skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a technical point of view, there is no meaningful way to put any access controls in place other than server admins choosing to un-federate any misbehaving servers and create their own little bubble. And cutting off most of the fediverse would defeat the point of having one.

Making the information public kind of is the point of putting it on the web on a public url without authentication. Don't do that if you don't want it. And think twice before you publish something you are not comfortable with sharing in public. Not that hard.

But yes, it's a matter of time before these things get crawled, scraped, etc. by all sorts of media organizations, marketing companies, etc. Once you have a critical mass of people who are relatively well educated, with disposable income, etc. any self respecting spammer, advertiser, marketing person, etc. is going to want to be all over this. The fact they haven't shown up yet (at least not a lot) has nothing to do with access controls, just with a lack of critical mass. The fediverse just wasn't that interesting until people started showing up a few months ago. Now we suddenly have people like Tim Bray and other tech influencers showing up. The more clued in linked in junkies are already getting mastodon accounts. That kind of is the point of a good public forum. These people will want to be a part of it.

There are technical solutions of course but they are going to have to involve making mastodon more like a federated signal/telegram, which does not seem to exist just yet. Mastodon just isn't it. Encryption is what you need if you want things to stay private. Of course it doesn't prevent anyone with their own modified client making some modifications that archives the plain text after decryption and information leaking that way. But it would be a lot harder to scrape everything. You basically have to infiltrate every group you want to scrape.

Mastodon with some crypto added would be nice though. The mistake with email was that pgp usage never caught on (too complicated to manage for most people to bother). Signing message content would be a nice start for mastodon. It would allow people to build reputations and verify that messages are coming from who they claim to be. Impersonating people is a thing on Twitter. Without message signatures, it's going to be a thing on mastodon too. And the nice thing with reputations is that they are a great basis for filtering too. If enough servers flag a particular public signature, they might just decline to accept content by that particular signature. Or accept it but filter it out of the public feed by default.
The downside to making home ownership popular by making it a “no brainer” asset is that you have to keep making it a “no brainer” asset indefinitely.

2008 was people finding the boundaries of the equation (“just how quickly can we make prices go up?”) and the foreseeable future is a slower continuation of that game: housing will keep getting more expensive but not better because current asset holders will pull all the levers they can (outright blocking supply, making it more expensive to build via things like below-market-rate requirements, etc) to keep the train rolling.

Honestly the inevitable fallout is probably one of the greatest risks to the current societal structure (probably tied with climate change).

Let’s hope Gen Z is up to tackle both.
Well that's a nice surprise. Thanks for the tip.
Does Mastodon have something to the effect of robots.txt (or is robots.txt already robust enough to express an answer to the question "This site administrator is willing to have these toots indexed for search?")

At the end of the day, it's a federation protocol. The protocol's creator can have an opinion on whether things should be indexed for search, but it's up to users of the protocol, not the protocol's creator, how it's used.

(... and I have to comment on this bit from the article. "The problem would be a public search engine that Gamergaters and Kiwifarmers use to hunt down vulnerable targets." This heavily implies that Gamergaters and Kiwifarmers can't just build that for their own purposes, which would, of course, ignore robots.txt settings).
Hahaha now Trudeau prioritizing house issue because Poilievre couldn't stop talking about them.
I’ll be finishing my Synth (VST) I’m writing while learning Rust. Started years ago but was delayed by life and by “areweguiyet?”. But now it’s very nearly done.

Narrator: it will never be done.
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What problem are you trying to solve?

gRPC uses protocol buffers, which had the goal of being smaller and faster to parse than XML. The issue it was trying to fix was the performance of XML.

The JSON-RPC protocol itself doesn't seem to solve anything that the other options don't solve as well.
An app for quickly and collaboratively drawing maps for tabletop RPGs.

I run a tabletop RPG for some friends over the Internet using Roll20. As a player in other (in-person) games, there have been times where we've collaboratively made a map as we've gone along rather than the GM providing one, and I wanted to be able to provide a similar experience for my players. Since we found Roll20 didn't really work for this use case, I'm cobbling together an app that tries to make the experience as fluid as possible. It's only really intended for my group when I'll be on hand to explain how it works and I'll be the only one deploying it, so the docs are somewhat sparse, but in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/mwilliamson/ttrpg-map-sketcher

I've also been working on a compiler for the most boring programming language in the world: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk

I maintain a library with ports to multiple languages (JavaScript, Python, Java). They have very similar structure, which means doing the same thing in pretty much the same way three times each time I make a change.

The idea I wanted to test with my language is: is it possible to extract a common subset that compiles into reasonably idiomatic code for those target languages? The compiled interfaces should be sensible (i.e. use of the code from the target language should be as good as if written in the target language directly), while implementations can be a little less tidy, but ultimately still readable and easily refactorable if the user ever decides to eject from my language and write everything in the target language(s) instead.

I doubt I'll ever use it in anger, and since it's nowhere near ready for use of any kind there aren't really any docs. In the unlikely event someone is interested, the most illuminating thing to look at would be the very beginnings of the reimplementation of the aforementioned library. Since I use snapshot testing with examples, you can see the source code, generated code and result of running the compiled test suite in one file:

Java: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B...
Python: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B...
TypeScript: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B...
I wasn’t talking about food safety.

The lice from the farmed fish devastate the wild salmon populations, so ecologically they are awful.

That to me is a pretty clear reason to avoid farmed salmon.
Even more than that - he seemingly still needs to take each bin off the train and put it on the curb and then put it back.
>"A major part of my career has been to write these tools. There's a reason why none of them are sound."

This is an interesting take coming from a person who writes the tools. Obviously you know way more about it. I do understand that if I for example link ASAN and it does not show errors for a while it is not a guarantee. The software just might not hit that error path. But I am a practical man running my own company and can not be a perfectionist. If software passes my own test, analyzers and other tools do not report anything suspicious and I have no bug reports from a customer I can sleep well and count my money ;)

>"You might belong to the rarified class of uber-developers who can write bug-free C++ applications"

I absolutely do not write bug free applications but I tend to have very few to begin with and I do eradicate them pretty fast. Some of my stable releases run for years without any bug related complaints. Not sure if that qualifies for "uber". I am however very good architect and deliver solutions in very diverse areas. Desktop, multimedia, enterprise backends, middleware, device control firmware etc. Also understand electronics.
Feedback on your website: you could make it more clear that you are not targeting food allergies. The info is there, but it's hard to find. Related: if you can ever figure out a way to eliminate food allergies, I, and many others, would send you a nontrivial percentage of my monthly income for life.
So I guess if telepathy is possible, there should be a Higher Order indication for people who share a link huh?

And yes, in finance, the correlations between asset classes shoot up toward 1 in periods of crisis (black swan event) . Hence, the research for tail-hedging strategies...
But having the store doesn't prevent legacy apps from installing, and the store provides a number of developer-friendly tools that will improve your ability to support legacy apps.
Did Zoom fix window sharing with Wayland?
Previously demand was induced locally as a basic need.

Beginning with Japanese surpluses and no better place to reinvest, their corps. began picking up real estate as foreign investment.

Today high worth individuals with excess cash are driving worldwide demand. They are not going to live in most of that real estate.

Todays dynamics are different. It looks like Canada is tackling the problem in the right place.
Obviously is a copy of something somehow. Not a new world creator.
I don’t want to name countries but they’re buyers from a country where people have a lot of disposable cash, where I live people don’t have that kind of money, that’s why.

The property taxes are a flat rate for everyone who lives here. This is to be fair everyone I guess. Anyway, whatever the tax is, it’s easy for the people with money to pay it, it’s not a disincentive.

Property tax and income tax are different things. The people who own holiday houses don’t pay income tax here. Which is the bulk of the tax I pay.
With the missed opportunity cost being so high, I too would want to ensure my bins went out automatically no matter what. Hooking the control unit up to the city’s trash schedule would be the next logical step.
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[Leaving aside the implication that "Romanian" has become a sort of synonym for beggar or pick-pocket:]

The thing is, Romanians are Europeans. They're all culturally European. It's just that some (mostly Western) Europeans dislike the grimier aspects of European culture and have redefined European-ness to exclude some European people.

If I see a hobo from Alabama begging downtown, I'm not going to be like "this guy is not 'culturally American,' we should restrict Alabama's travel to the rest of the US." I see it as American culture, and we should fix it by improving quality of life throughout the federation.

The "unified Europe" project is hilariously wrapped up in mindfuck games of who to exclude.
I showed this to someone who works on Windows distribution in enterprise and who previously worked on core windows. Their response was a resounding "That's hilariously stupid".

For those who think "oh I can do this on windows 11 too", This has a high risk of blowing away your shell too, which is distributed now as an AppX, also Defender and its update runtime which are distributed via AppX/Store so you're risking destroying your whole machine.

From the winds of change that I've been hearing: Most of the OS is going to be distributed via AppX packages, which means that pretty quickly, doing this will leave you limping and hurt.
> Easy is relative

In the case of programming languages, yes, it's relative to the difficulty of other PLs. I've learned many over the years, and found Rust by far the hardest (it's the only one that defeated me). And it's not the most different from others I've learned - lisps are far further from the common languages than Rust is.

> I suspect a major reason I found it easy was because I didn't try to solve lifetime problems,

Well yes anything's easy if you skip the hard bits. Learn C without using pointers.

I personally didn't find ownership & borrows the hardest part - in my case it's the great complexity of many of the commonly used libraries. Rust's complexity bleeds out into the entire ecosystem (a cultural thing).
Is that surprising? A lot of people really don’t like the experience and smoking generally has a pretty negative image culturally at the moment.
newly discovered reserves are more expensive to recover, otherwise oil price would fall.
Basecamp/37signals also wrote about their use of the strategy here: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3690-the-performance-impact-o...

I only know of them to be using it extensively, it's from 2013, so maybe things have changed :)
Thanks for the response. I have a discord channel for this type of discussion.
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It is funny in the context of a glossary otherwise composed of computer terms. Their definition, incidentally, was “to throw something or someone out of a window.”
Why would a God-honoring American want to travel overseas in the first place? We have more natural wonders, more freedom and equality than any other country in the world. We're also unique in that we're the only nation to be a melting pot of different cultures, so you can literally find anywhere in the world in the USA.
I always thought of this as a gimmick from the government. Why would they risk an operation just to send hopes to the hostages. I always felt this was more to get good will from people than for the hostages themselves.

And as always, only part of the story is told. Who were the guerrilla? who where the hostages? not defending them, but in the countryside is common that the guerilla defends the farmers, and the hostages are corrupt politicans.
Colombia's had some of the most creative spec ops tactics anywhere. They rescued 15 hostages by posing as NGOS with no bullets shot [1]. Many other examples exist.

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Wow, very cool! We're doing SLIT for my toddler's food allergies right now, and I agree a lot more people should be doing it. It's a huge pain dealing with the doctor for updosing and getting bottles, super inefficient and frustrating like everything else in medicine these days, so if you can fix that you're a hero to me.

I've concluded from recent research that SLIT is clearly far more effective and safer when started super early, ideally before age 3 and even before 1 if possible. And with so many kids having life-threatening food allergies these days, that seems like a big opportunity both from a business perspective and a helping people perspective. What are your barriers to offering treatment for food allergies, and to very young children?
The US exams involve a lot of memorization; for the Technician and General exams, I highly recommend running through the questions in the $3.99 HamStudy app/completely free hamstudy.org website. For the Amateur Extra, I crammed using "Pass Your Amateur Radio Extra Class Test - The Easy Way!" by Craig Buck, and the title is completely correct: it isn't "Deeply Understand the Material on the Extra Class Test," and is useless for anything other than passing the current US Amateur Extra Class exam. "Amateur Radio Extra Class Licensing" by Stephen Horan did a bit more education and has been worth looking at since passing the exam.

I passed my exams, and while I paid close attention to all of the safety/legal things (and looked them up for Germany, where I live and later converted my license), I left fully understanding the technical parts for after I got licensed and was able to start doing. For example, I memorized a bunch of stuff about antennas to get the questions right on the exams; over the past few months, I've been modifying and scavenging the ones I bought early on and making my own.
Continue implementing PICO-8 on an ESP32 platform, trying to make it into a PCB with a friend's help

https://github.com/DavidVentura/PicoPico
> barely saw anyone else come and go from the building the entire week I was there

Then charge a vacancy tax.

If nobody is doing the following in a week, I am: set up Canadian entities, pay Canadians to manage it, buy houses and raise offshore capital with variable-rate notes tied to some index that's basically the value of the underlying homes.
> I do this for every Windows installation that is used for similar purposes, like embedded machines that has to run a single application, virtual machines, etc.

Have you tried running Linux for these use cases? This sort of thing is an area Linux excels, in my experience.

When you run Windows, you're in for the whole kit and caboodle. Most of the components are proprietary, closed-source black boxes. You can only poke and prod and test and hope things don't break in unexpected ways.

Conversely, Linux can be easy stripped down to a bare bones kernel and a single statically-linked binary. I can run a useful application on top of Linux with the whole system weighing in smaller than bootmgfw.efi.

Something more complex, but still custom, is easily crafted with Buildroot.

https://buildroot.org/
A better ideal might be Matrix -- consider a private E2E room, with all your recipients in it, locked down so only you can post messages to it.

Stuff you post will only be visible to the set of users you want it to be visible to. Writing software to present those posts in a suitable UI is left as an exercise to the reader. And it's a bit late to start now, but I really wish we'd been able to start our fediverse journey with something that's at least supposed to be secure, then opened up the stuff that's intended be open.
Interesting side-point: I live in a rental only high rise development in London. When I moved in it was about half full. During the year it’s been almost completely rented out, and this is pretty obvious from the rapid increase of people in the common areas

My point: if it wasn’t rental only, I really wonder how many neighbours I’d have in a development like this, which seems like it would be a prime target for shoebox buyers around the upper-middle of the market
What about ArcadeDB? https://arcadedb.com (Apache2)
I have done a ton of integrations including many SOAP ones and it is because the SOAP standard is way too big, especially if we include XSDs. I have never used a SOAP library which implements the whole spec and it is very common for XSDs generated by one SOAP library to generate incompatible client code if you use another library (e.g. .NET and Java SOAP libraries are not compatible in some edge cases). I have quite often had to manually implement my own bespoke SOAP client (on top of some XML library obviously) due to the popular SOAP libraries not supporting the XSD I got. So SOAP is too big and all or virtually all libraries are more or less broken. I have never personally worked with such a broken mess of a protocol as the SOAP ecosystem. EDIFACT is supposed to be worse but I never worked with it, that was just some of my colleagues.

JSON-RPC on the other hand is simple and all libraries I have seen implement it correctly and even if there is no library you can easily handroll everything.
My hypothesis has been that renters stopped voting. They tend to be transient, younger, non-voters while landowners tend to be older, rooted and vote fervently. Density hurts landowners by decreasing property values and landowners vote.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33928876

Coincidentally a topic I did some reseach into recently. It appears to be in both the Pentium(P5/54) and PPro(P6), but not the 486.
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At least for bigger companies that doesn't appear to hold (if I understand the point)? - they can borrow at a fixed rate by issuing bonds or they can enter into a swap to pay fixed and receive floating to hedge out their interest rate exposure.
Every time I go to use JSON it is great until I remember it cannot represent 64 bit integers.
Which is why it's only used in certain parts that would benefit from having glass filling, like tools for instance. You also pay for it anyways; I would be surprised if any of the consumer grade Ryobis from Home Depot had glass fiber reinforced polymer cases, while a Hilti almost surely does if not metallic.
This is what pisses me off about the acknowledgements cropping up everywhere now. "We acknowledge this land was never ceeded". Ok, so isn't the next rational step to give it back then?

I've never met a white person who spouts "it's still their land" who actually gives back their 700sqm they worked to buy.