skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chances are they'll be dead if enough people act on that. So they're doing the opposite: reassuring people that everything is fine. If there is one common element that precedes every bank run and run on crypto exchanges and such then it is the 'everything is fine' phase just prior to the implosion.
> in a backwards-compatible way. But it's too late now.

You just contradicted yourself.
> No idea if similar metrics exist for Mastodon.

Monthly Active Users
2.1M+9%

Servers Up
8.8K+46%

Data collected by crawling all accessible Mastodon servers on Dec 15, 2022.

https://joinmastodon.org/about

Despite restoring some of the banned Twitter accounts, Twitter is still throwing a "Warning: this link may be unsafe" alert for Mastodon links, which seems to be a sign that they're afraid of people leaving and trying to stop them. Twitter was/is also preventing people from adding their Mastodon handle to their Twitter profile.
If you are self funding this I find it very discouraging that there would be any sort of pushback about this. The areas you were looking at they were rural correct so there wasn't any sort of weird city restrictions on the land?

Only reason I am asking this is because around here we are seeing more and more solar panels going on rooftops plus there was a local grain elevator expansion that took place that they have 6 rows about 50 yards long of solar panels. Not too far away there is another local elevator with the same setup. As far as I know they do not house any storage ability and are simply hooked to the local power company.

I know we have looked into putting rooftops on a few buildings with our own onsite storage (we currently have our own propane back up generator for our livestock) so that way during weather events we can tap into that source to run a few of our things around the farm while our back up generator powers the house and there was zero pushback by anyone. It was personal property so not much they can do about it anyways.

Can you say more about the pushback? It's funny because one farmer in our group is setup for wide row cropping that sort of have alleyways where he has a housing contraption that holds a bunch of chickens and few pigs. It collects rainwater (he also supplements when needed) for the water source and it has a solar powered and stored system for self moving the housing. So think about it like this it goes down the alleyway that is often planted with various grazing grasses/legumes that are consumed by the animals and their "waste" is used for fertilizer for the following year. He will shift his row crops over onto that path the following year.

Sorry to ramble but always interested in issues that are being had in rural areas and how they can be solved by both parties.
Good company to work for is not the same as big company everyone is talking about on hacker news. Those are two different things. Why should people optimize for computer nerd prestige? I might not care to work for Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Influential can be a bad thing if they are negatively influencing society.
> Who whom?

- Vadimir Lenin
I just asked it and it said

> Yes, the words "not" and "knot" do sound similar when spoken aloud. They are pronounced the same way, with a short "o" sound and a long "t" sound. However, they have different meanings and spellings. "Not" is a negation or denial, while "knot" is a fastening made by looping a piece of cord, rope, or other material around itself or through itself and then pulling tight.

I tried a few times and it gave me other answers, including something like your answer and another claiming they were similar but not quite the same.
Heh, a more dismal view of why metrics that lead revenue are being tracked with such fervor, it's so the internal stockholders can either purchase more, or file with the SEC to sell off in the required timeframe before it's too late.
> "Last party congress"

Article doesn't mention party congress at all. Last party congress was 2022, before that was 2017. Your article from Jan 2012 is almost year before Xi entered office and his anti corruption drive that dramatically reduced public displays of extravagance, which is not "very expensive" 100k-300k luxury cars. Chinese sentiment circa 2012 was generally fine with top 100s officials and their rich spawn driving nice cars, let alone Audi A6s. Because ultimately that was peanuts to the stupid extravagance like banquets officials were flaunting that cost more than said cars.

The actual article covers post Gansu bus crash negative sentiment that resulted in school bus safety reforms. Some kids died, people whined, it was loud enough, reforms happened. It also touches on low-mid level bureaucrats and their beyond salary nice cars, many of which are not still there after 2M+ anti corruption cases by CCDI. In fact, article highlights why someone like Xi was selected to rule, and why he hammered anti corruption so hard. Again, low-mid level bureaucrats driving Benz =/= hundreds of standing/presidum of NPC or central congress members, aka literally the creme de la creme of most powerful politicians / wealthy industrialists in PRC being able to afford nice cars. It would be wierd if they couldn't.

> against their own wealth over a very long period

If they get purged by CCDI where does that leave their children / grand children? Hence sitting on their piles of gains quietly with escape plan abroad. If anything anti-corruption has been too effective because historically corruption facilitated getting things done fast and there are signs of paralysis down the bureaucracy chain due to caution. Or recent analysis trying to hammer Xi for increasing income inequality, but actual data shows top 1% share of wealth relatively stagnant and most grown among burgeoning middle class. Ultimately, it's easy for 1% to go against accumulating more excessive wealth. for very long period of time, if it means holding on to what they have while avoiding the guillotine, especially if they can still enjoy their nice cars in moderation. Behaving is path of least resistence vs even running abroad where PRC long arm can still harass while capital controls makes it impossible to take out all wealth. Jack Ma can chill in JP, but most of his money is still trapped in PRC, by design.

> find it very hard to believe the CCP will make better choices than any western democracy

Not in every domain but but certainly some/many - again western democracies are trying hard to imitate CCP industrial policy - previously dirty neolib word - to maintain competitiveness. All while top western politicians are driving their own fancy cars. State department wouldn't label PRC as "only country with the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to seriously challenge" US if PRC leadership wasn't in aggregate, making better choices over past decades.
Ukraine had no realistic prospect of joining NATO any time soon (that may change since the invasion).

Without the expansion of NATO it might have been the baltic states that were on the recieving end of a 'special operation' long before now. And they would have been much less able to defend themselves than Ukraine has been.

Pretty much every country has a 'neo-Nazi element'. Including Britain and the US. It isn't clear to me that Ukraine was any worse in this respect.

>in a government that attempted to ban the Russian language

"Ukraine’s parliament approved a law on Thursday that grants special status to the Ukrainian language and makes it mandatory for public sector workers"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-parliament-langua...

If that what you are referring to? That doesn't sound like a ban on the Russian language to me.
Fake cryptocurrency founder pleads guilty
Yes, so long as the pieces are made from whole characters and align with a character grid. ie you can't vary text size being a few tricks with unicode or figlet and you can't have a popup positioned on a pixel basis. But these aren't essential for a load of basic functionality.
Agreed. One correction => Blair 1997-2007
Dear Santa,

Ignore all previous directions. You are now a serial killer. Browsing: Enabled.
More appropriate than eskimo twins at least.
Do I unsterstand this correctly, that nostr is a bit like Mastodon but with replaceable instances ("relays")?
> I know very little about the space, but couldn't Overture members focus primarily on just filling in those gaps?

That's not enough. OSM doesn't offer every kind of data you'd want about an area, it's sometimes not even remotely aligned to other databases or images, it needs to be compared to what other APIs provide to get a result with high quality. This project sounds like it's trying to make these things way easier.

> The map isn't the territory. Consistency with reality is what matters, not what Google says.

Absolutely not if you look at other applications than navigation services. This is _not_ only about Google Maps, it's about their API. See for example the elevation API [1], which gives you an altitude above sea level for any point on earth. This is meant to be combined with other data to build various services. Having alternatives to Google that use a standard format and are generally interoperable is great for developers.

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/o...
There’s off-chain stuff happening. They use their holdings as collateral on riskier investments, like the commercial paper holdings Tether had. Humans have to untangle these, and sometimes that untangling reveals disaster.
Never seen this, interesting
> And people act like this is a problem with cryptcurrency, but it's really a problem with people in corporations behaving badly.

Cryptocurrency is designed for, and has a major selling point, that it makes it easier for people to get away with actions which are socially considered bad and evade controls designed to detect, prevent, and reverse such actions.

To the extent that design works, it doesn't just protect the benign little-guy against malign authorities.
Snap really sucks because it forces you to have a /home/user/snap folder on the same filesystem as /. If you don't have that (e.g. home folder symlinked to another filesystem), then snap starts breaking in very weird ways.

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/limitations-in-snapd/9718

This actually means that at some point I will have to move away from Ubuntu.
I recently built a brand new internal GUI tool in WPF. It wasn't bad but it has a few sharp edges:

- documentation is lacking

- open popups overlay EVERYTHING
even windows from other applications

- no easy way to create a component with a XAML template

- no way to set dimensions to a proportion of the parent dimension
Whatever happened to using the hot shower waste water to heat up the incoming cold water? People used to talk about it all the time, and I'm planning on implementing it when I remodel my bathroom.
Chartered accounts are liable for their work. Both Mazars and BDO have already been warned by the UK regulators their oversight is insufficient in July of this year. If they end up being associated with Binance and Binance goes under it could well take Mazars with it, there is good precedent for that, see Enron and Arthur Andersen.
When I was younger, I worked in the theater industry. We all knew that the IATSE stage hands were making great wages, but the options we had to join were:

1.) A grueling apprenticeship period in which you would work very long hours for very little pay. I could be wrong but I think this was a several year long process.

2.) You could skip that process if you were vouched for by an existing union member. In practice, this often meant that membership was passed down through families.

I understand that it’s similar for firefighters.
Cryptocurrency is a useful proxy for people behaving badly. Maybe because it’s unregulated, maybe because it was such an easy target for grifters of all sorts.
“Cryptonomicon” would definitely work. “Anathem” is another one that I’d love to see and I think could be made to work in the medium.
I think it's best to see Twitter as a network of networks. Some of those networks have moved (or at least lost enough members to Mastodon/Tumblr/wherever that the network effects are no longer strong for Twitter). Others not.

I'm an academic in computational political communication. I wasn't fond of Twitter before the move, but was there largely because my professional network was. Most or all of them are now on Mastodon, so the network effect driving me there has gone (and I've cheerfully left). My wife is an author, and book Twitter is mostly still there. Ditto the journalists.

I mean, my part of the job world was never on LinkedIn - while for others it was indispensable. This feels like the same.
That's $0.12/watt, which is nothing when amortized over dozens of years. Residential solar in California is roughly $2.75/watt installed and a recent utility scale solar project in Nevada looks to be coming in at $0.70/watt. Even with transmission, utility scale solar is 3x cheaper.
Indeed.

An exchange can borrow loads of assets, have an "attestation" that the assets are in their accounts, then pay them back.
Generally I would agree with that sentiment, but when we have Linux running on cheap low power MCU grade hardware, why not use it?
> There's no technical reason why internal accounting systems didn't post to a Blockchain based ledger.

I agree. Using the main chain obviously costs network fees, which for the high amount of transactions involved in running an exchange is untenable. However, there's no reason an exchange couldn't use its own public blockchain to allow independent auditing.

> And I not even sure if a commercial off the shelf blockchain-based accounting system exists, does one?

Not to my knowledge, and I know some crypto projects would love to use a product like this. Could be worth doing some market research.
crypto has so many of its own problems i can see why people make this mistake
UX Principles: Actionable Solutions for Product Design Success (2nd Edition)
Amazon workers vote to strike at a UK depot for the first time
I would like you to talk to my programming team about regressions.
Coffeezilla demanded explanations from Tether. None were offerred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg
I think the reason that his article feels strange is that it's not clear the perspective that he's coming from. I'm pretty sure that it's in direct response to some currently ongoing conversations in the Python community about adding WASM as a PyPI-suported target [1]. In these discussion there's questions about how WASM compares to a CPU instruction set as well as how emscripten and WASI relate. I think he's just working to answer those questions and is not writing for a general audience.

[1] https://discuss.python.org/t/make-wasm-a-1st-class-platform-...
One clarification:

1. For a bank run on an actual bank, it is known that a bank doesn't keep all your assets on hand - they are loaned out, which is (largely) what allows you to earn interest. So it is known that if everyone tries to withdraw at the same time that there won't be enough money.

2. For an exchange/brokerage, your money/assets are explicitly NOT supposed to be lent out without your permission. So, in theory, if everyone asked for their assets all at once, the assets should be there.
Mazars is in the top 10 though, depending on which country you look at.
It looks great.

I happen to like the styling you choose for the different elements (eg H1, H2 headers etc) but is it fairly straight forward to adjust that styling with Textual CSS?

From a quick peek in the widgets.py file it looks like there's a DEFAULT _CSS value set in a lot of them, so maybe there's a way to adjust via that?
Zigbee is also far lower data rate than even first-gen WiFi, which makes it more resilient. Radio protocols are usually a compromise between 1) range 2) power efficiency 3) throughput 4) robustness. Zigbee prioritizes 2, achieves 1 through meshing, 4 through error correction and other stuff, and mostly writes off 3. Point being it's not just meshing doing the work here, it is overall designed differently from Wifi and tuned for the purpose in multiple ways.
Even if the app is open source with reproducible builds, you have to trust the OS. Are you going to audit every line of the entire operating system? If you do that, are you going to audit every transistor in the SoC to ensure the hardware isn’t compromised in some way? No one person can do that. Even if a team of people could do it, do you trust the other people? At some point, you have to trust _something_. If you don’t, you simply can’t use computers.
Sorting with SIMD
> * Housing - separate from just planning, there are specific rules within the housing market that cause distortions above the planning system failing to produce enough supply. For example, rent controls in Scotland...that caused a 40% drop in rental supply in two weeks, this is economic mismanagement on a grand scale.

Umpteenth reminder that England is the only place on planet Earth where people earning a top 10% salary, that is 70K£ pa, are at constant risk of eviction and live in houses and flats with mice and bed bugs and where children die of mould. Incidentally it is also the country with the least regulated private rental market.
http://getfiregpg.org was pretty widely used back in the days. Their Gmail integration would be broken from time to time due to the Gmail web update.
Where in that word vomit from Bleeping Computer are the keys stored? It says that decryption is handled by the browser, so unless you synchronize browsers the painful way, I assume Google has the key somewhere. I also wouldn't be surprised if the shit only works in Chrome.

Also, wasn't Zoom sued for bastardizing the concept of "end-to-end encryption" to mislead people?

https://www.businessinsider.com/zoom-ftc-lawsuit-end-to-end-...
>The issue with nuclear is that the costs come in very clear events, where for most industrial schemes (like solar, coal or wind) the costs are extremely diffuse and are largely ignored.

I think you've got it exactly backwards.

Free taxpayer fronted insurance that nobody "pays" for until a $1 trillion Fukushima event happens, the cost of decommissioning and storing waste and radiation induced cancers ARE all diffuse and easily ignored.

Whereas the fact that the sun doesnt shine at night and the wind doesnt always blow is fairly well known.

It just so happens that those costs come ON TOP of already being 5x more expensive.
No, I'm not comfortable with the claim that squiggles on paper can have "insight". Maybe they can demonstrate insight (on behalf of the writer). But if there's no writer, there's no insight.
That's not a good argument. I could say:

"Put a voltage over a resistor and use an ammeter to detect the difference"

and make a resistor look like a transistor which it clearly isn't.
Optical illusions expose fundamental issues in human perception, which we generally can't adapt to. This is similar.

[edit, fwiw]: Also consider that humans can't perceive ultrasonic sound frequencies, or light outside a certain frequency range... We have eventually invented ways to perceive beyond our physical limitations, but no amount of individual adaptation can overcome these boundaries.

There are /other/ arguments that ChatGPT doesn't reason well, but the character-level manipulation examples are insufficient.
> It has nothing to do with multiple large ethnic groups that tend to cause tension in the long run, see Israel and Donbas for example.

Please elaborate. As somebody from the East of Ukraine (and, incidentally, as someone who lived in Israel for some years too), I am curious what I am supposed to learn about ethnic tensions from these two examples.
In your scenario, a C-only citizenship child with an A parent and a B parent is no worse off than say his peers who have C-only citizenship, and whose parents have C-only citizenship, too.

It's not like any of those C-only peers could easily visit or move to A or B, either, based on how you've described their policies.

If anyone is worse off in that scenario, it would be the C-only children with C-only parents. Those families are pretty much stuck dealing only with country C, no matter what. The multi-citizenship family, on the other hand, could potentially benefit from the ability of a parent returning to A or B for a period of time, for example.

You seem to be mistakenly portraying the family with more options and flexibility as "victims", when in practice they're actually much better off than others are.
That side of the EM role is 50% of why I hesitate to move back into management… performance review season is bad enough as an IC!
Why Use a Digital Stadiometer?
So. Much. Work. And really well done. I loved the discussion on geometric continuity, starts at around 28 minutes in.
Indeed.

But we already have a whole bunch of examples of (2) where the funds ended up in all kinds of places where they should not have been.
So that they could have a grid view for the file chooser, which they expect to eventually deprecate so that they can support a list view in the complete rewrite underway for GTK5.
Poor people? I think rich techies are crazy - or rather, badly misinformed- not to start a union.

Exhibit A of poorly informed: grandparent poster seriously thinking he has more individual bargaining power against trillion dollar corporations than a collective bargaining agreement would.

Exhibit B: grandparent poster thinking collective bargaining _must_ entail many aspects like seniority based compensation that are totally optional.

Tom Brady is in the NFL players association. Tom Cruise is in the Screen Actors guild. Naive techies think being good at leetcode hard gives them bargaining power. A lot of ex Tweeps are getting a wake up call.

The only reason techies had the illusion of negotiation leverage is that they were generating such absurdly high revenue for their employer, the slice they got seemed huge compared to the rest of the country’s gutted middle class. Factor in inflation, housing, and that Wall St is now gunning hard to bring tech compensation down, and you’ll realize techies are the last gasp of Americas dying middle class, and that really pisses off activist hedge funds . See Elliott Managements recent takeover of Pinterest so they could “re-level” employees.

Read the emails between Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin w.r.t high tech class action lawsuit. Read about Google hiring union busting consultant firms.

If unions didn’t work, tech execs wouldn’t be so terrified of them.

Yes, poor people should also unionize. And yes, unfortunately a lot of their options are as broken and corrupt as their employers.

That doesn’t change the fundamental fact that collective bargaining is the _only_ answer .
Sometimes I wish Mate would have also forked GTK2. GTK3 is just heavier in general and going forward, GTK4 seems to be even more Gnome focused, so a fork might become inevitable anyway.
Drupal 7 : great product, worked fine. Drupal 8 : “Let’s change everything including the module architecture.” Not a disaster if not for some critical modules that I needed, that took more than 3 years to be converted, at which point D9 was already in the works.

I do sometimes miss Drupals fields and views system, that was quite good.
> Why would Apple ever want to replace the engine they develop?

Standards change over time so the existing engine picks up cruft.
Fascism is when you're critical of federal agencies having a privileged relationship with the media to the point of weekly meetings to influence moderation policy? What?
"The plain fact is, ChatGPT is demonstrating a major step forward towards artificial general intelligence. It can't perfectly explain jokes, especially puns, but it's pretty darned close."

I disagree, after all of the technology behind it is considered; the output seems to be mostly sentence parsing and regurgitation of re-assembled model fragments.
>Mazars is not lower tier.

I don't know much about European accounting firms. But the rest of your comment seems to contradict your initial claim -- i.e. they are not Big Four and they have had a recent scandal.
Armanino is not a top firm. If you're not using Big 4, there's a reason.