skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is illegal: https://www.congress.gov/112/plaws/publ105/PLAW-112publ105.h...

SEC, that prosecutes insider trading, is a civil regulatory body and cannot send people to jail, which the article mentions for some odd reason. And I’d put the odds at 100:1 that any prosecutor in the SEC would love to go after a Congress person to further their career.

Lastly, not sure most are aware, insider trading is usually spotted by SECs internal AI/algo that is connected to all brokers, clearing houses, etc. they are very good at finding folks.

Edit: another thing that is missing from this discussion is the SEC awards a portion of the proceeds to the whistleblower of any case. I just can’t believe no one ratted out a Congress member for retirement money and all members are security masterminds.
Yes, the pursuit of scale at all costs is what has led traditional social media to become such a dumpster fire. Is Mastodon the answer? I’m not sure, but it’s a legitimately interesting experiment at the very least.
You can only ever be as good as that which you read. Read only blog post and you will sound like a blogger. Read only classics and you will sound like a scholar. If you read enough you will become your own best critic. Stop trying to write better and spend that time reading the best material you can find.

The same is true for all aspects of language. If you want to speak better, don't watch TV news or LA sitcoms. Watch classic British comedy (Blackadder) or BBC science docs (Brian Cox) that will expand your practical vocabulary and sense of proper diction.
When comparing how the human brain works, the transformer model is not the same thing. Until convergence of the mechanics occur, there will be limitations in the efficiency of AGI. Stil, I am eager to see what a 100 trillion or 1 quadtrillion parameter GPT5 with Adaptive Computation Time will do.
If 2022 is anything to go by, the opposite of what we see on HN can be predicted. So many poor or completely wrong predictions.

"Red tsunami in 2022 mid-terms, Democrats trounced in both the House and Senate. Biden becomes a lame duck." "Russia invades Ukraine with no push back." Hahahahahaha!

"- Elon says something so incredibly stupid that this time it affects his company's performance." Well, this one finally came true. Maybe.
Static RAM they bought from IBM; they trusted it too much, didn't include ECC in its path to CPUs, and completely torched any chance at becoming an enterprise vendor by blaming their customers, making them sign NDAs before Sun would "help" etc. You really don't want customers to describe an "enterprise" experience as "They treated the whole thing like a cover-up" https://www.computerworld.com/article/2596346/more-users-sla...

That and what PeterStuer's describes as "They died because they were unable to rapidly change their businessmodel that relied on an expensive sales staff vendoring relatively big ticket items." killed them dead.

Specifically startups weren't able to buy Sun's high quality x86 systems in medium quantities from Sun's designated channels, there was a fatal gap between what you could put on a credit card and placing million dollar enterprise quantity orders. So startups bought from Dell which was actually willing trade money for hardware, learned how to deal with those cheaper systems' quirks, and if successful by the time they were big enough to buy Sun systems in enterprise quantities it was way too late. This of course before the cloud became a thing.

Something like what's discussed in the recent topic "Bugs that cost money" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34103323 If you won't accept money from the people who want to pay you it for your stuff you aren't likely to survive.
Using the C4 Model to Design Applications
I mean, people do this for email. I want email, I heard Gmail is good, so I go to Gmail’s site.

The mere existence of a protocol isn’t the issue here. I think the problem is more that the protocol doesn’t have champions like your ISP/Microsoft/Google. Mastodon saying “come here then go somewhere else” isn’t good; it’d be better if there was a default option somehow.

It’s a common problem with open source; I worked on Passit and we had to think about the problem when it came time to log in to the extension. We ended up saying something along the lines of “check the box if you’re not using app.passit.io”. The default choice matters a lot.
I'd probably substitute editing for proofreading (which for me implies copyediting). Particularly starting out you may be looking for more structural feedback than a copyeditor will often provide.

But other than that I agree. There are probably a few books worth reading but it's more about writing and getting good feedback. Past a certain point, you can probably dispense with some of that feedback depending on the nature of what you're writing. But it's essential to get started.
They didn't fix known weaknesses (unencrypted urls, no auto upgrade of the key cipher) after those previous incidents. At some point one has to come to the opposite conclusion...
Read a lot and write a lot but also edit your own work a lot, putting intervals between editing passes. There is no shortcut. A million words and you’ll be publishable. Three or for million and you might start to approach good. A third party editor might help but could also hurt and isn’t worth it unless the project requires it. Beyond what grammarly can do, labelled data is going to be in short supply— it’s mostly an unsupervised problem. Your most important editor will be you.
Not directly related to the conclusion but I did find it interesting how they claimed the Mandarin study was identical but also clearly omitted some of the most initially “negatively” viewed topics like coronavirus, government, and politics (probably for obvious reasons, but also seems like it might affect the results too keeping things squarely in the positive category to start).
> this thing isn’t for the masses

it could be if signup and user discovery processes was much more frictionless; once you get past that, it's not any harder to use than other social networks. If there's anything the core devs should apply their efforts to resolving, it's that.
Why do I have to pick an instance? Why can't I sign up like I did on Twitter?
Are the % drops in crashes usually correlated? Or is there a reason that they are correlated in this case?

I’ve never looked into Technical Analysis but I’m intrigued.
You seem like a prime candidate for a subscription to the WSJ, my good europeanguy.
Have you tried just sending them an invite link to wherever you are? Ultimately WHAT instance you choose doesn't really matter as long as you trust the admin.
Unrelated to all of this, I'm starting to feel like I'd just prefer if platforms stopped trying to make moral judgments on our behalf.

I didn't and wouldn't have backed Unstable Diffusion, but people were willing to spend money on it, it seems clearly legal from our current understanding, and there's nothing in the Kickstarter that suggests it's malicious or would otherwise violate any ToS or guidelines; in fact the campaign seems careful to suggest that they were intentionally aiming on making it difficult to abuse, which I know people have feelings about here too, but the point is that this seems like a textbook example of a project that dotted its I's and crossed its T's.

But some people didn't like it, I assume, and therefore they had to find a reason it violated their guidelines and shut it down.

I know that objectivity and neutrality are no longer hot concepts, and I also understand that not everything from the way things "used" to run would still work today, but I can't help but feel this was just a completely unnecessary concession that helps nobody. Crowdfunding was supposed to empower people to directly support things that they wanted to see, but when it goes through gatekeepers like Kickstarter and Gofundme, they become the ones with all of the power to decide what things are allowed.

I think it's probably all moot. Nobody would defend a campaign like this anyways, so trying to make the case that this is a(nother) bad precedent is impossible. People just simply don't give a shit anymore.
As a maths teacher who also have written a textbook, I have seen a drastic increase in errors in books compared to 5-10 years ago. I don't know why, maybe the scheduler is tighter or proofreading is now too expensive.
>Is there no value to listening to a pianist play Moonlight Sonata live?

There is no value to it. Some claim that listening to music is enlightening. If that is so one can listen with headphones. And in fact most people do. Yet I do not beleive music is enlightening; it is just another primitive desire. If going to to a live concert truly changes people for the better then we can say it has value. But I believe it is really just pretentiousness, and the few who truly feel that they have gotten any benefit beyond the pleasure of the music are caught up in a mawkish placebo. There is no difference between classical music and pop music in terms of value, and in fact the latter is more popular (hence the name). And one can read in the comments of music videos on youtube that the isteners get goosebumps the same as the wasteful ticket buyer, listening to "inferior" and "uncultured" music on cheap earbuds. Only intellectually stimulating forms of entertainment have any chance of holding true value.

>The idea that “we already have enough art” seems folly and absurdly reductionist.

Please explain why. is the last 400 years of art too "old" for you to consume? Has it expired? At this point, consuming a given art is just at the expense of not consuming another. I can chage my statement to "only really good new art has value, because it has to compete with the old art and win." But as I implied earlier I don't think art has value to begin with. And I believe this is evidenced by the collapse of academic art, after which "art" loses all pretexts and becomes pure pretentiousness.

>I’m sure we can find people who conversely say we already have enough technology.

What do you mean? Technology is a tool, not a type of entertainment. Using a computer for a cash register only needs RPi level of performance. Using a computer as a web server or to run some complex calculation needs more performance. And there are uses of technology that have no value, such as video games. Although here at least any use of technology drives that technology to improve. For example games made GPUs a thing and supported nVidea for many years. Now GPUs are used to fold protiens. But the act of playing a video game has no value.
Yeah this is a good point. There’s a lot of learned helplessness in my opinion. People who don’t want to switch away from Twitter and are used to its quirks (and yes, there are absolutely quirks) are far more incline to throw up their hands and say it’s too hard.
Did you save and submit your corrections? That is one way to help OpenAI train it.
Some people benefit from nepotism, therefore there is no such thing as succeeding from talent or hard work so why bother.

Sums up the direction of society pretty succinctly.
I left art because I couldn't make a living and marketing was pulling out my soul as well.

There are still things that ai can't do. I think art as we know it will go away and I think that's good. Because art is meant to be an outlet for your feelings.

Capitalism sucks the love out of outlets is how I feel.

That being said I haven't been able to ai-generate an angel with wings made of money. So original art will gain more value when ai has pushed the competition out of the field.
Breached did get taken down some months ago when it was on the .to TLD. Elon might have been ahead of his time?
tech journalists hate crypto lol
Windows is popular with users, because they are afraid of Linux, not because they really know how to use it.

Windows is popular with sysadmins because it is easier to administer a large enterprise with it.
Well you first got one from your Internet provider, and after that there were a few huge ones (Hotmail and Gmail).

I don't think most people feel they "chose" their email at all.
MS has a limited amount of credit. It will expire eventually. If MS makes a bad move, it might kick off an avalanche. People leaving FAANG etc., might kick start new companies that help improving support, breaking the old relations, and building new ones.

And ChatGPT won't take off, IMO. It's a nice piece of tech, but lacks what's needed for productionisation. I didn't even include it in 2023 prediction, as 2023 won't even properly start before people forget it.
> Mastodon isn't for the masses in its current state.

It's super easy to sign up for Mastodon. I read a blog from the creator of Mozilla and it seemed pretty straightforward to me.

Simply Google it and then click "Create Account."

Now choose one of myriad instances without having any idea what it the topic of that instance means for your user experience.

If you requested an invite and never received it, or they aren't taking new members, just choose one of the other instances and join there.

After you get suspended-- without any explanation whatsoever how you violated the short, vague ToS-- just go ahead and sign up on some other instance and try again. You should be getting good at this now!

When your posts start to pick up some traction, watch as your blog gets hammered by a zillion requests at once simply to display a website preview in the posts. Is the load too hot for your personal site? Don't worry-- that's the federation working it's magic![1]

> Mastodon isn't for the masses in its current state.

Summoning OG FOSS mailing list energy...

Which part exactly? Did you file a bug about this? Read the fucking manual?

OR

That's actually a feature, not a bug.

Edit:

1: Also, why aren't you just using Cloudfare? Poor website configurations are hardly Mastodon's problem. In fact this is a feature, not a bug: it will cause enough problems for small website users to force them to just use Cloudfare. So good news, small time users-- Mastodon is for you! You're welcome. Also, fix your websites, small time users.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to say it's difficult to sign up rather than it being difficult to protect your privacy while signing up. That's a different thing and the distinction is important to any future attempt to get the general public to adopt FOSS social media.

Twitter deliberately requires too much effort and knowledge to keep your info private. They do that because they know most people either can't or won't go through with it. The privacy-focused software world understands how problematic that is.

Mastodon, because it was created as a tech-first solution without deliberately building user paths for non-technical users, requires to much effort and knowledge to sign up for and use at all. For some reason, pointing out that most people either can't or won't go through with it is sacrilege. It gets met with minimizing statements about how simple it all really is, and stories about tech-naive people they've explained it to, or dismiss it by saying that it doesn't have to be for non-technical people while ignoring the larger discussion about what the FOSS world thinks they can replace with it.

The only people who misunderstand mastodon are the people who misunderstand regular users capacity for complexity in social media, or the complexity of actually using it like users want to use it... A centralized asynchronous way to easily contect with everyone else that uses it. If it doesn't do what end users want in the most straightforward way possible, it will never be what end users use.
Doesn't that require you to be logged in with Google already?
Wow - awesome list! Thank you for sharing this with such detail.

Second on the Cradle series by Will Wight too. I really didn't expect to have such a blast reading it.

Edit: I've been meaning to check out The Gentlemen Bastards, which will probably be my next series after finishing off Wheel of Time next year.

What are your thoughts on Name of the Wind/Kingkiller Chronicles? I've never read but some IRL friends have recommended.
Benefits of Monty Python's Silly Walks
If you're unsure of what Monty Python's silly walk refers to, scroll down to "Video 1" to get the idea.
I've been doing some CS tutoring lately. I've seen the problem they identify (people try to memorize and re-use blocks of code without understanding them), but I had little luck with their solution of breaking things down. Perhaps I did it poorly, not being a teacher by trade.

I think we try to teach computer science like a science, when it more closely mirrors writing. Science is full of memorization; almost all of my science classes focused more on memorization than extrapolation. Computer science more closely resembles English to me. Scoping of variables is similar to scoping pronouns. Functions and their signatures vaguely resemble the subject-object-predicate structure of sentences. Large works are composed out of re-using the same few constructs.

Writing is the act of taking an idea and crystallizing it in written form. Programming is the act of taking an action and crystallizing it in written form.
Admitting that I splurged a bit when seeing this one - https://montrosebiology.bigcartel.com/category/games (the card game is in the $20 to $30 price range).

Food chain island ( https://buttonshygames.com/products/food-chain-island ) could also be something that could show up in a grade school room. It could also be further laminated for additional durability.
It’s oddly bitter.

It’s normal for journalists to look for human narratives. He makes it sound like it’s some conspiracy that an OSS project lacks a good PR team to craft & communicate a good narrative. Journalists can still dig in to find the stories… even when the projects are hostile to it.

Just look at the Dwarf Fortress: a small project that’s hacker made w/ an anti-gaming mainstream UI and not backed by monied elites but still has multiple fascinating journo friendly stories about it.
Maybe I missed it, but the css classes and styles in the examples, this was already available in 1999?
The west coast was desert once and to desert it will return.
Could be worse - my first was a program where someone had written the source in Delphi and run it through a Delphi -> C converter and then they threw away the original Delphi code. The resulting spaghetti was the only production code available.
I wonder if a first order question behind all this mess is whether there is a correlation between an extremely academic upbringing and the ability to rationalize? Many of the critiques of “the elite” have these overtones, e.g. the fleet of private jets at international climate summits.
A premade Mastodon CloudFormation template would be cool for those who want to set up their own.
Ease, scale, and physical disconnect are all factors.
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I think the problem with this narrative is that it assumes that the _online_ is the only reality. For the foreseeable future AIs will be restricted to the digital world. I know its hard for us terminally online types to get it: but in fact, most people mostly live in the real world.

And even for things with epistemological import its hard to imagine (current) language model based AI having a big impact beyond making certain things I might have done with a search engine a little more convenient. Like if I need to know something of consequence, I'll still turn to a textbook or a bonafide human expert that I work with.
I was writing native extensions about 2 years ago so its been possible for awhile. The rutie crate for rust makes it much easier.
Your comment still doesn't make any sense. Either you want the highest verification tier and go with phone verification, or you don't. It's your choice as admin. As a user you can just delete the phone number from one account and use it to verify another... you will have a timeout [2] but both accounts will be verified. Is it annoying? Yes. Is it understandable to rate limit it? Yes. Is it impractical? No.

[1] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413460214807-...
[2] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000961212-P...
please support your assertion. I would also recommend opening CVEs detailing your discovered attack vectors, especially that of Python dataclasses in the standard library, which are in very widespread use. If you do in fact have some insight on how Python dataclasses are an "exploit waiting to happen", I think it's irresponsible to just sit on that information.
https://www.storj.io/pricing

they have cheaper storage and up t0 150GB is free so maybe try this one as well? i am on the fence for a dirt cheap S3 myself but B2 and cloudflare R2 is in the $10-15/TB range and something cheaper would be nice for a small usecase
> Year of Linux desktop

Haha, I think I've been hearing this one since 1998!
The first reply is pointing out that tweet is inaccurate and the response is “I didn’t let the facts get in the way of a good tweet. Second most cited.”

So, the title here is also inaccurate. According to the tweeter in their follow up it’s actually his second most cited and they lied in the original tweet to get eyeballs.
I don't think picking the right instance matters that much, Mastodon is a federated social network, you will be able to see what everyone is posting no matter what instance you're on and you can follow people from different instances without any problem.
We don't spend $115 billion on a country's war effort unless we are confident we're in control.
My predictions for 2022:

1- The US economy and the USD will keep declining.

2- In various EU nations, certain religious people will cause unease and there will be numerous attacks.

2- The world's perspective on two-headed hybrid regimes will soften and begin to accept it. The chinese type system will continue to be adopted by nations in Asia and the Middle East.

3- After July, there will be another brief cryptocurrency rise.

4- Due to AI-based applications, there is too much noise and uncertainty. Politicians and governments will claim to regulate AI.

5- A large metropolis in a south Asian nation will be completely destroyed by a major flood.
And is probably one of the more deserving ones. So much innovation came from there.
Keepass, and manual copying to my pfhone along with the keyfile. 100% security on me, myself and I.
I can say I've had merge requests denied because I used the title "xxx: init @ 1.0.0" instead of "xxx: init at 1.0.0", but when upgrading packages you must use a symbol, either "->" or "→", but initialization doesn't allow a symbol. Nitpicky but fine, I update the commit title and I wait 2 months for approval+merge. There's also a long disconnect between approved vs. merged in general; I currently have 2 or 3 merge requests already approved by community members for over 2 weeks, but no merge. It's very handy to have friends/coworkers that can help you get through a fast approval so the merge wait can begin ASAP, otherwise you'll be lucky to even get that review.

I agree that if the maintainers are compensated for their time, patches would be a lot more efficient in these scenarios to clean up the loose ends.
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Hey everyone ! I need to know how is AWS threshold alert different from CloudWatch billing alert with SNS ?
Ultimately WHAT instance you choose doesn't really matter as long as you trust the admin.

Trust the admin? Trust them how? Why? Doesn’t all of Mastodon abide by the same rules?
Russia will not have a sudden reversal in capabilities. China is not going to abandon its strategy of hedging its bets to tie itself to a sinking ship all of a sudden. Iran and Saudi Arabia will not have a sudden change of heart to adopt a completely opposite position. Zelensky is already to US liking and Ukraine has shown itself to be capable rather than on the verge of falling apart.

Basically OP was positing a complete reversal of existing realities that all just happen to align with enemies of the US all of a sudden becoming more capable and deciding to band together. In reality political alliances, as well as military and economic capabilities, don't do screaming 180 degree turnarounds.
Without examples your comment is content free.