skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because there are clearly efforts by government institutions to pressure social media platforms to comply with content moderation decisions.

This statement applies to 100% of all privately held media companies. Since it's possible for a media company to get benefits from government or businesses, they will all be pressured to support certain agendas.

Local news stations benefit from a friendly relationship with the police, who give access to information in exchange for positive coverage. Larger media outlets will give positive coverage to the military / government / big business in exchange for access and ad revenue.

Media is also pressured to biased in favor of social issues. Local businesses are more likely to pay for ad spots if the news adopts a right-wing market populist point of view, which is why talk radio trends hard to the right. Conversely, since the prime demographic is 18-35 year olds, it benefits mass media to adopt a center-left point of view.

It's been 35 years since Manufacturing Consent has been published, the mechanisms by which the government and big business influence the media is well understood. The Twitter files are nothing more than facts that have been hiding in plain sight for decades. It's confounding, and quite frankly more than a little suspicions, that some people are only noticing this after right-libertarian positions are suppressed. And very telling that the same people who were decrying censorship 3 months ago are cheering when their guy starts doing the same thing to their political enemies.
People are human; we get petty and tribal at every level. And ever putting all that aside, if you genuinely believe that one kind of programming or another is the way forward then of course you're going to be more interested in working on technologies that support that.
It does not. One is a language extension that claims to prevent certain classes of issues. The other is a C compiler that claims to do nothing to prevent those classes of issues. The two are not comparable at all.

You would be better off comparing it to Astree, which is a static analyzer written by the group that wrote the Compcert C compiler.

https://www.absint.com/astree/index.htm

Astree claims to be able to prove the absence of use-after-free, which the checked C documentation says that checked C does not prevent.

You would need to check to see if Astree can prove the absence of all of the issues that checked C is intended to prevent, but at a glance that seems possible. In theory, Astree can be used to fix all of them by doing fixes until it stops complaining.
Given that the Django web app framework was invented for a newspaper (Lawrence Journal-World) I have high hopes this will potentially provide a way for employed journalists to federate, as well as contribute to the underlying open source project.
Fast food workers aren't affected by inflation?
Overheated flooding Greenhouse with a bunch of geriatric seniors bitching at each other and pointing fingers and with no one able to actually get up and do anything sounds about right.
There is a short summary at the end.
XChaCha20-Poly1305 will probably never go out of fashion.

Argon2 is only making itself in, phasing it out will take decades. OTOH you have a point in that the author's implementation PBKDF2 is being used, and that should already have retired a decade ago.
Show HN: Pivotuner, adaptive pure intonation audio plugin
Hi, I made this!

Pivotuner is a plugin which tunes MIDI data in pure intonation in real time. Besides enabling beautiful purely-tuned chords on keyboards, this also enables many other cool things such as microtonal modulation, and unusual chord sonorities!

I've been working on Pivotuner for roughly the last 2 years, so I'm very excited to finally publicly release it!

I started this project in high school, with the mentorship of Ben Bloomberg! I've also gotten feedback from Jacob Collier, which is pretty crazy.

Happy to answer any questions!
It's a cheesy marketing tactic to refer to anything as magical. Apple started this trend. There's nothing magical going on. Clever maybe but certainly not magic.
How do Pixelmator Pro vs Affinity Photo compare these days?
What do you imagine happens when money is printed?
We're galloping to further and further away topics from the original discussion... if he were poor, and it was 75 years ago, it would be not unlikely.

I disagree with this assertion, too, BTW, but it's so far from what I set out to discuss that I'm not too interested in responding further.
You're talking about absolute poverty and they're talking about relative poverty.
Also true, but not the only reason nor a particularly relevant response.
I think its because, very often, wisdom requires rewriting a fundamental assumption about the world. And people tend to tie up their identity with their fundamental assumptions.

As a result these changes can destabilize a persons identity, which causes said person to look for the closest source of stability, often the 'peophet'.

This gives the 'prophet' enourmous power over the person, not just because of the identity destabilization, but because when you change someones fundamental assumptions about the world, those changes don't nessecerily have to be truthful or helpful for the person. The person only has to think the changes do.

This identity change and stability dependence is probably what causes the cult like appearance/ behaviour.
> Cause the whole NTF space is held up by a general misunderstanding of ownership and rights.

It would we more correct to say that critical NFT commentary is held up by misunderstanding about what digital art collectors actually think and want.

If I want to buy rights to a JPG, I go search on Shutterstock. If I want to buy a piece of digital art (in form of a limited edition receipt), I go to a gallery.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180212121735/https://dronegara...

I remember there was one blog that show up here a couple of times.
Wait until you find out about arancini
You can in fact join https://oulipo.social/public/local for that!
Thanks for the information!! I just checked my copy, and it is indeed the Buss translation. I was reading it for several week a few months ago, and I ended up putting it down, just because it just wasn't happening for me and I couldn't figure out why.

Very recently I discovered that I need glasses (for the first time in my life). My eyes went from perfect to downhill very quickly. I'm now trying to get used to wearing reading glasses. This is especially important with a book like this, which has a tiny font. Now I know why I was feeling uncomfortable and getting headaches :-)
iPhone SE4 might be delayed or cancelled, says industry analyst
Just a guess, but if you know about how far your anticipating getting a signal, you can draw a circle on the map and pick the direction that will give you the best chances. They clearly state that line of sight is suggested. At one distance, there might be obstructions along the same line as a previous test.

They could also just be bored with the first path and looking for something different.

>For the final test they went up in elevation and had what appears to be line of sight back to the base station. That alone was probably more impactful than any antenna change.

For the final test, they were 6.4 miles away. If you think the elevation was the only thing that helped, you're just being obtuse. Is it deliberate? I'm asking for my friend Andy Dufresne
Taking seriously the idea that the Bible -- and the book of Genesis in particular -- is the revealed Word of God.
Mindset wise, forget about getting rich through options. That said it is worth haggling for more once you have haggled the salary as
high as it can go.

The last time I got some,
not much, 75% of the profit was from post IPO: so could have achieved the
same thing by working as a contractor elsewhere for more, then buying at IPO :-) “But your a shareholder now you should put more effort in” they’ll say lol
Putin blames 'third' countries for Ukraine war in address
From my reading, it looks like can't make up their mind about whether Q = {X . Y: X, Y graphs} or Q = {X . Y : X, Y in Q}. Neither definitions seems to work everywhere.
Europe's Vega rocket crashes back to Earth
Not really. We tend to anthropomorphize countries in general conversations but this is really about lessons that political leadership needs to be taught.

There are several current lessons leaders world over have already learned from this conflict - eg. (1) never give up nuclear weapons as the security guarantees won't be honoured (2) the destructive power and accuracy of networked modern light weapons is so great that it is impossible to hold territory conventionally if the other side has access to these
This is a noteworthy outlier that received significant criticism. It is not normative. And while pepper spray is non trivial, it is a far cry from:

> happily beat you up, run you over, or shoot and kill you for disruptive protests.
Presumably they are using some KDF (Key derivation function) that is designed to be algorithmically slow in some way that you can't trivially sidestep.
> Fast food workers aren’t affected by inflation?

In a world where the Fed both had the capacity and the desire to selectively exclude the effects of particular fiscal actions from its monetary policy calculations and, specifically, to do so for student loan forgiveness, this might actually be a sensible question.
Ukraine nets 10k more Starlink terminals, claims funding issues are ‘resolved’
US to send $1.8B in aid, Patriot battery, to Ukraine
"Prescriptive" statistics in the sense you're describing are probabilities.

And they're both used and useful much of the time. The field of risk management and industry of insurance are based on it.

Your frustrations are not uncommon. They are, however, rather poorly-founded.

They're an excellent illustration failing to get a handle on this safety thing (where "safety" is the inverse of "risk", as one of yesterday's submissions addresses:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34036978>

There's also the philosophical question around the "sea battle" question, in which the truth of a statement about a future possibility ("there will be a sea battle tomorrow") is assessed.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_future_contingents#...>
Is there a good example of what this is useful for? I’d love to see examples of where it is used. What does it do?
If you’re fine yo yo dieting where you gain and lose lots of weight then sure use whatever you are comfortable with.

Just don’t be surprised when it takes the same effort over time to avoid gaining weight again. Because it might take slightly longer to kick in, but the same hunger will be back.
It definitely is an American evangelical/fundamentalist thing. (Might also be elsewhere, I can't say) The history is that in the 1800s many seminaries, beginning with German seminaries, began teaching theology that differed from traditional orthodoxy. In the early 1900s a counter-movement emerged in the US which insisted on five fundamentals (hence "fundamentalist"): the Bible is "infallible" and inspired by God, the virgin birth of Jesus, the bodily resurrection of Jesus, that Christ's death atoned for our sins, and the reality of Jesus' miracles. It seems that over time the first point seems to become a literal interpretation of much of the Bible, in particular, Genesis 1. I assume this is because the Modernist theology has to symbolize the Bible if it wants to harmonize the Bible with Modern ideas about there is no literal God, miracles can't happen, etc., since a God that exists and intervenes (e.g. miracles) is kind of the whole point of the text. I'm not totally what happened or why, but it seems like the fundamentalists simplified things from "these are our assumptions" to "this is what the Bible says". YEC is the poster-child, but an unnuanced, one-sided view is endemic. I think evangelicals were originally more nuanced, but over time seem to have merged with the fundamentalists.

However, I don't think the Church has historically had an official position on how long creation took. I know some early Church fathers figured Creation took 6000 years: "a day is to the Lord as 1000 years". I also assume that "1000 years" had a similar feeling as "a million years" to us: you can do math with it, but a million years is pretty much an unimaginably long time.

It is also well-known that it is a hermeneutical error to interpret poetry literally, but there is little recognition, at least among evangelicals/fundamentalists that Genesis 1 is actually poetry, and hence interpreting it literally is what I would call a hermeneutical gaffe.
Let's first appreciate the parent of your comment being down-voted for saying leftists don't take critique, confirming the point.

In my experience, the insufferable ones tend to dominate communities, making the entire place unappetizing. You can see this effect on Mastodon too. A tiny group makes all the posts, and they have 100% ideological consistency.

I think that's an effect much more important than arbitrary rules of an instance, because this happens before it. People aren't banned, they are discouraged from posting at all and become the silent majority.
yet has no metadata or any semantics, its basically just how you layout text ...
Maybe what we need is a decoupling of user-hosting instances and post-hosting instances. Probably the biggest issue I have with twitter is that I have multiple interests/communities I'm involved with. If I post a lot about topic A, get some followers who know me through A, that's great! But then I want to talk about B with the community who knows me through topic B and I feel the need to self-censor as to not spam the topic A followers.

I've always felt I would like to be able to tweet only to the TopicA people or only to the TopicB people. But I don't really care that my user data is stored on the same instance as the people in TopicA or TopicB. So maybe a better model for federation would be that you can host your user on an instance, and then also when you post, you are deciding which instance to post on.

At the same time, being on a generalist server (mastodon.social) I really couldn't possibly care less about looking at the trending posts on my server as that is just a general slice of mastodon users and I am not in any specific community with them. I want to subscribe to specific niche/thematic mastodon instances for my feed.
Companies with hundreds of sysadmins and billions of revenue or moving to the cloud... It has nothing to do with the cost of a handful of additional engineers.
It feels a bit like a GOFAI way to teach machines to play chess— through hand-organized human knowledge versus more successful approaches that rely on computational scale. At the same time, it feels like it could give large language models a sense of “truth.”
> Admins will ban you for whatever reason they want.[1]

from the link you provided, the admins respond:

"This post was removed by mistake and we apologize. We’ve recently hired more moderators and the post in question was falsely interpreted to be implying something it was not."

for [5], the journa.host server had a lot of problems out of the gate, including some suspicion they were sharing ban-evasion tools, but is not currently defederated for the most part. I follow lots of people on that host and I'm on a different server. the thread there illustrates the reasons which IMO were not unreasonable for a brand new server attracting a lot of attention with odd moves.

not that moderation isn't fraught with tons of problems, but I dont think large servers have admins that are capriciously banning people for made-up reasons the way Musk has been doing on Twitter.
For those with a keen sense of hacking adventurism, picking up one of these to just drive around with to see what signals are available is fun if you're into that kind of thing. Once you find a signal that looks interesting, you can then see if you can reverse/decode the signal. There's been a few HN posts about decoding signals pulled out of the air, and I always find them interesting.
Safety is too important to stay quiet about. I'll add my vote to others saying props for doing what you did. Too many people will stand quietly by and let a horrible accident happen when they could have spoken up.
This is arguably a client issue and not a federation issue. In the days of instant messaging we had no problem managing our AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc all in Trillian. We manage lots of accounts all the time anyway.

The alternative is we revive OpenID, but good luck with that
“There’s a man who likes eggs with his pepper.”

I think of this line any time I put pepper on my eggs.
> Admins will ban you for whatever reason they want.

Apparently the same thing happens on Twitter now. If the "Twitter Files" are to be believed, it's happened for a long time before that.

Frankly, I think all of this absurd rule-making is fine. If you disagree with it, nobody can stop you from creating your own instance and federating with all the great/terrible sites you want. The irony that these 'sky is falling' posts come from lifelong Twitter users feels like the icing on the cake. Nobody owes you anything on the internet; not Twitter, not Elon, and not the few-thousand instance admins who host servers out-of-pocket.
It would be nice if the AI was used to build libraries for targeted purposes. That would actually be pretty handy.

And then it would also be handy for it to design a programming language for both readability and writability that leveraged those libraries.
The average salary of a liberal arts major is over $50,000. That's $20,000 higher than a high school graduate. Why should the latter pay for the former?
This. I was sad when FiftyThree's Paper was made subscription :(
Wiser words have rarely been spoken.
FWIW: the grandparent has editted the comment to remove the framing I was responding to (something along the lines of "root access is inevitable"), which explains why everyone is being so outrageously touchy.

I guess I should have quoted. My apologies for seeming "snarky", but the conversation you read isn't the one I was engaged in.

But let me repeat for a fourth time that you shouldn't be running processes as root, whether or not you have worries about undiscovered vulnerabilities and especially regardless of whether you are "predisposed to think ill" of the people telling you that.

UID separation isn't a perfect model, but it's a good one, and you should use it.
First of all, a forum is a social network. A primitive one, sure, with origins before "social network" had really entered our lexicon, but a social network nonetheless.

The ability of people in a federated social network to create arbitrary, independent instances with rules tailored for particular discussion topics is a feature, not a bug. If you don't like that... well, don't go on topic-specific Mastodon servers I guess.

Are you advocating for Mastodon to have SSO? If so, I can get on board with that.

Are you advocating for a cap on the number of members of a particular instance? Mastodon can already do that - all you have to do is not approve new accounts. Of course, the inherent problem with that is that activity in member-capped servers will gradually die out, and now you need way more admins... your idea, not mine.
That is in fact the point.

<https://hotspotatl.com/3699042/atlanta-how-many-peachtree-st...>
It can run Javascript with similar peak performance than V8 with a tiny tiny fraction of development than what went into the latter. (Of course it is possible only due to it leveraging the many many dev-hours spent on the JVM), it is the fastest Ruby implementation by an integer factor and it can run C dependencies (often used by Python/Ruby) as well, and even optimize across language boundaries.

The smallish list of languages is just due to lack of effort, plus lack of immediate benefits — it is not hard to create an alternative language implementation. It is very hard to create one that is 100% drop-in replaceable with the real thing as every sufficiently complex program will depend on implementation quirks as well.
I don't see why clever video post-processing couldn't help with this. Why do you say hell will freeze over? This seems like a much easier solution for them than to increase bitrates and thus, bandwidth
That's odd - I am seeing a pretty clear difference on iPhone 13, iOS 16.1.
Given that i read HN because of its focus and perculiur rules, the thesis of this post is a pretty hard sell to me.
It's like $5. Even if you don't use it, you can tell it's a great app, updated often for free, etc. I've regretted apps I've paid $5 and $10 for and were crap, or baited me and turned to subscriptions etc. Procreate is not that.
Yeah, they are dangerous, but their safety can be improved: add polarized cord (probably have to move the power switch to the hot side for this) and replace the chassis ground capacitor.

Table top FM radios and TVs also tend to be hot chassis.. (that mains transformer is just too expensive). Even today you can find capacitor dropper powered devices which are hot.

AA5s are nice in that you can almost always get them to work for cheap. I mean if you have an older radio with a bad mains transformer, it's probably not worth fixing.

Another advantage: they will work on 120V DC.

I don't think low end hot chassis radios were popular in Europe, they all seem to have a transformer. Maybe 220V is just too dangerous... (but you can certainly have a primary to secondary fault in a transformer..)
SQL Server on Linux runs on Drawbridge, with NTUM and all.
I have spent an unhealthy amount of time on reddit over the past 14 years and have never heard of such a thing. I find it unlikely that it's a significant problem which I've just been lucky to never brush against.
I used to get stressed out all the time until I realised that being in a state of stress actually had a _negative_ impact on my productivity. Since then, I just told myself to "never allow yourself to be stressed" and it worked.

I just tackle things methodically, with care, logic, and focus, and get shit done -- even when it's a serious situation like a production outage or incident.

Try it -- it really works!
Public domain isn't a side of the bargin. Public domain is basically there to stop people making money off other people's work.

The entitlement of thinking that public domain is a right...
The hot chassis design is mind-blowingly dangerous by contemporary standards. These things weren't designed to modern creepage distances either. I would worry about creepage to controls on these things. THe article mentions screws potentially being hot as well as other shock hazards finger-accessible through vent hols so no joke be careful to unplug a radio before moving it or otherwise handling it in a way beyond turning it on and tuning it. All of these safety standards are written in blood.

Even with the RC network referenced in the wikipedia article, you're looking at leakage to the chassis of 4.5 to 11.3 mA:
https://incompliancemag.com/article/electric-shock-from-radi...
They're perfectly safe to work on, just measure voltage between chassis and earth and make sure there is zero volts of potential - or be fancy and use an isolation transformer.
But you cant actually do any of that (yet) - well except for buying tokenised gifs
Django makes it easier to build better web apps more quickly and with less code
A sound static analyzer in theory can check the safety of that by examining all code paths and complain whenever any exist where it is possible to go out of bounds. It is called sound because the absence of a complaint means it has proven the absence of the issues it is meant to catch.

If it has a limitation that prevents it from finding a proof, it will complain about the lines that could not be proven safe.
Do you have a more complete write-up somewhere? At face value, it looks like something that wouldn’t make it into the C standard, because VLAs were too much for the standard to bear. It’s also unclear how multidimensional arrays would work—presumably, you would want that to be possible, and distinct from fat-pointer-to-fat-pointer-array.