skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to understand why Mastodon requires such a huge amount of hardware for mediocre traffic volumes. Not just the lazy "it's Rails" answer - I know Rails is a resource hog, but that doesn't go far enough to explain the extreme requirements here.

As a point of reference, look at what Stack Overflow is run on. As a caveat, SO is probably more read-heavy than Mastodon, but it also serves several orders of magnitude more volume (on a normal day in 2016 they would serve 209,420,973 HTTP requests[0]). They did this on 4 DB servers and 11 web servers. And in fact, it can (and has) worked serving this volume of traffic on only a single server.

With this setup SO was not even close to maxing out their hardware (servers were under 10% load, approximately). SO also listed their server hardware[1] in 2016. I don't know enough about server hardware to assess the difference, but to my eye they look similar on the web tier with similar amounts of memory, similar disk, etc.

I'm not saying Hachyderm is doing anything wrong, but it makes me wonder if there's a fundamental problem with the design of Mastodon. And to be clear I understand that this particular issue was caused by a disk failure, but that they even had this hardware in place running Hachyderm is surprising to me.

[0] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...

[1] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...
Shameless plug - I made a site that lets you track taken domain names and will email you if they ever become available.

Site is called skinny domain .com

Is it ok to post my own site here? Feel free to tell me if I should remove this.
I don't think this is really true at all, and I think it underestimates (significantly) the amount of behind-the-scenes work that went into the current WebPKI situation with activist root programs. I don't think there's any reason at all to believe that browsers would have similar success governing a DNS PKI, and there are specific reasons --- evidence, even --- to believe they wouldn't. We can go round and round on this stuff, but I feel like I'm repeating myself at this point.
I'm also really hopeful for this. A couple years ago I had a potentially serious injury and the local urgent care clinic said I needed a trauma center. The message got lost in translation and I ended up at a Northwell Health hospital that did not have a trauma center. First they ignored the documents that I gave them and let me get past their triage so they could bill be and then told me that I needed a trauma center. After signing a refusal of care form and paying something like $200 to get out after getting zero care, I went to the nearest hospital with a trauma center where I was very quickly received by a full trauma team, got a CT scan, and determined that my condition was not serious.

I got a bill from the trauma center hospital for something like $500. Based on what I've been conditioned to expect from the U.S. health care system that seemed pretty reasonable. Then I got a bill from Northwell Health where I recieved no care for more than $800! Around that same time the NY Times came out with a piece about Northwell overcharging (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/upshot/covid-test-fees-le...). It took me months of badgering both my insurance company and Northwell to stop sending me payment delinquency notices.

Now, more than a year and a half later, they started sending me bills for that $800 again! So I'm very excited to see this kind of open source approach at this problem.
> Reminded me that Russians escaping Russia are refugees too.

They're dissidents, not refugees. Their country isn't being attacked nor under invasion.
But would it have taken over the world, if not made by some strange nerds?? I think Dwarf Fortress would not had been successful, in terms of depth/richness of gameplay, had the nerds "sold out" too soon.

The beauty of DF is the subjective standards you refer. DF would have just been yet-another-world-generated-game.
And store it in a local bank with the economy on the verge of collapse and the government being what it is? You have no idea wtf you're talking about sir.
> "I am genuinely open to it."

I genuinely don't believe you.

> "I am arguing for what I know to be.... obvious truth" ... "delusion" ... "hypocrites" ... "silliness" ...

and this is why. Again, look up "cage-stage Calvinism". Nobody ever has a good conversation with a cage-stager because they're so busy talking about "obvious truth" and "delusion" and not really listening, just sort of generically pattern-matching and then declaring their doctrine.
Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Until 2026
I considered that too but weighted with the possibility of openai claiming copyright on the text, I decided against it.
I don’t know if I agree with you or not since I never saw the article underneath all the ads and popups.
link tax isnt part of the title, and as far as can tell not part of the article. i usually just truncate if its not so clear and comment the full title in.

i dont use facebook, so i cant see if they are publishing links to offsite pages, or conduiting the page into the feed with some link mitm magic, or if they straight up reprint large excerpts or whole articles from outside pages as if the literary effort is thier own.
> I wouldn't say a surgery could be considered routine until it's complete. That's hindsight bias.

Ehhhh, not if said surgery has a really high success rate and a really low rate of additional complications. There's all sorts of surgeries--say, LASIK eye surgery--that have a 99%+ success rate. And actually, LASIK is a great example of an operation that has lots of price transparency, competition, and where folks have the time to shop around, and it's fairly cheap as a result (~$2-3k per eye).

We can do this with more in the healthcare industry.
The problem with "not working for evil" is that everyone is evil.

If you chose to apply the same standard to the people around you, you'd have no friends or family. Because you have friends who work for minimum wage (enabling evil), you have family members who use all of the worst social networks and have all of the voice assistants on, you have a racist uncle, you have whatever. The specific examples aren't relevant, literally everyone else does _something_ you don't like.

I think it's better to try to control what precisely _you_ are doing because otherwise you'll just silo yourself into a corner until you can't do anything.

It's fine to avoid working for a company whose explicit purpose is to do something you don't believe in, it's another thing to exclude basically everything because some nonzero component of what is happening isn't to your liking.

Not that I practice what I preach, I'm out of work because I think video calls are evil. Bugger.
Please answer my question directly.

Is it 'subjective' that many activities are segregated by gender in the West?

If a person doesn't like that, how is it not a logical response to try to change their gender?
While there is some of that, eventually you reach a point where you don't really know what to do with more money. That is you fly first class, and you see no reason to upgrade to the next level (shared jet, owned jet). Maybe you try a cruise and decide an inside cabin is just as good as the largest balcony room (or something inbetween) and are not interested in owning your own ship at all - perhaps a cruise isn't for you and you still prefer primitive camping in the backwoods with the minimum you can take with you.

Of course you can always spend more money. However I have known rich people who decided their mansion was too large and so they downsized (their master bedroom after the downsize was the size of my whole house!) Eventually what you need is time to enjoy what you have not more luxury. Fly coach or have a private jet on call - end the end you get there, and the jet only saves you a bit of time at the airport.
>In the West we still have democracy - yes might be on its last few legs, but it's not too late, as the 2020 election showed

This is laughably biased. Whatever his defects, the election of Trump was if anything a much better example for democracy in action than the forced-along Biden election in which as much as possible of the mainline media and tech companies did everything possible to ensure it went that way.

Trump legitimately upset the applecart by winning (even if it was an electoral college victory, it was nonetheless part of how the system formally works) and surprised many people including a majority of the media landscape fully against his campaign. Because you detest that particular president's politics (im no fan of them either in many ways) doesn't make it an antidemocratic step backward..
I don't mind IAP necessarily, but it's frustrating when you download an app and then it immediately says you have to pay $10 a month to even open it. Those shouldn't be listed as "free" in the App Store and should be separate from an app that might be "free" but have a minor feature disabled by an IAP.
It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images
Probably they're a small team that was focused on getting this working, not thinking through OS compatibility stuff except as an afterthought. Good thing that's easy to fix after the fact?
War and disease have existed forever and hasn’t stopped human population from exploding.

Sometimes “this time is different” is actually true. What’s different about now is that you have this feedback loop of less kids -> less growth -> less kids. That’s never happened in history because people have never had so much control over their reproductive rights. Most of your ancestors were “surprise” children - you certainly would not be born today if your ancestors could have just used a piece of plastic to avoid the trouble.

There is a reason sex feels good. People for the most part don’t have sex to have kids. Birth control hacks this process and turns sex from a necessary condition for human survival to a drug people take to feel good.

Like I said this is unprecedented.
I really, really like the "wet putty" look as well as matte finishes. No more gloss please.
While water does seem like a serious issue, it also feels very Monday-morning quarterback: of course the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world knows that Arizona has low rainfall. What I'm curious about is what makes Arizona preferable over, say, Idaho or Tennessee. Proximity to California? No freeze-thaw cycle? Solar energy?
The majority of New Zealand petrol stations display the fractional cent too. Same in Australia from memory.
unfortunate name..
I was responding to the idea that he is supposedly a savior for climate change.

Regarding sociopathy, I’m not a psychologist, but he seems clearly a narcissist. He almost feels too sensitive and needy to be a sociopath, but who knows.
Same thing can be said of welfare in general. There are way too many people who would rather let everyone die than give "the wrong people" help.
The article from Max Roser is introductory to OurWorldInData having started plotting graphs and writing pieces on AI progress;

the collective page is at https://ourworldindata.org/artificial-intelligence
What’s your proposed option, other than pursuing them legally? If they’re crucial to the business, this is going to destroy the business, either today or later. If they’re not crucial to the business, this has a decent chance of destroying the business, either today or later. Having an embezzler as a co-founder seems like it only has bad outcomes, might as well pick the option that might recoup some of your money, and doesn’t involve continuing to co-found a company with somebody who’s cool with stealing money from you and the company.
Bernie Madoff who faced credible allegations of fraud for years and only shut down when he straight up told his sons "it's one big lie?" I don't know that that's actually as "quickly" as it appears.
‘Shark Week’ lacks diversity, overrepresents men named Mike, scientists say
i have this laptop and am also very satisifed. zero issues. i run a minimal dev setup[1].

there is a simpsons episode where homer designs a car. it has a lot of cup holders and is very expensive. this is a lot like macos, and even more like the linux setups people struggle to get to work after migrating off mac.

architectural tip: fewer cupholders.

1. https://github.com/nathants/alpine-setup
> Not sure what all that includes.

Possibly a lot of currently obsolete military equipment that can no longer be produced due to lack of domestic parts suppliers.
As a slight aside, _minimum warranty_, that is I think?

Certainly when UK was in the EU then the Consumer Rights Act gave (and gives) (paraphrasing) "as long as a reasonable person would expect" as the effective warranty period; washing machines are expected to last a decade, at least, so if it fails after 3 years you can claim regardless that the warranty on the box says 2 years.

Software providers say "no returns" or give a couple of hours of gameplay time, but the UK law (as above) specifically includes software and gives no such limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
> I can generate a Visual Studio project

Except that you don't need to, Visual Studio has support for CMake built in (since 2017).
I agree, it really made me stop reading it. Excessive profanity and dumb slurs make the author seem really uniformed. Surprised the author talks like that and then uses a really interesting title for his blog like its engineering focused.
But this is _not the case_ in other countries. In South Africa, if you go into a private ER, there are buckets of severity and a clear price tag. If they are going to do something to you that might change the price at discharge, they will tell you. If you have a discrete problem like 'my ear hurts and I want to go to an ENT doctor' then they tell you what the price will be upfront.

It does not have to be a gigantic mess. Being back in the US, I just went to the ER and it was shocking being discharged and not being able to know what I owe.
When selling a product, we were doing A/B tests with price points and so we had results that the same product was selling better if it was priced at £7.49 per month rather than £6.99. For some reason people subconsciously think that 7.49 is smaller than 6.99 or things like £5 wouldn't sell much but £5.99 would be going off the virtual shelves in an instant.

Crazy.
i could have used the job, but no i wouldn't have been happy there
The son of a Russian computer scientist who cloned Bitcoin as a teenager definitely all by himself?
It just means what it means, I guess. You do the best you can to provide a good life for your child by whatever means are available to you. Sometimes you have to make compromises - even painful compromises.

Maybe you are living paycheck to paycheck so you don't buy the new game this week. You play an old game that you already had.

Maybe some mornings you have to give them a bowl of cereal instead of making eggs, because you don't have enough time.

Maybe some afternoon when everyone is exhausted from working, you let the kids play the tablets for 2 hours instead of 30 minutes like they're supposed to.

Maybe instead of renting out the trampoline park for the birthday party, you get a pavilion at your local nature park.

Maybe your kid might get a "cheese sandwich" in their lunch because you were out of turkey and didn't realize it until 11pm.

Maybe your kid desperately wants a dog, but your current living situation doesn't allow it and he has to go without.

Obviously we all want what's best for our children all the time, but life is full of compromises. I'm not saying that parents shouldn't do everything within their power to provide the best life possible for their kids - in fact, I think that's exactly the moral duty of parenthood. But there are many degrees of happiness between "pure utopian bliss" and "mere survival." And so many potential parents these days seem to think that if they can't do it absolutely perfectly then it's not worth doing.

Maybe this is just my own background, but I can't think of a single person I know whose childhood was perfectly ideal.
Never thought this was a new trend but an old trend making a comeback. Glossy non-metallic.
AIUI, another user ITT has mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33883438 that this is merely statistics of how many transitioners formally pursue detransition, and that the numbers of those who practically desist from treatment are a lot higher than that.
TerminalLove.com
> Developing a brain machine interface technology requires many animals because the key unknowns have to do with acquiring, processing, and manipulating brain signals (so no in vitro model). Once the technology is working, and a particular disease/disorder/disability has been identified, the final number of animals required for the FDA to give safety approval for human tests is probably similar to any other medical device.

Can you point me to any books, articles, etc that make the direct comparison that more complex devices means more animal trials Through an order of magnitude? I don’t know your personal expertise in the matter so I don’t know how to weigh the knowledge you’re telling me (and I don’t know either, which is why I’m asking). For example there’s someone in the thread who claims to have worked on complex devices and describes a different experience, and h want to weigh these knowledges relative to their contexts.
I've received bills from entities halfway across the country with no fucking clue what role they actually played in care. It's completely fucked. No other industry gets away with billing this messed-up and sloppy. And I'm 100% sure some of the errors are "accidentally on purpose".
Russia doesn't have refugees, it has a tiny number of people seeking asylum after protesting against the regime. Middle class Russians fleeing conscription are not exactly comparable with people seeking refuge from Russian bombs, are they?
It’s still gloss it just doesn’t have the metallic flake.
Ah, just noticed that the Daily Wire, bastion of accurate reporting they are, spelt the name wrong - it's "Andrea Stroppa" which returns more useful information and shows that Ghost Data have been around for a few years (although I'd note their reporting seems to be "here's a thing everyone knows presented as SHOCKING EVIDENCE!!! in a many page'd report".)
They say they support up to $10,000 in one part but then in the chart the $100 increment only goes up to $9,999.99, so which is it? $9,999.99 or $10,000?
So you can sell an app for $0.29 now? That's cool actually if true. The rest seems silly.
> Pay attention carefully and watch different videos about what R2R means.

I don't do videos. If someone actually takes the time to write it down I'll read it :)

But for me right to repair simply doesn't work when the design itself is repair-hostile like Apple's.
I'm curious why the downvotes? I'm a technical founder running a devtools/security startup. After experimenting with ChatGPT for a few hours, it's clear to me that given the right prompts and model tuning, it's already capable of doing the following tasks at an above average skill level:

- Writing cold emails and responding to questions asked in replies

- Writing a script for sales calls

- Writing a pitch deck

- Writing marketing page copy

- Writing ad copy

- Responding to customer support requests

- Writing promotional social media posts

I have more confidence in its ability to do these tasks given its current level of sophistication than to meaningfully contribute to engineering tasks (though it can certainly help there too).

I wouldn't trust it with accounting or administrative tasks yet, but it doesn't seem far off.
> but I was talking about the incident between Carlsen and Niemann

Indeed, and it seems pretty silly that you would claim that it is impossible to punish someone who resigned on move 1, in the way that he did, without punishing people who are deathly ill!

Surely you should understand how it is pretty easy to tell the difference between these two situations.

The fact that this was the context, is the exact reason why it is so silly to imply that punishing this behavior would also require punishing people who are very sick, and cannot play because of that.
Most of these accounts existed before DEFI was a twinkle in Vitalik's eye.

That being said if I could go back in time and avoid making them, I think I still would....
The only true matte finish on a normal car that I know of is the Hyundai ionic 5. The wet in wet putty is the glossy coating. On matte paint, there is no gloss. It’s also a pain to maintain
https://manuals.plus/hyundai/ioniq-5-matte-finish-paint-manu...
I don't mention it because it's not true. The idea that if a river originates in one state, then that state owns all the water from the river is not how ownership of river water works. And in America, rivers often form the border of states, so there are always competing claims about which state gets which percentage of the river. These are generally settled through treaties and agreements among states, and those agreements were made also for the Colorado river. Arizona is only taking its share of the water as per the treaty, not someone else's share.
Thanks, although I am not currently recording the queries or their responses. I thought it was more valuable to make something interesting and useful than to harvest it on day one.
There's a guy on youtube getting 40mpg from an old carbed v8 and a module (raspberry pi or something). Maybe even injectors aren't necessary.

Your point still stands though, it's weird to be a programmer and hate technology but here I am.
People vote with their dollars and right now this look shows that they seem to have more dollars.
IANAL, but Apple Music already pays people per stream, and this type of modification wouldn't result in additional people needing to get paid, so that at least eliminates a whole class of issues.
Sure, but doing so doesn't mean that the generating build system had to have the same model as CMake.

Here's how my build system will do it: the programmer will list default build profiles. Then the build system will generate Visual Studio or XCode files that include all of those default build profiles, but those VS or XCode files will simply call my build system with the correct build profile.

Thus, when a build is run from VS or XCode, my build system is still in full control.

In essence, instead of generating build files for use by other build systems, my build system will generate files to tell VS and XCode how to call my build system. It will tell VS and XCode how to integrate it.
Instead people buy lots of cheaper junk every year and pile the garbage higher.
>It may also lead to laziness as people no longer need to advance to survive

I don’t think this is a good argument against UBI when so much of our labor force is engaged in meaningless work, or what late anthropologist David Graeber called “Bullshit Jobs”. [1]

I can imagine it could make some people be perceived as lazy because they now have the freedom to do anything else besides push papers 40 hours a week and that paradigm shift could induce depression because so many people lose themselves while surviving capitalism. That said, there is already a pandemic of depression (4.7% of American adults)[2] that is likely highly correlated to the mentioned phenomena. As the corpus of mental health literature increases, it becomes more and more apparent laziness and depression are not moral failings, but societal failings emerging from the Capitalist-Protestant work ethic [conjecture].

UBI won’t change human nature’s drive to improve material conditions. It will allow many people the ability to pursue meaningful enterprise and self-actualization. For those without the drive to participate in the rat race, I would congratulate their enlightenment instead of accusing them of laziness.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

[2]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/depression.htm