skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fediverse isn't trying to be a stand-in alternative, nor should it be used as one. It won't algorithmically serve content to maximize your engagement and attention to sell to advertisers. It's there for those who are interested in it. Some just find it a more libre platform that's useful as they want to move away from Twitter.
I say this as someone who has been on the Fediverse for years but has never in their life used Twitte for more than a day, or ever enjoyed it.
I've made exactly that! https://rssdeck.com is in private beta with some functionality still closed off. Register and I'll activate your account.
I made this game last year after my first year as a parent. Its also my first ever game and the most fun bits for me were learning how to make the music and sprites. I had no prior experience with either but with tic80 you just kinda open the tab and do it.

https://tic80.com/play?cart=2586

If you’re like me, you probably love spending the holidays doing advent of code or something. Maybe write a game this year :)
Eh, twitter has never been more interesting.

I first joined Twitter to follow a couple of people who did not publish blogs regularly so Twitter was where they were.

Overtime I started finding other interesting people and I strated following them.

But also overtime people were getting suspended for publishing unapproved opinions, so a lot of the interesting people I was following were practicing self-censorship and reducing the amount/frequency of content they post.

The last week has been probably the most interesting week in terms of amount of content/interaction people are having and also just sighs of relief. People are no longer practicing self-censorship.

Some of the engagment is really "meta" in that people are on Twitter to talk about Twitter, which is a weird thing and can't last for too long, but it's still interesting.

It feels like the old school internet. You can login and always find something new and interesting.

I've never been more excited about Twitter.
Ask HN: Where do hackers meet business hustlers?
I was wondering where hackers go to meet business people if they would like to start a company? Building tech is one thing, selling it is another. What are your favourite platforms/ways to meet people with different skill sets (non-technical)?
God no, one Twitter was already too many but it at least served it's role well as a quarantine to keep the rest of the internet safe from its users. Now that it can't even perform that role well, I don't see what use one, much less two, could possibly have.
> To me Twitter is a huge treasure trove of information.

For thousands of years people did not need continuous feed of information to survive. I am not trying to undermine your comment. Just an observation that I wanted to share.
Awesome question, and awesome thread.
Worked in monetization and optimized ingame shops for some of the most profitable games at the time. I know there are probably people that really like the game they develop but trust me the monetizers don't care they just want more money.
The worst thing about D is the forum full of sad and bitter people complaining that D isn't more popular.

Other than that, it's a spectacular language.
I think what's going on in those cases is that people are heavily invested in Twitter, believing their bulk audience is there, but (understandably) want to hedge their bets. Lots of them are posting the same stuff to both Twitter and Mastodon (tooling exists) and they'll wait and see how it pans out. As they see more interaction on Mastodon, perhaps they'll migrate their focus, too.

Interesting time, for sure.
Birds never had any job other then getting something, typically a message, from A to B.
That's not true AT ALL. I tried to use Twitter for my friends and their posts. I always got recommended stupid political, inflammatory, and inciteful content. It's clearly what Twitter needs to recommend because it's what drives their engagement. I can't blame Twitter because that's literally it's business model. But to deny this is absurd.
For that same reason, I never could become a Twitter user.
> Could very well be that the people you're working with were actually spammers

Let’s see...

1. They purchased lists of emails that they could send to.

2. They made landing pages that lied about the advertised product (e.g. an iPhone version that doesn’t exist yet).

3. There were unsubscribe links, but guess what clicking it did? Increase the open rate.

4. When they hired people and trained them to set up new VPS’es, they asked that they use their own credit cards and reimbursed them through salary.

5. They discussed purchasing fake credit cards.

6. They bribed employees at large email distribution services online tens of thousands of dollars to avoid getting flagged.

I took some time to pay them back because I was broke, and as a result, they put my phone number in their spam lists. I mean, content marketing lists.

Could very well be that the people I was working with were actually spammers.
You picked two currencies that happened to have a big difference in value at these two points in time.

You are ignoring that a lot of people who bought BTC in 2018 sold it again in 2019 as it lost 50% of its value. Nobody could predict that the value would spike again a few years later, and crash again, and spike again, and crash again.

You are ignoring all the people who bought BTC at 40000 and are wondering if they should sell it at 60% loss now, or wait for it to rebound.

You are ignoring all the people who lost their money because the exchange that they used turned out to be a pyramid scheme.

You are ignoring all the people who bought altcoins that fizzled out, or that bought into the NFT craze or any of the other crazy schemes that crypto shills came up with.

That's why I am saying you are cherry picking.
I never understand Twitter timeline...sometimes posts hours ago appears on top ...sometimes I saw boring posts from strangers. And they are not ads
My error, thanks for the correction.
They're actually reasonable, unfortunately.

The garage is detached one fed by a single 120V circuit buried in PVC conduit, and it is enough for everything in there at the moment. But if a car's charging at the same time say someone open's the garage door, it's going to trip the breaker.

So at least I'd have to pull a second circuit dedicated for charging. To do that, the old conduit needs to come out and be replaced with one that is up to code for handling either more then one circuit, or can handle a 240V circuit. The cost of digging the old one out and installing a new one is a very substantial portion of that quote.

Now granted this was a quote for a full 240V circuit with a subpanel; the quote last year was around $2000 ish. Inflation rate, increasing labor costs, and continuing supply chain issues caused the jump. I didn't get a chance to ask what the quote was for just a second 120V circuit though.

The mains upgrade cost is just what I've heard second hand from others upgrading their 100A service to 200A. I haven't gotten a quote for myself but it doesn't sound wrong to me. Just filing the paper work for the permit from the is a $160 fee. The permit itself IIRC is an additional $200 or $300. I suspect the electrician would have to get the utility involved as well to disconnect and upgrade the main lines coming from the street to the house to accommodate the increased possible amperage.
This is why I'm leaving. Pretty much everyone I follow moved to Mastodon and the conversation in Twitter really deteriorated. I kept the account and I use https://moa.party/ to auto-tweet my Mastodon posts. But it's just more fun and informative on Mastodon at the moment.
Since last week every person on Twitter whose content I came to appreciate moved over to Mastodon. Science, tech and gamedev/art people are absolutely leaving for Mastodon.

The only part of my follows left on Twitter now are the people producing the average low quality content (gossip, memes, current drama etc.)
And isolated GUI apps would be also nice to have
Dilbert and Farside are down for over 24 hours
I think it is strange that two of my favorite sites have been down for over 24 hours. Confirmed with https://www.isitdownrightnow.com.

Can anybody shed some light on what's happening?
There’s so much evidence in support of trans people that one needs only to ask with honesty and be ready to adjust their views. The fact that a community that supposedly prides itself on rationality, and open mindedness is consistently unable to be rational and open minded is beyond me.

The GP comment has been fluctuating in upvotes and downvotes, often getting massively up or down voted in the span of minutes.

It wouldn’t surprise me if people downvoted some of my other responses here on the basis of this comment. In fact I have seen multiple comments downvoted in a very short timespan.
So a horse is now a chair? I sit on it but I don’t take it with me. I can’t lift a horse, after all.
I think what you're seeing is bridges like https://moa.party/ which just tweet what people post on Mastodon. Same content but not the same engagement.
> What can you do with a closure? You can call it. What can you do with an object? You can not call it. You can only call one of its methods.

These are congruent, assuming an Alan Kay-ish definition of OOP (as per Smalltalk and Ruby et al). A collaborator object does not call another object's methods, but rather sends it a message. Consequently, there is only one logical interface.

This is one reason that Erlang is sometimes described as one of the most OOP languages, despite possessing distinctly functional fundamentals.
> A few thousand

It's around 5000 per hour, well over a million new active users this month.

https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109368148529393065
I helped build the mission planning system for several earth observation missions, most notably the TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X SAR mission. It has created the best global digital elevation map (DEM), surpassing the SRTM data set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TanDEM-X

We were a tiny team of 2 core people. I was the main software engineer, the other main contributor was a mathematician.

The project was done in C#, but in a very functional style. I had to write my own functional collections library for it. Functional style was a very good fit for this kind of classical optimisation problem. Basically zero cost backtracking.

The planning system was very challenging because the two sats fly in close formation, and some operations can cause permanent damage.

I have since left the European space industry out of frustration that most interesting stuff seems to happen in the US, where I am not allowed to work due to ITAR.
I'd like to thank you for your work. Without it, I might not have had the motivation to move completely to Linux.
I think the difference is though, that nature doesn’t intend to make something. A friend of mine once described evolution as not running toward something, but rather running away from something. And there are millions of years of wrong-turns, and vestigial remnants of things that didn’t work out.
Depends on the kind of translation style. I guess the goal of a game translation like that is not primarily to do a faithful translation, but one that fits the target market.

This must not necessarily be bad, and can sometimes be a chance. E.g. the German translation of Donald duck pocket books has so much more depth and literary quality than the english originals that the translator herself has her own memorial and grammatic term in Germany¹.

Translations that make things worse are the rule, but it is not impossible to create translations that makes things better, especially if the text quality in the original is lacking involuntarily itself.

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¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Fuchs
Lots of people are saying “you’ll come back” and “nobody is migrating for real”, and I have had the same opinion back when the Twitter deal was first announced and a few people moved over to Mastodon.

But this time, it was very different: When the deal went through, a large part of my bubble really did move to Mastodon. This happened over a few days, and after the second or third day, my Twitter timeline was noticeably empty, and Mastodon is very alive instead.

Of course I can’t predict if this sticks over the medium or long term, but for me, the situation is very clear: the people I care about are now on Mastodon.

(I spent 10 years on Twitter, with over 4000 followers.)
This is a loyalty test for the cult of Elon. Doubt he's gonna actually read the emails deeply.
Show HN: A Hacker News reader with the UX of YouTube Shorts
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/boosted-by-twitter-drama-m...

A few million, in contrast, is a lot. I partially agree that there were already several reasons to leave and that only leaving now means many will return. However, as someone who's been on the Fediverse for years and never found Twitter even usable, I must say the following:
I don't really see how those users were in positions of power or influence, not do I see how they would be an infestation to the Fediverse. I also have not seen much unwelcoming content to the Twitter refugees in my area of the Fediverse. Though it is very hard to make judgments about the Fediverse since it's not even centralized or monolithic.

https://pleroma.miguelcr.me/notice/APk4LL8HJtqJIoA2m8
Why use wedge shaped coils? Let's try to do some physics simulations
I suspect that Group 1 and Group 2 will have very different ideas on what is means to keep Internet safe for their corresponding constituents. Depending on whether you belong to Group 1 or Group 2, you should feel safe on your own corresponding platform. Now, if someone insists on telling the opposing group how they should be running their lives, this particular ability will be greatly reduced.
And that's different from Twitter ... how? I mean, aside from the federation aspect.
SSH Port Forwarding with Go
No. There should be red lines. There should be consequences.

I stayed up until now. Clearly the new owner doesn't want us around. I won't stay where I'm not wanted. Since most of my friends already made the jump to Mastodon the decision isn't very hard...
I used to work in digital advertising company that had their on DPI technology and had deals with ISPs to tap into their network and some publishers. We profiled each user, by default it was opted in (: after some pressure it was by default opt-out but whoever was opted in and didn't know that remained opted-in. China was just meh, everybody opt-in we don't care about your privacy....

Truly ingenious technology but everything else was shit, truly bad moment in my career that fortunately lead to a better place for me...

(Also this was pre-https everything so it was super-easy to sniff the traffic)
I’ve deleted my Facebook account many years ago, and I don’t need to criticise them at every opportunity.

When asked why I’m not on (happens extremely rarely), I say it is against my moral conviction to be a member, and they don’t ask what I mean, because they know.

Thus, I can live a positive life without evangelising my own choices.
Python dictionaries and floating point NaNs as keys
This was probably written with only the English-speaking part of Twitter in the writer's field of view. English in Twitter doesn't comprise even a third of all tweets ( https://www.vicinitas.io/blog/twitter-social-media-strategy-... ); in fact, for pure tweets that aren't RTs nor replies, the above data even shows there are more Japanese tweets than there are in English, albeit by a slim margin.

So, I agree it's about the people, but I don't see the people leaving, at least in the languages I use.
For anyone wondering about the practicalities of an EV: cost trade-offs, home charging, and more, this entertaining video goes into extreme depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyp_X3mwE1w
I don't see why density would have anything to do with quantity.
Reminds me of when everyone left tumblr
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/boosted-by-twitter-drama-m...
That's just factually false.
I saw this article posted earlier and was going to comment but thought “you know what, this is obviously not HN material, I’ll just flag it”. 12 hours later, loads of upvotes and hundreds of comments. Fine.

HN news is discussion about technology, start ups, and creating stupid moral panics to stir up hatred against groups you want to oppress.

In this case I actually have first hand experience of this topic, my wife is currently pregnant. Not once have I seen any price of advice or information that in any way has been less useful because of inclusive language. This whole article is attacking a problem - using inclusive language - that only exists if you hate the people being included and don’t want them included. Which apart from being obviously morally repugnant is also something that seems like an odd discussion to have on a tech website. I guess we’re interested in ethics in game journalism again…
This simply isn't true anymore. It was the case in the past, but nowadays you can no longer avoid Twitter shoving low quality rage- and clickbait content down your throat.

These past months my Twitter timeline contained almost as much spam from people I don't follow (and would never follow) as it did content I sought out (people I was following).

Twitter is all about that "engagement" nowadays, and I as a user am only ~50% in charge of what my Twitter experience is going to be.
If even one fanboy learns latin because of Musk trying to seem literate and edgy I'll take it as a win.
LOL, I got carried away there. How many times a year do you do a 24hr road trip, or even an 8hr non-stop road trip?
China exports narcotics, sold nuclear tech, grabbed China sea, Tibet, hongkong and Taiwan on the menu. Sure nothing to worry about it.
The Fediverse doesn't have an algorithm or reason to promote and thus provide any audience for those things, thankfully. Thus they have no reason to be on the Fediverse because they'd just be shouting into a void.
> The problem of swapping is that it makes no sense at scale

They only have to scale to the number of cars that want to swap at a given point in time at a given location. EVs with swappable packs can also charge as normal. It's not exclusively swapping or charging, it's both swapping and charging.

> And batteries are not interchangeable, because they’re structural and to maximise packing.

They are if you develop battery swap standards:

https://cnevpost.com/2021/05/10/battery-swap-national-standa...
Sounds like you’ll never have free funds again.
> All the conquistador really has to do is gallop in and show what is
possible.

Yes, gallop. To do so loudly and conspicuously.

Moribund industries are staffed by quiet competence that took decades
to build. There are no quiet conquistadors. Even if their ideas are
actually mediocre, riding in on a white horse and creating a spectacle
is essential to the show.

The age of marketing uber-alles, social media 'reach' and personality
cults has green-lighted armchair conquistadors who previously would
have bided their time to reach maturity. It's no surprise that once
they've shot their one-hit load, there's no sustainability or stamina
behind it.
Permutations: Replacing the Block Cipher? (2020)
Was thinking along these lines earlier when I saw that Mastodon now has something north of 7M users (including bots? are there many bots there? some, for sure, but probably not a lot).

7M is the population of a good-size city. Twitter has something like 24M/day active (including bots. lots of bots!).

The difference is that Twitter is just one big, wide-open agora, lots of touts shouting at the tops of their voices, and heard over all the space. Mastodon instances are natural neighbourhoods. You eventually find one that suits you and settle there. You don't like it after a while, or you find somewhere better, you move. You can very easily avoid the dodgy parts of the city (or visit them if that's your thing) and just hang out where you're comfortable. For me that's the key difference between the two.
My first reaction was "sewing needles are incredibly cheap, they're made to a budget" but actually, the same can be said for bee stingers.
Yet, I bet you'd have problem with: "English has a right to a word that means 'a plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles' and that word is "rhombus."

Calling genuine questions about your statement 'bad faith' or a 'stupid argument' is a bad look when you communicated incorrectly. I am here out of curiosity and to learn, not to foster any agenda.
As I see it, it was "special" as long as "A" set of "species" had control. Now that they have lost control, they do their best to destroy it. This to me is a clear sign that they are unable to handle alternative narratives - a.k.a "My way or the highway".

I for one, plan to continue staying here to see how Twitter evolves. In fact, I had started migrating out of here while it had it's previous avatar/mind-set. So long as multiple perspectives (the real definition of being liberal to my mind) are welcome in a respectful setting, I'm good. I'd actually like to hear from both sides rather than be inside an echo chamber.
From a C++ perspective, any block with local variables in it is also basically a struct. And if some of those variables are function objects, then they're basically methods of that struct. So once you make such scopes into first-class entities, they automatically become objects.

This actually happened kinda sorta like that in Simula-67 (from which C++ lifted its object model, for the most part). They started with Algol-60, which has nested blocks, each of which can have variable and function declarations. Since they were interested in simulation of processes, execution of a single such block logically modelled a single process. The problem that they had is that, in a simulation, what you really need is multiple concurrent processes that can reference each other (to pass execution flow around). And so, they made those blocks into first-class entities in their own right, giving the programmer the means to control their lifetime explicitly and to reference them from other blocks - and thus objects were born.
Annoying that emacs (or Carmack) does not understand Lisp-style C. Meaning that you just group all brackets to end of last line. Saves space, helps comprehension.

void name()
{for(;;)
{for(;;)
{a;b;c;}}}
This is very similar to how Third Room’s user generated content engine is being implemented (supporting C, Rust and Zig alongside QuickJS though): https://thenewstack.io/third-room-teases-user-generated-cont...
Why would they be implemented as methods when they can be functions?
How many Full Hollywood movies can you find on youtube right now?
For the not-so-ciritical websites that offer TOTP, I store it in Bitwarden for convenience. For critical websites I use my Yubikey. Best of both worlds me thinks.
I don't understand the problem with telling people how to live their lives. I don't see what's wrong with vegans, pro-lifers, and many groups from all parts of the spectrum trying to stop people from doing things they believe to be wrong. I'd rather people try to stop people from doing things they see to be wrong rather than nobody stop people from doing bad things. I say this as someone who isn't a member of either of those groups. Their premises may be wrong but that's not a good reason to not fight against what one sees as immoral.

I don't know what you mean by “safe” either. I'm just referring to the unbearable culture of Twitter being contained on Twitter. Though I recently have started to suspect that it's really only sustainable by the algorithms of Twitter and not people alone.