skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - With Mastodon, it's immediately more complicated than that.

Is there something inherit in Mastodon that makes it more complicated, or is this an obstacle that can be overcome (like email did)
Mastodon isn't a microblog though? As far as I know, the maximum message length is basically limitless.
Maybe I've missed it, but there is no evidence that the Earth was covered with "giant mushrooms", merely that they existed?

Which might be interesting but not exactly as evocative as implied.
>force a migration down the line, after merging doesn't work

like the Mojang --> Microsoft --> XBox fiasco
Franklin was. Which is why she was the one who actually produced that image. And if the problem could have been solved by deducing the crystalline structure from variant A, she would have been a much better choice.

The fact that Crick was the world expert on the one obscure thing about crystallography that mattered here doesn't mean that Franklin wasn't the real expert. Every expert has gaps in their knowledge.
But you don’t advertise, let alone deploy a product when 90% of it is missing.

FSD likely requires GAI.
...but for it to work, you also need aircraft designed to be serviced by a small number of people with the supplies that can be kept on hand out in the boonies.
I've been on HN for more than a decade, and it's definitely a thing. I've even done it myself.
I have been trying to come up with an efficient but simple and correct condition variable implementation based on futexes for the last couple days and it's surprisingly tricky.
Pretty basic stuff but fails to mention "set -o vi", which let's you use vim commands to edit the command line, using far fewer keystrokes than the default emacs mode.
Agreed. I know of not a single person in my life who even knows what Mastodon is.
Would it be unethical if FSD Beta causes 1,000 fatalities but FSD 1.0 prevents 1,000,000 fatalities? Real world training data is needed to get from Beta to 1.0. Seems like you are oversimplifying the ethical decision being made by NTSB.
Allow me to introduce Python
Webkit is just a web page viewer whereas chrome includes a million auxiliary capabilities. Tab management, dev tools, history, account synching, the browser chrome, the complex url bar, it goes on and on and on.

Most electron apps don't use most of this code but it's at least mmapped in.

As for size, most web pages I visit are under 40MB. Suddenly 8MB Vs 42MB is a huge difference in overhead.

There's definitely been a trend of page loading tons of data & holding onto it. There's so many better architectures. Using http caching & just re-requesting pages of data on demand would be a huge architectural win for most pages. We can get fancier & use indexeddb or now sqlite, to let us free memory. The actual footprint of most pages/apps ought to be tiny.

That raises an interesting question of Neutralinojs, of how much of the incredibly good web shit we've built is available. A huge part of the Chrome size is that it supports hundreds of web platform APIs. Webkit doesn't AFAIK, it's up to the implementer to rebuild most of the Javascript APIs. It's gonna suck not having the ability to load your wasm sqlite on origin private file systems with a service worker cache layer web architecture to neutralinojs. I guess that's the massive mack-truck sized weakness I hadn't spotted with this whole plan. It makes me rather want something that can use whatever Chrome I have on the system, so disk & memory costs are low.
Ordinary people will sign up for Bluesky instead of Mastodon. Removing friction is absolutely essential to growing a user base.

Not everyone finds value in signaling how technical they are by overcoming/dealing with FOSS jank
As someone in Enterprise IT, if your org is anything like mine, they don't care.
This article has a lot of curious / BS one off lines and seems pretty empty overall.
> If the government valued manufacturing at home, they've had the tools for years to make it happen

Well as long as we are “green washing” everything manufacturing will never return to the US.

Americans would rather offshore and pollute in other countries instead of attempting to manufacture in the US while be suffocated by regulations.
That is Netflix trying to carve out their niche in timeline #3. They think they can compete with the other services by having a little of something for everyone.

The poor average quality of their content is why I cancelled Netflix and switched to a mix of HBO, Hulu, and Paramount.
just go join mastodon.social then.
In the real world, I have a network of colleagues at work. a network of friends at home. two separate networks that revolve around specific hobbies and rarely collide with the others. And when I go home, I have a latent network of friends & family.

And there's absolutely no reason for any of these networks to cross paths. The idea that everyone needs to be in one network, is just as logical as my mother reading my HN comments.
Well there's more to tech than big tech or silicon valley.
The rest of the market has to fight over scrap or leftover from big tech.
Where is the data showing that heroin is not good at curing COVID?
Yes, if you're using Unity and primarily developing on Windows, most things will 'just work' on Mac. But if you're a big studio with an in-house engine and toolset, supporting a new platform and additional graphics API can be a whole lot of work.
In practice it’s hard to store an infinite number of discrete samples, let alone process them. So I assume that’s why people don’t try.

A spectrogram remains a visualization of a short time Fourier transform at a number of points in time. In practice usually produced using a DFT because discrete samples are what you have to work with.
All except Plato's.
It's a fact. It's the reason gifted classes were created.

From my own mixed-age classroom experience, and stories I've heard about one-room schools, it's not the mixing of skill levels that holds the advanced class back but the structure of the class.

If you're all doing the work at the same speed it has to be the speed of the slowest student so by definition everyone else is held back. This is so obvious that I can't take people seriously when they deny it. It's literally how "the manual" says to teach.

But in a multi-path environment where everyone is working at their own speed, this isn't a problem. Even if the advanced students are tasked with some teaching of the slower kids the dynamic changes and they're not being kept down. The maximal form of this is a one-room school where the older and gifted kids are working on their high-level tasks right next to younger and lower-achieving people. This encourages personal accomplishment by creating an environment full of learning opportunities and decoupling your advancement from your age-group.
No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 was more interesting.
Will inflated prices come back down? Mostly no
Quibi failed because they over capitalized it and then pulled out when it didn't have the xxM DAUs. They basically launched and had an amazing journey in the same month.
What usually happens to me is 2/3rds of the way through he rushes through seem keep points and it goes from feeling like a clear explanation to feeling like a magic trick.
Justwatch refuses to show me multi channel searches without amc+, for some reason. Either a really annoying advertising plot or a glitch with my account.
Is this what you are referring to?
https://twitter.com/d0tslash/status/1651074235933114368?t=AR...

The OP article was surprisingly vague, it made it seem like they would never know for certain, unless they were able to reestablish comms signal to the lander.
KDE is kinda junky/bloated, even if you tweak it and rip stuff out of the default in distros... not that it stops me from using KDE, especially since it seems to run smoother than a more "minimal" GNOME.
If you're paying for a plan with 4 concurrent streams, how is it dishonest to share it with 3 other people?
> It's about nitpicking at the margins.

The article is not nitpicking at the margins. It's showing how Tesla is making misleading claims out of their insufficient data by not accounting for operating conditions. That's literally how Tesla is claiming Autopilot is "an order of magnitude safer than human driving".

> You need a lot of confounding effect to make up for an order of magnitude delta!

Or you could just make misleading comparisons to claim that. That's pretty easy too.
Forgot one.

--I like how Go fills this little niche that no one else quite fills. Combining garbage collection while defaulting to value types. A savvy programmer has a lot of leeway to avoid creating garbage, while still "feeling" like Javascript.

Sure other languages are even better for avoiding garbage, but they also don't have the care-free feeling of JavaScript. Or they might feel care free but are living in Heap City.
From the post:

> Lastly, one other safety lesson which came from flight 242 may not have come about due to any recommendation or research project: among pilots, it seems that the crash permanently killed the idea of landing large airliners on highways. This Hollywood staple makes for good cinema, but in real life it usually ends in catastrophe — and while McKenzie and Keele were not the first to discover this, they were the last, as no passenger jet pilot has tried again since.

I'm sure the author is aware that small planes still occasionally land on highways.
Interesting that we both saw the same thing. I visited MIT as it was on my list of schools I wanted to attend out of HS and realized after that visit that all the "action" there was in research/postgrad so it was a better graduate school candidate than undergrad.
Really ought to be named "A survey of Worldwide Electronic Censorship Techniques". The article doesn't address where most censorship takes place, at the propaganda and legal levels.
Definitely feasible and on the road map if it makes sense for enough people :)
I am getting more and more annoyed over time with how almost every new EV is an SUV, crossover, or truck. I'm not hating on those who want or need larger vehicles but why can't there be smaller coupes for those who want something not gigantic?
You can translate, although it can be quite difficult, and isn't really useful. In the case of Betelgeuse we don't even know its exact distance (to +/- 100 ly) or proper motion relative to Sol, so it would be a very, very rough approximation.

But really the more important thing here is that such translation is quite pointless... it doesn't tell us anything meaningful. Talking about relative time only becomes meaningful when you're talking about round-trip communication, and there the meaningful part is the complete round trip, and not what moment here corresponds to a moment there.
Also: how much diversity is enough? I strongly suspect that the invention of agriculture had major effects on the social differences between men and women. You would have to include hunter-gatherers in your study to account for this possible effect, and I’m not sure how you would find enough left to do that.
This probably won't be a very popular take.. but to me Fourier Transforms are the perfect example of the opposite problem - where the educators are so hellbound on constructing a visual explanation that they end up brain damaging the students. I've seen this come up several times in my math education.

For the Fourier transform there are primarily two issue:

1. The "complex plane" - this tries to make complex numbers somehow less scary and more intuitive? But it's actually a useless crutch that gives people a false sense of understanding. The core issue is that you can multiply two complex numbers and get another complex number. If I give you two vectors or two points on a map and tell you to multiply them.. you can't - b/c that is not a defined operation. We have no intuition about how to multiple 2D numbers (you might think, oh dot products and cross products! but those are something unfortunately unrelated)

2. "Frequency Space" and an the constant suggestion that your signal is somehow being broken up into it's magical innate hidden frequencies. This is also very deceptive (or doesn't hold up in the discrete case). The basis is selected to be mathematically convenient (ie. orthogonal) and is based on your sampling window and properties of complex numbers. These may correspond to some underlying natural frequency that's occurring - or it may not. But it's not helpful to try to confound the two

If you instead approach the whole problem from a purely mathematical perspective of projection on an orthogonal basis and how to construct complex values that are convenient - then the whole setup is less "fun" but it actually becomes a lot more understandable. You can then move on from there and start asking yourself much more interesting questions about aliasing, ringing, fm/am, phase etc.

I feel it took be ~5 attempts of learning Fourier Analysis to unwire my brain and unlearn these bad visual intuitions that send you down the wrong path
Has anyone tried to generate manim animations using ChatGPT?
If Microsoft is doing so good why layoffs?
Microsoft released earnings yesterday and showed excellent perf on all fronts. Why do 10k layoffs then?
That is why you would need to fund creative teams and not specific projects. Those teams would make the zeitgeist shorts.
This strikes me as a rather callous lack of empathy. Personally, I find the mosquito whine of drones to be really annoying - especially when I am trying to enjoy the peace and serenity of a natural environment. There is nothing more obnoxious than going surfing only to have some creep buzz you with a drone. It's really intrusive and the sound is plain just obnoxious. I'm trying to enjoy the ocean like people have done for eons and someone else can't seem to enjoy it without flying a high pitched squealing camera over my head? It's a shame too because as a camera enthusiast I would love to be able to take shots like the ones DJI features on its website. They are spectacular views. But the obtrusive rudeness of the technology is the one thing holding me back.
Way back in the day, it was "sugar free". There was much less shady labelling before the Reagan era, so it wasn't common, but there were a few things so marketed even though they had never had sugar before. Today I usually only see "no added sugars".
3Blue1Brown videos really transformed my view on math. If only I had something like this while learning the basics! I've been supporting him on Patreon because I believe he's making a big difference for students all over the world.
Also, Poland occupied a piece of Czech territory during coronavirus. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53034930
I think that it's not going to be a country as much as a region: The Indian Ocean.

India is set to double in population by 2100. Africa is set to quadruple, with East Africa growing a lot too. Indonesia is already very populous and will grow, but likely not as much as Africa.

Combine AI with (hopefully) new fusion tech, and you've got a recipe for a mega explosion in human potential.

For some good reasons, I watch Kismayo, Somalia with a degree of interest. Twitter is not bad to view the area, as English language newspapers are quite bad. There are many videos of young people going out into the hinterlands near there and visiting with their grandparents for the day. Many of their elders are nomads and live in nomadic bands still. As in, they have no homes and don't intend to get one. The children in these bands are in for a heck of a century as their lives go from near stone-age to a AI-fusion-flying-car-vacation-on-the-moon future well within their lifetime. Buckle up!
But then why do the rug pull of making one or two seasons of a good show and then killing it? That serves to piss off everyone who took the time to watch and get interested in the show. If Netflix only wants to make reality tv they should just own that.

I stopped even considering Netflix shows with only one or two seasons because they almost always get killed mid-story. Which means I pretty much never watch Netflix now. Out of state relatives using the account is the main thing keeping me subscribed, so when that sharing gets cut off it'll be the end of my subscription.
I use GNOME every day. What I like is that it isn't to much. The main use to me of any window manager is to use my mouse as little as possible, be able to tweak all of the underlying hardware and peripherals and get access to my tools with as little interaction as possible. And I want it to "just work" whether it is my home desktop with 4 monitors, or my 14" desktop. GNOME delivers just that for me. Nothing more and nothing less. Of course this is just my humble opinion.
Guess someone should tell the ruby devs they aren't a success.
Used this for a few years now, there are some glitches, if you know how to tweak these, it's very good.
> Are you sure about that? I couldn't activate 2FA in my Google account for years because they didn't enable the option without giving a phone number first.

Just checked, and yes, no phone or email recovery methods configured.
Beyond scaling concerns is the legal responsibility. If you host an instance for other people you should be prepared to invest time documenting and training moderators...

The idea that there are laws that surround this stuff...laws that lock out enthusiastic people from sharing their own Mastodon servers with the world, is so sad to me.

It's antithetical to the hacker spirit and it will stifle any grassroots effort.

The web has gotten way too serious.
India implemented this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
MAGA and Bernie fans both agree that Biden is the devil.
No mention of Bluesky? From what I've heard, people are heading there precisely because it's not the "linux of social networks".
Was it the end of coding when we made COBOL? How about the OS? Or the browser? What about intellisense? Or Python? Or no code automation tools?

We are moving to a yet another higher level of abstraction. Welcome to the tech industry!
FAQ: A comparison of search censorship in China
Steam Deck Controls a Real Ukrainian Army Machine Gun Turret: Report
This is the crux. It’s by design. Europe decided to generally legislate pro scraping because it was seen as a way to liberate data from big techs monopoly.

Which is exactly what happened with stable diffusion - say what you will about it, it’s distributing the ability to create value from AI among a larger number of benefactors than OpenAI
Needs a better name tho..
> I appreciate your advice. I regularly voice concerns about security and let management make decisions. From my perspective I've done my due diligence and my hands are clean.

I feel like the best you can do unironically is the first step I outlined: ask management to formally recognize that despite your warnings, they choose cost reduction. Have a trace of that, not just in case of problems, but for yourself: it's a great reminder that as long as you aren't in charge, it can't be your problem.
To understand Labour’s shadow cabinet, read its books
I think Musk is a dumb man-child. Mastodon sucks too though.

We should let social die. Our aggregate attention is too valuable to waste on such trivial things.
I think most people would agree if pressed. Math is so ridiculously useful prior to trig. Almost any white collar job relies on these maths. Trig is an interesting inflection point in that so much math gets built on top of it, although its not that useful in of itself. And then after trig, things become much more fragmented and you really need to go into specific subfields to determine which branch of math is of value.

For example, if you go into medicine and medical research having a good understanding of statistics is useful, but very little in calculus or analysis is useful (and even if you do need Calculus, most of the useful stuff for those fields is taught in the 1st semester of Calculus).
Large tech companies are nothing like banks and have no mechanism to immediately collapse. In fact, the fact that their collapse would imperil the US economy is a 100% guarantee that they won't collapse because it means people are dependent on buying their products.

And if you did break them up, it wouldn't solve the problem at all. Whatever company is in charge of Windows is still going to be critical no matter the size. It depends on the importance of the software product in the tech industry, not the size of the company like it does in banking.
It's still interesting the blog author chose to go that way when it's the less obvious of two possible ways. Your response gives the impression you think I said it's bad or wrong. I did not.
> It's ridiculous that a company with this many talented people, and this much treasured IP, is languishing in this state and tied up with such easy-to-avoid internal-only mistakes.

It's why they are languishing. It's the "resource curse". On the contrary, It's one of the reasons why Microsoft is a killer machine. They are disciplined and focused. That kind of discipline stifles away creativity (like Skype and yammer).
A calculator also has no concept of true or false.
Disney sues Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, alleges political effort to hurt business
That 95% figure for spaceflight includes their test and staging environments.
I use plex as an interface and it organizes my content in an easy to find and watch manner.

It’s the fewest clicks to see new content.

Comically I subscribe to many online services (Hulu, Netflix, apple+) and will end up discovering and watching new shows through plex and my rss feeds than the actual apps.

So pirating still gives me the best user interface. Especially with combining content from multiple services.

Also, it’s not just pirating. I ripped my couple hundred dvd collection years ago when kids kept breaking DVDs.

Comically, the cheapest way to watch most movies is to buy the dvd at Walmart for $4 and rip it to watch through Plex. The file never goes away and it skips the frustration of figuring out if Wolf of WalStreet is on Netflix, or Hulu, or HBO, some stupid one off streaming service that I’ll never use (peacock, paramount, whatever whatever).

So I think it’s the same reason in 2023 as it was in 2003.
Do patents work when competing with a chinese company?
Let's start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_H._Shaw
What is the best Gnome2 fork these days? I remember using Mate back when I couldn't stand Gnome3 - is it still the best alternative?
I really dislike GNOME >= 3 UI especially this fascination with putting everything in the fat title bar and using hamburger menus like I'm using a mobile website. KDE does make more sense to me but I personally use xfce everywhere.

I am glad GNOME exists but its a DE I try to avoid.

You aren't alone.