skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what about the mundane explanation? It's not about imagination but motivation.
When people are asked a question, they generally assume that a "stupid" answer is not what is desired.

Where is the nearest grocery store? "Earth."

How can your phone be worse or better? "It could not work."

There are endless ways, most of them uninteresting, to make something worse. Making something better is interesting.
I'm sorry, but the idea that tech journalism doesn't know what to do with Mastodon because it's an open-source platform that doesn't fit into commercial startup narratives is... utter nonsense.

Tech journalism does just fine with open standards/software/platforms like e-mail, domain names, torrenting, Linux, crypto. None of these fall into commercial startup narratives, yet journalists cover these things just as well as everything else.

> The media seems to be regarding Mastodon as a bizarre curiosity, something that the general public couldn’t possibly grasp. Sure, the guys with a Linux server in their basement might geek out on it, but this thing isn’t for the masses.

I mean, that's pretty accurate. It's easy to sign up for Twitter, it follows all of your expectations of how apps work. Not only is it hard to sign up for Mastodon, but it's hard to even figure out how to figure it out. Mastodon isn't for the masses in its current state.

So as far as I can tell, the tech journalists are covering it quite appropriately.
The best route, IMHO, would have been for Rossi to credit blog-author as a co-author. Win-win.
As long as it does what it intends to do, plain old HTML would suffice.
The attached commit:

https://codereview.chromium.org/977323003

is bad - because it gives an error message stating the owner has disabled the dinosaur game, but gates the game just based on whether the device is enrolled. The owner has not explicitly disabled the game, nor has any way to reenable it, as the message suggests; google has.
A lot of people have forgotten just how long it took for Twitter to get the mainstream appeal it has, and for a long time just how confusing all @, # and RT stuff was, and how hard it was for people to find good people to follow etc. Twitter has been working hard on that for many years with all the onboard and the algorithmic stuff.
But in the scope of an open source project user retention is not always the most important thing.

One could argue that pre-2010 Twitter itself is proof that not having the slickest onboarding path is not something that will prevent success. Onboarding can be improved and reinforced over time. Infrastructure is much more complex and building it first prevents a fake-it-until-you-make-it mindset.
They were wrong on the midterms and Le Pen getting close (Zemmour flopped and Le Pen + Zemmour is 30% of the vote). The alleged economic conditions would have implied a red wave, but Democrats did significantly better than expected.
There are name cleaning bots that downvote mentions of scandals of rich persons.. they can make a whole thread dissappear.
>The game is over. Cinemas need to find a new value proposition, a $100 movie night for a family of four is just not attractive any more. They can just watch Disney+.

We went to Avatar 2 and tickets + snacks were over 200 dollars. I haven't been to movies for a while and it's hard to see the value prop.
I just discovered Santorini recently - great 2 player game with lots of replay value, if the mechanics click for you.
Otherwise, my gotos are Carcassonne, Century (golem edition for great art) and the classics like backgammon and cribbage.
Think about it as a filter: the early adopters are folks who are at least smart enough to join a Mastodon server.

(And BTW that's really a low bar. A friend of mine was talking the other day about "the pain of switching from Twitter to Mastodon" and I had to stop him. You just click some buttons and type a bit. You don't even have to get out of your chair!? I am always reminded of the Jetsons arguing over who is going to push the button to make dinner. Anyway...)

> If Mastadon (sic) is too complex to attract critical mass of users to achieve a competitive network effect,

I would say it already has attracted critical mass of users, eh?

> it will not replace Twitter.

Question the assumption that it should?
Two things:

1. Read about writing. The very tactical stuff like "On Writing Well" and "Writing Tools" and "The Craft of Scientific Writing"

2. Imitate writers you like. Try reading someone else's work, then reproducing it in their style.
A notebook under my bed seems to have fewer attack vectors than anything on a networked device
They've been coasting pretty much since buyout
The Mountain Man's Field Guide to Grammar: A Fearless Adventure in Grammar, Style, and Usage

https://a.co/d/40wyBTq
I had a last pass account three years ago but shut it down. I used the remove account options on their website if I recall. I wonder if they kept my vault sitting around on their servers or if it was truly removed.
... one of these is not like the other, lol
Read more in order to identify the types of writing you admire, enjoy and perhaps wish to emulate on some level. I like William Zinsser's books, On Writing Well is the "flagship" I guess.

If you're writing in public, like a blog, try giving yourself a deadline and permission for the post not to be perfect.
It's possible to silently do this as part of logging in.

I've done this with normal login for several (legacy) systems I've worked on, migrating users from md5 or sha1 to better algorithms.
https://www.wral.com/25-000-without-power-in-wake-arctic-bla...
keepassium for ios is good now.
The article mentions Guix several times but never once mentions as a pain point that Nix lacks a well-founded programming language.

Now I may be a total outlier here but it seems to me that while getting the fundamental concepts right is a good thing, having powerful means of combining them becomes more important in the long run.

Does that not speak in Guix' favour?
- declining interest in crypto and NFTs. The FTX scandal screwed tons of people over and put the spotlight on all the other bad actors.

- Nintendo announces a new console, it’s backwards compatible with the Switch.

- Nothing big happens with twitter. People complain about the new management but eventually things go back to normal.

- Similarly, everyone will forget about mastodon again.

- Bob Dylan dies.
The coin flip is different from the boxing match in that sense. Your ignorance regarding the former is the same as everyone else’s - while for the latter others may be better informed.
Can you go into a bit more detail, of why it would not be practical? Are there better implementations of the data structures in the book? The book I believe is from 1995 or so, so I could well imagine, that in the meantime progress has been made. But what exactly makes the algorithms in the book impractical for usage within a functional program?
Onboarding for a federated network is not easy. Answering "which server should I set up on" is almost inherently difficult and mired in politics. The issue is that advice has a centralizing effect. If it becomes common wisdom that a given server is the best and everyone joins it, then decentralization is over.

This is an issue that neither a centralized service nor a pure p2p service has (e.g. Patchbay/SSB).
I think Elon literally hiring a Russian sex criminal to release his news for him is a considerably more notable thing than an ad hominem attack! It’s not like he was the most natural choice. (Not intended as an ad hominem on Elon, who has more than enough problems. Literally I don’t know why he did it.)

He could’ve just had Bari Weiss release everything. (Weiss has, in the meantime, been unfollowed and presumably fired as Elon’s journalist because she tried to mildly criticize him once.)
I would be surprised if NZ didn't have any nukes pointed at it due to being the favorite spot of the western elite for survival arrangements. For Australia only a few coastal cities need to be taken out as well. I think some parts of Argentina, Chile, Brazil and maybe Uruguay stand a chance of being untouched, maybe South Africa as well.
I run a self-hosted instance for a bunch of friends. It's on a VM on a 10-year old homebuilt TrueNAS server.

For added entertainment, I installed it manually on FreeBSD, because I like playing old-school 'I do things by hand' sysadmin at home.

It's connected to the world through a free Cloudflare tunnel. I have a residential fiber connection. It doesn't use S3, it just dumps files to the filesystem. I did clamp down on federation settings, and it purges old content aggressively so federated content doesn't make the hard drives metaphorically explode. One user following someone on mastodon.social and you can see storage usage climb by gigs a day with defaults.

After the initial setup it's been honestly quite painless. It just works. If people start relying on it, I'll probably move it to masto.host.
Everyone has good things to say about Sun, but let's not forget that they tried to monetize Java (even trying to take money from open-source communities like FreeBSD) long before they were acquired by Oracle.
Interesting, my intuition is exactly the opposite of yours: I'd expect a solo coder to get it right more than a large organisation full of people with different incentives and priorities.
If you’re a teacher and your teaching is less interesting and compelling than the T-Rex game then maybe it’s a sign.
Not sure about Akkoma but if architecture is similar to Mastodon, then your Wasabi bucket would include all the images and videos you see in your timelines, not just those that you upload.
I'm not sure I understand why there is any confusion regarding Mastodon. If you understand email you understand Mastodon instances... where is the confusion?
As the Russians/ Iranians don't have a problem bombing civilians how about dissolving them?
The Ukranians, according to the best info i can find, have avoided doing such (as far as possible), and have equally been restricted from attacking Russia itself.

Purely for this reason alone - don't bomb children! - the Russians should be held severely accountable, and those guilty prosecuted accordingly, and with an appropriate level of legal - and military - violence.
They will come but unless the quality is better than what we have for image and text generation, the same thing applies. 95% is not good enough for most serious applications, so it’s not going to replace most jobs.
To add to all of this, reading books in the same genre that you want to write in (whether fiction or nonfiction) helps a lot.

For the longest time with my fiction I was just focusing on writing writing writing and reading about writing. I'd always loved to read, but surprisingly never really read that much in my target genre. When I started, it's like another gate of improvement was opened up: analyzing the beats and conflict points of successful books in my genre immediately helped me see what I was lacking in mine. And being exposed to the wording preferences and writing styles of other authors gave me so many "Aha!" moments when it comes to formulating enticing prose.

I'm still not a good fiction writer by any stretch of the imagination, but the improvement has been steady when coupling reading in my genre with more writing.
I guess everyone is giving Tesla engineers the benefit of the doubt that if they are using a PID they would be competent enough perform a simple proven task for a PID that other car companies have no problem with. I refuse to believe the Tesla engineers are incompetent. So they must be forced into using a "full black box ML" paradigm. There may be a completely different issue that none of us are aware of (faulty sensor, poor mix of both, etc). It is blatant that Tesla vehicles are poor at parking compared to other electric vehicle offerings from BMW, Audi, and Ford.
Read some fiction you might not normally read, sometimes you'll find phrases or sentences so interesting in the way they're constructed it's a learning experience. One example for me was reading Charles Dickens. Reading some of his stuff as a child in school was an inferior experience to reading it as an adult.

Write a lot, and repeatedly re-read what you wrote (when it's done in its entirety). You'll naturally correct yourself or tune it.
What do you mean by “use any login form?” I don’t understand this phrase.

If the attacker has an encrypted vault, what is the login form there for them to use and detect password reuse?
Crucially, PBS member stations[0] run a lot of international—-often British—-shows, so it’s one of the few places you might possibly find cricket on American TV. Otherwise, your only bet might be one of the niche cable sports channels: not the main ESPN, but maybe ESPN2 or something.

[0] PBS is more like a network (the S is for ‘service’) that provides member stations with a common identity and a shared pool of programmming. They’re usually non-profits, and so would not be able to afford a national news bureau (etc) on their own.
Groove boxes are fascinating especially in standalone/live usage but also work with DAWs. More modern examples are the Roland TR-6S Rhythm Performer or deconstructed as Roland ARIA Compact (T-8 Beat Machine, J-6 Chord Synthesizer, E-4 Voice Tweaker)--here's a first look video[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypu8hLFJm8c
The historical game space is the most interesting and vital it's been since the 70s, but you wouldn't know it from any of the "golden age" articles largely hyping the latest low-interaction euro or unbalanced area control minis game.

RPGs... we'll see. Streaming has completely changed that market and I'm not sure its carrying capacity is in any meaningful sense tied to the number of players anymore.
Mastadon is not a big tent community like Twitter. It's not a tech company seeking to attract every user on the planet.

It's a toolkit for building communities. People will join because the communities they want to participate in are there (which eliminates the supposed dilemma of "which instance should I join?" - this is only a problem for people fleeing Twitter and looking for safe harbor, not for people discovering it organically). They'll stay because it's a good toolkit and they want to join more communities.

Or those things won't turn out to be true and it will fade away, nothing is guaranteed, but if you judge it based on whether it is Twitter, you're missing the value proposition.

In my view, having everyone in the same tent is one of the mistakes Twitter made; it doesn't need to be replicated. It created opportunities for messages intended for a certain community at a certain time to be taken out of that context and misinterpreted to fuel flamewars. It made it possible for there to be this spectacle of the "main character" who was ridiculed for day and then tossed aside.
We have so much muddled thought in our language.

Even adding "true" is not ideal as that implies there is "true understanding" and just plain old understanding that is a lesser form of true understanding.

Now we have gone and built large language models from all this muddled thought.

To me, chatGPT is filled with a new type of invisible super bug. Millions of them.
Sure but once your registers, cache, data bus and address bus has ECC you have vastly smaller area that can flip.

You can even just buy (well, chipaggedon aside) ARM cores that have 2 chips running in parallel and faulting when the result is different
Providing that the vault is fully encrypted/unencrypted locally, in what way is it going to be compromised?

If someone wants to avoid having their vault in a LastPass/1Password/… cloud for some reason, it’s also possible to sync the vault through general use cloud solutions like Mega/Dropbox/…
We are probably talking about CMOS here, right? I haven't seen CCD camera for like 15 years, and that had resolution like 10 mpx. I know CCD chips are still used in astrophotography because of their other qualities, but aside from that they seem to have pretty much died out.
The bay is the most expensive real estate in the US, coastal CA in general is already impossible to develop new grand things because if NIMBYism and the coastal commission. Let's say that wasn't a problem, how much would it cost to replace a few acres of single family housing in the bay area with high-rise apartment? Now imagine doing that a lot more. Now take that money and imagine how much you could do in the places I mentioned.

To solve housing for millions, there simply is no realistic way anytime in the next few decades in coastal CA that is both profitable, can get past local law and scales enough to actually solve any problem and of course a ton of money would need to be available all while risking bad decisions by anti-development parties.

It's simply easier to build where there is a small number of people and wide undeveloped land.
1. The 10-2 and 10-3 yield curves will generate a false signal, and while growth will be slow, there will be no official recession in 2023.

2. Political prediction markets will give Donald Trump a less than 15% chance of being the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.

3. Biden will decide to run for reelection in 2024, and will have no serious primary opposition.

4. Twitter will be sold to another large tech company for less than half of Musk's acquisition price. (2023 feels a little aggressive for this one, I'd feel better about this as a 2024 prediction)
Watching the browser choke two load points to make it appear is truly disgusting.

Honestly pathetic considering the size the engineering team used to be and points to an extremely broken culture.
What’s your logic?
It's a Pleroma fork, so I'd say it handles it pretty well.
Free charts from NOAA are only US waters. Few other countries provide their charts for free.

Previously one had to pay for paper charts, now one pays for digital charts.
> 2 miles to drop our kid at school

In a bike-friendly country, you'd do that by bike, not by car.

Of course, if your whole world is built around owning and using a car, then doing this by bike becomes dangerous and doing this by car becomes less insane.
Then you find our you're dedicating a very large portion of the ground to those machines you use twice a day for 10 minutes - making them unfit for other purposes the remaining 23 hours and 40 minutes.

I really like driving - but I really like the outside to be fit for other things than driving as well. American suburbia falls way too far short of that.
My personal experience has led me to believe that there’s truly no substitute for reading a lot and writing a lot. But the funny thing is that you may not realize how true that is until you’ve gotten sick and tired of trying to find shortcuts and hacks. You can get burnt out on reading and watching material about how to write well but it can be helpful in moderation. The best resource I’ve found is the Belief Agency YouTube channel. They have a lot of great interviews/shows about how command of the concept of storytelling can improve your communication, written or otherwise. Brian McDonald’s books are great too—-especially Invisible Ink. One more thing I’ve found helpful is to take up a practice that has nothing to do with writing—-gardening in my case—-and see if you can learn some things that shape the way you think about the writing process. All of these things should lead you back to a regular practice of reading and writing though. It’s like an archaeological dig. Most of the time you’re just throwing dirt over your shoulder but once in a while you find treasure.
I blogged every day for a while. That helped but it was grueling. With everything, practice makes perfect.

Working with an editor is huge. I worked with several editors and reviewers both when submitting to other blogs and when writing my books. I learned a lot.

There are great writer assistance tools such as Write Good, etc. They helped with avoiding weasel phrasing, etc.
Feel free to EDIT this text post to let everybody know there is no weird conspiracy, but the moderators can collapse off topic comment trees, so they don't pollute the comments page unless someone really wants to read them. Which is a great idea in my opinion.
These vaults conveniently come with unencrypted URLs of the login forms associated with each password. An attacker who discovers the plaintext of one password can trivially attempt to reuse that against all of the forms.

Incorrect password attempts are essentially free, so ECB revealing reuse does not meaningfully help the attacker.
Seriously this blind anti-blockchain trend on HN makes any kind of rational discussion impossible.

Can we just stop this and act like engineers and actually _try_ to understand each other?

> So, trusting centralised data providers

Where did you understood that? Did you even read the comment you're replying to?

Chainlink (being just one example of an oracle protocol to illustrate the discussion), allows you to choose how many oracles you want, with whatever reputation constraint you want, strictly named or open ended, with or without whistleblowing/conflict mitigation algorithm, etc.

How does that deserves a snarky "So, trusting centralised data providers"?!

> Ah yes. Because the ticket is validated after the concert has happened, and not, you know, at the entrance to the venue.

There are multiple ways to handle this, a lot of future crypto contract implement something very similar to:

- The venue issues tickets that can be purchased through posting money to a smart contract.

- The smart contract locks in the money until, say, 5 oracles validate that the concert did happen.

- The venue can prove the locked in ticket sale amount as collateral to borrow money in preparation of the concert.

- The oracles validate that the concert happened, unlocking the sale money to the venue.

or

- The concert was a scam, oracles do not validate that it happened, thus ticket sales are refunded.

> something that has already been solved and doesn't require mountains of compleiy

My comment is not about the rationale or utility of the concert ticket example. It's about how that could be implemented with a smart contract.

> And also so many "coulda/woulda"s in your description

Chainlink is already used since multiple years to secure billions of dollars of pegged tokens, sport bet results, election results, insurance, etc.
There is certainly some kind of middle ground between single core CPU and massive parallelization on a GPU. What am I going to use my 16 CPU cores for? Should they sit idle forever, only ever handing parallel work over to the GPU?

Also not all work is parallelizable in the way graphics are parallelizable or follow the relatively simple fork-join structure. What about things like actor systems, where each actor may run on another core, each doing different kind of work?

Sometimes one might want to also have good single core performance in parallelized settings, so that the work for a single core gets finished quickly.

I am not convinced the picture is really as black and white as "do parallelized things on GPU, single core things on CPU".
We could probably replace Congress with an app. That's what is going through my head.
Some Endeavours at Synthesising a Solution to the Sorites
* The war in Ukraine persists til at least Summer - though Russia has 0 progress.

* Interest rates stay high in the US til at least August.

* Home prices in most major markets - especially US and China - continue to decline in real terms til Interest rates decrease.

Though, I won't be surprised in the least if some Black Swan happens and blows up all these predictions.
> AWS costs can destroy you, unless you’re using managed AWS services to replace bloated IT org full of support personnel not doing much productive work in first place.

OTOH, if you have an understaffed infra team that gets by by accumulating technical debt on infrastructure, AWS takes away that option at several levels of abstraction.
In a hard fork, anything can change. Including whatever rules you think exist about chain validation.
At least a few years ago, Pleroma either used an actual proxy without caching or hotlinked images from other instances.