skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But maybe we should start with a mirror, and collectively ask, "Why are so many so unhappy?"

Because that's the default.. People haven't evolved to be happy; we have evolved to barely survive to have kids and care for them so that a few become adults. Being happy is the exception, you should ask how anyone manages that.
That is what I was afraid of... I assumed as much in politically sensitive cases like this, but it sounds like they are disinclined to question indictments for petty crime and such.
Is is just me or does this hero image trigger PTSD?
In my humble opinion the US needs a cyber security Manhattan/Moonshot project a great deal more. We should be training phalanxes of people to code securely, designing open and secure hardware (no more binary blobs, no more back doors) and doing everything else we can do uplift our aging and insecure infrastructure.

This isn't jingoistic sabre rattling: allegedly secure systems will always have some flaws and rely on people and therefore always be exploitable, so this isn't an us vs an enemy argument about some Boogeyman coming to get us. It's more about acknowledging we need the modern day equivalent of air bags, seat belts and crumple zones so the average user is more secure in their endeavors and proper lane markers, potholes filled and so on so where they travel is the best it can reasonably be as well.
An octal-escape-sequence is a backslash followed by 1, 2, or 3 octal digits.

'\0' is just another octal escape sequence, not a special-case syntax for the null character.

"\0", "\00", and "\000" all represent the same value; "\0000" is a string literal containing a null character followed by the digit '0'.

Hexadecimal escape sequences can be arbitrarily long. If you need a string containing character 0x12 followed by the digit '3', you can write "\x12" "3".
Make no mistake though, enshittification follows the population. Mastodon is about as protected as html in that sense. Could you build a nice lean mean performant static site in html? Of course, but hardly anyone does that. Most popular sites that you are able to discover these days are enshittified because the incentives favor that.
There are some studies, and LSD is quite safe. Way safer than alcohol, for example.

But being on a very tight Schedule I (like MDMA, also quite safe), worse even than morphine, good luck researching the risks. It's a catch 22: we don't know the risks, so we ban studies about the substance. We don't have studies about the risks, so we cannot unban it.

When LSD was liberally consumed (1960's), there were almost no deaths related to it. And the very few reports are suspiciously "suicides" or "near suicides", which all of them seems to be accidents while tripping, like any drunk commit everyday (and not like LSD makes you suicidal by choice). More serious reports have found zero deaths directly linked with LSD toxicity: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29408722/
Of course, supply and demand. There is no viable alternative though. If there are 10 houses and 15 people want them, whoever is willing to pay the most gets them. Otherwise how would we determine who gets them? Government? You would suddenly find that the decision makers family all have homes followed by people willing to pay bribes followed by everyone else.
Fingers crossed, if all goes well, we may have in a few years remarkable new insights that we haven't had in fundamental physics for quite some time.

Vibes of the old COBE mission [1] that mapped for the first time the microwave background radiation and revolutionized cosmology.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cobe
I suspect "tool for thought" may go back to at least Aristotle's Organon.

Note that roman numerals were never used for calculation, only for recording results. Romans calculated with counting boards, using calculi (pebbles) in representations not so far removed from our arabic numerals.
He’s got a conspicuous habit of not paying people severance even when legally obligated to.
ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like responses to natural language inputs.
Mastodon doesn't have the incentive to go to shit, as there's no company trying to earn as much money as possible behind it.
Why would you judge the person because some kid somewhere is a trigger happy moderator?

What happened to thinking for yourself?
Take the current crop of decentralized website as an example. No one forces you to make an enshittified website, people do it on their own accord.
Some people confuse the freedom of speech with the right to be listened to.
Maybe you can make you own instance and then you can have all the swedish government parties you want
What microblogging service does most of the rest of the world use? Weibo? Telegram channels?
it happens, and worse it happens silently, terrible UX - though of course a very hard problem, and lemmy is still very young
The implication of the first paragraph was that this behavior applied to users by default. If it's effectively opt-in, it's hard to argue that this is Mozilla "willing to sacrifice their user's privacy and security" and that "telling Pocket what they read" was "shoved on everyone", if in fact it is a choice to have your browsing history sent to Mozilla.
His offer was always well above fair value, which is why Twitter's board took him to court to enforce it.
That or old.reddit is probably the next big schism in the making. The NSFW fiasco may cause some significant change if it ever does happen.
If you like Bob Dylan check out the 30th Anniversary Concert. A stand out is Chrissie Hynde. Neil Young calls it Bobfest, his two songs are great
What's a fun fact is that most HN commenters fit all three of those criteria!
robotics have been around since the 50s in manufacturing plants.
Hello best friend, you think I’m pretty cool right? That’s great because I’d love an invite :)
Do you think that the B-2 is the latest that the U.S. has[1]?

It doesn't need to be singularly successful since it's part of a collective of redundant systems[2]. Air isn't working then increase missile strikes, missiles can't attain good effect on target then increase covert operations with local insurgencies, etc.

That's just some of the possible angles of attack. There's leaving out things like drones and cyber attacks that would also be employed to some effect.

Eventually the enemy loses the ability to fight since it's critical points are weakened to such a point it can no longer wage an effective resistance.

Another example: why attack heavily defended artillery positions when you can blow up the logistical route and starve them of rounds to attack with?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-21_Raider
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare
A teacher just teaches what he or she has been taught. And history is written by the winners. None of us can really know what is true.
I'm a huge Cohen brothers fan, I thought the new version was excellent, but not as excellent as the original.
Why would you assume that they are better than us? We ate and/or raped everyone on land to extinction
> Would this be halal or kosher?

Jewis law: "Pigs should not be eaten because they don't chew their cud."

I guess you could go both ways: Soybeans don't have cud to chew, so allowed. Or: Soybeans don't chew cud, so banned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_...
Come on, in a lot coastal discourse it is practically taboo to mention vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population.

Mastodon instances are largely moderated by people from the other 30%. You are free to judge if you want. But don't pretend this is a violation of publicly accepted morals in the 1st world.
> immune to advertising like you think you are (but aren’t really because nobody is)

No one is fully immune to advertising but some people are definitely more resilient than others.

To study your example: we are all exposed to pretty much the same level of advertising from Coca Cola. But some of us enjoy it in moderation while others drink it until they are obese and have diabetes.

And regardless of if you drink Coke or not, some people will go the extra length to do basic exercise where as other people do zero exercise.

So yes, there is an element of personal responsibility
By LinkedIn vs. HiQ -- if two things are both true then scraping is illegal:

1) The ToS has clauses in it against scraping

2) There is a login wall that enforces agreeing to the ToS before seeing any content.

#2 is true for now, I can't verify #1.
Is lab-grown chicken, Vegan? It doesn't contain animal-derived products. All came from a vat.
Same as you but I still have trouble with Twitch.
Output formatting or a quick finetune/LORA can do microblogging very easily.

Yeah, lots of general chat is unfortunately stuck in Twitter (or difficult -to-scrape siloed off platforms.
I think we're about at the point where the people who predicted chaos at twitter after Elon basically fired most of the experienced engineers have been proven correct. The duct tape is all coming apart at the seams now.

It isn't quite as decisive as a submarine imploding, and ceasing to exist, but it has turned into a brightly burning tirefire.
The thing that LLMs bring to the table isn't factual knowledge — we already had that, even some AI projects specifically dedicated to that — but rather the ability to correctly interact with natural language.

Twitter is great for examples of that, and the toxicity and disinformation doesn't get in the way.

Conversely, a training set doesn't need to be up to date to be useful for that.

I don't know if anyone really was trying to scrape it (examples of Musk disagreeing with his own engineers come to mind), but I assume it's possible, and given the quality of code ChatGPT spits out I can easily believe a really bad scraper has been produced by someone who thought they could do without hiring a software developer. If so, they might think they can get hot stock tips or forewarning of a pandemic from which emoji people post or something — not really what an LLM is for, but loads of people (even here!) conflate all the different kinds of AI into one thing.
What is the value of the social network other than the network and the interactions it enables? I think there is a fundamental disconnect here that people keep glossing over because abstractly it seems like there must be some way to convert social networks into economic engines but because all social networks are about digital content the only point between the digital and the concrete is the advertising which is the only time social media participants actually see anything connected to any real world economics.

I'm going to make a prophetic statement and say that all digital social networks in the long run limit are not sustainable. The digital content generated on them has no real economic value and probably never will because the social connections they enable are inherently not monetizable.
Exactly. Oftentimes its not even that they don't have the original design data and files. Sometimes it's that they don't even have the computer and software to open it anymore because it doesn't exist. It's akin to trying to re-shoot a movie with just the script and a few DVDs of the movie. It's like step 1 - boot up your SGI indigo workstation and open this software, if you don't have those two things contact this guy who retired long ago. And then it's a whole engineering project just to open the files
Twitter Rate Limiting
Who benefits from lack of inventory vs conversion condos? I can't think of anyone but residential REITs and home builders. The average SFH owner in some neighborhood doesn't see new condos downtown as a threat.

But every other vested interest is aligned with the developer handouts. Eg, construction, government for more taxes, unions, office REITs that want less competition, big finance who want the CMBS problem to go away. Even the mortgage industry would profit more from selling tons of new condos vs fewer more expensive resales.
I took a wild gamble on this and it indeed has the details. Fairly NSFW too.
Ask any glass worker

Boro got heavy use in scientific glassware for more than one reason (durability, neutrality, etc)

Soda-Lime glass is the standard glass your think of and it's weak af.

Pipe makers would show off their Boro pipes by throwing them at the ground and having them bounce and stay intact.... Theres a reason that was the way to show off the product compared to traditional glass pipes...
Never got it to anything close to a finished state, instead moving on to doing the same prototype in llvm and then cranelift.

That said, here's some of the wazero-based code on a branch - https://github.com/cube2222/octosql/tree/wasm-experiment/was...

It really is just a very very basic prototype.
AFAIK they'll also be working on reducing the fingerprint surface area.
> Even if you miss these signs, the worst thing that is going to happen is that you are turned down and they wasted 5 minutes.

I'm not at all in the same camp as the other commenter (it's clear where their allegiances lie) but you really are in the wrong here.

You have no idea how frequently these seeming-innocuous conversations turn verbally or physically violent when the initiator feels spurned.

This is provable! Try it sometime-- play catfish on a dating app and see for yourself.

> "Hey, can I have a second of your time?"

> "No, sorry, I'm in a hurry." [Or just don't respond.]

> "Fucking worthless bitch..."

There's no need for it. That's not interrupting someone's precious time. If in-person, the woman is going to see this guy again in some context, knowing she pissed him off. She sees him as a threat, and he sees her as a source of humiliation. This creates a hostile situation for both.

I've directly investigated enough histrionic cases to believe "you were asking for it" is absolutely a thing for cluster-B types (sometimes even literally, in fucking print), but am telling you the makeup, clothing and demeanor are not deterrents. Women could look like aloof genderless homeless blobs and still get harassed. It's just a hostile world out there.
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3jzihryv25y2m

"We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues. We’ll keep you updated when invite codes will resume functionality.

We’re excited to welcome more users to our beta soon!"
Fitness: https://swoleateveryheight.blogspot.com
The brilliant American Life segment with a juxtaposition of the “Greetings, People of Earth” story with reporting on ChatGPT and the Orcas creates a bricolage that may spur thoughts around questions related to our ability to recognize non-human intelligence.
A brief example of tailoring words for listeners: engineers and managers
Elon Musk is currently the most followed person on Twitter.
It is kinda funny if you consider these companies might consider their user data to be useful, especially with recent advances in LLM models. I've been thinking if you just exclude Reddit posts from training youll probably achieve much lower bullshit scores, as that seems to be what most posts on there seem to represent. I think data curation (by sources) could achieve quite a bit.
And then I get defederated for having done so. Did you even read my post? It's an illusion freedom that does not exist in practice because this is Mastodon we're talking about.
Yes, AI can fly a drone and fire weapons. That is easy and requires a couple axis of controls and one or two 'buttons', logically speaking.

Things AI cannot do:
Maintaining the drone. parts logistics. transportation. runway building. soldering. Taking off the screws and pulling out the board to do the soldering. Diagnosing issues.

AI is great for simple, repetitive tasks few only a few degrees of freedom. Flying/Driving/boating are great uses for AI. There are alot of threats from explosive-laden drone swarms.

We are still a thousand years to never from seeing some sort of self-replicating drone army.

Your example is a function so simple it applies to pre-AI tech. Laser guided bombs and precision guided missiles require no human operator and have been around for half a century.
> On Mastodon simply discussing certain topics will get you banned, and instances that don't ban those users get defederated.

This is why P2P is superior. Federation nodes can be used to strong-arm collective behavior against the will of individual users.

I don't mind being exposed to liberal and conservative thought. I want to consume almost the entire spectrum of human discourse so that I can synthesize ideas for myself and understand more effectively. As long as the signal is reasonably high.

Reddit and fediverse moderators wield absolute power over their fiefdoms. They're intellectual dictatorships. (Not to mention egotistical behaviors some of them have.)

P2P allows the end user to consume what they want, weight discussions how they want, and participate in any number of emergent clusters. It's the real path forward.
No.

New pyrex Is Not Boro.

Pipe makers used to show off their boro pipes by Throwing them at the ground.... Something you could never dream of doing with traditional glass (soda lime).

Why do you folks keep saying this?

At least google it first.
Yes, that's why I said its more permissive, not that Twitter is fully permissive.
In twitter, people can choose not to follow or mute you on individual basis, that's basically what “not listening” means. Banning somebody means preventing other people from listening to them, so it's not the same.

Maybe it works different on Mastodon?
the lemmy instance I've looked at is already a terrible echo chamber, as bad as some of the worst parts of reddit. I think defederation is going to lead into more insular communities unfortunately.
> and has since even removed many troops from that border because it knows NATO will not attack.

They've removed them because they need to avoid any possibility of a provocation. The merest hint of a wrongful look at Finland will not go well for them.
Test cases? I still feel lucky to discover that a new (to me) project is even using source code control, let alone has some kind of test suite, let alone one that it currently passes.
He spent $44 billion to build a platform to attack his own daughter. Beyond just being a bully at that point, IMO.
I don't actually totally disagree with this in part, but the emphasis is ridiculous. After all this time, despite a few decades of feminism, on the whole it's still women and children that have the most to lose out of a bad marriage, not men.

Shitty marriage settlements for men exist, but it is is in large part a re-balancing of an inequity that existed for time immemorial before that: a woman marries some guy, gets pregnant, and she and her kids become dependant on him and some combination of the following happens: a) leaves her, with kid, destitute b) abuses her c) abuses kid d) makes her miserable. It happened for probably millennia. It still happens. Men always held the power in marriage relationships by violence and/or by cultural convention and or by economic power.

I think the status quo sucks but you can see how family law got to where it is. I think it's going to take a couple generations for this to get sorted out.
I appreciate Microsoft for the stock returns.

(I know HN parses deeper than plain text!)
Honestly this is how many of the cultures higher up on the authoritarian scale operate. You say yes to your higher-up no matter what they ask, then depending on whether or not it's actually a good idea you may or may not do it.
The words you wrote make sense but are filled with so many assumptions and beliefs that I actually don't understand what you are trying to say.

For example

> 99% of people will have neutral to negative impact on the world 10 yrs post mortem

What does it even mean to have a negative impact on the "world"? Do you mean a negative impact on humanity? Also, where does the 99% number come from.

> None of us are the target audience is this article

Do you think humanity would be worse off with more people working hard to create and discover things to improve their own lives and the lives of others?

Anyway, your comment is filled with cliche cynicism. Cynicism is a cheap way to appear smart. I think people learned it from TV when they watched tv shows like House or Sherlock.
I'm going from 30+ year old memories as an intern, but from what I remember:

Usually the RS232 was just on the terminal side. Somewhere along the path it got converted to twisted pair.

All the twisted pair serial lines congregated in the server room at a punch-down box. Eighteen year old me wasn't allowed to mess with anything past that point, but from what I can remember those lines were concentrated by a multiplexer (mux) and sent on to the minicomputer.
My guess is that the frontend person responsible got fired
Is the assertion here that Twitter is employing H1-B fashion models?
tautologies are awesome
But why get the Steam Deck 2 when you could wait a little longer and get the Steam Deck 2 Episode 1?
I imagine 'none'. With Twitter, the most recognized micro logging site in the world only has 240M of the worlds population, I conclude micro logging isn't popular worldwide.
Chicago’s City Council Spends One-Third of Its Meetings on Honorary Speeches
If they got away with blocking adblockers and people signed up for Premium, eventually the money from that wouldn't be enough because Line Always Needs Up. Eventually you'd watch more ad than video, and eventually videos would become unwatchable because every second would be peppered with ads.
>Bad example. Reddit actions (and Twitter actions) are definitely not due any user hostile actions.

The actions are hostile to the users.. Twitter, Reddit, and YT (and others) have changed policies in a way to maximum revenue at the expensive of the users of the platforms.
i raised you. you have no business telling me what i can or can't do.

ok, hopefully most people have a better relationship with their parents, but i do think for many it does come down to either being able to explain to them the dangers of social media so that they get it, or accepting their parents actions, because threatening your parents that they can't see the kids of they don't stop is in most cases not a healthy move.
Yes, you can use your own domain as a handle even if you're relying on someone else's server for hosting. It's sadly a little more complicated than DNS though:

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...
> Instead of Googling

I feel like Google result quality has declined though, so chatGPT is just bridging the gap; not sure if I'm more productive than I was when Google worked better. ChatGPT often gives me concrete things to google which give me the results I want in the end, and save me a bit of time, but that's only because Googling the thing in the abstract doesn't give me those results any more.

...and I'm not enough of a maniac to trust what ChatGPT tells me without reference checking.
You first remove rate limits, then implement and release exponential backoff on frontend, then apply rate limits again (on a small segment of users first, then more). No biggie, you just need to be very careful. And boss needs to chill for that time, which is unlikely to happen.
A brief Google search shows that all the lawyers already have the right to refuse any client, though it comes in the form of answers from lawyers themselves, and they could be lying. What made you think they did not have such a right?
> What happened to thinking for yourself?

What do you think I'm doing, right now?

Someone is invoking censorship as a reason not to adopt a new platform. No specifics, just rabble rousing. That's manipulation. Pushing back is thinking for yourself.

Or, they are being imprecise and undermining their position, in which case what I said works as advice on further conversations. Either way is thinking.
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