skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bad. However, my understanding of the situation is that there was a british debate at the time as to what to do, if anything. The bleeding hearts suggested food relief for the starving irish, but were overridden by the libertarians of the day, who were horrified that anyone should attempt to trump economic considerations with moral ones, and insisted that one should not tamper with markets: the price of foodstuffs was the price. (if the irish could not afford to keep that beef or to import other food, they had obviously made a poor decision when selecting their parents!) Therefore nothing was done.

Edit: in the case of government response, my recollection does seem to have been a reasonable oversimplification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Governm...
I am an admin of a small instance that most likely isn't on Twitter's block list, so my profile name and description could report the link to my Mastodon profile without getting me banned.

However, even without a ban from their side, this has really been the last nail in the coffin between me and Twitter. Suspending accounts for posting links to another (open-source) social network is wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to start listing them.

So I've decided to permanently deactivate my account and say goodbye for good to the stinky fascist shithole that Twitter has become.
I think I'm in the same demographic as you, but I don't see it as negatively. Most of the issues you mentioned don't bother me as much or could be fixed.

The only thing that concerns me is the risk of defederation. Why would anyone want to run an instance if they (and their users) are at the risk of being excluded on the whim of a small and intransparent group of people?

I mean so far moderation on Mastodon seems to work, but it still does not sit right with me that we basically replaced a dictatorship with the (benevolt) oligoply of the group of most popular server's owners.

In the end it's all a matter of trust and it would be good if more organizantions ran their own instances so that we would have bigger plurality of large instances.
When Python picked up that reputation it was considerably smaller, with the likes of Java and C++ as the most prominent competition. Also it's easy to think that newer fancier features added over time don't really matter for learnability, since the old style mostly still works; but they do matter some, since when you make a mistake, the interpreter doesn't know that you had no intention of straying from a simpler sublanguage.
The headline seems weird. The list of file descriptors etc etc does not sound like shell internals, but like Unix operating system concepts.
It is also simply called procrastination, bike shedding, yak shaving, fear of success, fear of failure, Forest of the Infinite [0], list goes on... depending on the context.

On the other side, as we are already using computers, we might sometimes want to explore and get lost in this forest of problems and possible solutions and have some fun.

After all, as Douglas Adams put it:

“(..) a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.”

[0] https://gameweld.medium.com/fractal-tasks-and-the-journey-th...
When C, FORTH, Lisp and Pascal got special issues in Byte magazine what I noticed as a BASIC programmer was that all of them uses functions as an organizing principle. It wasn’t so clear to me the difference between languages like Lisp and FORTH where you could fully define new keywords and control structures and languages like C and Pascal where you can just define functions (that do what some of the keywords in BASIC might do.). It didn’t help that the C preprocessor cheats and lets you define ‘keywords’ with macros…
we sleeping on deno fresh js?
A Normal Interview with Author Emily St. John Mandel
So you pre-decided to sign up for a specific instance which was closed to signups and is then surprised you can't sign up.

Go to joinmastodon.org or instances.social, not directly to a specific instance.
Unsure if anything changed, but even the first time I ever used Spacemacs, they recommended the development branch. Some projects are allergic to cutting releases for some reason (pfetch hasn't had one in years).

edit: Here is a relevant issue with some discussion

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/11191
Live Caption works on:

• Pixel 2 and later phones in English

• Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish

• -- On Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones, you can also identify these languages and translate media captions automatically through auto-detection.

• Other select Android phones

Source: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9350...
Continued collapse of the top-end rech jobs. More layoffs at FAANG type companies as people realise the hoarding of talent and million dollar bonuses are just a waste of company resources. This will have a drastic effect on the tech jobmarket, globally, for years to come, as "second tier" companies become competitive with the top players in terms of comp. and people start shedding the golden handcuffs.
Many of those vehicles belong to BIPOC and undocumented immigrants who do the necessary and underpaid jobs required for NYC to function at all.

Vigilante broken-windows policing cannot be the answer to lawless behavior.
> The outrage is pretty hilarious given that less than 0.0001% of Twitter users even know what is Mastodon. No one cares that your precious Mastodon instance got filtered for a few days. No harm done.

There you go. The outrage is a storm in a tea cup and Twitter has done this before in the past [0] with only techies here having a tantrum about it. It is indeed hilarious to see this manufactured outrage as people struggle to bother signing up to Mastodon as the 200M+ daily active users on Twitter still do not care to move.

The moment users ask, 'which server do I sign up to? It says, sign ups are closed. Find another instance' or and when journalists realize their reach is limited because the instance they signed up on got permanently banned by other instances [1] then it isn't surprising to see why many of the 200M+ Twitter users haven't bothered to move anywhere else.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31607941

[1] https://twitter.com/ajaromano/status/1594432548222152705
If you're concerned about that, back up regularly, or pick an instance not run by a hobbyist, or run your own, or pay one of the commercial hosters to do it for you.
What an absolute masterpiece!
There's at least some states with hunting seasons (didn't try to do a comprehensive check).

In general, city parks are not open to hunting, so hunting wouldn't necessarily help much with the geese that occupy them.

I say necessarily because I can imagine a scenario where some particular flock of geese that spends time in a park also spends time on land that is open to hunting. Possible, but probably not that common.
How many users will stay on Twitter because of this? And how many will leave because of it?

My guess: it's an extra indication that Twitter is not a reliable platform to build an audience.

Billionaires are billionaires because they build a product that everybody wants.
W3C does matter to an extent. Which is why so many mega corps pay people to work on their stuff.
I built something similar using a variety of YouTube channels focused on NLP, AI, etc. The app is here https://huggingface.co/spaces/jamescalam/ask-youtube - you can ask things like "what is a transformer model?" or "what is semantic search?"

The way I built it is documented here: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/openai-whisper/

Afaik it's the same approach as Riley, that is:

- Scrape audio of YouTube videos

- Transcribe to text with OpenAI's Whisper

- Use sentence transformer to create embeddings of text

- Index embeddings (with transcribed text, timestamps, and video URL attached) in Pinecone's vector database

- Wrap up the querying functionality in a nice UI

(this is for the search functionality)

If wanting to replicate the Q&A part, I also built something similar and wrote about it (https://youtu.be/coaaSxys5so) - it's essentially the same process but we return text snippets to GPT-3 along with the original question and it generates an answer
Short answer can be summarized as follows:
Can X correlate data "that way" about users at scale and at an acceptable cost?
If yes, then X does it.

Works for all companies that generate revenue from targeted advertising (GAFAMs of course, and many many others).
- "The new gates performed at speeds of less than 100 femtoseconds, which is roughly 1 million times as fast as electronic gates"

Electronic gates switching at 10 MHz?
I think they are probably good enough to throw some picture or some blurb of text on a site.

Not that they will replace any actual work, but many things don't require actual work.
That server is swamped with registrations and had to pause them. Pick another.
Who cares ffs
For fun, I've asked OpenGPT-3 and ChatGPT to write a few rants like this. They both tend to produce much shorter, much more abstract rants without fixating on details (like lack of customer support) excessively.

For example:
> I can't believe XXXXX is holding my payments for at least 120 days for KYC checks. I'm a merchant whose money is frozen and I can't access it. This is totally unacceptable and they shouldn't be allowed to get away with this. How am I supposed to run my business when I can't access my funds? If they don't change their policy soon, I'm going to have to find another payment processor. XXXXX is taking advantage of merchants and needs to be held accountable. #XXXXXSucks #PaymentProcessorAbuse

GPT-3 in particular likes to put stop sequences (things you would expect at the end of text, like hashtags) after their rants, and no matter how much I try to remove them, it will put more and still produce a short rant.
Honestly I prefer Android native apps more than anything. Android apps have the lowest rate of Stuff Not Working I've seen so far.

I prefer local apps because the data is local and they can't be taken away if the cloud goes down.

For inherently cloudful things like banking I'll use an app if it loads faster than the site, which it usually can because they have stuff like the ability to just quickly check balances without a password.

But I don't really mind sites instead.
>So you pre-decided to sign up for a specific instance which was closed to signups and is then surprised you can't sign up.

I saw that elonjet had found a new home there so assumed I wouldn't have any trouble signing up. The "Create Account" button on mastodon.social seemed promising too.
Parent means from the IoT device side. DoH lets devices (say your TV) bypass a pi-hole and still reach ad servers.

That's why I blackhole DoH on my network. Don't connect to my wireless if you want DoH privacy.
I feel like if your views are complex, you're probably doing something wrong. Views really shouldn't have complex logic in them.
Even in the case you could remove it, it would probably be reinstated the next update. If it is not software dependant I will try linux and remove Windows completely
Statistically yes.

There are vastly more people with at best second hand information and at worst willing to make stuff up than there are people directly involved.

This is why people are allowed to confront their accusers in court and we are suspicious of hearsay.
Spotify’s grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage
Philosophy as a whole? Certainly has many worthwhile ideas, or even just explications/clarifications of concepts. Certain philosophers, however? Yeah, not clear that there's really something worthwhile behind all the gobbledigook.
Worst part for me is seeing sibling teams at my company fail miserably and live behind schedule and struggle a lot because they’re building full stack products/applications with it. And most of them don’t even realize how much they’re missing from Laravel/rails like frameworks.

And don’t even try to mention to them Laravel/Rails is easier because they’ll crucify you or call you a dinosaur or something.

But hey, they’re so proud of js all the things.
Since when writing encoders and decoders in one sitting is a metric for a good asset format?
If you have exported you data from the instance you should be able to set up your own instance with that data.
State says NYC planned ban on foie gras sales violates law
It has to first get a little more extreem. They have to not just fight but start killing. Look at Napster. Napster was attacked and eventually died. But napster also won. CD sales are dead and we all download/stream music online. Mastadon will soon be attacked directly. It will also probably die as napster: a first cassualty of a revolution. What matters are the long-term changes that survive.
Little Funny Story
Sad hallway monitor.
Usa an iPhone?
You'd prefer the global warming impact of that over the alternative?
World economy will collapse triggered by nuclear war. This will lay the path for 2023 finally be the year of Desktop Linux.

The mass extinctions will also help Lisp developers becoming the dominant species for the next millennia.
modern science and technology owes nothing to the ancient greeks. modern science and technology is based on accepting experiments as sources of truths/facts of the universe. ancient greek philosophy which prioritized the ideal explicitly shun any knowledge that could be arrived at by observation (i.e. through our senses). the battle to admit experiments into the criteria of truth was mainly waged in britain, from locke onwards. so, while the ancient greeks bequeathed us the immense inheritance of philosophy and the search after truth, we wouldn't be here if we didn't disrespect their strongest argument that truth arrives by cerebration alone.
Nokia had world firsts in a ton of categories, but they - as an organisation - sucked at vertical integration. Thus many of the features just were there, without any way to actually use them.

I remember my old Nokia phone having a feature that would detect people around me + my location and would change profiles accordingly. Something that Apple added around iOS 16.

The Nokia feature? It never worked, nobody knew how to make it work. It needed some mystical configuration that people in my company didn't know how to do. And I worked for a major Nokia subcontractor...
If you're after how the shell parses commands, the EBNF grammar in the POSIX specification is a good start:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

Unfortunately, there's not much to a shell other than it's parsing capabilities.
Generate a transcription index for your YouTube content using Whisper
> I have some friends operating a Mastodon server, with a team of volunteer operators, and I'm pretty sure I've met all of them in person.

But this will never describe a significant portion of Twitter users. It might work for some, but it wont replace Twitter.
I hope that redwood.js become a rails like framework for JS ecosystem.
That it's impressive.
OS is updated. Here is the verbose output.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/inst...)"

/bin/bash -c "$(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/inst...)"

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:01:15 --:--:-- 0

curl: (28) Failed to connect to raw.githubusercontent.com port 443 after 75406 ms: Operation timed out

I also tried to access the site raw.githubusercontent.com from my windows machine and I am not able to access the same. So it may be related to Proxy or DNS. But I have not set any proxy on my router. So not sure where to look for the way out.
A return to sanity maybe, but more likely not.
Twitter and "reliable"? Was that ever really a thing?
I'm brand new (only started in past 9 months).
I took the survey.

That's a great question to include next time
I got pissed off at wearing glasses and contact lenses for 30 or so years.
Things like fear of losing the glasses, transporting liquids everywhere you go and requiring some sort of sanitation. It's not compatible with an active lifestyle IMO.

I wasn't eligible for laser treatment so a few months ago I opted for what is essentially cataract surgery (Refractive Lens Exchange). I don't regret it, the freedom is great. Vision definitely isn't 20/20, and things look funny under certain lighting conditions, and your short-range vision is destroyed since your eye can no longer physically focus, but I'm glad I did it. I seem to have got lucky in that I don't need galsses for up-close stuff like looking at a monitor.
See also this playlist from Travis Baldree: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Vv4dSxNmQI8oQWha1fO... (narrator of Cradle series and gazillion other progression fantasy)
> The fewer steps there are between your spinning the IDE and having a working setup

What you're overseeing here is that Emacs configurations are usually highly individual, and that "a working setup" for _you_ does not mean the same as it does for _me_.

For example, regarding LSPs, I only use them in very rare cases because usually LSP implementations themselves (regardless of the editor you use them in) are buggy and/or slow.

For me it's much more important that the actual _text editing_ experience is consistent across languages, than the tooling for any particular language.
Amazon put Ukraine’s ‘government in a box’ – & saved its economy from Russia
I love the moving of goalposts that's happening here. "Just pick a server", "you can always migrate" moves to "you can always migrate if you happened to have picked a server not run by a hobbyist". Which, BTW, isn't even a filter criterion on the often linked instances.social.

Also, you can't back up your followers.
I haven't thought this through thoroughly yet, but I could not come up with a migration scenario where you could keep your followers. Your handle will change and as long as the old instance is banned I guess a redirect from there to the new handle does not work. So, fair point! I'd be curious what others think, maybe there is a way?
Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible
My personal itch to scratch just recently has been the umpteen formatting foibles of HackerNews. So, in the spirit of making the web more personal again, I knocked up a TamperMonkey userscript to fix up the worst of my personal bugbears.

This isn't an attempt at a complete rebrand/redesign of the site, instead it's just fixing up what I think are the biggest design/readability issues whilst trying to remain true to the site's existing aesthetic.

Key features:

* Base font size increased
* A little more room around headings
* Top menu bar is full-width and with a little more padding
* Downvoted comments no longer faint hard-to-read grey. Instead they're rendered with a light gray background and in a smaller font size.
* Comments have a more readable max line length
* Quotes are parsed and transformed to look like genuine quotes. I.e. any p or span that starts with '>' is transformed and rendered with a light orange background and in italics.
* The 'Add comment' box on items is hidden by default. (Surely you'd want to read all the comments first before leaping in with your own 2p's worth!?)

Check out the repo's readme for example screenshots.
”But bitcoin solves the double spending problem”
Are we watching musk "get" radicalized? Or has he always been that way?

Because I remember way back, when journalists would write poor reviews of Tesla, he would go after them... typically accusing them of being compromised in some way, or not really being a journalist.

Then there's the swatting of a tesla wistleblower.

Or when a customer was "rude", he canceled their tesla pre-order.

Or when that tesla employee posted a self driving video of his own car--he fired him.

Or when there was an anonymous blogger that posted negative tesla investment advice, musk tracked him down, and called his employer trying to get him fired.

Im not going to keep going.. there are so many of these dating back a decade. I think the truth is he said what he thought people wanted to hear ("free speech absolutism"), and then once he obtained twitter, who he really is--exceptionally thin skinned--wont let him run it in a principled way.
Glad to see Twitter is doing this.

The reason Musk bought Twitter was to rid it of the type of behavior you frequently see on m6n. It's a direct competitor to Twitter. Twitter is a commercial product and needs to maintain its users and revenue. It'd be foolish for it to amplify a coordinated attacked on its existence by the very people who very publicly advocate for the destruction of Twitter.

I'm sure many people will do their best to minimize the influence of these cult-like echo chambers with negative contribution to society.
Continental europe was (a) army rather than navy focused, and (b) had traditionally used trade routes running through the Med, to Venice and Genoa, etc.

So continental europeans had neither budget nor reason to develop long range cruising, whereas Britain, out on the very end of the existing trade chain and maintaining a large navy against invasion, had both.

That leaves Spain, Portugal, and Ireland. Spain is well known for having succumbed to the resource-curse from New World metals; Portugal had (due to the papal agreement) to go the other way, and I was under the impression they were very successful doing that until something (what? possibly british pressure?[0]) cut them off[1].

That leaves Ireland. (who may not have been so worried about specifically catholic invasions, but...) I don't know about that case; will poke into why Ireland has never popped up as a naval power!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire#British_Ulti...

[1] and of course, using scurvy prevention and accurate longitude determination to go directly to the other end of the traditional trade routes meant that London cut those off as well; by water to London and then to Rotterdam or other ports was in a sense "shorter" than the slow overland trip to the Med from Asia that had been traditional.

Edit: aha, the dutch did the portuguese in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire#Iberian_Unio...

(and the dutch/english rivalry is well attested by all the pejoratives left in the language: dutch oven, dutch treat, dutch uncle, etc.)
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, but I’ve switched off my Twitter and I’m going to really try and make Mastodon work because I think all issues except the network effect are surmountable here
Is this the same reason they also outlaw feeding homeless humans?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/arizona-woman-sues...
I like it a lot and I do think it is the best backend option for node at the moment. I really think it has great potential.

But i also think it is still not there. It’s missing a lot of things when you compare it to Laravel itself, the documentation is not as great and the community is still near non existent. In the Laravel world there are a ton of top quality third party packages for example. There are very few for Adonis and they don’t have a certain future imho.

Worst part is that it is 99% developed by a single person and if that person burns out or for some reason is not able to work anymore on it, you’re screwed. This is pretty important and I don’t think this is a problem with Laravel or rails, as there are huge companies using it and a lot of contributors.

But I really look forward to a world where Adonis becomes as popular.
The best way to deal with Canadian geese is an unneutered off-leash lab around a year old.
It's a text editor first. I'm not using it for code. I'm using it for magit and org-mode
Yes it's really impressive. I've noticed that it stays more consistent if I ask it to automatically print the player's inventory on every command. I'm working on improving the prompt.
My takeaway: Death is a feature not a bug. The alternatives are much worse.