wheelhouse, but that's not very often, given my narrow interests in fluid dynamics and computational physics.
At scale everything is more complex. The hardware that runs the software can fail. Ddos happen. Network issues. A building catches fire. Etc etc.

Sometimes you have automatic recovery. Sometimes you don't.
Grayscale won't share proof of reserves, citing 'security concerns'
I dunno (nor care) about the quality of a Gucci handbag but the Porsche is actually a high-end car, so while there very much is “status” associated, at least you’re getting something cool/fun as hell at the same time.
Certain politically important contractors' cash flow would be threatened.
> The compensation scheme, which is currently scheduled to end on April 17, 2024, allows Australians to claim for medical costs, lost wages or other expenses if they suffer an adverse reaction to a Covid vaccine.

So basically you could have the common, harmless flu-like side effects of the vaccine, take few days off of work, and file for compensation.
>renamed human genes because they were importing it in Excel in a way it thought they were dates

Just at your shop, or the field in general?
I'm a software engineer who works on genomics. I see a lot of negativity in this thread, which mirrors my experience: in most places, you'll be paid like a researcher with the respect of a lab assistant – unless you have a PhD and a postdoc.

That said, it's possible find work that's respected and pays well. Most of that kind of work is happening in the context of startups or freelancing. My favorite example of this is Robert Edgar: he's a freelance computational biologist with over 100k citations who has made a living for the past 20 years by selling licenses to his bioinformatics software (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RzVMRc0AAAAJ).

To find those kinds of jobs, I'd try YC's Work at a Startup, Flagship Pioneering's portfolio companies, and emailing founders of companies that have a bioinformatics component (my email is in my profile!).

I think the issues with the field are because it's a new and growing space. We do need better tooling, respect for engineering, and established best practices, but that seems to have been the case in the past for other domains that moved from research to industry – including software engineering itself.
Look to who has captured MSM to find the answer.
Symbol of reunion with China, panda Tuan Tuan dies in Taipei
This is correct, but public transit is a sort of political matter so will take a lengthy time to take off. Which is a sad portrait of modern American politics.
This subject is so vexing, because historically Big Pharma has consistently shown to be untrustworthy in how they conduct their business.

That has to be countered with the societal value of the vaccines they produce. The anti-vax movement creates an awkward dance of defending big pharma to deliver this aid whilst knowing that the cannot be trusted 100% to do the right thing.
It definitely had crashes, especially with C++ intellisense - visual assist was a must for crashes (and the functionality was also nice).

I had been using it since 1998 on reasonable hardware. It was always reasonable for me.
Kyiv may face 'complete shutdown', nearly half Ukraine's energy system disabled
San Francisco Ghost Sign Mapping Project
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23112929-elon-musk-t...

page 10, the _only_ texts with redacted Sender:

"it will be a delicate game of letting right wingers back on Twitter and how to navigate that (especially the boss himself, if you're up for that)"
How several jurisdictions are responding to COVID vaccine injuries:

Asia:

$1.26m paid to 296 with serious side effects after COVID vaccination in Singapore https://news.yahoo.com/296-payout-serious-side-effects-covid...

Girl to receive NT$3 million payout for adverse COVID vaccine reaction https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202209080026

Man gets NT$400,000 payout for adverse COVID-19 vaccine reaction https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202210150017

North America:

Feds Pay Zero Claims For Covid-19 Vaccine Injuries/Deaths https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/11/04/fed...

B.C. man among first approved for Canada's Vaccine Injury Support Program still waiting for compensation https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/b-c-man-among-firs...
> People should do more thinking with their taste buds

This is meaningless.

If I buy a product that claims to contain X ingredient, the manufacturer has a moral, ethical, and legal responsibility to give me that ingredient.
Because it's not what sells. It's literally a tool, and if you don't deliver the level of perfection they're used to get from sequencing, NMR or assay testing machines, you're the PITA. You really have to bring something very interesting to the table to earn some status, and software engineering just doesn't. It's too far from the core business. Think of the attitude SWEs have towards sales people...
> I’m not sure how many people are actually leaving, in my list it’s about 30% at least.

Wow. The people on your list are nuts. Musk hasn’t even changed anything yet. The product is identical to what it was a month (or year) ago.
Whren v US decision [0], Scalia gave police the power to stop and search any driver as long as they assert a traffic violation as the pretext for the stop.

1: it was a unanimous decision

2: they can’t just assert a traffic violation, there has to be an actual violation of the law.
Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence
The VPN is a funny one. Aside from appearances and legal realities, it's a great fit for them. It doesn't require a bunch of risky investment, and the whole VPN thing relies on trust anyway. I can't think of an organization offhand that would be well situated to run a VPN service and that I'd trust more as a VPN provider.

Of course they're not such a great fit if you're hoping for a slightly shady company in a country with favorable laws to conveniently 'lose' various legal requests. But other than that, if you had to guess if $slightly-shady-company or Mozilla was actually upholding their promises...
> What Sequoia was reacting to was the scale of SBF’s vision. It wasn’t a story about how we might use fintech in the future, or crypto, or a new kind of bank. It was a vision about the future of money itself—with a total addressable market of every person on the entire planet.

But like, it’s not even a story about how he might accomplish that goal. It’s literally just saying “my vision is to facilitate every financial transaction in the world.” You’d think it would take more than that to impress those partners.
> I think Germans are more upset about how messy these things are than about the safety aspect. People just leave them wherever and occasionally some bored people do silly things with them like creating a huge pile of them or tossing them in canals, etc.

It's high time these so-called micro-mobility companies are held accountable for the abusive occupation of public space. Their business model is based on their ability to just go to a public area and dump a bunch of equipment on the ground. Street vendors are persecuted by municipal police for less eggregious occupations of public areas.

If locals have to pay for licenses to briefly occupy a couple of square meters of public areas to be able to do construction/renovation work, why are these companies allowed to throw around dozens of scooters at will?
What they are is extremely aggressive, confident, and sociopathic, and they start out with a head start on resources.

That sequence of events is basically the magic formula.
THIS is a helpful straightforward answer!!!
simple, to the point.
the rest on here shows how the wheel gets reinvented over and over and everyone wants to use ever-bigger frameworks to shot flamethrowers on a fly.
The largest dam demolition in history is approved for a California river
Where my characters come from