skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> t normally only happens to comments after they have been flagged or downvoted

Incorrect, this has happened to me before and while being up about 10 points and not flagged I still got folded. I am perceiving a change in HN moderation, like Dang's starting to act different since the site's been growing, and I noticed particularly when he's on late at night, HN behaves a little differently.

I haven't devised a test for this particular late-night hypothesis, but you see the behavior enough times and you start to wonder, maybe I should be testing this.
is there even such thing as a publicly available/known "trading strategy" that actually wins more than it loses?
> You can even just buy (well, chipaggedon aside) ARM cores that have 2 chips running in parallel and faulting when the result is different

See dual-core lock-step Arm chips (used for automotive).
I am not aware of any HN comments that point to Ruby ( or Rails ) being a bottleneck.

Most of them only suggest Ruby ( or specifically Rails ) being more expensive to scale.
I have news for you -- the public barely understands webbrowsers -- mostly not.

Yes, we could take the time to explain that "the Internet" isn't just the web -- but you'll just lose your original point.

I'd rather accept "Mastodon" as a (maybe temporary) moniker while we bootstrap familiarity.

The worst that happens is people ask if something else is "compatible with Mastodon" which may end being a good baseline anyway if Twitter or another company try an Embrace-and-extend move
Dean Preston, by way of example.
> - TCU wins the CFP.

Most unlikely thing on here.
Keepass is FOSS and there are compatible clients for basically every OS you might think of, including IOS, Android, OSX, Windows, and Linux. It does not include multi-device sync, but it works nicely with other solutions that provide that function. So drop in your preferred file sync solution (ideally, cloud-free) and you're all set.
Berkshire doesn't have a chance to outperform because it's too big. It can do a little bit better (either in EV or in some risk adjusted EV measure) but it's able to capitalize on opportunities smaller traders have.
Does

nix develop -c jekyll build

not do the job for you? (For a single development command—for deploy 'nix build' should be set up to do the right thing, including setting LC_ALL if necessary; and to enter a dev shell just 'nix develop' should work. Nixpkgs installs glibc with a full complement of locales by default, which has its downsides size-wise but should prevent any troubles when setting LC_ALL=fr_FR.)

Or, for an automatic setup,

cat > .envrc
use flake
^D

or, for an automatic setup with caching[1],

cat > .envrc
if ! has nix_direnv_version || ! nix_direnv_version 2.2.0; then
source_url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nix-community/nix-direnv/2.2.0/direnvrc" "sha256-5EwyKnkJNQeXrRkYbwwRBcXbibosCJqyIUuz9Xq+LRc="
fi
use flake
^D

(I don't have nix-direnv installed systemwide because it ignores the --no-write-lock-file flag I need to pass sometimes. If you put some of your config in default.nix or shell.nix or whatever, you’ll need to watch_file resp. nix_direnv_watch_file those.)

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv#direnv-source_ur...
Although Sun and Fujitsu had a long-standing business and development relationship, I think it would also have been problematic from a strategy and cultural perspective. My observation with the 3 big Japanese computer companies (NEC and Hitachi being the others) in the 2000s is that they aspired to be major global computer system suppliers--but weren't willing to actually make the investments to make such a thing possible.

I didn't think at the time that IBM was a good fit. I'm not so sure now in retrospect--though they would have had to rationalize the Unix business in particular.
Same here. It's one of the programs I greatly miss on Linux. :(
By writing and editing.
The analogy has some merit as both Bitcoin and Mastodon are decentralized services that are not driven by a tech company with commercial interests in the background. Well, Bitcoin miners receive transaction fees and Mastodon instance operators donations but owners of Bitcoin or a Mastodon account have to create a meaning of these services by themselves.

And I would argue that the article’s thesis is not far off as traditional media are confused by both projects due to this non-alignment of the services’ ownership and value they create. The typical crypto article focuses on advertising or scandalizing imploding crypto startups but fails to convey the benefit of international, distributed and programmable money. Similarly, the typical Mastodon article is about negative campaigning of Twitter and its new generally hated CEO but fails to explain the fundamental idea of a non-commercial distributed social network.
Reminds me of https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-woul...
Human Artists Take on Their New Robot Competition
https://archive.vn/07F4G
Hydrogen isn't going anywhere, the challenges are the same as battery with even worse distribution mechanisms.
Yes. The part where you don't have to pick an instance

> provided it's open for new users

This in itself is a massive point of confusion for most users. I've had all my friends and family ask me about this very point and I didn't know what to say. Especially when Elon fired everyone, literally none of the instances on the Mastodon page were accepting anyone. It's much better now but this alone confuses people into thinking they're locked into their instance. Why would my father, a retired mechanical engineer, join an infosec instance? Or my friends join a French instance when none of us are remotely French?
China has already given up on zero covid. Reports are that they had 37 million cases last week.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that people do find it too confusing and complicated.

The official Mastodon website provides a list of instances, but most of them seem to be aligned to particular interests, and it's difficult to make an informed decision about which server to join.
Today it might be, tomorrow they might be acquired by someone with all your data. Then in a year they may focus on monetization more than security.

Get something that writes data in open format and does not interfere with how you store it. Eg. Keepass with some privacy focused file storage.
> ...qualifies them pretty well to run… a better search engine, or whatever LLMs grow to be.

Running it? Absolutely. Once again, their technical chops are not in question (at least by me).

My concern is their ability to capitalize on it. I, personally, don't trust them to stick by a product that's not search long term. I don't think I know anyone that does, it's kind of a meme by this point. I mean, killedbygoogle.com is a thing for a reason. Why would I integrate a product that's just going to be killed into my workflow?

I suppose email is the exception to that, but is there a product post 2010 that they've stuck with and properly pushed.

The way I'd expect it to work would be that they launch a product, not really market it well, and then kill it a year or two afterwards. Then 5-10 years later, they'd realize that was the product they should have stuck with. They can re-launch at that point, but at that point they're 5-10 years behind and trying to get people to switch to something that's been killed once already.
Maybe, but we'll never know because you've just traded one cloud solution for another. You cannot audit their code and by handing over all your passwords, you've just made your entire digital life dependant upon their continued financial success.

I cannot fathom why anyone would look at the situation today and decide that the solution is more of the same.

Get an offline password manager and keep your valuables out of the cloud. I like Keepass, but there are plenty of FOSS solutions out there that allow you to actually own your data.
If that video is accurate does that imply tool use in other mammals is because they weren’t happy? For example: ravens use sticks, does that imply that they will evolve with unhappiness?

Then how come other animals like orcas and dolphins that show signs of a mood didn’t keep evolving their general intelligence?

Kinda hand wavy video but maybe that’s the idea? Not sure.
You are too optimistic. The js mind virus is spreading inside fast. The old devs' moving up, the new naive devs' moving in. Web tech is heading towards what tech influencers and companies making money of. You will never see shiny VC backed companies pumping Rust outside of the bubbles.
I'm in 94022 (served by PG&E) and in July 2022 there was a 13% chance I would lose power on any given day. I had more than 40 total hours of down time that month.
Until a year or so ago you could read Twitter with Javascript disabled in your browser. So we know zero lines of Javascript are actually required to read tweets.

I just stopped clicking in Twitter links once they intentionally disabled browsing without Javascript, and use Nitter.net if there's a tweet I really want to read.
Steven Pinker, “The Sense of Style”, is a book about the science of how to write well. YouTube talk here: https://youtu.be/3ZKTmsgqi0U
Agreed. One problem with RAM errors (which I've actually experienced) is they are insidious. You probably won't notice them immediately so the error can be propagated, and they're very very difficult to diagnose if you do notice them.

Back in the 90s we had a database server which had a stuck bit in memory normally mapped to the page cache. This caused sectors to be written to the backing software RAID which couldn't be read back in (because I think some checksum was corrupted when written and then failed when read back). It took an absolute age to diagnose this. I think I only worked it out by eliminating everything else.
Why not just use the default instance? I believe it's already filled in (or at least mentioned on the page where you enter one) if you go to their website and follow their links.
I'm just overwhelmed when I go on the mastodon start page. How am I supposed to decide for a server?

And then I just close it again
I feel like boring to some extent means that poor communication is happening. What you're learning when dealing with a boring subject is how to deal with something/someone that is unengaging, dense or confusing. Although this is a skill, I feel like learning the material isn't really taking place.

For example I read many, many scientific papers in college and they were all very boring. I feel like the big take away was how to deal with this type of communication medium which was dense, verbose and contextual. I guess this is an important skill but I wonder if it really has to be this way.
Nobody's comparing the aesthetics of sets to types. That's not the point... People want mathematical proofs to automatically determine programs, or to be more than just proofs somehow. They want to exploit the capabilities of constructive logic. The fact that arbitrary sets can intersect each other makes extracting computational meaning from set theory proofs harder. The fact that types can be like sets but don't have to be is also why they're interesting: The notion has more flexibility.
> there may be a way forward in reifying those cases where ChatGPT does get it right.

There is, that is the Chat in ChatGPT -- supervised learning. Teach it the right answer, then use "Save and Submit" at the top of the chat. This will go back into the model (assuming it is approved and appropriate). In the future, it could solve the dialog correctly, perhaps even with different values and courses.
Personally, I didn't remember things because I never stopped to look at what I'm actually doing. After I made it a practice to stop and read the command at least in my mind before I execute it, that made me remember the vast majority of my commands.

Do not mistake lack of attention with poor memory; the former is very easy to fix :).
Check out The Fieldstone Method by G. M. Weinberg.

I also made a web app to help develop my writing habit and improve fluency: https://enso.sonnet.io

I’ve enjoyed it so far and have been writing consistently for almost 3 years so far (ca 800 words per day).
2023 will be the year where normal people will be affected by the AI revolution.

Other things that might become true:

- Autonomous cars drive better than the average human

- Robots starts to become a "real" marked

- The Ukraine war ends (Russia looses)

- Apple will no longer be the second most valuable company of the world

- The successor of the mobile phone is presented

- First satellites with telecom tower capabilities are launched to space

- Google presents the successor to Google Search

- Both popes die

- Twitter will be profitable and be more like a bank than a social media company

- PayPal will not reach the 100$ again

- Trump will be officially impeached (a comedy to watch for the rest of the world)

- The movie industry will start to produce movies again
This article is poorly written and utter nonsense and just shows a clear confirmation bias with the author. lmao.
They should add XOj.
He was clearly not happy with owning nothing.
I've read drafts from people who truly write well and have come to the conclusion that the biggest thing they're doing that I'm not is revising. I write straight through and maybe do a single pass after to punch things up and get rid of passive voice, and so everything I write reads like an HN comment (which, don't get me wrong, is a useful local optimum for me). The good writing I've watched happen was revised a lot. Besides not having the talent, I lack the patience, which is liberating.

Also: this book is great: https://www.amazon.com/Style-Clarity-Chicago-Writing-Publish...
That's the first I've heard of the dead internet theory. Seems plausible. I deleted my social media around 2016. About a year ago, I created a new instagram account. My account is not private, and I'd reckon that over 50% of my followers are bots.
Very nice whataboutism, but I don't remember Ukrainians stealing children from Donbas or Luhansk.
Haven't seen a headline about them making search better. Seems like every search engine this year got markedly worse. Even the alternatives are pretty poor.

I want to say I'd rather pick an independent alternative, but even that space is bleak. A founder here most famously made a fool out of himself and represented his search startup so poorly and asserting that not only would people pay for his search app, but that it was in the interest of privacy, while also requiring a browser extension.
Still useful - thanks!
I have a 4K monitor on my desk with 100% scaling, and one of the things that always gives me a chuckle is maximizing a browser window.

Most websites just stop getting wider after a certain point, which is fine because you wouldn't want to read a line of text that long anyway. It's usually a column in the middle maybe 1/3rd of the screen.
I just ordered mad from china- seems to be the stuff. I'm more alert and feel more lively.

I used to be depressed.90% of neuro transmitters are made in the guts. Mushroom complex is food for the good bacteria. Feeling more happy after a few days of taking them.

Depression lifted after keto but most of the time I'm just fine but not happy.
Can someone knowledgeable explain how the number of iterations affects account security for this breach?

OK higher is better sure, but is moving from 5K iterations to 100K per the recommendation a similar precaution to adding 1,2,3 digits to the master password?
Writing a lot is important, but being able to get feedback on your writing can prevent you from developing bad habits you may not be aware of.

When I was in college for English, getting regular feedback from professors and the writing center helped me learn things I wouldn't have figured out on my own.

But of course, context matters: that was great for improving my general writing skills and my academic writing, but if you're doing creative writing, technical writing, etc., ideally you want feedback from people that are experts in the kind you're interested in.
> More importantly, allow me to retire from having to write the tools that bypass your restrictions.

FFS PLEASE! I waste so much of my life fighting DRM and anti-RE measures. It's so infinitely frustrating to fight against stuff that shouldn't exist in the first place. Someone wasted their time to waste my time and in the end we end up exactly in the same spot.
The fact that every mastodon enthusiast is publishing tutorials on how to use mastodon speaks for itself. As some in the bubble it may be easy to understand but for the default Twitter user it is not
I don't think this rate is reasonable to use in this manner. I've run thousands of servers, with lots of ECC ram (quite a few servers had 768GB of ram, but most were more like 32 or 64). The vast majority ran for years with zero reported errors. A small handful would have major errors of thousands in an hour, but we would replace for hundreds in an hour. A couple servers developed a periodic report of one or two (correctable) errors per day. If 266 bit errors per month per 1Gb was a usable rate, all of our servers would have been throwing ECC correctable errors all the time.

But I didn't have time or desire to publish a study on our experience, so there's no hard numbers.
Right so a tool for something else. But great for them
Makes me think if survivorship bias (or similar) applies here. While it's not fun to see LP having a lot of incidents in its history, maybe those could be viewed as something that has made LP stronger over the years?

I'd be more worried about a password manager that has never seen any security incidents - is it because there really aren't any, or that they haven't been caugh? Surely a security incident on a password manager serves as a major motivation to harden shit up?
Javac is the point. To be able to code for my own engine without seg. faults. And to build something long term that improves slowly over time.
Is email hard because you need to pick up an 'instance'?
Well. Maybe you could help them pick one?
Oh, in Nix, this works flawlessly, I was talking about Guix in the comment !
> The success of Berkshire should really prove to everyone that it’s possible to beat the market.

Since 2008, BRK is just keeping up with SP500, and even that seems to be due to outsized bets on Apple, which offset earlier mistakes of not investing in Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon…and instead going with IBM/Heinz.

That is a lot of risk for no gain over 15 years. Obviously, Buffett is playing with money he can afford to lose, but he is smart enough to advise others who cannot afford to lose to invest differently.
You are not alone. It’s always been inscrutable to me as well.
This technique helped me become a better writer.

Get a cheep spiral notebook and a nice pen.

Then collect some example writings that represent the best writing style you aspire to. I prefer short stories and essays, but for larger examples (novels) you can focus on single chapters.

Every day spend about 1/2 hour copying the example writing by hand into the spiral notebook. When you are done copying about two pages into your spiral notebook review the pages and identify different writing techniques. I used this technique to learn copywriting so I identified different persuasion techniques including what’s the catch addresses or Promise.

However, you could also use this same technique to become a better novelist. So maybe you identify alliteration, irony, foreshadowing, etc.

Why does this work? This have been studies on the powerful learning effect of writing notes by hand. The technique I described follows the same principals. By copying great writing by hand you are engaging multiple senses at one time. You are feeding your conscious and subconscious mind rich example writing that will help you improve your own writing.

Anyway, this worked for me. Good luck.
I've been spending some time studying several different subjects so I'll try to describe my approach. This is mostly just a hobby for me so I don't have any real criteria for evaluating how well it works but so far I feel reasonably satisfied with it.

For every subject I create a subdirectory for downloaded resources and an emacs org mode file for my notes. Unlike you I much prefer typing notes to handwriting. For math you can use latex and display previews inline in your org buffer. The only disadvantage is for drawings. I don't currently have a good way to capture those.

Generally my first step with a new subject is to try to find good online resources for it. That usually ends up being a collection of websites, PDF files that I download and YouTube videos. I often include links to websites and videos in my org file.

Next I try to get an overview of the subject and what particular topics I think I'll need to get an understanding of to reach my goals. I typically create sections or subsections in the org file for those areas.

When watching or reading content questions usually come up about things I don't fully understand. I try to write those down in the org file and at some point find information that helps to answer those questions, which of course I also note.

I don't try to take lots of notes or copy everything in the resources I read. I'll just note points that seem interesting, surprising, important, difficult and/or easily forgotten.

I'm not sure any of this will help you but that's my basic methodology.

One other thing you might want to look into are spaced repetition apps like Anki. I haven't personally made much use of them yet but I think they should help with subjects where there's a lot of material that needs to be memorized.
That’s like saying there’s no difference between knives and nukes, because both kill people.

The ease of it matters.
A recurring hurdle I heard is choice paralysis when picking which server to join (e.g. "which one is the Gmail of the Fediverse") ?

It's just enough friction to make some users postpone signing up, thinking they'll get around to finish choosing a server later when they have more information, and never finishing.
There's more than a few "oh shit the food supply" stories sizzling in the background. Wheat exports from Ukraine/Russia is an obvious one. Spotted lantern fly eating the crops we like to eat in the American North East is another. Colorado River drought is yet a third. They might all be nothing, but only one of them has to be something.
If curious here is the post re: MIT student who met some of the same folks I did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929

It is old news but it's how Silicon Valley works ..every man or woman for themselves and all tech companies I hear incentivize their R&D folks to developers to file patents. I'm sure the tech companies do not care where or how the inventions came from until it would become a PR nightmare. Which Silicon Valley stealing from fledging inventors seems to be stories not worth telling and maybe cause it's textbook stuff.
The real moment of truth will be if any models start to assist massively in research in the hard sciences.

Based on the quality of outputs I get when asking for help with somewhat complex AI research problems, I think it'll likely help accelerate the pace of other research as well, and discovery will be limited by people's speed of running the tests it suggests and feeding it back the results.
Student performance on standardized math/reading tests has been decreasing almost every year, since roughly the launch of iPhone. Not saying there is a direct correlation, but I would feel comfortable in saying it certainly isn't helping..
I'm flabbergasted by a digital-only edition being $82. That's a price I'd find step even for print. I paid less than that for the print+digital combination of The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4B.

$82 and being forced into a time-limited web viewer. That's just... what's the market for that?
It's common sense that for reading a bit of text and perhaps an image there is no need for JavaScript. Even video doesn't require it. It should all be HTML.