skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and I think the AT Protocol docs identify real and probably intractable shortcomings in ActivityPub

Except that they are objectively wrong about nearly everything they talk about with regard to ActivityPub. Quoting from the FAQ:

> Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol.

There is a widely-accepted account portability protocol built on top of ActivityPub that multiple servers, including Mastodon and Pleroma, all support.

> We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements.

There is nothing inherent about their protocol that solves this. The app on iOS (the Bluesky app) solves this by downloading all tweets locally, which is incredibly space-inefficient and keeps the server from... doing the job of a server (storing that data for you). Additionally, user data is still accessible and downloadable after a suspension on Mastodon and Pleroma.

> Our solution for portability requires both signed data repositories and DIDs, neither of which are easy to retrofit into ActivityPub.

There is quite literally no need for this and they absolutely could have built something that addresses these issues on top of ActivityPub. We're talking about the people who couldn't use OpenAPI, but instead built a shittier version of GraphQL while bold-faced saying 'there was no alternative'.

> a preference for domain usernames over AP’s double-@ email usernames

No need to build a separate protocol for this.

> and the goal of having large scale search and discovery (rather than the hashtag style of discovery that ActivityPub favors).

Nothing about ActivityPub, Mastodon, or the general Fediverse prohibits you from scraping it to make this happen. There are services that do this right now. Mastodon has discovery built into it, this literally completely ignores that.

ActivityPub is the standard for federation on the internet, and for allowing interoperation between social networks. That is the key here. I don't give a shit if people use Mastodon. I myself probably wouldn't use it if I wasn't running a Mastodon server.

What I do care about is whether a service is built on ActivityPub. Even if my friends want to use another social media service (maybe they're on PixelFed or whatever it's called), I can still follow them and interact with them over there while using Mastodon. You cannot do that with Bluesky.

The problems that Bluesky identified with ActivityPub objectively could've been solved by building something on top of ActivityPub, retaining the 'interoperable social network' quality of it. Email had the same problems, and instead of throwing out the email protocol, we built DMARC and co on top of it.

So no, I don't want people to use Mastodon, I don't give a shit about people using Mastodon. I literally criticized Mastodon later on in the thread. What I care about is interoperability, ease of use, and open standards, and AtProto is objectively not that.
Try "Joe's Own Editor" for a month or two and develop a feel for Wordstar.

Then you will understand why George R.R. Martin wrote all the Game of Thrones books on his elderly Wordstar DOS PC, and will not touch a GUI.
I don't know him and I can't parse your question/point/jab.
> "Agriculture", "animal husbandry" - I don't even know how to comment on that.

To give some examples of ant agriculture and animal husbandry, they cut and feed leaves to a fungus they farm for food. The fungus even communicates to the ants to switch to a different plant when the plant produces toxins in defense to cutting.

Ants herd aphids, protecting them from predators (ladybugs), secrete pheromones that direct and pacify them, and massage their abdomens to milk sugar dew.
Short of a ubiquitous gorgon stare[0] level of surveillance, how do you stop someone from deploying an autonomous drone with facial recognition that hunts down a particular individual?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
Its fine if you are playing or supposing in seriousness but with good humor, it doesn't really change how anyone else should interact with you :)

But yes, supposing that then you would expect to only see damages that correspond such as different forms of paralysis or other purely mechanical damages, not things that change the interior perspective.

Otherwise you start postulating the existence of a thing whose sole justification is your desire for the existence of that thing, which is natural when you start questioning beliefs and kick out all the supports without meaning to.

I think this is what Bertrand Russel's teapot was meant to ellucidate.
> Even in the US, only 15% of households have any backup at all

That's because people in the US rarely, if ever, lose power, so there's no need for backups.
Potassium can also be obtained from seawater.

The limiting element is phosphorus. It cannot be substituted for and phosphate ores will not last forever. Eventually, it will have to be extracted from very low grade rocks at a concentration just above 0.1%. This probably sets a lower limit on how much rock global civilization will have to process each year. Phosphorus recycling will likely become more profitable.
Firefox 113 Significantly Boosts Accessibility Performance
Firefox 113 Available with Animated AV1 Image Support (Avis)
Freakwan: A MicroPython driver for the SX1276 LoRa chip
What helped me when I started my blog was writing down every time I searched for an article on a specific topic and didn’t find anything satisfactory. Eventually I had about a half dozen things that became the basis for my first few blog posts. And even if you feel under qualified to write on a subject, if no one else is, you are the subject matter expert by default lol.
> The problem is that the government keeps printing money […]

Except that it doesn't. Money is created by private banks through credit (loan, mortgage) creation:

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-is-money-crea...

> […] so my bills under my mattress or buried in my backyard keep dropping in value.

Yes, this is a feature: the discouragement of the non-productive uses of capital and hoarding à la Scrooge McDuck.

> No, you can invest money.

Most people actually save and do not invest:

* https://www.pragcap.com/saving-is-not-the-key-to-financial-s...
For a very long time - whatever last version of Excel had it, there were a number of users who would refuse to ever move off it.
> Using the in-person book club example, I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where 1) nobody pays anything to anyone, 2) the same person hosts every meeting, 3) food and/or drink is provided and not pot luck style.

Sorry, where in the original link are they providing food? I might be more interested in that case. :D

It's wild to me that you can't imagine a non-transactional club. Do you not have groups of friends? Sure, there's some give-and-take in every healthy group, but the idea that it somehow needs to be monetized is absurd.
The reason division by zero can be a number is that floating-point numbers aren't individual numbers but ranges of numbers. So 0.0 isn't really the integer 0, it is the range of numbers between 0 and the smallest representable non-zero number. So division by 0.0 may be division by zero, or it may be division by a very small number, in which case it would approach infinity.

The same goes for the floating-point infinity: it doesn't represent the concept of infinity, it is a placeholder for every number between the largest representable number and infinity. That's how dividing a very large number by a very small number can result in infinity, a number which is really not a number.

This is the philosophy by which IEEE floating-point numbers were designed, and it's the explanation behind which negative zeroes and infinities make sense in floating point.

The way I find it easiest to reason about is by taking a graph of an asymptote and rounding it to the nearest units. You somehow need a way to say "there is an asymptote here!" even though you might not have all the units, and so you introduce infinities and negative zeroes to maintain as much precision as possible.
> Butttttt I gotta say ...

An I whole-heartedly agree with you. It's horrific when companies violate legal obligations, hoping to skate by undetected, making power-plays against their own employees. It's unethical.

Here, to repeat, it seems the issue is simply the employee revealed personal information about a coworker.

I feel critical, because the employee could have raised her "can't afford to live here" with someone in the company - requesting a pay raise, and then hypothetically gotten some REAL WHISTLEBLOWER DIRT if they responded with something like, "tough luck, poor-ie employ-ee lolzzz." But she did not, and the company did not, and she shamed her coworker (and being an exec should not mean you get publicly shamed IMO).
Well, maybe it's because of politically motivated accusations such as:

https://apnews.com/article/4f255f140b47cce4f586397bc4d0f87c

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylor_University_sexual_assau...

and

https://theathletic.com/3980055/2022/12/07/matt-araiza-bills...

So, because one can't know the motivation or truth behind accusations due to high profile cases such as the above, it's no surprise the population begins to tune out.
He's saying oil (or any fossil fuel) doesn't have to be the feedstock from which ammonia is produced. That natural gas (not oil) is currently the leading feedstock is entirely beside the point. Agriculture can switch away from it at any time.

And, in particular, this statement is figurative and literal bullshit:

> Without that oil to turn into fertilizer, the only other chance is to have ruminants actively managed on a regenerative farm growing both meat and produce.
I have a 2 TB setup with multiple writers; works fine.
I’m sure Apple would agree that particular workflow wouldn’t be good on an iPad. That’s why they emphasize the round trip capabilities with Logic on the Mac.

And really, the vast, vast majority of people doing recording, even “serious” recording aren’t doing what you described. There will be plenty of workflows that will be possible on the iPad that aren’t on a Mac. There are many different kinds and stages of audio production. Logic on the iPad is going to be great for some people.
The only ex-military I worked with was fired for stealing company resources. The most unflappable people I work with are the parents.
Only you can answer that. Depending on how risk-averse you are, you would look at the worst case scenario where you quit your day job, all of your consulting firm income dries up the next day, and you get hit by a bus, survive, but can no longer ply your trade. Would your 5 years of living expenses cover that?

Alternatively, if you're confident that you could have no income for 5 years and go back to the rat race without any difficulty, then sure, go for it.
You need some controls. The death of licensed broadcast and high capital investment media like newspapers has damaged society. The notion that modern Nazis would have access to thousands of people was absurd in 1983. In 2023 it’s reality.
Sometimes that's precisely what you want, if the unfinished script should run again without being checked.
This was actually a problem on dash, so I added several more signals (INT TERM etc.).

Nothing saves you from kill -9, as we all know.

I did add a reboot entry to cron (@reboot with Vixie cron) to remove the directory.

I can say that this method has processed millions of Oracle archived logs with no errors.
Gold meets all of those requirements, provided you could set up some type of custodial system that would allow paper trading.
A TLS 1.3 stack written in Visual Basic 6
My understanding is "FU money" doesn't mean you don't work again: it means you can quit a job you don't care for, and not worry about finances before finding a new job.

And that's what I'd recommend. Nobody knows what the future will hold so I'd be a bit worried relying on money I've already saved up for the rest of my life. Plus, not working may cause stagnation and motivation issues. But you seem to have enough money where you can push back on your company without worrying about being fired, and search for an easier, more flexible job even if it pays less.
This is not an Internet disruption, this is a coordinated shutdown by US social media networks to suppress protests against the illegal arrest of Pakistan’s president by a paramilitary organization.
If you spend less than or equal to 2/3 of your current income right now you should be able to quit with 0 years living expenses covered. If you spend all of your current income right now, and your 5 years living expenses assume 0 income than you essentially have 15 years of runway. Seems fine to me if your math is right
The way I read the argument (regarding bank fraud):

SBF: Here's my honest application.

Bank: Sorry, we'll have to decline your application.

SBF: Wait, here's my updated (dishonest) application.

Bank: Ah, looks much better. Approved.

And now they're arguing that because the bank declined the application at step 2, he should have gotten some executive and deep due diligence special treatment, which likely would have resulted in him getting the application approved?

But because he didn't, he had to lie on the next application. But said lying should be considered void, because there's a likelihood that he would have gotten the original application approved, had they just gone the extra mile for him?

Sounds like his lawyers are grasping at straws. I've worked in a regulatory arm myself, and this feels even more flimsy than the people/companies that have prematurely started doing stuff, because they assumed that they'd get a green light, or win some type of appeal.

He exposed the bank to risk, by providing a dishonest application. Seems pretty clear cut.
momovenabides: - I looked at the site that you advised, I am glad that such specialists in business analysis and consultation began to appear publicly, they did not exist before. I understand that you worked with this server, so I would like to ask you - if I'm only thinking of developing my own small business - they can help me from scratch, that is, suggest where to start, thanks in advance...
> accountable ... negative externalities .. incessant .. plebian

Yikes - as opposed to these hypothetical concerns, the employee neatly doxxed a coworker, and complained about an un-raised (as far as we know she did not ask for a cost-of-living-adjustment) internal grievance in a public forum. Reality is she behaved unethically, in my view.
I doubt it’ll take that long. Capitalism depends on being able to make a profit.

It’s possible quite soon that everything will be commoditized (designed, built, and recycled by machines ultra-cheaply) and nothing will be profitable.

The end of profit is the end of capitalism.
I did the same 1.5 mile trail (Council Crest in Portland, OR w/ 750’ of elevation gain) 110 times in 2019 (part of a 10 mile round trip route from my apartment). I learned every step of the trail and named the more notable trees. I could do the whole trail in my mind and feel like I was there. I did it in 100 degree summer weather, many times in pouring rain, and even ice and snow.

I felt like it was a privilege to get to know something that deeply.

But I’m also somebody who doesn’t ever plan to leave the US or even get on a plane again because there’s so much worth seeing right outside my front door!
Doesn't hurt consumers, doesn't matter to government. Simple as. Apple is allowed to make money off the platform they built. Developers knew the terms before they started developing for it - the terms haven't changed since their inception and match other similar platforms - but each one knows they get more value out of Apple than vice versa. I have no sympathy for them anymore after I have been deleting more and more apps because of dark patterns. Nearly all of my phone use is on either stock apps or apps that are completely unaffected by App Store commissions like Uber, DoorDash, etc so I know who provides me the greater value and it's not companies like Epic.
So all the trillion+ of the farm bill are going somewhere else?
Relocation package for a seed stage company
I'm a co-founder of a seed stage company and we need to relocate a handful of key engineers and employees from Austin to San Francisco.

I'm curious what you have seen offered / think is reasonable as far as a relocation bonus/package for employees of a still-early-stage company.
This group is limited to 30 people. It's not a subreddit with tens of thousands of users.

It is 30 people. If someone's an asshole you ban them. It's hardly a fulltime job. The fact that you took their money could actually complicate your ability to ban them if they really get upset.

I have discord servers of gaming friends that have as many people. I've also managed game servers (like Ark servers) with hundreds of strangers. It's not that bad. Bad people venture in sometimes and you just kick them out. Small communities like this mostly self-regulate because they are so small, people's individual reputation actually means something.
Well, the US has a record history of doing shady things in South America, then you have things like this: https://www.csis.org/analysis/south-americas-lithium-triangl...

"opportunities"
> Millennials, as sensitive as they can be at times

They are sensitive. Thankfully, not as sensitive as the generations that would riot if the wrong kind of person drank from their water fountain.
Just drill some 316 and it'll be good for a while :P
Does Roblox not support Windows 10 right now then? Does it require a TPM chip on Windows 11?
I'm still not convinced of the utility of this project.

Why not figure out how to do basically "Git over rsync" if you want to improve upload/download times?
From the ruling[0]:

> As to count one, we agree that Corellium is shielded by the fair use doctrine. First, Corellium’s virtualization software is transformative—it furthers scientific progress by allowing security research into important operating systems. Second, iOS is functional operating software that falls outside copyright’s core. Third, Corellium didn’t overhelp itself to Apple’s software. And fourth, Corellium’s product does not substantially harm the market for iOS or iOS derivatives—so Apple’s own incentive to innovate remains strong.

The important part here is that it proves Apple does not have the defacto right to claim infringement on iOS. If your emulator is transformative, offers functionality beyond default iOS, doesn't abuse their services and doesn't threaten the iOS market (eg. iPhones) it should be considered lawful. The interpretation is still open on the infringement of their wallpapers, icon and "contributory infringement", but this spells in pretty plain text that emulating iOS is fair game. Put another way, even a company that sells iOS emulators to hackers was found to not be in direct violation of Apple's iOS copyright.

[0] https://aboutblaw.com/7PK
While we’re narrowing actuallys, it was Gmail that got the credit. And somewhat relevant to the article, I believe that was Google’s first major showcase of the Java-based GWT.
Its vast limitations in anything reasoning-based are indeed evident.
I think you mean nerfing in the first line. But I learned a new one I’m going be using all the time now - thank you
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
Oh for the love of... can we please address the giant pink elephant blowing fire rings doing a hula dance on a tricycle in the room?

"Stalking" was possible 15+ years ago with $5 worth of sketchy hardware off Ebay or Aliexpress. AirTags didn't all of the sudden invent a new problem.

What worse is every crypto dork at these companies is pretending like the main use case _isn't_ recovering your stolen stuff. Lets be real: "finding your lost stuff" is a secondary use case. "Theft Recovery" is the primary use case.

The protocols need to somehow cover theft, as theft is a much much bigger problem than stalking.
Definition or not this is much better than nothing. Personally I'm interested in how did they do it. They have resources to experiment and try different ways. And they share the ideas. Big thanks for that.
if the worst happened, the job won't matter much anyway.
i don't use Erlang (mainly Julia), but this change makes a lot of sense. in Julia, there is the == operator (value equality) and the === operator (value egality). 0.0 == -0.0,because they have the same "value". but they aren't identical (the bits are different), so !(0.0 === -0.0).
It seems the odds eventually became stacked against the running man in Charlottesville, VA https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a20859405/locals-remember-...
I wonder if the fact that you can delete a file and still access its contents as long as a file descriptor is still open would allow some dorty magic. Probably not because iirc you can create a file with the same name right after deletion even if a fd is open to the old one.
I'm 72 (73 next month), and I run dirt trails. Concrete is terrible on the joints, and asphalt only a little better. It's surprising how easy the dirt is on my joints. Part of it is that dirt is just softer, although I suppose another part is that you're not running as fast on trails because of the twists and turns, and ups and downs (I'm not much faster downhill than I am uphill).

I'm out east now, where the dirt has a lot of clay. I've run near Phoenix, which is more like compacted sand, and near Seattle, where the trails in the woods are even softer and easier on the joints.

Lungs--well that's a different story, especially on the uphills.
Demonstrations? Sure. There's nothing healthy about riots for the communities being rioted in.
That’s why we (the US) are shutting down internet access in Pakistan.
> History also shows that creates instability

I would say Russia, China, and North Korea (all well-known to disappear people) have been incredibly stable. Even countries that were quite liberal (e.g., Iran, Myanmar) have worn their populations down into compliance in their major cities. Even the liberal West is borrowing from the same playbook (e.g., police raids on investigative journalists, politically motivated prosecutions).

The strategy works, but as you imply, maybe there's a breaking point... or maybe totalitarian states have figured out how to get as close to that line as possible without crossing it.
Trails in the woods: no automobiles.
Venezuela has been trying... Well, maybe on paper, Citizens have been using USD as defacto national currency for a long while by now
I'm pretty sure I've heard that they can, I have no source for this though. I wonder if this is linked to phenomena such as spontaneous degranulation in the complete absence of an antigen in mast cell disorders (once again, not positive this is a thing, but I believe it is).

Though on that last point IIRC, I believe I've heard it also just has to do a bit with random conformational noise on the receptors causing autoactivation.
NFS has so many stupid warts that I often just use samba to share between Linux servers and feel bad about it.
Everybody looks for a reason to not run. As a fellow ultra runner, I just roll my eyes and keep on running.
If you ever think you might get into running, do it when you're in your 40s. You get to keep making PRs for several years.
I quit Spotify when I found out they don't have a "block song" feature on the desktop app. They have it on their mobile app, but it only applies locally to that device.

Realized I was paying for YouTube premium, which comes with Music included. Better deal IMO.
there is not enough context. Money is only one part of the puzzle. The other important parts are what you're gonna do after you quit your job? how eager you want to do it? Do you enjoy or hate your current job? Are you learning and growing at your current job.