skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
shrug

FidoNet was doomed, too, in the long run.

Newsfroups were doomed, in the long run.

AOL was doomed, too.

Friendster. Livejournal. The Blogosphere.

Flickr. Xanga. Diaryland.

Myspace. Twitter. Facebook.

Tiktok. Instagram. Youtube. Discord. IRC. Slack.

That thing you're working on that involves a blockchain. Nostr. Bluesky.

I give you this litany of doomed social networks.

Some have fallen long ago. Some are still hanging on. Some are just beginning to fall.

Mastodon, right now, is rising. In ten years will we still be using it? In ten years will we remember it fondly as a transitional stage to whatever future ActivityPub clients and hosts we use to connect with our friends, build communities, and share the work of filtering out people who want to use us purely as a source of profit, or who are actively opposed to our continuing existence? In ten years will we all once more be in one monolithic corporate-owned profit-seeking social network, remembering wistfully when it looked like we might be breaking free of those chains for a while?

Even so, whatever we are using in that future: it, too, is doomed. Newspapers were doomed. Magazines were doomed. Social media is doomed.

Mastodon is hiring right now. Do you think it needs to be lighter on resources, easier to run, easier to personalize? I run one and I certainly think so. Do you have the skills to make it those things? Send them a resume. Tell them that this is what you want to do. Do you have the money to not worry about paying the bills for a few years after, say, working at Disney's feature division, then helping them build their streaming service, then moving over to Amazon for a while? Then take a working vacation: grab the source, start making proposals, start offering major patches.

Mastodon is doomed. Will you stand by and comment on its demise? Will you do something to keep it running? Will you try to hasten that doom for the good of the Fediverse by building an alternative server with a well-tested "import everything from an existing Mastodon in one click" button?

I dunno, I'm not you.
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Except it seems very likely that the VC backed BlueSky social will probably become the replacement for Twitter with many finding Mastaodon intimidating.

I'm legit seeing a lot more people open up bluesky accounts than Mastadon when Musk took over Twitter.
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> Back in the days, Netflix was a one-to-see-all service

I think you mean "the only game in town" because the selection was worse back then!

Plus HBO and Hulu were around. I still remember Hulu commercials with Alec Baldwin. He hadn't shot anyone yet, that we know of.

I also remember getting GOT dvds mailed from netflix because i didn't want to pay for HBO service.
In my opinion everybody has a right to an opinion. It saddens me that you feel like the entire linux community is gaslighting you, I sure ain't and do not intend to.
Supreme Court will decide if all home equity may be forfeited for unpaid taxes
Rereading Schenck vs. United States (2022)
For a big former Discord group? Probably a lot.

But many Discord (and some Telegram) admins already self host auxiliary stuff and solicit community donations for funding. TBH they would probably like running their own instance as a hobby.
Gosling produced the image, not Franklin.
Well, none of those images came close to what Melville's prose evoked for me.

And I'm afraid I found the author's prose pretentious, perhaps like what ChatGPT might spit out if you asked it to write like a pompous literary critic.
Practice makes perfect- I’ve launched and landed while sitting in a floating touring kayak at sea dozens of times with the Mini 3 Pro. I’ve only knicked myself once so far!
Again, the point is that careers are built over decades, and this proof of concept tech is already good enough to do the job of a coding intern.

That might not be a threat to you if you’re a 35 year old developer, but if you’re an 18 year old exiting high school, there’s a non zero chance that by the time you’re 35 - 17 years - the tech will be good enough to replace you.
Target/Walmart are discounters and their variety, stock and quality are not good. I always forget about macys!
This is such an odd observation, hypothesis how did you come up with this?
Weird, I've been using it every day for years and it's fine. Maybe you mean that it doesn't work for you?
I think hydro and tidal power is renewable right?
Just look at this pathatic open-source failures: VLC, Chrome, Firefox, and Wikipedia.
Lol!
I suppose they work if that Chinese company wants to sell in the US.
The ~10 years I was exclusively on Linux, I was using Xubuntu. It was glorious to go so long without a UI change. Every feature added beyond what xfce offers out of the box is a step backwards. Windows 95 was the pinnacle of desktop UI.
Plot twist: Rochko is a Ukrainian last name.
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Oh, but you do! Moloch demands it.

The GAI requirement is an interesting theory but why? I find it dubious because, at least personally, driving seems to occur semi automatically in my motor cortex. When a car pulls out in front of me I’m not using my frontal cortex to slam on the brakes. It feels involuntary.
Anytime Spotify makes money the music labels up their prices. Music streaming is not that great of a business model.
There's some really great story telling found in some K and C dramas that you just don't find in western media.

Interesting and varied modern story telling in KDramas and fantastic historical story telling in CDramas.

There's also quite a bit of it to consume from over the years on alternative platforms like Viki.

Sadly most of the "best" can't be found on Netflix so most people just don't have any idea about it.
I could see this being the case for regional balancing, but presumably a 1GW generation site has a 1GW-capable link to the grid, otherwise that seems like overbuilt capacity?

(nb of course you might overprovision it to some degree on the presumption that, say, only 70% of your generation is usable at any one time; I more mean the numbers like say 16%.)
yeah I think there is absolutely a way to do a good show and have a social/political message and it usually comes down to tone and respecting the audience. Studio Ghibli is known for there positive and even relaxing tone but underneath the story is often a social/political message. That message is often subtle and weaved into the fibers of the story, its a message you feel not hear, if that makes sense. I think they achieve this because they respect their audience enough to give them something they will enjoy and to be smart enough to pick up on the subtle message in the content.
> You're missing the part where it's not inherently linked to your PII without your consent (for example during a troubleshooting session).

No, I'm not missing that. It's just not a significant point to me, in large part because I think that the definition of "PII" is too narrow. For instance, I consider the identity of the specific car I drive as being PII.

> you just don't want data collected and Tesla hasn't done anything to earn your trust.

Yes, exactly. And that's not a special stance about Tesla. It's my stance with most companies.

> I think this is a blanket assessment that comes from an uninformed position about how Tesla's product actually works

I'm sure that's true. But, honestly, I have no motivation to spend the time and energy to inform myself about how Tesla handles this stuff. To do so in any meaningful way is a moderate research project that I'd have to have some real reason to engage in. I don't think it's unreasonable to follow a larger heuristic until there's some reason to pay attention to a particular product or company.

> I can't help drawing the conclusion that your position on this topic boils down to that of a HN curmudgeon.

Draw whatever conclusion you wish. I haven't arrived at my attitude arbitrarily or through some sort of "big tech bad" mentality. It's due to years of actual experience.

> Serious question: have you ever built a product?

Not that it matters, but yes, many. Several rather successful ones. The odds are reasonable that you're even using one or two of them.

> You have absolutely no way to help them so your response is limited to "we don't collect software telemetry in any way sorry frustrated user, you're SOL".

This just isn't true at all. I've never had to say anything like that. Blanket telemetry is not necessary to help customers with malfunctions -- if it were, then all the software that I (and everyone else) sold and supported before telemetry was even possible would have been impossible to support.

That said, I have occasionally gathered telemetry as part of the support process. But it's on a case-by-case basis with the full cooperation of the customer, not a blanket thing the I subject all customers to.

And, to be clear, I'm not opposed to telemetry in general. I'm opposed to forcing it on people, or engaging in it without their informed consent.

> I think this idea that the "good" state for software products is zero data and anything more than that is abusive is in fact harmful.

My position is certainly not that all data collection is abusive. My position is that our industry has been widely abusive in terms of data collection.
The analogy would be closer to Usenet than email.
I think your expectations might just be skewed. To be the largest decentralized communications platform is quite substantial. You're expecting it to dethrone centralized platforms but that's a gigantic additional hurdle, one nobody has been able to reach.
given a project split in several modules, we don't want to build them separately, we want to type check at compile time that everything works and we have a single build system managed by Gradle. Gradle is smart enough that if we are changing a module, we can build all the dependent ones, and only them.

The cache system comes into play when someone is changing something: when a developer is updating the code locally with changes from other developers, they don't have to compile and run tests of modules they are not changing locally, as gradle is downloading automatically the changes from the build cache.

* Developer 1 changes module A
* code is pushed
* CI pipeline is running and uploading all the artifacts (final production code, final test code, test results)
* Developer 2 pull code locally
* gradle find changes from the last local run, it tries to compile/run the tests of updated modules but results are downloaded from the cache, instead of running locally
Lee Pace and his character arch carried that show. Everything else was terrible. I LOVED the books and felt personally affronted with how they butchered the content. These are some of the best science fiction books every written, and THIS was the best they could do with it? The only way they could have screwed up this badly is writing egos the size of Jupiter and zero oversight.
With the apps the issue isn’t the ability of China to harvest data on someone at a kids sports events or what not or what basketball team they like.

The issue is that for example with TikTok the American citizen/national with relatives has been watching videos on <sensitive topic> and now their relative back in China had a visit from the authorities, or this info gained from the app on this politician or journalists or their family could be used for leverage, or a number of scenarios like that.

The chinese authorities already illegally sets up “police” stations abroad in various countries. The authorities already do apply pressure to relatives still in China.
You completely ignored my original point about this tech replacing the bottom 80%ile of coders, not the top 20%.
Awesome. Me and a friend of mine at work have been thinking of testing out XDP. We usually run a DPDK backed networking app, but for some deployments we pack a lot of different stuff together and in those cases it would be cool to be more kernel based instead userspace. It might also be useful for some cloud deployments (there are a lot of buzz around eBPF in those circles). We don't really know yet - it would be a bit experimental for us. Check out the newest and coolest and see if it would be preferable to our existing solutions in some ways.

Anyway, I had been looking for more things written by people that have used it - so thanks for writing down your experience. As you mentioned, a lot of what is out there is the most basic use-cases.
No. Mastodon was growing, thriving, and giving people all kinds of exciting ideas long before Elon began this process.
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I get the US woke vibes from TV commercials. Plenty of black people on TV, but over here the US style black are a very small minority. I see much more black people on TV than in reality.

Meanwhile, the Turkish/Morrocan/Islamish people are mostly absent in the commercials, even if 10% of the local people have that background.

Apart from that, it all somehow feels fake and USA. It's hard to define, but everything is subtly wrong.

Weird thing, the local commercials somehow adapted around 2000. You get the same black people overload and US vibes in commercials from EU-only companies.
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I just want to watch Ukranian drone videos with glorious full sound Russian explosions without the annoying Ukranian techno.
> Value providers who you don't trust to operate by themselves.

"Interns", for short.
"Holland seemed to focus more on developing fewer shows of higher quality content while Bajaria was more focused on "get all the content, throw it all at the wall and see what sticks" (who saw "Squid Games" coming?)."

I think the root problem is that no studio anywhere is large enough to put out enough high-quality content to keep the people engaged continuously. Not even Disney.

All the studios were looking over at Netflix making all the money and wanted to disintermediate the middleman, but the combination of all of them doing that turn one fairly decent (not perfect, but decent) streaming service into an array of streaming services each individually not worth the subscription. That worked for a bit but it's wearing out.

The solution of just pumping out more is the obvious one to try, but it hasn't been going well.

I'm... actually not convinced that's impossible? The bottleneck on these seems to be quality writing. Generally the actors act, the editors edit, the directors direct, the effects crew broadly succeeds at the effects, etc. But Hollywood in 2023 seems to have negative respect for writing. Take any Writing 101 course, and if you want to write for Hollywood, completely throw it out the window because they do not care in the slightest about any of that. I recognize of course that any 101 course is only the intro and the basics, but current Hollywood writing is not taking the rules, deeply understanding them, and then transcending them by virtue of the deep mastery of their craft... they're just plain writing for crap. They've got a ton of other priorities and "good writing" is so far down the list that it might as well not be on there.

You can't get the best of the best to write for 100% of every season, but a lot of streaming stuff is several cuts below what middle-of-the-line episodic television shows were managing in the 90s in really, really basic stuff. Surely there's enough competent writers to at least get a solid C on the writing front to let all the other factors carry over to "at least worthwhile", if Hollywood would just raise the priority on that quite a bit more.

Tons of high quality content is probably not on the table for anyone, but surely with all these resources we could scrape together some medium quality content more consistently?
It's funny how much importance we attach to someone's country of birth but not their state or canton or other administrative unit. If you were born in Texas but live in California, are you a Texan? Born in Boston but live in Los Angeles, are you a Bostonian or a Los Angeleno? Does it matter how old you were when you moved?

As an example, Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa. How many people think of him as South African? He has American, Canadian and South African citizenships. Is he Canadian?
My partner will be pleased, as she loves her K-Dramas. But I hope this isn't just repackaged shows from other platforms that we already pay for.

I think American producers could learn something from the shows that come out of Asia. My partner really loves the lightheartedness of the shows. That they aren't overtly using sex and violence to sell their product, their stories are less sentimental and samey as what Hallmark makes. The few that I've watched are quite good, I enjoy that they aren't all following a strict formula, aren't trying to be a franchise and the shows don't run on forever.
> We should let social die.

You know HN is a social site, right?
it's unlikely franklin would have been the third recipient of the prize even if she had not passed away. From what we can infer from the extant data, she didn't have the core realization that DNA formed a double helix and that structure was precisely linked to its function as a template for genetic reproduction. ANd she didn't really have the core recognition of base-pairing that enables the double helix.
so to make it plural, you just change the u to a ü?
I’m working on one for the United States! It also has a lot more data about grid operations like wholesale pricing of electricity

https://www.gridstatus.io/
I think for anything more complicated than my examples, animations would be worse than your explicit interleavings.

That said, I don't really think interleavings are the best way to show weak memory effects either, since they give the impression that there is some global order that is the same in all threads. I'm not sure how to do a nice visualization of the reality though.

One idea: show the interleaving of atomic operations, and based on that, show what values each other read might see. Maybe even let the user change the interleaving by dragging stuff around, and show how it changes which other values can be observed.
I’ve never heard human behavior called imaginary before.
Honest suggestion, try getting used to listening to things at faster speeds.

I started listening to podcasts at increasingly faster speeds, going from 1.1 to 1.2 and slowly increasing it. It only took a few days to a week of listening to slightly-too-fast-for-comfort content before it started sounding normal and I could bump it up again. Now the slowest I listen to is at 1.5 (going up to 1.6 or even 1.8 for my "filler" podcasts). Videos I can crank even higher, since the addition of visual content and/or subtitles can help process the audio information.

I now watch half my videos at 2x speed, and 1.25 or even 1.5 are how 1.1 used to seem for me.
Oh no ... does mean we're going to get loads more substandard Korean content when the content output was just fine?

Man, the $ never sleeps ... just let the quality out instead of throwing a tonne of cash at it.
As Netflix says, they end up with more subscribers at the end of the day. I'm sure all these services will follow suit once they reach some point of growth, or rather a halt to growth. It's kind of crazy they've let it go on this long. It's weird people actually have the gall to complain about this move like they feel they deserve to get things for free. Either you pay for the service and password-sharing doesn't affect you, or you freeload off someone else and you're getting it for free. Either way, there's not much reason to complain
Your bubble is obviously the most important one!
I cancelled the WSJ but I still get physical mail highlighting their NEW deals

Once you're in their system, it becomes near impossible to prevent them from bombarding you with solicitations to rejoin their service
Yikes, I'm sure they mean the open-source world of social media applications.
Yeah the python and rust devs will be pretty crestfallen too. All that wasted effort for all of these failed projects!
It's a personal observation.
I think the point is that you don't get to just declare what defines "hopelessly immoral".

An argument could be made that inflicting drm on everyone who is not a theif, and all posterity long after any legal or moral copyright has expired yet the thing is still encrypted or broken, is hopelessly immoral.

That comment did not prove you right.
Just to nitpick, gtk looks native in GNOME
Yes, I have moved with IKEA furniture. I would like to point out though that their older stuff was sturdier, and the newer stuff is essentially cardboard.
> account of a horrible safety record that isn't actually horrible.

That’s the problem. We don’t know the safety record because Tesla won’t release it.

But the anecdotal evidence we do have is very worrying. And the development model doesn’t inspire confidence.

So the calls to ban it seem very reasonable to me.
It's done in the long range FPV community. Not super common - it's expensive, and you aren't allowed to fly farther than you can see the drone (and safely fly it by sight alone, and monitor the airspace around it) but it's done.

I've not specifically kept up with the long range community, but I want to say I've recently seen videos of test flights out to 100km using an independent radio link (i.e., 5.8GHz analog video + 9xx MHz control link).

That said, power density is going to be your first limiting factor. You're either going to have to seriously tune your airframe for long-range flight (and greatly compromise performance), or you're going to have to move to a fixed-wing design.

Multirotors must maintain thrust (and therefore, expend power) to provide lift; fixed-wing designs provide lift as long as they are moving forward. The flight time of a fixed-wing design that's light enough and has a long enough glide profile is unlimited in practice. You can catch thermals and updrafts to gain speed, altitude, or both.

I have a 1m foam glider that I've flown for well over an hour. The vast majority of that time was with the motor turned completely off and the prop folded flat against the fuselage. I'd soar out over the field where I was flying. There was a creek at the edge of the field and a small hill on the other side of it, creating a "barrel" of air. Flying in low, I'd catch the bottom of that current, ride it up the hill side, then pick up speed as I crested the hill and gently turned back toward the field. That particular location is great on chilly spring and fall mornings, because the temperature gradient between the creek and wind coming over the hillside is so great.
Originally they intended to launch a few days earlier, so I don't think the funny date held much significance in the choice
Spotify, Netflix and co. really put a dent in the availability of illegal downloads, to a point where most users would pay to use them, but they must be careful how hard they want to squeeze people.

Also it becomes difficult for users to pay for more than 1 or 2 things, monthly.
> Mastodon is actually lots and lots of little communities with inefficient links between them rather than one whole

I think this is the key element that Mastodon needs to focus on to make the overall experience smoother. I've been using Mastodon for a while now, and the experience actually gets smoother the more you use it. Eventually you find enough people to follow that you forget many of them might be on instances other than your own, but when you're new, you mainly just have the local feed to go on. My account is honestly on a server with a community that doesn't quite fit my personal niche, and if it was smoother to switch servers I probably would, but I also don't feel limited by that choice as much as I initially did.
You're describing the DTFT (discrete-time Fourier transform), not the DFT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-time_Fourier_transfor...

Pedantics aside: Spectrum analyzers are computing DFTs over a finite window, and it's perfectly reasonable to think of these as (an approximation of) power spectral density changing over time.