skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And by that same action (and others) confirm explicitly to everyone that your stated reasons for buying the platform were bullshit and you are in fact a hypocrite with dictatorial tendencies.
Thus reinforcing the reasons for people leaving.
At this point, this formulation of "free speech" complaint is nothing but a dog-whistle, "they're not interested in platforming my racist trolling, wah! So much for the tolerant left."

Which is true, but also, I don't care, and I'm happy with it, because we're better off and other speech flourishes.
Trump stole the images of his trading cards from stock photos
https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/phishing-spa...
I think those ideas are not as contradictory as you assert.

small private forums also had some draconian moderation (well, some of them did for sure), but the key point was that they were small, targeted and competitive with each other.

Too draconian, and people leave; too loose and people abuse.

The thing is, you kinda know what you're in for with small forums (or in this case mastadon instances), the servers themselves do more to say what they're targeting and what niche they have; they do not pretend to be an apolitical platform or to not have opinions.

That's the major difference, you can go to other Mastadon instances and find people you enjoy being around. With Twitter there are some hidden "rules" (which used to align with the US west coast ideals, and now seem to align more with the trumpy right-wing thing), with Mastadon it's more likely that you know what the rules are.
This may work as a statement, but functionally it's pointless. They will just blacklist this domain too.
I wasn't referring to anything in the article or about including your Mastodon handle in your user name or description. Some people though keep tweeting how they "left Twitter", cross post content etc. I find that a wee bit obnoxious - but since I don't really use Twitter anymore it doesn't bother me, I could just understand someone wanting to take action based on it.
Just to be clear: competent people exist everywhere, in the USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand, India, Japan, China, Argentina, Korea, Luxembourg, Sweden, and everywhere else.

What matters is where these competent people want to go.

When people want to leave, that means there's something lacking at where they are currently.

My opinion is that every place must create an environment where their best brains want to stay there (without being forced to, of course!). The whole world could be better due to that.
Seemed like a genuine question, I was trying to help by explaining my perspective.
Lossy causes some issues with normal maps, so QOI seems good for those cases where lossless is preferred to balance loading (and streamed loading) performance and space use, but yes, in general S3TC is good for sRGB color textures in PC games.

Using a lossy hardware compression (like S3TC) that's natively supported by the hardware is especially a good way to save on GPU RAM! Double the texture resolution for free, essentially.
The name "dotted list" comes from how the list is serialized, yes, but not the concept. You can write a function dotted-list-p that takes an object and returns the value of (and (consp object) (cdr (last object))). Indeed, it is not related to the NIL issue, and I made no such assumption. You can read an equivalent definition that uses different words in the CLHS glossary.

You admit to talking about "how NIL is implemented internally", hence my original remark that you are conflating implementation tricks with language semantics. From language semantics point of view, NIL is not weird, it is an ordinary symbol, like NIK or NIM. Lisp tradition assigns it certain roles, like representing the empty list, representing the false value, representing the empty type, and also has conveniences like having NIL evaluate to itself or having CAR and CDR take lists instead of conses.

I didn't mean to be condescending. I know you are not a baby Lisper. The matter at hand is very basic, and I understand the desire to present a more sophisticated take, but believe it leads to (and reflects) a distorted ontological view of Lisp if taken seriously. NIL is not weird, it is a simple symbol. We just assigned it a few roles and made a few conveniences. Why did we pick it for those roles? Arbitrary choice. Why did we choose to extend the domain of CAR and CDR? Practical choice. Let the puritans complain and build their own ivory tower languages. Lisp is pragmatic. Could an implementor choose to represent NIL as a closet cons for simple CAR and CDR implementations and special case everything else? Sure. But this has nothing to do with the ontology of Lisp.
I was first thinking "private healthcare can fix this gap". But in Canada there's no private healthcare alternative. Here in Finland we have all the alternatives: public healthcare (municipal and government level), employment health care benefit, health insurance and then even private pay cash immediately healthcare. It's got some side effects.

In a bizarre twist, the city of Espoo, which has about the highest GDP per capita in the country, is struggling with their municipal public healthcare absolutely overwhelmed and in crisis. People come to the emergency room for ailments that could have been remedied way earlier in non-urgent regular booked office hours medical center visits. But the budget for those has not been there, you couldn't get an appointment.

Why is this happening? Certainly they would have the money - it looks like they aren't acting rationally. One theory is that since most of the voters in Espoo have good jobs with a great health care benefit, they don't vote for politicians that would put money to public healthcare.

The Canadian system of there being only the public healthcare system would actually "fix" that.
Cheaper Gumroad alternatives that handle EU VAT
There have been several reports of people updating their profile with links to their Mastodon profile only to be told by Twitter that the update failed because it contained malware and other such issues.
That is a very selective and borderline illegal description they are using.
A bank is a credit institution, but now every ci is a bank.

Paypal and revolut are 100% not banks, they are financial institutions or emis,
They can manage your money but not lend out anything and they have to hold the assets at 3rd party banks.
Cull them. Controlling their numbers and loving animals are not mutually exclusive.
Chess Tactics Explained
Only the sand geese though.
The advantage of using a native hardware compression format is that you save on GPU RAM, which is especially useful for web which may display on mobile systems.
Post is now accepting new users via a waitlist. It’s only a matter of time before it steals everyone worth stealing from Twitter.
Joinmastodon was suspended this past Thursday. It's since been reinstated.
Twitter had said the exact same thing.

Would you be OK if Twitter just said, “all legal speech can be up, even doxxing since that’s not illegal?”
Yes, and? Almost all later Basic implementations has those. As I wrote, even some 1980’s Basic implementations had them. But those were not the Basic implementations used by people who owned the popular home computers in the 1980s. And, as a result, it is not what people commonly think of as “Basic”. I feel I am repeating myself here.
This headline is clearly tailored to make it seem like spite or whatever, but it is clear _after_ the headline: if you shoo them away from where they want to be they come back, whereas if they no longer want to be there and leave they don't come back.

This is like saying "people come back to their homes when I random set off their fire alarm at a much higher rate than when they decide to sell their home and buy a new house somewhere else".
Is it really chroot? As far as I can tell termux is just a terminal emulator +shell, and if given proper permissions it can very well access regular root without doing anything special.
I'm counting the NPU :)
I couldn't find anything in the datasheet about the LP core PSRAM access - do you have a confirmation on that? It'd be a shame if it didn't, but kinda makes sense with the 768K sram.
I was hoping it had access to both.
Yes, that sounds like something which goes in the right direction. Now just drop the modern stuff - the synth bass beat doesn't really fit the description - and have some more Gregorian growl and Lucifer's your uncle.
> two countries offer entirely different lives

Curious about this. Could you please elaborate?

Like, the differences in lives of a software developer in, say Toronto and San Francisco (other than salary)?

Just curious.
I'll expand: it is in the interest of the writer of this "uneditorialized" document to downplay the risk.
Another mistake that doesn't deserve a top-level comment: the unit abbreviation for "second" is "s", not "S" (that one's the siemens = inverse ohm = former mho, which was a way better unit than the siemens, but that's another discussion...). Thus, "ms" and "ns" rather than "mS" and "nS". This may sound incredibly pedantic, and it is, but it's also one of the tests for attention to detail that I use when interviewing and evaluating an EE candidate, so, y'know, maybe worth learning to get right. Or not, life's short and building stuff out of discretes is more fun. Your call!
Make sure that macOS is 100% updated, and post the verbose output from the curl command.
Rails is special in that, arguably, Ruby wasn't otherwise a massively adopted language, at least not on the scale of others. RoR drove Ruby adoption in a very unique way.

PHP, Python, Java are massively adopted languages where you can name a leading batteries-included framework or two. There were different reasons for converging into a leading framework (ex: the case of Spring may be very different to that of Django), but that convergence happened.

JS/TS? No real convergence 14 years after the introduction and massive adoption of Node.js as a backend runtime. Why not? Beats me.
The 'Level I' BASIC in the TRS80 managed to distinguish three errors

WHAT?
HOW?
SORRY

What a difference 4K made!
I'm not going to fact-check this article for obvious reasons, but is this article referring to actual CSAM or drawn artwork? The author seems to be heavily implying the former but I suspect it's actually the latter.
> Hmmm, at this rate we’re going to have to create Elon News ;)

Some people cannot sleep at night withour looking in other's people shit.
>To maintain sanity, I have very few must-have plugins and the current vaults are all on "Minimal" themes with different color schemes making it easy for me to just toggle my Vaults. I once tried to maintain a common ".obsidian" folder and symlink to it but that was a bad idea - the vaults are better off mostly being unique with shared preferences.

My solution to maintaining seperate vaults for personal/work notes has been to make a sandbox vault where I can test/configure plugins and if I'm happy with the result I run a little script that I can point at a "real" vault that:

* backs up the current config of the target vault incase I screw up

* `rsync`s the sandbox .obsidian and meta folders (containing templater templates etc.) to the target vault

This leaves me free to experiment with plugins without getting in the way of my day-to-day notetaking.
FIFA World cup final prediction by GPT
This is the entire concept behind private property.

Mastodon instances are all private property. They are clubs that can be run according to the wishes of the owners.
IMHO it was mainly the scripts that sucked in the “new” Star Wars and the retconning in the remastered stuff. I didn’t personally object too much to the quality of the added scenes, even though they could have just skipped them.
Elaborate? What "inclusive" policies do you think are overbearing? Mastodon.social is plenty accommodating to your average "set no CWs, give unsolicited advice, be a bit mean to trans people" person. Other places are not. Joining any random server will not work as much as joining a random IRC network will not.
I really don't think you can say Reddit is a strict leftist community with a straight face. There are plenty of places on Reddit where hard right and alt right views are openly welcome and encouraged.
Lyrics used to come in liner notes; are there any fields in common music formats for metadata? I'm sure no one would notice <1k more.
Photos taken on phones often contain GPS data. If someone publicly shares a photo they’ve taken and the data isn’t scrubbed, it’s trivial to find out where the photo was taken.

Just because it’s easy to uncover doesn’t mean it’s fine to go off and broadcast it. That’s doxxing.
“Karen” is a racial slur.
People did in fact have a problem with Twitter too.

It's just more obvious for Musk since 1) he prioritized himself over doing a more general sweep including more than what affects him alone and 2) he has been obnoxiously vocal for multiple years now, painting a massive target and begging the public to troll him.
POKE isn't a "facility of the language" though, it's just a raw memory write. The modern equivalent would be using the lowest-level graphical API's.
Someone repeating a talking point but not understanding the words being used. Can pretty much dismiss those posts.
> or emacs is doomed.

Can you elaborate? Isn’t a high developer/user ratio a good thing?
It seems weird to want NextJS to be a batteries-included backend framework, when it's not even a batteries included frontend framework. NextJS offers SSR and a router and that's about it, if you need client side data fetching you will still use React Query / SWR, if you need heavy client state management you'll use Redux / Zustand, you probably want an UI library so you'll have to install Bootstrap / HeadlessUI / Radix etc. Everytime you start a NextJS project you must go through library shopping even for frontend stuff

Full-stack javascript sounds cool for small side projects but I want to have the freedom to write my backend in wathever technology I want, and I think many company do as well. I think the focus should be a robust frontend framework with modern features (SSR, data fetching, client routing etc.) and I'm hoping SvelteKit will be this framework
I am building a list of alternatives that handle VAT:
https://nts.strzibny.name/gumroad-alternatives-eu-uk-vat/
I just tried dragging a book out of the “library” tab to my desktop and it gave me an epub.
Tried on macOS Ventura with a book released this year
Oh nice, thanks!

I guess after the restock this won't be a problem since it'll be the second batch?
I'm exactly in the target demographic that desperately wants a a return to the old, decentralized, protocol-based internet. We need working alternatives to Twitter to prevent a single mentally unstable billionaire from having this kind of power.

But everything about Mastodon seems badly designed and engineered. The focus on "servers" seems technologically anachronistic, but worse, fragments the community and creates (IMO) unacceptable privacy concerns. Self-hosting requires unnecessary hoops, loses some community functionality, and runs into the risk of "defederation", which only exacerbates the problem of servers being overly important. If you do decide to go with one of the existing servers, and hadn't been there early enough to get into one of those run by the foundation, you're basically required to trust your online identity and private message secrecy to an anonymous activist admin with a kitty avatar.

Why Twitter should feel threatened by this clusterfuck at all is a mystery to me.
Mastodon used to appeal mostly to the fringes that Twitter never served properly. That means queer people, but it also means Nazis, including the self-described ones. So having good moderation is quite essential to a good experience.
Prioritisation of requests. I'd be extremely surprised if Twitter wasn't already prioritising standard requests too. If you get at the same time 1 request each: from FBI, from someone with multiple actioned past reports, and from an account created 10 sec ago, it makes complete business and community safety sense to handle them in a specific order. (But not with different rules)

And if FBI provides such requests often enough, it makes sense to ingest them in the most efficient way that works for both sides.
There's a very big assumption in your claim, which is that immigration is balanced among 'social classes', skills, jobs,etc. In that case, indeed overall demand grows along with overall supply. Australia has an immigration system aimed at achieving that.

Things do not work out so great if immigration isn't balanced.

In the UK there has been a huge influx of unskilled or low skilled workers from Eastern Europe that has put a big dampener on wages at the low end of the spectrum.

One of the reasons the UK has a productivity issue is that cheap labour.
hm I thought they were to impress people... show off "we can build this in one-go" / "we can compensate/take this big-land from the owners in one-go"

In construction, you have to have the timing right for the whole building in one-go...

In land-ownership issue, you have to own the whole land / negotiate with/seize from with owners who own some of the land
Yes, but the main difference is that twitter (and all the centralised social media players) are trying to have their cake and eat it.

> You can't prosecute us for things that are published as we are a platform for communication, we're not responsible for what's communicated!

> We can moderate and ban you for saying things we disagree with based on what we interpret our "rules" to be (in social media's case: whatever the West-Coast likes and Copyright violations)

With Mastodon (or phpbb forums of yore) the former is false, so it's at least internally consistent, and of course you have the choice to move away, it's not 1 moderation style for the whole planet across all cultures.
It's a federation. This is exactly the point.

If someone wants to setup a mammoth federation (because mammoths are less hairy than leftists or something - I dunno) they are free to do so. They can use the same software, they can set their own policies on if they want to federate with Anime/Trans/Communist/Nazi/Antifa servers however they want.

And AFAIK no Mastadon server have removed the ability to link to competitors.
> he _wrote his own text editor_ as part of the project.

I’ve not spotted that - and I have a thing for bespoke editors! Could somebody link me up to the editor? A few cursory searches didn’t prove fruitful.
Glad to hear, but I get a totally different impression from forums like this one, from following a couple of techies on Twitter or from actual campaign contributions info (I’m talking about the US).

Also from the info of that Google tech guy that got fired after an internal memo, or of the creator of JavaScript the language also getting the boot.
Ummm... Wat?
They are using that for cover, but the block goes far beyond that content. I have an account on a smallish, niche community Mastodon instance which is closed to sign-ups. I can’t tweet or DM a message containing a link to my account there.

My guess is that Elon has wanted to squash Mastodon for a while, and the ElonJet episode gave him an excuse.
So, a file system?
This is a wonderful project! I'm old enough to remember the days when Ethernet adapters for commercial computers were made of individual logic gates. The Ethernet adapter in the VAX 11/750 I used in the early 80's was two large Unibus boards full of TTL logic: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Digital_Ethernet_UNIBUS_Network_Adap...
Based on the rest of GP's comment, I think he meant to say "parser" rather than "text editor". And that's referring to lemon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(parser_generator)
> about 10% maintains an elisp package

IMO that is probably better than most other ecosystems where this percentage is often 1-3%.

> about 90% can program in elisp

Emacs doesn't really make a distinction between user and developer, and its a major driving principle behind the whole endeavor.

> makes me suspect the outcomes are skewed

Very much possible. But the survey was advertised over HN, matrix, IRC and Reddit. The last being a lot more 'general' audience than other 3, which I expect skews other ways. Anyway, knowing what Emacs is itself is a selection bias, so this is hardly unexpected.

> or emacs is doomed

If current breakneck speed of development of core Emacs as well as ecosystem at large is any indicator, I'm not preparing the doomsday shelter any time soon :)
I will try to document alternatives here https://nts.strzibny.name/gumroad-alternatives-eu-uk-vat/

For example for $100 a month you can be selling without any further fees (apart payment processing).

Their best customers will switch.
Very good points. My Python skills are such that I would be laughed out of a Python job interview for hilarious incompetence, but the small subset of the language I know and am comfortable with has allowed me to automate all sorts of tasks and saved me an enormous amount of time over the years. What I love about Python is the great spectrum of possibilities with it over quite a range of skill levels!
And they’ll just be reporting news to each other leaving a massive vacuum on Twitter for others to quickly fill.

Most people don’t really care about this story. They’re just users looking for news, opinions, trending topics, etc. if you don’t follow these types of accounts then you haven’t noticed much change on Twitter.

Honestly if anything I’ve noticed Twitter is probably a bit more fun and interesting now.
both is the safe guess here
The Karen meme is about white women leaning very hard on their white privilege. And every time you say the words "white privilege" someone somewhere will play a reverse racism card.
Max, how is your determiner (the, a, etc.) usage? that is probably a useful proxy for whether or not you are under a year to L2 fluency. (and what do you consider fluency? CEFR B2? C2?)

удачи!
"Karen" as a slur is one of my least favorite memes from the 2020s. Can't wait for the day it falls into disuse. Lot's of real people have that name!
If you read reference [10] on the book, he says he did not release the source of the editor.
Yeah, it's also misogynist, but it's not the bad sort of racially coded misogyist slur, so it's low-status to complain about it or even acknowledge it. Hence the comments pretending not to know what you mean or implying your racial politics are suspect.
Glenn greenwald:

> I'd be genuinely happy if this were a transformative moment: where liberals who've spent years demanding online censorship now see its evils since it's directed at them and their friends. But of course it's not that: they're complaining because they think they should be exempt

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1603768031867445249?s=...

There's some people who want their righteous tribe to not be banned but ban everyone else they disagree with and can't conceive they might, one day, not have the power to do so (after all, every alternative to the narrative setters is bought or squashed early).

Those of us who really defend free speech. Don't want any of these tribes to be banned but we find it funny how they're suddenly talking about free speecha and pretending the point is "hypocrisy" when the biggest inconsistency is wanting to ban everyone and using the "private company can do whatever they want" argument and then pretending that it's some sort of unthinkable travesty when they're at the end of the ideology they push.

Hopefully this chaotic "battle" all leads to more descentralization and actual freedom of thought instead of some authoritarian group gaining power and trying to destroy, block, deplatform, intimidate, defund anyone who doesn't subscribe.

In most forums nowadays we get a very pro censorship mainstream view that is very sad for those of us who valued the internet for the power of citizens to have an independent voice.
I wouldn't be so sure. I read manholio's posts multiple times and their position it still unclear to me. "Immoral to the investors" but some - I believe feinted - concern for the people.

I am having a hard time treating investments as oxygen masks on airplanes.